skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple of things:

1) I think the above code needs to be 004 instead of 002. I tried 002 and it forwarded a normal call to google vm. 004 is for all conditionals (ie IF busy, IF, unreachable,...) and 002 is for "all 4" which seems to be just all the time.

2) If someone calls your cell phone and you're busy or don't answer, then they get redirected to google voice, google voice will then try to call your cell phone if you have that configured, so that's one hell of a confusing round trip for your callers.
Wow. I was about to start a site with exactly this idea. I guess I'll have to figure something else out :)
I want to be able to travel across europe (or the world if you are really bored) with my laptop and mobile phone and be able to stay online.
I dont want to have a different data tariff for every country and I always want the fastest internet I can get - i.e. I don't want to have a different contract for WiMax, Wifi, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G,... - I want to use the one which is available.

I think that would be the only product that could be really called Mobile Internet.
Working for Netflix doesn't require that you sacrifice a work/life balance.

Well, yeah, it pretty much does, if the company actually follows the personnel-retention guidelines in that slide deck. Your work at such a company is graded on a curve, whether you like it or not, and if you don't outperform your peers, you end up looking "only adequate." Meanwhile, your peers are talented twenty-something kids who cheerfully work 60-hour weeks, and you're not going to be able to keep up for long since there's going to be (again, presumably, under the stated guidelines) fresh meat coming in all the time.

As my other comment to elq pointed out, this seems a bit OTT for a company whose mission is, at the end of the day, to mail out a bunch of DVDs without screwing up too much. It's more like selling sugar water than changing the world, and I'm not sure I see the point in killing yourself for it.
No, i like reddit as it is! I love that reddit is a living organism. I think that the 4chan-jokes are just a trend like the Ron-Paul-Posts some months ago...

A long time i was sceptical that the system with the sub-reddits is really useful, but now i am convinced that it is a great invention: It allows reddit to develop and be a very dynamic system.

Reddit is alive and becoming better every day in its subreddits. The new "todayilearned" and "iama" subreddits are great. Its becoming a little bit like a better usenet.

Hacker News has better discussions, yeah, but reddit has more potential for further development and innovantion...
All competitors have just been weakened and many are seeking to preserve market share and/or autonomy (from regulation). furthermore, consumers largely hate banks at the moment. I certainly hate mine. If you have a big New Idea and the cash to implement it, it's a great time to offer an alternative.

Having said that, my experience with Paypal has been very good overall. And I have a jaundiced attitude towards Apple.
No, it's a £10.000 competition.
Ask HN: What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?
In a similar vein to http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html, I'm curious to hear the people's choice for memory pool/slab allocators. My question is a three-parter:

1) Allocation size function: Do you allocate fixed size chunks of N objects at a time? Exponential increase in chunk size (I believe valgrind does this for its memchecker)? If exponential, do you also back off exponentially, or linearly? Something else?

2) Used/free record keeping: Bitfield? Linked-list? Other?

3) New allocations: realloc or array/linked list of pointers (I bet I know the answer to this one)?

Some justification would be nice, if you've got the time.
None of those numbers would hold up to any level of scrutiny. I don't have time to debunk it, but I would put money where my mouth is.
When I got into professional programming compilers were a round trip to the machine room away. So one thing we did to save time was to 'desk check' our code. This usually meant a simple simulation using a piece of paper to hold the variables, crossing them out when they were overwritten. At some point I could do it for limited pieces of code by just simulating the code in my head.

Simulating code in your head goes a long way towards writing solid code, you'll be able to hold a model of the data and your code together and see whether it will work or not and fix bugs before your first compile.
Probably a little bit under a grand: http://southbend.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=middlebury&...

You're right it's probably doable on a strict budget, but kids are expensive, I've heard. Then again, so is beer and lotto tickets, but he might not be exaggerating when he says that's the last thing keeping him sane.
I use Gmail.

I set up a second account which forwards to the first and gets sorted into it's own inbox using Gmail's multi-inbox feature.

This way, I simply email myself anytime I want to remember something for later.

there are a number of reasons this works well:

-Email is a common interface and I'll see it daily so stuff stays in the front of my mind.

-Can be added to/updated from any number of devices including my phone, ipod, computer

-Searchable and chronological.

-Updated/new information can be added by replying to the original thread.
Then it's not 'adequate', is it?
If you use snipmate, I'd recommend also installing superTab:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643

Now when you hit <tab>, vim will know whether to add a snipmate snippet or use autocompletion. Works great.
You can probably do whatever you want to your hardware. They're trying to stop businesses forming around piracy. Like the article said, there's a lot of money in pretending bits can't be copied.
Smacchia is definitely the author of NDepend and he loves to post about it (mostly in .NET circles, this is the first I've seen outside of that), but position it in a way that he uses the product and shows it off, but not by talking about the product, but by talking about all the methodologies it extols and all the things you should be doing that this product will make you feel guilty about not doing.
FALSE. This has nothing to do with going solo. What he didn't do was go through a concrete thinking process in selecting the idea. He probably just "jumped right into coding" -- I've done this before too, we all have.

When you go through a real thinking process and tether yourself to a set of goals that your idea tries to solve, and write down why your solution is valuable, it will do MORE THAN SUFFICIENTLY pull you up during the down slopes, and will also help you objectively analyze your next steps.

He's not failing because he doesn't have another dumb shit next to him telling him to "keep going!" He's failing because he didn't start with a solid foundation and vision.
We have had several suggestions via Skribit this week. Some are using it to make snarky comments that stay on the home page and not really because they expect a post about it on http://www.techdrawl.com. We'll leave them up for awhile.
IBM as a market leader, that missed the moment, Apple as, well, Apple—company that released cool Macintosh computer—and Microsoft, as a company who started by writing software for Macs (i.e. BASIC version for Mac) but eventually released their own OS.

And Microsoft was the winner at the time.
Because when you take notes, you internalize a lot more than simply reading. It really makes a difference. Worse is when the professor snaps the slides faster than you can write them - meaning much faster than you can comprehend them. Sure I can watch someone flash basic history slides by but when it comes to math, science, obscure stuff there is no way I can catch it off a slide better than if the professor is writing.
This always gets me when I'm using Tor. I usually just go to google.co.uk (is there an explicit URL for the US site?).
it's not in this article, but he wasn't arrested for modding his own hardware. he was running a home business where he was essentially selling modded hardware.

from: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/game-console-jailbr...
Ryan, don't give up. At the very least, make the "Get Started" button bigger... I had to squint 5 times to figure out what your site is even about and how to get started!

But before anything else, think about your goals first, before you just jump straight into another idea. If you can think back to that first time you wrote that first line of code, and all the excitement you felt from the vision you painted in your head... you'll realize, this idea ain't over yet. You just forgot parts of the vision that was essential to making it a success....
You know the information you're searching for is readily available, but you don't know the unique string to get you there.
Was he really just modding the systems or also installing games for people?
"The idea was that people could create discussions, and vote on things they prefer. Using that data, I would work hard at calculating compatibility."

That's the first thing that went wrong. I still don't have a clue what it is. Hackers hate marketing, but you can't ignore the part where you figure out how to describe your product in a way that makes sense/resonates.
> It's not the economy, it's mindset. Some people have an entrepreneur mentality, and some people have a victim mentality.

Well-said.
I want a razor that doesn't grow dull.
I let my From: field do the signing.
Yahoo is definetely the US! It joined the British and it's influence might be crucial
I'm using jemalloc in places where we ran in to trouble with the regular malloc.

It's been a long long time since I rolled my own, so I don't think I'm qualified to answer the rest of your questions except for the second, linked list of pointers of free(d) memory would be the best choice I think, with as an extra an array of such lists grouped by size. (I hope that makes sense...) to speed up the search for a block of the right size.
The conscience of the man in the driver's seat.
Regrettably, this has turned out to be a fungible good in many contexts. Although I don't think we're doomed - the internet's democratization of information after all gives us far greater access to knowledge than was possible 20 years ago, for example - I am profoundly depressed by the willingness of many to have their freedoms eroded ( a lot of the more rabid type of 2nd amendment supporters seemed incongruously comfortable with the patriot act, for example, presumably on the basis that it was something they only expected to affect Other People).
Very savvy move. People can be leery of clicking on a URL shortened link from the generic shorteners.
Same experience here. I got the forwarding working, but the callback from GV to the iPhone is pretty frustrating.
No hockey stick after 5 months? Yeah, time to quit and move on.

Seriously? 5 months? That's it? I would have killed for any media exposure and even 100 signups after 5 months. It took me at least that long just to get some small-time bloggers to take me seriously.

Unless you've seriously f-ed up (like emailing your entire userbase telling them "I quit, eat me."), then you've still got a userbase and a decent idea. I really doubt that it's commercially viable (didn't see a single mention of a revenue plan), but if you're just doing it for fun then push forward.
That's one way to look at it. Another is, if people wouldn't accept jobs that don't pay a living wage, wages would rise. Supply and demand and all that.
He definitely broke a law. But to send him to jail for doing this is just ridiculous. He should be penalized financially for this and thatz it.

IMO, anyone who jailbreaks their own stuff shouldn't be put under the law, but someone doing it for others for money definitely are breaking the laws. But it is not something that taxpayers money should be wasted in sending him to jail and going through the investigation. Fine him and be done with it.
One difference is that you can 'print' things that you can't make a mold for. see

http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/

and

http://www.bulatov.org/metal/index.html
I am from South-Africa.

I moved to Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
It should be striking how our newly poor and unemployed get fat instead of battling starvation, and how we nonetheless tacitly disapprove of the family for going nowhere and having no initiative to do something with their lives. Perhaps the problem is that coasting on our safety net represents a significant local maximum in quality of life, and that we have a hard time getting the incentives lined up so that we can offer aid for the long term and actually enforce long-term decision-making. We find government intrusion into personal choice distasteful, but I for one don't want to provide more to people who aren't going to use it for upward mobility for themselves and their families. How can we provide messaging and examples of every day people who have made a difference for themselves and their families through study and hard work?
This sounds terribly familiar. I had a friend who was taken in to those Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) schemes (basically pyramid schemes by another name), and had me come along with him to one of their 'meetings' to introduce their method to new people who wanted to get rich. This pretty much nails the language dead-on, and the fact that you link to 'onestopinternetbusiness.com' makes me very wary of anything you are saying.

If, however, other people can make a statement for the usefulness of the book or the author or something to backup these remarks, then maybe it is an alright source of inspiration. But otherwise, why would any sensible person read that pdf you link to? I am not attempting to put down your opinion of the book, merely I need much more proof when such language is used.
Maybe it's the first smart thing they've done financially; surely a sob story like this is going to attract some attention from people who may be placed to help, financially or otherwise.
I feel for the guy, but he is complaining he doesn't have any money left over, yet he buys 4 packs of cigs a week, pays for some possibly unnecessary K-Mart layaway merchandise, drinks "beer-after-beer-after-beer", gambles, and eats donuts. There's a whole lot of money they could be saving - I'm sure even more thats in the article if these are his normal habits... to make ends meet. If he is really interested in doing everything he can to save money, these things should have been gone by now. If he were a buddy of mine, I'd tell him to do that and then I'd help him out.
Or they'd buy Software to keep the books and build robots to paint the RVs.

Unskilled labor needs to be cheaper than mechanization or it'll become mechanized labor.
Non-standard HTML, IMG was not proposed until early '93

"proposed new tag: IMG
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800

I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:

IMG

Required argument is SRC="url".

This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull
over the network and interpret as an image, to be embedded in the text
at the point of the tag's occurrence.

An example is:

<IMG SRC="file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.xbm">

(There is no closing tag; this is just a standalone tag.)"

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
This metaphor does not map. Apple, Microsoft and Google all compete in some areas and cooperate in others. Applying a martial metaphor, especially attempting to map the players onto WWII is not illustrative or illuminating.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741661
They're living so hand-to-mouth that she simply couldn't afford the immediate cash-in-hand loss of the job despite any future payoff. By the sounds of it, the landlord was pretty damn stretched, I doubt they could have negotiated. Maybe there's the option of replacement tenants downsizing for similar reasons, otherwise I feel a bit sorry for the poor landlord..
A friend who is an armchair economist (in a good way), noted that America's poor apply a much too high discount factor to future cash flow streams. In other words, they place too much value int today's pleasure and not enough in the avoidance of future pain. It's this short-sightedness that let them end up in this situation.
Thank you for clarifying, I am indeed only comparing web development tools.
i want a solution to this country's health problems...specifically: obesity / bad diet/ lack of desire to exercise

i actually think a real business could be built around this. if the governemnt paid me X dollars to make Y over-weight people fit, it might be a win-win
How do you define "publish on the Internet" when it's terabytes and terabytes of data? Just buy a domain and host the files from home for a minute, and technically you've "published it on the Internet."

What I'm saying is, to register a work with the US government, you'd have to filter out all the already-copyrighted 11 word combinations, which would be virtually impossible. Without a distinction made between the already-copyrighted sentences and your "original" ones, I don't think you could have a copyright on the original ones.
I always preferred "Erotically yours," in a business setting.
Both articles on the front page here fail to mention that he was doing this as an advertised commercial service.
You scared me for a second. The Japan-equivalent is tough to figure out. Maybe HTC, Sony, Nokia...not sure yet.
Do I suck as a venture capitalist?
Do you actually know Latin, or are you using a translation service?

One of my signatures for the longest time was "Eta erat cuando hic adveni", which I believe means "It was like that when I got here", but I'd really like to get someone to verify that. (Someone who aced some difficult exam - GRE? GMAT? - proudly said they knew Latin, and were pretty stumped.)
NASA's NEBULA cloud computing platform
From the original article: I think that the concept of the site was just too limiting

It's great that he was able to see that and not sink any more time into an idea with no future.
I think the legality is pretty clear. Protocol III of the Concentional Weapons Convention bans incendiaries under many circumstances, but the US has not adopted it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventio...

http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/NORM/C1C4BFCF736BF820C1256402003...

Some activists also wish to call it a chemical weapon, but by that logic lead bullets are also a chemical weapon (since lead is toxic).
Ask HN: What does your startup's name mean?
I have been having a lot of clients ask me what the name of my startup means? The truth is, it sounded cool and it was completely original, the .com/.net/.org was available. The "brand" is mine but it really has no meaning. I tried breaking down the word and seeing if any latin roots would catch but nope.

Should I make something up?
What does your startup's name mean?
5 months is a looooong time for a web app (assuming he was working on it full time)
Auto mechanics work on cars as an advertised commercial service. It turns out that tinkering with parts should not be a crime.

(Yes, this guy was doing it to pirate video games. But handgun manufacturers build guns solely to murder other human beings, and auto mechanics can install equipment that allows you to exceed the speed limit. Neither of those are crimes, so why should modifying a game console be one?)
I don't doubt it, I'm just saying a bad lecture is probably more about the professor's (& student's) incompetence than about the tools. Eg I'd rather have slides to write on if he's just going to copy from the text.
The trick is to only read Atlas Shrugged up till the part where the capitalists leave.
naming "<anything> killer" is usually destined to failure
It's legal for me to pay someone to clean my house.

Why should it be illegal for me to pay someone to remove restrictions from a device I own?
This is just my personal experience with their Mandarin Chinese software (disclosure: offered free through my college language lab, otherwise I never would have touched it): I hated it. I understand the idea of immersion behind the software, but I found it incredibly hard to grasp any real working knowledge of grammar and cultural aspects/differences, it just feels a lot more like a super expensive flashcard app with a few gimmicks. Plus the whole immersion thing was supposed to avoid you "translating" into a language you are comfortable with and then translating that into the new language...I didn't find myself skipping that "bridge" with Rosetta Stone. I gave up on the software after being bored out of my mind in a couple weeks before my Chinese class started, and just went back to textbooks and resources like chinesepod.com, where after a couple weeks of that I started to feel more comfortable about doing the very thing Rosetta Stone seeks to skip, a lot in part because Rosetta Stone was incredibly unhelpful with grammar and such. Then the class started, and being able to converse with and get tips from native speakers helped immensely.

On the other hand, I found Pimsleur and similar methods of learning languages to be semi-helpful and possibly worth spending money on. No replacement for memorizing things and total immersion via traveling/marrying someone/studying abroad, but when you're stuck in traffic in the car, listening and practicing speaking can do volumes to help.

In the end, I just got a flashcard app for my iPhone, stocked up on MP3s and videos to watch and listen to, and I think that was more helpful than Rosetta Stone ever could be. I'm not sure if there's any research or studies behind language acquisition via Rosetta Stone, but when I'm an adult, I don't see the benefit in learning a language as if I was a toddler again. I had learned French in high school and learning Spanish afterwards was ridiculously easier because I had already had "basics" like grammar down pretty well, as well as an easier time learning vocabulary as there are many cognates. Not that I remember much of either language anymore, but there are some times when taking advantage of what an adult already knows is faster and more helpful than learning like a baby.
How old are you? I only wish I could have gone to siggraph this year
Leave the math to us: Advertisers increase profits with Conversion Optimizer
His site sounds like digg's recommendation system or what reddit tried to do with their recommendation system.

It's really hard to be second mover without a significantly better algorithm or lots of money. In the search engine space, Google had that better algorithm and Bing has lots of money and an equivalent algorithm. He had neither. So unless he was able to come up with a working "compatibility" algorithm, it was going to be a really though haul.

Chalk it up as a lesson learned. Good luck on your next startup. I appreciate the honesty. On my startup, I have to keep focusing on making the product work well rather than being distracted by those other "gaping loops" like scaling, marketing and monetization. Those are useless without the product.
The MLM scammers may have used the book for their own purposes, but that shouldn't detract from the book's value. The book was published in 1937, during the great depression, and is based on study of some of the most successful businessmen of all time like Rockefeller and Carnegie.

The bottom line of the book is that the "secret", at least as I understand it, is perseverance and hard work, which is exactly the opposite of MLM get rich quick schemes.

It's not a how to book, it's more of a motivational book.
I think a more important point is that most of Africa lags the rest of the world in gains. I made the larger point here: http://bit.ly/1pJjHg
In the long run, every industry is going to be "napstered." We’re going to have to rethink our economic structure to find incentives that work.

If you think the RIAA an MPAA were a problem, wait until it’s Walmart and Costco.

On the other hand, I don’t think that tyranny (prosecute everyone) or anarchy (copy anything for free, designers get $0 for their effort) is going to be the optimal solution.
I think the regular (gnu, at least) malloc uses bucketed linked lists.