skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've no idea as to why my longer comment above was modded down. Was merely a discussion as to real risks in data storage of emotional value, some bits personal, some technical in aspect.

I think it's fair to be skeptical of new companies offering long term services. I wasn't bashing the company who is subject of this discussion. I was merely saying that the scary bit is not just i you're an investor but possibly also as a customer. Anyone recently read a SEC filing of their bank / thrift / life policy company? My most important thought regards this discussion is that there are ways you can communicate the stability of your company to customers who wish to rely on it over long periods of time. One way i imagine not to do that well, is to point out you've no business model. That's not quite the same as a "caveat emptor" warning. In fact the lack of plan, or general presentation of te service, has obviously been taken to be altruistic by some observers who have commented here. No problem with that, it's a cool idea, but try it differently, would you buy archive length storage from me, even for good money, if i said i'd no idea how to break even? Or is it okay only if it's free, which presumably it cannot be later on? How would you make this break even?
(I know this is just an example but I can't resist commenting)

"We can't write our GUI frontend in Python^! Scripting languages are too slow for rendering advanced graphics."

After downloading and using Avant Windows Manager for Linux a little bit, I came to exactly that conclusion. It was horrifically slow. Maybe I'm so much smarter than the authors of that program that I could writer something acceptable where they couldn't. But I wouldn't want to take that chance.

Maybe Python gives other scripting language a bad name. I've written large web apps in Python and Ruby but for desktop programs, the choices with acceptable speed that I know of are C++, java, and c#.

Rapid prototype languages make sense for the web. For the desktop, I think the problem is that OSes have been adding crud at the same speed Intel has added speed. Also, the size of hard disks has increased even more quickly and thus an app that happens to index files must index 100x as many, again negating increased processor speed.
It's surprisingly easy to overdose on caffeine, regardless of if you kill yourself though. I ended up in the hospital worried about strange heart palpitations once. It was due to too much caffeine. Apparently a litre and a half of pepsi plus a bag of chocolate covered espresso beans is a bad idea.

That being said, I bet almost everyone here has felt the effects of caffeine intoxication before (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Caffeine_intoxication). It's pretty easy to hit a level which causes those kind of symptoms.
Understood. Then it's more important to spell out the terms of the funding ahead of time. Are they paying you money to develop the game then take over the end result completely? That would be 100% equity funding and it sounds like a "job" to the dev. 6%, 10%, 20%, 50%?
At work, setting up CouchDB to store annotated genomic data. Currently replacing a few CouchDB temporary view functions with Lucene search functions.

At home, using Django to write a social photo guide-sharing web app for tinkerers.
smartFTP worked wonders for me back when I was on Windows.

SSH was great. So was FileZilla and Putty.
I don't know how it is where you live, but around here boys and men ARE encouraged to get into education and childcare (and all my realtors were men).
Check their example videos:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BF9E09ECEC8F88F

It seems since about 720p quality bottleneck is more in codec artefacts than in the resolution.

So for overall effects it would be probably better to give additional bandwidth to less lossy codec / settings than just to pure resolution (their first video "Life in the garden" has 28 MB in 720p and 91 MB in 4k resolution).
why Windows? Redis is a service over socket, thus, you can have a *nix box running Redis and talk to the box with your asp.net/c# I suppose. Windows has a very different socket model, I think that supporting Windows will scarify to much for Redis.
I must say that your personal site/portfolio is fantastic. I LOVE the design.
Too Rich to Live?
It's good that they're seeking ways to increase revenue, but this comes across as nearly cyber-begging.

"...we can right now only offer you our undying gratitude and an optional trophy on your userpage."

Yikes. What else could reddit offer for subscribers other than a png?

Can reddit or similar platforms find a good way to generate revenue? Obviously ads and merchandise (t-shirts, etc) aren't doing it alone here.
I don't have the gear to watch real 4k video properly, but watching the first video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0m1XmvBey8&feature=PlayL... ), I wouldn't consider it 'real' 4k. I bumped the res to 'original' and saw highly visible encoding artifacts on a 1080p monitor. Artifacts that I absolutely would not expect to see on 4k source RED footage, never mind 2k. It's a nice marketing number, but like buying a camera by megapixels and ignoring lens quality, it's not truly indicative of quality.
His question is very telling:

Most Christian children are brought up without one particular, very salient point being brought up about the religion's origins. That is, nearly everyone in the Bible is not white. That they are, in fact, of Arab or Egyptian descent. "White" people don't even enter the picture until the New Testament. So without this knowledge, kids grow up thinking that Jews were Whitey McWhiterson of Northern Ireland, which is partially reinforced by all of the imagery of Jesus, etc. being of European origin, and the implied racism that often brews in their local community as a result. These kids are implicitly convinced that Adam and Eve were "white," though no one has even suggested the thought.

I'm starting to wonder if this is probably where the "white supremacy" ideology comes from.

So the kid is not merely misinformed about evolution; he is, in fact, misinformed about his own religion.

Oh, the disappointment I feel.
Similar to what Gruber does to live. I like it.
yeah, on the days leading up to any product launch
Adding to the Notepad++ advice, it really is a good editor. But ofcourse if you're not already into emacs and stuff.

Other than that some "misc." tools i use

* Console2(http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/) - i have a lot of command windows open. The tabbed version is awesome, especially since i can run different shells in each of them. Eg. cygwin prompt in one, cmd.exe in another.

* Kitty instead of putty. It has automatic password filling etc.

* Batch scripts - i write batch scripts for everything. I start a lot of applications, enabling me to switch context to another project at once with one click, Eg.http://dpaste.com/216517/ Works best with virtuaenv if you're a python guy.

* virtuawin - for virtual windows.

* Ultramon - for multiple monitors
I think they are generating revenue, just not enough for Conde Nast to increase their budget. This seems like a way for them to get extra money that they can personally use toward the site.
Ask HN: Looking for Windows IDE version of TextMate
I really like TextMate for Mac...does anyone have any suggestions for one for Windows 7?

I am doing web development, so one tailored to that would be preferred.

Thanks.
Pattern matching seems to mix really poorly with conventional OO subtyping / inheritance, though multi-methods seem like a good synthesis. (I haven't really used CLOS enough to decide, though.)
Our experience with MT was absolutely terrible. We suffered from days-on-end outages. Literally 5-7 day outages due to issues with storage clusters. I understand that everyone makes mistakes, but I've had three times the number of VPSs with Rimuhosting since 2007, and I've not had a single moment of down time. I'd feel better if I could justify it by saying that Rimuhosting is some how more expensive or less convenient, or offered lousy service, but none of that is true. It's more convenient, the service is absolutely incredible, and we've had (literally) 100% uptime for the last 4 years.
Chromium Notes: Antialiased clipping
Not video, but I still buy my e-books on Amazon - much wider hardware support (PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad, Kindle). Not to mention Amazon has no incentive to prevent me from reading their content on someone else's device.

Even though they are all DRM'ed, my money feels more secure with Amazon than Apple.
Down voting doesn't have to be about trollishness. It can also be about values. It is useful for people to know what HN's values are.

Some things that I disagree with are great for intelligent discussion. Other things I'd discourage regardless of the intelligence or sincerity involved.

An adult should know what is wrong with setting landmines. See: http://www.globalissues.org/article/79/landmines We should say this firmly.
Their SAAS kit is well put together and has some good code for account subscriptions and billing. I would consider it a worthwhile investment and good starting point if you're just beginning to code a Rails SAAS application.
The title of this submission should have explicitly mentioned George Soros, or really anything more descriptive than just the NYRB title, which is not specific enough for a forum like this one.

Or maybe it's just the wrong day for it... my title didn't seem to do much better.
I'm intrigued that no one has talked about the meta-aspects of this PR/marketing move by the UFW. How many other unions would have the guts to issue a call for workers to come take their jobs?
On a similar topic, A God's Lament http://xkcd.com/312/
Tech Founders NYC #2 is Thurs, July 22
A user's willingness to pay is going to be based either off of charity (a la NPR) or as an exchange for a service/good. You can't have both, simply due to human nature.
A tool to test horizontal layout and maximize your conversion rate
Drinking even a tiny fraction of that much caffeine sounds awful. Caffeine has a terrible body load, and I'm pretty sure I'd want to die after three Red Bulls let alone 150. Coca tea is 1000x better, and they even sell it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Coca-Tea-Novoandina-Yungas-Bags/dp/B00...
Functional programming eliminates mutable objects, and mutable objects are (at a certain scale and in certain scopes) the new spaghetti code. I have worked with too many projects where twiddling the attributes of distant (global/static/inherited/etc.) things was necessary to get anything done, and it's obnoxious. It's too many indirections.

With functional languages and "dumb" data you don't have to guess about what your data can do. You just do what you want with it.
Writing btree_balance_split. If I manage to get that finished today, I'll move on to btree_balance_merge. I hope to have btree_balance finished by the end of the weekend, at which point I'll write btree_mutate and finally have a key-value store.
So what this is saying is that its practically impossible to achieve an LD50 dose of caffeine without pills.
> If there were ten thousand illegal immigrants in the US instead of ten million, it wouldn't have the deleterious effects on agricultural wages

They took your job? Seriously? :-)

For the future, don't worry ... agriculture is exactly the kind of work that will be done by robots.

If it is not already, that's just because your unions are out of control, which made countries like Japan take the leadership in the robotics industry.
I have completely selfish, sexist reasons for wanting more women in science and engineering: Women who are into science and eng are more interesting to be around and, ultimately, date.
George Soros on the global economic crisis and the Euro
I use Notepad++ for all coding tasks. And FTP Surfer; a super lightweight FTP client that lets me work on the server using Notepad++. For SFTP, I use WinSCP

I've been using Firefox and firebug for a long time until just earlier this year when ff has become so bulky and sluggish my ram couldn't take it. So i switched to using chrome and its inline inspector

Oh yeah, another tool that I often use is WinMerge
280 million page views a month and they aren't breaking even to support 4 engineers? wtf
Conde Nast looks like a bunch of chumps right now. I doubt Mike Raldi will last longer than a year if he has to raise funds in this way.
I gave them $5.
Let me pay $10, and all I ask for in return is site stability and maybe a sweet icon next to my name when I comment. Honestly I bet you could get 100k subscribers within a week. People are hopelessly addicted to these aggregation services, and if subscribing gives us the self assurance that their be around for us to continue enjoying them the fee is worth it. I don't expect you to remove the sponsored ads either (actually i'd be a bit disappointed if you did... its nice seeing ads for small businesses I haven't heard about)

A few downsides, once you start charging me I'm going to gain some expectations. Downtime is going to be harder to excuse then it was before is just one example.
Google Labs launches Android app for finding open parking spots
Don't forget the frames.
Yes. It could have been much better.

Now, I think it's interesting to speculate how the Predators might have evolved (unlike the Aliens, whose life cycle appears to be just plain nutty). The two things we do know about them are that they're technologically advanced and have an extreme interest in hunting. They also look like biological predators, with their sharp teeth. So I'm guessing that they're a bit like what would happen if a pure carnivore, rather than an omnivore, had developed brains as big as ours.

I see nothing wrong with the idea that a species could have evolved to enjoy extremely dangerous forms of hunting if that helped with sexual selection. Much like peahens find males who carry around enormous handicapping tails to be attractive, female Predators may be attracted to males who hunt ridiculously dangerous game at great cost to themselves.

I'm not sure about the binocular vision thing: don't Predators have binocular vision? Pictures on wikipedia make it look like they have two eyes.

What I think we can say is that Predators would be crappy predators if it weren't for their technology, but they might have been sufficiently good to get away with it in whatever conditions they evolved in. Crocodiles are pretty crappy predators too, but they seem to get away with their tiny niche quite nicely.
According to this talk they're paying around $250k/year for server hosting at EC2: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3257303/

See the question at around ~27m into the video.
I think if any site could pull this off, Reddit could. Somehow, somewhere, someway, Reddit became a social news site that has a strong sense of community to it. Redditors feel good being "Redditors", and feel an affinity towards the site. My prediction is this actually works.
I drank a case of beer and two rockstars. 8 hour later, bam! Pericarditis.
They need to put a link to Amazon on their site and earn some referral cash. Just a thought...
Tokyo Tyrant is poorly documented, virtually unmaintained, and has a small community. In addition I've seen strange replication errors and locking when doing expensive operations.

As an alternative I needed something simple, resource efficient, well maintained (antirez is an excellent maintainer), documented, easily deployed, easily configured, and seemingly stable. It also needed to scale down to small virtual machines. Cassandra and MongoDB was evaluated, but drew the short straw.

My only complaint with Redis is its lack of features for high availability out of the box. Thankfully this is going to be addressed in the next release.
Windows has pretty the same socket model, from BSD. The difference is in the I/O event notification facility, for asynchronous network programming one would use "epoll" in Linux, "kqueue" in FreeBSD, they are conceptually pretty similar, while Windows has only the classic "select" and "poll", maybe something new windows-only thing (IOCP?) as well, but who cares.. Free Software rule.
http://www.e-texteditor.com/

It even supports TextMate bundles.
Sure you can. I routinely pay more for things when I know that the proceeds are going to a good cause. The way I look at it is that it's both a purchase and a donation.

Say I see a cool T-shirt that some charity is selling for $25. That's pretty steep for a T-shirt. I'd probably only pay around $15 for a T-shirt normally. But if I like the shirt and like the charity, I might buy it anyway. I view that as a $15 purchase and a $10 donation.

Stuff like that happens all the time.
Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images
Got bored with real work so I'm working on a thing that prints Python tracebacks:
1) in colour
2) in colums, function | line num | file name
3) stripping file name directories
4) Only printing code line on the top N frames (because the rest is just noise).

There may be something like this already, but it's a good excuse to learn more about Python tracebacks.
I paid. I love reddit.
Didn't something similiar happen to one developer of open source webservers (lighttpd maybe). I remember reading a story about someone accusing them of hacking.
There are tons of sites where people can (and do!) pay money for a simple PNG.

I'd know: my web based MMO, Forumwarz is one. People can pay to buy some kinds of "E-Peen" which is our version of badges.
You don't know reddit community. They will gladly pay monthly fee (which is not forced) just to get a gold icon on their "Trophy case". Its not because Reddit users has more expendable expenses compare to other online communities its because reddit community is more "involved" than other online community I have ever seen.

Just compare reddit charity to Haiti fund and Digg doing the same thing.

Reddit: http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxf...

Digg: http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxf...

They both promoted it, they both blogged it in their official company blog. Kevin rose personally tweeted it to his 1million+ followers. And they got 4k measly dollars and Reddit got $185k, albeit reddit started few weeks sooner, but still....

I am not trying to make a reddit > digg derpity derpity derp argument, I am just saying that people greatly underestimate the power of "involved" community. Not a community by page views numbers ala Digg.
It sounds like they are profiting. They just aren't having high enough profits that Conde Nast is willing to cut into said profits to either spend more on servers to speed it up or hire another engineer.
Valid points. I was thinking of people like my grandfather (born 1920) who speak English fluently without a british accent, and wasn't influenced by American tv.
Every company/product with a strong community and few employees that I've seen try this has worked massively well.

http://unknownworlds.com/ is a great example. When it was still just a halflife mod, and the creator wanted to work on it full time while bootstrapping the company, he asked for donations to get a special icon in game and playtesting access. There was an incredible outpouring of support and it kept them in the green.

Now, to fund the stand-alone sequel, they are taking preorders far in advance to help the development, with an option to pay $20 extra for the game to get special black armor in-game and their eternal gratitude. Almost all of the preorders opted to pay extra, mostly out of thanks for the years they spent playing the first game for free.
Summary: all at once. That would be one heckuva bathroom break.
also, http://hackerne.ws would still work, I guess.
Vaguely reminiscent of the Jerry Taylor of the City of Tuttle vs. Johnny Hughes of CentOS, the episode in which a default CentOS Apache page replaced a previously running site and hilarity ensues via email.

http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127 and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/
Finished up a web app/program (PHP and Python cron jobs) that will notify you if a course that you want at Virginia Tech opens up.

http://hokienotify.me/
iocp and epoll is the difference I am talking about.
New law shuts down Hollywood Stock Exchange
Isn't the standard practice on windows to rely on the supplier's final binary version? Since you have a limited set (7, vista, xp) to care about and they're sometimes the same, why would you actually compile third party libs like that?

If the project maintainer doesn't include binaries, and nobody else posts them, then the user doesn't have a choice.
Good article from way back. Wow, I'm surprised Fanning only had 8% of Napster by the time Napster was sued. Anyone know if he is a millionaire ?
Doodled thoughts on learning. [PIC]
Just some simple drawings on what seemed one day to me to be the main components of education.
Illustrated through capoeira, it should apply to any field: programming, foreign languages, medicine...
Perhaps it can be of interest to others, spur interesting conversation?
> but this limitation will not apply to Bing results of type "Web")

Isn't this what he is using?
It's interesting from a hacker pov as an attempt in helping people hack their own brains. Also, it seems like it's well executed (havent tried the actual game). I might give it a try for novelty's sake, but apart from that, it doesn't really appeal to me either and I'm 29. So maybe it's a personality thing rather then an age thing :)
Rackspace Cloud for Windows (app hosting)

ASmallOrange (wordpress hosting)

Fotolia

MailChimp

MailboxForwarding

GoDaddy (domains only)

DropBox

Google Apps

Google Voice
Rebecca MacKinnon: On Google's license renewal and principled engagement
In Google's case, speed/latency for their users is what they're really trying to optimize.
Fast PHP array_unique for removing duplicates
you might not be setting out to create a police state, but neither were the majority of people signing up for the Nazi party. Don't confuse sincerity with being right
"Students cheat because the institution doesn't tell them to learn. Institutions tell them to get high grades. And students, being cunning smartasses they are, say "fine, I will get high grades," and thus they proceed to cheat because it is the easier way to get high grades and/or pass tests."

Those students are lazy and they will most likely bring that laziness to their job. Yes, it's easy to just cheat and get good grades, but the grades are supposed to be the result of your hard work. I know people in high school that loved to cheat and find the easiest way to pass whatever test they were taking. 10 years later, many of them have low-paying factory jobs and are still living with mom and dad.

If I hacked into my school's computer system and gave myself all A's, it doesn't make me any smarter in Calculus (one of the subjects where I changed my grade).

You could go out and buy a trophy that says that you made MVP of your softball league, but isn't the point to earn it?

Students being smartasses only proves that humans will take the past of least resistance.

"If instead schools simply said you're here to learn, and God (aka the natural laws of the universe which are unbreakable) will determine whether or not you "pass" in life, then no one would cheat (or can cheat, for that matter)."

That's like saying: If we stop arresting people, we won't have any more criminals.

How are we going to judge people on how much they have learned if not on concepts and material from their lessons?
most sites can pull that off, almost every forum has the subscription model where all you get is some icon and different color username.

actually I think for reddit it'd be a little harder for comparison...because with those forums, the people know they are supporting small time folks...with reddit, they'd be asking people to donate money to a for profit billion dollar corporation.
Nice idea. I'd be intrigued to know what features of the writing (other than vocabulary) you're comparing. [some advanced work in this area, plus a perfect UI, could be a really interesting project to work on, and something you could sell]