skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is more to it than luck. For example, Elon Musk is an entrepreneur that has done well time after time. I don't think he is that lucky. ;-)
heh. Oops.
This carries the implicit assumption that everyone you're messaging is equally important for you to get a date with.
Can agnostic be ever strictly materialist?
More tips:

#1) Make sure the recipient is not a fake
#2) Leave as much to the imagination as possible (actually that is probably why shorter messages work better)
Joey Naylor: ...so what happens when you're wrong?

Nick Naylor: Whoa, Joey I'm never wrong.

Joey Naylor: But you can't always be right...

Nick Naylor: Well, if it's your job to be right, then you're never wrong.

Joey Naylor: But what if you are wrong?

Nick Naylor: OK, let's say that you're defending chocolate, and I'm defending vanilla. Now if I were to say to you: 'Vanilla is the best flavour ice-cream', you'd say...

Joey Naylor: No, chocolate is.

Nick Naylor: Exactly, but you can't win that argument... so, I'll ask you: so you think chocolate is the end all and the all of ice-cream, do you?

Joey Naylor: It's the best ice-cream, I wouldn't order any other.

Nick Naylor: Oh! So it's all chocolate for you is it?

Joey Naylor: Yes, chocolate is all I need.

Nick Naylor: Well, I need more than chocolate, and for that matter I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our ice-cream, and that Joey Naylor, that is the defintion of liberty.

Joey Naylor: But that's not what we're talking about

Nick Naylor: Ah! But that's what I'm talking about.

Joey Naylor: ...but you didn't prove that vanilla was the best...

Nick Naylor: I didn't have to. I proved that you're wrong, and if you're wrong I'm right.

Joey Naylor: But you still didn't convince me

Nick Naylor: It's that I'm not after you. I'm after them.

- Thank You For Smoking
We had an automated invitation system - the usual, "put in your email, wait a while for the invite" thing. It was true that were only adding a couple hundred people a day during the early days. We weren't ready for more. We were so not prepared for the interest - it's funny to think back on it now. When we hit 5,000 users we were amazed.

I think that we had actual performance issues for about a month (maybe a little longer?) when we outgrew our single dedicated server and hobbled along until we built a more permanent home. Luckily, people were very patient and understanding.
Yes, but is Evernote currently worth using as an example of how to make a profit? I don't think so.
http://www.pcbsd.org/
I was actually exaggerating a little bit. My head didn't really explode.
Successful entrepreneurs believe that they make their own luck
After a coding day like I've had today, I feel like my neurons could be effectively replaced by Lincoln Logs.
I feel weird replying to all of these comments but here goes:

We were worried about Cogent at the beginning so we only used them for delivering some static files and for non-critical outgoing traffic. It was initially an experiment - to save on our in-datacenter bandwidth and to compare with Amazon (a very inexpensive experiment) and we've been very happy with it.

I think that we are doing about 20% of our traffic (+ offsite backups) over Cogent, 40% on our datacenter's fancy-pants bandwidth, and 40% on Amazon.
Liable for lost advertising revenue due to the 'defacement' and 'republishing' of copyrighted content under the DMCA. It is a stretch, but America is a litigious nation and the courts have a tendency to rule in favor of big business (because they support the economy). And if the courts wont rule the first time around, there are always lobbyists to help change laws.
I don't think that getting attention or trying to get it is BS, marketing is all about getting attention, and that is very important.

I just think 15 minutes is not what would be regarded as substantive in preparing for a talk. Probably it took you about the same time to post the list in your blog, hence it looks as if promoting yourself is a lot more important than even the content you use to do so.
I've been told that the political machinations on the committees that decide hardware standards are far more cutthroat than software standards. Software patents aren't very lucrative, whereas owning a patent that's necessary to implement a hardware standard with millions of licensed devices (networking, media, etc) can be worth an awful lot of money for the patent holder.
At svtix, a tier3 data center in downtown san jose, Not at the top end of the price scale, but not at the bottom, I can get 2 20a 120v circuits (4800w, that's 3360 usable.) and a full locking rack for around $1100 a month. I can buy two or three racks full of power. If I wanted to pull a gig connection to another nearby data center, say, because I couldn't get more at svtix, we are talking something like $500-$1000 a month, depending on how badly I get screwed by my poor negotiation skills.

Just sayin, at those prices, it takes a long time to amortize out a six figure appliance.
My tried-and-true variation on that is "I make computers dance."
Hacking sucks, BTW. You guys are always looking for grade A slaves and peons to fill these roles. But hey, you are the "Big Idea" people, the rest of us are little helots. Try walking a mile in the slave's shoes for a while, maybe you won't be so harsh. Here's a suggestion: maybe out-source to Bangalore? It's what the big boys are doing.

Anyway, more to your point:

Dear <loser>,

<paragraph of lies follows below>

we are very pleased with your work to date but due to a strategic rebalancing forced upon us quite suddenly by exogenous forces, we need to make some painful cutbacks.
We have elected to pare back our newest hires, your position included. If the financial condition of our company improves, we would be happy to reconsider your employment at a later date. However, it is not certain if the situation will resolve itself in the short term and so I would advise looking for other positions in the interim.
Let me say that it has been truly a pleasure to work with such a keen and incisive mind as yours. I hope there are no hard feelings between us.

Best of luck in your future endeavours <fuck off and die you piece of shit. we hope never to see you again>.

signed

<greedy corporate asshole>
Can anyone estimate the practical benefits (or not) of adding some extra Gbit network cards in the free motherboard slots on the BB device?
This is from 2005, and also not very interesting.
I'm a developer and only put AdBlock into Firefox very recently, and I'm not sure of using it in the near future. Ads are disturbing (remember popup windows) but if everybody were bloking ads the internet economy will collapse.

I suspect that ad bloking is not easy to setup in other browsers. So if your audience of developers is Windows or Mac related you may be ok with ads. If they are Unix users or web developers the probability of they using Firefox and AdBlock is higher.
Is it possible to use much of a GUI with it?
and good is the enemy of at all. (I attribute that to what I heard Paul Buchheit say once at a YC dinner)
There is nothing wrong with saying, "I make websites."

If the person you are talking to is interested, they will ask for more detail. If not, nothing you could possibly embellish it with would matter to them anyway.
How to Reduce Your Spending Without Making Your Life Miserable
You're very cute, but I know what Python is and how it works thank you very much, I've been coding with and in it for years. Doesn't change anything: Python's statements are not first-class objects.

And lisp's got nothing to do with that either.

> You might still not like it after you understand it, but let us damn it for what it is, not for what it isn't.

You… completely missed the point?
Lamer than the guy I saw walking around with a shirt that says "I'm a PC." with a Windows 7 logo on the back.
http://www.ravelry.com/help/api isn't much but it should be enough to make a project portfolio. Post on the Ravelry board if you have any questions :)
Upvoted. I would upvote a million times over if I could. So many developers seem to not realize just how expensive physical plant (and the people to administer it) really is -- "hardware is cheap" fails to account for the facility costs involved in acquiring necessary space, power, cooling to run it -- often ahead of time.

Managing the IT team and a growing data center installation for a medium size business was one of the most enlightening experiences I've had as a developer writing software targeted at "internet-scale".
I didn't get the last line.
You youngins got things easy. In our day, we had to search uphill, twice. No simple Google search, We had to gopher to get our documents. When we finally did get HTML, it was simple. No flash, nothin' fancy like that. But we did have blink. Just plain old web pages like the Model-T, we could have whatever color we wanted, as long as it was black. Cascading style sheets? Ha! And the speed. Today you got it easy with cable and fiber and wifi. Them were slow days I tell ya, 14.4k modem. Felt like a thirsty man walking across a desert and have to drink water through a capillary tube...
Thing is, I haven't heard much about it. Will it

- support all my hardware including printers and external monitors?

- support all file and media formats?

- have equivalents for all the important software?

I am not much of a pioneer in such things. I prefer others to do the testing. If I see a significant amount of people using PCBSD without problems, I might give it a shot. Also I don't have much of an incentive to switch, as Ubuntu does OK for me.
Also known as the Google launch.
College is as much about the experience as it is the education. It is a time for many kids to get out on their own and learn to be independent.

It is also one of the last chances for you to be around many people your own age (and one of the last chances you will have to be around many single men/women).

Once you start working, it's different. It's more difficult to meet people and you have an entire set of new responsibilities.

Although I don't think it will completely replace college, it might work well for people already working (and don't have the time to actually sit in class for a few hours a day).
first-class almost everything. I don't think "^" is a first-class element in Smalltalk (though I might be wrong)
Hi Erik,

At a guess you've used Google translate or something similar, and although I can have a guess at most of the meanings, it's really unclear what you're trying to say. Google translate is very bad at translating long and complex sentences.

I have a suggestion. Use really, really short and simple sentences, and feed them into the Google translator. It has a much better chance of coping with simple sentences. The sentences you get out will help us to understand what you mean.

The alternative is that someone here might speak English (first) and German (second) and be able to translate the German into English for you.

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I think you've used Google translate. I can have a guess at most of the meanings. However it's really unclear. Google translate is very bad at translating long and complex sentences.

Ich glaube, Sie haben mithilfe von Google zu übersetzen. Ich kann eine Vermutung haben die meisten der Bedeutungen. Aber es ist wirklich unklar. Google zu übersetzen, ist sehr schlecht um die Übersetzung von langen und komplexen
Sätze.

I have a suggestion. Use really short and simple sentences. Give them to the Google translator. It has a much better chance of coping with simple sentences. The sentences you get out will help us to understand what you mean.

Ich habe einen Vorschlag. Verwenden Sie wirklich kurze und einfache Sätze. Geben Sie ihnen zu den Google Übersetzer. Es hat eine viel bessere Chance, um in einfachen Sätzen. Die Sätze, die Sie erhalten, Sie wird uns helfen zu verstehen, was du meinst.

There is an alternative. Someone here might speak English
(first) and German (second). They might be able to translate the German into English.

Es gibt eine Alternative. Jemand könnte hier sprechen Englisch (ersten) und Deutsch (Sekunden). Sie könnten allenfalls zu übersetzen dem Deutschen ins Englische.
revenue per machine may actually go down rather than up

These are British cash machines. Last time I was there at least, British cash machines generally didn't charge you to use them, so revenue seems like it should be zero in any case.
At svtix, a tier3 data center in downtown san jose, Not at the top end of the price scale, but not at the bottom, I can get 2 20a 120v circuits and a full locking rack for around $1100 a month. I can buy two or three racks full of power.

As long as that space is available. To guarantee business capacity you'll probably need to buy a large block of rackspace at one time. Of course, capacity availability varies based on the current local business climate, but that's something you have to plan for too.

If I wanted to pull a gig connection to another nearby data center, say, because I couldn't get more at svtix, we are talking something like $500-$1000 a month

Upwards of $1000, but note that GigE is a fairly small link for data center cross-connection and will still usually have a large lead-time. Not only do you need to be able to guarantee sufficient capacity either at svtix or at the other colo, but you need to be prepared to wait to get that capacity allocated for your use.
He isn't trying to win the argument rationally, he is simply trying to persuade the audience (them).
for geeks writing code, sure.

but not for hacks writing web content or your mother writing an email.
I like to see that with actual data! Nice post!

I just want to add, if you write less words, every word counts more. So you must be more careful, too, if you write shorter messages. I wonder how the stats would look, if you take this in consideration, too.
Infinite Recursion
Usually that refers to Goedel incompleteness theorem and its corollaries. It concerns however only with possibility of certain proofs in a particular class of formal systems (e.g. predicate logics of various orders).

It is beyond my humble skills to suggest if the necessary formal description of the Universe would be complex enough for the incompleteness theorem to kick in or not. But bear in mind that explaining is not the same as proving. For instance, that the God created everything is a flawless explanation (although lacking in predictive strength to be of any use in sciences).
Sweatshirts are binding and only go down to the waist, though.
It's a unique email address that no one else has. It has never received email.
Even though Sun are at the cheaper end of the SAN market - I struggle to see why adding a network interface to hard drive still ends up as 10x the cost of the drive.
Electric bike that folds into a shoulder bag
Title of the movie.
They almost got the title right:

"Is Linux For Lusers?"

(not that I agree with the content). Pretty much a meaningless rant. Seems like MS propaganda.
I have a passionate and sordid love affair with pf. :-)

OpenSSH has had some issues in the past, but everyone uses it.

Also, don't forget their recent work with guard pages (I think?) that exposed heap problems in a bunch of userland software.
String Theory Skeptic
'them' = the customers/general public: lowest common denominator vs highest common factor. This is the basis of all propaganda, and why you should be happy that trial by jury is a right rather than an obligation.
In everything in life, a little seduction goes a long way. You start slow, and work your way into the meaningful interactions.

The principle applies in everything from scientific talks to marketing. You've gotta have a brief hook -- only after you've earned the privilege of your target's interest can you ease into deeper subjects.
The essential hack:

>So he devised a clever way under the accreditation wall, brokering deals whereby a handful of accredited traditional and for-profit institutions agreed to become “partner colleges” that would allow students to transfer in StraighterLine courses for credit. After the credits were accepted—laundered, a cynic might say—students could theoretically transfer them anywhere else in the higher education system. The partner colleges stood to benefit from the deal as well. They all had their own online endeavors, but those required hefty marketing investments to keep new students enrolling. The schools reasoned that the StraighterLine relationship would introduce them to potential new students, with some StraighterLine customers sticking around to take their more advanced (and expensive) courses.
If someone writing to me can't be bothered to say something interesting in the first 100 words I'm fairly certain he won't get to anything interesting in the first 1000. You can be concise and intelligent.
I'll get right on that...
Yes, that's the talking point we'll be hearing from the colleges.

I have news for you. There's no way in hell people are going to value that "experience" to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars a year when a credible alternative emerges. And you see, that's the real problem. People don't spend money by deciding whether a thing is "good" or "bad". People decide whether something is the best thing they can do with their money. There is no way blowing that much money on an expensive college that produces the same degree as the much cheaper alternative is going to be a popular choice. (Might I add that the online college will also let you go at your own pace, and is even quite likely to have superior courses, once all the tech and experience is in place.) Arguing that college is "good" won't win. You have to establish it as the best choice. There's no way it will meet that bar.

You can berate them all you like for making choices you feel are wrong, but it's hopeless. Live-in colleges are doomed.... long term, anyhow.

Other things will spring up to fill the social void. They won't be the same. There will be a chaotic transition period. They'll be worse in some ways and better in others, and old-fogeys will bemoan the ways in which they are worse without seeing (or comprehending) the better ones. All terribly predictable. All but unstoppable.
I think it would be a humongous stretch to say it's defacement. The server client model is the important factor I think here. A server sends data to the client to display in a manner it chooses fit. If a browser chooses not to request certain content, or chooses not to display it to the user, there is no defacement going on. If it is legal for there to be rendering differences at all between browsers, I think adblock fits into that gap as well.

As you said however, who knows what crazy justification they will come up with, and what the courts will buy.
"I am informed that the right thing to use [for audio] on FreeBSD is OSS" doesn't exactly inspire confidence, though.
BSD guys make fun of Linux on message boards and Web sites, the gist being that BSD guys are a lot like Linux guys, except they have kissed girls.
you have a very good point that you pay much higher prices (or just massively overbuy, which is similar) if you want guaranteed capacity right now, right were you are.

My model is such that it's not that big of a deal to just get an unconnected rack at a new data center and buy transit there. When I was blocked on new power at SVTIX, I slapped a few new servers in at rippleweb.com, which is in Sacramento. If I had a big, expensive san I couldn't replicate, well, then I'd have a different model. (rippleweb has awesome prices on high-power 1U server co-location, but it's not as good as getting a full rack elsewhere.)

But yes, the observation that you pay more if you want your stuff provisioned right now is very correct. At prgmr.com, well, I wait for the deals, so I end up paying a lot less than I would otherwise. (but then, sometimes the 'we are out of space, come back later' message is up for longer than I'd like, as well. It's definitely a compromise.)
FUD and RAS being two of the basic tenets of marketing most anything in the enterprise IT space, after all.
Hi RiderOfGiraffes,

thanks for your harsh critique. No I didn't use any translater but my own mind. ;)
If you still want to help me, please tell me, what exactly did you understand until now. Maybe this way I am able to see, where I have to start changing things.

best regards

ErikB
PS: hehe, I can understand all of your german sentences. :) Google is much better as I thought (but yes, it sounds really like my best friend from India)
For each answer science provides it also discovers ten new questions. The world seems to have an infinite supply of mysteries. And history shows the answers of science always eventually turns out to be wrong or limited, as they are superseded by new discoveries and better theories.
Infosys has 1,500,000 sq ft of 'green' building space under construction
Have you been to a community meeting about adding new cell antennas in (for example) San Francisco or Berkeley? It ain't pretty. See for example:

http://www.antennafreeunion.org/

http://www.no-celltower.com/
Too much choice on dating Web sites leads to less-careful choice
Interesting... I hadn't heard of Siek's work before.
A link: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~siek/gradualtyping.html
You obviously don't get out much (no offense). But mobile growth in third world countries is huge. Being able to make a diagnosis with a simple phone instead of with expensive medical equipment (which third world countries don't have) is a fascinating idea. This is really a game changer.
Or, are there things that make up reality that I don't know about or understand? Or that no one knows about or understands? Of course. It's a bit odd to suggest that if people don't believe one thing, it's because they think they know everything.
It is a nice and simple interface, but I'm not sure about the sorting algorithm.

For instance, searching 'to do list' returns epicurious, loopt, etc on the first page.
It is acceptable that these would be returned somewhere, but not on the first page, when there are tons of proper 'to do list' apps out there.
To give people an idea; our main datacenter gives us 2kW per rack, and we pay extra for 4kW. A rack full of these ~700W storage pods would need about double that again, and isn't going to leave you much wiggle room.
I wanted to write the same advice. Read that blog, from the beginning! And stop writing a business plan! You don't need one (at least as long it is not a task from one of your professors).

I would suggest these sources, too:
http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/ <- how to make your customers pay, before you build a product?
http://steveblank.com/ <- stop doing "business" stuff. Go out of the door and talk to your customers. They pay your bills!
http://www.avc.com/ <- one other guy, who likes to pay big bills on risky investments, and how he sees the world.
I promise you, it's not. There's a lot of articles floating around recently about the placebo effect in medicine. I'll be kind to these people, and let them off with the excuse that placebo effect, which is still not understood, is the reason their $500 cables make them think their audio sounds better.

Audio is something we understand pretty well. We can measure it's delay and phase and amplitude and distortion. We can measure these things, and we can see when they change, and we can see when they don't change. We can see these changes to levels that the human ear can't detect, but even if you believe that an audiophile can detect things that others can't, we can see these changes on our instruments.

I'm not certain how far to beat this horse. It's a little like arguing that gold doesn't fall faster than lead, even though gold is heavier. At the end of the day, you either believe in measurable science, or you don't. As somebody who has spent countless hours in front of an audio analyzer, tracking down actual audio effects all the way down into the noise floor of the system, I am confident on this issue.

Still, the guys selling those cables are richer than I am, so who's the idiot? Certainly not the salesmen.