skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, in a fair world, we'd have zero regulations or need for taxes or government at all (except for enforcement against personal abuse like murder, rape, theft and invasion), and as an example, oil companies wouldn't ever have spills because of the extremely high potential to be sued by the people living in the regions where spills occur and actually _lose_ these lawsuits, which effectively means going bankrupt and forced out of business paying back all the damage awards. That's the ideal Libertarian solution to the outsized hand of big business on both market and customer. It's similar to the Xeer stateless government, as adopted in Somalia. Maybe it can scale to a country of 305 Million, but that truly is a "grand experiment" likely left as a thought exercise for now.

In reality , though, the solution is a simple matter of tax revenue arbitrage. Instead of providing tax breaks to the lethargic corporations that will take those tax breaks but won't hire anybody anyway, give it as a guaranteed loan to a small business who will use it to directly hire workers and consume products and services expressly for business continuity and growth. Spread thinly enough, while the failure rate outpaces the successes, the succeeding companies have the potential to hit it _really_ big, spurring ancillary and supporting feeder companies sprouting around it and possibly creating a new industry.
Bizarre. Some software aside, Jason Fried's setup is very similar to mine.
That's my favourite part of being Human: we're pretty awesome at adaptation.
As of 10 months ago, reddit had 218 EC2 instances (no clue what size). See http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a2zte/i_run_reddits_se...
Not trying to argue with your overall point though-reddit has definitely run much leaner.

edit: I stand corrected, thats just 218 virtual processors.
> It's unlikely that half a percent is going to make more than 10k a year's worth of difference over your company's lifetime, compared to that extra 10k early on.

It is possible that you are right. But it is also possible that this person is working at a near-IPO company or something well funded. In that case, the 0.5% would be much more meaningful. In the end, I suspect that the most likely scenario is that insiders consider the expected value of the 0.5% to be almost exactly equivalent to $10k/year after accounting for risks.

In that case, I would personally consider how much of a relative difference would that 0.5% make (e.g., going from 0.75% to 1.25% might be more meaningful than going from 23% to 23.5%) vs how much of a difference would that $10k make. Presumably people who have thought about this consider them to be equivalent from the company's perspective, but only the asker knows which one is more useful to him/her. If he/she has doubts about the company's exit (as you suggest), taking the money makes sense. If he/she is confident and can delay the payoff, it may be worth it. Hooray, gambling.
I don't know what you mean when you say adaptive optics sorry, but yes it could carry it's own air, I'm not sure of the practicalities but it's possible.

Also there are hard physical limits on how finely you can converge a point of light,
MinimumDiameter = (2.44wavelengthfrequency)/LenseDiameter
This is called the minimum spot size.
Most setups on usesthis.com are similar to most HNer's setups - a MacBook Pro (some with a cinema display attached).
Take the cash. I've been burned in the past holding onto options/stock that turned out to be worthless. Having options is only worth value if there is a successful exit which are rare. I was involved in an exit, that was pretty good for the founders (7 digit purchase price), but worthless for just about every employee. I think I walked away with $600.

The valuation of each company should also be figured into equation. It really only matters when there is an exit, but it would effect your payout. Have the founders/owners had a successful exit before? Are they going to raise capital, thus diluting your ownership in the future? Given these questions and my past experience, I'd take the job that is more interesting to you. If both are equal, then take the higher salary.
> I want to write Lisp for Factor.

That would be a cool project. The Factor compiler enforces static stack effects for words, so mapping them to Lisp functions, and making the generated code efficient, should be pretty doable.
Millions more dead humans would have been the consequence of not banning it, as well. Society can't just keep going on dumping tons of highly toxic poisons into the ground and water indefinitely without paying the toll in organ disease, birth defects and cancer - and we are. DDT aside, most bodies of water near high population and agricultural areas are increasingly resembling toxic chemical soups, with a grand mix of industrial waste, agricultural chemicals, human and animal pharmaceuticals, petroleum runoff, etc., and with the financial interests of chemical companies and attitudes such as yours, this will only continue to get worse.
The graph is deceptive, I think. The X axis is household income, which has not been linear with time, and likely declined during some of the recessions noted. It makes no sense (to me) to use that as the independent variable.
So, how is customink.com different from, say, cafepress.com, which launched before? Or spreadshirt for that matter. Making your own custom t-shirts is not really a novel idea.

And, it's not the idea that the story is focussing on anyway, it's the fact that it's basically a two-man shop with a 19 year old founder completely bootstrapping it while waiting to declare a major in college, and the grim economic realities nurturing these "ultralight" businesses.
218 virtual processors

Actual numbers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454369

25 c1.xlarge
26 m1.large
22 m1.xlarge
Mosquitoes strike me as in interesting way in which nature turns mammal blood into food for birds.
Am I the only person with a dual screen Win7 desktop paired with an Ubuntu server?
Well, surely being 10 miles from downtown Austin doesn't hurt.
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Are you part of one underway, or planning on new ones?
As a business, making and selling tshirts is no great innovation, I agree.

But when the web application is a painstakingly detailed clone of another company's, I think that the virtue of "completely bootstrapping it" to be undermined, and reduced to little more than a "me too" business.

I think that if someone started up a company called MacRonald's, specialized in selling cheap hamburgers, and had a clown mascot who wore a funny tophat, it wouldn't be praised much. Even if the founder was a 19-year-old.
If you're dedicated to being an entrepreneur for "love of the game", there's value in doing diligence on the vertical/idea that you might spend your next 1-4 years in
Same here. I imagined he would have at least one big ticket item or obscure vintage gadget to go with the standard MBP setup.
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Agree, great name for the product. I'm starting to see traction around QR Codes. Your timing might be very good.

The value proposition is not very clear. Why would I use your product, what is the benefit of using it. It appears that your business model is to target conferences, is that correct? Will it always be free to everyone else?

One minor issue, on the FAQ page, it says:
"A Quirk is a type of QR code, a two-dimensional barcode represented by a pattern of black and white squares (like the one at the top of the page)." But there is no a QR code on the to of the page.
I know you said "may," but there's little chance this tax credit passes before year's end (if at all). Just a heads-up to you and the OP.

If the law DOES pass...well, egg on my face and I totally agree with you. :)
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Keep up your visual scanning.
With all this jamming, they'll
be on top of you before your
scope can pick them up. [0]

As purchasers the sellers don't want you to know what size you are. It's in their interests not to tell you. Forget what the labels are telling you. Wear the same belt. If you're a belt-watcher like myself you'll see any changes in weight like rings on a tree over time.

[0] Star Wars IV script "leader telling squad to ignore the scopes & use your eyes instead" ~ http://corky.net/scripts/StarWars.html
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The biggest difference between my younger self and now is that I know how to plan my programming passively. I've reduced my actual work time by 2-3 times and increased productivity 2-3 times by simply thinking about problems and how I'm going to solve them so that when I put down code it just flows.
The first few searches I queried google for this morning didn't have this instantaneous result feature. This afternoon, it did, but I didn't notice it until I actually became frustrated when I would change a query and click "search", and the results didn't change. It took me a minute to actually notice how the results were dynamically changing under me.

It may take a day or more to get used to, but it really does speed up the workflow.
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If the worst case size of that linked list is small, then I would say that I would trust that programmer more than the one that throws every searched linked list into a tree structure regardless of size.

In the case of sharding by project, it actually seems like a decent move given that a single Basecamp account has potentially large space requirements (75 GB), and you can't realistically provision enough space on a box to meet all the needs of a bunch of expanding accounts on that box. Being able to throw an entire project onto a new server and assuming that everything associated with a project is on that one server are both nice simplifying assumptions which seem like they would strike a nice balance.

Please stop painting everything with broad black and white strokes, programming and business in general are frequently more about striking the right balance of compromises than about knowing the "best" way to do things. There's usually not a universal "best". 37Signals seem to be doing a marvelous job balancing those compromises between their various disciplines, especially given their massive success with customers.

Edit: This is assuming they're storing attachment files on the same machine, which might very well be wrong. It would be pretty hard for one group to get up to 75GB of todo's and other text content...
Hell, for all we know, polio is the cure to HIV and HIV is the cure for cancer. I'm not saying "Oh god save the mosquitoes," I'm saying there could be negative impacts beyond the consideration of the scientists performing the study.
> Shure SE530s keeps everyone out of my head [snip]

When I gave up headphones, I realized how much noise I subscribed to. I found it's not the keeping everyone out of your head inasmuch as it is the general quiet with the occasional person and it feels more disarming than expected noise (something piped through buds).

In a couple short months without headphones compared to years with, I prefer the quiet with interruption to constant stimulation.
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I'm genuinely curious... Are $400 in-ear headphones really that much better than, let's say, $100 models?
Obviously you don't read very much Hacker News.
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Hi All, what do you think about this app? If you're familiar with WhatsApp, the de-facto standard in smartphone-to-smartphone messaging, this is similar to that, but with added useful features such as location-based and multi-platform support (at least between iPhones and Android for now). The site claims that they're working on the Blackberry version and Facebook app for this.
1. Do you think in 5 years Yahoo might have been able to get it right?
2. The correctness of the predictions is actually a lot easier to do than you'd think. Yahoo's were pretty good.
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This wasn't the only innovation in Search that Yahoo dropped the ball on. There were at least a handful of cool ideas implemented at the company, but there was a prevailing attitude of wanting to let Google be the innovator and simply follow in their footsteps (talk about insane).
I got the impression that the "drab packaging" options were only intended for distribution to internet resellers, not for all-purpose use.

Which I suspect is one of the reasons why this is slow to catch on. I've heard that one of the reasons why marketing & demo packaging ships in every box for goods like expensive electronics is that vendors don't know for sure which cardboard box the B&M retailer will open for display (as opposed to the dozens out the back), so they just make sure they're all the same. I bet a similar disincentive applies here, not to mention the extra inventory-tracking complexity if you suddenly have twice as many product variants.
I think speed beyond a point doesn't add much to the experience. One would spend at least 2-5 seconds to check out the results and minutes to find the right article, few milliseconds would not matter.

Instead if they return 'good results' in 1000 milliseconds also I would continue to use them.
I was puzzled by that spelling error: Yong Le Da Dian was the Chinese work, and the history I have read has always said that the complete work was lost before the time of the Boxer Rebellion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Encyclopedia

Wikipedia seems to agree with my recollection in part, and with the link in the submitted article in part.
Wow, what a bad way to try to get good reviews. Bribing people.
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I've avoided Django on AppEngine due to the vagaries of the AE datastore, and the extra time and planning it takes to get things working efficiently; I'm wary about using any framework not specifically designed for AE. Fortunately the webapp 'framework' that comes with AE is quite usable, though not exactly feature-packed.

Perhaps I'll look at Django on AE again in the future, once I have a better understanding of how to build things correctly.

EDIT: I don't think the advent of App Engine should have a major effect on Django development; my general thought when developing AE projects is to wish I was using a real server, one under my full control.
As an ex-Yahoo!, this is exactly the sort of thing that cheesed me off while I was still working there.

Best memory: not being allowed to use javascript-enhanced sliding panels for pagination, as the reduction in full page refreshes when navigating would have negatively impacted the Ad Impression stats.

(That and the quarterly lay-offs. Good motivational tool, that one.)
There are high school teams that do this too. Crazy, but when you're 16 it's actually kind of fun since the aches and pains aren't quite as bad. Two practices and a film meeting every day makes for rapid visible improvement.
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Good point, I'm not sure what I was thinking. The Atlantic is generally excellent, too, I guess I'm just not as familiar with them.
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I know what hijacking a user's session is, what is document.domain though?
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The time mechanic mentioned has been in plenty of other games for years now.
Thanks for the comments.

I've been working on condensing the value proposition, especially given the comments here.

As an individual, scanning a QR code once is a faster way to connect than typing a person's or business's name into a search box and wading through results [and repeating across multiple networks]. The premise is that connections are good, and the easier they are to make, the more you'll connect.

Building on that, for businesses, the easier it is for a customer to connect to you, the more likely they'll connect (though I'd love to back this up with some research data). Hopefully, a prominently placed QR code (e.g, on a door, menu, or advertisement) will be a strong visual cue to a customer to connect (since the business can't actively initiate the connection).

All of the core service will always be free. Creating QR codes, linking accounts, downloading apps etc. We think we can generate value from the connection graph without selling the graph itself. The goal is not to farm and exploit the network.

Conferences started out as a good way to seed viral/network-effect growth ... and QR codes on badges are conveniently effective for connecting in that environment. We can provide additional value to conferences by providing analysis and custom content, and that's certainly something we'll look to monetize.

Thanks for pointing out that bug. It's an artifact of an earlier layout for the FAQ page.

Great feedback, thank you.
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This is the way the world ends. Because, who knows?, malaria just might be the thing that's keeping the zombie virus suppressed.

But hell, who doesn't like a good a good genocide?
If its more stable than whatsapp, it might just as well be.
My most common work programming scenario: editing files on our Debian build server via sshfs in emacs running in a screen session on my dual-monitor Ubuntu desktop which I log into using Putty on my XP laptop.
I imagine you're in the minority, running Windows as a developer in this community. A lot of the software and tools just don't play as nicely with something that isn't as tightly integrated with a shell.

Currently I'm running a Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit on my desktop with two monitors (24" and 19"), and 10.04 64-bit on my laptop (mid-2008 model MBP with 8GB RAM). For a server I typically use my desktop for prototyping things for myself, and use a Linode server (again, running Ubuntu 10.04, but Server edition, rather than Desktop) to host things I want more reliable, consistent access to (blog, etc). Having consistency across my setup is pretty nice for making sure everything interacts well, both on my development machine and production instances.

I also run Ubuntu on my dual monitor lab machine. I'm an undergraduate student, but I do security research for the university part time with one of the professors.
Thanks, but note that OP is by Anna Salamon. Mysterious Answers and Methods is by me. Didn't know which of those you meant.
I am not sure about this specific model, but a lot of the high end ones are custom molded to fit your ear canal. It's a luxury, obviously, but if you are using them a lot and you can afford it, I think it's worth it. The ones I have double quite well as earplugs when I don't listen to music, and work far better than any specifically designed noise canceling headphones I've tried.
yeah ... people think they need to get an office, a phone, fax machine, virtual assistant, whatever ...

When its just you, or you and one other person, you can work from home, use skype (+rebtel if you do international remote work), direct calls to your phone ... get a cospace if you really have to have an office. Apart from taxes, there isn't that much overhead if you play it right.
I like this guy: http://jason.rohrer.usesthis.com/

Uses shitty hand-me-down hardware yet still productive.
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Malaria kills 1-3 million people a year, most of them children. Unless you think the lack of mosquitoes is going to kill millions of children every year, you should heavily favor exterminating mosquitos.
I've got around this in the past by importing the bizarrely named files into iTunes and then telling it to automatically organise my library for me. It then uses the metadata in the mp3s to rename the files back to how they should be. Not sure if it still does that these days.
Suppose you took the higher salary and also had the right to buy 10k worth of shares in your company each year (let's put aside the practical complications of this for a moment).

Would you buy the shares? Or would you rather...

a) save the money

b) paying back whatever debt you have

c) buy a car with cash instead of getting into debt

d) invest in the stock market

e) other
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Googling.

I used to write a lot of things from scratch, unnecessarily. Whenever I find myself working at a level of abstraction much lower than the problem I'm trying to solve, I start googling. This has led me to django, grid 960 (css), jquery ui, etc.

These days, writing a new app usually means seeing how far I can get with Drupal modules first.
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in response to the last usesthis.com post here, i created a "setups" subreddit. if any of you have an unusual setup worth sharing, please post about it somewhere (or even just a picture) and submit it to http://reddit.com/r/setups
Social media doesn't work like this, this approach would take ages. People following me at twitter like my content (quite a few of my followers do so after reading my blog, thus I assume they like my content), but the number of visits I get through twitter is close to 0, and some of them even retweet or post my stories.

On the other hand, the only promotion from the post that helps searchs results is commenting in other blogs, and not in all (because of the "nofollow" tag). All the steps I suggest has 0 net effect with search results. To rank high you either need to be linked to, be the only one addressing the problem, or do some kind of black google magic.

Finally, being both Hacker News readers, I am really interested in knowing which are these blogs (as we both read here, if they interest you they probably may interest me), and I want to see what they are about.
Depends. I can't hear the difference between $100 and $400 headphones in most cases. I have a $99 pair of Apple in-ear headphones and they work great.

I like to keep my music library fairly small, so everything's encoded at 160 or 192kbps mp3. Fancy headphones only help if you're encoding much higher or using FLAC/ALAC.
Django people should really look how it's all (configuration, reusability) done in Zope/repoze.bfg. The problems, mentioned in keynote was solved 4-5 years ago there.
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Sure, but I value human lives much more than animal lives. Our best weapon against malaria causes collateral damage to eagles. It sucks for the eagles, but it's more important to prevent the deaths of millions of humans.
What is the merb for the django world ?

Is it web2py, flask, cherrypy ... maybe even pylons ?