skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking into twilo (I always forget the name and have to google it). I use phonebooth and google apps. For hosting I'm using host gator til my sites or apps need a dedicated server. When that time comes I have a business partner to front hardware and hosting. For office space when it comes to that time I have made a few connections that I will barter services for.
Along the same lines: http://www.chorewars.com/
Off-the-Record Instant Messaging (encrypted and routed through Tor) for Android
I would buy an iPhone to use this, if the game was compelling enough. And as we all know, that is a really low bar if you get the core RPG mechanics right.
What makes you think that a thread pool dispatching events would use a lock? No modern efficient thread pool implementation dispatching work items is serialized by a single lock, to my knowledge.

What you ought to have is multiple async accept calls outstanding, and as they complete they are entered into work queues. Worker threads (i.e. the thread pool) pulling work of those queues should steal work from other queues when their own queue is empty.

See e.g. http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2008/09/17/BuildingACus...

Pulling items off a queue, either by its associated worker thread or another worker thread stealing its work should be lock-free.

As I mentioned elsewhere, GC is not necessarily (or even often) the most efficient approach for request / response style servers. A more optimal approach is a heap associated with the request which can be freed in a single go when the request is done with, with all allocations associated with that request (i.e. that don't need to persist between requests) coming out of that heap.

You can even design a GC around this principle: have one GC heap per worker thread, and collect it after every request has been processed. There should be little or no roots for this heap associated with the worker itself, which should be (very) low down in its call stack after it is done with the request. If you have write barriers for any mutations to inter-request (shared) state, you can trace those to find out which bits of the worker thread's GC heap you need to keep (copy out). Then you can simply zero the GC heap and reset the free pointer. You can make your write barriers smart so that they are associated with that worker's heap, so you don't have to wander all over the shared heap looking for roots.
Ask HN: Is there a way to Buy/Sell Posterous themes?
By that I mean a structured way so that the buyer will see a live demo, much like the native theme selection, and then place the order and receive the files/code for use.

I ask this because I plan on building a few themes and releasing them for free, and hope that it will generate interest for the quality themes I have in the pipeline.

1) Is there a Posterous theme marketplace?
2) Will Posterous object to this?
3) How can I licence or protect the css/markup for my themes?

And finally, what stops an savvy user from digging into the source of the Live Demo and simply copy-pasting?

Would appreciate some input
I never heard of this legend but maybe if you're coming from sociology or psychology rather than philosophy like I am then this is famous-ish. I'd read a book like the one describe for sure, I love Chomsky and never had much love for behaviourism and am delighted to find that I'm in such hallowed company. By the way I was completely agreeing with you earlier but just expanding on what you had said and I shall do so in kind again sir: very misleading title.
Too many modules still work for the 2.x branch. Python has a tremendous amount of power in its modules. To lose that power for a "cleaner" language is a substantial move.
This sums up my feelings exactly.

Ariely says at one point during the interview: "I mean, imagine that you basically had to drive six hours, three hours each way to have coffee with somebody, and, you know, coffee usually ends up with just coffee."

This analogy is false, because even if the average is six hours, you're free to allocate them however you want. One hour a day for a week, half an hour on your lunch break here, a couple hours on your laptop while watching TV there, etc. If surfing some profiles and exchanging some e-mails is considered the equivalent of driving from New York to Boston to go on a date, that's absurd.
Doing Business in the Cloud
In contrast I feel like I have been building my tolerance up for the past decade just waiting for my moment to perform.
Writing Your Startup's Privacy Policy
The complete list is:
talk, reach, throw, row, go, tow, carry
which lists the things you try and their order in terms of hazard to the lifesaver.
Wish more startups were this transparent about their efforts. Nice job with the article and the PR.
Absolutely. The 800m is primarily an aerobic endeavor, so it is important that you are fit. I'm not sure how much you're running presently, but your goal should be to improve your aerobic fitness: that means easy running at conversational pace, and an occasional harder run of ~20 minutes in duration.

That said, in such a short event, a fair deal of power is required. Thus, doing short hill sprints (from 60-200m) in the months prior to your attempt would be helpful. Be careful to introduce these slowly. Start with only two, and work up to, say, eight over a period of as many weeks.

Finally, interval work is crucial, although one has to be very careful -- too much too soon, and injury is basically guaranteed. Focus on workouts with rest time greater than or equal to your work, like 4-5x400m or 6x200m. You could do one workout a week.

My favorite book is Healthy Intelligent Training by Keith Livingstone. It's an incredible resource. Also, there's a ton of theory on 800m training in the following thread

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2669719

Lastly (and most importantly!), get a coach. Good luck to you.
The fact that women like height and money is uncontroversial (sorry dude). I wouldn't believe any exact numbers about how much of one converts to how much of the other.

It could be true in this case though due to the nonlinear utility of money. This guy's a professor of computer science at Duke so he's presumably making good money, maybe $150K? The difference between making $150K and $190K is pretty unimportant, like an extra inch in height, whereas the difference between making $40K and $80K is important, like an extra (I dunno) five inches in height.

For this particular guy, he could probably increase his attractiveness by an equal amount by spending fifty bucks on a decent haircut.
Cloud Balancing with Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB)
As I read it, it's not paint, it's actually mixed into the concrete.

As far as whether it is effective or not... well, it's probably more effective than not doing anything (additional costs and construction techniques need to be considered). Overall, I think absorbing pollution near the vehicles that produce it is a good idea. The raw amount of paved area in the world makes it an attractive target for any 'green' development (I've heard of projects trying to put solar panels into roads).
Hahaha. Oh, yes, I'm aware of that, but the amount he mentioned was strange. But yeah, perhaps he was using a nonlinear comparison as you said, which would make more sense.
I agree. I think it's remarkable that in taking an overt step to improve Linux typography, they managed to compound their problems by introducing a weak, quirky new default font.
PR agencies, networking, sending your media kit relentlessly, knowing somebody who knows somebody, social-media-whoring, etc.
> mobile cell tower with its own satellite uplink to reduce costs of on-the-ground devices

There is growing suspicion that microwave radiation from cell phone towers is having negative biological effects on nearby wildlife. The sooner we have the option to cheaply put these things up in the air, the better.
Ask HN: who is Lebron going to sign with?
t-minus 45 mins, get your predictions in!
This is a very difficult issue to try to remain impartial on, since I'm a man and an entrepreneur myself, and Elon Musk has been an inspiration for many years.

I'm really trying though... but the fact that his ex-wife is trying to get a share of his companies - just shows that she is trying to hurt him where it hurts the most: by hurting his baby.
Back when I expected to get some $ from an app I worked in the past on, I typically banked on 40 days after the payment period.

I believe that the agreement says 45 days after the end of the payment period. From personal observation, the payment periods are the end of the month, plus/minus three days. I've seen payments get paid within 25 days and get paid after 45 days (and angry emails written).
The lawyers always win.
WTF? Way to fulfill the geek stereotype.
I hope you're saying that misinterpretation of the research is stupid, not the research itself.

More like the discussion about the research in general, but yes.
It is coded for by DNA - the DNA in each B cell rearrange itself to produce different antibodies, and you can get the sequence from that DNA.
Duck Duck Go should seriously consider adopting a serious sounding name.
He is paying for both party's so she has no reason to skimp on legal fee's. But assuming a 50/50 split it works out to ~500$ / hour * 40 hours a week, for each of them. Which is probably just 1 full time layer + some part time help for each of them.
What is your app, out of curiosity?
It's an interesting project. I grabbed it and wrote a quick Flickr FS. It seems that it's a little limited for really laggy webservices in that you specify the type of an entry (directory, folder) by the type of data you return, and it calls the same method for readdir, getattr, and read, with no way to differentiate in your code.

In order to specify the type of an entry, you have to return the data for that entry. So a sub-folder has to return an array. There's no way to differentiate between, say, an ls on the parent folder or on the sub folder (e.g. ls / and ls /foo both return the method mapped to /foo), so you have to query all of the subfolders' contents at once AND cache it so it doesn't have to be re-queried when the user wants to look at the sub-folder.

Hopefully I'm overlooking something, but the source is pretty straightforward. The good part is it'd be easy to modify to ask for types separately. Actually just passing in another argument indicating what mode it's in would help.
Trapster allows users to choose whether to run in the background or not. You can also choose to receive push notification if background running isn't your style but you still want to be updated of live enforcement points or road hazards. We want our user to be happy and we listen to their ideas. I hope you'll give the app a try, over 6.9 million users world-wide have :)
~Stefanie
I only ever went on one internet date. It was the best date of my life and I ended up marrying her 4 years later.

Obviously this a ridiculous statistical outlier, but one of the reasons I always thought it was successful was because we didn't find each other on a huge site like Match.com or Plenty Of Fish. Instead it was through the online dating section of the Seattle Stranger, which sort of guaranteed that we would at least have a few similar interests right off the bat. To anyone in Seattle I highly recommend it.
What do you mean? The Huffington post is written by Musk himself.
Many kinds; Java itself, and lack of stable dynamic redeploying without bringing the services down, despite being marketed otherwise. I'm talking about real life production configurations, not about what's possible on Joe R. Hacker's machine under special circumstances. Of course it's not the fault of appservers themselves but rather of JVM architecture esp. classloaders. Still the RL situation is that today's complicated stacks of libraries, dependency injection frameworks and code using it can make life of admins and change management folks miserable.

Add to it a monstrosity from the deepest ends of Moria: maven (hint: google for 'maven sucks') and you have the world lots of people want to forget about.

Today's Clojure webservers being usually wrappers around existing solutions won't cure all these wounds, but at least it's a step in a refreshing direction.
Definitely a cool concept, but I can see myself cheating and just saying that I did something in order to level up and get stuff.

Now a version of this that could verify if you did something, either automatically or with some user involvement would be even cooler.

One idea: take a before and after picture as proof that you did it (maybe do some image processing if possible)
Another idea: use a GPS signal to verify you're actually at the laundromat when you say that you did the laundry.
I've been working on a web version of this since Startup Weekend Detroit:

http://kuwest.com

It's live now, but I haven't promoted it. I was going to hold off until I had the quest engine done and polished a little more, but feel free to sign up now.
On the iPhone, the browser version of Youtube is better then the app version. High Quality mode over 3g and it seems to stream better. This is great.

What would make this complete is if there was a way to configure the embedded Youtube to use the browser version.

You know, for apps that don't have an offline mode, why is it a dedicated app? The Youtube app is no longer needed. Also apps like Facebook won't display anything when there is no network connection, so why bother?
I agree wiht a lot of his points. I think people do tend to be more superficial or picky when evaluating profiles, because the photos are really the only thing to go on -- you can't get a sense of a person's body language or speaking style online, and textual data only goes so far. And I found the actual "first dates" to be stressful because they're more like interviews for dates rather than real dates -- much of the spontaneity and chemistry of meeting a person for the first time is gone. Finally, as a non-white male, the odds online are somewhat stacked against me, which is discouraging.

I'm intrigued by the guy's idea about creating interactive virtual spaces for dating, rather than searching through textual profiles. I.e., put people together in a rich, dynamic environment, let them observe the complexity of each other's interactions, and they can gravitate toward one another on that basis. Heck, it doesn't even have to be virtual -- you could launch something like a matchmaking amusement park.
91% of HIV strains means we are 91% of the way to complete eradication.

That is inaccurate. Current antiviral agents remove most (as in over 90%) of the HIV viral particles from the blood of a patient. But then after weeks or months the viral load in blood is just as high. And any given patient has numerous strains within. Furthermore, most viral particles are not active: the virus saturates the immune system with defective particles (in a way it screens itself under noise). What's worse, HIV has long-term repositories like nervous system cells, from which particles are emitted at low rate. Killing your brain cells just to get rid of HIV defeats the purpose.

What this novel antibody will do is to remove 91% of the strains, meaning the remaining 9% will flourish enormously . RNA viruses mutate very fast and broadly (always being one step before crash-error).

What a good antibody can do is cut short the epidemics side of HIV: if a patient's HIV load is so low that it can't effectively and consistently pass on its infection to another person, the infection dies with the patient. This leads to a negative feedback loop that stops the epidemic. It's the same concept as vaccines: ensure that a sufficiently large proportion of the population is immune, so infections cannot spread when they inevitably appear in isolated individuals.
That's my thought as well!

In http://kuwest.com you get 3XP for adding a task, 5XP for commenting on it and 7XP for uploading a picture.

I'm also thinking you wouldn't want to flood your social network with lies about what you're doing.
There still seems to be a huge barrier to adoption: getting people to sign up for a subscription to Flattr their first site. There are sites worth subscribing to see and there are sites which are not. The sites not worth a subscription have an incentive to freeload on the ecosystem by not working on the pre-sale of the Flattr account and instead just soaking up the one-click transactions. The sites that are worth a subscription will have to heavily presell the subscription, without their best single reason to subscribe (imposing a paywall) and with less efficiency than just setting up a paywall subscription system for themselves. Plus, instead of getting to keep 90% of the $6 a month that they'd get if they sold you on a subscription to their own site, they'll end up giving most of it away to freeloading sites.

See also Contenture, which was essentially identical to this business model.

There are also interesting problems in a world where everyone has a Flattr account, but we're not in that world and won't ever be.
I have started to use an online dating site for the first time about 4-6 weeks ago. It is hard work. It's like having a mini part time job.

Advice for startups in this space. Cut your features to the following: Like + Email. If I LIKE someone (judging by the looks), then show me the basic info. If I LIKE the basic info, they get a notification and if they LIKE me then that's it. Let us email each other from OUR OWN client. So I email user345@datingsite.com and you route the email a la Craigslist. Simple as that. Let us take it further.

Advice to guys. My first 2 weeks I was pinging everyone I was attracted to. That did not work (for me). It's when I just kick back and decide to wait that I realized it's mostly the women who choose in this game. Also if someone contacts the conversation is usually much easier. My 2 newbie cents.
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I really hope they make an Android version.
You can get modules right now, in every browser, with CoffeeScript. It compiles nicely to standard JS:

http://coffeescript.org
I'm moving to Thailand or possibly the Philippines from Sweden at the end of August, to attempt to build apps aiming to be ramen profitable in a developing country and then work my way up from there.

Problem: Worst case, my savings only last until December.

Solution: Splatter "hire me" over apps, portfolio site and keep an eye out for freelance work to retain a reasonable life-support margin.

Problem: May not find freelance work due to bad luck, recession, incompetence etc.

Solution: Apply for distance courses and do 25-50% studies for student funding.

Problem: May over invest in a horrible idea that is never going to make money.

Solution: Aim to build small apps.

Problem: Completely ran out of money, with no obvious way of getting new ones.

Solution: Credit card should get me a few months margins.

Problem: Completely ran out of credit, with no obvious way of supporting myself.

Solution: Admit incompetence, feel ashamed, move back to comfortable Sweden and work at Volvo or Ericsson until retirement like everyone else.

Problem: Pretty Asian girls.

Solution: Don't.

Biggest bottleneck is clearly money, and I'd really prefer not be studying at the same time. I'm also going to be staying with friends, so that'll keep my burn rate down.
Actually the fact that they've shown a great deal of restraint with respect to features, but without that necessarily being a symptom of paradigm-fascism is rather promising to my mind. If you really think this language is representative of feature dumping, boy do I have a few languages to show you.

The emphasis on multi-paradigm in the docs has less to do with ZOMG FEATURES and more with the restraint lack of force applied to the programmer in terms of style.

I think it would behoove you to look through the source before accusing them of featureitis.
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Patent: Full-body teleportation system
The lesson here is: marriage is a very risky proposition, particularly if you are male or much richer (even just potentially) than your partner.

(PS: Much respect for Musk.)
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> In the future, a domain expert will work with a programmer to build an application which the domain expert will then operate and monitor

This has been in the future for at least 30 years, by my knowledge of the literature. In fact, it's been in the future for so long by now that it seems to be in the past, by my reckoning.
This link says 1 inch = $30000.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/height-matters-income-vs...
I would definitely buy the app if it was both on the web and on android.
It's Ironic how people who are really among the best and brightest in the industry, can have such different observations:

Sachin Agarwal (Posterous)

"A couple months before you're going to raise, schedule a coffee meeting with all the VCs. No pitching, no deck. We did this and it was a great way to meet VC partners in a more casual setting. If they like you, they will even help you with your pitch."

Ben Horowitz:(Andreesen Horowitz)
(http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/13/four-things-some-vcs-do-that...)

"However, many VCs who want to have coffee with me are none of the above. Worse yet, they have no agenda and no purpose. They just want to “compare notes.”

When I was CEO, I didn’t take meetings with no agenda and no purpose. I’m not sure why I should take them as a VC. Of course, when I was CEO, people knew better than to request a meeting with me with no agenda and no purpose. I think that these VCs have mammas that didn’t raise them right."
The article doesn't show any text for me (just the headline and white blank).
Will this be a yearly event? Would like to make it for AngelConf 2011.
God or Nothing
IOS 4 adds direct access to iTunes library, iPhone DJ apps about to get crazy
I am going to give it a try. I would have thought that power, rack space, support and bandwidth would cost more than $5!
Viper mode is what makes emacs work for me. I just love it; I haven't used vi/vim in years because I get all that mode-based-editor goodness in emacs, along with every other great feature it has.
The video is awesome.
I reckon he is citing this article:
What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=895442

FTA:
"Women, on the other hand, prefer men who are taller than themselves, and they have a particularly strong aversion to shorter men. For example, our estimates imply that compared to a man who is five inches taller than a woman and earns $ 50,000 per year, a man who is five inches shorter than a woman would need to earn slightly more than half a million dollars per year to make up for his shortcoming."
This whole thing is a bit surprisingly to me since it seems like Elon covered his bases with the separate property agreement. Yet it still has been a major hassle for him money wise.

Gene Simmons (from the band kiss) has an interesting approach to this which he wrote about in his book. He never married his long time partner and playboy playmate Shannon Tweed. But he took it even a step further having her and other live in girlfriends sign documents stating that despite living together they would not become common law married.

Trump is ok with marriage, but puts strong pre-numps in place.

Anyway, it's reading articles like this that can really turn you off to marriage as an entrepreneur. It's hard to say whether you're going to be in love with someone in 20 years, much less 1 year, so why put a legal contract on it? It might make more sense to vest your marriage over time or just take your partnership one day at a time without a contract.