skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the one that downvoted you, but I think that you could have at least mentioned the model of the wireless card, not to mention a `lspci -v' dump or a real bug report.
Rather than other peoples' opinions, I'd rather have a summary of the article. Most places I go, there either isn't a summary, or it's really, really bad. (Either incomplete or incorrect.)

But that would require a person, and not just automation.
It sounds like the author just played around with Haskell for fun. You run up against the types of issues discussed in this post when you don't have the option of avoiding them. If you are working on a project where the goal is to create a piece of software that functions in a particular way, you will inevitably run up against some road blocks that require you to gain a deeper understanding of how your tools work. If the goal is to play with the language and learn for the sake of learning, it is far too easy to change course whenever you approach a difficult problem.
I don't think Silverman (aka Zugwat) is broke -- the article's title is just a reference to the magnitude of the stakes that he played.
>> We should wait for one that can actually beat the gasoline engine.

I'd say that motors that are far more mechanically efficient than gas engines, a fuel distribution infrastructure that's already in place (electricity mains) and in-car storage of fuel that has made enormous leaps in the past few years and shows no signs of slowing down pretty much qualifies as beating the gasoline engine.

With scale, costs will be lower; there are fewer moving parts, all elements of power distribution and use can be independently upgraded to improve the efficiency and impact of the car. Gasoline cars cannot do this.

Gasoline looks quite beat to me.
http://www.quintessentially.com/join-us/ says it starts at #1000/year.
Microsoft would have just used eminent domain. (Ok, just kidding. Microsoft actually built a campus near Seattle where, because the owners of some of the homes wouldn't sell, they built the campus around the homes and integrated the landscaping with the campus.)

Anyway, classy move on Apple's part. They found the price that made it worth while for the sellers and paid it.
I had a 2GB one back when 2GB was huge, it's symptoms were odd: You could write to it, and the OS would appear to write fine, but all that would show were files called "00000000", which contained only huge amount of "0" characters. If you looked at the drive size specifically in Windows, it reported 16TB (yes terra, not a typo :P) but Linux still reported 2GB.

Aside from that, I have a story similar to joe_bleau's (and probably many other people). The company I work for buys them in bulk, branded with our company logos and containing promo material. They fail fairly regularly - good enough to get the material to clients, but not good for use after that! Terrible - but it's worth bearing in mind that they're the cheapest the marketing guys could find.

On the positive side I have a Kingston DataTraveler that I think I've had for 4 years, maybe 3. It is used all day, every day and hasn't missed a beat. I've recommended them to family and never heard of any problems.

The important thing to take from this is that if you buy quality, failures are rare - but try to never have only one copy of important data!
I don't have a sense for the compute power difference between a 1GHZ ARM and 1/64th of a Quad Core Xeon or whatever a VPS represents.

But I also am continually surprised that SSDs are still independent devices. I'd expect at least Apple to have integrated one on the mother board by now.

This idea is predicated also, in part, on the assumption that there's some software that will allow part of the SSD to work as a cache for the networked hard drive.
tl;dr - People who are prone to choking do so because they worry too much. They can avoid choking by acting faster than they feel comfortable with.

Uhh... They can't even act on time, how could they possibly stop worrying long enough to act early? And how about the long-term effects of acting early? You'll fail more, and therefore worry more.

They give a little advice about people learning to golf by putting first, and doing the hard stuff later. They never explained if that actually helped (it's a theory only), but I have to think that's because they get comfortable with the basic ideas of golf and worry less.
Right now, the Angry Birds brand is way stronger than the Windows Phone 7 brand. A cynic might say MS were trying to capitalise on that.
There actually are several aspects of being a poker player (online) that make it really hard, though surely not impossible, to live a normal life. You have very little interaction with other people, your working hours are partially out of your control, and it is incredibly stressful/tiring.

I also used to play a ton of online poker and it was my ability to balance it all that ultimately convinced me I'd be better off trying to found a startup.

A lot of the skills overlap, which is why many of the successful high stakes players also have profitable side businesses.

If you're looking for an excellent discussion by a bunch of very successful online players on what they want to do with their lives, check out this thread, which is titled Poker vs Law School vs Trading:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/nc-my...
Ask him to send a photograph of himself doing something specific.
That would prove the person at the other side at least knows him.
Migrating games to WM7 is not that easy because WM7 does not support OpenGL ES AFAIK. Rather, you have to write using XNA. This is rather unfortunate because iPhone, Android, Symbian^3, Meego, WebOS and the new blackberry tablet all support OpenGL ES 2.0 (which I believe Angry Birds uses heavily).

Briging an iPhone/Android etc game to WM7 requires a rewrite almost from scratch. So I can imagine developers being reluctant but possibly game studios doing PC and Xbox development might be more willing to write for WM7. And I must say MS has been able to attract a decent game developer audience considering the released official list of games available for WM7.
One does wonder if this article was financed by oil companies. Richard Pike, the specialist the article referred to had a 25 year career at BP [1] and has put forward arguments that oil shortage is a myth [2]. I am adding The Economist to my list of untrustworthy new sources.

[1] http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2006/NewCEO.as...

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/oil-...
Or simply stay out of the Middle East and let the market cope with any fluctuations in the price of oil. Unpredictability is a cost and people are quite capable of deciding how much is too much.

By the way, a lot of the additional electricity required for electric vehicles will have to be generated by burning oil.
I always carry an external battery in my bag with enough juice to repower an iPhone 3 times over (and enough cell phone tips that I can recharge others' phones in a pinch). Most of the battery+case combos work pretty well, too. I'd prefer the internal battery was accessible, beautiful design be damned, but it's not like it's a difficult problem to work around.

(In practice, the iPhone 4's battery actually lasts for 1.5-2 days of heavy usage, so it's seldom an issue, but of course that won't be true a year from now.)
I would argue that experience in a corporate environment is often overrated, especially when working on a long-term project that lasts several years using the same programming language and frameworks. Sure, you're ending up knowing all the nuts and bolts of the system, but you haven't gained much experience with a broad range of different technologies.
I taught myself. Then I went to school to get the paperwork to aid in getting a job. School was a -joke-. I got a lot more out of teaching myself, in far shorter time. I ended up able to actually get a project done, where the other people in my class were barely able to complete the assignments with help from the teacher.

The point is not that schooling sucks, but that it isn't guaranteed, either.

As others have noted, what made me successful wasn't that I avoided the classroom. It was that my way of teaching myself was to actually program things. It gives the experience you need to lock in the knowledge you're gaining.
But don't you also have to trust a bus-driver, airplane-pilot, etc. And all kind of things can go wrong with these human drivers: they might be drunk or under some medication, they can die in a sudden hart attack, they can just make bad decisions, or even worse - they can be commanded to land the plane into some tower.
This is basically what the article said. The author programmed a lot of Java at work, and read a blog post on Haskell at home. Then he found a job interview for Java easier than one for Haskell.

Well, yeah.
When I updated Ubuntu in VirtualBox, I got X-Windows completely broken. This helped:

"If you are testing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat in VirtualBox, you may notice that guest additions are not working, it seems that the problem is the new xserver they put in Ubuntu 10.10, the modules are not build against this new version."

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11

http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/1157-install-guest-ad...
Disclaimer: I run learnivore.com (and nodecasts will appear up there).

For most people who appreciate screencasts (I surveyed my ~ 1500 users), it's mostly a casual way to get familiar with a given subject before diving into it through books or articles or blogs, or a way to keep up to date (eg: railscasts).

It seems to be really appreciated while commuting, for some reason.

But there are also people that cannot stand screencasts at all, too.

At the end, I believe it's really more a supplemental format, yes.
Well if Apple actually used unified updates... But yes it's very nice compared to what it used to be. I feel comfortable having people use it now.
Mophie, Kensington, and Griffin all sell battery extenders that are external.

It's a design tradeoff. Not requiring the user to open the iPhone means that Apple doesn't have to design a latch and they can pack components tighter.
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“Money is no object,” I said, “but I am on a budget.”
It's a Linux release. Basically it updates the base image to include all of the latest versions of things from the last six months. If you really wanted to see everything that changed, you could do a diff of http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/allpackages and whatever release you are running.
But yes; this release is just a cleaned up version of the previous release with updated versions of all of the internal parts. But in my mind, that's all I really want, and I am very glad Ubuntu is still updating regularly.
Does it send machine-generated messages to Twitter?

Then it's spam.
No Erlang?!
I'm not sure that I'd choose to use the terms "investment bank" and "respectable company" in the same context.

Also, when people use the word "real" in a gratuitous way - such as "real" industry, "real" work, "real" programmer, etc - it always makes me suspicious that they don't know what they're talking about and are attempting to needlessly inject gravitas into their statements.
So he tried out a different technology when he was a kid, and got a headache, so he's never happy to try any future technology.

I don't think that's the kind of person I want to take advice from.
I buy the general principle that living a high-income/high-expense lifestyle isn't the path to accumulating wealth, but you can rephrase the stats to get different results as well.

For example,

86% of all luxury vehicles are driven by people who are not millionaires

can be rephrased in a way that makes it seem like driving luxury vehicles is a trait of rich:

millionaires are 3x as likely to drive a luxury vehicle as non-millionaires

I wonder if this is also skewed by the "millionaire" cutoff not being as high as popular culture thinks of it being; the millionaires of 1970s films correspond to $5m+ today, and the millionaires of the roaring 20s correspond to $12m+ today. A huge proportion of people with net worths in the low single digits of millions have almost all their money in their retirement plan plus house, and not a particularly large disposable income. Sure, in theory they could get money out of the 401(k) and blow it, but the fact that it's semi-locked-up and a hassle to get out makes it easier to preserve it.

It's possible it generalizes to higher tiers of the rich, but I'm not that sure. Do people with net worths of $10m+ have similarly frugal lifestyles? Or is this mainly a feature of people with net worths in the $1m-3m range?
For the most part, that's true. It's mostly localized. Seattle, for example, gets nearly 89% of its electricity from hydro, and another 9% or so from nuclear and wind. In places like that, pure electrics start to make a lot of sense.

There's still the issue with how the batteries are built, shipped and disposed of, most of which would make many green consumers turn pale with discontent.
I still don't understand the benefit (for the user) of the screencast format for programming tutorials vs plain old text and code snippets/screenshots.

Emphasis on the word "I." Some people don't "get" books. Some people don't "get" e-mail newsletters. Some people don't "get" movies. Some people find in-person, live presentations useless to learn from.

Different strokes for different folks.

Video has an interesting psychological effect for many users. Most of us have grown up watching a fair bit of TV and, often, watching a lot more TV than reading books. There can be some comfort and ease with video versus reading, at least to build motivation and to "get going" with a topic. But, of course, not for everyone.
"86% of all luxury vehicles are driven by people who are not millionaires."

This is a good example of one of those stats designed to fool people who don't understand statistics.

According to wikipedia there are ~9.3 million millionaire households in the US representing ~7% of US households. [1] Meaning that millionaire households purchase luxury cars at a far higher rate than non-millionaire households which is the opposite of what this article implies.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire
We (Pluggr) get ours from RainmanWeather in Florida. (Only SheevaPlugs though)
The house cost 6k, 34 years ago. That's not the value of it today. Very misleading.
I've had one fail after two years of use (it wouldn't show up on my mac and failed to sudo mount). I have one right now that glitches now and then. I only keep on my flash drive useful tools that come handy, although I also use it to transfer files between computers occasionally.

I never can completely trust a harddrive with important information. Just make sure you have multiple copies :)
Cool,how do you grab those behavioral goodies from people ?
Fish is also an excellent alternative to the Perl one-liners proposed. Typing in part of a previously entered command then pressing up performs a substring search on the history. It's easy and adapted to your current usage habits.
That exists already. It's fairly new, but I forgot the name.
Ahh, for some reason I interpreted that as being for an interview of sorts. It didn't even occur to me that he could be working remotely. I must be more old-school than I imagined ;-)
In a recent TED Talk, Tim Jackson talked about conspicuous consumption. I really liked this quote:

"This is a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last, on people we don't care about."
There is a large gap between being a millionaire, net worth of 1 million dollars or more, a being a billionaire but there is a point in between when you make enough money to be rich and act like it too. Is there a word for that point that everyone can agree on. The millionaire people want to be is the one that makes enough money to be able to spend it without worry, not the millionaire that is still making a $50k yearly salary with a nice house.
It does affect files, but umask only subtracts permission bits. So if the program creating the file doesn't try to set it executable, then umask will never change that.
BREAKING: People don't actually want to be rich, they want to live like they are "rich" people. Film at 11.
The bit about me getting a headache when I was a kid was for comedic purposes only. Apparently it wasn't funny, so I apologize. I'll stick to my day job and I promise to never crack a joke in one of my blog posts ever again

Focus in on the latter part of my article and you'll (hopefully) understand the underlying message. Sounds like you read one paragraph and then left this snarky comment. I don't think that you're the kind of person I would want to take advice about my blogs from ;)
Jane Austen's uber-fans are called Janeites, complete with conventions and "re-enactments".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janeite

From the Wikipedia entry:

Lynch has described committed Janeites as members of a cult...
If like me, you consider that "wealth = how long you could sustain your current lifestyle (same expenses) if your income stopped, today.", then it becomes clear that learning not to show off is really a key to becoming wealthier.
The reason I didn't add any more info is because I don't use HN to fix my network problems. I have posted the question on ubuntuforums.org and I am still awaiting a reply.
I just realized after reading your comment that my family were millionaires when I was in high school. We had about $25k a year income, no new cars, no college fund but we owned two properties that put us over the millionaire mark. I qualified for and ate the 25 cent lunches at school and had hand me down everything.

Have a million dollar net worth isn't necessarily fun or comfortable, my parents divorced, cashed out the houses and nothing is left, good times.
Rare: 2005 Zuckerberg Interview on Future of Facebook
Is this the new Rickroll?
Bought it, was skeptical. However, it seems to perform as advertised. Compared with a manual beat check and it was only off by a couple.
What do you guys think
I did say 'norm', by which I mean that is the normal case in my experience. There are always exceptions, which may in fact be the norm in other people's experience. :)

So with that said can you list those VC's here? Would benefit anyone that comes across this post later.
Or rather, Google made the more lasting impression first: that finding things is easy.
Can you share the source supporting your second statement? Not because I think it's wrong, I'm curious as to the number of people in that group and how it's calculated.
Ask HN: What is your method for contacting reporters, journalists, and bloggers?
Recently I found myself researching reporters, journalists, and bloggers to drum up some free press for a startup.

I was manually researching websites and recording the email addresses of reporters, journalists, and bloggers that might find my startup relevant. Needless to say this was tedious and inefficient.

So what I did was write a little script that would scrape a website for email addresses and then it would research each email address and provide me with a summary for each email address.

After I scraped approximately 2,000 email addresses and looked at the results with research, I was surprised at how well this worked.

I was able to build a list of 100+ reporters that have written about or published a related story in an industry that my startup is entering.

I was thinking about putting a UI around this technology.

What do you guys think?

If you could login and search tens of thousands of journalists, and then build your own list from these journalists to contact through the website (and save the list for later, plus access categorical lists predetermined), would you be interested?

I had the idea of limiting the subject and body of any email sent through the website to 100 chars and 400 chars respectively. It would force the person contacting the journalist to be short and sweet.

Thoughts?
My experience is quite the reverse: I self-taught everything I learned, since 7 to today, and I guess it's working pretty well for my line of work.
I strongly suspect that the reason the human took control was because there was a journalist in the car. In videos I've seen, the vehicles are able to handle bicycles just fine.
What a world we live in, where 86% of the non-millionaires are apparently able to afford a luxury vehicle. That's fantastic news, that means that money is no longer as important as it used to be for simple stuff like that. Either luxury vehicles have gotten cheaper (what's a luxury vehicle anyway) or banks are stupid enough to give lots of money to people that can't afford to pay the interest (forget about the principal) when it's due.

Any statistic like that can be bent to make it say whatever it is that you want to say.

Before Henry Ford made the first production automobile even the millionaires couldn't drive them and now such luxury items are within reach of most of the gainfully employed people in large parts of the world. That doesn't mean they should stop doing it, what point is there in having money if you can't enjoy it, whatever floats your boat I'm fine with you having it, but there is a catch.

Here in the EU there used to be a save first, spend later mentality. The only thing people would think of borrowing money for were houses, and if you couldn't afford to buy a house then you would be renting one (or if you didn't want to own a house).

Over the years that has changed, with people spending first their own money, and then their banks money on 'conspicuous consumption'. Cars, boats, furniture, package holidays and so on. Little by little the save-first, spend later mentality has been replaced by spend as much as the bank will let you borrow, worry about the consequences later.

Those people that are buying those automobiles they can not afford are being allowed to do so by lending institutions that are pushing cheap credit, no make that ramming, down peoples throats. That's where the real problem lies, given the opportunity to borrow money at initial rates that are designed to lure people in with the nasty consequences written in very small print in gray on slightly-less-gray backgrounds people will fall for it every time.

Banks are the problem, not the people that think they in fact can afford this stuff.