skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking of posting this but then I thought.. gosh.. so much for the karma :)
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With all due respect I think you might be missing the point.

When you write non-fiction you are trying to convey facts. That's why all these guides focus on non-fiction because, in truth, you are conveying information more than anything. So rules like the ones in these guides bring you closer to the ideal because they strip away anything that is not relevant to relaying the information.

Fiction on the other hand is really the act of conveying your own persona to the reader. Even though you are telling a story its a story born out of your mind and is therefore a representation of you. So in contrast the more rules you put on that the further you get away from your intended purpose.

At least, that's the way I see it.
I would add another one to the top of the list. As said many times before, startups need to listen to customer feedback and iterate on what the customer wants. Time and time again you hear this saying, but it really is critical for hitting a home run. No matter how many times you hear it, it's always good to hear it again because we often nudge the advice of others to the back of our heads because we have our own visions.

And kind of off topic - Tim draper sounds and looks like a goofball on his profile on the DFJ website.
Twitter seems to confirm that sentiment: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gmail+is+down
let me help you there ;)
This is very "Chicken or Egg" -ish

Are bad sleeping habits causing mental illness or does mental illness lead to bad sleeping habits. It seems to me the reality is that they are two conditions that exist because of each other.

In other words, if you can't sleep you probably already are a little mad.
dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492869
You're depending on a facebook app for a living? How is that working? I thought after they moved apps to the Boxes Tab ghetto it would have pretty much killed off anything like that?

Well done if it's working for you though, hope it continues to.
Just experienced problems with my Google-Apps Account. Hope they'll fix it soon.
How embarassing that twitter can report on anyone's downtime.
Now it's fine and (mostly-)working for me. except one error message that says "some features could no be loaded due to a few errors"

Chat too isn't working
Yahoo Mail was the result of acquiring Four11 and rebranding their RocketMail product. It was one of Yahoo's better acquisitions. For $65M they got a product that now earns $6.5B/year.
I relate to the personality type described in this series of articles and I can assure you that I am not afflicted with ADHD or any other related impairment. Although I tend to be disorganized every other symptom of ADHD describes pretty much the opposite of who I am.

Impulsive and hyperactive are the last words that anybody would ever use to describe me.

I'm extremely introverted and tend to listen a lot more than speak. When I do speak, I almost never interrupt anybody except maybe during heated debates.

When I am focused on something I am sensitive to distractions such as noise or people trying to talk to me, but in the absence of external distractions I can stay concentrated and productive for many hours in a row.

The kind of distraction described in this series is not a momentary loss of attention but rather a tendency to divert energy to things other than what I am supposed to be doing.

I'll illustrate with an example:

Perhaps I have been assigned a task at work to investigate a database query which is performing poorly. I have a bad habit of ignoring the easy solutions and spending a lot of time 'distracted' by more interesting details. So I might start reading about b-trees and studying the source code for the database implementation, then maybe I'll decide to take a peek at the IO cache implementation in the Linux kernel, oh this is all weaved through the memory manager. I better learn that too. I think I'm going to need some more books! All this new knowledge about memory management internals is giving me a brilliant new idea for one of dozens of secret pet projects I have. I should implement it right now while the concepts are fresh in my mind! Oh wait, I'm supposed to be fixing that query, right? No problem, this new task will help me nail down what I've learned about Linux memory management and then I'll be able to understand the performance issue better....
I'm still getting IMAP access, at least
rss/atom. really, I'm sure there's a good reason there isn't one...
Wow, I just realised how much I rely on gmail.
If you send someone a message on Facebook, the recipient can view your profile. There was no breach of privacy here.
Great blistering balls of fail whale. Still not working for me. Guess I get what I pay for. Oh well, to the internets...
I'm currently running varnish on 3 machines and during load tests have seen as much as 500 Mbit/sec / box, doing well over 2500 concurrent http connections to each machine.

Server load while doing this: 0.25
IMAP is gone as well (Europe, The Netherlands)
Oops... the system encountered a problem (#6502)
umm, no. I just don't like having layers of fluff between me and content. Don't project your sensitivities onto my words.
IMAP is working for me from India.

The web interface however is down.
Is it really necessary to post a thread every single time a large site goes down?
this is very similar to what I'm after - thanks.
Chat is one of the features that could no be loaded due to a few errors.

But Google Docs is fine.
Yeah, and how much I have been putting off using the offline mode :)
well yes!!! especially gmail....i need my fix
Not only that, I think it is really bad form to submit something like this without checking if it hasn't been submitted already.

Takes two seconds to scan 'new'.
"336 more results since you started searching."

It's amazing to see how fast it's spreading through Twitter...
> Guess I get what I pay for.

Great sentiment if you're using the free version, but we have clients hooked up to it paying £25 per account.

Thankfully, only 1 has noticed so far and she was quite accommodating. :)
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Yes.This came six minutes later. But people came here because of the point and the number of comments.
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With computerized registries, age surely starts at zero

Except that, by convention, in China what you consider zero is already "0 years 9 months".

Its similar to describing the epoch time to my colleagues. You know, epoch time: the number of seconds which have passed since midnight (GMT) on January 1st of the 45th year of the Showa era.

Incidentally, you want to have some fun in outsourcing? Try convincing your Indian outsourcing team that it is Very Bloody Important that their code account for the edge case when the last day of one era and the first day of another era fall on the same day of the Western calendar. ("The data are passed in as strings, the strings are always in the same format, why can't we use string compare? It saves the conversion into a date." "That is premature optimization and will introduce a bug for the following dates:..." "There's only a few of them!")
The day I stopped reading newspapers: there was an article on the front of the science section of La Vanguardia, a local 'respectable' newspaper of Barcelona (Spain). The headline of the article was (paraphrasing) "Organ donor headless human bodies".

I am a biologist and a geneticist by training. So I read on with naive interest.

The article was about how researchers managed to inhibit an homeobox gene essential for head development in tadpoles, and that tadpoles developed to some stage and then died, lacking a head. Then the article when on to the wild speculation that such silly experiment could one day lead to headless human bodies generated as clones and for the purpose of being organ donors, avoiding ethical issues (right, the author was sleeping when he wrote that.)

With my background, I knew the claims to be bullshit at several levels, including the ethical. Then I made the link: are all other newspaper articles as thinly grounded as that one? So I stop trusting anything from any source of redacted news such as TVs, newspapers, and radios.
I upvoted this one because gmail seemed more appropriate a link than twitter.
Po Bronson's "What to do with your life" is a great read.

This article though seems to be full of fluff and about reading too much based on post-facto news. Sabeer is definitely smart, but he also definitely got incredibly lucky, and a lot more than everyone else who is as smart or smarter.
Rules in this case are just like rules that could be applied to hacking, or startups: if you don't understand why it's there, you probably shouldn't break it. If you do understand, and know why it doesn't apply to your situation, go ahead.

Conveying your persona isn't just about yourself; the recipient needs to be able to recieve it. Experience has shown that there are things you can do to make that easier for them. Rules in fiction would be to do those things, and avoid the things which make it harder.
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If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update by February 24, 2009 6:30 AM PST detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
From: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-...
Reading this drives everyone to immediately check his account further increasing the load on the servers. Maybe we should sit back, relax and remember the times when email did not yet exist.
News.ycombinator software/similar available?
Is there an open source application available similar to news.ycombinator?
Google users hit by mail outage
I tried googling and searching HN archive but didn't manage to return any meaningful results, thank you.
Good point.

Still, then the author of this one could have suggested an edit rather than to resubmit.
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As far as I know news.yc source code is at http://arclanguage.org/install.

Reddit is open source (http://www.reddit.com/code/) but it is under Common Public Attribution License (you need Reddit logo).
It is not that hard to build yourself.
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It's available as part of the arc language distribution...

http://arclanguage.org/

This is an incredibly popular question... something should be put in the nav maybe
Sure, but the point is, to put together any decent web page template, you'll need at least:

1) Your server-side language (e.g. Ruby)

2) Your templating language (e.g. ERB, which may be very similar to 1)

3) HTML

4) CSS

5) Javascript

5 languages is pretty much a minimum unless you're doing something trivial. I'll agree that the onclick should be extracted, but as has been pointed out in other places, this is a quick documentation example, so it is reasonable to use onclick there to keep it brief.

PS: Also, perhaps worth pointing out that HTML and CSS aren't actually programming languages... Should they count? probably not.
Gmail Gedanken experiment
In honor of the recent gmail outage.Lets imagine that Google somehow caught a perfect storm and actually lost all gmail data. All of it. (I realize this is as close to impossible as you can get, but that's why it's a gedanken experiment). What would happen?
"The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds."

Not the best error message for a failing service IMHO.
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It's not a load problem, most likely. I think Google is well equipped to deal with load spikes, and in any case, we'd see a more gradual failure. This was pretty sudden.
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Creating another library called Prototype?
Now it's "1543 more results since you started searching."
It's just a matter of time tbh--me not having it! = ) Plus maintaining it too, if it's OS then it's much better for me.
Thank you, and agreed.
Okay thank you.
See:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.h...

This obviously has the potential to introduce a new category of evangelism bugs, since no other popular web browsers implement pipelining.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Firefox-pipelining-speed-tweak-may-a...

URL says it all.
If gmail users don't stop complaining on twitter, we'll also see the fail whale there soon. Seems to be the dominating topic there.
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Here is the original link from 24/7 publishers http://247wallst.com/2009/02/23/the-twenty-five-most-valuabl...
We have just completely integrated our blog into our main page design using a customized wordpres-theme (http://blog.helpedia.de/ -> sorry, only German). So the switch from blog to the main site couldn't be any easier.
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Just curious here; I'm a developer who has to write messages like this from time to time.

What specifically is bad about it? Do you have any suggestions to what it should be instead?
Actually, it's the greatest testimony to the hard work the Twitter team has done into making the service more stable.
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It's back up in Belgium.
Have you seen this article about the legal eloquence that Google has in their SLAs?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/googles-apps-sla-allows...
The most disappointing thing is that the TC writer is clinging to his story. After a complete denial he is still trying to suggest there is some truth in the rumor.

Either produce the hard evidence or apologise.
Thanks to Paul Graham for his encouragement and instruction - without it I might not have even got this far. (I've just launched a startup at http://www.straighttointerview.com).

While I have done my best to abide by PG's rules there are some habits I just can't give up. I could easily ruin whatever prospects my startup has by my pig-headed determination to give people what I feel they need rather than what they say they want.
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rubbish. it is easily possible to be professional and produce excellent work. it doesnt have to be stuffy and haughty that's all :)

(and yeh I read his early stuff: not a fan. At every stage in a startup you have to get to a stage where you need to show some professional gloss to prove your not just another backroom programmer - IMO it is the core reason why a lot fail, they cling slavishly to that "fun guy" image and lose corporate custom because of it ;))

@the previous poster: I wouldnt call it unprofessional per se. Empassioned perhaps :D

sorry for the OT :)
No, I had not seen that. That's pretty ugly actually, when my own services are down for more than a minute I have a very bad knot in my stomach and I would not dare to point at my (non-existent) sla to say, see, I told you this was ok.

In the future, I think track record and transparency of SLA's will be the deciding factor when it comes to application services hosted by third parties.
Google would lose all their credibility? People would realize that having all their data in the cloud is not risk-free?

This doomsday scenario sounds so unlikely that it gets to the point of being ludicrous...
I was referring to the "try again in 30 seconds". When your service is failing, maybe it's not the best time to invite users to pummel it with requests. I think a generic "try again later" would work better.
Well, when I entered HN I looked at the top stories and didn't see yours.
Then I logged in and submitted mine.

It is possible I missed your item, or that it wasn't on the first page, or that by the time I logged and submitted mine yours was submitted.

Sorry if you feel I swiped you karma.
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Great stuff Steve - my one big "want" would be permanent chat room names.

A bit like you can claim a userid or brandname on Twitter or email e.g. http://www.chatterbloc.com/manchesterunited :-)
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I run a free service that earns me nothing at the moment, and it has crashed occasionally at 2 or 3AM and I dutifully got out of bed and fixed it. That stomach knot you speak of is one I know and dread.
mine ? I did not submit this, somebody else did.

The front page does not show recent submissions, but 'new' does. The front page uses an algorithm based on the 'acceleration' of postings, their age and total points to figure out what to display.
Another google product to replace gmail
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
I should point out that graph at the bottom of the post took ages to research; I hope someone appreciates it!
> Yeah, I've noticed that Europe and Japan are almost impossible to move to.

Why do you say that? I've moved here 4 years ago, it was a bit of a hassle to get the work permit, but it wasn't that bad.

Basically if you can earn the equivalent of more than about ~45k usd/year, or are a student (and one of a few specific professions- like artists and musicians) it's not that hard to get into the EU.

And coming here with a tourist visa and staying until you manage to get a work permit is much easier than in the US - even getting a tourist visa can be quite difficult in the US, where as as long as you are from a 1st world country you don't even need to apply for one to come to the EU.
Especially since they ran basically the same poll a couple weeks apart with significantly different results:

http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1713&aid=-1

http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1719&aid=-1

Good old slashdot.
the 'down' arrow is not to indicate disagreement or a lack of understanding of the subject matter.
Big props to you for realizing your part, and having the guts to admit it.

That is the #1 indicator of a valuable human being.
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One thing his historical comparison completely neglects is there was a time when people actually cared about performance (or rather they were so constrained by it they were forced to care). On the other hand most of these one-week wonders suffer from "we'll just throw more HW at it" syndrome.
...will there be a life after Google?

(...and will it be eternal?)
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That was what I meant when I said zero is zero years and so many months. Using integers (or even decimals) and without rounding, 0 years and 9 months is really zero. One will start 12 months (or the number of months the calendar is using) after the date of birth.

Edge cases, I would estimate, would account for 30% of a program's logic. When doing the first cut, I classify those as exceptions: abnormal values that generate, well, exceptions.

Time-bound edge cases are abundant, especially in financial apps. End of periods, beginning balances, ending balances.

Other edge-case values are max and minimum values, limits of whatever sort. And these don't include limits of systems, like how many times a stored procedure can be dropped and recreated, that are not commonly known or just ignored hoping the app will hold before the longint limit will be reached.
I'd like to note that bitching about no-good, do-nothing, deceptive, thieving, bitchy, fat women is like slapping on a sandwichboard sign that reads "Grade Z Beta Male Here!"

Complaining about it on an online forum merely adds a flashing light to this ensemble.

If every one of your friends married a woman like that, then maybe you need better friends. And you should look at yourself, too, because people are typically friends with people of the same social standing as themselves.

I long for a day when more people realize that while you may think that you're waving a flaming sword of righteousness, everybody else understands that such complaining just means you are too weak to do anything to change it.
If you're writing back propogation algorithms you need to check out "automatic differentiation" which gives it to you effectively for free.

http://searchyc.com/%2522automatic+differentiation%2522
What the hate on OpenId in that article?
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As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

It would be funny if all those tweets about Gmail crash Twitter.
Is All Remote Usability Testing The Same?
This post discusses the many different methods of remote usability testing.
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Could you elaborate on how it is unlike film? I'm not sure I see the distinction you are trying to make regarding the ability to "skimp out".
They are testing their new offline feature.

(Yes, I stole this comment from Reddit...)
I disagree. It think it's not humanly possible to work at full output for an entire day without taking breaks. Your brain just gets tired. It's not as obvious as when a muscle gets tired but it still happens.

So do the breaks necessary to recharge the brain count as work? It's not like they are time that could be spent working, so why count them as down time and make you think you could work more? But on the other hand you are not working then, so it doesn't count as work.
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Ah yeah - someone on the Internet designed a wrong interface.
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But while the sites are popular - and extremely profitable - a growing number of psychologists and neuroscientists believe they may be doing more harm than good

Had to stop reading after I read that...

(keyword: profitable)
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I see no problem in having a short attention spa.. brb.
A friend of mine is reporting the same problem down here in Honolulu (on Clearwire wireless) but I'm on RoadRunner (also in Honolulu) and all of Google's services work just fine for me.

So yeah... is this really necessary? Everyone and their brother uses Google/Gmail, the only thing you're doing here is letting everyone know you're were the first on the scene. But, you probably weren't, and the first guy on the scene didn't care.
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