skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many things that make it fast - or rather, it's the lack of slow things that make it fast. Excessive recursion during parsing is one of those things that is avoided (and that was what was on-topic here). Your focus on binding is instead a focus on something that another compiler does particularly slowly. That a different compiler is fast is not due to it being fast at binding specifically; it's due to being fast, or at least not slow, at almost everything.

Delphi does indeed inherit unit syntax from Turbo Pascal. This is both a blessing and a curse; it makes writing well-structured programs easier by enforcing a logical consistency in ordering (programs more or less have to be written in a procedurally decomposed way), but it also makes writing programs with complex interdependencies between parts more awkward. The unit format is also one of the things that makes the compiler fast (or not slow); relinking a binary unit based on a partial compile is very quick, and as it's not a dumb C-style object format, the compiler can be intelligent about dependencies. Every symbol has a version, a kind of hash, associated with it, computed from its type, definition, etc. When units are relinked after a recompile of a unit, only the symbols need be looked up and their versions compared; if there is no version mismatch between imports and exports, then dependent units don't need recompilation.

Random factoid: the guy who wrote the original source for the current Delphi compiler was also one of the developers for the .NET GC, and CLR performance architect (Peter Sollich).
You realize that 40 ct per 160 bytes makes those bytes more expensive than sending the same data to the hubble space telescope?
They released a hardware decoder a while back. It's been licensed by some chip makers, though I haven't heard which ones.

http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/
Do side projects make your startup better?
First, they evacuated the area you're talking about.

Second, the measurement you're referring to (170usv, btw, not 208msv) was taken outdoors.

Third, the leaked fission products likely to have produced those measurements have short half lives. We're not talking about the Pripyat Zone of Alienation. The area hasn't been rendered unsafe for habitation.

Fourth, you're talking about a spot measurement heavily dependent on the weather; it's not as if an entire 50km radius of the plant is irradiated (though I believe they evacuated the entire area).

Fifth, while consumption of hundreds of bananas an hour is linked to a measurable increase in cancer, it is a microsopic increase observed across large populations.

You are in effect talking about standing outdoors in the worst possible location 50km away from the plant, maximally exposing yourself to radiation leaked at a continuous level sufficient to maintain that exposure despite the half life of the fission products causing it, for TWENTY STRAIGHT DAYS, 24/7, to achieve an increase in cancer that is very probably significantly lower than consumption of red meat, consumption of refined flour, failure to consume enough green leafy vegetables, eating more than one serving of dairy daily, OR eating anything fried in polyunsaturated oil.
Lessons from Coca-Cola to Prevent Cholera
Roboo - HTTP Robot Mitigator released
Nice. If you have any comments, questions, or feature requests, just let me know: kord at loggly dot com
If there are other startup mentors, not VCs, lurking here who'd be interested in discussing a SaaS offering that will likely create a destabilizing event for the ediscovery market, please drop me a line. I've got five years in that market and a fair number of influential people interested.
+1 for finally getting in. From what you write, it seems to me that you got into YC at a point when knew the game quite well. The learning was in getting in.

So what's your take away from all of it? Is it the YC network and the resourcefulness of YC founders, or is there more to it?

PS: I strongly believe in the adage, "if you want to be smart, surround yourself with smart people". From that POV, I understand that being connected to YC founders itself gives you tools that would otherwise be inaccessible to you. Still I wanna hear that from you, since you're in a better position to ascertain that.
Was Greece Just Nuked?
Who wants this domain, www.cellbro.com?
I have this domain name, www.cellbro.com which would expire soon, anyone interested in having it can hit me up. My contact details are in my profile.
thanks
Roundup: T-Mobile gets AT&T-bagged
The majority of people in Germany probably buy subsidized and locked (for the duration of the contract) phones but it is no problem to just walk into your local Best Buy equivalent, buy any phone you like and get your favorite provider to send you a SIM (or buy one directly there). It's not even that much more expensive than getting a subsidized phone (over the lifetime of the contract).
Forgive me for the hyperbole, but I've been getting timeouts and extremely slow page loads from reddit daily for at least six months.

They always seem to have an excuse (usually about something being screwed up with Amazon), but frankly "not my fault" only works so often.
Mine is still rocking too. I was just stress-testing it with, ahem, Warcraft...
Absent a massive technological shift --- which may be coming and which AT&T and Verizon are powerless to stop ...

What are you thinking of?
Can we be more careful with the words "high" and "radiation"? Firefighters at the plant were exposed to high levels of radiation. Their exposure to damaging radiation is measured cumulatively in many hundreds or even thousands of millisieverts. We can legitimately talk about their health being endangered by high radiation.

People living 50km from the plant have not been exposed to high radiation. They have, in the very worst possible interpretation of the numbers we have now, been exposed to multiple cross-country flights worth of radiation. If you want to call that "high radiation", I think in all fairness you must also advocate for flight attendants to be issued lead-lined suits.
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Why don't you return it? This would be an intolerable problem for me.

I don't expect to see any kind of lockups or grey-screen, ever. It just shouldn't be part of owning any computer, especially a mac.
By my estimation the phone is all-around better than a 3G iPhone.

The Optimus V is a late 2010 phone. My iPhone 3G is from 2008 and hasn't been sold by Apple for a full generation. Your comparison doesn't really make sense.
Mayan Calendar may End, but not World
In one way this is terrible. And yet, I'm thinking if the situation gets bad enough, we'll finally see some changes that will forever dethrone these oppressors.

I'm thinking of a data-only phone that puts all of these evil companies out of the equation. All you need to provide data is wireless hotspots, and this can be done by small companies.

The only problem is who owns the fast fiberoptics. These fictional small companies could create a cooperative where they all work together to create their own infrastructure. It has worked for the organic food industry (Organic Valley).
Is the video getting hammered by traffic, or is it just me?

EDIT: Works now, 50+ minutes after this comment was posted.
Why do we even care about "Big data"? Why do we need to count every single datapoint? We don't do that anywhere else - The census, medical studies, insurance, engineering, etc.

We use stochastic and Monte-carlo processes to get an answer.
Electricity restored at reactor No. 2 | The Japan Times Online
"This includes things like being able to easily lookup an object's class, documentation, methods, properties, uses (is it a sequence? is it a map?, etc.)."

Most decent OO, statically-typed compilers allow for runtime type information. Delphi (native) and the .NET compilers allow you to query all sorts of information about a given object instance, including its class name, properties, methods, etc. Here's some links on Delphi's native compiler RTTI and attributes:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2217068/why-should-i-care...

http://robstechcorner.blogspot.com/2009/09/so-what-is-rtti-r...

Object instances in environments like .NET and Delphi are inherently dynamically-typed.

Statically-typed languages provide the safety of checking the "stupid stuff" during compilation without sacrificing the flexibility of using dynamic types in the form of classes. And many do so without any major compilation overhead (Delphi and .NET compilers are very fast).
So how should he be best described?
No irony here, just asking so that next time I know better how to refer to him.
This is bad. In terms of freedom, T-Mobile was the only large carrier to oppose warrant-less wiretapping of Americans. In terms of cost, T-Mobile offered the best non-contract prices, and I could use my Nexus One or iPhone on their network for a reasonable price.
Biggest obstacle: ISPs want as much vertical integration as possible. They would probably try to develop a commercially competing but not technically competitive product rather than subscribing to a third party. Some already have (Orange). Worse, one of them could actually try to flat out buy Dropbox (like, again, Orange did with Deezer)
Instinct and Wisdom
Looks like hashbangs mess up the counting; e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/ and http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/#!michaelcg...
Ba ha ha, now we see why they bought OKC. Ad traffic from stats blog.
Under "More info" on the homepage.
Nothing specific other than the ubiquity of RF in modern consumer electronics designs and off-the-shelf hardware becoming powerful enough to handle software radio with minimal hardware assistance.

The thing that makes the "OMG $0.20 SMS PAY TO TETHER WTF" people isn't going to be a better cell carrier; it's going to be something that obsoletes cell carriers. Look at the RIDICULOUS PHONE you have in your pocket right now; nothing like it even existed in 2005.
is it celbro.com or cellbro.com?

You have both in the title/body...
In terms of freedom, T-Mobile was the only large carrier to oppose warrant-less wiretapping of Americans. In terms of cost, T-Mobile offered the best non-contract prices, and I could use my Nexus One or iPhone on their network for a reasonable price.
Don't worry too much about it. Most of the "everybody" don't hang out on Hacker News.
Apologies for drilling the point unnecessarily, but I just saw a quote in another thread that I thought applied to this situation:

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
There's nothing email specific, although a company couldn't republish an email from an individual without breaching the data protection act.

If the information in an email has no indication (explicit or implicit) that it should remain private, then I agree there's no legal reason why the recipient can't disclose the information from the email
Learning Math with a Video Game
You must encode it properly:

http://graph.facebook.com/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2F%23...

Note that encoding '#' as %23 is sufficient.

However, it doesn't show any shares and I'm not sure if that means nobody shared your twitter URL on facebook or if there's another problem somewhere.
If a particle happens to decay at your detector when it is detecting, you'll get a massive spike.

This is not true. The energy deposited by a single quantum of radiation is negligible, and at this point most of the activity is from long-lived isotopes and so shouldn't change from day to day.

I would guess that wind patterns are responsible for the variability in measurements, not nuclear physics.
Well, there goes my great rate, my unlimited data, and the great customer service.

At least I can look forward to a larger bill.
It'll be interesting to see how DrChrono and other smaller companies break into the electronic healthcare record (EHR) market and compete with the larger medical IT companies. I work as a consultant for a public medical IT company so I've seen first hand just how much work it takes for a hospital to upgrade their software. Besides a strong product and sales team, there's a ton of training and support that is required for a hospital to successfully convert to a new system.

It looks like DrChrono's target market is smaller physicians offices, which I'm not as familiar with (I consult with larger hospital systems). If DrChrono can successfully demonstrate how their software can eliminate errors, improve efficiency, and save doctor's offices money in the long run, then they will have a good chance, but there are a number of things they need to execute correctly in order to succeed.

Training and support are VERY important for a successful switch to new software. Physicians and nurses are typically older and not as technically savvy as the people who develop and sell the software. They do not like change because they are used to their workflow with their paper-based systems, and I've seen firsthand projects that took a turn for the worse because the hospital executives decided to make the switch to new software and the physicians and nurses did not like the change to their current workflow.

DrChrono also needs to be flexible enough to cater to the different workflows and reporting needs of each physicians office. This is definitely not a "One software fits all" market. What may be a perfect fit for one physician may not meet the needs of another office.

Summary: This is a tough market to be successful in because of so many factors, but that doesn't mean that it can't be done.
Student's Perspective on Hosting a Hackathon
Statistically speaking it would be flawed to use this to compare and prioritize a list of urls in order to rank them by interestingness/attention/etc.

The reason is that pages that have Facebook like buttons embedded on them are statistically speaking going to have a higher chance of getting shared than those that don't (such as Hacker News - which doesn't have such buttons).

I guess it depends what you might use this for, but to me it seems to only have limited value.
Ask HN: How do you deal with micro-managers in startups?
I am starting to hear about too many cases of startups that manage their devs as if it were a tightly-run corporation. It is not uncommon to see dev managers/CTOs that:

- hamper innovation
- manage devs by day-to-day tasks
- hand down architectural decisions
- interrupt plugged-in devs to ask "managerial" questions

What would you do as a dev looking to work at a startup, with all the responsibilities involved, but found herself managed by micro-managers just looking for people to get the job done, on their terms?

What would you do as a founder who found himself with a core team that is very talented, yet hampers innovation?
I'd respond to your article with quotes to point out how you're misunderstanding it, but I might violate its copyright and subject myself to needless lawsuits. (You can have the last word now; I'll stop being snarky in response.)
I see many physicians using an iPad in the hospital to access the hospitals EMR system in a very cumbersome way - they log into the hospitals servers, so they are then in a Windows setting, then log into the desktop version of the hospitals EMR system (HMS in this case) using their iPad. Implementation in the office setting, if it's done, is pretty similar.

Hopefully companies like DrChrono can change this by designing an EMR system that is really made to work on a tablet.
The existing companies, including AllScripts, just let you use the desktop version on an iPad, which kind of sucks.
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I disagree.

What I think might show up is, ahem, an iPod Touch Maxi with a 4" or 5" screen. Which would be identical to an iPod Touch in every way except for being scaled up 30% (including in pixel size) -- like the Nintendo DSi XL.

Target market for this device would be people like me -- i.e. over 45s with presbyopia/fat finger, who want a physically slightly larger device with the same UI and apps as the iPod Touch. A secondary market would be ebooks: the iPhone/iTouch screen is just too small to be comfortable, but a larger screen at the same (retina display resolution) with larger UI elements but scaled text (to display more of it for reading) would be fine. Scaling up the compact iOS interface (iPhone/iTouch) doesn't require redesigning apps in the same way that scaling down the iPad UI would; you can use a small app on a larger screen, it's going in the other direction that's painful.

I suspect the BOM for a larger iTouch would be insignificantly costlier than a regular iTouch, so this would permit them to hit the $300 price point without cutting their margins significantly.
On a similar vein, amusing stories from another UK company

http://recruitmental.com/
It's actually only 140 octets. :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Message_size
My bad, corrected. thanks
How to convince my friend that open source is good?
My friend doesn't believe in open source projects, especially in a crowded market.

How do I convince him that with open source we build awareness and indirect income?

What are the pros and cons of open source?
I take it you've never worked in a restaurant ... there are plenty of such people.
Is there a way to get sum of the share count for all pages in a domain?

This one only reflects share count of the specific page--or only the homepage if you pass a domain.
Relocate to India
I 'm currently working in USA on H1B visa. Would love to relocate to India. My dilemma is that cannot pack up and move back without any job offers in hand. My current employer does not have an office in India.
One of the options that i have is find employment in a company which has office. Finding jobs through job portal is difficult given non availability for in person interviews.
Would like to network with some fellow hackers to find job in India. Any other suggestions would be great.
thanks
Typos even have some shares, too:

http://graph.facebook.com/http://www,google.com
6 Search Operators I'd Be Lost Without
Cross-Language Benchmarks - PHP, Node, Haskell Warp/Yesod
Radiation is tailor made to be scary.

The negative outcome for someone outside the nuclear industry has a name: cancer. The negative outcome for someone outside the coal industry (respiratory illness) is less well-defined, less likely to be attributed to coal, and less likely to cause someone to die unusually young. That last is important - old people and people with asthma die from air pollution. Otherwise healthy people can contract radiation-induced cancer.

The mechanism by which nuclear plants produce negative outcomes (radiation) is also poorly understood and imperceptible, whereas one can see smog and kinda tell when it's a code red day out.

It's not just that there's some destruction - it's that the destruction can't be understood, perceived, or planned for until it's too late.

People's fear of nuclear power is irrational, but it doesn't necessarily depend entirely on propaganda.
It's happening in our hospital now as we have just implemented computerized physician order entry (literally just last week was the start date).

I don't think it's fair to blame the physicians and nurses - sometimes it is the hospital and its IT staff and the software being used. The machines we are equipped we are REALLY slow, the servers are slow, and there are not enough machines available. That makes it a real pain to enter orders now.
There has to be some ability to "freelance" an order in the system and there really isn't. I understand why, the order should be standardized so the system automatically recognizes what the medication is, what the dosing is, whether it may interact with other meds, etc. But that's time consuming for the medical provider - unless it's executed exceptionally well.
What Exactly is Multiplication?
Overloading on return type is fundamentally impossible in dynamic languages, since they dispatch on values, and the return value can not be known before the function is called.
Really? Is it just a matter of media mismanagement or something?

People have "been told" to fear radiation AND people have been told not to fear radiation.

Somehow the fear "stuck"?

Why?

And how do you propose changing that?
I hope I detect an air of sarcasm there, otherwise I'd have my water supply checked if I were you!
Not really. I've got emails like that from Microsoft and a ton of other large companies. A guy from Symantec even rang me, said he found me on linkedin, despite my linkedin profile stating not to call me by phone (I don't have my number in my profile, but you can easily find it from linked material). Neither the emails, nor the phone calls mean anything. He still owuld have had to send a CV/resume and maybe get asked for an interview or two before he ever got a job. This isn't unusual at all, its very common.
Except for (pieces of) startups?
Presumably they rule the Internet because you'd be labelled sexist if you claimed men ruled the Internet.
Yes it does. It's 2-year old technology at commodity prices. That's an important observation.
I have to admit that it is actually refreshing and enjoyable to see the YC application process come and go without being an applicant this time. I applied for the W'11 batch and was all I could think about was the application, the possibility of an interview, and obviously the ultimate possibility of getting into YC.

I couldn't look at others' demos and ideas without viewing them as the competition. I was judging the other projects instead of actually being interested in them. Since I'm not applying this round (not because I've become disillusioned with YC or don't think it would be a good opportunity, I've just determined that I'm at the point in my life where I need to focus on taking care of more immediate needs than swinging for the fences), I'm actually enjoying seeing what everyone is bringing to the table. It makes me smile to see everyone's enthusiasm to get into YC. Good luck to everyone out there, and if you have something that you truly believe in, make it happen, YC or not.
Before you even consider the %, there is a much more important question:

Do you believe in the startup? And if you do, do you believe that there will be a market for the 5% stake you get.

A "no" to either question suggests that you should work for the money and not the equity.

Assuming the answer is "yes" to both, what are the terms under which you can unload that equity later on?
How to leave a techy company
What are the benefits vs something like pagemodo.com?
The single paragraph that's actually worth reading from this article:

> I quickly downloaded it and began the installation process. That went well. I then performed the obligatory Microsoft reboot — it’s 2011 and the software still needs a computer restart, but whatever, I’ll live — and then I opened up the browser.
Condividi - Google search
Whenever have they don't-ed?
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It's more of a "don't go telling people" thing than a "now that it's on Hacker News everybody will know" thing.
Try to diplomatically educate them. Try to politely point out how this stuff is counterproductive. Try to look for "teaching moments" and set an example. There is a saying: "A good example is the best lecture." If you go about handling things more effectively using a superior paradigm, other folks will begin to follow your example -- not because it's you, but because it works.
Topicmarks.com will make us even lazier (for the better):)
They have always been "one" of the most fiercely competitve markets in the world. So has everyone else.
The Swedish Model
See how many times a URL has been tweeted on Twitter:
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...
There is a guy at Yahoo that took a long list of news articles, etc and analyzed over 40MM "Likes" this way. Pretty cool charts came out of it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300300