skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In case anyone else wants to try I'll rot13 it, but here's the link:

uggc://jjj.nhqvbsvyr-ratvarrevat.pbz/
so I dug up the reference on this in case you are interested
and have access to nature. Google scholar has pointers to the pdf

Aho AC et. al. "Low retinal noise in animals with low body temperature allows high visual sensitivity." Nature. 1988 Jul 28;334(6180):348-50.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=aho+AC+nature+1988
Here is the video:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/700958
Because you are almost right.
I think that there's another question (& I think it's part of the point he's making):

'Is leverage and ability to expand faster, something you want?'

In other words. not can you play the Startup/VC game without a VC but, should you be playing that game at all? One of the points was that 10,000 users was a failure for a VC funded startup. That's not necessarily the case if you don't have an inherent valuation you need to aim for.
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as a foreigner, I hate T9. The first thing I do when I start using a new phone is to turn it off. It just doesn't work with short names, foreign words (or my name), or common sms slang.

I hope this is better.
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Very interesting. Could you provide a link, please?
COBRA was super expensive for me (over $250 a month) luckily we qualified for this young adults program in MA which is ~$130 per month. In the west coast, you can find even better deals. Obviously, this is a much bigger issue if you have a wife and kids.
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Part of knowing a tool is knowing when it's inappropriate. A rewrite in ANY language to "fix" a problem that you don't understand is generally a mistake. Doing things the needlessly complex way doesn't make you a better or manlier programmer.

By the way, a lot of these perl and python scripts spend most of their time calling into C libraries anyway, so the performance difference is often negligible.
Which parts don't I know well?
They do

http://blog.reddit.com/2008/08/now-you-can-restyle-and-host-...
Yes, that's the right question to be asking. There's no reason why anything should be taking 7k per url.
So does reddit

http://blog.reddit.com/2008/08/now-you-can-restyle-and-host-...
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That's Octobers release 2010.

* See here for context: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950
Seriously. I know it's stupid for this to bother me, but it did.
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$1000 to $399 is a big drop. Any insights on whether medical experts generally regard this test to be worth the money? In theory, I'd like to know whether I'm at a risk of various diseases so that I can take measures to reduce my risk. The list of diseases seems substantial and has grown since the last time I checked it out:

https://www.23andme.com/health/all/

However, I'm not sure how useful this information is in reality. I remember reading an interview with a physician who said that knowing one's family history of various diseases is probably more reliable than this test. Also, I have no way of knowing where my personal genetic information would end up if I used this service.
How did Kevin Rose get into the conversation? No exit yet, lots of hype so far, and screwing me was a big part of it :-(, whatever "it" is. But it does reinforce the point - a lot of it is luck. Cuban wants to come back as himself? I bet the odds are 1000-1 he wouldn't have the same success. And he'd probably admit that.
Go read his blog, you'll love him. http://www.blogmaverick.com/

He has a great post up on how the inside of wall street works. And he is qualified to speak - he is on the inside.
@pedalpete - thanks for the feeddback. I will try to see if I can filter out the html markup to clean things up.

The y! pipes allows you to clone a pipe - feel free to clone & hack it up further (i.e. change the filtering rules etc.) according to your needs
Its also "Broadcast" not "Broadband" right? Broadcast.com.
The transcript seems riddled with typos, though I didn't watch the video to know if they are actually what was said.

"There was a different crede"?
I used to read the "Ask *" topics, but I did not see too much in it (your mileage may vary :-) ), hence I am filtering it.

Y! pipes allows you to clone pipes, feel free to clone and change the rules to suit your needs.
Maybe not the same success, but certainly a lot of it. Selling garbage bags, teaching disco, Microsolutions, Broadcast.com, selling a Hedgefund, angel investments, Mavs, etc. He's been hustling since he was a kid. Sure a lot of his wealth is due to timing and luck but it certainly wasn't on accident.
@ScottWhigham , I fetch the entire page into the rss. The main idea was to be able to read the linked sites from my rss reader itself instead of clicking and going to the websites indivdually.
You're right, though I'm sure the story has grown in the telling. The point is that there's lots of other people who do that and aren't billionaires. Its necessary but not sufficient. However I should have been better in giving him respect because he'd probably agree with me about luck.

I just react badly to anything that includes "Kevin Rose" in the same class with a billionaire.
You also get a hint from direction changes. As far as I can tell, direction changes almost always indicate that the current letter is in the word, though not every letter gets a direction change.
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I wouldn't presume to be as talented, and I wouldn't bother him with my startup ideas, but I have a lot of respect for him.
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I once had a boss who refused to buy the programmers Pentium machines and made us use 486s instead. He said it wasn't because he was cheap, but it was so that if we wrote code that ran really fast on a 486, just think how fast it will run on a Pentium. Nevermind that none of the new Pentium features, like SIMD, could be taken advantage of.

That company is no longer in business.
I agree. And that's my view as well. Bootstrapping is not a lifestyle, but a strategy.
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Ironic, on the day UAL crashes because someone sees an old news article.
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I use to agree until I started to enjoy cooking... (cheaper, healthier, and all that.)

Eating can bring a lot of joy to your life, preparing meals and enjoying with someone seems (imho) to contribute to a better, more well rounded lifestyle (equaling more productive hacking session.)

... food for thought (ducks).
Multi-language support is tough, but some implementations are better than others (there are lots of different versions of T9, you're just stuck with whatever your phone has). The latest version of T9 has support for using multiple languages at once, but most phone makers don't advertise what version of T9 they ship.
The toad's brain controlled it's tongue at the threshold of being able to statistically distinguish signal from noise.

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"OK, so some people are going to say, 'Black holes? Those big things eating up stars?' No. These are microscopic, tiny little black holes. And they’re extremely unstable. They would disappear almost as soon as they were produced."

How do they know how about the stability of a tiny black hole? Not that I'm worried about them devouring the Earth, but still this all has to be conjecture.
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another one that really strikes me:

Ill tell you what I learned from Bobby Knight: everybody’s got the will to win but when it comes time to doing something, it’s always about someone else. Not many people have the will to prepare. You got to be willing to know your product and environment better than anybody. No matter what you do there is someone out there trying to kick your ass. You got to be the smartest guy in the room about your product.
The Dasher project ( http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ ) is similar but different again - between the two they may be on to something.
yep, he is so not pissed at what people say about Broadcast.com, as he knows its worth. And he backed that up with numbers.
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Thanks for the link. Looks like a promising read!
> You can drown in opportunity. We all have this aversion to finishing work because once you get into it, it gets mundane.

By far my favorite topic and he only slightly touched it, and not from the perspective of a founder. He's lucky (I think) that he can just drop money on something exciting and check in to see how it grows.

The growing part is so damn hard. It seems like it boils down to two options:

Do something that:

A) Is profitable but definitely not something you'd do for free.

B) Is something you'd do for free but much less likely to be profitable.

I always struggle with something PG said[1]: "where there's muck, there's brass."

I wonder if PG was wrong or not. It definitely seems like Viaweb was done purely for the money and that the experience was so excruciating that it almost scarred him. He talks about doing another startup like someone who doesn't want to do another tour in a war zone. Yet he seems to have found something (YCombinator) that may turn out to be more profitable than Viaweb and certainly seems much less painful. Mark Cuban doesn't seem to have found his businesses nearly as painful -- yet they don't seem so much more exciting than online stores.

Maybe you only get to do the fun+profitable stuff once you've made it? Or is it just as easy to find something you're deep down passionate about that's also just as likely to be profitable as anything else you can think of?

Most of what I think are my best ideas come from needs I see. I need to solve a problem, so I look around to see if I can pay someone who already solved it. On occasion I find that no one seems to have created a product to solve the problem. A lot of the time it's something I could create myself in weeks or months, which isn't very painful because as soon as my need is met my job is done. The painful part comes when I try to turn that solution into a business. Now I'm spending years solving a problem that was barely interesting for weeks.

Filling needs you see is probably the most commonly recommended way to start a business. But, is it really the best way considering that you have to expect to spend years in the trenches with it?

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html
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MYMAC=$(arp -a | awk '/[0-9a-f]:/ { gsub(/^0:|[1-9a-z]0:/, "00:", $4); gsub(/:/, "", $4); print $4; exit; }') && curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml" --data "<?xml version='1.0'?><LocationRQ xmlns='http://skyhookwireless.com/wps/2005' version='2.6' street-address-lookup='full'><authentication version='2.0'><simple><username>beta</username><realm>js.loki.com</realm></simple></authentication><access-point><mac>$MYMAC</mac><signal-strength>-50</signal-strength></access-point></LocationRQ>" https://api.skyhookwireless.com/wps2/location

had to change 0: to 00: and strip out those :'s
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> I'm still looking for ways to optimize things

Re-implement your crawler on a FPGA.

Just kidding :)
It's great that you got what you were expecting, but as Paul said, you have to profile before you optimize (otherwise you will "optimize" useless stuff, and not only waste your time but also likely do counter-optimizations).

Anyway, your post was very interesting. Because a lot of people assume they have to use layers on top of the OS, while modern Unix systems have good file systems and memory managers (maybe have a look at DragonFly BSD; they are going into an interesting direction).
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I learned it from word of mouth from elders in Spain. Particularly from Vicens Ferrer from http://www.vferrer.net. You may ask him for bibliographic references, if he knows of any.
anybody know what kind of software platform they are using? did they build everything from the ground up?
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Ignore the math, just watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORCk1BN7QY&feature=relat...
Great points! I'd like to reiterate the get enough sleep point. It's easy to try to get in another hour of startup work before bed, but being in any sort of sleep debt will MASSIVELY impact your actual productivity.

One thing I always liked doing was finishing up my day job work-day, going to the gym, working out, showering, changing, and walking back into my home office like I'm starting the day over again, this time working on my startup. The exercise is not only good for you, but can wake you up and help you turn off your day job, and reboot fresh for your startup work.
Valid advice if you've got serious persistent problems with food, like overeating, junk food addictions, etc. But, if you already have a good diet and have no food-related health issues, then a nutritionist will likely be of limited utility--certainly less than a few hours of research on the Internet (careful research...citations needed).

Certainly there are some nutritionists who are on the cutting edge of the field and follow the latest research (and parse it with knowledge that most popular science coverage of food is bullshit), but I've come upon a few who mingled current trends with "ancient wisdom" a little too much and end up being purveyors of "alternative medicine". A friend of mine went on a huge soy kick for a year or two, because her nutritionist had bought into the "soy is a magical cancer preventative" hype. We now know with confidence that soy in many forms is actually kinda hard on the body (hormone producing chemicals in food are something that should be treated with caution, and not consumed in large quantities without careful study), and the research that indicated cancer prevention was probably overblown and certainly not specific enough.

So, see a nutritionist if you want, but take all advice with a grain of salt. Nobody knows everything, and moderation is probably the best choice when in doubt. (Though anyone who tells that you should eat more fruits and vegetables is almost certainly right. Moderation is probably not a concern with broccoli and carrots and blueberries.)
What's a serious operating system?
Unix was invented to play video games, the first version of MS-DOS was called "Quick and Dirty Operating System"... And who would name his system the "Incompatible Time-Sharing System", anyway?
the iphone app "writingPad" uses this input method
Doesn't everyone do that nowadays? Why would you own hardware in this day and age?
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I'm guessing that the "Public Liability Insurance Quotation" and the "Public Liability Insurance | Professional Indemnity Insurance" posts by "pmover" are spam. How can we get that junk deleted?
They focus on fish a lot but they say nothing about the mercury content.
Users with a certain level or karma can flag posts and moderators can remove them.
Wow amazing how do they think this stuff up?
http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2008/09/09/apple-still-no-space... says it all for me
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However, there seems to be a shortage of moderators. I've flagged dozens of obvious spams and they're usually still around an hour or more later.
Here is the author's comment from the Squeak mail list:

"Well you have to read the license then decide if you are violating it.

And yes Apple in theory will review submitted applications and deny deployment based on what they do, how they do it, how they are documented etc. etc. How that process works I do not know.

Strip(p)ing the compiler could be needed, old VisualWorks users can remember the joys of this and why..."

http://www.nabble.com/-squeak-dev--Squeak-and-the-iPhone-td1...

So the VM will be crippled, at least at a marketing channel level, and perhaps at a tech level too.
I think it works pretty well. They show up in "new" from time to time, I try to flag them when I see them and they disappear, never making it near the front page.

An hour or 2 seems an ok time for deletion right now because very few of those article are showing up each day. If the volume expands greatly, I'm sure they can work out a way that X number of flags will auto-delete.
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What would be interesting is to slurp a bunch of OSS java and see how people's use of classes (either by imports, or by method calls) correlates to implementing an interface and/or not inheriting directly from Object. Maybe a bunch of stuff is legacy?
I think they're auto-killed at a certain number of flags, even without moderator intervention.
Mail clients suck

Exactly what I thought. I read through the article looking for the innovation, but it never appeared.

This seems to be just another mailclient with a bit of web 2.0 FUD thrown in for good measure.
1. hardware you own is in a separate legal category, and it's somewhat harder for j. random people to subpoena the contents of hard drives you own as opposed to ones you rent.

2. It's harder to exercise due diligence and appropriate care on machines whose very existence is hypothetical to you.

3. you can do things with hardware that are difficult if not impossible to do on commodity VPSen. Like dropping a couple of Cavium cards into a machine that's going to be doing high-volume row level cryptography in a transactional db. Tuning disk arrays for maximal performance, etc.

4. Audit controls are easier to implement if you control the datacenter.

All that said; if you aren't dealing with sensitive data and don't have any potential dependencies on special hardware, and are willing to live with the fact that anything you do out in the cloud is potentially visible to outside scrutiny and interference; go for it.
However, there seems to be a shortage of moderators.

The number of moderators has recently been increased.
The main gain with headers would be for comet like applications. In Mibbit/Meebo etc type applications you're sending a lot of small messages, interspersed with HTTP header spam. Often the data is smaller than the HTTP headers.

For gzip, I don't see an issue. The only change that would be needed would be for the gzip state to be saved between requests. For the browser, it would request object A, get the response, unzip it, display. Then it would request object B, unzip it using the previous gzip state, etc.

For the sender, likewise. So there would be no change in terms of timing. The only change would be that the gzip state would be carried over to the next request. (It's possible I'm remembering wrong and gzip can't do this - if so a different compression method that can be compressed/decompressed individually, but using a running shared dictionary/state would be needed).
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Use the "zap" bookmarklet, found here:

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Add it to your bookmarks toolbar, and any site you use it on will turn all text into black-on-white (in fact, it gets rid of most background colors and images), remove anything flash-based, links are changed to blue & underlined, etc.
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Although not applicable to me (one day!)...

If a pet project suddenly becomes popular and expands beyond it's indended users (bandwidth, resources) how would you handle it?

You need to move to a dedicated server, rewrite a portion, and somehow find the time and money (its a side project - you have a day job).

Also if it's a novel concept but not groundbreaking, how do you keep your user base when it's easy for someone else to capitilise your idea?

What are the options? Has this happened to anyone here?
Unconvinced. Isn't trying to get people to use a desktop mail application swimming against the tide? This isn't for outlook, so it obviously isn't targeted to enterprise. Will the unwashed masses pay for a mail client when so many free options are available? If not... advertising on a desktop app?

It might be the best thing since sliced bread, but picking desktop mail clients as a place to innovate seems dangerous to me.
More comments here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299061
Hard to believe this could be effective. My gait varies wildly depending on how tired I am, whether it's a hot day, and how much of a hurry I'm in. Aside from that, it just doesn't seem like a gait could contain enough data to distinguish one person out of any significant number.
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There really is no good way to tell if there were imaginary flashes. Once you get down to really dim (i.e. low photon count) flashes, you're in the realm of Poisson statistics. So, on average, a flash of light might have 4 photons in it, but it could easily have 1 or 7. Or 0!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
When i send in my funding application...
when i send in my funding application...
do you show it to anyone else except the employees of ycombinator. I just want to be sure that not everyone sees it.
Thanks, im currently working on my site, so will send in the application soon.
"You need to think differently when a company gets as big as VMware."

How many Googles do we need until this school of thought dies?
Ha, I was just coming to post that. On a related note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion
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fully agree. From one 40 year old hacker to another, C is a very meaningful and useful language. It is not a "premature optimization" for someone who really gets unix/linux.
I have built http://shellshadow.com with C and have been very happy with the decision to get "closer to the metal" from the beginning. My server processes are lean and mean. They don't crash for inexplicable reasons. When I have a bug, there are not many layers of technology to slug through.
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I was there last night. At the launch you could buy L£22 for £20. Local traders are offering incentives, such as discounts if you pay in L£.

It doesn't force anyone to spend their money locally, because you can always trade your L£ for sterling. It's more like a constant reminder and a helpful system for keeping money in the local economy.

Income in L£ is counted as sterling as far as the tax man is concerned. Stewart Wallis of the NEF mentioned a local currency scheme in Australia where the taxes could be paid in local currency. Of course when it came time to spend it it could only be spent locally. So they re-roofed the community centre.

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