skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a match is close to symmetrical, but "usefulness" perhaps isn't. I get a great deal from this site and the musings of many of its participants. It's only reasonable that I should try to give something back, but repeatedly things I think are interesting get absolutely no response.

With me getting a great deal out, but the community not getting much back, are we therefore a good match?

Perhaps that's not really the question, but I've come to realise that stuff I think is cool, enlightening or simply interesting, generally get very little response.

Unless people just don't see them.
Consider MD/PhD. The MD part of the degree gets you through a ton of doors that would otherwise be closed or incredibly difficult to open (unfortunately). It would also allow you to build products or perform research and actually be on the clinical side of things when it comes to testing (if you care).
PHP has a lot of virtues. It's fast. It has libraries for almost everything a web programmer needs. Deployment is trivial with SCP and with rsync scales to hundreds of machines easily, with barely more infrastructure than a shell script.

Even its supposed deficits are advantages sometimes. PHP stops you from a lot of temptations to go non-REST. Anyone who's seen a Java project where the web server is spawning multiple threads per request can understand.

It just gets incredibly annoying when you try to do anything complex with programming logic. Due to its rather low ceiling of abstraction, PHP encourages you to cut and paste rather than refactor. Again, not actually a problem for many, until you get to a very advanced stage (say three years) and how many projects even last that long?
Indeed. I think I'll pick one up when it gains TRIM so I can add support that feature in the SSD-as-HDD-cache driver I'm working on. Most of the other smaller SSDs have terrible controllers. Too bad Intel aren't releasing a TRIM-capable firmware for the previous generation of SSDs. (I have the 80GB version of it)
Not at all, for Google Apps, Google doesn't set any Sender header in emails. We use it in our startup, try it out - http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
The Hidden Beauty of Gold
The real issue though is that nickb stopped posting. That guy was pumping out more "quality content" than the next 10 submitters combined.

I have no idea how to fix it, but that's your problem; even with a lot of noise, nickb's posts kept the front page clean and interesting. (It still is, just not to the same level as before)

Perhaps some sort of submission allotment per karma? 1 post default, extra posts for every 1000 over karma? You could also factor in how the posts/person performs...i.e. if your last post doesn't earn to enough points, it counts for 2 submissions, etc.

Conversely, you could make the first post use all your available post points, and then as it performs and gets voted up, you earn them back. That way you would post your better stuff first and leave the poorer stuff to the end, but you still get a chance to submit it.
The impact of a global temperature rise of 4°C (7°F)
I think it's more free as in "Free Trade" (between big players) than free as "Free Software".
There is a tendency the higher profile a failed project is, the highest the chance to redefine success based on its results.

This stems from the pain of firing the high-level executive that signed the check. The larger the check, the higher the executive is in the corporate ladder and the more painful the firing, thus, the executive is never fired because the project cannot fail.
Quite an achievement in such a short timespan!

Nitpicks: the frontpage says "an verification method"; should be "a". And, of course, validation: http://vldtr.com/?key=reocities.com
Some further evidence: over the past 30 years, concealed carry laws have loosened dramatically (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rtc.gif), while crime has consistently declined, including year over year in the states at the time they loosen their restrictions.

This year, Washington D.C. had an 17% drop in murder rate (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07...), immediately following the overturn of their gun ban via the Heller decision. Which is not to say the decision is responsible for the drop, but even if the impact was negative, it was swamped by other minor factors such as the rain.

I'm more and more convinced that gun restrictions have everything to do with perceived, rather than actual safety.
Economist.com: Mentoring
Truth, and truth.
Fighting H.I.V., a community at a time
This was covered already: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_majority_of_news...
How do you liberate all your gmail emails?

The only way I've seen is to have a POP/IMAP email account, and sync all the messages. A quick google search suggests that's still the case ("there's no easy way to backup a gmail account").

EDIT: yep http://www.dataliberation.org/google/gmail
Hey Jeroen,

I fixed that thanks!

As for validation, I'm painfully aware of it, that's entirely my doing not Abi's. I will fix those errors asap but I have to concentrate on getting the user data in there right now, which is still quite a job.

The design was imported in a great hurry and I absolutely suck at CSS and anything else that is design/formatting related.

Give me tables any day :)

But I will get around to it.

If you feel like helping out shoot me an email ;)
This is the part of the article I really didn't understand.

The way multiget works is that you send a list of keys to a server, and get back a list of items corresponding to those keys. So if you have 100 items on two servers, you would send 50 keys to Server #1 and 50 keys to Server #2 (assuming they're evenly distributed) and get back 50 items from each.

And then the article suddenly talks about adding another server and having 33 items on each, and for some reason sending 50 requests to the two original servers. This makes no sense, of course 50 requests consume more resources than the one request in the previous example?

However, if we back up a bit, add another server and redistribute the items, then there will be 33 on each server. If we do a multi-get for these items, we will make three requests; one for each server, put 33 keys in each request, and get back 33 items in each response.

The point I think he should have made is that in this case you've not reduced the load on each server, only the amount of data sent in each, and since your two original servers were CPU-bound, you haven't gained any performance, they're still choked, they're still seeing the same amount of requests.

Then again, you have to have a crazy amount of requests, and a crazy amount of bandwidth before you'll start seeing memcached servers being CPU-bound, so for the absolute majority of us, this problem is not something we'll ever see in real life. :-)
Hi Jason! Good to have met you, we definitely need to talk more about your thoughts in the education space.

Agreed, the title, as intended, is meant to take sides. Of course I don't literally know why people were chosen, but given the fact that I'm not PG, isn't that implicit? In other words everything is subjective when you are writing your personal take on something. I assume people know this.

The title invokes curiosity, it's why it is the way it is. Maybe the marketer in me is indeed a douche.

Also, I never said anything about people having already done startups. I said "doers". You have to be "active". I never said you have to be accomplished. If you want to be something, you have to "do stuff". Painters paint. You are extrapolating meaning from my post just as I am extrapolating meaning from my attendance of SUS.

Lastly I would argue that the bar was raised a long time ago relative to YC applications. If you notice YC clearly states they invest in "ideas" and the money is intended to give you a 3 month runway to build a prototype. However NOW do you honestly think ideas alone stand a chance? The only public application we've been able to see is dropbox, and dropbox had a prototype already in-use. His sister was already using it. Again, opinion-based, but i firmly believe ideas alone, don't stand a chance anymore. It is widely known that YC invests in "people". What does that mean? I'd argue "you are what you do". Yes? Character is built, not bestowed.

First question PG asked me when I met him:
"What are you making?"
I expect that the next couple years in the mobile OS space will foreshadow the direction of the OS market as a whole.
It's probably a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Here's one: http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/10/08/how-to-install-the-most...

The general pattern was mention the private code as a teaser, describe/review the service, then give the details for signing up with the code.
"... Anyone capture the (Startup School?) presenters with decent audio? ..."

Agreed, because as good as the streaming is, the video streaming is patchy & you can't (that I know of) download it for later listening.
I think another consideration with Gmail (Apps) is you can't set the "From" address unless it's another Gmail address you own (somebody please correct me if there's a way to do this).

So I wasn't able to emulate Craigslist, for example.
ICANN finalizing plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters.
Wait, how do you deploy with with scp? What happens when you drop a file locally?
You're right.

I should have been more precise. I should have said the vast majority of web development is not complex, not web development is not complex. PHP is a good fit for the majority of projects. For exceptionally large projects (the far right of the distribution), the weak abstraction may impose a penalty.
Another well written and researched piece of tech journalism from Anand Lal Shimpi. Good to know the strengths and weaknesses of the Indilinx products. Considering how hard it is to get your hands on an 80G X25-M, I might have to start looking at OCZ or SuperTalent products.
I have one example of someone who was fired because he bought IBM
First two attempts I picked Yahoo and Bing, heh.
The Prime Pages
"... We contacted about 30, resulting in around 7 hits. Some of our biggest hits were secondary though, larger blogs would see us on smaller ones and contact us for a demo code. ..."

Nice hack and something I appreciate because it's such a simple thing to do.

"... Lots of sites have feedburner badges to give subscriber counts. ..."

Did you try to obtain the stats from each site?
It's worth noting that that solution only works if you have much fewer writes than reads, but that's probably true for most people. A really simple way of doing this that all memcached clients should be able to handle is to set up two separate memcached clusters, write to both, and randomly read from either of them. That way you don't replicate nodes, you replicate the entire cluster. :-)

A better solution would be to consolidate your items, i.e. make sure that items that often are fetched together with multi-get end up on the same server, however this requires a lot of extra knowledge about your data, and it's not very likely that this knowledge is available.
I'm not sure I buy the premise that all of Android is just a blocking move to Microsoft. Microsoft had 10 years to make a dent in the mobile market and failed against Nokia and RIM, and that was before Apple jumped into the game and stomped everybody else. There was no danger of Windows Mobile, sorry, Windows Phone getting anywhere.

If Android is a loss-making strategic move against any company, then it's Apple -- having an open development platform in place from a credible company like Google keeps Apple honest and open, when they would otherwise tend to lock things down.
I use gmail for my domain to. It's great! My web app is even set up to send emails from it.
http://www.goodcleantech.com/2009/03/its_official_apple_mac_...

"The mini uses only 15W while idling in our tests, and a low 34W while running the CineBench benchmark test. This is the second lowest active score, after the 18W observed on the Asus Eee Box nettop."

Moral of the story: Don't judge power consumption by power supply capacity.
We felt the same way, but pushed it out early. Many things have clearly failed, but as a result we have learned an enormous amount about our users.
Short answer : yes!

Long answer : in a certain limited case, it could be different. Maybe you are using your PC mostly during the day, and your house is badly insulated so most of the heat from the PC is lost. At night, you turn on the heating. Using the PC during the day has no influence on the amount of heating in this case.
There are all sorts of cases like that. We're probably going to get universal healthcare, so other people's health expenses affect you since you'll be paying for them. So cattle prods + fatties + treadmills = more freedom for you.

I'm glad I'm not a libertarian or I'd be experiencing cognitive dissonance.
Microsoft is looking at it from the wrong angle.

Google has been honest about the goal of Android from the beginning: to address the billions of non-PC owning people out there that aren't using the web and, consequently, not using Google and it's services.

Google couldn't care less if they make a red cent off of the Android platform. What they DO care about is cornering the eyeballs and advertising dollars on mobile platforms. Since Microsoft's core business doesn't involve selling ads, it's totally off their radar.
Yes. (I don't think it's a secret.)
You can scroll back for a bit in screen. C-a [ (or, apparently, C-a Esc) goes into copy mode, in which you can scroll using the arrow keys. Exit copy mode by wailing on Esc until it gives up. Be careful not to leave a screen sitting in copy mode and expect the process in the screen to keep running.
People have cell phone insurance? Now there's a market I would have never thought existed.
He's saying that all you have to do is post the file on a webserver with PHP installed and it should work. No compiling. No raking. No installing Passenger, Rack, etc...

I'm a Ruby guy, but I do recognize that PHP deployment is generally fast, smooth and easy.
I told them that I want to stay longer, but that I am also prepared to organize/pay for the extra nights on my own. If they offer to pay for it, that's good. But I do not want to come of as exploiting the interview by asking for them to pay.
It won't be a Kindle alternative at that price - 319.00 EUR =
$474.370 USD as of today.
Rudy’s "sause": social object case study
Softlayer.com cloud servers have free incoming bandwidth, and outgoing traffic is cheaper than ec2.
It is indeed possible. But that is a very unpleasant experience :)
Ha! I forgot about that terrible bit of marketing.
I suppose.
I use our house's mini as a fileserver most days. No screen needed. The 6+ hard drives connected via USB and Firewire probably eat more than 35W however. Other days its a media center and we're using the projector for a screen (which certainly eats up a great deal of power).
An excuse to quote the AI Glossary (http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/glossary.htm)!

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AI Effect

The great practical benefits of AI applications and even the existence of AI in many software products go largely unnoticed by many despite the already widespread use of AI techniques in software. This is the AI effect. Many marketing people don't use the term "artificial intelligence" even when their company's products rely on some AI techniques. Why not? It may be because AI was oversold in the first giddy days of practical rule-based expert systems in the 1980s, with the peak perhaps marked by the Business Week cover of July 9, 1984 announcing, Artificial Intelligence, IT'S HERE.

James Hogan in his book, Mind Matters, has his own explanation of the AI Effect:

"AI researchers talk about a peculiar phenomenon known as the "AI effect." At the outset of a project, the goal is to entice a performance from machines in some designated area that everyone agrees would require "intelligence" if done by a human. If the project fails, it becomes a target of derision to be pointed at by the skeptics as an example of the absurdity of the idea that AI could be possible. If it succeeds, with the process demystified and its inner workings laid bare as lines of prosaic computer code, the subject is dismissed as "not really all that intelligent after all." Perhaps ... the real threat that we resist is the further demystification of ourselves...It seems to happen repeatedly that a line of AI work ... finds itself being diverted in such a direction that ... the measures that were supposed to mark its attainment are demonstrated brilliantly. Then, the resulting new knowledge typically stimulates demands for application of it and a burgeoning industry, market, and additional facet to our way of life comes into being, which within a decade we take for granted; but by then, of course, it isn't AI."
Pardon my ignorance, but can't you just increase the size of the pagefile to consume the ssd and then increase the disk cache? this way the OS can handle memory management as it pleases..
The approach makes sense, but something about spamming tons of blog owners turns me off.

I've used a similar approach, but only with the blogs that I had either made personal contact with previously or that I frequented.

On another note, your blogroll/Reader subscriptions are a great place to start if you follow other bloggers in your industry. Being an active member of the blogosphere also helps give you some clout.
There are many things beside auto-sleep that can save you power, in fact an LCD monitor consumes as much power as an idling Mac Mini (roughly 20W each). Simply setting your monitor to auto-off when not in use can save you vast amounts of energy, your typical LCD monitor consumes no energy while turned off by the computer. A CRT (for those who still use them) save phenominally when turned off, dropping from ~70W-80W down to ~2W of consumption, essentially meaning that leaving a CRT turned off but connected to power is less harmful to the environment than working an extra hour at it. These are all energy-star monitor figures too. Screen size and backlight also varies energy consumption, some 20"+ LCD monitors can easily hit 100W, while Dell's current line hit only 20W.

My core duo laptop with a 17" screen only consumes a max of 90W with a CCFL, a Mac Mini consumes up to 110W with an additional 20W for a display. So I'm still not sold on Mac Mini's as environmentally friendly desktops, as there are better solutions out there, namely my old laptop still beats the Mini in efficiency terms.

I'd also add that anyone using SSD should have a very short time (maybe 10 minutes) between sleep activating and hibernate activating. The fast start up times allowed by an SSD can maximize power savings while minimizing inconvenience, which is arguably going to be the best way to aid the fight against global warming.
New Twitter, JTV RFSes; Winter 2010 deadline pushed back 2 days
I really like that. BTW where you look for part time consulting jobs like that? Everything online seems to be full time w2 type work.
Effective Ways to Promote Your New Startup
Saving on power in the datacenter is one of the worst ways to try to save money, in my experience.

You know what's a worse way to save money? Running out of power/cooling/floor loading and having nowhere to go...
Five Things Nathan Myhrvold Taught Us About Cooking
Yes, but you really don't want to heat your house or your hot water with straight electric radiators or water heaters. Use a heat pump. A heat pump will give you a 30-40% lower electricity bill.

I have a heat pump which takes heat from the ground (two boreholes) and for every 1kWh of electricity I put into it I get 2.5-3 kWh equivalent of heating in my house. This is essentially stored solar heat in the ground which I use the heat pump to transfer into my house. The electricity comes from regional hydropower. With electricity usage for heating without the heatpump of roughly 50,000 kWh and an electric price of about 15 US cent for the kWh, this knocks off a significant piece of the electricity bill, down to about 18,000 kWh and gives lower environmental impact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Ground_source_heat_pu...

Also, reversely, if you are in a warm climate your aircon will have to take all that extra heat from your computer and push it out of the house, with a corresponding loss in efficiency.
Ask HN: Montreal meetup?
Anybody interested in meeting up sometime in November for talking about technology, programming or whatever holds your interest?

edit: You can leave a comment here or you can find my email in my profile too. My primary area is compilers but I am interested in tech and science in general so meeting up with similar people will be cool.
Ease of use problems. Users have to upload SSL certificates, and Ruby's OpenSSL library is lacking in features and it's missing a lot of documentation, which is hindering efforts to handle different types of certificates and verification. Might give a message queue + a Python script a try...
Really? I mean really? No love for a laugh at a simpsons joke. wow.
Isn't the bebook already open source? Also costs less. I've been happy with mine so far.
Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs
Google Social Search up and live today
"But if you hated Vista's UI, you're going to hate Windows 7's. Worse, in fact, because 7 forces you to use the new Start menu and taskbar, with no possibility of reverting to the old behaviour."

Does this seem incredibly bull-headed to anyone else?
That's a cool project. Let me know if you need any help. I'm not sure what I could do but it sounds interesting.

Here a couple ideas that might help (not that I condone violating a site's TOS).

Have a random time interval between each page download so someone looking at the logs doesn't see a regular pattern.

Pick 4 or 5 common user agent strings to alternate randomly between.

Go through free proxies, or package up your program and have 5 or more friends run it on different sections of the data you want to download.
Xkcd commemoraties GeoCities closure today
Most OSes don't swap their disk cache, since they assume that reading a page from swap is no faster than reading it from the filesystem.
Think about how many of your friends have lost or broken a phone. Many companies that give out blackberries to staff have phone insurance on each phone to ensure productivity will stay at optimum levels.
Plain old incompleteness. There's a number of bits where either the interface or the backend component aren't finished yet. Unfortunately, they're not optional.

The launch will be soon, though. We've got a big roadmap, but that's not going to stop us from launching the moment the app does something (anything!) useful.
They derived laws that were already known. It won't be until their system derives unknown laws and relationships, then we'll have something.
YCRFS 3: Things Built on Twitter
Does anyone know if Snow Leopard will ever support TRIM? It saddens me that I have to boot into Windows 7 to manually run TRIM on my drive every so often.
YCRFS 4: New Ways to Use Live Video
Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier
Isn't it time to change the startupschool.org page?
Possibly with the link to the video.
Link: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool
While the last part of Donna's answer is questionable in reasoning, there is no doubt that handing all your data to Google on a cloud is potentially dangerous as we have all seen in the recent outages for Gmail and Google App Engine.
I am working on something for which similar products exists in the market place...So making my product beat the existing alternatives is taking time for me
An electronic gasper
An electronic gasper or 'e-cigarette' is a battery-powered device that provides inhaled treatments of nicotine by heating a nicotine-chemical solution into a vapor.
The only problem is that in C++, overloading operator[] has to be a non-static member function. x[y] is treated as x.operator[](y) if x is of class type. So x[y] may not be the same as y[x] if they are class types. So maybe that has some useful property, but it isn't really the same.