skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding making money, I'm assuming that it'll essentially act as a lead gen company, like Mint. If one of the ways to get out of debt faster is to transfer your balance to a card with a lower interest rate, and ... hey! look at this! we have three cards right here that will save you money each month ... it seems like it'd be an easy sell. In fact, I think the leadgen opportunity is even greater than Mint's, as these are people actively looking to change their debt situation, rather than people passively interested in what their money is doing.
Oracle, Android and the copy claims: SCO all over again?
FYI, homepage without Yanone Kaffeesatz (had to look that one up):

http://i.imgur.com/E9lee.png
Historical fun fact: Flash Professional used to export Java, as that was the relevant runtime of the day. Tools evolve to meet viewer demands.

Anyone else notice that "fun fact"? Sounds more like Adobe's way of implying that HTML5 might just be a "fad".
Messing up incorporation is something that is very annoying and time consuming to undo. Talk to a lawyer. I guarantee you the extra money you spend isn't going to make or break your business.
Their statistics cover a much more engaging domain than most.
How about the corporate bank account? There are many sites that help you create a company but almost none allows you to create a corporate bank account for your company, which is needed. For that I think it is still needed to go to the US and do all the paper work yourself. Am I right?
Or that it's obvious that we don't live in a democracy, or if we do, don't really wish to live in one.
> I'm not sure what moral one should take away from that, other than that your mental checklist of dating requirements may be less relevant than you imagined.

The take-away is that there is no "special someone". Just a fairly large pool of "soulmates" with suitable chemistries. The less discriminating you are about the more superficial stuff (biologically speaking), the better your chances.
In my experience, there is a placebo in this delusional sense of elitism that galvanises your belief in being able to achieve literally anything. At your disposal are unrivalled resources, networks, prestige and financial backing that make it much easier to succeed.
It's a shame, too. They sold the phone with two novel methods bunched together: selling it sans-carrier-lockin, and selling it exclusively online.

The former is interesting and somewhat unique in the US. A lot of geeks want this, and it's the reason I bought my Nexus One.

The second is something that apparently nobody wants, and I think is what tanked sales.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html

D'oh.
I agree. You either make things last a long time and not fail, or you make them very easy and cheap to replace.
I suggest the person asking this question to watch "Sneakers."
That was the first thing you told us when we walked into our YC interview.
I was only pointing out a logical flaw in paulsmith's argument. I wasn't taking a position one way or the other.

But I'll be explicit in my position since you want to imply I'm being deceptive about it: the government should not pay for private goods.

I'm not going to debate the matter here, however, beyond pointing out that in a population of 2 wolves and 1 sheep, lamb chops are an incredibly popular dinner choice.
Your site crashed my browser and in turn my Mac. I never even saw it.
Over the past few days i've noticed that when i go to techcrunch.com it takes 30,40,50 seconds before I can scroll the page smoothly.

I looked at the http requests it makes and its pretty nuts (almost as bad as my company's intranet). Is anyone else experiencing this load latency? It happens on FF, Chrome and Safari on OS X 10.6
Sure, but by upgrading to 64 bit you're only putting off the problem for another 292 billion years.
Hmmm, having brought this here, and showing that it can be monetized relatively easily... expect competition ;-)
US Spy Spending tops 80 Billion
Using batteries is not sustainable, they just don't last long enough and use too many resources to make.

Use the power grid as your battery.
Sorry, won't make it tonight- next month should work though.
Never.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

—Michel de Montaigne

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

—Thomas Edison
Despite the possibility of getting trolled: using two condoms increases the risk of failure vs. using one. Don't do it.
The interesting bit is that their interconnect is Chinese technology. The rest of it, not so much.
You seem to be missing a word on that last sentence, so my apologies if I'm misreading you. John Carmack talked about what he saw as the problem getting worse, and I think he would say that most of what we spent money on 200 years ago was money well spent. In fact, I would be very surprised if there were many things that the government did 200 years ago which he would be against the government continuing to do.
Talk to a laywer and/or accountant, your questions are very common, and any competent professional could answer them.

If you need a referral to a lawyer or accountant, ask friends and colleagues who have a business presence in the US.
As much love as Swype gets, I still prefer the feeling of typing on a physical keyboard. They seem to be going out of fashion, but I really hope there's still an option for them. The main reason I picked my Droid was because of the keyboard.
The fact is that you are testing for viability with an MVP. It is not a product but rather an experiment. You are falling into the trap that most people fall into in thinking it is a product when it isn't. The goal is to validate if there is a demand for your solution, not to create "the product". If you create a whole product then you've defeated the purpose of the lean startup. Look at About.me, they had nothing more than a landing page and got thousands of Beta registrations. The fact is that this approach does work. If the value proposition of the product is attractive to your visitor and solves a large problem of theirs. By creating this basic demonstration to test your assumption you are in fact checking if you would be wasting yours and everyone elses time by building it, that is the underlying premise behind the lean startup.

Also, the post does actually suggest a static prototype as one of the options.
I remember this well.
"the government should not pay for private goods" -- this is the kind of evasive, hand-wavey crap that I'm talking about. Sorry about the tone, I don't mean to be insulting and think you're an alright guy from our interactions, but it is hand wavey crap. I constantly see conservatives talking about "smaller government and lower taxes" and I never hear one idea from them about what they'd cut, let alone an acknowledgement of the fact that we had a budget surplus in 2000 and very much not in 2008.

What does that sentence mean? Who defines "private good"? Are interstate highways a public good? Are positive externalities from a social safety net a public good?
Really? Weird ... I have hundreds of users and nobody's reported any problems. Was it the feed or the catalog link?
You're absolutely right that elite = ivy when you're talking about social class, which clearly is what is going on here. What I'm trying to do is put in a claim on the word.

Ever read Henry James's "The American"? It's a story from the late 1800s about a wealthy American in Paris who, at one point, seeks to marry a young woman from an aristocratic French family. The brother (I think) informs him that there is a problem - "you are not noble". His reply (sorry, paraphrasing) is "the devil I am not!" The brother becomes more serious and says "oh, I didn't know that you had a title." The American says he doesn't have a title, but he's putting in a claim on this whole "noble" thing...

I guess that's what I'm doing. I won't concede the term "elite" to a parasitic upper class, any more than I'd give away the term "best and brightest" (oh, you see, I'm defining "best and brightest" to mean ivy league, hewh hewh").

I think that graduates of these schools should absolutely put in a claim on the word "elite". We may come off as a little comical, like Henry James's American... but in the long run, well look what happened to the French aristocracy ;)

Oh, one quick thing - I agree with you that you're more likely to encounter real economic diversity at the large state schools (even the top ones) than at the ivies, but I still want to make sure I point out that it would be extremely very unfair to suggest that ivy leaguers are a uniformly "parasitic upper class" group. Hell, it would have probably even been somewhat unfair in 1958. It's definitely not fair now.

That said, there really is something about engineering - probably it's history as more of a middle-class profession. I read that John Nash was deeply disappointed to get a faculty appointment at MIT rather than Harvard out of his PhD program (at Princeton, I think it was). The author of the biography had to take an aside to explain to 21st century readers that at the time, the math dept at MIT was still viewed somewhat as place where middle class engineers learned their calculus, though it was in the midst of transitioning into the elite school it is now (John Nash was the sort of acquisition MIT was starting to make).
A little, I started projects when I was 16 (some silly web game) that might not be too PC, and the code is awful, and I've rewritten the code twice!
His reply and subsequent clarification of the criticisms is irrelevant, the original premise of the rant was off the mark. Period.
That's what the person that worked at the county clerks office told me. I asked if I could represent the corporation and she said that I could not and it must be a lawyer.
Strange? Adobe, and Macromedia before that, has a long history of supporting standards. Does no one remember WaSP and the Dreamweaver Task Force[1]? Their was a LOT of support put into Dreamweaver (and other applications) for standards based code a long time ago, and they've constantly improved.

Is it really just a case of people forgetting (or never knowing)? Maybe all the Flash controversy made people forget the fact that Adobe isn't just about Flash.

1. http://www.webstandards.org/press/releases/2008-03-10/
I would divide by a lot more than four.

Just because of day and night divide by three. (2 for day night, plus some extra due to twilight).

Then for upper latitudes divide by 2 again, and then finally divide by 3 because only part of the roof will face the sun. So your factor should be 18 not 4, i.e. your numbers are 4.5 times larger than they should be.

BTW your multiplication symbols turned the number inside it italic.
Everytime one of these posts is born, a node.js article falls off the front page.
It looks like the problem is with the number of requests/response times from all the 3rd party "social" buttons they have on every post .. FB, Twitter, Digg, etc.

You'd think that a site like techcrunch would be all over this. its pretty bad when its difficult to slow for 30 seconds after the page initially renders.
CEO Salaries vs. Company Profits - $1.6B of bailout $ went to executives
Recently, I had to find a new copy of lame_enc.dll for a computer I just bought. Every site I landed on (besides sourceforge) had three or four "Download" buttons. I wasn't confident that ANY of them weren't ads. I'm sure those pages have a great ad CTR.
Using general purpose database in such case is just an approximation of a solution, ie. if the database supports index-optimized type of table and smart enough to cache index header blocks quickly enough.

Because of extreme primitiveness of this case, custom solution would work better here than general purpose db. Sort the pairs by key and place in the tree, with the root node containing 2^11 keys (512K), second level - 2^11 nodes of 2^11 keys each (512K each node size), 3rd level - 2^22 nodes of 2^10 keys (256K each node size). Keep root and all the second level nodes always in memory (1G RAM required). Given a key to find, look it up through the root and the second level nodes in memory - this would result in the index of the 3rd level 256K node to be read from disk. Time-wise reading a 256K block from disk is just one IO - pretty much the same time as reading 1 byte.

5000 lookups/sec at 1 IO/lookup - 20 disk array of 250 IO/sec disks - 15K ones would do it. 2 arrays of 400GB disks is still ~2 times cheaper than 1 TB SSD array. RAID5(6)-ing the disks will leave us with 6TB. Short-stroke the first 1TB (70Gb x 20) to get much better speed than 250 IO/sec (or just use less than 20 disks to start with) and enjoy the rest 5TB for non-IO intensive purposes.
Competition likely to mean smaller margins for Apple in 2011
I signed up; looking forward to getting an invite when you launch. Good luck.
Making 1 site that makes 500 a day is quite difficult. Just ask about 99% of people here on HN that have tried.
I agree. It will never happen again though. After speaking with the lawyer I'm getting my own contract. It was also nice to know that I can put a clause in the contract that says if I'm sued then if I win the case, the loser has to pay for my lawyer. =D
http://riastats.com lists Silverlight at 64% in the past 30 days, seems common enough for me. It's a Microsoft conference for Microsoft developers, seems reasonable to use a Microsoft video player.
I agree with this almost completely (though I think having a health care mandate so we can do away with the concept of pre-existing conditions is a good thing). However, I value the rights of my fellow citizens far more that I value an efficient society, and the politicians who claim to want a more efficient society also want to strip rights away from segments of society they disapprove of. No thanks.
I've noticed this but haven't every had a problem with it before.
I actually liked his post. It just sounded a bit over the top the way he described his commitment, when he wrote he had been at it for 2 months. But I admit my (and others) reply was a little bit self gloating.
The question is how do you make them listen?
They're site loads all kinds of third party javascript which tends to slow the website down. A lot of these big sites like Techcrunch and Mashable tend to be a bit on the slow side. I also agree that forcing a auto-page refresh every minute is non optimal.
I don't really think that anarcho-capitalists are _that_ crazy. I'd be quite happy if some of them were to try getting together and building their utopia somewhere, because I'm honestly curious as to how it would end up playing out. I mean, I strongly suspect it would be worse than the government we have now - but would it be that much worse? People even managed to make communism work for a little while and this seems a bit less crazy a priori.
Maybe it was just late and I was too tired for it to make sense. Sorry.
The "event.target" approach is no good when the click handler is attached to a parent container with children. 'event.target' in that case will be the children instead of the parent. An example is here - http://gist.github.com/652212#file_hn comment
It's the realistic position.
And to add a dash of irony, as a bit of a gimmick two years ago the shows Two and a Half Men and CSI swapped writing staffs for an episode. If you watch the CSI episode with this rant by Chuck Lorre as a cheat-sheet it is kind of interesting how many of his little life-lessons made it into the final cut of the episode.
Great idea. Good luck guys.
Interesting visualization tools
One of my friends actually pronounces it as 'Hedge'
Also her 'W' sounds like 'ood'
I did write a different first post but then deleted it because I couldn't get the voice of the post right. I replaced it with an intentionally vague post thinking someone would says "how do you know that?" Now that I write that it sounds infantile. Like I said, I'm finally learning not to post when tired :)

btw, I can't take any credit for the actual site - I just built the framework its built on. It was designed by our amazing designer, Jennifer Over, interviewed here:

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/09/22/jennifer-over-...

and it was developed by Gerard Gualberto (gerardg here on HN).
What a great article. While I certainly don't agree with everything Deresiewicz tries to say, I will echo one bit I found to be true at least in my time at MIT (which is, incidentally, the only experience I have with an 'elite' university): there were far too many students with a myopic view of where they were and what they wanted to accomplish.

Many of the students (and friends) with whom I interacted saw MIT as their "final step" in a long life of achievements and accomplishments. After this, they were "set for life." They just had to get through it. Then came the high-paying consulting jobs, the fun research, the exciting leadership opportunities, etc. It was all right there for them. Until it wasn't, because the economy sank.

Many of those same people now took "less important" jobs just to get through the economic slump. So few people thought about venturing out on their own, it actually kind of disheartened me.

Don't get me wrong, there were still a ton of people trying to start their own projects, think on their own, and whom looked at MIT as but a stepping stone to propel them to be able to affect the world. Unfortunately, a lot of the students also seemed to only care about making their money and living comfortably.

On the other hand, I think this is a problem with our educational system in general; not just the elite schools. I consider myself almost lucky to have come from a fairly non-affluent family, since I grew up around one "class" of people (mostly not-well-off immigrants) and got to experience interacting with another at school.

MIT is probably not the worst offender in terms of not having any sort of socioeconomic diversity, since admissions are all done need-blind and there really are a lot of immigrants and no legacy or sports admissions, but the issue still exists. I can only imagine that at schools where that is not the case, this problem manifests itself in a much worse way.
The author got a lot of things right, but I'm suspect of his main thesis - that you can't relate to the lower class if you go to a private school. There are few to no downsides to going to an elite school, other than cost.

That said, the benefits of top private schools are overstated.

The main benefit goes to those of average intelligence who would get annihilated at a large state school - what the author refers to as an "endless string of second chances."

You also make a lot more connections with people who will ultimately end up in power positions, which makes life easier as you rise up the ranks.

If you're smart enough to be a top student at an Ivy League school, it really doesn't matter much where you go.
I've got a Nexus One. And is it too much to ask that at least one Android device be up-to-date technologically? I'm not asking for things now that will show up in the future. I want the things now that are available now.
I'm astonished to see so few votes for perl. I mean, c'mon, the whole universe was hacked together with it:

http://xkcd.com/224/

C'mon... admit it: you use perl, don't you?
Now they are making tools for HTML5, not fighting it? They've been doing this for a long time (Macromedia before that with Dreamweaver and WaSP with the DW Task Force). I mean, anyone who knows the history of the company saw this coming.

And no, I don't imagine their revenue model being based on Flash content tools. Adobe is much more than just Flash.
When can you start?
... and there is no enforcement of contracts, and lots of theft, because... no-one paid taxes for the police, judicary, and prison system See the problem?
Good luck guys! We need this kind of tools to stop this debt mess.
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BP is one of the largest researcher and manufacture of solar panels.
I spent a week writing an Excel macro for my old boss (hardware engineers tend to use Excel for everything!) that did literally a full day's worth of tedious work in about one second.

I never did get an estimate on the savings, but he uses this macro whenever there's a problem in manufacturing. So that's one senior engineer's day of work, plus one day of manufacturing doing nothing, saved each time.
I used to use perl for a lot of little personal hacks, but ruby co-opted that role for me a couple of years ago.
data urls aren't cacheable either.
I was under the impression that the carriers and manufacturers modified their phones so they could differentiate themselves. There's the revenue opportunities, sure, but they have to do something to stand out.

Now here's the crazy part: no one is selling a device with stock Android. If your phone was straight Android 2.2, it wouldn't look like any other phone on the market. The minute Motorola or LG realize this, they get 100% of the nerd phone market.
I think you're probably not taking into account the amortized cost of TDD versus what you're doing now: how much testing is really happening when you "refresh a web page"? How many times do you do that? How confident are you when you make a change to your code base that you don't have to go back and manually perform all those tests you were already doing? All that refreshing takes a lot of time!

I write unit tests so I don't have to refresh web pages all day. If I do find myself going to the command-line to test something, I figure out what I'm trying to test, and write a unit test instead; it's something I have missed when I was writing the upfront tests. Then I can do it again, and again, and again, and use continuous integration so it runs those tests for me over and over.

If you do a lot of web dev, Selenium is a really good way of testing web page features.
Yes, it's a giant conspiracy by us "framework" developers to try and save you a little coding effort. :)
CherryPad: This is What a $188 Tablet Looks Like
Human Rights Charity targetted by "sophisticated... cyberterrorist attack"
This has never stopped you before :)

Incidentally, I do think she has a chance of victory. And I also think she and boxer share the same weakness - lack of answers for the underlying problem. Fiorina and other CEOs didn't outsource thousands of jobs to Asia because regulatory compliance was tedious, they did so because the skill level required for a great many jobs is available at a fraction of the price elsewhere. Even if we cut the price of doing business in the USA by 25% in the morning and made administration, regulation and healthcare cheap and easy for all, low-tech manufacturing and services would still be a lot more expensive in the USA than in China or India, and within a few years we'd be back to where we are now.

We need internal reforms, and there are some valid proposals for what to reform and how from both the left and the right. But the big question, to which neither party has proposed any good answers, is how to productively employ the least skilled members of the workforce so that they can have a reasonable level of economic security. People often talk about reviving US manufacturing; that sounds like a fine idea, but first we must identify what we can make that everyone will prefer to buy. In other words, what comparative advantage do we have in manufacturing over the developing world? If no such advantage exists, how can we redeploy that part of our labor force?

I like the green jobs idea, but wind turbines and solar panels can't make up 5% of the economy for the long term.
I didn't read past the first page, but Tibco could be back on the scene if they ever decide to enforce their patent portfolio around publishing and subscribing to content/topics.
21 Things I Learned at a Start-up
I have heard back from at least 5 girls on OKC and gone out with 3 of them at various points in the past year .. again, i might have messaged like 20 odd to get those 5 to responsed but it wasn't a cut-paste job ..