skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, email clients should catch references to attachments that aren't there, and ask "do you really want to send this without an attachment?"

This was a Better GMail (Firefox extension) feature that is now available in GMail Labs under Settings.
Indeed, DOM performance is often the real bottleneck.

In Cappuccino we go to great lengths to avoid touching the DOM wherever possible. Views (which wrap DOM elements) keep track of their position and size, so we never have to ask the DOM. We defer DOM manipulations to the end of each "run loop" where we coalesce them, removing redundant operations.

The overhead of this bookkeeping (which is reduced by increase JS engine performance) is less than the overhead of extra DOM operations, so it's worth it.

We're already seeing other frameworks adopt some of these practices.
Google Announces Drunken E-Mail Preventer
What about the maximum entropy interpretation? Even if we're unwilling to model the selection process, most models for any population sufficiently large will choose outcomes indistinguishable from random.
Mozilla Geode - Geolocation for your browser
I had the same problem four years ago. It killed my startup. The volume numbers weren't there for a dedicated box and the VM-type hosting was continuously (and randomly) rebooting.
Too bad that I'm still good at math when I am drunk. I was out at a bar one night, and I "came to" walking down the railroad tracks on the way back home (way out of the way, and not exactly safe). I didn't even remember cashing out my bar tab, but lo and behold, when I checked my credit card transactions a couple days later, I tipped right around 25% ($85 total on a $67 tab) -- this is the same way I would tip sober.

If you want a moral in this story, don't drink two 1-liter mugs of micro-brewery beer within a couple hours and then continue drinking Guinness and shots ($30+ worth!) after relocating to a popular Irish bar.
Fans of Googly Eyes may also enjoy this:

http://www.welton.it/freesoftware/googly_eyed_bill

Or maybe not, it's pretty silly. You can get the source code and make your own googly eyed people (PG, anyone?).
Take it with a grain of salt, but Compete shows pretty nice user growth as well. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ning.com/?metric=uv
I clicked to buy and I liked it.. Monetizing Youtube
sleek design!
Now THAT, I'd believe in. 3.5 uniques a month seems reasonable and a good number to tout (though it's woeful compared to any other site with that level of funding).

But, given their 500,000 networks #, that means that they are getting.... 7 uniques per network per month? Assuming zero overlap?

And uniques are a bad metric, too. They have 1.5 million indexed pages ( http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aning.com ) - I'd wager 1/3 to 1/2 of their uniques are from long-tail search queries. And I'd further wager than 50%+ of those uniques BOUNCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_Rate), so exactly what percentage of those 3.5m uniques actually do ANYTHING? Bounce rates of 30-50% for search engine traffic are pretty good, so...
Government Report Finds Data Mining an Ineffective Way To Smoke Out Terrorists
All I could find on the site was an "artists conception" of cat track. Is there actual data there?
Why Windows 7 is doomed: R&D budget going to fake boy band
NASA Mission Reveals First Close-Up Photos of Mercury
i think i've seen you around :)
That was my thought as well.

Of course, the next step is to have an hardened mail goggles feature which requires you to write a greasemonkey script in order to send an email.
Big Business: Home of Individualism
What's the Right Amount of Online Advertising?
Looking for any good designers in the DC area... suggestions?
Hey,

So I've lurked here for awhile now, and I've seen threads like this come up from time to time, figured I'd throw it out there.

I work for a tech company in the DC/Metro area, and said company is specifically in need of a web designer. Position's pure designer - i.e, they'd never touch code here. The role would be creating mockups in Photoshop, then handing them off to the developers and working with them to integrate it and such.

Thing is, finding decent web designers in the DC/Metro area seems to be incredibly tough. 9 times out of 10 I'd reject what comes across my desk - either they're extremely print-design oriented, they don't "get" web standards, or they're unfamiliar with all the current web/startup scenarios.

(Ideal candidate would be/have the opposite of all of those, respectively)

Anyone got any advice on how to find someone who'd fit this kind of role? Am I missing out on some crucial step? I'm at a complete loss, but there's some great brains here, maybe someone could give me a hand.
Actually, that's incorrect. There's a strong social prestige incentive for your one child to be a boy rather than a girl.
There's a strong economic incentive for you to have a girl: there's a tradition of reversed dowries in China, and girls are rare, so the benefits are high.
Large and small businesses can be innovative when government stays out of the way.
This never works in the long run - The problem is that you know it's 15 minutes out and you adjust.
I like where you are going with this. First, my friend and I were discussing this post earlier and he did as well, bring up that the idea that colleges are worth much more than just their functions as businesses. Granted they DO function as businesses, but as you bring up, they are unique in that they invest in cultural and societal advancement and inquiry, things that are quite intangible. So in a sense yes we do have to think about them in a unique light. Secondly, as a person that willingly choose not to go to college (I would have just graduated) I can tell you from experience that it is indeed not so much what you learn in college that is important, but it is the connections and influence if you will, that you get for being affiliated with a "recognized" entity. Truth be told, I have submitted a proposal to ycombinator and as an aspiring web developer IT IS PAINFULLY hard to attract and team up with like-minded individuals. So yes, you heard that right, I did not say it is hard to learn how to program, how to run a business (i currently do), hard to pay your bills, hard to grow up and mature, no no I said its hard simply to find people. So in that respect, I think that is colleges greatest reward. And don't get me wrong, civilization was built with TEAMS, so its a good reward.

You can see then how it all neatly comes to fit. The environment you are placed in contains a certain type of people. Colleges help you connect with these people in this environment. It's just so "structured" that way. You become connected with mentors (your professors and alumni) and you connect with peers, and you connect with protegees. It's the whole neat, clean package.

No it is not impossible to meet and connect with people and build something great (as many have done) but college just streamlines the process.

You don't pay to go to college to learn. Just as you pointed out the self-motivated will ALWAYS find a way to learn. And to add to that, think about just how much abstract and intangible things that are SO IMPORTANT to a good life that you can't learn in college, you can't learn anywhere. You have to learn them through your own conscious efforts toward self-improvement.
Sometimes it's really all about how lucky your roommate is
Please go read the article. That's exactly the problem that the clock solves.
I thought the reason they wanted boys was that they were the ones who had the means to support their parents in old age?
* "From what I’ve been able to glean from various sources,"

* ". In this current economic climate, eBay is going to have a tough time finding a buyer, never mind one that would be willing to pay such a price. "

* "eBay could have its cake and eat it, too...by selling it to Digg in exchange for equity in the combined entity."

None of these quotes in the article link back to any reliable source that would give any reasonable foundation for their own interest. Aside from a link back to TechCrunch (checking your sources does not mean finding another article that says the same thing) that doesn't tell the reader much, there's no real reason to think Digg, an entity of it's own would want to buy StumbleUpon.
I think it is possible to have a full-time job in the early stage of the venture, IF you have no partner or family. I have decided to go part time to devote to my venture, which allows me time for my family.
For another $10-$20 you could have a physical dedicated server with 1GB memory on ServerBeach. I highly recommend them. You can get $100 off if you use my referral code 7XYHDMBU8A but even if you don't use my code I still recommend it!

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Designers and developers should be consulting their psychologists
This is a serious problem for me; while I have overcome the larger problem of procrastination in terms of putting off important tasks, I'm always 5-10 minutes late.

I actually thought of the exact solution as in the article when I was a kid, but I didn't know how to hack a physical clock to do it. And doing it on the computer is not very useful when there is a big-ass wall clock giving you the correct time with a (constant, known) error.

I think the killer app for this is to put it on a Chumby. Anyone up for it? When I get my own chumby, this is probably the first app I'll write. (Assuming it isn't already written.)
Did you read the article? The author is clearly referring to where we were at the beginning of the 20th century w/r to air travel (it didn't exist but was associated with a modern utopia), and where we were at the end of the century. It's a romantic lament, to be sure, but if you actually read the article the sentence fits as a lede.

And as a Jew, those epic failures of humanity, to me, provide a stark relief to the promise of globalization afforded by air travel. They represent the breakdown of (slowly) dying nationalistic geopolitics. Air travel was one hopeful cure made ugly in reality.
But then you likely won't be alive and your children's children won't see what the big deal is (was).

Shoot, how many today pause to consider the wonder that is a photograph of Earth taken from space. And that was only 40-50 years ago.
Web Rings Get a Business Model: Yardbarker to Power Widgetbox’s Sports Channel
I have officially been brainwashed... was totally expecting a Google pun here.
Before slicehost I was on Mediatemple's gridserver... the latency was terrible and there was more downtime than I would have liked, but it was ok. I suspect their service has improved somewhat in the interim and they provide more bandwidth than any other shared, managed hosting provider for the price. If you really don't want to manage your own server, they are probably worth looking into.
Google lists it's contributions to WINE
I also left for the same reason.
7 Best (free) Web Apps For Managing Your Money. Lord Knows We Need Help.
Oh - right you are... Funnily enough, that didn't leap out at me when I skimmed it.
"... His first love was an Iraqi super computer, a poster of which he had pinned to his bedroom wall. ..Cray?"

Not sure, but probably not. The timing is out.

Cray Research, the company started in '72 and released it's first machine, the Cray 1 in '76. As a side note the current Cray, the XT5 is billed as the "world's most scalable Linux supercomputer" ~ http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/about/cray_factsheet.pdf
More products Google should make for drunk people
Slicehost is amazing. I wish they had pre-built LAMP stack images ready, but it's not that hard to set up (esp if you follow their tutorials)
Thank you for introducing me to "The Homer". That's good stuff right there.

I had to make at least three conscious attempts to continue reading the article, each time my soul having been crushed by the fact that people thought having a three rotating folding screen with integrated smartphone, external wireless subdisplay and midi jacks and 500g flash drive was a good idea.
One of the things "work smarter" should mean is: work on something worth working on. Something important enough to you to call out your "extraordinary effort".
That comment above is really bothering me. I suppose it's a mix of the callous disregard of the context in which the sentence lies and as a reflection of where we sit after maybe 15 years of a popular worldwide internet. To me, this quote now springs to mind:

"One of the saddest stories of the 21th century is the fate of human communication."

And yet, it's only 2008.
Really important advice - at least for us (Xobni), turning off keep-alive on one of our content-delivery servers freed up a ton of resources.
"It is not a sin to be second-rate. The only sin is not to try to be first-rate."

Only a wretch would aspire to be mediocre.
I know HN discourages superfluousness, but I'd just like share my moment of zen as I contemplate how this is exactly the kind of post that keeps me coming to HN.
These are both human-factors problems. There are people who address these things. In this situation there's no mechanism for accountability,i.e. a way to enforce the commitments the founders make to one another. Sweet persuasion and social pressure doesn't seem to work.

A neutral third party might have a better shot at assessing the situation -- what's needed is a clear grasp of whether it's time to cut one's losses and move on or if there's a path to rectify the stalemate.
> But then you likely won't be alive and your children's children won't see what the big deal is (was).

But we'll finally make that delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet.
If eBay had any faith in its system, it would auction StumbleUpon off on eBay. And then have something go wrong and fight with the faceless eBay entities for weeks before getting some of its money back.
Unless you want to delay it until birthdays or some other event that's weeks or months away.
Banned Podcaster developer turns to hacked iPhone market
thanks.. the netflix thing was me and my advisor.

i've started a blog around our anonymity breaking research: http://33bits.org/

we've been working on breaking anonymity in social networks for a year or two now. we'll have more to say soon.
I would like to point out:

1) This is a product created by a single person from their own creative inspiration, and sold -- it counts as a start-up, by some definitions.

2) It is a HARDWARE product, with no web user subscription base or ajax coding or iPhone tie-in

3) From all appearences, this endeavor is making money.

Just some observations.
Ok, Even tough Me was touched. Go Wufoo.
I have a much simpler method of getting to the exact same end result of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

Nickle: the best allergy I ever got. Can't wear my beautiful $3000 stainless steel watch anymore. So I just stopped wearing a watch. Presto, on time all the time. Why? Because I learned very quickly to build in a little extra fudge time wherever I go. I can't time it to the second, because I don't know, and I, for damn sure, know that.

Now, if that only worked for 6 month research projects.
Our startup website is down. Hosting provider suspended our account
Our startup website is down. Hosting provider suspended our account.
We live in 3d world country and we build 1st social networking website in our area, ectually in entire Central Asia.

We started to gain users, people rejoiced about our sucsess, one user invited his 250 friends to join to network. Our American hosting provider considered that invitation as complaned SPAM (that was not in english) and shot down our account.

We are lost, everyhting we were working for 3 years are down (40 websites we build and updated for our customers).

We begging to hosting provider please reacvitate our account, be mercy to us. We not spammer we are scuseful startupers, 1st in our area. don't kill us/pioneers!

friends what should we do?
No: his or her bf or gf is a hacker too.
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They need to make the questions harder!
TechCrunch Forgot To Erase Something
You start with this:
"Most ideas suck. Those ideas are worthless. A few ideas are very valuable. Those ideas are the things that change the world. Just because all the ideas in your network are worthless, doesn't mean all ideas are worthless."

I asked for evidence (a few examples of ideas that on their own were valuable without execution). You obviously couldn't provide any to support your argument.
Oh and I forgot http://www.techcrunch.com/license.txt =)
Ars Technica, Processing.js, Env.js
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Hacking's meaning naturally stems from manipulating previously existing stuff.
Someone should create a metanetwork that allows combining of multiple subnetworks and presents a coherent view of both.
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good to see a co-alum here!, even if such an occurrence should be entire predictable :) ...
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fwp-adm...
Happy to help! I was honestly worried I'd get booted for posting about hosting when most here can host their own sites.
continue to talk to the host and if you have the money, consider talking to a lawyer.

never become threatening, but mention that you're going to be contacting a lawyer about this matter.

did you not have code and/or database backups? if you did, go get a new host. if you didn't, you should have made some. i feel your pain, but its a mistake to not back up stuff.
You need PR, you need the press to know about this abuse (if it's true).
If they are in a 3rd world country contating a lawyer could be pretty much useless. I bet they don't have enough money to pay a lawyer.
I'd say take this story to the media (of course, if this is true and after you did everything to negotiate with your host).
hahhaha, having a "$100 million" blog empire, and couldn't erase the readme.html, no they need an admin that's for sure.
I am doing both...but many times is hard...very little sleep in the night, almost always tired. You have to make a lot of sacrifices without the guarantee of making it (startup).
Totally agree.

Maybe it could be a greasemonkey-added "Send later..." button that you have to manually click on every time (to avoid thinking you sent an email, but it was actually put into a queue) along with an input box for delay-time.

When you click it, it could (1) add a unique identifier to the subject, (2) save the email in drafts, and (3) send a message to a server-side app (which knows your Gmail authentication info) with the ID of the message and the time it should be sent. Then at the appropriate time this app logs in, finds message by unique ID, gets rid of said ID, and sends the message.
one user invited his 250 friends to join to network.

Who are these people?

Back on topic, why don't you just move all your stuff to another account? Just load your backups and go nuts. You do have local backups, correct?

Given your target audience, I'm not sure why you're with an American provider. You should probably stick with someone more local.
I also find it unusually bothersome. We all feel like being snarky bitches sometimes, which is mostly okay. I just expect those posts to get downvoted here.
Ruby and particularly Ruby on Rails seem to be particularly exciting for people who have just escaped the world of Java. Plus, web apps are the sort of thing where you can make a simple one and entertain yourself quickly. Just find a neat one day project and dive in.

The best way to learn is just to promise a couple close friends that you are going to make a particular thing in the next day or two, and then you will be forced to actually do it. You can get any information you need from the internet.
I've done quite a bit of hitchhiking and travel by foot in the US, and I've also found that traveling with as little as possible is a plus. Focus on utility - not convenience - and you'll be better prepared for whatever situation you end up with.

15-20 pounds is what I average when I'm packing for "general" situations, and while it does start to feel more like 40 or 50 pounds after a while, you get used to it - and the security of knowing that every item in that 20 pounds is the opposite of frivolous far outweighs the inconvenience of the weight.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Coffee.html
IPhone is hot, picking off rival carriers' customers and smartphones
you have 2 options.

1. buy a much more powerful server/VPS.

for seventy some odd dollars a month you can just leave your amazon ec2 image up all the time, and that's something like 1.7Gb ram. if you are willing to use a small provider (like me) you can do even better- I'll give you 2GB ram for $64/month. Having more ram makes a lot of problems just go away. (using a Xen based host also means that you can use swap, which means that your out of memory events would be slowdowns rather than crashes.)

2. get a skilled SysAdmin (possibly you) to optimize your system from a systems standpoint.

ultimately, you want both. But often just buying a better server is the cheapest option.

But yeah. no matter how much you like your host, I recommend that you always have a hot copy of your website/application at another server, ready to switch the dns over at the first sign of trouble. you should test this periodically.
at lets you specify dates as day/month/year. All you have to do is make sure the computer is running at that time, which is easy if you do this on your mail server.
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The speed of internet is very low, that is hard (impossable) to upload all files (images) as a back up. We did MySQL backup. Our hosting provider are horrable with SPACE, price and speed, tech support. I better would not tell about it :)

we need to grow in that area much... USA is not cheapest and etc place to buy hositng.
PR, most of our customers do not talk in egnlish. That was real challange
you boring geeks
Your position is not uncommon. The best solution is to treat it objectively.

Talk to your partner about a 3 month probation with some basic goals. It's vital to point out that this is not his probation - this is the project's probation.

Both partners use this time to observe progress. At the end of the period, do a review. Depending on your conclusions, you may continue to work together, change the balance, or begin an exit strategy.

This approach offers a "light at the end of the tunnel". If you ultimately decide to fold the project, you can be confident that the decision was made carefully, and not through a sudden meltdown.

And if the project succeeds, you can continue this form of quarterly progress reviews...
Now why did this take so long to happen?
hard to believe but Hosting provider did not answered us for several days, customers gave us hard time...
I post this message here and wrote to HP and they activated our account. IS that YC news or my letter or other mircale but we get back. Thanks you guys.Thanks to our hosting provider. Now we think how to escape this situation again... that is so simple to get there with social network people liked :)

thanks guys, thanks no pain no gain

Our life was over for 5 days, now we resurrected again... yeah
My brain does not have enough sugar left to really back up what I'm going to say, but here goes:

Y'all have ADD. The only thing that's going to fix your problems is Ritalin.

Just saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_attention-deficit_disorde...