skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We[1] are working on some F/OSS knowledge management / collaboration tools, heavily based around social-networking, machine learning, collective intelligence and semantic web technologies.

One of our projects, Quoddy[2], is sort of (to oversimplify) like a "Facebook for the Enterprise," but with a focus on actually integrating into value creating workflows, and supporting collaboration in new ways, as opposed to simply being another complement to (or replacement for) email.

Another of our projects, Neddick[3] is a lot like Reddit, and I guess you could call it a "Reddit for the Enterprise," but - again - with more of a focus on features that will make it a valuable productivity tool in an organization. Heceta[4] is our enterprise search engine, which takes advantage of metadata from both Neddick and Quoddy to enhance search results. Hatteras[5] is probably not going to remain a standalone project, but right now it's the "bridge" that allows Quoddy users to subscribe to business events from a SOA/ESB backend and surface those events in their news feed.

Of the projects, Quoddy and Neddick are the most developed, Hatteras works just well enough to let us demo the business event subscription stuff in Quoddy, and Heceta mostly exists in my head and in some drawings. But we're making great progress, and we should have an alpha version of Quoddy that's developed enough to start trying to sell to "earlyvangelist" types fairly soon.

There's also a good chance that we will work on "productized" versions of some other existing F/OSS projects, especially some ASF stuff. Nothing is written in stone, but you may one day see "Fogbeam Office, powered by Apache OpenOffice" or "Fogbeam BigData Server, powered by Apache Hadoop" or something along those lines.

Basically, the goal is to be the next Red Hat, but with a focus on a slightly different part of the stack. Not that there might not be some overlap with them at some point, but time will tell.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[3]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

[4]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Heceta

[5]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Hatteras
Cloud Haskell on Raspberry Pi
The bar for entry is so low when it comes to many types of startups today that the grand majority of "Show: HN" posts are completely unimpressive, unoriginal, and just plain boring. That is just the reality. This entire idea that people should be supportive regardless is ridiculous when the amount of people entering the market is enormous. Maybe getting great supportive feedback on mediocre projects isn't what HN is for anymore. IMO that is a good thing. The industry has evolved, so has HN, maybe you should as well.

And I still see great supportive criticisms, and general fluff "great project" on the ACTUALLY GOOD projects.

Just building something isn't impressive anymore.
This and the Olympic bullshit just makes me wish I could get a debit card in AmEx or MC...
I have the same privacy concern. In the NPR interview, when asked if they'd ever lost a phone, the owner replied "non yet".

But the small chance of losing my phone and personal data (which is something I can easily mitigate) is the price of admission that I'm eager to pay.
Good question - it is perhaps worth noticing that private prosecutions are rather rare and typically only happen when the "official" prosecutor appears to have made an error of judgement and appear to be taken by victims (or their families) as an act of desperation.

For example:

http://www.firmmagazine.com/features/155/When_worlds_collide...

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

What happens in other countries if the "official" prosecutor chooses not to prosecute a crime?

NB I'm not intending to imply that I think the various approaches to private prosecutions that we have in the UK are a good thing - this case brought by FACT does look a bit worrying.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
IANA DNA expert, but they still seem to be ordered [1]. So a possible scheme to increase data density could be:

AT = 00

TA = 01

CG = 10

GC = 11

The trick would be to always correctly identify which is the left and which is the right strand. I don't know if that is possible in practice though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair#Examples
There are similar incentives - a 'not guilty' plea lengthens the case, which increases the cost to the prosecutor. I also understand that the if the prosecution loses, they pay the defendant's court costs, and a guilty plea means they win with no risk of that payout.
Error correction redundancy to any level of reliability you want takes log(N) extra storage. My question would be what the access speeds are. If you have to read it by running it through a trillion PCR test tubes, this isn't exactly practical.
Tangential to the discussion, but I am currently working on a system that will handle some 100 million semi-structured rows. Despite all the buzz about "big data", hadoop and nosql etc. etc. there is literally no system that can give me a way to reliably store AND search through this data on multiple columns in near real-time (assuming I can throw a reasonable no. of nodes at it).

I looked at BigQuery, but they don't support updates. It's just dump and analyze.
We are helping developers focus on the behavior of their apps while creating cloud services. We feel that creating web services is just too complex and it has too many variables. We strive to reduce the number of variables so that developers can focus on their own functionality.

iKnode, removes a lot of the complexity when creating Cloud Services. For example you can create your services by just using your browser. You can deploy (publish) your service with just the click of a button. No need to setup a security, logging and configuration layer because everything is taken care of.
Almost every part of the human body directly exposed to the environment is covered with microbes: the skin, the gut lining, your mouth, your nasal passage, etc. Only a small part isn't (as I recall your eyes are sterile). I don't have proper citation for this, but AFAIK if you disrupt the microbial balance on these surfaces it might result in health-related problems. So in a way, yes, we need them to live healthy.

Other parts have to be kept sterile. Your brain, your heart, your lymph nodes, are some examples. When these parts gets infected, you get sick.

On another note, microbes are fantastic creatures. The earth is covered in them and they've been around much longer than us. They can live off a myriad of different substances and even without the sun.

Yay microbes :p!
Leaving aside the laws of thermodynamics, well-to-wheel efficiency, etc.

Imagine getting stuck in traffic in such a car. What powers the A/C?
Not really. The sentence says that the reason you defect is specifically to avoid the worst possible result. This is bad logic. The reason defect is considered dominant is because, regardless of what the other player does, your outcome is better if you defect. It is a very different statement.
Webs.com Adds A Facebook Cover Image Designer To Pagemodo
Google's Real Time Big Data Tool Cloned By Apache Drill
My issue (well, one of my issues) is that I'm on a rather pristine new work computer, and while I do use Calibre at home, I don't want to put it on this machine. Additionally, I don't want do deal with the hassle of creating a Kindle account and installing an application that I would literally use once.

In comparison, if it was a DRM-less epub, or even a PDF, it would be the work of maybe 30 seconds to SCP it to my iPad, open it in iFile, and load it into iBook. No extra applications, no obscure steps to remove the DRM.

The note about the Calibre plugins is appreciated, though, and I'll be sure to keep it in mind if this comes up again. It was more a point about the fact that I've don't recall having an experience with DRM so blatantly removing value from a product that it was the difference between consuming it and walking away.
Long term, rarely accessed backup?
I'm really bummed to hear that you feel you got shot down or excessive snark about your projects. I learned something about this in my creative writing classes - it means nothing until you write it down and put it out there. It's easy to imagine how great your writing is until you actually write, and it's hard to say "at least for now, this is my best effort." If you're putting it out there, you're already doing more than most.

In spite of some snark, I still find HN to be a pretty good community. Up and down voting actually reflects this. On most sites, it is, as you pointed out, a way of keeping score (you know how it goes, if you like Mitt Romney, you vote up, if you like Obama, you vote down, regardless of the tone or content of the post). I actually feel that HN is still unusually inclined to actually use the voting to moderate rather than keep a tally relative to pretty much anything else out there.

I'd be really bummed to see this go.
The bigger a news site gets, the more it starts to resemble Orwell's Two Minutes of Hate. The irony today is that it's not some overbearing totalitarian power that's doing it, it's the users themselves.
Maybe you are the one non-annoying cell phone user at restaurants.
I think that hate and negativity in the face of an obvious bald-faced lie is to be expected. I agree that the negative reaction to 11kclub.com was over-the-top, but also I could have easily predicted that reaction.
Android is under attack: New malware threats tripled in Q2
That is just an excuse. If big companies really care, they can make it happen. For example I know several people who work at Walmart in Chile, and they've told me about the very strict rules the company has for negotiating contracts and dealing with vendors, breaking those rules is considered a very serious issue and usually ends on the person who broke those rules getting fired.
Thanks for the reply zipop I really appreciate the other perspective. That said, you said some things in your response that make me think that the way I wrote my post may have lead you to misinterpret the point I was trying to make. Sorry about that, let me try to rephrase slightly.

To be clear: I know how tough it is to teach yourself how to code. When I was teaching myself as a kid there was no StackOverflow, no Code Academy, and no W3Schools. It was just me and my programming book, and either I figured out the problem for myself or I had to give up. It was really hard.

The point I was trying to make wasn't that you could become a master engineer in 6 months. That's absolutely untrue. The point I was trying to make is that you can teach yourself enough code in 6 months to build SOMETHING, to move yourself along far enough to get to the next level.

I know this is possible because I've seen people do it. One of my best friends from school went from not knowing a how to write a single line of code to being the lead technical founder on a YC company in less than a year.

The real point here is that it's very easy to tell yourself something is too hard, and that you don't have enough time to learn it when that's really just a personal constraint. The point is that it's easy to get distracted doing things with short term rewards (going to events) rather than doing things with rewards that are played out over the long term (building skill). It's more written as a way to shift perspective than anything else. Again thanks for the response, hopefully that cleared it up a little bit.

EDIT: Original post is here if you missed it: http://danshipper.com/the-now-syndrome
Hey Eduardo, I tried to commend on your blog, but it seems that someone entered an html tag in the last comment and didn't close it. It screwed your comment system.

I'm from Brazil too, and this kind of stuff didn't surprise me. But you have to contact a lawyer and ask for help. Our legal system isn´t the best, but we have to make some effort to make it better.

Best wishes!
AFAIK, evolution doesn't occur because of some tendency of DNA to just suddenly change out from under you. It happens because of mutation and recombination, both of which are things that are done to the DNA.
Ribosomes seem to manage just fine. :)

You just encode a big marker (making sure it's not a palindrome-paired version of itself!) as a header. If you see that, it's a correct order. If not, it's not.
If you have a billion users and you charge .1% of them $1,000 that's $1 billion. If you charge another 1% of them $100 that's another $1 billion. If you charge another 10% of them $10 that's another $1 billion. That's $3 billion already and we're just playing with rough numbers.
IANAL, but I think the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) only covers bribes to foreign government officials.
I wonder if we are being trolled. sw007 has been a member for just 18 months[0], not five years, and in that time he has only submitted "Ask HN" or "Show HN" posts and written only a handful of comments, half of them being on this post.

Steve never participated in the community. He used the community when it suited him to get advice, and after 18 months of not liking the advice he received, he quits.

I am not defending negativity, but participating in a community is essential in understanding it. Maybe Steves expectations were far to high, or he come here looking for positive affirmation. I would prefer HN to stay honest and objective, providing constructive criticism and encouragement, rather than just praising each other.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sw007
I don't know but, I can hardly ever justify spending EUR 3.25 (~$4) on a cup of Starbucks coffee. When I can spend EUR 5.00 on a bag of really nice beans that'll make me many many really NICE cups anywhere I bring my filter-holder and have access to an electrical outlet (for the grinder and water-boiler).

In fact I really hate spending that money on a single cup of coffee since even in the rare case when it's pretty good that merely means it's "almost just about" as good as what I brew myself and the expense puts such a damper on the enjoyment factor I might as well not bother.

But then, I'm probably one of those stereotypical cheap Dutch bastards :-P (that happens to brew a really kick ass coffee)
I've always thought its kind of a shame that mobiles mean we have to be on the job all the time. Every day.

I love putting my phone away at meals, it's a good time to be social and set aside the demands of professional life.
When I was about 11, I bought this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Game-Programming-Cd-Rom...

I had never touched programming before. I read the whole book, and did the lessons, but C++ was just too hard for a beginner.

Then I found QBASIC sitting on my computer. QBASIC was easy, it was idiot proof. I learned all the basics (pun) of programming in 1 day. The problem is not that programming is hard, it is that these days there is no easy starting point. To an experienced developer, Javascript might seem easy, but after trying to teach it to my brother for the past few months, you can see how complex it really is for beginners. He took every course at Code Academy and is still struggling.
Have you looked at hyperdex?
Nice start, clean design but it looks like signup is broken. It redirects to some random TED talk :p
this was not handled well - the $50 is first and the purpose of the mission is somewhere after that.

I was thinking it should have been called 'i had fifty dollars, but i gave it to these people'
Considering that most of the mutations are random, the same ecc algorithms we currently use should ensure data integrity.
Interesting paper, and it suggests some other possibilities, including a Pneumatic/Combustion hybrid (i.e. using a compressed air "flywheel") which seems to have greater benefits than an Electric/Combustion hybrid (a tank of compressed air is lighter than batteries).

Perhaps Tata is experimenting with an electric/pneumatic hybrid (so electric, but compresses air when braking, and consumes it when accelerating). This might work, but doesn't help with infrastructure rollout.
A thought experiment: What if he was facilitating access to child pornography rather than Hollywood films would people be as outraged? More so? Less so?

If the suggestion of an income of up to £50,000 per month is even in the correct ballpark then this character was in the business of profiting hugely from copyright infringment and the jail time is appropriate.

The outrage about this is just windbaggery from thieves bemoaning the fact that they can't steal with impunity. And yes, depriving people of income is theft. Don't want to pay for a movie? Then watch something else.
I think he's pretty courageous (or just stubborn) to stay in Russia after publicly declaring his opposition to Putin. I hope he will be free soon.
Steve,

Where's the constructive criticism? It's a community, you can take your ball and go home but if you actually want better feedback start by giving some.
I believe HTML and JavaScript will eventually erode native mobile apps, just as it is doing in the desktop app segment. I always advocate for HTML based mobile apps when I propose a solution. For a long time there was a lot of resistance to the idea, but more and more companies are seeing the benefit. Once they understand that they can still deliver an application to the app store, they seem to be more comfortable with the idea.
I have also pretty much given up on HackerNews now too. I used to love finding novel and interesting material from any subject.

Now I just see the same posts over and over again:

- "top 'n' mistakes starts-up make"
- "best 'n' ways to ensure your start up will succeed"
- "'n' qualities that make a good founder/entrepreneur."
- "why my start-up failed: lessons learnt"

The content is rarely ground-breaking and rarely written by somebody of note.

And a more disturbing trend is as soon as somebody write/posts something interesting, there follows weeks/months of similar, non-original rehashed posts/articles.

I think point-scoring is an important factor - as soon as the posting stuff becomes a 'game' that can be 'won', somewhere the reason for it all is de-valued...

Or perhaps it's just too big now... the book "the story of eBay" gives an interesting insight to community growth...
I make a small show of putting it on silent mode.
Did I miss something, why can't they use normal parking spaces?
.torrent files make that content available. The simplest counterargument is that if his actions didn't make that content available, what were all the visitors to his site doing?

Should a person be able to successfully defend with "What's the problem, I was only giving copies of the vault key to the people who I knew would burgle it. I never handled any of the vault contents myself!"?
This is probably an outcome of the comment engine on this site, it could use some real work. If it worked a little more like Reddit, with upvotes and downvotes, then good, useful comments would bubble to the surface and negative useless comments would get hidden.
In fact, for an experiment I created an account with which I posted a few negative responses (so destructive criticism), which got upvoted.
Humans are sensitive to the sound of crying babies, it's a natural instinct, and so we focus on it. I know, I have a baby daughter.
Unfortunately, it works.
Wow look at that - once made aware of the vulnerability Onity responded with a fix.

The last post I saw on this mentioned that the security researcher did not responsibly disclose the vulnerability because he just knew they wouldn't do anything. Looks like he was wrong.
I rarely read comments here anymore, preferring to stick to reading the article linked to - for the same reason that I never venture into the comment section on the Guardian's once great Comment is Free section. The first batch of comments are always (without fail) in the same vein, and start with a variation of "Yes, but..." or "But what about..." Attack, criticise, find something to disagree with. It doesn't matter if the commenter agreed with 5 things in the article, the early commenters always go looking for that 1 thing they don't agree with.

One of the great myths is that you have to put up with negative people online, that you have to 'toughen up', because, well, just because... You don't. Seth Godin wrote a great piece years ago telling you to fire your customers if they're too troublesome, and I've used this strategy in 2 businesses since. It's liberating. Negativity, insults, poorly mannered and poorly behaved people - you really DO NOT have to put up with any of that. Kick them to the curb and move on, because you really do not need those sorts of people anywhere near you or your new business.

Unfortunately, a lot of 'those people' hang out on HN (and the Guardian).
Being European myself, I wonder what you call a "European carry all" ?

A purse ? (or "man purse")
So, so good. You earned your $50.
So I should call my dinner utensils Cow-Scale because they can be used on roast beef? Hey, I could call my socket wrenches Navy-Destroyer-Class-Scale because they can be used on boats!

Dremel does not have anything to do with the web at all. It's just data processing. You can use it for anything.
Microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip are the latest advances: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-...

The progress in this field has been far better than Moore's Law [1] so it could be very practical.

[1] Excellent TED talk on it too by Richard Resnick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bsCiq6hvM
I don't understand how this density could be so much better than something like flash drives. Aren't they also on the same scale of nanometers?
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Although, not particularly about onboarding, I'd mention that at the 6 and 12 month marks (timing varies), I'd send another email as well. One regarding new updates/feature enhancements, and one about a potential discount on a new add-on or for a first sign-up.
I really meant the earliest written historical record - which seems to have been made in thge Greek navigator Pytheas in 325BC:

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

Which is a long long time after the earliest remaining buildings - which go back well over 3000 years before Pytheas to about 3700BC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar
So what you're providing is similar to meal tickets or coupons?
Please.

Rand is mostly popular in the US --where people don't have the background in the history of philosophy that they have in western Europe.

Compared to actual philosophy Rand is like a tv informercial compared to a documentary.
The gist of the article is that a long held strategy has been found inferior. This has been hailed as a revolution by some (the author and no doubt some of the community he's writing about) while the longer view, which can be seen in the post's comments is that it's expected:

"This just seems to be an extension of the folk theorem to the family of probabilistic strategies. 1. Any level payoff level can be supported in equilbrium (Press & Dyson), 2. None of those equilbria survive evolutionary refinements (this paper). Interesting stuff, but not quite revolutionary as it is suggested. "

The reference I was making was a famous line from the Simpsons where Bart's strategy of "good old rock, nothing beats that" is adapted to by Lisa who picks paper. Yeah I misquoted, season 4 was a long time ago :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxzU6hxrNA

No it probably wasn't the most intelligent or informed comment I could have made. Sometimes the not most intelligent comments can be useful. Maybe this one wasn't one of those but, /shrug I would probably make it again.
Just don't say shit about Apple.
The case the article was making was for storage on dead cells.
Yes they are.

They are mocking it because they think it's a privileged network only for people who are willing to pay the grand sum of 50 US Dollars. It was the same story with svbtle. This smug sense of entitlement is frankly disgusting.