skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding on to bradleyland's advice: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...
...both Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg got the prime seats at the table, both seated next to President Obama...

Sounds more like Obama got the prime seat at the table.
Im one of the organizers of the DC meetups along with Rusty. We are planning a Hack-A-Thon in March, but have no place to meet!

If anyone knows of locations inside DC within a mile from the metro, we would love to talk to you! My profile has my email address.
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Well, they must give you the exercise price; and if you assume it is a fair price (or 15% discounted, which is often the case) of $x/share, you know that e.g. if the company grows up 10 times in value, you get a bonus of $nx(10-1) where n is the number of shares you get an option for. So in that sense, the total outstanding is not interesting.

It is interesting in the sense that you need to know the total company valuation to have an idea of how much the company can still increase its value. If an unknown facebook competitor "mugshotbook.com" is already valued at $5B without any users, it is unlikely your option will be worth anything ever, regardless of how much you are getting.

DO NOT FORGET: Options are a contract to buy in the future at a price known today. They are not equivalent to shares (if they were, you'd be taxed for the face value on the day of the grant!). If the value does not go up, they are worth exactly nothing. If you get facebook options with exercise price reflecting $50B market capitalization, and facebook IPOs at $50.5B when you are vested, what you earn is 1% of the share value of your options (because of the exercise price), not a penny more! In numbers: If you get $10M worth of facebook options today, and facebook IPOs at $50.5B, you get a $100K bonus for your (e.g.) 4 years of vesting, or $25K/year -- not shabby, but a far cry from the $10M you think you'll be owning.
Ask HN: I made a Word Cloud Y Combinator Shirt. Any Interest?
Yesterday a fellow HNer made a YC shirt http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232951 and I saw quite some interest. I was wondering whether fellow HNers would be interested in a word cloud rendering of the Y Combinator logo, like these:

Orange on White: http://i.imgur.com/V7poK.png

White on Orange: http://i.imgur.com/nKXJE.png

The words are from -- can you guess? -- Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" essay (which I happen to be reading). Other possibilities include words extracted from Hacker News articles, names of YC companies, Paul Graham's complete essays, etc.

Is anyone interested? If there is enough interest, I'll make a real one (fine tune the words, fonts, etc). Let me know either by replying to this thread, or emailing me directly (find it in my profile), specifying the quantity and style (WoO or OoW). It would be reasonably priced (~$20 + S&H). I'll do it via Zazzle if quantity is limited, or bulk order if there is enough interest. Let me know. Thanks!

P.S. The artwork was made with a tool (Tagxedo), not by hand. I did write the tool myself (Tagxedo, http://www.tagxedo.com) which took a long time :D
This whole comment page makes so much more sense. Thanks!
a traitor? a whore? you need new friends. its a phone.
4. Instead of CPU profiling at a lower level, I'd suggest enabling profiling in xdebug for a debugging account and hit the pages and look for what pages took the longest to render (server side). Then examine the xdebug profiling logs for those pages to see what php calls took the longest, if youre calling MySQL through PHP functions this will also show you the slowest queries. You should also enable slow query logged in MySQL. I suggest anything taking more than 50ms

5. For a quick, easy, simple setup, assuming you're using Apache for your web server(s), setup another server running nginx and then use proxy_pass to load balance traffic between multiple web servers. Example: https://gist.github.com/2f4118028ed04c40862e

I suggest doing more reading on nginx load balancing and PHP xdebug profiling
The only way I can see this being possible is if (1) they moved you to faster servers when you bought a business account or (2) they somehow limit the data rate to free customers but remove or raise the limit for business customers. Both seem fairly unlikely for Google.
Woah...talk about a buzzkill
But any dynamic processing of stylesheets sacrifices performance. It means they have to be served by Rails. Preprocessing before deployment frees you to host them anywhere, ideally closer to your users.
Clickable links:

Orange on White: http://i.imgur.com/V7poK.png

White on Orange: http://i.imgur.com/nKXJE.png

Tagxedo: http://www.tagxedo.com
"So Toyota's perceived problems became reality, and we needed to devote 10 months of the brightest engineering minds in the world to change that."

Sadly, that's not how it works. People will forever remember that Toyota had horrible safety problems, and not that they were actually exonerated in the end.
Maybe Obama should have dinner with a few small business/startup founder people instead of a couple of billionaires in a giant hilltop compound.
Apple was never cute, nor cuddly, just your perception of it. I started in technology at the Berkeley Mac Users Group in the mid-80's while in my early teens. I was around when Microsoft was clearly the dominant leader in business and Apple, while highly valued was an graphic artist and midi gadget company and a non-serious contender in business environments. Wait, they still, mostly are!

Apple is now significantly larger in revenue than Microsoft; something I never thought would happen. Could they be 'evil' for taking the formula they started with and being true to their core? They have never wavered from their brand, or their goals. It's amazing really and should serve as a principle to anyone doubting their model or method of doing business.

Apple has always protected its IP, maintained strict controls of development and access, as prodigal_erik says below so succinctly. You bought Apple; or you bought the other guy. Nothing has changed, just the volume of business and the numbers who have adopted the various products.
Regrowing hair: UCLA-VA researchers may have accidentally discovered a solution
Ask HN: Interested in shared garage workshop in SF?
I've been discussing this with buddies and am curious if others might be interested: renting some warehouse space in Dogpatch or SoMa, turning it into a shared garage workshop for fixing up old cars or motorcycles.

Basically, it'd be an informal TechShop focused solely on car and motorcycle restoration: we'd buy the tools and provide the space, folks can pay a membership fee to be a part of the restorations, take classes, use the tools for their projects. You could even store your project on-site for an additional fee.

Depending on number of members, monthly cost would be around $200 for a basic membership. So not cheap, but then it's a pretty badass setup, and it keeps your wife/girlfriend off your case for messing up your own garage.

Thoughts? Anyone aware of someone doing this already?
> Ok, so I go to the site and the default settings have $20K per month in sales with $440 for Paypal and $478.90. The difference is $38.90. Or 0.2%.

I believe that default was chosen to illustrate the 'inflection point'.
http://hnrecap.com

Only considers entries that made it to the front page and ranks them according to their position every 2 minutes.

Archiving since August 4, 2010.
Port obscurity is pointless when there's much better ways to secure your host.

You should be running SSH with keys only, never with password authentication. Passwords are for encrypting your keys on your local machine and for sudo which is restricted to specific accounts. Source IP filters really slow you down, but may work in some circumstances.

As your network gets larger you'll need to restrict any inbound SSH and use a VPN to a firewall or bastion host and use something like puppet to distribute your ssh keys. Make sure you do two factor auth to the VPN with a password and at least some sort of key.
You don't use a VPN in those locations?
I used to recommend PayPal Website Payments Pro until they screwed me recently. I assumed the people that were abused by PayPal were few and far between until it also happened to me. Now I tell everyone to get a real merchant account. It's just not worth gambling with your ability to process transactions.
The "Grade A" browser ratings are only slightly more meaningful than the "Modern Browser" label. And IE fans (apologists?) can rationalize from now until Sunday, but web developers who project after project are forced to write CSS Hacks, conditional comments, etc. know that improvements to IE have been slow and minimal. The "modern", standards compliant browsers are the ones that continue to improve and push the envelope re: HTML5/CSS3 features. All this talk about IE doing well by not adding HTML5 features because the W3 spec may change is just an excuse for continued suckiness. You'd think the fact that so many people (me not included) use IE give MS a greater pressure to keep pace with the Chromes and Safaris of the world, but I guess they don't agree.
Seems like it's only for US guys. Has US-specific fields state and zip-code.
Yeah, I agree fully. The guy who wrote this article appears to be completely oblivious to CodeIgniter, which is a very, very lightweight framework. I just recently revisited an old CI site I made months ago and it only took about 5 minutes to relearn the whole structure of the site. My controllers are thinner and more beautiful than supermodels, my views are extremely light and logically distributed, and my models are the only places (aside from my JavaScript) where I make reference to any data. When your controllers have one line that gets AJAX data, another line that determines if it's a new item or an existing one, and one more line to die() off the direct result of my model call...life becomes a hell of a lot easier and coding an application becomes an exercise in beautiful abstract thought instead of tedious tinkering.
What Watson Can Learn From The Human Brain
I thought Gotham was a fictional city.
Hey, I made that! Surprised to see it show up here.

The code that produced all that malarkey is here: https://github.com/gareth-lloyd/visualizing-events
If someone applies for a patent "to float a sunken ship using ping poll balls", you are free to float a ship using air balloons, plastic globes that aren't ping pong balls, etc. Without infringing on that patent.

Similarly, you could use ping pong balls for lifting a sunken air plane without infringing on that patent.

That is why patents are written in very generic terms.

Given such a very narrowly specified talent, you can get a patent on these alternative solutions of the problem if the 'invention' is deemed a non-trivial variation on an existing prior art. For example, I would think that using an inflatable air bag, inflating it after inserting it into the vessel, could be a patentable variation on this theme. I think freezing the water in and around a sunken ship to float it definitely would be patentable, even though it is based on the same idea (replacing the water in the ship by something lighter than water) [and yes, it isn't practical, either, but that does not prevent it from being patentable]
Facebook Shares Are Worth Almost Three Times More Than Tweets For E-Commerce
IE6 the best browser available.

Now there's a frightening thought.
Most of the issues with renewable can be solved using pumped storage hydroelectric which has minimal environmental impact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

PS: If you simply covered every road in the world with mid range solar panels you meet the worlds current energy needs. EX: The 160,000 miles (260,000 km) of NHS include only 4% of the nation's roads so call it 4,000,000 miles with an average width of say 10 feet. 4,000,000miles * 10 feet (which is vary conservative) = 7,575 square miles or 19,621,122,048m^2. At 750w/m^2 * 15% efficient solar cell * 8 hours a day * 365 days a year * 19,621,122,048m^2 = ~6 * 10^12kwh vs 4 * 10^12kwh actually generated in the USA.
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Yale researchers create anti-laser
I get exactly that with CloudFront, a custom origin (with Sprockets), and appropriate HTTP headers. If CloudFront doesn't see a file, it asks Sprockets for it and caches it however long I tell it to.

You can do the same with Varnish if you don't want to use Amazon's CDN. Having run a large site with prebuilt assets for several years, I really enjoy not having to do it anymore.
Bill Gates speech: 11 rules your kids did not and will not learn in school
> The service is technically surprising. Enomaly did not build a big central infrastructure, because the bandwidth demands “would have killed us”, says Reuven Cohen, the firm’s founder. Instead, it works with Google App Engine, another cloud-computing provider, which gives Enomaly access to a decentralised global system.

This doesn't make much sense to me. Google App Engine is not very "global" and its bandwidth prices are pretty standard unless you're small enough to fit in the free tiers.
Why bother? He already knows what they'd say: "Cut spending, cut taxes, and stay out of our way."
> Summing it up, a framework tries to save you work by make you define an overly complex configuration, that has to accomodate every possible use case.

I guess if all you looked at was the Zend framework you would have this opinion. It's incredible inaccurate to say this about all frameworks in general though.
Got a link to details? I'd be surprised, since any correct solution requires two-stage deployment and keeping old assets around. These capabilities are beyond the scope of a web server framework. The Rails team could certainly educate Rails developers and choose conventions that make correctness easier.
It's not just ugly, it's unmaintained.
My Increasing Love Affair With Google Apps
NHTSA has been convinced all along that there are no real issues with the cars and the commissioned study was really just for show. NASA is the best agency to tap for this (read superstars of science and engineering). Average Joe on the radio is not going to go "they got NASA for this? Why?", he's going to say "NASA! Wow, they really mean business now"
If I understand correctly, he was there with Jobs and Zuckerberg, among others. Two generations of hard core startup OGs, I think that's pretty tough to beat.

edit: I mean, isn't the best startup guy to talk to the kind who made himself a billionaire?
short version:
Don't upgrade just for speed. i don't see a difference, have never heard of a difference in performance.

long version:

I use both. In my experience there is no difference in performance.
Very occasionally a bug that hits one will not hit the other (but not always).
Also, they get features at different rates. The consumer Google applications get new features and makeovers faster, and then it gets rolled into Google Apps.

It sounds like you looked at the feature matrix and know the main differences.
Basically Google Apps gets you a throat to choke (there is support), and access to more API's to do stuff programatically.
If you're just one account, a lot of that value can't be realized.
> Don't get too caught up using graphs to assume relevancy, Myspace still gets a lot of traffic.

Also not sure what you mean. Traffic == relevancy. If something gets a lot of users, surely by the definition of the word, it's 'relevant'.

Sounds like crazy valley bubble talk to me.
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Yii is indeed very powerful, especially if you take advantage of the 'magic' and generators for form output and handling. I've only spent a few days with it though as that particular project fell through.

Not sure if I'll ever go back to it as I am not really a fan of the syntax and it took me quite long to find out how to do certain things in the given online docs. Might be just me though and really, the first thing I'd say about Yii is that it has got a lot of 'power' under the hood, more than any other available stable PHP frameworks I have seen. Symfony is probably the only other one in that league.
That's a valid argument, however I'm sure you could argue that there would have been other benefits had they continued to innovate and release which may or may not have had a more positive net impact. Who knows? It doesn't lessen the pain any.

Regardless, I'm definitely not going to thank MS for this since I'm pretty sure your argument was not their intended effect (What was their intended affect anyways? Did they just not care? Concern over the threat the web posed to their OS?) and I will continue to promote IE's competitors until someday IE dies a horrible death and sinks into oblivion.

I'm also guessing you're of a similar view (albeit not as hardcore) and playing devil's advocate anyways ;)
Anarchism means 'without rulers' not 'without rules'. If you really want to grade licenses on how anarchist they are, the GPL is obviously more conducive to a world without rulers than BSD-style licenses.

For a semi anarchist society on a large scale, check out Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. This was anarchism in the original sense of the word though, and not in the recent US sense of the word (US liberterians/anarcho-capitalists seems to long for a return to something akin to feudalism rather than freedom in my opinion).
Sure. The mission was to find a new way to approach how software is constructed. The result is called Kayia and it's here:
http://kayia.org/kayia.pdf

It hit 'singularity' (everything came down to a graph edge; the system is comprised of nothing else) in 2005. I've had some great advisors and the feedback is consistent, “That it’s unique is not interesting if it's not compelling. Show how it’s compelling.” So I’ve stumbled with my limited resources over the years to do that and I’ve come up with a database, of all things, but it’s actually the "programming language" masquerading as a database.

I'm thinking of offering it as a service and if you want to see where that's going, it's at http://www.kayadb.com (although it’s not meant to be looked at yet). I'll do a Tell HN when in a few weeks when it's closer to being ready to show.
Looks like what Im looking for. Thanks
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If they do it, the situation will be simple:

1) San Francisco enforces taxes

2) San Francisco gets a lot of bad press.

3) Companies start moving to other cities.

4) San Francisco has less startups in the future.

Look at Texas and the taxes they just imposed on Amazon. Did it help them?
VoiceRally: Live Twitter Stream of the Wisconsin Union Protests
I have a little bit of experience with tutoring from TAing a senior-level CS course in college. Even at that level, there's a big need for it, and as a tutor, it feels great to see that lightbulb moment when a student suddenly groks a concept you've been working with them on. If the idea of teaching appeals to something inside of you, go for it.

That said, it can be a massive time sink, and very frustrating, especially for students for whom programming just doesn't click at all (and they are out there). You can probably make significantly more doing freelance work, so if you know you don't have the patience to, for instance, repeatedly explain that their Python script isn't working because they're trying to invoke it from the wrong directory, you might want to pass.
Driving home last night, maybe around 10 PM, I heard a deafening whump-whump-whump over San Mateo. It was almost extraterrestrial in nature. Crane out the car window to see one of those beefy helicopters with dual rotors. It passes. Then another one. This would have been Obama's entourage, yes? If so, a much smaller footprint than last time he was on the Peninsula. His motorcade shut down a nice stretch of the 101 for a few minutes.
"To 30% cuts!"
JSHint: An Community Driven Fork of JSLint
It is definitely a blip. The reason it doesn't appear in all the zoom levels is that the four-hourly zoom level takes the average temperature of the hourly data over the four-hour period. Once you go up to the daily zoom level we switch to showing the high and the low, and you can see the blip again. That historical high is due to that point.

Actually, I'm just sitting down today to start the process of writing quality control filters to get rid of this sort of blip. So hopefully it will be gone soon! :)
They left out the 'Paypal might hold all your funds and make it a pain to get them back' fee.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/02/hiv-as-youve-... for those that don't feel like making the detour through digg
We've only built it out for the US for now. If you're international, Fill in your city and hit the zip with all 0s. When we rejigger it to allow for international, we'll let you know.
One of the most brilliant concepts and potential companies I've worked for failed miserably because 400 years of combined Wharton and Columbia MBA experience failed to ask the customer what they wanted.

We failed on the cusp of brilliance because we automated our customers out of their jobs.
Yeah that isn't nearly as entertaining a comic book :)
Hopefully the Startup Visa was a topic of discussion.
I thought this was very interesting, but it left me wanting to know a lot more about ChompOn's methodology (I looked briefly on ChompOn's blog for a more detailed post, but couldn't find anything).

There's a lot of obvious potential confounding variables such as number of average Twitter friends vs. Facebook followers, and the number of times a user tweeted about a deal. For deals for which there's some incentive for a user to tweet, such as a deal that has not reached the tipping point or a referral fee, a user may have sent multiple tweets for a single deal.

In any case, this provides an interesting counterpoint to yesterday's article about how "Facebook Pages are Worthless for your Startup" (compared to Twitter). I think there's no question that Twitter is a network more oriented towards your weak ties and sources of information you think are just interesting, whereas Facebook is more oriented toward strong ties (especially given the way the News Feed ranking works). The way you utilize both social networks should take this into account. Twitter is probably more effective at getting the word out to many people quickly, whereas Facebook may be more useful at actually getting your users to convince their friends to take an action.
PHP's docs suck? Seriously?

I think the php.net docs outshines the available official documentation for all other languages I've worked with, especially because of the user comments on all the functions. Sure, some of them are outdated but they've saved me from not-so-obvious pitfalls or provided a nice starting point for helper functions more than a few times.

Don't want to front or anything, just wondering why you don't like the docs. I agree there could be better documentation for the classes that PHP and the SPL provides though.
The second page of the article claims that asking for extended permissions on a Facebook application results in significant drop-off. The article doesn't cite any data, and this contradicts my impression that users blindly click through any and all dialog boxes. Wonder which is true.
keyboard kill for you
Don't mistake "visitors" for "customers".

I'm guessing that you mean 40% of visitors to sites (not the one for the Nissan Leaf) use IE. (Or more specifically IE 6.)

I think it's probably a pretty safe bet that folks who are visiting the Nissan Leaf site, and ESPECIALLY folks who would be early adopters and buy an all-electric car, are probably also not rolling around using IE6. (At least, I'd hope not.)

Conversely, someone being on an iPad or Android device is probably a pretty decent leading indicator that they're in the demographic that would consider buying a Nissan Leaf.
I highly recommend watching this Saul Griffith talk, "Climate Change Recalculated"
http://fora.tv/2009/01/16/Saul_Griffith_Climate_Change_Recal...