skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are probably a couple of reasons:

1. The total number of startups is going to be lesser due to redtape although I believe that is becoming less of an issue as time goes on.

2. It is probably perceived to be more lucrative to target the American market. I would think that a larger proportion of the ~ 120M internet users in India would be similar (young urban professional) and therefore easier to release products compared to the general public (cultural variations and interests make it harder to disrupt outside the cities).
No comments yet about how government agencies don't like being made to look like fools? Nothing about how the FBI seized his computer for pointing out a flaw that makes the millions spent on homeland security look like a gigantic waste?
Yeah, I just now realized that choices are not very cleverly made. I just expected(haha) that everyone sleeps pretty much as me (maybe I was trying to justify my sleep hours..?).

But now, probably, I should not change choices as there are plenty of votes. Sorry for that.
LinkPeek.com == web scale

It could get expensive but we did hours of research when developing this solution so that it will scale and keep costs down.
I think that's great, but it's just not the same as Free.
The term is 'canon'.
Yeah, I am a CS student too... Hope after finishing my degree I will get enough sleep.
Build and install a scaled out application. Multiple AWS instances in a load balanced configuration. Use small instances to purposely bottleneck the available resource pool.

Use something like Blitz.io to beat the hell out of the application. This is your baseline

Use performance monitoring and optimization tools to improve the architecture and application. Go through each layer of the application to see where the biggest gains can be found. Also look/test for data consistency.

Rinse and repeat with blitz.io.

Also, test how well the architecture responds to various types of server failures.

And make sure you test a viable backup process as well.

Lastly, once you have a nice, performant architecture, increase system resources both up (more resources per server) and out (more servers) to see how well the system actually scales. :)
On the Eclipse side, I've been using viPlugin[1]. It is not free, but I've felt like it has been worth the cost since my forays into vim had all failed before getting this plugin. If you're working heavily with Eclipse/VS, it is definitely jarring to switch back and forth between one of those and vim, but using a plugin like this eases that pain.

[1] http://www.viplugin.com/viplugin/
This article is factually incorrect on a big point: airports are NOT using millimeter wave scans (X-ray) as a secondary scanning measure like the article indictes; they are used as the primary security scanning measure, at leat at SFO and DTW (I know because I've opted out of both).
Very nice & all, but... MongoDB?

MongoDB is very popular, but all the (limited) criticisms of it seem to related to insert performance once the dataset it too big to fit in RAM.

Normally the easy-of-development arguments make up for that, but log files is one of those areas that has a tendency to expand quickly beyond any expectations.

There is a reason why most companies are using HDFS and/or Cassandra for structured log file storage.
A few years ago there were a large number of Indian startup trying to become the youtube or facebook of India. Because almost all the internet users in India are also English savy, they found that the youtube of India is youtube unlike say youku in China. Doing a consumer web startup in India is very difficult as you end up competing with far more mature SV startups who have almost limitless resources. Companies with a uniquely local twist like Flipkart or Burrp have had more success.
1. Believe that you DON'T need the funding to build a big business. The belief will help you ACT like you don't.

2. The wrong way to look at these meetings is as an opportunity for you to pitch for money to a VC.

3. The right way to look at these meetings is as an opportunity for a VC to pitch for a startup which will make him lots of money (see Rule no.1)

4. Almost all funding decisions will get made within the first 15 minutes of your meeting - this will be apparent in hindsight but you will get better at this over time. The trick is to say 'Next' when they so 'No' without wasting too much time.

5. For the best results establish your credentials before meeting the VC - probably by having a strong reference vouch for you/your work before the meeting. (Note: Not all 'contacts' are 'references' and you will need to discriminate to make this work)
The desktop site is perfectly usable with some zooming in to hit the vote buttons. That's a hell of a lot more compatible than half the sites with "mobile" interfaces that look fancy but have terrible usability.

(I've complained about some of these on HN before, but a particulary bad offender is that blog theme that lets mobile users swipe left or right to go to the previous or next blog post. Aside from being undiscoverable, ugly (since the swiping entirely misses the point of iOS's UI, acting only after a swipe has been completed rather than smoothly tracking the finger with an interface element-- Google Images also has this problem) and useless (who wants to skip to the previous or next blog entry in the middle of reading the current one?), this feature always catches my not-quite-vertical swipes and tries to take me off the page while I'm reading!

Of course this doesn't have anything to do with Hacker News, but I think it's the mindset that adding a mobile site is solving a compatibility issue, thus always an improvement over inaction, that's responsible for the vast number of crappy mobile sites out there.)
I experimented with polyphasic sleeping a couple summers ago. I wouldn't recommend it if your only interest is to maximize productivity. However, sleep deprivation and radical sleep patterns change your perspective and state of mind, and for that reason it's a cool experiment.
Totally fair point--the fellow I recently talked to is completely an instance of that bias.

For sure, there's nothing statistically significant about my few experiences: I have only observations of some of the shortcomings that are quite real.
In these situations I tend to remember the advice from the Dallas Cowboys old coach Tom Landry, I believe it went something like this: "When you score a touchdown, don't do a big celebration. Act like this is what you expected to happen, and you've been here before so it's no big deal".
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Thanks for pointing that out. I did not know such a service existed. Having said that, we are planning to concentrate on a smaller segment, most probably games. This will help with the number of reviewers we can attract, retain and the amount of time they spend with the app/game.

You also bring up an excellent point of providing free publicity - we hadn't given that serious thought. We could profile each app that is submitted on our site and quote user reviews, but the challenge would be to make the site/blog an attractive destination for real Android market users.
The real point:

1) if you want to program in "gnu", run unx, and if you want Windows as your host OS, run virtualization;
(yes, you need 8G, yes, you should have an SSD, if you don't, buy a new laptop for $700 and run linux native)

2) if you want a better command line, There's lighter weight ways like
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
... and a set of binaries I found 5 years ago that seem to have vanished, works OK for me.
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I just tried gnome-shell and so far I liked it. With xorg-edgers ppa and bleeding nouveau drivers, it is smooth and fast on my aging laptop.

Granted, I spend most of my time in terminal and use GUI to launch Chrome, Thunderbird and GIMP (mostly via Alt-F1 and typing name of app), but still, I like it so far.

On a new laptop I plan to try again KDE (after 1 year working in gnome) just to see how far it went, but I strongly advise anyone on Ubuntu 11.10 at least try gnome-shell - it is so easy, so you will not waste much time if you not like it.
Car-as-a-service. Nice.
Not dumb at all! It's a common shorthand around here because in vim (and presumably other text editors) that is the syntax for replacing strings - in this case, replace "webkit" with "moz". It was a useless comment on my part. What I meant (and should have said) is that merely removing the vendor prefix "webkit" wouldn't make it work with Mozilla, but replacing it with "moz" probably would. (I'm not certain about the details of Mozilla's feature parity with Webkit when it comes to CSS animations but I suspect they are almost equal.)
> Find cube root of 0.0093 to five places of decimals

Nice, reminds me of

> Find 7th root of 0.9999 to four places of decimals

:)
fluentd's greatest advantage is, it's written in Ruby. So, it's really easy to write the plugin for any datastores.

This is HDFS (Hoop, the HDFS REST gateway) plugin.

* https://github.com/tagomoris/fluent-plugin-hoop

And also, Cassandra plugin are now in under development.

* https://github.com/tomitakazutaka/fluent-plugin-cassandra

You can see the user contributed plugin list here.

* https://github.com/tomitakazutaka/fluent-plugin-cassandra
There was also a heavy emphasis on a particular subset of history that made up "classical" studies.

Besides the river questions, the history and geography questions were about ancient Greece and Rome.

There was nothing, for example, on medieval or renaissance history. I suspect that a comparable modern student would have a broader understanding of ancient history than what was shown on this test.
Nobody tries to force something like that on you, they simply point out (un)healthy aspects and leave you to you own decisions.
From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be

Really?! You're looking inside my fucking car! Without a warrant! That's what the objection is. Do these people hear themselves speak? First you put cameras everywhere I exist, then I go through your metal detector, get patted down, submit to a body scan, have my conversations recorded (sometimes), my cell sends all my keystrokes, Facebook advertises my phone number, bots crawl to get my email, and I'm basically reachable 24/7 even if I turn my electronics off. Then you roll out the roving x-ray machines on wheels and tell me I shouldn't object? Nuh uh. Enough's enough. I basically have to live in a cave to avoid being tracked but even caves barely cut it these days.

Living in the US you get used to having no privacy and for the most part I've never really cared. I always figured that if you're doing nothing wrong there's no problem. But then I notice that every time I shrug something like this off they come out with something just tad more invasive. Maybe this is my personal epiphany, the point where I turn and say "hey, this stuff isn't cool anymore". I now see that if you give an inch they take a mile. I'm switching sides. I'm on the privacy nut side now.
It depends... 3-6 hours or 8-11 depending on if I took my sleeping pills or not.
as hoop suggested, it can parse Apache's combined format :-) And the contribution is welcome!
3-4 hour a night people (all 4 of you(•)): what the heck? For how long have you slept this little? Is that natural, or are you pushing yourself (for some reason)? Do you feel awake right now, or has reality become some sort of weird half-awake, half-asleep fantasia?

(•)as of this writing
There's an old saying attributed to Michael A. Jackson (no, not that Michael Jackson):

The First and Second Rules of Program Optimisation

1. Don’t do it.
2. (For experts only!): Don’t do it yet.

Scaling is similar. If you worry about scaling before you're at scale, you're almost certain to spend most of your effort fixing things that won't actually turn out to be bottlenecks. So, as a few other posters have said, wait until you have scale problems and then address them.

A safer variant of this make a copy of your system and hit with with a simulated load. However, it's hard to do this in a usefully realistic way. Usually, you'll be launching at small scale and growing gradually. In such situations, it's best to launch, observe actual traffic patterns, and model your simulated load on that. To recap:

1. Build your application, following rule 1 (don't worry about scale).

2. Launch.

3. Observe your actual traffic, and use it to build a realistic load generator. (Depending on your application, you may be able to simply grab a day's worth of logs and replay them at high speed.)

4. Run a copy of your system and hit it with 10x your actual load. See what breaks; fix; repeat.

That said, here's one tip that will help a lot. A stateless system is easy to scale -- just run more copies of it. Of course, most interesting systems aren't stateless. But often you can push the state into a database. Then you're writing a stateless server that sits on top of a database. Now your code is easy to scale. You're left with the problem of scaling the database, so: at the outset, choose a database that will scale to your needs. This is nontrivial, but is much easier than scaling your own custom stateful code.
IGN and others do not pay to review the games they review do they?

Why do you want to seek to get paid first?

Review everything, then post the review and build your traffic organically based on your reviews.

If people are paying you for the review, I see conflict of interest and would not trust your review.
Previous discussions

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426655

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/glws2/
I personally don't do well with midday naps. Takes a chunk out of my day and it takes me hours to really feel awake again...then night time comes around and I'm not tired. Using the weekends to get back on a good sleep schedule is usually my go-to move.
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Why women don't create the own development companies ? This way they can not blame each other in "sexism" and other actions.
I think you can use input type="URL" instead of text to prevent mobile browser autocomplete.
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Great! If we use Fluentd and MongoDB, we can collect realtime event without writing some codes, but only configuration setting. I also think about more flexible aggregation system using them: "An Introduction to Fluent & MongoDB Plugins" http://www.slideshare.net/doryokujin/an-introduction-to-flue... . Please tell me if there exists more powerful use-case using Fluentd & Mongo!
I am willing to do exercises if the answer is in the back of the book. Programming Pearls did a good job in this respect.
Only the download page http://www.python.org/download/ is blocked by the Great Firewall, and has been for over 2 years now. Your referenced page says 15th Oct 2009, which seems about right.

Perhaps the reason is it's perceived as a "Google" product because the inventor Guido van Rossum works there.

Aside... China PyCon is on now (http://cn.pycon.org/2011/) in Shanghai (Dec 3 & 4th 2011).
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Plus ça change. There are no such sections in modern standardized admissions tests either.
> It's exactly like learning scheme. Seriously who fucking cares about scheme?

I'm a CS student at the University of Waterloo, where most early CS courses and many advanced courses here use scheme. There are thousands of students taking CS courses here so in fact there is a generation of grads being produced where a significant number (thousands at least) of them base much of their CS knowledge on scheme. That makes it very relevant.
Hey Stevenj! Sorry for the late response. I'm a part of a startup based in the OC, called drumbi. We were at disrupt and demo day, and we've successfully built a grassroots community via meetup.com called the OCtechstartup (http://www.meetup.com/OC-Tech-Startup/). As far as LA goes, I know the LeanLA group is doing some cool things (http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Lean-Startup-Circle/). They also work closely with Coloft (mentioned above). Feel free to stop by Irvine if you get a chance!
Article: "Gros and co then plotted the size of each of these files types against the number of files to get the file size distribution...audio and video file distribution followed a log-normal curve..."

Are they concluding that compressed videos fit through our internet pipes best?
Let's be clear: "security-conscious users" who turn off Javascript are a very small minority. If a site is geared towards serving developers or small startups, it might be serving this minority. If not, SEO ("how do I make this site readable by search engines?") will be a much larger concern than "graceful degradation for the benefit of the tiny few who care about security enough to disable Javascript or use NoScript but not whitelist my sites' scripts". Often designing something to gracefully degrade will serve both SEO and security-conscious users, but in cases where it won't (this case for example -- where Google decidedly doesn't care about the layout of the navigation items, as long as they're accessible to it), there's not much incentive to find a pure-CSS approach when a pure-JS approach might be simpler.
Also, the great firewall of China, and their Internet Content Provider license (which can only be obtained by Chinese companies) make it nearly impossible for foreign companies to compete in the Chinese market. Even foreign sites which aren't blocked in China are frequently a lot flakier due to the firewall, and they can't put servers inside the firewall without an ICP license. The usual way around this is to partner with a Chinese company, but frequently the Chinese company will wind up cloning your service and becoming a competitor.

The Chinese market is stacked against foreign competition; I don't think that the Indian market is likewise restricted.
I can no longer edit my answer, but I just downloaded it and extracted the setup archive - you're right. OpenSSH for Windows is not statically linked to cygwin.

I do, however, still think it's possible to statically link OpenSSH with Cygwin, in which case it would become the answer to the original question.
I agree, Monopolies are never good. While TC is clearly not a monopoly, no one can disregard their massive authority when it comes to the emergence of new startup.
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Good point on textbooks. I would add to that a couple other things:

1) There are a lot of development-related things that I simply want cursory knowledge about right now. Blog posts, textbooks, and the like are great there. The way I go about things is to maintain a list of books to buy and buy them on a FIFO basis. Typically there is about a year lag between when a book goes onto the list and when it comes off and is purchased.

I then work through the book read it, etc. Go on to the next. The book then goes up on my reference shelf and I can go back to it when I need to.

The second group of things I need to learn I have strong knowledge in a related area and really need to work with someone to solve a particular problem. Niche areas of accounting (I maintain accounting software) is a good example of this. I bring myself up to a "conversational" level of knowledge, then work with a customer's accountant to make sure everything is implemented right.

But keep in mind I read about 100 textbooks a year and only a small minority are on IT. Most are hobbies (archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and the like are big topics). It is easy to work an approach like this in.
5-7 on weekdays, 10-11 on weekends.
There is no real confusion, except what you seem to be trying to create.

The BRG report is using one companies analytics product (which is embedded in apps). Plainly that is more popular on iOS than Android, but we've seen that before - most people on Android use Google Analytics, so 3rd party analytics aren't reliable when comparing them.

Those Comscore stats are nearly a year old. A more recent one shows Android at ~46%, iOS at 28%: http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/02/android-steals-blackberry-shar...

The Statcounter stats clearly show Android and iOS are within a couple of percent (note how Android was above iOS a month or two ago). Given that the iPAd is the most popular tablet on the market (and people browse the web on tablets a lot more than on phones) this makes it even more likely that Android is ahead in units.
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This is the most pretentious thing I've seen in awhile and draws needless distinctions. That said, according to this I'm more of a geek than a nerd.
Short answer - no. Some will participate in seed rounds if they intend to follow up in a series A. This is rare though, and $100k even at the seed stage is tiny for a VC.
I do not mean to discourage you, but the fact that you are posting here a day before your trip means you are already at a disadvantage.

The key to maximizing your chances in these meetings is preparation. Your story, your pitch, your funding request, your specific hooks for THE specific firm/partner and your strategy for setting the stage for negotiating the deal you can live with (should they want it at all).

Since you are apparently going in less than 100% prepared, I highly recommend soft-pedaling the actual pitch. Last thing any investor wants is to be stalked by someone who they do not believe is ready for funding, but is asking for their money. If you do not have 100% bulletproof answers to all the questions raised in the comments here I would categorize you as "not ready" and recommend to use the following Plan B.

Instead of pitching and setting a hard marker (e.g. we are raising $X by month Y), say that you are simply focusing on your business (product development / sales) and is just starting to "explore the possibility" of raising funding and "open to advice" on the best way to approach it. This would put any VC at ease, you'll be able to present your story and if they feel it to be compelling enough, they would want to follow up, buying you more time to prepare. If they are not interested, nothing is lost because you have not been "pitching" but merely "asking for advice". You'll be able to re-approach them at a later time saying you are "finally ready".

Above all try to go in confident and relaxed. Be sure to look genuinely interested when "asking for feedback", because chances are you could put it to good use if they turn you down. Do not forget to ask for introductions too: "who do you think we should talk to about this".

If you do not get any real interest, remember nothing is lost. Just focus on your product / business and try funding when you have a stronger hand to play.
This is a great idea. As a step two, I would group them into categories (JavaScript, self-improvement, etc.) and then figure out time needed to become proficient in each one. Vim, for example, takes about 5 days to really get the hang of it, to pick up the essentials. The other tricks come later. CoffeeScript can become familiar after a weekend or two. A few of the others, like Arduino, take a little longer.

This is what I do when I want to learn things. Of course, I have a problem limiting it to programming. My list often includes stuff like "Thai cuisine" and "German" and "Celtic mythology".

The hardest part, in my opinion, is not tracking NEW things to learn, but tracking things to improve on.
Most non-American folks have a midday nap. I'm seriously considering instituting one personally b/c i'm around 4/hrs a night
Ah, very clever construction, I like it. Thanks for the input.
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