skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest pitfall is that you will be successful as a consultant long before your startup will make any money and the temptation to drop the startup and concentrate on full-blown consultancy will be nearly impossible to resist.

If you are going to do this be rigorous from day one and set aside a number of days per week when you do not allow yourself to work on your consultancy stuff at all.

Stay away from consultancy jobs that are even remotely related to the startup you're doing.
You seriously think AT&T can change their ETFs inside of a couple days? I don't think it's possible a company as big as AT&T could finish planning the meetings that it would take to plan contractual changes in that time period.

Beware the tech-colored glasses. Most people don't care what Google does.
Yep, I also remember Blockout fondly. Way more fun than Tetris, despite being much less popular.
For what it's worth, some "patronizing" limits actually enable optimizations that are otherwise not possible.

For example, if anything might be a pointer and you can point to an offset inside a struct, then you can't have deterministically perfect garbage collection and you can't have garbage collection that moves things, for example to compact the heap. Java solves this by only allowing references to "the top of" objects, and stopping you casting pointers. Consequently, Java's runtime knows what's garbage and it can move things around with impunity.

Or consider Clojure, where immutable data means that you can grab a snapshot of a value without read-locking.
Why would an iPad help? It still has the eyeball-melting backlight, and it has a glossy screen, so you have to read through a reflection.

There's a reason why people like e-ink-based ebook readers so much. They may not have games, but they are really good for reading ebooks. (Though I admit that the normal Kindle is not so great for books that have diagrams.)
My book 'Programming Windows Azure' from O'Reilly is available
My night and weekends project for over a year - 'Programming Windows Azure' published by O'Reilly is finally out.

When I started off, I've tried to write a book I'd like to read myself. That means a sense of humor (hopefully), lots of code (especially code that doesn't involve the Microsoft stack) and in general, being very deep technical. The code samples are mostly in C# but they are easily translatable to any language/platform you like. I've snuck in a chapter based purely on Python too.

I've tried to make this book not as dry as a lot of other technical books. You'll find , among other things, hidden references to Star Trek (TNG and TOS), BSG and atleast one Office-based code sample.

I feel a bit bad about plugging my own work on HN but since this essentially took over my life for over a year, I thought it was justified :).
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Absolutely, execution is the key. Btw, I checked the site but don't get what magicbeef is about...
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gitorious.org is another good one.
Hubris is the hallmark of entrepreneurial endeavors. I don't know how many sympathetic ears you'll have here if you're concerned about the "arrogance" of scientists.
Or they might be anticipating an iPhone release on Verizon, in which case about half their iPhone customers would jump ship, and would probably be happy to spend $175 to do so.

Edit: the article says the change doesn't apply to existing contracts, so this theory probably doesn't make sense.

Edit 2: Then again, maybe ATT will have a brief exclusive on the 4G iPhone, and they want to lock those new contracts in before the phone hits Verizon. Ok, I'm going with that.
Review my bookmarklet - FlashPlus - to make media, more usable.
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If it does, that version will break a huge amount of existing C code.
FlashPlus - http://bit.ly/flashplus was a Chrome extension that was converted to a bookmarklet
True. The thing I wonder about is whether the development of sentience and culture is swinging evolution's pendulum away from the resource needs of the young, and toward valuing the experience and knowledge of the elders.
I have no doubts about living to 75.

But remember, if someone who is 60 now lives to 999, I still win the bet. So I feel like I might have to wait more than 50 years.
I'm pretty sure that beard will need a trim by 3010.
Don't forget your towel.
Microsoft seeks business edge in wave of social consciousness
[A joke that to get would have required seeing the following film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles ]
CoolPreviews, an addon for Firefox, caused the PacMan music to play even when the user wasn't viewing google.com. They've released an update that fixes the issue.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207/
hello, I'm a blackberry user. I do like the site.... When I'm using a computer. However there's placement errors on the BB scripting side.

Highlighting over the buttons puts the button text over the link (search, I'm feeling ducky, etc.). If I knew of a way to send a screenshot, I would. If you need basic sanity checking so DDG looks pretty on the BB, email me at jwcrawley at gmail daught com
FWIW, I had posted this earlier

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1367899

Edit: actually it seems this post one is older. Hadn't seen it :(
I'd definitely be interested, hit me up on GMail and we can discuss it further (mdolon at gmail).
Are you sure about that? I thought Sprint was only a partial investor and lessee. Clear 4G is a lot more expensive than Sprint 4G, so it would be strange if they had a subsidary that offered worse service for more money.

(I went with Sprint 4G over Clear 4G because Sprint 4G is free with a 3G data plan. 4G coverage can be spotty, but 3G coverage is exceptional. So I am never without data. Now if only I left my house more often...)
From the article: "If you are on existing AT&T contract this won't affect you until renewal time. If you’re considering an iPhone this must be a consideration before signing up with AT&T now."
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When does the original contract expire? Couldn't Apple buy its way out of the contract if it wanted to?
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"The Safety Dance" == lmao

About the only thing I've seen that could do that is a Chumby. I've never used one myself, but I believe it's effectively "fully" programmable: http://www.chumby.com/
You don't even have to grab MAMP or Xcode, since Apache, PHP, Ruby, Python, emacs and vim come preinstalled with OS X. So you just have to get the database server. Until you have to compile something.
Why is Lyons so bitter? His arguments revolve around Android having more "features" and otherwise being an iPhone knockoff. The features debate is old and boring - maybe he cares, but I don't and I suspect that most iPhone buyers don't either.

And as developers, why should we be excited at a knockoff? Do we need to punish Apple for being successful? Unlike Microsoft, Apple has not tried to force people to run its OS. And if Apple stops innovating the phone market, I don't see Google stepping up as a replacement. Much as Microsoft did, I expect large market share to result in years of the same old crap.

I understand that some people don't like the situation they are in, and I'm okay with that. But can we stop pretending that Apple is the evil empire? They make a great product, and you bought it. That's what companies are supposed to do.
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word of mouth referral, always. If i can outsource, i absolutely will. it can save a lot of $. if i work U.S. based read proposals carefully. lots of developers charge in three hour blocks and will ding you for three hours to put a line of code from google analytics on a site -- which takes 3 minutes.
This caught my eye...
And then I remembered that my safaribooksonline subscription lets me read all the o'reilly books I want, and thousands of other tech books, for $20.00 a month.

For anyone who wants to use this coupon, I'm not sure why you wouldn't just get yourself a month on safari... or a free trial for that matter....
Any ideas?
Exactly, usually cellphone contracts have a clause that allows you to terminate early with no fees if the terms are changed and you do not agree with them.

I've actually done this before, I don't remember the carrier but they raised texting from $0.10 to $0.15 and I called them up and said that I wanted to terminate early since I did not agree to the change in terms. I didn't really use texting, but I wanted to go to a different carrier.

My guess is this is why they are not changing current contracts as that would allow people to leave even faster.
I love the competition but if I can present an alternative view: Why I'm sticking with the iPhone:

I plug it into iTunes and it automatically syncs everything and backs up the device automatically. All my accessories work with the dock connector including my car. I can still get software updates for my 3 year old iPhone 2G. Music & media players are superior to Android in my opinion along with it simply being easier to sync content. I can play my Audible books on my iPhone. Couldn't live without those. It's easier to buy an iPhone. There's basically just one model or the hold-over model from last year. With Android phones I feel like there's always something better right around the corner. I feel compelled to research CPU speed, RAM/ROM size, and evaluate the differences in software. I don't care for the physical buttons on Android phones. I think it's jarring to switch between the touch-screen and menu/home/search/back buttons which incidentally seem to be arranged differently on most Android handsets. I think the iPhone still has a pretty big app advantage especially for games and multimedia.
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>it may be true that MPEG holds some patents that apply to VP8, Google clearly holds some patents that apply to H.264 (because this is a huge mess.)

I presume you mean MPEG-LA hold patents over VP8? Which? Also if the reverse is true, why aren't Google having MPEG-LA pay them license fees? Or, perhaps that is what's going to fall out of all this now.

In any case I think all of this clearly shows that the MPEG-LA are all about controlling the web and squeezing every cent out of it possible contrary to their apparently lax attitude [until 2012].
That's one way to solve their network capacity problems.
I felt bad about a plug for my book but felt that it was justified given that it has taken every night/weekend for over a year :)

I've tried to write a book that I would like to read. This means humor (find all the hidden Trek, BSG references), deep technical under-the-hood stuff and lots of code.

And in specific, code written in a non-Microsoft stack. All the C# code samples are easily translatable and there's an entire chapter on crypto stuff written purely in Python.

Do let me know what you guys think.
"How much money does he think he'll need to meet his goal?"

That question doesn't make a lot of sense. This is not a Web 2.0 startup. It's a lot more fundamental than that, and a lot of the required tools and technologies have not been invented yet - that's what they are trying to do.
I don't think you see the prices the military pays for things if you think it's unprofitable to be a military contractor (ex -military contractor here)
I couldn't resist calculating the answer to your rhetorical question. It depends how many startups get started each year in SV of course. If the answer is 1000 and we continue to expand at 1/3 per year, then 12 more years. But since we could never get all the startups, what this calculation really proves is that our growth rate is going to have to slow down at some point within the next 12 years.

Unless of course there start to be a lot more startups, which is a real possibility.

But it's alarming to think what sort of monstrosity we'd have to evolve into in order to fund 1000 startups a year.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/B-24_Libe...

I doubt I'd want to run it.
Ask HN: Does Cap & Trade make sense?
I am trying to establish a LED lighting company with all the benefits on energy savings. Reading and studying a lot about energy I do believe at this point that the real inconvenient truth is human production of CO2 is causing global warming.

The problem I have is all the focus on CO2 emission regulation. I do understand the politician they like to have some tool to regulate our energy consumption, but I am starting the conclusion that this whole cap and trade approach is the wrong road.

Some article describe this idea all the way to the next ponzi scheme, where the rich getter richer and the poor will loose out. As it is so massive in its approach that it is easy to envision how some people and corporation will make lots of money out of this. But the core issue on how to dramatically reduce energy consumption is left on the outside.

Am I a forming wrong ideas here or just read the wrong articles?
I'm just going to hope that this means Apple is releasing an iphone with Verizon, or Sprint. This is a really nasty way to fight customers going to Android phones.
Yeah! AT&T will screw over their customers all by themselves.
Where does the fresh water come from? Your assumption is that sex cells are magically exempt from the accumulation of errors.
I've heard that when a diver surfaces quickly, they can expel a single breath all the way up. The air in their lungs continues to expand as they go through the pressure gradient.

Has anyone actually experienced this? I'm assuming it would have to be a really quick surface (ie: dropping your weights), and after only a short dive or on pure O2.
I just got a copy of this, meaning to read this for a long time.
I don't follow, how is increasing the cost to terminate your service going to solve the problem of there already being too many people on your network? At best this will keep the problem from getting worse, but not solve it in the least.

At least until contracts start expiring...
Drop in violent crime tied to immigration?
"Hypothetical populations that didn't age and die would have killed themselves off due to lack of food."

Starvation is not the only way living creatures can die.

Just up the aggression a little, for example, and the death rate returns to a self-sustainable level.
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Ask HN: keeping services up and running?
Services are born into a life of sweat and suffering, but some can't stand the beating or the garbage being thrown at them, and they die on you. Hence the question:

What are you using to keep them always up and running?

I've used djb's daemontools some 6 years ago, and it was okay back then, but I wonder what is being used by those setting up their gear now. I've also compiled this quick list of players in this space after some googling and asking around:

* monit http://mmonit.com/monit/
* supervisord http://supervisord.org/
* daemonize http://bmc.github.com/daemonize/
* runit http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/
* perp http://b0llix.net/perp/
* launchd http://launchd.macosforge.org/
* DJB's daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Pointers to alternatives, too, are greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
It's a big deal because it's showing averages for all responses. I might, on average, get crappy responses for my app, but everyone else might be getting good ones on the whole. Without a scale on the graph, I have no idea what I'm getting is "normal" or not, and may overlook something obvious, like my connection to my server, causing the issue.
You might look at the mitochondrial work which recently focused on Corral-Debrinski's lab as the most likely prospect for getting the job done. A brief outline is at the end of this page:

http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes/mitosens

and you can look at Corral-Debrinski's breakthrough here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18771762

Basically it's now shown possible to move a mitochondrial gene into the nucleus and then have the proteins produced pushed back to the mitochondria for use. When done for the 13 important mitochondrial genes whose mutation damages us, then this will make it possible completely remove their contribution to aging.

There is good reason to think that this is a large contribution.

Context:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/10/how-age-damaged-m...

How much money: $1 billion over ten years to implement SENS fully in mice. Incremental amounts obtain incremental progress.
"evolutionary neglect"

I agree. That's the only mechanism that seems to have the power to explain aging, other than magic or the Invisible Hand of the Creator (but the latter two have a huge assortment of other issues).
OS X, dual monitors. Textmate, Sequel Pro, Transmission. I do all of my web development with these three applications and in my opinion, they're the best.
This article, and a few others covering exactly the same thing keep getting posted here ever few months. I hope Mr. de Grey is right, and I hope I live long enough to find out. That said, until there's some progress to announce, please stop re-posting this here.
I'm curious but I can't see the Quora thread.
That's complicated. My criticism of Aubrey de Grey is one I have of transhumanism in general, which is that it's mostly CS people taking Moore's law and applying it to biological problems without having any experience in biology. Aubrey de Grey's degrees are not in the life sciences, and to my knowledge he's never been directly engaged in a biological research project. Those of us who have done aging research understand how ridiculously difficult it can be to do things that sound simple on paper, and De Grey isn't even making proposals that are simple on paper.

On the other hand, he seems to be a smart, well-intentioned guy who has spent a lot of time developing a theoretical knowledge of how biological systems work. De Grey's not going to spend your money on coke and whores, and he's not going to spend it developing the ultimate power crystal. He's just underestimated the difficulty of solving the problem.

So if you think aging is a disease and not a natural process, it's probably underfunded and you should consider giving him money. Just understand that you're probably going to die of an aging-related complication regardless of how much money you or anyone else gives him.
I'm sure you can just put LinkedIn is a trade mark of LinkedIn Corp or something at the footer. IANAL. I am a designer and can tell you the TM looks ugly :)
Mapping Caps Lock to Control helps. Now I find myself trying to do it on my Windows box at work vs reaching way over to the home and end buttons.
It's not that they are magically exempt, but that the error filled ones are less reproductively viable, and die out. That contrasts directly with e.g., cancer cells, that become more prolific and lead to the death of the organism.

(There's several points of 'selection' for sex cells- error free ones are, loosely speaking, more likely to successfully fertilize/get fertilized, and more likely to create viable offspring that themselves reproduce.)

Edit:
It's like the difference between being able to select the top 10% and selecting those with a score above 90%. The chain gets to "select" only those that perform above a set threshold, but the organism has to play out every hand it's dealt.
The crime just moves to a new area. The criminals simply move to a new area that is not measured in the study.
At work: Windows 7, at home: Ubuntu 10.04

At both places: 2 monitors, Emacs (js2-mode, python-mode, php-mode, charp-mode, yasnippet, a custom theme, and more), a terminal shell (sometimes inside of emacs) and a browser open.

When I did systems programming (just for curiosity), I used just a shell and emacs on CentOS, Slackware and FreeBSD; along with some good books on messing around with that stuff. The OSes were run inside of virtual box just in case I really messed something up :-)
Klout revamps itself in bid to become the “credit report” of social media
They should have made it a 2 hour sale or something, I'm up to 6 books and need to stop before I get tempted by something else.
I think it's really hard to do this personally because you will have to hustle business as if you own a second business. if you can get a part time gig or a job somewhere making what you need to make. It'll be easier, trust me.
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I think that's awesome, I had 5 as a decent number in my head.
You will live in a perpetual state of cultural shock. You can't possibly be useful to the society in that situation.
Since when can anyone prove anything like this in advance? Everyone invests based on a hypothesis. Mine is that there's an untapped resource available. If you're the only investor that attracts these people you get the pick of the litter, so even if it wouldn't work if everyone did it, it might still work for one or two investors.
It was $5 - but it's not about the money.

It's about a company promising something and not following through. Top that off with a big helping of poor communication, and you start to get an idea of why some people are frustrated.
People still die, from accidents and what have you. In terms of multiples of the average death rate, generational change will be exactly the same. But generations are 10+ times as long in this view.
Study Claims 60 Percent Of Facebook Users Considering Quitting
that's even funnier
Running a start-up is great, growing a business is boring
Things were so much more simple before android. iPhone was undisputed champion of smart phones, the phone choice was simple. Now theres all these options! Do I really want all these new features? Am I going to miss them if I buy the new iphone? Etc, etc, etc...
There are still various protective taxes in place with respect to importing automobiles from abroad (not to mention shipping costs). It could be that in this case Toyota expects that producing cars locally in America will reduce in lower costs than producing them abroad for this reason.
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In the introductory section, they say -- in italics -- "One of the most important conclusions of this analysis is that the presidency has little to do with wealth."

And then they list 43 presidents' net worth; their lowest (and quite sparsely populated) category is "less than $1M" and from a quick glance I think the median is somewhere around $10M.

Yup, sure looks to me as if the presidency has little to do with wealth.

(Perhaps what they mean is that there's no single simple strong connection: being president doesn't mean that you instantly become rich, and also doesn't require you to have been rich first. Well, sure, but so what?)
Laptop: Ubuntu, IDE: vim/eclipse/gedit, whatever fits best.
Partly working in Solaris, so quite some script development in a shell with vi
Yeah it is more of a tech demo in it's current form. It's based a much more complete game called Wezzle that we made using Java.
"There's also a variant called antagonistic pleiotropy, where you have genes that have a beneficial effect early in life having a negative effect in old age."

That makes a lot of sense. Passing on the genes seems to over-ride a lot of other things, just look at the crazy stuff most (all) creatures do to find and attract a mate.
Prior to this I wasn't awfully bothered by it (and I realise this came before the Graph API - but it is an extension of the same problem)

But this app apparently does not honour any privacy settings and exposes keywords from even private status updates...

Also it appears to do little authorisation of profiles - which are also stored under the same ref ID as your facebook profile (e.g. http://statuscloud.icodeforlove.com/[profile id])

"Clouds" are stored one level under profiles with what looks to be a sequential ID.

All of Facebooks privacy work wiped away...
Web Dev work: Aptana Studio, Sequel Pro, Terminal (2x or 3x usually) HTTP Client (excellent little app for working with API's), all on Mac OSX and 2 screens, always.
Haha yeah, unfortunately that won't work. There's an internal representation of the game board that needs to updated if you want to cheat like that :)