skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The database can make all the disk I/O operations asynchronous because it provides an interface on top of file system itself. What you had listed would require either your own implementation (which you'd be better off using existing DB/Berkeley DB systems) of similar functionality, or actual disk I/O.
The "unlucky" people seemed to be using a similar metric. This experiment addressed that metric. So what's the problem?

Like I said before, just because you think you are lucky does not mean you are lucky. Just as thinking that you are smart does not mean you are smart.

If you're "lucky", you saw someone at the bar buy a round of shots because of a nice day prospecting, you struck up a conversation with him, became acquaintances, and joined him on his next prospecting trip. If you're "unlucky", you thought, Man, that guy's so lucky. Everyone's luckier than me, as you took the shot and ordered another beer.

That isn't called luck. That is called being optimistic.

Consider this scenario: "Lucky" person A notices a Nigerian 411 scam, and decides to do it, not knowing it was a scam, while "unlucky" person B does not know that those are scams as well, but did not notice it anyway because "unlucky" people are less perceptive.

Who is truly the lucky one now? The "unlucky" person is, because not only did he not waste his time on that "opportunity", but the chance that he does not lose any money is much higher than the "lucky" chump who likes to believe that everything is a gift from the heavens just for him.
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No one said it was illegal... oh wait, actually someone said it might be.... but that's besides the point!

The issue here is the free market, and my email newsletter/blog are part of the "free market forces."

The testimonials from folks who felt ripped off, or worked at Keiretsu, are also free-market forces.

In fact, so is this thread.

so, don't worry about me telling them the price because they can ignore me!
The ARM based HP-20B calculator is fully hackable, and HP has even released schematics and an SDK. Not a lot of non-volatile RAM, though.

http://www.wiki4hp.com/
The very notion of "offshoreable" is nonsense. Many companies could move the entirety of their operations overseas. Likewise, many jobs that actually are offshored end up creating a huge mess that requires more domestic workers to clean up.

In short, whether a job is offshoreable depends not so much on the job itself, but on management, the available talent, culture, and a whole slew of so many other dynamic factors that any kind of study pinning the notion down to a few indicators is destined to be meaningless.

We'd learn a lot more by studying specific factors that lead to offshoreability rather than just assuming a bunch of them and trying to draw big numeric conclusions.
I'm not sure you can actually see the kernel outside the base OS team at Microsoft, or under a unique license. it is not included in MSDN or the DDK.

Having worked on that team and having seen it for myself, it is truly elegant, concise, and very well written. I myself never touched it, and that is for the best. I probably wrote some of the crappy drivers for which you hold so much contempt.
I agree with most of the things that have been said on the thread so far. Especially listening. Here's a little more of classic salesman strategy and something to practice. Give them two choices that work for you.

Example: When they say now is not a good time. Instead of asking, "Would next week be a good time to discuss how we can help?" Ask, "What would be a better time to discuss how we can help? Wednesday or Friday?" This way, instead of a response of "No, I can't." You'll get an appointment.

I hated being a salesman but that was probably the one rule I learned and actually kept. Always be closing. (someone had to say it)

Another thing I think you should try is up-selling your current customers. Contact some customers that you've had interaction with (maybe exceptional customer service) and see if you can get them to sell one of their peers on your service and provide both of them a discount.
Good for them. I don't think Wal-Mart is that bad for us. They give us products we consume for better prices. That is the entire foundation of capitalism. Don't get me wrong I love amazon and what they do but if Wal-Mart does better business then they should be the winner. In the end it is all about who wins.
Has anyone attended this event in the past? Is it actually useful?
Event driven JS tends to go spaghetti really quickly unless you're using a good events framework. The yui3 and sproutcore frameworks are pretty close to opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of philosophy, but both have very well defined processes for dealing with events. The two frameworks you mention are fine for adding "ajax" to a more or less working server based app but they aren't so hot for building a complete app. FWIW, MochiKit's Signal framework is also nice (though the codebase is now fallow) and Dojo's system has a sort of nifty aop feel, but dojo is kind of hairy in that there are a lot more chefs in the kitchen there.
Glad to help:)
We're gonna give the wikis love at some point in the near future, we know they need it.
My Secret Shame, I Still Use Subversion
I must say that this article kind of turns me off to iPhone development. They made a huge marketing push for that app. Somehow they got press coverage all over the web. They ran a laptop giveaway for people who retweeted the launch. Their website and blog had great marketing materials. It seemed like everyone clued into the web heard about Convert the day it came out. This all resulted in a big spike that quickly died off after earning them about $100k. Now that the app is about to drop off the Top 100 list and they're going to raise the price, I imagine that sales will plummet even further.

People in the comments mostly say things like "to be honest I don’t use it that much" and "I originally purchased convert to support great app design".

It really paints a picture of the App Store being about gimmicks or quick hits that grab a bunch of attention long enough to rake in some cash before they fade into the past and out of our collective memory.

I'd like to build something more lasting. I'd like my sales curve to look just like theirs, except flipped around the Y axis.
Flex: FlexLib (mostly by Doug McCune)

http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/
"Never worn." How do you use a baby shoe?
I've met and worked with fast food managers who are plenty smart. And some who aren't. Just like the software developers I've met and worked with.
I've found that is a pretty good philosophy. I'm not sure what my personal phrase is, but I often find myself telling other people in meetings & conversations, "Now wait a minute. Nothing is impossible lets just think about this a little."

Maybe thats what it is? I don't tell myself that nothing is impossible, I just never admit defeat. I think thats what it takes, just don't even think about giving up or giving in.

Just do it (whatever it is) until you're done. And the move on.
This article scares and saddens me. I played the game in high school and adored it. Ever since I read that soccer (English football) players who are known for 'heading' the ball have a substantially lower IQ than others, I've been uneasy about my football experience. Weren't my blows to head far harder than heading a soccer ball? Had I reduced my IQ permanently? This article, though... it suggests things are much worse than I thought. All my work and most of my pastimes, like reading Hacker News, rely on a powerful mind.

I'm frightened.
http://www.thesixtyone.com/abledanger/song/For+Sale%3A+Baby+...
Out of curiosity, do you have a business model in mind for this?

IE, if not for the Crusade (or Jihad), do you have a reason for running an alternative?
be thankful. history we can laugh at is rare.
The section on why danger failed within MS and the section on dogfooding are mostly true in my experience, having worked for an acquired company for almost a year now within MS. There is an unnatural compulsion within the company to expel foreign technologies, especially those of competitors.

Inevitably acquired companies will wind up porting their software to whatever insane crap their business unit is using as a development stack. We're about to start going through that pain right now.
This is very helpful information for entrepreneurs, and I commend the poster for his courage, but I think it is highly risky from a legal standpoint.

The use of phrases such as "bogus forums" can readily be attacked, and (in my long experience in the law) it is precisely those who are most unscrupulous who are quickest to seize on technical points to try to bludgeon you in the courts. Does "bogus" connote fraudulent? Is there nothing at all of value that is being offered? Maybe not. But using this type of phrase puts the one who is otherwise exposing questionable practices in the position of potentially having to prove that the forums are nothing but frauds, which might be hard to prove.

Yes, free speech is involved but an attack on someone's manner of making a living sets one up for "libel per se" charges, which can be tough to fight. With the web as the forum, the claimant can also shop forums to find the most sympathetic court available.

I have fought fights like this before, and I know what they involve. They need to be fought in a way that is effective and not merely righteous. The latter is not bad but can be undermined if you give your opponent gratuitous ammunition with which to attack. It is my belief that the same fight can be waged at a slightly more philosophical level and remain completely effective. Therefore, the risks being taken by naming specific parties and using phrases such as "bogus forums" will only serve to weaken an otherwise compelling position being advanced by a strong proponent of a good cause.

At this point, whatever has been done has been done and the fight will proceed legally at the level just described. It will take a lot to fend off the vicious attacks to come. I wish the author well in his endeavor. He is on to something and I hope he can handle it effectively. The entrepreneurial community will certainly benefit from his efforts.
The Forest, the Trees, and the Bag Fees
You can buy a machine with a terabyte of RAM. If your check doesn't bounce, IBM, HP, Sun, et al. will deliver it via forklift tomorrow. However, that box will cost much, much more than 16 boxes with 64GB each. Those 16 boxes will also have more CPU, network cards, and aggregate bandwidth to RAM than the terabox. The big honkin' box full of RAM is in most respects an unbalanced system; you can do a lot more with a lot less money if it's acceptable to give up on the single-system image programming model.
I get the feeling that we don't have the right vocabulary for thinking about iphone apps. They're a little more like albums or films then like software.
Interesting sales approach for freelancers that hate cold calls: Use a blog to generate leads.

"But the way I looked at it I was either going to invest 500 hours on my blog, or make 1000 cold calls."
While many of these companies are facing slowing growth, or even slight declines, I'd argue what carried them up is still making them very profitable businesses... and they'll be around for a long time.

It'd be interesting to have the discussion about flash-in-the-pan companies that truly did collapse due to their original model.
Ask HN:  Review my Startup, Thumbtack
Our goal is to help you find, compare and book local service providers. Think of us as Craigslist meets Yelp meets eBay. We've been at it for a while, and you guys will be some of the first to take a look. Let us know what you think!

www.thumbtack.com

Also, we're looking to hire a front-end ninja in case you or anyone you know might be interested. Thanks.
Specs at Amazon (4.5 oz; 128 grams) http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B...

A review: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/the-wikireader.php

CrunchGear review: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/13/wikireader-packs-all-of...

It's a hp200lx-style: B&W display, incredible battery-life. Anyone have more specs on the processor?

I predict an incredibly small, cheap, light and efficient x-term-based, ARM-based linux machine.
What you hear when non-geeks try to fake "techie" is what non-geeks hear when you speak techie. That's why, when they try to fake something that sounds to them like what they've heard previously, it comes out that way.
I liked the linked article where he tolds why he switched back to PHP after trying 2 years with rails. He doesnt hate Rails, but he loves it because he learned how to write better php.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
Is just me, or does southwest airlines look like a domain parking page?
There's no shame in using a tool that works for you.

Also thanks for the tip on TortoiseSVN integrating with Word's diff tool-thats an amazingly useful feature.
Film noir under construction:

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOr...

Classy.
It'd be interesting to see that subversion graph vs. a git one. I don't know how to find all git repos on the planet, but github is claiming 1,000 new repositories per day last month:

http://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace

That's not quite the same as svn repository servers, but you can't ignore the other side is growing madly, too.
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Nice clean design. How does your site compare to Yext and compete with what they're doing? Also, how did you obtain that domain?

http://www.thumbtack.com
Subversion? Shame? I still use Visual SourceSafe.
Agreed, reputation is one of the most important aspects of the free market. It's expensive to build and can be destroyed quickly.
Why the shame? svn works. I know git now, but it's been a two month headache.
And I would add, release early and often only if releasing is easy. I worked in an shop that was trying to be "agile" with an enterprisey consultingware kind of product. They tried to release every 6 weeks or so, but the releases were complicated to deploy and deployments were additionally complicated by their customers' own change management processes that made the releases flow like cold molasses.

They ended up with releases backed up two or three cycles at some customer sites, customers who could not cope and only wanted every other (or every third release), which created a support nightmare and customers who felt the software was in a never ending state of flux.

So, if your releases involve a "download this zip file and extract it here" kind of process, it's a lot more feasible to do the early/often thing. If your releases require dispatching an engineer on a site visit, maybe not such a good idea.
I love how someone suggests that they make an app for Windows Mobile. I haven't seen anything suggesting that Windows Mobile app development is anywhere near profitable for anyone.
Make it or break it for me might be images and math equations. Good idea though -- I actually thought of tying something like this to your GPS for roadtrips, and have it pop up the relevant Wikipedia article for the closest town/landmark, expandable to big cities/states/etc.
Yext seems to be focussed more on phone leads, both providing higher quality leads and a better management system for those leads. We're different in that we're trying to be a marketplace and not just a next-generation lead engine. Maybe Yext will create a white-label product for marketplaces like ours to integrate.

We got lucky with the domain, and we're able to finance it.
Looks fine to me right now.
Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Had: Dropbox.com
It very closely resembles a domain parking page. I believe the huge obvious stock photograph is the culprit.
Eh, you have a big stage. You are difficult to ignore. Seems a bit heavy handed to try and put these guys out of business, but I don't care enough about the issue to make a stand for pay per pitch guys (who I choose not to pay).

Rock on.
A secret shame would be how I used to work in 2001. No source control whatsoever. awesome_flat_file_to_ms_sql_converter21_1.asp shudder
Well, they've been around for 10 years and their patients seem to like them. I like them. So I don't think they have incentive problems.

They make a point of keeping any treatments they offer are revenue neutral. I just got a tetanus shot there today, and they sold it to me at cost. I like that, really -- it means they have no incentive or disincentive to give me medication.
If I want to get started with App Engine but I have no experience, not with online apps nor with Python but I really want to learn, where would you guys suggest I start?
if you're shy, you must have an extroverted co-founder. i always find meeting founding teams where all founders are shy an especially underwhelming experience.
I am very similar to the "loyal reader" from the article. However, I've noticed tangible changes in my personality the more I face uncomfortable situations. I am starting to enjoy the rush I get after doing a presentation, and I don't worry about the speech for weeks before like I used to. I actually thought I would never get better at handling social/presentation situations.

A personal enlightenment I had is that there is no magic combination of personality traits that makes you successful in business. The more business people you meet, the more you realize that everyone has ways about them that might be seen as detrimental to their success, but haven't been.
if what i'm seeing looks like a domain parking page, i wish they all looked like that
I have been wondering whats the hold up with Meebo after they had stage time at the iPhone event -- wonder if they are experiencing a similar fate? Would be weird after said stage time, but who knows with the appstore.
The app is still selling at a reasonable clip. Presumably at the rate that people are actually interested in a conversion app. They managed to have a successful marketing blitz initially and earn some extra money, but that didn't actually create more demand for converting. My GPS app has been steadily increasing in sales since we launched. It's not a gimmick. And it's continuously getting more and more word of mouth advertising, on blogs and mailing lists as people find it and like it.
There is actually a subtle difference, which is why even non-scientists can see when Star Trek, for example, is BSing. The cadence of fake tech talk is all wrong. Apollo 13 was pretty good about this, actually; even though I don't know the lander or anything like it I could follow what was going on and it sounded right.
Trivial SQL injections aside, the proper way to handle a hack/exploit/crack is the way my very close friend handled it. He used a google hack back when they were cool to take control of the CIA's video cameras for their parking lots. (default password to the cameras was 4321 or something similar) He sent an encrypted email to the CIA's public facing email address. He described how he did what he did and described how they could rectify the problem. 1 or 2 months later an offer of employment (to a Canadian!) arrived at his doorstep.

Defacement of a public portion of the NSA's site is just going to land you in a world of hurt, even if you are in a far off country.
I don't know who this "everyone" is who thought they owned the domain. I certainly noticed before I signed up that they used a different domain.

That said, it's excellent that they get the domain that they deserve, which will undoubtedly increase traffic and profit for the company.
This place is great. I have extremely comprehensive insurance, but it's worth the out of pocket expense to go here for primary care.

Just today, I sent an email to my doctor about a condition that was keeping me from sleeping. In under an hour, I had an appointment, and an hour after that, we met for a solid discussion over a stack of printed notes and research covering possible home remedies and treatments. A little over three hours after I'd initially sent an email, I had a diagnosis, a strategy, a solid understanding of both, and an invitation to check back in a few days and adjust things if they weren't working.

If you've spent time with regular doctors, the difference is night and day. It's well worth $50 a month for the sheer amount of time it saves me navigating paperwork, waiting for appointments, and generally being sick waiting for the doctor to get back to me.
I'm not familiar with the space. But let's say I want to outsource an iphone app development, Would I use your service? Is there another service your competing against for these kind of requests?

As someone constantly on the look out for development people to outsource parts of projects to, this could be very helpful. The problem I see is that there are professional and unprofessional services combined. Nevertheless, Having a place where I could post an RFQ and have 4 local professionals respond immediately while not getting bombarded with junk mail would be great!
Is there are startups to help the millions of small and medium size private hotels around the world to appear on the map? =))
Interesting.

Being unwilling or unavailable is probably a downside. But being unnecessary is a massive upside.
It's worth mentioning that the first hit for "dropbox.com" on Google is the actual site, "getdropbox.com". Many people navigate to a site by googling its URL then clicking the first link.
I'd recommend sticking with the basic webapp handlers in python and not trying to learn django, etc.

Just write a simple app that you think would be fun... maybe a blog app, or a simple forum, etc.

Python is pretty easy and the python libs have very easy to understand source (and decent documentation) in case you get confused.

If you really have zero experience with web apps, you might first want to play around with Sinatra a bit on your laptop, but the webapp framework on app engine is actually fairly similar to sinatra, so either one would be fine.
Eh, new accounts isn't really a great metric - would be more interesting to see how many of those repositories remain active over time.
We're going after local services much more than virtual or outsourced services. There are some fairly established players in the freelance space for outsourced technical work -- eLance, oDesk, RentACoder, and many more.
I would start with the tutorial http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/. They also have a Java API if that is more to your liking. See if you can follow and understand the tutorial and fill in any gaps where you seem to be lacking in knowledge or understanding with other sources. If you know any programming language I think the Python is relatively easy to follow.
check out www.wikifieldtrip.org, which does that
I upvoted you just for the sheer brazenness of it all. Seriously though, why? SVN won't corrupt the database and is much easier to branch/merge than sourcesafe.

That being said I don't think there is anything "wrong" with using SVN. (source safe was terrible in anything other than checking out the latest code the last time I had to use it for a job.)
Holy Crap. Watching that thing move scared me. I don't know why, but I just envision a swarm of them inflating and deflating and rolling after me in the dark of the night...
VisualSVN + tortoise is a nice way to switch over to SVN. You just have to get bit by a VSS db corruption once to make the switch. Something to keep in mind, your database may already be corrupt and you don't know it yet so your backups could be already be poisoned.
I think he meant something like:

Why I (did|will) (not)? (use|switch to) .+
Like TheFacebook.com -> Facebook.com. Now we just have to wait for the $150+ million acquisition from HP or EMC.