skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My strategy is to ignore what the domain is worth and name a figure out of the blue, then imagine selling it for that. If I feel resentful then it's too low, if I'm super excited about selling it, then it's too high.

Basically, price it at just above the minimum you're willing to sell it for, not what it 'could be worth'.
Would be nice to have a vegetarian / vegan option which quickly checks / unchecks various things.

As a vege in one day I need to eat a lot of eggs and drink a lot of milk.

6 Eggs + 1 Cup Egg Whites +
3 Cups of Milk

I wonder how to make a meal out of this:

2 eggs Eggs +
1 cup Lentils +
30 grams Protein Powder +
1 cup Strawberries

I think it has potential though. Will be good when there are recipes.
Would be nice to have a vegetarian / vegan option which quickly checks / unchecks various things.

As a vege in one day I need to eat a lot of eggs and drink a lot of milk.

6 Eggs + 1 Cup Egg Whites
3 Cups of Milk

I wonder how to make a meal out of this:

2 eggs Eggs
1 cup Lentils
30 grams Protein Powder
1 cup Strawberries

I think it has potential though. Will be good when there are recipes.
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Great app, exactly what I needed.

I am worried about eating 6 eggs per day. Isn't there a risk of cholesterol?
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It's very good, keep at refining it. I also think you're bang on with the UI layout. You're certainly onto something here. I'm sure you'll have a million little feature requests, perhaps you should use somewhere where people can vote on them. Here's mine:
- Allow capping the fat intake for a day.
- Metric units.
The Pirate Bay now blocked in the Netherlands
As of today I can no longer visit thepiratebay.org in the Netherlands. A bit of internet freedom has been lost.
Ask HN: Recent Experience with Heroku
Over the past weekend I moved my blog off of Tumblr to Heroku. Their documentation couldn't have been more clear and deployment was dead simple. However, day 2 after my launch I find if I hit the site (as of 5:45am EST) I get an application error. I'm finding the same for heroku.com as well, although status.heroku.com shows no problems.

So I'm asking for other's experience with reliability and support at Heroku. I'm in the process of building something and I'd rather not launch on an unstable platform.
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Why anything.blogspot.com goes to anything.blogspot.in?
Do anyone know? Why anything.blogspot.com goes to anything.blogspot.in for all blogs?
Why people have Google Search completely wrong
Its with all blogspot blogs, even with http://google.blogspot.com redirect to http://google.blogspot.in
Researching UK entrepreneurs that have secured a US Visa
Writing an article that will profile UK entrepreneurs that have managed to secure a US visa.

It's a continuation from this article http://www.startups.co.uk/what-london-can-learn-from-silicon-valley.html

Looking to quote in the article.

Love to hear from you if this is you - email me: william.channer@gmail.com

Or just suggest names of UK entrepreneurs in the US that I should get in contact with.
I don't understand the use case. Care to educate me?
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When clicking on the "not sure" link to determine how many calories we want per day, one is given a choice between Imperial and Metric units; but in the generated diets this choice is apparently not present?

(Also, what is a "cup"? and how many avocados does it hold...?)
no they do not. not only is this not established in law (in fact, congress has made it harder for civil suits to be filed), they are almost never brought unless there has been a large drop in stock price (not for tepid or slower-than-desired growth), the ones that are brought are usually dismissed, and the ones that are not dismissed are almost universally settled.

take a look at, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
The advice is more “start taking these and get to the hospital”.

Keeping some antibiotics on hand isn't a terrible idea when there's a scenario that delays medical care for more than a day (and no, the weekend doesn't count in a city).
People pay for treatment under the NHS. The cost is very much less than private dentists. Some people (limited income) get free treatment.

Children get free treatment.

Finding an NHS dentist can be tricky.
Omelet, humus (with a bit of pita bread), and drink the protein powder with the strawberries in a smoothie.
They have an 8 year warranty, so hopefully they will last at least that long.
The exclusive networks you can find simply by googling.

They all require a large amount of unique visitors (1 million+ per month) and not controversial content like adult material or guns.
Note that it only counts for two ISP's (XS4All and Ziggo). People with other providers are (still) safe.
> ISSUE: We're experiencing a widespread outage affecting our HTTP routing

doesn't sound good
Just coming back to this thread because I grabbed my Grit Scale score (4/5) and watched the TED talk, which turned out to be one of the first to hold my interest in a long while - I've seen most of the 'TED classics'.

I seem to be in the upper quartile that is statistically likely to have what it takes to stick it out, but it feels far from certain. Perhaps it provided a slight boost in self-confidence.

In any case, thanks for bringing this up. It ties in nicely with the 'Drunkard's Walk' (cf. Mlodinov) randomness/perseverance traits that seem to increase the probability of achieving one's goals.
If you are talking about the outage happening at the moment, It is on the status page:

https://status.heroku.com/

In my experience, the error rate is not higher then at any other hosted solution.
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Probably, Mongoid::Versioning?
Time for costco. Seriously, though, eggs are awesome.
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How does it work? I'm logging in to do what?
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Me 6. This is so unhealthy by the way, the yellow part contains far too much cholesterol to be eaten on a daily basis.

edit: Seriously? I'm not trolling, ask any dietetic guy if he thinks it's healthy eating that much eggs everyday.
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Scalable web apps: the complexity issue
The status page (https://status.heroku.com/) is also really slow now.
Indeed, along with a whole lot of other web apps relying on Heroku.
As for the icons, you can put a word to the face. That is the designers problem. :). I doubt any real designer will have a problem of making smileys 'recognizable'.
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Nice! Hope you don't mind me sharing it with HN :)

You might want to look into using Punchfork's API for adding recipes. (http://punchfork.com/api)
Maybe I can't see it because the phrase is already in my head buy what exactly is incorrect about "You have got mail?".

Is it just the superfluous 'got'?
I believe it's generally known to be true that health care in the UK, where I live now (I have also lived in the USA in the past), whether measured by % of GDP or by monetary cost, is much cheaper per capita than health care in the USA[1]. Life expectancy, probably a good measure of the efficacy of a health care system, is very close, perhaps with the UK having a small lead, if anything[2].

If we were to allow anecdotes, I'd also say (and I find this to be a good thing) that people in the UK don't avoid going to the dentist or doctor because it's too expensive. I'm sure that there must be studies that show this to be true.

Even if we're not allowing the anecdotal argument, however, if you're prepared to say that the system in the USA 'does work', you're surely prepared to say that the British system also works? Personally, I have a hard time not believing that, since it seems to produce comparable, if not better outcomes, for less cost, it's the better of the two systems.

Note that I'm /not/ arguing at all that a private health insurance system could not be devised that also worked as well - perhaps better. I'm also not arguing that any public system will be perfect. To argue that a public system /can't work/ though is, as I said, ludicrous.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=health+care+cost+per+ca...
[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy+USA+vs+...
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I got the answer, thanks http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
I was wondering why http://intercom.io was down and now I come here and see this at the top. Must be it. Update, they seem back now, but their site was throwing errors a minute ago.
Interesting. I was just considering them over AWS for hosting. Current users, how reliable is Heroku? While I appreciate openess, looking over that status page does not inspire a lot of confidence.
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Probably not designed for the HN effect.
Looks like my post beat the status page by a minute or two...

Thanks for the feedback.
Looks like I'm not alone http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3532715
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I get it, and dig it.

Aggregating moods would be useful on a site such as Amazon, where, depending on the technical level of the product, reviews range from sharp and intelligent to blunt and kneejerk. Having access to sentiment analysis would help consumers to quickly see whether or not the product/service being 'mood reviewed' solves their problem or not.

Written reviews are full of conjecture and anecdotes, 5-star gradings may as well not exist for 2-4 stars, so mood is another great metric to add to these tools.
They're up again?
I'm using Ziggo and I can access The Pirate Bay just fine.
This is, for me, the biggest reason to save the rain forests. Evolution has resulted in lots of fantastic stuff that we would not have been able to make ourselves.
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Lets hope the simplicity of 'git push heroku' hasn't distracted most developers (and customers of Heroku) from Werner Vogels' core tenet of administration:

Everything fails all the time. (http://technocation.org/files/videos/original/mysqlconf2008/...)

This might separate the men from the boys (excuse the idiom) to see who has adequately prepared a DR/redundancy plan for when the cloud fails.

Edit: Improved link to Vogels' MySQL keynote from which the quote originated.
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Just checked: 99.94% for our main site, 99.93% for a promo site.
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I don't really know (yet?), but it seems to me that what you need is a network of nodes, such that each node automatically downloads a common amount of money from a pool once a month. That pool would be filled by the system subtracting a percentage from the gross income of each node. Is it really necessary that those calculations are done by a central unit - like the IRS -, or could they be done in a distributed manner, SETI@home-style?
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Wow, I had to look at my own analytics for a medium site (crafts space) with a technically challenged audience to believe that:

38% Chrome / 35% IE / 19% Firefox / 3% Safari.
There are two significant problems with this:

1. The output CSS contains invalid or unnecessary code. Multiple classes on an elements are incorrectly handled, some form inputs (checkout and radio) are incorrectly referenced, and reference-only IDs are included.

2. The idea is flawed. Writing CSS and creating reusable components is not the same as filling in values for every element, class, and id found in your HTML.
At the size of Heroku, the probability of a server outage per day is actually quite high. As long as the errors are just "one of our machines has gone down", its an interesting information for everyone on the machine, but it doesn't say a lot about the reliability at all.

Major outages are rare and I am quite pleased.
Similar quote:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
Seems that way for me.
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Not true: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776466

You can always change the foods it's allowed to use, though, just hit the Choose Foods button.
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some services are accessable now ， but some not
My site is up too. http://mocku.ps
Sadly, yes.

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/twitter-jo...
You did indeed misunderstand my post. I was not arguing about the relative merits of clang vs some-other-tool.

I was simply saying that Emacs can open a C++ file and have all tags and completions right there, no setup required. No external application required either. That is the power of Emacs and that is a power not available to Sublime Text (unless you write your own C++ parser in Python).

You see, clang is an awesome tool and I'm sure its integration in Sublime Text is very good. But by its design it can not look for headers in appropriate locations without someone explicitly telling it to do so. Also it can not parse partially erroneous code. Both these actions are just not sensible actions for a compiler.

And that is why no external tool can ever provide the integration and practicability of a tool purposely built just for parsing code for Emacs in the same way cscope can not match the integration of Visual Studio's C# parser in Visual Studio.
Does anyone know about this project?
Why not just try to mine this data from Twitter?
is it just me or it is not working? i keep getting an "IO Error" after upload.
See "Prepared Statement Support" from http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBD::mysql#Class_Methods

Prepared statements are disabled by default and require MySQL >= 4.1.3. Instead, the driver does the placeholder replacement on the client, and prepare() does nothing clever at all.
Excuse me, but why is this top of Hacker News?

Services go down sometimes, especially cloud ones. No need to make it harder for them by voting it to the top of a major tech news site...

edit - spelling
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We're running as well.
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Rackspace Cloud starts at a little over £7/month for their cheapest offering.

They also give you some ability to "scale up" by simply asking for a bigger instance, and they handle moving your server over.

The only real downside is the default password. Unlike AWS, you are given a root password, which is pathetically easy to crack, so the first thing you need to do is change that.
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1) 391.
2) XKCD is your friend.
Intel stealthily slides into workstation graphics market
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maybe because a lot of of us are hosting their web services on heroku and we don't check mails and monitoring services every minute (but HN)?
The state of MIT's OPENCOURSEWARE
10-20% of apps developed by people on Hacker News probably use Heroku. It's not just a random service people use; if there is an outage, service operators will need to field end user inquiries, restore service, etc.

hn is probably not a replacement for a good offsite monitoring service, but for me, I was browsing "why does my friend's new app not work; is he updating it live?", switched tabs to hn, saw "heroku down", and all was clear.
"Most people don't spend much time reading and fretting about the TSA online"

That's only true for countries under the U.S. Visa Waiver, which are maybe 5% of the world's population (basically European Union and Australia).

For the remaining 93% of us, we have to think long and hard and plan far ahead before visiting the U.S., and that means being aware of all the issues or risk deportation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program

And yes, I believe it does affect conversion significantly, but, coincidentally, we're the poorer 93% .
Heroku is just a layer over AWS. Major disruptions have been caused so far only by AWS failures.
15 minutes? Perhaps if the shit has hit the fan and there are big problems. Our meetings take 5 normally.
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You have a root problem: you need to have a team you can trust or you need to trust the team you have.

If you fear this or that from your team, you will always rely on yourself and I believe you will reproduce the same pattern in other ventures and you will get stuck with whatever you undertake.

Invest in finding the right person to manage your company.
Any chance on metric measurements? Does anyone use ounce as measurement except the US?
With this, maybe having python as a shell will be possible :)
I like "if you think it's simple, do it yourself" works for devs too.
You don't want to screw around with infected/impacted teeth. One of the leading causes of death up until recently was tooth-related. You'd get a toothache, a few days later you'd be dead. There's a reason why in all those old westerns people submitted to having their teeth pulled out with pliers without any anesthesia. It was a hundred times better to lose a tooth than die. You get a toothache -- even out on the prairie where the only "doctor" is your friend Gus who dropped out of second grade, and Gus is going to be yanking out your teeth. It was just common sense.

As a side note, this will probably sound amazing to many readers, but working both for myself and my startup my family went for over a decade without health insurance. Didn't seem like that big of a deal.

Of course we had one rule: if you're really sick, you go to the doctor, no questions asked. In the states they had to see you, and you generally got great service driving up somewhere, even if you didn't have money. The trick was finding out where to go. Over those years, we ran up medical debt at times, yes, but nowhere near the amount we would have paid in health insurance premiums. (Which really shouldn't be a surprise. Basic math, there. We were in a low-risk group.) We had several kids, dental operations, gall bladders removed, vaccinations, ENT surgery -- all kinds of things. And everybody got all the medical attention they needed.

It was simply risk management. Yes, things could have turned out differently and we could have ended up hundreds of thousands in debt. But the numbers were on our side. We made the decision just like the insurance companies do -- based on demographic risk. And if you're not making much money you can really only owe so much anyway. After 20 thousand or so, it might as well be 20 million -- you're never going to be able to pay it back. And if you owed 20 million, you'd still be alive and kicking and able to do all the things you love. That beats the alternative. Our downside was limited by the practicalities of medical debt collection.

It was a good decision, and I'd make it again.

Sorry for the digression. The point in telling the story was that even if you don't have insurance, working in a startup, slaving over the product 80 hours a week, fresh on a team, meeting with VCs -- none of that matters. All those other stresses in your life are silly by comparison. Learn to recognize when you're really sick and then immediately get help.
Yes, you can be in serious trouble just by having the misfortune of sharing a name with a terrorist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List

Even senator Edward Kennedy had trouble with that one.
I am not arguing the merits of Clang versus some other tool, either.

I am arguing against the claim that a monolithic app like Emacs that bundles a specific tool is somehow qualitatively superior to any other tool which does not bundle a specific tool.

> But by its design it can not look for headers in appropriate locations

I think that's a perfectly valid design. I would rather want to spend 10 seconds adding a path to my project's config file than spend an eternity with just ctags. :-)

> Also it can not parse partially erroneous code.

Of course it can. Clang recovers from partially invalid code just fine.

For example, if I do something like "typedef enum { a, b, 3 } foo bar;" (constituting two syntax errors), it will still correctly autocomplete "foo" as well as its values, even though the type is strictly incomplete.
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Yes, metric please.
I, too, have to disagree with you. As skrebbel (I like that nick, by the way) said, practically everyone knows you mean that tiny country somewhere in Western Europe called 'the Netherlands', when you say 'Holland'. And I'm from Zuid-Holland.
While I could never afford one, I find this kind of progress exciting for the world.

Really looking forward to buying my first used electric car in a decade (and rebuilding the battery pack).
Man, this is exactly what I needed and what I´ve been searching for. I even considered creating it myself. Awesome job!!
Don't stop dreaming.
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Also check out http://aremysitesup.com

We've been monitoring hundreds of thousands of sites for years, and our pricing is low.
Even when they do, their answers are not informative.

I asked about whether one website offering a free AdSense coupon was sponsored by Google or not, and I received contradicting answers.

Edit: The website was www.googleadwordspromos.com/ and an example of conflicting answers is here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/adwords/thread?tid=62a...
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So basically you planned to spread the costs of any really big debts to society at large...
I have similar numbers.
I went to check the #discover tab on a lark. Absolutely nothing interested me. I have 4700+ tweets to my username, you'd think that would be enough info to show me one story about gaming perhaps (considering 99% of my tweets are about gaming).
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That's great. Better than our current provider. Thanks.
The current discover section is quite useless. But nethertheless i strongly believe this will be their future.
I've added an explanation on the how/why on the front page. Thanks !
I've blogged an explanation of what it does and how it works over here : http://friggeri.net/blog/who-did-i-forget
Which is basically what insurance does anyway...
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A very interesting read Andreas. Google's core is search, which real time is not quite ready to cover yet, but it will eventually.

For Twitter, it's hot right now. You're right about that.

If they focused on core and social, they could overtake Facebook soon, then Google in 5 years once real-time search tech becomes a reality. Everyone I know who regularly uses Facebook also uses Twitter. Either service could replace the other.