skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite the same. If bands attract more fans, these fans are more likely to pay to go to another concert the next time they go through town (the concert tickets are not pay-what-you-can). Even if Terra Bite was selling coffee accessories, but the actual coffee was pay-what-you-can, I would expect that they would have a hard time making ends meet.

In the case of bands, they are 'giving away' one product to promote another. Not only that, but when people come to a concert they are committing an entire slot of time, and throughout the concert the band builds that emotional bond/connection with the audience. When you go someplace for food, a lot of people are just going to pop in, grab some food and pop out. I'm sure that a lot of the 'coffee-house regulars' type people paid a fair price (or more) for what they got at Terra Bite, but not nearly the same.
Newegg certainly and Monoprice (monoprice.com) as well.
Sure, if that was offered.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008861.html

"Pay TV outlets have responded by ramping up their proprietary video-on-demand services and keeping a tight rein on the availability of their shows on outside platforms. They aim to get subscribers hooked on the ease and convenience of using their services ... and keep them hooked."

Translation: You want HBO, you must have cable. Bummer.
NIH predoctoral stipend for FY2009: $20,976
(source: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-07...)

Most other biomedical/chem funding levels are pegged to this level (since the NIH actually has odd restrictions on paying students more than the stipend level).
A Telecom startup is a contradiction. A Telecom company, is large practically by definition.

If you wanted to somehow disrupt their business model with VoIP or something, that's one thing, but I don't know if it's productive to think about directly competing with huge multinationals without using a fundamentally improved or more efficient approach.
I do not consider Perl especially pleasant to use but it's faster than every other scripting language and it has a killer library. So if you're looking to avoid C but can't stomach the slowness of Ruby or Python consider it.
> if the US was somewhat less retarded in its immigration policies, we would've easily have been Americans.

Serious question: Why?

If Canada is so great, why the preference for the US? I hear these sorts of things all the time, yet everyone still wants to come to the US. I feel like I am missing a piece of the puzzle.
Compare the treatment by the Economist at http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...
Ad hominem attack completely unexamined by the article's author: """Of his harshest critics Borlaug stated, "some… are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things." """

Logical breakdown:
1) My critics are elitist who have not experienced hunger.
2) Therefore, they are wrong.

Relationship to actual argument: nonexistent.

As a note, I do think Norman Borlaug was a remarkable person. But there are lots of interesting questions to ask about his work, and it doesn't make someone an "elitist", or a bad person to ask them. Asking them doesn't mean they think Norman Borlaug was a bad person either. A few that spring to mind...

1) How many have died from malnutrition after crop yield booms resulted in rapidly expanding populations suddenly constrained when the next yield limit was hit?

2) If education expenditures for the third world matched those given for improving agriculture and food aid starting in the 1960's, what would the "third world" look like today? Better? Worse? What if expenditures had been divvied evenly between the two?
I am fairly aware what network infrastructure costs. I am also very aware that in several other countries it is not only profitable, but profitable enough that there are several companies doing it.

There are only two reasons I can see for not having the kind of high speed connections some many other places in the world enjoy, is either: A) the backbone of the network is overloaded, and that is what needs upgrading most, or B) they don't want to upgrade one part of the network and leaving the non-urban areas with only lower speed connections. Without any kind of inside knowledge, I would guess it is a mixture of the two.

In any case: I pay roughly the same as I could get several times the bandwidth in other countries. If it is economically feasible there, there really is no reason why it wouldn't be feasible here. You may not be able to see network-wide improvements due to a slow infrastructure, but with sites like Google and Amazon putting up edge servers in most large cities, and the use of P2P technology, the gains would still be significant. Hell, if the major ISPs really wanted to make an impact as far as bandwidth was concerned, they would embrace P2P far more. A network-aware P2P network helps solve much of the problem of a slow backbone connection, as long as there is a fast local (metro-area) connection. Of course, I can't see the companies going for that, for the same reason they dislike Net Neutrality: it forces them to give up control.
Being a competitor in this industry, I'm always surprised by the simplistic treatment telecom issues receive even by technical people.

I suppose it is the difference between being a driver on a road, or perhaps even the manufacturer of an automobile, and knowing anything about the messy business of road construction.

For one thing, everyone seems to focus just on consumer internet. But this is hardly the whole picture. Most people spend over half of their waking hours at work. To the consternation of many employers, people probably spend more hours on the internet at work than at home. And the market for business internet services is highly competitive and quite far from monopolistic. It perhaps shouldn't be surprising that a smaller number of names stand out in the consumer space -- it seems to happen with all consumer products.

Further, even the argument you posed is self-contradictory. Do you know how much a 30% market share is worth? It's worth enough that plenty of people are building to compete in that space right now.
Ahh, righto, sure did! Well then we agree. How do you like CUDA? We just took delivery on a 4xTesla C1060 box which I can't wait to check out. Sadly it's sitting in a closet right now because of departmental squabbling over who must foot the air-con bill when it gets plugged in :-)
Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool in settlement
Play around with the Computer Language Benchmarks Game. It's good at showing what some of the trade-offs are. Of course, it's really not very scientific, but it gives you an idea. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

You'll usually see C, C++, Java, Haskell, OCaml, Fortran, Scala, and Lisp in the 1-10x range (of the fastest solution). They all should be reasonably competative on most things, and so you might make your decision based on personal preference and available libraries.

This is in contrast to things like Ruby, Perl, and Python which are often take 100x the time.
"Caterina Fake, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded photo-sharing site Hunch"..."Disclaimer: I had previously worked at Flickr, one of the companies mentioned in this article."

Kind of confused there.
Actually, I have once been complimented in a bar with the phrase "you have such big eyeballs!" It was mildly flattering since I could tell she meant it as a compliment, but I felt really weird.
People still use ad-supported browsers?
Here's the solution if you are interested:

"Congratulations Keep Seaching or call 617-639-0570 x10"

Here's the mapping of the solution:

0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

456789ABCDE2FGHIJKL0MNOP1QRS3TUVWXYZ

Here's how you solve it if you are interested:

1) Pick out CONGRATULATIONS

The mapping is pretty straight forward with some gaps in the letters and some ambiguities.

2) Among the ambiguities are the letters J,O,B,S which map to 0,1,2,3

3) That resolves the ambiguities and the resulting map above is the logical result.
So you repeated what was already common knowledge?

I see what you did there!
Really? So groundwater, soil, wild fish populations, etc. All that's going to keep scaling nicely?

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ucs-statement.tx...
I hadn't realized this until just now, but most good beer comes in brown bottles. It is only beer that is sold by marketing rather than taste that comes in different-colored bottles. (I'm looking at you, Corona, Dos Equis, etc.)

So I think that even before this paper, brewers realized that beer in brown bottles keeps better.
decent article except for one advantage being:

"'vanity' 800 phone number"
libcoro: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libcoro.html
The guy behind this article (Simon) is the lead author of PuTTY and was the lead author of nasm. Seriously smart dude.
You're missing half the fun, then. Part of the point of code reviews (and pair programming is, at its core, extreme code reviewing) is make sure both write the best possible code, both in terms of being bug free and adhering to company standards.

If you don't care about how the code ends up in terms of structure other for the logical errors, you're doing it wrong (well, according to me anyway, so it's not that big of a deal :P)
The caption from the picture in the article: "Tesla founder Martin Eberhard on the road with his Tesla Roadster.(Credit: Martin Eberhard)"

Martin Eberhard loves himself some Martin Eberhard.
It isn't particularly difficult to live off $20,000/yr while going to school in NYC. As long as you don't live in Manhattan, you should be fine.
Good argument (IQ more important than work ethic), but also possible are:

1) sufficient work ethic may be culturally transmissible enough that genetic selection pressure is reduced

2) work ethic may be as strongly selected for genetically, but is more complicated to implement via random genetic variation than higher IQ
What about drowsiness? If sleep is just a behavior for keeping us out of harm's way, shouldn't we be able to just "switch back on" upon being awaken? Granted, sometimes we do just start awake. But still, staying out of harm's way and resting sounds like a good reason to develop patience, but sleep.

Are there many species that sleep with their eyes and ears open?
everyone seems to focus just on consumer internet.

Because evil is lurking there, and we want to stamp it out. AFAIK business Internet service has always been neutral so there's not much to discuss.

Do you know how much a 30% market share is worth? It's worth enough that plenty of people are building to compete in that space right now.

I hope so, but I don't see any fiber coming down my street.
I have a single C1060 on my desktop system -- it is the single greatest investment I have ever made. Granted, debugging CUDA is not great, but the for many things Thrust alone (http://gpgpu.org/2009/05/31/thrust) can make demolish any bottlenecks so you can get closer to your idea rather than spending all your time on metal. However, I have to play with OpenCL...especially now that OSX has built in support!
"Without any kind of inside knowledge, I would guess"

I don't want to be overly-harsh to you in particular, but I think this is the key to so much of the useless posturing and speculating on this issue.

It may in fact be similar to the familiar refrain that people become more tolerant of homosexuals when they realize that one of their friends, family members, or business partners is gay. It's easy to stigmatize and demonize internet carriers if you don't know anyone who runs a business in that field.

To your points though. Most carrier backbones are not regularly overloaded. The bottleneck is at the network edge. And it isn't that carriers don't want to build. Everyone I know in this industry loves expanding their network and increasing capacity. But at the end of the day, you have to make a return on investment or your go out of business. Building out the network edge is terribly expensive. You have to buy and place a lot of expensive equipment in a lot of different places. You have to lay or lease lots of fiber or copper, or you have to build towers (and lay fiber to backhaul). Amazingly, there are lots of carriers that do this. You wouldn't even recognize most of the names.

Speaking as someone who came to telecom from a software background, I think there is a tendency for software people to want to idealize telecom into an ethereal mass-less abstraction, like software. If you look at it that way, any limitation is artificial -- the man is holding you down for his own pleasure. But the business isn't anything like that. Think Fedex rather than Google, and you'd be on the right path.

As for Europe, Asia, etc., keep in mind that those networks were far more heavily subsidized than our own. You may think that's a good thing, but remember that this removed resources from other human endeavors. Not everyone on Earth rates decreasing his or her CounterStrike latency as the highest priority in life.
When they can offer pricing and quality that competes with Monoprice, I'll be waiting there with my credit card. :-)
Yes, the parent post evokes some ridiculous reverence for ".55 is very close to .56". At least compare ratio of average income per race to ratio of GPA, not some bizarre ratio of "% > threshold". I could probably find an income threshold so that the ratios are exactly equal.
Opportunity. Canadian universities, for example, do not hold a candle to the top-tier American schools. On average you guys are pretty, well, average in the realm of industrialized nations, but what the US is very good at is taking the high end of the bell curve and taking it even further.

This is exemplified in the way the US does everything. Even the mere existence of this site is a profoundly American thing. Canadian entrepreneurs rarely cash out to the tune that Valley companies receive. The richest of the rich in Canada are poor compared to the extreme rich in the US. The best schools in the US kicks the shit out of the best schools in most other places (with a few notable exceptions, of course)... etc etc. The US is a country of extremes, and for many immigrants this is very attractive.

This is particularly true for individuals who have already proven their ability to be better than the rest - America gives disproportionate rewards to the high end of the curve than more socialist countries (e.g. most of western Europe and Canada). At the risk of drawing in Randian thought (which really is the nouveau Godwin's Law), socialist countries restrict the rewards to the extremely talented, whereas America does no such thing (at a cost to the bottom half of its bell curve).
2.6.20 is relatively old, of course; I've done this research for every subsequent kernel as well. If you go to the LWN kernel index (http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/) and look under "releases", you'll find the stats for each kernel release.

There's a longer-term version of this research available from the front page of the Linux Foundation's site as well.
It is actually very difficult to do this "properly" for truly arbitrary scales in a sophisticated UI (with full support for mouse-enter detection, etc.). Here are a few reasons:

- UIs tend to depend on things lining up, in order to look good. If you allow any scale, at some point things will not look quite right. One decent solution is to choose fixed scales, limiting what the user can choose; then, everything is (perhaps manually) made to work at those zoom levels.

- Detecting something like a mouse click is no longer the same problem at an arbitrary scale. If you need to know "was this clicked?" when using pixels, you're only talking about mapping one pixel to a region that is expressed entirely in units of whole pixels. But at an arbitrary scale, neither the mouse nor the target shape will "appear to" be rendered with whole pixels.

- In order to scale, everything must be scaling-aware. This turns out to be a pain, especially in established code that is accustomed to thinking in terms of a rigid pixel grid. You can see this problem, say, in Windows XP; while it allows users to customize system fonts extensively, it's pretty easy to find an installer or other program that didn't leave enough space (and wasn't thinking in the right terms), causing half the text to be truncated when a certain font and size are used.
The New Science of Causation
You have to read about Paul Feldman, more often written as Paul F. aka "The Bagel Man".

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/06BAGEL.html
I've had such mixed results with the Javascript graphing libraries, Plotkit included. I always end up on a more traditional platform.
Stackless Python is cool, but don't you wish there was a library that made coroutines clean and easy in vanilla Python?

EDIT: whoops, I meant to say continuations, as camccann was kind enough to point out.
Thanks - I really need to pick up one of these languages. I know Java well, but don't want to use it anymore. So far I have only tried "slow" alternatives, though. Given my interests (machine learning), sometimes speed is called for.
How could this be done online.

It has been done online by many independent bands and also by Radiohead in 2007:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Release
On which platform? Firefox can vary a lot on other systems.
I'd hazard a guess it's less scientific than food types, etc, but more about people's relationship and scenario regarding the cleaning lady vs the fruit lady. There are a number of social reasons why one might get donations and the other not (superiority, personality, how the produce was portrayed, how the initial "deal" was defined, where the produce was left, etc).
Most startups will fail too, but the true learning happens through the attempt itself. Having skilled, motivated people working with you (usually on different projects in grad school) enhances the experience, but if you aren't working hard and failing alongside them, then your "experience" will be for naught.
Similar experience - it is essential to greet each customer ("good afternoon"), and you can let them know that you're available if they need help, but don't start selling them before they are ready.
That's exactly what I'm getting, and living on (though not in NY admittedly). Hardly the -$45,000 claimed by in the article, and either way, it's better than the $0 involved with doing the research independantly.
The Web is the most successful, fantastic virtual machine
> To me, pair programming is the only way to work.

Could've softened that up a bit, sure. I completely agree that not every problem is a nail for the hammer of pair programming. We've developed a very popular and productive pairing environment at Hashrocket.

We have found pairing to be helpful in solving difficult issues. And we have used it to enhance the design of software being written from scratch.

As for the mental breaks, some of us use the pomodoro to coordinate their break times. Others prefer to agree to breakpoints as they come.

We know pairing is not a fit for everyone, everywhere, all the time. However, if you are interested, this is how we do it, it works for us and, we hope our experience helps you.

Cheers!
Well, if the world were a simple mathematical model it might go as follows: there's enough food to feed ten billion people, so one day a baby is born taking us up to ten billion and one and oops -- somebody dies of starvation. From that moment on, the death rate due to starvation is equal to the birth rate minus the death rate due to non-starvation causes, and that's not _too_ bad.

In practice, though, that's not the way it's gonna happen. For starters, we have a bunch of food stored up, so the population will overshoot the limit by eating stored food, maybe for a bunch of years, enabling the population to get way above what it should. (I'm not just talking about canned beans here -- living animals are "stored food" too). Secondly, food production varies from year to year -- in a good year we might be able to feed eleven billion, and in a bad year only nine... that's gonna cause some problems when a bad year rolls around. Finally, a world where everybody has _just_ enough food to not die is still a pretty miserable and malnourished world... plus you've got the whole "hungry people with guns vs hungry people without guns" problem which leads to a whole bunch of other bad stuff happening.

Anyway, I hope that has been enough to convince you that awful things happen anytime you get a population anywhere near the very fuzzy and variable limit which is the maximum agriculturally sustainable population.
Net neutrality? Has to happen.

Unlimited bandwidth? Can't happen.

No business is sustainable without a usage cap. The all-you-can-eat buffet will get a few pigs at the trough but there's still a cap: night falls and the restaurant is closed.

What I seek is value in the equation, whereby I can choose how much bandwidth I can reasonably eat, pay for it, and not be bankrupted if I go over. The chart of bandwidth cost should not look like a hockey-stick stock price.

My wireless provider does this with text messages. I hate them for it. And I always will.
It doesn't need to as long as technology keeps scaling. Pointing out that groundwater and soil aren't going to scale reminds me of the people who freaked out over the scalability of x86 in the mid 90s - we're an ingenious bunch, we find solutions.

Genetically modified meat grown in vats, compact nutrition rich superfoods/tablets.. there are all sorts of technologically possible creations around the corner.
Who Would You Rather Listen to While You Code?
The Entrepreneur Behind a $170 Million Personal Finance App
changed title from kid=>entrepreneur and website=>personal finance app. two de-meaning terms.
Thanks. :)

The only thing I found when I looked into incubators is that the business model and thus the incentives for both the startup and the incubator side appear to be much different than in a seed accelerator. That, and the word "incubator" means different things to different people.

My worry is that in some cases incubators can start to become dependent on having companies in their space, and thus there's a lack of encouragement (or active dis-encouragement) to "graduate" from the incubator. That is a significantly different model than a seed accelerator where they are effectively kicked out at a certain date, so both sides have significant incentives to develop a product quickly.

While I haven't studied incubators as in-depth as seed accelerators, the different incentive structure is what I would worry about. Accelerators seem to match incentives better between founders and the program.

I agree that there is still a lot of scope for building more accelerators. They just need to be focused on the specific resources available to the program, and not another YC-clone general-web-application accelerator. Any new accelerator program should aim to be the absolute best in the niche they choose.
I think the point was something like "put up or shut up". If there's a lot of capable, motivated women out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve, then the best way to make the point is to go find them, hire or fund them, and make a lot of money which you can rub in the face of the people who ignored the female talent. (Similarly, one can tell people who bloviate about politics to go put money down on InTrade.)

That noone is doing such is weak evidence that, perhaps, the cause of the gender skew is not simply subtle endemic sexism as is often assumed. Note: This does not imply that the reason is something as trite as "women can't do technology", either.