skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making it sound like so-called "mature enterprises" approach scaling in a mature way. Perhaps "enterprises" like Yahoo, Amazon and Google do, but I worked in a very mature investment bank for 4 years and though they had some load testing, none of the systems I ever saw built were prepared to handle a load that might grow by a factor of 10 in a year. In fact, most of them struggled to slowly deliver even with the current load. That's true for both internal bank systems and external client-facing ones.
Most of the best engineers were outside of car design and into aerospace since the early 40's. Getting a car that works at this level of efficiency requires three or four conceptual jumps, which weren't made until a market forces induced some thought on the problem.

Additionally, none of the interested parties have figured out the last step: how to cheaply charge the thing (while recycling the waste energy). But I think I might have.
Does it have a touch screen? I think the first Sony Readers didn't have one.
In terms of ratios, it seems like there's no better predictor of future business success than dropping out of Harvard. ;-)
wow looks like a great service from google again. I have been using lot of google technologies in my application lately, all of which are free.

I always wonder.. what's in it for google?
As the comments on the post say, be careful with the legalities. In the US, there are state-specific variations, and internationally, the laws can be very different.

Some of the documents though are useful all over the world, so the collection is definitely awesome!
Any reason you don't support OpenID as well as username/passwords? It would eliminate a step from your already short signup process, and would support your goal of being "hassle-free".
Data - they get to track what websites users visit (to some extent - limited by the "expires" header).

Knowing what web sites are popular is Google's business.
Where are we, on digg.com?! The subject line of this post should have said "eat less" in it. I shouldn't have to go to the article to get those two words.
Jeff is really brilliant. Whatever he does next will be worth watching.
I can't imagine this process working for a book where there's a lot of intertwining between the later and earlier parts of the book. You just don't know what's going to happen until you write it with Stephenson's method. Compare _Snow Crash_ to any complicated story requiring internal consistency, like a Sherlock Holmes story.
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Both are derived from non-Apple open-source projects and thus must be open.
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I liked it and voted it up. But I knew it would get lots of bad comments because of the spelling mistakes. That's just arrogance to me - you can't expect everybody to be a native speaker of English.
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And here http://www.xrez.com/glacier_point_giga.html is a gigapixel image they made earlier. Very impressive demonstration.
Re #1, I presume you mean "switched off" to conserve battery. The thing is, a backlight wouldn't really work with the eInk screen. eInk is an ink technology designed to mimic ink on paper. Like paper, you read the screen by light bouncing off it, not through it. Think of reading a backlit sheet of paper, like a transparency on a projector -- more pleasant to read the reflection than have it lit from behind.

I have a Motorola MOTOFONE F3, which also uses an eInk display. It has a light source -- an LED between the display and outer plastic. Works ok, but direct reflected light (like a flashlight) works better in low light conditions.

I think you can just use a normal booklight with the Kindle.
I have few questions that I always ask when people want review on their startup:

What is your revenue model?

Why would people pick your service instead of one of your core competitors?
i actually write a lot of code on paper, when i'm figuring out how to do something algorithmy or otherwise tricky
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i don't see the difference. there is input and output in writing a novel too if you want to trivialize it like that. and programs have multiple execution paths, both potential and actual, and can have successive versions as well (e.g. CorelDraw 10.) choices made at some point can affect decisions later on. and it's likely actual humans will use your program
Orson Scott Card used to advocate, at least at a talk I was at a decade ago, write it-throw it away-write it again. Something like "if you wrote it once, you can write it again shorter and better". I've found that to be an important programming insight. Too often, I find myself stepping off the rapid interation path. Inevitably, it is much faster and much more productive to write it the awful and obvious way, prove that with some relaxed constraints the approach can work, and then rewrite it.

Frankly, I've loved Stephenson's works but they have gotten progressively looser. I've attributed this to his success relaxing his editors; this is much like a Senior Software Architect not being held to the same design and code review standards. The result is still impressive and functional, but may not be minimal.
Apple changed the world (again). How do they do it?
No other company I can think of executes so well on such great products.

Personal Computer, Music, and the Phone- each Apple product changed their entire space and moved the world forward.

After playing around with iPhone V2 I can only imagine all the great products and companies that will born on mobile.

Yes, people have been saying mobile is the "next-gen" platform for years but the fact is no mobile app before the iPhone matters (With the exception of email). It's a clean slate, and I think the real mobile platform began today.

Great time to be in the tech industry.
Four years is a lifetime! While I'm sure there is a good explanation (jail, military?) I'm having a hard time imagining what you're up to.

As you're apparently captive, I'd recommend making the most out of it. Technologies and trends shift, but your dreams and competencies will stick with you. Do whatever you want, with gusto.

That said, additional formal education is never a bad way to go.
I use a prompt (usually python), which amounts to the same: scratch paper. The nice parts one can copy-paste and edit as needed.

Real scratch paper I use only for drawing angles and lines when dealing with geometry.

I recall Donald Knuth stating he programs by sitting next to a big trash bin and writing down all code in pieces of paper, most of which he discards.
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Are they definitely the highest-selling books or just the ones that Amazon could get licensed to in electronic form?
At 1,000,000 items you have 20 (in the best case, at least) levels of recursion. I can assure you, your stack space is more than sufficient for that.

Also, you only have to push a handful of pointers to the stack, which doesn't seem to be expensive to me.
Did you catch today's post on the Kindle?

http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/07/10/amazon-kindle-is-a-hit-...

Plus recent posts on the latest ranges of ultra small format PCs from a range of suppliers?

Yes - something interesting is happening in this market place at last.
You're doing two filters with list comprehensions which you could switch with one span:

quicksort (x:xs) = let (a, b) = span (< x) xs in (quicksort a) ++ [x] ++ (quicksort b)

Actually, this is incorrect. span will split the list as soon as it finds the predicate to be false on an item, instead of finding the smaller elements of the whole list. So, for instance, if we try your function as in the following, we get improper results:

> quicksort [1, 2, 3, 2, 1]
[1,2,1,2,3]
> quicksort [1, 2, 3, -2, -1]
[1,2,-2,-1,3]
> quicksort [1, 2, 3, -2, 0, -1]
[1,2,-2,-1,0,3]
You can still suffer priority inversion under VxWorks (indeed, this has happened to NASA).
Blender has really gotten impressive over the past few years. Back when I did computer art it was far inferior to the professional packages. Lacking alot of creature comforts I looked for and downright missing a number of important features. Suddenly it seems to have all of them. and what's more it seems to have one of the slicker interfaces. I remember being very confused by its interface when I used it a few years ago.
This, this is smart.
Well, internal combustion engine cars do not run on fossil fuel, but on solar energy, and they just happen to store it as fossil fuels.
My personal experience with AMD has been pretty miserable. As the proud owner of an ATI (acquired by AMD 2 years ago) video card I've watched new drivers roll out, wondering when AMD would decide to support its product. They even refused for a long time to release APIs so that the opensource community could aid in development. So I can see why these guys are dead in the water. Two questions:
Is there any chance of ATI not going under with them? Before they were acquired they were good.
Second Intel and nVidia might (probably will) simultanously lose their most direct competitors. Is another company going to fill the niche are might they begin viaing for each others market shares?
sorry, fact is few things are cheaper to create and replicate than software. Having investment before product, customers, and revenue provides advantage for some types of business models. It enables "failing-fast"; the "go big or go home" approach. Its useful/necessary for an arms race when many are going after the same model at the same time.

Silicon Valley is an advantage if your startup user/customer base includes and is led by U.S. users/customers. If not, Silicon Valley may be a disadvantage for understanding opportunities for innovation.
I am an American having lived in Shanghai for 8 years. Most profitable web models in China are ones evolved in China by Chinese. Sure some of it is copied, but that is part of evolution.
So if the U.S. economy is going to take a backseat in growth relative to others, China and Brazil being good examples, then go where the growth is.
In these faster growing markets, you can for the moment leverage your American earning potential to save enough quickly to pay people in China or Brazil to bootstrap your startup. VC money is harder to come by in these places, but you can fund it yourself easier than in the U.S.

Another point to keep in mind is targeting opportunities that are not going to be an overnight boom. Try thinking several years ahead of the curve a bit and finding a model that grows slow and steady in a country like China or Brazil. If your vision is only 6 months out, then many others will have the same vision and stamina to go for it. I think the real heroes are those that think longer term with what is initially niche markets. These guys can build slow and steady without VC. I'll call this the "traditional" approach. In economies like China, this traditional approach still works ;).
Blender has also got fantastic video tutorials that makes it very easy to learn the incredibly powerful interface. To the beginner it's like sitting down with VI the first time, but watch a few screen tutorials and you're up and running in no time.
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Amazons is still hiding the number of Kindles sold. Why do you think that is? Kindles are probably not selling well at all.
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I think Apple + AMD merger/acquisition would make more sense than anything else in this situation. And if it's going to happen, this is the right time more than ever.
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I've been wondering if enterprises are going to start using kindles for positions that deal with a lot of traveling paperwork.
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The tank is made of carbon fibre. So if you get an accident, the tank won't explode, it just splits.

Check 3:06 in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4
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A more clear and equally useless code:

qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x] ++ qsort (filter (>= x) xs)
I wonder if you are thinking of diving tanks, where not any compressor can load them. If it leaks the tiniest amount of oil in(to) the air it'll poison the diver.

We intentionally put vast amounts of far more flammable compounds into gas tanks, welding, cutting etc.
I've struggled with this myself. I've been unhappy with Selenium (perhaps my own setup) and haven't really found a suitable alternative. I don't care if I have to use IE - I'm fine with that - and I use Windows 2008. I've saved this thread hoping that someone will come up with good suggestions :)
The difference being that solar energy has already been stored there for you.
First: congratulations on getting far enough to feel comfortable sharing your work with us.

What sort of requirements do you have for email addresses? In help (/help.php) you say that users need an email address, but don't really go into specifics, which is fine. However, one of mine (message me outside the thread if you want specifics, I guess) failed as invalid when I tried to register.

The privacy policy (/privacy.php) mentions that users are encouraged to provide a corporate email address and (or?) linkedIn profile for verification. I didn't see any way to provide this when registering, nor do I see any way to provide this when I go to write a review. If you require this later (e.g., after I attempt to submit my review), it might be nice to say so somewhere. If not, it might be nice to remove that line from the privacy policy, at least until you add that bit of functionality, as it seems a trifle confusing, at least to me.

You're probably planning this already, but some sort of information on the number of reviews for a company in your company list would be nice (or a way to filter out companies that don't have any reviews).

Do you plan on encouraging users to give an overall rating in some easily displayed/read format for their employer (e.g.: the stars of coderific)? Most of the content, of course, is in the text, but I find myself missing the summary stars/number when skimming.
Feedback: looks like (1) a fast way to get sued, and (2) an easy way to spend a lot of time without being able to make money. I wish you luck but I don't see a business model here. Interesting, yes, but how will you make money? I see only a few ways to make money:

* Advertising (recruiters being the likely choice)
* Selling your database to recruiters

What do you see that I don't see?

Good luck though - I hope it works out for you.
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Well, I think it would make much more sense for IBM to take over AMD. They have an entire history together, they've shared/are sharing multiple technological solutions and don't forget the mountain of rumors surrounding the possibility of an IBM/AMD merger http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=IBM+AMD&btnG=Se...

As for my personal experience with AMD, I have had only pleasant encounters. I believe they've made quite a performance with beating the bytes out of INTEL in the 2001-2005 interval. I think that's an important achievement for AMD, being able to stay extremely competitive for that period of time + the fact that they were a small fraction of the INTEL's presence. But the big mistake AMD did was that they dedicate all there power (money and labor) on retouching the K8 (which was basically an enhanced K7) architecture. They should, really, have invested in an alternative solution (maybe an early big project with IBM?) contrary to the strategy they've embraced. Just my opinion.
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Still here. Still own an iPhone. Still wish I'd help out for Nokia's touch models.
Serves me right, should have tested the code before I submitted it. Just s/span/partition/ and it should work.
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AIM been on iPhone since Installer.app was released.

No, not the official client, but who ever uses the official AIM client?
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Blah blah blah... Can anyone say "broken record"?

FSF claims to be about choice. Well, I exercise my choice by choosing to buy the phone that I prefer.
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The picture of Paulson and Bernanke really sum up the nation's economic situation: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/07/11/business/11fann...

Now I'm sitting here, in my rented apartment, with a few small and responsibly managed debts, considering a startup. At this point, I don't know what to think. If these blunders go unchecked and Mae/Mac go under, and lending in general practically disappears, then there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'll be able to do some of the things I've had in mind, like buying a home and/or starting a startup (without VC). If they bail them out then the we will be looking at massive inflation and we'll be paying for it for years to come.

I just don't know which one to support. I suppose it doesn't really matter though because, as the FISA vote shows us, Congress really gives precisely fuckall about the citizens of this country.
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Regardless of the readiness of IBM or any other monster in the field to take over AMD, we are talking about scenarios that make more sense. As a consumer, do you care about IBM and what they are doing? I don't.

Now, some basic facts: Apple needs (and presumably wants) to be independent; Apple's software will run nicely on AMD; AMD got 64-bitness right even before Intel; own video card would be a big bonus for Apple. And this is probably not all.
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I used http://www.paterva.com/maltego/ to do it. I have no idea where the data comes from.
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Apple's new iPhone 3G goes on sale
Support. If sell a copy, then I will be obliged to provide support for years. I won't take on that burden without a reasonable upside.

I'll probably publish my findings on pitch detection algorithms and send the rest to the bit bucket.
All cell phones expose "your whereabouts and [provide] ways for others to track you without your knowledge" via cell tower triangulation. At a minimum, this point is FUD.
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Thank god for some sanity. I cannot for the life of me understand why otherwise intelligent geeks fawn over locked Apple products and the iPhone in particular.
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Why is it that practically all startups need investors? Particularly web/software startups?

To cover the founders' living expenses while they build a product and get the company to profitability. That's going to take a minimum of 6 months. More often a year.

The other alternative would be to keep their jobs and do the startup on the side. But taking that route means that (a) the startup happens much slower, which can be dangerous if, as usual, there is someone else working on the same idea, and (b) it's easy to let the startup slide, since it's only a side project, and not the work that's paying your bills.

You can also look at the empirical evidence. Make a list of the 100 startups you admire most. What percentage of them did it without investors?

The scary thing about that exercise is that startups done as side projects are probably more numerous than those where the founders quit to work full-time on the company. If this much larger pool produces such a tiny fraction of the successes, the attrition rate must be appalling.
Compare _Snow Crash_ to any complicated story requiring internal consistency, like a Sherlock Holmes story.

A complicated story like The Baroque Cycle, 3000 pages, multiple main characters, taking place over about fifty years?
None of them do. It's eInk.
The FSF can be like that, but they also have a good point. Only Apple could get away with creating a smartphone where they hold all the cards - deciding what and who can and can't develop for it. If Microsoft tried to pull something like that, we'd all cry foul.

/yeah, I'm still getting an iPhone today.
//hoping that in two years there will be other competitors who are more open and match the iPhone's quality
Suggestion: user promotions according to a percentile-based threshold
This (or something smarter) may already be implemented. Please disregard then.

The title says it all.

User promotions especially the higher ones (ability to flag comments, posts, etc...) should be given according to a percentile-based threshold (the top n%) at any given time.

This should be more future-proof than using a fixed number that may become irrelevant with time.
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I don't think these samples are incredibly awesome for starting a company. I'm not a lawyer, but I have helped a lot of startups with incorporation documents. My first bit of advice is to be skeptical of documents posted on-line, unless they are from a very trusted source. An LLC is an impractical choice if you hope to get funding. We've had several startups come to YC as LLCs and it has been costly and distracting for them to change their company to a Delaware C-Corp (most common for startups). Be sure your legal paperwork has proper IP language-- you want to be 100% certain that your company owns all the IP. Also, if there is more than one founder, have vesting.