skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Down voted :) I think this is my first comment. Anyway, yes, I'm the CTO for a small startup and we regularly spin up 500 node clusters on AWS for data processing. Yes that's a quarter of what Facebook is claiming, and yeah I see that their nodes have 32 gigs of RAM and we typically use either the 8 or 16 gig instance types, which are smaller, but machines of the type described in that article are available, and we're 8 person company with 3 developers, which means it's not unlikely that my claim is wrong (i.e. a larger company could easily exceed the capacity we need). Amazon allows this type of thing with ElasticMapReduce. It's normal. Do I need to supply proof? Naw, this is a bulletin board.
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Groupon Cancels IPO Roadshow, SEC Wants Answers On Leaked Memo
I've used them for years. Never an issue.
It's one of their ebook formats, though not the one most publishers use. Seems to be mainly used by a few academic publishers (like HBR) that uploaded their whole back catalog as PDF.
I think moot is trolling the 4Chan community. They hate sites like this and with it being as bubbly looking as it is I'd imagine they must be in shock. There's nothing actually wrong with the site, but it's not a very novel idea so I wonder why he spent time on it. Maybe the KnowYourMeme's of the world are eating away at 4Chan's "market" so he's trying to get more pieces of the pie. The images people are uploading are basically bottom of the barrel. I'd expect to see this stuff emailed to me by my aunt in Wisconsin.

Maybe it's an experiment with identity. 4Chan is anonymous yet this site requires Facebook Connect. (Though it seems that FB won't be required after the beta.)
Still my favorite site for conference information. Feels like it will only get better with time.
A legal opinion on The Patent Pledge
If the music industry shut down tomorrow you'd have a lot less quality music to listen to. Artists who rely on selling music, licensing it, playing live shows, etc. would have to get day jobs to support themselves, hence have less time to make good music.

Why would you download a song from bittorrent if you have no interest in buying it? Are you just interested in collecting music you don't like?

I don't see much difference between stealing physical goods and intellectual properties. I wonder why you, a music producer, would take the time to defend people who steal music?
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Sounds like a great idea, but why limit to twitter- and you will probably run into some cases where usernames are already taken. Why not just create a site to report nuts drivers by license number. Then parents, etc. could look on it for their license number to see what their kids are up to. This would be a lot easier than the solutions that involve additions to cars to track their children. Then hook it up to twitter, facebook, etc. Of course, there are probably already sites that do this, but maybe you could do it better.
More hooray! (I'm an investor etc)
You’re right; I didn’t realize I could edit the title after I posted it.
When policies are themselves complex, and when they can be generalized across domains, it sometimes makes sense to factor them out into libraries. And sometimes, the cleanest interface you can come up with to a library is a class hierarchy.

But oftentimes, this approach of creating a policy class hierarchy as soon as you have more than one choice turns out to amount to nothing more than nominalizing the "if" statement.

Remember also that the rules of the game in Ruby are very different from C++. Things that make plenty of sense in C++ make zero sense in Ruby, where functions are effectively first class variables.
In terms of? I've known Simon since before he built it.
Can someone with more business know-how tell me how a company like Condé Nast benefits from making Reddit an incorporated subsidiary? It doesn't sound like all that much is changing, honestly.
Check out data.gov.uk. They have APIs for lots of data for almost everything including legislation, schools and roads.

http://data.gov.uk/linked-data

Here is a road:

http://transport.data.gov.uk/doc/road/A454

Jenni Tennison writes on her blog about the use of RDFa, Microdata, URLs, versioning of URLs and other interesting topics:

http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/140
http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/141
That logo looks like the love child between Apple and LG. In fact it reminds me more of LG than Apple.
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The dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading
There is already a startup that does this: http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/15/demo-bump-social-network-c...
API Marketplace Mashape Raises $1.5M Seed Round
I'd like to see mass exodus of writers and creating their own brand new site. Sounds familiar.
It's called "selling out" for a reason. If Michael Arrington is genuinely surprised that an acquirer is not holding to the sweet, sweet promises it made him at acquisition time, then he has no business being a tech journalist.

The correct time for this kind of acute episode of journalistic integrity was before cashing the AOL check, not after. He was under no pressure to relinquish his independence.

More likely he sees an opportunity to head for the exit with at least one suitcase still full of money.
Don't forget to check out their kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/6dot/6dot-braille-labele...
You are crazy. Why didn't you do this through a bloody website? I'd be happier to get a G+ invite through my PC, easy and fast, rather than grabbing the phone, praying for the battery to be still alive, turn on WiFi/data connection, fire up Market, search for an app, download it, and THEN get my bloody invitation... yeah, I'd stay with the PC way.

(originally as a comment under this blog post)
We are confusing causes with symptoms. Anorexia may well be caused by deeper problems with the person's life, the ones you list in the quote, general sources of depression. However "anorexia" refers to a form of depression that manifests itself in issues with eating and weight. It is not the depression that kills patients, it's the undereating and the vomiting. Therefore it is entirely appropriate to discuss, deal with and treat the eating/food/weight aspects of anorexia patients' lives. When looking to actually cure the patient, therapists will indeed look to deeper issues in the person's psychology/environment. These will likely be specific to the patient, and so it is not really productive to discuss them in general terms accross populations. That can be dangerous, this kind of thinking is what lead to the concept of the "schitzogenic mother."

Also, this quote shows a big misunderstanding:

"Things that no amount of dieting or weight loss can cure."

Nobody claims that weight loss can cure anoreixa. Anorexia is basically the irrational desire for weight loss. Being cured of anorexia essentially involves stopping ones extreme irrational weight loss behaviour, and it is self evident that no amount of weight loss can cure this.
I wonder how much of this whole brouhaha was staged.
From the other posted article it looks like it will make it easier for them to start selling it off...

"The move comes after Conde talked to several investors about selling off a chunk of the company as part of the spinout;"
I don't quite understand the fallacy. If there is a spike in broken windows -- more than the cleanup crew can handle -- new people need to be hired. How is this not creating new jobs?
This makes me suspect that Arrington is one of those people who every now and then digs in his heels and has a complete inability to see things from his opponent's point of view. For example, here he does not even bother to address what seems to me to be the central issue (journalistic conflict of interest).
This is great, now I can machine-learn years of text messages and create something that replies to future text for me...
I understand your concern, but I'd rather focus on the positive. With text to speech technology the driver doesn't need to take his/her eyes off the road.

So what _safety_ features would be possible with this?
StatSheet Launches Automated Major League Baseball Coverage
If you're expecting something orderly and predictable, you're probably not the intended audience. moot specializes in millisecond attention spans, formalized chaos is probably what he wants.
Should we be looking at something like google adwords?

You'd be competing against savvier people with hundreds of millions of dollars to spend and a much better monetization strategy. This does not historically suggest winning auctions.

I wouldn't describe yourself as fixing a problem experienced in daily deals websites, since neither typical merchants nor typical customers have a problem with daily deals websites. Merchants have a problem called "not enough customers", and customers have a problem "not enough money to buy what they want to buy" or "too much money, not enough amusing things to spend it on."

Talk about how you address those problems. Ideally, right to the customer. Find a message which resonates, then put that on the website.

Anecdotally, your problems are probably going to be a chicken & egg scenario with no good deal inventory to start with, so if you had to overwork one side or the other, I'd give excessive effort to getting the merchants on board in your target city. (Almost every local site starts somewhere. This is probably a good idea. Steal it.)
I could see MG Siegler joining Thisismynext/The Verge.
Sounds like they may be making it more attractive as an aquisition target.
Thanks! I like the auto-generated placeholder user icon sweaters on the users page. That's a nice touch.
It's a "where do you draw the line" thing -- Apple has to demonstrate that, in their opinion, things are getting a little too close for comfort. LG should probably do the same. Neither, I don't think, would be launching an action with the expectation of winning (necessarily), but having a filed grievance on record for something at this level would certainly help in a case where the offending logo were a little closer to theirs.
Can anyone clarify if song data is dense? If it is dense, I am not even sure if Mapreduce is the right paradigm to use mainly because you will eventually get to a situation where transfer time overwhelms compute time.
Game.com XSS Vulnerability by Cyber4rt
An ABET accredited CS major requires learning the calculus and probably somewhat beyond the AP BC level plus a course in discrete math. And maybe a bit more, you can check out their web site at http://www.abet.org/
So presumably this includes the possibility of writing 100% positive articles on CrunchFund funded companies and 100% negative articles on their competitors....
Mac App Store: Race to the bottom? Not even close.
I'd like to work on this, but the gun.io service isn't something I've done before, nor really want to (it feels like 99 designs for code). If you had contact info in your profile I'd email you, but you don't. My email is my username @gmail.com, if you emailed me I would like to talk, as I had just been working on a very similar concept. However it's not as easy as you'd think, as formatting in a textarea is not possible. I would discuss in more detail over email if you want.

-Templaedhel
Shepard tone
Ask HN: Startup options and exercising
I am approaching my first full year at a startup and my options cliff for 25% of my options. Should I exercise that 25% immediately or let it sit? What are tax repercussions on exercising vs. not exercising?
My (little) kids make a big fuss if I try to put in any "sunlight" spectrum bulb of any sort. They complain that it is bluish, cold, and "yucky." Their favorite is any intense halogen (not the blue headlights, but indoor yellow-white), which seems to me to have a color temp of 2700-3300 or so. They also like ordinary incandescent bulbs.

Natural sunlight seems yellowish-white to me when you are in the warm sun, and only feels bluish-white when you are in a cold shadow (in the snow or beside a lake). Being in shadow on sand or dirt doesn't seem bluish because of the reflected light. When sunlight is streaming through the windows of the house but not landing on me, so I'm in the shade, it seems yellowish-white without a trace of blue. We have various "earth tones" on the floors and walls, not blue, so that influences the room light. A sunlight spectrum fluorescent seems bluish, so it doesn't seem like sunlight.

It appears that we want to feel that we are in a warm place, and the sunlight spectrum is making us think we're in a cold shadow. I also suspect that the mismatch between "sunlight spectrum" and real sun has something to do with reflections. A modified sunlight spectrum bulb could add the effect of earth tone reflections into the bulb color.
To be fair, remember how trademark law works. Apple doesn't necessarily actually think Fangguo is infringing on them. The law is such that Apple must defend their trademark against anything that may appear to be an infringement, or else Apple may lose the right to defend it later against actual infringement.
Cool, I didn't know that!

But from what I read I understand that it's tied to a telephone (app) and not to the car. In what way would the concept be improved if you could message the car and its driver (and passengers), instead of the phone.
Awesome Jay! How's it going?
The scrolling header is a very nice touch on this article.
the EN song data is dense in the sense that there is far more "columns" than rows in almost any bulk analysis -- average song unpacks to ~2000 segments, each with ~30 coefficients + global features.

however, in paul's case here he's really just using MR as a quick way to do a parallel computation on many machines. There's no reduce step, it's just taking a single average from each individual song and not correlating anything or using any inter-song statistics.
20 Famous websites vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attack
Neither of these comments added anything to the conversation. This isn't Digg.
According to Crowley:

It’s no real secret that Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us – especially as we couldn’t convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space. And while it was a tough decision (and really disappointing) to walk away from dodgeball, I’m actually looking forward to getting to work on other projects again.

(http://gigaom.com/2007/04/15/dodgeball-founder-quits-google/)

At a brief glance, it appears that when you get a lot of autonomy and resources (YouTube and Android), you want to stay. When you feel like Google is ignoring you, you want to leave. That's the way it looks to me.
Perhaps it's dying and they are trying to cut it loose first.
Looks like the older Perkins Brailler ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Brailler ) has the same layout.
I am seeing this request made more and more frequently by designers:

By helping to keep pricing standards high, you not only help yourself by avoiding the title of “The Poor Man’s Marian Bantjes” (essentially the creative equivalent of a knock-off handbag), you also help every other young designer struggling to get paid out there, and help every designer that came before you to continue making a living doing what they love.

Low wages here are a sign of a labor market saturated by qualified designers. Pleading with youth to raise their wages in order to protect the interests of those whose careers and income are already established is disingenuous at best, and naive at worst.
I finished undergrad in 2002, and no one was hiring then, even for Stanford CS grads. No one wanted people fresh out of school because there were so many unemployed engineers with 5+ years of experience that there was no incentive to take someone straight out of school.
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I know one of the founders personally. These are good guys with a great product. Do yourself a favor and give DigMyData a try.
It's HN, not Twitter, IM, nor email. Public backslaps just decrease comment SNR.
I voted you up out of sympathy :)
No need to create a site, all tweets to a license plate end up in the public timeline anyway.
Poll: What build system do you use for your projects?
The choices I've listed here are by no means exhaustive and I'm just asking out of simple curiosity. If your favorite system isn't included, please select Other and extol its virtues in the comments. Thanks!
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SCons
It's obvious that he has certain limits to his personal competence like us all and is unable to either seek or comprehend third-party advice once he's past the point of no return. This is not the first time that we've seen his personal drama detailed in public and it really detracts from the brand. Off the top of my head I'll cite the tablet project, Airbnb debacle, Calacanis just name a few.

If Aol is listening they need to put distance between themselves and Arrington, not get closer.
Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL
I'm not really bothered by the "I've got an idea for an app" lines so much as I'm bothered by the fact that web apps are seen as websites. So when someone says "I've got an idea for a website" to me they think I'm just going to write some html and call it a day.
In fact they do, if you hover the GIF you get a pause button that pauses the GIF (and by that I mean swaps it out for the static thumbnail again; browsers don't give you any real control over GIFs).
As an advertiser on Reddit, I have to say the UX for advertisers is one of the worst ones I've ever had to use.

They could probably vastly increase ad sale conversions if they spent a week redesigning and optimizing it.
It's days like these I wish I went to MIT. Here's to hoping this shows up on OpenCourseWare.
Ask HN: Should HN require you to click on the story link before commenting?
I don't think it's a huge issue here, but I know it happens. (I know I do it occasionally.) You get people who just click on the comments and read them and then based solely on the title they begin to jerk their knee. You can't actually force people to read a story before they comment but you can force them to at least click the link. Maybe since they've already gone through the trouble of clicking through to the story those people would be more inclined to read first before commenting.

Just create an outgoing link redirector. Something like http://news.ycombinator.com/out?[url]. Once the site logs that you've clicked the link then you are free to comment.
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Matt has a website where he posts all of his awesome projects and dealings in his efforts to open up Watertown: http://www.mattmacdonald.com/
The lack of women in the military is purely a result of sound military strategy. Suppose two idealized states in a perpetual state of war, where they have frequent engagements in which both sides lose 50% of their soldiers in each generation. The state that uses no women as soldiers whatsoever will eventually win.

This is because of biology, but it is not because of any sort of hardwired instincts. It's just that 200 men and 200 women can on average have the same number of children as 100 men and 200 women, but the reverse is not true. 200 men and 100 women can have roughly the same number of children as 50 men and 100 women.
Groupon cancels IPO road show
Then people will create a javascript tool that auto-clicks any URL on news.ycombinator.com that it hasn't yet seen in order to enable comments. Or they'll just tab-open other the links.
Seems like what happened to digg. Didn't Digg balloon to 75+ employees at one point? I wonder if Reddit is going to head down that same route.
Hah! I always liked the idea of gravatar's but the patterns are so damn ugly. Seemed like a perfect fit for an ugly sweater. Thanks for the compliment.
Selling a minority stake to outside investors is a good way to capitalize the company and give it the resources it needs to grow. Reddit has been notoriously resource-starved. A few hundred million dollars in a partial equity sale fixes that without draining Conde Nast.
Why did you invest? I'm always interested when e.g. Fred Wilson blogs about this kind of thing. So in terms of team, market, product, trends, or whatever you want.
And electric heat is much less efficient than natural gas.

Less efficient per dollar, depending on the cost of electricity and natural gas. Electric heat is, of course, 100% thermodynamically "efficient", since all the power eventually ends up as heat. With natural gas, you have to pipe the exhaust outside, and you lose a small amount of heat that way.
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The Aka represent sex roles that have underlying characteristics familiar to all cultures. Some culture in the world must have the most objectively nurturing fathers, and the Aka happen to be it. But, it's the poorer in their society that are nurturing. High status Aka men who have enough resources accumulate multiple wives and offload nurturing onto them. This wouldn't raise the eyebrows of any student who's studied the history of human cultures around the globe. Instead, it'd be shocking if it turned out that high status women married multiple husbands to take care of the nurturing.
Indeed. "Never trust anyone over 30" has become in our field "Seldom hire anyone over 30 and never hire anyone over 40" and most certainly 50. That you can get "Senior" prepended to your title after about 5 years of experience ought to be a warning sign.

Due to genes that make me look (and for the most part feel) quite a bit younger than I'm (I'm now 50 and am still mistaken for a early to mid-20s college student (dress and deportment make a difference, of course)) I was able to experimentally, as it were, see this when I was in my 30s.
As long as I'm on the board, I'll do everything I can to stop any nonsense like that.