skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely correct, it is a promise. But it is also a guarantee. There are regulations regarding money laundering that we will have to comply with of course. Users are required to fill out certain forms if the the amount of a transaction exceed 3,000 for individuals and 20,000 for businesses. And these are not just "per transaction", it is per month. As with scams our system is specifically designed to prevent users from falling into the trap scam sellers or buyers. Of course it will never be absolutely fool-proof, but it does significantly reduce the incentive for fraudulent activities on both sides. Unfortunately, I cannot give out too much detail on how we do it. We are launching our beta system sometime around March and you will be more than welcome to try it out as a beta tester.
Thanks, Bertrand, for clearing that up.
Put this into your vimrc to make lines behave like they're a text-object. Then to yank a line without the carraige-return, it's just yil or yal (yank in/a line)

vnoremap <silent> al :<c-u>norm!0v$h<cr>
vnoremap <silent> il :<c-u>norm!^vg_<cr>
onoremap <silent> al :norm val<cr>
onoremap <silent> il :norm vil<cr>
Yes, as long as their unprefixed equivalent is in a W3C specification.
Just came across a link on SEOMoz that just got published and talks more generally about awesome link titles - may be interesting if this post interested you, too.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/are-your-titles-irresistibly-click...
This is the part I was referring to:

In a nutshell, it gives each signatory authority to
create laws that satisfy ACTA's requirements. Without
getting into the issue of monism and dualism
(international legal concepts for how treaties embed
themselves into domestic law) it simply means that until
signatory states create enforcing legislation, ACTA does
nothing.

An example would be that, once passed, a US federal act
that enforces ACTA is immune from challenges over states
rights (though not bill of rights challenges). To be
frank this isn't too controversial, there is nothing in
ACTA that doesn't satisfy the inter-state commerce
clause anyway.

So undersand that ACTA isn't really the issue. What
people need to be prepared for is how states implement
it, which is where scope for abuse is.
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And if your SSH client supports it ControlPersist. It keeps the shared connection around in case you're coming back. It's a fairly new feature though.
I think you misunderstand the economic meaning of "rival good":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
Fantastic work, very excited by this. A "learning" technique would be cool, if I could correct things and the system would learn over time.
If it was a C int then it would just change to another value. If it was a Python int then two things can happen: either the bit flip was in the value which causes the value to change, OR the bit flip was in the tag bits which causes Python to interpret the data as something else than an int. The latter would most likely cause your program to crash.

With MySQL any of those things you can happen. If you're lucky then only the cache is corrupted and then you can just reload from disk. If you're unlucky then the data got corrupted on its way to disk and the wrong data will be written to disk. If you are astronomically unlucky then the in memory machine code of MySQL got changed in such a way that it starts overwriting your entire disk with garbage. You should probably be more afraid of meteorites though. And of bugs in either your own or others' code.

ECC RAM reduces the probability of such a bit flip happening. That doesn't mean that they are eliminated entirely. So you have to do these two things in any case:

1. Bit flips can cause processes to misbehave/crash. So you want to have a way to detect and restart misbehaving/crashed processes.

2. Even with ECC RAM you want to do your own error correction for critical data (say a bank transaction log).

Here is an interesting paper that discusses the prevalence of DRAM errors and the effectiveness of ECC RAM:

DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study -- http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

It would be interesting if somebody did an experiment where they artificially flipped bits of various software's memory to see what happens. I'd expect that in many cases it doesn't do any harm at all.
Yes, I'm a Ruby fanboy, but this is ridiculous. These days, Ruby and Python are the lingue franche of quick web development. PHP had its heyday, and it's still terribly useful for Drupal-y and MediaWiki-y things... but building something from scratch?

Not a chance.
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"The only difference is that today it's organized, tested and validated." Unbelievable. Those are the three reasons developing in PHP was such a pain back in 2000: procedural web code was a pain to keep organized, don't even get me started about testing PHP code back then, and at least the projects I was working on suffered from horrible unvalidated feature creep.

Yes, I would say that's the "only" difference. ಠ_ಠ
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Same way as people find new tweets. By following others and by having others follow you.
As someone who always used graphical text editors with discoverable interfaces, for a long time I found both vi and emacs to be like black boxes covered in unlabeled fiddly knobs — except turning vi's knobs in the wrong order would make some of the other knobs start spinning wildly. Just trying to get either of them to use a color scheme that didn't hurt my eyes was an exercise in frustration. I can use either passably nowadays and do use both fairly frequently, but I have to admit I still find don't find either particularly nice to use. I feel like whatever is great about them is always hidden somewhere just out of sight.
I created an account, the whole thing looks pretty good and works from Firefox. Unfortunately I can't send inbound mail 10 minutes after creation of the account, it bounces, but I can send outbound mail.

EDIT: works. This could be a real competitor to Gmail/apps for SMBs.
People bag on PHP a lot (was a truer sentence ever written?). But the fact is that it's fast to prototype with, it has a number of mature frameworks available, and time-to-productivity is quick. That's what business people want -- quick and cheap.

With proper engineering, PHP can be quick, cheap, AND good (see: Facebook. You want to argue the point, fine, but I don't see you becoming a billionaire on the back of your Haskell application).

Like every language, there is an appropriate place for it -- I would probably not write code for the Space Shuttle or a medical device in PHP. But, a great place for a language like PHP is web applications, especially for businesses who have to consider things like hiring people.
I have some products on Pinterest and I've been a little disappointed at how well they convert, considering how many boards they're on: http://pinterest.com/source/faucetface.com

Here's where* my paying customers have come from in the past 6 months:

Direct: 69%

Google: 17%

Blog/press mentions: 6%

Pinterest .52%

I recall a blogger recently who reasoned that women are using Pinterest as a substitute for making real purchases. And that the act of pinning things feels similar to hitting the buy now button.

That feels about right to me.

*I know it doesn't add up to 100 - paypal is taking credit as a source of traffic for some reason.
Problems with hotmail/ms aside, I'm really glad a major corporation is going after google over the privacy issues. It's pretty hard to get people to care about privacy, and one of the few ways I could imagine the issue entering into the mainstream conscious is through a major advertising budget. Even if there's some hypocrisy involved, it's a win just to get people talking about it.

Here's hoping MS makes a campaign out of it. And that others follow suit.
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Let's guess what else is going to make the list 10 years in the future.

Suggestions:
- saves files on a local storage system and not on a cloud service.
- is not caring a smart phone
- owns a variety of "wires" to connect different devices
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Handbags can also be rented at bagborroworsteal.com, I think you can buy used ones there too. I find it weird that I know about rentable handbags.

Handbags are one thing, women tend to take pretty good care of them. Shoes are a tougher sell. Sizing is all over the place. Wear and tear can be inconsistent. Knock-offs are close enough in quality that most women don't care. The profit margins might be too low to be worth your time.

Then there's the 'icky' factor. People don't mind wearing bowling shoes because they wear socks with them. Women don't wear socks in high-fashion shoes and might be quite apprehensive using rentals even if they are disinfected.
>It's literally like branding your new product with swastikas.

Targeting a niche market ?
It's not law (though there may be state/local laws also), it's the merchants' agreements with Visa/MC/Amex/etc. Cash discounts are allowed - you see them with gas stations quite frequently - but minimums and surcharges are disallowed and the merchant will almost certainly get into trouble with the credit issuers if it's reported.

It's almost entirely small businesses that try to flout their agreements - you'll rarely see any major business try because of the consequences.
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I'm not sure how it compares in performance, but I've always used scp -r for this:

$ scp -r remote foo /where/to/unpack
> With proper engineering, PHP can be quick, cheap, AND good

This is true for any language. It is also true for any language that poor engineering can make things really bad. PHP is in a unique position, though - it is so easily accessible to non-engineers that they begin writing applications without the slightest idea what they're getting themselves into.

This results in lots of improper engineering, and people blaming the language for the world's problems.

Javascript and Actionscript have this problem too. They get a lot less flack, though, because I think client-side scripting isn't held to the same standards.
Thank you for mentioning Ghostery, they have a Chrome extension too!
That bugs me too. I have started a small project to make a more realistic water simulation, and found it to be quite a bit more involved than I had expected. Just adding pressure would fix the problem you mentioned, and would probably be pretty easy to do. Adding velocity so that the water sloshes properly seems to be the hard part.
Office 365 is a cloud-based office setup from MS - which includes email and office docs its aimed at corporations. It is a newer version of what was BPOS.
Google have been trying to expand into that corporate world. MS are fighting back since it represents their bread and butter.
Here are the problems that I have constantly seen:
- You can hardly track them

- There is no prior appointment made before delivery. You have to be on the lookout.

- Unreliable. They rarely keep up their time/day.

- You miss the delivery and its a whole different story - Calls back and forth is painful.

To me flipkart solves the problem by allowing me to track/mobile alerts. They usually call me up during delivery and have at times even met me where I was to deliver (away from home).

I think someone should start an outstanding Logistics company here :-) (Like Fedex/UPS).
Funny that you got downvoted. The entire industry has spent the last... forever years making things easier to use/gui-fied, and you get dinged for wanting to use those improvements.
The only problem with your comparison is that you forgot to include the 149 Euro setup fee for the Hetzner server. I don't think this makes a material difference however over three years.

Some would say this isn't fair because you're not including elastic scaling which AWS supports, however you can't elastically scale with a 3 year commitment. Further its hard to estimate how much scaling you'll need because that's a highly variable figure.

But you can say that you will need to keep some number of servers up and running 24/7 for your service.

I think it would be a more perfect comparison to compare AWS's on-demand price to Hetzner with the built in higher performance of the 4S considered as a hot standby for scaling. (I don't know how long it takes Hetzner to provision extras, though I hear its relatively fast.) Since servers are cheap (at Hetzner, at least) it seems reasonable to have 1 or 2 extra spun up if you really have spiky traffic.

Since I'm planning to get a cluster of Hetzner boxes to support a Riak distributed cluster, and each Hetzner box is over provisioned for my needs (if I get a 4S I think they will be way over-provisioned, leaving a lot of headroom for this "elastic scaling" issue)... I think I'll compare the price of the same number of each boxes. (The AWS box has less performance, but I can elastically scale if I need to, and I'll just give the cost of those short term scale-ups to Amazon for free in this example.) The results may not be a perfect example for whatever others are considering, but it is a reasonable comparison for my purposes. (my service is a big data service, involving a lot of map reduce, requiring a cluster for operational simplicity and reliability as well as the ability to scale to millions of customers. I don't know if we'll get millions of customers, but one of our closest competitors had millions of customers within a few weeks.)

Amortizing the
4@ m2.4xlarge = 4* $600/month = $2,400 (using the $600 for the reserved instance costs from vladd's example.)

4@ Hetzner 4S = $149 Euro setup fee, amortized over 3 years = 4.14 Euro/month Add the 49.58 Euros in hosting = 53.71 euros x 4 servers = 214.87 euros or $282.50 a month.

So, for my cluster, AWS is 8.5 times as expensive.

I think that $282 per month is a lot easier for a scrappy startup to handle than $2,400 as well. This brings "big data" within the realm of undefended mortals.

Many people use AWS for all the extra services that AWS offers. The value of these services is, of course, subjective, as some startups will need them and others won't. But they all are based on a custom Amazon API which means if you build your architecture across many servers at Amazon you've got a fair amount of lock-in.

For me, I'll take the 8.5X reduction in costs, over lock in anyway. If Hetzner starts performing poorly, I can migrate without too much difficulty, and without having to re-architect my service.
Ask HN: comment downvote sniping
Has anyone ever experienced their comments being down-voted in a systematic fashion. I just checked my threads link to look to see if anyone has responded to any of my comments and responses to comments, when I noticed that a bunch of my post's have been down-voted for no apparent reason. They are not controversial posts at all, and most of them are just friendly advice. Has anyone else had this happen to them? I am not really worried about the karma but it's a pretty uncool thing to do to someone who tries hard to contribute to the forum, if it is indeed someone sniping comments of people that they disagree with. Just thought I would see if it is happening to other people because this is the second time I have noticed the pattern on my comments.
I think the ads are absent from the Google Apps for Business suite - if you pay for the service, they go away. Isn't 365 a paid product? In fact, it's 20% more expensive than Google's product.
My wife just recently started a food blog and along with that found Pinterest. With a site redesign we did, we added a Pinterest button directly next to the Facebook like button. The Pinterest button gets upwards of 10 times the actions as the facebook like.

We were just talking about how it is not considered as acceptable to share as much mundane stuff on Facebook and how that is what Pinterest is all about. Facebook has no way to easily categorize or review what you have shared in the past, so it gets lost. Women especially seem to enjoy this.

One odd thing is Pinterest doesn't seem to combine all pins of a single image together. For a single image, you may have 20 different pins, each of those with their own set of repins and comments. See: http://pinterest.com/source/thinlyslicedcucumber.com/
You must be a real handwriting-wizard because I've tried for 10 minutes now without getting it to work! :(
Why would Facebook pay someone to paint murals with stock options? This just seems crazy, especially considering it was after the first Peter Thiel investment. They could have easily paid the guy a few thousand bucks. I can easily understand employees like chefs, security guards, etc. becoming rich, but a short term mural painter?! I'm baffled.
it's hard for shoes because you would have to stock a big range of sizes. Also, the price point for shoes is much lower than dresses and bags. It doesn't make sense for a consumer to rent a $400 pair of shoes for $100. It makes more sense to rent a $10,000 dress or $8000 handbag for $100. (although, in the world of $10,000 dresses "making sense" doesn't really apply)

Finally, I worked in fashion e-commerce and there isn't much evidence that anyone in the space is making any money.
Well this may not be the most tangible advice but I'd consider trying to consolidate your efforts where you can identify them. Is there anything having to do with your current situation that you could integrate/leverage with your desired direction? Examples of such things...

- Asking your employer to take you on as a contractor - this could allow you to likely make a similar living and start transitioning your work efforts toward building a business that could produce services for your employer (B2B) as well as other companies in the same domain.

- Taking the remnants/assets of your past startups and using them to jump start a new one.

In essence Id work on making gradual transitions towards aligning yourself with what you want to do. Start small as others have said - try to first figure out how to make a dollar then figure out how to make 2. Honestly I wouldn't just go blindly jumping off the entrepreneurial cliff unless somebody else's money is carrying you. It sounds exciting until you realize the ground is approaching faster than you can figure out how to fly.
Some more (Transferring whole directories, multiplexing etc) http://www.symkat.com/ssh-tips-and-tricks-you-need
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Seriously, if more people where actively protecting their privacy, it would no longer be suspicious to encrypt one's email.

This is an excellent point! At least open source OS systems should make encryption the standard option. But even Ubuntu seems unable to pull this off and more or less in stagnation on this - despite EFF's efforts ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/help-bring-disk-encryp... ).
ssh as a cheap way around firewalls is nifty, but caveat ssh-or, for sure. A colleague of mine used this to connect to Yahoo IM (or somesuch; details not important) for some totally innocent IM'ing. Nothing against the company, no secrets leaked, nothing against any of his signed agreements. (Only that he couldn't use IM.)

While corporate IT couldn't tell exactly what was going on, they did ask him why he was ssh'd to an ISP-provided IP for X hours using Y bytes. So don't try to outclever your company this way; they can still nab you on suspicion of whatever, even if what you did was non-harmful in any way.
I prefer Svpply and I only use it for things I want to buy. Just like in real life, I don't have time to dilly-dally at the mall : P
Agreed, very courageous -- and very powerful.
I've used them for a few years now. I think they used to be very much German-language focused, but over the past couple of years they have become more and more international. They give good support and the servers I have with them have been rock solid
I have no idea. Like I mentioned, I'd like to see the proof before I believe Google was planning this. Obviously it was enough to convince the courts, but I know courts can be deceived and biased (especially when it's local companies vs foreign companies).
Based on the screenshots, it looks like it's flash/flex based. I can't actually get it to works so I can't verify that. Are they serious? I guess they don't plan on having any good mobile support.
Does http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/ not work for you?
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Here's EFF's take:

Some of the worst aspects of the previous draft of the ACTA agreement, such as a provision requiring ISPs to adopt a Three Strikes Law,[3] were removed from the U.S. Trade Representative’s final version of the instrument released in May 2011. ACTA suffocates collaborative creativity and innovation, and less explicitly, but just as gravely threatens free speech through provisions that may lead to Internet access restrictions for the “sake” of combating “imminent violation” of intellectual property laws. Worst of all, the secrecy of the negotiations sets a dangerous precedent for future international agreements, in creating powerful trade agreements that both skirt existing international discussions on intellectual property and allow it to go through with little or no input from civil society organizations or the public.

From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/2011-review-developmen...
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So what does this mean for openstreetmap.org
if investors were good at timing markets, you wouldn't need to time the market
Isn't vimpulse the successor to that and evil-mode the successor to vim-pulse? Seems like viper is way down on that list.
What part? Marketing? Business planning? Bookkeeping? Or are you talking about business development as in acquiring new business?

If you're just looking for general info, Inc. Magazine is a good place to start, especially Norm Brodsky's columns.
Do you have data for the difference in latency &/or bandwidth between servers on the same rack at Hetzner vs. on different racks?

I was assuming that having the servers in different racks would be an advantage, mainly because the reason I have multiple servers is for data redundancy (I'm using Riak and data is replicated across the cluster.) However, in Riak the servers do talk to each other a fair bit.

The latency and bandwidth between a given server and a web browser out in the world shouldn't vary much from rack to rack, I'm assuming.
> privacy issues.

Is it privacy violation when a machine matches keywords to ads? Unless the machine has some kind of consciousness, I can't see a privacy issue unless some human gets access to that information.

Does this mean Microsoft free Gmail competitor, Hotmail, does not relate ads with viewer profile and screen content?
>To them, a "license" is just some bytes at the beginning of the file. Delete those bytes, and the license is gone. Problem solved.

To be fair, they're absolutely right. A license is just some bits at the beginning of a file. A license only adds "colour"[1] to the bits if there is some legal protection granted by it. In China, there isn't any. The GPL is only as powerful as the laws establishing the authority of license agreements.

[1]http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23