skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not. I'm currently bootstrapping a search sharing network at Seekier.com and it's extremely tough to gain any sort of traction without any previous exposure or network, which unfortunately results in me making replies such as this. The only alternative is to implement Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google Connect integration to help spread the word organically through those networks.
Can I assume you meant 150k per year? Obviously money going out with no income depletes cash on hand. However, it would seem making 150k for a year or so should buy you a pretty big runway. I'm guessing you have a lot of outgoing if it feels like it's disappearing 'fast'.
Congratulations, you've just re-invented Eventlet.
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net neutrality is required if we want a free market where someone with a great idea can compete with Giant Corporation X. A lack of rules which allows Giant Corporation X to create artificial barriers to entry, which is exactly what a lack of neutrality will allow, will lead to a market that is not based primarily on merit.
don't get your panties in a bunch. chill out. leave them alone and let them work.
The paper is here, I think: http://ftp.cse.sc.edu/reports/drafts/2010-002-tpms.pdf

(I didn't see a link in the article)
Yes it does give us strength to know that others are powering thru the same situation as us. Stay strong as I am staying strong but the keyword i think is balance, I am not quite at the point of sweating about $2 but i feel your pain. find a contract job or do something on the side, retreat on the quest to fight another day.
4 gigs for a search index is rather meaningless. It's based on the size and number of documents you need to index, and not so much on your language or tool of choice.
It'd be great if he fixed auto_hash to use bcrypt instead of SHA256; this is, after all, the entirety of my original comment about his code.

Just be aware that once he replaces auto_hash with bcrypt, auto_hash has literally no functionality anymore; bcrypt-ruby already does all of what auto_hash does, better.
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It links to a different article discussing a camping ban near a large city, but the article itself says "It is currently banned across the vast majority of England and Wales".
I mistakenly thought both posts made by Mr. yummyfajitas were made by two different people. Sorry about the confusion.
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A quick google search and test leads me to believe the app isn't playing well with Noscript. I'll have to dig down further on what the underlying issue might be. Thanks for catching that bug!
The author forgets a point that if you hire a mediocre programmer who works hard he will probably get better but if you hire a programmer with a bad attitude that's going to harm the whole team's productivity
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Has anyone noticed that with facetime, and now especially if facetime goes on the itouch, apple is posing themselves as a total replacement for the telco hegemony? I mean, if you and all your friends have itouches and wifi, or something that implements the "open standard" of facetime, isn't that pretty much the end-game for the telcos?
So you feel like doing it -- but you are not doing it, right? Must have reasons. And I think one reason may be that nobody will listen and stay off your back for 5 business days.

What are the other reasons?
I know you said not hotmail, but have you tried the new version? it's pretty feature rich, revamped to compete with Gmail (I use Gmail myself, but it seems good)

If you are willing to pay, you may be able to buy a hosted Microsoft Exchange email? Exchange 2010 has an awesome web interface, and exchange calendar etc support is great.
Header manip is very important if one needs to control caching. I'm not sure Nginx has this capability at such granular level. Varnish's VCL excels at this.

As explained above, all info has been disclosed on the page in question. It's up to the reader to agree or disagree with the results. Let's face it, benchmarks are always going to be controversial and imperfect. One should always take the initiative to verify results by running their own tests.

Regards

Joe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
I've known fantastic coders who were absolute assholes. The software probably benefit from them being on the team, but the rest of us were ready to resign.

I'd rather have someone who fits the culture really well and who is a good enough coder that we can use them now and build on their strengths.
I referred a client, and his project, to one of the best coders I've personally met.

His social skills are fine, but his patients are not. That's what I learned.

The proof is not in the code. The proof lies in the question:

"How happy is the client (post-project)?"
The iPod Touch is a very strategic product for Apple. Apple is in the process of converting their vast base of 200M legacy iPod users into iPhone and iPad users.

The $199 iPod Touch probably has the tightest margin of any Apple product, creating a stepping stone at the right price point to facilitate the migration. The tight margins may explain why no other company has matched it in the three years it has been on the market.

If Apple ever sells the iPod Touch with the Retinal display for $199 I would seriously consider it a sign of the apocalypse.
Honestly, I kinda feel like this is one of those sweeping generalizations that gets cranked out by a content mill in order to attract attention & hits to their adsense.

Notice the Author (Amber) is the same as the submitter (Amber)?

This article is a total over-simplification and the reality is much more complex... unfortunately it takes a lot longer to write an actual, well thought out & balanced article on hiring.

What's worse: it will get fewer hits (and by that extension, a lower ad revenue).

Something perhaps about finding the sweet spot on the bell curve between a number of factors? TLDR.

No, a far better solution is to word-vomit tripe onto your keyboard and post without thinking.

Which seems to be exactly what Amber has done.

THAT my dear friends, is all.
Waste not, want not. Eat the puppy.
If it is the end game, it will play out at the same speed as email killing paper mail.
I've been considering switching back to a Touch from my iPhone. A 3g mifi router is much cheaper than a att's voice + dataplan and I personally would prefer not to have a phone. I'm fine with Skype now that it runs in the background on iOS 4.
Even though I didn't donate, I'm cheering for the team and their undertaking. Best of luck to them.

Your reference to Springtime to Hitler brings another question: have there been known cases of startups who raised money with intention to fail, The Producers-style?

(To clarify, this is obviously not a reference to Diaspora, just a tangential question.)
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It is lots of fun reading through the pre-Code movie synopses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_(film)

Sex and violence are not some kind of radical new idea. The shape of the OP's graph is almost certainly caused by the censors of the mid-20th century.
+1 for fastmail.fm, I've been a customer for some time and like their features. You can point your own domain's mail there, set up fairly comprehensive rules for filtering mail into folders, etc. They have a web interface and it fully supports IMAP so you can point your phone, mail client, etc at it.
I do agree that their sales, support, marketing are all not good. I'm just saying that on top of that you can see some engineer chanting mindlessly to himself "build it and they will come". It's like they focused only on the product itself and utterly disregarded the other components of the aforementioned 'consumer experience', and this resulted in a massive fail.

Would they have done better if they had focused on consumer experience a lot more? Almost definitely, but I think that's as far from their culture as it is for Microsoft to understand why an iPad is not just a PC in a new form factor. They just don't "get it" to use the common turn of phrase, I think maybe I didn't convey that so well because I'm sympathetic to the position and in the habit of dismissing the other components of the consumer experience myself.
Did he clear the browsing data, too? I don't use Chromium, but I've seen similar requests with other browsers. The only way I have found to get the browser to stop sending the requests is to zorch all the browsing history, saved cookies, cached garbage, burn the village to the ground and sacrifice small birds. Of course, as soon as you search for soemthing against google.com, the requests will happily start up again.
Sadly, N1 was not widely available internationally. Where it was, it was tied to a specific carrier and only available through their shops.

At least for me and few of my friends N1 would've been god-send given that you could use SIM from the carrier your employer chose to use and thus use it as a work-and-freetime phone and you could've received new versions of the platform on time.
There is something mysterious about why Google, Microsoft, Sony or even Nokia doesn't create something similar to ipod touch. Its a big seller and platform expansion device. Its perfect for me who prefers sturdier phone and it makes me open to buying the next iphone as long as i have an ipod touch. Is it the cost/margin of making one? lack of distribution channel?
> iPhone, Bing, Yahoo Mail/Hotmail

Are we really going to position Apple and Microsoft as the heroes to Google's villain?

(That sounds like a bit of a troll, but I don't mean it that way; I just mean that, if you care enough about such matters of principle to boycott Google, surely you can find something in the current or past behaviour of either to turn you off it, too.)
I agree wholeheartedly that location matters. I just moved to SF from Nebraska. I've 'taken more walks' as described in the article in the last month than I did in the last 3 years since living in SF.
Really? Was it your only login option or in addition to your usual? Also how much traffic were you seeing (aka was it statistically sound?)?
> the average end users just don't care, they don't understand, they don't think, they don't even want to,

They shouldn't have to.
I'm in downtown Albuquerque.
Can it be finished after hours or part time?

1- launching is always later than envisaged
2- you won't strike it rich on day 1 of release
3- doing something else on the side might actually make you more productive on your own project

Just don't crash and burn yourself. I'm a contractor and I work after hours. I rake a very decent hourly rate and I work my own hours.
Man after work every day I need that cute little bastard to play with and hang out with. He's amazing.
Yes, there are known cases. Here are a few:

"Some of these schemes were plausible enough, and, had they been undertaken at a time when the public mind was unexcited, might have been pursued with advantage to all concerned. But they were established merely with the view of raising the shares in the market. The projectors took the first opportunity of a rise to sell out, and next morning the scheme was at an end. Maitland, in his History of London, gravely informs us, that one of the projects which received great encouragement, was for the establishment of a company "to make deal boards out of saw-dust." This is no doubt intended as a joke; but there is abundance of evidence to shew that dozens of schemes, hardly a whit more reasonable, lived their little day, ruining hundreds ere they fell. One of them was for a wheel for perpetual motion—capital, one million..."

"But the most absurd and preposterous of all, and which shewed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled 'A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.' Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any person could have been duped by such a project. The man of genius who essayed this bold and successful inroad upon public credulity, merely stated in his prospectus that the required capital was half a million, in five thousand shares of 100l. each, deposit 2l. per share. Each subscriber, paying his deposit, would be entitled to 100l. per annum per share. How this immense profit was to be obtained, he did not condescend to inform them at that time, but promised that in a month full particulars should be duly announced, and a call made for the remaining 98l. of the subscription. Next morning, at nine o'clock, this great man opened an office in Cornhill. Crowds of people beset his door, and when he shut up at three o'clock, he found that no less than one thousand shares had been subscribed for, and the deposits paid. He was thus, in five hours, the winner of 2,000l. He was philosopher enough to be contented with his venture, and set off the same evening for the Continent. He was never heard of again."

This, of course, is Mackay's account of the South Sea Bubble of 1720. There are countless subsequent examples.

(By the way, in case it isn't obvious: I am convinced that the Diaspora guys are absolutely serious and above-board. That is why it might be amusing to pretend otherwise.

And I'm rooting for them too. That's why I'm engaged in the vital project of talking down expectations. How else are they supposed to make a splash at this point?)
Watch out for bots on Mechanical Turk -- I'd add some sort of qualification test and a good way to reject bad work from people. We were using it to process 1000s of HITs a day, and the quality got to be so bad that we had to turn it off.

Charuru, could you speak to your positive experiences? (maybe types of tasks / HIT volume)
Do you recommend any sites to help put you in touch with these SAHMs, or just Craigslist?
I agree wholeheartedly with this article, and the PG article that preceded it. I try very hard to avoiding owning more than I must.

Big moves and traveling help tremendously with this. When I moved to New York city from southern California, I got rid of everything but a box (shipped), and what I could bring on the plane. I'd been traveling with much less than that for a few months before, and that helped me realize how little I really needed.

Tools and electronics are my weak points. Home laptop, work laptop, workstation+monitor (high power), bastion machine (low power). Power drill, a bunch of screwdriver extensions, multimeter, connectors for god-knows-what, etc.

NYC is very amenable to this philosophy: owning my apartment is out of the question. I have no need for a car (and my commute has become much less stressful). Apartments are small and don't give you much space to accumulate needless stuff.

I haven't considered the idea of renting furniture, but perhaps it's reasonable. I know services like that exist.
EDIT: removed the mini-rant since it clearly was not understood.

My own take: wake me when they've shipped real, working software I can actually use to replace Facebook while controlling my own data's access rights and durability. Until then, this is still pretty much another case of a few guys making a piece of software somewhere, that may or may not ship, that may or may not succeed, and they started only a month ago. Yawn.
Correct. But the lucene index requirement was bounded by the fixed size of a CMS. There were ~5k products and they were aggregating consumer reviews from various sites. The 4GB was not an strict limit, but it was what we needed to store all the user reviews of all the products, allowing for up to 20 reviews per product.
I haver heard from someone at twitter named Rose and s(he) is working with me to get things restored. Thanks a ton
This post actually makes me feel kind of grateful. I have kept my day job while working on my startup and am still single. I'm 27 & I work from home. The upside is that I have a place to live and work comfortably, I'm not broke and I can support my "startup habit". The downside is that I never get much sleep, my girlfriend hates it, almost everyone I know says that I should quit my startup and get married like a normal person, my student debt isn't going anytime soon, and the stress of that and everything else never seems to subside much these days.

Overall though, I feel like the chips are up for me right now. I've been in a spot once or twice in the past where I felt pretty desperate and depressed like you have mentioned. There's few things worse than professional failure with conveniently ill-timed personal trials happing simultaneously.

Luckily, this time around I've prepared a little more for the hard times that might soon come due to professional trials. Also, my past hardships have helped me prepare better mentally, knowing that I've pulled myself out of slumps before and that I will do it again when the chips are down.

I guess my point is, keep at it and remember that you're going to make something amazing. I always tell myself that I'm here to "create epic shit". It helps restore my ambition and makes me giggle a little. Maybe I'll have to say it more often if and when I take the startup full-time...
There is a big difference between believing that government ought not be involved in certain things and believing in anarcho-capitalism. Your comment seems to be just unnecessary adhominem. If you disagree with the parent, then why not provide a reasoned response that would be more likely to convince?
I haven't had any difficulties stopping using techcrunch!
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Oh, it's not a site to show where the nearest restroom is? :)
I'd be willing to part with another 128 bytes for the spacebar or down arrow to work.
I'm sorry. I can't really relate to tap tap tap. They're amazing at what they do (and proof you need a custom UI to deliver some user experiences best).

I really like Andrew Johnson of TrailBehind, Inc. He's active on HN and succeeding in the competitive iPhone market.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495153

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=835433 (iPhone Ask HN launch)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355093 (Android launch)

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For a counterpoint, my start-up (me, my fiancée, and my good friend) started an indie GPS app at the tail end of last summer. We worked hard, did many iterations, built up our userbase, and now we have several top grossing navigation apps, and we are piling up cash in the bank.
So, killing animals that can't "speak" doesn't count? That's odd, I'd pay good money to see people slaughtering those obnoxious anthropomorphic CG animals Hollywood is so in love with.
Why I think they are onto sthg: think of it as "behavior programming" (like Mydunktank we had put a short post on this http://blog.quantter.com/post/874726318/getupanmove-me-mydun...) It seems simple and stupid and may be overlooked as such but this what great ideas are made of. As pg said http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html: "if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign."
1.) I'd love to use this.

2.) I cannot use because this because it requires a Facebook login.
Similar story, except it was a library book named How To Make Games. The whole book was an explanation of the mechanics of a cute little text adventure game, with full Basic source in the appendix. (The source was notoriously buggy and badly typed for some reason, though...)
FastMail's spam protection is ineffective. I have a secondary account with them, and the amount of spam I receive is unbelievable.
What does that mean? Scoble massacred in 3D?
At first I was really put off by auto-uploading screenshots, but I actually think it's a pretty solid idea.

I'm tempted to suggest a way for you to pop up a chat window to your employee, what do you think of that?
Yeah it sounds great but have you ever been to one of those places that rent out furniture and TVs? They are great if you want to make your room look and smell like a seedy motel room that rents by the hour. You are better off financially and aesthetically getting a bunch of cheap stuff from IKEA and assembling it yourself.

As far as renting housing, as a proud home-owner I would say definitely rent.
Check the account's Advanced settings, and make sure that the account's Deleted Mailbox points at the "On the Server" trash. You may also want to confirm that the Sent and Drafts mailboxes point to their Gmail equivalents.

If you're using the Google Sync feature (to get your mail, contacts, and calendars pushed live to your device), Google presents your Gmail account as though it were an Exchange account. Consequently, iOS doesn't let you change the folder mappings like you can with an IMAP server.
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Google is not the government. Google is just one company. The way people are talking about this you would legitimately think that Google ran the tubes, or something. They don't.

Google is at least getting a discussion going.
I'd say that's a debatable point. In the current market, I'd agree with you -- there are plenty of people willing to spoon feed consumers, so if you don't, you'll be left in the cold. Whether it's good for society's long-term prospects, however, is another matter. I believe that widespread apathy and general ignorance will be among the primary causes of the demise of western civilization.

Note, however, that I am not arguing against specialization. I'll be first in line to encourage people not to care too much about details in one area in order to focus on another, but if they don't care about anything, I take exception.
You can't succeed with crappy software or programmers? Funny, I can think of a certain OS that wasn't at all very stellar compared to alternatives at the time yet nevertheless went on to dominate...

The whole article reads like a troll. Though perhaps we're using different definitions of 'mediocre programmer'. Is a mediocre programmer one who is mostly self taught, hasn't coded a lot of personal things, and only knows one or two languages at a reasonable depth to get things done? Or is it one who struggles with FizzBuzz? Bah, I'm taking too much time with this. If the proof is in the code, show us some examples of code from sizable open source projects that succeeded and code that didn't! I'd bet the quality is roughly the same.
I'm going to assume that by 'White People' you mean 'upper middle class'. This is based on my notion that Caucasians can suffer from cancer, starve to death, or live in Detroit with 2 crack addicts for parents.
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Absolutely - puppy is a really great investment. I think great ROI for happiness and unconditional love.
Granted. I do think problems in the domain of number theory are a bit different. I don't know of any quickly-explainable consequences to Fermat's Last Theorem, and in my first comment I was really thinking about consequences. With Fermat's Last Theorem, to my knowledge, the original problem is itself pretty arbitrary, so I'm not surprised to find its solution and proof to be complicated despite the simplicity of the problem statement.

Also, I'll preemptively mention that Gödel showed us that any formal problem is a problem in number theory. That said, a problem like P =? NP would almost surely be incomprehensible if expressed as an isomorphic problem in number theory. So my original point, clarified and rephrased, is that I would expect (or desire) the proof of a problem to be as intuitive as the statement of the problem combined with its consequences in the domain the problem is stated.