skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How quickly can an issue be resolved if you are at home and something breaks? Is there a neighbor with free wifi? Do you have monitoring software that notifies you somehow? Is anyone else "on call"?

If all is going well at work and you aren't the one "on call" for outages, then maybe not. However, 97-98% uptime with 500,000 users sounds like a critical time in your company's growth. Are you taking any heat for the uptime issue?

Who pays for it is a tough question. If it's for the good of the company, then I think they should. But, as CTO, I would look out for the company's best interest even if they are feeling cheap. In that case, what's the lowest cost/term way that you can cover the bases?
Ask HN: Review My Open Source Project: Diffable
http://code.google.com/p/diffable

Diffable works by transmitting deltas between cached versions of a static resource, rather than the entire new version, when the given resource changes.

I've been working on implementing this on Google Maps for a few months now, and today I presented the open source project at the O'Reilly Velocity 2010 conference.

I respect this site and its users immensely and welcome all feedback and participation. Thanks.
I think it's doing a fairly good job of hurting them in the shorter span of time, too.
Are you kidding? Berkeley is probably the worst of the worst.
Um, vuvuzelas have been a running joke since the first world cup match. Given that it's still World Cup time, I wouldn't call that coincidence so much as them both making the same popular joke.
Pray tell me how you got inside my brain and found _that_ out!

Seriously, whether I'll like your feedback or not doesn't really matter; I'm certain it will be valuable in either case.
They don't deliver to hotels, so the guy from Norway was out of luck. Some ppl don't have bank cards or don't trust e-commerce security. Some don't want their partners/parents to know they bought a new expensive toy.
Is a B Corporation Right for Me?
How much time is wasted downloading unnecessary data? (Infographic)
It's so easy to anthropomorphize spacecraft like Voyager 2. I get choked up thinking about her bravely leaving the solar system, transmitting data until ~2025, alone in empty space.
Apple Responds to iPhone 4 "Death Grip" Reports
Nokia didn't invent the Symbian wheel. It was Psion. Nokia just ended up buying it.
geolocation is possible with html5, built-in camera is possible on Android but not for streaming. This is coming though to html5 with the device API.
It is possible with Android too, even the Camera works on Froyo.
Ok, first of all, that's only a factor of six, not the orders of magnitude you seem to be implying.

And I don't think you can lay this at the feet of the people standing in line unless they were informed when they made their choice that choosing an Apple store would involve five to ten hour queuing outdoors. I'm guessing Apple didn't say that in the order form, in which case the "choice" was one about which they were uninformed, perhaps deliberately so, and Apple remains largely at fault.
I dont see what the fuss is about. the sound of football matches is still annoying, horns or not.
Fringe benefits of type-safe URLs
Drop me a line at rafael_imas@yahoo.com.
The node.js irc room now responds to your questions on Twitter
Hiring for Django or hiring for Python? For a Python coder, a Django job sounds a bit drab. And a Django developer sounds like someone way less technical than someone who has a lot of experience writing Python code.

What’s the real difference between Django developer and Python developer?
That's a air horn, not a vuvuzela.
I had never heard of a 'vuvuzela' before just now. So true is the saying 'you learn something new every day'.
It would certainly make the job of censors and puritans everywhere much easier.
Jeezuz, HN. Just because a sport isn't American doesn't mean it's "intellectually gratifying".

Edit: Oh FFS, bring it on. I'm gonna post Terrible Towel videos and watch how fast they get killed.
Justices Limit Fraud Law
The halting problem isn't open to be solved. It would have been funnier to claim to have solved an open problem (maybe P=NP?) so as not to break the willful suspension of disbelief.
Yes, I was simply stating that the grounds for appeal are usually similar, if not identical, to the grounds for further appeals. Given that, even if Viacom were to fight this up the chain, it is unlikely that they'll grant cert if there isn't a Constitutional debate or conflicting precedent. In this case, since it was SDNY, the case appeals to 2d Cir.
I can recommend geo.js http://code.google.com/p/geo-location-javascript/

It supports several devices like:

iPhone OS 3.x,
Browsers with Google Gears support (Android, Windows Mobile),
Blackberry Devices (8820, 9000,...),
Nokia Web Run-Time (Nokia N97,...),
webOS Application Platform (Palm Pre),
Torch Mobile Iris Browser,
Mozilla Geode,
Why would you not care? If someone thought that an app that I wrote sucked, then I would definitely want to know why. I would strive to write only quality apps and I could use the feedback to make my next app NOT suck.
Measure the performance of your website from your end user's point of view
ok that's crazy. Is scribd becoming the new pdf (I mean that in a good way)?
>post-er-oose

That's aboot right if you're Canadian, eh?
Same here - I simply cannot reproduce the problem others are having... I had a 3G before and my reception is much better with the iPhone 4.
I'm surprised the team released this on such a funky domain, but this is the project's Website.

More from ReadWriteWeb: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_lets_loose_with_a...
For those interested, an example of the trouble cosmic rays cause the Hubble Space Telescope: http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/mastpreview?mission=hst&...

Of course, this is cosmic rays hitting the focal plane and not a memory corruption issue.

The Space Telescope Science Institute schedules multiple exposures so they can be stacked on the ground to eliminate the traces.
... such as BitTorrent distribution.
darn...not going to make it on such short notice. Joined your meetup group though for future meetings. Thanks so much!
They should really support the metaWeblog API as well like everyone else.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do your homework but you should also not let yourself get into the trap of analysis paralysis. Instead of thinking you need to get everything in line before you start, just get the very least you need inline then just go for it. Any action is better than No Action.
Well, that's about as many as a modern 3D game engine executes in one second, so, meh.
Mr. Jobs' take? "Just don't hold it that way."

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/24/double-stevemails-on-iphone-4...
Homework:

1. Check out the competition. How are they doing? Making money?

2. Think how long it'd take you to get to a minimal version. Sketch and see what you can leave out.
Really? I'd heard that wasn't planned until the next release of Android.
Do you mind revealing what apps you have?
Probably not until it doesn't look terrible (on Windows 7 with Chrome).
If I remember my RF classes, it will happen when there is one antenna in the region the phone is. If there are more antennas in different directions, roughly with the same power, the effect should be much less pronounced.

Radio is... complicated.
Indie Android Interview
The only thing I could applaud more would be a new (and simpler) cross platform document format (for asset encapsulation and offline viewing) that could be transformed to and from HTML on a whim. Scribd <-> My Screen <-> My Printer. To death with PDF.

Come to think of it HTML5/CSS3 + an open archive/compression format would suit this purpose nicely.
Same ideas, very different implementation:
* ksql was folded into the language; that means ksql datatypes become native (time, date, ...), and tables become first class citizen. This actually simplifies the whole thing considerably -- from a philosophical point of view, k4 has exactly 3 data types: atoms, lists, and dicts. Everything else is a trivial-in-retrospect application of these 3.
* "electric" gui is gone; dependencies are still there in pretty much the same way, but triggers take a wholly different form. So, 2-line spreadsheet implementation is gone :(
* The _verb form is gone

The language is essentially the same, even though your scripts will need porting due to these changes.
Write-only articles
What does it mean to say you "don't have time to get a computer science degree"? Like, have you been diagnosed with a chronic disease? When you go to college you generally want to be "all in," to the extent that often you actually won't have time for a job or for socializing.
YouTube - Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towel
YouTube - The Story Of The Terrible Towel
Watch out for the license http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/license.php
Well yea, that's why I asked, but I'm not going to bother fixing it at this point.
Frankly, that's part of the beauty.
Hey, you voting me down:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-iphon...
Broadband Politics and Closed-Door Negotiations at the FCC
On the bright side, I bet you they have a fully operational earthbound Voyager copy, and test these things extensively. That probably relieves some of the anxiety.
Absolutely. Modern graphics card hardware can easily process a few hundred million triangles per second. In all fairness, however, that has nothing to do with polygon intersection. Drawing a triangle on the screen with a z-buffer check is something quite different from actually computing an intersection polygon from two (multiply connected) input polygons.
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH Invested in Digital & Online Marketing
I'm a generalist that found work as a 'Django developer', and I actually ended up enjoying it, despite Django's flaws (minimal compared to what other frameworks are out there).

I do in fact spend most of my programming time on Python, and I enjoy using my faculties to write better/faster/smaller code.
Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4
Yes, MP4, with h.264 inside. I don't remember the exact settings offhand, but we were just using x264 and ffmpeg to convert files.
That's normal, unless you really mean daily. The trick is to find a balance between agility and the focus required to build something useful. Too much agility and nothing gets done. Too much focus and the wrong things get done. Cut the marketing guys some slack - they're working with precious little information.
It's not quite about capitalism though. Had the people known they would end up in a 6+hr queue they may have decided not to bother.

The fact that they had reservations means they were probably expecting a different experience.
I must be the only eligible male with a job in NYC who hasn't found a woman or something, and I'm actually considering taking a job in SF (because of the job and the culture).

I don't know if I didn't date because I was too busy, didn't care, or simply didn't know how to meet people in an unfamiliar environment. Probably all of the above.
I wasn't going to say anything, but you're being upmodded like crazy, so...

It's a complete apples to oranges comparison. Scribd is performing quite complex logic with an emphasis on correctness not speed. I feel like you're dismissing an interesting article for the sake of an amusing one liner, and that's pretty much the antithesis of HN.
Ask HN: Is a CS degree worth it if it comes from a state school?
This excerpt from an article[1] criticizing Jason Fried's Inc. Magazine piece caught my attention:

"Does this sound even remotely plausible? Ignore resumes, really? Let’s say two candidates came in:

Candidate 1

Stanford, MS CS, top marks

Facebook (aka hot startup)

Candidate 2

State school

Doing Java at HP

You’d ignore this information, and go straight to the cover letter?"

The implication seems to be that the second candidate is lackluster, in part for having attended a "state school," an unnamed member of an amorphous blob of mediocre institutions that churn out equally mediocre graduates. This is not the first time I have seen this sentiment expressed, and I have often wondered about the value employers place on degrees. Sometimes it seems as though their preference is almost binary: either they, like Google, recruit exclusively from top, generally private schools like MIT, CMU and Stanford, or they take all comers, even those who lack a degree.

I have no doubt that a degree from MIT, Stanford, CMU, and even from some spectacular public schools like Berkeley can open up doors for those who hold them. But I wonder whether the same is true for degrees from less-than-stellar state schools. An undergraduate degree from a four-year college, even one with cheaper in-state tuition, is still a substantial investment: four years of your life and thousands of dollars. Over the past few months I have been considering going back to school to get a degree, but it looks as though the only institutions I can afford and get accepted into are those rueful state schools. For someone in my position, I would really like to know (after hopefully not offending anyone who has such a degree), do you think it's still worth it, or would my time and money be better spent elsewhere?

[1]http://blog.scottolsen.net/?p=144
It is important to be around people who want badly to succeed, not people who have dreams but no work ethic. There are more of the latter than the former, in both startups AND acting.

Also keep in mind that actors move to LA because there is WORK in LA, not because there are other actors! To get acting gigs, zip code DOES matter :)
Big Dave Thomas (OTI) came to Sydney recently and did a talk about how they are using J & Q for large scale financial processing. Looks like vector languages are making a comeback!
Has anyone republished your free app as a paid app? If so, how do you feel about it?
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The guy was just expressing his opinion. What the fuck is with all the downvotes, HN?

Did the karma requirement for earning downvote privileges get reduced?

I might as well limit myself to Reddit. Same attitude, more content.
1 app. 5 minutes of development. $9,000.
You see the same thing with people who pays thousands for the phone on ebay, rather than wait a few weeks. I too think it is a little crazy, and do not understand it. Some people like to wait in front of apple, I guess. For me, the free water and cofee was not enough.
I hear ya - and some of that wasn't quite clear from the original post (already doing 70-80 hours, 2 years, etc). And I feel for ya too - I hope it turns around for you.

That said, having net access at home might end up being better, if you can manage it. Depending on the work, it may allow you to be more flexible how and when you address problems, and still have some personal/family time as well.
Praising macros
CamperBob's flippant comment, however, got me thinking as to whether GPUs could be used to speed up this process, even if it were a bit.. "fuzzy." Anyone with GPU chops have any opinions on this?
Yes, if you want to do a web 2.0 startup, then the valley is the place to be. No doubt!

Although I then think of Flickr, Plenty of Fish, Club Penguin, etc. and realize that this is not necessarily true.

How many VC-backed companies actually do well enough for the founders to get rich? Not that many - you're better off bootstrapping and then flipping the co. for a $ amount that is in the few million. And I think the Valley is the worst place to bootstrap due to the high cost of living.

And don't get me started on the high cost of getting health insurance. You're better off in Toronto.
How to cook lobster
Maemo has been around for a while, but it keeps changing. Maemo 4 had a stylus UI, Maemo 5 switched to a fairly different finger UI, Maemo 6/MeeGo 1.0 is planning to introduce multitouch and replace Gtk with Qt, etc. What breakage will MeeGo 2 bring us?
Wethinks Gawker Media doth protest a bit too much about Apple
What's your objective in getting a degree? I.e. where are you now and how do you expect or at least hope a CS degree will change that?
If you were asked at the beginning of the line, are you willing to wait for 10 hours, these people would say no.

Maybe you could read up on sunk costs, if you are actually after understanding, rather than being a dick.
ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps
>while just grand for web serving and other concurrent-but-primarily-isolated use cases

Woah there.... Maybe 8 cores is fine, but suddenly 48 cores and you're Hashmaps for caching, your queues, everything starts getting funny. Believe me, progress needs to happen on the server side as well.
Is Structured Data like Text or like Code?
A Business Model For Twitter
Most SF programmers are overpaid
To improve my employability (get better job opportunities), to enrich my mind, and also to make connections. I have also toyed with the idea of going the startup route, either instead of college or sometime shortly after.
Sounds like your issue may be more about your ownership percentage than your internet access. Have a chat with the founders. Sounds like they need you more than you need them at this point.

But yeah, you should have internet at home, and you shouldn't expect your company to pay for it.
Better Readability Today won't save E-Readers Tomorrow
Google remotely nukes apps from Android phones
Some modern GPUs support double precision floats, so accuracy would not be an issue. GPUs are practically built for this kind of computation, however there are probably two things holding them back:

1) GPU development requires specific developer experience. Making performant GPU code is an even nastier and less intuitive problem than making performant CPU code. A naive implementation would be shockingly inefficient.

2) Leasing GPU hardware in a datacenter is very rare. You'd have to do it at the office, or build your own servers and install them yourself at a colo. Lots of time and effort.

Even if the GPU solution was 10x faster (it could be much more, but it depends on how much the CPU, disk, network is a bottleneck), if you're talking about reducing $50k in computer time to $5k in computer time, it's almost certainly not worth it. If you're talking about $2m to $200k, that's a completely different matter.
No, not everyone. Apple like to have some stock at the stores, they often stop selling them online. Some people don't have credit cards. Postal service doesn't go to all parts of the UK. etc...
Michael Pettis: What might history tell us about the Greek crisis?
To be fair, most of Germany ain't cheap at all compared to some parts of the US.
No one has that I'm aware of. At least not just taking the code and submitting it as-is. I've had many people email me about the code because they were trying to use it for their app.

If somebody did just re-submit it as a paid app I'd be fine with that. It is open source after all. I do think that's unfair to end-users though who probably wouldn't know it's free and it would add to the clutter of the App Store.
Yes, you do need Internet at home. It'll come handy, especially since you're at a key time in the progress of the company. However, 5% doesn't seem exactly as a fair deal to me. I know it's OT, but maybe you should consider negotiating your terms and equity in the company, even more so since you're the one taking care of the systems and scalability.

Also, everyone needs a little decomposing time, so cheers on that initial part of your post.
It's not about the sport, it's about youtube.
"I know it when I see it."
Advertising - MDC’s ‘Million-Dollar Challenge’ to Foster Start-Up Agencies
If you hover over the comic, then some more text appears which mentions vuvuzelas.
Visa Launches PayPal Alternative
That's pretty big news. Some healthy competition in this space will probably be benefitial.

Although if Amazon and Google didn't manage to dethrone Paypal in this space, I wonder how Visa will approach the challenge.
Puritans?

What about parents?
Ask HN: How much should I pay myself and will it affect fundraising?
I'm currently making as little as I can afford to make for my current set of financial obligations and family responsibilities.<p>I'm creating a start-up. For the first round of seed funding, and given that I'm a one man show for now (albeit with a very solid industry track record), how much can I afford to pay myself, and can I expect it to come completely from the first seed investment? Unfortunately I do not have capital to invest, but my initial product will have been developed to version 1 and production ready, so I am not just a man with an idea and a resume asking for money.

Will seed investors likely invest if a quarter of the funds are going to pay me for my continued development of the product and the business around it?
By three months, I was working with a co-founder who had also moved here to do a startup and not only reads Hacker News, but has so many karma points I would know what to do with all of them.

It is funny how important he makes the karma factor sound - like that automatically makes him a great co-founder.
It is like a bugle or any of the brass instruments. The tone produced is dependent on the vibration of the player's lips as well as the length of the tube.

I haven't played one, but I'm sure you could play numerous overtones like you can on a bugle.

They seem to be mass produced, resulting in most of them having the same length. That, along with the fact that the average sporting fan probably doesn't have much embouchure, would explain why there's a single tone that is much louder than any others.
Lean startups, beware the social debt
Why does Apple get blamed for this? It's the AT&T signup process that takes all the time. I queued for 2 hours for the first iPhone but I walked right into the store for my iPad. The only difference was the lack of AT&T in the process.
"[...] the research is targeting the Cortex-A9 MPcore processor to create "good enough" processing nodes along with 3-D DRAM structures and packaging to provide high bandwidth access to server memory."

3-D packaging looks a lot more practical when you start out with a low heat dissipation CPU. And they only have to stack 4GB on the processor die since ARM is still 32 bit only (well, I suppose they could do something like the x84 PAE but that doesn't really seem to fit with the concept).

I still wonder how much room there remains in server space for 4 GB address spaces. The SeaMicro system lots of people are excited about currently has a 2 GB limit, but I have to wonder if they'll stick to that when they can use a power (heat) competitive chip and chipset from AMD with ECC and a > 4 GB memory capacity.
Yes, it would make the jobs of parents easier. But I think the downside for everybody else isn't worth it. There are a lot of restrictions that we could put on society that would make the job of parents easier but that aren't good ideas if you look at the whole impact.
R and S-Plus are very similar. Curious when you would prefer S-plus over R?
Redis 101
I've often wondered why the credit card companies haven't gotten into this business already. My bank (Bank of America) offers a program called ShopSafe, where you can generate temporary credit card numbers to use online. You can set the limit and expiration date, even for recurring transactions. The numbers are only valid for the first merchant that authorizes a charge.

I wonder why there hasn't been a credit card company that offered a version of this with the option to prepay or link to a bank account or existing credit card. That way people could shop online and merchants who are already set up to accept credit cards wouldn't have to modify their code to interface with yet another payment API. The credit card companies would still get money from the fees charged to merchants, and they could also earn interest on the balances users keep.