skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(This is probably the one you want. The size of this dump is 6.07 GB compressed, approximately 27 GB uncompressed as of 2010-09-20.)"

That's just the HTML, no user or talk pages.
I admire his thoroughness.
Their architecture is flawed, given the platform and stack they chose.

Not only is it easily solvable, the solution would be cheaper than their current 'throw more VMs at a bad architecture' approach.
Now that the bill passed I think all they can do is defend the thing from getting overturned. There's probably nothing else they're willing to take on until the bill goes into effect and makes it through the supreme court (which it very likely won't).
I moved out of NYC to a more affordable state for this very reason. In 2009 my health care costs and rent were nearly all of my take-home pay. I had a kid on the way and it was going to be even worse, so I moved.
Now my healthcare costs, while still significant, fell by 50%. I also rent a 3-bedroom house for about half as much as I paid for rent on a 1-room apartment. With those savings, I can afford to fly back to NYC when I need to as often as I like.
(FWIW, I now live in Nashville. I also don't have to fool around with NY+NYC income taxes, which are also significant - plus their nice little 'unincorporated business tax' just for freelancers like myself.)
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Current time is only a small part of time handling, practically every crontab implementation handles DST differently due to the ambiguity in the posix standard which just states that time stamps have to be in local time taking no account that this can mean a scheduled task can incorrectly get run twice or never.
I just tried it for Dutch, and it got one out of the ten 5-word sentences I tried, correct. Some sentences only got one word right, and I sure was articulating like they do on national television ;)
They just got a much greater sample size for English, matter of time for the rest of the languages I hope.
>"you should be paying them enough that it would be insane for them to leave unless they were planning a complete career change."

Golden handcuffs are not going to create fulfilled employees. Just look around HN, golden handcuffs create runway and a strong motivation to use it.

Not that compensating employees well is a bad idea - particularly on a production line good wages create stability. The difficulty is that a production line has less outlet for creativity because the schedule is tight and creative time means shutting down the line. Once a company adopts the factory model, their options are limited and regardless of intentions, everyone cannot become a manager - only one or two will.
Getting rid of an incriminating thumb drive? Late-night search for garbage truck
EA's Madden picked the Packers as Super Bowl Champs - in September
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Harj started working with YC in W10 (my batch), and even 3 batches later, he still responds instantly to our emails and hops on skype whenever we need advice. Truly a stand-up guy and someone we really trust.
In NY, health insurance coverage cannot decline anyone based on pre-existing conditions. So younger, healthy applicants have to pay more since there are a lot of people in the system who are a net loss. Thus, less healthy people are covered, and the system continues become worse... it's a very bad feedback loop.
http://decimalti.me

There's a few ways to do it: as you can see, I like to use the 1/100 as the base unit (it's a little under 15 minutes in current reckoning) and go decimal beyond that since you have a neat percentage as a result, and you can drop off precision as needed.
It's estimated that 10,000 people have been arrested. It's likely that most are still hidden away by the Interior Ministry.

The fact that we had a face for this guy, and a title, and a link to a major corporation (that then asked for his release, setup a hotline and email, etc), probably really helped in the fact that he only stayed for 12 days, was treated well and subsequently released?
This is absolutely incorrect. Except in the singular example of arranging telecommunication across timezones, you have to maintain MORE information under this system. When I currently travel, I can make the assumption that any restaurant will be open by 11 AM, that I have to check out of my hotel by 11 AM and that I can't check in until 3 PM.

In your system, standard store hours have become a random regional fluctuation instead of a strictly maintained standard. I still need to maintain timezone information, but I ALSO need to do math in my head to figure out if it is an appropriate time to go to a certain kind of store.
You can get Azul's Linux patches here:

http://www.managedruntime.org/

From what I understand, the main win is that they use nested page tables to let the JVMs handle page faults directly, which is how they implement high-performance read barriers.

I don't know a lot about garbage collection, but read barriers seem to be the essential piece for implementing real-time (which really should be called "non-blocking") GC.

There's a good discussion on LtU about this: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4165

[edit] I should mention how this relates to Lisp operating systems: if you replace the virtual memory system with a garbage collector (ie push the GC into the kernel), you can get the same effect but without needing nested page tables/VT-x/RVI, even for user-space processes.

It should also be more efficient and waste less memory on fragmentation than going through a dumb VM.
And note that they didn't pay a fine for having unsafe cars. They paid a fine because they illegally concealed accident and problem reports from regulators. Even if it turns out that none of these crashes were Toyota's fault, that's pretty inexcusable behavior.
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your second point seems interchangeable with the difficulty of knowing what timezone some random location falls into.

i think it might be slightly worse in that "solar noon"-zones would stick to straight bands.
Windows users not ditching windows for OSX would be primary motivation. And I was not suggesting Microsoft should not allow them to add bloatware but to allow an easier path for user like me to revert back if I want. Currently, I have to find a install CD and do a fresh install. I am just hoping there be a way where everyone is happy.
It's true that 8:00 can be considered morning, but I think that's useful in fewer situations than one might think. You can't know, for example, whether I'll be at the office anywhere near that time so you'll still need to ask if you want to get a hold of me.
do they not have support?

If not, I'd suggest getting a new host.
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Powers of ten are easy to manage in base 10?
to the "old" Sun Menlo Park guys - any ideas what ghosts will be haunting Facebookers there? :)))
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This might help answer some of the questions; Letter to UC President Williams by founder of Computer Sci program Jerry Paul -- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16466720/PresidentLetter.pdf
Usually a good introduction to a free software project is to provide some patches (via pull requests) to fix bugs, add features or improve something.
I don't think it would be. That woman is the CEO for a reason.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2193377
They didn't "switch it off" they merely turned off form submission blocking when the form was invalid. It's back on in chrome now because they have the error notification bubble. The constraint validition API, the error pseudo-classes and the extra attributes all work in Safari.
Sorry, WA.
He would not have made it into the media in the first place were it not for the Google angle.
Wow that is very early on for sure. Funny how they talk about using the bathroom and him saying he is deathly ill and ready to throw up
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Wow - the video shows a very inspiring guy - not because he is particularly charismatic, but rather because he seems humbled by his role. Clearly feels that he is playing a small part in a larger movement, and deeply patriotic.
Getting featured by Apple is something every app developer hopes for. Hell I'd have loved to have had my Valentine's themed game (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/three-or-more-valentines-matc...) featured in their Valentine's day section http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMultiR...

I'm glad they sold well though, more revenue than through any of their other offerings. I hope they also consider moving to the Mac Store too.
"But their reason to hit the phones is to understand the business and its customers."

No it's not. If I'm a DB admin, I sure as _hell_ wouldn't be caught dead reading through a sizing chart for some chatty gal in Texas. No way.

At least that's the so-called "millenial" mentality, right?

Cleaning bathrooms is a task. You're hired by your employer to do a job, which involves many tasks I'm sure. You're not just a title holder or a problem domain solver. And, as long as you "have no concrete plans" to be your own boss, you'll _always_ be looked upon as an employee. I think you conflate your titles with "I do no other thing than that with which I am programmed". That's what we layfolk call a machine, not an employee.

But, if you prefer abject reductionism of the employee definition, you're a unit of work. That includes whatever the employer wants. Request in, results out; regardless of what the request is. I don't need you to understand my business; that's _my_ business. I just need you to work for me.
Also leads to your development team self-selecting for only people of at least average social skill, but whether this is a bad thing depends on your point of view.
I'll give you a shot. My e-mail is kolemcrae@gmail.com

The site is http://www.geek-juice.net
While the article mentions MeeGo, the N900 in the video is clearly running Maemo. The article briefly mentions that Maemo support might be possible, but the video out and out proves it.

Going even further than that however, the maemo.org folks discovered that they're using Qt in the background, and so presumably, this could be ported pretty easily over to a Symbian device.
SBJA pretty much does this -- accelerated expensing AND 0% capital gains if you hold for 5 years. I think they've done a bad job marketing it, but it's amazing.

All they need to do to encourage some kinds ("scalable") startup activity is to get out of the way. For supporting random small business startup, I think enhanced loan packages, education, etc. can help -- maybe partner with organizations like SCORE. I'd also like to see "start your own business" assistance for separated military personnel.
> I feel like I've seen at least 5 of what I'd call "meta" projects/startups on the front page over the last week - sites that help a minor piece of the puzzle for a startup.

There have definitely been a lot of start-ups about start-ups floating around. Whether they actually help any other start-ups remains to be seen in most/all cases.
You obviously don't travel much.

There is huge variation in these sorts of things worldwide. See, for example, http://www.spanish-town-guides.com/Opening_Hours.htm
Definitely true, made that mistake once.
Do these sales people never actually negotiate or require a longer call than about 30 seconds?

That would be a fairly unusual market.

Also, I'm assuming Groupon's US sales force probably handles all of the international markets too, otherwise enough sales people to call every business in the US would be massive overkill anyway.
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That's great to hear. A company that is so confident in what its doing and its hires, that it trusts and encourages them to expand their skill set and degree of influence.
I actively hate Crowdsourcing of this nature ... but we shouldn't demonize people for asking for something ... especially when lucid adults respond favorably to their requests. This are just good old market forces at work ... and the market is trying to commoditize a product (the service of design).

What needs to happen is, the industry has resist that push.

Figure out how to make sure the people providing services in this industry understand their worth, how the effect of their participation in these competitions cheapens the industry, and heightens the expectations of customers to ridiculous levels (Show me a lawyer that'll participate in a crowdsourcing contest for their services)

I suspect that since that is a much harder task than flaming people who choose to crowdsource logos and website design though, that we'll just have more of the later.
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I don't know which of us is “correct”, but I disagree with your opinion on the matter.

You're making an assumption of a standard time of day when stuff's open (I agree, 11:00 is a reasonable assumption). I can, however, make that same assumption. In your travel model, the traveler must know the timezone (and work with assumptions from there). In my mode, the traveler would need to know the “standard daytime hour” and work with assumptions from there.

So, both require one piece of info when traveling, but a single timezone wins out when synchronising.
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That or maybe the users are renewing, giving reddit some confidence to make a long term commitment by hiring, rather than spending the subscription money on hardware.
Honestly, if he put in three hours of ANYTHING constructive a day he'd be much better off than he is now.
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May I recommend coworking. It's the best of the library and Starbucks with the added bonus of great networking opportunities.
Investor wants pro-forma #'s... Any advice?
Potential investor has requested "pro-forma #'s" for my start-up. I've submitted financial statements prepared to meet generally accepted accounting practices. What do I need to do to change these numbers into "pro-forma?"
Ask HN: What are the necessary fixed costs at seed stage of a start up?
What are the necessary fixed costs at the seed stage of a start up? I would love to hear a discussion regarding what variety of key things must be purchased (or should be) initially while building your product.
We are going to meet on Mondays at 6pm at NoiseBridge if anyone is interested.
What is "beauty"? Define that, and I can help you. Until you can define it, it's hard to give meaning to the question.

Warning: embarrassing stream-of-consciousness ahead ...

There are some parts of math that I find genuinely beautiful. They evoke an emotional reaction, I want to work on them, I want to consider them, I want to give time to them. To me, the word "beautiful" comes closest to how I think of them.

But I've done lots of math, and have a great deal of experience to bring to bear. People with less experience of different varieties and forms of music usually can't appreciate more "classical" pieces in the same way as people who have immersed themselves in music for decades. Similarly, without being an experienced programmer it's hard to tell hacked together code from elegantly written code.

Similarly, without enough experience, discerning quality in math can be hard.

Finally, math is morethan solving problems. Some of it is, yes, but some of it is building theories. I remember the first time I really grokked some obscure parts of low dimensional topology. Suddenly things fell into place, and what had until then been just valid proofs suddenly became obvious truths.

It's like proving that sqrt(2) is irrational. You can follow the equations, you can believe the proof, but there's more going on. It's the difference between knowing that it's true, and seeing that it can be no other way.
We often (jokingly) measure time in kiloseconds around my office. As rue points out, that's just a bit over fifteen minutes, so its actually a useful unit.

"See you in the conference room in 2 ksecs..."

Put a bunch of geeks together too long and this is what happens.
And yet, something like a stress fracture can, within reason, be predicted using scientific models, where software bugs cannot. Or at least, their results cannot be predicted.
Isn't it somewhat the opposite? It's not that "your tax dollars" are supporting that people browsing porn at the library. To prevent people from browsing porn, the library have to spend more of "your tax dollars" to either install filtering software or employ people to walk around and look over people's shoulders.

That's not even considering the far thornier problem that porn filtering programs can often block legitimate web browsing, such as looking for information about sex education, safe sex, STD's etc.
I do this type of software development for a living, and you're absolutely right -- it's rock solid.

The embedded control units themselves are coded in a low-level C. The automotive manufacturers develop on top of that in more abstract engineering type languages.

It's fun software to development, given all the hardware integrations involved. Way more interesting than writing line-of-business applications.
A related issue is the fact that many drivers show up in the Add/Remove Programs list (or whatever they call it these days), so you can't just remove everything or you will find that your keyboard, touchpad, media card reader, etc. no longer work. Sometimes it can be really difficult to determine if a program is an essential driver or useless bloat.
The 20-25% number is for US only and that too for home computer sales only. While I agree with you that Apple is doing great because of the higher profit margin and increased sales, I still won't call them a winner until they have at least 50% profit share.
Ask HN: Healthcare Startups?
Does anyone here have experience with healthcare IT startups?

It could be worst of both worlds (the bulk of enterprise and the bureaucracy of government) but the opportunities seem massive. Any thoughts appreciated.
Fix is available. See:
http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2011/02/security_alert_for_... and
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...
I'll start.

1. I applied in Winter 2010 with a published site that had been around for 6 months already, 1500 users. Solo founder with 1 remote developer.

2. No.
From my perspective, and not an expert on cassandra, but:
-- Conceptually more straightforward for engineers, thus less code complexity and less bugs (and the cost of maybe less performance. I'll spend dollars on more nodes over dollars to deal with engineering complexity.)
-- Operationally cassandra sounds like a PITA. I haven't run it, so I could be misinformed.
-- Engineering philosophy. The Basho style is more in line with my style than the people behind cassandra. The priorities and emphasizes are different.
Please go read Howard Zinn. You are 100% wrong. Poor people work more hours,

The BLS disagrees. Can you tell me a reason I should trust Howard Zinn over the government agency tasked with measuring such things?

As for working harder jobs, I am agnostic. If you have evidence, cite it. I agree the poor die younger. I won't address the remainder of your post, it's mostly unsupported value judgments and opinion.
I can see three or four possible approaches:

1. Pick a project at (more or less) random; something that "scratches an itch" for you personally. It may or may not turn out to be maintained, the maintainer(s) may or may not be receptive to pull requests, etc., but nonetheless, you can grab it, fork it, and start hacking. If it's a project with a mailing list / forums, you might want to lurk a bit first, get a feel for the community, and maybe even post a message saying "Hey, I was thinking about adding Feature X, or fixing Bug Y, any interest in that?"

2. Ask around for a project that's actively seeking more help; maybe even one that's being run by a fellow HN'er. Build a good relationship with said HN'er and maybe get them to act as a bit of a mentor and walk you through the early phases of your involvement.

3. Check http://www.reddit.com/r/FOSSHelpWanted/ and find something there.

4. Start your own project from scratch and put it up on Github.

And for a slightly self-serving bit... if you know (or want to know) Groovy and are looking for a project like mentioned in [2] above - that could use some help - I might just know of one. Shoot me an email if you'd like to hear more. :-)
pageviews aren't what matter anymore, UV/month is.

comscore's january numbers just came out this morning. Wired droped 38% from 9.4 to 5.9 million. In one month. Hopefully for their sake thats a javascript screw up.

reddit rose 11% from 1.0 to 1.1 million. Again, in one month.

so if you were to over-extrapolate here you could say that reddit will overtake wired maybe late this year, but as it stands now wired is >6x bigger a media property.
I haven't wired this up to pull from GH yet, but it's on my todo list.
Yes, it certainly is. But combined with the first point, it explains why such change just won't happen (unless something really extraordinary happens).

When I think about it, I find it quite depressing how many nice things are out there, we just can't have because of overall human inertia and reluctance to accept any major changes.
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Yeah there is no denial that Apple is doing great but it's far easier to gain a 23% increase when you have 4-5% share than gaining a 10% with 95% share.
For anyone else who is interested, it was a Wednesday.
Let me see if I understand you correctly: There are dozens or even hundreds of PC manufacturers competing with Apple and they are only winners if they have 50% of the profits in the market?

Is that your metric for "winning?"

You asked other people what they mean by winning. If you want to have a productive conversation, I suggest you ensure that your definition of winning matches theirs. Otherwise, there will only be confusion.
The 20-year-old office clerk at a Beijing cosmetics manufacturer knows it could set him back more than $1,000. He'll have to save for months. But he said it would be money well spent. "As a man, you must have one of those bags," he said. "It will bring you status, dignity and boost your image."

Petrifying though that may be, that's only months. We saddle ourselves with six years of payments for the status symbols we can't afford.
sorry, couldn't resist - "Social network is a computer".
Yes. I found a simulator for the 1108 bundled with a NLP package and ran it for an hour, then deleted it. Not the same experience as using my old 1108.
I was responding to jacobolus, who noted that many sites intercept clicks, "but not right click (and maybe also not ⌃ click)" (on the Mac, "⌃" is the symbol for the control key). I was explaining that those are pretty much the same thing from the program's point of view, so code that allows right-click will almost certainly also allow control-click.
A similar fad was popular in Eastern Europe when I lived there (may still be):

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=8264&...
I was serious because I did not find my parent comment to be adding anything. I even added "sorry" to indicate I honestly wanted to know. I guess it made it worse. Would blame ESL :)
Actually they do that too... I was surprised the last time I saw a newly-bought PC laptop at the number of random stickers all over it for the video card, OS, whatever.
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I wish there was a way for these guys to disengage from the Death Star and go independent. It doesn't seem like living inside CN has a ton of advantages anyway.

Maybe the ultimate Reddit community project would be to raise a large amount of capital to buy the site from CN.
If I got it right, then point #4 is that they actually only get charged when there is a product to deliver, i.e. they get the product and you get the money.
Sorry about the confusion. I actually was referring to CP/M in reference to Gary, not DEC. Should have worded it better!