skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's older than the internet.
Even palladium is expensive! The price of palladium is a major factor in hydrogen fuel cell costs.
First of all, I love the way you posed the question.
Mine will be 1 year old soon, and i've got some of the issues you've got too.

First off, you are in a very crowded space as far as I can tell. I've got a very tiny bit of experience with PlanetEye, so I know a bit about the space that I think you are going for.... but that is the problem.
What are you going for? what are you REALLY trying to do? What is the differentiator. There are some really good trip planning/sharing sites out there, why should I use tripntale.

When I first hit your homepage I'm confronted with a big image and a sign-up, aka fail.
Below the fold you have images that link to trips.
I'd move those above the fold and make sure they are seen, and make them look more like links. Just a picture isn't good. Tell me where it is, maybe when the trip was, what user added it. That HAS to be above the fold.

Move the 'sign-up' stuff to a sign-up page. One button says 'click here to sign-up' that way you can give people more info, etc.
Move your searchbox up. top of the page would make sense, and the login stuff can probably go somewhere else.

Playing around for a bit, i just wasn't dragged into the experience. I can look at photo's but maybe there just isn't enough content or something. Not quite sure, but I'd say you have some product/UI issues to deal with first.

I don't think you'll get much major blog love until you get your usability figured out, and focus on the users first experience.

On another note, TC is not a marketing plan, and I can speak from experience. As great as it is to have a positive review from TC, it doesn't make your company, but it is a great way to get feedback.
> And it’s awesome because I can see from across the room, looking at their screen, whether their code is good or bad

Please tell me this is a joke. He may be able to tell whether the code is unreadably bad, but that's about all.
Open source will just cut into the already minuscule amount of time I have working a day job and on the startup nights and weekends.

I'm going to look more into RoR dev companies, hosting companies, CL, and a few other job boards.
I don't see how unlimited TLDs benefits anyone other than ICANN.
I keep some old emails. I clean up randomly when I have nothing better to do.

Other than a few reg emails, most of it is valueless. Keep many more in my business account, "just in case".

I have to admit that I use Mail/Entourage (personal/work) as a hack database in that I will often search for a person's name or product name to find associated info (contact data, etc.). So that can lead to keeping more email than I probably should.
Personal e-mails, I probably wouldn't miss anything.
Work e-mails, I could probably live without 90% of the old stuff.
It's easier to have it and search on it, than deleting it though.
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I hope you are kidding. I also don't have cable anymore, and 24/7 news is one of the things I am glad I never have to deal with again.
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Organic doesn't necessarily imply biological: in chemistry, an organic compound is one that contains carbon.
Not really a company, but an open source project I contribute to (there's also an App Store app, so it might qualify as a company, I suppose) has a twitter account that we use. We mostly have a few twitter searches for anyone having problems with the app (Colloquy) or looking for an IRC client on a platform we support to recommend to them. Occasionally we'll give out promo codes, either to bloggers or to anyone following us/twitter's public stream to use.

Note, for this, we don't use a bot — A. because traffic is low volume, only a few tweets every few days and B. (imo), bots that send send the same message to everyone regardless of what the query is, is obnoxious.
It prompts you to provide your email logins so that it can find friends for you.

It's not very prominent, but there's a "skip this step" link on that page.
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So what if you are the only person in your location? I live in one state and all of our developers are in another.

Right now I do reporting (sql, vbscript and perl). I want to get in to database administration and C#. I am starting on my own, but there is nobody here to consult with or learn from. Am I lost?
Don't pretend this applies to just religion.

If you openly declare your belief in alchemy, alien abduction, astrology, the Easter Bunny, fairies, ghosts, holocaust denialism, karma, the Loch Ness Monster, magic, moon-landing-hoaxism, 9/11 truthism, reincarnation, Santa Claus, telepathy, thetans, unicorns, Yahweh, or the Yeti...

...then those who fight on the side of reason may show you less respect than you think you deserve.
You say, "When I first hit your homepage I'm confronted with a big image and a sign-up, aka fail".

I'm curious to know why a sign up on the main page is a bad, bad idea. I am developing something myself and figured that having a quick sign up form on the main page would ease the sign up process instead of click on "Sign Up", go to another page, and then fill in the form. On the main page, if you like the site, it's a quick decision to just sign up then n there. My site requires a user to sign up before he/she can interact with other users (privacy concerns etc). So it's more important to me that the sign up is an easy process.

Yes/No? What am I missing?
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In the actually pycon video, he does clear this up and say that he can tell if code is not correct because python programs all look very similar in terms of structure (short lines, small units, etc.) and due to python's required tabbing, its easy to see from his desk whether or not a programmer is following these methodologies.
I interviewed Jason Fried of 37 Signals on my site. He told me that his ebook made hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think his margins were even better than mine.

What margins like these don't take into account is the years of work that came before them.

In my answers to Neil, I tried to keep my explanations simple. But I don't mean to imply that I found a way to turn nickles into dollars by salesmanship alone.

Thanks for bringing this up timr.
Great point. We didn't have 100% conversion.

I kept things simple to explain how the business worked. There were other factors like this at play.

By the way, a big one was fraud. I remember seeing my first washed check. That's where someone took a check our company made out for $25 or so. Washed our ink of it, and rewrote the check for much more money.

Crazy.
He sunk years and years of his life into Spore only to have EA sweep the legs out from under it at launch with horribly broken DRM. Instead of dealing with the corporate idiots he's moving on.
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SEO tips seem a lot like black magic to me. Nobody ever explains why, and nobody shows any data... they just say things you are supposed to believe. I find this annoying.

(I have never focused on SEO, and my website always comes up for terms that I expect it to come up for.)
Found the original article here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/12166052...
Wow...Great! I truly enjoyed reading this most enlightening article. Many points you touched on, I say Amen to that.

Once you get in,addiction is non-reversible,the digging goes deeper and deeper ..into the web's bosom.It never stops. The NET is nursery rhyme's..."Come into my parlor" "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly; ... and went into his den, For well he knew the silly fly would soon come back again: ..."

Summed up in you words,"You may be wasting your time, but your not idle." Haha Cheers!
It would also be nice if tree-structured discussions (like HN) were preserved instead of just hacked apart into series of seemingly unrelated comments. Grouping together HN comments without the tree structure would be far less useful than respecting tree-structured discussions but intermixing trees from different sites.
Agreed. It's what you make it.
I'd be happy to say more (why, data, etc.) on anything in particular. The post was already getting a bit long, which is why I left it at that. There is some why in there already though.
> "I have my employees write software in the language I know to be able to control them better."

You're completely misinterpreting what he is saying.
I've played, and marvelled at, the $10 20Q game, and wondered how they created something so smart and so cheap. Turns out the answer was time - based on a learning program that's been running since 1988.

And time, too, is what gives life intelligence, through Darwinian processes of advantage. If the dinosaurs hadn't been 'wiped out', how would their intelligence have developed? If the Roman Empire hadn't collapsed and been replaced by a fundamentalist religion, would man have had heavier-than-air flight in the 8th century instead of the 20th?
My new business gets a brief mention on page two:

"Krupp, a recent graduate of Cornell, came up with 'Swagapalooza,' a conference where marketers pay to get their products into the hands of influential bloggers. ('You're going to have to take a cab because [the bag of freebies] won't fit in the subway turnstile. It's going to be awesome!')"
Why HATEOAS?
"It started with a simple question or two, which boil down to:
* If Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) is so cool, why is it not being used by more REST APIs today?
* Are there any short term benefits to go along with the stated long term benefits like adaptability to change?"
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"""Linux is the fastest-growing platform in every aspect of computing.""" - Haha yeah, except on the Desktop :-)
You missed the point. Code sharing in memory only helps if you have multiple processes all using the exact same library. That problem is already solved for server applications, and is mostly irrelevant for mobile platforms, so I guess you're mostly worried about the desktop environment. But typical desktops only run a few user-mode processes at a time, and wouldn't be able to share much code regardless of whether the JVM supported it or not.

While it would certainly be possible to implement that feature, it seems most of us just don't care. RAM is cheap and I would rather see the Sun and IBM developers focus on more important issues. Dynamic method invocation and tail-call optimization are a lot higher on my list.

The reason you're not seeing much progress on OS design is not because we don't comprehend the systems, but rather because what we have now is good enough for what most people want to do. The OS has largely ceased to be an obstacle and quietly faded into the background. Disruptive OS innovation will have to wait until someone comes up with a killer app that requires fundamental capabilities which current OS designs can't support.

Most of the time I'm waiting for my Vista machine to do something it's not pushing code around. It's idling, waiting for a response from a server.
In the real world, most true progressions in web technology has been some variation of the following:

* One browser vendor implements something

* Some other browser vendor realises its a good idea, copies it

* Every other vendor scrambles to implement some form of it

* Behaviour is formalised into a standard

* Browsers slowly but surely end up on the standardised version

This often tends to create saner and more useful 'standards' than the real ones: InnerHTML, the Quirks Mode box model, Ajax, Canvas, font-face, JavaScript. The downside is slow and 'incorrect' implementations can be slow to fix bugs (although that happens with true standards too). Standards are rarely truly "industry leading" and I'm truly not sure if the standards leading is actually much better in the real world than the present ad hoc development method.
The blog post title is fine, it's the post on HN that could use a little context. I think that's the point of this thread, anyway.
Awesomely written.
I was mostly interested in this one:

"Use directories instead of subdomains."
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The big question: why on earth are the shutdown systems (or any others) connected to the Interwebs? How on earth could the risks of that justify whatever benefits there might be? Governments are stupid about all things except increasing their power and control, so it could be true. But I'm still skeptical.

Does anyone know why these systems would be online and what benefits would be large enough to justify this?
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I am pretty sure that this is because Google sees different subdomains under the same domain (ie. a.example.com, b.example.com) as different websites, and so if you got a link to a.example.com, maybe a.example.com's pagerank would improve, but example.com's pagerank will not improve.

This is why choosing one main domain for you website (either www.example.com or example.com) and 301 redirecting all requests from the one not chosen to the chosen one is recommended.
No sarcasm intended: would C++ be a good choice for web development if it feels right for the developer?

In my short experience with several popular languages, there are certain niches for development. E.g. high-level web development (Python, Ruby, Perl), complex enterprise development (C#, Java), video games and embedded (C), general desktop software (C#, C++).

Within the niche, it is perfectly fine to chose any language within niche. However, to use langauges across niches is quite troublesome. No one cares if you use Ruby instead Python to write a web-site but people would raise eyebrows if you use C (counter-example: eBay).
It seems to me that worlds permit sharing immutable data structures, and that Warth & Kay's operations on worlds do not permit sharing mutations done in parallel worlds.

The Worlds paper you cited [http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008001_worlds.pdf] cites the COP overview paper [http://p-cos.net/documents/contextl-overview.pdf] mentioned near the top of the link jrockway gave. Warth & Kay say "Similarly, in order to support context-oriented programming (COP) [8], we may want to add a third key to our lookup table that identifies a context." So that gives me some confidence in my interpretation.
There is nothing wrong with the human body; don't fear it.
Our servers actually have a full embedded ARM Linux installation to support IPMI[1]. It has a separate processor, power management, flash storage, et al, and operates independently of the installed OS. The onboard IPMI module runs as long as the machine is connected to a power source.

The card can be re-flashed from the running OS, and actually runs a number of open source network daemons with known vulnerabilities.

It can interact with the BIOS, provide network access to the console, access the network via the host's ethernet chipset, supply the OS with pseudo-disk devices (CD-ROM, floppy) ...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management...
Part-time programming work is reputedly rare, though no one could tell me why.

Nonetheless, I fell into a part-time programming job once (they contacted me), and I found it tended to take over my thoughts - as programming tends to.

Does it have to be a programming part-time job? It might work better for you to have a non-intellectual "day job", perhaps a physical one, or a social one, or just a really brain-dead one. e.g. A housemate had the job of changing tapes of a mainframe overnight (or something like that).

University job boards are a great way to find part-time work (though usually only for students).
In the late 90s I had a similarly bizarre "limitation" in that I didn't "trust" drives that were over 10GB in size (because.. "how can it work? It's just too much to get into a drive!"), so I just had multiple smaller drives instead of one 20~40GB one.

Thankfully, like the writer, I eventually realized the stupidity of my ways, but I think many of us are susceptible to this bug at least once ;-)
except on the Desktop

Which, as a platform, has nowhere to go but down. Desktop sales actually began to decline a couple of years ago, with this years drop being the biggest ever (over 11%).

Being a loser on a losing platform isn't really something to cry over. Being a winner on a winning platform...say, mobile devices and servers (particularly "cloud" servers) and netbooks (where Linux' position is arguable, but it's certainly a contender), would be a something to be excited about.
This is true. This is why we decided to set it as http://blog.dawdle.com instead of http://www.dawdle.com/blog . We have some freelancers that want to write about gaming in general (so they might get a callup to get paid), so it's editorially independent, and the blog can pass independent PageRank to the main http://www.dawdle.com/ domain.

The point is: don't automatically just shove everything in subdirectories; think about if you want your subdomains to have independent PR or not - it might make sense in certain situations.
its hard to listen to streaming music on a mp3 player which has no internet connection
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The "why" inevitably boils down to "we have found this to be effective while black-box testing a constantly changing algorithm developed by an adversarial company with many, many more engineers on staff than we have".

I show data, occasionally. Most people think it is competitively sensitive.
http://jobs.rubynow.com has lots of partime development work if you know ruby. There are also lots of fulltime gigs.
The people selling black magic tend to use techniques that end up getting them busted in the long term. But there are some things that are just good practices from an SEO perspective and have nice usability and accessibility benefits.

There are companies that have the data to back up the statements in this and similar articles. They just don't give it away for free. :-)
Not taking sides here, just bringing up a potential counterpoint. I like Python, Lisp and a fair few other languages as well.

From my understanding, the "there's only one way to do things" idea generally applies at the smaller scales, so an argument could be made that it helps with expressiveness at larger scales, since once you know the idioms you don't need to choose between them - ie you can just type it in and keep going and save the mindspace that making a choice between the multiple equivalent options would have required.

Of course, that only makes sense if the "one way to do things" is eliminating choices that are 100% functionally identical, and you can also get bitten if you need something just outside of what the idiom can do nicely, but I thought it was a point worth bringing up.
I suppose my situation is very similar to yours. I know that one can be in legal status while working part-time on an H-1B visa. I thought I read somewhere that the same applies to an EAD, since on an EAD you're okay even if you're laid off.
Spore did plenty to suck all on it's own, by being a set of disjointed non-games that misrepresent evolution (your traits don't matter for survival!)
Fully agree. Threading is high on our list.
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Ask HN: Where to find public business information?
I need information about all types of establishments in the US (restaurants, rock climbing, stores, etc), but I really just need the stuff that is officially registered (the address, the name, perhaps if possible the type of establishment).

Does anyone know of a government (or public) location to get this information digitally? Or is this sort of information copyrighted by services like yellow pages so you need to ask them to give it to you?

Basically has anyone done this sort of data mining before and is willing to share some details?
>Alternatively, what kind of autonomous functionality does it have?

I don't believe Monty has any autonomy. The closest autonomous robot I know of at Stanford is Andrew Ng's STAIR project (STanford AI Robot): http://stair.stanford.edu/ Right now they are working on some gripping/haptics stuff, like opening doors.
Out of 9 students, selected from hundreds, 2 of them want to help MLM? What a class.

"His students don't miss the math classes. They want to learn how to build a business from scratch and market the hell out of it. Two people want to sell training material to multilevel marketers."
"those newsletters that inspired us went out of business"

Were these newsletters a "business" at all? Did they have some other payment scheme (vs ads)? subscription maybe? If it were not a business how can it go "out of business"?
http://playlist.com seems similar, but even links to (external) mp3 downloads, and has also been around a while.
Except that EA has invested in SFC, and it looks like EA will develop/publish video games based on their work- so it isn't like Wright is moving on from EA totally.

I haven't heard Wright complain too loudly about the DRM, I bet if he had, EA would have done whatever was necessary to appease him.
When did I make that assumption?
Right. It's the 'at every turn' in your original post, rather than 'under certain very specific conditions,' that I was objecting to.
The fact that he chose them, is quite telling.
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Was he given the opportunity to co-found YouTube? That isn't clear from the article.
What's funny is that I now have a similar fear of 1TB drives.. "If a lone drive fails, that is a lot of data to go at once"
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Partly because you'll hardly find a python environment where developers are treated like interchangable cogs with a need for constant supervision ("control").

It's more a mindset thing than a language thing - and your vocabulary exposed it better than any second hand description could have done.
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It's Moore's Law: you're unconsciously calibrated to the past, and it doesn't make sense to your hindbrain that you'll be out by orders of magnitude: x1000 in 15 years. I mean, that increase is completely unreasonable. Isn't it?

On the flip side, it also opens opportunities that people in the industry simply didn't entertain, because they were literally unthinkable and therefore unseeable just a few years ago (and I literally mean literally). I spoke to the inventor of a new method (a few decades ago) of hardware multiplication that became the standard for a while; he said it was made possible by an increase in silicon. It was theoretically possible before then, but no one looked.
From the article,

"Emily Kate Boyd, a songwriter from Atlanta, shares her idea for a new venture: a nonprofit that will expose wealthy donors to fledgling artists who need their support. "How do you use 'groupthink' and wisdom of the crowds to do this?" Godin asks her in his signature marketer's jargon."

Ok let me try!

How would you use Blue Ocean Strategy and long tail value stream personalization to do this?

yay I can do this too!
I created a deployment of a production Smalltalk application recently. (It's been around well over a decade.) 24 MB. I use the image compression utility. 8MB.

The default VisualWorks image is 12MB. And I also worked on one production app that was 110MB deployed. Most of that was data. We pre-cached all of the queries required to populate all of the drop-downs, so that after it got done loading, users found it to be "fast."

I thought of something like YouTube. "Flash video? No self-respecting techie would use Flash!"
Both the fears seem pretty reasonable to me, probably because I usually don't buy a main harddrive with more than 200gb usually no more than 120.