skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't think there's a confirmed source, but there's certainly indications, for example, an AWS post that they use ECC memory for the GPUs in their cluster GPU instance

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the...

Given that they list both the standard memory and GPU memory next to each other, but only put ECC next to the GPU memory, it seems relatively likely to me that the standard server memory is not ECC.
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If you take a look at the top 100 blogs you will notice that almost all of them deliver their assets (images, JS, CSS, etc.) through state-of-the-art CDNs and utilize online resizing technologies. With faster, off-site access, they greatly improve their users’ browsing experience, while reducing load on their servers. Using Cloudinary you can use these same technologies today, in your website or blog, without any hassle. Simply direct all your images to Cloudinary and they would be delivered to your visitors through Amazon’s powerful CDN network. You can even add alternative dimensions to your images’ URL and get your pictures in any desired size or perspective. All of this with minimum changes on your side.
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Does anyone know how they can provide bandwidth for so cheap? 7 EUR for a TB of traffic is insanely cheap.
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Are you looking for something like Web Noir?
http://webnoir.org/
Okay. Thanks for the clarity.

So the actual rehearsal process would be beneficial? Maybe without a timer?
Ah yes, I'm sure the Go designers in particular are ignorant about the pros and cons of C
Amen :)
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I had a long reply to your question, but my account has been banned again. Here is my last post to this site.
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It depends what you mean by 'learn Icelandic'. At the end of a week he spoke at probably a grade school level, but with less vocabulary than a grade school child. I saw the documentary of his progress, and he did indeed speak with other Icelanders outside of the interview setting, and he could communicate with them. Again, from the subtitles, it seemed he was speaking at a grade school level.

There are other people who have achieved similar levels in very short periods of time who are not Savants or Aspies.

Dan Lee Dimke learned Mandarin Chinese to about the same level in 11 days.

Powell Janulus began learning languages at the age of 18, started with Pakistani, then went on to learn 40 other languages and was a certified translator in 28 of them at the age of 38. HE wasn't autistic or even particularly intelligent in the academic sense. He developed his own phonetic alphabet based on the mouth movements needed to make a sound, and wrote his target language in his own alphabet.

I used to know many more, but haven't visited the subject for some time now, so their names presently escape me.
I started making a text adventure over google chat - based on app engine (not that this matters). The idea being that you could add / update / change the "world structure" as well. Oh and it could easily be an MMO as well. Anybody interested in helping me out / taking this over?
Efficient Communication in a Freelance Design Team
The Mayor of Pasadena got a good laugh (and sparked some serious discussion to boot) at IJCAI 2009 (http://ijcai.org/~ijcai09/) when he proposed something like that. There's often an opening "I'm the mayor and thanks for bringing some convention dollars to our city" speech at large conferences, which is usually horribly boring and full of platitudes, but his was short and more or less said, welcome to California, I wish you all luck in developing artificial intelligence, because we're currently looking for a better government.
It's not as popular therefore it's not as good. Your logic is definitely valid!
I was trying to avoid a full dissertation into the family tree of Unix -- since 4.3BSD came out in the mid-80s, I think that the point stands that it is possible to legally reproduce a clone of complex software and APIs.

What the chief architect did or didn't do isn't relevant to the testimony of Jonathan Schwartz or rebuttal by McNealy.

Schwartz's testimony basically said that Sun was most concerned about protecting the Java trademarks and wider ecosystem, and while he wasn't necessarily happy with what Google did, he didn't see it as actionable. (Perhaps he thought that Google & Sun would eventually reconcile?)
Was this during a pitch or informal setting?

For must formal presentations the audience expect clear and concise responses. One should be forgiven for "filling" during a public speech or informal chat.
So basically Planetary Resources may be the next NASA, in terms of spurring all sorts of innovation.
"Sent passport scan to Hetzner" - Really?
Looks interesting, thanks for sharing it! Your algorithm is also based on the same "spiral out" technique described by Jonathan Feinberg on StackOverflow. (It's also what I used in my reply to that Mathematica.SE question.) Heike's solution is interesting because is always finds the tightest possible fit with a not-very-bad performance (the image processing operation used can be implemented in terms of correlations, which can be fast when done using fft).
>I wish there was a nice happy solution to the problem of cheaters, but I don't know of one.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/The_Corn_Field
I recall bad avatars back in Second Life were once sent to a virtual corn field for a few weeks to reflect on their actions!
Drawing Creativity Out of Employees
nearly-free peering at http://de-cix.net/ and http://www.n-ix.net/ to offload a big load of traffic + bandwidth and fibres are not that expensive here in Germany (unless you go with Deutsche Telekom).
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Having a well thought through business plan is the main thing, the filler words are a secondary issue.

Obviously someone with a solid business plan who speaks cautiously is in a much better position than a smooth talker who is selling vaporware. That's the value of the YC group, they have their priorities determined and they don't get taken for a ride.
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Okay, fair enough. I've let frustration at people on the internet adversely affect my replies far too many times myself. I know XKCD is terribly cliché, but I've taken to keeping "Internet Argument" [http://xkcd.com/438/] in mind. I find it helps ... ish.

I agree with the nobility of wanting to call people on inappropriate downmodding ... it just doesn't usually work as an edit to the downmodded post. No matter how hard you try, it'll almost always sound like either whining or agression. Just like trying to point people to the guidelines almost always sounds like rudeness or condescension. Sometimes you just can't win. ;)

... you know, on any other online community, I'd expect us to be flinging crap at each other like angry monkeys at this point. Even the disagreements on HN are refreshing.

Peace.
Same boat. I was a very proficient Excel user. The ribbon completely fucked my workflow. In addition, they broke just enough of the shortcut keys to break my flow.
You could also just get a dedicated server with a good chunk of ram. Say, 32gb or the new 64gb one. Then install XEN or KVM on it and run your own VPS farm instead. It'll save you $800-1600 USD/month in the long-run once you fill up the whole box with VPSs.

Another thing to note is that the new 64gb instance trucks a hexacore (6) core CPU and includes hyper-threading. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this means you can run 12 virtual cores in your XEN/KVM instances with this, instead of only 1 which is provided by the Hetzner VPS's. That's quite a difference.

With my 32gb box (which is a quad core with hyper-threading) my XEN instances can spin up to 8 virtual cores, according to the (h)top utility.
But Nvidia only sell Tesla's with ECC. I don't really read that implication into this.

On the other hand, the fact that https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=203167 has never been answered suggests they do not, as they would answer affirmatively if it was true surely. Of course they may use a mixture.

EDIT: Interesting that James Hamilton is on their team and thinks they should use it http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/07/YouReallyDONeedE...
> You couldn’t offload all those metals on the world market at once, for fear of crashing their prices

If you have a disruptive innovation (such as cheaply bringing tons of Platinum from space), prices will just settle at the new equilibrium. You wouldn't be able to sell a million tons of Platinum at US$ 1500 an ounce, but, as long as you make a profit, you're good.

But how about the Moon? It's nearby (making remote operation feasible) and bringing back stuff doesn't require more than a large railgun that can be built and powered locally. There is gravity and vacuum (a combination that's very good for working with metals - they fall towards the ground and they don't react with the atmosphere). And we already have soil samples. Plus, people can live there and repair equipment that breaks down.

And for the science types, the far side is an excellent place to put a radiotelescope.
Memory as a Consumer Durable
Forgetting the questions and answers, do you think the practice would make you perform better?

ie is there any value with this approach?
At Yale, Online Lectures Become Lively Books
CarrierCompare: The iPhone app your carrier doesn't want you to see
Dear Tim Cook: Apple is not the world's tech inventor
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I'm skeptical about this.
Lets see in 8 years[1] if i was right.

[1]http://predictionbook.com/predictions/6696
There are reasons why articles like this are written and should be taken as a warning to anyone considering using Azure.
The only way you could ensure it wasn't biased was to contact the competitors to potentially discuss the idea.

Then you can safely say you've worked with all parties concerned beforehand and an unbiased review website will draw attention to where each company can improve.
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Ask HN: Structuring a revenue stake agreement on web work
Recently, my side web development business has taken an interesting turn.

One current hourly client and one potential client have both approached me with revenue cut offers in exchange for long term arrangements and a reduced hourly rate. At first, I shunned such an arrangement, but now realize I may be losing an opportunity and an ability to guarantee some level of future revenue. It may even be possible to earn more than I do right now in my current full-time job.

Both clients have stated they want a long term partner for the development of their web offerings, and feel offering a revenue stake is their best path to get there.

What questions should I be asking? How are agreements like this typically structured?

I'm asking so when I speak with a lawyer I have some semblance of the key points with which I should be concerned. I'm sure other HN folks have been offered similar choices, and I'm having a hard time getting out of the "my time and experience is worth X per hour and any other arrangement is ripping me off" mindset.

I'd like to hear what you folks think, or if you have had experience in arrangements like this.

Thanks!
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Not a single line of code to illustrate the point? Not even one?
Maybe you have academia in mind. What makes you think business requires extraordinarily deep insight?
It looks like we finally get our first real look at the Galaxy S3
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It actually says "Sent"?
Jeezus, don't be so melodramatic and selective, everyone creates bugs.

Remember when android would lose text messages? Or Amazon's supposedly redundant system went down all at once?

Don't point a finger at MS for what wasn't even a complete outage.

And not taking the biggest and most successful software company in the world seriously makes you look like a complete fanboi tool.
I think it's the opposite: NAT almost made IPv6 obsolete. I spent a large time trapped behind a NAT by my former ISP, getting "you are alredy downloading" errors. So I absolutely hate whoever invented that crap.
Does anyone else feel that $45 was a bit low for two hours? I suppose doing computer repair for Jeff Atwood could go on a computer repair man resume.

Also, what kind of cable installer would connect a customer to their neighbour? Up here in Alberta Canada I've had installers from both major providers and they were always professional and well trained, is the situation much different in America?
Yes, those services are fundamental needs. There are lots of services that are fundamental needs, and lots of goods that aren't. In fact, a greater percentage of services are fundamental than goods, because your contention that " services are the first to go down" is exactly the opposite of what we observe in practice.
IPhone App disappeared
I released my first iPhone app to AppStore today. After waiting for an hour, it was on the app store, so I submitted the iTunes URL to all review sites and reviewers. All of sudden, the app just disappeared from the store!

This is the iTunes URL : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outliner7/id520827199?ls=1&mt=8

And website: http://wwww.ambiapps.com/outliner7.html
I've always wondered what would happen if you just let them cheat, but in a designated area - In effect, regulating it instead of banning it.
> I wish there was a nice happy solution to the problem of cheaters, but I don't know of one.

In DOTA2 and Starcraft 2 cheaters (and in DOTA, griefers/feeders[1]) are put into their own secret matchmaking queue to be matched up only with other cheaters.

I thought that was a rather clever solution.

[1] someone who, possibly out of frustration, intentionally dies to the enemy team, giving them gold
Consumer news. Plus how many of these "OMG IS THIS THE NEW S3??!" posts do we need?
Jelastic Closes $2 Million Series A Round of Financing from Notable IT Investors
Definitely check out the "best of" Xbox Live bannings: whywasibanned.com

Policing online services is hard.
I'm co-founder of Babelverse, and would like to take the opportunity to invite rockstar rails and/or VoIP specialized guys who like what we're doing to get in touch!
Where to Find Great Designers for your Team
I've looked in the past, and the two I've found are weblocks (common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks) and dragonfly (www.rundragonfly.com). From what I can tell, there is very little adoption of either. I would recommend Python or Ruby, even if you arent familiar with either. The available frameworks are much more mature, and help is easy to find given the large number of users.

also, here's a previous (2007) HN discussion on the subject:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882
About 3 years ago I used to host about 140 GMod servers. At the time, I believed that I was the single largest hoster of GMod servers since there were only about 400-470~ servers up at anyone point. No idea what is happening now since I've gotten out of game hosting entirely... anyway...

My perspective on why this is fantastic from being a game hosting company is that GMod servers were a bitch to maintain. They definitely took up 80% of my time in maintaince despite only being a small portion of all the games I hosted. The reason was to do with all of the cheaters who would nuke the server by spawning a ridiculous amount of resources and overwhelming the server with assets which the physics environment just could not handle.

The owners of the server would be angry at the cheaters and would also be angry at my company due to the quality of service. Often, these hackers would play on empty servers as well, which you might think is a victimless crime... but it could actually have a knock on effect to other servers on the same box.

Banning hackers in Gmod is a fantastic means to maintaining the quality and enjoyment of the game for other people. I would have loved to have seen this 3 years ago.

(Also if someone knows, how many active GMod servers are there currently running? Professional curiosity).
I'm not much of a gamer myself, but this is pretty impressive. I love the detail that went into making the cartridge / retro packaging. Pretty cool!
Worried about black boxes snooping on you? One is in your car already
I do not see VizWorld.com (as of 6:40 PST) on there...I have always liked that one.
not in the app, not yet at least
China plans national, unified CPU architecture
CIOs' Cloud Strategy Must Include Public Cloud Services
My wife and I think they are optimizing for women. No empirical basis for this, it just seems like every one is aping UI elements and styles from Pinterest these days.
"If people were harassing you about your MJ legalization stance (or anything, for that matter), then it probably would be appropriate to go to HR about."

I'm not talking about being harassed. I'm talking about just mentioning it. Just like the girl that wrote that bot that was here on HN and just like the discussion here. Using the term "gang raped" isn't being harassed personally.

It doesn't end here because people will go to HR and get you fired for just mentioning something they deem "offensive".

That's why I talk about silencing. Some people just can't ignore it and want to get the other person silenced. This same type of person has gotten radio hosts fired as well.

I've seen this happen in almost every workplace where I've worked in the past 10 years.
Talk about "fanboi". Microsoft may be big but, on the internet, they have far less experience and far less usage. The internet isn't the desktop. There, Microsoft is a small player.
It's not a videogame, but SomethingAwful's solution to banning paying members is to let them re-register with a new-account fee, so they can in effect stay if they pay a $10 fine. Particularly egregious or persistent troublemakers can get "permabanned", though.

I think I'm more sympathetic to people trying out hacks out of curiosity, especially if they're not trying to cheat their way to tournament money or something like that; but I can see that it causes an overall problem if it becomes widespread.

One question that sometimes comes up is whether it makes sense for game companies to be zero-tolerance about cheating tools, analogously to how possessing burglary tools is illegal in some jurisdictions. What if you really do use them in a "legit" fashion, such as only on servers where the server admin allows them? If it's explicitly a have-fun-with-hacks-here-all-you-want playground, or a server set up to allow bots to play against each other as part of AI research, then it's not really "cheating", is it? Yet people have gotten centrally banned for that sort of thing due to cheat-detection code inserted into the server by the game's creator.

I've been reading this book lately, so the idea of how cheating is defined, and who gets to define it (e.g. game creator vs. server owner vs. community norms) is on my mind a bit: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262513285/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
I don't like the timing effect, but I believe that those are super important questions to ask yourself before attending an interview (be it for/at YC or somewhere else)
Well, this is their secret sauce, which they claim will make the SABRE engine work where other scramjets have failed.

The tests they're currently running are of the pre-coolers, which have a proprietary design to prevent icing. If it works, they will have overcome the biggest hurdle to building a hybrid scramjet/rocket engine.
Thank you. I've had the idea I expressed in that post gestating in my mind for some time now, so I guess the vague notions were already more-or-less crystallised into crisp phraseology before I even started typing.

To be honest, I was worried I'd get uncharitably compared to Will Self. But then, I always get that feeling when tempted to use the word "postmodern", so I thought I might as well go with the flow and let the pretension fly. ;)
That's exactly what he said.
All of the price listings on Hetzner says that VAT is included in the price.
That would work well... if you can guarantee no misclassification at all. Once it starts to rely on opinions, it's completely flawed. How do you judge if someone dies intentionally or not? There's always going to be a grey area.

Now imagine you have a false positive and start matching someone who paid for their online gaming with cheaters all the time.
> "Software rendering might suffice though."

If I understand correctly, if it's using Mesa it should software render what it has to and hardware render the rest, without needing to change the program itself?
I just find the idea very powerful - the idea that governments can be replaced by software. Voted it up, just for the title, which conveys that idea ... We folks perhaps don't need to read that article, as can imagine the possibilities.
A pat on the back and a monetary reward for not fucking up?! even through it ultimately didn't matter? it's amazing how low the bar is set for politicians.
On Facebook, Your Privacy Is Your Friends' Privacy
I don't like the way this is framed - but to answer the question: because I did this sort of thing with a LUG and organizing community events when I was much younger (it helped me get into college and get my first job) and quite frankly I've been there and done that.

It gets extremely repetitive after 5+ years of giving. This open source thing has been happening for quite a long time now. Like decades.

Also, it feels as though the battle has been 'won' now. Everybody uses Linux and open source; it is accepted in industry alongside commercial software. Others may disagree of course.
> as long as they are good[X] at their job[X] and they make sensible[X] balanced[X] decisions that are in the best interest[X] of the people[X]

Please objectively and exhaustively define the marked terms. That, not AI, is the real challenge to better government. Incidentally, it's also pretty much the definition of politics.
Understanding the metrics that drive incubators or accelerators
> Here incomming air is highly compressed -- and thus heated up -- due to impacting plane parts at hypersonic velocities.

The problem is that at high mach numbers, the incoming air is too hot to successfully combust. They have to chill it (using the cryogenic fuel), and chilling it would usually result in icing.

The whole point of these tests is to prove that their precooler system resists icing.
McDonalds are the biggest and most successful restaurant in the world. But I doubt any chef would describe their food as being fantastic.

When I want to eat a really nice meal with friends or family, I rule out McDonalds. Does this make me a "fanboi tool"?

Microsoft have a pretty long history of date related bugs in their software and products stretching back years. They do not seem to understand how leap years work.

Windows 98: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/150947.stm
Zune: http://bit-player.org/2009/the-zune-bug
Excel: "Excel 2000 incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"
Exchange 2007: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/microsoft_admits_to_...

etc etc
title: "The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as productive (or more) than Ruby/Rails."
bio: "...computer programmer and web designer, who is interested in the intersection of mathematics and computer science..."

Old stereotypes die hard.
Are there legal issues to think about when storing data on German servers?