skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From NOW ON:

1. Any startup, get an agreement up front. Do not wait until something happens.

2. do not write code without a contract, ever.

3. Do not start a startup whereas developer co-founder code is hidden form one of the co-founders..ever.

For right now You need to stop all work and get a lawyer. Pick one that has some mediator skills
This is awesome. Totally agree with all of this.
I'm running a website with 15% more quantcast visits than stackoverflow and ~200MiB/s traffic from 3 servers, one of which is nearly at 100% idle.

The trick is not to have any of those dynamic page things.
Why Hollywood can't get the hang of science fiction
Behind the scenes: Customer Wall
uppi.ww.com > 144.122.166.67 please :p
Like a wise person once said: Interest is aptitude

All of the nature/nurture constructs built around males to interest them in the autistic endeavors like math, physics, computer science are very different for females. It's not that woman can't do math, rather it's that they choose not to.
I like that researchers are drifting away from attempts at neurological gender difference explanations, and towards a gestalt of social conditioning.
Check the 'two letter limit'. Min = 3 letters!
Suggestions for good alternatives with good scaling?
That one is ok, it seems to be abandoned.
Great, thanks!

hnl.ww.com. CNAME hackernewsletter.com.
Will is good. w.ww.com would be cooler but has been excluded for obvious reasons ;)

No need to bring on my own typo squatters :)

So Will.ww.com is yours.
Yes, we're still in business. :)
Wouldn't it be free (or close to it) if you run it on an EC2 instance?
Wasn't Erlang originally developed for telecommunication equipment? In that case, it has always been used for reliable embedded systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%...

As hardware becomes cheaper and more powerful, it makes sense that it migrate to more platforms where it can run reasonably well.
I said it was an insult and that I thought it devalued a comment that was otherwise worth discussion. That isn't exactly the same as suggesting I take offense whether personally or as part of a group.

I have a number of minor free libraries on the go, two children, and I'm heading out to do some very technical mountain biking in the morning. I have what I consider to be a life, although I accept that others may consider all of that worthless if I don't agree with their perspective on what is and isn't appropriate in a professional setting.

Therefore, telling me personally to get a life--which the author may or may not have done--isn't even an insult, it's simply wrong.
By what metrics are STEM fields autistic endeavors? I've never heard that before, so i find it a pretty interesting assertion.
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I read through twice to make sure and I managed to miss the most important part, silly me. I withdraw my request then, good luck! :-)
3G vs 4G vs WiFi Performance Analysis With The Samsung Epic 4G
The specific implementation for BCC sends you an email entitled How To Make $TITLE Bingo Cards. Each subscriber to the list that I have a good guess for has a field in Mailchimp set with that value through their API. (Parsing the referrer is one option for guessing. My implementation is a mite more subtle, to avoid having user input there.)

The net effect is a few hundred people tomorrow who looked for [Halloween bingo cards] today and forgot about it will get an email tomorrow with the subject How To Make Halloween Bingo Cards. My open rates are "quite nice."

Edited to add: I got a note from the Mailchimp CS people back in April about having an unacceptably high unsubscribe rate (1.04% -- they take list quality seriously), paused my campaign to look into it, and forgot to unpause it. facepalm Thanks for prompting me to check on this (as usual, I don't look at things I think are working -- too much to do).
Sure, I've used dynamic programming in Perl code:

use Memoize;
memoize('myfunc');
Interesting - I used to do this too, but I never really saw much profit on the firearms side - more on accessories / ammo. Is that your experience too?
leifleif.ww.com -> leifwalsh.com plz thx
Thanks, though I just realized it looks like it may already be taken by one of your users - my fault for not checking. Thanks anyway. :)
Sounds delightful for some folks, but also a potential source of immense frustration. Suppose I usually go to bed at 2300 on weeknights, and have my phone set to go completely silent. But tonight I'm out at 23:30 and wondering why the hell my friend hasn't called me yet, oh right, my phone is on silent even though the vibrate/noise switch is set to noise.

So you make the rule "after 2300, and phone is face up, or phone is face down, and isn't moving, at all."

Except that night you go to bed with your phone at a 30 degree angle inside your pants pocket on the floor, and it wakes you up at 3am when some guy 8 timezones away calls.

So you... wait, how exactly do you make a task that deals with that? "Time is after 2300, on a weeknight, and the phone hasn't moved at all for at least 30 minutes?"

Of course the tasks can't be made to deal with every eventuality, but then you can't be certain that the expected task executed, so you end up manually checking. Which defeats the point, no? Or in real average usageI suppose it just works fantastically. Which is rare today.
I wouldn't call somebody a close friend if he planned to sue me, take the share that was rightfully mine (unless his work deserved 60%, maybe not in code, but in deals, connections and marketing), and insult me around. That person wouldn't deserve my friendship.
> There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer.

Except naturally occurring cell mutation, specialisation and growth?

The argument itself seems somewhat feasible if formulated to say that something about modern life drastically increases the occurrence of cancers. The data seems to suggest that one popular counterargument, that people tended to die of something else before cancer got a chance (since the risk seems to grow as a person ages), is not valid. The data set is still not quite large nor heterogenous enough to be enough evidence on its own.
I can fix anything with a hammer.
hehe, it exists in English too :)

Ok, vie it is!
I went to a missionary conference once where an African princess came in and talked to us. Exactly the place where you'd expect a plea for more aid, right?

Well, not really. She said we needed to mind our own business and let Africa take care of itself.

Then a Bono video from his opulent mansion came on with some sort of campaign to end world poverty or something.
President Obama to Host White House Science Fair
The Lost Art of Concentrating
Flipping Typical - Preview all your fonts at once
And if you need a hammer drill but only occasionally, make it the corded one and get a non-hammering cordless drill, as the latter will be quite a bit lighter which is an advantage for everyday use, the hammer drill will be more powerful, and you will probably come out ahead on cost to boot.
Leif is abandoned, you can have that if you want, leifleif is free. Your preference ?
Microsoft brazenly, fiercely ignored antitrust law. There's endless evidence in court on their attempts to illegally block the adoption of Java and Netscape Navigator. They were found guilty in U.S. v. Microsoft. And every web developer knows how much damage IE6 did to the progress of the internet. Gates' fortune is unquestionably tainted.

That said, the majority of economists would probably more or less agree with Slim. Buffett, Gates, and Slim could amass wealth faster than pretty much anyone else on earth. Just leaving the money invested in the global economy is not a priori worse than giving it all to charity. Compound growth is obviously self-sustaining growth. The HOPE is that charity can do the same.

Giving away tens of billions of dollars is an ENORMOUS informational problem. Good luck allocating it all even the least bit efficiently. The real answer is that no one can possibly know what the best use of all that money is.

What would I do with the money? Probably put it all in a Vanguard Total Market fund, or the closest fund imitating the true world economy.
Not to mention the sun.
Distributing your app across 34 servers will require a non-trivial development effort itself.

Not to mention, there was a story here just this week about how communication between EC2 nodes may be a lot of reddit's performance trouble. Scaling horizontally is inevitable at a certain scale, but it's no panacea.
Now this is purely hearsay, but I've heard it said the creator of the smallpox vaccine regretted what he'd done because the amount of polio it produced greatly outnumbered the lives it saved.

It was on the internet so it must be true!
$8 million iPhone: The ultimate geek chic
It also ignores all the very real other side effects of inefficient design (the most common cause of poor performance). For example, bad user experience (if you need to spread out your traffic onto many servers that usually implies a sizeable latency on each page view), engineering drag due to technical debt, and engineering drag due to cumbersome infrastructure and deployment overhead. All of these things matter.

In general a company with a more efficient solution will have an easier time with just about every aspect of development and deployment, which pays huge dividends. However, if you find that engineering such efficiency is too difficult due to fundamental design choices or legacy systems then sometimes it's not worth killing yourself to fix.
I'm only seeing the T-Mobile version when logged into the developer marketplace:

"Note: The device sold on the developer site is compatible with most 3G networks, including T-Mobile in the US. However, there are some carriers that have different 3G frequencies, such as AT&T in the US and Rogers Wireless in Canada, so users with these SIM cards can only access 2G or EDGE networks on their Nexus One. If you have questions about 3G compatibility for the Nexus One please contact your Mobile Network Operator. The 3G frequencies supported by this version of the phone are 3 UMTS Bands (900/AWS/2100 MHz)."

"GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)"
I used to be big on microcredit, until I realized it isn't actually profitable (as is claimed).

The vast majority of funding for microcredit organizations comes from government. It's still charity, even if it can often be fairly efficient charity.
And convicted monopolist. Not all good, not all bad.
If the people are responsible enough to use it correctly.

See this not happening in Afghanistan, where their acceptance of drugs and all other sorts of questionable behavior has left their populace lazy and subject to strongmen and corruption.

As a side note, I'm quite sure America will not become Afghanistan if we legalize drugs and pederasty. Why, I can't really say...
As far as I know CUDA is 64bit, and you should be able to run CUDA on tegra2.

So, for ARM the only reason to have 64bit is to address large memory, and drive controllers for flash can address the rest. heck if someone really wanted to do an integrated server environment they could put ram behind the drive controller.

So having a 32bit core and a 64bit gpu on chip means you can do complex scientific math, but how many web apps really need 64bit floats, ints? In a web world if you needed 64bit, just make a service on a platform that works and either proxy the request or redirect to it.

i guess mongodb would suck on a 32bit arm, but that's just because they have a lazy memory manager model. i am sure if arm got big or if someone paid 10gen to fix it, they would.

I bet most of the web could work on a large array of high frequency ARM chips.

I know that both google is working on it, and I have seen articles on facebook doing it.

It's definitely experimental right now, but I think in the next 18 months you will see more public experiments.

Mobile chips also have better power management than x86, and can go in to deep sleep and maintain cache really well.

Watch this, i know it's going to POP.

there is also evidence that nVidia is figuring out it's legal strategy for this. which has an ARM license, and bought transmeta.
Jacques,

mahmud.ww.com ==> mahmud.arablug.org

Thanks
Well that is partly our fault as well, HFCs and all that jazz eating the ozone layer.

But considering Uranium isn't man made and all the other radioactive elements and radiation that occurs naturally, cancer is not man made.

There is pretty much radiation everywhere, anything above absolute zero is emitting infrared.

When you take everything into account cancer can't be man made but perhaps we did lead to the widespread amount of cancer.
Also a request if any of you are experience with it, we're interested in new ad strategies (that retain our "minimalist" approach, allowing expansion without upsetting users) so if anyone either works for an advert company or has experience at our volume (or similar) we'd love to hear from you. sam@redstonewire.com :-)

(Hopefully this is okay, I'm not a regular HN user, mainly lurk, it isn't mentioned in the guidelines but it might be one of those secret rules that are learned as you go along... be gentle!)
Is mark.ww.com taken?

mark.ww.com CNAME mark.nirv.net

thanks
I am still to this day happy with my $300 18v cordless dewalt with an easy self locking chuck. I thought I'd have buyers remorse with that price tag, but I tell you, when you end up needing to frame a basement, put up sheetrock or basically do anything past a simple job, it's money well spent.
heat is a huge energy loss, server rooms require AC and at some point you cant add more AC.

I wonder if this heat could actually get high enough to recoup some energy.
I forgot to mention something else that I thought was really cool: in the late 80s Hank wrote an organizer application called Daymaker for the Mac, which won a bunch of awards, and which he turned into a pretty successful business for a number of years. So he's been doing this for a long time.
I lucked out and have a handy dad (he is an elevator mechanic). Those replacements dewalt battery packs are spendy, more than half the cost of some of their drills. As a result he just buys a new drill when they start to wear out. My first dewalt had like 6 25% battery packs that came with it :)
This is basically correct, but it still depends on one's values.

Who do you value more, the current generation or future generations? Essentially the perpetual argument over the standard discounting problem.
I have read that linux will start to bottleneck at 48 cores. damn i wish i knew where that article was.
Jagger and Richards: Successful but dysfunctional business partners/band mates
How about pshc.ww.com CNAME paulcollier.ca? Thanks!
Sorry, but I was raised in a very tool-friendly house where this was instilled in me. However, when I was a teenager I still managed to lose tools in the trunk of my car or wherever for a few months. Long enough to need replacing. I don't think this is in any way an indication that my dad failed as a parent. I think it's just an indication that sometimes life can get busy and cleaning up after yourself everytime doesn't always happen.
You can blame people like Larry Summers, who advocated shock therapy when he was Chief Economist of the World Bank, devastating the economic potential of the former Soviet bloc.
Can I get CNAME for mma.ww.com to www.fighter.pro? Thanks!
The real question you should have researched more is why there is a high-rate of black people not showing their faces on twitter icons or "hiding" as you describe it. Do some interviews, I believe that will be a more interesting topic.
I am surprised that jwz wasn't aware of this.

For the record, I think it was a reasonable decision. If you can't make something work well then at least make it simple. JavaScript's treatment of numbers is extremely simple: every number is a double precision floating point number.
i use the favorite star as a bookmark. i wish twitter had more gestures.
I've wondered before about whether posting an MD5 hash of a snapshot to usenet or a bunch of free mail services (Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) might serve as a "beyond reasonable doubt" method of proving you had a specific bunch of files on a particular date. It _should_ be possible to argue that the likelihood of me being able to subvert Google's and Yahoo's and Microsoft's mail servers all at the same time is effectively none, and subverting every usenet server in the world even smaller.

I know where I come from (NSW Australia) there's already established legal recognition of MD5 hashes, they use them to verify authenticity of traffic enforcement camera data.
No advice; but, man, I feel for you. I was in almost exactly the same situation four years ago. I just let go, signed that 3 month NCA, cut the losses and moved on -- never looked at that code again. He wasn't very close friend of mine, fortunately.

He was going to hire a coder and proceed with the project; as far as I know, it didn't quite work, and he never launched. Not sure, though -- we don't talk much these days :)

Looking back, I'm glad I've got out of those toxic relationships. Yeah, seeing your invested money and efforts going to waste is not a piece of cake, but, really, having to deal with a toxic partner on daily basis can be much more of a damage.
Good point. Memoization is a one off that I also find myself using quite regularly.

"Coolest" algo I've ever developed would have to be parser combinators. Coolest graph algorithm: finding maximal cliques and independent sets + approximation algorithms for these.
I disagree with him, but there's merit in what he says. Let me give you an example.

I had coffee in an NGO-operated cafe in Siem Riep, Cambodia. All profits went to running a small school for 10 kids.

I did the quick math on a napkin, and realized they were doing far worse as an NGO/charity than they would be to help people as a for-profit business.

Observe: With a 20% net profit after all expenses (which I think they had, if not higher), they'd be able to have enough of a downpayment to open a second cafe within less than a year. A year after that, they'd have 4-5 cafes opened. In three years total, they could be around 8-12 cafes.

At that point, they'd be producing 12 times as much income. They'd also be employing 12 times as many people, and working in a cafe is a really good job in Cambodia. (Air conditioning, pleasant working conditions, friendly client base, regular hours, not dangerous - unlike most Cambodian work).

But by paying it all out right away, they have much less impact. What they're doing is good, yes, but they might be being a little shortsighted if their goal is to do the greatest good. Currently, they were employing 10 people or so (plus the people who did construction, installation, painting, decoration of the cafe, etc) If they reinvested profits for 4 years, they could be employing 120 people who all get better wages and working conditions who can help their families, and they'd be generating 12 times as much in profit. At that point, if they started getting 1/10th of what they were making to charity, they'd be giving more than they are with one cafe.

Consider that. As a charity, they operate one location, employ 10 people, and educate 10 children. If they ran it as a business, in only four years they could run 12 locations, employ 120 people, and with only a fraction of their profits could educate 12 children. Plus, they'd still have the other 90% of profits to open more cafes, or other businesses, or to help more people, or to open hospitals, or whatever. I've heard similar critiques from a local Khmer businessman and an Indian engineer/restaurant owner I met there. NGO's, while well intentioned, might be stifling development in Cambodia. Maybe. At the very least, running that cafe for-profit and reinvesting profits would've produced a hell of a lot more good very quickly.
There are many status cars, just because a Hilux is one of them does not mean an Escalade or Land Cruiser is not. And cameroun is not "West Africa" according to the normal definition - it's central Africa.

And I doubt that those American cars you mention are very popular across West Africa, usually Japanese cars or European cars are used.
We're looking at a couple of alternatives and I can report back with our findings when we know enough, right now we're looking at vbulletin which powers some of the larger forums, it is apparently very good if you're willing to strip out the poor parts (apparently search is terrible).

It looks as if the best approach is to roll your own, phpbb seems to be designed with the smaller user in mind, so while routing every single file through file.php for easy processing might work well for Johnny and his friends forum, once you hit a large scale it becomes rather a pain.

So yeah, no idea, we'll find out soon though, I'll report back when I know :-)
Workers drill through last few feet of rock, creating world's longest tunnel
ok, that's yours :)
Yes, but it's been abandoned since 2002.

So you're welcome to have it.
Missing one thing, Zuckerberg should've posted it.
abandoned ages ago, so it's yours, I checked before.
Ok, that's free.
Until the industrial age humans didn't often live long enough for cancer to become a leading cause of death. Moreover, the vast majority of people who died in pre-industrial times were survived by relatives who were poor, uneducated, and illiterate. Determination of their causes of death was by such uneducated and superstitious folks, and the details of any pre-death symptoms are lost to history due to the lack of record keeping.

Even in those rare cases where a person lived long enough to where cancer would be a likely cause of death and were lucky enough to be surrounded by folks who were literate and educated there is still very little chance that the symptoms of cancer would be noted or recorded accurately. More so amidst the myriad routine disease epidemics and pandemics of history. If Quuxocles dies of a mystery illness in ancient Greece it's as likely to be attributed to whichever deadly epidemic occured most recently.

The idea that testing a few mummies is sufficient evidence to make such a sweeping conclusion of cancer being primarily a modern phenomenon is rather ridiculous.
The Guide to Being Cheap
Abandoned since '05, so that's fine.
There've been many studies showing almost no cancer among traditionally-living peoples. E.g.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-in-othe...
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-among-i...

What surprises me most in this article is, I'd have guessed ancient Egypt to be 'advanced' enough to get cancer rates more like ours (among survivors to similar ages).
People do stupid things over money or careers. Friends sometimes screw each other over. Shit happens. If the worst thing you do in your life is to demand 60% when you're really entitled to 50% (or even 40%), you've done OK.
which Russian pick-ups are scheduled to be sold in US in the coming future?
Oh, really? You're actually making the opposite argument: divided technical leadership is what drove most progress in personal computing. Unless you yearn for the days of the IBM mainframe...

The Economics of the Microsoft Case, by perhaps the best technology economist there is, Timothy Bresnahan of Stanford:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.7...