skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's the point, they don't do the same thing.

They both have a text box where you can enter stuff, and it will return some results. The stuff you're supposed to enter, and the results they return, though, are entirely different.
Read papers that interest you. Questions about the field should arise naturally.
Pretty cool.

I've never been a fan of these full-JS layouts though, they chug so hard if the browser isn't Chrome!

Personally if I was gonna go for this kind-of JS framework thing I'd use EXT JS... http://extjs.com/products/extjs/
My point, put more directly is that using something good only because it's good suggests intelligence.

My previous post only applies to the perspective of an outside observer who must guess at the reasons for a given technology choice.
I think Wolfram invited it. They had data sources in Mathematica and didn't try to show how that was analogous or mention it in the hyped built up. I think they are hoping that it will be something as important as Google or Wikipedia though different.
Domain loss doesn't mean importing single words. Importing new words, especially for new concepts, and adjusting them to the native grammar is just natural evolution of the language.

Domain loss mean that we switch fully to another language, including grammar. This is very close to be the case at the Danish universities, where almost all research is published in English, and more recently, most courses are taught exclusively in English in order to attract foreign students.
I published a couple papers in the free year after my undergrad. There's really nothing magic about it: write a paper, choose a journal, and submit it. People have already addressed writing style, so I guess I'll address choosing a journal.

There are basically two variables you're trying to optimize for: how closely your paper matches the journal subject, and how important your results are relative to the journal's average. The first point is easy to gauge on your own. The second is more difficult. You may not have an accurate judgment of how good your results are if you aren't intimately familiar with your field. It might be worth getting advice from someone who is. When you do know how good your paper is and how good different journals are, you can either overshoot (and hope for a better line on your resume) or undershoot (and decrease the chance that you'll have to wait through a second submission round).

[trying to shorten my post since it won't submit]
[cont'd]

Finally, you should know that in CS, conferences are often preferred over journals. If there's an appropriate conference that you would be able to attend, you may want to consider submitting it to them. Disadvantages are paying for conference registration, advantages are a faster publication timeline and getting to attend and present at a conference.
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At EuroDjangoCon I joked that djng is a "micro macro framework" due to the Django dependency. If you look at the source it basically IS a few surgical patches, some of which are implemented as monkey patches.
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A shared hosting account might let you run a UDP listening process; a virtual host definitely would.

Really, anyplace you have a shell account can probably serve the same role as your home server.
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Not being affiliated with a PhD program isn't a problem in itself. Review is often double blind, and frankly I don't think most people care much about your credentials. However, it is very difficult to publish in many areas with out "speaking the language" the way the natives do. If you are an outsider to the area, this is a big disadvantage. (Not eliminated at all if you have a PhD in a different area!) For better or for worse, you will be more successful if you try to fit with the style of the journal, and cite everything in sight.
Well, if you know your way around RoR, the first thing you do after most development is done, is to load the query_reviewer plugin to get an automated profiling on each page, and take steps to limit the number of queries. Either by memcached, or by adding indexes. It's not unusual to go from a couple of hundred queries per page to less than 10 per page in a day of optimizing.
I tend to agree with you, but you never know. Companies get complacent. I wouldn't try a frontal attack now, but in ten years Google might be very bureaucratic.

Also, it wouldn't be a new way of finding data that would make Google obsolete, but a new way of advertising. That's where their money comes from. They could be the best service in the world for finding information, but if for some reason advertisers preferred to reach people some other way, it wouldn't matter anymore how good Google was at search. They'd be reduced to a money-losing public service, like newspapers are now.
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Do all your work in the database...you should be able to crush that speed.
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Performance is not a problem in Chrome, but readability is. It's virtually unreadable because of fuzzy text rendering.
I've now served on peer-review committees for selective venues in my field, so I can say that the authors' background and training are not considered when making the decision to accept or reject. (Double blind venues won't even know who you are.)

That said, good papers do share a common structure. Part of what you learn when you get a Ph.D. is what that structure is. My recommendation is to read through the previously accepted papers for the venue to which you're submitting. Note the level of exposition, formality, rigor, style of empirical evaluation, etc. When you submit, try to match that.

Non-academics fail most frequently on related work. Spend time researching related work and comparing it to your own before you submit! I've seen great papers dismissed out of hand, simply because the coverage of related work was deemed inadequate.

In computer science, many papers fail because they don't explain their core idea quickly or clearly. Failing to snag the reviewer's interest early on will lead to a grumpier reviewer, one more likely to magnify forgivable errors into unforgivable ones.

Lastly, if you get reject, take the feedback to heart, and keep trying. Academics have papers rejected all the time, and we learn early on to brush it off, take our criticism constructively and move on. Don't get discouraged!
I think there is a fundamental problem with OpenID, which I describe here: http://blog.blinker.net/2009/01/09/a-big-problem-with-openid...

Also, most of the sites that I used it for recently still required me to enter an extra password. So what's the point? If that keeps going on, I will just give up using OpenID.
maybe wolfram wants alpha to do many of the things that we now consider 'googling;' maybe he doesn't. regardless, the author's point stands that alpha doesn't seem to do too many things that are useful to me on a day-to-day or even week-to-week basis. as a biologist, i consider the results of gene searches on alpha to be, if not useless, then at least far inferior to what i get in more specialized databases. do people in other fields also find this to be true of their own searches?

this will be ideal for high school research papers (especially the edward tufte-inspired graphics) and get some new people into mathematica, but beyond that i'm not too excited about it.
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The bragging part is especially true for girls.

I'd say girls have the majority of the pictures on Facebook.
Pakistan doesn't actually have to fire the weapons; merely having the weapons at all lets them exercise more political power than they would otherwise have.
Sorry. I think I was unclear.

I was just trying to demonstrate pieces that live in the "social software" space which would be difficult to build while conforming to the rule. I suppose it would be possible, but it would be a squeeze of some sort.

I could imagine Skype starting as a phone book or email starting as a way of organising your faxes for the day, but it seems hard.

Say you've made skype. It's really good at being a phone, but it needs more people signed up to become Skype. Now you decide that in order to make more people sign up, you should make it into a great phone book. A lot of people might want to use a desktop phonebook already. If you made a really good one people would use it & once some of their friends used it, they could skype call each other too.

The problem I see with this idea is that you need your Skype to be a good phone & a good phonebook. If we're talking 0 cost, it probably needs to be the best at both. Being the best at anything is hard, two things is really hard.

BTW, I'm not really against the idea of utility. It's a way of cracking the chicken-egg problem. But would you discount the other ways?
In Pune/Hyderabad/Bangalore,
1.Rent (a descent house in good neighbourhood) : $2400/per year
2. If you cook your food and avoid restaurants, food expenses will be around $720/per person
3. Electricity bills: $240/per annum
4. Unlimited broadband(3G - usb): $240/per annum
5. Petrol (Gas)- Assuming you travel 13-km per day : $360/per annum

Total expenses: $3960/per annum

As the matter of fact, entry level salary for software engineer in an ordinary company is $5000 per annum.
Moreover, if you share your apartment, you can still reduce your expenses, and in fact save lot of money.
ORMs are extremely useful. Many extensions/plugins/gems/whatever can be developed for an ORM. With ORMs not being tied to one database technology extensions to the ORMs can reach a wide audience. Look at Rail's ActiveRecord. There are many extensions based on that ORM that tie into Rails allowing for developers to not have to recreate the wheel over and over. When using ActiveRecord I have seen how a simple over-site can lead to inefficient database use, but it makes that inefficiency pretty obvious and can usually be easily corrected. ORMs can also take care of query caching and other optimizations for you. If you pay attention to what your ORM is doing for you, an ORM can be efficient and a giant time saver. BTW, what do OOP programmers have to do with things anyway? Do functional or procedural programmers use ORM more efficiently?
slightly offtopic, but I am fundamentally opposed to this journal-conferences monopoly on published research and the related profiteering by the likes of springer.

Its like the newspaper industry which has outlived its business model.

Someone please youtube the whole thing and kill them already.
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Numbers are just numbers - you can set the money supply at any arbitrary point, and it'll set the price level accordingly.

The real question is how much an average income will buy in goods. I don't have an answer to this, but I do have a thought experiment. How many hours do you have to work in order to afford food for a month? My own case is a little odd because my employer provides food 5 days of the week, but even if I tripled my food budget, it would take me 6 hours of (pre-tax) work to afford a month of food. How does that compare with Poland or India?

Similarly, you could price other goods in hours-of-time. It costs me slightly more than a week to afford a shiny new laptop computer, while even the bargain-basement OLPC laptops cost nearly 2 months for someone living on $2/day. It costs me about 3 minutes to afford fresh fruit (really, it takes me more time to pick it out than to work for it) - how much does it cost someone in Poland?
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You can always proxy the /blog on your primary domain, so that BOTH URLs point to the same place. So you end up with both /blog and blog. With the same content.
If you have the manpower and talent to administer your own servers then clearly EY is overpriced. However the cost of acquiring said talent is significantly higher, and much riskier for smaller companies. My experience is not at as big a scale as yours, but I can see how there are increasing economies of scale of self-administration (and purchasing your own hardware, etc) as you get bigger.

However my beef is saying that you had better luck with SliceHost than EY, which to me is a non-sensical comparison. SliceHost doesn't offer any of what you're paying for at EY. However you explanation clarifies things significantly for me. EY is not very good at SliceHost's core competency, I'll tentatively agree with you here since I haven't done a lot of Slice commissioning on EY.
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I would rather credit Wikipedia as the source of a common "well-known" algorithm than leave the door open to claims from some third party.
I never said that Django was becoming Pylons or that Pylons was a micro framework. All I'm saying is that features Pylons (and included projects) has had forever keep being reinvented in other frameworks when people suddenly realize what a good idea they are.

Pylons' documentation is a nightmare, I'll agree with you there. It's a shame too, if it was better documented, I feel it could really compete.
Try CiReports http://code.google.com/p/cireports/

It's a good analytics solution if you don't need advertising.
I don't think they'd become very bureaucratic. Sure, Microsoft did, but Apple didn't (at least publicly) after 20+ years. As for the advertising, they are pretty much safe for the coming years. AdSense is too big of a platform, and even though online advertising has declined, that is only because of the recession, and as internet usage increases, so will online advertising (once the economy starts to recover).
What Wolfram Alpha needed was to avoid the Spore-style overhype

To avoid? I'm quite sure he (or his PR firm) has engineered the whole hype thing.
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I can just imagine a customer saying "I'm not paying for 'periodic maintenance' when I can't tell if there's anything wrong", but I'll definitely try it the next time I'm asked to justify responsible system development.
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Re: Apple, that's not the story I hear from apple veterans from the mid-90's. I'm not sure how apple reduced bureaucracy (or if it did), but given some of the stories I've heard about the pre-Steve Apple, it was an awful place.
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I love Ars Technica for articles like this. I just wish they'd stop the front-page crapflooding they've been doing since the acquisition, since it makes the gems so much harder to pick out.
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This is confusing. Some things are accurate (yes, Linux sound output is a mess), some things are hilariously inaccurate ("No analogue of GDI or GDI+"? Hello, standard X primitives and XRender! "fonts antialiasing settings cannot be applied on-the-fly"? How come I've been doing that in GNOME for years?) Also, "Both GTK and Qt are very unstable and often break backwards compatibility"? Even the latest versions of GTK+ are ABI compatible all the way back to 2.0.

So, uh, take this list with a grain of salt.
As usual, the Economist provides a sane, well thought out viewpoint of this matter.

It's one paper that I will happily pay for.
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Why would you use the pre-tax number?
Also, at 6 hours that means you're definitely in some top percentile of income. For me that number is at least 20 hours, and I make an above-average income for the (first-world) country I live in.
Someone please youtube the whole thing and kill them already.

Ever heard of Google Scholar? As long as researchers put their papers up on their personal websites -- and almost everyone does, these days -- Google will find them. Sure, there isn't 100% coverage; but I'd say that Google Scholar provides much better coverage for published research than youtube provides for TV shows.
It is, however, a part of the equation. I think that's what the parent was trying to say.
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Ask HN: Infrastructure for provisioning, billing & supporting webapps? Buy or build?
Hypothethical situation: I have a webapp that I want to deploy on a paid subscriptions basis. I would like the sign-up, billing, and provisioning process to be as simple as possible for the user (ie. just a few clicks).

A complicating factor is that the app requires each user to have their own instance of the app. It's not a simple case of 1 user == 1 account, more like 1 user == 1 deployment. You could argue that's not a web app, but for the purposes of this thread, please let's pretend it is :)

I would like opinions on setting up the infrastructure to do this, particularly billing & invoice management, and automated provisioning. Support tickets would be desirable, but not essential.

I know I can always build this myself, but if there is something out there I can use (ie. open source) or buy, then it would be faster to get to market.

Any thoughts on build vs buy?

If buy, any thoughts on what to consider to buy?

I've looked at things like ModernBill and WHMCS, but these are more for web hosting. I don't want stuff like DNS management, email configuration, blah blah. Is there something analoguous for web apps?

Or perhaps a middle of the road approach like buy WHMCS and then write some plugins to do what I want?

Or can someone point me to any past HN posts which are relevant?

Thanks in advance!
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Making MySQL do GIS is somewhat like training a dog to sing. Even within its limited repertoire, the performance leaves something to be desired. Yet still, you have to admire the resourcefulness involved.
IIRC, Postgres has fairly advanced GIS support...
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It scrolls terribly in my experience. They probably littered the dom with overlapping translucent divs or something.
“It does at first glance look like a normal search engine, but in fact we have 10,000 computer processors behind the scenes working out an exact answer. It will really change the way we get our knowledge, and we hope it will change the way people search online.”

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"look like a normal search engine" - translation 'it's like google'

"Change the way people search online" - translation 'it's better than google'
"For the last six months, my friend and his programmer have been trying to figure out why their site is so slow. It could take literally 5 minutes to load a user page. Updates to the database were proceeding at one every several seconds. Was the site heavily loaded? About one user every 10 minutes."

I would have replied with "My staff sent me an internet last thursday and it only arrived this morning", but you get points for restraint.
1. Generate some static pages and cache the shit out of them.

2. Regularly update the important info and push that out at specified intervals

3. When your number of hits returns to earth switch back to dynamic content...
Instead of answering the question directly, I will tell you how much you nee per month to live here in India as a start up founder.

In most of the major cities you can find decent accomodation for below $60 per month. Food will cost around $150 (You will get very good food with this amount). Electricity + unlimited broadband will cost you 24$ per month.

So you can live in any major city for around $250 per month.

If you are ready to share accomodation, internet etc and cut the costs here and there, you may be able to save more.
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The next big question: is it search engine friendly? Or are we going back to a different kind of flash based front pages?
ah!

I'm a bit surprised that the Indian govt's above-poverty level is set at somewhere around $1 (~Rs.48). Its too low to live with basic needs.

Out of curiosity I just dug up the official docs on the Labor ministry website of India, and found this http://labour.nic.in/wagecell/welcome.html

That page contains a PDF file with a table somewhere in the middle that mentions minimum wages for different kinds of work. It's highest for people employed in the field of Agriculture. Their minimum wages is specified as Rs.107 (~$2.3). Most fields of work have close to $1(Rs.66) as mentioned in the article.

But daily wage construction workers around me get paid around Rs.250 a day (~$6)
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Because tax rates vary across countries, so if you're trying to compare standards of living based on real income, it's slightly less misleading than using post-tax dollars. Only slightly, though. The idea is that one should separate out differences in SOL resulting from division-of-labor vs. those relating to government policies, since the original poster's argument is that division of labor results in less overall welfare.
i dont get it why does each datastore needs a tyrant process running. anyway...

OTOH, he can do that in any rdbms because he does not have large number of simultenous users.
Not entirely related, but check out the concept of Kolmogorov Complexity. It should definitely interest you.
I edited out part of my comment where I said that doing that month's research was a "fear-based approach".

I deleted it because I didn't think it added anything; but today I noticed that some things I am doing are fear-based in a similar way - what if the work I'm doing isn't as new as I hope it is? And I noticed I was afraid... because checking it out would be an exhausting distraction - and not guaranteed to find it anyway. So I'm a sitting duck! My comment to you helped me to notice that I was taking a fear-based approach. Hence this reply to reinstate it.

Fears, even if accurate, are not particularly helpful to a startup.
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I looked at the source code; that's how I spotted its bugs, including the one above. :-)
A couple services that come to mind:

http://spreedly.com/
http://zuora.com/

Zuora is mucho $$$ though, and Spreedly has a ways to go before it's a full-featured solution. Their current focus I believe is on being solid with regards to ordinary subscriptions first and expanding from there.

Unfortunately, for most of the projects I've done, there are too many types of transactions, extra costs, etc. so I've had to roll my own. I've built a somewhat reusable app for this now, so it's a time saver now, but it was a huge time waster earlier on.