skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite. The temptation is that those rain forest giants represent a significant one-time windfall; this is what led to the unsustainable forestry practices that denuded most of England of its forests and nearly did it in for the US.

International agreements like CITES, if memory serves, regulate and in some cases outright prohibit certain forms of lumber (the most notorious examples are Brazilian rosewood and Cuban mahogany, both of which were tremendously important hardwoods a century ago and are nearly extinct now), and efforts like FSC certification seem to be helping things out somewhat--one can actually buy lignum vitae now, relatively cheaply for an exotic. But I imagine we still have a long way to go.
Eurocentric some? Thanks for the sagan quote, though, and the thoughts about euclid, ramanunjan, siddartha, bodhidharma, proudhon, and the vague admiration for people's names that i don't know, people who comprehended before there were equations, people who saw that all of life is emergent transformation, recognized not only introverted and extroverted states, but what people are today calling 'flow' and what some ended up calling 'zazen', and 3000 years ago they said was the third state, oh - and the fourth state, i supposed we don't have that here yet....but oh, still, love for arabic mathematicians and mayans obsessed with time. before we get to 'greatest' the question arises, greatest at what? if efficiency is the game, perhaps another read of brave new world and a reminder about The Ford is in order. if ability is the game, perhaps we should smile again at oppenheimer yelling that he is shiva. if the quality of human experience, the joy of living is the game, then is it really the internet, or is that just a medium through which we can share the real wealth? i got my gitosis working, made me smile, gotta love the internet - was walking to my car when she smiled and made small talk, gotta love the internet, but true wealth is somewhere between wisdom and that girl's smile.
Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
Branches make miserable lumber; they're frequently called "reaction" wood because the strain of growing puts the limb under considerable tension. I've heard of it self destructing (quite literally) midway through planing from these tensions. It is possible to make furniture and other things from it, but the figure I remember is that somewhere between 70%-90% of the wood is unsuitable.

You can use them for turning sometimes, though.
Which feature(s) are you referring to?
Ram is King for most workloads; and he's right, it's ridiculously cheap. If you need more than 16GiB ram, it makes a lot of sense to buy your own hardware and co-locate it.

Now, I disagree about keeping it in your basement, at least once you have users on it. co-locating a 2 cpu box is going to cost you around $100/month, and you get much better connectivity than DSL at that price. DSL isn't much cheaper, if you get a reasonable uplink speed (at least around here) and I don't know about you, but the power in my house (I live in California) isn't exactly /enterprise grade/.

But yeah, I see a largely untapped market for renting high-ram otherwise-cheap servers; I've rented out one 32GiB server with a bunch of drives (and some slow CPUs) to a guy for $1200 setup and $175/month... once my next load of servers is up and built, I'm thinking about chasing that business model again, if I can build the servers faster than I get new vps signups, anyhow.
If you're talking about the title, I'll agree it's a tad sensationalistic.

If it's your view that the statement has wider meaning, I'd say turn it on its head: consider nutrition to be the first and best application of medicine.

If you had a chronic health condition (e.g. thyroid problem, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, migraines, etc etc) and you had three options: diet change, drugs, or surgery. Which would you choose every time? Which do you think would be healthier for you overall? Lead to more longevity, better quality of life, etc?

Nutrition certainly is medicine, and medicine at its cheapest and most effective.
See, the strategy here is to conglomerate everything into one giant too-big-to-fail media monopoly, then get a never-ending stream of taxpayer handouts to keep the tipsy inverted pyramid of bad journalism and political spin from meeting it's final and spectacular demise by ten million otherwise-unemployed FOIA-armed citizen journalist bloggers.
Ask HN: Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog
I know this has been asked before, but I can't find it. Which is better for SEO: blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog? Also, is it ok to host my blog on wordpress.com and not loose out on the SEO?
I don't recommend it. Conferences happen on fixed days. It's very unlikely you'd otherwise launch on that exact day. So you'd either be launching late or early, both of which are dangerous. You'd either sit on something launchable and risk having a competitor launch first, or launch something incomplete that users disliked.
I didn't get what the site did, it looked like it was trying to sell me something. Then I saw the button 'Download' and that turned me off. I don't want to install any software. I cannot see how this is supposed to save me time or money as claimed.

The sign up page took 15 seconds to load so I gave up at that point.

Online note taking isn't a problem I have that needs a solution.

Doesn't google do this already and integrated into my goole suite of tools?
Yah I'm a bit nervous. But doesn't a third party company handle all the identifiable details anyways?

I don't really give a hoot if other people know how much I spend on Zipcar or groceries.
It seems funny, to me, that they would talk about making Google do the legwork. If this took effect, Google could simply do nothing -- and watch as the people who forced them to 'come negotiate' crumble. Google is the gateway to the internet for a lot of people. If you aren't in Google, you don't exist. This seems like the exact opposite of what these companies want. Also, the claim that "[newspapers] don't have the tools [to build a new model]" is utter crap. The newspapers have neglected the internet, and it's coming back now to bite them in the ass.
what a terrible solution to a non-existent problem. This doesn't even work as a proof of concept - I can't think of a single scenario where this technique would be useful.

Talk about killing a fly with a sledgehammer!
Cloak it. Lobby for it to be illegal for a user to mis-represent his/her/(in the case of a corporation, its) identity, and cloak the site. Let the googlebots scrape teasers. It's not like WP needs to be in the Google index.
I don't think this can be fairly considered a "microframework" when it depends on Django itself...I will give it a try and look at the source because I think that the author's motiviations for removing urls.py and settings.py are valid (in cases) and would be better fulfilled with a few surgical patches than "turtles all the way down."
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613221
that's not the point; the point is that if you buy 32 1GiB 'slices' even if you are getting completely fair slices that really have 1GiB ram, they are going to cost more than buying one server with 32GiB ram. (now in some situations, 32 1GiB slices are going to be more useful, but 1 32GiB server is going to be cheaper than 32 1GiB slices. )

I sell slices myself; and this is something that should be clear to everyone; the reason why you'd want to buy a slice from me (or someone else) is that a 1GiB slice from me is a lot cheaper than a dedicated server with 1GiB ram.

now, some VPS providers have really cool provisioning systems that add a lot of value (I'm still working on mine... but I'm not there.) but those are not unique to virtualization. You can build really cool provisioning systems to work with hardware servers as well. The win from virtualization is that 8 cores/32GiB ram is the most economical server configuration at the moment; with virtualization you can slice that up into smaller servers for people who need less than 32GiB ram /8 cores, and save them a bunch of money.
The demo is what sold me. Making that button more prominent would be a good start. I clicked it before I read anything else.
Indeed. Services like RPX (http://rpxnow.com/) are good ways of presenting the ability to log in with user accounts from OpenID providers. It's mostly relegated to plumbing, although you can just type in your OpenID if you want.
StackedObjectProxy (which I have mixed feelings about), data mapper pattern (basically SQLAlchemy kicking ass), and the kicker: an integrated debugger.

There are others I've noticed, but that's off the top of my head. Of course, Pylons falls short in some other areas.
Agreed. Aside from a few major variables (fixed-width or variable-width, anti-aliased or no, weight), and ruling out fonts with obvious flaws like making 0 and O look too similar, it's largely a matter of taste.

I've found that some fonts look much better as light text on dark backgrounds, or vice-versa. I use terminus (http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/img/terminus-sample.png), but something about it doesn't look right to me on a light background.
I found this interesting:

If our meeting isn’t going anywhere after ten minutes, you’ll notice a not so subtle shift as I move into "shit, I’ve got five more minutes left -- I better get something out of this meeting."

So, if the meeting isn't succeeding, he gets antsy and tries to make something out of it. That seems reasonably admirable to me.

As for the advice, I wish it could be communicated and applied generally. How many meetings have I sat through where the participants spent the prior hour or several browsing or socializing (open space environment)? They get into the meeting, and the organizer spends 45 minutes of the hour lecturing to them about the topic. If people had prepped, the meeting could be 15 minutes and end with an informed decision, instead of being prelude to a subsequent meeting wherein a decision may or may not be reached. Meeting organizers play their part in this; all too often the agenda is mailed out 5 minutes before the meeting. Like that's going to do any good. It's CYA and does not serve any purpose of genuine communication.

I'm hesitating to post this, as my tone sounds somewhat negative. But it's what I've observed, all too often.

I think it should be taken as a warning sign. In the best groups I've worked in, people know what's going on and the meeting quickly moves on to what needs to be done, or to sharing genuinely novel information -- usually newly acquired and so not yet disseminated. If you encounter a lot of the scenario described in the prior paragraph, start hunting for a new position. Even if your current position is stable, it is likely to hold you back.
Salesforce.com API Gotchas Part 2: Custom Fields
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jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks
I agree. Personally my most rewarding wilderness adventures were Torres Del Paine, Chile and Denali National Park, Alaska. I think part of this is that even when I'm disconnecting and taking a break, I like to push myself. Make it interesting... It doesn't have to be just a relaxing week or weekend camping. After accomplishing a big goal (hiking, backpacking, climbing etc) it's rewarding and I promise you'll get your mind off your job. You'll come out of it reinvigorated.

To all of you that haven't camped or backpacked before, there is only one way to learn. Start doing it.
You are glossing over a lot of sarcasm, I think.
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I'm sorry, but this should come as absolutely no surprise. When you give information about yourself to companies, the temptation is going to be very great to figure out how to monetize it. Anybody here should certainly know that going in.
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Maybe she was bored. Not everyone is delighted to see their relatives. I know a couple of friends who hated seeing their aunts or grandmas :-)
"only takes 1 upvote"

I would say it only takes one quick upvote. A submission with 2 or 3 quick votes after submission gets a big boost.
choose any difficult profession and any highschool or college level competition, you can exhibit people who did well in both, does that mean one is the predictor of the other? I don't think so.
thanks for linking to the readings.
It's people like you that make my job suck. Fuck you for using the word "finally."
I had this same problem, and I solved it thusly:

(defun duplicate-line ()
"Duplicate the line the point is on, moving the point to the duplicate"
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(kill-new (buffer-substring (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))
(end-of-line)
(newline)
(yank)
(rotate-yank-pointer 1))
(next-line 1))

I'm sure there's a better way to do that (this is one of the first elisp things I ever wrote), but the general idea is that you duplicate the line the point is on, and then move the point down one line. It's surprisingly useful, more so than copying a line to the kill ring.
Here's my take on these features...

Monitoring and autoscaling I'll pass on. You can get better monitoring with collectd for free and autoscaling based on just load age or disk util and not app specific stuff is plain crazy.

The load balancer is pretty nice but I'll stick with haproxy until you can do httpand https on the same lb and also currently you can only do CNAME dns so no foo.com only www.foo.com and wildcard subdomains don't work unless you use tinydns(bind can't do it)

So I feel like this is a good start but I won't be using any of these services until they get more fully baked. The load balancer is the most interesting part but is currently seriously flawed.
Is Napster worth $5 a month? If not, is it worth anything?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503079

My searchyc.com query was '.com/blog'
When anyone says "XYZ technology can't ABC" it's usually not a fault of XYZ technology but a lack of that anyone's understanding of the technology. Ruby can scale. Java can be fast and Microsoft can be secure.

It's external vs internal motivation. In the first case, it's the world's fault if it doesn't work. In the second, it's due to a lack of understanding of how the world works.
So right now I'm a PhD student and doing quite a bit of research for my proposal.

Maybe I'm unique, but if I'm doing reading online, I don't exactly care about highlighting. If I come across something important, I just bookmark it. If it's a PDF, I download it.

So I'm not really sure your solution is that important (to me atleast).

In my opinion, there are much bigger hassles, with doing research online (these may not apply to you, but I'll tell you nonetheless):

- Where can I go to get FREE PDFs of articles?
- If I make a note of why the PDF is important, can I download that note...so I'm reminded when I actually start writing the report?
- How can I easily keep track of certain authors?
- How can I easily contact the authors in published articles?

So in summary: Not sure if your product is really worth $5/mnth. If you came up with an option that compiled all the contact information for each PDF, then it might make this tool more valuable.
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You should distinguish between a product push and media push.

You'll find that you can say you're launching even if the functionality has already launched a few days before hand.

This has been the case for some iterative launches for me, so maybe it's different for a site launch.

We launched Tipjoy at a publishing conference. It wasn't a good idea, as TechCrunch posted a story a bit early while we were on a flight. I think my exact thought at the time was: "fuck!"

If I were to do it again, I would have an open-to-anyone site for a few days before "launching" at the conference. I fixed more bugs in the first 24 hours of launch than the previous week of development. (and keep in mind this dev time was mid YC push)
Why ShareThis Uses Amazon EC2
Dune "has flair, but not the sense of inexhaustible possibility"
Canadian Self Storage
Social networking is the current trend, used for everything, from finding friends to advertising and promoting a business. Self storage is a rapidly growing industry. It has expanded so fast partly because it has joined the social network bandwagon.
For reference, http://img.skitch.com/20090519-g7c293n9nf94ipisbw1u4xew4i.pn... — the six fonts listed with characters @spoondan has issues with.

Personally, Proggy is the only font that I can agree with @ spoondan's complaints about. But I wouldn't use it for other reasons. Too narrow for my liking. However, I have to flat out disagree with his assessment of ProFont and Droid Sans Mono having confusing O and 0's. The slash through the middle really drives the point that it's a 0..
I would add that the original article is the perfect example of why a top-down argument is a not a valid argument. In general, you should never start from examples and work your way down to a bottom line - as this post shows, you can easily make correlations that are flat out wrong or can be explained in other ways that are more substantial.

If you want to learn how to properly draw conclusions from examples, learn statistics. Stats is all about making sure you have sufficient evidence (large sample sizes, small p-values) to back up a correlation.
Why would you make code that small? I personally like to be able to read code, not show lots of it on screen that's illegible.
I recently experienced something similar after losing my smartphone I switched to a dumb one. I found myself not living just fine with my regular phone and not really needing any of the fancy features. It feels strange for a techie to go low-tech, but it's also liberating.
I've seen quite a few of these "improvement" posts lately, which take a feature of 1.8 and bring it into parity with the performance of 1.9. I always have the feeling that the author is just looking at what 1.9 is already doing and explaining it as if they discovered it themselves.
Actually he is a VC who has been very openly blogging about things that are tough to find information about. I have learned a ton from his posts over the years. Here is a typically good one packed with hard to find real-life info:
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/01/term-sheet-liquidati...
This dude creates a retarded duality...Be a guy like me, or a guy who degrades himself in front of guys like me to get money so that they can be guys like me. Well D-Bag millionaire, for every 1 person who wants to meet with you, there are 10,000 teenagers on 4chan who want to show the world a picture of you soliciting a 12 year old boy for sex to make themselves feel better. Be a nicer person, and that ratio improves by several orders of magnitude.
Emacs is not Vim, and when people start to get that they can essentially change anything they want they actually start to enjoy emacs. And Defaults are almost never a best thought opinion but a compromise.
Could Social Distribution Replace Search as the Primary Way People Discover Content?
I've been using Panic Sans for a while. It ships with Coda and you can grab it out of the application package.
It takes a lot more time and effort to sift through mountains of emails than it does to read a single post whose sole purpose is to distill all that information into one, easy to consume piece.
It's better to use domain.com/blog for SEO reasons. You should also have a look at other hosted blog services. There are plenty of options around with TypePad, Blogger or even Tumblr. Squarespace is a good solution too because they let you import your data from Wordpress, Typepad etc.

Check out http://iwantmy.name/a for an overview of blog services that offer a custom domain option.
Typos like these are some of the hardest to debug. More than once I've been at the point of pulling my hair out on some nonsensical error message that is fixed by simply retyping the line. Trust me, you don't want to waste your time on this one.
I think high school chemistry is the closest the Western, public, pre-university curriculum comes to actual, empirical science. It's the only course I had in high school where we took doing experiments (and writing them up) seriously. Geology and psychology were purely lecture-based, and physics and biology were rooted more in demonstrations (because of a lack of resources, I suppose) than student participation. Chemistry teachers, therefore, are the most likely people in a high school to think in a rational, investigatory mindset.
Short answer: it depends. /blog is better if you just want more pagerank for your main domain, subdomain is better if you want to build your blog into something important on its own.

A subdomain blog with good pagerank also gives you the ability to add heavyweight links to content on your main domain when you'd like to drive traffic to specific areas.
Thankyou for this article.. One of the better ones I've read on HN in a while.

Something I'd never considered before about how our senses work.. And the fact that you would use the tongue to "see" even partially is incredible.
That would be a massive reinterpretation of copyright law, and would effectively destroy much of what makes the internet useful.

Non-lawyer lectures lawyers about what constitutes massive reinterpretation of a particular law. Why did I read this?
I recently switched to Terminus, and I've really been enjoying it.

None of the versions I could find worked well on OS X though, so I converted the BDF sources to dfont. If anyone is interested, I just tossed the file on github, http://github.com/deactivated/dfonts/tree.
I was about to point out the same thing; his post reads like Goldilocks discovering the three bears, but to be honest I never even knew of this [quick]copy-region-as-kill since I've always just set markers in order to delete more than one line. Flagging for RTFM fail.
same for IE6
No kidding, this answer is as nearly loaded as my question.
Investors might agree to it, if it was plausible that it increased the value of the shares. And such a lien is common on other kinds of property, so I don't know that there's anything different about this in principle. I kinda like the idea.
This has actually had my brain buzzing for a while today. I think there are some interesting business ideas in here to make n-sense products for disabled and non-disabled people. I say "n-sense" as in "n-number of extra senses".
So what exactly is a “computational knowledge engine”?
I like Consolas, but when I first tried it I thought it was rubbish.

It turns out the problem was my Windows box had Clear Type font smoothing disabled.

So make sure you have Clear Type enabled:

http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4449#4449
I was getting ready to submit this link too. Really poignant, especially since he works at W+K.
The only reason to use blog.subdomain is if you plan to host it seperately, e.g. on another platform (PHP or windows or whatever), another server (Wordpress has security issues some might worry about) etc.

Otherwise, subfolder is either better (SEO) or a no score draw (everything else).
How the hell does Wolfram Alpha work?
To be fair, StackedObjectProxy comes from Paste, not Pylons.
Because there is no $ in hyping the tried and true.
Thinkpad, T4x or what? Most slackers seem to prefer it
The first comment on this article sums it up perfectly:

"When your business strategy requires litigation and legislation to survive, it is already dead."
Whichever is easiest for you. My site is just a collection of interlinking subdomains anyway, so blog.domain.com is best for me. Then I use a simple one click wordpress install on hostgator.
I think he is using the MSFT technology as the worst case or "caveman" approach and then contrasting it with situations where the person outsmarted themselves.