skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that clicks will move away from Google and onto Facebook amongst certain demographics. However, I hate the idea of comparing time spent on Google to time spent on Facebook. I would expect that Google wants you to spend as little time as possible within their search engine. Less time on google means better/perfect results faster.
Don't forget about your future customers (You do plan on having customers, right?). They are often the people who want you to succeed most while demanding nothing but product in return.
See my other comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885543) - I use Excel+Python all the time, and yes, it's freakin' awesome.
Let me know what issue you have. I can talk to the guys.
26 here too. I felt like on some of them I would project a choice onto the eyes. Some where easy (only one choice made sense), and some seemed completely arbitrary.
I find this amusing because I've always found "lisp has too many parenthesis" and "python has too much significant whitespace" to be roughly equivalent in terms of relevance.
Hunt around for references to "computational chemistry." It is a useful tool in the drug discovery world and I would be very surprised if it was not also being applied to material science for very specific targets like this.
I have no problem remembering passwords, just usernames. I've a pretty good memory for stuff like passwords, IP addresses, telephone numbers... whereas my usernames are usually pretty similar, so I get them confused. Did I use 'corin', 'corin_', 'corincole', or one of my many email addresses?
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When do you estimate 1.0 will be out? (Great work by the way.)
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On German Windows keyboards, @ is on right-Alt-Q. Recently, I had a (Windows-trained) guest who wanted to write an email on my Mac, but Firefox kept "crashing".
I think that's an unfair and inconsistent application of logic.

I like reading HN and recently contributing tiny bits to HN because I think the community here is top-notch, friendly, and knows its stuff. HN never struck me as elitist; rather, it's more like a really friendly meritocracy. About the most elitist it gets is requiring a karma threshold to be able to downvote, but that's really just part of being a good meritocracy.

But to be accepting of one add-on application simply because of heavy site veteran patronage, while rejecting all others... THAT would strike me as heavy elitism and not in line with what seems to make HN so great. If add-on apps MUST be rejected, the criteria should be for other more respectable reasons, no? And mind you, it's all pg's call anyway.
"The fact that 'lightboxes' have been abused / over-used, isn't a reason to dismiss the technology."

Kind of like Flash :)
I found engineyard very unflexible... Sure you can create custom recipes to get around that but since they update their system without warning, the custom recipes end up becoming stale...
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This is true, generally all Rackspace Cloud servers perform about the same in terms of CPU and disk IO, so the small Rackspace instances will outperform small EC2 instances. However, they don't scale well and on the high end, they under-perform relative to comparable EC2 instance. Here is some sample data validating this (these web service links will provide XML formatted benchmark results):

1GB Rackspace vs EC2 Micro - CPU Performance: http://cloudharmony.com/ws/getServerBenchmarkResults?serverI...

1GB Rackspace vs EC2 Micro - IO Performance (using EC2 EBS): http://cloudharmony.com/ws/getServerBenchmarkResults?serverI...

16GB Rackspace vs EC2 cc.4xlarge - CPU Performance: http://cloudharmony.com/ws/getServerBenchmarkResults?serverI...

16GB Rackspace vs EC2 cc.4xlarge - IO Performance: http://cloudharmony.com/ws/getServerBenchmarkResults?serverI...
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Heavy things propped up generally have a very low volumetric energy density. Chemical fuels often have four orders of magnitude better energy density. Although I haven't read the original paper, it seems likely that this "fuel" is probably closer to the chemical-fuel ballpark than the propped-up-heavy-things ballpark.
> 6) Miss flight and lose non-refundable airfare

It was the pilots that boycotted the sscanner this time.
First, why did it break? Figure this out. Is it something you can prevent from happening again, or is this most likely to be a recurring thing?

Whatever your app is there is probably a hosting platform out there for it. One that provides a very stable environment for your application to run in, specific to your language/framework. These cost a little more money, but if it means your app not crashing once a month chances are it's well worth it.

Some web hosts will guarantee certain apps to work on their servers. These hosts often have 24/7 tech support to deal with these issues.

And... most of the time Google can provide you with answers a lot quicker than StackOverflow.
Huh. I guess that's true, for some reason I've never noticed it before.

I usually keep my left hand on my "home keys" when browsing (Firefox user here), in order from pinky to thumb, q-w-e-f-⌘, of which I use w, f, and ⌘ on a regular basis, and I guess that usually keeps me from mis-hitting q when I mean w, I'd actually have to push the wrong finger, which is pretty rare.

Right thumb goes on the trackpad for mouse interactions (much easier now that the MBP trackpad presses in rather than having a button), other four fingers on that hand go on j-k-l-; (⌘+j/k/l I use all the time for downloads/search/address bar, ; is wasted, of course). Scrolling is the only thing that sucks, but you can get pretty far with space/shift+space (hit space with left thumb, shift with right pinky).

If I had a problem with this, I'd probably go with the WoW shortcut for quitting, alt+command+Q, which is pretty hard to do accidentally (Double-thumb keypress? Expert move...) and doesn't tend to be bound to anything else. Command+1 seems like a bad idea because some of us are very used to Command+(number) to switch to tabs.
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this is amazing, what do they use for user interface framework, is it wxpython?
The java programmers I know are moving onto other languages that use the JVM so IMO java the language might be dying but the VM is going strong.
This doesn't seem to work for me using Firefox on Snow Leopard. The menu changes to the crazy keyboard shortcut I give to Quit (and sure enough the crazy combo works as well), however Cmd-Q still quits Firefox as well.
Wouldn't using an "uptime" tool affect your analytics? Not a problem for an established site, but for a website just launching, you would probably want to have very exact numbers day by day...
> gitisforpansies@bitbucket.org
I don't disagree with you at all, but that's what makes it even more strange that VB has become so much more popular than I expected for enterprise usage. Did Microsoft's marketing muscle pave the way, or were other tools really just too complex for what these people (business analysts, business logic developers, etc) needed?
The provisioning and layout stuff is fancy. Nice work.
Rackspace Cloud has data centers in Texas and Illinois. However, they don't let you choose (your account is assigned to one data center at the time of creation). EC2 certain offers a lot more flexibility in this regard with EC2 data center regions in California, Virginia, Ireland and Singapore. I spoke with Rackspace at Interop a few weeks ago and they told me they are working on expanding to additional data centers including an international data center very soon and offering choice.
Congrats Matt & team!
The results reported by danudey should not come as a surprise. The EC2 micro instances are designed for situations where short bursts of CPU are the norm. They were not intended to be used for continuous, compute-intensive chores.
I recently signed up with Rackspace, and was shocked when the guy who did phone verification commented on my password.

That scared me enough to look at password managers, and after some research I settled on Keepass, and syncing the database via Dropbox. It keeps the username, password & URL, so that solves most of the problems I have.

It's cross platform (I care about Windows, Linux & Android) and seems reliable enough (I've noticed no bugs in about 6 months).

"Autotype" means I never need to see my server passwords, so they can be really random strings.
Jython is behind current python implementations. If you're comfortable with being compatible up to python 2.5 then go right ahead. But if you need 2.6 or 2.7 compatibility, Jython is sadly not an option.
Back on the ground, most of the land area around the river is dark, of course, because it’s desert.

Maybe I'm weird, but now I want to know what those lonely spots of light are.
I just did this to a blog entry after reading your post. I should have written in out in vim like I normally do.
I mean, even outside of the hosting platform.

More, along the lines of say a user uses your app for a use case that you never intended/imagined and it breaks.

Something that you didn't even anticipate...how do you solve that issue?

I guess Googling, but it just feels kinda wrong to be taking people's money on a monthly basis and not knowing how to solve all the issues they might have with the app.
Are you confusing Linode with Slicehost? Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace.
Ask HN: Help me convince a teacher we should learn Python (vs VB.net)
For a high school class.

He's a great teacher (from what I hear, and my conversations with him), though the current plan is to use VB.net, while me and a few others would much prefer Python. Key requirements/comparison points for him are that it should be easy to learn (17 year olds new to programming), and for me, I'd like to learn it as with LPTHW we can go along ahead of the class.
I follow a very simple way to do this. My bookmarks bar contains all the sites that I have an account on (around 15). Now I remember a base password, which is something like Dxx#fd. Now if gmail comes 2nd in the bar, the password for it will be D02#fd. Of course, you'll have to keep the bookmarks in one order for this to work.
(Cross-posted from my Reddit account)

I went through SFO on the weekend and said I didn't want to go through the machine. You're made to feel pretty stigmatised, you have to stand there while the TSA officer repeatedly yells out "We got an opt-out. Male opt-out." across the hall.

The pat down itself was extremely thorough but considering how much the TSA gets bagged on Reddit, the officer was incredibly professional. It didn't feel lewd or dirty. Sure, it was violating and I resented having to be put through the experience, but the guy was just doing his job and it was obvious he'd been extensively trained. All up it took about 5 minutes of my time.

What worried me the most was that afterword he asked "The TSA is conducting a survey, why did you opt-out?" I replied that I didn't like my freedoms being taken away. However, thinking about this later, I realised that if in a year they release stats that say "only 1% of people opt-out, and only 5% of those people do so for medical or religious reasons" then it is going to be a hell of a lot easier for them to push for the scans to become mandatory.
Use single quotes; less noise.
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The whole resize thing is fraught with problems. It was one of the main reason I moved to Rackspace Cloud, but it's just way too unreliable. I'm too scared to use it on any mission critical servers due to unpredictable downtime.

If you're under high traffic and you try to resize the server the operation time hugely blows out. There's no way to block this TCP traffic other than changing DNS settings which is obviously undesirable and you might as well just manually setup a new server if you're going to do this (which is what I now tend to do). This process should be automated. It's an obvious bottleneck and fixing would dramatically improve their offering.

I didn't really mind Rackspace having all these issues at the beginning, but after 2 years I see no progress anywhere. Unlike AWS there's very little apparent investment in the infrastructure tools. Other cloud services have matured, but Rackspace hasn't. While the support at Rackspace is awesome, there's only so often I can hear someone apologizing. I'd rather the issues just got fixed and all this friction was reduced. Incredibly disappointed.
I've recently started using http://hg-git.github.com/ (found it via a comment on HN, IIRC) which allows you to use the Mercurial command line tools to interact with Git repositories on GitHub.

It was created by people at GitHub.
this was where i first heard of the KNN algorithm (K nearest neighbors) - cool stuff.
Google group for HN people in Bangalore
Hi friends,
niyazpk has created a google group of HN people in Bangalore:
http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore-hn-meetup
If you are interested in meeting up fellow HNers in Bangalore, please join the group.

A bit of history: I found out about niyazpk through one of his HN submissions. When I figured he was in Bangalore, I asked him if we could meet. He generalized the problem and created the google group.
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Please let us know if you know of some nice place where we can meet. I have absolutely no idea how many people we can expect for the meetup, but hopefully we can get a good idea based on the response to this post.
I agree for points one and two, further points are the best way to go for a loooooooong journey in a little room.
They have way more time than you have and they know it.
The whole game is to make _you_ being embarrassed about the pat-down so you'll finally go through screening next time.
This whole game is totally unbalanced in a way, your ressources to make them retreat are absolutely insignificant in front of the whole machine (on spot that is). The only way out of this craziness is political so don't hesitate to give a call, send a mail to people representing you.
Plenty of people have built a business on credit cards. Atlassian is one that many are familiar with.

It's not as stupid as it sounds, either. If you have consulting business bringing in regular income it's pretty easy to service the debt on the cards.
I wanted to see how it worked, here's my thought process:

* How does this work?
* Hmm, no, I don't want to login or signup.
* Oh, there's a small demo button.
* Hmmm, I have to sign in?
* *Sigh*, okay. Click.
* Hmmm, a login page, this is too much trouble.
* Leave.

Granted I wasn't too invested in the product but I recall there was one site (that "high-res" mockups one) that got promoted here recently that allowed me to start playing right away without signing in/creating an account.

Obviously this needs to be balanced against people who might build something and then lose it if they don't realise they have to sign-up to save it.
TIOBE is garbage (http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/04/12/tiobe-or-not-tiobe-lies-...). I'm so tired of people accepting it uncritically.
I have lived in three cities in Japan for the last three years, and strongly recommend Kyoto. I think most people want to live in Tokyo if they come to Japan, but I think Kyoto is one of the best cities in the world. It's beautiful, has an amazing laid-back atmosphere, and is full of interesting events and things as it is the cultural capital of Japan.

The only problem is that you get a lot more out of Japan if you speak Japanese. Not many people here are very good at English. There's plenty of expats, though. Everyone I know who has visited Kyoto temporarily as a tourist or student has loved it and wanted to stay as long as possible.

There are English teaching jobs aplenty in Japan, but many have low pay and not so great conditions. As long as you're not from America, you can come on a working holiday. (I'm American so I came here with a job on the JET (Japan Exchange Teaching) Program. It pays a lot but usually places you in the country-side, not a sweet place like Kyoto.)

Personally, I think living abroad is one of the best, most educational things you can do for yourself. If I could run my own country, I'd require all citizens to live abroad for at least one year.

Good luck, and have fun on your adventure!
Any way to have it apply for current customers in the form of a credit?
rofl [edit: I've been there]
I'm in Bangalore as well. Not very familiar with places to hangout/meet at; however, will be glad to meet up if something interesting can happen.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "other service".

It's the job of your developers or support/sustaining team to identify issues and resolve them. Debugging can certainly include asking for advice on forums, but I'd like to think that whoever deployed the component that has failed also has some idea about how to debug it (or at least where to look for help).

> I guess Googling, but it just feels kinda wrong to be taking people's money on a monthly basis and not knowing how to solve all the issues they might have with the app.

Adequately test your boundaries. A user may use your app for something you did not intend, but they should not technically be able to use it past boundaries you have tested, limited and clearly stated support for.
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Make it clear to the user you do not support that case and then add it if there is enough interest? I am not really sure I follow, it sounds like you are having a UX/support breakdown rather than a hosting/code failure.
from google maps, you can figure out some of the places by comparing them to the satellite image: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

this seems to be one of the more isolated ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahariya_Oasis

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further points are the best way to go for a loooooooong
journey in a little room. They have way more time than you
have and they know it.

Well, one can dream that if every third passenger would start making request like this they won't have that much time anymore…
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Sometimes I feel like HN is really a world apart. Java/C/C++ are still top 3 according to TIOBE and yet, when do we ever hear of those on HN?

Is it because most people on HN are web developers? Am I doing projection because I am myself a web developer? Otherwise, where the heck do those C/C++/Java developers hang out? I'm genuinely wondering.
Thats what I was thinking. The few places in the desert that people found water.
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I'll look into automatically logging people in when they go to the demo page.
Right, so, if they were quoted $3K a month, in a couple of months of self hosting, they'd have definitely recovered their investment, and then start saving a few K a month.

Your point about onsite hands is something I forgot. In the companies I've had, I've always had offices adjoining the datacenter. (I've been lucky to end up with such great spaces.)

If you don't have onsite hands, then fixing even minor hardware issues can be a major pain. If you do, then cheap users servers are fine, if your software is fault tolerant. If a machine goes down, others takeover in a minute and you have slightly less capacity. No big deal.

I just see these crazy high numbers for hosting, especially "cloud" stuff and don't get it. Cloud in particular seems to only make sense if you're actually elastic, or scaling up very fast. Amazon and so on's pricing, for "always on" servers, does not look that appealing.
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If you follow a few people closely and read every article you can find about them, some characterizations in the press tend to be a bit dubious. I don't know Levchin personally, but every indication goes to him being a workaholic, and not exactly a "family man", as Malik writes.

I really don't like how many interview posts start.. It's often something like "Oh, look, this guy has it all and now he's coming clean on my interview! Watch him spill it all", which is obviously link-bait and just not true.
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You and the others should just get together and learn Python. No need to have a dependency on your HS class.
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