skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your best bet is to hit up one of the various resellers. These guys, like Northbay Netoworks in the Bay Area, buy up unused and distressed assets from companies and then resell them on the open market. They will hit up someone like me when we have 100 - 150 "old" servers we want to get rid of, and someone like you when you want to buy a "couple of racks worth" of servers to try something out. Servers that are 4 - 5 years old can be had for $400 - $500 per server caveat they may or may not have memory in them. (which is a problem if they take DDR2 memory which is no hard to find).

Conversely there are places like auctionbdi.com which liquidate old buildings and will sell a pallet worth of old servers for $50 - $500 but you really need to go there first to look at them to get a good estimate of how many are recoverable out of the stack. Often times you'll be able to create maybe a dozen "good" servers out of a stack of 50 "liquidated" servers of identical or nearly identical type.

The post liquidator market is a place like "Weird Stuff Warehouse" (sunnyvale) which buys pallets of stuff and pulls out the resalable stuff into their shops.

If you want exactly 1 machine then a card on the bulletin board of a hacker space saying what your minimum requirements are is a good investment, you can often get one machine for free from someone who is trying to get rid of an old machine (I've "donated" several machines that way)

And of course you can create a virtual machine on an existing desktop and just play around with concepts before you get physical hardware.
Does Bitcoin Have a Diversity Problem?
Supermicro systems are certainly cheaper. Their IPMI is terrible, but I've done remote installs of OSes over it, it's mostly just laggy and sucky to use. We haven't had much trouble with the actual hardware (about a one percent failure rate out of the box, and very few failures after that).

Dells certainly have nicer management.
Dropbox's ToS is one-sided because what Dropbox did was carve out the ways it would want to go to court and eliminate the ways most consumers would ever take it to court. Most consumers are not suing Dropbox over IP.

For another example of companies carving out justice for themselves, check out Wells Fargo. They say they will not initiate arbitration for debt collect (translation: they still have their right to take you to court if you owe them money) but if you want to hold them accountable for fraud and negligence, you are going to forced arbitration. https://www.wellsfargo.com/downloads/pdf/credit_cards/agreem...

One last thing on Dropbox's opt-out, why should you have to opt back into your constitutional rights?
The value of a non-tech member is the same as the value a consultant, project manager, or a lawyer can give to their clients. It's about a mode of thought - reality checks, decision making and finding creative solutions to the problems you will definitely encounter on the way. Engineering is a great place to start from.
http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ

I've spent a few hours today dealing with the fallout from the landing page we launched a few months ago. The landing page is for the cloud-based calculator app builder Calcapp Creator that we're hoping will replace Excel for a good many use cases. (Build a calculator app using the service and have it generate apps for iOS, Android, desktop computers and the web.)

I do customer development by responding to every sign-up and asking people their precise requirements. That invariably leads to people sending me obfuscated Excel calculators, which I then analyze. A couple of months ago, I spent a lot of time having lunch with businesses interested in our service, now I mostly interact with people that have found the landing page. That thankfully leaves more time for product development.

I spent the rest of the day playing with the browser-based app builder -- which is implemented using AngularJS -- and on modifying our custom compiler (which produces the apps) to accept JSON data from the app builder.
Not the usual faire for this site, or this thread but...

I was tinkering with using the solarized colour scheme in vim which led me onto hacking on mintty. I added some GUI controls for the 16 ANSI colours.

https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12

and a small screenshot

https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=19300120...
I played this for a while with redshift on, and so didn't realize that the requirements for needs were listed (in invisible red).

I think it may have actually made the game better in some ways.
http://git-paid.gitescrow.com

Payments for freelancers

You can have your clients pre-fund your contract. You push milestones at tags on git, and when they approve your milestone you get paid instantly, and they get a zip of the code

http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png
gulping it up, and get ready for deployment.
It's a wiki. You are free to add this information. =]
Yes, but in the study they were being paid to talk.
This is really super cool. Hope someone makes out something similar for windows.
Making http://bandhub.us grow

http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png
Pretty strange to mention TypeScript and not Dart... which solves a lot of his criticisms and is arguably more popular. I respect the functional guys a great deal but the use of Haskell for front-end dev is realistically going to only be an interesting option for those already using it for the backend. It has nothing to do with the merits of the solution and everything to do with people's comfort zones.
No, the safest change to make is one that has been reviewed and tested thoroughly and found to be correct.

Plenty of harm can be found in even small changes; the reality is that continuous deployment only works for companies that can afford to regularly push minutely broken software to their customers.
I imagine the aversion is symmetrical. Given the extent to which the USG has systematically and cynically abused the trust of the American people, and done everything in their power to avoid detection, it's no surprise that the people who have the technical chops to do legitimate cyber-security work for the USG would balk at doing so. These "self-inflicted wounds" only cement the truth that no self-respecting technologist with any scruples would work for the USG in any capacity. Until something big happens (a constitutional amendment, or at least legislation that unambiguously protects us from blanket surveillance) I would expect the talent supply to be dry.

This makes me incredibly sad. I grew up believing in the goodness of my country; The Change started on 9/11. Now, we're a nation that no longer has even a speck of moral high ground: we torture, we assassinate, we spy on everyone. Defending your country doesn't matter if your countries values have been decimated by power-mad leaders manipulating the public into accepting their new lot as an under-class.

Jesus Christ, Snowden showed the NSA is spying on every American! And instead of taking strong action to correct the mistake, they went after Snowden! Is that really the kind of organization worth saving?
> iso.add(Shape.Prism(new Point(0, 0, 0)));

How come the constructor for Point uses new, but the constructors for shapes are just called as regular functions?
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Elon Musk Files Lawsuit Contesting the Award of Rocket Launch Contract to Rival
As an insurance policy against life getting so bad that I feel compelled to work for the dark side of the government I think I might just head down to the nearest tattoo parlour.

Maybe I could get tattoo-cliche-style text but with offensive wording like 'Dulce et decorum est...'. Or, like Lady Gaga, a CND symbol, somewhere not so easy to cover up under a suit and tie. Or, to absolutely, definitely make sure that I don't end up doing things like spying on my neighbours or dropping bombs on innocent people overseas, I could get a hammer and sickle. That should do it. In so doing I could guarantee never working for the military industrial complex, be able to filter out narrow-minded conservative folk and maybe get on with those common tattooed folk a bit better.
Comixology removes in-app purchases to avoid paying fees to Apple
"By the end of the train ride, commuters who talked to a stranger reported having a more positive experience than those who had sat in solitude."

And what about the people who had conversation thrust upon them by a stranger during the train ride?
It’s covered in the article:

"The benefits of connecting with others also turn out to be contagious. Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder found that when one person took the initiative to speak to another in a waiting room, both people reported having a more positive experience. Far from annoying people by violating their personal bubbles, reaching out to strangers may improve their day, too."
Did you not read my last sentence? I'm actually not free to add the information. There's a special registration process that requires human intervention.

If the Haskell Wiki didn't require me to e-mail somebody personally and ask for permission to register, I'd be much more inclined to provide a one-of edit. By the time this person gets back to me (he's probably in Europe), I'll have neither the time nor inclination to make a one-time edit to a wiki that I've only visited on a handful of occasions.

I gnome-edit wikis all the time -- at least the ones with user-friendly sign-ups. Was the Haskell Wiki so beset by viagra spammers that it had to institute a human-mediated registration process? Maybe it was, but the downside is that then people like me are less likely to register for one-off edits.
Hi how you doing? Do you post here often? How about this weather huh?
Seriously? This is how maps worked before google maps, and the experience was just as bad then.
The idea is an offshoot of my experiences as a grad student and also as a project manager at a core lab at my university. It is not strictly bio E oriented, but I agree that I could certainly test and find receptive initial users.
Social engineering uses this a lot. It's rare and catches people of guard when a stranger strikes up a conversation and positioning yourself as friendly and attentive about listening and putting the emphasis on the stranger and not yourself can really open a lot of doors. Compliments, reiterating the persons information but leaving it open ended allowing them room to elaborate, etc. People love talking about themselves and they love people that make it easy for them to do.

If you haven't already read Dale Carnigie's "How to win friends and influence people" that book literally changed the way I communicate with people.
Oh heck yes. Call me weird, but little hacks like this are why I'm struggling to decide what laptop to get. I want to get a MacBook Pro, but I enjoy using Linux so much (Ubuntu in particular) I'm struggling to decide whether or not I should!
What you need is white label hardware suppliers. In US, look at Supermicro, Silicon Mechanics, etc. I believe there a few others, a google search on white label server providers should yield you a few hits.

Also consider looking up on Alibaba and see if you can find a server manufacturer in China or Taiwan.
Been influenced by your earlier blog about A/B testing and am using your experiences to guide me to a large extent.

your designs assumes ( correctly I believe) that whoever comes on to 42floors already know what they are looking for. So no need for a video or marketing spiel.

Having thought about it even a new user should get it but have you checked it out, like asked a random to go to your site and track their experience. Or would you term such randoms to most likely not be your customers.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png

https://github.com/hylian/arducard

Just soldered this up. It's a small e-paper device with USB, buttons, a real-time clock, FRAM, an ATmega32u4, and a rechargeable battery.

I'm trying to get USB CDC virtual serial up right now, so that I can test and debug the rest of the board, but it's proving to be a bit difficult...
I hypothesize that once you have more money than you realize you or your next generation will ever be able to spend, you stop looking at things in terms of financial soundness.

Comparatively, an 8k price for a nicer seat is probably like choosing between a walmart brand pasta versus a nicer brand pasta to a millionaire; the price difference just makes no difference to them, just the comfiness of the chairs.
Ask HN: Startup Weekend Drone Idea Validation
I am at a startup weekend event and we are pitching an idea to build modularized drones.
Idea is if you are a company that can use drones for multiple purpose inspection, eg inspecting gas leak, temperature, radiation or cracks using different sensors then you can use our modularized drone.
The drone will come with everything you need to fly it, in additional it will have open source hardware interface. The open hardware interface will allow students, engineers, researchers and others to use our SDK and API to create modules for it.

I have a questionnaire, I will appreciate if you can take a quick survey and give us your feedback.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16i07u_jzCPE4zyoMSXMAmRz0kYFWEjtU2FVdu6e-m7o/viewform
Your equating of tattoos, "heavy drug use", and "bad habits" is ridiculously judgmental, naive, and has almost nothing to do with the article.
Right on man! Can I suggest you add a Favourites list if the user is signed in?
I've been teaching myself actionscript 3 so that I can build games - right now I'm working on a game where you run a pizza shop, because I used to like playing lemonade stand:

http://d.pr/i/zJh4

Today has mostly been spent working on getting some of my UI in order, although there's still a lot of work to do as I hammer down the design for that page.
You can actually leave out new for Points, and Shape.Prism just returns a new Shape. Prism itself is not actually an object (or constructor for an object), it's just a function.

It could use a little consistency :)
I was in the same boat. Get the MBP. The build quality is so great, the thing is a pleasure to use. And the OS is something I got used to very quickly.
Exactly, when faceless Hertz or Avis step up to help me out with a temporary car rental, or Home Depot rents me a power washer, it's a good old corporate economy.

When some dude rents out his car, and another one rents out his power washer, I'm part of this crazy innovative sharing economy.
I've been adding notifications to Metamorfus. They are all done, going to deploy it out to the site tomorrow

http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png

https://metamorf.us
http://www.unixsurplus.com/
I have a theory that there is more harmony in cities where everyone takes public transport. It breaks down the divide between classes as people have the opportunity to interact with someone different to them every day.
Regardless, it's still an incredibly arrogant thing to say. The implication is that there this class of entrepreneurs who are better than the 9-5ers. Honestly, get over yourself. (And I say this as an entrepreneur who can't stand to work a 9-5.)

And next great thing? Seriously? Next great thing is curing cancer not a real estate site.
My WebKit hack from two years ago that splits the rendering area into N joined columns, such that you scroll content Up->Down->Left->Right.

https://vimeo.com/59463521

The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate.

I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago explaining my reasoning and a diff of the hack, but I kept putting it off. If people are interested, I'll port it to Blink and write something up about this.
I fucking love this.

Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name.

EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).
So the news is, despite this thing called the Internet happening, and Wikipedia, and YouTube how-tos, and self-publishing becoming reputable and lo-capex, and most non-fiction on a slow downward trend, Penguin is going to reboot a non-fiction imprint, with conventional pricing and distribution, with books on the sort of topics one gets in TED Talks and free online university lectures. How does one pitch a business case for something like this?
With high employment and high labor participation force you'd expect service providers to drop out of sharing economy in favor of a salaried job, with benefits and all.

So "temporary relief" is probably more appropriate.
"basically" agrees?

As for "Cloud providers are likely to resist", I dare say what's more likely to resist is controlling your own data and simply not having it stored anywhere in the first place.
> What about the passengers they accosted?

Speaking to a stranger != accosting. Welcome to the internet, where you can be bold enough to bash well meaning strangers who spoke to you, yet not bold enough in real life to simply decline a conversation.
Side project: refactoring an IRC bot I'm writing after hours for fun (both mine and of our local hackerspace).

http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png

The bot is written in Common Lisp and it's intention is to pretend to be human (i.e. parse natural-language requests instead of typical commands) while still providing useful functions for the channels it sits in. By "pretending to be human" I mean that I'm trying to add some personality and emotional model (yet to be done) to the program. It's a playground to test my ideas of creating programs that you can relate emotionally to, as well as some basic machine learning stuff. The "personality" of the bot is based on Alice Margatroid from Touhou Project series.

Currently working code at https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice. I'm doing a huge rework of the codebase on https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style branch right now.

An interesting side effect is that after deploying Alice on few channels I have several people asking me for Lisp books/tutorial. It would seem that showing some working, fun project is a good way to get people interested in the language :).
Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea
Noticed that too - thought it was pretty significant.
SLW? Single-language... weirdo?
The main problem at its core was that ImageShack was made for profit - while Imgur was bootstrapping as much as it could. Its not like those free services cant exist bootstrapping - its that founders need to do really good job saving money everywhere they can, avoiding profit and having some money in the bank account so whatever happens they wont panic.
Sometimes when you see today start-up culture it seems like some people are not serious. Spending loadz of money on some unimportant services, parties, meetings, hotels etc. Its not like servers these days are crazy expensive - any startup could easily grown on Amazon/Softlayer with backup server from OVH. It wont ruin your budget as long as you commit yourself to spend money on what's important for 1-2 years until you get some funding or ads going on.
There's no reason to question a creator that is not sentient.
A nice option, thanks!
Code Babes
I guess this is one way to get women into tech?

I can('t) believe this isn't a joke.
Once again, I'm struck by the sheer weight of cynicism here.
Having worked at companies big and small, startups and behemoths, and now having founded my own startup, the feeling of autonomy, owning your own destiny, is very very real. That is not to say that many startups don't go down in flames and cause pain to founders and employees. But the implication that all founders are naive fools being somehow scammed into this lifestyle is patently false (and offensive to me, but I don't expect anybody to care about that part)
Lots of evolutionary explanations suffer from tautology.

and it keeps getting parroted as you can sound smart.
You & I are the only people that feel this way apparently.
I'm not sure whether it's possible yet but using CSS perspective and transition features for creating a isometric graphics library would be super cool.
The page is about JS. TS is a superset of JS, and Dart is an entirely different language.
What I'm saying is that desktop like ads are non-essential for Facebook's revenue figures, because hardly anybody buys those ads.

YouTube had a similar issue when they started paying out content producers based on views, and all of a sudden "view farms" appeared out of nowhere, generating required thousands of views. It's a big deal if you buy ads on YouTube and get charged per views, but in the grand scheme of things it's a drop in the bucket for Google Inc.
Wow, this game looks beautiful. Sure, work on it as you wish.
I don't think he's contesting the award of the contract to a rival. As I understood it he's contesting the award of the contract without a competitive bidding process. Vastly different, if you think about it.
Near the end of the article:

"The benefits of connecting with others also turn out to be contagious. Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder found that when one person took the initiative to speak to another in a waiting room, both people reported having a more positive experience. Far from annoying people by violating their personal bubbles, reaching out to strangers may improve their day, too."
With regards to programming, what are the benefits of the high-resolution of the Retina line? I'm looking at laptops and considering a System76 but the resolution is only 1920x1080.
I've had two MBP since 2007 and I'm done with Apple for my next system. The hardware is fine but I always feel like I'm going to break something irreversably when I tweak something in OSX. The hardware doesn't justify the price either so just booting Linux on it does not appeal to me. The one other thing I can't standcabout MBPs is the keyboard. Too much space between keys.

Problem is finding a good non-Apple laptop I can put Fedora
on... It's probably going to be a Dell or Lenovo.
Just an FYI that you're heartbleed vulnerable: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.co...
The story looks like it's more about personal branding than leadership.
For people who like physical books. I do not like e-books thus far, unless someone wants to convince me to try them/buy an e-reader or whatever.
Yes, but you can usually get around the paywall by visiting the site through Google News. Just go to Google News and search for the title of the article.
I just finished a dice game for iOS called Tripps (also known as 3s). The point is to score less than your opponent and 3s count as zero points. My friends and I often played this at parties so I decided to turn it into an app.

Screenshots: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b...

http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a...

App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice-game/id856299408...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal
Most Heinousest Recruiter Ever?
The ensuing discussions and threats were... interesting. A little disappointing considering how hard some people work to keep this kind of talk out of the community.
Sub-question for everyone: on some of the links people posted there were great deals, but the server's had DDR2 RAM, would performance be decreased significantly?
Congrats for the awesome game! :D It's really fun — and I also had lots of fun watching the playthrough on Game Grumps. (where I originally found out about it).

One thing I wondered: do you have a random Knight name generator based on something like markov chains, or do you just have a very, very long list of knight names?

Also mad props on the visual effect of the lava heating up the rocks, it looks super realistic. Did you write a custom shader for that?