skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to failing to update graphics (I suspect upgrading gameplay would actually piss more people off), the experience was, at least in my experience, actually degraded. The game handled differently with the Source engine compared to GoldenSrc, and not in a good way. The original had a much crisper "quake-ish" feel that was lost.

Additionally in Source there are (or at least were, I played it years ago) several places where there are graphical glitches. Textures missing from certain surfaces and whatnot. Each of those little things really built up a general feeling of "they did not really care about this".
I agree this is also one of the first things that I thought about as soon as I tried to visit the site. Handling reddit and hackernews front page traffic these days should not be that big for an issue for blogs. One reason this may occur would be that they are on a very cheap shared host? Which would be worrying from the eyes of a user where I can't really trust the longevity of the product where I would take my time to register an account and start up shop.
True, it's not an "all win for organic", but nature is more than just land. It's also soil, and animal life.
Banned for life by X, a common practice of companies in US?
My recent banning was Amazon.com. I have been using aws for several months and made the mistake of trying out amazon.com. First two orders went fine, the third got blocked and my account was put "on hold". Now suddenly they require address verification, even after shipping two fully paid orders to the same address.

The only way to contact them back is by fax, "as we are unable to interpret attachments via email". bs.

4 faxes, 2 weeks, many emails and phone calls later, still banned and nothing to do about it. Only the "account specialist" has access to the account, and a mere human can not speak to him. Quick search tells me that people were put on hold for months.

It's a shame, because now my credit card is blacklisted, so my aws payments also won't go through, and i will need to find another hosting solution. Luckily i have not purchased any reserved instances yet, otherwise it would really hurt.

A similar experience with BuySellAds.com, i used their services several times, until some scam filter went on. They required scan of passport. Emailing it did nothing and support emails are redirected to a black hole.

It would seem you can only get vanilla support, and as soon as something that an automated email can not fix, you are on your own.

While those examples were money related, there are plenty of stories of people who got banned by big corp(s) for any other reason with nothing to do about it. Google is known for banning adsense and adwords users. Just recently someone posted being banned by Apple app store with no explanations.

This seems to be the defacto procedure as there are plenty of customers to go around.

Luckily there is competition, and i can take my business and money elsewhere, and get real support and resolve issues on the spot.

Oh well.
>> You're not replying to what he said, you're replying to what you think he said.

He said "blood". I think you are not understanding the unfounded discourse of the comparison.
First, I would like to applaud the founder of tindie. Takes guts to quit a comfy situation/paycheck to explore a startup idea.

However, I have to agree, keeping a blog up, which probably will only get a few thousands visits in a few hours, shouldn't be difficult. Switch from Apache, use Nginx. Then serve your static content from a CDN. NetDNA offers Bootstrap served for free at (http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/). Not sure which server side language you are using, but probably needs a bit of tweaking.

At any rate, these are just technical details. You can find other people to help you with these sort of problems.

Best of luck.
The other 20% of the tasks that aren't easily automatable or done by a computer ironically are often the tasks that doctors have already delegated to nurses (RNs and NPs).

Personally I see a future of healthcare with more nurses and fewer doctors. Technology bridges the knowledge gap between nurses and 80% of doctors.
For unscatter.com its simply git pull then supervisorctl restart all, but that app isn't anything more than a some tornado app servers.
stopped reading the articled referred to amazon s3 a database. instant credibility killer. no thanks.

(p.s the amazon product you're looking for is dynamo)
Very fair comment. I actually agree- working on the backend is one of my priorities. It isn't my strong-suit but, it does need work (as today demonstrates). Thanks again and I hope you give the site/me another shot after this is fully fixed.- emile
I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just responding to the question posed by the article. There are quite a few app store millionaires. But like most tech markets, there are a few players that take the lion's share of the profits.
I know at least one person who died in 2009 due to stress caused by business problems. This happened after two years of intense pressure and suffering. Depression, not eating well, not sleeping enough and other factors converged. One morning a stroke followed by a series of heart attacks ended his life.

I have personally ended-up in the hospital with intense palpitations due to a combination of stress, lack of sleep and dehydration all as a result of business issues. There's nothing wrong with me or my heart, today I regularly swim 1500m and participate in Master's competitions and training. Over time I learned to deal with business stress in various ways (swimming is part of it).

So, yes, it isn't military service but don't make the mistake of thinking that stress-related disorders --and even death-- are monopolized by soldiers.
1). Yes, companies ship Android devices, but if you read any of the articles you would have seen that those companies pay $8-15 for a Windows Mobile license for each phone.

2). You are right about Microsoft not trying to litigate for Linux servers, but I'd take a guess that is because most companies already have a heterogeneous environment, and if push came to shove I would assume that most companies would consider a full switch to Linux if Microsoft forced their hand.

3). HP and Facebook are the two main companies defending Linux atm, you are right about that: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/20/facebook_hp_and_open...

4). Dell does not currently distribute any consumer laptop with Linux as an option, at least not when I tried the top 10 popular laptops on their site.

5). They don't profit from putting System76 out of business, and in fact would probably cause much more financial harm in terms of what it would do their image as picking on the little guy.

6). You are absolutely right about the low consumer demand. However, don't you think it's weird that NOBODY is pushing it? Not even as an experiment? No smartbook running Android? Why is the Asus Transformer the closest attack we see?
Perhaps for you, but I anecdotally find that many people who buy organic tend to think that it's also more healthy in terms of vitamins. There's a tendency to think that organic has a "higher nutrition density" because of the naturalistic fallacy, in that natural == better; people think that any modification to plant products only spreads out or even decreases that nutrition.

In terms of pesticides, though, years of scientific study have been used to clear the pesticides used on our foods. People who think that pesticides are somehow unhealthy are also not scientifically justified. Organics are also "no healthier" than non-organics in terms of pesticides as well, since pesticides are found to have no health impact.
Strong versioning is key. Only allow links to be redirected to bug fixes, never feature enhancements. If you wrote your code for 1.0, you'll continue to link against 1.0, barring some bug fix (1.0.1). Your code should never be silently upgraded to link against 1.1. Microsoft also gets this right with the global assembly cache.

As an aside, DLL Hell was coined by Szyperski, who still works for Microsoft.
This is a good idea but why the limit of 30 or strict requirements? It's not like this program using up limited school resources like Flashpoint.
Automate every step possible.
Latam Startups Demo in Silicon Valley
Ask HN: Where to find businesses that want funding
I've had a bit of success and would like to get into the funding game.

Funnily enough, I'm asking a question I thought I'd never have to ask: where do I find businesses who want funding?

I have a decent amount of capital to invest, mainly looking for companies who want anywhere from $10k-$50k, could potentially do more if it was the right fit.

I'd really like to work with a large number of options. I'm pretty picky and think I'll know a good match when I see one. The difficulty is finding enough potentials to sort through.

Been looking through kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites, mainly looking for businesses that aren't getting funded by have potential.

Problem is, these sites are chock-full of music and art projects, projects I respect but have no interest in funding.

With all the people needing funding in this world, it seems like it should be easy to get 1000+ potential businesses relatively quickly.

Is there any way to do this in a convenient manner?

Thanks!
It looks like it is serving up random quotes from some sort of fortune file compiled from irc logs or forum quotes or something.
What pre-upload review are you talking about? I read through the steps, and I don't see anything other than the web form to generate an AppArmor policy, which seems completely automated.

EDIT: You're probably talking about the "APPLYING FOR ACCESS" section:

To ensure that we are giving upload access only to the original
author or a proper representative of the upstream project, we
will require that person to request upload access for their
application. The author or representative must first create an
account and user profile in the MyApps portal as it currently
exists.

Once their profile is created, they will need to be able to
request upload access for a package, providing details about
their association with the upstream project. If the submitter is
not the owner or representative of the project, they will be
required to provide a URL to a webpage, blog post or mailing list
archive showing that the owner or representative of the project
is endorsing their effort upload the application to the Ubuntu
Software Center.

This is an interesting requirement in our open-source world of forks, clones, and mods/patches. The concept of "ownership" in OSS is intentionally very loose, and ensuring only the owner can upload to the app center makes sense in a brand-focused business/product point of view, but seems kind of strange from a software developer point of view.

How could an app store like this work with users trusting developers' GPG keyrings, or something similar?
Fair enough. I commented because it seemed very unfair that he was downvoted. People are too eager to do that. The point he made might not seem very important, and might be misunderstood, but it's true.
Most pages include a one-liner of changes, however I agree that full-page versioning would be useful.
That's actually pretty cool. You'd be able to design your own sweaters. It'd be even cooler if it could make t-shirts as well.
There are worse sources of waste in the health sector. In Sweden, and most other developed countries I imagine, the introduction of IT has resulted in less patient time simply because doctors are now legally required to work on filling out forms, documentation and other acts of IT powered bureaucracy. What's astonishing is that we don't know if all this documentation is doing any good, it's just assumed that it does.

So startups don't have to work on hard AI problems to make it big in the health sector. Removing the bureaucracy caused by IT is a much more attainable goal provided you're ready to fight policy makers who have created the regulations in the first place.
If you are up in the air between the original and Source, play the original. Despite being older it received a lot more QA attention than Source.
Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")
Why only include support for webkit browsers? When Mozilla and Microsoft implement the other parts of filter into their browsers, wouldn't you want native support there as well?
At first I thought it said "mind control drone" and reached for the tin foil.
Shipping security fixes in core libraries is easier this way.
It seems to me that things like "intuition" and "instinct" are just subconscious algorithms that you can't articulate (example instinct: I pull my hand away from a fire; I can't tell you why, but it isn't magic; somewhere in the wiring of the brain there is an algorithm that makes that happen).

Fundamentally, the brain processes information to make decisions, which machines can always in principle be designed to do. Thus as long is medicine is fundamentally about making diagnostic and treatment decisions, it can be solved by machines.
The best way I've found to get freelance jobs is to tell people that yes you are unemployed but you're not interested in the kind of work they want done, even though you could do it in your sleep. Then when they push back, quote them an absolutely ridiculously high rate that they wouldn't possibly accept.

Then, for some reason I haven't quite fathomed yet, they often say "yeah, that's fine. See you this afternoon."

This is why, yesterday, I was paid $1000 to get someone's new laptop talking to their printer and copy some files off the hard drive of a dead PC (which in reality just had one dead stick of RAM and a family of cockroaches to whom I served an eviction notice.)

Ultimately, this is just the time value of money + "I can't be bothered learning how to do this trivial task because hopefully I'll never have to do it again." + "If I just pay this guy what he wants it'll be done today, and I can quickly forget about what it cost."

This probably only works on rich people, and because I'm not one myself it seems pretty weird. If I was rich enough, paying $1000 to not be annoyed any more probably would make sense.
The ARM Cortex-A9 Can Beat Out The Intel Atom
"And dung from plant fed animals is harmless."

Nonsense.

Animal dung can carry everything from tapeworms to salmonella to E. coli.

Update: added link.

http://umaine.edu/publications/2510e/
25 years too soon. People would be all over this idea in today's world of Kickstarter, Etsy, and 3D printing.
I don't really get why HBase isn't bigger than it is. I mean, it's BigTable, right? And Facebook dropped Cassandra for it, IIRC.

Not trying to start a war here, I am not an interested party, I am just curious.
Running latest Ubuntu (12.04.1, 64-bit) off of a 3.75gb flash drive in the side of my ASUS Zenbook UX31A DB571. It is amazing. Fast, responsive, works almost out of the box. With USB 3.0, there's very little noticeable IO slowdown, even when compared to the SSD I use for Windows. I highly recommend the combination.
The title made me think of knitting needles with sensors that some home tied into a game but this textile printer is really cool. Imagine handing your classmate a custom-printed scarf during recess.
Unfortunately, the "organic" label means less and less.

What I think is still true (although I have no data to back it up) is that farmers who actually conscientiously maintain their soil, in a way that maintains both the fungal colonies and the nutrient density, through natural means... that is, using proper crop rotation, nitrogen fixing cover crops, and manure addatives, but no chemical additives (which are allowed under organic farming, so long as they are "organic" chemicals).... those foods are more nutritive.

Organic/non-organic, like all certifications, doesn't measure exactly what you'd like it to. In the end, sustainable, healthy farming is a very complex thing, and the details matter. If you want to get really high quality produce, you really do have to educate yourself and talk to the people producing your food. There's no silver bullet.
I don't think so. It's so hideously designed [1] that the more people don't use it (and have a feeling that it's great, as they've heard others like it), the better for them. Now I'm trained to not open G+ posts unless I'm absolutely sure there's something I will enjoy/learn from. YMMV.

[1]: That stupid "Join G+" black bar, the absolutely unnecessary chrome around the content that takes up more than 83% of screen real state on my 15" MBP, no links to comments
I like your point, I agree that you should be careful when using this effect.

However, in proper places blur feels very natural; after all, human eye works this way.

I think blur has lots of potential. I especially like these use cases:

- triggering blur effect after a dialog pops-up

- leading the user through a series of mundane forms, displaying the goal in the blurred background

I'd be interested to hear other ideas too.
I may have spoken too soon about TextMate 2
"They have only one API that's used by both their other libraries/applications and application writers."

Which is a problem they without doubt did not inherit from the kernel team.

There is little doubt that the GNOME guys have been using kernel practices to justify their actions. The point being made here is that they are wrong to do so.
Processing and predicting arbitrary sequences of inputs using libmind
Hello!

I would like to present a small project i was working during the last months.
It aims to solve the problem in Machine Learning of processing sequences of inputs, instead of a fixed size vector that many algorithms requires to perform classification or regression and also providing a minimalist interface to learn and predict sequences in almost any domain.

The basic idea is to use an Echo State Networks (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Echo_state_network) to generate a single fixed size vector in R^n from a sequence of inputs of vectors in R^k. Then, we can use this representation to perform some kind of classification or regression. Also, a dual procedure can be used to reconstruct a sequence of vectors in R^k from a fixed size vector in R^n.

This project is called libmind:

https://github.com/neuromancer/libmind

It is also designed to be a simple way for a programmer to learn sequences of arbitrary elements, as long as they can be vectorized.

In the repository of libmind two examples of its use are included:

* Identification of part of speech (POS) of English words only using their letters.

* Reduction of variableless propositional logic formulas.

I would like to hear if it can be improved and/or extended. So, in the spirit of open research, i'm publishing all the code, data and instructions, so anyone can view and improve this small project.

Thanks!
You should try angel.co, kickstarter and so on.

thanks
sudhi
It's not that pesticides sanitize the food.

It's that chemical fertilizers don't potentially introduce disease organisms into the field the way that manure does.
>...pesticides are found to have no health impact

I assume you meant something more like ...the level of pesticide residue found on foodstuffs at the retail level in the United States (assuming no accidents, negligence, or sabotage) are found to have no health impact. Basically I agree with what you are saying.
Looks like it might have legs. I want to be able to limit myself to vendors on my side of the Atlantic. Better filtering please.
Nintendo has a great brand. I wish they'd use it to make a 3D printer instead of lackluster motion games.
Awesome. I hate indie rock, but I still love Mixest.
Kudos.
http://www.fundersclub.com/ sounds pretty interesting.

Edit: fixed the link
Is it really inconceivable that other people might not like something that you do?

Give me a break.
It is an insult to the human condition to propose that we owe our personal success to government.

All ownership rights that are not built on direct possession are down to the social contract of government. Without that you would have no rights to anything that you cannot personally defend. This is really the only reason why we put up with government, despite all the associated crap that goes along with it. We like being able to leave the parcel of land we have claimed without having to leave someone on it permanently to make sure it is still there to return to when we get back.

Individuals don't go to war, governments do.

They wouldn't get very far without the soldiers.
cassandra is a really solid product. it's actively developed and very stable.

from what i understand, facebook move to hbase for their messaging platform- which makes sense. cassandra's consistency model is weaker than hbase, and an eventually consistent model doesn't make sense for a real-time messaging platform.
Wasigh, are you Dutch? If so, please ignore all the silly American right-wingers below (stelletje suffe sound bite sukkels).

A "smarter" way to resign voluntarily, in Holland, is to gather proof with regards to your mental state/wellbeing, e.g. if there's a track record of you being "overspannen" (tr: burnt out) you would, with the right evidence, still be able to apply of unemployment benefits. Instead of quitting, call in sick, make an appointment with your Dr. and if he/she signs the appropriate paperwork, you can dissolve your contract "amicably" (ontbinding met wederzijds goedkeuren) which, in some cases, would allow you to retain the right to apply for WW (unemployment benefits).

Just in case you are in the US: depending on the state you live in, one may still qualify for unemployment benefits even if you quit yourself for "good cause" (it's actually somewhat similar to the Dutch situation, ie you need proof of undue stress, demands by your boss exceeding your contract, changes in job description/responsibilities, health reasons, family reasons, unsafe working environment, etc. etc.). Details vary by state, see http://jobsearch.about.com/od/unemployment/a/unemploymentoff...

Note: I've been self-employed for 10+ years now. Love it now, but many of the points outlined elsewhere are extremely valid... Don't think lightly about this decision. It's a big change, and despite the admiration for the entrepreneurial spirit in the USA, the deck is really stacked against you (think: healthcare, taxes, etc. etc.)
Is the golden age of soccer analytics about to begin?
This is total bullshit.
Back where i started from
after 25+ years of developing software in more than 20 languages, i am back where i started from: pascal (fpc)

oh my.
App store is all of the following: distribution, discovery and promotion. apt-get was really a distribution platform at first, and you could use it for discovery as well. Apple's store is full of promotion, and I haven't seen any Linux solution that even tries to fill that (marketing) gap.