skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the real challenges for me is that I was a remote employee, and I'm not based out of an area with a reasonable tech sector. Telecommute positions (especially with companies of Ning's caliber) are hard to come by, and I'm not significantly free to relocate for another 14 months. Finding an arrangement that satisfies both my personal (family) and professional needs is going to be a real challenge.
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Here are traffic stats from my blog: http://i.imgur.com/IVr7e.png

As you can see, my about page got a fair amount of traffic.
Hmm, not quite a Haiku... Maybe,

Theres Dev sharecropping?
The platform must progress now.
Innovate or die!
I'm curious as to what your objection is to managing moves in iTunes?

I've got most of my DVD collection in there at this point, and I actually find it fairly pleasant.
I used to work on the Atlas V as well.. and I applaud SpaceX's efforts. The reliability of traditional launch vehicles like the Delta and Atlas have come at the cost of innovation. The fundamental design hasn't changed in decades. Private efforts like SpaceX promise a return to innovation.

Low-cost launches make it possible to try experiments that would just be untenable on traditional launch vehicles. Lower costs lead to more innovation, at the expense of some (acceptable) risk.

I'd hop on a SpaceX launch vehicle tomorrow. Seriously. The opportunity to go to space is too compelling -- I'm willing to take the risk, and I'm sure many other people would as well. I really hope this can usher in a new era of manned space exploration.

Your argument holds well for military and large commercial payloads, though -- When the cost of the payload approaches the cost of the launch (100-500MM+), it makes sense to fly on the most proven hardware.
This site is useful, if only for the bowdlerized version of John Gabriel's greater internet fuckwad theory: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

There has been, at minimum, at least 3 different presentations in which I've had to joke "I'm pretty sure this is the first time the word shitcock has appeared on a slide at X"
I would like to know how much David pays Google to use their service?

Depends which customer hat you're wearing, no?

To search I make a bargain with Google whereby I use their search service and they present me with (hopefully) contextual advertising.

To reach other people who have made the same bargain above, I make a bargain whereby I (or more correctly we, the corporate entity) pay Google a chunk of change each year.

This arrangement works because in each case I get something of a higher value than the price paid, and Google gets paid more than the cost incurred to provide it. 37Signals works much the same, as do most businesses.

Despite having burned through a significant amount of cash, it appears, although without the visibility of a public company it's hard to really know, that neither Ning nor Facebook have found an effective way to make such an arrangement. Whether this is or isn't a problem really depends the appetite for risk of their investors.
Well I was thinking they could evolve a bit. Maybe with their analytics?
Any way to start embedded youtube? f doesn't seem to include it.

Also ^fbud don't work for me (ubuntu), maybe not overridable?
I like the way it combines the Wii and the iPhone. The name -- Winscape -- is unfortunate though. It makes it sound like a Windows program.
I think this shift in policy would require an enormous cultural shift. Currently, our society mostly trusts the drugs available on our store shelves. A deregulated market would require consumers to be much more critical in order to continue to function.
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If you are fussy about audio quality, a 500kbps FLAC isn't that much bigger than a 320kbps MP3.
If disagreeable opinions are just as likely to cause the negative effects of trolling as "real" troll comments, don't you need the same countermeasures in place?
Transcoding takes time and more space.

I like my classical music, jazz, and noise music to be of the highest quality possible. The sound quality of most MP3s is distracting.
I've noticed people complain about a lot of problems with iTunes on Windows that I just never see. In particular, people with much smaller libraries complaining about search and scroll performance problems. It strikes me that iTunes-on-Windows biggest problem is that it's frail.

FWIW: I've got iTunes running now; it's been up for about four hours, playing music and I did a sync of my iphone and ipad. It's bouncing between 45 and 55MB of memory [1].

[1] (library: 14,000 songs; 300 movies)
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This new direction apple is taking seems completely wrong on a visceral level.
In what finance world does "free cash flow" NOT include operational expenses like [salaries of] personnel?
You've got two questions here, I think, and they both deserve careful consideration.

1) How do you monitor your site to alert you of problems?

2) How do you prevent your site from going down in the first place?

In my opinion, #1 is more straightforward than #2, and the more uptime you need for #2, the more you're going to pay.

a) Write a script to send you an email / SMS when your site is down. Run it on a separate server, or run it on something like Google App Engine.

I'm sure there are some simple free tools out there to achieve this for you. A quick search provided:

http://www.siteuptime.com/

They offer a check per 30 minutes for free. Can't beat free, but this is not an endorsement, I've never used them.

b) Use something with more features. Run it on a separate server or use someone who provides it SaaS style.

Nagios, ZenOSS, Zabbix, Groundwork, OpenNMS. I can personally vouch for Nagios. It's pretty easy to get a simple configuration going, and then it can get very complicated (you might want to monitor the monitor, right?).

2) If you've got two servers that you can connect to a load balancer, you may be able to run in active-active mode so that if one fails, you simply lose 50% capacity. For your data store, options include a database solution like MySQL in master-master form, or a relational database that has data redundancy as a feature. In my opinion you don't choose your data backend solely because of it's redundancy and failover capabilities, but it could be a factor.

If you can't do active-active mode right now for some reason, then active-passive can allow you to stay up enough to deliver that message until you restore your services. If you can get an "extra" IP address, you can even do this without a load balancer involved. Take a look at keepalived.org to see how you can float an IP address between multiple servers. CDNs such as Akamai also provide site failover features that might be worth investigating.

There are so many ways to skin the cat on this one, and I'm just scratching the surface. If your site is more than informational (e.g. if you're building a web based service or application), then monitoring and failover / redundancy are critical to your success. If you just want your informational site to be up, it's still pretty important. The fact that you're thinking about this now and not after your first 24 hour window of downtime is a good sign!

If you provide more information about what your startup is doing (at least from an tech architecture perspective) and what sorts of resources you're willing to spend to improve your uptime and failover capabilities, you might get more specific suggestions.

Best of luck, and congrats on the startup!

Pete
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I don't think that offering a point-of-view that many people disagree with would cause any negative effects.

However, if there is a culture that doesn't tolerate a diversity of dissenting opinions, then the group's reactions to the differing point-of-view may have negative effects.
It's interesting that from a design complexity standpoint, what he did was way more difficult than say building Craigslist.

Perhaps that leads to his next challenge: upgrade the computing power of his DF contraption enough that he can reimplement Craigslist on top it!
Imagine a country run by Steve Jobs -- it would be China.
The irony is that I wasn't able to find your about me page...
Some believe that God has already created just such a game.
I sure wish they'd propose something similar for scanners.
I actually don't like the "emotion" aspect iAds are supposed to have. Web ads, even when I see them, are easy to ignore because they have no emotional impact. They're just like white noise cognitively speaking. "Emotional" advertising seems so much more disruptive. I guess I just don't want my emotions fucked with for stupid commercial purposes like selling me a new shoe.
I think it's worth pointing out here that the most successful (largest) companies are full-stack vendors that have as few external dependencies as possible.

Look at the histories of Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Adobe, IBM, HP, etc. All of them had complete, standalone products right out of the gate. More to the point, they took the revenue from that product and then moved to ruthlessly and consistently 'fill gaps', displacing other businesses along the way.

If your business depends on somebody else's "platform", then you're quite likely living on borrowed time. It might be okay as a way to bootstrap, but I'd recommend getting as independent as you can, as soon as possible.
Now he should port his DF-based computer to run on the iPhone, that way he could use it as a sort of "intermediate layer" with .... looks at 3.3.1 ... oh, nevermind.
It's not going to happen, as the Constitution reserves these powers to the States. The States retain (so far) plenary power with regards to transactions within their borders.

A very detailed refutation: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2005/05/Beware-the-...
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How did you market it?
I actually take the opposite view. When I'm selecting text or placing a cursor, there's a discrete location between two letters I want to hit, and it can be annoying having to aim at it with a mouse and possibly miss. It also seems that vim is somewhat faster for me, though I've never measured it. Vim is definitely better for micro-scale cursor positioning--down a line or over a word or two.
I haven't gone to using free sources, but I do consistently look at a number of services, and don't sign-up because I recognize that many of these services are going to add up to a lot of money each month.

I also suspect that I would be more likely to sign-up if one service offered everything, as it would end up appearing as only one line-item on a budget.

Do you feel the same way?
Is one service with multiple tools better than many different tools? Even if just form a billing perspective?
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On top of which, not every "Event based" system isn't threaded.

They specifically provide fork/join as an example of Thread based. Scala 2.8 adds full support for using a fork/join model in Actors, which are... to the observer, event driven (message driven event responders backed by threads). Akka, a Scala framework which pulls in a more complete Actor model, Erlang style supervisors and a bunch of Clojure & STM data concepts (among other features) allows you to tune the underlying dispatch for their Actors. You can easily set it up to use thread pools.

Articles like this are going to cause, more than anything, your less-technical management type to suddenly decide event driven coding is bad for some reason. Without knowing that your code which APPEARS event driven on the outside may be thread driven on the inside...
Yeah, long virtually guarantees crappy, but short can mean so coarse that intent isn't clear - LEO and courts pick up the pieces.

Big item not covered here is practical enforceability. Ingress filtering to prevent IP packet spoofing is much easier because there are many valid uses for CID spoofing. Can't configure a session border controller to filter "deceiving or defrauding spoofed caller ID values."
i can't tell with my middle of the road earbuds.
I knew that I recognized his name. He writes http://overcomingbias.com/ which, along with http://lesswrong.com/ keeps me making sense.

(Both are worth reading regularly.)
Probably by creating posts like this one on sites like HN
Pingdom is great. We use if to monitor all our client sites and it is awesome.
Get an advisor, ASAP, who has been through something like this.
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Is there a way in chrome just to get textarea to shunt to external editor (in my case vim)? Firefox has something for this and it's simple and unobtrusive, but all the Chome solutions seem heavyweight. Any tips?
All the iTunes developers spend way more time fixing bugs on Windows than on OS X. It's not that it's a lousy piece of software, it's just that, yes, generally speaking having developers writing code for a platform they don't "speak" is bad news.
nice fermat reference
Then again, advertising that you spent four minutes per page writing the thing isn't really marketing.
…and pretty much every major application on Windows does this. Firefox, Chrome, iTunes, and even - no, ESPECIALLY - Microsoft's software, like Office and Internet Explorer, all do their own custom UI, custom behaviours. With Windows Vista, you could have a dozen different looks and behaviours for windows, using only Microsoft software.

I get the point they're making, but you know what? Mac users already get that point. Cross-platform toolkits that have targeted Mac OS X have always been shit. They don't look right, they don't work right. This goes for everything I've ever used, from Java to Firefox (which was far, FAR worse pre-3.0, before Cocoa controls were added).

From everything I've heard, iTunes on Windows is shit. Doesn't this make the same point Apple is making?
we're creators not killers :)
Hopefully the wxSqueak project is still ongoing.
so good! have fought with many a dosbox bringing this one back to life.
I guess I shouldn't be as shocked as I am that a major NPR anchor and interviewer, Linda Wertheimer, seems to consider it a huge novelty for a record release to be digital-only.
I'm not sure what's going on. A friend and I are both having trouble making it do anything. We tried in both Chrome and Opera. Suggestions?
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True, and I bet most of those pages were code samples
Creating an iPhone version of my app just got even lower on my todo list.
what a shit ass blog post.
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To stretch the metaphor further, we are more "Siamese" twins - sharing vital organs.

China floods American markets with cheap goods - creating a deflationary effect which creates an illusionary perception of a "rise in our standard of living".

In return, the Chinese get an "illusion" of wealth via U.S. Treasury Notes that we will probably have to "inflate" our way out of (or just plain default on).

A nice "lose, lose" scenario disguised as a "win, win".
Apparently, software developer is one of the least stressful jobs
What I mean by "common sense being challenged" is that the recent actions of Apple do not seem to make "common sense" so I'm willing to believe that Bill Gates WOULD ban iTunes. So nothing is surprising anymore. But please, vote me down just for being frustrated by the misleading headline and then all these comments that seem to reflect people's belief in it. This is not reddit or slashdot. There is no way to mark a comment as being "Funny".
See also: Vrome. http://github.com/jinzhu/vrome

I'd love to switch completely but neither of these seem as polished as Vimperator.
> plenty of other players work very well for music too.

Well they work well for playback, but I've yet to find a comparable alternative to iTune's music library/organization features. You may have a point about movies and such - I tend to play them in VLC, and organize them according to folder in my external HDD.
Waking up alone every morning isn't fun either, but that's what you'll need to do for perspective tracking to work properly.
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This is probably the thing I use Quicksilver for most - controlling iTunes without having to look at iTunes, ever. It's so convenient that I've held off replacing Quicksilver for one of its actively developed successors.
Except China has never banned programming languages.
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This really cannot be said enough. I thought I had figured out a way to arbitrage the oil market sometime last year. Luckily I decided to "make the trades on paper" and see how it turned out before actually putting down ten grand. The devil is in the details, of course, and after watching what happened and fully reading the prospectus of the inverse oil ETF I realized what happened. Always READ THE PROSPECTUS if you are going to be using ETFs or anything else exotic. Again: READ. THE. PROSPECTUS.
The eBook it self probably took around 3-4 hours to write

holy cow, i don't think i could type 60 pages of coherent markup in 3-4 hours.
Latency is impossible to guarantee with both threads and events, so neither is very good from that perspective. They don't talk about dead lock either or thread pool exhaustion. Meaningfully assigning thread priorities is nearly impossible as well. Neither is a good abstraction.
Apple is quickly turning into a parody of itself.
Added our site http://teaspiller.com.

The added sites need a little bit more info about them. Maybe twitter-like short description to keep it simple?
I think it might be more like Duloc.
On SpaceX's failure rate, I think I should point out that it was the first 3 that failed, and have learned from each failure. There are too few launches to do statistics on, but it doesn't seem to me that we can infer from past events that the 6th launch has a 60% failure rate.

Cost plus doesn't seem to be helping the situation, but the fact that so much of American space technology is ITAR-controlled seems to be far more detrimental. For those that don't know, ITAR[1] effectively prevents critical spacecraft components from being exported to non-US persons, and even the technical details must be kept secret. All this means is that other countries design and build their own components (including software) from scratch, and American companies can't even compete with them in non-US markets.

ITAR is a major hassle, but the consequences are too severe for any company or individual to try to take matters into their own hands (i.e. release ITAR stuff anyways). There needs to be legislation to fix this.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITAR
It is non-Cocoa, AFAIK. And 32-bit. My information might be outdated, though.
Michael Arrington seems to be fond of them.
He's a pretty prolific guy... if you're into Javascript, his Github repo has lots of great stuff: http://github.com/visionmedia
Slow glass at last!

Bob Shaw's The light of other days http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light#Slow_light_in_fictio...
I would have probably used this a lot years ago, but now what I yearn for is tab-autocomplete, emacs-style, for attachment fields.

This is a much faster way for me to attach files, and it doesn't frac my wrists making me touch the infernal mouse.
Yeah, that seems to back up what I was talking about for undergrad courses. I'm sure this course I'm looking at with 680 enrollment brings up the average a bit... 772, 480, 280, 330, 248, 260, 223... and there are a good number in the 50-100 range.

The grad courses of course have smaller class sizes since they're the long tail of education, but that's not what we're talking about here. If you remove the courses with 0 undergrads, the average is probably not below 25.
Interesting. It's kind of like taking away the funnel that leads to paid accounts. Though you could argue the free accounts that Grouply is taking from Ning are accounts that would never pay anyways... so is there something else Grouply is after, other than growing in terms of users/networks?
Well it is a program, sort of, for windows, sort of, but not for Windows, I think.
Hi matth,

Not in a single-person startup, but there were some useful HN-linked articles in the past. In particular, I found patio11's article about running a software startup as a single-founder (and on 5 hours a week) particularly useful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1206649

I think he's made some really good points about doing a lot of time-as-asset stuff (go read the article, it's really good). Maybe you should get in contact with him?

I wish you the best of luck.
We use site canary for www.trailbehind.com.

It ran smoothly for months, and then we had a bit of a problem, but site canary alerted us right away.

Also, site canary was recently made free, so set it up! It will email you when you have an issue. Should definitely have some sort of uptime tool like pingdom or site canary.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with site canary, other than I use their software.
Nice site.

I agree that it needs more info. I'll be taking care of that soon, keep an eye out.
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Pingdom is pretty cool. So is http://aremysitesup.com/
Here are some others too: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/12-excellent-free-tools-for-mo...
I think that you're trying to apply the metaphor too literally.
Not for satire. For breaking the terms of the app store and including representations of public figures (without consent?) in the app.

This is old news. http://appreview.tumblr.com/post/150220593/avoid-public-figu...

8. Public Figures — Brian’s original article included “political lampooning.” I’ll extend that to include association or portrayal of public figures. Two examples: around Obama’s inauguration, CodeMorphic created an app called Obamify that manipulated photos to appear like those iconic posters from the campaign; the app went into infinite review. Yak Apps had to remove imagery containing Mr. and Mrs. Obama before their “First Dog” app was approved.
4 minutes per page? As someone who has written two books, I call BS.
Why not just send your email from Emacs then? message-mode is great.
Also, no affiliation with these guys, I have been watching a company that has an interesting offering. If you run Rails, or can run a ruby script on your server, this offering looks very interesting: http://scoutapp.com/
Not a new direction. Our apps (two of them) were banned for the same reasons a year ago.
I watched it, and you should, too. It was a great speech.

The best summary I can come up with:
* Pres. Obama is really passionate about the space program (or at least talks like he is)
* His earliest memory is waving a flag as astronauts visited Hawaii
* He has a picture of Jupiter taken by the Hubble hanging in his private office
* He's increasing NASA's budget
* He's cutting Constellation and re-purposing Orion (2 failing programs, IMO)
* He wants to see NASA to put humans farther into deep space
* He wants to extend the life of the ISS by >5 years
* He wants to send humans to an asteroid
* He wants to send a human into a Mars orbit and back by 2030
* Next up, landing on Mars.
* He's going to have a plan to give current (aka soon-to-be-former) shuttle engineers jobs by August 15.
* He (or his speech writers) really like random space trivia
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I wonder if you can achieve similar effect by projecting a video shot with fisheye lens onto a concave screen.
Eagerly anticipating a post from John Gruber explaining how satire is an inferior form of humor that drags a platform's comedic potential down.
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Good timing =)