skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You really need a minimum of three replica set nodes, one of which can be a lightweight arbiter. If the primary fails, the secondary node will be promoted to primary automatically. In the case of a network partition, the old primary will come back up as a secondary with no problems. In the case of a true hardware failure, you can resync very quickly from a snapshot. For extra peace of mind, add more nodes to the replica set. You can have up to seven.

2. If you're reading from both primary and secondary nodes, then the view may not be consistent. In most cases you simply read from the primary for fully-consistent reads. You get to decide whether reads from secondaries are consistent or not by setting the write concern (i.e., the minimum number of nodes to replicate to before returning each write.)
Well, sharing cats is not that useful. But, knowing that my potential client loves cat or is currently at a beach/conference or loves the same music - altogether another story! :)
There are so many goodies in this talk. This one nails it.
"measure two things:
value test: does it make value?
if yes, does it have an engine of growth that is working?"

Thanks Mark for taking excellent notes. I was unable to attend since I was too low on the waiting list.
Tim's books are effectively about finding the 20% of your efforts that give you 80% (or 90%) of your results, and then just doing those things. They've both been very effective for me (as in, they've introduced life-changing ideas and strategies to me), but you sound like you've made up your mind. Have you read them?
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Netflix Canada have greatly expanded their range - it now almost competes with the 99c bargain bin at the gas station.
I ran two S-Corps for web hosting/design over a 12yr period (in MO and DE), mostly a one man operation with occasional outsourcing. I had the opinions of a couple of accountants and a lawyer and a short class from the local community college sponsored by the SBA before I got things rolling. Their are tax advantages, and you retain a bit of the "corporate veil", but I was fortunate enough never to get sued. Get good advice first.
Thanks, awesome.
I think this is just poking some lighthearted fun at Tim. I've lost about 35 lbs on the slow carb diet, so yes, that part of the book works for me. Other parts seem more dubious, but it does give you plenty to think about/research.
Very clean and simple overall. The green and white make it feel a bit XBox to me, but that's neither here nor there.

The details page probably needs some tweaking. The Related column takes up way too much space and shouldn't be on the left side commanding so much immediate attention. That should come visually last in the flow of what the user is looking for on this page. The main column with details, images and reviews thus feels awkwardly scrunched, particularly with the thin About This App column seeming haphazardly floated right. The worst is the lightbox function when enlarging an image, which forces me to click the small X button to close the lightbox, rather than being able to click in any dead space.

But overall, I think it's fantastic this is finally available and a great first iteration.
To be fair, they raised funding at more modest (but still crazy, depending on perspective) 25m pre according to the article. Seems like Google is just looking for ways to spend their cash.
Whilst I can't offer you advice with regards to Google,I am working on something related to this. My email's in my profile if you want to discuss further.
Canadian Indie ISPs solution to bandwidth caps: Mailing Hardrives(not kidding)
$25 for unlimited data - if anything, this would make it a wonderful wireless hotspot option for wi-fi only tablets...
Haters Gonna Hate, I love both books and have gotten plenty of great info and inspiration from them. And if nothing else I've enjoyed picking up on some great marketing tactics that he uses that obviously are working :-P
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Actually, the post didn't bother me as much as the comments here on HN. The knee-jerk reactions that many HN'ers have towards Tim and his books are as bad as the naive gullibility they think they're rejecting. Neither require any kind of critical thinking or logical analysis.
I'm going to be hanging on to the edge of my seat for the next two years, waiting and waiting for that most incredible and exciting announcement! I can just hear it now: "We have found seven Earth-mass planets orbiting sun-like stars in the goldilocks zone. One of them is 15 light years away"

Exoplanet discovery is by far the most exciting thing happening right now. In any field. It's incredible!
Is it just me or do the product "posters" look really pixelated? Like they were done at 3/4 the resolution and then scaled up to what they're at on the screen (64x64?).
The primary goal of the fork is to open up the project to the community. That means we have a much more open governance and decision process and try to actually talk about what we do and have planned. That way, we want to have a faster and more focused development process. The short story of the fork is on the Why Fork? page: https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_...

Feature-wise we try to make ChiliProject more modular and extensible by plugins and third-party tools (via the REST API). Also, we plan a deep UI/UX overhaul and having more flexible workflows and permissions. The exact roadmap is still to be defined (in an open community process), but I think you get an idea.

The first release will be compatible to Redmine 1.0.5, and we try to keep the migration path between Redmine and ChiliProject open as long as possible.
Fortunately, not everybody hates their job.

My worry about coding/hacking scenes in books is that authors usually do something dumb. That makes it all the more rewarding when they sidestep it with something amusing, as in the given example.

Having read 'A Deepness in the Sky', it is good, interesting, and not about coding. You can probably read it safely without having flashbacks to your life.
Sometimes, there is a fine line between parody and imitation.
Not quite as bad as from a market-unsupported country: http://i.min.us/iemx0U.png
No I found it very useful, i've lost a significant amount of weight and feel a lot better.

I do wonder why HN readers seem to dislike Tim's books so much.
Work from home.
Do communication with instant messaging and email (you can decide when to be available for input, limiting noise).

Take a mental step back and look at what you are doing on a larger scale. I'm not good at this, but I think it would make the noise clearer, and easier to quiet.
Free temp housing for incoming startup founders?
I'd like to know if anyone in the greater SF startup ecosystem would be interested in providing a bit of free temp housing for a fellow startup entrepreneur, anywhere from 1 week to 3 months? In exchange I can provide free sales, business development, Internet marketing, UI/UX, and business strategy for your consumer facing web startup or small business.

As a startup founder myself my last 3+ year project ended up burning up all my cash and I can't currently fund a full relocation. Having said that I'm working on a new idea and need to be on the ground in a real startup ecosystem, going to tech events, recruiting a team, and meeting with potential investors - and I just can't do all that virtually from where I'm currently based.

I'm male, mid-30's, non-smoker, drug free, and have reputable recommendations available. Ideally you'd be active in the startup space as well, as a hacker, VC associate, tech community supporter, business type, etc. I can answer any questions and provide more details - including my LinkedIn and Twitter details - to anyone who is legit and interested.

So, are there any takers? Is this something any of you guys have ever heard of before? I know that Mike Arrington from TechCrunch used to make a room available in his house/office to visiting startups, but that was a few years ago now.

Thanks for any help.
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It all comes down to what you want long term and how success is measured.

My wife and I seek long-term quality relationships with our children. Relationships are based on common value systems, regardless of what those values are. (link to small pdf book http://media.blackstripespublishing.com/RelationshipAndValue...).

The conflict that we create over the years of parenting will affect our relationships with our children. I never want my children to spend time with me because they feel obligated, but because they enjoy being with me.

The goal of parenting is to get your child to adopt your value system. Children may be grateful for what you made of them, but they still might not like you later. For me, that is failure.

For us, parenting is a balance between pushing kids past their own laziness so they benefit later in life, and enjoying relationship with them now and, hopefully, in the future.
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I'm pretty sure Amazon recommendation service does this. Or you could login to your account to tweak it show this happens.
Before Social Jam there was Service Jam (White Paper + Ppt)
...the effect is the same as intentional scraping and outright stealing: search results that could have only come from Google are appearing as Bing results...

That's one effect. While it's vivid, it might be a tiny side-effect only notable in contrived cases.

Overall, this kind of URL-after-URL signal, extracted from every participating user, and every trail through both search sites and non-search sites, might be discovering valuable terms-in-preceding-URL-to-later-visited-URL associations. These associations might result in many search improvements, other than the one-for-one result porting Google's experiment has found. We don't really know the relative magnitude of porting-results versus other-benefits, yet I think that's important to the analysis.

If a useful automated or user-driven process generates a little indirect infringement around the edges, is that enough to demand the process be stopped entirely? Note, that's not the standard Google wants applied to user uploads to YouTube, or excerpting of news and websites onto Google services. Google says: "defend yourself, by adding opt-outs (robots.txt) or sending takedown notices, and we'll undo the incidental infringements eventually".
I haven't read the Avesta, but I don't believe in Zoroastrianism.
> VLC, while it often just works, is one of the slowest players I know.

VLC recently added GPU acceleration, though I don't know how well it works on OS X, or if it's even supported.
I'm sure they will, but 24 hours after a decently-publicized launch is a good starting point. I'd be more concerned with how the measurements were taken, because hitting the page to see how it looks or to bookmark it doesn't really qualify as 'using' I'd say.
Seems like Amazon also has a couple of offers:

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Smartphone-Bluetooth-Screen--I...

http://www.amazon.com/LG-Unlocked-Quad-Band-Bluetooth--Inter...
Link: http://www.algonaut.com/
Any thoughtful speculation about why they said no? It seems to me more like a personal vendetta response from a Facebook-faithful (i.e. anti-Google) than justified by economical reason.

A niche social network platform acquired for $100MM? That's outlandish enough. I can't imagine their value exceeding that later on.
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reputation.

If we socially scorn businesspeople who only focus on extracting value without adding any, if programmers who work at those sorts of companies feel ashamed rather than proud, we won't eliminate the behavior, but we can certainly make it more expensive.
Yes, you're too hasty. I upvoted this without commenting because the article was strong and interesting and I had nothing to add.

Since 'great article, I agree completely' comments get downvoted on Hacker News (that's what the up arrow's for), a lot of upvotes and few comments means the article is both good and not particularly contentious.
You've basically described all self-help books in the history of mankind.
What looks fake? Why would I fake it?

I'd be happy to answer questions if you are actually interested.
It's interesting to me that they turned down a $100M+ offer and raised at only a $25M pre-money valuation. Wouldn't it make more sense to raise at close to $100M pre-money?
Six exoplanets in close orbit around far-flung star
I think the reason people (including me) hate this particular idiom is that it adds nothing. The quote itself is sufficient emphasis without the sentence fragment "This." attached below it. Oftentimes we see a comment reply consisting solely of the word "This.", again, adding nothing that the voting system doesn't already do a better job of.

And now I have added nothing to the actual topic, which was a somewhat irrelevant to HN but amazing discussion of life in Cairo this week. Sorry.
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Sort of P.J. O'Rourke's _Holidays in Hell_, the financial edition...
If you are going to a World Top 5 - then it might be worth it to network with the people who are going to be hiring CEOs. But for the same money you can join the golf club.

Otherwise the world is full of middle managers who were sent on low grade MBAs by mega corps who didn't know what to do with them and couldn't fire them

When you are interviewing managers were given a year off by a now-defunct multinational to do an MBA, ask how all the projects they claimed to be deeply involved with managed to run without them during that time.
How is this a straw man attack?
Much of what Tim Ferriss writes is genuinely useful, particularly when it comes to experimentation, testing, and questioning assumptions.

Unfortunately, these messages are (1) packaged in the form of breathlessly-sold, instant-results snake oil; (2) explicitly modeled on the past 20 years of Men's Health and Cosmopolitan magazine covers; (3) contain obnoxious levels of social signaling and influence-via-association.

The reality is the above three factors are what have contributed the most to his renown. People want to instantly become wealthy, famous, and desirable with zero effort. They want to believe that someone (anyone) can provide these things, and they're willing to pay money on the off-chance they're able to deliver. They want to be associated with someone who travels around the world, hangs out with famous people all day, and seemingly succeeds in everything.

Ferriss promises people exactly what they want, so they buy. Simple as that.

The operative question for all of us on HN: what Ferriss does clearly works. Do you choose to emulate him? Why or why not?
what a bad name, it's hard to even search for them. Turning down $100m was insanity, and the friction between co-founders will very likely fester and be terminal for them.
I get the impression we aren't being told the whole story
You're not making sense. So if a book purports to help someone, it's automatically bullshit? Even if many people have found it to be useful and to have a positive impact in their lives?
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(Throwaway account even though I did already quit)

I suspect you're partially right, but also how insightful is a comment "yeah, I hate my job, too"?

I decided to quit my (great in many ways) job during my 2 week break end of last year and I'm working my last days of the transition/notice period. Because of the extended transition period, I've had a lot of time to reflect on the noise (and signal) of my position. I'm definitely going to miss the signal, the coworkers, and the comp, but the noise was absolutely unbearable at times, and more often than not, completely unnecessary. It was fabricated, chosen noise, not the ever-present inherent noise in a profit-seeking company.

I'll let you know in a year if choosing less noise and way less guaranteed comp (at a startup) was a good call. Anecdotally, of course...
Maybe going the Groupon route? Or, trying to. It's hard to know whether or not they know things that the general public and Google doesn't, or that Google knows something we don't.

Interested to see how this pans out on both sides and the industry's reactions along the way! Thanks for all the comments.
! or This, it doesn't had that much to conversation. I'd rather read fewer comments, than a bunch of this-s. But again, that's my opinion.
It may start slow (though personally I loved the start), but it sure picks up towards the last third. It blew my mind into many, many pieces.
What does that translate to in ad revenues?
You get to use the standard browser controls over the random clutter of controls in iTunes.

This is an important point. Every time I have to use the iTunes store I'm annoyed at how sluggish it is, how poor the search is, how odd the navigation seems to be, and how much I miss having tabs.
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Hi tst,

We're really excited as our customer base is building rapidly.

We started by delivering brochures and talking to people in our own city (Vancouver) to work on generating some buzz around here.

After that we've been working hard on our blog www.salonmonster.com/blog, posting to twitter, facebook, other blogs, posting to directories and talking to everyone we know.

Big thanks to everyone who has been supporting us already, the response has been amazing.
When snow hit, this University class moved to Facebook
Indeed. The Mono folks may be interested in building something like this and glue it into MonoDevelop.
It's a bit strange yes. I don't know about the other "founders" (founders? come on, its a fork) but there was some drama between Eric and the main developer of redmine and checking the activity log he is the one who has started chiliproject.

Eric has written a lot about redmine and does consultancy about it so I guess that after investing so much on redmine, the only option left for him was to fork it.

I've been planning on offering redmine as Saas for a while at http://redmined.com (yeah, there's a lot of people doing the same already, I know) but maybe I'll move to chiliproject if the fork goes well.
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One of the two that you're eating for breakfeast after following this guide? ;)
Not if they anticipated raising more money later. Raising at $100M means they were setting themselves up for a down-round when they next raised (i.e. raising at less than $100M).

Unless they're extremely confident that they'd be valued at more than $100M in their next financing round, raising at less than $100M sounds like the smart, um, path.
We've just got to hope for the best - there aren't many acquisition stories that end with "at least they didn't fuck it up." But I hope this is one of them. Grats to the OKCupid team. And don't worry, if reddit-post-acquisition is any indication, no one on the team would let hipmunk be sullied with obnoxious advertisements.
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You could ask the same question of MPEG-LA: they don't indemnify their customers either.

But Microsoft does. Why doesn't Google?
no, not read any of morgan, but i love all three of stross, banks and vinge. 'accelerando' felt like a far more minor novel than, say, 'player of games' or 'a fire upon the deep', though. if you want super-fast, super-speculative hard-science fiction, check out baxter's xeelee sequence ('vacuum diagrams' makes an excellent starting point)
"The Startup Wars" is pretty excellent.
This is a (relatively) good summary of the situation. I think you exaggerate on point #1, but it doesn't really matter, so let's not quibble.

Your question is interesting though: if you have genuinely good content (or functionality), do you market it as aggressively as possible, knowing that if you don't, less useful stuff by superior marketers is going to win out? Doesn't game theory indicate that you should, if you want to positively impact as many as possible?
You know, it's possible to admire Tim and his work and still feel that the general style, this entire genre of books has jumped the shark.

Taken like that, it's not an attack, just some gentle ribbing. And it's not even directed at Tim per really -- it's the rest of us who eagerly buy into such over the top nonsense that's really being made fun of.

(I haven't read the book or know from Tim. But I'm very familiar with this style of writing. In my 20s I bought all sorts of these books and tapes, so this style has been around for a long time)
I have a wife and a 7 months old son; and while I love them both very much, working from home is really hard because of all the distractions. Not to mention it gets really hard to separate home from work time. It also gets pretty boring (smelly too, since the incentive to take care of yourself decreases :)).

I do work remotely, with flexible schedule and all that, but I have rented an office pretty close to my home.

Just wanted to say: I don't know how other people can work from home.
I picked up an MBA in 2001-2003 and I couldn't agree more.

Did I learn a lot? Absolutely.

Did I meet some great people? Sure.

Worth the expense? Hell no. I could have plowed that money into a startup and learned 10x as much in 1/2 the time.

These days skip the MBA, join a startup incubator, and use the saved hundred grand or so as runway for your startup.

Exception: Ivy League schools put you in a "boys club" for the rest of your life that will open doors at startups, banks, service providers, Venture Capital firms, etc. If you are going to spend the money, for heaven's sake go to Harvard, Stanford, or somewhere else with the killer network.
Wow. That system is locked down tight! You can't even cd into C:\
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Here's a mirror/copy/screenshot (trying to hit all the browser text search keywords; it's not actually a screenshot):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3232537/html/search.html
It's like a written, Tim-Ferriss-ized version of those Old Spice commercials!

"Hello, ladies, look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped using ladies scented body wash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re on a boat with the man your man could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again, the tickets are now diamonds. Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I’m on a horse."
Yes, that's the same.
1999 (comic)
It's an interesting idea, but you need to provide more information in order to get feedback. Right now it seems like I would have to sign up to find out more about the system. Could you provide more examples of what a coded strategy would look like, maybe some screenshots of the working interface, and what the business model (pricing etc) is?
Do you have any idea how much they were making? http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2010/02/at-okcupid-open... suggests $15 million in revenues.

And selling a business with $6 million in investment for $50 million is likely to be lucrative enough, anyway (and you'd hope that they were turning some profits to justify the $50 million.)
Just happened to go to the Chrome Web Store, and suddenly thought, why didn't they just imitate this layout? Of course they had different teams, but their own Chrome Web Store's layout beats this Android one by a mile.

Link for comparison: https://chrome.google.com/webstore

Just a thought.