jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From the Skype's status update: "Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes’ as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal."

So they can inject new supernodes in to the system and clients will discover'em gradually. That kind of indicates that they have a mechanism not to DDOS the new mega-supernodes. It's a contingency plan. I fail to see what we are arguing here.
So I run a conference, Swagapalooza, which involves companies launching new consumer products to bloggers. The products are mostly food, fashion, tech, books, music, clothes, parenting stuff, etc. While I do get a decent number of applications from women who want to present their products, most of them are for Etsy-like stuff, which generally doesn't work as we are only looking for products that we have the potential to help tip. The percentage of women-run consumer product companies whose products are interesting[1] and mass produceable are probably just as low as the percentage of women-run tech companies.

[1] Genuinely novel. Not just a company that silkscreens t-shirts with their own designs.
It handling 1% of connections would assume that the network was the bottleneck. You are much more likely to use up the CPU, RAM, or other resources before hitting the maximum number of available sockets. In which case things are swapping or waiting for available CPU time and each individual requests becomes seconds or tens of seconds to get handled. For all intents and purposes, that machine is dead.

As to your second point, I think you are right. I assume that is what the mega-supernode is: a network of machines who's resources are as high as can be to handle all of the connections and try to beat the bottlenecks.
I don't know why we should focus on startups when this is a much more global issue. If you look at your typical college's CS, Engineering, or Math departments you'll find similar ratios of females as you find in the tech workforce. I have no idea why that is but it's not caused by who startups are hiring. If you look at a typical college's marketing department you'll see a lot more women, how is it surprising that there are more women in marketing positions?
Because most women are not good at programming. Because their brain lacks the wiring [1]. Otherwise they would've already jumped at a chance to secure $150k/year jobs.

Stop writing superficial articles that don't address the fundamentals.

[1]
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/09/why_arent_mor...

"Mental rotation tasks (see this CogDaily post), which require working with a three-dimensional representation of an object, have been found to have very large sex differences favoring males"
Agreed. I think the issue is exacerbated in startups because they inherently have fewer employees.
Ok, Gotta give him credit- Elon Musk has achieved Steve Jobs level of showmanship, certainly at least with pre-announcement hype.

I don't think his presentation skills are quite as good as Jobs but he's getting better.

I almost wish Apple would get into the electric car business (as rumors say they are) simply because it would be great to see these two companies duke it out in such a design and aesthetics heavy industry.

Tesla's a little bit behind Apple right now, but they had to start from scratch and master car design, car engineering, safety design, interior design, design for manufacturing, and UI design (for their software) all at once, while Apple has had many years head start and has only added one of these at a time most of the time. Thus at this point Apple's designs are highly refined, while the interior of a Tesla and the software UI are in the "not bad" category. (still far better than any other car company when it comes to UI, but not up to Toyota or Honda on interiors.)

But in 5 years? Could be the #1 & #2 Design, Engineering and manufacturing companies going head to head! That will be amazingly good for us!
I hope so cjus.

Btw, thanks :)
Apple invented the phone, the idea of representing applications as icons in a grid, and the idea of having quick access to specific applications.

Those features have existed in countless other operating systems, and DEs? Blasphemy.
I'm a college student. I make my claims based on experience.

Do you disagree with my claim? It may be a generalization, but by no means an overgeneralization.
Thanks for the feedback Rory.

Fully agree about a video demo. This is an MVP, if you will...so lots of good stuff in the months ahead.

Re the imdex issue, addressed it another comment - see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2460771
Anyone else notice that Ad Week's non-profile profile almost exactly parallels what Ad Age (fictionally) did to Don Draper on Mad Men?

http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/mad-men-highlights-ep-40...
Re: making NYC a startup hub equivalent to Silicon Valley - "Problem is, Wilson himself isn’t doing nearly as much on that front as he could be."

Where's the evidence for this statement? If anything, all the evidence in the article seems to point to the contrary.

Better yet, what should Fred be doing?
I am indeed not related to the original article's author to any reasonable degree.

Also, I wasn't defending him - or rather, I didn't see myself as defending him. I was probing the strength of the criticism; I wondered if it applied to my own interest in the bijective property (I have literally spent years of my life on the data binding problem). I more or less agree with you, FWIW.
I'm sure people claimed that prior to iOS's success as well.
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Congrats to Wit, though I can't help but be a little saddened that the self-hosted/embedded licensing may be less likely to roll out as a result. I've been playing with the platform and could definitely find some use, but most of our target market is unlikely to accept cloud based services, especially those associated with data-mining organizations. Fingers crossed that such licenses/installations are still on the roadmap.
You know the problem with that sentiment? Most people do not find abstract patterns and rote symbolic manipulation to be interesting. They simply don't, and if you teach math class mistakenly assuming they do, 90% tunes out.

If you can show them how those abstract patterns reflect things in nature, and how those symbolic manipulations represent ideas and algorithms and systems, and can explain complicated things, that's something else.

e.g. You don't need computer graphics to teach linear algebra, but how many people who 'know' matrix algebra know that the columns of a matrix are the basis vectors for the principal axes, and that matrix multiplication is the (affine) transform tool from photoshop?

I would also suggest that if you want to get kids interested in trigonometry and you fail to mention that every single thing in a 3D video game is made out of triangles, you are a bad teacher and you should feel bad.
What’s fun to me is to watch different country’s get on their high horses about how they handled things while we’re still in the middle of a pandemic.

Those in Canada are currently being knocked off their high horses by a massive 3rd wave worse than anything before it. Some of this is likely due to the rapid removal of restrictions back in February when cases were on a downward trend.

Well likely know who handled it best in 4-5 years. And even then the answer will likely be “it’s all trade offs, depends what’s important to you”.
sortof depends on what "fail", means, no?
Local mutable state as in a var in a function or how did you mean?
people in the UK will complain but yet another copy from Australia. And a policy that was successful.
> How's GME performed as a store of value since WSB pumped? It's just as scarce as it was 10 days ago, but apparently not guaranteed to go up after all...

I was simply responding to what you said earlier:

> The same does not apply to Bitcoins, because unlike Bitcoins, people hold necklaces for the intrinsic pleasure of having a shiny necklace.

It does, instead, apply.
I printed this from an internet cafe long back when I didn't have internet at home in India. I wanted to learn about sockets however I could.
Use vim and the command line. Why would I need anything other than a full-size mechanical clicky keyboard with full travel? My hands rarely stray off the home row.
However, if you also prepared a convincing fascade of cheating to for the "explain your method" part, then I would say it is in the spirit and deserves full marks.
It's pretty similar but it's more clunky (literally just a full-screen Alt-Tab), often requires scrolling, clutters the space with useless "past activities" and so on. Mission Control does one thing and does it well.

> Honestly I never understood the appeal of gestures as I use my OS not only on laptops but on desktops too where there is no touchpad.

Apple's mice and trackpads (which are sold for desktops as well) support them.
No. Console prices are subsidized. The cost is amortized by licensed games. Also, N64 specs were way lower than workstations of the time.
Bankrupt homeless gambing addicts forced into pedaling drugs are good for economy?
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You don't have to guess. The linked article has two graphs showing the range obtained at speeds ranging from 40 mph to 85 mph for different models.

For the 85 KWh battery pack going at 55 mph you'll get about 350 miles of range. Going at 85 mph you'll just over 200 miles of range. That's slightly more than a 40% reduction.
I'm reminded of this delicious line by a San Francisco bike guru:

"Bikes are one of the four commodities of the street — cash, drugs, sex, and bikes," Veysey told me. "You can virtually exchange one for another."

(From this lengthy and fascinating first-hand account of a reporter's attempt to recover his stolen bicycle)

http://www.sfbg.com/2007/02/13/chasing-my-stolen-bicycle?pag...
Khronos working on open source sample implementation of OpenVX 1.0

Expected release on GitHub by end of 2014

Well they better hurry up. Only one day left. /s
Customers are accepting web apps. They don't care if the apps are written in Flash, js, BrainFuck, Haskell, or morse code converted into asm.js via a transcompiler written in APL.

But development is not a democracy, and the fact that n thousand projects use a certain stack doesn't mean the stack is fit for purpose.

Take the security horror that is Wordpress. It's popular because it's easy to use, but from a professional point of view it's an infosec plague and server killer.

The quibbles about js have nothing to do with its popularity. They're more about the overall lack of professionalism in software development.

The underlying issue is scope. We don't have a cathedral, or a bazaar. What we have is exactly one (1) planetary network, made of a loose affiliation of barely cooperating nodes and applications.

The original Internet infrastructure worked because the RFC process meant that the core features were designed and refined by peers. Hobby coding in the bazaar removes all elements of peer review.

But the alternative isn't a UNIX-style cathedral, it's a revised set of standards leading - eventually, I guess - to a planet-scale operating system and shared library framework that takes away all the cruft by making it unnecessary.

None of the current stacks are the right way to make that happen.

So the issue isn't js - it's more that web stacks have become de facto operating systems for industrial computing projects without any of the rigour, peer review, or oversight of a well-designed industrial gold standard OS.

And it seems that no one - or at least no one that Tim O'Reilly's authors talk to - is even thinking about how to create an OS of that quality.
In the 80s? It's 2013, man, get with the times and start ripping on Chicago.

In this decade, I'd go to the anecdote from WI last year of the dude who, upon a high school party being broken up by the cops next door, shot a kid hiding from the cops on his porch and wasn't charged.
Well presumably one would not be feeling much “Love Lafayette” when reporting crimes.
Sorry I don't understand, you put confidential data into an URL so it's probably in server logs etc.?
A buddy of mine works in security and I can see him writing this post, haha.

Or did he?

Anyhoo, I cannot imagine working in a technology field and not being allowed to do your damn job. Sounds frustrating af, I’d quit too.
Eric's contribution to Google was paranoia and urgency from his bitter experiences losing twice to Microsoft. He knew Microsoft would come after them. So, they to widen the gap so far that when the "sleeping giant" woke up, it wouldn't be able to overtake and crush em.
This is my child dream product ever since I learned about OLE and DCOM. A draggable & sharable window object, or remote objects embeddable in any window. It's a shame they didn't evolve down to that path. Good job OP!
Investors don't work with perfect information. They work with imperfect information. This means that it is impossible to predict with certainty what will happen.

So it's important to remember that an investor who passes on a product that goes on to become very successful may have actually made the best possible decision given the information that she had.
For comparison, OneDrive on MacOS is sitting at 85mb for me.
Looks fine on mobile Firefox
> But not the fact that it's going to be directly integrated into Signal

To be honest, that was exactly the impression that I got back then. So to me, yesterday's announcement was no surprise at all. Whether I like it, is a different matter.
“Choose a job you love, and you will not have to work a day in your life” - Confucius
Next time they will freeze code to keep NSA integration secret.
Holders of German marks during the Weimar Republic didn't get a default, but their holdings were still rendered worthless.
For the practical case is not different. But is not coherent. It’s weird. And opening/closing files is an historical concept.

Why “drop” is the opposite of “open”? Let’s change “open” for “lift” or “notdrop”.
Why only have life outside of work, and not both?
I think you got downvotes for the way you presented your argument, not the content...
34% would rather quit than work in the office full time, that's doesn't mean another 16%+ wouldn't also prefer the option but not strongly enough to quit over it. There's also little talk I'm aware of of forcing anyone to work from home permanently, rather than just giving them the option.

Also, I think the assumption that it only applies to jobs that can be done well from home is pretty much baked in already, otherwise it would be quite nonsensical to even ask.

And the phrase "full time" is also important. I very highly value the increased free time and reduced costs I've experienced over the last year, but do miss in-person meetings, casual proximity to colleagues, and social events. The ideal for me would be to work from home 2 or 3 days a week, and I'd favour that quite strongly in career decisions compared to either extreme. I doubt I'm alone in that.
I cannot find a link to the mentioned dataset and my google-fu is useless on this. Where can I get it?

Edit: I realized that the dataset was taken from http://api.ihackernews.com/ but has been taken down since.
Wow, and filed in 1998? How is every spreadsheet in the world not prior art?
I've recently come across the article "What gets measured gets managed" - http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=202 - and while it's mostly trite, I decided to put it into action to avoid having to declare email bankruptcy. I had over 1500 emails in my various inboxes, and 20 inboxes that were remnants of previous, abandoned attempts to get organised.

So I wrote a script to count the outstanding emails and display the total number as a function of time. (This is also related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1933523 )

I've been watching the number steadily go down - I'm now down to about 300 outstanding emails, and feeling pretty good about it. I'm catching up with lost friends, tidying away loose ends, and generally feel like I'm getting a grip on things.

On the way I found a reference to this PG essay, and I thought that if the dup detector let me, I'd share it.

We can't all put it all into action, but we can try, dammit.
Lol, I'm a friend of Rory's and so when they were scrolling through his hacked Facebook address book my profile pic and phone number flashed by at the end of the shot.

Of course, we know this is easy to do but it reminds you that your data is at risk from a friend's insecurity.
Well, Apple seems more interested in buying trademarks than litigation.
image search that works.

Look for something on Google image search and typically the same image will show up in 25% of the first page of results and precision can be anywhere between 10-75%.

Image search is still so bad today that people don't even believe it can be made better. Defined in a certain narrow way, the Ookaboo API is > 99% accurate, however, there are common cases (categorizable) where its view of reality doesn't match other people's. For instance, Ookaboo might show you a picture of a person that is associated with a place instead of the place itself, or it might show you a picture of something that an artist made rather than show you a picture of the artist. We've got answers to that under development
It was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(directory)

I wouldn't be surprised if some colleges still have their own facebooks on their website.
I do understand the role of Starbucks in bringing coffee on the hip-train. I only tried the stuff they sell to our European cousins and now I no longer wonder why there is maybe just one or no Starbucks in Italy.

I hope I will be able to try their brew in the US, hopefully it will be better.
> Stop thinking like a human. Think like a corporation. Corporations are like humans whose smallest increment of currency is the largest paycheck you've ever received.

This is a pretty important point. The financial scale that a company operates at can be hard to reason about if you aren't involved in that part of its operations. Buying $500 licenses for an IDE in my department seems prohibitively expensive from my perspective, but for the company it probably costs less than the furniture in the office.
Strange, it doesn't work for me.
I always choose something that I am really passionate about and try to limit how many side projects I have.
Note that the performance difference rarely exceeds 2:1 either way. So this isn't a performance issue, unless you're using SQLite for something bigger than SQLite is for.
By the way, I have heard high praises for the Halloween tours (I'm not sure if they are "scary" tours or not) that the Mansfield Penitentiary offers every year. If you're in the area in October, you might want to check it out.
I didn't (nor do I see what high school has to do with the most basic principle defining a state of law). And I didn't say they were central to the case, either.

But depending on the lawyers and the judge, this could have been used to construct something that would have affected either the progress or the outcome of the trial.

It's entirely philosophical anyway.
One could argue that those skills actually prevent far worse unethical actions. Without Hiroshima, how might World War II have ended? How would the Chinese and Koreans feel if Japan weren't defeated? Spend a few minutes at the Nanking museum or perhaps read about Bataan or Korean comfort women and then the moral high ground gets a bit slippery. One might, if one were so inclined, make an argument that nuclear weapons prevented World War III due to the mutually assured destruction concept. The Cold War would have become very hot if the politicians of both the Soviet Union and the U.S. didn't have to fear for their own annihilation.

War and politics is dirty and not as academic as many people would like to think. It never is black and white. For example, if we take the moral high ground, our enemies won't. Pacifism sounds good until it's your sister getting raped in your living room or your parents being shot out of the sky.
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I don't buy this argument. The most prosperous nations have what might be considered "outrageously" high taxation rates on the rich, which the US used to have as well not that long ago. The countries which tax the rich to their favor are mostly tax havens and third-world economies that are plundered for their natural resources and the populance gets nothing in return.

Seriously, there are forms of wealth which don't add value to societies, and if those people aren't willing to get into markets because it hurts their bottom line too much, so be it. "The Rich" are not a universally good group that adds value to all the economies where they do business; they too have their part in fucking up a huge number of locations around the world.

Just as an example, Germany is one of the most prosperous nations in the world, and their economy is as socialist as it gets (in the European, modern use of the world, not the classical Marxist usage). Their labor force is highly skilled and sheltered, and its manufacturing base is strong. I don't see the same thing happening in the dirt-poor Caribbean tax havens.
Heavens, not by any means, "forever marooned." Just for a maximum of 10 years while we get another mission with a return vessel over to Mars. In the mean time, those men and women could establish a fledgling colony there with hydroponics, a rover or two, and ways to build housing with present materials. I'm not in a position to comment accurately about how long it will take them to establish the livable colony because I don't know specifically what provisions and methods of atmosphere production/recycling they're bringing with.

Think of it like a startup. PG once wrote something like (paraphrasing here), to prove that a startup will work, try to build the smallest functional subset and build from there. And launch quickly and iterate often.

After we get a craft to pick them up, we'll have a temporary colony that the return craft's crew can occupy.

Besides, if those men/women were not able to stand ten or twenty years of loneliness and hard work being colonists, are they really the right people to send on a mission to explore another planet?