skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handle these sales in an asynchronous fashion. Just because it feels like it's taking forever to you doesn't mean there isn't progress being made.

The unfortunate thing is that you may have the sale completely clinched or you may have already lost it and you might not know for months or longer. All you can do is touch base with your contact occasionally, and let them know you're there if they need you.

You can also try to offer to help the sales process for them. Sometimes that works well if the hangup is at the executive level. Offer to send them some plain-English case studies about how your product (makes / saves) money for them. Spell out what the expected ROI is, etc...

The other side of this coin that's worth mentioning: Sometimes the big customers that won't close just aren't worth the effort. They will always be slow moving. They will always consume much more of your time than a smaller company will.

If your company culture value agility, perhaps you should just decide that the sale isn't a good cultural fit and spend more of your time focusing on customers that are a better fit.
You mean Slashdot-esqe joke.
He's referring to how RMS has said that he browses the Web. I think it was more of a painting of the lifestyle as a whole, rather than a specific edict from the FSF.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979
Ali, how the hell did you find time to do this while still running Well.ca?

You truly are a machine ;-)
The Evolution and History of the Apple Logo
You ran a construction company and grew it to $500k in revenue? Dude, I hope you literally spelt that out repeatedly in your YC application. :)
82% of future tablet buyers say they'll choose Apple's iPad
It's Ted Kaczynski, and you're seriously reading what you want to read there. That's not what I got from it at all.

Jokes are also amusing.
Click "Download as text file" -- only yahoo.com is included in the download. Based on the file contents (UNIX line endings), I'm guessing that's a raw-ish dump of the database contents.
I am somewhat biased to view that as an opinion rather than as fact. Symbian has always had a much lower overhead than iOS, and Symbian has also been very good about offloading processing tasks to specialized hardware rather than relying on a fast main processor. One of the beautiful things about this approach is that Symbian is much better with battery life than iOS.

Nokia's focus on high end devices is different from the iPhone, and the "technical capabilities" is all in the checkboxes you choose to include.

Physical keyboards, removable storage, removable batteries, 5-band UTMS (the iPhone 4 may have this?), HDMI out, Xenon Flash, FM transmitters, DUN & FTP bluetooth profiles, Adobe Flash, video calling w/o WiFi, and true multi-tasking are all checkboxes that I can use to make the iPhone look like it lacks technical capabilities.

So I think we need to be careful about what we define as lack of technical capabilities. While Symbian may seem less responsive than the iPhone, my opinion is that the iPhone does lots of caching and transitions to make it look smooth while processing. Symbian traditionally has been more baked in functionality than the iPhone, but Symbian certainly is less beautiful.
Bawdy ode to Steve (NSFW)
This well done song and video filmed on the iPhone 4 represents the wishes of millions of people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7NkZnSFOJU&feature=youtu.be

NSFW
There is plenty of documentation on www.ycombinator.com that answers this question.
I've found answers there, too, but I've yet to encounter a situation where they're the only place an answer is found. Now that StackOverflow is around I suspect that's even less likely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7NkZnSFOJU&feature=youtu...
I believe it is common in Law firms as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Law
Yea, doesn't mean that he would recommend it to others.
You get rewarded in the USA for past performance (and to a limited extent, future potential). Nobody is giving you raises purely on what you promise to deliver in the future. Therefore, you should have no guilt in accepting promotions/raises and then moving out to other projects elsewhere.
People use the word "codec" to mean a few different things, but both the encoder and decoder parts of libvpx have been improved in terms of speed, quality and number of bugs and released as new versions as part of this SDK.

It's still bitstream compatible with previous versions, but I think saying the codec is the same is misleading.
Agamemnon: A graph database built on top of cassandra
That doesn't take a billion dollars. Hookers are cheap (even if you go for the higher quality ones) and if you have more time than money, there are URLs that can help you http://themysterymethod.net/, http://realsocialdynamics.com/ etc.

Or the real shortcut: be a cocky, funny and extremely self confident asshole. For more details see roissy.wordpress.com.

Finally, a warning: plenty of plenty of people who venture down this route end up loosing any and all respect they ever had for women. The benefit is (potentially) at lot of sex.
Time-space breaks down. Don't do it!

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if in a few months users are mysteriously going to have facebook.com added to their block list.
Living in the US, it's easy to travel quite a bit without needing a passport.
I was going to chime in to say that moving from a vector to a recursive reversed list-based implementation for a mere 3x performance gain was a premature optimization at the expense of readability. Then I actually read your code and the two implementations looked nearly identical, so I guess I'll just leave this here.

n.b. - I have actually done a bit of Clojure programming myself but the fine points you and Fogus are discussing here are largely over my head, at least juding by the code sample.
Yes, but nobody was talking about Javascript and Performance in the same breath. And V8 or even its creator, didn't even exist.
Google & Bing Have Whitelists/Exception Lists For Algorithms
With a tiny team of very smart programmers, starting from scratch, C++ can certainly be made to work.

I wrote a web server in C from first principles back in 2001* for many of the same reasons that OKCupid seem to have done - and with a team of one good programmer that worked out really well.

* http://web.archive.org/web/20070705191513/http://www.annexia...
Trade Made Us Human
> Actually the only place where iPhone wins completely is the multitouch screen.

That's no small thing though. I had the N810, which I'm pretty sure used the same display and sensor as the N900 and the touch screen was just painful to use.

I think an actually working touch screen sensor has been one of the biggest things the iPhone introduced (or popularized, mobile phones at the time all insisted on resistive sensors, probably because of lower costs).
>What makes you think it is "wrong"? Simply because it isn't the case now?

I think that is the standard definition, yes.
I think the idea is that the agent would negotiate the terms of the initial offer, i.e., this would happen before the tech worker joined the company. Certainly, once you're in, an agent is unlikely to be able to do anything for you. So the question is not whether it would get you fired but whether a prospective employer would negotiate with your agent. It depends on the circumstances, I'm sure, but in Silicon Valley, if you have skills that are in great demand, we just might be at a point where this could begin to work.
Apple has it too, actually, so Google is better all around for "freedom/openness".
I don't think that's fair to the author. It's an ad hominem that shouldn't have any place whatsoever on HN.

At least this guy is out there sticking out his neck and taking a chance. I might disagree with what he has to say (I usually do), but I have no right to judge him either way and I think that neither do you.

Every serious writer wants a book deal. If he makes a "direction-less advice blog" to do it and manages to write decent stuff once in a while then more power to him.

What I'm trying to say is that argue with him on the basis of content and where he's wrong instead of taking pot shots at him. It's healthier and a saner way, because both of you might just learn something out of this.

Take care,
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Out of curiosity, what were titles of the books?
This is sweet. I've had a similar idea for this on my side-project list for a while.
I've been clamoring for a blacklist for years, and they did used to have an [X] button on SERPs, so I imagine it's been being worked on for some time now.
I know how IQ is measured - that's why I felt comfortable making the statement. And of course 100 is not an absolute, fixed value. But, nevertheless, someone with a sub-100 IQ today is unlikely to use his newfound free time, if he's supplanted as high school janitor by a robot, to create wonderful works of art or technology.
I've been trying to move my own pipeline from maya to blender and this has been a great resource.
I'd take terms of use more seriously if they were presented as something resembling a real contract with a choice to accept/decline, e.g. they showed me an up-front page with the terms, and made me check that I agreed to them before letting me view the site. Obviously sites don't do this, because they would lose a bunch of readers who would just close the window.

I don't consider fine print buried in a footer that I "implicitly" agree to to be an actual contract.
One of the advantages ex-googlers cite as a reason for joining facebook is that facebook is much faster at deploying new things. Google has been nortiously slow with most things. As per the windows comparison, Microsoft releases updates for their windows products almost daily so I dont see much difference.
That's a great example for comparison. Sometimes reddit goes down completely, maybe more often than most web apps. But it's still uncommon enough that I think of reddit as a site that "works" and I go into a session expecting it to go smoothly.

I don't think I've ever seen OkCupid down completely, not that I use it nearly as often as reddit. But I've never seen reddit have the behavior that while it's up, I can expect one of every 5-20 page views or posts to time out or fail on the first load/submit but succeed on the second or third. And this is consistent enough with OKCupid that I think about a usage session as something I'll have to be in the mood to fight with.
I "get stuff done" better with git than with svn (and I used svn for years before I ever heard of git). I'm also far more productive with Python than with Java. Sometimes things become popular because they actually are better. Blindly writing off every newfangled whatsit as "fashion" is ludditry.
I can only speak for myself, but I've pretty much never seen OkC perform like you're describing, and I've maintained an intermittently active account since '04.
I live in the US, but there's a difference between traveling within the borders of your country and traveling abroad and experiencing new cultures.
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Truer that you realize: this is a reverse Like button. It's antisocial.
C++'s reputation was negatively affected by Microsoft's studied dominance of university CS curricula. Back in the VB days C++ was the step up and I still see it in job ads on par with Java (Sun's side of the curriculum equation), though by now I merely read it as a veiled call for university graduates who learned programming only in school, coderbots.
Best Paid Web Jobs and How You Can Get One
While we all know a good job is about more than just the money, having money is nice too, especially if there’s a lot of it. Unlike many other sectors of the market negatively affected by the economy, salaries in the web sector remain high and may continue to rise as more companies extend their web presence.
Perhaps Google could introduce an "I'm Feeling Desperate" button for the times you just know your result lies within one of your previously blocked sites.
Me thinks I should have emphasized the exterior painting company I ran to pay my way through college, hah. Although not as relevant here since I'm not a single cofounder.

Time to go revisit the application, anyways.
Sounds interesting. Your email is not in your profile. You can email me (via my profile) - let's see what we can do.
Ask HN: Is it safer to register a domain with a swedish registrar?
Would registering to a Swedish registrar provide some protections against the ICE seizure hullabaloo that is going on right now?
It may sound glib, but I would expect that you've described their ideal user behavior.
I've upmodded this whole discussion because I think it's the kind of thing I love to see on HN, even though my bias is "do the cleaner thing first, optimize later if necessary."

But, I just wanted to point out that paste.lisp.org's paren matching is beautiful.
LimeWire Settles Copyright Case
Awesome project bryan! Glad we could be helpful during your first Ruby / Padrino project. Look forward to future projects.
Cool idea!

Some feedback:

- The buttons browse and upload are too far apart. I thought the upload was a seperate button. Why not upload the photo as soon as an image has been selected. Seen it in other places, so it is technically possible

- Loose the C:\fakepath\. I use a Mac so that is rather daft. Just show the filename. And oh yeah, make sure it fits the box and doesn't wrap lines.

- Throw same random numbers in the URL as an identifier. I don't think people will like it if other people outside their social graph can view their picture. Just a precaution..

- Integrate the proper Twitter share button instead of linking to the Twitter site. Much cooler and more handy!

- Make the #1 #2 and #3 result balloons easily recognizable as which one is winning and which one isn't. Now it's just random colours.

Hope this helps!
Think I found a new full screen app for my secondary monitor.
Eco-farming best for poor, UN expert says, not Gates Foundation approach
New iPad Appeals More to Emotion Than Reason
>a blog has to have a LOT of traffic (like 100k a month) to move the meter, and if you don't get that kind of traffic you're just hurting your credibility by running ads.

I get a quarter of that on my blog, but I'm pretty random and rarely blog. All my ads do is pay the hosting costs for itself and a couple of extra domains that are in perpetual [un]development and maybe if I'm lucky buy me a meal out once a year (at a pretty low class restaurant) - but do people really disrespect me for that?

Personally despite it being cheap I probably couldn't afford to run the blog without ads (for at least another year) and 250k visits p.a. suggests that at least a few thousand folks might be moderately distracted or find worth in my blog.

In your opinion should I stop the blog? (based on this very limited information alone).
If you have m-r code in your application, codify those functions, store them separately in a directory or even Riak objects, and refer to them by name in your code. Or, better yet, write it in Erlang.
Good call. No, you have to start again. Oh well, not a big deal.

Note you can only block 500 sites, I should think thats enough though.
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My problem usually, contrasting other comments here, is that I don't look at the URL of the link I'm clicking on but primarily at the title. Since a lot of questions on EE are very specific, I often click by accident since the question sounds a lot like what I'm looking to find an answer for, only to grunt at having to scroll all the down ("Ok, I'll give them one more try..") where no answer usually is found.
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Look at it this way. We're all fonts on a screen. Shoot the message, not the messenger.
I'd love to read a post where someone decided SVN is superior for their purpose, and their stance is defensible. I can't think of any reasonable use cases.
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Good point. Never thought of it that way. Even so there are a lot that seem to make it to the front page.
With a better UI than OpenTable! ;)
> Microsoft releases updates for their windows products almost daily so I dont see much difference.

Sure, but these are minor updates. Look at the major updates. Windows Vista was developed for about 5 years in secret, and when it was eventually released to the world it was a disaster. To keep with the OS comparison, Google has been releasing major OS upgrades every 6 months - 1 year. Android is moving so much faster than Windows or even WP7 and is a huge part of why it's successful. In the time that WP7 has been out (five months? ish?) there have been 0 updates to most phones; maybe a few phones got the small update-to-the-updater. With that same period of time Google has announced and released a new Android version.
great ambition, you will realize it in time. Best of luck!
Well, if Sebastian writes a book, I'll buy it. And I'll buy a copy for someone else. He's a great writer, he's thoughtful, and he's entertaining.
Case Study: Do Twitter retweets or Facebook likes/shares generate more traffic? 
We run http://FanPageList.com/ and were excited to see that our friends at the WWE tweeted about John Cena's ranking on our Top Athletes on Facebook list:
http://twitter.com/#!/WWE/status/45537384107999233

The @WWE Twitter account has about 250K followers so we fully expected to receive a big boost in traffic which we did (had over 350+ concurrent users at the peak). What we didn't expect was Facebook generated about 6X more traffic to fanpagelist.com than Twitter:

Looking at our Clicky Dashboard using their Social Media Traffic Source report for yesterday, fanpagelist.com received:

3,851 visitors from facebook.com
662 visitors from twitter.com

Checking our Facebook Insights dashboard, we saw 1.3 Million Share Story impressions yesterday. Share story impressions according to Insights are "The number of times people viewed stories generated from organic shares"

Compare that was 107,043 Twitter impressions using TweetReach, (http://tweetreach.com/reach?q=fanpagelist.com), over the most recent 50 retweets. This isn't a complete comparison since there were about 120 retweets yesterday about fanpagelist.com but gives you an idea of how Facebook drives more traffic than Twitter.

We have both a Share button on my pages and Like button (via the Wibiya toolbar) but we think the fact that Facebook Likes now have better visibility in News Feeds probably did help boost traffic: http://mashable.com/2011/02/27/facebook-like-button-takes-over-share-button-functionality/

We wanted to blog about this and show nice and pretty graphs but it was faster to write-up a quick post to share with HN readers.

Fan Page List team
@fanpagelist
I get similar issues (long page loads, extremely large lag in chat and questions), while via 3G in Poland. It's not solely 3G's fault, because many other sites (including FB chat) work ok, but it's clearly triggered by a specific environment.

With landline connections OKC works very well :-)
Productive Sleeping
For $10,000 per day you could rent a better place with all the perks and still have a lot left.
I like how you emphasize huge windows. A lot of people I've worked and am studying with don't seem to value natural light much. In fact, many hurry to close the blinds only to turn on artificial lighting on. Why???! I personally find large open windows very inspiring and conducive to work, and generally feel lethargic and depressed if the sky is overcast (this is partly to blame for moving out of Vancouver).
But 'pageDuty' is just a small part of the whole idea.
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It pinged me correctly. Funny, the only newspaper I surfed to was for Ancona, Italy, which is near a place I used to live. Worked well!
Guy Belloch's talk on Parallel Thinking at PPoPP09: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/papers/PPoPP09.pdf

Guy Steele's talk on Breaking Sequential Habits of Thought: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/MIT...

I suspect you're already familiar with these since you cite NESL, but they're worth linking anyway. (Also, I've always had these talks linked in my mind, but I just realized they're both named Guy. Odd.)
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Stop Living the Lie; Start Living the Life
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I see that most applicants for YC are Programmers and Developers. How much importance does YC put into picking Developers vs. Designers vs. Business people when looking at the applications?
Besides just size, you need to look at the industry and calendar cycle.

For example, if it's retail/ecommerce, many of those decisions need to be done early in the year so that they can be implemented in time for Q3, and perfected for Q4. Approaching them in Q2 will often mean you need to wait 10 months.
> a lot of the raisons d’état of publishers goes away

It's raisons d'être! Don't try to appear sophisticated if you're not.
Send an email to userfeedback@okcupid.com, subject: gdulli, and I'll ask you to visit a few links. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the help!
On my 14" screen I can't see the staff and each profile at the same time.
I see the "you broke reddit", "reddit is under heavy load" and "there doesn't seem to be anything here" messages nearly every day.
Marketing your Business Through Emails
I think this looks interesting. I'll definitely check out the results when they come in.
Big Mac crowdsourcing
Cloud lock-in a bigger issue than security
Now, if they could only provide a way to disable previews...
I suspect that the top management at Nokia got stuck with the old idea that networks are the strategically important technology in their business. They always seemed to treat software as basically "the boring last part when outsourced peons implement feature checklists" rather than anything strategic.

When you look at where Nokia was coming from, the emphasis on devices and network tech made sense. They bet the whole company on GSM in the early '90s and reaped amazing rewards. (Finland was the first country in the world with a GSM network, which gave Nokia a nice push into the market that would explode to billions of customers worldwide.)

In the late '90s, networks were similarly a matter of corporate life and death as the European companies battled Qualcomm and the Japanese over the fate of 3G. Meanwhile Nokia was essentially outsourcing their core software. Symbian was set up as a separate corporation in Britain. Maemo was an underfunded Linux skunkworks operation in Brazil.

Nokia didn't even care enough to do the Series 60 user experience design themselves. Instead, this crucial task was outsourced to a German company (I think they were called Mango Design). With nobody in the company fighting for the UX vision, it's not difficult to see how it got so neglected.
Isn't a bit (BInary digiT) by definition in one of two states? Otherwise it would be a "tet" or a "quat"... ;-)
Think of the competition. http://gigaom.com/2010/03/23/y-combinator-matures-14-of-star...
Western civilisation: A success that looks like failure
I was excited to see some Cricket betting, but my corporate filter blocked me as "gambling"
I shaved that morning, but I had to chop down a tree and fight a fire on my way into the office. The result: a 10am shadow.