skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you are not making any money per minute on those inbound calls? That's the model that Freeconference call uses, and apparently the same thing that drop.io is doing. That's why the number is based in either Iowa or Minnesota.
I often think of my willpower like mana/eve/whatever in a video game. It's dreadful to watch it deplete so quickly at the 9-5.
You would need a lot more hands-on moderation than other communities, since it would be harder to build a self-governing community like HN that largely knows who to mod up and who to mod down.
Ask HN: job postings for non-YC funded startups?
I wanted to post a job here for NYC-based Rubyists but I am not sure if PG approves these kind of postings since they certainly fall into commercial territory.

Yet, if I were looking for a job the first place I would check would certainly be HN because it's fun to be around people like myslef, but right now YC-funded companies aren't offering anything interesting. Given the current economic conditions I doubt that such posting would create significant competition for YC-funded companies.

So... would it be appropriate to try to hire folks around here?
No thanks, but an Ubuntu Rave would be sweet!
"YC succeeds because it has very high calibre people leading it, not because it has a specific "algorithm" that others can copy."

Why are you assuming the "algorithm" just includes the finance bits? It also includes the people involved (mentors, investors, community). Why wouldn't that be replicable in other cities outside the Valley? As long as they have both the financial capital and the social capital I don't see why it couldn't be successfully duplicated.

TechStars seems to be doing well in Boulder and Boston. Seedcamp seems to be doing well in London. Launchbox seems to be doing pretty well in DC. DreamIt seems to be working well for Philly. Someone could do it in Chicago (or any other moderately sized city with some semblance of a tech community already, some willing investors (or the ability to attract investors from other parts of the world), and a few nearby universities) with the right network.
I think this is overkill, and add that a vulnerability that this FreeBSD jail setup would stop would be page 1 "the Internet is broken" news; hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions every day rely on there not being system integrity flaws in OpenSSL.

That doesn't make Colin crazy; it just makes this not general-purpose advice.
Care to explain why the test or metric is subjective or questionable

OK, let's start with the fact that OP never defines "willpower", whatever that is and for which each of us probably has a different definition. This alone places all further study on a solid foundation of quicksand. Then, OP never explains the applicability or purpose or reciting color words in different colors.

why you are qualified

You mean any more than an "associate professor of kinesiology". I hold my years of experience completing projects in the trenches against her psych lab any day.

refrain with your indignant declamations

Not "indignant declamations" (whatever that means), just my opinion. Are you suggesting that people with opinions should refrain from expressing them in a discussion forum?

Honestly, if this was a wiki, this study would fail horribly in the "citing needed" test. And if it was in physics, biology, or any hard science, it would be laughed off the board. Are you suggesting that since it's psychology related, it deserves a free pass?

It took a lot of willpower to refrain from responding to your reply, but I had none left. Oooh, maybe OP is onto something after all.
So a few points (I assume you're talking about the Elastic IPs):

1. Yes, each instance can have its own IP, but by default, each account is limited to 5 IP addresses.

2. You can increase your limit, but my guess is that it's difficult to do so. You have to put forward a special request and have it approved.

You're right that blocking may not be a big issue, but crawling several different domains quickly will be hard.

Just so you know, we haven't encountered anyone doing large-scale crawling that considers AWS or the cloud in general to be a realistic option. The biggest reason is still the cost.. the outbound transfer rates just don't make sense at scale.
These are good points but they are a downside to the approach of code generation, not to abstraction itself. If Sass was interpreted by the browser it wouldn't be the case, so while it's true for the world we live in today, it's not a fundamental issue with the approach itself of having the power of abstraction.

So while I accept these as criticism of Sass, I do not accept them as downsides of abstraction.

BTW, Sass will emit comments to your CSS to help you track down the original source of your styles.

Nevertheless, I think I will add them to the list of downsides, because I don't think we'll have wide browser support for "Abstract Style Sheets" any time soon.
That is a pretty interesting idea. Are there other photo tampering detection methods other than the obvious clone stamp? For instance, does color correction leave a fingerprint that could be detected via some sort of probabilistic or algorithmic way?
I found this link on how to patch/compile Screen 4.0.3 on Snow Leopard...the one out of the box is kind of buggy, and does not support 256 colors...

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20862
It seems that most of the benefits listed can also be achieved using any decent template system to serve the css files.
I got frustrated with tabs in Terminal.app because of the keyboard shortcuts : Shift+Apple+arrows

In screen I use ^a, " to get a list of screens, then j/k to pick a screen. That may not seem like a win, but it keeps my fingers on the home keys, and feels smoother.

That and the fact that I split windows in screen fairly often means I won't go back to terminal tabs...
"Follow the Leader" with GNU Screen
To clarify, the .torrent, not the file that is found by feeding the .torrent into a client. Correct?

One could simply change the extension.
Which is to say, just the sort of application for which OS differences are unlikely to matter much. (Compared with, say, what compiler happened to be used to build the application, or what else was running on the mcahine at the same time.)

Unfortunately, many of the benchmarks they used seem to be of this sort. Not that it matters much, since the author of the article offered basically no analysis or explanation of any of the results, just a series of barcharts, each followed by a single paragraph trying to find a superficially different way of paraphrasing the numbers in the barchart.
Why don't you make a small contribution to a larger project, perhaps a widget for the ubuntu UI or a plugin for pidgin or gimp?
It won't work in Chicago because $20,000 and some "mentoring" is not worth 6% of any company founded by someone who can execute on a tech startup in Chicago.

YC has two things that YC'/Chicago can't have: access to a very active pool of local angel investors and tier-1 VCs, and a brand built in part by several years of passing on hundreds of (probably solid) applications.

Completing YC'/Chicago might teach you something about business or about shipping product, but it won't get you funded (you are not getting funded in Chicago) and it won't get you written up just for getting in.
So what is "the" cause?

As for the "jammed bones", I wasn't actually referring to the ostheopathy stuff, but to nerves that are caught between bones in the spine (again, I can not explain it better in english). This is something "normal doctors" consider as a cause, so I don't think "voodoo" does it justice.

As for ostheopathy, as some doctors say: who cures is right.
Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor
Meh. Scheduler? I don't know. I clicked this link by accident, saw "John the Ripper", and just decided to clear up what JtR was and how it could be a benchmark program. I think OS benchmarks are themselves kind of silly.
The first time I called (218-486-3891), I immediately heard someone speaking (in a foreign language, not sure which). It went on for a minute or so, then I hung up. I called again and got the expected prompt... something's a little off here.

In other news, why not give this place a test? If you're reading this, call in!

http://huddle.im/hackernews
How about a simple program that monitors an RSS feed, and sends each new entry to a person as a mail.
That thread was full of knee jerk reactions and deficient in sound reasoning for a good while. I think Roman Shaposhnik had the best point when he noted that you could do something like Cilk (not exactly the same, but similar) as a library if C had closures, instead of as a new language supersetting C. It's not like block scoped functions are in any way new or unusual; even gcc has had downward funargs (which aren't enough to do GCD with, FWIW) for years.

The thing is, Objective C is the main way to develop Cocoa applications. Blocks, garbage collection, and a number of other features that have been roundly whined about are ways of increasing the expressivity of the language so that it is more comfortable to write applications in. One can argue that C is a miserable applications development language (and I think you'd be right) but unfortunately we have relatively few other options. Apple used to have a Java-Cocoa bridge that has been deprecated for some time because nobody cared.
Matt Damon announced my latest Web site at the Clinton Global Initiative. Cool.
I helped implement the latest version of http://www.water.org with some people way smarter than I, and since Matt is co-founder of the new organization, he announced at the CGI last week. It's my first celebrity-announced project so I'm pumped. It isn't my site, I just worked on it, but happy to take comments back. Built on WordPress for rapid deployment, but many of the more complex bits and 3rd-party integration were done in django.
It's better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission... right?
Big Man Trunk -- Shopping Made Lazy
ok, here is a first draft of what works for me, I'll be fleshing it out further still.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/finding-keeping-cus...
Ask HN: would you like to participate in my experiment?
I would like to make an experiment using twitter. It's something like Six degrees of separation.

It's as simple as tweet this sentence as is (without quotes):

"Please retweet this with the counter increased by one. REEXP0001 (see http://bit.ly/2qHHs0 for reason)"

In everything goes ok, I'll publish the results.

Thanks in advance!
Link to site: http://www.water.org

Video of Matt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5J3saCWZ-A&;
They need to move to Nevada like Zappo did to avoid incurring the exorbitant CA retail tax and electronics recycle fee. I often picked Amazon even if Newegg is slightly cheaper and faster in shipping.
Arts is a tricky area. I started out on the bridge between arts and software and I've learned that that is charity work.

I agree with you that if you want to do that sort of thing it is better to charge nothing. The 'lowballing' I had in mind was more of an incentive to pick you over a contender with an established reputation.
Readers - I found the .screenrc change for this not-entirely-obvious. You need to say
escape ``

whereas you'd have thought it would be just
escape `
I'd be more interested if there was a (non-HN) link I could add to my tweet to explain what the heck I was tweeting about.
Background Jobs with RabbitMQ and Minion
Tweetie 2 Announced
Modular (multiobjective too) optimalization framework for beginners and experts.
"Does this just happen automatically as a side-effect of traction (and press coverage?)"

Yes. It's an old axiom: "Companies get bought-- they don't get sold". If you are putting yourself on the auction block, it hurts your negotiating power-- it's best if they approach you.

Press helps here. OBVIOUS traction is good too (tech blogs love to write about growth). And, finding ways to get in front of corp-dev guys at the at Goog/etc. is good too. This is why investors are handy.
btw, I thought I would help other founders here and let them plug their companies as part of future podcast intros. Just record a short intro in mp3 or ogg vorbis in the following format:

Hi this is <your name> at <your company> in <your location> and you're listening to FounderCast.

Post the link to the audio in the comments for the latest podcast at http://foundercast.com/
Sorry - I should have clarified. These are specific to Ubuntu packaging.

I worked on MySQL before I had to work on PostGres and these were the major turning points in my understanding. Hope it helps someone else.
http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/freebsd8_ubuntu910/...

how is that even usable on linux?
> Although students have a lower income, with the one-child policy these “little emperors” receive a disproportionate amount of the family income.

I'd like to help clarify the slang a little bit. Because of 2+ generations of the one-child policy, children born today are sole heirs of 4 grandparents. Compound this with a high savings rate and the kids born today have plenty of disposable income. This is especially true among boys who receive extra favors from grandparents and spend hours playing games at the wangba.
I noticed a nifty site that converts words into a phone number and vice versa. Just get your hands on a dictionary file and look at a phone keypad - shouldn't be too hard after that!
Why non-HN link? I'll try this, but link to this page to explain.
Indeed it can. My bar is a little higher than "decent" though. The design of your site is arguably the most important piece since it's the only part that your users see. Having a domain specific language like Sass or LessCSS makes good sense -- you want to make your front-end engineers as productive as you can.
Why Social Media Should Welcome Location-Based Services
go meta and build a site where people can submit ideas for projects and vote them up/down and discuss them. i'm sure an audience less technical than this site's would have some decent ideas for things they need but don't know how to build.

could probably just be done with a subreddit though.
draft is up:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/finding-keeping-cus...
Changing the extension is too easy.

The .torrent file should be converted into an actual midi file, with correct headers, etc. It should actually play when you open it with quicktime or windows media player.

When converted, the result should be a unique piece of music. Perhaps something that could be considered "art", and protected by free speech laws.

Imagine printing out the score and having an orchestra perform the torrent file!

The key, though, is that you can also convert the midi back into a usable torrent.
Microsoft munches super startup carcass
I have something like this in the works, spawned from a domain name swapping thread a few months ago.
That's a specious sort of relevance you're talking about. Let's call it "need" instead.

There's no vicious circle. Once we find something worth sending humans to, we have a motivation to develop the required tech.
I bet you could do a lot better with the dollar menu. Donuts might also get higher calories for dollar.

I wonder how Ramen compares? Or rice?
Large companies probably worry about the risk of people changing. Three people working in a startup might change once they are cashed out and part of a large company. Since buying a small startup is basically a purchase of people, this can make the deal less attractive.
Morgan Stanley Buys The Twitter IPO
Newegg was never connected with EggHead; it was originally a subsidary of ABS.

For future reference, wikipedia is that way ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newegg#Name
There's a good interview with Joe Armstrong on the SE-Radio podcast, episode 89 (http://se-radio.net/podcast/2008-03/episode-89-joe-armstrong...). What the heck - submitted it as a toplevel post.

Spoiler alert: My favorite part is how the interviewer reacts when Armstrong mentions Prolog. :)
It's easier in a book type setting, no? I mean you get to sit around and think of questions, and you have just one guy, rather than two geniuses sat there right in front of you.
Jobs pop up here from time to time. The closest thing to a rule seems to be that they fall into the Hacker News ethos. If it reads like it's from a HR-droid it's likely to get killed. If it uses the word ninja, it's likely to be killed and your pets are likely to turn up with broken limbs. If it's geared towards this audience, it's likely to be tolerated.
It's much easier to address "What should I do if a 16x16px graphic crashes?" than it is to wade through all the extra text surrounding it....
I am almost certain those exist, but I would think it would be more useful the other way around: consolidate all your email into on RSS feed.
Last I heard, they were outsourcing their fulfillment to UPS. I suspect that means forfeiting a great deal of their possible margin.
I've found Rubycocoa to be really easy to use, and it's supported by Apple. It might go the way of the Java bridge in the future, though.
Photoshop is Adobe's Office that sits there and makes money if they don't change it too much. Meanwhile flash is where all of the resources are going. They have no real incentive to cleanup photoshop, users will continue to buy it.
Find some X and Y that pass the 'necessity test' then.

If X and Y don't warrant express investment in first place, how come they justify investments on space programs after the fact?

To defeat this reasoning, I suggest you try and find a reason why serendipity should work better in projects with less immediate usefulness. I could be convinced that's the case, but I haven't heard arguments in favour of this hypothesis so far.
There's also disown, for that matter, but how can you re-connect to the process?
I started building a script to go through source code and find all the things I tag "TOFIX" or "TODO." For example:

$ python tofix.py tofix.py
line 3: ...
line 16: this needs some attention as we shouldn't be
using 'pass' notice this is indented slightly more than
the TOFIX line above and should be included in the TOFIX.

I haven't had time to work on it anymore, but you're welcome to work on it if you'd like. I can send you the source I have. My username at gmail. Ideally it'd be able to remove them as I fixed things. So I might say tofix fixed 3 and it'd remove the "TOFIX: ..." at line 3.
Indeed. (I deleted my reply because I had more to add to mononcqc's, but you were awfully quick on the draw!)

Also, I thought the _Coders at Work_ interviews were quite good (I've read about half, so far), but found the _Masterminds of Programming_ disappointing (except the one with Chuck Moore).
I use ubuntu all the time, I don't remember having to configure shmmax to get it working with my blog. I think you only need to mess with that stuff if you're trying to increase the number of connections or "scale" your blog. I think 90% of the people who use mysql, use it without touching a configuration variable, and those people could just as easily use postgresql without configuring kernel.shmmax.

I don't know, but I'm guessing that 90% includes people messing around with django/rails/lift etc, or they're running a blog/cms/wiki on some shared virtual hosting somewhere.
Joe Armstrong on Erlang (podcast interview)
Tinnitus is not necessarily caused by dying cells or permanent hearing loss. Tinnitus is merely the name for a false perception of sound in the ears (normally but not always a ringing sound) and can be caused by a number of things. This treatment is not intended to cure hearing loss but simply to relieve tinnitus.

Edit: well that's the impression I had based on the article, but at their actual site (restoredhearing.ie) they make claims like "restore hearing sensitivity back to the level it was before the damage was incurred" which sound rather dubious.
The second character doesn't have to be another ` - that option controls what you type for an unescaped version of your meta key. I use

escape `~

and reserve `` for switching to the most recently used window. (It looks like I didn't need to specify that explicitly.)
Hey Mattiss, I've added a page for that, called 'finding and keeping customers'.
If you meant me, I have an undergrad from Oklahoma State University and am working on a Masters at University of Nevada Las Vegas right now.
In principle, but you could do things like making an upvote within a clique mean a lot less than an upvote to somebody you haven't agreed with in the past; give additional weight to people who often vote outside their own cliques (so as to reward those who have a more balanced view); letting stories initial weight depend on the previous balancedness of the source, optionally make it gain points fast if it gets upvotes from those who wouldn't normally upvote stories from that source. There are endless improvements that could be made. As a side effect you are likely to get more interesting discussions precisely because you go for the more "unusual" stories.
From my own experience if you understand the cascade principle and specificity well you can get away with very compact and well written CSS files. Multi-classing is another area where developers are only now leverage to its maximum, for example if you have a look at the way the jQueryUI CSS works, by for example specifying the items you wish at the end of the file as additional classes you can introduce quite a bit of additional functionality in a much simpler way than calling functions.

For example:

.box{define only properties that you
do not want to
change from box to box
}

.boxColors{background:#fff;
color: #f60}

.arial13{font-family:arial;font-size:13px

<div class="box boxColors arial13"></div>

This way your classes can be used as 'functions'. As a rule, define typography and colors and opacity this way and you can keep it simple.

CSS was developed as an abstraction to HTML. Any abstraction to the CSS other than adding pre-processors would create serious integration problems with the DOM model and JavaScript. (See a good discussion of this at http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/phd/#ch-problems by
Håkon Wium Lie the original developer of CSS).

Any productivity pre-processors our our business and not of the spec developers.
I'll write something like this as a part of a greater project I'm working on ATM.
I wrote a blog post http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/08/akrasia-as-reveale... , partially in response to a Less Wrong thread, where I wrote "Complaining about akrasia, the lack of will-power, to get done what you want to do, may show that your real preferences are not those you are claiming." So maybe what the research shows is that the participants have a limited amount of BS they are willing to put up with; they just want it to get over with rather than focusing on the rest of the study.
Nanotech drug automatically regulates its morphine dose on the battlefield
While I think stylesheet abstraction is a good idea, most programmers (including the author) don't seem to use all the abstraction mechanisms that are already available in CSS. For example, the change-all-the-colors-on-the-page-at-once problem would go away if webmasters factored all the elements of a given color into a single rule:

span.fl,
span.a,
a.link,
cite { color: #ef88bb; }

body, div.leftnav, div.logo { background-color: #333; }

You're also supposed to rely on the cascade for fonts and stuff: set them once on the body and then let all descendants inherit them.

There're some real problems when you want to set, say, the border color of one element to the color of a bunch of others, but a lot of the CSS maintenance problems I see (and have written ;-)) come from developers just going through the list of elements and writing the properties for each. The cascade was supposed to save you from this; CSS already has a pretty powerful abstraction mechanism.
How about a way to get an email alert whenever someone replies to one of your comments on hacker news?
You might have more luck if you try to datamine the incoming emails, they start to read your replies after a couple of mails.