skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to rain on the parade, but I've never felt js slowness in Firefox (I'm on osx). What I do feel every day is:

1. Crazy memory consumption for "power" usage (even without extensions)

2. The flash plugin just kills my CPU like Jack the Ripper.

Fixing those two would be on top of my priorities list.
Having an absolute karma score and leaderboard no doubt encourage the game aspect of the thing.
Ask HN: What's next big thing in bandwidth?
Hey,

I was wondering: what do you guys think will be big things in a few years time that will require a big bandwidth that's not yet available at the moment? Some years ago, this would probably have been watching movies online.
So what will it be in the next few years? Any ideas?
exactly. And he didn't spend 10,000 hours practicing business.

I'm not trying to be snarky by pointing this out; I'm trying clarify that, while we should remember that in order to be great, we require dedication, effort and patience, the example chosen of Bill Gates shows that, sadly, this is often irrelevant.
Now I feel undervalued making 60k in SF bay area three years ago :(
It's the fast and dirty way to establish the value of a person. If HR actually did their jobs, it wouldn't be happening or matter. A good HR staff would pinpoint the right candidates, fit them into the right group, and be able to negotiate them to maximize the company's budget.

But then, I only worked at big corps.
If we can go from million-on-million to one-on-one, we can make it zero-on-zero. (i.e. peace)
It really depends on what you're doing, where you're doing it and who you're doing it for. If you were a writer 3 years ago, you were banking it.
A Critical Choice Regarding Innovation
New title: How (not) to make hackers want to work for you:

1. Offer below market rates.

2. Be extremely vague about option plan.

3. Show a history of verbal abuse towards previous
applicants.
It is in Broward and Palm Beach county, Florida.
set backupdir=~/.vim/backup//

set directory=~/.vim/swp//

If you end your settings with double trailing // then vim will automatically use the full path to the file

so editing

/etc/X11/x.org and ~/x.org won't
clobber each other in your swap directory.
Nice, I would just add one thing. Repeat the book title in the title attribute, not just the alt.
Assuming everything else was the same and gravity was 5x as strong then a star around the size of the sun would go super nova in a short time period. (Granted it would take a lot of time to really model this.)

There is some support for Jupitor producing a little fusion with it's current mass. If you increase gravity it becomes smaller until it's heat balances out the force of gravity which increases the amount of fusion taking place.

PS: Less massive stars have a higher surface area to volume ratio. This reduces their temerature which reduces their fuel usage. But once they run out of fuel the same type of interesting things are going to happen.
The Cotsakos Touch: Me-Three Social Network Moli Implodes
Why Most Business Books Suck - The Author's Dilemma
So this is why I despise most business books...

I like the list of 'typical' business books and the not so subtle reference to "The Innovator's Dilemma".
S-Corps aren't double taxed like C-corps. the S-Corp can pass through all profits and have those taxes as income of the shareholders.
DeepDyve: Indexing the Deep Web
I made websites at a big corp. I thought it was pretty decent for a kid like me that dropped out of school and didn't want to go back. I worked extra too just to try to impress my bosses because the name and reference on my resume was well worth it.
I think people will stop storing their data locally. This will not mean bigger transfer than video, but the number of transfer could be huge. It is doable with the bandwidth we already have, but it will become ubiquitous only when locally or remotely stored will almost feel the same.
This is really very good, especially if you read Liar's Poker (makes me want to re-read it). He even meets up with Gutfreund which makes for interesting reading.
No one chooses situation 1. It's a silly way to go about using an LLC for asset protection.
Great article, not sure about the title though. A classic story of Wall Street channeling money from rich idiots to smart young people though.
And out of those that have read his books, how many would be wearing a t-shirt of him. And out of those, how many would ask him to take a picture like that!
Ask HN: Review my startup -- LuckyCal
Hiya. Rather than just linking directly, I wanted to provide some context. Along with a group of cofounders, I've been hard at work building LuckyCal:

http://www.luckycal.com

This past July, we got lucky (ha!) and won a grant from Facebook as part of their fbFund program (http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=4821).

Here's the rub: in order to capture most of those funds, we need to have a large and active user population in Facebook. That's fine, except that my team isn't talented at competing in the attention economy that Facebook apps typically populate. Instead, we built something we'd want to use: useful, polite and non-annoying.

At the risk of pleading, I'd very much appreciate if you'd give that app a try, especially within Facebook:

http://apps.facebook.com/luckycal

Help keep a fellow entrepreneur out of the cubicles: invite your friends.
Well he also lives in SF where every other woman working in PR has the hots for him.
That is a classic cs picture!

On a somewhat related tangent - There was a recent series of interviews of Knuth in the CACM. They were an interesting and entertaining read. Actually ever since the ACM redid the CACM it's been relatively interesting and relevant.
The Noncommercial clause of the CC license refers to republishing the book. The algorithms can be used for anything you like, without obligation to the author.
The Japanese people were told to fight to the death of every man, woman, and child. Previous home island invasions had demonstrated that this would be the case.

War is no fun. Doesn't make it any less a requisite part of the human condition.
Best. Picture. Ever.

I just got my "certificate of deposit" from the Bank of San Seriffe today, and was going to post it, but it feels like it would be an anti-climax in comparison.
I don't know if this is in the cards or not, but what I hope will be the next big thing in bandwidth is cheap mobile data plans, on par with cable/dsl plans, which (together with cheaper, more powerful phones) would help push mobile computing towards ubiquity.
To go with this, we need to see a large drop in latency. I think the biggest obstacle will be overcoming the total write/read throughput and speed when placing data over the broader internet versus a local hard drive or SAN/NAS.
Looks like it might not be wimax.
The CACM interview was actually a transcription of a small selection of the autobiographical videos Knuth recorded for the "People's Archive" at http://www.peoplesarchive.com/browse/movies/6895/

If you liked the selections, you should really hear the rest-- some fascinating material.

Also: I completely agree about the revamped CACM-- it's quickly become my favorite tree-based magazine.
"If I wanted a decent nice girl to take home to mama I wouldn't be using okcupid or match.com or eharmony or even craigslist."

Do you realize that these sights encompass 10s of millions of people? What is your bar for "decent"?

I can only assume you would choose to use http://flowmingle.com instead.
Back in the day "atoms" were meant to be indivisible as well. It's just relics of our language not keeping up with science.
Microsoft denies paying contractor to abandon Linux
I would say Games would be huge, where we play without actually installing 8 or 10GB worth of data. Maybe just playing level by level, where it downloads files needed for that level.

Also HD video would lot more bandwidth, so i am thinking that will be huge too.
Status Update:

9:45 am: had 24 hours web app idea

10:13 am: Announced it on twitter

10:17 am: Registered domain name

10:24 am: Bought alternate domain name

10:30 am: Setting up SVN repositories and blank django project

10:50 am: Django project structure created, all committed to SVN
Just checked the content. It is a "modern" book despite some old stuff in neural network, generic algorithm and expert system. It is a book mainly about natural language process with a bigger title "artificial intelligence" which should be carefully avoid in today's word.
Review of six specialty Linux distros
There is one constant we can't beat -- the speed of light. Unless servers are physically closer to the people using them, latency will always be an issue.
If they treat candidates like that, imagine what they do to employees.
It probably was then.
About us:

We are LeadLog, a small startup company in South Florida building lead management software. We're two biz dev guys, a ux guru and a hacker with solid business experience.

Hmm...something seems wrong about this equation...
The domain name will be twittmarks.com
Try out my 'spy' app to watch social converstaion in real time across many services.
Love your feedback on this application.

Been iterating on this tool/site on Google App Engine to visualize the real time conversations across Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr and more using common companents like jQuery, python, app engine, etc. Blog post on why I created: http://bit.ly/Az4c
He probably just prefers the real life/in person thing. Me too.
An Virtual Filesystem
I think I didn't write the apprenticeship part very well.

Choosing an apprenticeship for the 13-year-old is meant to give them a nudge. It doesn't matter if they pick it up or rebel against it. What matters is getting out of the home to see the world. Travelling around the world (without family) accomplishes the same thing.

Staying within the comfort of the home is screwing around ... even if it is "exploring" your passions. That's just extending childhood. So what I should have said is that after getting the GED (or equivalent) parents push them out of the nest, whether that results from choosing an apprenticeship for them, or having them travel around the country, or having them take college courses at college campus. That is what the old rites of passages (and the hero myths that go with it) accomplish: force the adolescent out of childhood, just as being born means going from the comfort of the womb to the bright, cold world. And of course, there are some who already know what they want and will already have plans in motion.

There is an obstacle with this idea is that many jurisdictions require you to be 16 to take it. Yet I remember hearing of college prodigies earning their degrees before that. It makes me think there is a way to hack it.
The anthropic principle did not drive the Renaissance. The scientific revolution within the Renaissance was driven by a rediscovery of Greek/Arabic knowledge, the focus on empirical evidence that came with the invention of the scientific method, and the (yet-to-be-formalized) desire to apply Occam's razor to every explanation.

The anthropic principle is dual to Creationism. The Creationist says, "It is because God made it so." The scientist says, "It is because it necessarily must be so." Neither philosophy, by itself, leads to deeper understanding.
Exactly. The job posting gives the feeling that a memo will be sent out the first week you are there:

Wii and ping pong are provided for use only during lunch, 12:00->12:30. Please adhere to the rules.

Maybe I am being a bit too cynical.
I don't think that is the bottleneck:

"If you were a beam of light, then your trip [around the world] would take only 1/10 of a second."

http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/how-long-does-it-take-t...
Optimizing external (USB) hard drives for performance on WinXP
Guild Wars does this.
oh ... I use vi and I haven't exactly given up on emacs
Anyone else submit to the Knight News Challenge?
The Sun Open Source Model
Reality check: Despite chill, startups continue to receive funding
Symmetric internet links will be a big deal, if they ever happen - right now most places seem to be 8Mbit downstream and 1Mbit upstream - once symmetric high-bandwidth applications become popular p2p technologies can really start taking off.
Man I wish I could write like Michael Lewis.
"sights". Are we all going for the "Most grammar/spelling mistakes in a comments page" world record here?
I'll probably edit this post as I start using this more.

The Facebook application looks VERY gaudy. It stands out. For me, that's a turn-off. The more native it looks, the more likely I am to keep using it.
Work smart not hard: another step in the right direction
SpringSource acquires G2One.
Microsoft was founded in 1975. 10k hours is 5 years of 40 hour weeks. I think it's fair to say that he was working more than 40 hour weeks, so by the time MS rose to dominance, he'd almost certainly spent over 10k hours at it.
True, but the facilitation of a relationship occurs much better in real life, no? As in, I meet girls and chat them up in real life before making the judgment call to date them or to continue a relationship with them.

And despite having advanced so far, there's a stigma with people using online dating services. Kind of the same with job hiring sites. Let's not forget that a lot of positions in companies are filled through connections and networking rather than applying blindly to job sites.

My point is that equating finding employees with finding a girlfriend is odd on so many levels. Most of which being that I really really really don't want to be caught playing third base with my hires.
Michael Lewis is one of my favorite writers and this article exemplifies why.

I highly recommend Liar's Poker even if you only have a passing interest in finance. My favorite exchange from the book went something like this:

>Boss: I thought you said you spoke French

>Lewis: No, that's just something I put on my resume.

The slayed Bull picture alone was worth the click.
Yes, absolutely.

I feel a bit guilty, though, since my posting this seems to have put me on the leaderboard for the first time. Talk about karma. :-/
The thing is, Hacker News has too small an audience to make gaming very worthwhile. I think that clamping down once is good enough to send the message across. I'd hope so, anyway, since it takes a lot of effort to get to the point where you can vote things up and down.
Today's bizzaro day.
Stuff for 3D printers?

Live streaming? Yeah, we have it now, but let's say a night club give its visitors glasses which broadcast what they're seeing through a website so people can check if it's worth going... live streaming on stereoids. Or on sports matches... televisions would love to have more cameras on stadiums. Just imagine if you can figure out that an spectator, from glasses #44403, looked from seat 34 to ZXY axis, which is where something that you wanted to see happened, but your camera couldn't catch.

Mesh networks? 10 years ago we didn't have mobile internet, so it came and was expensive, now it's everywhere, and getting cheaper. But I think it's inevitable, someday someone will release a cellphone that can mesh and has mile range, and connect to free wifi networks on Starbucks, and managing all these small hubs of bandwidth inteligentlly will be hard.

Video will keep getting bigger, because tvs are getting bigger, encoders are getting better, and all that stuff. Sure more bandwidth helps, it always does, but imagine a movie studio instead of releasing to cinemas, they will, at the same day, release for download "directly" to your TV. So this video will have to be mirrored around the world, on cities, etc... because bandwidth pipe will keep getting larger, but there's always room to save costs.

If you want to go even further into the future, think space tourism, news from the/for a ISS-like hotel... er.. better get back to work.
Wesabe Crosses the Pond and Partners With the Telegraph
Git Patch Management with GitHub Screencast
GitHub released a new command line tool to make it easy to manage patches submitted by several forked repositories.
So in order for them to give you cash, you must help them churn out lots of pageviews?
10:56 am: Finished status updates, setting up local media server
11:06 am: Completed setting up local media server and proxy apache server, creating textmate project, development starts
"September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september
Try swapping caps and ctrl.
Would Bill Gates make a good CTO in the Obama administration?
Because everything we have ever observed in nature follows the exact same pattern:

1. Single instable thing exists that tends to combine with other items to form a somewhat stable object

2. The results combine with other more complex things in the same manner to create something else

It's like a recursion. Something simple gets executed over and over again, each time gaining in parameters and complexity.
I think you need to make a stronger pitch as to why this would be useful to people. Turn your index page into a sales page, it's worth putting more time and effort into it.
DDL Transactions
I have to disagree. Labels are so omnipresent that until very recently, you couldn't get any sales unless you were attached to a big record label. In many ways it was a 4-company monopoly.

Now things are easier for independent labels, but it's still very one-sided. The big names need to be attached to a big label, and that means they're going to have to get screwed.
If you're going to experience failure, it's awesome to have the company make that easy. I do have two Dell laptops at home (ages 4 and 5 years) that have never had a single issue. My wife's macbook had a battery failure within 2 years, but Apple replaced it even though it was out of warranty. We've since sold that one, and got a new one, and I hope it continues to work without issue.
While you may not agree with the writer's suggestions, he was largely respectful. You were sarcastic, and made fun of his grammar. I'm sure he feels great reading your response on your blog.

Here's a question we should all ask ourselves: How could we have handled it better?

I would have written back to the fellow, thanking him for his interest. At least your karma points in the real world (you know, the ones that are even more important than those on HN) would do well.

Next, given that you haven't yet found a candidate, I'd either look to hire someone remotely, or hire a contractor to work on the most important stuff.

Good luck.
Going to Shanghai or Beijing and living in the expat community is not the real China. Lots of foreigners in China live like the English used to live in Kenya - in a separate upper class society that has little in common with, and little contact to the local people.

It's a bit sad actually, there are really fresh perspectives to be had there.
why are "friends, family and associates" represented with calendars?
Yeah. But before then, Usenet could regulate itself even with the occasional surge.

This is a surge right now, in part due to the election. If the people who've been here for a while help regulate things and maintain the culture, hopefully things will all settle down.
Would you mind going into more details about this quid pro quo going on between you guys and Facebook?
Interesting quote from the author:

While I consider Java to be twice as "programmer efficient" as C++, I consider Common Lisp to be twice as good as Java for some applications.
11:24 am: Completed mysql database setup and django settings tweaking, working on URL conf and first view
Money for motivation and "slave wages" are two very different things.

And if you live in the States, you're more than likely living like a King (compared to people in poor countries).

Hell, I worked solely for money at my first job out of college, but I would have never told them that before even interviewing.
That, my friend, is also a decision.
100 ms is still a pretty big latency.

Add to that the slowdown of propagating in a fiber optic cable, and you've just increased the time to 150 ms.

So, for a server 1/4 of the way around the world, you're stuck with a minimum round trip time of 75 ms. This will be increased by switching times in repeaters, for example. And that's only for one data packet.
You wouldn't be "fucking awesome at basketball, even after 10000 hours of practice if you were crippled, pushing 90, blind or disadvantaged in a number of other ways. It's not an easy truth to accept, but the playing field is not level and while the human will is capable of amazing feats, there are limits.
iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor
Great read. I too recommend Liar's Poker if only for its inside look at how Lewis Ranieri created the mortgage backed security market that fueled our economic downturn.

It isn't explained in depth but it's interesting to see how Ranieri fought for it from within Solomon Bros.
> deliver, for a fee, the means to create value between deploy and scale, for those who need it.

Ok, I do like reading business books, but that one went over my head. Can anyone give an example of what they think it means?

I'm quite interested to see what Sun does with open source.
Twittmarks.com Concept: A Webapp that allows you to view & manage bookmarks shared in twitter (by you and your friends) in a del.icio.us fashion
the next stage is mobile computing. your smartphone will become a seamless integration with your home desktop and cloud SaaS products (your desktop will be part of the cloud as well, hell maybe even your mobile will have shared storage and be serving data). Live video telecommunications will become the norm. everyone will be a videoblogger. everyone will live with the internet at their fingertips 24/7.

it's scary isn't it?
A hacker website full of emacs users, and I'm the first to post this link? Unbelievable.

http://www.dotemacs.de/
Thanks for the great tip, will sure try.
Another one of those "MySQL doesn't do that? Really? Are you kidding?" moments:-/
Well, it's the end of the independent Wall Street Investment Bank. They're all gone.
I'm very glad that I read this. It put the financial crisis into a narrative that was easy to understand and interesting
You don't seem to like this "self-entitlement" thing. Don't you think it's also a little "self-entitled" to expect great people to be excited about the opportunity to work for you, without caring about the so-so salary?
I think it looks okay, but I do agree that it should be reformatted to look more like a facebook app.

There were a lot of steps to sign up! Don't use ugly form buttons and do condense a lot of the instructions and steps together. Make those buttons big and bold and label the buttons more descriptively.

For instance, a big blue Facebook-style button that said "Allow LuckyCal to Access My Account Information When I am Not Logged In" (long button label, I know) would have been fine IMO and I would have clicked it without needing a paragraph of explanation.

Also, the page with the add to profile prompt was completely unnecessary to me. Your metrics will probably disagree with me, but I'd prefer you just leave that button at the top of the main calendar page. The screenshot of somebody else's calendar just confused me.

Also, why are you intercepting my scrollwheel to scroll left and right in the calendar? That's just weird.

All that said, you guys are working towards making a product I wish I had. I just don't like the execution, mostly in terms of the interface. Stop thinking like engineers when you're designing your UI! :)

I would love for the calendar itself to be bigger and pre-filled with events you're suggesting for me. Then I'd click yes/no/maybe to each one... once the event is closer (maybe a week), you could prompt me again to see if I'm interested in solidifying the plans. That would be awesome.

Where are you located?
I don't see how it is sad. If I go to a third world nation, I am staying in a nice, western hotel.

If my purpose in going is to start a business or see the sights, then there is no reason to get down in the muck. If my purpose is to write a novel about the life of the Chinese, then I should thoroughly investigate it. It all depends on your purpose for visiting.