skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the page’s content is changed a year later? Or deleted? Or the site is sold? Or the domain expires? You bookmarked what it was, not what it is.
I don't want to presume I know what's going on in your life based on one comment, so I apologize if I'm wrong.

It reads to me that you've overloaded 'success' at business with the concept of 'escape' from your life. You're in for a breakdown unless you can undo this thinking.

Success at your startup won't give you friends or a social life. It won't help you escape from the stress. It'll do the opposite, unfortunately. Success puts even more pressure on you. If you land that $1M customer, you'll have to deliver $2M of value back to them.

What you get out of success is more opportunity, more resources, more freedom. All of these you can use to enrich and expand your own life. If you don't have your own life going though, you'll have no outlet to enjoy your success. Then the stress will turn into a death spiral.

Add yourself to your plans. Make a plan to enjoy your success. Do something to enrich your life like joining a club or taking lessons. If you land the big customer, reward yourself (not with things, with an improvement in your life).

Advanced tip: If you don't land the customer, do something for yourself anyway. The company may fold, but you're still stuck with you for a while yet, so you might as well get along with yourself. :)
They're _supposed_ to be dependant, but each time I interact with the law, I doubt it more and more.
But the name contains the string .exe! Clearly that means Windows is being emulated.

(Note to people that think this is true; install f-spot on Linux some time. It's a C# application, and ends in .exe. Even though it has nothing to do with Windows, except that Microsoft spec'd C# and Microsoft makes Windows...)
And don't forget all the extra shielding you need to protect circuitry from solar winds.
http://www.last.fm/music/Turing+Machine/_/(Got+My)+Rock+Pant...
Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 3
...and the race begins to start the first interplanetary hosting company.
That's 3 times faster then my Hyatt here.
Head to Head: Chrome for Mac vs. Chrome for Windows
Of course, there is a big denial from Amazon about all this.
It's hard to compete with free and more features.
And multiple threads on here already... a couple of days ago...
While Contrarianism rarely pays, Contrarianism is the New Consensus
There is a difference between slang and jargon. Jargon is specific to the domain of discourse, and uses words that are sometimes neologisms and sometimes ordinary words given particular technical meanings, the better to communicate quickly and accurately.

Slang is to use words that create "tribes" or sub-cultures, often to create bonds and connections with your peers, and often do not involve significantly new or specific ideas.

In each case, using your own dialect (slang or jargon) with your peers is one thing, but the ability to drop to a possibly less precise, possibly less efficient, but generally more widely understood common language is important.

That's what the article is about - the apparent inability of the target group (in this case teenagers) to use language appropriate to their listener.

Most half-way competent children of my generation used completely different language at school as compared with home. That's to be expected. What concerns me is the mono-linguality that seems to be emerging.

Yes, it is what it is, and probably nothing can be done about it, and maybe it's not a problem. But recognising that it's happening is at least linguistically interesting.
Does anyone know the backstory of why webkit browsers don't pretty-print XML, necessitating plugins like this: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gbammbheopgpmaag... ?
Hong Kong Emerges as new IPO World Champion
Until a solar storm rolls through.
Lymphoma Progression Linked To Low Vitamin D
You certainly could argue that, however, if it were true in most cases Google, a highly data-driven company, would be still be working that way.
Make a pamphlet, sell it on http://www.lulu.com/

Make an app to gift it, so friends can criticize eachother's shotgun habits with a social gesture

Is the goal monetization? Because if not, you might already be done.
Make a quiz out of it - "think the quiz is wrong, join the group and tell us why", also get AAA to sponsor it somehow. I'm sure they or someone like them are looking to get into advertising to that demographic.
You could just not give them your data in the first place.

I am not worried about search / email / etc., though, I am worried about Analytics. I would like to be able to globally disable it. (NoScript solves this problem, but Analytics should be opt-in, not opt-out-by-blocking-Javascript.)
Write the book and sell it to them...

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/12/08/no-more-excu...
Good strategy. We do almost exactly the same thing in Devel::REPL for Perl.
Christmas/Holiday gifts seem like the obvious choice. I would definitely buy a poster for my brother with the rules of shotgun on it (if it was funny). Not sure if you can put it together in time.
I understand DVD sales from retail outlets being harmed. However, I've always wondered why rentals get harmed, doesn't Redbox have to follow the same channels as Netflix, Blockbuster and pay for DVD's that are rented? I've always wondered how the rental portion of the market in terms of revenues works.
Optimized Conversion Rates Leads To More Customers
You and the Future of Gmail
Ultimately if you don't trust Google with your search queries, then you should take Schmidt's advice and not query anything embarrassing.

Or take my advice, sidle up to an open WiFi network (or if you are really nefarious, crack a "secure" one--bet that won't get logged), load up a flash-based Linux distro with no means of storing anything permanently, and query till your heart's content. If that's more privacy than you need, how about Private Browsing mode, which is in every major browser now (except IE? dunno.)

Sheesh!--the hue and cry over Google and privacy completely overlooks the fact that the Internet is the most anonymous means of exchanging information ever created. Yes, unfortunately legal and profit motives mean your online activities are, to some extent, recorded. But breaking the link between "you" and what you do online is trivial, and the more your privacy matters to you, the more thoroughly can you achieve that separation.
Dell Made $6.5m on Twitter
I had a terrible experience with Redbox, I liked the idea of avoiding the teenagers at Blockbuster, but when I rented a movie it was unplayable because it was scratched beyond repair. I suppose I could have contacted their customer service reps, but at the price of a rental vs. my time it just didn't make sense.

On the other hand, I wish I had shares in their company.
GitHub even has it's own pastebin, Gists.
Pinboard actually pitches itself as "Antisocial Bookmarking".
Maybe you could let people create their own customized "House Rules" reference card for their car, maybe as a sticker they could attach to their passenger window or something.

$12 * 100,000 * 0.05 = $60k
Intel and NVIDIA generally operate under different philsophies. Intel, of course, adamantly backs the CPU. NVIDIA has for a while been touting the superiority of the GPU and the idea of general purpose GPUs, with projects like CUDA.

Not to mention, NVIDIA is still reeling from the costs of repairing faulty GPUs from last year, coupled with the impact of the recession on demand. They were also facing pricing pressures from AMD, especially at the consumer/enthusiast level. All of this led to fixed costs and cut into margins, which resulted in lower profits in the last several quarters. However, NVIDIA's management has remained resolute with a long-term focus. IMHO, NVIDIA is, at the moment, grossly undervalued. So that $110B vs $8B market cap is a bit misleading.
Panic has been known to give a special link to people who buy shirts (a shirt secret if you will). This link contains different wallpapers for download. I just checked it and didn't see these, but I wonder if there is another secret when you buy the boxes.
That's a good thing, it means I'll still have a job 10 years from now!
OK. makes sense. But then how come Win Chrome is already at version 4.

In other words 4 as the major version seems high considering Chrome, for any platform, is fairly new. Compare that with FF which has been for much longer and is at 3.5.x

Are they tracking Webkit or any other version?
HN distills some of the best ideas from its predecessors:

1) Scoring system for stories (Digg) and comments (Slashdot)

2) Community based story submission (Kuro5hin)

3) Infinite indentation (Usenet and Forums)

It's also interesting to note what they didn't include in the design: Subjects for comments

HN's approach is not without challenges

1) Following the conversation gets tougher when there are a lot of levels. Who said what?

2) By reordering the posts according to points the user gets disoriented.
Was this submission inspired by the earlier one here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982247

??

And why is the Ham Sandwich Theorem "ridiculous"? It says that any N sets in N dimensional space can simultaneously be bisected by an N-1 dimensional (hyper-)plane. Giving it a visually evocative name doesn't make it ridiculous.

What about Hall's Marriage Theorem? Is that "ridiculous" enough?
That scheduler is called launchd -- it cleanly replaces all of the "automatically launch a process" tools: not just init and cron (along with many greenspun variants), but also event-triggered stuff like xinetd and udev. It even implements the interfaces of its predecessors, so you don't need to run legacy daemons.

It was written by Apple for 10.4, and the code is real pretty: http://launchd.macosforge.org/
Northwestern University Discloses Medical Faculty Industry Ties
SPEED! Man, I just installed and it downloads locally and indexes all your IMAP emails, (a few gigs of data in my case).

Then search in ALL of them is INSTANTANEOUS!

I wasn't using Gmail due to the non-functional search for word fraction. And my IMAP server's search took almost a minute sometimes (dovecot + extra indexing options). But this is... unbelievable.
No matter how many friends you may have lost, there's lots of people in this world.

Yes, but friends and family are not fungible. You can't just replace them with new friends and family without consequence.
I don't really see why...$1/rental is cheap but then if you watch a lot of movies Netflix is arguably cheaper (and has a vastly better selection). I think they ought to be more worried about movie downloads for a monthly flat rate.
Should you stalk your customers?
Using EC2 for anything but overflow is silly. The costs are extraordinarily high if you are doing decent volume ( read- if you have more than 3-5 servers )

Bandwidth is ridiculously expensive with them. You can get 3-4x cheaper per megabit going dedicated.

Servers are crazy expensive. Compare the most powerful machine they have vs something on 10tb / gigenet / theplanet for the price. You will definitely end up with a more powerful machine for half the price on either.

The only real advantage to using ec2 is the hourly billing. Make its perfect for overflow, but thats about it. I read about alot of startups that use ec2 for things like webservers or other servers that have 100% reliance.

Dont get me wrong. Some of Amazons offerings are great. The CDS and S3 can take the bullshit out of dealing with the complexitys of each and might save you a network engineer or 2. However, for EC2 there is no excuse. Its no more difficult to setup a normal dedicated server than it is a EC2 box.

/endrant
On a related note, if you plan to murder someone, you should not post an HN comment suggesting what not to google for when planning a murder.
You got his point backwards -- one of the main use cases for saving the contents of bookmarks is that you have an offline copy, not just a frozen copy.
Randomly multiplying a sample by an arbitrary "small" percentage is a terrible way of demonstrating profit potential.

Unless you can demonstrate otherwise, the correct calculation is:
$12 * 100,000 * percentage of people that are your mum = $0-$24
I think that having the ability to expand and collapse comment trees would solve the first challenge. I don't know why this hasn't been done yet.
If there's one thing the financial crisis has taught everyone, it's that we need less humility in the face of world-spanning systems no one person can possibly understand.

Sarcasm is definitely the way to go if you want to foster a productive debate.
"False. This happened all the time with Glass-Steagall in force. Glass Steagall was repealed in 1999, mortgage backed securities were issued and sold long before then. Many commercial banks traded MBS under Glass-Steagall as a way of reducing their risk; in fact regulatory bodies encouraged them to do this."

We are really getting into details here. This was technically partially true, because Glass Steagall was being progressively watered down long before it was actually repealed. So commercial banks were allowed to underwrite some securities but again there were limits as to how much they could do. I think the limit started at 5% of revenue and then progressively expanded to 25% as GS was being further watered down. But I doubt banks would have been allowed to create the huge amounts of mortgage backed securities they did after the repeal, even in the most watered down version of GS. Also, when the original article argued for the reinstation of Glass Steagall they probably argued for it in its original non-watered down version.

As to your second statement, you said "Instead of speculating in "finance", lending went to speculate in "productive assets" like equities and bonds." To me this means that you misunderstood what the original article was trying to say. By productive assets the original article meant direct loans to businesses and individuals instead of financial instruments.
I think the advice to learn a new language is more incomplete than anything else; it's not learning a new language that's valuable, it's learning new ways to think about problems. Picking up a language that's very similar to one you already use, or that differs only in matters of syntax, isn't really going to do much for you, and it probably wouldn't take more than maybe six carefully-selected languages to get 99% of the benefit learning new languages will ever have.

Writing a program in a radically different domain than what you're used to has a lot of the same value, plus the advantage of being a much less exhaustible resource.
The process name is exe because chrome internally runs /proc/self/exe when launching the thread for flash.
It looks like the Acorn site is still up here?

http://acorncomputers.co.uk/about.htm

This domain was taken over by Acorn Computers, as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers_%282006%29#Doma...
Ezra Klein: The economics of healthcare reform means lower wages
Finally, some hard evidence that Twitter is actually useful.
Perhaps fix the link at http://www.shotgun.com
You seem to have missed a pretty big feature of EC2 - servers on demand. There is no thought or overhead in spinning up a new server. 10 seconds in your console of choice and you have a new virtual server, ready to go. That, combined with instance customization, mean server instantiation can be done by a developer on her lunch break, instead of taking hours and attention away from the ops guy.
Make Your Content Difficult to Read
They're orthogonal in that both can vary independently of the other. Making an act legal or illegal does not alter the morality of the act, nor does the morality of an act in a given context change the legality of performing it.

To the extent that you can plot the morality vs. legality of acts on a cartesian plane it's nice to find most points near the diagonal, but that doesn't mean they aren't separate axes.
It drives me nuts when I visit popular blogs that serve as a place for discussion and yet they have no nesting of comments (three levels does not count). Forcing the linearity of comments does a big disservice to the readers, because inevitably people will go off into tangential conversations where #45 will reply to #15 and #79 will reply to #45. A lot of (but not all) people make up their own informal structure by prefixing their comments with the name or the number of the comment(er) they're replying to. I feel like I'm in the Stone Age when browsing through these conversations after reading through HN. We already have solutions for this crap!

Very few websites seem to be getting this right, and I can't understand why. Someone or something needs to force these people to evolve.

I would love to see a piece of software that analyzed a linear comment stream, inferred the dependencies, and restructured the comments in the browser. Is there anything like this?
Exactly. People only have to convince 0.0000000001% of a 6B person market to marry them, but it's still a hard thing to do.
It's not like this is a problem specific to Google. Credit cards, for instance, are very convenient but also easily traced if you are up to no good. Nobody thinks the credit card companies should protect your anonymity -- if you're buying something you shouldn't, don't use a credit card.
It's muddier than that. We're talking about the specific behaviors and sacrificies made, not the activities you're doing them in the name of.

Nobody will argue with being "addicted to art" because that sounds like fun compared to "living in poverty, becoming an alcoholic, dying in obscurity at your own hand", which is one way which being an art addict plays out with tragic frequency.

Consider for example that a substantial portion of those musicians spending 20 hours a day in the studio are high on cocaine. Does it make a difference whether it is the how or the why they do it? Does the quality of the end product make a difference?

Likewise, a "business addict" sounds like a swell guy, but if it means he has alienated his family, does that change whether it is worthwhile or not? What if he fails? Was it still worth it?
It's actually harder to set up your software on an EC2 instance, but just the first time -- it demands a pretty high level of sophistication.

OTOH, do you have API keys for your Dell salesman and your co-location facilities? I'd love to see those provisioning scripts!
No... I was looking at the post on mathoverflow:fundamental examples: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984512 and then I went off on wikipedia for a while and came across this.

It's only ridiculous in the sense of the name and the fact that they used it as an example in the proof. Otherwise it is a fine result.
Haven't had a chance to try it out myself, but Fever (http://feedafever.com/) has attracted some attention the last few months and looks promising. From the makers of Mint, 30$ a month a believe.
I agree it's more expensive, but I think you are undervaluing the instant provisioning capability EC2 gives you and overestimating the impact of the increased cost.

The way I look at it is if all these services were free, EC2 would win based upon features. So, the question is, does cost matter?

For us, a single engineer's salary costs more than our entire yearly EC2 bill. And, we're not even using cost saving measures like elasticity and reserved instances.

And, EC2 actually drives costs down in ways hosting does not. First, as you mentioned, it dramatically reduces the need for IT staff. (Though it doesn't eliminate it, of course.)

Second, and IMHO, more importantly, the constraints EC2 imposes on you forces you to build fault tolerant, shared-nothing systems. I'm sure many folks here have worked at companies with hosted servers to find machines that are chock full of random cron jobs, services, and so on. The instant provisioning capability of EC2 combined with the constraints makes it very hard for you to have these one off "god boxes" your system is hinging on. Beyond that, as things get too messy, you have the freedom to automate and shut-down and bring up fresh nodes instantly with no increase in cost. It's hard to me to estimate the amount of man-hours we've saved and disasters we've avoided due to this capability. It's allowed us to cleanly "refactor" our entire cluster over time since we can reprovision nodes on demand as we improve the services or architecture on those nodes.
I don't work for Redbox so I don't know for sure, but I'm speculating that they maybe using the Krispy Kreme model (i.e. their growth is based on expansion). In other words, since they keep opening up new kiosks they can move product that is not selling well in one kiosk to another new kiosk, rather than it being a sunk cost if they buy product for an area and it doesn't end up selling well. At some point, they may end up collapsing in on themselves if they are not able to raise their prices to account for such write-offs (as their expansion slows). Though my theories could just be hot air since I neither work for them nor am I an MBA (or an economics major at that).

I know that they are looking to raise prices: http://www.insideredbox.com/redbox-begins-testing-higher-ren...

Blockbuster is trying to compete with kiosks too:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-blockbuster-adds-dvd-vend...
Jonah Lehrer: Social status and aggression
China’s Family Planning Goes Awry
The point being that you shouldn't cut yourself off from the world and feel like your are alone just because you've screwed up some relationships. If you've screwed up some relationships beyond repair, then seek out new ones rather than isolating yourself and lamenting over what you've lost. That path only ends in depression or madness.
If you can't make new friends, then you've got bigger problems than overwork.
Or you could use Athlon Duron processors.

In that case, the solar winds would need extra circuitry to protect it from the heat of the processor.
I feel more motivated if I'm slightly sleep-deprived for like a day because I'm in a frame of mind where I have to force myself to do anything so it makes it easier to motivate myself to do things that I would normally procrastinate (so it might just be the power of forward momentum). But that only lasts for a day. If I don't catch up with sleep after that day, I just deteriorate.

That said, it's kind of weird to look back at code I've written in such a state. I usually don't recognize it. Sometimes it a good way, sometimes bad (i.e. sometimes I'm amazed that I wrote something that good, and sometimes I'm amazed that it works at all).
You can never make new friends who have known you since <insert important point-in-time here>. Sometimes having old friends around can be quite important.
Also, to belabour a point, lack of a notifications system mean that you have to repeatedly revisit a page to see whether your comment has been replied to.
This is all off topic, and does not have much to do with Glass Steagall at all. Glass Steagall did allow separation of ownership and control.
Sure. You want a Windows/Mac/Linux tablet, not what this thing is. Those are also available.
The firebug-like plugin is in a separate package:
chromium-browser-inspector
Many people have a big problem, that is that other people seem to think they have a problem. If you don't think you have a problem, guess what? Maybe you really don't. No matter what some busybody ahole says.
Thanks Tyler. You and two other folks enjoyed this one :D
> some people are perfectly fulfilled without the relationships that you and I feel are important.

Some people value their relationship with their 'dealer' above all else, that doesn't mean it's healthy.
If you can't make new friends, then you've got bigger problems than overwork.

You're missing the point. New friends don't "replace" old friends the way a new dollar bill can replace one you lost gambling. As I said, friends and family are not fungible.