skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A wealthy but dangerous town like Fairbanks, Alaska is rare.

Lots of things about Fairbanks break the rules, which makes the discrepancy from the norm reasonable. It's remote, for one, and much of the employment is with the government.
Future-you should fear not. The 20gb limit is a soft limit and we have many who have gone past it. It is really there for two reasons ...

1) To give people some reasonable expectations about how much data they should be putting on the plan given it is a multi-tenant server and they are sharing resources.

2) To make room for an expanded offering, both a larger high-availability shared plan, and a dedicated server plan.
You could bootstrap Zombal as a "payment system" for scientific reviews.

Get in touch with the organisers of a national-level scientific conference. They could offer reviewers the option of getting Zombal credits for their (currently unpaid) work. Reviews are automatically meta-reviewed (by the acceptance), you could use that information.

If you do so, please make it fully automatic: conference review websites are already painful to use.

You could also use the information that the reviewers provide about themselves.

There you have lots of people who might be keen on getting some sort of recognition for their currently unpaid work.
WikiLeaks And The Pandora’s Box Of Radical Transparency
Anti-cam documentary (The Season, ep. 21)
After poking around his site, I laughed a little after he described Emacs as a "stripped down, no frills text editor".

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2005/09/05/better-developer-don...
Don't blame him for using the word "lie" when you clearly phrased it like lying

basically told them

I framed the story in this fashion for several reasons

I framed the story, is not an admission of lying there where motives beyond the initial purchase, but even if those motives did not exist I intended to purchase software for my daughter, only using a selective portion of my total intent to purchase was in no way lying and in no way disingenuous. I blame him for using the word lie because it is a charged word, that should not be used unless you are certain of the factualness of ones allegations. Calling someone a liar is pretty disingenuous and was done so in this case as a character attack to further his position in his rebuttal. Not as a legitimate response to a legitimate comment.
"Would the US gov't go after the NY Times if they were the ones leaking the cables?"

They did with the Pentagon Papers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#Legal_case
What's the hardware? The Techcrunch photo looks ugly :-P
History is written by the victors. All this fuss around payment systems and Amazon can remain as act of vandalism by pile of 4channers. I personally think they've chosen the wrong methods.
A fool which... he wouldn't take?
Somehow I completely missed that. I got the impression the pricing was not affected by the number of users, but I can see it pretty clearly now.

They could have made that more clear.

It seems much too expensive to me at this point.
Nobody's dying here. There's a crazy amount of talk here about WL trying to bring down government or the collateral damage to business and equating that to civilian deaths.

I don't know if Assange goes around saying "anarchy for everyone!" and I don't care. I don't like the idea of vast swaths of government operating in secret. From the CIA, to the closed door congressional meetings.

Second, it's only money. In the scheme of things it's probably a net positive for the economy as alternatives are explored, supporting perhaps financial startups, security firms are employed, etc.

You (and lot's of others) are comparing that to leaks detailing loss of life. I don't get it. The moral compass on HN is weird.
mysqldiff.pl generates the diffs you refer to, but I never implemented a fully automated process, because I never trusted that nothing would go wrong. That does not stop me from using the output in the migration script though, so you should be able to do the same.
As a business owner I rack up miles with business expenses. Hosting, services (ups mailbox, ring central, etc), phone, Internet, and paying my offshore team with pay pal earns me 75,000 miles a year.

On the personal side, rewardsnetwork lets me earn up to 5 miles per dollar at participating restaurants. Since my fiancee and I don't cook we earn quite a few miles this way too.
PhysOrg article submitted a day ago seems identical:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982068
I love reading subculture jargon I know nothing about. Plus this is all about the problem-solving aspect of climbing, and about improvisation.

Was it the Innovator's Dilemma that pointed out power users as a primary source of product innovation?
Boy, if my computer-use consisted exclusively of browsing snapshots and rotating them, this would be AWESOME.
if people know it, they'll read it. otherwise, you are wasting your time if your primary goal to share the knowledge with other people and not keeping notes to yourself.
Ok, I take back my point about the NY Times
Relevant question: To recharge them, will you have to feed them?

No.

Viruses do not have any sort of metabolism. They drift until they get into an appropriate target cell, at which point they hijack it and make it make more viruses. Therefore they do not need feeding at the best of times.

However in this case the viruses are being used as convenient particles that will stick to the electrode. We do not care about the health and well-being of the viruses at all.
Is there anything to stop a person from investing their estate in a company whose sole purpose is to insure their life?
Why I’m mad at Tumblr
That wikipedia page says about 3 million, not 300 million.
I had to right click to make sure. These are some of the best looking charts (HTML5 or Flash) that I've seen.

Edit: I also spent some in awe looking at these HTML5 animations on the Chrome OS:
http://www.google.com/chromeos/features.html
This was built for a specific route in BC, Canada.

The story of its development is told in the excellent web adventure sports series "The Season":
http://www.theseasontv.com/

You can see it in action in episode 21:
http://www.theseasontv.com/?p=454

The whole series of "The Season" is fantastic and well worth watching if you're into adventure sports. They follow a paddler, a mountain biker, a skier and a couple of climbers through a season. Recommended.
Confirmation bias would be if I said "all small software vendors have horrible sales support" and then "said see I told you so". I did neither, I merely said based on intuition and previous experiences, if a software vendor treats a small purchaser with respect then it is logical to conclude they will do so with a large one. The converse is not true. This in no way is indicative of confirmation bias. Some times you have to make decision based on comfort level and that has nothing to do with confirmation bias.

It cost me nothing, I went with a secondary vendor that I was comfortable with. They have been great, the client is in talks with them about an acquisition so that they can provide the full stack from one organization. I lost nothing by eliminating a vendor that I was not comfortable with, while I stood the chance to loose a good deal of reputation by doing so.
Windows Hibernation Poses Security Risk
absolutely. you have the right to the work of your own hands and mind. Your rights don't evaporate just because of a show of hands.
Great idea! Have you heard of Active Interview? :)
I think the best way to get started is to have some small bugs or features to implement, and start diving in. By tackling a series of small problems you'll get familiar with different parts of the code base as you try to figure out why a particular buggy behavior is happening, or where to put a new feature. Make sure you give yourself a decent amount of time as you do this; you obviously aren't expecting to fix the bug as quickly as you would if you already understood the code.

That said, reading and diving into existing codebases is definitely a learned skill, and a skill that you'll get better at as you do it more and more.
"Is it really so hard to imagine a task for which gesturing is appropriate?"

Yes. Can you think of some examples? I can't think of a single task I'd like to do on a desktop computer that wouldn't be easier and more-precise with a mouse. You know what's easier than pinch-zoom? A scroll-wheel. Multi-touch is great for phones/tablets, but this seems pretty silly to me as an interface for, y'know, computing.
> Wonder if there is a monetization method beyond hardware there...

Doesn't need to be.

If you want to be a Fortune 500 compan, go public and make your VCs rich, you want to control the entire stack form hardware through to data, "monetize" (i.e. hog) everything and hide your algorithms from your competitors and users. This is what movie studios are trying to do.

If you want to have a living and product that is useful to people, you can make enough money from hardware sales. You don't get to ring the bell on NYSE, but I can live without that.

Ari.
I had this delusion that if I flagged an article, someone would come read it and kill it if it was off topic. I like knowing that it is merely a downvote. PG's invisible hand is always working.
I count myself very lucky that this hasn't happened to any groups I run yet. I have moderation turned on, and that seems to stop all of it. /me knocks on wood.
Especially when you throw in going from Xt (!) to Cairo/GTK - you could probably save 50% of the line count right there.
Lua's other strong point here is that it has an especially nice C API. Unlike Perl, Python, and Ruby, it was written primarily to script C, with use as a standalone language being secondary.

I prefer Lua to all of those, but that again is a matter of taste.

And yes, Lua is pretty fast, and LuaJIT (http://luajit.org/) is so fast that it's a major outlier among scripting languages.
> This detection process doesn't detect toxic customers, it detects corporate customers at large companies.

For a small business with fixed pricing, a corporate customer at a large company may well be a toxic customer. All the points you made hold true, but they also all increase the cost of the sale for the small business. If the product pricing does not cover the "high-maintenance-ness" of a large corporate which is expecting a corporate service, then why isn't this customer toxic from the point of view of the small business selling the product?

OTOH, there are often purchasers at large companies who understand that they're buying a commodity product, can approve the purchase (based on the much lower price) and don't have such high expectations.

It's all about being aware of expectations and declining the sale when they don't match, which is exactly what Rob identified here.
Pocket Folders - The Competitive Folders
Pocket folders are indeed exceptional kinds of folders which would play a pivotal role in increasing your product image and services. That is why online folder printing company offers you matchless pocket folder printing solutions worldwide cost effectively.
I applied as a developer as soon as the link was posted on engadget during the live show. I hope mine comes tonight, UPS usually runs around 5.

Questions:
Does it have an SD card slot?
Do you have any idea size of SSD?
Do you know what CPU it has?
The secure/payments stuff probably happens on totally different servers.
I never said I lied and please don't call me stupid, there are other sites for less than civil discourse.
10.1 inch Notion Ink Tablet - $375
How much of this is skewed by every web product likely having its own copy of a large framework/library such as jQuery?
I guess your post is in jest, but I'll address its point. We subjugate all kinds of life without regard for the ethics.

"Poor corn plants, they grow them in overpopulated conditions, only to eat them at the prime of their lives"
I'm a little taller than average, so being able to prebook exit rows for free even when travelling on the cheapest economy ticket was worth it's weight in gold (or platinum. Ho ho!). I was doing a lot of transatlantic at the time, so it really was a big deal.

Your status must come up when you book ("Oh, you travel with us a lot. We'll just ignore the overweight bag fees today then...") and on the passenger manifest (more than once I had free drinks given to me, or better brands of drinks brought back from First).

Now that I have no status they don't go out of their way to do those things, despite having a ton of miles i'm slowly working through, and a bunch of unusable upgrade stickers. Meh.

The recent flight to Hawaii paid for with some of my miles made up for that though.
Earlier submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986996 - venturebeat.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983184 - techcrunch.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529491 - itworld.com

Comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529532

> Allow me to be the first to call BS.
> (Am I allowed to do that with Google?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983338

> Google Discovers the Appeal of Spam
Unfortunately, I am not my own boss so I am more concerned on how to get those 6 months to spent.
The should have rather added an "ignore thread" button. I have some doubts the new tree view helps users to keep an overview in threads with 40+ messages.
ESI - Full page caching with Symfony2
Critics raise doubts on NASA's arsenic bacteria
What are the tech specs?
Aldiko 2.0: DRMed ePub and PDF reader for Android OS
SyncPad Node.js Server Revisited
New Mechanical Turk Blog
ChromePHP: Console logging extension for Google Chrome
I heard about a hack that allowed you to purchase bonds or something with your credit card and then reselling those bonds while racking up air miles.

It was all possible until there was a crack down. This guy essentially did just that.
To some extent that's rather a problem of a missing moderator (especially in usenet groups and mailing list mirrors). I could also understand though if some moderators simply gave up to manually mark spam posts.
If I didn't know better I'd think he was trolling. He goes on to compare emacs to COBOL. I don't even like emacs (I use vim, of course), but it shows an unbelievable level of ignorance of the current state of emacs to act as though it's "ancient" and clearly inferior to the Visual Studio editor.
It cost a lot of money to get the necessary equipment to defend against an attack, but DOSarrest can handle the job rather well. They defend against any kind of DDOS attack and they do not care about the size of the attack. I had a forum which came under attack one day and I did all kinds of things to try and defend against the attack. I wrote my own script to grab IPs, use automated attack detection and block tools, bought expensive cisco hardware, and still, I had a LOT of problems. I finally went and looked for experts in DDOS protection which is when I came across DOSarrest. They where nice and helped get everything set up and optimized for my site. I gave them my IP address and a payment, within 5 minutes I was given an IP to point my DNS to and then my site was back up as soon as my DNS migrated. I turned my TTL down in anticipation for this, so it was only about 10 minutes from the time I gave them my IP to the time I was back online. Then to be safe I changed my IP to a secondary IP, had them update their system which took less then 5 minutes, and then blocked all traffic but theirs coming to my system.

These 4Chan guys attacked MPAA which went to DOSarrest as well and within minutes of being set up there they where back online. They protect a bunch of high end clients who have come under attack and bring on new people all the time.

They also have a nice customer panel where I can log in and change all kinds of settings for my site and view the statistics of the attack. I saw the attack get up to over 500mb/s and have no effect what so ever. I highly recommend them.
Germany had the same "strategy". I'm not sure pre-emptively bribing every official up-front really solves the "cost" issue to Joe Sixpack. Corruption might be more affordable in the end...
What else can you call it when you're buying a commercial site license and start the sales process trying to guilt someone into helping your daughter?
They don't collide because the file names include more than just the number.

And yes, manually renumbering is exactly what you'd have to do. Timestamps obviate that.

Theoretically, you can still have collisions (two migrations alter the same column, eg) or violated prereqs this way, so some communication is still required, but not to the degree before.
While being the guy who discovered Xena would certainly be worth some notoriety, isn't being the guy who killed Pluto also notable?
I don't get it. It's a C-clamp. Why not just build an escalator? Why not just tie yourself to a rope and have your Mommy pull you up?

I remember seeing footage of some French guy climbing a rockface a thousand feet up swinging like a monkey, with no rope, no pitons, nothing.
That is climbing.
Yep, it's working now for me.
MySQL webinars: Migrating MyISAM to InnoDB and Introduction to Percona Server
You sound like a toxic customer.
Software revenue margins (particularly web services) is much higher than the margins enjoyed by your local supermarket.
CloudFlare Will Block Infected Computers
I definitely use the number of upvotes, number of comments and post age as part of my decision whether or not to read an article.
I'll be getting the Pixel Qi version, if the reviews hold up. I'm slightly skeptical that the device will meet expectations, but I've already put money back to buy the device as soon as it's available. The Pixel Qi screen alone places it above an iPad.
I don't hate the word necessarily, but I did find it jarring to read in a journalistic context.
Sure, payments processed through their API might be different servers. But that's a completely different question than whether the traffic is clear or SSL.
Sort of like Ethernet collisions? You notice a collision and start yelling "collision, collision" on the segment?
If they charged $65/month, rather than $795, I bet they would have 10x more customers for this. How many people would buy cable if it was $1000/year, ditto for cell phones, Basecamp, Salesforce, etc. A little pricing psychology can make a massive difference.
When government fucks up: Repealing Prohibition
More People Are Quitting Their Jobs
My mistake: fixed.
My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that the only thing about the viruses which is important is that their capsules greatly increase the surface area; the genetic material inside is completely unnecessary. It is therefor an extremely small stretch of the imagination to suppose that they could be produced in massive quantities simply by adding a plasmid to bacteria which contains only the genetic code necessary for the creation of the capsule, which would in theory prevent them from being infectious. Some viral capsules do require dna or rna to be present inside them to function, however, so there are likely flaws in this idea, but keeping them nonvirulent would be a fairly simple matter.
I never tried to guilt anyone into anything. I made a simple request and the intentions for that purchase was to do just what I stated. Please don't put words in my mouth or add your perceptions to my story I never guilted anyone into anything. My request was simple "I would like to buy your pro version at the basic rate for educational purposes". He was free to say yes or no.
I'd love such an interface precisely for the ergonomics. The mouse is very bad for my wrists. I imagine waving my hand through the air wouldn't be.

Also, the gorilla arm would go away fairly quickly. This used to make me tired:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKbCsWLe4k

Now it doesn't. I expect people would get used to minority report interfaces, particularly if they didn't immediately try to transition from 8 hours of keyboard to 8 hours of minority report.

My real question: is source code for this demo available?
Likewise; I think that this will get a huge amount of preorders from people that have just been waiting for any Pixel Qi tablet at all. I can't imagine how they could screw this device up badly enough to warrant me not paying $500 for it. (And they may not screw it up at all; it sounds pretty open, with good specs.)

I'm really happy to see that this is evidently not vaporware.
Thanks, I'll try it!

Sure, I don't mean a fire&forget thing but to review migration commands. But diffs should be fine too - they'll actually require a programmer to review it, even accidentally when pasting the output to the migration script.
It seems like some of the responses here are missing the point. Sure, we get to play Angry Birds the whole way on a flight to Australia. But countless people in areas where electricity is still hard to come by suddenly gain the ability to use cell phones and computers, while only needing to charge them infrequently.

Given the impact of mobile devices we've seen in Africa so far, this sort of innovation would have a huge impact.

That said, I don't agree that Bill Gates is necessarily the best person to go solve this problem, nor that this would be an obviously more optimal area for him to invest in than those he's chosen so far.
Because the word 'flag' has a strong connotation of 'calling to the attention of others/administrators', it was always my assumption/hope that flagging things meant some human-with-authority was likely to see it, and be able to take conscious action using their privileges.

So, I 'flag' articles that are perfectly on-topic, but have abusive against-the-guidelines headlines. (I may have even, at one point or another, upvoted and flagged an article at the same time.)

I have some concern that my strategy, if misinterpreted by the algorithms, could result in my flags being discarded as signal-free.

The rise of automated moderation is giving a different meaning to the word 'flag' -- indeed closer to 'downvote'.
75000 airmiles would be redeemed for 2 or 3 flights in most cases. depending on what flights and when you bought the tickets, this might be a decent savings (assuming you can even redeem them for the dates you need or not). to get that, you're probably spending $40k per year assuming $1=1pt with some bonuses.

3% merchant fees on that $40k is $1200. The cost of a couple flights is probably a few hundred to $1000 or so. Even at regular merchant rates they may still turn a profit, cause most people won't redeem points. But they'll charge a merchant higher fees for the rewards card anyway.

You're already spending $40k - understood. Most people aren't, and are enticed in to spending more than they should to get 'free' stuff. Insane.
Many consider it to be the job of the businessperson to do everything they can to help their business' success within the legal framework it exists in. As long as that legal framework is democratically constructed, I don't see any reason to think of that as immoral, so I don't really see any contradiction there.
Being Social Online Is More Important Than We Thought
For a time you could buy U.S. savings bonds online with a credit card. So the common trick was:

1) Get a rewards credit card (Citi had at 5% rebate card at the time if you wanted cash, but there were also other rebate cards like frequent flier miles.)
2) Purchase bonds at treasurydirect.gov. (I bonds were a favorite at the time, the fixed rate was over 1%.)

The ability to buy savings bonds with a credit card was ended in 2003. http://www.treasurydirect.gov/news/faq/faq.htm
Precisely, and that's the thing I've come to learn about objective-c memory management. It's fairly easy to learn as the article points out, but in practice when you have to interface with other developers code, it can be a confusing mess.