skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of it with pizza and sandwiches.

As in: Bake bead, fry eggs with mushrooms/whatever. Place fried egg atop bread. Eat over phone book instead of eating over plate.

Terrible mess from egg drippings? Rip out pages and throw away!

You don't even have to let the food you eat come into contact with the book itself if you don't want to.
Salesforce.com Buys Manymoon for Between $25 Million to $35 Million
Gosh, I knew I liked the old one better, but didn't realize how much more I liked it until I saw that screen. Thanks for keeping it.
As a student, and a startup employee, I must say that not everyone has the ability to expense their employer.
Hint please
Most lottery tickets are sold from small convenience stores, either family owned or with just a couple of staff - hard to enforce this.

There is a crackdown on relatives of store owners winning the lottery - but is normally them defrauding winners who come in to check the ticket.
Back up your data on clay tablets for ultra-durable (thousand year) reliability.
anyone know of anything like that for downloading the data locally? backing up data in the cloud to another place in the cloud just seems stupid.

i've seen some flickr-specific backup scripts that just dump all of the images to a directory, but they don't preserve titles, dates, sets, collections, tags, etc.
Find another source of this same content.

Based on the licensing of it either: use it directly, quote and reference to it, approach the best contributors and offer to pay peanuts for their content, approach the site and pay for a bulk license.

Or just outright steal it and deal with the repercussions later :-O (It worked, albeit indirectly, for YouTube etc.)

Or if you wish to go the normal route, add an incentive. Free "pro" accounts to the top contributors, ad-revenue share (with a minimum payout set to something sensible, like affiliate programs, so you only deal with the best contributors). Or something as simple as a points system (works well at somewhere like HN & StackOverflow).
How does Dropbox secure their data? Most of the online backup co's use 448-bit Blowfish SSL encryption with a password to encrypt the private key
Horrible - I don't know how or why, but I feel less likely to recommend the new MC than the old. I felt the old was a good mix between Aweber and Campaign Monitor, now they look exactly like CM, but worse.
LaunchRock Builds Viral Launch Pages
Here's a good review of backup options (note that it's a bit out of date given Mozy's price change): http://www.macworld.com/article/142606/2009/09/online_backup...
Browsers need a "never open a new window" user option. Open a new tab instead.
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When you open a new window, there's a good chance that I'm going to accidentally click again on the parent window. The popup loses focus, slips behind the parent window in the z-order, and I have to pick it out of the taskbar or Expose. It would be a much better experience to pop the new window in as a new tab. When you hit 'submit' or whatever the tab closes and your original tab is back on top. This could be entirely a user-defined option too, in Chrome all tabs/windows are interchangeable by dragging.
Argh, really sorry about that, had the wrong url on my clipboard when I submitted — and unfortunately there's no editing urls :/ I guess maybe I should learn to read what I'm typing.
I use this very method for dealing with validation (though mine returns a HTTP 400 on validation error). Trivial stuff, like a field being required or not, I check on the client; everything else is checked on the server. I've written a small library to plug this into jquery. It's called quaid, and the validation module docs/examples are: http://benogle.com/quaid/validation
They provide the SIM only with you providing the device (don't forget outside of North America most countries are all-GSM and so every cell phone sold is SIM-compatible).

Questions asked and solved by the community include: "how do I get this to work with my iPhone", "what are the APN settings to get data access", "how much does it cost to send a text when abroad" that kind of thing.

You can see it in action here: http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Help-Ask-the-community-got-...
Ah, mindless, out-of-context quotes. What next, the Ghandi line about laughing/winning/etc.?

This is a kit for microcontroller enthusiasts. It is not meant as some sort of alternative to anything Apple or Android or Palm or Nokia, except jokingly and in the minds of people not actually reading that page closely.
Seems like a funny policy to not backup production paying customers photos & metadata. Think of all the photos, comments, followers, etc that just got nuked! Seems like they rely on RAID or having multiple copies of the data spread around for disaster recovery. Sure it protects you from a server/raid/hardware failure but when a user/admin does something dumb it can really hurt!

Doing a quick google search turns up this gem:

Staff - heather says: "When an account is deleted, photos and any metadata associated with account is queued and deleted. If not instantaneous, it's removed within minutes."

[1] http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/47365/
Oracle pays $46m to settle Sun bribery claims
The article pointed out that a lot of services "deactivate" an account rather than delete it. I would suspect this common sense methodology is as obvious as hashing a password, but apparently, and unfortunately for the artist, it is not.

That's the biggest point I took from this. Removing the wrong account can always happen, but actually wiping data instantly without an invisible "grace period", or retrieval from backup, or anything else to get it back, that's just poor. Especially if it's a pro account.

It sounds to me like they didn't invest much time in the internal admin section. They probably delete a lot of accounts every day, and they've never had an issue with the wrong account being deleted? Or an after-the-fact clearing up of a misunderstanding? They don't start a dialog, at the very least only with pro-users, to get the other side of the story?

I hope something else went wrong here as well, and it's not the way they work normally.
I'd check out (www.carbonite.com) -- $54.95 Per Computer per year for unlimited backup.
Yes, it is GiffGaff.

I am a fairly happy Sprint customer here in the US but when I return to my motherland I put a GiffGaff SIM in my GSM phone as they have the best prices for data access bundles.
Referring URL? Oh right, Google intercepts all search result clicks through a redirector, and includes the search term in the intercepting URL. Yeah, the unique words in that URL could figure into describing the content of the final destination page (after redirect), the same way anchor text figures as well.
You're right in your point about backups. These cloud services present quite a problem in the sense that they're structured to accommodate massive amounts of data. Often times this data is generated within the service itself with no means provided to extract it. So even if the user wanted to be responsible for backing up their data it's often times impossible. Moreover, even if the user wanted to AND had the means to do it, it could be a massive amount of data to sync up -- more than your average user is going to take the time to do.
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people belong to either of the 2 groups:

1. people who've been in the situation of lost data when somebody else responsible for its backup hadn't backed the data up.

2. people who don't belong to the first group.

After graduating from the second group into the first, i've always been classifying my data as either "can loose, fnack it" or "i'm backing it up myself, right now"
This is an ultimate opportunity for Google - Can't they somehow spoof the results that are sent back to Bing. I now if someone was cheating off me in an exam, I would try and give them the wrong answer.
Please note that this doesn't apply all the same to servers. I have servers running with 16 GB of RAM and 16 GB of swap (because I simply can't even stop them to add RAM), and even then about twice a year they run out of memory and the OOM killer does its dirty job. However without swap they used to simply crash and burn, so swap is fine in this case.
I love explaining it! The response is priceless, "Wow, that's pretty cool!" "No, that's Linux."
that's a good example of URL being an important part of the data and not just a piece of metadata

If URL is constructed from the data somehow (auto-slug from the title, hash or something), such restoration becomes way simpler
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Don't you think money would buy you speed?

Also, your time may seem free now but it won't always feel like that.
It works with 3G, but since backgrounding is not supported, u will have to keep the app open while sharing
Most conferences have different pricing tiers to deal with this stuff. Seeing as how this is Github's first conference, if enough people bug them they might do something about this.
A single service, even a cloud, is still a single point of failure. Diversify your backup strategies.

Indemnification is likely going to push prices up further, making cloud non-competitive compared to traditional storage.

Still, I feel a lot of old technology is merely being relabeled. Today everything that stores data remotely is called a 'cloud'. We may yet see small NAS units relabeled as 'private micro-clouds".
That makes more sense, but it's still kinda nasty.

It would however have the advantage that you could monitor your rate of egg consumption by examining the first letters of the services advertised on the top page.
"Virtually all of the companies that go through the program receive seed funding after participating in the popular incubator program... The average Y Combinator company raises $700,000 after the program."

Had a hunch about the funding success rate and amount, but it's good to have these confirmed. Helps in appeasing queasy spouses, risk-averse cofounders, etc.
It's OK. We're all that guy sometimes. All we can do is watch out for it and adjust accordingly.
Kleiner Perkins Leads $8.5 Million Round For Path
So what exactly do you bring to the table? The only thing I can see is money and a weedmaps clone could be run on GAE for pretty much free or near free, no need for thousands of dollars.

I'm all for building better websites and better services, but this reeks of the "I've got this idea, you build it, and we'll split the profit" mentality that software developers hear everyday.
Why are you surprised?

Not surprised. Just trying to verify if he had the subject matter expertise I thought he had or not so I can better understand the discussion. Since I am a member here, security of the site does matter to me as it potentially directly impacts me. But I lack your depth of knowledge of the subject. So the credentials of different speakers matters to my understanding. For someone like me, whether he is being downvoted because he has no clue what he is talking about or for some other reason entirely makes a significant impact on my understanding of the situation.

Thank you for your helpful reply.
I don't get that they loose money on selling Kindle books. Do you have a source? Another view from here http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&... is:

> Although Amazon does not disclose sales or profit data for its Kindle e-reader or content, many believe it derives more profit from digital books than from its Kindle devices and say that content is a better bet for its long-term growth.
The Reddit guys faked submissions for months until the site caught on.
I completely agree. Interesting and awesome code is how you grow as a programmer. And it's the interesting code that can really make your program shine.

When I see an interesting bit of code it's still a warning sign though. Because for every time the Schwartzian Transform was implemented well, 100 programmers reimplemented it badly in a language where .sort_by(func) already existed.
There are tons. Think of all the things that humankind used to assume worked and now consider completely silly, like divining rods, or some tools related to alchemy such as the aludel. Several awful medical devices from ancient times up to the middle ages are also gone. Many of these didn't evolve. They weren't refined. They were awful ideas and simply died.

Of course divining rods and crystal balls and the like might still have the function of duping "tools"
I agree, which is why it would make more sense to leave the visionary stuff to folks like Jony Ive and have Eric Schmidt run the company. (Ive is hardly a CEO type)

Schmidt's job at Google was to provide "adult supervision" to Larry and Sergey, and keep on top of the executive functions of a publicly listed company.

There is no reason to assume he wouldn't do a good job at that with Apple, leaving folks like Jony to be visionaries.
A great deal of value has been added to this conversation by this comment going by the upvotes.
If you're looking to stand out, you could also stab yourself in the eye with a fork.
Isn't it bad form from a marketing perspective to continually mention their top competitor? Does Apple mention android so extensively in their press?

As Paul said, customers don't care. All they are doing is giving Bing some front and center advertising on it's blog (which has several non-tech readers) and the tech people who actually care probably don't enough to actually switch search engines.
It is crazy to think that Latitude launched 2 years ago and took this long to get around to check ins. Google has always said that Latitude was supposed to tell people where you "recently were" not necessarily where you are at the exact moment.
Maybe two years ago we were not quite ready from a privacy standpoint to broadcast to the world where we are at the moment. But assuming that Google has had this functionality ready to go for 2 years it is crazy that they sat beside and watched Foursquare/Gowalla/Facebook dominate the check-in space.
With millions and millions of android phones now out there, this has the potential to seriously disrupt the above mentioned services.
money is a common "key" to many doors and solution for many problems. not every problem and not every door, of course, but if you can throw some cash on some annoying problem to get rid of it, it may be better solution than solving it with your time

see also http://teddziuba.com/2010/12/the-3-basic-tools-of-systems-en... - this extends to many other fields

still, having no money is not an excuse to be lazy
Depending on the type of content you need, you could try leveraging Mechanical Turk. Or, as others have said, fake it. Also, posting a link here couldn't hurt (providing it is live).
wow! I love it. Looks sleek and elegant. It also doesn't look like everything else on the web. Nice work on the branding.
Until someone does something really interesting with it, sparks an idea, and then starts developing it as a retail product.
What a very clever way to test their theory. I'm very curious to see how Microsoft explain this one.

Also, why do I now want to buy things with "hiybbprqag" printed on them?
You'd first have to get the result to come up as a result of your search.

(Although I suppose you could hack the toolbar and send the data manually.)
I've found that most conferences with such a low limit of seats tend not to have student pricing tiers, but I'll bug them, couldn't hurt.
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I think the poster makes a good point. In the early days of SO, as in any QA site, there were a surplus of questions and a dearth of answers. It would've been suicidal to obstruct people from providing answers, so the bar was set low there. Comments on the other hand are less valuable early on, so there was no reason to encourage them.

Fast forward to today, and now there are a critical mass of people willing---even eager---to answer questions, so that every new question has a surplus of answers, many of them wrong. SO might well improve their signal/noise ratio by reversing their policy and requiring higher karma for answers than they do for commenting. As the poster points out, a newb is unlikely to come up with an answer not already posted, but nonetheless might have some unique experience or insight on that answer that could be helpful.
correct. no way on earth Apple would do this. they may make some decisions we don't agree with, but they're not stupid
I agree - I've recently learned of the importance of diversification first hand.

However, I'd argue the ability to take legal action, would actually encourage service providers to diversify their own backup strategies and procedures. If a mistake becomes too costly to consider - I think less mistakes would be likely to occur.
I'm not self employed, I work for gdgt. I just wish I didn't have to bug my employer to fund me attending this kind of stuff and would much rather pay for it out of my own pocket because (personally) I tend to care more about something if I'm paying for it out of my own pocket.
Found a [Chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/papnlnnbddhckngc...) to do exactly this. You still get an annoying little popup window flash, but then it sucks it into a new tab. Awesome.
If only electric cars were free like Linux.
> I don't know if it's really because of some division of the world or due to my narrow-mindedness and cowardice.

Mostly division in the world. If you're on the inside of the first-world gate you can hop on a plane and get an instantly approved visa to almost any other first world country. They all have these reciprocal agreements. The article's strategy relies on this --- a US citizen is pre-approved for a 1 year working holiday, unless they've done something substantially wrong.

For people on the other side of the gate, the situation is completely different. Visa applications are expensive and slow, and governed by arbitrary rules and senseless bureaucracy. The message the governments send is, "there's plenty more just like you. We don't care."
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I once bought a brick of scratch tickets, the only way I see this working is buying the brick, going through them and pulling out the winners and then selling the unscratched ones back to your friend convenience store clerk. There should be lots of tickets still attached to eachother, so they can be placed back into the hopper and removed as usual. When a "broken link" is encountered, it'll just look like the end of a brick.
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I think that depends in part on what type of content you are aiming for.

I did gather a few links to previous discussions on this topic (and a couple of related articles) here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126209
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No, the CIE standard observer is not the same as the responsivities of cone cells in the eye. That article you linked describes how it was arrived at:

1. Match monochromatic (narrow wavelength band) light sources of each wavelength with three particular monochromatic lights (called “R”, “G”, “B”), in some cases needing to add some of one of those three to the monochromatic source in order to get the two sides to match – this is a “negative” component. This process results in three (r(λ), g(λ), b(λ)) functions of wavelength.

2. Take three linear combinations of those three functions and call them (x(λ), y(λ), z(λ)), such that (a) the y(λ) function is approximately the same as the photopic luminance function as best it could be computed at the time, (b) all three of x, y, and z had only positive values, and (c) integrating each of the three yields the same value, so that an equal-energy stimulus will have the same X, Y, and Z values.

The red receptors in the human eye do not really have this kind of spike in response in the lower end of the spectrum.

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However, “red” the “psychological primary” or “unique hue” does have some violet/blue in it. Any monochromatic red light source is a bit on the orange side.
The googlers are just angry that they couldn't come up with that genious idea themselves.
I lol'd heartily at this, thank you.
am i the only one who cringes at the thought of faking users?
> But I digress, and besides I did promise to be all gross
> and irresponsible, so I’ll stick with that.
> So there are R, G, and B cones.

Cute and all, but so very wrong. There are acceptable simplifications; this is not one of them.
Right! I used "proposed" to mean "argued for" rather than "set forth for the first time".

Arnheim is kind enough to distinguish between "generative complements" and what he calls "fundamental complements", (though I would prefer they be called "perceptual"). He warns specifically against confusing perceptual color and color-in-the-world. By making that distinction, Arnheim validates BOTH systems, rather than attempting to invalidate three-primary systems (as this article appears to do).

The article calls RGB and RBY color "wrong" and unable to "stand up to even minor scrutiny".

Arnheim calls them "generative".

I claim their generative nature (that they inform how to create color) is why they are taught in schools. I'm not denying the four-color idea; I'm just saying it is based on a different definition of color, and different intended use of color.
Will any Bing users suddenly switch to Google because of this? Probably not. Will people who've never heard of Bing be reading about them in the paper tomorrow? Yes. Will complaining about competition from underdogs make Google look bad to some? Yes.

I don't see how making this a public issue is a win for Google. Seems like something they should have kept in their back pocket. "Keep your enemies closer", as they say.
I had created similar app to find out where people are hanging out or checked-in: http://misotrendy.com , it allows you to get a snap shot of checked-in people at a place anywhere - its a Web app and html5 mobile web app - @krisrak
I think the average user doesn't even know what RAM is. My neighbour, for example, doesn't know the distinction between the space available in RAM and the capacity of his harddisk. Which led to a strange misunderstanding when he told me his PC had '250 giga of internal memory'. I tried to explain than with 'internal memory' people usually mean something else, but I didn't think he understood. Never mind, he doesn't grasp hierarchical filesystems either, but all is fine as long as he can edit his photos (which in his perception are kept within Elements) and 'surf the internet'.
I think that customers do care a lot of the time. Especially customers of tech companies, who often become evangelists for their chosen platforms and devices.

In this case, I don't know how this discussion (verging on disagreement) could occur without mentioning the competition.
The jeans analogy is great - thanks.
Is there a way to save/bookmark HN threads under my HN profile?

I see "saved stories" under http://news.ycombinator.com/saved, but don't see a way to save anything there. The only other option is to comment on something and then have it available under "threads", but that sucks.

Sorry, I'm a newbie around here.
Link to the Mozy announcement: http://mozy.com/home/newplans

For me the new pricing means that they are a no go (although I do appreciate that my current 2 year subscription will continue on). I'm currently at about 500GB of stuff that I actually want backed up into the cloud (mostly photos from DSLRs) and several more TB of stuff that be good to backup but I could live without. With their new pricing scheme, I personally feel like I'd be better off upgrading my dropbox account and putting more stuff in there + buying more hard drives (and keeping them in multiple locations) for my photos. Moving to another cloud backup provider would be an exercise in a lot of uploading time to get 500GB up over a home connection.
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