skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why SGO is the new SEO
Those are not directly related questions; the answer to each of those depends on the setup of the machine, both on hardware and software, and the practical cases are far too many to enumerate on a single blog post. You are welcome to perform some tests or even theorycrafting on your systems.

On an unrelated note, I did not mean to demean desktops, but the reality is that there's orders of magnitude more devices that carry out tasks more critical than image processing or development. Embedded devices are one example.
Very nice. I agree with most commentators that a mobile app would be a big step forward. It will also greatly help patients to share their log data with their physicians instead of mere print outs as suggested on the web site. The solution for laziness would be complete automation as one poster suggested or the patient's physician should press to see this data during all their visits which will indirectly make it a habit for the patient to enter their data. Anyways, nice app again. Good luck.
Ouch. Thanks Dennis. Now if you want to toss a husband my way for an arranged marriage that would be great! <end sarcasm/>
When I got engaged recently I went with a man-made diamond from Apollo Diamond (featured in a Wired article several years back). Fortunately my fiancee was of the same mind about De Beers.
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"How I turned coding unicorn picture technology into a $12 million a year business"

Bonus points for madness!
> But once you know you have good DIMMs, it doesn't look like you need to be quite so paranoid about bit errors.

During the talk, http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/fall-schedule-20092010.h... , IIRC, she said that good DIMMs went bad over a fairly short period of time, on the order of 2-3 years.
Slide Tries Business Model Number Five
Code Jewelers: The Los Angeles Ruby Conference
I feel cheated - iwas expecting more detailed advice than "keep trying it will come to you"
wow. I thought they're using it only in porn CJs. Progress is going on, and seems like I'm getting old.. =)

If this is an evolution of a porn technologies it works for sure. It is just a ponzi scheme where newcomers loses some money and established players gets them.
Why are you still using AdSense with such terrible eCPMs?
I have to agree about the signup page appearing out of place. I'd keep it in the same style as the rest of the site.

The About page has "About HumaLogger" as the header. I'm assuming you guys changed names once or twice ;)
Hey Tichy - good questions. Never thought this post would end up on HN, so I didn't explicate the problem(s) and challenges systemically.

There's no universal law, but as mentioned earlier, there is a cultural norm, or, as patio11 pointed out, a tendency towards social pathology that rewards 'overwork.'

All startups may not require the long hours - I don't know and can't speak for ALL founders. However, I know many for whom this is true. It's certainly true that in this stage of growth (pre-toddler) for MY startup it requires that amount of work to complete the specific things I have on my calendar.
None.

Having worked on mobile web applications that serve a wide range of devices, I can honestly say that this is not the case.

I would challange ppk to cite examples of this behaviour.
It's surprising how few Computer Science papers release code as well. I don't care if it's platform-specific and it requires ridiculous numbers of obscure libraries and only operates on proprietary data that you can't release. I don't care, I want the code to be open-source. I want to see what you did, and whether I believe that it does what you claim it does in the paper.

Where possible, I open-source everything I try to be published. There's only one project I haven't (a scraper for the WoW Armory), but even then I released the library I built for it.

There's no excuse to not do so. Unless you have something to hide.
That's hilarious.

Dear Steve Blank! The problem you've been stuck at for whatever years is solved easily: everyone should do what he is good at, tech geeks develop, sociable people sell.

Or let's then take G. W. Bush and try to turn him into a Nobel wining physicist. How do you emulate that?
This is a project I've been working mostly alone on for quite a while. It's a hosted website performance monitoring service that uses live browser instances to test page performance and generate reports highlighting performance problems.

Any feedback, tips, etc... would be greatly appreciated!
"How I turned hating on unmarketable products into a $10 million a year business"
"For example, I suddenly need to know a lot about tax because with my sudden increase in income I don't know what to do. I would easily pay $50 for a tax-for-dummies who make above $10k a month book. It's a small niche, but it is valuable."

-> Get an accountant.
I tend to get cavities every now and then, but always have very little plaque build-up. In fact, when I went on one 4-year hiatus from the dentist, the assistant cleaning my teeth said it looked like I had just recently had them cleaned. She said it probably had to do with the chemical makeup of my saliva being more plaque-resistant that average. Funny thing is my mom always gets similar comments when she goes to the dentist. We live very far away from each other and have very different diets. Based on that, I would conclude that the bacterial ecology of the mouth and related chemical composition of saliva, are probably quite genetic.

Also, based on the fact that my dad has horrible luck with his teeth (cavities, root canals, etc), and dminor's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108895) in this thread saying that they have very different luck with their teeth from their brother, I would venture to guess that it may have a lot to do with the mother's side of the genetics (being linked to the X chromosome that gets passed down). In dminor's case, they could have received one X from their mother and their brother have received genetic makeup from the other X, which could explain their differences in dental hygiene at least partially. If it were Y-linked, then I'd obviously have much closer luck to my dad's, and those two brothers would be much closer in results to each other, since there is only one Y to be given from one parent.

Of course, this is all nothing more than educated conjecture. I'm probably totally off base and it's likely much more complicated than that. For all I know, these results could be all coincidence, and the genetic characteristics could be totally unrelated to the sex-giving genes. (In other words, I have no dental training and nothing more than a curious, inquisitive disposition.)
Haml Sucks for Content
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Don't know about "most," some find stable, supportive spouses or partners who are willing to be the steadfast and unconditional types...

Brad Feld (Foundry Group and TechStars in Boulder,CO), for example found this apparently with his wife Amy, but only after losing a first marriage:
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/05/feld-weiser-one-on-o...
Let me guess: A markov chain based text generator trained on a set of HN headlines from before.

Something else?
Web Laureate Insight, "Alerts.com: all a grrrl needs"
It can take a preposition, but only in the passive form. Valid: "x comprises y"; "y is comprised of x". Invalid: "x comprises of y".
SkyGrid Management Team Dropping Like Flies
What’s a Good Startup in These Times: Mahesh Murthy
Rails webapp downtime postmortem
Perhaps they should amend their disclaimer to say "but it does not NOT necessarily represent the views of Adobe either."
SSH Tunnelling Cheat-sheet
Maybe this is because people in the US hardly have any vacation and are encouraged to work all the time, so the lack of time, more than the cost, means many never get to go on any long exploratory trips?
My impression is that NPR's coverage of Toyota's recalls has received much greater air time in proportion to the number of recalled vehicles than their coverage of previous recalls by other companies. I have not verified the numbers to be sure, but 1 or 2 extra stories about how this is unusual because of Toyota's reputation for quality might be appropriate; the current deluge (1-2 stories on every broadcast of every news program!) seems unreasonable to me.
Exactly. And in our culture that's usually still women (although more stay at home dads are stepping up - see: http://www.rebeldad.com/stats.htm).

So, as a woman in startup tech, if you choose to have work and family life simultaneously, it means finding a partner who will do that (is willing and financially stable), and/or outsourcing a significant portion of your childcare to family, nannies, etc.
Check out the source, it's randomly generated Javascript
This thing is psychic. It gave me a headline for a project I started working on this weekend!
On Debt Collectors
I am NOT very informed about server tweaking, so please add a pinch of salt as appropriate... But aren't there two related issues to consider? Assuming a simplistic two-tier architecture consisting of a UI/domain logic server (in PHP) backed by a database, the first question is whether the speed of the PHP bit affects the total load the server can handle. Presumably if it is idling waiting for the database, you could handle some more connections and need to work on optimizing your database until you reach a sort of equilibrium where both are maxed out.

The second issue is latency. Even if it spends time waiting for the database, the amount of time processing each request affects the amount of time a client waits for a response. Even if the database is the limiting factor on the number of simultaneous requests that can be handled, you may still want to increase the speed of handling each request to make the UI snappier.

Am I whistling in the dark here?
> They sound like they are suggesting reducing the possible keyspace is a _good_ thing.

To be fair, while allowing "special characters" increases the possible keyspace, allowing them doesn't significantly increase the likely keyspace because even the people who use them don't use them in the same frequency that they use "normal" characters.

There's a difference between 64 random bits and 7 random seven bit quantities with an 8 bit random quantity inserted somewhere in the sequence. The latter is closer to 56 random bits. (Yes, I know that A-Za-z0-9 is not 7 random bits.)
The errors we're talking about here are transient. The memory location itself is still usable, the contents get changed when a cosmic ray hits. After the hit, the corrupted value is held without a problem.

Memtest checks if the memory location has a gross fault which prevents it from storing values correctly.

Doesn't seem like memtest will help.
Thanks Isc 12. I'll quit what I'm doing immediately and work on growing four interesting male parts instead.
Tom Kelly of IDEO: Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life
Classic: "How I turned stealing pointless iPhone apps into a $12 million a year business"
Amazing big catalog of electronic products
Not entirely impressed, starting with item 11 he's cherry-picking his data:

11. Who gives a what nearly bankrupt and very political Russia is doing WRT the dollar.

12: Jefferson County, Alabama is notorious for having made some very bad interest rate swaps that; using them as an example is for this item is basically lying.

Less obnoxious, but still misleading:

13: Pension promises can and will be abrogated (we have no choice).

14: Ditto for Social Security and Medicare (well, the former can be tweaked quite a bit (e.g. raise the retirement age for people not yet collecting benefits).

15-8 are spot on, though.

19: Well, there are several answers to this besides inflation, some even good. Has anyone noticed how much land the Federal government owns? It has assets it can sell.

On the other hand, I can't argue with his last point:

"#20) When a nation practices evil, there is no way that it is going to be blessed in the long run. The truth is that we have become a nation that is dripping with corruption and wickedness from the top to the bottom. Unless this fundamentally changes, not even the most perfect economic policies in the world are going to do us any good. In the end, you always reap what you sow. The day of reckoning for the U.S. economy is here and it is not going to be pleasant."
For the love of god, please cite original articles like this one from the author's blog http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/economic-black-h... instead of Business Insider's tedious "cut it up into a 21 part slide show" reprint shtick.
> iPhone and Android are pretty much covered with good WebKit implementation. Check in one of those and most likely your page will work in the other.

This is tangential. I would have thought you were right, but in my anecdotal experience, it's very much not the case. I have an Eris; wife has an iTouch. Our browsing experiences are night and day surprisingly often.

I'm picking this nit mostly because it surprised the hell out of me.
> felt hurt that she had to explain why it wasn't a diamond.

She didn't have to explain anything.

What she should have done is pointed out how rude they were to make such hurtful comments.
How I Learned to Love Monitor Arms
From Verizon/s wireless network, though?

It just doesn't make too much sense right now.

I got email replies from Verizon PR - they said they were looking into it - and from Moot, who said it'd taken him, the friggin' site owner, HOURS to get Verizon to even acknowledge the block was on their end.

Far be it from me to defend the home of the /b/, but really? You block a dude's entire website and you don't tell him why? That's really strange to me.
In that case, it probably uses FireMetal:
"Introducing FireMetal: a Megan-Fox-picture platform optimizer"
InfoQ: Ruby in Steel 1.5 Released, Drops IronRuby Support
I have Opera on my Nokia mobile. Just as I did on my last Nokia mobile.

And yes, mobile phones come in different shapes and sizes, just like monitors come in different shapes and sizes. Design flexibly, so that your app is usable by people accessing it from anywhere.
There's no excuse to not do so. Unless you have something to hide.

Not true, for the same reason that commercial ventures don't like to release source code even if they don't have something to hide.

Having a capable computer code can be a substantial competitive advantage and make it possible to do studies no one else can. While this is less than desirable from the standpoint of science, it's perfectly understandable given the career pressures that individual scientists operate under.
I would find it less suspicious if it didn't affect developers using tools that compete with The One Microsoft Way of Managing Source Code.

But my perception of Microsoft is admittedly biased.
terrible title, this post actually explains how to use Haml the plugin to generate all sorts of content using its existing features like filters properly. The confusion is that "Haml" refers to Haml the plug-in as well as Haml the syntax for generating HTML. The syntax is not ideal for content, and that's why it supports things like inline HTML and markdown filters, just as the outline explains.
Please Don't Mistake My Apathy For A Lack of Understanding:

http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2009/04/11/please-dont-mi...
If the effort to provide compatibility and an additional set of browser work-arounds exceeds the benefit given the insignificant share of traffic these other browsers provide then it isn't really a loss, is it?
A quick investigation of his company's published accounts for 2008 say he's actually making even better money now than he was back then.

Interesting.
Funny: "Ask HN: Am I crazy to attempt to understand common sense?"

Sad: "Ask HN: Should my company make unmarketable products?" and "Ask HN: How do you program vaporware?"

Accurate: "Ask HN: Does my startup need to try to market to potential customers?"
I have seen code reinvention in my career a number of times. In one instance, I was actually asked to code up a method where the code and method had been published in a scientific journal. When I asked why I should implement this on my own, instead of using code developed by the group who published the method, I was told, "Because you can't trust anyone else's code. It's better to write everything from scratch so you know it's right".

I don't personally have the hubris to think I can code up a method better than the people who invented it in the first place. That aside, it's just so wasteful.

So instead of spending time on novel work we were doing, I spent a month implementing a half-baked version of something other people had done.
Well ... behind this thesis is the assumption that you're smart enough to learn from experience, but given that, point well taken.
I could be wrong, but I believe universities share some of the blame. It seems as though most of them are more interested in turning the research into a profit than they're concerned with doing good science.
When did "build something people want" turn into making money at any cost? This is the 2nd or 3rd highly voted article about ways to make money without building a startup that provides meaningful value to it's users.
I experienced the same thing. There seems to be a world of difference between free and 99 cents on the app store. And, I think, understandably so. If I want to try a whole bunch of programs, I'd much rather try free programs. If it costs even just 99 cents, then I am forced to stop and think about it before downloading. "I can download hundreds of free programs for less money than this one 99-cent program... do I really want the 99-cent program, or am I okay with some more free programs?"

I also noticed that making an app that was 99 cents to be free not only increased downloads, but also increased bad reviews. I guess people who get programs for free expect a lot more out of them and are perfectly happy to express their disappointment both rudely and publicly than those who pay for the programs.
Unplugged: Goodbye cables, hello energy beams
It is a pitty the author did not mention Israel, currently the second largest high-tech industry after silicon valley.
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Here’s the thing: developing for the iPhone means that you are developing for any browser that supports web standards. Why bend over backwards for browsers on phones with archaic web browsing capabilities. If anything, it will force vendors to get with the HTML5 and CSS3 programs.
Awesome big catalog of electronic products
I was with you until you said 'Your loss.'

That bit of snark ignores the reality that a developer has resource constraints, and they constantly have to decide how best to deploy their time, money and energy.

Failing to address some platforms might well be a big win. Claiming it's a definite loss is absurd.
Funny link in one of the comments to a paper titled "Most scientific results are false". Does that apply to that paper, too?
http://www.jqplot.com/ makes use of canvas and every browser that support canvas has a function to export them to bmp.
Reminds me of this comic: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/34

This one's a good one, too: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/76
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Writing a Simple Bash Script
"You're looking into pure software."
I'm sure he is. Most of it is PPC...

eg

Find a good niche - say "order flowers online"

Find all the best keywords on Google

Setup landing pages if needed, or just send direct to affiliates.

Profit from the commissions
What makes us different:

- it's free

- our users tell us it's great having everything in one place (glucose, blood pressure, medication + food tracking) other products often only have 1-2

- we have a diet tracking feature that draws carbohydrate nutritional data from thousands of different types of food

- the UI is very easy to use

- its web based and accessible from any browser (most loggers we found were desktop applications that cost money)

- we are actively improving the service and are very open to listening to our users feedback
This creates a conflict of interests though. Is the research legit or has it been "enhanced" to help a business venture the researcher has in the works?
That looks cool. I'd use it more if you could export the SVG file once it's rendered. Oh, and a gantt chart layout would be cool too!
If you wait for more info to come out, there's a good chance you'll wait until it's too late.

By all means, jump to conclusions about events based on preformed opinions about a company. I won't stop you. But excuse me for not jumping down after you ;)
I am one of the authors. This was just Bradford reaching out to people he knew. I guess he just didn't know anyone in Israel (or China for that matter). I for one would love to know what the situation is like in Israel (and Brazil, and Moscow!)
I believe pretty much anything Paul Biggar has to say about dynamic language interpreters / compilers. His talk at StackOverflow DevDays London about dynamic languages was a great eye-opener for me and a fantastic experience.
"Make eye contact", "shake hands" and so forth are that advice. However, since this is what you read, the piece you should pay attention to is "get a mentor." Until you do that, it appears you won't recognize the other bits of advice, which is one major reason to do so.
I think Gmail/Apple Mail's message threading system should be included. When I think about the pre-thread days of having to read 16 separate emails because 8 corporate douchebags all responded needlessly to the same original message, it makes me appreciate email threading even more.
I now agree. Judging by his Twitter account, Dave McAllister has been awake for at least 3 hours this fine Monday morning. My comment does not appear on his blog yet.

I just tweeted at him. Maybe it's caught in a spam trap or something.
5 years: Arrogance
Indeed it was called HumaLogger until a few days ago when we realized "Humalog" was trademarked. Thanks for the heads up.
For those wanting to read the book offline :

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What happened in my birth year?
Spanky - Videos
Alas, for Sales there still is. Not everybody has your specific flavor of that problem, or your way of looking at it.
AT&T's direct mail - genius or irritating?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3aAksyabes#t=0m15s

I loved them too.
Giving Back
I disagree not because I don't feel like it but rather because I'm not certain it is the best use of my resources to develop, test, and debug my app in every browser out there. I just don't have the time/money/resources to do it. And I highly doubt most startups do either. So you target the top 5-10 and stick to it till someone complains.
A great initiative by Ryan Bates. I'd like to see more like this one.
Get your hands on an N97 before buying one. The one I worked with last week seemed to crash just by looking at it. I literally had to pull the battery 3 times in the first hour, and it crashed on things like opening the SMS inbox. Don't know if I had a bad model, but it was one of the worst experiences I have ever had (and since I do quite a lot of mobile dev, I have seen quite a bit).
I'm surprised that no one is concerned that open sourcing Flash would be dangerous. Flash is installed on some 95% of machines, or so I read. If they open source Flash and allow everyone the ability to find the holes, we'll have a flood of exploits that affect everyone. I thank Adobe for keeping their implementation of Flash closed source.
> That's one major innovation every 8 years

I wonder if this is a pattern across technologies.