skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It pretty much comes down to this. No one can guarantee 100% redundancy, not even Amazon. Although their setup and infrastructure will probably reduce overall MTTF (mean tike to failure) in comparison to a small hosting company or your personal backup solution. Very simple math can show that their system is probably more reliable then others, yours or mine.
I once got up, ready, into the elevator, down to the street, bought a coffee and took a sip, looked around (dark, busy intersection not so busy), swore and then went back to bed. As far as I know I was totally coherent the whole time to everyone around (wife, doorman, coffee-shop-girl, etc).

Stress factors a lot into it for me. If I'm having a good week hardly anything strange happens in my sleep.
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Why introduce a new VM and break backwards compatibility at the same time?

I agree that "Big bangs" aren't always a good idea. However, what I believe is the case is - Any language geeks can feel to tell me I'm wrong here - is that the new VM benefited tremendously from making Ruby's syntax more regular. "MRI", Matzo's Ruby Interpreter, produced the unfortunate effect of making whatever its haphazard result were into "Standard Ruby". Making a faster interpreter that preserved all this stuff would be hard. So in this case, a "big bang", however painful, made sense
I guess the next logical step for 'other funds' is to lower the percent of equity they take and to increase the money they invest. That can make startups think twice before turning over to YC.
> I suppose it could have been called 1.10 but there were
> presumably good reasons.

If I remember correctly, that's due to the way ruby sorts strings

['1.8','1.9','1.10'].sort #=> ["1.10", "1.8", "1.9"]
It fails for me (Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04). The menu appears under the flash embed.
osx/Linux ssh-copy-id replacement:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh 'ip/port/options' "cat >> 'home directory'/.ssh/authorized_keys"
you're missing status code 418
Does anyone else feel the bit about "Your cookie" on this page highly misleading? I can easily imagine the less tech savvy seeing a string of seemingly random characters, thinking it's all gibberish, and wondering what all the fuss is about.
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Million-dollar profits from non-illicit herb arbitrage sounds .. unusual.

Don't suppose you feel like elucidating? Just curious.
That's like the old joke: what platform does Oracle run best on? A 35mm slide projector. (Yes, the joke is that old. More modern version: Powerpoint.)
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on the flip side of that coin, superbowl ads were going for super cheap this year, and i bet they had to scrape bottom, dredging up these guys, just to fill up the slots.
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"Chubby" is (American/Canadian) slang for an erection.
The amount of time spent in front of a computer with an internet connection in a working day would be the key to success of such a site.

It would probably have higher traction among, say, graphical designers than medical staff.
lotsa recent chatter
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/347699/what-is-your-lapto...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433101

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433244

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8593e/dear_redd...

most important: decent return policy, like amazon or Costco.
I would expect the limiting factor to be bandwidth rather than computing resources.

It is worth noting that there are also potential risks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526140
nope. i'd hire someone without a degree if i had the need to hire for my company. hiring should be about the person. a degree is a very good measuring stick, but there are other ways to measure out there.

plus, as someone who has a degree, i know comparatively little about real-world development you learn simply from your classes.
I think that the question isn't answerable. It's sort of like asking someone "which way should I turn at the next intersection" when they don't where you are or where you're trying to go.

If you prefer, the answer depends on who you are and what you're trying to accomplish. And, even then the answer isn't "MBA" or "startup", it's within a set of MBA programs and/or startups. (For some people-goal combinations, there are startups that are better than some MBA programs but worse than others.)
Get HN code & build your own doctorsnews, autonews etc. :) or may be add categories to HN system.
I am much more concerned about ISPs and the likes of Phorm. They can collect far more information, they can tie it to your real name and address. This would do nothing to help with that, as they do not only track the sites on which the ads appear.
I think so. I have a concept I'm working on that's more a request forum than a Q&A board but I'm borrowing a few things StackOverflow has implemented well (nothing unique - mainly the simple wiki revisions).

Something else to consider are the 'game' factors. StackOverflow implemented badges and they work well initially (and teach the user how to use the site). At the end of the day the things that tie you into a site are the things that make you want to keep going at it. On most discussion boards it's reputation/karma but little things like badges and medals help too.

Obviously it depends on whether the field needs/can have a question and answer platform, but I can see this discussion model working for most technical areas of knowledge.
My sentiments exactly, but its shoemoney just doing his thang!

I read his site regularly and there is usually good/great info regarding ad networks/SEO in general, but there is the occasional 'trying to get some google love' post.
preface your title with "Ask HN:" It shows up in the collection of questions in the past by HN as a faq at searchyc.com

http://ask.searchyc.com/
You need to back up to two or three services, all run by different organizations. Disk redundancy buys you little -- you need organizational redundancy. The chance of any particular service failing for business or technical reasons is much higher than the risk of disk failures.

Personally, I back Anybots up to:

- a 3 TB ReadyNAS in the building (everything nightly)

- rsync.net (important stuff nightly)

- dropbox (important stuff instantly)

- USB drives I keep at home (mostly everything monthly)
If you're interested in PEGs, packrat parsers, etc., also check out Roberto Ierusalimschy's LPEG (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html). It's a PEG vm for Lua, written in C, and with some tuning for better space performance.

There's an excellent paper about it here -- http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf
Thanks for the high praise for my old comment. Moreover, thanks for bringing it up, because if I had brought it up the following thoughts would be even less modest. ;)

Now that we're on this subject, though, I have to confess that I have mixed feelings about that comment. On the one hand, I'm really proud of it. On the other hand, every time I think about it I have a vision of Seth Godin, dressed as the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket, shouting at me. ("WHY ISN'T THIS ON YOUR BLOG? YOU'VE WRITTEN SOMETHING PEOPLE LIKE. 37SIGNALS HAS LINKED IT. AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN TOLD THEM YOUR REAL NAME! YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO MARKETERS EVERYWHERE!") It's kind of painful. [1]

There's a lot more to say about this. [2] I think the fact that I can't quite figure out where I should put my own writing is a symptom of a problem with online conversation that has yet to be solved. (Though many have tried, and are still trying.) But rather than go on at great length in a comment I'll save it for that hopeless blog of mine. ;)

I will say one thing now: I agree with the original submitter that the user experience of reading a link to a comment, rather than the comment itself, is horrible and frustrating and irritating. But I also agree with you: The alternative is bad as well. Because it's not as if you can adhere to a rule like "I will put my best work, the stuff I really want to preserve, on my blog; I'll reserve HN comments for random scribblings". Because your best work will probably be a random scribbling, at least when you first draft it.

---

[1] www.michaelfbooth.com. There. Perhaps that will silence the voices in my head.

[2] About the subject of blogs vs comments, that is. Not about me.
Automatically remove wordiness from your writing
I use Groovy and Java at school; PHP and Python at work; and finally Smalltalk and C at home.

I have recently switched from all emacs, to TextMate at school and home, and emacs at work (although I'm trying to see if JEdit will work better).
> wait until prices go back up, and rent them out in the future

Or sell - rental housing is work and illiquid. After "back up", there's probably something better to own.

> except that in this case, why aren't the rich and wealthy buying it up?

What makes you so sure that they aren't? (I know folks who are.)

Also, some may be waiting for a better deal. For example,

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/03/give-investors...

and

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/03...
Or the one ezra touts: "No code is faster than no code."
I agree. I'm just saying this isn't an "engineer" versus "designer" issue. Engineers have just as many "irrational" opinions as designers.

Emacs vs. Vim, Ruby vs. Python, or whatever.

And those things are quantifiable to some extent. Take a random sample of engineers, give them identical tasks to complete, and vary the editor.
Ruby and Javascript at work.

Otherwise, I'm playing around with Lua, Ruby, Erlang, and Python.
if all you're doing is reselling hosting from some other host, you're unlikely to penetrate the market at large.

find a niche and cater to it.
You're going to be paying taxes on that 5% so you're not going to net 25k.
I'm going to speak out in favor of discrimination: I can't treat everybody as equals. It's an information-rich world out there, and I don't have time to read or learn even a fraction of a percent of what I'd like to.

One way I filter is by topic. I maintain a reddit account, but I subscribe to subreddits that interest me. URL acts as another filter--if it starts with news.ycombinator.com/ or overcomingbias.com/, for example, there's a higher probability I want to read it.

I apply "author" below these filters. I use reddit's "friend" feature liberally for users with a history of knowledgeable, insightful comments so I can pick them out quickly. On other sites, I just get to know usernames and pay attention to them. PG may have abandoned the "valuable user" highlighting, but I still do it mentally.

I'm sure I miss some valuable information that way, but there's not much else I can do but keep donating to SIAI and working on startup ideas until PG and Yudkowsky get together, write an FAI in Arc, and solve all the world's problems.
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I love Hulu. Hulu gets it.

But, for god's sake, when is the plague that is geoblocking going to die already? I understand that Hulu's hand is being forced to do this by the content owners. Still, how hard is it develop a business model around selling different ads for different locales? If I'm in Canada, show me ads about beavers (chuckle) and snow shovels. Hell, cable providers have been overlaying their own ads into broadcast streams for a while now. It's even easier to do that over the internet. You can go a long way if you work with the grain of the technology.

I am so bitter, I'm going go download 4 full seasons of Family Guy through, um, other means. Just kidding, I don't even watch Family Guy.
Rado Switzerland to launch networking site for designers
The networking site is aimed at young designers and graduates, and hopes to help them to raise their profiles and attract employers - launch in April 2009
Oh what do you know I was down voted because you disagree with what I think. Good 'ol HN.
Economics in this area is really hard. If you (or anyone) come up with a better system of screening individuals for positions, the world will be a much better place. Right now, we typically rely on things like resumes, experience, interviews, etc. which don't really give a good picture.

There's a solution, but it's radical: a massive push in the direction of social equality, decoupling one's material well-being and lifestyle (somewhat) from one's job position. Right now, the perks associated with a corporate leadership position are so obscene as to create an incentive for the wrong people not merely to put themselves forward for these positions (which could be attributed to a benign overestimation of one's skill) but to actively manipulate the system.

Obviously, society needs to encourage and reward hard work, but the mainstream corporate approach is seriously broken. Hard jobs should pay more than easier ones, and high-ranking jobs should only be available to those with sufficient experience and knowledge, but the concept of a job title as a reward for previous accomplishments (work for less than you're worth now, maybe be an overcompensated and famous CEO later) has proven itself to be a practical disaster, in addition to the model's ethical problems.

The main reward for a high-power job should be the work itself, so that those who fill the positions are likely to be people who actually want to do the job (and are likely to be good at it) rather than those who want the salaries and status. 95% of Fortune 500 executives are not people who want intrinsically to run companies; they want the perks.

Regarding material rewards, that's a matter of "getting the stakes right"-- not so low as to be insulting (since trivial rewards/costs are less incentive than intrinsic motivations) but not so high as to encourage people to lie about their talents, skills, and work ethics (more than they already do, human nature being what it is).
Arguably they're tolerable in the VC world, or at least pretty common. Empirically an expiration date on a termsheet is not always evidence that a VC is desperate or dishonest.

It's when this idea gets imported into seed funding that it really becomes a problem, because of the synchronous nature of this market. And it gets worse as the number of seed firms increases.

The root of the problem is that people think seed funding is regional. They think they're starting the YC of St. Louis, or wherever. Then after they get started they realize that in fact the seed firms are all drawing on the same national applicant pool, and that the default fate of the nth seed firm is not to be the YC of St. Louis, as they'd expected, but to be the YC of the nth quality bucket. That's a pretty grim situation, and it tempts them to take desperate measures. The VC market is more fluid, so VCs aren't subject to such pressures.
> But now I'm wondering if, from a utilitarian perspective, the world would have been better with him in jail.

No - he corrupted politicians. That is how it works in most African countries - give a lot of money to politicians in exchange for protection from any legal problems.

This regularly happens in the country to its south and in Zimbabwe (e.g. John Bredenkamp).
worked very well. i doubled the weight i could handle in all muscle groups except legs (i have strong legs) over two months.

i highly recommend avoiding vitamins, supplements, powders, and such as much as possible. its easy to overdo them, and they will start to harm your liver. if you can find some sort of natural protein source powder, that would probably be cool. for context, i know someone who is in a coma after liver failure brought on through supplement usage.
I think it'll work for other fields but not as well as programming.

Programming gets you a much higher volume of traffic. The same programmer, might come to your site 100 times during the week to find solutions to the different problems. Its also a field where you have a lot of amateurs and students looking for solutions.

The other fields you mention under specialty, are all the "oh shit my car broke down what could it be?" type. Its a one time problem, after which the person won't come back for 2 years. So you'll never see the same growth as SO, because you don't have any repeat users.
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If you need this and that to impress your clients, wouldn't it be more rational if the -company- owned the house and paid for the resort? Then when they replace their CEO they could continue using the same impressive resources instead of having the new CEO buy the same stuff once more.

Even the goverment does this - puts new presidents in the same old White House instead of letting each new one build his own.
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was the submission title changed after you wrote that, or do I miss something?
Are you sure?

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So does Carbonite...

Good example - when I read the story I was not surprised. It was bound to happen to at least a company or two. I used carbonite for a bit before I went back to my own server (w/nightly backup). I thought I let my paranoid tendancies take over, but I just never felt good backing up my data to carbonite, et. al.

I also agree that S3 is much more failproof but would still rather keep things on my own server. I may be doing different in the future though, but for now there is no place like my own server!
I think it's important to emphasize that the beginnings of "failing one's way to success" started with many quotes from Thomas Edison. It's usually a bad idea to generalize any quotation to a rule, but I think in this specific case, it might be useful to say that there is no failure or success, only possibilities.

If anything, making judgments either way is overrated.
Packets are decrypted at the exit node I believe.
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Hulu has actually gotten me to watch TV. I haven't had a TV in many years, and I've very rarely been a regular TV viewer (I can count the shows I've watched with regularity in the past ten years, before Hulu, on one hand). Now, there are several shows I watch on Hulu every week. I'm a customer the networks would have never had.

I think the only thing they're doing wrong (from the perspective of convincing me to spend some more of my time with them) is expiring some shows after some period of time. I sometimes hear a recommendation for a show from a friend, and I'll go to Hulu...they'll have it, but it'll pick up mid-season because early episodes have expired. So, I skip the whole series. I don't like to sit down in the middle of a movie...same thing with TV series.
That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

Even so, I like the idea of click-to-send email directly after log in. In some ways that's better than the model that my site uses right now. It makes sense to make it two-step instead of one-step, but it's a good integration of the Forgot Password process.
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Certainly. His article about N.A.D.D. (http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html) was so spot on that I had to consume the rest of his writings. Very cool to see a true nerd brained person that connects so well with other nerds, yet has an awesome knack for understanding "normal" brained people as well. It seems like he would be a great boss.
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we inflate every year.
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I think the author makes a good case for the upgrade. But I was fairly confident that the migration would happen later if not sooner. The more interesting question for me is why interest in Ruby has been dropping off.
Perhaps. The advantage with programming is that there is a lot of general knowledge that goes beyond languages, etc and even at the language level you have sufficient number of people with general interest. Where you can replicate that it should work. In the sciences I am not so sure. You tend to get too specific and there isn't a general enough dialogue you can have in most communities.
I had thought so. On closer inspection though, it's unlikely.

Why? Have a look at reference sites online. There were plenty of sites like experts-exchange before StackOverflow, and if you trawl Google Groups, you'll see a similar thing. Plenty of people asking technical questions, not so much anything else.

Certainly, you don't see medical students out there asking the best way to diagnose a rare disease.

There is one exception though -- Travel sites. Travel questions and forums are pretty big, and I think a Q&A site for that could be enormous.

Meanwhile Yahoo Answers, AskMeFi, etc continue to fill the gaps for other niches that might actually work.
http://www.sermo.com does this for docs - docs talk to other docs, and pharma companies and hedge funds pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to eavesdrop and seed specific questions they want answered. (The sign-in page restricts randoms to MDs and DOs to register.) It's a brilliant business model.
The rest of the stuff on his site (http://people.redhat.com/drepper/) is very good also
> Eventually the fakes get found out. You have to be able to back up your marketing with something real.

How long is "eventually"? You only need a handful of years marketing crazy financial products to walk away with a fortune. The people who get found out aren't the ones who get hurt.