skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess: when you're looking at one good-looking woman you're thinking monogamy. when you're looking at two good-looking women you're thinking polyamory. ;)
DropFuse - FUSE based fs for DropBox linked folders
Irwin Schiff's sons recently wrote "How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes", a book inspired by their father's book.
I picture a hashed biometric identifier that goes in the bottom 64 bits of your ipv6 address, every time you do anything online with any conceivable connected device.
I could write a script to do it.
You can be loyal to an individual or a group though. With polyfidelity it is the latter. It is a closed network of intimacy.
OT: I'm on 8th street in Bellevue today, and I swear Bill pulls up right next to me at the stop light. I shout, "Whoa! Bill Gates!"... and my 5 year old says. "I don't know Bill Gates". A chip off the ol' block :)
I've always understood to simply mean "truthful" or "trustworthy."
Ask HN: any fitbit users?
I remember good interest at HN when fitbit launched. anybody using it here, how do you like it?
Submitter here -

It's my first submit and I wasn't sure how to submit it, doh! I'll treat this as the text explanation.

You might remember the newly added feature in DropBox that allows a user to create a link to a folder and share it with friends. Ref. here: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=21441&replies=3

Over the weekend I decided to make a FUSE fs to access these links in a regular file browser. Feel free to give it a try. To test it out, I have created a shared folder on DropBox and the link to it is included in the README file.

Cheers,
Actually, the feudal concept of fealty did not only bind a vassal to a lord, but - to a lesser degree - also to that lord's lord and so on.

Why do you care? It's a fairly clear word for a new-ish idea, IMHO.
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
And I'm looking forward to being able to watch ESPN 3 on the xbox. Another reason to never, ever consider getting cable again (could Live be the future of cable tv?)
Why not generalize? Have a background process that watches the file, and whenever the modification time changes, refresh the browser. Then it works with any editor.
Working on an "auction" site - Should I let an investor give me money?
I am working on something I call "reverse auctioning". Lame name I know but I cannot think of anything else that I could call it. I showed this to a couple of guys and they told me that they interested in giving me some money to work on the project full time. After I told them the entire details of said "reverse auctioning" idea they were very enthused and said that my idea was pretty ambitious blahdey blah. My question is this, since I do not need money (I do this in my off time), I have free colocation for the one server that everything is running on until I launch it and I am the only developer, should I take money to hire people? I am good at talking to people and I actually enjoy selling and talking about products. I do not want to be a one man band but I also do not want to hire someone that is not willing to work as hard as I have to get this to where it is at.<p>Can anyone else identify with this?
I know free advice is worth as much as I paid for it but I like this board so far.
Especially with cloud offerings. It just dawned on me that there are a ton of people who are able to set up and run a VPS/Cloud instance with only a command line interface. That's really comforting.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com is your best bet

Through posts it links to all of the other good econ blogs: Krugman, Mankiw, as well as good articles in FT, NYTimes, Economist, etc.

Economic texts are notoriously boring, blogs are a good solution to that problem
I'm not sure of the context of those numbers. Not in direct business ratios but I'm not sure how they count VM instances. FYI this is said while I work in STB (Server Tools and Business).
I'm of the mindset that the objects you use most are the ones that should be given the most attention, simply because extra consideration and money spent is most likely to affect your quality of life.

For me, it would be:

* Bed
* Computer
* Desk chair
* Shoes
* Phone

... and so forth. So I won't think twice about spending extra on these objects since I spend the majority of my day interacting with them.

For seating, my rule is it has to be comfortable enough that I can fall asleep on/in it, and that I shouldn't notice the object I'm sitting on.

Besides, humanity has designed millions of chairs throughout history. Millions of iterations. There's no excuse that they still produce chairs that are genuinely uncomfortable, and you owe it to yourself to find one that really does work for you.
Well, branding is about many things, but making sense is not among them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_management#Functions_of_b...
"Let's take Office as an example. Does anyone seriously think that it will still enjoy network effects five years from now?"

Absolutely.

Office isn't going anywhere in most business settings. If anything, the last two Office and SharePoint releases have only continued strengthening its position.

I definitely wouldn't bet that the desktop/Windows/Office thick client paradigm will last forever, but I also wouldn't dare bet against it in the near-term.
Doesn't work on 2.1 Seems to be a known issue:

http://bit.ly/bQUdvU
I did this many many years ago with some old CD-cases that I had given a light coating of black spray paint on the inside. It takes a while but works like a charm.
I am currently in a polyamourous relationship, actually.
I think the correlation between smarts and developer might be strong, with a few exceptions. The thing is, people stop learning after University and stick with what they have known and learned.

On top of that, most developers tend to be stubborn because people have been telling them that they're "Special", that they're "Smart" throughout their live (a decent University CS major usually would require the students to take a lot of Math, usually up to 3rd year Math and Stats, and Science courses. Students who excel in these subjects tend to be perceived as "Smart").

It's hard for anyone to be humble when they had been brainwashed.
Ask HN: InnoDb vs MyISAM?
I'm a newcomer here so I apologize if this topic has been beaten to death and then some; any useful links would be appreciated. I've been using MyISAM for a while but now have seen the light of InnoDB. I've read a little that it's slow and doesn't play well with third party technology just because it's newer. I'm just wondering if there are any drawbacks to InnoDB encountered firsthand in the trenches (for your basic, run-of-the-mill applications) before I decide to switch to this engine.

The prospect of transactions make me drool feverishly for InnoDB. I hope I'm not alone.

Thanks.
I learned to meditate as a child. Independently discovered it you might say. I had no fancy terminology for it, no official system. I just did it. But I agree, it's very very helpful and healthy.
Anyone who isn't familiar with amasci should know that it's an absolute treasure trove of information. Go to the "bad physics" page and you're guaranteed to spend days there reading:

http://www.amasci.com/miscon/miscon4.html

http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html

Nothing ever made me feel better about not understanding certain concepts than this site.
> But then the author would also have to agree, that monogamy may have the depth that any non-monogamous relationshop lack

This is simply not true. The number of partners has absolutely nothing to do with the depth of any given relationship, poly or mono.

> I believe issues multiply when you have many.

It's actually the opposite. You don't have to get upset because someone is lacking in some area, because you have someone else that covers it. It actually takes a lot of pressure off of a given relationship.
What about this guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Armes
What were the negotiations? Was it a salesman-customer interaction, or were the two on even footing?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/824562/does-ruby-perform-...
It sounds like they're only counting SALES of Linux machines - e.g. bought at Dell or whatnot. I'd assume that means the true 80% number of Linux machines that exist is very difficult to determine. Most of the servers at my company (40+, plus a TON of VMs) are Linux and I'd bet most companies that manage large farms of servers are similar.
Texas is awesome. Cheap living, fast internet, sxsw, and plenty of places to explore.
The phrase "Facts and Myths" needs to die a messy painful death. It's the fodder of sex education brochures and corporate training camps.

Any topic away from the main stream should avoid the nasty tactic of labeling different opinions "myths". Wait till your stupid idea is endorse by every sheep-like general practitioner in North America - then you can get away with taring your opponents that way.

"Facts and Myths concerning why 'supermemo.com' is a font of mis-information..." See?
:) Always nice to be "cutting edge".
Facebook chat is crap - but it works (most of the time at least). It drops out, the text input is tiny, you're tied to FB, etc. But it's good enough. And I'll clarify that that is purely personal use - never used it for work.

Do Microsoft have an Intranet focused IM solution ala Lotus Sametime? Notes shops all seem to be running sametime, Exchange shops seem to be not running IM or running public Messenger.
Didn't they launch it before Facebook and haven't they since all but abandoned it?

www.orkut.com

Also, it didn't start out as a Brazilian social network, not sure where the article got that.
At this point I think we can safely say Google is in a perpetual state of "about to launch a Facebook killer" and will continue to be so until they actually manage to kill Facebook. So without any details to back it up Kevin Rose's source is just stating the obvious as far as I'm concerned.
The Undercover Economist is quite a fun read and very accessible to the layperson: http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Economist-Exposing-Poor-Dec...
Compare "I doubt this is a problem" with "Alarming if true. How can we determine whether this is really a problem?" Both are expressions of skepticism, but one shuts down further inquiry and the other encourages it.
For yet another one, I just woke up from a 30 minute nap, and have been sleeping polyphasically for the past two weeks. (Did this for a month last summer, too.)

I think the reason it keeps me more creative is that it's always morning. You are never more than 6 hours from waking up. And, when I've been awake for 6 hours, I start getting tired... take 15 minutes to relax... then take a 30 minute nap, and can get back to what I was doing with renewed vigor.

(I don't think it's the sleep deprivation that is the key part of polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep with 8 hours of sleep a day - say, 4 two-hour naps - would still be polyphasic sleep. You do not have to be sleep deprived to sleep polyphasically. People assume that sleep deprivation comes with it, because when you sleep polyphasically, you need less sleep. Messed up cause and effect here.)
JavaScript and Web Performance books you need to read
http://www.integralist.co.uk/javascript/javascript-and-web-p...

Really all you need
What I'm trying to get at is the percents (70% windows vs 25% linux) seem very counter intuitive. Microsoft links to another company who provides little to no information about how they are making their claims.

From http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS21703309 I've even more willing to believe that the numbers are BS and are entirely about revenue.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=in...

In a nutshell, it depends on what you are using the database for, you may even consider something outside of a relational database if you don't need SQL and relational structure to your data.
The biggest difference is the lack of granular transactions (MyISAM). This will kill your application if you have concurrent writes to a MyISAM table.

We have clients who mix MyISAM and innodb, in their case, they need to store lots of data but want it as small as possible, but still able to be accessed via SQL queries. So it is MyISAM for all tables which are read only and Innodb for the current data which needs concurrency for updates.
This is the type of thing patents were invented for!
Interesting, but I for one have no problem with never being able to vote online. We have enough problems with fraudulent voting machines already without throwing the Internet into that mix.
Did you know what the man who mistook his wife for a hat's WIFE said when she was realized what he had done?

"You're putting me on."
That's true, there's also The New School in NYC.

Someone voted me down; I suppose I'm am being a little too aggressive about it but I do think it's a stupid way to name a project. :-)

Most of these projects represent a lot of work and a huge revolutionary leap over the "old" projects. It seems like that much work deserves a more fitting name.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -Phil Karlton
The functionality is no doubt coming to iChat, maybe they have special build they are using to do it now.
How SEGmeter works
According to VGChartz the Wii has 490,542,492 total titles sold vs the 360 with 359,051,266.

http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly.php
Just an addendum, lots of good free econ books in pdf format at http://mises.org/books/, including all the Austrian School classics.
For an overview of mainstream modern econ, if you read nothing else, read Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan. For a good introduction to the major economic schools of thought check out Economics as Religion by Robert Nelson (he has written a new one on the same subject that I haven't yet read). To get into behavioral economics, I'd recommend Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and The Winner's Curse by Richard Thaler.
Tread carefully, there is a lot of polemic posing as economics on bookstore shelves.
Huntsville Single Moms Examiner
Yes, non-monogamy is similar in this regard to most other interesting and desirable things: it's neither easy nor simple.
What's interesting is that Facebook has had more downtime than Twitter over the last year, yet people perceive that Facebook is never down and Twitter always is.

I'm not sure if this is due to a good job on Facebook's part, or a display of how important Twitter is to people.
I assume they are calling it a Brazilian social network because Orkut has done particularly well in Brazil. 50% of the site's visits come from Brazil, with the remainder mostly split between the US and India. Orkut is administrated by Google Brazil since mid-2008.
He didn't force anything. I did this. He asked for a zone, I put it up the day of that interview. The writer took artistic license, which I'm fine with - I liked the article.

So your reaction can become different now.
For me it comes down to two factors...

1) In this specific case, I wonder if the geographic location (she moved to Mid-West) had a lot to do with it... ie workers not accepting of a strong woman in the workplace. In other words nothing particularly to do with IT specifically.

2) In general, women just don't particularly gravitate to IT related fields, perhaps because behaviorally logic-brained people are statistically more likely to be men than women, and those are the type of people who get ahead and successful in IT-related classes and careers.

Here in SF, I do think we could do a lot more to be accepting and encouraging of women but I think things are a lot better than other places and the main issue is lack of interest by women rather than them being pushed/kept out.
Meditation stripped to it's core is good. All the religious hokum that often seems to surround it I find a bit nauseating.
It's going to be called buzzkut, and only for the armed forces.
The article is not about chairs people, read it first before commenting.
"I dug into the subject of polyphasic sleep and read a couple very personal accounts of people who made it work for them for extended periods (several months or more). I never tried it myself, but I don't believe they were any less "creative" or functional during this time, or that they were doing long-term damage."

Chronic sleep deprivation doesn't cause obvious, self-evident damage at the time, and it's not always obvious to the person who's experiencing it. But it can cause serious, serious problems over time. That is essentially the effect of sleep apnea. The effects are subtle enough that an enthusiastic confirmation-biased person would easily miss them over a period of "several months or more", but they're real and they get worse over time.
List of Common Misconceptions
Protip: Nothing will kill Facebook but Facebook itself.
If you need to do fulltext searches, MyISAM is your only choice. If you switch to InnoDB, you might have to split some tables and rewrite some code to use both engines.
"Secrets" of Successful Entrepreneurs
My personal experience is "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" feels like a tome. It's a big, dry book. It doesn't stimulate my mind and I skimmed through most of it(chapters dedicated to looping syntax et al.).

"Javascript: The Good Parts" worked wonders for me. I understand the language and I use JQuery for dom manipulation. I understand ground-level DOM and can use it when required. Do you think "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" adds something good which "Javascript: The Good Parts" skips? There are many things but I am talking things which make you a better Javascripter.
I have owned each iPhone, usually within a few days of release. Yes, since the iPhone has always supported bother a cell connection and a wifi connection, the devices have both. Additionally, people have been reporting problems with both the 3G antenna issue and connecting to wifi routers. I had both. I said nothing about them both being related to the same antenna problem. I suffered from both. I exchanged my phone today at the Apple store in downtown SF and have had no problems since. Don't understand why I was downvoted SO much for that. I'm happy that you downvoters have had excellent experiences with the new device. Did you wait in line for over 5 hours for yours? If I wait that long for a product, I apologize for having the expectation THAT IT WORKS.
Are you straight? If so, has said relationship been successful for a while? I think Gene Roddenbury is the only non-fictional male I've heard of who has been in a successful polyamorous relationship with women.

When you're gay, things are much simpler in such relationships, so that seems to be annectodally more common. Probably selection bias, though.
I don't care. It just seemed like an odd choice in words.
... and it looks like facebook will soon launch what sounds like a social powered question answer site, according to their "beta" recruitment page - http://www.facebook.com/product_application/

Will it be called FaceOverflow?
Won't that refresh all instances of Chrome?
There are plenty of opportunities in small towns with < 100, 000 people. These towns usually have one moderately funded community college at best. This means you have this perfect imbalance of skilled professionals and untapped small town business startups in order to conquer the landscape quite painlessly.

If things go sour in my part of the world I will definitely find some small but rapidly growing desert town to monopolize. Hope this didn't come off too cynical but it's really not that bad of an idea.
Frankly, I don't think we are that far apart in our thinking, yet we are reaching very different conclusions. I should admit my bias... I have a two year old daughter. She means everything to me. I hope that if she were interested in pursuing a career in computer science there would be nothing to dissuade her. Unfortunately, given the lack of women in the field, the perception is that this is primarily a career for men.

I should stop here and mention that the counter is true with many careers. You mentioned elementary education as one example. I would add nursing to the list.

My father went to school to become a nurse. My grandfather was ashamed. When asked what his son did he would say he was a medic in Vietnam, but never mention the fact that he later became a nurse.

It cuts both ways, but neither is right. We should make the extra effort to make women comfortable. To welcome them to the field so that in the future this is not an issue.
I don't think it's possible to launch a Facebook killer. It is more likely that some company will launch something that eventually kills Facebook, but we won't know it is a Facebook killer until afterwards. It's not a matter of beating them on specs...
I feel like Google is constantly launching Facebook killers and waiting to see what will stick. They have so many different social networks and feed mechanisms that it's hard to discern a coherent strategy from them.
If you want this porn, push this button after entering the blue text from the image into this text field.

e.g. if that is required, hacking will be all about getting other people to issue the dirty bits for you, and leave their fingerprints all over the evidence.
I am quite straight. The opportunity has been there many times, and I've had no desire to take it. My partner is bisexual, but the vast majority of her experiences have been with other men. It's been just over two years now.

I have a feeling your intuition regarding homosexuality is probably true, at least from what I've seen.
This is amazing. Blows my mind how he can have the patients to do that. I mean i can spend hours coding, but i dont think i could scratch plexiglass for hours.
very cool thou!
I believe his stats - but WHO are all these people using Windows Live Mail/Messenger, Azure, Windows 7, Windows server, etc? I have yet to meet one. Are these middle America and international markets?
I believe you are referring to a Dutch Auction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction).

The fact that you don't know what the technical name is of the type of auction you are building would suggest that you probably haven't done enough research into the area.

You've not given enough info on what you are building, and perhaps this isn't the question you were asking, but you might want to research this some more before launching anything/taking anyone's money.
First of all, welcome to HN.

It sounds like you might have already answered your question, as you say you don't need the money (yet). In general, the earlier you go out to raise funding, the more it will cost you; when your company is nothing but an idea, your valuation is quite low, and raising something like $10,000 at this stage might require giving away 50% of the company. But if you wait until you have a working prototype and a handful of users, raising that same $10,000 might only cost 10% of the company.

In general, you should avoid raising money before you need to, and you should avoid raising more money than you can reasonably make use of.

Of course if you turn down money that's on the table, you run the risk of later on needing funding and not being able to get it -- perhaps the investors changed their mind, already invested in another company, or otherwise lost interest...

Finally, if you do decide to bring on another person, I recommend trying to find someone who is willing to join you as a co-founder. Simply hiring an employee, paying them a salary, and expecting them to "work as hard as [you] have" isn't going to turn out too well, because they won't really benefit from your company's success.

PS: As it turns out, the term "reverse auction" is in somewhat widespread use (apparently nobody else could come up with a better name, either):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_auction
It's a very established term in that community.

If you want to pick on a word for technical reasons, 'polyamory' itself is actually pretty popular. I can't find a link to the quote now, but it was something along the lines of "Half greek, and half latin? Obviously wrong."
Uh, OK? I compose mail with M-x compose-mail and read mail with M-x gnus. No Google required.
see netcraft:
http://news.netcraft.com

~54% apache + 5% nginx + 1% lighttpd.