skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assert.h

For those of you working in embedded environments where even that is too heavy: cross-compile or write that stupid macro yourself (it's 3 lines for pity's sake!).
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Ouch. This is egg on face time.

Data quality is a hard job, especially when dealing with something at scale.

Let's hope that this is not used to prevent further transparency, but to spur the government into greater transparency.

It's useful to note that bogus data could be coming in from recipients who are deliberately attempting to poison the well on this issue.

More sunlight, not less.

note: kind of shocked that OR has a 00th congressional district
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Never mind all the times people have predicted the end of the world before, this time it's for real!

I'm fascinated that people don't lose hope even though the track record is so bad.
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I don't know much about MacRuby, but as I understand it, it should be possible to port it to linux. See "what is it not?" and the second comment here: http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecos...
I thought it was a recent fork of the project - I stand corrected. Kohana certainly does look good. I'm just getting to grips with CI now. Authentication has been a matter of bolting on a 3rd party library. Would you recommend a switch to Kohana? I'm mostly concerned by the long-term support and development for each of them.

EDIT: Just realised that I'm asking you to sum up a lot to recommend one over the other. I'm currently looking at both in detail, cheers.
Perhaps. "Large quantities" comes from generalizing my personal anecdotal experience of people with great ability, and plenty of vision, but without that sense of where to go with it (one could argue that this is a defect in their vision). I wasn't comfortable enough with the generalization to go into "most" territory :>

I think it's to a great degree a cultural thing. If you are exposed to something repeatedly and told it is good, such as being an academic scientist, a programmer for a company, yes, even an entrepreneur, you are more likely to see that thing as a promising path.

Here on HN everyone is inundated with "startup this" and "startup that", so I seem to be belaboring a point, but my personal experience has been that "out there" entrepreneurship is not often enough seen as a viable option and that the inclination to do it is a variable (somewhat) independent of the brilliance of the hacker.
Well anti virus software usually checks for signatures of known malware in the incoming data. I imagine compression would slow this down. They would have to uncompress the data and then check for signatures.

(You can say that they can just compress the signatures, but that probably wont work for the more complex compression schemes, because they are not that predictable. Or maybe it can work, but it was considered too hard to code by the AV people.)
Bullshit, the control of power transmission is not connected in internet or other LAN with PCs accessing it, the control of the power transmission here in Brazil uses security patterns like voice analysis, etc...
It's the new friendlier version of HAL-9000; guaranteed not to kill in the first year of use.
Well, I'm not traveling this week, but I often use flight time for hacking.

On a trip to Australia in 2006 I brought my MBP and a small thinkpad that was running a full linux LAMP environment. Along with a crossover cable so I could "network" the two to test some database stuff I was working on at the time. Was a great distraction-free 14 hours of productivity.
You can do a bit better with a merchant account. Both merchant accounts and Paypal tend to be skeptical of pre-payment arrangements, since they don't make nearly enough off of you to absorb the risk of you taking the money and running.

That said, 4% is cheap and it will go down as you process more orders. (The magic number is $3,000 per month to get your first .4% knocked off, and there is a sliding scale after that.) Note that it takes rather a lot of effort to get as far as $3k a month relative to what it takes to sell $12 worth of marginal product, which suggests to me that your time is better spent elsewhere, unless you are selling a product which has intrinsically low margins. For those of us in software or SAAS Paypal is pretty much the only cost we have to pay out of our last dollar in sales every month.

See also their micropayments option, which is not advertised but costs 5 cents and 5%. The inflection point is at $12 transactions.
I actually agree with that statement. I dunno, I guess its because I used (and loved) C++ exclusively for a few years and I was hoping maybe they could make something similar - just better. But then when Go came out, reality hit :-)
If there was an answer to this question, I don't think PayPal would be in business.

At this point, PayPal is like Microsoft Office -- it's the de facto standard, no matter how crappy the product is. Sorry.

I know this is a really shitty answer to your question, but I think it's the truth.

If anyone else has an answer, I would love to hear it, and there is no irony or malice in that statement -- as a developer who uses PayPal for donations as payment for my software, I would love a way to get a bigger cut of the money.
Java isn't an improvement over C++ either though.. oops circular logic!
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Ask HN: Anyone else do the Admissions Test for the W2009 Founder Institute?
First, congrats. Second, a question....

I was working on the Admissions Test for the Founder Institute (http://www.founderinstitute.com/) on Monday night and experienced some considerable lag loading some pages after submitting a set of answers in the timed section (2 or 3 minutes in some cases). I'm wondering if anyone else did it on Monday or last night and noticed the same thing.

FYI, I emailed Adeo, who was reasonable and responsive but didn't seem like he had any control over it (or possibly any way to prove my claim). He did forward my email to the testing provider (Jordan Peterson), who hasn't responded yet.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else experienced this and if so what you did about it. Thanks.

(edited for formatting)
Can't think of already available service for this problem right now. However there is one solution I think you would have already though of this but here we go; Assimilate the cost till it reaches a bit bigger sum. That is if you have multiple purchase from the same customer.
I'd recommend it yes. Kohana is a bit of a hackers framework - you do need to dig inside it sometimes (I consider that a good thing). It also has a pretty nice ORM based / Role based auth module included which you can extend fairly easily.

In terms of LTS: V2 is pretty frozen at 2.4 right now (i.e. no API changes) though the documentation still reflects V2.3. There should only be bug fixes on the 2.x branch. 3.x is in active development (and worth looking at) and should be there for the long haul.

I personally use 2.x because that is what I started with and I haven't had chance to make the switch to 3.x (it's pretty much the same except there are changes to some naming conventions and file paths) mostly due to having to support 2.x based sites still :)

EDIT: It's a bit old (and I apologise for the abysmal writing!) but this is a comparison I wrote when I first made the switch: http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2008/06/framework-comparision-c... might be useful.
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The space merchants and the merchants war deal with a society that has 'overshot' in commerce, basically there are only two brands left. And one of the central themes is 'chicken little', a vat grown pile of blubbering cancerous chicken meat that gets 'sliced' off at the edges.
I think the more general advice is to have multiple streams of income so you can offer deals to people who are sensitive to those deals -- that means you can discount the cover price for people who care, and discount the ad cost for other people, each discount supported by the other stream.
Can you give a compelling reason to change that?

Yeah, because correctness is better than speed. I am willing to wait 2 milliseconds longer for an image to show up if it means I can open untrusted images without having my machine taken over. (See recent libpng and vorbis buffer overflows in Firefox.)

Remember, higher-level languages are almost as fast as C. For some languages, that "almost" is less than 2x slower.

Software becomes twice as slow every two years.

And it becomes 10x less correct. Less speed for less bugs is a reasonable tradeoff, considering computers double in speed every few years. You can buy speed at newegg for $100, but you can't buy correctness anywhere. No program I use today is particularly slow, but many are horribly incorrect.

So it seems like optimizing for speed is a bad idea. Programs that get me the wrong answer quickly are worthless.

Oh, but you don't write incorrect or unsafe C code... only other people do... I get it...
I have an interesting perspective on this since my startup, flooha.com is extremely similar, but actually better in some ways IMHO.

First of all, AFAIK, the web platform installer just sets up your PC to be a web server (IIS, mysql, etc...), then installs a default setup for the application you chose to install. So, you can play with it on your local PC, but it is not a public website unless your PC is your web server. So, if you don't have at least a VPS, you cannot use this to create your website. The blogger has it wrong when he says you can install on azure.

Flooha does exactly the same thing, except on a real, public facing web server. You can use it immediately on a free subdomain like username.flooha.com (on an EC2 instance) or you can sign up for hosting and use it to install software on your web hosting account (a dedicated server). There are already other apps that do exactly the same thing like Fantastico, Simple Scripts, Installatron, etc... Nothing new or revolutionary there. We will soon implement the ability to auto-install on any cPanel or Plesk server and the ability for developers to upload their PHP and Rails apps.

It's not clear from the MS web site whether you can install these web apps "in the cloud" (on azure?) or not. Even if you can, do you still get all of the other features of a traditional web host like a control panel, ssh, email, backups, cron jobs, forwarders, statistics, file manager, etc...? If you can install to the cloud, obviously the auto-scaling aspect is great even though most website will never need it.

Flooha's unique service is the ability to auto-install addons. Apps like WordPress now have their own addon (plugin) installer, but many apps, especially new ones, do not. Also, addons that are not in the WP repository are not available for auto-install. This is the gap that Flooha fills, in addition to auto-install of apps, 1-click backups to S3, 1-click restores, private addons and more. If you've ever worked with an app like osCommerce or MediaWiki, you'll know that installing addons is a real pain.

I'll admit to being jealous of MS's army of people working on this as well as their visually pleasing website, but I'm not particularly impressed by the service. I'm curious if sriramk or someone else more familiar with the web platform installer can give more insight on the service and rebutt some of my comments.

If people are really that impressed, I think I need to increase my marketing budget.
"As far as treatment -- stimulants help absolutely everyone focus better, regardless of whether or not they have ADD."

This simply isn't true. I've never met anyone without ADHD who has taken stimulants that enjoyed it. Anyone who is taking stimulants and enjoying it probably has undiagnosed ADHD.

"My advice as far as medication is to get Ritalin or Focalin or Concerta, not one of the amphetamine based drugs."

Bear in mind that everyone's brain chemistry is different. One man's miracle ADHD drug is another man's serious, hard drug.

In fact, statistically speaking, you're more likely to get the best results from an amphetamine-based drug. It actually gets better results than a lot of non-psychiatric drugs. That's why doctors tend to prescribe it first.

But as I've noted, everyone's different. It's not uncommon to have a bad reaction to amphetamines. That's the main reason why there's so many ADHD drugs on the market. Different people respond differently to different treatments.

Truth be told though, I take Vyvanse and it's done wonders for me.
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Hey vaksel, styleguidance.com looks like a really good idea. Just this morning on the bus to work, I was thinking how one could use existing technologies to solve more mundane everyday problems. Your website seems to me a perfect example of that.

Good luck!
End of the world malarkey aside, Information is Beautiful is an excellent blog - really nice information design.
You really can't say that without a link ;)
From a user's point of view, Moneybookers is truly, truly awful. I couldn't use PayPal for a while because I had to change my account country, and I was forced to use MoneyBookers to add money to my Skype account. Suffice to say that I will never use a service that requires me to use MB - or at least, I'd have to really, really want it.
They mention how the public facing website was invaded, which is interesting and a rather impressive display of utter incompetence. There is little information on what really went wrong with the control systems, if they are top blame for the blackout.

The timing of the blackout was particularly unlucky, days after the CBS attributing two previous blackouts to computer invasions. And I wouldn't count invasions out right now.
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What in the world does this have to do with Outlook?
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And they will probably teach about the evil, evil meat and fats and say nothing about fructose and other carbohydrates...
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Would you prefer a bigger cut, or more dollars in your pocket? That isn't a very hard question for most people, but they act like it is.

For example, assuming your average donation is somewhere in the region of $10, you're paying somewhere in the 6 ~ 8% region to Paypal. Yeah, annoying. But if you cut your costs of payment processing in half, that only increases your net income by something like 3.1%.

There are much, muuuuuuch easier ways to get a 3.1% increase, particularly if (like most folks who accept donations) you have never attempted to optimize anything about your business. For example, most folks I know who accept donations are afraid of appearing commercially motivated so they create a discrete donation button and then place it down a rabbit hole in a mythical kingdom surrounded by lakes of fire and cloaked with Grumble's Greater Enchantment Of Decreasing Conversion.

Instead, move it to above the fold on your page, increase the size of the button, and prominently (and without sounding ashamed of yourself) ask for the donation around places where you provide value to your users (which is when they are the most inclined to say yes, because they're feeling all warm and fuzzy about you).
I started Adderall recently, and it does an excellent job of helping me to focus.
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I'm trying to find a similar alternative service with an API and also keen to use something like TipJoy to collect smaller funds of $1 or less. But i just visited their homepage just to see the "Tipjoy is shutting down" message.

Does anybody known any alternatives?
The best part: they spent $12,000,000 of the American taxpayers money on this web site. You think that would buy a few data validation statements. Still, it's not quite as good as GM announcing that they are paying back part of the money they got from the taxpayer....with other money they got from the taxpayer.

My guess is that most of the "stimulus" money is being spent just as well as this money.
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It's kind of like the anthropic principle: of course all predictions of the end of the world have been false, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
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They had about eight and a half layers of marketing bullshit during the presentation and on the website- if you squinted real hard while hopping up and down on one foot with a tin foil hat in correct alignment, it looked like something resembling a good solution to a real problem.

Now more information is coming out in an accessible way about what Azure actually is, no hat alignment necessary.
> Some do it for health, some for various philosophical reasons.

I'd also add 'Yuck Factor' to that list. I'm not sure how IVM would effect this.
The police department in a major (2 million +) city in North America has a UDP packet controlled internet connected control system for their lights and air-conditioning based on a wide-spread SCADA package that has no security whatsoever (and no checksums on their packets either), simply hose the right port with packets and you control their lights and AC.
That makes some sense, but not quite.

In golf, there are prizes for getting 2nd, 3rd, etc... So if you knew Woods was going to destroy you, you would still play your best game and try to get 2nd place.

Now, for the people who might get 2nd, 3rd, and maybe a few more top spots, they might want to try to best Woods. But people who have no chance would still play their regular game (if your theory is correct).

So I'd be interested to see if the drop in score correlated at all with the average score across previous games.
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Several of my friends that play guitar detest Guitar Hero. I think you have a point. For those who can't play the real thing, it's a fun game, but it doesn't capture the experience the same way.
Nothing.

It is just an analogy. According to the article, what Outlook is for Microsoft's application suite, Microsoft's Azure (or web platform installer per another comment) will be for cloud computing.
I think 4% is fairly small: A lot of payment methods ask more, ranging from 30% from Apple for in-app purchases, to 50+% for SMS payments. Here in the Netherlands we have Ideal, which mostly has fixed costs, but that is only attractive for bigger payments. When you have small payments, a fixed fee of E1,- isn't that nice...
In the end 4% isn't that bad, and for credit cards is hard to get under 2.5% - 4%, unless you have an amazon-like scale. I would also check how easy it is for customers to pay you: If you make 1% more, but lose 50% of your customers, that might be a bad deal (or it can be good, depending on your type of business).
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As an exercise, I heard that a toolbar company (who shall remain nameless) ran an experiment to record a client-side hash of the DOM of some particular static pages and found that something like 30%-40% of users had modified or tampered results. Some of this could be spyware, some the antivirus add-ins, but still shockingly high for static content I thought.
Hrm, that's changed when I worked at Red Hat and Fedora was announced: back then, Fedora was only unstable in terms of having a very short release cycle and ABI changes between those quick releases. It was still supposed to work reliably. If it's not aimed at end-users, it would be worth warning them that RHEL or CentOS would be more suited to them.
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Playing Guitar Hero has more in common with playing a game like Simon than it does with playing a real guitar. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, it's just a very different experience.
Netflix did an awesome presentation on front-end performance and put up the full slides here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14205366/High-Performance-Web-Page....

One of the slides has their code-ready Apache configuration for gzip.
+1 for the snail mail letter, it worked for my last startup :)

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for sales- frank bettger- How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

I mention it as a comment of this- as frank regularly quotes this book
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A friend of mine asked me an interesting question last week: what's the best business I had ever seen? The point was to make a list of answers about the "best businesses" and then gauge whether one could discover a common theme of how to find and address market opportunities.

By "best business", I don't just mean highly profitable, but also the elegance of addressing the market need, the scalability of the solution, the ease/capital-efficiency of launching and running it, the potential positive external effects it has.

We came up with a list that was as wide as Google, Kiva and Cash4Gold. What's your preferred "best business" and why?
One problem with joeuser.wordpress.com is the price, though. At least if you want your own domains, most services seem to cost at least 10$/month (for example also GitHub, Issue Tracker, email?, storage > 2GB, ...). Using an individual provider for each service one might need quickly gets expensive. Atm it would be cheaper to deploy a single vServer with all the required apps.

No idea how much Azure & Co will cost, though.
The App Store model extends to just about everything and everywhere. Is this what web 3.0 will be all about? An internet of many walled gardens? If so, is it really that bad?
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Vegans could even eat long pig... Norwegians and Japanese could eat whale. :-)

Anyone else thinking of "Transmetropolitan"?
What exactly does that CEO think he is selling, for $10 dollars a month, to people who don't even realise they've bought something?
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