skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed there must be some kind of special deal going on but the shape of it eluded me. This sounds reasonable. It also suggests the idea of bug/theft insurance for corporate hardware use - pay a little extra and maybe we'll alert you when your power meters develop a hunger for torrents.

Come to think of it, shouldn't Aurora have noticed a meter dropping off the grid and taken action to shut down that data account?
Bing bar seems to be looking at the search query and associating it with the clicked link of the user, not the rankings on Google. So it's not really making Google the default for search.
They had the best customer service of anybody I've ever used. I'm sad to see them go
I think you are being mislead. For Microsoft, especially in their current position, consolidating their "automatic" user adoption strategy is both vital for the company and essential for preventing more users to use concurrent services. This is definitely something they would pay for; which one sentences highlights: « Moreover, Ballmer explained that Microsoft will “invest uniquely in the BlackBerry platform.” ».
Clickable: http://www.kumbuya.com
Good idea. Landing page should be simpler. Way too much clutter.
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It's relatively feasible, as the current migration process basically consists of killing all services on your slicehost server, rsyncing everything to linode and running a sed script to change the IPs.

I have no idea why they don't do it, they'd have a billion more customers in a few days. I know I wanted to switch off Slicehost for years, their price is DOUBLE linode's and the performance is worse.
$10.80 (just correcting the math, I don't actually know about their fees)
Is it just me, or is this an example of terrible corporate communication. As a slicehost customer, I don't give a shit about what Mark thinks about IPv6 and OpenStack. All I care about is what is going to change. He makes statements like "as seamless as possible". That doesn't have any meaning.

If the major change is going to be a new control panel, and a different way of accessing support, then just say so.
Larry Page?
Imagine how great StackOverflow would be if all the experts critiquing it here had built it.
Dear luigionline: Facebook is the Internet.
The WordPress Ecosystem needs some Hipmunk'ing
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2067472/please-explain-js...
> When you're going after a zealous nutjob who welcomes death and seeks only to take as many others as possible with him, ...

What you say is 100% true, but if history is any guide, zealous nutjob LEADERS have their MINIONS take as many with THEM as they can. The leaders, oddly, need to stay and suffer on this mortal plane.
Bummer. I love the Slicehost interface... so simple! I hope they retain all the linux tutorials on Slicehost, that's what made me join anywhere. The content in those is pure gold.
What I hate most in such cases is that the telco will just sit silent until it presents you an insane bill at the end of the month. How hard is it to implement a system that would compare each customer's last day's spending with their own 75-percentile daily spending over last 30 days and alert them of extraordinary activity? That would prevent 70% of such problems. 99% if something similar was implemented for roaming charges.
I don't think this is a new problem - people were discussing this in the early days of c2.com when Agile was still called eXtreme Programming. Let's face it, puritanism is useless in a corporate environment where normal distribution of intelligence and inertia rules.
Microsoft is sinking? They've just announced a very good quarter.

This is more like consolidation than anything else.
A couple months ago someone posted a link on HN to a pretty cool looking tool that automatically would generate a Puppet script based on your server environment (packages installed, etc). I didn't save it, and I can't find it now from googling.

Now I've set up a Linode account and want to migrate my config from Slicehost, and it looks like this might be a useful opportunity to test out that tool. But for the life of me I can't remember it's name.

Does anyone have a link?
Rackspace Cloud instances are cheaper than Slicehost. Slicehost's 256MB ram / 10GB storage instance will cost you $20/mo. The same provisioned through the Rackspace Cloud control panel costs $0.015/hour or ~$12/mo.
Plenty of enterprise software products have "Download" pages, but they're usually for evaluation versions.

I tried clicking two different download links on the home page:

https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.j...

Both of which take you to this form:

https://img.skitch.com/20110503-e8a87jdr5ns9asabt1yyyn2jib.j...

which has no reference to the open source edition.

The next place I check is "Community" since that's often where "Community Editions" live. No reference on any of those pages to the development of the core product, only add-ons.

If I click yet a third download link, in the secondary navigation, I get a nearly-identical form:

https://img.skitch.com/20110503-j37g25rkatu2r626ykt2xp3jqp.j...

Which says I can only download "related Puppet components".

Which takes me to yet another form:

https://img.skitch.com/20110503-gxtt1bg614t23gqnqnhxhans3y.j...

With a no-registration-required link buried at the bottom.

Which takes me to the aforementioned "Download" page:

https://img.skitch.com/20110503-fnshtrwdmmd7xkfnm2gk1xsriy.j...

which has no reference to the fact that it's the open-source version I'm downloading. If I scroll ALL the way down to the bottom, I see a link to the source on Github.

There is only one mention of the word GPL on the main Puppet site, and that's in a blog post from a few days ago announcing the license switch.

I stand my my assertion that the OSS product is very well hidden.
AFAIK, BB users are pretty attached to their platform. The lack of innovation may have driven them to other products but I wouldn't bet this is going to last forever. Seen the new Bold Touch?
Try Wuala, all data is fully encrypted and acts as "dumb storage"
It depends on how you look at it - at one point Slicehost was forked to become Rackspace Servers.
> Also known as "Sony can't give a straight answer on whether their PSN and SOE networks are connected or not"

Are you sure it's not just "Sony can't give a straight answer"?

Take your pick from:

* SOE Scandal

* PSN Scandal

* OtherOS removal

* GeoHot Scandal

* The BMG Rootkit Scandal

* The Master Key Scandal

And many, many more. I don't think they've been straight with their customers or the general public even once unless they've been caught out.
By some estimates, nuclear would be among the safest energy sources (in deaths by TWh, one of the few honest ways of comparing the risks), even safer than wind and rooftop solar power.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...
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Cherry do these - I have a Touchboard MX 11900.
Mr. Gordon Freeman?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Freeman

First thing I thought. She was being questioned, had to make up a name on the spot and immediately came up with the main character in Half Life.
Was that area considered hostile territory? (I honestly don't know.) Maybe the Pakistanis said they couldn't help, so they blew it up to keep anything from getting into foreign hands?
I disagree.

ORM's aren't a problem at all as long as you have the ability to override problematic queries with named queries, etc.

ORM's can provide very real advantages when it comes to caching, development time, etc., as long as you review what the ORM is doing and notice when it's doing it wrong.

I've just spent 2 years architecting a high transaction global video game system using an ORM, and it worked well. In our case, the ORM provided acceptable SQL for about 85% of the queries, and we overrode the rest.

The ability to quickly and easily allow the developers to write their own SQL, to be reviewed later by a DBA, was a life saver. Combine that with our stress and load testing, it was easy to see where the hot spots were and deal with them effectively.

The problem comes from people who rely on the ORM to do everything for them without truly understanding how it works.

ORM's, like anything, are a tool, and there is a time and place for them.
Who's to say what humans do is significantly different from what Eureqa does? We constantly attack our models with new data, but effectively are using data to generate and test new models in the same way Eureqa is. It's certainly a simplified process of equation generation, and model comparison is a significantly open field of statistics, but the rudimentary procedure isn't especially strange.
Is there a HN section for "Rich Man Has Opinions"?
This may well be true, but I also don't generally store 100MB files in my (free ~3GB) Dropbox account. So, while it might not work for all needs, it seems to actually meet my Dropbox usage pretty well.
It doesn't work like that at all. MDMA gives you a sense of euphoria while slightly altering your perception (it's considered a slight psychedelic in that sense) - it also makes you very empathic to the people you are with. MDMA isn't like a love potion, usually, once you come down you go back to being "you". It doesn't make you addicted to the people you experienced it with at all. What it does do is open you all up, so at controlled doses that can be highly beneficial in a therapeutic setting because both people will feel love for each other and empathy. Which, at a controlled dose, they should also be able to coherently iron out their issues.

Once they come down, they go back to being who/what they were, but with a whole lot more "sharing" now - they both now know how each other feel because it was expressed out of love and empathy rather than witheld or stated in a defensive/offensive manner.

Psychedelics really shouldn't be toyed with unless you are psychologically stable - if you can imagine, being "normal", then psychedelics take you to the reciprocal of "normal". I've played with Magic Mushrooms and really hated the experience, I also did two nights of Ayahuasca - extremely powerful experience, beyond LSD for sure, but a very rough ride (Ayahuasca is a shamanic "purging" psychedelic, it causes you to vomit uncontrollably while having the hallucinogenic and psychedelic experience of LSD x 5 for about 8 to 10 hours straight).

I will say this: I believe all of the benefits people would seek in the use of mind-altering substances can, without question, be found through meditation - deliberate thinking - introspection - and just "chilling the fuck out".
A real bummer.

Have really enjoyed the uptime, stability, and performance Slicehost has given us over the last few years. I've got our web site configured to be brought up on AWS in a flash if needed--but we've never needed...uptime of 99.99% in the last year, 100% in the last 6 months. And crazy affordable. Their support/incidence response rocks, too.

Vaya con Dios, Slicehost, I loved you much.
I think you'd find a site like stackoverflow to be a more helpful place to ask a question like this. Certainly there are JS experts around here, but people tend to be in a different mode when browsing HN and are more up for discussing tech at a 10,000 foot perspective.

Here is a good summary from SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2067472/please-explain-js...

To quickly answer:

1) Yes - Its the browser security model enforcing this rule and not anything directly related to the DOM. In theory the rule is in place to make cross site scripting harder. It is bizarre that there is an easy work around like JSONP, but I'd say lets just be grateful that it exists.

2) Common. Its a hack, but its also useful enough that its widely used.

3) Yes - thats proxying your data. Very common.
Well I do think you're completely wrong anyway, but actually I hear plenty of people say they watch TV for the news and documentaries, and I hear plenty of anecdotes about guys going to strip clubs or hiring prostitutes because they're lonely.

People are different
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For what it's worth, the Mosso -> Cloud Sites transition was pretty seamless.
Not mine. Sorry, just closed my account and moved to the AWS free tier for the next year. I love the SliceHost model, but they just aren't playing the game anymore. Linode provides 512mb of RAM for the same price as the 256mb SliceHost offering. So why didn't I jump over to Linode? Honestly, because I'm lazy and I like learning new things.

Start to finish, I had my new EC2 Micro Instance up, running, with ZNC (w/ colloquy) installed in under a half hour. Not only was it freaking fast (~613mb RAM helps), but its free for a year. I took a snapshot of the install just in case, and now its golden. Firewalls, SSH keys, and package repos just worked.

shrugs Thankfully my only VPS is for play time, so I can move it around all I want, destroy, and rebuild it.
I played around with this about a year or so ago. It's a neat little program, but I'm not sure how practical it really is for fitting models in most cases. It could be useful for some very light exploratory work, but one would have to follow up with some more rigorous analysis.

That said, Andrew Gelman posted his thoughts on it awhile back.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009...
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009...
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> Since UBL was holding an AK and a human shield at the time,

Was it Osama using the woman? I read it was "one of the fighters", but not Osama himself.

(pause)

Most news outlets now are reporting that the woman may have been simply in the line of fire, and not being used as a shield for anyone. We may never know.
Cloud formations: Integrating Newscoop, Airtime and Soundcloud.
Clickable: http://www.flashcardsatwork.com/
This isn't quite a one click operation, but this may be of some use to you: http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/migration/migrate-...
It's quite possible she got some useless lawyer representing her through legal aide. So a) they may not be smart enough to think about questioning the absurdity of the $200k b) they may not even care.
My university does this, and sends me an email the second my bandwidth usage is showing 'unusual activity', usually triggered by skype (since it uploads a lot). So, not too hard.
I t seems to me that the author of this article hasn't thought through the issues, and has some serious misconceptions. For instance: "the range of skills required by mainstream actors" seems quite naive. What about Keanu Reeves, who always always always plays the same character? One could go on at length about such actors: Burt Reynolds, Don Knotts, Patrick Swayze...

The author does come to the correct conclusion: remove copyright protection for Hollywood for increased social good.

My own, totally unsupported by evidence thought is that the porn movie industry gets used for money laundering. It's possible for criminal organizations to funnel many small amounts (some from each "soldier" each day) through on-line porn sites and CCBILL card processing. The small amount per transaction doesn't raise any banking-law flags. In aggregate, there's a ton of money to take out, and it's at least nominally "clean" money, unlike the small amounts put in.
It sounds like you've had some bad experiences and I don't know which projects address those specific issues, but personally I've had good luck with Unison. Somebody else pointed me toward lsyncd which seems to take an interesting (inotify-based) approach which might meet your "in the background" requirement better, but I don't have any experience with it. I know there are lots of others, with varying levels of maturity and "intelligence" regarding things like conflicts and moves/renames, but it's such a crowded field that I don't claim to be an expert.

My attitude is generally is that if you start with something that can be used live then it's trivial to use it for syncing instead, whereas something that's originally designed for syncing might never go the other way. Right now I just rsync to the remote directory, then from it, whenever I feel like. I could automate the process, or replace rsync with something more sophisticated, but my focus is mostly on the remote-infrastructure side because that's where I see a dearth of suitable alternatives.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344080
This is my first iPhone app. It aims to speed up and make searching easier and faster using different search engines on the iPhone and iPod touch.

Looking for feedback! Thanks
It goes both ways - I've spied on government organizations using the Internet, more than once. Without threatening national security, of course.
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... Just wait until the Rackspace Cloud transfer--the prices are quadruple Linode's if you use your bandwidth.
Yes, I've since read other comments and have a better understanding of the reasoning behind .attr and .prop, so I'm a little less bah-humbug about having to refactor before upgrading. It appears that search/replace .attr('value') => .val(), .attr('checked') => .prop('checked') are the big offenders, but probably need to look closer at .attr('enabled') and .attr('disabled') as well.
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Forgive me, I did not clearly explain that. It does not trivialise the death of my child in any way. Having my first daughter dying was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. It slowly, but totally changed my life. Emotionally, I just hardened up. My outlook on life changed (realising the one chance to live, life is precious, enjoy every second, etc. etc.).

The other horrible event in my life was a series of severe panic/psychosis attacks. I stood next to my girlfriend, and truly did not know if I was me, if she was anybody, if I was an alien, or what. And then it was just a feeling of "absolute terror". You're utterly and completely terrified - no "reason", just a total sensation of dread. I would have cut my legs off if it would have stopped it. (BTW, this was all before I tried LSD.)

So, when I say "powerful", I mean, reflecting back on my life, looking at the events that stand out, that truly had an impact, that are "amazing" - what would those be? In no particular order:

- The birth of my children (the first time I almost fainted, not from the blood but just from sheer awesomeness of holding her in my arms).

- The loss of my first child (when the doctor shook his head, I just collapsed, not to mention the effects for years to come).

- Panic attacks

- Some of the times my wife and I have made love.

- LSD: Even just the experience, let alone the impact on my life.

In other words, it's a "lifetime experience".
There's a discussion going on at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300
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8+ points for a question that hasn't been answered. Odd.
Why is this even a surprise? Why is everyone saying it's an open vs close issue? The TOS clearly states that apps that utilize high bandwidth is a violation. Google hasn't enforced this strongly but it is against their TOS. It's the same as in Google banning porn-related material. This is not anything special.

Of course Gruber jumps on the course saying it's against their open nature, but please, at least most users (besides some AT&T handsets) can still go and just install the app from a website.
I put the question on Quora, since questions are what Quora's for, but I really hope folks here will share their thoughts (tptacek, et al). I'm hoping to these questions help gather up what is known about these services' tactics, techniques, and procedures, and how those compare with best practices.
The biggest issue with catastrophes like Fukushima aren't the deaths (which will be few), but the costs of the cleanup, which are enormous.

It's a valid concern, but we seem to fixate on the health dangers when coal kills many times more during normal operation and gets a free pass.
In my experience, it saves a lot of dev time, using my current ORM (Linq with Entity Framework 4.0) I can get probably-fast-enough CRUD against a new entity in just a few minutes without writing any SQL at all.

When it's not fast enough (high volume, specific complex queries, whatever) I can write specifically tuned SQL.

Performance tuning on anything that isn't an actual bottleneck is waste.
Checking the SQL that your ORM engine produce if you deploy your app in an environment where performance matters has always been a good practice. It's true now as it was 6-7 year ago when modern ORM solution like hibernate (or similar things on .Net) started to appear.
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But bandwidth is expensive. That 256 slice had 150GB of b/w included, which brings the Rackspace Cloud cost to $37.95. It really adds up quick if you were using any serious percentage of your bandwidth allotment.
For what it's worth, Bruce Schneier says use one: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/password_advic...
As the asker, I'm thrilled. I really hope the smart people here will share their thoughts. I would put a monetary bounty on the question if I could.
You pay for bandwidth separately. If you use all of your allotted 150GB in bandwidth from slicehost you are going to be out $37/month. If you use less than 51GB outgoing bw you are saving money.
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Is "Killer" the new "Rock Star"?

BTW, the original post title is simply: "Creating an Early Stage Pitch Deck"
Tried out the app as a beta tester. Looks really good.
>That's not how it works.

How do you know how it works? It's possible it doesn't, but release of vasopressin in the brain is responsible for bonding behavior i.e. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v365/n6446/abs/365545a0...

On the other hand, there's no evidence for all this "exploring feelings" stuff.
Good to see open source going mainstream but what comments "their ceo" is taking about? I only see single comment, unless I am looking at wrong thread[1]?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347076
I would use a stronger term than “jerk” to describe that kind of behavior; I had in mind the sort of assholish behavior that some men exhibit among other men (e.g., the condescension described a few comments upthread).

A man who treats women as if their main purpose in life is to be his potential girlfriends has a different problem, and I think most men who act like this are not so much socially awkward as socially mistrained.
It could be a ploy to get money from Microsoft to keep the company afloat while they try to dig themselves out of the hole they are in. At least, it buys them more time.
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Wrapping both caching logic and database access in an ORM like system is no doubt the right thing to do. Letting front end developers write queries to be converted by an orm and reviewed by a DBA later - in my opinion that's not the most efficient method of development. I probably would have invested in an extra DB person or two to help write the data access logic. But hey, I can't argue with results - if it worked for you that's great. But as a general statement I think that sort development methodology is highly conducive to errors and systematic problems that would not become evident until later, and at that point take a great deal of effort to fix.
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Is there a particular tutorial you recommend? It's been a while, but last time I tried EC2 I found it hard to get things going.
No, it's definitely not free: http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/myTouch-3G-Slide/T-Mobile-crac...
Here's the write up in Science Insider: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/geographer...