skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I realized after writing that that I was forgetting about that one. Still, memoizing frequencies takes it from O(n^2) to O(n) right now, so it's easily the second largest increase.
The output from Handbrake was either not small enough (in file size) or too pixelated for my tastes.

I spent a few days messing with Handbrake, and it just didn't work out for me.
This is a nice overview of the iPhone vs AT&T debacle, but the conclusion is sensationalized. It may be that Apple and Google are helping the wireless carriers reach new levels of poor service, but the reality is the carriers have never been that good.

In the 10 years I've had a mobile phone, I can't think of any time when people weren't complaining about their carrier and wondering if any of the others were better. It didn't seem to matter who you were with. Like the Mutt motto: "All mobile carriers suck. This one just sucks less."
The Slashtags concept looks awesome, and as buzzwordy as it sounds, adding a social aspect to search by allowing Slashtag sharing could really take off. For example, a lecturer could put make a /thiscourseonly Slashtag, searching only hand picked sources.

What would be especially great is a smart form of autocomplete. Eg once you typed /date you would get dd/mm/yy or dd monthname year or similar ghosting in front of the cursor.

The only concern would be that Google and Bing could copy it fairly quickly, so hopefully their other features are strong enough.
America invented the car, not the buggy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHr6Z35t1Q
The guy's argument was that he only dropped it because it got so hot, and the fact that it got so hot is a fault in the design of the device, therefore he should get another one under warranty.

The bulk of my post was mostly a rant about people that expect Apple to provide products that have that Apple "magic" and let them make modifications, and have Apple support them if they do.
Very rough estimate based on passenger ticket prices gives about $20 per GB/s.

SF <-> London is about $1,200 for return ticket (Kayak)
747 can have about 400 passengers
bandwidth is 12 TB/s (from the post)

400*1200/2 = $240,000 cost of flight
$240K / 12,000 GB/s = $20 per GB/s

This should be an upper bound. I assume flying cargo (bought in bulk) would be significantly cheaper than flying people with individually bought tickets.
Double it and donate $40 to Khan's Academy.
They do drive on the left...
I can't really add anything to what others have mentioned.

The only thing you may want to do is talk to those 2 people who quit and ask for their advice. Perhaps they saw this disaster coming...
You might well get it, but keep in mind that the only world without nuclear explosives would be a world in which we are technologically incapable of building them. Not saying that's an impossible dream, but it's sure not my idea of fun.
It's worth linking to Don Burleson's famous dress code for Oracle consultants:

http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code.htm

The idea being that banks and that expect "professional appearance and behavior".
That's just excessive "cleverness." I don't think you should equate that with concise coding. I could write an equally "clever" snippet that takes 12 lines to do the same thing. Really, you're only saving one line of code over a perfectly readable version:

x = aFunction(arg)
value1, value2 = x[:key1], x[:key2]

And you can still write a one-liner much better than the original:

value1, value2 = aFunction(args).values_at(:key1, :key2)

In essence: That style of coding is not really clever, and I would argue it's not idiomatic. It's doing more work to compensate for a missing tool (in this case, not knowing about the values_at method).
that looks like a great solution
It's not the financial cost, it's the non-financial cost.

It's not just the price. It's the lock-in and the rules after you pay for it.

I can't tell you the amount of times I have advocated the purchase of software, at companies I have worked for in the past, just to get it and be restricted and severely regretting recommending the purchase in the first place.
Actually I think the plan is to be able to import cheaper vehicles from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

As for the buses in Samoa, they are truly unconventional and works of art: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/spider415/2/125... (see pics at the end)
Don't miss the art blog he just started, http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/ Only 2 days old and already worth the money.
Yes, I wonder how involved they will be with Open Source. Could really shift things a bit if a startup like Blekko shoved Google further to the center by being more 'Open' (whatever that word has come to mean) than them in the eyes of the media.
Adwords outsourcing
I have all my campaigns on adwords and it is time consuming to improve & manage. I would like to outsource it.

I am looking for someone that can improve the keywords/campaign/ads so that I can see an improvement in my CTR/conversion.

It would be an on-going project where the person I hire would have an incentive based on the sales generated. How can I find such worker? How about in India or elsewhere? Is it possible to find someone on Elance type of sites for this?

If I give them my account info to manage the ad, how do I make sure they do not change the budget per day or mess up with my credit card?
Easier conversion to C-Corp.
DuckDuckGo provides some of this now as I understand it.

http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html and http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
Music from iTunes.
The claim was that he was a constitutional law scholar, not that he was a professor. While there are overlaps between the two groups, neither one is a subset of the other.

You're kidding, right? Him being a scholar is an even easier proof than him being a questionable professor -- which the link I listed at FactCheck.org also asserts is true.

Oxford Dictionary (First Definition):

scholar (schol·ar): a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities; a distinguished academic

From the UC Law School statement at FactCheck.org:

"Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track ... Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined."
It seems like they have django installed:
http://www.picloud.com/pyapi/packages/weblist/python/
Does anyone have any experience with django @ PiCloud?
Whats with the downvotes? Thought they wrote:

"In gratitude, we'd hope you'll accept a complimentary Manpack from us. Pick out whatever you like (anything), and let us know your sizes & address too."

I don't see a way or link to redeem this complimentary pack?
A scientific defense of pseudoscience (Dec. 2009)
"alternatives are a prerequisite to the illusion of choice" -- just made it up 2010
You're right, they didn't call it a dying platform. They said "blogging on Tumblr is sort of like being in high school.".
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In other words: you don't want to pay for extra licenses.

Are there software packages which, in addition to wanting per-machine licenses, also make it an unbelievable pain to manage those licenses? Yes. But that's not what happened in this story.
> give one to your field agent before he goes off on his super-secret mission

This is cryptography's version of "begging the question". A OTP means that "Given that you already have a secure communications channel (to exchange the one-time-pad), you can send secure messages over other channels." Of course if you already have a secure communication channel, why wouldn't you just use that? Perhaps you think that your "real world example" offers an explanation--remote communications can be more advantageous than local ones. However, as soon as we enter "the real world", we see that the OTP you wrote down can easily be captured along with your physical self, and the message compromised or even modified. This happens often enough in practice: see the "Exploits" section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

Modern cryptography (specifically I'm thinking of public-key-based exchange of a private key) doesn't depend on having a secure channel to communicate with in the first place. In addition, private keys can't be captured on your person like a OTP can. So it is both theoretically and actually better than a OTP by multiple orders of magnitude.

For these reasons, I think comparing a OTP to modern public or private key cryptography is pretty silly.
Monthly subscriptions to a few video/audio webcasts.
This is the first time I've heard about Whiteyboard, and I didn't have any trouble at all figuring out what it was.

From the name "Whiteyboard" and the words "stick-on whiteboards" right at eye level when the page first opened, I immediately knew what it was.
Well, I'm just a Canadian looking in, but I thought a major part of the problem was that the corn subsidies made HCFS artificially inexpensive. If a hypothetical global warming scenario sets in where the corn and wheat moves north of the border into the arctic tundra, and the US jumps to a top 3 sugar producer, the tariffs and subsidies would certainly change.
I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try. More competition isn't just good for consumers, it's also good for the field of IR.

I work in search quality at Google, and it's really exciting for me to see a result that another search engine returns that I don't understand. It inspires me to think of all the ways they might have returned it, and leads to a lot of neat ideas. For the same reason, I enjoy reading the reaction in the SEO community to major changes to Google's rankings. Sometimes we're too close to a change to see what it does effectively instead of in principle. What the SEOs conclude often ends up being a really good first-order approximation of an unintended side-effect.

If you believe that your competitors are doing incredible things, it's a great inspiration to try doing incredible things yourself, regardless of whether you're right about what they're doing.
the vector clock is practically transparent unless you actually want to take advantage of it.
Blekko Screencast And Founder Interview [video]
Wait. What? You thought that based on the ROI on an ad to get traffic to a website you'd get the same for an ad trying to sell a physical product?
from that link: "If you have been working all night and have an early morning meeting, you can use an anti-inflammatory hemorrhoid cream (e.g. Preparation H) to quickly shrink those unsightly puffy bags under your eyes. Just carefully dab the roid cream on your lower eyelids (being careful not to get any in your eyes) and you will look fresh and well-rested."

well, I guess you learn something new everyday.
'Another possible nicety would be the ability to mark a repo as the "canonical" repo for a project'

"When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor." (1)

I think something like this is the ideal solution, and - as kaens says above - I think if features are to be added then it would be great if they supported this process rather than just marking a project as abandoned.

(1) Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-baz...
This is wonderful news. In addition to the slashtags, I'm excited about all the ranking data they're showing off.

Right now your only source of ranking data straight from a search engine is Yahoo's Site Explorer, and even that data is quite limited and its future availability uncertain. I've never seen duplicate content exposed so openly.

And as ora600 said, that level of transparency is something Google exceedingly unlikely to copy.
Just yesterday there was a similar thread on AskReddit: "What is the coolest thing I can buy on the internet for under $20?" (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cqr6x/what_is_the...)

Personally, my vote goes to the TV-B-Gone. It's a small device that runs through all the common IR codes for turning TVs off when you press a button. ThinkGeek sells them for $20, but the "hacker" version (http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&...) runs for 50 cents less ;).
Surprised no one has mentioned this, but it depends on your end-game, or what you are going after.

If you are looking to get funding, or are looking to build and sell the business, instead of making it a lifestyle business, you will definitely want to do a c-corp, issue your stock while it is worth nothing. If you get bought, you pay capital gains tax(hopefully long term) instead of taking the entire amount as income.

Aside from that you do have a few advantages of C-corp, but LLC is definitely the least amount of paperwork. LLC's can elect to be taxed as a c-corp and then an s-corp, at least the last I read.

But from what I have read almost everyone that gets vc has to be a delaware c-corp.
Startup Ideas: The Future of Aging
According to Census data, between 2010 & 2050 the population of Americans over 65 years of age will double to 88.5 million. The technology needed to facilitate these changes is not yet fully available.

The video below was created to inspire technological innovation and to make aging financially possible. This seems like a huge problem begging for elegant solutions.

http://www.aahsa.org/article_cast.aspx?id=10153
Don’t Hold it Wrong: Other phones with antenna attenuation problems
No, I think the perceived question in the media and in the largely non-owners of iPhone was exactly whether iPhone 4 was a dud. If Jobs didn't defuse that question, the iPhone sales had a potential of peaking much, much sooner than it will now because new customers would be willing to sit and wait.
I think part of the point is that the price didn't go down like all the other stuff they were looking at in the old Computer Shopper ads.
Indeed that is sometimes a problem, but I don't make a ton of voice calls in super-high volume areas.
You're assuming that your children will be able to, will be wealthy enough to, will be willing to, will be alive long enough to do that. Also you're assuming that you will be mentally capable of working in your 60's. That's a lot of assumptions which I wouldn't be comfortable with in my life.

Not trying to say everything bad will happen, but that's a lot of assumptions... at some points you might be left with no support from yourself or family - and a lot of people find themselves in situations like that.
Yeah I see that. My tests primarily revolved around single-threaded event driven code, and retaining large container objects (millions of objects). MRI was much more efficient. I understand that there's a lot more going on under the hood in JRuby just to make this possible, but for this use case, the result is what mattered. Although we ended up using Tokyo Tyrant (with a hack to pre-disk-cache all the data) anyway.
Ha, I never saw that. That's just dumb. I retract my defense.
What if his wife values living in San Diego as much as he values starting a company? Try this: "if a husband's happiness is with a startup instead of with his wife, she is not his happiness regardless of where he works."
This is incorrect. My family received a green card immediately, and were eligible for citizenship one year after receiving it.

It does not account for H1-B and renewal leading to nearly a guaranteed greencard.

Also, this presents citizenship as the goal of immigration. A green card provides all the benefits that citizenship require for starting a company. The only material differences is the ability to facilitate the process of providing your family with work visas.
Oxis Products Review
"-- and thats what I want to do." I don't mean to be glib, but I think you answered your own question. In my experience (which for the record isn't nearly as awesome as yours appears to be!), whenever I've been at this kind of a cliff, I ought to have jumped.
Exploiting remote timing attacks
Deploy your own satellite for $8000
RIP Stephen Schneider
So you're suggesting that the story over the last few days was never about a legitimate gripe, but was all along just eager Apple haters slavering over the prospect of a prostrate Steve Jobs?
They had one of the better poster sessions at PyCon a few months ago: http://blog.picloud.com/?p=96
There is some truth to this sentiment...except I would say that 'real people' pirate software because it tends to be the easier route for the geeks they went to for advice.

The amount of times I have been approached by my family for 'software that will do X'. I HATE having to tell them to go and spend a few hundred bucks for something that I know can screw them like this in the end.

Sometimes it is better for the nerves, to just give them a pirated version or show them how to pirate.
I find startup ideas by looking at the domain names which are expiring and are in the pendingDelete status. I acquired lots of these and for some I am writing down what can be done for it.
When you start a startup it’s good to have a good domain name right away - just ask Mint.com how much they had to give up for that good domain name (gave up some good equity) - or ask Facebook, which paid $200,000 for it after it became successful (money which could be used for the actual business)
(linky) http://highdeas.com/

Also Halfbakery - http://www.halfbakery.com/
An idea I had 5 years ago was related to local (social networking, news, events,classifieds) - at that time local wasn’t the hot topic it is today (and Facebook was just for colleges).

How did I came up with that? I had a need - I was a fresh immigrant to US (coming from Eastern Europe) - didn’t know almost anybody - and I though would be nice to have a local site for each neighborhood (based of the zip code level) where people can interact, post local news, local events, local classifieds.

I even start coding and did a prototype in the free time I had, and I almost 1 year (which is still online at http://www.mirceagoia.com/local ) hoping that I may present that to an investor - well, I was too new here and I had to look for a job eventually, to survive. So, i abandoned the idea - but, who knows, that idea could be still viable, especially nowadays.
I like The Flashbulb as well, but it depends on which album as to what mix of ambient/breakcore/weirdness you get. :)
What do other people use for cloud computing? How many people have their own Hadoop clusters? How many people use Heroku?
I would buy a months worth of VPS over at linode.com, except that I already have one.

So my second choice would be a book on marketing, which I am guessing I would have to get used, which is no problem as they are usually the absolute best bargin.
Good point. My mind skimmed the hardcover element completely.
Do you pay more for postage when purchasing a hardcover book?
You are missing the point.

List one other 'real world' item - aside from software - where you can buy it, but it restricts you from either sharing it with someone else or lending to them, or giving to them after you are done.

If you buy a bike, bicycle, kitchen utensils, TV, ps3, cellphone, etc. All of the above you can do as you please with how you want - while you own it - and dispose of it as you please.

Software is the only thing, I can think of, that you can't do that.

I know there are technical issues with that, but when you put into that context, it really raises an interesting question about the evolution of software and the licensing model - for consumers.
Ask HN: Three startups, but only one of me. Which one should I choose?
So without going into too much detail, I'm taking a year off to get professional experience before I graduate from university. I applied to three startups, and each of them have offered me a job. Money is not a concern (I live cheaply). I just want to get the best experience for my future developing software, maybe even at a company of my own. So, I figured I should ask for a little advice.

My situation is pretty easy to pinpoint if you know me, which all of these great startups do, but I would still like to remain fairly anonymous, so the information I give will be to the point.

At Startup #1, I'd be building the application from scratch with another developer. I know very little else about this place.

At Startup #2, I'd be working on one product, using technologies I already know, with a small team of great people. One thing I gathered when I visited is that while I may know the frameworks and technologies they use here, I definitely don't know anything about the software development cycle at all. Here, I would get a mentor for a short time and then essentially be a full team member, with all of the rights and responsibilities that come with such a role.

At Startup #3, I'd be one of many, working at an Agile firm doing pair programming the entire time on several different and varied technologies. I don't know very many of the people here. In the interview, they were very down to business. The offices look much more laid back, but I simply don't know.

Typing them out like this, I already know which one I'm leaning towards; but it can't hurt to ask for a little advice, right?
I probably didn't elaborate on the partner thing enough. We've been working on this system together for about two years now. It was never really serious but recently we've realized its potential and since then, well yeah.

If it was just me - I'd put the company and semi-hold (work a little as I travel) and go, but thats not the situation.
You can definitely outsource the management of your campaigns.

Google provides the My Client Center for Adwords experts to manage the accounts of their clients.

I have personally used someone in Russia that I can recommend if you are interested. (Contact me at http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/contact-me/)
The screencast: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/blekko-screencast-and-found...
I think his point is that they could have forced mynewplace out of the market very quickly, and didn't.
No. Karl Benz, a German, is regarded as the inventor of the first automobile.
Nokia Siemens buys up Motorola networks in $1.2bn deal
Buffcacher: like varnish meets memcached, and its faster
My bootstrapped night of fun: You're Live
Have you tried any of the more recent BoC albums? The 'Beautiful Place out in the Country' EP is unabrasive, and I find 'Campfire Headphase' less angular than Geogaddi as well.
Warning: terribly addicting.
Both Kennedy and Hitler followed up on their words. Their words were significant because of their actions.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated more than a year before his first term as president was up. But thankfully his words live on as in this quote which was posted recently here on HN (and is currently the top comment in the thread!) by another member here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528441

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. --JFK

If speeches don't matter as you say, why did the HN member bother to post this? And why is it the top voted comment in the thread?
Then you've done it wrong because Handbrake uses x264 which seriously outclasses anything Sorenson could produce.