skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was TextPress, which was renamed to Zine, a project that was started by Armin Ronacher who is also the author of Werkzeug, Flask, Jinja2 and a couple of other projects.

The project ultimately died due to a lack of interest. At the time hosting solutions like Heroku didn't exist so you needed your own root server, blogging platforms were significantly easier to use and required no maintenance. Besides you can just go with a static blog which does the job just as well while being significantly cheaper and safer.
"Less than 1% of candidates propose even cuts to federal education spending, let alone abolishing the DOE."

At least two candidates proposed eliminating the DOE during the Republican primaries. One was Rick Perry, where the DOE was one of the 2 departments he remembered to cut; and the other was Ron Paul, who may or may not have said it explicitly, but I'm sure he has said so at some point.

I disagree. People do vote for federal education spending. This pressure to spend comes from somewhere. However irresponsible it is, many people simply vote for more money, regardless of where it comes from. Some people will even vote to have money taken from them and given back -- strings attached.

"I'm not sure what you mean by 'Anything else is sustainable only by wishful thinking'"

I meant that it's wishful thinking to expect money to keep raining down with no strings attached. I agree that education is not fundamentally different from other goods and services.
I liked this one especially: "On the other hand, a remnant of the flat-out elitist, aristocratic mindset that we have to kill the shit out of every couple hundred years (cf. French Revolution) is the concept that investors, socially speaking, deserve to outrank employees."
^this

The issue is getting the host to support python, not the creation of software using python
But they still have a wall - it's just takes a bit more to hit it. In Linux systems swap is usually 2x memory. With swap set like that, all swap does is raise the wall to 3 times what it previously was.

But for a lot of systems your service will fail shortly after you start swapping anyway, because the performance cost of swapping is so high that it often starts a death spiral (can't handle enough requests, so they start piling up, eating even more memory, until your system dies or you hit connection limits etc.).

So "best case" in a typical configuration is that the wall is a bit higher. Worst case you gain nothing at all from the swap.

Personally I treat it as a failure if we ever hit swap - it means connection limits etc. has been set too high.
At it's guts it's some kind of .NET project, you could reference the project and put an aspx interface straight over the existing classes.

The reason the online testing would be good is it's so easy for html minification to break stuff, but testing it manually is asking too much - I don't want to download + figure out how to use + integrate it into our teamcity + then finally test to see if it didn't bork anything.
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Do you really need to code?
"This time the money is mostly coming from wealthy individuals. While some of these folks have certainly shown regrettable judgment, this is completely different than in 1999 when literally billions of dollars were flowing from institutional investors and the general public."

Doesn't matter whether coming from wealthy individuals or institutional investors or the public.

Both are susceptible to the halo, follow the bandwagon, and hype. The decision are ultimately made from people. It's what drives any tulip craze.
If there's a good enough workflow, there's no reason to not use LESS and SASS in each app. You compile the CSS before production anyway, which means you work with beautiful code, and use automatically minified code for production, and all of it is (usually) taken care of in the background.

Plus, if I work in CSS for simple apps and LESS for complex apps, I have to keep two sets of boilerplates. I don't want to be writing CSS from scratch every time I make an app. With using LESS in every instance, not only do I only need one boilerplate, but that boilerplate is modular and I can take the things I need and exclude the things I don't. LESS effectively has namespaces to make this super easy and MORE efficient than plain CSS.

No comment on CoffeeScript, though. I've not had to write enough JS to warrant checking it out in depth.
I have always wondered that too, but I think it is because of the different audiences of PHP and Python.

There are Libraries->Frameworks->CMS's->Blog Platforms. Python tends to have strong offerings on the Library and Framework front but no consensus enough to have a popular CMS or Blog Platform. Without popularity, a vibrant ecosystem never really develops. PHP has the tremendously popular WordPress and Drupal, but they were not made using popular frameworks or libraries so their code base appears quite messy and hackish. Also, PHP apps are very easy to get started with; either one-click installs on cPanel or drop this chunk of code in your web root. Configuring a Python web-server is still much harder for a novice.
Agreed. Survey questions are terrible. So are "joke questions", which are now legitimated by an official designation...
No, that won't be enough. You need something that's better than git in the same way git is better than SVN: A paradigm shift. Merely being nicer or easier at doing the same thing is rarely enough, you need to do something broadly useful the entrenched tool just cannot do.
You're right, the example isn't a good use case for mmap, but it's just here to show how to use osicat for mmapping :)
Nice feature! Saved locations + easy way to navigate/use. The only time I use Maps is when I'm driving, and this is a nice layover. Thanks for the app.

One item: the "edit" button wasn't obvious that it was for editing locations. Rather, I thought it was associated with the types of directions -- driving, walking, transit, etc. If I could make a suggestion, make the destination circles editable by bringing up a menu when holding the circle for an extended amount of time. It's what I did initially.
>"...they are essentially saying that the YC company is twice as likely to succeed"

In my opinion, this is precisely what makes the business so frothy. I don't really believe that YC backed companies are significantly (certainly not twice) more likely to succeed.

The whole incubator thing could be the best or worst thing to happen to to Valley; we just don't know yet.
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I lean a little more toward liking the landing page than not. It's not great, but I like the simplicity. Maybe a bigger default font size would be good for me personally, but that's a small problem that I can easily solve.
$575 profit per iPhone? I think you mixed up profit with something else, maybe average sale price.

In a free market, profit isn't determined by cost or your intuition about "fairness". Price is determined by supply and demand, and profit is price minus cost.

Foxxconn already pays well above average wages while providing a safer workplace than the average US manufacturer, and a lower suicide rate than the Chinese average. And this is still going up even as working hours decrease.

Whether all these criticisms are completely legitimate or not (for example I think workers should be allowed to work more overtime if they voluntarily choose to, to get more money, instead of being capped at 49hours/week), Apple is responding to them as well as anyone could ask for.

Apple's competitors are not getting the same scrutiny. Since Apple is handling the issue great, isn't there room for some of that attention to land on others with much worse practices?

Further, Apple has nowhere near 80% of the production or employees or anything like that. There are other big players as far as how many Chinese workers they are involved with, which I think is the relevant metric for how important reform is.
Don't base your plans on the funding market. Good startups can raise money in bad times (Airbnb raised its first round at the low point of the stock market in 2009) and bad startups can't raise money even in good times. So start a good company when you're ready to, and treat fundraising as a matter of secondary importance.
Believe what you want. The problem is intermittent and didn't appear on my test machines/VMs.
Of course, I agree with what you are saying.

What I am saying is that these issues will become more and more pressing now that they are operating at a much larger scale than in prior years. In the past they could piss-off their cult followers and move on. I am not sure this is the case today. I think it might be reasonable to assume that normal folks --the bulk of the people buying iDevices--, not tech guys or cult members, will not take kindly to their 16 GB iPhone becoming obsolete simply because Apple released an iPad with more resolution. They would feel that this is absurd, and rightly so. There's nothing whatsoever wrong with older devices. Techies are different. I buy crap I don't really need just 'cause it's cool and sometimes because I want to actively support the company doing the cool stuff. Normal folk are far more practical than that.

If a normal person has a lesser-storage iPhone and, overnight, half their apps go away because they wont fit, they will not run out and buy a new phone. They'll be pissed. This will be particularly true if some mainstream media outlet grabs ahold of the reasons that led to this and outs the story to the general public.

There's another angle to this as well: Trash. Now Apple is in a position to generate, quite literally, mountains of trash based on decisions to not support older devices. I am not an environmental extremist by any measure, but I certainly don't like the idea of millions of perfectly good devices ending-up in the trash bin due to a bad tech decision.
It was a fad for the Silicon elite but it COULD have been so much more. There were actual scientists, historians, etc. getting involved and those people could have made it awesome. The reason Quora faltered was because of startup/investor interests. They didn't seem to be curious intellectual types actually interested in the knowledge curation, they just seemed to have hit upon a good business idea.
It means, that there is already a large amount of this kind of projects not to mention plugins for any programming language or framework you can think of. and many of them look far better than yours.
Since Facebook follows the popular "Double Irish Arrangement:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

The location of its legal tax headquarters is up for debate; Additionally, Facebook has corporate offices all over the world in different countries:
https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations
Italy, India, Canada, New Zealand, Belgium, etc.

Clearly it's not just a "US" company and only has to follow "US" laws.
Wonders of coding (not exactly the same as wonders of programming):
1) Edition 7 UNIX -- it was a wonder for what it did on such tiny-resourced machines.
2) FORTH -- great power in a small space
3) PDP-10 (DECsystem-10) TECO -- text editor in 4K words of memory.
Your thinking is along the right direction; see my reply to your parent comment
Apple is the biggest company in the world, other companies are not.

With great power comes great responsibility.
Please continue using words like "sociopath", "snot-nosed" etc.

I've watched ethics deteriorate over the years in the Valley. I support the one person who can see through this ongoing shit-baggery.
i think more important then learning a specific language is getting a understanding of the algorithmic stuff. try theese two books for example:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...
http://www.amazon.com/Computational-Geometry-Applications-Ma...

i wish i had these books 10 years earlier..
It's easy to understand why — once Quora understood it was attracting the kind of online socialites who like to boost their egos and flaunt their intellect (which is by no means 100% of the community, just a loud majority), they accustomed their site to a new demographic.
Does anyone have the details on how Amazon is licensing Windows Server / on what terms?

Is the OS licensed to Amazon, to the customer, is this a custom licensing term deal from Microsoft, am I supposed to provide the serial key, how is activation handled, etc?

Is Amazon "renting" the OS? How is this possible?

The only thing I've been able to locate is this...

> Q. When I import a VM of Windows Server 2003 or 2008, who is responsible for supplying the operating system license?

> When you launch an imported VM using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008, you will be charged standard instance hour rates for Amazon EC2 running the appropriate Windows Server version, which includes the license to utilize that operating system within Amazon EC2. You are responsible for ensuring that all other installed software is properly licensed.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#When_I_import_a_VM_of_Window...
The Surprising Way Apple's Supply Chain Reforms are Self-Interested
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Aha, I take back some of what I said. ChangeLog is not big enough, that's all.

When running with a 16MB file, there's some more CPU spiking, but only if it's served as a single write.

Investigating further, I found that there's a bug in my gists, and I'm testing res.url instead of req.url, so I was making all the exact same mistakes in your test! Hah!

With this test, we see it spike up to 10% for a big string, but a big buffer still stays well below 1%. https://gist.github.com/2339010

I did it in coffeescript to just rule that out as a possible source of work.

The moral of the story is that Buffer<->string conversion is WAY too expensive in Node, and leads to situations where the easy approach leads to poor performance. That's a problem. Thankfully, it's one we already are aware of, and plan to fix, and it's easy to work around by just using a buffer rather than doing extra conversions.
That $575 number is nonsensical; the iPhone 4S (the most expensive model) costs $599 off-contract. These phones do not cost $25 to make. The real number is somewhere around $300, most of which paid by the carrier: http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/26/iphone-sine-qua-non/.

Regardless, doubling the pay for workers does not solve the real issue here. Their wages are already above average for Chinese factory workers in that area. If you want these workers to be paid a first-world wage, that's a much larger issue than how much Apple pays their final assembly workers.

Also, Foxconn does not build just phones. It's used by most desktop and laptop manufacturers, where Apple is certainly not in the lead, and to assemble all game consoles, where Apple doesn't even have products. Microsoft, for example, is responsible for the workers in the incident mentioned here: http://kotaku.com/5874706/report-mass-suicide-threats-at-xbo... (I don't think Microsoft would have an issue paying more, for example.)

Now this is not to underplay the problems in Chinese manufacturing, of which there are many. But Apple is certainly not singularly able to make any changes here.
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Okay. Or I can look out the window. By the morning of, it's already pretty clear whether it's going to be a nice day or not.

What is the advantage of this service over a regular weather forecast that I don't have to give my email address to?
I'm not sure that's the right metric for "dumb" money. Say, as a gedankenexperiment, that you're a very bright, very successful person interested for whatever reason in investing in a tech startup. But you don't know technology. Do you (A) spend hours trying to understand the technology before carefully investing your cash or (B) hop on the coat tails of a proven winner?

That said: this has all the smell of Yet Another F'ing Bubble. PG and company should be very careful not to let this get out of hand. A big high profile wreck or two (YC-funded startup that takes 20M and bombs inside two years, say) would destroy the brand they've created.
>$575 profit per iPhone? I think you mixed up profit with something else, maybe average sale price.

The number is from the usual suspect Asymco.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/02/android-economics/

>Whereas Android generates $1.70/device/year and thus an Android device with a two year life generates about $3.5 to Google over its life, Apple obtained $576.3 for each iOS device it sold in 2011[4]. The economics of Android are nothing like the economics of iOS.
Well, I find MIT a little "too tech focused" for my liking - while I love taking CS/math/engineering courses, I feel like I'll miss out on other areas by going to MIT. I guess it has more to do with the diversity of interests of other students around me than anything else. So I'd say it's 3rd on my list, right after H and S :P
>> [Foxconn provides] a safer workplace than the average US manufacturer

Would really love to see some data that backs up that assertion.
There is a big difference between simplicity that is properly planned (and tested) and simplicity that comes as a result of lack of design skills.

Compare the two: http://basecamp.com/ and http://plainboards.com/

The amount of text is approximately the same and you might guess which of the two is a successfull product :)
investors are willing to throw money on the basis of a 2 1/2 minute pitch just because it has Y Combinator attached

I wish we could claim that. But YC's brand is not that powerful. There are still startups that present at Demo Day and aren't able to raise money.
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What's "a ton"?
Norway is the size of Montana.
I'm gonna kick your ass..1/5 cases of police force unconstitutional?
I'm gonna kick your ass.. and get away with it.
What the hell? 2^32 = 4,096MB. by default it is split 50/50. there are boot switches in windows to make it 3/1 or 4/0 (or PAE)

i'd love to hear more about this awesome 32-bit operating system you seem to know about that defies the laws of math.
I agree.. the page is hideous. I personally would never consider using this service. Two things I would recommend..

a) visit themeforest.net and buy a theme, apply it, and add lots of screenshots. Here's one I like from MojoThemes (not affiliate link, no affiliation at all) :
http://www.mojo-themes.com/item/magnolia-a-responsive-html5-...

b) make it exclusive. People will pay more money to get into something if they think they can't.

You can accomplish this if you limit the number of users by a certain date, or close it altogether, just like Google did with GMail. If you require an invite code, AND the site and offer are compelling, within hours of doing this you will see forum posts indexed in Google where people are asking for invites.

Finally, post some invite codes on this site, and see what the uptake is.

Good luck, I hope it works out for you!
You're allowed to start a company in Canada, you know. ;-)
Well, even more: I have a weather widget on my phone -- on the home screen, even. That makes "knowing the weather" even that much easier.

So clearly, this isn't about convenience of knowing the weather. This is about _specially highlighting_ the fact that today's weather will be PERFECT. As in, bringing attention to the fact that the day really is great.

The point is to have fun, enjoy life, and to have a beautiful day.

I built the service because I personally wanted a service like it. Perhaps others will enjoy it.
Awesome, I just signed up. Now all you have to do is figure out when I need to get my snow tires on and you have a business.
That's revenue (gross income) not profit (net income). Look at the charts on that article, they say all "revenue", the article is about revenue.

Apple has an ASP on iphones on the order of 650 and a profit margin on the order of 40%. They can't be making 575 profit per phone.
There are relatively few people that take the cross-country trains end-to-end, and a lot of people that get on or off at some little town along the way. For many of the more rural parts of the country, this is their primary access to long-distance travel. (This is especially true since the various phases of airline deregulation have increasingly caused smaller airports to close.)

There are also strong network effects in play. NYP to BOS is great if you're just going from NYP to BOS. But if you're going from NYP up to Portland, or BOS to Trenton or Pittsburgh or something, the cheap NYP-BOS connection is useless to you unless there are also not-extremely-expensive links from NYP or BOS to your actual endpoints. Part of what makes NYP-BOS so cost-effective as a route is that it's also fed by other lines that A) exist and B) aren't prohibitively expensive.
Microcode - the process of developing a specific series of transistors to become a microprocessor.. The core of the magic. Especially how one can start up a microprocessor from pushing an on switch - that's the definition of sublime to me
I fully agree with the title you chose.
This is one of the reasons I'm kinda ambivalent about taking money. I've been working for startups since the 1990s (and starting companies too). I've seen the down years in 1995, 2001-2003, 2008-2009, and I've seen the manias of 1997-2000, 2004-2007, 2010-2012, and it just leaves me really concerned that taking VC money is a whole lot about timing. I want to build a business, not get rich with a stock market (e.g.: selling stock to VCs with perfect timing.) This plus the generally hostile and irrational terms VCs require (liquidation preferences, etc) have had me focusing on making our business profitable from day one. (or at least from day one after the product launches.)

On the other hand-- man, it would really be great to have $500k in the bank to hire some people so we could grow really fast. But we're not there yet-- that would be a bad investment because we're still doing customer development, we're still trying to discover our business, so to speak.

I feel like, if I go down the path of trying to raise money now, I'll be spending a lot of time doing something that doesn't help us discover that business. But if I don't, who knows what things will be like in a while, if it turns out that we really could use that money.

In the end, though, I side on the idea that money can be a nice accelerant, if it is gotten on good terms (terms are more important than valuation) from good people (and how in the hell do you figure out who those people are? I have seen a lot of damage done by investors in my career.)

But at the end of the day, if the company is profitable, you can plow %100 of those profits into growth. If the company isn't profitable, the only way to survive is outside investment.

I don't want my companies future in the hands of other people, so I'm pursuing a highly profitable business that is super capital efficient and doesn't require outside funding to launch.

I strongly recommend others consider this approach as well. Yeah, you might get into YC and then not need this, but if you don't, find a business model that makes you ramen profitable right away.
Running a PAE kernel on 32 bit is pretty standard at this point, I believe. Please correct me if I missed something.