skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating an Archive folder as he describes doesn't stop Time Machine from creating all those hard links everytime it runs-so his solution doesn't fix anything.
He should upgrade to a faster disk for his backup to solve his issues. I have a very large collection of mailboxes on my machine and see none of these issues he's describing.
Should makers of viral videos get a cut of music sales?
where's the purist that lives outside on a hammock?
My preference is definitely visual studio over netbeans/eclipse simply due to response time and the ease of installation.
I'd like to know people calculated how much each person should get from payroll month to month after money does start coming in. Or was it just all Bonuses from time to time?
Silicon makes up much more of the cost of a computer than copper, its not even close. Silicon is >50 cents a gram, copper is less than a cent per gram.
We did this. Now our web servers sit at around 5% usage and we have to pay for the full rack that they sit in. We make plenty of cash however.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is spot on.
I agree that the answer is not exactly "No", but I disagree with most of your points.

Building reusable components, coding at a low level and building a flexible architecture all take considerably more effort than their alternatives, IMHO.

That being said, it makes sense to have the big picture in mind for the first time around and to take some small considerations on the way.

Avoid doing inherently bad things like schlepping around tons of unneeded data and not doing some simple caching.

Like the recent post about embracing technological debt, much of the early work may be discarded before it see the light of day so no point in over investing.

Rather that doing lots of things right the first time, I spend more effort not tightly coupling the pieces so that when you have to write something twice (and you will), it's a clean separation. I'd get the processor intensive stuff done with as little effort as possible (and likely barely fast enough), but in a way that I could rip that part out and plug in some native code when the time came.
I just hear it everywhere. I'm sure the whole world has too much at stake if US Dollar loses its value. The economy might stagflate for a while, but I believe it will eventually recover. After all, USA is the largest economy in the world.
It may be minor in its overall contribution to Nintendo's slide, but it also jumps out as the most salient and noteworthy detail.

For Nintendo to explicitly mention Apple's iPhone in an earnings call, acknowledging its impact on their business, is what makes the report interesting, different and relevant.

I'm definitely open to changing the title based on an actual suggestion, but find your reasoning for my motivation ridiculous (obviously not my article).
He's actually a tremendously talented musician and singer.

It's a bit non-traditional, but one of my favorite classical CD's is where he sings the violin solos for various pieces. Link to album "Paper Music" is here:

http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Music/dp/B00138KNZA/
This can be a double edged sword, though. You don't want to reward your top users in a way that alienates your news users.

That is, you don't want to accidentally create a class system where top users are given enviable privileges that new users feel like they can't attain. When that happens, you end up exacerbating the 99/9/1 problem even more by making it very hard for most new users to get into your community.

As an example, I've been a moderator at a number of forums over the past 15 years or so, and at a few we've rewarded people with special privileges based on the number of posts -- such as images in their signature, special badges under their avatar, additional private message space. Some of those rewards are hidden (like PM space), but some are very visual (like special badges) and had the effect of creating a class system in the community. People will special badges were seen by new users as special and their contributions were assumed to be more important -- even though that wasn't the case. Eventually, the divide was so great and it was so hard for new users to catch up that we ended up with just a small number of active users -- those who had been with us a long time and already had a high post count.

(I'm not talking about any forum community in particular, but have seen this happen on more than a couple.)
I like it when HN database fluent folks shrink down a post into a one liner. Nice russell.
Not social networking in traditional (read: face book style) sense, but check this out - http://programmermeetdesigner.com/ , http://cofoundr.com/blog/show/6 , https://www.partnerup.com/signup/?return= , http://collabfinder.com/
You know... C# may be less painful than Java, but, still, it took me 8 years to go through learning C++ after I had learned OOP with Smalltalk and done some programming with Actor (kind of Smalltalk with an ALGOL-ish flavor). I closed my first book on C++ seconds after I saw the overloaded binary shift operator being used to output text.

I see my early contact with Smalltalk made me picky and spoiled. Today, it makes not much difference if it's C#, Java or C++, they are all painful well beyond my pain tolerance.

It's like smashing one's toes with hammers of different sizes - I am pretty sure even a small hammer is painful enough.
I think all you have to do is add an alias in your apache configuration and it should work:

Serveralias shouldibeworriedaboutscaling.com

Serveralias www.shouldibeworriedaboutscaling.com

Let me know when you move your address so I can update the dns ;)
If we're not arguing about semantics, then it's just syntax. Did you mean: nuance?
Another option for this idea, instead of outsourcing it, is to create essetially the "last.fm" of travel...collect information from people about their trips (where they stayed, how they got there, where they visited) and then when people want to plan new trips, you can intelligently recommend things using the collected data as a reference.

The hard part would be collecting that initial data. Maybe a Facebook App would encourage people to participate.

I picture the trip planning screen being a set of sliders and drop downs. Put in where you're starting from, where you're going, how much you want to spend, and then the site does all the work.
Being a mobile nerd, I fully agree with you =)

However, dkarl is arguing his point from "the way any typical user would" As a "typical user", if he's easily annoyed by how an in-depth phone review is structured, I could hardly imagine the litany of complaints he would come up with when the typical user was subjected to the mess of software and hacks required just to enable a few basic features that one can get from a $20 candybar.

I think the majority of our disagreement comes from the difference in the type of users we are. I'm a power user and have owned 7 phones prior to my N95 in the past 5 years. Dkarl seems to just want a basic fashion-phone and does not really care about having a bleeding-edge mobile device.
Thanks for the education keefe. Maybe what I'm expecting isn't a fully directed graph but a set of automated tools that can help associate disparate data sets. Do you have any good suggested reading you could point me to on the semantic web?
We use ADP. Its expensive - $125 per cycle. Another option is paycycle, but i havent used them
Couldn't sleep so I wrote code to rate rumps
How is NetBeans difficult to install? I would understand being confused as to what package to download from eclipse.org, but NetBeans?!
delusion (I prefer the term rose colored glasses).
Inside a Starbucks a business plots world domination

Aspiring "Next Facebook Founder" Non-Programmer: "You need to write the code so that it can scale to at least 3 million users in 6 months"

Contract Programmer Hired Off Craigslist: "Pardon me?"

ANFFNP: "If you look at the business plan, just after it defines your equity share in our little venture, you'll see that in week 20 we will have just over 1 million users. But by week 30 we will have 3 million users. After that, growth is exponential."

CPHOC: "Umm, I think we can worry about that later. I'm using Rails and Twitter was built on it. Sure they had some problems at first, but they managed to clear them up."

ANFFNP: "Well, I went to a startup pub night last week and this guy that wrote a URL shortener told me that Rails doesn't scale. I don't think we should use Rails."

CPHOC: "Okay... I guess I can use ASP.NET or PHP."

ANFFNP: "I heard at a FireFox 3.0 launch party last year not to use a Windows server because of security problems and that PHP powered Web 2.0. But our site's going to be Web 3.0, so PHP doesn't give us a competitive advantage."

CPHOC: "Well I've always wanted to learn Erlang..."

ANFFNP: "What's that?"

CPHOC: "It's this language that a phone company made to run its infrastructure. It apparently scales really well and was benchmarked at handling over 20 million processes once."

ANFFNP: "Excellent. I knew you were the right man for the job. I'll re-adjust our scalability numbers upward then. 20 million is about 6 times my original projections, so if I double them we should be good."

CPHOC: sigh...

Sorry, I'm in one of those moods today :-)
Per employee? for all?
I'm on one of their family plans with my girlfriend, so us switching to T-Mobile would require me to purchase two phones.
So this is how we make arguments now? Reserve a complete-sentence domain name and put up a yes/no assertion?
I'm not sure if this will do what you're looking for, but I really like Harvest.

www.harvestapp.com.
If you're not familiar with covestor I can see the confusion (in addition I'm never quite good enough at communicating my ideas).

The idea is to pool resources from a large body, and to have several existing, experienced and effective venture firms do the actual investing. The results of the venture firms are public and trackable, and the crowd can vote up or down, or comment on the firms while tracking all the startups that are invested in.

I realize that the legal and practical hurdles exist, but I'd be willing to pool 5-10k and invest in a solid VC with a few hundred thousand other folks. Right now all I can do is look to mutual funds (blech!) or stocks (long term not a bad way to go).

I believe there's some measurable boost to having a few hundred thousand folks pulling for your startup.
now for some content-addressable memory of that size...

Our brains are not really comparable with digital computers in one respect though: Just like TTL logic does not have resistors or diodes but only transistors our brains do not have cells specializing in remembering, controlling or evaluation but only processors.

Each of them is very simple but the quantity of them and their amazing connectivity is what gives us our amazing pattern recognition abilities.
Even with everyone discouraging me from perusing business management, my babson acceptance hurt to turn down.
stun taken - I seriously had forgotten about that.
...built on top of proper continuation support.
It's not funny enough to warrant $1. You got ripped off.
Mass is simply a form of energy, converted as E=mc^2. Energy is what's conserved. The model breaks down dramatically once you're doing dramatic forms of mass-energy conversion, like with nuclear reactions.

EDIT: I appreciate the correction on my misinformation about other types of reactions, and will not continue to spread that untruth here. Thank you, Locke1689.
I have no opinion in particular about this idea, but if this was a teaching moment, seems like a good time to include a link to your easy-to-find counter evidence, rather than name-calling the theory "stupid."
The other interesting thing about the Serge Aleynikov story
I think he meant that making a hard link and copying a small file take about the same time (when storing emails as individual files.)

I think the archive folder idea is a workaround for Entourage. If you have one large file that rarely changes, then making a hard link to it would be much faster than copying it.
i think its a misconception (see what i did there?) about the concept. "mini-retirement" is supposed to refer to a longer period of time where you're taking a break from your primary career, but you have plans to go back. i'd define it as at least 6 months.

it doesn't have to involve travel, and you don't have to stop working or engaging yourself in projects. just like being actually retired.

/my $0.02, at least
Well that is an interesting idea. I have had music stripped from my videos I made in Iraq because they contained copywrited music. One of my videos was supposedly played by ESPN at a basket-ball game.

I think it sounds nice in theory but you would have a hard time convincing RIAA that money can flow the other way.
PaySimple is a pretty good solution. Remember, in most states, you have to have payroll to qualify for group insurance (which is generally cheaper - and almost always safer from recission - than purchasing individual insurance).
"I'd never even dream of using Finder for complex file management tasks (like reorganizing a photo collection)."

And I think you have stumbled across Apple's strategy for managing user files. Instead of improving the Finder for complex tasks, they create whole new applications for managing specific silos of data. The main examples being iTunes, iPhoto, and Mail, of course. Beyond that, Spotlight seems to be their answer. Not that Spotlight is particularly great, but that is where they are putting their efforts instead of fixing the Finder, it seems. Maybe not a bad strategy, if they can continue improving the Spotlight algorithms and UI.
Google tries to profit from death
This guy had vacations, he had a trip, but he did not travel. He just brought his "occidental" mental conception of living elsewhere, he didn't even seem to have really met and lived with other people.
I looked through your submissions and the other pages on that blog for a bit, interesting collection.

Stuff that matters indeed.

In the interest of full disclosure, do you still hold dollars or have you completely converted to gold now ?
Good points Catone. How the heck does one prevent that from happening while rewarding top users? Hmmm... Food for thought!
The late Claude Piron

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

is known for little else in most online discussions besides writing that article.
That's COMPLETELY incorrect. I have been following blogs of CLR team and C# compiler team members and they think very hard about whether a feature needs to be a compiler feature or in the runtime itself. If they are short on manpower, they don't implement a feature rather than implementing it at the wrong level.
No, the PHP internals team was not right.

The author missed the only valid argument: PHP already has a namespace operator! It is '::' just as it is in C++. Classes are namespaces and PHP should have worked just like in C++ where they stole the design from in the first place.

Instead, because nobody wanted to fix the bunged up internals to make it work properly, they decided to add this new character and make the whole language that much more complicated. Now we have this new operator that we didn't need and a bunch of different syntax and semantics for accessing static class members and namespaces.
The first guy to set up one of these domains was pretty clever. Anyone else who had the idea before they saw one gets a free pass. But the rest of them are just lame. Kinda like milliondollarhomepage2.com et al.
Darn. If you find it please post here or e-mail it to me webmail [/-at-/] briancray DOT com
That's the problem with the article. Author concluded that JVM is better than CLR without giving any details. As I wrote in my other comment, .NET platform implements various features in CLR and in the language (in this case C#), to make C# a superior language. I challenge anyone to come up with examples which shows that JVM is better than CLR.
Always the same thing, it's like the rest of the world didn't exist. Anyway, when there's a problem, there's an opportunity.

Maybe offer Google Checkout to other countries through your own office and bank account in the US?
Which makes money....how?

At some point, they have to ask people for money. if they're not going to ask users for money, then they're just going to be another B2B business whose job is to sell stuff to other businesses, advertising or not.
One of the first concerns I have about a site is performance. Not scaling , but making sure the site itself operates very quickly. I have found that the path to getting a fast load time often leads to a reasonable level of scaling.
And for small files, like most mail messages tend to be unless they have a lot of attachments, creating a hard link is no faster than actually copying the file.

[citation needed]
Bug in HN
When doing a 'submissions' on a user with a large history the server comes - after a long time - back with a blank page.

This only seems to happen the first time, when trying a second time usually there is content.

I'm suspecting the first is a timeout on the backend, the second the cached result from the first request.

I hope this is enough information to reproduce the problem.
i can agree with this, too.
For bookkeeping I've just set up my own spreadsheet system. It's nothing complicated, just a standard double entry set of accounts that I manually update since we don't do that many transactions. Then I just pass those to an accountant at the end of the year to prepare the federal return.
I admire the fact that people are looking at the problem of decentralized conversations on the web but I don't think this is the solution to it.

First, community has a legitimate purpose. I come to Hacker News because I find the people here are, on average, more likely to produce a thoughtful comments (and thoughtfully respond to my comments) than on other sites. So a solution that mixes all those results with the content from other sources seems counterproductive.

Second, real time has very little legitimate purpose (in this context). If you're watching a news story than there might be some value to real time but in responding to articles on the web you're much better off without it. Because it creates noise and the last thing you want is to drown out the really great comments with noise.

In the end this is a solution that didn't look at the actual problem. The actual problem is getting THE QUALITY comments from around the web and putting them in one place. This solution chooses to pick "real time" over quality and that leaves me with little interest in it.
The basic information is pretty well summarized here http://www.rdfabout.com/ Automatically mapping disparate data sets is a pretty hard problem that does not tend to automate well. My current company produces tools for this and you can download a beta here http://www.topquadrant.com/products/TB_Composer.html The basic technique is to import your datasets (XML files or RDB or whatever) into RDF, then define a master data model in RDF and define a set of sparql construct rules (or SPIN rules, spin is one of TQ's proprietary languages) which says what I see data with structure X in data source A construct structure Y in data source A using the fields of X. The chief scientist at TQ has written a book on how to effectively do modeling with RDF : http://workingontologist.org/ There are a number of other books and tools, you can checkout the semantic technologies conference for exhibitors for a full list.
How much does BofA charge for this service?

And on accounting guidance do you mean get advice on distributions vs wages?
"Even simple exothermic chemical reactions convert mass to energy by the same ratio as nuclear reactions."

That's not exactly true. Most exothermic reactions are simply the restructuring of chemical bonds (molecular bonds) to lower energy states. Consider that every molecular bond stores a certain amount of chemical potential energy. By breaking that bond, the potential energy is released in the form of kinetic energy, or heat.

There is no fission or fusion in normal chemical exothermic reactions and no matter is created or destroyed. Instead, the process is more similar to the powering of a motor via electricity -- electric potential energy is converted into kinetic energy through the actions of electromagnetism.
Why Do We Smoke Cigarettes (1947)
I've used Wikipedia to look up additional info on certain medical conditions family members have. Generally medical articles have extremely conscientious footnotes and citations. It's very easy to check primary sources to ascertain accuracy. Hit up PubMed if you need more info!

Encyclopedias have never been considered acceptable authoritative sources. So long as we keep in mind the context and purpose of the resource, I see no problem in doctors using Wikipedia as a convenient high-level overview in their research.
Creating an archive folder does help because then Time Machine can create one hard link for the directory rather than a folder containing thousands of hard links to individual message files.

The archive folder is for Apple Mail, not Entourage. Entourage stores all the mail in a single database so it doesn't matter which folders the messages are in.
Review of Guestlist - Event Registration App
What special property does having the largest economy in the world have against it collapsing through the application of poor economic theory?

I would hazard a guess that Zimbabwe has massive inflation because of the Mugabe school of economic thought rather than because it is a small economy.
Zero risk doesn't exist.
The USA does not have the largest economy in the world by far:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Nominal_G...
Maybe I'm just a hopeless optimist, but I have to believe in bouncing back. Sure, times are rough right now but people are more resilient than they are getting credit for right now.
Introduction to Parbash
So the PHP internals team made a poor decision, but because namespaces are better than the ridiculous measures taken to work around the lack of namespaces, they're vindicated?

No. PHP may be getting better, but I can't stand it any longer after using things like Ruby and Python.
Or put out an open call to developers asking them to create ad-hoc distributions for anyone who requests it.
You're right of course that typing speed is largely irrelevant... But there's quite a bit more to managing a large code base than how fast you can type. ;)
IPhone OS 3.0.1 - fixes SMS vulnerability
Yes, but I can't imagine any realistic scenario where this performance will start to backslide. The rate of performance increase will continue to slow down, and the number of cores that you get per unit will increase, but "the hardware" in the most general sense will keep getting faster and cheaper over time.
On Seeing a Sex Surrogate
I am also a Linux user and have a few questions.

> there is no sensitive data to steal

What would I use this for? Is it simply a system to propagate programs to users? (Collaborative software development?) Will my data be on the WikiOS or on my hard drive?

> there is low motivation to vandalize (whereas some wikipedia articles are highly controversial)

Motivation can not be predicted in advance. If I make a program, could not a competitor add a change that "accidentally" introduces a security hole?

> sensitive portions of the OS require moderators approval in order to be modified

What would you define as sensitive?

> We are also working to implement code access security systems to address this issue.

What is your planned security model?

I like the fact that its is sandboxed from the host. Can a program on the WikiOS interact with host programs and if so, to what degree?
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