skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I worked for a startup that built industrial printing machines (I did the touch screen control panel bit) but the guys sitting next to me we're working on circuit board design. We had our circuit boards pressed by an outside company. The guys were always getting one-offs of different designs made, usually for free as a "sample". If you have an idea of what chips you want, you might want to try phoning up a salesman at a reseller and asking about circuit board pressing too. If they don't do it, they probably know someone who does.
That's all awesome, but..... you got taller?
Have you evaluated Solr?
Then he is incorrect.

Citation needed? I wouldn't be surprised to learn that, under his definition, there are more "slaves" than ever before (just given the increasing size of population).

On the other hand, I agree with you that we need to be careful with the vocabulary. While I'm not trying to downplay how serious the problem is is, I'm not sure if this definition of slavery will inspire the same sense of outrage the "traditional" one will in most people.
Unfortunately most people coming across there website would be none the wiser.
It's a tradeoff - it might be a little bit slower in opening a file, but then you get to edit it locally, which can be way better than using an editor on a remote machine through a slow link.
Time wasting fluff. If by some miracle you came here to the comments before reading the piece, skip it.
Louis must have got his domain back.
Less than zero
Isn't "execution" the implementation of a combination of varying "ideas"? If not, then I guess most services wouldn't have competitive advantages and Facebook wouldn't be what it is today.
Wait, why do you want to have "someone else" do the version control? It seems reasonable to me that the US Govt should do it. I mean, it wouldn't be senators doing this anyway, it would be some assistant.

But its true, the original objection is a cop-out.
> FaceBook didn't really take off until the FriendFeed feature was added

Well that isn't quite true, but the news feed was an important innovation, which did add a lot of momentum. Facebook actually had that before FriendFeed came along (which everyone seems to forget when they accuse Facebook of copying FriendFeed's features)
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The author of that post, Mariya Lysenkova, runs Verdage, a consultancy whose offerings include the CMS system Webist. Of course she's going to say Drupal CMS sucks. It's free and Open Source! Open Source developers are a threat to her business.
I've lived in Miami and New York. My old apartment was across the street from the downtown/overtown shelter. I would say the amount of homeless out and about is dependent on location and possibly weather. New York can get brutally cold and Miami can get insanely hot. During the winter and the summer most of the homeless have settled into a shelter.

Miami is only bearable because of air conditioning in offices, cars, and homes. If you've ever had the A/C break in any one of those you'd be miserable in minutes.
yep spot on. Pick the technology that you have the available skills for right now. As the problems present themselves (and you normally can't predict them because you don't know how your service is going to be used and what strange usage patterns the users will come up with) then solve them.

Its better being adaptable and rolling with the demands than being stuck with a problem you didn't predict that you can't solve without major surgery because everything else is so strictly defined.
I don't think I understand the question. Are you actually asking how to read from a terabyte flat file, or are you asking how to process a terabyte of sequential data? They are two (related) but distinct questions.
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I don't edit the pages directly. I edit the content using Kompozer (wysiwyg web authoring) and that gets automatically transformed into a website.
Ask HN: What happened to Bookpool.com?
I was used to buy technical books on bookpool.com, prices were lower then everywhere else and they had almost everything I needed.

Now on bookpool.com there's just the default godaddy parking page.

Anybody knows what happened and if they're going to come back in the near future?
...of all the business clichés in the world, there is none that I hear more, and that I hate more, than the vague, poorly-defined and generally ill-conceived notion that "execution" is more important than "the idea."

Oh, how the truth hurts. I actually got this far before I bothered to read the name of the author. If Mark Zuckerberg made this point it would have weight, but as it stands it's just another bunch of sour grapes.
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I believe personality is more important then luck, although some things are just lucky (pentyoffish.com) but people who have great personalities, you just like them but you don't know why, they usually succeed.
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Also, neutron sources are pretty useful on their own. You can use them as the on/off switch for a "subcritical" fission reactor, for example.
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Kenton Oakes (lvpottery@yahoo.com) can help you get it done in China, he just spent 4 months there getting another product manufactured and learned a great deal from the experience.

Getting things done here in the States... just getting someone to take the job even with unlimited funds it is next to impossible.
Hmmm... should I read NPR, BBC, the Guardian for free or should I pay Rupert for the NY Post and Glenn Beck? Gee, that's a toughie....
Appreciate all the responses. Will check out the suggestions!!!
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I played Magic: the Gathering on and off from grade school until I started dating. One thing it definitely taught me is the importance of a consistent vocabulary. The rules to the game are written in a sort of legalese - there's some strange wording, but it's all for the sake of precisely indicating how to deal with >99% of all situations.

We always kept a rule book around for disputes, and I became the guy entrusted with settling them - interpreting applicable rules and coming up with a judgment.

Fast forward a decade and I figured I would try my hand at the LSAT. Lo and behold - I got 172 without ever studying for it. Never went to law school, but analytical thinking is still a useful skill, regardless.
I have always thought this project is interesting but why use it over JSONP? For starters, JSONP is as close as you can get to be a standard for cross-browser scripting. Additionally, it seems somewhat clumsy and there has got to be some limitation on the information the data URI scheme can communicate. I have always admired the other though because I think this is an extremely clever hack.
Building a router that supports multicast UDP is simple. Getting THE INTERNET to all simultaneously upgrade is the hard bit.
Immediate journalism 101 error. Headlines should not be interrogatives.
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Posture could account for some height change. 2" seems a bit dramatic, though. You'd have to be pretty hunched over to lose 2" to bad posture.
There's too much stuff ... time for a cultural diet
I was happy with MySQL except Master-slave configuration. Now that Oravle has aquired MySQL I am looking for another open source DB and Postgres seems a perfect fit.
In a "ridentem dicere verum" vein. The previous week's PC/Mac bashing was also amusing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-...
Or most large cities in central, northern & western Europe.
I can't think of a use case for this, but it's still really cool.
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How Apple Inc. Changed the World Book
Two guys named Steve, working in a garage, created a prototype computer designed to be different in a way no one thought possible: It would be easy to use. Those two Steves, one now a billionaire and still at the head of Apple, not only succeeded with that product, but they also broke ground in the business world in ways few thought possible: They proved you could not only have fun at work, but pursuing a capitalist dream could be hip. How did Apple do it?
Berlin is v.good too.
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That may well happen one day (though I'm not sure what holding off really means ;-).

In the meantime CPAN continues to grow and at an increasing rate: http://birmingham.pm.org/talks/barbie/stats-of-cpan/slide341...
For the size you are proposing, anything other than a few resistors is out of the question. Depending on the concept though, I have seen prototypes made on watch PCBs if they can work using an existing electronic design.
The trade-off is as follows - a factory/development house can make the prototype for you IF you order the final product through them in sufficient quantities. If not - custom IC/PCB design plus casing for 100 units will cost around 50 000 USD (again - this really depends on complexity and function) And that is the china price. I live there. I do this for a living. Best place to feel your way is the Hong Kong Trade Development Council or the Productivity council. I mention these so that you can get some perspective. http://www.hkpc.org/html/eng/common/index.jsp
Hmm. Those are vinyl and have a URL on the back. I'd much prefer having an authentic one. Anyone out there know where I can buy one, or willing to sell me one?

Just the thing to do with my HP-16C.
I was a SvN subscriber since it started (used to follow 37s when they were doing their design stuff) but unsubscribed when they posted that $100bn Twitter thing for similar signal/noise ratio reasons - though hopefully I'll go back one day. Despite that, this post is a bit noisy itself and doesn't make its point clear.. :)
Re the Warren Buffets and such of the world. I think if you find something you love doing and can arrange to do it largely on your own terms, spending a lot of hours at it isn't going to lead to burn out. This is where I have issues with the mantra of "work harder". It implies that your job is about sweating and suffering. Those folks who have found their calling and love what they are doing may be putting in very long hours, but it isn't remotely the same experience that your typical worker has of their job. They also typically built themselves a custom niche. Warren Buffet used to work from home and arranged his work life such that he didn't have to do any of the things he didn't want to do. He found that, legally, as long as he kept the number of investors below X (I think 100), then he didn't have the reporting requirements, registering requirements, etc that most funds have -- ie he had the freedom to do whatever he wanted without answering to anyone else. So that's what he did (kept it below X number). I don't know what he is doing these days, but I seriously doubt he has some supervisor standing over him and cracking the whip.

You see the same thing with a lot of very successful people: They act like "rock stars" long before they "make it" and are infamous for indulging their personal peccadilloes. If I can work on my own terms, in my own home, at my own pace, on things I want to work on and love doing, you betcha I can put in much longer hours than if I am a wage slave.
Do we even need professional reporters any more?

Given:

- People will do their own reporting on disasters, political upheavals, etc. In fact it can be nigh impossible to stop them, witness Iran.

- People comment and discuss for free. Hell, 99% of the traffic on the internet that isn't spam, piracy or porn is chitchat over opinions. Some people are even qualified to have an informed opinion. These can be aggregated.

- Investigative journalism costs, but it also sells (as books and magazines if not as newspapers)

- 99% of what ordinary reporters do every day is produce filler crap because you can't just print a blank paper with the headline "nothing happened". This is pumped out as news but it isn't news. It could vanish and it wouldn't be missed.
I usually read the HN comments before the article and so I didn't read this piece, but... I already bought and read Aaron's Authoritas book so have read 200+ pages of this sort of stuff before. Oops.. :) (Oddly, though, I'd still recommend the book. I couldn't put it down - it was like watching a car crash in slow motion.)
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Nice! One of the most thorough articles I've seen.
I don't have time to fanaticism over health. Easy to say while healthy, but heck, I live to do what I want.

That said, I rarely drink, I don't smoke, I've never taken drugs, I drink a TON of water. I'm overweight but blood pressure is good and other signs are good (as of last full checkup). So I don't find the caffeine and chocolate addictions too much to deal with.

At least half the people round my way seem to be smoking, drinking every day, or carrying a lot more weight than me, so merely being "average" in the health department is OK for me right now.
This seems to be the main advantage:

"Unlike JSONP, untrusted third-party JavaScript cannot execute in the context of the calling page."

Edit: It looks like they create an iframe, load the css, and parse the data using javascript, so it seems to be fairly safe.
What matters is being better. How you are better changes from one individual to the other.

There is however a certain amount of work necessary to deliver appealing products.
An idea can be completely unoriginal and still be a good idea – an idea is still good even after it's been copied. So the article's contention that there can be no success without both good execution and a good idea is completely accurate. Selling books is a good idea, selling dead leaves isn't.

Also, I think you oversimplify the ideas of Amazon, Google, Zappo and Facebook. I would argue that Amazon's idea was more "selling a massive range of books online via a simple interface" not just "selling books". And there are many variations of the "online community thing". The idea for Facebook wasn't the same as the idea for Friends Reunited and it's easy to see how that helped one to prosper and the other to fail.
That's strange. I never had problems with tramp!
my experience tells that over ftp it can be very slow, but over ssh it is fine.
Let's take the Mexicans as an example, as I think the Chinese situation is a bit more complex.

There are a couple of possibilities:

* There is a supply of decent middle-income housing inhabited largely by Mexicans and less so by other groups.

* Those people have money and are living in expensive San Francisco houses that have a decent amount of space for a family.

* They don't have much money, and are crammed into small houses or are living in bad neighborhoods (as defined by high crime or other objective measurements).

* Your numbers are off and there aren't 'tons of families' from that group.

Which is it?
A frequently running bus anywhere in the city for £1. Super-fast, mostly reliable Underground to most places that people call London for £2.
It's pretty useful for calcium content (bones) afaik :/
It's certainly something I will look at, we've got a mix of short term requirements and more longer term so this approach seems to fit nicely with the latter at this point
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By being a vegetarian.
No, the argument is the difference in quality. Proper journos are better than just standard people, however how many "proper journos" do the papers employ anymore? Seems to me like a whole lot of em just look at Wikipedia and just regurgitate press releases which is no better than your average "joe public" reporter.
I did this for two years, got tired of it breaking on each firmware update, and bought an HTC Hero.

How to access an Android device from Ubuntu:

1. Plug it in.
Yeah I'm liking the look of 99 Designs, especially as you say the fact you get a broad range of initial designs which gives you a nice perspective on the directions possible.
I've found that this really comes into play if you're dealing with customers who aren't exactly geeks (mostly who I deal with) and don't care about your text-messaging-enabled-social-what's-it-doozer. That in itself isn't exactly exciting. The non-geeky crowd really only cares (most of the time) about why they should hand you any cash--i.e., what's this going to do for me? (That is, if you're expecting any cash in the first place...) You really will come out better describing benefits versus features. Furthermore, I've found that smart potential customers will interrupt you in the middle of listing a bunch of features to ask, "Ok, so how's this really going to help me??" anyway. Better to start off in a good way than to get embarrassed.
I used to have a few, and I suspect my grandfather still has some. Need to ask him and see...
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good write-up that will calm down some people's nerves hopefully (especially in VC/angel community, as they seem to be most pissed off.)
You could just not make js requests to untrusted 3rd parties...but point taken...sort of
If you'd be willing to ask him that would be wonderful.
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I'm still trying to work out if people buying newspapers was ever part of their core business model. I'm pretty sure they made a loss on sales but got the money back on advertising. If that is the case then they're just bug losers since advertising revenue has dive-bombed and created an unsustainable business.
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I am sure it'll always come up in the search results...
I think modulation is one of those complex problems that has been solved in multiple, interesting ways. You might also be interested in the v. analog modem standards.

QPSK: Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying:

http://cnx.org/content/m10042/latest/

Analog modem modulation:

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/modems/tutorial
Yogurt, especially with probiotics usually isn't a problem as it contains very little lactose.
I've always thought that the visual design of this site (or lack of it, as PG sometimes jokes) was a big part of why it's developed into what it has.

This site appeals to the same kind of person who can appreciate the utility and straight forwardness of a command line. Conversely, I like to think the site will not appeal to those who might look at a command line and break out into a cold sweat.
"Eat, Drink and be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating" by Walter C. Willett is very down on milk.

If you need the calcium for osteoporosis or whatever then there's better sources, up to and including supplements.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857450
Jeez, I loved Book Pool for computer books. I hope they didn't accidentally let their domain expire. To answer your question, no, I don't know, and I'm just as stunned as you are.
I thought geek cred was achieved by actually building something technical with your own hands, not by being advisor/angel/marketer, but maybe things have changed nowadays...
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The elephant in the room is that the quality of 99% of journalism is so low that no one in their right mind would pay for it. Murdoch is a major purveyor of this rubbish.

Will I pay for warmed over wire service I can get in the original elsewhere? No. Would I pay for well researched investigative reporting? Maybe. But Murdoch would be changing his whole approach if he actually engaged in that.

Do some real reporting, and make us care.
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I will find it interesting the day I can network a bunch of the running Linux.

A fully programmable TV set is a very interesting concept, but I wonder if anyone outside this forum would actually want one.

I can easily imagine a wall of those running come cool visualization program.
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Sachin,

thank you very much for this, you rock!

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Executive Summary:

everything written on start-ups should be taken with a grain of salt.
Sure, but even with your definitions of their ideas, they're not super-unique, certainly their ideas aren't the most valuable thing in the mix.

To illustrate my point; there was no need for either of the mentioned successful startups to keep their "idea" a secret until launch, in fear of someone "stealing" it.

What I mean is that had someone heard of their "idea" before launch, it would have changed nothing. It's all about the execution.

Conversely, many would-be startup founders I've talked to seem to think that their idea is the most valuable thing they have. That they need to keep their super-unique idea under wraps, for fear of it getting out and someone else doing it instead.
Sorry. Your answer is to the point. Do you think everyone should be better off without my criticism?
You're no longer chemically addicted, but you're still fighting the habit you've formed.

Some people are chemically dependant, some smoke through habit, most are a combination of both. Knowing which applies to you can really help you quit and there's questionnaires that can pinpoint which you are.

Sample questions:

Do you smoke a cigarette when you wake up? (low nicotine in the blood)

Do you smoke after a meal? (force of habit by mental connection)
Spot on. I dance, hence I never have to think about staying in shape.
Thanks. I always check comments first. I read the last rant from Aaron on this subject, so think I'll skip this one.
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When you say to me, "execute" over ideate, you're giving me the benefit of the doubt. You're saying, essentially, that you 'believe in my capacity to foster good ideas.' It is important and worthwhile to give people these benefits. The moment I accuse or imply that you are incapable to foster good ideas, I have at least not made a friend, let alone built a bridge.

When we think outside the terms of financial wealth, it is much easier to see value and intrinsic utility.

What have they said, behind all wealth is a crime? Or was that only Chris Rock?
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And for those who want the opposite, for Ubuntu fonts to look just like Windows XP:

http://sharpfonts.com/
Yeah, it is strange. I have seen other people use it successfully... but there must be something about my config that is strange... it connects OK, but opening files often times out or they show up truncated.

sshfs just works better. (+1 for abstraction.)
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I thought you were suggesting hiring analysts to fix the problems that the amateur programmers created. But now that I re-read your post, it seems like you are just observing how the industry works.

Honestly, I think we should feed "analysts" as much bad data as possible so that the companies that rely on analysts are killed off. The analysts will then die too :) (Have you ever poisoned someone to cure their cold? This would be like that. Kill the host, then the virus dies :)