skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it may be possible to get the same level of control over the request lifecycle using mod_rewrite and simple dynamic content generation, it can often be awkward and slow compared to doing the same thing via a full-blown Apache scripting module like mod_python.

Case in point: I'm currently working on an application that uses mod_auth_kerb to perform Kerberos password authentication on behalf of users, then fork a background server which has access to that user's Kerberos credentials, and proxy future connections from that user to the dedicated backend.

Doing that using mod_rewrite requires using the RewriteMap 'prg:' map type, which introduces a single choke-point in the application: namely, the single script responsible for spawning the backend servers. That script also runs in the one Apache master listener, which means that no other incoming requests will be answered until the rewrite script returns its output.

If I were instead using mod_perl (as I suspect I will be, before this moves into production) I would be able to have each Apache child process handle its own forking of backends for requests it was handling.
Can't you just write a macro for those?
I hear what you're saying with regard to clients, but I think you totally missed 37s' point. They're NOT saying "don't mockup at all". Rather, they are encouraging an interactive process with real and usable output that adapts more easily to collaboration and change. There is nothing you can do with Photoshop that you can't do with paper prototypes and follow-on HTML mockups.
Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford
IP is a non-rival good. I take your idea, you still have it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalrous
7 Ways to VoIP On the Go
Google’s Panoramio Launches Photosynth-like Flythroughs, pretty much like OpenPhotoVR
Ask YC: How is a site/domain/idea legally tied to an incorporated company?
What is the legal relationship between a website/idea/domain name and the company that is incorporated by its founders. Is that defined in the company bylaws explicitly? If so, which particular document does that?

Is it implicitly understood that XZY Corp owns the website and domain for XYC.com since the founders of ZXY Corp own the domain XYZ.com?

Hope this makes question makes sense. I've always wondered how the two are tied together.
9. Traveling is overrated.
> Horrible advice from a company who has never lost their ass on a project when the client didn't like their HTML/CSS 'mockup'.

Maybe what you should take away from this is that it's better to do your own thing, rather than be a slave to clients.
Hmm... I am curious. I don't have much experience in this regard, but I have a tendency to think the people of NYC would rather invest in financial instruments which a) they know very well and b) have astronomical returns without requiring everything involved in a start-up.
I enjoy using photoshop, it allows for you to easily switch up designs, a lot faster than handcoding. Plus if you using it with ImageReady to slice and dice it into HTML. You can't beat it for quick prototyping
kinda feel bad for the fellow, although to his admittance his only innovation was some flash code. I wish him well in his 'for profit' venture
Hey, I'm that fellow. Why feel bad? It's a win.
Icahn says he’ll remove Yang as Yahoo CEO
Working on an open source project is extremely different from working on a large corporate software project. For example, there are few consequences for missing deadlines (if there are any deadlines), there is little to no management structure, and there are no perpetually changing requirements that you have to meet. There are plenty of things you can learn from working in a large company from both positive and negative examples, and it sounds like you want to learn those things.

I don't see how working for a big company would be more against your entrepreneurial/hacker spirit than school was. You're going there to learn something. It won't always be pleasant, but it's a means to an end.

Also, as an entrepreneur, you'll eventually have to manage people. I assume it would be much harder to do a good job of managing people if you've never had a boss before.
Kinda reminds me of Sega...
Maybe it's an attempt to limit 'I can has lolcats'
I hoped that they'd solve a superset of this problem where you want a set of items from one of more sellers. This arises because some sellers split items and each item gets different but overlapping auction period. You'd prefer to buy two or more complementary items from the same seller because they match and because combined shipping may be cheaper. However, if a vastly cheaper complementary item finishes in the meantime then you'd be a fool not to bid.
I create and license software-based artwork to events, museums, corporations with fancy offices, etc.
When I read about Panoramio (Google product) on TC today, I thought about how similar it is with your product. I don't know how long Google has been working on Panoramio, but I think you have a good product. Instead of closing the project down, did you try to get funding and take your service to next level?
The 40GB number made me think, hmmm, you could ship a person a hard drive full of stuff every month cheaper than that. It could be like a netflix meets bittorrent business model ;-)
How long do people use one phone? The gap won't be very large once a replacement cycle has passed.
Is $1 Million Enough to Retire On?
Why can't html/css be your sketching/mockup process?
seriously, I am really tired of seeing posts that are just "SHIP THAT SHIT" or "SHIP IT YESTEDAY!" or "OMG I CAN HAS SHIPZ?!"

seriously, spend some time thinking about what you are trying to accomplish and adjust accordingly.
Seems like you worked hard on a problem - but got beat to getting paid for it.
I don't mind tiered pricing based on consumption, but their pricing scheme is the ridiculous part. So long as the whole internet and all protocols are treated evenly, fine. So long as the limits are there clearly fine. Right now I have Optimum Online "unlimited" and I have been cut off twice for going over bandwidth limit. I was seeding 1 torrent for about 48 hours straight (Debian Etch) and they cut me off for "setting up a server". I don't know exactly how much I use in a month, but probably 50-100GB? 5 wouldn't last me 3 days.
I think it would be like coding without writing down a little bit of a flow chart at least... make a minimum of a wire frame for the site before trying to code it - usually helps in making basic designs, logo placement, content placement - and navigation placement...etc
Cal Berkeley Takes on The World
Or at least a few of the World's problems. Funding for a number of ideas to help solve world issues.
I never wanted to earn money with this thing, it was conceived and started as a non-profit. My number one goal was to see Sagrada Familia again, as it should be seen. The other goal was to change people's minds, change the web, open a new possibility. Win on both counts.
Autonomous and dynamic resource allocation built on a message queuing system. Could team at Twitter benefit from a chat with the folks at SmugMug?!
The 30 skills every IT person should have
Well, for one, the argument was based on Amazon sales numbers that have since been discredited. For another, even if it applied to books, that doesn't mean that it would apply to everything. It's quite possible that a few things (like books) have been limited largely by real world constraints and were waiting for someone like Amazon to come by and free them from the 80/20 rule, but that most things were not.

People bandy about "the long tail" as if it's some sort of conclusive proof that conventional economics is in the process of being shaken up by these new distribution methods, when in reality that's just conjecture and doesn't yet seem to be the case.
If the people who engage in it call it theft or piracy, because they think they are stealing, then it's morally equivalent.

I agree with you about choosing words carefully, but either choice doesn't change the article. In context, the semantics were irrelevant.
What, not one word about hacking?

Exactly what is the definition of "IT"?
Where's your blog?
Actually it was much easier than it looks - less than 5 hours per week, for 5 months. A thousand lines of code for the interface, another couple hundred on the server side. PHP, JavaScript, Flash. Cheap shared hosting account. Logo made with Web 2.0 Logo Generator.
I am very curious. A synthetic biologist on Hacker News :)
thanks alaska. hugs! i have part 2 about other things that worked well!
IEEE Spectrum Special Report: The Singularity
Think you'll beat Craig Venter? Am curious if you are NIH funded, independently wealthy, etc.
These articles almost always end with two points. 1) The USA needs to make it very easy for foreign engineerings and scientists to immigrate, and 2) the USA needs to improve science and engineering education.

These articles seem to assume that if you open your doors, foreign engineers will come, and that if you improve your educational system, your own students will become engineers. Both are probably false in the long run.

First, there actually aren't all that many talented engineers overseas. A recent study at Duke completely debunked the notion that China and India are producing massive numbers of talented engineers. This isn't to knock IIT grads, of course - they are a very talented bunch. But 300,000 grads at this level every year? Not even close.

Second, improving the US education system in math and science isn't going to create more engineers if law, medicine, and finance remain more attractive. I recently read an article about how Japan is starting to experience engineering shortages. It was the first honest article I'd read in a while: unlike the economist article, this one pointed out that engineering is really, really hard, and doesn't pay as well as other like finance, medicine and law. In other words, there are other paths that are easier, more lucrative, and more stable than engineering.

Another problem, of course, is that if foreign engineers enter the US in large numbers while law jobs remain off limits to foreigners, that creates an incentive for US students to avoid engineering and go into law. Even if you don't create special protections for Americans like law and medicine do, you'd still expect people to steer clear of a field targeted for employment-related immigration.

In many ways, the US has created the perfect set of conditions to deter Americans from entering the field.
It always surprises me when people go looking for good AND cheap. There is a difference between cost and value.
You don't need either of those things for a Nevada corporation. You just need a registered agent; which can be had as a service for like a hundred bucks a year.
http://newtech.meetup.com/1/

This is the one run by the Meetup folks. Usually the first Tuesday of every month. They get 6-7 startup to demo their product. The turnout is usually great, at least 500+ people will show up.
It's implicitly understood that way if you all implicitly understand it that way.

Perhaps a better thing to do if you aren't defining any bylaws is to get a new, shared username at namecheap/etc. and transfer the domains there.
The one positive thing I can think to say about this is that it will sting people whose Wintendos have been zombified by spammers.

But mostly it reminds me of why I cut all ties to the local cable monopoly last time I moved.
Coming soon. I hope.
The way the post is worded sounds sarcastic... maybe that's why the sentiment expressed above.
The problem with religion like this is inflexibility.

The takeaway should be, "get to a functional prototype ASAP and don't sweat pixel level perfection if you use it", but eschewing Photoshop is not always the right path for design iteration.

The question designers should ask is "what is the most productive way to iterate/experiment with this design?" Oftentimes, it's in code. Sometimes it's in Photoshop. Hell, sometimes I take a screenshot of a working app and fiddle with it in Photoshop.

And statements like, "Photoshop gives you too many tools to focus on the details. When you use Photoshop you can’t help but pay attention to the details." piss me off about as much as statements from their previous posts like, "People who are workaholics are likely to attempt to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at the problem."

Just because people CAN do something (focus on details or work inefficiently because they are throwing hours at the problem) don't mean that the DO.
Best Books for Python Programming
Okay, I am not new to programing, and I know the basics of python. I am looking for a great book to teach me python on the summer. I want to know the basics as well as the more advanced features, or at least have them all available.

Any recommendations?
Yeah I'm looking for something inexpensive but good. Thanks!
Second this. Instead of looking for a project in a language you're familiar with. Maybe look for a project solving a problem you're familiar with in a language you're not. Then you'll have learned a new language as well. After that, you can look for a new interesting problem in your new language where, presumably, more open source stuff is going on.
Yeah another framework would be good. How about another language?

I think it's critical for developers to continually learn new technologies as they arise. This helps you stay sharp and remain competitive in the marketplace (whether you are an employer or an employee....)

If you just stick to the same framework all the time, you're going to find yourself out of touch with the modern programming world pretty quickly (again, either as an employer or an employee.)
Intel Capital Invests $60 Million In Eight Startups
You don't necessarily need to "beat" Venter -- startups are not a zero-sum game, especially in a field as early as synthetic biology.
America, at this point, only has an innovative edge. I believe this is the reason IP is such a hot debate. How can we tell other nations to keep worshiping us if they can simply take our ideas and manufacture their own copies? We need to OWN the ideas so any "leeching" off America's creativity can be monetized.
Just out of interest, have you thought much on how you'd go about doing automatic matching?

Would it be feasible to use one of the SIFT implementations out there?
It's not "my" startup, but I work for a startup that makes a database system for stream processing -- i.e. it lets you run SQL over live streams of data, to understand data as it changes rather than waiting for it to hit disk.
The problem is that CakePHP is so easily deployable, so I need it for client work. (Alot of my clients won't switch hosts, so cakePHP has been a key tool for me).

I'm also not interested in learning yet ANOTHER language/framework now. I'd like to work on something in a larger group that will overlap at least a little with my current work.
I just see him as an extraordinary tough target with his portfolio of relevant patents and endless financial resources. There are rooms for others of course, and it's great that people are trying... I would if I had the resources. That or algae farms.
Often, the two are mutually exclusive.

In other words, you get what you pay for most of the time.
Can anyone share any other places for $2000+ projects? Much appreciated! =)
I'm kind of in the same boat, but I think we should define what we want better.

The first thing you are going to want is a learning-python type book. Don't expect this to be a good desk reference. After you've "learned" python you're going to want a desk reference for use while making your app.

I don't know which book you should get... but I could use a programming-python book for experienced programmers... If I find I want to use it for a project (which is likely) I could use a python reference.

Any suggestions for alexnb185 and me?
Yes, thought a lot, and coded a little. Main problem: sparse bundle adjustment is slow and non-incremental. From what I hear, the same problem is delaying the release of MS Photosynth. Maybe the answer is running SBA on small numbers of user-supplied points rather than SIFT output. Maybe I'm just clueless.
just trying to get a feel of the general consensus
One of my future startup ideas is a digital whiteboard, similar to dabbleboard.com (featured here recently) that would allow you to do a quick web ui design sketch and output the html/css (or, as long as I'm dreaming, haml/sass) for further development.
Golly, we wouldn't want Obama to spend public money on society-wide problems like poverty and food scarcity.
Pretty shallow article. Must have been good for his ego though.
Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic boy
Ask YC: Sitepoint or Digital Forums?
I am selling a side project of mine (http://www.popchatter.com) because I simply don't have enough to time to keep doing it... Should I use Sitepoint, Digital Forums or something else? It is a working website built on Ruby - not just a domain.

Thanks!
We do need to do a better job of banding together on both HN and in real life.

One of these days I'd like to actually put together a UI meetup. One day....
afaik, assuming you are u.s. citizen living 330 days/year outside of u.s., you can earn $80k/yr under "foreign earned income exemption".. so an offshore corporation could pay you a good salary and maybe even pay some expenses if you wanna push it..

personally, i'd prefer to avoid u.s. taxation because i don't feel at all represented, ie 50% of my taxes are invested in a war machine that is addicted to oil and is on a rampage to get it.. there are much smarter ways to create wealth..
You could try a post at webmasterworld.com. I have no experience selling but I see those on there from time to time. good luck!
> I believe I might actually prefer the expensive and fair model.

Or, you know, they could have enough network capacity to support the speeds they offer.

Ironically I moved to Beaumont (the city in question) last week (girlfriend earns big bucks with Exxonmobil). I'm definitely glad I have a 6m/768k dry loop DSL plan with AT&T that doesn't have any bandwidth limits... especially since it's only $38.99 a month.

If they were really trying to fix a network problem by modifying behavior, it'd make sense to go after the top 1% of bandwidth users (which according to my last cable company used 35% of bandwidth) by setting really high caps and higher per gb fees. By applying silly things like 5gb caps, all they are trying to do is milk more money out people that don't know any better.

(If anyone in the Texas/Oklahoma/Kansas area wants dry loop DSL, you can save yourself time by calling the dry loop department directly at 1-800-264-0002. Sadly I don't even like AT&T that much, but at least they don't do retarded stuff like this.)
JCV is not the only big gun in the synbio field. Jay Keasling has started more than one company (e.g. Amyris).
I've seen this sentiment elsewhere: http://www.bash.org/?414593
I live in those boonies (Beaumont) and there is competition. 6m dry loop DSL for $38.99.

Sadly most people don't know any better.
Really really good idea to attack something like this as early as possible...

In the spirit of failing early, this is a great way to figure out where people really what what you think they do. If you can't get a few thousand email addresses, you quite likely have a bad idea or haven't figured out how to talk about it yet.
You frequently don't get what you pay for - there is very little correlation between price and quality.

Take Drupal for example - cheap AND good. Compare with our new Mega Corp CMS which had a 7 figure price tag and a work flow so atrocious it had to be scrapped before deployment was complete.

If you want good products then by picking something that is already good and only requires minor changes you have a pretty decent chance at a fair price (which might be high or low).
The interface on the Google service is identical as best as I can figure - does "Do no evil" include saying thank you to the authors of open source code?
The Micro-hoo debacle is kind of old hat right now, but the fact that Yang actively hid information to make the MSFT offer look worse is pretty big news.
in case anyone was curious i started doing this and more 9 months before the techcrunch40 competition. i would say 4 months is a good headway to get this going. i think

a) some sites dont need outreach or trust to be built since their initial users could theoretically spread the product

b)you want to build the relationships and things earlier than you need them.
Just post it to all of them.
Give more Green Cards to smart people!!

Tottally self serving statement, but if I had a green card, I probably would be doing something more inovative than what I am doing at my current job.

It is amazing the hoops that some people have to go thru, before being able to fully utilize their capabilities for this country (and themselves).

This is the only country where a foreign, after living for few decades, can get citizen ship AND can truly say they are "American". While a foreigner in an european country, will always remain a foreigner, even they get the citizenship, a second class citizen.

This simple but fundemental difference, is the one that will keep attracting young bright people to come to this country.
That is a huge competitive advantage against other really well developed countries.

Caveat: In the south, you will still remain and feel as a foreigner. But my fully american brother-in-law born in Iowa, said, he felt an foreigner himself when he travels to some part of USA
Same words, different context. In many startups, shipping buggy software is a trivial danger compared to the risk of spending too much time carefully wringing the bugs out of software that nobody will use and that will never make any money.

In that context, when someone says "you should ship it right now", what they really mean is "you should test the market before wasting any more time polishing the product".

Obviously, the IT department of a brokerage firm is a much different environment. The market is already tested, and you should already know how many millions of dollars a showstopper bug is going to cost you.
Does anyone know if the guys from confreaks were there? I really like their method of recording conference videos.
I see a lot of differences; maybe they even recoded it from scratch. But it uses some interesting tricks I invented, and doesn't use the easy features that I didn't include. They definitely have at least seen the source code.
My angry response is: Nonsense. They can shove their internet where the sun doesn't shine.

Rationally speaking: These blokes were given a free rein and tax breaks by Clinton to develop sturdy networks capable of handling great loads and redundancies at multiple layers and levels. The fact that they sat on their asses all the while eating the money and spent virtually nothing on improving the internet experience makes them monopolizing culprits. If anything,the government should penalize them to the tune of billions for the disservice they've done the public. And oh btw, for these rates I'd switch providers immediately if I had an option or go back to dialup.
But as we know from HN. Idea is cheap and execution is most important part. So does IP really matter?

You can go to China to get a copied iPhone running on Linux with software written locally. But why do they copy iPhone instead of other phones? And why don't we copy "new things" from China, Germany? Wait, do they have new thing that we have not yet thought about?
Because your brain works differently during both activities.
maybe they even recoded it from scratch

Even when Google buys a startup they usually rewrite everything.
More schools ought to do this. It promotes students getting involved, innovation, and introduces both investors and students to each other.
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Why The Educational System Is Not In Place
Just to point out - i am not saying that people shouldn't learn at school. Just that they are learning a lot of useless stuff instead of which they should be learning how to use the info they know to become successful.