skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with Charter, 30Mbit down 5Mbit up at a not too outrageous price. I typically see 32-33Mbit down in actual use (sustained). 60Mbit down is available but is still too expensive for my use. They don't cap your bandwidth at this time either. Their customer service really isn't that bad in my experience. They haven't hesitated to send out techs to look into potential line problems. They've swapped out modems (leased) on request. They proactively send out hardware when upgrading (DOCSIS 2.0 to 3.0 for example) so that consumers are ready ahead of time etc. They certainly aren't perfect but my other option is AT&T which is atrocious in this area and has trouble providing their top speed U-Verse. My only complaints with Charter are with their television packages which stink and are overpriced. I'm pretty sure that's only partially their fault.
Saying "I don't know" in the High Performance Workplace
Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. It changed the way I think about sanity and insanity, my model of the mind and motivational forces, the "big-picture" view of economics, how government works, how psychiatry works, and the way media affects us.

IMO it's treatment of desire (from a negative (lack) to a positive (thought production machine); relationship of desired object to its platonic object desire; how desire is generated) is a great framework for advertising and product development.
New year, new brand.

In all seriousness, I promise we will explain this later.
100 paperbacks ~= 115 kindle books ~= 40 hardcover books (33% of 115)

140 paper books ~= 115 kindle books => ~82% as many kindle books as paper books
If you have e=mc2 then relativity happens mostly automatically (Because energy is mass, it makes objects heavier when they go fast, and since they are heavier it takes even more energy to accelerate them, take that to the limit and c becomes the fastest you can go.)

And once you have that you realize that energy is relative (because speed is relative, otherwise you can easily get free energy by having two slow object who's speed adds up to c), and the rest of the coding falls out from there.

I'm not sure if relativity is necessary for the coding, and you do it in reverse. I think e=mc2 was first and everything followed from there.
After university, I was unemployed for a time and two things helped me to find new jobs and dramatically improve my income level:
a) learning Perl on my own during the unemployment period* and writing two open source programs, thus demonstrating my skill with the language and impressing my first employer;
b) getting a three month state-paid Java course (SCJP) and getting to know the Java-API and environment.

Self-motivation, training, a certain amount of luck - there are numerous factors to getting a good job. For some lazy slobs, it may be getting their welfare money reduced. But for others it may be getting a longer period of welfare and training so they can learn something new which allows them "to do what they love". I think it is not enough to talk about getting people into any kind of job, as if having a job, no matter what, is sufficient or necessary to justify their existence. We need to help people get into the right jobs, and those jobs need to be paid fair wages.

* Programming was(is) more fun than playing DAoC all day.
They're not really posers if their behaviour is encouraged by the environment and culture in the Silicon Valley.
VERY good point.

> Nobody talks about subtlety.

Yes they do - It's just that nobody notices :)

Kidding. Seriously, very good point.
Ask HN: How do you read online?
Recently I noticed I have developed what might or might not be a bad habit. When reading through articles online, generally Hacker News, if I find an interesting article headline I'll scan through and look for the following:

* Section headings that break up long text

* Bullet point lists

* Images or diagrams

If an article doesn't have at least 1 of these I will generally click back, unless its a very important article.

I know that by reading this way I am probably missing out on some good articles but with very little time to read these days due to running a startup I find I have increasingly less time to read?

Is the good or bad? How do others read on sites like Hacker News?
Make sure the reserved words for queries are from Harry Potter as well.

ex: "WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA `users` WHERE userID = 9.75"
The most common reason I've heard is that the Valley is a terrible place to start a family

Apart from the cost of housing, let's see: sunshine 9 months a year, driving distance of Tahoe to go ski, the ocean is 40 minutes away, we can go every weekend, plenty of campgrounds and parks within an hour drive.

No, I think it's a great place to raise a family. But of course everyone is different.
I use it as well, and have been meaning to dig into the code to setup automatic login and playing. I think the stream that it accesses is completely advertising-free too. But I would gladly listen to the pandora ads on it since it runs with SO MUCH LESS memory and CPU than any other player.
ericsimons@es40.net - thanks for reminding me to update that!
Love to hear any comments or feedback about what you guys think.
Next step is "pay per buy" with conversion tracking that these companies can clearly track.
I said nothing about the founding team, and I hope their next project will work out great, but video streaming bandwagon (which started with justin.tv) is defacto overhyped and underperforming industry. anyways, goodluck.
Durability is the new web scale.
I don't want to support Oracle's sailboat racing. So, I don't own any Oracle shares. Pretty simple, isn't it?
FTA:

- Only 16% of high-net-worth individuals inherited their stash (high-net-worth = USD millionaire)

- Another 23% of the world’s millionaires got rich through paid work
Me-Too Drugs: Herd Animals, Not Copycats
>... did his own depression cloud his view...?

Interestingly, some might argue that his depression afforded him the clarity to have this view. Conversely, the lack of depression clouds the views of others:

"Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
Wow, well put. There is of course no Intention of The Man to ingeniously swap margarine in for butter, but the gravity of profit margins will tend to pull reality that way. It usually does.
"Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School looked at the media habits of 4,142 healthy adolescents and calculated that each additional hour of TV watched per day boosted the odds of becoming depressed by 8%."

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/03/science/sci-tv3

"Unhappy people glue themselves to the television 30 percent more than happy people."

http://www.livescience.com/culture/081115-tv-unhappy.html
Big Data Compute Cluster using Chef, Hadoop & Cassandra in the AWS cloud
I think the point is that FB did nothing until it hit close to home and was embarrassing to their brand.
Agreed. I can't imagine many people are going to be willing to stake much effort on an idea they aren't excited about.

An exciting idea doesn't have to be a good idea. A lot of dumb ideas seem like good ideas until you're half way through executing on them.

Whether or not having a good idea is critical to a good startup, that can be debated. But few people can muster up motivation to take risks on ideas that don't excite them...
LinkedIn’s Largest Shareholders And How Much They Own
Scrapblog Acquired by Mixbook
Diss on SOAP if you want but it does provide good error support for working with transactions in Java EE 6, ESB, etc. If you need to use infrastructure that works with SOAP, then use SOAP and stop whining.

If you don't need to interop with existing systems that use SOAP, then sure, a REST style makes sense.
Ask HN: Please review my app onesmallpage
Hi Everybody,
I just launched a web app called onesmallpage which aims to help you read more by emailing you a page (or more) of a book of a book every day. I'd like to hear your feedback on the design and functionality of the site. Also any feature requests, or discussions about the future of the site would be more than welcome.

http://onesmallpage.appspot.com

Basically the site came out of the idea that I do a lot of reading every day, but most of it isn't reading great books. I read my email, Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other websites every day and I thought that if I could channel at least a little bit of that reading into book reading I would be a more productive and well-rounded person.

Right now I'm pulling about 100 out-of-copyright books from Project Gutenberg for you to choose from. If the site gets popular I plan to add the entire catalog.

The way it works is you find a book that you want to read, enter your email, and we will send you up to 5 pages of that book a day.

Thanks for any feedback!
Dan
Investors have a herd mentality.
True, the basic problem I have seen with people that present views such as Chomsky's is that I have yet to see an alternative to free market capitalism that doesn't have worse problems (in my opinion) than any problem pointed to by those such as Chomsky.
Soap isn't really good, but its not just MS who pushed it. In the 90s it was endorsed by giants like IBM and Oracle
Wow, that's a big warehouse full!
Vaughn Analyzes Chat Data To Create List of Top Justin.tv Channels
The last time I saw a post like this on HN, I replied that both idea and execution are important, with a contrived example. The creativity of the responses made me rethink my stance.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404428
2% equity in a $1,000,000 company is $20,000. Over four years of vesting at a 7% interest rate that's about $4,250 a year. It probably doesn't offset the pay cut you're taking...particularly if you consider the risk premium 7% return is nothing. It isn't a cofounder offer, don't kid yourself.

[edit]The domain name may not even be a company asset, and with the kind of control the founder has, even if it is, he is free to sell it to himself for a nominal price making your stock worth less.
I was working at the Hollywood Stock Exchange at the time and was completely perplexed by the "betting parlor" hyperbole used by the opposing congressmen. It seemed to me that the actual players of the game would be much more interested in the status of making the right call or in creating content than any money they might earn.

If you are able to comment on this, what were the underlying pricing mechanics of the market? How were new securities going to be created? Heh, to think that simulated stock market software might be classified...
Completely right - its not a Microsoft problem as much as its an "enterprise" problem. IT Managers love things like SOAP.
Ask HN: Who applied to the Launch Conference?
Anyone here applied to Launch? If so, did you go through any interviews and what was it like?
I've been using NetBeans on Linux as my main Rails IDE for the last few years. I kinda like netbeans, but I've been using it since about v4 so I'm somewhat accustomed to it.

Features I make use of: project navigation, file navigation, syntax highlighting, jump to a declaration, re-indent and very occasional code-complete (mostly for css)

Features I don't use: everything else. I always have a terminal window open with about 5/6 tabs from which i do all my generations, migrations, console, server etc. I use RVM and NetBeans doesn't seem to play nicely with that
Isn't the commentary on YouTube well known to be the absolute worst discussion on the internet? Just what quality of questions were they expecting from that community?
How To Become A Successful Corporate Designer
It is very important to understand that the design of an identity program is much more than creating a logo. Identity is the total design, every action of an organization is a part of the corporate image. The logo is just a part of the image and, although important, does not mean anything without the support of others. To be a good designer in the corporate field, you should understand perfectly what identity systems are and what they seek to achieve.
Oops.

Thank's for the explanation :) Perhaps Amazon's words are intentionally ambiguous.

EDIT: Actually, I just read TechCrunch's article

Has the pixel to print tipping point been reached? Last July we reported that Amazon’s Kindle eReader books had surpassed hardcover books in terms of sales, selling 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books. Now that lead also holds for paperbacks and by default all books, with 115 Kindle books being sold for every hundred paperbacks.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/kindle-books-overtake-paper...
The emulator is painfully slow even when dealing with the basic android 2.3 UI - I think there is going to have to be some SERIOUS optimization done on Google's side before it's able to run this Graphic/Effect driven tablet UI.
I just put in my resignation at my current job earlier this week. I'm just not learning enough here, as I feel most of my time is spent dealing with bureaucracy and working around bad code. Additionally, I don't want my career to be that of an enterprise coder, despite it maybe being some good experience at the moment, so I'm moving on. I'm now looking at some combination of consulting and finishing my masters in CS.

When I mention this to people, most of them are shocked that I don't have another job lined up and don't know exactly what I'm doing next. I think most people are very scared by uncertainty. My wife certainly is. I'm just not going to worry about it as long as I'm moving towards having the career I want to have. Only one of my friends, who wants to start a business of his own, thought that I made a good and brave decision.

I figure as long as I'm taking steps to get where I want to go, I should eventually get somewhere I will enjoy being.
I have to say, REST is just a lot more straightforward than SOAP. Although there are numerous advantages with SOAP, I always cry myself to sleep at night when I find out that I have to use a SOAP API to complete a part of a project.
Arguably not a bug, since most systems that would have had Y2K problems were being operated well past the lifetime they had been designed for.
Anyone on HN have a cattle prod? ;)
The earth at night
15 open source projects you should know about as a web developer
Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me
resu.me (http://resu.me/) launched day before yesterday. Venturebeat covered our launch - http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/resu-me/.

A short snippet about resu.me - resu.me is a career networking platform for college grads/young professionals. resu.me uses semantic web and machine learning to match users with jobs better and faster. resu.me provides a set of awesome tools (RSS reader, Portfolio Wall, Blog/code post tool, Job aggregation and some more) that lets one quickly build a meaningful resume/network and land that dream job. resu.me is the one resume to rule them all :)

We'd love to hear your feedback/thoughts/suggestions. As a token of gratitude to HNers, we'll give a 2 letter http://xy.resu.me/ account (FCFS, if not already taken). Just indicate your current resu.me URL and your desired 2 letter resu.me URL.
Sure, you can -- my only point was that, as far as I know, vim doesn't really provide any help for working across multiple instances of itself.
The State of Haskell, 2010
Do people disagree? You read words by looking at the whole shape, and it has the same shape. I thought that's what it said when I first saw it.
Make a config file: ~/.config/pianobar/config that looks like this:
user = me@example.com
password = mypassword
LOL, Wireshark. Nice.
Clickable links: http://resu.me/ and http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/resu-me/
Launch your startup in 16 easy steps
I really really like the concept. One page a day ... bit by bit, I would be able to finish a book! However, considering how many emails I receive every day, I am already skipping some of them so I can't guarantee to myself that I won't skip the page sent in the mail!
But still I think it is a great idea. Wish you all the success.

Agnes
nice work finding nick. Has he had an success yet?
Being an entrepreneur is one of the few fields where your ingenious mind and relentless motivation will always pay off. I haven't met one true entrepreneur that hasn't built something really friggen' cool and had a burning passion that fueled that fire.
"Legitimate interest" just isn't the same as passion...you can already see the years of unpaid lab work and anticipate the academic tedium (leading to a series of $30k a year postdocs well into your thirties.) My advice: pick a major you actually have passion for not one that you believe people expect you to have.
Well, if you wanted to be a real geek about it, given n attempts, your chances of a single success are 1 - (.95 ^ n)... but I'd also like to think that an entrepreneurial endeavor is not pure chance.
I find one HUGE error. In today's world, you call the people that rent from you "residents" -- not "tenants". When I see or hear the word tenant it make me cringe. Might as well draw your fingernails across a chalkboard. Tenants rent office, industrial and retail buildings. Residents rent apartment units. I have a million other comments as well, some favorable and others negative, but I hate to type and am too busy to bother going into this at length. Good luck going forward. Lots of other competitors out there -- but your pricing does seem reasonable.

Oh and BTW, I would NEVER rent a building from DanBlake. He's the type of person who gives the industry a black eye, as well as ensuring that the indutry stays at least 10 years behind the tech curve.

That is all.
Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)
So essentially you allow the new guy to work on the marketing side of the site without fear of "breaking" any of any critical backend functionality? I assume he was able to get started fairly quickly (not much to learn besides some html and css).

I love the thought of A/B testing. But like you said, until I hit that 100/$1000 threshold, I still need to work on a lot of other things besides conversion rate (i.e. marketing.)

Looking forward to secret weapon #1.
Verizon Acquires Cloud Services Company Terremark for $1.4 Billion
Sand Hill Road.
When it works, it works really well
You should consider some serious design review. You want to appeal to young users, and yet your website is reminiscent of a site from the early 2000's.
It's interesting where about 80% of our test don't produce any significant results. One test nearly doubled our conversion of email and another one that is on-going now has done about a 30% increase.
This was long-winded and flawed in many ways.

To point just one flaw out: part of the argument is that the modern culture is designed by marketers to keep you unhealthy and consuming.

That's confusing, yet again, correlation with causation. It's just as likely that modern marketers are just doing what people want. That the current system of distraction, consumption, and unhealthiness is evolutionary and not some master plan of a cadre of evil overlords. Sure, it makes for a better straw man to bounce your essay off of, but it's flawed. If nothing else, it assumes a personality for a thing that quite obviously involves tens of thousands of people acting independently. Usually (almost always, really) such systems are emergent in nature.

I understand all the emotional buttons that are being pushed with this, and by all means enjoy your time reading it. I enjoy a good rant and pipe dream about "rational social planning" as much as the next guy. All I ask is to take a little time and ask "Am I being manipulated by people I should hate? Or am I being told a story and a narrative about people to hate so that I can be manipulated?"

EDIT: Of course the truth is somewhere in-between, and I didn't mean to make a false dichotomy. Most times these types of reasoning errors are simply artifacts of the way people solve problems. So, for instance, if you feel that systems are controlled from the top-down, you are more likely to see a dysfunctional system and assume that it was made that way from the top-down. Those of us who have studied dysfunctional systems can only wish that things were that simple. They aren't.
Zambia's Digital Revolution
Apply anyway. Worrying about what to do if you're accepted might be considered "premature design."
but have you seen the effects of "rational social planning" by the unenlightened?
I also did my BA in philosophy (epistemology and Heidegger) and my MS in computer science. I sell my philosophy experience as an ability to quickly understand and manipulate abstract concepts. I used to be pretty confident with this position, but these days I am less so.

I think the greatest benefit of my undergrad years haunting the philosophy department is that if I'm going to argue a point, I'm damn sure I'll have satisfied myself with my position, and have ready refutations for all counter-arguments I can think of. I don't comment much on web sites because the rigour of this far exceeds the two cents my opinion is worth.

My advice for anyone contemplating philosophy is this: learn to be good with analogies. Explaining abstract concepts is difficult and a good analogy (and here I mean a genuinely fitting one) goes a long, long way. If you spend a lot of time just thinking about stuff anyway, studying philosophy really gives you a lot of quite interesting stuff to think about: what is truth? Can we know something without expressing knowledge of it? If so, how can I know that you know something without your expressing it? A heady trapdoor indeed.
I feel like companies are over using social features in products. Sometimes it's a nice addition, but most of the time it's just a distraction from what your product actually does.

The best product is one that assists you in completing a certain task painlessly and quickly. Socializing is a time waster.

On top of that, if you're going to socialize, which product will you do it on? (insert product name here) or Facebook?
And it was you Patrick that turned me on to this fellow. Thanks.
Grad school can be like that, moreso if others outside of grad school appear to be moving faster. I'm near the end of my program and I know I've spent most of those 3 years battling my decision whenever I get inspired by someone else's work and want to start my own thing. The good thing though is you can turn that energy into planning your steps, and when you're done with your program you've got a more coherent concept of what you want to leap into.
Yea, he's not excused from checking in crappy code but he can basically push out any feature idea he has.

We have a master list of things to test, we prioritize weekly and pick the ones every Monday that he wants to do.
June 2011 will be the actual century mark. They have quite a few things to be proud about.
What kind of a/b testing tools are you using? Homegrown? Optimizely?
I really liked quodlibet (http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/) back in the days I only used linux. Don't know if you like the UI though.