skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is nothing like the conversation I had in my head when I read the title. I think I have been spending way too much time with conspiracy theory promulgators...

I find that when I start debating current issues in politics, religion, weather, etc. I pull from a gestalt I have built with little ability to prove individual facts.
Business users pay $50/seat/year after the 100th user. That's how they make money. Btw, Microsoft is similar. I bet that legit sales to individuals are tiny compared to corporate sales.
You say this based on what, exactly? It sounds to me like they just need to finish working on their web site, and one can't really take more from it than that without inserting one's own personal biases.
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The MS stack doesn't get much love but it does get the job done, probably no worse than anything else. There are languages and platforms better suited to some of what I'm doing though - MongoDB is something I plan to explore a lot more this year for some really heavy duty stuff that would be a pain to do in SQL Server.
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This is great idea, if your goal is to not hire anyone.
Cool. It took me a moment to figure out how to add bookmarks. You might want to highlight that a little more.
It sounds like all your side projects have the potential to grow into full-fledged startups. Maybe you should try to get some of your friends (who are as passionate about the projects as you) interested in joining as co-founders. Share the load.

Also, if the side-projects are generating profit, then use that to hire people (for support, etc.)

And lastly and perhaps most importantly, send me an invite to Forrst!
There seem to be a small number of large content farms (perhaps suggesting economies of scale are pretty important). In this case, manually killing them will work well for Herr. Weinberg.
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github actually does a pretty good job:

http://skitch.com/dlsspy/rkwab/plans-and-billing-github
except HN readers
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Oh, THAT is going to get me to tell all of my friends not to make the mistake of buying an iPad. And I ask: Is brochureware for a product shipping Real Soon Now really an "Interesting site on the Internet?"

I don't think they're eating their own dogfood, I think they're drinking their own kool-aid.
What I'm driving at is that a lot of people used shared hosting for running a blog because for a long time it's been the cheapest option (Dreamhost charge $7.95/mth, for example). VPSes may overtake as the preferred option.

I predicted this happening in a piece I posted in 2008.

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/07/10/shared-hosting-is-doomed...

And the HN discussion.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=241952
The page I saw insulted me. It didn't say "Hang on while we finish up here." I reserve the right to draw conclusions based on their tone, not just on their decision to skip building a cheap and simple web site.
The zdnet article has this passage in it: "The PlanetWars contest received extra attention due to a post on reddit titled “The end is near! Self-improving AI based on Genetic Programming is beating 95% of hand-coded submissions in the Google AI Challenge”. The genetic algorithm coded by a team calling itself space.invaders did better than expected but ended up in 277th place."

That really is quite an interesting development, given that the people that compete in these contests typically are pretty good at what they do, I'm really surprised that a GA derived program would do that well. Is there something about this particular challenge that sets the stage for that to happen or is there more to it?

http://ai-contest.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1136
Cool demo, but from a practical perspective there's absolutely no reason to use GAs to solve a non-linear optimization problem. I know people like them because they have a really pleasing and intuitive backstory, but as a grad student in AI I can tell you that they suck at actually solving anything. Mostly this is due to the fact that GAs take what is already a difficult, non-linear problem (the problem you're trying to solve) and immediately, explosively, complicate it (what's your mutation rate? what are the chromosomes? how are crossovers handled? how are you deciding the answers to these questions?)
For those not well versed in Cricket (the game), Googly is when a spin-bowler bowls a ball in the reverse direction of that he usually bowls. So, if the ball usually spins from right to left, a googly would spin from left to right and trick a batsman and get him out. Hence the phrase "Google bowls a googly". [This is probably better suited for reddit's TIL]
>>So let me reiterate my suggestion for Python 3 in web applications: don't use it just yet, but write your code in a way that it could pass through 2to3.

Is there a good article for summarizing how I write Python2 code that is compatible Python3? I mean, what things do I avoid in Python2 to write good Python3 code? (And while I'm asking dumb questions: how do I make blocks of text italic on HN?)
Those 5 slides have to cover about 90% of slides in 90% of (business) presentations.
perl -MLWP::UserAgent -e 'map { $_ =~ s/<a href="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/a><span class="comhead">([^<]+)<.+?<span id=[^>]*>(\d+ points)/print "$1 $2 $3 $4\n" if($i++ < 3)/ge } LWP::UserAgent->new->get("http://news.ycombinator.com/")->content;'
"This conclusion was reached after the researchers looked at 2,197 automobile companies launched in the United States between 1885 and 1981."
https://github.com/unspace/faux/issues#issue/33
One of the things about travel is that you often end up at arriving at a hotel very late at night, and leaving very early in the morning. These are the times that I'd pay extra not to speak to a human being.
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Truth told, there is sarcasm and truth.

I do want google to take all of the data they keep on my searches and all the little scribbled notes their furtive servers make on my whereabouts as I stroll around the web and put it to use to make my experience better.

Did google show me an ad at http://troutpeeler.com? [1] Did an email come to me from do_not_reply@troutpeeler.com 5 minutes later about an order from me? That isn't spam! And now they know I'm interested in at least one sort of fish peeler. Take that into consideration when a commercial mail for fried fish skin enthusiasts shows up at my inbox.

[1] This is meant to be a fictitious instance of a web site and a product. Heaven knows I'm rubbish at making up unused names, so there probably is a Trout Peeler website somewhere and a group of peel that make fried fish skins. I don't want to hear about it. Ick.

[2] I wonder how many people with browser extensions have to click on http://troutpeeler.com to trick a name squatting robot into reserving the name.
I also like this python scrape library: http://arshaw.com/scrapemark/
> Why do so few (none?) retail stores carry ipv6-capable routers? Maybe because so few ISPs support ipv6? Why don't the ISPs support it? Cause no consumers have the hardware for it?

I have a, um, Netgear WNR3500L, which is supposedly available at places like Office Depot and Walmart. It supports several kinds of IPv6, one of which is "6to4 tunnel" and which test-ipv6.com tells me works just fine on my Comcast connection. According to http://www.comcast6.net/ it looks like Comcast will be providing "real" IPv6 sometime this year.
It's worth noting that the date given is an estimated date of IPv4 address exhaustion (which is probably the reason for Officially being in quotes). I would imagine that the recession might have had an impact on how many IPs have been bought within the last couple of years, and it doesn't seem that any of these models take that into account.
If IP6 doesn't save us, then perhaps a policy of forcing ISP's to use RFC1918 addresses and NAT for their subscribers would help. It's ridiculous how many ISP's use dynamically allocated public blocks for their subscribers and then firewall them anyway.
Different industries have different rules I suppose. Allright, I've enabled fulltext feeds for the time being, we'll see how it goes.

Spam considerations aside, it's a tradeoff between subscriber counts and pageviews. I'm not entirely clear which metric's growth is more desirable.
It might help if you explain how a document on the Working poor, relates to someone allegedly preferring leisure to working.

It might help if you read the first paragraph of the document, rather than just the title.

As for the leisure metrics, see Table 11. It provides leisure time usage for workers (at various income levels) and non workers.

There are very hardworking poor people...

And the report I linked to tells you exactly how many there are (about 10%, assuming "hardworking" == full time for 50+weeks/year).
I could kind of understand if Toshiba doesn't want to put much effort into selling to current iPad owners, but there are a lot of other iOS devices whose owners might be in the market. Toshiba just lost an opportunity to tell me anything about their tablet except that it runs flash, and that they think I'm dumb for owning an iPod touch. Will I be booting up my laptop to check out their site? Um, no.
Thanks. Actually, another option I'm leaning towards is to temporarily get out of the computer biz all together and try something entireley new. The only way to find new technological discoveries is to go out in the real world again and see what kind of real world problems exist. The same way how biologists need to go out into nature to find new species and learn from interesting animal behaviors.

For example, if I were to apply to become a pizza delivery man, I'll find ways to simplify and optimize the traditional delivery process. Then when I open my own pizza store, I'll have the most efficient pizza delivery system, maybe this will be the killer service that will bring down Dominos and Pizza Hut.

So if you see a pizza delivery dude next time, maybe it'll be me... ;-)
People using clojure can get selector based scraping using Enlive instead of JQuery [1]. It also ends up doubling as a templating library. I use it for templating on my website and I use it to scrape Hacker News, though that project the scraping is for isn't ready for launch [2].

1: https://github.com/cgrand/enlive

2: https://github.com/jColeChanged/mysite
Recommended CPC means nothing, ignore it. Start under $1.00, wait until you have established a decent CTR and then start lowering your bids until you stop getting impressions.
This seems useful. I would welcome some guidance on what's going wrong, here.

met% ps -aef | grep python | grep time
myusername 25476 25417 0 16:05 pts/9 00:00:00 python -c import time, sys; [sys.stdout.write(str(i)+"\n") or time.sleep(1) for i in range(1000)]
met% sudo ~/src/reptyr/reptyr 25476
[+] Allocated scratch page: 7f4477b3d000
[+] Looking up fds for tty in child.
[+] Resolved child tty: /dev/pts/9
[+] Found an alias for the tty: 0
[+] Found an alias for the tty: 1
[+] Found an alias for the tty: 2
Unable to attach to pid 25476: Permission denied

Same thing happens when I try to take control of an ssh session.

Ubuntu 10.04.1, built with

met% git clone https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr.git
met% cd reptyr/
met% make
How about just putting the form for the number first, and the let the drop-down menu for the type of card automatically select the right type---while still allowing user interaction.
I've seen that before - there doesn't seem to be anywhere that you can see his code, especially his selection function. I'd find that pretty interesting.
Incidentally, I'm working on a project now that is a good fit for MongoDB. I've been testing it with the stock C# driver running on Server 2008 and I like the performance so far. It takes a while to mentally switch paradigms (for me at least) but once you "get it" it's turtles all the way down.
The fact that they are not even looking does, however. Or at the very least, it means they are completely ambivalent about whether they have a job.
Didn't I read relatively recently about a patent filed on something discovered using a GA? Maybe for lens design?
> Problem is, there are a lot of ways to say document.cookie

Could you give an example?
"Show me Heroku for Seaside... now we're talking!"

I want to see that too.
And while I'm asking dumb questions: how do I make blocks of text italic on HN?

Use *

There is a help link in the right-bottom corner of the text field if you press edit.
Yeah it's really something else thinking in Mongo's query style. Spent a lot of time in Google and still do when I have to go in to the console heh.
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What's the old quote? "No one can serve two masters?" I think you need to find a way to divest yourself of some of your "stuff." If Forrst is your main business, I'd suggest finding a way to get out of working on the others and focus on Forrst. Selling is an option, or maybe take on some new partners and just step back to a low-demand advisory role, but it really seems like you need to lighten your load. Not only is it probably better from a business perspective, but you also don't want to burn yourself out or lose your sanity.

But the first, absolutely first, "action item" is "Send mindcrime an invite to Forrst." Do this and all else shall become clear. ;-)
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This is a good article, of interest to people even outside web dev in the python community. I did not know that python 3.1 was that much slower than python 2.x (python 3.0 was, but this was well known from everyone).

His point about writing new python 2 code for easy 2to3 application is a good one: porting existing projects to python 3 is quite difficult, because it cannot always be done without breaking API, but writing new code which can be easily ported is much easier. There still needs better support to easily use 2to3 and test its output in an automated fashion.

I am also delighted to see known python hackers to recognize the lack of python 3 usage, and that maybe the roadmap needs to be somehow modified.
Nifty! Are you using an App for that, or is it custom?
Can you diversify into other niches?
And here's a truly awesome tutorial for enlive (swannodette is a regular here as well):

http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial
See Paul Irish's comment:
http://adamcecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/javascript.html?showCom...
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I've successfully installed Snow Leopard from a USB drive. You can also install it to a USB/FireWire drive. If you're particularly adventurous, you can put the installer on a partition of an external USB/FireWire drive and, from there, install it to a partition of another USB/FireWire drive.

You will, of course, need a Mac to do all that. In some cases you might also need a working OS X install.

EDIT: I realize everything I mentioned above is possible with a Linux distro, but doing this is far easier on a Mac. You just go to System Preferences, select a boot volume and you're good to go.
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I'm typing this on a Toshiba Satellite running Ubuntu, so I would normally root for them.

But the site is a pretty strong argument for getting an iPhone so you don't have to see things like this...
I am not aware of such resource, but the best thing to do IMO is to simply include 2t3 and running your test suite on both 2.x and 3.x code from day one.
TWiT is now going to be a 24x7 tech news network
Just FYI . . . I work in a spot between clinical patient treatment and research (genomics and patient clinical trials). So I know something about EMRs from the day job . . .

The biggest challenges I run into are quite similar to challenges faced in any data integration/data warehouse type effort in other industries - overcoming political barriers around data ownership and funding.

The other thing that has really surprised me is that amount of free text out there in EMR systems. Pathology reports, clinical treatment information, etc is often floating in big free text fields (that follow no standard) and other unstructured data. All of that is really hard to deal with.

But, if you can crush a good web app with a great HIPPA story, maybe some data mining to make migration from existing EMRs easier, and a decent price, I think you probably have a license to print money.

You'll also need to figure out how to hack the hospital/medical research center/clinical trials management software sales channels. Wish I had good advice (I'd take it myself).
Markus Frind is also doing some pretty huge volume on a Microsoft stack with plentyoffish.com...

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/microsoft-aspne...
So basically because I use the iPad I can't see their ad. Such a shame.
A) The entrenched power players "have theirs"

Not really; they have enough to support 1-2 years of customer growth. After that, they have to do something.

C) Instead of spending money, the big players can make money by charging for something that is a scarce resource.

If you have N million addresses and N+1 million customers, charging more per address (i.e. raising prices) doesn't really help you; all it does is turn away the cheapest customers. I don't think ISPs are eager to try the Oracle business model of squeezing your existing customers harder instead of getting new customers.

Why do so few (none?) retail stores carry ipv6-capable routers?

Partly because they outsource the firmware to the lowest bidder and partly because the standard hasn't even been finalized: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-...
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Hm. It currently has a bunch of known limitations, and the debug
output probably isn't helpful to anyone other than me at the moment,
but that test case works on my Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) and Lucid
(10.04) systems, so I'm not sure why it's failing for you. If you'd
like me to take a look, the most helpful thing you could get me would
be to install strace, and then run

strace -o /tmp/reptyr.strace ~/src/reptyr/reptyr PID

and then send me the contents of /tmp/reptyr.strace

Thanks!
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Note that any "IPv6 ready" router you buy probably does not support DS-Lite or DNS64 and thus will probably stop working in 2012.
Dvorak is just trying to play on the "Google knows too much" sentiment. He's usually wrong and sometimes a jerk. In this case it's both.
I think it's hard to even begin to understand how deeply the Sherman Act has shaped the last decade at Microsoft. One man's languishing is another's staying out of trouble while continuing to rake in massive profits.
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Best resource I know if is to look at what the 2to3 tool does and try to minimize those items. Many items it fixes are possible to do correctly in 2.6+ (e.g. print(x) instead of print x, even if print still doesn't evaluate as an expression in 2.x).

http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html#to3-fixers
The models are recalibrated every day with real consumption data, so they took account of the recession long ago.
No offense to Kohana3, but the documentation I found is a little bit confusing/incomplete/weak etc. (http://kohanaframework.org/guide/)
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90% of the people giving 90% of business presentations don't know enough of the details or just plain don't have the chops to actually go into detail or back up the assertions they're making.

Utilizing some sort of data-driven process to establish that, "these are our customers priorities" and "we are superior in these priorities" would be black magic to them.

Probably Google's greatest strength is their emphasis on data/empiricism.
How would you protect against that ? is encoding the output enough ?
This sort of hosting is basically no different than a typical 'shared host'. Why is there no 'heroku for PHP'? Oh... because those have been around for 8 years+ and are called 'shared hosts with Apache/PH/MySQL'.

I've looked around on a couple of hosts, 1and1 and I think he.net and found that it was quite possible to go looking around in other users accounts through the shell.

I'll stick with VPSs and dedicated servers.
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I don't normally get into video games, but dear Lord I like that one.
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I think that is also a weakness at Google. They are great at tracking and processing data, but I don't think they are good at intersecting what that data means with the human priorities behind the data. In other words, they can tell if A > B for existing work, but they don't seem to do very good at telling whether C will be better than A, instead choosing to shotgun and hope enough stuff sticks.

Good product management (which early founders must do) is about determining what data to gather by figuring out why the data is important to the future of the product. It costs money/time to gather and analyze data, so knowing you are gathering the right data is important. In the process, you hope to be able to answer whether C will be greater than A.
Weird, I had a project doing this exact same thing, just not as far along and not very well documented. I never actually had a use for it, just thought it was a cool problem. I had a nice functional algorithm for doing it. (Again, not documented except through some graphviz output.)

Seeing this, I may stop working on it.

https://github.com/irskep/t-reg
I'm no engineer, but here's my guess:

At these tiny sizes torx bits end up with some very thin material at the tips of the star pattern. The pentalobe has one fewer tips and the curves are inverse, resulting in more meterial in the bit and less in the fastener head. That makes for a more durable tool at the expense of the fastener durability. These screws weren't intended for frequent removal though, so it's a good trade-off from a tooling perspective.
Chinese lawsuits are said to be quicker, more document focused, and less witness-testimony focused than US suits.

Downsides? Not as much discovery (don't expect the court to force the company to do a software audit), and low damage (think money back, but no outrage).

No, I'm not a lawyer, and this isn't advice.
Solution: Use a GA to evolve the GA parameters. I'd better go and patent this brilliant idea ...
Why would anyone use Vim?
1st generation

#0 : 6
#1 : 1.7
#2 : 0.5
#3 : 0.4
#4 : 0.9
#5 : 0
#6 : 2.6
#7 : 0
#8 : 0
#9 : 0
#10 : 0.4
#11 : 6.1
#12 : 0.2
#13 : 0.7
#14 : 1.7
#15 : 0
#16 : 0
#17 : 1.4
#18 : 0
#19 : 1.3

Average : 1.2

One of the cars from generation 43: http://i.imgur.com/95QvW.png

43rd generation (after hours of waiting!)

#0 : 146.3
#1 : 211.6
#2 : 237
#3 : 235.8
#4 : 0
#5 : 128.4
#6 : 0
#7 : 0
#8 : 204.4
#9 : 137.7
#10 : 85.9
#11 : 208
#12 : 211.1
#13 : 36.3
#14 : 0
#15 : 202.8
#16 : 247
#17 : 239
#18 : 230.2
#19 : 139.5

Average : 145.1

One of the cars from generation 43: http://i.imgur.com/WZtZq.png

Now that's what I call evolution!
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