skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are any other great source for what is going on in the Ruby community I would like to know... So point things out to me that I might have missed.
Very informative. It comes down to reputation.
Americans don't make $45,000/year because we held on to our low-skill manufacturing jobs.
Actually there are two types of accounting balance sheet methods so by definition, you should have and it would be better to have 2.

The first is an historical value based balance sheet where you record everything at what they cost you. For example lets say you bought real estate in 1920 for $1k and now its worth $1million. Historically you paid $1k and you can actually write that in, and you'd want to do that to show you "little" money your company makes, for things like taxes and such

The second case is a market value balance sheet where you record the market value of everything. If your company has inventory, you'd list its value at what it's worth, rather than what it cost you to make it. The interesting thing here is inventory is recorded as an asset. So at the end of the year if you have $50million of market value inventory sitting in a warehouse, a balance sheet will show how much money you MADE (even though you have not sold it). This is very good if you want to attract investors/loans and very bad for paying taxes ....

The point is both are legitimate and needed. The market value sheet will obviously produce a more accurate picture, but seeing as how inventory is an asset, there really is no "super accurate" picture, which is why it is important to keep accurate records for different scenarios.

I recommend an oldie but goodie:
"Buy low, sell high, , collect early, pay late" - Dick Levin

edit: i realize I am not in disagreement with you, rather just want to highlight what I think for other HN that there is a need for different versions of the same thing, and its quite legal.
"IP based backoff is a speed bump"

Exactly what I want from it. Speed bumps solve problems. Locking your car doors solves a problem. Neither guarantee anything but both have real effects which make people's lives better.

That is, there can be another "N" here where the account gets shut down completely. If it ends up happening against one account from more than, say, 50 different IPs then shut it down and resort to inconveniencing the real user. Let's say 8 tries * 50 IPs, 400 is the new N where total cutoff happens. Too high?

This makes it more likely that the bona fide customer won't be bothered by stupid script kiddies.
You do realize that these answers you suggest people should have amount to a business plan?
I don't think, for a member of Congress, that Twitter == staying in touch with the world. Perhaps for their staff, as a networking tool.

According to the political consultants, was it the actual representatives fighting for Twitter access, or their staff?
It's interesting that there are no classes, and that there are only Objects, where you just mix everything in.

As I understand it, javascript objects are like this, except you only add in methods one at a time, instead of mixing in and out modules.

It doesn't look like there are inheritance trees. I'm not sure what you'd do to prevent namespace clashes when mixing in different modules or if/how modules share and work on object attribute data, but so far in Ruby, that hasn't been too much of a problem.
It doesn't have arms to open doors and probably can't go up stairs. Quadriplegic mobility isn't that enticing.
You got me there, isn't the sendmail cf syntax turing complete? Sendmail is one of the first things I remove if it gets installed by default. Got a more, for lack of a better word, "modern" example?

A lot of the more core/necessary configuration files on UNIX have pretty detailed man pages and documentation also. Which is definitely more than you can say for keys in the Windows registry.
Besides quality, Wal-mart also has one of the most efficient stocking and distribution processes in the world. There is hardly a facet of their business that the folks in Bentonville have not tried to optimize.
Taste is a very subjective thing. I try not to criticize other people's fashion sense. Obviously, many people are willing to pay for the designs of American Apparel.
Those photos on the home page map get all the attention, buy aren't clickable? (not that I didn't try...)
"Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years..."

After all the ups & downs of PalmSource, Palm OS 6, etc., since what, 2004?

I don't know if they'll win (but the old palmos-lover in me hopes for them, even though I'm on an iPhone now...), but three good competitors promises a very good fight in the mobile smartphone arena.

If they mention that the OS has a bit of BeOS in there, I'm going to tear up.
A nonugly smartphone with a keyboard and replaceable battery. I love palm.
So is this the new palm software based on the BeOS?
Lookup solution? In a portable device?

I suspect 280k of runtime memory is rather more valuable than saving on that tiny loop.

The real solution should have been to have a proper date class instead of mucking about with day counts.
Miser – A Dynamically Loadable Memory Allocator for Multi-Threaded Applications
Make it reverse. Give known IP addresses a better reputation that unknown.

Consider four zones: 1: the last three IP addresses the user has used; 2: any IP address the user has used more than 5 times; 3: any visit that has a valid "I've been logged in as user NN" cookie (given with expiry:never on every login); and 4: everything else.

Lockouts are per zone. Chances are that your average automated attacker is always in zone 4, and that your legitimate user is always in zones 1-3, and that they'll never bother each other. You can then make a policy that's three tries and you're out for three hours, unless you verify your e-mail address. 24 tries a day should be low enough that dictionary attacks are infeasible.
A more extended quote:

“I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, “We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.”

Wow, is that a FUD statement if I ever heard one. Pretty cyncial stuff from Anne H. Milley.
I have no idea what this does better than TripIt/TripAdvisor/<insert travel site here> or why I would want to use it.
Band ftw. It seems like it would be a lot easier to just watch this show rather than troll GaySpace. You can only find one band an episode, so there is that, but overall much better. Entertaining too.
Hey, it's better than their last three "this'll save the company" ideas combined
With good crypto the server could be in Iran and it wouldn't matter.
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As a long-time Treo 700p user that switched to an iPhone at the beginning of 2008... I'm seriously impressed.

Palm seems to have actually looked at the iPhone interface, taken what it does right to heart and attempted to improve upon Apple's rough edges. The fact that it's not just another "mini desktop OS" ala Android or Windows Mobile, but is actually built for mobile usage from the ground up is fantastic, and few other players in the mobile market seem to have understood this.

That being said - I have no idea how you compete against the iPhone. Palm used to have brand-recognition and goodwill, but I don't know how much of that is left after grinding out chunky Treos and above-average Windows Mobile smartphones for years. My gut feeling is at best, it's going to be a distant second or third under the iPhone - but it seems equally likely it will have middling sales and do nothing to rescue Palm as a company.

Time will tell, I suppose.
Thank you for the feedback! We'll be revamping the FrontPage in the next few days, and we'll take these ideas into account.
OK. In that case someone needs to explain to me the central points, because I do not understand them at all.
really?
I would guess that his target market aren't the ones reading stories on HN.sure - the SEO helps.... but i'm not sure too many people follow the links.
Looks like a good experiment - is good to keep asm knowledge in circulation.

Also looks like it will do the fastest fib benchmark around !
in my experience people don't want the truth, most people aren't like hackers. Hackers love honesty, no matter how brutal, most people simply aren't like that. I don't mind a brutal critique so long as it includes advice on how to be better if I'm just starting something. But don't tell me I did it wrong and leave it at that, I have to know why.
My god, that was a great article. Thanks for the link.
power socket? What do you normally call it?
Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government)
They left the corporate cocoon to blossom
The word "document" is clearly implied in this discussion, but is obviously causing a lot of confusion.
Reminds me of Pascal Constanza's context-oriented programming stuff.
It amazes me that people think that a silly 5 line DHTML effect deserves this sort of attention.

We were capable of doing this just as easily and just as cross-platform in 1996. Why is it news today?
I like the design (though perhaps a bit gradient-heavy, I prefer flat) but you should definitely add some sort of tagline, or at least put the "what is zipalong" link in a different color or something; I didn't even see it the first time I opened the site. Just seeing a login form, I immediately closed the tab. Good thing I read the comments, because this looks really cool.

One small usability tip: you could pretty easily combine the login and registration forms. Just put an extra "register" button, do a username check, then add a second password box and the name fields. Also, it'd be a little nicer (though I see what you're doing with the in-one-line thing) if you stacked the password confirmation box under the other; I usually visually compare the lengths before hitting "enter".

Also, I noticed that the look and feel is in many ways similar to Flickr, especially the colors. I don't know if that's a positive or a negative; on the one hand, it will immediately associate your site with photography for anyone who's used Flickr before, while on the other hand it may make it harder to establish a unique brand.

I haven't explored the inside of the site much, but from what I can tell, you've done a pretty good job. Keep up the good work, and good luck.
Its better for them to give up on the crappy product before their customers give up on them.
A million times, yes, but this in particular is the best I've read. Wish I could go and retroactively delete the past ones :)
Your argument is that various people look black in pictures?

Here's another Obama, Sr. pic:

http://conservablogs.com/velvethammer/wp-content/uploads/200...

Do the nose, lips, or hair look Arabic?
That approach didn't play so well on the iPhone, pre-SDK.
I suppose I use MySpace differently than some. When I hear about a band I do a Google search and their MySpace page is usually near the top. I use MySpace to listen to a few tracks to get a feel for them. I never use MySpace to find new music. For that I use a variety of sources including Oh My Rockness (highly recommended if you are in Chicago, LA or NYC).
no - thank you for making it. I think its awesome when people make nifty little web apps, even more so when they a) engage in discussing of their app, and b) don't plaster it in ads immediatley.
can I have a demo or sommat? I'm interested.
I've also just implemented Disqus in my site, so am keen to see competitors. :)
Writing a businessplan is like coding in the psychology language
So this is the letsfreckle.com site? Looks really good, must be fun :) If I was still freelancing it looks like something I'd actually use, unlike 90% of webapps out there.
No, I don't realize that. Go read a book on writing a business plan. :-) Seriously, though-- there's a lot more to a formal biz plan than that.

Being able to toss out some ideas on distribution/marketing is different than having a 2 page section on marketing. Being able to say that you need two more devs to build what you think you need to build in the next 12 months is different from having a 4-stage hiring plan with assorted milestones. Tossing out some ways you could make money is different than a 5-year revenue projection.

I don't think those questions aren't asked because you should have a confident answer to any/all of them. They are asked to confirm that actually think about the issues in question.

It's like agile development vs. waterfall development, IMO.
a) Property rights are a form of coercion because all law enforcement is coercion.

b) If the enforcement of property rights justifies coercion, then almost any kind of coercion can be justified if the prevailing property system is chosen correctly. For example, if a totalitarian state were to have a system where everything belongs to the state, including the citizens, then it would have the right to do whatever it wants with its property, and any assertion of personal freedoms would be theft.
What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Shigeru Miyamoto
As interesting as arc is, sticking with Django or Rails would probably make life easier.
How restrictive is 5000 queries a day on a scale from 1 to 10?
You've got a really great tour, maybe consider using the homepage map as a link to it.
Done! (And gets things smart).
I own about 4 of these skirts, in various colors: http://store.americanapparel.net/rsa7302.html . It's the most versatile, comfortable, awesome piece of clothing I own. I also have several of their dresses and leggings & socks, though I tend to stick with neutral colors and veer away from shiny.

Anyone who dresses themselves according to mannequins styled by 20something art school students is bound to look slightly ridiculous to those who are not 20something art school students. Most of the clothing is great and reasonably priced for what you get.
My Asus eee 1002HA came in the mail yesterday. So far It's pretty neat.

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=164&l3=0&...
Ask HN: Creative TLD Use?
I've been working on an education-related project, and after going through the typical domain name hell, I think I've found a name: Educatious.

I've bought both Educatio.us and Educatious.com, but I thought I'd solicit some opinions on the .us domain. Is using a TLD in such a way confusing and gimmicky or cool and space-saving?

Also, feel free to comment on the name itself.
117 bids and 20K EUR in a few hours, not bad so far but still under minimum price, six more days to go.
I agree, but it's ironic nonetheless.
We had a similar experience with Twiddla. It just plain handled all the traffic that TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, LifeHacker and 100Shiki could throw at it, and all the traffic that came from winning SXSW too. Never moved the CPU over 15%.

The strange thing is that it was almost exactly the same magnitude of traffic that stopped Twitter dead in its tracks a year earlier, and subsequently gave them a ton of media attention.

Sounds like maybe there is some strategic benefit to falling down under load in a spectacular way!
Did the term 'sharding' start with Ultima Online?
Great tips, thanks for taking time to post them!
That's because they were loaded off the internet and didn't have any access to system services.
A better way of handling this is package-based rather than file-based.
Wow, I was looking for this recently but didn't remember what it was called. For me, Windows is good overall, and I'm a gamer, and I started on DOS so I'm pretty command-line happy, but after using Linux/UNIX for personal use and school I vastly prefer the nix command line tools. I have Cygwin installed and use that somewhat often, and I also have msys so I can use some nix commands in the regular Windows prompt. What does SFU/SUA do that Cygwin/msys don't? Speed is always nice but what do you mean by software compatibility?
Facebook overtakes MySpace in U.S. uniques
For example in academia, being "scooped" is a very often discussed and a very real threat. In the research community, hard-working people that are excellent at execution are a dime a dozen, and ideas that have not been done before are a really scarce resource. In the industry it might be less obvious, but it's still quite possible for a small company with good ideas AND good execution to be killed by a large competitor that decides to reimplement their product, but with 200 engineers.
I see what you're saying, but I don't perceive a meaningful difference between those two classes beyond, perhaps, what's in the investor's head.

In both cases you're investing money in a company because you think the value of that company is likely to rise in the future. And in both cases the company benefits from that investment.

I agree that many investors are too focused on the short-term... but if they think they can make more money by selling a stock and reinvesting elsewhere rather than holding onto it for years, can you really blame them? The whole point of investing is to make a return on your principal.
Thanks for all the comments. I read about AuthSMTP, but their plans seem very expensive. We will soon hit more than 200K emails per month, and as per their pricing plans, that's pretty expensive. I am trying to figure out what else I need to do on my own server so that I dont get blacklisted.
Follow cost: Is understanding milliscobles worth the pain?
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I find remembering the images that the text created helps me recall the smaller details. For example, using the size of Rhode Island and the height of cirrus clouds easily painted a vivid image in my head. I'll remember that image in the future and the context it was used, but not necessarily the smaller details like "125 miles down in the Earth", or "forty-five miles across".

However, if I want to remember those smaller details, then consciously linking them to the vivid image makes recalling them a lot easier whenever I recall the image.

I believe this is the same reason why learning new languages is much easier when we're surrounded by people who speak them. When we can link pieces of the language to various interactions in the real world, our brain then has visual stimuli to connect various bits of the language with in our brain. Of course everyone is unique and what works for one person may not be optimal for the other.
I'm not a big fan of "trite" urls making use of .us, .me, .foo extensions unless it's for a trivial application (ie: non commercial). Trying to tell someone "Have you used delicious?... No, DEL dot icio dot US. No, it's in the .us tld, with del. instead of www. Here, I'll write it down for you. Fuck it..."

For the education market, which IME, is not exactly at the forefront of technology understanding in a lot of cases, I wouldn't get too creative there :)
I think it's kind of lame to have a site about education with some made up variation of the word 'education' as the name. It's fine to use a made up word with no meaning. It's fine to use a play on words. It's also ok to use some completely unrelated word (like delicious or Amazon). This is a variation of a real word that carries with it the meaning of the root word, but it's the kind of word a stupid person might use while thinking it makes him sound intelligent. I don't think it's a great fit and probably doesn't convey the type of image you're going for. That's just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt.
If you got the .com, I don't see a reason for having the .us. It might have been cool a few years ago, but there's no substitute for you.com. I mean, keep it around as an alias just in case, but I would definitely use the .com as the primary page.
I think you can perform the scoping in a very fine-grained fashion, because the docs also say:

You can re-mix for the span of a single closure.

I wish there was an example in the docs I could post of this in action, because I'm curious about how this works.
It has always been confusing, but now is considered gimmicky and tired.
The story didn't appear on HN, but I suppose it appeared on every other online magazine available on the web.
> Games are going to be a big question, however. CSS+JS? Hm.

Yeah, that was my thinking as well. The phone and OS overall look superb, but I was wondering what would happen to games and other applications that just can't be written with HTML+JS. If they left it the way they have, The other thing is that by catering to web developers, they cut out a lot of traditional software developers who haven't or don't want to learn the whole web app system.
Not saying that pof is stupid or doing anything wrong. Obviously he did a great job at being successful. Just tiring of the story.
Jeb

I agree with you that the models are not technically underage. Moreover, I know from previous articles about AA that they make the models sign releases confirming they are of age. However, I think that makes it worse and I'd like to explain why.

We already know that what constitutes porn is in fact subjective and was "officially" defined as such by the Supreme Court:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio

So what I'd like to point out is that the very reason that AA needs that little signature is because they know they are (1) making pornographic ads and (2) using models that look underage. If either of those two were untrue, the free-wheeling, open-minded people at AA would surely not resort to legal means to cover their ass.

As far as not providing evidence, what is harder evidence than actual photos of AA ads? I don't see how it's relevant what website they are posted on. Photos are photos.

But hey, I am happy to link to more. If you don't think these are prime pedophile material, I don't even know what to say... you must be one "open-minded" dude.

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006_07_10_9.jpg
http://www.wasuvi.com/images/scan0004.jpg
http://www.adrants.com/images/the_tap_panty.jpg
http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/original/aaad.jpg
http://www.jenisfamous.com/uploaded_images/leggings-720878.j...
http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/21343_1_230....
Wow, this is really really nice. I've been waiting for something like this for a very long time. I had plans a while ago to make a website and rss feed which would inform you of upcoming votes, and vote decisions made by your congressperson and locally elected officials. This would allow you to be informed on the issues you care about, as well as being able to quickly send notice to the elected official before a vote takes place, either through thumbs up/down, quick comments, twitter, SMS, etc.

If done well, the site would become a treasure trove of information on the concerns in particular districts thus enabling any would be competitor to quickly campaign on the issues that a district cares about. Thus ensuring that the representative is working for the people, otherwise a competitor would quickly arise with their campaign points generated for them, as well as where they should stress those points.

Now that the times has this API maybe I'll get started...
Academics: Why it's faster, more lucrative, and fun to do startups
depends how well this turns out to work:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/sandisk_extremeffs_d...