skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up. Figured why not try it out. I really like outsourcing as much as I can (platform as a service like AppEngine and Heroku, datastores like MongoHQ and Cloudant, etc.)
That doesn't sound too bad. You'll probably get a little interest from HN that may yield a few accounts/signups but that'll die down fairly quickly. I'd say start with that and then look at baby steps to growing it if you want more users.
Consumers go online... Web merchants have their own tricks
Does the World Need Another Social Media Site?
I think we can do better than "a good reason to not pop it like mints".

Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study

"Doses of 1,000 mg per day of aspirin caused gastrointestinal symptoms and bleeding that, in some cases, were clinically significant. In the largest postinfarction study (the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study (AMIS) with 4,500 people), the percentage of incidences of gastrointestinal symptoms for the aspirin (1,000 mg of a standard, solid-tablet formulation) and placebo-treated subjects, respectively, were stomach pain (14.5%, 4.4%), heartburn (11.9%, 4.8%), nausea and/or vomiting (7.6%, 2.1%), hospitalization for GI disorder (4.9%, 3.5%). In the A.I. and other trials, aspirin-treated patients had increased rates of gross gastrointestinal bleeding. Symptoms and signs of gastrointestinal irritation were not significantly increased in subjects treated for unstable angina with buffered aspirin in solution. "
Sinatra is what I came here to suggest when I read "simple" and "rails" used together. So I'll just give your reply a point instead.

In addition to web.py (mentioned below), there is also cherrypy. There are a lot of great lightweight frameworks that still give you some of the benefits you get from something robust like rails or django.
Aside from the blatant strawmanning of the article, consider a rephrasing:

"Every time a new API is announced, its 'nice-to-work-with-ness' is heralded as if it was a MUST HAVE feature. And yet..."

People work with what they have available to them. If another service came into existence that was in all respects the same as EC2, but had a nice, RESTful API, it would have an advantage.

Barring that, people use EC2.
Ask HN: Health care services, investors in NY, SF, LA or SD?
Dear HN community, i would be very thankful for every information about investors (VC, private equity etc.), who do invest into health care services projects (clinics) and who are located in NY, SF, LA or SD.

Even a suggestion about listings of investors in this areas would be very useful!

Thank you for any help!
I did.

Mr. Schneider, however, noted some factors that may have influenced the outcome.

For one thing, Shanghai is a huge migration hub within China. Students are supposed to return to their home provinces to attend high school, but the Shanghai authorities could increase scores by allowing stellar students to stay in the city, he said. And Shanghai students apparently were told the test was important for China’s image and thus were more motivated to do well, he said.

Shanghai pop.: 19,000,000+
Finland pop.: 5,500,000+
Hong Kong pop.: 7,000,000+

The population of Shanghai exceeds the total population of NY, LA, CHI, HOU, and PHX combined.

Which student sample would you say is more diverse?
sounds like the perfect case for a "review my startup" post, might want to submit it under a dummy account even. ps: dibs on invite?
Shoot me an email (in the profile) and I will just send you my Wordpress installation from one of my sites that sounds close to what you are doing.
Twitter Proven to Impact Search Engine Rankings
I'm not inclined to believe anything regarding Wikileaks or Assange. I'm sure more than a few people have seen those tweets and some Twitter crawlers/indexers have them stored somewhere. We'll see how it plays out, no need to speculate at this point.
Wouldn't it be feasible to make an iPhone google map app that included a map caching tile server for offline mode?
Last-Minute Holiday Ecommerce Optimization Checklist
Ask HN: Who Would You Vote As 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year and Why?
Agreed, I know the 'which framework?' discussion is a slippery and horrible slope, so I'd like to avoid that and focus on getting to point B. It looks like my best bet for ease/flexibility/help is Drupal, but I may see how far I get with Django just for kicks. PHP bothers me because all I hear everywhere is how terrible it is (though it's easy and most people use it). This is one project I'd like to actually see evolve into the reality of its conceptual form, so long term evolution and elegance would be a big plus.
Landing Page Tutorials and Case Studies
Yes, very much so!
Apple's decision didn't surprise me much. Yeah, I thought they could have handle it a bit more tactfully, but the decision to drop the XServe line didn't surprise me.

Why? Because ours is awful. We bought it to be the office do-everything server. It ended up doing roaming profiles, file sharing (poorly, since we also have Windows machines and that seemed to be a constant headache) and Time Machine backups (also a major headache). At one point, it did Gateway and DNS stuff, too, but it couldn't really do what we wanted, and we went back to Linux for those.

And then recently we ended up moving to a NAS for the file serving and Time Machine backups, and that's been much nicer.

We tried to hook a tape drive to the XServe to make proper backups, but it never worked right from the start. We ended up having to pick a subset of what we really wanted to back up, and then it kept having issues even then.

We were also told that we could virtualize Windows on it (a few instances) but it was quite obvious that it didn't have the power for that before we even really got started.
Are you aware that the US Government wants to accuse him Assange of treason and espionage. I think the reason they haven't formally done it yet is because they are waiting for him to be extradited to Sweden first.
Which framework was that you created?
I don't think most people who use the term know what HTML5 is. Most of the time they simply mean "a rich JavaScript + HTML + CSS application" regardless of whether or not it uses the new features actually in HTML5.

At least "AJAX" was a new term, not one with an actual meaning that was co-opted for a different use.
Beck was left by people who were perfectly capably of helping, despite evidently still being capable of getting himself down. Your example is good too, but there are many, many examples of people in radio contact with a camp only a few hours of non-technical terrain away, but where the people in camp don't actually do anything in time. Also, being physically present next to the person who needs help seems like a bit closer psychological connection than a radio, but there are still cases of people being left behind due to incorrect evaluation of "futility".
... or perhaps the advantage is in the ability of people to communicate.

I've lived in a few countries and the significant difference between them is how well people communicates (i.e.: to write, to talk, to imagine and put that imagination in writing).

US is on top in terms of magnifying something that might be otherwise boring/regular story to a fairy tale.

I don't know Jessica or her company that well but I've read many articles that glorify something that may not be true. To put things into perspective: Jessica Mah is bigger than her company or her product. She is the product. I saw many of her coverages focusing mostly on her life story.

On the other hand, low energy dull people might finish longer (in life) than most of these short-burst high energy people. Have you thought about that? Most people only see what happen now (aren't we all anyway? the current instant generation). Not too many people care/think/analyze those long-term stretch.
Starting Forth - After yesterday's Prolog post, another awesome language
Issue 1 of Hackers is here
The Appleseed social framework. =)

https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
I disagree about the blog similarity. I'd really like it to be a one page app to start. Emphasis on app. The idea is not to compile a blog full of images but to compare and play with the idea of comparison in a quick, addictive way.

A blog I would make on Wordpress in a heartbeat, I wouldn't bother you guys about a blog =)
Ask HN: Best credit card gateways for non-US (specifically UK) businesses?
Dear HN,<p>As an entrepreneur not based in the US, I am experiencing tremendous difficulty in finding a credit card gateway with a reasonable API that also supports credit card tokenization to streamline PCI-DSS compliance (a la Braintree's "Vault").<p>Am I just going to have to bite the bullet and reincorporate in the US? If so, I am worried about double taxation as I have been advised HMRC tax offshore companies as UK companies where the directors are resident in the UK?<p>I am interested in hearing how others have managed this problem.
Twitter is really denying this in no uncertain terms, but there's some pretty interesting statistical analysis here.
Is there something in particular that you weren't able to find via Google or Wikipedia?
The morning hate + insincere greeters = a perfect picture of modern America
As a model for predicting the future through science fiction, will life in another decade more closely resemble cyberpunk or utopia? I'm beginning to lean further from Star Trek and closer to Blade Runner.
Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
I don't know how the Apache modules to guard against Slowloris work, but I can think of a modified attack that would still work if connections per IP were limited. You can't limit connections per IP to just one, as browsers will pipeline requests, they may have multiple tabs open, asynchronous requests, &c . . . 256 is obviously very high, let's say you set the limit to 10 simultaneous requests per IP.

It's now impossible for a user to Slowloris your webserver, but they only need to get hold of 26 separate IP addresses to be able to once more. Depending on your setup, this may be far less than they would need for a naive DDOS attack.

I think a way to mitigate both attacks would be to limit how long the client can send headers for (and perhaps refuse connections for X amount of time if a client repeatedly acts in a way that appears malicious, but that's possibly beyond the scope of "native configuration").
Live Blog as Google Launch Chrome OS
This page (http://www.8000ers.com/cms/everest-general-info-185.html) shows 4102 attempts to reach the top with 216 deaths last year. That puts it at about 5% of climbs end in death.

However, only about 2700 individuals climbed -- which puts the deaths / "uniques" back up to 8%. And if you assume that the sherpas die less frequently than do the tourists, 10% doesn't seem too far off.

Interestingly, K2 seems to be much more difficult with a much higher fatality rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander
So the Air Force can get "Other OS"
Thanks for the link and an explanation!
Surprisingly, that last claim about marijuana decreasing infant mortality is correct: see http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/1...

As is the part about increasing IQ, with the caveat that it only applies to light users (<5 joints per week), while heavy users experience an average decrease of about 4 points. See http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/7/887

Marijuana use increases the risk of prostate cancer and cervical cancer, though not significantly for cervical cancer. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/l221477720240752/

It also may increase the risk of adult-onset glioma, head and neck cancers, and possibly lung cancer. Parental use during pregnancy may increase risks of childhood leukemia, astrocytoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma. However, not enough information is available to say whether this is certain, due to issues with previous studies (low sample size, issues with legality, and so forth). See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T40-4GRRJK7-G...

I haven't been able to find a source for reducing diabetes risk by 66%, though.

Also, please note that I'm not going through to figure out how good these studies are, and how accurate their results are; I'm just taking the claims from their abstracts, mostly because I started out trying to figure out how much of what Alex3917 said might actually have citations. Alex, do you have citations for the rest of your claims? Preferably scholarly articles, not just news reports which reference them.
Actually, I'm pretty sure what it's missing is (1) a sarcasm marker or (2) anything that's actually funny about the sarcasm. I'm guessing that the underlying point, in so far as there is one, is something like "boo, the OP is just promoting drugs; might as well be pushing marijuana".
Retro Language - a stack-based, concatenative language with roots in Forth.
That's because either Paul or one of the mods hellbanned him. When you're banned on Hacker News, you don't get told, because that would make you get a new account and start posting without having learnt your lesson. So instead they just auto-kill your comments to prevent other people from seeing what you're doing. (Sometimes they're polite and email you to let you know you've been banned, which is nice of them. Other times they just let you keep posting away to nobody.)
This is a really disturbing characteristic of Hacker News moderation. The people it happens to must feel like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, when they realize it. Why not let them know??
voodootikigod, can you please provide more info?
I share your frustrations about the quality of legacy Java web frameworks (though that Play one looks interesting, or would be if I had any interest in ever writing Java again). That said, I voted you down rather than voting you up to express my preference for HN having a high signal-to-smug ratio.
Nice job editing your comment without saying so (" -- although not impossible --" and your last paragraph).

Anyway, your nginx/lighttpd server is more likely to be exploited and compromised via an actual vulnerability rather than your Apache server via a slowloris-style attack. It's akin to putting a wide receiver in front of your runningbacks...
Huh? What? A five word announcement with no content for an event six months away? Get back to work.
FYI... The provided code runs fine in Firefox and Chrome. However, in Safari 5.0.3, it displays: "Error while retrieving position. Error code: 2 Message:".
"Distinct multitouch" is multitouch as you would expect -- multiple simultaneous independent points of contact on the screen. The N1 uses some sort of pseudo-multitouch where it can make a pretty good guess how far apart your fingers are, but doesn't know unambiguously where they were.

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsSUqkh8pcI
The Public Domain
Forth in Lisp
Chrome Browser, Now Used By 120 Million People, Just Cranked Up Its Speed
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>rape and child porn/molestation. Once someone has been accused of those, people seem to lose all objectivity.

The converse is true also. Those that support Wikileaks appear to believe that it is impossible for Mr Assange to have committed any crime and that the grievous nature of the accusations means that it's all a conspiracy.

If the accused were guilty the best thing to do would be to make a big leak (I gather they hold information and don't leak it immediately, a power play for sure) immediately before the accusations became widespread or before being arrested at the latest - that way the support of those without objectivity on your own side can be won.

In short, lack of objectivity is a two way street.
Show HN: Simple Mac Finder Path Copying
I wish they could have picked a better name - 'Slowlaris' (note minor spelling difference) has been a colloquial name for the older, but more common versions of Solaris, due to the badly performing IP stack for some time.

That said, Slowloris wins a Googlefight these days: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=sl...
disclaimer: I support Apple products as a main focus of my business.

If you look at what Steve Jobs has said about the enterprise market, it's pretty much that the users of the product aren't the people making the purchases.

For this reason, Apple is making inroads on the other end - the C-level exec buys an iPhone, loves it, and starts buying other Apple gear, which IT grumbles about but integrates.

Apple cares about IT as a function of interoperability, not as a place to take over - it's fundamentally boring.

The biggest "Enterprise" related feature gains made by Apple in the last few years are all iOS management and email integration related, not desktop computer support related.

Desktop computing will live on, it just won't be where all the whiz-bang neat stuff happens, on any platform - witness all the mobile device and new interface (Kinect hacks anyone?) innovation, whereas Mac OS X 10.6 isn't all that different from 10.4 or Windows 7 from XP.
Chrome OS and Web Store are coming today
I dispute the notion that Slowloris's behavior should be considered an "attack". If your server is hammered by tens of thousands of visitors who are on slow links - say modems or 2G wireless links - then you will have the same problem. The real problem if you ask me is the limited amount of I/O concurrency that multi-threaded and multi-process servers can have. Pretty much the only practical solution for this right now is by using evented I/O.

The problem can also be solved by putting the web server behind an evented, buffering reverse proxy and fully buffers both the request and the response. This shields Apache from slow requests.

Maybe some time in the future operating systems will be able to handle millions of operating system threads easily but we're not there yet.
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How the U.S. can now extradite Assange
Pardon my ignorance, but Rails and Django seem pretty lightweight as they are... How are sinatra etc lighter (and thus easier to use somehow)?
What a load of drivel. Stopped reading at "Contrast that with software. What are the criteria for evaluating software?" To the author: there are many criteria. Different from physical things, for sure, but solid scientific criteria nevertheless. Such as usability, bug densities, features, specifications.
good idea.

right now we're just using twitter auth to log in. if you have a twitter account, you should be good.

the idea is a community for sharing useful tips. (the other exercise was to see how well i could do on a project if i wasn't actually coding it myself. i hired someone. thankfully he is excellent - i am thrilled)
i'm usually pretty hesitant to use the world "Orwellian" -- but this makes the bar
The difference is the customer is not affected by electricity/plumbing/furniture that the company is responsible. Customers are affected by the company's website, which is a type of software.
A Virtual keyboard with Qwerty layout in JQuery
I am not aware of Nginx having a bad security track record.
Chinese hackers 'slurped 50 MB of US gov email'
NodeConf is going to be held in Portland, OR shortly after JSConf US 2011. The target is to gather all node.js developers from all skill sets together for a day of awesome presentations and community building. There will be events around this conference to help train/learn you on node.js if you are interested.
So an optimist then ;-)
MiX’Em and other learning apps help put new “i” in education
you can't even notice whether you're using a native or a well crafted HTML app.

While HTML apps are nice and very good for quick-and-dirty prototyping, I think you are sadly mistaken if you think that no one notices the difference. It would take just a couple of seconds of playing around with certain UI widgets to know if you were running on an HTML app if you knew what to look for. Even a short period of use people who do not know the tell-tale signs tend to get a feeling that there is something "wrong" with the app.
The first-mover's Achilles heel, though, is that you're the one who has to affect behaviorial change, which is the hardest part about building a company that is trying to fundamentally change the way people, well, behave.
An application that scrolls trough a list of words that are permutations of a given word 10 at a time?
I look forward to trying Indinero again once they get through these early growing pains.
How an engineer's injectable liquid could help heal bones more quickly
The eight balls thing is still divide and conquer - the insight is that you can divide into 3 groups, not 2.
"The structure is basically HotorNot/FaceMash"

The biggest advantage of Drupal is, that probably you won't have to write a single line of code for this. You would need to learn how Drupal works (on a high-level, basic stuff), then just piece together existing modules and configure your website. That's the main idea behind Drupal - to be able to build and maintain websites without the help of a developer. This doesn't mean that the resulting Drupal module code is overly complicated and difficult to maintain, quite the opposite, it has a great community with high coding standards. Drupal was also meant to be used to build community websites, so it supports structures for multiple users creating content.
Self-healing autonomous material comes to life, Terminator 2 Style
Although those who don't climb Everest have a 100% mortality rate

(Perhaps 99.9999% if you include the Dalai Lama)
Anyone buying Xserves was already irked. OS X just isn't there QA-wise or support-wise (oh, gee, wasn't it cute when they broke NFS permissions until the next release?) for anything like a traditional server role. It's just not a priority for Apple except where it was a necessity for selling Mac clients.
Without getting too wonky about the finer points
of "blade servers," the Xserve is essentially a
high-powered Macintosh computer with additional
features to help it network with other computers or
host websites.

Without getting in to the finer points of almonds, the peanut is a legume whose seeds grow underground.
Thanks, the 'Facebook was written in PHP' is probably the best argument for PHP there is. It makes a lot of sense.

As for ambitions, I don't see an investment need any time soon but the FB and mobile apps are where the real user base (and money) is for this thing, so I'd like that to not require a full recode or a lot of pain.
That too demonstrates the scientific method in action. Experiments showed that the prevailing paradigm is likely flawed. Now we know more.
I'd like someone to explain to me how doing well on an international standardized test somehow refutes the rote learning claim.

I mean, yes, I am every bit as skeptical as I sound, but it is a serious question as well, if someone has a concrete answer. It's very easy to say that these test results prove that they are not just pulling things out of their memory banks, but that doesn't mean there's any actual logic or truth behind that claim, and I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to get from the results to the claim.
“How to Stop Writing Spaghetti Code” @Yahoo Theater
I love how America is turning into a police state. "Lets have fear mongering pushed onto the stupid masses at Walmart so we can keep the public afraid so we can take away their civil liberties with less resistance!"
Essentially all food people is eat GM food. Some of it was just GMed in by people who might not have had helpful tools like computers, DNA, Mendellevian hereditary, or written language.

Take a look at the cow: four little bitty legs attached to a bag of delicious meat. The cow cannot exist in nature. It doesn't have to, since when nature comes close to our delicious meat we kill it.
Not the energy level but US has great advantage at giving second chances.
The press who put out these glory pieces will not think twice about writing flame articles if the company/person is down and out.

However, there are many businesses, VCs and co-founders who are willing to respect and hire you for the experience of trying and failing.

Not so in most countries I have experience in.
Watch Google live streaming its Chrome OS event.