skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that those tricks you mentioned are real life skills I use in development.
I modded you down for this: "Besides, this guy just looks creepy."
Exactly, when Social Security was started it was expected that you would live into your early 60's, nowadays the average is about 75 and it's common to live past 80. Yet the retirement age has change very little in the last 70 years.

Anecdotally I know quite a few people who are still working well into their seventies, all of them working construction in some form. (I spent several summers working for a remodeling firm so my sample is somewhat biased) But these guys are working in a physically demanding job, and doing it by choice. Sure they cannot do as much as they used to be able to but they are certainly doing enough to be productive. They all work part time, regularly go away for weekends, vacations, etc. and working just enough to make money and enjoy their life.

It's very possible to have the relaxed lifestyle that people look forward to in retirement without having to completely stop working, regardless of your job, but especially these days where, as you noted, most people work in a service economy.
would YC really turn down a profitable company that had an upstanding & scalable business model

I think there's your answer...there are likely quite a few applicants with profitable companies (ramen or otherwise) but that aren't scalable, likely to attract outside investment, or suitable for acquisition.
There are private retirement funds. There always have been (for loose values of "always").
I believe it's for applications. They funded 36 (?) startups last term, so call it 500-1000 applicants. Sounds reasonable?
I haven't found an application which is following that pattern yet. Probably running a proxy in front of a bunch of micro instances is a good idea, that will distribute the load evenly why adding the required redundancy and speed improvement over small instances.
Great case.

I used to work at DDB which did something similar for a pear liquor called Xanté.

The main goal was to get the bottle to be visible in the bar (which means more people will see it)

So instead of targeting end users the target was top bartenders.

The campaign went something like this.

1. Miss Ching (a danish/asian model) would go into a bar and ask for the chief bartender.

2. Once found she would tell the bartender that her employer wanted to get in contact with them about some very important things in a few days.

3. She would then handle them a cellphone with a few numbers stored in there already. And then leave.

4. Over the coming days the phone would then send SMS's out to the bartender which was basically pre-defined. If people wrote back then they would receive some random SMS back saying things like "Wisdom lies in paradox"

5. We would also have website that people could try and hack. It just had a password and then some of the SMS messages contained clues to parts of the password.

6. After the 5th or 6th day they would then receive coordinates that they were asked to go to.

7. At the location the would be flown to a castle where the brand would finally be revealed in it's entirety.

It was pretty successful and got the bottle featured quite a few places.

This was done back in 2001
It strikes me as more than a little odd that creator of a popular, successful startup related blog failed to get anything in writing for this particular venture. That said, it seems like Arrington may be in the right even if, in the end, that means that he is going to get exactly what Fusion Garage got out of this whole ordeal: nothing.
I really don't like making statements relative to other app servers. Each app server has its own merits and we believe people should decide things for themselves by running their own benchmarks and tests. However this question has been asked so many times that I'm inclined to answer in order to avoid confusion and in order to encourage people to test things independently.

There exists a belief among some people that Unicorn is faster than Phusion Passenger 2. We've tested this a while ago and it turned out that they're evenly matched. Unicorn's speed is on par with Mongrel's. Unicorn's shared socket helps with fairly load balancing requests between processes but its positive effect on performance is not always significant. We've actually experimented with shared sockets and found that, when done improperly, it can actually hurt performance thanks to the thundering herd problem and the fact that catching EINTR in Ruby is expensive. All of Unicorn's I/O is handled in Ruby. A lot of Phusion Passenger's I/O is handled in C++. Instead we've opted to optimize our global queuing implementation to reach the same load balancing effect while speeding things up.

Phusion Passenger 3's speed surpasses Phusion Passenger 2 by far. You draw your own conclusions.

Of course you can take my answer with a grain of salt. I encourage you to verify these findings yourself.
the only time i've started the IE in the recent years is to download Mozilla/Firefox on new machines/reinstalls. One time tried to download Chrome instead of FF - the IE hanged on the Google's Chrome download button.
Looks very nice.

You might also consider licensing the technology to other sites etc...
Hah, love it
++ for anything that lets me get stuff done in r without having to remember all those darn plotting params.
The cost of digging up sidewalks and laying fiber are a fixed cost that can be amortized over 10 - 30+ years. Cost of bandwidth upgrades after that is almost purely semiconductors/photonics.
Introducing the Mobile Bookmark Bubble
Downloading now, and I'll be seeding for at least a week or so.
I tend to "regression test" things. eg. after I clean the toaster, I plug it back in and pop it down to make sure it still works.
This Chandra fellow has insanely blackballed himself. No matter how unscrupulous one may be, surely one has to be an absolute idiot to cheat someone with as much clout and reach as Michael Arrington.
Chandra deserves everything he has coming to him, the first email is absolutely despicable.
I've got an expensive SSD in my cheap laptop (free, actually, it was the one they gave me at Microsoft PDC 2009) and it really makes a huge difference. This cheap little laptop, with the SSD, hooked up to a huge monitor, is one of the best dev environments I've ever used.
IANAL: I seem to recall that an oral contract is just as valid as a written contract, but obviously an oral agreement suffers from selective memory--hence written contracts. If these documents provide some insight as to a) the fact that there was an oral contract and b) some of the terms of the contract, c) deemed admissible in court, then is the fact that they had no written contract actually a problem?
Single page view: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/09/15/the-fridge-p...

Site being reviewed: http://www.frid.ge/

Interesting concept. Have they considered making it a bit more medium-size friendly, and marketing it to schools? School software tends to be waaaay behind what's even "good".

edit: after poking around a bit, I agree with x0t. It's a bit rough around the edges. But the simplicity is definitely a bonus (though I'd love the ability for a non-verified account to at least see the settings for groups, so you can at least see what you can do).

edit2: after verifying, the options are:

change name
"reset code" (regenerates your link)
notify everyone on post - on/off
delete group

Which pretty much sums up everything you can do with a group. It's just a bucket for members. Not sure what you can do aside from adding members and using a wall, haven't added myself w/ a second email and don't care to. Invite link is: http://www.frid.ge/?ginvitation=azd528pe2u8ggk0w84gkwoccc if you care to help me experiment.
The only thing I can figure out is a small company no one has heard of is bitching that Android uses Google services for maps and direction finding and stuff like that.

Except Google makes this service free to all, Android is Google's distro, and Google's service is higher quality. Did I also mention its free?

Whats the deal here?
A real craftsman cares for the tools he uses. And it's not a religious issue - it's just that the thing is taking up space on an NTFS partition. I can store better stuff in that space.
Yawn, just the usual Microsoft FUD. I don't even bother to read it anymore.

Take it as a lesson to learn to smile about it ;-)
Cool, no I didn't know about these. But I'm on MacOSX and use Parallels. I'm not sure if Parallels supports these types of images.
Craigslist started to charge for the adult ads as result of the previous settlement with AGs. Learn the facts.
Sure thing:

Sorting

Exception handling the wife (sorry honey if you read this)

Loop unrolling
Knowing which lanes contain forced merges allows for planning ahead as well, since you know that you're going to have to deal with double the traffic in a rate-constricted channel

That sounds a lot like query caching!
If you're on *nix, Rkward (http://rkward.sourceforge.net/) is a good alternative as well, and it also lets you browse the tree of live objects visually
We use the rackspace cloud, but application deployments, mysql administration, etc are not helped by the cloud. These are still things you need to do especially at any kind of scale. We are "launching" soon and having someone be responsible for the numerous servers and infrastructure would be a load off my mind (i'm the CTO and the only person that knows anything about load balancers, linux, etc).

We have 4 developers right now, counting me. We are hiring a total of 4 more...probably.
Ops/Infrastructure
UX
QA
and user acquisition/general rails engineer

I am going to move to a more management/new tech investigation role and out of daily coding/deployment/bug fixing. The ops guy/gal and general rails engineer will back-fill me.
TheLadders is not a startup any more.
You are correct, but is a goal like mine (taper off working gradually) even possible? I dunno, because it's 30+ years away, but it would be nice to not have to work 40-50 hours a week, and then one day stop working all together.
Time To Clear These 7 Misconceptions about SEO/Internet Marketing
Amazon Joins the Instant Party
I know it's a few days late, but I was bored between classes so I slopped this together. Not sure if anyone already did amazon.
How to get a partner?
Hi buddies, I'm from a México and live in small town, here poeple see entrepreneurship not so good. I want to start my startup in Silicon valley, and once there find some programmers and join them as partners, do you know how is the best way to find skilled hackers to join them as partners?, oh I'm a civil enginner, my BP is about construction, but based on internet.
So what's taking so long?
The wordpress.com model is pretty tried and true (and making huge money), but it only works at pretty tremendous scale, I think. http://en.wordpress.com/products/

From what I understand, ads perform pretty poorly on blog sites (very little intent). That being said, you COULD try to go niche (say, make the best "blogging about products" platform and intent of the reader might be radically different).
I think both science and logic (what the article calls Reason) are poor tools for studying complex systems--things like software and people.

The guess-and-check methodology of science works great when one is studying simple, consistent, statistically tractible behavior. Ask a scientist to characterize gravity, and he does a great job. But ask a scientist to characterize something complex--e.g., MS Word--something with a lot of inputs and outputs, complex behavior which changes in subtle ways in different circumstances--and he'll have a tough time with it. The reason is that the models of science converge inexorably and certainly, but slowly; too slowly to be really useful when studying complex things. The scientist may be able to characterize a few simple features of something complex, but it'll be a long time before he can totally describe the object's behavior.

In the case of complex systems, my preferred epistemic tool is revelation. Read the source code. Ask the person what they're thinking. Peek under the hood. Ask the designer what he was trying to accomplish.

Logic in particular serves an interesting purpose in complex systems. One usually thinks of logic as a tool to go from secure axioms to secure conclusions, but in the case of an unknown system, the axioms and models and definitions are what we're trying to discover. Hence, my primary use of logic when studying a complex system (e.g., while debugging software) is as a tool to highlight paradox. That is, to go from clearly-impossible conclusions to unstated false assumptions, or better definitions. Not, "The source code shows nothing changing the value of this variable, hence something else must be causing the bug," but "The source code shows nothing changing the value of this variable, yet the value does change, hence my assumptions about what can change a variable's value must be wrong."

Of course, when one is studying something opaque and complex, such as a market or biological system, revelation is not available as a tool. But one should still retain respect for the limitations of science as a methodology in that situation, and respect the complexity of reality in contrast with the simplicity of science's results.
For what it's worth, Larry Ellison also personally started and funds the Ellison Medical Foundation, which distributes on the order of 100 million dollars (cite: wikipedia: Larry Ellison) per year to leading academic biologists for research into the diseases of the elderly and how to stop them. Grant recipients are selected by a panel of scientists.
The 4 Stages of a Rockin Startup Eco-system
You do loop unrolling on purpose? I think loop unrolling is one of the disadvantages we have in real life.

I already made my bed, now can't you do it for me for d in days? It's the same every time! What's with all this premature optimization?
Ask HN: What is a startup?
Okay this might belie the idea that there are no dumb questions, but I can't really define what a startup is. I think to myself that I should start one, perhaps a micro-startup, but I don't have a cohesive idea of what that involves. Do you have any Startups for Dummies explanations?
You're forgetting that people can have principled objections to the role of the federal government.

I'm not rich, and I'm grumpy about what my 20% federal taxes are going to. The financial and GM bailouts, "homeland security", ag subsidies, congressional pork, federal taxes to pay for local schools, "war on terror", "war on drugs".

If the gov't was efficient in the things it did, and did the things I believe it should, I wouldn't complain about my taxes at all. But the combination of being inefficient and misguided is one of the largest wastes of human productivity ever devised.

This is a bigger waste than building the pyramids by hand.
Netscape, Internet Explorer...
I had no idea that american sales taxes were so byzantine as to have individual city and county sales taxes in so many areas. Although I still contend that price matching is easier, because who really cares what the pre-tax price is, post-tax is what comes out of the wallet.
What should they search for? Behavior is partly shaped by need, we need to research a lot of topics for our daily live (work,living ...) kids don't have to do that, so they don't get used to it.
They will change when they grow older.
Wouldn't it be smarter of Arrington (he's a lawyer, right?) to keep his approach and related docs under wraps? Wouldn't posts like these just make it easier for FG, et al. to defend themselves?

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? It's a simple question, IANAL.
> Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs

until you have bills that come due. then the difference becomes very apparent!
Oh man, Andrew Bridges is the attorney for TechCrunch here. I've worked with him.

Bridges is awesome. Really sharp guy, incredibly good at what he does. He and Matt Scherb write some really strongly worded stuff that manages to ride the line between outright rage and total professionalism.

As it happens, you have Bridges to thank for your MP3 players. When the RIAA tried to sue the Rio out of existence, he said "oh, hell no." (On behalf of his client, naturally. He's not Lawyer Batman or anything.)

They're not cheap but they're easily the best. Poor Fusion Garage.
Building a bomber plane in just a day
"Compatibility mode to view websites designed for older browsers" has IE9 checked, but not FF or Chrome.

I was about to say something snarky but I think this just speaks for itself.
This seems like exactly the type of submission that HN should NOT have. If you want to editorialize, please write a blog post and submit that.

You just wasted 20s of my day. The bill is in the mail!
"When in doubt, use brute force."
similar here. this pattern reminds me also of "better to ask forgiveness than permission" in order to maximize productivity. Just Do It. alter/correct/stop later if/as needed.
No matter how damning the evidence is, and it really is damning, Arrington still comes off like a right idiot for not having formal contracts in place that clearly outline who owns what from the beginning.

Seriously, he had to resort to showing photos of fusion garage people in the techcrunch offices just to prove that they even had a business relationship.

For an attorney, this is just embarassing.
I was thinking something more of large chain operations that have websites referencing physical stores, like Walmart or Best Buy.
Ex-Googler Allegedly Spied on User E-Mails, Chats
I think the page speaks for itself, no need for a blog post to explain it, that would be blog spamming IMO.
Witch hunt is just a beneficial side effect.
It is a struggle for power and money - the AGs are pushing prostitution back onto the streets and into traditional brick&mortar "establishments" where it is under full control of local police.
So it's ning + meetup but private.
Well, there's a line for sure. If Microsoft has done anything like funding coups it's not in the standard litany of complaints. It's more like "they saw Netscape and ran it out of business by building their own browser" or "they ate all of Apple's market share". That's not evil, it's exercising fiduciary duty. Same with vendor lock-in. Unless I'm just not understanding the argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft) it's quite a ways off of hiring CIA hit men.

I don't disagree with you about the restraints on the free market, and us technically not being one. Microsoft probably did cross some lines there, and they paid for it dearly. I just don't think that's what the argument is really about, for if it were, people wouldn't be so religious about it. You can detect a zeal when words like "ruined lives" come into the argument and realize that the sentiment at some point long ago was divorced from logic.

By best results I mean better than the results of any other economic system.
I totally agree: after all, everyone knows Chrome 6 has the best protection against phishing, and it's Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 that has the best XSS protection. </snark>

Is the title a reference to hardware acceleration? The chart is technically accurate, according to a cursory search I just did. Apparently Firefox got hardware acceleration in Beta 4, and the chart is looking at Beta 3. Chrome is getting it in 7.
Web Performance measurement W3C specification using IE9 
Looks like this performance measurement spec and features are going to be quite useful once it is completed.

Just good to have a standard way to measure web performance without using unreliable OnLoad() timers.
Yeah, Learn You Some Erlang gets an average of 4800 unique visitors (or 41500 page views) a month according to awstats.

There are about 100 (mostly idling) users in the #erlang channel on freenode and a few hundreds on the mailing lists. There are 1,800 subscribers to r/erlang on reddit. You have 719 watchers of the Erlang/OTP project just on github. Trapexit's project tracker has a bit more than 1450 projects (http://projects.trapexit.org/web/) there.

Note that it's been a few versions since Ubuntu started shipping with a minimal version of Erlang to allow CouchDB to be used there, so the repository stats likely show a whole damn lot of users, so it'd be hard to count how many developers you have precisely.

A few thousand developers might be a good estimate, although those would only be the vocal, active ones.
I think this is the most ridiculous part:

"Supports standards both commonly used today and for building tomorrow’s websites, including HTML5"

I like it because it's so vague/loose/general... like most corporate-marketing-bullshit.
>I'm not sure why this was left as a comment on my comment, though,

Some people are just looking for any excuse to preach, even if it's a stretch that requires willful misinterpretation.
Emacs in the real world – part 1
Actually, the editor strips out Javascript for safety reasons which unfortunately, makes it so users can't add GA. We're working out whether we should make exceptions when we do the strip or provide in-house stats.
2. Anyone who believes that it is critically important to get 8 hours of sleep every night.

I can get less than 8 hrs of sleep a day, but I pay for it eventually in fatigue and crankiness. My work quality just diminishes.

If you consistently have a hard time finding 7-8 hrs for sleep then you are either (1) inefficient or (2) working on too many unimportant problems.

Give your tedious tasks to a virtual assistant or something. Don't underestimate the power of sleep.
Boeing Announces Space-Tourism Business
I think we should do away with calling Gates's actions altruistic. What (significant) does he have to lose, or merely risk, by doing what he does?

It's a good thing, but I don't think it's deserving of altruism.

But being less than altruistic can still be very laudable.
Has anybody actually done their due diligence to see if there really is a lawsuit, or to see if there really is even a fusion garage? It seems to me like it has the potential for an especially lucrative hoax.
Mule ESB 3.0 Community Updated for Cloud
Yeah, the sites are all free from text and human driven.
according to my calculations, if he slips at the top he has almost 10.5 seconds to think about his mistake.
Another way to look at it is that Gates used his very generous gifts to give 100s of thousands of people jobs, make PCs affordable for small businesses and common people, then went on to give away enough to charity to become the greatest philanthropist in history.

Meanwhile the people who vilify him worship Steve Jobs, who has broken plenty of laws himself (backdating is fraud), done most of the things that have inspired such loathing when Microsoft did them (and only didn't do the rest because he didn't have the necessary market share) and by all accounts hoards his money along with black mock turtlenecks. It's rather hypocritical to type about how evil Microsoft is on your Macbook Pro.

You see what you want to see I suppose.
Firefox 4.0: no support for "Reopen accidentally closed tabs"? 3.x supports this, not sure about 4.x but seems like a feature that wouldn't be dropped.
I'm not up on the videogame scene, but is there really one out there that simulates breaking into a highschool or college and shooting up students and teachers, before finally winning the game by offing yourself?
Gates vs. Torvalds
I saw a post on HN saying Gates, Hero (read : http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/bill_gates_hero.html )

And I wondered what HN has to say for the greater question Bill Gates vs. Linus Torvalds!
My vote is with the latter :)
Here's another one: http://shoptivate.com/amazoninstant.php