skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most clients don't understand the R2D2 talk. They understand money, features, bugs, and downtime. So I've always explained it like so:

Uptime beyond 95% costs lots and lots of money. Magnitudes of order of more money. It requires redundant equipment, engineering all of the automatic failovers at every layer, lots of monitoring, and 24/7 technical staff to watch everything like a hawk. Not ... in ... your ... budget.

... or you could rest in the comfort of knowing that services like Twitter have achieved mammoth success despite long and embarrassing outages. I thought you might you see it that way. Good choice.
What do you mean by point 2? Unless you don't plan on doing any I/O, you can't write purely functional code in JS. Not that you can in Lisp either...
He is relying on the time estimate the windows copy dialog is providing. Those estimates are about as reliable as horoscopes.

Show me the same effect with actual timed runs. If it still shows that effect then it'll be interesting.
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Use http://recurly.com with http://WireCard.com/ as Gateway.

Works fine in the EU!

(WireCard AG is a German based credit card gateway owning a "full" bank license. It's also a public traded company regulated by strict German banking regulations)
I use gitosis, and it's very simple to set up and manage. It doesn't feel like overkill at all.
* javascript (separate and in addition to jQuery)
* HTML 5 best practices (separate style from content from JS & all that)
* CSS3 and all the fancy gradients and box shadows (in addition to regular CSS)
* single page apps (all driven by changes the #fragment)
* realtime apps using Node & something like http://nowjs.com/
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So everything's on the level, I should probably mention that I've downvoted just about everything you've said in this thread except this post, which strikes my curiosity.

Would you consider meditation equally as pointless as dropping acid? How about worshiping a God, or Gods? Sitting alone in a park? Writing a journal? Looking through a yearbook or perhaps a photo album? Are these things all pointless in your mind as well?
the mysql is crashing under the strain placed on the site. Time to take it a few notches up in technology used, no?
(nosql, etc.)

Interesting site btw, good work.
But what is so difficult to make it available in Europe? I don't really grasp what the problems are. And is there any way we Europeans can help, besides saying that we want to use your service.
See my post above for the full explanation but http://SocialBlade.com/youtube has more or less accurate ranges.
that is madness. I can't imagine how someone can only have 3 hours a week. Are you working 3 jobs? Also thinking that a game to market will take 150 hours. I have gotten games to market in 13 hours. And they have sold.

Good luck though, I hope it works out.
Yes, OS X got this very right. It's really nice when some big library gets upgraded I don't have to worry that half the applications of my system have to be simultaneously upgraded.
Personally, I believe psychedelics produce emotional hallucinations as well as visual/auditory.
Trust me, I noticed. I've been getting 10+ new followers every hour for the past week. Crazy. Need to find a way to keep S/N ratio up.
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There are a lot of different terms that researchers in the field use: psychedelic (mind manifesting), hallucinogen, psychotomimetic (psychosis mimicking), and entheogen (god manifesting) are the main ones. Normally which one you use depends on:

- who you're writing for
- what aspect of the drug experience you're trying to emphasize

In Griffith's study he uses the term hallucinogen, most likely just to expedite IRB/FDA/DEA approval. In general though the preferred term seems to be entheogen now at least for conversational purposes, because people find it less objectionable than hallucinogen or psychedelic for obvious reasons, and it also tends to be a good conversation starter for people who haven't heard the term before. The downside is that while most atheists seem not to be bothered by the term, a few are. And it's not always appropriate, e.g. it wouldn't make sense when dosing rats with LSD or whatever.
A (garishly coloured) reference: http://www.lococarriage.org.uk/66minute.htm

I've actually had quite good experiences claiming ticket credits or total refunds for some long-distance UK train journeys. I can't find the exact terms, and they potentially vary per-operator, but it's around 50% refund for up to 30 minutes delay, and a full ticket cost refund if it's >60 minutes. A couple of times, I've had a trip delayed by 50-59 minutes. I suspect this isn't a coincidence.
In what way did it accomplish this? The style Node has chosen for modeling concurrency is decades old. Twisted has been using it since the late 90's. So JS doesn't have a standard library? Who cares? You still have to write one for your event-loop, which is what you had to do in Twisted. I don't see any rethinking going on, I see steps backwards.
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Both, some partners have external syndication or promotion deals. A lot of partners are now using services like Blip.tv and Revision3 alongside Youtube. Other's sell products, do advertising and other things on the side, all because they are popular on Youtube, but not related to their viewcount (Rhett & Link is a good example, they now have a successful TV show). Some have lower CPC/CPV values due to their audience and content. Some don't even use adds. This report was put together under the logic of "The average CPV is $0.001 so every 1k views = $1", rather than doing any actual research
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There's no market for TouchPad software. Those customers just bought TouchPads because they were cheap, not because they want to use them regularly (like iPad and probably Kindle Fire). If TouchPad wasn't $99, they couldn't even sell 25,000 of them. They sold 1M by losing money and going out of business, not by creating an ecosystem which can 'trap' customers (and make them buy their future products just because their apps and music works only on that device) like what Apple and Amazon do.
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Not of the top of my head, if you look back far enough through @PhillyD's twitter feed you'll probably see him ranting about how he doesn't make anywhere near that much.
If web authors don't use the feature, should it be in the standard at all?
So 100% uptime is really difficult to achieve, hardware wise. Software wise you'll have to prove that there are no bugs in the system that might bring it down. That is much, much, harder.

You can have 100 servers in 100 different countries and have the client automatically change to another server if the one they are connected to goes down. But if there is a software bug that crashes all your clients on start-up, or worse, crashes all your servers (think what happened to Skype not long ago).

Also, never underestimate bugs in hardware (pentium 1). You'll need multiple locations, multiple hardware, multiple operating systems, multiple compilers, multiple versions of the software.... Standardizing on one of these components may bring down your entire system!
Your 'could' may be the difference between MS continuing its dominance or falling into obscurity. Right now they're heading down the wrong path. They're not lacking quality engineers but leadership. Some leaders are great as innovators and some are good at keeping the ship afloat. Ballmer is obviously the latter.

The engineers at MS have shown their talent. Metro is absolutely stunning. What they need is the proper leadership to push this company in the right direction and deliver the right message.
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A good line from this one, "The progress bar is moving but the remaining time is going up!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM
"the IO system is pretty bad"

really? can you provide some analysis here? I've done a bit of hacking on I/O layer stuff in both linux and NT and I haven't seen anything that would lead to that conclusion ...
Thanks, that's a useful site. An order of magnitude range for the earnings estimates is quite large. Can you not narrow that down using ad type data?
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Is this chrome? Did you try it on other browsers?
I looked into Chronopay, it seems a bit shady. Their co-founder was arrested recently too http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/06/chronopay-co-founder-arre...
I'm not sure I understand the PCI implications of using the API. If I use the Create a New Charge example on the homepage in my code, aren't the credit card details going through my server?

*Edit: Nevermind. After reading through the API, I learned you can use a token instead of the card details.
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I like Gitolite, it has more fine grained permission control and is pretty simple to get up and running.
Every time there's a post on HN about a new business that's the new hotness but which is not available outside the US, there are a bunch of posts asking why. Here are some possible answers:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3027066

Another way of looking at it is that by creating the [insert country here] clone of [insert cool service here], you could probably start a niche business pretty quickly by serving the need unmet by the service you're cloning. This worked great for LoveFilm in the UK, who cloned Netflix.
Doesn't addblock just blocks the adds so you don't see it, but you are still being tracked?
You don't even have to do that. You can replace init with whatever you want and you'll never see a login prompt.
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I'm not sure why people expect software beyond Solitaire, Pidgin or Thunderbird to be any easier to configure or maintain than, say, changing the spark plugs in your car.

Or harder yet, diagnosing the issue as the spark plugs to begin with. Cars have been around for a hundred years and they can still present a challenge to even highly skilled and trained mechanics.

Manage your expectations when you try to do something you aren't an expert in and you won't be disappointed.
The Shuttle had to have a lot of design compromises to get the political support needed for funding the program. NASA didn't have any need to haul satellites into polar orbit, but the Air Force thought that it might be useful so the Shuttle ended up having far more payload space and delta-V than it needed for the missions NASA ran. Of course, most of those excess capabilities ended up not ever being used except for the repair of the Hubble, but they made the Shuttle far more expensive and less reliable.
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Thanks a lot for posting this series Chris. As a young developer just out of college and getting started in iOS development, this is extremely insightful. I'll be following on tumblr. Good luck!
This is where I find this train of thought becomes so unenlightened and bogs down in hedonism. There is no such thing as "your life" seperate or distinct from the lives of other people and certainly not something over which you can claim as a possession.
Something I've been wondering about this style of hiring and more generally promotion of a business — does it only work for technology companies that primarily serve geeks and early adopters?

Or to put it another way, can you get good employees and exposure by writing about technology if you make factory management software? Or should you be writing about the management of factories?
I say only vaguely because what you want to use may or may not have any correlation with what people want to buy, and it is extremely risky to assume that correlation exists.

just because you're working on something you're passionate about doesn't immediately mean you're bound for success; it just helps tremendously.

It helps immensely (in fact, if you don't have that, you are doing it wrong, IMO :), as long as you don't let your passion get in the way of figuring out what your customer wants.

Like I said, dev tools are a special breed that have more wiggle room for this, but as my experience shows, it is not immune from failure (in fact, developers are notoriously cheap because there are so many good, free dev tools out there, but I bet developers aren't your primary customer, but rather their managers).

My response can be summed up in one sentence: with all startup advice, beware survivor bias!
The total lack of detail here is completely uninteresting. Look up bigdog and you cam see tons of cool articles and better videos. BigDog was an awesome prototype but not ready for prime time. I was hoping to see whether they solved the major noise issues that essentially made earlier prototypes unusable. In the military, if you are going through rugged terrain, it's very common that you are doing so for stealth reasons. Earlier versions of BigDog wouldn't allow for this.
I think the big sticking point here (outside of the fact that most opponents of anonymity have something to gain by knowing our real identity) is that we put too much emphasis on "paying dues". We're used to having a "platform" (TV, radio, magazines, etc), and only the "best" people having access to that "platform", access being granted because of a long CV of past accomplishments. It is important to know that because you are right once, you aren't always right; people can get undeserved respect in this situation.

Now, with the Internet, everyone has a "platform". Everyone has ideas, and some of these ideas are good, despite them coming from unknown people. Steve Jobs still had a knack for design and business savvy before founding Apple, right? But we wouldn't know that. No one wants to filter through everything and think for themselves (the gatekeepers of the "platform" used to do that for us). We want to be able to point to a name and say "I agree with that person, because that person is great." How many stories get posted on HN just because of who wrote them? ahem Would HN care if someone else had said the same exact thing as Moot? Or is this just a gossip site and we only care what our celebrities have to say?

Anonymity puts everyone on a level playing field, and thus we actually have to evaluate everyone's ideas and think for ourselves which ones are good and which aren't - and there are too many out there to count because everyone has access to this "platform". We shouldn't care about who writes comments, we should care about the diamonds in the rough, because a good idea or a good comment is good, no matter who says it.
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Probably the number of countries in Europe, each of which has a slightly different banking system (never mind the general legal system or language). If I recall correctly, a lot of web services in general aren't even easily accessible for Canadians.

I'm not quite sure about the rest of Europe, but payment options in Germany are generally quite different. Credit cards are getting more popular, but most transactions are done via direct bank transfer, often via a debit card. Wasn't that popular in the US, at least where I worked.
So if you're selling something, just working out a deal with Visa and MasterCard isn't enough, as a lot of people won't be able to pay that way. Some web shops here have a huge amount of different payment options, credit cards, direct transfer (via a number of different companies), mobile phone payment (yuck), paypal etc.

European startups would be more used to it, but start with a smaller original userbase, and thus less money available to expand.
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The accompanying blog post is also worth a look: http://macwright.org/2011/10/30/voronoi-polygons.html
Been using Stripe for Taskforce for a few months now. Stellar API, stellar service.
this would be interesting behavior to really dig-in and investigate (in all of my spare time, of course).

NT is a lot like linux (no, really), external hard drives and flash drives are represented as SCSI drives exactly like local SATA disks (think /dev/sda for your root and /dev/sdd for your thumb drive).

the big difference is in the cache manager. windows recognizes that "surprise removals" of thumb drives is a lot more likely than "surprise removals" of fixed disks and it adjusts the aggressiveness of the cache manager accordingly (this is controlled via "device properties->policies" from the device manager).

in the client case (copying something onto your flash drive from a CIFS server) there shouldn't be any difference to the FS/IO stack than copying it from your desktop via explorer. the server case is a little different, srv.sys does writes a little differently than usermode clients, but...
That's not a bad idea. Possibly in the future I'll see if I can incorporate this into the estimates but remember its also again based largely on the location of ones viewers. If you're from the US and your viewing audience is 99% from Canada you'll have a lower payout then the opposite. Same is even more dramatic with other countries. That type of data I'm not able to get.

[Edit] As a general rule of thumb though, the higher up partners are generally making closer to the higher range, and the lower end ones are making closer to the lower end of the range.
Rules of Business: If there is a market in Europe, some european copy cat will fill the gap if the US based company is too slow.
Saying that you want to use our service helps us know that it is worth our while, yes... but in terms of issues, there are a few things:

The overarching theme is that the payments industry is much more complicated than it seems to the layman. There are a ton of players that you have to interact with, and they are a different set from country to country.

The payment systems are surprisingly different on the backend in each country. The US is large enough where it makes sense for us to create integrations into all of the different backends to work with all banks/processors. To do it in smaller countries might not make as much sense. We have to tread carefully because we need to ensure that our partners are great. That is something we can do in the US because our partners are a known quantity. Not the case for us abroad.

We also want to be able to provide adequate support. There is even a timezone hurdle. We provide phone support and it would suck to get calls at night.

Another part is just honestly the US market is so large and we still have room to grow here and add awesomeness that it is hard to prioritize going somewhere else. That being said, we are pursuing it because there is OBVIOUSLY a huge need there. We are still in beta so we're still working on the core product. Simultaneously we're working out a solution for the EU (difficult) and Canada (not as difficult).

Other issues include taxes, currency and currency risk, taking payments, etc. There's a lot to think about there. We really want to do it, but to do it right requires a lot of thought, and we just haven't done it yet.

If you have connections to folks that can help, please drop me a line (email in profile)

BTW, if you are interested in geeking out about how processing works (in the US), here's an ebook: http://feefighters.com/ebooks/what-is-credit-card-processing...
This problem is too easy to weed out the good hackers from the bad. Solving it doesn't show that the coder is willing to go the extra mile for your company nor does it show that the coder is any good. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

This company probably thought that since other companies have these types of hoops in place, they need to also have them in order to look legit.
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I run WinUAE and a copy of ClassicWB ADV in the background while at work. Often I'm listening to mods downloaded from Aminet. The Amiga had a great music scene. I keep an AmigaShell open and edit C code in Vim and compile it using SAS/C. I plan to do some 68000 assembly. Like Attic Greek, Amiga 3.X is a dead and a stable platform to develop for. The "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual" and the "Amiga Guru Book" have very detailed information for would-be Amiga programmers.

Having never grown up with an Amiga, this hobby can not be attributed to nostalgia. The Amiga has a damn fine UI and a nice DOS environment. Netsurf has recently been ported to it, so it now has a decent browser, though it is only practical in emulation or until Natami comes out.

I never got into AmigaOS 4.X or MorphOS. It would be great if the source for 3.X were opened
Apparently you still need to set and validate your email address in order to comment using OpenID. Stupid policy.
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I don't think they will make phones or even continue webOS. I have a feeling that this is a talent acquisition and they will use it to improve the Kindle Fire.
Can I upvote this 10 times?
What about Avangate (www.avangate.com)? I don't know too much about them, so I am not sure if they are what you're looking for.
I think he meant he doesn't pay himself that much. Last I heard, he was paying himself a salary and ~6 or so other people that are working on a company he is launching.
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Well, sexuality isn't the worst analogy one could make with drug use. Like sexual experience, psychedelic experience can be life alteringly profound and positive but is almost universally unprofound and vulgar when put into words. I enjoyed the parent's story both for it's entertainment and because I related to his experience.

I'm an avid reader, but experiences of these natures absolutely cannot be replicated with a book. I've never seen someone walk differently after reading a book the way someone walks different the day they've slept with a new lover. Likewise, it's impossible for prose to attempt to do what drugs and sexuality do - subtly suspend many of our basic assumptions simultaneously and thereby direct our attention to many fundamental blindspots in our thinking and experience.

Be careful - thinking that only well articulated sentences are the only valid form of intellectual stimulation is something of a logical fallacy common among brainy people.
Quick question: I thought that vaccines were supposed to be a problem for HIV. They trigger the immune system response which quite literally forces the food of the HIV virus to come to it faster. Vaccines were supposed to speed up the rate of infection. That was supposed to be the paradox of HIV. So question is, is this vaccine really news or just another one of these? Sorry I am not that well versed in this sort of topic.
Much more than a million.
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Could you elaborate on that for the rest of us? I'd like to hear what you have to say.
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It seems the underlying message is "I want/need to hire more people. If you're interested, get moving!"