skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Golden's book was excellent. Under the happy bottom quarter principle (http://www.quora.com/College-Admissions/What-is-the-Happy-Bo...), most Ivy schools continue to subscribe to this to keep the donations flowing over time.
I'd like to go, but I already have a Proce55ing class and a contact improv jam scheduled during that time.

Some other suggestions for places:

• Plaza Dorrego in San Telmo, at Humberto Primo and Defensa. There are seats and tables all over the plaza, and a number of restaurants that serve them. The jugglers and tangueros that are there on weekends are generally not present during the week.

• Los Sabios in Abasto (Balvanera), at Corrientes 3733. All-you-can-eat vegetarian restaurant; the quality of their food, and especially their desserts, is extremely high. AR$28 per person plus drinks.

• Pizzeria Guerrín in San Nicolas, at Corrientes 1368. One of the most popular pizzerias in the city, so it can get a bit crowded on Friday nights. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g312741-d790492... http://www.buenostours.com/guerrin-pizzeria

Also, it would be nice to get together in a park, but most parks are closed at night these days; and it would be nice to get together someplace with less risk of punga than a restaurant or park, so that we can bring laptops and actually show each other what we've been working on.
Nice, Conrad! I haven't tried to balance weasels on a rake in a while. I'm looking forward to seeing how you did it. SMILE
Would you be interested in a notification system/feeds for HN?
Here are a few things I think HN currently lacks:

* Sometimes I want to keep up with new comments on a specific thread I'm interested in. There is no easy way to do it, I have to manually "poll" the item page, and it's far from optimal. The biggest problem being, I can't easily see new comments.

* Similarly, I'd like to be able to quickly see new submissions/comments from some users.

I'm planning on building a small app to remediate to this problem. Basically the plan is to provide RSS feeds for top-level items and users, so that I can quickly see new content on a RSS reader.
Maybe I would extend this with a website that would allow you to sort comments by novelty and other things like that (+/- a HN-specific RSS reader).

I would like to know if someone else is interested by this idea, or if someone can point me to an already-existing solution. If there are several people interested, I would put much effort into this project, and don't make it usable only for me :-)

P.S: I know HN has some limitations about crawling, but I think if one almost only polls ~ once/minute the /newcomments, /news and /newest page, the amount of data could be sufficient.
On Java on FreeBSD - I didn't have any trouble. I just used the port (http://www.freebsd.org/java/ for info) and it ran fine. We were using Apache Solr at the time.
Apologies for formatting:

Computing resources CHF EUR GBP USD Unit

CPU 0.0250 0.0175 0.0150 0.0225 Core-GHz/hou

RAM 0.0325 0.0228 0.0195 0.0293 GB/hour

Storage 0.2000 0.1400 0.1200 0.1800 GB/per month

So $0.1800/GB/Month.

Source: http://cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules

So in the range of S3 storage which is "First 50 TB / Month of Storage Used	$0.150 per GB" with a reduction to $0.100 per GB for reduced-redundancy.

Source: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

EBS is $0.10 per allocated GB per month.

Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Microsoft "R2" product updates break backwards compatibility
The core is probably only 10 lines or so - why not post it here? Then post a change you made, and ask why it doesn't work.

Just a thought.
Depends, do you have multiple developers working on features at the same time?

In a team environment, the purpose of the staging server is so your business and QA team can test, review, and give feedback for the final changes before they go to production. The development servers should ideally be specific to each developer to develop their tickets and features without having to worry about breaking others changes. The staging environment is where all the developers' work can be tested all together.
I highly recommend FoxyProxy for managing proxies in Firefox.
http://getfoxyproxy.org/

You can easily enable/disable multiple proxy configurations and there is a rule-based mode where you define which traffic should go out on which proxy.

It is great for working remotely when your company doesn't have VPN access or you don't want to set the VPN up.
What makes this post less deserving of the front page then the other Offer HNs? I am more then willing to help people out through any method of contact.
Thanks. That's great info.
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I need help getting new HN users to use Stack Overflow for help instead of HN.
The 10K/mo fee buys access to press connections that PR firms have spent years cultivating. Bringing a large block of ice to Moscone does not require any previous experience, just effort.
Ask HN: What methods would you use to promote www.girlgrumble.com?
The post today about www.marriagelaughs.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1838146) reminded me of a site I put together last year after discussions with my wife about the success of fmylife.com: www.girlgrumble.com

I didn't end up doing anything with it (got busy with graduating) but I still like the concept. It's an fmylife.com clone focused on women, where they can share and vent about daily issues and annoyances (grumbles). Does anyone else dig the concept? I think it could have appeal for both women and men.

My question is: what would you recommend I do in an attempt to try to get the user content creation wheel rolling?
Open Data Center Alliance Launches to Help Plan Data Centers of the Future
Thanks for #1 and #2. I'll reconsider my approach. I didn't know that was confusing.

3. Thanks again. I wasn't aware of that. It's bit.;y's error message, not mine.

4. I will implement a submit button soon.
At amazon, I got stuck adding features to software that had already been deprecated... three years before I joined.

Not only was I not passionate about that, but since it was the first time I'd encountered code with lower quality and even more antiquated technology than what I'd found in government contracting, I was truly contemptuous about what I was doing.

If you get stuck with work that doesn't require ANY of the skills that the interviewers grill you for, it's hard to care about your job, let alone be passionate about it.
Google has again offered me a free £75 voucher. I run an info business. Is it worth it to spend their money? Is it like gambling, will I get addicted to it and loose in the long run? And just how do you promote an information business, I mean, basically, is it worth it to spend the time in spending their money?
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Thanks - fixed :)
That's what we are currently doing now.

I was referring to cases where the account holder wants to use an custom domain name e.g. ads.mywebsite.com, instead of the generic mywebsite.mysaasprovider.com.

In that case, we'll need to host their certificate within our Pound load balancer and get it to listen on a dedicated IP.
Git manages code. How you choose to deploy your code is a completely separate matter.

If the purpose of your staging server is to provide a final test in a close replica of your production environment, git doesn't address this need. While git may make rollbacks a little easier, you still risk exposing embarrassing errors or losing data integrity without a staging server.

If you really need to get rid of the staging server, roll out VMs to your devs that safely duplicate your production environment. This gives you finer control and reproducible/disposable environments.
RTMP is a terrible protocol to work with -- it is overdesigned and underspecified. RTSP is a much better alternative for video streaming. Unfortunately, none of the major browsers (yet) support rtsp:// streams in the audio/video tag.

In theory RTSP should be fairly easy for chromium, since it uses ffmpeg under the hood, which comes with a RTSP stack...

There is also http pseudostreaming, but that has its own set of problems too.
One of the ways to hack your into my alma mater used to be to start getting a degree at an offshoot of the engineering department that was designed to be night school for practicing engineers and vocational training for local kids without much academic inclination... then transfer straight into the engineering department at one of the most selective schools in the country, totally bypassing Undergraduate Admissions.

A classmate of mine did it. His degree is printed on the same paper mine is.

I saw it featured in a "hidden secrets of college admissions" article once and it looks like they have rejiggered things so that it no longer works, although I'm not positive about that.
Bischoff was at MIT?

Yeah, but Caltech has a better rep than MIT on the issue, according to Dan Golden. I interviewed him for the Tech (Caltech's student newspaper) when the book came out, and he said that he had intended to write his "this school bluntly refuses to countenance legacy admissions" section about MIT, but everything he heard forced him to change his plans to talk about Caltech instead.

More generally, that far right on the bell curve, the differences are so marginal. Instead, the main process is surpass a certain bar of accomplishment and then stand out in some unique way that gets you noticed. There are 10 perfect SAT scores/ultra-high GPAs for every spot in an ultra-elite engineering school like the ones you list. Small variations in awesome are just extremely hard to rank.
Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
This is not a sustainable model.

There are thousands of HN users, each with their own areas of expertise.

Often, a good test of whether something is worth doing is "what if everyone did the same?" If everyone was more polite, the world would be a better place. If everyone treated others better, the world would be a better place.

But if everyone posted "Offer HN" posts, even if they all did it just once and with a genuine desire to help, rather than a secret need to build their public profile and/or get some interesting serendipitous contacts, HN would become much less valuable.

To those who believe that this new "Offer HN" craze is something worth encouraging, if that's the case, please create a site that's better tailored to making those offers. Maybe you can even get pg to link to it if it's good. You'll certainly get feedback, and so on.

But please don't post any more "Offer HN". Despite the generous impulse behind them, they are basically just spam that's pushing out other more interesting stuff, at the moment.

Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840143
Yeah, the API is the product. The website is a demo.

I will work on explaining this a bit better.
Thanks for the full feedback.

Hybrid Web Cluster is offering a PaaS product sat on top of our pure IaaS offering. We have an open software and networking layer which allows customers such as Hybrid Web Cluster to build quite powerful set-ups on top of our infrastructure layer. I'll leave them to comment on their expected pricing and model.

In terms of pricing from CloudSigma, our cost to customers is $0.18 per GB of usable space. All our resources are unbundled so you purchase them in transparent units independently unlike other IaaS platforms. That eliminates a lot of waste. The storage is fully persistent, high performance storage in RAID6. We use top end disks and hardware RAID controller cards to deliver high performance storage for users. Bear in mind that that price:
- is for one month only, discounts up to 45% apply for subscriptions up to 3 years
- it includes all maintenance and hardware maintenance
- 256bit AES encryption is available at the hypervisor level
- it includes all support
- you get a 100% SLA with generous compensation at x50
- you can scale effortlessly
- your data is being stored in a high availability, high security data centre in Zurich, Switzerland (with all the reliability and legal gains that entails)
- there is a cash flow benefit to not paying everything upfront

Thanks once again for the breakdown.

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> You think that encrypted contents of a computer harddrive is a logically equivalent operation to writing things in a form only comprehensible to oneself.

This entirely depends on whether you view your computer as an extension of your personal consciousness or as being an external service that you're interacting with. I'd rather a society where computers act as individuals' agents, rather than people being at the mercy of the computers.
http://techstartu.ps/r/techstartups/comments/nk/welcome_hn_r...
Yeah, but if you live in a real city with good public transport and a thriving commercial/residential core you can get by without a car and all of the associated costs. I live in Manhattan and though it is more expensive than elsewhere the pay differential and the money saved on cars makes it a pretty good proposition. (For me, anyway; degustibus non est disputantum and so forth.)
Dude you inspire me to get off my hump and get to it.
Why IBM, Cisco, Intel are not rolling out smart phones?
This color is what normal people call intention.

Big file that is storing your n-th computed prime : innocuous.

Big file that is storing pirated movie, even if called "n-th prime" : not OK.
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This coupled with the free micro instance Amazon is offering right now makes for a handy/free proxy.
That's a vast exaggeration of how hard it is. If you want to be guaranteed to get into a specific Ivy then you're probably right. But if you just want to get into any Ivy and you don't care which then all you really need 1250 SATs and no Cs. And even these are negotiable if you're really good.

Also, if you get recruited then they send your applications to admissions and tell if you're likely to get in or not before you even apply. And if you're not likely to get in then they'll tell you to go talk to folks at the other colleges because they don't want a bad reputation for future years. Because of this there will usually be at least one Ivy who needs what you have badly enough to pull some strings to get you in.

As for the violin, don't choose something like violin, gymnastics, or soccer where people start at age 3. Just choose some obscure instrument and you're pretty much guaranteed to at least be one of the best in your state in a couple years if you practice enough and get lessons. It's not like you need to be the absolute best, assuming each school takes on average 8 of X then you only need to be in the top 80. And remember that there will be a handful of those who are completely ineligible because of outright terrible grades or SATs, or else they just don't want to go to an Ivy, so really it's more like you only need to be in the top 96 or so.

Also there are a whole bunch of tricks. For example US News doesn't count the grades of people who come from Canada, so every year Harvard will recruit a whole bunch of folks from up there to round out whatever they need when if there aren't enough qualified US applicants. And plus most of these schools run massive direct mail campaigns encouraging every one to apply no mater how unqualified they are in order to make themselves appear more selective, so it's actually a ton easier to get in than it looks. Again you still need to be reasonably hard working and maybe a little lucky, but it's not so difficulty that you need to be obscenely lucky or genetically talented or whatever.
This article is overblown at best. Microsoft's core operating system and office suites remain absolutely dominant even if competitors are rising.

Yes but are these business licenses or consumer sales? Go to any college campus and see how many Windows laptops you see students using. Microsoft sales are going to businesses (who are entrenched in MS solutions) and people who "have always used Windows" (i.e. older folks who don't want to change).

Their brand is tarnished. I don't see them recovering from this easily.
Offer HN: Security Help
I will answer your information security questions, take a quick look at your website for vulnerabilities, or provide any guidance I can.

Perhaps if tptacek is lurking he could even join in the fun!
XP, for example, has some level of support into 2014, so from a business perspective one can trust that they'll provide support for quite some time, that is something you won't get from Apple. How this has any bearing on a discussion of Microsoft's consumer relevance I am not sure.
Don't worry, these things always run their course. At least this is driven by generosity. Plus you have to admit it's sort of interesting to watch new forms of internet behavior evolve.
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I agree, this author knows nothing about rap. This lyrics is about dispatching the risk to your underlings.
Hear, hear! Or in this case, NOT!
Here is a recent story from the The Harvard Crimson: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/30/students-year-ha...

"While Z-listed students bring a wide range of interests and experiences to Harvard, many people charge that they are similar in two ways—the Z-list has long had a reputation for consisting predominantly of affluent students and Harvard legacies. Of the 28 students interviewed by The Crimson for this story, 18 have parents who attended Harvard. All but four receive no financial aid from the College, while about 70 percent of the student body receives aid from Harvard."

"According to Fitzsimmons, Harvard does not aim to use the Z-list to admit legacy students. Instead, he says, the Z-list contains a greater proportion of legacies than the class in general since legacy students might be more willing to accept a spot on the Z-list."
This is absolutely normal. A significant amount of what everyone does is done wrong the first time, no matter how careful you are. "Just get it right" is not sustainable, no matter what effort you put out. I think that the usual estimate is about 10%. As in about one line in 10 initially contains some typo, syntax error, thinko, etc.

The key is to set things up such that these mistakes are caught and fixed before they hurt anyone. If you want to learn a lot about how to do this, I highly recommend reading Code Complete. Yes, I'm aware that it is a tome. However it is a worthwhile tome that is worth reading and re-reading until you've incorporated it as practice.
I strongly suspect you're kidding. In two years, you can't achieve anything on an instrument.
Pay it forward, HN style
Clickables:

+ http://metaoptimize.com/qa/

+ http://metaoptimize.com/projects/autotag/hackernews/
Going through the salary guide, I know .NET, Java, PHP and SharePoint, help desk pros, virtualization, cloud computing, Saas. And with my Project management certifications (Prince2)... it's time to ask for a raise! Er.. next step, how to approach my boss? Any suggestions?
Do you have an actual argument about why web applications are inferior to native applications? You're just stating a lot of things ("HTML5 is one more step in the direction of web pages pretending to be applications.", we "would like to replace everything with a browser") without really explaining why they're bad.
could not agree more, those are all from the last hour.
perhaps we shall have a '/offers' or something else which hackers can go there and offers their goods.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839375

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839394

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839450

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839460

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839662

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839611

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839736
"At the end of the year they took an aerial photo and the tread-worn ground became the blueprint for the optimal sidewalk routes as chosen perfectly and implicitly by the student body."

I still think this was genius.

However, I don't see how it applies to software development. Do you publish an API that makes it possible to do -anything- with your system that is imaginable? How would you do that, direct SQL access? Anything less than raw access would mean you were building a LOT of sidewalks, then removing the ones that weren't used.
Wow, this is exactly what I have been searching for for months!

I've got a pretty basic grasp on machine learning and collaborative filtering, so I understand some things, but I'm very confused on others, such as:

1)List-wise vs Pair-wise approaches to machine learning. Can you explain in simple terms what is the main differences between them, and in what cases it would be better to use one over the other? I've read a few sources about the differences but it goes over my head a lot of times.

2)When you don't have many users using your site, from my (basic) knowledge, you can't really use KNN algorithms to help with recommendations, because you only have a few people to compare your (lets just say movie preferences) to. What is the best way, then, to get the best recommendations both when your userbase is large and small?

Those are just a few off the top of my head, but I'll be sure to add more later on.
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Maybe it's interesting to you since HN is your baby and it's fun to watch people use your creation in unexpected ways, but for us, it's lowering the value/utility.
Any good materials to read? I work in a text-analytics startup, so I do have a basic understanding about NLP and related fields.
True, but people are already using email. Everyone knows how email works and how to attach files. Not everyone knows what a "writeboard" is and how it's different from a "message"
Absolutely. The best programmers I know make mistakes constantly, but have developed ways of working that ensure they get found early.

For some people that means using TDD, for others (like me) it means semi-formally deriving code and running checks during writing.

So no, making mistakes while writing is not a measure of programmer quality.
I respectfully disagree that they are "basically just spam" but yet I agree with a few other points you make. No, it isn't sustainable but yes it makes HN a more interesting place. I'd far rather see those types of posts than some of the things that I'm sure you think are "more interesting". And I don't say that in a mean-spirited way; what I mean is that we all have different interests and just b/c you (or 400 others like you) don't like it isn't a sufficient reason to kill it/them.
Any word processor that can't round-trip Word files without messing up formatting (and specifically headers/footers, track changes, and text boxes) is not going to succeed for people who collaborate with others in Word.

I've tried every online word processor and many Linux ones, and they all fail at retaining this moderate-level formatting.
Summary and examples for public will be much more helpful than individual consulting. Then make a webpage/book for yourself--pretty much everyone wants to understand this information.

If you want to get wonky, read "Homo Academicus" by Bourdieu. Educators (or other gatekeepers, e.g. job interviewers) apply implicit categories of judgment to applicants. If the applicant matches the class/cultural background of the gatekeeper, there's a higher probability that the applicant has naturally acquired and presented the things the gatekeeper is looking for. (Else, the applicant will come in without having anything to offer that the gatekeeper cares about.)
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