skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tricky part seems to be 'too big to fit into memory'. From what I understood and calculated the dedup tables on my system should have been well under 100MB, and the amount of memory designated for metadata was over 350MB, yet the performance was terrible.
If you develop software that runs on anything that's neither an Apple or a Windows machine, Ubuntu has been ready for prime time since 2006 or so. It all depends on what you use your computer for.
Hacker News Steam group
Some commenters in the link address your claim #1 that it is equally probable for the mugger to be telling the truth and lying.

[Why would we give even a small probability of the mugger going what he says?] “Because he said so, and people tend to be true to their word more often then dictated by chance.” – http://lesswrong.com/lw/kd/pascals_mugging_tiny_probabilitie...

[But the mugger isn‘t human, so our experience in proportions of truth-telling is irrelevant.] “They claim to not be a human. They're still a person, in the sense of a sapient being. As a larger class, you'd expect lower correlation, but it would still be above zero.” – http://lesswrong.com/lw/kd/pascals_mugging_tiny_probabilitie...

As for your claim #2, “There's no such thing as a 4 trillion trillion positive outcome”, indeed there isn’t – I can’t imagine what that would mean – but I see no mention of “[number] positive outcome” in the link. The link just says the mugger will “run a Turing machine that simulates and kills 3^^^^3 people.” What part of the link that you think is impossible did you paraphrase into “positive outcome”?
Ask anyone who's lived/worked in Antarctica, and they'll you that humans still sleep when the days are 24 hours long and still wake up when the nights are 24 hours long.

If you really want time zones that tell you when the sun's out, they'll have to be defined latitudinally as well as longitudinally, and they'll need to vary over the course of the year.
Standard search techniques work (ex put the query in quotes for exact match). Also the text under the logo is editable by anyone, so you see the most recent change.
Ahh! Thanks for the info.
Let's think about it this way. AT&T is now charging $2 a month to have landline service. They will waive the fee for customers who use more than $2 a month in long distance charges.

It's not a customer friendly policy, as it just serves to squeeze $2 from customers who aren't using more services. But it's not criminal to add a service fee(as much as I hate it as well).
Where To Get Cheap Jordans
Wireframe Sketcher in Eclipse http://www.wireframesketcher.com
> gave me the impression that (many of) the core developers are using the Sun package and are optimizing for it.

I strongly advise anyone who targets Oracle's JDK to switch to OpenJDK.
Sure it's available, but it's error-prone to install, often an old version, and generally breaks all over the place.
Blueprints of Star Wars Galaxy
This article focuses on the disparity of using SQLite in development and something else (like MySQL) in production. That's a genuine concern.

However, I think the headline could be misleading on its own. There's nothing wrong with using SQLite in Rails dev and production. If you're using SQLite at both ends and know how to treat it right, it's great (and scales up a pretty long way - indeed, I'd argue the majority of Rails apps out there would be fine with it given how little traffic they get).
I personally wouldn't have a phone at all if it weren't for my job requiring a personal cell phone (cheap-asses won't provide a company cell phone) -- and I have 2 kids. The whole "emergency" thing never sat well with me as a reason for a phone or to carry a cell phone.
A note to Y Combinator
Iranian government attempts to block the spread of a horrible fever
It's called OpenJDK.
Babbling isn't the issue - retard is. I don't think anyone likes being called a slur or derogatory term. The Christian aspect is just referring to treating others the way you would wish to be treated. It's pretty simple, no deep religious connotations.
Your first sentence makes it sound like you built a phone from scratch. Impressive!

During my internship at Microsoft, I decided to create a Windows Phone 7 in my spare times.
The blog answered what a CEO should do, but what he or she actually does can be traced to the Board of Director's expectations.
> For enterprise stuff you have to have the "more polished" one.

Actually, you need the one built better, with better and longer term support. There is a lot of enterprisey stuff running on Java 1.2 out there.
As you said, you not allowed to just sit on the land and not provide a good to the rest of the country (in one way or another). As much as I empathize with your reaction, it seems to me that the use it or lose it philosophy brought on by the property tax policy is actually an efficient way to allocate land in a country.
"...dressing well but babbling like a retard."
Rewritten:
"...dressing well but babbling on without end."

Looking good but speaking poorly is the message he's trying to get across, not being mentally challenged.
Red herring. Internet access will only become faster, cheaper, and more prevalent. It's not the job of educators or video producers to string fibers in Africa, after all.

I think it's a completely different discussion - bringing The Knowledge Of The World to people and places that don't have it - than online education systems.
And you can never ignore the possibility of the proprietary software vendor deciding to make your life hard. With free software it's you, not them, who are in control.

And that's what they fear the most.
Telcos generally have monopolies when it comes to landline so.... no.

Coincidentally, this is why the government should step in.
Running a successful deals program in the current (competitive) market requires two things that it seems Facebook isn't much inclined to provide: (1) non-engineer staffing, to find and close deals with merchants and (2) customer service.
The area that Groupon really shines in, and that Google was trying to acquire, is the vast number of local salespeople on the ground. Customer service and interaction are not Facebook's strong points.
Most of the traffic to lyric sites originate from long-tail search keywords (414 million global broad match monthly searches for lyrics). Your site has no Googlebot crawlable data, barring you from participating in a share of the long-tail search volume.
Ask HN: How can I help kick-start my girlfriend's business?
Hey, all! I'm looking for some help with customer acquisition and marketing for my girlfriend's graphic design business. We're trying adwords and FB ads right now, but are not seeing any conversions. Do you guys have any ideas that would help us out?

You can check out her website and work at http://www.samanthastage.com/. As a side note, if any of you need some design work done, I'm sure she'd work out an affordable rate for you.

Thanks for your time!
Great article! Personally I'd prefer PeopleRank to describe what Google is building but the AuthorRank mentioned in the article definitely gets the point across.
> I don’t want my reputation and talent to take me where my integrity can’t sustain me (and it will, if left unchecked).

It must be tough having so much reputation and talent. If you can learn to control your talent the world will truly be a safer, if duller place.
I agree , great book. Have you checked the price lately?
Steve Jobs: Beauty justifies wealth
Ouch.. was writing a looonng post here when my computer crashed... Rrrr murphy's law...

So well, haha, was writing I was not impressed by the article but the topic interest me a lot. And I was trying to figure out how facebook did? because imagine you come on facebook and there is nobody you know... It should have happened a lot at the beginning...
Did the idea itself of facebook kept the people in it? Some kind of: "this site could be great" Really?

I also imagined that all first facebook's users were its own sales force.
After a party: "Hey do you have a facebook account?"
On a piece of paper: "Here is my facebook number cute boy"

EDIT: and also since facebook is very group-oriented, a member of a "group" (family, sport team...) would invite its mates to go on facebook.

Do you have any other suggestion to solve what is called here "the cold start problem"?
"He replied by saying that G+ was build primarily as an identity service"

Which is becoming more and more obvious.

However, it was sold to its users as a social networking service.
Normally I just use the tools that my colleagues or mentors are using. Beyond that, things like Catchfree.com help. It is difficult for startups to figure out what is the best tool for them. If you can create a easy-to-use and well-designed tool, I would be interested in seeing it.
Yeah I agree, the rough approximation is Wal-Mart selling loss leaders to drive other higher margin sales. In the case of Google, we see they "sell" Google Docs for free to create network effects (and to erode the lock in of Office) and to cross promote other Google products. This is controversial but is hardly new in any industry.

Yes I agree that after a company gains market power there is an incentive to raise prices but I dont think there are many (any?) examples of Google switching a free product to a paid one.

You missed the point, Google isn't evil. Yes they make it difficult to compete but thats what successful companies do. The difference is Google does it by making simple disruptive products and prices them at their marginal cost. Google isn't a monopoly by any definition. Google isnt the single seller in any of their markets, Google doesnt compete in a market with high barriers to entry and Google isnt a price maker. Users (advertisers and internet service consumers) can easily switch to competing products and avoid Google entirely.

Google is powerful yes, but they create value by helping their users keep their money. Google has never made any promise to anyone else other than their users.
Can I throw in "Clearly, Facebook is in the end-stages of negotiation to acquire Groupon!"? I mean, as long as we're all staring at tea leaves, let's have some fun.
Good ideas but I think you're describing the internet as it exists in general.

Youtube is only one-way I suppose but it facilitates channels like the Khan Academy ( http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy ).
The path to II to Mac is not nearly as clear as you imply. Apple really lost a ton of momentum with the III and Lisa and that helped solidify the IBM PC and their clones as the de-facto standard (which we suffer until today - imagine there is an ISA bus and a 8042 keyboard controller buried somewhere inside your Macbook).
Because it's shorter than `perl -lane 'print $F[0]'`.
Ubuntu has a security policy to upgrade supported versions to the latest supported browser version. So, in Lucid, if 3.6 is still supported by Mozilla, that is the version still on maintained (you know, for consistency...thing thing most people here are railing against).

However, as soon as mozilla drops support for 3.6, the latest supported version is installed. This happened for Lucid, as I understand it.

This is a sane policy, IMO.

If, however, you are on Lucid and want to run a different version of Firefox, it is rather trivial. You can find it in Ubuntu Software Center after adding a repo and install it. This is NOT what most non-technical people want to do, however, and that is why the policy makes sense IMO.

And, I agree, FF auto-upgrading itself to 6 is nice on OSX and XP, but that is a Mozilla thing, not Linux. Mozilla makes that difficult to do and the various linux distros need to deal with it.
Why do computer scientists get to decide how intellectual property enforcement should work? Serious question.
I think that some points in this article are a bit misleading. Much of the focus is on an increase in the average life span of the population, of which a large portion can be attributed to a reduction in infant mortality and an increase in sanitation, or treatments of common disorders. However, for 100+ year lifespans and (optimistically) 1000 year life spans, we would need to drastically increase the maximum life span, which proves to be a much more difficult task in healthy individuals.
Good point. It seems rather unsettling and dishonest if this was the plan all along. I guess in the coming months we'll see how the service evolves (and users react).
Thanks for your thoughts. I'd argue that SQLite isn't appropriate for production because of its slow speed and highly granular concurrency[1].

I'm all for keeping SQLite as the default database for development - it lowers the barrier for entry to Rails.

But for any app that you hope will someday get real traffic, using MySQL or Postgres in production is sensible and easy.

[1] http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
Those don't address the credential aspect of a degree program.
I fucking love D3.
Instead of putting "samanthastage dot com", put http://www.samanthastage.com/. This should improve your page rank, and makes the link stand out / easier to use, so people are more likely to visit, generating more traffic for her site.
Without the context the quote seems very egotistical. With the context I think it makes perfect sense. Your comment draws a completely different picture.

I can’t juggle. I definitely can’t juggle multiple clients and serve them well on the thin time margins I’m keeping. I’ve always failed when I tried. I know my limits. I don’t want my reputation and talent to take me where my integrity can’t sustain me (and it will, if left unchecked). It damages my rep and renders my talent meaningless in the grand scheme of client services. “He’s real talented, but he doesn’t do what he says” is a massive failure unless my goal is to be known as an unprofessional, out of work, real talented guy. I’d rather serve one client to the best of my abilities than multiple clients simultaneously, mediocrely.
Beyond Programmable Shading 2011
I don't know if they "should get to decide", but as the group tasked sort of "de facto" with implementing the technical controls which result from enforcement, I think you could argue that they should be more involved than being told "hey, we just legislated this, now make the internet comply."
Content marketing might be better than ads. It requires more up-front effort but later generates more organic traffic from people genuinely interested in your girlfriend's business.

I like the Monsters Inc style of the frontage by the way.
I have a lot of people in my G+ circles. I've never met 99% of them before G+. As far as I'm concerned John Smith is as anonymous to me as Sp00n B4nder, neither one has any context for me except what I read from them.

And yet, I interact "socially" with them just fine, and I think of them as John Smith and Sp00n B4nder. It causes me zero problems.

Names in this context are just labels, and I don't care what the labels say, I just care what they point to.
I like Dennis (and what he's all about) and the site is very clean! Nice.
[dead]

Odd.
Ha! This is just poor marketing. If they simply hiked up the price two bucks and said "your first $2 of 'long-distance' is free" there'd be no hubbub.
Based on my testing (not published anywhere, sorry) ZFS dedup works best when you enable compression. With compression, it's only slightly slower then without dedup.
And I suppose being able to add animation kinda helps as well.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/java-package

dosen't seem to be available in debian stable, but i see it in my ubuntu 10.04.

last time i used it i needed to modify (couple of lines) to accommodate file name used by modern java versions. it works well as far as i can tell.

openjdk is a far more sustainable solution but we needed sun java for some proprietary crap that refused to run on java or tomcat from the repos.
高空防腐工程
I would say Google Hangouts emulates chatting in a bar more than any Facebook feature does. Facebook, for me at least, has become the service that I use as a messaging tool, a constantly-updated "social newspaper", and an online rolodex.
That's okay, for now this just exists as a solution to the problem that no lyric sites exist which are not aggressively bad. Though, we might contend that a large amount of traffic comes from the long-tail search because there is no site worth going to - ie it doesn't matter which lyric site I use, so I might as well just google it.
Make a bunch of useful assets, and give them away on her site.
Eg like people have done with free tab bar icons for iphone apps.
Could be worth a try?
Google docs, believe it or not. I found a nice wireframing set at the following address:
http://mortenjust.com/2010/04/19/a-wireframe-kit-for-google-...
The thing about this is that it's somewhat dishonest. They have an advertised price, but then there's an additional fee if you don't buy additional services. It's like going into a store and buying a box of pasta for $2, and then getting charged $3 because you didn't buy some sauce along with it. Sure there was fine print beside the price saying that's the price when bought with sauce, and otherwise a $1 non-sauce-usage fee applies, but the reality is that they're counting on people to not read their bills too carefully.
Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee
If you read the announcement identity is very important in every aspect that was announced: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-pr...
Sun was a supercomputer company. Java is the alternative to IBM operating system VM's running on mainframes. Nobody has that kind of hardware just lying around. Java was designed to run on $1000 SCSI hard-drives and 32Gb of RAM. The focus is on standardization, scalability, portability, buzzwords and expensive catering.

The guy that made the Chrome Javascript VM sat with a laptop in a small house in the Danish countryside. Because the focus was on normal everyday hardware. And guess who that was ? A former Sun Java VM programmer. So the "just use Chrome" developer demographic is sort of unintentionally ironic when they, well, open their mouths. Why do they think Chrome is so memory hungry anyway :P Well, the problem is actually the same problem that you have in other UI frameworks where event listeners and DOM references never gets released from the UI side. And there are some strange issues with anonymous functions and closures, but I do not know enough about that to comment.

Java is fine, but Javascript does not need to be Java. Apple just screwed up the LiveConnect bridge in Safari just to piss us off.. transition us all to a better state of mind. Or maybe that was Oracle, I have no clue anymore. The guy that worked on Jython probably felt very alone doing all the work and JRuby is only here because of desperation from Sun. And Scala is the solution for people who never finish anything. So maybe I should.. oh shiny..

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2008/gb2008...
http://labs.teppefall.com/2011/08/why_not_use_java_and_invok...
...I have been hearing the very same claims for almost 20 years by now.

Not sure where you're coming from with this.. Five years ago, the received wisdom was that you should buy now to avoid being priced out of the market.
Unified theory: a CEO's job is to make sure everything that needs to be done, gets done.

Suppose you have 20 employees. There are 19 people in the company who have a defined job. They come in, do their jobs, and go home at night. Of course you have to make sure those 19 people do those jobs, but when something doesn't get done by any of those 19 people, you have to do it. Sometimes this means the CEO washes the dishes.[1] Often, this means that you spend an increasing amount of time doing a certain job before realizing that you're spending most of a day doing something you can afford to hire someone else to do, so then you go hire that person.

Suppose you have thousands of employees. You have more executives than a startup has employees. You have to make sure each of these executives is world class. If you're Steve Jobs, this means that you have a world class head of industrial design, a world class ops guy in Tim Cook, brilliant engineering execs, and so forth. What do you do? You overlook the product vision, pay attention to detail, and teach the company how to operate the way you see fit. Now suppose you're Tim Cook. You have dozens of executives working for you, many of whom have been selected and trained by Steve Jobs to pay as much attention to detail and have the same product vision. What do you do? You overlook the operations and make sure the company has the technical ability to pull off what the designers and vision guys want to do.

In either case, the basic formula is the same. Take everything that needs to happen in order for the company to succeed, subtract everything that the rest of the company is doing, and what's left over is the job of the CEO.

[1] http://thesash.me/wash-the-dishes-when-nobody-else-will
That's actually a very good idea...I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!
Keep Tabs on Hurricane Irene with These Tracking Maps and Smartphone Apps
Gotcha. Changed, although URLs don't work as links in the submission text.
天津400电话
Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary
This paper is based on retail investors at a discount brokerage, not asset managers.
great read. Designers perennially bitch and moan about difficult clients, but when I review my last year of consulting, I can agree with Joshua that the difficult experiences have been _my_ fault. I get to pick my clients, and it's up to me to set expectations and manage the process. It's very true that all the skills and talent one has developed can be rendered meaningless by a lack of professionalism. And sometimes the very definition of professionalism means not getting into something at a price / timeline / term of agreement your integrity can live with.
I sort of worry that it's hard for someone to be the executive tastemaker unless he is at the top. With operations types running the company, it will be difficult for any of the creative types to be heard. Steve Jobs is irreplaceable - I'm sure that Apple will continue to succeed for a while longer, but it will be quite difficult for them to anticipate the next disruptive shift in the industry...
I am not at all a fan of content marketing on a personal level, but I guess it must be effective if so many companies do it. I mean, the way I look at it, most content marketing is heavily skewed towards the marketing side of the equation and not enough towards the content side. Most of it feels like a sales pitch to me. Nevertheless, this is something she's already going to try with her blog. Any pointers regarding the (admittedly barren) blog section of her site? Do you think it's in a good format? Thanks for the response!
Luckily, I don't need to: I picked it up from Amazon (university library sell-off) after silentbicycle recommended it here some time back.

(You made me curious: there are used copies at Amazon starting at around $6.00[1].)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/020107981X/ref=dp_olp...
I did a few exercises with SVG in pure CoffeeScript (no external library)

Draggable Cubic Bézier curve:
http://ontouchstart.posterous.com/explore-svg-with-coffeescr...

Cubic Bézier timing function CSS:
http://ontouchstart.posterous.com/explore-svg-with-coffeescr...
Well, sure. If you're far enough away it _looks_ like a point source!

That doesn't apply to being on the face of a cube, though; that's not nearly far enough away, obviously. :)
Those points above (except for 4) sound an awful lot like Chuck Moore's GA144 chips, based on his individual F18A computers (GA144 = 144x F18A computers).

http://greenarrays.com/
Case of 8,000 Menacing Posts Tests Limits of Twitter Speech
Eric Schmidt says weird things (see http://dthin.gs/niXnvA). Here's what stood out to me in this talk (paraphrasing): "People don't have to use it if they don't want to."

You know you have a suspect product when that's the best defense you have for it. He wants people to use G+ yet he says that they don't have to. Saying stuff like that doesn't make current users comfortable or new users giddy to try it out.
yes. Hurricanes are bad.