skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the reason "why" is something I've struggled to communicate. The core idea is that if you personally are a power web user and are interested in a topic (let's say apple products) than you probably filter through a lot of feeds, videos, news stories, social links, etc. Much of that content isn't worth paying attention to, but some of it is gold. If you could find the apple "gold" and put it on one page it would be a very valuable and useful page. Consider the fact that any time an Apple story breaks all the major tech blogs fill up with posts and commentary. Little of that commentary is original or useful, but some of it is. If you regularly filter the Apple news feeds to find the good stuff then creating a page to highlight this information would be very useful to folks who don't want to do the same filtering.
Smoody, I so wish I were wrong. But I am so right that if you search for the top reasons why relationship fail you would find that money is always first or second.

Women have cried for centuries to have equality (vote, salaries....), which I totally agree with. Now on the flip side, they still expect man to be the provider, the protector etc...If you do not provide anymore, like Mr Pumbler, you can be sure that you will soon be out of the picture.
And in the south it's warmer...if you know what I mean.
So, I guess I'm left wondering what makes AWS so much better for this purpose. Slicehost (and others) similarly offer Xen instances going up to 15GB in size. The big problem I have with AWS is the high cost of bandwidth.

With Slicehost, I can get a 2GB server with 80GB of persistent storage and 800GB of bandwidth for $130. With EC2, 800GB of transfer would cost $136 alone, plus $72 for the server, plus around $35 for the disk space and I/O charges. $243 > $130 by a long shot.

I really want to like EC2, but it always seems expensive. Plus, I always feel that elastic IPs are not heartbeat which other Xen providers do work with.

Maybe AWS is better because there's an implicit agreement that there will always be bandwidth or storage as needed when one thinks that's more of a question mark with other providers? Maybe there's an implicit thing that if you need to, on very short notice, fire up 10-15 Extra Large instances, the capacity will be there while others might not have the hardware?

Maybe someone has more experiences with high volume sites on these services?
Why not both?

Condoms are good most of the time, but in order to have 100% foolproof safety one would have to not have sex at all.

Redundant forms of birth control add more 9s to the end of 99.9, but there's still that possibility that one would get pregnant.

And then there's the whole STI(STD) issue. The only way to make sure that you don't get them is to not have sex, but that's not exactly fun, right?

Proper birth control _should_ be taught in _all_ schools, not just public schools but also private schools.

Don't be a fool, wrap your tool.
I've RTFA. I haven't read any of the comments here, because it's a very busy day for me, so pardon me if I'm repeating something that's been said 10 times already.

My thoughts: late 2008 is a shitty time to be an <X>. This is true for most X, a counterexample being "short-selling speculator". It's a really, really bad time to be a useless private equity "whiz kid", to have earned more at 24 than you ever will again. It's only a moderately bad time to be a programmer, because programmers are still useful. But everyone's hurting. Even graduate students are getting hit by shrinking funding pools and intense competition in admissions and for fellowships (and academia sucked even during the good times).

"Leaving the industry" (unless your industry is investment banking) because of the crappy economy makes no sense. Bad times occur, and they also pass, and so will these.
linode is even cheaper for bandwidth. (1/3rd the price of slicehost).

AWS is cheap and fine for when you don't have much traffic, but I really wouldn't tie myself into that whole ecosystem so early on.
Speaking of peppery I just made some Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato soup, it's great! Not very spicy as the name implies but you can always add more hot sauce, paprika or hotter peppers (I used Bell Peppers).

Here is the recipe I used: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Roasted-Red-Pepper-and-Tomato-S...
I think we need further studies, as I find it hard to believe
that peer pressure and misinformation are unable to nullify biological imperative.
Well if you modularize your codebase, it's not a huge deal to tie yourself into a specific ecosystem.

And a problem with linode is that they skimp on the storage. We're paying $150/server at MediaTemple a month right now and to upgrade to anything past $60 right now, they want us to move to their $750 package. Ridiculious. Hard drives are so fucking cheap, there is no reason they shouldn't be giving 100GB+ for every package.
Nobody is forcing anybody to get a bachelor's degree.

Or, nobody _should_ be forcing anybody to get a bachelor's degree. It should be completely up to the kid going through the schooling to make up their own mind.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten stuff (work, tips, useful stuff, etc) not through my schooling but through the people I know, but I'm still going through my bachelor's degree/master's degree hopefully a few of these/PhD because I want to.

If you don't like what you're doing, do something else while you're still young. You most likely have a place to live (parents) and some form of ambition, but if you decide to go through a useless bachelor's degree (I'm not saying that bachelor's degrees are useless, just getting an unused bachelor's degree is) that's your problem and you don't have the right to complain. Just do something about it!
I had never seen a callback used in REST calls.

If you want to know more, make sure you click on the JSONP link on the page for additional info. Simple but snazzy!
Here's the easter egg. What word does it rhyme with?

["ale", "braille", "dale", "frail", "gail", "gale", "hail", "jail", "mail", "male", "nail", "pail", "pale", "rail", "sail", "sale", "scale", "snail", "stale", "tail", "tale", "trail", "vale", "veil", "wail", "whale", "avail", "detail", "email", "prevail"]
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There are some great comments in that post...
Learn how to code because some idiots did not figure that computer science should be thought in elementary school just as Mathematics, Biology, etc...The plan HTML>CSS>Javascript>Python or PHP
Except for the freakishly gifted, all of us are too dumb to get through college in many majors.

Disagree strongly. Most people are too undisciplined to get through the "hard" majors, or too uninterested to get through the "softer" ones (e.g. engineers who claim they couldn't have done a history major).

I agree that not everyone should be going to college. A proportion higher than 10% doesn't make sense to me. However, I'd guess that 20-40% have enough raw intellectual ability to pass through college with decent grades, and that 5-10% could complete virtually any major. The important point is that, although a quarter or more have the intellectual mettle to get through college, they have no interest in the coursework, and are going through the motions only to be employable.

I'll also point out that American college students are not working full-throttle. At demanding colleges (Ivies, MIT, top LACs) they might average 30-40 hours per week on classes and homework. At "average" colleges-- filled mostly by students who don't belong there for reasons of motivation (to get a job) rather than ability-- it's closer to 10-20.
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> my wife gave me a choice of getting a wal-mart type job or get out

"...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health to love and to cherish, from this day forward until death do us part."

It's reading things like this that make me appreciate my wife more than I already did. Get a 'walmart type job' or get out? My wife would _never_ say that to me, especially in such bad times. At the very least she'd suggest we _both_ get walmart jobs, not threaten to leave.

:/

How depressing.
Reasonable to the IRS just means you aren't giving yourself a $300 salary and saying that's payment. Calculate general cost of living and use that number. You can justify that number to the IRS.
a walmart-type job does not provide enough income to live on.

I lived off a job where I was paid minimum wage in a small town and did just fine. I worked at a army surplus / outdoor store.

I was able to go to college, travel the world (backpacking and hostels) and do a lot of rock climbing and hiking locally all with this job. This was in the late 90s. I lived with 3 or 4 other roommates and I had no TV, a computer that barely functioned (internet access was through the university and already paid for since I was a student) and a car that got good gas mileage back when no one cared about gas mileage. More often than not I took the bus or walked. Not necessarily because it was more affordable but because it was more convenient.

Here is the breakdown from what I remember. I made about 600 a month. Food and shelter was about 60% of my income. My car was about 10%. I cut almost all unnecessary expenses. I lived in an appropriate location. I gave up perceived necessities like a telephone and cable TV.

Yes, I lived in a community where it was pleasant to make minimum wage. We had a university, a bus system and very low cost of living. I know a number of people that still make minimum wage, or close to it. They have lived in a number of locations and have made it work, including higher cost of living locations.

I can imagine many scenarios where it would be difficult. 1) Kids or other dependents 2) A location with high cost of living 3) Taking on expenses that you can't afford 4) Requirements to drive without appropriate compensation (likely a small town rural situation from stories that I've heard). I was always told that the purpose of minimum wage was to provide an appropriate starting wage for people with little or no experience. From my perspective it was appropriate. It was never meant to be a wage to support a family or pay for a cell phone or car insurance. I agree it would be very difficult, or possibly impossible, to make minimum wage and support a family on a single minimum wage income. But then again that is not what minimum wage was intended for.
Perhaps she can get a walmart job.
Until the city decide that this should be zoned industrial and so can only exist 30miles out of the city in somewhere with no transit.
Then the lawyers demand huge liability insurance
Then DHS raid it because electronics=bombs
Impossible to say, since he doesn't tell us who they are.
Yeh, but if that $243 was your "base" price, it'd only cost $72 or what ever to add a new server, or of course you could just use it for a few hours when needed. Elasticity REALLY is the strong point of EC2, with the ability to create your application to automatically scale (and de-scale) on its own, and only pay for what you use.

You can cancel a Slicehost server at any time, but you pay for a day if you only use an hour, and the refund is credited to your account as far as I know -- if you need 100 servers for an hour, even 256 slices, its going to cost you $2000, with $1934 credited to your account afterwards, compared to $10 on EC2. If you have money to splash around (your not really spending $2000 for 100 server hours, but you still need it), you'd proberly be better with Slicehost (or some other VPS host), but if you don't, EC2 is a very good option for scaling on the cheap.
Do you really have to pay yourself "reasonable" compensation? I don't doubt that you were told that, but it is interesting that multiple CEOs of large, public companies (e.g. Brin/Schmidt/Page at Google, Jobs at Apple) pay themselves $1 per year.

See proxy statements at http://edgarest.com/company/name/1288776/Google_Inc_ and http://edgarest.com/company/name/320193/APPLE_INC for reference.
- do more marketing for SmartFlix and HeavyInk (I hate doing it, but it works)

- I started lifting again three weeks ago - keep doing it.

- Get to the range more often to practice and carry my pistol more often day to day.
This is exactly right, and I had written a comment ripping into Godin's post for that reason.

But then I checked Gladwell's book and he argues that 10,000 hours is the rule for "successful" people rather than the exception (that is, "successful" -> 10K, not 10K -> "successful"), and now I'm wondering if that's really true. Of course, he never really defines what he means by "successful", but by picking Bill Gates and The Beatles, he's probably got his sights set a little higher than The Doors and Miley Cyrus.

Also, quotes from at least one of the researchers who advocate the 10K theory assume that you need 10K to be a "world-class expert" in any discipline. That's a claim that probably needs to be heavily qualified to retain validity, since some of Godin's examples would seem to refute that.
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I like it! I've added it to Google Reader. Would it be possible to get the trailers that Apple releases at http://www.apple.com/trailers/ ?
Despite what others here may have to say, we women are not a bunch of money grubbing whores. Thanks, HN, for downvoting the outrageous comments.

Here's a different view of what may have been going on: man has a family both he & his wife work full time to support. He cannot, for whatever reason, hang on to a job for more than a year at a time. This becomes frustrating to the other spouse, because they can't ever seem to get ahead of the bills, etc. He starts his own business, but can't get it off the ground. Meanwhile, she's working as hard as ever, is probably looking at getting a second job to support the family (a "walmart-type" job), and sees him puttering in the basement all day, every day. They have a fight, she's close to breaking & if anyone is going to get the crappy second job, it should be the guy hanging around the house with nothing to do all day.

That kind of stress will destroy a marriage. We're not talking about alimony or welfare queens, but ordinary middle class families that struggle to stay middle class.

Happy ending: he finally gets his business going.
For our startup the ability to scale up and down on instances is what makes Amazon great. We often run just 4 instances, but ramp up to 10+ at times when we're busy. This dramatically reduces the cost of having hardware which is underutilized. Not sure of anyone else doing anything similar - is there?
Off-topic: have you played EVE? I've heard that it's an extremely engaging game with a realistic game world, but that to play demands your life full time for a year.
What serves this purpose with a web app? Is it a stock photo of a person? (Doubt it.) Some bit of humor that a corporate marketdroid would never write for fear of pissing off his boss? The developer blogs? MySpace or Twitter presence? I suspect that most of the time, most of these things don't succeed.

Perhaps this is part of the power behind "Viral Marketing" in the old days when its effectiveness wasn't diluted by so many trying the same thing.
Supposing this happened: what part of the country would you choose to live in?
We've been through a Great Depression before. Economic and social lines were at least as strong then as they are now. At least we don't have Jim Crow laws now. Now, we have two coasts that are considered urban, not one, so it's actually somewhat less of an urban vs. rural divide (remember that whole Manifest Destiny thing?).

As a nation, the U.S. is more uniform than it is then so any such theory would have to explain how this is to our detriment, how an increase in similarity can actually provoke serious infighting, because the psychology research shows that people who are more similar tend to get along together in the long run. More than that, we just elected a uniter, who seems to pick good advisors no less.

So in all, I really want to see this classified information, because we've been through pretty bad times before (that's pretty good evidence, yes?) and this country didn't break up then.
That's because those companies are large and public, and the equity they have in the company makes an annual salary unnecessary.

I don't see how that applies in this situation.
I went to a printer and had them print up a 1000 $50.00 gift cards on heavy paper stock all of them with code numbers. The next thing I did was go door to door and meet people one at a time. Ya, it was crazy at first but the people were blown away, they loved it. As of right now I am the number one plumber in a town of about 40,000 people and am looking to hire another plumber.

This is just good marketing. Small businesses do this all the time.

My mother owned a small business and did this sort of advertising at least yearly. I used to have to help hand out flyers as a kid. We would also go around and get permission from the property owners to attach flyers to car windshields. I always thought it was a waste but there is a reason people do it - it works.
I think the difference is the fact that these are public companies where CEO compensation is mainly in the form of stock grants or options. My guess is that the IRS doesn't want people claiming $1 salaries and then writing off a bunch of "business" expenses like family trips to Hawaii or stuff like that.
According to this (http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/10/2008-startup-compensatio...) 10-year old survey executive compensation of 600+ venture-backed startups, a founding CEO of a software company with <$5MM in revenue is in the $160-230K range (25th %ile and 75th %ile respectively). As an aside, equity is in the 8-30% range (same percentiles).

This isn't terribly helpful to you question since it's for venture-backed companies, but it's at least an upper threshold.
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Apologies for not noting this. Frankly I don't even notice NSFW ads any more.
If you strip down a language so far that there's not much to it at all, then $1000 for a new language isn't so far fetched. Just don't ask for support for libraries, a JIT VM, etc. Then again, you could implement it on top of a pre-existing VM, and get access to libraries.

What about a minimalist subset of Python with curly braces instead of indenting? I think I'd actually like that language. Add an easy mapping to Python libraries, and you're done. $1000 is still a bit on the low end for that, but $3000 would seem quite reasonable.
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Getting started with Lisp.
Where is it implied that he doesn't want work that he enjoys? Are stability and enjoyability mutually exclusive qualities?

In any case, it's neither lame nor depressing to want to pursue a career that will allow you to stay employed until you're old enough to retire.
At demanding colleges (Ivies, MIT, top LACs) they might average 30-40 hours per week on classes and homework.

Not true, at least as you state it. When I was at MIT, I was spending about 30-40 hours per week on homework for a single class. Not all my classes were this hard, but there was at least one ball-buster per term. And I was far from alone in this regard.
Is the iPod Touch driving App Store sales, or is it the other way around?
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The best Web sites to help you scrimp through the recession.
Yeah, a music player that plays music. Novel idea. What's the breakthrough about it?
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In Jobs's specific case, for a while he held no equity and also drew no salary.
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant or attorney so take this how you will.

My understanding of the law from our accountants and attorneys is that you do not have to pay yourself anything if you don't want to. BUT...if you do decide to pay yourself, the salary must be "reasonable and comparable" to salaries of persons with similar job descriptions and titles. In other words, if your company takes in $1M in revenues a year and you pay yourself a $500K salary it may raise a red-flag. On the other hand, if you pay yourself $1 it may also raise a red-flag. My advice is to pay yourself what you feel you are worth and the company can afford to pay you, but don't be greedy. You can always give yourself an end-of-year bonus. The point of the law is to keep you from operating the company for a profit, writing off all your expenses as business expenses and claiming on your personal taxes that you did not earn an income while the company cut you checks out of the "owner draw" account. Depending on size and revenues of your company you can always claim an S-Corp exemption and just flow through the profits/losses to your personal taxes thus alleviating a lot of this for you.

Again, I am not an attorney or accountant so I would definitely double check everything.
Learn a functional programming language. (Maybe Haskell, but I'm open to other ideas).
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It's not a New Year Resoultion, but certain goals/milestones that I'd like to see achieved :

1) Develop some Social Networking Applications for Facebook etc.

2) Learn Cocoa Touch for iPhone and Develop Apps.

3) Learn a MVC framework like Django/RoR in and out.

4) Be consistent with the gym schedule and get some muscles :)

5) TBD soon :)
agreed. Jobs, etc. can afford to defend their position of $1 a year. You cannot. It doesn't have to be a high number as base salary. It is very reasonable to pay yourself dividends in quarter or annual bonus (your still taxed on this but can be a bit better). The max social security cutoff is around $102k these days? Not a bad high mark. Assuming your living cost is under $60k, you can probably justify $75k and not lose any sleep. Those are rough guesses, you'll have to find your own comfort levels.

Don't try to dodge the taxman unless you can afford it. In the mid-90s, I had the IRS come after me. Turned out to be a computer error on their part, but that didn't keep them from shutting off all my bank accounts without notice. They turned back on my accounts within a week or so but I spent around $5k and 6 months to a top accountant to prove to the IRS that they were wrong. I even ended up with an apology letter from the IRS. It wasn't a form letter either, I doubt they a form for an apology ;). These buys are tough man, don't mess with the revenue service!!
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Mine would be to make sure I never go below 2560x1920 again.
I remember reading this when it came out.
It sounds like you are incorporating an S-Corp. There aren't really any IRS rules like that for C-Corps, which is why Steve Jobs can get paid $1 pa.

The rule is essentially there to make sure that you pay FICA. The limit for paying FICA in 2008 is $10,200. So that should be a safe reasonable compensation. Anything you pay yourself on top of this should be done as an S-Corp distribution.

That said you could probably get away with paying less. But really your CPA should be able to guide you on this. You may be able to get away with $50k pa.
"EC2 is a very good option for scaling on the cheap."

Until you start using serious bandwidth. Then it's extremely expensive.

As you say, if you have a massive spike for an hour or something due to the nature of your service, maybe AWS makes sense rather than paying for the full day, but I think that's an extremely rare usecase.

Also if you're using a language/setup that isn't too efficient, then AWS may be a second best option to switching language/framework etc.
Is American literature too insular, preoccupied only with the home country?
You guys are so literal... Out of all the interesting material in the guy's comment, why is everyone focused on the "get out" comment?

Chances are, it was an off-hand comment. It is similar to saying, "my wife would kill me if I forgot her birthday." Rest assured, if I forget, I do not need to worry about being stabbed to death in my sleep. I hope...