skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2001 a couple of my roomates where interns at IBM and worked on "grid" projects (which is a lost cousin of the cloud/utility/aaS family). One of them remarked how every time they had a meeting with multiple suits, and someone had to whiteboard what they were talking about, the internet was always a cloud. Like there was some unwritten rule passed on in oral visio training lore that the internet is a cloud.

Whenever I hear 'cloud computing' I know exactly what people mean. Its that fuzzy overlap zone between outsourcing and the internet that exists in management/executives mind as a code phrase for "someone elses problem".
Yep it's in the list of future features if the GH-API allows it :-)
Badly designed, anything can become hell. Crazy has no limits. The point of the talk was that message passing is fundamentally not at the same level as mutexes, semaphores, and monitors. Shared state does not scale linearly, no matter how well you use it, whereas message passing does, given cheap, fast, universal messaging.
Nice idea, have signed up to try it out.

Really would like a faceted search function to filter and search users with specific skills, the "browse users" list is fairly useless as-is.

Also needs a "close account" function.
agreed. What about the business side of a startup: sizing the market, modeling the business, raising funds, building a team, etc.
I just quoted from the article. I know the history.
It was added in the first "CS" version.. Photoshop 5 is, unencumbered.
those millions of users are all searching on platforms where 99%+ of the work was already done by the site's own engineers. Cmon, this isn't rocket science.
Sounds like you need some casual mentoring. Have you heard of this new site called HackerBuddy? Give it a try at http://hackerbuddy.com
How do they grade equipment?

Just get the extended warranty as well and you'll be covered.
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Mathematically, you have a 3 - 4.5% chance or less, based purely on numbers.
You know, you guys have really opened my eyes here. I'm beginning to think I was mistaken, and am considering making money off of my software.

It's something people respect, compared to giving away this stuff for free which just can't seem to make anyone happy.
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I think most free software is destined to stay that way. How many free software projects have kept their existing user base once have started charging for the software ? My guess is that it is a very low number.
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Something tells me a more appropriate title such as "Cloud Computing is an often misused term" would have gotten zero clicks.
I've read that testosterone and estrogen react differently when they mix with adrenaline or other emotion-triggered hormones—testosterone can exacerbate the cognitive difficulties whereas estrogen can soothe them. File this under 'something someone read somewhere'—i.e. don't take it too seriously—but that might be the kind of thing the author meant by "it’s hard for a man to think clearly in the face of emotion."
Signed up and hopefully I can get some help with the parts or ruby I don't fully grasp yet.
Even more discouraging than the size of the bubble is what the bubble's cross-section looks like:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2004#c...
I can't believe I typed "If your curious..." instead of "If you're curious..." I must've hit maxvisit before I had a chance to edit it or something.
Thank you and it does count.
Huh, what's that word where someone describes themselves and applies it to others? Like a smug person calling another person smug? Oh yeah, projection, it's called projection.

Lots of real modern slavery in the US and elsewhere regardless of your personal opinions about it.
Site is similar to http://greatwebapps.com/ which is up for sale.
They're so far behind because they're dedicated to release only when they think it's bug-free enough (for all packages, including all dependencies), which can be long after they freeze versions and features.

Another thing is they release the same distrib version on 9 different architectures, not only i386/amd64.

Considering this, and the fact they're volunteers, I don't think they're that far behind.
Is it really that fantastic? I think better place to find help are Q&A sites (like SO) or even Ask HN "feature". In such places your problem is seen by more than one "fellow hacker", so the chance to solve it is much greater...
Hi guys - I'm Dave, the guy that built HackerBuddy. Thanks for all your feedback - it's really useful. I'm planning on improving the site over time, and I'll be going through the comments and adding in any skills that seem to be in demand, I realise some of the options are pretty limited right now.

At the moment it doesn't email people when a match has been made - my thinking behind that was the person who requests the help would most likely already email their new match to ask for help - if you guys think it would make more sense for the app to email to introduce, then I could look at including that too. Thanks again for all your comments! :D
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There's a copy of the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCBYzKfmQ4U

The FOSDEM streaming server seems to be timing out right now.
Don't add a period unless there is body text, and it doesn't already end in a punctuation mark.
Yes, Bruno's fundamental point is that "desktop" language VMs will just end a process when there's memory allocation errors. So basically there has to be real means to instrument and error handling has to be robust, he's correct in this assertion.
I don't know that auto emailing is necessary. I tend to agree with you in the fact that the person who actually needs the help should initiate the email to the person. Something you may want to provide the option to provide contact information other then email (IM mostly). I would prefer to get an IM then an email most of the time.
Some alien might think - hmmm.... Human Spam again :)
$99 for 4 years of buy-back.
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You're absolutely right, but this is well covered ground when dealing with smaller software vendors in a B2B environment. Source code escrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow) is something we would often do when I worked for a company that sold ERP software. The basics of the idea are to give good answers to all the questions you put at the top of your post about what happens if the worst happens. A source escrow agreement makes it so that if the company you're buying the software from disappears, you at least have access to the source and will have a shot at not being completely screwed.

Thing is, though, that the source code license isn't really the thing that you're betting on. It's your relationship with the vendor. Your business can be screwed a lot by a business long before the escrow agreement kicks in, and long before they fold.

Being heavily dependent on a software company, at least in ERP type business software, is a lot like marriage. You definitely want to pick the right one, and it's all about the relationship. If the marriage goes bad, it can make your life hellish, even if you do have a pre-nup.
For most Internet/technology savvy folks this won't be appealing.

A few years back I realized that most of my technology purchases were actually "rentals." I purchase them at full price, use them for a year or two and then unload them on eBay or Amazon marketplace. This goes for cameras, cellphones, laptops, etc.

The rental price is basically the delta between what I purchase it for and what I sell it for. I've found that savvy decisions about when to sell a piece of technology can minimize the depreciation.

A popular example is selling an old iPhone in May in anticipation of the latest and greatest coming out in June. By selling in May I minimize depreciation.

The mistake I see many of my friends make is holding onto a piece of technology for too long under the false belief that they'll "find a use for it someday." Over the long haul the monetary value falls to zero (or near zero in the case of an old 2nd gen iPod shuffle I discovered yesterday) as does its usefulness.
I don't get bent out of shape if people use my code for commercial purpose, don't brother to attribute it to me, and so on.

In fact, it's the default that I make everything open source. I only not do open source when my client tell me not to.

Well, I do it because I follow the golden rule. Other than that, I don't care less unless it is taking material wealth from me. There's no evidence that I can account for that actually said I am losing money.
The word "hustler" really rubs me the wrong way. The literal definition is someone who deceives others to get their money. I know that's not the intended meaning here of course, but every time I hear it I immediately visualize a card game swindler on the street.
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There is the concept of the heat death of the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

Essentially, as particles expand and spread out, the universe will reach a point where there is not enough energy localized in one area to support anything.

Of course this is just one theory. etc etc
Thanks, I like that idea - I'll add it to my list of things to do :)
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From what I can tell the buy back program for a TV is like $99.99 up front, given I bought my TV for $800 (42" Sony Bravia) I wouldn't even get my money back at 10%. This is 100% unadulterated scamming.

>// you could get a lot more via Craigslist

I could get more via the bulletin board in my apartment building's laundry room. Shit, go to the local college campus' and put up a couple of fliers on their bulletin board.

Who even replaces a TV after 6 months or 2-years unless it's a complete lemon? This must be targeted to the limited subset of people with no common sense, disposable income and a severe lack of anywhere else to spend it (IE not in college or university, not struggling to pay rent, don't have kids). So basically this is aimed at morons in the 25-35 range who are either incapable of finding a partner and accidentally get pregnant, or who somehow managed to be "just-that-stupid" but also somehow managed to comprehend the consequences of sex.

Personally I'm even amazed this has an applicable market. I mean I know it's parasitical in nature but really this is like trying to poison the world by lacing all the worlds supply of caviar with a less than lethal dose of arsenic hoping we'll gradually reach a lethal dose.
There's a fun little book called "Back of the Napkin" (warning: affiliate link ahead) http://amzn.to/ezUvgk

In it, the author develops his own little modeling system and talks about how to use it. While he goes a bit overboard (must be something in the water) his point is an excellent one: visual modeling conveys information at a bandwidth of an order or two of magnitude above conversations or documents.

I recently had a functional project. It was a greenfield project and had a MySql backend. I wanted to use dynamic data in some parts and relational in others, fully taking advantage of both FP and the relational model.

Problem was, I wasn't sure exactly how I wanted each piece to work. So, I picked up some scrap paper, a pencil, and sketched out some ideas.

They sucked.

A couple of days later I did it again. This time I saw some things I had been missing.

It also sucked.

A day after that, I sat down and sketched out what I wanted. Finally.

It didn't suck.

This entire process took a total of maybe 2 hours spread out over three days. A pencil and scrap paper. Soemtimes I just drew boxes with labels in them, sometimes I added aggregation or composition, sometimes I put in navigation. If I had continued to be stuck, I might have used a sequence diagram, or a collaboration diagram, or any one of a hundred other tools in my UML toolbox.

The point is: I never sat down and told myself "I'm going to be doing UML right now. I didn't get out some big fancy tool, and I didn't make something that looked like the wiring diagram for a nuclear device. That's not how it works. It's a spectrum. Some of my diagrams might have looked like an ER diagram, or just a bunch of junk on paper. Doesn't matter. The process of diagramming served it's purpose of organizing and capturing my thoughts about how the system would be structured. When I needed more complexity, I reached into my UML toolkit and added new complexity. If I didn't need it, I didn't use it. UML worked for me. I didn't work for it.

So I don't see UML as even being the same kind of thing as some of the other folks. There's no dual nature at all -- it's just a technical way of drawing pictures. And who doesn't need a picture now and then?
i wish i could refuse to give android apps certain permissions yet still install them. i don't want angry birds to ever be able to charge me money and certainly not read all my SMS messages. i simply won't upgrade.

for other apps, i just have to not install them; it doesn't seem like i can give feedback to app developers about this.
Not sure what the point of the ratings system is, there's not an app on there that I could find which rated lower than 4/5.
I'm getting an odd behavior - every single click seems to lead to the "UH OH :(" page. (Ubuntu 10.10, Firefox 3.6.13)
Don't forget your extra Monster HDMI cables while you're at it.
Letting people search within the profile is a great idea, thanks! I'll try to add that in version 2 - I know the current categories are a bit restrictive, but that would be a good workaround.
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I thought this too at first, but now I think A.T.M.'s is okay in some editorial circles as a plural non-possessive. It's used in many other NYT articles - as is non-possessive G.I.'s.

"...some writers still pluralize initialisms in this way. Some style guides continue to require such apostrophes - perhaps partly to make it clear that the lower case s is only for pluralization and would not appear in the singular form of the word, for some acronyms and abbreviations do include lowercase letters."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism#Represen...
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Thanks for the comments - I agree, the browse user list is pretty dreadful at the moment. I'll be looking at adding a search function as a better way of finding people in the next update. (And the close account function too)
And it would have been fair.

I completely agree with the article, but I was quite surprised by the subject after the link I clicked.
he reminds me a lot of alexy vayner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r%...

compare with this blog post:

"Whenever I compared myself to people similar to me, it wasn’t even close. I worked more, accomplished more, produced more, did more meaningful things, was traveling the world. I read more books, did more writing, was generally healthier and more disciplined, spent my time well. I was the top 1% for my age, and even better than that if you measured me against people from similar backgrounds."

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-weakest-of-the-great-me...
Sounds like an awesome site, I'll have to give that a try :)
>// you could get a lot more via Craigslist

Not only can you get more by selling it on Craigslist but you also get cash instead of BestBuy store credit.
Very good point, I think the footer got lost in some git stash. I've re-added it now.
Yeah, I'm perfectly willing to admit I was being smug, though I might prefer the term coldly critical or openly irritated. Your deflection of my criticism does not address my criticism, it merely weakly attempts to declare it unimportant. "You're smug too!"

Additionally you have failed to address anything about my point concerning precision of definition, except perhaps _very_ obliquely by using the phrase "real modern slavery" to deselect chattel slavery.

I do not question that some (many) form(s) of slavery exist(s). I was the one that suggested a form of slavery you might have meant.

When your terms are overbroad, you fail to communicate (as has happened in this topic). Clarity is your responsibility as a writer.
Ok everyone, I've added a basic listing of member organisations but the API seems to be a tad erratic and sometimes doesn't load and some other times does.

Please let me know if something is completely wrong and so I'll revert it.
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Unfortunately this change would require changes to the platform that would break all current applications.

I find it funny, Android informs you as to what applications can access and people are more leary, even when the developer is up front about it. On other platforms, the user never has a chance to even be skeptical at all.
Long-time lurker here - this is one of the first articles that I've felt compelled to respond to. I have a unique perspective on deafness and language.

I was born profoundly deaf (so deaf that audiologists proclaimed me as the deafest child ever - what an honor). I learned ASL when I was six months old. To preface - I was incredibly lucky to have parents who learned an entire new language for me (they were immigrants, so it was no easy task for them) and noticed my deafness early. I also got a cochlear implant, which enables me to hear speech fairly well. Over the years, I've learned how to speak and listen well enough to converse with most people. I've also managed to maintain my fluency in ASL - it's a very important part of who I am.

According to my mother, I was able to express my desires (I want orange juice, my diapers need changing, etc.) as early as 8 months. So, I was able to talk to my parents at a different level than hearing infants of the same age.

I have plenty of deaf friends who were not as lucky. Some of them had hearing losses that were not discovered until they were more than two years old. Some of them just had parents who didn't want to or could not learn ASL. Their performance, academic and otherwise, has lagged behind their hearing peers. I find that their thoughts are not as organized as someone who learned language early on (regardless of form), so some of their actions don't have "common sense." Frankly, the benign neglect I see with deaf children is shocking and quite depressing. It makes me grateful for what I had growing up.

This article also made me think about how different my thought process is from hearing people's processes. Even after years of using speech as my main mode of communication, ASL still influences my thoughts quite heavily. For example, I tend to think about spatial matters in ASL - i.e. how a street is laid out. Also, I tend to think about emotions in ASL, complete with facial expressions. On the other hand, with more technical issues such as the law (I'm a lawyer), I'll think in words, even spoken words sometimes.

In all and all, I'm grateful that I was able to learn ASL so early and transition to spoken language. ASL really enriched my life - culturally and mentally - and I'm very glad that ASL was my first language.
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>I'd guess that's a HH:MM:SS display, and we're not seeing the whole thing.

>That's supposed to be a picture of his last race, which he finished in 4h21m59sec according to this (Dutch) article: http://sport.be.msn.com/running/nl/nieuws/?Article_ID=492504

I think the first of the above statements is correct and the portion of the time that we see differs from that indicated in the second above statement because runners typically wear a timing chip so their finishing time often varies from the official race clock by a few minutes based on how long after the race started that person started the race.
This sounds similar to something on iOS 4.2. If you use any part of the asset library framework, which includes something as benign as building a photo chooser for the media library, the device prompts the user to allow access to location services because the photos might have GPS information in them. There is no way to prevent it because the permissions are not fine-grained enough. In the case of the article, the problem could be solved on the OS with the separation of SMS access and operator billing as permissions.
This is quite impressive, I have to admit. Though being that there is a Jekyll python-clone called Hyde, I thought they were finally being brought togetherf...
The problem I see with this is it might not be all that limited. There are quite a few areas of expertise out there, which could make for quite a large form, where as defined "sections" with a free form tag style fill in would make for less clutter. Its "hackers" were talking about after all, most if not all are going to be familiar with a tag system.

As far as the duplicate tags there a number of ways to correct this. First and most prominent is community editing. The other option is to tie tags together with a backend system - for example ruby-on-rails === rubyonrails === rails === RoR
I definitely agree with this. I bounced from deadline to deadline for seven years in late high school and university. Addiction to deadline-driven activity is now causing me tons of grief when it comes to anything not required by an immediate deadline at work. Career development, outside-of-work life planning, calling companies about that wrong bill...
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Great email (came up in my "San Francisco marijuana start-up Google email alert). Marijuana's legalization is inevitable, and it's going to be a huge opportunity. I think you're on to something (maybe not the whole 'cloning' idea, but creating something, using technology, to improve the internet-savvy weed smoker's life could be interesting). I unfortunately have no coding skills - but am killer at powerpoint/excel (M&A background), truly appreciate the value of good tree (esp. Blue Romulan, Northern Lights, SF Ice, etc.), and would love to help.
I find it interesting that Rovio is choosing to build its own payment system rather than use the options that Google is integrating into the Android platform.

I don't have a problem with granting these permissions to an app that I use that comes from a well known, trusted developer. Also, the features that require the permissions aren't used unless you actually make the decision to use them. So while the developers really should make sure they educate their users before taking their money, in the end it falls on the users to make the decision to buy.
Hi, I find your situation intriguing. I am sure that you can use some sort of license that will prevent others from using your code in a commercial product, yet still allow you to share your algorithms and code with other curious coders.

However, in doing this, you'll have to protect your code from the unscrupulous by investigating all other commercial competitors projects, and if you find someone "stealing" your code, you'll have to employ a lawyer. Both are expensive propositions.

So basically what I understand is that you don't release your code because you don't have the resources to protect it from thieves.

Thus my question: if my assumption is true in that you are reluctant to share code because you lack to resources to protect it from thieves, would you be willing to share your code if someone explicitly asked you and signed the equivalent of an NDA?