skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be a total prick, but it's entirely possible Knuth started work on that paper weeks before and just did the final paragraph that night or morning.
Correct. Moreover, disk caches in memory don't persist across reboots, which means the first access since OS startup is ALWAYS slow. You also can't return from an fsync() if writes have only been written to non-persistent cache. A persistent cache therefore can help even if you have oodles of RAM. Moreso if you don't.
Compiling Erlang with Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition for Linux
Somewhat perversely, I've specifically tested that syntax on a few occasions, and have had surprisingly good results as compared with a classic search.
> I spend at least 8 hours in front of a computer every single day - why in the world wouldn't I spend $100 on a keyboard/mouse combo?

Well put. I actually think that this logic justifies spending much more -- or at least buying products further along the price/feature curve -- on interface devices that have a comparatively long lifespan, than on devices that get upgraded frequently.

To each their own, of course, but I've never regretted spending money on a good keyboard, good mouse, good monitor, or good chair. You can expect 5+ years out of a mouse (sometimes more), probably 5-10 on a monitor unless your needs change significantly, 10+ on a keyboard unless you have a tendency to spill into it (and even then, if it's a buckling spring you can basically hose it out), and who knows on a good chair -- I'm still on my first "good" one.

I've found that it's the things that some folks cut corners on, things that on the surface can look like extravagances, that easily pay for themselves in terms of productivity and comfort. (Especially the chairs. Seriously, if you make your living sitting down, you deserve a good chair.) They don't have the same e-penis factor as a hotrod CPU, but it's a better use of funds in my book.

(Although with all this said, I'm not a huge fan of the latest Apple keyboards; I think they peaked back with the AEKII. But that's a matter of preference; I like one with long key travel.)
Initially I thought "failure" as well. But it turns out, I could care less about "failing", it's my fear of PROBLEMS that stop me from launching.

I have a lot of stuff in my life to take care of already. If launching a product means more problems and little extra money, I definitely procrastinate.

Here are just a few problems I worry about before launch (just off the top of my head):

1) Connection problems that aren't even something I can personally fix (client-side)

2) Feature requests. Tweak requests. People that don't understand that the app isn't a CUSTOM program and wonder why they can't get what they want even though they are paying for it.

3) Credit card payment processing problems. Denied cards, expired cards, overdraft cards, PayPal, Auth.net, 2co, etc. The problem of what to do with accounts when someone isn't paying or when someone says they are trying to pay, or will pay, but don't pay... blah blah blah. PROBLEMS!!!

4) Meetings and Training. The app can be STUPID SIMPLE, but there are still those corporate people that want a training session, or a conference call, white papers, or a live meeting to discuss the benefits of our app. Seriously. Pay $20-$100 and just find out. If you are thinking about my app that much, it's probably not for you.

4) Monitoring backups, restores, server problems, data center problems, storage space, vps, dedicated servers, s3, e3, cloud, load problems, twitter api, facebook connect, etc, etc, etc

Problems, problems, problems, problems.

Maybe this isn't an issue when you have VC, but in the bootstrapping world, failure doesn't matter as much as PROBLEMS do.
Your energy-star rated 20"+ screen (with an LCD backlight) typically consumes 20W when on and 0W when powered off by the computer.

So I believe the Mini would consume, on average under use, about 55W, which is a rather commendable figure for an official desktop and not a nettop. Adding peripherals will obviously effect this, a portable hard drive can pull up to 18W (maxing out the USB power supply). I'd definitely say opting for a bigger HDD on purchase is better than getting an external drive.

I do have a question for Mac Aficionado's, is the OS X Server akin to Windows Server 2008 or the Ultimate editions of windows? I was wondering if the Mini 1TB with OS X Server is as usable and accessible to a new user as any standard OS X (I'm rarely a Mac user, but my next purchase is likely to be Mac, so I definitely don't want to get my ass bitten by either losing out or screwing myself over by lack of knowledge when making a purchase).
A few reasons off the top of my head where subdomains make sense:
1. Letting users override subdomain with a custom domain (ala Posterous)
2. White-labeling (esp. in combination with #1)
3. SEO - last I researched, Google sees virtual hosts on same IP as separate entities, so if your clients use a custom domain and you have a "Powered by" backlink, you'll get some SEO juice
Hope we're going to see TRIM support on the X25-M G1's. Mine's already showing signs of degraded performance :/
My G1 "broke" and I RMA'd it and they sent me a G2. nothing to see here, move along..
They need to send their network and security code to NSA for inspection, they look at it and MODIFY, they don't know in some cases what does the modification does.

It has been that way from 1995 days(I had family members working in MS at that time).It's normal, they are a US company after all.

I'm too lazy for citation, just search by yourself, here you can look at the "there are good contributions from NSA" probe:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01...

You know, we "can be all terrorist" mentality, like the printers mark, they need some way of accessing any computer just in case.
The poor man's TRIM is to copy the entire disk's data elsewhere, do an ATA Secure Erase operation on the SSD, then repartition, format, and copy everything back. No chance of doing it online though.
School for me.

There seem to be a lot of mentions of 'design' though. Honestly, it doesn't matter how good or bad your product is. Get -something- out there for other people to use. Run a private beta of just 5-10 people at first who are willing to critique everything to the ground. Then your design will fall into place rather than trying to be "smart" about it initially.

There is a difference between pretty design and converting design, and then there is a small group of designers capable of providing converting designs that are pretty. Your website need not be pretty to convert well though.

My $.02.

PS: No offense to PG and this wonderful community, but getting off the internet would probably help a lot of us more than it would hurt.
Do you have it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS or something? I didn't think Windows had HFS+ support?
There's plenty of applied AI out there, but since the '70s people prefer to call it something that sounds more practical, like 'machine intelligence' or 'soft computing'.

Part of the reason people don't notice it is that many of the applications are 'hidden' in embedded systems, especially control systems and computer vision. Also, any practical application is likely to be limited in its ambitions and there are always disputes over how 'intelligent' something has to be to qualify as AI.
Twitter idea: Every day people I'm following post "I'll be at X in two hours doing Y." It would be great if that information could be pulled out of Twitter and put somewhere useful, like my Calendar or in an iPhone app.

(And while we're at it I still want a day planner that plans my day for me, based on my ToDo list, what my friends are doing, and what's going on around me.)
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I understand the above, I was asking something else.
Mortgaging your startup's domain name
Does anyone here have experience with mortgaging a domain name? I have never even heard of it, but I think it must be possible, or otherwise be made possible.

For my startup I want to buy a domain name that will go for around $75k. We're bootstrapped with a generous supply of money from my day-job as a consultant and thus paying the mortgage wouldn't be the slightest bit of a problem, but I wouldn't have the faintest clue where one could actually get a mortgage for a domain name!?
I'm a big fan of demos. If I don't see a demo, I usually won't go through an install just to see how it looks.
Flapjax: A Programming Language for Ajax                Applications
I think the Internet Archive got involved in this too. I asked the head of the IA if they could just get Yahoo to give them the hard disks and stuff them wholesale in the IA. But in the end, the IA put a 'spider' page on one of the main Geocities FAQ pages on Yahoo, which is not bad I guess.

The IA is distinct from Archive Team BTW.
Uhh, dodgy markup:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yc.css">
<title>Winter 2010 Announcement</b>
</head>

Opera barfs on the unclosed title tag. Maybe others too.

EDIT: fixed indeed. Thanks. Everyone, stop upvoting.
Is Verizon Confusing Consumers About Android?
Of course, you trust people, and companies trust people, but they want to control in witch ones they trust.
Lenovo All-in-One IdeaCentre B500's Got Cyborg Chic
Or better yet, via git push and a post-receive hook to touch tmp/restart.txt...
I agree. When I was in high school my Dad gave me an old computer and a Debian CD. I taught myself PHP and wrote a blog. That's what got me interested in programming.
Thanks for the comments, I will fix the bugs asap. On the redirect issue, do you think that receiving a redirect on a url you are monitoring should result in success? I hadn't thought about that before, maybe it should be an advanced option, eg. do you expect a 200 OK or (dropdown list of other responses).
Rails + Heroku is deployment heaven. It's even easier than scp.
An originator of a call/put option will usually always buy/short the underling stock to hedge against the risk of the derivative
And the currvita documentation (e.g. at http://www.cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cur...) has actually some nice general hints on how to write a resume that are applicable even when you do not use it.

I saw lots of nice and well-presented CV here, where just using LaTeX might have made them even better. Knuth got something right with TeX.
Thanks for the comment. There is no installation required so I'm not sure what you mean. You can try the site functionality for free so that would work as a demo. If you mean you don't want to sign up, then would a screencast work in that situation?
Dear [deity],

Please have someone make a noise-filtering system!
These still exist in the "VC world," and then there are added constraints as well, such as expectations and pressure on yourself not to let other people down. Bootstrapping is simple; just get the fucking work done. Pardon my french, but that's what it comes down to. People find it easy to let themselves down, so when they do it's not a big deal, but letting a guy (or gal) down who took the time, effort, and money to put into your company will make you try that little bit more.

Find the motivation to get these small un-sexy tasks out of the way and then focus on growth. it doesn't matter how or where you find the motivation, just get your work done. Now I don't mean work 15 hours a day. Just stop wasting time when you are working. Come up with systems that optimize your time. And feel free to outsource. If you're familiar with economics, there is an opportunity cost to everything; odds are it costs you less in the long run to pay someone to keep up with your servers' status or to fulfill customer support so you can focus on what you are truly skilled at.
"That’s fine. But what are you going to do as your music experience? What will you do for your photos experience?" [Asking this question of carriers, not consumers]

Either this MS exec was just FUD-ing, or he really doesn't get the benefit of an open mobile platform. Users don't want all their X "experiences" coupled with their decisions about device and carrier (presuming that everything works together as advertised). I want an Android phone because it keep Verizon from limiting functionality as a means of attempting to maximize monthly revenue/subscriber. If the market is big enough, there will be twenty good music apps from which to choose.

What will the carriers do? Probably offer up a suite of open source apps as defaults or sell "space" on the out-of-the-box phone to 3rd party devs who have compelling apps. By selecting Android, carriers have already opted out of the user extortion game, so why would they be worried about a photo "experience"?
It's called a loan. You can get a business loan from a bank, or a home equity loan or second mortgage.

In the second case, you're not mortgaging the domain name; you're mortgaging the house. If you default, then the bank will take your house and sell it. The reason you don't mortgage the domain name is that the bank does not want to own or try to sell a domain name. They have even less idea about domain name values than they do about home values.
Of course, you pay property taxes, but with the money you pay you are paying the VAT other people pay(the person who sells you the house needs to, and all the chain).
PHP is very good for little, dirty projects coded in a weekend, but also for big, long-running projects (well, maybe Java and Rails are better for that).

Facebook, Yahoo! and lately (at least, looks like) twitter (that's just a guess after seeing their server-status pages) do use PHP. I do, also.

You can build huge projects using a self-made (or external maintained) abstraction structure fitting your needs (database, data clustering, middleware). Or just a countdown page with the days before the next party (?). And, in both examples, it wouldn't be slower to code things with PHP than with RoR.
> More is not always better.

Wasn't there even a study about it, that confirmed your finding?
Intel says the G1 is not getting TRIM.

(I learned my lesson about firmware upgrades when I bought a 28.8 modem that was "fully upgradeable to 33.6" and then the update was never released.)
Obviously you should talk to a lawyer; most immigration lawyers will give you a free hour of consultation to ask the general questions.

That said, there are any number of valid ways. If they're not taking a salary from the startup, for now they can enter on a basic business visa (B2 I believe) while they "explore opportunities", but they cannot make any money from a US source. If they are making money, you may be able to get them a basic employment visa. You might also be able to set up a Canadian corporation and they can be a transfer from one entity to the other. If they have enough money they can get an investor visa (E2 I think, takes anywhere from $500k - $1M)... Like I said, there are a huge number of different options, only a lawyer can advise you on which one is best/easiest/most appropriate.
Should we be doing this startup the Twitter-way, or do we need a business plan too?
What would be left?

While some of the aggregate information that can be gleaned form twitter is interesting, I have yet to see anything approaching a single meaningful message.

I know that many people seem to like twitter, but every time I go to the twitter website I leave without experiencing anything interesting. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
So you suggest understatement, to make the dynamic range sound broader? (Writing "expert in everything" definitely won't work.)
The interview linked is also excellent, and very interesting to read.
Interview with David Fuchs (author of DVI)
It's really cool that the founders will have full access to the Justin TV team and the Twitter team. I bet that this will be a great competitive advantage.
Twitter And Y Combinator Team Up For Startup Stream Access
Yes, text files are among the best choice, when you are actually applying for a hacker post and know that a hacker will read your resume. If you are not so sure about your reader, I'd use LaTeX and produce a nice pdf.

It will still be recognized, but it also looks kind of pretty to the mere mortals.
I think "messages without a recipient" have been around for quite a while, and we call them broadcast messages. DHCP does this. Radio does this. Blogs do this. I'm not saying that Twitter doesn't have an interesting innovation here (I personally think they do), but I don't think they've "discovered a new protocol". They've taken existing concepts and applied them to people.
It is a consideration, but with the 10+ year path it takes to acquire it, I'm a little shaken. At any rate, I'm looking at PhD in neurosciences so it'd be a decent play with an MD if I wanted it later. I'm not certain that this still lets you get MD tuition waived, but that would be excellent.
Bad idea. Some days I see several things I think are worth posting (most apparently don't agree, only some get much karma), most days I don't see anything that hasn't already been posted. Maybe have an initial karma hit when you post something, say "pay" 5 points to post, if many people like it, you'll get it back.
You didn't say anything about it, only that "it's a game-changer for Rails application deployment" and that PHP is better, for no reason you can articulate.

I don't care.
Does Windows Mobile really end up costing so much? I'm pretty sure at the business end of things, especially in larger deals the costs become negligable.

The fact that these manufacturers are so eager to try out Android pretty much illustrates how disappointed they are with WinMo/wince. It's alright but it is kinda meh.
So I can't be the only one, what's an RFS?
Just how rural?

We've got a 100 acre farm in Scio, Ohio, which is pretty rural, but we were still able to get Verizon DSL. Admittedly, it's on the low end of the speed spectrum (600-800Kb down), but it does work. And we're at least 2 miles from any phone facility; I think there's a remote "head end" (wrong industry but you get the idea) out there somewhere supporting these remote houses.
$75k is pretty pricey for a domain name. Could you use that $75k in some other way to get traffic to the site? I'm assuming that the name you want is something like shoes.com where people are likely to type that directly, but isn't this less of a draw now that we have search engines?
That exact same workflow exists for Passenger. I'm not even sure you can install Rails without Rack anymore. And installing and deploying a fresh Passenger install is easier than deploying a second app on a Mongrel/Apache cluster; it is very, very easy.
Try "Settings: Accounts and Import: Send Mail As" to set a list of allowed "From" addresses. (They don't need to be GMail addresses.)
Request For Startup.
Two pages also works nice for me. And it allows me to let LaTeX do its pretty things. The one-page-rule is not an end in itself, but actually a proxy for quick readability/scannability. The currvita package has a nice, light layout by default, so there's actually not much more in my resume than in most one pagers. But it's easier to read on two pages, than crammed into one.
oddly enough for me - losing interest in the project. Once it's out there, I want to work on something else.
How in the world does Windows know what blocks were used by files that you then deleted in OS X?
I would like to see a "collapse" button to hide a comment's children, like on Reddit. With the new ranking algorithm, I do a lot more scrolling than I used to (good thing in terms of giving everyone's comments more visibility, but [-] would be handy)
There's a vague RFS3 idea that's been festering in my brain for a few months, and since I have a cofounder problem (i.e. I don't have one) I'd love it if someone with more time would implement this:

My problem with Twitter is that I can only select information by author. A lot of stuff people say is uninteresting to me, but I follow anyway because some of it is good. As a corollary, finding new people to follow is tricky.

There are the search feeds, and while some topics are easily filtered by a couple of keywords, most of the time this becomes too complex to keep up. I'd like to be able to train a classifier for stuff I'm interested in, weighted by whether the person is my friend, etc. New tweets would be given a score (possibly in more than one dimension) and presented accordingly.
Trick for managing Heroku environment variables for local development
Dear HN'ers, please check out my new startup
:)
Sometimes I wonder if Techcrunch has one guy/gal dedicated to HN.

If you want to pitch to Techcrunch, just Ask Hackers News to review your startup.
I would welcome it if they would give everybody access to their firehose api (against payment), and not just to their buddies...
I'm not sure, but NPower in the UK appears to be 8 pence (about 12 cents). That does seem low!
Hi guys, for the past few months a friend and I have been working on a web application in our spare time that I hope will really help people put a dent in their credit card debt.

It's still in really early stages (like pre-alpha), and it's still got a bunch of bugs and spelling mistakes, but I was wondering if any of you could give it a once-over and let me know if anything screws up - and of course general feedback would be most welcome.

Its up at my domain now: www.masteryourcard.com. The 'take a tour' feature doesn't work yet, but there's a little summary of what it's all about on the Index page.

Here's a direct link to the Sign-Up page: http://masteryourcard.com/signup.php

Its all 100% anonymous, you'll never be asked for your personal or banking details. Even if you don't have any cc debt I'd really appreciate any thoughts you might have.
Thanks, and now I see the TechCrunch Article and all is clear... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/twitter-and-y-combinato...
"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?"

Two of our oldest clients who also happen to be the busiest and most profitable have been with us for 4+ years, and have been requesting feature changes, etc., without a total rewrite.

So, from my experience, enough.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong

I use Twitter extensively, but I can't say I've gone to the actual Twitter website more than a dozen times. I think the most interesting uses of Twitter involve using Twitter data in other places, like putting a stream on your blog. I think that's where the future of Twitter is. I saw a cool Twitter/Flickr mashup a while back that took a Twitter stream and translated it into pictures, which was cool.
This is akin to looking for your lost keys under a lamppost even though you lost them in the alley--the light is better under the lamppost.
I've used you guys for ~4 years when you were gotvmail -- great service!
Video Games..
This is basically what I've been saying about Android since it was announced. The iPhone comparisons and controversy over 'openness' were inevitable, but Google's motivation for Android was always to prevent Microsoft from acting as a gatekeeper for mobile search. I don't think they anticipated how quickly MS's position in mobile operating systems would deteriorate.
My wife and I make a good living blogging -- we have, and are always developing, niche sites that take about a month to build into something substantial, so roughly each month there is a new property which we can track for hits and revenue. What works we do more of, what doesn't hit we either revisit strategically (for example acquiring a competitor's site for their google rank), or we just let languish in favor of the more valuable properties.
Switzerland is actually a very bad example to use. The unusally (for Europe) high number of firearms there is because the members of the militia army keep an assault rifle at home. This is rather different from a handgun or a shotgun, and you're not allowed to use them outside military training.