skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could be playing the long view and realizing how much that address space is worth. If I were in charge of IT at those companies, I'd renumber out of the block and start thinking about selling the space, once it gets tight.

I've noticed that the perceived view in the netops community -- backed up by mailing list messages today, even -- is that such an IPv4 broker market is an inevitability no matter what the RIRs do. There are policies about it, but some regions (i.e., APNIC) have a model that encourages reselling space without their involvement.
"Now is the right time to sell MySpace"
Mavis Beacon told me to use two spaces when I was learning to type properly in the 90's.
The advice to go 64-bit and throw RAM at the problem brings back memories of my computational math class.
I've mentioned this several times, but I'll bring it up again because I'm legitimately surprised at how expensive many seem to think these shirts are. Screen printing should absolutely not cost $10/ea for a 2-color print, especially for anything over 36 shirts. If you're paying this, then you're being robbed. End of story. I have had many shirts printed before so I know where to look, but it's really not that difficult to find a decent printer with fair prices. Right now my costs are below $6/ea, and that's for medium-grade, fashion fitted tees. If I went with cheapy Gildan tees, I would be at less than $5/ea, but I'd rather not sacrifice the quality to squeeze out a tiny more profit. I want people to be pleased with what they're buying. I'm thinking of myself in their shoes.
I would like to add emphasis to this particular sentence:

Email me if you want to get serious any time.
How'd this make it through the dupe filter? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103428

(edit: because of the query string. Is it too much to ask HN readers to search before they submit?)
Nice. You're about to start doing payment processing (among other things) for Hot House, my best client. Seeing you here gives me great confidence!
Have you found any good introductions?
and watch them code something

You may find http://www.interviewzen.com/ useful. It's a hiring tool I'm building around the idea that you can tell a lot about someone's coding ability by seeing them in action.
This is the #1 thing on the TODO. So far all sign-ups (which are not many) have successfully added products, which has surprised me.
Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-founder? (February 2011 Edition)
Anyone looking for a co-founder, either to join their project, or to join someone else, reply with your idea or what you're looking to join, and contact info.

I'll go first:

[Cupertino, CA] I'm working on a dashboard/inbox-like web app for all your stuff online. It indexes and allows you to organize your photos, videos, posts, and other media and access them from anywhere. Unlike pure personal search, like Greplin, this app organizes related media and presents it more like a graphical lifestream than a list of search results.

I've been building the backend (node.js, MongoDB, ElasticSearch) for a couple of months now, and I'm looking for a frontend developer who's interested in design/UX, excited about building an interactive web app (HTML5, CSS3) and tackling some interesting visual organization problems.

Interested? a [at] unoc [dot] net
I'm sorry I don't have time to go through your app more, but here some things that occurred to me (I have 17 month old and 3 yr old, so just out of your target):

1) Try to collect data and offer up suggestions
2) Try to get a good Facebook presence. (etsy.com). Your target market lives on Facebook now.
3) Can you email your registry?

Gotta go. Good luck
AT&T has stated that 98% of its users use less than 2GB per month. If Verizon is going to throttle the top 5% of its users, Verizon is probably anticipating throttling a good bit below 2GB for a couple reasons. First, data usage is exponential. According to AT&T, 65% of data users use under 200MB meaning that only 33% use between 200MB and 2GB. So, capping the top 5% might mean throttling at 1.5GB or 1GB. Second, Verizon has fewer heavy smartphone users (for now). Verizon has stated that it sold 9M Android phones in 2010. AT&T sold more iPhones in half a year. AT&T has also been selling these high-data devices for longer. Much of Verizon's smartphone population consists of RIM and WiMo users who didn't have another option on Verizon until late 2009. So, it's likely that Verizon's average smartphone and top 5% data usage is below AT&T's simply because their mixture of devices is skewed toward devices people use less data with.

I was really excited that Verizon was going to be offering unlimited data with the iPhone. However, they've just said that they're actually going to be offering less data. The difference is that they're throttling while AT&T is offering full-speed with the risk of overage. I guess Verizon is worried about a ton of high-usage iPhone users degrading their network and has decided that they'll simply degrade service for high-end users.

It's disappointing, but I do appreciate that there are realistic concerns about keeping networks running. The introduction of the iPhone on Verizon is likely to double the number of high-data smartphones on their network and that will mean that the shared bandwidth available will become scarcer. I understand that networks are shared resources, but I'm disappointed in Verizon. After saying that their network had the capacity, they announce that they're going to be throttling at amounts less than AT&T's plan.

Information from AT&T comes from http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=17991&cdvn=news...
I have to wonder what the DoD's Network Information Centre needs with 151 million IP addresses. Surely they could spare a few.
YouTube: Free music can pay as well as paid downloads
Canadian government to reverse CRTC decision on Internet billing
We put RPN mode on eCalc. Just click on the ALG menu button on the top right.

http://www.ecalc.com/

When we started with the project, I was a die-hard RPN guy. However, buy the end I was converted over to using algebraic. There's a little tear in the corner of my eye right now.
I know. I contacted the owner of babylist.com (it's a mirror of babylist.co.uk) and they never got back to me.
Not only is it a distraction. I see that and think "You are going to send me email that will be sent to 15,000 other people? That would just be spam for me! Why should I sign up if you are going to spam me?"
There's no silver bullet - my four hours of hacking were backed by a lifetime of work, learning, and experience. I'll be running a series of blog posts detailing the entire project, from start to finish. Be on the lookout http://madebyloren.com
For the point you are trying to make, the email analogy falls flat because it is not really an unsuccessful technology which creates the purchases but an appeal to human emotion. It's not as if an email can make a person take an action in the same way that a data packet can determine the actions of a computer.

(Determining the degree to which Google's methods are similar to a 419 scam is an exercise for the reader).
Your post is overly optimistic, but your oversight of "terabytes" is
entirely due to Verizon refusing to elaborate on the details of their
data plans or how they work in practice.

On plans sold as "unlimited" there is actually a usage cap. When the cap
is exceeded, bandwidth throttling is employed through the end of the
monthly billing cycle. For the newer $50/mo data plans, the cap is
5GByte/mo. For the newer $80/mo data plans, the cap is 10GByte/mo.

The data transfer tech currently deployed by Verizon is EVDO Rev.A in
most places. Some areas only have the older EVDO Rev.0 deployed. The new
new Verizon LTE ("4G" I hate that definitionless acronym) launched in
December 2010 is only available in some areas, but they're still
building out that network.

The typical download throughput I see with EVDO Rev.A is 1.1Mbit/s. If I
hit the bandwidth throttle point by exceeding the cap, the download
throughput drops to 200Kbit/s.
"For decades, Mubarak coped with Egypt's youth unemployment problem by expanding college enrollments. "

It sounds like this has been a problem for many years and is more of a symptom of the style of government than our current economic situation.

" employers might choose to reach past today's unemployed, who may appear to be damaged goods, and pick from the next crop of fresh-faced grads."

I think this really depends on what the unemployed are doing. I'v been unemployed for the last 6 months and I've been working harder on my own projects than when I was actually working. I can put all of these projects on my resume because they directly relate to my industry. If you are just sitting at home playing Xbox, you might have a problem.

"He feels betrayed that he has been unable to find work in his chosen field, "origins of religion.""

Students going into college should really check to see what kind of a demand there is for their degree..otherwise there will be disappointment. This will happen in any economy, not just a bad one.

"If the purpose is to create jobs, as opposed to just filling them, loosey-goosey may be exactly what's needed. Entrepreneurship—with all its guesswork and improvisation—could be the most underexploited means of reducing youth unemployment."

I think this is a great idea, but many people just aren't cut out to start businesses.
Is it possible the £585 is a standard fee regardless of simplicity or complexity? i.e. oil change, $40. (no matter it's an easy access filter or complicated filter change)
I was the Director of Technology for Naughty America up until about 7 months ago when I transitioned to a "mainstream" job as those in the industry call it. Was definitely an interesting experience, but as others have said the things you learn about massive traffic, high availability, scalability and TONS of streaming video are hard to get anywhere else, unless you're working for a Google or Yahoo. Naughty America at one point was in the top 800 highest trafficked of all sites on the web, 1M+ uniques a day. I'm now the CTO of a startup and when I was leaving Naughty America everyone I interviewed with viewed that experience as an asset, as most intelligent people will.

www.gfy.com is the most popular adult webmaster forum, but there are others like www.justblowme.com, www.adultwhoswho.com, etc
It's the traditional American typewriter standard, which carried over into some text editors: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sen...
The paper card could just say "win" or "lose" too.
Facebook Celebrates 7th Birthday
I got into eXtreme Programming during college around 1999. I put it on my resume and dropped the name at various applications. I went around looking for Smalltalk jobs and then got recruited by ThoughtWorks in 2000, probably because I had the XP interest.

I recommend identifying what you want to do, find out who's doing it, and then contacting people there directly until they bring you in. Knowing what I know now, my approach of mostly sending out resumes and hoping for the best was not optimal. I still don't know how to "network" but calling companies that are doing cool things, or asking people on irc where they work and whether they like it, things like that, are probably going to be sort of like networking.
'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.'
I'm so much an RPN geek that I have an HP 41CX emulator for my phone, because my physical calculator isn't everywhere. (It's actually an excellent emulator, but of course there's no tactile feel to be had from the keys, which I miss a lot)
Whoops, yes you are right.

Fixed, more complete version of this part:

1 < sqrt(2)^a <= 2 for all a in [1,2]. I.e. the sequence (with x=sqrt(2)) is lower-bounded by 1 and upper-bounded by 2.

Also, because sqrt(2)^a >= a for all a>sqrt(2), the sequence is also monotone.

By that, it follows that it converges to some value y.

Now, given that it converges, you know that sqrt(2)^y = y and also y in [1,2]. And then you have y=2.
why not automate this, have a job run when an article is submitted to cluster it and if the cosine similarity is very high to a previous submission in the past n months reject it? Seems pretty easy for such a traffic'd site.
"the work needed to put the favicon live was complicated
by an old environment (which has since been updated) that caused issues and extended the time taken to carry out the work."

Sounds like their old CMS system made it difficult to actually add a favicon in the template. I very much doubt the quoted price is just for creating the icon.
how much are you making?
In my experience, people start complaining that an interview is "theory-heavy" at about the point that you expect them to know when and how to use a binary tree. Binary trees are not hard-core CS theory, they are freshman Intro to Data Structures. They are a very basic tool (almost) every programmer should be familiar with.

Moreover, when I ask candidates questions about data structures and algorithms, while it's nice if they can ace it all without hesitation, what I'm really looking for is what happens when their first answer is wrong. When they pick an incorrect data structure for the problem and I probe to say, "so, using that data structure, how do you this task?", I want to see if they will realize that the task I'm asking for is hard to implement or has very poor performance using the data structure they have chosen, and whether they will step back and realize they made a mistake. The point is less what do you know, but do you know what you don't know and do you recognize when what you're trying isn't working.
I just installed Droid48 on my Android, it looks really good so far too:

https://github.com/shagr4th/droid48

http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.ab.x48
Funny - I use amazon simpleDB/RDS in the exact same way - the index on RDS makes insertion really slow, so I use simpleDB as a cache and load into RDS nightly.
And those cards are available - but there will always be an element of time wasting due to the fact that paper cards need to make you scratch away, whereas online versions do not.
I found my first job through a job fair - but I had several internships before that. Small projects are great to show that you have interest in programming by default. It will definitely be worth something. But I reckon my internships helped me quite a bit in getting them to talk to me. After that, it's a whole bunch of technical questions, coding, etc.

Networks and job fairs are fairly useful. If you attend conferences or talks, get to know the people there.
FYI - I just received an invitation to a baby shower with a reference to www.amazingregistry.com. Your site looks much more pleasant than theirs, and you have a more narrow focus... but since their URL ended up on a real baby shower invitation, I'd say they are your competition.
Mavis Beacon had never apparently heard of the numeric keypad, or the Ctrl key, so what would she know?
Developers, talk to a VC before a recruitment agency
mdasen, your speculation is incorrect, but it's really not your fault since Verizon is not very forthcoming about how their plans actually work. Please see my other post in this thread. I've had a Verizon Wireless data plan for more than half a decade, and I monitor it constantly.
The main EventManager class synchronizes on triggering a new event. Then every event gets its own brand new thread. Then each newly spawned thread turns around and synchronizes to wait for the right to dispatch to the event's handlers. Then each handler gets its own brand new thread.

For m events with n handlers, that's mn+m threads. 100 events w/ 5 handlers? That's 600 new threads.

If you have frequent events or your handlers take any time at all, you're dead. This will simply grind to a halt under any kind of real load.
TripAdvisor acquires EveryTrail
Better yet: "apt-get install x48"
HP has official HP calculator apps on the iOS app store. There's a 12c for $15:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hp-12c-financial-calculator/i...

A 12c Platinum for $20:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hp-12c-platinum-financial/id3...

Finally, a 15c for $30:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hp-15c-scientific-calculator/...
MySQL would have languished in MyISAM or broken InnoDB world forever.

Ahem. Not to rain on anyone's parade but in my world InnoDB is still broken.

I maintain quite a few production MySQLs and they blow up with great regularity.

Usually it hits individual tables, sometimes (gladly more rarely since the 5 series) it suddenly feels insecure about the contents of ibdata altogether. And no, it's not the hardware.

Anecdote needed?

Just last week we had to drop/re-create an InnoDB-table in one project because it would not allow to add an index anymore, no matter what we tried. If some MySQL expert around here can shed some light, I'm all ear, the error message was:

Mysql::Error: Incorrect key file for table 'foo'; try to repair it: CREATE INDEX [...]

Google revealed a handful of familiar sounding bug-reports mentioning column-renames, which the table had indeed undergone, but nothing really helpful, so we resorted to the drop/create sledgehammer.

Gladly that worked. This time. And every time I wonder why people can't just use PostgreSQL, where such issues (believe it or not) simply don't exist.
I'm a member, but not actively.

I had the idea for the site and posted it (http://forrst.com/posts/Any_designers_interested_on_collabor... but I don't think this link will work if you're not logged in)

This is what I wrote:

Hey,

I'm a ruby on rails developer and I'm 5 months pregnant.

Today I created a baby registry and it was a nightmare. I ended up using the amazon.com universal wishlist. It's a bookmarklet that lets you add any product on the web to an amazon wishlist. Unlike a registry, your friends and family "reserve" an item instead of actually buying it from the specific store that has the registry.

My idea is to create a new website "baby registry anywhere" (terrible name) where you can add and reserve items similar to the universal wishlist. I think it would also be cool to be able to add more than one link for an item, so your friends/family could choose where to purchase it.

I could probably code a minimal, launchable version in a week (or 5 Fridays). In the past I've hired designers for projects but I'd love to work with someone as partners on this.

---

I had a kind of overwhelming response and clicked with one designer via text chat and we went forward. In retrospect, I've spent way more than 5 days on this.
Yup ... for me, just swap out twitter with HN
TeX, one of my baselines for good typographical rules, does not do a double space after sentences, but neither does it do a single space; it's more like a space and a half (unless you turn French spacing on, in which case it is just a single space). So I feel he's wrong on substance. Additionally Emacs uses it for sentence motion and that's important enough to me to retain the practice, particularly given that if I care enough about the typesetting to do it properly I'll be using TeX.
1. Keep it simple. Do not add features like people ask!

2. Your domain name sucks. Look for something better. This is impossible to recall.
Will be this 39 in March this year and started a company. Planning to be a micropreneur and hopefully generate income from the company by 40. Self-sustaining by 41.
Rules For Overtaking Industries with Andy Kessler
InsightSquared Announces $1M Seed Funding From All-Star Cast
2011 The Year of Marketplaces and How to Win
Groundhog Day 2011: What did Punxsutawney Phil predict and is he right?
BetNext-Play Virtual betting on Twitter 
Betnext.in allows virtual betting on your favorite teams in leagues like NFL,NBA,EPL,La liga,NHL etc.,

You can bet directly from Twitter tool or client without signing in..:)
Interview with Manpacks.com Founder Ken Johnson
Starter. To a fault.
ECalc Online Scientific Calculator is now free
This reminds me a lot of www.isbornyet.com

Similar idea, but with the variant of your own domain and the ability to announce to friends etc, when your baby is born.
It's for accounting purposes, so that companies are all measured by the same yardsticks. It's not that they want to do this - it's that they're required to, under GAAP, at least if they have public investors.

Imagine that companies were not required to amortize capital expenditures over the life of the equipment. Then imagine that you have two gigantic web companies, each big enough to require thousands of servers. Company A rents their servers from Amazon.com through EC2. Company B builds their own datacenter.

Company A's earnings are straightforward: take their revenues and then subtract out the fees they pay for hosting (and all the other stuff, like salaries, licensing, etc.) Company B, however, has this massive cash hit in the first year, and then pays nothing (well, except for power, cooling, etc.) in subsequent years. If they weren't required to amortize their CapEx, Company B would look drastically worse than Company A in year 1, and then drastically better for all subsequent years, even though they do the exact same thing. Investors would be misled into investing in Company A, and then complain when Company B's earnings shot up once they no longer report their cap-ex.

Ask an accountant for more details.
I like the approach in this post. It sounds more reasonable.

I dislike the term, "screening." It's not a good feeling for the interviewee to know that they're just being filtered before they get an interview. That the person interviewing them doesn't even believe that they can do their job properly. Screening reinforces the notion that the interviewee is just another rat in the race and that you, the interviewer, barely have the time to see them. It's an ugly, loaded term and I really don't like even hearing it.

The traditional hiring process is a problem that goes both ways. It's nerve-wracking and emotionally draining for the person being interviewed and it's a time consuming risk for the person interviewing. The interviewee has to spend time crafting their CV, prepping themselves to answer a slew of random esoteric and useless trivia, and drag themselves to countless appointments. The interviewer has to sift through innumerable resumes and figure out which ones fit, sit through dozens of interviews, and then gamble that the person they've selected isn't going to waste a whole bunch of time and money.

I think it's a search problem. At least for hiring programmers I think it's possible to filter incoming applications to your specific requirements. It should be possible to rank those submissions within your query. Then you should already have a good idea of how many interviews you will need to do and you can skip past the "screening" process.

At least, I hope. I've been putting some back-40 hours into figuring out this problem. :)
We seem to have a bit in common!

I'm 23 now, and up until last July I was a professional touring musician (drummer!)...

During college my band signed to Victory Records. We all decided to finish up college and began touring immediately after we graduated. (Computer Engineer here...) I had quite a few people tell me I was making a big mistake continuing with the band and not pursuing a career with my degree... but I honestly believe I learned more on the road (about the world in general) than I would have during that same amount of time in an office.

I had a lot of fun doing it too... it was an opportunity I'm very glad I didn't give up. I left the band for personal reasons/differences and have been working on my startup day-in, day-out ever since.

My startup is actually centered around touring bands and their management/labels/booking. You can check it out at http://www.rela.cc if you want. It's actually days away from officially launching... I just need to add the ~30-second ads for bands and management, and make a few changes to the video tutorial.

So yeah... have fun while you can people and don't pass up once in a lifetime opportunities no matter your age! Maybe if my startup sustains me I'll be able to play music on the road again.