skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has never been a peer-reviewed comparison between the much hyped GRID ruled by CERN, and say more discrete distributed supercomputers, like the Storm or Kraken in terms of reliability, scalability (do you get spam?) configurability (how quickly does your new address get spam?). It would pail in comparison to the half dozen underground grids, not to mention a fair comparison with EC2, GOOG back-end etc.

Actually, most experiments, doing "serious" work opted to have their own farms, which they can handle as they please (configuration, versioning etc. -- most of the grid is still struggling with RHEL3 and gcc3, most of what sane people cannot put up with). Parallelization amounts to breaking up data to chunks and running the same dll in multiple instances -- no notion of threading, let alone locking (no dependencies).
I run a content/community site and can't figure out how to use Directed Edge. The demo page is not very helpful. I'm lazy enough to expect to know how things work before signing up....
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I loved the demo that you showed a couple of weeks ago at Hackers and Founders. Congrats on the press. I'm sure you'll be getting more. It's a really good product.
I'm very sorry for another post about the credit crisis, but this was really helpful in explaining a large part of what the issue was...

I promise it's the only one I'll post.
* Because I've tried a lot of other things and they don't hold my interest.

* Because... must... write... code....

* Because I want to solve the money problem

* Because life is too short to be a wage slave

* Because I like hanging out with other smart people.

* Because I like building things

* Because I like the creativity and freedom that I get from writing my own code.

* Because I love the satisfaction of others getting use out of what I've made.

* Because I like building community (Hackers and Founders)

* Because the ass can't kick itself
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His logos suck. A good logo should be recognized from it's outline - like BMW, IBM, Apple, Mercedes, the Nazi Party. Using a nice font and adding a butterfly is not a good logo.

So I prefer not to take advice from someone who is not even particularly good.
I don't understand why everyone is so obsessed with Kindle and Sony reader. I got myself a Booken Cybook and it has everything I need packaged in a very sleek design:
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I think it must be card dependent.

My ATI card worked with dual screens and Conpiz, and didn't need an X restart.
cf. Hume, 1757

"In proportion as any man's course of life is governed by accident, we always find, that he encreases in superstition; as may particularly be observed of gamesters and sailors, who, though, of all mankind, the least capable of serious reflection, abound most in frivolous and superstitious apprehensions. The gods, says Coriolanus in Dionysius, have an influence in every affair; but above all, in war; where the event is so uncertain. ...

"Any of the human affections may lead us into the notion of invisible, intelligent power; hope as well as fear, gratitude as well as affliction: But if we examine our own hearts, or observe what passes around us, we shall find, that men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. Prosperity is easily received as our due, and few questions are asked concerning its cause or author. It begets cheerfulness and activity and alacrity and a lively enjoyment of every social and sensual pleasure: And during this state of mind, men have little leisure or inclination to think of the unknown invisible regions. On the other hand, every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend."
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Stephen Fry on cloud computing
Now I understand why the iPod flashlight app is such a big hit.
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Bringing the construction industry into the 21st century, thus helping to eliminate a lot of waste and frustration with the products they're using.
Too vague for me. You need to tell me more including what you think you should do, how customers will use it, what's the reason someone would use in multiple websites, etc.
Tried to search for C# and got no results :(
Venture investors are not looking for things with a low risk of failure.

Doug Richard (of BBC's Dragons' Den) says the same thing, here (starts at 4:10 of 6:57; moneyline at 5:30):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71dl3lZdvU

You have to understand how investment works. The reason it [the risk-focused pitch] works well is because if there is no risk, there cannot be commensurate reward. I'll repeat it. If there is no risk, there can't be reward. If it's not a risky opportunity, then there's no reward of equal dimension. If you come to me and say, "I've got a risk-free investment," the first thing I know is, there's not much money to be made. There's no free lunch in this world.
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Are those numbers adjusting for purchasing power parity? If so they're bogus.

The nominal GDP per hour worked numbers from OECD confirm my statement.

And if you're paying for the defense of the "rest of the free world", it's being "paid" with debt financed by Asia and the Middle East.
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How many and under what conditions?

This is a topic that should be researched, if it turns out that there is a relationship between founders compensation and the success of the company, that would be useful to know.
Ok, rephrased, I don't know why people guide their lives according to any criteria that obtain after they are dead.
How is rick rolling the world not world changing?
Even if changing the whole world is not someone's goal, this is a good sort of question to help people form goals for their life.
Built schools and housing in the military. Now I'm being selfish and hustling to make money to survive so that I can work all day without worry.
You're right it is. Some cards work wonderfully, the one I have has apparently "many reported problems" trying to get it to work with fglrx drivers

I stuck with Radeon for now. My only loss is that I can't get any desktop effects on because my Virtual Screen size is over 3000 in width which far exceeds my cards limitations. Would be nice if it could somehow "ignore" the second monitor (my TV) only until when it's on so I could get the effects.
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I think the PHP stuff uses Symfony as a Framework. There was an entry on the Symfony blog about it a year ago: http://bit.ly/jRO9S
I obviously shouldn't discuss the funding details of my company, however, I think there's a definite relationship between how much time the founders can afford to spend on the company, and how well it does. Certainly my business would not be anywhere near as far as it currently is if I could only devote 1 day a week to it.
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The financial crisis looks set to hit education funding at all levels.
Previous, limited, discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319323
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Surely cognition itself IS pattern-finding/recognition/manipulation.

In my reductionist view all human belief and action can be traced back to prejudice driven heuristics.

So I find it a little naive/short sighted of the article to indicate that false pattern finding is something that happens only under stress.
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I should add that when I wrote that line:

I honestly thought that was a Douglas Adam-style parody (from one of the later books).

I wasn't trying to put the project down with that, but reporting my reaction to the site - I actually was laughing along with (what I thought was) their parody for a few minutes (it seemed, though maybe shorter). I don't recall when I started to think they might be serious, but it might been when I saw their page "How dumb are we?", and they were defending their position...

It's true that it would have been more diplomatic to conceal my reaction.

Also, I searched around for a reference to the Douglas Adams passage, but couldn't find it (I couldn't find my copy at home - all my books are in boxes). I'm pretty sure it's near the start of "Mostly Harmless", as a product of the "Infinidim" corporation, and something to do with a multi-dimensional bird... I would like you to see it, because then I think then you'd have a clear sense of my point of view (independent of your dis/agreement with it)

Incidentally, labeling a comment as "childish" and "inflammatory" provides little information about the subject, and more about the emotional state of the labeler (I am sorry to have upset you). Giving the reasons for that emotional state are often a more compelling refutation - that is, if you can see the reasons (I find that very hard myself).
We'll call it hommer (pronounced homer) and get rejected by TC 50 since they're not in the business of serving poor people.
To me, the first thing they should get to look nice is firefox. Everything else is secondary.

I don't understand when people complain that "XY release sucks because they included the wrong BitTorrent client". I've read serious reviewers stating this.

They need to become discriminate about what they include in their releases, to curate their art, as Jason Fried would say.
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It doesn't say only under stress. It says it happens more frequently.
I'm not suggesting doing away with internet anonymity.

But I do think I would be a lot more comfortable transacting business remotely with people I knew had gone in to the post office or DMV and engaged in a legally binding act of self-identification.

This is completely orthogonal to free speech.
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A nice comment on how teachers ruin their own classes by overloading with material instead of exciting the student about the subject (which would induce self-learning outside the class, and a persistent interest beyond grades).
Good to know both sides of the story
>>The key when you get into this market is more about usability, marketing, and distribution as opposed to coolness, technology, or complex feature-sets<<
Great line. I might even go so far as to say that serving a small business niche with apps is more about price, marketing and distribution than the usability and complex features of your product. Simple and minimum functionality seem to work as long as the product has a minimum of functionality.
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I'd love to see this support multi-touch so I can stick it up on the wall with the Wii whiteboard hack (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/)
Having considered it overnight, I now think that the PR aspect was a red herring. The key issue was that Phil Katz provided an improvement that people wanted - and Thom didn't.

Although Thom claimed in the video that a licensee of his provided a version that was even quicker and smaller that Phil Katz's, I'm willing to assume that that (very valuable) improvement wasn't free (or shareware).

Phil Katz provided: fast, small, free. People wanted: fast, small, free. Phil wins.

Users are very appreciative if you meet their needs... and they'll be equally appreciative of someone else who meets their needs better. They are not as loyal as a dog (dogs being loyal... and awesome). Users are only loyal if you keep on giving them what they want (or trap them). It's just a pragmatic, business-like appreciation - not love. The technology love, of creating something new, or achieving something difficult, is a different kind of thing altogether, which has little to do with users. And which I think is a genuine love.
I'm sure there is a relationship between founders salary, founders equity, funding arrangements and profitability of the firm.

Unfortunately there are too many other variables to be able to pluck much signal out of the noise.

I do think it it's possible to pay someone too much, to the point where they either think that they are already successful before having achieved the goal, or to the point where their interests begin to diverge from the investors.
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I thought that line was a bit extreme too.
Politics, we have to change politics if we really want to change the world for good.

We need a new party from the ground up with a million headcounts online.

We need to replace this jurassic congress of crooks and liars for a more accountable direct democracy.

We have the tools and the will, the time is right.
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Whoa, thanks so much. Didn't know about that. I haven't tried it yet, but based on it's latest 'supported devices list' it supports my ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT.
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XKCD's Randall Munroe runs Monte Carlo on Intrade's per-state markets
Well, one benefit could be: homeless people waiting in line at a local shelter can update each other on how the line is coming along and how many more are going to get a place to sleep that night at that particular shelter.

Another usage could be status updates on comfortable benches, bridges and rooftops.

Of course usage will be free and include a free iPhone (since most homeless are not very well connected to the cloud).

I can not provide any more details at this point since we are about to close a major round of funding, up in the 1* million range. Expect to see us featured on TechCrunch during the next few days.
* The ideal need for your software to meet therefore becomes one that can never be fully met *
That is brilliant
I suppose we are hardly anyone, but we are writing multiple Web applications in Erlang right now, and slowly giving away the tools we build as well.

http://blog.therestfulway.com/2008/09/webmachine-is-resource...
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If it does implement the PageRank patent, it will be interesting to see how Google handles this.
So here's the question: why does this give odds of 91% to Obama while Intrade has him forecast at 68%?
This guy doesn't understand that these limitations are not just arbitrary, they stem from the architecture of the service. In order for it to scale, Google needs to make sure the applications are doing everything in small chunks. I bet even the background batch tasks, when they come, will require the developer to break the tasks in small pieces, map-reduce style or otherwise.
WebKit's built-in Inspector has been more than adequate for my needs as of late.
A good attack on the "release early and often" process.
This coming from a guy who has every single submission, or at least his last sixty, originating from alleyinsider, the enterprise version of Valleywag.
See fivethirtyeight.com for much better simulations - 10,000 run each day based on weighted national and state polls. Plus their graphic design is excellent in being both very clean and informative.

Munroe links to them at the bottom.
Because markets are imperfect.

"It is based on Intrade.net state-by-state prediction market odds..."

When betting state-by-state, people think Obama is doing better than when they bet nationally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
Using Gears right now to build home inspection software for a client.

The one major issue so far is the time involved to program the syncing when going back online. Offline support is great, it seems however that Google left the online sync "up to you".
Because the xkcd odds are computed based on the completely bogus assumption that Obama and McCain win or lose states independently.

When we get to election day, the states become pretty independent; but until that day, there are very strong correlations between the results in different states.
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* It takes a lot of work for a small team to create a game, but at least it's feasable to do so today. A few years ago, it wouldn't have been.*

COME ON, we've had 1- or 2-people teams creating games since the 80s!
to me the whole concept that the idea is worthless has to do with the fact that until you build it, you really have nothing. It isn't about actual value that gets placed on the idea.
Huh, what?

First: early voting has already started in some states, second: there is always a correlation between how states vote, because they're based on how the candidates have performed.
I really like these false good-bye-letters hehe. "I like this company, I like everyone in it but I need to go" ... this always makes me cry :)
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Betting sites like Intrade are lagging indicators with respect to the polls. Bettors adjust their bets whenever new polls are released, but it doesn't generally work the other way around (people responding to pollsters don't do so on the basis of what they saw on Intrade).
In support of the article's "actionable idea", Edison's quote on genius being 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration was referring to invention - necessarily done in private, if it's to be patentable.
I think he had a good rational argument. It wasn't the usual Cloud = Teh Evilz or the Cloud = Awsomatedness that articles on the Cloud tend to revolve around. I also like his last point; my data is at much less of a risk in Google Docs than they are stored on my hard drive, hence me having a triple backup as it's only a matter of time before one of my HDD corrupts and I lose a document equivalent to a months work.
I bet there's some money to be made on prediction market arbitrage if you know what you're doing.

Also:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/intrade-betting-is-su...
I really hope Munroe's right, and that Obama wins, but I think that 91% is too high. An October surprise could drive a large move, which would make the states very highly correlated. This is much like what often occurs in the stock market. Individual stocks might be only mildly correlated (0.1 - 0.4) in general, but in a crash (or rally) the correlations converge upon 1. Elections are full of last-minute "crashes" and "rallies".

My market on an Obama win is 70-74. I'm including the very serious possibility of election tampering favoring the Republicans, as many allege occurred in 2004, as well as (alas) the Bradley effect. It's difficult to place probabilities on unprecedented, infrequent events, and this is an unprecedented presidential election, not only because Obama is black-- that's only a small component-- but because he's an entirely different kind of political candidate than we've seen in the past, and because we're frankly in a very different country in 2008 than we were in during 2000 or '04.
Ideas are "worthless" because it's difficult or impossible to create a market for them:

http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/04/26/ideas-are-wor...
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Just $8. It works.
Suppose there are only three states.

Suppose that all states have an 80% probability of voting for Obama.

If they are independent, the odds of an Obama win are .8 * 8 * .8 + 3 * .8 * .8 * .2=.896

However, suppose the states are maximally DEPENDENT-- they always vote the same way. Then, the odds of an Obama win are exactly .8

The effect will be much stronger with more states, hence the gigantic difference between XKCD's result, and intrade's odds on an obama vs mccain win. In the limit of an infinite number of states, 51% odds in each + independence would give Obama a 100% chance of winning!

Things are much more complex, but this is basically the point cperciva was making. It is almost certainly true that the states are not independent. For example, the odds in Ohio are factoring in the chance of some gigantic gaffe or a terrorist strike or whatever, that would change the vote everywhere.
The dead can't defend themselves. We only here Thom Henderson's side here.
it'll probably just become a more stringent process to obtain a loan. if your business is sound and you aren't overreaching, you'll be fine. i doubt it'll be easier though, because garbage loans are the reason why we got into the mess in the first place.