skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Java and quite satisfied for the ease of use, and they also support Ruby now:
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

The best thing about AWS Elastic Beanstalk is you can still login into the machine in case you need to troubleshoot for some low level stuffs.
So is there any possible way to run an HTML5 app in the Arduino and then run it into the LCD screen?
>This way of looking at it unfortunately suffers from self-reference. Someone who won't meet the dress code won't be looked on as a "really great candidate", so the exercise is undermined at the outset.

Even if that person is well known for being the best of the best? Even if their everyone knows that other companies out there would love to grab them because they are that good?
Honestly, 1 billion $ for a 2 year old startup, i wouldnt have thought twice.

Its easy to say Zuckerberg did the right thing in hindsight of course.
5+ y/o account, 23 karma, clearly you've been active. This is similar to me saying I'm stepping away from WSJ online because all I see is their paywall.
Are games on Apple’s App Store curated or censored?
It doesn't play for me either, using Chromium (the distro pacakge of Google Chrome) on Linux Mint 14. But view source, Ctrl+F mp3, and doing wget on the name of the file worked just fine.

They should really make a lossless .wav or .flac available IMHO, but that's a different gripe...
Just checked them out correct me if I'm wrong but they seem more like an alternative to rackspace or EC2. They provide a VM while heroku provides the full preconfigured application and deployment stack.
Edir Macedo, Brazil's Billionaire Bishop
It's kind of a "no explicit or implicit warranty provided" situation, is it not?

I wonder if there is a business model in them saying something like, "We can do this if you pay us $20". They could continue to give away the product, and charge for service/support.

They obviously don't think it's worth their time/effort to look into one person's situation. That's awful for you. At the same time, maybe that's part of the reason they don't charge -- they want to build software, not support it.
An open standard for the Internet of things by IBM, Cisco and others.
Easy. Advertising is a subset of marketing. Marketing also includes product design, customer service, research, etc.
You've made, on average, one comment per hundred days you were here[1]. Nobody noticed you were here in the first place and I doubt they will notice you are gone. I have no idea why you are telling people you are leaving instead of simply not visiting anymore.

[1] And they're not grellas-style quality long form comments either.
Some people enjoy coding more than dining. You are likely to find many of them here. While you are free to differ from them ("I enjoy cooking/dining way too much for this to work for me"), your insults (the idea causes depression, the slippery slope argument, your suggestion that dreams = facebook+tv) are quite uncalled for.
Someone, no one ever remembers the Koreans. Not even me. :(
Also relevant, Cisco estimates this as a $14.4 trillion industry: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-possibilities-of-the-interne...
When to use applets instead of HTML forms: Three easy techniques
I have used them on ARM boards (STM32 Cortex M3). Quite easy there :)
I certainly don't expect his protest to last long.

HN doesn't owe anybody anything. Did you pay money to post or read comments? No.

HN is not perfect and from my experience no one is trying to make it the best of anything. I do believe this is what makes it so good.
It's spelled "plug-in."
OpenShift from Red Hat is often cited as a competitive offering in Heroku vs X reviews. When I first checked it out they hadn't yet come out of beta.

Uses git just like Heroku. Has a similar "dyno" concept but calls them gears. Has a free developer version.

Don't know about support today, but the people I talked to from the team were incredibly helpful.
Everything I hate about Java in some way traces back to the idea that "making it like this will make it more suitable to corporate environments".

Corporate environments want droneish, politically correct, interchangeable programmers who very rarely step outside of their predefined, straitjacketed roles.
Hm? Only for blocks. Not classes, methods, if/unless, while or begin/rescue.
From the paper:
"This program prints the product f (1) ∗ f (0) ∗ f (−1) where f (x) = x + 5. ... Most people were able to get the correct answer of 60 in 30 seconds or less."

Unless I'm losing my mind, the correct answer for the code as stated is 6 * 5 * 4=120, not 60. It would be 60 if f (x) = x + 4.
I presume umsm meant ICE or non-electric luxury car. ie, ones that don't require any advanced battery tech.
That sounds exactly like the rationalization any spammer would make. After all, some people want an online pharmacy, right?
> Does anyone think for a moment that a manmade device like a transistor is anywhere close to the complexity of a biological one such as a cell? This is laughable.

It's laughable only because it's a straw man. The claim is that FOOD is simple, not human bodies. Industrial process optimization for transistor production costs many orders of magnitude more than this experiment will.
Yes, they do. I recently had a bad experience with flights on SW, and their cust service rep had to charge me $50 to change the flight.

I emailed a few days later and explained the situation. Without a delay, they refunded the $50, then gave me and my travel companion $100 vouchers for the hassle.

It wasn't even their fault -- SFO was having weird tech issues.
The Best Experimental Chrome Features You Should Check Out
Yes, you are correct. However, Digital Ocean has way faster disk IO.
Any industry with productivity disruption
IMHO the DNA study is sort of a red herring. The real story here is that ZIP code, birthdate and gender have enough bits of entropy between them that they can uniquely identify people 40% of the time.

I personally usually fill out my birthdate as January 1 of the nearest year that is evenly divisible by 10 [1].

[1] Mainly when registering a new account with some random website that makes you type in your date of birth to register an account. If it's connected to my finances, employment, or medicine, of course I give them the real deal. Of course, thanks to my wonderful government, even this may be a felony [2].

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-r...
First of all you're feeding into your confirmation bias just like the article points out - if you think you're ugly, you're going to believe you're ugly and feed into that negative self image.

Second of all, and most importantly, there is much that can be done with regards to improving appearances. If you don't believe me - just search for "models with and without makeup" on Google. The fact is that even the stereotypically "beautiful" people put lots of effort into improving their appearance, and you can too. I mean, just looking at the picture from the article (http://media.tumblr.com/160024ee41f63d0a19636697b1f929fc/tum...), the person looks essentially the same, except 3 major things change throughout the "hot or not" ratings:

- thinning of the face

- hair color / condition

- skin tone / makeup

The 1-3.4 has duller hair, fatter face and almost no evidence of makeup in comparison to the 9-9.5 face. And the 9.5-10 actually looks paler than the 9-9.5 face, but that appears to be from enhanced lighting (model "glow") giving her a more professional look, not to mention obvious evidence of eye makeup from the blue around her eyes (in addition to the blue eye color) which doesn't exist on any of the other faces. So just like you mentioned about putting your best picture on your profile, there are clearly ways to make yourself significantly more attractive:

- Achieve a healthy weight (increased muscle mass, decreased fat)

- Dress in clothes that flatter you (form-fitting, colors that contrast and enhance skin tone)

- Spend a (healthy) amount of time in the sun to create appealing skin tone

- Put time and effort into grooming (healthy hair in a stylish haircut, no unkempt facial hair, clean and trimmed nails, treatment of pimples/blemishes and other assorted skin care)

Yes, it requires effort. Yes, it seems vain and pointless. And yes, deformaties and dramatic asymmetries cannot be masked by effort of appearance. But attraction and appearance are a game of our society and more often than not, attractiveness is something you're more in control of than most people realize; and people are too lazy / stubborn to accept that reality and work on it. Many people can't be bothered to wear quality clothes or hit the gym 3 times a week, and then blame society why they're deemed "ugly." But the fact is most people are pretty "average" in looks but some don't appear that way because they put in effort into their appearance, and it works!

As much as you're trying to convince yourself you're ugly, you're not (seriously), and you are more in control of raising your attractiveness than you claim. You can't tell me that you'd get less/the same amount of attention if you added 20 lbs of muscle to your frame, lost the facial hair and surfer haircut, and wore a well-fitting navy suit and white dress shirt. Effort put in will yield results.
And odd choice, since excessive spinach intake can lead to iron deficiencies.

Other green vegetables are better.
Greylock's 2nd Hackfest now taking applications
If you traveled back to the 90's, it would be a good fictional story about computing dystopia.

In fact, it is still a good story about computing dystopia. But it's no longer fiction.
Oberon/F was used as a teaching language during my first semesters of CS. At the suggestion of Sun's marketing department, Oberon and it's accompanying textbook were replaced by Java™ 1.0. For me that's what happened to programming in Oberon. Fortunately, Blackbox is very well documented and even without a command of its language you can still appreciate many of the elegant gems it Guards just by reading Blackbox in Blackbox . I really enjoyed the article especially learning the bit about how Wirth measured a compiler's quality.
Ecuadorian cubesat is in orbit
Facebook Challenges Yelp With Mobile Pages Redesign Featuring Actions
> Our conversation rates from favorite, to follow, to registration on our site are extremely high.

Can you give an indication how high? Greater than 1%? 10%?
Awesome work! This could be huge in terms of overcoming the gender/race barriers to finding great mentors within traditional corporate structures (and even within the super meritocratic startup world).
If you want a very simple solution, check out AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It's really easy to setup and you just need 1 simple command to deploy (git aws.push). Not sure how big your app is but they give you 1 year free of a micro instance too.
Reddit User Who Started FindBostonBombers Quits Reddit
Why HTML5 makes strategic sense
I think people misunderstand what reddit is. It's not a media organisation. It's a place where anyone can join in on a conversation. People get together and they speculate.

I'm sure there were lots of people getting together in the "real world" and discussing those events and speculating.

I'm not sure there's anything wrong with people speculating about events, though it depends on how they do it and how they present their speculations and what they do on the basis of their speculations.
Google bans self-updating apps in the Play Store
I believe I was just hearing about high profile apps including Facebook doing this recently. This is a somewhat out of character move to attempt to wrangle in the Play Store content.
If on Node Nodejitsu is highly recommended.
okay, will be gone in one year from now. or one and a half. always the same story with that kind of acquisitions.
One more article which goes on about how bad it is for women in India without suggesting any method of setting the wrong right. Women are also considered sacred but as goes for any religion, people take and interpret what they find suitable for themselves. The laws are there for namesake and enforced only when the perpetrator is from the lower rung of the society while powerful criminals go free. Also women from the economically and socially backward are not even aware of the protection the law guarantees them. We do not need one more article which goes on and on about how bad it is in India. We get that from the media everyday. We need practical solutions and discussions around it.
> I'd like to think my comment was an invitation to provide details if possible.

Hmmmm, it seems to me that asking a question would be an invitation to provide details. Making a statement about how other individuals in similar situations have been deeply wrong comes across, to me, as an invitation to defensiveness and conflict.

Why not ask simply, "Can you provide more details?"
Experience of setting up Payments Aggregator in Austalia
As any startups had experience or advice of dealing with payment gateways in Australia when creating a website that will act as an international aggregator or marketplace. Its not easy and seems easier if we were in the US.
It might not be the best thing for AAA multi gigabyte games like Crysis 3 (yet), but it makes sense for alot of smaller scale projects, especially online games (typically free to play) where the barrier to entry is low.

Longterm in also makes sense to think of games loading on demand while you play vs downloading everything to disk and install it somewhere. It also solves alot of the piracy problems of the industry.

Today there are Game Engines like Unity3D that already offer Native Client deployment and have their own browser plugin for IE or anything unsupported. Add to that a HTML5 deployment option through Emscripten & ASM.js and the games will basically run anywhere, just in edge cases requiring a plugin.
Destroy your file system (virtually) in Lunduke's Experimental AI Terminal
Elixir is neat, but it's such a leaky abstraction; you still have to deal with a lot of Erlang stuff that Elixir doesn't cover.

Also, Erlang is slow. Really really slow. It's faster than Ruby, I think, but not much. And It sucks at a lot of things that should be fast in a functional language, such as file I/O.

Erlang itself is also neat, but the syntax is abhorrent (commas and periods instead of semicolons!), performance is awful, and the language has many warts (no Unicode, no structs, etc.).

I see where you're coming from. As for me, I am intimately familiar with everything that Rust provides, and it's frustrating because it's close to what I have been waiting for, but it makes a bunch of design choices I disagree with. Same with Go.

For now, Go is much closer to what I want than Rust, but performance is pretty awful for many things, so I'm not a happy clam.
"the inventor of the world’s most important acoustical device—the telephone"

and... no.

Bell stole the telephone invention to Meucci.
Both of the videos at the end of the article are absolutely fascinating (as is the rest of the article, but I almost skipped the videos; I'm glad I didn't).
Don't Blame All of Reddit for Boston Bombing Witch Hunt
Not really. Ownership of land, chattels, etc. are usually considered natural rights--- the government protects your ability to own things, it does not grant you that ability.

Copyright, trademark, patents, etc., are different; they were not considered natural rights, but are a social engineering effort, attempting to produce specific effects in society ("the progress of science and the useful arts", e.g.) by means of government-subsidized policy.

As an analogy, consider another government-granted monopoly, say taxi medallions. They're quite valuable in some markets. But they're entirely an artificial right, created by the city for the city's own reasons, not an inherent one.

Or on the opposite side, consider e.g. liberty or free speech. In the American or liberal conception, those are innate, inalienable rights. We create a government that hopefully helps us exercise those rights, but the rights inhere directly in us--- they are not granted by the government or some other third party.
This is really disheartening. I'm glad that I only build a POC on top of Parse before fully diving in.

Any recommendations for comparable services (something with a decent javascript api would be nice; i'm not doing a whole lot with native mobile)
Aaron Swartz Documentary Seeks Funding on Kickstarter
StackMob I think is in this space as well.
Parse (YC S11) Acquired By Facebook
Just go to The Creamery http://goo.gl/maps/VT42V you will see lots of startups.
Small Realizations of Big Entrepreneurs [infographic]
Given the number of complaints about the top content perhaps its time to break HN into sections (much like sub-reddits) that one can unsubscribe from. By default one would see it all, leaving the experience unchanged for most. I'm just tired of hearing about programmers who hate business posts and vice versa.

I don't happen to think he has a strong argument for quitting HN, but let's judge that based on the argument. The comments demeaning the poster for contributing so little are childish and petty. If you feel the importance of one's opinions are measured by karma, you need to grow up.
Insufficient information to answer that question.
impressive stuff http://www.flohofwoe.com/demos/dsomapviewer_asmjs.html

But the most amazing thing is that they basically just compile their existing engine that has years of development to the browser using emscripten and it works. Thats a bit of a death blow to the new (and still very limited) JS 3D Engines, but of course their ease of use is a big benefit and they still make sense for smaller/web integrated projects.
I guess my experience has been different. I can probably count a dozen serious incidents since I've been using them (1.5 years). Database corruption, unexplained network issues, long period of unavailable API (does impact uptime or performance if you need to push an urgent bug fix or timely data update). But what convinced to switch or at least to invest time to see if there's something better out there is the poor customer support. At the beginning I was a big fan of their support team, super responsive and knowledgeable but in the last 9 months or so it's been increasingly frustrating interacting with them. No more support during the week-end, wait 2-3 days between each email and getting more and more canned responses that don't really address my problems.
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Since I am being downvoted for expressing a technical criticism, let me clarify:

I like explicitness, readability and clear, unambiguous syntax. Two small dots at the end of a line completely changing the entire block's meaning is, to me, a violation of those principles.
Tl; dr; never

Craplets in 2013?
UO kind of had this when I played it.

People would die and if they had their house/tower/castle key on them you could loot it.

I'm sure EVE is at another level, but UO was something special at one point.
Craftstud.io - A Game to Make Games (now in beta)
An Interesting Twist On Success Breeding Failure
In my experience Dotcloud has the advantage of giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. But I had issues with the reliability of deployment there. I used to love the sandbox, but I dropped Dotcloud as a provider after that was removed without a drop-in replacement. However, I still use them to serve Redis, and so far, it's way cheaper than using a dedicated Redis service.

I looked into AppFog, but it was not nearly customizable for my fairly intense Django app. I found too much of the configuration to be baked in.

On Heroku, I really like the ease of connecting third party services, and the fact that many of those services have free tiers. I love their New Relic pricing as well. I like that Foreman/Honcho make for a pretty awesome staging environment. What I don't like is the inability to directly connect to dynos.

So far, of the products I've tried, Heroku seems the closest to being fully baked, but it's still a ways away from hitting it out of the park. I'm really glad this question was brought up, even if it's quite frequently asked. There are so many players and the scene is so rapidly changing that information is constantly going out of date. It seems to me that what's really needed is some sort of ongoing comparison tool/site to track the whole PaaS scene.
A social network they didn't let anyone into; seriously don't understand how you expect to develop a social network/platform with a limited beta test.
Some of them take a very long time to appear: the human liver can store up to five years' worth of vitamin B12!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12_deficiency
I did all of my scripting in Windows in JS. You had full access to COM objects, which means you could do a lot of stuff out of the box. One thing I hated was that it wasn't even fully ES3 conformant (it's jscript), and it seemed not to be maintained. I think they threw out cscript considerations when they built powershell. For me, a simple bash shell or even a jscript REPL would've been preferable.

I think my favorite least-known thing about writing simple tools for Windows during my time as a sys admin was HTAs. You had full jscript COM access with a web page presentation that's packaged into something that you can run without opening a browser explicitly. It was awesome building full web applications that could do pretty much any administrative task on Windows.
I only read when I'm on holidays. I also keep warm clothes around even though I won't need them for another 6 months :) There are many ways to enjoy "slow IT".

That said, moving away from Instapaper was some grunt work but not too hard - I've opened every link in a tab and used hotkeys to add them to my new weapon of choice (Reading List).
As far as I can tell, I argued that the "solution" CISPA offers is one that is not compatible with the Constitution of the United States.

Again, that makes it a bit of a non-starter, regardless of what problem it's attempting to solve.
Thanks Kris! :)
Legal and medical will evolve, but there will not be disruption because:

a) They are heavily regulated and moving outside the regulatory framework is subject to vigorous prosecution. AirBnB is in a comparitively lightly regulated industry and its transactions can remain private.

b) These industries are already profitable so the most likely perceived result of disruption is a reduction of profits.

c) The amount of cash already attracts many players to the market who can focus on sales - lawyers and doctors like a professional sales force and personal attention - rather than innovation. Little egotistical professional service companies are as problematic as big dumb one's. Maybe worse because they are about more than the bottom line.

d) These industries have better ways to make money than software services. Insurance companies don't reimburse for medical records on an iPad. Lawyers bill by the hour.
Thanks a lot for the encouraging words. Would love to see more of you on Mentii! :)
How strange is that it looks exactly like a CD?
They've done studies yes. In Anatomy & Phys in college they noticed that recovering soldiers recovered mentally far faster from the solid food equivalent of a nutrient shake. In some cases, it was pivotal to survival.
I kept tripping up on the instructions, such as the git clone for your repo should be the anon one (git://) and final commands (debuild -us -uc) kept telling me that there were no upstream git.

I tried the scripts verbatim on a fresh Ubuntu 13.04 VM (64bit).

edit:
Your deb link at the end of the readme is broken as well.
Is there a blogging threshold for your startup?
I read somewhere that 20 blog posts a month is about right, if you pursue blogging as a traffic acquisition strategy. Is there science to it or would you just write as much as you can (And perhaps give it way as guest posts for other blogs?)
I'm sure that's not Ilya and team's plan; but the issue is that they no longer have ownership of their "plan".

I'm struggling to see how this isn't blatantly obvious to a lot of commenters here.