skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Sillett is amazing and has definitely made an impact on Redwood forestry by taking a top-down approach when analyzing trees. No one before has made it up into the canopies of these massive trees. The discovery of reiterations (the growth of new trees and different plant species in the old growth Redwood canopy) has increased interest in old growth timber stands. Furthermore, the proof that the rate of added timber volume increases as Redwoods age will make land owners think twice before harvesting their stands solely for revenue-generating purposes.

I believe that with the help of Ken Fisher and the Save the Redwoods League, Sillett and his crew will be able to analyze the last frontier of Redwoods -- the tree's root structure.

I'm a third generation California timber land owner, so stuff like this gets me excited. Nothing like softwood and software :)
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Our ancestor Ardi walked tall
Looks like they made a mistake on the intervals in #14. 20,000- 100,000 then 10,000 to 500,0000 and then over 50,000?
I went and had a look, but it wasn't running. Apparently, it's usually on between 10am and 3pm (though that's not stated on their website).

There was a sample book, and though the cover and binding were great, the printing was a significantly less bold than a real book. Maybe low toner, but that was the show-off "sample" book... The print also looked just like those pdf's you see of scanned books - not as good as a real book. I was unimpressed, because I think it could easily look much better.

The catalog is only about 100 books, more expensive than I'd thought, starting at about $16 AUD (about $14 USD). Range should change with Google's massive out-of-copyright catalog - price too, I hope.
But isn't it true that scaling is not linear with dollars/development effort spent?
A good example of a "hybrid book" is the free physics textbook Motion Mountain (http://www.motionmountain.net/). It includes many animations, videos, and links.
For those of you who haven't been to China, the skies are always overcast.
"but I just hope that it doesn't continue to have undue influence on the evolution of programming language and methodologies simply because it is a revered institution."

I would tweak that to "... programming language and methodologies accepted by the mainstream...". Java is already not stopping many very different streams of development from existing at all, but the question is whether anything that isn't Algol-derived can be the next big mainstream language. That syntax is really starting to creak under the load of all the stuff that even C# loads onto it, and the Next Big Enterprise Language really needs to not be that way. (I make no claims as to what it should actually be, though.)
It would be awesome if they released the data in some form, the interesting questions would be.. how successful are bootstrapped vs. funded? How successful are multi-founder vs. single-founder. How do these number change when you look at founding date, etc.

I always hate when I see good data put into charts that basically tells you the least interesting part of the story.
Sounds like a good project! is the name an americanized version of "Tokyo Tyrant"?
You are completely right, when this is possible.

The problem is that it is often not possible. The team lead in charge of actual implementation often has limited control over who is on the team.

Even when the team leads have the luxury of chosing their own people, getting the type of people that understand capabilities like that and both can and will document them and refrain from abusing them are hard to find and expensive. Worse, if you need to hire from the outside, it can be very hard to know during a relatively short interview process if you have found such a person.

If the lead manages to get such a team together and finish the project, it still needs to be maintained, enhanced, and extended. Gaurunteeing that your entire string of maintainers will be at least good enough to understand not break this beautifully constructed project can be very hard indeed, even if you managed to carefully create documentation at every step and keep the documentation in synch.

In short, while a great idea in theory (and sometimes in practice) it may be nigh impossible in practice, especially for a mid sized or larger company.
Interesting...

I can still remember that I talked to one of the founder guys of directed edge at a party at the web 2.0 conference in Berlin last year, and he was like "ooh, you are one of the few here having an interesting project".

His project wasn't uninteresting as well ;). Good luck!
I would have guessed the opposite. It depends on what you are walking in to.

These are some pics from a hotel LAN at a place in Tortola I was at about this time last year:
http://www.karas.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2505
Not dissimilar to the OP case here, they were having "network issues" (this was not the reason for my business there, it became a side project), and their LAN was the result of someone who knew some fundamentals but was not a network guy by any means. I could tell more from 30 seconds of looking at this stuff than what they could ever describe to me (even if they had sent pictures).

A network that spans an 18 acre campus could vary from simple to mildly complex. The terrain and budget could suggest that alternative technologies might be more appropriate (PtP Wifi, Mesh, etc.) for some of the links being served by the fiber. Perhaps there are aspects of the fiber install that would indicate future potential failures and/or inabilities to recover from those failures.

A savvy network guy could assess and communicate this, but if they HAD a savvy network guy, this whole thread would have never existed.

So, IMO, an in-person trip is probably the most resourceful way to handle this. My guess would be a 3-4 day initial session, from which some recommendations could be made. After that it could be determined if they have the time/skills to implement the recommendations, or if the implementation should also be outsourced as well.
This website's is a wreckage in IE8, just so you know.
I'd like trying this to fine-grain my Erlang skills.
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4.4M year old Ardi skeleton has chimp and human features, UC-Berkeley scientists
Is there a reason for using Windows over Linux for *AMP type server any more?
Heh!

Funny story: so, my junior tech, who at some point had taken some Cisco course or another, had been tasked with finishing up some gigabit connections between two buildings.

In the main building, the network cabinet has two unmanaged Netgear Prosafe switches; one 10/100, and one gigabit.

Without thinking about it, he plugged some of the cables for the other building into one switch, and some into the other.

Both sets of cables ran to the other building, and then into another Netgear unmanaged switch. (There were multiple cables primarily for redundancy.)

So naturally the next day the network just starts going wild. He's tied a gigabit-size loop into the network, and the unmanaged switches are helpfully forwarding traffic back and forth to eachother, even though they're really not supposed to do that.

He's totally stumped. I get called in, sit down for a few minutes with tcpdump, and watch the traffic for a few devices on the network. Didn't take very long before I had a rough idea of what had happened, opened up the network cabinet, and found the misplaced connections.

So much for Cisco courses!
Site is dead, and I've learnt that google cache and wayback machine don't have it. EDIT it's not just me http://isitup.org/muckandbrass.com

Mirror anyone?
It would be interesting, they should derive that data from Crunchbase.
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I am an American; the rules of your local jurisdiction may vary. The government does not have the power to make me happy, in any useful sense of the term power. (It lacks both the capability and the authority, among other things.) It has the responsibility to protect my right to pursue happiness, and that is all.

In fact the government has great power to make me unhappy, and I have the right to pursue this problem electorally, but that's about it.

The article's point is once you start arguing against the preceding two paragraphs, you really ought to be aware that you just threw liberty out the window. The only way the government can make you happy is to exert an awful lot of control, and given how things actually turn out in real life, all that control is just as likely to make you unhappy, only, now, you have no recourse left, because what is making you unhappy is the Ultimate Authority.

It isn't inherently wrong, but it is inherently very suspicious, and for any given concrete proposal of how the government plans to make you happy, the odds of the specific proposal being inherently wrong are very high.

(I'm also reacting much more to the British thing than the proximate photoshopping debate, though I tend to think that anybody who still thinks that any magazine picture has any reality left to it is not going to notice or process a tiny little "This image may not be real" note. That is to say, this is a feel-good measure for the lawmaker, I don't see how it will actually change anything.)
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Okay, that analogy makes sense. As a technical and taxonomic language, yeah something really stable like Latin or Greek (also used a lot in medicine) is probably best. And yes, I was referring to the Church. Fortunately, Sun doesn't have that kind of influence or power, even if developers as a group can be quite dogmatic.
I seriously hope these chemicals underwent extensive testing and audits to ensure that there wouldn't be harmful side-effects. Casually spraying chemical coctails into the atmosphere is a good way to get everyone killed.
One of the great lessons I learned in college is that it is very difficult to fake skill. Indeed, skilled people have better long-term memories for domain information, encode domain-related information more efficiently. Similarly, skilled people are able to better deal with distracting tasks while still maintaining their train of thought in the domain-related area.

That being said, through the offhand way they impart information, it is clear that they have a significant degree of skill in their domain. (Short lookup times, unaffected by distraction). Moreover, their body language was not urgent or desperate. I have a sneaking suspicion that getting VC is like dating; the needy don't get fed.

So my advice to you: spend more time cultivating expertise in your field. This has multiple benefits: 1) you're more likely to actually succeed, and may be able to avoid having to take (YC) funding altogether; 2) you'll be able to talk offhand more easily about your startup.
With IE7, the site is basically empty. There's nothing after the line with the links to api, .... download on any of the pages.
Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man
Invite YC: Google App Engine Dev meetup in Palo Alto, Mon 10/5
Place: TIPS Group, 1000 Elwell Ct, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Time: Monday, Oct 5, 6:45 pm

Rafe Kaplan and Guido van Rossum (yes, that Guido) from Google's App Engine team will be on hand to explain what's going on in the App Engine SDK. Since there's little documentation on lower-level SDK programming and operation, this talk should be very useful to hardcore App Engine developers :)

Rafe will give the main talk covering these topics:

- Overview of protobufs

- Overview of apiproxy

- Async calling

- Call hooks

Guido will be giving an extended lightning talk and we'll be slotting a few more lightning talks to round out the evening.

Please RSVP if you plan on coming:

http://www.meetup.com/appengine/calendar/11447316/
I hope you sent her a message along the lines of "Ha-Ha!".
I can send you a High Quality PDF of the 11x17 poster mentioned in the post if you'd like to print it out.

Just shoot me an email at wade |at| 200nipples |dot| com.
Good points, a 'guru' on the spot can save (a lot) of time.

I've had to do some remote debugging of trouble and I found that it is quite taxing to 'talk someone through' the steps but eventually it did work.

It probably depends on how 'hands on' the issues are, if they're configuration issues or so then remote is probably ok, if they're related to physical stuff then onsite is probably much better.
Good point, but our problem is mostly that the startup involves several different applications and has to solve problems in a several different spaces.

We've got pretty solid expertise in all of the necessary fields, it's just a matter of getting the entire project described without forgetting anything important.
Good point. I don't have a good idea either what the Next Big Enterprise Language should be, but I'll bet that it will not be what it should be. I think an "Enterprise Language" is bound to be disappointing because it's a solution to an ugly problem: "How do we make developers interchangeable?"

I guess the rest of us will just continue along doing what we do with whatever tool we need for the job.
Will his default data store choice (Tokyo Tyrant) solve this? It could be a bit too early to answer that.
I never said there was a crisis. She certainly did work hard and get her degree.

I was just pointing out that there are people in the biological fields who deny evolution.
LA Times (HN) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855061
Seriously, some body should nominate him to Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/contact/faq/index.html#nominate
I volunteered at the Island School 4 years ago. I can attest that it is a beautiful remote spot. I was there helping out with their summer camp for middle schoolers and also working on some construction projects around the campus. I'd go back if I had the networking experience. Depending on my mood I found it peaceful or lonely as it is very isolated and I saw only 50 people total in the 1 month I was there. Other thoughts on my experience:

Pros - Warm tropical weather, great location right on a beach, great food cooked by locals everyday, friendly staff and students, interesting sustainability projects, pretty good library, great sailing, diving, and kayaking

Cons - No hot water (we did morning exercise that made this more manageable), lots of mosquitoes (I did get used to them after a week or so), the island (Eleuthera) is fairly small so not too many places to go and explore

EDIT: For those more visually inclined, here are my pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_maher/tags/thebahamas
Google announced more search options to refine the search results
Lesson 1: Don't use PHP.

Lesson 2: Don't use windows.
Don't want to be a stats-nazi, but I wonder if 66 is an adequate sample size when respondants are self-selected (as opposed to random).

(66 respondants can be deduced by finding the highest common denominator in all the response percentages. In this case the HCD is 1.51515. So 100/1.51515 = 66.)
Go to meetups, meet plenty of programmers like you, talk to them. You will uncover the hidden face of recruiting: the real jobs are not advertised.

Worst case: join a pre-funding startup for a little while. I know a million projects who need coders (or visit my site: http://fairsoftware.net/publicProjects). That will take care of your experience within 3 to 6 months, tops.
I can feel for him. I often find buzzwords are used to describe things I've been doing for 10 years in a way that makes it seem like people who only just discovered that thing are "more current" than me.

It's frustrating, and it actually comforts me that this can happen even to the likes of Larry Ellison.
Does this help ?

http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/

"Volokh also worked for 12 years as a computer programmer, and is still partner in a small software company which sells HP 3000 software that he wrote. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science at age 15, and has written many articles on computer software. Volokh was born in the USSR; his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was seven years old."
As a locally operated company we need to obey the Chinese law. If the law determines that certain information is illegal, we need to remove it from our index.

Baidu has close ties with the Chinese government and get's significant preferential treatment. Google knows if they gain too much market share without bending over backwards in China then they get messed with even more. So, I suspect they are happy with a reasonable slice of the pie even if they give up most of the market it's still profitable.

PS: While Google could do all the same things as Baidu it would cost them in the far more lucrative global market.
this is probably not new info but http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ in the flash world, flex comes with a charts package and there is prefuse flare which has some charting ability. It's worth noting that the new versions of flash run off AS3, which is a full fledge programming language so rather than passing in XML parameters you would probably be better of writing some code in AS3 that utilizes the library.
The great thing about recording a video is that you get to try multiple times. :-p
Pick a project, any project, and work on it. If you aren't inspired to do your own thing, find some open source tool or library that you really fancy, and do some scut work on it. Fix bugs, write tests, help with documentation.

The Bay Area dev scene is a relatively small world, and once you get to know some of the local nerds you'll find the rest comes easily. It's the first step that is a challenge, and I find nothing beats having a public project to point at, so that people meeting you for the first time can easily figure out where to place you in their mental rolodex.
What's not mentioned is that Via has larger upfront cost. $3 for 3 Via packets or $20 for 24 packets.

I've tried Via, and it needs to either be WAY cheaper or lightyears better than the in-store brewed coffee to make the purchase worthwhile for me.

I'm not saying that's a hard task on either count. Starbucks brew is way way too strong and burnt for my tastes.
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Its really hard to decipher this data. Is there a list of companies that responded? That would help.

There are also a few really bad typos (http://skitch.com/bradgessler/nbqen/re-the-2009-techcrunch-w...)
Does anyone ever buy the $100 shirt?
The Categories of Risk in the VC Brain
Yes, I agree with you here, and I agree with him.

When the term web 2.0 came out I hated it. It was just a description for what I was already doing. Similarly I didn't like the term cloud computing at first.

However the thing I have missed is that these terms are useful to explain to users what I am doing. If this is the case then these terms have value.
Great list. I didn't see any of the courses in Stanford's Enginnering Everywhere package mentioned, http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx. I found Programming Paradigms to be a fantastic overview especially the parallel programming and functional programming overviews.
If I could get it cheaper, I'd buy one.
Yea problem is that the blanking out is an intrinsic problem. I essentially brute force these videos and one of those times I will blank out less than other times!
Why Dynamic Languages are a Startup's Secret Weapon
I wouldn't mind getting on your wave. It'd be nice to have something to do besides talk at myself... :P

[username]42 at googlewave
I think it depends on who you are pitching to. The YC founders are from the startup culture themselves so I think that by itself allows them to recognize others that have something on the ball, no formality necessary. When you're good you don't have to "act" smart; it will come across if you just be yourself, and I think that video illustrates that.
When I got access to Wave a few months ago, it was not possible to associate Gmail accounts with Wave at the time.

I am guessing that with the new rollout, they have made it possible.
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Yes, I feel that everyone should learn these things. Why not? It's like two weeks of work at most to understand basically what is going on in hardware. I'm pretty sure they teach these things in high school or even grade school these days. I'm not suggesting knowing low level details, but understanding the basics of computation - here is this big universe of data out there in secondary storage but I need to grab a part of it into short term memory, do something with it and then stuff it back. It turns out that computation is a fundamental part of our universe (wolfram's a new kind of science and other works talk about this) and there's a lot to be gained by understanding what data is, the different ways it can live and how it is manipulated in modern computers. The CPU/RAM/storage cycle is fundamental and understanding this informs a lot of things. It's also pretty key to learning introductory programming, which I believe impacts basic thought processes in the same way that knowing basic math does.
I've worked at the two extremes he describes. I've worked for Fortune 250 and 500 companies with cubicle farms and bureaucracy and I've worked for a 2-founder startup with an office overlooking the beach and all glass furniture. Each had its ups and downs. Working for the "Man" meant I was just a cog in an amorphous machine that always made money no matter what I did. Working at a frathouse masquerading as a business, I learned a lot and got free beer every Friday.

Now I'm working for a company in the middle. It was a hip startup in 1998 but has now grown up to be profitable. The older guys are still here, but there is fresh energy too. The company expanded way beyond its original purpose (remember when Amazon only sold books? We're like that), and each vertical feels like a small startup sharing space with other startups. I think it's a good fit for me, but I can't help but think that if I create a startup now, in 10 years I could be the one running a place like this.
The shared characteristics of the really rich
Erlang's whole I/O and scheduling model is optimized for this design in a way that Python's simply isn't.
When you say that hiring others hasn't worked out as planned, have you had a hard time finding talent or you just haven't been in a place that hiring outside help was a viable option?

Sorry for all the questions, I just think it's an interesting insight to what happens if you pick a language / framework that isn't terribly mainstream.
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