skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The embedded video has been taken down because of a copyright claim (at least for me). Not sure what to think about that, except that it seems misguided.
I enjoyed working on Riak for an internship project I did but I would say that if you are not familiar with using map reduce heavily for querying that you factor that into the amount of time you are going to spend to get Riak up and running. I don't know much this Riak search will impact things but I was storing data in JSON and ended up using a lot of time debugging MR queries because I didn't quite grok some of the finer points such as idempotence.

The big company/small company thing isn't a big deal. I work for a very small company and we were able to get the free version going pretty painlessly.
Thus the governments spokesmodels (like Paul Krugman) are always pushing the idea that inflation is good and deflation is dangerous.

I generally agree with you, and yes, Krugman-the-columnist is an ass (as opposed to Krugman-the-economist of days gone by).

However, there is something (small) to be said for inflation.

Behavior econometrics shows us that in some areas, our economic behavior is not what rationality would suggest. One of these areas is around wages: we expect upward movement of wages, and won't tolerate nominal decreases, even when buying power is increasing so that real wages are increasing.

Maintaining a constant low level of inflation allows us to create an illusion that counters the irrational behavior, so that employers are still able to exercise a small degree of control over wages, at least over longer periods.
Fancy that. Ok, so reading that I guess what it brought to the table that was new is a way to get rid of them in an active way, rather than to wait for them to go quietly.

It's one step away from banning *.ly as a referrer ;)
Sorry, you're correct. I assumed that Safari would display localStorage usage in the preferences as well but it does not.
"Treat Your Own Back" by Robin McKenzie was recommended to me by a physiotherapist and my grandfather. General advice to consult your own GP or physiotherapist applies.

http://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/0958...
Windows Mobile 7 - 1 big fail
People and their desks [video]
And you thought the new Gap logo was bad...
There has been increasing use of url shorteners by spammers. The problem is you don't know which domain you're heading to. My mantra: treat all short urls as spam.

Only issue is with the CMS urls. I think it should be made 'best practice' rather than just 'SEO optimization', to use URL rewriting by CMS developers.
There might be, but judging by numerous reports of FB and likes employees selling their stock left and right there didn't seem to exist any restrictions at those places. That's the whole point of starting to restrict those deals now, don't you think?
We appreciate the feedback from all of our loyal Chargify customers and we will have an update shortly to show we understand this support. A plan only available to those that already have accounts that will be much less and have a smaller number of customers.

We are very sorry that we did not show this understanding in our announcement and pricing. No excuses.
Funny, that's all I could think of when watching it.
Really? I'm surprised someone as active as you on HN could have missed all of the shortner-hate.
One more domain for the ban list.
Android is a pretty horrible platform for gaming. Hardware acceleration is largely absent.
I found our best contractors on HN itself.

Posted an "80legs is hiring" and got a handful of quality applicants that were available on an as-needed basis at good rates, given the quality of their work.
well, if they are allowed to watch the end result that is (if the reports that it was done in DPRK are true)
Funny, I only got to thinking about them after the vb.ly stuff, how fragile this whole shortening thing is.

And as for me being so active on HN, there are lots of things I read here but not everything, the volume is just way too large for that, and besides my memory is good but not perfect.

It seemed to me that it was possible for website owners to take a more pro-active stance against url shorteners, hence the piece.

On websites URL shorteners don't make any sense anyway (other than click tracking, I completely missed that possibility).
And almost all of those non-Keynesians [perhaps a better term would be anti-Keynesians] are wrong.

Also, see Krugman's current op-ed about the true extent of the stimulus: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/opinion/11krugman.html
Perhaps a stupid question but given the deficits created by two wars, the post 9/11 spending spree, unfunded tax cuts, TARP, and the first stimulus package why aren't we already deep into an inflationary spiral today? Is there anything to suggest another $1-2T of government stimulus brings us to a breaking point for inflation?
The stack includes scratch-pad memory that is temporarily allocated for local variables. The heap is 'permanent' memory that hangs around beyond function calls.

Advantages of the stack: you don't have to explicitly ask for it, it's allocated automatically for you, and you don't have to worry about releasing it. Exiting from a function magically frees it up.

Disadvantage of the stack: the size of the stack is limited, and since it only exists while you are in a function, the data vanishes after you exit the function.

Advantages of the heap: The amount of memory you can acquire is huge, only limited by the total size of virtual memory in your system. Also, this memory remains allocated as long as you want.

Disadvantages of the heap: you have to explicitly ask for heap memory, and you have to remember to release it, otherwise you get memory leaks. If you ask for a lot of small lumps of memory, you can get fragmentation.

In higher-level languages, you don't have to worry about releasing memory. The OS figures out when you don't need it anymore, and releases it for you. (That's my understanding of garbage collection).
I actually ended up banning most of the URL shortners in Delicious in like 2007ish...

(thanks for the mention, tptacek)
Having seen the cf that was Window 6, et al, they couldn't have made a smarter move.
agreed - I figure the argument should be "Was this paid for with federal taxes or federal borrowing?" - If yes, then it is federal government spending.
StackOverflow.com?
Geron tests stem cell treatment on patient
Noticed that this got down voted... do people have good/bad experiences with this?
I am tired of Krugman's Op-Eds.
He keeps telling us that Government should spend more. Spend more on what?

Government can pay one set of people to dig holes and another set of people to fill them up. Surely, it would create jobs but is this what we want?

We all agree that government needs to create 'productive' jobs otherwise there is no point in spending money.

From his article, he notes that state government laid off school teachers (the productive people) when the budget ran tight instead of firing the bureaucrats who shuffle papers. Why does he expect that if Government were to spend more money they would somehow create productive jobs and not more bureaucracies which waste our hard earned money?

Reminds me of this quote:

"The curious case of economics is to demonstrate to men, what little they know, about what they THINK they can design."
Make a Roguelike in 4 Days: 4DRL Challenge 2010
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864
I thought it was on by default? I'm sure it used to be? The iPhone used to load remote content from <video> and <audio> tags even when "load remote images" was disabled. Fixed now though. I think.
I use PHP for my day to day as well. The community and the language are both very active, tons of cheap reliable hosting, well known and understood performance and scaling profiles. PHP is easy to get wrong but not all too difficult to get right.

The one thing I like about PHP more than anything is the lack of abstraction, there is no "response" object you are writing to, you want 'some-crazy-tag-with-weird-attributes' you don't have to trick your library into outputting it, everything is just strings you echo out.

With the glut of web frameworks for PHP (CakePHP, Symfony, NOLOH, etc.) you can go full blown MVC fairly easily. I prefer to work with Flourish http://flourishlib.com as I find it to be the perfect core for a website.
(flameshield) So giving employers control over wages is a liberal position? Just as I thought. (/flameshield)

I guess, as a libertarian, my position is that irrational behavior is just that. It's going to happen, there's no reason to believe that government is going to be any less irrational than individuals, and on the balance, giving people freedom (to screw up, too) is more important, more sustainable, than imposing order and control over the populace.

One thing that opened my eyes was this notion that a lot of what we do is totally a misjudgement of probabilities. If you have a game that 99.9999% of the time makes you a 100% return and .0001% of the time puts gives you a negative 10^1000 fold loss, you can wind up severe sample biasing that leads you to think that you're churning out awesome returns, when the equilibrium position is way bad.

Of course, the solution that we as a society seem to have been headed toward is centralization of responsibility and insurance - which, IMO, has the potential to put everyone in the hole - when, instead we should possibly be embracing solutions of insulating risk and decentralizing, personalizing responsibility, combined with, you know, forgiveness. Seems to me like a more sustainable, humanizing way to handle things.
Ditto, except for me the breakdown is PHP for work, Python for personal projects.
Search, Sports,Social Media,SlideShares, Scribd
It's not cheap, but Rackspace has people you can pay to do this sort of thing for you.
Two things here.

First, there are almost certainly restrictions on Facebook employee stock. I don't know what they are, because I don't work at Facebook, but the boilerplate employee stock contract restricts sale entirely (or gives the company first refusal on sales at a minimal static valuation); anything employees are allowed to do with Facebook stock constitutes something Facebook went out of its way to allow.

Secondly, my point isn't about Facebook. I'm responding to Alain, who indicates that this is the start of a worryingly anti-startup-employee trend. But it isn't. Virtually the entire marketplace of startup employees works for companies with far more restrictive policies. You simply cannot normally sell your (private company) employee stock. The companies you're hearing about that do allow it are --- not too much of an exaggeration --- epsilon from IPO already.
Sadly, no.

His argument (very plainly written in the article): there was no stimulus. The exact quote is, "There never was a big expansion of government spending. In fact, that has been the key problem with economic policy in the Obama years: we never had the kind of fiscal expansion that might have created the millions of jobs we need."

He then provides details: net government employment has fallen. There haven't been any big infrastructure projects. State spending has fallen severely. Much of the stimulus spending was tax cuts, which probably don't affect employment much and we know well to not have the highest employment multipliers of all possible spending choices. He carefully differentiates between federal and government spending.

So, to summarize: you misstate his argument. You misstate the supporting details. Either you can't read or you didn't understand anything he wrote. Who exactly isn't serious?
I guess you could do it for the learning experience, but you will probably not make enough to cover the costs of development.

I would not suggest doing it if you are not developing it yourself.
This is actually a significant release for Riak. Something that has always been sited as lacking in Riak was it's ability to index documents similar to couch. With this release, http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak_search/src (beta), what they have done is integrate lucene indexing on top of their distribution mechanism.

Besides that big news, this release intriduces a number of performance enhancements over it's predecessor. Read all about it, http://bitbucket.org/basho/riak/src/tip/releasenotes/riak-0.....
http://www.danford.net/boyd/destruction.htm

A US fighter pilot formally proved this back in the 60's/70's. He eventually went on to form a general theory for social systems (militaries, businesses, etc) in dynamic environments.

The fundamental takeaway is without outside input, systems tend to increase their entropy leading to collapse. You MUST have external inputs into any system in order to keep it alive.
I got one, because why not? And they take Paypal, so there's no risk.

Any suggestions on interesting long-running processes to start and forget about on something like this? Bandwidth is capped and there's very little local storage.
Alternatively, power users can just go back to mutt: http://www.mutt.org/

Unless I'm reading this wrong, the service relies on the broken misfeature of many modern email clients that diverge from the original RFCs for mail by treating HTML as something they can process. A client that only handles plain text email (with attachments as something separate to hand off to an external program) is safe from this kind of abuse.
That's the thing. Even if ObjC/Xcode is in fact inferior to C#/VS, it hasn't stopped talented iPhone and Mac developers from creating great apps.
CouchDB (with couchdb-python) and Jinja on top of bare WSGI (through mod_wsgi). Werkzeug is looking appealing, though. On the browser side, jQuery.
If you read his columns, he's pretty explicit about what government should spend money on: (1) infrastructure projects, which will both increase employment now (particularly in the construction sector) as well as boost future productivity; (2) the social safety net, so people aren't homeless or starving (the people who receive these payments are also, as a bonus, nearly guaranteed to spend all of the money).

Also, you complain about laying off school teachers while retaining bureaucrats. What exactly do you think the ratio is between the two? Because I'm guessing it's a lot higher than you expect, so given the size of the budget deficits, there wasn't a ton of choice.
If you can at all afford it get your own merchant account and work with an IPSP directly, keep control of your own data as much as is allowed and make a deal that if they go belly up that you will get access to your accounts for a one-time migration to another IPSP. Otherwise you're just setting yourself up for big trouble down the road.

Middlemen in the payment business have a habit of going down when you need them most (when your business is successful and you are growing like mad, have a bunch of employees and suddenly your income evaporates).

iBill, DMR, now Jettis in trouble and many others besides.

All it takes is one big VISA fine for not following procedures and these operations will fold like a house of cards.
Android 1.6 on my G1 loads the following content before I click "Show Pictures":

iframes

inline css style tags with an @import option.

external css style tags

object embed tags

It also honours meta refresh tags and opens the standard web browser entire automatically just by viewing the email.

Can you please test Froyo using my app at https://secure.grepular.com/email_privacy_tester/

I'd be interested to know if all of these flaws still exist in newer versions of Android...
Maybe we should add to our website the ability to automatically opt-out of all future tracking?

Yes, please.

That would definitely be a non-evil thing to do, and go a way towards reassuring those of us who don't like tracking that your intentions are good.
This other NYT post has a working embedded video from Hulu: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/with-a-provocat...
The ideal situation for URL shorteners (in my opinion) is for the short URLs to be provided by the content publisher AND the short URLs should easily translate to their long URLs.[1] Look at how YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC9Ss4dguu4 is shortened to http://youtu.be/lC9Ss4dguu4) or Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reader-Wifi-Graphite/d... translates to http://amzn.com/B002Y27P3M) does it, for a good example.

They aren't the shortest possible URLs, but they clearly show the content provider in the URL, which is great.

I actually created a web app and API (hosted on Google App Engine) to generate these publisher-provided short URLs, but never published it. I'll polish it off a bit tonight and post it here.

[1] This is my personal ideal. Being provided by the content publisher should be enough, in my opinion.
I just scanned all our text and outgoing links and it's amazing how much of this crap has crept in over the years. Time to do some housecleaning.
HIPAA is more about documenting your intended process, and your actual actions, than it is about requiring any particular solutions provider. For example, it's entirely possible to build a HIPAA compliant web app on AWS:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/04/white-paper-creating-hipa...

My company is in the middle of this, and we haven't encountered any deal-breakers so far.
Had to research this before. Firehost is one of the names that came up often:

http://www.firehost.com/secure-hosting/hipaa

Their plans start from $845 monthly.

No affiliation, just passing info along.

You can't just rely on the provider though. All the server hardening in the world wouldn't help with apps that don't comply fully. Some of the audit requirements are bound to be very specific to the nature of your app.
Rate my startup: happybuy.com - the biggest savings on the internet
happybuy saves shoppers money by tracking prices on products from the worlds largest online stores. You can be alerted of price drops for products and through our PricePredict engine, be recommended when and by how much pricing is likely to drop.

Launching just last week, we hope to make our users happy by being the best way to save money online.

----

I created the site out of my own frustration with wanting to buy at the best price and ensuring that I really am getting a bargain.

Initially we have launched with support for Amazon, iTunes and Apps for the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone from the Apple App Store.

I'd love to know other HN'ers thoughts on the service, so please let me know!

http://www.happybuy.com/
In our case, all that stuff is handled via the Authorize.net CIM. Chargify stores everything in the CIM and just makes calls to Authorize's API.

To be clear: we can leave Chargify, but Authorize has us locked in.
depends on what "shared hosting" really means

I think that's the key.

My employer hopes that a virtual machine on a private VLAN, with a fully-encrypted virtual disk, qualifies. This seems reasonable to me, but reasonableness isn't necessarily a part of any regulation.
I can't even begin to describe the awesomeness of controlling a jetpack powered dinosaur wielding twin chainsaws while fighting communists all to the midi-encoded tunes of Lady Gaga. The plotline was truly amazing, I totally didn't see the ending coming.
Issue 9 closed with status unfortunate
As a point of clarification... HIPPA is a federal law. PCI is an industry standard (VISA, Mastercard, etc). That does not mean one is better than the other, I just wanted to clarify.
What does chargify do for you that the authorize.net api can not do for you?
They're not so remote from everywhere so they don't need to?
Colleges struggle to recruit more men
Out of interest, why do you prefer the second line to

(1-p)**70

? Is there some kind of improved numerical stability?
When I drive on the highways, I see all these ARRA signs all over the place. Driving cross country last summer from San Diego to DC I ran through no less than 8 cone zones. And again this summer from DC back to San Diego, I drove through about as many (and took a shorter route too). At the university of Maryland, they were building a "center for advanced physics research" using ARRA funds - even though there were two whole wings in the chemistry department that were empty, and we have reached 'peak undergrad' as the demographic trend has the echo-boomer undergraduates receding. Have you driven down 16th street? All of columbia heights is a disaster zone as federal stimulus funds attempt to redo 18th century urban planning. DC is building a trolley? (isn't there a reason why trolleys became obsolete in the mid-20th c?) to service southeast (of course the limousine liberals like krugman would never be caught in southeast DC)... Tearing up pennsylvania avenue in anacostia made delivering food to the homebound poor extremely difficult... on a saturday morning.

Oh, I suppose I should disclose that my research job at the University of Maryland was underwritten with ARRA money? I suppose I'm a bit of a hypocrite, then, for taking the job when I was opposed to ARRA, but when I signed on to the job I really did think that the project was funded by the american cancer society, and I felt too obligated to the boss and too much in need of a salary to give it up when I found out the truth.

The problem is that Krugman is counting 'stimulus' by number of jobs. Well, the fact of the matter is that the money was spent, leaving it to do its horrible inflationary magic. Throwing money at a solution can either create jobs, or pad the salary of people who already have money. Now, if I were an employer, and got a fat wad of cash to do X, would I really distribute the money to create jobs? Or circle the wagons and give myself and my current employees a pay hike in anticipation of the inflation that's coming down the pike?
You want Government to spend on Infrastructure, sure. Get ready to pay through your nose for that infrastructure.

I am from NJ and they are trying to build up rail tunnel to connect to NY and here's the cost comparison:

"Lotschberg Base Tunnel, world’s longest land tunnel, dug under a mountain at the peak of the world economic boom and completed in 2007; 21.5 miles long, about $4.5 billion (might be 1998 dollars, though); cost per mile: $209 million

Gotthard Base Tunnel, when completed in 2017 will become the world’s longest railway tunnel; at least 35.4 miles plus additional tunnels, shafts and passages totaling 94.3 miles, about $10.2 billion; cost per mile: $288 million

Channel Tunnel or “Chunnel”, connecting France and England, world’s longest undersea tunnel; 31.4 miles, opened 1994, cost $7.4 billion (might be 1985 dollars and the cost overruns did lead to bankruptcy); cost per mile: $235 million

Wushaoling Tunnel, traveling through four regional fault zones; 13 miles long, opened 2006, cost $845 million; cost per mile: $65 million

New Jersey-New York Mass Transit/ARC Tunnel, scheduled for completion in 2018; 3.5 miles long, cost $11-14 billion; cost per mile: $3.7 billion (I used $13 billion for this calculation)"

From http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/10/08/new-jerseys-ca...

Exactly how many jobs do you think infrastructure jobs will create? And what about all those people who are not in infrastructure sector? What about the school teachers which he keeps talking about?

Also, how does increasing social safety net CREATE new jobs? You are simply handing out money.
ExxonMobil Presents: The Atlantic’s Critique of Digg for Accepting BP Ads
> I have irssi configured to set my status to away when the screen is detached

How do you do that? I've tried looking at the documentation for irssi, and it's god-awful.
Ask HN: how would you build this user community?
I built a really basic site (http://ilubut.com) to force myself to learn a little something about growing a user-community... and a week into it, I'm running low on ideas.

The overall concept is that you can post messages that generally start with "I love you, but..." Any favorite resources or tips on how to grow a community like this?

FWIW, I'm willing to try nearly anything once. My personal rule is to avoid any sort of paid user acquisition but I'm curious to see what gets proposed.