skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the longest you've personally seen

there's a script for that

/usr/bin/uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/;print 8,q(=)x\$1,\"D\n\""
I had signed up some time ago and forgot that my invite showed up this past July. Upon going through the process of creating an account, the final step was to deposit $200-$500 into the account.

I understand the need to get funds, but with the time energy and passion devoted towards the ease of use of the form and the comprehensive FAQ I could not find the answer as to why this minimum was required.

All the comments here are interesting, and I understand that switching costs are high, but the $200 barrier without explanation made be bounce from the form.

I really want to give this a shot, but I want to understand the required funds first.
For the interested, I can highly recommend "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" - http://www.amazon.com/The-Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1...
Not likely to happen as long as Oracle has its licensing grip on AWS.
Great stuff, I think this will take over from jQuery.noty for me.
You're mixing up management acumen and business acumen.
Both models are still "Sold out" for me.
Question: would you trust all your medical data/history and shopping data/history tied up in their cloud?
This. Seriously, you're not paying for the service. You are the product being sold. Don't like it? Go somewhere else.
Apparently a lot of people are embracing CE, personally, I'd rather not participate in their second-stage beta trial.
Man, seriously, chill out. Neologisms are fine. Just like "patio11ian rate increase" is fine.

As far as I can see you're just engaging in personal attacks and character assassination here while not saying much in the way of argument besides, "I'm more educated than you."

I mean, you could just say something non-inflammatory like, "I'm confused, what do you mean by 'Damascean'?" and then when given an answer reply, "Oh I see, thanks. In theology circles 'Damascean' isn't really used to describe that situation."

Anyway here's a counter-argument: the Bible has long been a work of popular culture outside of religion, this isn't a theology circle or a church, and if people want to lightly abuse the stories and language in it then so what?

(I would have responded to your post where you say "strawmanning", but HN wouldn't let me. EDIT: You've now amended that post to say that the word is actually "Damascene". If you knew this, why all the drama? Something tells me that this was learned recently via Google.)
Yeah, it's a tough call in some cases. If you see anything too egregiously mis-categorized let me know.
Yes, the foolish neckbeards who aren't agile and dynamic, don't use git and aren't iterative but care deeply obeying regulations and not sending data to the /dev/null that mongodb on US-EAST is.

This mindset screams "I AM IN THE VALLEY AND EVERYONE WHO ISNT UNDER 30 AND USES APPLE PRODUCTS DOESNT GET WEB2.0" (also caps lock is cruise control for cool).

Apologies for the negativity, I think I get it, I want my data to be in the cloud, and easily accessible and all that jazz, but I want to keep it secrete and safe and most importantly I want to be mine.

Says the guy who just signed up for the iCloud today... ;-)
Ron Paul Farewell (What's wrong with America)
Connecting Twilio SMS to Google Spreadsheet
Isn't the ratio between dark matter and 'normal' matter something on the order of 8:1 as well?
A few comments are making an issue of the pricing (2% + Stripe's 2.9%) saying it's too high. It's not too high. If the product does it's job and makes it dead simple for the end user it might even be too low. As mentioned by someone else, the HN crowd likely isn't the target audience.

Fast Spring, which did 44.5 million in rev in 2011, charges 5.9% plus $.95 or 8.9% flat per order (user chooses which). Granted, Fast Spring may be more of a total ecommerce solution, but the point isn't +2%. It's who is the end user and how much easier does this product make their life/business.
I'm sure _everyone_ would find it easier to read scrolling down rather than horizontally.
No it's not.

By the way, if you're interested in being agnostic on your NoSQL backend, take a look at Schematics
https://github.com/j2labs/schematics
Show HN: We're building graphs of Hurricane Sandy with pressureNET
Should I use a 32- or a 64-bit JVM?
I don't understand the proposed solution. Hundreds of thousands ask for the default behavior, so the solution is to add a control so they can pick something other than the default behavior? A line of text on the privacy page, and maybe on the signup page, maybe with a little graphic to help it digest, seems a lot simpler to me.
I cannot find information on whether Redshift supports queries in MDX. Lots of DWs today are run on Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and its MDX spec is now supported by several DW vendors. MDX support would mean it would be easy to switch the DW engine and leave your visualisation suite (or Excel, what the hell) and make it for an easy switch to the cloud - you'd just pick a different data source in your tool.
I couldn't design a site like Hacker News, not in my wildest dreams. It's the essence of a site with everything supliferous taken away and that takes talent that I just don't have. It's less about "looking nice" and more about "ok can people who aren't me actually use this site?

Bootstrap really helps with stuff like that because it does a lot of heavy lifting for you (styled content, scaffolding, themed buttons, etc) and allows you to fiddle with that stuff to get the effect that you want while still making everything line up.

Now make no mistake about it people can still design awesome sites with nothing and people can definitely design terrible sites with bootstrap it's just that the bar for terrible is a little harder to reach if someone is holding your hand.

Also with regards to the whole "everything looks canned" I think that's largely a part of being on a site where bootstrap is very popular. I know I used a lot of bootstrap sites before I knew what it was and I was none the wiser but now that I used it too I see it everywhere.
Anticipation could have affected exchange rates earlier. Also affected: prior investment in rigs given expected-payback and risk levels.

But the decision "with my current fixed plant, do I mine this hour, or not?" is unaffected by anticipation. Either the expected-reward is enough to pay incremental costs, or not.

The expected reward for the same hashing power is now half what it was. Surely, some marginal miners who were only slightly profitable before are now non-profitable. It may take them a while to notice, but when they do, they're likely to drop out. But this is far from half of the mining capacity, and other rigs that are still profitable at the new reward rate are still coming online.

I expect difficulty to trend down a bit in the very short term... but not by half, and not for long as lower-power rigs continue to come online.
For health records the regulations are a bit of a confusing mess when it comes to cloud storage. Basically, it boils down to "whatever your organization's legal team says". In theory, if data is encrypted in transit, encrypted at rest, and access is limited/logged, then it should meet US HIPAA requirements. However, that may not be enough to satisfy a particularly conservative legal department. There are also nuances about who holds the encryption keys, how are they managed, etc... Notably, Amazon won't actually stick their neck out and certify AWS as HIPAA compliant through a business associates agreement (interestingly Microsoft will for Azure: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/compl...). I've been told by consultants that Amazon has so much business it's just not worth their time to bother with the headache of setting up such agreements.
And C++ is approx. twice as old as that. What's your point? :)

Seriously, though: I'm no expert, but many people upthread have suggested these are still applicable even in C++11. Compiler warnings help, though you still have to learn what they mean and how to fix them.
No VC: FreshBooks CEO Sees Risk Capital as Too Risky
Talked with one of the Simple guys earlier this fall. Really great guy, he described an amazing company. Congrats, Simple. :-)
Yep [1]. SAS70, HIPAA, PCIDSS, FISMA, etc.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/security/#certifications
Windows Phone sales have quadrupled on strength of new hardware, software
http://bitcoinx.com/profit/

Settings:
Profitability decline = 1,
Hardware Cost = 0,
Time Frame (months) = .033333 (1 day),
Electricity Cost = $0.15

Profit: -0.56 USD/day

For this example (1200MH @ 750W) you need electricity to be <$0.12 to be profitable.

My rig (2x7970) does about (1400MH @ 650W) and electricity @ $0.16 is my break even point (Profit: 0.01 USD/day)
How Apptentive Spreads the Love
And what is the karma threshold for seeing the down-vote option?
Looks like a lot of comments on the original article are asking why Cloudflare didn't go with Google Authenticator, and I have to admit I'm curious about that myself.

Edit: Cloudflare left an answer in the comments of their blog about why they chose Authy, so I'm copy/pasting it here:

"Thanks everyone for your comments, we appreciate the feedback. Some insight on why we chose Authy (more on this in a blog post to follow)...

1. Authy app will support google authenticator tokens within the next 2 weeks.

2. We chose Authy to solve many of the problems with Google Authenticator. Once you start using Authy you'll notice everything works seamlessly. Google Authenticator on the other hand has a few problems:

- If you lose your phone, there is no way to revoke access to your token.

- Google Authenticator depends on the time of the phone to be right for it to work correctly (same as Authy). But Authy will automatically sync this time for you in the background so you never have to worry, your tokens will always work.
- If you change your phone, Google Authenticator requires you to go and reconfigure all of your accounts. With Authy all your accounts are synced, so when you upgrade and re-install Authy everything will be setup the way you expect it.

- Authy uses 256 bit keys, while Google uses 128 bit keys.

- Last year RSA was compromised and all their clients had to manually reset their keys. Google Authenticator has the same issue, if the keys were ever compromised everyone would have to manually reset the keys. Authy has a built-in reset mechanism that will automatically reset the keys for you if they are ever compromised."
agreed! generators will be nice
I would suggest reading some books on the topic of Dimensional Modeling [1] such as "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" [2]. The critical thing you need to expose to your users is the ability to ask for things which make sense in their world that are actually really difficult for even an engineer to code. Things like: "Show me average 9am-12pm sales on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays for 1st quarter, 2012"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_modeling
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
You tell me when and I'll be there:)
Here's a blog post on the decision process we went though to select Authy and, in particular, why we didn't use the Google Authenticator app:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/choosing-a-two-factor-authenticat...
The basic language is the easy bit. I've gotten the itch and written a sort-of-mathematica interpreter twice now.

Each time I've gotten to the point where I can do basic derivatives/integrals/polynomials/etc and realized the real power is in the huge library (and brain trust behind that library) available to you.

It really is quite enlightening to come back to other languages. It feels like you're going back to tin can and string communications.

I am incredibly excited about the improvements for operations research markov chains and queueing, as well as timeseries. These will simplify my code hugely, better yet speed up work.
What makes you think it isn't already?

Hospitals & doctors outsource, and as long as the provider is HIPPA compliant (which AWS is[1]), your data is probably out there already.

[1] http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/AWS_HIPAA_Whitepaper_Final....
the 2 best new E6 features for me: yield and default params -- finally :)
Taking but a moment to take a peek down the sci-fi fantasy rabbit hole :

It might potentially be fair to administer "longevity" to those willing to colonize another planet. This would solve the problem of distribution while creating a bit of an incentive to expand human civilization (which might well be an eventual necessity).
Unfortunately, there is only a small push for extra-planetary life. The fat cats on top would much rather sit back, and wait for an extinction level event.

Also, if humans do go extra/multiplanetary, most religious apocalypse' are MOOT.
Make Social and Geolocated Android Apps
Competing for the Most Valuable Finite Resource on Earth
author didn't mention users at all.. maybe because they won't see any difference?

maybe except css filters, but we are yet to see webgl being used in production environment where mass audience is the target

those things are really cool from coder POV, but as an user.. sounds like increased CPU usage and nothing else.
Techstars teams with AngelList to take applications
I've heard a black hole's singularity defined as 'infinitely dense and infinitely small'; I don't think such a thing can be said to 'grow'; however, as the density increases I think that the Event Horizon expands outward increasing the diameter of 'black' so the answer to your question may be yes.
But maybe that stuff isn't for us, its for the film-companies that visit the site to check how it looks. Why would the end-consumer care about the level of drm?
M won't run if your machine has more than a certain number of cores, or you'll only be able to fill a subset of them with M kernels? I suspect the number of cores available to the slave R process is unrestricted because it runs separately.
Use a backpacker for the mascot. It matches what the product does better. Homeless people dont have much stuff. Backpackers have and take their stuff everywhere. Which is the spirit of what you are doing. Have your stuff avaiable everywhere. So, a backpacker.
Hey Mike, nice list. Don't forget that Meteor has a bootstrap package built-in (http://docs.meteor.com/#bootstrap). You can add bootstrap like this:

meteor create myapp
cd myapp
meteor add bootstrap
I doubt that limit affects your use case. The limit is on the number of mathematica mathkernel processes, not on the number of processes the kernel calls out to. Though, it likely takes some fiddling to set up numerous R processes per mathematica mathkernel.
I work with Django full time on an app that is relatively large and complex. It works great, but that damn ORM costs me so much time. Everything else is great. I really enjoy how everything else works together. But, again, that damn ORM...
I have Charles Schwab Bank as well. The thing that they offer that Simple doesn't is unlimited ATM fee refunds. The ability to go up to any ATM anywhere in the world and pull out cash with no fees is too big of a benefit to give up.
I have no clue why one would want to use Authy over plain TOTP (as implemented by Google Authenticator, for example). Or, if Authy also relies on TOTP, why make a big thing out of it?
web components are still very flawed, they completely ignore a slew of problems, and still promote tons of global variables which is just a major no no. Some of the features that come along with the web component spec are fantastic, but the way they're doing it is quite wrong IMO, and it cant really be done right from a browser point of view really, the bulk of this should still be user-land, I find it a little scary that browser vendors are already "accepting" these sort of half-complete concepts as what's coming next, we dont need more broken tools
None of this will work in IE7, IE8, IE9 or IE10. This will transform absolutely nothing on the web for many years to come.

I can understand people getting hyped up about cool new tech like this, but the article has way too much hyperbole to take any of it seriously.
Thanks Michael. Perhaps you could list "Joomla 3" with a link to that landing page?
great stuff! i wish prompt dialog auto focused on the textbox. currently i have to click it first to type in. (on windows chrome)
https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/pricing#table

$1474 per TB per year for storage alone ($0.12 * 1024 * 12)

plus

$35.84 per TB queried

Amazon is definitely cheaper.
Linguist claims that English Is a Scandinavian language
It's a DIV with a border-radius and a semi-transparent black background. It's just CSS, why use a jQuery plugin? Why not just quickly build it yourself?
Depends on a variety of factors including which regulations are governing the data. Some privacy laws require such records can't leave the country in which they're obtained. Other records have strict rules about disposition or "destruction" of the record. It's a complex field and wide open with questions.

From courts to records managers/custodians everyone is still trying to understand those questions. In my experience, when in doubt, big business decides the safest legal answer is "probably not".
Layouts [OSX/Alfred extension to manipulate windows]
And, actually, it may continue well beyond 2140. The only reason it would stop there is because the smallest value bitcoin can currently represent is 0.00000001 BTC (1e-8). Many people believe that the rising value of bitcoin will bring about a need to increase the number of decimal places that bitcoin supports. If this change is made to the protocol before 2140, the the mining reward will probably keep on halving to values even less than 1e-8 BTC.
Yes, which 'rock' (point of origin) did the first human-scale single-celled organism on earth launch from? In this line of thought, the fact that we got off of that rock, grew into the ecosystem that we are today, and are now well on our way to doing it again is hopeful in itself.

Also, when thinking about this, i don't think we should discount the possibility that we have already discovered and merged with other forms of life, especially during explosive growth periods over previously uncharted territory. Maybe some forms of life we know of today were actually independent in origin.

But i definitely like this kind of intelligent design by self angle more than any other.
Hum, Mozilla is doing it.
fyi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261806, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608595
Invisible.js - Make Stuff Invisible
The point of that is to keep the rate of block solutions relatively constant, regardless of how many people are mining. After the last big price crash, it was instantly extremely unprofitable to do any mining, and the number of miners crashed overnight. eBay was flooded with 3d video cards. So the difficulty came down again until blocks were being solved regularly, but no one was making any money unless they weren't seeing their electric bill (or had really low local rates).
Not to mention that the second I see a native alert my heart rate increases 10 fold.
Looks great and works great!
Per article these 5 APIs:

CSS Custom Filters
Autocomplete API
Google Chrome Apps
ECMAScript 6
Web Components
Absolutely. Yield will transform node.js syntax, which is fantastic.

Proxies are really interesting - think about how knockout.js syntax might change if it could hook directly into property changes on regular objects.
Objective-C Primer (ft. Mr. Higgie)
https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli is a quite nice theme for admin
"Predicting the future" is a negative-click signal for me.
This is a pretty dramatic article. I think I have read other articles on pandodaily where it feels like the author is told "to write a story on x and how it is bad" and then they shoe horn words to make it so. (for example the VCs having smaller angel funds.)

Has anyone ever – in recent memory – declared that raising a Series A was anything other than challenging? Not only this, but people have been saying "it's going to get really bad in 6 months" for years at this point.

And it kind of makes sense. If you're a $250M venture fund, why not throw $250K cheques around and see what sticks: but then if you're going to put a partner on the board of a company you're going to judge this company very very closely.

I'd hope that if investors actually believe there are companies worthy of raising an A round and unable to due to a lack of funds, someone would start the appropriate positioned fund.
Agree. Binary on/off with the stars is a lot easier to keep track of than remembering how you define each of the 1-5 star ratings.
Facebook is exploiting peoples' interests in finding new ways to expose themselves, it is both their guide and expositor to self-discovery. Its user base is building the bottom floor of social media (data). The users need to sacrifice their privacy to be interesting at all; FB is exploiting a feature of the human condition that we depend on for social survivability. Recall returning certain species to "the wild." This, I believe, is why some "autistics" breakdown.
Is this really all that can be said? Because it's brought up in every single FB-policy thread.
looks like it's using class="alertify alertify-show alertify-prompt"

you should be able to override any of these to your liking
Thanks for the description. So for a conventional rocket, like a Flacon 9, how much of the overall energy used is due to air friction? I would have thought, its just a small fraction.
I hate the implication in this comment and in the linked article that the spec is somehow immutable. The ECMAScript spec here is fundamentally flawed with regard to character encoding and needs to be fixed.

UCS-2 is not a valid Unicode encoding any more, because there are several sets of characters encoded outside the BMP. The spec should be updated to require UTF-16 support in all implementations.

If a modern programming language like JavaScript doesn't provide a way to represent characters outside the BMP in its character data type, that needs to be fixed too. Indexing and counting characters in a JavaScript string need to reflect the human and Unicode notion of characters, not the arbitrary 2-byte blocks that UCS-2 happens to use.

The language authors should be ashamed of this situation - having a modern language without proper Unicode support is simply awful.
Nothing about SQLAlchemy has ever been easy, in Django, Flask, or raw WebOb Python apps I've worked on.

It's production-worthy, but the tax it levies on your soul probably isn't worth it.

https://github.com/coleifer/peewee
RethinkDB's first community client driver is for Haskell
When people mock the Facebook share price and question their long-term sustainability, remember that they're in a position that no company has ever been in before. They are trying to monetize personal data that has been provided willingly. They'll always be walking a fine line of giving their users what they'd like and giving their customers what they'd like.

This is just Facebook trying something that is entirely consistent with their philosophy and historical trend.
Added, but won't show up until I redeploy.
Redshift is a real physical phenomena describing the way light wavelengths get "shifted" (stretched, to visualize) towards the red as they are seen coming from something moving away from the observer:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbles_law
Cool, thanks man. Does exec work in Palo Alto or only the city?
1998 called, they want their everything back.