skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a wonderful privilege to receive as many replies as I did with over the above question. The many different issues raised on all of them made me learn a whole lot more than a typical Wikipedia article or similar.

All duly upvoted, I wanted to express my gratitude collectively for all the explanations. HN is a true gem of the Internet.
Warning: predrantry follows.

If you want to participate in a market where things are priced according to what they cost the vendor, look into gypsum. In tech companies, cost-based pricing is good mostly for getting you fired from your Product Manager role.

Tech products are priced according to the market. For many products, Apple competes aggressively on price. What that means is that within the product line, Apple wants there to be a SKU with the best pricing among its substitutes. It may also mean that every product in the line "wants" a price that is competitive according to its specs. But neither of those pricing goals means Apple will price anything according to the cost of components.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, in complex markets one of the most important jobs marketing has is to segment the market, which means finding product attributes that command different price points to maximize profit for the company. It may be the case that, regardless of what it costs Apple to add storage to the iPad, the most common kind of customer that wants a large-storage iPad isn't very price sensitive.

This works in both directions. You can play the segmentation game in exactly the opposite direction in enterprise sales: release your product as open source, but sell a supported site-licensed edition. In virtually all Fortune 1000 companies, it is next-to-impossible to embark on any new IT initiative without an accompanying purchase order; the whole of what IT does is structured around selecting, procuring, and maintaining products.
I'm claiming that either race directly, or something correlated with it, explains a large amount of test score variation. And once you correct for this, the US scores very well.

Also, should have linked to this post comparing Asian Americans to Asians.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...
Before human civilization I suspect that we walked much more than a couple miles per day. Caging the rats is comparable to the reduction in daily movement due to cars, availability of food, etc.

Setting the baseline to non-urban rats would tell us more about the health of prehistoric humans than modern ones.
StumbleUpon quickly became my largest referrer after about a year. My top 5 days are all from StumbleUpon, with one exception being Reddit. I can't keep track of it anymore.

Some reference: http://i.imgur.com/OyvbU.png
SimpleNote is the first app I install on my iPhone. It is by far the most useful app I have ever bought.
That's not exactly true. You still need an HTTP server to proxy to the FastCGI back-end. This could be useful for a number of things outside of local development instances. One could avoid having to setup Apache/nginx/whatever to pick up the HTTP request from a reverse proxy and instead just spin up PHP on its own.
If at OS X you take your previous computer and attach it in target disk mode or something (I'm not a Mac person) will it do anything with the old OS, perhaps use settings or allow apps to run under emulation or such.

Such quirks are partly what would make such things interesting.

Slackware goes back to 1993, is there an earlier Linux distro still in major use? (looks like there isn't - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gldt.svg).

It might be more interesting with Linux to follow a WM?
They do pay less than us, and it's that way because they make a lot of their money as capital gains which are taxed at a rate far lower than the taxes we pay on income. The forbes 400 pays a significantly lower tax rate than I do as programmer. That's not debatable, it's a simple fact. I think they should pay at least the same rate as I do, don't you?

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/1126/042b.html
I have problems with your advice.
1. Treasuries are not tax free.
2. Technically the 10 year is a T-note.

3. This is not a risk free strategy. Interest rate risk is your biggest problem here. Although the Ladder will work in the current environment (interest rate anticipation), their is a good risk of higher inflation that could happen rather quickly. You will be screwed if your in fixed payment securities. The Bullet may be a better strategy here.

To the OP. I would never listen to investment advice on the internet. Finance is complicated and easy to mess up. That said, I would invest in some options in your position, if you choose to play the markets. Don't do this unless you know what your doing however. Also be careful with financial advisors. Some, but not all are the chiropractors of the finance world. The CFA designation is viable here.

You will probably be able to find better returns outside of financial markets, but it all depends.
Likewise, while I'm sure a better search engine could exist, what DDG etc. are doing doesn't differentiate enough for me to forcefully change my own habits. I've just been through my google web history and it seems I make around 50 (edit: seems I average around 50 a day for February http://i.imgur.com/u3E6k.jpg) searches via Google per day on a wide variety of topics, very few do I ever need anything other than the first or second returned result.

I wonder if anyone would be willing to build some sort of website where we can analyse our search habits and "discover" which search engine is best for us. Maybe we would replace our search engine with a new one, and that would aggregate results from multiple locations and we'd pick the most relevant to us and it would rank from there? I guess it would need to be more complex than that to produce anything meaningful, but I would love to see such a project. Alternatively something that we provide our historic searches to and it compares what we did select and where it ranks on each search engine, that could be interesting too -- I'm willing to provide all my own searches if anyone did want to do this.

Maybe a "new" search engine like DDG could pioneer this, build something that allows us to discover which search engine works for us... if these "new" search engines are so great, it should surely prove that we would get better results from them.

(I said "new" because they're not all new time wise, but they're small and relatively unknown)
It's even easier now that PHP 5.3.3+ has FPM included (config option is --enable-fpm). Getting it set up with nginix is a breeze.
I got Trumpet Winsock from my ISP. I wonder if they licensed it or not. Probably not, from the sound of it.
Why would Google want fewer applicants? Hiring is a search problem, and negative results can be as useful as positive results in training a filter.
Accepting payment for services which you purport to have rendered but in reality have not.

I would use 'fraud' instead of 'theft', though in reality it's close enough.
Dear downmodders, the submitter should have at least put the fig leaf of an "Ask HN" sentence around this to make this interesting. Otherwise, a post to the homepage of a 12-yr old project makes no sense and is polluting HN.
While it doesn't seem like this has captured the zeitgeist, I have made a subtle improvement.

I updated it to list speakers' panels directly underneath their company. This eliminates a lot of clicking back and forth and makes the thing less annoying.
Curious as to why you think PHP's namespace feature (I'll assume you mean the real one introduced in 5.3) sucks.

It seems like you didn't read the whole RFC. The configuration is actually very simple (just the command line options), and not meant to be a front-facing HTTP server.
maybe you'd want to let people watch your video without having to tweet it. just a suggestion.
I would be less likely to consider working for a company where I knew that my peers would be filtered through an application-fee process. You have to consider the impact on A-players even if you think the A-players will simply dodge it. If Google knew ahead of time exactly who the A-players were, it wouldn't have to worry so much about resumes.
Simplenote, Dropbox, and something that syncs with Toodledo. Those three are mandatory for me. Gives me text, files, and tasks.
Bear in mind that after Marius, the Roman army required each soldier to carry quite a lot of non-combat material to improve their logistics. Soldiers became known as "Marius's Mules".
Hiring via Social Media, or, how I got my Software Engineering job.
You can see Egypt here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/5146231463/

In fairness, the dark areas outside the Nile aren't dark because of economic or political oppression; they're dark because that's a desolate desert with no water at all.
Much more than you would ever know..

The original version of Sim City was written for windows 3.x and included a bug that read memory that had been freed to the system. It worked in windows 3.x, even though it shouldn't, because that particular range of memory wasn't being used for anything else until the program was terminated.

In beta versions of windows 95 Sim City didn't work because the operating system allocated memory differently, and Sim City would crash as expected because of the bug in the program. Amazingly, in the final version of Win95 the original Sim City worked. Microsoft engineers had actually tested backwards compatibility with Sim city, located the bug, and worked around it in their sourcecode.

Now that's serious dedication to backwards compatibility.
My office is three miles from my house. If I walk at a slow, I-don't-want-to-go-to-this-meeting pace, I get to work in forty minutes. Same time for getting home. I did this for five years and I wasn't even in shape.

I'm not arguing that the Romans were slackers. Given the effort it takes to setup a Roman castra, the marching might be the least strenuous part of the soldier's day. Also, my daily walk is on paved sidewalk across mostly level ground, while the Romans often didn't have such advantages.

For an able bodied person walking through a shopping mall, three miles an hour is perfectly healthy and reasonable.
Use Linux containers (lxc). Exactly what you need...
In the late republic they were sustaining this pace in hostile territory -- where the roads were basically dirt winding along ridgetops and riverbeds.
The idea isn't to open the server to the world. The RFC states that it's meant to be used in a similar way to django's manage.py runserver, for development and internal testing.

Django phrase it in their tutorial as:

"We've included this with Django so you can develop things rapidly, without having to deal with configuring a production server -- such as Apache -- until you're ready for production.

Now's a good time to note: DON'T use this server in anything resembling a production environment. It's intended only for use while developing. (We're in the business of making Web frameworks, not Web servers.)"

As long as the PHP documentation includes similar caveats and guidance, an HTTP server isn't a bad thing.
Gruber has been getting nervous; Jobs hasn't praised him by name recently.
Scientists tracked thousands of British children for 65 years
Seems like the built in server would be most useful for newbies to get an application running. Think if how much easier it is to get a basic Rails app running to start learning compared to configuring Apache and PHP together.
Definitely a real problem, although one that was supposed to be solved by both Google Wave and AppJet (Etherpad's supporting platform)...

Thank you, Google, for screwing that one up.
> Try running a 16-bit application on Windows x64...

There's no reason for this to fail: dosemu runs 16-bit code on 64-bit Linux systems just fine. You just need to do full hardware emulation which, at this point, is neither difficult nor prohibitively resource-intensive.
An adventure game in the Borderlands art-style (and perhaps the world) would be pretty fantastic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nixon_visit_to_China
Apple pioneered a new sales and marketing pipeline, and gave it extremely low barriers to adoption for both consumers and developers. None of apple's competitors have been able to produce a competing service (based on community size), and until that happens apple will see no competitive pricing pressure to reduce their fees.

The cost to run in apple's app store probably won't stay at 30% forever, but won't change until it faces real competition.
Phusion's a great group - Passenger is absolutely fabulous, especially for NGinX.
Google should at least put search bar on 404 error page. Isn't that the most basic thing?
Now I'm interested in what you're developing.
I thought it a good idea. His name is Peter Tattam (I did some google-leg-work to find it). His site is at http://petertattam.com/ .

I found his name via a report at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40....

If this is the guy, what should we do? Should somebody ask him what he would like?
I think that's pretty much the raison d'être of this site, though.
The ability to effectively communicate is drastically underrated. (Perhaps because its the most difficult to quantitatively measure?)
I think it's not whether Google is a desirable place to work, it's whether it's more desirable a place than other places that do not require an application fee.

Or, to be more pedantic about it, whether the marginal value of applying to Google is worth the cost.

My hypothesis is that for most good candidates, working at Google is not highly differentiated vs, say, Facebook, Apple, hot startup, etc. It might be for some subset of applicants (potentially those with big interest in search, or people who live right next to a Google office). Of course, those people would have applied anyway.

My instinct is that many more desirable applicants would just think, "I'll just apply to Facebook and Apple instead and see what happens."

Pulling out your credit card is just such a big conversion barrier that I can't see this being a good idea.
Actually it's kind of sad that it needs to be in C, most sane language would implement their server in themselves.
This is a clever idea, it is however very horrible for users. I would close a page if this was requested of me, although you may have some luck with people in the "social media" field.

If I was running this site I would have it create a prompt at the end of the video that says "oh hey if you enjoyed this why not share on Twitter?" but I guess Youtube already supports that natively... sort of.
So the New York Times deserves the best deal in the App Store because they're such a big company with a great brand?

That puts a different spin on "to the victor goes the pricing power."
I'll have a dig into that next then - thanks! :-)
Until then you could demo your apps on an iPad2.
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-smashes-12000000-bitt...

That's from 2008 announcing Pirate Bay had hit 12 million concurrent peers on their tracker. That's not total users, that's total online. Take that number and multiply it by 5 to 10 to estimate total users, double it to account for the rest of the global trackers (low?) and increase it by some percentage to account for 3 years of growth and you're in the hundreds of millions of users range, possibly as high as 300M or more.

I'm not a crazy bittorrent fanboy, in fact I'm quite the opposite, but I think it's clear that the number of users of a decentralized system can far exceed any "rounding errors" of facebook's numbers.
Yeah, the first thing I thought of when reading this was Ruby's WEBrick and how it's used in Rails to provide an out-of-the-box local development server.

Don't see how that would be a bad thing. Something simpler and quicker than installing XAMPP or configuring the webserver that comes with your OS/distro.
But they kept referring to 2011 as the year of the iPad 2. Not to read too much into it, but is that a hint that there won't be an iPad 3 this year?
That's a fair point. It might take a while before many people have a chance to work for companies like that though.
Shell Study Contends Evidence for Peak Oil Theory
Precisely. Sadly scientists (like other humans) are all too willing to step aside and let the press do whatever it pleases to maximize their publicity. The 'last psychiatrist' had a recent posting relating this to how certain scientific facts appear to later become unreproducible. The truth being that the original research was merely misrepresented, usually via a motivated lack of skepticism and disregard of nuance.
Specifically, Windows actually checked whether SimCity was running and then allocated memory differently if it was.

Joel Spolsky talks about it in this old article:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
Looks a lot like Mint. Wonder if that's intentional on Mint's part.
Plagiarism in Dissertation Costs German Defense Minister His Job
Is the Boston technology scene living in the past?
In Ubuntu, it would be one long series of do-release-upgrade commands. Not nearly as exciting.
Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don’t Always Win)
Why? Web Applications and Web Servers are two very different things with different language requirements. Seems sensible to pick the strongest languages with which to build the whole package.
I feel this is trying to solve a problem where there isn't one. You can easily install MAMP or XAMP and have access to a full stack if your developing on your local machine. There are so many other higher priority items for PHP to address.
Like this? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.makeramen.todolist...
people on the street could give a crap less. It means that these are stillborn ideas.

People don't need to know what an apache, django or drupal is in order to use a website based on it. It's a fallacy to think that the user has to be aware of what the underlying software is in order for that software to catch on.
Not quite what you are describing but http://www.google.com/search?q=cash+gift+puzzle&tbs=shop...
Women in Tech? There Are More Than You Think
This isn't a fun choice for the OS folks to make.

Backward-compatibility for cases such as this can lead to arcane and more complex code within the OS, to difficulty with adding enhancements and creating fixes in the future, and creates larger target areas for folks that are attempting security attacks, and more complex testing.

Bug-for-bug application compatibility is not without costs.
Possibly even the funniest comment in that article of all time.
When it comes to viability as an infrastructure for business, downwards compatibility clearly trumps rapid development. The same can be seen with Java: having all the shiny, fashionable features the tech geek blogs are abuzz with may be nice... but having old, boring, clunky, uncool software that your business depends on continue to work is far, far more valuable.
Not everything that asks something of users is bad for users. I think it's an awesome idea.
That would be the innovator's dilemma.
I don't think there's much reason for them to change it even with competition. If publishers threaten to drop them as a target, then they'll change it. And that threat has more to do with market share than anything else.
Average lifespan was very scewed because of high children mortality. If you survivied first few years chabces were pretty good that you'd live longer than average life expectancy told.
unfortunately the "one more thing" was missing at the end...hoped it would be the retina display :(
in ver 6.0 you could switch between tasks in dosshell

That was task swapping, not multitasking. All but the currently-executing task were interrupted, written out to disk, and expunged from memory.
It slipped through because the author was using an unsupported nesting. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281328
That's next on the list. It's been the #1 request so far: a "just show me the video" link. Perhaps the publisher has an option of enabling in the setup process.
It's actually not that hard. Just run it under dosshell or Virtual XP. It won't run natively of course.
Nice, I'd personally like to see an option to allow users to dismiss the dialog and not tweet but still see the video.

I can see some uses for forcing a tweet but also for not forcing it.

Well done for diving in and learning something new.
that page is reserved for 500 errors.

for a 404 they swap out several images. see http://www.reddit.com/thisisa404
The obvious YCW 2011 is really underrepresented. Google can help you with that: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=788&...
I'm getting $300 for same.
It's not asking something of a user, it's forcing them. If this was optional it would be asking. I think it would be great if it was optional and showed at the end of the video, why would you tweet about a video you've not yet seen?
Haha, a nice simple error page! Still, nothing beats that one http://www.abovetopsecret.com/404.html
Right. Because if there is a shortage of something, like highly talented people in a field, then the best way to attract them to work for you is tell them it is a privilege they have to pay for.
predictions:

- iPhone 5G will use this dual-core A5 chip
- there'll be a smaller, low-cost iPhone model (nano iPhone?)
- the next nano will play video (maybe combined with the above?)
- iPad 3G will play 1080p, and have 1GB RAM

These devices have enough power for a full OS. But I predict Apple will hold off combining them (OSX on iPad; A5 in laptop/desktop) for as long as possible: 1. it doesn't help the customers of the iPad; 2. it would segment the developer market, who can use the extra power anyway. However, it's inevitable as processors get faster; and they can't hold off for ever because if they don't do it, someone else will. It's just a question of when.
I have to laugh, because although I don't think I'd do this, most of my clients are pageview hungry media sites, and they would love this. I'd say within a month one of them will ask me if it's feasible to implement.

This reminds me in some ways of SolveMedia (the CAPTCHA that forces users to engage with advertisers). What if you forced someone to tweet a CAPTCHA (I'm commenting on this hot new video, check it out!) and then used the Twitter API to verify?
The fundamental problem here is that I don't know if I want to tweet about a video before I watch it. A tweet is like an endorsement, especially when you have the extreme burden of more than 10 twitter followers (as I have) - you have a responsibility to your adoring public to ensure you fill your stream with high quality, relevant content.

All jest aside, I think it's a great idea to have the ability to tweet during a video as a seamless experience.

You've chosen a great example with Mixergy. Andrew's interviews are LOOONG and I'm frightfully busy. I love watching his videos but I rarely make it through to the end. If I have a tab open with hootsuite in it I'll quite often hop across and tweet that I just watched the video, if the video were totally awesome I'd open up a tab to get to hootsuite and tweet about it but if it's nice and interesting but not bone shatteringly good, no-one but me and Wistia's video hosting stats will know that I watched it.

If, however, the "Are you enjoying this video? Click to tweet about it right now" came up during the first half of a video, I'd be far more likely to spread the word about what I'm watching more often. Obviously it would have to be less obtrusive than it is now and it shouldn't interrupt the flow of the video at all.
Apple Special Event March 2011
Didn't read the article, just the title, but I'd like to chime in to say I'm pretty sure I saw around a dozen good movies in the last year. Subset includes Inception, Social Network, King's Speech, True Grit, Star Trek (too far back? not sure), and The Fighter.