skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be helpful to add an inline status alert (similar to those used by Twitter, Netflix, Basecamp, etc) in the actual dashboard when you're experiencing high demand.

I signed up yesterday afternoon and submitted a couple of requests and wasn't sure what to expect for turnaround time. If you are not currently completing requests as quickly as you normally would, it would be reassuring to trial members (and existing members) to receive a notice that things may take slightly longer than normal but you are indeed working hard to catch up with demand.
Support the team: why arguments about politics and baseball turn stupid very fast.
The phrase "It's good enough for government work" comes to mind.
Really? I speak Spanish so I have the inverse problem; my English pronunciation is funny.
Uhh, the documentary covers the the blow up of Russian bonds. If I remember correctly some economist says something like "first markets thought risk didn't exists, then they thought risk existed everywhere." That's the shortest most accurate description of most financial crises.

That's exactly what we're facing. Frank Raines told us these (sub-prime) loans were risk free. Now they are threatening the global financial system.

It's all about risk. See anything by Taleb: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
You might find the book a better resource. The book is about the transition from socialism to the free market. The documentary focuses on markets and market failures (it is after all PBS and they have their socialist donors to consider).
Meanwhile : http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/whos-profiting-crisis-...
I am once again reminded of the relationship between sophisticated and sophomoric and sophistry.
The Force Unleashed poder ter adaptação para os cinemas
Robot Chicken S03E20 - Chirlaxx
The latest Japanese commercial for a yeast infection cream needs a famous pitch-woman. The enemies of America are on the run as President Bush becomes
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I agree that having a lot of RAM is a good idea.

However, I also think you should make your swap space as large as possible--many times larger than RAM, if possible. Then, instead of having on-disk indexes, on-disk caches, and on-disk temporary files, have your applications cache everything in memory-resident data structures. The operating system will automatically swap stuff in and out as necessary. The better your operating system's VM, the better the performance will be. Save explicit disk usage for things that must be persistently stored like database tablespace files.
The chilling innocence, and organization, of (sea-faring) piracy
Do you want to turn the Chinese off to the concept for good?
RE: "Windows 2000 is inferior to NT4SP2"

Windows XP SP2 is basically the minimum version of Windows that you can use and expect a reasonable user experience. That includes the ability to install new (recently released) software. If you insist on old operating systems, then you should expect to run old applicatoins on them.
I agree that bankruptcy is not the answer. What I question is the $700 billion amount and the time frame in which the money will be used.

There is a lack of confidence that must be fixed. It seems like a smaller amount of money could be used to fix the confidence problem and get the "wheels of credit" turning again. There may also be a need to purchase some distressed securities. With confidence restored, it seems like financial institutions could step back into the picture to buy low and sell high.
Why attribute to corporate malice what can easily be explained by individual stupidity?
# No. This code:
@decorate
def foo(self):
frobnicate()

#is exactly equivalent to:
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http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role
> He was a very smart guy - but not much smarter a lot of people are today.

I had this long reply written but then I realized that there probably isn't a quantitative way to prove your statement wrong.

Given that, I would appreciate it, if you could explain your statement. I think most people would assume a man of his accomplishments would certainly be more than "not much smarter" than alot of people today are.
Sure, I don't mean to say anyone's being malicious here, I'm just saying, it's a shame to look at that graph and think "Oh wow what a big deal this is!" when really you're being shocked by the choice of y axis range.
Certain members of government certainly are, though I don't think you can say that the government as a whole is pursuing this.
I was taught Spanish in second grade (Sacramento district public school system) and can roll the R's just fine - I believe I was 6 or 7 at the time.
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this is pretty neat stuff.
So let me get this straight. You are in favor of using taxpayer money, from the pockets of people who are actually hurting or soon will be, to save the skin of the very people whose questionable practices got them into this mess?

What kind of fucked up priorities are those?
Blizzard to get $6 million from maker of WoW bot
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Background processing is a big win here.

I think I've probably dreamed up about a dozen cool iPhone apps and then smacking against the "dang, that would require background processing" wall.

I understand Apple's reasoning as far as wanting to manage resources carefully. The problem is that they've missed a huge part of the mobile user experience, which is having a device with you 24/7 that can respond without active user cues. (That's what a mobile phone is after all, in essence.)

Who knows, maybe this is the killer feature for Android. At a minimum, I hope it spurs Apple to deal with background processing instead of simply disallowing it.
jQuery(function ($) {
$('#someId').doSomething(); // blahblahblah
});

That's my preferred method of invoking jQuery. I get the convenient $() syntax without clobbering namespaces.
Fun reading - pre-meltdown Fannie/Freddie quotes
HP 2133 Mini-Note broken by own updates
It does bring up an interesting point though - what would it take to produce a computer that consisted of no harmful materials / chemicals, etc.? A computer made up of only natural materials that could be easily recycled?
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Not exactly saved... They just have until February to beg SoundExchange to not kill them.
"And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots."
Being a hardcore geek, I love running on top of a "unix" like environment. I should flock to Linux, but Mac OS X is just prettier, and more stable. I don't know better fonts maybe? For that reason, and I know it seems small, I prefer Mac. BTW. I only use emacs and Firefox most of the time anyway.
The title of this submission should be changed to that of the actual article:

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts
No, I favour using money, from wherever it is available, to save all our skins.
Thanks for this post. I am glad to see that we aren't going into bankruptcy any time soon.

Warren Buffett I feel knows money better than the teacher stuck up in a office somewhere.
Stumblejacking: the reason Stumbleupon 2.0 is a security risk.
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Plus, you're ignoring the fact that there is a credit (which can be thought of as an exemption), which is different year-to-year, but not less than $1,000,000. I don't feel like going through all the details, but you can easily research this.

People need to read up on this stuff. There is a ton of FUD surrounding this issue.
What will happen when Clock Speeds stop increasing?
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Given your current position, this is really sound advice. The team behind Bioshock was innovative, relatively small, and they made an incredible impact on the gaming world.

As many before me have said, it's better to start a start up when the opportunity and market timing are right, not when your timing is right. In the mean time, working with a bunch of performers with a proven track record isn't a bad alternative.
Every time I read something like this, I'm reminded of the Freudian idea that all we do in life is in pursuit of sexual ends.
They've always believed in both, depending on which you ask.
Honda's new Insight: High-tech cost-cutting led to a $18,500 Prius competitor
It kinda has come up a few times if you care to google. The thing is, I don't think much ILLEGAL has gone on. Just ... questionable. Nothing strictly wrong with that, but it sort of flies in the face of all the nauseating buffet fawning.

Tax avoidance is almost the bread and butter of international property and casualty. They help multi-nationals repatriate earnings in low tax countries. Nothing ILLEGAL about that... just something the sycophants probably don't realize.
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I don't mean this as a personal criticism (and I agree with the sentiment), but I think the best way to help with this is probably to submit interesting things and crowd out the political news.

(Of course, nobody else seemed very interested in the links I submitted yesterday about the implementation of the Lua VM or JIT compiler, but it was worth a try.)
I took Spanish all through High School and never managed to get the roll down. Then in my early thirties I was challenged by a friend and in about a week it finally clicked. The problem is, I find it very hard to keep up without practice and it is never flows out naturally.
While I hate the farmers and other low-lifes using the app, I can't agree with the decision.
Ballmer recommends separating iPhone hardware and software
I've heard that if you don't learn by age 3 you can't

Nonsense. I learned to do it long after I was 3.

This might help: put your tongue (but not the tip) just above your teeth, let it relax, then blow air out so your tongue flutters.
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Ask YC: Feedback about one of our service, LLOOGG
Something like one year ago I wrote http://lloogg.com in few days. It started like an hack to have a "web 2.0 tail -f access.log" but then I started to add features and wrote a little "PRO" account with adsense tracking, a bigger history, and so on. The result was an invite-only real time traffic analysis tool with something like 1200 users currently.

The problem was that we lack a solid business model, so after one year the service is provided in a best effort way. When we did it one year ago the feedback were "It is cool", but now the question is: is LLOOGG still something we could try to invest on? Or it's just plain better to sell it to interested companies here in Italy (there are a few) for not too much money?

Your feedback will be appreciated. Note that in order to post this here the registration is open for the next couple of days, to get started is as simple as paste a bit of javascript on your site/blog html.

Thank you very much,
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> the iPhone bashing is getting rather tedious

After reading the article twice, I couldn't find a single thing that even approached iPhone "bashing". The only thing that even came close was posted in the title, and even that was just a simple statement of fact with no malice intended as are as I can tell.
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Ask HN: review Thymer, our new todo and time tracking web app
We're a startup that has had huge productivity problems. No need to go into details, but we tried lots of productivity software out there. We didn't like them. Too complicated. Too ugly. Or it took too much effort to put in new todos or a planning. So we went back to notepad, and that didn't work either. Notepad doesn't scale for teams.

So, as a side-project, we started working on a todo and planning app for internal use. It made a huge difference for us, because we can now see exactly who's doing what. Fewer meetings are necessary and life is good again. And if we like the web app, there must be others who like it too. So here we are.

We put together a screencast on our blog, to show you how it works. Is this something you would use? Something you might pay for? Any feedback is welcome!

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Thanks!
If you were a hardcore geek you'd try and find a BeBox :P

http://www.josephpalmer.com/BeBox/BeBox.shtml
I think most people would assume a man of his accomplishments would certainly be more than "not much smarter" than alot of people today are.

Einstein is commonly claimed to have had a +4 sigma g-strength (IQ of 160, on typical scales). Even assuming a normal curve, rather than the more-popularly-believed fat-tails curve, that would leave millions of people today with higher g-strengths than Einstein had.

.

Arthur Jensen writes:

Creativity and genius are unrelated to g except that a person's level of g acts as a threshold variable below which socially significant forms of creativity are highly improbable. This g threshold is probably at least one standard deviation above the mean level of g in the general population. Besides the traits that Galton though necessary for "eminence" (viz., high ability, zeal, and persistence), genius implies outstanding creativity as well. Thouhj such exceptional creativity is conspicuously lacking in the vast majority of people who have a high IQ, it is probably impossible to find any creative geniuses with low IQ's. In other words, high ability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the emergence of socially siginificant creativity. Genius itself should not be confused with merely high IQ, which is what we generally mean by the term "gifted" (which also applies to special talents such as music and art). True creativity involves more than just high ability. It is still uncertain what this is, but the most interesting theory I have seen spelled out in detail is Eysenck's. He hypothesizes that the essential personality factor in creative genius is what he terms trait psychoticism, which has a genetic basis and is explainanble in part in terms of brain chemistry and physiology. (The g Factor. Ch14, The g Nexus. pp577-578.)

This is Eysenck's book:

http://www.google.com/search?q=eysenck+genius
Ruby and Python are both great choices like everyone has said. However be warned! It may make you quit your enterprise software job. Once you move to a dynamic language you will become increasingly frustrated with the inadequacies of the Java language. Eventually you'll want to work with Ruby/Python/etc so much that it will make you quit your job....and move on to something, possibly, better. :)
Just curious: so has anyone tried running Haiku, AmigaOS or some other non-mainstream, non-UNIX-based OS on their Mac laptops?
Ryan, thanks for the mention! I'd love to hear any comments you have about Clarity Accounting - we're working hard to connect with our customers and make it the best it can be.

If your comment is that it is also "mediocre" then so be it :)

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Thank you for this Link!!!!

It is a huge amount of information that I really need. Thank you.

(coming from a guy who also wants to start up a business)

Thank you.
The hypothesis that best describes the origin of HIV is outlined in an extensive book by Edward Hooper, titled "The River", and originally laid out in a Rolling Stone article (of all places) by Tom Curtis.

This "new" evidence is consistent with that theory.
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The concept is pretty cool, but the target audience may be problematic. People must be tech savvy enough to be able to read and understand log files. But I don't think you can really compete with the power of a console with grep, so that may be where you get stuck.

Is it for web developers, sys admins, or regular joes with a website?
Sure that makes sense, but many experts will tell you that purchasing all the bad paper will not save the banks.

We still get a depression AND we've spent 700 billion.

The better alternative is to pick a few winners, re-capitalize them, and let everyone else fail. That's both cheaper and more likely to succeed.
In my opinion bankruptcy would be a good solution, if those who made wrong decisions went bankrupt. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to limit the bankruptcies to to just those companies.

An interesting question is to what extent counterparties are responsible for the bad decisions of their trading partners. I think they are responsible to some degree, because they should and could have checked the credit worthiness of their opposites.

But as the chain of counterparties gets longer, there is just no visibility as to the risks you are exposed to. And at that point it becomes a systemic question. That's the point where the government has to come in and stop things, or even better, not inflate a credit bubble to begin with.
I encourage you to not use an unnecessarily aggressive tone when posting ;)
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Clickable link - http://stunf.com/blog/
The fact that MS is keeping Windows 2000 on life support does not mean anyone else should waste their time to support that platform. Running ancient operating systems should come with the expectation of not being able to use new software.
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Sounds like Microsoft's version of GWT (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/) only with C# instead of Java. I've just never understood why people find JavaScript so bad that they'd put another layer between them and what's running in the browser.
By "the app" do you mean WoW? or the bot? ;)
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As far as the development of ideas goes I agree with you. But what you state above is not what comes through in your blog post. But then again I am but one sample from your readership.

Regarding your last question here are some things you could say without revealing much while providing valuable insights:

1) we will differentiate ourselves by hiring k top scientists and attacking the problem algorithmically something that hasn't been done been before (or we'll hire k top marketers, you get it)

2) we will provide the service for free in a market where everyone charges for subscriptions (or the other way around, doesn't matter)

3) we will be able to charge less because we have identified this and that way to be more efficient.

4) we have xyz superstar coder/designer/etc in our team.

I could go on. But the point here is dual really: not only you are giving people more info about what you are doing (without revealing much) but you are also telling them you've done your homework (market research, etc).

Regarding the 20 reasons you are doing it this way, yes, I realize there are reasons (marketing is probably #1, great story to tell) but again I think you will benefit from explaining. What I am trying to convey is that there is a positive correlation between the effort you are perceived having put into this thing and the confidence/money you'll get.
You might overestimate how much the of that taxpayer money comes from the poor people who are suffering. Some of these bank executives we love to hate might pay more taxes in a year than the average american pays during a lifetime.
jd: the target audiences are two, people with a blog (it is very easy to get addicted to see visits in real time) and people that want seriously optimize the site structure, we have many users that reported that using lloogg to see how single users navigate their site resulted in changes that improved sells, registrations, and so on.

Btw note that even if the original idea comes from tail -f access.log the site is designed to show visits in order to be readable by non-tech people.

Thank you very much for your feedbacks.

p.s. About "grep" we are implementing filters to do similar things visually.
Chinese savvy programmers use encryption tools and I have not heard of them being "visited" by officials. Its not a big problem. Censorship is a numbers game. It doesn't matter much if highly educated tech savvy people have access to info. The government isn't concerned with what this sub group reads. They do care what they say ;).
If the government as a whole could pursue anything, we'd all be screwed.
Just for note google used to pay 1-3 cents per a search sent its way from any site (I used a homestead page) to get me $300-500 checks /mo during highschool.

(from the new 2001 index)
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I've heard someone explain to me that it's kind of like a flag fluttering in the wind. Except that your tongue is the flag. He recommended that I try to stick the tip of my tongue to the roof of my mouth and blow out hard - and resist the outward pressure (and the tongue will flutter back rapidly like a flag - the Spanish R vibration) - and once I got that, with time, the amount of pressure needed would relax.
he says that only the govt can buy lots of stuff right now, private companies all need to back off.

but we saw an article here yesterday saying he just invested 8 billion in GE and something else.

contradiction?