skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I hate to be that guy and keep arguing, but I'll just say google does not fit here at all because:
1. there are huge up-front costs and a lot of IP to building a competing search engine (not the case here)

2. google is a consumer company where brand and user behavior are important (not the case here).

3. most importantly, they make their money with an ad network which has network effects and where they charge enormous margins

you'll notice in all the discussions between yhoo/msft the most important thing for both companies is their ownership share of the search ad network. this is key to the bottom line and long term relevance and its why you see proposals along the lines of we'll give you a bunch of money and a guarantee of a portion of revenues in exchange for ownership of your network

The point on rising above infrastructure only applies if they begin adding some sort of ip or secret sauce. Then they can get network effects if they have people building on a platform that is not easy to replicate, but we've seen nothing like that. Hadoop is not that.

You can install hadoop on your own machine today if you want:
http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/quickstart.html

I understand thats harder and thats why consumers are using them, but its not hard in the sense of competing business.

In fact most large web companies _already_ do all of this stuff internally.
This raises some interesting questions--

I wonder than if this means Asperger's could at times have been erroneously diagnosed as GADD/social anxiety? How else does stress/anxiety affect patterns of cognition and social function?

Would this mean that to the extent it encouraged narrow and driven focus and to the extent such a focus is beneficial, is anxiety/stress actually helpful to society? Does this explain (to some extent) success of societies with high-stress education systems?

Interesting find.
If you've been working on it for 8 months you probably have a better idea than we do of whether you can handle both ;)

If you need the cash, you need the cash. But there are other sources, and a job should be your last resort. Yes, people have done it, and it generally involved having a fairly flexible job that didn't mind you taking business calls etc; and not getting a lot of sleep!
Is there a video/notes of that talk? What did he talk about?
I tried to read 'Atlas Shrugged' recently. I only got a few chapters in before I lost interest. But I am not really much of a novel reader.

Is it worth reading the Galt speech on its own? If so, where in the books is it (I'm not reading 1,100 pages to find it)?
Isn't that how facebook got started. He was supposed to develop ConnectU.
Pay other people to code, or learn to code. Nobody is going to code for equity in your idea.

Another option is to join a hacker who is starting a company and work on their idea.
Hmm, I could see that. I just wonder how many of their problems actually come down to thread issues.

May just have to wait and see whether their new "beautiful code" does any better. :)
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Don't dwell on idea that certain type of very specific neurological differences pre-disposes anyone to/from any sort of career/social path or success.

It's what you know, what you are willing/able to learn and how hard you're willing/able to work that matters (together with a certain degree of "luck" as well).
It's still trivially easy and often very enticing to bail out of Facebook entirely. I still don't see anything that Facebook is doing that successfully locks in customers, not even in the way that Amazon locks in book-buyers and certainly not in the way that Google becomes most people's default approach to Web search.

Moreover, if every user loses money for Facebook, what's the financial model of the company? Even if I like Facebook, if I'm not providing it with cash flow, when it does it have to bail out of its business?
Might be even a little easier for an end user if you wrote some javascript that just showed the appropriate message. If the pictures won't load, just have a big "You Are Safe." message. Making people look at the pictures isn't actually needed.
I enjoyed a book by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, "How Capitalism Saved America," where he points out that we haven't really practiced Capitalism, but Mercantilism, instead.

Wouldn't it also depend on what type of company we are referring to? Or timing? Aren't companies that do not have a product yet beholden to investment?

It seems that it might take too much time to have individual buyers' purchases fund a company that requires a large investment in infrastructure to get going...
These "poor people" can't get regular bank accounts so they have no way to cash paychecks

They don't go to a payday loan to cash a check. They go there to get a LOAN. It's a cash-advance so they can pay some bill out of desperation, like their rent or something like that.

Wal-mart cashes a check for $3.
And if the Scala reworking goes poorly, he presumably suffers, too.

One idle thought: It'd be hard to eliminate the factor that they might be a better Scala dev team than a Ruby dev team. That's still, of course, a perfectly good reason to go to Scala.
Well, obviously. People who hate Rand loathe her, and people who love Rand are annoying and misphrase her stuff and say stupid things.

At the core of her philosophy is the belief that you should live for yourself, that you should do things not because other people want you to but because you want to, that you should never feel guilty for the things that you can do that other people can't, and that the worst kind of person is the person who leeches off of other people. Is that none good?
The first part of my post is missing.

I wrote "I guess what it means to me is the less government meddling in the market, the better. The Government is already having a hard time fulfilling their regulatory role, no need to have them waste more time skewing markets with pricing controls/subsidies."
That's Atlas Shrugged 2, due out a month after the main movie.

(Is it too off-topic/nerdy to make comparisons between that speech and the Spirit Bomb week from Dragonball Z? Something about way-too-long things is extremely hilarious.)
"It could have very legitimately been a bomb of a lawsuit."

I agree, there's a very strong case for a trademark lawsuit. What's more, I think I can almost guarantee that some other company will file a lawsuit if Get Satisfaction doesn't clean up their act. And I'd bet on whoever files the lawsuit, too. This is quite clearly trademark infringement, from my non-lawyer-but-spent-time-studying-this point of view.
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I love dissing Scribd for being lame as much as anybody, but this link lets me get a copy for my Kindle for little inconvenience. I like that.
> it would be fairly easy to monetize, purely because it's so popular.

Why? Popularity as a free service doesn't necessarily imply that said popularity will be retained upon introduction of a monetary fee.
This, uhh, has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but does anyone know if there's a way (synthetically, perhaps) to short an IPO?

I repeat this has, umm, nothing to do with any particular company. Yeah. Just so you don't try to copy my trading strategy. I repeat: nothing to do with, um, any particular stock. I'm just asking a technical question about shorting IPOs, now or in the future. Yeah...
Not entrepreneurial. Flagged.
Alex may be referring to Zuck's talk two years ago where he spent 99% of his time on stage telling people in the audience how young people are better hires than 'old' people. It was bizarre to say the least.
His 2007 talk was awful. He basically said: hire young people only.
This comment doesn't deserve its negative rating. This is not reddit folks.
We're trying to monetize it ASAP. Running out of cash turned out to be a great motivator for turning an concept into a real business.
"The latest unemployment numbers for 2008 for computer software engineers is 1.6%...That's beyond full employment," says Josh James, Director of Research and Industry Analysis with TechAmerica. "Computer programmers' unemployment rate has gone up from 2.5% in 2007 to 3.7% in 2008. That's a sign that programming skills are easier to do from anywhere in the world. But the high-growth jobs include skills that are hard to send abroad such as systems integration and IT managers."
To be fair, I would imagine the average quality in the pool of 30+ year olds willing to work for Mark Zuckerberg is probably not representative of the age group as a whole, unless they're paid really well.
Pretty much every patent is a specific implementation of a generic idea.
Hmm, the article title has the word sexy in it. To vote up or not...
We're building a B2B SaaS app, so it requires working with customers and meetings. Both my cofounder and I handle the tech and business.

At this point the technology is nearing production ready.
I saw that, and it was a cop-out excuse in my opinion. During installation, usually unattended too, your computer does all sorts of unexpected things. It reboots, the screen switches off and on, it freezes up for a while. Most old systems had the floppy grind away on boot as well. I fail to see the issue (and it doesn't sound like they even tested it with any users).
"Central park isn't a business."

A lot of people don't think Facebook is a business either.
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nginx + php-fpm NOT fastcgi.

Serve your media/static from another smaller slice running nginx on a subdomain, or have it picked up through cloudfront or some other CDN.
It's different because it doesn't force anyone to forgo other opportunities.

While we ask people to decide that day, we don't insist on it. As I explained earlier, if people have some specific reason they need more time, we've always given it to them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528064

And when people do accept, we never ask for more than a verbal "yes"; we don't make groups sign an LOI agreeing to participate.

I hear a lot of what goes on behind the scenes in these situations, and I can assure you that it's not merely out of a desire for administrative neatness that other seed firms give applicants offers that expire quickly. It is 100% certain they do it to pressure people into deciding before they can talk to us. That is not the intention, or the effect, when we ask people to decide that day.
Here is a direct link to the full code example from the article:

http://elasticmapreduce.s3.amazonaws.com/samples/similarity/...

You will get much better performance out of Hadoop if you do this in Java, but I thought python would be more readable for a wider audience. Hadoop 18.3 doesn't have numerical sort in streaming (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2302 ), so the code is slightly more complicated than it needs to be. Dumbo will also probably be supported in the next release, then the code example would be even simpler.
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I would guess that one problem with this approach is that in 1994/95, the setting for the existence of a floppy drive in the BIOS did not always work properly (and sometimes there was no setting for "no floppy"). Therefore, if windows tried to check for the floppy on boot when you had no floppy installed, it would hang the system for a long period of time.
Perhaps that's an indication that discussions of Ayn Rand are bound to end up like this and simply ought to be avoided on this site? :-)
"but once built, it shouldn't require much maintenance."

I think you need some technically proficient co-founders to really understand what is involved in iterating towards a successful project. Successful websites aren't like office buildings where you build it and then move the furniture about yourself. You'll need fulltime development staff to reach your goals.
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Anecdotally, I feel like we made a mistake choosing to be the first interview on Day 1 last season. You only get 10 minutes and they (as you'd expect) weren't quite yet "in the zone" regarding the daily schedule and interview rhythm, so our interview probably wasn't as focused as the later interviews got. We had lots of fun talking with them, though, and the "first interview of the season" could have easily swung the other way in terms of being a good time to present.

But, maybe because they hadn't gotten warmed-up yet, we didn't even get to talk about the startup idea we came to talk about. We shouldn't have mentioned our existing site, but they seemed so excited about it that the 10 minutes was over in a flash without getting to the business idea we submitted.

No matter when you interview, though, know that you don't get those 10 minutes back. Focus on what you think has the highest percentage chance to get you accepted. For us, we started off with an exciting idea that just happened not to be aggressive enough for that particular round.

This year might be better off because you've already submitted a video that gives you a headstart, but make the most of your interview time, regardless of timeslot.
Some people actually need to lose, big, in order to gain introspection.

I remember Steven King on NPR talking about the guy who badly injured him in a car accident. He was frustrated that the courts were lenient, because he said the guy continued to seem in denial about the connection between his actions and the damage he had caused. Apparently, this guy had a history of reckless driving (Steven King had been walking on the side of the road when he was hit), but he continued to view these accidents as bad luck, circumstance, things happen, and so forth. When asked what he wanted to see from the courts, Steven King said he wasn't looking for vengeance, but he wanted to see the guy placed into a situation where he'd be forced to finally confront his actions and fully acknowledge his role in the damage he had caused.

Now, obviously GetSatisfaction is not guilty of something as serious as physical harm. But I still hear the same lack of introspection, the same denial, that I think Steve King was referring to. They are still calling this a "learning experience", an "error", something to "discuss and improve on." Their tone alternates between defensive, accusatory, and chirpy.

This shows a complete lack of introspection and self-awareness. It's alien to most, but some people require a true legal defeat to develop introspection, something that strips away every final defense and puts them in a position where they have no recourse but to truly and deeply acknowledge their behavior.

As long as 37Signals engages with these folks in a blog vs blog thing, they're going to see this as a he said, she said, where there are good points to be made on each side. Personally, I don't get any indication they recognize how manipulative, deceptive, and wrong their actions really are.
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I think the selection process for training teachers in teacher education colleges (formerly "normal schools") has gradually developed to select the dumbest college-bound students, and they get easily confused about how to teach reading in the elementary grades, because their own reading skills are sketchy.

See

http://learninfreedom.org/readseri.html

(I see the link began having DNS problems just as I posted it; it should be live later.)

for more about better reading instruction, and see

"Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States" (American Economic Review, 2004)

for negative selection for academic ability in United States teacher training.
I've read the book a few times. I've always ended up skipping over the last half of the Galt speech, so the idea of skipping the rest of the book just to read that never ending speech seems funny to me.
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I saw a Zuckerberg video from Dec 2007, and contrasted that with his recent Oprah interview.

He's gone from cool tech head to some kind of semi-comedian (to whom owning a credit card is big news) in just over a year.
There's a series of wrist stretches associated with Aikido (a martial art that, among other things, involves a lot of wrist twists and joint locks) that I've found to be extremely helpful during many hours of typing. Their names will differ from school to school (mine called them "ikkyo, nikkyo, sankyo, yonkgo, gokyo", which pretty much just means "first, second, third..."), but googling for aikido wrist stretch should give you the general idea.

Also helpful for me: getting more exercise in general, good posture, getting enough sleep, Dvorak, taking breaks, xwrits, better keybindings, less mouse, etc.
It depends on volatility. I'd guess Facebook stock would shoot high and take months to come down. Google's hasn't come down.

Your downside is unlimited.

Just a warning!
Hey this looks neat. I'm going set aside a couple hours a day and see if I can follow along.
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Sorry, it was both a response to tokenadult, and a general commentary on the link. I probably should have done what you said.
While that's kind of true (after reading a book which extols rationality and logic above all, seeing constant irrationality in daily life does tend to make someone a little apprehensive), I find another common symptom of the post-Shrug reading is a feeling of helplessness and even to some a sort of depression - you see how society crumbles around the heroes in the book, only to see many parallels in reality. The feeling that society cannot be fixed is an overwhelming one to someone who takes Rand's ideas seriously, and does unquestionably lead to the feelings of anger (this feeling is not just isolated to Rand readers either, but to anyone who looks at the "big pictures"). It usually takes a while for new Objectivists to shake that feeling and start focusing on the good things in life, rather than the bad. But before that, the desire to "Go Galt" and abandon society for your own quasi-utopian refuge becomes very strong.

Personally, though, I find the "selfish jerk" thing more as a result of "The Fountainhead" than "Atlas Shrugged," though at the same time, I think TF is the right book to read before AS. TF prepares you for the "self", while AS applies all that to society.

All that said, while Atlas Shrugged can be an extremely depressing book (the constant feeling of "How can this get worse" coupled with the inevitable "Oh, this is how"), it's also a very uplifting book. After almost every reading session with AS, I found myself with a burning desire to work, to improve my business, to "go get it" and seize life. The heroes resonate very well with those who absolutely love their work.

The only other book that has come close to as uplifting a feeling as Atlas Shrugged (for me) is Founders at Work, because many of the people interviewed in that book share the same passion for their work as the heroes in AS, and pull off monumental achievements.

Will the movie be any good? I'm not holding my breath, but I'd love to see someone like Cate Blanchett play Dagny.
Go for nginx, it's worth it, get another IP if you have to (and can do so). If you don't want to do that...

Don't turn keepalive off, set it to 7 seconds - or - look at your analytics and see what your average user's session length on the site is and set it to somewhere between 7 and half of that number. The idea is, if someone doesn't click on something within 7 seconds they're either going to be on that page awhile or they've left.

If you can, tweak the StartServers, MinSpareServers, and MaxSpareServers parameters (if applicable).

The above parameter defaults can cripple your site if you're over 25 concurrent sessions and have a complex application (among other factors). The minspareservers defaults to 20, I think, and at that rate you'll be guaranteed a continued thrashing death/birth cycle for your apache processes which will constrain all your I/O.

If none of this works then the complexity (read, bloat?) of your app (Drupal?) is too much and you need a beefier host.

Media files have nothing to do with any of this. They'll hold connections open but they won't constrain I/O like application memory footprints and child process cycling.
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All over the Internet (even a few other forums for the highly intelligent), there are people trying to blame the recession the "unfettered capitalism" we've apparently gained over the last decade. At HN, I expect people to know better, or, at least, to only have to be taught once.
It's quite a convincing argument against $150k fines, but I'm sure it has anything to do with fair use.
I disagree. This requires absolutely no technical skill to interpret, and yet they haven't abstracted away the evidence.

I am much more reassured by this, then I would be with some website that said "You Are Safe". Presenting the user with the evidence that they are safe is much more reassuring than just saying "You Are Safe, trust us on this one, we know what we're talking about."
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Ask HN: Is OpenID dead?
Between 1-2% of our users use OpenID. That's half of what it was a year ago and the drop has been pretty consistent even when we control for demographics. When we look at slightly-tech-savvy or mainstream demographics usage is almost zero.

What are other people seeing? What about with other options like Facebook Connect? Was there anything you were able to do to boost usage?

Here's the data I pulled from CrowdVine on this:
http://blog.crowdvine.com/2009/04/02/declining-openid-usage/
> For someone who has consolidated power in a company that could rival Google

You're out of your mind.
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