skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A foot a second is off by several orders of magnitude. It's closer to 300 thousand km per second in vacuum, and around 200 thousand km per second in fiber.
I like the comparisons with ClojureScript: http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html The major thing that continues to really annoy me about JS is the lack of proper lexical scoping, other deficiencies are just slight annoyances now (especially with a couple libraries that help the language be tolerable in certain use cases--e.g. https://github.com/coolaj86/futures).
Thanks for pulling me up on that. You are right. I think I had something to add, but the way I chose to do it was not constructive.

I'm still learning and I really appreciate guidance like this.
2. Thanks Colin, I've fixed that!
I think that working outside comfort zone is not necessarily doing the stuff you don't like. You should do the stuff you like and the stuff you're good at - going out of the comfort zone is trying to break working routine and finding new solutions for old problems, it's, in fact, changing the state of mind and constantly learing new things about stuff you like and stuff you're good at.

Of course, there's still need for objective look and understanding of what should be done first. I guess, balanced team of technical and non-technical cofounders should be the way to have it.
ACID and NoSQL are not mutually exclusive, although that is a common misconception due to the fact that almost all NoSQL databases gave up ACID in exchange for BASE (eventual consistency), making the development of their distributed databases much easier. However, ACID is simply a set of properties that allows you to group a set of reads & writes to a database into a transaction that is Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and Durable. That set of reads & writes does not need to be SQL - in our case, it is a set of reads from and writes to a database of ordered keys and values.

For example, you could read the values associated with keys "a" and "b" and "c" and based on that information, make a change to the values associated with keys "c" and "d" and then commit the transaction. The transaction then either fails completely (if one of the keys you read had been written to since your read, in which case you re-try the transaction) or succeeds completely. That is an ACID transaction in a (NoSQL) key-value store.
Hey guys,

Back in January I launched Lean Domain Search, a domain name generator, on HackerNews [1]. I've been hard at work on it (I actually left my day job in September) and have spent the last few weeks on this latest change.

In the past when you performed a search the site only shows you available domain name results. With this change, it now checks Sedo's database and returns relevant premium domain names from their portfolio as well. I've tried to not make the results too intrusive so that they don't get in the way if all you're looking for are available domain names.

Would love to get your feedback -- thanks!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470977
What inputs are they using to chose the best scenes. Is it based only on the movie? Audience reactions at screenings? Sounds interesting.

You could presumably then tailor trailers to particular groups to emphasise desired attributes.

Downside to that is that if you sit through a few trailers you could literally have seen a-third of the movie before you go to watch it.
we like this face!
For anyone interested in the general topic of implementing a dynamic language on the jvm, Charles Nutter has a ton of good material around invoke dynamic and jruby.
Actually, I was hoping that cost and price would at least be near each other. Adam Smith… invisible hand… all of that.

I think you just proposed about a 300% profit margin for my cell provider. I doubt they do that well on me, but that we can believe they do should be a sign that something is wrong in our communication business model.

Personally, I think that if the phone companies are overseen by commissions that restrict their profit margins, then clearly the only way to increase profit is to do everything as expensively and inefficiently as possible. Their actions make a lot more sense thought that lens.
The article is light on details, but one way you can "give" ownership to your employees but still get paid for it is for the company to borrow money to purchase the shares for the employees.

That had the added advantage that both the interest AND the principal on the loan are tax deductible.
I would be cautious about drawing conclusions about startups
from this study. Startups are such a small subset of newly founded businesses that unless a study is very careful about
how they select their sample, they're likely to get mostly
ordinary businesses. And judging from what the people who did
this study say about how they selected their sample (see page 8),
it sounds like that's what happened. They say they "extracted
randomized records by region." Randomization is not the way to select a population who by definition are outliers.
I agree. I find that the buttons don't "afford" clicking at all.
He's been very responsive. Look at the blog post comments.

Also, to clear up a misconception, Kickstarter doesn't pay the project creators, Amazon does. It pays the creator individually for each backer, and then money is transferred to Kickstarter from the Creator's payment account.

So the individual backers pay the Creator, the Creator pays Kickstarter. But it all happens automatically.
Light travels about 300000 km in a second. I think you meant nano-second.
100% agree.

But i know know too many people who take the "this is the job of my co-founder" route as excuse for not caring of the (currently) more important things.
They don't "have" to be told; but its sometimes a healthy reminder... and it was just an example.

The majority of secretaries are female (not all); and is no secret that sometimes people hire based on looks instead of actual skills.
As LinkedIn closes its Events app,Lanyrd steps in with new integration
Ask HN: Impossible client? Impossible playing field?
I'm running into an issue, I s'pose, that seems related to the "curse of knowledge." Everyone tells me in response, "You know too much about the details, etc." But is this really the case? I sincerely wish to ask HN for the fact that I am losing my mind. And it seems to indicate a larger issue, related to the fact that most people literally respond with shock and almost fear when they see me work at my Terminal or vim. I'm afraid to work in public now, honestly, since doing so brings about so much bloody negative reaction. (All of my clients have been this seemingly difficult. I'm starting to worry if I can even work in this city. Months back, say in the summer, a lead developer at cPanel responded with confusion: "What is SASS/LESS/etc?")

But please review this e-mail (and I'll keep the typos):

To Client,

Also, did you go through my last e-mail regarding github? You mentioned changes on the site, and github would be he easiest way to keep track of those changes. It would also ensure that we are on the same page. Please review that e-mail. If you did not receive it, please let me know.

I have also looked into digital signage solution that are cheap. We are looking at rough $30-$40 per sign to run a small microcontroller system that can manage those displays. Here is a link to the idea: https://github.com/wireload/screenly-ose

---

His response?

"Hey man- I just saw it this wknd - not really sure I understand it"
Presumably you meant, "travels about a foot in a nanosecond." From Google, "the speed of light / (10^9) = 0.299792458 m / s" -> about one foot.
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Do you have any sources that elaborate? I've actually spent several hours trying to figure out how to contribute to open source, and given up out of frustration.
This isn't specific to Redline, but do take a look at the RoarVM http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/renaissance/ a many core research implementation of the Smalltalk VM that does some very interesting things with non-determinism. Also there are Javascript implementations of Smalltalk that run inside browsers like http://amber-lang.net/ although I haven't had the nerve to actually deploy code to users written in Amber.
Problem with these is I end up turning it off.
Do all these partners give interviews?
well as i mentioned above the whole idea behind monticello goes hand in hand with the idea of having to program a/in a vm. you may like the vm/object structure more than a file based structure, but ymmv.

not to mention that when we were evaluating squeak a year or so back git was nothing more than a half assed gsoc project.

but even so, the fact that you can pipe anything into git one way or another doesn't change the fact that they are conceptually different, but if it does, feel free to correct me.
This doesn't dispute what the parent said though: Polgar is obviously going to be selecting for intelligence when choosing a spouse.
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This is an insightful comparison, but its significant to know that it is not actually a preorder.

When you preorder you are entitled to demand the product or your money back, but with kickstarter if it fails after a good faith effort you probably have no recourse. With most preorders (not all, but most) the product is near completion when you put in the order, but with kickstarter that product is often little more than plans at the point of pledging. It is similar to a preorder, but the differences matter.
Since I once got the report when I only used 150kwh and was saying there were other people more efficient than me, I assure you it's looking at vacant apartments and houses.

Also it's downright stupid to waste resources and postage to mail people who aren't offenders and can do little more to optimize their power use other than turning off the mains.

Just mail worst offenders, people above the averages and save hundreds of thousands of dollars on what becomes junk mail.
Info is a purple button and a blue alert/badge/label.
I would suggest starting off with Codecademy (http://codecademy.com/) first.
Self-control only goes so far, but if (like me) you have trained yourself to flick to reddit as soon as you get even slightly bored, it's a good way to untrain that behaviour.
Facebook offers $1 credits for mobile signups and referrals in India
Additional context: Tiny Habits is a free course about learning how to make habits like the OP talked about. It teaches the habit of habit making. Highly recommend.
As explained by Grace Hopper: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/1/grace-hopper-to-pro...
"[. . .] the company’s online ad system — the system that makes its millions [. . . ]"

That is an understatement.
If I have something that I'm interested in (say, clear air), and I want the government to do something about it, when do I move from an interest to a special interest?
Apple's Module proposal to replace headers for C-based languages [pdf]
AP-to-AP roaming is already a necessity in any large enterprise deployments. There are some proprietary solutions and I believe there was at least some work on standardizing a solution that would work across vendors (although I'm not sure where things ended up).
Cross-browser development cheat sheet
And to think of all the people still denying that climate change is a real thing

This is a straw man.The dispute is over how much of climate change is caused by human emissions of CO2, not whether climate change occurs.
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this. a million times this. not sure why people aren't understanding that this is the point of the discussion here.
Asynchronous Airbrake delivery – avoiding latency in application response time
Is it? The last modified date on the free web version seems to be October 30, 2012. That's less than a month ago, whereas the print version on Amazon was published in February 2011.
Great solution, thanks!
Humanoid Robot from Disney
No problem. If you have any other questions, feel free to email me - tim at matchist.
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I think those are also smaller and smaller markets. [...] Not so low they are not worth doing, but low enough they won't support a rapid growth and investment seeking startup.

I think we agree on the basic situation, just perhaps have a different idea of the scale.

To me, having a business that has merely millions of potential paying customers, but where those customers have a particular interest in what you're offering and there is relatively little competition because you really are doing something new, is worth more by any metric I care about than having a business with billions of potential paying customers who have no particular interest in what you're offering and dozens of competitors offering something similar. About the only metric where this doesn't come out on top in B2C world is "probability of hitting it out of the park", which is of interest to VCs and serial entrepreneurs playing the long game, but possibly not so relevant if you're just trying to start a successful business for yourself.

Your comment about "in an efficient world" is interesting, because I think this is where the received wisdom breaks down: the real world is nowhere close to an idealised efficient economy. Many people have the skills to use modern technology effectively, but a lot of them are working for someone else in some large business, and the overheads of that large business make many of these smaller projects commercially unappealing. The "correct" economic response for the people with the skills to take advantage of the market that would pay for them is for those people to break away and set up their own small, efficient businesses that can then make a very tidy profit by genuinely helping a lot of people who are below the radar of big business.

Of course, that requires skills other than technical ones, and an awareness of the possibilities, and a willingness to take a risk with your income when perhaps you have a mortgage to pay and a family to support, and all of those things influence what actually happens. But that is why there really are still a lot of very lucrative (by individual/small business standards) opportunities out there for those who are willing and able to make that jump.
I'm curious what you've funded there.

The two things I have funded (a laser cutter for our hackerspace, and The Temple of Juno at Burning Man this year) have both been built, and both have delivered on their prizes.

Of course the "I'm going to totally smash an industry with $100,000 and...and....ANDROID!" aren't going to work.
Not much sign of such deals on http://www.amazon.co.uk - pity I could have topped up the kindle. Most are more than the paperback price.
Have been watching redline for a bit now, very promising. I would like to see what the plan for integration with Amber is.
color not bold enough, anyway, it's good.
Mentioning anything like github or modern tools, on average, puts me in a position where I am either shocking or apparently showboating in a conversation. Everything is testosterone, and my mild speech impediments make it next to impossible to converse with people without large expenditures of energy on my part.

I'm honestly at wits end, as is obvious by the organization of this post.

It's not schizophrenia, but over the past year, it has become markedly clear that I am the only person I actually can talk to... Maybe I'm just in the wrong crowd. Or maybe the crowd is too small?
I live in a country where living together while not married is very much frowned upon. Those aren't my views, but they are the ones of the society which surrounds me. Therefore I'm just curious about lifestyles which aren't even possible here because I haven't met any people who lead them.

I am not asking anyone to explain themselves, I tried to make that clear and certainly did not mean to offend anyone(sorry if I have). I was just asking out of curiosity, the way you would inquire about anything which is out of the ordinary with respect to your every day experiences(and in the society I grew up in, this is very much out of the ordinary -- That doesn't mean I'm making any kind of value judgement, it's just a fact).
Ruby steals the concept of 'everything is an object' from Smalltalk. Compare http://edwinmeyer.com/Release_Integrated_RHG_09_10_2008/chap... with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Object-oriented_progr....
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Ask HN: How's the tech scene in Spain?
I was talking to my girlfriend about moving to another country for a year while we're young and not tied down. We decided that Spain would be ideal because we both studied Spanish in high school/college and could probably become fluent relatively quickly. I was hoping there would be some people on HN that could help answer some questions for me.

How realistic is this idea? Would it be difficult for an American software dev to find a job in Spain? Would applying to large American companies with offices there be the way to go? What would the visa process be like?

Thanks a lot for your help.
For lack of a better answer: probably not.

Republic is a subsidiary of Bandwidth.com which is where Google Voice gets their minutes from (along with Skype and most of the rest of the SIP world). There are a number of problems with Republic's plan, but the primary one is one that Google should have a much easier time solving.

When Republic was launching, the critical necessity for their launch was the receipt of their Cyanogen modded handsets. These devices are different in a couple ways:

1) They will always auto-hop onto WiFi
2) They will always try to route via SIP first

The practical problem is that SIP over GSM/3G is not very good sounding even when you use G.729 (when you're coming over the top). Google has a chance to beat this part as they can make a much tighter integration (one wonders what could be tighter than the built-in SIP stack, but I digress).

COULD google come in and have a grand time in the wireless market? Yes. Will they risk alienating their carrier partners (their top distribution channel)? Probably not.

To my mind, this is just another Google infrastructure play that makes sense for a whole variety of reasons, but I don't think it will serve as the basis for GoogleMobile. For one thing, this wifi network simply isn't large enough to support a carrier, imho.
Well, not literally half the population for either of those. Or do you mean half the US population?
Because once you get big enough it makes sense to have specialists working on small parts of the business. Those specialists all should be creating more value than their cost.

Just think about the credit card side of the business.
- They should have one person who's whole job is to make sure their interchange charges are as low as possible.
- They likely have a lot of float, money from where customers have paid for stays upfront that they hold onto until the housing providers get paid. If a billion dollars flow through their hands a year and they pay 15 days after the recieve the money, there is $41 million in float that someone needs to invest for the short term.
- An entire team of people likely has to deal with credit card fraud.

Any webish company past a revenue range is going to have these issues to deal with.
TL;DR: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Stanford, Oxford, Yale, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford, Harvard. It is difficult to tell if this is an indication that YC overwhelmingly prefers people from extremely prestigious name-brand universities, or only people from said universities have any chance of being "connected" enough to get into YC.
The first couple of days with a language can be painful. People have trouble getting python libraries to work too. Maven is really quite well thought out and solid.
we'd love to hear ideas. feel free to join the mailing list and give us your thoughts.
Had to look it up, found it on Bill Gates' site :)

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Chuck-Feeney-The-Billi...
While there is much potential for abuse, there is also room for some regulation. For example, if Google decides right now to cut me off from my email, what recourse do I have? Something that requires them to mail me a DVD full of all my data at reasonable cost given proof of identity could be reasonable.

Not that I trust Bruce Schneier on this.
Flomio’s FloJack reaches its Kickstarter target, bringing NFC to Apple devices
Lessons learned by Golang.
Uncommon features of Einstein’s brain
If that's how you're training, then it isn't necessarily the volume/intensity but your diet that's holding you back. I train as an advanced Crossfit athlete 5 days a week and it's very intense exercise!

Diet is more important than most people think! If you are truly training hard and you don't have a hard time getting your last few bites per meal down, then you're not eating enough.

At peak training (for me) an example diet would look like this:

Morning: 6 eggs (free-range), 4 strips of bacon (only happy pigs), two apples, one pear, and a little cup of almond butter.

Pre-lunch snack: half a bag of cashews and/or a few Kind Bars and 48 grams of protein in a shake.

Lunch: usually something I've cooked the night before, like Coconut Curry, Chili, steak or chicken. I always eat bacon to get my fat - some of these dishes will have been made with it, if I'm just eating steak I'll have 3-4 slices of bacon with it. To get my carbohydrates I fall back on fruits and sweet-potatoes. I'll have two sweet-potatoes and an apple, usually, with the above type of meal.

Pre-dinner snack: 48 grams of protein in a shake.

Dinner: similar to lunch, it will be some paleo meal that has been cooking in the Crock Pot all day or something I already made with enormous amounts of protein and fat in it. Again I get a lot of my calories from sweet-potatos and fruit so for dinner I'll usually eat a lot of berries, pears, sweet-potato fries, &c...

This type of diet is 100% gluten free and 100% refined sugar free and HFCS free; I also try to eat organic/free-range where I can. There are some instances where it just gets too expensive for me and have to buy some veggies/fruits that are not organic.
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If something is too easy to be interesting, find ways to make it more interesting.

Like, after the naive solution try without if statement, then without switch statement, and so on, until you are eventually left with just a print statement (+ given for loop) :)
One reason is portability: you won't be able to directly deploy your AMI on OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.
I found at least one bash specific thing:
$(which dscacheutil)
Biologically biased doesn't mean it can be changed; for example we are biologically biased to be polygamous just like most mammals; but we are socially configured to be monogamous so most of us are.
And you think that's why his house uses a lot of natural gas?
Good question. I don't know. (intuition = yes).
OK, true, but not every intelligent child becomes brilliant in something.
Then what you don't understand is how a trad tune set works. What I'm talking about is how to put together a set of three tunes that work well as one track on an album or one "number" in a performance. Each tune internally has its own progression, which may be different. I'm only talking about the home chord of each tune. (Which I state.)
Am I the only one that is way too paranoid to use a service like this? I already assume that half of the DNS registrars are underhandedly registering good domain names that go through their lookup services.
There are also YC alumni walking around in the waiting area before the interviews, usually -- probably identifiable by YC clothing items (sweatshirts, t-shirts) or by generally looking less nervous than applicants...

And there are a couple more YC employees usually present, handling scheduling and logistics.