skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mything Time: What did we do, how much did we do, at work today?
Releasing early and often... how it failed for us [extended version]
No. You journal the changes to disk. You therefore only need disks fast enough to keep up with the journal. If you get into a situation where your disks can't keep up with the journal, your site is probably big and popular enough that you can afford to hire DBAs to go from there.
Save around 300/yr on a small instance based on a 30day month
3Scale’s API Outsourcing Service Now Out Of Beta
I think the people downvoting you don't understand your point. If the vetting team told Kundra that they didn't think he was fit to be CTO, that might tip Kundra off to an ongoing investigation.

The whole thing is a moot point now, because Kundra wasn't the guy they were investigating.
No, I'm saying he wouldn't be the nominee.

Honestly, I'm not sure how you even got that out of my original post.
Free Beer Economy
I wrote the extented version : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=513655
Maybe it could be useful to have a checkbox to specify when we're submitting our own content?
Testing sites for browser compatibility and rendering issues, most likely; though having 1+ screens probably isn't necessary. I would think it would be much easier, and more cost-effective to go with a KVM switch than a bunch of different monitors. Perhaps could be useful for testing site renderings on different monitor resolutions.
I ask myself "What does the each patten make easy? What does each pattern make difficult?" The standard or "verb-oriented" organization makes it easy to manage cross-cutting concerns, like rewriting all of your views in HAML instead of in erb, or adding a "created_at column to every model table. The refactored, or "noun-oriented" organization makes it easy to manage model concerns, like adding a new controller action with its associated views, model changes, tests, and migrations.

I find the latter happens far more often than the former for me, so it feels like a win even if I have no interest in sharing a model between applications.
_and why would homeless people volunteer for this if it was the case?_

People are often duped and/or coerced into doing all sorts of things not in their best long term interests interests.
Californian VC (YC) wants Cambridge start-ups for new funding round
I'm pretty sure a basic vetting is done of the entire "short list" of candidates so the President doesn't waste time considering someone who can't be nominated.
Considering the author is a Rhodes Scholar, she sounds incredibly risk-averse.

Working for a top management consulting firm is a great signal of your competence to future employers. But if you already have such markers (Rhodes Scholar, MIT, for the author) you will not gain much, especially if you do not enjoy the job.
Palm Treo Pro
The new and many features included phone ahs come out, not to wait till latest edition as Palm has announced Palm Treo Pro with al remarkable features.
Raganwald is also mentioning refactoring the code so that the data objects become responsible for persisting and displaying themselves though.

I don't necessarily have any problems with the persisting (that's how ActiveRecord works out of the box), but I'm not sure about the displaying, because I sometimes want to display things differently depending on the context.
We might not see upgrades any time soon, they may try to push the price of their slowest instances down. Imagine if you could get an instance for $10/mo? $5/mo? They're just buying faster hardware and figuring out how many instances they can effectively run per-machine.
HN is slow lately because PG is a dreamer and too much tied to personal and insignificant taste details (which never combine with a greater user base):

HN should have been written in CL.

;)
I tend to agree, here. I have a Facebook account, but there's nothing I bother to do with it. On the other hand, with Gmail and Talk and Reader, I keep in touch with people I know, share links, etc. in a very seamless way.
ContactGenie
linode has been in the game before vps became a common word in the hosting biz. usermode days and they haven't fell off!
Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
I have been using slicehost for only about a month and have to say I am very happy. I find the control panel to be great too, very simple and to the point.

Yesterday I resized the size from 256 to 512 and was really impressed at how well it went. Took all of about 15 minutes, with about 3 minutes (or less I was not paying much attention) of downtime.

It seems to me that either service is good enough that once people pick one they just stick with it.
Consumers Can Still Spot Value in a Crisis
maybe it's the 'secret weapon' for those startups

is there any data of #monitors used during early product development on various startups?
The Service Driven Business
I was thinking about an IQ test, something like at Google. Maybe a coding problem, and then a special Hacking intelligence, Macgyver type test.
Building an innovation nation
After bad comments on how short was the first post, here is the new version. We'll see if I get more comments on a short post or a long post.
Does anyone familiar with the service know how the Google Voice number you're assigned works with long distance providers? I've been using my cell phone as my primary phone for a long time now and get free (domestic) long distance but if someone who pays extra for long distance tries to call my Google Voice number would it be considered long distance even if they're local to me?
Yeah we did consider that. But we arrived at the conclusion that the idea was still great.
Man, at least tease us a little about what's coming!
We'll be doing private beta in july. Check out http://www.timmyevolved.com to get involved.
I use synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ for sharing one mouse and keyboard across two monitors and OSes. I use Linux on the right and Mac on the left. Would never go back. Like someone said read documentation on one, code on another.
Well, time to revisit it!

In truth, the team I work with tried to use Erlang to power some real-time components of the website we were building at the time but we couldn't get it to work. We kept hitting scalability walls and the problems were too opaque to diagnose.

We decided to go with something better understood by the development community at large and built a Ruby/EventMachine solution.

I'm not an Erlang pro by any stretch, so you know it's bad news when your blog posts about the language are some of the highest ranked for obvious search terms like "Erlang tutorial."
This article was pretty vague on what it meant by integrated intelligence as the criterion for consciousness. For example it was not even clear to me as to whether or not linear separability was a requirement of their "integrated intelligence system", i.e., whether a conscious system should be able to solve linear separable problems. Using a term like "integrated intelligence" does not say what, specifically, needs to be integrated.
Ask HN: Are we more introspective than users of other websites?
There's been a lot of soul searching on HN lately about whether or not we are turning into Digg/Reddit and what we'd actually like to become. Are we more introspective than users of other websites or is it just that our (relatively) small size makes it easier to find these discussions?
I think it would be prudent to retitle this as "Apple expected to announce and demonstrate iPhone OS 3.0 March 17" or similar.
Let me be testy back.

Get the goal of pixel perfection out of your mind. It can't be done, because you don't have a clue how each person's browser/system is configured. And it shouldn't be done, because then it's too easy to forget about graceful degradation.

That's ridiculous. You don't stop striving for perfection just because there's no such thing as absolutely perfect. Are you suggesting designers not develop pixel-by-pixel until the site looks like exactly what they want it to be in their minds? Yeah - that won't work for everybody. At the same time, that's no reason to stop designing as anally and as focused as possible. I hate that mindset: by that standard why design at all? Why not make everything black-on-white, no borders, no margins, just a list of features you can click on?

Either you design, or you don't design. There's no in-between. If you're designing something, you had better be designing with everything you've got, and yes: that means jiggling pixels until they look absolutely perfect. Apple does it, Facebook does it, I do it. Lots of designers do it. There's no reason for you not to do it.

For example, on account of my accessibility issues, Facebook looks like crap and its horizontal scroll bar is even defective. And, no, I'm not changing my configuration just to suit Facebook, or Google, or whatever.

With respect, are you complaining that because you changed your browser's interpretation of the web, something on another site broke? So now you're saying that because of the things that you changed on your computer, it's a fault with Facebook's design. Am I missing something here? Because that sounds pretty snotty.

If you've got accessibility issues, then you're going to see drawbacks when you're using things. Yes, that's the job of the designer to fix, but if they work on fixing it and it's not a completely perfect fix, that's not saying anything bad about their original design.

Sorry I'm so testy, but pixel perfection really hits my buttons.

It's okay. We've all got buttons that get pressed. Mine are pressed when people suggest that it's not worth aiming for perfection. Every great thing that's ever been made had people saying it wasn't worth trying.
Well it is not a point release so expect something as big or close to the changes from 1.x to 2.x. In that case it was the ability to run third party apps. This one should fix some of the deficiencies in the OS like push notifications, copy and paste, etc....

In any event I am looking forward to the changes.
I learned a few things from this Erlang WTF:

1. HN is not a news filter website, it is a community. I am glad to be in this community.

2. HN as a web app is really a kind of a forum. It was shocking for me to realize this, because I hated forums from the days when they killed participation in mailinglists and irc in some of the communities I loved to be part of. I considered myself to be a person who "doesn't get" forums.

3. I am very interested to see how HN community will solve all those issues with filtering out trolls, foolish memes, menacing eternal september, boredom with the same type of news we will start to expect from each other and so on...

I hope to learn so much more :-)
Do you have prices for the high mem/cpu linode nodes? the article only lists until 2880mb mem for linode and says to contact them for the higher plans...
I thought all the Erlang stuff was due to the site reboot :)
Whether Erlang is worth learning about is entirely beside the point. The issue is whether it's worth sand-bagging the content for everybody on the tenuous theory that Erlang repulses "the wrong kind of people for HN".

Simply, it gets annoying when pg turn HN back into social-experiment mode.

Your second sentence is ad-hominem idiocy and doesn't merit a response.
Of course it won't. You submitted the same story twice, instead of just fixing the first one.
Well, I gave a very trivial example showing that, but I don't necessarily believe it should always work that way. Let me be more specific: If you have a Persistanceamajig that know the difference between an account and a customer, then you might want to break it up. On the other hand, if the Persistancamajig can do its job by inspecting the things you pass to it, then it may be a very good idea to keep its implementation separate.

Likewise if you want a separate Displaythingie that can work out how to display an account or a customer on its own, great. If it needs to know a lot about accounst and custoemrs to do its job, but you want to swap it out or paramaterize it (e.g. one set of views for iPhone, one set for Safari), the classic organization makes a certain amount of sense.

All that being said, I have built a large, public-facing app with multiple views for multiple devices, and my experience is still that we did modifications across all of the things related to a model much more often than doing modifications to all of the views across all of the application.

JM2C.
I did enjoy seeing the articles on Erlang. If I want to see more stories like that, then I just need to take the time to either find similar articles or upvote the ones which I am interested in. The top list of stories is a reflection of the members of the community who are actively posting/upvoting articles. If there are certain types of articles you want, then it is up to you to support them.
Pretty excited about this considering how big the change was from 1.x to 2.x.

Does anyone else remember if the iPhone 3G was announced when the 2.0 software was announced? I'm still using a first gen iPhone and I'd like to upgrade, but I figure I'd skip the 3G and just pick up whatever is coming next. I've seen some news saying that Apple has been buying up Flash memory from manufacturers and that goes in line with what happened previously. Wondering if I should hope for a new iPhone model on the 17th in addition to the software.
Amazon Web Services Rolls Out New Pricing Model For EC2
1) RTFA. 2) Your post isn't contributing any new insight or reflection about this article, so it is noise.
terminate-and-stay resident (TSR) capability for third-party apps built into the sdk would be a nice addition. how do you guys work around this now?
"The often part of release early and often, went really bad. Once that TimmyOnTime was out, we had feature requests, bugs and other critics."

I don't see how this is ad. That shit is DATA. Data informs your future decisions. You're free to incorporate it or ignore it at your will.

Why, you can even act as if the "release" never happened in the first place.
Ask PG: What's up with the 2GB limit?
32-bit systems can handle up to 4GB and any modern Linux system with a CPU that supports Physical Address Extension can use up to 64GB.

How are you coming up with your 2GB limitation?
In Monkeybars we decided to group all parts of the MVC tuple under the same directory because we mainly work with them as a set. It's too annoying to have to bounce around from a model dir to a controller dir to a view dir.

MVC|MVC|MVC is more natural grouping than MMM|VVV|CCC.
It's way earlier than Extreme Programming. Believe it or not, it was once considered a part of Object Oriented Programming. Here's an article from IBM Systems Journal 1993 where I first learned the idea of ship early and often:

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/323/ibmsj3203E.pdf [PDF]
I can write a long blog post explaining why I think this is a bad idea, but in all honestly the simple truth is that I'm afraid I would fail such a test and that would be embarrassing. So I make up some mumbo-jumbo about why the test doesn't correlate to good HN citizenship or some-such.
Thanks ... we're queued up at Distrowatch.
Have had a few 'minor' articles written (like at www.linux,com) .. would be great to get to /. and digg ... I think one wide reaching announcement will drive the momentum
I've never understood the retraining argument. Surely going from computer-illiterate to windows-trained takes orders of magnitude more effort than going from windows-trained to linux-trained. Setting linux up takes a bit of work (solving driver issues and such,) but actually using it seems like it just can't be that hard to learn.

What I heard, from a guy at IBM, is that companies don't switch to linux because installing 3rd party software is difficult. That's not an issue of retraining though, that's an OS problem.
Politics submissions are why we can't have nice things.
I think the HN community is more introspective, but the relatively small population of readers and submitted articles that make it to the front page certainly amplifies these discussions.

Slashdot has sometimes had introspective discussions, either as a tangent to some other topic or prompted by an anniversary post or personal post from one of the founders (see http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/04/1319239). However, Slashdot's editor-vetted front page and relatively low volume of reverse-chronologically arranged front-page stories seems to have limited such discussions.

Come to think of it, HN's algorithm probably plays a big part. Very few Digg stories stay on the front page for more than 12 hours, and Slashdot's reverse chron ordering pushes new items down every few hours. Here, a thread might sit in the top five slots on the front page for days, depending on the number of comments and upvotes. That keeps these threads alive much longer, and adds to the impression that we're an introspective group.
Turning One Kidney Into Ten
I am going to officially start the rumors for the 3.0 release: Copy-Paste, Push Gmail, Background IM apps, and wireless iTunes sync.

This is really just my personal wishlist, but if the rumors spread, enough people will be expecting these features that Apple will have to build them in (since they're already so receptive to external input). It's a self fulfilling prophecy!
I assume he means the machine YC is hosted on has 2gb of memory.
How about we just move on?
Add video in there and I'll help your cause.
Points to both views. However, I think a big thing that's being neglected is the fact that this is a sole proprietorship. He's an owner not an employee. Big distinction. And, not unusual for an owner to work for nothing while building up a business.

You're arguing for "authentic profitability," or some such. You make fair points, but since TFA was quite clear, this really is just semantical masturbation.
More interesting: predict the steals from Palm Pre's WebOS.
There's 4GB of physical memory on the server, but for various reasons we only end up with about 2GB of usable heap space.

Rtm just placed an order for a new server, so we should have more memory and a somewhat faster CPU soon.
Yes, I forgot to mention the link to his original comment, but now I can't find the thread.
This was discussed in pg's original submission on why things had been slow lately. Do we need this separate submission?
Push GMail would be very welcome. I have separate Yahoo! account now for the push feature, but it's worthless. Just to name a few:

* It often doesn't work. I put it on 'fetch', but that sometimes doesn't work either, so then I have to wait for hours to receive my email

* Worst webmail interface ever

* No support for forwarding / pop / imap / whatever

* OMG, the ads

I'd drop it in a second if gmail push was there
Hulu launches social networking
Do you have numbers to prove that your idea is great? Having been launched for a while, it should be pretty easy to rearrange traffic data in such a way that it gives you a benchmark as to how relevant your idea is to people.

(Forgive me, but I like using numbers as a basis for decisions)
Well,
Don't you think that if you make pagination for comments of a story, that could help?

For example, if a story has 50 comments, then it should be devided into 2 pages, each page shows 25 comments... and as a result it will use less memory?
Surely the best test is whether you can be insightful enough to really add value to the site through good links and comments? And that's what karma is designed to measure.
They say "click here for details" but it has no more information, unfortunately: http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers.jsp

My guess is that this is going to be a pretty small box meant to pique people's interest and get them looking at the price sheet, something like 64MB or 128MB RAM.

Personally I have a use for changing numbers of many small nodes like that, dependent on the bandwidth situation at least. Getting things down to this small of a slice means you can really optimize certain tasks.
Credit Cards Written Off.
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Hosting your OSS project on GitHub
Car insurance
They helped me get car insurance at half the cost I was paying before.
Ok maybe not: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512801
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=513601
All of the studies out there are pretty rudimentary, so, I would doubt that there are detailed statistics like that.
Push Gmail would be doable on 2.2 if Google enables the feature in their ActiveSync implementation. They already have contacts and calendar sync working.

3.0 could add shortcuts like Yahoo's though, to make setup simpler.
That would not use less memory. It's not the html pages that are stored in memory, but the individual comments.
Apple iPhone 3.0 OS event March 17th, we got some info
I would like to see a refresh of the notification system, and status messages on the lock screen, which I believe was hinted at a while back in a patent filing.

Would be nice just to hit the home button while the device is in standby and see a list of recent emails, SMSs, etc.
Or simply keep original engadget title with any editorializing: "iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512244

Did you mean that one?
Yes I know that the individual comments are the ones stored in the memory.
But it takes a while to load anyway. like the feature request story... it takes around 11 seconds to load.

Thanks for making it clear to me, I really appreciate it. :)
I have no objection to the moderators killing this discussion if it improves HN. Or of them leaving it up while it seems to be constructive.
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Fighting global warming offers growth and development opportunities
Title Updated I just used whatever title the bookmarklet grabbed from Engadget at the time.
The details are:

Here are the different plans available along with pricing per hr.

* 256 MB (20GB Storage) $0.015
* 512 MB (40GB Storage) $0.03
* 1 GB (60GB Storage) $0.06
* 2 GB (80GB Storage) $0.12
* 4 GB (160GB Storage) $0.24
* 8 GB (320GB Storage) $0.48
* 15.5 GB (620GB Storage) $0.96

bandwidth will run $0.08 per GB for the incoming and $0.20 per GB for the outgoing

OSs available:

* Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
* Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron) LTS
* Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
* Gentoo 2008.0
* Centos 5.2
* Fedora 10
* Arch 2007.08

The folks behind the live chat aren't keeping these details secret. I've no idea why they aren't on the web page.
Pretty much:

* A remote site that monitors info and sends you SMS or email

* You jailbreak your iphone and use Backgrounder
Tony has been found ok by police.
These folks seem not to have taken Economics 101.

If there's money to be made here, if there is such growth potential, then why aren't greedy capitalists jumping on the opportunity?

If it takes government coercion to get industry to respond, then what is it that industry believes today will yield greater returns? And on what basis should we believe that the incentives from government really will be beneficial, based on past experience and what we know about public choice economics?
The existence of a low end instance in addition to some higher end instance availablity options is pretty awesome, this makes it cheap enough for something which you might only really need VPS level availability to make sense to build on top of their platform and then if you need a bunch of instances all at once ok to fire up.
They have quotes on the site like "I couldn't even find Amazon's phone number" which seem a bit miss-leading (Amazon simply charges for phone support), but yay for competition :)
Mechanical turk used to record over 2000 voices to sing Daisy Bell