skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based off several interactions I have had with people who are not in a technical industry, I don't think the concept of the Cloud has hit mainstream. The fact that Microsoft is driving the first real advertising campaign for the Cloud is both good and bad. The bad, imo, is that Microsoft is such a giant and has such a large advertising budget that people will begin to associate "The Cloud" solely with them. The really bad, imo, is that they aren't doing a very good job explaining what the concept of cloud computing really is.
Good Help Content Improves the User Experience
They're both present tense:

- "Fix bug" is simple present

- "Fixing bug" is present progressive
Why in an earlier age, did DCE fail so miserably? It was amply backed by ginormous corporate interests.
I want to see your expectations.

I started by saying that not taking more of my money does not constitute welfare. You countered my point by saying that many people that later get paid out first paid in. So I am asking -- how many people? What ratio for paying in and taking out?

You're saying that me keeping more of my own money (you know, the money I worked for) should be called welfare because I might take some of the money -- taken from me in the first place -- back.

In effect: we all put in to a kitty. One day Cardboard holding, Camel smoking, Corner lollygagging, 'Carl' takes some out -- next day I take some out. Right?

Well I am asking you; how much does 'Carl' put in and how much does he take out? It's easy for me to say I have tax withholdings and I know how much welfare I've used.

What's your guess for the average 'Carl'?
Man, I don't know what any of those games do, but "Off-Road Velociraptor Safari" and "Time Donkey" sound amazing.

I don't own a Mac, however. Off to your page to read about your company!
I don't think 'not knowing exactly what you're doing' implies 'being an amateur'.
True. People often underestimate the comprehensiveness of vim's :help. Maybe (and this is conjecture) it's because other utilities lack thorough help documentation.
It's not a "name". That number is the meaning. The number represents the "points on the compass" as it were. Since the "compass" is changing, the numbers have to change.

I find it interesting that they don't use true north though.
What is the similarity? Is it just that both groups of people dislike a person (albeit, in one case, a fictional person)? Because there are an awful lot of people who have people who dislike them.
I think good 'ol selling shit was a reinvigorated business model. Rovio?
When the message is supposed to describe what the patch does, shouldn't it then be written in the 3rd person singular: "adds support for feature X"?
If you can't scrape together a hundred visitors a day, then the text on your submit button profoundly doesn't matter. If you can, you can A/B test.
Film site MUBI pulls in $2.4 million to socialise cinema buffs
The concept of the "cloud" will never matter to non-technical types, because, fundamentally, the only defining feature of what people are calling "cloud" is that it is an abstraction away from individual machines.

Abstractions only matter to techies. End users shouldn't have to care either way.
Annnd - I need to continue reading. Description why they don't use true north in comments elsewhere in this thread.
Something's seriously messed up if, once the XML has been parsed, their code can even tell the difference between those two constructs, much less care.
That depends on how many false positives and negatives we have -- you don't really know how many of either. There are 100 million hosts in our crawl, how can you estimate if we have a false positive problem from looking at the list of the top 100 marked spam?
Java bytecode fundamentals
"Richard made people feel like a child does, when a grown-up first treats him as an adult. He was never afraid of telling the truth, and however foolish your question was, he never made you feel like a fool."

I don't know much about Feynman but the combination of his brilliance and his popularity has always intrigued me. Surely we can assimilate some of Feynman's charm.
It causes me a great deal of stress when I hear non seasoned developers discussing "the cloud". Even talking about it now is annoying me. The people with the loudest opinions are usually managers who have only a basic concept of what it is and what it might be good for.
I've experienced hi's and lo's whilst developing a product. The thing that keeps me optimistic and excited is the possibility that the product becomes a success in some small or big way. Why not set yourself a challenge to develop something over the coming weeks/months and submit it here for review. If anything you'll learn something along the way. You will also get so much insightful feedback from the community that will help you develop your product further maybe. Pick your best idea and get to work is my advice. Be tenacious in your endeavours.
It's a book review, not a peer review.
We don't mark a domain as spam until many of the pages we've seen look spammy.

Our ideal is to recrawl everything every 14 days, but during our launch we have not been achieving that.
My guess is that a specific number for who "deserves" what social investment is a chaotic system which cannot be quantified properly. And I would consider it an exercise in futility to determine a social theory based on something so chaotic.

Conversely, I would suggest that my payment into a welfare system benefits me, since I am merely middle class, and cannot escape the detrimental social effects of abject poverty nearly as easily as the wealthy.
I've been really curious about this - how do you like it? I've got a couple of Win2k8 cloud servers at Rackspace right now, but I'm entertaining other options.
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It sounds like it is a development platform, not a deployable product. Development environments for the Wii cost much more than one Wii does, not that this metaphor is perfect.
this may actually prove to be a useful thing. If you aren't excited enough to take your project to completion, then maybe folding was a good idea after all...

Just so you know, I am the same way. However, instead of ending up with 100 mediocre/small projects, we end up with 1 or 2 really good ones. You are perfectly normal and are doing nothing wrong.
I was worried that they had put fossils together incorrectly. We still have a three horned dinosaur even if they turn out to be correct that what we thought was a Triceratops was actually an immature Torosaurus.
What happens with the money pledged on Kickstart if the inventor fails to produce? Is any of it held in escrow until the product is delivered or what?
Feds charge two for allegedly exploiting video poker bug
Verizon sends invitation, 'Net flies into iPhone flurry
It is much easier for one over-broad subpoena or search warrant to reveal your private data if it's hosted on Google than if it's hosted on your own server. If everyone keeps their own data on their own machines, then they would need to subpoena or get a search warrant for each individual person, rather than a broad one attempting to fish for information.

Furthermore, you can fight a subpoena. Do you trust Google to fight a subpoena on your behalf? How would they even know whether or not they should; how would they be able to tell if the subpoena is reasonable or not?
I recently switched to Zerigo after years with DNSMadeEasy. I got tired of their clunky interface from 1993 and their login captcha (?!). Zerigo has a fantastic UI, quite refreshing...
The real problem is the enormous inconvenience costs associated with using pennies. Next time you get one, leave it on the counter and you'll be money ahead. Never take them and never give them, maybe we can start a movement.
Oh god... that's my life!
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Its true that one needs to build a product first then worry about the marketing. I just happen to grab these two domains so I kinda skipped the product part first.

Thanks for your suggestions/comments.
This is indeed sweet. I haven't done much research on this, so maybe someone else on HN would know, but are there any plans on having embedded "sound fonts"?
Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E work in most input controls, and definitely work in the terminal.
The iPhone is not exclusive anywhere else in the world. Here in Canada the iPhone is carried by every carrier, and is sold everywhere.

Since July of last year Android's marketshare has more than doubled. The Desire Z is making a particularly big impact, along with the Galaxy S variants.

That's the case around the world. June 2010, or thereabouts, represented the peak of iOS saturation virtually everywhere. Since then, through the world it has been on the slide with Android being the beneficiary.

So again, those numbers are pulled out of fantasy land. This Verizon/AT&T situation exists nowhere else, yet still iOS is falling. Weird, no?

I would put money against any bullshit notion that millions would line up on a weekend to get an iPhone but just on a different carrier. It is a preposterous proposal.
Some Mac App Store apps already hit by easy piracy trick
Really? Cheap laptops, high-bandwidth wireless, and first-party free file hosting (on Windows Live Mesh in this case), 10 years ago? The "cloud" may not have changed, but it is suddenly relevant (read: marketable) to a lot more people than it used to be. Hence the advertising.
If it replaced/injected advertising--that would be believable.
MP slams possible court order to Google as 'waste of money'
No: http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=173.203.218.200?showDetail...

That's embed.ly - they're at Slicehost, but you still have them at Rackspace even after this change. Your script might be confused because the /24 is a reassigned child of Rackspace's /16.

I've parsed WHOIS in the past and the corner cases make a very solid argument for just doing it by hand. IP ownership issues, which you've already seen with Linode, make it almost exclusively a wet code problem.

There's a few nagging questions with the list from a casual skim, too, one of them being octopart.com - 64.71.142.178 is part of a reassigned /28 out of a Hurricane /18, which means Octopart likely hosts themselves. I have doubts you get a /28 from Hurricane with their shared hosting, but their sales page does list a static address (singular). Shrug.
What is this some kind of satire site?
I disagree. The fact is that Facebook does not optimize for documentation, reliability or compatibility. The reason is because their goal is to be as agile as possible, and iterate extremely quickly. It's true that this makes life terrible for developers, but that's not a problem because Facebook does not have a shortage of developers. Over the past 3.5 years the Facebook platform has evolved so quickly that a lot of bugs simply disappeared by deprecation; if they had spent more time on solid architecture they would have left a lot on the table business-wise.

Also, I'm not sure if you used the Facebook API when it was new, but I remember in 2007 being distinctly blown away by how functional it was and how far ahead of the curve they were on web APIs. You can argue that "the best" engineers wouldn't churn out something so ephemeral, but that's subjective.
You’ve Got Mail is Ripe for a Sequel
16:9 displays fit human field of vision better. This isn't a hardware problem, it's a software problem.

And there's no such thing as a ThinkPad X51.
i am very surprised that linode is not in the chart for webhosting section! something must be wrong
This is particularly important if you are working on Heroku. I just made the switch from MySQL to Postgres and while they both run SQL, they have numerous syntactical and performance considerations that need to be addressed so you can transition into the Heroku cloud easier.

It's definitely worth considering for 9 and up, as at least when I was in grad school for databases (~2008), MySQL outperformed Postgres.
Is there any outside information on this? At first glance it looks like a complete hoax.

The supposed story about it is hosted on the homepage of the device in question, and I see no other hits for it on Google.

Edit: It looks like ibejoeb has the right of it. It is a hoax in the in the stunt/prank/hype/performance art manner, rather than the malicious deception sort.
I bought it after I you mentioned it on Reddit. 8-)
Heroku seems like a better analog to AppEngine for Rubyists than Amazon's services.
'Trimensional' Brings 3D Scanning To iOS
The classic is people fretting over master/slave nomenclature on hardware: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
Sony says it can fix private key crack
Analysis of the #LessAmbitiousMovies Twitter Trend
Causality by Judea Pearl
This is a blog post, not a peer-reviewed journal article.
This is a gross simplification. You're simply correlating Facebook's value to their number of users, which is taking two indirectly related numbers and putting them up against eachother.

Even your metaphor of the house is flawed; the house is not generating income.
Definitely looks like a joke given the BusyBox banner.

However, the technology described is something that is completely technically possible -- ARP spoofing on an open wireless network and performing MITM content modification.
I've had people complain about whitelist/blacklist too.
Some hypotheses missing from Daniel's list:

o customer problem or need
o symptoms that indicate customer problem or need
o description of benefits that customer will understand
o features to support benefits / solution customer will accept

See also Ben Yoskovitz's "Useless Feedback" at http://www.instigatorblog.com/useless-feedback/2010/06/14/
which begins:

Asking a friend, "What do you think of my idea?" is almost completely useless.
Asking a friend (or someone else who isn’t as biased as your friend,
"Do you have this problem, and how painful is it?" is a much more useful query.
Agreed, this looks like hype.

Still, the hardware (a Sheeva Plug?) and consequent hack described is very possible, tho I understand that setting up a man-in-the-middle DHCP server to override that on the public hotspot is more straightforward.
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And so the Wheel of Reincarnation begins again.

http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-re...
The problem is with the way the archive web site decided to render this text.

From a web standpoint, the author of this email did the right thing: introduce very little formatting (only paragraph breaks) and leave it up to style sheets to render his text the way the reader wants it.

That's how you get the same text to render perfectly on a twenty column display (e.g. an old phone), a 30' inch monitor and everything in-between.

Introducing manual newlines at arbitrary points (e.g. 80 columns) is a bad practice that assumes that everyone will read your text on the same device.

Relevant explanation:

http://beust.com/weblog/2009/03/10/of-kindle-and-web-usabili...
What program language are you going to be using?

I'd recommend checking out the available integration libraries (http://zencoder.com/docs/integration-libraries/#libraries) that we and our customers have created to simplify your integration with Zencoder. You can read our docs (http://zencoder.com/docs/) and API reference (http://zencoder.com/docs/api) for more information about the options you can set. Our API Builder (https://app.zencoder.com/api_builder) will also help you get started with seeing how some of the options fit together.

As for S3, we work in Ruby and use RightAWS (http://rubygems.org/gems/right_aws). That would handle the transfer of files from your users to S3. If you're using another language I'd recommend checking online for an S3 library compatible with your language.
Hands on Surface 2 [video]
Yeah I totally agree -- I find no end of amusement how a large portion of answers in #vim are simple :he $ANSWER. For a couple reasons actually:

1. Amazingly the documentation covers that odd topic!

2. Just knowing where to search is a big enough task a whole chatroom has essentially devoted itself to it.

3. No one thinks it odd that vim is a big enough, esoteric enough space that being a fancy search bot doesn't bother people.

:)
c.f. http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
That sounds plausible but I’m not sure whether it’s true. Many factors are imaginable, which could influence the amount of reviews an app receives, I think it could go both ways.
It looks like this is considering only the root domain, and for App Engine hosted sites this would probably be an external server not hosted by Google that just redirects you to the www subdomain (where you'd have your CNAME to ghs.google.com), so they wouldn't show up as such.

Wattvision is hosted on App Engine.
There are two use cases.

1. I want to own my own name: "Noah Clark" noahc.net was available and the best I could do. In that case it makes sense to go with .net or .org as in sivers.org. Erica of Erica.biz is a big fan of the .biz domain name. I personally hate it, but it works for her.

2. Say you're creating a service or website. If you're not tied to what your parents named you or an already existing business, I would pick a name I could get a .com for. I would not use any other domain. I'd also buy the .net and .org as well, but not before making sure I could get the .com
I wouldn't say they wouldn't do it. Apple has a long history of releasing products in January at the Macworld expo, but they've stopped attending as of last year. January of '06 saw the introduction of 2 Intel machines after their PowerPC versions were just updated in October of '05 (iMac, Powerbook/Macbook Pro). January '09 saw the upgrade of the MacBook from October '08. The current/first iPad was released in January '10, it's getting long in the tooth for an Apple product.
Sounds like Profounder. Yes, there are significant legal issues to overcome in each state in fact. One idea that is intriguing is founders swapping equity. So if I give up 1-2% into a pool and receive a blended 1-2% back of a pool of other startups I'd jump at that chance.
Awesome, see you there
Thank you for all the responses. I'm quickly seeing why the HN community is so revered. I think sometimes I just get frustrated at the idea of somebody else sitting down and hacking out a product over night, much like I do, except that they actually launch it and it goes somewhere. Not frustrated because it is them and not me, but frustrated at myself because I know I have the ability to do the same.

One of these days!
I know an account manager at a major telco. He talks regularly about how his bosses tell him to push "the Cloud" and that "the Cloud is the future", and other silly nonsense like that.

It's definitely a fad that non-technical people don't understand. They've been told it will save them hundreds of thousands of dollars (virtualized servers) and make data instantly accessible from any computer-machine. They mostly heard they would save a lot of money and told everyone to push it.

Funny how buzzwords hypnotize.
It seems like a number of apps will probably do this. For instance, I can't find Twitter for Mac outside of the app store, which is disappointing because I'm still on Leopard, stuck with Tweetie 1.2.8. I would say to be wary of losing your Leopard user-base, but being on the Mac App Store probably will give you enough exposure that you'll make up for it and more.
I completely agree that it could be an actual thing.

From a hardware and security perspective it is, as you say, all of the shelf hardware and techniques, ARP poisoning vs. MitM DHCP server have tradeoffs which have slipped from memory, but you can basically go either way.

The doubt is entirely about the hype and false appearance of a third party news story.

Maybe the intent is to highlight the problems with using unencrypted HTTP? I can dream that it's a well intentioned stunt can't I?
With IPO on Horizon, Facebook May Buy Larger Companies in 2011
"You've Got a Friend Request"?

"You've Got a Twitter DM"?
I find this chart fascinating - though I'm wondering how much of Rackspace is Rackspace "Cloud" and how much of Rackspace is "VPS". Also, I'm embarrassed to admit that I'd never heard of SoftLayer as a server hosting company - I wonder what the attraction there is.

For Web Hosts it comes (roughly) to:

o Amazon EC2
o Rackspace Cloud
o Self Hosted (Surprisingly large number)
o Slicehost
o Hurricane Electric (which is likely self hosted? EDIT (per jedsmith) Linode?)

Two things I found very, very surprising.

#1 - Small use of Linode
#2 - How much Rackspace is used more than Slicehost.

Anybody care to comment on why SoftLayer is so predominant?
> MySQL outperformed Postgres.

Although a statement like this is too general to mean much of anything, I doubt that MySQL with innodb (which should be used for most cases) ever bested Postgres in overall performance.
Can someone email you the .app package, or are Mac App Store apps compiled to be Snow Leopard only?
for the sake of argument let's say I agree with everything you said. Further, let's say I am so moved by your argument that, even though it doesn't seem like it, I now see that it is in fact better for all men for me to have even more of my money pilfered.

what I still don't understand is why we should call pilfering my money from my hands should be called me receiving welfare?
Hi,

Sounds like a great idea!

What's the address? Any photos?
I don't see any prgmr.com hosting. I've seen it mentioned quite a few times in when people were looking for hosting.
Android outshines Apple during Q4 2010
Like water under the hot sun. your software turns into vaporware. thats what cloud means right now, Its magic.

at least when some congressmen calls your service provider.

The Orb - Fluffy clouds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHixChYgGRI Sums it up.
Looking at the 'most popular' section, it's clear that it's a joke.
>It would suck.

Not for most users. They simply reuse the same login credentials at all the sites they use. Other sites make apps that allow data to flow into Facebook easily.

Soon all Facebook users will be able to maintain their contact information over a variety of methods (e-mail, sms, etc.).

In the end, we already have a federated network that solves the problem for most people: Facebook.
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Facebook hype will fade
That is a very good point, but what alternative do you suggest? Keep in mind that hiring can consume a lot of existing employee time.
This looks like some hype for the forthcoming "Black Hat News Network" advertised on the same page. The article looks like it was written by the site directly.
Have ben looking for that! The visual at least looks great. [EDIT: my bad - just saw the Promo codes.. thanks! ]

Today though I compose mostly playing so a MIDI interface in the future would be killer! :)
If they email you the .app, it will be locked down to the purchaser's machine.

In terms of Snow Leopard-only, that's not necessarily true. However, it will be Intel-only.

The version of TapeDeck I submitted to the App Store had to be stripped of the ppc binary in order to pass validation. However, the version on http://tapedeckapp.com (the demo) is ppc/intel and 10.5-friendly.
I think it's actually incredibly healthy to talk yourself out of ideas. If you can't convince yourself that an idea is solid, you won't be able to convince others (for long).
The small use of Linode is a mistake in the script.
MP: "Whine, whine, I don't like the rule of law."
Is it possible that you find the word "welfare" to be an emotionally and politically loaded term?

For instance, libraries exist as a form of social welfare.