skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't underestimate FB. Every hour a user spends in front of FB is an hour not spent in front of a TV.

The ad spend has to go somewhere.
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Don't let this angelgate crap drag our community down
In am not sure that increasing uptime was a goal for this system. The way I read the story, this is about a system designed to make it easier to manage a server farm that was misconfigured and not robust against such configuration errors. So, it is more about a system designed to keep a server farm consistent. Staging those configuration changes could be a way to decrease the effects of future such errors, as it gives operators time to notice that something is amiss.
I got this a few years back.
I replied and got the email telling me to register for it. I just ignored their reply and guess what. The company registered my domain with the .cn.
After reading this post, I checked the .cn domain again and it expired last Dec.

Base on my experience these guys might just register and hold your .cn domain for a few years.
No, that's disagreement. People who have something to hide usually don't draw attention to themselves.
would have been written in English
thanks, that's exactly what i was looking for about the timeframe and whether or not the name dropping service was worth it
The hackers real-time debate here: http://office.mashape.com/question/debate.html
Check out U of T's Snowflock. Very fast VM cloning and destruction.

http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock
What is the dress code for these type of things.
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"genuinely bad guys"

Here's my take: generally, people and life situations are very complex and the reality is that people don't neatly fall into categories of "good guys" or "bad guys".

Zoroastrianism really emphasized individual responsibility and thinking of individuals as good or bad. This made its way into Judaism and then spread into Christianity and Islam. Since our heritage as a nation is Christian, we have picked up this paradigm of thinking in terms of "good guys" and "bad guys". It also features heavily in our storytelling (movies). It's so much a part of our way of looking at the world that we actually think it's real.

tl;dr: People are too complex to be labeled "good" or "bad".
Hundreds of milliseconds, wow. Thanks!

Ach, I see now what eru meant by copy-on-write VMs.
I think you mean "nitpick" rather than "knit pick".
Demand generation vs demand fulfillment. Once people are looking to buy something search ads are a great way to connect with them, but it's hard to reach them if they aren't yet searching.
It's cornflour, not flower
Im surprised they haven't been sued yet.
E-junkie is decent, and cheap ($5 for lowest plan). Not the best interface, but it's simple to set up and works well if you're not looking to do too much customization of the checkout pipeline.
It's a great idea if you can figure out how to make it work; you aim for users that are lonely and want to stop being lonely and create situation to get them involved with other, similar people.

And somehow make sure the loneliness doesn't spread to make an entire community of even more miserable people.

So a few challenges to overcome, but a nice core idea.
FTA:

To make this product work on a mass scale, you need the government guarantee--and the government's ability to shield those loans from bankruptcy. The default rate on student loans is 7%, not all that much lower than the current 8.8% default rate on credit card loans--even though student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, are deferrable for hardship, and are supposed to be made to people who end up with higher than average earning power.

How does one actually default on the loan if you can't default? Do they just stop paying?
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I think your idea of defensiveness is different than most people's.
These scams are very, very common, and have been around for years. On a regular basis, I get letters from a company called "Domain Registry of America" (or something like that) who kindly offer to register .biz variations (and whatnot) for my domain names.
Can you try to generate some test data first, and create a mockup of the web interface? A web developer can do that and add some interactivity step by step in relatively little time.

When you have a vision of a finished product, it seems like so much work to get there. But usually you can break it down and find steps you can take iteratively.

Mocking up the idea will show you more about its potential and how it should be executed once developers start working on it for real.
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http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=241922

My next trick will be to transplant a modern variable vane turbocharger onto it and develop a fly by wire throttle and vane control system.
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Actually, being a polite gentleman will make you stand out more nowadays.
PayPal is the easiest, so you should start there. As soon as revenues are significant I would go directly with a real payment gateway and merchant account. I've used both authorize.net and Braintree extensively, and both have a secure vault that allows you to build your own recurring payment infrastructure without PCI compliance issues. I have nothing against any of these billing startups—I've never used any of them, and I've set up a lot of payment gateways over the last decade, so take my opinion with a grain of salt—but I have to assume that they charge a significant premium for what isn't that significant of a sunk cost for a web-based startup. In other words, building a recurring payment system is not very hard once you remove PCI compliance from the equation. If you're really short on developer resources then maybe one of these services is a nice stop-gap, but I can't see paying the premium once your revenues are significant.

Again, I'm not really familiar with the value proposition of these services, so anyone with experience (especially a founder of one of these services!) please chime in with a counterpoint.
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I remain surprised that people thought the MS Courier concept videos were anything but.
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As a non facebook user, I didn't get it either... :)
I get one of these for every _single_ website or app I launch. It's a benchmark: if I get one, I've made it decently popular enough for it to get around to them. There's always a bright side. :)
Just to be clear on hyperbole:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole
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We are moving towards the opposite. You will begin to see a lot more domain extensions as ICANN allows anyone with deep enough pockets to launch their own top-level domain.
Will you try my paper (MVP?) iPhone app?
Has nobody followed up to see which registrars are to blame? Could be a simple fix if reported to ICANN.
I can hit Ctrl-Fn-F2 with one hand, using the thumb to cover Ctrl and Fn, and the index finger to reach F2. Just a suggestion.
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Long but funny, it's definitely inside baseball
I guess it's possible once those stores are run out of business and smaller operators can fill the need again for a niche space.
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I don't think it was too ridiculous before the email was released. I was wrong, and I apologise for that. I made a comment I thought was true, and if everyone held back comments that they thought were true, from fear of being wrong, then no one would post comments at all.
Couldnt agree with you more.
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Mark Suster gave a good summation of the whole deal on his blog a few minutes ago in regards to #Angelgate and price fixing: http://bothsid.es/7W0
Now you get to run yourself in Valgrind to see if your guess about who's supposed to free it is correct.
Very interesting. What is currently limiting the amount of bandwidth per Hz? IANAP, but why can't you just lock in a very specific frequency range, and blip morse code at a very high clock speed (say, 100MHz), and get a huge bps/Hz?
This looks like the definitive digg killer. Not that I use any of digg or facebook, however for lolcats and the likes it will certainly dwarf digg instantly.
Almost every place I've lived in the US construction does occur 24 hours, but maybe not 7. Commute and daily traffic require it. Maybe you're just not out 24/7 to see it?

There have been a lot of places/projects where all I ever saw were closed lanes with some inactive construction equipment parked nearby. Last month was the first time I ever saw a construction project with crews working all three shifts -- it was quite the novelty, since I had never even heard of such a thing before.
Interesting suggestion, thanks.
That would only work if he controlled the mailing-list server, assuming this is an actual mailing list, and not a "CC all" ad-hoc solution.
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Incentives are great but will be lost on bureaucrats. Its not their money. Now if it were a private system, that would be another matter

But there would be plenty of incentive to move traffic through as fast as possible, just as there is to move people through theaters and restaurants as fast as possible.

And, as with theaters and restaurants and motels and many other things, private roads would charge you more at peak times. People would try to travel at cheaper times if possible and try to reschedule activities. Traffic would actually keep flowing at the pace that gets the most cars through the network.

And this would actually reduce the amount of road building required. People would have more incentive to take mass transit. And we'd have less smog and less stress because people wouldn't be stuck in traffic on a daily basis.

And we could lower taxes. Road building is expensive and so is defending the oil. People who use the roads the most would be the ones paying for them.
Seriously. Why haven't I listened to this in 5 years? FNM is incredible.
This needs a video, like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
I think he grasps the meaning of 'defensiveness' better than most others. More and more people have started misusing 'defensive' to mean 'a response to an (implicit) accusation in which the accusation is denied'. That's not what being defensive is. Being defensive is defending the act of which they are being accused. Not denying it.

Apart from that semantic mixup, I've never understood why 'being defensive' is a bad thing. Someone accuses someone, not necessarily me, of something, I either defend or deny it and that is then taken as an admission of guilt, because "I'm being defensive". There's really no way out; I'm guilty whatever I say. It's a good thing this cultural mishap hasn't yet propagated to the courts of law...
I see no reason to believe this will ever work.

These kinds of things make me really wish my country hadn't joined EU.
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And Ron Conway appears to be a capitalist with slightly more long-term thinking. By being actually concerned with the people he's dealing with, he's likely to help create better outcomes for them, and, in the end, make more money than if his goal was simply to squeeze as much as possible in the short term.
It's a good idea but would really require the car to have interaction with the system, or the system to read and interpret individual cars (to assign the token).

I think the advantage with the system shown is they are only measuring throughput rather than keeping tabs on individual cars. Thus I assume it's an easier problem to solve.
[video]Sean Kelly: comparison between Zope/Plone, RoR, Turbogears and J2EE
Isn't there a service where these lyrics could be submitted and an mp3 of an actual rapper doing it downloaded?
I've often been alone but never felt lonely, I guess this video kind of sums up my thoughts.
"How to be alone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
"... That would only work if he controlled the mailing-list server, assuming this is an actual mailing list, and not a "CC all" ad-hoc solution. ..."

Just email each individually.
I think he gets that, yeah.

There really is an overwhelming aura of "you don't get taken seriously unless you're in the Valley" which gets a bit grating when you have legitimate reasons for living elsewhere.

The OP simply means that the grass isn't always greener.
The real question is, which quarter of the audience did they lose? If they lost the short attention span, ADHD, nextnextnext, downvote anything you don't agree with crowd. Then maybe they are doing the right thing for the long term health of the site.
Huh? It is cornflower:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_cyanus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower_blue
If you're not ready for Haskell you could try Scheme.
This sounds a little like http://stickk.com
I have had 100+ paper letters from Domain Registry of America (or similar) trying to snipe domain renewals over the years. Waste of paper.
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I agree - I've been using PayPal for years without issue, although they did break their support for certain types of transactions they previously had supported.

Frankly I'm surprised you hear as little about PayPal as you do - considering the amount of money they process every year.

If you read the relevant Founders at Work interview, PayPal is actually a fraud risk calculating company who does money transfers as a result.
I can see zero evidence of ads being targeted to me,

try changing your status to engaged...
You'll get these for every domain you register, and they can be safely ignored.

Getting your .com.cn domain wasn't a priority yesterday, so why would you waste even a second considering it today? You registered the .com, and the .net/.org if they were available because that's good practice. Maybe a few popular misspellings too if they're available.

But there are 500 other TLDs out there that you didn't register. For good reason. Because they're worthless.

Some random email out of the blue doesn't change that fact.
The best way to do this is to offer a discount for new customers.

Exactly, good that you highlighted that. And although other party knows that you couldn't ask your price at this point and the discount is not really a discount, I still did say our target price. It feels a bit stupid, but it's worth of it: "Our price is $100 per hour, but as we need a good show case project, we are ready to this for $60 per hour."

One other thing. Try to get gigs that have small enough scope in the beginning. You learn a bit about how to negotiate, how to deliver etc. Plus usually clients like it that you are not trying to structure a deal where you milk them for next 6 months.
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Hey Henry, big thanks for the input. I actually half-implemented categories before deciding they weren't the right solution. I think there is probably something better than implementing straight digg-like categories, but I haven't quite figured it out. Then again, I could totally be wrong and just end up finishing my implementation.

As far as use cases, I assume you don't want to find LOLcats when you're looking for tech news, right?
I know who he is and gave him the benefit of the doubt. That's why I said "I'm not sure he's understanding what this is." instead of just assuming the person had no idea what they were talking about.

>The read(2)/write(2) solution from userspace would involve no copying as well

I don't believe this is the case as at all. First you have the context switch problem and second of all the reason sendfile can be fast is because it's possible that the kernel never touches the data. It just assigns the disk DMA to a kernel buffer, and then gives the kernel buffer location to the NIC driver to read from. All data reading and writing can be done completely with the hardware with no CPU involvement.

read/write can't do it this way because you have the option of doing something with the data you get back from read. Well, it could optimistically hope that nothing will in fact be done with the data but that assumption will be wrong in nearly every single usage.
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I take the approach that HN conversations are for a very wide audience, so signal-to-noise ratio is important. Chatty comments, which may be fine in smaller forums where people know each other better, end up just looking like extra noise here. I like comments that add to the discussion and aren't gratuitously argumentative.

Comments on spelling are only productive when spelling errors actually make it significantly harder to understand something. This wasn't the case with the message you commented on.
That's hot son! Get some real rappers to record it, then convince those three guys to get on stage and shoot a video.
Where I live there are roads to nowhere and traffic lights in quiet neighborhood intersections. I'm not sure who 'engineered' the streets, but one car can stop a swarm of traffic, and the speed limits are many times ridiculously low i.e. 35mph on a two lane street in a non-residential area, high visibility, and no intersections within 2mi.

This is a broken system in which much of my time is wasted daily, and the "green wave" is not the system's goal. It's nice to see some people experimenting to find better ways to regulate traffic. It should be obvious that 90% of the time the current flow is not the calculated daily average.

After all, Since when do 50,000 cars/hour drive on a street at 2am?
Searching the internet existed long before google came along, yet "googling" has become synonymous with web search much the same way as "little Bobby tables" has become synonymous with certain kinds of sql injection.
>> "...but I can add value I think."

I think that's the point. The comment about the spelling mistake didn't add any value to the discussion. It was distracting and a little rude.

As to why yours was downvoted while others' similar comments weren't: I guess it's a bit random. Sometimes I'll downvote that sort of comment, sometimes I won't. But it's never based on username.
No, sendfile takes a file descriptor and forwards the contents to a socket. It wouldn't have to mmap the file because the user code never touches the file data. This is probably why other OSes that support sendfile don't have this restriction.

>If you don't allow mmap the system will certainly have to copy between kernel and user memory

Why? All the kernel has to do is set the DMA location for the drive to be a kernel buffer and follow any inodes when the file is split up on the disk. The NIC driver can just be told to load the data from those locations directly so no kernel copying at all, much less into user space.
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Depends on what I get stuck on, and how bad it is.

Taking a break to clear one's head can help a lot. I also found that postponing the problem, and doing something completely unrelated allows my subconciousness to dream up an idea.

If the situation permits, seeking help from fellow team members (possibly combined with one or more of the above) should also be a routine.

There's also the sitting down, rephrasing the problem, the current status - preferably to someone who has no clue about it, but can listen well. A plush toy works wonders: by systematically going over the whole thing, to an audience who doesn't have a clue, one might just see the problem from a different angle, which in turn has a good chance of giving one a new good idea.
The roundabouts near me seem to be working well...
If I'm going to watch a 36 minute video of "Sean Kelly", it's going to be of him winning Paris Roubaix. Whatever this guy has to say can be summarized much more succinctly on a page or two.
I'm not sure if a) Twitter could take it b) Twitter deserved it

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-of-co...
Stop. Go.

They're so used to driving in straight lines. Their cars are simply not made for corners.

I guess you need to build roundabouts, update the cars so they can corner, and educate the public on how to steer.
> Being defensive is defending the act of which they are being accused. Not denying it.

NO, being defensive means seeing a lion and either standing still and hope it will go away, running for your life or attacking it ... either way, you're defending yourself in the presence of danger.

Of course it is not an admission of guilt.
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I read that as "Tweets of Rage" which I thought summed up the whole impotent fury of the internet beautifully. Make a good band name though
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who cares? Why are you all upvoting this stuff? This is just eyeballs to techcrunch.
Awesome! I love this!

Very funny lyrics and some nicely put background information on the characters!
i didnt think it was mindblowing. The CSP stuff is kind of unice but othe than that i dont think its cutting edge. In therms of systems programming D is better. The go concurency story is still unsave (pasing pointers to channels). Note: i dont say go is a bad language.
I have 3 friends that have contributed patches to the Linux kernel.

How many friends have you had that contributed patches to any Microsoft MS-PL projects, outside of Microsoft of course?

(e.g. ASP.NET MVC, DLR, IronPython, IronRuby)
Whoa, who did User-Agent sniffing in 1990?
If you do business (by any means), 99% of the time you need to do stuff you don't like. I don't think he loves spending 1 hour to explain a teacher something step by step. Or write documentation for end users and millions of other small non-techy, non-fun stuff.

If you make money either from you own business or someone else's you have to do not-so-fun stuff all the time. That's the reality. Amount of not-so-fun stuff can change massively though.

You either slave of your boss or of your own customers :)