skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would have to do work (either 'etherchannel' or similar bonding, or load balance requests over 2 IPs) but in theory, if you had a high-bandwidth bus like pci-express, you should be able to get more bandwidth out of a chassis by adding more ethernet cards.

Me, I would add more cache at the same time. SATA tends to be really good for sequential, but be really, really bad for random. multiple sequential streams hitting the same disk start to look an awful lot like random access after a while.
This is a little misleading... most launches that are "stealth" really aren't, because they're just trying to build hype or make sure their servers don't get overwhelmed because people already know about it.

What this is describing is the majority of product launches, where you put it out there and no one comes. You're not really being stealth about it, it's more like the Unknown Launch.
A couple of days ago, I read the following article:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/million-dollar-businesses-e...

One of the businesses is Jimmy Beans Wool, started in 2002 with $30k and had $2.1 mil revenue in 2008.

now boasts an average of 20,000 customers per month, mostly through the Web site.
I like to start with an introduction of what you are going to accomplish. No more than one page, hopefully only 1/2 page.
Then a SWOT.
Then a SlideDeck (I use Prezi.com).

I wouldn't go down the road of a proper 'business plan' unless you are going to a bank for a loan. You won't follow it, and you won't up date it.

Get the basics down, and then go from there.

Assume that even what you create won't be seen by anybody else. It is often more of a guide for yourself (depending on your situation/organization of course).
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Why's that? FreeBSD's OSS support is perfectly reasonable in my experience (software mixing, et al).
I'd say the way Google launches products is much more about exclusivity than stealthiness (sp?).
Hi Erik,

I'm not really in a position to help you just now - I'm really busy, and this will take time. However, the original comment still stands. Currently you are using long sentences designed to sound right for the context. Unfortunately, they're not quite right, and there is a lot of room for interpretation.

Your English is way, way better than my German, so I don't really have a chance to help. However, if you give a simple explanation, in English and German in parallel, and keep the sentences short and clear, perhaps someone can help you draft a complete English version.

As I say, I don't have time right now, but I think that's your best chance of getting some help. I can put you in touch with a professional German->English translator, but that would cost real money. He is extremely good, and in great demand.

No harm in asking for a quotation.

http://mussett-sprachen.de/
I'm quite familiar with the research ("Code Complete" is a book I constantly reread) and with the arguments for good design. As another commenter pointed out, the argument wasn't so much for "perfection" as it was for "good code" (which I can't argue with). It's still somewhat arbitrary, thought, and the more "good" it is the more you edge into diminishing returns. There's some point where the trade-off for "better code" trails off.

Design, however, is a whole 'nother ball game. As you pointed out, research has shown that most of the problems, and indeed the most expensive problems, are caused by requirements. (IIRC)
I'm 23, but I still remember fighting with Altavista and Excite to try to get anything even remotely relevant on the web. Google certainly transformed the utility of the web overnight for me.
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There are also a limited number of players, and those players are employed only by the good graces of the league. In the case of broadcast, there are a very limited number of distributors, and they distribute live images of the game. In the case of Youtube, a larger number of people are broadcasting delayed images of the game. The ban, by comparison, affects millions of users describing, textually, what is happening.

That's like the RIAA attempting to sue you for humming a song being played by the performers in Miami tonight. I'm not saying it won't last, just that it won't stick.
It is a time for many kids to get out on their own and learn to be independent.

Or alternatively, to experiment with everything from sex and drugs to business models in a curated environment, with partial financial support and liquidity provided by parents and/or the taxpayer. Your point is good, but perhaps live-in college fosters interdependence as much as independence.

one of the last chances you will have to be around many single men/women

There are these things called nightclubs :)
Am I reading the graph wrong or is the author confused? To me, the first graph seems to say that the longer the message, the more likely you get a response.

But the text of the article says that the graph indicates that shorter messages are better.
I think you're interpreting the situation incorrectly. People probably aren't rejecting to reading a lot of text. They're probably using message length as a signal - people who share too much information with strangers put people off. It implies desperation at worst, and at best, an imbalance of interest.
Oh, yeah, that was tough. It was only the top hit in google for the first thing I tried, "straigherline" (note the typo.)
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Hmmm - I don't know that I have a particular style that I like; I'm more of a, "When I see what I {like | dislike}, I know it immediately." That probably doesn't help.

For our site, we went with the fixed width layout and I'm happy. For more link-driven/based sites (a la reddit/hn/digg), I prefer a full screen layout I suppose since I don't want to scroll forever.

For landing pages, I wish I could tell you anything useful. What I've found, after several years of trying to predict what would be successful, is that I suck at predicting what people will like. Test, test, test...

I suppose to me it all boils down to one thing: usability. Gorgeous designs fail if they aren't usable and crappy designed sites who fit a need thrive. Now I'm just rambling...

Here's a couple of book recomendations:

* "Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works" by Janie Redish - fantastic book. It isn't about design/layout per se but it is, see?

* "Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" by Steve Krug
Start here: http://www.quickmba.com/entre/bplan/
The rest of the site is a very good general business reference, complete with recommended reading. I used it while I was completing my MBA and found it to be a good high to medium level reflection of what I learned.
They are talking about cloud storage. Having 3 live copy's of your data in 3 locations is far more important than having lot's of redundancy at a single location. If you want redundancy just add more locations. Large scale company's like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo understand this but sun is selling feel good hardware to companies that like to think they have unusual needs.

As to speed, nothing you do is going to reduce a disk's low latency so talking about bandwidth is mostly a waste of time. Device bandwidth is rarely the limitation once you start to scale, because you can add devices to your network faster than you can build a better network.
If you follow the links he has X running on it, but the refresh rate is slow, for obvious reasons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/obra/3702221011/ (< video)
Linux is not an OS, it is a gold rush, while OpenBSD is just an OS.

btw, there are very important contributions from OpenBSD's team - openssh and pf (primary IP packet filter imported into FreeBSD).

FreeBSD itself is an example of very successful "niched" UNIX-like system - think about network interface's performance, removal of GKL from most used device drivers, SMP-aware scheduler and memory manager, kqueue, netgraph subsystems and so on.

OpenBSD is a great toy for hobbyist to resurrect some ancient SUN's 1U Netra server as firewall and proxy for home or very small business. I have several of them for pleasure and enjoyment. And of course it is a very good choice for some low-power single-core single-CPU system without heavy pthreads.

My opinion it cannot be compared to the "open source business ecosystem" that Linux[based systems] became.
yeah, cooling systems are designed to handle a certain amount of heat per square foot. Most of the he.net locations around here can only handle 1 15a 120v circut per rack. That's 5 low-power dual-socket servers for a full-sized rack.

When I'm buying data center space I look at cost per watt and ignore the space requirements. I've not yet hit a place that was willing to sell me more power than I could use in a rack. If the space is low/medium density, I fill it with 2 or 3u chassis (I'm currently using http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/833/SC833S2-550.cf... because I got a good deal on a lot of them.) If it looks like they will sell me more power than I can eat with those, I pop in a few of the supermicro 2 in 1u boxes: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/1U/1021/AS-1021TM-T+....

This is part of why you see so many people leaving airspace between 1u servers. (me, I use the 3u servers for 'air gaps' as they run really cool.)
Apple already has a similar system as part of Mobile Me (formerly .Mac, formerly iTools) but they charge $99/yr for it ($10/mo would mean a higher price AND more customers) and don't do a great job marketing it (and it doesn't work as well on Windows).

Maybe they'd buy DropBox just to get people who know how to market this shit.
> "MP3" can mean a lot of things (to some people it just means "digital music"). Quality depends on the bitrate, on CBR vs VBR, on the encoder used, on the playback device, etc.

Yeah but every time you need to transcode your music to the next format of the day, you're going to lose a bit of quality. And the losses multiply too, they don't just add from one lossy format to one another.

If you store your music in a lossless format, you just have to come back to your lossless copy to create each lossily-generated copy, and you'll only ever have the losses of this transcoding.
But does it run Linux? Oh... Wait.
I definitely agree with you. Right now I'm trying to get into their argumentative mindset. I think web properties can argue that their copyright extends to HOW the content is displayed. This point is furthered if online sites can prove that their site is generated dynamically based on specific browsers. If they can argue that they manually create different (authorized) versions for different configurations (1 configuration for each browser, os and monitor type), and that all of those configurations contain ads. The courts may find that any configurations outside the site's authorized versions are unauthorized, an infringement of copyright and illegal. To me it almost makes sense. Thoughts?
Right, so we get more corruption that further invalidates my degree for which I actually had to do a lot of very difficult actual work. As if accrediting places like University of Phoenix and IDT wasn't enough.
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We've had an acredited distance learning university in the UK for 20 years - the degrees issued are considered equal to the equivalent course in normal universities (although less prestigious).
The idea was copied/partnered in the US - I think in the early '80s, but it never took off there. I do agree that live-in colleges will likely be overtaken by some form of virtual equivalent, but it's not a 100% done deal that this will happen.
Looks like someone figured out where the Segway went wrong, and fixed almost everything about it (the remaining flaw being the astronomical price; it'd be cool if this makes it to market and drops by 80% within the first year).
Software development is hard.

I suspect that sometimes it only seems like speed caused a bad decision when in reality, the decision came because the programmer didn't understand some part of the domain, especially didn't understand how to design the code to be extensible beyond a certain area. Indeed, speed is an excellent excuse for just failing to extend beyond a certain area.

The reality might be that whatever speed you went, you would first create a failed design and only after seeing the failure be able to create the successful design.

So... no magic bullet for you!
I agree with you about the cables, but this:

> It's a little like arguing that gold doesn't fall faster than lead, even though gold is heavier.

is a bad example, because heavier items do fall faster. If the difference in masses between them is very large (like a box vs the earth), the difference is not measurable, but it's there. It's off topic, but if you want me to show you the math I can.
notice what he said:

"quality separate CD player, amp and speakers and compared that with an MP3 player plugged into the same amp and speakers"

"MP3 player"

I'd assume that it means iPod-style device, which probably doesn't have as high quality output as "quality separate CD player". Yes, its comparing apples to oranges, but its different from placebo
> The graph clearly shows that in raw terms, it helps guys to write longer messages. But when we factor in the actual time it takes to type a given message, it becomes clear that in terms of time put in vs. conversations generated, shorter is actually better.
I'm a little surprised that the word "zombie" is more of a turn-on for women than "literature."
Further robotrout's point: a friend of mine did some research on actual sound quality for generic versus high-price cables.

He measured the noise floor with Monster cables at about -160dB, whereas cheap crappy cables were about -125dB. However, he also found that basically all of the difference is explained by higher quality connectors on the Monster cables compared to his ultra cheap bargain basement ones; when he replaced the cheap connectors with some modestly priced RCA connectors that weren't utter shit (but were not Monster cable made), the two cables were indistinguishable.

For the record, even -125dB is below the noise floor of arguably every person on earth.

So really, the most important thing for cables is to always use good connectors. You cannot hear the difference between "super duper copper" and "layman's copper."

Another popular bit of audiophile snake oil is "ribbon cables." These use wide, flat conductors instead of round ones because---they claim---the round conductors have higher impedance because of the skin effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect ). Of course, this is absolute bullshit, because skin depth at audio frequencies is more than the diameter of the round conductor. What's more, since ribbon cables aren't coaxial, they're actually more susceptible to EMI.

...and people still spend hundreds or even thousands _on_the_cable_!
How you write the plan depends greatly on the intended audience. But any way you look at it the notion of writing the 50 page business plan is over.

Instead of writing this 50 page monstrosity your focus should be on the product/users.

Below is the best place I've found regarding business plans.
The new business plan is short and practical and does not take you months to create.

http://www.thefailingpoint.com/2009/08/gettingstarted/write-...
If only the problem would be in the transfer medium and not in the MAX GAIN LOUDNESS IS HEAVEN -style mastering.
Why should anyone take a nonphysicist seriously on such a fundamental physics issue?

String theory is math, not physics.... and it will remain so at least until it stops being abstract and starts making falsifiable predictions about the REAL world. To quote Einstein(?)

"Mathematics studies the relation between concepts. Physics studies that relation between concepts and reality."
Learning a new language is always tough.

"heads a big step"???

"selling tickets in any way"???

"create a Germany wide web portal"

"there was created a tool"

"aiming this goal"

"a good measuring"

PS: I don't think this is relevant to HN.
Seagate Barracuda LP and WD RE-GP are ~6000 RPM disks that are lower power than normal 7200 RPM SATA. Maybe next year they'll come out with ~5000 RPM disks.
I went with the reseller I did at svtix, primarily because they were upfront enough to list prices on their website. http://egihosting.com - I don't want to spend time fucking around over price, and I'm sure you don't want me to waste your time. Post the price, and I'll buy it or I won't.

Seriously, If you say you want six figures for your product, I'm walking. I don't have that kind of scratch, and I'm not going to waste your time or my time lowballing you. If you really mean $30K, well, I'd have to scrimp and save for a few months, but it's doable if the product really does solve more than $30K worth of problems for me.
Read this article, and then notice that gold is over $1000/oz. Next, call your broker.
Was just asking, no need to infer about me personally.

I'm surprised they have the infrastructure needed to support cell towers on a large scale.
There is a lot of good engineering in the Thumper. There is a lot of clever engineering in the Backblaze. The comparison states a lot of valid points on power distribution, drive reliability and RAID throughput.

I see Backblaze will learn a lot from building their storage systems and future versions may be much better, but this one cuts too many corners for me to feel confident it will have the same kind of reliability I would recommend.

What amazes me most is the use of desktop-grade hard drives. Not because they are sloppily built, but because their performance requirements are so different from a server environment.

This makes for some nice reading: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28493-hard-disk-drives-...
Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
"Sorry, I don't know much about that. I'm just a programmer!"
Sequoia provides a nice playbook for how to craft a business plan.

http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas

Guy Kawasaki's tips are also useful

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html

FWIW I created a plan using these guidelines and had some decent success. 90% of it is just common sense. How will you make something that people want for a lot less than you can sell it for. As long as you answer that you will be fine.
So AT&T lied when it said "late summer" , more like early fall. /me waits for the next lawsuit.
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Alcatel ot s319 latest invention by Alcatel is surely going to rock the industry. The users are surely going love this piece and a lot of people are going to purchase this set for the attributes it comes equipped with the phone.
If you sign up to throw the party but don't invite anyone, do you still get the free software and party favors?
Interesting. But the classes are all fairly low level. I need someplace where I can finish a BSCS for $99 a month :)
Cheers for the info. I will get round to upgrading eventually then, but I reckon I will give it a few months until any compatibility issues are ironed out!
I would imagine that if tivo et. al. - or even fast forward buttons - are legal on DVD & PVR's, then I don't see why ad blocking on the web is any different, legally speaking.
Microsoft killing its regular iPod rivals
The web browser uses a stack which is why you can't have multiple branches. You can blame that on Tim Berners-Lee or Marc Andersson, I'm not sure which twit set that precedent.
GAE XMPP app tutorial (GAE added XMPP support today)
Really cool crawling tool. Definitely worth checking out.
Don't forget Metacrawler!
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Fine-grained version control can solve that problem. Unfortunately there isn't much support for it at the moment. So it's all a solved problem but no one uses it.

I was doing some research for a paper on fine-grained version control to be able to deal with web content, recipes, songs, and other types of "documents" which rely on things other than paragraphs and lines. There has been a LOT of research done on the subject and I found some papers that deal with version control for Web content and some for dealing with XML content.
You've missed the point: Craigslist is so far and away the exception to the rule, it's practically non-reproducible. And for what it's worth, they're also not nearly as profitable as either Amazon or EBay, regardless of their traffic.

There's simply nothing about Craigslist that you can count on reproducing. If you're creating an internet company today, and you're aiming for hundreds of millions in revenue, it's 99% probable that you will need to spend more money than they do.
And I suddenly have much greater hope for humanity: "ur" is the biggest turn-off.
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It is assumed that longer messages take longer to compose. But that's only true if you're starting from scratch every time. You should instead write one good generic message and send it out to many people, only inserting one sentence to reflect on something specific to the particular profile.
Nice! have a look at this one too, please:
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Yeah, 'todo list' gives better results.

It seems that 'to do' and 'do' gives almost the same results so may be that 'to' gets discarted in the search (the word is never bold in the results).
Then there's an opportunity for other entrepreneurs providing a complementary good: Ways to meet and spend time with other "students" in a post-university world.

Just because the lecture hall and the social environment are currently bundled into a single "product" doesn't mean you have to give one up when they become un-bundled.
How would you substantiate your implicit claim that student in on-line courses don't do "real work".

I can't see the slightest difference between an accredited community college and accredit on-line college.

Of course, all these schools have individual reputations and accreditation doesn't immediately give a school the reputation of Harvard.
zfs with OpenSolaris is a good tip. 2009.06 is a much less mess (leave alone that we-will-rewrite-everything-in-java svc:/* horror)
I thought this article was about a web app provider discussing their research into user behavior, and using that research as a marketing tool to help their users use the app better.

The fact that it's about picking up hotties is almost beside the point.
They are using a consumer grade motherboard with one ethernet port, 3 PCI slots and one PCI express slot, the slots are all used up by the sata interfaces.
Yeah, women hate it when you try to start a conversation by talking about ancient Sumeria. (Cambodia, too, judging by the unpopularity of "wat".)
I was thinking the same thing. Seeing as the whole thing looks pretty simple I could even see knock-offs hitting the market soon if they don't drop the price...
Google Syndrome. "Beta" is meaningless now.
Ask HN: Why not Flex?
I'll never get back those weeks of my life that I've spent trying to fix cross browser HTML/CSS/JavaScript issues.

I feel like I have to jump through several hoops just to achieve good-looking rounded corners, especially if the element has a border.

Many relatively standard GUI widgets just don't exist in the web stack (e.g. tabs have to be expressed as an unordered list with an extra element in each to do the "sliding doors" effect).

The set of available fonts is still, in 2009, incredibly limited.

My current project (http://shoptalkapp.com) has typified all of the above pain, and more. It's heavily AJAXy, which only exacerbates the problem.

So I ask the HNers, "Why not Flex?"