skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the postscript he mentions:

[...] Well, actually, it could be made smaller. When Linux starts up a new executable, one of the things it does is zero out the accumulator (as well as most of the other registers). Taking advantage of this fact would have allowed me to remove the xor [...]

Removing the xor reduces the program size to 43 bytes. Closer, but not there yet :-)

However, neither the original nor the 43-byte version run on my machine [1]. The first is simply Killed, the second doesn't even load: cannot execute binary file.

[1] Linux 2.6.28 i686 (Ubuntu 9.04 on Pentium M)
"Lay-person misunderstands cryogenics"
I think crazy size optimization like that is a fun exercise, but I completely disagree with your "sadly" there. Avoiding the need to do all this silly micro-optimization means more time to create things that people actually care about and want to use.

Yes, modern software is comparatively huge and bloated, but the less your average programmer has to worry about code size and speed, the larger the the body of useful applications we'll have.
Dilettantes?
It looks at the last n comments, so when a high scoring comment passes outside that window, your average will go down.
For the record - I consider it way beyond dispute; mostly caused by human activities; I try to limit my carbon footprint (not driving, etc...).

And I'm attempting to develop a "car conversion" kit to convert popular family cars to be plug-in hybrids. Very interesting project involving designing and building new wheel-hub motors + electronics and software.

Having been in software all my professional life, the largest shock when moving into "real" manufacture is how slow it is to get stuff made - considerably longer than a compile.
> What does it matter why amazon introduced EBS here? It doesn't.

Sure it does, because the reason is precisely that EBS is the only option for non-volatile storage in the Amazon cloud. This comes free for nonvolatile storage comes free with every Cloud Servers vm, up to the limits you mentioned, instead of having to pay extra for EBS to get that feature.

All I was saying was this is a fine tradeoff for most users. No need to get defensive. :)
1 in 500 ? That's a whole lot higher than I would expect!
Charlie O'Donnell is the biggest, most well-known nontrepreneur.

I have another word for them though: scenesters
If you use a Mac, Omni Outliner (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/) is pretty good.
I agree. A lot of designers excel at making things that are nice to look at but not especially nice to use. I've always thought of this as a sort of "heaviness" -- the design has so much inertia that you're reluctant to manipulate it. This Facebook makeover, with its non-standard fonts and metallic sheen, feels really heavy.
I don't have a suggestion for a new word, since many of the others are so good. But it's just procrastination, when you come down to it, and it probably has different root causes in everyone who exhibits it.

But, as somebody who procrastinated for 6 years and then in the past year has shipped 4 new products, I can tell you... whatever you call it, whatever the reason you do it, it's a symptom, not the disease.

Find the root of the disease, work to fix it, and you will get rid of the symptoms.
Would you consider him a nontrepreneur or an entrepreneur? If we're going to go coining things like "nontrepreneur" what is then the difference between a nontrepreneur and an entrepreneur?

Is it actually filing for incorporation? If so, then what about all the people who are working on ideas but haven't incorporated yet?

Where do you draw the line?
I don't see how Moore can blame Capitalism for big government intervention (bailing out banks) led by his Democratic friends. Seems more like a hit on central banking. (But maybe that's too Jeffersonian for Moore.)
The original runs fine for me[1], but if you actually read the last bit of the article, you'll see that there's no way to get it below 45 bytes and convince the kernel to still run it. The 45th byte specifies the number of entries in the program header table, and that can't be zero (or missing).

[1] Linux 2.6.31 x86_64
CCNx: Content-Centric Networking protocol, from PARC
Code, with a sample application: http://github.com/ProjectCCNx/ccnx
I think it's important to draw a distinction between Wave the protocol and Wave the browser-based client implementation.

The problems that you mention seem to be specific to the web client (having to click the 'done' button, where replies show up).

The concept & protocol doesn't seem to be related to those usability issues. I do agree that, if they have any "design thinkers" working on this, it isn't showing through, though!
Wow, it soulds like you invented blogs almost 5 years before Evan Willams started Blogger.
* I am definitely no corporate exec, and never worked in a large company.*

But you sound like one; you dont have to work at a corporation to have that approach.

There is nothing wrong with talking and acting like that - the only thing is you probably wont find anyone here willing to work like that :)

pg has an excellent essay called Hackers & Painters which explains, basically, why you don't want the hackers you'll find here. We dont implement ideas :)

Ultimately:

I don't want to overly put my balls on the line unless I absolutely must.

That is probably the main reason you wont find anyone here to help you out. And is definitely the reason YC would almost certainly turn you down. We put our balls on the line with ease - because that's how you make good software :D
Gensyms.

Red is ineffable because it's a neuron that flips from nay to yea. Of course nobody can share your experience - they haven't got the neuron that plays the role of "yup, that's red alright". They've got their own.
I think of 5 paragraph essays as a construction used by teachers so they can evaluate how well a student is learning the process, akin to "showing your work" in mathematics. More of a scaffold for the learning process than anything else.
http://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/blob/master/doc/fugitiv...

Would've been better had the submitter actually linked to the readme...
The five steps in the writing process: Planning, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Formatting.

Formatting is last. This is why I like to write in plain text (I use emacs, but that's not really important). When I use something like MS Word, formatting is in your face from the get-go (probably 80% of the toolbar and menu items concern formatting), and I tend to sidetrack into formatting too much at the expense of properly organizing my ideas.
Whatever happened to the word "poser?" Is that too nineties? Maybe "poseur" is more classic. But "fake it 'till you make it" is still a pretty good description of learning in many domains.
I understand greed as desire to control, posses or consume, even beyond the point where it does you or your environment any good. And on that account infants are already more differentiated in their behaviour. They pursue only as long as it does them good (in most cases).

There are the kids which cling to this one toy car which is suddenly in very high regard among two friends, but there are also those which give it willingly away, once the other child starts crying or only looking very sadly. Compassion over greed. I see that quite often.

So I don't think one can say that in the infant (as a "pure" human, which has not been moderated by social norms) you can see that "humans are greedy." And even less so that holds for adults.
> What I don't get is why the newspapers don't shut Google down in their robots.txt...

That's because their real motives have nothing to do with what they are saying.

You can't assume that they want what they say they want because, of course, they are completely capable of making it happens -- as you say, with robots.txt. It's trivial and I can guarantee you that they're aware of that fact.

What they are probably angling for is some kind of legal settlement, either a lump sum or royalties for when their search results are shown, or Google uses their content to compute rank, or some kind of special treatment, a special relationship with Google.

To really remove themselves from Google would be shooting themselves in the foot, and doubtless they know it.

Or, like you said, they want Google to pay for a firehose. But why would Google pay for a firehose when the content is right there on their sites, which Google indexes anyway?

People, you've got to be more multi-layered in your thinking. I know nerds are known to be more literal than most, but you can't go through the world thinking that other people are like you. You have to compare people's actions, with what they say, and figure out what the gestalt means. And you have to question a person's motives for saying a thing.

Speaking, writing and publicizing are not just low-bandwidth means of transferring pure information.

No human communication ever is.
That applies to nearly all of my failures. :-)
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As side from definition, I think of capitalism as an algorithm with no inherent moral obligation. It's neither good or evil. Thus it's critical to apply capitalism only where it fits.

When a business's profit is proportional to the well being of the mass, then capitalism is great.

Problem arise when profit is proportional the degradation of the public health, the number of wars being waged, and the amount of people being imprisoned.

Then of course we have to "regulate" it.

Some may say capitalism is "in-efficient" when it's regulated. I completely agree, in the sense that any algorithm is in-efficient when there is more over heard.

It may be easier to think of the task of improving the state of the world as a global optimization problem in computation. Experienced computer scientists will tell you that the hardest part of an optimization problem is defining exactly what is to be optimized - Think fitness measure in a genetic algorithm.

This make sense. We can make an algorithm as efficient as possible, but if we are optimizing the wrong thing then all the work are pointless.

As complex as the world is, I can't bring myself to believe that profit alone is enough as the fitness measure. That's why people have proposed adding other measures such as carbon emission credit to be traded in a capitalistic algorithm. (Maybe we should even add more measures such as health and education credit.)

Some may call this "regulating" capitalism. I personally think it's just redefining the fitness function, which is a very sensible thing to do in terms of computation.
Well, it's the study of knowledge, strictly speaking, which has little to do with worldviews.
Sounds like you went to a bad public school. Except for personal finance my high school hit those well. I've always thought if we can have drivers ed and health in school we should have a personal finance class though.
Checkout www.browsermob.com. They offer essentially the same service and let you try it out first.
There's something to be said for a simple Google-esque user interface, but I can't think of any time when a user has contaced me and said something like:

"I think the software you've written is perfect - it doesn't need any more changes and it does absolutely everything I want it to do".
pretty idiotic reasoning. go back to school bud.
There's thefunded.com if you like your snark with a side order of nihilism.
Chinese Twitter users live in a density 2x to 8x their English counterparts.
He left out the all-important sixth step: "Compiling."

("If you can spell

int main(int argc; char* argv[]);

you can learn how to spell its and it’s!" -- page 47)
I think you're echoing more directly what I intended to say. I didn't coin the term "nontrepreneur" and I doubt it's a terribly useful term. The person I mentioned is certainly an entrepreneur.
I have been explaining the "capitalism is only efficient if the incentives are aligned with what is best for society" concept a lot lately in the healthcare debate.

If the industry got paid for making people healthier, we would be much healthier.

They are currently paid for treatments performed, based on price.

Thus they optimize for lots of expensive treatments.

There is a correlation between lots of expensive treatments and health, but not a direct one. The only direct result is higher spending on health care.

If we paid for outcome, healthcare would undoubtedly be cheaper, and probably better as well.
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Using the ssh host as a SOCKS proxy in combination with http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c is a lot easier than adding a separate tunnel for each host on the other side of the wall, as long as the intermediate host allows you to use it as a SOCKS proxy (DynamicForward option of ssh).
Twitter as the 'hive mind'.

I'm sure that's already being done, your proposal would formalize it. Sort of an amazon mechanical turk (quite apt, given the example of a chess move) but with twitter users as the 'execution units'.

The fine-grained coverage would actually be a pretty good help as well. Maybe somehow couple it with location ? First to do 'x' will get 'y', tweet filtered by something that knows roughly who is where so you don't get overloaded with things you can't do ?
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Remember my web app HipHopGoblin.com? Well, about a month ago, I wrote up a blog post detailing what I had learned and posted it up on HN [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824905]. In part, I explained how I had used Twitter to promote the website: I scanned for artists mentioning certain keywords, and then auto-followed them. This got me a lot of exposure, and a lot of gratitude from people who were glad to find the site.

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Well, the 140 characters might be a limitation factor (although it helps being concise ...)
I do this all the time! Usually I get this funny feeling when I am writing a paragraph which is unclear/going all over the place. I keep the idea I am working on in that instant in my head. Then I delete the entire paragraph and start again.
Of course it only looks odd. There is no magic to it.
Thank you. The white text on a red background was killing me.
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Compulsory school attendance (as contrasted with tax-supported provision of schools) came later in American history. And the history of the colonies where Puritans were not the majority was also different. But Americans in general cherished literacy, and got that without much school attendance. When Horace Mann finally made school attendance compulsory in the modern sense in the 1850s in Massachusetts, he reported in his Common School Journal that more than 90 percent of the inhabitants of Massachusetts were literate. Earlier, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Is it a right or a duty in society to take care of their infant members in opposition to the will of the parent? . . . It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by the forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father. What is proposed here is to remove the objection of expense, by offering education gratis . . ."

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Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales
Self-optimizing data structures: using types to make lists faster
"So cheap that I convinced a lot of my friends to sponsor my new home"

What?

Maybe it's because I'm in the UK, but I don't understand this at all - why would friends sponsor your new home? And what does it mean? Do they just buy all your stuff for you?
If the bar gets raised and startups have to do more to get investment is that a bad thing?

Or is that returning to where investment should be? Where the good stuff (and we know its good because the team rocks and/or because they're accelerating) and everything else has to work even harder to get there.
doesn't twitter ban people for doing this?
Well, by "destruction" what I mean is that

1) In 1850 55% of Americans listed their occupation as farmer or farm laborer. Now it's about 1%. Source here:

http://flare.prefuse.org/apps/job_voyager

2) Regarding plays (Broadway and elsewhere), they've died in the sense that they represent a much smaller fraction of the entertainment dollar relative to movies.
They haven't added any fundamental innovations that Facebook hasn't already implemented.

This is an example of the worst kind of design, where the designer has gone through a self-absorbed process of moving around and resizing elements that Facebook created through years of experience with real users.
How to beat information overload
Technically, the term is forever students and it dates back to 17-18th century, when Peter the Great was sending lots of young Russians to European universities to study everything there was to study. Some ended up studying .. well .. forever, merely accumulating knowledge. Hence the name.
I convinced a lot of my friends to sponsor my new home

$2000 bed frame

WTF?
I can't agree with you more. How can we implement such an incentive alignment?

It's quite hard. Yes, true health care should be preventive, but this also means money is paid before any health problem occurs. Yet the general public are reactionary consumers. Why would they pay when they are still healthy?

Perhaps you have a better suggestion.
Academic research is about publishing papers and little else. Prototypes are rarely iterated beyond proof-of-concept. The people you mention probably left academia exactly because they had to in order to realize their ideas.
Good question. In my experience, no. There are many other apps that do the same thing, and this one is especially geared towards finding high-quality keywords. In fact, we only follow 25/day, so that we can slowly figure out which keywords work and which ones don't. The ultimate goal is to follow keywords that convert at 20%+, which is easily doable.

That being said, Twitter reserves the right to do whatever they want at any time. But this is non-aggressive, and we're discouraging "spammy" behavior.
The business person makes decisions which allocate money provided by investors; it is unlikely that the executive is the only, or even the majority, investor in the business.
It is easy to be cheap when your friends are buying you a $2,000 bed frame.

$2,000 can get you a nice vacation for two or a lot of food.
Wow. Your website is a very blatant ripoff of Basecamp's design. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but yours is a little over the line.
I'd guess that for quite a few people on this site, C is closer to their native language than English...

(I'm not an example. My English was good enough to read books about three years before I learned C.)
Anyone who wants to can opt out.

I personally know an author who is simply delighted that google is making his (out of print) book available. I think he will even get payment if someone wants the whole book.
Profit? Really? Taking on debt is not considered profit in my books...
Why in the world would my comment get down-voted? The layout and design elements are practically identical.
But the Puritans were a minority in early America. The economic heart of early America is the Cheseapeake and south, and there was not much public education there. It wasn't until the 1830s that it became common for some primary schooling in the south, and even then it was only 1-2 years for basic literacy and arithmetic. Only the richest went to academies or seminaries (in the original meaning of the word). Literacy became much more common by the mid 1800s. Not sure when near universal literacy took place but I'd say 19th century over 18th for sure.

Wide spread college attendance is really only in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
I downvoted you because I did not think it is a "blatant ripoff".
I have to agree, it's a bit overly similar (mostly because of the top bar). However, I trust that Zack will be going back to that design and updating it over the next few days. A design is a pretty easy thing to change, and I don't see anything morally wrong with using someone else's design as a starting point.
did you look at http://basecamphq.com ?

The only similarity is the top header black bar.
Arghh, you are right. I wonder if this will make any difference in my Project Euler problem solutions.
The thing I found really interesting was the disparity in size of investment between Europe and the US (with the UK in the middle).

Anything like this is going to miss a lot of small angel activity, but the mean European investment is barely half the size of the typical American one. There'll be some significant skew from the outsize Facebook/Twitter $100m+ rounds – it'd be interesting to work out what the median round size is too.
"The rise of American education was, overwhelmingly, the rise of public education — and for the past 30 years our political scene has been dominated by the view that any and all government spending is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Education, as one of the largest components of public spending, has inevitably suffered." - Paul Krugman

So Mr. Krugman thinks we should throw more money at the problem by way of State stimulus? A quick look at the figures would tell anyone that funding isn't the primary issue.

Current expenditure per pupil in 2006 dollars

1961 - $2,670

2008 - $9,391

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
Yet another stack exchange site.

Sorry if I seem negative, but I find it hard to get excited about these by now.
Or, instead of the mind producing conscious experience could conscious experience be mind producing?
zaid.farooqui at gmail

Would love to give it a shot!
Go look at http://basecamphq.com/ again. The layout, fonts, and styling are all clearly pulled from the marketing website.
Yeah, I think such a move would hurt Murdoch and AP more than it would hurt Google. I understand contextual advertising, I suspect that Google makes far less than average on searches for news related terms, because people aren't looking to buy something, or solve a problem.

And while they are at it, they should cut off access to customers on ISPs that are pursuing an anti-net-neutrality agenda.

In both cases, I think Google would be better fit out for a war of attrition than their adversaries. On the other hand, Google probably doesn't want to hand Microsoft any opportunities right now by cutting off ISPs.
The other problem the big newspapers chains have is that many of them have substantial debut burdens, which is, again, something a lot of smaller locally owned papers didn't have the privilege or inclination to do.
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