skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rudder reversal is a different issue. It's where hydraulic problems cause sudden rudder movements, or cause control inputs to the rudder to have the opposite of the expected effect. The problem here is with the structural strength of the vertical stabilizer under full (pilot-commanded) rudder deflection. The stabilizer is not strong enough to handle full ruder deflection in the whole flight envelope, so /if/ the fly-by-wire system is not functioning for some reason, the pilot's rudder inputs could cause a structural failure.
Adaptations are, by definition, beneficial. There will be evolutionary by-products, though; things that arise because of evolution, but there was no actual selection pressure for them. Some changes occur because of genetic drift, and others will be related to something else which was selected for.
no surprise there. i also think if more bands embraced torrents, it would help them get their music heard. sadly there is no monetization model for that though..
You're using the reddit.com subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/ , which can be subscribed, unsubscribed, and moderated, just like any other subreddit.
I've been on the beta test, but so far it looks like a solution in search of a problem.

We think that you will love Hunch. It may not be awesome yet -- a lot of people have to contribute to it before it knows much of anything. But it will be awesome later. Love it anyway. Love it now.

I'm just not that into it.
I don't feel sympathy for this self-inflicted situation at all. I found the Sims 3 to be way too easy.

They could have easily found a job in the newspaper (can basically just sign up for one), showered daily at the local gym (free), and made friends (requires a small effort) to help with food for a few weeks until they could afford a house.

This reminds me of the Nickel and Dimed vs. Scratch Beginnings debacle.

From the original blog: "[The gaming student] removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes." The rules this guy was playing by are not applicable and have absolutely no resemblance to real life.
Oops, I guess I wasn't clear. $200/mo is the amount it will cost me per month to run the business (hosting, merchant expenses, etc.). Marketing is not included in this.

I can spend more on marketing, but don't have the huge coffers that some of our VC funded friends have access to.
...and still less time than if I carry a second battery around. And, if I'm doing the LA-Paris trip more than occasionally, I probably have three batteries.
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The per-server pricing is really expensive. That should be per 10 servers.
Thanks, I'll get that checked out.
no monetization? how about selling concert tickets to all of the new people that like your music? or t-shirts?
A reasonable point, but whereas you can go out and buy a new computer or operating system tomorrow, you can't just wire your house up to a different telco. Infrastructure is complicated. If private enterprise were the easy answer people suggest, surely we'd all be enjoying ultra-high speed fiber broadband by now.
We store a lot of data for customers and even at the lower disk costs from the likes of Amazon S3, £1 per server per month is not viable. If you compare our pricing to the commercial options from competitors like Hyperic ($1000s) then ours is much more reasonably priced.
Artists generally don't make money off CD sales anyway, record labels do. The artists make money from doing live shows. The monetization model for the artist is to bypass the record labels, give their music away for free, and build up a fan base who go to their shows to see them live.
Ask HN: Have web apps been commoditized?
Am I too paranoid, or have web apps as a whole already become commodities? I started thinking this after reading this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656804

It seems a bit too easy to create a web app nowadays. There are a few businesses that make hosting easy, and there are a variety of 3rd party tools that help as well. Amazon and Google give the entrepreneur access to seemingly unbounded resources. There's even a web app for creating web apps. (http://appjet.com/) Is it over already? Are web apps already heavily commoditized, and how would your own app escape this trap? Does the ease of creating a web app now actually make it harder to be an entrepreneur in this field?

Mattresses are commodities now. Companies now try to increase their margins by striving to convince consumers that their product is somehow special. A few companies are attempting to distinguish themselves technologically. Other companies use local advantages in manufacturing and distribution to compete.

Are the same forces at play in the web app space? Or is it an error to think of web applications as a whole as an industry?

EDIT: Perhaps I asked the wrong question. Perhaps I should have asked: Has web app programming become a commodity? (Or is it just perceived as one now?)
if all other things are equal, i would prefer to pay by whichever method is cheaper. if i intend to download a lot, some sort of unlimited subscription plan. if not, pay per song.
3 batteries? you're crazy. http://www.seatguru.com/ + airline power adapter = win.
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So I did the where do you want to go on vacation one and got back Tokyo and Italy, which really are my top two choices to vacation next time I have the chance. A similar deal happened with movie suggestions.

Hunch seems like it's really good for telling you what you already know, without directly asking you your opinion about it. Besides that it seems to have an interesting side effect of psychological confirmation (I felt it too), even though rationally, all it means is that Hunch found a pattern of association that you fit into.

I mean, it's not like it actually gave you any _reason_ that you should be a web developer or that I should go to Italy...
That sounds like bad git courtesy. There's papering over mistakes and then there's hiding the entire history of a big change...
What airline are you flying LA-Paris that doesn't have outlets, even in economy?
A post from about 5 months ago going into some detail on IMVUs continuous deployment process which may be interesting to some: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=475017
so i got my Late 2008 Unibody MBP in october and now i'll be lucky if i get 2:20 just doing wireless web browsing with low brightness (they claim 3:20 for the same). I'll check in 9 months and see what kind of battery life they're getting.
I'd say about 90-95%. Also if the ads are served locally, adblock etc won't block them by default unless you do something silly like call your page advert.html.
that's very interesting. i've always had terrible motion sickness problems with some games. i remember trying to play the original half life... it was jarring. playing 1 minute meant a painful headache for the next hour. 5 minutes and i would have a painful headache for the whole rest of the day, no joke. thankfully Dramamine helped out a lot

who woulda thunk the FOV was a potential culprit O_O
Joel wrote about this a while ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html
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that's all well and good, but it isn't actually monetizing the music itself.

what is lacking is simply an efficient means of charging people for music.

i think with the right system, musicians would actually earn more from their music and innovators could develop really cool tools and not worry about getting sued.
and this saddens me. what message is this sending out to wannabe musicians hoping to earn a living from their craft? that there is no longer a value in recorded music.

most unsigned artists would be lucky to make anything from live shows and many signed artists actually pay to go and support better known acts.
EDIT: I found a howto page that answers some of my questions and shows hw it works, http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/continuous-deployment-5-eas...
On its face, your posting seems topical to me; there have certainly been other non-YC company posts seeking coworkers/cofounders/etc. Your company and previous writings/comments are interesting.

But, campaigning for upvotes ruins the signal provided by article scores, especially if campaigning is done among an outside audience whose only interest in this site is boosting stories as a mutual favor.

Also, asking a large group to do something, knowing that "it is inevitable" many will follow-through, makes you in some sense responsible for the activity. ("But for" your request, it wouldn't have happened.) So be careful what you ask for!

For reference, the tweet was:

@mrtweet: Help us recruit the best engineers to serve YOU better. Vote here to help our hiring outreach (top left): http://bit.ly/AJ4vI
Older and wiser though is exactly that. Never underestimate how different you and your significant other will be in 10 years.

You will make different choices and have different expectations. For many of those that aren't able to think "investment" at 22, there will be a sudden realization at 32.
What's with the downvotes? You think it's fair to compare the philanthropic efforts of a $200,000,000,000 company to an individual? $1 million is nothing to Microsoft, 0.0005% of their market capital, but more than most people's net worth.

I don't disagree that this was a poor article and headline, but that was an unfair criticism.
and that makes total sense. for example, i download a lot (some months), so i would be happy to pay my ISP an extra $20 a month to download as much music as I want.

but you can't ignore all the people that use itunes and are satisfied with it and might feel they are paying some kind of 'tax' if a music/isp bundled service is pushed onto them.
Hmmm, so do fingerprints prevent hydroplaning?
I am sorry but I don't take decisions like that.Infact most people don't follow decision trees. They go by instinct and then rationalize.
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Artists generally don't make money off CD sales anyway, record labels do.

This is often repeated but I've never seen a link to the source. Are there statistics somewhere that show this is true?
Without knowing how well researched the article is, if you had only seen internet commentary in our last election you might be surprised that Ron Paul isn't our current president. The 'net seems to have a voice unto its own.
Indeed. You can play The Sims 3 without ever visiting your Sim's home. There's plenty of free food, and it's not especially difficult to be invited to spend the night at another Sim's home.

And the game has plenty of "entrepreneurial" career paths that don't require a steady job. It would be interesting to see just how many constraints it takes to make the game unwinnable. For this to be a more valid experiment, we'd want people to agree in advance on the constraints -- and for the person controlling the Sim in question not to want them to fail.
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The "old" (VHF and UHF) broadcast frequencies were given to the various stations without any fees whatsoever, I believe. Each broadcast station has to pay a $170 (sic) license renewal fee every couple of years.

Look, I'm really sorry for being such a boring no-fun dude, but... please source this statement.
Thomas, thanks. That was immensely helpful. Now I have to figure out what I want to do going forward. At least I already have per-user random salts.
Here is an article from 2000 written by Courtney Love (outlandish woman, i know, but has lots of experience) and she outlines what musicians actually get out of working with a record label.

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print....
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But there are - it's all over the news, newly qualified nurses and midwives can't find jobs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7304537.stm

High unemployment (despite the wider economy - the BBC has stories like this going back to 2003) and low wages is classic oversupply.
Ask HN: Technomading?
a now dead submission from earlier today inspired me to ask about this.

its been a personal goal of mine for a while to be able to do this before i would want/need to settle down: setting things up in my life in such a way that i can grab a laptop and travel the world. travel to a new country, stop for a while, see and do things, and pop open the laptop to do enough work to fund the traveling.

the intent would be to stay in one place for longer periods (months, depending on the visa) so that work would be less random and so that i could properly experience the new location's culture, atmosphere, etc.. the intent would also be to aim for the more inexpensive places so that i wouldn't necessarily have to work 40/wk to get by. kind of like where the hell is matt (http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/) except less dancing (also, i had this idea in my head way before i ever saw matt's stuff).

we're a community of smart people who like to solve problems. so, i imagine someone else has gone down this road. i was just curious about this, since i've done a lot of thinking (read: daydreaming) about it myself lately.
anyone have any thoughts/experiences/resources/insights/etc.?
It's not very good. You want the cold honest truth, right? Your attention to detail is very lacking - the details are what make the difference between average and good, and right now you are slightly below average in your attention to detail.
contentless is an excellent description.

Evolutionary theory implies many things. Like given these bones here, and these other bones over there, we can expect a transition fossil between bones X and Y to be found in soil layers roughly corresponding to time T.

ID implies that, nu-uh, it's god that did it.

That's not a contradiction, it's just answering god did it to everything.
Is your service a complement to anything your prospects are already buying? Can you piggyback your efforts on someone else's sales machine?

If your product is consumed online, are there any social networks that have high concentrations of prospects? (facebook groups, must read twitter people, etc.)

The absolute best marketing is that which lets your prospects see that your product solves a problem for them.
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The cost of finding all the single-thread bottlenecks and parallelizing them is immense -- akin to the Manhattan Project -- and the payoff would be that Intel and AMD could sell different (perhaps lower power) processors than they do today. Why bother? We have processors that work perfectly well for desktop software.
I've always thought of it this way:

When I'm on my deathbed, what will I regret? Will I regret not working that weekend? Will I regret being moderately, instead of ridiculously successful? Will I regret a piece of software being "good enough"?

Or will I regret missing my kid's birthday? Will I regret not spending that weekend at the park watching the smiles on my family's faces? Will I regret not spending some quiet time with my wife?

The answers to me are simple and the comparison is easy.
perhaps an option for both? have a fixed song price menu, but also offer an all-you-can-eat option for $X/mo.

i don't like the ISP option because it locks you in. no choice = not customer friendly.
The same could be said of the open-source software model. Selling support is not exactly "monetizing the software itself", but it still pays the bills...

I think that selling merchandise is a great way to get income, a friend's band (who are a reasonably popular goth metal band) have just started doing this and it's working well for them!
I think the distinction between a lambda and a closure is especially important. Closures maintain references to the local stack and I shudder to think the kind of bugs and unsafe memory operations that can result to writing to bad places in the stack. Buffer overflows anyone?
I don't practice TDD or unit testing, but I deploy code on average more than 5 times every day.

Despite not doing TDD or unit testing, I have enough confidence in my code that I spent a month in Greece on honeymoon last year with only a Blackberry, while an average of about 50,000 concurrent users were connected to the chat system I wrote for justin.tv. In that month the system didn't have a single problem.

My "secret", if I have one, is that every change I release is very small (maybe 5 or 10 lines of code - 20 lines at the very most). I read and re-read my changes thoroughly before I deploy, and test the new behavior many times. The evolution of the chat system I wrote has been a huge number of very small steps.
The money (for artists) in recorded music has always been from royalties. Radio play, commercials, movies, TV shows, video games, etc. are what actually make money. The (professional) musicians I know play gigs for cash, compose for royalties, and record for fun.
no one is to stop tampering from happening.

but the SMTP standard and the whole culture around internet mail mandates that the messages are not changed in transit (with the exception of that received header and the stuff around 8bitmime).

UTF-8-Encoding mails just because it's "cleaner" doesn't feel like it's the right thing to do, especially when you consider there to be old systems around that can't handle UTF-8 encoded messages.

Also, standards are there to be adhered to - like HTML and all the others.
I'm curious -- were you using a functional language? An OOP language? Something else?
Do we seriously have to re-ask this question every few weeks?!

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
You've always been able to gain additional battery life by adding weight and cost. The remarkable thing here is that it has been done by adding neither. For the overwhelming majority of users, there is no downside to this. For the rest, it is an inconvenience at most.
It's not sad at all! It means technology has enabled the artists to do the recording and production themselves or for very cheaply, and there isn't a need for the big name record label anymore. There IS value in recorded music, just not the need for BigCo music label to get it done.
This is not the end. This is the beginning

Remember that HN users are opinion leaders, and the first ones to adopt new tech. Heck, they make the new tech.

My brother, my neighbour and my boss have never even heard the term webapp before, it's still in its very early phases. And these are the people that actually buy stuff. They have money and they spend it.

And here's the thing: Making a webapp is easy, making a company is hard. There's a long way from hacking an app together over the weekend to a sustainable company that will pay your bills. But if you're willing to put in the effort and time you can make a good living. You might even make a great business.
The couple attrition rate for tenure-seeking professors is bad as well.
and test the new behavior many times

Manually? You can save a lot of time if automate that.
I find to avoid the negative reaction, you can use "becoming". Instead of saying
"I'm a lovable person"
use
"I'm becoming a lovable person"

And also instead of using adjectives, use something that goes for identity, instead of,
"I'm becoming charming"
use
"I'm becoming a charmer"
Academia is worse than startup-land for relationships because it's almost certain that you are going to have to move around a lot, and quite possibly to a college town in the middle of nowhere. Startups you don't really have to move, and even if you do, most of the places you would be moving to are pretty nice.
Python, because of the twisted library - if I was rewriting, I'd probably use Clojure, but at the time I wrote the system there was no widely-used Lisp with an also widely-used non-blocking i/o library.
Seriously CNET, the NY Post as your 'source'? I'll pass on this one and I'm usually the first to throw stones at the Goog.
I was looking for numbers, like the incorporation tax and state taxes for each type of company. If the data was neatly put together somewhere, we could all draw our own conclusions.
You guys continue to impress. That's a pretty big jump for a small amount of work.

Did you check to see if the conversion to paid fluctuated? I would be incredibly surprised if it did more than 0.5% from the start of the trial to the end.
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OK, let's rephrase, then: there's no reason to think that fingerprints are an adaptation.
Trent Reznor said he was making 80cents/sale.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/04/trent-reznor-wa/
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I do have non-unit tests (but only for things that have actually failed more than once). Specifically, I have a bunch of chat bots that periodically log in to the production chat servers, talk to each other, ban each other, etc, etc, and make sure they get the responses they expect.

Yes, new functionality I test manually. I believe the time taken to write tests for things that have never failed is wasted.
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I have coldornot.com - was thinking of doing a parody of hotornot.com, but haven't had the time.
Another neat hack from Fabrice Bellard, the guy behind FFMPEG and QEMU. Granted, it's not technically "broadcasting" the signal because signal strength is so low, but it's a neat trick.
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The best way to "win" is to skimp on parts that reviewers won't
notice, and to beef up the parts that they will notice.

(I bought a bike the other day that includes a very nice pump, which I
will probably never use, but skimps on the freewheel and chainring,
which I will have to replace at my own expense. Very silly.)
I have never noticed my fingers hydroplaning, so apparently yes. Mystery solved!
Price seems way outrageous for server monitoring when there are free utilities. TO monitor this stuff you have to be dealing with people who are on the geekier side anyway... so you have to realize they have alternatives.

I can see paying $10/month for the ability to monitor 25 servers.. but not $15/month PER SERVER.

Also, you need FreeBSD support :)
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Suggestion: Change the default color scheme. Saturated green and dark brown is not a nice combo. Blue links on dark brown doesn't work at all.
I'm looking for positive examples of individual exertion. Hopefully no one goes insane or died from doing something wonderfully creative or working hard on a project.
My initial reaction was to think about dealing with dirt. Ever try to maintain grip on a very smooth surface covered with a thin layer of dirt/dust?

On fingers, this stuff slides into the 'crevasses' of the print. Extremely pseudo-science, but in my 2 minutes of thinking seems like it could be worth a thought. I'm sure those scientists used clean hands on their testing papers.
The 'slower chipset' is NVidia MCP79. I have a unibody MacBook with the exact same chipset and it's running at 3 Gigabit. This is probably just a driver or firmware issue.

New unibody: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/06/6-15-0...

Old unibody: http://files.getdropbox.com/u/48012/unibody.png