skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cool- I'll have to study that code. But it does look like you need an explicit sequencing command. My version works within arbitrary code.
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Not only have I enjoyed it so much I've told countless friends about dropbox, it also auto invites your friends to join when you share a file with them. That's in part why they already had over 100,000 beta testers before even launching.
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Ruby has continuations, but with significant limitations. Ruby continuations cannot roll back modified variables, from what I understand- I think my email example would fail in a ruby implementation.

As for C, I haven't seen any real continuation support- Just some partial simulations using longjmp.
Very cool. I think there is a tremendous amount of neat hacks like this to be done with ever more available data.

To make it more than a 'fun experiment', you'd have to actually offer those kinds of terms. Actually, what might be interesting is to see the difference between what people say they would accept, and what they would choose if they were getting a real offer.
+1: it's frustrating to try and build cool stuff, and see people raking in the dough with junk like this. I don't really feel sorry for them when Google comes along and dumps them, as they weren't really making anything people wanted.
I think the mechanism of short term memory works for about 30 seconds and memory recall after that length of time uses a different long term memory mechanism. So I think they are right to describe recalling events of 5 hrs ago as a function of long term memory.
'Hasn't Joel even argued that shutting down the computer should be unnecessary in the future anyway?'

Yes, he was also complaining about there being 9 options to chose from when leaving your Windows Vista computer:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html
I'll look into it. If so, awesome!
Is there a right to remain silent?
emailed this to my wife.

Her response: The couch is always open...
Umm... ok... not sure why this gets voted up though. Not exactly that interesting or news-worthy...
You know I never even thought of Steam as a form of DRM before - even though now you point it out, it clearly is.
I'll tell you a story kid, listen carefully...

Ten internet years is a very loooong time, just look back at 1998 and see how things have changed.

I tell you, one man will come with a new browser and a new markup language and kids like you everywhere will use it, 100 million downloads in a week will mark its arrival, you'll know it, wait patiently.

That's how you replace the web, and all old behemoths who tried to kill it will finally see it die a sudden death for good, and good thing is, they will die too for all the bad things they've done, we never forget.

And they won't have participation in the new web, we won't let them play. I swear by all gods we won't.

For we are legion...
http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:Hgq_0fuBJMkJ:https://sch... mentions that "others claim" that it was a political satire
Too bad it didn't help. I've run into that limit trying to use the tool "siege" to stress test apache, tomcat and different rails apps.

Hope you find what the problem is.

I think I recall one a podcast about an erlang project (i'm 70% sure it was an erlang project and not smalltalk), where they wanted to run on bsd, but eventually gave up because of some network issue and switched to linux. I'd suggest trying to boot the machine in ubuntu and give it a spin there, or see if you can max out a linux box that you already have access too. Linux has so many more users that the real world kinks are much more worked out than on OS X or BSD (I'm talking about server apps here).
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Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?
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Life is so much more varied and interesting. I only ever do things that I think are worth doing. I work at my own pace (which is 10x faster than anything I ever observed in the corporate world). I work exclusively with brilliant people, doing something which I think is worthwhile.

I have no personal experience with the statement above. Perhaps the closest I have come was telecommuting and doing project work for a couple of years.

Even if there wasn't more money in the long term, this is an infinitely preferable lifestyle.

After 11 years working for some of the biggest companies in the world and becoming increasingly miserable, I sincerely hope this is true. Sounds good on paper, anyway.
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Twitter IM bot twitter@twitter.com, which enables you to send tweets right from your Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger .etc. is facing downtime due to heavy usage and the current status shows - "Offline. Working on additional capacity."
Lets find out some alternatives that work in this crisis period.
Being popular generally requires being a good practitioner of convention.
Good ideas almost by definition are never part of convention but rather define future convention.
Therefore if one is popular and thus is consumed by convention, in most cases he/she won't be a source of good ideas.

* This tho probably only applies to good ideas as in paradigm shifting game changers. If you include minor evolutions of existing ideas (that can be quite successful financially of course), being popular might even help to come up with those.
So, you did a survey on a self-selected group of people who think their time is worth less than a buck an hour, and asked them questions about behavioural economics?

Maybe I'm missing something.
Agreed, but Google should at least be willing to be specific about its requirements.

They should also be willing and able to tell you whether or not you paid for a particular click in your logs. I have had difficulty getting that information from them.
Let's not forget the other things that corporate life provides that Start Ups simply can't compete against: we've got cash which means all your standard developer care and feeding: snacks, beverages, free lunches. With cash comes profit sharing, job security, benefits, paid vacations, etc.

These are the kinds of things that "concerned" family and friends will point out. They're nice things, but I think the arguments about their value just amount to FUD to a person longing to make a move. They are reasons not to leave, not reasons to stay.
Agreed. It's a lot harder to start a startup away from a hub, but really, it's going to be hard to raise funding, and even harder to succeed in your first startup anyway. You might as well go through the motions once to learn how to do it before the stakes are higher. At a minimum you'll learn what running a business is about. Plus, if you're living somewhere like Peru with low cost of living and focusing on an international market, bootstrapping is a lot more practical.
I stand corrected. eight.
Programming languages for embedded systems
The most popular programming languages for embedded systems are assembly language, C and C++.
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Voted down for the legion reference.
This breed of Republican (laissez-faire, I think it is spelled) is, in my estimation, not the best for small business. It apparently translates to "might makes right" in practice.
How much of my company should I give up to new "co-founders"?
I have a web site that I created by myself about two years ago and it has been floundering. I met a couple of people who have a similar vision. They have some good contacts and would be picking up the marketing/product side of the business while I continue to concentrate on the technical side of things. We are in discussions to partner up but I am wondering how much of the ownership of my company I should give up to them for their involvement in the company. Right now, revenues are zero so it would almost be like they were co-founders, but I have put a lot of effort and a little bit of money into the company over the years.

Do forget about the effort I have already put in and treat them as co-founders and evenly divide up the company? I know its hard to comment without the details, but any advice would be appreciated.
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I am very fond of the freemium model, but recently I've been considering that there must be better ways to convert users to profit beyond scaling the number of users or adding additional functionality.

Have you given much thought to variations on fairly standard business models?

We've applied for YC this round, and one of the things we're trying to achieve is to successfully adapt a freemium model for a product that has been traditionally something that customers would pay up front for. The market is already one that is very profitable and our philosophy is that eventually products in our market will be free, so we want to be the ones who give it away first. We want to do this not only to experience the benefits that come with the freemium model (adoption + potential viral growth) but to also help insulate ourselves from competitors doing it to us.

Without going into too much detail, after some recent discussion (or perhaps it is just paranoia speaking, this occurred about a week ago) we feel that while a freemium model is still the best framework for our particular concept, it comes with a couple of drawbacks¹ that we hadn't originally conceived, so we have had to think a little outside the box.

Right now, we're considering if a hybrid trial/freemium² model might provide us with what we are looking for. Essentially we envision this to be where a user would receive a fully featured product at the start of their product lifecycle, which after awhile degrades into a functionally sound but less featured and free version. The absolute last thing we would want to do is annoy a user by handicapping their product into something unusable.

We think this might provide a user more of an incentive to want to upgrade to a paid-for product beyond the simple fact that they have access to more features/bandwidth/data, while still maintaining our core freemium philosophy.

Also given the nature of our product, we do have room to add in some further functionality in which the addition of a surcharge on further transactions could be warranted, but we would have to further explore the specifics, so perhaps that is another option available to you?

Notes:

1) If PG is reading this and is seriously considering our application and needs to know more about point 1 above, please feel free to email me and I can explain

2) I can't name anyone offhand who is using a trial/freemium hybrid but would love to know if anyone can point me to someone who is using this (or if we're just over engineering the problem).
fantastic work! many thanks
Are too many people going to college?
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The old Mac-based scripting tool / database/ language known as Frontier by UserLand software, could do this 10 years ago. So it is not really a new idea using old tools, more like a better implementation of an old idea.
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Ahem, "crackers", not hackers.
It's because the game is so incredibly revolutionary on every level at once. I haven't played the game and I'm going apeshit over it, because I don't care about the things you mentioned, I want to mess with every single editor and travel out to the universe and see every neat thing that every single player has made. And a Brian Eno-programmed soundtrack is pretty neat too.

Think of it like the Sims - easy gameplay but incredibly addictive - combined with Legos.
I'd divide it up based on what each person is bringing to the table. You're bringing a codebase; they are bringing some contacts and marketing experience. The group of you need to agree on the relative worth of those things.
The problem with it..is that every other niche you'll most likely just be posting rumors the moment you heard them...so you'll lose your credibility fast. I mean hurricans aren't just going to disappear into nothing
He seems to have embraced it, regardless of his earlier opinions on the subject: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html
BUt it is far from 'good enough', it is a hindrance to productivity.
The paths "you create a company and bring in two more people" and "two people create a company and bring you in" are equivalent: In both cases, you end up with three people working at the company. As such, they should have the same outcomes with respect to ownership.

Rather than asking yourself how much ownership of your company you should give your new partners, look at it the other way around: How much ownership should they give you?
Nope! But thanks anyway.

Seriously, have you USED those platforms? Have you learned how incredibly open each of those are to applications, to the point where you can duplicate an app's features bit by bit and still get accepted? Or do you just like feeling edgy by hating corporate app systems?
The catch is, once they do figure out one way of accomplishing a task -- even if it's complicated, unintuitive, and not really what you intended -- they'll cling to it and base future actions on that point of reference. So you can't "correct" the interface without further annoying the users who already figured out one way to do it.

Miguel de Icaza has an amazing post on this:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Jan-24-1.html

On the Mono download page, available versions for each platform were available as text links, with the platform's logo next to the links. Because of some configuration of the wiki engine they were using, images automatically linked to another page listing all the places where the same image is used. So, rather than clicking on the text link to download the latest version, 95 percent of Windows and Mac users would click on the logo, see the listing of other pages using the logo, scan that textual list for the highest version number (it's near the bottom of the list), visit the page for that one ancient version, and download it.

Aside: Noting that users will only read text as a last resort, and not always even then, I wonder what the success rate is for getting past Firefox 3's "this page's certificate is self-signed" warning. It can't be any better than Mono's.
Well, if IT departments do decide to block it it shouldn't be too hard -- all they'd have to do is to filter out the confirmation mails on the corporate spam filter. Those have to being sent since the system is keyed on where your email address is.

The question is if IT departments would respond fast enough for there to not be a pile of data sitting around when they discover it.

Though, as I've mentioned previously, I actually like the idea. Having something like this at the last company I worked for would have saved product managers from the various projects I was working on from having to come around to see what was on my schedule for the next day or two or when I could get around to that something-or-another issue. Granted, I didn't sift through the rest of the TC50 companies, so I don't know how they stack up to the competition.
It's already starting: the developer of Exposure, the Flickr app, announced that he won't code another line for the iPhone until this is fixed out. I'm sure others will follow if there continue to be cases like this.
They haven't actually started high energy collision tests yet, so... the black hole possibility is still there. Here's what might

happen (it's a flash but it shows the real possibility):

http://www.yaplakal.com/forum8/topic208652.html

The guys behind LHC say nothing like that will happen and suggest that nature conducts similar experiments in the Earth's

atmosphere every day. However Dr Wagner is pretty sure that nature does not collide two highly focused beams of particles with the

energies seen only when the universe was born. See his web site here:

http://lhcdefense.org/

The second argument of CERN is that even if a microscopic black hole appears, it will quickly evaporate due to hawking radiation.

However, hawking radiation is just a theory. Hawking changed his mind about black holes once, and there's not reason to think he'd

get it right this time. There's not reason to bet your life, the life of your children and the future of the planet based on a

word of one quantum physicist.

Even though the odds of the black hole appearing are not that high, did anyone ask you if you're willing to trust a bunch of

scientists with your life just so that they can test their theories?

I sure hope that the next time $6 bln dollars are spent by scientists it will be on finding cure for cancer and not the

hypothetical higgs particle. Last time quantum physicists produced something useful resulted in millions of people dead in

Hirohima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl.

The first high power experiments will be conducted end of 2008 or early 2009, so there's still time to stop this doomsday device.

I hope that anyone who cares about the future will take an action. Please suggest your ideas on how to do this (no violence,

please). Will injunction help? For example:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080123210737AA...

I hope that if enough of us do that, we will be able to save our planet.
Forgetting everything else, I would imagine that the TC50 winner would be a company with a much more innovative idea than Twitter for the 'enterprise'.

(Not to mention: 'enterprise' budgets are under severe constraint these days, so getting money to pay for a Twitter clone is unlikely.)
The "can't type but does use e-mail" stuff is at least as old as McCain's 2000 campaign. I've posted a 2000 link to the "uses e-mail" below. Here's a 2000 source for "McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes."

http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/M...
Is it just me, or was this a real nothing of an article? I'm pretty sure it's not just me.

Basically, it's explaining how FriendFeed works and pretending like that means he's making a decent point. Really, his only slightly interesting quote is this one -

"Sooner or later the 'Internet’s middleman' must emerge."

- and he's wrong about that. Reason being, most people don't obsess over the Internet like that. Most people manage one or two sites, and as the Internet gets bigger that'll change to three or four, five if they're feeling ambitious. Because beyond "put stuff online" and "communicate with people," there's no reason to use the Internet. And some people care about using Flickr and Vimeo and Twitter and Tumblr and staying connected in every network at once because they like pretending they'll be John Gruber one day... but the average Internet user uses one application for each of those two things, and those two things are Facebook and Facebook.

I think that we as hackers ought to spend a lot of time outside the narrow bubble of people who are as neurotic as we are. It helps to give a LOT of perspective.
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But Erdos was always on drugs so he might not count.
I'm slow to develop mine for the worst reason in the world: I can't program.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I have a coder's mind. I'm content with sitting down for hours and nitpicking code until it works just fine. It's just that I don't know the languages I need to know, and so development happens slowly.

It's happening, don't get me wrong. But if I could actually program, this thing would be out in a week, rather than a month or more.
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4. How do Renewable Energy Certificates help the environment?
Renewable Energy Certificates guarantee that a certain amount of clean wind and solar electricity will be generated onto the power grid, displacing fossil fuel-based electricity generation. Since we measure the location and fuel makeup of your users and servers, we are able to purchase an equal amount of renewable energy to offset the non-renewable component of your energy footprint. The more renewable energy we support, the less non-renewable energy will be required in the future.

http://www.co2stats.com/faq.php

I'm still a bit unclear on whose behalf they are buying energy.
Is that because it's on the Mac? Or did you get a special copy or something?
why do you think it's acceptable to pirate/"steal"/whatever that product for free instead of simply choosing not to purchase it?

i can understand a person purchasing a real copy of a game and then downloading a pirated version that has the DRM removed, or someone buying a CD and then downloading the same album on waffles in a variety of formats simply because it's easier/faster.

but if you don't like the DRM, wouldn't it make more sense to speak with your dollars and not purchase it? why do you feel justified in using what they created without any compensation?
A bare-bones engine that interprets a regex
http://blog.thoughtfolder.com/2008-02-04-even-more-beautiful...
Guerilla Marketing : Source code on the Business Card
Use this framework to split the equity pie.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%2...

Obviously, your initial code base has some value to it.
The above framework nicely value the past/future contribution of each party to remove much ambiguity.
Waiting for the first Yammer lawsuit due to corporate data being leaked...
The maths behind Wuala's free online storage service
I jump between working for myself and working for other people somewhat regularly.

Right now for example, I have what I think is the perfect job. The pay is good, I work on interesting problems, I drive all the dates and functionality; basically I am getting paid to make all the IT decisions and I have enough budget to do things the way I want to do them.

But even though I have the perfect job, it still feels like servitude. So, at some point I'll have the next idea I think is worth striking out to try, and I'll be gone. It won't be because I dislike my job; but it will be because it's in my genes to go out to the frontier and pan for gold.
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Its an old post but still a good reminder
Not exactly an engine. You have to do the parsing yourself. A simple parser would do, but it's not trivial, and would very likely at least double the size. It's also probably far from efficient. Some of the core functionality is there, though.

I started to write a quick parser for it to post here, but I have to get going... Letters, numbers, etc. can just be passed as char(c) literals, star and plus modify the most recent thing appended to the list, (a|b|c) groupings recursively call the parser and wrap the result. The whole thing gets wrapped in nested-pair seq calls, e.g. seq(a, seq(b, seq(c))) like in box-and-pair notation.