skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next step is adding user agent spoofing to Boxee, and I don't think that Hulu has a counter for that other that lawyers. I hope it doesn't come to that, though: I kind of want to like Hulu.
Frankly, I don't think cloud computing is the Next Big Thing people make it out to be. It's just another case of something the geeks have had for years (file servers, easy remote access to everything) being adapted to the mainstream. Sure, it's better for many, and the benefits to web and app hosting are significant, but "cloud computing" means roughly "on a server somewhere else."
This is an incredible idea!
I second the RSS feed!
However, they do seem to be making loads of money. I think sooner or later we will need to come up with an international internet law against gaming the systems perhaps. Although I do quite like the competition, usocial hacks, digg sorts it out and in the process gets better.
As a taxpayer-voter - on my behalf the UK govt has just taken a controlling stake in another bank, Lloyds, just now - I also wonder why I am paying.
Does this mean that we all now have Erdös numbers of 2?
Because of StumbleUpon's very low costs ($.05 per unique visitor) for targeted traffic, their ads, which aren't even marked as such, can be a really good deal depending on what your site or product is.
You mean like elpa? http://tromey.com/elpa/
Scalability of Stackless, Fibra and Kamaelia (Benchmarks)
The Annotated Watchmen
The author put the benchmark code in the previous blog post:

http://entitycrisis.blogspot.com/2009/03/benchmarking-stackl...
Which CPA ad provider were you using ?
I found a really cool domain that you might want to use. I couldn't reserve it for various reasons.

I don't want to display it because otherwise a squatter might take it. If you want to know what it is, look on your own site for the username SapphireSun and check the email field. Email me and I'll tell you it.

Posting with this username to get around the noprocrast feature ;-). Normally I wouldn't, but this might be a time sensitive issue now that you've broadcasted your existence to the world.
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Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA and Cisco will work together to develop the Planetary Skin as an online collaborative platform to capture and analyze data from satellite, airborne, sea- and land-based sensors across the globe. This data will be made available for the general public, governments and businesses to measure, report and verify environmental data in near-real-time to help detect and adapt to global climate change.
Nevermind, I see the contact information. Feel free to downmod this into oblivion.
I'm as skeptical as the next man, but cloud is subtly different from that; it implies connecting to a service rather than a specific, named, individual server.
do you have a screenshot (see comment below, also)
O'reilly Safari Library costs money but you get unlimited access to many current programming books to read online. There are several books available on iPhone development and Objective C programming. It helped me immensely when learning Javascript. Also, you can often search for functions and text within the books using the website. Going back and forth from a paper book to the monitor is not as efficient for me; so it worked great, in my case, to switch virtual desktops and browser tabs while working out ideas and learning about syntax and functions.

Code, from what is understand, is written in Objective C which is a superset of C. So take a look at some online tutorials regarding Objective C. Syntacticly, it looks different than other popular languages ( to me ).
maybe you can quote that part of the book (if you still have it?) or maybe Aaron can quote that for us - I think that comes under "fair use" :P
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"If he had never been born, the world would be that much better for the rest of us." - according to Aaron's like of argument, Mark would not have gotten from him the Facebook idea and the world would be Facebook none the richer? :P
A life should be about what you want to do, not how much money you can make. But if making as much money as you can at your job is necessary to finance your life goals, then that's fair enough. Work to live, don't live to work. I've friends who simply make as much money as they can 4-6 months of the year and devote the rest of their time to personal projects, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I know you are just summarizing (thanks) so don't take this as a response to you - but I strongly disagree with a couple of the points the author makes (I don't feel I can reply to the ones that don't apply to me).

>1. Grad school pointlessly delays adulthood.

Maybe it delays adulthood a bit, in some respect, but I certainly wouldn't call it pointless. I've learned a huge amount in the last six months (which is how long I've been a grad student).

>6. Going to grad school is like going into the military.

The justification for this: Applications to the military increase in a bad economy in a disturbingly similar way that applications to graduate school do. For the most part, both alternatives are bad. They limit your future in ways you can’t even imagine, and they are not likely to open the kind of doors you really want. Military is the terrible escape hatch for poor kids, and grad school is the terrible escape hatch for rich kids.

That's a horrible argument. Just because more people go to the army at the same time more people go to grad school doesn't mean the experience is at all similar (for one, I'm pretty sure most soldiers get more sleep than I do). I was going to say that I can't imagine how a master's could limit my future, but that would actually be consistent with the author's claim, so I'll instead say that without justification I don't accept that a master's will limit my future. And the whole rich kids/poor kids thing at the end is just...I mean...I don't know many rich grad students, I'll put it that way.
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Only if gruseom published a paper with him, and we have all published papers with gruseom.
I think a little respect for a private man is needed here.
Don't fret, the BoE is printing more money.

Oh you weren't one of those selfish people who hoarded their money instead of using it to prop up the ailing economy were you? And I know you weren't thinking of taking a foreign holiday this year so everything is going to be just fine! </sarcasm>
you save more bucks on product-creation-or-substitution than service ... let's call it "leverage"

cooking food is a good example, on average you can have leverage up to 10x over dining

generic drug is another, 2-50x leverage over branded one

chemistry ... up to 10000x -- i invested $3 for a kg of washing soda and citric acid (many use weaker base like baking soda and weaker acid like vinegar) which could last me a lifetime. now i rarely go to personal care (shampoo, soap, toothpaste) while at grocery

imagination ... up to infinity (free) -- coding, writing, entertain oneself, etc

changing oil is "service" ... as such, the leverage is low, 5x top

many say it's better to buy than make since you have to spend time making it yourself ... they conveniently forget that they too have to waste time buying (going to seller, making selection, putting order, waiting, paying, reordering)
There a lot of people chasing the kind of opportunities that he advocates: ones that have strongly superlinear scaling. That kind of investment comes with a possibility of an explosive gain, but there are many opportunities out there that are profitable but don't grow quite as dramatically. If investors didn't put money into them, they'd be (i) leaving money on the table and (ii) impoverishing the development of a wide range of goods and services that people want and need.
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It reminds me of http://www.agitar.com for the java platform.

It is a very useful approach to prevent regressions while working on legacy code.

Alberto Savoya (who is behind agitar) has a nice definition of legacy code : code that has no unit-test.
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GW-Basic creator Greg Whitten on Joel Spolsky and other MS things
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You are being naive about the potential use of the server. What if this server is the user profiles and/or is a file server? You absolutely want anti-virus on that server if that's the case.
I think that some kind of source code management (SCM) tool is the first step. Subversion, Git, whatever - pick something and go with it. After that, a project mgmt tracking tool of some kind. You can start small (text files) in the beginning and grow into bigger tools that feature bug tracking, feature requests, support, etc.

Good luck!
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Did you feel it was a fair review? Did you take their suggestion and submit it to the Foundations of Physics journal?
He drove to the school and picked up the trailer.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/verisign_com_net_domain_dnssec...
Green is not bad, black text on green is.

For text use white, a very light yellow or a very very very light green and see the difference.
It was mostly about Greg Whitten and what he did at Microsoft...
Marketing, perseverance, and a few sprinkled fake posts to build a sense of community will suffice.

There you have it, the golden rule of building communities.
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I ended up elaborating on this comment and turning it into a blog post:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/03/07/how-to-successfully-comp...

Hope folks find it useful.
There is a lovely quote in the linked post:

"Maybe someday somebody will do a PhD thesis on that topic and we'll add it, but until then we're sticking with the basic functionality."

I guess not much innovation would happen if everybody waited for a PhD thesis to be published on a given subject instead of experimenting with their own ideas.
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Reading his writing here, I have the same reaction to when I read the leaked articles of his on Slate, which is a sort of soft surprise that he's one of the few people online that I've read who has some sense of grammar and sentence construction. He writes like somebody who knows how to write.

It surprised me then and surprises me now, because there's some reputation of Zuckerberg as a sort of clueless cro-magnon whose web site is an ugly, lame waste of time, and while I disagree with the latter very strongly, I still like reading the posts he makes and getting the feeling that he is, in fact, a very smart person.

(I also love the fact that he's the man whose at the age and fame level to really be able to use Facebook and become a celebrity-hounding fameballer, but hasn't taken advantage of his success whatsoever. The guy just has a very honest feeling to him, and that reflects in his site. I like that.)
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Interesting, but it read as kind of arrogant to me. Or perhaps bitter? I can't tell. Anyone else get that vibe?
This looks a bit like Sinatra http://www.sinatrarb.com and Camping http://camping.rubyforge.org/files/README.html for Ruby.
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"English Russia just because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth surface"

I like this tagline. It's catchy, true, slightly misleading.
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BS. I think Google is going to slow down on the acquisitions. Based on the ratio of projects they buy that die, I think they're going to begin pushing for more internal development and less acquiring outside technologies.

Of course if a site is a sensation and has an established community in a short time that may be worth purchasing but overall I don't think we'll see Google going after any of these.
Inspired by the discussion on HN about the recent "I can't compete with OSS" thread at Business of Software:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505498

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.737375.3...
More HN catching with top stories from Reddit. The proggit discussion has many insights.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/82s16/has_joel_...

The context is important. First, it is in reply to this, which quotes Spolsky as:
"This seemed to piss off a guy named Greg Whitten who headed up the App Architecture
group. Now, Greg was something like Microsoft employee number 6. He had been around
forever; nobody could quite point to anything he had done but apparently he had
lunch with Bill Gates a lot and GW-BASIC was named after him."
Second, the post to the mailing list itself is a forward of a private e-mail
from Greg Whitten. I can't see if he said anywhere he was okay with making
it public.

More HN catching with proggit top stories.
I'm guessing "cloud" is the new web2.0 for Arrington.
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You're wrong. But in the absence of evidence, denial prevails. And most of these indie devs are not going to provide numbers because they don't want to attract attention/competition.
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Google employees get huge option break
I love the way Sinatra maps URLs. Ruby's got some gnarly tools for creating DSL's. Always blows me away every time I see Rubyists do their magic.
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Git is an OS now? Let's make a GIT native FS first, or distributed information over 'the cloud'
While stock option repricings please employees, they aren't popular among shareholders, who don't get the same opportunity to erase their losses.

Frankly any outsider with Google common stock - which has no voting rights, and pays no dividend - is a chump. The only reason to own such stock is to flip it.
If you aren't familiar with Emacs, being able to use a mouse can be a good stop-gap until you are familiar!
Potentially huge scalable rewards. I think nir said it well in the 'scalable vs non-scalable career thread':

"I realize how fortunate we are to work in software. It's one of very few fields where you can make a decent non-scalable income while at the same time (sometimes via the same actual product) being exposed to potentially huge scalable rewards."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506039
As a vim user, I have to ask - is that it? I didn't see much stuff there that I don't already have in vim.

I'm not trying to troll, I just am wondering what the big deal is.
I hope that John Foust had Dr. Whitten's permission to publish this apparently private mail. To the people who say that Whitten is arrogant or bitter, please read Joel's disrespectful comments first:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles

"This seemed to piss off a guy named Greg Whitten who headed up the App Architecture group. Now, Greg was something like Microsoft employee number 6. He had been around forever; nobody could quite point to anything he had done but apparently he had lunch with Bill Gates a lot and GW-BASIC was named after him."
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You're not going to see it.

Emacs users don't type or edit text faster than vi-users, they type and edit less text.

Its a hard thing to convince someone that Emacs is a better editor, when it's clearly and obviously worse at editing text.

viper-mode helps emacs be a better text-editor, but it also demonstrates that it is difficult to access that functionality that helps you type less and access the functionality that helps you type faster at the same time- it might not even sure it's possible.

Disclaimer: I wrote a vi-clone in Javascript, and for editing text, I use vi.
Unfortunately, Agitar effectively dissolved last year. The company was bought for peanuts, and there is not much left now. Nearly all the employees left if I remember correctly.
Much better put than my post.

There's some resonance between the scalable & non-scalable revenue streams. The details of what one does in the non-scalable portion can be massively amplified in the scalable portion.

It's as if, for some combination of business models, the quality of the non-scalable aspect becomes the exponent for the scalable aspect:

r = s^(nt)

revenue = scalable to the power of the non-scalable * time

Versus a pure non-scalable play, like straight consulting:

r = nt
Yes, maybe you could sell one or two or maybe a hundred copies but hardly any more.

The more successful your fork, the more likely it's going to be packaged and distributed by the one of the top distributions for FREE. The higher your sales price, the more likely people will buy just one copy and share additional copies among themselves.

Now consider the costs: Changing the UI of GIMP seems to be no easy task, otherwise someone would have done it, already. People are complaing about the interface for the last ten years or so.

In other words: Yes, you may be able to make revenue by adding features to the GIMP, but you're unlikely to make a profit!
thanks for being honest! I usually don't pay unless they put a "recommended amount".
The way I use emacs looks nothing like that. But the thing about emacs is that almost nobody uses it the same way. That's the point of being highly customizable.
Ask HN: Should I use Amazon S3?
I am looking to create a site that allows people to upload/download 150 MB file. What is the best/cheapest solution?
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S3 is probably your best bet, especially if you're building for scale.
Using Amazon S3 you have the advantage of using a tested and scalable system, easy to implement and use and it's not expensive.
Thanks so much for the ideas.

- RSS is actually built in to the news.arc software. I've added a link at the bottom.

- I lightened the green. I think it's more readable now.

- I'm hoping for great tech papers. I think the seed community will see to that but I'm open to new name suggestions

- I think a different community and different vibe will emerge from reddit. We'll see.
hnacademic.com should start redirecting as soon as DNS propagates.
I lightened up the green, I hope it helps.
What was that ?

I don't get the point, except if it is outlining the obvious fact that Twitter may also work as a way to get in touch with people you don't know.
See www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss.

I've also added a link at the bottom of the list pages.
Cloud computing is important in that it is a new(-ish) paradigm that is a nice fit for certain tasks that require massive amounts of some resource to work (CPU, storage, something), and the amount of resources required lends itself to cloud-style management. For instance, backing up to the cloud is a decent idea, and on the cloud side, you don't want to be managing those backups machine-by-machine, you need something like cloud tools and cloud abilities for any one machine to go up in flames and have the services just keep going with no damage.

Cloud as magic-pixie-dust-that-make-everything-better is dumb. It's hardly any different from the client-server magic-pixie-dust-that-make-everything-better. It is called for in some circumstances, and in some circumstances it just gets in the way. Playing a 3D video game from the cloud is really stupid, for instance, despite having recently heard AMD has plans to try this. To make it work you have to stuff so much data down a relatively small line, network latencies and such will be awful (current 3D games have dealt with latency in your opponents but there will be no magic way to deal with input latency), and you don't get much because putting 3D hardware six inches from the TV just isn't that expensive. The price differential between a box capable of being a client to this cloud (I can't imagine it could be done for less than $150, it's going to be more complicated than a Roku box) and having a box capable of just rendering 3D directly using local 3D-rendering resources (XBox 360 Arcade, $200 right now) is just too small.

Serving applications from the cloud over a web browser is also brain-dead. You get the limitations of having to be in the browser (which is just never going to catch up to the power of using QT, as one example), and for what? All you really need to use a "wordprocessor in the cloud" is to take a conventional word processor (not limited by the browser) and hook up the "Save" and "Open" dialog boxes to the cloud, hardly any different that what things like KWrite can already do by hooking up to things over SSH or FTP or other such things.

So, cloud computing is a Next Big Thing, but it won't be the Next Big Thing. It's a hammer, but not everything is a nail, and for every incremental increase in the power of the cloud, my local processing power I can buy for $100 continues to go up too.
Color changed to be lighter.

Thanks for the link. I plan to specialize the site features for papers as I get ideas.
I think it will be a slower site than HN because it takes longer to read full papers than articles.
The Twitter response: "(Twitter co-founder Biz) Stone urged people to use strong passwords for their Twitter accounts and not to share passwords with anyone."

If I were a tweeter, I'd be displeased to have the buck passed to me "for not having a strong or secret password."

I'd rather have Twit accept responsibility for having missed their system's vulnerability. ...and for getting it fixed.
Well, it's up, we'll see where it goes.

I don't actually know anything about building communities. Basically the plan is to keep an open mind and keep learning.
Yeah yeah, well Joel is not fan of those "Chief Software Architects" at Microsoft either. If you listen to the #44 stackoverflow podcast, he really disses those "architect" types.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/podcast-44/
Where does your information come from? According to their website they were acquired for $6.6B in 2005. The acquisition was probably at some multiple of revenues...so how did they get up to $13.646B? Besides, earnings are more important than revenues. Look at GM, they lost $20B on revenues of almost $150B. You think it would be wise for them to buy some domain like "cars.com" when they already have gm.com (toys.com just forwards you to toysrus.com)?
It's built in to pg's source code. See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss

I also added a link.
Those guys should be calling me, not the other way around.
Here's the about page:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/academic-hacker-news.html

You can see it by clicking on the (empty for now) favicon. I'll add a more obvious link.
Nope, didn't get that vibe at all.
I got the same vibe too... I don't know exactly if what he says is true (or if it's just exaggerations) but the way he says it doesn't make me want to meet him.
Especially the passage on OMG made me cringe...