skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CoinStar does not accept 1943 5 cent nickels!

But it does help identify $80 nickels.
I will request you to reserve your judgement till you have played with the Freeshdesk beta. Just give us a few more days before we open for the public.
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I meant to say several months ago, not years.
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What is a functional language?
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It's all a continuum. You could also build your own servers, or design specialized boards with dedicated processors optimized to your application. Everyone is going to choose a point on the continuum and each will have tradeoffs.
I don't know - fund managers might well wish to pile in, but people in general still seem to feel burned by the recession and wary of the market. The tech bubble in the 90s took off from a position of much higher consumer confidence as I recall.
IP liability and fair use in things like browser 'skins'
10 lines of javascript..so long as you include these other several hundred lines from a library.

It's cool that you can work this way with the PubNub library--but on the web, where all of the code needed actually has to be downloaded by the client, it's completely disingenuous.
Good post. I hate going to my college recruitment sessions. All we have are boring people attracting boring candidates in government, healthcare, and defense industry. Really pointless.

Also, I would add that people need to have an online presence, especially if you are in technology. That's the best resume you can get. It building online presence is fun and authentic. No bull. Ah, wish somebody would tell me about it several years ago. I just started.
I'll probably be downvoted for this but seems to me the root cause of this problem is Reddit's architectural decision to remain in a single availability zone. If it wasn't EBS it could have been some other issue related to the single AZ that could have brought the site down. Blaming EBS, particularly if you knew it to be a potential weakness in your architecture, seems like a deflection of responsibility.
I don't know about that. Consider someone working in a sandwich shop. Once you learn how to make the different sandwiches, you just keep making the sandwiches every day. Or a job as a taster at a distillery. You make sure the whiskey doesn't vary in taste. While it may be an enjoyable activity, there's only occasionally something new.

Whereas with coding virtually everything is something new. In coding if you run into the same thing over and over again, you use a reusable component or automate it. You build the equivalent of a sandwich-making machine or whiskey-tasting machine and move on to the next thing.
All of your EC2 instances can disappear without warning and everything on the local storage is now gone forever.
Can only upvote. I'm speechless.
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Interesting to see Mr. DeIcaza's reaction. From publishing flawed benchmarks showing c# as faster then c++ back in the day, to jumping with joy to see that an open source project is suffering setbacks. Published on the Gnome com channels too.

c# is a nice language, but not a lingua franca. Mono is at best controversial in the oss world, the iOs app gallery is damning the platform by faint praise and Mono on Android does not exist.
Neither Chrome nor Opera are abandoning XP either.

All three will support hardware acceleration on XP.

Only one that left tens of thousands (maybe millions?) of XP users out in the cold is Microsoft.
Rumors of new, free MobileMe service from Apple next month gain steam
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Thanks. From what I've heard so far, legalzoom and sites like it are great for solopreneurs, but if you have more than 1 person and want to have ownership vest, assign IP, potentially hire others, then you really can't use one of those services. What was your situation? Was it just you or do you have other founders?
This is good, now if they could enforce SSL for adsense.
AT&T CrackDown Jailbroken iPhones,they want to Charge for the Tethering Plans
The autocomplete appears above the slider handles in IE6.

Seriously, it does and most of the other controls work fine too.
I believe it was for these guys:

http://nowjs.com/
http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005
Continental could have already tested this, of course.

Most people will take free headphones, including those who initially have no intention of paying for TV. Most people will be too embarrassed to ask for headphones when bored during mid flight, especially if they've already refused them and told the air hostess they have absolutely no intention of paying such an outrageous fee.

Not telling people the price until they've decided they want something is just savvy marketing.

It's a hustle when you have to pay more than $6 to print your boarding pass for the flight you've already paid for
http://www.ryanair.com/en/questions/how-much-does-it-cost-to...
If you were a CNN reporter, would you rather go to a fancy wedding or a disaster region?

I can't help but think this factors a bit into where the reporters are going. It also saddens me that we as a society are willing drive our attention (and ad dollars) to weddings over disasters and wars.
I'm sure reddit's engineers are as capable as any for producing a seemless disaster recovery plan, but the most common obstacle to implementing it is cost. Most web services choose the occasional risk of downtime in one data center instead of incurring the cost of being in two data centers at all times.
Not completely. It does save me from writing the other hundreds of lines, which is more what they mean than a chatroom in 10 loc total.

Anything that staves the onset of carpal tunnel for us hackers a little longer is a good deal to me :)
Your design looks great. You mentioned that getmefast did it and I had a look at their portfolio which isn't as strong in my opinion as your design and UI. Did you UI designer have to change what they came up with?
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It would be better if it inserted line breaks:

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=library.gettracks&#...
That's a serious concern, and I'd like to help address it (I am the director of UX at ReadyForZero).

A core tenet of our business is that we always act in the interest of the user. So far, our monetization works as follows:

- Someone is on our site getting out of debt, and we have a good picture of where they stand financially (their data).

- We know what Lending Club looks for in approving folks to get debt consolidation loans.

- We can run this user's data against what we know about Lending Club's model, and see if (A) they would be likely to qualify and (B) it would save them time or money. If these things turn up true, we recommend to the user that they go apply, showing them the data that led us to this recommendation.

- If they apply for and get a loan from Lending Club, we get a referral fee.

Up until the user decides to go apply for a loan, we have sent no data at all to Lending Club.

This kind of model is how we plan to approach the whole business. It's about giving people control over their financial situation and data, not taking it away. There are plenty of opportunities for us to profit with this model in an open, ethical, and transparent way, all the while keeping people in the driver's seat.
All the engineers I work with are PHP guys too, so it might be beneficial as I can use them as a resource. Then again, node.js may be the next big thing so I could get ahead of the curve...
Well do you want a gadget or a toolbox? GUI's are gadgets, they do what the person who wrote it thinks is a good idea. There is nothing wrong with this. The command line is a toolbox, there is all sorts of stuff you can do to make uniq things happen.

Now from the POV of putting something out there for developers to use which is easier to publish and get out there:

* Several installer GUI's: mac, linux, windows

* about a page of instructions on how to get this done

Which would be the Minimum Viable Product and let you ship now?
Lots of discussion of this elsewhere. It looks like some people who don't tether (but use a lot of bandwidth) are also getting the message, leading people to believe to that AT&T is looking solely at bandwidth usage.

http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/755094-t-cracking-down-...

I use TetherMe ($2 in the cydia store, instead of $10 for mywi, enables native tethering), and I haven't gotten this message.
I absolutely adore and respect people who are able to keep their lips sealed as if it were second nature. It's a rare quality to possess. Love it.
Sensationalist bottom feeder People magazine crap gets a lot of attention.

I wish that we as a culture were more concerned about things that really mattered. Unfortunately, we have people obsessed with how they look and what's going on in "famous people's lives", 90% of which is tabloid distortion or outright fabrication.

I blame marketing for this. People are convinced they need stuff they don't really need, and the best way to do it is to say "person you admire uses X". The reason CNN is sending all these people is they know it will make result in great ad revenue.

sigh
In my experience, "the customer set who cares mostly about price" is almost always never the "less needy customer base."

In my experience, the customers set who cares least about price are almost always the least needy customer base.

Just my anecdotal experience.
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how does this fit in the scheme of things with regard to your async lib??
Viewing = (indirectly post ratings review) = Ad revenue
The PBS News Hour is the only real news program left.
ReactOS is just WINE on top of a custom Windows-like kernel. All of the real action in reimplementing Windows occurs in WINE, afaik.

It's pretty far from "full XP compatibility", but a lot of stuff works just fine. I'd love to see WINE considered a big investment center for people like Canonical. I think WINE and open graphics drivers are the two biggest parts holding back desktop Linux. Even if WINE could get .NET compatibility, that'd be a huge step forward (right now it has trouble running any of MS's .NET frameworks correctly). The reality is it's going to take a lot of money and especially time to cause the lock-in of Win-only apps to fully regress; it'd be a lot faster to work with it and cause almost everything to work perfectly on WINE. Office and .NET are the biggest hold-ups atm.

The problem with major investment in WINE is that as soon as MS thinks that suing CodeWeavers/any other WINE investors or distributors would be less harmful than allowing the project to continue without the extra attention, they're going to drop some big patent litigation all over that. MS is not just going to sit back while WINE plays a fundamental role in killing Windows -- as soon as it becomes serious, look for a major, relentless attack by MS.
Mozilla do want IE9 to be "modern", that's entirely in line with their mission as a non-profit that promotes the open web. It's ironically Microsoft that's scared most of a truly modern IE9.

What Mozilla certainly don't want is marketing BS confusing users into thinking IE9 is modern, while it holds the web back and drags its feet about updates. Nor does it want any browser controlled by Microsoft to have dominant market share while Microsoft still sees the web as a threat that it can fight mostly by go-slow tactics like having IE6-8 hanging around preventing new web technologies hitting critical mass.

They don't even have spellchecking in their browser because the Word guys feel threatened.
Great, now I get to stop working away from home. I mean, I can barely pay the $20-25/mo for 2 gigs, let alone $45/mo for 4 + tethering.
I wonder if the networks' bureau size has any play in this. As large as Japan is, it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if a large part of the 400 staff were based out of London regularly and that the London office were a few times larger than the Tokyo one.

Not that I'm defending this absurd proportioning of reporting, just looking for other factors.
I've registered .ca through http://www.korax.net/ exclusively. They're not the cheapest, but have great customer service.
I agree with both of you - parsing isn't that mathematically demanding, and many papers are badly written.

This is why 'parsing techniques' is a joy. It explains with clarity what is often nightmarish to gleam from papers.
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Netflix seems to be the biggest counter case - grew their data centers and effectively gave up and moved it to AWS. I suspect the sweet spot is doing a bit of public and private cloud, adjusting how much is on one or the other based on costs, service levels and capacity requirement volatility.
At the end of the day, we get what we celebrate.

They're only doing this because it's likely that they'll receive 8x the ratings for the royal wedding than for Japan coverage. Sad, but true.
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That's even worse than content farming.
Dang! by just reading the headline, I was about to change my name to Goldman Sachs. Heck I'll do it anyways. With name like Goldman you can't go wrong.
Assuming the IPv4 TTL issue can be worked around (see elsewhere in thread), a phone that does GBs/month of encrypted traffic over SSH would still be a signal that something suspicious is going on.
That's the "backup to S3" part.
It makes sense in a strange way. For a disaster or war, you put as few people in harm's way as possible, and overdub the reports in other languages for non-English markets in the studio. Viewers need facts and often the images speak for themselves, and the nature of the situation justifies endless replay of the same bits of footage.

For showbiz/celebratory type stories, almost all the reporting (in multiple languages) is talking to camera because viewers who care about that stuff want the experience of being there, so they enjoy it vicariously via the reporter. Also, there needs to be a much larger flow of material because people who want to be entertained get bored more easily.

There's a huge audience for this sort of thing. I was reading an economics paper a few months ago observing that the wedding of Charles and Diana generated the equivalent of 8 or 9 billion dollars in today's money, over the course of 20 years. This upcoming one is expected to add something like a billion to the UK economy just this year.
"AT&T may, but is not required to, monitor your compliance, or the compliance of other subscribers, with AT&T's terms, conditions, or policies"

And, of course, it's now well-known that the government WAS using deep packet inspection on AT&T internet traffic.

I would assume they're just looking at how much you download in a month, though. I don't think AT&T is worried about offending outliers using large amounts of mobile data by inaccurately accusing them of tethering.
I write my resumes in LaTeX: vanilla to scare HR, yet hacker-chic to let em know what's up.
A minimal business card
3 quick questions:

1. how unique/cool/elegant/Apple'esque would a business card be if you strip away everything, except your name and a QR code? example: http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6343/mincard.png

2. would you feel comfortable handing this out at conferences like sxsw & wwdc?

3. if someone gave one of these to you, would you bother scanning that QR code a few days later or just toss it? (assuming you forgot the context of your meeting)

Long story:
I recently needed to print some new business cards before heading off to sxsw. My old ones were outdated in just 3 months (new startup, new google voice number, different title etc). As I was designing my new card I realized that the only static info on it is my name. Titles are pretentious and deceptive for startup types especially if you wear multiple hats. So I'm considering this idea of a "minimal card". All "dynamic" info is linked to an about.me/flavors.me page via the QR code.

good idea? thoughts?
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So, the new informal credo for journalism should be "if it blings it leads" instead of "if it bleeds it leads"? Doesn't rhyme, though :(
Is it the year of the linux desktop again?
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What's the point of sending English speaking journalists to Japan, where they typically do intro pieces from the streets of Tokyo, then segue into footage provided by Japanese news organizations?

At last in England they'll understand what's going on around them...
Quote of the day:

"If your software miscalculates the path of a space probe, you can't finesse your way out of trouble by saying that your code is patriotic, or avant-garde, or any of the other dodges people use in nontechnical fields."
Perhaps reddit could've mitigated some downtime with some cross-zone redundancy, but the underlying frustration is that Amazon does not provide a well behaved storage solution, which is a very critical infrastructure component for most web services.
Again, the position seems to not make sense. And it seems desperate. Is Chrome worse than IE mobile, because its not on WP7? Is Safari worse than Chrome because its not on Chome OS?

Again, I think its a fine business decision for Mozilla. But it seems odd to decry IE9's absence on XP when you already think it's not modern.

And the positioning against IE9 seems kind of dumb since IE9 isn't on XP. It's not going to beat IE9 on Win7 or Vista. But it can make huge inroads on XP. But not by taking IE9 share, but rather by taking IE6/Chrome share.

It just seems like Mozilla is so caught up at being anti-MS that that they still haven't understood that Google has already picked their wallet and has just started emptying their bank account.
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Remember that the license is a property of the code, not the tarball.

If you copy code from one library into another, then the combined work uses both licenses, but the code retains its original licenses.

Using the example of copying GPL code into a BSD library, the entire library (and any tarballs, binaries, etc) are covered by both licenses, but my code (the BSD code) stays BSD. It's not relicensed.
Also that makes sense, the distinction of boiling! Thank you, again, er, for the third time.
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Anything more you could share about it? We got scared off (at least for now) by the inability to replicate in from a self-hosted MySQL instance (for migration purposes), but would still love to hear more about your experiences.
As I stated, I think it's great that you can use the library to help you do this; but the truth is, to use this chat program, clients have to download and execute far more than 10 lines of code.
Depends on the category, really. Also, by "needy," I'm talking primarily about preferences for, or requirements of, feature richness. Really should have phrased it as "fewer (feature) needs" rather than "less needy."
So I finally bothered to check wikipedia and find out what a "lifestyle business" actually was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business

"A lifestyle business is a business that is set up and run by its founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle."

It doesn't sound like that describes your business exactly. But why do you care? Sounds like you're doing what you love, so whatever someone else labels your business is mildly irritating but essentially irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

Care to share your URL?
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Same procedure as every year.
Truthfully, I don't understand the point of having a QR code on your business card unless someone has developed an app that will dial/email/SMS whoever you're trying to reach with one button press (and if they have, someone send me a link).

I wouldn't bother scanning it after the initial scan. You get added to my contacts list, and when I need to contact you, I'll contact you. IF (and this isn't a very big if, given the environment of great and talented developers in the mobile app community) someone can make a smarter QR code scanner, then maybe I'd take putting a QR code on a business card a little more seriously.
AT&T already does that; non-smartphone users still have an option for $15/mo unlimited data ($10/mo if on certain family plans)
othello: (in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339956) "Here is Einstein's certificate for the year 1879 (he was 10)"

Wrong, in the certificate it's clearly written that he's born in 1879 and that the exams happened in 1896, as he was obviously 17. As I already claimed it is a "final degree" score before the university.
One huge difference is that couchsurfing is free... do some chores around the place maybe to be nice, but the whole point is sharing and using each other's space for free. I think Airbnb is aiming for a different market, actually - for example, my parents would feel "weird" about crashing on a stranger's couch but booking a quaint and unique little bed and breakfast over the internet makes them feel cool. Conversely, I would feel bad about charging somebody to stay in my disgusting apartment but I'll happily host somebody just passing through.
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"I blame marketing for this."

OK, but why does the marketing work? I'd submit the marketing is more effect than cause. We have significant support in the human brain for tracking social status and the leaders of the (perceived) hierarchy. We don't have very much support for "important long-term risks and issues". It may be unfortunate, it may yet kill us all, but it's not surprising.
However, it only takes one trader with a naive NLP approach to make "Ann Hathaway" news legitimate Berkshire Hathaway news. i.e., one dumbass with a big enough bankroll buying on Ann Hathaway news makes Ann Hathaway news relevant to the market.
No; I'm very much a beginner when it comes to EC2. I unmounted the filesystem, detached the volume, then shut down the instance.