skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iCampusPrize at MIT does exactly that. It has $15,000 in prizes and it has been running since 2008.

It has two stages: (1) for prototype submissions and small prizes of ~$1,000, (2) final fully-working submissions and big prize of up to $10,000.

We entered the competition in 2011 with a book exchange site and won ~3,000. The site's still running.

Past winners:
http://icampusprize.mit.edu/past-winners/

Edit: fixed wrong link
Coders obviously can't use this machine.

https://github.com/adobe/brackets
From quic_protocol.h:

// Defines for all types of congestion feedback that will be negotiated in QUIC,
// kTCP MUST be supported by all QUIC implementations to guarantee 100%
// compatibility.
enum CongestionFeedbackType {
kTCP, // Used to mimic TCP.
kInterArrival, // Use additional inter arrival information.
kFixRate, // Provided for testing.
};

:-)
Thanks Nick. I'm going to shoot you an email and take this off-thread ... and for the feedback - PS: for your time, more than happy to customize any of the collections for you (on us of course!)
If I sell someone a sheet of A4 paper for $100, have I not swindled them?
Yeah, the US banking system is pretty pitiful in general. We (Balanced) are trying to make it a little bit better by making ACH faster and easier to integrate, but we can't do much about reversals. [shameless plug] Example, checkout our ACH payouts feature: blog.balancedpayments.com/announcing-balanced-payouts/
Chrome's malware warning stopped appearing in the last 5 minutes. Looks like it's fixed.
The screen is the only thing to like. If it had 256gb drive, 8gb RAM, and an i7, then I'd be a lot more likely to look at it (and install ubuntu on it).

Yes, it has a touch screen... do people actually like touch screens on their laptops? Is that worth such a huge premium for such mediocre hardware otherwise?
Google’s Chromebook Pixel Looks Like A Pricey Boondoggle
Well, you probably would not get this chromebook if you were only going to use SSH. You'd buy the $250 one.
This and similar arguments in this thread are eerily similar to the arguments made against the first iPhone by the ./ crowd.
> I really don't get this product.

Many people are not rational when they buy products. All you can do with a pair of jeans is wear them. Nice denim, nice rivets, nice pockets, and a nice zip (or buttons) - and then some quality control. And yet people can pay very much money for jeans. (Sort by price, high to low. (http://www.mrporter.com/Shop/Clothing/Jeans?sortBy=price-des...)

You say that wealthy people are just going to surf the web on tablets. This is just a tablet with a keyboard. Some people type enough to make on-screen keyboards painful to use.
Exactly.

And if left to the "the market should be totally free / now give the banks a state bailout and use the state military to ensure we get cheap resources from abroad" proponents that's exactly what would happen.
Plenty of people already do this with the $250 Chromebook, and even iPad. The $1,299 isn't for the 32GB SSD. It's for the 239ppi 2:3 multitouch Gorilla Glass display. It's for the 4GB of RAM. It's for the dual core Intel i5. It's for the impressively made aluminum chassis. It's for the 1TB of cloud storage. It's for everything a high-end cloud device should be.
You're going to chew through 10 GB of LTE steaming music and movies. Working in Google Docs, maybe, but Google Docs sucks. I can justify $250 to use Google Docs over Starbucks WiFi. Not so much $1,300 to do the same thing.
http://vinepeek.com/

http://justvined.com/

http://catsonvine.com/

...
It is a local PHP environment that bundles the Heroku client libraries. If you already have your own setup, it is not that big of a deal. For people developing on Windows, for example, it can be tricky to even setup the minimal Ruby environment to install Heroku libraries, etc. This is primarily targeted to developers that already know PHP but are getting started with Heroku
I don't think a high price (>$1000) will establish 'more' demand.
"Legitimate" p2p protocols depends completely on your risk appetite and how you define your security. For us, our risk appetite is quite low, and there is no such thing as a legitimate p2p protocol.
Wow, after reading their concern-troll update about the "little guys" it feels like this is what tortious interference is for. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5259439

(IANAL, and I am even less well-versed about tortious interference than I am about libel law.)
I just think they are moving in the wrong direction between ChromeOS is for $200-$300 machines, not $1300 machines, no matter what extra specs they give it. Why buy such a powerful machine if you can't use Photoshop, IDE's or 3D games anyway?

But as a $250 web machine with 10h of battery life? Sure.
Because my laptop doesn't already get enough fingerprints all over the screen.
We'd buy it from you here in Ireland :)
That's why you'd just ship an asteroid that's already made of gas and liquid, and mine that for your gas.

"Evaporate some more nitrogen off that asteroid, Joe, we need to blow this dust away."
The Android app is horrendous for this issue as well. I have a Nexus 4 with the latest Android OS and the latest version of Spotify. I have yet to use the app even once this month. (I use Google Music.)

The Spotify Android app has consumed almost 250 MB of data on WiFi and about another 100 MB on 3G/4G this month alone. Does anyone else have this issue?

(For anyone that doesn't know, Android provides the data usage of each app in the settings panel.)
These are really cool tools that I didn't realize existed! I think I may take advantage of one of them!

However as the other reply said, it seems silly to buy a big powerful incredible machine just to do all of your actual work on a virtual server. Why not just buy a cheap machine and an expensive server instead of vice versa?

I want good performance and it feels wrong to buy a beefy, sexy machine and gimp it with a 1 core 512MB development bottleneck.

AKA lesson learned: the pixel is not for cost-conscious developers.
Automake is most definitely a build tool, and I believe that should be orthogonal to the package manager (even though we're seeing convergence in this area with things like go, virtualenv, npm and so on).

The thing with automake is:

1. Distros know how to package it. With cdbs, a debian/rules file for a properly autotooled package is only a couple of lines.

2. Because everything boils down to shell and makefile fragments, you can extend it to fit your corner cases fairly easily.
Where is my mind bicycle?
Unless you lie and tell them that it's something other than a sheet of A4 paper, no, you haven't swindled them. You sold a sheet of A4 paper at the price that someone was willing to pay.
I don't have to start paying a monthly charge on my HD to access my stuff after 3 years....
It looks like Microsoft got their patent because it transmits data as well as power.
Grants are always subject to board approval, due to corporate structure of literally every startup I've ever heard of. It's a rubber-stamp process (for normal-sized grants, anyway) and employees always get the options.

Similarly, they can't specify the strike price because for legal reasons the strike price is set when the options are issued.

Nonetheless, options of this kind are worth a potentially huge amount of money. X00,000s of google shares, given to you subject to board approval and with an unknown strike price, would have been fabulously valuable.

However, perfectly legitimate questions:

How many outstanding shares of stock do you have on a fully-diluted basis? X00,000s of stock options is meaningless, only percentages matter. You should always ask this question.

What was the last 409a valuation for common stock? When did you get your last 409a valuation? This will determine the strike price your options get, assuming that their 409a valuation is less than a year old.

So actually, their answers were perfectly legitimate. $35k under market is quite a bit, though depending on the percentage of the company you were getting it might be fair.
Developer productivity is really broad. Can you elaborate? Most modern webapps I work on end up as json services and the backend are just java pojo services that can be unit and int tested - tdd with java is extremely fast in my experience.

the whole servlets/jsp/jsf thing is dead imo, is that where you guys were losing time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9wUifJ-hQ

> You can't just throw something like that out there and not make recommendations ;)

here's a podcast full of hive, tech itch, etc.

http://www.mixcloud.com/lars-mion/unashamedly-nostalgic/

This stuff was all done with intricate editing before izotope, audio damage, etc. had one-button tricks to stutter and mangle.

Noisia, Phace, Rockwell, etc. are leading the new charge on d&b. Amazing shit.
That is the audience sentiment PrivCo is counting on.
I just don't see Spotify as a business risk unless the bandwidth itself is a cost. It almost sounds like someone just wants to make a decision and is post-hoc justifying that decision with this "security concern!" fearmongering.
Does anyone know if the Android app uses p2p?
Why you shouldn’t use the OWASP Top 10 as software security requirements
You mean the iPad? I remember the iPhone having a very positive reaction.

As a general rule, most of the time when people say "this is going to be a failure" they are right. The iPad is the exception, not the rule. And Apple has market-making ability that Google can only dream of.
These things are called "scams" and rarely survive long
I'd imagine they believe the same thing you (and I) do: Opinions about it aside, PHP isn't going anywhere. If nothing else, perhaps the target audience is Heroku users who are for whatever reason using PHP instead of their usual tech for a project. Or they're looking to edge into the FortRabbit market and just haven't gotten there with the offering yet... I'd think there are plenty of angles to work.

I'm also not sure about "PHP isn't going anywhere" being a minority opinion. Even people who disparage it usually understand that its ubiquity, ease of deployment, low learning curve, etc. mean it's unlikely to leave us alone any time soon, if ever.
Hopefully Oracle will win it this time. More companies need to come in support of Oracle, Google can't be infringing on all these copyrights like that.
Meta-discussion:

The url has still the utm variables of sendgrid's newsletter.
Therefore all these visits here (let's say 3-7k) will be attributed to sendgrid.com/email

Is there a way as site owner to avoid this? Would automatic redirect to the same url without utm params still add goals to that source?
They are in a space where mind-share is really important.

(I think that mind-share being important is a sign you are in a risky business, but that's neither here nor there.)
Can they be refuted independently of LivingSocial's say-so?
Still infected after more than 2 hours of reporting to them.

Not only nbc .com, but also latenightwithjimmyfallon .com and other major NBC sites.

We posted some details here too:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/02/nbc-website-hacked-be-careful...

thanks,
If you're logging on to a remote server to do development,you're not taking advantage of the dual core i5 or 4GB of RAM. You're logged into an image that's giving you maybe 1 GHz of CPU and 512MB of RAM. You're buying a $1,300 machine to do development on a $300 machine, over a shitty internet connection.
Well, if you're a developer, presumably this isn't the first computer you have owned. I'm using a 5 year old cheapy HP laptop as my dev server and it works wonderfully.

There are other alternatives, of course, Cloud9 premium account gives you full shell access, Action.IO gives you full shell access as well.
2560 x 1700 display is a big deal for devs, but I think I'd find the extra $200 and get a Macbook pro.
Just for nbc.com or for all infected properties like Jay Leno's site?
How long will it be before the price of something like this is $650?
For my mobile devices, I usually don't care a lot about the brand, and only slightly the costs - I simply get what best matches my needs.

I want all my data in the cloud + permanent access on a powerful device where I can do everything (ie I don't want something underpowered causing limitations).

The $150 difference for a minimal LTE connections makes this thing attractive - that means no need to look for wifi hotspots and then spend a minute to ask for the damn password to restaurant owners.

The 1TB cloud storage, if it can be shared with other computers at home, would just kill any need I have of Dropbox and others. That is also a big plus. If the cloud storage can somehow be used to host static websites with a custom domain name, I would also cancel at least 2 hosting accounts. (add some PostgreSQL capability and that'd be 3 hosting accounts I'd cancel)

BUT :

- 4Gb of RAM? Who though that it could be decent for a high-end laptop? 8Gb is the bare minimum I will consider. I will want to run heavy stuff on that thing if there is an i5 and a low battery life instead of an ARM. (heavy stuff: a gazillon tabs, editors, many pdf files, editing documents, cpu-hog websites doing pretty graphs like http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/)

- 64 Gb of flash??? Really??? How will I get permanent access to my 1Tb of data if I'm in a place without LTE or WIFI ???

I purchased a 512 Gb SSD for my Macbook Air as soon as it was available on OWC, just because I can't stand the pain of missing some document or music or whatever

I don't want to care. I want my problems to be solved. 1Tb: ok, 64 Gb cache: fails.

As attractive as this chromebook may look like, I won't buy one because it is not solving all my problems - even if I'm one of these users who want everything in the cloud.

I want everything in the cloud but the online storage is only up to 1 Tb. I have more data that this, but ok, I can live with that minor limitation. However, I want a full backup locally accessible for whenever connectivity might be a problem.

If it is somehow possible to upgrade the RAM and the SSD (in the early days of Zaurus and Simpad, there were shops doing BGA reflow for such needs), and if for say $1000 more I can get than done and get at least 512 Gb of SSD and 8 Gb of ram, I may buy one.

1 Tb of SSD and 8 Gb of ram means I will buy one, but only if at this $1400+$1000=$2400 pricetag there are no better options to run Linux or OSX on similar hardware (1.5 kg, high res touch screen, slim laptop) - because I don't care about the brand.

These are a lot of conditions for me, so I'm not sure about what the market is for that thing. Certainly not me at least.
There's numerous examples in this article about how Medicare pays more reasonable prices for things than anything billed out to consumers.

Yet the article says that the $800 billion a year the US government spends on Medicare is what's driving the federal deficit. So is Medicare part of the solution, or part of the problem?
Hard reality: a thing is worth exactly what another is willing to pay for it.

How about putting a gun to the doctors forehead and demanding free treatment for my loved one? Oh wait, there is a state and there are laws, we're not exactly a Wild, Wild West. Some laws regulate certain things, medical care can be one of them
I am purely annoyed that I didn't know that it did this, I can't say whether this is my fault for being ignorant or theirs for not informing me but it worries me that I may have been putting unneeded load on networks that aren't mine, like my universities network.
Being willing to pay a certain price is not the same as being coerced — if not extorted — into paying that price.

"Pay $X or you'll die" isn't about willingness.
We do indeed have a guest WLAN, going out a separate circuit with a different ISP and different IP block. The problem is, people want Skype and Spotify on the same laptops they're using for work, and we don't allow split tunneling with our VPN.

P2P applications have security risks associated with them, but they also have network constraints associated with them. It doesn't take many P2P users to choke legitimate users out of a network. When some of the network monitoring tools we use are licensed based on how much data is flowing through the network, P2P gets expensive real quick. Move that stuff to a network we're not monitoring as extensively.
Don't you have that the other way around? If you want profit, you'd want a bunch of healthy people paying you premiums. Critically ill patients are expensive, and if they die, they won't be paying premiums anymore.

Auto insurance companies want safe drivers who will never ding their car and continue paying a low but steady premium, not reckless drivers who wreck their car every month.
Exactly. ChromeOS is not for such powerful machines, because the OS itself is not powerful. So ChromeOS with a $1000 machine is far from a perfect match (at least it isn't yet, maybe 5-10 years from now).

But right now ChromeOS is and should be for light web machines. And I've said it many times before. There's absolutely no reason for Chromebooks to use x86 chips. I've said Google will almost surely mess up the pricing of Chromebook Pixel because they never seem to understand how to price a new product.

Maybe if they would've made a quad core Cortex A15 machine with this display and for $500, that would've been a little more attractive - although for people just looking for browsing the web, there was no need for such a high resolution anyway. Just keep Chromebooks at $250 and use ARM in them, and get to that 10h battery life.
They're counting on me wanting to see the truth and thinking that they're scammy and unreliable? Seems like an odd strategy.
I was thinking primarily of the security aspects, which is one of the few things called out. I'm all for secure and discrete transfers of data between endpoints, since TCP programming APIs often require maintaining process state for each connection and can impact service scaling.

If this is really more or a session layer protocol on top of UDP instead of its own transport protocol, then all the more power to them. It will be more of a programming model than a network configuration quagmire, and I'm sure that eventually intelligent optimizations can be performed via packet inspection if the protocol state details are not encapsulated deep within the security (i.e., trust/privacy) bubble of the protocol.
Agreed Heroku is not necessarily the ultimate PHP platform :) We plan on bundling support for other third-party platforms, in particular dotCloud and Beanstalk as well as add support for our Java, NodeJS, Django, etc. stacks. We want to provide the best experience hosting locally (that's why we launched MAMP in the app store as well https://itunes.apple.com/app/mamp-stack/id571310406) and then allow people to deploy to their favorite host.
As a Chromebook user, I find this device both very intriguing and expensive. I use my Chromebook for writing, Web surfing, light code work. It's a nice little machine to have around. It's not the main event, however.

For heavy-duty work, I use my 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which not only has a much better screen, touchpad and other hardware, but it also has a big SSD and a full-fledged OS. Chrome OS is not a OS X competitor, and there are a lot of things I simply cannot do on ChromeOS. The beauty of ChromeOS is that its a lightweight OS that can be placed on cheap hardware to make it usable and fast by serving as a thin client. I don't see it as a great OS to stick on expensive hardware.

I find the Pixel to be an intriguing device, and hope that all laptops have high pixel density screens within five years. This price point is too high for ChromeOS. I'm not spending $1,000 for a machine that cannot do certain computing tasks.

There are no good graphic or photo editors in the cloud. Editing audio and video is very difficult to do as well. Using your machine as a development device without connecting to a server is not possible. Not to mention that the MacBook Pro can play games, run Windows and Linux, etc.

The Retina MacBook may have cost more than the Pixel is going to, but it is worth several times more. Not to mention that Apple has spent a lot of time working with hiDPI screens and has made the OS work well for it.

What would make an intriguing price point? $799. Perhaps $999. It will come down to the software, however. I've never see ChromeOS with a touchscren. Maybe it'll work well, and maybe what would really work well is a Pixel-like device with a detachable screen. But the kind of people that spend more than $1,000 on a computer are looking for more than just a thin client.
I got the answer.

The question I posed was:

"When a news organization has what they
think is a "scoop" and reaches out to confirm
info with a company what is the normal time to
wait for a reply before running with the story?
I understand each organization has different
standards and each situation is different.
What are the guidelines or standards that
you have seen after a PR depart at a company
has been contacted for comment?"

Here was the answer from someone at the NYT (for at least 10 years) that has done front cover pieces and covered startups (among other things):

"It really depends on the topic, the competition and who's being asked to comment. If I called someone like you (business owner) and you didn't at least acknowledge my inquiry within a day -- perhaps asking for more time -- and it was a big scoop, I might not wait much longer. But if I had big news about a government agency or large multinational corporation with many layers, then some topics would merit more time for a response. There are a lot of variables though ... if the CEO of a large corporation got busted for drunk driving and killing someone, that's more time-sensitive than asking for comment about a long-term investigation into fraudulent practices at the company. And as you said, different media outlets have different standards."
Top mistakes made during benchmarking
It's possible there are some clients that do not have p2p enabled, but I can confirm that the clients I'm seeing do still have p2p enabled and active.
When flat design makes sense
I suspect he may be conflating recruiters and interviewers to some degree, if one assumes he is being honest.

Recruiters know that an employee referral is more likely to yield a hire, so it makes sense they might use that to prioritise those people in terms of scheduling interviews.

It would probably only rarely affect the end result (and if so, only on really edge-case candidates), but it would affect the speed to getting to on-site.
>You can't treat Xamarin as one... e.g. you can't write a simple calculator UI in a cross-platform way - You would have to code the UI part separately for iOS and Android.

Yes, but they do offer a "base" abstraction layer besides the C# libraries, that includes stuff like GPS access, accelerometers, etc.

As for the UI part, one could use a Webkit View as the view, and link the various heavy actions to C# code. For something like a common denominator UI, for a simple calculator or some form based stuff, it would be perfectly fine.
I paid $200 for an Acer C7, $80 for 16GB of RAM, $100 for a 128GB SSD, and $50 for larger capacity battery to end up with a portable linux box (running ubuntu 13.04 now) for under $450 that is light, fast to boot, and has reasonable connectivity (wifi, gige, 3x usb ports).

This took me about an hour of reading, 45 minutes to go from sealed boxes to linux, and a small phillips screwdriver (one screw on the back to get to ram+hard drive).