skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reliability is a key factor for me with low-power being important, too. I've been running Mac Minis as servers since they first came out. Right now I have ~25 of them running at the MIT Museum, about half of those run exhibits and shut themselves off from 11PM to 8AM, a couple are used for desktops, the rest are running 24x7, some as servers, some as development machines. I've never had a Mac mini die. I'm in the process of moving our internal file server from a PowerMac G5 to a Mini.

We just got our first new, low-profile Mini and it's great. Not having to deal with the power brick is a huge win, and the power cord seats much more firmly than the old cords do.

I'm also experimenting with two Eee Box B202's running Ubuntu. One has been running 24x7 for the last 6 months without any problems.

Plug computers are interesting and for a while I thought they could make good controllers for touch-screen kiosks. But the iPad pretty much blows away anything we could put together with a plug, a USB display driver and a monitor (except in screen size).
I wonder what OS the new smartphones will run. Android or MeeGo?
I've been thinking for a while that facebook photos would be an excellent training set for facial/person recognition. Not only do you have large amounts of pictures for many users, they're usually tagged down to the person (with a human-placed rectangle over their face or body).

Coupled with the fact that you'll have multiple photos in varying postures, angles and light conditions, it'd be excellent.

Maybe that's why the intelligence agencies are so interested in partnering with them :-)
I suspect that since every step is dependent on the previous one, it would not parallelize very well.
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Where does Switzerland rate? Is that still a safe-haven or just hype?
http://transloadit.com/

The developers wrote about using node on their blog: http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads-at-500-mb-s...
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What's the easiest way to create clusters like that on a map? I worked on something that required clustering at a zoomed-out level and then being broken down into smaller clusters, eventually singular entities on the map. I look at scipy/numpy and some clustering algorithms but most of them required you to define the number of clusters up front.

Any idea what they're using here?
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One of the more interesting aspects of pro-wrestling over the past ten to fifteen years is that the bigger a jerk you are, the more fans you gain.
I wouldn't bother with a desktop version, most users already have enough things running. Doing a Dashboard widget would be easy through, so would a notifier plugin for the common browsers
Double WTF... I dread the day I'm hit by a car and instead of being treated by proper medical personel, I get treated with homeopathy and get sent to a herbal-and-newage based ER.
This deal is not for Motorola's mobile phone division.
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Ask HN: SaaS Distribution and Customer Acquisition
I was wondering if anyone could talk about how they acquire customers for SaaS (B2B) companies as opposed to consumer (B2C) websites. Are there any viral or SEO techniques commonly used?
I don't think they have bought the consumer phone division, just the backed networking division.
They won't have to make theirs open, or join OpenStack. All they would have to do is write a set of binaries that translate commands from one to another, and translate return values. Presumably some hackers will sort this out and open source it.
As he mentioned, the international versions of Google news still use the traditional layout. It's not hard to find it incredibly better...
Webpage tabs get closed, open, closed.. if this is actually updating all by itself throughout the day, I could see value as running it like a desktop app.

The cost is minimal (to make a prism version for example) and it takes 0 maintenance, and some users which are not uber-geek enough to make their own desktop version might see it as a big plus. "And it run on desktop too? Cool".

Also I could see it running a "public version" on a television hooked on the wall for everyone to see the web app live. Just a thought.

You seem to have all your features coming along, I just wanted to bring my 5c :)

Have some fun.
Why can't they just let us us a gcc toolchain and be done with it.
It seems the origigonal post was deleted I guess... Now it seems I'm like I'm talking to myself.

1) Among all his rhetoric about not continuing the policy he slips in

"there may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, in some cases because evidence may be tainted, but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States...must be prevented from attacking us again "

His policy stays the same, he is just better at hiding it from the public.

2) Thats the same rhetoric people used to defend Bush. Innocent till proven guilty in a court of Law I say.
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Library implementations are not part of the ECMA standard; it would be really nice to have a dedicated open source project (a la AOSP) that contains not only the core language implementation, but the entire library implementation as well. That would potentially allow users to not only contribute bugfixes and improvements back to the project, but would give Mono et al access to library implementations to make it much easier for them to reproduce the work in a cross-platform method.
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Interesting I'm not a member and get full access. Are you outside the US?
The intent was to completely set aside iterative development...

Goodness, no--quite the opposite. The intent was and still is to allow iterative development and in-place upgrades, rather than requiring repeated flag-day breaks of backwards compatibility (the "it's obviously time to increment the major version number").
Windows Phone 7 is a disaster
Did you decide to limit signups by making the buttons invisible in Internet Explorer?
> getting up in the middle of the day and exercising is out of the question.

Why is that? I see many people running, cycling, etc. at lunch time.

> How does everyone here exercise at their desk?

If you're looking for exercises you can do in your office/cubicle, see those proposed for the hacker diet :http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html
Google's data mining capability is comparable to that of a major government. Just using their search data, they can predict disease outbreaks [0], and can probably predict other macro events like recessions and cultural shifts. Google is just more effective at processing the data that is already collected.

If Google ran the War on Terror, they would dissolve 99.9% of plots before they begin. The falsely accused would have to sit in prison, since they couldn't get anyone on the phone even if they wanted to. That's fine though, because they would get free food and Internet in their Google jail cell, and hear talks by other famous inmates.

[0] http://www.google.org/flutrends/
NASA's commitment to open source is fairly great. And, postgresql is a really great database. If you haven't used it before, I highly recommend giving it a run.
No problem, I'm more than happy to share :)

It is sort of an oxymoron but it I've managed to get it working for me. My day job is as an ETL developer specialising in building data warehouses (usually Oracle) for the purposes of MI. I run my own company and contract for large multinationals mainly in the financial sector in the City of London and usually on 6 month contracts. I don't get a lot out of the job except the cash so I've always developed other things on the side

I started building apps that scratch my own itches about 6 years ago. Sometimes I'd develop myself and sometimes using external help sometime a combination of both. I don't spend a lot on luxuries and so the income I make in my day job has allowed me to roll the dice with a few larger ideas in the past but nothing really took off.

As soon as the light went on about this idea I wanted to do it right and put aside a certain amount of money to get it where it is today - I know enough to make me dangerous but wanted a proper job done so outside help was essential and I had built up a certain amount of cash since my last project. I don't have limitless resources but by my calculations I have enough to continue the push until it starts making money with some contingency, development continues full speed.

Let me know if you would like to know any more.
I am not sure if it is possible (as my programming experience is very limited) but an API for this so, rather than continually having to provide support for other services, you outsource the development to the community!
Simply put..yes! :).

I did try the Guardian and Telegraph, but I just preferred the articles I found in the Times.
If the wife's happiness is in a city instead with her husband, then he is not her happiness regardless to where they are.
If marriage is a partnership, then both happiness worth the same, the argument of "does your dreams worth more or less than your wife" sounds more like a guilt trip.
I made that mistake and I regret it.
If my goal is to get to my house, and I am standing 10 meters from it in the diagonal, I must traverse ground both in the x and y directions. If the goal is long term recollection, a combination of memorization and understanding is necessary.

You're behaving with impetuousness of youth if you lack the insight to see the purpose of the assignment and thus assume there is none.

Yet, your teacher was wise to give you a pass on the assignment, because there's no value in harming you grade when someone isn't interested and doesn't see the point in something merely edifying. It is, after all, your loss, but it's not a great one.

Amusingly, however, you've probably spent more effort bandying about this example as proof of your intelligence and the creativity destroying nature of school than it would of actually taken to memorize the text to begin with.

I note that you latched on to the one comment here that would support your own opinion of your own relative intelligence -- the one that posited that memorization served as a proxy for the understanding of the text for students that couldn't understand it; thus, you required no proxy and clearly are more intelligent than the those who did require one.

At the exclusive (no low-IQ or low-performing students need apply) private school I attended, memorization and recitation in front of the class was provided as an extra credit assignment for those students who were especially interested in the text, not as some sort of booby prize for the non-existent less intelligent among us.
I'd love .NET... Not that I love msft but it's a language that's got it together to build some serious apps. Not saying bad things about Java, but I'm not personally a fan.
I would use this as well!
Do you know of another language community with a library or extension system which rivals the CPAN, for one example? How about the existence of PCRE for another? Along those lines, have you seen Perl 6 grammars?
The article on the WSJ is a bit confusing on that point... any good sources?
My bad - it seems Mono is already supported for Android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214615/will-google-androi...
Kill your television.
I'm trying to add a Google Account for my Apps email, and the oAuth connector seems to be broken.

Here's the output:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'OAuthException2' with message 'Request failed with code 400: The token is invalid. ' in /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/libraries/oauth/OAuthRequester.php:125 Stack trace: #0 /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/models/gmail.class.php(195): OAuthRequester->doRequest(0, Array, Array, Array) #1 /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/controllers/oauth.class.php(76): GmailModel->getAccessToken(Array, '4%2FUvLUOZSga3M...', 'CVoQvrifDsxjv%2...') #2 /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/base/controller.class.php(82): OauthController->response() #3 /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/base/base.class.php(80): Controller->execute() #4 /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/base/base.class.php(50): Base::routing() #5 /home/geckoboa/public_html/index.php(21): Base::createWebApplication('/home/geckoboa/...') #6 {main} thrown in /home/geckoboa/public_html/system/libraries/oauth/OAuthRequester.php on line 125

This is on Snow Leopard and Firefox 3.6.6
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From their site:

"The company has experienced exceptional growth and currently hosts 5000+ dedicated servers and co-located machines, 5000+ Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and millions of websites."

If it's one guy running it from his apartment, that's gotta be one amazing apartment.
Not sure what they're using, but I like ClusterMarker

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Is there anything cooler or more badass than writing software used in space? Whenever I'm told that a piece of software isn't fit for "mission critical applications," I think of NASA.

I'd love to help out with this, but I'm afraid I lack the necessary skill set. Still, maybe I will poke around the NDOUtils source anyways.

If anyone else is interested, here's a link to the NDOUtils source tarball: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/ndoutils-1.x/nd...
Ask HN: Where are the web dev jobs in Chicago?
I've seen a steady amount of Web Development jobs posted for NYC, West Coast, and Boston. There are few for Chicago and I'm wondering that post dot-com bubble burst it never rebounded there like other places (and 37signals doesn't count :)

Hell, even Austin seems to have more openings than Chicago - or am I just not looking in the right place?

I would love to know more about what companies are hiring in Chicago, or good job boards to watch. I'm happily employed on the East Coast but looking to relocate in the near future so need to know what kind of market (or lack of) exists.

My skill-set includes years of Javascript (DOM, offline apps, prototypeJS etc), HTML5, CSS3, JSON/XML, various 3rd party api experience, with PHP, mySQL and whatever else needs to be done (Boxee apps, browser extensions, iPad web dev etc).
Here's an offline-capable web application and underlying "network-straddling" framework running on Node:

https://szpil.com

Node is great for handling many concurrent clients. It extends the V8 interpreter with excellent low-level APIs: Posix, Tcp, Http, DNS. If you need to share Javascript code between client and server, Node is the best server-side Javascript environment you could choose to use.
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Pugs first came out in 2005, and by my count it was the third implementation of Perl 6. Rakudo's a couple of days away from its 31st release. Yes, Perl 6 should have had regular releases much earlier than 2005, but we've used iterative development for years.
Here's my account of using NodeJS in http://mixlr.com:

http://rfw.posterous.com/how-nodejs-saved-my-web-application
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> Which just opens the door to abuse from anyone with an incentive to game the system.

Pretending you've got a registration when you haven't is equally possible whether the registration is compulsory or not, so making registrations optional would not cause that problem.

Gaming the system by trying to get people to believe your product/service/company is better than it actually is, is as old as commerce, and societies have developed ways of coping with this which while not perfect, do work well enough that the vast majority of economic actors see it as not in their interest to rip people off.

You'll never get a perfect solution, but what is achievable is one that works reasonably well.
Nokia Siemens Networks is a backend provider, they definitely didn't buy a handset operations. Also this deal was speculated for several months.
Why? Their goal was to collect MAC adresses of all the WiFi hotspots they encountered. If you want to do that you have to – at least temporarily – save all packets that are coming in. The code to do this already exists, Google probably repurposed something. Deleting all the packets you received is a additional step, it’s not guaranteed that whatever they used automatically deletes all received packets as soon as they are no longer needed. Someone has to think of that and fix it.

They are collecting gigabytes of data, so those additional packets wouldn’t exactly be obvious. And they probably just copied the HDDs those cars have wholesale, without any prior processing of the data.
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Late 19th century legislator to and about another:

"With a few more brains you could be a halfwit."

"He never opens his mouth without subtracting from the sum of human intelligence."

I wrote them down a couple of years ago, but forgot to note the source.
"Obviously we know that (unfortunately) that includes software, but data would be a stretch"

How is it unfortunate that copyright covers software? Without copyright there would be no such thing as Free Software as it would be impossible to require people to distribute source with binaries or to distribute their changes.

Closed source could survive somewhat in a world without copyright on software since it doesn't come with source in the first place and can at least attempt to use DRM or other technological means to stop people from redistributing.
Indeed. Requiring a permit to do interior design is clearly a way of gouging the public, and societies need to have robust means to prevent it.
The point I was trying to make with my post (under the "What's missing?" header) is that if some of these hurdles are removed (custom login forms, based on html, etc) it would greatly improve the programmability of the web.
Well, I guess they just haven't heard how awesome NoSQL is yet :)
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Yes, but from what I read, he only stopped for a month. After using drugs for a long time, there is a significant come-down period and a month seems much much too short a time to be able to accurately compare. Its to be expected that everything feels duller or slower and that you feel less excited, less creative, less motivated and less focused after coming off drugs. So it makes sense that he would have had difficulty coming up with new mathematical ideas when he stopped. Id like to know if this would still be the case after six months or a year of not taking drugs.
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White noise or water in the background can work for me, but I've never been able to do anything complicated/thought-intensive with music playing -- it just saps some of my attention more than it seems to for many people.

Possibly related: Jonah Lehrer responded to the Provigil article; below is a comment posted by Joe Shelby on Lehrer's response post (http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/05/the_hidden_cost_of_sm...):

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Not "drug" related, but a similar study I once read about (I think it was cited in Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister's Peopleware) was about geeks and their listening to music while working. They were given a simple programming task, one easily done in "300 lines" using what we call brute force programming (follow the specified requirements to the letter).

The test was originally designed to see if listening to music while working affected accuracy, with the idea that musical distractions might lead to more bugs in code.

The programmers were allowed to work exactly as they would have worked in real life (this was back before easy internet connections made "cheating" more possible)), so some had headphones full of their favorite music, others worked in silence.

What they found was that both groups (those with music, those without) completed the task with equal accuracy - music didn't affect that precision.

However, they also discovered that some programmers found a secret in the proposed algorithm they were implementing. With a little cleverness, you could implement the algorithm in only 50 lines instead of the full 300, and be done in half the time. Of those that discovered the shorter implementation, most were from the programming in silence group.
This ought to give Nokia a strong position on the emerging LTE markets, being able to co-design devices and networks. They need more than that however to break into US smartphone markets.
I would wager that his creativity would come back after a few months. If he felt better, but mathematics suffered, then I imagine that it really was just a post-drug drop in creativity and motivation and that normally passes.
Before getting to the issue of licensing, at least if you are in the US, you probably should consider whether or not you are doing something copyrightable. If not, the licensing issue doesn't even arise.

Facts are not copyrightable, but the arrangement or presentation can be. The major case law on this is Feist vs. Rural Telephone. Wikipedia has a good writeup at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel....
This press release is significantly better than the article, sorry I failed to look for it earlier.

http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/news-events/press-room/p...
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Thanks for the report. I'll make sure it's investigated.
Unfortunately, the map seems to be limited to "there are some 'top secret' things in this general area." I was hoping for something more comprehensive, although I realize that in some instances there may not be a whole lot of information.
Checking whether the current result is a palindrome will parallelise (split digit groups among processors), and you'd have to experiment with optimising the carry propagation for addition.

My first guess would be to look at the last digits of the previous chunk, and if it's not clear whether they will produce a carry (i.e. if they sum to 9), calculate both possibilities in parallel until they converge. Once the information is available, fix up the indeterminate pieces. Intuitively, it seems like decimal representation actually is better than binary for this as the probability of producing large sequences of 9s is lower than that of large binary 1 sequences, although only by a constant factor of ln(2)/ln(10) ~ 0.3.

It's certainly not trivial and requires a lot of communication between processors. The longer the numbers, the better, though. 300 million digits sounds like a suitable data set. (~150M bytes packed BCD, 4 copies of this will fit nicely into the currently tyical 1GB of graphics memory)
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. --JFK
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I have a case design for the iPhone 4, and possible other phones too, I would like to have made and then market. However, I don't know where to start.
I assume I need to have a mold made and proper drawing done. I will also need someone to mold them for me. Where do I start?
I have googled and found a few sites that help with product development but I'm from the software side and this is all new to me. Any help would be appreciated.
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