skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me myself being a young entrepreneur (20), I can definitely see this guys point. However, I think that there are many (probably unsuccessful) entrepreneurs like this, no matter what age or market segment. Maybe the young ones just haven't been burned and given up/changed careers yet.

Some people just don't understand that a 'good idea' is only a very small fraction of what goes into making a good business. The real judge of an entrepreneur is NOT the ideas they come up with, but how they execute them, and also WHICH ideas they execute.
OK. So, what's actually far more interesting to me is how much attention my idle ramblings about why a company like YC might (not that they do) encourage or even prefer female founders have gotten. I didn't realize reverse discrimination was such a sensitive area amongst the technical elite, particularly since males have had a dramatic lead for as long as technology has existed (a more pronounced lead than in pretty much any other field in modern first world economies).
Unless I'm mistaken, long polling is not a new concept, as this article says...it's been around for quite a while.
Sounds like that game was about a century ahead of its time! Just imagine if they had waited to share their idea with the world, they'd have billions right now!
I agree. Taking it initially from 100GB to 10GB now in May to 1GB is extremely limiting. In fact I was building a service on there but moving it based on this.

The economics have changed drastically and really don't even compete with a basic shared hosting account.

1GB per day and 6.5 CPU hours for free is nothing much really. There are plenty of other cloud providers now that can compete on price.

One huge advantage to GAE was the free quota which was a huge draw. The limiting architecture and broken platforms were ok to deal with at that. But why not just build on EC2, Media Temple gs, Mosso, Joyent or some other now where you can install almost anything you need as well as having the scalability?

Very bad move by Google to reverse this drastically on the free quota which is only now just a gimmick.
Do the prgmr.com guys support payment by Paypal?
I wish they'd make a version that works in Canada (there's no "Whispernet" coverage here).
overflow:hidden or overflow:scroll on the element or containing div would fix it.
Continued Funding for Minix (2.5M Euro)
Windows actually does use the TPM to improve security. Bitlocker in TPM mode can prevent tampering with the operating system even with full direct access to the hardware, and Vista+Bitlocker+TPM is the only system I know of that provides that level of protection for consumer-level hardware.
It would be really nice if all ISPs were this open and forthcoming with technical detail.
Your brain: Use it to write useful content.

We've made zero SEO effort, and our sites are PR7, and get a total of several hundred thousand uniques per month, and they mostly come from natural search results. Our products are boring system administration tools, and we don't worry about traffic (we care about sales), so there is nothing "viral" about what we're doing, but we have tons of useful content on our sites, and we are rewarded generously by Google because of it.

An SEO guy "analyzed" our site for a blog post a year or two ago, and suggested we were doing a horrible job with our SEO, because we use none of the standard SEO tricks. Go figure.

The benefit to this method of SEO is that I don't have to worry about Google changing their policies or ranking rules. It won't effect us, because our ranking is not fragile and based on tricks. Our PR only goes up because we're always getting better and better at helping people accomplish things. (That said, we are about to destroy our current site and launch a new one with all new URLs, whic will probably stomp on our PR for a while...but I'm not too concerned. The content remains, and we'll try to do something about the old URLs.)
It's there, it stopped working in Firefox 3.
If anyone can tell me what to put in the html to fix the problem, I'd gladly do it.

Why did this stop working in Firefox 3?
Something like that is another good option. I hadn't heard exactly that variant; the one I've heard the most about has one partner offer a price, the other has to either take it for their half or pay that same amount for the other half.

Within the last year I read some research suggesting a further refinement that better ensures the partner who valued the business highest winds up with it... but can't find the reference right now.
I've been deploying an alternating days routine (a day with, then a day without) with caffeine to try and avoid dependence. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm getting the best possible outcome (good effects of caffeine without dependence or developing tolerance) or the worst (dependent and tolerant but torturing myself every second day). This article would suggest maybe the former, but sometimes it feels like the latter :-)
I want to believe (in Lisp vs C performance)
This essay will not focus on Lisp's powerful abstractions but on another practical concern of all programmers : performance, specifically compared with C.
Why would they release a new device so soon after releasing the Kindle 2?
I just saw this, but hopefully you check your thread tab...

Congrats :)
House prices compared to income by metro area (San Jose)
Personally, I'd prefer to be able to use JS instead of Flash for everything in a RIA, including games. There's just the one thing, though. Sockets. I can't push to clients using JS, which sucks. Polling just feels wasteful to me.

Oh, I know there's comet, but that just feels like an ugly hack compared to the real thing.
For some Harrison Bergeron, for others John Rawls Theory of Justice. Sort of dystopian/utopian sides of a similar coin. A strong public education system is suppose to minimize the differences in upbringing (by helping those without a strong upbringing; not by bringing down those who already have a great upbringing Harrison Bergeron style).

You wouldn't have to wipe away the differences, but for some a "just" society should view someone who had poor parents, limited opportunities and an IQ of 70 and someone who had every opportunity, great parents, and an IQ of 130 as equally important and valuable. Such people view a society where the top 2% of the world owns over half the wealth and much of the world lives in absolute poverty as a sign that maybe our institutions are a bit out of wack.

Personally I'm more a fan of smaller "nudge" (nudge.org) like concepts combined with a progressive tax code and a strong commitment to helping minimize "brute luck" (being born to poor parents) while holding people fully accountable for personal decisions or "option luck" (choosing to take a risk, or making a life decision such as being a teacher vs. an i-banker; or going out at bars instead of saving). (Sort of in a Dworkin fashion see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Dworkin#Theory_of_equali... / or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_egalitarianism).
Ask HN: Did bit torrent really become popular by releasing porn?
I thought I once read an article to that affect, but I can't find the article on Google. (Get all these links for torrents to porn, but not articles documenting how bit torrent started out).

If so, are there other technologies that also become popular through the ease of distributing porn?
Honestly, I don't know it just kind of came out. It kind of pointed at a trend that I've been noticing a lot lately though not in a sentence, so I was typing out the comment in a way that was comprehensible without math, but I couldn't so I just spat out the math and the css that would encapsulate the idea.

The article was another data point that kind of brought it all together.
Oh, I agree - but I was answering a question: "Why does the government..." Is this scientific policy? Is this good policy? Those are different questions.
Yeah...pb did not invent long polling. It also goes by the names reverse-AJAX and Comet and has actually been around for quite a while.
naming coincidences aren't very interesting. I thought this was going to be about some public bulletin board where people could leave each other notes before the invention of the telephone or something.
Trent Reznor Responds To Apple: You Want Obscene, I’ll Show You Obscene
I never realized how interesting he is until just now. :D
Twilight of the GPU?
Ask HN: Firefox plugin for reading Chinese websites?
Is there a firefox plugin where I can place my cursor over an Unicode chinese character, and have it tell me the pinyin / definition of the word?

thanks!
"Such abstractions simply don't exist in most other languages, specifically the imperitave kind."

wrong

http://iolanguage.com/

Also, Lisps are imperative. setf, setq and the like.
It could just be the lag between syndicating RWW to the NYT.
"You don't deal with unpleasant history by erasing it and pretending it didn't happen."

Unfortunately, this is exactly how Japanese society (and others) tend to "deal with" unpleasant history.

Here's an apropos anecdote: I have a Japanese friend who came to Australia to study. One day, her and her friends were in the city on Anzac day - a national holiday to commemorate war dead, basically. They were standing at a bus stop, talking, when some youths in a car threw some eggs at them. They were, of course, horrified, and had no idea why anyone would do that.

It was only some time later it was explained to her - while the egg-throwing was just stupid, it was probably because she was loudly speaking Japanese in the city, near the war memorial, on Anzac day, and Japan had attacked Australia numerous times, causing many of the dead the day is supposed to commemorate. Imagine my amazement when I realised she had absolutely no idea Japan had attacked Australia in WWII. Just never been mentioned. There were over 100 attacks, in (from memory) 5 places. These are, of course, famous in our culture - it's the only time the country has ever actually been attacked. She had no idea.

Un-fucking-believable. And btw, please don't take this as racist or anything else - I'm just stating facts, and I fear us whiteys do not hold much higher a moral ground - I doubt your average American college graduate, for example, is as well-informed as she perhaps ought to be about her Government's reprehensible actions in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century either.
Ben Stein, really? I am sorry but ever since he decided that evolution was BS I quit listening to the guy.

Speaking clearly and having a strong education is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being intelligent.
Yes yes but they are optionally imperative but were first functional.

"system maintenance" for the url that you posted.
I didn't read the car part in your original post. Your car is an additional "mouth to feed", in terms of lodging and gas. If things go crazy, you should have enough $$ for some days of hotel and a flight home.

Bringing a car full of computer stuff is a liability; unless you're doing lots of graphic design I'd drop the display and rock a cheap laptop.

Good luck dude.
Well, nothing wrong with signaling that you as a business person have decided to focus on value-add. Honestly, many business books are thinly-designed resumes so you could do worse than coin a few buzzwords and just write a book with some provocative title like 'Escaping the foxhole, or how I learned to love the recession'.
Real-Time is next big thing, not only for conversation.
Change the comment span to a div and add an style="overflow:scroll;" or add it to the .comment style. overflow:scroll doesn't work well on spans.

Or put a div inside the comment span containing the comment content with the same attribute, overflow:scroll then it will have a horizontal scroll on that item not the page.

However this might want to be tested as you may need some min and max settings so that long vertical comments don't scroll. Probably not a quick fix the way things are setup.
I imagine that a device meant for displaying 8.5x11 documents would have a totally different use and market than the regular kindle.
Optimizing Page Load Time
http://iolanguage.com perhaps?
everything looks better on a log-scale
It's like meme travel. How do we measure the velocity of a meme? We'd have to get the position and ..?

Can meme's have a location? Would it be some aggregate of its locations in the minds of those conscious of its existence?

It definitely tells us something about the relationship between populations of social networks. NYT, RRW, HN and they cross into physical realms as well and those take time to print and move between physical bodies.

So this goes back to the disappearance of technology because as time approaches infinity, meme velocity approaches the speed of light due to the increasing transparency of the technology medium, like light in a vacuum is the fastest it can go.
I was thinking the same thing especially with the tie in to walmart's music sales and the questionable safari application bundled with the iphone :)
Have I mentioned that you are awesome, and so is Logicly? Because it's true.
Part of what makes this sort of thing a touchy subject for so many people is that, in the event of this sort of process being practiced (1) men who aren't selected feel angry about the nature of the process instead of feeling that they need to improve themselves to improve their chances for the next round, and (2) women who are selected are sometimes (often?) demeaned by men as needing additional assistance in order to make the cut (this is contrary to a common view I have encountered; that this sort of thing is fundamentally victimless). People subject to either of these circumstances (or close to such a person) are likely to have strong feelings on this subject.

As to why I personally supplied such a detailed response; it's mostly an opportunity to procrastinate by trying to change some minds regarding an issue important to me instead of working on something I've been avoiding.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591858
Does it have anything comparable to Lisp macros ?
exactly and this is clearly stated in the article.
That was all part of the business plan though - there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and they knew what it was. Whereas I don't think anyone knows how to make money off of YouTube.
They should've charged for it from day 1.
11 Great Real-Time Web Service Changing The Web 2.0
> Worse, imagine if Microsoft made a deal with, say, Dell, to ship computers with Windows installed (as they do now), and also to use the TPM to make it impossible to remove Windows and install something else.

Then they would be instantly hit with a gigantic antitrust lawsuit. End of non-story.
... and, just in case there was anyone else who wasn't convinced that App Store prices were getting driven down ridiculously, people are complaining that $5.99 is a "premium" price. Wow.
This is actually pretty interesting: how do you keep a site clean enough that the porn doesn't drive people away, without alienating your users?

Personally, I like the way Google's image search does it: the furry vore porn still there (hoo boy is it ever there), but it's hidden unless you turn the filter off. And it's easy to turn the filter on and off. Unfortunately this sort of thing has a lot of overhead, which Google only gets away from by using some very clever image recognition algorithms.

Another way is that you could establish a sub-site especially for porn. That works for reddit (NSFW reddit is a porn index and nobody tries to deny this anymore), but it would kind of break the UI of sites like Facebook.

Does anybody have a better way to more-or-less please everybody?
With a strategy guide.
USS auto auction in Japan
USS used auto Auction is technically advanced largest Auction house in Japan for used cars and other vehicles. USS stands for 'Used car System Solutions. Check this article for more details about the auction.
I don't think this is so bad really. Apple's brand is affected by the kind of material it sells and it wants to protect its brand.

It's just like Facebook has porn patrol.

Being a vendor of a product isn't just about moving product, it's about moving product in a direction that you believe makes the world a better place for you to live. Apple has the right to choose how to let people use their platform.

Imagine a world where you have no right who you can and cannot sell your hard work to. Those signs that say, "We have the right to refuse service to anyone" -- all those would have to come down, by law!

I think, right now, that I would prefer a world where a vendor of a service can decide who it does and does not provide that service to than a world where the builder of a product or provider of a service does not have that right.
The things that DFAs can compute are a subset of the things that Turing machines can compute (and the inverse doesn't hold). So Turing machines are more powerful than DFAs.

A Turing machine can surely simulate a brain. Every computer that could ever possibly exist is a DFA (or possibly an NFA? I don't really know much quantum computing), including the brain. The brain is a DFA. So of course an artificial DFA can simulate it.
Io ~= Self. It should be looked at as an Smalltalk dialect.

When one says "imperative", one hardly means "an smalltalk influenced, pure object oriented language", but more like a statically-typed Algol variant, usually a derivative of C, Fortran, Pascal or Ada.

I don't think the Io counter-example is valid, just as an Icon counter-example would be valid (yes, Icon is "imperative", but it's also an Snobol derivative with goal-oriented execution, generators and perl-like text processing prowess :-)
I was going to be snooty about this, but on reflection the existence of Minix is a good thing for mission-critical applications like medical, military or scientific computing (eg satellites). Likely, the performance advantages of Linux's monolithic kernel have been obviated by the advances in hardware performance over the years.

The maintainers don't sell themselves very well though. It does give off the flavor of ivory tower academia despite the apparent concrete benefits. Tannenbaum's public comments that he doesn't know who is using Minix (and by implication, doesn't care) isn't a very good advert for it.

Do HN readers think there's a demand for apparently-bulletproof *nix, or are other OS offerings already good enough for anything that isn't classified?
I think you underestimate at least the top end of that age range. I am quite certain that a number of folks on HN are well above the age of 35. PG is in his 40's, and I'm sure he's not the only one here in that category (and I wouldn't be surprised to find hackers older than that here -- perhaps much older).
Reflections on 3 years, or so, as an independent software developer
>One that isn't close to being to process images the way rats can.

Can you justify that? CV systems can track motion, detect objects, do OCR, etc. I don't know much about rats, but I'd imagine that modern CV systems are more powerful than rats.

>An animal can learn a new gait if it loses a leg. As far as I'm aware, no robot can do that. I was giving examples of what mice can do, not of consciousness.

Uh, okay. If you want to see organic-looking gait, look up Big Dog. Here's a video, deep linked to a part where it stumbles on ice and regains its balance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM#t=1m25s. In general, neural nets often exhibit organic-seeming behavior. In any case, I don't think that mammalian joint structure (which, and I'm just guessing here, is probably what creates the kind of motion we think of as organic) has anything to do with consciousness.

>Also, our architecture. The point I've heard Searle argue (not the Chinese Room, I guess) is that the computers we build now don't have an architecture are as likely to simulate consciousness, given the constraints of the universe, as a convoluted system of telegraphs.

Well, we could build different hardware, but it seems much more interesting to simulate a mind in software, in which case architecture doesn't matter.

>Let me give my point another shot - deconstruction of consciousness is possible, but not in a way which can be simulated by our current machine architecture.

Why not? Sure, our processors are a bit slow, but that's not really an argument for fundamental impossibility.

>Do you suppose a brain is a DFA? Which do you suppose has more states - all of the computers in the world, or a single mouse brain?

Not that it's especially meaningful, but I'd imagine all the computers in the world do. To try and give you a better answer, I googled "number of neurons in a mouse brain" and the first result was "IBM's BlueGene L supercomputer simulates half a mouse brain" from 2007: http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/29/ibms-bluegene-l-supercomp...
!most != any
IANALP
I met him the time that I snuck into the Facebook building, two years ago, right before the F8 conference where the platform launched. He's good at physical security, too, because he tried to kick me out right away. I refused to leave, demanding a tour. Dave Morin got pulled out of a meeting with Mr. Zuckerberg and gave me one. To this day I still think very highly of Morin and Facebook - and the guy in the shirt? Well, I don't think we'll ever be friends, but I do think he's probably good at his job.
Lisp is not, by any reasonable stretch of the imagination, fast. The key is that most applications aren't CPU bound anymore.

If speed is that important, use foreign function calls (or, better yet, Haskell).

And I say this as a long time CL coder who has written several highly perfomant lisp libraries. See, for example, polygon.lisp, color.lisp, and bitmap.lisp at http://github.com/smanek/ga/tree/master. In order to get decent performance you have to give up many of CL's advantages (not using half of CLOS's features, providing type hints, bit twiddling, imperative style, etc).
There must be an awful lot of compression taking place and then their is still the market left for the low connections higher standards for operating systems and programs such as photoshop. This would have to outperform faster and better than a normal console for people to subscribe.
I read the speech prior to seeing it on youtube and I thought to myself what a great speech. His speech kind of shows that successful trait and why Larry is where he is today.

After i watched the video though i just wondered whether he was just alittle nervous or awkward. The words in his speech were great, but his delivery was 'for lack' of a better word not as confident as the words in his writing.

Anyway, regardless i would love to see larry and/or sergey speak here some time. Not sure if they have ever done so here in Oz.
You can put white-space: pre-wrap; in the css for the pre tag.

You can also add overflow: auto; instead of hidden, but you'll need to add width tags going all the way up to the width="85%".

Note: I tried mucking with the HTML and adding the widths, but can't quite get it to work. But overflow does not work without a defined width, and width does not work unless the parent has a width.

You might need to add:

html, body { width: 100%; }

Relative widths with overflow are annoying to get right.
Shorter URLs May Offer Tracking Benefits to Marketers
I'm on Slicehost, with about a $100 a month bill. Given my technology needs, that is overpaying -- both for the number of servers I bought (I could consolidate to save) and the price per server.

And I just couldn't care less. That's like one night's worth of sales. I've (hopefully) got better things to do with my time than spending it preparing for a migration and inevitable breakage in the interests of saving myself an hour's salary a month.
How to Escape Mundanity
Take a vote of all the cultures throughout world history, and on that basis also consider revoking their right to vote and own property.