skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Codexon, saving just causes another, ostensibly wiser, form of spending. If you save your money in a bank, then they will lend it out where it will be spent, usually on capital goods (whatever that means anymore, or ever meant). If you save it by buying some stock, you drive up the stock's price, making it more a better deal for the company to issue more stock (and spend the proceeds in building their business). Same thing with bonds.
Let's call Haskell "extremely statically typed"
I think his best work was in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam with Aishwarya Rai.
Can you give some examples. How does anyone know 'stephenfry' is the real Stephen Fry, and an 'authority', and not a spammer.
Thanks for the comments.

I'm not seeing the same headers as you on the images. Were you talking about the HTML pages?

wget -S http://www.stdicon.com/pdf
--2009-12-14 02:31:48-- http://www.stdicon.com/pdf
Resolving www.stdicon.com... 74.125.53.121
Connecting to www.stdicon.com|74.125.53.121|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: image/png
Expires: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:31:48 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=604800
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:31:48 GMT
Server: Google Frontend
Content-Length: 11999
X-XSS-Protection: 0
Connection: Keep-Alive
Length: 11999 (12K) [image/png]

Good point on the E-Tag. that will help in the 1 week expiry. I'll add that.

And it is using Googles app-engine as a CDN. Is there better free CDN that you would prefer? You can always use coral cache if you like: http://www.stdicon.com.nyud.net/pdf

I don't think the DNS problem is really a problem but you are welcome to proxy from your own static image domain if you are concerned.
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When Amazon started out, their datacenter couldn't have been nearly as big as those of top hosting companies.

Sure. But they didn't do Reserved Instances and Spot Instances when they started out.

You only need a few racks in order to make renting Xen instances by the hour feasible; but in order to make a market for Spot Instances reasonable, you need to have enough "spare" capacity to support a stable market (i.e., one where a single customer won't dramatically shift the market price) -- given the variety of instance sizes, I doubt this would work without having hundreds of racks of spare capacity.
"The simplest way to know the current status of your Spot Instances is to monitor your Spot requests and running instances via the AWS Management Console or Amazon EC2 API."

Hmm. Since this new feature can actively terminate instances, it makes a problem I have with EC2 even more of an issue: I'd like a way to query with your instance ID and find out exactly when it terminated and how much bandwidth it used (so something like a "usage/accounting" API). It would help greatly to know your exact financial situation with Amazon. A notification system (register an URL to get a POST when an instance dies or if its bandwidth use exceeds a certain threshold, etc.) would also be useful.

If a user wants to have very accurate information about these things, they currently need to set up a HA environment offsite to poll (which may not even be enough if there are network issues). That has always frustrated me when the information required ("how much have I spent?") is right there in the database after the instance is done.
Gotcha, you were talking specifically about spot pricing. I read the OP's comment more as asking "Why are they so consistently innovative?".
Dup of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993920

The link from there is simpler and doesn't have all the parameters on the URL.
As someone who is from the UK, I'd agree with the comments from adw, jakarta and jrockway (the three comments that are currently replying to you). The only clarification I'd add is that while the Guardian is left-wing, it's not radically left-wing. i.e. they're broadly sensible (sorry if that's provocative, I can't phrase it any better), they're not in favour of communism, collectivism etc., they're not apologists for China/Cuba etc., and certainly don't hold back from criticizing the UK's (by ideology) left-wing governing party.
iPhone users use data more than users of other phones, so if there are problems they will notice them proportionally more than users of other phones.
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Link to single page version:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-youtube-schools13-20...

Question for those of you in the USA. Bullying seems to include taunts, gossip, malicious rumor, etc. Why is this not defended as "Free Speech"? How is the decision made that this piece of gossip is protected under free speech, but that piece of gossip is bullying, and hence illegal?

I'd appreciate some sort of guidelines to help my understanding.
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Every Usenet programming language (and some that aren't PL related) community has a troll/kook like David. Over time you learn to read around them, or read them only for humour value.
Doubtful.

I'm not that wealthy.
Thanks for the feedback, it is valuable. I will make sure we take a long hard look at the points you mentioned.

The product is still a few features away from being ready for the public launch, the value proposition should be more apparent when we get there.
And as a simple perusal of threads that David has posted in shows, he has he fair share of 'you're absolutely right David, jQuery, mootools and all the rest suck' style worshipping.

For some reason (which I could make guesses at) Usenet attracts this type of kookery, and when kooks gather, they tend to create this appearance that people actually value their rants and conspiracies.

As a result, you get the perceived 'Erik is god' views of comp.lang.lisp, whereas people that try to read, or contribute, consider(ed) him and his ilk as a deterrent to useful discussion.
If you're on iPhone or iPod touch, this is better for reading. Voting & commenting is on the way very soon.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993949
Now if they would get their outbound charges in line with what you pay at 'regular' hosting providers it would actually start to make sense. Currently if you shop around a bit you can pay anywhere from $.80 to $1.00 for a dedicated megabit, including the machine.

Amazon doesn't come close to that.
Until I saw this thread on HN, I wasn't even aware the media were mis-reporting it.

I live near Leeds, where Ms Kercher was from, and the local media has been very detailed about the hard evidence, and painted the case in a way that has been very hard to misunderstand.

Now, admittedly the local media is likely biased as well, just in the opposite way to perhaps the American media has reported this case. But I wasn't aware there was this reporting of Ms Knox as being utterly innocent. If anything, it was clear from the reporting I've seen that she's a sociopath/psychopath trying to manipulate the court with her 'I'm soooo innocent' act.
The current reactor designs are safe enough, let's build them now. Debating the pros and cons of advanced designs is dumb and accepts the enviros false claim that current BWR or PWR light water reactors are "unsafe". Moreover, significant real-world safety comes from operational experience on a fleet of the same or similar designs. It would be foolish to throw away 50 years of knowledge and experience on light water reactors to start over on sodium, fluoride, pebble-bed, etc.
I think they were involved in it, but doesn't a murder conviction usually require proof that person X actually did the killing?

That depends on your jurisdiction. I'm not familiar with Italy, but most U.S. states and the federal government do not require actually personally causing death as an element of the crime of murder. If you're a) engaged in the commission of a felony (sometimes, an enumerated list of "really bad felonies") and b) someone dies with cause proximate to the felony you're committing, you just earned yourself a murder charge, regardless of who pulled the trigger. This is called "felony murder". The most common use case is suspects A, B, and C attempt armed robbery on D, D dies in the attempt, and A, B, and C each admit to the robbery but not to the killing. Absent the felony murder theory, you might have to sift through confusing physical evidence and unreliable testimony of self-interested shady characters. With felony murder, your options are simpler: charge 'em all.
"doesn't a murder conviction usually require proof that person X actually did the killing?"

No. Murder, and Rape, commonly promote the crime from conspiracy/accomplice to the full crime (murder, rape). Presumably because the stakes are so high for these types of crime, and traditional sentencing for 'accomplice to...' or 'conspiracy to commit' cases is so much lower, that people could game the justice system somewhat.

For example, if you hire a hitman to take out your wife/husband, you WILL be tried as the murderer, as will the hitman. If you conspire with a lover to kill someone, you will be tried as a murderer, no matter who is holding the murder weapon.

Perhaps it's different in America, although I'm sure there have been cases I've heard about in the US that fall under the same rules as those above, and where the conspirators were tried as murderers themselves.
Currently if you shop around a bit you can pay anywhere from $.80 to $1.00 for a dedicated megabit, including the machine.

You're clearly a much better shopper than I am. Where are you seeing these rates?
That's like saying "Well, since it's possible for someone to social engineer the password of my server, I might as well remove the firewall, switch to telnet and chmod everything to 777."

It's important to tell people to know where they really stand in terms of privacy, and then continue to do your best to protect it. The fact is that privacy - like security - is not a binary. It's something that you protect with various overlapping strategies that reduce the risk as much as possible. Few people expect Facebook to provide them with total protection of their data; instead, they expected them to do the best they can. And that's what Facebook has done for the past five years; they went far beyond anyone else in terms of protecting privacy, and even after they were miles ahead of the competition, they continued to improve it. Now they've destroyed all of that progress in the scope of a few days.
They are a business. Some of their actions might be unethical, but the term "greedy" doesn't really mean anything when you are talking about a business.
I looked at those, and they don't map very well to mime types. To actions and nouns they are great, but not very good for file types.

If you can give me a nice mapping of mimetype -> FFF icons I'd love to put them on stdicon.
What's wrong with higher learning?
Generally speaking, with your bare hands works best ;-)

More seriously, why do you resist? I mean, what is your perceived downside to implementing a gaming type of system in real-world work?
Would you (or anybody else) know why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAP_(software) states "Unlike R it [DAP] has been designed to be used on large data sets."?

I read here and there that R is not that great handling huge amounts of data, but then I'm puzzled to know that it is widely being used in genetics... Help!
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Hi,

I had asked here for advice on how to redesign an existing web app about six months ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=683941

Finally I worked on it for a couple of months and launched a new version that can be found at www.muziboo.com

I have primarily tried to keep it simple yet functional. Based on general advice I see here, I have also tried to make it load real fast (css sprites, load js at last etc).

I would appreciate any feedback on the looks/usability/general stuff.

Thanks!
Clickable link - http://www.muziboo.com
I'm not going to advertise my hosting provider here, but I'll mail you.

j.

mail in your inbox. oh, and my bad but it should have been 'euros', not $ (force of habit, sorry).
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You raise two excellent points, and not just in reference to higher learning - how about our kids?

I have an 8 year old who barely gets off the couch, he's like a vegetable. I wish there was a smart person bootcamp i could mail him off to.
What I wanted to see was a current comprehensive guide on going beyond the single server setup and things like nginx + PHP using PHP-FPM.

I also wanted to see guides for HAProxy, stunnel, NFS and anything to help make iptables easier.

It's not that I can't forge on and and figure it all out, it's that I want to be able to quickly repeat what I do and to spend less time on server admin and more time on application development.

As I've moved to Linode only this week (their London datacenter finally convinced me) I've now written stubs of those articles that I felt were missing, so if anyone wants a high availability, load-balanced and SSL capable solution with a shared static file backend then these might put you on the path I'm walking:
http://www.buro9.com/blog/2009/12/07/nfs-static-ports/
http://www.buro9.com/blog/2009/12/07/installing-haproxy-load...
http://www.buro9.com/blog/2009/12/08/installing-configserver...

I also found this incredibly useful... make HAProxy your virtual hosting manager (I serve 10 sites off of 4 web servers and each site is just identified by a different port number on the backend web servers):
http://www.techrawr.com/tag/virtual-hosts/

And this one on MySql replication is pretty comprehensive:
http://aciddrop.com/2008/01/10/step-by-step-how-to-setup-mys...

Failover IP config is a bit thin on the ground too... I used this guide:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/UbuntuHighAvailabilityTeam/Pacemak...
It's impossible to assess the tangibility of something like this. These are institutions of higher learning, what do you expect them to do? Start giving lessons in Beer Pong and how to gel your hair, BRO?

Brendan does raise a good point, it's not always the price of the education that matters, it's what you learn and how well you use it.
I'm not talking about conspiracy to kill someone, but about a situation like this: say 4 or 5 guys are picking on someone outside a bar, hitting him and so on. One of them pulls out a knife and kills the guy. No one talks. It's obvious that someone in the group killed him (let's say there was a camera or something that recorded things, but not well enough to pick out the killer). Do they all get a murder charge? I honestly don't know. It's evident they're all guilty of something, but only one of them is a murderer.
I quit MMORPGs because the allure of rapid feedback, constant iterative improvement, social recognition, and purple pixels was such that I neglected things I believe to be more important than my leisure activities. Making my business into an MMORPG would bring back all the temptations that motivate me to excess AND stir actual money into the mix. I think that would result in me devoting too much of my time to my business and not enough time to other things I believe are important.
I think he has a few points. If you disagree with some of his points, argue why.

FWIW, I also view js libraries with skepticism. I'm not convinced they're a net gain for the web. (I'm talking about general purpose libs. UI libs obviously provide value).

There's this misconception that working with the DOM is hard, or can't be done in a cross browser way without bolting on a big js lib.

Even something as simple as a closure is routinely packaged up in a js lib as .bind() why??? Add to that the fact they usually do silly things like convert arguments to an Array etc just to slow you down some more.

When you see news stories like "js lib X latest release is 5 times as fast as previous version!" You should not think 'wow that's great'. You should think 'jesus christ how could they have written it so slow to start with? How do I know they've written it properly this time? Time to stop using js lib X'
Ah ok, that's what I was looking for...
How important on HN do you have to be to have a downvote link?
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>the response of the operators at the time can only be called a ridiculous clusterfuck.

This is unfair to the operators. The accident revealed some reactor and control room design flaws plus some equipment out of service that left the operators in the dark re what state the reactor was in during the accident. They knew the info they were getting was bad and took heroic steps to get better data, including sending men down into radioactive zones to read thermocouples manually with a volt meter, among other things. It is the anti-nukes who perpetuate the myth that the reactor operators freaked out and just mindlessly started throwing switches, closing valves willy-nilly. Unfortunately, the operators did make the situation worse but it was not due to stupidity or incompetence. One problem for the operators was their training was based on some assumptions that were not true for this accident. TMI was a pressured water reactor and one of the cardinal sins taught in training was never let the primary coolant system "go solid", i.e., no steam void in the pressurizer. A solid piping system could easily be burst by even a mild pressure transient which was why they opted to drain more coolant from an already overheating reactor. Tragically, the pressurizer was going solid because a steam void had formed in the core, something their training did not adequately address and they could not infer from the info available at the time. For obvious reasons, they had to make critical decisions within the time constraints and the data actually at hand, not 6 months later in an academic study.
Right. Argue against a Wikipedia article with another Wikipedia article...
Higher learning is the same as it has always been - a status symbol for the elite.

In some circles, all the know-how you need is the ability to say, "I was a legacy at hah-vud, dontcha know."

What this planet needs is a shakeup of the university system, maybe for one year let in everyone who wouldn't normally make the cut.
I don't know about the author but as far as "big thoughts" go, I can frequently wrestle with ideas in my head that take about 20 minutes of description end-to-end without much of a sweat. Long periods of doing pure thinking in my head has trained my memory to such an extent that this is routine.

Personally, I find I can get only the smallest and simplest of my ideas down on paper. The language inside my head is far more interactive & descriptive than mere words as it includes animations, diagrams, forces, visualizations, abstract mappings & deliberate ambiguities.

I try and avoid writing down stuff for as long as possible as what often happens with my big thoughts is a type of shift where the basic premise remains the same but the method for thinking about the problem changes. Writing makes this process less fluid.
This is the most bizarre comment I have ever read...but I like it.
This comment is preposterous. It is clear that something needs to be done, the question remains: How long until people realize that a stack of those millionaires and billionaires didn't make their money from playing the slow and steady route?

Those guys at the top of forbes wealthiest list are college or highschool dropouts - and look at them now.
I'm glad you like this, it had been banging around in my head for quite some time now.
Stories do not have downvote links, but you can flag.
I believe you can't downvote an item, you can only flag it. I'm not sure what the karma level is on that.

HN has, more recently, been more tolerant of what I think of as "items that titillate teenage boys." Such items are defended by people saying that they "gratify one's intellectual curiosity."

Personally I think such items are like car-crashes. You know you shouldn't look, but if you've got a grain of curiosity, you'll look anyway. I flag them, and if enough others do then they get deleted. I certainly don't give them votes. I am one of many, others' opinions will differ.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
> interesting. That includes more than hacking and
> startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence,
> the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
> intellectual curiosity.
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One possible cause not mentioned is the expansion of water with increased temperature. One litre of water at 4 degrees weights 3% more than 1 litre at 90 degrees, i.e. there is 3% more water. So this might explain the effect especially if the length of time needed to convert liquid water at 0 degrees to ice, i.e. latent heat, is significant.
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Actually, I believe album privacy was not affected by this change at all.

Go here : http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=pr... - notice there's a separate setting for Photo Albums. That (the album privacy) interface has existed for at least a year. Your profile photos should be an album under there.

Photos /of/ you, where you've been tagged is a separate setting that is called out on that page, which I believe was in the recent privacy changes dialog.

A further confusion is that the current Profile picture is publicly available information, as per the recent changes.

This was definitely poorly communicated in the changes dialog; hopefully these things will get better in further iterations.

You can click on the 'Preview as' button to see your profile as it will appear to another user.
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This just sounds like you haven't used jQuery yet. Then you'll know why.
It's a question of how difficult the workaround is. In this case, I think it maybe had to do with showing mutual friends in search results- not showing them made the results very difficult to pick through, and showing them was a privacy flaw. This isn't a very effective protection. I believe that the basic idea of protecting privacy as far as possible has not changed, but of course I'm going to say that :)