skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The blog is at http://blogs.adobe.com and called "Open at Adobe".

The person writing it is Director of Open Source and Standards (OSS) at Adobe, its an official comment.
I hope not, because it's hard to blame only Erlang.

First of all, they rolled their own epoll-based server for the whole chat system.

Then, instead of using a 'sane' comet/long-poll implementation based on JSONP (to avoid limitations of same-domain requests), it seems that they used a scheme where the chat nodes have a fake subdomain like 'http://N.subdomain.facebook.com/.... I don't know how efficient this is supposed to be, but I haven't seen that too often.

Of course, it's wholly possible their Erlang implementation of the chat system is the reason why it fails. Personally, I have never had much trouble with their chat, although I haven't used it much either.
My brother and I grew up eating the same foods, but he had 17 fillings by college, whereas I had none. Our dad is a dentist (and now my brother as well), so we had pretty good oral hygiene growing up.
This is a VERY EARLY demo of a web application I am building. Im trying to put statistical software on the web (almost all stat software is desktop). The first page is a document management module (similar to the one on Google Docs)-you can drag items into folders, share folders with other users, trash them, etc. Double clicking on a data set takes you to the data analysis module, where you can do statistical analysis. Right now I have only a simple bivariate regression module up - I want to keep it simple for the demo/proof of concept.

I dont expect to be accepted by YC but still want some feed back from the YC community. Please dont be kind - tell me everything that is wrong - but be constructive!
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"Every millionaire Internet marketer I've ever talked to has succeeded by focusing on a single market/product"

My freshman year of college our rowing coach took us out to the salmon dam on the edge of the lake. He turned to the boat and asked, "How many times do you guys think the salmon try to jump over the dam before they give up?" I can't remember everyone's guesses, but the punchline was basically "They keep trying until either they make it or they fucking die."

This seems to be the ideal strategy for startups. The person who wins isn't the one with the biggest shovel or the one who digs the most holes, it's the person with enough discipline to keep digging in one place with the shovel they have.
Arg, I can't read, nor can I do math. Sigh. Redacted, and I'd edit if I still could.
They're doing it wrong - nothing a fact finding trip to Victoria, Australia couldn't fix:

a) Red light cameras are so old school. Replace them with speed and red light cameras. When you put your foot down on amber you get pinged for speeding (~$150). A little late with the foot and you get pinged for speeding and running the red light (~$500).

b) Allow only 1.8mph grace despite the fact that speedometers are permitted 10% tolerance by the relevant design rules.

c) Rebrand as "Road Safety Cameras".

d) Profit.

Edit: I don't actually mind all the fixed cameras, but object to the covert mobile units.
There are so many something-iphone.com or something-ipod.com websites out there, when is a domain name infringing the trademark laws?

Does anyone have any guidelines around that?
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Google may be synonymous with search. However, huge portions of the population have not integrated search into their lives as tightly as you and I have (Google says I've done 19k searches and averaged about 550 a month last year -- I rather doubt my typical customer has). Evangelizing search to the rest of the population makes Google serious amounts of money -- that is one reason they've been dumping a lot into advertising search as a desired behavior this year (in Japan at least).

Both the US and Japan are rich countries with ubiquitous net access and mature Internet markets, right? What do you think was the growth in the number of searches last year for each country? Pick a percentage.

Here's the real numbers: http://bit.ly/aFdenY (I used bit.ly only because the URL gives away the surprise.)

I don't think we're anywhere near Peak Search, either. (For example, I'm seeing YOY growth in the 50% region on some very popular queries for non-techie customers like, e.g., [halloween bingo cards].)
This ad caused more than one girl at our superbowl party to exclaim "OMG I'm going to cry!" By that measure, I think it was quite effective.
Rands In Repose: A Story Culture
Microsoft opens its cloud to scientists
You should know that if the iPad name was trademarked before your registered it (probably true) and even in many cases if it wasn't and you're not using it for something significant and very different than Apple, all Apple has to do is file a complaint with ICANN and the domain will be yanked from you and handed to them. No lawyer required. You get zippo.

I've lost 2 domains this way. NB: When you are registering a domain name. Always and I mean always do a trademark search first.
Daniel is such a good kid, and I've been waiting for a few days to hear his side of the story. I can't imagine him extorting a fruit fly.

What I can't imagine is why he doesn't just publish the damn chat logs already - or at least excerpts. He's someone I would have loved to work with, and I very much want to trust him.
Thank you, you are the only poster yet that seems to get it. I agree, the point of git is that you already have your entire repo. Who cares if your remote host is down? Deploy using your branch and when github (or whatever) comes back up you push your changes to github. Done. I don't think of Github as a centralized server, but as a place to search and share code.
Isn't this a bit old and why does it go to posterous when it's taken from facebook.com?
Ask HN: Science vs Religion: how is it compatible?
How can science and religion be compatible (without some heavy twist of the mind)?

I'm aware that talking about religion is taboo and I hope this will not degenerate into a flame war. The reason I'm asking here is because I know HN has a very rational and intelligent audience. Yet, many of you are religious and I'd genuinely like to hear your perspective.

EDIT: I personally believe they are incompatible because they reach to different conclusions: age of the universe, Darwinian evolution, dinosaurs, etc.
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And how would they be able to distinguish between a sale due to an ad and one that's not? Or are you merely saying that "these companies" (like CareerBuilder? or do you just mean Coke, Bud Light, and Doritos?) have so much revenue that merely Super Bowl Sunday pays for the ads?
Definitely not what I took away from the OP. I thought it was all about smart techies vs. internet noobs and their battle to make dough.

As I read this blog post, I too felt like it wasn't really a response to Max's post.
Nice. One minor nitpick, your django instance is running in DEBUG mode.
Pageviews vs earnings ratio seems a bit too low.
It doesn't load. I tried twice, just got a blank white screen that never finishes loading.
What website do you suggest for trademark search?
I'm more interested in the reasoning behind believing that the two should be incompatible.
I'll try again later, at the time it's not loading for me. :(
Another way of saying this: read this article from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/your-money/stocks-and-bond... .
Posted for no reason whatsoever. The greatest marriage-related ad ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97X9huy7pHQ
tribal fusion, also adbrite(I know they suck, but as long as we are doing benchmarks, worth adding them), also adroll
I say the following with great respect. I do not know much about you or your circumstances, but I do share the same opinion of inherited wealth as a lot of great American business men. For example:

“The idea that you get a lifetime of privately funded food stamps based on coming out of the right womb strikes at my idea of fairness.”

- Warren Buffett

And more importantly. “Great sums bequeathed often work more for the injury than the good of the recipients.”

-Andrew Carnegie

In The Millionaire Next Door (1996), researchers Thomas Stanley and William Danko conclude that lifetime and testamentary family gifts are both a disincentive to work as well as a disincentive to save. Their findings show that the more dollars adult children receive, the fewer they accumulate, while those who are given fewer dollars accumulate more.

While you may just be looking to "keep the nest egg safe" with a 4-5% return. I urge you not to drift into a life where you play it safe and do not contribute to society.

While you should protect your money and not do anything foolish with it, don't let it ruin your opportunity you have. You are one of the luckiest people to ever live. You have been given a lifetime of wealth at one of the most exciting times ever to be alive. While 5 million may not be a lot compared to Paris Hilton, I assure you it can be good enough to fund something truly worthwhile. Take Darwin for an example, or look at what Bill Gates is trying to do.

So while I doubt one comment on HackerNews could ever change your mind if you are already "spoiled", I urge you to stay apart of the HN community (and other communities of ambitious "doers") and find a way to contribute to a project that could really help the world.
Read The Millionaire Next Door. Then read it again.
The rest of the ad campaign: http://www.youtube.com/searchstories
Several interesting facts emerge from the table. First, any countries and regions even some that received substantial debt inﬂows never defaulted. This includes the United States at the federal level, Canada, Australia, South Africa (except for an episode related to sanctions in 1985), most Asian countries, and most Arab countries.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262195534chapm1.pdf
"IIRC the checkout scanners enable the execs at these companies to watch their sales in real time.", can you provide any further information or links on this?

Shocking if true, and my quick google searching was fruitless.
Joi company releases spam blocking application for Twitter. 
http://stoptweet.com

We (joi company) created a true spam blocking application for Twitter called StopTweet. (http://stoptweet.com) We didn't like any of the applications that were already out there. They were all too complicated for the average Twitter user.(or maybe we're just dumb)...regardless, we made the application to do what others don't. It allows you to create your own settings and decide what spammers look like to you. The application is extremely easy to use, and allows you to only block who you want to block without hassle. On top of all this, it's FREE. Most of the apps we found charge a monthly or yearly fee. We do not.

Please let us know what you think, All feedback is appreciated. (and greatly needed as we have no friends to critique us)

Thanks.
I was surprised the ad didn't end with the person clicking on "I'm feeling lucky".
One aspect that I always worry about surveys is that there is tremendous self-selection when it comes to who chooses to send time taking the survey. I also have a survey put up at Visual Website Optimizer and never for once I got a negative feedback. That may be because the product is awesome but more likely it is because the users to choose to invest time answering the survey already like the product and want to pay back to me in terms of their time.

What is more valuable to me is feedback from people who hated the product, but irked them and what can I fix. Getting those people to fill the survey is, not surprisingly, really hard.

Patrick, what is your opinion on this? Do you worry about self-selection too?
It boggles my mind that so many people are complacent with wanting a return close to the average. If the average is negative then is that a good thing? No. People think the market will always go up -- but for the limited data that the stock market has been open there's less than 100 data points (years) to say with a 98% confidence level that the market will always go up.

If you've been averaging starting at the top of 2000 and putting the same amount of money in each month you'd be losing money right now 10 years later. You can say well I'm not retiring in 10 yrs and would be saving for 40 yrs. But that's 20% of the time which is a lost time opportunity of a decade.
I know a guy whose father from South America visited our company. He greeted everyone with "Hola, Hola" and nobody had a problem with it. So, I agree with you.
The US Govt. can always print money to pay off creditors. Yes, this would be highly inflationary.

Actually, it would be anti-deflationary. The fact that U.S. Govt can print money to pay off creditors is already priced into the price of the bonds ( if it wasn't, U.S. bonds would already be worthless, as there is simply not enough dollars in the world to come close to paying off the debt). T-Bills are inflationary at the time of issuance.
Its not loading for me either..I tested it right before I posted...maybe too much concurrent traffic...wow
A few comments on the Permanent Portfolio (25% Gold, 25% Stocks, 25% Bonds, 25% Cash):

1) Cash is simply a bond - very short-term, but a bond. So, since the 25% that is in bonds is, presumably, a fund, they usually have a duration (interest-rate sensitivity) of around 5.0-6.0 (roughly equivalent to years). Add-in the same 25% allocation to cash (duration around zero), and you have a 50% bond allocation that is of duration around 3.0 - that is reasonable and happens to be the duration I target. However, 1) since I use individual bonds, I do not have the problem of realizing losses during rising interest-rates (laddered maturities, held to maturity), and 2) I manage the bond portfolio to capitalize on changing yield compensation for risk along the three dimensions of bond risk: credit, interest-rate (duration), and timing-of-cash-flow (ex. mortgage-backed securities) to achieve better fixed-income portfolios.

2) Gold of 25% is quite risky. A brief look at the historical volatility of Gold returns will show you that having such a large allocation to an investment class with such a high standard deviation increases portfolio volatility too much. Secondly, it is very difficult to determine when Gold is relatively "rich" or "cheap", because, unlike all other non-commodity investments that we all invest in, we cannot apply simple discounting math to either a) measure the market’s yield compensation for the risk (as with bonds), or b) measure the price relative to expected earnings/cash-flow (as with stocks) - Commodities have NO cash flows.

Last thought: What has been a better risk-adjusted hedge against inflation, Gold or 3-Month US Treasury Bills? Check it out. When inflation actually happens (not just inflation expectations), interest-rates rise -- that is not spurious correlation, that is just rational market behavior.
It can if you combine a marginal Federal Tax with a State Flat Tax. Not all tax systems are progressive
A minor observation, but I appreciate how they show the user highlighting text in one of their search results for truffles. Having done some usability work and watched users work on their computers, highlighting what is being read is such a common behavior, it's cool to see Google so in touch.
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What would it take for you guys at RWW to give him that second chance? Sounds like chat logs (as long as you believe they're not fake).
When I first met the German woman who is now my wife, she could barely speak a coherent English sentence, but we managed. Two weeks later we were a couple, a year later we were married. That was 7 years ago this month.

I still don't know how to say "You are cute" in German.
Hello, fellow HN ISU Student. :)
All of the links on that page give me a "system cannot find the file specified" error, except the Harkness one. I assume they were working four hours ago, based on the comments here ... (must resist urge to spout conspiracy theories). They were also working 18 months ago, for anyone who still wants to see them:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080610161827/http://math.exeter...

Anyway, based on the dates, I'm guessing this may be some kind of summer/remedial course, rather than their regular curriculum.
I don't know about breaking. But it can definitely make a business.
at which point the only thing to say is "denial of service"
My employer is a local/regional media conglomerate. Newspapers, magazines, TV and a cable TV/Internet/phone service. So we have all sorts of fun toys to keep things running, including these:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubernostrum/255794358/

That's not a typo in the caption or the comments; each individual backup battery in that stack really weighs about 1500lb.
I would have thought that using the photos to imply endorsement ran afoul of the law for reasons other than copyright.
It's not working for me either but just from your description my first question was "why would I want to do statistics on the web"?

I'll tell you what would be great is a simple (desktop) stats package that isn't a scripting language (e.g. R) or an over bloated monster like SPSS. Something that would be good for say, social scientists that need to run some basic stats quickly and easily and doesn't require them to read a huge manual or take a class.
This was the one ad I saw tonight where I didn't feel like I'd been given the brown acid by a bunch of desperate ad agency creatives.

Nice one, Google.
Ideas are Worth Nothing
How to Avoid Red Light Camera Tickets
uuuuuuuuuh, what? Wrong thread, perhaps?
If you're mac based, I really like things from cultured code. It handles multiple users and they have a great iphone version that syncs to the desktop app. Helps me keep track of ideas better than a stack of napkins. http://culturedcode.com/things/
I personally found the Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II sequence to be good.

What textbooks did you use to learn those subjects? If I remember correctly from other comments of yours, you went on to a rigorous quantitative major in college, right?
USPTO: http://www.uspto.gov
This commercial was 100% about branding - the structure, music, content etc was designed to build relationship.

The right thing to measure here would be user attrition.
At one time, I was the CIO for a nation-wide retail chain. All of our systems were real-time and we had the ability to see sales as they happened.

A lot of companies use local servers in store locations that dial home and upload data nightly. In the brick retail environment, that's pretty close to real-time.
Yep. My applied crypto class is laughing about this on our newsgroup. Just awful.
I don't know - that would be up to Richard.

Personally, if I were starting my own tech blog, I think he'd be a fine person to have on the team because he's so multitalented. He'd make a great business partnerships coordinator and events coordinator.
Thanks for all your comments in a few minutes Im going to delete this post...Id didnt anticipate all the traffic...Im used to posting on Joel on Software. I will then repost when I have a more robust setup
7 Django tricks (mostly helper code for automation and abstraction)
I'm encountering the same error in not finding the files, which I had previously downloaded. Thanks for the helpful archive link.

As of the last revision date, those problem sets were the usual study materials for the main school year math courses at Exeter. Even very advanced students took the courses shown (depending on entry grade) before going on to other courses.
House on Loon Lake - A real-life Hardy Boys mystery (audio)
Just noticed that the version posted on Hulu has a flight from Delta Airlines come up in search. The one posted here has a flight from American Airlines. Seems that Google put some effort into remaining airline neutral.
You use a deterministic system for generating passwords based on site? That seems only marginally better than just using the same password everwhere...unless you're doing something like using a consistent secret key to encrypt some function of the site name with AES, and using the result as your password.
The reason I'm asking here is because I know HN has a very rational and intelligent audience.

To ask a serious question, also not intended to start a flame war, how do you know that?
> when is a domain name infringing the trademark laws?

1) When the trademark owner decides it is, and
2) They have more money than you.

Would that it were more related to the actual infringement or the intent behind it, but that discussion rarely reaches an open court.
im so fucking sick of the "ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything" meme. execution on a poor idea is just as "worthless".
This looks really cool, actually. I like the light/medium/aggro settings, too.

Free is great, but what products are you monetizing?
The most effecient way I've found is to sign up as an Amazon affiliate, do a specific search query affiliate link (in your case "ipad"), and direct the domain there.

I've done this for years with consistent 3 - 5% buy rate - although the iPad may not be sold on Amazon there are plenty of accessories that will, and the cookie set will pay you on all that user's purchases inside of 30 days i believe.

Others are right, you are in trademark violation, will likely eventually lose domain, and this is a simple & painless way to monetize in the meantime.
Immensely Developed Lifted Trucks For Sale
Lifted trucks for sale are the trucks which are having extensive and exclusive varieties of trucking models. There are many of the truck buyers or even the truck buyers who are willing to have the truck buying online.
Am i the only one who found this whole thing kind of depressing? this kid is 17, right? he's very impressive, but talking already about how he lives a 24/7 lifestyle and brings a laptop with him on vacation? he sounds like he's about 35. i hope one day he gets in touch a little more with himself or he's just going to come across like an ass, not a wunderkind.
"Four nines" is one of the reasons SLAs are pretty meaningless. That's an hour of downtime every year. One unplanned outage blows that.

Google's flagship product (search) probably breached four nines last year for some users (they had 20~40 minutes of effective downtime with that one "All sites have malware" incident) and they're much, much better than you, I, or Github will ever be.
I have no idea what the probability of a male startup founder vanishing into daddyhood is either. So I'm estimating it with the best available information, namely the relative probabilities of people in general.

Similarly, people who assume I'll vanish back into academia don't know the probability of this (it's actually quite low, due to the way the academic job market works), but they are making a best guess.

Also, my logic doesn't justify anything unless the estimated probabilities are large enough. Is P(jail | black ) anywhere near as large as P(misses work due to baby | woman)? Somehow I doubt it.

In any case, I'd really like it if you could explain the sexism in my analysis. Specifically, tell me how my conclusions change if you replace gender with other characteristics yielding similar probabilities. Or are we supposed to pay attention to all probabilistically relevant characteristics except for gender?
Sheesh, try google!

(http://www.google.com/search?q=translate+you+are+cute+into+g...)
Most large companies have a "don't negotiate with squatters period" policy.

All calling Apple will do is get the lawyer's paperwork to you more quickly.
What was your business necessity of hosting your OSS on your own domain? Brand recognition?
Well, they have sales data from before the ad ran, and then they get sales data from after the ad ran. It's not a perfectly controlled experiment, but if the ad has an impact (or doesn't) they'll be able to tell.