skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my understanding, there's a tightly-locked down outbound firewall: you only get HTTP,HTTPS and SSH ports. So sending mail over SMTP (spamming) can't happen.

If someone is doing something evil over e.g. HTTP, presumably GridSpot can also block that and/or ban them from the system.

If you're sending spam over e.g. Gmail via HTTPS, Gmail will shut you down.

The people running the nodes don't need to worry about e.g. someone downloading illegal content and getting them in trouble, because it is proxied through GridSpot.

I think it's a clever solution.
Clones of (Wireless) Wii controllers are less than $18[1] if you buy one, and that comes with the Numchuck and free shipping.

I'd be guessing they could get them for $10 if they were buying 10,000.

[1] http://www.dealextreme.com/p/remote-with-motionplus-silicone...
The Facebook version of Words With Friends sells a 'no-ads' premium pack, but admittedly that's a bit of a different scenario as the ads are in-game modal dialogs that can only be dismissed after X seconds.
Does that include charter schools? Because those are public as well. I think you are ill informed. I also think that "LOL." is an immature and inappropriate way to make any point.
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Can somebody explain to me how this works? Gridspot doesn't use a server farm like Amazon? I don't get it.

Looks like a pretty sweet service though.
lol ken block?
I could be wrong, but a cursory glance at Dropbox's REST API at least provides some hope for those who've lost a large number of files in Dropbox.

(https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#restore)
As a general rule I think it's a bad idea to offer a service like this as an anonymous individual where someone could feel you are front running names. Additionally the whois is private. So you might want to change your "about us" page to include who you are and other information.
It doesn't need to die out. They can continue to make the hardware, and adopt the new software. Not sure about the whole free-games thing, though.
They really should have more intelligent individuals manning public-facing support channels.
I'm glad you brought this up, Lance. Frankly, I'm surprised that no one else has.

Due to tax complications, the percentage of money we're going to be able to give is going to vary drastically depending on how many overall copies of the app we're able to sell. We were advised by our lawyer to use the term proceeds as opposed to profits or revenue as a small means of protection.

Additionally, I would challenge your expectation that we should give a "fair" amount to the Wikimedia foundation. We're the only one of the many paid Wikipedia apps that chooses to give any money back to Wikimedia (as far as I know, at least) and we certainly don't feel as though we have any obligation to do so. We CHOOSE to give back because we want to support Wikipedia and free, open knowledge.

We're committed to giving back, we just don't want to back ourselves into an unsustainable corner or make promises we can't keep.
Something is very strange with scrolling using a mouse wheel, too. It seems to scroll about a third to half of the distance it usual does for each "tick" of the mouse wheel (Ubuntu, Firefox). I guess it doesn't recognize the OS setting.
I use droplr for quick screen-sharing, pastes, file-transfers, etc. I do not use it for anything sensitive whatsoever.
> I would honestly be shocked if they can ship a console with even those specs along with a controller and all the assorted bits and pieces you need, to an end user for $99 without eating some hidden costs themselves

1. This is speculation

2. They didn't say anything about the final release price

> 8GB of storage is not remotely enough for a console that has no physical storage medium for games

I agree, this is a strange decision

> The buttons on that controller mockup are only color-coded

This is an interresting point, but the console could totally survive that.

> Furthermore, they show various games in their mockup material - like Minecraft, and Triple Town, and Shadowgun - but apparently they haven't made deals with all of these developers to show up in the promotional material (let alone use the platform), which makes it seem like they really believe they're just going to ride the Android Market all the way to success. Can they even provide access to the official Android Market without meeting the requirements that Google imposes for shipping the Google Experience apps or whatever they're called?

They say in their video "minecraft is gonna be on it" and they have a quote from somebody from mojang down in the quotations, so they're obviously in contact with them.

They have the developer of canabalt saying that he has a port of the game ready for the console.

So maybe they're just a little bit more serious than what you seem to think ?

This device could survive, and strive, with all the shortcomings you mentionned. The design could also evolve before release.
Shouldn't he have had his lawyers protest the delay so he can be quickly exonerated by his overwhelming innocence.
Brain cancers mostly disrupt the blood brain barrier, Which is an organised tissue structure that exists to preserve the microenvironment of the brain against normal fluctuations and insults.
Cancer is disorganised tissue that doesn't know how to produce nice neat blood brain barrier tissue organisation
Ask HN: Would graying out a tree be helpful.
I was going through the comments on the submission: Re-Designing the classic email client (vanschneider.com), and most of the comments add nothing to the discussion.

I thought a good approach would be if a comment in the discussion went sour then that and its descendants gray out, as any child comment is just off topic any way.

I am thinking the end result will be all relevant comments available to engage with. It would also discourage commenting in a grayed out tree for obvious reasons.
I'm assuming you want to manage a high touch B2B sales process (otherwise why would salesforce be in the running?). We're using salesforce for historical reasons. It's been fine for us, but I would caution someone starting fresh: 1) it's expensive, and 2) it really expects to be used by hand by a sales person (and it's good at that) - doing mass changes and other activities that you might expect to be easy as a database programmer are always painful. I haven't used Highrise so I can't compare them.
You could use symlinks to add arbitrary folders to your dropbox.
Seriously? Installer link is on the homepage: https://gridspot.com/
Cool project, but at $99 for a console and controller they must be operating at a loss, right? Does anyone have any insight into production costs of something like this? It could change the way we think about the "amount raised".
Any idea if these are the characters GoSMS uses as "emoji"? i.e. is it a defacto standard?
We've started running our runservers with pythondontwritebytecode=1 - I haven't noticed enough of a performance impact to change it back and it saves us remembering to delete pyc files before deploys.
> Something about the tone of this response irks me.

Reminds me of someone doing it right: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...
In spite of the pronunciation guide to the name of this console, I choose to pronounce it OOHHHHH YEEEEEAAAH in Macho Man Randy Savage's voice.

Cheap hardware, open platform, and a decent looking controller. I would buy one, and I know a dozen other people who will too. OOHHHHH YEEEEEAAAH!
What are your data sources?
The complaint is levied against the reporters, not the scientists. If we actually heard from the scientists, we would generally get reserved statements about progress and good indicators. That turns into a weekly cure for cancer that doesn't really exist once we hit the "scientific" press.

In this case, it looks like the complaint is poorly founded. This is a real breakthrough working on people cancer (as opposed to mouse cancer).
Out of curiousity, I was chatting over email with AdrianC some time ago about getting netflix into hospital patient rooms. He said "we will never do a commercial/aggregate account" -- is this still true?

I design hospitals and other large enterprise facility's networks and systems... and this is a really big need.

Can I talk to someone at netflix and convince them this is a good idea?

If not, is it allowable to build a system which has paid netflix streaming accounts that can be "checked-out" by nodes/devices to stream to? Allowing a hospital to have a pool of (N) accounts that can by used by (X) devices?
DMCA notices are pleasant indeed.
I don't think Google has even made Google TV open source yet, probably because it's still based on Honeycomb. Also, unfortunately, Google doesn't seem interested to want to promote their Google TV set top boxes as mini-consoles, other perhaps than mentioning it in the bullet list *run Play Store games.
This brings up the concept of taking the right tone with your customers. This is a perfect example of what not to do. "Don't worry, your concerns are invalid... Oh, you have a valid point? Doesn't matter, we don't care."
He could always go on the run with Julian Assange.
Why not? It'd be even less thievery than stealing, say, a toothpick from a restaurant, but what's the effective difference?
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Alternative currencies are legal but with serious limitations that make it almost impossible to compete with the official currency (see http://www.quora.com/Is-Bitcoin-legal).
I've noticed this trend as well. It's hard to miss for anyone who's lurked here longer than two years.

That said, I think I know what the culprit is: money. Check out the headlines on the front page. How many titles contain a '$'? Yesterday I saw some big numbers: 100M for github, 20M for stripe, 10M for someone else, plus kayak IPO numbers. Today we've got kickstarter.

As a community, we've become obsessed with money. Bootstrapping revenue, angel rounds, VC funding, acquisitions, IPOs, croudfunding, etc. When people focus on money they get upset. There are a myriad of reasons for this, but the quick version is that it's human nature and basically unavoidable.

So, in short: we think too much about money, and as a consequence we're grumpy.
It is obviously a VM, so the virtual network interface that you get will be proxified. The fun thing will be to see if someone can do some VM escaping and own 100k machines for free.
About Marion Barry ... he's corrupt, so are most big city politicians. But (1) nobody in the Ward 8 cares about a rock cocaine offense decades ago (cocaine has been such a big problem in that part of the city, it's likely every voter has has been close to an addict or otherwise touched since the early 80's), and (2) the other stuff about personal tax cheating, getting busted with weed, etc. is just water under the bridge to most Ward 8 voters.

At the end of the day, none of those things (apart from the expected corruption) affect how Barry does his job. And the voters in Ward 8, far and away the poorest part of the city, know that when the shit hits the fan, Barry looks out for those who usually don't have much of a voice in DC.

While Ward 3 residents were patting Fenty on the back for putting up bicycle lanes and dog parks, the Ward 8 voters were pissed to see a mayor basically pandering to the wealthy voters and screwing the poor. These are the same voters who voted for Gray and his crony, corrupt administration in the last mayoral election. They know very well that Rhee's "No Child Left Behind"-style reforms were just going to screw up the school system worse for their kids.

And they sure as hell didn't want to re-elect Fenty, who never showed that he was willing to work on the tough problems that cause DC's entrenched poverty. The Fenty approach to poverty (which was really Anthony Williams' approach on steroids) was to price out the poor folk until they have to move to some hole like Temple Hills or Capitol Heights, no longer being DC's problem.
Mostly from the database, created by the application. Other than that, Mixpanel and perhaps Stripe, Google Analytics.
I don't know about 'legitimate', but I can think of plenty of specific ones. I say build it (just might want to incorporate it separately... possibly in Sweden..)
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What else should it be based on? Linux? At least Android has games, and they can also leverage 400 million users, and a platform growing at 1 million new users per month. Why does this matter? Because even if game devs are not interested to make games specifically for Ouya, they will make them for Android, and then it should be very easy to just port them to Ouya.
I had a modest epiphany some weeks back thinking about server configuration management: if you want to manage configurations on a given node (to use Chef lingo), it's best to work within a system that facilitates and/or encourages this.

For a number of reasons, Debian (or faithful derivatives) comes closest to this of any platform I've encountered.

That said: fabric appears to be little more than a multi-system aware task runner. Somewhat like dsh (distributed ssh / dancer's shell):
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html

... or like Capistrano, as the Debian package description suggests (modulo installing Rails).

There's a bad pimp joke around "idempotence" waiting to be made.

Your task here would seem to install Oracle's Java 7 HostSpot JVM.

How do you get around the licensing question(s) (or is that what the "-y" is for)?
"Sorry, only the contest owner can view flight details."
Intel invests in ASML to boost extreme UV lithography, massive 450mm wafers
Given how much of the world's money flows through US banks, New Zealand could give everything back it wants to and still leave Dotcom broke (especially after legal fees) and without a company.

New Zealand is awesome. It is on my list of most desirable countries to live in. But if the US doesn't release the holds they have, I question whether Dotcom will really get anything back. Remember, he is renting his house in NZ. It's not like he has a big chunk of money in a mansion that he can sell.
This is completely news to me. One of those "WTF?" moments!
They said: "The whole Droplr platform runs on HTTPS. That means when you upload a file, note or shorten a link via any of the apps (Windows, Mac or iPhone), it sends the file over HTTPS."
MEXICO~THE LARGEST PROTEST THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN MEDIA BLACKED IT OUT
I agree and disagree.

First, the original thread was overtly negative and that surprised me. I even commented in that thread saying as much. Generally, I think the HN community got that one wrong, and its obvious too because they got $1million in less than 24 hours which is more than anyone can say for half the projects that get posted here.

And on that note, the negativity, it seems to me, is largely due to the ballooning of this community and a bunch of half-baked, unoriginal, crowded-market ideas with uninspired product designs being posted. It seems everyone thinks that just because they use NodeJS, mustache, coffeescript and want to take a bottom-up approach to X for Y and apply to YC that makes them an entrepreneur. While these people are embarking on a learning process a "black cup of coffee" never hurt anyone.
The default button in Tender (which is the support software they are using) is "Reply and Close". It's easier to do that and I think the support guy got used to it.
be cautiously optimistic. It's real research that has worked in animal models. It remains to be seen whether it will be as effective in humans.
Additionally, shrinking a tumour is a long way from a cure.

For example - The drug Ipilimumab (melanoma) was shown in clinical trials to increase median survival from 6.4 months to 10 months. Some people may have disease-free recurrence for significantly longer than they would have, some may actually be 'cured' (Disease-free survival for 5 years is a fairly standard medical definition of 'cure'), others die at the same time, or a week, or a month, later than they would have anyway.

For all of these drugs, there is no magic bullet, the tumour will evolve around the mechanism.. My understanding of the subject (final year medical student) has lead me to believe that an immunological approach will be best (See my post which links to a nejm article further down the page)

hope this helps your understanding
BountyOSS - Crowdfunding Open Source Software
Microsoft (Outlook+Exchange+Lync (formerly Office Communicator))
http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/4547820/ouya2_ga...
this screenshot shows that possibly there are also letters on the buttons, not just colors
It shouldn't matter how many physical CPUs there are, I only care how many my VM can use and how fast each one is.

If `cat /proc/cpuinfo` or `top` only shows one CPU, I wouldn't expect to be charged for 4 of them.
I hope they succeed because I hate the closed systems of the big three. I would love to develop/ship some software without having to jump through the many hoops that the big three put up. That said I am skeptical that they will build a machine that I would fall in love with. There are so many problems with what's listed:

- not enough RAM

- not enough secondary storage

- no DVD/Blu Ray drive

- powerful enough video card?

- controller button layout not suitable for colour-blind people

Add those items and bump up the price $100 and I'm in. I want this to succeed and they don't have many chances to get it right.
Hopefully Google will allow them access to the Play Store, otherwise devs will have to repackage the apps for Ouya, which I'm sure it's not going to be a huge deal if this thing takes off. But it would be a nice gesture from Google, and it would be in their interest, too, especially if they have no plans of doing the same thing with Google TV set top boxes.
How do you look at your database metrics now? I'm building something for my Rails app, which I'll be happy to share.
It might be just as valid to you, but that does not mean it is necessarily just as valid in a wider sense of the word. In this case we are asking about the ultimate purpose of business, and about whether it is to make money. One easy way to look at this logically is to ask if people would try and do business if money did not exist, is money a defining characteristic of business, or is it just an environmental aspect of the fact the business exists in a monetary society.
It has a free ssd slot.
Wolfram Alpha To Power Samsung's Version Of Siri
There's a number of articles just out with this title, however I linked submission directly to the Wolfram Alpha blog.
Link to the actual project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...

Pretty pathetic that The Atlantic is just embedding the project's video without even an actual link. Why the hell do so many sites still do this?
This. I had an argument about this with the CTO of Twilio during my DevOps interview with them. Their excuse is that it works "good enough".

Can't expect much else when one of the founders comes from AWS.
ybombinator'd?
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What makes you say there isn't enough RAM? Are you saying it from a "future-proof" point of view? You're only going to run one game at a time, and I don't think Android games can even use more than 50 MB of RAM or something (just like they can't on iOS). The graphics are good enough for this price. We're talking indie games here, not AAA games.
A study about a year ago claimed that we could get to half the reductions required to keep us under +2C just by halting all fossil fuel subsidies worldwide (not that that's feasible).

A little googling on solar panel energy cost found, for example, these links:

http://solarbus.org/documents/pvpayback.pdf

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3910

which claim that energy payback of solar panels takes about three years.

For various reasons I think we'd do better with advanced nuclear, such as integral fast reactors or molten salt reactors. Either would be safer than what we have now, proliferation-resistant, and produce a lot less nuclear waste with a much shorter lifetime. We could have a very energy-rich future without carbon emissions.

As for carbon credits, a lot of economists advocate a "fee-and-dividend" scheme. Instead of trading credits, major source emitters simply pay a flat fee per ton of carbon, passing on the cost to the rest of us. The money is divided among all citizens, equal amount per person. Most people come out ahead (since the median emissions are less than the average), but since the dividend is constant and the new cost variable, everyone has more incentive to conserve.

I've seen calculations for the contribution of waste heat and it's very minor compared to greenhouse gases. However, if our energy usage continues to grow exponentially on this planet it'll be a real problem in a couple hundred years:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
And surely they'll have to bump it again or introduce a new level; they're already back down to 800 remaining (currently out of 10,000), still with 29 days to go. The $99 pledge level wasn't even in there initially; I think they were expecting the bulk of their pledges to come from low-end pledges where people reserve a username. They're also out of etched boxes ($225 level) and even most of the developer specials ($700) are gone.
Pig may lack some syntactic sugar, but it really gets the job done! It's a great way to get MR jobs going in a hurry.
IANAL: If he wants a speedy trial, and is concerned about legal fees, he should just go the U.S. on his own. Any delay at this point only helps the prosecution, giving them more time to research the case.
I never used droplr and now i know i will never use it. Support staff was never able to understand how SSL works or what problem is. Yet he choose simply to ignore it.

>The reason why the content itself is not served under https is precisely to avoid the SSL warning.

That annoying warning is the hearth of the secure connection. It surprises me how people choose an easy way and doesn't care about "doing things right"
Are you guys using EC2 like Engineyard?

Edit: I just checked the ip 107.20.186.94, and it does look like it's hosted on Amazon.
Yep. For me as well.
It's a two edged sword. When you have this many smart people in a community a lot of the right questions are being asked.

The same people however are often not in any position to judge the business potential of something simply.

My own rule is to try and abide the three rules of feedback.

1. Don't assume other people are idiots
2. Given the right premises everything is possible
3. Give critique either with a suggestion to solve it or as a question that can be answered.
Yes. That is exactly what the US government call "justice". You cannot beat "the man".
Dunno; I only know emoji encoding has historically been a crapfest.
Not sure whether the site you run is localhostr.com (from your profile) or not, but just wanted to tell you that Malwarebytes blocked the site from loading on my PC since they consider the site a potential threat. Not sure what metric they used to determine that, but just wanted to let you know in case it's something you encounter with other users or potential users.
What about the node-owner being able to look inside your box and see what you are doing?
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Will this device be able to play audio with less than 20 milliseconds of latency?
I also noticed the slew of $$$-related articles lately. I wonder if that's just a coincidence or a real trend.
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