skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just letting you know, I don't think the dots in gmail addresses are required. You can place them anywhere in your address and it will still get to you. Handy way to sort your inbox bases on who used which version of your email address.
London School of Economics also comes to mind. But Oxford and Cambridge are probably the ones with the best reputation.
He's really ambitious. If I had packet-collision latency that bad, I'd whip out a piece of wire. Works first time, every time. Even at 5 Hz.
To the Plurchase founders:

It would be really nice if you could break down or explain how you got this press. A lot of people build products but have no idea how to work the PR angle, particularly with the traditional press.
On to Breadpig! We all know that will be worth a lot more than Reddit.
Presumably tail-recursion is the natural expression of your algorithm.

(I will admit that I wish the compiler could optimize something of the form "sum (x:xs) = x + sum xs"; instead you have to write "sum k (x:xs) = sum (k + x) xs".)
Not just that, but many companies focus the large majority of their recruiting efforts on a select few universities. My company, for example, focuses almost entirely on CMU, Berkeley, and Caltech for technical hires.

If our recruiters' actions are any indication, a name-brand school can save your resume from being trashed right off the bat. But it won't land you a job; it just makes the competition more intense.
Google Groups has severe privacy leak. If you post through the Google Groups Web UI, you can view the poster's IP & user-agent via individual message headers.
X11 Releases Explained
Articles like this make me glad to be working with the stuff I am. I could never handle a field that looks at anything other than portfolio. Reading this gave me the heebie-jeebies.
People don't like DRM because it means they don't really own the music. This is even worse. Why pay to have access to something if the service happens to be available and stick around for years?

Finally, I know this concept escapes tech reporters, but not everyone has an iPhone.

And PLEASE stop announcing the death of things that are clearly in no risk of dying. If your article sucks, admit it. Don't stick a sensationalist title on it to make it sound more exciting.
I guess the only disadvantage is the apparently unbearable pressure of keeping it to oneself for more than 5 minutes?

>Take-home message number two is the importance of humility. I get seriously annoyed when I hear stories of people from name-brand schools being arrogant towards or looking down on people who weren't fortunate enough to go to name-brand schools.

Thanks Philip "MIT" Guo, but I don't want your sympathy or your company.
Little tip from the future: engineer a mouse to express the same gene. 2 things happen, 1) the mouse doesn't get cancer and 2) be amazed at how long the mouse lives....
war is created by the minority in power. not by the majority that uses facebook.

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy..."
Herman Goering
I've been a reddit lurker for 4 years, and I was one of the hordes clamoring for tags back in the day. When subreddits were introduced instead, I was a bit disappointed. But now, these many years later, I can see how the subreddits become independent communities in a way that tags would never have accomplished.

I'm still proud of you guys for that decision. Thanks for a great site that I still spend way too much time reading every day.
Harvard method to learn in 3 minutes a day via email, RSS or iPhone
University College London is a very fine university, but it is not well known in the United States among the general public.
Pidoco – combine prototyping and user testing
Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
I was going for obvious. There is (currently) a way around that. I say currently because I have updates to fix it.

I know this would be a "fun tool" for some people to play jokes and pranks on other people, but cannot in good conscious let that happen without /some/ level of indication.
If you don't start with the advantage of a name-brand school and work resume then you have less to risk or distract you from your world-beating startup.

An astonishing number of billionaires never finished college (http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/09/billionaire-dropouts/)
Make your own virtual/augmented reality goggles
Good thing when you start a startup you answer to reality, and reality doesn't make estimations of your abilities based on a degree

Of course I agree, if you want to get a job, a name brand degree is going to help. Heck if I was recruiting for a company I'd certainly pay more attention to someone with a better degree (just more attention though). But doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that.
In fact, there are very few international universities that are well known among the general public in the United States.

The only other international schools that I suspect are well known are McGill and the Sorbonne.
I've heard of it, and respect it.

Non-American universities I have heard of and intrinsically respect: Queens, Waterloo, UCL, Ox, Cam, Imperial College, McGill. I know, UK and Canada-biased, sorry.

Edit: neglected to mention lse
Cat /proc/cpuinfo or don't trust your cores to rackspace part i
How to Carry Your Office on a Stick (USB Flash Drive)
Site went down.
This is not a study. It's also especially susceptible to confirmation bias.

Also, my friend went to a name-brand school and he did not experience any of the listed so-called advantages for which he was applicable. Clearly the article is only a celebration of the author's ego since he fails to cite the number one professional advantage from attending a name-brand school: receiving a world-class education, and becoming more intelligent than coworkers.
There does seem to be some dislike for recursion versus iteration in his writing. He doesn't seem to be bagging primarily on recursion in languages, just that he thinks TCO should possibly be explicit. Maybe there is something to that argument and maybe there isn't.
I'm surprised that someone of his Math & CS background would not have more substantial arguments than these.
Also, being a co-editor of the XML spec doesn't position someone well to criticize recursion/TCO.
One of Zuckerberg's Harvard friends, Eduardo Saverin, funded the company early on. Eduardo had good luck trading futures to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars profit.
Waterloo? U of Toronto?
If you never run top '1' then you shouldn't be operating servers for customers.
As an exception to every rule. My comments describe unimplemented features!

I usually paste a huge spec document into emacs, comment it all out, and then rearrange it to smaller parts and implement those. As time passes, the one page is split into multiple pages and it becomes a project. Wherever there is a big chunk of comments, it something I haven't implemented yet.
Y Combinator startup (reMail) Gets a Key Addition - Multiple Accounts
I just wish there was a good SLIME equivalent for Vim.
Not all states require businesses to register DBA (doing business as) names.
I lucked out, too. The world's not fair: I'm hosting a bunch of stupid sites on my Linode in New Jersey (like http://histaniputyourpictureonthewebihopeyoudontmind.com/ ), whereas I bet some other people with Linode problems are losing money. I feel for them.

EDIT: I just checked my uptime and it looks like my linode was rebooted. But I never noticed (and I was actually logged in and working there a lot today).
Um, you mean spaced repitition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition which has been in use for years (decades actually) and which Harvard most certainly did not invent.
Legitimate American here! Waterloo is that battle Napoleon was in, right? And U of X doesn't ever strike me as reputable unless it's Tokyo University, and I don't think many Americans know Tokyo University either. Outside of England the only schools I know of are Trinity in Ireland and IIT.
Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
So far, I've yet to see any accurate popular prediction about technology. I see no reason to believe this one. Making any prediction about technology is a surefire way to end up on lists with such gems as "640K (of memory) ought to be enough for anybody".
Am I the only one feeling bad?

Thanks you guys for building such an awesome community. The internet was different after reddit.

For me it is very difficult to love a startup after the founders have left. Not very logical I know. I guess I will use reddit again, but for now I have given up my dream of buying a t-shirt from the stores. I don't feel like doing so.
That's some confirmation bias too: You assume name-brand schools have better education than non-name-brand schools.
http://www.gibsonandlily.com
Seriously, who the hell is Vaynerchuk?
I've never heard of him before this post...
I used to work at a company that sold a software product to provincial/municipal governments in Canada, and the RFPs were often rigged. Sometimes in our favor, sometimes for a competitor. There were cases when the RFP was written in concert with our sales team to ensure we would 'win'. At other times it seemed genuine, but you can never be sure. Often the customer knows what they want, but they're required by law to go through the hoops.
Food and nutrient intakes of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico (discussion)
Install OS X Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive
Does it let you "flag" emails? That's my biggest beef with the default mail app.
Don't feel like that! What makes reddit so awesome is the community that these guys have built. It's not like they're going to suddenly stop being funny because the founders left!

I'm sure they'll both keep posting and using the site...keep in mind that it's been their baby for like, 4 years. I'll bet they use it everyday; it would be like me trying to give up reddit, pretty much impossible since I've used it every day for the last couple of years.

I say get a narwahl shirt, it makes other redditors easier to spot!
Nice Find: An asynchronous find in project plugin for TextMate
Chevron Follows the Money, Bats Down Climate Bill
Lack of courage. I really have no incentive to play Go competently except or the fear of being mocked for not playing this game that my peers venerate as being the domain of deep thinkers with fully functioning right brains.

So if I lose the fear, I'm good. It's then irrelevant whether I ever become competent, except possibly that my playing at a certain level of skill would make it interesting for my friends to play me.

But otherwise, it's just the fear that concerns me.
It takes a while to get paid even when you get everything right. This guy messed up big time, but then again the process is made confusing by Apple. You think they would have pointed out this difference between personal and business itunes accounts.

The only thing he can do is to get apple to change his account from business to private, and get them to move the old funds over, and paid into his bank account.

This can take a while, Apple don't want to move quickly on this for obvious reasons.
Drug Rehabs.
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Is this a Zen thing?

By gratuitously recapping the top 1% of humanity's absurd privilege through a litany of self-congratulating narcissism disguised as advice are we supposed to reach some sort of nirvana?
All general purpose ontologies look like very verbose and overly-complicated ways of describing things. OWL is no different, and the fact that it has taken on the challenge of relating several different preexisting ontologies to each other complicates it further.

Now, that doesn't mean it's useful. The largest ontological framework I'm aware of is Cyc, which uses its own proprietary ontology and is at least as complex as OWL ever was or will be. Ultimately I think it's about as useful as reasoning about RDF ever is, which is to say not very at this time--but that's not really its fault.
Good advice. Indeed perception is the hardest thing to overcome.
After the conversion from Apache [+passenger] to Nginx [+unicorn] overall throughput went up by a factor of 3.

I noticed a similar gain (10-12 req/s to 25-30req/s) for action cached pages after switching out nginx+passenger for nginx+thin. This is on a 256mb slice, and seems totally counter to the general opinion that passenger is great for VPSes.
Yes, the process is poorly described, but it is not a simple mistake.

Why create a company at all? Why create a fake company, one that does not have a bank account associated with it? Why do so in a country you don't live in?

This all sounds very strange.
This is going to be immensely useful.

I've one unrelated question for emacs users, since I'm trying to wean myself off of TextMate: How do you accomplish this same type of "find-in-multiple-files" in emacs?
I agree with you. The kid thinks big.
Interesting contrast.

Short term view:
Superficial markers of success are most highly valued.

But in the long run:
Intellectual power matters most.
Maybe those points(which glaringly describe benefits) are no substitute for competency & experience. This sounds more like entitled mediocrity from the author 'privileged' enough to have attended one of these schools.

I've known enough ivy league grads(even post-grads) who would argue against the claims in that blog post. Of course they are proud of the schools that they graduated from but their joy rests primarily in what they learned while they were there.

The author writes as if education ends after graduation.

Why not also write about the 6 figure debt that many graduates walk into their first job with ?
If his writing is any indication, he is clearly not brilliant.
This is a great book but The Art of Seduction is more fun.
I don't have anything against "U of X"es. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), University of Wisconsin (Madison), and University of California (Berkeley) are all good schools. I think that in the right fields any of those schools will get you anything having gone to MIT or Stanford would (except with alumni of MIT and Stanford).

Incidentally, nobody interviewing me has ever asked where I went to school. Seems like something that matters only if you have no proof of competence.
Yeah this is pretty funny. I work with a guy who graduated from Moscow State University - this name has a kind of strange anti-prestige to it in the U.S. I always joke around with him about it. (This is a very prestigious Russian university)
Oh, I think that makes it even more hilarious.
I was on site at one of my clients, a top investment bank, and was surprised to see the guy I was visiting was using Google Apps for his work email. Turns out they were piloting it as a potential replacement for Lotus Notes (yikes). I don't think they actually decided to go with it, but the fact that a big firm would even consider a hosted solution for something like email -- especially in the financial sector, where there's constant obsession over security and regulatory compliance -- rocked my world a bit.
It looks like BUMP received $3 million on a $10 million post-money valuation from Sequoia. It is a very nice app.

If Apple offered this app as a standard feature on all iPhones it would really set the iPhone apart even more from the competition in their advertising. Hopefully BUMP’s IP on this is very solid, it can’t be very hard to duplicate this feature for the customer under a different set of instructions.
LSE is a specialist school in the social sciences, so it can't compete in programs it doesn't offer. LSE often ranks higher than 'Oxbridge' for the social science programs. LSE graduates also tend to be more highly sought after by employers than any other UK university, based on employment statistics six months after graduation and average starting salaries (1).

(1) LSE alumnus quoting HESA findings without bias ;)
This guy's writing is poor. His tone is pretentious, and his use of words is offensive. In no uncertain terms, don't read this guys narcissistic bs.
Ask HN: The cloud, why are you doing it ?
Every time I do the rounds of the various cloud hosting services to see if it makes business sense I end up with the same conclusion: not by a long shot.

The numbers simply aren't there, especially bandwidth is hideously expensive.

It almost looks as if the cloud is the ideal solution to have servers if you're not using them, but as soon as you get above a minimal usage level a simple dedicated server will give you much more bang for your buck.

So if there is no monetary reason for hosting 'in the cloud', there must be some other reason because plenty of people seem to be hopping on that bandwagon.

There must be something I'm missing here. So, my questions to you are:

If you are currently hosting anything that is both high bandwidth and high storage in the cloud, what made you decide to do so ?

How do you justify the hit on your bottom line vs dedicated servers ?

Or, alternatively, have you run the numbers and reached the same conclusion ?
Given that 4 years of tuition at one of those name-brand schools might run $150k (vs, say, $25k at your local state University), the given advantages don't seem to be worth it. Starting off your career 1/6th of a million dollars in debt in order to cut short your job search by a few months and earn perhaps a few percent higher salary (a lot of which will get swallowed up if you're unlucky enough to jump into the higher tax bracket in that range) seems a dubious decision to me.

If I had gone to one of those "name-brand" schools I suppose I might have been better off in some ways, but right now I'm 100% debt free and that gives me a hell of a lot more options than a diploma from a name-brand University would, in my opinion.
Give accuterra a shot.
The author seems like a tool. That's the thing about name-brand graduates (particularly Harvard), within 5 minutes of meeting someone you will hear about where they went to college, even 10+ years after they graduated. Clearly this is an exaggeration, but definitely has some truth to it.

However I must agree with the OP sentiments, it is way easier for name-brandies to get job interviews/offers. Nevertheless, I am doubtful that the price differential is worth it strictly to help you land a job. I guess I will never know what I missed out on, but faced with ~40k per year in loans I am very glad I chose to go to a state school.
Thanks. I am a native New Yorker, and it was better there. But, I just moved to Southeast Asia, which is a little more like your description of LA -- people distinguish themselves differently here -- more trophy objects.

Good idea with the high-end business cards. It might come down to that.
Source: http://tr.im/CuGq

* Open new career opportunities
* Personal development & education experience
* Increase salary
* Potential to network
This seems like a good effort, but I think I'll stick with the tried and true ack-in-project http://github.com/protocool/ack-tmbundle

No beachballs, and you get the crazy awesome speed of ack.
I use "Ack In Project" which is also pretty nice, and can be configured to show context around search results:

http://github.com/protocool/ack-tmbundle

edit: jinx!
Exactly. A successful ENTREPRENEUR is worth 10 MBAs and 10 PHDs.
I always hear this and even emacs people reinforce it. Maybe I'm abnormal but I don't do much configuration. My .emacs loads up a few modes specific to certain programming languages I use, that do syntax highlighting and such. There's maybe one or two global keybindings I can type in from memory if I have to, and otherwise I just use the defaults and it's fine.
Putting Journalists And Programmers In The Same Room
What I Don't Like About Wordpress

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1310720) (tried to allocate 28 bytes) in /home/patmadd1/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 248
I agree. I love Slicehost, and I really love how they haven't changed in terms of customer service since they joined up with Rackspace.
The app description mentions "reMail needs less space than you think: 100,000 emails take 500 MB on your phone - 6% of the capacity of an 8 GB iPhone, the smallest iPhone available"

What does that mean? If I have 1GB size 100,000 emails will that take 500MB of space on my phone?
Slicehost seems to cost more.

EDIT: Wait? Does Slicehost not cost more? Please, correct me if I'm wrong. But from what I'm seeing you get less RAM, Bandwidth, and Space for the same price. Btw, I use Slicehost, and just recently they had problems with my server. Otherwise they're flawless though. Great support too.
Exactly! I've been using desktop apps that do this since the 80's and online apps that do it since the mid-90's...how in the heck are they patenting it?!
I used ack-tmbundle before creating nice_find, and it drove me mad for two reasons. Firstly, the command doesn't work from the project unless you have one of its files open. Secondly, pressing the hotkey to bring back your search results will display a modal dialog over your results.

It's not the developer's fault, they did a great job. It is limitations of being a tmbundle. If you look on AIP's lighthouse page you will see that they can't resolve these problems. That's what drove me to write a plugin instead.

Also Ack (a perl script) is slower than grep -r and git-grep ignores all the irrelevant files. But feel free to fork it to use Ack.
How to Stop Teapots from Dribbling
You have an excellent point because I too host websites for hundreds of people and have been in the middle of a disaster. It's hard to keep updating a blog, but I got around to it about every hour regardless. Usually it just said what I was working on and that nothing had changed. Two sentences, but everyone knew what was going on. I also changed my outgoing voice mail recording which helped a ton. Most people didn't even leave messages.

It's REALLY hard, but well worth it in the end because you get praise for your communication instead of hate mail for abandoning your customers.
Uptime is overrated
Akismet does just this for blog posts.
This is not especially new information, by the way.

The important thing to emphasize here is: You've got lots of precancerous cells in your body right now, and most of them will either die or will sit around harmless for the rest of your life. A few might grow into a tiny tumor, which in turn is overwhelmingly likely to sit around, or eventually die.

By the time you've got a tumor that you or your doctors can find, that tumor's odds of being vulnerable to a full spontaneous regression are rather low -- because, if they were so vulnerable, the odds are that they would have regressed before growing numerous enough to be detected.

It does happen, though, to the extremely lucky ones.
As amohr posted, this is actually a Stanford initiative, not something that Facebook started. Regardless, I think it's a great idea, but we should be giving credit where it's due.

http://peace.stanford.edu/
A friend's boss went to harvard and stanford - We meet up with him a lot, and he can be relied on to name drop his alma mater s once every 2-5 minutes. At first I thought this was a little pretentious and phony but I've actually come to like the guy - he tells pretty interesting stories, he's very outgoing etc. I guess we all have things that we are proud of. I'm definitely not a name-brand school person but there are somethings that I'm proud of that I probably talk about too much and I think most people are the same way. I try not to judge. I've found that you can actually learn some stuff from "arrogant" people if you just let them say the things that make them feel special.
They have a web interface?
I've never tried Slicehost before, but I've actually had really good results with Rackspace's "fanatical" support. Slicehost's support could have only gotten better! ;-)
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) rendering process