skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how it works but 0xC0000005 works and 0x00000000C0000005 does not.

Is the site 64bit friendly?
Startup Fundraising According to Paul Graham
this explains why marathon runners are so fat.
10 Tips On Launching Your Start-up, Particularly If You Don't Live In The Target Market
Are any YCers going to the Seattle event? I'm planning on driving down from Vancouver.
GameBoy. Super Nintendo. Nintendo DS (sorry, I'm a fanboy).
RSS/Atom

Google (not suffering from cognitive dissonance)

Distributed Web Caching (Akamai)

Ruby on Rails

Sports on HDTV
Absolutely. I can't tell you how friggin' sick I am of inadvertently clicking on an "Experts Exchange" link in a google search set. The microsecond it takes my eyes to register an EE site and click back is one too many. I'm pretty sure EE owes me about 10 years of my life up to this point.
Honestly we only hit this traffic in trials, so the details aren't at the top of my mind.

There seem to be some exceptions thrown once the traffic goes above 75r/s, and they slowly degrade performance until 90r/s where we were maxing out our xen slice.

I didn't bother to isolate exactly what was going on because we stopped using thrift at that layer for other reasons (more ruby was introduced, and until Kevin Clark's second rewrite the ruby thrift bindings were pretty painful to use).

I can dredge up the logs if you're interested. I'll contact you outside this venue.
Except why do I care that the reporter was early to the interview? Why would anyone care?

It's not a diary, it's an article about a new diet. Tell me about the diet. You want to add a supplement about the author fine. But I don't need 3 pages of useless text about the author without once mentioning what the diet actually is.

Sorry, but there is too much garbage in the world to spend 15 minutes reading all about some dude, and only then discover that the diet is no good for you.

First tell me about the diet. Then, if I'm interested tell me about the dude.
Very cool ... I use Slinkset as part of a personal site. It's great. A good mix of features without sacrificing simplicity.

Of the recent YC funded companies, I'd have to say it's in my top 2 favorites (TicketStumbler being the other).
Nah, most fruit is not energy-dense enough to cause you that kind of trouble. There's not enough room in your stomach to become obese on fruit.

If you're eating a ton of fruit a day, keep doing it! It's probably the healthiest thing you can put in your mouth.
Do it or document it?
I come from a corporate IT background that involves lots of formal up-front documentation. I now have a startup project I want to work on, and my head is telling me to start writing documents, preparing detailed designs, etc. But my heart just wants to get in there and build the thing. I wondered how many 'successful' services knocking around today didn't start out with a written design - I'm thinking along the lines of Twitter, Wesabe, etc.
Interesting, try getting exceptions as well, that might be useful for debugging purposes.
Sad but true. I got in trouble at my last job as a web programmer for not dressing up. I just wore t-shirt and jeans b/c it was comfy and I didn't realize it was that far off from a polo/collar shirt and jeans.
Member-only EE content is visible in Google's cached version of their pages. Just scroll to the bottom part of the page to see it. E.g.:

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:gRw9sjavhVAJ:www.expert...
> I think Ruby is a fantastic language, and my point is merely that people don't use IDEs for languages like Ruby and Python because the IDEs for those languages are comparatively poor.

Translation:

"I think Ruby is a fantastic language, except that it can't be used effectively with an IDE as good as VS, which is a glaring flaw in the language."

My point:

"I think Ruby is a fantastic language, and the fact it may not be usable with an IDE like VS is not a flaw -- it is the result of design decisions based on a different approach to programming than that mandated by use of a VS-like IDE."

> If there was an IDE for Ruby that reliably did refactorings like "rename method"

That sort of thing is trivially accomplished by very simple tools that are present in every full Unix environment implementation. You don't need an IDE for that. The same is true for other IDE features you mentioned. I don't need all that stuff integrated into a single monolithic application to be able to use them effectively.

> To me the author is incorrect in essentially arguing that people don't use IDEs with Ruby because they're too limiting

They're too limiting for Ruby.

> IDEs for Ruby aren't good enough to make it worthwhile to deal with those limitations

More accurately, what an IDE provides over the tools people tend to use with Ruby isn't enough to offset the limitations, because what an IDE provides is for the most part superfluous for Ruby, and the IDE way of approaching programming isn't very compatible with the characteristics of the language that make common IDE "benefits" superfluous.

It seems our main point of disagreement is something like this:

1. You think the fact Ruby doesn't have good IDEs is that it's designed in a way that prevents it from benefiting from them, because it just wasn't planned out well enough to take advantage of IDEs. As a result, Ruby will always lack the benefits of IDEs.

2. I think the fact Ruby doesn't have good IDEs is that it's designed in a way that ensures it doesn't need IDEs, and IDE functionality wouldn't really be a benefit because it's superfluous to a language like Ruby. As a result, Ruby will never need the benefits of IDEs. Instead, it's more geared to taking advantage of the benefits of powerful text processing applications like Vim and Emacs.
CenterNetworks is the best blog out there! Reporting the way it should be done!
"Eat less, move more." - Mad TV
Agreed. A terrible daily, bereft of insight or intellect in keeping with Murdoch's other rags.
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Unix pipes, cron, ssh, VNC and IRC.

Oh, and CPAN.

A Slashdotter once posted an insightful comment about cron being the 'height of computing':
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=323287&cid=209...

Easy to take cron for granted these days, but I have to say I agree.

As for unix pipes, I once explained how one of my shell scripts worked to a longtime Windows programmer and he literally said, "Holy shit!" when the pipes concept clicked.
Frequently EE has a solution, just not the best one. In many cases it has put me on the right track.

Oh, and many people don't realize that you don't need to pay: Just scroll to the bottom.
TiVo

The Commodore 64

Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. Particularly the part where I learned what an RDBMS was.
That might be, but it's still 100% irrelevant. I'm not debating the merits of Vista as a OS, but the validity of these statistics outside the scope in which they were gathered.

If you, a techie, which admits despite hating Vista still having it installed, what are the chances the average Joe's have gone trough with a downgrade?

Until we get actual, real numbers, I see no point in discussing the failure or success of Vista from a sales point of view.
It's a server log aggregation and analysis thing...
It's funny, most of the ones people list, I didn't find all that exciting when they came out:

* The WWW: "It's so disorganized. I prefer gopher."

* Google: "Well, it gives good results, but Yahoo is 'good enough' for me

* RSS: "Who reads that many blogs?" (I still believe this, BTW; RSS is a technocrats' technology)

* Doom: "Why would I want to play a game where the sole purpose is to blow shit up?"

Things that really were on my "holy shit" list:

* Modems. "I can login to computers halfway across the world."

* VMWare/VirtualPC/SoftPC. "You mean it's like a computer, running inside a computer?"

* Napster. "Wow, free music."

* Gnutella. "Woah, no server, anywhere."

* Processing. "Those are awfully pretty pictures you just whipped up in the last 6 hours."

* GMail. "A gig of storage space. And it's searchable. And it has keyboard shortcuts. And it's got this conversation view. Where's my invite code?"

* Fanfiction. "Wow, hundreds of thousands of people trying their hand at writing stories."

* OLPC. "This'll open up a market of literally half the planet."

* Functional programming. "I'll never make a state error again."
Having too much formal documentation and specs will box you in. Having a more unencumbered plan of development can potentially point you to where your plan was lacking to begin with and tweak your idea in the process.

But if you have a lot of experience with very well-defined, planned projects, by all means try to make the best of it.
That they funded the prize with an insurance policy was pure genius.
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While working on a project about five years back using mainly Microsoft technologies, I discovered that there were a few consultants who had built their business around Windows error messages. Maybe you need to focus on the right segment of this market ;-)
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Amen. I can't think of anything to add to this article other than "thank goodness someone sane is saying this".

It's not that REST is a bad architecture, actually. It's that the things that make REST a good architecture are things that are done elsewhere on a regular basis without the kind of praise or priesthood that you get when you give it a hard-to-grok ("representational state transfer!?") acronym for a name.

What we're seeing with REST is what we saw with Design Patterns in the 90's. A bunch of very simple, very sane ideas turned into a parody of what they were supposed to have been. DP was a cookbook for how to solve common design problems, but what we ended up with (c.f. much of the Java libraries, swing especially) were kitchens designed so closely to that model that they could only produce the recipes in the cookbook.
When I discovered that Playboy and Penthouse was FREE in early web days (around 1995 I think)
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Heh, you see plenty of fat people at marathons, if you've ever run one, and plenty of 'em finish too.
Funny how nothing has blown his mind since napster! EC2 maybe?
As long as your calories out => calories in, it shouldn't matter. Should it?
Your average opinion seems to suggest the opposite of the poll results.
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At the current rate, you could probably go through all the App Store pages of the new apps for a couple of months in a couple of hours. This would be the purview of reviewers.
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What's hard to grok about the name? It's an architectural style that's based entirely around transferring representations of resource state between client and server.

Names are useful. If the name is misused or used to justify silly things, I don't think you should blame the namer.
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You're wrong because they're usually wrong. Again it comes down to the guidelines. If they quoted the guidelines and then explained why it's off-topic, it might be useful.
i didn't find rails all that interesting when i first read about it, but when i saw dhh's screencast of database migrations and rails' console, that was the "holy shit" moment that made me want to start using it.
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"It’s the same as saying that a sentence is not a sentence unless it makes sense."

This sentence no verb! This sentence no verb!
Except why do I care that the reporter was early to the interview? Why would anyone care?

It's personalizing color, and it also lets the author explain how he's seen DeVany "half-naked".

You must really hate novels.

Not everything is written for an audience with ADD, nor should it be.
How is a "representation of resource state" any different than a "thing" though? Every data structure is a "representation of state". There's almost no meaning there. It's just filler. Other competitors don't have this problem: "remote procedure call" directly evokes what's happening (a synchronous call and response); likewise what an ORB does is, in fact, brokerage of object requests. All you get from REST is that you're sending some "stuff" from one place to another, and a vague promise that it's "state" (data) instead of behavior.

If REST really wanted to pick a good name, wouldn't it involve the notion of "stateless resources as URLs" somewhere? They're kinda the central point.

Look: the point here isn't to smack about REST's name. I don't care what you call it, that's not the problem. The problem is that a lot of REST proponents actually think that REST invented a lot of stuff (like, heh, representing state) that are just pre-existing good ideas to which it gave a name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley
REST is the web, nothing more
Making an Arguement for Misspelling
Make any money? Do something useful that people want? There's a line out the door of people who do neither who'd like to get money without creating wealth by suing you.

Its become one of the biggest, saddest, "nothing to see here's" of the modern age of business. The surprise factor of these types of things is long gone. I haven't even been able to be outraged since SCO... Now its just "meh". The lawsuit is just another form of normal business friction, like taxes and OSHA.
Napkins. The solution you're looking for is napkins. But, it's true, they're hard to write on, so we'll compromise.

Take a pad of paper and a good pen (hint: Pilot G2) and go to a place that is entirely free of computers. Coffee is optional.

Start sketching. Your goal is a set of notes, an outline, a diagram or two, and/or some paper-based UI wireframes that describe your project. Imagine that you're trying to invite a recent comp sci grad to work on your project with you: What might you sketch? Draw that.

You can use emacs if you want, but on no account should you allow yourself to choose a font for your spec. If you find yourself reaching for the Fonts menu, or wondering whether your spec should have a standardized header and footer, you have stopped planning and started procrastinating.

You need to do some planning, because you don't want to waste time implementing stuff that doesn't even work on paper. But you don't necessarily need a capital-D Document, or even a real presentation. Once the napkin sketch of your finished product is complete, to your own satisfaction, it's time to build the prototype and observe all your mistakes. ;)
That seems to only be true of the last batch or two.
The overwhelming majority of all startups, VC-funded and not, fail. The "norm" is failure. The notion that bootstrapped startups are dangerous because the evidence suggests that most companies never snap out of consulting seems fallacious --- we're all thrilled for RescueTime and Anyvite and, yes, Twitter --- but none of these companies has won yet.
Much better:

http://www.tbkfitness.org/
http://www.errorkey.com/Search/Index.aspx?q=NoSuchError&...

Ugh, this error message is filled with errors and definitely needs copy editing. My best attempt:

The search for "NoSuchError" did not match any documents in the system.

For best results:

* Type fewer words
* Make sure you are using the correct spelling
* Try different word combinations
* Search the internet (???)
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Don't forget the article was published under "women" category. I think they may actually write like that because women tends to like to learn things with context. (No gender discrimination here. But I really feel there are gender difference in perception and communication)

If it is a scientific publication. Your point is right. But take it easy when same material is published on newspaper for general female readers. It is not to their taste.

I remembered most of time when I wanted to argue some points with all my girlfriends that I've dated, they remember much better when I said some stories around the point. They usually responded worser when I just tried to cut the crap and strike the point.
The good thing is that that population generally coincides with the people who use the most recent fancy gadgets with working IPv6 support.

The danger here is the legacy software in the hands of grandparents who can't meaningfully upgrade without huge personal costs. Those are the folks well-served by an ISP-managed proxy solution.

The gamers will be happier with IPv6 anyway.
Current fbChat loads are really bad.

I believe there's some sort of prioritization going on - connecting from a "3rd world" ISP to Facebook gives me some really bad lag and disconnects, while going through a VPN (server in LA) provides much better response times. If it were just this one ISP, I'd blame it on them; but in my months of using fbChat, I've noticed some clear scaling problems for their "real-time" service compared to the other, more static parts of their site.

Obviously this isn't a scientific study in any way, but fbChat has always been a bad performer.
Your set of axioms will never be complete.
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"but YC doesn't make offers to just any team. YC only picks the best teams (about 5% of applicants if I'm remembering the statistics correctly)...

distinguishing teams which have a 50%+ chance of success from those with a 5% chance of success"

Perhaps we should give them a few more years of operation before we assume those to be facts. So far the vast majority of funded teams haven't resolved one way or the other, which is actually a pretty good sign, but I think I'd still bet the under on 50%.
Sorry, but all the larger Linux vendors -- Gnome Foundation, Novell, KDE Foundation, Canonical, Redhat, Mandriva, and more -- have spent time and money on usability studies.

The biggest usability issue Linux has these days is a holdover reputation from the '90s.

The second biggest usability issue is that it's not a Windows clone, so muscle-memory no longer applies.

That's not to say that Linux usability is perfect, but I find that for the most part it's miles ahead of Windows, it's easier to debug when things do go wrong, and Just Works out of the box to a greater degree (downloading drivers is so 1990s) if your hardware is supported.
Junk food has a lot of calories. Are you sure you're burning those off?
Even more obvious, if you want to relive the native experience, then you've got to simulate the hunt before eating. In modern terms, get your cardio in the morning before eating breakfast. Many believe as I do that this keeps your meta rate kicked up a bit for several hours afterwards. It is great for dropping weight, at least until Kurzweil has developed v1.0 of an evolved diet technology.
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Having done both, I'd say:

1. In a startup you do it*

2. In a big company you document it

* that's not to say you don't do some planning and sketching and the like, but you don't need a ginormous stack of docs.

It's worth remembering that one significant reason for heavy documentation is accuracy/fidelity of ideas when transmitting/coordinating across a large team of people.
Yeah, indeed. The word to eject from the process is "formal", not "documentation". Write stuff down however it works for you: be it email, IRC logs, napkins, whiteboards, whatever. Refine as needed. Write summaries every few ideas.

If the problem is of the right size, bang out prototype scripts and let these serve as "documentation" too.

But scrap the endless cycles of proposals, reviews, designs and revisions. Do that stuff implicitly.
Doom. Large MP3 libraries. Ricochet. ISDN. Image Analogies. Software radio. Kozmo (bonus points for "WTF"). Hulu. ReplayTV. The first unlink-write4 heap overflow. My first default-free BGP4 router. The ball-and-string model (still makes me smile). Force-directed graph layout.

Not: iPod, WWW, VMWare.
Felicia Day. mmmm....
You'll probably take shit for that one, but some of us will agree with you --- that screencast was excellent. Not sure has-many-through really prompted the "holy shit", though I appreciate it now.
I am so NOT an Apple fanboy, but I gotta say "iPhone". Everytime I pick up any Smartphone, I'm reminded what a game-changer it is.

Add a keyboard and stop the crashes, and it's perfect. ;-)

TiVO is up there for me too.
You didn't have to want to play the game to be startled by Doom. I may be biased, because I was also startled by Wolfenstein (I was in high school when it came out, though).

Fanfic though? Really? Fanfic?
The mbone ruined Skype for me.
That was... self-contradictory in many places.
GitCheetah: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/wiki/GitCheetah

For those (like me) forced to work on Windows.
It's funny --- I am so the exact opposite on HDTV: I have one, I've seen my friends HD pictures, and I've walked past the top of the line with the demo pictures in the store, and I do not get it. Is it possible that I was born without the part of my brain that is supposed to appreciate HD? If so, I feel lucky.
If you are asking what the rules to the site should be, then it's a circular argument to expect commenters to use the guidelines as a reason for things to belong or not.

The question was: what sorts of things would you like to see? I made the observation that the current customers repeatedly don't like the things they are seeing -- to the point of making comments that they feel the articles are out of place.

The question isn't whether they should have made an observation about how the articles meet the guidelines. The question you asked is whether or not topics should be accepted or not as _part_ of the guidelines. In that context, of course we should consider those customers that speak up. Whether they realize it or not, they're basically saying screw the guidelines -- it doesn't look right to me.

I look at commenters as customers. Obviously, some significant percentage of customers are going to be unhappy with any sort of system.
What/when is Felicia Day?
Is OOP a Blub-level paradigm now? I suspect that it has been for awhile now.
This blog smells fake.
It's certainly illegal, but it goes on all the time. Sometimes they get caught.
I'd have to see the difference.

I've had some hard times finding error codes and resolution, but in general I'm used to and happy with Google.

You're not selling me with that.

And would they let Google crawl the site? If so, then badda bing, badda boom, we're back to just using Google again.

There have been some great ideas for how this site could be better than a simple search. I'd like to hear the pitch from the founders as to their unique selling factors.
I gave up on this article before I got to the 'meat' as it was too waffley ... anyway, to lose weight my best advice is to:

* avoid fizzy drink as much as possible
* avoid crisps (do americans call them chips?)
* go easy on fried and fast food (no need to cut them out completely)
* Try to cut down on alcohol, but I don't really follow my own advice here!

Then

* walk or cycle as much as possible
* take the stairs instead of the lift for 5 floors or less
* and exercise 4 or 5 times a week doing whatever you find fun.

Maybe I am just lucky, but I never seem to put on any weight, and I do eat fast food and drink plenty of beer, but I do exercise a lot and cycle to work each day.
It's in the Sunday Times, so it's meant to be a leisurely read (and most likely in the magazine section). The purpose isn't to convey as much info in as few words as possible.