skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to try something like this, you couldn't ask for a better VPS provider than Linode. I think the choice of VPS provider is at least as important as the choice of client access tools.
This is really well done, and would translate very well to a touch interface.
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And: https://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art

(Look at the logo.)
Wait YOU for discussions (: 90 errors in open-source projects)
This would make for a terrifying twist on a sci-fi movie -- they arrive back on Earth after being gone so long to find out that they forgot they had never left. Any movies like that? (Planet of the Apes seems close)
How websites can get 55% more traffic, by not doing a lot
Nice! We've been using Tracelytics for about four months now and it's been indispensable for identifying performance bottlenecks at the infrastructure level.
And this statement, while valid and testable under some definition of "crappy", has nothing to do with comparing hardware quality between manufacturers. This reminds me of the smear campaigns Apple used to wage against beige boxes, nevermind the sheer diversity of hardware running Windows and the homogeneity of Macs.
Learning is one of the biggest parts of an entrepreneur's "skills," so there's no reason you can't utilize that at Apple.
Kind of a funny optical allusion, but after looking at that tilted google page for a few minutes and then coming back to HN, it looks like HN is tilted too.
Expecting this to be an Onion article...
Yes, but on a page discussing a font ?

I completely get the reason why code blocks were first introduced in these comments, but think the "int" versus "int " discussion is offtopic.
Does eBooks have iCloud support for non-Apple books yet? Amazon now allows me to upload all of my non-Amazon books by email, and I can re-download them onto any Kindle device like books I purchased from Amazon.
If you're writing style happens to be very repetitive and templatized, then yes, you've automated your writing career.

A more likely scenario for applying this tech to journalism would be for providing filler paragraphs around the more substantive prose banged out by an human journalist, that way the journalist doesn't have to write as much or spend time on pulling tedious raw data into the story.
This brings up an important issue. If an app uses an embedded webview and the user can navigate down links would the developer have to check off every entitlement that the webview might in the future need to access?
I actually tried this to see if you were serious.
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Right, but it's a reference to the game, where Peppy says, "Do a barrel roll", but the actual maneuver that you can perform is a very fast aileron roll.
I'm not sure how you propose that we get an MVP out the door when you just described the entire process of writing software as "doing it wrong." How do you propose to ship a product without implementing any ideas or changing any code?

The point is that you can work fearlessly, confident in your ability to roll back if it turns out you've gone down a garden path. Even if you the probability of doing so is low, the cost of running version control is so low that it's really a no-brainer.
So much that I wish it was visible by default, or even more central. So many times the top results are very high references of outdated things.
I'm a fellow j,k,m,v,f user, and my biggest complaint about the redesign is that it seems so much slower than before. Pressing j used to go to the next item almost immediately, now it's "press j... wait for it... next item... repeat." Makes rapidly going through unread items really irritating. Seems to be the same with the mousewheel too.

Maybe it's a browser/OS problem or something (Ubuntu 11.10, Chromium 15). I haven't heard anyone else mentioning this, but I can't be the only one...
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I see plenty of well-reasoned responses to your claim of an inconsistency. Perhaps you need to learn that someone who disagrees with you is not automatically a "fanboy", and their responses to your claims are not automatically "appalling".

The downvotes, however, are not warranted.
It was not clear to me that he purchased one of the offers by accident. I thought he meant he accidentally ordered one of the subsidized kindles by accident.
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Don't even care if it's one of those "honeypot" articles...the irony is great all around
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My first impression on how Oracle has entered NoSQL market.
Responsive web design for online retail... is this the first?
What If An Agency Had An API?
Since I never seem to miss a chance to criticize Google:

Thank you, Google. This should make your search results much more helpful.
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Absolutely Not!!!

All public position pay should be capped at the national median salary. If compensation is to be a motivating factor, then they must be motivated in a fashion that brings compassion to the public. Not just given despotic positions with high pay that will ultimately only seek to increase that individual pay at every other expense.

We need to eliminate the thought of "money" from politics entirely. There is just no room for it whatsoever. It's like the FPS server that prohibits profanity: sure we are all adults with complex senses of humor in an arena set for eachothers destruction, but that tiny principal creates an atmosphere of communal respect that one can not find any other way.
there is a super slick video that tells the story better than the text: http://youtu.be/fmX1gtRERYU

It's also quite funny.
I can't speak for the ugliness, but as for the slow to react...

I think the reason it feels sluggish are two reasons: The screen technology has a slow response time. This is alittle difficult to fix, due to the nature of the technology: an electic field turns on or off causing tiny balls to be pulled to the top or bottom of the screen causing light to be reflected/absorbed. Due to the size of these balls (microns), it can take much longer to reorient these balls then the molecules in liquid crystal (nanometers).

The other reason it probably feels sluggish is that the processor is a little slow. Fortunately, amazon has been able to work around this a bit by caching the next few pages. (But if you go backwards it can sometimes take a bit longer to load).
And the kids are safe once more!
Apocalypse Now: New OLPC tablets to be airdropped on third world children
great video!
revert to pre-2009 layout

drats it didn't work

http://i.imgur.com/Og9Jo.png
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The hidden cost of outsourcing is the need for increased project management. Communication issues and cultural differences often lead to poor execution, and projects that fail to meet expectations. Sure, there's significant savings on the cost of a developer hour, but your going to spend a lot more time/money on project management.
What you say is true.

I’m just not sure why that makes the comparison bad?
Arrington's not a racist...he's just being dishonest
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Do the special offers have anything to do with your reading materials? Do you have design/architecture books on the kindle? Do you think ther offers targeted towards your demographic?
Right. This article isn't about who's "winning"; it's just a reminder that the benefit of hardware choice means that information is needed to make a good choice. Longer-term reliability information is more difficult to obtain than basic specifications, but it's still important.
I think if you take a moment to read the context you would have a better understanding of the security issues involved. EC2 acts like one giant multi-tenant network. The only thing preventing access to your nodes is the SG policies, which are fairly trivial to mess up. The linked slides shows people running memcached in EC2 with weak SG configurations exposing their data to the public internet (this includes some very large companies).

The primary advantage of VPC is that it provides a private, single-tenant network. The advantage here is that you don't need to rely on complicated SG policies to maintain security.

Although VPC is part of the same infrastructure, the two have very dramatically different network configurations, which makes then clearly distinct. The networking environment of VPC much more closely resembles what you would have if you were using physical infrastructure. This means you have control over the routing tables, DHCP, DNS, network topology, etc. These are all things which are out of your control on EC2.
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Nice. Am I the only one that gets ~7 screen heights of spam for a specific brand benzodiazepine on that page (above the header) though? Also in the title "xxx Without Rx". Wtf?

Using FF7 with Flashblock. It's right there in the page source.

Edit: oh. they've closed shop. Here's how the frontpage looks for me: http://i.imgur.com/E7ER0.png
Which has almost no meaning, because Android is an OS which runs on a wide array of devices from a wide array of manufacturers spreading the gamut of price points and hardware quality. To make a meaningful comparison, you need to limit your selection to devices that actually compete against each other.
It's something we're interested in doing. I think Jeremy's video (that I linked to first) is a good start.

In addition, by working in the field, I think I'm in a better position to write blog tutorials like my TrueSkill one: http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html

It's our hope that we can encourage a lot of our community to post insights of their approaches. That's what we already do on our blog with our "How I Did It" posts like http://blog.kaggle.com/2011/10/19/deceitful-beast-william-cu...
I'm not (yet) a highly paid consultant in this area, but I still don't think it's worth my time to participate in most of these Kaggle contests. Even the $3 million prize for the healthcare prediction isn't worth it if you think you have a chance of beating current best-practice (and think you can sell your time or have a friend who can sell your time to corporations).
tilt works on opera but the barrell roll does not.
This is a much welcomed change. I find that I quite often want recency based searches and blogged a quick solution if you're using Chrome:

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2011/08/a-better-way-to-get-recen...
My experience with Hadoop tells me that its great for all counting tasks. Makes a lot of sense that it was designed at Google to construct posting lists for their search index. Beyond this sweet spot, it gets really tricky to map your solution to a map-reduce task. The programmer has to rely more on the fact that map/reduce are java black boxes to express everything he needs. Hadoop's big victory is the scale it operates on.

Are people here waiting for a "SQL-like-declarative-query-language + Hadoop" hybrid, which lets one write declarative processes to run on large amounts of data? Academia seems to be very motivated to produce something like this.
I think you are confusing push and pull communication. Twitter does not ring up every single person on the planet whenever I share something, but what I share does appear in their feed once they care to check.

If it were push communication, you'd be right to complain, but since it is pull communication, other rules of etiquette apply.
The slideshare is a talk about leveraging memcached access into more "interesting" access. From the slides: "Cached high scores suck; where's the good stuff?" Apparently EC2 was a target rich environment at the time of the talk. Using a non-publicly routable address for your memcached server (and back end servers in general) is one way to fail closed.
this one always amused me - http://www.google.com/search?q=88mph*1.21+gigawatts
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Unrelated: one thing we've really learned with this launch is the value of a great video. People seem to be responding really well to that as compared to a wall of text, probably because it's much more effective in telling the story behind the product. These videos actually aren't all that expensive, either.
I would add mongohq for a free 16mb database. It's not much, but it's enought to validate your idea if you have a small site.
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Yeah it's almost hilarious how every critic he is aiming at LISP is fixed in Clojure, where immutable is the default and vector the data structure of choice. Also he clearly doesn't understand the subtleties/differences between compilation and interpretation, and how the two can interlace.
It was made as a gift of a 10 year relationship of the game developer and his significant other. Both the guy and the girl look like them in real life.

Edit: In advanced levels you control the girl directly
> It makes sense to lump Android together to talk about a software platform because those are the statistics that matter to mobile developers. They want to know where the users are.

Not all Android phones are created equal - many have inferior hardware (which developers have to account for separately) and others are only capable of running ancient Android releases (which developers have to account for separately). I'm not sure a developer who is looking at bulk data for the Android platform is getting an accurate picture of the effort/payoff for developing an Android app.
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"Castle is our little baby who we work on whenever we have some free time."

Perhaps true, but not inspiring for confident usage.
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Android is not just software, it's a platform. If the hardware is low-quality, that's still an Android issue.
Actually, according to a recent Google blog post, this is exactly what should happen for hot trending searches. They tweaked the algorithm to make hot search topics bubble up in the suggestion box and return relevant results for recent news.
If you can remember any examples I will make sure they get looked at.
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Fiction, at least, has been well-studied and broken into defined components. All stories follow a predictable arc: exposition, conflict, climax, conclusion, and denouement [1]. Use well-tested plot devices to move through the story arc [2]. Define a skeleton framework of what kind of plot devices go where in the story. Have a database of scene location descriptions. Have a database of character stereotypes. Make your algorithm mix-and-match them to fill-in the story skeleton.

Seen this way, A New Hope and Raiders of the Lost Ark are kind of similar.

Plot: Rescue the princess/my father

Hero: young/grizzled adventurer

Plucky sidekick: loyal robots/Professor

Ally: Semi-sleazy smuggler

Scene: Fascist Empire spaceship/Nazi North Africa

Bad guys: Stormtroopers/Nazis

Main villain: black-clothed mystical bad Jedi/Archeologist

Heck, using this format, you could make your own OWS drama:

Plot: Rescue my bankrupt mother

Hero: idealistic hippy

Plucky sidekick: loyal golden retreiver

Ally: Semi-sleazy drug dealer

Scene: Urban city streets

Bad guys: city police

Main villain: black-suited bad finance executive

I would call it "Wall Street Raiders" or "Wall Street: A New Hope".

Yes, FWIW, I've been contemplating coding just such a story-generating engine. Like Mad Libs on steroids.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_structure

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device
This thread is the perfect example of why I don't participate on HN as much as I do other communities. HN has great articles but the FOSS extremists run the comments.

1. Repeated articles proclaim: Android overtakes the iPhone in sales. What does this mean? It means that Apple is selling less of 1 phone model than dozens of hardware manufacturers combined sell different phone models. So I guess Android fans want Android to be thought of as "one platform", all hardware vendors included.

2. New article: Android hardware fails more than Apple iPhone (and Blackberry, et. al.) but suddenly "YOU CAN'T DO THAT, YOU CAN'T COMPARE ALL ANDROID PHONES WITH ONE PHONE."

So, which is it? I figured this out a long time ago. The answer is it's whatever makes Android look better than iOS as a platform. The facts can change daily, just as long as Android is the winner.
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I was super excited when Google+ came out. I am a total Google fanboy. At least, I was a week ago. Then I found they didn't support their paying customers (apps users). So I waited and waited.

Finally supported a week ago! I'm PUMPED about trying google+. Except there's not a lot going on there and there is no api to integrate it with other social networks. It doesn't really have a purpose.

Then Google completely destroys Google Reader. My absolute favorite website can no longer create an RSS feed for other RSS users making it impossible for users to contribute content to Google reader.

Now I'm just pissed. Gmail is still the best mail service and I like my android phone, but Google has made so many terrible decisions lately - especially around Google plus - I don't care anymore. I'm done. If google decides to right its wrongs I will care about its services again.

If I were google I would drop everything and do the following as quickly as possible:
1.) Release an API for Google+
2.) integrate google reader with google+. No, I'm not talking about adding a share button. I'm talking about full integration so that Google+ can feed data back into reader.

I doubt that they will be able to accomplish this fast enough to keep Google reader from dying. I'm sure some other service (like Hivemined) will fill the void, but they really need to get moving on that API if they want to save google+.
That's pretty black and white.

Indie music can always fall back on giving away tunes to support a touring and merchandising play, but someone that puts years into a font only to see it pirated isn't exactly given the opportunity to rent a tour bus.

I think that if he can make it work, he deserves our encouragement.
Working as an elected official is much more stressful than it may appear -- Their every move is analyzed, they are accountable for every word they speak, and threats are commonplace. And all of these things drive up the wages required to take the job.

Also I believe you're grossly overstating the other "rewards" for elected officials. For starters, re-election is limited in several cases by term limits. Furthermore, I don't think any elected official (save President and the like) receive any more respect, admiration, or congratulations for their jobs and if anything, actually receive much less.

Finally, I don't want people that do not have demonstrable success in other areas of their life (or as you refer to them - "poor people") running my town or my country. A high salary serves as a psychological barrier to keep successful people interested and others disinterested. I want to keep those barriers as high as possible, even if I get some false positives.
Yes, Kindle Fire is likely on Apple's radar (as opposed to say, anything from Archos or even Asus).

However, I think it's Google or Microsoft who should likely be more worried, as there is currently no #2 in the tablet platform space, and Amazon may pick up the silver easily if the Fire is as good as reviewers claim... the price itself is eye-catching.
Slight correction: You will receive an unspecified (but assumed larger) proportion of 40% of an unspecified total amount after unspecified deductions.

But hey, it will be the lion's share!
Skeuomorphism: The Opiate of the People
Semantic grep for C code
For the Netflix competition in particular, a lot of the entrants were being "paid" in research papers, grants, and academic salary, because it was a high-profile competition in a theoretically not-entirely-settled area (collaborative filtering), so even many non-winning entries could get published papers out of it. I don't think that can be infinitely replicated, in part because once there are dozens of contests, it's less likely any one will be as high profile, and in part because not every ML contest is as academically interesting (the Netflix setting was sort of "weird" from the perspective of traditional statistical models, not being a straightforward regression problem, whereas some of these are pretty straightforward).
Would you agree that all successful entrepreneurs are confident? I guess I feel that cocky and confident are interchangeable.

Most I know personally and most you read about (zuck, sean parker, even steve jobs!) were considered ass holes in some peoples eyes, but in fact, they were/are obsessed with winning. They exude an above average amount of confidence that I think rubs some people as cocky.

This doesn't mean they were horrible people.
I wouldn't even think of version-control as backup. Having your project backed up on a server is a nice to have thing of version control, but you should not use it like it was your backup system. If you are doing version control, you should commit semantically, not just cramming every files. even if you are a single developer, point number two is still relevant. Branches are very helpful when you want to work on new features without mixing up development. Its priceless to branch off and start working on new features without messing up your already working branch. You could technically introduce version control to your project once you are at that certain point, but why not do it before you start writing the first lines of code? Just my two cents.
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Intuit Quickbooks Online is down and they have a refreshingly retro way of communicating system status to their customers:

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Please contact the server administrator, serviceconsulting@quickbooks.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

https://qbo.intuit.com/login?redirect=true
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From a stats-heavy perspective, Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman's Elements of Statistical Learning is pretty good, and now free: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
no such luck for "do the dougie".
Part of my confusion was that I am referencing the carrier-specific US devices. The button configuration in that image isn't available from the major US carriers. Fascinate, Vibrant, and Captivate all include the menu/home/back/search buttons across the bottom (http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/all-products).

I would tend to agree that the Galaxy S image you provided offers a confusing button layout for an android device.
Why are you so determined to damn this effort? Can you imagine launching a weekend web startup project and having someone on here to look elsewhere before considering a donation?

People starting businesses come here to be encouraged, and this guy isn't doing anything wrong. In fact, I wish more creatives would consider these sorts of alternative approaches to patronage.
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