skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that you can use a microsite to rank well for a specific keyword like "dallas classifieds" but how you pass this through to another site you want this term to rank for?

For example if I want classifieds.com to rank well for "dallas classifieds" how do I use that microsite to improve my ranking on classifieds.com for that term?
They make bathtub crayons, which are basically what you're describing. It washes off with water and a little scrubbing. Look for them online or in a toy store.
It is normal to the wind direction, that's clear on the site. From the way you're talking it doesn't sound like you bothered to even look at what they're doing.
Tenure: An idea whose time has gone.
Who else should be reading procedural code written in a compiled language?
I taught software development at 100s of companies like this. The problems are: (1) there are a finite number of excellent devs and none will work for these companies. (2) Their IT tasks are not attractive to top devs because it's mostly integration work. (3) Their top managers are not devs (lawyers, accountants, insurance, etc) so IT work is not understood and devalued. (4) Most of these companies have nightmarish bureaucracies that will deaden the soul of the even the most enthusiastic new hire. (5) Because of all this, they need to replace people often so they don't want to depend on superstars.

I've thought about this and I don't know what they can improve (except 4). What can a large accounting company do to hire an ex-GOOG or MSFT? Nothing, really.
Make this available to the masses - build in the facility to print paper templates on A4 paper, and then use these to cut the structure out of plywood etc. That would be really cool - You could print contentric shapes so that you don't need to print out hundreds of pages. You just print patterns for smaller shapes within bigger ones, and once you've used the bigger template to cut your pieces, you trim the template down to the smaller inner piece and cut out more.
You can also just transfer it with:

$ scp -r user@host:/path /path
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Lets do this. Hn needs to establish air/space supremacy over other forums.
<i>As for robustness, if doing X will cause a crash and your code does X, then you will just have a bunch of crashing processes rather than just one. How is that better? Wouldn't the real solution be to either stop doing X or fix X so that it doesn't cause a crash?</i>

Sure, but bug-free code doesn't exist and not all crashes happen 100% of the time. If you have a difficult to track down crash bug that happens for some mysterious reason once every 100,000 requests... Would you rather have that resulting in the entire server blowing up or one request-session blowing up?
Regarding liberal arts professors; here is an almost-perfect Patrick McKenzie sentence, written this time by Megan McArdle:

Basically, these people are supporting an expensive hobby with a sideline business certifying the ability of certain twenty-year olds to write in complete sentences.
I don't see any way to drop in the aperture disks, though... if there is, that'd work.
I'm not impressed by the functionality of the app (though of course lots of others may like it) but I am impressed by the slickness of their video production. Very Apple-y.
Tub crayons: http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Bathtub-Crayons/dp/B00124WW5Y
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I'm not sure what you're aiming at here. Could someone explain in plain English what's happening here and why this might be useful? Thanks.
"Homesteading" is a new term to me. Of course, it's much better than "A nice Italian Restaurant in the webspace".

Not sure I like the old-timey feeling of the word. I'll probably stick with "Small SaaS" until a better term comes along.
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Actually there was a paragraph about this in the essay that I cut:

The Nile Perch quality of disputes may help explain why large
organizations are so unproductive. The size of large organizations
insulates them from the forces that keep smaller ones in line.
Questions tend to be decided instead by political battles, and such
disputes have a terrible cost because they push other ideas out of
all the participants' heads. Politics is like an infectious disease,
because political schemers suck up not just their own attention,
but also that of all the people in their way, who might otherwise
have been thinking about other things.
It worked pretty well for Jeremy Paxman.
If you didn't require this I would have submitted my side project. It's a few years old already and "announcing" it on HN seems odd.
Hmm. Where to start...

1. This isn't a web-based remote desktop client.
2. Your concept of "something real" is clearly different from mine.
3. Their app appears to work very well, in my opinion, without having to resort to browser plugin messiness.
4. This particular solution's primary value proposition is that it will work on almost any recent browser, without other installed software.
This is one of the big design problems IMO. Features that aren't usable should either be hidden or very obviously marked as disabled. The voting buttons are exactly the same for everyone, even though they're useless to most people. Whenever I find a new StackExchange site, I instinctively try to vote up good answers and get the annoying "You need more rep" popup.
Unless they're planning on launching an SMS-only service then Facebook might find it tougher reaching the developing world on their phones than the cyber cafes. People without internet access don't have iPhones or 3G networks. Though I just walked past a news broadcast with Facebook's Director of Policy observing that mobile was the key to penetrating areas like Africa...
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I've just moved over to rails. After 6 years of using poor APIs tapestry 5 was what finally tipped me over the edge. On the project we used it for we would actually allow 2 days to get a tapestry page working correctly. Howard (creator of tapestry) seems to believe that html and http were a mistake and that he's created the event based solution to hide it away. The result, helped along by the lack of docs, is that even with what would have been the simplest of tasks with html and http become an impossible hunt through his dodgy codebase. Far and away the most painful framework I've ever had the misfortune to use. Worst part was that is was me that was seduced by the seeming simplicity of it and chose it in the first place ;)
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I usually do use scp, but it becomes problematic when there are symlinks hanging around. scp just follows them and ends up copying the same file many times.

This is especially bad if you have a directory structure that references a higher-level directory.
Anyone else been having wierd issues with reddit lately?

For long periods of time I get "the service you request is temporarily unavailable. please try again later." on my home internet connection. From other boxes in the UK, it's fine and from friends on the same ISP, it's also fine. It's quite bizarre.
The issue of day-to-day work falling by the wayside was addressed in pg's essay on "Good and Bad Procrastination"

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
IMO if you count servers installed with Linux as "users" then Linux may have more users than Firefox (no hard data to back this up though)
I'm having a hard time figuring out what the author means by "vulnerable" here. Seems like a mellifluous but semantically empty use of the word.
Try http://psd2cssonline.com/

I had some success with it but really just prefer to rough code stuff by hand and then tinker with firebug.
I really don't understand how this helps you.

The one page site doesn't really contain useful information, so anyone google-ing "dallas classifieds" that does click the link will bounce pretty immediately.

Do you have any statistics on the number of people that click through the links on your site? Like how many page views has it gotten vs. how many people have clicked on outbound links.

At the same time, "dallasclassifieds.org" has a page rank of 0, so linking it up to your primary site will not really improve the page rank of that site if I understand the basic idea of pagerank correctly.

The only real potential benefit that it can possibly create is that you might get some revenue if you throw some google ads up on the site. As it is right now, you are essentially taking a spot away from a potentially more useful service showing up on the main page.
I am not a big fan of censorship, but maybe requiring a user to have a minimum karma score like 5 or something or requiring that the account be over 7 days old before people can post an article may help to cut down on the obvious spam. I have seen an increased volume around here lately.

I would still let them post but flag it so that they are the only ones who see the post.
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My site is http://dallas.abtain.com/ , you'll see that I link to my site in the list of "dallas classifieds" sites.

You can also move the traffic to your own site by making the microsite a related/useful service. One example would be a mortgage company making a mortgage calculator site. The calculator site then links people back to the mortgage application site.
PayPal Adding One Million New Accounts Each Month
Basically, you are sending and receiving all of your web traffic through an encrypted connection to a remote computer.

A typical use for this is when you are connected to a foreign network like a hotel. If you don't route your http traffic over ssh, there is a risk of having your traffic sniffed and/or recorded.
Push notifications aren't reliable enough to be available during the brief period when a person is calling. A push notification that is set to go out at 9am might go out at 9am, but it also might go out at 9:01, 9:02, etc. My guess is that this is why Skype doesn't use them.
My favorite trick with SSH is running Tramp mode in Emacs to do editing on remote servers, invaluable when accessing isolated servers in data center via a jump-box server from my local machine. The fun part is the multi-host jump to editing files on a server that is couple hops away, like jumping through multiple data centers.

I usually bookmarks the Tramp sessions of the frequently visited servers to avoid retyping the host url and logon setting.
Brilliant observations weakened by a cultural biased conclusion.

> Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages.

It is only true if someones self is defined by the culture of turning the other cheek. There are other ways to define self and solve a dispute. For example:

And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!"

That's also a valid selfish conclusion.
Wow, I was a top coder on RAC around the same time :) Good times!

That said, the site is a joke for US-based programmers IMO. It worked for me because I didn't care about the $ amount being a HS freshman who'd just fallen in love with programming.
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To follow up, I took a look at clsql-fluid. Weblocks uses CLSQL wrong:

http://lists.b9.com/pipermail/clsql-help/2005-April/000416.h...

Although it's not at all obvious from the documentation that you should use the with-database macro:

http://clsql.b9.com/manual/with-database.html

I actually remember this tripped me up the first time I used CLSQL.
I don't have those stats right now, but I'll get them soon. Will be testing Adsense after the next deployment. What is surprising is that you have to make sure you block your Google Ads from your own sites, no reason to pay Google for that.

Primary goal is to actually build out each of these to make them more useful to visitors.
# - the Unix truth
Soap crayons might be a good idea.
I don't think anyone in this thread does not know who esr is.

However, the email implies that esr is currently busy doing important things.

esr hasn't done anything important in a decade. [1]

This is the disconnect--that people do not know of anything that esr is currently doing not that they do not know who esr is.

[1] Actually, TAOUP was published in 2003 so seven years, but it is still ages in this field.
Tried out different apps to replace Photoshop; Pixelmator, Acorn, DrawIt and Phoenix - but none gave me as good workflow.

Pixelmator did not have Layer Groups, Layer Styles or vector Shapes when I tested it. Does it now?
Looking for a cool job? Forget job boards, talk to angel investors
I read sensitive when he says vulnerable.
and direct vulnerability:
"This kind of love cannot be taught in business school. It has to be felt. It has to be given sanctuary away from the noise and relentless assault of information. And then it has to be nurtured. It must be embraced, in the light of day, for all to see, for people to ridicule, to criticize, to laugh at. And the entrepreneur has to be willing to feel the pain of that ridicule and suffer the risk of the dream being stolen, or crushed by the meanness of this world."
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20-second slideshows?

I think you mean hour-long talks with major points shown in Emacs Org-mode via a projector. If military strategy is under discussion, then a working version of the strategy in Dwarf Fortress will also be presented.
You should try to set up a meeting with angels Eileen Tso, Robert Dighero, or Stefan Glänzer at White Bear Yard. White Bear Yard is one of the main startup hubs in London. The caliber of the people that work there and those that pass through on a daily basis is very high.
Well, sure, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Dude, im not spamming anyone. I just wanted to find out about a service.
Why was this posted to HN? Doesn't seem appropriate, and since your username and domain name seem the same, it appears like selfpromotional spam. Flagging it now.
might want to try esd instead. When I was looking to try networking sound for a thin client thats the closest I got.
A lot of multi-million dollar companies were started by a small independent entrepreneur at some point. I'm sure those entrepreneurs aren't any happier about patent trolls just because they've met with some level of success.
Why Use a Laptop When a Tablet Will Do?
Zuckerberg admits working for man claiming Facebook ownership
Driven in part by soaring health care costs for full-time employees.
Riak is definitely my choice for object persistance. I've been playing a lot lately with Python's Flask and using the python-riak client (via protobuffs) it's just enjoyable.

If you want to see how easy it is to create a cluster of riak nodes, I made Riakaws for deploying a cluster on Amazon Webservices - http://github.com/roder/riakaws
Another config trick for multiplexing ssh connections into just one session:

ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p
Ranking #11 with an exact match domain is not doing well by any means. Spot 11 gets maybe 1% of the total clicks coming from that search term. Exact Match domains are very easy to rank with minimal link building and quality on site content.

And to people wondering how a microsite like this can help your main project site, it's because its a hell of a lot easier to rank an exact match domain for a keyword than it is a page of your own site. So you can rank these exact matches and then use them essentially as an info proxy site, where visitors can then click through to your real money site. It's a great strategy really if you want to increase your organic traffic.
On that vein.
I think the two most important subjects on a CS degree should be Software Architecture and Parallel Programming.

I suggest PP since there is no Scalability 101 that I know of, and PP really shows you limitations of current processors and how to get around them -If you understand replication and queuing at processor level you can implement them at "Enterprise" level".

Neither of those are new subjects, and although you can learn both of them "on the go" (Just ask the Twitter guys if they thought of database replication and sharding on day one) they will save you lots of time and money.
> It is only true if someones self is defined by the culture of turning the other cheek.

Not true. You evidently didn't understand the essay, which makes it clear that the advantage of turning the other cheek is it frees your mind to think about productive things rather than unproductive ones.
I'm pretty sure Chrome, at least, doesn't support SOCKS yet at all.

I was trying to make a shell script just the other day that would set up a SSH SOCKS proxy to a remote box and launch a browser using it, but couldn't do it from the command line in either Firefox or Chrome (didn't try a custom profile). Furthermore, I couldn't get it working in Chrome at all (shame; Firefox is more sluggish, and Opera won't even start on my box).
Miles' post was cross-posted to the Phoenix Ruby User Group list, which is where I first saw it (and where you can find a parallel thread).

What's interesting to me are the number of people attending the PRUG meetings who are increasingly exploring other languages.

There are different reasons for this; for some it's mostly intellectual curiosity, for others it's a preference for what language $foo can offer. (I'm in the middle ground, having gotten interested in Haskell as part of trying to expand my PL fu, and finding that it may be better long-term path than Ruby.)

At the last PRUG meeting we kicked around ideas for topics for future meetings. It wasn't limited to Ruby, and many people expressed an interest in hearing more about JavaScript, Node.js, and jQuery. In fact, the next PRUG meeting will be about the R language, and the meeting after that will have some folks (myself included) talking about jQuery. I think around October or November we'll get back to making Ruby the main topic of discussion. :)
How exactly?

In an ideal world, you could sell the service of helping professors to prepare their research proposals. You could also keep an eye out for grants which the professors might be interested in, and generally handle the money side of things for professors who would rather be worrying about something else.

However, I don't think this would work, because the professors have no way to pay you. As far as I know, no funding agency will fund you for the cost of contracting someone to prepare your grants for you. And they probably won't want to do it out of their own pocket, because; heck, this kind of service will be really expensive (and professors hate funding their research out of their salaries anyway).

But if you've got another business model, I'm all ears.
The only gripe I have with tramp is that it seems to have an awful lot of network overhead.
My background thoughts and ideas are usually based on what I really WANT to be doing, not what I SHOULD be doing (i.e. for my employer).

In fact, the basis for our startup came when I was focusing on the first, and ignoring the latter. The distraction to focus on the first became so strong that forming a startup was inevitable.

Now that I'm focused 100% on the startup, my thoughts are based on what I want to be doing AND what I should be doing - it's a great feeling!
Minimum Desirable Products and Lean Startups
Well then, welcome aboard! You might find more open-ended questions helpful (both in terms of getting an answer you want and in terms of avoiding it looking sketchy). For example, "I'm looking for a PSD-to-HTML/CSS service. I've looked at a few, including COMPANY X and COMPANY Y, but I'd love to get anecdata from any of you that have used them. Can you recommend them? Someone else? For this project, price is the most important factor; code quality is second-highest priority; speed isn't as big a deal. Any tips for how to make it a smooth process would be great as well." Or something like that.
Now that I think this phenomenon is very clearly articulated, I wonder if it isn't possible to have multiple 'top [ideas] in your mind' or 'ground states'.

It could be simply a matter of training your brain to have a strong stack for traversing the two or maybe three key areas or contexts that you're thinking about.

I.e., one solution is: make sure your top idea or ground state really is what you want. Another solution may be: train a better graph visitation algorithm.

However, trying to train one's unconscious may be sort of like quantum physics -- i.e., for lack of a better word: difficult. Perhaps you can just throw two or three main things you'd like to see happen into a collider, go to sleep or take a shower, and see what happens. But it may be possible to train yourself to think with very clear visitation between different contexts consciously, and actually have this process bubble down into the unconscious and take hold there too. I.e., hack your unconscious. Arguably it's the same sort of thing we do when we try to offload parallel processing onto a GPU or cloud (though in those cases the hardware is much more specific).
So does Noah Everett from twitpic
I like the iPad, however it is a seriously passive device for anything that doesn't actually benefit from fingers (like drawing). You can only realistically interact with it for things that require touch interaction.

If I want to read my E-mail, it's ideal. Same for reading news sites, etc. such as HN.

If I begin typing an E-mail of any length, it's only a matter of time before I screw something up on the iPad. While some of this could be addressed by fixing Apple's asinine methods for text selection and cursor movement, a lot of it is just the (lack of) keyboard.

Similarly, if I want to log in to any web site, or otherwise do lots of typing, it is a real pain. So I rarely do, except from a full-fledged computer.

If you have to do any significant amount of typing remotely, you NEED a laptop. Though, I do agree that Windows is overkill, especially on batteries; something like Linux with VNC would be plenty to reach any session you have running and do real work (or a Mac).

On the other hand, if you're drawing, or doing things that would require lots of mouse movements, the iPad is ideal, and a laptop would suck.

So Steve Jobs is basically right...there is a market in between the computer and the laptop.
This topic confirms one more time that personal productivity strongly depends on capability to manage thoughts. While it's not possible to manage thoughts fully, at least there are some ways to influence the way of thinking. Successful high-performers (like PG) usually have found their own ways to do it.
A good argument for giving them a Barony and kicking them into the House of Lords, perhaps?
This is exactly why you want a company culture like Zappos. If you work for a company like Zappos, you probably think less about things like disputes, medicare, salary, etc which means you can focus more on doing great work. I'm sure they aren't perfect but I've heard enough about Tony Heisch's philosophy about creating a great workplace to know employees are probably on average happier working there. Any Zappos employees here care to elaborate?
I'd probably end up buying > $20 worth of stuff on Amazon.
I'm with you, I'm in London. On the plus side, I'm enjoying this place a lot.