skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any vserver will do, I use Linode for my production stuff, they are excellent.

If you don't want to spend time on server configuration and deployments yet, you could also use http://pagekite.net/ to just directly expose the HTTP server running on your work machine.

(disclaimer: I am the author of PageKite, actively seeking new users. :-)
Print isn't dying - it's killing itself.
Wouldn't it be awesome if someone who worked at Google made their 20% project to locate sites with T&Cs that ban linking and remove them from Google's index?
What's your recommendation for a scientifically responsible overview of neuroscience for a nonspecialist reader? I think that's what most of the readers of HN might be looking for, and I'd be happy to look up anything you recommend.
Is lying protected speech?
What's it written in? If it's in Ruby then Heroku would be my first choice because it's so easy to deploy an app to (with no system setup).

Another option would be to run it on EC2 using a pre-built distro image with the components you need (if you can find such an image). This will be more expensive than Heroku but you can define the stack.

I'm sure others can chime in with their suggestions depending on what you developed it in.
I don't see having an exclusive platform as an advantage right now. If they could pull off iOS API compatibility, that would be brilliant (assuming their patent cross licensing with Apple adequately covered their asses) and could be conceivably be done starting with GNUStep, but Android seems a good second-best option.

OTOH, I believe the Apple app store TOS would prohibit any in-store app to be distributed in any way other than the store, so, there is one interesting contractual risk.
Thanks for the feedback, it's indeed useful and not really harsh.

The one-liner used to be there, but I removed it, forgetting that not everyone knows what it is. See, this is why getting feedback from strangers rocks.

I need to definitely do something for touch devices somewhere along the way. I like the way they hide right now because it makes the site much less cluttered. I might experiment with this though.

One thing I will fight until the bitter end is the Like/Dislike thing. I'm using the site personally as a catalog of things I've seen in my life, having just Like/Dislike would feel wrong (Pulp Fiction and Valkyrie hardly deserve the same rating). I might make the scale optional (for "power users") or something.

In any case, thanks!
PageKite is interesting - how do you mitigate the risk of security vulnerabilities that could exist by running on a potentially unpatched machine that you use for everything else (i.e. your typical PC)?
Google working on mobile payment technology: report
Google is joining Citigroup and Mastercard to set up a mobile payment system that will turn Android phones into a kind of electronic wallet, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
World Largest Interactive Touch Screen created by Microsoft, 234 Inch [video]
excepting its immigration policy for skilled persons
The Entrepreneur vs Lethargy
Thanks for the feedback!

>I think a good start would be a phrase explaining what service Archfinch provides. I felt like you should greet me with a phrase about your service. "Archfinch 'find what you like'" seems to sum up the site in four words. The service you provide to me are the recommendations, I pay the system with my ratings for those recommendations.

Right, I had something like this, removed it along the way forgetting not everyone knows Archfinch like I do. Definitely a mistake that needs to be corrected.

As for the rest, all great points, thanks.
I wonder if all of these are just legal CYA for what happens when someone does deep-link then the site is redesigned and those links no longer work. I can imagine some douchebag lawyer trying to make the case that a particular URL is a contract to provide some information at that location.
I wonder if the folks who wrote the TOS for these sites even know what the www stands for in their URL? This is ridiculous, and the first court that upholds this nonsense should be ashamed of itself.

Reminds me of the apocryphal girls who run around in see through tops and say "don't look at my breasts!"

I mean, I totally get it if they have a paywall and they don't want their content released into the wild. But a public web page? C'mon.
Your personal IP address is not exposed, so you "only" have to worry about the security of the HTTP server itself.

How good or bad that is depends on what you are doing. For someone demoing static files (e.g. a web designer), running a mature HTTP server like Apache in static-only mode is almost entirely without risk.

I am also planning to add some access controls to PageKite itself, so only authenticated users' traffic is passed through to the HTTP server, but that's just vapour at the moment. :-)
One of the most prestigious non-korean tournaments is sponsored by Pokerstrategy.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=205...
1. Did you solicit your future customers online?
2. Did you know them from before?
3. Link to your website
errata's analysis is good, no reason to not accept it. About hacker, we should accept he did something which seemed impossible to most of us, so stop taking is job easy, instead of it suggest solutions for prevention of such attacks in future
Have you ever thought why no one else wasn't such lucky? It's not luck, stop taking it so easy.
The startup company hierarchy of needs
Oh, and one other way to control risk, which we tend to forget in a world of always-on cloud services: you can turn it off when you aren't using it.

It's blunt, but it really works. Software that isn't running can't be attacked.
I'd be interested in seeing what you're thinking about, because I might know some people who would also be "future customers."

You ought to write up your plans, blog about your progress, and give as a link.

Please?
> I'm not nearly the caliber of firm the NYT would stake their future livelihood on by engaging for this kind of work

Aside from working on your own, are there any other real differences? I mean, I know that while being a decent C programmer, I wouldn't hesitate to point at people that are way better than I am, because they can produce more, better code, quicker. How's that work in the honest portion of the "SEO" world?
Stipulate that both digits must be distinct and odd, then guess 37.
OK - in the article (or the comments) it said that the documentation everywhere says two arguments only.
Ask PG: What's your take on the Startup Visa Act 2010?
What is your very take on the Startup Visa Act?

And what's your outlook on the future of American economy 25 years from now in view of high-tech?

How much of an immediate and distant effect do you think the recent exit of some Chinese, Indian and European tech players have on Silicon Valley?

Do you think it still matters to be in SV with the new direction of the Web?

Will China really take over from America?

How easy or hard is it for an immigrant startup to positively change public policy toward taxes and insurance in U.S. states, especially California, if that is what its product is meant to do? Will Ycombinator typically provide funding and active support toward that engagement?
Apple TV is designed around playing content downloaded from iTMS. Google TV....they'll figure out something eventually. Neither one is really made for live TV.

* I've settled on the AppleTV because it's $99, so not much of a loss if it doesn't work out.

* Most of my videos are already in an MP4 compatible format already DVD->Handbrake->Apple Universal preset.

* It's dead quiet, no moving parts, no fans, and 6W of power.

My problem with the HTPC is it was a full Windows stack so it included all the headaches of antivirus, updates, configuration, and UAC prompts required a keyboard be nearby.

I can certainly see why some people have the inclination to go with a HTPC but I don't have the time nor the space to keep PC in the living room. And now, XBMC has been ported to the AppleTV so you get most of the functionality of the Windows application on an inexpensive device.
The double click for edit does not work in Opera 11.10 beta on Linux. Only Opera's context menu shows up.

Rotating and zooming is painfully slow and without any visual clue (i don't know if my movement will rotate or change size, maybe just becouse of the slowness?). Is there a reset size/rotation button?
Thanks, appreciate the feedback.

Did you get a chance to try it with a someone on your team? Thats when the software really comes alive we feel.

Let me know if you'd like a free board for a year.
I discovered last year that this is still a field where good honest money can be made since everyone is bitching about the fact that there is not a good solution.

I just wanted to keep my MRI and digital X-ray scans. I wanted to send them to the doctors to get their opinions on them and pay them for the time.

I still haven't done much on this myself, but lately I did use http://www.webpax.com to send some scans to several doctors. Their ideas saved me from a "recommended" operation by a previous doctor. Uploading DICOM could be easier, but still at least there is someplace on the web that enables it for me.
Content farm using crappy translations to avoid copy/paste problems
Thanks, I like this idea and it's a pretty quick win since all the data is already available.

Edit: The tag categories on the front page is actually already sorted by date, just need to add the time ago portion.
> "This is just the basic level of hardware to get a functional home theater PC"

Really? I use an Atom CPU, half the RAM, and offload decoding to the GPU for an average draw at the wall of ~15W while decoding 1080p, and a pre-built device with all that in costs less than his parts.

Slap Ubuntu on, add the NVidia and XBMC PPAs, install VDPAU and XBMC and you are good to go!
I think you need to work on your paragraph tags. :-/
As he says at the end, one would obviously not just stick a big stack of `link`s in the page. Some kind of build system/asset packager would be necessary and desired (so you aren't forced to write a huge monolithic css file that no one but your past-self can navigate :)).
Ok, then at least make it more interesting. How about Love, Like, Meh, Hate?
> IPv4 addresses aren't really 32-bits; they're actually 48 bits: a 32-bit IP-address plus a 16-bit port number.

> No!

Last time I tried to bind a socket to just an IPv4 address I got a compilation error.
Qatar is Building Artificial Clouds For WorldCup 2022
エステナードソニックの口コミ・評判・効果が学べる！！
Nokia gets a facelift: bye to Nokia Sans, hello to Nokia Pure
Except a kill-a-watt cannot give accurate readings off a powersupply with PFC (also kill-a-watt are calibrated poorly, no 2 units will give quite the same measurement).

I am sure it's very low, my dual-core i3 is significantly more efficient than my old AMD X2 but the 22watts might not be exactly right.
Set Up OpenVPN Server With Authentication Against OpenLDAP On Debian Squeeze
I haven't heard of any of the people behind this, although it is referenced on the Prime Minister's number 10 website[1]. It does look like a lot of the people involved have stuff to sell. Still, anything having a decent bash on encouraging entrepreneurship in the UK can only be a good thing(tm), for various values of good thing.

[1] - http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/topstorynews/2011/03/startup...
Disqus: Serving 400 million people with Python
Backbone-redis, model persistence with Socket.io and Redis pub/sub
I have drafted a product that might fit your customers perfectly, and compliment what you are doing. Maybe we should talk. It would be great if you gave some detail, like in a blog post.
i3 is significantly more powerful than atom cpu, it's like apples and oranges.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/d510mo-intel-atom,2616-1...
Nor my 0 (type a ten, press left then backspace the one).
initial model will be 500,000 USD is it too much?
Same story, different sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2375055

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374532
Thanks for trying it blick. Do you use any other browsers and did you have the same problem?
Are you an affiliate marketer?
It's really interesting that, in this "SEO is a perfectly valid marketing strategy" world, there are still cases like these. Who comes up with this rules? Who on earth thinks they are a good thing? The Peter Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle) jumps to mind.
The real reason why Underscore doesn't use "Math.max.apply" and "Math.min.apply", is that they only work on small arrays of numbers. After you get beyond 40-50,000-ish (last time I checked), some browsers will throw an exception because you can't pass that many arguments to a function.

I remember running into this in real-world code, trying to calculate the brightest pixel in a <canvas> imageData array.
London tube stations to get Wi-Fi
Great work! I built something similar to this but you've just really taken it to the next level utilizing HTML5. Nice!
cool what did you build? what improvements could we make and would you use it with your team?
from the user's profile, he built this site:
http://www.adormo.com/
which brings airbnb to mind.
This is what I see being the next logical step for feature rich realtime webapps. Connecting the front and backends in a virtually seamless way with little to no real overhead.

Taking the Backbone.js Todos example and making the change to using your backbone-redis code is pretty slick. That and the chat example, they just work. My only wish is that the chat example's interface was a bit easier to use.

Keep up the great work, love seeing novel approaches to existing projects.
I'm not looking for that and I'm a an HN reader. I find it to be off topic. You can pick up any book on neuroscience and it will be better than that shit blog post. If you want something easy to understand listen to this: http://www.radiolab.org/.
Immigration policy: give rich foreigners tax breaks for moving here
That is trivial compared to the $10,000 million the Harvard endowment fund lost.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Ta...
Really undermines the whole initiative and makes a mockery of those in charge.
ReactOS (open source Windows NT clone) accepted into Google Summer of Code 2011
Managing your business with a Cloud ERP
It's not canard. I'm talking about this from a business standpoint, not a political one. Regardless of whether you think that the NYT is liberal or FNC is conservative, most conservatives think the NYT is left-leaning and most liberals think Fox is right-leaning. So if a business is appealing to only part of the potential market, it seems the obvious thing to do would be to broaden your appeal.
Unfortunately points 1. and 2. apply to almost all "enterprise" software - (end users are ignored and finance functionality gets special treatment as they they hold the purse strings).
If you cant fit your reason in a simple sentence or paragraph...
I get the feeling that what these sites really mean is that you shouldn't deep-link to their images. They've just got it a bit wrong in the T&C. Especially when the sites say "we may disable the links", they surely just mean they'll prevent the images from showing when the refer(r)er is on a different domain?
Yes, but it's a single-purpose computer than can apparently fulfill its purpose with a cheaper and more efficient Atom.
Management Consultants, Management Consultants, Management Consultants

There needs to be a Steve Ballmer at McKinsey.
Yes, after encountering the problem in Opera, i switched to Firefox 3.6 (don't have 4 yet) and encountered the slowness.
Next i tried Chromium 11, but my whiteboard there is only in Viewing mode, even though i used the same e-mail address, which worked in Opera and in Firefox.
The title should be "glibc", not "gilbc".
An SSH service would be of real benefit to Windows users, too. As the page says, the Cygwin sshd is much too intrusive when all you need is a Windows command prompt.

A terminal services implementation would make an interesting project. The original Microsoft terminal services implementation in NT needed wide-reaching changes to the way Win32 works.
Slightly more informal version:

http://www.barricane.com/2011/03/05/uk-internet-startup-week...

http://groups.google.com/group/long-week-startups
I'd be interested to see SAP and Oracle. Haven't found anything either.
If I were a catbert style hr guy, I think I might start purposely seeking out this type of candidate. If everyone I hired had this type of background, firing would be easy when necessary.

There seems to be enough people willing to fudge this kind of thing that I'm sure I could dig up some adequate employees who had this weekness.
Love the idea. Kind of an airbnb builder. I just have a comment though on this page "http://www.adormo.com/project/ownersite/en/features.htm. I would replace "cheapest" by "least expensive", or "cost effective". Cheapest well sounds cheap most of the times. Just a personal preference.
That being said, i would love to hear more about your plans.
Hosts that I've been very happy with: Rackspace Cloud, WebFaction, and Linode. If you don't expect too much load or traffic at this point, the easiest/cheapest solution would be to go for WebFaction (or Rackspace Cloud if you need a VPS. They have a slightly cheaper entry point pricewise than Linode).
Let the geek worship begin
That's pretty much a direct quote from MIT neuroscientist Sebastian Seung's TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sebastian_seung.html

The idea that neural connections (synapses) grow stronger from learning is well supported...

"synapses grow stronger when we're awake as we learn and adapt to an ever-changing environment" (http://www.med.wisc.edu/news-events/news/sleep-tempers-growt...)

"Most contemporary neuro-scientists agree that learning takes place at the neural switch points – the synapses. Research has shown that experience can change synapses: they can become either stronger or weaker; and this change can persist for a lifetime. Changes in synaptic conduction are without doubt the basis for learning and long-term memory" (http://www.mentalspaceresearch.com/english-articles/expandin...).

"One area of change is the synapses, the connections between neurons, which are altered as the brain receives stimuli. “What happens when you’re awake is you produce an overall strengthening of synapses,” Dr. Tononi said. “That’s good, because that’s how you learn.”

But that is unsustainable in the long run, because stronger synapses require more energy and material, and there’s a limit to how much of both is available. “It’s as if in the morning you start with a V-6 engine,” he said, “and in the evening you find yourself idling, but you’re running a V-8.” Stronger synapses are also bigger, but the brain cannot grow bigger or denser. “If you strengthen synapses because you learn, soon you’d reach a point where you can’t learn further,” he added.

So Dr. Tononi and a colleague, Chiara Cirelli, have hypothesized that during sleep, the synapses weaken. The downscaling is across the board, so that the synapses’ relative strength is maintained. Those that have been used (those involved in learning) stay stronger than those that haven’t."

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/29obslee.html?_r=1)
You would think that (because that almost makes sense), but no... they mean don't deep link to pages.
I miss Steve Yegge's posts. They were thought provoking, they reminded me of what was cool in our field, what had to be improved...
They "lost" $10B as a result of their investment strategy when the global financial crisis hit. They are far from the only people to lose money then. In any case that value was unrealized assets, so it's not like they actually had $36B in cash - as I hope you realize if they ever had to liquidate their assets quickly they'd get less than that - especially given they it liquidating that much would probably move the market.

They didn't spend the money wastefully, which is what the NYT seems to have done.

Your trite comparison is so far from useful it's not even wrong.
The Wikipedia article says

> This is used to lower the pitch of the 1-3 and 1-2-3 valve combinations.

In other words, the tuning slides described in that section of the article are solving a different problem (which is described in a bit more detail in the previous section). As a1k0n said, a given valve combination is a harmonic series. If you play a major third on a trumpet without moving your hands, the distance between the notes will be 386 cents, not 400. Of course, a good player will do whatever they need to do to sound in tune with whoever they're playing with. My understanding is that the lips are the main thing used to get harmonics of a particular valve combination in tune with each other.
If you take out the (currently unused: it is updated but never referred to afterwards) the first-index-of-the-smallest-value-was-found-at variable the difference in FF is even larger.

These are the results on FF 3.6.16 on my desktop:

~33.5 ops/sec (million test, using Array.min.apply)
~57.0 o/s (with index var)
~86.5 o/s (without index var)

I'm a little surprised it makes that much difference (I assumed the two set operations, one of which I removed, would be less significant than that in the execution timings compared to the array object lookup in the comparison, given JS arrays aren't actually arrays strictly speaking). The difference may be less significant (zero, in fact) with a JS engine that does dead-code analysis that successfully works out that min_i is set in the loop but otherwise never used.
Discussion on the same link from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2376422
Or something more modern, like Plan 9. Let's not forget Unix is, however versatile, an old OS. I would prefer a very diverse ecosystem, with many competing OSs and architectures. Right now, it seems even more viable, with the popularity of web applications.

It's quite shameful we are still managing disks, files and programs...
I've run across a few news sites with T&Cs like this. In those cases the goal appears to be preventing news aggregators from "stealing" their content by... linking to it.
> For example, an obsessive-compulsive cleaning ritual may overemphasize the order, direction, and number of wipes used to clean the surface. The goal becomes less important than the actions used to achieve the goal, with the implication that magic rituals can persist without efficacy because the intent is lost within the act.

This made me think about the way we teach beginning programmers to comment code. In commercial practice writing comments is an economic activity. One spends time and money now, hoping to benefit a year in the future when one needs to modify the original code. Optimal commenting requires knowing your cost of capital. If you are funding your start up on your credit card at 2% per month you should write fewer comments than if you are polishing corporate code funded by a bond paying 2% per year.

There is a good reason that we overlook cost of capital when we are writing comments. A bad comment costs 5 minutes when you write it, and costs 5 more minutes a year later when you read it and find that the information that you cannot get from the code isn't in the comment either. A good comment saves you two hours on reconstructing reasoning that you have forgotten, but only cost five minutes to write because the key point was fresh in your mind from composing the code. The difference in profit between a good comment and a bad comment are so large that they overwhelm any reasonable cost of capital.

I have never seen a tutorial on writing comments that even mentions the cost of capital. So it seems to be traditional that the intent (to make money) is lost within the act.
That look... Cameron is the new Jimmy Wales.
Maybe so, but the port number is part of TCP, not IP.