skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been standing for a month now, and like it. I bolted wood to the wall so I have a rock solid desk, which is great because you can rest on your elbows when you don't need to type, giving you another stance for variety.

I wear slippers, but my feet are fine - it's more my legs that ache, but I'm hoping that as they get stronger, that'll go. I relieve this by doing a few squats, holding onto the desk for balance - again, good that it's sturdy.

This guy is spot on with his comment about the height being at your belly-button - my first attempt was too high.

I also agree with his comment about laziness, in that if you don't have the discipline, don't waste your time trying this. Standing is harder work, but I think that's the point. If it was up to my body, I'd be sitting, or more likely lying. And I'd be skipping the work bit too.
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I'm 25 with no college degree and I want to begin a career in web development. I have little programming experience. I know HTML, CSS, and I'm currently learning PHP. Do I stand a chance at this age with little ecperience? If so, what is the best course of action? Also, I reside is byram Mississippi. Thx.
Wow! That's amazing! It actually works.

Major Kudos to Twilio! Thank you. I'll be using this quiet often.
Start building stuff and absorbing all the information you can. It'll take a while, but you'll get there eventually. It won't be easy and it won't be quick, but you can get there.
And why exactly it is hard to stay? I couldn't find the article, that's why I'm asking.
I was at the San Diego Ruby meetup group two weeks ago where one of the Twilio developers was on hand doing some demo work with the API. He was using this to tunnel the API / http calls through the firewall back to his local machine. Very impressive.
This is an extension on another paper from a few years ago where they described the split architecture; this paper describes some optimizations for the hardware and the compiler they use with it. The new optimizations increase performance by a factor of about 6 compared to their earlier work.

Additionally, I don't think that this processor executes code quite linearly. Its hardware can detect and break down functional code and run it in a parallel manner; they make full use of their multiport split memory to do something like eight times as much work/cycle as a (heavily pipelined!) Core 2 Duo. I admit that it probably won't work on iterative code, but there's enough functional code floating around that this could see some use as a coprocessor.
Doesn't seem to include a filename - there's talk of not needing a file system, and while you can save data without a filename, it's harder to load the correct data if you don't know what it is.

Or... could searching be the alternative? And perhaps tagging? Like gmail for docs. If your document includes a title that's unique, then that string is sufficient to identify it. You could also list them all with a very brief preview, if you've not quite sure what you're looking for (browsing).
Who writes the drivers for this software that 'Just Works'?

Over and over again I see commercial OS vendors implicitly credited for writing drivers that were actually supplied by the hardware manufacturers themselves.

The vast majority of the general population find that their Windows and OS X machines 'Just Work' because they come preconfigured with all of the manufacturer's drivers already installed.

Linux can't 'Just Work' in the Desktop space because:

1. It doesn't have majority market share (like Microsoft), so not all hardware manufacturers will make it a priority for their hardware to have good Linux drivers.

2. It doesn't control the hardware platform (like Apple), so it is likely that a significant proportion of users will have machines that have unsupported / badly supported hardware.
Of course taxes pay for inputs - the inputs are public goods. Taxes are compulsory only to prevent freeloading - you might enjoy the benefits of the CT state police without paying for them.

Amazon doesn't enjoy the benefit of the CT state police. Hence, it is not efficient to force them to pay for it.

A tax shelter is only inefficient if it allows a company to consume services while forcing others to pay for them. If a company does not consume those services, it is inefficient to force the company to pay for them.
Can't believe you're calling other people trolls after your comment to a previous Bitcoin post:

People that don't have the money to buy bitcoins and see them appreciate are jealous of the ones that do. They hide their insufficiency and jealousy by calling it a ponzi scheme or scam, so they can simultaneously feel superior to the bitcoiners whilst tricking themselves into thinking they wouldn't buy them anyway even if they had the money.

It'd also be a fear that one day they'd have to work on a bitcoin project, which would be rubbing salt in the wounds.

Fact is, there are tons of hackers that could contribute a lot to the bitcoin ecosystem, but they take the negative route instead: they don't want to give anyone a free ride (or they like their rut.)

I could go on, but there are some anti-Israel type tones in the anti-bitcoin brigade, that's my feeling when I write anything positive about bitcoin: I may as well write something positive about Israel.

For many, bitcoin.org is the startup, and buying the currency is the investment. People would upvote any story about their startup, and they'd upvote anything about bitcoin. It's a fair thing to do.

Bitcoin is an extremely hacker-ish thing. It is a hack on the money supply. It is as revolutionary to money (the concept, perhaps not the implementation as yet) as mp3 was to music, or blogs to writers. It has hugely positive implications, so people that hate it, will Really hate it.
The idea that Facebook employs all the smart people is silly, there are far more smart programmers in the world than you can imagine, they are not all at Facebook.
I'd seen it but never read it. After reading your comment I downloaded it and enjoyed it. Thanks!
There is an excellent Quora thread on this very topic.
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-questions-to-ask-you...

To excerpt a relevant point from the top answer: "I'm not sure if people "become" ready for a startup; in my experience, people are either small-company types or big-company types. When big-company types of people join a startup, they are typically ineffective and (if installed as a manager), a major force in slowing things down. When small-company types of people join a larger company, they tend to become annoyed and dissatisfied, often leaving quickly"
By pass antivirus programs
Any article about patents.

That was easy.
"The sheer strength of their [the Facebook team's] talent is almost unmatched in our industry, past and present."

I do not doubt that every employee at Facebook is a competent (or even fairly smart) person, but I kind of doubt they are the most talented people in the software industry. Most of them have not created anything mind-blowing, and many of them are simply employees because they are one or two degrees of separation from Zuckerberg or Harvard/Stanford alumni.

The fact that they are employees is a dead give away - if they are really talented, they would not be working for someone else, especially for the trivial amount of (or lack of) stock that most of them are given.
I guess I get where you're trying to go with that statement, but you're wrong. Both of those afflictions cross socioeconomic boundaries. And the science behind each, while certainly exploited for it's obvious economic benefit, is nothing to laugh at. Talk to a patient with alopecia universalis (total baldness across entire epidermis, including eyelashes, etc.) or primary venogenic impotence (inability to get erection from birth due to leakage of veins in erectile tissue). These people would never see treatments due to the rarity of these clinical indications if there weren't more widespread need for such medications in less severe cases (male pattern baldness and ED, respectively). And there are literally hundreds of rare (orphan) indications and millions of patients, collectively, that may never see effective treatments.
Solving the huge data problems that Facebook is working on (and to our benefit, open-sourcing in some cases) will allow future services to do incredible things. Achieving such scale and becoming not just a "social network," but a nearly integral part of society, is pretty astounding.
No one here will be able to tell you whether or not something will definitely succeed or not. The best way to find out is to try. Anyone that claims otherwise is full of it.
Because it feels like there’s a strong distaste for amateur scientists (those without degrees, not those who don’t know the scientific method) coming from both professional engineers and PhDs, anyone that has academic accreditation.

The sensationalist title appeals to the autodidact that learned how to earn 100k+ without college through programming.
Getting your phone to work as a modem is not a problem that most people have. Linux solves a whole host of problems that developers have very well, and does a very poor job of solving the problems that most people have.

If you tally up a list of possible problems someone might encounter in their entire computing use Linux will definitely solve far more intuitively than Windows, however, when tally up a list of possible problems someone might have and multiply it by the frequency in which they have them the polishes on Windows and OS X to solve those problems are far better.

Lets take for example what happens when I plug my projector into my laptop using Windows vs. Ubuntu, on Ubuntu nothing happens, on Windows it starts showing stuff on my projector (once in a while it doesn't and have I have to press Windows+P and move to the projector option, or unplug it and plug it back in again).

By any standardized method of testing Linux will excel, when you put people in front of it it's obvious that it's inferior. Hell, my friend happens to have a Sony Xperia, I ask him why the GUI is so sluggish and get some answer about Sony charging his provider for updates, and them not having updates, and not wanting to root his phone, apparently the issue is fixed in some version of Android that he can't update to. When I hear this I think, that sounds like too much of a pain in the ass, I'll stick with my iPhone, when normal people hear this they think, Sony Xperias / Android are broken.
By our very own antimatter15[0] who happens to also be 16 years old now. Has also released lots of other cool things for the web like the Ajax Animator[1] and an excellent article[2] on the whole VP8 vs H.264 video wars that clears up a lot of misinformation. His Github[3] is very impressive.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=antimatter15

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ginffkjapdobanedcb...

[2]: http://antimatter15.com/wp/2011/01/the-ambiguity-of-open-and...

[3]: https://github.com/antimatter15
Indeed, reduce is the difficult part. OTOH, I think this limitation is seen in many algorithms at a fairly fundamental level, and not just an artefact of MR. The only alternative framework I can think of for dealing with really large datasets in a distributed manner is sampling-based methods, with one-pass algorithms (or mostly one pass algorithm).
Lots of missing information.

Do you have a boss? I'd gather requirements without any promises and talk with him to decide what is important.

If that isn't an option I'd bring everyone together to discuss what is important and get everyone to agree. Everyone, this includes you. Provide a reasonable timetable and a reasonable schedule for the next iteration. (This is borderline Agile, but personally I try to stay away from rigid processes)

Also, do you HAVE many masters to serve, or are you trying to please everyone? I don't have to explain this line of questioning.

Main point, communication is key. Talk to your bosses, talk to your colleagues.
Random prediction: ten years from now, a student in China will connect with a student in Germany over Facebook (or whatever mass-appeal social site rises to power). A friendship will grow into a partnership, yielding some of the greatest advances in energy technology of the century.
There are lots of projects working on peace, health and poverty where someone with your skills could could help or work.
It's strange but it does not work on Chrome but is fine on Safari for me- I have Flash turned off on both.
This was posted a couple days ago on here. See if you relate: http://throwawayhn.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/business-cofound...
I've used localtunnel quite a bit for quickly sharing a local dev server with a coworker and other things of that nature, but I noticed that after leaving a tunnel open for a while I would see requests from unfamiliar IP addresses.

It turns out this is because localtunnel reuses tunnel ids. Given how small the id space is, it's also possible that there are people who scan localtunnel URLs looking for interesting servers.

Keep this in mind before using localtunnel for anything you don't want the world to see.
As far as I understand bitcoin (very very little) is mostly being bought/mined by people who like the idea as an investment/experiment. That makes it a kind of goofy commodity at the moment.

I think to get some stability and potential longevity bitcoin needs to be used more like a currency. IE be used for buying and selling stuff. That's a difficult piece of this puzzle. I can't think of any possible catalyst for it.

Can anyone explain to me how bitcoin might become something that a large number of people use to buy & sell goods and services?
Not everyone is willing and able to face the instability, stress, long hours, bad pay, etc. of a startup. Some that are willing and able are choosing not to do so right now but may sometime in the future.

Many, probably most, of the great contributions to our field have been made by employees. Being an employee, especially an employee at a company with a ton of very smart engineers working on the cutting edge, is a valid choice that many extremely talented people make.
> The fact that they are employees is a dead give away - if they are really talented, they would not be working for someone else

I don't know much about FB employees but can assume there are really talented based on the amount of traffic they handle, and the software they release(Cassandra, Thrift, HipHop).

I don't see a relation between being working for someone else and talent. Rob Pike, Ken Thomson and many more work for Google. By your generalization, they aren't really talented?
True, assuming the first iPhone had this feature, when comparing the dates of the patent filing to the date of the first iPhone release it's likely that it was independently invented.
It doesn't feel like a depression when it was preceded by an incredible rally. One month ago I sold my first BitCoins for 2.7€. Four days ago I sold some for 20€. When I got into mining, I thought even 1€ was incredibly high. Who cares if they went down from 20€ a little - the exchange rate is still incredible.

I think 30$ was simply a very attractive exchange rate, so a lot of people decided to sell. That's all there is to it.

Though I have to say it is fun to experience this with BitCoins. There certainly was a feeling of "damn it, sell now or wait for even higher prices???". But as far as I am concerned, it is still more like a game, so I am not depressed if I lose out on the highest prices.
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http://twitter.com/#!/id_aa_carmack

"Msbuild seems to limit to 100 files on a cl command line, which introduces noticeable sync losses when parallel building on 24 threads."

It's not all meaningless, you just choose to follow meaningless users.
could this be used for minecraft servers?
As a developer and full time ubuntu user, (at work and at home), I feel I have no room to complain about anything.

I don't give anything back to the community which works hard to provide, all of us, with free and pretty stable software.

I don't submit bugs.

I don't support a project and volunteer my own time to help support it.

I don't pay a dime for the many applications that ship with ubuntu.

Yes, it's frustrating at times when something doesn't work. But the reality is, I can't really complain for something I don't work on, support, or pay for.

If we all really want this amazing experiment, of running a free - and - open desktop OS to succeed and flourish. We should probably find more ways to support it. I know I should.

Major thanks to all of you who do though!
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Ask HN: Finding the right startup
I'll be applying for internships soon and I'm considering applying to a startup. One of the biggest considerations for me is being able to work on something that I'm interested in and passionate about. How do I find a startup that I would like to work at? Is there somewhere I can find a list of startup companies with a link to their website?
I made a quick and easy way to check the latest price:
http://bitcoinprices.org/
I sold my 5 BTC at $30/coin, and walked with $149.96 after fees. It certainly felt like a bubble, and I'm glad I got out when I did, even if it was only for spare change in the scheme of things.
yummyfajitas, can you give a real-world example of a tax haven which is Pareto equivalent or superior to the company paying its taxes?

Also, who says Amazon pays the tax? Insert elasticity argument.
This quora thread had a lot of great answers:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-examples-of-startup-...
The link is down for me. Ironic given that lots of the brilliant people at Facebook are working on ways to make websites stay up under heavy load.
No, what it does is put everything in different Xen virtualised machines. That is why it needs those specs. It isn't meant to be used as a general purpose OS, it is meant to be used by the paranoid to be able to partition their daily dealings while still using the same physical machine.
The money is only 'lost' if A) they bought BTC at > $19 B) they did A AND sold today, or C) the price never recovers to $28 USD.

I would assume given the types of people that BTC would appeal to that they presume the US will persue a very expansionary monetary policy for the foreseeable future. Maybe the gov't announced news that would suggest raising interest rates or balancing the budget.

It could also be a sign that people are starting to do hedge fund type operations with BTC. If you wanted to invest heavily in BTC using a few hundred K to depress the price may be advantageous given the instability of the currency.
That the afflictions cross economic boundaries is obvious, but how about access to those treatments? The fact that pharma companies pursue these issues vs some more life-threatening is a pure profit calculation based on those with the means to pay for them.

But don't get me wrong, I'm a dyed in the wool free-market man so I have no issue with them applying their resources however they see fit, but let's dispense with the fake moralizing and pretending that they have some great motive beyond what will be the next cash-cow drug.

My argument all along is that the residual benefits in either case (medical or internet tech) is a fundamentally good thing and that the author is misguided in his criticism and misses the fact that it happens across all industries, some where the stakes are even higher (such as in the pharma example).
It is definitely not meant to be used for gaming. The whole idea is to put everything in a Xen virtualised environment so that you can run untrusted applications or applications with untrusted input in different security levels.
It kind of reminds me of the story of the development of the Graphic Calculator application. http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
You can find one in the linked sources.

https://github.com/tolmasky/language/blob/master/languages/J...
It seems to me that for companies that pay no dividends (and assuming you would have not nearly enough stock to have a vote that matters) there is no value at all in the stock outside of the stock price. The only relevant metric is what other people are willing to pay to buy your stock. Through some mechanism that I can't undertand, the perception of the stock value is still tied to the performance of the company, so it seems like even people going long are still dealing with their predictions of other peoples valuations.
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Is vi difficult to learn? I learned the basics immediately and was able to modify and save files and quit the editor (with or without saving) in pretty short order. I don't think it's difficult to learn, you just learn how to use it in a different way, and if you spend a lot of time editing plain text files, that makes a lot of sense. That's the author's point, I think: vi isn't less friendly just because it's written for a different class of people and used in a different way.
I just started using localtunnel and this seems a bit worrying.

It seems that a change to line 40 in server.py (https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/blob/d5eca8bab37f324...) could lengthen the subdomain.
> “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

Said by a founder of a company (Cloudera) that commercialized an open source implementation (Hadoop) originally sponsored by Yahoo (an advertising company) of a paper (MapReduce/GFS) written by Google (an advertising company), the file system in which has been heavily improved by Facebook (an advertising company) and which is heavily used by all kinds of advertising companies, but which has been adopted (technology transfer) by companies in in biotechnology and other non-advertising spheres.
Unless they start working out a universal translator (Actually if they aren't working on this then they are all newbs ;0p) then it's unlikely to happen. Other issues would be that Facebook isn't enough for collaborating on science projects.
That's not a constitutional argument for Amazon's position.

You're obligated to pay sales tax on items purchased out of state, by annual remittance. Almost nobody does it, but if you're ever audited (by your state), they can ding you if you don't. Amazon is plenty big enough to be specifically called out by cash-strapped state governments for, effectively, encouraging people to evade the law.
"Assange is looking increasingly like he is out of secrets and out of moves."

... You could say the same thing about every journalist after every article or news story.
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I see the value of Facebook (though I don't personally get a whole lot out of it), but at times I greatly sympathize with the author's broader point that brilliant minds are being put to use doing things I find empty.

I'm very into graphic design, and interaction design, but the fact that it all goes to selling soap and deodorant and candy makes it feel like such an empty pursuit for me. How many of the people coming with these things could instead be putting their talents toward more artistic or meaningful ends?

Of course, ultimately I'm a capitalist, and marketing does provide a valuable service to a capitalist society, and there are myriad reasons the people doing this kind of work should be doing it. Sometimes, I take a step back though, and can't help but wonder if there's a better way. Ultimately, if I want to change things, it is incumbent on me to provide an alternative, and I just don't have one.
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