skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you're right about having a great job being worth a lot; but the fact that the OP wants to leave something so great to work on starting up really speaks more to the depth of his drive to start up, right?

(Also, I totally agree with you about having an idea to work on before quitting.)
Neither. IQ tests are more like a 163 dimensional approach in a 882 dimensional world. They measure a subset of all human capacities.
The first two letters stand for Grand Central. That's not a side-effect, it's a core purpose, without which it would not do half of what it does, nor do it half as well.

While Erlangers may view the Erlang environment as the universe, it decidedly isn't, as it runs on an OS that does other things as well. Your Erlang example, while I'm sure it's really great for you and other Erlangers, simply doesn't do what GCD does.
"We’re starting with a simple product, a contact lens with a single light source, and we aim to work up to more sophisticated lenses that can superimpose computer-generated high-resolution color graphics on a user’s real field of vision."

Reading this in a non-fiction context is so exciting.
You can tell without reading it all because he links to Joel's retarded article about "leaky abstractions".

What's so retarded about Joel's concept of "leaky" abstractions?
Read through _Untimely Thoughts_ a couple of weeks ago, have been meaning to pick up _The Great Melody_ by C.C. O'Brien.
"Maybe I don't have any compassion. Maybe these things I am doing are not altruistic. If you do it for altruistic reasons, it will collapse. To do good just to feel good is no good."

I especially like this quote, and I think this idea had a lot to do with his success.

I wish the title somehow explained the fact that he was about to die from lung cancer. While factual, "EMC co-founder kills himself" is a vast oversimplification that probably leaves many readers with the wrong idea.
Why dont you try www.alibaba.com they have manufacturers from around the world and alot of my friends that have manufacturing companies advertise there
Yes, I saw that but it doesn’t work too well if you can’t use Network Manager to begin with.

See bug 55434 that I reported in december about this.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/55434

I had to switch to WiCD which did allow me to do WiFi at work.

Now, it may be possible that I could use network-manager-vpnc with WiCD but I couldn’t find a way to do that.
Apparently they need gorilla suits.
Most of those problems went away with the arrival of USB hubs. Granted, I still plug more cables than you do (monitor, sometimes audio). But I think for audio a USB solution could be found, too, then I would be down to three cables (monitor, usb hub, power). Sure, docking station is a bit faster, but it is also much uglier (most of the time). I guess it depends on how often you move around with your notebook.

I always work with an external monitor at home, but I use my notebook's keyboard. Atm I also only bother to plug in audio when I need it - I admit audio is a sore point, but when I have time, I'll try to find some wireless solution.
Requirements will depend upon your state, your office setup, your line of business, and the amount of capital involved. We have the following:
* Workers' Compensation policy
* Business Personal Property policy
* Commercial Liability Umbrella policy
* Directors & Officers ("D&O") policy
* Errors & Omissions ("E&O") policy
* Life insurance policies on key employees, payable to the company (aka "key man" policies)

If you have employees you will need Workers' Comp. If you have a lease in a commercial office building, they will require that you maintain a Commercial Liability Umbrella with limits of at least $1 million. Business Personal Property is very minor, and is generally packaged with the former. D&O is something that protects the officers and directors, and which sophisticated investors will require of any portfolio company. E&O is generally only necessary in service businesses. Key-man is a good idea for all the "key" employees, and for early-stage companies a sophisticated investor will make key-man insurance mandatory.
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I don't know C#, but it seems to me that your C# version of memoize works only for functions with exactly one argument, while the CL version works for any kind of function.
Contact me, alexander dot macgregor at gmail dot com, if you like. I am working on a project that might interest you.

I'd also be happy to discuss any ideas you might have. :)
Technically, the simplest way to do this is via polling+ajax. In our project we implement this as follows:

Every n minutes, the clients polls for updates. It sends along a marker token.
The token is either a timestamp it has previously received from the server, or a serialized/json version of the "client model". A while ago, I posted a quick writeup on why you'd need a serialized model here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602322/differential-ajax-...

I believe Gmail uses a Comet approach (keep http connections open for a while, and send updates at they happen), but this can be tricky to implement, especially when using something like Google App Engine that places strict deadlines on request handlers.
Yeah, eventually you get to the point where you can put in both contacts in about 30 seconds without a mirror. It's cool how different that is from when I first got them, when it took me as much as 10 minutes and a mirror.
Great, thankyou for this , i will give it a try. Our product is almost done however in future releases i would like to incorprate some realtime update functionality.

I will go through this information.
I don't think you would enjoy reading Rand (either you haven't yet read any of her work and are going based solely on what you read in this thread, or you just completely didn't understand her work).

As she argues, money is a means of trading human production and value. To be equal to your money is to provide production and value to society equal to the value of your money. According to Rand, if one who is barely capable of ever making more than $30k per year were to inherit $5m, it would not end well. And actually lottery statistics support this pretty consistently.
Keith and The Girl have a fantastic podcast but it's amazing how small podcasting is relative to the size of the iPhone/iPod market. iTunes makes it pretty easy to subscribe and listen yet the market isn't growing much (if at all). You even see low conversion from radio personalities that move to podcasting.

Still these guys have a large dedicated fan base as you can see from this guy willing to branding himself.
I think you can find an interview with Chemda ("the girl") over at http://mixergy.com (which is run by Chemda's brother).
That's just the cost of hardware. How much more do you think it would cost if they included all their research and development, installation and assembly hours, etc?

That is just the cost to buy all the components they have. If you budgeted that in you'd just have a bunch of boxes at your office that weren't even wired up. On the other hand, from Dell or Sun you at least have all the hardware in the chassis, if not some basic configuration and OS install done for you. Go with Amazon and you've already got it racked up in a data center with dedicated techs and replacement parts on hand.

It isn't a fair comparison.
So basically Apple is pulling a Microsoft by adding a platform-specific extension to an otherwise cross-platform, portable language?
The cost they are quoting is the hardware cost. It isn't including developer time, housing costs, maintenance, etc.

Hardware is cheap, power and developers aren't.
I am not disagreeing in principle, but I have a hard time seeing the value proposition of "technical debt". Doesn't it translate directly to "bad code will cost you in the end, therefore you should hire expensive consultants who know how to code"?

I side much more with 37signals (I think it was), who said any code you write will eventually become legacy code. Therefore I wonder if it is really worth fussing so much about the technical debt stuff. On the contrary I have more than once in my dark past as a Java programmer tried to do things "the right way", only to find that a couple of months later "the right way" was just as outdated as everything else.
These are good ideas. Child taxation could be combined with an allowance given to those who, when below a certain age, don't reproduce.
Beta-in-a-Box: Prefinery Brings More Services for Pre-Launch Startups
You'll just have to trust me when I tell you that this syntax actually makes sense to seasoned C programmers.

What?
In current events conversations, participants can usefully be divided into "those who read the Economist", and "other."

There isn't a better magazine, period. And I'm not a banker, or a Tory. I am just under 40 though.
Then what is this specific meaning that the author fails to understand?

I think it's pretty clear what he means by it.
I was not trying to say the article had supporting evidence, simply that the study (showing a decrease in scores after having been in school for 18 months) helps the argument, rather than the argument simply being a anecdote. "School dumbs you down" is a sentiment that has been around for quite a while, but (as far as I have seen) hasn't been tested. This study, at least, shows that it may be worth testing (which was my point).
Secondary revenue streams anyone? I know we'd be interested in becoming a customer if Backblaze at some point decided to monetize this part of their knowledge too.

This seems like an opportunity to disrupt from the low end of the market for some scrappy enterprising engineers. If they don't do it, someone should.
A few big users (Google)... isn't the same as widespread adoption.

Google could easily switch protocols and provide a legacy xmpp bridge tomorrow if they chose to.
Tactical Laser Defeats Ground Target
Developers, Be Warned: Apple Has Apparently TMed Those Glossy Chat Bubbles
Kevin Hale, Derek Sivers, Mike McDerment et al @ Less Conference
<q>The child's mind is not properly developed yet, and the best way to continue to develop it is to challenge it at the fastest pace it can handle.</q>

But, to be fair, it should help to identify the ones who can handle more intellectual stimulus now and then give it to them, wouldn't it?
> Your Erlang example, while I'm sure it's really great for you and other Erlangers, simply doesn't do what GCD does.

That's very debatable, but thank goodness it wasn't my point in the first place. My point was simply to do what cubicle67's example demonstrates, namely (in his words)

> And there you have it: a for loop replaced with a concurrency-enabled equivalent with one line of code. No preparation, no additional variables, no impossible decisions about the optimal number of threads, no extra work required to wait for all the independent tests to complete. (The dispatch_apply() call will not return until all the tasks it has dispatched have completed.) Stunning.

That's very precisely what the Erlang example does.
Yes, it's been studied, and the opposite is true:

http://books.google.com/books?id=hbJB6z5dZswC&pg=PA70...
I had thought about this but the problem is i have set timeouts for my requests to only a few minutes because i wanted to prevnt DOS attacks as best i could without timing out to early (as there is some upload functionality).

Also i had 2 other problems which i thought may arise which kind of moved me away from trying to do it this way.

The first was if we start to get significant hits i think there would be a limit to the number of FD's i could have open on a single server and having the connection open continuously as it waits would slowly eat away at the number of FD's i would have available. Some people may leave the browser logged in and walk away (though i guess after a certain amount of inactivity you could just logout for them)

The second is, i have noticed using cherrypy the ajax requests are processed in sequance so im not sure that if i have a blocked request, whether it would hold up other requests for that session however if the blocking was in another thread it should work i think.

Maybe when i finally release my product and i start working on this functionality for V2 i will look more closely and give this an actual try instead of just thinking through it.

Hmmm, some things to try there ...
Thanks for your inputs mate.
But it's sure egg on your face if that notebook becomes evidence. Especially if you're famous.
On the other hand, I could put my glasses on in less than 30 seconds without a mirror as soon as I first got them. Of course, they therefore don't give the same sense of accomplishment. (Which is also one of the forces leading people to program in, say, C++, as other people have remarked before.)
Automator and Finder Interactions in Snow Leopard
I had a lot of trouble trying to get the libraries they mentioned working. The code examples in the book are so straight forward it was simple to implement them in OpenGL. I have not run across wrong information yet.

On a side note, I went to the Boston Haskell Users Group and their advice was "just read the Haskell Report". I needed a little more gentle introduction before we go jumping into the deep end of the pool.
For all the spamminess of the content, I did see something useful in there. You get the door slammed in your face 50 times, don't give up. Try to learn why it's happening. I've seen a lot of chat here recently about needing more info on why start ups fail. And there has been some good articles put up too. Even though I think his biz model is sleazy, I like the fact he kept going until he got it right. I hope that when my start up launches, and I get rejected over and over again I have the fortitude to learn from my mistakes, adjust and try again. And if needs be, rinse, repeat.
I think he doesn't take into account the little side projects that people do at Google. plus Wave looks a lot better than facebook to me and people will move in droves soon because people are not so wedded or happy with facebook
But once they've busted your dealer and taken a look in his little black notebook, they're more likely to come after you, and that's when you get done for possession.
i understand what he's saying just fine, and i would understand it if he used "taxed" or something similar instead. i'm probably just being too picky about semantics here, but i'm taking issue with the actual redefinition of a specific economic term on a well respected business site.

n) subsidy (a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public) http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=subsidy

A subsidy (also known as a subvention) is a form of financial assistance paid to a business or economic sector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy
The list of speakers looks great, I signed up and can't wait for the event.
I was not really referring to the intended audience but to the editorial direction. If you pay attention, their editorials (and even their articles) are almost exclusively in favor of the big international banks and various large investment interests.

I am not calling them corrupt maybe it is just their philosophy but, that is a fact.
For C, yes. For Objective-C, Apple already owns it so no problem. It seems like conforming ANSI C code should still work so it isn't a weird IE6 cross-incompatibility issue.
I don't actually know, thus the question mark at the end. I just get the impression that the market is moving to smart phones and that Nokia has very little presence there.

But, you're quite right...Nokia has sold a lot of phones (probably an order of magnitude more than Apple), in Europe, in particular. But I'm not sure a shotgun approach to product lineup creation is a good answer (I don't know that it isn't, it just seems like it hurts more than it helps, in terms of brand awareness, loyalty, etc.).

I do tend to think that a lot of manufacturers making Android phones will have an impact...but, I think that impact will come from competition amongst manufacturers and service providers, and the openness of the platform. The openness means I can already do things with an Android phone that can't be done with an iPhone, and that gap will probably continue to grow. That said, the Apple market size means that it gets more apps than Android...so there are also things one can't do with Android that you can on iPhone (though for non-technical reasons).

What I'm saying is, I have no idea. I'm just wild-ass guessing, like everybody else.
I can't wait to be at this, amazing speakers and free books and massages!
+1 -- the article is a must-read if you're interested in checklists (or health care, for that matter).
Not the same thing. Showing a correlation between the number of years of schooling a person had and their IQ is not the same as a decrease in IQ before and after schooling.
Right, but those are all projected onto a scalar.
True, the anecdotal evidence seems to be limited to certain hardware. Overall though, this is a huge blow to the users that it effects because it makes Photoshop almost impossible to use in a production environment.

Given that there's a finite range of Apple hardware that Snow Leopard is even compatible with, one would think that testing for repeatable bugs like this would have started months ago--and finished before Adobe signed off on CS4 for use with Snow Leopard.
I think you meant to respond to my downvoted comment.

Note that the editors are, in fact, fiscal conservatives for the most part. I had meant to illuminate the coincidence of the downvoted comment's parent mentioning banking.

And sure, "those who read the Economist" can be divided yet again into "those who ONLY read the Economist for current events" and "other." It's the new flag lapel pin for the under 40 crowd. Excuse my while I cough politely.
Right. "Realtime" is a bit overloaded of a term, and you've identified the two main interpretations.

The realtime data concept has a bunch of buzz right now and is predicted by some to replace "web 2.0" as the most overused buzzword. The optimistic view of this trend is that always-on internet and smart phones are reaching a critical mass so that there's a demand to know what's happening right now.

In terms of web technologies, the standard implementation for "realtime" updates is to use timers to periodically make AJAX requests. Inefficient, sure, but you can minimize this. Look at sending JSON and using javascript in the browser to add the data to the page as HTML, optimizing database/datastore queries used to serve update requests, and using "lite" versions of your framework if possible (Rails, for example, provides "Rails Metal" for this type of thing).

If you're interested in alternatives to polling, look at ReverseHTTP or comet. Pubsubhubbub looks promising in the web resource space.
Don't forget the people who claim to read it but really just use it as intellectual bling.
"open source hardware" is the wrong term here. The proper term is "standard". That's what companies do when they have an agenda to promote: they give away some technology, hoping for other vendors to adopt it.
This article is amazing!

I am also struck when reading Gawande that in many ways, his writing is like Gladwell's: interesting anecdote, statement of principle, seemingly unrelated anecdote, full description of principle.

However, given these same elements, I feel much more convinced by Gawande than by Gladwell. The latter's principles never really seem to follow from the anecdotes quoted; there's a logical gap, or he seems to be misinterpreting the research, or he's found a corner-case, or he's just grasping for straws.

Yet, I can't really figure out why I don't feel the same way about Gawande. Perhaps because he writes mostly about medicine, and as a (former?) doctor, he lends more credibility? Whereas Gladwell writes about more everyday and varied things, in which he is obviously not an expert?
I'm confused. Everyone's saying the list of speakers looks great, what do you expect to learn from speakers that you already haven't read on the web?

Most conferences are only good as networking opportunities, if that.
hmmm... might have to check out the podcast, but I can't help but think the guy getting the brand has poor impulse control. Good luck explaining why you thought this was a good idea when you're 60. I don't know who to credit, but I once heard someone say that getting a tattoo (or a branding) was like getting bell bottoms stapled to your legs.
Nice of them to launch it on the same day as stackexchange.com goes into beta.
I also tried it this way and it works well. i was sending back the timestamp and the current state and it was quite easy to implement using setTimeout and recalling it again x-minutes later to check if the server state is now different to the client state.

I guess the issue at the moment is we are pretty much a poor startup and worried that it would put stress on the little resources we already have by making the servers handle requests that are not actually doing anything except comparing state of the client and the server.

I was also kind worried that some corporate networks might block my IP/domain name because it may detect the polling as some sort of malicious data being sent back.

I think after V1 is released if we can become atleast ramen profitable i might start to look at implementing this functionality using gmails approach as we may then be able to afford more servers.
Andrew's a good guy; I just think he resides at the the opposite end of the spectrum compared to most of the readers of Hacker News. Although some of the tactics expressed in the interviews make me shake my head, many more have been entertaining and informative.

It's always interesting to see people's reactions when they see how the sausage is made in the kitchen (look at this thread). This is especially true when it comes to businesses in highly competitive markets like cars, computers, coupons, software, tickets, finance, marketing and insurance. Many big brands are just as guilty as anything this guy talks about (e.g. AOL's love.com, BMW SEO spamming, the shady stuff that goes on with Google PPC, the amount of paid links almost any consumer-facing Fortune 500 co buys). They're usually just better at PRing a cover up and/or keeping it behind the curtains. It's one of the joys of being a public company: massive consequences for failure to satisfy short-term earnings expectations and a huge incentives to employ shady tactics to ensure that doesn't happen.

Edit: Here's an example more closely related to venture capital. Guess who two of Cash4Gold.com's biggest investors are? General Catalyst and Highland Capital Partners. You won't find Cash4Gold on their portfolio pages.

Or maybe even more telling: look at all the major companies that have affiliate programs. The companies know what they're getting in to; they're just outsourcing the dirty work.
I haven't looked into the other metals they mention, but wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium) says that there is an estimated 8 Million tonnes of neodymium reserves in the earth, and that current extraction is 7000 tonnes per year.

I wonder what the is the cause of the discrepancy between wikipedia and the article.
What I meant was now you have an ecology of languages on the jvm (Clojure, JRuby, JPython, Scala, Groovy...), and on top of this a .NET port is in the works. Sorry if I was a bit unclear.
Another thing that they aren't taking into account over S3 is power costs, physical datacenter rent costs, and bandwith hookup. Still its probably a lot cheaper but important to note that they are comparing apples and apple cider.
My big beef with Linux is CD burning programs. All of them in my experience are buggy crash fests.

I certainly have no problem criticizing Linux. I think the point I was really trying to make is that the Linux/Windows issue should not be viewed as a contest from which a winner will emerge but, like almost everything else hackers deal with, as a trade-off.
Yup, have no issue with that. My issue is that they're called gifted.
The Androids are coming