skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but you have to count in your holding costs. Even a roman penny (whatever the equivalent was) is not worth that much because there were so many made. Yes, it's worth more now than it was back then, but if you consider the holding costs for that long, it's a losing proposition.

Holding costs you ask? Well, if you pay $10000 sq/ft/yr for your house (renting, buying, whatever) then it 'costs' you a fraction of that to keep stuff in boxes. Then, there is moving costs, insurance costs etc. I know this is an inane example, but the point is to make people realise that hoarding stuff has very real costs, one of which is the 'mental space' that it takes. We all know the feeling that comes from throwing stuff in the bin - that's the other side of the ledger to hanging onto it.

My point being that buildings are worth keeping, as are mobile phones to a mobile phone enthusiast. But we shouldn't just hang onto stuff because it might be worth something one day.
You've just been given a gift. If he's right, he's saving you a ton of time and effort - and perhaps will put you on track to finding a better business model for the space.

Now you need to go out and find out if he's right - and for that, you should be talking to both the photographers (especially the pros) and the buyers of stock photography. Don't give up hope, just continue to learn more about your market.
The truly mind expanding experiences I've had in my life have come from meeting new people, engaging them in conversation, and trying to learn how to get along. Meeting people who were interesting before they ever went to college, or were interesting despite never having gone.

"Well, you meet people in college!" You'd get a better experience starting a rock band, joining a community service group (or hell, joining the military, it's a similar time commitment and they pay you), all activities essentially free compared to college. If anything, the system of accreditation, the politics of the teacher-student relationship, and the financial concerns of meeting even the most modest tuition rates are nothing but impediments to "expanding ones mind".
It's worth remembering that the first Sherlock Holmes book is of significantly lower quality than the rest of them, and doesn't fit the canon of the later stories.
It is ironic that she is condemning an institution which made it possible for her to write so well and be able to think so originally and creatively.

Perhaps she has forgotten, or is unaware, that without the schooling she received, without the need to complete those assignments, or prepare for those tests, she would hardly have been so motivated for the future and full of passion because whatever she might say, she knows very well that the education she has received has given her so much and will allow her so many more opportunities.

She does however forget to mention how her visionary education could be? What do we do, not teach kids maths? not teach them the thermodynamic laws which personally I have forgotten but have a vague recollection of them, not teach students of biology, history, geography? Does she suppose that a seven year old, ten, 12, 14, 16, year old can so freely be creative without knowing anything whatever of the facts. Should such student be allowed to imagine what our history was, or how our biology works so that he can be "creative". Does she actually know what to be creative is?

Whatever might be wrong with out educational system, unfortunately some things are basic and simply must be learned. We simply need to teach our kids to read, to do maths, physics, biology, history, art, music, sport, literature. Not simply let them imagine how it could be but yes make them memorise the facts, make them learn the fact. You might forget them the next month, but in the long run you learn the basics of each of these fields. You learn you have a heart and other organs and an immune system and the basic of history, lit, etc.

It is fine to simply shout foul, and for the top in the class that is their past hobby, impatient with themselves, believing themselves to be leaders when they so immature still, but we have been teaching for more than two millennia. You can not simply discredit all this experience with some rhetoric.

As for the creative part, that happens in university. If you did not learn the basics that are taught in primary school, and then on advance, you hardly would be able to independently arrive at this stage of creativity in a meaningful way, that is to gather the facts, learn them, understand them, understand how they relate, synthesise them together, and come up with suggestions as to how things can be improved.

But by all means throw stones as long as your house is not made of glass.
Very nice interface.

On the bottom of the results page, it says "Need a better server? Get one at Ping Control." but the "Ping Control" link appears to be broken.
How to get Windows and Linux to cooperate on the network
Having followed most of the comments on both these threads, I don't think it's fair to characterize Zed's position as saying "epoll is always bad". I think a better characterization would be: "epoll is not automagically better under every imaginable scenario".

You may argue that nobody is making any such claim, but I can tell you that the sections of the blogosphere I skim via HN, reddit, etc. do imply it. Maybe the authors just assume everyone can infer that every decision has tradeoffs and there's no need to discuss them in depth for this particular case, or maybe—and the nature of the blogosphere leaves me inclined to think that this is the case—most of those authors never consciously thought about those tradeoffs because epoll happens to be a good fit for their particular problem. Either way, Zed is the first person I've seen trying to explicitly identify and quantify those trade-offs for poll vs. epoll. As such, I think he's doing the community a service.

If this research leads to a better implementation of epoll, or a server that requires less tuning to do well under a particular load, that is great for everyone. Even if it doesn't lead to any great improvements, a better-educated developer population that makes more informed decisions is still a net win for the world.
Google vs iPhone and Facebook
How the New York Times creates its graphics [video]
How ? Do you have links to any sample code at all ?
If you research it a bit you'll find there are a few processes to get back the gold. Some more hazardous yielding higher returns while some are more cautious.
I looked at it a while back and one process seemed feasible for DIY gold recovery but, you'll need to collect thousands of pounds of boards. Where you could do that I have no idea.
I think its perfectly fine to contact this blogger again with one of these "fat ass questions". First of all thank him for his very helpful reply -it was helpful, right?

Then you can continue in many directions asking smthg like
1.What is the weakest point in my project?
2 What would you change/improve in plan/market/strategy etc
3.What of my assumptions are unrealistic etc
4.Whould you like to be a mentor/adviser for my project?

PPl usually respect appreciation for their knowledge and are willing to help in such cases.

Overall its a HUGE luck for you that you fund such a helpful adviser at the very begining of your venture. You need to change you mindset about that and start using this opportunity as seems like this guys could be very helpful for you.
In this town in the UK, all the 2nd-hand bookshops are shutting down one by one due to Amazon's 'used book' sales. It's hard to sell a book for £3.50 when you can buy it from Amazon for 1 penny plus £2.75 postage.
The challenge seems to be scaling this up... as ever!
Would like to convey some belated but serious gratitude for this. When I was working on some heavy-duty LaTeX academic publishing a year or so ago, this was one of the few available resources for full source code of a serious, professional-looking, non-math document. I find it incredibly helpful and inspiring.

As a side note, I am always amazed at the playful-but-ugly aesthetics that are common in the TeX community. While talking about having a professional-level typesetting engine, TeX-related publications are frequently painfully ugly. It somewhat undermines the cause.
Thanks! Yes, we did this for 2 reasons:
-Helvetica Light was the best fit for the page, which isn't a web font.
-I wanted the text to be anti-aliased, which windows doesn't like doing.

If there are ways around this, pleas let me know :).
They may be wrong, but with the way common law works, a lot of judges are obliged to judge in accord with their reasoning.

As for the phrase "only interpret it", the way the law is interpreted bears so little relation to what is written that there is no "only" about it. For the most obviously extreme example, consider how radically the interpretation of the phrase To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes changed in the 1930s.

If you're unfamiliar with that history, the short version is that Congress went from being able to regulate direct trade crossing state boundaries to being able to regulate anything that relates to commerce, even indirectly. For instance the Civil Rights Act is legal because of the Commerce Clause. I like the outcome, but do not agree with the reasoning used to get there.
Oh come on now, Valedictorian, you can find plenty of important life skills to be learned in school if you only look hard enough:

kindergarden - learn how to play nicely together
first grade - learn how to read and write
second grade - learn how to add, subtract, multiply, & divide
third grade - learn how to spell
fourth grade - learn how to play a musical instrument
fifth grade - learn how to appreciate great literature
sixth grade - learn how we got where we are
seventh grade - learn a foreign language
eighth grade - learn how to type and use a computer
ninth grade - learn how the world is put together
tenth grade - learn about other people in the world
eleventh grade - learn how to balance a job and school
twelveth grade - learn how to plan for and dream about the future
freshman year - learn how many other kinds of people are out there
sophomore year - learn how to chug a beer, fill a bong, and get laid
junior year - learn how to stand upon the shoulders of giants
senior year - learn how to find your place in the world
graduate school - learn how to play nicely together, all over again
I just ran it with NoScript FF add-on enabled, and I got the following:

Well, this is embarassing...

We have a bug here somewhere. If you think this is a big deal, please let us know.

Turning off NoScript, I got results.
Just go to Steveblank.com

Seriously, figure out if there is a market before doing any work or spending any money. Just because things like istockphoto and cobras exists doesn't mean that there no opportunity. You just have to figure out why they suck ( if they do) and if anybody cares.
FOIA Denial All But Confirms FTC Probe of Apple’s Anti-Adobe Rules
Though, if I'm not mistaken, the nook's sharing rules are severely limited: you can only borrow for 2 weeks, and you can only lend the book once.
What justifies a product management role separate from the developers? A PM that is also a developer understands better what is the cost of all these features.

Maybe a separate PM would see the forest better as he is not looking at specific trees, but there are a lot of people who can do both well.
How would a startup go about selling monitoring services to the UAE government?
Some options:

1) Ask for IRS non-profit certification.

2) Mention that you're going to ask for IRS non-profit certification, but do not actually get around to doing it.

3) Trust people.
One could argue that a filesystem which contains two files, one in ASCII and one in EBCDIC, is on the whole just single mapping of characters to numbers. Your point isn't well argued.

What I'm suggesting differs in that it would use consistent tags to indicate deviations from the intended primary language of a string.

Surround sections of a string which should be interpreted differently with tags-bits indicating such. These tags should not be treated as characters as the mirror character described in the article obviously is. And finally, display routines would easily be able to indicate what's what; any sections of the string with tags indicating an alternate encoding could be displayed with bold, highlight, or in a different color. (ie. As in "ti<cryllic>a</cryllic>n<cryllic>a</cryllic>nmen square", except the tags would simply be unused bit-patterns.)

To accomplish the same thing with a Unicode string, one would have to store a list of ranges of code-points which correspond to the string's locale. Then, anything which isn't in one of those ranges could be displayed in the alternate color. (ie. A character outside of the range 32-126 would be considered "not EN-US". For other languages, the code-point ranges might be more complex.)

The scheme I suggested isn't great, but it would avoids having to compare each character to see if it falls somewhere in a list of ranges for the current locale.
That's not the only way. One alternate option is Futarchy. A less drastic one is implementing the top 3 or 4 pieces of model legislation at downsizedc.org.
cQuery is an API based service. The examples are definately working! :-) If you goto http://cquery.com/examples/ and click the 'Latest John Resig blog post' link, you will see an empty page with the text "Spring 2010 jQuery Talks" (it may take a few seconds to load) - and as you can see from the source page (http://ejohn.org/blog/) this is correct - so cQuery has loaded the webpage and extracted the title of the first blog post and returned it completely on the fly...

and it used the CSS Selector "H3 B A:eq(0)" (well with a bit of jQuery syntax) to select the blog post title.
I can't make a conclusion for everyone out there - this really is like asking what car you should drive. That said I did make it clear in the post that it is OmniFocus for me all the way.
Does the page load test include asset loading and javascript execution? Based on the numbers I just got, I'm guessing not. Google's Page Speed tool measures for these. If your tool did this in the simple interface you have and from around the world, I'd be hooked.

Definitely a great execution though. Clean design, good name, and cute logo.

EDIT: The reason it'd be great if the page load test included these is because a) I could then test for what Google is testing for when figuring my site's speed into search results [1], and b) I could easily test the real-world impact of using a CDN.

[1] http://searchengineland.com/google-now-counts-site-speed-as-...
I dont see why this guy has to be hater? Its unclear from the original post.

Imagine someone coming to you and saying I am going to build "twitter, but for 150 characters"/"facebook but for kids under 21"/"Digg but for Texas users". And instead of saing go f yourself (example: http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html) you take your time and write very long and detailed letter where you explain why this is a bad idea to your believe, showing numbers/facts and statistics. He is not "hater/enemy" of yours he is your Angel!
A new trend: copyright trolling?
http://support.github.com/discussion/new

Don't forget to make it a private discussion.
i've been working on trading algos for stock. interested in collaborating?
Speaking as a former pro photographer, your blogger's advice is unfortunately high-quality. However, with that said, there are other photographers (well known ones like George Lepp) who are making their own photo stock agencies because the margins paid by the big houses are incredibly bad. The terms are always dictated by the stock house and the little guy is left in the cold.

If you want to pursue this, that's some validation for you right there. But the competition is fierce in this industry and you need to either fill some niche they can't, or execute 1000% better than they do.
Reddit: What's the best way you've "cheated the system?"
Ask HN: How many users does your webapp need to be worth something?
For a free to use site with advertisements(as the revenue model), roughly how many users would make this site worth anything?
(Golf) Lessons for Founders
Yeah, this is a typical mistake, I've pushed Django's secret keys and even twitter credentials.

PS: I do it all the time on my private repos but I try to not do it on the public ones.
In that case, let's see if you can rebuild the enthusiasm, on an even firmer foundation.

You want to do a niche stock photography site, and your advisor is telling you that you need to get traction with professional photographers, and that this is expensive.

So: what niche is there available for you to exploit where (for some reason to be developed) getting traction with the pros won't be that expensive?

Have you talked to target customers? What do they think of your idea?
Facebook Loses Round One Against Power Ventures
Well I signed up, thought it looked interested after looking at the tour, but when I signed up it just said "DAMN YOU". That might be why you're not getting new users :)
I am still a bit skeptical of the "american dream is fake" skeptics.

We cant hold higher education responsible for people making poor decisions. It isnt the college's fault that his lack of humility kept him unemployed. That is his own issue. I could be wrong, but I believe this is the only time in history that a typical 21 year old (presumably from any background) can come out of college and immediately enter the top 1% of wage earners (in finance and some engineering). Even looking beyond finance, look at what kids fresh out of law school and med school (even not top tier med schools) are making. Even teachers, who we typically view as underpaid, make considerably more now than they did in our parents generation if you take into account the 200 day work year and benefits.
Setting a flag and failing silently is still failing silently.
i think you can still do it. Just seed your initial site with curated istockphotos. Those sites have so many photos, that if you search for a simple phrase, you'll end up with 15,000 results.

And if you look at the first 200 pages or so, you'll see the same photos that you see all over the web. If you curated the photos to create a list of 1,000 photos you'd have something to offer. Then just offer photographers a chance to submit their photos to your site.

Bam you solved the chicken and egg problem, and offer something that the big sites don't offer.
As a vintage computer collector and restorer, I find this rather alarming...
New Threat: Hackers Look To Take Over Power Plants
I'm very happy now.
So whip up a shell script and call it "better_latex" mark it +x and call the real exe multiple times. Now it's an improved version that does it internally, just like gcc
You don't need to listen to a random blogger now, go find your first user instead! After you talk to your first potential users & have adjusted plans, go back & talk to that blogger.
Facebook leads to arrest of carjackers
Yes, the poll is technically quaternary, but the OP seems to ask a binary question. I'm sure that the poll would have been binary if HN supported it.
But how would that help? A publisher having millions of locked-in customers could easily force authors to give this permission. The individual option to say no to a deal is a very weak weapon in such situations.
Have you talked to actual photographers about this business? Have you asked an actual photographer "What would it take to convince you to sign up for a new stock art site?" Has an actual photographer said "Well, there would have to be a baseline of sales, obviously" Does this sequence of events happen a lot?

A good blogger (or any type of professional communicator) can make just about anything sound convincing. That is practically the definition of being a good communicator. Trust, but verify.

Edit to elaborate: If you decide he is right that getting photographers on board is the stumbling block, then you can build the business in miniature around a way to get over just that one particular stumbling block. StackOverflow for photo geeks, I don't know. If you become confident that you can get over that stumbling block, you do so. If not, you might consider killing the project early, prior to spending a few years and lots of money trying to spend your way to solvency.
She writes well because of her DNA. Both directly (because of her brain itself) and indirectly (because she's innately curious and was hence driven to seek intellectual stimulation just as a beaver builds a dam).
Examining reward structures
"One Tough Nerd" Wins MI GOP Primary
Considering that the traffic is encrypted between the devices and RIM's servers, you'd have to try to 1) break the encryption or 2) gain access to RIM's internal network, and 3) check your morals at the door. Good luck.
Not enough information to answer the question. It would depend what your application does, who the users are, what you are advertising and how, what kind of response you get to your ads, what type of activity users think they are engaged in, etc.

I think you could make an app with 50 users that is more valuable than Facebook, if I'm allowed to pick whom the 50 users are and what they do. (Military officers with purchasing authority who use the app to make trusted strategic forecasting decisions. BAM.)
He is right that you're going to find it easier to attract hobbyists than pros. But I don't give it the same weight that he does.

What he didn't tell you is that photography is undergoing a sea change right now. For a start the widespread availability of high quality digital cameras has eliminated a lot of barriers to entry for hobbyists who want to go pro. (Many pros compensate with a lot of snobbery for the upstarts - which may be part of his story.) A second problem is that it is now easy for anyone who gets a digital version of an image to print acceptably good photographic products from it fairly cheaply. Which changes customer expectations about how much you can charge for those products. This has resulted in a lot of challenges to traditional ways of doing photography, and traditional business models.

Because of this I wouldn't worry too much about his hobbyist versus pro issue, it is less important in the bigger scheme of things. Figure out how you hope to survive and thrive given the bigger picture of what is happening to everyone in that industry.

Besides from your point of view hobbyists are great initial beta testers. They are more likely to be forgiving of issues, and are more likely to have spare time to spend on figuring out your offering and giving you feedback on it. Eventually you need to get into the pro market. But don't turn your nose up at the hobbyists!

(Disclaimer: I've not tried to follow the photography business, but I did spend a couple of years doing reporting for a company that is in that space. Hence some stuff about it has rubbed off on me.)
Computers are all the way up at eighth grade? Egads.
In case of django there is a nice workaround in using a non-git localsettings.py file.

Just put "from localsettings import *" in your settings-file, and keep all deployment-specific settings in the localsettings-file
>RIM makes a big deal about how secure its users' data is, but I don't know how much of that to believe:

It sounds like RIM is describing normal public key encryption. I'm not sure why Schneier thinks they have the plaintext, though admittedly "customer data" could refer to anything.
Simple rule: Don't say anything ABOUT someone that you wouldn't say TO them.

People who violate this rule, in my opinion, are among the most miserable motherfuckers I've ever had the ill-fate to know.

BTW, this doesn't mean you can't say hard things about people.. just that you have to have the balls to say it to them, or else don't say it at all.
He makes an excellent point about that nonsense 'even we at RIM don't see the unencrypted data' which RIM seems to think convinces people. How can makers of the software doing the encryption not know the plaintext?
You guys are hilarious. Oh, my karma! I'll never cross you guys again! :-)