skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the dislike is warranted personally.

The amount of exposure they get is extremely out of proportion to what they are and do. They do have it down to a fine art. Even this blog post is designed to get people talking about them - which it's succeeded in doing.

They created ruby on rails, which a few people use, and they make a few webapps. They're not a startup. They give (IMHO) fairly poor startup advice, most of which would only work if you're them.

The 37 signals fanboyism all just gets a little bit too much sometimes. Best to ignore and move on though...
Good luck! I'm glad more people like you (VC's) are stepping into the game. And in fact, this is going to require a lot of hands on experience. By the way, have you been a researcher before?
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I think the "Look at our desks" post is more than interesting. It is very useful to visualize how a XXI century company looks like.
In fact, I am using it next week in a seminar about business models and will compare it to the office in Billy Wilder's "The Apartment".

So maybe not technical, but definitely not "merely interesting"
This is a beautiful interface to let everyone decide for themselves. They appear to be three slightly different datasets, my neighborhood looks minimally but non-trivially different in all of them, no two are the same.
I'm actually surprised how it took a whole day to set up a blog on bootstrap html with no custom styling. yawn
I'm glad to see Dropbox as defining this space.
"curl" can scrape sites like that. Just watch the Chrome "Network" window and see what requests get made. Then use that. Scraping doesn't need a browser.
It sounds like you're complaining about the quality of the OSM renderer, not the underlying data. There are a bunch of different renderers out there that can use OSM data - maybe one of the others would help?
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> That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain.

Are those actual big catches? Those seem like pretty reasonable constraints. What machine do you have attached to your LAN that can't access the internet? And the network restriction is probably just fine for >99% of their customers.
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Why not look at statistics rather than anecdotes? The UK system costs vastly less while producing similar or better outcomes.
What I meant was: I wish they had gone with at least 2 copies offsite. Sorry for the ambiguity.

And you're right - 2 copies would mean 1TB out of 3TB.
Hear, hear.

There are so many ways you can do this. It's fast, easy, yet completely unintelligible to a human. My personal favorite is to convolve it with a spatial pattern, like typing the password out in Dvorak while using qwerty. Or use each finger in sequence, with each finger taking a choice of the four keys near it depending on where the site name's letters are (i.e. ycombinator = 1xefmko.qwe).

I find it also helps to have three standard versions - a standard that may contain special characters, one that is guaranteed not to, and second that acts as a fail-safe in the event the password has tight length or character constraints.

It only sounds convoluted - the rules are simple and easy to memorize, and damnably difficult to see a pattern in outside of brute-forcing.
The emergency care trope gets repeated frequently, but the truth of the matter is that hospitals over-allocate costs to the ER, and then overcharge for ER services, and then write off the inflated charges, all to game statutory reporting requirements.

So what the public sees as loss-leading ER services pushing up costs for everyone is actually an accounting gimmick. The true costs lay elsewhere.
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In some fields, given a CIO title is akin to being demoted. Nobody wants to be the head of the IT operations because the money is somewhere else (sales and marketing).

Some people argue that IT provides efficiency and in some cases increase revenues as well. The hard cold truth is this:

1) It's hard to measure $$$ from IT projects

2) It becomes internal politics: it shifts the balance and nobody wants IT to have more power.
How can a project this cool have such an ugly website? It's shit like this OSM...
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The OSM images that tcard used are from openstreetmap.org, not from the iPhoto app.

My understanding is that Apple used the data from OSM to produce their own tiles, which, I believe, look much better than this.
Somewhat tangential, here is something I have long thought would be a very useful project, but unfortunately haven't had the time to build:

It is a scraping/crawling tool suite. Base it on webkit, with good scriptable plugin support (not just js, but expose the DOM to other languages too). It would consist of a few main parts.

1) what I call the Scrape-builder. This is essentially a fancy web browser, but, it has a rich UI that can be used to select portions of a web page, and expose the appropriate DOM elements, and how to find those elements in the page. By expose, I mean put into some sort of editor/ide - It could be raw html, or some sort of description language. in the editor, the elements one would want to scrap can then be selected, and put into some sort of object for later processing. This can include some form of scripting to mangle the data as needed. It can also include interactions with the javascript on the page, recording click macros (well event firing, and such). The point of this component is to allow content experts/non- or novice-programmers to easily arrange for the "interesting" data to be selected for scraping.

2) The second component for the suite is a scraping engine. It uses the description + macros + scripts from the Scrape-builder to actually pull data from the pages, and turn them into data objects. These objects can then be put on a queue for later processing with backend systems/code. The scraping engine is basically a stripped down webkit without the rendering/layout/display bits compiled in. It just builds the dom and executes the page's javascript to ultimately scrape the bits selected. This is driven by the spidering engine.

3) The spidering engine is what determines which pages to point the scraping engine at. It can be fed by external code, or it can be fed by scripts from the scraping engine, a feedback mechanism (some links on a page may be part of a single scraping, some may just be fodder for a later scraping). It can be thought of as a work queue for the scraping engines.

The main use-cases I see for this are specialized search and aggregation engines, which want to get at the interesting bits of sites which don't expose a good api, or where the data may be formatted, but hard to semantically infer without human intervention. Sure, it wouldn't be as efficient from a code execution point of view as say, custom scraping scripts, but it would allow for much faster response times to page changes, and allow better use of programmer time, by taking care of a lot of boilerplate or almost-boiler plate parts of scraping scenarios.
The UK NHS has its own peculiarities: my (Italian) mother says they're a bunch of penny-pinchers who will not do even the smallest procedure unless it's extremely and absolutely necessary. Compared to the italian system (which is almost free -- there are very small fixed charges for each procedure, they vary at the regional level and many are exempted anyway), they are quite parsimonious.

In any case, most European systems are also universal and free or almost-free. You don't need to be an advocate for the all-free-all-the-time approach to see that US people are being ripped off.
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Is this the case? It's not terribly surprising, I just hadn't seen stats for that.
Why wouldn't CC cover this?
I personally struggle when writing. However, when I write something important, I make sure to have someone proof read it. The message shouldn't be lost by simple grammar errors. And so,...I would say its a intelligence problem.
I'm rather surprised - this looks like it has significant, fun changes in gameplay rather than a simple branding exercise.

I wonder what the to-orbit cost was for that Angry Birds plush.
AWS has a couple classes of medium. For a complete list, go here:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

In the API, the new one is "m1.medium" . The one you spun up the other day was probably a "c1.medium" .
That would certainly help, but there's a limit to same-ISP peering. For example, I use a relatively small ISP, so not many people are going to be using the same ISP that I do. Even if you use a larger ISP, you're screwed if even a single person dumps 100GB/mo of data on your SpaceMonkey drive.
What is the word I'm looking for, "disappointed"?

The lack of given credit to OSM doesn't seems like an accident, and I was looking forward to see what Apple was doing with that amazing mapping technology from SAAB.

This is underwhelming to say the least, I was expecting much more from Apple.
My bad, just realized you aren't e-mail writer or npm admin. Thrown off by gist author.

Deliberately exposing anything to the web should come with lots of... wait for it... deliberation. The npm guy is a core community member; this incident shows a lot of sloppiness and doesn't inspire faith.
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"This phrasing 'I did X in Y time' is obviously meant to highlight one's skill and speed, ..."

Nope. It can also mean "Look how easy it is to get started". That was my interpretation.
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What law allows hospitals to do this? If they don't tell you the price beforehand, and they don't publicly post the prices, legally, how do you ever owe them any money?

How do hospitals collect these bills? Can the hospital sue you to collect on these bills?
The problem with comparing the situation in the US to " the little-known country called the United Kingdom" is that the UK is peopled mostly by the British and _not_ by americans.

This small fact seems to evade most people's comparative analyses and renders them largely void.
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I get you. But here's the catch, and that's also valid for HN: Is crowd validation always the best measurement of the quality of an article? I agree there are a lot of running in circle conversations on HN. Like "Apache is slow, use Node.js", or its contrary "Node.js is bad, use {insert something else}". On HN there's a great deal of know-it-all attitude and most of the posts could be summarized by "Your choices of X is stupid, I chose Y and it's better, therefore, ' Why X is bad and you should use Y' blog posts ".

Anyway, 37signals could be the Kim Kardashian of Software Engineering, very popular and very successful, lots of people following the Gossip. Popularity does not imply quality, that's why civil disagree-ing is useful, we need safe guardians of the quality, even if they seem obnoxious when they criticize what we like.

PS: 37signals is NOT, in my opinion, the Kim Kardashian of Software Engineering.
Depending on the jurisdiction, you might still be liable for other people's encrypted data stored in your property. Whether anyone can prove that you have any particular piece of incriminating data is a different story of course, but law enforcement agencies in certain countries have a nasty tendency to skip proofs.
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Well add it into OSM ;)
They sell the upstream to hosting providers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering
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Whenever a device fails or goes offline, the data that was stored there needs to be re-replicated from the source. But figure 6 shows that even with a 2 Mbps "turbo" uplink you can only replicate ~25 GB; if you have more data than that, replicas will fail faster than you can recreate them.
A family member recently received minor surgery at a hospital. After the procedure was complete, she received a bill for surgeon's assistant, who didn't accept the family member's insurance (the surgeon did). This was a man she never met before entering the operating room, had no idea would be in the operating room, and never saw again.
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Attribution is required by the OSM copyright licence.
Of course curl can. And curl was the best option 15, even 10 years ago. But to scrape a complicated site with curl (or any other non-browser scrapping utility) you wind up basically rewriting the application you're attempting to scrape.

Browsers sole purpose is to run web apps. It doesn't make sense to use anything else.
I believe you have linked list and vectors flipped. vectors have O(n) insert, and linked lists have O(1) insert. Regardless, your point still stands.
Just for clarify, split() java function is using regexp for the split as well. The code of String.split() is:

return Pattern.compile(regex).split(this, limit);

The benchmark seems fair to me.
This is nothing. My advice will be to still go ahead and finish what you have started. Make a decent product and market it as much as you can. You are in school, start there first. Ask your colleagues to review it, they can be your first beta users. Getting published in TechCrunch or being on front page of HackerNews is definitely good. But think of how much actual researchers that is going to bring to the site who are actually going to do some work.

This is no small market, you can have more than one players in this field. Even if you had launched first that wouldn't have changed a thing. You can always find a reason to quit.

In the end, what your product does and how well it does it, matters. Everything else is just fluff.

Just my two cents.
I presume the missing attribution was an accident. They cannot avoid it for much longer. It's legally required under the OSM copyright licence (CC-BY-SA)
I think your broad point is valid (brevity and concision are virtues). But in this specific situation your way off, sorry.

That photo was taken in a park. In one of those maps that fact is abundantly clear. In the other it's not. Hell, in the apple map the trails look like roads. How on earth could anyone call that "clear"?
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If you don't use a password manager, how in the world can you comment on how they work in practice? This is a completely uninformed opinion.
Some details (perhaps a writeup) on this would be appreciated, I'd love to learn more.
I would love to see a Time machine equivalent for Windows. I already have a 2TB storage device at home but pretty much every local backup/sync service sucks cojones. I'd gladly pay a flat fee for a product that does this
> How do hospitals collect these bills? Can the hospital sue you to collect on these bills?

They just pass them onto a collections agency. Same as any other outstanding bill processing.
The problem I've had with using jsdom in scraping web pages is that it is not very forgiving about bad HTML. There are so many pages in the wild that have malformed HTML, and jsdom just pukes on it. I started using Apricot [1] which uses HtmlParser [2] which has been better. I'd like to hear what others are using to scrape bad webpages.

[1] https://github.com/silentrob/Apricot

[2] https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser
So it's a post on the front page of HN about how much it doesn't matter about being on the front page of HN? I love meta and recursion, but that's a little too meta even for me.

I don't have anything against the guys at 37Signals. Seems like they are doing some cool stuff. They have set themselves up as being awesome as part of their marketing strategy. While sales from HN hits probably don't amount to anything, I can't help but think that being on here is a big part of their portraying themselves as thought leaders.

I've been on the front page of HN a lot -- and I know a lot of other HNers here have also. I enjoy the feedback from the community, which to me is more valuable than anything else. So while being here is not some kind of master plan for business world domination, it's not like it's worthless either.
What do you mean by 'workflow'?

I've been writing on a github pages-based blog and I dump all draft blog posts into a _wip folder. They get version controlled like any other file and I can add the YAML and move them into the _posts folder when I'm ready to publish.

Edit: Since I've been posting on that blog, I've decided to move my personal one to GitHub pages too. When posting is as simple as pushing a file it becomes easier to focus on writing. The only reasons I haven't switched are (1) extracting content from my old provider and (2) theming and set up for the new one.
If it's in the current OSM db, you should fix it. That's the great thing about OSM.
Upstream bandwidth on DOCSIS causes congestion that requires capex (node splits) to fix, so it's definitely not free. See http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/74/slides/alto-1.pdf
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Ctrl+Alt+p seems open. Same with ctrl+alt+d. You could use 'p' in Pinboard mode and 'd' in Delicious mode. If only one, I'd default to 'p' - feels easier (to me) to press.
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It's a great beginning tutorial in python. I've been coding C/C++ for ~4 years, and when I went through LPTHW, I found it frustratingly oversimplified.
In my short time playing with openstreetmap I learned that openstreetmap is more of a spec/aggregate/foundation entity that seems to be grouping "open street mapping" efforts under their banner. It's more of a spec than a single data source. I learned this when I had to go elsewhere (government sites and colleges) to find "open" street mapping data. It's was a little confusing to say the least and I still may be misunderstanding their actual position, but that's what I've learned.
Yes, it looks like OSM. There are small roads that I've mapped that are only on OSM, and are present on these maps. The data from OSM is from april 2010 (based on "The road added to OSM on $DATE1 is on these appple tiles, but the the road added on $DATE2 isn't")

And yes, it looks like they've been using it for a while, no-one noticed till now.
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I don't understand what you are complaining about here. They are warning you that your email address and password might be available to crackers. It then follows that if you are concerned about your security, you change these credentials if you have used them anywhere.

So it's "bullshit" that they've warned you of this?

When you use the same password in multiple sites you are taking the risk that any of those sites could be hacked and your password is put out in the open. CouchDB's security scheme isn't at fault, your personal security scheme is.
You should probably wrap some constraints around this. That is, for the purposes of this poll, it'd really be more relevant to know how many of the HN visitors found out about 37signals products via HN.

I think there's probably a significant correlation of 37s product users to HN users, but if there's any causation to be found here, it's likely in the direction of explaining why these posts get frontpaged, not in how these frontpaged posts lead to indirect sales.
Anandtech has an excellent piece on SSD's, which really helps you understand how they work, which ones are good and which ones aren't.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738

Even though the piece is from 2009, it still is very relevant.if you don't want to read it, the OCZ Vertex 2 and 3 are just fine, as is the Samsung 830 and The Intel 520.
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While first to market is a good thing to have, I think this space is still evolving so I don't think we can declare winners yet. Launch your product with reasonable differentiators. For example, what really drives most kickstarter projects is not just helping to fulfill a project they like but also the tangible rewards people get out of it (both to use and show off).. This is going to be very tough for purely science related projects because most of the time there may not be a tangible reward directly coming out of funding the project it self. This probably is also the reason why most successful projects on kickstarter are arts (comics, films etc), technology/retail (iphone covers, chargers etc) related. So probably you can differentiate by hosting projects will a tangible outcome for backers. For example a DIY glowing bacteria or growing indoors bonsai plants or a aeroponics/hydroponics mini setup etc... You can even try getting people to create projects that create science kits at the end along with educational videos...

Though one problem I see with above approaches is that you may not control what project proposals you get... that's okay as long as a portion of your projects are of tangible output type...
That's just the thing: just like it doesn't really matters if a product IS "the best" but if it's perceived by the population at large as "the best", advertising it's also subject to this kind of rationalization, and if social and viral ads become increasingly perceived as ineffective, a waste of money or worst, a scam, then it's over, since even if certain techniques are put forward to improve it and solve the inherent problems in the system, these ads will still be considered by many higher-ups to be useless.
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If Pinterest's business model is based on copyright violation, I don't expect them to do anything except dry up and blow away.

It's not like I am obligated to recognize Pinterest's right to exist. Some companies are based on questionable or illegal practices, period.
I've never believed something less than the words in this blog post.
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They've always used third party (Google) content for this purpose. that's just a disclaimer that while they have a license to show it to you for the purpose of locating your photo, you don't get a transitive license to re-use the data for other purposes. Basically, the photo is copyright by you, the map is not, nor is it by Apple.
Remember that Phantom just runs a web browser. So writing a Phantom script is like writing an app on top of another app. This means you can use XMLHttpRequest or WebSockets to communicate with a back-end if that's necessary.
Anyone can make their own tiles with things like tilemill (http://mapbox.com/tilemill/)
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1Password actually has, hidden inside the '1password.agilekeychain' folder, a file called 1Password.html, which can be opened in any modern browser. So you can actually get at your passwords from a Linux machine by opening this .html file and supplying your master password.

I think they call this feature "1Password Anywhere".. I'm surprised they don't talk about it more.
The TSA are clowns, but the CIA/FBI are deadly serious by all accounts I've heard. They're far more dangerous to be on the wrong side of.
How news worthy!
You work for TSA? 'cause that the kind of reasoning coming from TSA.