skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sound advice and well written, even if its old its a nice collection of thinks to think about. I wonder if "people" will start understanding #17 (No project is ever simple) some day.
I just monitor my internet. I wouldn't be opposed to a splash screen when you first sign in to tell you how much you use if they engage in this.
I agree on the general speed. The server is one process / single thread, and since on the speed spectrum arc is all about exploratory programming and not benchmarking speed ...

I've also noticed that connections get dropped a lot here. Usually it seems to be when I've loaded several pages in quick succession, and so I'd taken it to be anti-scraping IP throttling. I guess one could try to reach it through a proxy right after an event.

Also, that particular link works for me now. IIRC, the lazy loading is item-based so there may be some element of prioritizing connections based on whether or not the items requested are in memory. That would also be consistent with an anti-scraping approach.

Of course this is all wild speculation on my part.
Others (on reddit) are interpreting this as flowers on Google's gravestone.

A CNN reporter from China tweeted this image and translated the text as "Real Man"

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/imag...
The simplest way is probably to do what Richard Branson (Virgin) just did and buy a small existing deposit taking bank.That way you get the legal entity and all of the controls and procedures already in place and can start to expand the operation "on line" (as I am sure Virgin are now about to do in the UK). The USA might still have some of those small local banks in existence that could be purchased at a reasonable multiple of earnings - or perhaps you might find one interested in an Internet based joint venture.
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One of the main difficulties is obtaining a banking licence so that you can accept consumer deposits.

Personally, I like Virgin's take on this; buy a small bank that already has a licence and go from there:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...
Nexus One is to smartphones as Chrome is to browsers.
Nexus One is to android phones as Chrome is to Firefox.

It's not a revolution, it's not instant blockbuster. It's just Google trying out good things as always.
I retrieved the comment histories of the top 10 users without a single glitch. I don't follow any particular users so don't view the comments pages all that often so can only comment on this occasion but no problems encountered this time.
Do you think that as a site becomes large enough people start to change their own focus and sort of get lost in the crowd? That eventually people are just disillusioned by the site itself? I noticed this is sort of happening with reddit / digg.
Pretty please, with sugar..? :-)

BerntBu at GMail.
Google's half-truths, and a plea for perspective
If they want to get off the ground with this I would suggest they at least implement a P3P header of their own to begin with.

A mechanism for this has been part of the http standard for almost 7 years now and plenty of sites still do not use it:

http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/
Three out of the ten failed for me.