skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a big fan of visualizing weird pictures to remember names and numbers. You have to have a system though, so your first sentence confuses me.

If you want to learn how to have a good memory, try these:

http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/d...

http://www.ludism.org/mentat/
Perhaps Twitter should have created their own shortening service, or bought one out (they didn't actually acquire bitly did they?), if only to lessen the intensity of the complaints. It does make sense for them to want a single service, it simplifies things for them and their users. The problem with url shorteners is making your product stand out. Any stable scalable shortener is basically the same as any other. Tr.im's situation is unfortunate, but both logical and predictable.
The Mentat Wiki - A wiki about learning and memory
This post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769659 made me remember this page, which has had a big influence on how I think and remember things.
I'm not sure. I don't see colors on a page like others do, and I'm not convinced that my brain is somehow abnormal.

Your idea of smell remapping is very interesting. If I understand you, maybe some sort of biofeedback device can stimulate the sensation. Deaf people use voicemapping software to help them biofeedback their pronunciation.

There are three times in early life when I remember noticing the effect very strongly: when my sister first taught me to sing harmony (age 3 or 4), when I first heard outre jazz (7? I didn't like it) and when I first really paid attention to Bach (8 or 9). Each time I was in a receptive mood and I was confronted with novel stimuli.

There is also a lot of anecdotal evidence for synaesthetic "hallucinations" brought on by drugs, exhaustion, or sensory deprivation. Maybe there are some clues there.

And if all else fails, there's probably a synaesthesia-mode for Emacs. :)
It's one reason to pursue 'smaller' opportunities with lower variance of return expectations but higher median returns -- for example many niche businesses -- than industries with gigantic return expectations.

This neatly encapsulates much of my current business strategy.
Most the songs featured are from mixtapes, implying they have been released for free and the artists are encouraging fans to distribute and remix as they please. Unfortunately, this also limits the 'obvious' monetization strategy of affiliate linking to amazon.

EDIT: Long-term though, it will be tough to avoid scrutiny/prosecution while building a profitable business. Follow the grooveshark model and pass the liability onto the users?
I'm halfway through Harris _Trading and Exchanges_, recommended at the top of this article, and it's just a phenomenally awesome book. I brought it up to the lake for summer reading, it's been that fun to read so far.
Dedicated server/vpn/web hosting startup ideas?
I want to start a Dedicated Server service, provision of VPNs web hosting, domain purchasing, tunnels, etc; has anyone started a startup on this, that can give me ideas? these sort of things have procedures and terms/conditions set in place so if anyone can give me tips on how to start this up I'd appreciate it. a little bit of an investment I'd assume for the hw (unless you have virtual machines everywhere) but I don't know much about the industry, so thanks
I'm currently taking an SEO/SEM class through Digital Bootcamp in Chicago. Jerome Harvey is our instructor. Based on my admittedly brief experience with him so far, I can enthusiastically recommend him. He's already helped improve our site's rankings.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jerome-harvey/1/961/41b
I've used this before, and I highly recommend using fcgi instead. Modwsgi (at least when I tried it) was less stable and not as performant.
I agree and disagree. Octopart is very revealing if you do low volume manufacturing had have been caught in the 'digikey convenience turbine'. Like any search engine, it's useless if you don't have the part. But there are a lot of core parts to a generic circuit board listed, so I end up using it quite a lot.
Social Network Analysis in R
Interesting but nicotine can also "be toxic" and induce similar side effects to lobeilia at certain levels as well. They sound like the act in the same fashion and the amount of lobeilia which will be contained in the device likely won't cause any ill affects.

From wiki: Native Americans used lobelia to treat respiratory and muscle disorders, and as a purgative. Today it is used to treat asthma and food poisoning, and is often used as part of smoking cessation programs. It is a physical relaxant, and can serve as a nerve depressant, easing tension and panic. The species used most commonly in modern herbalism is Lobelia inflata (Indian Tobacco).

The company who are bringing out the product are highly regarded for their dedication to health and safety. They are the only company who have had all their liquid rigorously tested for impurities by an independent clinic in New Zealand. They have also courted the health authorities in every country they have sold their product in and I imagine their new liquid will undergo the same scrutiny.

To be honest, after watching the orchestrated smear campaigns conducted against e-cigs in the past year, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a concerted effort to do the same to lobelia.
Pretty much every startup success story has an "and then we got spectacularly lucky" part to it. In Viaweb's case, it's more like "and then, for the nth time, we almost died, then somehow didn't", but the idea is the same. It's one of the great unmentionables in the startup world, and understandably so: succeed and you want the credit; fail and any mention of luck sounds like sour grapes.

I've heard a lot of startup founders talk about a lot of startups, and only Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) both realized and admitted to the large role luck nearly always plays.
Try solving some Putnam problems in your spare time, for fun :)
This: "I want to start a Dedicated Server service" and this: "I don't know much about the industry" spell problems for you.

The only tip I have for you is that you should consider trying reselling regular hosting until you have a feel for the business.
Without going into too much detail for obvious reasons, we are doing as you mention - converting dataflow into blocks of imperative code and scheduling them on threads. Although the scheduling we do both at the thread level and also at the block level is non-trivial and reasonably optimized. I'm sure most of what I'll mention below you've already discovered if you're implementing a dataflow language, but just in case:

When implementing/generating code for a dataflow language it really depends on the level of granularity you want for your parallelism. On one extreme, you have super-fine-grained parallelism and can schedule each operation independently. On the other extreme, you have little or no parallelism and pre-schedule all of your operations in one big chunk. In the middle somewhere is typically a sweet spot where you have chunks of operations pre-scheduled, and then dynamically schedule those chunks.

A key to optimal dataflow code generation (while retaining parallelism) is figuring out where to draw that line regarding parallelism granularity. Too granular and you spend all your time scheduling. Too coarse and you lose all of your parallelism. The ideal point somewhere in the middle likely depends on the operations themselves (i.e. the composition of your language). In some cases it is a decision you have to make by trial and error. In other cases you can make more informed decisions based on the nature of the operations and the context of their use within the program.

Communication is really important as well. CPU caches encourage you to minimize data copies and operate on the data in place when possible (to minimize cache line fetches). Thus if your communication is based on a scheme where you need separate copies for each operation then your performance will really suffer. Message passing can work, so long as you are passing things by pointer and aren't having to make copies.
(I'm not parent, I'm the one who originally asked the question.)

Certainly, a _scientific theory_ is judged based on its predictive power. This is why I mentioned my opinion, earlier, that science is "the art of useful fiction." The goal isn't to achieve truth but to predict.

Philosophy, on the other hand, is concerned with what is _really_ true, not predictions.

Certainly, the experience of qualia has no effect demonstrable to an outside observer. That doesn't make it any more or less real. I experience, therefore it must exist. I merely can't prove it to you. The great thing is that you can prove it to yourself. All you have to do is pause for a moment and rationally examine what you feel.

If your interested in an attempt to explain it from a materialist perspective, you may wish to look at Roger Penrose _The Emperor's New Mind_. He argues that consciousness is intricately tied to QM. Or at least I think he does... It's difficult reading and I haven't read the whole thing yet!

It's on Google Books, here: http://books.google.ca/books?id=oI0grArWHUMC&dq=The+Empe...

The first chapter provides an excellent explanation of qualia.
Book Extract: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~lharris/Trading/Book/Book-extract.pd...
<3 nginx + fastcgi
"Is 'what constitutes a disease?' something you really want the answer to?"
$2000 flat fee for page 1 of google for most people for a single term (from their website.) So, $100.
I just reread the first chapter of Penrose's _The Emperor's New Mind_ so this is based off of it.

Let's simplify the problem to just conversation, for the sake of simplicity. Suppose we have a program that can pass the Turing test... But the way it is constructing it's responses is only a more capable version of the emacs psychiatrist. Does it have consciousness?

I posted a link to ENM in another post. Maybe look at the first chapter. It hits the nail on the head, IMHO.

EDIT: Or even just read the first few pages... It seems to introduce it decently, if your short on time.
No. Phone numbers are unique. Names are decidedly not unique. Every look in a phone book for John Smith?

A .tel domain may be great for the first person to get a popular .tel name, but it sucks for everyone else. And for that reason alone, it has no chance of replacing a telephone book.

Also, it is an expensive, proprietary, unscalable solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Hack your brain?! For what?! is life to boring, too long, too sane. This is the kind of question I hope my kids never asks (or wants to) and if they do, I would get them a job, or a date.

Want a new high? try running a marathon, benchpressing 315lbs, or screwing the hotest chick in your town. The two previous suggestions may be helpful for the later.
I've NEVER seen a street dog for six bucks. Some of the gourmet ones at Criff Dogs, maybe but definitely not from a street vendor.
This is dope dude... good work.
Considering this:

Under the Federal Trade Commission Act:

* Advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive;
* Advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and
* Advertisements cannot be unfair.

(via http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/adv/bus35.shtm)

Legally it can't be deceptive.
Personally, I've had some issues with fastcgi (for PHP) when you get a lot of simultaneous requests. It would hang, and eventually lock up with no exit except a killing of processes. Not sure if it's just my setup, or the software, or what have you but that's my experience so far.

Needing to make some time to try PHP-FPM and see how that works out.
Yup, not a member of a startup - at least not at the moment - but a proud resident. :)
Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.
Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron
Strep throat may have killed Mozart: study
2 Nhân viên pháp chế
Tiếp khách, thực hiện các giao dịch đối ngoại tại văn phòng và qua điện thoại. * Quản lý hồ sơ vụ việc hồ sơ nhân viên và các tài liệu khác. * Thực hiện các công việc liên quan đến phòng pháp chế.
"Work on building a "robust" society, capable of withstanding errors, in which the role of finance (hence debt) would be minimal. We want a society in which people can make mistakes without risk of total collapse. Silicon Valley offers a good example, where people have the chance to fail fast (and repeatedly)."
"For Microsoft, which is poised to take over search at Yahoo, a loss of share at Yahoo is hardly good news. ComScore is now reporting combined results for Yahoo and Bing: they inched up very modestly to 28.2 percent, up from 28 percent in June."

The article doesn't report serious encroachment on Google yet. I'm still trying out Bing any time Google doesn't please me (as most recently when I was mapping a driving trip to a place I had never been before), but so far Bing isn't pleasing me any better.
Re: autoplay: would you have advised Myspace similarly? Do you think they would have done better if they had? To me, "autoplay is the devil" is one of those complaints like "support openid" or "doesn't work on linux" that comes up a lot on hn and that you're probably better off ignoring.
Microsoft to Support IE6 Until 2014
There is no push functionality yet that I can tell. That would need to be built.
Comcast started doing this (they call it "Domain Helper"). It looks they've at least made some effort to make it less evil than, say, Verisign's "Site Finder" from a few years back. It seems to only intercept NXDOMAIN where the hostname is www.*, and they offer a way to opt out at https://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/ .
And you didn't even mention the Out Of Office automailers in different languages. Or, god forbid, you actually want to send an email with the word "vacation" in the subject -- how can you filter the replies?
I think he was trying to say that the magnitude of the mental boost from using amphetamines will not compensate for the health risks, and that if your mental skills are not already extremely sharp without amphetamines (like those of Erdos), then the drugs might not give you the effect you expect.
Well...the same reason that you have to press 1 for sales and 2 for support when you call the main number?

Picking the correct department right at the start is the easier way to get you in touch with someone who can actually answer your question.
It's possible, sure. But I'm not aware of any off-the-shelf options (as with spam filtering) and it's certainly much easier to just say do-not-reply
Facebook and Twitter are completely different. Don't see how a redesign of one would matter one iota for the other.

Facebook is about one-to-one relationships. Yes, there are "groups" and "become a fan of X", but the essence of Facebook, as in other traditional social networking sites, are bi-directional relationships. When I "friend" you and you accept, we are "friends" in both directions. There are no one-way "friends".

Twitter is broadcasting, one-to-many relationships. "Following" someone is a one-direction relationship. You can tell the people from older sites who don't grok this, insisting that all follows need be "followed back". But that fails to understand the power and appeal of Twitter. You can follow Oprah's Twitter feed, but you can't be Oprah's Facebook friend. (Replace "Oprah" with someone whose words you think hold value).
Careful with that. There are spam bots out there that just pick a domain and starting firing away many thousands of messages at <common_user_name>@yourdomain.com
Mix sand with glue and you can mold your own weight.
20 years ago, I wrote an intermediate compilation step for a big software project. It basically took the text strings and compressed them. The program only took a fraction of a second to run, so I added a sleep(1) to make it seem more impressive.
That's pretty much what my company does, but surely you'll agree that this requires more resources than sending from a do-not-reply.

If we were just sending out a monthly newsletter, it probably wouldn't be worth it.
It didn't add anything that anyone, who uses twitter, already didn't know about.

You could disagree, but as far as I am concerned, it is one of those articles about newsflash about non-news that will get some extra page-views. You might enjoy the mentality and trash journalism quality of TC - but I don't.

For more similar trashy post please read "How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice" by Arrington few days ago. Judging from the comments number on that article, TC realized this kind of posts get massive pageviews (more money) so they continued the trend.

Don't be surprised if you see another post soon about "why I don't use x", that will pull some nerves from fanboy resulting in massive page views.
I'm not entirely opposed to this. In fact, I wish that more manufacturers would do it...

I hate setting things on my desk, then having them slide all over the place...one of my favorite pieces of kit is my old 1987 model M keyboard. Not entirely because of the bucky-spring keys, the wonderful noise it makes, or the stark contrast between it, my monitors, my wacom tablet, and whatever new-aged gizmos happen to be floating around on my desk, but because of its heft.

My frineds and I have got a scale for judging the utility of a piece of hardware. "could you kill somebody with it? I mean...in the event of zombie apocalypse, could this device be used to take down a zombie?"

The answer with the model M is likely a solid "no". (it's heavy, and sturdy, but zombies are freaking TOUGH!), but it's close.

The extra weight, even though artificial, gives us that feeling of "this is a sturdy piece of equipment". This is a good thing. I liken it to eating a nice steak. Your brain is going "good job! Eat a lot of this!" because it is assuming that protein (and fat, and all the other good things in a steak) is/are scarce, and that you should ingest as much as possible. Well, this is silly...steaks are not scarce!

It's the same thing, it's false, it's stupid, it's trickery, but I still like it.
Also, something I left out: one of the most valuable parts of Twitter comes not from following certain people, but following a search term (or "hashtag").

Example: Michael Vick signing with the Eagles this past week. I found out about this from following the #NFL tag. I saw it there hours before even the first rumor blog picked it up, let alone ESPN.

For something more appropriate for this site: following the #defcon tag was easily the best resource I had during that event while I was stuck at work. Anything interesting that happened appeared instantly there.

Twitter is amazing for unfolding events. There's absolutely no counterpart to this on sites like Facebook, it's just a completely different focus.
I believe this is the inverse of a speedup loop.

Although, if you removed it a few releases later for a drastic performance improvement, then I guess it is both!

Good show!
Funny, I dislike twitter but nobody else seems to share my reasons.

My main reason is that it's a closed centralized service. I suppose somebody will say "it's not closed, it has an open API" and that misses the point: it's closed in the sense that you or I can't start a Twitter service and integrate it on equal terms with the original Twitter. Email / SMTP provided us a successful model and XMPP followed later to show how to do it for real-time messaging. It would have been easy to build Twitter on top of these standards, or to extend them in open ways if necessary. Instead Twitter is a giant step backwards into a time when technology and services were controlled by single vendors. We grew out of that and I thought we would never go back. I'm horrified that the tech digerati are all enthusiastically embracing a headlong rush back into it. I can't understand why nobody seems to care - it's like the enthusiastic embrace of the Iraq war by the media - there's hardly a critical voice to be heard, and yet I can see it will only be a short space of time before people are all realizing the cage they have built for themselves and asking what everyone was thinking.
>I'd argue that it's also impossible for you to verify this fact. Who's to say that you don't just think you actually feel things
>but in reality it's just your brain playing a trick on itself?

>Taking that further (and getting into the definition problem others have mentioned), who's to say there's any difference
>at all between the delusion and the perception of experience?

Because to think such a thing way would be qualia in and of itself...
Actually, SEO is about just one thing:

1. Creating exceptional content that is "rank worthy" and that people will link to.

After you've created great content, if you've got time, then do the basics to make it easy for search engines to find that content and index it.
To add to this list -

1) Add an in-browser audio control

I had to mess around with my equalizers to get it to sound right (bass static problem), and I'm sure we all have memories of scrambling to lower volume when controls aren't nearby.
I try Bing out every once in a while as well.

I find that it gives me much better image results that Google does. Plus, I like the search filters (size, shape, etc) so accessible.
New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries
Actually, we at Twitter are thinking quite a bit about exactly this.
While I'm not a big fan of Tcl/Tk, I'm quite familiar with it and find I this statement confused or misleading in at least two ways:

First, GWL once told me the bulk of the code is actually rather mundane GUI form definitions (the sort of crap that is trivial to generate with high level interface tools). There's only a small amount of actual "logic" at that level that ever needs to be maintained (the real control isn't done in Tcl).

Second, even if there are 50,000 lines of Tcl (actually I think the actual number is closer to 300,000), it doesn't mean it's one big script. It's probably more fair to compare it to a unix system with hundreds or thousands of separate smaller write-once scripts.

Ironically I think the real fault here lies with GWL and other Tcl enthusiasts for quoting a true but misleading "number of lines" in the first place. The number of separate scripts and average script length would be more meaningful and representative of the system's real complexity.
It's extremely unlikely that he makes money. From the article, the rent is set by auction. So, it's a common value auction with incomplete information, the perfect setting for the Winner's Curse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse

If you won the rent auction, then you definitely overbid.
Which is exactly how many startups are born.
Key points:

1. Insurance should be reserved for significant expenses but not routine ones. Not paying for minor expenses distorts incentives in system.

2. Reimbursements distort market signals; for example there should be high demand for geriatricians given our aging population but Medicare makes it a less profitable specialty. If seniors paid directly there would be more geriatricians.

3. The patient is not the customer, the insurance company or Medicare is. This creates further distortions in care.
thanks for asking mitERS for their input. please let everyone know to email me with suggestions on how we can help them search for parts (andres@octopart.com).