skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bwahahaha, that's awesome. There's an apartment complex near my house that does something like this. It has a manicured rocky slope leading from the courtyard down to heavily used bike/foot trail (Centennial Trail). They have some nice stairs leading down to said trail and, to keep out the riff-raff, about a three-foot gate with a combination lock on it. Not only is the gate easily jumpable, but the rocks on either side are easily climbable.

Security for the win!
Sleep with supermodels, starting with Jessica Alba.
My first Arc project: a simple Wiki
I would try to deliberately fail on purpose just to see what happened. Could be dangerous though.
"Tesla generates a powerful pulse of electricity, and drains it into the
ground. Because the ground is conductive, it doesn't stop. Rather, it
spreads out like a radio wave, traveling at the speed of light, 186,000 miles
per second."

And all this time I thought only light travelled at the speed of light :/

While I read that article, I was thinking, what if we found a way to 1. direct the current through the earth to a specific location reliably and 2. managed to represent bits accurately within that current? Free international communication, without networks of cables ;P
It is safe. Since you "can't fail", you won't fail at trying to fail and will simply fail - a win-win situation for you and the universe!
Why does anyone go to StarBucks? I can't count the number of coffee shops in the city I live in that have free wi-fi. Is their coffee really that much better?
If the idea is extremely simple and your team has talent then you could do a better job with someones idea than they could.

I think build out is perfectly valid way to explain building more functionality on a idea.

google didn't build ad functionality into from the start their search engine it was built out afterwards. I come from a family of builders so this makes sense to me.

I also don't agree with being secretive, ideas are a dime a dozen so no need not to share.
Living in Seattle, every time I slip and fall in the rain, I end up in a Starbucks and decide to leave with a cup of coffee.
Just self-commenting here. It looks like this is being discussed at the arc language forums as well:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1760
Actually, we've been having some issues with our 256 slice. We're running our svn and trac off it, and trac runs incredibly slow. Our app has poor data transfer rates when we send anything of a significant size over the wire.
You're reading "build out" as "build an addition" while others read it as "finish the job within a defined space."

http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Abuildout
Your argument seems to hinge on the assumption that all the islanders know that there are only two eye colors present on the island (along with more subtle errors).

The original puzzle says that there are an unknown number of eye colors (which happens to be just blue or brown, but the islanders don't know it), and the only reason blue-eyed people are killing themselves is because of the foreigner's statement; note that none of the brown-eyed people kill themselves in the inductive solution, because one of them could be (e.g.) green-eyed but not know whether or not they are the only one. The fate of the brown- and blue-eyed people would be reversed if the foreigner said "I see a brown-eyed person" instead.

As for the more subtle errors, let's assume there are only blue or brown eyes and the islanders know this. Now suppose A is brown and B and C are blue. Then B and C each see one blue and one brown. I think you'd agree that without a foreigner coming to the island and telling them that blue exists, neither can tell which their own color is. But A sees two blue -- exactly the same as in your example of three blue. So if A is using your reasoning: Day 0: no one dies. Day 1: no one dies. Day 2: no one dies. Day 3: B and C still have no idea what their color is, but A, seeing the same eyes as the A in your example and no one dead yet, commits suicide believing he has blue eyes, even though he does not. Clearly A's logic is faulty.
And don't forget health care. I bet most would trade their DVD player for better health care
I bet you wouldn't try.
Radio wave is electromagnetic wave (aka 'light' in a range of frequency). But "speed of light" in non-vacuum is lower.

"direct the current through the earth to a specific location reliably"
Earth is not homogenous. I wonder if pointing a low frequency laser into the ground will accomplish anything. It most likely will be refracted in an unpredictable inconsistent way.
Linode actually has Xen, but it's been in beta for a while. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't compare, but once you register for it in the CP it will migrate your data/IP to the Xen platform without any changes on your end.
Ay, financial regulations suck, which is why banks haven’t changed a whole hell of a lot in the last 100 years.
Deprec also works nicely for the initial setup
In that spirit, maybe you can't fail, but will you terminate?
You mean you have to pay for the WiFi at Starbucks in the states?
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thanks, yes that explains it. make sense now :p
http://searchyc.com is hosted on linode for a couple of months now and it's been great. we initially wanted to go with slicehost but last year their wait list was so atrociously long that we gave up on ever seeing their invite.

for the same $19.99 linode has more bandwidth and memory and xen support. really, what we've realized is actually most expensive is the cpu cycles since our app would crash consistently because the shared resources peaked when we started stress testing. since then with better resource management, better apache fiddling, and a couple rewrites we're handling a peak loads of more than 2000 people and an average load of 500 people.

linode's documentation is somewhat lacking, i much prefer slicehost's wiki and forum for support but other than that we have a cluster of 4 or 5 linodes running and it's been great.
take on world poverty.
Now this is a good move for Starbucks. Trying to outcheap McDonald's will get them nowhere.
I host my blog and personal site on it. I haven't had a single issue.
A PhD is "great preparation" for non-research jobs the way that a sledgehammer is a "great tool" for pounding nails.
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Actually I 100% disagree with this statement.

When we hope it is when we WAIT for things to turn out for the best without knowing how it's going to happen or doing anything to make it happen.

I would say that the one thing every entrepreneur needs is COURAGE.

What's the difference between courage and hope?

Hope is when you sit around waiting for someone with courage to come along and fix things for you.
time travel!
good piece on NPR a couple weeks back about how small independent coffee shops do better when Starbucks comes to town ... a few guys are actually targeting property next door/near to a Starbucks to open coffee shops (and seeing big profits)
They can remain in the source file. The additional meta-commentary would augment, not replace them.
How will it work exactly?
I'm not seeing how this is free? What's a Starbucks purchase card (tm)?

Also will this be free for iPhone users since they're on an AT&T plan?
That's interesting. I suppose the Starbucks sign gets people thinking about coffee, but they don't want to go to Starbucks.
No click interface in practice: "Oops, ooops, whoops, oops again, whoops, what the... oops"
The vast majority of the post-docs and grad students that I know hate the lifestyle, but have irrational hopes for success. They'd never put up with the hours and the low pay, if they could internalize the odds of failure.

Anyway, I wouldn't be so flippant about coal mining: miners get paid about the same as post-docs ($40k, usually in cheap parts of the country; google it) for well-regulated 40-hour weeks.
How is this analogous to the windows firewall? Does it only block one port or something?
Netscape was sued for trademark infringement, not any copyright/patent violations. The original company name was "Mosaic Communications Corp", and NCSA had trademarked "Mosaic". They changed their name as part of the settlement. The original Netscape used some Mosaic code with permission (as did Spyglass/IE), but Mosaic was open-source, so this was not a problem.
Begin a career as a trader.
What's New in Qi II
Persuade parents to act much more rationally, invent enough life extension and backup-and-restore-of-people for immortality, win the war on terror (with a single heartfelt speech), make dirt cheap self-replicating, easily programmable nano-bots that understand English.
Is that password verification which obliges the user to retype or cut and paste really desirable?
Why post an article from a year-and-a-half ago? This link has made the rounds of Reddit et. al. multiple times since it was first published. It seems neither "Hacker" related nor "News."
Microsoft Buys Danger - Zune Phone Anyone?
A chat with tech support
Where are the women in tech?
I love the sprinkling of items from Mr. Liddel's resume throughout the article:

a former banker from New Zealand

who calls himself Microsoft’s “gatekeeper of funding,”

who joined Microsoft after serving as chief financial officer at International Paper, the giant forest products company

who plays rugby regularly and has completed several triathlons.

who sends e-mail messages to colleagues at all hours and is a PowerPoint whiz,

who has a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford

He has a background as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston in Auckland.
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SuperCook - enter a few ingredients, it will tell you what recipes you can make
"Elegant code is simple"

"Elegant code is expressive"

"Elegant code is powerful"

Couldn't have said it any better myself - but I did anyway :)
"history" disagrees with what?

Does "history" think that we have freed them from despotism? Does history think that they'd like us to do something about their despot?

If so, history seems to have some problems with reality.
If the meta-comment system was useful enough, it might not be neglected. The meta-metadata is what could add a lot of value. You could tag your comments and make them selectively visible when they are relevant to the task at hand.
Actually your "source" doesn't cite anything other than that he worked on the project; I never debated that. As to whether or not he was the "most prominent developer" on the project, well, according to history as written by rich successful people, Bill Gates was the most "prominent developer" of the PC, Larry Ellison was the most "prominent developer" of the database, and Larry Wynn was the most "prominent developer" of casinos which have nothing to do with mob connections, and Donald Trump is the most "prominent developer" of mega-luxury buildings he had no hand in developing other than lending his name to.

Seriously have you never been in a work situation where your boss took credit for your work and claimed he was the most "prominent developer" of something YOU did? I can't be the only one who appreciates Dilbert ...
Slicehost is amazing. I'm currently running 3 Wordpress blogs off of a 256MB slice. I would highly recommend either ditching Apache or going with a larger slice though. I did experience some memory issues when using Apache (although this could be cleared up with a bit more configuration on my end).

Regardless, I'm running Lighttpd (10 work handlers using the same amount of RAM as 1 Apache handler), proftpd, MySQL 5, PHP5 via FastCGI, and sendmail. I've never dipped below 80MB RAM left and load times are extremely quick.

I've offloaded my email services to Google Apps, which has it's advantageous and disadvantageous.
Only have a can of chickpeas and an old lemon? Supercook will tell you to make hummus.

EDIT: After playing with this for a few minutes I decided I don't like how entering ingredients works. Why can't I enter more than one at a time? If I enter "garbanzo lemon", supercook thinks there's some kind of ingredient called "garbanzo lemon".

Also, what would make this really shine is if supercook had the ability to differentiate between a main ingredient and an accent ingredient. If I say all I have is bacon, supercook shouldn't suggest that I make bacon-wrapped scallops...

EDIT again: (I'm getting carried away): supercook should differentiate between main ingredients, accent ingredients and things that most people have. So, if I say that I all I have is bacon, supercook should suggest carbonara as a strong possiblity. Most people have some form of spaghetti/linguini and milk or cream. Anyone up for launching a competitor?
Just open your eyes to the many beautiful women around you right now. 'Supermodels' are just an illusion -- cartoon characters which distract you from what is real.
Oh, Blimey!

Makes a good story for Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) game!
Many dynamic sites can't just cache entire pages and bypass the appserver completely. It would require a lot of changes to the application code.
Dive the blue hole in Dahab
ToE.

Which makes this a very funny question: you could also attempt to calculate the instantaneous position of an electron within an atom. And not fail. And when you don't fail, you failed.
I'm confused as to the freeness as well.
click interface in practice: "click, oops, wait. click, oops again, wait"
I'd make everybody happy, without compromising the long-term prospects of the human race. And then I'd do something even more awesome, but I'd have to begin somewhere.
* Sneak onto the space shuttle and go into space. Optionally jumping out the door at any time (going up, in orbit or one the way down).

* Kidnap myself and demand a ridiculously high ransom from the state.

* Restart the Free Love movement.

* Put my name is as Democratic candidate, sweep the rest of the election and 100% of the super delegates, and then become the most unexpected and powerful man in the world by winning the general election

* The most epic, cross-country, high speed police chase ever.

* My favorite parts of GTA, in real life. This includes pilot lessons after breaking into an airport by jumping a 15 foot fence with a BMX bicycle I stole from a gangster on the sidewalk down the block.

* Flip a quarter heads up, repeatedly, on national TV under scientific scrutiny. Sound boring? Wait until I do it 1000 times in a row, all heads up. The astronomical odds would make me more likely to be a demigod than just a really "lucky" guy. Not enough? Flip it 10,000 more times. If you do the near-impossible enough times, people will think you are the third coming. And then life gets fun. :)
I see lemons, Supercook sees lemonade...

Pretty cool app.
Bill Gates demos Xobni
I'd attempt (and succeed, apparently) at creating pervasive and reliable life-extension technology.

Either that or some kind of upload technology. Charles Stross' "Vile Offspring," here I come!
First, a little context. You're the one challenging the general consensus of Marc's involvement with Mosaic, so the burden of proof is on you to show that he was merely one of many students involved with the project. I'm merely casting doubt on your assertion.

Second, the email I cited was written in 1993, before the WWW was anything big. If, as you claim, Marc was one of many students, then he was improperly crediting the work as that of himself and one other. Someone else from NCSA would have spoken up on the www-talk list to set things straight.

If you want to change your story from him being one of many students to him being the boss who took credit for his underlings' work, please be explicit about it. Also, please cite a source.
Now we just need Internet access standard on all refrigerators and editable microscopic RF ID in all our food.
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I just love watching him smile whenever he says Xobni! Woohoo!
They are still Lame.

My Caffe Cubano, has awesome coffee (very good lates), nice couches, frew Wi-Fi, beer and wine, decent food, and show old movies twice a week, plus they have great music and other stuff once and a while.

I doubt Starbucks will be able to match it. The only reason I visit starbucks, if b/c they are open 24hrs, or when I am in rush.
yes, like $9.99 a day. F uck that. That's why I hate them. The local cafe, has better coffee, and free internet.
I agree. I'd rather go with Slicehost, but extra RAM that Linode offers is just too precious to ignore.
1. some people have very few choices. If you live around rural areas, or most of middle americans, choices are between chains and other chains.

2. People are attracted to familiar places/shops. So, if you are in a different area, and see a starbucks it is immediately recognizable as a place to get coffee.

3. Most americans are not necessary culturally curious, so they are more likely to settle with the default average choice.

4. Starbucks are fricking everywhere. So, sometimes they are just more convenient to go to.
>If you call mediatemple, they can help you setup a system that works exactly the way you want. The grid is a good starting point though

Yeah, after an hour on hold (with no real person at all talking to me) I hung up. I can't deal with an hour of hold time for tech support.
You're right, I would be way too scared.
I really doubt a complete change of ecosystem is all downside. You lose biodiversity, I guess, and I suppose people miss the megafauna and they have to adjust to the change in the food chain, but beyond that, I don't see why an anoxic food chain is categorically worse than an oxic one.

I also disagree with a more-evolved/less-evolved view on ecosystems. Don't evolutionary biologists prefer to think of things as more adapted or less adapted? Isn't the view that evolution is always progress passé? It's like people confuse "more evolved" with "bigger" because of the focus on the evolution of humans as k-strategists.
Is there any place in Seattle that doesn't have a Starbucks in line of sight?
Foreshadowing of a buyout?
i did deltree wildcard on a school computer cause someone told me that's how you start oregon trails. wasn't a happy ending.
or maybe it's not even worth google's 20% free time
with the collapse of eskom, would this be a good idea?
Actually, I managed to get my mouse pointer all the way to the "reply" button without accidentally clicking on anything.
He never said that prose should be terse. In fact, he is on record as saying that in order for writing, it has to be long enough to force the reader to remember it. If you're not willing to take ~15-20 min to read his essays, are you really going to internalize his recommendations?
Bill Gates Demos Xobni
My co-founder and I worked each in his own home for about 8 months, meeting face to face one per week or two. That worked OK, but it was obvious that we'd be more productive if we both worked in the same place.
Recently we stared hiring more developers (3 so far), and it became clear that we just have to have a central place where everybody spends at least some of the time. We keep the hours flexible, and anyone can work from home as much as they want, but still, getting face time with each other a few days per week is priceless. You can't really coordinate a team's work efficiently when you're completely distributed IMHO.
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Is complaining about length of Yegge's essays the new version of putting "First!" in the comments of an article?
compare to J2ME, Android is much more powerful. The problem, is that the google "geniuses" didnt make it easy at all to program for it. J2ME, actually has a much cleaner api, but it fails horribly in implementation and fragmentation.
The key point is in the "OR": "we WAIT for things to turn out for the best without knowing how it's going to happen".

My intention was to talk about this first meaning. I wasn't talking about the hope as in "I'll sit down and do nothing and hope that it fixes somehow". I'm talking about hoping somewhere along the path you'll figure out how to fix it. And indeed an entrepreneur needs courage, but courage imho requires hope in that you secretly hope that what you are about to do will change things. Maybe both virtues are intrinsically related :)

You should post your comment on the blog so more people can discuss it ;)
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Yup, definitely true. Having said that, we tend to overuse this thinking even when we don't really have to. This is arguably a scheme that's better adapted to new codebases. :)
Ask YC: Visiting Seattle week of Feb 25th, who should I meet?
(For a quick background, here's my bio: http://en.oreilly.com/gspwest2008/public/schedule/speaker/2605)

I'm originally from Seattle and recently moved to San Francisco last year to join Mohr Davidow Ventures as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. I've since left, and am working on a new project.

There's a ton of great hackers in the Seattle area, but it's not as easy to reach them - who are some interesting people I should meet when I'm out there? I'd like to set up a lunch or two while I'm in town, and get everyone together.

Any ideas?

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Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? You're putting words in my mouth to create straw man arguements. I never challenged the "general consensus" of Marks involvement with Mosaic - I even explicitly stated this in a prior post if you bothered to read.

Second, one email signed by two students doesn't mean anything. He never says anything in the email you cited other than he and another person are looking for feedback. For all you know his professor could have given him and that other guy that task as an asignment. Nowhere in the email does it say anything to the effect of, "Oh and BTW, I'm the guy who wrote all the code for this."

Third, for all you know there could have been plenty of responses to the effect that you said. One out of context email doesn't "prove" anything, especially if it was written by the guy in question. Not to mention if he had the balls to run off with his professor's work, I'm sure he was smart enough to leave a paper trail, or in this case, an email trail. Give me your personal email - I'll send you a pre-dated email "proving" that I invented YouTube.. There you go - I just sent you an email, nobody on the internet is contesting my email, so according to your logic, this is "proof" that I invented YouTube.

Third of all, I'm not "changing my story" - since I doubt you've ever been in an academic environment where somebody took your stuff and ran with it, I was trying to cite something that was more likely in terms of people taking credit for other people's work - something I thought you could better relate to.

"Also, please cite a source" - if you bothered to check my other posting I cited 2, and if you google "Lawsuit", "Netscape", "University of Illinoise" you can find plenty of evidence to this effect. I just did and plenty of stuff comes up relating to this. If you're too lazy to find any info on this yourself, well I'm not going to sit here and argue with you.

They got sued, the lawsuit involved theft of intellectual property, copywrite infringement and license violations, which would suggest that it was not 100% open-source - it was available conditional to the license, which Netscape clearly violated when they decided to release it for free over the net without compensating U. of Ill. with royalties. They settled out of court for millions, which is similar to saying, "We're wrong, we just don't want any legal judgements against use for being wrong, so here's a bunch of money to go away."