skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the videos are on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/user365623/videos
I really really enjoyed it last year's 7on7, if you're in NY you really don't want to miss this one. I wish I was there!
I tend to be pretty loyal to one supermarket (chain and location); it's on my usual commute, I like their produce, and I know where everything is. Saving a few dollars by going to another store, has an overall negative ROI for me. Does this offer me anything then, or are you really targeting the folks who will shop wherever the absolute best prices are that week.
Ahem: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/... :)

Just sayin'. But, to your point, yes I would welcome a world where all the ultra low-fi junk would disappear and where there was less noise in the app marketplace... like 2003, except with today's consumer awareness.

But the exact opposite will happen. Right now, our peers are building tools to allow ever lower-fidelity apps to enter the marketplace, that is, enabling less and less qualified people to try their hand at building products.

I have yet to find the saving grace in this situation. I see two paths: 1) create tools to help people build crap apps, and make money while I can, 2) move up the value chain, and make money while I can.
Considering that everyone on this reply chain has been posting for at least 3 years, I don't think we can blame recent trends.
Delicious used to get slammed by crawlers, too.

10 qps isn't that bad. I remember some ad network launched using delicious widgets as their text ads platform that hit us for 25 qps sustained.
One of the first projects I ever built for myself was a wiki website for the Motorola RAZR v3m cellphone. This particular version of the phone was sold by Verizon, and had been locked down at the firmware level to prevent the addition of third party applications that could run on other, unlocked version of the RAZR.

There were many customers who were unhappy about these restrictions, and lots of talk on various forums about how much it sucked that Verizon locked down the phone. There were also other forums where people shared their knowledge on how to unlock the phone using various software applications and a < $10 cable you could buy online.

However, most of the talk about this subject was spread across a variety of forums, and not well organized. There were golden nuggets of info spread amongst posts about how various techniques didn't work or how the user couldn't figure out how to complete the process. The bottom line was that it would typically take a new user hours just to compile the information they needed to successfully unlock their phones.

So I decided to build a wiki website to aggregate all this data. I put up an instance of my favorite wiki variety, and added a couple placeholder pages. I then added one page that described all the steps in detail to unlock the phone, from my own experience. This wiki page could then be changed to incorporate other people's experiences and tips.

I went to all of the forums where I had learned this info in the first place, and pasted links to my wiki, saying that we should collaborate and create an easy to follow set of instructions all in one place. The community thought this was a good idea, and effectively built the site for me.

Within 3 months, the site had gone from being nothing, to having 4000+ registered users and sometimes getting 50k+ hits per day. I ended up having to move the site from Bluehost to a VPS because my BH account kept getting turned off due to excessive traffic and CPU load.

The reason I tell this story is that I think it's really valuable to target a community that has a specific pain point, and then go where that community hangs out on the Internet. While social networks will work, it may be even better to go to a place where you can dialog a bit more with users (i.e. a niche forum), and tell them why your solution is better than what they are using now. Of course, it actually has to be better than what they are using now. But if it is, you should be rewarded with adoption. This method also happens to be free in most cases.
Apache's memory usage should not exceed the available RAM on the machine. If you do that, it starts having to use swap, which drastically slows things down - if you're already getting lots of hits, it'll start a death spiral.

Apache's memory usage varies based on what modules are enabled and the code they're serving and a number of other factors.

The rule of thumb is to take the average free RAM when Apache isn't running, divide it by the average RAM usage of a single Apache process on your system, and set MaxClients to a couple under that value.

For example, on a 512MB Linode box, if you've got 450MB free when Apache isn't running, and Apache takes up 12MB per process, you'd allow about 35 at the most.
And these folks have iPhones and use the internet to find bargains? Maybe they do... just asking.
Meg Whitman to Join Kleiner Perkins
For me, I know my ability to learn whatever I need to in order to complete the project. Most of the time, a client will approach me and say "Can you do x, y, and z for this project?" While I can do x and y just fine, I know full well that I haven't the slightest idea about z -- but I still say "yes." I then do a little bit of research on the topic and get back to them with an estimate. I then have a strong motivation to learn 'z' to be able to complete the project and get paid, and will also have gained a valuable skill that I'll be able to leverage in the future.
Great video. There is a transcript for those who prefer to read:
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/LinusTalk200705Transcr...

I'd watch the video anyway, since Linus is awesome on stage.
Donating 100% and expecting no returns.
canv.as --> facebook connect --> skip
Is that relevant? Because it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Nokia's new typeface.
Eiffel Tower is One of the Most Popular Structures of the World
and then switch to next higher time unit (without changing the number)
I avoided this due to all the warning labels, but your point is good - this is just for prototype purposes. Shall give that a shot, thank you.
The Duel-Profile Social Network For Busy Women: ShesConnected
Everyday we are surrounded by hard working women. Women who juggle work, volunteering, raising a family, and/or community involvement, to name just a few. Hard working women are always in search of sites that help them manage their busy lives. Sites where they can connect with others, get advice, share information, network, and discuss daily topics… Finally your search is over.
This is actually quite a good interview. He's clearly a very sharp guy and has some big plans. At one point, when Jason asks him about other photo sharing apps like Path, he compares them to Yahoo and Color to Google. That is quite a claim. This is a bold founder with some bold ideas backed by bold investors. I'm curious to see their future products.
As a student, entrepreneur, and frequent payer of bills, I tend to take on small gigs under $200 whenever my time allows. This way I can get in and get out quickly, not have to devote too much mental energy to the client, and be able to block myself out from clients while I am working on my own project or studying.

For me this yields the highest dollar per minute spent working and allows for the least amount of stress. Because I work quickly and have accustomed myself to this system, most clients are pleasantly surprised when they receive a product on the same day the project was requested at a higher quality than most other designers they've worked with.
Cloud link collection
Rfave Gives Local Recommendations Based on Strangers With Similar Facebook Likes
So you ignore age/skin color/marital status/etc? So it is not more impressive if a single mother with 3 kids starts a startup than a 45 year-old rich serial-entrepreneur. It is not more impressive if a 16 year old solves one of the millennium problems (as opposed to a 65 year old career academic)?

Of course it is more impressive and I wouldn't ignore these factors...
How do people deal with staff who are quite clever, but write very complex code? I know a person who is a very good engineer in that he understands the underlying principles, but writes horribly complicated code. I'm trying to get him to write simpler code, but haven't succeeded so far.
There are opportunities to pick it up. I have worked in bioinformatics labs and have learned tons of biology and chemistry just through osmosis. Also, they always need more people that program well.
Thanks, we hope to go deeper in areas people are interested in. Let us know.
I can't wait to see a startup job posting that asks for 'candidates previously exposed to software engineering industry best practices, such as Programming, Motherfucker.'
OK , now I am starting to get worried about Nokia
I'm going to assume that they have a server-side validation script running and the client side code is just to prevent/explain to mistaken users and if the server-side script every activates they know that someone's being malicious.
I do. It takes too many clicks to get at the other windows with the (my?) default Android browser, and at any rate I can only have, what, 7 "tabs" open at a time? As often as not I get errors when clicking on links in email/rss that I have the maximum number of windows open, which is a drag. I've been trying Opera over the past week or two, but that doesn't have any controls for modal popups (among other issues).
I've got a (small-compared-to-Amazon) online bookstore, and publisher's discounts to retailers like me generally range from 30-50%. I imagine that Amazon, with their volumes, gets more favorable terms. Supposing they get a 50% discount from the publisher in this case-- I imagine they are getting more, but bear with me-- that means that they are making $3 on the book, net postage (since they charge the customer a separate fee to cover the postage and handling). $3/sale is not a lot, but multiplied by X million, it adds up.

O'Reilly survives because as a publisher, they are making money on every book sold, whether you buy it directly from them or through a retailer. Their direct retail sales are just a sideline.
that's the secret, 3x.

Also, start out on hourly gigs - and then always stay with hourly gigs (time & materials). If you fixed price work you end up having to piss off clients with anal scope management (or you take a bath).
No drag and drop (in Chrome). Slow and clumsy. Dropbox has a far better user experience (but more expensive storage).
Just bought this from No Starch Press for delivery to the UK. Amazon UK has it for £35.49, so cheaper to get it shipped over - madness! (I'll take my chances on the import taxes...)

Thank you Miran for a great haskell book, I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on a print copy.
Good to bookmark: Test results of PHP's strtotime() function
Not only is this problem not insurmountable, it's mostly solved. For websites, HTML5 @font-face is the solution. For distributing documents, PDF has it handled. The only piece of the puzzle that isn't here yet is creating documents with a font you don't actually have — and that space, I think, is intentionally left blank.
The Stories in Motion, The Stories at Rest
I assume that add-ons need to be written specifically for the Android browser - no delicious add-on listed, will need to stick with Dolphin HD for now.
Timeboxing tool: Plan the day and track time with Gardener
My thoughts exactly. Doesn't anyone want to innovate, or "change the world" anymore?

If someone's going to go through all of the labor to make a copy of groupon or an iFart app or a twitter API mashup just for the cash, they should just write a Forex trading algorithm. They'll make more money that way, and their models will be infinitely more computationally unique than any consumer copycat.
I was thinking the same thing. Let's hope that's true.
Actually yes. Not all of them, but a large part of that group have high debt not because they don't have that much money but because they spend too much (it's an easy trap to fall in, since the purchases by themselfs don't amount to that much).

Think young people who are getting okay but not great jobs and who are used to either having their parents pay for them or finance their income on credit.
This is a great example of why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Ask HN: Can our email inboxes be social?
Maybe the current tools allow for this, but I am unaware if they do. If not, I hope this can seed a discussion.

Our email inboxes (Gmail for example) are sorted by when the email was received. Imagine if our inboxes were sorted (or if emails were highlighted) by more than just the time it was received? For someone who may be going through 200 to 300 emails per day, it might do them a whole lot of good to show at the very top, the ones that requires their attention, such as emails from their personal and professional contacts, emails that originated within their organization etc.. rather than resorting to a plain sort-by-timestamp view.

That way, we could instead of digging through the mountain of emails we get everyday and trying to sort through the ones we need to read or ignore, our inbox actually steps in to figure out what should be on the top of the list. I am sure Gmail (or another client) already knows who I most email back and forth, or which ones I read quicker than the others.

Wouldnt it be possible to build an intuitive feature that will cut right through the clutter and take me to the ones that require my attention rightaway?

Once again, I am not sure if such a feature exists of which I am unaware. But if not, why is this not available today?
Right, I tried searching for "select" and it just redirected me back to the home page.
Looks like this has serious potential. Thank you.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_t...

Based on some of the comments there, it doesn't look like it (or at least, it wasn't there several hours ago when Reddit stumbled upon the site). See http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_t... for some examples.
Tarsnap doesn't do that, but other cloud storage providers seem to--like, say, Dropbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3vyon6umixkxu02/Dropbox%20Terms%20o...
Why would we want to 302 redirect instead of 301 on missing www or mistyped domain names? I'm pretty sure a 301 redirect would be better.
A good place to start would be this article:
http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
New XSS Facebook Worm Allows Automatic Wall Posts
Moving the "learn more" copy to the landing page is definitely a possibility, but I feel like it might be too much text. And yeah, the way you reworded the copy makes it smoother for sure. I need to tweak it some more per your suggestions. Thanks for the detailed response, unignorant.
From a network of people who work in real businesses who know what you do and that you want to book gigs (and subtly, that you'll take care of them in a meaningful way if they bring you work that you book)
I liked the ad. I value honesty, and startups are difficult. Trying to present a job as easier than it is will just lead to bad fits. Also, once I'm working at a place, I really want HR representing the job honestly because, if I have to sit next to or depend on the work of someone who was brought in with the promise of one work environment when the real one is something else, then it's going to affect me when his motivation crashes. Bait-and-switch hiring considered harmful. So kudos to the OP for disclosing what the candidate is getting into.
Agreed with SoftEng being the better program, at least when I was there (class of '06). From my one class of 85 grads there have been at least 3 companies started, including PagerDuty which is in the current YC cohort.

The benefits of SoftEng vs CS may be mitigated by being in Velocity. But if you're not, then the fact that you're with the same group of people for 5 years on the same schedule is great for forging bonds and thus cofounders.
Everyone should check this out. I love the name too.
Perhaps you should take a look at gmail filters, labels, priority inbox, multiple inboxes, and I'm sure there are more.
Yes that is me.
Its mobile and user interface web stuff.
thanks for buying!!
Thanks for your awesome book, I'm using it plus Project Euler right now to learn functional programming.
MethodFinder in Ruby (output to function converter)
I would actually use this. I'd love you if you suggested recipes based on what's on sale nearby.

Nit: you're not available in my area (27605), and you made me enter my email to find that out. If this wasn't a YC company I was curious about, I would have bounced.
Great info, Thanks a million!
I wrote a really similar library called Calabash a short while ago: https://github.com/zacharyvoase/calabash

It’s all fully tested (python setup.py test), and I really like using it, but I haven't done so in any large-ish production app yet because it just looks completely different to the surrounding code. I have used it with success in some small scripts, but that's about it.
Best advice I’ve heard this year – “Visualize Failure”
It really depends on the person.

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is sometimes, but not always, true. It was true for me, but (a) I was luckier than some people, and (b) it took a while before I was "strong" again.
I guess I didn't really think of it that way, but that makes sense.

Unfortunately I definitely couldn't pull that type of thing off on my own.
ZFS?
ZFSGURU?
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573822
I don't see it. Where does this say https?
This post hits the nail on the head. CrunchBase has been a neglected property for some time now, pretty much due to a lack of resources I think. The engineers before me did a terrific job on the app but given that TechCrunch has been and is a fairly small setup + revolving around editorial, CrunchBase hasn't always received the love it deserves. As an Engineer at TC now, I would like to chime in.

I joined TechCrunch to work on CrunchBase back in October soon after the AOL acquisition and became the only non-editorial/sales person in here. My energies were split across a multitude of things and I found little time to devote to CB.

Over the past month however, we have hired two more devs, one to work on the blog network side of things and another who will be working on CrunchBase full-time along with me.

The frequency of commits has already started to show and we will be pushing out a number of improvements and features over the next few weeks. Top of the list is scalability and performance improvement since speed has been a bottleneck. There are other neat things such as trends/charts and more data widgets that we'd like to deploy. We are also working on cleaning up data integrity.

In short, I think you will see noticeable progress on CrunchBase within a few weeks.
nonprofit doesn't guarantee reasonable prices. The Computer Society arm of IEEE boasts 80K members, and over $200 million dollars cash reserves:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/mags/co/200...
It's useful (at least for me) even if you only go to one store.

We use historical data to judge how good the sales are for items at any given time — and it’s surprising how much variation there is week to week.

Usually when I shop, I’m looking to get fresh meat and produce of some sort. If salmon is steeply discounted this week, I’ll spring for that vs chicken breast that is only slightly discounted from the norm.
Food Networks Barefoot Contessa Snubs Cancer-Stricken Kid
TRIM App For Solid State Drive Macs
Good people can be corrupted by bad influences over time. The douchebaggery on HN is at all-time highs and good people are being sucked in. I've got enough karma to spare that I'm happy to be downvoted to oblivion on this, but it's really got to stop.

Stop correcting people's grammar and spelling, stop assuming incompetence in others, stop nitpicking single words/phrases in thoughtful comments, and stop willfully misreading what others write (which is what happened here despite Thomas's deliberate efforts to avoid that very thing).
Nearly every gig has been over $50K with the most being $250k for 12 months. Most of my work has been in Silicon Valley with a couple of telecommuting stints in LA and Chicago (which lasted for a decade).

Most gigs have been with companies where software is the product or an integral part of the offering, so price was not really an issue. Almost always I bill hourly because the work involves existing system where a fix is 5 lines of code. but finding where the 5 lines go may take two days of work.

I got two significant jobs off of Craigslist, but most have come from people that I have worked with.
The idea that small useful programs should die and not be sold is a sad idea IMO.

And app is not necessarily a business, but it isn't something that should die.
Okay, it's fixed now. Thanks for the report!
No Starch seems pretty aggressive on that recruiting front. I can't speak for them and of course I can't guarantee anything, but if anybody has an idea for a good, publishable technical book and the chops to write it, the threshold for pitching it to them seems to actually be negative, in that they will actually go around and proactively contact people.
Backstopping Backtrace: Maltego Mapping of Anonymous
A bit of pedantry: it is "on the lam" not "on the lamb" but that is a common enough misconception that I feel pointing it out is actually productive rather than nit-picky.
And yet Apple still has a huge marketing budget (which really should be even bigger, except they put their storefronts in a separate part of the budget). I mean, yes, you need to allocate money differently depending on your market position, but large companies spend a lot on marketing, whether they're Apple or Nokia.

So I don't understand your point. Nokia spends a lot on marketing. Apple spends a lot on marketing. Nokia has a house typeface. Apple has a house typeface. Is it just "I don't like Nokia's products"?
Maybe FBI is simply hiring ;-)
Page Can't Turn Back the Clock at Google
New 25 Perl/CGI Video Tutorials - الصفحة 2 - منتديات قروب الساهر
As part of the VC round he sold some of his personal shares. This $1M is, presumably, coming from that amount.
"there's no better team reporting on tech these days. They've really come into their own over the last couple of years and are producing high quality articles and videos at scale and driving conversations forward that are important to all of us."

TechCrunch is really awesome. Top-notch tech journalism of the highest caliber.
How I (almost) got an internship at Google
How can you possibly know if the bluff has held so far or not, if not by log analysis?
It would seem kind of stupid if they were smart enough to implement validation but not smart enough to limit user access to it. Of course there's no accounting for the depths of stupidity.
I'm saying that a phoney PHP web server for Unix is just as bad as phoney ASP.NET server on Windows.
Scaling PostRank with Ilya Grigorik
I was at the VeloCity demo today - there are some really smart kids with some cool concepts. And, thanks to Ted, they'll be able to continue building their companies over the summer without worrying about working a side job painting houses.
Grief Brought to Numbers: Poetry Defies the Trend Toward E-Books
I'm almost certain it was because of the first three letters."LOL" and even the simple "haha" are rarely seen as suitable in HN.
Well, my points were:

1) Vendor-centric: It's a missed opportunity for Dreamhost, because your Dad won't think of their brand.

2) User-centric: What happens when he has two "cloud" accounts from different vendors? Will he expect them to work together?
They are independent of mozilla and the people who make firefox.
I dont get it, are there a shortage of programmers, because all ive heard is that there are too many, and yet no one seems to want a job.
I'm quite sure you would have an enthusiastic and receptive audience, please email me if you decide to post it. zackster@gmail.com