skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to have just a nice OBD II app that allows me to diagnose and reset params in my car. All the solutions that I've found so far seem to be thrown together and have generally horrendous UI.

Maybe they would be willing to sell a lower tier product for the iPad with just that and none of the geo features? If so, TAKE MY MONEY.
A list that has a special marker at its end is a general concept. The-empty-list in Lisp, EOF in C, etc. With this you have streams and ports and all the nice things.)
I think there is a fine line between using a library and writin your own to understand better the domain

It's something to do with how critical the library functions are to you / your system. I would never write my own compression software, but I can see why people would just to learn about the trade offs.
Python is my favorite scripting language, not for application development.
I always felt the origin of the equals sign was wonderful: "I will sette as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of parralles, or Gemowe lines of one lengthe, thus : ==, bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle."
Unfortunately, metal implants in the body still cause long-term problems and inflammation in the surrounding area. Otherwise, they could have used laser sintering to make a adamantium skull.
That's XOR !
Because those benefits are not some special feature of Go.

On the other hand I think youth generation of programmers lack exposition to programming languages, like we used to have in the old days, hence they make quite limited comparisons.
One other aspect that really guided us towards Go was memory usage. Python was just sucking up so much memory whereas our Go implementation thus far is so much thinner.

It's funny that you mention that, because in computationally intensive work memory management is an issue with Go. E.g. I wrote a maximum entropy parameter estimator in Go, which was terribly slow until I circumvented the garbage collector by preallocating a huge block of memory and doing my own management. In C malloc() and free()-ing had practically no overhead. After putting the Go garbage collector out of the game, the Go version was approximately within 2x of the C version.

I am interested how Go gave you one or two orders of magnitude speedup, while rewriting hot spots in C didn't...
> as opaque to the developer

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/unordered-contai...

This highly optimized data type is defined in 6 lines, easily accessible from the docs.
I've just tried this out - you can sign up without CC details. I don't think it's fair to characterise this as just bait - there has to be a reward for both parties in an offer like this. I think this is of interest to the HN crowd, and as long as they don't keep spamming HN with it, it's useful info. So not flagged.

The service looks great - control panel looks good and covers much of the same stuff as linode, setup is a breeze. I think the design of the panel is nice and clear. One thing I would recommend is that you guide customers not to leave root login open, and perhaps request a key during setup instead (at least as an option), as leaving ssh open on port 22 and accessible by root by default is going to leave a lot of your servers more vulnerable than they should be, particularly if people change the root password to something silly.

Do you offer DNS? That'd be a nice addition if not, haven't looked around fully so might have missed it.

I'll be testing this out in a small way for personal projects, but it looks comparable to something like Linode IF you can match their uptime and service, which is a really hard thing to do. Obviously I wouldn't trust it for anything important until I and many others have tested it for quite some time and found any issues, so you might find it difficult to collect serious customers at first, but I think this offer is a great way to entice people to try it out.

I like that backups have a very low price per hour - £0,000056

A few tiny localisation hints:

Customers in the english speaking world will find commas as separators on prices confusing.

There is no verb 'backuping' that should be backing up - I'm trying one now!
Thanks for asking!

As for network connections, we have two providers of internet connections always available for such cases. One goes down, the other one takes over. We take redundancy very seriously.

100% SLA means that we guarantee that the services will be available 100% of the time, OR we give 50x compensation for the downtime. Basically if the servers are down/unreachable for 1 hour - we credit your account with 50 hours worth of credit.
That's one of the reasons why putting people from highly unemployed groups in jails is not the right long term solution. Eventually you won't even have jobs for jailers as a side benefit.

You might always imagine that eventually all people end up in jail that will get pretty relaxed till then and robot jailers will become just become security beneficial mostly to prisoners since there won't be much people outside only industry and ai-s that will have to be reasonably protected from descendants of monkeys in mutual interest of all involved. That would be cool idea for dystopian/utopian short story or novel.
I would add that the lack of space is also an issue for a lot of people when it comes to owning a plane, and I'm not very optimistic about this for the future (urbanization...).
On the temporal / spatial scale of the universe we are virtually non-existent. On a scale that ranks everything in the universe according to physical / informational complexity & organization, we appear so far to be quite significant.
Why would I expect someone to take a chance on me?
The common lament about Google being just a place that optimizes ad clicks is overused, and lazy thinking....many of them do serious intellectual research

Now that's lazy thinking. No one accused Google or Verizon or of not having "many people" that do serious research.

Personally, I see absolutely no problem with what he did, he has a family and his future to worry about. After all these years he deserves to make a lot of money money and not have to worry about money anymore. Those that criticize him for "selling out" will probably sell their start-up to just about anyone for FU money.

What I find not true, especially in the past year or two is this:

"My impression of Google's leadership, employees, and choice of projects often leads me to believe that they sell ads so they can continue making really cool stuff - not that they try to come up with cool stuff so that they can sell ads."

Part of my job requires me to surf without ad-blockers and with Chrome. There's no trick in the book they do not use to make you click on ads or sign for their services. Even Chrome, the "open source" the supposed savior of the web now has ads. It totally changed my perception of them, and it's not like Google was struggling to pay their electricity bill. As a commercial enterprise, Google has the right to do that, however they cannot have their cake and eat it too.
Singapore police to share evidence with FBI on Shane Tod's death
Funny you mention this. We are working on support for this right now (today). EAWebKit, used by SimCity, didn't originally have Thai support, and it's being implemented now. I can tell you what it will look like though, as I just took a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZFtGP87.png. It's conventional that repeated Thai decorators stick with the base glyph, though that character is invalid Thai. We might fix it nevertheless.
Thanks for the comment and initial feedback!

Uptime and service is definitely something which is hard to do, but at the top of our list on things to focus. And as always with services like ours - we are in the business of trust, we need to earn it over time so we're not expecting miracles.

Thanks for the localisation tips as well - much appreciated :)
What is involved in setting up a HN Meetup? (Bath,UK)
I saw a recent post for HN London and thought it would be great to have one in Bath, UK. What would I have to do to make it happen?
Clever. IF your service goes down for 5 years I get 250 years free, so much win :)
this all sounds nice and neat, but reality bites back.
As per writers thoughts on Virgin.
"Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. is set to report an annual loss of $201 million for the 2013 fiscal year and, in response, has imposed a salary freeze for the entire fiscal year, which began March 1."
Brussels boosts rights for airline passengers
My understanding of this article was that he pulled off the hack entirely by himself, without having to get someone to visit his page. Maybe I misunderstood.
> The "[language] programmer" (where [language] usually = Java or .NET) trend is a misguided attempt by industry to commoditize programmer talent.

From what I can experience in the multi-site enterprise projects I participate, the industry is being quite successful at that.
The very first capacitive touch screen
Ah, that tired myth again. iPads and iPhones are overpriced, unless you consider the competition, then they look like a better value. Ah, what?

At the end of the day, its just good execution, Apple hasn't mis-stepped in a while and seems to be doing everything right. But if you want to justify your own alternative purchasing decisions by seeing Apple as overpriced, please go ahead.
One other thing I noticed - backups are attached to servers at present. What I would really like to be able to do is this:

1. Backup any server to a central store of backups

2. Set up new servers from those backups

Having the backups attached to a server make them a little less useful (I assume they'll go away if you delete a server?). The above would let me have a known-good setup saved and ready to use and use that to create new servers (rather than cloning off an existing server as you currently offer), and thus save on setup time for common server types.

If you have to clone a current server to set up new ones, either you have to keep a blank 'template' current server around, or live with duplicating all the existing server files even though you might not want them for the new server.
Beautiful. Abstraction has a much longer shelf life :)
EA does not have to simulate the cities now, each cities are already simulated/view only by the owner of that cities. EA only have to relay information between cities.

But they would have to do it if you can actually control other cities in the regions. If you play one city and then switch to another city for, say, 1 game year, what's going to happen to your previous city? Does its time stop? Would AI have to take good care of all cities?
It's talked about as a Ponzi scheme because the assumption is -

- Early adopters hold a lot of coin because it was easy and dirt cheap to do so early on.

- The market is based entirely on speculation.

- Early adopters make money by pumping the price up and encouraging new people in to the market, then cashing out and absconding.

- The value will collapse at some point leaving the early adopters dollar-rich and everyone else screwed

This isn't the classic definition of a Ponzi but has some of the hallmarks. I guess the limited inflation part plays into this - as the amount of BTC is limited, if it becomes more widely held and used it has to increase in value, directly enriching those that come in early at the expense of later adopters.

I'll admit that's a big part of why I'll never touch it. That and the limited amount means the built in deflation is just (economically speaking) bad anyway.
Curious. Decided to explore.

http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/rest/user/1 - user ID 1

http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/rest/user/1/friends - their friends

but I thought friends can only seem to see each other on their respective server region. this seems to be storing centralized data?

playing around with other nouns...

http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/rest/region/1 - even includes some of their S3 URLs.

http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/rest/box/2 - seems list CITY and REGION

i'm trying to think of other nouns to throw in there.

http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/rest/user/1027/regions - a list of user ID 1027's regions

http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/rest/user/10278/regions - this guy has 4 regions!

(I love RESTful services)
Keeping Exotel Highly Available
The earlier you get into bitcoins, the easier they were to get or mine. As a result many early adopters have phenomonial amounts of bitcoins. For example in 2010 someone traded 10,000 bitcoins for a pizza on the bitcoin forum.

Hence early adopters (with hundreds of thousands of bitcoins) benefit much more from any increase in bitcoins.
You could try not speeding?
As kevinwuboo said in this thread:

There are a few points from this publication that are suspicious:

1. There's no mention of funding sources for this study.
2. It's a small sample size of "two major studios".
3. Most importantly, this study isn't peer reviewed.
Just have it slide in from off-screen...
This is one of those features that's so useful, I've been wondering why this wasn't already done years ago.

Great news.
This, I'm from the South West (Midsomer Norton) would be interested in a HN Meetup
My understanding is that there is independent research and some of it has been done by YC.

See PG's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77319

Keep in mind that, in general, any meaningful research showing differential rates of return will probably be proprietary because of the potential business advantage it confers.
Why Series A does not exist in Southeast Asia
They're confused, it's deflation that is the issue with Bitcoin - not inflation.

Since there never will be more than 21 million Bitcoins in circulation due to how the protocol is coded - as Bitcoin becomes more popular everything will become less expensive (requiring less Bitcoins to buy, making Bitcoins more expensive). While early adopters could easily buy thousands of Bitcoins for "nothing", a single Bitcoin today costs $46.
Do you have more details on that? I've got long-term metal implants in my bones, I thought it was routine.
I would've loved a fully orange design with a plain white Y in the middle.
It's a nice checklist. I personally would do dmesg and log-checks right at the beginning. Also checking sw-raid and drives is missing (cat /proc/mdstat, hdparm, fdisk -l, smartctl ...)
No it isn't, at least not in any meaningful way. The type definition itself may be 6 lines, but that doesn't adequately describe the data structure, otherwise there'd be no need for the rest of the library.
Effektif brings people processes to the cloud
When building http://www.CraftzBay.com the only logical way to find sellers of handmade items was through Facebook. We started chatting with them through Facebook to explain our idea and many of them signed up!
Bitcoin flaw?
I would feel the same confidence regarding a 30s clip of a movie. That is to say, I would not feel confident at all, but that has nothing to do with the law and all to do how it is interpreted. I do however think that 30s clip of a 3hr movie, or 0.3% of the source code for a game should be small enough that fair use arguments can be made.

While github is often used as a publishing tool, it is also commonly used as a place where work-in-progress is placed. Thus, if someone wanted to create a commentary about a piece of copyrighted material (say, the DRM part of a game), I would personally consider copying the related code into a github repository for refinement to be fair use. So long the four-factor balancing test is fulfilled, why limit the available tools? Should the workplace where such refinement is taking place be limited only as private repositories where each party has a copyright license?

I would also like to note that nowhere in the law does it say that fair use must minimize their usage of the copyrighted work. The law says under its four-factor balancing test:

the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to
the copyrighted work as a whole.

How it is interpreted has changed widely in the last 15 years. Some talk about the minimal necessary amount for his or her intended use. Other talks about "the heart of the work". For a time, De minimis was considered, through was later reversed in 2005.
This is one area where I'd be skeptical of "data" because I think there are too many variables to separate any signal out of the noise. First, there are not all that many startups to begin with, and they all do different things. Whether it's one founder or many seems way down on the list of factors influencing the success. If you had thousands of startups entering a single market within a short time span then maybe you could get something, but not in the current world.

Furthermore, I think as a founder if you concern yourself much over this point you are likely to fail. Building a startup is a game of applying extremely limited resources, if you are focused on structural details like number of founders then you are necessarily not focused on the unique metrics of success for your business. Of course there are pros and cons to being solo or multiple founders, but in the end a motivated individual should never let conventional wisdom get in the way of pushing forward (especially from investors who are grasping for any kind of signal to hang their hat on!). Conversely, if a person with the right talents and skills comes along you should absolutely allow them a co-founder seat even if you planned on going it alone as this will magnify your sphere of opportunity in terms of execution potential.
Just...... thank you.
Registration page (from the email link once you've signed up) appears to be broken on Safari on my iPad. Basically every character entered causes the page to refresh and hide the keyboard.

Otherwise I've just signed up and like the look so far - the control panel and machine deployment is clearly presented and straightforward.
while I agree with some points, I think his experience is too skewed.

The general vibe I got was "oh we are all clueless, all programming efforts are bad". I think this is unfair over-generalisation. In my experience I have seen both sides of the coin.
wow. these are very good... thanks.
you can easily install it.
Is there a time limit within which I can use the 80GBP credit? i.e., if I only run the server part of the time, can I use the credit over the period of say, a year? or does it expire after a certain time has passed?
A strobe light set to the same frequency should allow to see the effect with the naked eye.
Cloud Checklist - a Task Management Tool from Skybuffer [Review]
Tasks, tasks, tasks…We are still trying to manage them using pen and paper. It is fast, but not optimal. How many times have you forgotten your notes? How often have you thrown away your written task lists by chance? You’ve made it hundreds and hundreds of times…

Computers, notebooks, mobile devices are all around us and what can be better than to plan and save your scheduling online? I prefer to use web clients because I swap between notebook, devices and terminal computers during the day. There are plenty enough online task management solutions available but I have selected one for me that is HTML5, fast, intuitive and lightweight. My choice is Cloud Checklist
http://apps.skybuffer.com/checklist
from Skybuffer. Nothing else – just multiple task lists management, tasks grouping and scheduling.

The best feature I like in Cloud Checklist is the scheduling overview. The main three reports can show me scheduled tasks from all lists I have access to in a monthly, weekly or daily view. I can also see completed tasks from the past for up to 365 days.

If needed it is possible to have a print version that is clear and nice formatted.

I can also share my task list with friends or colleagues via email and control their authorization. So, those who should just see my list will not be able to edit it. And that is excellent!

The main technical idea that is implemented in Cloud Checklist is the push changes from server method, so no need to click refresh button any more, you can enjoy collaborative work and get changes to the opened in browser list immediately when it is done by another person.

Cloud Checklist from Skybuffer is very competitive to the market leaders solution and is the very good alternative for those who like speed, simplicity and collaborative work.
> I am interested how Go gave you one or two orders of magnitude speedup, while rewriting hot spots in C didn't...

paralellization
Wow, thanks for this! We'll definitely investigate this further.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/15/bitcoin_flaw/
Social Media Is a Powerful Marketing Tool… When Used Wisely
[comment about doing it better in haskell]
How to curate links (bookmarks on steroids)
It's 2013 and we've a great thread on reducing Chrome's memory usage for users with dozens of tabs. Using browser extensions that can bookmark pages and remember your scroll position.

Seems everything else has progressed, but managing collections of hypertext links you want to curate, share collections, and - most importantly - share between your own computers and browsers, is still an unsolved problem.

Really? You're smart guys, how come the best we've had is Delicious (shoot me please), Magnolia (bye bye backups) and Pinboard (no demo, the feature's page is limited, and hasn't responded to emails).

1. How do you solve link/content/anything web-data curation?
2. Does anyone care about curated collections, or is 'post today, gone tomorrow' taken over the whole online mentality, not just social media sites?
> I mean sure, the "nudge" method works by locking, deleting even outright banning, but in the end, people will do what comes naturally.

Alternatively, you can just give people a place to do what comes naturally, so that it doesn't clutter their "productive effort." Talk pages on wikis, for example.
Common Lisp Coded in ANSI Forth?
I totally agree that actions speak louder than words, and a app or site with traction certainly demonstrates that an idea works, but the point you missed is the money point.

If you have money coming in, why do you need to raise more money?

If you plan to raise more money on the back of traction how much do you need, why do you need it and how will you spend it?

What does your balance sheet look like?

What is your cash flow?

All these questions are answered by a business plan, and you cannot avoid answering them just because you have traction, no matter what you say.
Title is unrelated.
I can understand your motivation, maybe I just take issue with the wording. There's nothing wrong with offering a free trial. I just wouldn't call it a give-away.

Edit: unflagged... Your terms sound good anyway :-)
I read the article and have a few questions to the authors:

How was the megaupload estimate calculated?

Various parts of the article use per week data to measure sales / rental trends, however the megaupload estimate for each country was held constant, given there's a likely correlation (with a potential time lag - i.e people buy stuff on the advice of people that have already seen it and recommended), how would this variation effect the modelling?

What sort of measurement error does the google adwords estimate have? How does this effect the model?

Are there any factors that might impact the adwords estimate on a per country basis (such as prevelance of use of particular browsers, adblocking plugins, etc.)? How does this effect the model?

Do you have year on year data to compare this data with?

Do you have any data to show correlation between sales and MPR over time?

Does your data differentiate on movies that were available on megaupload before it closed vs those that were released afterwards? How does this effect your model?
Great, it's fixed now.