skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lovely weapon indeed. I had the opportunity to fire one once and have always wanted to repeat the experience. It's heavy, and the stock in a rather old-fashioned shape for a combat rifle, but it's very controllable on full-auto, exceedingly accurate and substantially more powerful than the 5.56x45 or 7.62x39. If I knew someone was going to be shooting at me, I can think of few small arms I'd prefer.
It's a much cleaner design than that. Objective C or maybe D.
Because in California budgetary politics, one party insists on raising taxes to meet expenditures while the other party insists on cutting expenses to meet revenues, and in the true spirit of compromise the only thing they can agree on is doing neither, which ends up being the worst possible choice.

At this point they should probably be doing both.
Craplets on Windows PC could slow down the boot time up to 2 minutes
As we all know Windows 7 was released on October 22, 2009, which appealed to a large public, and there are many people just enjoyed the fresh experience of the good PC performance with Windows 7 installed on. Currently, the issue of Windows PC with Craplets caused a poor boot up to 2 minutes time has called public attention again. Yesterday, I read this news form an online magazine which is the authority of this area. Now, let me show you the detailed information.

According to the report that there is a series of tests showed that even the new, called quick-start Windows 7 PC in the pre-loaded with a lot of unnecessary software, which run significantly slower than Macs. Moreover, PC Pro recently was fully test of notebooks versus clean models of several plants and found that Acer, and Sony systems need up to two minutes to startup because of there are too many built-in third-party applications and factory utilities. Furthermore, they also consume or so 1 GB of RAM and 2.4 GB hard drive in Acer’s case.

Compare with the above, other Windows PC manufacturers are slightly better. Hewlett-Packard system costs 1 minute 35 seconds to startup, and takes up 1.06 GB of RAM and 2.18 GB of disk space. Dell needs 54 seconds to boot, and occupied 1.18 GB of RAM and a large 3 GB of disk space. The other brands of computers, such as ASUS, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba have relatively installed less garbage software, but they are still consume several hundred megabytes of active memory and hard disk space by many unknown reasons.

In contrast, according to the professional test that you just need 49 seconds for a 13-inch MacBook Prot to complete the startup. However, it also has the lowest active memory footprint (289 MB for any system).

Nowadays, Garbage software is known as a value-added way for PC manufacturers, which was often used to subsidize the cost of PC. But in this way it impairs the performance and slows down the speed of the processor and operating system. So as one of users who are harmed by Windows PC for so long time, you will begin a long-time struggle on how to optimize the speed of your PC boot up. Now, have you prepared to get a best registry optimizer to speed up your PC startup? You can find out a cool tool named Wondershare Registry Optimizer to speed up your PC boot.
When I've heard that remark in the past, it's always been from someone I could dismiss as being a silly snob.

Snob? My first reaction is to dismiss them as philistines.

(Of course, I'm often wrong, and philistines are often smart people too...)
At my startup we didn't take CXO titles until we started talking to investors. Then it was basically expected. People on the other side of the table need to know who they are talking to in terms of corporate responsibility. I don't think that the title necessarily reflects the revenue status or anything like that, rather it is an expectation of responsibility, regardless of whether the company is at the stage where you actually act in that capacity yet.
You might be on to something with the real-time element. Maybe hillel should have a chat with the Justin.tv guys...
I see no reason not to interpret the OP literally

Well, luckily even a casual adherence to postmodernism gives you that right! But in my old fashioned manner, I still think intentionality counts for something, and I don't think the author intended to say that we should give up on reading. :)

Most of the people who whine about postmodern critical theory haven't even read any

I actually have read a fair bit, and periodically urge it on others, likely in the same way that some people turn their friends onto LSD. Much of it is junk, but some of it is gold. For example, Michel Foucault's "History of Sexuality Volume 1" and "Discipline and Punish" permanently changed the way I see the world around me.

So when I said I'd like to see a defense, I meant only that -- that I'd enjoy it. And, of course, that John F. Kennedy was not a homosexual: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html
I recommend Braintree http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/, having build payment systems on top of paypal payflow pro, paypal express checkout, and Braintree. Their API is far more sane, and their vault system is convenient. Plus they'll let you get your data back out if you ever need to switch. Make sure to ask anyone who would be storing CCNs for you if they have a portability policy. Otherwise, you only get to choose once for the life of your company.

Note: I haven't checked out spreedly yet, but I've heard similarly good things.
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything--My Postmodern Adventure
Have you considered using OpenID, Facebook Connect, or both? Then you can support two-click account creation for anyone with a Yahoo, Google, MSN, or Facebook account. Check out Zoho and Plaxo's sign-up process for an example.

Also, HN uses Clickpass, which is an OpenID identity provider.
What's murky about purchasing power? Go live in Copenhagen - shits expensive! Plus a 25% sales tax on top and don't even get me started on alcohol...
Or mouse gestures in Firefox.
Techcrunch is down at the moment.

Without reading the article, it seems clear that Skype fears open source software because it's competitive advantage is based on its large user base. If open sourcing their software means that competitors can provide Voice Over IP services that leverage Skype's user base, Skype definitely should fear OSS.

What they are afraid of must be opening up the Skype communication protocol, not the software in it self.
Do event delegation handler's like jquery's 'live' show up as handlers on the body element?
Yes. It is very subjective. Which is a shame. Empirical methods have revolutionized so much of the world, yet this piece of it remains resistant to positive change.
I'm embarrassed. I admit it, I forgot Turkish upcases 'i' to İ. But the core teaching, which is "if it involves internationalization or talking to humans find a library written by a legitimate expert and use it instead" is true gold.
you're taking a middle class perspective

poor people in the US can't afford pizza. poor people in scandinavia don't really exist.
Given how heavily the Californian budget process is constrained I'm not sure they had any better options.

Hopefully this can serve as an added impetus to finally reforming the broken budgeting system there.
Rackspace Outage
We're back up!

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irc.freenode.com #slicehost - lets celebrate our down-time.

Alastair: We're currently experiencing a power outage in one of our datacenters, we're working as fast as possible to get the issue resolved and will update the status at status.rackspacecloud.com as soon as we have updates. I apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

At least she didn't say "any inconvenience we may have caused you." Today is a rainy day in the cloud. :-'(

As of 12:35AM CST Rackspace Cloud engineers are seeing intermittent connectivity to our WC2 cluster in our Dallas - Fort Worth (DFW) and data center. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and will update the status post accordingly.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact our support via live chat or at 1-877-934-0407 international +1.210.581.040.

UPDATE: As of 1:15am CST, Rackspace Cloud engineers are still working to address the current connectivity issues. We are making significant progress and we will post another update here shortly.

UPDATE: As of 1:30am CST, service has been restored to our WC2 cluster. We are going to continue to monitor the situation closely. Additional updates to follow.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=918812
The "10% extra" figure sounds like a lot -- and from one standpoint it is -- but later in the article it mentions that this amounts to an extra $20/month for a $50K/yr earner.

So while I'm not a fan of "quiet" tax levies like this, and while I'm not under the illusion that taxes, once raised, are ever really substantially lowered, and while I'm skeptical enough not to trust that we can expect it to be promptly or fully refunded come April ... I also don't see it as a tremendous disaster.

California is one of the most progressive states in the union. That progressiveness -- including some of the top public school districts in the country -- comes at a price: higher taxes.

Also, it's California's own taxpayers that have driven the various ballot measures that have left California struggling. Seems somehow wrong to turn around and place all of the blame for the state's budget woes on elected officials; even if they are mostly self-serving and fairly useless, they weren't the ones that passed the requests for lots more money without thinking about how to pay for it.
Yes, it's just a fraction of a percent. The ratio goes up if you count disposable income only, but I can't imagine it being such a big deal.
Bug:

I've just started using the noprocrast function. I find the 'retry' link expires well before the 180 minutes of wait is up.
This will get abused so badly. Every desperate immigrant will pretend to found a startup.
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can you really count someone who came to this country at the age of 6-8(Sergey Brin/Jerry Yang/eBay founder) as an immigrant founder? I mean they got all their education in the states.

Also they have Caterina Fake on there and she was born in Pittsburgh.
http://status.mosso.com/2009/11/cloud-sitesservers-dfwsat-de...

http://status.slicehost.com/2009/11/3/dfw-interruption-2

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=rackspace+OR+slicehost
/nods

These self-appointed titles formulated as acronyms, C[insert domain]O, is the quintessential cue that capitalists are self-important militarists. Of course I mean militarists only in the lightest (and perhaps hyperbolic) terms for how a large corporation organizes their positions (occupations) of power internally and behave or affect some group(s) of society.

Internally, most notable positions of power are denoted by their domain of command then rank (or title), highest obviously being an 'officer.' Externally the company as a whole will only act on its interests while engaging a so-called 'threat' in a 'fight or flight' fashion. I often forget how young capitalism really is, and while this characteristic is certainly less apparent in smaller organizations it is the 'de facto' operative standard in how larger corporations conduct their-self in the market.
My demo is down too, hope this comes back soon. :(
Lets not take it out of perspective - no one will starve here, this isn't Uganda, and Domino's has $5 Pizzas.
Digg, Mixx, Which is your favorite content sharing site? Discuss
Now a days content sharing become a best platform to get a more traffic/publicity for your website or blog. Popular content sharing sites like digg, mixx, twitter, facebook, reddit, dzone etc. are front runners in the race.
> The disposable income in Scandinavia doesn't need to cover any healthcare, education and other public services.

If the study's honest, those should already be factored into "cost of living", not "disposable income".
First look at Rails 3.0.pre
All my sites are down too. I am not happy about this.
Easy Reverse Engineering
The Braintree API wasn't too hard hard to integrate with, but their web interface for configuration and management is pretty ugly and unintuitive. I especially dislike how they share test instances between multiple customers. Their customer support is really responsive and helpful though.

I wrote a quick Rails plugin to interface with the recurring payments with Braintree. It doesn't implement all or their API's, but it's enough to handle monthly recurring billing for Outspokes. I pushed it up to github in case anyone finds it useful. Let me know if anything's confusing about it. I'll polish it up when I have more free time.

http://github.com/jch/braintree_payment_processing
Miss Manners writes that in academia, Ph.D.s are like noses. You only notice if someone doesn't have one.
Even worse. All efforts to empower common man will be resisted because legislative, judiciary, administration & business community will not allow their clout to be diluted.
I love this mouse in Mac OS X, but it was a bit of a hassle getting it to work in Windows 7. It's also a headache to reconfigure the mouse after switching back and forth between Mac OS X and Windows. Hopefully, some updated drivers will fix this.
especially like the ability to inject jquery for quick debugging and playing around
I though that not killing your enemy is actually a strategic decision, not a flaw.

If you kill someone, your remove one person from the battle, but if you injure them you remove two - the injured, and someone to help. And you use up resources of the enemy for medical treatment.

You also look better from a PR point of view, and once the war is over they don't hate you as much.
Ask HN: What software ideas do you have ? 
Here are a couple of mine :
- software to help learn guitar, detect notes played
- universal text utility, any text area in any app and it allows you to do regular expression replace
- web based data modelling and group ware tool
- Website, written stories with music and images.. tell a story, add images and music.
(other people can create collages, remix your stories)
- image viewer with category tagging of images (for artists, designers)
Part 2: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/the-m-16-argument-...
It's as if Rackspace has lost its key value proposition. The first time this happened, many of us thought "oh, it's a one time thing." But now that so many of us pay more money for something that goes down every few months, it's starting to get annoying.

In some ways, I actually feel sorry for the team at Rackspace. This hurts them big time.
Redanyway relaunches as an easy way to share blog-posts
The M-16 Argument Heats Up, Again
Heh heh. Yeah, that particular page had once upon a time scared my newbie self into hitting CTRL-c REAL fast
This sentence is strangely amusing:

It’s a little more efficient, so you glide better — you’re not working quite as hard,” Martin said before he sustained a fractured arm that will sideline him for up to six weeks.
Ya my site's down too :( Statuses are being updated at:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23RackStatus
If I had the luxury of talking with a VC one-on-one I'd formulate very open-ended questions while trying to keep discussion domain as general and abstract as possible.

In other words, steer clear from case studies and CS specific ideas, put yourself in the shoes of a VC, and figure-out what makes this guy tick (milk him for his experience not his judgment).

Keep your questions short, in his/her language, and open.
My slice managed to stay up... Phew. Good to see their being vocal about it.
All sites are bound to go down sometime and sometimes
> Using a text/* renderer.

Sadly, Firefox doesn't handle this properly natively. Happily, there's a plugin for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207
Domestic goods are cheap, imports are expensive. Import taxes are lower in Hong Kong, but then service expensive.
We just invited a bunch of new users onto our site earlier tonight and I freaked out thinking they broke our server, until I saw this :)
While poor people in Scandinavia (and drugs will ensure that some people are poor) can't afford $30 pizza.
In response to your bullet points:

1) Evolution always has results that will be considered poor design. Every time an evolved "design" becomes obsolete with respect to its surroundings, then it becomes a poor adaptation, at which point it must evolve again. But because this process is continuous, we consider this whole continuous process as evolution. As time increases, evolution will always force something to adjust to its environment and become perfect with it, therefore evolution as a whole can be considered absolute and perfect.

2) Evolution as a whole is absolute, so obviously it's not luck. The adaptations and changes before the perfect "design" arrives are determined by luck as you say.

When I say design I just mean the product of some systematic process. Planning is systematic, but so is evolution.
Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS) is a good option as well. In addition to recurring payments, FPS also supports aggregated payments for micro-transactions.

If you want the cheapest solution, you might want to try Noca (www.noca.com) which supports recurring transactions but everything happens through ACH and hence it has its own set of hassles.
Actually, people do in fact starve in the united states every year.

Edit: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf

Page 33 says roughly 2500 people die of malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies.
Domestic goods are cheap because the labor is cheap, and because the cost of living is lower.

iPhones are expensive because China Unicom is stupid. Plus, iPhones are made in China, so they're not imported. And the irony is that the imported phones, which originated from China too, actually cost less.
Slicehost had excellent service until they were acquired by Rackspace. Now they're on the second or third huge outage this year.
Yes, but when 100% uptime and fanatical support are key to your branding, even a little downtime undermines the expectations of current and prospective customers.

They set a high bar for themselves. By saying that they have the lowest downtime in the industry, more eyes are looking at them to see that they do as they say. That's what makes this such a nasty situation.
I can get drunk for few euros (certainly less than 5), yet I don't feel rich (neither happy). By which I don't mean the article is completely wrong, just the presented metrics are quite strange.
Rackspace copying Linode so hard they're even down-time compatible.
Any links to back this up?
First of all, averages aren't that significant. What are the numbers on the median?

Furthermore, what about debt? How much credit card debt do Americans have relative to Europeans? When I lived there, almost no one even had a credit card. They spent money they had.

This is really a very bad picture of the situation. I spent a lot of time in a lot of places in Europe from Italy to the arctic circle and from spain to Poland and I found it to be a generally richer place over all.

In fact, I was amazed at what I saw. I thought, "Wow, look at how amazing this place is. They have everything!"

I find this article really hard to believe. Really, I couldn't care less about the numbers, I've been there and I've seen it and Europe is a richer place than America. It doesn't matter if we spend more on cars or not. They don't put value in those things like we do. Europe isn't about what you have or where you work, it's about who you are and enjoying life.

I remember once asking someone in a group, "What do you do?" just curious. The response was, "You're so American." I didn't even realize how much status we put on people's jobs. It's how we define ourselves.

What an eye opener.
I have irate customers on the phone :-(

( I am not blaming slicehost but does "power outage" make any sense? Aren't there power backups? (and presumably an alert system for when primary power goes down?)
If anyone has worked in/runs a hosting service, please enlighten me).
Bingo!

War mongering is down, so now they will turn to safety issues, cost-cutting, and green-warefare to keep milking us for $.
> one of the best health care in the world

Are you serious? Check the poor cancer survival rates in UK compared to the rest of world:

"Since that time, cancer survival rates in England have been steadily improving for but we (Department of Health spokesman) accept that there is further work to do to reduce the gap between us and the rest of northern and western Europe and America."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7510121.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6955545.stm
Oh, and the SKS was designed by Simonov, not Kalashnikov.

You are 100% right. My bad.

I mostly agree with your assessment of the AR, but I was trying to give it a fair shake. Iraq and Afghanistan are really pretty terrible places to have a gun that's finicky about being cleaned, though.
Most of Slicehost is Down
No compilation necessary is you don't need #+sb-threads.
Cory Doctorow's new book: Makers
Really interesting question - how much do you need to interact with your coworkers to be effective? Can a company operate with all of its employees working remotely? For those of you that went to Startup School or have heard Tony Hsieh's talk from it, what do you think about the way 37signals employees work vs. Zappos where Hsieh encouraged managers to spend a lot of time outside of work with their team?
Everything breaks.

Personally it seems pretty good to get it fixed in an hour.
How long before the state IRS auditors need to start, and then stop, accepting IOUs as payment for their work?
RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What’s Facebook Up To?
lol (to avoid crying) we just "launched" yesterday and we are down already: http://blog.split-the-bill.com/rackspace-cloud-is-down
The AK-47 is like PHP. Even the retards can make one work.

That is so unfair to the AK. PHP is more or less universally reviled by clueful people. The AK is well respected for what it does by almost everyone.

I don't know what to compare the AK to. Maybe Ada? It's more or less completely unbreakable but suffers lack of accuracy (expressivity)?

Like I said, I don't know. But it is true that any retard can use one.
Did you just link to an entry that's hosted on the rackspace cloud and inaccessible? Just me?
Just unfortunate this one was so soon after their last big outage (in July, iirc).
That's not the point. Though those companies will inevitably exist, there will be others that build more creative, less intrusive/distracting business models.

Remember advertising before adsense? Users with purchasing intent are now provided a convenient means of acting upon that intent, and those without it are far less annoyed by text ads, that are less interruptive than the banners that that used to dominate the scene.
no a power outage never makes sense. all systems should be on online battery backup with gas powered backup generators for outages longer than 5 minutes. These systems should be tested periodically to make sure that they are all in good working order.

I think I'd rather not have 100% uptime and have periodically tested systems, to increase reliability as long as I know when my server MAY go down.
That's because "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts".

I also like many things about the US, but on the whole I don't like the US especially because of their foreign policies.

Individuals are often very nice people (not just in the US), but in large groups their mentality can change drastically, developing a "herd behavior" ... and part of a mob people are capable of doing stuff that aren't thinkable. This is pretty scary since we've seen where this can lead.