skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow these numbers are amazing; Its hard to believe these men are worth the 20-30mm bonuses they received; then I saw the #1 (jobs) and thought / hmmmm I think he was instrumental in Apple's turn around so perhaps he was worth it...

Its just hard to say 1 person is worth 30mm in bonuses / but I guess capitalism disagrees.

edit: Also my thoughts were mostly conceived after I asked myself "How many people at these companies are underpaid and might leave because of such underpayment while these guys are perhaps overpaid and how will that affect the company's future"
After I installed click2flash on my macbook my average battery time went up.
anyone can share a personal experience in targeting this audience?
Your mileage may vary, but I know that in California, the curriculum has gotten a lot more ambitious. When I went to kindergarten, you learned the alphabet, how to count to 12, played with blocks and finger painted. When my son went to kindergarten, he knew how to read ("Dick and Jane" level text) and add and subtract single digit numbers. Granted, blocks and finger painting were gone, gone, gone, but kindergarten has gotten a lot more academic, at least in CA.
I like the natural incandescent lights(sort of full spectrum, basically an incandescent with a coating on the inside) not too much more per bulb but it really makes a difference to my eyes.
Touchscreen Mobile Phone Adoption Grows at Blistering Pace
There was a blog post recently on naming your startup where I think the author had a good point on looking for names that can be "verbed": don't worry, people will find a way.

In this case, they've made their verb obvious: Duck It. Pretty easy, no?
The Axiom of Choice by John L. Bell
time for flying cars?
Feel free to downvote...I was sharing what I could from an offsite, and I thought the bit about rethinking how they approached customer support by talking not to other CSS orgs, but rather to firefighters and emergency workers was amazing...and that their key take away was to drill often. Stress the system. I've been in many small startups, and none of them have ever taken this approach. I thought it was very novel.
According to what authority? Just because you can buy insurance on debt both parties don't even own (simply ridiculous), doesn't mean that the contract wasn't between AIG and Goldman.

Every news article and writeup has said that there were many CDOs between AIG and Goldman.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1548789520090316
If you have a good reference for leap seconds and platform implementations thereof I would love to read it.
Yes it would probably be safe to assume that 30mins is a little bit of an exaggeration. It doesnt make it any less true that most flash content are ads, and i dont want ads draining my battery even a little.
I don't think its a necessarily question of your business acumen.

Since the VC has a strong technical background (M.S. in CS), I would guess that they would probably be more interested in the course of a conversation in the "intellectual" / technical side of things rather than the mundane financial boring stuff.

Also, probably better than seed funding would be to connect with this VC, and see if you would like him to mentor you. If you're throwing a business plan and slide deck out it might seem like you are just another opportunistic gold-digger, whereas if you can just show how passionate and energetic you are, as pg suggested, its much more likely to lead to a longer term relationship.
A nitpick with the article. He argues that education -> democracy by using a test case to rule out democracy -> education.

But he makes no attempt to rule out the possibility that XXX -> {education, democracy}, where XXX might be { wealth, free markets, socialism, various other relevant factors }.

The real problem here is that he seems to want to do 2-variable correlations rather than multivariate regerssion.
The second paragraph is remarkably good general advice.
This would certainly cut down on the number of poll responses, and those pesky "Vote up if you like chocolate" comments.
Performance is much improved on Linux these days (at least the x64 version).

My Macbook Pro running Ubuntu 9.10 uses about 5-10% CPU at most for flash video, and usually a little less for flash-only sites. The only problem is that when it crashes the browser is sans-flash until you restart it.
In this case the poll would provide some indication as to whether this is a common problem. It's an emperical question -- not something that you can reason about.
edit

replace "deflating" with "inflating"
Of course the next step is to write an implementation of memoize that stores the entries in its maps using SoftReferences (http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ref/SoftRefe...). This way, anything stored in the cache will always be garbage collected before the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError. I'm surprised that SoftReferences are not part of the default implementation given Clojure's nice Java interop as they would be perfect for a function like memoize.
Somebody asked me today how to write a script that would find all phrases (1 or more sequential words) in a text that appear more than once.
There are a few differences here, I think.

It's very difficult for Bing to gain any traction because it does pretty much the exact same thing as Google. The differences aren't compelling enough to switch.

Cuil is really cool, and wants to be different, but it's been hyped up too much for how much it improves. It's a big-budget startup that needs to actually gain traction in order to be successful.

Duck It, from what I can tell is a low-budget engine that brings a slightly different twist to searching (more context). Since it's low budget, it doesn't need to be a home run hit to be successful (like cuil), and it doesn't need to be better than Google at being Google (like Bing). All it needs to do is be good enough at providing context that some small group of people goes to it when the search term's appropriate. If they can get that and build on it, then they can be a niche player. Being a niche player is a success, and at that point they can look into strategies for breaking out of the niche.
Two things caused this vulnerability:

1. Every iPhone has the same root password by default. Apple never intended for anyone to SSH into their device or see a shell at all.

2. Many users install sshd on their jailbroken iPhones without knowing or caring about the implications, and leave it installed and running.

There are a few possible solutions to this problem:

The maintainer of the sshd package should prompt to change the mobile user's password at install time, disable root SSH access, and install sudo. It would also be a good thing to only allow SSH over WiFi (by default).

Maybe a status bar icon to indicate when SSH is enabled should be installed by default, and SSH could not run at startup but require that the user activate it per-boot.

(Actually, BigBoss, the developer of the popular dashboard application SBSettings, REMOVED the option to permanently disable SSH access, arguing that SSH is often the only way to fix up an iPhone that won't boot into the GUI and that it should start unless the user disables it for that boot. I disagree with this decision and think that, at the very least, sshd should shut down after the device boots successfully.)

The root problem here is that the developer of sshd for the iPhone probably released it to be used as a debugging tool by other developers and hackers. No one has the authority to step in and say "wait, this isn't safe for the general population."
As I understand it, most economists (certainly, most economists whose opinions matter to central bankers) believe that a small rate of inflation, perhaps 1-2% annually, is a Good Thing, since it encourages savers to invest in productive companies rather than just stuffing greenbacks under their mattresses.

So "I guarantee you the dollar will buy less 10-20 years from now" is a pretty safe bet, regardless of the general political and economic situation.
This is ridiculous, we can't just let people have access to their data!... i mean OUR data. Just imagine, they may learn things we could have forced them to pay absurd fees to get! :P
I use both. The only big difference? Besides the license? Screen uses 'Ctrl+A' while tmux uses 'Ctrl+B' and screen -r (to reattach) is replaced by tmux attach. That's it, for me at least. tmux seems to have a lot more features, but I only use 10% of them.
Buy & Hold Investing: Does Vanguard Feel Threatened?
A casual google search found this PDF which contradicts most of what this blog postulates, at least among the fastest growing racial groups.
http://www.highereducation.org/reports/pa_decline/pa_decline...
Although intriguing, this comparison is apples to oranges. Planes can achieve substantially better fuel economy than land-based vehicles because of 2 factors:

1) More flexibility in body design. Cars must have 2/3/4 wheels with reasonable clearance to maintain safe balance on the road surface, which usually adds to drag. Planes can vary from tri-wing to tailless flying wing.

2) Low air resistance at high altitude. Planes, passenger jets especially, capitalize on the reduced drag at high altitude for substantial fuel economy. Cars are generally stuck at sea level most of the time.
He's flying a modified VariEze, one of a series of planes designed by Burt Rutan (who, among other many other things, designed SpaceShipOne).

The VariEze was sold as a set of plans; buying a set gave you the right to spend an enormous amount of time in your garage with fiberglass and foam, emerging a couple of years later with a fully functional two-seater airplane. The original design was targeted as efficient, long distance flying, at the expense of capabilities like aerobatics; according to the article, this guy has stepped up his with a re-designed engine an ignition system. Very cool, especially when you remember that this is very likely a plane he built himself in the first place.

I find home-built experimental aircraft are fascinating; I'm plotting one of my own for next year. (There are a number of composite fiberglass designs in the VariEze family that are just beautiful, but they take much more effort to build than the more traditional aluminum, so I'm looking right now at the Van's RV Aircraft family.)
You just have to built it yourself...
Spoiler Alert just in case you don't want to click through the slide show.

1. Steve Jobs

Bonus: $43,511,534

Year: 2001

Company: Apple

Title: CEO

Current Position @ Company: CEO
The Resque code aside --- and I want to switch to Resque, like, tomorrow --- this is the best article on Ruby job queues I've ever read. It's Github's review of pretty much every mainstream job queue out there. Excellent.
Same experience here, although I wouldn't laud flash's performance on Windows either. Silverlight runs better than flash most of the time, and Silverlight is pretty terrible.
I really like #333 myself. Nice and dark, still a bit softer than black.
It makes the unwilling recipients possibly feel bad. Long-term that's bad for your brand.
Sticking a FADEC on a kit plane is all the rage. I think the newer Lancair kits have that now.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how backwards plane engines are. Most of them haven't evolved since the 1950s.
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I built a RV-8 from Van's. The kits are very well done and you will love the way it flies. Sorry for being some what off topic.
I've also been through a lot of different background processing libraries for Rails, and so far, if you have simple needs, I'm finding that Spawn is really awesome. http://github.com/tra/spawn/

I think something like Resque will be very helpful to us over the long term, but if you're looking for something quick that just works to send a big batch of emails, import stuff via a web service, whatever, check out Spawn. Not at all appropriate for a site like Github, but works well for our vastly smaller websites.
I was hoping this was an article about Leibnitz. For some reason, his Monadology is one of the only things I remember from my Modern philosophy class. Ironically, I spent the entire semester down with Mono.
That's true, but it ignores the loss of reputation you get if either recipient considers the intro spammy. And I wouldn't give my email address to anyone I thought would not have the courtesy to ask me before sharing it.
As right as you are, making an API for your service so people can replace your crappy interface with their own good interface probably isn't the best business decision. Online banking sites can display ads. The bank can't inject ads into another client though.

Also consider that the bank would get blamed in popular opinion if someone wrote an insecure client that was determined to be leaking data.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/flying-car-0319.html
Thanks for the writeup. I've decided not to take you seriously. You might consider jumping back to the top of this comment thread, rereading my comment, and taking my word for it.
Here's the glass cockpit that comes on the upper-end planes these days:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=6420

The good thing is that it's cool. The bad thing is that sucks your attention inside the cabin, instead of putting your head on the swivel for traffic. Not a problem if you've got flight following or TCAS, but definitely one of the things that my local FBO warns against.
Wow, it only uses 30% cpu? On my Q8400 in Ubuntu, it pegs an entire core the moment flash launches...
I think it has a lot more to do with the power structure. These people have learned to use the companies for their own benefit, probably because the owners' power is diffuse.
One problem I noticed: When a youtube video popped up in the results, the summary was a warning about having JS turned off and not having flash.
Ask HN: Various SaaS business models
I know a lot of people here run software solutions, so I thought we could have a list or talk about various business models being utilized for subscription based websites. I will start off with the following:

1) 37 signals approach - which is a very limited hidden free plan and then numerous other paid options.

2) Squarespace approach - 15 day free trial, with no credit card required. If you don't upgrade then your account is canceled

3) Carbonmade approach - funnel everyone into the site via a free plan and then once registered try to get them to upgrade

4) And then another pretty common one is - credit card down on sign up with a 15 day free trial, which rolls into a paid plan if you don't cancel.
A higher chance than you think, especially with search engines which offer immense amounts of historical content. I believe if there was a comment system put in place which informed visitors of how many other people were on the same page with them, this may encourage readers to chat amongst each other in real-time and bring life back to webpages which were once "ghost towns".
Also consider that the average couple spends a downright obscene amount of money on their wedding, most of it as flat fees.
For those lazy to click through, Class-A shares are just a tad over $100k now.
On an unrelated note, you say "some brides might choose to keep their sites up after the wedding." Maybe you should try to cater to both grooms and brides. (Painting with very broad strokes follows...) Brides may be more likely to go for the idea, but grooms are more likely to be techy enough to think of, care about, or be able to set up a website.
Couldn't agree more. This is what my next startup is based on.
I think it could be done -- I mean, Pine's an example of a secure client application that uses a kinda-API (SMTP) to deliver data.

If we don't make APIs because someone might write an insecure client, would anyone make any APIs ever?

I do agree with you though :) It's probably not going to happen in the real world any time soon. C'est la vie.
Years ago in my undergrad I took a most excellent OS course offered by the indomitable Peter Denning. As presented, his course basically considered each part of an OS, chose the best of alternatives for core system concepts, and built the OS from there. The result was something not grossly unlike a modern nix, but still leaving enough wiggle room for the large number of variants we see today.

His comparisons between the way these concepts were instantiated in an nix and in other OSs were particularly good (and scathing).

That being said, it is a pity that there aren't still a dozen or so major OSes out there, each coming from a completely different approach, oh the days when an Amiga or a BeBox were interesting consumer choices. You can still find lots of minor OS variants around, but they are very small communities and it's really all boiled down to a very small and "boring" handful.

Additionally, most new OS approaches suffer from a distinct lack of software. And slowly but surely we find the inevitable creep of software Ports into new OSs, using bringing *nix like infrastructure in with them.
I like your focus on improving UI but I think you need to do some customer development work. Figure out whom to target and fulfill their search needs.

E.g.: We need search for hardcore search users. 100 results above the fold. Clear ways to influence the algorithm. Shortcuts to search for specific meta-data. Etc, etc.
Freight rail efficiency is measured in "labor-cost-per-revenue-ton-mile".

The cost of trucking is dominated by the fuel-cost-per-ton-mile.

Whereas the cost of moving 1 ton of goods over rail is dominated by the cost of labor, the cost of moving 1 ton of goods via truck is dominated by the cost of fuel.

In point of fact, rail freight gets ~436 ton miles per gallon.

The only mode of transport that gets more ton-miles-per-gallon is water transport (DSO, dry bulk shipping, oil and gas tankers, panamax, river barges, etc...)

The edge case is liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, which can be transported via pipeline. It's no surprise that Buffet has been buying up oil and gas pipelines over the past several years.

The only catch here is that waterway transport inside the United States has sub-optimal efficiency due to the Jones Act.
Sloan Management Review Summer 2009 edition had an article about it, I cannot find it online for free though. Their url is http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2009/summer...

If you are a student, use your university's network to access it through something like Business Source Elite or walk to the library and read the actual journal, it's a good read anyway! You can also ask someone with access to these resources to download the pdf for you.
Fantastic. Redis can go in both my ephemeral and critical systems.

You're a whirlwind of activity.
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With 100 cores?
Is this why people complain about the bonuses paid to bank executives, but not to people like Jobs?

It's apparent that Jobs has done a lot of hard work and made Apple successful, but banking is a black box to most people. I think there's a perception that banking execs go abuse the massive resources that their institutions possess to screw over other people, and get a bonus for it at the end of the day.

And maybe they do, but I suspect that there's a lot more to their jobs than that. And if their companies succeed, why shouldn't they be compensated? If the board is stupid enough to pay them such obscene amounts of money, then they'd be stupid not to take it.
Because chess is so much more popular there. Here the emphasis is on money-making activities, such as sports- that have rules that can be easily understood by the large masses, and that are easier to market. In addition,there is much more support for chess there, and chess is highly admired; here there are a lot of mixed opinions and myths about chess - for example, that in order to be a good chess player you have to be intelligent, chess is for nerds, etc. Now that chess is finally entering the US and increasing in popularity, hopefully it will be much better understood and appreciated in the future, but it may take a long time before it becomes really popular here.
A related post, in case anyone wants the link, is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=866889
Very interesting. I understand the conservatism of aviation engineering, but this is a clear example of how stagnation in an industry can cause even conservative adoption of innovations proven in other realms to lag by decades.
Not all SaaS includes free plans. I'd include the following two options as well:

5) Amazon approach - your usage gets added up over the course of each month, and your credit card gets charged at the end of the month.

6) Tarsnap approach - you start by making a payment to put money into your account, and this money gets used up as you use the service. You can add more money whenever you want. If the money in your account runs out, you lose access to the service.

Obviously, I like the Tarsnap approach. :-)
Surprisingly, a few years ago (2006), I received some mail from a PR firm who actually represented 37S. Whether or not they still use a firm, I'm not sure, but it's interesting to note that this success wasn't entirely built from their blog.
which is still wrong. If we use your example of Orwell, "homage to catalonia" may be a more deep insight into his mind than 1984.
Saving forums from themselves with shared hierarchical white lists
True, it's a question of trust. Also depends on how well you know the person in question, and how confident you are that the intro would be worthwhile.
Or even a table.

Someone should write a book or summary or whatever on How To Show Data.
Really looking forward to trying this - I've given backgroundrb, BJ, DJ, and workling a go and there's always been something that's frustrated me.

It's amazing the number of different things I'm considering using Redis for as well.
A look at the 100-core Tilera Gx
Personally it sounds like a security and privacy nightmare to me.
I'm sure it could be done.

But consider for example if Bank of America did this and someone created an awesome client app that basically became the main way anyone used their Bank of America account. If a bug is discovered in this application that means everyone's data is no longer secure, are users going to blame the app creator or Bank of America? Can Bank of America afford to take that chance?
Actually one of my pet peeves is that websites continually update their copyright notices. I've always felt that's not how copyright should work. If you update a website, the copyright should take effect when the content, say an article, was first published. Just because the page gets served up in 2009 doesn't mean you get to slap a copyright 2009 on there if the article is from 2003.

Alas, I bet the lawyerly interpretation is that each downloaded HTML file is it's own licensed copy and perhaps copyright comes into being at the point of the successful HTTP request.
How do I mess with google suggest v How might one experiment with google suggest
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First Sony Ericsson Android phone announced: 1GHz, 4", 8.1MP
Apple would have to build some pretty heavyweight DRM into the OS. Something that subverting would cause the OS to become crippled.
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Still beating you down with a copy of Tufte.
What were you trying to search for?
That's pretty common to help keep costs down and employ more experimental designs.
No offense, but something you read on Reddit that some random dude heard from "a good friend" is probably complete bullshit.

Nonetheless, it's still totally believable. But it probably represents almost no optimization on their end. If I can play a 3d multiplayer game over 3G for an hour without the phone crapping out, a think some vector graphics are surmountable. There just has to be a desire there. And clearly Apple doesn't desire to be supporting a proprietary standard when HTML5 does the same thing in a completely open way.

Now, we just need a Flash (the big desktop creation app) equivalent that spits out HTML5 code. Anyone working on that?
Droid doesn't