skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We have never tried to monetize Retweet as it was built from the beginning to be acquired. We are a team built primarily of developers, not salesman. "

They need to read more HN and less techcrunch.
Worth a serious look/review/article - FastMall for iPhone.
Worth a serious look/review/article - FastMall for iPhone. Indoor turn by turn navigation at shopping malls and indoor structures. More then 50 features, this is a true experience and not a basic app.<p>See latest press including LA Times, NBC LA, Star Tribune and many more:<p>http://www.FastMall.com/blog
> 4 points by dangrossman 19 hours ago | link | parent | on: How WooThemes Quietly Built A $2 Million Per Year...

There are over 18 million active WordPress blogs at the moment. It's a huge market. I spent a couple hours building a WordPress plugin and sold $200,000 in licenses for it in a year and a half.

Wow. It obviously was not just the coding. Just reading your sales page shows you are a marketing pro.
I've thought of something like this for Mexico (later expanding to other latinamerican countries) : A mashup of foursquare, gowalla and blippy (the blippy part is important, we won't target poor people) and I would call it 'secuestra.me' (kidnap.me).

Huge potential, big market worth several billions.
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There's definitely a lack of imagination when it comes to proponents of NoSQL solutions, and this article shows no exception. While we do want to store, for example, an entire e-commerce order in a single operation we also don't necessarily want to retrieve it that way. That type of storage makes otherwise simple operations considerably more difficult. Do you want to know how much you made in sales today? How many of widget #453 are still in stock? The most popular items for sale? The least popular? Start writing code.

The other example of a user profile seems to be the perfect fit for storage in a single table, so I don't why that's there. Now, do you want to know how many users logged in this week? How about you want to delete every account that hasn't been accessed in a year? Much more slow code.

Every article about NoSQL goes on and on about the supposed advantages, but rarely talks about the considerable disadvantages. And honestly, for most people, the advantages are simply not worth the trade off. I fear that we'll have decades of e-commerce stores written with document stores and mountains of code slowly chugging away to calculate the basic stats that any business needs.
It's also a South Park Episode.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/912
When there's intellectual property involved, it's still acquisition. I would imagine some sort of consideration was offered in exchange for the IP associated with reMail, which makes it an acquisition instead of recruitment.
Ice cold decks (dealer wins no matter how the deck is cut)
Using the human body isn't a profession either. But it's likely that you and I are significantly more ignorant than a doctor regarding its inner workings despite using our bodies every day.
A trivial search shows this is a dup:
http://searchyc.com/sneakiest
I believe it was in "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell claimed that airplane accidents are often the cause of several critical failures, not just one. It would be interesting to find out if that theory holds true in this case, as you seem to be hypothesizing.
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I really like Slicehost. But with cheaper prices, and more importantly the London DC - I have no choice but to seriously consider moving to Linode.
Almost seems to be doing a hockey stick, if you look at the last 6 months.
A trivial search shows this is a dup:
http://searchyc.com/NFL?sort=by_date
The fact they both left shortly after a year would perhaps point to something a bit more substantial than a signing bonus. More like a retention bonus tied to the acquisition. That's what I thought when I read about LC's departure the other day anyway.
Ask HN: Don't you have anything you want to discuss with Mozilla?
the point of the title I took away was a reference to the Alice Cooper song lyric, which as spoken (sung) language, contains no apostrophe.

The title of the Alice Cooper song absolutely contains an apostrophe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_Out_(song)
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The only reason it would make sense to pay $300 would be if you wanted a job at Blizzard. For example I know there was a blogger named Shlonglor who got a job there because of his awesome Warcraft 2 blog. Although perhaps the culture of blizzard has changed some since 1996.
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Yeah, sorry, my mistake. I think "a page where lots of other pages have outgoing links pointed at it" was what ran through my head... but that's what "lots of incoming links" means. Too late to edit!
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So, who killed the electric car again?
I find your previous comment humorously prophetic in light of this :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132225
Probably. Was it not on ebay that someone sold a startup for $250k?
Its from the super spammy/scammy company 'mesiab labs' that develops the #1 twitter spam tool "hummingbird".

It definitely gives me some satisfaction that they failed with this. Now if only the auto follow and DM spam would stop.
I'm regularly curiously peeking at the functional languages but I must say those slides did not convince me much - perhaps just bad choice of examples.

E.g. on slide 79 the sight of generating HTML through a DSL horrifies me. Littering the code with presentation details like that leads to maintenance hell.

Likewise in the comparison of slide 83 vs 85 I frankly don't see any difference between python and lisp in terms of verbosity.

So whatever point the author was trying to make - didn't work for me.
In-browser programming sandboxes
some company named kiko did that :-P.
Miracles do happen.
I can't help to think that my article comparing Slicehost to its competitors may have had something to do with this trend:

http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison

I'm pretty sure (based on tweets and emails) a decent chunk of the 200+ Linode referrals I've gotten were from (previous) Slicehost customers.
Godspeed.
Don't know if many readers here are also pilots, but it's always sad to see something like this happen to a fellow aviator.
I've flown 310's quite a bit and they can be a handful on a single engine - although I will refrain from speculating about the crash further.
Incidentally it's possible to track the investigation using the NTSB website:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp
The accident synopsis will be available online as soon as they update their database.
My condolences.
And quite a few other providers will be cheaper regardless of how much bandwidth you use...
We have historical evidence of changes CO2 in the atmosphere causing changes in climate, in turn causing extinction events. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoo_Ice_Age )

Both of the harmful climate events you have described were cooling events and were also many millions of years in the past. Why not consider more recent climate events which are closer in scale to those suggested by AGW proponents?

What evidence would you expect to see today in a world where increased average global temperature helps humanity?

Overall, if warming were beneficial for humanity, I'd expect to see human expansion during the medieval warm period, and human decline during the little ice age.

Further facts: quite a lot of land is too cold for humans to prosper in. Crop yields are poor, heating is costly, and life is generally unpleasant.

Regarding the "strangely convenient" line of reasoning by ellyagg, that's simply the line of reasoning we must take when evaluating any measure designed to prevent any event. We must evaluate whether the event is real, whether it is significant, whether it is harmful, and whether the cost/benefit of the mitigation scheme is favorable.
Ah yes, because none of us have wives or kids who are still at home :-) (or in our case, the other way around..)
What do you mean "faked"? They're acquiring the company. That doesn't obligate them to continue the existing product, nor mean that that's why they found the company valuable. Even if they discontinue the existing product, the people who have a deep understanding of that space are valuable, and the ideas/concepts behind the product are valuable.
Google's Annual Rev. From Typosquatting Put At $497m
well, it's been 3 hours and only 4 upvotes. Guess I can kiss another front-page hopeful goodbye. :-(

I need to get in with one of the gangs that mass upvote anything one of their members posts. :-/ </wry>
From the article, on where relational databases are appropriate:

> Small records with complex, well-defined, highly normalized relationships.

Why do the records need to be small? And honest, in software development, a large amount of your data is going to be well-defined and easily normalized. The author provided 2 examples that would fit perfectly in a relational database.

> The type of queries you will be running on the data is largely unknown up front.

Or the types of queries you are running are more than just retrieving a single record or simple list of records. I'm afraid a very large number of queries fall into this category.

> The data is long-lived: it will be written once, updated infrequently relative to the number of reads/queries, and deleted either never, or many years in the future.

Yes, a relational databases are for storing long-lived data. For temporary data, you could use an in-memory table or just some other solution entirely. There's no need to mix your permanent data with your temporary data. Databases handle writes and deletes extremely well (in bulk even) so I'm not sure what the author was getting at here.

> The database does not need round-the-clock availability (middle-of-the-night maintenance windows are no problem).

What kind of middle-of-the-night maintenance does a relational database need? I've been running at least one database for several years straight without any downtime or maintenance.

> Queries do not need to be particularly fast, they just need to return correct results eventually.

Relational database queries aren't particularly slow -- in fact, RBMS are heavily optimized to return data very quickly. In the vast majority of cases, this is going to be more than fast enough for nearly every application.

> Data integrity is 100% paramount, trumping all other concerns, such as performance and scalability.

Damn straight. I want the data coming from my data store to be 100% correct always. If I need to trade performance for correctness then I can easily add some caching. But I'm not sure how document stores would solve this any differently.
So do their Gmail performance...God...it's terribly slow on my Mac Safari. Google please do something about it...it's been like this for a long while now!
The worst part is the novelty name.
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I started using slicehost just about when they were bought by Rackspace. While I can only praise their services, the prices have become from competitive to obviously premium. Also they have no servers in Europe, which really hurts me.

I've started moving to a local company, www.intovps.com. They don't offer the same stability (I had a sporadically bad connection for about 4 days before it was fixed), but the prices are exactly 1/4 and performance is good.

I'd probably move completely if I didn't have a lot of DNS records with slicehost. Anybody knows how I could migrate them from slicehost to linode or somewhere else?
Facebook Algorithm Based on Engagement?
I think it deserves a facelift but I don't see a whole lot being changed. Certainly a small change would make me use it again.
Why do you sign your comments?
FAA's AAI site will have the "just the facts" version of the report far sooner than the NTSB. (In all likelihood, it will be on the FAA site tomorrow.)

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/prelimina...
Summary: Linus hates CVS and, by extension, SVN. Talks about the importance of distributed development and pains of the centralized model. You can work offline. On centralized, trivial decisions can't be taken because they pollute the central repository and leads to bad practices. Creating branches is not the main issue, merging FAST is. Git performs/scales well, 22K files on the Linux kernel repo, about 4 merges a day for 2 years since being tracked with Git. Mercurial is good, but Git is better. Git uses SHA-1 hashes for the full history, brings security against attacks and RAM/disk corruption.
what tool do you use to generate these stats?
I think what's going on here is that the local variables in a function are directly adjacent in memory to the arguments, so if it wasn't declared to have that many arguments, the local variables would start at the same location in memory as the first undeclared argument and the undeclared arguments would get clobbered.
heh.. yeah. which is actually why I'm not upset that it got reposted.
Engineer creates unique software that predicts stem cell fate
Isn't there someone else in your life who would care?
Yes, and more than that, there are strategies that were pretty cool in the beta but removed from the real game for different reasons. I remember in warcraft3 beta, we tried some unique strategies with units that were removed from the game!
For some of these things, sure. But if you put your compiler tools, external binary references, etc. on some share somewhere outside of version control you will find that when you go to create a patch for some older release you are well and truly effed. Being able to sync and build with nothing but a bare OS and the relevant source is a HUGE benefit when you have to support older releases on the level that, say, Microsoft does.
Nice find, you can definitely do more with Anveo than with Google Voice. But GV is free... (yes, I am aware about GV restrictions such personal use, US only , closed registration and such...)
I agree 100% and have been complaining about exactly this for a long time (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=325742). The fact that IE is the whipping-boy of the web community has caused Firefox to get more of a free ride than it deserves. That will eventually change.
I'm in Australia so I don't think you have my area covered?
linode's DNS manager can import your dns zones. You still have to do one by one, though.
Heroku Pricing Changes
Consider the source: Heroku needs an alternative to Postgres to be a true competitor to AppEngine.

There's something that never gets brought up in these NoSQL discussions: SQL Databases don't scale down. They aren't very good in multitenant situations where you have a lot of random small-fry users -- you end up just sharding the users across a bunch of different master-slave pairs, and hope that they don't step on each other's toes. Because they take up real resources even if not being used, it's difficult to pull off a freemium model.
You must construct additional pylons
Massive list of solutions to SQL query problems
In my experience having worked with restaurants, websites, and menus, they most often have humongous Publisher or Word files. PDF is the easiest form to coerce the content into while still retaining some degree of the original formatting. Oh, and they're also notorious for changing the menus constantly.
The validity of grades
As soon as I start entering a number, up pops Firefox's Quick Find in the status bar. Anyone else get that?
It's weird, when HN goes down, it seems to accept the HTTP connection, but closes it again once the request is sent. I'm not sure on the exact timing, but I'm definitely never getting "connection refused" or an actual HTTP error code. No other site behaves like that.
Why'd they use the goto instead of a while/for?
The story of "Bean," a free word processor for Mac OS X
Maxklein, your comments consistently give me the impression that you live to belittle the achievements of others. Is that really the impression you intend to convey? You seem like a smart guy, but this stuff is painfully unpleasant to read. (You're not the only one, by any means. And yes, I would raise this concern in person.)

As for Remail/Google: what firsthand knowledge about this transaction do you have?
I think axod was using it as a euphemism -- effectively a lot of smaller talent acquisitions are hiring + vested bonus. That said, it seems a reasonable coup de grace if you've feel like you're ready to wind down a company and want to make the best of it.

Sometimes even if the product isn't itself of worth to the acquiring company, there may be value in removing that product from the potential acquisition market for competitors.
The difference is there is a ton of single-run custom software made. We never make individual custom toasters.
The computer part is interesting, but it wouldn't actually fly. Take a look at the first heads up hand:

Small blind (opponent) gets dealt Ace-Four, a very strong heads up hand, because ace-high will be good lots of time heads up. Dealer gets Ten-two, which is a very bad hand that makes bottom pair, or a pair with a bad "kicker" (if two hands match, you go to the high card - a 2 can never be high enough to play). Ten-two is junk. Anyway, a good heads-up player will probably raise Ace-four 3-5 times the value of the pot.

Okay, so then the board comes down 989 on the flop. At this point, opponent has ace high on a pair of nines. He's feeling quite good. He probably bets out, maybe half the pot. At this point, any sane player folds the ten-two if they called to begin with.

If you call, and the catch the pair of tens on the turn, the person will probably think you're an idiot. If this happens 2-3 times in a game, and you're winning more than probability suggests, they'll probably nab you for cheating. Which, depending on where you're at, winds up in you getting thrown out of the game politely, thrown out of the game impolitely, or treated... well, really impolitely.

Long story short - interesting computer usage, real life application low-ish even if you wanted to try something like this, which I wouldn't recommend anyways.
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One thing I've always wanted to see in an app like this, is some indicator assuring me I won't get towed. In Chicago, this means identifying necessary permits, if any, and days of scheduled street cleaning.

I've known a few people that have gotten towed due to parking in a zone that was scheduled to be swept, and sometimes it's really hard to find a sign with this important information.

There is an online source for this info, so I think it'd be really cool to see it integrated into an app that highlights each street with a color based on how long you have before you need to move your car.
Our biggest site serves a nation of ~21 million, does ~3.5 million UBs (standard UB caveats apply) and derives 28.94% of it's traffic from Google organic.

I have to scroll down to keyword number 34 to find a phrase that is not some permutation of our domain name (which is also our hero brand name). The actual domain name accounts for 7.12% of these referrals, keywords 1-33 around 73%.

Out of interest, direct traffic is 38.66%

As amusing as the RRW debacle was, this is the way a significant segment of the population use the web.
As they are hosted on EC2 couldn't you use Amazon Cloudfront with them without too much trouble and with no latency issues? http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

The main issue would be integrating Cloudfront with Rails not getting it to run on Heroku. (A quick search doesn't show much support for using Cloudfront with Rails in general)
Easy solution: Tweet about your vicious (possibly imaginary) dogs.
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System specs are interesting:
Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7

In a space that's usually defined by bleeding-edge hardware, that's a strong testament to the staying power of XP (and the low adoption rates of Vista and Win7).
Well, I mentioned this study to a friend, and he made a good point:

The metric in the study is how many messages women send to men. If you're a taller woman, you likely will not message men who are shorter than you.

So, if you're taller, you have a bigger pool of women who would end up messaging you, which may account for much of the difference.
Any kind of accident, not just airline accidents are usually the result of more than one failure.

Even simple accidents are usually remarkably complex to piece together and almost always start with a very simple small thing that by itself would not be enough to cause an accident. The follow-up to that first thing is just as important, or possibly even more so.
1) We should probably use the pushpin. We thought about switching at the last minute, but it was slightly harder than we thought, so we shipped it. We'll take care of this in the next release I'm thinking.

2) We do show the circular indicator around the Me-Marker as well... whether or not the numbers are good or necessary is probably a reasonable question.
Tracking software leads to suspect in computer theft
You might be an anti-spam kook if...
Having done the DSL templatng route in Perl, it's not really that bad. Really there isn't much difference between having the templates in a template language or a first class programming language. I can see it getting bad if you're not disciplined and mix you app logic with you display logic. But it's not really all that bad. I did it so I could use closures and what-not in my templates. Worked out well. Makes the higher level templates more readable.
Woah now. Seems someone skipped a few lectures in formal mathematics and logic.

Humans are evil

Definitely not a valid axiom. We must disregard the following lemmas and theorems.

The CRU is full of humans.

Strange and imprecise wording to be sure, but I think this one is valid. I suggest you start again with this axiom.
The graphs look like MRTG. Probably running a request every few minutes and looking at the response, if there is one, and plotting it.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
Don't worry; Blizzard were fans of Mac since ever; I'm sure they won't let Mac users down now.
It's not arbitrary, it's just not explained.
So did I get downgraded for using 'cool', or or 'LOL', or just for laughing at the Pokemon joke in the demo?
I agree that those are the two likely possibilities. Given that the pilot was pretty experienced, and was a multi-engine instructor, I'd say that disorientation is less likely.

On a cold day at sea level, the 310 should be able to get at least 200fpm. The book number is about 300fpm. However, they may not have been going fast enough to get book performance, and a plane that old usually can't make nearly the book numbers. They hit at about .3nm from the end of the runway, significantly left of the extended centerline, and at an altitude of about 100 feet. That would be consistent with a climb rate of about 150-200fpm.

My guess is that the left engine failed. The left engine is the critical engine, and so the plane would have very strongly wanted to turn left. It would have been slow having just taken off, and so the pilot probably had to turn to keep his speed up and maintain a positive climb rate. He probably either forgot about the power lines, or was just hoping to clear them since he couldn't see them.

Sadly, this is probably just another instance of the second engine being just enough to get you to the scene of the crash.
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