skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This NEEDS to have a post count beside the categories while the site is still new and largely empty. As soon as I clicked into the first empty category I left the site, of course. It's silly to expect a user to click around looking for things when there isn't anything - that will just piss people off. I would also add a "We're just getting started, post your stuff!" message in each city and each empty page, to explain to new users what's happening.
Overhead of the operating system and more likely a massive amount of packets per second will easily peg a single core.. I did some tests with nginx (comparable to node.js) and it easily pegged a xenon 2 cpu quad core 8GB ram (all 8 cpu's were 90+%) with a paltry 8055.77 rps over 2 x 10gbit ethernet but then this is more likely an OS / fine tuning limitation
My style checker finds weasel words, passive voice, and repeated words (a lexical illusion). It also finds confused words as well (another lexical illusion). It's not integrated with LaTeX but it is available for Firefox, Google Chrome, and OpenOffice.org.

http://www.afterthedeadline.com
> The Linux versus Windows numbers are a bit surprising to me. If I were to make a guess, I'd guess that the JVMs used were not identical (perhaps like Isaac Gouy mentions, one platform was 64-bit and the other wasn't) or some other detail altered the performance characteristics of the test.

The same identical version was used: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_20.

> But the performance drop does seem to be in line with other implementations, so perhaps Windows really does suck and there's not much we can do about it.

The leading theory. ;-)
Somebody's Third Law: the comments on any study of anything will inevitably contain some guy reminding the world that "correlation != causation".

This will happen whether the study actually asserts some kind of causal link or not. In this case, it doesn't.
H2 would be best in a traditional HTML4 docuement, but in HTML5 each sectioning element has it's own document outline. The reason for this is to encourage you to use H1's for the most important content within each section.

In this case the most important content of the <article> section is the title, so an H1 would be best used here.

The point of this post is to show that by using this new guideline, it leads to problems if search engines are using the old HTML document outline.
> Directly above that President Obama said:

It doesn't matter what he says in a speech. What matters is what he says via executive orders, policy, and executive branch action.

> President Obama is a Constitutional scholar, and acknowledges our bindings to it.

Oh really? Feel free to cite any of his scholarly writings.

> Compare that with Bush who was rumored to say it's "just a piece of paper".

By someone who had an axe to grind. What has that person said about Obama's continuation and expansion of the same policies? (To be fair, some folks who criticized Bush for doing certain things have criticized Obama for continuing and expanding, but they're a marginalized minority. The "good people" have largely fallen into line.)

Of course, if you want to play "was rumored to say", there are some doozies attributed to Obama.

Double-standard much?
In the age of the Internet and Google, is it really still an issue? Unfortunately yes, but do we really have to passively take it any more? Do we really want to feel angst because a particular brand name might be corrupted?

Following brand names is much like following characters in comic books. Big Comic Company will pony up to get Mr. HighlyVisionary to do a revamp of NeatoMan to critical acclaim. There's hype floating about and there's true magic going on between the covers. (That's quotable, no?) Readers fall in love with NeatoMan again. After 9 issues, Mr. HighlyVisionary is off doing another project, but the soap-opera plot-line has the NeatoMan fans hooked and they go along with the decreased level of quality.

Following brand names is a similar mug's game. Is there any way we could follow passionate creators instead in the retail world? Maybe this is a startup idea in itself?

Disclosure: I am a long-time comics fan.
...after you get elected, which took a year of pandering to fools at considerable expense in dollars, dignity, or both. From an individual standpoint it just does not make snese: the absolute best you can hope for is to be called 'wonkish,' as opposed to 'autistic.'

Now a Programmer Party would be a wonderful idea, at least in theory. It could run on an agenda of tidying up the laws and making them readable and responsive to people's needs. On the other hand, you only have to look at political arguments here on HN to realize that programmers are as ideologically fractured as any other social group. As soon as a question of economics or the scope of government power arose, a schism would occur.

Clearly what we need is to declare a Politician class, and then create multiple objects derived from that class, taking full advantage of inheritance, polymorphism and operator overloading. This will solve all our problems, just as soon as we agree on which compiler to use...
Well, this depends on how people will use the system. Say, you're just tracking down a used car with best possible price. So you sign up for text notifications so that you're the first one - and once you bought the car, you no longer need these notifications.

Other usage patterns might assume regular, monthly usage.

Since I just launched this and have only a handful of users, I'm yet to see how it'll be used.

Edit: I misread your comment. They will be using this, in the best case scenario, regularly on ongoing basis - so not "monthly" in a sense of regular subscription services.
Yes, but consider that legislation is like a piece of code going into a legacy system that's been around for over 200 years, and is supposed to be as accurate as computer code in what it means. It is not an easy system.
It looks like my calculations were in fact way off. Though when I plug that into google I get a different answer because it assumes imperial gallons for me.

However, this answer is much more interesting and restores my faith in ridiculous numbers.
Computers won't get legal rights (ability to own property, etc.) by proving that they are intelligent, or able to feel, or whatever. It will be for liability purposes!
I can't read the article (silly work web filters), but if you're quoting him correctly then I have an idea. (

function foo(n) {
...
return n+foo(n-1);
}

is not tail recursive because the last operation is not the recursive function call, but rather the addition.

function bar(n,acc) {
...
return bar(n-1,acc+n);
}

is tail recursive because the last operation is now the recursive function call.
I only hope this means a Nexus Two is coming soon. Having a completely open Android phone on the market that won't brick when you try to update its OS is important.
The Creativity Trigger
Google's future 'searching without searching' - cool or creepy?
That "billion euro company" wouldn't happen to be a bookie, would it? The prospect of a thin wall between the proven addiction machine of "social" games and actual cash money gambling makes me a little queasy.
I don't think you need to limit it to SaaS. There is a slight difference between SaaS and desktop applications, but from a marketing perspective, I'm not sure it is a huge difference.

I recommend reading up on Bassamiq (http://www.balsamiq.com/blog). There is a log of good information about how he grew his business.

Personally, I'm using Adwords and standard SEO techniques. I'm going after the small businesses. I don't see much chance for a viral techniques in my market. I going to experiment with some cold calling to see what the conversion rate is to see if it is a good use of time. I've started talking with a marketing guy and he has several ideas that I will try. No idea if they will work or not.
Yeah obviously JS had a lot of ground to cover. The surprising thing to me is that they have not only caught up, but surpassed the other dynamic languages, despite all the engineering effort that's gone into speeding them up.

I'm sure having somebody with Bak's experience on the job makes a big difference. The other browser JS implementations seem to be keeping pace though.
Is OpenStack A Game-Changer?
I went to a public high school on long island (I suppose we had good funding?), then to a private college w/1000 students per class.

Thinking about your post now, I'm curious where people who had bad experiences went to school. Was it the entire school system, or a particular teacher or grade that made you hate it?
I need to start signing my emails with "And I promise not to buy guitars with it,".
Node.js lets you write server applications in a server container that can handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections in a loosely typed language like Javascript which lets you code faster. It uses the same design as Nginx which is why it can handle so many connections without a huge amount of memory or CPU usage.

If you were to do this on Nginx you'd have to write the module in C.

You can't do it on Apache because of Apache's multi-process/thread model.

The fact that you can write a web server in a few lines of easy to understand and maintain Javascript that can handle over 10,000 concurrent connections without breaking a sweat is a breakthrough.

Node.js may do for server applications what Perl did for the Web in the 90's.
Don't lie, you know you couldn't keep that promise. :-)
Craigslist is a chicken-egg type of place. Its a destination for selling/buying because everyone knows its a destination for selling/buying.

This will never gain traction because why use what you have when Craigslist does the job? People do it to sell/buy, not make a fun webapp.

Your best bet is to change your advertising. Maybe only market to hackers, and suggest it as a good place to buy used Macs or hardware from other trusted hackers. Maybe even integrate it with HackerNews identities or something.

Trying to out-craigslist craigslist is an impossible feat. You've probably learned a lot but considering you're fighting a gorilla with a tack and you're not making any money from it my guess is you'll lose interest fast unless you refocus.
> Is there a cosmologist's guild I don't know about?

Yes. Almost every "trade" has one.

Every regulated one does. More to the point, every newly regulated trade had one that helped write the rules that they pushed through the relevant govt body.
Thanks for noticing the error in the URL, your link does allow me to navigate directly to DC now. Unfortunately if nobody is able to navigate properly to it, there won't be any content there to look at it anyway if you do manage to get there. (Of course the other cities aren't exactly content rich yet either, as other commentors have pointed out.)
I'm assuming that at least some of these kids who are wagging school are just doing it out of short-term thinking. They don't want to be high-school dropouts, they just feel like hanging out at the mall today instead of going to school. They don't think it matters. Having this graph burned into their minds might scare 'em into showing up on days they otherwise would not have.

Cigarettes are chemically addictive, so analogies to most other behaviours are weak.
I think it's a good idea. Not for everyone of course, one size doesn't fit all.

Often just having a deadline for doing something is enough motivation to actually do it. I find myself procrastinating on personal projects, while I can finish (or at least get close to finishing) projects with clear deadlines pretty much on time.
That's the way I work. I've known for a while I wanted a startup, now I'm at the stage of taking ideas and turning them into reality. I'm always thinking of new ideas and writing them down for later, but my mode of thinking is definitely "I'm now creating a startup, lets go find ideas" and not the other way around.

By the way, Paul Graham has mentioned that Viaweb started in much the same way: a conscious search for an idea to build a business around.
Just can't see this iteration doing it. Not discouraging you either, it can certainly (and almost needs to be done). Here are some things you could focus on instead:

- Pick one city and dominate it at first.

- Try to eliminate the "creepy craigs list" factor somehow. Mobile authentication?

- Find a use case within that city that will bring listings/usage immediately.

- Focus on user interface that is as "simple" as craigslist, but from 2010, not 1995.
LOL at #6 - Maverick Carter

Lebron James' childhood friend, and head of his marketing firm, essentially ruined his image - “His brand is [bleep] now,” one high-level NBA official said late Thursday. “He’s destroyed everything.”

Life is great when you're riding coattails.
The voice of reason on the desert of political correctness.
Yes, I think that will slow the adoption of robocars significantly, especially in the USA. See Templeton's section on liability in the essay on problems with robocars: http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/roadblocks.html

"[Robocars may first be adopted in] other countries, such as China, Singapore, India or Japan. These high-tech countries have very different liability systems, and indeed very different forms of lawmaking that can simply wipe away the liability problem with the wave of a pen."
Can you describe toxic? I'm not trying to be a jerk, just genuinely curious. I remember social life in junior high and high school as being pretty stressful, and there were bullies (a handful I suppose), but I wouldn't describe it as toxic. I wasn't particularly popular or unpopular, just kind of did my thing with some like-minded friends. Kept to my academic clubs, played some sports here or there.

It sounds like the social aspect was what really killed it for you, not necessarily the education you got.
assuming you use DAT 320 tapes and use 3 Gb/sec, http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12169-304612-3...

It would take about 55 min to load each tape and another 55 min to unload. Being there are 2.8 million tapes it would take 2,566,667 hours to load, and the same to unload.

((427 petabytes) / 5 million) / 60 = 1.49247317 gigabytes per sec
There are a ton of successful companies that don't fit any of the criteria (Facebook, Nike, McDonald's, etc) In fact I have to think hard to come up with companies that may have had unfair advantages.

So, while unfair advantages may work in your favor. Not having them (yet being successful) may actually be a norm.
Laws should be written in Python. Seriously. In fact, the SEC is using Python to describe some regulations.
This is a complete non-issue. I'd imagine it's very simple for Google, Bing, etc. to change how they rank headings on an HTML5 page verses something else.
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And you're absolutely sure you're not getting cosmology confused with cosmetology?
What is it with US Republican politicians who come across as a bit addled or dim and who proudly compare themselves with people who are way out of their league? (Dan Quayle as well)
I just deleted my half written comment about afterthedeadline, I use it a lot to do exactly as the post describes. It catches my mistakes every time, eventually I will stop making them heres hoping.

Thanks for it though, great tool.
What is sad is to see a company with a competitive advantage fail to see it and throw it away.

I used to work at Rent.com. A key competitive advantage is that its revenue cycle is wrong. When it started its competitors all made money as soon as they referred someone. Rent.com only made money after the person was referred, leased, reported it to us, the apartment was contacted, and the apartment paid. Optimizing for this was difficult, but once Rent.com had traction none of its competitors could afford to switch models because that would open them up for apples to apples comparisons, with a company that had already been optimized, when they didn't even know how to track that data!

Then Rent.com got a new, well-funded, competitor called MyNewPlace.com with deep industry connections. Same model. Some people there used to be at Rent.com. Absolutely no idea how to implement. This is where Rent.com should have increased their spend on advertising to the point where the unoptimized upstart was losing money on every sale and Rent.com was making money. Wait until the competitor went under. Then cut back on advertising.

Unfortunately Rent.com had been purchased by eBay, eBay didn't understand Rent.com's business model, and so Rent.com was forced to squeeze margins. This gave MyNewPlace all the time in the world to figure out the business model. Worse yet, Rent.com put someone in charge of internet advertising who completely didn't understand affiliate relationships (even at break-even they are profitable because of positive SEO), and that self-inflicted wound only helped MyNewPlace more.

It was a great competitive advantage. No competitor should have been allowed to flourish. But if you don't understand your competitive advantage, it is easy to throw it away. And they did.
Brutal honesty:

You have around a zero percent chance of winning solely based on technical merit.

Don't get me wrong - you're going to need to get technical merit down, you're going to need to offer some great functionality on the technical side.

But if you really want to take Craigslist down, you're going to need to take over ONE MARKET effectively and branch out from there. You're going to need to pick one city and walk all around it getting people to use your service, putting up flyers, doing a radio interview, trying to get the mayor of the city onboard, convincing college kids to swap their stuff on there or to meet for board games... you'll have to seed that one city with your own offers, meetup groups, get your friends to post their resumes or job offers on there, etc, etc, etc. This almost certainly can't be done from behind a keyboard.

Craigslist isn't winning by its technology - the technology stays out of Craigslist's way while the site wins by community and network effects. You need that. You can't get there via technology, you need to take over one city Craigslist is underserving, then repeat the process a few times until you've got some solid beachheads in place.
The 'Eternal Aircraft' Zephyr Solar Plane Aims for 14 Days in the Air
github and toggl
De facto they already are, for customers who care to chase it down. "Mexican Coke" has been getting easier and easier to obtain. And I live in Michigan.
I completely hope that it's the case, and as I mention at the end of the article that could be the case.

Since HTML5 is still a moving spec, it's worth considering how you structure your header tags depending on how much belief you have that this is what search engines are actually doing, given how important the document outline is to SEO.
More details from BurstNet's CTO: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html
Video quality adjusts based on your bandwidth. Full bars is 480p, or HD if available (not specific, but most likely 720p).
My doctoral supervisor also taught me to write and it was very, very valuable. It enabled me to write for newspapers later and write my book. Learning to write is important because it helps you to see the subject you are writing about clearly.

In ReWork, the 37 Signals' guys mention that if they have the choice between two potential hires of equal ability, they'll choose the one who's a better writer.
Allow me to be the first to call BS. (Am I allowed to do that with Google?)
These are my thought on the many efforts I see here to replace Craigslist.

Craigslist is massive and serves the local ad needs of many nearly-computer-literate people very well (wikipedia says it has the 33rd highest traffic in the world). It's html-from-1995 look works perfect and could work for a 1000 years.

Craigslist also doesn't make that much money relative to the traffic it has. It's run almost as a charity (28 staff people).

This is frustrating to potential entrepreneurs because when they get an idea for monetizing a need served by Craigslist, they realize that there's no money to be made because craigslist already fully meets the perceived need in a free and advertising-free fashion.

I'd say entrepreneurs probably need to not target the least-common-denominator, least-cash-on-hand group that is craigslist's vast customer base but rather target more well-healed subgroups (the only way to make money from craiglist customers is to educate them there's a need they don't yet know about - but when a large portion also don't have the extra money to pay for that need, the effort may be in vain).

So... just think, all the web's "disruptions" are about small outfits killing larger one with more efficiency, higher volume and lower margins. In this ideal, the margins start to go towards zero, don't they? What then? Craiglist is one answer but its not an answer that generates jobs, economic activity or wealth.

You might take notice that the number of people depending on craiglist has to do with the declining median incomes and lack of higher-paying, higher-skilled jobs which characterized the US economy even before the recession. You know the wikipedia page shows Craig Newmark standing with a hammer? How's that for disruption!

The new economy is supposed to create new needs, new jobs and new income. Has it done so in enough volume to sustain itself? What's your answer here?
As soon as I started working on my startup, I started noticing lots of other problems in the world, which I wish someone would fix. At least some of these could turn into good business ideas too.

So, if you are romanticising about starting a startup but don't have an idea, do this: forget about ideas and doing something new. Just pick up an existing business and try to clone it. Along the way, you will find your idea.

Building stuff is the best generator of ideas in my experience.
Very well written, I got a lot out of this. I think it provides a good framework for thinking about this part of the business.
No. I think ideas are a dime a dozen. I used to have a huge list of ideas, they are worth nothing because they never saw the day of light.
Clever but how about a real RSS feed of those so I don't have to go to an RSS feed, then twitter, then bitly, then the original link?

Yes, use Readability to parse the pages and show the full text of the article directly in the RSS feed.
About two years ago I asked HN why no one can complete with craigslist. Theres some really interesting points on there that you might find relevant. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281741

Two years later it still stands try that you can't beat craigslist with a better UI and a couple of "cool" features. What makes craigslist so powerful is the community they created. Post something and in minutes people are interacting with it.

I think in order to compete you have to create a new approach to classifieds. Something that vastly changes the landscape. Maybe thats local. Maybe its a safer experience. Maybe its faster, and I mean faster from post to result not website speed. Craigslist is a classified monopoly. Try and change the game!
The headline is misleading. She's not comparing herself to Shakespeare. In conservative circles, appeal to authority is pretty normal. Her point is, if Shakespeare did it, it must be OK.
The same way that a lot of people used to swear that there was nothing bad happening to long term smokers?
Yes, but their lobbyists are working hard on other things, like the complete damn re-regulation of the entire financial industry, at the moment. Whether a handful (hundreds?) of extra mortagees go into foreclosure isn't a big deal for them.
Oo, I finally will get to see a punchcard computer in person! Very cool, thanks! Reminds me of the time I accidently found a Thomas Edison exhibit in Bandai Museum outside Tokyo.