skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whichever way you do it, you'll need to hook into your domain's master DNS servers. Maybe your DNS server operator has an API (or you need to find one who does), or you run your own DNS server and do it yourself. Operating DNS servers isn't rocket science, and reloading/refreshing the name database is generally a pretty well-supported feature.

If you're letting users point their subdomain at their own IP address or server, you'll probably want to set a relatively low TTL - most dynamic DNS services use 15 minutes - although you should be aware that this will increase the load on your DNS server. If it's just a matter of creating subdomains that point at your servers and dispatching on virtual hosts, you can safely use more usual TTL values.
you betcha, I have a job! It just...doesnt pay very much, and I need my computer to do my job ;_; cause I'm a web designer lol

iono what I'm gonna do if I dont get enough though..

we'll see, dealcatcher.com has cheap laptops sometimes =DDD

thanks again.
Also the The Right Thing is always at a disadvantage - the other products out there are more then aware that they are Not The Right Thing hence work harder at marketing (if applicable) or user penetration to make up for the fact that they are not perfect.
Not technically 'Web' usage - more Internet usage.

I thought that distinction worth pointing out.

I doubt anyone's going to court over a multi-megabyte webpage...
neither of your emails are in your profiles. it needs to be in the "about" section to be visible.
Going Bedouin: Low inertia startups require less capital and have more agility
Not when they realize that it's actually educational.
The closing line "Dear Gabor, take note! Maybe starting a start-up isn't quite as impossible as they make it out to be" makes it seem like this is a revenge fantasy casting the recently departed VP Eng Gabor Cselle as a homeless person trying to get his new start-up off the ground. There may be considerably more bad blood around this departure than has come to light. Founders are best advised to avoid jokes or insults around departed employees no matter how they feel about their contribution or exit.

The "Going Bedouin" model has a much better outline in http://www.charterstreet.com/2006/02/going_bedouin.html
one of my great buddies + someone who worked with me at my first startup is a part of dreamit ventures. great program with great people. the mini office space they have setup is really nice too. The companies theyve funded are also quite interesting.
Downside for some is the major upside for others. I live in Philly, so this is good news to me!

We've got first round capital out here.. and ben franklin partners. I'm glad to add another source for early idea funding to the mix.
Initially it depends on what other assets you have to protect. As you start to make money the sole proprietor model is less favorable after taxes than a Sub-S corporation. As you start to make a lot of money and may have found a niche that would benefit from further investment converting the Sub-S to a C (or regular) corporation gives you a vehicle to grow the business further.
I think it is great for junior developers to read

I don't think so. In my observation, the primary effect of Design Patterns was to popularize a way of thinking (programming as the stringing-together of predefined constructs) that led a lot of people to write hyper-patterny bad code. This stuff, with its layers of tangled pseudo-abstraction, turned out to be harder to read, work with, and clean up than the plain old bad code they were writing before. But it felt sophisticated to the ones producing it, and they thought they were doing things the "right" way. Of course it's not the authors' fault how others used their book. But as Tim Lister cleverly said (about something else), "if everybody gets it wrong there must be something wrong with it." And I do think there was something misleading about the model the book promoted.

For example, the GoF "patterns" are not at all the same kind of thing, something that the technical format of the book obscured. Some (Decorator) are so simple and ubiquitous that calling them a pattern is silly (like talking about a "parameter" pattern). Others (Iterator) are true formalisms which, as has been pointed out many times, can and should be dealt with at a language level (for the same reason we don't have a "subroutine" pattern). Others (Interpreter) are so general that talking about them as patterns, let alone trying to create a canonical implementation of them, is pointless. Others (Abstract Factory) sound good at first, but are so different every time that they can't be effectively reasoned about (and god, did people make a mess with those). But Design Patterns promoted the idea that this was a collection of similar mechanisms, like tools in a toolbox, or a collection of standardized parts that the programmer would recognize the need for and plug in where appropriate. It sounded good, and came in a pseudo-technical encoding which was the real genius of the book from a sales point of view. But in my observation the whole approach broke down rather quickly in practice.

(Edited in a feeble attempt to make shorter.)
I find it mildly amusing that just the other day my XKCD-Cautionary edit post was killed off. Perhaps it was too close to home, or in too poor taste.

Nevertheless, Calvin and Jobs, utterly hilarious!
I agree it is very dorky. But having worked with CERN before, I find it rather cute and hilarious.
The post you link to is worth reading. I hadn't seen it before, so thanks for obligatorily pulling it out :)
Sure, it is a special case in that there's the long lived http connections - comet if you're into buzz words.

The irc client is just a plugin to the server though. Very much a general purpose system...

As I say though I'm just not a 'framework' type of person - apart from when its my own ;)
the question then is whether or not it is possible to learn to enjoy learning, or is that a personality trait?
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It's been that way for about a week. Using Webkit nightly.
To be fair, he also searched Wikipedia.

From the page: "Infact Lets start with what is framwork?
A framework is a basic conceptual structure which you can use in your web-projects."

From Wikipedia: "A framework is a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues."
Popular blogs have a good page rank, therefore googling will bring better results next time an answered question is asked.

Isn't "Ask HN: .." is the same thing?
Can't you use a wildcard? I think you can. Just announce *.youdomain.com -> your.IP. Then, you can just use a custom rewrite rule to transform subdomain.domain.tld into www.domain.tld/sub/subdomain or something similar. From there, you're home free to do everything in your preferred language and framework.
I think it's definitely possible but it seems that most things that you are required to do (go to school) end up being perceived as chores by the students and so they end up disliking them.

If you are having fun while learning, you'll enjoy it. Having control over the experience makes it more fun as well as having good teachers.

It just seems that these days most parents consider going to school a requirement and it's no wonder kids don't like doing it.

At the same time, various personality traits can overcome these. Someone will like learning no matter what and others may not like learning no matter what but for the most part I think it's due to the perception of learning being a chore.
It's good if you don't have a domain of your own from which to host PDFs.

But Obama's got domain space to burn, so this seems more an attempt to draw the tech crowd in, since techies influence other people. Almost like a Maven trap.
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Ask work to pay for (or at least subsidize) a computer for you. Even if they say no.. well, they'll have said no. You're no worse off than you were, and they should theoretically be paying for everything you need to get your work done.
Thanks, dude. For my part, in the future, I will use "bonk them over the head with a large wooden mallet to make them aware that they should be wearing helmets."

This will both avoid the use of the firearm image (and its strong, overused, negative connotations), and more directly imply that its a humorous post.

Sorry to stir the pot folks, but I am a bit tired of the "I was trying to help them by showing them their weakness" line of BS use to justify violence, destruction, and other blatantly antisocial behavior. I feel quite strongly that they wouldn't be such good sports if someone else were to point out some of their weaknesses in like manner.
The essence of entrepreneurship is quid pro quo, I worry by seeking a handout you are putting yourself on the wrong path.
I think Resolver One is similar, but I haven't tried it yet: http://bit.ly/a90m0
Thanks!

+1
Arc's is:

(let foo 0 ...)

(and what rkts wrote, due to Arc autodestructuring things.) the multi-bind is with

certainly things can be renamed, but personally i feel that if you don't go the extra mile for your users, someone else will, and you probably don't deserve success
If you know how to build/install/repair/maintain windoze boxes, I say go for it and advertise yourself. You MIGHT just end up running into a user that wants to throw out a system that simply needs to have the HDD formatted - I have seen it happen. You might also (seriously) go dumpster diving around apartment buildings where college students are known to live. Do not allow your mind to limit your options, as long as you are not stealing man, you are ok.

MR
Not sure that this is going to help anyone, but since we're on the topic of DNS stuff, I thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who wants control of their domains without having to run a DNS server:

I've been immensely happy with EveryDNS ( http://everydns.net ) since I started using it. It's a free, web-based DNS service. You just point your nameservers at their site and you can then manage all of your domains with their interface -- no need to screw around with nameservers anymore.

I now have nearly 500 records for almost 100 domains on there. While the web interface is pretty janky, I can only remember the service itself going down once over the past year.
I second this suggestion.
hmm my boss might let me use his computer (its like a 4-man web design team) but I dont see him buying me one -.^

though I will ask, can't hurt. thanks for the suggestion.
No, his point is that it's more complex than that because the money flows in and out of the fund slowly.
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It may be the most misunderstood book in CS, but it is definitely one of the least relevant books in CS as well. Rather than have a programmer understanding the GOF book, I'd much rather have one who understands the Dragon book or CLRS for instance. Or a programmer who can code ML, Haskell or any Lisp fluently.

Here is why: suppose we have a programming knowing Java. We teach him ML. Then we teach him the design pattern book. He will have one revelation. ML. On the other hand, suppose we teach him the design pattern book and then teach him ML. He will have two revelations. "Strategy pattern? Why don't you just pass a higher order function... oh ... you can't do that easily ... maybe with an anonymous class .... hmm ... too verbose".

Now, apply that time is the most important commodity. You'll be working as hard to learn ML with or without the GOF book under your belt. But with ML under the belt, you'll soar through the GOF-book. Interesting, isn't it?
Truth, but if your company doesn't have the tools to work or startup capital, what do you do? Find venture capital? Yeah I know, you pay back those people with interest. I guess I could do that, except not for a long time :(
@waldrews: I have some freelance bandwidth for an interesting Seam project. Contact is in my profile.
I wish I had a car :P I'm 17 and live in the middle of nowhere lol.

But does anyone by chance know where I can find boxes like that? That would work ok I think. I just need to know where to get them!
Jobs minus Hobbes minus Calvin?

(Hell, Hobbes minus Calvin would be trippy enough, since Hobbes is the imaginary friend...)
You're saying that last.fm has a 15 second response time?
Briefly? "No."
I agree that the original post lacks in critique.

On the other hand, he does provide a great place to start from when considering CSS frameworks. By laying them all out on the table, we should be able to have a conversation around them to flesh out their relative pros and cons.

In an attempt to start a constructive conversation, I'll outline my brief experience with Blueprint.

Pros for Blueprint:

- 24 columns to layout the page. E.g., you could have one 12-unit column, and 2 six-unit columns.
- Basic text formatting, nice line-height handling.
- Some decorators like borders between columns.
- When you need tables, they look good.

Cons for Blueprint:

- Fixed 24-column layout can be limiting in some situations.
- The occasional floated item breaks layouts.
- Fixed height on headers is problematic for text with line breaks. (can be overridden, I think, with height:auto)

I have less experience with other frameworks.
In a perfect world, mimetypes would not exist.

A PDF file does not become a plain text file just because some berk serves it with "text/plain" and it shouldn't open directly in the browser showing me a stream of gibberish.

A PDF file also does not suddenly become a security risk worthy of blocking at a firewall because some berk served it as "application/x-initech-file" (true story, name changed).

Use the file extension, that's what it's there for. If it's a .gif, don't load and run it as a Java program!
RESTful Python: A way to create a client library
~1% of people want to pay
> This is a silly attitude. Ultimately everybody is fucking everybody else over simultaneously. You fuck your boss over as your boss fucks you over. You fuck your employees over, and they fuck you over too. Occasionally you'll get fucked over by someone you can't fuck over, like the phone company, but the chances are that they're being fucked over by somebody who's being fucked over by somebody you're fucking over, so it all evens out in the end.

You wouldn't be working in the porn industry, perchance?
When a Novelist holds an IPO
Set their login shell to /usr/games/nethack
maybe they forgot what account they were on
Roombas are slow, fragile, and don't actually vacuum very well. They are costly to buy, maintain and replace.

Minimum wage labor is cheap, easy to find and easy to replace.
Its usually fast and does a pretty good job of vacuuming.

Add to that that roombas need a lot of "support" to run. (Empty, charge, clean out when jammed with crud, send back when broken) and its WAY easier to point to an old hoover and make vacuuming motions and them point to the rooms than to explain to someone how to use a roomba. (Especially around a potential language barrier.)

The robots are coming, but not until they are tele-operated under contract (like ADT does for security) and the hotel staff doesn't even have to think about them. They just pay their "vacuum bill" and it happens.
Another good option is to ask around schools or businesses for computers that they're going to throw out. You won't get a blazingly fast quad-core machine out of this, but there's a good chance you can get something usable, or at least get the parts to put together something that will work. I've actually managed to get a couple of 1 GhZ machines with 512 RAM out of this sort of thing. Sufficient for work, but not amazing. (I use them for testing some hardware hacking I do occasionally, or for messing around with obscure OS stuff.)

It's not a laptop, but desktop machines are relatively easy to get on the cheap (or free) these days.

Good luck, and happy dumpster diving.
> - Borders bookstores are more like it, if you need ot look up K&R, gang of 4, whatever, there it is. BUt the wireless routers have limited range.

That's when you chip in with your friends/coworkers, get one wireless account (assuming you all go to the same store on a reasonably fixed schedule), and bring in some dd-wrt/openwrt/tomato routers (with all but one of them in bridge-mode), and have the master router set up with WPA2 on your side and either OpenVPN at the router level, or just use whatever external SSH boxes you've got as SOCKS proxies. (If you care, remember that Firefox doesn't proxy DNS requests over SOCKS unless you set the about:config item network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true).

Also don't forget to bring power strips, since you're bringing in more hardware.
I see . . . ok, try craigslist and other analogous free ad places. Be upfront, say to readers that if they have hardware laying around that is not being used, or are considering/about to throw out some hardware, that you will take it off their hands. This is simply an online free ad twist to orib's post.

Back to dumpster diving: I have heard and read that college students are known to throw out laptops and other hardware come the end of the school year, granted, we are nearing the beginning of the year, however, it's worth a try.

Once upon a time, dumpster diving for electronics equipment/other hardware/whatever might be waiting to be found was an honorable hacker pursuit, kid. :)

I wish you the best of luck, and I have a feeling that you will succeed in your quest.
Thanks so much!

I didnt realize how much I collected until I looked at my jar again now. Some really nice guy donated $500. (to put it in perspective, I only had $30 or so before he donated). Thats enough to get an okay laptop for work/coding, so thats it. $530 bucks it is.

Small problem being I have to buy from amazon.com...didnt realize that till now...guess I'll figure it out somehow

I'll keep the dumpster driving tip though, never know when I'll need to do that in the future.... 0.0

Thanks to everyone that helped and made this possible for me.
A lot of time Universities have access to different subscriptions ACM, IEEE, and sometimes Safari Books online. So it might be possible to VPN into your dad's university to access reading material. It's worth looking into.
Perhaps you should invest in a pair of glasses.
... by enabling sexually-reproducing organisms to marry? ;)
Hey right on, congrats. Try newegg.com - I have seen decent everex laptops there.
Actually, I'm not a founder, and Gabor's a friend of mine. He sits right across from me at work (he hasn't left yet).

He thought it was funny, since we often talk about how much people exaggerate the various barriers to building a successful startup. If anything, that line is meant to condemn any discouragement he faces.
making transactions super easy and friction-less would definitely be nice, but it doesn't always outweigh the benefits of giving something away free. specifically it makes it harder for goods to reach a wider audience
Are we heading for a human-powered future?
bet: they pay no patent royalties to Segway.

Hardware is actually vastly more difficult to patent than software. As its explained to me, you can't just patent "a two wheeled balancing scooter" the same way you seem to have been able to patent "buying stuff, but on the interwebs!" You have to patent novel gear systems, a unique balancing system. (Balance is actually a very simple 3 term formula that can be made without even a computer using just a few $0.14 op amps. I'm sure Segway has added considerable flair to this well known concept.) With mechanical systems, there are literally hundreds of years of prior art.

Toyota couldn't make a scooter that looks just like a segway, but they'll have no problems with a two wheeled balancing scooter. (Provided a teardown doesn't reveal a "borrowed" circuit board or gear train.)

I'm not generally a big fan of the patent system as it operates today but I think its still quite functional in the mechanical device area. Segway spent a lot of time setting up a good gear/motor/balance system. They should be protected from somebody just pulling it apart and making castings of the internals to produce a cheap knockoff. They should not be able to prevent some one else from doing their own engineering to produce a competing scooter.
No, 150 deciseconds would be 1.5 seconds.
No. You think growing corn so that we can burn it to generate electricity (or to generate ethanol so that we can burn that to power automobiles) is inefficient? Humans are far less efficient at converting fuel to work than electrical power plants or automobiles are.
The copies are free. The music is paid for - by that ~1% of the musician's audience.

Don't pay for copies - make your own for nothing.

However, you can't make your own music, so pay those who you WANT to make music.

It only needs one in a hundred fans to make it worthwhile.
Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Erlang?
Subject says it all. Good books, web tutorials, etc. please.
It's just a form of cross site scripting, with a fairly clever vector, and Java instead of Javascript running. Java applets have fairly strict rules about what they can access, mainly just back to the site it was hosted from.

So the attack would go: 1) your browser opens a malicious java applet, 2) the applet makes a request to change your password, add spammy facebook apps, spam everybody, change your contact email address and request a "forgotten" password, and finally: 3) you lose.

This isn't revolutionary, but it's clever and yet another thing to be aware of with user created content.
Anyone know who the author is?
Original Flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2723090810/in/photostr...
They gave a presentation at Drexel which prompted my friend and I to apply. It was the same startup that we applied to YC with and were interviewed for. DreamIt never replied to us; not even a form letter. How hard could it possibly be to send out a "no thanks" email?
I'd be interested in hearing what the ACLU says about it in their own words; the transcript made it sound like they were much more accepting than I would expect
Work for pay. Save your pay. Buy your tools. If you can't save money when you are living with your parents at home you will never be able to.
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So, for those of us that got here too late to actually see the site live, what was this?
Thanks! My dad actually brings home those magazines (when he is working) cause he gets them at school. He also got me a Rails book.

Any recommendations for ruby books?
Hmm will try for fun, when I get a car =D

I live in a suburb though. do you know where I should go for a good dumpster drive? I live an hour from NY, though I have a feeling thats not exactly the place to go...
Ah sorry about that, basically I needed a computer cause my old one was dead and couldnt afford it and the kind folks here at YC News helped me out. Though skmurphy did have a point, and its probably not very entrepreneurial to ask for donations for something like this. Its resourceful though? :D Yeah. But thanks to all anyway and will pursue my dreams to have a tech startup =]
Thanks for letting me know guys. I'll try to figure out what the hell is wrong with it. Everything works fine for me in both browsers and Safari on my Mac, even after clearing cache, switching to/from OpenDNS, etc.

I need to just hire someone to make me a custom theme anyway.
I'd argue that these "traps" stem primarily from risk aversion. While it's best for society that talented people gravitate toward high-risk, high-reward pursuits, the talented individual is still often attracted to a more conservative strategy, having something to lose. Most people are terrified of straying from a well-laid-out career path.
don't forget the other ones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2722267025/sizes/o...
Pounds... even better? You knew what I meant.

The atmosphere here makes you not want to bother posting sometimes to avoid being thrashed by nitpicks
is techcrhunch diversifying?