skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tough call. Take any advice here with a grain of salt, because I don't know you or the people involved. But if I was in that situation, I might ask nicely for a greater stake, and then if they refused, and I thought I was getting below market compensation, I might quietly look for another job.
Take a look at their FAQ:

"Q: Why is Qimo4Kids.com running on Windows and .Net?
A:Both the design and hosting for this website is being donated to us by TMR Agency. While they are not a Linux shop, they wanted to be involved in helping us get educational software to kids in the capacity they could. We are extremely fortunate and grateful for the amount of design and development effort they put into our website, as well as their continued hosting space and bandwidth."
Whatever you're comfortable with. The distro really won't be the thing that limits scaling. In fact, I'd be surprised if there was a consistently measurable difference between them.
All you have to do is set up a rule to have the screening terms in a certain order. We did on Dawdle in like a day when we realized our in-stock item screening presented the issue: http://www.dawdle.com/search.php/

I was pretty convinced that canonical was a solution in search of a problem, but at least joshu's opening salvo, the DiggBar brouhaha, and the resultant conversation has shown one use for it.
Resolving grandfather paradox in a time travel real-time strategy game.
A gun is fine and dandy to defend yourself, I'm more talking about local manufacturing. Something like a flintlock or hell even a matchlock. Think of how much you'll stand to gain by equipping some local warlord's army with a couple thousand worth of rifles
Ask HN: What do you think of our site?
On the other hand, I never had problems, I've entered several times though NYC, Miami, and Atlanta
What-is-Qimo.aspx is the URL to the home page.

I mean, you can of course play with MIME types and serve arbitrary file extensions, but why would you want your Linux distro to seem as though it was served by IIS?
For me its findaproperty.com for UK (esp London), but as someone previously posted, rightmove.co.uk is pretty good as well
This seems silly. The article references what–12 books total? Out of how many books? Over a million perhaps?

Anyone looking to pick a fight could probably find a similar situation on any large website that does filtering. I bet I could make the same case on YouTube or Flickr.

The really sad part is I saw this spread across Twitter today–retweeted numerous times by people who probably don't really know what's going on. It's like a modern-day version of the telephone game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) and Amazon suffers because of something that is most likely unintentional.
I have no stats in front of me, but I have always been made to understand that BSD's (namely FreeBSD) handle high traffic better than linux.

I personally use Debian for everything. I can't imagine the distro making a huge difference really. I've used Debian as a desktop os for some time, so when I needed a server os, it was easy to get going quickly.

Switching from Apache to Nginx made more of a difference in my case than anything else I could have done I believe.
I hope the keyboard repeat is set to off by default, because this is how my kid tttttttttyyyyyyyppppppppppeessssssssss
They are resenting the fact that you are an outlier, a 'free spirit' and even if you had succeeded in your startup, they wouldn't see the relevance of that success to a (seemingly boring) desk job. UK companies read a lot 'between the lines' and it can be frustrating to find your strengths noted as weaknesses. Try not letting that affect your own perceptions.
Does anyone not see the irony in the author's premise when applied to an undergraduate's search for their first big job? Just replace "universities" with "companies" in the sentence below:

"It's hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource."
Ask HN: Active Common Lisp communities?
I've recently been exposed to CL. Hacked up a few trivial evolutionary computation problems, but I'm itching for something else; alas, I haven't any ideas of my own. I'd really like to contribute something to CL community (to help revive Lisp, etc.) but I'm not sure of where to start.

Does anyone know of any active communities where I could find some group-ish stuff to hack on?
Linux distribution is probably the least important item in terms of scalability.

If you're talking about switching to nginx from Apache, that makes me think that you are still proxying to a collection of mongrels? I'd recommend switching to Phusion (aka mod_rails) as it seems to handle high loads much better.
Ask HN: Is .org ok for a startup?
Obviously you will always want the .com of a domain, but what if the next best extension available is .org? With many people locating your site by just searching for the name anyway, I wonder if it really matters as much these days.

For the domain that I am currently looking at, the .com and .net both just redirect to some generic keyword search page.
(blush) thanks. We use these simulators for training - it's cheaper/safer than the real aircraft.

- The pilots and instructor inside the cabin manipulate controls/switches/CBs/panels, sending signals to an bunch of interface cards.

- The interface cards convert voltages to values, and move them into a big chunk of shared memory on the host computer.

- The host computer recalculates the new state of the simulation, updating everything in the shared memory, 60 times a second.

- New values in the shared memory are sent to the interface cards.

- The interface cards convert values to voltages, driving the instruments, sound, visual and motion systems.

It all happens so fast that the pilots never sense the latency between their action and the effects in the cockpit. The host computer is the brain of the system, that's why a small bug there can be dangerous.
I suffer from an opposite disorder - cannot get used to American dates.
Last time I tried looking using Craigslist (this was in Bloomington, IN in 2006) there was about a 1:1 spam/ham ratio. I gave up in disgust pretty quickly.
In the context of the article, a "facebook student" means any student who goes on facebook all the time instead of studying.

It's not surprising that they would underachieve.
comp.lang.lisp?
As to what is "fair" that's between you and the founders.

You do need to be ready for some serious shock come tax time if you do take on additional equity. Equity (from the IRS perspective) is income, and is taxed as such. If the valuation of the company is high (not the cash value, the fair market valuation) then taxes are going to be through the roof even though you haven't received any cash.
This data is from 2004.
What a revelation: students who only study an hour per week are heavy Facebook users.

...and YouTube.
...and CollegeHumor.
...and probably a thousand other sites.

This article is a joke. It's 2009. What do we expect to find kids with poor study habits in dorm rooms with high-speed internet connections and no cable TV doing?

Facebook, or any individual site, is a red herring here, IMO. Facebook just happens to garner a disproportionate amount of the traffic.
Nope. Prove me wrong, Qimo: nobody is going to know what Qimo is 2 years from now.

* It uses the exact same desktop metaphor as OS X.

* My kids (starting ~age 5) have had no trouble picking up enough Finder and Firefox to use their Mac.

* Its one killer app (TuxPaint) is far easier to install on OS X than it is to install Qimo anywhere else.

* The remainders of its apps are pretty much just that, especially compared to what kids can get from the web now. Sorry; calling it like I see it.

A real, supported, up-to-date web browser for kids with a rock-solid "kiosk" mode, yes. Give me a Paypal link. An Ubuntu distro, no.
Nothing about anything in this article implies causation.
What do you mean less crufty? I think this is just your perceived vision of Debian.

We use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS because it is committed to be supported for a very long time. Traditionally Debian releases have been supported with security updates and the like for one year after the subsequent release. There's no guarantee or date for Debian. Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition on the other hand is supported through 2013... and that very well might turn out to be longer than Debian 5.0.
The way we are taught is obsolete. Learning would be much more compelling if it operated more like Facebook, with streams of facts appearing on the computer screen. Just a thought.
So on a typical day, C++ is searched about as frequently as Paris Hilton. Interesting.
Before you hit the mod button (because yes, this "proposal" is crazy talk), please consider: this is happening because people who are straightforwardly breaking a legitimate (if commercially ill-advised) law appear to be gearing up to bleed the life out of the content industries. They represent something resembling the majority of all Internet traffic. Private industry isn't fixing the problem.

Sure, this proposal isn't going to succeed. But will you be surprised when some less ludicrous follow-up does? I won't be.
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Don't worry, there are plenty of startups working on this.
Wow this is the best one I've seen for NYC by far
Better yet, a sanity patch for designers/developers or an 'evolve already' patch for end-users. Otherwise, I say we all just roll back to lynx then none of this would be a problem.
How seriously should I take an equity allocation scheme that (1) ranks "writing a business plan" alongside "idea" and "execution" and (2) was written by someone who has never held an operational role in any company? (Yeah, I did look him up. 10,000 jobs created, you say!)
That reminds me of a show where the host would connect what seemed like totally unrelated events and show how they were connect, now that I think about the show may have been called Connections.

Ah ha it is! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
Amazon's stated intent is to bury all so-called "adult" materials. What do they have to gain by that?

If the idea is to protect the dainty sensibilities of some prudish souls who might be offended by finding a naughty book for sale? Such people are highly likely to have bigoted attitudes towards homosexual content: a heterosexual kiss (even between a woman and a frog!) is something you might read about to your kids, but a homosexual kiss is too vulgar to mention. So if Amazon is intent on appeasing such people, why not bury books with homosexual content?

Or is there actually no point at all to this? Could it be that no one would be offended by having potentially naughty books in the sales rankings, and fewer people will be able to find the naughty books they want to buy, so Amazon has spent effort, taken a PR hit, and reduced sales for no gain? In which case, isn't this proof that Amazon is, in fact, quite stupid?

So tell me again why it's obvious this was not Amazon's intention.
Uh, no, HN is not wrong, the company is wrong. Why would you want to work for such a company?

You know yourself better than the company does, and "free spirit" vs. "not the kind that settles in a normal job" is not only a gross generalization, an artificial dichotomy, and generally B.S., you know yourself better than they do! You know you are perfect capable of settling in a normal job, right?

Again, the company seems to be looking for a drone, and hiring that way. Surely you can find something better?
"almost never clicked on outside of the first several hours"

Got data to back that up?

The click stats are really great for addictiveness.

I think rev="canonical" is not a great solution either.

BTW, I meant Link Rot Apocalypse facetiously.
Find some concrete data that compares the two. HN probably isn't a sufficient sample. What sort of startup is it?

It might be easier to make up a new name than to settle for .org. A site like boingboing.net does well enough - though I often forget the URL because the .net isn't part of the brand. I've seen links to boingboing.org/com, which might have an effect on search rankings. If you do choose .org, make the .org memorable.
I would say building from source is a horrible idea if you want to scale. For us we had some sweet custom built from source setups that were fast as hell, but once we started putting more servers online it was a hassle to set each one up identically. Better to go with a standard install and be able to reproduce it easily - because no matter what you efficiency gains by compiling are, if you need a new server you will need a new server.

And if the answer is "visualized it" - then compiling is a waste of your time to being with. Better to run native from packages than virtualized from source.
My take: don't divide the revenue; that's like dividing equity. If he's unreasonable, anything else you do in the future is going to infringe on his perceived royalty rights.

Think about coming up with a conservative estimate of what you'll do with this product quarterly, and offer him a flat $N, based on a generous share of that estimate, for any quarter in which (a) he has in that quarter contributed code to the most recent significant version released as of that quarter and (b) you made at least $N. You take the risk in weak quarters, and you retain all the ownership.
Broadcasting something to an undefined group of people doesn't really count as social interaction in my book. Even if it did, I'd consider it a pretty lazy and meaningless method thereof.
Been through the horror over here, on Ubuntu now. No measurable difference in speed of the server, but plenty measurable difference in speed of deploying new ones and a major decrease in swearing from the direction of the server room.
The longer you spend associating with content, the better you learn. On the web we merely glance, digest, and move on. The way we learn isn't perfect but lessons are not to be learned from Facebook. Face-book's network is another story: utilizing the network towards online 24/7 learning collaboration but teachers don't like underground collaboration.

You are mistaken because facts are elementary. True learning is composed of analytical skills. It's not the facts that matter, it's what you do with it, what you make of it, how you construct it with other facts, etc. Streams are mindless, endless piles of facts are pointless.

More systems to collaborate and sort facts would be good though.
If you're scaling horizontally, is 64 bit a win? It eats up memory in Ruby processes. We switched our app (which does not need to scale; it's shrinkwrap) to 32 bit Ubuntu and that was a win for us.

(Gentoo? Blech. -funroll-loops.)
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Those pagination arrows are very confusing.

> < 1 ...
Using my own search organization tool called FlowThing:

http://i44.tinypic.com/erei4g.jpg

Email me for an invite code... in a very private alpha right now.
I don't know FreeBSD vs. Linux (and god do I ever not want to see that one hashed out), but let me assure you based on significant commercial experience in performance-critical apps that the other BSDs are not the way to go here.

You're working against the grain if you go BSD instead of Linux with Rails, whether you like FreeBSD or not.
Fair enough - but then tell the candidate that: "Sorry, you're overqualified, you can find a better position, and be happier. We just need a code monkey for now". None of the BS about "free spirits" and "normal jobs" - I mean, come on.
Thanks!

What browser are you using? It basically doesn't support IE 6/7 because their anemic Javascript engines make it torturously slow. I'm very curious to hear about your experience, though... padmapper@gmail.com
Unfortunately, PadMapper has to ignore those - there's nothing that can really be done. This means that about 1/2-2/3 of listings end up getting ignored. The ones that are left are less likely to be a waste of your time, though.
Probably not. The "next best" is likely to be found by traversing the space of available names, not the space of available extensions.
If atheism is a falsifiable hypothesis, then so is theism (the belief that God exists). The same experiment that could be performed would prove one of these beliefs true and the other false.

The statement that 'atheism' does not take anything on faith is wrong and silly. The experiment discussed above that proves that God either exists or does not exist has been run. Until it is conceived and executed, one has to say that 'I believe God does not exist despite the fact that I do not have conclusive evidence that proves it'. The same also goes for theism - no experiment and conclusive proof, it is a matter of faith.

Stating "religion is not falsifiable, which makes it fundamentally different from atheism" does not change the facts.
Is there a good free tool on the mac for capturing video from the screen?
I would like to create a demo of my iPhone/ipod touch app by capturing video from the iPhone simulator.
Looks crowded and confusing.

Read and apply this: http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/good-call-to-action-buttons/

The nav bar, the log in button, and the two red links are all too prominent, so nothing jumps out. Topright signin, large login, red sign up for free, bottom left sign up - redundant. How it works in navbar, Help, red See how it works, What is Txtms - redundant. Every extra option is one less reason to choose ANY option.

I have no idea what your site does. However, when I read the "tip", everything became clear: "To start sharing your profile, have any mobile user text your User ID to x@txtms.com." Reword that and put it on the front page. You also might want to explain why this isn't just a business myspace for mobile phones.
Good idea - it would slow it down a bit, but I'm pretty sure it would be useful. The subway commute-time filter is a bit limited in its use, but you can use it to try areas for their commute time to other areas.

Also, it's not as useful, but if you zoom in on the metro stations on any google map, it'll tell you what lines stop there.
Thanks for the independent confirmation... call me paranoid, but I wasn't going to visit stalkdaily, an alleged source of XSS attacks, myself.
It really is a good thing that multiple pieces of software exsists for doing just such a thing.

Modern messaging middleware can handle in the range of hundreds of thousands of messages per second.

Talent and domain knowledge will be important, but iPhone "push" changes little.
I suspect this mammoth thread at MarginalRevolution last year...

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/06...

...is behind some of the recent interest in 'time traveler tips'. It even spawned a song highlighting some of the consensus recommendations:

http://www.sugarfix.net/2008/06/23/song-1000-ad/

(Though, the genre goes back at least to 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'.)
Considering the negative karma for such a silly statement...
Another one to add to List of works with the equal transit-time fallacy : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_with_the_equal_tr...

Why would you go to the length of putting together a geek oriented work like this, and then get something so blatantly wrong in the first paragraph?
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Screenflow: http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm

It has won a number of Apple design awards and I've found it to be excellent all around.
Your assessment of the argument is correct. At the base of any body of knowledge is a collection of axioms or assumptions that are taken as true without any proof required. Consider the scientific method. It is taken as a given that an experimental result will hold for every observer who attempts the same experiment at any time or location (provided that the result is true). This is wholly unprovable, but we consider it to be a reasonable thing to accept on faith.
Use whatever you know your way around best. If you're comfortable with openbsd and it can do everything you need, then go with that.
I doubt it's developers making the decisions. They need to reach managers of IT departments who look at their IE6-only apps that work fine and would cost time and money to upgrade to support IE7/8 with no perceivable benefit.
Which they're not doing. Any IT department reliant on IE6 has already blocked one upgrade and the same tools are available to them this time around as well. Did you read the article?
My guess is he's looking at a recent Twitter status_id from the public timeline[1] and multiplying it by 180 bytes. Wildly inaccurate no doubt.

1. http://twitter.com/public_timeline
I'm all for creating a better solution for short urls, rev=canonical is not a good option.

The proposal mixes alternative urls with the idea of a canonical url. Besides being damn confusing (remembering the difference between rel and rev), it opens up security issues. Moreover, the 'rev' attribute is not included in HTML 5, making this proposal obsolete before it even starts.

I've written up a longer explanation of these problems on my blog for anyone interested:

http://cubiclemuses.com/cm/articles/2009/04/12/short-and-can...
Some combination of cash and cache can solve just about every performance problem I've ever heard about.

(Incidentally: if you are creating a service which will be used over the long term and which provides value, you should not be pricing it anywhere near $1.)
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It sounds as if you are confusing agnosticism with atheism. The atheist asserts that God does not exist; the theist asserts that God exists; and the agnostic asserts that they cannot know if God exists or not.

Skepticism is healthy and good. All truth claims should be carefully examined and only accepted if enough supporting evidence exists to satisfy you.
From your link, it seems Screenflow costs $99; the request was for a free application.
Unless that value is predicated by the number of people using it...
(a) You only owe based on the fair market value of the stock, which is not simply what a VC pays for it, and (b) you only owe when your stock vests, and (c) if this actually worries you, you arrange to file an 83b election and pay some nominal up-front fee, and pay only cap gains when you liquidate.
I'm 100% in favor of linking to original sources, but it's not fair to call the middlemen sites "the least productive" members in the supply chain.

On the internet if you create the most amazing thing in the world, but sites like Gizmodo and Buzzfeed don't link to it, then you effectively did not create the most amazing thing in the world.
Close to equal? Surprising answer from a successful founder. If he signed on, say, 6 months after the other two founders, that's valuing their previous contributions at 0.
I claim that many atheists if shown incontrovertible proof that God exists would rearrange their entire belief system simply to preserve their non-rational privileged belief that God does not exist and there is nothing after death.

This is not a religious vs. non-religious issue. Many people are not comfortable accepting every fact they are faced with. You will however find that the reasonable people in both camps do believe in looking at the facts honestly and drawing conclusions from those facts where appropriately. However, rational people of any stripe are rather hard to come by.
Sorry -- I missed that.

In that case, the program you're looking for is Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/

However, if you're distributing your screencast to the web (or even more than just one or two techies), Screenflow is worth every penny.
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