skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider myself a geek (and most of my friends would agree) but it's been 15 years since I last compiled the Linux kernel :)

That said, I wouldn't rule it out as a test because of that, but I do think that if you are going to compare 4 different RAM sizes of CS instances, and compare the costs of doing a job using those different sizes then you need to pick a job that is going to make use of the RAM. You can see from the results that there is a small (time) benefit moving from 256 to 512MB (but not enough to offset the increased costs) and virtually none above that.
"Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser."

With that lesson, I drop this handle.
this story seems to be implying that the contract has yet to expire. how can google pull the source if the contract from previous year has not expired yet?
The majority of phones out there that are not "smart phones" and are quite programmable, via J2ME. Also, Symbian OS doesn't necessarily mean that you have to write in C++, as they run J2ME as well. You do get better results and more integration with the C++ API, but it's apparently quite a pain in the ass to use.

For some reason, people here seem to think that iPhones and other fancy devices are all there is out there.

I originally wrote Hecl to run on a Nokia 3100, which came out something like 5+ years ago, and was certainly not top of the line then (it was about 100 euros, IIRC).
Calling yourself a programmer and calling yourself a musician are both fairly easy. I would say a lot of programmers are musicians because a lot of people are musicians. I know a lot of musicians who are not programmers.

I think that if you actually look at the most talented musicians in the world, they are probably not programmers either. The amount of dedication it gets to reach the top makes it difficult to do both.
my guess is that the contract is on Google here...i.e. they signed a contract to do with the AP stuff as they please.

Probably doesn't say anywhere in the contract that Google is required to display anything
Checked "Yes, not very well" cause I do play keyboards, albeit so so. However, if programming synthesizers and sound design counts then I could go up one level.
Decrease your spending, then save the difference. The more you can decrease your spending, the more you save and the more time you can survive on the saved money.
Shoot me an email at the address in my profile in case we need someone in the summer or at the end of our lease in September :)
I've founded a few small things on my own (done.io probably the most recent, and working on something called Forrst now). Something I've noticed is that while it's great just executing on stuff by myself, it can be a very lonely place, and it's definitely easier to slack or give up on something without someone else depending on you.
A quick google (find co-founders) shows there is at least one: http://www.partnerup.com/
http://done.io/ and a new thing called Forrst.
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Every year, lots of Sci-Fi movies have been made in the Hollywood but there are quite a few which have left a ever lasting impression on our mind. I have compiled a list of best sci-fi movies of all time. The list was very long and choosing the 10 best among them was quite a time consuming work. Jeorge Lucas epic Star Wars has always been in the top of my movie list. Steven Spielberg’s A.I. and E.T. were very emotional and dramatic but nothing compares to Star Wars.
“May the Force be with You.”
Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish is another
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I enjoy eating too much. However it would be an awesome way to fix starvation during droughts when the sun is shining brightly.
I work on my own, although I'm not really working in 'startup mode' at the moment. More doing consulting as a day job and testing out various ideas to see if any of them stick.
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Haven't had a single problem here in Austin, TX...3G is fast and haven't switched over to EDGE one time???
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I'm not paying for the app. I'm paying someone to care.
Oh man, Polanaise-Fantasie is the most beautiful piece of music in the history of ever, it contains the struggles and joys of life and flows so freely between them.
http://fairsoftware.net/find-cofounders-for-your-startup and http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/ are dedicated to finding co-founders. The first one is for worldwide online, the second link is for Silicon Valley in person.

(I'm behind both)
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While the article gives you the feeling of a very in depth article, it looks at certain very important things in a very shallow way, and in the end doesn't offer much.

The article forgot technology.Technology plays a huge role in the economic changes affecting America, and the world. It enables shifting jobs around the world, automating jobs , and driving rapid change everywhere.It seems that these abilities would be only getting stronger in the future.

It also focused strongly on the value of america's world leading education sector as an economic engine. But the fact of the matter is , that most workers are average, and in order to replace them , china and india's workers might be just good enough.
I took the liberty of creating a wiki page for this, figured it would be easier than clicking on users' profile pages all the time to see what they were working on. Hopefully we can get some users on there in a more organized fashion.

http://hnprojects.wikispaces.com/Hacker+News+User+Projects
Trombone, baritone, and learning guitar.
Apparently "have a legible website" is not among the insights that Mixergy perceived.
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Strangely enough, I knew what the outcome would be before clicking the link.
Stories like these always pop up and sound impressive until you realize that's less than a year of oil for the US.
Repeat after me: The singular of anecdotes is not data.
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Google News doesn't need AP, considering there is very little in the way of exclusive news or content.

In some cases, there may be a slight time advantage to having breaking AP stories a few minutes before other sources, but I don't think most Google News readers see it as a source for breaking news -- and even among news junkies who do, they will already be plugged into alerts from original sources, such as CNN.
Makes me wonder if these are new 3G users on T-Mobile's network. Switching between 3G and Edge is quite common, and entirely a function of the 3G coverage in your area, which is often spotty, but slowly improving. I see this all the time on my G1, but it happens less and less as 3G coverage improves. The issue seems to be that the towers that support 3G have a different range than the towers that support GPRS. Naturally, T-Mobile tries to do the cost-effective thing and only upgrade the towers that will give them the requisite coverage. However, that isn't always easy to predict.
I think that the main reason you are being downvoted is not so much that you are technically wrong, but rather because you are being pedantic ad nauseum.

This is a programmers' forum, not a philosophers' forum. We should not be discussing the meaning of "is". That's too low-level and fundamental for our purposes. This does not imply it's not an interesting question, it's just not appropriate.
Guitar, piano, drums. I enjoy composing more than playing, though.
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I've developed against Microsoft platforms for many years. I now, in fact, work at Microsoft. I do a lot of deep integration work with Visual Studio and I can tell you that it would be completely impossible without source code access. After working for a few months with source access to all of developer division, xbox, etc., that I never, ever, ever want to develop against a closed platform ever again. Most of our big partners who write VS add-ins do have source code access as well. You basically need it.
In terms of the pure linux routing solution, that is pretty interesting... Does it require that the remote machine has two physical interfaces or could you do the same with virtual interfaces like eth0:0 and eth0:1. Either way there are a few drawbacks with that solution. It will send 100% of your traffic through it rather than being able to selectively proxy. Also it only round robins so there is no intelligent load balancing as there is in tunnel splitter.

Ahh.. read the mighty and mysterious tome of lartc just a bit deeper and all will be revealed. The teql becomes an interface all its own and with the black arts of packet-mark-itsu, and route-fu all this and much more can be accomplished.

I actually tried to write a packet reordering buffer but one of my connections had a pretty big latency so added together, my rtt became huge. My solution was actually to use windows less, and route small interactive stuff like DNS on the low latency, but slow connection.

Oh and virtual interfaces and vlans will both do just fine. I only ever had one nic in my main box, my direcway modem and dialup-box were hooked to it via a little switch.

Yes, I load-balanced a satellite link and a phone modem.
Single founder working on http://www.whyspam.me right now.

I like knowing how to do EVERYTHING that has anything to do with my application. I do design, coding, sysadmin, marketing, feedback studies. Its been a fun experience, but hopefully this will give me some street cred so i don't have to do it again. Maybe someone could do an article on best sources to outsource areas of web development in the future.

As far as i'm concerned my site development has been free yes i have to pay server costs, etc. but i haven't had to outsource or hire anyone to do anything else yet. True i've spent quite a few of my own man-hours on the project but i consider the lessons learned and experience gained more than payback for that time.

I think being a single founder can be great if you're just getting started, and your idea is manageable, the lessons you learn will be invaluable. That being said, in the future, I would like to be able to produce more in less time, and having some extra help would be very nice, especially now that I know what I'm doing!
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This claim is just a subset of people-who-excel-at-anything-are-able-to-relate-to-excellence-at-anything-else
The best idea may be to consciously "date" your co-founders by working with them on side projects, possibly open source.
We created this service as a side project with @providentmike in some free cycles we had in our software development company (staging.thirdi.com).

We went from back-of-napkin to Beta in about a month, and are wondering if we have already hit a minimum viable product. We can accept expenses from Blackberries only, but we are working hard on an email submission process which opens up the iPhone/every other smartphone.

Other than that, what would it take to make this something that could satisfy your businesses expensing needs?
My talents followed a similar progression, but having been separated from my Bass by the atlantic ocean for several years, my abilities have somewhat dried up. I'm still able when I pick up a bass, I'm now completely unable when I touch a guitar, and I believe I'm criminal with the drums. As for voice, I believe there's legislation in place that requires I be shot if I'm heard singing in a public place . . .
I believe that's "The plural..."
...which was around when Berkshire Hathaway turned from a textile manufacturer to an investment vehicle.

It's hard to lump financials in with tech startups, though. Technically, when he Buffett started the Buffett partnership, he had lots of cofounders. The structure of an investment fund is a single managing partner (who makes the decisions) and then lots of limited partners (who put up the money). In the eyes of the law, they're all cofounders.

If you go by practical instead of legal definitions - who provided the know-how? - then Buffett's early partner was effectively Benjamin Graham. After all, it was at Benjamin Graham's firm that Buffett first learned about investing, and Graham served as a mentor long afterwards.
Although it's not a requirement at JamLegend, we all enjoy playing music.
It's a tradeoff. "dumb user and smart attacker" vs "start user and dumb attacker". Most users' assessment of security is "Could I break it?" which isn't a very good standard in terms of protecting against even a slightly savvy sibling who can download one of the programs mentioned.
This is a much more complicated issue. Some currently illegal recreational drugs could be legalized for an net reduction in overall harm (e.g. Marijuana). But it's not clear that a significantly more permissive attitude toward, for instance, crack is a net winner.

The second half of your argument doesn't stand up to close scrutiny:

http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/drug-policy/cheech-and-chon...

The summary of the above is that you won't generate significant taxes unless you can create a significant number of new problem users of the drug in question.

But leaving both of those arguments aside, what do you do with people who don't behave themselves under the influence of their (legal or illegal) drug of choice? Judge Alm's program is meant to deal with this exact type of offender, and does quite a good job at it at minimal cost.
thanks for the link!
Personally, I think I would feel ok about putting the link up and having it go simply to a landing page that said "This feature is still in production. Please comment below on how we could best suit it to your needs."
Tell HN: Wiki of HN users and their projects
Mostly out of my own self-interest, I created a little wiki page so that HN users can post what they're working on.

This was kinda spurred by these discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032699
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045993
Irish whistle, and various flutes.
Fixed it. Thanks for telling me. Somehow the </div> tag was deleted from the end of of the transcript.
Have played guitar for about 22 years, got my bachelor's in music. Also play the dobro, banjo, bass, keys and some other miscellaneous noisemakers.
I think that is equally insecure. Won't the backticks run that command line with $UPASS exposed as plain text in the process metadata?
Nah, the key word there is "hide". Note that eric uses esr a lot...... ;)

For example I always use errant or errantx (and sometimes tmorton166) as my handle. But it's not a hiding thing; it's mostly about ease. Finding my real name, for example, isn't particularly hard and I make little pains to hide it. That is, I think, the difference.
I play trumpet and have since elementary school. Haven't had much time for it lately, though. Hopefully I'll get back into it after I graduate.
Trumpet proficiently, with ok performance on other valved brasses such as french horn, baritone, or tuba. Some rudimentary understanding of piano, and I wish I could find the time to improve that. And of course I made the typical college attempt at learning guitar...
Using it from 20 feet away? A mac mini buried in an AV cabinet? Hard to say what's wrong when all the information given amounts to "dunno".
I've been a single founder for 6 years now. I've created half a dozen webapps and products in that time, some of which were eventually sold and others I still run today. I've never raised money -- a few VCs have contacted me but I knew there was no chance I'd be what they were looking for. I pay myself well, I work relatively little and outsource to contractors any work that makes sense to get help with. I used to do everything myself, but learning to give up a little control is a good thing.

http://www.awio.com
I could read more if I didn't have to eat!
cool, i'd be interested in hearing more on your setup, do you have your routing scripts up anywhere?
I think it's supposed to be anonymous to GoogleBot + 4chan, not to Facebook. Pretty much every tidbit that isn't normally in FB press releases would be an identifying detail, even the sentence structure.

Who's to say 'she' isn't a composite or fabricated anyway?
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Nope. I'm right with you on this. Personally, I would go farther--I would say that Moose stuff is actually value negative.

For a simple thing like this, it makes perfect sense to use a simple procedural style and keep it in one file. The Moose version just complicates it beyond necessity. That's true of plenty of real-world programs, too.
Paypass also works with visa cards equipped with the proper RFID. If you look at the machine you'll see a small visa logo beside the mastercard one.
But I have been attacked by a bear in America!
#1 on my list would be getting yourself a sketchbook and drawing in it ALL THE TIME.

Draw everything you can. Figure out what, of all the things you'd like to be able to draw, you're worst at drawing, and draw lots and lots of those until you're not as bad at it as you were. Then move on to the new "worst thing".

Also, I would differ with the Ren & Stimpy guy in advising you not to trace stuff. Copying master art is good practice, but do it with your own eye rather than by tracing. You'll learn a lot more that way.

When drawing, look a lot more than you draw.. look really carefully and try to make each stroke as accurate as possible.

Experiment with lots of different media, tools, and materials.

Meet up with and hang out with other art students and artists. Doing so can provide a lot of inspiration and motivation.

Staying motivated and fighting past self-criticism are probably the hardest parts of being a serious artist. Which reminds me of this story, told by Lawrence Block:

A young man once cornered a world-famous violinist and begged to be allowed to play for him. If the master offered him encouragement, he would devote his life to music. But if his talent was not equal to his calling, he wanted to know ahead of time so he could avoid wasting his life. He played, and the great violinist shook his head. "You lack the fire," he said.

Decades later the two met again, and the would-be violinist, now a prosperous businessman, recalled their previous meeting. "You changed my entire life," he explained. "It was a bitter disappointment, giving up music, but I forced myself to accept your judgement. Thus, instead of becoming a fourth-rate musician, I've had a good life in the world of commerce. But tell me, how could you tell so readily that I lacked the fire?"

"Oh, I hardly listened when you played," the old master said. "That's what I tell everyone who plays for me -- that they lack the fire."

"But that's unforgivable!" the businessman cried. "How could you do that? You altered the entire course of my life. Perhaps I could have been another Kreisler, another Heifetz--"

The old man shook his head again. "You don't understand," he said. "If you had had the fire, you would have paid no attention to me."
I couldn't even read in kindergarten, I don't know how you were managing to write BASIC
Do you know CPA? This should convert well for you.
I would LOVE it if HN did this, and would directly benefit, but I think it's a profoundly bad idea. If you thought people obsessed about karma now... (ahem, Jacques).
I think one must draw a distinction between the physical world and the metaphysical one. For a platonist, numbers do exist outside of any physical reality and, therefore, a number and its representation are not the same thing.

I am not a mathematician, but to me this discussion reminds me of a vector having different coordinates, depending on what coordinate system we choose. Those are all different representations of the same thing. Likewise, a number can be represented in many different ways (binary, oct, hex, etc), but they all represent the same number. Is the vector its representation? If so, then the vector is many things, which is a funny definition of "to be". If the vector is itself, then it cannot be equal to any of its representations, it's something beyond its representation.
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violin(16 yrs), cello(3), piano(5), and miscellaneous bowed string instruments on the shoulder (viola, rebec, vielle).

for me, it's Bach and Dvorak to get in my creative sphere
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Excellent points.

To my mind, the biggest problem with corporate-speak (or legal-speak or academic-speak or political-speak for that matter) stems from the desire to sound self-important, which impulse tends to bloat the form of the expression and remove it from the sort of day-to-day tone in speech with which we are comfortable.

For good corporate communication, one can't normally go wrong using a professional tone coupled with language that is straight-forward, i.e., neither folksy nor pretentious. I don't know why so many people in this field get this wrong except that they are imbued with some sense that they have to come off as sounding self-important.
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You don't have to be an asshole about it.
All DailyWTFs submissions get mangled and rewritten by Alex before being posted, often to the point of having nothing left from the original. At least Atwood drops a few big <blockquote>s in before inserting his inept analysis.

He's a hack. He has a thing for turning factual accounts into shitty urban legends.
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I solved this encrypted BART ad. Can you?
So, we now have the credit infrastructure widely disbursed. In fact, it is so in place that we now give out credit cards (well debits... but functionally the same thing) instead of checks for gifts, rebates, refunds etc.

The presence of different types of accounts: credit, checking, savings, etc. backing these cards further indicates the expensive bits of infrastructure are wired togeher.

A while ago people developed cryptographically secure e-cash systems.

Why oh why can't we just combine them together now? Sophisticated fraud protection is already very good, and can still apply, meaning we don't need perfect crypto. Good e-cash systems for in-store credit would allow the tracking of who frauded someone. The general concept would allow for secure online transactions. Fraud would be easier to track down. Conversions to real cash, as well as natural pooling places such as banks would allow for mixing the units, such that the privacy folks don't have much to worry about, not much more than currently anyway.

What am I missing for such to occur?
I know it is solvable because I've done it.

Disclaimer: I did not create it. The source of the ad is one of my customers, although they gave me no hints to solve it.
"GeneralMaximus" is difficult to help, because s/he assumes that their abnormal Linux performance is normal, and is due to the de facto standard rather than to individual configuration.

(Apple APIs let QuickTime use hardware decompression. Adobe Flash has been seeking permission to do the same....)
I too am a single founder - my site/business is http://www.podfeed.net
Starting a company has been compared to getting married, and while plenty of people have met their future spouses on dating sites, they don't meet, talk a few times, and then get hitched. Perhaps the missing bit is finding something people can work on for a while without the commitment of a company (sort of like dating...).
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