skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used it quite a bit to test out both C and PHP. For basic snippets its great.

I think it could be improved by tying in reference code. Perhaps mine the PHP manuals for sample code and put it in to allow editing.
Fame and Infamy have subtle differences.
"I think this system can work ... if it's not abused."

Then by definition it can't work.
Your response is a reasonable explanation of Hilbert's hotel paradox, but that paradox is really different from the Banach-Tarski paradox. In particular, the Banach-Tarski paradox is false in two dimensions. (One technical reason for this is that you can embed a nonabelian free group into SO(3), the rotations on the sphere, but not into SO(2), the rotations on the circle.) This means that you should not think of the Banach-Tarski paradox as being a Hilbert-hotel-like statement about a two dimensional lattice.
So that explains why I've never heard this guy's name before.
Uh, and the replacement is Windows Media and Flash? I don't see any advantage.
It appears as though the impacts that just barely puncture the metal actually do the most damage to the object, which I've always read and been told but never been able to visualize why.

It appears that when a bullet punctures the object easily, it conforms very closely to Newton's Impact Depth approximation, however when it barely makes it through it doesn't appear to conform as one of the impacts appears to make a V-shaped wedge through the metal, similar to a hollow-point impact.

It's very interesting to see impact theory when largely it's a science of math and results, it's rare to see the actual impacts (real impacts, IMO shooting fruit on 10,000 fps doesn't count).
I guess you could argue that these are the only legitimate ways to make wealth or money. Technically, one can do high speed trading that essentially acts like computerized insider trading (and middle man economics). If someone provides no actual service, but still receives money, is that legitimate?
Ok I didn't know that. So to rephrase my comment: I bet most of those features in MS word can be replaced by it's scripting system.
Anyone knows how you get that kind of framerate?

Obvious you're probably not shooting very long to limit the amount of data, but it still must be quite a lot. What kind of buffer do you need?
On that note, it'd be nice to have an RSS feed or e-mail notification for when he gets it done.
JIRA (great Confluence integration for enterprisey use, but a lot of clicking) and DevTrack (terrible in all ways).
Assuming the rest of the world will not react. The 'exporters' will have a problem and since now they will import less dollars their own currencies will re-adjust otherwise the US will start becoming an exporter of physical goods, industry will be re-vitalized and the cycle will be reversed.
Indeed. Only twice as much "damage" as one process stuck in an infinite loop.
Yeah, my bad about the title.
But I don't really see a spell checker as something you want . If you have .. 1000 pages and I find 1 error in 10% of them, it would be a lot of work to correct that work. Not sure anyone would actually go and correct them.

But it could be a premium service i guess.
Confirmed on the ballistic gel -- I initially thought it was ice.

> Watch for the hollow point rounds in the ballistics gel.

... from the YouTube summary.
Reminds me of Google's "Lord of the REPLs":
http://lotrepls.appspot.com/

and their original interactive shell just for Python:
http://shell.appspot.com/

(at least for the dynamic languages)
http://kurzzeit.com/kameras.htm
A sci-fi novel begins:

...Long after the humans were gone, and the internet was gone, and the servers and the datacenters and the geeks who were lord of it all were gone, the images of the cats remained. Thus, by this queer turn of fate, it came to be that those who came after regarded these felines of old the dominant species of the sad little planet that no one got around to visiting. Almost no one, that is...

Where is Douglas Adams when you need him?
The "Hello World Examples" for C was only 17 seconds old when I looked, so it seems there's some activity...
The main drivers are cheaper startup costs and less of a need to manage hardware yourself (usually including backups).
Look at me! My pee has no color!

(credit Lewis Black)
Ah! Somehow I didn't notice those words:

- I had conceptualized as my goal as edit my OpenID and was therefore seeking for it on the edit page, not the main profile page.

- The words "New Login" seem unrelated to my goal: I have already logged in, so I don't need to log in again.

- If I did notice those words, I surely interpreted them as another way to say "Log out, so that someone else can log in with another name". Many other sites have such links, and when you click them they take you to a new login page, which is just what this one does. It looks for all the world like you've logged out and have to log in again. Only if you read the fine print do you find out that the second page is for logging in on top of your previous login. Because in OpenID world you can log in six or seven times to the same site! How intuitive.
Not the camera they shot this with but still cool. Phantom V12: http://www.visionresearch.com/index.cfm?sector=htm/files&...

According to the specs you can buy it with 8, 16, or 32 GB of RAM for buffering. It then transfers the buffer either to a PC via gigabit ethernet or to one of these bad boys: http://www.visionresearch.com/index.cfm?page=cinemag&sec...
"But a Xerox machine could make the same boast"

I thought I saw an article recently on some nice software work put into getting clean scans from hard back bindings...
There's actually an element that's way overlooked: peace of mind. Let's say AWS goes down. 1) You can't do anything about it, so while you're upset, you're not losing sleep driving to your colo and back at 3am. 2) Many, many other companies - some of whom are infinitely larger than you - are also down. No one is going to mock you in TechCrunch for being down. They're going to mock Amazon, Rackspace, or whomever.
Patch-Tag Weekly News and Features Recap
Cool!

I stress test the server with an infinte loop: http://codepad.org/LZNJjLnM

Seem like the obvious stuff was taken care as he said it will.
Poll: What do you think of OpenID?
So it's been a while since openID came out, who actually uses it?
I don't use it, it's a noble but irrelevant technology.
I use it on a daily basis, any site that doesn't have it is doing me a disservice.
Online Sports Live: Watch Online Hockey
Maybe Ajay didn't want the spotlight - so what they did was the next best honor by atleast using his real name.
ASK HN: I'm lost -- need direction
Background:- I am a hacker/developer with over 10 years of experience working with cutting-edge software consulting company. Clients list includes fortune 500 companies many of them banks and some product companies. Skill set includes technology and project execution but not marketing and people management.I am married with kids.

Problem:- Always wanted to be an entrepreneur, right from the college days but never got myself to do anything about it. Now it seems time is running out.

Is it too late to get into startup mode?
I have it on my site, but I don't use it myself.
That seems such a dubious reason to do so, just because ignorance is bliss !
That's actually a pretty wonderful e-book. I would change "credit card processor" to "payment gateway" in the subhed on page 14 to match the language throughout the rest of the book. Also, why no love for PayPal's Payflow Pro as a small business gateway?
Respectfully Letting Data Die A Natural Death
I can't see this being technically feasible... the entire design principle behind the tcp/ip stack is to route around damaged/missing network links. You would have to completely isolate the US to do this, unless I'm misunderstanding modern routing protcols. Even leaving one link open would allow (slow) traffic outside of the US...

Granted, systems like the great firewall of China tend to work, but that's because there is infrastructure in place to handle it, it didn't just pop up one day.
That's really a bummer... I loved being able to fork a ruby lib, make some changes and have the gem available for any servers I used...

I also think that they should have given advance notice. Cutting features that I (as a paying customer) rely on without notice and then telling one week later that they won't bother to bring it back is not a good way to keep my trust.
Personally, because it reduces the skills base I need on board. I can ignore most issues below the app level and focus on what I do best.

I've used Google App Engine and Azure but am focusing on GAE because of costs and the ability to ignore instances. When I'm not there and the server falls down, the App Engine team will be seriously motivated to get it up. Over time, I expect them to hugely improve reliability without me having to upgrade anything. My VM at Slicehost has been fantastic but is probably less secure than a Google VM.

The crazy thing is that I won't have to pay Google a cent until I get serious traffic.
No it's not, use your age to your advantage. All the kids are focusing on YATA or YAIA(yet another twitter app or yet another iphone app)...use your old age and life experience and develop something for the baby boomers.

I dunno, a site to create bucket lists with reminders emailed every 24 hours, something like that
Absolutely not - but it'd probably be a good idea to find (hire or partner with) those who are strong where you're weak. Check this out - http://www.scribd.com/doc/17772299/Anatomy-of-an-Entrepreneu... - it gives an outline of what the typical entrepreneur looks like. For starters, a typical entrepreneur isn't just coming out of university (and that includes entrepreneurs of tech startups).
See? This is the response I wanted. :)

Not downvotes. :(
I'm surprised someone voted you down and that you are still at 1 point.

USB 1.0 seems like one of the many interfaces that will eventually end up obsolete just like ISA PCI AGP PCMIA etc...

I really don't see anything technically superior about USB (feel free to correct me). The main reason it won out over Firewire was of course Intel and Microsoft backing, and that it was in the sweet spot for the price/feature trade off.
More Vaccine-Autism Nonsense
What actual information does this provide? A beautiful UI is orthogonal to the web framework in use. Let's see some code.
I don't think having no understanding of monetary management is strictly a bottom tier problem, the resent financial problems have exposed plenty of people in the middle and upper tiers as well. Lack of money management education is really a problem across the board.
I hate to be "that guy," but can a moderator please make the title read "Bill to give the government..."? I keep reading this title and thinking we can now charge the government for internet downtime.
This is the question I always ask: do you want to be an entrepreneur or do you want to work for yourself?

Being an entrepreneur is about being so passionate about a product or service that you, and only you, can produce that you're willing to move heaven and earth to get it out there. Working for yourself means freeing yourself from the shackles of pointy haired bosses and stupid corporate policies.

Being an entrepreneur means going for the startup (or opening that bakery or what-have-you); working for yourself means setting out a shingle and starting a consulting practice.

If it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B, do the consulting practice for a year, then start your product on the side after you've built up a base of clients to support yourself.
No. I read somewhere, median age of founders are 40.
Use your experience to your advantage. Get yourself a great cofounder and start kick some ass.
Depends on how you look at it. If you accept that your own abilities are also limited and that you might make costly mistakes, you might conclude that the total downtime will probably be the same. Say X hours per year. The difference is that if you use Amazon, you don't have to spend X hours (even if those hours are in the middle of the night) running around fixing it, someone else does this.

Then, when you need to explain why, you have an easier time too. There is the 'no one got fired for buying IBM' spect to it, but there is also genuine peace of mind.
That's me. Sauce Labs has indeed been keeping me ridiculously busy. But codepad is my favorite side-project, and I don't mean to neglect it. I'll find a free weekend and update interpreter versions once things are less crazy here!
I feel like there's some options missing.
ok then, in 99.999% of all applications I would claim that shooting for virtually bug-free code is a sure-fire prescription for business failure.

BTW why did Nasa downgrade their redundancy to 2 systems in the Shuttle? I recall reading that during the lunar missions, they had 5 computers on board, all independent implementations of the same spec.
We will be looking for a cloud server that we can self administrate, vs. a cloud site that the host administrates. The budget will be what it has to be to get what we want and need.

1.	Q. Do you need a dedicated box or a virtual OS on a shared box will do?

A.	Virtual on a shared box will do right now.

2.	Q. What are your avg monthly usage requirements- box and bandwidth? And how these requirements shall change of time.

A.	Currently we are still in development, so these are still to be determined. Part of our service will be serving video content.

3.	Q. You want to customize you box's configuration before u rent it?

A.	Yes, we will need to mod apache and harden the OS.

4.	Q. You want to pay monthly or yearly or more?

A.	Cash flow currently dictates monthly.

5.	Q. Will you need additional throw away on demand computational nodes? How often?

A.	“Computational Nodes” as far a grid hosting no. I’m not a cloud expert but if it is handled by the scalability of the cloud probably. How often would still need to be determined.

6.	Q. Do you just wish to use servers or other services like S3, SDB, SQS, cloud-files(rackspace)?

A.	Yes, probably except for SQS.

Just a note: We are leaning towards RackSpace because of their connection with LimeLight because of Limelight’s focus on video delivery to the end user.
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2009/10/wealth-production-mechani...
It is more of starting a company and doing everything that is needed to make it success. I have few product ideas but I am agile to change in ideas.
Wealth-production mechanisms: a followup
I thought it was going to be a cool story about how he showed the girl how to turn down her speakers or turn AOL sound effects off, and then they hooked up. Boy was I off the mark.
While this is true in principle, this is a bit of a Google talking point that has more PR cachet than practical implications.

Giving users the ability to make backups of their data certainly does not mean they will actually do so. How many Gmail users actually keep full backups of their email (using POP or IMAP or whatever)? And if Gmail had a case of massive data loss tomorrow, do you really think saying "well, you could've made a backup just fine" would have somehow made everything okay?

I don't deny that this sort of data loss is pretty awful, but "data liberation" is not the solution.
How about a "It sucks and I will never use it" option?
It sucks and I will never use it
T-Mobile and Microsoft lose all of their customers SideKick Phone Data
I mean, really, saying that many people have been living beyond their means is correct.

But one has to wonder why it is that we have all of these people who have been living beyond their means. Is there an element of culture to it?

We are practically beaten to death with the idea that we /must/ spend to be living lives that are worth living. Work stupid hours to get rich so you can spend that money on...?

That's the whole point of YCombinator, isn't it? Start a startup, work really miserably hard, sell it for a bajillion dollars. The subtitle, of course, is that one you make the money your life becomes perfect and you can retire (by 30) to some tropical island ending in a soft consonant.

But think about it a bit, this woman who is 36,000 in debt and persons trying to win the startup lottery are driven by the same set of ideologies.

Her desire to naively spend money on olive garden and a lot of crap that she didn't need was driven by the idea that it would make her happy.

The difference, i suppose being, that she spent money that she will never have, and the entrepreneurs never have the money that they will never spend.

This is some sort of misery cycle, I think... I really don't see how it is that we can (as a society) break it without completely reformatting society.

I don't necessarily think that we should have to live in a utopian dream world where there aren't dumb schmucks who spend themselves into debtor's prison (human stupidity is infinite...), but it seems like the driving force behind everything nowadays is this false God of Consumerism and Market Economy. I don't think that the other opposite is going to be right either. People who do good work should be rewarded, but there must be a happy medium in this obvious insanity.
No, I mean reverse incremental search. M-r doesn't show matches as you type (at least not with Emacs 23 and my setup), but C-r does.
I understand your hyperbole, but the stress isn't necessary. The market will reveal where it wants quality and where it doesn't.

Also, the Shuttle has always had 2 independently written systems, never five. There are five computers running software written to the same spec, but the physical redundancy wasn't the scope of the article.
Possibly. I didn't find this trick until recently, and I switched to Emacs 23 pretty much right after it came out.
I just feel lazy to signup on your site but you have openID, I'd just give a try.

And there are few sites I log in with my OpenID.
Solar variation and ocean effects are known cyclicals while man made CO2 is monotonically increasing. So the worst case scenario will arise when cyclicals get in phase with the CO2 effect, i.e. all cyclicals get in heat phase.
It is premature to discard the constantly increasing CO2 levels just because the ocean cycles are scheduled to cause cooling in the next decade or two.
I like it. It's like email, but for logging into websites. (I can run my own server, or I can use someone else's. That is how the Internet is supposed to work.)
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
he works for his startup right? he doesn't have any spare time anyway.
> In fact, twice as many U.S.-born tech entrepreneurs start ventures in their 50s as do those in their early 20s.

- Kaufmann Foundation for Entrepreneurship, http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=1784 "New Study Challenges Popular Perception of Founder Makeup of Technology and Engineering Companies"

The idea of college being "the time" to start a startup is the fact that it's lower-risk, because you can always fall back on college. There is no reason that it is the only time to start a startup; on the contrary, any time is the right time.

I know many an entrepreneur who have started businesses who are well into their 40s and married with children. Your experience is valuable; use it!
To my knowledge, heartbeatapp.com is very VERY comprehensive.
I use the delegation <link> on my personal site to point at my openid provider, so when I sign it, it shows up as bbot.org, which is amusing.

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://bbot.myopenid.com/" />

I don't use it a whole lot, though, other than for livejournal commenting and stackoverflow.
There is always a gap between formalism and intuition and sometimes quite interesting things happen between these gaps. The Banach-Tarski paradox is labeled a paradox because it says something about how geometry and topology are formalized in set theory. There are other formalizations of geometry and topology where such things are not possible.
Steady Advances in Tissue Engineering
Specifically the "I use it all the time on sites that support it and get frustrated when I have to log into sites that don't support it" option.
Spamgourmet.com
I've been using it for years to register and try out new services (online and offline) that require an email address. I'm surprised why it hasn't gained more traction.
Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell - Ubuntu 9.04 Details
Now it seems time is running out.

That stops being true when you stop thinking it.
Looming Disruptions to the Software Industry
I don't know much about OpenID. Is it possible to use it without knowing it?
It was cheaper because it was not proprietary like the firewire port. I think that was the only issue really. Firewire has a smaller protocol overhead so at a given bit rate the throughput was faster. Did the original firewire spec allow for multiple devices on the same bus or was that included in a later revision?
PDF version:

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheS...

And Google cache HTML:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:FKhjp-qc6sIJ:www.kauffm...

I never thought I'd find myself suggesting a PDF version, but I really do hate iPaper that much. If only Scribd had put all that effort into doing a PDF to HTML converter that doesn't suck...
No.

Actually, most of them are dealing with their Autism or Down syndrome.
"I appreciate the idea but think the implementation is lacking."
I would caution against an over zealous changing of ideas. The reason that a lot of entrepreneurs fail is because they are too agile in changing ideas in search of the perfect one and never follow through with one of the decent ideas. There is not a perfect idea. The path to riches is through hard work and dedication to an idea that you can execute better than most. You do not need to have the best execution or idea to be a successful entrepreneur.

With that said good luck on your journey!
As far as I'm concerned, if you can't recover your data, you don't really have a backup. That covers every one of your hypotheticals.
The real Ajay's time is likely a lot more valuable than some random actor who does commercials. I other words he is probably too valuable to appear on TV. Think about it when it is all said and done the guy would have had to take at least a week away from his normal responsibilities when you include travel, filming time etc...

Only B list celebrities play themselves on TV.
I don't agree with you.
Read "Shadows of the Mind", your opinions on him might change.

I don't think being a Polymath means you have to know mutually exclusive stuff. I don't that's possible in the sciences anyway.
I like the idea of being able to validate my own identity.
Really looking forward to attending this year! I've spent a lot of time working at other people's startups, as well as working on my own, and these speakers are a great inspiration.
Its not too late, you just can't afford to be in Ramen mode unless you save money ahead of time or your wife has enough income to float you on a startup salary.

My advice: get in a startup as early as you can afford to. If that means being employee 10, so be it. You'll still have a good time. If you can afford to be a founder, do it. But with a wife and kids, joining a funded entity is probably more palatable.

As a more mature adult... you're actually really valuable to a startup: you bring wisdom and perspective. And you're still willing, you haven't 'grown out of it.' Use this to your advantage.

I'd suggest this talk from Damien Katz of CouchDB, about taking the leap to work on a project full time, with a wife and kids - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me
Singelton can't be counted as design patter since dependency injection paradigm been adapted by Java community.
Save your money, adjust your lifestyle to allow you to live on a lower spending rate. Make sure your wife is supportive of starting something.

Take your time and find at least one partner. If you don't know them well do some smaller projects together first.

Older entrepreneurs bring social capital, commitment, and an ability to focus and persist (See http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2009/10/02/three-advantages-of-... )