skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that Joshua Schacter is a "super angel" as the TC post uses the term.
In any case, it would be cheaper to build than a Turing machine (The infinite length tape alone would cost a pretty penny).
Can an admin re-title this link? “Arrington Alleges SF Angel Collusion” or some such?
These highly-available, distributed CDNs hosting static content don't have the same failure characteristics as something like an advertising script or Twitter widget. Where the latter do often hang the page (frustratingly), the popular CDNs that host jQuery aren't prone to that under any but the rarest of circumstances.

Maybe unrelated, but you'd be surprised how often the "Waiting for domain.com..." in your browser's status bar is misleading. Interactions between externally referenced scripts, images, and scripts that use document.write can produce "interesting" results in most browsers.
Funny, I was just talking with a friend last night about the viability of a cheese sandwich cart/stall in NYC. They're extremely cheap to produce (plain wheat bread and Kraft singles) and when hot, are delicious snacks. I was thinking of a price point closer to $1, since you can easily get so much food in the city for around $5 (gyros, chicken w/ rice, etc). Interesting to see someone doing it already!
So what's the difference between a jingle writer, or a sound track artist, and a 'musician'? They all write music, they all sell it to a company who makes a greater profit off of it, why? Because they can't sell a jingle for nothing, they can't make a sound track for a movie they don't own and own the music. So why does a musician assume they're special in this industry?

No upstart artist can afford to make 2 million+ albums for a debut hit, so they'd never sell 2 million albums and they could never be a hit, so they'd never chart and never get the free advertising and air time that hits are given, which means they wouldn't be getting the huge tours with stadium concerts. Artists inevitably as a performing artist make their money from their live performances, which the recording industry aims for. The more fans at a concert mean more record sales, which means more money in the record companies pocket, which means the artist gets more advertising, gets to charge higher ticket fees and make more money from their touring.

Given that so many big artists have established their own labels, they must be making their money somewhere. Although too many of them seem fully occupied with boohoo crying that they're rich and famous, but not nearly as rich nor famous as they deserve.
Of all the disciplines that will be revolutionized by computers, I do not think programming will be one of them, because it has already been revolutionized by programming. You already have an unparalleled ability to self-teach programming because programming has already closed the feedback loop as tightly as it can possibly be, with REPLs and so on and so forth.

Don't forget that whatever glorious visual interactive treats you envision will have to be, you know, implemented, and decent odds it's already either implemented or not really worth implementing for programming. Sure, it's nice to see a tree balancing or a linked list getting traversed but the virtues of pretty animations start fading as you get a hang of the material.

The value of digital education won't and doesn't come from putting a thin, shiny veneer of digital on top of analog textbooks, it will come from enabling entirely new learning modes based around instantaneous and copious feedback that humans can't give, because there aren't enough of them or because they simply can't feed back fast enough. Try to model more disciplines to look like how a modern self-taught hacker learns programming, don't pine as a programmer for flashy textbook-like "digital textbooks" for programming.
Ask HN: How do you find time to code/build your business in the evening?
After the kids get to bed, I'm either burned out for the day or doing something else that must be done (laundry, etc.).

How do you make/find time to spend the time you want to in order to help with the family, run your part-time (or full-time) business into the evening (etc.), and still be able to have some downtime each day? How do you get focused?
Yeah I think 30MB is correct. 30GB is about 7 DVDs.
Not really, because I haven't mastered that. But if you're trying to build a startup in the (say) server monitoring space, a great bootstrapping approach would be to do a bunch of server monitoring contracts and keep the IP (which isn't too hard if you say you're using "prior inventions").
You don't send the note because you have something to gain (in my opinion). You send it because you wish to be courteous, and for no other reason, and with no other expectation.
This is being overthought. It's an issue of brevity. "Edit profile." Am I expecting it to allow me to edit a profile of someone else? In so many cases, "my" and "your" are present when the user is unable to interact with content other than their own (e.g. personal finance sites).
I don't think anybody's stated interests should be taken as an indicator of their true interests. In this case, with PG, I do believe that his stated intentions are sincere. But there is often so little correlation between actual and stated intentions, that I don't take any such statement at face value.
I honestly think it doesn't matter. I have about 10 years of professional experience, and while I used to write thank-you e-mails and even snail mail letters on every job interview I went on when I was younger, I stopped doing it a long time ago. Here's why:

a) A startup or a mid-sized company will usually act pretty fast in making an offer or informing the candidate they're declined. The bureaucracy at bigger companies may mean it could be awhile before you hear back from them even if they liked you, but for the most part I felt silly sending thank-you letters after my employment at the company was already determined.

b) It's common to go on an interview loop and meet 4-8 people. I found myself basically copy-pasting them same letter to everyone I had met and I felt really foolish. The alternative was to think of something unique to everyone, but this felt equally contrived ("I really enjoyed those questions about how Perl handles multiple inheritance!")

c) Business cards are pretty passe now and a lot of engineers don't get them at companies because they don't need them. So I would ask the employees I would interview for their cards, they wouldn't have any, so I had to awkwardly quickly jot down their full name and e-mail address while the next interviewer was already walking into the room. Or sometimes I would forget to ask, and then I'd e-mail the HR contact, and I doubt it ever got to the interviewer.

d) When I got older, I quickly realized I never made any difference to me as a hiring manager. If I liked a candidate, I hired him. If I didn't, I didn't hire him. If I received a thank-you e-mail, it didn't make a lick of a difference. I know it can demonstrate good communication skills, etc, but I already made my judgment on the candidate's communication skills in the 1 hour I spoke to him, not in the 15 seconds I took to read his thank-you e-mail.

e) At a company I interviewed at, I once sent everyone a thank-you e-mail, and then I was hired. Somehow my personal e-mail address was made the default in everyone's Outlook address book for my name, and it was literally weeks until it was fixed. Until then I had to keep checking my personal e-mail as well as my work e-mail. This is obviously more a failure of Outlook or that company's IT department, but that was basically the last time I ever sent thank-you e-mails.

Look, it won't hurt. If you're paranoid and getting a lot of 'old-school' advice, then go ahead and do it. But seriously, at no point does a candidate's offer status hang in the balance on his thank-you note. An interview debrief never ends with, "well, sounds like we could really go either way on this guy... let's see if he's the kind of polite young chap that sends a thank-you e-mail."

So good luck with the interviewing, and if you're concerned about coming off as polite and well-mannered, the best way to to express is it in the interview itself... not a contrived thank-you e-mail that the interviewer probably won't get anyway and won't influence his decision even if it does.
You go from lawsuit to settlement in a punctuation mark where in reality it is months/years and millions of dollars.

Never give a person wealthier than you a reason to sue you - regardless of if you are wrong or right.
How do you get a citation for an opinion? If the statement was "It's a fact that well over 90%...", then sure, a citation would be ideal.
Thanks! Glad you like it. I've been enjoying getting people's recommendations.
Isn't it trivial to change his script to remove the cookies? I should have a look into that.
unlikely. business in the valley is not done by extortion.

more likely is that he doesn't want anyone to get in trouble, he's just putting them on notice.
There's a huge difference between learning "design" and learning "how to create graphics/how to use Photoshop".

If you're wanting to learn how to design, find as many design books as you can in the library. Not the Photoshop manual, but books like "108 essays on design". Find as many design mags as you can and read every article: Communication Arts, Print magazine, whatever. (Communication Arts puts out a few annuals every year: advertising annual (my favorite), photography annual, interactive annual, etc.)

Consume as much design as you can and write down what you like about what you like. Consume, consume, consume.

Then, just DO IT. Do, do, do. But without a computer.

Take out a piece of paper and design a landing page for your current project. Layout where your titles will go, where your form will go, etc. Photoshop won't help if you don't know what you want in the first place. Explain to someone why the form is on the left instead of the right. Explain why the title is so big and why you chose that much content.

Then rip it apart and make another. And another. And another. And just keep doing it and talking about it with people smarter than you and people dumber than you. Find online communities like Behance or Forrst or Dribbble and review/preview others' work.

Consume, consume, consume. Do, do, do. Talk, talk, talk. It's the exact same way you learned to program!
It doesn't look like it. Neither will clearing your private data (I tried).
Dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705221
Missed one: ETag with If-None-Match (server roundtrip), similar to RGB method...
You hit on what I don't like about this post better than I could, so I'll mention something else.

Yesterday was Anthony Bourdain hammering home the message that if you aren't young, fit, talented and working in the top 10 restaurants in the world you are nobody and may as well not bother trying.

Today it's this essay harping on about how if you haven't below his arbitrary level of poorness then you arent worth bothering with and how dare you think to have an opinion.

This seems a common enough attitude around - that only the top few or the extreme failures are real people and everyone else is a schmuck, and it's mechanistic, compasionless and unhelpful.
He says no: http://twitter.com/joshu/status/25164168842
the NBA and other sporting leagues are exempt from anti-trust laws in the USA. They get a free pass from the gov:

http://www.thesportjournal.org/article/role-antitrust-laws-p...
i suggest u code/build yr biz in the early morning instead, say around 4-5 am, wake up early, code like crazy for e 2-3 hrs. it's super productive when compared to late nites. also, since you have kids, you need to plan out their schedule properly, else they will need yr constant action. automate whenever possible, if u must outsource be sure to review n measure e roi.
I am very appreciative that you spend your time sharing here when you could be elsewhere, in six minute increments.
Artifical languages & human imagination
I don't think anybody's stated interests should be taken as an indicator of their true interests.

I agree. (actually I'd replace "taken as an indicator" with "taken as an absolute indicator")

In this case, with PG, I do believe that his stated intentions are sincere.

I agree.
Why doesn't anyone try this? I did, and it seems that incognito mode does defeat this. However, since this always sets the same cookie, I couldn't tell if it read it or set it. From the looks of things, it only read the cookie, which means that closing incognito mode deletes it.
Am I the only one who sometimes feels like you might as well have skipped college if you didn't go to Stanford, MIT, or some other top school?

I don't think so. MIT or Stanford help a little (like 10% when raising money or looking for a job), but at the end of the day, the degree doesn't really matter. For some people, going to a state school or small college is the right path to take. For others, skipping school altogether is the right path. Go to college, or skip college, for other reasons.
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"the only reason"

He did mention that they were his friends. Perhaps he wants to nip the illegal activity in the bud with as little collateral damage as possible.
20 Companies Win Chance to Present at Clean Energy Venture Summit
always ask for a business card...
YC's greatest hack is identifying founder material based on technical rather than social proof (the YC app asks for an example of the coolest thing you've ever built, not an example of a cool person that thinks you are cool). This hack is possible thanks to a judges panel full of real nerds. How many super angels or VC's can claim to have the same?
Actually, I posted it because somebody linked it earlier today in a comment and it was the best (and earliest) explanation of the Bike Shed phenomena (in a software context) I'd seen.
The real question would be their investment market share, right? There might be 500 companies building operating systems, but a Microsoft/Apple merger would probably be a monopoly concern.

That said, while their market share is certainly larger than 10/250,000, it probably doesn't even approach 10%. So you're probably right.
Certainly not, but the idea behind contracting is that you make enough to fund yourself, and therefore not require YC money in the first place. Most YC amounts are around the $20k range, which you can easily make with a few months of contracting.
The tweet has been erased but somebody did an old-school retweet of it.

"Timestamp is 8p yesterday. RT @speechu: Bin 38 is like heaven right now, chock-full of angels. #superevil #evidence cc @arrington"

http://twitter.com/mattmireles/status/25159683448
How do you decide when to keep going on a given assumption as opposed to question it?
917-727-6643. See related article at http://unionsquarenyc.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/three-words-b...

I'm pretty sure this is the same guy, but not 100%.
The reason it's always exactly 4 points of downvote is because hn caps the visible downvotes at 4, not because there are 4 shills.
Signal answered. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714863
Or an iTouch, or would the screen be too small?
I always used to send hand-written thank-you notes, but when I started doing on-campus recruiting I realized that sometimes snail mail isn't feasible. The places I was interviewing were handing out second-round interviews the night of the interview or the next day, so if I wanted my message to reach my interviewer before s/he made a decision, I had to turn to email. Also, this is anecdotal, of course, but the only place I interviewed where I did not get an offer was the one I forgot to send thank-you emails to (I was traveling the whole day and then remembered too late...). Take that as you will! I personally think thank-you notes can only help you if they're well written and sincere.
Would you choose a different language now that you know better?
Artificial intelligence - Riders on a swarm
It's 404 for me. What did it say? (screenshot preferred)
Up to you. Would you rather have full control over the video (encoding quality, size, hosting, player), or a one-stop solution? Each has a place.

(Vimeo explicitly forbids commercial content, or used to, but you could s/vimeo/another_provider).
ModernCV looks a lot better than the OP, especially with fontspec.
See that's just it— you're thinking of a cash transaction as traditional barter. I bring something, you bring something, we exchange them. Each of us loses what we owned before, each of us owns something new.

That's obviously not how information works, though.

An iPhone costs $600. Possessing an iPhone gives you, in theory, the capability to make new iPhones. However, the right to make your own iPhone would cost a lot more (if anyone would sell it at all). The difference falls under the umbrella of "intellectual property", and it's a lot of things; trademarks, copyrights, patents, probably lots of little trade secrets that aren't patentable, but nobody else has figured out yet.

To be explicit, of course, the ideas themselves don't have value. The value is the exclusive right to execution of the ideas, which is provided by the government. That's no different from physical possessions, though; my car would not be worth very much to me if I didn't have the right to exclusive control of my car guaranteed me by the government.

The point being this: You want to buy my gizmo. However, you've previously told me that when you get your hands on it, you're going to immediately take it apart, figure out how it works, and tell other people so they can make their own without coming to me. Obviously in this case, I don't gain from selling you the gizmo at any price— in fact it's probably worth a lot to me to keep you from getting one.

So either we both stick to our guns — you don't get a gizmo, I don't get any money, both of us are unhappy — or we compromise. I say, you can have it if you promise not to open it. You say you can't make that promise. I say, okay, I guess I don't mind if you open it as long as you don't tell anyone else what's inside. Since you're willing to make that sacrifice, I'm willing to let you have a gizmo for $50.

That's one way the conversation could go. There are a lot of other ways, as illustrated by the thousands of different ways there are to license IP— say I agree to let you make copies of the gizmo, but only for yourself, not to sell. Or I agree to let you tell people how it works, but only if you tell them that I made it originally. All of those things have value to me, and if their value isn't properly represented by your barter, I won't make the trade.

This is a hairy question— I sure don't have the answer to it. My only real point is that when we're talking about something so fascinatingly complex and delicate, you're doing yourself a real disservice going with your gut based on "fairness".
Well, if you're not writing anything to disk, nothing should get cached. So PNG caching wouldn't work. But I'm not so sure about flash storage ... if it's using a bit of flash to store that, then flashblock should stop it, if it's allowed to run in incognito, but if there's some other way then perhaps not.
Why 'COLOURlovers' with a 'u' in the British or Canadian style, rather than 'COLORlovers'? They've got the colorlovers.com URL ...
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Tweet's now deleted. That's not suspicious at all.
Eliminate television and other forms of entertainment.
This thread is reminding me a bit too much of the business card scene from American Psycho:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

but uh, nice CV's guys.
Please read this: (this is why I was able as a very socially awkward college student not stumble through the first job search):

http://www.collegegrad.com/interview/thankyouletterafterinte...

Sending a Thank You email takes almost no effort. Sending a Thank You letter in the mail takes a bit of effort. Consider a job fair where a recruiter gets a hundred resumes. Could sending a sincere Thank You note in the mail possibly make you stand out from the crowd? Most especially in these days of longer hiring cycles where the difference between a minute of effort to send an email and the ten minutes to write, print, sign (with blue ink to contrast from black printer ink), and mail might make a difference.

There is a better site and a book, http://collegegrad.com that really exposed the behind-the-scenes of hiring because it was written by a hiring manager. Pretty much everything I'm saying here has been paraphrased. As the site says, the secret to an effective Thank You letter is to restate your interest in the position after thanking them and most important have a future promise to follow-up: "I will call you next Wednesday at 3pm to discuss this further" Even if you don't get the person on the line, by calling when you said you would - you earn professional credibility.
Pingdom tested Google, Microsoft, and Edgecast's jQuery CDNs every minute for a couple weeks and found all of them averaged between 100-150ms to download jQuery[1]. Google's was actually the slowest of those, averaging a turtle's pace of ~130ms from all of Pingdom's datacenters. They're all so close that the Google CDN's overwhelming caching advantage should be preferable though.

More anecdotally, I've been running a few Pingdom type tests myself for a longer period, using uptime tools on few of my servers and mon.itor.us. Except for that brief outage the morning of May 14, 2009[2], I haven't monitored a net-wide outage or even a 250+ ms slowdown.

I'd be genuinely interested in any concrete data to the contrary.

[1] http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/05/11/cdn-performance-download...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/cloudy-day-google-falters-pack...
a recommendation based on statistics with no direct correlation

"a recommendation based on statistics" usually means there is a correlation. I think you mean that it may not imply causation, which is true of course.
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I definitely preferred the old version. It now requires two clicks to reply all or forward, rather than the original one.
Here's a bit more about them: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/making-my-site-sing/#showi...
This link is now a 404. Thankfully Google has the text of the tweet!

speechu: Bin 38 is like heaven right now, chock-full of angels.

Not explicitly incriminating, but it sounds pretty bad
ok

http://github.com/jedediah/HackerTouch
Facebook Makes Games Less Noisy, But Only If You Aren’t Playing Them
What does it do if instead of deleting cookies, you modify the contents? What takes precedence?
I hadn't heard of padrino, and hadn't looked closely at Sinatra which i thought was a ruby plug-in rather than a different Ruby web framework.

Originally I was working with a whole bunch of Gems to learn mongo and do some more interesting stuff, but with all the gem issues, I decided to just stick to the basics and am building what should be a fairly simple app.
One of the biggest underlying benefits of using a shared, public CDN for this is that you can take advantage of cross-site caching. As more and more people use it, the potential for that is greater and greater.

However, it only works if sites are referencing exactly the same URL; just referencing the same file is unfortunately not good enough. So, using private CDNs like those don't confer quite the same benefit (though they're a great idea for hosting site-specific assets, of course).
I should also point out this find of mine. http://www.splashnology.com/blog/javascripts/290.html It mentions most of the ones pointed out here, but also has several more, very impressive ones. Worth a skim.
Assuming you can even get ahold of the appropriate licenses to run a cart/stall, that's between $10-20k right there. Now add on the cost of paying someone to take orders at your stand, the stand itself, heating element, insurance, etc... that's a lot of $1 cheese sandwiches.

Oh, and watch out for the hot dog stand guy or the guy selling beads near you who thinks you're encroaching on their turf.
My point was not as much about how you do or don't die from SIDS, but rather that it is mostly a 1st world problem. We don't worry about cholora or dysentery.