skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a great explanation of why Sumerians use 60 but I can't find the link.

In a nutshell the theory is: Sumerians counted each segment of their fingers using their thumb as a pointer (thumb segments were not counted) three segments per finger. They could do that five times using each finger as a holding place, so 3 * 4 = 12 * 5 = 60
Ways I've found that work for pretty quick scaling on EC2 (YMMV, and I'm not that smart or seasoned on it, so don't take this as canon.)

You need to have the elastic block storage (or some remotely mountable storage you trust to be up). On this storage, you put things like your database and other dynamic content that you expect to persist through a reboot of the box, which reverts back to its base image.

You need to configure a couple of boxes at least, one to act as a load balancer, and another to act as the content provider. For more laden sites than mine, you might also need a separate instance for just the DB.

You are going to eat the cost of static IPs for at least a few boxes, but that's pretty cheap. Configure those IPs to be in your load balancer always. They'll fail when they're down, but that shouldn't be an issue.

At this point, you can have basically as many boxes available as you have previously allocated, and bringing them online is as simple as turning them on. You could probably use CloudKick to dynamically bring them online, but I haven't really played with it to know.

If you need scaling past that allocation, you can bring up more instances (the bottleneck will of course be the DB), and register them with the load balancer as you need.
The cheap 'two week sale' upgrade option is only available for certain regions which notably excludes the EU (apart from the UK). Due to the action against Microsoft concerning browser bundling, EU users will need to preform a wipe and clean install to get Win7.

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1552-windows-7-cheap-prices-bu...
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Agreed. If anyone ever pulled that on me I'd walk out on the spot. And my FB page is utterly innocuous.
It suggests that $120 is an outlandish price to pay for an operating system, but it doesn't seem so outlandish to me, if it's a good piece of software. People will spend that price, per month, on a cable or satellite bill (even in our current economy), so why wouldn't they spend that much for an upgrade to the software that all of their computer software runs on.
In a dark room brightened only by the flickering of a monitor, Bill Gates' eye dart to a private video feed secretly monitoring all Vista users.

Fire glints his glasses. Anger sparked heat burns a hole in his pumped fist. He squeezes and breathes fire: "You'll pay for our mistakes."
It's a nice sentiment, but I'd guess most people looking for a job right now can't afford that sort of... principled stand. Job seeking is nearly always a position of weakness.
These don't seem very space efficient. In Ottawa, we have bike racks like this: http://i43.tinypic.com/verak2.jpg

Believe it or not, you can easily lock 6 bikes to this.

Side note: I couldn't find a picture of this rack anywhere on Google image search (I checked 10 pages for keywords "Ottawa bike rack"). On Bing image search, it was the first result.
"I have just read that companies routinely review Facebook and MySpace activity when screening prospective candidates. One allegation is that if your profile is blocked to non-friends, they may ask you to log in in front of them to let them have a look."

Is this allegation backed up by any fact? Besides that one town in Montana which got in trouble for doing this and has since stopped (I believe this was posted a few days ago).

I may be naive but I really can't imagine this practice being all that widespread - if it's not more than a myth spawned by one or two idiotic hiring managers.

Seems like a lot of passion spawned by not a whole lot of fact.
There may be some good points in here, but it strikes entirely the wrong tone. This kind of in-your-face attitude is just going to harden everyone's existing positions.
Where is this "one allegation" coming from? To me, this sounds like a righteous rant against something that didn't happen to the author or anyone he knew, and rarely happens at all.
If you are mixing money and principles, we have different definitions of the word "principle."

To me a principle is something that is so important I am willing to make sacrifices and suffer indignities to protect it. It isn't a "nice-to-have," it's a non-negotiable. In fact, I would say that you don't know whether something is a principle or not until you are looking at having to sell your home to avoid foreclosure because you won't compromise it.

JM2C on the word...
Data migration requires a list of what the data looks like as of each version. Doing that by hand is just as much work as maintaining a schema, with the disadvantage that you'll find out the hard way, too late, whether it reflects reality.
Rather than force employees or potential employees to show you their Facebook profiles, what the company SHOULD do is make it clear, at the time of hiring, what your company's rules are for social media. Have a clear, concise, no grey area, document which explains their stance on it.

Being as deeply connected in social media as I am, I feel awkward being at a job which doesn't have one of these.
Strange that he would have a heart attack at the age of 50, particularly considering that he cared obsessively about his health and was usually at peak physical performance for his shows. There must be more to this story.
But incorporating in Delaware doesn't make you immune to the laws of your home state. In fact, it allows people who want to sue you to potentially sue you in either state, thus doubling the amount of applicable laws (and possibly forcing you to defend a lawsuit in Delaware, which would be expensive because of travel).
Where do I find cheap places to live for a month in New York?
Hi, this summer I'll be in New York for an internship and I'm having trouble finding a place to stay.

Craigslist (and padmapper) do provide such informations, but they are quite hard to browse and I'm already spending hours to search for a suitable accomodation.

So I was wondering if there's a better tool to search with; some sort of student house would be fine but I couldn't find anything. Also, sharing an apartment with someone would be good.

Suggestions? Thanks
Exactly, you don't get many credibility points if you don't back up your main statement.
Don't give up, tweak your idea. Also, get a job to support yourself.
People who tend to write because they have to rather than because they want to. Each week it seems they have to put out x words and this somehow hurts the quality. I've found they tend to talk about internet/new technology from an outside point of view (heavy use of jargon to try and fit in, quick to sensationalise the negative impact of anything new).
All the more reason to appreciate the trend towards starting your own company.

The internet has definitely changed our views on privacy. Overall, I think this is a good thing. But it can be disturbing when you realize how much information a 10 minute search can pull up. For example, I just found out that googling my name turns up a page on whitehouse2.org where I listed several political positions. I generally try to keep anything associated with my full name fairly neutral and professional, though I hadn't even considered Google when signing up for that site.
lazy- yes. We were moving from Maui back to the mainland and between logistics and the kids and everything my sleep schedule got totally chaotic. Then when we were here on the mainland I wasn't in a position where I could have lots of lights on, cook, and make noise during the night.

I stopped using an alarm clock after about a month- so for 17 months I didn't even need an alarm clock after I was accustomed to it.

Doing it again... yes, if the circumstances were just right. Looking back now I realize I was in a unique position with work, family, stress levels, weather, etc. It took a couple of weeks to adjust back to a monophasic schedule- and it was not fun. I'm not excited for the adjustment back to polyphasic sleep. But yeah, I might do it again after our move to Silicon Valley later in the year.
It doesn't have to get every word right to be useful. Getting just a few words right, along with the general length of the message can give you enough context to decide if you need to listen to the message or if it's a "Just call me back" message that you can delete.
Have you exhausted ALL your credit options?

- Angel investors?

- Discounted customers?

- Federal / State loan for small businesses (SBIR)?

- Loan from a Credit Union (lower rates)?

- Even 0% 12 month no interest Credit Cards (make sure you get a job to pay it off after 6 months)

- Micro-lending sites?

- Part-time job? Contracting / Consulting?
Leaving aside actual errors pointed out in other comments, is this article even understandable to a beginner? Having learned and absorbed this stuff years ago, it's hard for me to be sure, but my impression was that it assumed the reader knew lots of things few beginners would.

One example: "O(1) describes an algorithm that will always execute in the same time (or space) regardless of the size of the input data set." What does always executing in the same time (or space) really mean? I know, but I doubt a beginner would.

(As an aside, the use of "complexity" here is unfortunate. It's a wretched term for what it describes. Computer science is full of lousy terminology, but "complexity" is surely among the worst.)

Aside from undefined vocabulary, the common O values are introduced out of order. O(n) is by far the easiest to understand; it should therefore go first, with both a contrived example and a real one. The rest of the document should follow on from there, comparing to O(n).
I'm just guessing, but:

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over...
The Unofficial iPhone SDK Feedback Project
having done it for a year and a half, I heartily agree with that summary. On monophasic sleep I'm able to recover from soreness & illness overnight thanks to the extra sleep buffered in. On polyphasic sleep I'm both more efficient and more vulnerable and as you pointed out, less flexible.
Googling someone and checking out their Facebook and MySpace? Yeah, it's common. I've seen surveys that put it at about 1/3 of hiring managers doing it. Is it common for them to make you log in? Probably not, but he didn't say it was.
RightJS a promising new JavaScript framework now v1.0.4
Sex makes you a better problem solver.
I agree.

I also think the best point the author makes is that he'd be culturally incompatible with anyone who pulls this sort of nonsense anyway. I'm a big advocate of transparency for cooperation.
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I'm not sure what the specific bill is, but try this site:

http://www.ncleg.net/

You should be able to find the text of any NC legislation there.
Two things strike me about this question.

1. The fact that you're asking others if you should give up lead me to advise that you probably should. In my own business, I'm too convinced that I have something that works and will continue to improve to listen to anyone telling me I should give up. This can be both a very good and a very bad trait to have. But if I do end up a financial failure, I neither ask nor give any apologies.

2. If it is a business worth risking your financial stability for, couldn't you find a co-founder to help share the burden of both cost and responsibility? This could provide you enough resources to continue on for a year before attaining profitability.
I am pretty sure NYU has a summer stay program in their dorms. You may want to check SVA also.

I lived in a student only residence that was run by a private company for 1 semester quite a while ago. Seems like it has changed a bit since then but their site is here: http://www.studenthousing.org

Other than that sublets on craigslist are your best bet.
Credit to iends who found this during the previous discussion of this topic:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662254

Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662200
Coding Mitts
For the developer who has everything...
I'm not in management, but have been asked to help out reviewing candidates before. I always google them, but not to look for dirt. I'm interested in how active they are in the open source community. What kinds of projects have they helped out with, etc. I expect any company hiring me to have done the same.

But asking for or expecting access to private websites like facebook? No way. The OP looks to me like someone looking for something to rant about.
Once when I visited a museum on a field trip, the curator explained that it was because the gene for 6 fingers was actually very common among Ancient egyptians, and so the use of base-6 and base-12 number systems became popular in astronomy and architecture. I haven't heard that since, however, and I'm not sure how true it is.
I don't know if the (http://www.hackerhalfwayhouse.org/) is open to prospective roommates now, but they do throw a helluva party for HOPE. If you need to cheaply fill a gap between arriving and moving in there's always a hostel--a bed and a locker for around $30 per night, or a very small room for around $80.
Gallery: Domestic robots with a taste for flesh
But where does the journalist get the story from? Talking to the crowd? Stitching together bits from a multitude of sources? Putting an interpretation on it?
Is It Too Late To Change JSON?
I whole-heartedly disagree. It's important to take a stand against ineffective, borderline-illegal screening processes used by employers.

People who frequent HN may not be subject to this problem as much, but in general, most of the power in an interview is concentrated at the employer's side of the table, rather than the applicant's. For them to abuse that power by prying into people's personal lives is unethical and unfair.

Hiring managers should know better, but it sometimes takes push-back from the community to help them see the issues involved. The recent change in policy in Bozeman shows that such feedback can be effective.
That was my first thought as well; compared to the standard flat-on-the-pavement bike racks, these curved racks look like a tremendous waste of space. Can you see them supporting this number of bikes?http://i39.tinypic.com/9iaiv4.jpg , http://i40.tinypic.com/25p33na.jpg
Also, Adams' dying words were (rumored to be) "Jefferson still surivives", not knowing that his rival Jefferson had died hours earlier on the same day.

History geeks represent.
This is art and history combined, it's wonderful. This seems like a format worth developing more, it could make learning about history easier for kids (heck, and adults too).
The chart doesn't specify what their data sources are. There are a number of conflicting agendas that go into the reporting of illegal markets. The police want to make the criminals appear wealthier, to justify more police enforcement, so they tend to inflate statistics. Caught criminals want to be able to hide some of their cash so they tend to deflate their prices.

Some of these differences likely reflect the reporting methods, and not the underlying markets.
For one, One advertiser told me how he paid $200 to an Indian operation for 2,000 Facebook accounts. That means FaceBook's account numbers must be highly inflated. Their growth is inflated.

Facebook only counts active accounts (used in the past month), not total accounts registered.

This means the stated number of accounts is not

(Number of real accounts + Number of spam accounts)

but is actually

(Number of real accounts + Number of currently used spam accounts)

I suspect the two expressions above are very different from each other.
Apple Nearly Triples Stake In UK Chip Maker Imagination Technologies
Here's my beef: I feel it's almost impossible to find (fairly) objective information about climate change and then make my own, informed, decision.

Part of this problem stems from the fact I'm a christian and conservative in ways ... yet, at the same time, the environment and stewardship are important to me. Regardless, I'm not going to take a stand on climate change/global warming simply because someone on the left or right says I need to.

How does one find information on climate change that isn't politically motivated?
Holy cow, these numbers are stupid. runs off to his blog

I'll leave you with this tidbit.

He says a metro paper's blog network should pull in 90 MM pageviews a month.

In Chicago the #3 biggest content site does 1.6MM pageviews a month.

Where do the other 88.4MM pageviews come from?

Absurd.
As someone who screens candidates where I work, I often check if a particularly worthwhile candidate is registered on LinkedIn in part to cross check details they provide on their resume and occasionally add them as a "connection". I think this is the limit of acceptable behavior, in part because LinkedIn's focus is professional.

The only exception I can think of would be a job in which maintaining a highly public Facebook or MySpace page was itself an essential function.
Well, maybe I've been living under a rock, but I'll mod this up just for letting me know there is a uk.techcrunch -- gives me pause to wonder how often a blog might benefit by a "European" ( uk. in this case) edition.
It is in the Appropriations Act of 2009 / S202, currently in revision 6: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/HTML/S202v6....

See sections 27C.2 and 27C.3.
He's talking about the practice of combing through personal online activity in general and only mentioned the log in issue as an "allegation" that provided an extreme example.
Why is it that the entire internet is covered with opinions mirroring this, dismissing everyone who doesn't like Vista as "having not tried it", but whenever I actually ask people in real life, the universal conclusion of everyone who has tried it is that it was terrible?

These people who think Vista was a great step forward seem to only exist on the internet and nowhere else.
> seem to only exist on the internet and nowhere else.

Is this a metaphysics question? I exist outside of the internet.

> dismissing everyone who doesn't like Vista

I wasn't dismissing every argument against Vista. Just this guy's.

There are several valid arguments against Vista. Namely, it has heftier memory requirements (at least 2 gigs) and needs a decent video card ($150+). These are real concerns, and problems XP didn't have.

However, this guy made the blanket statement "Vista bad, 7 good". There's no subtlety or analysis.
I've never liked the GPL and all its goddamn rules. MIT/BSD/zlib licenses, please.
Everyone seems to be looking at this backwards...

I thought that the prevailing view around here was that, when applying for a job, you are interviewing the company as much (and if you're talented, even more) than they are interviewing you.

To me, if an employer asked me anything about my HN, or Slashdot, or reddit, or gibsonandlily, or facebook, or myspace, or whatever other silly social network I had signed up for in the past profile, it would be a "thank you for your time, but I'm not interested" response from me.

I suspect that the type of employer that has issues with boundaries like facebook and myspace is also going to have issues with boundaries like "I am using the two weeks allowed per year of vacation to go to the lake with my family. I am not on call right now, do not get angry if I don't respond to your emails immediately".

In other words, them even asking about your profile should be a major red flag.
I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN
A little over a year ago I built ronin.tehcrowd.com as a way of learning python/django.

Tehcrowd aggregates status updates for groups. Read more at tehcrowd.com/secret/. Here's an example crowd: http://ronin.tehcrowd.com/crowd/top-rubyists/. I never really launched this site because:
a) Similar sites have recently launched and
b) It's yet another twitter app.

I'm sure there's something cool that could be done with this project. I'd love to see tehcrowd go live. So here's the deal: Post why you should get the project and I'll give the domain and code (no strings attached) to the highest rated submission.

No trolls please.

=======

EDIT: The neatest part of this site was my algorithm for filtering tweets. Each tweet was ranked based on several variables: user follower/following ratio, number of tweets by that user, number of "relevant" terms in the tweet, whether that user is tweeting at another member in the crowd.

I.e: A user with a high follower/following ratio and a low number of total tweets is less spammy and their tweets were ranked higher. Or if a user tweeted at another twitter user that's also in the crowd the tweet was deemded to be relevant and also ranked higher.

As more feeds were added to a crowd this filter became more strict thereby increasing the quality of the crowd.
How? You don't have an email, website or any other conact data in your profile.
Yeah, let's wait until this is a widespread practice before we worry about it. Planning for the future is like totally non-Agile.
I'm not sure sculpting/drawing are the best examples. You can't learn them by memorizing information, you need the motor skills as well. I'm sure they'd do well at designing to the extent that it can be learned from books.
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Hi,

Daniel here, CTO of Woobius. I'd love to discuss how you want to use Woobius and how we could make the pricing work for you, if you would like. My email is daniel /at/ woobius /dot/ com. (if anyone else shares similar concerns, do contact me, I'm sure we can work something out that's suited to your specific needs).
> I'd suggest adopting a 1000-day year instead. To make the transition easier, the word "year" could be deprecated entirely, and the unit of time would simply be called "kiloday" or "k-day". This proposal would significantly improve everyone's life by eliminating brainless smalltalk about whether it's particularly hot or cold this June compared to last year.

I bet you're fun at parties.
Why is this necessary? It is not your employer's business to worry about what you do when you aren't at work.
re: The Prisoner, by banned in the US, do you mean "the network chose not to show it because their audience probably wouldn't like it"? Or banned as in actually banned?
slide rule?

And this is one of the few times that I would use a netbook, just a slight bigger than the notebook and not very heavy.
It is the author that you are replying to.
I'm not interested in a candidate's personal life, but I am interested in development experience. So I run a web search too, but it can be noisy. Lately I've found mailing list activity is more relevant. For example, http://markmail.org/search/?q=from%3A%22Linus+Torvalds%22
Well, not long ago npr ran a story on bank charges.

The surprising thing that one analyst presented amounted basically to: Bank lose money on unsecured loans (credit cards), so they have to make up the difference somewhere - and a lot of that is by hitting us with every little extra charge they can dream up.

I would sure like to patronize a bank that chose instead to be choosier about the people to whom they extended unsecured credit - and then acted more civilly and sensibly toward the customers to whom it catered.