skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to make that mistake at first, but it is a very important distinction. Most of the time, for most processes, most of that space is unallocated. However, since it's basically impossible to change the size of the kernel area without relinking the process binaries, and since that area is shared between all processes, the size of that area has to remain fixed.

It is interesting that Linux and NT differ. Perhaps this is due to the fact that NT needs more kernel memory to house, e.g. the windowing system, whereas Linux systems put X in userspace? I'm speculating here.

Something I never considered: that design difference probably makes Wine's job easier, because between the 2GB and 3GB marks is a region of memory the Windows process assumes is inaccessible, yet in Linux is in userspace. They could (and probably do) load the Wine libraries here without interfering with the Windows process. It also means that it would be very difficult to implement Wine's complement, a way of running Linux binaries on Windows.
looks like rentzsch's crew has already added a bunch of improvements. good to know.
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Maybe it's taking so long BECAUSE they're not starting from scratch...
Really? You thought Bebo was going to take off, catch MySpace and Facebook, and make AOL billions? To me this was the only way it could end, although I don't think anyone expected a sale this soon.
that's awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d682xV0n1YY
Sure, it's valid. That's why it'll be important to manage your affiliates and not let them go nuts. (And boy, they will.) Fortunately, you can go far by having someone look through the referrers and see who is playing games and nuking them.

As to an affiliate system, you need to figure out what are essential features. For instance, do you want to cut checks? Do you want it to be multilevel? Do you want to be able to modify the source? (And what language do you prefer?) What about budget?

All critical questions you'll want to ask before you start the hunt.
Demaine took a stand-up comedy class once apparently and he uses it extensively.
Am I the only one who read this as a satire piece? I was amazed to find all the comments taking it seriously!
While I appreciate that muxtape is still alive, the new identity of it definitely does not reflect the free spirited discovery tool that it once was.
Because a 75$ Amazon Gift Card is a better gift than 75$
Why a 'Google Web Drive' Won't Kill Windows, the PC or Anything Else
Unusual and interesting perspectives on the world's cultures in my mind definitely satisfy the criteria of intellectual curiousity.
Maybe he's tried referrals and sites like Match.com, which launched a free version, turned him down or paid too little because they want to take over the vertical too.
AOL might sell Bebo? "Absolutely ridiculous"
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tea.htm
Somehow I trust that Amazon will know how to navigate these waters. They're one of the few retailers that have not seen a major drop in profits.
Why Quantitative Measures Often Make Performance Worse, not Better
I always imagined this thing similar to consoles - you sell it at break-even (or even at a loss) to encourage the purches of books over its service.

Lord knows that if all it took was a quick bit of navigation on the Kindle itself to buy any book at Amazon, I'd have a full Kindle and an empty wallet.
he did
it sounds like he is listening to other people and the media too much and maybe questioning his rightful place in the land of internet fame.

undoubtably any paid site that is hooked into plentyoffish.com will get a flood of referral traffic, and that is a major competitive advantage. regardless it will be a major time consuming undertaking and he might hate all the work involved.

I feel like he needs a number 2, biz dev guy/gal to put together a big time referral deal with one of the major paid sites. then look at the ad space and hook in some premium ads that pay more then Adsense. google is reaping huge rewards here and a big time advertisers would add huge money to the bottom line, without so much work involved. i would love that gig.
Ask HN: Getting Started on MSFT Web Stack vs Other Frameworks/Platforms
I have been in the LAMP stack for the last 9 years, and RoR and Django most recently. I built my last company (which we sold - IMSafer) on RoR. I am just now starting to wrap my brain around C#, ASP.NET and other parts of the MSFT stack. What I am most interested in are people's actual experiences with trying to on-board with the MSFT stack. Specifcally, the younger hackers, i.e. 25 and under. Let's try to keep it factual, and leave invectives out. You can see my personal thoughts about all this at www.n00bnotes.com.
The view is out-dated regardless and only matters for historical interest.

Since the institutions of America have already been uprooted and remade by the generations of the 1960's, 70's and 80's, it moronic for, say, the generation of the 2000's to do anything but further remake them.

If we lived in 16th century England, the question of what to do with our living history might matter.
His argument could be completely reversed and make the same amount of sense. Could probably even use the same quotes.
I'd love it if someone would post a comprehensive list of these incubators.

I'm going to be applying to TechStars for there Summer program. I currently don't have a cofounder, so if anybody has skills (or knows someone that does) that would complement well with a python and Django developer, please contact me (my email address is in my profile) and we could start a dialogue.
Yes you are right, that's probably the first question I should ask myself. I guess I would like to look at two possibilities: one just selling the software and the second one to be an active contributor to the project.
edit: grammar.
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We haven't even got version 1 in the UK yet!
while getting booted sucks for sure, those guys are usually in a great spot and can parlay that success into a new venture or join another successful startup / company at a C level.
On their FAQ page, it mentions future plans to offer utilities for bands to sell downloads, create and sell merchandise, and sell concert tickets. Presumably, those would be pay services. (They could also sell premium packages that allow artists to put up more tracks, get analytics, etc.).

I mean, this is all conjecture, but figuring out the business model for a site like this doesn't seem too difficult.

Whether or not indie bands will pay for that sort of thing, and how much, is a completely different issue.
Not true. This article could easily have been on Reddit in the first year.

What ruined Reddit was (a) an influx of 14 year olds, who (b) were allowed to continue to behave as they had on Digg or wherever else they came from.
Again though, you're working through solutions without defining the ultimate goal.
This article is already a very high level description of Linux memory management (specifically on 32 bit Intel processors). If you want to move down to lower levels of abstraction and learn more details, then keep reading that blog! On the other hand, if you want a less technical description of these concepts then I'm not sure where to look.
How does one accept themselves for what they are? How does that work exactly? And what does it mean to have accepted yourself for who you are?

Serious question. I just get the impression that we have different ideas of what this means, and if we could be more definitive, the 'how to' should become obvious.

This is something I struggle with personally, so I'm very interested to see what others say.
And for opera: http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9
"Real artists ship" may very well be an acceptable western analog to Wabi Sabi.
I've always found the above troubling.

It's been the definition of on topic for about a year and a half, and the site's still fine, so it seems to work.
That's certainly possible. There are a lot of competitors out there though, and now that one has a free site too, there should be plenty of interest.

Perhaps the true nature of this post is an effort to bring some of those other players out of the woodwork.
Who has cash to survive the downturn? Tech
Ask YC: Why not give away your old stuff here?
HN is a community mostly made (I think) of frugal entrepreneurs. All of us have a few things (electronics, programming books etc..) sometimes that we may not be using and that we would not mind giving away to someone if they paid for shipping. So why not post those giveaways here and select a winner from the community?

The nice aspect of HN, is that some level of trust has already been built using the Karma system and you can easily go back and read someone's comments/submissions to get a feel of who they are.

Now for the self plugin: I am looking for a mint condition ATT phone if you have one collecting dust. Thanks all.
HN isn't solely for hackers, there are plenty of people here who can't write a line of code.
I was working at Google when this was still going down. Pretty much what happened was YouTube came and had a little party at the Googleplex and said "Hey guys, we're growing like crazy and have tons of crazy scalability problems that Googlers love... who's game for helping out?" and if you were a Googler that was interested... you just switched roles over to Youtube. Youtube more or less just trudged along and grabbed the talent/resources from Google as they needed them.

It was kind of the ideal situation for a start up... you have no monetary concerns, as soon as you need talent you can go pick from the brightest engineers in the world and have them good to go the next day, and on top of that you effectively have unlimited computing resources... which is important when you're doubling at the rate that Youtube was.
It's pretty arbitrary really. It's rare to need more than 2 gigs of memory in a single user process. On the other hand, the more address space you have in the kernel the easier it is to use spare memory for IO buffer caching.
I fail it. It is Office Space.
And you know how all of them responded to women in charge? Great. Actually, they were a lot more than great.
They were about the most warm, wonderful, welcoming group of people that you could possibly imagine.

I've heard the opposite..not about Saudi Arabians, though. My mother was the boss of an Iranian immigrant, and he was apparently completely unable to respect instructions given by a woman. And we are not talking about burger-flipping here, but pharmaceutical production.

This is an anecdote answered with an anecdote, but let's not put this whole cultural difference under a chair. Women aren't regarded as the professional equals of men in all parts of the world. I'm not starting a gender debate here; in some ways it is a pretty interesting difference. Especially if you see that those Arabian cultures that are even more "different" (polygamy, for instance) actually have a lot of similarities to promiscuous life in the West..at least from the male's point of view. There are a lot of facts about morale and life in these societies that doesn't come to light in any politically correct discussion.

I wish I had a better skill for languages so I could go over there and see these things first-hand...
If someone wants programming books (or other stuff) in Innsbruck, Austria, we're going to be moving shortly:-)
Children working in factories was grim, but are you sure it was a disruption? I.e. are you sure life wasn't worse wherever the factory workers came from? I'm not; factory workers weren't conscripted.
Ted blows my mind every time.
Looks like there might be some planned synergy here between muxtape and Normative, Jakob Lodwick's music label. Reggie Watts--one of the featured artists--is signed to the label, and Lodwick is an (the?) investor in muxtape.
Wow, awesome. Lua is much nicer than PHP.

I have a feeling that if Lua catches on, though, that it will become the same cut-n-paste quagmire that PHP did. If you are only using something because it is already installed, you are not going to bother with libraries. That makes me sad.

But, we will see how it goes.
Thanks for the idea. I am not sure if I can extract useful facts from it, but I can definitely see this helping for "see also" purposes.

Integrating with the semantic web is a natural further step for Factolex.
AT&T uses SIM cards. So do the cheap pay-as-you-go phones from Walmart, etc. So buy a phone for $10, swap SIM cards, and you're good.
A few important questions that weren't asked:

Would your friends also pay for those services? - If your friends are no longer on FaceBook, what value does it have for you?

While those sites might be worth that money, would you switch to a free service that does the same thing? - Why pay for Twitter when a free alternative will be made available and this alternative will more likely grow faster without the barrier to entry of a credit card.
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sam_in_nyc: FF2 (specifically gecko 1.8) has a bug rendering HTML5... should work fine in FF3, safari, IE6/7, chrome, etc
Your observation about perfectionism's root is astute. However, ego is a pale imitation of internal self-acceptance but is often mistaken for it. We still need to have enough wisdom to know that v1.0 is probably not as good as it can be while v10.0 is probably as good as it will be.
This could be huge...I mean, really huge, like so huge it puts some far-fetched project like: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ into a codeable context. If this module gets the care and tenderness it deserves I think it's safe to assume that it will forever change how we use HTTP and what we use it for. I mean think about it, given the advent of JavaScript on the front-end plus something like Lua on the back-end. . .you might as well say good-night to our current client-server model for the web as we know it. This is so big that calling it something like Web3.0 is a misnomer, something this big could render our operating-systems into browsers, our desktops into plugins/extensions, and our applications into remote-services...ok ok, maybe those last few somethings were a bit of a stretch, but it's exciting to see someone as big as Apache introduce a scrpiting module that has been responsible for something as successful as the gaming industry that this could be that back-end interface that JavaScript has been so patiently waiting waiting for ever since it almost miscarried out of the womb of Netscape. Plus, it's reassuring to know that C isn't going out of style any time soon. :P
Thanks for the kind words.

Your personal lexicon survives your registration (of course :)
For the navigation bar: we tried it, but settled for leaving the bar out (as the menu actually continues on the far right). A matter of taste, I suppose.
The ongoing votings section is still sort of under construction, thanks for bringing that up. There is quite some room for improvement there ;)
But wasn't the influx of 14 year olds driven by general interest articles, which very slowly got less interesting and more general?

How could that slow boil be prevented?
I'd heard that Crossing the Chasm talks about this sort of things, but I've never actually read it. I think most startup founders figure this out.
Only in the sense of structure, not value. What makes HN special is the quality of discussion which goes on here; Newmogul on the other hand seems to have no discussion. The most active post at the moment has 3 comments on it. Perhaps, the site will get more active over time.

I wonder what it is about hackers that makes them talk so much. It's a good thing.
Gabor on how engineering decisions get made
Stuff gets lost all the time. Deal with it.
In his defense, I don't think he was suggesting it's either spam or egregiously off topic.

What bothers curmudgeons like me and him is the gentle slope towards Everybody News.
I would guess that it has a lot more to do with the volume of traffic on newmogul vs HN than the type of people.
Ah thanks. That explains a lot.
"A network of around 37-ish servers of all different shapes and sizes, spread over three sites, specifically geared towards the needs of open source projects like Python."

Really cool and will help Python be even more cross-platform friendly.

NSF funded projects are spoiled like this: http://nmi.cs.wisc.edu/
Actually, width doesn't make sense for movies either. Your field of vision is not letterbox shaped. Look at IMAX if you want an effective large screen format. What's more common in movies, a close up, or a shot of a landscape ? I've got my left monitor rotated to portrait, which works pretty well, but it would be better if it was more 'square'.
From that page (PDF): http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refID=105040

This chart lists several brand-name foods that had "detectable" levels of mercury, the worst of which is about 350 parts per trillion. According to Wikipedia, the "action level" of mercury in fish (the point at which government takes action) is one part per million. So it sounds like you'd have to eat/drink thousands of servings of this food to equal one particularly bad helping of fish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning#Prevention

On the other hand, Wikipedia lists the legal limit for water as two parts per billion ("inorganic mercury" instead of "methylmercury"), which would be easier to hit. I'm not sure which limit applies in this case.

Edit: It might be worse than this for some portion of the population. From the "Not so sweet" paper:

Using the USDA’s estimate of 50 grams of average consumption HFCS per day, one might roughly estimate potential total mercury ingestion via HFCS of up to 28.5ug total mercury/day (50 grams HFCS X 0.570 ug/g). Using these same assumptions, high-end HFCS consumers potentially could
have much higher total mercury ingestion.

It is difficult to know to what to compare this figure. The EPA has established a "reference dose," or maximum recommended dietary intake of methylmercury. Methylmercury is the form typically found in fish and seafood. The reference dose of 0.1 ug/kg/day applies to women of childbearing age and young children, who are thought to be the most at risk from methylmercury exposure. For the "average" 55 kg American woman, this would translate into no more than 5.5ug/day of methylmercury.

There is no reference dose for total mercury. The mercury found in HFCS may be a different form of
mercury than the methylmercury typically found in fish (we just don’t know), but it poses a risk just
the same. Mercury in any form can be toxic to the developing brain.
Here's the actual paper: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069x-8-2.pdf .

They found a maximum of .57 ppm mercury in corn syrup; the allowable limit of mercury in sushi is 1 ppm.

.57 is probably high, and whatever source they found that from should be checked out; but this doesn't seem to me like reason for drastic action.

But I'm no expert! Anybody want to tell me why I'm wrong?
-- This is something I struggle with personally

Don't worry, you're not alone, every single person does.

-- How does one accept themselves for what they are?

This is such a deep question that I honestly can't provide an easy answer, and it would be foolish of me to claim that I knew an easy answer. When I say self-acceptance, I'm talking about being entirely at peace with one's self and being completely content in life (true happiness).

Self-acceptance is something that is unique to everyone's own personal situation. Your troubles are different than mine, and my experiences are different than yours. So what you might have to overcome was easy for me, and what I have to overcome may be easy for you.

Nevertheless, since you asked, I personally find I am most at peace with myself through Christianity. I believe that I'm placed here on Earth with a purpose and a plan, and can completely accept myself (faults and all) because I have a God that accepts and loves me unconditionally for who I am, imperfections and all. It really is that simple, and it becomes more self-evident every day that it just plain works.

While religion hardly goes well over the net, I think this board is intelligent enough to understand this one thing:

It is often said that religion is a crutch, but everyone needs a crutch to get through life. For me, the thing that delivers an unshakeable self-acceptance and true happiness is following Christianity.

Good luck on your search, many others are on your path, including myself. =)
The idea of the project is a new approach into collaborating on knowledge, by splitting the knowledge into smaller parts, and then being able to handle them in an easier way.

Most of the definitions come from Wikipedia. We started off trying to have people enter facts manually, but then I figured that we should leverage all the knowledge of Wikipedia that is freely available.

So I wrote a bot that is not particularly clever, but most of the times good enough for fetching facts from Wikipedia.

By the way, it can also extract facts from the German Wikipedia (there is a German version of Factolex as well: http://de.factolex.com/ as my mother tongue is actually German).
Hopefully Amazon made changes to their final design based on feedback on the Boy Genius Report 'leak':

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/03/amazon-kindle-2-eb...

"...the battery does not look to be user-accessible, and there’s no more SD card slot..."
Interview with startup lawyer Ryan Roberts
I am a big supporter of MSFT stack. I am a first time programmer out of college, being 24 now and 2 years on the job I would say it should be taught in school. They did a extremely good job with C# and it is becoming more dynamic with the "var" keyword. There IDE is out of this world which is just an amazing tool. It allows for extensions just like firefox in which there are tons out there. They allow you to talk to every type of server or data set with the new LINQ technology which allows going through tables absolutely quick.

It is highly functional beating most of the competitors on bench tests. Look up myspace asp.net case study.

The framework is solid and over all my time working on it, I haven't found a bug except one that existed in their ajax controls contributed by the community.

Its a bit hard to pick up when you have had no programming experience, but it can be compared to syntactical to C++ and Java.

Hope that helps.
I think the 14 year olds were attracted by a sense of lawlessness, most visible in the long, highly editorialized titles and the trollish comments.

It wasn't so much general interest articles that signalled the decline of Reddit as partisan political ones. I.e. articles that didn't merely involve politics, but were instances of it.
Excellent site full of tech crap, Smoke a fat one and read this stuff.. Makes for a great buzz. :)(
Mercury accumulates in the body, and the body has ways of slowly flushing it out.

The problem is that even if one dose is below harmful level, 10 doses might not be.

Or 100, what ever the dose is.

Because corn syrup is in almost everything it's hard to know just how much mercury you're ingesting.
Geithner forces Citi to cancel jet order
I'd take that gig even with the work. Alas, it isn't my industry, and if Markus actually wanted that person he'd probably be able to find much better resumes than mine in that respect.
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