skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got production apps running on the base cloud servers at Rackspace (12$/month) and they run just fine with non-trivial traffic and users. Far from what I would call a pet project.

But to each his own. Again, my whole argument is not about elastic or scaling apps (where I totally get the value), it's about their non-elastic intro package and the value you would get from it (no scaling and limitations on what you can do compared to your own vanilla dedicated box) versus a dedicated cloud server that costs 1/3 of the price.

If they want to bring in customers initially onto their platform (which makes it way easier to upsell to the elastic service when the time comes), they might need to adjust their base pricing a bit to be competitive with similar (non-scaling) offerings.

I say this because unlike other application stacks like Rails, setting up a proper basic hosting stack in PHP is dead simple for a lot of people, so the bar is a lot lower than rolling you own for those other stacks.
A classic case of Innovator's Dilemma (Clayton M. Christensen) where ARM's low power chips are slowly attacking x86 from below. Intel/AMD tried to move upstream (Itanium) but found there were less customers who were looking for high power silicon, instead the rest of the industry is pivoting towards power per watt. Huge disruptions for the incumbents.
I'm curious as to the benefits of having an actual presence in France.

i highly doubt Google will comply. The only possible out come i see is Google setting up shop outside France's jurisdiction.
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I've used Queensboro.com. Tons of options, and solid pricing. Would definitely use them again.
Aren't there chrome plugins that remove facebook ads? I'm not sure if it's done through CSS or some other way, but it seems like something you're describing.
When clicking the edit-button on a task, and then moves it to another category (like completed), it vanishes until a page refresh.
That's exactly Gibsons take on it which is why he wrote a book like Pattern Recognition which interestingly enough is much less dystopian than his first three books.

These days cyberpunk seems to be more about transhumanism and posthumanism ala Charles Stross books "Accellerando" & "Singularity Sky".
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It most certainly is NOT fud. There are real consequences to your suggestion in the form of higher prices for both fuel and hardware. Right now we commute because it makes economic sense to commute, but if the fossil fuel cars and their fuel suddenly make that commute too costly it will negatively impact those who commite, their employers, and probably the communities in which these companies operate.

This all happens because there are a few folks who naively believe that batteries are a clean way to store energy.
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Having done consulting for the best part of 10 years, we've taken that kind of route many times. It got to be a bit repetitive after a while, tbh.

I think if pushed on it, most developers would prefer to spend their time writing code than setting up and configuring servers. Which is why we created Orchestra.

Each to their own though :)
Now the question isn't: which OS is installed on as many handsets as possible, but which OS/phone has the highest probability to be owned by a fashionista (hint: iPhone) ? Same question about gaming: on which platform do you find the most "hardcore" (i.e. willing to pay a significant amount) gamers (hint: iPhone) ? And for a productivity app ? (hint: blackberry - at least for now). Last question: where do you find most influencers (word of mouth is important for social apps I'm told): iPhone or Android ?

The problem with this article is that it's countering Fred's post (which used statistics) with assumptions and guesses. Sure, there's a chart at the end with some data about income reported by owners of different phones. However, the meat of the author's argument is based on assumptions (presented as smug "hints") about which platform has more fashionistas, hardcore gamers, and people willing to pay for a productivity app. Someone else could just as easily write an article smugly hinting that the Android platform has more x, y, and z, and both articles would still be based on assumptions.
There has been a link to depression and too much sleep so much so that sleep deprivation is used as a treatment for depression where other treatments fail. It actually puts the patient into a manic episode.

It was peculiar to note that people who are short-sleepers also share a slight manic trait in their personality. While the article makes short-sleep cycles out to look like all sunshine and roses it is not all it is cracked up to be. I get between 2 and 4 hours sleep a night and on a good night I get 6. I have to monitor the sleep I am getting because if I allow myself to fall into a cycle of 2 hours for an extended time I start to have problems with my heart and abnormal rhythms. If the > 4 hours cycle goes on for more than a week I have to start taking medicine to sleep to ensure that my body is receiving an adequate amount of sleep. I see no negative effects if I get 4-6 a night, but it is probably safe to assume that short-sleep cycles rides the line between good and bad health. I never considered myself a short sleeper I just figured I have insomnia but never worried too much about it because I feel no different if I get 4 or 8 hours of sleep a night (if I can get 8) and the fact that my father and grandfather shares the trait and are healthy (grandfather is almost 90) . On the plus side, I experience more life and get more done which are really the only benefits to sleeping less.
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Ask HN: what is the problem with Eiffel (the programming language)?
I just saw an ad in Gmail for the Eiffel programming language. It feels kind of weird that a programming language would need to advertise.

Has anybody ever used it? What are the reasons for its lack of success?
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I think the competition between proprietary and OSS is more productive, as Windows/Mac and Linux complement each-other better than two Linux distros would for example.
Furthermore, there are interesting features/research opportunities that simply aren't interesting for either single party.

In my experience the kernel is not such a big issue when it comes to cross-platform software. In fact, having a cross-platform core is doable right now with reasonable effort.
The problems are ironically related to the different desktop managers, package managers and so on. :)
This piece reads awfully. I haven't seen anything like this since trying to understand inscrutable postmodernist literary criticism at college.

I am very interested in this, but I'm having a lot of trouble understanding it. What's he trying to say?

Todays market of representations means that we exchange images that are valued by statements without consequence, statements whose only value is the one of attention, something we have learned from the advertising process, which has become the key process of culture. This cultural praxis fails to find a history of the human faces. The faces tried to break the boundaries of word and image, they were processes of conscious creation of speaking images for the feelings that words fail to describe.
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true, getting something nontrivial set up isn't tough, and thats why (i think) the pricing isn't as steep as something like engine yard. this isn't meant for the people who're more than willing to do it themselves.

but don't you think that paying the extra $18/mo might be worth paying if it means that your server "just works" and you don't have to deal with it? even a LAMP-ish stack has its headaches during setup and (especially) high growth.
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> OSS can win simply by becomming a viable, usable alternative in a healthy, diverse market.

Then it has won, no? :-)
This is likely due to different meditation techniques, mine is particular in that it is essentially lucid dreaming. When I actively practiced it took me 30 seconds to go into REM stage and stay in there for as much time as I felt like it.

The end effect is that I smashed a sleep cycle into a meditating session and essentially got polyphasic sleep.
omg i might actually have creamed myself, you mean i don't have to browse around the crappy, absolutely not-designed-for-small-screens website anymore?
Mostly just falling out of the habit. Getting a girlfriend meant that I could no longer meditate every night (it feels weird with people watching) and as holes appeared in my schedule they eventually grew until I stopped completely.
So after years of buying the cheapest computers (cell phones and tablets), people will want to pay more for a name brand processor?
You have to ask what Microsoft's original intent was in lobbying for this legislation in the first place.

I can guarantee that Microsoft isn't going to pursue this sort of legal action against companies that are building products on Windows & Windows Phone 7.

It is yet another attempt on their part to impose a tax on companies that aren't building on their platforms & the prime target is clearly companies building on open source platforms specifically Linux & Android.
Speaking as someone who was self-taught, spent four years getting a formal CS education, and then has 16 years post-college professional experience, I don't think you probably missed much. I think the only really practical thing I learned in school was big-O notation, and you can probably pick up the essentials of that in about one day of moderate studying. I can't recall ever learning a data structure more complicated than an AVL tree in school, and I think that was in an extra directed-study class. (If you've not heard of an AVL tree, that's not because they're terribly tricky -- it's because they're now nearly obsolete.)

Mind you, a lot of the stuff I learned studying CS at college was interesting. It just hasn't been particularly relevant to my career. My math classes (I had a double major in CS and math) have actually been much more professionally useful.
I love that about the tutorial. One of the few tutorials where I actually have to think.
I've had a similar experience, since I hit my teenage years I rarely sleep more than just a few hours a night. At that time I would typically sleep 3-4 hours a night, and then really crash on the weekends. But as I got older I needed less and less weekend sleep. Whenever I try to go to bed earlier or sleep in to get close to 8 hours (even for extended periods of time) I find that I'm just as tired, if not more so than if I had gotten less sleep.

The only thing that I've found does make a difference is a short nap in the middle of the day, I find 1/2 hour in the day can easily make up for several hours at night. But that's where the cultural problem is, I've had office jobs where I could get away with taking a nap, but it would still be frowned upon, which is always a bit sad since it make it clear that many offices cultures would prefer the illusion of busy-ness over actual increased production.
Is this... a joke?
we sell dreams - will there also be some cloudy nightmares?
I'm surprised by this reaction. It's less than three weeks of hosting. I can't imagine being meaningfully swayed by that.
Would you be willing to open source this?

It'd be cool to play around with styles myself, or modify for other websites.
This comment blows my mind much more than the article itself.
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And the Beagleboard came in mind (http://beagleboard.org/).
Maybe a wiki would be more appropriate. Then we could contribute things like:

Count the number of times a given line occurs with
$ sort | uniq -c | sort -n

$ awk '{x[$0]++}END{for(y in x) print y, x[y]}'
(helpful on billion-line files, so that you dont have to sort)
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Yes, it would just be nice for it to be a little more upfront/explicit that it wants a new query, instead of using the same wording from before, but with subtle number changes that my mind glosses over...
I would definitely be interested in this. Focusing on the theory would be best, since we can probably figure out the tools with practice.

David Kadavy is also writing a "Design for Hackers" book, so there is definitely an interest. http://bit.ly/hazXRX
AFAIK it is the plain text passwords. I'm really not sure how they imagine it's possible. This feels pretty strange actually: while I don't dispute the fact that the french legislature has little to no understanding of the technical issues, they are supposed to have an array of technical advisors, not to mention the lobbyists of the companies suing today.
Interestingly, Gibson's latest book - Pattern Recognition - is set in the present. It's very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-William-Gibson/dp/...

It's not the same dystopian future he envisioned in the 1990s. But his keen eye draws out the darker sides.
Facebook's ad filtering is actually kinda retarded, and you're right: they definitely accept/reject based on advertiser size. I tried running a little ad using a picture of a pair of feet on a scale and it got the "doesn't meet the standards" message. However I see pictures like that all the time, with quite frankly little discernable difference except the name of the company running the ad. I'll have to try it and see if it gets through with a Facebook landing page.
So this is the sort of thing that you could do with say Cloud 9?
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The follow to followers ratio was something we definitely considered and will hopefully be able to put into a future version! We think it's a cool stat, but we didn't want to clutter the page with numbers and make it overbearing.
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Yes, the only thing truly missing is the idea of a direct neural interface and some kind of virtual world... but in reality that virtual world will likely never exist outside games.

Why, you ask? Because the main conceit of the cyberpunk virtual world is that it's entirely like reality with the exception that it's more fantastic. But an amazon/itunes search with a quick click to buy is infinitely faster and more convenient than jumping in to a virtual world and 'physically' trying to find something.

Alternate reality is the new future, not virtual reality. We already have a perfectly good reality, so we'll just spice it up.
I still think this suffers from the same issue on the Stylish option, when you are way down on the comments you have a hard time knowing if the comment is an answer to the OP or to another comment, the increased indent helped but a left align or vertical line all the way from the OP post would help a ton.
eeeeew. Looks like MySpaceOS.
We considered giving more time on smaller instances, but in the end we felt our customers are more concerned with getting production sites up and running. So we're giving 500 hours of time on instances highly suited for public facing sites with sizable traffic.
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fees might be something to consider too:
http://feefighters.com/paypal-calculator
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Computer science and programming are such vast fields I think everyone must be oblivious to things that others find crucial.
It may be that the subject peaks the interest of those of us that experience a shorter sleep cycle and therefore it draws more comments from that minority. I have what I call insomnia but what I experience parallels the article. I don't know that I am a short-sleeper but I sleep 2-4 a night and if I get 4 I seem to be fine. It is hard for me to sleep. That being said, I suck at multitasking so if and article comes up about multitasking it does not raise my interest.
He's written two books since then, Spook Country and Zero History which are also set in the present. I haven't read them but supposedly they constitute a sort of informal trilogy.

I agree that Pattern Recognition is very good. Although I will always have a soft spot for Neuromancer and his related books and stories.
Just out of curiosity, why do you have your genetic makeup readily available for cross checking?
I would suggest using a rule/guideline based approach that will allow developers to rack up some quick wins with comparatively little effort.

1. Show a horribly crowded page of text.

2. Give them the rule: "For most text use a line-height of about 1.5 to increase readability."

3. Show how much the page is improved.

In order to demonstrate all of the rules at work, you might want use one example page and show the process of applying one rule after another, till the end product is quite presentable.
And yet you can't wait to tell people in two years that you were one of the first 140,000 eyeballs to TSF. It's the same idea is it not?
Spot on.

Also, browsing pages on Tor and similar networks reminds me a lot of exploring the internet in the early '90s. It's messy, there are lots of abandoned, hastily put together pages. There are weird rants.

The internet that the author misses is still out there. It's just not as close to the surface as it was in the early days of the internet or BBS.
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How do I proceed after "Go ahead and look at the collection"? In FF 3.6 it stops delivering messages after that one, and I don't see any way to advance.

In IE8 it gets a JavaScript error a few lines earlier, and stops advancing.

Am I missing something obvious in the ui?
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There's no colour vision. They just make it up as they go along. It's just a huge conspiracy / April fools' joke.
but you couldn't have picked a worse name for it imho..
I do wonder how long it will be until an actual iPad/iPod/iPhone computing dock surfaces.

That is, one dock connection that supplies power, feeds an HDMI display and connects a keyboard, transforming the ipad screen into a sort of oversized trackpad. optionally with some context sensitive controls.

With that, when people want a more traditional computing experience, they just carry their device over to the desk, dock and get on with it.

The only real missing part is OS-wide awareness of such a dock, so that the UI can shift to being more keyboard-friendly [1]. I believe even the existing dock API could effect this on a smaller scale [2] if Apple greenlit a third party to build one.

[1] Using a bluetooth keyboard with the iPad is pretty weak, due to the lack of consistent navigation support. e.g. alt-tab/cmd-tab sorts of behaviors, arrowing through pick-lists, universal tab/shift-tab support, etc.

[2] Each app would have to look for said dock (and not just on startup) and the OS still wouldn't be integrated, which would limit things a bit.
Absolutely, if I can go "lights out" for 30 minutes during the day (between 1:00pm and 2:00pm works best for me) I can eliminate the need for the "catch-up" sleep.
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It'd be ill to do some visualizations on this data. Too bad it doesn't sound too conclusive. Maybe it doesn't need to be? Just educating people on...y'know, "what maybe could have been going on" during the flash crash. Haha
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Ask HN: What happened to Wikinomics
When I read Wikinomics things really clicked. We were entering a new world where more data is shared and more people collaborate.

But that's not how things appear to have happened with the many closed platforms and publications: Facebook, NYTimes, Itunes and the closing of data.gov etc.

What happened?
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I logged into the comments to say the same. I'm absolutely loving the game like tutorial. "Just type stuff till it works" it's fun, you can't really mess stuff up.

My feature requests would include:
a) a hint system. if I don't get it three times I'd like to be able to give up. I know it's open for abuse, but I'm a grown man and understand that I'm only cheating myself. end of the day I still want to learn it.

b) a link from each concept to the reference documentation of the function I've just used.
So when I've finally used [* $near spoilers redacted*] let me see the actual documentation for $near if that's possible I guess. I'm not sure how complete the Mongo docs are. My reasoning being that I'd like to see the rest of the ways I can use the command.

Short answer: I love the tutorial & thank you.
I kind of disagree. I remember things much better when I screw up doing them. The fact that it isn't immediately evident what exactly is wrong with my query means I have to go back and read, and figure it out. Much like debugging. I know your trouble isn't with the concepts, but I honestly think that the extra step of saying, 'why isn't this working' will make the concepts stick around much longer than they would otherwise.
No, we don't expect many will make a decision based upon 500 free hours, but we do expect many will give us a try, and make their decision based upon the experience they have during their 500 hour trial. :-)
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Probably less. Since most people have a day job, and work something like 8 hours a day, no matter what.

Staying up longer just increases the time you spent spending money and consuming stuff. Sleep is a cheap entertainment.
> The keyboard is one of those things that people don't want to give up.

Product idea #1 of the day: a clicky, compact Model-M-style keyboard for iPad. Extra plus points if it comes in Selectric colors.
I was somewhat annoyed that when I typed:

db.treasures.find()

then hit up arrow I got:

db.find()

The tutorial would have gone a lot faster if uparrow stored the correct string. Though then again, maybe there's something I don't know about the db.find option. Maybe it is doing it right and I'm wrong.
I'm not sure why I still feel so strongly negative towards Commodore for destroying the Amiga brand.... but I do. Even after all these years.
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Using a character that one needs a tutorial on how to type AND isn't copyandpastable easily seems annoying...
so will you be happy if I overwrite the original file with zeroes 7 times?
I've convinced myself that augmented reality displays are right around the corner. Don't we have the technology to to do this now? I suppose the challenge might be to make everything light and compact enough.

The future is so close I can smell it.
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