skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad was a physician back when doctors were still crazy workaholics. He worked at least 80 hours a week, easy. He still had time to go to most of my sports games, music events and help me with my homework. I also have 3 siblings. His schedule didn't have much of an adverse effect on me, but it probably was hard on my mom.

I would think that the financial instability of a startup is a bigger issue for a family than the hours.
It has nothing to do with the humour becoming dated. It has to do with the humour being fresh. Humour by definition involves people suprising you. People you know very well have a much lesser ability to surprise you, and their attempts at humour fade from make you roll on the floor with laughter to simply smiling.

Comedy has to stay fresh and constantly reinvent itself. It has to run to stay at the same spot.
The post is just wrong. People write a lot cleverer than they speak or think, because they spend a lot of time formulating what they want to convey.
Not required. You can serve a favicon.gif or favicon.png in your <link> tag just as easily, and it will display in all the browsers I have at hand to test (though that set doesn't include IE, so YMMV.)
The news is not that they censor but what they censor and the reactions to it. I want to be kept up to date as to how various platforms evolve in terms of taking away my freedoms. Platforms like appstore and their approach to restricting content are still very much evolving.

If you apply your standard of news to other stories on HN or elsewhere there would be very little left as most content is not original but sourced from somewhere. 20 very similar reviews of Wolfram Alpha or Google Wave isn't exactly news either.

But obviously it's all a matter of balance and I do understand the point you're making.
Well in that sense, try to figure out what percentage of HN gets invalidated by the following 'news items':

"PG Still writes articles, nothing's changed"

"Big Companies still acquire Startups, nothings changed"

"VCs still fund startups, nothings changed

"Startups still want feedback for their apps, nothings changed"

Sometimes details matter.
Why don't you outsource your project? Then you can drink beer and yell at the coders for not understanding what you meant...
A bit of vaporware here. No plan to quickly open this service.
Thanks for clarifying (I never can do those music minigames!)
Here's a one-line summary of Wave: it's like Outlook. It's a big... PIM... thing, with lots of features, that you live in, and grow completely dependent on, especially when your coworkers (or, with Wave, friends) use it. s/Wave/Outlook/ in everything you said, and it lines up almost perfectly.
I don't get it - what's been "ripped"?

You can't copyright an idea, so that's a no.

Web 2.0 icons - I have those on my site. The words "Upload from your computer" - I have those on my site. A list of the latest stuff being added/uploaded - oh yes, I have those on my site.

axod's comment[1] confirms that the linked page is incorrect (twitvid.com was not bought after launch) and so there doesn't seem much else to go on.

People have been building competitor sites to other services for years. If you can't do it bigger/better/faster... tough?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638751
I agree with the act of smoking makes me smoke rather than the cigarette itself. +5 for you on that statement. I enjoy it if me and my friends go out for a few minutes to smoke -- but when I am alone, it makes it less appealing, so sometimes I just forget about smoking all together. But I do crave for a stick after a heavy meal.
> Are Node people going to reimplement event-driven MySQL client from scratch or what?

No. MySQL does not provide an API that is usable with an event-loop, so it will need to be run in a separate internal thread. It will notify the main thread when it is complete. With Postgres the situation is better, they have a very nice API that can be integrated into an event loop, so the extra overhead won't be necessary.
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I meant exactly that. What depresses me is the lack of cooperation among "v8 std libs" and multitude of half-baked projects.
That has to do a lot with Ruby's awful thread implementation. You could possibly port the app again to Ruby EventMachine and see even better performance.

The point is - for 99% of people it's not the language, it's the I/O
I wonder how correct it's predictions are.
Interesting article.

Threads should always be an absolute last resort. Programmers working on concurrency, locking, etc are often solving self inflicted problems. I don't know why they do it.

edit:

I've mentioned it in the past, and I do hate harping on about mibbit ;) but I had a similar experience there - as you can imagine, a large amount of dns lookups (both forward and reverse) are required. First version used a single separate thread to do them. Had to do lots of synchronization in the callback. 2nd ver had a threadpool, which was even more complex. Still slow as hell.

Final version, and the version in use now uses async nio in the main network thread, and is as fast as fast can be. The code is far simpler/faster than the threaded version, and handles thousands of lookups with minimum of fuss. There's just an initial investment of writing dns packet+udp code (Not rocket science).

At first glance, threads often seem like the 'easy' option. Often they're not. In my example, it was far easier just to knuckle down and write a simple async dns client than constantly mess around with concurrency issues and try and get it to go fast.

The code in this article looks horrible to work with, and reminds me of how my first version looked :/
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And this shouldn't be hard because Microsoft enforces maximum specs on the XP machines leaving a gap in the market for "top-end netbooks" which people seem to think is an oxymoron.

I'm very much in the market for an ARM-based, linux netbook with a Pixel Qi screen. I think it would blow the Kindle out the water as an e-book reader (hardware-wise, access to content not so much).
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This is not a blow to "Linux" on the desktop or netbook, quite the reverse. While I don't fully understand it's appeal it's a fact that to get Android running with wireless/suspend and all the other fiddly bits you've got to get the lower levels of "Linux" on the hardware. That's all GPL so voila, Gnome/KDE or whatever is pretty much ready to roll.

Hardware support is the problem. If they're fixing that while chasing some Android buzz then I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Reading http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10255403-235.html , it does seem like the people who got a chance to play around a bit with it are at least impressed. I have some hope.
Or just read Hacker News.
This is just straight up linkbait. We're supposed to be mad because they bought a cheap graphic on iStock and don't credit the designer? Isn't that the point of buying rights to stock photos/graphics?
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That's one heck of a long tail! It sure puts into perspective the interesting stats from @scobleizer: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-tw...
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The problem, in my mind, is that many languages provide 'transparent' shared state between the threads - which can easily introduce very subtle bugs.

The simple solution is to requires any sharing of state to be made explicit (e.g., message passing). This obviously introduces some overhead, but I think it could eventually become like assembler v. higher level languages. A handful of very talented hackers will still be always be able to beat any threading abstraction by manually dealing with everything - but the abstractions will get more and more optimizations (e.g., copy-on-write variables, more static analysis) until you rarely bother looking underneath them.
Aspect-oriented is interesting and merits reading up on, but really we have to get away from "x-oriented" and more toward, "Here is the code model. How do you want to view it?" We've spent too long bundling relationships and meaning into the structures themselves and it's held us back. The only grievous error I think Alan Kay ever made was coining the term "object-oriented".
At the beginning was Pareto with a 80%-20% distribution.
Today we are living the 90%-10% era moving towards perhaps the perfect asymmetry 99%-1%.

(According to Stanislaw Lem) Asymmetry is a result of deconstructing “archaeological” power structures as we see today Twitter does with the mainstream media, Napster did with the music industry.

If I were a VC I would bet on two types of startups:

- dealing with adding structure to the unstructured (like Google Waves)

- forcing asymmetry on any market.
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> The thought of being trapped in something you don't believe in for the sake of money and possessions probably appears a rather unsettling idea on this forum.

I'm trapped in something I don't believe in for the sake of living, not possessions. I've been trapped in creating outsourced business applications ever since I started working for money, and I really haven't had any choice in this matter.

I absolutely hate it, and while I see ways out of it, it's really hard taking the jump to something I like, especially since I'm trapped in a country where little value is put on creativity and where little help is offered to startups. My only hope is that I'll be able to create something I like in my spare time and make money off that in spite of me not living in a friendlier environment.
You know they paid even less for their architecture.
Dapper's Dapp Factory:

http://www.dapper.net/dapp-factory.jsp

Very impressed by the UI on that one.
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It was following that episode that I lost all respect for 37signals.
Too bad the cowardly U.S. government does not do anything but "negotiate".

Grab an M-16 and go get 'em!

Easier said than done, right?
You see this numbers quite often (p.e. regarding digg).
I think thats just the way things (people) are.
10% will say something the other 90% will listen.
Wenn you start something involving user interaction/communication you should keep it in mind.
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Curious...
I've a kid and have no plans for more. And I feel motivated just by looking at him. I don't know why.
This is cool. I've previously wondered if this sort of system could be a net gain at all, but it sounds like it is. The last time I contemplated compressed in-RAM swap was when I was working working with a memory-starved game console, where swapping is normally unheard of. I never got to try it due to lack of resources.

The other idea that immediately springs to mind after reading this: what about compressing disk swap? Clearly the de-/compression is fast enough (~7-12µs), and the disk latency is the dominating factor. You might not save much, but I'd be surprised if it was worse.
I think we can write Unmaintainable Code in all programming languages.
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> > Raising and providing for your kids is the most important thing in life

> No, it's the most important thing in your life. Do you know what I find more appalling than not knowing or caring whether one has procreated? People who pass judgement on those people based on their own opinions.

No, it's the most important thing in one's kid's life.
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Yup, thats my fault. I didn't do it intentionally and blame it on submitting at mignight. :/
May I ask you why the frack you are using threads if you don't want a shared state? You know what the difference between a thread and a process is right? Maybe you should learn to use your tools before bubblewrapping them for being dangerous. Look at how Google Chrome is made. Instead of using threads, they use processes for tabs.

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_04.html
Why does the server side (whatever might live there) have to parse HTML?
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> The problem, in my mind, is that many languages provide 'transparent' shared state between the threads - which can easily introduce very subtle bugs.

That is the reason languages like Limbo ( http://limbo.cat-v.org ) and Erlang were invented (and CSP, obviously).
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> Programmers working on concurrency, locking, etc are often solving self inflicted problems. I don't know why they do it.

Sadly this is true of most 'problems' in the software industry :(
Let's not get too self-congratulatory. I would suspect that a larger-than-average percentage of entrepreneurs and people around the valley (ie. HN members) work as hard as they do not to change the world, but as a form of escapism. That's not a judgement--it's difficult enough to peel the onion of one's own personality let alone others--but just an illustration of how I don't really buy into the idea of "wanting to change the world" (whatever that really means) as being inherently good or well-aligned. As with all things, it depends on the individual and the true state of their mental and social health.
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There's a bit of the whole Dreamworks vs Pixar thing.

Ok here we go...

Pixar consistently produces a form of the art that is simply higher than Dreamworks can even approach.

The thing about that is, that the two studios produce films for completely different markets. Dreamworks focusses directly on producing films for children (with a few outliers) and Pixar focusses on producing films for everyone (with a few outliers)

Pixar's process is more story focussed than other studios, A typical Pixar film usually has a 4 year production cycle in which the first two of those are spent primarily on writing and rewriting the story to get the "feel" right. Even then, they have no problem with changing the story at the 11th hour.

Case in point - WALL-E's ending was originally very different with WALL-E originally saving EVE from the trash compactors (essentially larger versions of WALL-E for irony). After the film was complete and was screened in Portland, Andrew Stanton changed the ending to what it is today. The story flows better.

Compare that to something Dreamworks. Dreamworks focusses on making films which are more technically proficient and aimed at children (Kung Fu Panda was astounding from a technical standpoint and dominated the "Annies" last year, which is the animation industries version of the Emmys).

Dreamworks are more focussed on the business side, rather than the entertainment side of the process.

That's also why Dreamworks films are typically heavily backed by merchandising and advertising blitzes, because of this focus.

So it's difficult to compare the two, it would be like saying a Michael Bay film is comparable to a Tarantino film. The fact is, they have different markets and so approach the filmmaking process in different ways.

Nobody in their right mind would try and compare the two film styles.

Lastly, before you try and judge Dreamworks' animation pedigree, Jeffrey Katzenberg co-founded the studio and he was responsible for the classic Disney franchsies between 88 and 94 like The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast (which I might add is the ONLY animation film EVER to be nominated for best film at the Oscars).
Does PG laugh??;-)
Hey, nice to see you here, and congrats on this win for BitRock:-)
How does it concern this topic?
Totally agree. The same is true, for example, in viral growth. A small number of users will be the source of most of the invitations going out, as I mentioned here: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0009-how-to-make-your-applicat...

That's just a natural state of things, rather than something to be fought against.

One interesting question is, why doesn't this apply to email or the telephone? Or does it apply to those media too?
I found this explanation quite crisp and useful:

http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/
I never saw getting a dog as a way to replace an alarm clock... that's an interesting view.

That said, I have never had trouble sleeping late in the morning, whether or not the dogs claim attention, so perhaps it doesn't work for me.
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Discussion on the subject of spam. Where Andrew Ower (Google) says:

We're fully aware that any platform that achieves
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Well, that’s all very content free.

"A website should resemble symmetry…"

Perhaps this is supposed to be "websites should have symmetry"? Regardless, I don’t agree. Symmetry is naturally attractive to people, but has nothing to do with usability. In fact, I’d argue that symmetry in a design inhibits a user’s ability to differentiate between different content or functionality.
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Thanks for the report. That looks awful! I'm going to try to reproduce it.
Definitely a bug... thanks for the report.
When Marc Andreesen invented the browser nobody understood what he was doing or why it mattered. If you want to do disruptive technology it will often be hard to explain at first.
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I was hoping for something more profound than "choose beautiful colors"....
It's probably something for people rationalizing their brain's begging for nicotine to latch onto, though. Same with, "...but if I quit smoking, I'll gain weight!"

Like people struggling with alcohol reminding themselves that red wine is good for their heart, as long as they stop after one glass.
Because in many situations not sharing in process memory causes either horrible performance or horrible productivity. The scenario I have pretty often is in memory analysis of custom data structures with multiple clients accessing a server in a read mostly pattern.

I think your last resort suggestion is very much based on the notion that most of what we ever do is offloading all data access onto a SQL database. I like SQL databases, however unfashionable they may be at the moment, but they're not the solution to everything.

As memory gets cheaper it becomes more feasible to just keep everything in server memory and access it from multiple clients. You can't do that without dealing with concurrency issues.
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One two-year-old, and another one on the way for November.

Losing sleep, changing diapers and cleaning throw-up seems to have injected a dose of realism in my life. I also feel like I'm doing reasonably well with a really big project, and developing skills that I really didn't have before. Somehow I feel more rooted in the world, if it makes any sense.

I feel _more_ motivated to start my own thing now. I can't see myself taking the risk of quitting my job and working on a startup full-time, but I'm open to consulting on the side and trying to grow that.
But how come so many people are talking about burnout and stress of a start-up? It sounds like the allure of money and prestige is keeping startupers at work, sort of like an invisible god or invisible slavemaster that they created in their brain.

But if they could understand that money will be gone, prestige will disappear, their little software they did to "change the world" will soon be gone, would they work that hard? If yes -- great, but then there wouldn't be no stress because an ultimate anaesthesia is coming and it's going to make everything as meaningless as the stuff you build in dreams. If no -- they're trapped, deluded by an illusion that anything we do in this world matters, that it's possible to change the world, that we're even going somewhere as human species. Which is just an illusion as we're all terminally ill and there is no escape.

When you dream, don't you worry about things that happen there as well? And don't you feel sad you didn't take advantage of the fact that it's a dream: that you didn't jump off buildings, fly, shoot from large grenade launchers? Well, life is a similarly shaped dream just a bit sharper and longer and more brightly colored. Just a dream though, nothing matters :)