skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. Not every business is the same. That should be common sense. But these bloggers (especially 37signals) like to take the extreme side.

Some businesses are suitable for VC and some aren't. The founders approach to capital is important, but from a pure business perspective the type of company your building is more important.

Theres a workable path in both directions, don't get caught up in taking sides. Follow your passion and idea and adapt. Don't take one-sided advice before you jump in.

(sorry I downmodded you by mistake)
Yes after trying out luminance style plotting, I'm sure its based on uniformity!

How about taking a point(p,q) and the area of 3x3 around it,

find the average of luminance in this 3x3 block,

store it as a0 and

now increase the size of 3x3 square to 4x4, find average of luminance, lets call it a1,

now if |a1-a0|<threshold, we say the area is uniform! and repeat steps till size<size_threshold

Will this work? or instead of averaging luminance, I should average R,G,B separately and match against threshhold to increase the size(to be more strict)

Have got exam tomorrow, will work more on these insights as soon as I finish preparing my data sctuctures and discrete maths syllabus.
thanks :), (psst! can't get my head away from these new ideas)
Last I heard, WoW had raked in over $1 billion in revenues in 2007. How is this broken?
So, badly.
Higher Education, and education in general, used to teach values. There is so much cynicism (much of it warranted) that this no longer works like it used to. But this is also one of the key differences between a substantive education and trade school.
Provided performance demands allow it, you can use a conservative garbage collector with a C program, or you could identify pointers, 'objects,' and roots. Then all of this would disappear. You'd delete even more code.
And how do you know if the individual is "really" free?

This is a philosophical question, and as such, can't really be answered experimentally. At the risk of sounding sophistical and clintonian, it depends on what you mean by "'really' free". You can be controlled by environmental factors and still exercise free will by some definitions of that term.
It will be less open in nature if I try doing in Script-Fu. Firstly I will have to understand how it works... then it will become something which only GIMP users can use, and besides... I just want to do from basics... once done ;) I will surely make it for GIMP and Matlab (psst.. I have no idea of matlab and know very little python ;) )

yeah! GIMP will give support for loads of image formats ;)
But nothing new to explore before my exams get over :X
If I can watch your packets on the wire, I can inject my own packets

You're certainly persistent, but this is not strictly true.

1. Major links that are sniffed, summarized by ASICs, and backhauled. These are necessarily passive, and public key ops are too expensive to do at this scale.

2. Service providers would take a lot of heat from both the public and banks themselves if they started proxying encrypted connections to insert ads or track browsing history.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/marketing/search... link specifically for SEO but they have plenty of information for website optimization
Yes, actually, Facebook uses a P2P architecture, but their peers are running on their own computers in their own datacenter. In this article, when I say peer, I'm referring to nodes running on outside computers.
Hearing "maybe you're just not good enough to figure this out" is a sign you're working with a passive aggressive personality. In my experience, it's also said by the person who's been touting the technical person's skills to other people as "the person who's going to solve all our problems". They're setting you up for failure, because not only are their tasks often impossible to deliver on, they use it to threaten to bring someone else in.
For Y-Combinator founders it appears to be pretty decent so far, but perhaps that's an anomaly.
> We went from a 1430 sqft house with a two car garage and a huge lawn to a 1000 sqft (seems a bit smaller, actually)

I've heard of sellers lying about the square footage of an apartment, in Chile at least. Landlords might too...
If the formula is "pick something that sucks, then solve it in a cost effective way" then this is a good idea. Finding somewhere to pee someplace like New York really sucks! (In Virginia Beach, the cops will arrest you for doing it against a wall in the alley.)
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Hey people,
This is my response to a new form of search that depends on design.
It's pretty different to anything I have seen, it does take a bit of getting use to but once you do it's really quiet fast and useful.
Appreciate any feedback!!
Thanks
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What's with the huge smiley face taking up half the browser window?
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In case anyone is interested, the main site - http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/ - lists papers from many graphics conferences. An excellent resource.
Best image I could find at the time....
Between this and AT&T's motion to deny Sprint+Clearwire on the grounds of spectrum allocation ( http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pd... ) it seems like AT&T is the kid that whines to his parents "BUT JOHNNY DID IT FIRST!" when he's guilty of something.
Citations required. What is this math and science that you do?

Since when does Romania take SAT's?

Nobel prizes don't say much about the majority of the population.

My experience is quite the opposite - the national Russian curriculum includes over a dozen subjects every year throughout high school - including algebra, geometry, chemistry, physics, etc.

Relative to the US, the social structure there offers little opportunity for growth after college, which is why people move here. But compared to Russia, the middle/high school curriculum in most American high schools is a joke.
Either God or nature.
Bankrupt the states...Oh wait...
...a nation of Grothendiecks, Erdoses and Perelemans...

mmm
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What are his reasonable points? That startups are hard? Everyone says that. If you took out all the insults, hate, and swearing, there wouldn't be much there, and it certainly wouldn't have as many votes as it does (because it would just be yet another, "startups are hard" blog post).

It's possible that he _could_ have an interesting blog post here though. If he spent less time attacking people and more time thinking about his motivations, there might be some genuinely useful insights. His comment about "taking shit" from everyone is somewhat revealing. It may be that he simple has the wrong personality for this. I like our users (well, most of them), and it's part of what I like about my job.
The Houston IKEA has a childcare facility, food items, and a cafeteria. It makes me think that IKEA should just build an Arcology. They should add apartments (unfurnished of course) and athletic clubs, thus enabling Americans to live there full time. It would be the IKEArcology.
Although I can't access Pandora anymore (wrong continent!) it sucks to see how the greedy bastards are managing to squeeze out of existence yet another genuinely innovative service. I'm also afraid of the other US-based indie web radios going under, sort of bizarre as they're NOT even playing any major label content, yet the same deals through SoundExchange / Copyright board apply :-o

Though keep in mind, US != world, and webcasters elsewhere can have fairer licensing deals so perhaps this will give a chance for innovation to flourish elsewhere (damn well hope so!)
My question is kind of mundane.

Is the power supply removable with a standard DC connector or is it built into the device?

The reason why I'm asking is that I'd like to purchase one for my mother, but since she lives in Australia the plug will be a problem unless I use a converter - which has the potential to cause problems for her (as she's not too tech savvy) and it would be easier if I go find a suitable power supply.
Oddly enough, I was wandering around in chinatown in sf with some friends during WWDC last June talking about the possibility of building an accessory for iPhone that did exactly that just for fun. Walking around with a small device attached to your iPhone to scan things and swipe a credit card on the spot to sell a product, et cetera.

Sorry, just a bit of deja vu. The Apple retail friends I know all hate these windows mobile devices though..but I doubt iPhone OS would be any better (ughhh I'm hating on 2.x right now, so many problems from both a user and a developer perspective).
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ok...

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gongfudoi
268 submissions, 2 comments, 388 karma

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jkopelman
81 submissions, 1 comment, 613 karma

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=charzom
145 submissions, 6 comments, 890 karma

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmorin007
803 submissions, 39 comments, 2974 karma
Oh, come on....if you're even slightly capable of understanding the subtle linguistic nuances of his sarcasm (ahem), it's easy to see the main points:

1) Startup success has a lot to do with luck.

2) There are many people out there who have confused luck with skill, and they're often the loudest, but they're not necessarily giving good advice.

3) Startups are not a good/reliable way to make money, when you can be a doctor, lawyer, banker (or even a corporate drone).

4) Startups are a good way to maintain your independence.

5) ...but you'll still have to take a lot of shit.

6) Starting a successful company doesn't make you smart, virile or attractive.

7) Perhaps the only good reason to start a company is because it's fun.
What Goes around comes around.
Actually, this is the solution for Pandora:

Go the route of a two-tier system, where users who listen to ad-supported music get to listen to music whose label doesn't demand more than $X, and to listen to music whose label demands too much you have to pay $Y per month, where Y must be calculated to cover the costs of the royalties. Pandora needs to realize that it's the future, and be confident about that. Relegate the music owned by extorting labels to the digital ghetto and be done with it. Eventually the great artists that are under a label will go independent, so you won't necessarily be killing off the best artists, in the long run. The important thing is that Pandora and it's investors have some balls.

This would work great for me, because the majority of the time, I don't really care all that much who I'm listening to, really; I'm after particular styles and sounds. Our current "system" of fan-dom is really just a way to keep track of what you like. If the Genome project is capable of keeping track of what I like for me,then I don't have to worry about who it is. This won't kill "fandom" either, because there will still be a handful of artists that I'll really like, and best of all, I'll discover them through the Genome's recommendations instead of ridiculous label promotions.
There Will Be Wind
Well I just used prankdialer to rick roll him.

Sadly that is about as much power as I seem to have without actually making an effort.
Perhaps, but it still reads like a "kicking the dog" post to me. (also, I don't know if he'd agree with points 4 and 7)

BTW, I think the reason his writing annoys me is because startups ARE difficult. The people attempting them have enough challenges to deal with -- they don't need this guy shitting on their heads (and making it seem "cool").
His StringBuffer example is also wrong (the java compiler would automatically use a StringBuffer in his example).
Interesting article on how to kinda sorta do it using varags, generics and static imports (looks more like scala): http://gleichmann.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/building-your-own...
They should do an independent artists and non-RIAA version. Now that they have people's musical taste profiles and an established user base, the next step is to profile many more said tracks.
Part of the problem is that AT&T is a partially public company in that it receives huge benefits from the government. Also google is an entirely opt-in option where as AT&T is usually the user's only choice.

I know these are in some ways unfair comparisons but sadly in the world we live in the telecommunication industry is dominated by several players due to past laws. As such they need/have to play by different rules.
The complicated relationship between the town of Lowville and wind power described in this article seems analogous to the arrival of oil drilling to the small California town depicted in "There Will Be Blood." History may repeat itself in some of the new energy implementations, as many in favor of clean energy in the abstract put up Not In My Back Yard opposition to local clean energy projects.
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They totally should, BUT it seems SoundExchange STILL gets the money through something like lobbied-through by RIAA legislation of compulsory licensing even for non-label music (now that I'd call borderline criminal)
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/04/30/riaa-...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/24/141326/870/429/32706...
I find some satisfaction in the losses the two publicly traded labels are making:

Time Warner: 21 million USD in loss
EMI: 260 million GBP loss (~ 520M USD)

There is no info on the others, but it would be hard for them to make big bucks while Warner Music Group's stock drops 74%.

http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chd...;
Running mysqldump on a database the size of CouchSurfing's is a real problem. It's a resource hog. To properly back up a consistent data image you need to use locking, which prevents writes to your database while the backup is running. That causes downtime on every backup, not ideal.

Likewise, when backing up 100s of GiBs of data, a simple tar gz is not suitable. More sophisticated strategies need to be used when the data becomes that big.

I've found http://HighScalability.com to be a great source of information on building scalable applications.
I think the article is aimed at the vocal detractors of technologies they have never touched, not those who reject something based on others' sound analysis. Just make sure your opinion sources have gotten their hands dirty.
For a smaller database, dmpayton's suggestion is spot on. Simply cron schedule a mysqldump and then push that offsite. Here's a few example code snippets I use:

/usr/bin/mysqldump -u dbusername -pdbpassword --skip-lock-tables database_name | gzip > /path/to/backup/file/file_$(/bin/date +\%Y-\%m-\%d_\%H-\%M-\%S).sql.gz

I'm using --skip-lock-tables because on a ZenCart site, the lock tables option was adversely affecting site performance.

Then you could add something to automatically email or scp the file to another host.

For bigger, more complex databases, look into MySQL binary logging, DRBD replication, and MySQL slaves. That should give you some keywords to get started.
"We want clean energy as much as anyone," says Leviker, who rejected a $1,500 payment from the wind company for the disruption of her view. "But we also want quality of life."

But really I'd like someone else's kids to die in a coal mine somewhere far from here so that I can watch "The Price is Right" without, you know, having to actually look at what it takes to make the power I use.

NIMBY is the biggest fundamental hurdle to renewable energy that we face. The technical constraints pale utterly by comparison.
I think you make a great point ibsulon. If you did take the decision to close down the site, the least you could do is signpost users to somewhere else where they could continue to communicate.

As far as I'm aware, during the CouchSurfing crash, some volunteers set up a separate forum, but it wasn't sanctioned or initiated by the founder, I believe he simply walked out. :(
This reminded me of an essay in last week's New Yorker about "The Permission Problem" (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_...). In summary, when too many stakeholders are involved in a deal, the deal tends to fall through, because any one of the stakeholders is likely to demand nearly the entire value of the deal (since they can kill it by denying their permission).

Radio (Internet and other) doesn't exactly fit that, since you could still have a viable radio station without playing, say, any Beatles songs, but it is similar. If, in order to have an Internet radio station, you needed to negotiate with the owner of every song you wanted to play, running such a station would be prohibitively expensive. Having an organization such as SoundExchange with the authority to collect royalties for copyright holders is one solution to that problem.

That doesn't answer your question, though. One answer is that such fees are so high that they make SoundExchange useless, at least as far as Internet radio goes (as opposed to Satellite), because no one can afford it, so such fees effectively kill Internet radio. If we were talking about a free market, an appropriate response to this could be, "let them die out, and some other competitor can take their place and make a better deal with Internet radio stations". However, we're not. SoundExchange is granted monopoly power by the US Copyright Office. If, in exchange for that power, it does not grant a fair deal to Internet radio stations, then US citizens should have the ability to act through their government to change that.

Note also that individual copyright holders are granted monopolies to those works by the government. A reasonable stance, I think, is - if the government gives you a monopoly on something, you have a responsibility to charge fair prices for that thing. Prices that prevent a new industry, for which there is much demand, from growing are probably not fair.
This was not the only mismanagement of Couchsurfing. It is a great idea - but the organisation is a bit authoritarian. Read more at: http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/
Sounds like SoundExchange are not only passing-off but should be subject to anti-trust laws.

Other solution: Pandora opens-source its software and open-content its listener profiles to allow overseas based clones, and then find a different business model.

Can MusicBrainz start sound-profiling tracks?
I'm pretty sure they mean ROI: profit/investment. Which is profit normalized for investment. It enables the profitability of different-sized businesses to be compared.
Of course MS Windows is better It has Visual Studio
You mean WoW is beyond a game?

The wish to improve one's "self" with respect to some numeric metric, and especially in comparison to others, has broader application than cults: academic performance. work performance. sports performance. money. also karma.
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multiline string literals... also available in C (using \).
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Do you consider your mind a part of nature? If so, you're not free from it.
Maybe Adam got more attention because he got some venture funding:-)
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Alright, we meet in the middle then. On another note, you know one factor that will make a break their company? It's the color of the actual frame. I would never ever buy one of those fake wood made of plastic frames, because they look hella corny. They really need to work on the finish of the frame to make sure it looks really good.
well he's certainly chosen a bad way to showcase any point he'd like to share while making himself unwanted for anyone to co-founders with...

I understand a lot to know this was not intented to be about startups as much about spreading discouragment and causing invalidation to any number left that werent crap of the points he made.

I am surprised to see startup folks have beaten the bite, therefore all this unnessary discussion about someone who missed to take failure the right way.
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In jRuby threads are native, so there should be a huge performance boost, has anybody tried it yet?
Can anyone explain why it is on the front page of HN?
The Platform is the Message
There is nothing I hate more than the implied "Well if you're not good enough to figure this out just say so".

Then you'll love this cartoon, in case you missed it.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080812
I'd heard that idea about the likelihood of living in the most populous time in history (which is depressing), and that extends nicely to observers of the universe.
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What's wrong with this simpler explanation:

There are several time arrows, expansion of the universe, entropy increase, and your perception of future and the past. The last two are not independent at all, as your perception of the past is based on the memory which in turn is a chemical process that follows entropy increase. So the answer to "why things do not happen backwards in time more often" is that because your perception of direction of time is always aligned with the entropy increase.
I wonder which particular pleasure pathways WoW stimulates.
That's true, and I also like Python more than Java. What's missing in these comparisons are some important architectural consequences of using Python (or ruby or PHP) for web apps. The one reason why I haven't been using Python as much as I like is the GIL (global interpreter lock).

The GIL requires that you use multiple processes to make use of multiple CPUs or cores. And that means you cannot keep much data in memory as it would be duplicated in each process. Some applications benefit a lot from keeping much of the data in memory most of the time, and if you have complex data structures (like graphs) memcached (or similar solutions) is no replacement as you have to rebuild those data structures on each access. Any solution that invalidates process relative adresses incurs a huge overhead in order to access that data.

I know the debate around threads and how problematic they are and how much better a multi process model scales. That's all very well, but threads are the only way to use multiple cores and access in memory data structures fast.

So using Python, for me, means having to write much of my application in C++ (or Java or C#) and access that backend process from the Python web frontend. This approach comes with a lot of complexity and it's a lot more work than using Java or C# in the first place.

On the other hand, keeping a lot of data in memory isn't necessary for most applications as the data structures and the parallelism lives in the DBMS, which is written in C/C++ anyway.

It's also questionable whether Java is a good solution for my scenario. Java and C# need about twice as much memory as C++ for the exact same data structures, and the garbage collector gets slower the more memory a process allocates.

I know there are more options but this post is getting lengthy :-)