skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think and Grow Rich is an amazing book.

You should read the book itself, it's not long, but the premise of the book is basically that most wealthy people got wealthy the same way:
1. Making a through, detailed plan on how they will get rich.
2. Doggedly and relentlessly following that plan with incredible perseverance and not giving up.

It's simple. but if you think about it, it could change your life.

Personally, I don't feel bad for these people at all. It's not the economy, it's mindset. Some people have an entrepreneur mentality, and some people have a victim mentality.
If I sat around all day drinking beer and buying lottery tickets, I would probably be in the same place he is. Instead, I'm going to spend the next 12 hours setting up advertising campaigns with the expectation that 90% of them will fail. I will continue working until I hit that 10% that will succeed, which enables me to live comfortably and earn more than I could at a day job running my own business.

My point is that the bad economy often makes an all to convenient scapegoat for some people. Living paycheck to paycheck is not a good financial strategy regardless of economy.
...tactile holograms?

GIVE ME MY HOLODECK. Please, please be in my lifetime.
Take advantage of the fact that people love their own culture. Ask them about it, and they'll see you're trying to learn (and not just being some pompous foreigner). It's also a good chance to learn more about the culture anyway.
(London) Songkick should only post once
How about posting once, then listing the 3 open positions in the body of the post? This isn't a job board.

Not trying to be crass, but a bunch of job postings on this site are just another thing for my eyes to have to filter. Semi-annoying.
The article and headline say "PayPal killer," but my guess is that it would be closer in spirit to Amazon's Flexible Payment System.
Pirated games come largely from China.
You could have a removable chain. Or use a belt and design it so it can fold over or something.
* Bowline uses HTML/JS - Shoes is pure Ruby.
* Bowline respects MVC.
* Shoes is more developed at this time.
No, the chain is internal to the designer's head.
If you can't do the tricky part, just ignore it and hope for the publicity.
Oh, heh... just realized the lack of comment box meant that this was an internal post. Didn't realize this was a YCombinator company.

But alas... I still stick to my original post ;)
OSDI (2nd) was written in 1997, perhaps you were thinking of this? http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Systems-3rd-GOAL/dp/0...

Minix 3 is a whole different ball game though. It's an interesting kernel with some interesting ideas, but I still recommend Linux as it's both more popular and reflects the majority of UNIX design decisions today. Even the OSs with praise for microkernel design tend to incorporate a number of monolithic features.

EDIT: Sorry! I had no idea there was a Third Edition of OSDI out http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,,.... However, I should mention that I meant those Linux books to be read in conjunction with the kernel code -- the book is still valid today despite the additions to the kernel in the past couple years.
earlier today on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740959
Why is this downmodded to -2?

"intentionally downplay" is a bad choice of words, sure, but I think he means "am only comparing web stuff". Most web developers do not care about SciPy. Most research scientists don't care about web frameworks.

(Edit: and this is downmodded too? Did Programming Reddit change their color scheme again?)
"Python-stackless avoids this problem"

Not really. Stackless Python still has a GIL, and if you want to make use of multiple threads, the GIL will still bite you.

Stackless allows you to write coroutines and has lots of cool abilities, but avoiding the GIL is simply not one of them as far as making use of multiple cores.
Thank you for trivializing a war my grandfather fought in and died. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Just kidding. I'm still trying to figure out who Japan would be..
They also mentioned Facebook. Are payments really big on Facebook? With tons of customers and experience with processing payments for real-world goods, I would think Amazon would have a better shot at it than Facebook.

Also, out of Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, I would guess that Amazon customers are the most likely to be spending money elsewhere as well.

But in all these cases--Pay Pal, Apple, and the rest--they are wrappers on a bank account or a credit card. Why wouldn't the banks and the credit card companies themselves want to get in on all this?
Why is everyone so concerned with multi-core concurrency withi languages like Python and Ruby? Adding another processor will get you, best case, a 2x speedup. Rewriting in, say, OCaml or Haskell will get you a 25x speedup.

25 processors buys you a lot of programming time.
This is the Freakonomics commentary on the article (by way of which I found the article in the first place):
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/what-does-t...

Reading the comments on the Freakonomics page, some of which really are harsh, makes me wonder about the family's motivations for allowing a reporter to probe into fairly personal details of their lives- and write about it in a national newspaper. The article doesn't portray them in a particularly positive light. Maybe they just figure it's a chance for a little bit of fame and attention, but it still seems like a brave thing to do.
I have not applied for YC. I was still finishing up college and was never really in a position to be able to move and have a cofounder that could do the same. And when I did graduate, Georgia Tech invested in us. http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=2356
Slate had an article earlier this year about the idea of Apple going into banking:
http://www.thebigmoney.com/print/1094
It's very easy in Perl.

But anyway, "100% code coverage" is very misleading. Sure, every branch might have been executed once, but you don't ensure that every combination of branches executed once. If you have state that can be shared between code paths, then you are not doing an adequate job testing.

(This is why people like functional programming. One input always produces the same output, cutting the number of cases you have to test dramatically.)
Oh man, your wife is going to be pissed when she finds out you disintegrated her engagement ring for your little computer machine.
And THIS is why iPhone Dev Team only ask for food donation.
I know it's a controversial question but why do you prefer Clojure over Scala?
So a naked woman on page 3 then?
Hopefully you recognize that you misrepresented Ruby throughout the post, in some parts quite dramatically and strangely; the "Modules (for Web Apps)" section is a remarkable mess, listing a random handful of libraries, some of which have nothing directly to do with web development, some of which are components of others, and all representing only a fraction of what's available.

I also see that you were apparently unaware that lambda exists in Ruby until someone in the comments told you, which makes me seriously doubt that you've even used the language at all.

Googling around for info on a language with which you have limited or quite possibly no experience is not a basis for purporting to present an "in-depth" comparison, nor does it qualify you to make claims about capability of a language.
The Google vs. Apple War Begins
I get a lot of ideas when I'm in the car or otherwise don't have a piece of paper handy, and unfortunately they slip away too easily. I haven't gotten one yet but, I'm thinking that a Sansa Clip with voice recording (~$40, different models) on my keychain might work (hmm, might need a lanyard). Many times I've wished I had one. You'd get the 'talk it out aloud' advantage, a record, and the indispensable ease, even easier than typing.
The now fully industrialized countries of east Asia were poor a half century ago, and the newly independent countries of Africa were in several cases less poor. But later the countries in Asia grew and prospered much faster, resulting in the huge gap we see today.
I want a solution to a^3 + b^3 = c^3 where a,b,c are positive integers.
Interestingly (and the author stresses this emphatically in the introduction), the "secret" cannot be merely doled out like dollars - a great willingness/eagerness to uncover it is required for it to be of any use. Had the passage been merely dropped in my lap without any context or deep inquiry, I doubt it would have been of any use.

Thankfully, the book itself can be had for free online from a number of sources, including this one found via a quick Google search: http://www.onestopinternetbusiness.com/tgr.pdf

Here are a few relevant passages from the introduction:

"The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than a hundred times, throughout this book. It has not been directly named, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where THOSE WHO ARE READY, and SEARCHING FOR IT, may pick it up. That is why Mr. Carnegie tossed it to me so quietly, without giving me its specific name. If you are READY to put it to use, you will recognize this secret at least once in every chapter. I wish I might feel privileged to tell you how you will know if you are ready, but that would deprive you of much of the benefit you will receive when you make the discovery in your own way."

"The secret to which I refer cannot be had without a price, although the price is far less than its value. It cannot be had at any price by those who are not intentionally searching for it. It cannot be given away, it cannot be purchased for money, for the reason that it comes in two parts. One part is already in possession of those who are ready for it."

"Somewhere, as you read, the secret to which I refer will jump from the page and stand boldly before you, IF YOU ARE READY FOR IT! When it appears, you will recognize it. Whether you receive the sign in the first or the last chapter, stop for a moment when it presents itself, and turn down a glass, for that occasion will mark the most important turning-point of your life."
I don't think it's controversial at all. I prefer lisps in general, and that's pretty much the extent of it. I think Scala is a fine language, but it's not a lisp.
This is the first meta-discussion that hasn't started off on a sour note for me, because the OP is not just saying "Heyyyyy I hate it when people downvote boo hoo etc." He's offered his thoughts on the causes of downmodding tension and has put forward his idea of how to approach the problem. Sure, it's still meta-discussion, but at least it's productive.
I'll bet you, it's the same people browsing this site as well.

That I doubt. The discussions on here seem a tad more enlightened and articulate.
interesting concept, but i don't know how interested i'd personally be in it until it starts to pick up on trends.

like, it sees what i hoot and compares me to other people's hoots and suggests things for me to look at based on how i hoot.

i'd think that this is where the power would be, not to just see what gets the most hoots.
That coating of thermal grease looks WAY too thick.

It also looks like he's measuring the temperature of the heat sink rather than the temperature of the die. If your thermal compound is acting as an insulator, then your heat sink is going to be nice and cold. (That smoke you smell is your processor melting through the bottom of your case, however.)

Finally, if you want to test heatsinks, it's better to use a resistive heating element instead of the CPU. You can't control how much heat the CPU is putting out (what with automatic frequency scaling and whatnot), but you can control how much current you are pumping through a resistor. Dan's Data has an article about this:

http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm
No, it will cancel voicemail altogether. The phone will ring indefinitely, or eventually disconnect.

To return to AT&T VM, you'll need the phonenumber for that, which should be possible to obtain with #002#, then re-set with 002*(AT&T VM number)#
I see. I expected some technical reason, but obviously personal preference is fine too :)
Only now he's off to collect their unemployment benefits, electronically delivered to their bank accounts by the state of Indiana: $268 for Kelly...

"It's 28 hours, eight bucks an hour," she says. No benefits, she adds. "You say, 'Thank you, but -- '?" "Yup," she says. "I make more on unemployment."

So she turns down a job that pays $224 per week so she can continue to collect $268 per week unemployment compensation after 9 months.

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture? Has she even considered:

- that 28 hours could turn into more

- that $8 could turn into more

- that no benefits could turn into benefits

- that she may meet someone at work who could refer her to a better job (lots of people pass through a chiropractor's office each day, a lot more than she meets at home)

- that she may meet someone at work who could refer Scott to a job

At what point should we expect people dealing with difficulties to try a little harder to help themselves?
The live site trendingtopics.org is using MySQL for all 3 million articles and it handles it pretty well with the right indexing, bulk loads, and memcached. I built the initial demo in 10 days, so I choose Rails w/ MySQL mostly for simplicity and with the intention of adding Solr or Sphinx search. The way the data is stored (key value style w/ JSON timelines) was actually intended to lend itself to replacing MySQL with another fast big-table like datastore.
Seconded. Although it focuses mainly on the US, consider too the implications in a society like the UK where surveillance cameras are extremely thick on the ground.
Requiring a user to type in a zip code for the registration is awkward when all that is required is a country (and zip codes only apply to the united states).

I like how it find matches for products that have already been entered when you submit a new one, but it seems that only the first submission will set the product's URL and description, which is what most people will see when they view an item.

Also, it's not obvious at first what URL should be submitted for a product. I wanted to add 'Blast Corps.', but still am not sure what should be done for a product no longer in retail.
A lot of the people in the US army during the revolution were civilians prior to the shooting, but they were led by men who had fought in the French & Indian war for the British.

How is this any different from today? There are nearly 25 million veterans in the U.S. today. That's nearly a tenth of the population with previous military experience, many of them officers, trained in the same rifle platform that is the mainstay of our infantry today.

It does however seem likely that there are fewer civilians with practical firearm experience nowadays, though I am not aware of any statistics from the revolutionary era to compare to (anyone have a source?).
Actually, it did reset to AT&T. I tried a few of these playing around.
Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Game Consoles
The way I understood it was that, considering that they couldn't make rent on their unemployment income, the wages still wouldn't have been enough to keep them from having to give up the house.
Cocoa with Love: Control and configuration of applications through Info.plist
Thanks, maybe I will pick it up.

Just want to make a point on your last paragraph. I agree but at the same time I don't see any reason why we need to demonize the people who don't know what to do. Whether what they are doing is right or wrong, we're better off not placing blame on them either.
In fact the 50:1 ratio will probably create 2 new fighters for every one killed. Most people have families and don't like seeing their relatives blown up. Do not put people in a position where you've taken away their every reason to live for.
Another opinion: the slide deck portrays a rather aggressive meritocracy, probably the most hardcore I've seen as a veteran of multiple startups. If you're planning a Mars mission, commercializing cold fusion, reinventing retailing, or trying to dethrone Microsoft, that's one thing, but jeezly crow, why burn yourself out in a company whose mission statement is, "Mail out whatever DVDs people ask for, without taking too long or screwing up too often"?

(This is a bit of a troll, because I do appreciate the drive to do the very best you can at whatever task you've set yourself. And the deck certainly reflects well on the company's ethics and overall cluefulness. It just strikes me as overkill -- competing with dumbass companies like Blockbuster shouldn't be that hard, should it?)
When one is cycling along the road and needs to turn left (assuming right-hand driving), one will want to be near the middle of the road, so that when the way becomes clear, there isn't multiple lanes of traffic to cross. If the junction is also controlled by traffic lights, where is the button they must press? Is it in the road itself?

Or is it another one of those situations where cyclists can't go the same route that cars do, and must cross using multiple signals, possibly taking several minutes?
The 3rd edition of OSDI is definitely worth reading. The MINIX3 kernel is only 4000 lines of code; very clean, and easy to wrap your head around.
Well... I guess you could say preference for lisps is a technical reason; but only if you are into macrology.
Holy crap. If they did not have videos of all these technologies, I would not believe them. These prototypes work. They just work. It's only a matter of scaling up the detail and packaging it right for consumers. The future is here.
Webstarts Pricing Plans - Intersting
Signs that It May be Time to Consider Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS) enables organizations to take advantage of critical functions and services without building, expanding or operating computing hardware, software or infrastructures. SaaS is the most widely used and mature element of the evolving set of resources known as "cloud computing," and often takes advantage of cloud-based computing, storage and management resources to deliver its business benefits.
Thanks for the quick reply. How many machines are running MySQL for you?

I was reading this website - http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib...

I have not tried HBase and HyperTable myself yet, but the blog post says that they still have latency issues. What are your views?
Phones normally have these configuration features built in, in my experience. That is, you go into the configuration menus, and you can query and reassign your call forwarding settings.
My favorite quote from the article:

“Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers,”
Your business idea as a promise
Shoes is pure Ruby

Ruby wrapped around Cairo (drawing library) & Pango (text library)
Home Remedies for hair growth
Six Degrees of Nolan Ryan: Network Science Ranks Baseball Greats
I wonder if any families have joined forces and got houses together, instead of moving across the country to some dingy hell-hole, to live in their parents' basements.
Ironically, activism led to the right you have to speak your mind so it's a good thing for you that you are dead wrong.
Depends on the professor. Some of the most intellectually challenging lectures I've heard were delivered with no more equipment than a chalkboard.
Well it's obvious to me why there's nowhere to go but down.

They're not trying to go anywhere else. They're not that bad financially. In our country a lot of people make less money working - while living expenses are higher than in USA actually - (we have round 25K $ GDP per capita) with higher food, fuel and home prices (services are more expensive in USA). It's not the lack of money that is dragging them down - it's the lack of living power and motivation.

They are 30+ year olds with mentality of an 8 year.
I'm trying to be sympathetic, but I'm having trouble getting the numbers to work. He picks up $700 per week in unemployment compensation. That's $3000 per month. How much is their rent? Have they considered making special arrangements with their landlord? I doubt if she has many other options (other tenants or a buyer).

I really felt bad for this family until she turned the job down. In my mind, that changed everything.
To sum this up: This 'bike' has neither a chain nor driveshaft nor belt, thus you can't pedal it. It also lacks the necessary structural integrity and -- as seen on reddit -- at least the rear brake most likely doesn't work. But hey: It has a neat design and you can pull it around when it's folded. What is this? A parody?
It all depends on how much folding you want. If you just want to be able to travel with it a bit more easily than a full size bike, you can do something like this:

http://www.surlybikes.com/travelerscheck.html

Edit: After doing a bit more research, I learned that bikes built like this can fold into a case that's the size of their wheels:

http://sandsmachine.com/

So basically, this is as good as what's in the article, but available right now.
"When he lost his job, Scott had no savings, his primary objective always having been to earn enough to cover the rent, eat an occasional steak, feed and clothe their children, ride his dirt bike, fish, golf, play poker, buy lottery tickets, and drink Bud Light."

Um you have to be kidding me.
Decentralized Email Concept Brainstorming
Considering that the guy eats donuts and drinks jugs of Pepsi, I think that spending $40/week wouldn't kill them.
I find that a combination of the "zap" and "zap images" bookmarklets enhances the readability of most web pages:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
Who John Galt Isn't
Or this: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=56a63...
All the responses here have been solidly middle class condemnations. There are so many forces at work here, I don't even know where to begin.

I grew up in the American middle class, and probably felt the same way many of you do. I became more sensitive to this sort of thing by:

a) Talking to my wife, who is an immigrant from a lower class, who came here so she could be something. She's a professor now, so we've seen the whole spectrum of society.

b) Experiencing first hand what the system does to people, even those who try really hard to help themselves. It sucks. It's not fair. It's unjust. It provides perverse incentives. You want to believe that's not true, but it's true.

You see him buying a few beers out of context, and you feel justified in thinking he'd better just man up, but you have no /idea/ what that situation is like, and probably (hopefully?) never will.

I suggest reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed to start to get an inkling of what goes on: http://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Paulo-Freire/dp/082...
The genius of their system is that most titles never ever get re-shelved because the software is smart enough to do the match-making.

""It's a lot faster than a traditional shelving system where you have to run around and marry up orders," says O'Handley. Dennys Torres, one of four original operators when the hub opened, in January 2002, can clock more than 800 discs per hour. The Scan Tomorrows move faster, set aside by the handful. Ship Discs get an envelope and a pair of stickers. "When we first started last year," says Torres, "moving 4 boxes was a lot." He indicates sets of long, narrow boxes filled with DVDs, some 320 discs in each. "We were taking long breaks, two-hour lunches. Now, it's all work; everybody moves at least 10 boxes a day."

From "90,000 DVDs. No Shelves."
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/74/netflix.html

History of the Netflix Mailers: 1999 to 2005 (present version)

http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/netflix/frameset.exclu...