skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they're cheaper, while also offering a not-insubstantial bump to 128 GB of storage!"

This kind of hand waving irritates me to no end. There are a ton of different ways of measuring i/o performance, and I'm sure the author knows this. To say that the Indilinx based SSD drives are "just as fast" as the Intel SSDs is simply not true. Let's take my favorite way of measuring drive performance, 4KB random write speed.

Intel: 5923 IOPS (23.1 MB/s)

Indilinx: 1275 IOPS (6.47 MB/s)

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&p=3

Granted this article is a few months old, perhaps the firmware for the Indilinx controller has gotten faster, or perhaps the Crucial 128GB drive uses a different Indilinx controller than the 'barefoot' model profiled in the article, but I doubt it.
It's refreshing to know that we don't need to be completely new with our idea/approach.
I don't see how. The maps used by OpenStreetMap are under a free license, Wikimapia is just proprietary (Google) maps with a bit of user data on top. It's like comparing Wikipedia to Encyclopedia Brittanica with user comments.
I quite like seeing what showed up on cederman.net (I've had cederman.com for 10 years now)
you can mount portions of your ram and use them, but you should be aware that the files need to be put back on a disk before you turn the machine of ;)
Tuning of CFQ - What Station is That
The first sentence gives a reasonable summary of the impression I got from ILC:

> CLforJava is an ongoing project in the Computer Science department of the College of Charleston to educate students in modern software engineering practices by having serial groups of students build a complex product over several semesters.

The goal isn't (exactly) for a guy to produce a new CL implementation, but to educate students.
2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles Released
The article is just fine. Its theme is "second ideas that were more successful than original ones", and the Odeo guys' decision to switch focus to Twitter is a classic recent example.

The blurb had all of three sentences. To take up such limited space with an irrelevant distinction between Odeo and Obvious would obviously have been odious.
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned much is that Ubuntu One is integrating CouchDB.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/Integrating...

Also perhaps it seems like every install of Ubuntu will eventually come with CouchDB?
"running leisurely for 20-30mn" is not hard work, so I guess you won't have a hard time recovering from it, if at all. OTOH a real challenging workout requires a recovery period, since it causes some "damage".

Looks like the body has trouble fighting off a disease while recovering from hard work. But no physical activity at all has a debilitating effect. It makes sense.

In my experience I never had trouble fighting a disease when I work out hard; I guess it has something to do with a better diet and better sleep quality.
Kindle lightens textbook load, but flaws remain
The article lists the guy's income as $34000 and the woman's as $40000. Even in 2000 when employment was high, Wikipedia lists (for Mechanicsville, VA) "median income for a family was $62,209." So even in "hard times" their income is far above the median in good times.
Like anything in life, it's about balance. Eat healthy and balanced diet and exercise 3 to 4x a week. If you over extend yourself, you will get hurt or sick. Ditto if you do nothing and overeat.
Flickr seems like a fairly large omission as well.
I don't say that they are useless. Point is that they are crawling the content, wasting bandwidth without paying for it.

The engines make the big money, not the webmasters.
http://www.google.com/products?q=netbook&oe=utf-8&hl...;
Actually it's called wikifieldtrip.org too.
Your 'about us' section is sort of buzzword bingoish. What do you actually do?

http://www.causata.com/about
Just say the price went up due to unexpectedly high demand.

I did say that. The issue is that I need 2 names: a name for the stores charging $450 (and are out of stock) and another name for the stores charging $600+.

I chose "gouging" and "non-gouging". Concise, and everyone who read it understood what I meant to say. I'm not seeing any real alternatives being offered, except to replace clear, concise, universally understood words with tedious explanations.
When the Intel X25 SSDs first came out, IMVU bought them for every engineer in the company. From a cold boot, Visual Studio starts in half a second. Subversion got dramatically faster. Boot times are a fraction of what they were before.

Some of my computers are cpu-bound on disk operations now.

If you run an engineering team, make the investment.
Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
I do 30 minutes of treadmill every day (between 6 and 9 Km/h, with 4%-12% inclination) and my feeling is that my body really enjoy this. It seems natural btw that stressing too much the body is not a good idea for your immune system.
I had read a couple of pages in the book on linear regression and was very impressed by the way concepts had been explained. Although approach is very mathematical, I will recommend this book to anybody serious about Machine Learning
Duplicate Post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879423
Agreed, but slamming Dave Cutler's work on the NT kernel, as huhtenberg did, sounds more like trolling than anything else to me. (Regardless of your opinion of Microsoft.)
Not really an easy thing to judge on a personal level, because you weren't simultaneously trying the other approach of light (or no) exercise.
The Nation's Greenest Universities: Top Eco-Friendly Colleges
Colleges and their students seem to think climate change is a vital issue, and their beliefs are reflected in their commitments to sustainability and the environment.
People should not be given rights that require someone provide something for them.

I read: "People should not be given rights to trial by jury or elections". The former requires that random citizens be selected to give up their time for my sake. The latter requires that random government-types go out of their way to organize the whole bloody thing, which is both extraordinarily expensive and inconvenient. Both "require someone provide something for them". Edit: For that matter, what about universal education, as well?

I know the above is clearly not what you intended. Nonetheless, it follows logically from your statements. Perhaps you could clarify your stance?
Yes but they weren't aiming for median - they were aiming for rich.

Suppose you became/married a doctor, bought the nice house and BMW - then the hospital started paying $10/hour.
Hey it's twice minimum wage what are you complaining about ?
i want an invite; arion.hardison [@] gmail.com
> Tax you.

The philosophical question is, "Are you willing to imprison or harm someone who refuses to do things for other people they don't believe in?"

"Tax you" does not answer that question. If you request or demand someone contribute (in this case, broadband internet in rural areas), and they refuse to do so, are you willing to arrest or harm them?
I’m Moving from Backpack to Springpad — Here’s Why
In the first experiment's and 2nd experiment's experimental group, it sounds like the mice over trained. It's a commonly known phenomena among athletes and these symptoms certainly sounded like it.

It would have been more interesting if they had trained the mice up over a longer period of time and then exposed them to flu.
It's a smug joke!

It's like Ritchie being asked what was the main fault in the C language - he said the 'CREAT' flag to open() should have been 'CREATE'
I thought he was referring to the http:// or ftp://. Without them it could be http:news.ycombinator.com or ftp:someserver.org.

Edit: Ok I reread your comment and understand it better. That could be a problem but there could be other solutions, but at the moment, I don't care to think them through.
Using Bing’s API To Create A Custom Search Engine
We're not trying to hide it; trust me. In fact, we consider using Mercurial a really big selling point. We're just still working on clarifying the website.
Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader.
I don't control that piece, unfortunately. And until we release our product (which is soon), it's hard for me to say much more.

The best I can suggest is to read the company blog: http://www.causata.com/blog/
yes u misunderstood it.

on reddit/digg, people submit the actual news link that generated the comments based on that news

my idea is, people submit the comment first on any specific topic that result people produced a 'news' based on that comments
connor.baskauskas [@] gmail.com if you have any invites left.

Thanks!
A good discussion of the downside of having board observers but, bottom line, this is a valuable tool for effecting compromises when negotiating among investors and is therefore very often just a necessary (and manageable) price to pay for closing your funding round effectively or otherwise breaking sometimes tricky roadblocks among different people seeking a say in the startup's business.

Once a startup has been VC-funded, control issues are inevitably a delicate proposition and this is just one more (and comparatively minor) piece of the normal balancing act.

Essential point of the piece (and a good one): as an entrepreneur, when considering the board-observer role, don't forget the human element of how someone can sway others even without formal authority and thereby affect the dynamic of your board.
"give me my SSD"

In what sense is the SSD you haven't paid for that they do not offer, 'yours'?
You should read about Godel's incompleteness theorem, if you haven't already.
AppEngine is pretty much awesome when you want to reduce web portal hosting costs. I am rewriting/augmenting a Rails web app in JRuby + Sinatra + DataMapper so it will run well on either Java AppEngine or one of my own servers using (C)Ruby. If my project gets a lot of users I would like to keep my costs down. (I usually deploy to Amazon AWS, but if you can live within the AppEngine restrictions, then AppEngine is even cheaper than Amazon.)

The ability of receiving email sounds good, but I usually only use this for new account verification - with AppEngine you can just use Google accounts.
* 1 frame = 16 kilopixels, each of them having, say, a monochromatic value in the [0,15] range ==> 1 frame = 64 kilobits.

* framerate = 1M fps = 10^6 * 64 kilobits/sec = 64 gigabits/sec.

* how big is the wire?... My guess is it's bigger than a neural connection. :)
When an injury or real life makes it next to impossible to train, I usually get sick more often. But you're right, I'm speaking only of my own experience.
If you'd like to see exactly how a macbook pro with an Intel X25-M feels like, I made a video to give you an idea: http://vimeo.com/7057850
I remember reading an article some time back that students graduating in a recession year start with a lower salary than usual (expected), but that effect persists well into their careers (unexpected). I wonder if taking a 50% pay cut now will impair his earning potential for the rest of his career.
It is, and I've had some of the bad chargers as well. Usually, however, I have to press my ear against the brick to hear it at all, and have really good hearing.
The VC firm I used to work at only took Board Observer spots, even in situations when we'd lead deals. The reason for this was essentially cultural (it was a captive arm of a much larger company), but I still think Observer roles are OK even without external considerations. To me, the argument is that every new person you put in that room introduces this element - this is essentially an argument for smaller Boards, not that Observers are bad.

Lookit, I refuse to believe that a Board Observer can really wheedle three other high-ego VC Partners to a terrible decision that they would otherwise have avoided. And if it can happen, then what's to say that the opposite can't happen - that the Observer doesn't save the company from a disastrous outcome?

Selfishly, the opportunity to go to a few board meetings - both alone and with the partner - was great for me personally. I got a much better understanding of how to run a meeting, what's discussed, what materials, and what does and does not come up for a vote. I think that information had made me a better entrepreneur, because I get a much better sense for what's really important.
EXACTLY, thanks for the details :)
may be the practicalities is stil unseen but i think it is fun to know that your comments getting buzz. maybe we can call it custom news, similar to threadless doing custom shirt where at the end the highest vote got selected
I'm guessing here, but it was probably something like:
"The attached encrypted word doc exposes an IT security flaw of one of your systems. It is weakly encrypted and should be easy for you to break."

Or he could have just emailed them the document and called them to tell them the password.
No, he was at university at the time and wanted to earn big money in the banking system. He has since graduated and is working for a financial firm.
I think crunchgear stepped into the metaphor here. I don't see anything in the actual article, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091013210441.ht... that talks about it being small enough to fit in a cell. This quote is probably what lead them astray…

So it is possible, for example, to go inside neurons and look at their ion channels

…but the speaker is in the context of examining fluorescence through a microscope.
He was open about who he was. He sent the email from an easily identifiable email account.
probably but with actual human touch instead of bot
This is a tough topic.

On one hand, people really shouldn't end up financially devastated after treating an illness. I'm sure we all feel some mental stress at the thought that if something catastrophic and unexpected happens we may be financially screwed the rest of our lives.

On the other hand...a lot of people do a lot of stupid things that I don't necessarily want to pay for. Smoking and obesity are two very costly life style choices (Note: I'm aware some people are obese because of medical reasons, I'm not talking about them). And I'm not sure I feel it's fair to pass those costs onto the rest of us who don't smoke and keep a healthy weight and keep our cholesterol and blood pressure and whatnot in a healthy range. Ultimately though, we could get way too nitpicky about "who is doing what to themselves and shouldn't get covered".

In a perfect world I think a non-profit health insurance system should be created that everyone has to buy into. On top of that, to keep costs down, the majority of people would try to stay healthy and doctors wouldn't be paid per test. However, I don't think anything we do will work unless we address why health care costs so much and start taking responsibility for our own health.
I also came from a poor family. I wish public education hadn't existed, because I believe there would have been private teachers to pay by the lesson. I think I'd have learned more and gone further if I'd spent a mix of time helping work for my uncle and paying teachers by the lesson for the classes I thought were really worthwhile.
Oh. Jason Calacanis. I'd forgotten all about him. Is there any chance you could stop mentioning him so I could completely free up that part of my memory for something else?
That is extremely interesting! I don't think they have him on any terrorism list though. He traveled to New York recently without any fuss.
I probably should have labeled it to make it clear that I was interested in a skeptical discussion of the claim.
Those complaints about the cost are hilarious. Either the person making them is a kid, or they have no "on-board" memory between their ears at all. The first 5 Gig HD I bought was a cheapo Maxtor at Staples and it set me back $500 about 10 years ago.
Am I the only one bored with Martin Fowler and the whole 1990s object oriented schtick? It was so refreshing last to see articles on fork() and waitpid()...
I haven't heard the phrase 'positive' and 'negative' rights before but this is how I understand it: If we were to wash ashore on a desert island, everyone could do whatever they wanted. Inevitably, some people would start to harm each other. The harmed would then gang up to overthrow those who started the fight. The gang is called government and it's members agree to renounce some of their rights to grant it _powers_. Fearing that the gang itself would turn into another oppressor the members wisely choose to limit the newfound powers to only apply against those who initiate force. Thus the purpose and scope of government is maximize the rights of individuals by delineating the boundaries between my rights and yours. I do not have the right to force you to provide me with broadband because you have your own rights. I agree that I do not have this right because I consent to maintaining some government.

Another limitation on the power granted to government is that illegitimate force is defined by the people--not the government. The government is an employee of the people that has to check in every so often. If I don't like that you won't take a shovel, dig up a trench to my house and some copper to fill it; I can't extort it from you by accusing you of stealing my car so that the government will punish you on my say-so. This is where juries come in--part of the eternal vigilance we pay to retain freedom. If we as a people want the government to punish wrong-doing, we have to sign off on it. We agree to do it on a case by case basis because we don't trust the police or judges to not abuse their position in any given case. It's another part of the rights that we delegate to create the powers.
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thanks
The performance decrease is mitigated or eliminated with TRIM support. The idea that you can wear out your SSD appears to be little more than urban legend at this point, as even with absolutely absurd and obscene levels of load, they will still last longer than your magnetic drives.

Oh, yeah, BTW, you do realize that it's not a question of whether your magnetic drive will die but when, right? No fair comparing SSDs to a hypothetical magnetic drive that will "never" die. If you're actually worried about data integrity, I'd trust a well-manufactured SSD over a magnetic drive any day, though whether or not the current crop qualify as "well-manufactured" is something that is hard to determine. (I have no data either way.)
Forget medicine. If you have a 128x128 pixel imaging chip that is sensitive to single photons I want it in a secondary camera on my iPhone so I can find my way in the dark.

I know, space is tight, how about making it look out of one of the sides? I can hold the phone flat and landscape for night vision. That is probably safer than walking around in the dark with a phone held in front of my face.
Rights are freedom from others, protection from violence, force, etc. They are not freedom to services provided by other people. To claim a right to services is to take away the "traditional" rights of the people who will be forced to provide and pay for those services. This creates a conflict, whereas the right to freedom is equal for everyone.
I guess you could look at the right to a trial by jury as the right to be not tried by a single person.

Tangentially related, Richard Dawkins wrote an interesting piece arguing against trials by jury, although I confess that I'm having trouble finding a full copy of it now; http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/04B41355-BD6A-4BB8-A8C6-AB824B... has part of it, but I think that there was more.

But is Dawkins right? The jury's still out on that.
Does Baseball Need Umpires?
A pipeline so big it'll move the markets
Fair enough... I figured it was something along those lines. I would put something 'tempting' (we can't say just what, but we're working on something that will ...) rather than something buzzwordish myself, though.
I read about 15 years ago that the most common reason for divorce is that the wife is unsatisfied with their husband's income.
Why say that "luckiness doesn't really exist"? I expected you to say something like, luckiness is just the term that people have always used as a catch-all to sum up all the things that matter, but they lack the ability to describe in any further detail.
Goodbye, Macroeconomics
I don't begrudge you your education, but it's worth noting that most private schools (ie: schools that aren't a "positive right") offer need based financial aid.

That's really just a roundabout way of saying: in a rich society, it's feasible to think that you might well have received an education even without a public school system.
Not going to touch on the finer points of the atheltisim of the mice. As your right it would clearly alter the results.

But I do have a question.

What is the ratio of 30 minutes of exercise for a mouse compared to a human. As I would be highly surprised if its 1 to 1.

This article reinforces the need to listen to your body and react accordingly.

On a side note for those looking for ideas.

Based on the example in the article...

I would happily volunteer to take a saliva test before running and after. To help build up the data available for the test.

A website to cater for "crowd sourced data" scientific discovery would be an amazing site. ( clearly there would be pitfalls, im just throwing it out there )
Visits on our site over the last month were 14% direct, 5.7% searching for our name, according to GA.

If you are unsure of the domain name, Google is definitely the more trustworthy option.
Yeah it does. try this:

paulgraham.com://articles.html

The separators aren't to be matched globally, their order in the URL matters. The first // separates protocol from host. The second // isn't really - it's one slash to separate path from host, and the second slash is part of the path.
But them slashdot would have been colondot. Somehow it doesn't work as well.
It's the difference between a 18 year old French speaker that learned French from the cradle, and a 43 year old French speaker that learned French to fluency in college.
Thanks, Val. From http://www.petersons.com/collegeprofiles/Profile.aspx?inunid..., it looks like Gallatin only does master's degrees, but this shows that someone has been exploring in this direction.
"Tax you" is exactly the answer to that question. Taxes are not optional and there are penalties for refusing to pay them. That's how governments work.
Just mentioned this myself here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881488
HN meetup in Chicago
Singapore gets a hackerspace
In France and the rest of Europe they are discussing laws to shut people off the internet for pirating stuff on the internet. In that light I am not sure if the law in question here is really an obligation - it could just prevent somebodies internet connection being taken, rather than forcing "somebody" to provide.

It depends on the details, I guess. I am also against having support people living in remote areas with my phone bill - they chose to live there themselves, so they should cough up the higher connection costs, or move to a city like everybody else.
You're last point was well presented. I have never looked at salary based compensation in that way. But it does make a lot of sense now.
It has blades: Dyson’s little white lie
The only problem I've had with ABCL is that the scripting engine part puts scripts into the ABCL-SCRIPT package automatically.

I didn't realize this until I looked at the source code, so I guess the documentation could use some work...