skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally find that evernote is the best possible notes/ read "xyz" later setup. (and the backing up everything to a web account helps too :p). Its also great because I can store documents such as pdf or scans, such as copies of work agreements, and search them all later!
Money can't be created (except for the Feds printing it, which is explicitly factored out), but wealth can; they are not the same thing. $100K today and $100K a hundred years ago are the same amount of money, but the $100K today will get you a lot more wealth.
I use VoodooPad, which is a very solid application, and to boot, it's written by an indie developer.
heh. I've been selling Xen VPSs since 2005, and I sold FreeBSD jail based VPSs for a while before that. you can call me small, understaffed and cheap, but I've been in the market for longer than many of my competitors.
If you're spending less than $150-200 it seems to be hard to beat a VPS. Certainly there are cheap dedicated servers to be had, but I don't believe you'll get such a high quality network and standard of support as with Linode/Slicehost. $150-200 seems enough to get a decent dedicated server with a respected host such as Softlayer, or 10tb.com who resell Softlayer servers at crazy prices. That said, I have heard a number of people recommend Hetzner.
... if we conceive of a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its course, such a being, whose attributes are as essentially finite as our own, would be able to do what is impossible to us.
Off the top of my head:

* Amex cards don't have pre-set limits. That's now true of many other business cards too, but the fee structures still differ. Visa allows/expects/hopes you'll carry a balance on your card. Amex disallows it.

* In business-to-business situations, everyone accepts Amex.

* Amex has absolutely killer customer service. There is simply no comparison. Amex dispute resolution is "default deny" to merchants; when I've contested charges, I've never spent more than 5 minutes on the phone. Total. I feel safer charging big-ticket items on my Amex than on any other card.

The major difference between Amex and Visa is the business model; Visa is a payment system that works through card-issuing banks. Your relationship isn't with the card; it's to some bank. Amex is a company, and your relationship is to Amex.
The population probably is that skewed. Males gain a far larger evolutionary advantage from excellence than females, due to their lower direct reproductive investment; consequently, there are strong evolutionary incentives for males to adopt high-risk behaviours.
This will be my last response in this thread - it seems to be degrading into a flame war. If you want more info email me (my address is in my profile).

I wasn't saying 'statistics' as a magical name, I was just using it as shorthand for the explanation that it provides. Frankly, I don't have the time or inclination to type up a half hour lecture on stats (especially since there are thousands of others who have already done so far better than I could).

But, here's the 10 second explanation:
Many easily measurable outputs (height, weight, wealth, etc) are functions of a large number of roughly randomly distributed inputs. It's very unlikely that all these inputs are lined up in such a way that the observable output is maximized or minimized. It's much more likely that they will, in fact, on average cancel each other out. Given a sufficient number of trials (i.e., a large enough population), this results in a normal/guassian/bell-curve distribution of the observable output.

Given other distributions/correlations of inputs you get the other common distributions of outputs (lognormal, boltzmann, exponential, etc).
How long did it take in each case to resolve the problem? If you're just losing 4 minutes on the phone with Amex customer service, I'm not really worried about my card.
This article is a good example of the use of Ridiculous Reasoning: "We should decide that occupation becomes automatically legitimate after 50 years because that is how I resolve awkward moments at dinner parties."
Respectfully, the main difference between you and an atheist like myself is not that I consider the universe random or lacking pattern, but that I don't equate order with agency.

From Pi; 'My new hypothesis: If we're built from Spirals while living in a giant Spiral, then is it possible that everything we put our hands to is infused with the Spiral?'
Flash has the same problem as IE -- nobody upgrades it, so you can't use new features unless you have something very cool to offer.

Adobe's census claims that Flash Player 10 reached over 70% penetration just five months after its release (last November):

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/vers...
you have a good point about provisioning. my automation needs a lot of work, and that's a big weakness for me right now. I'm working on it, but I'm not anywhere near done. If you are built in to 'the cloud' and provision more nodes in the day than at night, yeah, my competitors are probably better for you. But if you leave your server on all the time, then I think I do offer some significant value.

I am much smaller than linode or slicehost... It's two SysAdmins, with some support from others. I have been around for a while, though. I've been selling VPSs with xen since 2005.

our old location is in he.net Fremont, our new location is in svitx in san jose. I'm looking at a rack in market post tower, but I'm told they've had power problems lately, while svtix has been pretty solid.
http://prgmr.com/status.html doesn't inspire confidence. Sample quote:

> The cutover from Cogent to Rippleweb was messy, and resulted in nearly a full day's down time This was completely my fault, (That is, Luke Crawford's) as I set the cut off date for the old service to early. Rippleweb moved quickly to help me recover; the rest of the down time was due to a faulty cross-connect. All customers get one month of credit for this, as this has been a rough month (and we are not entirely out of the woods yet.) On the upside, we have avoided renumbering. Neal has survived the baptism by fire, and we can expect prgmr.com services to improve in reliability now that I have help again.
i.e. header($final_destination, true, 301)
We should care. We like to believe that all our differences do not make a difference, but fortunately and unfortunately they do.

For example if YC funds more startups with women you will not see the impact in the next 2 years. But 10 years from now those veterans would have encouraged several younger women to get into technical fields. Everyone will benefit from that.

I have had the chance to meet and work with a couple of female programmers, and although I am not a coder I was most certainly thrilled.
Much of the mess at Hanford resulted from storage of waste products, not from the reprocessing process itself. Much of that waste may have been able to be reprocessed again, decreasing the amount of negative effect on the surrounding area.
The article seemed to me to clearly be advocating something more akin to the combination of the breeder reactor at Marcoule and the reprocessing facilities at La Hague in France(which releases less than 1% of the natural background radiation).
While smartphone processors remain slow enough to require Apple's ingenuity to integrate hardware and software in order for a great experience to be possible - we'll happily pay extra for it.

But when processors become fast enough, so that the same experience can be had without being as clever or integrated as Apple, we'll turn to other attributes. Manufactures will standardize the internal interfaces, so supplies can compete with different mixes of attributes of the components, and phone manufacturers can pick and choose to create a phone for their market and price-point: the PC compatible of iPhones.

Of course, when processors are that fast, you'll be able to run windows XP on it, and all the software that runs on that platform. Moore's Law says it's inevitable.
this is correct for all new customers. I have a really old location at herculies data in sacramento, and another old location at he.net in Fremont.
This was an interesting article, and a very important counter-point to the notion that any difference between men and women is evidence of discrimination or at least socialization.

That said, I think the article is a little extreme. I suspect that the genetic benefits of "playing it safe" for men and "risk taking" for women were greater throughout our evolutionary history than the author suggests.

For starters, a brief glance out into the world suggests that women do take risks and seek power - sometimes through a man, but often independently. They may not build boats and sail to far away lands, but they sure will follow the yellow brick road to hollywood on a pipe dream of becoming a high status movie star or singer.

The author used the example of Genghis Kahn as an example of why men would benefit from high status in a way women wouldn't - GK fathered hundreds (thousands?) of children, whereas a woman wouldn't be able to exploit this power in the same way. This isn't necessarily the case. Sure, a woman can't have hundreds of thousands of kids, but her sons may be able to. In fact, the biggest fights among Bonobo apes are between Females, usually over their son's status in the mating hierarchy.

For men - I've read (and sorry, no cite here) that many hunting gathering societies are quite egalitarian, mainly because the leverage that great wealth and concentration of power aren't present. While good hunters do more mating than poor ones, the opportunity and benefit to shooting the moon with extreme risk taking may not be nearly as prevalent in our evolutionary history as the author suggests. Again, a brief glance out into the world suggests that the norm among males is to exhibit some risk taking and status seeking behavior - and perhaps a bit more so than women - but ultimately, I suggest that for at least some of our evolutionary history, many males had the opportunity of, well, behaving more like females, but acting fairly monogamous and playing it safe.

Still a good article, I just think it overstates the case considerably.
It is difficult to talk about these things when we use the same words to mean very different things. What do you mean by random? I am surrounded by random events, each little flash of light arrives at random, but overall the light in my room is largley uniform, certainly predictable.

So, no, that the light from my lamp comes out in all directions does not suggest to me a higher power.
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"If you have 150 IQ, sell 30 points to someone else."
I'm a long-time Linode customer, and I recently had to make the choice between Linode and Slicehost. I was extremely unimpressed by Slicehost's offerings compared to Linode - with Linode you get so much more bang for the buck, and they even upgraded harddisk space 3 weeks after I signed up for a new server. I can absolutely not understand why Slicehost gets more buzz than Linode.
Semi-relevant: http://xkcd.com/385/

EDIT: I've actually seen this in action. I spoke up about it, and got complete incomprehension in return. People really, really don't notice that they have these sorts of attitudes, and it stinks.

Related: http://dev.linuxchix.losurs.org/?q=node/10

I'm leaving my gender unspecified.
if you come to SF you can also hit me up for a free dinner.
"Is it because you think there are no meaningful differences across sexes?"

I agree with the GP, but not with this comment. Obviously there are meaningful differences between the sexes. But there are other ways to group people, as well:

- Gender (already covered, here)

- Age

- Nationality

- Ethnicity

- Sexual Orientation

- Political Orientation

- Religious Orientation

- Number of Older Siblings

- ... the list goes on

All of these factors are significant in the sense that they help to establish our unique identity, and there are meaningful differences in each category. Should we poll for each factor? At some point..... well, I can't say it more succinctly than the GP:

"Who cares?"
I agree that if the data can't be applied, then we're satisfying only trivial curiosities. Like if I asked about your gender - who cares? But this data can be applied. Here we're testing the hypothesis of the above-linked essay. It's a poor test, though I think that HN users are better behaved in voluntary online polls.

More importantly, it lets us know how our community stacks up. Genetically-encoded risk-taking aside, many of us want to see equal proportions in this poll, or would like to imagine that this poll would come out more equal than not. Yet it currently comes out 20:1, and this matters to me. (As a consequence, I'm probably going to make an effort to recommend this site or its discussions more often to women that I know.)
Anyone know the cause or reason for their losses? The article is kind of meaningless without that key information.
I'd imagine that the poor are poor relative to the rich. Individual's happiness with their economic position tends to be based to a significant extent on what they are earning relative to other people.
If we're talking about Erlang, no one. If we're talking about gender, though, it's pretty important.
I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male.

I don't find this hard to believe.
I've been working as a startup hacker for 10 years and can count the number of female programmers I've worked with on one hand. The population IS skewed.
>> "many of us would like to see equal proportions in such a poll"

Good luck with adjusting the internal structure of female brains.
Then again, people of a like mind tend to be found near each other, so the minority squared is likely to be an underestimation.

It could also be that women tend to procrastinate less due to better multi-tasking skills, but that's just wild speculation on my part...
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b) Inside San Francisco proper, probably. Outside San Francisco, possible for sure! (I suggest living near BART or CalTrain so you can get around without a car.)
Basically implementing the system they're working on at Intentional Software, but do it using open source tools, open standards, with GPU acceleration, and a LISP interpreter as its core base language for defining transformations and language definitions in.
Certainly, we've had polls for some of these (I remember age specifically) in the past, and we'll probably have them again as the user base changes. With the context of an increasing number of gender-related articles, I think this information is valuable.
Think of it this way: Chaos and order are on different side of the same coin.

If there's no randomness and chaos, life wouldn't probably form. There wouldn't be the billion, or trillion of random cominbation that finally form the foundation of life. There wouldn't be any order to recongnize because the universe is inert. There would be nothing to see and nothing to do. Likewise, if there is no energy difference between different area of the universe, the structure of life couldn't form.

Why do spontangeous order exists? Because without spontangeous orders nothing can exists and no life would form. It doesn't need a reason, because its reason is to exist.

In other words, randomness is neccessary for the creation of an anthrophic universe. For that I am a discordian.

Of course, I am not a philosopher.
right now, my system is not designed to be easy for people who don't have *NIX experience. (I do have some neat features for those who do, like pvgrub and console access)

I'm working on it, but yeah, if you need a easy control panel to quickly re-image your system or things like that, I don't yet have those things, and yeah, for some people, getting those things is unquestionably worth the price difference between my competitors and I.

But for people who do have more UNIX/Linux experience, I think my system has some advantages that I will be careful to keep as I try to make easier interfaces. I give you a rescue disk that lets you boot your vps even if you break your boot config. I give you a ssh public-key based out of band console and rebooter. I let you run whatever kernel you want (I have a few customers running NetBSD, and I have some experimental OpenSolaris domains)
It may be an unscientific poll, but if nothing else, it's interesting to see with whom we are interacting.
As a theist I have to disagree with your final point. The presence of order in our universe is very clearly necessary in order for us to be able to question the existence of order. That the weak anthropic principle is and always will be a sufficient explanation of the presence of order does not undermine my personal sense of faith, but nothing about the presence of order supports it.
It's a measure of our progress.
that page was last updated in 2007. granted, we still have problems, but we are much better than we were.

http://wiki.xen.prgmr.com/xenophilia/

is our current blog and the place we report mistakes and outages.
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I said that I would recommend this site, not that I would attempt genetic modification. The linked article is descriptive, not normative. If women might, due to genetic differences, be missing out on a lot of great information because of a 'male' or risky (startups?) or socially transient (discussions only last one day?) climate, then we should try to remedy this.
While that obviously happens, I personally very much doubt that explains the difference. Evolutionary rationales are far more compelling to me. Even childhood conditioning/environment is more compelling.

To the extent it is true, or at least that the behavior exaggerated in that comic is true, I'm always curious what we're supposed to take from it. Being a guy, I don't have a knee-jerk hatred of myself just because I relate to sex in a different way from women. I don't find myself morally repugnant because I can be attracted to women before I've found a deep, meaningful connection with them. I don't hate myself because a woman showing up on IRC suddenly becomes powerfully interesting to me.

Guys aren't evil. They're different from women. If you don't know this, try reversing the situation. Imagine if a guy showed up in an IRC peopled entirely by girls, and they started paying all kinds of attention to him, and making sexual comments about him. Would he be traumatized? Aside from the usual contrarians, most honest guys would say no. In fact, most guys would LOVE it. This would hold even if they showed up in a typically "female" domain, such as a class on midwifery or home economics.

Society feels that it needs to enforce the notion that the way men relate to sex is wrong and the way women relate to it is right. I think the arguments for that are reasonable, but I personally opt out.
Ah, but should YC make a concerted effort to fund startups with women because 'everyone will benefit eventually'? That's hardly fair.
Well of course "fair" is a normative question, but it is one that there are usually some common themes about.

For example the "equal opportunity" American ideal doesn't match up if the greatest predictor of your economic success is not your intellect, hard work, creativity, etc. but rather the income of the family you were rather arbitrarily born into.

For example: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2009/04/2...

"The truly amazing thing to me is that parental income isn't just crucial in getting to college, and getting through college -- its effects linger on, basically, in perpetuity. One of the most remarkable findings from the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project is that a child from a family in the top income quintile who does not get a college degree is more likely to wind up in the top income quintile himself than a child from a family in the bottom income quintile who does get a college degree"

A large part of this is due to public policy and there are clear examples of many European countries where changing public policy produces less arbitrary income inequalities. As the developed world transforms into a more knowledge based economy which requires large long-term investments in yourself to really compete, income inequality will only grow between those that can make the investments and those that can't.

I'd also be careful to consider how the market pays people as necessarily being "fair" until you look at after-tax income and the institutions that help determine that price. There are many different ways to setup a distribution of resources in a society and there are many different ways to setup markets (property rights, laws, public services, regulation, taxes etc.). As such we should consider the fairness of our human created rules and institutions; the particular results they create are just indicators. Of course whatever people are paid is "appropriate" as long as it follows the system of rules we have setup.

The "appropriate" results would be very different if we changed how the system was setup.
Good luck using apps on mobile phones that got their UIs designed for 17"++ screens. But seriously, you might have a point considering how Apple's iPod franchise has suffered the last year. :-)

OTOH, Nokia, the Asian mobile phone makers and Microsoft... hard competition.
Living on $1k in the city sounds rough. You'll probably be so stressed for money and busy that you won't even be able to enjoy it. If you're focus right now is building your website, don't distract yourself with contract work and city life. I would recommend just staying with your folks and getting down to it. Being in the city won't make your website any more successful.

But if you're dead set on coming out here, I would recommend looking in the east bay or the peninsula. Stay close to a BART or caltrain station so you can get into the city easily for networking events & to meet with clients.

If you really want to live in SF proper i would recommend looking for a room in the Tenderloin (despite its rep, its a great place to live, i loved it... lots of cheap food and close to everything) or in the southern or eastern part of the mission.
There is some basic info of the breakdown of users including gender on Alexa, though it only provides info for users with their plugin: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com

It will be interesting to see how that data compares to the poll results.
contention is... more complex than that. are you dedicating a core to the dom0? (it helps network performance rather a lot) the fewer VCPUs you have per DomU, the more DomUs can run at once. (on an 8 core box, with one cpu pinned to the dom0, I can run 7 1vcpu DomUs and one dom0 (for network/disk io) at one time. Alternately, I can run 1 4vcpu DomU and one Dom0)

On the other hand, if nobody else is trying to do anything, the box with 4 VCPUs has 4 times the resources that the box with 1VCPUs has.
(I was going to quote that ;-)

Now there's a startup idea. The 'ebay', I mean.
Also the "Express Install" feature makes it very simple to upgrade now:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/express_ins...