skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so the literate source, in a form that I can actually play with, isn't acutally available. It doesn't even seem to be maintained in literate form in SVN.

That's what I was trying to determine.
It's not televised. I believe that ends a streak of 38 televised games (home and away) for Cal football and the first home game not televised since 2005.
good thing it's only washington state.
He knows: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764601
Tip: Go to community college for the first two years of required classes that nobody cares about at prices that are almost as good as free. Most locals have a nice reciprocity system between the community college system and a local state school, often even sharing professors. Get an A.S. or A.A., transfer to the state university, first two years are done! If your GPA was stellar, get grants to cover the rest of tuition. Entire 4 year B.S. or B.A., books included, should be had for less than $18k minus grants and scholarships.

If they got loans for that amount, that's not really a big deal either. If the first job outside of school pays $60k, they can live OK and still pay that amount off in a year or two.

Why this simple formula escapes so many is a fantastic mystery.
I sometimes end up with a number of Visa gift cards. Maybe I use a $50 card to order a $47 book, and a $25 card to buy a $23.50 dinner.

So I have a bunch of Visa gift cards with a few dollars (or cents) on them. I would like to be able to create a new account "alias", such that I can go to an online store, enter my new account alias credit card number, and have it pull funds from my plethora of Visa gift cards, appearing to the merchant as one card, one transaction.

Not sure what the market would be for this sort of thing, but more than once I wish I could do it, and my areas of expertise are so far afield from this that I have no intention of trying to build it myself.
Try one. First vacuum the carpet with your current vacuum, etc. Then proceed to run the Dyson over the carpet and watch it fill up with all sorts of disgusting detritus that the other vacuum missed.
Some vendors will let you split a bill across multiple accounts - that might help you use up these gift cards with small amounts left on them.
Hosted source control for closed-source projects? I am intrigued by this idea. I would have thought this would be a small market.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. I haven't ever used Tcl besides some tinkering a few years ago, whereas SQLite is used incredibly often, but I'll read any C that's well written.
He knows there is a game (I posted that) but kick off time wasn't announced until yesterday and YC/PG may want to take it under consideration when scheduling the day's itinerary (particularly when to have the lunch break). Hence my submission.
Since AppEngine runs Java, that means it can run JRuby, which also means it can run Rails. Use it if you like. There are a couple of special considerations when using Rails on App Engine, although I am not familiar with them. Finally, you should remember that you're stuck with their datastore, so you can't use ActiveRecord (at least as far as I know, there may be a gem that lets you)
Wow, lots of really cool uses there. I like the torrenting one in particular.
Shyness itself is simply a manifestation of low self-esteem.

I disagree with this assertion. I contend that it is possible for shyness to be caused by a lack of understanding of accepted social protocols. For example, a person who is perceived as shy may not know when it's appropriate or inappropriate to (for example) approach a stranger or interrupt a conversation, and therefore doesn't try.
The other option would be to park further away if you can't find parking and take the bus in.

Parking along University, you can take the 52L. http://www.actransit.org/maps/schedule_results.php?version_i...

Or on Telegraph, take the 1. http://www.actransit.org/maps/schedule_results.php?version_i...
Actually, you could make it a Tell PG/HN, because I was planning on driving there. Now, I know BART is the way to go. Thanks!
More or less the opinion I got from it, although the third party seems more like a service the guy used. The guy was clearly using Dropbox and its brand name for his gain, but I can't easily get behind this as good thing when he had domain name first and legitimately. If he went ahead and made a company of his own called dropbox he might well have been fine, who knows. Just felt compelled to comment because the anger directed at the guy seems a bit unfair - it was Dropboxes choice to start a company up called that when they knew they someone else owned the domain.
The message of the article (or the combination of the article and title) appeared to be that geeks should work to make tech-speak more "manageable" for business types.

While this might be true in specific situations X and Y, as a general rule I disagree quite strongly. We have technical words because they are an accurate way of describing stuff. I would much rather have business and marketing people speaking with their real jargon than "talking down" to me. I'm perfectly capable of consulting a dictionary or asking for assistance if a business type throws a strange term my way. This is because I respect business knowledge and don't trivialize what those people do and/or expect it to be easily understood.

Sure, marketing types shouldn't need to get a CS degree. But if we should definitely be using real words like "router" and "system memory" and not invoke a whole basket full of failed birds-and-bees analogies to explain these concepts (at least not by default. If they ask for an explanation an analogy can be invoked.)

The submitter's point (which I realize is not the original sense of the article) is that technical jargon is needlessly complex, complex to no useful end. If network topology and time complexity and so on were really one-to-one with nice neat English words, we wouldn't need 4-year (or masters, or doctorate) degrees in technical fields, and to assume that alternate English words exist is to assume the simplicity of technical work. But every technical term exists for a needful purpose--to describe something for which an existing word is inadequate. Thus in the general case, the technical term for something is the optimal word to use, in that it most-precisely describes its object.

This reveals (on the part of people with this mindset, not necessarily the submitter) some sort of superiority complex, or at least not showing proper respect for people who are probably every bit as smart as you.
The benefits of having software on Joel should be self-evident.
I think there's a lot of variance in type of app, and how conducive they are to the app store. I also think that a conversion app would have made 0 dollars on any other platform.

Games aside, as that's a whole market of its own. I haven't heard of any complex, high quality apps being developed and completely ignored. Though some have done well for awhile, and then been rendered obsolete by features in newer iphones. A lot of people seem to write weekend, single feature apps that sell for a day or two and then get ignored, and they blame the app store for the fact that they wrote a program no one really wants to use.
Because it is the classic science fiction story: Frankenstein.
in XP, I dunno if there is a quick way. But Ctrl+shift+ESC brings up Task Manager. Arrow down to the task you want to kill. Hit the other crazy menu key that MS added to keyboards (the one between the right Alt and Ctrl whatever it's called) and choose how you want to kill the task, hit enter.

Other than the arrowing down bit, it's about the same.
New accounts is ~400 day, new repos is 1,000.

I get your point. But I don't think number of web servers out there capable of also being subversion repositories is the greatest metric, either.
I've met lots of really smart programmers that don't even seem to talk about coding during lunch, much less program during free time.
I'd certainly code more at home if I didn't have a family and lots of other interests besides programming.
see also: http://couch.io/

These kinds of services are pretty neat.
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Obviously FogBugz did it themselves because they are the most highly documented sufferers of NIH syndrome.
wouldn't the latency of a roundtrip across the internet kill the usefulness of such db-in-the-cloud services?
Funny + sad.
Yea you'd be surprised. When I look at Mugasha's organic traffic. The number keyword for search is Mugasha or mugasha.com.
A First Glimpse Of Chrome OS In The Flesh
I think you're taking that part about being yourself a bit too literally. It is completely possible to be socially adept (refraining from making dead baby jokes around new mothers, not picking your nose in public, saying "please" and "thank you") and still manage to do things you enjoy at home or as a career. Perhaps catfish farming is your true passion, and people all your life have been giving you weird looks if they were strangers, or trying to push you into a safer occupation like lawyering if they were friends, but your will to raise catfish commercially won. (Po Bronson actually writes about a catfish farmer in his book "What Should I Do With My Life?", I believe.) That's an example of being yourself and still leaving plenty of room to be socially adept.

Though, with that slightly contrived example concluded, there are times when really being yourself and being socially acceptable aren't compatible. (Being a woman a few hundred years ago who liked math, being black in the South a few decades ago, etc). But being socially adept would not have saved you there. I think we're fortunate in that the trajectory seems to be going in the direction that we need make such compromises less and less.
I frequently see users type www.microsoft.com or similar into Google. I think people see Google as their address bar, as generally it's set as the home page.

Asking a user what the address in the address box/bar is often ends with a blank expression on their face!
Agreed. That part of the pitch is pretty off-putting. I'd wager to guess it's just subversion, but who knows?
I read the title and immediately thought that this is an outrageous price for something that my phone can do for a few dollars a month (cheap data plans in India), and then I saw the form factor, and the amazing battery life.

The question is: can it display the equations that Mobile Wikipedia + my phone have trouble doing?
It's a well-written piece, but seriously:
"If you're reading this, you've probably already dismissed the plan. You, the individualist, is determined to make your own way in this world."

No need to pander to tha audience so blatantly to make your point.
I'm still using VSS as it's been 7 years and counting with no problems and I guess I'm feeling like "if it aint broke don't fix it". I'm aware that many people have corruption issues with VSS, so I do hourly backups, but almost a decade in it's been good enough for me not to care too much about looking for a new source control system.

Also there is a new version of VSS for Visual Studio 2005 (VSS 2005) that seems to have fixed some issues that some people have had.
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Why so much rage? The original owner registered the domain first.

note that I don't like squatters either, but who can tell that he wasn't legitimate when he registered it first?
MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives
it always bothered me, but you put your finger on it. Must've come from here:

http://www.freewebtemplates.com/templates/html
Yes I attended the previous event and met some interesting entrepreneurs
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The last one that I wound up petering out on was an explanation of the Kelly Criterion on optimal gambling strategies.

I did quite a bit, see http://elem.com/~btilly/kelly_criterion/ and http://elem.com/~btilly/kelly_criterion/betting-returns.html for what I did. However I petered out once I had completely figured out the fun part, which is how to write the JavaScript to numerically solve the maximization problem of finding the optimal solution in any number of dimensions. (Of course I did so before I finished typing it up, which is why the calculator doesn't have an optimization option on it.)
I think it really depends what type of industry you're entering. If you're breaking new ground and creating something truly original then you can get away with releasing early and often - your audience is going to be made up of early adopters who are more tolerant of issues.

However if you're building a product for a well established industry e.g. if you were building new shopping cart software you would be entering a saturated market full of knowledgable potential clients and full featured alternatives. In this case you need to release when your feature set matches or hopefully exceed that of your competitors.
I imagine its hosted on EC2, in which case, if you are too, it wouldn't matter. I imagine that if they get popular, nodes in Rackspace and a few other popular providers wouldn't be hard to do.
Calacanis does not appear to be a partner in Sequoia. A search of the http://www.sequoiacap.com/ site for "calacanis" delivers no hits. The page http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/jason-calacanis does not exist (which I believe would if he were on their team in a formal capacity). In December 2006 he took an "entrepreneur in residence" role, which is normally temporary (e.g. 6-12 months to find a company to start or invest in), which may be misleading you.

No one likes to have their private business contracts leaked, but it's always a good idea to operate in a way that you can withstand public scrutiny.

Many other qualified investors--both Angels and VC's--have also been critical of the same business practices that Calacanis is criticizing. For example, the Angel Capital Association, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Joe Platnick.
If you had wikipedia in your pocket for only $99, you would have known that sharper image closed its retail stores:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sharper_Image#Retail_stores
If you're in the south bay and want to travel in a group, let me know (email in profile). We can organize carpools for travel to BART.

The best route I see from the south bay is Freemont BART to Downtown Berkeley BART: http://www.bart.gov/schedules/quickplanner.aspx?orig=FRMT...
It was definitely the Apocalyptic machine-takeover music. On another note, what would a machine like this be useful for?
Poll: What is the young, cashed strapped founder to do
A lot of the more technical people I know have some idea they are pushing towards complete prototype (often alone). Many people take time off traditional work to build these systems and are often strapped for cash. Assuming each of these prototypes is a seed, how can they be grown into great trees in the constructs of day to day life? How can they be protected?

Assume an individual has created a web application with nice scalability verified by reasonable tests, compelling evidence for the usefulness of the product, a decent UX and serious financial troubles, not even banking a year of expenses. What's this troubled fellow to do? His goal is to have his web application being used by thousands of people as quickly as possible, hopefully converting some of those users to paid customers.
Apply to seed funding - This is a risk as a solo applier and approaching from a position of weakness makes you vulnerable.
Acquire a second founder and make a more traditional application, but financially the position is still week.
Contact traditional angel sources, like family and friends (if available)
Work in contract work for 6 months or 12 and generate the funding to dig the whole out and provide seed money for the launch.
Youth 'cannot live' without web
> encrypted email

This tells us nothing of whether the NSA is good at finding people on the internet, however. Was the email anonymous? Did he use a proxy?
agreed! also another factor is cultural barriers. e.g., an otherwise-confident Chinese person might appear super-shy in front of Americans because of his/her inability to speak English and lack of familiarity with American social customs. But in front of fellow Chinese people, he/she might be super extroverted and outspoken in Chinese.
github (you can pay for a private account), unfuddle, I'm sure I'm missing at least another major one.
Wasn't going to click on the link, but I'm a sucker for a good quote.
Yeah, see http://richmondinc.wftk.org/ for a fantastically minimal Drupal setup as a starter.
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Could anyone recommend something for Python? If something is out there for ruby, there's got to be at least one thing for python.
This is good advice. The Berkeley BART station is a relatively short walk from the campus.
Ask HN: Review my idea for a notes app
As I mentioned in a previous post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874827), I typically don't seek out feedback on any of my ideas. However, I'm trying to turn over a new leaf in letting go of that mindset and to start I'm asking for some feedback on an idea I've been fleshing out.

The basic concept is a web based application that is kind of a hybrid between notes, bookmarks and markups. Think Noteable meets Evernote meets Delicious. At any time, on nearly any website, you would be able to attach a "sticky note" to the page you're currently viewing. The twist or gimmick is that it is literally attached to the webpage. It's not in some text file on your desktop that you forgot you created. It's not sitting on a piece of paper on your desk that will eventually get covered with bills, todo lists or coffee stains. It's not hanging out over on Evernote, where I personally spent more time adding notes that reviewing or using them. No, it's on the website where you put. If you leave, shutdown, close the browser, switch computers, what have you, you're note is there for you the next time you navigate to said website. Keep in mind this is not "my" website. This is any website.

Application ideas:
Distraction deterrents – Leave yourself a note on HN that kindly reminds you that you have a deadline to meet and you shouldn't be browsing Ask HN threads.

Bookmark reminders – Ever navigated back to a bookmark and forgot why you bookmarked it in the first place? Well what if you just left yourself a note, right on the website, explaining why you found the site worthy of saving.

Designers/Developers – Markup the website you're currently working with notes, suggestions and corrections so you can review and implement them later. Also leave notes on websites you've bookmarked for inspiration.

These are just the more obvious use cases I could come up with at the moment. I'm sure there are other ideas or offshoots of these ideas as well. The flip side of this is that the notes would act as bookmarks as well. You could pull up the application's website, login and review all your notes and what websites their on. Notes would be grouped or categorized as well, for things like research papers or design inspiration. What you would essentially do with tags or folders, could be more effect with notes. Not only could you pull up every note that was grouped under "design ideas" for "project x", but you would also have your actual note to see "Would like to mimic this UI" and which ones had "Really need to steer clear of a cluttered interface as I see here."

I have a few more ideas on how to broaden the appeal of the idea, but I just wanted to start out with the root idea first. I hope I'm explaining it well enough. It's basically "sticky notes" for websites, but it's targeted at end users, not individual websites.

I would thoroughly enjoy any feedback, criticisms or questions.
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Sun Microsystems "Project Peter" targets Oracle to MySQL migrations
So will dropbox.com redirect to getdropbox.com in perpetuity, or will you guys eventually migrate over to the new domain?
They are? I know they used VNC for their remote help thingie. What's the charge?
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The article is a blatant advertisement. Let me counter-advertise with my experiences here.

We did evaluations of a Fusion-io ioDrive card and a Texas Memory Systems RamSan card [1] recently. The ioDrive had strange performance characteristics (but nicely designed packaging). We ended up going with a few RamSan cards (though, they have much uglier packaging).

We have a few high throughput MySQL instances that needed to perform better. The database in question is only a few hundred gigabytes in size, so it's a perfect fit for the current generation of server flash cards.

Our path for improving improving performance went:

- Started off with 32GB RAM and RAID-10 on SAS disks.
- iowait sat between 10% and 15% constantly.
- Moved up to 64GB RAM.
- iowait cut in half.
- Installed RamSan card and moved mysql with all databases to it.
- iowait became negligible.

Now the server sits there with a few hundred gigabytes of flash, 64GB RAM, and it looks completely idle on usage graphs, but it's serving data faster than ever.

They are nice devices if you can afford them (and tolerate their quirks like needing to be completely formatted during firmware upgrades).

[1]: http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-20.htm
Its also rarely seen as insulting these days.
Curious, did you get these performance gains with off-the-shelf Mysql+myisam, or did you consider YC company rethinkdb (http://www.rethinkdb.com/)?
Ringtone apps?
assembla is the other bigger one. Very slick too
This is the most interesting bit:

MySpace's new servers also replaced its high-performance
hosts that held data in large RAM cache modules, a costly
method MySpace had been using in order to achieve the
necessary throughput to serve its relational databases.
MySpace said its new servers using the NAND flash memory
modules give it the same performance as its older RAM
servers.

Given Facebook's dependence on memcached (look at some of the work they've done at optimizing the Linux network stack) I wonder if this is something they're considering. This is a pretty big leap in terms of performance. I just wish the cost wasn't so insane.

And the longevity of these drives is a concern. What happens when you run out of good bits in the drive?
Anyone can succeed in business and opportunities are open to all. I have worked with startups for over a quarter century and successful founders come in all sizes and shapes. A particularly shy person may not make a good CEO or a good salesperson but there are all manner of roles to be filled in such startups, for extrovert and introvert (and shy person) alike.

Plus, people can outgrow shyness, often by going through hardships that cause them to mature in that area (this happened to me years ago when everybody used to laugh at the idea that I would ever be a lawyer or particularly a litigator).

And ditto with the others who say that shyness is not directly connected with self-esteem - the two may sometimes be related but shyness can be caused by many factors having nothing to do with self-esteem.

The main keys to success in business are hard work, talent, and persistence, with personality being an entirely secondary factor.
Writing their own language/compiler surprised a lot of people:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html
It's Mercurial, but it is a bit odd that's not mentioned anywhere on the site. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they're planning on having it work with other VCSs?