skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When stuff breaks I find that this phenomena can oftentimes make it hard to differentiate the source of your problem from symptoms of your problem. We usually would do it by going through the logs and see what problems showed up first.

Are there any architectures/patterns/methods that can help make it easier to find the source of performance issues?
My respect for Arrington keeps going up, and I can't help but admire what Ron Conway has to say about this. The no-bs approach works for him. I'm glad he called out the writing, I guess McClure's money is still green, but I don't think I could take anyone that writes like that seriously.

Edited for clarity.
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No one other Ron could have wrote this piece and I respect him all the more for coming out and being clear about his position (as if you didn't know it already).

I can predict two things;

1) The younger angels react and further split themselves from the Ron way of doing business. or

2) You will hear no more about this public debacle. It's clearly bad for business and any smart investor will shut up now.
If you think about it, it's really quite remarkable hyperbole. Drama in the valley, TC in the middle of it. People can forget themselves.
Seriously, Ron Conway doesn't know how to spell "entrepreneur"?? If that's possible, it's awesome, don't get me wrong, but it seems fishy.
either McClure is a really good troll, just trying to gain attention or just trying to "fit" in with the young entrepreneurs/founders .
on renaming:

enter to rename is just a lot faster for me than f2, bigger clearer button makes it much faster. from a usability standpoint, i'd rather rename easily than open easily.

when opening - you usually have the file(s) you want highlighted, and you KNOW you want to open it, so you can divert your attention to "okay, now i want to open this, press cmd+down"

for me, when I'm renaming, it's usually an annoyance I run into in the middle of doing something, I want to get it over with and move on, at which point hitting enter quickly without having to hunt for F2 (or even worse, right clicking and finding a menu option) is much faster. It also makes serial renaming of multiple files easier and much more keyboard friendly.

also maybe it's because I've gotten used to the cmd+up and cmd+dn to go up and down directories (and also open files). in the end, we're all arguing a matter of preference.

on closing windows:

it's equivalent to minimizing for windows. I want my mail app and calendar apps to be running and able to give notifications, but the window itself doesn't need to be rendered. Also, stuff like my browser that i open and close constantly doesn't need to be reloaded from the HD every time I open it, I don't want to see photoshop and office splash screens and wait the extra seconds to load an app every time i open a file simply because i closed the last window last time.

I also liberally use spaces to deal with the "background clutter" issue. When i need to move to a new task, i go to a new clean space and work there.
Two reactions: (1) Ron Conway is a man of great integrity.
(2) It's astonishing and fascinating that the world's most prolific angel investor apparently doesn't know how to spell "entrepreneur". But he sure has helped a lot of them, and that's what really matters.
Can someone get a shirt printed that says "I ♥ Ron Conway"? Thanks.
I think the whole point of the email was letting these people know he didn't want to invest alongside them. An email like that could ruin your day.
...It makes him look childish, impatient, immature, and less credible. If you're a professional, act like one. You wouldn't turn an essay in looking like that in junior high or high school, so why is it acceptable for him?
much of the software running the world's critical infrastructure In case when it runs on top of Linux it uses RHEL or CentOS. Or even that ridiculous Unbreakable Linux.
It made me happy to see that someone who must have typed the word 50 jillion times in his life can still get it wrong. It's a weird word.
I highly recommend learning Factor. It's a really incredible system and has the benefit of encouraging different ways of thinking and approaching algorithms.
You realize that there a few million people in Silicon Valley, and this concerns a few dozen of them?
I think of it like this:

L.A. = High school for adults

New York = College for adults

Silicon Valley = Middle school for adults

That's not meant as pure criticism, I actually kind of like it, but it just gets annoying at times.
Acknowledgements:

Aria Haghighi, did much of the heavy lifting on this project!
Stephen Roller, created the first version of the bundle in 2008
Mark McGranaghan, expanded Stephen Roller's version
Justin Balthrop & Lance Bradley, core developers of Cake
http://github.com/ninjudd/cake - if they weren't constantly adding
features just for this project, this would have never gotten off the
ground
Allan Odgaard, for being the creator of TextMate and listening to my
Bundle dev noob questions

A screencast: http://blip.tv/file/4160578
The project repo: http://github.com/swannodette/textmate-clojure
The Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/textmate-clojure
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You forgot cars.com, viewpoints.com, and navteq ;) Clearly no internet here. Oh...and no financial companies either (I wont start a list of the many)
Let's be honest here. If you had as much money as Mcclure, would you waste as much time trying to please people by bending over backwards with perfect grammar, lack of slang, and an apologetic tone?

Everyone starts writing to please other people through resumes, cover letters, thank-you cards, and apologies. But once you have enough money like Mcclure, you can say "Fuck you" when you want to and not worry about losing your job.

And that's exactly what he did.
The silence from Calacanis on this subject is deafening.

EDIT - Per 146's comment below Calacanis already comments & denies. Better educating myself on Twitter search now.
Okay, so everything I found was the whole story.

From the flinging of poop in various directions I take it that Arrington's story may have had some truth to it after all.
sure - if you found some really really expensive requests perhaps. As has been stated -- It's pretty hard to put a bump in FB's traffic.

The more likely explanation is that someone on 4chan noticed FB was down -- and then started talking about DOSing it.
When I used to ride a bicycle, I would lay my bike down in the sensor ring that opened my apartment complex's gate. Simply riding over it wouldn't work.
The important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to everyone there, I guess.

http://xkcd.com/774/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/
I think you'd see quite different figures if Figure 4 had been controlled by parental income (or even by total blue book value of parental household automobiles.) I always find it troubling when people find two events co-occurring and assume it's a causal relationship, particularly when both things are clearly possibly related to class.
It takes ages. ^_^
It's crazy that even with Ron telling Dave to stop embarrassing the tech community with his unprofessional classless writing - he still did it! That in itself is truly classless
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The tweet was via text. Most accidental tweets come from responding to the DM text Twitter sends.
You are going to criticize a guy based on a single private letter that he wrote? Maybe he was feeling anxious and frazzled and wrote this email quickly to help resolve his feelings. I know I certainly have, and I'm sure it was not the most elegant prose ever constructed.
The only thing that makes me seriously wonder if this is a fake is the repeated misspelling of the word entrepreneurs: "entrepenuers"

Edit: I just realized I read the posts backwards. I suppose it's not fake if that's actually what Dave McClure was referencing in his deleted tweet. Still. Perhaps these "super angel" could do with some spelling and grammar lessons. (Yes, I could probably use some too.)
I don't understand why TechCrunch tries to emulate a tabloid when they do a lot better as a news site.
Username validation was down.
The parent meant that he is glad Ron Conway called out Dave McClure's response to the original TechCrunch piece (http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/09/fire-in-the-vall...). Took me a couple times to parse too :P
Ask PG: Your thoughts on the AngelGate situation
The situation must be interesting from your perspective. Of course, everyone will understand if you don't feel that you are in a position to comment. I'll save my comments for when some have responded.
I did the challenge when I was living in London, UK but working in Boston, USA. Spent a lot of time with my just-tall-enough-to-be-uncomfortable in economy seats. Getting status and being able to pre-book exit rows for free was a massive benefit for me.

And just two weeks ago I came back from a Toronto->Honolulu vacation where I paid for the flight by cashing in some of my accumulated miles. Had to pay for tax though: $35. Paying cash for the same flight would have been ~$800. (Well, paying on a card. I get points I can used towards travel from my credit card.)

Finally: mileage runs make perfect sense once you start playing the game. I once paid ~$200 to do a day trip from London->Madrid so that i'd maintain platinum status. Current job doesn't have me travelling though, so i've let everything lapse.
Well here is one instant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsV-lgnAjps

Edit: Leo Laporte and the Palm Pre for those who have seen it

In response to your edit I was only posting because you said a) and b) not a) or b) and I don't think this falls into the category of b).

He wasn't asking for disclosure so much that he did not get a pre review unit so he was strongly biased against those who did since he went on even after disclosure was completed.
I've been waiting for a pico-projector-enabled phone since I saw The Island.
Yes, I would. It doesn't take that much more effort. Your argument is that he's too busy for punctuation to be worth his time? What about people who are more wealthy than him who manage to do so? What would you think if Warren Buffett wrote like this?

He's acting like the kids in junior high who thought they were being rebellious by shopping at Hot Topic and dressing punk. He's just replaced one style for another. He's not text messaging his rant, he published it online. If he's so rich and too busy, then pay an assistant to edit it. Everything you do is a representation of yourself.
FYI for those of you who are curious how many hits you get from a post like this: 816 so far. (posted 2 hrs ago).
Arrington has has obviously lit a match to a powderkeg with "So a blogger walks into a bar...". McClure's response came across (to me) as defensive, which at least confirms that there is a concern about the appearance of impropriety.

I would love to know who was at this meeting and who got this email from Conway.

There are some useful short-term consequences of this:

1. These super angels probably don't trust each other anymore ("who tipped off Arrington?"). This is a good thing;

2. Meetings like this are less likely to happen in the short term. If they do, they'll probably be somewhere private (the back of a restaurant is not private); and

3. It highlights the importance and value of reputation and integrity (of which Conway's cup overfloweth).

Further to (3) there is this quote from JP Morgan:

> Asked: "Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?"

> "No sir," replied Morgan. "The first thing is character."

> "Before money or property?"

> "Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom."
After reading the email, I'm inclined to believe you, sorry about that!
Yeah, I agree after reading the email. Check this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/ron-conway-angel-email/ to anyone that hasn't read it.
> Actually, quite a few Haskell folks work for Microsoft Research

What is up with that, anyway? Three of the most important people in Haskell -- the originators of the language and primary developers of GHC, and the foremost researchers in functional programming as I've experienced it who aren't employed by universities, Galois or wherever the fuck okmij works -- are employed by Microsoft Research [0]

Seems like a very odd place for them to be. Microsoft has absolutely no official relationship with Haskell, but it is the closest thing Haskell has to a patron.

I suppose bits of their work are trickling down into C#/LINQ (and VB) at as fast a pace as the ecosystem can absorb it, and it would be unthinkable, inappropriate, and probably disastrous in sociologically interesting ways, for Microsoft to try to push direct Haskell on conservative enterprise. I suppose "they" view it as an obscure research tool, by and for the top talent they retain, granted apparent freedom in their research, to keep a strategic reserve of deep magic. It's more likely that "they" don't think of Haskell at all.

-----

Also, while I don't think this strange relationship could be credibly attributed to any calculation of PR or prestige, I'll admit that noticing a sizeable chunk of the best stuff I've read in the field is written by known Microsoft employees has done as much to salve my personal opinion of the brand as their fall from threatening malevolence. It would be interesting to see what it would look like for Microsoft to officially recognize Haskell.

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonmar/
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/
Paul, have you considered asking the community to volunteer resources?

You've mentioned several times that the site is on one server and that performance is an issue at times. I would donate time/money to make those problems go away, and I suspect others would as well.

Proposal:
Post a new thread, "somebody build me a HN server farm", and include the software and hardware prerequisites for an Arc webserver. I bet within 48 hours you would have a 3-4 servers and a load balancer at your disposal.
Ron only needs to help them, and he does so who cares about spelling! Besides, have you seen the atrocity that McClure calls a blog post?
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Don't worry about it. You have got fans. People got downvoted plenty of times for perfectly fine comments. And there're voting cliches which colluded here that were discovered before.

Realize that people here are not your friends or your family. You don't need acceptance or approval from them. Just be yourself and don't give a fuck. Also don't take karma too seriously. It's part of the game mechanic of a social site to make people comment and submit.
I think the issue is that news.arc doesn't use a distributable storage system. It is as far from "shared nothing" as you get.
Intercal
- readlines() is redundant for filehandle objects, you can omit it.

- Prefer Python's string formatting operator. I even prefer the extended dict-compatible syntax.

- close() is called automatically when the filehandles are garbage-collected; you can usually omit it for tasks like this.

- ranges (like those in brackets) are exclusive, not inclusive. So I suspect you have an off-by-one error there.

Thus:

in_file = open('c:/WVASA/original.txt', 'r')
out_file = open('c:/WVASA/output.txt', 'w')

template = '''
<tr bgcolor="#006699">
<td>%(country)s</td>
<td>%(name)s</td>
<td>%(street)s</td>
<td>%(city)s</td>
<td>%(zipcode)s</td>
<td><a href="mailto:%(email)s">%(email)s</a></td>
</tr>'''
template = template.strip()

for line in in_file:
out_file.write(template % {
'county': line[:12].rstrip(),
'email': line[12:43].rstrip(),
'name': line[43:73].rstrip(),
'street': line[73:99].rstrip(),
'city': line[99:118].rstrip(),
'zipcode': line[118:].rstrip(),
})
If he had anything to do with it, it'd be the ultimate FAIL for someone who has always claimed to be looking out for that struggling entrepreneur.

Hopefully he's clean.
Do you have chrome frame installed?
Yes, like chocolate!
I've heard this same thing about AOL, MySpace, etc. and really, who knows. People who have come to the internet and use nothing but Facebook will discover there are actually other sites out there, or they may get tired of Mafia Wars spam. Someone could create something more innovative. I think Facebook will continue to become more valuable, but they're not going to take over the entire world.
would be tough to estimate without knowing their product (and income) pipeline for the future. I am sure they have got more features planned up but not known outside.

It would also depend on how well they implement them in face of competition for those features.

The 5 year one, it would be a joke to even try to estimate it, its too unpredictable in the web business. One misstep, and you can be gone!
Boston = Grad school for adults. ;-)

Also, if Silicon Valley were middle school for adults, there'd be more girls here.
I don't think they've released the scraper yet, have they? They said they would, but it wasn't part of the release last I checked.

One idea might be to have a consortium of startups interested in the topic use and maintain Wesabe's scrapers as a community.
PEP 8 is great, but (unless I've forgotten . . .) it doesn't really help w/ directory structure and so on.

I'd say take a look at some of the code in the standard library and in some other packages you've used before, then read this:

http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/39794.html

Then just go for it.
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It's hard to fault him when the facts of the story are so sensational.
I guess it's because I'm the child of two English teachers, but writing in the style that McClure used takes effort for me. Writing in passable complete sentences is the norm.
I can think of a couple fairly lousy companies associated with at least two of these fine fellows. Their being involved does not say anything about Facebook's potential to make money.
Thanks for the tip, works great!
I'm having trouble believing this is not a hoax. This doesn't feel real to me. The entire thing feels like it is staged by Arrington and McClure.
Anybody have suggestions as to how to market this app?
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Is this intended for the hardcore player? Seems like those guys would have such a customized/assisted setup on their primary machines that they would have no incentive or desire to play on something so restricted as an iPad.

Not my product, but I'd imagine this is aimed at more casual players - for example, college students. People who would have no problems playing a one-hour session sitting in a Starbucks while waiting for something else, as opposed to the people who play multi-hour sessions on multiple tables professionally. The poker equivalent of scratch-and-win lottery players, as compared to players of casino games.
Possibility that he just made a typo :)
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Most freight does not need to move during peak traffic flow, and of course much of it already does.

I'd be curious to hear your speculation about how much cargo is actually move by cars during peak traffic volume.
does he not have an extra 2-3 minutes to capitalize and think out more coherent analogies?

The same way, I fail to realize how people don't understand that he writes in that style not because he lacks a few extra minutes but because that is a style and persona he's built over time.
Also, does Windows support redirection? If this were a one-off task that I were to do on my Linux box, I'd have written only:

import sys

template = ... # (same as above)

for line in sys.stdin:
print template % {
... # (same as above)
}

Then execute like this:

python mycode.py < original.txt > output.txt
There are actually 102 cities in the photo set.
Time that could be spent working on some other, higher-marginal-utility thing, I would think.
Agreed! Different, refreshing..and good.
I've always been curious about the legalities of running an online real-money poker site. I see you're based in Costa Rica, where (presumably) this service is legal - how does the illegality of this in the US play into your business plan?
Thanks for the pointers. I hadn't heard of suricata before.
FWIW I've personally dealt with Arrington on a less than pleasant occasion, and despite things not going my way I have to say he acted with integrity and passion, and kept the interests of the entrepreneur in mind the whole time. He won my respect despite screwing me over (on this particular occasion, for reasons that were mostly out of his control).
I'm not sure to be honest. The title of the post is slightly facetious but really only slightly. I'm thinking I must have a problem because if there is no other way, and if this is not really a big problem for most web users, then it's my problem to deal with.

The immediate idea I have is not to used fixed layouts and less 'blurb'. I'm looking at the Opinion site at the moment (the design of which has changed since last night) and I'd prefer if instead of giving me a blurb about Nicholas Kristof's piece it just said Nicholas Kristof on the Millennium Development Goals.

I might look at mocking up an alternative, though. I'd like to see if I can come up with something that would suit at least me.
Wow. Google actually did a pretty good job with that one.
Although I have to admit, the sentences are short and unnaturally terse, so google would have an easy time with it.

It actually sounds better in the Google-translated english than his Japanese. :/

I do like that he wrote his name two different ways in the same message. (Ne-to vs Neito)
I believe this email was written after Dave posted his defense of the meetup.
I gotta say, I find his profanity and weird formatting off-putting. It's nice to know I'm not the only one.
I loved and used Turbo Pascal since the 3.0 days - 5.5 was probably my favourite, while 6.0 was real stable (bit bit bigger). Then I started learning Turbo C at the same time (was it 3.0), and TVision, Delphi for Windows.

Really cool products, and then Microsoft hired the guy from Borland that was responsible for the Forms Editing and other things in the IDE, and Borland changed their trademarks from the cool Delphi/Turbo/Borland to stupid names like Inprise/Kylix/etc.

The Turbo Pascal 3.00 was the smallest IDE ever in the world - 30kb of compiler, editor and libraries :)
A literal 'whack on the head'... Inspiring!
I actually came across a pretty good comment which explains it (to the layman) pretty well:

"Marvin, the server was like a dog chasing its tail...it kept going in circles, but never caught it. They basically had to hold the tail for the dog so he could bite a flea on it. :) LOL"
I got one of these pretty recently. Like all cold calls that feel out of the blue, I googled up an extract of it and tossed in the trash after realizing that it was a (fairly well-worded) scam.
At least one actually understood it quite well and translated the issue adequately, and hilariously, for the remaining audience:

Angee Lening Marvin:
the server was like a dog chasing its tail...
it kept going in circles, but never caught it.
They basically had to hold the tail for the dog so he
could bite a flea on it. :) LOL
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
Recently...a tortilla press. Not much, but workable.