skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very first thing you did was immediately reply to every branch of the
comments with your agenda.

You're suffering from paranoia. If you post an article about security, you can bet tptacek is all over the comments, informing and correcting people. In this case, the article was about something jacquesm happens to know a bit about, so he participates actively in the comments. To suggest he is pushing an 'agenda' is ridiculous: there's nothing at stake for him. The only thing he tries to do is help you, by noting that he thinks you have overlooked something.

I actually have no idea what your problem is [..]

That's because he doesn't have a problem: it's your mind that's filling in the blanks. It suggests that while writing the article, you were already sure people would challenge you based on 'religious conviction' instead of on fact. jacquesm's point was a simple, critical question: what are actual real-world ATR's for the servers that Mongrel2 should be able to replace?

Allow me to make an observation of a psychological nature: you are thoroughly miffed that it was so easy for someone to provide possibly devastating criticism to an idea about which you started caring WAY to much. What you should realize it nobody thinks lesser of you because of that criticism: the article is still interesting and provides a sound basis. There is no reason to react in such a aggressive way; it's even counterproductive.
I wouldn't bet on it. Sometimes people who have no financial incentive to do things like that will do it for the fun/thrill of it.
Ask HN:Mixcloud API - Peer Review
We are slowly opening up our new api, and before full public release, we are putting the api and documentation through peer review. Essentially we would love to know your thoughts as fellow hackers on what you like and hate about the api structure. We accept it isn't perfect, but we can't see our own mistakes as well as others.

If you have a moment please check it out, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

http://api.mixcloud.com

[Edit]
For those interested, Mixcloud is an online audio hosting platform, focusing on long form audio. This initial launch covers basic site interaction (favorite/follow) and all our meta data. The API authenticated is OAuth2 and JSON(P)/XML endpoints are provided.
What they can't just start trading in Euro? Do they have some sort of contract or is there some sort of law which says you can trade oil only in dollars?

I think if the dollar became a fonny currency people would switch quickly. It would for example not make any sense for a British man to trade in dollars if he gets say one pence for every dollar. Especially if by the next day it is worth 0.5 pence.
Discipline: Be The Machine
Advice on getting buyers and sellers together
It is hard enough to sell products to people directly, but it is harder to if you need to sell to two parties for the product to work.

For eg. Ebay had to work to get people together - How did they get over the catch 22 situation in the beginning (seller does not go there, because there are no buyers and vice-versa)

There are plenty of other non-tech examples too - like VISA.. How did they get customers to get these credit cards when no company supported them in the beginning?
lol, jeff fagwood is afraid of IRC.

http://fettemama.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/jeff-atwood-is-a-f...
FWIW, I happen to have worked with and even hired a fairly large number (maybe 5) of folks that once worked for Playboy. As far as I could tell (and certainly as far as I was concerned) there was no stigma associated with this, even at moderately conservative publishing companies. And I think most people would rate a soft-core porn site like Playboy as more controversial than dating sites.

It's hard to tell from your post how scuzzy the site you're talking about really is (based on your concerns, maybe it is worse than we think?), but unless it is a fairly transparent front for something illegal (prostitution or whatnot) I don't think you have a lot to be concerned about.

If the only thing that makes this more controversial than OKCupid or LavaLife or the personals section of Craigslist is that it is targeted at a gay audience, I definitely wouldn't worry about this. You probably wouldn't want to work for someone who is bothered by that difference anyway.
Really? You would say it's irrational for me to be less skeptical of the WSJ than of timecube.com? I have to doubt my father's advice equally as much as I would doubt that of a psychopath?

I'd just say be willing to update your skepticism as new information comes in. Which is what the original comment is doing.
The Art of Aggregation
I am not sure how much I want to bother clients by rating my responses. It's a faff, and provides no real reward for them. There's too much junk at the bottom of emails anyway. I'd also not want to apply it to all emails - and there's a fuzzy line (where I work) between clients, providers, and random other contacts.

Having said that, I do love it when someone responds with a "Thank You". Or, in the case of one memorable client, poems praising how quickly the problem has been solved. <3 those.
Ruby RE2 Yardoc
My hypothesis has always been:

epoll is faster than poll when the active/total FD ratio is < 0.6, but poll is
faster than epoll when the active/total ratio is > 0.6.

That wasn't your hypothesis: that was your intermediate conclusion after the first tests. Your hypothesis was: the common knowledge that epoll yields better performance, and that I should obviously use epoll for Mongrel2, is wrong. [1]

It's obvious he didn't mean 'hypothesis', but 'implicit assumption'. If you implement superpoll, you implicitly assume it will be useful. It will only be useful if actually deployed Mongrel2 servers will have an ATR > 0.6 at least some of the time.

[1] You can replace 'is' by 'may be', if you feel the strong version puts words in your mouth. It doesn't, because the hypothesis for an experiment may also be "The half life of protons is shorter than a trillion years", when I expect to reject that hypothesis. It's not an assertion of your opinion, but a statement of a fact you intend to accept or reject based on the outcome of the experiment.
I'm playing with AForge (http://www.aforgenet.com) atm, and it's awesome. I'll have to explore OpenSLAM too, now, thanks
I don't actually know how campaigns are funded, but we have a party system so I suppose they are funded through the party system. That is each individual or company can donate to the party. What does that have to do with free speech, we are talking about money. They can speak whatever they like and as freely as they like as can the companies. The companies can sponsor ads, or do whatever they like, just not give money to politicians or their party.

And even if it infringes free speach not many things are absolute, even murdering someone has exceptions, such as self defence, soldiers, or a policeman for the prevention of crime. If the funding of political campaigns corrupts the entire system so fundamentally then maybe there should be an exception. But as I said funding hardly has anything to do with free speech, they can speak to each other as much as they like.
Imagine the futuristic world of 1890!

You walk past a cafe and outside is a big sign, "Half off coffee!" And the awesome thing about Big Sign Technology is that it doesn't break your concentration: If you are intently listening to the organ grinder on the street corner, or talking with your friends about that new Oscar Wilde play, it does not interrupt you.

Then you meet a person on the street. For a whole millisecond you don't know who they are. But then your built-in mechanism for recognizing human faces - which has been QA tested on monkeys for millions of years - kicks in and tells you that this is a friend, analyzes their emotions based on their face, clothing, and tone, and shows you details about their life which you have been storing in your long-term "memory", along with (among other things) customer ratings for that cafe you just passed. This amazing internal "memory" is searchable and is indexed according to useful criteria like place, time, emotional state, and relevance - for example, as you are about to take a bite of that apparently tasty snack, your "memory system" will helpfully remind you that the last sausage you ate made you violently ill.

---

For all its amusement value, though, this comment is certainly a pitch-perfect illustration of the Google mentality. It's like watching Martians learn to dance. "We do not understand the odd periodic motions of these hu-mans, but we believe that we can reduce their motivations to a series of ones and zeroes." This attitude is undeniably effective, sometimes, but it has real limitations. As when, for example, Professor Frink tries to exchange all of my privacy for a bunch of "features" that my great-grandparents were born with.
Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books
don't be evil my ass
>move to cheaper areas and maintain/improve their quality of life

Why would moving to a cheaper area improve your quality of life? If living there costs less the pay will be less as well. This wont hurt you with commodity goods too much because those will be cheaper but the things you'll probably like to have won't be much cheaper. For example, an iPhone 4 isn't going to come unlocked for $99 just because you're in India.
I just leave it on the table if I need to use the bathroom.

I use an 8 year old laptop (Dell 600m) to connect to a remote X session. They can be had for around $120. I keep nothing sensitive on the local drive.

Someone stealing it would annoy me, but I don't feel the need to stress over it. Being constantly paranoid isn't worth it. I'm not going to sit there worrying that the guy three tables over has been scoping me out during my last three extra larges waiting for the perfect opportunity to grab and go with my laptop.
Snitching Hacker Adrian Lamo vs. Hostile Crowd at Hacker Convention
Survey done in late 2008? That's pretty much at the peak surely, I wonder if it's down as the exit routes are largely shut, or up because other investments are offering lower returns.
IBM makes a hard drive with an accelerometer in it that migh accomplish what you're after.

There's a linux driver for monitoring the HD status:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS
clicky http://api.mixcloud.com
The USA's "terrible" railroad network is actually the best railroad network for transporting bulk goods of any country in the world. It's old but it actually works vary well.
LaunchSet.com has absolutely no public information on it. The only links require you to sign up.
I will soon be able to announce a few names who have already come forward with investment capital and other goodies to offer.
Small light laptop, messenger bag which is quick to drop the laptop into and sling over one's shoulder, and occasional OS maintenance to keep suspend/resume as fast as possible. I found that all of these factors meant that I was more likely to take my laptop with me than when I had a bulky desktop replacement in a fiddly rucksack that took ~30 seconds to come back from sleep.

I also had a pair of cargo pants with a ripped pocket that was almost big enough to carry my laptop. Always meant to sew an extension onto that pocket to create a quick-draw laptop holster - the perfect thing for someone who likes to walk about while thinking and needs to take notes in a hurry ;)
7 cents for a facebook fan. 3 cents for a Twitter follower. Do they even matter?
> You would say it's irrational for me to be less skeptical of the WSJ than of timecube.com? I have to doubt my father's advice equally as much as I would doubt that of a psychopath?

I wouldn't say its irrational, I would say it defeats the purpose of being skeptic. Skepticism for _me_ is a filtering mechanism that helps me consume information.

Lets say I got an information from two source that says "I saw an alien species from Mars driving a Bentley." (The person insists he is not joking). Whether the information comes from my father or a psychopath is a moot point. Your skepticism alarm should set off, assuming you understand the probability of such a thing happening is close to zero.

Whether you trust your father's advice or a stranger's advice, should depend on the advice not where its coming from. IMO.
Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years
They don't? I just tried it and neither clicking the button nor pressing enter got me anywhere.
Startups and multiple choice questions
A year is really short to get a revolutionary way of working to catch on. Why give up so easily? Maybe they couldn't figure out a working business model for this one.
Well, wait. I hate the NYTimes and generally distrust them as well, and what they've written is slightly inaccurate. But at the same time, the Bloomberg article states the neutral policy doesn't apply to mobile - Verizon still gets to throttle there. The number of people who access the internet only by mobile phone is increasing, and as rumors are leaking about a 1.5ghz phone, and the iPad is getting more and more popular, I can't help but think mobile will some day be the biggest if not only thing actually accessing the internet.
yeah I know, that's the main piece of feedback that people gave yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575098

once you take the plunge though it's pretty cool, I can see real potential.(I'm not associated with the project at all, I know I'm sounding like I am).
Exactly, he's my inspiration to make http://www.celtic-knot-creator.com
Thc
Why Google Wave Failed
Google Wave was overhyped from the start, because it clearly didn't have what it takes to succeed in the mainstream market. Read on to see the 2 main reasons why Google Wave failed.
Well there is a conspiracy theory that Iraq was invaded because it was on the verge of switching to EUR, and if it had OPEC would have followed and the dollar would have collapsed, taking the US economy with it.
Ask HN: The best conference you attended and why?
I am organizing an event in October called Fundation and I wanted to get some feedback on the important facets of a Venture Capital event.

I have been to a lot of conferences over the past 10 years and have even organized a few, however I wanted to reach out to hear about the best conferences you have ever been too and why?

I'll go first: The best conference I have ever been to was CUTC (Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference,I believe it has been replaced by www.hiepic.com) the reason is that it had really smooth registration, a perfect balance of both business and technical discussions, demo's and workshops.

Thanks in advance
What are the biggest consumer Internet companies whose founders had MBAs?
"Comprehensive" list of questions for startups?
There are plenty of "10 questions" for startups after a google search, but do you have a list of questions that is categorized as sales/marketing/pr/owner etc? Each of these areas have about 10 or so questions to consider to solidify the product.

I came across one article/page a while ago, but I am not sure if this exists anymore.
I'm not sure what your university library is like, but I would be careful in them. At the UWashington, at least once a month you would here announcements over the PA that a few laptops had just gone missing, and to be on the lookout/careful.
They disable it with Javascript. Try disabling Javascript and you can search with a blank input. Without Javascript, there is nothing to stop you from submitting the form with a blank input.
>2.2 is nice, but it's very telling that most people immediately go and download LauncherPro

Most is quite an exaggeration.

>But it reminds me heavily of the differences between Windows and OS X; Windows is functional but not enjoyable, OS X is both.

Windows 7 is thoroughly enjoyable. I'm hardly a Microsoft booster.

It's interesting that several of the apps you mentioned, highlighting the strength of the iOS platform, to me demonstrate the weakness of it: They're chrome and gloss and not much more. If I want a conversion app, the last thing I want is a giant graphical wheel, but that seems to be the way many iOS, and OSX for that matter, apps go: Take some trivial, trivial task and provide a minimal solution, but coating it with just enough chrome that people will call it "polish", while they hoard the spit-and-rub apps that they'll never actually use.

I pray that that sort of interface hubris never migrates to Android, and if it leaves some people complaining about the lack of supposed polish, so be it.
How RedGate hired 10 geeks in five weeks
Someone actually took the time to sit down, ponder what kind of
workloads will be handled by his application

The most important point made in this thread is that Zed actually didn't do that, but did benchmarks for a range of workloads, suggesting he intends Mongrel2 to be able to handle all of them. The question is whether that is necessary. If ATR > 0.6 never happens in practice, it will only unnecessarily complicate Mongrel2.
That's especially good with cute girls. Doesn't sound like a line (because it isn't), and often starts a conversation when you return.
Social Media Cannot Help to Create a Reputation You Haven’t Earned
10 Fast Ways to Lose Weight
While there should be more promotion and emphasis on the returns of angel investing in the UK, I think it's fairly tenuous to take a report on the market as a whole, which lacks a focus on returns, as evidence that investment is being discouraged. Especially when quoting return figures from a report commissioned by the same department.
I work for a company that owns a site that is considered fairly notorious by the media. Once when a camera crew was setting up to do some filming for an interview, and I overheard them commenting on how nice the office was. I'm 90% sure they were disappointed they found a modern, professional, well-equipped office and not a handful of Comic Book Guys in stained shirts laughing evilly in a basement somewhere.
>the Bloomberg article states the neutral policy doesn't apply to mobile.

The policy that both Google and Verizon agreed to. Not the policy that is being pushed by FCC (AFAIK).
But no-one wants to live in a world like that. Imagine

* All airlines are like RyanAir
* All restaurants are fast food
* All supermarkets are Lidl
* All music is Autotune
* All clothes are polyester

A race to the bottom is stupid and ultimately self-destructive, the money you save in the short term you lose tenfold in the long term when everything you actually want is bespoke because the middle-market mass producers have all been bankrupted.
I believe I applied for a job at this company you mention at one point and got pretty far into the interview process. I backed out because I got a better offer. Mostly, what concerned me about this company was how they did development: giant transition from PHP4 to PHP5 and a prospect of a normal work week being around 60 hours (I don't mind working that much, but it should be the exception, not the rule). Maybe things have changed now.
Web Development company Free Services
website developers
what the hell they do exactly .
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providing cutting edge web solutions. Our website developers have
received exposure in leading media outlets including Time Magazine and
Forbes, as well as many industry specific online magazines
>This is simply wrong.

Revisionism is glorious.

>Well, then why are you so excited that Android has greater market share than iPhone?

Am I? How am I excited? What's exciting is that the iPhone is no longer in a position where it is dominating, or poised to dominate, the emerging smartphone ecosystem. THAT is exciting, for exactly the reasons I mentioned.
It mentioned somewhere else that the five failing tests are all SVG tests and probably won't become standards because they are redundant.

SVG Fonts is superseded by WOFF.
SVG Animation is superseded by CSS Annimations.
What would you consider to be a reasonable price point?
My laptop has a sticker on it: "WARNING! Do not touch. This device belongs to a person with a contagious skin disease."

Works like a charm. :-)
Haven't had a chance to have more than a very brief look so far; and I don't have any apps in mind just yet. But:

1) massive thumbs up for good use of HATEOS :-) Too many people miss it, and it makes writing clients much easier in my experience (also makes your job much easier in maintaining the API)

2) there's a couple of namespace conflicts which make me itch, but I don't know how important they are in practice. In particular:

http://api.mixcloud.com/spartacus/

http://api.mixcloud.com/popular/
http://api.mixcloud.com/new/
http://api.mixcloud.com/me/

at first glance, I would think that the latter URLS refer to users whose usernames are "popular", "new", and "me". If the endpoints look exactly the same, that's probably ok, but it's still a bit odd. If I'm writing an app which says "enter a username here", I have to remember that these are not valid usernames; and I can imagine similar sort of special-casing might have to be put in elsewhere.

3) I still hate OAuth - it's probably still the best of a bad bunch, though! Nice overview of how to use it in practice.

4) minor issue - for exceeding rate limits, I'd use a 403 code not a 503. 5xx limits boil down to "it's the server's fault". 4xx are "it's your fault" and in this case I think the semantics are more user error than server error.
+1 for geeks with social skills
Do they have signals? Do their signals work so effectively (4:50? Yoiks)?

I think we need a signal-tweet-feed, so someone can set up an alarm system for when their signal is activated. For great justice!
Sprawl.

With enough cables, mousepads and assorted garbage cluttering one of those little coffee shop tables, I'll wager I can pee faster than you can pack my stuff and casually walk out the door.

Sure, it doesn't stop the guy in the ski mask and hamburgler shirt from snatching it and sprinting off, but really has anybody here actually seen that happen to a laptop at a Starbucks?
Want more Angel investing in the UK? Then let’s talk about returns
+1 for unintentional humor
I've had plates that read AAA88 for years and I still prefer to sit with my back to the wall--- it's a Vietnam thing...
$20 a month seems steep for something so simple. It's a good idea, although I'm not sure as a customer if I'd want to take the trouble to rate a reply.

For $20 a month you could sign up with an integrated feedback system which, if nicereply gains any traction, would soon integrate a similar feature anyway.
I watch Dragon's Den all the time but the show probably knowingly lets on a lot of people who are not investable and could not get a meeting with a VC to save their life. The show is more about the personalities of the investors themselves, many of whom in the first few series did not make one single investment.
Shermer Tries, And Fails, To Take Down Chopra
The product was an API, Application Programming Interface. To demo it properly, you have to do some application programming. Your question applies to any product that the VC wouldn't use her/himself..
Because "real world traffic" is a bullshit test [..]

The hell it is. A statistically significant sample of 'real world ...' is the foundation for most engineering decisions. When you build a bridge, you take the actual loads it has to support into account. Intel bases their chipbaking on the actual purity of the silicon their suppliers can provide.
Top Web Collaboration Tools, not a Google Wave
Summary of the flash movie: The flyered Cambridge, gave away 600 ice creams from an ice cream truck, drove some trucks around town with banners and advertised in newspapers and on Spotify telling people they'd get a free iPad if they submitted a resume and were invited in for an interview. They gave away a lot (how many?) of iPads and they got their 10 geeks in less than 5 weeks.

What's missing: they don't say how much they spent on the advertising and freebies.
Absolutely agree. There's a reason that bikes don't last long when locked up in busy city centres; given that laptops are even easier to steal and fence, why wouldn't you keep it with you at all times?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1577749