skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can help being the sysadmin and anything else related to this.

It will be a great hands on experience for me.

As for the idea, i believe that it is great. Many students cant really afford buying hosting as it doest come cheap for them ( i couldnt, wish i had ) . And there are other people that most probably would like to hang on to there hard earned cash, but still want to try out something. This will be a cool experience for them.

As for the 256 RAM .... that wont fly with this. Put 10 users on this and it will crawl till it dies ! 2gb is the absolute minimum for this baby !

Conditions can easily change, but it should be a free box to do what you please, but no illegal stuff on it or you will be screwed ( I am sort of safe here in the middle of nowhere ) :D

email at my profile, i hope ! NO SPAMMING !
Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud-in-a-Container
Eerily close to my life in 1999:

"His very first job? To write a white paper explaining the new technology. ... Management was indifferent to the idea’s actual development value, but had a keen sense of what played well with clients in Enterprise environments. These companies lived and breathed integration between wildly disparate technologies, many of which didn’t work, had never worked, and never would work."

Happily for me, it is now 2009.
Any info on the traction of noca? How do consumers react to this new form of transaction? Is the merchant seeing lower conversions due to consumer unfamiliarity?
The reasons given in this post show the ineffectiveness of the AMO development team.

I worked at Yahoo and I’ve used different Java and PHP frameworks in the past, some good, some bad. However, that never stopped us from having a continuous build running locally and an integration build running on our server, or from unit testing our code, even though we had to extend and adapt some components and unit testing frameworks. The same with debugging, it never stopped us from creating awesome tools to debug our code and monitor the performance of our applications.

After finishing building a CMS using Django, I can only say one thing: A framework doesn't make you a better programmer. If you suck, you suck.
thanks :)

I actually started this site, because I always have problems deciding what to buy. I think I own like 3 or 4 things, that I bought myself, the rest I had to get a second opinion to makeup my mind
I believe he was looking pretty closely at the entire DOM rather than specifically innerHTML but I didn't really dig down on that.

As for the browser mods, he controlled to look at the difference holding browser version/OS steady, so the changes would be consistent inside the browser,version,os pairing. It was a rather scientific approach imo.
I don't think this is some grand conspiracy where this guy is going to slip a macro past us to make us think he's some super 1337 coder becauase I can count LOC on one hand. It's just that most people would see a #define as 1LOC. The semantics are a bit iffy becuase it's a macro, yes, but even then, okay, it's 12 LOC if you put in those extra lines. It's still tiny. His point about the simplicity of tests still stands.
As I said last time these rumors came up, I really don't think this story is accurate.

Nobody in the US wants to buy a $500+ phone at retail when they can buy a $150 Droid or a $50 G1 with a new plan. After all, you're going to have to pay the same monthly fee either way.

Not to mention the fact that it's basically impossible to have one phone that will get 3G on all US carriers (even supporting just two at once would be difficult and expensive). If it only works on one carrier, how is it any different from the Droid?
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Here's a little graph:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Colon+Cancer,Breast+Cancer,Pr...

Note the thin purple line on the graph, that's chordoma, in case you missed it. While this isn't scientific, it certainly paints a picture.
Outlook is to most people the most irritating broken non-functional idiotic piece of rubbish ever to grace their computer. So I think I'll give Azure/whatever a miss.
I can't tell if it's exactly HN material either, but the fact that he's hacking on the design of the page in real time does improve the argument that it is.

My 5 cents: You need more calls to action. Make more DONATE links, especially near the end -- you don't want to make the reader scroll backwards to find one.

This will seem cheesy. That's okay. You're doing a sales pitch. Everyone knows that within the first three seconds. The hard-boiled prose style will help balance the presence of all the DONATE links. You can even try to work them in in humorous ways. For example, I think it wouldn't be too silly if the last word on the page -- "donate", at the end of the final joke -- were linked to an action page.

I agree with the person who suggests asking for a specific dollar amount. ("$100, but if not, whatever you can afford") I base my argument on the fact that every phone solicitor does this, so someone must have determined it was effective. But I could be wrong. Perhaps this is the perfect time for some A/B testing.

Think of NPR, and how during their pledge drives they recite the phone number every fifteen seconds. [1] You get the impression that the people giving the spiels are staring at a clock that blinks every fifteen seconds with an alert: "SAY THE NUMBER NOW." Sometimes they barely manage to finish their sentence before injecting the number.

Good luck!

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[1] Note that, however annoying your page may be to some people, it is an order of magnitude less annoying than an NPR pledge drive. ;)
Style Guidance launches today
Hey guys just wanted to let you know, that today is my official launch day for http://styleguidance.com

Basically it's a site to get a second opinion for style. So if you are wondering which shirt to buy, or which cologne is in style right now, there is now a site for that.

I've made a post about the alpha, so if you want to see the statistics for that, you can see them here: http://styleguidance.tumblr.com/post/247502251/results-from-our-alpha-period

I'll also post some detailed statistics about the launch day and launch day prep, sometime over the weekend. Since I always found those types of posts to be very valuable.

Oh and I'm running a giveaway for iPod Nanos, so just tweet out #styleguidance and you can get in on the fun. For more details you can go here: http://styleguidance.com/contest
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here are the clickable links:

http://styleguidance.com

http://styleguidance.com/contest

http://styleguidance.tumblr.com/post/247502251/results-from-...
Very true about everyone being different. When I saw first diagnosed with ADHD-I, my pschyiatrist began with Ritalin. While it definitely helped me focus more, the come downs were absolutely awful and I'd feel incredibly depressed when it wore off.

Adderall worked much better for me in this regard and the come down was much less harsh. I take 20 mg IR a day - I try to keep it down to 3-4 days a week to stave of tolerance as I'm very worried about it.
You're more or less correct. Unless they're going to come out with a different "edition" of the phone for each carrier's flavor of 3G, I don't see how this can work.
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But it depends on the meaning of "best" ;)
I'm not sure how "he has a rare disease" became a reason to do more to solve it; it should be more like "it was a freak accident," in the sense that the rarer the disease, the less it makes sense to fix it.

And you could easily recast your marginal benefit theory to go in the opposite direction: how many people devote all their time to thinking about curing Leukemia, compared to the number who are similarly obsessed with curing Chordoma? Large groups of smart, committed, well-funded people have economies of scale.

Chordoma clearly sucks, but this plea is just empty.
"Basically Windows has introduced point-and-click cloud computing for the masses and it’s doing it in a way that resembles the iPhone application directory but for web applications."

Wow, buzzword overload!
Great article!
Shows how you can get your compiler to be "smart enough" on demand. Illustrates some of the power of lisp and macros.
No evidence presented, just baseless speculation. It's Gawker-worthy, actually.
Nobody in the US wants to buy a $500+ phone at retail when they can buy a $150 Droid or a $50 G1 with a new plan. After all, you're going to have to pay the same monthly fee either way.

t-mobile would disagree with you. they just announced new plans a few weeks ago that are contract-free, cost less per month (since you are not paying for the subsidized cost of a phone), and allow you to bring your own phone or buy theirs for the total upfront cost.

i am using an iphone on t-mobile and just switched to one of these plans. i got locked into a 1-year contact by buying the mytouch 3g when it came out, but once the contract is up, i'll be contract-free and paying less per month than i would on their normal plan.
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I have done a/b testing with X dollars for a different fund-raising project before. It does help boost money. I think this raises a more important point though -- my page was written yesterday specifically to address the JP Chase contest. Obviously, I am not emphasizing that enough.

I agree with the more links thing. I'm gonna add that in now (that is once I finish what i have to do for my actual 9-5 job).

[Edit: added more action links to each section]

Thanks for the feedback.
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham ;)
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I liked it. It's clear, simple, and honest. My tastes, however, may not be representative of a large part of the general population.

I followed your link to the Chordoma Foundation and donated $25. It's not much, but I hope it helps.

Good luck.
Salud. I do hope you're still living dangerously because I miss your writing. :-)
Apple takes top slot for me.

Seems like the best businesses always do four things: 1) know what their market needs, 2) develop something novel that fulfills that need, 3) communicate to their market about their product or service, and 4) charge appropriately to make money.
Interesting, makes sense.

However, I would think this applies mainly to arcades, which I believe are dying in the US anyway (though I've heard they still flourish elsewhere). Console games allow one to play against the computer or against friends. At least against the computer a beginner can play and have fun.

I wonder how this will evolve change as console's take advantage of the internet. A test case could be Starcraft. Anyone have any idea of how hard it is to break into Starcraft now for someone just starting?
Well, if you have a volunteer sys admin, you're all set then :)
Coca-Cola:

http://stableboyselections.com/2008/03/25/charlie-munger-tur...

Warren Buffett allegedly described the tobacco business as the easiest in the world: "You make it for a nickel, and sell it for a dollar, to addicts with tremendous brand loyalty."

Lots of software companies turn out to be great businesses, because you can combine very low marginal costs with lots of ways to cheaply experiment.
Check out his book, Visual Miscellaneum. Not all visualizations are good, overall its a nice book though.
I had an opportunity to do something like this last year.

I picked a passage from The World Without Us, talking about how all the plastic that we use ends up in the ocean.

10 year old kids are old enough to understand environmental issues.
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Yes, I originally had a parenthetical comment comment about it being locked-in because of PHBs, but deleted it because the comment was snide and detracted from the point.
Gone Google? Do yourself a favor: don’t.
Indeed.

I'm intrigued by this person's definition of "HOAX". Apparently if one keeps a diary during one's life with the intent of eventually trying to publish it, one's life doesn't really count, or something.

I mean, yeah, gonzo journalism isn't the same thing as objective research. But it also doesn't claim to be.
If you want a short version of the story, here it is: it took 5 days (approximatively 150 hours) to get the first reply from the so called “Google Enterprise Support”. And that’s the good news. The bad news is that most of the Google products don’t come with any kind of support whatsoever, unless you are internet famous.
netflix probably ranks pretty high in my book. completely outsourcing the shipping infrastructure to the usps and then adding on-demand viewing to one-up other traditional rental stores that finally caught up to them by shipping movies.
why does the trend for "breast cancer" spike around q3?
Another possible angle is high performance computing as it relates to biological data.

Today's DNA sequencing instruments can kick out tens of millions of data points. These can be mapped back to where they belong on a genome and then from that data, variations can be calculated. Want to find out what mutations a cancer patient might have? This is how.

This would be a perfect place for someone who might be interested in cloud computing, for example.

I work in the field myself, and on my team there is a mix of pure CS people and computational biologists. In my experience there are plenty of opportunities for good developers to get in the door and make huge contributions without necessarily having to have all the comp bio experience.

And, for what it's worth, data visualization is always a problem and the field will always need sharp web guys to develop good tools to view what's going on. This gets especially important now that the volume of data that you're trying to get answers out of is so ridiculously huge.
One reason might be that truly simulating real life would probably make the game quite boring. Think about the limitations:

1) Your character gets tired.

2) You can't jump too high.

3) You can't carry 25 guns including a bazooka, sniper rifle and grenade launcher.

4) Reloading would take a long time.

5) If you jump off a ledge you get hurt.

Etc...

I think people notice its off, but ignore it in favor of having a good time. Eventually, if you play a game long enough, you might forget what you noticed, but thats more a result of playing a lot.
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I think Google probably has created more value for more people than any technology firm in the last decade.

I also really admire Wal-Mart. An example: I pay $50 to ship money between Japan and the US, which is fairly competitive for international wire transfers from first world financial institutions. Wal-Mart wanted to offer financial services to Mexican immigrants to let them ship money between the US and Mexico. They said "Screw it: this is going to cost $2.99. Until we find a way to lower the price." They impress me with their relentless, all-consuming, borglike quest for improved efficiency, which I think does wonderful things for poor people. I wish all businesses I deal with had Wal-Mart forever nipping at their heels. (For example, I wish they could bring that pricing pressure to bear on my behalf for financial services.) I know, I know, I'm supposed to feel class-based superiority to their customers and pretend that their $12 China-made shirts are grossly inferior to my $100 China-made shirts... but I've never been good with that sort of mental gymnastics.

Oh, and one from the home team: I love Toyota. I don't even care for cars -- I just love their much-vaunted management style. They got to "you can apply statistics to a business and roflstomp over your competitors with it" decades before us web folks showed up at the analytics party.
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Found vis Schneier on Security blog http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/quantum_ghost_...

Comments are worth reading too.
This looks very cool. Can your system deploy to Azure or other clouds?

I'm a heavy user of the DynamicPageList, SyntaxHighlight GeSHi, TeX Editor and Lua extensions and had never heard of Flooha before so I took a quick look. While it looks promising, I didn't see any of those extensions available :-(

Also if I select one of MediaWiki v1.14.0 or MediaWiki v1.15.1, choose "Browse Addons" and then follow the hint at the top of the page and click "By app version" and then finally press "filter and sort", I get an empty list. Do you have to actually do a build first?

CORRECTION: based on http://flooha.com/build/addon_details/3559 it does appear you support DynamicPageList. I must have overlooked that earlier.
Thanks, that's a great appraisal of the two and sums up most of what I've read so far nicely.
$25 from a person I don't know is a lot IMO. I was not expecting any donations. Thanks man.
t-mobile, while trying that...i wouldn't say would disagree with you. at this point they are just throwing everything against the wall, hoping something works. They're desperate. They are losing customers, and their (ARPU) average revenue per user (the most important metric in the wireless industry) is dropping.
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I think that:

* The app store is a good idea and a win for developers.

* The tools/environment suck. I don't use a Mac and I do not want to. Java ME lets me use Linux, Mac or Windows. Same with Android.

* The hoop jumping sucks. Reading about all the hoops just to get something on your own phone makes it look unpleasant.

* The single platform does make things easier, but that has some costs for consumers who don't get as much freedom as with, say, Nokia (who have way too many offerings, but that's another post, another time).

So, they've had a few good ideas, but on the whole I don't think it's revolutionary. I think the hardware/software themselves are what was really the great leap forward.
Modeling wine preferences by data mining from physicochemical properties [pdf]
What do you gain by paying more upfront for a phone that you can't really take anywhere else anyway? Sure, your iPhone will work on T-Mobile... but not with 3G.
What do they mean by "open up"? Are we talking about read-only "shared source"? An OSI-approved license? Something between?
eBay - they take a cut to list, sell, and on payment (through paypal). It costs them almost nothing to host an auction. The community driven nature of the business means naturally leans toward a monopoly and makes it very difficult for new startups to compete.
Microsoft Proposes OData as de facto Web Data Protocol
Ask HN: largest number you've had to store in an application?
For a "real" purpose (as opposed to a user banging on the keyboard). Just curious when / if / why we'll need more than 64 bits.
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As a good friend of mgrouchy and someone who has been following SWIX from the outside, I can vouch for this. I've seen the service itself during various phases of its development, and it is looking amazing.

Definitely check it out and stay tuned for the beta.
That may be true, but presumably it could be copied and run in separate instances instantly, just like modern software. That limitation might disappear pretty quickly :)
Starbucks, which, though originally it was demonized for driving mom-and-pop coffeeshops out of business, seems to be the original impetus behind the 'coffeeshop renaissance' that a lot of American cities are going through.

EXPANDED: not only that, but the new coffeeshops in order to compete have to offer much better coffee than the pre-Starbucks generation. And of course, the product is addictive, so they are not going away any time soon.
I assume your use of "they" refers to "Minutemen" as a whole. Regardless of your opinions on the illegal immigration debate, the article seems to indicate the folks involved in this crime were not accepted by the Minuteman movement. I doubt even the perpetrators would suggest the killings were motivated by their anti-illegal immigration beliefs.

Would you have used the same language to group the entire Muslim faith in with those who commit terrorism?

Don't get me wrong, I suspect we probably hold fairly similar opinions on the immigration issue. I just don't think false generalizations add anything useful to the conversation.
Do parts of RSA keys count?
I nearly cried reading it back - might attempt to rewrite it. As one of the most popular posts I have it probably doesnt give a great impression :D
I like it. Add some more line spacing at least on that first paragraph where you've got highlights. The background color is cutting of the descender on your lower-case "g" in the first line.
I am waiting for some young wise-ass to say "pics, or it didn't happen!"
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you are paying the same amount for the phone regardless. you're either paying for it all upfront or spreading it out by paying an extra $10 every month for the duration of the contract.

with the new plans, you can buy their phone upfront and then sell it on ebay/craigslist and move to another provider without worrying about breaking a contract, or you can just bring your own phone.
my page was written yesterday specifically to address the JP Chase contest. Obviously, I am not emphasizing that enough.

Your right It's only now you've said that I properly noticed that.
Or, at least, make people believe they are.
Thanks. I changed it but it's actually just the underline obscuring it. However, I actually like the way the first paragraph looks when I add spacing.
What a brilliant plan to get done under anti trust law.
I have a short list of businesses that I absolutely adore because of how they treat me as a customer: L.L. Bean, Costco, Apple, and Pat Metheny (yes, yes, a musician, but he really delivers the goods). For me, all these follow one rule: make great things (and treat your customers well).
Compression schemes have to be predictable when run on the same data. Otherwise decompression wouldn't work. If signature detection actually is more difficult on compressed data, it's not because the compression is unpredictable.
If it is programming is it still a computer or is it a programmer?

Computer with a human-like brain seems to be a bit of an oxymoron in that respect.
quote: "Modha imagines a cognitive computer that could analyze a flood of constantly updated data from trading floors, banking institutions and even real estate markets around the world — sorting through the noise to dentify key trends and their consequences."

... and we'll have at the end a pseudo-human opinion that also will totally fail to see the housing bubble. It will also have opinions about the existence of God, Ginger vs. Marianne, and cry because its haircut turned out poorly.
How to deal with the one-sentence email turndown from VCs
twitter id's is the first thing that comes to mind.
Carmack was able to grasp it with enough studying.
I want to clarify (and I have edited the post some) that this is all a forward-looking article. I am not saying that the WebPI is already working with Azure; but that knowing how Microsoft is a technology-leveler of sorts (specially for the enterprise) I could see the WebPI evolving into a point-and-click app installer once Azure is deployed, allowing developers to write packages that are cloud-aware to be listed on the apps gallery.