skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do people think of google checkout? Do they have a better record of not pulling this shit?
Here are medical imaging datasets I am aware of:
Neuroimaging (see http://www.nitrc.org for others)
OASIS http://www.oasis-brains.org/
ADNI http://adni.loni.ucla.edu/ (huge dataset, requires application)
OpenfMRI http://openfmri.org/
EEG http://eeg.pl/epi

Some other applications, example CT Colonography
http://www.acrin.org/
P2pmsg a distributed message network
Google Hotpot now on Google.com and around the world
It's not really repeat nature. It's the same account, but it's for a short period of time each year which would seem suspicious to me, when they claim it's a conference they say the following:

"4/ Our bank statements are none of your business.
5/ The details of our venue agreement and insurance are also none of your business."

So they're refusing to prove it's a conference but requesting that Paypal are "reasonable"? Having your account verified once and then go dormant in payment receipt for the majority of the year then start again would seem suspicious to me... especially when their justification isn't something they're willing to prove.
I appreciate the constructive criticism, and I was expecting it. That portion of my post was just a rant, as I was going to take each point seriously but felt that would take too long. This does deter the quality of conversation on HN, so I should have refrained from posting that portion here and left it on Tumblr/Posterous. The upvotes may be due to the serious part of my post, or the the somewhat humorous tone of the rest which is sometimes the case on HN (eg: witty one-liners get easily upvoted all the time).

Regarding IIS, though, maybe it was just bad experience with a poor IT department. They would go into each server and manually reboot IIS, instead of writing a batch file or something to iisreset xx.xx.xx.xx for every server. Not to mention the fact SourceSafe was used for deployment. (And yes, my experience was before IIS7 which I only used briefly.)

I give C# credit and don't hate it entirely---it's probably more the paradigm (statically typed, class-driven OOP) which I have an issue with.
I agree I should have written something to go along with the link in the lines of "careful with your conclusions" to make my intention clear.

It is possible, however, to arrive at a right conclusion through incorrect reasoning.
And here I am about to launch a service on Thursday with PayPal as my payment processor. I didn't really want to, but for my customers it's basically a requirement.

I'm expecting to take about £2k in the first few days, so I'm almost certain the account will be limited; I've preemptively supplied most of the info listed in this article to try to mitigate that.

I'll be sure to update HN on what happens.
I do not understand this.

* Are Microsoft saying end users are naturally clicking on nonsense phrases invented by Google?

* If not, what are they saying?
Good to hear, but I am curious.

When threewords went viral, you were using a single linode, and seemed to solve your scaling problems by just upgrading to a larger node and implementing a bit of caching. What have you learned and what would you do differently this time?
Does Apple have a policy that states you can't charge 43% more for something than you do elsewhere?
I'd upvote this twice if it were possible :)
Dunno about anyone else but i'm disappointed to hear about this. One of the strongest points of OkCupid was that they were kind of the anti-match.com :(
I totally agree with you that his comment adds 0 to the discussion, but it will be upvoted anyway because hey, it's coming from HN authority, right?
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM (TracerT guy)
Congrats! I hope OKCupid still publishes those awesome posts about the statistics of dating, those are fascinating.
http://books.google.com is considered one of the more egregious examples, with many authors and publicists having complained about Google taking samples of the content and posting it online. I did a Google search a while back on a graphics issue, and got the answer I needed from a Google book search result. You could argue (as Google does) that they are really just helping promote the book. But I have no need too buy - I got the answer for free.
Supports a smaller number of countries for payments than Paypal, very few countries can be account holders who take money (eg: you can pay via GC from Sweden, but you can't be Swedish and take money via Google Checkout) and Google don't have a history of customer service, do they? :p
I'll give them one more day ;)
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All it took to piece together the author's ignorance was the

"Daniel Eran Dilger is the author of “Snow Leopard Server (Developer Reference),”

quote down at the end. I'm sure his line of thought was: "All my friends at Starbucks have MacBook Pros, so Microsoft must be doing really badly."

Probably the same reason half his argument seemed to involve Android jealousy...
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I love the fact that people with no authority and no respect for privacy whatsoever arbitrarily just ask for bank statements from their customers.
I have had estate agents ask for 6 months of bank statements for no apparent reason and when I declined they got furious with my insubordination. This was on top of a written / signed letter from my direct boss with regards to my salary and job status.

My bank statements = none of your business
Wow, thanks. Missed that link. Should I delete this post?
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I'm not talking shit about chinese or korean people. I'm talking shit about chinese manufacturers.

Why do you think so many fake consumer electronics items are so accurate? Hint: factory owners and engineers are susceptible to inventives.

In this case I am talking about the privileged knowledge that this particular LG component is part of a new apple product. This was almost certainly protected by an NDA, which was broken by someone involved in the ipad manufacturing process. I wouldn't be surprised if apple gossip bloggers are bribing foxconn employees or something like that.
Google catches Bing copying, Microsoft says "so what?"
You don't need to allow others write access to your repositories on github. Simply have them fork your public repository but don't add them as a collaborator. They can commit all they want and send you or any one of your 'admin' collaborators a pull request. This idea that git/github is losing changes is not true. You have at least until the next time the gc is run (90 days at github?), which is well beyond the time required to resolve the issue in any active project.
> it sure looks like adult supervision is still needed.

You mean, in Microsoft, right? Perhaps some ethical guidance too.
> Edit: closing comments since I’m tired of moderating (and I didn’t delete any but the obvious spam). Thanks for letting me vent.

It is ironic to hear it from a guy who complains that he can't comment without enough reputation points on a site visited by millions.
I'm not sure what the law is in the US, but I'm pretty sure that would be illegal in the UK both under sales legislation and under anti-fraud laws.
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Well I can't speak for the organisers, I'm just someone who attends.

But they have proved that they are a conference for the same dates for the previous three years.

And the implication is that Paypal are asking for more documentation than previous years ("the documentation you are asking for this year...").
I started with Delphi in High school but moved to Python. In retrospect, starting with Delphi was a good thing, but using it for more than a year was a very bad thing!
Now I'm into PHP, Java, C++ and other weird languages in addition to Python which is still my favorite
I look at it this way: online daters and the Internet generally will probably be worse off for this eventually, but match.com is paying the OKCupid guys and despite all the value they've created over the years (in dating and outside of it -- watching them from afar has been an education in SEO/marketing), nobody else is running forward to put $50 million in their pockets.
"Why do you think so many fake consumer electronics items are so accurate?"
What about: buy an iPad, open the case, copy: accurate model?
That is also why I prefer Python - I'm not a computer scientist, I am a business owner who uses programming as a tool to achieve my goals. Sometimes it's 2 weeks or more between writing code and Python is by far the best language that fits into my workflow.
Just because Crockford suggests it, doesn't make it a good idea.

Manufacturing objects with a factory function, avoiding the "prototypal" part of JavaScript, is slow, wastes memory, and prevents you from using "instanceof" to compare objects.

The point of a prototype is to share common functions and properties that don't change among instances. With "MySubclass", you manufacture a new copy of every function in the class, each time you create a new instance, with all of the closure-related overhead that entails.

Last time I benchmarked it, comparing a simple class with ten methods, in both prototypal style, and factory style, in Chrome:

Empty page, no objects: 0.9 MB

1 mil constructor objects: Brief pause, 32.4 MB

1 mil factory objects: About a minute pause, 368.1 MB

That said, if you know you're only going to have a dozen instances of the object on the page, then it hardly matters.
This is like saying that FICA is only a 5.65% tax because that's the amount of withholding people see on their paychecks. It neglects that the cost of employing a person also includes another hidden 7.65% that would otherwise go straight to the employee.

What's likely is that either the users will pay and know that they are paying extra, or the users will pay and not know that they are paying extra. The second case already happens with credit card processing fees, and the costs incurred by credit card users are usually spread across all users.

Of course, the providers could decide to just make less profit from now on, but that seems fairly unlikely to me.
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where is the analogous website for scamming women with pics of hot boys? "pay 50% OFF to chat with Ivan!"

what a chauvinism!..
There's a bit of a difference between the company owners starting conversations between themselves to create content interesting enough to attract outsiders and robots (indirectly) asking you to pay so you can reply to their messages.

The most underhand variation of all I've encountered was sms.ac (ironic acroynm) which suckered you in with Bebo-style friendspam to join their "free SMS" network, at which point your blank profile started receiving unsolicited reverse charge "flirts" from random non-humans.
Does anyone else wish that we could have the opposite? Web apps with desktop technology?

It seems strange that 20 years later the crude stateless hypertext technology designed to share physics documents has been hacked to serve desktop-wannabe apps. Yes, we all love the web's easy and ubiquitous deployment benefits, but what have we traded in exchange for that?

We've long since solved the problem of laying out desktop apps or printed materials. But it seems every time I read about CSS or Ajax hacks to get something similar to a desktop-style interaction it just boggles my mind at how much cruft we have to tack on to make the browser pretend to be a desktop system. Nowhere is this more apparent than the HTML5/canvas game development scene. While I'm cheering for open standards as much as the next guy, it's disappointing that a modern computer with its Gigahertz CPUs has trouble rendering a game that 20 years ago was being ran on CPUs in the tens of MHz range. We herald frameworks as our salvation, but these extra layers of abstraction will only serve to slow performance.

The Java applet, everyone's favorite web app bastard child was IMO at least a step in a (not the only) right direction. It would be cool if browsers supported a sandboxed execution environment that used a common open bytecode technology that allowed for languages other than javascript to be used (client-side python would be cool), and provided a common library for UI development and layout similar to what Java Swing has. It seems that everyone would love applets if they were introduced today using an open standard, implemented by the browser by default, and without everyone's memories of the horrible performance over dialup on orders of magnitude slower hardware and the whole Java/Sun thing.

Maybe it's time that we started looking for successors to HTTP and HTML designed with webapps/games in mind.
Ask HN: What is legally required to run a small service-based web application?
I am gearing up for releasing a web application, targeted at a small audience where I'd like to sell monthly/yearly subscriptions. I am wondering what kind of a legal structure do I need to have in place in order to do this properly. Specifically, I want to (1) limit my liability and (2) make sure that customers trust it enough to sign up. And of course, I'd like for it to not cost an exorbitant amount to set up.

Also, I am deciding between PayPal and Google Checkout for the payment processor. I have little experience with integrating either, and while PayPal is more widespread, Google's documentation seems to be clearer. Any recommendations?

Not sure if this matters, but I am doing all of this as a side-project, and have a full-time job.

Thank you.

EDIT: I am in North Carolina, US. There is nothing about this service that's region specific. Ideally, I'd be able to have international sign-ups. So far, I have had as many hits from Europe + Asia as from the US.
CBS News was once hosted by Walter Cronkite. It's very likely that may have had inspire people who really wanted to do journalism to join CBS.
Still, this leaves you wondering how someone with such little knowledge of even the most basic Linux commands could ssh in there in the first place. Any idea ?
How long would it take for Microsoft do stage a similar trap for already installed Google toolbars? The fact it hasn't been done is a good indicator they couldn't.
Regulation. There has been a huge number of scams based around selling stock so the amount of regulation has grown over time.

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They're a bit older than 4 years. I signed up there ca. 2005 and met the woman who'd become my wife in late 2007. Still though, good on them for a fantastic exit. There are some seriously clever people behind the site.
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Americans can't break NDAs? I mean come on they left an iPhone 4 prototype in a fucking bar in PA.
Indeed. It sound more like the famous IRC log where a kiddie 'hacks' 127.0.0.1 and ends up with a disco.
it's fine to do that in my book...hell it's not like you are selling the email addresses like some people or spamming them with Amazon affiliate links.
Congrats to the guys on their second exit (they previously sold SparkNotes to Barnes & Noble).
No, I've gotten burned twice by a Paypal transaction, but in both cases while I won the battle (dispute) I lost the war because both account holders took out the money from their accounts.

In one case I was able to find the guys new Paypal account, but they refused to go after him.

Agree that Paypal has a lot of challenges to run their business, but I disagree that the bulk of risk is being taken by them...
The perfect example of a fresh upstart being acquired by an incumbent dinosaur; I hope they can maintain their culture and spirit.

Congrats to the team, but I find this quite disappointing.
It was probably via a script just like everything else.
Good for them but I expect that the quality of the site will now disintegrate in favour of pushing more people towards match.com.
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> the reading experience on an actual Kindle is unmatched

The reading experience for books made of text, yeah. This isn't that.
not 4 years, according to their whois the domain was created in March 2003. So 7..7.5 years.
They have pro-rata rights on the next round. This means that they can follow the investment in subsequent rounds if the company is successful.

This completely changes the economics.
I'm pretty sure he'd like revolution in USA, Egypt-style (except americans do have guns).
Unfortunately your own post is mostly an opinion and is not providing much intellectual stimulation. If you have any ideas to control opinion-based voting or detect patterns, then that would be more interesting rather than an emotional appeal.
Dilger first asks "Bing is using Google's search results to improve its own. But what’s wrong with that?"

If Bing uses Google's search results, then we effectively only have one major search engine. Yahoo has switched to the Bing engine, and Bing gets a big chunk of it's results from Google. So we have a search engine monopoly. That's wrong with that.

> "This is the company that indexes blogs [...], and then makes all this information available without consent"

He first asks what's wrong with Bing copying Google's results, because it's public content, then says it's immoral to index public content. Double morals? Logic fail?
Some important factors.. what country are you in? What country are your subscribers in? Can you incorporate in a 3rd country?

Regarding payments, there are nothing but horror stories regarding Paypal, and Google doesn't sound that much better. Look carefully concerning this..it could kill your business
The Google engineers who planted the phrases were running the Bing toolbar themselves. That part isn't in question.
IAC's Match.com Acquires OkCupid
> I would suspect this common sense methodology is as obvious as hashing a password, but apparently, and unfortunately for the artist, it is not.

A few days ago we had a big thread on Undo in software development, and a lot of people were suggesting Undo is very very difficult to implement with little benefit to most users.

Then you have articles like this where people are shocked that undos weren't in place.
I'm confused. According to WHOIS, the DNS points to prq.se. And if they did seize the DNS, why wouldn't they change all the records to point to the seizure site?
It looks like their other dating acquisitions, People Media, Singlesnet and Chemistry.com, haven't been ruined. However, they have shut down six other dating websites, including two of their free ones, Sir.com and Downtoearth.com, last year.

I think OkCupid is a strong brand and it'd be more valuable to keep not steam roll it into another one.
You're right, and there other self-interested motivations for rich people to support social welfare,...

If that were true, there would be no need for force. We could make SS/medicare an opt-in scheme.

Where did I say the poor are evil?

If the poor will use violence unless they receive tribute, they are evil.

Oppressing the poor in order to keep them from rising up against the ruling class has never worked.

I'm only advocating separation. If the poor truly are dangerously violent, lets wall them off from the rest of us. A fence is pretty easy to police.

Oppression is only necessary if you need the labor output of the poor, which we manage to survive just fine without (in the US, the vast majority of the poor don't work at all).
Even worse, TLC was once The Learning Channel.
Microsoft is still a behemoth, with its fingers in a lot of pies, but unlike Apple and Google, it has not manage to grab onto the future, yet. The future if going mobile, and services. Microsoft has so far lost the mobile race, and the big services do not use MS servers.

They are looking in the worst shape to face the future than they have ever, in the last 20 years.
My questions are not of the sort "Why hasn't my patch been committed?" I consider this a difference in type of expertise more than a difference in level of expertise.
Ruby/Python don't have that same "click and drag into FTP client then load up in browser" ease, though.

I'd definitely recommend PHP to anyone who wants to jump into web development.
The Strange Populist Outrage Against Google
What's not to understand? Microsoft is colecting search phrases from searches people make though the IE search box. Then they are tying that data to the next page people click to after the search. Google intentionally polluted their data using odd phrases and asked users to click on their bogus results. Given that the only data bing would have for those strange phrases is polluted crap from Googlers it's not surprising that their engine that's using user supplied data would attempt to return the only match it can find.
The test wasn't natural. A number of Google people did click on the links artificially associated with the nonsense phrases, while they had Bing's toolbar active.

If the Bing toolbar is picking up on this sort of thing generically (i.e. picking keywords out of the query-string on any page and associating them with clicked links, though I'm not sure how it could with a useful degree of accuracy in a way that couldn't be "maliciously" gamed buy underhand SEO activities) then I see nothing wrong in it as long as the users have knowingly opted in to their activity being analysed in this way. It would just be indexing keywords and content just as a web spider would.

If it is specifically detecting that it is on a Google page, and/or other search competitors, than the issue is much more cloudy.
That's not an attitude. That's an appropriate response to assertions you made about the obscurity of questions and unpopularity of platforms that will receive no response on IRC. I realize it was not a humble response, but it was not an attitude.

As to inexperience, I'll admit I've only been on Efnet's #help since 1997-ish and Freenode since around 2005, but that's still much longer than I've been on SO.
Sounds like a great product and I'd bet it will be a huge success. Remember when the iPad first came out the top selling paid "app" for the first 2-3 months was the "Elements" ebook. It was a much simpler version of what Gruber described, but it sold like hotcakes. After you buy your $500-800 tablet, you want some software to show off how cool it is and a few well produced nature/cook/science books that have physics based demo features will do that perfectly.

The comment about content being hard to product is right on. My guess is that they will publish just a few books a year, but they will be amazing looking and beautifully produced.
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New car from Apple. Its called iCar.

If you use it as a taxi, you pay 30% of the taxi fare.

If you use it to go to a mall, they pay Apple 30% of your spend.
Also, depending on the country there might be specific privacy laws that matter.
>> We've long since solved the problem of laying out desktop apps or printed materials.

We've long since solved the problem of world peace and disappearing socks.

UI layout != print layout. And it's not really clear that we've solved UI layout any more than we've solved web layout. In fact, there's a bit of a trend in desktop UI layout towards web-like technologies such as DOM and stylesheets. Look at WPF and XAML, for example.
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So MS are saying Google themselves uploaded the data to MS by using Bing toolbar?

Does Google agree their engineers did this?
Revolution isn't peaceful. It is by definition a "repudiation" of the established authority. The notion that revolution could ever be peaceful and amicable is naive. Corrupt people aren't going to vacate their seats of power without coercion and that requires some tactical advantage over those in power.

Make no mistake, I have no love of war, but history has shown time and again that power doesn't transfer away from the establishment without force. Whether that is actual violence or merely the threat of it is irrelevant. The ones being ousted need to believe they aren't safe.