skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handmade doesn't automatically means better.
I wear mechanical watches. Some of them are handmade and you can see the imperfections due to a slightly unsteady hand in the polishing and decorations. This, in my book, adds character and just make my watch so much more special.

Yes a mass produced watch (Rolex/Omega/etc) are "better" in the sense that there's no imperfections. And more expensive watches (PP/Lange/etc) than I can afford are also handmade but have no imperfections. At all. They are also massively expensive.

I love handmade stuff and the fact that it's not perfect. You know that there's a human being that with hard work and a lot of talent has produced a work of art.

Now s/watches/knives/ but I don't collect knives.
This is the most inspirational/life-changing video I've seen all year. I really think that there is a huge amount of stuff that we could start building or making locally, individually with skill, craft and dedication.

I would love to be able to work with my hands in a workshop, learning to make unique and masterful things from a master craftsmanship instead of sitting for 8 hours a day in the office dealing with things so abstract that they disappear when you switch off the electricity.
Keep in mind that S3, like all other Amazon products, are priced with stupid margins. As such providing lower prices isn't difficult.
It's not open source. The code is not currently available. Given that the code for SpiderOak itself has been "coming real soon now" for a year, I'm not going to hold my breath. Even if/when that day does come, it will be "thrown over the wall" open source rather than "developed collaboratively" open source. At least Swift, for all of its alleged technical deficiencies (which don't seem to prevent it being used to billions of files already), hasn't been guilty of false advertising. Alternatively you have Walrus, tabled (from Project Hail), Elliptics, Luwak, Gluster's UFO, and probably more. Practically all of these have solved the harder problems of cluster management, API implementation (including the security that nimbus.io seems awfully quiet about), OS integration, etc. Without source, nimbus.io can't credibly claim to have reached parity in all of these other areas, or that it would take less for it to reach parity than for the others to add the one feature (erasure coding instead of replication) that they crow about.
I don't think it is as straightforward as that. Imagine you're learning chess and you have a chess master as your teacher, you are going to annihilate someone who has putted the same amount of time, even more, but who doesn't have such a good teacher.
I'm using Ubuntu, and I wanted to give Fedora a try. I can't run Docky or Avant Window Navigator :(

Gnome 3 is great and all, but I really like using docks and from some google searches it seems many people have this issue!
To disrupt scientific research you need to change the way that science is funded. Science is not for-profit, unlike the disrupted industries mentioned here. If you have to show how determining how a flagella works is going to produce revenue, then you are going to stifle science in another way.

Good science is slow, deliberate, and motivated by open-ended questions and discovery, not by end points.

We need to fund the process of science, and make sure that the knowledge gained is shared publicly. No other disruption is necessary.
I love stuff like this effort. The more open data sources, the better for everyone. I'm sure we (DuckDuckGo) will find a way to make use of it :)
Yea, the real question is how to show their efforts in an open system so they can get tenure without fear of being "scooped" by being open
That's incredible, is that really what the revenue split with Amazon looks like?

I'm familiar with Lulu.com, and their standard ebook split gives 80% after the first $0.99 to the author. They even have a special going on right now giving 90%. (http://www.lulu.com/publish/ebooks/?cid=nav_ebks)

Granted you could argue that getting distribution on Amazon and all the Kindle owners is worth the difference. That's what makes it difficult to build a competitor. You could easily make an auction site, but the network effect of eBay is what sets it apart, not the features or pricing.
Isn't that the whole point of S3 - you don't need to make your own cloud with your own hardware?
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Whats with the near-vertical growth of hostnames in 2011?
Latency may be able to be made low through caching, but depending on the distribution the point at which additional cache is uneconomical may be well before the edge of your performance envelope.

How are you calculating your latency? Also, what distribution do you assume your file accesses will come from?
"Battles are decided, Sethra told me, when timing and momentum and courage all come together and, at just the right moment, someone fails to make a critical mistake and doesn't manage to miss a vital opportunity."

-Steven Brust, from Dragon
I basically feel the same way, but I used WP7 at SxSW this year and it was a very disappointing experience. Even the apps that they were demoing to show how great WP7 is crashed with ugly "NullReferenceException" dialog boxes. (Crashing is one thing, but it's no help to the user to barf up a stack trace, however beautifully that stack trace may be formatted.) The Zagat app was one of the ones they were flogging, and it was pretty much unusable.
Amazon says that S3 provides eleven nines (99.999999999%) durability of files. So if you have 100 billion objects in S3, you should expect to lose on average 1 per year. Or, if you have 10,000 files, you should expect to lose 1 per 10 million years. In addition they say it can tolerate the simultaneous failure of two datacenters. Nimbus, with 3 copies total, appears much less redundant... but nobody knows how Amazon calculated their eleven nines claim.
So how "light" is a default install of Fedora these days? The thing I don't like about Ubuntu is that they take the kitchen sink approach and install a bunch of stuff I don't believe should be installed by default, such as Open/Libre Office.
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I wrote a blog post showing some of the bigger optimizations: http://codeinhindsight.blogspot.com/2011/10/down-rabbit-hole...

Aside from the pokey NumberFormatter and "replaceOccurrencesOfString" calls, the biggest source of slowdown was the Objective-C calling mechanism itself. After that, it came down to minimizing even the CF API calls. They work fine, but they are generic routines, and you can get better speed by rolling your own specialized code for buffer management and such.

In the end, the only thing I left to CF (aside from constructing the final objects) was unicode conversion.
Dedicated to Dennis Ritchie! http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_N...

Also, a StackExchange-like Fedora Q&A site was launched today: http://ask.fedoraproject.org/questions/
This video reminds me of why I loved living in New York. And, it epitomizes what is great about that city -- many people who believe that great art is worth the sacrifice.
Question; how does netcraft determine what web-server serves a particular domain? Most big sites hide those details in http headers, so how do they tell?
>I don't know of any SMTP-Server that accepts E-Mail on Ports other than 25.

Then you are an idiot. Period.
A very practical problem with making data available publicly is privacy. This is likely not going to be an issue for data coming out of the LHSC, but comes into play in CS research. I know a bunch of researchers who work with large datasets that have user locations, cell tower communication, social network data, etc. Of course, even researchers work with data that is annonymized. But almost nothing is truly anonymous. You have to assume that researchers working with the data are going to be sensible about how they use it. If not, they will face serious consequences (i.e. lose their jobs and hurt their reputations). A dataset made public typically cannot be controlled in this manner.

Researchers must also go through IRBs (independent review boards) at their institution prior to engaging in research that deals with human subjects. If the collected data is going to be made available publicly, it makes the process more arduous.

Btw ... there is a decent dataset repository for CS researchers doing mobile computing called Crawdad.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_N...

Dedicated to Dennis Ritchie. Nice.
Nice, now that you don't really need iTunes to sync iOS devices I've been shopping for an alternative player. My only request would be a "fob" mode that minimizes the player to a small controller view.

Good work, looking forward to the official release!
I absolutely would if I could do it and still get funded. I'd love to share everything openly. Just pay my bills as I do it.

Currently, science is funded based on individual results. You can't blame folk for wanting to be promoted or to win tenure.
Visa problems? 'Seasteading' your startup may be the answer
Apptegy - Understand your business mobile app strategy
I am a student at Singapore and as part of my final project have a proposed Start Up plan and implementation of a web app that will:

Bug brands and businesses are not fully utilizing the potential of the mobile app stores...

Hence our app will help brands:
1. Analyze a brands performance in the app stores in terms of downloads, features, ratings and other parameters.

2. Benchmark mobile app performance of companies against their competitors in terms of downloads, ratings, features, time of usage etc in their specific sector and geography. Then also give them an industry standard benchmarking score.

3. Suggest new features for their apps based on a human generated recommendation engine for new features that could be included in their application by analyzing produts/features in other industries and competitors.

Lets say a Bank wants to find out how their mobile app is doing against other banks or any of their competitor. They can use our web app and compare their app versus others in terms of downloads, users, ratings, features etc. We are targeting this such that they can continually montior their mobile app. Also the human powered feature will suggest features they could incorporate in their own app.

Do you think this is a start up idea?
Who do you think will be the potential customers
We have had more physicists working in the past few decades than in the rest of human history put together. Statistically, there are dozens of Einsteins and Feynmans and Newtons walking around. But no breakthroughs. You can't attribute this to chance.

Again, mere time is a bad metric for baseline progress.
The other video is here: http://vimeo.com/28408829

I can't view it through their website in IE8.
I have the launch website at http://apptegy.com/
Aside: What is with the proliferation of vimeo usage? I've found it more likely to crash my laptop, making me reluctant to click. Never had a crash from youtube.
Made by Hand / No 1 The Distiller
I found this fascinating. I love seeing people develop and demonstrate their craft in a authentic, passionate way. There is a physical component to his work where you use all your senses, such as when he feels the edge of the sharpened knife with his thumb, that you just don't have with programming. To produce a physical artifact that has the right balance, heft, lines, and finish requires the integration of a lot of different skills that when done properly, is deeply satisfying.
Bingo. There is good reason to fear being scooped. It can cost you funding, and thus, your job.
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Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector Goes Native on Linux
Facebook's Zuckerberg says he was coached by Steve Jobs
+ Airfoil. e.g. play Internet Radio (radioparadise.com) on your Mac to Airfoil on your iPod Touch in a speaker dock. Very nice when you're decorating a room at the weekend. But iOS should include an Airplay server.
Great to hear. I'll look forward to looking at your implementation and exploring the tradeoffs you are making. I'm especially interested in how you solve durability in the face of multiple, simultaneous hardware failures. I'm also quite curious about how you are handling object metadata.

You are absolutely right that these things are greatly dependent on the use case. I'm happy to see other people trying to solve these problems too.

Can you describe your API? Do you have your own? Are you reimplementing the S3 API? REST-ful? xmlrpc? How do you handle authentication and authorization?
I was really excited, then I noticed there's no Linux support.
I think the real story here is that he chose the 35% royalty rate over the 70% rate “because you can opt out of Kindle Lending.”

I understand that some people view disabling that feature as less of an anti-customer move than I do, but to hate it enough to waive half your royalties?
I love their themes. Wish it were easy to download them separately.
The underlying ideas are not only correct, they're being actively validated in the increase in salaries for good programmers.

Then why do people complain about low wages and poor equity offers? Not everyone is a Google employee making $250k in salary + benefits.

But the key point in the essay is about making value directly, by making something people want. Has that somehow become a dated notion? Isn't it, rather, being validated with every single startup that enriches its value-creating founders?

Where are all of these startups that magically print money for their founders? All I see on HN are people grinding away on their MVPs (or pushing a landing page as their MVP) while we discuss the same hot-shot startups (Square, Twitter, FB, etc.) over and over again.
It may be that they've violated the terms of their license to distribute. If this was an unlicensed distribution, it could put them into copyright violation territory.
Digesting Health Care Reform
Beautiful knives.

I hope the handmade movement really takes off. Maybe people could consume less but unique artifacts that have a real story behind them rather than accumulating mountains of mass produced, generic stuff that ends up in a trash heap a couple of years later.
The parallels between Joel Bukiewicz's passion and many startups are striking. Some people understand that extreme amounts of money isn't what makes them happy, rather being able to completely explore their own medium in the ways they choose is where the love is.

Amazing film, very well done.
What do you mean by "tighter"?
I'm with you right up until the last 4 words. Analogies to real world processes and objects are crucial for most people to be able understand and reason about digital concepts. Analogies are almost always flawed in some way -- that doesn't mean they should be avoided altogether.
Malicious app penetrates iTunes store to test security
HashCash would have some benefits, even if only a few people start using it, and would give incentives to participate: Just don't use it for a binary decision, but as one factor in your probabilistic spam filtering. And make the filter also discriminate on the amount of work put into the hash.
We also expect price to be a motivator, since it costs less than 1/2 of what S3 does at $0.06/GB.

But we're not competing with S3 directly as a general cloud storage solution. We're specifically focusing on the case of long term archival storage.

You can compare the two services as tradeoffs from the expression: Inexpensive, High Throughput, Low-Latency (pick any two.)

S3 picks High Throughput and Low Latency.

Nimbus.io picks Inexpensive and High Throughput.

But for bulk archival and restore tasks, does 100ms of latency really matter to you? In other words, are you equally happy if your backup/restore job completes in 2 minutes vs. 2 minutes and 0.1 seconds? Do you care enough to pay more than twice as much? So that's why we're focusing on the archival market.
Yeah, the original states that the practice must be deliberate. Of course, generally better practice would prevail.
This is indeed the story that is usually told, but I find it pretty lacking.
BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple
Am I right in thinking that Arch is the new Gentoo?
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I hope you do more like the Ryan Singer play by play peepcode videos.

Those were some of the best I've seen
Where did you read it had only sold six copies previously?
You can't really blame Juniper for these crashes. They released a fix for the issue months ago. These customers must not have upgraded. See the juniper software alert here: http://pastebin.com/HBWiH92j
There's thenewboston.com for video tutorials, and also anddev.org.
How I got a 100% conversion rate cold calling prospects for customer development
The 2011 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows
Code Beautifier, old work indenting C Code ~ "By The Code For The Code"
The intro does mention that the "real purpose" of this tutorial "is to explore some of the big new features in the 7.1 release"... So I think it's more geared towards developers with WP7 experience who want to learn what's new in Mango. (I don't mean that it necessarily does a very good job at even that, just pointing out.)
Here, here.
A good idea. However, the music made me feel as though the title should be "Take a short break in a Tom Hanks movie".
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I imagine that he can't afford to lose income for the time it would take to train.
Show HN: made this HTML5 game
inspired by Startup School 2011

Link:
http://chrome.private-joe.com
Simple log management and viewing for your servers
OK yes the handling of that error message is terrible in that special way that only Microsoft can be terrible at handling error messages. . .

But apps crashing with NullReferenceExceptions? WTF!? Sounds like Microsoft needs to start a program where each major app developer gets a personal visit from a Microsoft representative armed with a free copy of ReSharper and a long, baleful stare.
...Read the HTTP headers? I think you answered your own question.
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Square Welcomes New Investor Sir Richard Branson
I Almost Quit My Business, Until I found Video Marketing
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I wonder if Steve Jobs felt more inclined to coach Zuckerberg after the announcement of Android
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C# dev here too. I'm curious, was there something specific that you found confusing?

I can understand there's a pretty big spectrum of stuff covered here really quickly. I understood the datacontext database stuff because that's what I work with every day. But, I've avoided Silverlight/WPF successfully for years now and expected the view stuff to be a bit crazy. Lucikly I do a lot of MVC3 which makes all the Model techniques used here pretty familiar as well.

I would love to develop some WP7 apps. I've been wanting a WP7 for a long time...but Sprint only has 1 model and it's already a year old.
"almost as easy than Ubuntu or any other distribution"

But if Ubuntu is easier, why not use Ubuntu?
Tips:
To avoid logging in, just click "X" when presented with the login window.

Logging in via OpenID means you keep your scores,weapons,badges.

Playing through the mission mode is the easiest way to get more weapons. Other way is to collect enough coins to buy them.

Quickie Mode let's you start fragging immediately
The heat is on
Google exec: “We won’t favor Motorola Mobility.” Rest of the world: “Suuuuure.”
Home contents insurance, what locks do I need?
Wired's photostream of its photos. Now released under Creative Commons
First Take of the New Google+ Business Pages
> "this could happen to some other unsuspecting author."

Not to mention the now-clear potential for malicious activity that this process illustrates: If one wanted to cause trouble for an author, apparently they could just post three chapters of a book to the Nook store at $0 and watch the target author's Kindle revenue drop to zero.

Amazon's incentive is clearly to err on the side of price drops -- particularly if they suffer no serious legal/PR damage from false-positives.
Two comments:

1.
Scientists publish in slow peer reviewed journals, because scientific publication has to be peer reviewed. The reviewers are a very small selection of other scientists, who are expert in the field of the publication. As long as the reviewers don't signal white smoke, a publication is no science by definition. This way of work is important to keep quality excellent. We certainly don't need more quickly published junk that stirs the world but is found to be inaccurate later.

Can we accelerate the process of peer reviewing? I doubt that. As I have written, the reviewers are other scientists who have to find the time to read and comment new articles. The more time they spend with this, the less time they spend doing research. So the small amount of experts usually is responsible for being slow.

You may be quicker by internet publishing, if (IF!) you work on a highly dynamic field where other scientists are hungry for your results. As the author writes, this is the exception. Most scientific results will be useful only a long time after the publication, if they will be useful at all. In this way, science is much faster than application already.

2. The author writes, we could make progress faster. Please: why? It seems to be a sign of the time that we want to accelerate everything. It is most likely that this will only produce more noise. We need to slow down our lives and our thinking to stay accurate and produce real value. I am glad that science results, at least in my field, are still reliably scrutinized by many. This way I know that reading and spending the time to understand the stuff is worth my time.