skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, Jade here, just finished watching the "Never mind the Valley..." video. Pretty motivating - I've always respected the Threadless story.

I am Jade, 24, from L.A. California.
I've never been out of the country and have only been to Vegas, Tempe, Arizona, and most recently San Fransisco for startup school <3.

I opted out of going to college because I didn't agree with the "go to school to get a good job and be forever happy" path to success. Though now I realize that's not what school has to be about but I was young and dumb.

Instead I started a custom screen-printing company. I printed custom apparel for high school clubs and sports teams. I learned everything online and in my 3rd year I moved from my parents garage into an actual production warehouse.

During this time I dabbled in HTML because I wanted to create a website for my company. As time passed this hobby of mine turned into what I loved to do - I would work and work and work just so I could finish to go learn coding.

Finally about a year ago now, after my girlfriend and I parted ways, due to the fact that I was a dickhead that put work before her, I closed my company, ended the lease, and sold everything.

I used the year to learn programming full-time, and now I'm here, no money, no job, no credentials, and an annoying smallish debt to attend to.

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I would like to go to Boulder because my life is my work and my work is being an entrepreneurial programmer. I have to make things, even if that means I'll be living in a cardboard box while building, I have to create.

This is not a sob story, I don't want sympathy because my life is fantastic. Rather I want to convey that I learn the hard way. I willingly take these drastic and unfriendly roads. I'm too stubborn and hardheaded maybe but that's just the way it is. I have a lot to prove to myself and to others who grow increasingly worried about me.

Boulder sounds like a great place to do that!
Oh yeah, p.s. I love "Man vs. Wild" and I even got to meet Bear Grylls at a book signing <3. So even though I've never been exposed to the great outdoors; I love the great outdoors!

Thank you for you time. My plane ticket will cost $169.00.
If I don't get voted up, perhaps someone here has some freelance work I could do to earn ~ $200.00 for the trip. I work with kohana php framework, jquery, and can do moderate design work. http://plusjade.com
What I really loved is that they just demonstrated a fair degree of incompetence to a site used pretty much exclusively by people who are very good potential customers! This site is a wet-dream for their marketing department.

What they should have done is upgrade the website to a dedicated server for free and let that news hit the front page.
I'd like a case which doubles as a keyboard. It would just be a thin keyboard embedded in the flap, so you could use it as a tablet or a netbook. Obviously there are problems to figure out, like keeping the keys from scratching the screen (rubberize them?) and adding some rigidity without making it too bulky, but I think it would be awesome. I've always wanted a laptop which doubles as a tablet.

Like this! http://cl.ly/Z5v
In Android, you can write custom method input providers. It'll be an easy concept to realize once the Android tablets started getting released.

Maybe the Android slogan should be "there's an API for that" :)
Just remember we're all outliers here.

Everyone else in the world is on facebook, addicted to farmville, posting stupid comments and uploading bajillions of photos.

When you remove yourself from things you lose potential to make money/build businesses/etc etc. idk I think if you're doing anything that targets "average people" you should do some of the things "average people" do, so you know their pain points, what could improve things etc.

Personally I find it really useful for keeping in contact with friends + family. Far better than anything else I've found anyway.
Really, we are all guilty. If we'd just get back to work, HN wouldn't have this problem. ;)
The comment probably should've been rephrased as "i haven't been hampered by any virus in 20 years".
Netflix profit soars as instant online movies draw new subscribers
Being underweight presents far less health consequences than being even just overweight.

Epidemiological studies say otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight#Health-related_impli...

"Flegal et al., however, found that the mortality rate for individuals who are classified as overweight (BMI 25 to 30) may actually be lower than for those with an "ideal" weight (BMI 18.5 to 25).[12][13]."
Dear Pair Networks,

I'd like to highlight this lesson in how to loose (or not gain) customers by randomly shutting down technology sites that serve the decision makers you wish to influence.

Tom

P.S. Well done Slicehost.
Ah, I didn't think of that. Thank you.
Surely the foremost benefit of governmental transparency is the opportunity to criticize...I don't think that code is somehow excluded from this.
Networked Ping Hoodie Will Help Keep the Chill off Your Facebook
Taking this one step further, the iPad could recognize how you are holding it, whether it's one hand, two hands, on the side or from the bottom, and the keyboard would auto-adjust on the fly to accommodate. The animation/motion would be the same way it rotates from landscape to portrait on the fly, just in this case, the keyboard would morph.
I think this has become the "I don't even own a TV" among those who don't even own TVs.

But basically same for me. I rarely go to facebook anymore. But new messages get emailed to me, and they have that neat feature where you can just reply to the email and it posts it to facebook. No need to even visit the site!
Microsoft throws its weight behind Web Open Font format
Well, that's how Expect became public domain...
Nuclear war survival skills (1987 Edition)
And the Darwin award, category marketing, goes to...
I remember really liking the book as well, but I read it in 7th grade, and didn't know anything about ol' L. Ron at the time. Revisiting it might be interesting, but I'd rather keep the fond memories.
Yes, I remember they prototyped (or maybe even released?) a tablet type device with circular keyboards in the corners.
you don't get open source, do you?
Maybe Apple decided to not support those options on the iPad because it has a bigger screen and sites made for the viewport of the iPhone would look really bad on the iPad? Makes sense to me.
No, they they're careful to say unlimited bandwith (and storage and such), but not unlimited traffic. When I was looking around dreamhost docs/FAQs/something either right before or right after signing up, it did say somewhere that they might ask you to move up to their VPS if you're using too much CPU, which could happen just from a whole bunch of static hits.

It's nice for your hosting all of your little sites and getting them up in basically 0 time, even if you need wordpress or something. The panel's pretty nice. I'd at least sign up when they have one of their crazy deals (I got a year of hosting with a free domain for $9.something, which basically means you pay for the domain and get the hosting for free. It's a good way to give them a try with the main cost being that they'll suck you in and get you paying $9/month after your cheap price expires.)
Design of a multi-platform app using The Cocotron
Ah, but in that case you'd get fifty-fifty since people who had no idea would just guess.
Nokia E70 vs. iPhone: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Tell HN: Google Apps lies about outage status
If you go to the Google Apps Dashboard you'll see they list everything but "Google Docs List" as having no issues.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

But if you try to go to spreadsheets.google.com (Or Presentations, or try to open a word doc) you'll get a "502 Server Error". I've tried this from three different internet connections (Work, Home via GoToMyPC and AT&T 3G)

When we went to Google Docs we did so based on this Dashboard page (and the fact that it showed no outages). But now I wonder if that was a lie. So I'm posting this here so others will hopefully call Google on this so they'll start accurately reporting their system status.
Apple has been granted a patent regarding the use of touch-sensitive bezels in electronic devices, primarily focused on portable devices.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/03/apple-receives-patent-fo...
If so, then why have a viewport setting at all? Seems a little odd, really.
I had the same treatment from Site5 a while back before moving to a dedicated server. They just pointed to their hidden TOS page and laughed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoCvuu0dlQ
this doesn't make a ton of sense. A (majority?) good share of ITA's profits are from sales to other traffic search sites and directly to airlines. Google's never had a strength in selling to other enterprises and surely doesn't want to manage yet another enterprise software sales team. I find it unlikely this purchase would go through given they'd be paying for the enterprise software portion when they only want the consumer engine portion.
Okay, so cross platform compatibility layers water down each platform's individual strengths and differentiations. What happens when a small team of developer needs to re-write their application to reach more devices? While the platform with the most users will probably get the most polish, the rest will probably flounder at v0.9. I guess Apple could be counting on being the platform getting the attention. Let's see how that works out for them in the next 5 years!
You mean on the iPhone? It makes sense to adjust the zoom of the page since it's a much smaller size. Or I just didn't understand your question...
Without a control group, or at least a group doing something other than playing games during that time, it's hard to say the games caused the effect they observed.

Maybe just staying after school with highly interested researchers had a knock-on effect on intelligence?
Congratulations, you re-invented the UMPC: http://www.umpc.se/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/asus-umpc-keyb...
The thing I can't believe is that nobody at Pair Networks that was involved with this actually knew about Ycombinator or Hacker News... otherwise they wouldn't have shut down such a popular site. Somebody needs to hire real hackers
Most of the time, this is the best way to do it (financially speaking) - alot of people still like to live in a house they "own" though.
Guys, shared hosting is designed for the 99% of non busy sites, say under 1,500 unique visitors a day, with the level of traffic HN is doing I'm surprised Pair didn't warn you earlier. A site this busy needs a dedicated server or virtual server.

That is why shared hosting is cheap, you start with it and once you are successful or starting to get slashdotted you buy something bigger that can scale.
150K hits in 30 minutes is 83 hits/second. That's a lot to ask for from a shared-hosting account.

When the traffic starts to impair neighboring sites, something has to be done. Just about any ISP will do the same thing: block the site with the surge, that could possibly make other arrangements, rather than inconvenience other customers whose traffic is as expected/usual.

The detail missing so far is why Pair noticed today, if it was the same level of traffic as before, or a slow build. Was a new threshold crossed? (Did someone's HN-focused tool go haywire?)

The Pair message suggests end-of-day logs will be the way to tell for sure.
Same here. Very slow for me, and when I try to load my comments or submissions pages, I often get a timeout and have to try 2-3 times.

I've always found it a bit ironic that a website where there's probably one of the highest concentration of good coders/web people was so slow and unreliable. But maybe that's just the nature of the beast; reddit is slow too, and they have a lot more resources.
The messy realities of failover in your architecture
I actually find it quite embarrassing that the guy had no clue what HN or YC were. He had absolutely no idea... and he works for a hosting company. It's quite a shame. I really got a kick out of the fact he questioned the legitimacy of traffic as well.
hey, thanks for looking. The strategy is to feed off of facebook's ridiculous penetration of schools. If we can integrate nearly anything and everything with facebook then provided its actually a useful service, I think groups will spread their participation virally. Right now many groups already have a facebook group, but facebook groups are functionally limited. The goal is to make it more fun, establish more self-ownership, and be more interactive, all while not taking anything away from facebook (no sense in competing).

One main thing I didn't cover in the demo was the fact that I ultimately want to give an "online presence" to these clubs. Not just for social "write on my wall" type things but for marketing their ventures to people that may actually help them. A way to look professional in the eyes of donors, sponsors, public figures, etc - to put their name on the map so to speak in order to facilitate collaboration of all kinds.
Because everyone you know has one of the busiest sites on the net?
Did he even read the article he linked to...

"There’s proprietary Apple markup on our HTML5 page."
Actually I was the same (while I was running a Windows box). I used to work for an anti-malware company too, and my experiences there pretty much agrees what everyone says about Norton / etc...

I don't open attachments from strangers, I don't have warez on my computer, and I call / confirm when I get a word doc. (It doesn't matter because I do the conversion on googledocs anyway).

I know not everyone is fortunate enough to do all of that, but it is entirely possible to avoid viruses if one really wants to.
"Biting the hand that feeds you" seems like an appropriate analogy for arbitrarily shutting down this site without warning.
do real hackers like working customer service :)? customer service is 80% of a good hosting company.
To respond to your example:

Point out that we don't have a high confidence time series that says the planet is cooling over the last decade? For that matter, nobody has a 10-year time series for global average temp which passes any real significance test. It's just not a long enough period to deal with high frequency fluctuations: you need 30 or so years for that.

(Actually, to the best of my knowledge, the last decade's average surface temp has been rising, even if the significance is below two-sigma.)

To respond to the general argument, you're absolutely correct. Proofs, statistically rigorous arguments absolutely call into question the consensus. However, vague counterarguments are not sufficient to overturn carefully gathered evidence. One must weigh the arguments on the strength of their evidence and analysis. There is just not very much substantial peer reviewed research supporting a climate model with zero radiative forcing for CO2.
FWIW, It's probably not worth their effort of working out exactly what websites are using cheap shared hosting and overusing resources.

I don't get shared hosting at all. VPSs are dirt cheap these days.
There are probably a lot more hosting company employees out there than there are HN regulars (or even occasional) users.
Doc here: do you run a subversion client or an IDE on the same machine you check email or browse the web with? kind of weird to do that, right?

I'm all for nix-based systems. Please, oh please, convince these people to go to nix and web app (that aren't slaved to IE: eg, AHLTA, or Fuji's Synapse imaging software). I will give you their numbers.
I was told in a friendly conversation with one of their service reps that shared accounts get roughly 200-250MB of total memory usage (Ruby on Rails bumped me over, for example) and a "certain amount" of 95%ile bandwidth averaged over some time. I have a feeling they sort their customer list based on these two values every once and a while and send the top X accounts a message.
Stem cell research goes Boolean
It'll all move to thin clients and the cloud. Just watch.

Not saying it's better, and in fact it'll be worse. The net goes down way more than the AntiVirus gets a bogus config file. But you'll see cash-strapped facilities get sold on the idea of cheaper clients on-site and a large server with a juicy maintenance package behind it.
Nothing is unlimited. It's just sales tactics.
Also, just going to point out here that Pair.com has had a great reputation in the hosting industry, and has for the last 10 years.

I've been in the industry for 10 years and worked for quite a number of hosting companies, not Pair though, and when you have 150 shared clients on a machine and 1 client is causing the problems you do your best to deliver the warning before it gets out of hand but it is very hard to do.
Somebody had to pull the plug, and it wasn't some customer service guy with a headset...
Huge upvote for this. This is excellent advice - my partner had the same situation last year. An entrepreneur making < $91k should most certainly do this asap!
Might not be worth reading the whole thing, but the first couple of chapters are interesting enough.

I've never been sure why so many people make fun of the old "Duck and Cover" campaign. Sure, it won't help those within the immediate vicinity of the bomb much, but there's a certain donut-shaped area where you're a hell of a lot better off ducking and covering than not ducking and covering.
Cool. The Facebook Connect button was an atrocity for devs, forcing us to include tons of javascript just to display a button and then the whole fsql and 24h rule. Let's hope this will be better.

edit: looks good http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
Reading/Annotating PDFs on an iPad (comments on multiple apps)
To be fair, if I was another customer on that shared host and you made my side crawl through no fault of my own, I'd want your site disabled asap too.

VPS or cloud is dirt cheap these days, no excuses for not planning growth?
I was being tongue-in-cheek, but there is a real point here.

As you say I doubt today was unusual for HN, it's the way Pair went from zero to shut-down.

One of the things I like about the way that Joyent operate as a cloud host is that they allow you burst on shared boxes because of those times you need it. At the same time they'll let you know you need to think about buying more resources without just slamming on the brakes.

Pair should do a much better job of noticing a soft limit earlier, so if a heavy traffic day had hit HN PG et al should have been already aware they were overusing their shared hosting and were planning a route out.
You don't need a reason why they haven't bought Apple yet, you need a good reason for them to buy Apple? I can't think of an obvious reason for them to do that?
Strategic choices don't exist in isolation however.

Craigslist owes it's success to a deliberate focus on pleasing it's audience (well that and luck of course). If the prevailing attitude had been on of extracting all available value, it's likely craigslist would't have survived to see it's current success. They would have wasted away at some local maximum.

While in theory it's true that you should always make moves that are +ev, in reality we cannot approach the complexity of operating a business that way. Change has a huge cost in organizations, and the larger and more varied the lines of business you're dealing in, the more expensive that change is.

Put a different way: organizations aren't markets. Organizations can't be ignorant of economic principles, but economic principles alone, particularly microeconomic ones, do not completely prescribe strategy.
One of the whole points about JSON is that you can write a serializer/deserializer in a few lines of code. It's a ridiculously simple, standard format.

Compare that with massive bloated complex XML parsers.

Good on them for using JSON.
Anyone can get slashdotted. And my time is valuable -- I'd much rather pay more for better service.
I want to give credit where credit is due; I found this manual because it was linked on Michael Anissimov's blog:

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/04/dispe...
Ask HN: Google waves invite request
Hi,

could somebody please send me an invite for Google waves? It would be much appreciated. I'll delete this once I get one.

maxz941 at gmail dot com
Summary: Zuck is like BillG, and having Facebook be the identity provider for the web would be a bad thing.
Single page: http://www.slate.com/id/2250793/pagenum/all/
The title is incorrect, the broken features have nothing to do with HTML5.

These features haven't been removed entirely, but as I found when I tried to add them to Cappuccino some of them are very buggy (http://github.com/280north/cappuccino/blob/master/Tools/capp... and http://github.com/280north/cappuccino/commit/9f50f0806528d03...).

"apple-touch-icon" and "apple-mobile-web-app-capable" work as expected, as do HTML5 cache manifests.

Setting the viewport meta tag to "initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" also works as expected, which is what I needed to get Cappuccino applications to display correctly (this is probably what you want for most JavaScript "applications"). I didn't try any other configurations. This works in both MobileSafari and applications saved to the home screen.

I tried "apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" with "black" (default) and "black-translucent", both seemed to work for me, but I stuck with the default.

The biggest problem is with the default image, i.e. "apple-touch-startup-image". For some insane reason it expects the PNG to be 748px wide by 1024px tall. This aspect ratio implies the image should be portrait oriented, yet the 20px for the status bar is taken from the narrower dimension, implying that it should be landscape oriented.

And in fact the image is scaled from 748x1024 to 768x1004. There is no way around this AFAICT.

Original default.png image: http://cl.ly/JCs
Displayed in portrait orientation: http://cl.ly/IyM
Displayed in landscape orientation: http://cl.ly/Ibx

The only way to get something reasonable is to squash your default image in the opposite direction. That is, start with a 748x1024 image, crop it to 768x1004, then scale it back to 748x1024. Unfortunately then you end up with a white bar along one edge in landscape mode. Madness.

If I'm mistaken about any of this I'd love to know.
I disagree that "opportunity to criticize" can be seen as a benefit. "Opportunity to help" seems like the biggest benefit.
VPSes are still shared hosting and are not immune from the problem.
That technology is not out there... A static site might be fun at that level and not causing problems, where as a WordPress site with super cache is fine, but then a Drupal site can only handle 1/4th of that.

It currently is not really possible to track that per user in a shared environment and see who is using what resources from an individual perspective of MySQL / Apache / CPU / Mem.
Can someone edit the title? It includes SQLite for development to speed stuff up, but there's no SQLite for your actual deployed app.
This has nothing to do with HTML5, and it's probably just a bug. Report it to Apple.
Server error - is there a cached copy somewhere?
But they still scale pages by default. You have to set the viewport to "initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" to get the same behavior as desktop browsers (and it does work, but I don't know if the other configuration options of the viewport work)
It's not something you usually type on for a long time. It's fine for occasional use, most people find.
Where do developers draw the line with Apple?
My programming environment doesn't have a JSON serializer or deserializer

Its 2009 man, grow up Dave. XML lost.
I do this too, but it's only the best way to do it if you really need the mobility. I own property in my home town, but will sell it and buy locally as soon as I decide where I'm likely to be living in the long term.

The main problem is that the rent I receive is taxed as income and the rent I pay isn't tax-deductible.