skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eh, sounds like this guy is selling atom boards, which are relatively modern. Now, they don't use ECC ram (and I fail to understand why he doesn't throw in 2GiB ram rather than one; if he put int 2GiB, he'd be competitive with my 2GiB VPSs.) and they are slow, cheap hardware, but speaking as someone who sells VPSs for a living, for some things, having a box to yourself is much better than a vps, even if the cost per performance is higher.

Now, my experience with the atoms (and why I'm not selling 'em) is that they use more power than you expect; 50w each or so, down from 75w each for a core2duo with 8GiB ram. So I'm guessing this person is also in a region where power is cheaper than it is for me. (I am in the SF bay area, and thus I pay enough for power that margins on a power-hungry atom system would be rather small.)

You can get the operations overhead per machine down with a good pxeboot/automated provisioning system. some larger places I've worked, provisioning 5,000 machines was a relaxed afternoon of work. Yeah, physical servers are a bit more work than virtuals, but they don't have to be that much more work, if you have a good system.

That said, getting a VPS on modern dual-socket 8 or 12 core boxes with ecc ram usually gives you more bang for your buck, if the security tradeoffs are worth it.
I'm not sure I can add much to the argument of meal frequency. A lot of the information I rely on has come from the body building community, since that is where I get a lot of my information (although, I'm not a body builder). I accept the fact that there are many different schools of thought on the subject, each with their own sets of "empirical evidence." Not surprisingly, I tend to champion the one that worked for me.

My change from 'three squares' to 4-5 smaller meals a day has had quite a positive impact on my health and my lifestyle. As such, I'm not about to give it up. I really like never being really hungry. (note that I define a meal as 'eating something', even if that something is simply a banana.)

> Notice how you never hear from people who have stayed thin for years by counting calories.

No, I didn't notice. In fact, a lot of the people I know that have stayed fit for years have used calorie counting as part of their tool-set. The author of the book linked in my above comment is one of those people. However, that's just my experience.

Like the author of the original author stated, counting calories is used more as an educational tool than a micro-management tool. It helps people understand their own personal energy (im)balance. That may well be the crux of your point though.

I find it interesting that the research indicates something doesn't work that I have seen work with much success. I've always thought that calorie counting makes sense, since "you can't manage what you don't measure."
I agree, but it's too late to change the title.
I don't read fiction at all anymore. Used to, but I have limited time for reading these days so I choose to focus on non-fiction. That's what I find the most stimulating and interesting.
Because you're not adding to the conversation, and taking a radical political viewpoint that is really offtopic anyway.
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
Sometimes it's all about expectations. Perhaps a friendly Amazon reviewer could inform people about the nature of your book to set the appropriate expectations.
You want to go to the LTH list of "Great Neighboorhood Restaurants":

http://lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=215187#p215187

Start at the top, work your way down the list.

Two notes:

* This is a PHPBB --- that's it, just a PHPBB --- that gives awards that are so authoritative in Chicago that very trendy restaurants (Kuma's, for instance) hang them in the window.

* As far as I can tell, no other city has anything like LTH, even NYC. The "LTH of San Francisco", for instance, is the CHOW message boards. No trendy restaurant has ever hung a printed-out CHOW message board comment in their window.
OK, now I've probably got it narrowed down to misunderstanding the word trait. I'm not a native English speaker, so please excuse the confusion.

I do understand why a biological hereditary preference to have many kids will multiply quickly, but my question is: Why do you think that this is a biological trait? The statistics in the article seems to suggest that we adjust reproduction to environmental factors, in this case wealth and urbanisation, which also makes sense from a evolution perspective: if we reproduce too quickly, there won't be enough resources to go around.
One class I actually took was called "Women, Witches and Healing" which was about the history of healing practitioners in Europe.
http://www.fau.edu/academic/registrar/09-10_catalog/nursingD...

While this list sounds moderately interesting, very few of the classes appeal to me. Heck, there's a community college in KS that offers a class in welding with thermite. That sounds way cool, even though I'd never do it (it was part of their railroad curriculum). And dozens of land grant colleges offer classes in beekeeping, Another thing that this city dweller would never be able to do.
Asking someone not to drive 2 miles to work everyday is a "radical political viewpoint"? Are you serious? Where do you live? Saudi Arabia?
I agree with you, but to be fair, NetBSD and OpenSolaris run quite well as a paravirtualized xen guests. (irritatingly, most providers don't support them. Even I don't support OpenSolaris, due to bootloader weirdness I haven't quite figured out how to safely integrate into my system.)

There are also obvious security benefits to running on unshared physical hardware, as Theo likes to point out.
I think I might just have to try it out at home sometime.

Anyone know what would make a good salt bridge that's semi permeable to na/cl (or how to treat the polystyrene)?
Would an U shaped jello mixed with acid/base work?
I thought about this, too.
All I'm seeing is:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: query() in /content/public_web_sites/www.inc.com/reflex/lib/dbi.class.php on line 152
I agree, it's even generally preferred if it's not cumulative, but yeah, click other or click the highest you got to. I guess i should have added "some grad school".
It may be worthwhile to add 2 options:

Would have a designer on the founding team
Would not have a designer on the founding team

From personal experience, I have never had a designer in the early stages of any projects I've worked on; but I would certainly be open to doing a startup with a designer on the founding team, especially if they were also good with UX.
You seem awfully confident about (1). It's almost like you think Dell couldn't sell a piece of software that was locked to Dell gear. I'm not so sure.

Remember, the goal of "software protection" (be it DRM, platform locks, or anticheating software) isn't to make it impossible to break the system; it's to make it (a) impossible to do it cost-effectively, and (b) impossible to do it permanently.

The rest of your argument, with the "middle fingers" and whatnot, I don't care. Again: companies should be able to sell whatever they want, modulo antitrust and regs.
You don't really get to see into the author's mind when you are reading non-fiction; it's all about the facts. With fiction, the author's creativity is not restrained by actual happenings. (Books like "1984" are worth reading, even if they are not a factual account of events that took place in 1984.)
Sorry, you're right, I changed the title to be more accurate.

And for what it's worth, while the mobile offers are terrible, I don't think the entire business is unethical or evil. I'd just like to see the scammier offers cleaned up.
I'm going to quibble:

You don't need a degree for that. I do agree that you need a solid understanding of computing fundamentals. However, you hardly "need" a degree for that. Far to many college drop-outs have built hugely scalable and highly optimized systems for that.
Wants a designer on founding team
Ah yes, I'm treating them as one in the same but I did mean OSX specifically and not just the hardware.
Before reading the HN comments, I thought this was an online bookstore targeted at bedtime reading for kids.

Letting users flip through a book before deciding to buy it is a great idea. It's the biggest thing that I'm missing when shopping at an online store.

Perhaps you should also offer the option to buy the book from amazon =) Best of luck!
Agreed. I am a pretty creative person and have been making up stories to tell my daughter since she was old enough to understand what I was saying. I found that when I tried harder to make the stories cohesive and storybook-like she just got bored and demanded a different plot line or character. She seems to enjoy them much more when I throw in random things like race cars made out of fruit or old men jumping over houses to get to their breakfast. Little kids are funny sometimes.
Does not want a designer on the founding team
Capable but not pleasant. Using my netbook is like using a slightly-slower version of my desktop machine. No compromises. (I carry around my HHKB with it, so the input experience is the same.)
WaveSandbox.com: Federate This
Since Google Wave Federation Day, there have been a number of developments:

* The Google Wave Conversation Model Spec (draft) was published to provide more clarity to implementors of the spec
* The FedOne client was updated to the new model spec and now displays character by character updates
* Echoey the agent was built to help you experiment with developing your own wave provider
It's definitely possible...and I would say probable. The idea that they need something like MaxMind's product is laughable, though...they have much better tools at their disposal.

Google as a company may not engage in industrial espionage, but I believe individual employees at Google do abuse their data access occasionally. I would think that having the power and data access would have to tempt some employees to be evil. (I know of at least two lawsuits involving a Google employee allegedly using AdWords data in an inappropriate way, for example.) I would be curious what, if any, monitoring systems Google has in place to prevent abuse/espionage by employees. I have a friend that works for Google that has commented on my ad spend and keywords (and he is in systems, not AdWords.) It was innocuous enough, but it made me wonder about what safeguards they have in place.

I'm not much of a tinfoil hat type, but the fact that Google seems bent on entering every information business (which is, to be sure, every business these days) make me nervous. The fact that they have fingers in so many pots makes it almost inevitable that they will eventually become too arrogant and abuse some of their power. There was a post in the last couple of days about possible 'downfall' scenarios for Google, and I think them becoming known as "Big Brother" is probably the most likely. Paranoia amongst searchers could be more potent poison for Google than a new search startup.
Introductory docs for diving right in: http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation
Icey,

Great call, will be far more interesting this way. I think designers are a great way to humanize a service. For all the lip service Apple gets re: design it is a bit surprising that fewer startups use it as a competitive advantage. The AirBNB guys from YCW09 are a great example of a team with 2 designers on the founding team who have gone on to great success.
My wife, a former chemistry TA, would probably answer that question with one word: "Cheating."

She fears for the day she wakes up on a gurney and sees one of her former pre-med students.
I would LOVE to team up with a designer who knew their way around the Django template system. A little javascript/jquery/ajax experience would be nice, but I can always work that stuff in myself if someone who knows how to make something look good and flow cohesively tells me where they want it to go :)
Ask HN: Job Advice/Suggestions
Unfortunately it appears that I have outgrown the company I currently work for. They are wanting to focus mainly on simple, static, 'marketing' websites whereas I want to focus on more sophisticated and large scale projects. I have been hesitant to move away because the company has treated me well over the last 2 years, but it's become clear that I am earning less than I should, I no longer enjoy the work and there's no real upward path (very small company).

I have been looking for opportunities for a while but I haven't found any that match my skills. I'm by no stretch of the imagination a 'junior developer' but I don't have the experience with deploying/maintaining large applications that would get me entrance to the 'senior developer' positions.

Has anyone else found themselves in this position? How did you approach the problem?

FYI: My web-development experience 4(ish) years, general programming experience 8+ years.
Might I suggest a feature?

Apparently, a common problem with before-bed-stories if you have more than one children is who gets to sit in the lap during the story. Normally, it is alternating every night, however, you have to remember carefully who got to sit in the lap the previous night, as children aren't quite the most reliable source of information in this case (they tell you anything to sit in the lap) and if you make a mistake, the one who didn't get to sit in the lap will be offended for weeks. This is very hard to keep in mind. So you could add a "who got to sit in the lap" history to help parents. I'm sure many of them would really appreciate it!
Unless you use version control. Perforce, source safe, git, and subversion, all "dedupe" their own data. They're not all brilliant about it (try committing a copy of a large file in subversion without using `svn cp`) but zfs dedupe will be of little value on these servers. (I left out cvs because I absolutely have no idea what it does on the server.)

The real value (and the content of many EMC sales pitches) is with backing up and archiving data. EMC often argues that most "corporate" data seems not to change very much over time.
Can you imagine the effort behind figuring out things like that; I don't think it would be possible to get any sensible data very often.

I think your question is biased in it's title; yes with a lot of effort they could do. Are they? A lot less likely.
Which accident would you most likely survive? Get hit in a car or get hit on a bike?
A story of practical iPhone development.
As a father of four (and a web developer), who has read to his children every night for... 16 years now... (OMG), I have to ask:

"Why would I want this?"

My kids never really liked those books that came with a tape, and this just seems like a more convenient way of producing something they didn't want anyway. I'm not trying to be mean, you folks have clearly worked hard on this, and I wish you every success, but honestly I don't see the appeal. Bedtime is so much more then just a story.

IMHO, the best start-up service for parents (with regards to bedtime) is your local library.
I suspect they chose SHA256 because it's the best hash, not because it advantages their hardware. But yeah, Niagara 2 is pretty smokin for crypto: http://blogs.sun.com/sprack/entry/ultrasparc_t2_crypto_perfo...
For folks wanting to see samples http://store.coinsforanything.com/c-9-other-coins.aspx

P.S. Legacy media: When we cite folks on the Internet, we include links. I should not have to use Google to complete your articles for you.
First I'd say that at a company level there should be an overall plan for the interview that you fit in to. Interviews work better if the hiring manager assigns specific areas to specific interviewers, otherwise you can all end up focusing on the same area and not getting a rounded view of the candidate. (e.g. Jim - you focus on his general software engineering skills, John - quiz him on C++, Kate - do a resume walk etc).

In the absence of a plan (or as part of one), a good approach is to pick one or more projects from the resume and drill down into the details. Find out specifically what the candidates contribution was, what was the high level architecture his code fit in to, how was his/her piece designed/structured/laid-out, what were his interfaces to other team members, what difficulties (technical or interpersonal) arose and how were they handled, etc.

Feel free to challenge them and push a bit - why did they make the design choices they did, what would have worked better etc.

I find this approach can give you a good sense of the candidates level of contribution, their understanding of the larger scope in which they were working, their ability to debate and defend their choices, and their ability to communicate with you.
Its not an all the time thing, though. I often use assignment in a condition statement, in Ruby:

if value = obj.slow_method
puts value
end

I know I had several bugs from the assignment back in my days of coding C/Java in college, and early in my career as a PHP developer, but I can't recall having an issue with it since programming in Ruby. Perhaps the language flow or best-practices manage to avoid the cases when that bug is possible.
The flagship strategy of mobile phones
Have a range of questions prepared so you can fall back on easier questions (in case the candidate is drawing blanks or is having trouble getting past their nervousness/anxiety) or harder questions (in case they totally blow away your regular ones).
Jason gave his reason why he doesn't bike to work in the article. It's not like "I prefer driving because I want to contribute to global warming and increase our dependence on foreign oil."

Have you taken into account what kind of traffic he probably would get into when riding a bike? I live in San Francisco and I would like to bike everywhere I go. I actually hate driving or riding the bus. But there are too many cars in the city that I'm afraid I'm gonna get hit.

I used to bike to work when I was living in San Diego but it's because the roads I took didn't have many cars in them.
MegaMark,

You bring up an interesting point. How do you weigh Aesthetics/UX Flow/Front End Implementation? I think most folks look for the latter at the detriment of the former. BTW, If you are looking for designers shoot me an email. I have a lot of talented folks in my network who would love to talk to you!
May I ask the terms? How long ago was it, and how has it served you?
You are mentioning very interesting points. I haven't thought of the fact that Google employees spend one day per week on their own projects. I don't know much about the safeguards at Google to prevent single employees to evaluate such data in their own projects. If lots of people search for things like "how to trick google adwords" I think Google would be interested to find out where's these people are working.
Interesting. I lost 20 lbs in about 20 weeks with my G1. ;)

I've been going out running for about 30-40 minutes 2 out of every 3 days, and have pretty much stopped eating crap.

The phone really didn't have that much to do with it, though having an app that tracked my time and distance has made it something of a game to see if I can improve my time.

I got fed up with my gradually increasing weight, and started looking into what I was eating and the calorie cost. Granola will make you roly-poly! Who knew? Clearly I had some bad ideas on what to eat.

I'm really bad at tracking calories or keeping regular regular records of stuff. For me it's simpler to just not have something around to eat at all rather than try to limit consumption. Luckily, I have something of a short food memory so I can eat the same thing most days (oatmeal with blueberries for breakfast; raw vegetables with Wasa crackers for lunch) and not get sick of it.

A key factor was seeing real progress. I hate making myself get dressed and go out first thing in the morning, but losing belly fat and feeling (and looking) lots better makes me want to keep it up.

I still eat junk now and then, and don't go crazy over it, since I know that on average I'm still getting fitter.
I have PHP put up a nice error page for every error. With (very minor) trickery, you can even put up nice pages for fatal errors. Unless it's a database connection error, I have the site automatically email me a full stack trace and all other relevant details. You don't even have to turn off error notification in the PHP.INI file, you can control that from your script.
You're just arguing semantics. You're both saying "you need the knowledge you'll gain from earning a good degree".
Have you just been looking passively, or have companies told you that you're unqualified for postings? I went through a similar situation at work, and decided to interview for a few positions. The "senior" position listings were definitely willing to speak with me, interview me, most of the time. A few said they wanted somebody with the experience, but by and large, they were willing to talk.

The great companies, i.e. the ones you seem to want to work for, will actually appreciate this attitude. Desire for challenge is probably one of the more significant factors startups look for in early stages -- they want you to overextend yourself and learn from it. So it can be a plus, as long as you frame your responses properly (not, "I'm a hobbyist looking to get a little better," but, "I'm a professional who wants to become a guru."

And lots of times the folks writing the job descriptions don't know the programming industry -- they just write what got them their last hire in that position.

I think you should pick out a few jobs that seem ideal to you, and try to interview for them. You'll learn a lot about yourself in the process.

As for me, I stuck in my current job, because I found that it was easier to speak with my supervisor about finding different work areas to keep me challenged, as opposed to changing jobs. That's always another option you should look at as well.
I think the confusion from my comment resulted from a working definition of "consumer". Have you payed for an apple product? Then you're a consumer. Let's not differientiate ourselves just because we write software.

That said, that mind flow wouldn't be the TYPICAL one, it could result from people still wanting Osx on a cheaper machine and doing a google search for "mac netbook" or "osx netbook". Your typical "dumb" consumer may not know the difference, if that was the argument.

Those searches could certainly turn up pages to hachintosh netbooks.
I got kicked out of one college because I never turned up for class, and when I did it was with a hangover. I thought it was boring as hell. Got kicked out of another for pretty much the same reasons. Went to the exams anyway (you can actually do that in Denmark, but the curriculum is harder) and got pretty good grades. Went on to study economics, but dropped out because I thought it was bollocks on a piedestal and most of the professors didn't really know what they were talking about. Besides I was busy being a rave promoter, and found it to be more fun than school.

Interestingly I've always been the go-to guy for obscure information, business strategy and solving hard problems. Maybe that says something about the education system?
IF you have enough brain power to come of with a business concept that actually works, you should be able to find someone that is fairly reasonable to help get your Website looking good.
This is a way for map data providers to prove that someone is using their data. TeleAtlas can do a search for the city and if it is found on some random map data site, they can check to make sure that they have a license to use that data.
Also, regardless of trying to lose weight or not, you can't sit on your ass all day, every day.

So, maybe not an 2 hours of aerobics each day, but 30 minutes of something, for your heart and bones.
For those of you who don't want founders on the starting team, why not? I understand the POV for certain kinds of startups (e.g. a cloud hosting service), but is it more a perception of designers as less useful?