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chengmion How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps

Ha! Generating a provisioning profile is more than eight steps(!) in itself.

chengmion Ask HN: Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding?

I'm working on a solution for this, but ultimately it comes down to hosting costs. SearchYC is currently hosted on a cheap-ish virtual server whose costs come out of my pocket each month. I can't justify spending more money on this project, given my personal financial constraints.

Traffic has been steadily increasing, and quite simply, the system can't handle the load at peak usage. I am, however, working to resolve some of these issues, but it may still be awhile before you see any improvements.

chengmion A Better Way to Load a Plane

I'm not sure this would work very well with Southwest because they don't assign seat numbers to passengers (at least in my experience). Most of the time, the people at the front of the group choose seats toward the front of the plane and hold up everyone else while they're stowing their bag.

chengmion Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?

So take biology out of the discussion, and consider consciousness in a computer system. If a program is self-aware, is it conscious? Or is there more to consciousness than that? Why don't conscious computer programs exist if we already understand how consciousness works? Would it be ethical to reboot that program, if it existed?

Biology can explain how neurons in the brain (computer) works. It can also potentially explain how thought and logic play out (program logic). But how do you explain consciousness in this metaphor? this.isRunning? Or does it make more sense to say that even if we understood all of biology, there are still things that we won't fully understand?

chengmion Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?

This question is better suited for a philosopher rather than a biologist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind

chengmion News.YC Growth

http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points

Is this a better list?

chengmion Letter to a Young Procrastinator

This reminds me of a thesis I once read titled "The Mythos of Engineering Culture", that claims engineers "procrastinate to introduce challenge, uncertainty, and risk into engineering work."

http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/pltools/pubs/Leonardi.pdf

chengmion Poll: should submitting new articles require non-trivial karma ?

ok...

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gongfudoi 268 submissions, 2 comments, 388 karma

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jkopelman 81 submissions, 1 comment, 613 karma

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=charzom 145 submissions, 6 comments, 890 karma

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmorin007 803 submissions, 39 comments, 2974 karma

chengmion [dead]

Maybe he got modded down for posting code that won't run.

chengmion The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC

That information can be derived from multiple observations.

chengmion Firefox market share exceeds 20%, Internet Explorer dips below 70%

SearchYC.com stats:

  Firefox  75.7%
  Safari   12.9%
  IE        7.6%
  Opera     2.2%
  Mozilla   1.3%
  Other     0.3%

chengmion Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter?

This is a reference to the movie "Memento", however misplaced it may be.

chengmion Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula

You must be using Ruby... ;)

chengmion Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's Data Connection

this is like debating with the people who think it's okay to bring Tupperware to an all-you-can-eat buffet.

It's more like management kicking you out after they've felt you've had "all-you-can-eat".

chengmion New Feature: Delay

Many users edit comments after posting them

Can we have an optional preview page before comments get posted instead? It would be useful for fixing typesetting and other errors before it's actually posted. I fear that having a delay of 10 minutes will drastically increase the number of redundant comments.

chengmion Ask YC: Could you point to examples of great and terrible code

While thedailywtf.com is an excellent source of entertainment, I think it's more useful to study code that compiles, looks, and runs fine, but has some less-obvious deficiency like an XSS vulnerability, or poorly chosen algorithm (e.g. bubble sort). I like to skim through "best practices" books whenever I'm learning a new language or technology.

chengmion Ask YC: MacBook Black vs. MacBook Air

The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser cleans all those greasy areas and makes it look like new. I use it to clean the keyboard and touchpad on my black Macbook all the time.

chengmion SearchYC RSS Feeds

cool

chengmion Harvard discovers much faster way to adjust your sleep cycle

...but instead starve yourself so you stay awake.

Staying awake during the fast isn't necessary.

chengmion SearchYC Firefox Search Extension

It wasn't the transfer quota. Our web host decided to randomly shut down the virtual server that day--while I was out of town.

chengmion SearchYC Firefox Search Extension

Sorry, we were going to re-announce the plugin on the blog with our next set of features. But then we got busy, and it kept getting pushed back.

The plugin is available at http://plugin.searchyc.com/

chengmion [dead]

I've been trying various things to address this problem, but I haven't found a solution that I like, yet. The current system will typically index new articles within 30 minutes to an hour of posting, but could take up to two hours in the worst case.

Do you often use SearchYC for checking dupes?

chengmion Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?

rms: http://ask.searchyc.com/20070225

chengmion Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

Great resource! Hope you don't mind, we added a link to your wiki on http://ask.searchyc.com

chengmion Ask HN: Best IP geolocation service?

http://plugin.searchyc.com/

chengmion uWink: A Cold Greasy Plate of Fail

SELECT * FROM bar WHERE taste LIKE '%Guinness%' LIMIT 3;

chengmion SearchYC 2.0 Released

We're running on a Linode virtual server. Yes, we can index across multiple machines, but we aren't currently.

chengmion SearchYC 2.0 Released

We're running on very limited resources. But the good thing is we can now throw hardware at the problem (if we had the money to do so) and performance would improve. I couldn't say that with the old system.

Isn't http://y.soho.lt/ a wrapper for Google search? I'm searching for "demo day techcrunch" and soho returns no results. http://www.searchyc.com/demo+day+techcrunch returns 11 results.

chengmion Does this look familiar to anyone?

Brad Feld, whose blog appears on that page, also has a hand in TechStars (their application was copied from YC too).

chengmion Y Combinator's 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud

Has anyone else noticed that the level of YC bashing upped a notch this time around?