skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, the OP here titled it in a manner that misrepresents what we were saying. Also, we're far from serving static pages. Granted the wiki (which is 50% of our traffic) is pretty static and we could easily run that from a single server, the reason we have such high number of servers is because of the forum, which is the other 30m page views and it's phpbb, it's... well, let's not go there.

This submission is poorly titled, our intention was never to claim we're better than SO (we're very different... just like SO is very different to Digg) it was just a good comparison to make, as in "Joel said they're serving 60m page views a month and SO is huge, well we're doing the same, now you can see how big we are!" not "We serve the same as SO, therefore they suck!".
> "to me, sexuality is a big part of life and part of what makes it worth living."

Me too.

But I would prefer if people did not make my sexuality, or the sexuality of those around me, into an issue when it shouldn't be. This isn't a matter of jealousy, "not getting any", political correctness, or being uncomfortable discussing sex; it's a matter of being uncomfortable with sexuality being brought to the forefront and kept there when I'm trying to talk databases or do other professional work. At best, it's a distraction, but as raganwald said, it can create a poisoned work environment, especially if it's part of an ongoing pattern. You describe it as a "minor impediment" elsewhere; note that it can become a major impediment either due to increased severity or increased frequency.
There's a wild card handler on there, so that's free if you want it but I think it would fall under the 'representation' bit :)
Very good article.

Can you possibly edit your submission and at the article link to it? That way people can click right through to what you're linking.
Startup School on Twitter, we'll be tweeting all day from @startupschool
ah. fingers type random nonsense...

world.ww.com free?
Non-Profit Idea: Neverending Charity
I've heard developers tell me, in all seriousness, MS should dump Windows and start shipping a real OS like Linux. False dichotomy? I don't know, but I think you'd find the business would probably lose a fair bit of money doing that.
can I get dot.ww.com or kapo.ww.com -> gerardpaapu.com
max.

74.207.243.146
I used to check your site all the time. When my big payoff comes, I'm buying a souped up AE86. :)
I think these types of stories are misleading for startups.

Many startups would do better to add server capacity in the short term, rather than spend lots of time optimizing to cut costs, when this is typically hidden from the user.

For example, a 4GB linode VPS is $160/month, so you can have 34 of those ($5440/month) for the cost of one developer (Salary of $67k based on: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-php+developer/l...). Also, many startups struggle to recruit good developers, so would it make sense for them to spend all their time optimising code to perform on cheap hardware? rather than improving the product in a visible way to the user?
abandoned since 2003 so that's fine.
Not for non-native English speakers... I remember playing it when I was 12 and not really speaking any English, and it was a major pain.
Abandoned since '03, so dot is yours.
Those translations are handy but I think you kill the joke if you have to explain it. You have to know and have experienced the 'babu-culture' to appreciate the article, there's no way around it.
You really should be using community tracker, my other baby :) http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ I'm so happy I moved off phpbb it was causing nothing but grief.

No hard feeling here, I think you are building an awesome business
Thanks a ton! You're lucky to get that.

Can you do forwarding? I don't want to have to worry about keeping the IP (or bothering you again)

If so, can you do zach.ww.com -> ww.zbanks.net ?
I've got 17 karma but if it's not taken can I have games.ww.com -> playitontheweb.com?
Weird - no longer seeing my post upthread like I did before, so now not sure if you were replying to me. Board hiccup maybe? (or I'm easily confused late on a Friday...)

Going to repost below as a reply for reference so thread still makes sense. Thx again

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Very cool offer - thank you. I'm probably begging for a karma hit here, but any chance I could get seo.ww.com? It resolves, but you mentioned that many accounts are abandoned, so figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

CNAME to 8020seo.com if possible - thanks!

Added note: site is still under construction at the moment, but is a web service company and will be not at all spammy.
I thought it was 4xFORTRAN. Ho ho ho.
I can, sure. I'll do that (CNAME).
Or most Russian pick-ups
Yes, that's ok, it's been idle for a while.
> I've often felt bullied and mistreated by this person, who treats me like a "resource" and bosses me around like a child.
> My attempts at discussing/negotiating this with my co-founder only stir hostile, belittling responses from him.

I wonder if there is much "friendship" left now.

However, you should take a break for a few days/weeks so that both parties can cool down, and then try to talk to him again. Hopefully you guys will be able to patch up things and launch the site.
We're in the process of moving, it's just a lot of work at our size, we have to make sure everything works :) We actually started out with fluxbb (my choice) but users got tetchy and as we moved from being "just a forum" to being a "community" we had to go forward with new features, but this was back before we had adverts and the $250+ for "proper" forums wasn't something we wanted to do. Here's an idea of how much we've grown: http://i.imgur.com/eenut.jpg

That software looks interesting although as I'm not a sys admin, all that matters to me is how pretty it is and that doesn't have enough rounded corners ;)
Yup,having to come up with many domain names as yourself I've become quite familiar with suffixes and the ability to also use them in compound fashion. Not to be too snarky but just google suffixes and look at the usual suspects like wikipedia and the dictionary sites. You'll see how much we've mangled English from the Latin roots.
Thank you, sir!
Can I get 666.ww.com CNAME leethaxor.boldlygoingnowhere.org ?

Thanks!
Definitely, nobody should take us as an example for their startup/business. We're literally a small forum that inherited huge success and had to rapidly deal with scaling up, we're not a business and money is not our goal, so if someone were to base their business off of what we've done it might not turn out too well.

The current servers we operate were paid for with donations from our users because our ad revenue has yet to arrive heh.
Yes, it's an improvement on Locale, but the article makes Tasker sound like it's the first thing of its kind, yet I've been doing most of that for two years now.
In this application, incorrect.

I would install it on my phone. If it gets stolen, I can remotely control it so that I can get it back at a later date.
This is more a testament to HTTP caching and varnish than PHP, 4 servers or Mediawiki. If you can cache the entire page and serve it out of cache for most of your requests, you're in a very position.
Just depends on whether you consider the SD card slot a part of the user interface.

It would be very easy to rephrase the description as a personal safety tool yada yada yada.

The real point here is that Windows and apparently Android have some counterintuitive, easily abused features.
Hot new Atom tablet - 2go Pad
Thankfully it wasn't actually less traffic, it was only 4x (maybe 5x) the traffic, with 10x the servers.
Thank you for this awesome offer!

Is alex.ww.com abandoned? If so, can you please do alex.ww -> alexanderkharlamov.com ?

Thank you!
I don't get it. Is he dead? I can find no credible evidence that he is. Wikipedia proclaims he is alive, there is no news indicating otherwise, nor any web reports. We only have this odd link to Taleb's homepage indicating that Mandelbrot has passed. Surely if you're going to submit a link regarding such an event there is more information and a better link to share other than two lines on Taleb's homepage--right?

EDIT: This is nothing more than a rumor right now. Even Wikipedia has a discussion topic on it, referencing Taleb's home page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Benoît_Mandelbrot#Death_ru...
I'm sure that if you refuse to pay when the state government escalates from reminder notice to nastygram to series of phone calls all the way to "takes you to court", and you do something that indicates to a judge that you were overtly trying to shirk paying, then yes, you could go to jail.

The point is that it's not relevant to the situation at hand, because 10 months before that could ever happen, the "employer" is going to get a notice saying they owe some trivial amount of money, and they're simply going to pay it to go away. You would have to be made of stupid to end up in jail over employment taxes.

Note that you're replying both to a lawyer (in dc's case) and to someone who's dealt with this exact situation (in my case); you may want bigger guns here than a pay-per-word Demand Media article.
It's been abandoned since 2003, so you can have it.
Is it a good idea to fool yourself into thinking that it's the Nexus 1 we're developing for?
39 minutes since my prediction :)

Yes that's fine.
laughs Indeed.
that's been idle since 2005 so I'm ok with it.
I agree with your statement, while at the same time it was the monopoly that got him to the position he was in. It's hard not to make money once you're at that point. I don't think he could have gotten that rich if actual competition existed and he was investing in hundreds of companies. He didn't do any manoeuvring to get his stakes in all those separate companies, unless you count back room deals.
He's alive according to: http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.Nsf/mnames/Mandelbrot+Be...
I had no idea what to pick, was scrolling through the thread, and saw your post ;)
Yea, sounds like you've never used one in humidity (even after a few mags) - hell or even one not cleaned and left in storage for a while. I've had them jam on me more than I can remember. There's a reason all of them come with an "assist" that let's your force the bolt closed. If ammo quality (ball powder anyone?) is bad they'll jam on you constantly.

The AK doesn't need an assist, good ammo, or really even oil or cleaning. They're built so you can worry about staying alive - not cleaning...
Couldn't agree more. I faced a similar dilemma an year and half back. After moving heaven and earth for a month to make it work, eventually I just moved out.

To give an idea of how worse the situation was, the fellow would ask the employees to spy on me for mundane things like connecting to internet. Later verbal accounts of people, suggest that he used my caste as a device in manipulating them.

Nevertheless, I'm really grateful to the person for showing
true colors so early instead of many years and dollars (or rupees) later.

Throwing out good code after putting 2+ years of time and money was nearly soul crushing. Yet, it turned to be a better decision when I realized that I could create a superior and totally different product. Now, instead of me worrying for getting sued, the fellow who cheated me has to carry that burden all the time. That leaves me more freedom to focus on the real needs of my users.

Besides, with this experience under the belt, OP will surely get a better co-founder if s/he continues to keep working.

Edited: grammar.
I think list varies with the phase of home ownership

- Buying a new house - his list is probably good

- Renting an apartment - his list is probably good

- Buying a pre-owned house - I needed way more tools - ladder, tool belt is essential, box saw, hand saw, wire cutters, safety glasses, circular saw, mini vans (fold down seats) are as "good" as truck for carrying stuff, hand sander, saw horses, outlet tester

As time has gone on we have needed less and less tools, but having them around makes everything easier.
I think it is, so that is ok. Last use in 2003.
reading the pages URL "fooled by randomness" I would consider this a bad joke. Could somebody mark this post as [dead] ?
Just emailed the linode folks and got a response back! Most likely I would go with linode. @mickeyben, let me know if i should give your referral or something (assuming i go with them should decide by tomorrow)...
Well, I pretty sure that after a certain amount you become somewhat numb by gaining anymore. With giving you would get a sense of doing good for those you might need it more than you.

My comment wasn't really about the actual amount, but rather just in general the happiest people are the ones that give more than receive.
I make over $1000 a month, but less than $5000 a month (on an average month, not including months with updates) from my two main iPhone apps: Color Stream (http://colorstreamapp.com/) and Dayta (http://daytaapp.com).
His TED Talk is great if you haven't seen him much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay8OMOsf6AQ
psd.ww.com CNAME PhotoshopLayerStyles.com

Or photoshop.ww.com if psd is active.

Thanks :)
Just in case, someone got interested on startupcurator.com buzz me :)
I can't see picture of Michael Chin http://www.baydin.com/about.html are they still in business?
I like it. But, is it just me or it takes ~15 seconds to load!
It's like an AI Koan: "One day a student came to Moon and said, 'I understand how to avoid using BIGNUMs! We will simply use floats!' Moon struck the student with a stick. The student was enlightened."
I find it hard to argue that, without Bill Gates, we wouldn't have ended up with a monopoly of some type in hardware/OS. Certainly Microsoft won the race, but it's not like every other player on the scene at the time wasn't trying to do the same thing.

Every single PC maker/OS developer knew that winning the bulk of the market was the key to success. Thus, they were all following similar strategies. I just think it's unlikely, if there was no Gates, that we wouldn't have all ended up on the same platform anyway, and some other company would have had a monopoly.
That's fine, it's been out of use for a long long time.
That is Nassim Taleb's website. Fooled By Randomness was his first trade book. Taleb is Mandelbrot's protege in financial circles.
Another important point regarding disease, in general, and especially malaria is that disease often leaves survivors with permanent physical disabilities and/or neurological deficits. I think a lot of people in the U.S. and Europe have this mistaken notion that malaria is like a bad case of influenza, mononucleosis, pneumonia, or some other common disease that we are familiar with. We think that the person gets really sick and feels awful and it could even be life-threatening, but that as long as you survive it, you fully recover. That simply isn't true.

Malaria primarily affects children and many survivors have severe permanent disabilities because of it (seizure disorders, deficits caused by stroke, psychiatric problems, etc.). And malaria is just one of many serious diseases in the developing world (tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, dengue fever, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, etc.). If you acquire a severe disability before you're even old enough to enter the workforce, how does creating jobs help you? Creating jobs alone is insufficient to address the problems of Africa. You have to concomitantly address the heavy burden of disease if you are to have any chance of solving the economic woes of Africa.
Unless Nicholas Taleb's page was hacked, he's dead.

Taleb is a close personal friend of Mandelbrot.
In the field of computers, James Schmitz wrote some surprisingly prescient stuff. He sometimes mentioned a device called a ComWeb, which looks and acts a lot like a modern computer with Internet access. You can make phone calls with them, or look up information, or read email, or play online board-games, or do various other things. They're not a major part of any of his plots; he just mentions them, as casually as someone today might mention sending an email.

He wrote this in the 60s and 70s.
That's how the story is told.

Regardless in hindsight it's a pretty good name by all metrics.

It's short, pronounceable, very typeable (on QWERTY), memorable, works as a verb, looks good (double-o), starts with "go", and even has a double-meaning in the context of their business (googol and goggles).
That is so cool :)

I would really love to have

bre.ww.com -> micheljansen.org (94.142.245.117)

It is taken but does not look very active.

If not, you would make me very happy with vie.ww.com too :)
Favourite Definition of Requirments and Specifications
A lot of clients ask how they should write a specification for a piece of software, what it should include and how it needs to be written. Usually they're actually talking about an informal requirement (a software developer needs to know what the client wishes the software to do).

This leads to sharing my favourite definitions of requirements and specifications; they are from Practical Cryptography by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier.

Chapter 9, Pages 131-132.

"Requirements

Requirements are an informal description of what the program is supposed to achieve. It is really a "what can I do with it" document, rather than a "how exactly do I do something with it" document. Requirements are often a bit vague and leave details out in order to concentrate on the larger picture.

Functional specification

The functional specifications give a detailed and exhaustive definition of the behavior of the program. The functional specification can only specify things that you can measure on the outside of the program.

For each item in the functional specifications, ask yourself whether you could create a test on the finished program that would determine whether tat item was adhered to or not. The test can only use the external behavior of the program, not anything from the inside. If you can't create a test for an item, it does not belong in the functional specification.

The functional specification should be complete. That is, every piece of functionality should be specified. Anything not in the functional specification does not have to be implemented.

Another way to think of the functional specification is as the basis for testing the finished program. Any item can, and should, be tested.

Implementation Design

This document has many names, but it specifies how the program works internally. It contains all of the things that cannot be tested from the outside. A good implementation design will often split the program into several modules, and describe their functionality. In turn, these modules descriptions can be seen as the requirements for the module, and the whole cycle starts all over again for the module."
I'm really hope that they launch it in Pune. One might be able do so many interesting things with it, like a spam filter for text messages.
more to the point, for $5K a month you get 2x32GiB ram 8 core 4 disk servers, capacity for 16 of your 4GiB VPSs. so with two months up front cost, then another $200/month you can get the same capacity as those 32 linodes. Even if you have to pay $100/hr for your hardware guy (which is above market) you are saving a ridiculous amount of money.
Caste? India's mix of old and new ideas is constantly surprising -- and in this case, shocking.
Exciting to watch at first, but then I realized- I really don't want a tablet. It just doesn't seem natural at all. For something that big, I'd want a keyboard.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
ulterior
Oh, ok. Thank you for clarifying this point. I didn't know the book and thought it strange in combination with this unconfirmed information.
Future Growth: Its All About Mobile
bcl.ww.com CNAME neil.brianlane.com

Thanks!
bre was active less than a year ago but vie hasn't been used since 2004 so if it's ok with you go for vie ?
Okay, but if it doesn't squish, it probably flies around the page :)
POSIX_ME_HARDER
Ok, it's yours.
Great offer! I'd like

michiel.ww.com CNAME michielovertoom.com

Thank you very much.
Very generous offer. Any chance of ?
will.ww.com --> ww.hamstersoup.com

I know you excluded one letter domains but w.ww.com would be even cooler ;-)

Bedankt!
Last active in 2003, so you're welcome to take that one.
The truck in Back to the Future was a Pickup, not a T100: http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/out-of-production-truc...
Operation Developer Love
In my personal experience, I've noticed that 90%+ of (American) women are just not interested in formal systems, be it predicate logic, computer science, pure mathematics, etc. I'm inclined to believe women are just wired to prefer more practical disciplines

I'm inclined to believe women aren't naturally drawn to fields that favor autistic personality characteristics.
"een gegeven paard"...
(sorry couldn't resist after noticing a fellow Dutchie) :D

vie.ww.com is awesome too :)
If you are an employer employing employees, you have to pay your share of Federal and State taxes on their behalf, including FICA and unemployment insurance. Failure to do so will result in penalties that may include jail time. (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/775884.html). Back to the issue, if the "friend" insists that the op was an employee, he would have been liable for said taxes. Thus he would be incriminating himself. You don't have to be a lawyer to figure that out.
Why Mars? Buzz Aldrin Wants a Lunar Base First
Same is true in Lua (only one number type, which is double by default), though you have the option to compile it to use a different number type instead.

http://www.lua.org/pil/2.3.html

In particular, "long double" on x86 can represent 64 bit integers without loss as well as being floating-point (64 bit mantissa, 15 bit exponent, 1 bit sign). Downside is that it's quite large: 16 bytes.
Or when they torched it (literally dropped a large, burning torch in the cab).
I'm a first year CE student with not a lot of cash to spare-- I would absolutely love either SICP or K&R's 'C Programming Language'. I have them both in digital format, but it'd be extremely nice having them in dead-tree format as well since I get eye strain from looking at the LCD screen for too long.
Wow - this is a powerful analysis of a powerful idea. He crystallizes a notion that I've always sensed subconsciously but never realized actually. The importance of the "first follower" is now etched into my mind.

Thanks for sharing.
Possibly true, but your accounting ignores recurring vs. one-time costs. If you can pay some external person $10k to tune your setup and save $4000/month, and aren't already swimming in money, obviously that's a smart thing to do.
www.reddit.com/r/tasker
rf.ww.com > 178.79.139.35

mc.ww.com > 178.79.139.35

If the former is not available, the latter is my second choice. If neither are available, I shall pass. Thanks for the awesome generosity, nice people are my favourite internet people :p
...yes, that would follow.

Ow. Ow. Ow.

At least the bignum library will be easier to write in JS than in C...
Clickable: http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2010/10/how-much-money-can-yo...
Very cool of you to do this Jacques.

hnl.ww.com seems taken, but is it active? Would like to make a shorter URL for my Hacker Newsletter site.
Is the news here that it is again available in the AT&T 3G version? I'm trying to determine if this is compatible with At&T 3G networks. If I understand correctly, you can buy one with the AT&T 3G chipset. UMTS 850/1900/2100 The cost would $25 for Google Developer registration and $529 for the phone.
Ray Ozzie notes on 1985 meetings with Microsoft
Real money for (mostly) virtual non-sense. It's a natural evolution from the ringtone business we've seen years ago. I am not surprised.
That one was abandoned a while ago, you can have it.

CNAME info or IP please ?
I'm standing. Now what?
snapalytics sounds smoother, easier to pass along in word of mouth, imho