skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much the same life, the toys are just a bit bigger. One thing I've found though - girls don't care about the money in the bank. Maybe they care about if you drive a big car or something, but just spending a lot does not seem to result in the ladies being significantly more impressed.

Interaction with other people is more of a i-don't-give-a-shit-who-you-are anymore. Take it or leave it is much easier.

Life is more relaxed - that constant stress of being broke is gone. But there are other problems that come up when some problems go away. Stuff that appeared smaller before (how do I get people to like me, for example), now seem more important.
LINQ is far more useful than just as language sugar over SQL. The amount of boilerplate it removes is substantial for anything working with sequences. I actually havent used the SQL backend for it.

But since I often work with large collections of heterogenous data outside of a DB, I use it all the time to transform and filter collections in ways that would be very tedious in other languages. Libraries can get you some of the way there, but the language integration is what makes it so painless.
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There's a lot of power and flexibility using a Model with LINQ. The strongly typed nature has saved me many times. When you alter a table and remove or rename a column you know exactly which queries are now broken at build time. If you were generating or hardcoding sql there's a chance that you hosed a lot of things and need to dig through all the code.

Dynamically creating queries is amazing in LINQ. Building them with strongly typed expressions is much better than messy string concatenation.
Am I missing something? Just went to https://www.kissinsights.com/plans and they list:

Premium - $29/month - 1k responses/month

Unlimited - $25/month billed annually - no limit of responses

Or has the OP gotten news/information of an upcoming price change?
Check some of the (old) AOL search logs released.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/aol-search-log.p...
Very good point, I agree. However, I also meant that even the way the questions are formulated "how can I do a blog", "how can I blog on facebook" betray a lack of basic understanding of these technologies.
Perhaps not only simpler platforms are needed, but better offline education about these topics as well (via school, traditional media, etc.)
I have been trying to get a forrst and a dribbble (want this more) invite since forever. I haven't come across one yet. They seem to be very rare.

I doubt how much valuable forrst is (would love to hear more about it), but dribbble is a great site, and I visit it regularly even though I am not a member. Anyone designing for a startup should check out the cool stuff other designers are working one.

PS. Anyone with an invite to either site, please send me one to alexwyser@gmail.com. I will be forever grateful. :)
Andrew,

Thanks for an awesome interview. It's eye-opening to see such an exotic idea becoming a multi-million dollars with the proper execution and with some luck added. Incredible!
Sometimes you don't want to suck up all of the RAM on a non-embedded machine, either. Also faster startup times and no collector pauses. A lot of times those are required.
This is an answer to a question that grasshoper is not asking: he claims that Python is used extensively "in the West" in contexts other than web development.

Comparing search traffic for django/python to ruby/rails has nothing to do with this.
This is about http://www.kissmetrics.com/
Those prices were for KISSmetrics while you are looking at KISSinsights.
I believe that the Federal Aviation Regulations give unpowered craft right of way over powered craft, so it would the responsibility of any aircraft that encountered the balloon to steer around it.

But realistically, the odds that any aircraft would even get near the balloon are very small. Most of its flight was far above the cruising altitude for commercial aircraft. And during its ascent and descent, contact with aircraft is minimal: the atmosphere is very very very big and the combined volume of all the aircraft in the world is very small comparison.
That's the point of reading the books: it offers something more than "it could happen".
Look here: https://www.kissmetrics.com/signup
Maybe easier to read on screen, but not easier to type or say to someone else. There was a previous comment about reading punctuation over the phone, which I've found true. In addition, there are lots of folks who are generally confused by which punctuation mark is which. My wife recently had a 5 minute conversation with someone who simply didn't know what a dash was (it's in her company's domain). As the SO brand spreads beyond the hacker community memorable word-based URLS without punctuation will be even more important.

My biggest problem with the series vs. individual sites thing is that I already have to remember so many URLs and information about my identity on each site. Where do I log in to see all of my notifications from the various sites? How do I find my friends when I move from one site to another? How do I see that a bunch of my friends are now answering questions on a cool topic on a totally new SE site? A series approach would have provided a much more straight forward approach to answering these questions. I think the unique sites make leveraging the asset of users who participate in many communities harder.
Xen supports both PV and HVM.
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This probably says more about me than anyone else, but I felt the same after getting enough money in the bank for one years rent.
I've been considering this myself for a while. What's the best way for a nerd with no sales knowledge (well, i can sell things off a webpage just fine, at least if they are cheaper than the competition, but that's a rather different thing.) to get into sales?

should I leverage my existing skills and get a sales or pre-sales Engineer job selling some overpriced "enterprise storage" or network kit? or should I show up at a used car dealership and ask for a job?

I bet I could at least get past the interview; I'm tall and white and can fake confidence fairly well for a nerd. I don't know how long I'd last on the used car lot, though.
Pretty slight. The whole thing had a mass of around 2 lbs and the electronics were mounted in a Styrofoam cooler. Although it is probably not a good idea to launch it right at an airport.

As long as your payload is under 4 lbs there are virtually no requirements. Here is an excerpt of FAA FAR 101
http://www.eoss.org/pubs/far_annotated.htm

Canadian geese are demonstrably a much greater threat.
If it is easy, why not just use the LLVM C++ interface in the ooc compiler?
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Nice to see it has Android 2.1. According to their site they will have $299 version with capacitive screen which might be a lot more pleasant to use.
I'm in no way in the league of pg or others but I might have an interesting story to share.

While at university I was pretty skint (as students are). Anyway, long story short I happened to "start a company" that never took off but did take the interest of another competitor - who then bought me out (it never came to anything from them - they were "super funded" and had a not-that-good team....).

Anyway; it wasn't a lot of cash considering - but compared to what I was living on...

I immediately went and bought a silly car which ate up petrol and insurance money (tip 1: don't buy a really nice car unless you drive a lot, now I run a 14 year old Peugeot and it is more reliable, economical and fun :)).

This sort of thing (silly spending) went on for about a month until I was stocked up on all sorts of technology porn (in fairness to myself I did splash money on my friends/flatmates quite liberally). I can't exactly remember what made me stop but did eventually realise that I was acting silly ;)

Even when I stopped spending it was hard to avoid buying stuff I saw and trivially wanted - there was no sense of ownership on the expensive items any more (compared to the 32" TV I had bought a few months earlier and saved for for nearly a year) and they never really made me happy.

Long story short; most of it went into Ebay, I put the money into a long term fund and finished up Uni as a poor student.

Two years later the money is still there; I managed to find a job that rocks and pays pretty good (considering). I've got over the need for money/items and have (in my mind) a much nicer outlook on life and "stuff" :)

So, yes, having "large amounts of cash" (relatively speaking) did change me - but not in the way I expected :)

And the best bit is that I have money for a house, wedding ring (hopefully :)), kids etc... in the future if things don't work out.
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I personally think "worthwhile" girls are not so much attracted to money as financial stability and responsibility. However, there are times when toys are really nice to have, and can be fun in social settings -- maybe bias toward purchases which can be enjoyed with other people.

There are definitely diminishing returns -- being able to afford an occasional meal at a decent restaurant is worth a lot, but being able to buy out the bar every night is not necessarily any better.

Three classics from Quora may be relevant:

http://www.quora.com/How-does-a-penniless-entrepreneur-attra...

http://www.quora.com/How-does-a-wealthy-man-in-Silicon-Valle...

http://www.quora.com/How-does-a-successful-entrepreneur-get-...
Looks awfully spammy.
In the short-term, my life was much worse. I spent a lot of really painful time struggling to come to grips with my situation.

After that was over, things went pretty much back to normal. There's now a low-level fear all the time of losing all the money (something PG's written about recently) and I'm constantly worried I've invested it badly. I didn't make any dramatic life changes so people don't really treat me differently.

The biggest thing is that it provides a sort of mental backup -- when I'm feeling bad about myself or about to do something risky, I can tell myself not to worry.

My sense is that it bears out what the happiness research says: dispositional factors are much more important than situational ones. PG was an abnormally happy person before he got rich and he's still abnormally happy. I was pretty miserable before and I'm still miserable. (The reasons are more complicated but the result is I prefer my misery.)
If you look at one of their main competitors (MixPanel), the prices they decided are actually half.

Here is the MixPanel page for comparison: http://mixpanel.com/pricing/

And here is KissMetrics: https://www.kissmetrics.com/signup

Moreover, with service such as KISSMetrics the support load will be quite high (since there will be all kinds of integration issues, why don't numbers match with GA, etc). Anything below $100 does not make a lot of sense because even with just 2 hours of support per month (which I think is reasonable for such a service), they will probably not be able to make a profit (assuming $50/hour consulting).

Ask me about the support load, I run a service in a complementary (a/b testing) industry :)
I also still think that Wave is cool - as a development platform.
Ah, thanks for that. (I had just followed the OP's link, and hadn't known the distinction between metrics/insights.)
It's a nice picture, but how can you see anything on the screen in that much sunlight?
Uh, have you seen how much big companies are paying for "enterprise" analytics?
You actually helped make his point.
I'm a bit tired, but it seems to me like the fileFilter method would look nicer like this:

public static File[] fileFilter(File dir, #boolean(File) matcher) {
return dir.listFiles(new FileFilter() {
public boolean accept(File file) {
return matcher.(f);
}
});
}

Or am I way off? I realize that it's moot, with the SAM types support that he's mentioning. Seems pretty nice.

On the whole it looks kind of verbose to me, and way uglier than in C#, but Java seems to me to at least be improving.
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http://sciencetoymaker.org/ has some great projects.
True; Java makes it very easy to become memory-bound needlessly. No JIT in the world can save you if your primary data structure is a TreeMap<Long,Integer> with a billion entries.
oh man. do you have maps or other resources that describe where this sort of thing is available?
Again, that's not unique to LINQ. Drop a db column in the thing we use and the project will fail to compile until you fix up the references. And of course, if you're keeping your stored procedures in source control and recompiling them at build time (which of course you should), you'll know when you break them too.

As you say, strongly typed dataobjects are pretty cool. Regardless of how they interface with the database.
154	how can i get more facebook friend

180 how can i get fans on facebook

Maybe someone should create lots of fake profiles to
1) sell friend requests to losers who want to pad their friend list
2) sell fans for people's pages

EDIT: Actually, maybe you can sign up other Facebook users to sell themselves as friends/fans and take a cut. I'm not sure how would you would track it though.
Ask HN: Hosting in China
A startup I'm founding with a few friends will be offering a web service in China. Although we have people that are based there and very familiar with the business side of things they have no clue about the technological side and therefore also no idea about the hosting solutions available.

Does anyone here know or have experience with a Chinese hoster that provides reliable (priority) and affordable hosting?
No, he meant she wrote that on the excuse letter.
Excellent point. You could toss in assembly as yet another choice for the very highly constrained environment (very cheap microcontrollers, although many now have abstractions so you don't actually have to code in assembly directly, it is sometimes necessary).
Can you please explain how? Thanks!
I'd say that language barriers also play a role. I've met plenty of educated, non-native, english speakers who would say "How can I do a blog".

That queries display a lack of understanding shouldn't be too surprising. I suspect people often search Google when they don't know about a topic. If my first search were "How can I do a blog", my second may well be "What are the differences between, Blogger and Wordpress".

If people are asking about blogging on Facebook I'd be interested to know what they learned from the results of the search. i.e has their understanding increased? If so, then I'd argue we don't need further education.

Overall, I'm suggesting that perhaps Google is already solving these people's problems by connecting them with answers (to some extent).
Why does the hosting have to be chinese? The advantage of internet based startups is that everything is global. I'm sure there are great hostings in South Korea, for instance.
>> # Arrays and hashes treated as the same type
> We like this! [...]

Maybe you do. But I've always found it annoying.

> In practice this works fine, and it's not even algorithmically different, since a hash access is a constant time operation.

It is actually. Read the array.c and zend_hash.c code. It's only a constant time operation if you're not interested in the difference between whether a hash key actually exists, or whether it exists and its value is set to NULL. The former is O(n) if you use array_key_exists. From zend_hash_exists:

while (p != NULL) {
if ((p->h == h) && (p->nKeyLength == nKeyLength)) {
if (!memcmp(p->arKey, arKey, nKeyLength)) {
return 1;
}
}
p = p->pNext;
}
return 0;

>> PHP doesn't have multiple inheritance, fine, but it doesn't have mixins/modules, either.

> We do not want! Locality of code is worth more to us

Code that I'd write in Common Lisp or Perl that takes advantage of multiple inheritance and the composition it offers is a lot uglier in PHP when I have to hack around not having multiple inheritance. It leads to bigger and monolithic classes that you can't easily compose.

>> Because it is designed to be run in the context of Apache, PHP doesn't work very well as a command-line scripting language,

> A hammer doesn't drive screws very well

This is actually a major problem with PHP. Unlike Perl, Python, Ruby, Lisp etc. you can't easily run most PHP code persistently, so the execution model for most applications is to parse, compile and execute the application for each request.

You can get around that in some cases, but some core language features have been blocking this until relatively recently. E.g. create_function() would always leak memory, but in 5.3 PHP finally has support for anonymous functions.
> No, it's in all likelihood the the parent-son bond has been broken and the parent would like to fix that

I'd have thought of a divorce gone bad, and a father barred from seeing his son.
Evaluating the alternatives is smart of course.

I just don't understand why type-checking and speed were factors in choosing the language you were after. If they were, then why even bother looking at Python at all? It isn't a fast language and doesn't have type-checking.

The rest of the article is spent telling me why these features aren't important. Both C# and Java have type-checking (though C# perhaps is a little more loose) and are pretty fast. Yet the article claims that Python is fast enough and that type-checking isn't a requirement because you're more concerned with value assertions (and unit-tests are good enough to validate them).

So essentially the article sets up false premises and knocks them down one by one. Type-checking wasn't actually a requirement. Neither was speed. The only reason we are left with for why Quora chose Python was because that's what most people were familiar with.

I'm not saying it's a bad choice or that your conclusions were incorrect. I just don't think it was a good article.
how does it work? normal words "with high potential" in a post get automatically linked to a merchant's offerings? If so, no thanks (at least not for me).
It seemed really laggy and the touch-sensitivity seemed less than ideal. I was thinking, as a tablet, that just wont do. Then I noticed it's not branded as a tablet, but as a reader that happens to do other things. That's a very important distinction that I think makes all the difference, especially considering it costs less than my Android phone would unsubsidized.
The color scheme, 'make money', the domain name, and so on. Just a first impression.
I like the idea.

I'd remove too tech words like WordPress, plugin from landing page to "supported plaforms" or something, you are going to support other platform, right?

Screenshots for 1-2-3 steps arent so nice.
Wow, I did! Thanks
Be prepared for it mentally and emotionally before getting FU money. It's not dissimilar to winning the lottery.

Most of you reading this site is either working extremely hard to get FU money or has it already. If you're not prepared for it, it will just amplify your worst nightmares and habits, and there's a good chance the meaning of many things in life, including life itself, will disappear. Plan for a use/purpose for the FU money.

The journey is sometimes better than the destination, so make sure that once you arrive at the destination, it is only one stop of a longer journey. Here's a story of a millionaire who liked the journey much more than the destination, so gave away all the money to restart the journey.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/blog/page...

After you've bought/rented all your material wants, you will feel an empty feeling and ask yourself, "that's it?", unless you have a purpose greater than yourself. Belong to a higher cause, whether it's joining a local non-profit or helping others (or start a yc? ;-). Money is a means to an end, not the end itself. Beyond buying power, money has no value unless it is used/invested/earmarked.

Here are some example people who were unprepared and how they used their FU money:
http://www.oddee.com/item_97101.aspx

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Yes, we can talk about the great positives of FU money and the awesome power/material good it brings, but not about the potential downsides it'll bring if you don't keep it in check or plan for it in advance? For what it's worth, I've started several companies, each did well, and the points I've raised above were important for me (for belonging to a higher purpose, I sat on the board of a non-profit and helped raise money). There was a time when I thought I reached my "destination", only to feel that I had arrived at an deserted island.
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the greatest one is the "import your contacts" from GMail and it invites anyone not using your service, to your service too.
I kinda see what he's saying. It has a template feel to it, but I think overall the site is deeper than a spam site.

This coming from someone who doesn't and has never used this type of service.
There was a company who did that, I think months or years ago. Not sure if they still operate.
transforming relevant keywords on a blog to affiliate links is a practice that I would find to be irritating.
edit: depends on how it is executed ofcourse
I wish I had found that sad. Thanks to the Jim Rome show all I could think of was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGNW5ltWowA
> They did not "steal" the content, they failed to provide the required attribution.

In other words, they breached the terms of the copyright license. It isn't stealing, but it is copyright violation. Breaching the terms of a CC license should be treated as seriously as breaching the terms of any other copyright license.
I'm no expert, but those terms don't sound very enticing.
I guess you're saying that the article suffers from selection bias? Maybe.

But then you go on to state that "nobodody that I know" ... which is just the same kind of selection filter.

There are well over 50 million Garmin style GPS units in the market offering turn-by-turn navigation. While you may not have a need for them, they are providing widely adopted functionality, and since Android is the first mobile platform doing this, it is potentially disruptive.

Is the higher resolution display of the iPhone 4 disruptive, or an enhancement?
Nothing. I looked at KISSMetrics ages ago when the private beta was first leaked. Similar to crazyegg it focuses on a single aspect of analytics, in this case conversion funnels. So it is simple to setup funnels for every possible conversion point (which if your website is effective should be almost every page). However, you can do this on GA too, which is also a hugely more powerful and integrated tool. Someone mentioned previously how expensive enterprise analytics is... this is _not_ enterprise analytics. I'm really not sure who they're aiming this product at.