skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard anyone use "median" and "average" interchangeably who wasn't confused about what "median" and "mean" mean, and every math class I've ever taken involved a reminder that "median" and "average" are different.

Dig up arcane usages to support your confusing wording all you want, but the point of language is communication, and when you use words in significantly different ways from other people, you're communicating unclearly.
Not sure how big the market is. But seems like a solid business idea and you could have a cashcow on your hands.

Good luck.
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There is an option for SLA with a paid Google Apps account. Last I checked it was $50/year, but comes with much larger inbox (25G at Google vs. 10G max at Rackspace). Also better integration and push notifications on mobile for Google, if you care about that.
While Haskell is ranked ahead of eg scala or erlang in total repos on github, the majority of larger/active projects in Haskell are still in darcs repos, on places like code.haskell.org.

Historical note: the Haskell dev world jumped on distributed vcs a few years before git appeared, via darcs, and that early move has resulted in the situation today, where it's mostly only the younger projects in git.
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TLDR - He hears us, but he's doing nothing.

This motivates me to go to the tech meetup on Wednesday.

www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/47879702/
I run my own server for over 6 years at an IDC in San Diego. The hosting is managed by http://m5hosting.com/ and I think they are fantastic.

Would I do it again given the abundance of VPS options today? Possibly. There are only two reasons not to run my own hardware: 1 - dangers of hardware failure on my single server and scrambling to build a new one as opposed to spinning up a new VPS. 2 - scaling. But after 6 years, neither of these have been a problem. In fact, I bet if the hardware failure does occur, I can have m5hosting provide me with a replacement server in a few hours and I could have it config'd and back up in around a day.

I certainly pay less by running my own, with hardware cost amortized over such a long period. I feel the admin hassles are about the same as running a single VPS and less than running multiple VPSs. I set it up, have good docs on the config, automated cloud backups (tarsnap) and would have no problem reinstalling from scratch.

Oh, and of course, I don't run my own mail sever. I'm not a masochist ;).
"google has documents that i have authored, and i can retrieve them from google any time i want to, but i don't have them and i don't have to worry about where they're stored."

You should really automate backups of your google docs to local storage. I've lost data when documents inexplicably disappeared.
I actually found the comments informative to gain better insight as to why people use different setups. I had assumed that same as what you said, which turned out to be less often true than I thought.
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I wonder how companies protect their source code from leaking. Doesn't every programmer have access to the full source tree? Any disgruntled former programmer employee ought to be able to dump the source of a product for the public to see.
That is actually a really good example. Look at the competition, Conduit (http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/16/toolbar-company-conduit-rai...), a company that literally has a few hundred employees (150-499 according to Glassdoor). I figure that Google has about the same number as the competition does for each service, so the Chrome team would roughly match Mozilla (~300 employees), the Docs team would match Zoho (~1500 employees), Maps would match MapQuest (~150 employees), etc.
as usual, it's also in the bible
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstractio...
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Pay them. College students will do anything for money, even if its a small amount. Try out a survey. My campus has a lot of those surveys posted on bulletin boards and usually participants get something like $10 for completing a survey, or even better, they just get an entry into a contest for an Ipad 2 or something.
It's not that it's violent, it's that you've been given an option that you've decided not to take, and then it escalates.
We tried them but had to change to a different vendor because the Blackberries didn't recognize their certificates and they had no plans to rectify that. We don't have much BB traffic, but didn't want to exclude BB users just because we wanted to be cheap.
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Interesting. But maybe a better title would be: A Spellchecker Used To Require A Major Feat of Software Engineering.

Some may say something is lost and resources wasted - taken for granted as we now brute force our way through such problems. Surely going backwards?

but now we are, a million times a second; free to disambiguate a word's meaning, check its part of speech, figure out whether its a named entity or an address, figure out if it is a key topic in the document we are looking at and write basic sentences. I agree. That is progress.
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And just as an example, I have around 200 darcs repos, including big projects like xmonad, yi or bytestring, that might never be on github, since they're in darcs on c.h.o.

The Haskell world is really an anomaly in this regard.
MANY people have tried this. It sounds nice in theory but it just doesn't work. I actually had an idea like this before and researched competitors. None of them caught on. Yet it's a startup that people try over and over and over again hoping it's some undiscovered market.

To most people, hyperlocal = less impact + less audience + less circulation + less reach. People don't want "hyperlocal" they want "giant stage", lots of reach, huge audience. Sure, dealing with people closer to you is better. But what people really want is just Craiglist with a "sort by closeness" filter.
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Ask HN: What is the problem that you find with video discovery in youtube?
Do you experience it?How video discovery in youtube can be improved? is it really a problem?

im working on my product which tries to solve video discovery by crowd sourcing video playlists ,which can be followed by people.

Here is the quora question
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-problem-that-you-find-with-video-discovery-in-youtube

Thanks!
Now, if they could only fix OCR technology! I'm getting tired of "the" being scanned as "die".
In case you missed this paragraph:

"Piracy, for me is certainly not about not wanting to pay.
It's about the feeling that the money I pay mostly doesn't
go to creators, but to the companies in-between who doesn't
deserve it. I don't want to support such an industry."

Paraphrased:

"I want to pay, but the creators don't get most of the money.
So rather than paying, I pirate instead."

This invalidates your argument.
That's what they're working on.

http://www.dropbox.com/developers
Toggle the switch. Vibrates when going into mute, with a large visual for luck. There is a notification area icon that tells you if you have a wake-up alarm set.
Yeah, me too. I just couldn't help myself.

https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=JavaScript&...

https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=JavaScript&...

OK, I'm done now.
That's not the issue here, because when setting an alarm "doing what they say" is to play the alarm.

The user gave the device two conflicting commands, and it has to decide which of them to honor.
Simplicity trade-off.
This is a cloud filesystem with synchronization we're talking about. Yeah, sure Google is working on one (slowly).

Also:
- Amazon
- Shelfspace (rackspace's real name)
- Telstra
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Box.net
- Live mesh
- Oosah
- JungleDisk
- VMWare
- blackblaze
- ...

If google is more dangerous than normal competitors it's because they usually know what they're doing. But this niche is drowning in competition with or without google.
I don't have the citation to-hand, but part of SAGE's development cycle was a emulator/simulator on which tests were run. It was reported as being a reasonably effective debugging mechanism.
Which part of the Slicehost to Rackspace migration required the additional time that had not been invested?

Also, what do BCC and AR refer to?
Then your maths professors were more lax than mine, who were always careful to distinguish between the general term "average" and specific terms like "mean" and "median".

As for the accusation that I'm being arcane - all I can do is point you to that most un-arcane and accessible of all reference works, Wikipedia. It spells it out quite clearly, and agrees with me entirely.
Jon Bentley's Progamming Pearls books are full of such insights into designing incredibly efficient data structures and algorithms.
You should read Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, which says basically the same thing in thorough detail. The fact that you know of some number of difficult things that you've seen and considered says very little about whether there's a cognitive bias against doing so in general - how can you even start to quantify all the things that you may have missed?
The perfect "screen saver" idea! Or use webcams. (Though, that may run up your data use...)
My god, the least interesting post in years... When will we have a How to loose weight by eating three burgers a day?
Just run it through google translate, German -> English. That'll fix "die" into "the", but it'll make some other things strange I bet.
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You might like 'How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine' (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/small.html), where some of the founders of Infocom talk about the approaches they used to fit Zork (which required a massive 1MB of memory) onto microcomputer systems which had 32K and a floppy disk drive.

See also the Digital Antiquarian's fascinating (and reasonably technical) blog on the origins of Infocom: http://www.filfre.net/tag/infocom/
It's interesting that the controversy is completely centered around the iPhone. The behavior described for mute is exactly how Android's alarm app works as well. So it's not Apple going it alone in some quixotic quest to enforce their own twisted idea of how this should work on users in defiance of the rest of the industry.

I'm delighted with this behavior, because it perfectly meets one use case of mine: I want to set my phone to silent mode when I go to sleep and have it stop making notification sounds, but still beep to wake me up in the morning.
It would be more intuitive for hardware switches to trump software ones.

For instance, if I push the power off button on my mains, I mean it. Not obeying this directive is the province of HAL.
Like @StealthMountain does on Twitter for people whe say "sneak peak" instead of "sneak peek"?
India needs to correct their shit, or US companies need to begin pulling out. The dilemma is that any company worth their commercial salt is not going to give up the business opportunity that is the Indian economy.
My "Dumbphone" Solved the Mute Switch
There are pros and cons of this. I would be late for work every other day if the iPhone did "mute" like my old Nokia. Here, this one guy's musical performance was disturbed.

I would probably make the same call as Apple: if you set an alarm and it doesn't go off, you're in more trouble mor of the time than if you set an alarm, forget it, and mute your phone.
How much of the javascript on github is just jquery bundled in rails projects?
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I don't have a problem finding videos (or discovering videos) on youtube as much as I have issues with the default YouTube app on iPhone not showing all the content you would normally find on youtube.com through a web browser. I suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that not all videos are html5 compatible and partially maybe for whatever reason the app isn't pulling the correct results. But that's about the only issue I've come across.
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What's the proper grammar for this? It seems like a perfectly acceptable order for the words, but you're right that there's some flow missing. Commas surrounding 'Saturday' perhaps?
Great find! I really wish I could find simmilarly engaging language courses in other languages.
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This relates to Fred Brooks's 'No Silver Bullet': the 'accidental complexity' of coping with hardware constraints has given way to the 'essential complexity' of writing an algorithm to check someone's spelling.
Funny but I was thinking about some of these things a few months back that you are addressing here but more in the form of an API that allows real time conversion of visitors by geo-targeting traffic for all types of sites.

So say I run a blog and I write a new blog post that happens to mention $1,000,000.00. It would be nice if a reader from Europe ends up on the blog and is reading it would naturally see a conversion appear next that that number in Euro or something to that affect, but not just currency conversion but in the correct format (similar for other metrics since the US seem to be the rarity when it comes to measuring things in Fahrenheit, inches and feet, miles, etc...).
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From his comments and yours, here is what might have happened:

He developed an operating system by himself, spent a lot of effort in it.

Despite spending a large part of his life on this project, not many people are interested.

In despair, and alone, all he thinks about everyday is losethos, as you can see in each comment. In his mind, everything links back to losethos in someway.

`I could do USB but keyboard and mice aren't any better, possibly worse from a compatibility state. Memory sticks would be really nice. Now, we're in the domain of distinctive drivers for similar pieces of hardware. Can't do that. Might be able to.`

He seems to have related this article to how he didn't implement drivers for those accessories in his OS. (Schleps)

I am guessing he was sent to a clinic by his parents.

`I don't know. I don't even care. I don't care about one person. Parents are enemies. I pay them $600 they take care of me, but abuse me, I prolly abuse them.
This is heaven -- argument clinic and I'm telling truth all the time, except for wild speculation. I don't know shit about reality.`

His frequent references to God suggests someone close has given him a bible, in an attempt to help him.

He is able to comment on HN probably because he still has access to his computer and internet.

Pouring your life into a project, only after finding nobody cares much about it, while living alone for years... I can see how I'd become mentally unstable too.

=(

`Frustration over my reality being bogus, sucks.`
http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=K3sfeO8PZb

He was probably told that by doctors. Could it be caused by long-term denial?

Here's more of him elsewhere: http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18514&sta...
For many of us there are always pending alarms. A mute dialog would be a severe pain.

To me, it's not such a problem to go into Clock and turn the alarm off if I change my mind about it. I try not to give my device conflicting commands. I wouldn't feed an S/R latch 1-1 when I expect it to give meaningful results.
This is news because although you don't use the product, there are many people who do. Norton comes preloaded on a lot of machines, and there are plenty of non-power users who just maintain the status quo when they get a new machine. Norton also has significant brand recognition (I think they're one of two brands with major name recognition in this area for the average consumer - McAffe being the other), so there's a certain amount of "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" Syndrome at play.

It's news because it could represent a critical vulnerability to these users. If the source is exposed and properly analyzed by sufficiently intelligent, yet malicious people, they could launch a zero-day on the antivirus software itself, leaving a system unprotected, and possibly silently unprotected. That's bad.
Precisely.
When I am leading groups of people in committing felonies,
I tell them: "Turn your phone off. Not on silent. Not on pleasure vibrate mode. Off."
I believe this is the link is the proper one:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for...

-keithc
On the other hand, the most common use for alarm is when you want to be woken up no matter what, which is more common than weddings.
Yes, and "Programming Pearls" has a nice chapter (13.8) on how doug mcilroy fit the spell dict into less than 64k (
http://code.google.com/p/unix-spell/).

That site also has a paper on the development of spell (http://unix-spell.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/McIlroy_spell_198...).
I have my iPhone on vibrate all the time and use it for an alarm.

I get in to trouble when I turn the volume down. I would expect to hear about someone who missed something important because the phone wasn't audible if it were the other way.

On the other hand, it would only affect those in the future, not those in the present.
Main reason why (I want to code not schlep) I don't want to run a business, let alone a startup. I've run business before, btw.
Well anyone could start their own CA and hand out free certificates. The problem is that nobody trusts Joe Bloggs' new CA.
"...threatened on Saturday..."
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I'm guessing "...threatened on Saturday..." is probably a better way to phrase it
My dad worked on SAGE for a short while. All I know is the bldg was a big block of windowless concrete.
Read Four Steps To The Epiphany. Steve describes exactly what you're writing about, pretty much even the dragon:

"The hero’s journey is an apt way to think of startups. ... Obstacles, hardships and disaster lie ahead... It tests their stamina, agility, and the limits of courage.

Most entrepreneurs feel their journey is unique. Yet what Campbell perceived about the mythological hero’s journey is true of startups as well: however dissimilar the stories may be in detail, their outline is always the same. Most entrepreneurs travel down the startup path without a roadmap and believe that no model or template could apply to their new venture. They are wrong. For the path of a startup is well worn, and well understood."
> Is it that difficult to replicate what Apple does, provided that you have enough resources? I don't think so. But, still, companies fail to do so.

Replicating Apple's brand/image is what's hard. That brand has taken years of focusing on Apple's/Steve Jobs's particular style of doing business and building products. We see people trying now to replicate that, but it took Apple all of the 2000s to get its brand to where it is.
Things are much worse now than they were pre-Prohibition. We have the awful three-tier system which means higher prices and less choice for consumers. Not to mention the accumulated brewing knowledge that was lost by Prohibition + a 45 year ban on homebrewing. It's only in the past 20 or so years that we've begun to undo the damage, and we're still worse off.
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Oh cool… I've always wanted to know how that works. Right? No.

Anti-virus software is like drugs: they'll preload a little quality free thing on your new computer and then remind you (every two hours) when your 60-day trial has expired AND YOUR COMPUTER IS AT RISK OH NOES KABOOM!!! Then, they'll gladly charge you for that feeling of safety when no software can protect against human stupidity, which is the root cause of most virus infections.

In other news, the world has moved past Norton and you should get a Mac.
Companies like Microsoft and Google employ several hundred interns each summer... college students with little commitment to the company and access to the source code of real products. Kids! Yet it's not considered a problem.

> I wonder how companies protect their source code from leaking

The prospect of being bankrupted by a civil suit or thrown in prison is enough to stop most people.
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The blinkin lights remind of WOPR. Wonder if this commercial inspired that movie?
How do IDEs factor into this theory? It's easy to make pretty code these days in a variety of languages without actually writing it yourself.

The other factor that comes into play is time to implement. Most startups are always in crunch mode of one type or another. Everything needs to be done last week, so getting it done quick is more important than getting it done right (this is the manager's viewpoint, not mine, but it is a popular one). So you do it and you tell yourself you'll fix it later, but later comes and you're on to the next deadline, so it never gets re-written. Are you a bad programmer?

I appreciate the idea of beautiful code, but it doesn't survive contact with the real world, especially if the real world is running scrum.
Thanks, I think I now understand (better, at least) where your original post was coming from.

So now that we're not "tacitly" accepting that IP has "the same" legal foundations qua other properties like cars and laptops, do you also intend to non-tacitly reject the claim that "online piracy" is a thing that subjects content producers to harm?

Because it seems to me that if you agree there is harm at all, we jump to a debate where we're arguing (I think) whether the Extent of the harm is such that the Proposed Enforcement Mechanisms and Penalties are a legitimate fit.

My impression of the SOPA hearing was that's pretty much where we are today. e.g. Google's recommendation to "follow the money" was an attempt to fit an enforcement mechanism to illegitimate financial gain by parties other than the content owner.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Just sounds to me like some incompetent writer tried to wrangle yet another op-ed out of the Comcast vs. Level 3 lawsuit. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-12-01-comcast01_ST_N....
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Thanks. How do you discover new videos?
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I don't have a discovery problem. I just search and use the date filters ("uploaded today", "uploaded this month", etc). They've made doing so easy -- search for "cats, today" and it'll automatically do a search for "cats" with the "uploaded today" filter selected.
I disagree also. Their process is fine with me and very quick. I haven't had to contact them in a while, but when I did, got fast, intelligent response. StartCom/StartSSL is a breath of fresh air.