skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does this even mean? People aren't chess pieces. Just because you walk two spaces to the left and one space forward, doesn't mean you're a knight for the rest of the time you're at the company.

Contribute to your product offering as much as you can. Participate in discussions. Talk to customers. If you're lucky, your consulting customers and your product prospects will overlap. Over time, ramp up revenue so that you can wean yourself off consulting.

This attitude that there's some status hierarchy of kinds of people in a startup is toxic. Working companies are comprised of people who will move mountains to get stuff done. You can spend tons of time pushing on the mountain of external funding, or you can push on the mountain of getting immediate and comfortable levels of cash from consulting. Both have their upsides and downsides. Either way: you're going to have to do stuff you wouldn't otherwise want to do.
I will too, but I do hardware, specifically RISC processors like PIC and AVR. I program in C, and will put your project in an enclosure.
We cannot publicly evaluate the truth of this idea.

Because its negation is a "Thing You Can't Say" (TM).
they scale nicely auto-magically

What do you mean by that? According to the pricing FAQ [1] not only there's no auto-scaling, but adding concurrent processes costs $40 a month each:

The unit of scale for a runtime service is a service process, which represents a single concurrent connection to the service. By default, a new service has one service process associated with it; additional service processes can be added to any stack. Specific pricing of additional service processes depends on the edition of DotCloud you are using - in the Free plan, additional service processes are not available, while for Pro, additional service processes are priced at $40 / month.

[1] http://www.dotcloud.com/pricing/pricing-faq/
It's a great pity because it has such tremendous potential! They're still stubborn with the form factor, when the market clearly shows most popular devices are candy bar form factor. iPhone, most Android phones etc
I think the implication is that the presence of women leads to higher performance among men, as well as any other traits that women contribute to the group. I think it's a give and take overall, and I bet women get better around men too. We are symbiotic after all. ;)
I'd vote for PostgreSQL multiple times if I could. I'm a consultant DBA (-ish; I do other stuff as well, but that's what puts most of the food on my table), and have multiple clients using pg.
this is awesome. i had no idea anything like this was coming. is there anything out else out there that confirms this? and will it extend upwards to include bulldozer too?
"except for twitter" which, of course, is becoming a built in capability soon. Even more to your point.
I have bad news for you: in no business model other than "instantly win the VC lottery" do software statups promise you 100% focus on building software. You can consult, you can hustle for investor dollars, you can hustle for sales, you can hustle marketing channels, you can hustle for customers, but if nobody on your team is hustling somehow, you're probably kidding yourself that you're building a business.
Don't they have to? Isn't everyone irrational to some extent? I mean it may be as little or minor as believing one economic/political theory over another in the absence of clear evidence. Or betting on string theory over another explanation.
You are correct in my case.

We use Oracle, MS SQL Server, and Sybase because that's what the vendorware we use requires. We do have some open-source software that uses MySQL for administrative purposes.
They use Sybase. I use SQLite. If it's good enough for the A350, it's good enough for my Perl script.
I think Meego is a lot closer to loyal Symbian/Nokia users' needs than WP7. Therefore, the N9 has the potential to sell more units when it's launched than Nokia's first 1-2 WP7 models, even without an ecosystem behind. But if it sells in big numbers, the ecosystem might start growing as well. There seem to be quite a lot of QT developers that are excited about it.

But if Nokia wants Meego to really succeed (and they might not because of the partnership with MS), and compete with Android and iOS, they need to push it hard to other manufacturers, the same way Google has done, and Microsoft as well with WP7.

This is critical in Meego's long term success and accelerating the growth of the ecosystem behind it. Nokia is still big, and it still has many fans, but I really doubt they can become a strong 3rd platform unless they get at least a few other manufacturers to use Meego as an alternative to Android.

LG has already said they'll build a Meego device. If they could get a few more on board it would be great. They also need to push it as a direct Android competitor in other areas, such as in cars, in TV's, and wherever Android has been used these days. Meego is the only other OS that can be on any device that Android can be on. I like Android, but I'd love to see some direct competition from Meego in all areas.
I would agree that finding and building a team in the first year, first MONTH if possible, is critical to building a core foundation of enthusiastic people who love what their doing. After that, you really just have to do your best to find team members who can do a good job and can be motivated to at least appreciate what their a part of. At that point, it's up to the founders to keep everyone focused and motivated.
What did we used to call them?
Review on Nikon Coolpix S9100 Camera
The special thing about Nikon Cooplix S9100 is 18x zoom and low light shots of good quality. Light and Slim Camera with such features is extra-ordinary.
I am surprised that nobody mentions IBM DB2.

In the bank where I work, the banking system uses DB2 on mainframes.

Our data warehouse uses SAS.
I'm going to be honest: it's hard to trust a bank who's founders look like people hanging out at my local dive bar. For them to get my money I need a more professional look from the company. This whole informal startup look only works for companies that provide non-critical services.
You're absolutely right that it's unclear on the pricing page - we still have some polishing to do.

By "piggyback" I mean SSL on your application's default URLs which are of the form FOOBAR.dotcloud.com.

Unlimited means that, no matter how many domains you host on dotCloud, the price remains the same. This is especially generous since, behind the scenes, each new SSL-enabled domain requires a dedicated IP, which costs us an extra $20-$30/month on EC2.
semi-randomly overriding my files with zeros and then found out that apparently this was 'by design

Can you elaborate on this?

I'm using XFS in a few fairly large deployments and so far without any problems. Should I worry?
For me JSON has replaced SQLLite, with a large reduction in code and complexity. [ Admittedly I've written my own routines to access it more simply/directly on iOS ]
That's great news. The more of us do this, the better for everyone.
Epic linkbait.

"Consulting is like selling crack, if you want to be a founder of a startup - so go work for a startup."

should be the title. As an independent consultant I can only laugh at fallacies ridden in this article as if it applies to consulting in general.

"You get used to spending whatever you want on hardware, furniture, tools, and being fairly loose with your money...You get used to making that much money personally...bad habits, blah blah"

Give me a break. Proper personal finance is almost always relative to your income. If you make $250k/year or $50k/year it is still your responsibility to be responsible with your money. If you buy a $1M condo on a $250k/year salary and drive a Maserati, yes, you may have issues as a FOUNDER of a startup with no $$, but maybe you should have thought about investing or even saving (gasp) your money for padding when you started your startup. Common sense.
At HotelTonight we are 99% Coffeescript, including our "native" (Titanium) iPhone app.
Absolutely correct: GitHub just put a GUI on top on that, although it is a very neat one.
Is the net the “Che Guevara of the 21st century”?
That would be very cool.

But I personally think the value in a Windows client would be in bringing new people to github more than satisfying existing users.
You're right. I'm not that good at metaphors and that one doesn't do the web app justice. My point was that while the two solutions are more or less functionally equivalent, they do differ significantly in ease-of-use and overall comfort.

I'm very, very happy that GitHub is doing this — but I also have high expectations and I do expect the app to improve significantly.
Missing option: BDB.
Properly formatted link http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-und...

The guy came out as gay but wouldn't let people know he wasn't a citizen ... that's deep.
That all depends on exactly what the bill says.

It could make prior art irrelevant (huge step backwards, but I think unlikely). Alternatively, it could leave prior art intact. In which case, if party B patents something party A invented a short time before, and someone can prove this, then nobody gets the patent. Party A's invention is prior art to party B's patent.

Under the current system, party A would get the patent.

edit: Tracked down the bill text. I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice; read it yourself and make your own opinions: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1249/text

(a) Novelty; Prior Art- A person shall be entitled to a
patent unless--

‘(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in
a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or
otherwise available to the public before the effective
filing date of the claimed invention; or

‘(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent
issued under section 151, or in an application for patent
published or deemed published under section 122(b), in
which the patent or application, as the case may be,
names another inventor and was effectively filed before
the effective filing date of the claimed invention.

I'm still trying to track down the original patent act to compare with, but it looks like prior art continues to be valid in the form of a publication or product. The dubiously-valid trick of mailing a description of the idea to yourself would not seem to work, and it's questionable whether the Internet would count as "printed", but it shouldn't be too difficult to set up a "protopatent publishing journal" that exists purely to protect inventors from having their ideas patented later.
^ This.
If Apple ever decides to use this technology in a way that is deemed censorship, I'll join the "No Apple Kill Switch" initiative, but until then, I agree that there are reasonable uses for this tech.
I don't know Scala -- but it sounds like a compile-time type-verification problem more than a type erasure problem.

When Haskell targets x86, the x86 opcodes surely don't help Haskell verify that [[Int]] really has [Int]s in there, but it's not necessary because it is proven at compile-time. So I am a bit confused why Scala needs the JVM's help.
In February, Tomi Ahonen compared dropping MeeGo for WP7 to Microsoft in the 80s dropping the first version of Windows a few months before release, and going for Mac OS. Now I think he was right. I guess I'll just hold on to my 2330.

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/02/first-a...
some damn convincing speculation, i must say.
Forget NoSQL, this is MoSQL.
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Women on a team correlates with a higher team IQ.

Higher IQ does not imply smarter.

Correlation does not imply causation.
Mostly accurate for me.

I've been talking to two developers about joining a bootstrapped startup I've been working on... I'm full-time, MVP is 80% of the way, and its in a space where I have domain expertise, industry connections, and fundraising contacts.

Anyway, long story short, it was spot on with respect to the split between me and 1 technical co-founder, but sort of missed fact that there's diminishing return for adding a second somewhat overlapping person.

Also, it doesn't handle the case where different people are working in different proportions (some full-time, some heavy part-time, some light part-time). Would be useful to have the ability to create a timeline to reflect how many hours per week people will be working and when they would go full-time. If you really wanted to go nuts, you could add in some modeling to account for people who may work way below their market value, and how long that would go on for.

Good effort, overall.
You can't inherently search on it (i.e the filesystem doesn't manage its own index) but it would be trivial (with something like inotify or its successors) to write an app to monitor the filesystem for metadata changes and index them itself. This is how Spotlight works on OS X, with HFS+'s arbitrary metadata - the spotlight daemon watches for FS events and updates its index when a change occurs.

I strongly suspect that this is actually what was happening in BeOS as well, at least on some level. It would be surprising to me if the filesystem itself was also what maintained the index; it seems like this would reduce write throughput if it had to update the indexes all the time as well.
Whoops, I definitely miss-read the portion on services vs service processes. The beta had no concept of service processes, it would just scale out from the single service for you. I'll edit my parent comment to reflect that.

... Which now that I think about it, makes extra sites even more expensive. Beyond the 4 I'm already using for a single site, if I wanted to add a single new service for a site to hack on, I'd have to upgrade all the way to Enterprise (with all the cost it would entail). Ugh.
That doesn't really explain why the groups with 100% women did so well, or why the groups that were 50/50 did worse than the groups of all men or all women. Maybe I'm trying to take more information from the chart than is really there.
And I'd write

for i in [0...list.length] by 1
sum += list[i].amount

to get equivalent compiled output.

I've used C and Java since high school, but I'm happy to be rid of that old `for` syntax. And I love that curly braces means only one thing in CoffeeScript: "I'm defining a new object with these key-value pairs."
It's also built into Android.
I convinced myself that if I worked enough, if I achieved enough, I would be rewarded with citizenship. I felt I could earn it.

Has that ever happened? Reading this gives me a sense of cognitive dissonance between the US as a place 'where anyone can make it' and the US as a legalistic bureaucracy.

[Edit to clarify]
Having Oracle as your db doesn't mean that you
are not working on interesting problems

First, I consider consultancy for customers using Oracle to be OK, as long as you earn something from it.

But if your company chooses Oracle, it means that you're bogged down by legacy, stupid company processes and/or clueless managers.

And in most such environments, the harder you try to change it for the better, the harder it fights back, putting yourself in an awkward position in which you are considered the bad apple of the team. So you end up either adapting (not giving a shit), quitting or finding some small project with no perspective for the company (i.e. less controlled) that can bring you pleasure.

Of course, some companies, like Adobe for example, use Oracle when it doesn't impact their core competencies, as it's a safe choice for corporate types. But a company like Adobe doesn't earn money from projects that are relying on Oracle and other projects inside Adobe are also using HBase and MySql and their own distributed file-system that can be queried and so forth.

Either way that quote is correct. I'm not promoting the latest fads (personally I'm not into NoSql unless it makes absolute sense), but you can safely ignore companies that make decisions based on brochures and lap dances.
Great collection of Facebook apps! Try spreading your work, or even better good stories from people who use it, on relevant Facebook marketing blogs.
There are lots of ways to oppose rent-seeking. One is to oppose situations where it is inevitable. The other is to support measures "intended" to limit it. Since the latter don't work, said support is meaningless.

And yes, an unsuccessful opposition bears some responsibility.

Surely you're not arguing that all responsiblity is the same....
This is not new. Reform would be to have actually created the thing you are patenting and not a loose description of how one might/could build the thing. It shouldn't be patentable unless you have done it.
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How come I can only choose one?

As a large enterprise I am aware of atleast one app using the following: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft, Oracle.

We also use: DB2, Informix, SQLite, and some others I don't even know about.
How about "all of the above"? Various projects have various needs, some more than one, which means you typically end up with lots of different databases.
I would love a tool that manages the cap table over time with the ability to model out various funding scenarios.

Imagine if such a tool could then keep track of who has executed their options and who hasn't, even down to managing the transaction.

I think Silicon Valley Bank offers their customers a tool like this, but I don't think it's something any small startup can get their hands on.
Do a google image search for indigo books and you get some better results.
SQL Server unfortunately. I was reminded why I hate it today when I was trying to set up a simple remote connection to the instance running on my new Windows 7 machine. TCP/IP enabled, IPv4 addresses activated and enabled, remote connections enabled, firewall disabled (for now), and it still didn't work!

I tried introducing MySQL over a year ago only to have some hilarious emails with a senior programmer about how we would have to pay for MySQL. The GPL is not hard to read, but some people don't consider anything not made by Microsoft worth using. Like Linux. "No one uses Linux in the real world!" "PHP is for small personal websites!" - real quotes, sadly.
Not anymore -- check it again: http://www.dotcloud.com/about/
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So you want something like GCC's -funsafe-math flag.
I didn't mean 100% commitment on programming or whatever.

I meant 100% commitment to a project. So if I'm working for the man - I'm 100% committed to working for the man. If I'm doing a startup then I'm doing that 100%. Hustling vs hacking is not an issue to me. It's just that doing a startup "project" while working for the man would seem inefficient to me. What I mean - if my idea/project has potential - I will find a way to hustle it into a proper 100% thing - else I am risking too much.

I'm the same way with women. I don't even flirt if I am with someone - it just seems a waste of time to me. And I have always been with single woman at a time.

To me if something is worth doing - then it has to be 100%. I don't read two books at a time - I devour them one by one.

Edit: I do have a life - that's why most of this post is meant in a professional context.
Im getting the feeling DotCloud wants to sit between somewhere in between Heroku and AWS. A little comparison table of cost & features would be interesting to se.
> whereas women innately like to see a project successfully managed and will do what work is needed for the common goal?

Just curious, does this "what work is needed for the common goal" extended to things which were complex compared to regular tasks? Or was it more on the documentation/project management side which the women showed initiative in?
It doesn't need to make a bold statement, it's about being small and well-designed. Performance wise, C++ is still far ahead, but Go is substantially easier to use.
You can find the whole main presentation here: http://developer.amd.com/documentation/presentations/assets/...
I'm presuming stuff coming from amd.com is confirmation. It should certainly include future products, what I would worry about is to what extent existing graphics cards will be able to take advantage of this.

Generally, I'd say this looks a lot like Clang but with better ways to express memory parralelism at least. No way to know at this point to what extent this will catch on, but it looks interesting.
I never got my hands warm with JavaScript but CoffeeScript opened up a huge new world for me :)
Numpy on PyPy
* npm + bowserify or stich or others

* in firebug / web inspector

* qunit, jasmine etc

repl for node

### REPL ###
repl = require 'repl'
r = repl.start 'REPL> '
r.context.client = -> exec("open http://localhost:# {config.port}/") ; return
They can't do it on code that doesn't invoke undefined behavior. This is not undefined behavior.
How about adding IBM's DB2, it seem there are very few companies actually using it.
SQL Server! I especially love the way I can push in a large dataset and have it upsert the lot in a couple hundred milliseconds!
The issue with Meego isn't it's technical merits, it's adoption by Nokia's best customers. WP7 is designed to integrate vertically into the enterprise technology stack - just as Android is designed to facilitate integration with Google's services in order to allow data mining and iOS is designed to sell Apple hardware. WP7 facilitates B2B sales for Nokia in a way which Meego probably never could.

For Nokia, WP7 almost certainly offers better potential globally in the high margin corporate smartphone market than the alternatives. Because of it's .NET capability one can implement some of the same objects on the phone the enterprise implements elsewhere, e.g. it's servers. While this is also possible with other approaches, there are not the same incentives for development tool providers to invest in the level of cross platform compatibility as the incentives which Microsoft has to do so.

Based on the evidence, it looks like Nokia evaluated the WP7 roadmap to be better than those created internally for Meego and Symbian, and given the IP uncertainty surrounding the JVM their reluctance to become just another Android phone manufacturer does make some sense.
A corollary of your point is that you don't get to be them by working 7-7 six days a week. You actually have to love what you're doing, which can be hard for the best of us after a six month death march.
You can always vote for more than one option on HN polls. Try it out.
quick google on statute of limitations:

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2901.13

6 or 20 years for most crimes, except murders.

Immigration violations seems to not have the statute of limitations, just like the most heinous crimes.
Azure to drop inbound data transfer fees
I used to think I was this way about the iPhone too, but if I look at what apps I use constantly, it's more than 2: PCalc, Rdio, Remote, Instagram, RTM, Screens.
That doesn't mean so much if you don't know the effect size and variance. In the end you have to look at the confidence intervals.
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Have you tried to do the same thing with MySQL and had success? There's a lot of things in your example that could be causing you grief other than the type of SQL Server you are running; i.e. Network Security, Local Security Configuration (Both machines), User Error (is this something you setup all the time?)
Yeah and like HTML5 has totally replaced our web server.
Working on this issue how? Trying to find/provide work for these people or simply trying to change the law. There's a big difference between the two and knowingly employing an undocumented worker (illegal alien) is a felony.
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