skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, something that is simply not true. I don't have another way to say it, but to say that it is not true, and it gives the appearance of lying, because I think most people would expect you to know better.

So again, you do get licensed production servers for free. Not an unlimited number of them, but you do get FREE production licenses of WinServer (which includes IIS) and SQL Server.

And yes, you can build, in theory, $50B Google for free with it. Of course, I did say, in theory, and I make it blisteringly clear later when I say, "although you'll just have to write a very efficient backend to handle the transactions with only a couple of SQL instances, but there is nothing stopping you, but your ingenuity".

There's never an obligation to pay MS a dime. You can use the tools to write the new BigTable, to write a web server, a NoSql engine, a package manager or whatever else you like as well to compliment the free software you have.

IMO, I think we've done the job w/ this conversation. You've made the "claim" that BizSpark is not free (although you've backed away from this a bit and now at least seem to grant that the dev tools are). I claim otherwise. BizSpark very clearly calls out what is free and what is perpetual. Sure, you don't get a washer and dryer with BizSpark, but they never said you did. Likewise, I don't believe BizSpark gives you a free Kinect either. But it is very clear what they do give you and the licensing and cost associated with it.

Again, you haven't pointed out where I'd have to pay for a single thing with BizSpark. You've only pointed out that if I want to do MORE than what BizSpark suggests, I'd have to pay. To that I say, duh.
No traffic? No revenue? Is it a good domain? Or some sort of application?
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Hello, I've checked out Serendipity earlier today and wanted to download it when I get back home. But now it's too late.

Would it be possible that you send me the source via mail (my email address is in my profile)? Of course I'll take care not to overload the service.

Thanks!
If you read the chat transcript he posted - the condescending attitude, get a real job comment, use of "android devotees" etc. all sound like classical trolling.

I am totally not sure he even owns an Android phone to begin with. Anyway, considering all this I called it troll.
Brilliant. If only more institutions had a spine like the one displayed here.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/prime... , and click through the rest of the "Snowflake Physics" in the left sidebar. Best site I've ever seen about snowflakes, a .edu site at its best.
Trust me, we have way more examples than this.

The truth is that we do not sell directly to SMBs. We work through local newspapers and they sell using their brand. If you called any of our SMB customers, they probably have never heard the name "Seeing Interactive"--which is how we can get away with using such a terrible name. :)
Thanks, amended RIAK with Erlang map/reduce and full-text search! (I need to read up on Protocol Buffers, but it sounds useful, too).

(Updated: typo)
A lot of chinese outsourcing companies rely on skype.
In very layman's terms (best I can do right now):

1. Going public now requires months and months more of extra accounting due dilligence, audits, etc. that will cost millions upon millions of dollars.

2. Now that you're a public company most of the executives and especially the CFO are severely, criminally liable for any accounting fraud that happens in the organization regardless of whether they knew anything about it.

SOX was a reaction (over-reaction) to the Enron and Worldcom disasters where accounting fraud took down huge public companies, destroyed thousands of jobs, and cost billions of dollars. And the executives just claimed they didn't know anything when they obviously did.

So now theres extra audits, execs are liable regardless, and nobody wants to go public anymore.
For 2008-2010, I had the pleasure of working with doctors who had to use AHLTA, AHLTA-T, and various MC4 systems (I supported a teleradiology system which interfaced loosely with it), in places where the doctors also had to carry the M9. This was an exciting job and I am glad to not be doing it anymore.

There are plenty of ways the iPad could be used in a HIPAA-compliant way to access EMR/EHR, and I know of a few startups working on it. I think DoD and VA would be great users of things like this, but realistically innovation is probably going to happen in non-US markets first, and in government US markets last, due to the long approvals process and purchasing cycle. One of the easiest would probably be for telemedicine projects, possibly funded by USAID or charities or military CA, to support clinic operations -- some of the civilian hospitals in Afghanistan actually had better IT systems than the US military hospitals (!!!).
Well, Tuvalu sold their TLD to a private business...kind of a different situation.
the trend I've been seeing (very limited view) is people creating a tumblr and sharing stuff through there.

i guess there's an opportunity to attack facebook around here.

people who create tumblr blogs usually are not only following people who they know, but mostly people they don't know.
since tumblr is not social network in the sense that you don't have to give them your private info, there's not much of a privacy issue.
you can follow random people and get followed back by randoms (but not necessarily)
you can also share all kinds of stuff you probably don't want on your facebook.

plus it's customizable with themes.

i guess it's myspace gone right? or maybe twitter/friendfeed for non-techies?
Funny, the company I just got out followed all of those points. Many "emergency fix this" moments and "problems" processing checks. Often times, paychecks were lower than they were supposed to be.

Glad I'm out..
I know the datacenter very well which newservers.com is primarily based in. Nap of the Americas, it houses most of the biggest service providers and internet brands in the world. The most impressive facility I have ever seen in my life. Combination of Disney World and Fort Knox of datacenters.

I'm not sure how newservers.com is able to sell servers so cheap when their datacenter is so extremely expensive.
at least my "retarded comment" was on topic. usefulness depends on whether you got the idea or not. but as you refuse to comment on topic, I assume you haven't even read what we're talking about.
Seeing Interactive has a branding problem:

"We want newspapers to make money; we want newspapers to own local."

If I own a small business that doesn't speak to me at all, and once I realize that 'local' means me, then it's even a little offensive.

I suggest that while the blog post is essentially correct, it should be on a separately branded site, lets call it 'bootsontheground.com' (a terrible name), with a more appropriate 'Manifesto.'
Thanks Sean, I'll read up on that. I have experience with CouchDB only under normal loads -- our heavy-load stuff (stock data) uses Redis. :)
It is a subscription based app - castmyclips.com, but I have a couple more that are similar - good idea (I think) but very low traffic. The domain names are just ok though - nothing great.
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Amazon already has the infrastructure in place to allow people to sell physical books secondhand

And now you can lend a kindle book and it becomes unavailable to you for the duration of the loan.

So everything is in place to allow a secondhand market for kindle books.

Although isn't Audible an Amazon company (shudder)
It's really simple to lose weight. It's really simple to be in shape. It's really simple, but it isn't free.

2010 was a year for me that saw rapid weight gain - something I never had in my life. My gut was getting big - almost certainly a result of too much beer. I decided to do something about it in November.

For all the skeptics out there, please don't shoot me down on this! It works, and it's amazing to me.

I started P90X in early November. 5'11, 183/4 lbs. Within two weeks, I was down to 175 or so, at end of 30 days, I was sitting at 169/170. Now, over 50 days into it, I'm still at that weight, but I have substantially changed my appearance. I'm highly confident my fat percentage has dropped substantially and my muscle gain is impossible to ignore (for anyone who has seen pics).

P90X takes all the elements found in the article posted, but makes it very simple to do.

You get the diet (which, fwiw, I do not follow).
You get the stretching (and yoga, which is amazing).
You get the weight training (you need dumbbells and a pull-up bar)
You get it fed to you a day at a time. All you have to do is show up.

I've taken before pictures - and taken pictures at the end of every week. I was going to wait until I completed the program and then post something here on HN about it - not only for the physical changes, mental changes, etc... but mostly for the benefit of doing something, with intense focus, for an hour or so every day, and watch the results - be it physical fitness, or more appropriately for this audience, starting or improving a business. I think the principles apply across the board.

I'm confident if a person went to the gym 6 or 7 days a week, cut out the bad crap from their diet then they would see the same or better results than what I've received with P90X. But P90X makes it stupid-simple to do. You are guided every step of the way. You just do it and don't have to waste any time thinking about what to do today or the next day. It's not rocket science - it's good hard work that anyone without underlying physical issues can ease into. To me, it is almost instant gratification; the results come quickly.
Thank you very much Robb! Looks like we'll reach the goal :)
Is there some deep analogy that I'm missing, or is he just giving an example of how to analyze things?
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I think I know why so many of these are simple binary search questions. If you actually read the full interview descriptions that most of these come from, you'll see that the vast majority of them were rejected. As an interviewer, the very first question I ask is "what is a binary search and what is its big-O run time?" Assuming the candidate has a CS background, this is meant to take up about 15 seconds of the interview and allow us to get to the real questions. I suspect many other interviewers do something similar. Most of these posters likely struggled with it and didn't get to the real questions, so that's all they could share.
Why mobile?

I own two retail franchises. What I want from a loyalty program is for it to be passive based on the credit card and deeply integrated with my point of sale.

I care less about having a website than appearing favorably and accessible in search results. Mobile seems like more hassle than it is worth.

Now, in addition to owning two retail stores, I am a professional developer, including iPhone and android apps. My current project is BI for franchises.
> Note - "they should make less money" isn't an answer.

They should make more money isn't a very good answer, either.

eBooks are massively cheaper to distribute, yet we see a minimal discount. Add in the fact that they're limiting lending to once per book when I can lend a physical book infinitely many times and you're looking at higher profits for eBooks than normal books.
A quick piece of feedback: On your home page, you should put a sign-up button where your login is now. As is, it's incredibly difficult to figure out where to sign-up.

Put your log-in text or form in the upper-right hand corner: it's where people expect it.
Actually, I unfortunately know a fair bit about medical imaging (since I supported radiology systems for a couple years).

There's a ~1980s protocol called DICOM which is largely used to transport images around. It is quite complex for what it actually, has lots of vendor and device inconsistencies, and because medical imaging devices are expensive and have a long duty cycle, you can have a 10-20 year spread of equipment on your network.

Some of the actual imaging technologies (MRI, CT, US) are inherently low resolution per image in a study (due to the limits of physics), but a study can be composed of a bunch of images, and it can end up 5-10GB. The high-resolution individual images tend to be x-ray, especially digital mammography.
Share HN: My new business book comes out today
I wrote a book, "The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business," and it comes out today. The subtitle could very well have been "business for hackers."

Here's my launch blog post:
http://personalmba.com/personal-mba-book-launch/

Here's the book website:
http://book.personalmba.com

This book started as a personal side project. My goal was to isolate the most important business-related mental models, so I could use them to do more valuable work. By sharing what I learned in the process, I hope to dramatically decrease the time it takes you to master the essentials of business, so you can spend more time doing work that matters.

I also hope the book saves you a ton of money. Business school is insanely expensive, and requires you to give up your freedom and flexibility for decades. By learning the essentials for ~$20, you'll be able to skip the classroom in favor of starting your startup.

Hacker News has been a wonderfully supportive community for me over the years, and I'm grateful to everyone who contributes. I hope this book helps you make great things happen.

If you have any questions about the book, business education, or about trade publishing in general, I'd be happy to help.
I usually just slap the offending surface hard enough for the shock to not matter.
Other than having to mail them a paper check(!), registering js.co.tt with the Trinidad and Tabago NIC was fairly painless. As others have mentioned though, you are pretty much always at the whim of the local government. If you wouldn't trust the local judicial system to fairly adjudicate any disputes, you might want to think twice before basing your business on their TLD.
Start your own practice and get your own software?

How viable is that (genuinely curious)? How easy is it for a doctor to start a private practice?
Strong disagree. With a bit of practise one can learn to balance a decent amount of rice on the back of one's fork. Green peas, alas, escape even the most practised forking, regardless of which method - balancing on the back or stab-them-to-death - one chooses.
http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2010/12/skype-brought-d...
I agree would agree with this based on our experiences dealing with local real estate businesses. However, local small businesses are sector specific, a pizza shop has different needs than a hair salon than a real estate agency, etc.

In order to break into this, I think it needs a combined effort of different sector specific providers + companies like yours and weebly.
The parent comment to your original comment was not the topic of the article, so I'm not sure why you keep dragging that into the discussion. You commented on his comment and I commented on your comment. Your comment was useless to the discussion. My comment was useless to the discussion as well as it was a meta-comment about how I up voted you on accident. Now we're in a long chain of meta-comments.
What i find is that patents on software just protect your intellectual property, it only protects the idea if one of your employees that gets smart and leaves your company and starts to compete with you doing the same thing with the same software processes. In software all that matters is the final result , and so the result can be gone about to acheive in many different ways. So my advice is to not worry about protecting your IP until you have enough money to go after those that are infringing on said patent.This is a good rule of thumb.Also make sure that your process is not "obvious"(example: one of the most obvious ways to measure liquid is by pouring it into a container that contains precise measurements/volume), you may be infringing on someone else's patent :)
UPS’s 2011 4.9% increase could be around 17%
There has been a number of issues with .ly http://www.domainnamenews.com/cctlds/libyan-government-seize...
so you're saying that if i overnighted a package, i shouldn't be entitled to a refund of the cost difference, at least, if it takes 3 days to arrive?
They're not guaranteed to be the primary revision for a document (ie, the last write could be listed as the conflict) but the data is still there so that client code can resolve the conflict.

Also of note, if the edits that caused the conflict are replicated to other nodes, each node will independently choose the same revision to use as the 'primary' document response.

Bottom line, the choice is deterministic and is guaranteed to be preserved, but the choice may not be the last written revision.

Also, bugs that result in corrupt dbs are treated as major bugs as opposed to a part of the design. I've also not seen reports of index corruption under load, if you have logs or any more information we'd definitely appreciate if you could put that info into a ticket on JIRA [1] or even just mail dev@couchdb.apache.org with details.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB
I'm no advocate of piracy but having twice been effectively ripped off by DRM I can see where you're coming from
Python - Flask
PHP - Drupal

I infinitely prefer Flask, but I can only really do that for personal projects. Everything at work is PHP / Drupal.
Many of these would be at home in the "what not to do" section of Tufte's book.

Also - anyone notice on the White House graphic it says that the pope visited "President Cart"?
Actually, this would be useful and not superficial to someone who has seen pictures of these fruits but has never seen one in real life. Obviously it can be refined, but the idea is not bad. For example, try this with some quite different but seemingly similar fruits that most people are not as familiar with:

Pineapple Guava (Acca Sellowania) -- Small green fruit. Seeds soft and edible, skin optional. Turpentine flavor signals overripe. Cold hardy and grown in many parts of the US as an evergreen ornamental. Delicious eaten raw.

Strawberry Guava (Psidium cattleianum) --- Tasty small soft red fruit with very fragrant aroma and many small hard seeds. Skin edible, but seeds best avoided. Can be eaten out of hand, but low commercial use. Frost tolerant in mild climates.

White Guava (Psidium guajava) --- True tropical guava, thus barely if at all frost-tolerant. Large fragrant fruit with inedible hard seeds. Usually used for juice or puree, rarely eaten out of hand. Wonderful strong aroma increases with ripeness.

While obviously not of use to a producer of guavas, this sort of cheat sheet might be helpful to someone who happens to encounter one of these varieties in a grocery store or tree nursery. At the least, it might keep someone from breaking their teeth on the inedible hard seeds!
OK, here's an anecdote. http://www.choiceofgames.com/blog/2010/08/were-banned-from-g...

We're a game website -- auto-banned, appeal denied. We've done nothing wrong that we know of. Never encouraged clicking, never clicked ourselves. Since we have no access to the data, we'll never know what might have happened.

One strike -- you're banned for life.

I'll be at Google IO this year; my top priority is to find someone to talk to about this.

I know people say it's impossible to get unbanned, but I can't believe that's true. I'm going to keep trying, for years if I have to.
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My friends explain that my humor is dry and unfunny.
How do you think patents "restrict the free flow of ideas?"

A patent must publicize what is being claimed: you are given a explanation of the design or process. You just can't make it and sell it. However, by knowing someone's design, even when patented, it can inspire someone else to build something even better.
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My 2011 goal is to launch 12 products (or six), and I'm looking to get some marketing support. What should I be looking for in people?
if i'm not mistaken, the majority of those organizations still rely heavily on relational datastores, except in the case of exceptional workloads. in addition, i believe facebook has since migrated away from cassandra to the hadoop stack for their messaging platform, though they primarily use mysql (or its successors).

SQL is being replaced in niches that strain its model. elsewhere, it remains steadfast.
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People love to point the finger at SOX, but compliance for a company Groupon's size is not a dealbreaking expense.

I think that many people are choosing to go private because it makes it easier to maximize the price they receive without creating risk that the IPO will fail. After all, a failed IPO is much more expensive and damaging than a private investor who passes the opportunity.
This assumes perfectly logical actors.
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I'm printing this and pasting it in my bathroom's mirror.
If you have Firefox or Chrome there's an easier way to click links. In FF, hit ' and then start typing the text of a link - press enter once it matches. Chrome is similar but doesn't let you search within only links - but you can use ctrl-f to highlight a link, and press escape then enter.
Wow, thanks, very nice example! (And also thanks for expanding my fruit knowledge :) )
Out of curiosity, how were those photos preserved? As someone who was born in the 80's, I'm used to anything pre-1990 looking washed out. Were you using an especially powerful camera, or was it purely good preservation technique? Are these restored somehow? Some combination of the above?
Right -- the medical images go into something called a "Picture Archive and Control System", or PACS, which is separate but should be linked to the EHR/EMR. The PACS is basically a file server with some metadata which speaks a stupid old protocol (DICOM) to the x-ray, and which also speaks to expensive computers with FDA-certified high-res (WUXGA or higher) B&W or color monitors (like, $10-20k for a monitor, and 2-3 monitors per workstation).

Absolutely none of it is that difficult from the perspective of a green field software development effort, but there is huge complexity in making the PACS or EHR operate correctly with ~every idiosyncratic device, other EHR or PACS, or configuration request at every site in the world. Because the IT systems are often sold with a lot of consulting services to implement, and with medical imaging devices (for PACS), there isn't a lot of incentive to make everything plug and play.

I think the best solution would be for a very large healthcare organization to actually require a standardized system at a low price, and make it available to everyone. (an organization like Kaiser or Sutter Health would probably have enough scale). Develop something which works with entirely comforming devices, has much lower configuration, and is user friendly and cheap, at the cost of customization. In the long run, it would be cheaper -- it's just that the people in the medical IT purchasing industry don't think like product people, they want consulting and services and handholding.

There have been plenty of people killed or seriously injured by errors directly related to medical IT systems. Just in radiology, just recently, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html?pa...
Surely it would be "spnork"?
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In fact, you don't need to turn off wireless. You can even deregister from the device's Settings menu and it'll keep your downloaded books. (Even if those span multiple accounts!)