skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few people are debating the numbers, but I think there's a much more important message here. Consumers rarely factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a computer, and only look at the retail price.

I used to think this way, particularly because I didn't have much money, so I needed to buy the cheapest computer I could at a given time, resulting in paying more over the lifetime of the computer (which might not be that long).

It was only once I began working with data centers when I realized what a huge amount the power and cooling bills could be. In a datacenter, the power and cooling requirements of a high-end system can easily be more than the cost of buying the system initially. A great example is Western Digital's new "Green" 2TB drives. The drive costs more $/GB initially than two 1TB drives, even when you factor in the cost of housing the drives; but if you look at the power required by the hard drives (and hard drives really do pull a lot of energy) the 2TB drives can come out cheaper. The same analysis applies to SSD drives.

If you want to be smart with your money, and have more in the long run, don't forget to account for ALL the costs you'll incur when compared to another solution. This applies to just about everything, not just computers.
No opinion overall, but here are a couple tips:

'Linux async io' -> select 'show options' and then 1-year view on the LHS.

Sadly for the concurrent hashmap I got to 'concurrent hashmap "c" -java', then saw this very discussion page at #3 and I'm in an infinite loop until further notice.
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Robotic path finding is about 50% of "the scifi thing you have in mind".

I agree with your sentiment though.
That's an interesting frame to the question -- whether you are a good match for the community.

Wouldn't the question work better the other way around -- Whether the community was a good match for you or not?

You would judge the answer based on how much the community helped you reach your goals. Whereas with the other question you're always looking outward for somebody else to validate you (which seems prone to getting bad feedback!)
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Super nice work.

I wonder about two things:

Did anybody try to contact Yahoo to get a copy of the server content?

If you where running out of machines, why not try Amazons ECC? Would be pretty sweet having web 1.0 saved by web 2.0 tech.
Also, go to stackoverflow and ask about the concurrent hashmap. Someone will be very happy to help you out. After that, you'll find it on Google :)
My comment is about the intelligence required to be good.

Religion could reduce this and as a result be potentially beneficial to society.
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Rule of thumb: for each watt your always on device consumes, you will pay $1/year in electricity. (at $0.12/kwHr, common US price)

You folks in Silicon Valley are paying 50% more than that for your electricity, so adjust accordingly.

His savings are high, $233/year which says to me he saved 150 watts, which seems a touch on the high side, but if his Pavilion did not sleep well (common in PCs) and his Mini does it would be right on the button.
I've lurked longer than I've trolled. There is a surface appearance of intelligence (thanks to a couple dozen prolific and intelligent participants) but a great deal of unproductive conversations.

Too often, people talk past each other.

Too often, people nitpick like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782752

Too often, edw519 gets upvotes for 'pithy' statements like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864709

Too often, reposts galore, and even worse, from techcrunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743735

Too much non-contributing irrelevant self-promotion: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kkleiner http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kkleiner

Too often, votes are based on... zealotry? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=902804
Why would jrockway get downvoted for answering a question as to why OSX didn't merit the Apple Tax for his purposes?

HN is useful for the domain knowledge and experience of some notable fellows, but a lot of the active user base dampens a lot of the remaining signal.
Yep. Same here: design.

Well that and we've spent so much time on the main app that we don't have a workable login yet - our login process is akin to 37signals where we subdomain the account i.e. yourcompany.domain.com so it's not that straight forward.

So for us it's literally too early to release since no one could sign up.

One thing we could do is have a signup with an email for news of our pending release... but we're still fine tuning exactly what message we want to release with.

This may be a huge mistake on our part but only time will tell. I'll be sure to share our experience releasing 'late', good or bad, with the HN community.
It certainly bears a high resemblance to the ubiquitous banner ads advertising "Free* <Insert Miscellaneous Personal Electronics Here> *after you sign up for 'steen credit card offers or what-have-you and get five formerly-friends to do likewise."
I knew about MIT OpenCourseWare but knew that wouldn't help in the least bit for two reasons, one it is made to be taught at MIT so sometimes it may go above my head,

So? If something goes over your head it's just a sign that you need to learn prerequisite concepts. Click pause and read a more introductory text, even wikipedia helps to clarify things. Then go back to following the lecture and it shouldn't be too difficult anymore.

Not wanting to take difficult courses is a sign of laziness, and unwillingness to push yourself to keep pace.

second...umm...because it is made to be taught at MIT...so it would not match the curriculum taught at my college.

Who cares? You would be a dysfunctional human being if you only learned what it's prescribed in school curricula. In fact, the school syllabus is an invisible fence that could hold a mind captive; smart students learn to rush it, jump over, and run free in the vast open fields of knowledge.

Get over your obsession with school brands, btw. You need to lose that respect you have for "esteemed" institutions, specially the ones in India, like IIT, which are intellectual concentration camps. The students there are miserable, what not with all the pressure from parents and society.
I don't have a geocities page, but that is an awesome offer!

So many times I hear people saying: I had a page, but can't remember what it was.
First I think that anyone who is offering advice on resumes should be willing to present theirs. Here is mine: http://elem.com/~btilly/BenTilly.pdf

I believe that a good resume is one that makes people look twice at you. It should lay out the facts in as compelling and concise a way as possible. Whenever possible you should demonstrate to prospective employers that you provide value, and you understand how much value you provide. Details about format, layout, and so on should be chosen to highlight your strengths in the most compelling way possible.

The first trick is that you must hook people fast. Yes, you need a bunch of keywords for the bots. But you don't want that to be the first thing the humans read. You want people to read something that can make them dream about what you could do for them.

The second trick is that a resume is not the time for modesty. When else is it socially acceptable to sit down and say the nice things about yourself? Don't hold back, have fun with it!

The third trick is that no matter how much work you put into your resume, you need your most honest friends to read it and give critical feedback. You don't want the friend who will say nice things. You want the one who will look at it, tear apart, let you know why it doesn't work and make you rewrite it. I don't know how many times I rewrote my resume, but I do know that it is a lot better for having been rewritten.

I'm starting to ramble now, so I'll stop. So in closing, good luck.
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It's google's success undermining the assumptions behind pagerank (!) leading it to perform less well.

Before google got so effective people put more work into maintaining collections of links to other sites; hand-curated omnibus directories like yahoo and dmoz or narrower fields.

As search became better this was increasingly a poor use of time; you could, after all, just go and google stuff to find it again, so why bother maintaining a hand-curated set of favorite links.

A consequence of this is that link-actions-taken-for-reasons-consistent-with-pagerank's-assumptions dropped, and reducing the signal-to-noise ratio insofar as pagerank is concerned; similarly link-actions-taken-for-reasons-contrary-to-pagerank's-assumptions increased (SEO), further dropping the signal-noise ratio.

Even extremely robust SEO-detection techniques can only cut away the increase in noise; now that people are less incentivized to publicly post high-quality hand-curated link collections there's less for the algorithm to go on.

This is why there's talk of twitter and fb vis-a-vis search; twitter and fb are where the info the search engines need currently lives.

(!) I know they use additional techniques these days but whatever they're throwing into the mix doesn't seem to be counteracting the overall utility decay.
Agreed wholeheartedly on LaTeX. It also is a great entry point for a warm-up conversation at an interview if you format it professionally. I've been asked a number of times "how'd you do this?" and I'm not doing anything fancier than a two-column layout.

I think we hackers tend to underestimate the influence presentation has on perception. A LaTeX-formatted résumé adds a nice touch of professional style and a little boost of geek cred to academic résumé readers.

Or so I'd like to think…
In summary: Geocities -> Angelfire -> Tripod -> Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> etc...
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You can remove a site by clicking the detail link (the link from the dashboard) and then there is a delete link in the top right hand corner. I will work on making this more obvious.
When running off battery power, the battery widget in KDE gives an estimate of current power consumption. With the screen at full brightness, my 17" notebook usually stays around 27W doing non-intensive tasks like surfing the web.
Because it's pretty expensive for bandwidth intensive applications.

It they were anywhere near competitive I would have signed up a long time ago, as it is there really is no point.
And still are today. Seriously, try watching the same event covered by CNN vs a foreign news source, I won't even mention other cable news channels.
I agree with the points made by others here, about the quality of links being degraded in recent times, lots of SEO in lots of websites that are meant to just play with pagerank, and a general crowding of results with old and irrelevant stuff.

I find myself alternating between google and bing these days, for some technical searches sometimes bing works better (especially - and unsurprisingly - for Microsoft-related technologies).

Some competition from bing may lead us to a better google (just like competition from apple made microsoft's new OS better).
"If I spend $30 on a keyboard mouse/combo. And it breaks in 6 months, I can just throw it away and get a replacement and still have coffee money."

And through all of this you're still using a cheap $30 keyboard. Why buy something cheap and disposable just to replace it 6 months later? Sure, your TCO is still lower than the nicer keyboard - but the ease of use and satisfaction is easily worth the difference, not to mention a hell of a lot less wasteful. Why I would skimp on my primary interface to the computer (your hands are on that damn thing all day, after all), is a mystery to me.

"You've used the word "investing" in a way that makes no sense."

Of course it doesn't make sense to you - you appear to think that "investment" can only occur in a monetary sense. This explains your focus on TCO without regard for the quality of the product. When I "invest" in a nice suit, I'm not expecting my garments to appreciate in monetary value - I'm expecting to receive some tangible non-monetary benefit (landing that job, for example, or better networking) for it. In the same way, "investing" in tech gear is about greater satisfaction, reduced frustration, etc etc. It is not about my computer somehow appreciating in value.

"I could buy two or three Toyota Corollas for one BMW 3xx, get to where I want on time, more reliably, with better gas mileage (read: lower TCO), and the only thing I'll suffer for it is not looking like a pretentious prick will doing it."

Your objection against Apple is apparently more about its image than any tangible complaint. This is fine - and is in fact the most common argument against Apple products ("but you look like a hipster douche!").

Question: have you driven a BMW? Or are you presuming that there's no tangible difference except the image component? I've worked in the auto industry - and have done work for both cheapo Pontiacs as well as $100K+ Mercedes Benzes. The quality difference is extreme, but of course invisible on any consumer spec sheet. This is why spec sheet tunnel vision is generally a bad idea when it comes to purchases - there's more to a car (and computer) than its engine size, mileage, CPU speed, L2 cache size, etc etc.

If you've ever been behind the wheel of a BMW you'd know the difference between it and a Corolla. It's a far more satisfying machine to drive than a Corolla, by a really, really wide margin.

But by all means, cling to your unfounded prejudices about BMW drivers and Mac users. We'll be out there enjoying our products (in a non-douchey way, I promise). It seems you're willing to deny yourself better quality products simply because you don't want to be associated with the few people who act like dicks about having them.
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As a consultant, I have a sales pipeline that starts out with people searching for me on LinkedIn or getting a reference from somebody I know.

The next step is for them to look at my resume. If that goes well, then the next step is a phone interview.

It's all a pipeline, and my resume's main job is to get the phone interview. That's it. While technically the resume is supposed to be a history of what you've done, that's what a resume is, not what it's used for. It's used for screening, therefore it should be good at surviving various screening processes.
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Bear in mind that I'm in no way shape or form involved in any resume screening process. However, if I were, I'd rather see "helped build X" than "built X all by myself". Chances are good you won't find a job where you can work by yourself all the time. It's good to show you can collaborate with other people.
Why the subdomain? Can someone explain why a lot of app are doing it? Personally, I avoid using an app that uses a subdomain.
Quite right. I would say that if the inductive capacities of this system can be generalized beyond finding natural physical laws then this is a real start for Hard AI.
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Come on now, you don't have to buy one and these sort of posts are only going to make your OS of choice more competitive. Bring it on: the more choice there is the better things will be.

Doesn't the article mention Dell's monitor?

Scientists cannot make low-cost hardware if there is no market, LG probably welcome apple's move as it allows them to ramp production up sooner.
Not so incredible: The article is about what phone makers and carriers are choosing to ship. For the iPhone, those choices have already been made and are unlikely to change in the near term.
Interesting, how hard is it to apply without bubbles on such a huge screen? I think I need to see this somewhere in person before dropping any money on it. I've never seen this applied on any of the exhibit models in shops, so that could be tricky. Would you mind taking some photos from a couple angles and uploading them, google images isn't giving me joy? Thanks.
ptomato isn't saying this is spam, he's saying the title looks like spam. Good article, bad title.
The rules ares changing for length of resume. In college, yes, it should just be one page, but that's because you most likely don't have any experience. The one page limit works because it makes you focus on the meat of who you are.

However, as you gain experience, then the one pager can become an artificial limiter. As many people have explained above, tailor it to the job you are applying to. But in the hacker community it will be important to show things you work on for fun as opposed to things you do to pay the bills.

My resume is currently 3 pages. First page is what I love to do (projects I am working on and consider important). Page two is how I get paid. Page three is education, skills, references.
What about the http://gems.rubyforge.org/stats.html page hosted on RubyForge?
This wasn't actually inductive though.

Given crude initial conditions and some indication of what variables to consider

The only induction done in the whole process was done by the researchers in this step - otherwise the algorithm wouldn't have had anything to "evolve" to.
The Mac Mini is almost completely silent unless the CPU is being maxed for long enough (a few minutes), causing the fan to kick in.
I think everyone who's read the article understands that it's a genuine article not out there to scam people, but ptomato suggested that the title be changed (perhaps to something along the lines of "Mac mini Pays for Itself After 2 Years").
When was the last time Steve Jobs tried to find a job?

I agree that resumes should be short, but accepting an arbitrary page limit of 1 is kind of dumb. If you have 2 pages worth of data that genuinely belongs on your resume, send in 2 pages. Most people won't have 2 pages worth of stuff to go on a resume, but don't trim out useful information just to make your resume 1 page if you do.
I'm actually concerned about the graphic design of my startup. There is a pay-for-service component to it, and I have this feeling that if it doesn't look professional, no one will trust it. Anyone think that is a valid concern?
You forgot to ask if I even have a [cell] phone, because I don't.

I do have a pda though, and I would hate to loose that.

And rename the title of this submission to something about phones and loosing them.
I think it's important to note that immediate media coverage and an immediate surge in signups is not always desirable for something just released and it's of course not always a prerequisite for success in the long run.

It's your trending over time that really counts.
fear of failure. once you get it out there, it will be the true test.
No practical use?! Why, it's practically a requirement for IOCCC entries. :)
I'm like 99.9% sure it's in the standard. gcc -pedantic -ansi certainly doesn't complain.
I changed my mind about Django. In practical usage, it does not save time. Most things are faster, stabler, more portable and easier to outsource than Django. So, gone from being a Django enthusiast to making PHP my main web language and Django for things like admin and cron jobish sort of things.
> I was always told in college that hiring managers won't read past the first page. So I don't.

Not that you're wrong to feel the way you do, but this isn't a very good reason. I've been told a lot of things that turned out to be flat out wrong.
Cool, I'll keep that in mind for my emacs-leaning friends.

I just accept that there are some things that need a mouse, and use xpdf to read pdfs.
Or to put it in other words, the iPhone is simply not a possible choice for any maker or carrier in the US other than Apple or AT&T.
The keyboard most like Apple's keyboard is the Logitech diNovo. $99.99 at newegg. Mouse not included:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126...

There is no other mouse like the new Apple mouse, so there's nothing to compare it to. High quality wireless mice from Logitech or Microsoft are usually around $50 though.
Possibly a title reworking is in order so it looks less like spam...

i guess i misunderstood. it looks like he was saying that i reworked the title to make it look less like spam, but this is not spam at all.
You still could become a doctor (PhD) and innovate, explore, etc..

Unfortunately, whether or not a career in academia jives with your idea of what it is innovate/build/create would be another decision you'll have to make!
I typically turn in my resume using a a flat text file (usually using restructured text). It's really helpful because you really have no idea how the company's HR systems will mangle your resume. Plus, doing a resume in ReST just screams "hacker".
Is your resume much different being designed for consulting instead of a regular full time job?
The willingness to pay questions should probably have a $0 - $30 option. You might get biased responses from people who would use it, but not pay much for it.
I believe it makes it easier to partition traffic and different subdomains can have different configurations.

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/918971/when-should-i-use-... and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
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Re-brand, user login system, some items that probably aren't critical but at least one person on the team feels 'has to be there'.

This makes me want to release an alpha today. Okay, maybe tomorrow.
I love the internet for things like this. Awesome job. I remember back in the day hoarding hundreds of geocities accounts to store and distribute MP3s . . . and of course I owned the copyrights to all of those. . . .
Same. It's nice to have something warm and tasty to sip on in the morning after getting to work. Makes that first hour of the day more pleasant.

It's kinda strange though...I almost never drink coffee on the weekend. It never crosses my mind after I wake up on weekends. Where as in the morning, before work, I can't wait to get in and start drinking my coffee.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence

A modicum of research reveals that 'The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which is “highly statistically significant.”'
I am a Pingdom customer and I think the thing that could make me shift is an enhanced form of custom check - like what Pingdom has today but better.

In my setup I made a public service where external tools can retrieve some realtime stats like current number of users, queue lengths, number of jobs processing etc. Pingdom uses this service in different custom checks and it kinda works, but I can't use the stats or graphs for anything. Not all checks should be described in a status code and response time - a simple number would be great. Make graphs with that and allow users to set a threshold for when alerts should be sent.

Another thing missing is support for basic authentication.

As others have noted your front page is not really getting the message through.
Two things - the design is, well, okay but extremely simple.. It just doesn't have that finished look about it.

And the app itself is incredibly simple, which makes me second guess myself as to whether it is too simplistic that users won't pay the few bucks I intend to charge for it. I keep telling myself that they pay for value, not the number of lines of code...
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