skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This hit a nerve for me. I keep going back and looking at Engine Yard Hoping there will be something there for me but I just can't justify moving from Heroku for the ruby stuff. They have so many knobs to turn and a nice low entry point for very small apps that can be cranked up easily. It's this low barrier to entry that Engine Yard is missing and free for three weeks is not a substitute for this.

AppCloud seems to be (and I hate to use this word) "just" a thin wrapper around EC2. At least I get that impression looking at the price points - the smallest 32bit instance is just shy of 1k/year. Am I going to get more performance out of three Dynos at Heroku for about the same cost? Maybe maybe not. But where am I going to put my staging test/servers? On a 20/month VPS? On an instance @AppCloud that I spin up and down? No, I'll tell you where, I'm going to stick it on a Dyno or two at Heroku and not worry about it. And then when I need to scale or the product is ready for production where is it going to be hosted. That's right - the same place it's been validated and tested on.

By the way, Engine Yard is not the only place that has this barrier to entry problem. Most of the cloud providers do. Joyent.com, Media Temple, Rackspace cloud all have Barriers whether it's poor documentation, higher than normal base costs and bandwidth fees or just inconvenience like having to wait on a call from someone in Texas in order to be allowed to create instances.

If the other players want to compete with Heroku on the service and ease of use side or Amazon on flexibility and scale then they are going to have to do much, much, much better.
And yet, you could save things up to an external device, unlike iPad2 -_-
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Ok, page updated to address this concern: http://aspen.io/form-feed/

:^)
That's fear mongering. The presentation says nothing of the sort. It says that if the reactor 4 pool went dry, there would be fuel meltdown and release of fission products directly into the air. It then boldly says that it's unclear what the water level was.

Also note that what's dispersed is the fission products, i.e. noble gases, iodine, cesium, etc. The fuel itself will not leave in any significant quantity.
Fair enough. :) This fall I am going to be doing a project about integrating a neural interface (Emotive Epoc) with a wearable in hopes of a hands free interface that is easy to use. This is a technology I want to make the concentration of my research, there are a lot of techniques we need to find about how to present data to users effectively in a AR situation and how to choose what data to present from very large data sets (think Google goggles and map overlays as starting points) and I want to make that the focus of my graduate research. This is a bit of Sifi I want to help make real.
When he starts selling a list of locations where I take photos?
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I sometimes do it too. If I consistently sleep for about 4 hours max for 3 or 4 days, my mood will start improving. If I then take a mild stimulant like caffeine (or music with a high BPM) I reach a state that is close to euphoria, lasting several hours. My guess is that there is some genetics involved.It's never been hard for me to become manic for a short period of time.
Summary: when using OpenSSL with a lot of connections, use a shared SSL_CTX or you'll have a large per-connection overhead.
There was a PowerPC Amiga IIRC http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/ppchistory.html
http://www.houshasen-pref-ibaraki.jp/present/result01.html

This is a site with real-time radiation levels . The readings from this, and several other sites, have been verified as accurate.

I see a disaster, but not a coverup.

edit: http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kankyo/saigai/ is the radiation report from Yokohama.
It's much easier to remember and apply the corresponding finite state machine, where you just keep track of the remainder mod 7 that you've seen thus far. Example: 48193. What's the remainder mod 7?

48 mod 7 = 6 -- First two digits

61 mod 7 = 5 -- Remainder thus far, appending next digit

59 mod 7 = 3 -- Remainder thus far, appending next digit

33 mod 7 = 5 -- Remainder thus far, appending next digit

No more digits, so the answer is 5.

(Edit: I did figure that you were almost certainly being sarcastic. I just wanted to point out that in its corresponding FSM form, we've memorized the transitions as children.)
So from what he's posted it appears that Mr. Markham thinks that ignorance of copyright status of an image means that he can do what he wants with it; when it actually means the complete opposite. That casts sufficient doubt on the actual reasons behind what he's writing about that the posts loses any value, except to promote his website. The title of this post even reads like a linkbait ad you'd see on Facebook; quite a turn-off.
I see from a link via RiderOfGiraffes

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737491

that TinEye has been discussed here on HN plenty of times before. I have recently been using TinEye

http://www.tineye.com/

to trace the provenance of images I see on the Web. (I learned about TinEye, in fact, from an MIT alumnus who was wondering about whether a Facebook ad image was computer-generated or a photograph of an actual person. The image is a photograph of a famous model.) Whatever exactly it is that Facebook is doing to enforce its policies, it plainly has technical means for identifying images that duplicate other images, and then some set of policies for resolving doubts in doubtful cases into decisions about whether or not an advertiser can use a particular image. Just stay within the rules, and all should be okay.
While I'm relatively bullish on Apple as a company, I can't say that I'm bullish on Apple stock. It's the same old growth story where a company gets priced to perfection and no company is perfect in strategy or execution. Couple that with technical market factors like this and the inevitable "What goes up, must come down" seems likely.
Is there any HIV sequence data indexed by patient? I mean, sequences of strains extracted from the same patient at time points in time?

I would email you directly about this, but you don't have any contact information :(
That's not "free".

"we’re always looking for new ways to support you"

Really? REALLY?

How about a web form where you select a department, send in a support question, get a ticket number and eventually a response? FTFY. I didn't even go to Yale or pass your interview process and I could figure that out.

Call me bitter, but I'm an Android Market developer and what do I get???? How about pages and pages of desperate Android users and Developers asking questions into dead space:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/label?l...
Hey there! A couple of friends and I have started a blog Called The Startup Cafe. We're trying to make it a place where entrepreneurs can share their stories of success and or failure so that we all can learn a few lessons and hopefully not repeat past mistakes. Were only about 2 weeks old so Id love any feedback you can give. Thanks!

http://thestartupcafe.com
How about if you haven't done a startup, but are working on one more side projects with the potential to become actual startups. Something more than flipping Wordpress themes, more along the lines of the recently posted csspivot, gumroad, and others.
it's an optimization so that you don't die from the reflection cost.
I'd steer clear of Photoshop - it's a big investment, both in time and in money, for someone who occasionally does a little web design on the side.

Focus on typography, as joshuacc suggests: a simple page with good typography is fine for most purposes, and an extremely elaborate page with bad typography is almost always bad.
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I took it more to mean that you should be actually producing a product rather than talking about it.
> It just seems they've been working on 1.3 for soo long.

Sam Lantinga recently left blizzard and converted SDL into a commercial project. That shows his commitment to the library, so it's barely a duke nukem forever. Also SDL 1.3 is perfectly useable.
On the contrary, it's irrelevant if you're not writing a sorting algorithm or your main role doesn't consist of writing any algorithms. Most web developers I know simply call sort() in whatever language they're using instead of reinventing the wheel. Even my work in Objective-C where I handle retaining and releasing memory, I still call sort() (and compare()) without caring about algorithm efficiency.
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Don't forget to enable SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS with OpenSSL 1.0.0 too.
Ah, good point, Node already does this, but I'll append the post to mention it.
Oh I'll gladly trade color vision for this. Rainbows are overrated.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

It would appear that this article is exhaggerating more than a little.

The coverage of Fukushima by the mainstream press has only gone to show just how far they are willing to stretch the truth for a headline.

Had this article been written on the basis of actual data from IAEA readings, it probably would have been more moderate.
Those pictures show the outer roof blown off by the hydrogen explosions. If you'd watched that Stanford presentation, you'd know that it's just a superstructure that essentially provides weather shielding. The fuel pools are deep in concrete in the actual containment structure. Sure, it looks bad, but you really can't tell at all from those pictures what's going on below.

And where did you hear that "bodies from the tsunami are too radioactive to be recoverable"? That's such a fantastic claim that it definitely requires a citation. (Unless you refer to the plant workers that were killed. They may very well be contaminated, but that's inside the plant. We've known the radiation levels inside the plant have been high since it happened, no news there.)

I'm not a nuclear apologist by any means, but I don't like such obvious speculation however way it goes.
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I've done Starting Strength.

Starting Strength is raw lifts involving the entire muscle toolchain until you can't do anymore. It works your body in a total, basic way that most Americans haven't ever done.

So you'll be sleeping alot as your body gets used to it. You'll notice incredible increases in everyday strength--as if the entire world, including you, lost a significant fraction of its mass over the course of a few months--and the desire for sleep will subside.

Of course, I still have my original sleep problem...
Yes, if you make the vehicleLocations request without specifying a route (http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...) you get the locations of all the vehicles at once.
I don't know how to consume news about Fukushima anymore. 100 times the legal limit, 1000 times, a million times. What are we going to do? Evacuate the entire North? A billion times. Evacuate all of Tokyo? A trillion times. Evacuate all of Japan? That's obviously not going to happen.
Sometimes companies would rather miss a good person than accidentally hire a bad person. Google has no shortage of candidates, so they can turn down good hires and still fill their positions with other good hires. If they don't hire someone, it isn't always reflective of the candidate (although it can be).
OK, I buy that.
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Already Posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411265
That's very interesting and I hadn't thought of that, but it seems that you'd need to conduct a transaction with the newly-acquired coins in order to ensure that they aren't spent twice.
Suggestion: make the first video first instead of having people pay $1 to try your screencasts. Just throwing it out there.
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I'm going to have to try this after work today because I've been thinking about doing something with geoNoSql.
The concern is really that it's a poor character to choose IMO, not that there isn't enough documentation on it :)
This is just some unelected goon "inviting" Congress "to consider" stronger data retention laws. It's a long way from "inviting" to law.
Please. I knew it was there, but I couldn't see it because the server was getting crushed at the time.
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Did this high radiation persist in the time between the two cited measurements? That is very important information, especially considering how other anomalous measurements have been reported in the media.
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Thanks for the tip on the Fred Cohen paper. I have seen arguments to the effect that since a virus doens't run with an infinite memory, you can indeed determine whether a disk file represents a virus or not.

As Alfred North Whitehead once said: "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth."
Yes, that's much easier. My comment wasn't meant to be serious. Check out how long that regular expression is. (Though it can be simplified further.)

I actually generated the regular expression linked by compiling the finite state machine.
Yeah, but these questions are unanswerable:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?...

The way to get these questions answered is to ask your OEM or carrier. Verizon has a ticketing system, as does HTC.
"A few studies have suggested that some short sleepers may have hypomania, a mild form of mania with racing thoughts and few inhibitions. 'These people talk fast. They never stop. They're always on the up side of life,' says Dr. Buysse."

Reduction in sleep is a known symptom of abnormally elevated mood, whether hypomania (elevated mood without psychotic symptoms) or mania (elevated mood with psychotic symptoms). For most normal subjects, as has been demonstrated by studies of unusual sleep patterns in armed forces personnel, reduced hours of sleep or disrupted daily sleep cycles seriously degrade performance of many tasks involving judgment or multitasking--without the subject of the experiment being aware of the degraded performance.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sleep+mania

Note that controlled reduction of sleep has been shown experimentally to elevate the mood of depressed persons. In other words, if a person has had a prolonged period of depressed mood, and begins reducing hours of sleep (especially if a light box turns on to help the person wake up on time in the morning), that can bring the person closer to normal mood.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sleep+depression

Following up on the interesting comment posted first by mechanical_fish, there surely is a range of variation of "natural" human need for sleep, with most people concentrated in a band of needing approximately seven to eight hours of sleep a night, and some few needing significantly less, and some few needing significantly more. But social pressure and environmental conditions for sleep induction (electric lights in the evening) in current society probably result in most people getting less sleep than what they need to perform at their best when awake and to maintain good health.
You can find many large datasets here, http://beta.fcc.gov/data/download-fcc-datasets , some are over a gigabyte.
If you haven't seen it already, a quick Google hack for computing the radians to input into MongoDB:

http://www.google.com/search?q=50+km+%2F+radius+of+earth
http://www.google.com/search?q=50+miles+%2F+radius+of+earth
That's a reasonable convention. (Another less reasonable one, is to use the term `Frankenxpression'.)
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Indeed I do the same kind of distinction with the exact same naming convention.

Now this does not detract to the fact that this regex is quite elegant in its simplicity and we often assume our hardware+software stack to be actual Turing machines.

Call me paranoid but finding such a simple expression and seeing it validate a number being a prime in such record times should have raised some alarms. Indeed, removing the "optimization" makes computing times go through the roof.
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Great insight into the triumph and the small tragedies of using bleeding edge tech!
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For me, the iPad 2's Smart Cover's ability to prop it up makes all the difference. I end up using it for lots more "laptop replacement" tasks because it's so much easier to type on with the Cover folded back.
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You should focus strictly on theory and css. For example, you can give advice on how to align certain things on a web page in order to make it visually appealing. Then you show the css required to make it happen.
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Actually, in France many Internet-related companies don't even care about complying to this. That's why they're firstly sending their lawyers. BTW Google is not alone in this case, some major french companies are also suing the state.
In the meantime, if the police or justice come asking for information, many will slow down or block the process by invoking technical difficulties (it already happened with Hadopi).

Our current government (yep, I'm French) is driven by fear when it comes to the Internet, it's not the first they try to promote meaningless laws... So far, fortunately, they're not enforced as the authorities claim.
Paying $1 costs the same amount of time that paying $12. And it's too time-expensive for something that i don't know nothing about.
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This is, of course, a personal preference, but I would much rather have a column with a fixed width based on how many characters we can expect in that column. Lines stretching across the screen at 120+ characters can be unwieldy.

That's the reason i don't maximize windows. Sites like HN let lines of text go way too far for a window that's 1000+ px wide.
For me, yes. But I did not want to get involved in religious arguments.
When I use this in my .Xdefaults, my terminal emulator (urxvt) goes hot pink ( http://ompldr.org/vODRtMg/2011-04-05-165103_1024x600_scrot.p... ), any ideas?
It may be a no brainer now, but there were obviously people of a different mindset when he introduced the feature.
I'd choose my wife if I really had to. Fortunately I've been able to make it work pretty well. I spend almost all my non-startup time with her, which is why it works I think.
I think WG has always said that writing sci fi for him and many SF authors was always really about the present. And if you read Neuromancer again, it really does bear out.
Someone needs to make an iphone app called "Blue Box" that let's you make free phone calls and submit it to the store.

Then email Steve Jobs and ask him why they denied it when without the same concept, there would have been no Apple.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
There seems to be a trend of coding screencasts popping up online and I think its great. You learn coding best by doing and watching a screencast, actually seeing how the experts create and craft software is way more engaging and informative than reading it off a book. You can actually hear them talk about design choices and tradeoffs, see how they use IDE's/text editors and pick up a lot of best practices in general.

I think its a great alternative (as opposed to long/messy consulting gigs) for startups with solid technical talent to generate a stream of revenue and bootstrap to success.
> Their lawmakers seem to have a consistent blind spot for these kinds of issues.

Blind spot? It's not a spot when it takes up most of the FOV.

> (also France has this crazy three strikes out law for copyright violations)

And a copyright tax on all digital supports on top of that.

Good landline internet connections, but dammit when it comes to IT France is retarded.
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The ebook deals are about creating a new market (patient, price sensitive buyers)for existing products.

Your proposal is for entirely new products, and I think it's unlikely that the existing publishing companies will change enough to produce them. There is something to the idea, and would probably best be done by the communities surrounding open source products. Don't let this idea die.
Congratulations, I have not read text like that since my philosophy courses in college.
IAEA is the nuclear industry's main lobby agency. Is like asking OPEC what do they they think about the Gulf oil spill. So no, coming with data provided by them is no better than what you see in the newspapers.
I'm not sure what to think about Google's hiring practices. The ones I've met were normal guys, but everyone makes it seem like they are running some sort of Einstien era Institute fo Advanced Study over there. I've got to say, knowing basic algorithms isn't a high barrier to entry.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists' recent 3-week update is at http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear

You might consider getting news from other sources as well. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has dailyish updates at http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/tatsujiro-... ...
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They have. It's called Skype. (Or Google Voice; take your choice.) And fittingly, they even have icons which are (approximately) blue boxes.
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Agreed; after using their product for many months, I learned how it is little better than running your own instances. There are some cool things it does, but you end up doing plenty of sysadmin work yourself, writing Chef recipes for anything not supported by their (aging) platform, and then you lose the benefit of support as well. Did I mention that support costs start at $275 (12/5) or $475 (24/7) a month?[1] Without it, you can't open a ticket.

It's also increasingly annoying to see shots taken at Heroku in their blog posts and on Twitter. It's unprofessional. Compete on features and services, please.

[1]: http://www.engineyard.com/products/appcloud/support
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haha, nice idea though
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maybe I'm not getting something, but.. isn't it obvious that you can trade versatility and ease of use for speed?
Colornazi in me has to point out that white isn't really a color, otherwise I agree.
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Interesting point, I don't think anyone's actually tested it in court. For Facebook photo sharing where they're merely a hosting site FB probably has the DMCA protection, but for their Ad Network it's potentially more ambiguous.
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