skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. If current trends continue, I'll be a billionaire in about 83000 years.
Once Moniker were a good registrar, but not anymore.

My complaints about Moniker include not answering support emails, refusing domain transfers for no reason (domains I had sold - which naturally upset the counterparty), support staff putting me on hold and never coming back. I could go on.

I used to have over 250 domains with them, but after their third or so screw up (without a hint of an apology or indication that they even cared about my business) I moved all of my stash to nearlyfreespeech.

Couldn't be happier with nearlyfreespeech.
Performance is a pretty significant concern on mobile devices with limited resources.

Their APIs are also quite limited compared to the native iOS SDK (for example).

I don't think these types of tools are suitable for anything but the simplest of apps.
Have you considered millions of Santas across the multiverse coordinate together each night (as the 25th of December is surely not always Christmas in all the separate universes) and perform the task?
Eh, nice thoughts, not really for this super-analytical audience.
I agree, no conspiracy theories, just changing algorithms for trending topics.Even popular (and issues based) discussions with certain #tags are removed from trending topics after a fixed number of days, no matter how many people are still tweeting about that particular topic, with that particular #tag.So, if you want to keep a topic alive, you need to change the related #tag after that certain time period.
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Why oh why don't I read more carefully!
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"Did you get '1 in 3' by attributing all iatrogenic deaths to doctor error?"

Yes, because despite the fact that there is a category called medical errors, almost all of the other deaths listed are medical errors as well. It's not like there is really any legitimate reason for more than a trivial amount of people to get MRSA in a hospital seeing as when best practices are followed the rate of line infections goes from 4% to 0%.

"How do you figure, even assuming these figures are (still) accurate (many of them are 10-20 years old)?"

The NY Times just published an article a week ago saying the rate of medical errors hasn't gotten any better, which I linked to below.
You think deleting the registration before it expires should be normal?
To add on:

Speed, use of both standards and best practices while retaining cross-browser compatibility.

Helps to know web semantics as well, I see way too many headers as masthead logos or call-to-actions, rather than section titles and <div id=“logo”>
Video: http://firefoxlive.mozilla.org/wp-content/themes/firefoxbeta...
For geek? Geek does not want to do something that was done thousands times before. That's a job for some average coder.
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Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas

This book is a new cosmology for a new age of civilization. Couldn't stop reading and it expanded my cosmic view.
Great advice from Rovio (Angry Birds) on building businesses on mobile
Shipping is only valuable once: The first time they ship.

Every time after that, they could be boiling your code into a morass of blood, sweat and Jolt, weaving the Cthulhu pattern around your other Engineers' souls.

Ultimately, if you hire someone who ships, makes your code awful, pisses off your other engineers, doesn't document then chuffs off leaving you with a turd of an app and no-one to work on, their shipping only bought you N releases. A better engineer might have bought you <N releases... But prepared you for >N in the future.
we have reached the pronosingularism. p0rnography is sentient.

it is engaged in simultaneous cyberwars, battling skynet & the alpha-centauri-based bi-located lobster uberbeing, normal service will be resumed shortly.

(and no, joe lieberman uber-alle, there is no agent whom you can call for help with your cyberwars)

added: lol, so many geek refs, and still, hyper sensitivity to discussing the evil surrounding us in our times (joe, not porn) and i am cast out. u down voters suck so hard it just makes me so very lovely happy. this is a sartre moment for me, philosopher borne of french collaboration, his own countrymen: you have created the troll, it wasn't a troll it was humorous references to the darkness...u have created it...oh the humanity, the darkness is you. oh yes, revel in your satisfaction that i am not genteel like you. revel in your blind eyes turning away from the mirror of your own willful ignorance. enjoy the silence of your moneyed minds, the green lawns of hegemony will one day with your hope and silence be restored)
Yeah, I built my blog (blog.deliciousrobots.com) in Django in my free time, importing old entries from my Wordpress blog. I'm thinking about rebuilding it in Rails or Sinatra or node.js / CoffeeScript or Common Lisp or whatever else seems fun/interesting at the moment.
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I guess you want to do some web stuff to. You can start with a microframework : Flask. *based on some of my friends experince, jumping directly from PHP (with no Python experince) to Django is a pain in the as..

Try Flask. Simple, lightweight.
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Instead of writing your own blogging engine, I would suggest using one of the many extensible blogging platforms as a base and building from there.

I personally have become a huge fan of statically-generated blogs (using Jekyll[1] for Ruby or Hyde[2] for Python) as they integrate great with version control and require little maintenance. Another benefit is speed, as nginx serves static content with ease.

[1]:https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

[2]:https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde
How our personal information is shared between companies and the government
"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank
For me it made the prospect of running a startup much more real. It gave a good grounding in the various phases you'll go through and the challenges and priorites in each. It gives clear actionable advice at every step.
For someone from a technical background or for those up at bat for the first time (both attributes describe me), I reckon it's indispensible. I carry my copy in my bag wherever I go.
Indeed. After I finished it, I was sad for weeks. I just missed being in that world with those people.

None of Clavell's other endeavors even comes close (though Tai-Pan was, relatively speaking, a fun modern romp).
I actually find the the post-lunch coma to be really distracting and wonder if companies could benefit trying to feed their employees twice a day with a light late breakfast and then later light lunch.
Ocaml prepares you for Fsharp - a first class language of the .NET framework. Full IDE support, cross-platform, very liberal licensing, and more or less on the cutting-edge from a MS languages point of view. Ocaml is also used in the finance domain a bit.

http://ocaml.janestreet.com/

Particularly the option types, pipelining, pattern matching, etc look very different to me, coming from mainstream languages.
This is developers thinking like engineers when they should think like VP of Sales. What does writing a blog say about you? That, given the choice between paying $50 for a Wordpress blog template or paying $5,000 for your salary for two weeks, you'd pick the second option and deliver a crappier product at a hundred times the cost in a field that the decisionmaker doesn't care about anyway.

Better to spend those two weeks working to make your online portfolio/resume/sales letter (every developer should have one) absolutely sing.
Except HTC Sense is actually usable and the apps HTC ships are useful. Peep, for example, is a great Twitter client for casual users and, unlike TweetDeck, is tightly integrated with People.
Developers don't need hokey religions, we just need to know Perl well enough to code up a shortcut out of any mess.

:)
Having "ops" take care of things you're not particularly good at, or which scale well -- shipping, renting cars, being a 24x7 phone contact, etc.

If your ops department is good enough that people list it as their "in case of emergency" contact number, in preference to family members, you're doing it right. (obviously ops will contact your spouse/etc., but I'd rather have "Ryan has been kidnapped" or "hurt in a car accident in Malaysia" responded to by someone who can actually bring serious resources to bear, vs. someone who will get emotional.)
The discussion is still here, fwiw (dead'd stories only kill the link and remove it from any indexing, but you can still get to their discussions if you find the URL): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969979

Not too sure why that happened, though. It seemed like a reasonable discussion, and had an informative reply from Chris DiBona, Google's open-source liaison.
Or even 15 minutes (or 5!). (See Power Sleep, by James Maas http://www.amazon.com/Power-Sleep-Revolutionary-Prepares-Per..., or the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_nap).

When you bike or take public transportation to work, you can't sneak a nap on your lunch break in your car. A nap room would be oh so helpful, and would dramatically aid productivity for sleepy employees benefiting from a power nap.
I've read only Noble House. It's quite rich on the culture--maybe not so much as Shogun--and captures the setting quite well, but I didn't find it nearly as entrancing as Shogun.

Worth a read, still.
I made one some years ago in Python, and a simple templating system for it, which "compiled" to Python too, and read/wrote article and comment data with MySQL.

Then I realized I had nothing blog-worthy to write about :-)
Agreed. It didn't seem to be a big deal to the employee himself as it was to others but it shouldn't have been deleted.
I had the same experience. A friend developed software for monitoring outcomes with regards to pacemakers. I helped a little bit on this project. This was done for a British company. At the time the software was fairly innovative, treating the patient as the center point of the all of the data, rather than the pacemakers, and able to consolidate and compare all "events" (negative events such as failure of the packmaker).

The idea was that eventually the software, and the equipment, would be released in the USA. This never happened. It is in use in the UK, but bringing into the US would require far more of an up front investment than anyone is willing to make.

In theory, the FDA exists to keep Americans safe. However, it is possible to look at some of its regulatory moves as aiming at consolidation within the industries that supply drugs and equipment to the medical field. I imagine it is easier to regulate an industry with 10 companies than an industry with 10,000 companies. However, the true cost is that a lot of innovation gets squeezed out.
The best benefit I've ever heard of is Matasano's unlimited books budget. I have absolutely no clue why nobody else (AFAIK) does this. I'm sure it more than pays for itself just by making people more productive, never mind the value to the employees themselves.
Perhaps claims of arsenate-based DNA will go the way of "cold fusion" when some control experiments (as described in the blog post) show the bacteria had phosphate-based DNA after all.
Anatomy of an Epidemic: http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-A...

About how there has been an enormous rise in the rates of mental illness over the last 50 years. And despite the fact that the APA says it's because we've gotten better at diagnosing mental illness, the bulk of the evidence points to the fact that psychiatric drugs are causing diseases that used to mostly get better with time to become both more severe and long lasting.
Restaurant, yeah, I get that.

Depends on the restaurant. If I don't like, for example, italian food, and the company goes to an italian restaurant, I may want to opt out. What if everyone else loved italian food and always wanted to go there? I would argue that there really isn't very much that is universally appealing.
I wonder if they want to check how much traffic a domain gets before it expires so they can snatch up the good ones.
Kind of trollish for HN isn’t it?

And I’m tired of people acting as though this absurd “infinite universes” garbage was more than a tired half-theory with no real evidence to support it.
What the Past can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking
This is exactly like the speech recognition on Android. It works brilliantly with short phrases that also happen to be popular searches on Google (or Google Voice Search) but fails at longer or obscure sentences. It's all about the data, baby.

I use Voice Search heavily on my Desire, but I prefer to type out my communications because of this exact limitation.
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I've found Nocera's commentaries on NPR to be unusually frank. Perhaps I'll check out his book.

Speaking of documents of the financial crisis (though it's not a book), I went to see Inside Job last night, partly because I'm interested in the subject and partly because a weird sort of hey-he's-a-startup-guy-too loyalty inclines me to patronize Charles Ferguson's movies. It's an overview that falls a little short as a movie, i.e. it doesn't quite structurally hold up to the level of outrage it's going for. The most interesting thing, though, is how Ferguson devotes the last quarter of the movie to ripping academic economists a new one for their shoddy work and gaping conflicts of interest. Given that he started out as a policy wonk on the Ivy League/DC circuit, it seems clear that this is where his heart is. I felt very uncomfortable watching those segments (Ali G makes me squirm too) but it seemed like it needed to be done.

Edit: Also, Nouriel Roubini, on whom the film relies heavily, turns out to be surprisingly good onscreen.
This is the old "Nature vs Nurture" debate unrolling again. The author is taking the side of Nurture: only training/time/study counts. And he is dead wrong.

Some people are better at some tasks than others. No amount of practice will allow a deaf (or even a tone-deaf) person to become a great musician. Tall people can clean the tops of refrigerators more easily than short people and that will always be true, no matter how much a short person practices.

Secondly, this obviousness extends to all genetic traits. We're (almost) all genetically different and it adds up to a tremendous difference in behavior.

This question really isn't worth discussing once identified: the "tabula rasa" theory supported by the OP is defunct.
You thought right, it was a great find; thanks :)
Theory of Passwords
"The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life", by Alice Schroeder - http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/...

This is by far the best biography on the man. Alice Schroeder did an amazing job. His life story is incredibly instructive whether you're an entrepreneur or an investor. When you study Buffett's life you get a deep appreciation for the intangible qualities that define extraordinary entrepreneurs.

Best business book I've ever read, and probably will ever read. I don't say that lightly. My copy is thoroughly dog-eared, highlighted, and I turn to it over and over again.

Will teach you far more business than any MBA will -- but only if you're serious about learning, and reading through 832 pages.
I agree with you. Happily, it does not have to be this way. In fact, the nation's biggest law firm devoted just to business litigation, Quinn Emanuel, is known for its casual dress:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_Emanuel_Urquhart_%26_Sull...

More firms should follow suit. (Pun not intended.)
Listed at http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ under "Past Contributors"

There is a whole section about his hacking achievements at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Computer_program...

In 1993, Assange was involved in starting one of the
first public internet service providers in Australia,
Suburbia Public Access Network.[8][24] Starting in 1994,
Assange lived in Melbourne as a programmer and a
developer of free software.[22] In 1995, Assange wrote
Strobe, the first free and open source port scanner.[25]
[26] He contributed several patches to the PostgreSQL
project in 1996.[27] He helped to write the book
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on
the Electronic Frontier (1997), which credits him as a
researcher and reports his history with International
Subversives.[28] Starting around 1997, he co-invented the
Rubberhose deniable encryption system, a cryptographic
concept made into a software package for Linux designed
to provide plausible deniability against rubber-hose
cryptanalysis;[29] he originally intended the system to
be used "as a tool for human rights workers who needed to
protect sensitive data in the field."[30] Other free
software that he has authored or co-authored includes the
Usenet caching software NNTPCache[31] and Surfraw, a
command-line interface for web-based search engines. In
1999, Assange registered the domain leaks.org; "But", he
says, "then I didn't do anything with it."[32]

also used to admin the AES Mailing List (1998)

http://cryptome.quintessenz.org/mirror/jya/aes-mail.htm
It still is a great blogging platform. They just really need to sort out reliability issues.
I'm quoted on that site so it is kind of redundant, but there is some great advice in there. I particularly like the chapters on VAs and email marketing. For early stage companies, there is a basic primer to SEO and whatnot which covers some of the things I learned the hard and expensive way.
twitter.com and everything else seems to be up?
Not everybody likes working with music on, either. I can do it some times but not others, and if I have music on, it has to be something I know/like, otherwise it's too distracting. I had a job where people played music on a stereo and it was frustrating most of the time.

So it's something to be wary of and not a benefit in my book.
Depends on what the end goal is. Your method is poor for the engineer who wants to learn as much as possible about his trade.
One correction: Mahalo has had close to zero turnover in the past year. It is far from a revolving door... more like a line of folks out the door who want to get it!

Now, you are correct that my skill is in finding talent....... and developing it.... and finding markets....... and attacking them.... and raising capital...... and then more capital... and in marketing products....... and in branding/naming.... ... and motivating folks... and creating company culture.

I've basically gotten lucky like six times in a row... the streak will be over shortly.

Pure evil.
Of course, if you write a blog to learn new skills, you now have two things; new skills, and code to prove it. You are not in the top 0.001% of candidates looking for work (if you are looking for work, which most people that write their own blog aren't; they already have good work).
I did this. It's taken me three revisions and 5 years and I still haven't gotten anything I like.

A few pieces of insight that I think I'm right about:

- blogs are not dynamic. no code should run when someone visits your site. (or requests your atom feed.)

- content management is just linking. a blog is a graph. a site depends on pages. the main page depends on pages. each blog post depends on a template. the template depends on javascript, css, images, and content. the content also depends on images. once you resolve the links and generate a bunch of files that a web server can understand, you have the One True generic CMS.

Some day I will figure out the right abstraction for this. But not today :)
Keyword is "after". GitHub's staff doesn't spend time writing up a post mortem while the site is still down.
Pillars of the Earth. It's a historical fiction novel by Ken Follett about the building of a cathedral in 12th century England. Brilliant book.

http://www.amazon.ca/Pillars-Earth-Ken-Follett/dp/0451166892
"A Little History Of The World" by E.H Gombrich
http://www.amazon.com/Little-History-World-H-Gombrich/dp/030...

From a long time I wanted to dig deeper in to the subject of human history starting from the undocumented prehistoric era. But the plethora of information available in the internet often bewilders me and I find my self thinking where to start. This book--mind you first printed in 1936--describes the story of humans from the stone age to atomic age in 40 concise chapters. It's like a reading a fiction (a good one..). This is the most comprehensive span of the human history and the most colorful and vivid account of it.. (at least comparing the history books I've read..)
Your definition of untrustworthy and shady may be a bit lower than that of ra if you are in the type of business that holds 50k domains. I mean seriously, what's your business model with 50k domains? Or are you like one of the hosting companies that offers a free domain with an online service?
Is there a particular reason why I can't show that

1. I'm smart enough to get designers to design (the $50 template), and

2. I'm smart enough to write this generation's version of a text editor?
Agreed, even that. I was trying to be charitable. Similar situation - had a group that loved seafood. I hate seafood. I'd go now and then, but angled for non-seafood places to balance things out (and it worked). Had they insisted on seafood all the time, I'd have bowed out of those gatherings (as politely as possible).
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Is there a collection of Bentley's "Programming Pearls" available online?
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Do me a favor and mail me some specifics, I'll make some noise on your behalf, see where it leads. I think you deserve at least an answer about what was going on there.
Tumblr has grown to be one of the 50 biggest sites in the world with over a billion page views a month. They've done this with (iirc) a fairly small team.

Sure they've got growing pains. It saddens me that some here are labeling them "morons". The problems they're now facing aren't trivial. How they handle them will really be the test,

Twitter had huge stability problems. They got over them. Even Google has had serious downtime (not since 2001 however).

It's not whether or not you make mistakes that matters. It's how you deal with them when you do.
status.twitter is hosted on tumblr, tumblr is down at the moment.
NetBSD too, FWIW:

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/git/autho...
Strikes me as an epic publicity stunt. But they are cute.
There is actually a new study that just came out that the NY Times cited a week ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/health/research/25patient....

Even still that doesn't have much relevance to the 1 in 3 claim, because most people go to the doctors more than once in their life.
That is one huge list :)
Sometimes it felt little one sided.
But most make sense for big firms.
A lot of research has been done since; the most interesting has to be on “multi-sided platforms”. I'm working on including diffusion on complex network in there too.

I am actually teaching that class to Masters in CS & Management, and trying to have proper presentations ready in video format — but I spend too much time on HN for it to be ready yet.
> Your definition of untrustworthy and shady may be a bit lower than that of ra if you are in the type of business that holds 50k domains.

Thanks for playing mr. Anonymous, I don't think what I do for a living is a secret around here and did mention that that was a combined number between myself and a number of other companies.

If you're clueless about something the polite thing to do is to ask rather than to make insinuations.