skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial question that comes to mind is: how will this be sustainable? It's all well and good to offer this service, but will it be a drain on your finances 6 months down the road? Will it become a drain if more than 250 people sign up for it? I understand that one can get a server with 128GB of SSD storage, quad core, and 16GB of RAM for around $100/mo if one looks enough, but that would only serve 256 people at your quotas. Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?

As a follow-up: why should I use Dotgeek over Heroku or AppFog? Both of those are commercial offerings with a free tier, but their commercial pricing makes me a lot more confident that it will stick around. What are you offering that trumps their offering?

Kudos for trying things (and I'm not trying to sound harsh at all). Still, this feels like it would have been more interesting in 2006 than today where we have many options at free tiers and even more paid services to choose from. I guess I'm just wondering why I would want to sign up for this rather than something else. If this is more about learning systems administration, then it's an awesome project and I'm sure you'll learn a lot and gain great experience. It's awesome to try things even if they aren't meant to be commercial alternative services just to get the experience of doing them.
I have all the numbers 0 to 9.ai I was early in the day when they opened registrations :)

0.ai is a clone of 1.ai at the moment
DayZ Buzz
I have to be sincere: I don't like at all modern electronic pop music like LMFAO or PSY. I think that most of these songs rely too much on easy rythms and electronic resources to supply what they can't do with other musical resources.

But, God, you have made such a great work. Both the music and the video. I really love how you're able to combine different songs to create another one and not just throwing random parts of songs together. Great work, congratulations.

By the way, listening to this I remembered Andy Rehfeldt work, who re-records songs changing completely the style. For example, the famous Call Me Maybe in metal version [1] or Metallica playing smooth jazz [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWJ9YaTmoyg
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM
"So I spent about a week with headaches because some ophthalmology trade group lobbied (bribed) the legislature to get profit-enhancing regulations in place."

FTFY
DayZ Six Launcher Update
Instagram for Video—Massive Market Opportunity, Yes Done Right, No
You'd think - except it was the iPad users that were the first ones asking why we didn't have a mobile version:-) I suppose you can't win them all, right?
This is a fundamental problem with our always-on, 24 hour news, headline-based world. Unfortunately, it tends to breed fear, hopelessness and apathy as people feel overwhelmed about too many problems they can't control.

Not sure what to do about it, though. Get outside and disconnected more, I suppose. :)
‘NAFTA on Steroids’: secret agreements to censor the Internet
I prefer the word "structure" in place of "context" because people seem to have a better understanding of what that means and why it's important.

Whether we're talking about words (the context of a politician's remark) or experiences (the context of a startup founder's dilemma), these things do not exist on their own. They have a history. They relate to other words and other experiences. There are sometimes complex interactions between different pieces.

The key to understanding context is doing good research. Ask the right questions, look for the right pieces of information, uncover the important players. Read or listen carefully, taking notes if you have to. Follow where your research leads even if it's unexpected. Once you've got a solid grasp on the subject (and not before), you can make a plan for going forward.
Thanks you, and thanks for the YouTube Search tip! I'm not at all ashamed to admit I'm refreshing that page like crazy to see the count go up, haha. :)
> Do you aim private life meetings or not only?

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

Can you elaborate what felt tedious to you?
Maybe because of this?
http://cubiq.org/remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone

I didn't actually check the project source, so I could be wrong.
> ... say I drive from SF to LA. after about 3 hours, there is this one in n out station, that everyone stops at, are we going to have 20 superchargers at that station?

That's a legitimate issue. There's talk of eventually having battery-swap stations -- you drive in and your battery is swapped out for a freshly charged one. There are obviously practical difficulties, not least of which is the size and weight of EV batteries and the fact that there's no standardization right now. But it's expected that these issues will eventually be addressed as the system's advantages become obvious.
Show HN: A simple command-line project manager in Haskell (SHPM)
Give that the battery pack is part of the floor, I really doubt they're thinking of swappable batteries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/pdi/files/2012/02/Tesla-ModelS-plat...
I mostly wanted to take the chance to say thank you for the "We're NASA
And We Know It" video. It was fantastic, and just thinking about it
still makes me chuckle.

I'm also curious why google is hiding actual viewcount? I can't think of
a viable reason, but I was wondering if you had any insight, or even
baseless speculation?
Unless you are going to stick to a small subset of major corporate-sponsored languages and choose a different IDE for each of them, I don't see how you will get by with less tool-sharpening than vim. Vim is exceptionally useful across a wide swath of editing tasks with minimal configuration.
Yes, that's me. And no, I don't watch terrestrial TV, or read magazines.

Yes, I use Twitter now, but I'd like to move away from it, especially if it continues to move in the direction that it's going... hence my subscription to App.net and my comment that you're responding to.

The fact that I have a Twitter account means that it is curretly useful for me, but it doesn't change my stance on advertising, which I do not tolerate. I also use Twitter via a client that does not pollute my stream with advertising, but this cannot last.

I'm quite happy to pay for a service that doesn't advertise or sell eyeballs.
A perfect example of, in the absence of data, just doing what we wish would work in order to be doing something.
I'm taking both of those also, and the math in ML isn't intensive... but there is much more exposure to calculus and linear algebra in ML than in Algorithms I, and while I agree with the other commenter who said Andrew Ng walks you through it, an understanding of both helps with getting the "why" of things like the gradient descent formulas introduced in the linear regression lectures.

The ML course does start out with an optional linear algebra review lecture, but it's very focused on mechanics rather than underlying mathematical reasoning... for conceptual mastery (or even just brushing up) I'd recommend going through Khan's videos on the subject, if you have the time.
Paypal President responds to tweet from angry user
The decline in deaths could also have been caused by laws that require the installation of smoke detectors.
Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed
plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political
indoctrination...

Do you find yourself reflexively siding with the protesters? Perhaps you have been exposed to some "brainwashing and political indoctrination" of your own, by none other than official American (or other Western) public education.
Here's a video that explains it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

tl:dr; caching, data syncing, abuse.
If the visual design is like Google or many other web apps, then it's possible that a UX designer can set you on the right path. If you want a very pretty, original look, that could require the services of a visual (graphic) designer.
.. Yeah, seriously what's the catch?
>So it's not like you get indoctroinated, but then again, I'm not sure if I trust some states in the US to maintain that separation properly

I'm not really sure what this article has to do with the US, but what you're talking about is not up to individual states in the long run.

>separation of state and church should still serve as a safe guard against introduction of any religious/politiacal topics.

How does separation of church and state prevent the introduction of political topics?

> Wwat they teach you in that subject is more or less common sense stuff

Most schools in the US have at least something similar, but how does that matter at all? Just because the US and Japan have something that could be called "moral education", it doesn't mean that something called "moral education" in Hong Kong would be similar.
This was a pretty useless article. Do we need to hear it every time some changes editor. You don't talk about reasons. What about alternatives?
Actually, there isn't a gender requirement. It's optional.

I am not sure if there is a general social network burnout. Maybe it's specific to social networks with lots of noise, likes, shares, news, ads and so on?

At least one new user told me that this was a social network that he can actually imagine to use.
an arbitrary standard that was not based in reality.

Also see the horrific "food pyramid" (or, if we named it properly, the "morbid obesity and recipe for metabolic syndrome pyramid").
Damage control != caring. Caring would be fixing their systems after the first few privacy fuck-ups. Why are you so determined to paint FB in the best of light?

Honest question. How many more breaches have to occur before you consider FB reckless? Or is your allegiance unconditional?
Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424920
Of course, the Left would never use the educational system to indoctrinate kids. In fact, I hear that public education is a bastion of conservatism and that most teachers vote Republican (or worse).
Just curious. Did you read the current tag line, the landing page and the tour and still felt that you've got no idea what it's all about?
Quoth Wikipedia: "The exposure time of the frames is likely to have varied, even if the developed negatives were later on similar glass plates. In a letter to Leo Tolstoy requesting a photo session, Prokudin-Gorsky described each photo as taking one to three seconds, but, when recollecting his time with Tolstoy, he described a six-second exposure on a sunny day. Blaise Agüera y Arcas estimated the exposure of a 1909 photo taken in broad daylight to have had combined exposures of over a minute, using the movement of the moon as comparison."
Sorry, but your opinion is wrong and harmful. The point of the summary line is a succinct and scannable summary of the commit.

Open up any git GUI; gitk or SourceTree are my two favorite. If you keep your summary lines under 50 characters you can quickly scan a maximal number of commits. Detailed descriptions are great and should be included as well for any substantial commits, but that is not what you want in the summary. That should be added in separate paragraphs after the summary line.

This is not arbitrary, and it has nothing to do with the ability to line wrap, it's about efficient communication faced with a history of tens or hundreds of thousands of commits over time.
Ah, sounds like an excellent approach to "portability". Good luck with that, but be sure to let me know when you return to the real world.
There is really no catch other that there is no professional support (see.. for a slightly longer explanation http://1.ai/specs) and that we take no responsibility for your data (e.g. you should always keep a backup. this doesn't mean that we do not care about the service just we do not want to be liable if something goes wrong).
For the love of Pete enable mobile viewing!
I think the argument is that if your neighbor's couch catches fire, there is a risk of the fire spreading to your apartment.
"I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users."

And yet, if someone wants to harvest profiles, they'll just sign up with a fake/throwaway email address, while legitimate users have to give up real information to do the same.
Bjarne Stroustrup's favorite band is the Dixie Chicks. For some reason, this just makes me giggle uncontrollably.
>>Hmm. Is there a sock-puppet Turing test?<<

You could make millions! :)
MGWT: Collection of mobile ready widgets for GWT
Almost forgot: Under xterm, at least, ^V is the escape character and ^[ is ESC, so you can type things like:

$ echo '^[[0m^[[01;32mfoo^[[0m'

with a ^V before every ^[ (the ^V doesn't get echoed back to you unless you type ^V^V to enter a single ^V). That makes 'foo' bold and lime green.

Once you learn how to read a terminfo file, you can do everything your terminal is capable of (and xterm can do quite a bit) entirely by typing control codes by hand. Which is pointless, given that tput, from the ncurses package, does the same thing in a much more user-friendly way that's also completely terminal-independent.

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

http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html

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

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x405.html -- Explicitly about using tput, which really is a neat way to make your shell script's output look nice.
...we're probably also positing a world where people are seeing their doctors regularly and getting a whole host of "unnecessary" tests for all kinds of conditions whose initial symptoms are subtle and easy to blow off.

In that case, we are positing a world in which thousands of people are receiving false positives, suffering side effects from unnecessary treatments, and dying of infections they received while their non-cancerous mri blip was biopsied.

Even in a world where MRIs and HIV tests are free, full body scans and HIV tests for everyone would be a dumb idea.
It's very interesting to see how long this fad has lasted. As I said in the other discussion[0], Gangnam Style's success in America has come as a huge surprise to Koreans and foreign K-pop afficionados alike, especially when every single concerted effort over the years to break into the US market has fallen flat on its face.

0: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4425914
Great concept but the execution isn't as good as mobile competitors like JQuery Mobile which is pretty but incredibly simple for anyone with basic HTML skills to build something with.
SIDs, while still too common, has dropped 70% in the U.S. since the "back-to-sleep" effort and the general awareness of the situation. Children under 6 months don't have a reflex to carbon dioxide poisoning, and their respiratory systems aren't fully developed, so it is easier for them to suffocate on their own breath pooling in too-soft mattresses or cribs with polyester blankets or bumpers. Risk factors for SIDs death include: winter, cigarette smoke exposure, respiratory illness, not breast-feeding, and not sleeping in the same room as an adult.
Why there's no python?
Asking for:

- Looking
- Orientation
- Gender

And then, 'what do you intend to do with people' or similar wording on the next page.

I realise it's all innocent, it just sets an odd tone.
This is a really nice tool with an awesome UI and friendly environment. What this tool does, is it finds all the people near you (you can choose how near) and it allows you to message with them.

Mixer lets you make the most of the people around you.

Mixer key features:

• Browse profiles of people nearby

• Share conversations with the entire community

• Be a part of multiple communities by simply using the application in different areas.

• Use the neighborhood activity feature and Mixer will automatically notify you of new conversations in your area wherever you happen to be.

http://www.facebook.com/getmixer

http://www.twitter.com/appmixer
In Defense of the Power of Paper
Very good point. Given that the person who authored the most frequently cited study advocating retardants has gone on record saying his study has been mis-cited and they actually provide absolutely no benefit at all, it seems fairly likely that the entire 57% decrease is due to these other factors and not related at all to treating the foam with carcinogens.
> yes, you get to pick "self" as the instance name, but everyone picks "self" for that

No, actually, there have been situations in the past where using `self` was not the best choice, and I didn't. Using `self` is extremely confusing when defining methods on metaclasses for instance (self turns out to be a class object)

> If you could declare a class method like this:

You completely change the semantics of defining methods and potentially break explicit code.

> Do you see how that's just special-casing method declaration in a similar way to Ruby's mechanism, just relying on the programmer to drive the mechanism himself?

The programmer is always the driver, the difference is that decorators allow doing this without adding a pointless syntactic special case.
Hello Mdasen !
thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer:
"Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?"
Yes :)
At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a single server is higher than 250 or it should be.

Why should you use 1.ai dotgeek over heroku or appfog ? If you do have a commercial application you should run in a paid service because, in the end, hosting your commercial or critical app will depend on support. This said our space is for developers/geeks/learners that want to try something not necessarily commercial.

Another reason I would see vs. Heroku free (I think is only fair to compare with the free option) is that here you do have a simple SFTP access and you run things like in the "old days"- your way. We also give MySQL which is not part of Heroku free. I also feel that the performance of an app in our server would be better vs. others free tiers.

I think that both Heroko and AppFog are great concepts as they take away the servers duty from your hands.

We do not compete with any paid service hence it is only entirely free and somehow "as is". I agree that this might be useless to many yet I would think that for a young developer - student or really anyone that wants to try something without any financial commitment it is a pretty good offer.

Thanks for the kudos (I don't think you have been harsh at all) I think dropping your app via SFTP (being Ruby, PHP or even a perl app with Dancer) is a very straightforward process and could be useful. Judging from the great numbers of signups after this post I think that at least some are curious which is always great ! Thanks again David
I always figured this was one of the "grey" advantages startups have. For a very short time, a startup has so few assets that an entire class of risks exist that will simply put it out of business. When you're brand new, it doesn't matter if you damage a Honda or a Ferrari, either way, you're done. This gives you a slightly evil and transient advantage that let's you temporarily undercut the established players by just ignoring those risks altogether.
The thing I hate about articles like this is that the path to snarky redditisms is very, very direct.

I'm not disagreeing with your message, I'm disagreeing with the delivery.
Never Outsource Your Core Competence
I saw this one recently - pretty good.

"DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ail7D_k0s9w
SVG also has "up and coming" full support in most browsers and you can use compatibility wrappers such as http://raphaeljs.com/
You should avoid using those words, it merely marks you as somebody without a clue. I'm guessing your grandparent is already lost so there's no point in warning him.
Boot to desktop in Windows 8: An in-depth analysis
Somehow Dropbox is a cloud service but gmail (or hotmail or whatever email provider) is on the Internet according to many. How is that?

--This is exactly it. I think internet is just converging to cloud, because evrything is becoming more hybridiZed. also, datasets are getting larger, so local storage needs to be larger. but thats hard to carry around in a secure way (raid, etc). So, distributed/redundant storage makes sense. But then I want to have mobile access. device is low power/32gb etc. so again, need to rely on distributed storage to enable mobility, not just scale/security. I also think we see this with web-pages themselves. Not pulling from a "server" only, but pulling from all over multiple datasources (ad networks, etc). Easier to just call this distributed storage/hybrid data sourcing "cloud" to avoid wasting thought onn the details (every case different/unknowable). It's a bit of a moving target, then, as to what (if anything) a "cloud" XYZ is.
and actually mdasen did summarize many of the good paid alternatives which are backed by solid money and infrastructure.... but to be fairly honest the another big reason is that we are all busy with our full time careers and do not need the money / start a new commercial activity well the "fun" becomes work !
The environmental movement in America is worthless. They spent all of their time on lifestyle issues like battery cars, recycling, and global warming (issues that also line the pockets of their large donors) when there are real, profound issues like this. Even if the EPA can't act, how come only one crazy lady is working on building the case?
I was just wondering why everyone expects a catch ! :) may be you can help me on this!
I don't think at the time there was distinction between religion, astrology, science, medicine and healthcare.
The priests had the knowledge, while the commoners were mostly illiterate.

During the Predynastic Period pigs were considered unclean in Upper Egypt but were domesticated and eaten in Lower Egypt. During the Dynastic Period Pigs were thought to be unclean in some areas and among the wealthier classes. Herodotus states that people who raised and ate pig were shunned but archaeological evidence suggests that although technically unclean, pork was still popular with many poorer Egyptians.

http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/dietmeat.html

Moses or not, the word "Israel" was found in Egyptian scripts. "Hapiru" king "Yakubu" also mentioned in Egyptian sources - cognates with Hebrew Yaakov.

There are enough evidence, that ancient Egyptians and ancient Israelis had a contact.
Waterloo is mostly that way as well. Classroom use is tricky - there tends to be lock up at night after cleaning staff go through, but outside of the research labs, there aren't many controlled access areas.
And currently at least, you also hit #1 story on the front page of HN. Not too bad at all for an experiement hehe :)
A Simple UX Lesson I learn from Facebook
My wife had used my phone to login into her Facebook account. Logging her out, I realized that she had logged in with her email.

You can login into Facebook using your username but to simplify their UI they only show the "Email" label, which works for most people.
Review of Moore and Mertens, The Nature of Computation
mostly for our limited knowledge of python but we could certainly add it in the future if there is some interest ! While there is no official support we want to be able to fix things if they do not work. This said I had a look last night and we could probably add it soon as it seems simple enough
"Try something that scares the hell out of you. It just might turn into something wonderful."

I'd loved the mashup. However, if spending a weekend making a mashup scares the hell out of you, you must be living a very sheltered life. Here are some things that scare the hell out of me (and I have no intention of trying):

- Climbing Everest

- Wingsuit base jumping

- Armed combat

I'll leave it at that, you get the point.

Edit: and you are too scared to offer a counterpoint, so you anonymously downvote instead :)
Twitter Bootstrap for mobile app. Looks pretty good.