skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have with "$18/month more" is that when you are running and hosting 10 or 20 sites (like our company does) that adds up fast and cuts into the margin.

And I don't have ssh access.
And I can't install my own extensions.
And if I want to run cron jobs, it costs more.
And if I want to run MongoDB, it costs more.
And if I want to use Memcached, it costs more.

So while I get the convenience, "doing it myself" is super simple for PHP stacks, and the costs of using their basic non-elastic add up fast when you are hosting lots of sites, and it actually gives me less, not more.

When you say it isn't meant for people who want to do it themselves, I would agree on the elastic plans (running an auto-scaling setup correctly is not easy), but their basic plan really doesn't offer anything compelling for what I consider to be a relatively high price.

The whole scaling argument is great and if that's a real concern for your project, then services like Orchestra.io are awesome, but I think a lot of people over-provision and plan for scaling prematurely, and pay the price for it unnecessarily.

My sites don't have millions of users, but some of them have up to 10k registered active users and with some smart caching and setup, run just fine on the aforementioned 12$/month servers.

Anyways, I think I've made my point here. I wish these guys the best and I'm happy to see people offering these kinds of services in the (admittedly un-sexy but still very popular) PHP space, and I will definitely follow their progress on the scaling offerings.
Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story
What is the difference, if any, between alternate reality and augmented reality?
If your ad was rejected because the ad violated copyright, then that breaks the premise of your post. That doesn't mean your conclusions are automatically wrong, but it does mean they can't follow from your premise.
Show HN: Dropbox for Facebook Photos
http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/updates/feature-student-drew-gross-of-upphoto - reference
My family seems not only convinc{ed|ing} but consistent in their delusion.
This is specifically about Java web frameworks, it would be helpful to have mentioned that in the title.
Android tutorial: How to parse/read XML data into Android ListView
git-sh is a pretty cool script for this sort of thing (although not aimed at similarity to mercurial): https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh
So is every single one of the application supposed to open when you start up the demo? It seems pretty responsive once you get most of those closed. Can't really tell what you'd want something like this for though, besides it just being nifty
A majority of us here are wanna be short sleepers. And we make do with that
There are two challenges: getting it into a form factor where normal people would wear it (our initial dev units will not be too far off this mark) and getting the price down to something sane. The latter is the really hard part, if you care about quality; the 0.5" 800x600 OLED displays we're using are $800 for a single unit, and don't drop to $400/unit until you hit a volume of 1000+ units. Of course, they'll get cheaper over time, so I'm not terribly worried about it.
The Many Faces of an Entrepreneur - Pick Your Fun
I'm wary of any company whose official blog has such atrocious grammar.
Yeah, except the site is being crushed under high load.

I guess using a C64 as a web server was a bad idea.
Was the image your own, or did you copy it from somewhere? If you copied it from somewhere, what are the chances that it's a common enough image for FB to know you don't own the copyright?
This isn't about easy of acquisition; TFA has little to do with Apple in particular.

This is about the market having 'failed' with regard to proper pricing of certain goods.

Piracy is therefore an indicator of a failure in the market, not a legal problem or something that can be solved by superior content distribution.

(Although it can be solved by superior content pricing, which Apple may have done by allowing the purchase of songs piecemeal, which is actually a big deal considering how many albums only have 1 or 2 songs that are worth buying).
Good idea! I can visually collect samples of typical issues, then give quick overall solutions that support a broader theory, so that they have tips to use immediately, as well as the theory to apply to other issues that may arise.
As far as I can really tell, none. So I kind of use the terms interchangeably. Both are about layering virtual information over top of reality, as far as I know. I guess augmented is the superior term.
I've recently stumbled across http://www.founderly.com/ which seems like a great project.
We don't have virtual memory because the evil Intel monopoly forced it on us. In fact they were late to the game. We have it because it's a good idea. We don't have mediated access to hardware because the evil Intel monopoly forced it on us. We have it because it's a good idea.

Had Commodore stuck around and continued to evolve some things may very well have been different, especially in the UI arena, but I think you'd find that by now the Commodore brand would have had to do the equivalent of the System 9 -> OSX upgrade by now at least once no matter what.
Twitter Considering Facebook Style Brand pages
I have used total sleep deprivation to kick myself out of persistent low mood. So far it has worked every time.

Not a method to use too often, of course.
Given the advances in EEG and other brain scan techs, I believe direct neural interfaces aren't that far away anymore. One step at a time, we'll first have to get used to motion-based interfaces. Neural interfaces will probably be like moving a limb but not actually moving. With such interfaces, there is no reason anymore to restrict to planar screens. Everything can be 3D.

For buying stuff you're right -- just clicking and using an efficient search system is much more efficient. But the market for experiences is another thing.

Many people will disagree with you that we already have a "perfectly good reality". They might desire things they cannot have in life, for example, or want to do things that physics makes impossible in real life (teleportation?). Just imagine the possibilities. As soon as the tech is there, there will be a huge market for it.

And don't forget collaboration over a distance. "telepresence". It's not just for games and fun.
For me, If I get all the sleep I want, I'm lethargic and unenergetic, but if I get less sleep I'm tired all day (but strangely more energetic). It's like there's no happy medium. I wonder if anyone else has this problem, and if there's a solution.
Is channel api not close to Websocket?
When is Learnability More Important than Usability?
Does it work on larger keyboards? I would imagine that it works great in smartphone keyboards because the swipe distances are so short but on tablets the keyboards are nearly the size of a normal keyboard. I can touch type on those.
This is a talk given at google about sleep http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK1nMQq67VI
Android Users are Cheap
Very cool, looking forward to working through all the lessons later. I was doing too many things at once and let the notice about help scroll by.

It might be worth keeping on the screen at all times. ;-)
Sure. I think it's a potentially effective promotion for exactly the reason you describe. (free test, and if they're not actively dissatisfied, switching costs will likely cause them to stick with you.) That's an idea worth testing.

I just can't understand the parent post indicating that it's 'huge for rails consulting companies'. After all, rails consulting companies are sending out five digit monthly invoices. A $150 discount on the first month of hosting is a rounding error in that context.
Norway passes controversial new data storage law
The Remarkable Rise of Android - And Where it Goes From Here
a) it's still an awesome article
b) it's probably time to revisit that topic
Booting Bare Hardware
Writing an e-mail application with Lamson
Videoconferencing and telepresence is big business. I expect those applications will lead the way, with the technology being adapted for entertainment purposes soon after.
This'd normally be a "TL;DR" post, but there's not really all that much L nor much R posted over there...

A small thin client 4x4x1" box with an unspecified embedded browser and some sort of unspecified iPad-like tablet with unspecified features, and some sort of unspecified hosting platform, with unspecified hosted storage, all with prices and availability and ordering information all unspecified.

Interpolating on the very fuzzy price suggestions, somebody thinks they can build (and sell) a tablet (or a small box?) for about US$175, but what is now being shown looks more like an ALIX board in a 4x4x1" metal box, and that metal box doesn't look to be particularly friendly for folks to carry around.
Thanks. A much better choice of words.

Reading back over old comments like this reminds me why I don't comment.
Took too long to get free, cross-platform implementations out there - reducing it to yet another proprietary programming language and/or some pseudocode for learning from Meyer's book (which is good, if a bit opinionated).

Then SmallEiffel came out, and it actually got used for a few pet projects across the internet, but as far as I can see, it changed its name to "SmartEiffel" and died.

Also: Ada. (and, well, if that is stealing your thunder…)
23AndMe, I guess.
The primary function of sleep is to permanently store the things learned during the day (long-term potentiation). Although different people need different amounts of sleep, those who need less usually find that they sleep longer if they learn challenging new material (e.g. a new language). That is the reason why babies sleep the most. Their brains are empty sponges constantly absorbing new information.
Creating a Slideshow using CSS3 3D Transforms
The law essentially states that the Norwegian government can store the telephone, e-mail and Internet use for up to six months.

Can the Tor Project be a solution to this government surveillance? https://www.torproject.org/
No, they did not ask about my book.

They can take a look at the book offline. There's no need to spend time in the phone screen talking about it.

In any case, he was not applying for a book writing position.

I actually had three different phone interviews there. all failed because of my (obviously lacking) knowledge of implementing binary searches.

If a candidate cannot answer a basic CS question, then the process usually ends after the first phone screen. He probably got two more chances because he wrote the book.
A Mad Scientist's 50 Tools for Sustainable Communities
"I’m guessing he’ll bank $380M from this excessive batch of craze, assuming he converts to Scientology like Tom." Nice.
The most amazing thing about this for me was that YouTube reports that there were only 152 views when I watched it, and zero comments. And the link has 7 points on HN, Yet this link made it to the front page of HN (currently the 8th highest link).

I guess I thought it would have to be clicked on a few more times, to get up to number 8!

There must be some high-karma people who voted this up.

Anybody know what the HN algorithm is, to get this onto the front page?
1) not every addon at every place like this immediately costs more.

2) your setup is the more common one, using services like this are less common. i have my own cheap servers that host multiple pages, as well, and i'm not going to switch them over. but i also have some apps that i might, because they're a headache to manage. but i think we agree -- this isn't something you're interested in because its not really for people in your situation.
Quora isn't just for entrepreneurs... E.g. http://www.quora.com/Charlie-Sheen-Meltdown-February-March-2...
Energivity?
The US government is pushing for stronger data retention laws here as well: http://www.insideprivacy.com/united-states/department-of-jus...
> Out of every 100 people who believe they only need five or six hours of sleep a night, only about five people really do, Dr. Buysse says. The rest end up chronically sleep deprived, part of the one-third of U.S. adults who get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep per night, according to a report last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I think many normal people use their PC at home much, much longer for "casual use" than for work. So, I would reverse your assessment, the PC will keep its niche for the odd non-casual use at home but tablets will absolutely dominate when it comes to what people use home computers for the most, casual things.
Totally love all the white space... Things look so clean around here now!
Ah, I see! We knew that consulting shops would like this because it allows them to get an account set up without a credit card, and ask the client to complete the signup process, including handing over their credit card. :-)
How a data corruption problem made me more confident about Cassandra
> If it's right for artists to expect, even demand, payment for the value they provide, then piracy is wrong.

> If it's alright to extract value from people's work without compensating them as long as they aren't directly impacted, piracy is OK.

I think this is a good place from which to look at piracy, but you should also consider the Kafkas, van Goghs, and Dickinsons.
First, see bennesvig's reply.

Here's something that may be helpful... when you're thinking "I can't ship yet" then make a list of what's stopping you. You should do this for a number of reasons, of course. But once you have a list, you can visit each item and ask yourself if that's really stopping you from shipping or if you're just temporizing. Some items might be nice to have but not really required. Others might have solutions that you haven't thought of yet because you haven't been thinking about it at all before you put it on a list and had to face it squarely. To sum up, for each item: 1) Is it really stopping you? and 2) Is there something to be done about it today or this week?
Worth noting that nothing has been cut yet
Oh, I know how to solve the problem. I just think the tool could use work.
Why not allow users to choose, but default to public?

On an unrelated note, the box-shadow for the .wrapper div makes the page look unnaturally dull and gray. Allowing a little bit more of the background color through helps the shadow seem more realistic, and also brightens up the page some.

I liked it set to...

box-shadow: 0 0 100px 0px rgba(187,187,187,0.5);
It's open source: https://github.com/jorde/readable-hn

It's actually rather easy to create custom CSS styles using Chrome Extensions. This is my second.
Read those other two - they're as good, if not a little bit better. Nothing stunningly different.

As a long-time neuromancer and Gibson fan, I can say his writing has changed and approached the modern day just as it should. Neuromancer made sense at the time it was published - the net wasn't around, it was a far out concept - lots of room for imagination. If it were only released today, it would just seem like really bad sci-fi because the net exists, now, and it's not quite what Gibson wrote about.

I'd the pattern recognition/spook/zero set are not so much current day as very near-future. They're entirely plausible with current technology, with a few inventions along the way that don't currently exist, but probably could.
PLus they're a good read.
Thanks for the tip, we'll check it out :)
I don't think the algorithm currently gives extra weight to high-karma users (there are however penalties for voting rings, flags, etc.). To hit the frontpage, you just need a certain number of votes in a short time.

I also wouldn't count on the YouTube views instantly reflecting all activity.
Of course, not everyone seems to get pouding headaches from 3D movies, and not everyone finds the touch interfaces finicky to the point of being impossible to use. Extrapolating from your own experience to conclude they are a fad is a bit shortsighted.

From my experience with iPhone/iPad, the people who "think" that the touch interface required precise input are the ones that end up with lots of spurious inputs, because they use very light and "careful" touches that are misinterpreted instead of letting the input prediction do its work.

I do agree that there is a lot to be done regarding keyboard input, but even the keyboards seems to work OK for most people.
Book Review: Harmony for Computer Musicians
>If his attitude and behavior aren't suitable for a startup, then should we split immediately?

I'm not sure that his attitude is 'unsuitable' for a startup, but it certainly sounds like you have antithetical work philosophies, and that could become an even greater problem down the road. It's possible that he's trying to achieve what feels to him like a good work/life balance. It's also possible that he's decided that the project isn't going anywhere, but feels too committed to jump ship. Either way, it sounds like a heart-to-heart discussion is in order.
IPhone morphs into pinball machine
Jumping in to a Fountain for Your Startup
The alternative to one large basket run by people whose core competency is, most likely, managing this sort of thing specifically would be many, many smaller baskets run by people who may or may not have the slightest clue what they're doing.

Think of all the sites you've seen that store your passwords in plain text. Hell, PlentyOfFish sends (or did in the past) weekly emails with your password in them. Think of how horribly wrong these companies are getting really basic things. Now, do you want to trust them all to do everything properly, or do you want that responsibility delegated to someone who'll do it right?
It's hardly an inconsistent rule for them to say essentially "we know this isn't your image, use one you own".
I'm just like that. I can sleep for 10 hours but I wake up feeling rested but lethargic.
There seems to be a sweet spot where I'm rested enough (but not lethargic) and with a good energy level. The sweet spot seems to be between 7 and 7.5 hours.
Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it
YouTube's view count isn't real-time.
Sounds like you two have a significantly different approach to work styles. Your co-founder probably is suitable for a startup, just maybe not with you.
I have been using Stylebot but prefer CSS extensions as there's a small lag when applying styles with SB on load. I still use Stylebot for creating styles but I the results ends up in a custom extension (with !important).
Yup, I remember learning a bit about SDL ca. 2002/3 and they were already at version 1.x. I think it was 1.1 at the time, then moved to the all-new 1.2. Funnily enough, it seems to be usable enough that a myriad of projects are still using them (and to think I was betting my bottom dollar Allegro would become the library of choice to game devs!)
I think you've actually got no clue how complex and hard the average database/object driven application can become. Nor do you seem to have any idea what is actually entailed in a large CRUD application.

You claim that GMail isn't complex. Jeezus, a tiny % of programmers are capable of recreating that well. Or Microsoft Office! Go get the source code to OpenOffice and say that again. Think about the problem a bit harder and you'll realise it's a freaking compiler that's far more complex than most programming languages.

Far, far, far, far more complex than Dropbox.

I bet the hard bit of Dropox was the seamless UI integration with the OSes and not the routing of data. The data routing was probably solved in an afternoon. That was probably the fun bit.

You seem to have no clue about what is actually hard in programming. Hard problems, pffft.

It's as if I went to projecteuler.net and looked at some code and went 'oh, look, implementing algorithms is easy. Any A-level maths student could do that...'

Graphic designers generally aren't capable of programming or maintaining a large CRUD app, and when they try what usually happens is that some professional has to come and gradually rewrite the whole thing. Without breaking anything. That's hard.

If they are capable then they usually call themselves a programmer, and rightly so. And if they wanted to solve the 'hard' problems, they could. They'd just have to learn about a different area of computing. And I'm mightly jealous of them for having mastered two hard subjects instead of just one.

So next time you want to declare that 90% of programmers could be replaced by people with no programming skills, go look at some source code and then shut up.
How is pointing out that today's batteries are perfectly sufficient for the vast majority of commuters going to cause fossil fuels and the cars that drive them to become too costly?

You've gone from suggesting the batteries are insufficient to suggesting that correcting your misinformation and fear-mongering will itself raise the price of ICEs and their fuel.

You're burning down strawmen of your own imagining.
I think this is an incredibly innovative approach to web apps in Python, very fast dev turnaround and not a lot to grok.
What pieces of the whole are missing?

For one thing, I've seen many self taught enterprise software programmers get themselves into serious pain the first time they try to do concurrency.
Locks really shouldn't be happening with a datareader on a modern database with MVCC isolation (SQL2005+ and Oracle, etc.) unless you have specifically lowered isolation.
Federal Grand Jury Investigates Smartphone Privacy
Those are two genes that I'd love to have too, but in the reverse order.
Do you exercise most days?
Do you at least a similar wake up\sleep time for a month?
And another obvious about drink enough water\food?

All have a huge impact for me. I can go on much less sleep when I do hard exercise that day.
Yes, please do that! Reddit's turnaround from slow decline might have happened because they hired a full time community manager.
Show HN: The easy way to share photos with a group of family/friends
As a bit of a lesson from someone with HN experience to the new HNers downvoted below: your jokes are (a) bad, and (b) off-topic. Parent was off-topic as well, but he was funny.

Just providing feedback for the newer posters beyond a downvote.
SSL access on non-appspot.com domains, i.e. HTTPS on custom domains (on their roadmap, BTW)
The title is unintentionally misleading, the post is about him implementing the recommended items feature for Amazon's shopping cart - not recommendations on shopping carts as a whole.

The post is only marginal in terms of content, it's cool to hear an inside look but it doesn't reveal anything earth shattering - recommended items is a no brainer for an online retailer with enough sales data to implement it. And not implementing it is missing free money.
Writing an Interpreter with PyPy, Part 1
Is it possible to get the positions of all the vehicles in 1 shot? I would hate to hit the API for each vehicle, in every route.
Open Source Tools That Can Replace Popular Security Software
Simple Site Search with Google - Hacking HTML forms
I don't usually get motion-sickness but this was unwatchable. The verbal commentary was quite interesting though.
Yea, they really need to emphasize the community center / place of learning aspect. Dale Dougherty from MakeZine was discussing how we might start to including a workshop for making things in a library. If you guys haven't seen http://techshop.ws - I think it's a great model what libraries could incorporate into their services to maintain relevance.
I had a KayPro II, it was awesome! I remember playing Hunt the Wumpus, Adventure, and some run and jump game made out of ascii art.
Would you mind elaborating on this? That usually throws me into a very bad mood.
Auto Transport Jersey City, New Jersey
Oauth or Authsub for appengine operations.

For example I want to deploy an app on appengine for a user without asking him his userid and a password.

Use case: User comes to a site. Search for available applications to install. Click install; give permission, application installed to his appengine account.