skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First and foremost, our customers are always protected by this since we take on 100% of the risk associated with any transaction and we guarantee its full value.

Second, to protect ourselves, we've developed several methods of detecting high-risk transactions and ways to mitigate them (such as working with merchants to reissue new gift cards). I'd go into more detail, but we don't want the wrong people to get ahold of this information ;).

In the end though, we'll be fine. The fact that we mail the check to a physical address, make out the check to the seller's name, and the seller has to cash the check at a real bank, is already a big deterrent to bad behavior. These bad people will have an easier time trading their fake gift cards to people on sites like craigslist.
LOC is not something you should brag about. That said, it looks like the open sourced version (300K) is about on par with Squid and Apache:

nginx 75,214

lighttpd 84,852

apache 294,002

squid 283,417

(according to ohloh.com)
PyPy has a lot of potential, but it won't be usable in the near future, and it will certainly not die since it's primary goal is to implement Python in Python (or come as close as possible). And consider they haven't reached the speed of CPython (which by all means, it's slow) although the project started in 2004. Surely if they'll get there, it will be awesome, but in the meantime there's no reason to not take a more pragmatic approach.

On the other hand, Unladen Swallow is using LLVM, which may create the necessary tools for LLVM to be a suitable VM for dynamic languages (versus the JVM / CLR).

I consider this to be exciting news actually ... Python 3 doesn't offer me much, and I won't switch to a less supported Python version unless I have a bigger incentive (right now I'm happy with Python 2.6).

Maybe Unladen Swallow won't be able to achieve it's goals (5x faster), but if it's 3x faster with only a reasonable increase in memory consumption, than it's worth it.
The MMO model works because there is a significant amount of value in the product that never exists on the client. To use WoW as an example, all of the enemy spawns, loot generation, AI, spell scripting, etc all exists on the server. In the case of a single-player game like AC2, the only way to replicate that model would be to put AI, text dialog, persistence, etc on the remote server. This requires a tremendous infrastructure investment that just doesn't pay for itself in a non-subscription model.

If the server just saves and restores game saves, I can mock that with enough input data. You have to have actual value on those remote servers that people will need access to.
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Sortfolio for apps. Smart (save for the site usability).

If you're bored and can't think of something to build over a weekend, hook up with a designer and emulate the Sortfolio concept for a particular niche. I've been looking at building an engine that can be rolled out across various industries, starting with things like weddings and landscaping/garden design. Any visually oriented industry would work IMO.
Does someone know how did Aardvark got its first 10.000 users? How did it got traction?
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Some of them complain that the site is slow in the sense that their friends' activities are pushed to their timeline a few minutes after they've happened instead of instantly. Not exactly the kind of performance problem the front-end engineers had in mind, I'm sure.

How are all these people “fans” of Engineering at Facebook?
Wow that domain name took me about 20 seconds to parse :/
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And since a filesystem is an ad hoc, informally-specified (or unspecified, how long did it take before linux could read ntfs?), slow (for some things: no indexes), bug-ridden (FAT 8.3 name limit, limited metadata such as file types), implementation of a database...

But filesystems have been in use long enough that most bugs have been fixed or worked around in the tools. And of course the guys who invented the 'filesystem' didn't have any databases to use instead.
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In particular, see the "Making Of" link at the bottom.
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Neat photos...

...but I think this demonstrates my main problem about fashion: only the good looking can do this.

Not a single fat person in these pictures. I'm not saying that they must out of some sense of equality or some kind of obligation. Clothes are not made for fat people probably because they just don't look good in anything. I should just lose weight if I want to look fashionable.

I speak from personal experience. I'm quite overweight -- like most americans -- and nothing I wore had any affect on how well I looked. So i just gave up on fashion years ago.
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Nice design, but their desire to reinvent usability at the cost of removing every standard method of interfacing with a site really puts me off.

If I wanted an app designed, I would want it to look good as well as be user-friendly. While the site speaks loads of their design capabilities, they pretty much shot themselves in the foot with that interface scheme.

I'll be looking for someone who understands usability to make my apps.
In the wake of "Up in the air", nice film I recommend, that opens a few doors without being over the top. Just enough to start your own thoughts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/
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I really liked Gilad Bracha's presentation on Newspeak. His concept libraries as a nested class structure, with the ability to override just a single nested class seems like a great forking mechanism to encourage reuse.
Don't buy anything that says anything on it. Perhaps a small Lacoste badge logo or something but no messages. Don't wear pink and yellow. When in doubt, copy everything from Tom Ford's A Single Man movie. And it's more important to look fit then wear the right fit, although both are important to look good.
It was actually quite creepy scrolling down the page - especially as the blues switched from "there is clearly a little light here" to "black!".
worst workspace ever...

the secret to my productivity is not using a crappy computer on a crappy desk with bad lighting and ghetto rigged sewing machine button.
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It's worrying just how bloated and large many simple web servers get. Those are some seriously large LOC counts.
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Agree ACLs great idea; in practice - buggy as hell; but I left windows, so they might have changed things.

What I was getting at was, that despite the added features to each incarnation; the average Joe might not notice that much has changed. They just want to do what they want to do easily.

My Dad happily got the job done in word perfect and i comfortably used a browser (until the os crashed) on Windows 3.1.

I agree with you on Finder's irritations. Gnome's nautilous puts finder and explorer to shame in my opinion. But it has little irritations of it's own. I did notice recently that in Windows7 explorer would carry on copying files rather than terminating on error; about time!

It's been said; that Windows omitted the security model in earlier pc's as they didn't forsee home pcs connecting the web. Hardware and cost also must have also been a limitation for earlier os's.

I used to do sys admin, and I was forever trying to lock down windows, i.e limited accounts, but it would break the apps or make them error or buggy. That's not really Microsoft's problem; unless they didn't provide adequate documentation. It's poor implementation. Likewise I've seen printers not working under limited accounts; I even saw a hilarious fix: make the whole system dir totally read/writable! To cut a long story short it riled me so much; I left windows.

People went from no security to a locked down system; that they found plain irritating. Whereas in OSX there is one simple system preferences panel, that asks for your password if you do anything that requires root privileges. Windows config is nasty until you learn it. Then they change it in each incarnation with the eventual itteration resembling a turd. Don't start me on Linux desktop implementations.

Also the security model on Windows feels the wrong way around. It should be locked down and slowly opened to trusted apps. But as you say perhaps that's finally been overhauled.

My mate uses win98 as he can get his job done easily. He can reset his os in seconds as it is so small. I wouldn't use it, but it's fine for him. About the only reason he might shift is for firefox, but he recently said he's found some compatibility layer that let's him run some modern apps. Hilarious. I don't know how he copes without a command line, but he does.

Don't get me wrong, there have been some leaps and bounds, but from my perspective, I'd rather a simple system; that works; that I can tweak if i want, that is portable, interoperable, that is fast and intuitive to use rather than a machine with oodles of power just to watch a high def movie or provide a transparent window, with drop shadows.
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In my opinion the upgrading pain is Drupal's biggest weakness. It is a complete nightmare to maintain a drupal site if it isn't your core business value. As a platform for just building your company website I now view it as poorly suited, just because the constant patching of your plugins never seems to end.

A hosted Drupal solution that did a good job of taking that pain away, while still giving you the flexibility of having any plugins you want would be nice product IMO.
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Are you serious? Yellow was an in color last year.
That's actually an artistic effect. The black should properly start at 3280ft (1km) of depth. Below 200m only about 1% of light penetrates, below 1000m it's pitch black (darker than the darkest dark most humans have ever experienced in their lives).
It's all about how you approach the problem. Since I am average weight and height, I approach the problem of fashion from that perspective. Since you are not, you need a different strategy.

Take Kevin Smith for example. Directed Clerks, played Silent Bob, etc. He's a big dude. In fact, he recently got kicked off of Southwestern Airlines for being too fat. Now, you'll never look at Kevin Smith and think he's fashionable. But you wont think he's a slob either. His strategy is to take care of his face, choose glasses that fit his body type, get a good haircut, wear black, and wear layers. Examples: http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/19-kevin-smith-WI-0..., http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/kevin-smith-the-simp..., http://www.celebritywonder.com/picture/Kevin_Smith/KevinSmit.... Not fashionable per se, but the dude goes to movie premiers and gets interviewed by the press like that. You just have to figure out what works well for you.
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If you will not buy the game because of the DRM, don't play it. Otherwise the DRM is only an excuse for piracy. I tend to agree with houseabsolute here.
Will be interesting to see how this compare to the current king-of-caches, Varnish.

The plugin architecture looks like it'll make it pretty flexible, but it'll have to be pretty special to beat Varnish in terms of performance.
Although its not really in the same vein as hacker news, I really enjoyed Gang Leader for a Day: http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp...
IANAL:

Be warned, although this may be morally justified, and very tempting, it may also be illegal. A similar situation might be that you could feel morally justified in putting a trap in your house while you are away, but it is illegal to do so.
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the vast majority of apache's are in bundled optional modules, not the core.

I am not sure where ohloh is getting its numbers, but here are the directory stats from slocount, for the recent httpd 2.3.5-alpha:

SLOC Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
95386 modules ansic=95095,lex=191,yacc=100
27977 server ansic=27977
11362 build sh=9980,awk=657,perl=433,pascal=292
7248 support ansic=7076,perl=92,sh=80
3250 include ansic=3250
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159 top_dir sh=159

If you were to strip out everything 'not needed' for a basic server, I expect you would end up 'running' about 40k LOC, which I think is 'inline' with others like varnish/lighttpd/etc

apache's problem isn't bloat, its architecture and bad sysadmins. it was designed from 1994 for prefork-based systems, and sysadmins have been configuring it since then, or not configuring it. Yes, it will use lots of ram when you embed Python and PHP in it, so don't do that.

mini-rant over, and a disclaimer: i am an httpd committer.
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I think, for the most part, free speech is a right people expect to keep after they're dead. If you say something, the government isn't allowed to censor it, even when you're no longer around to stop them. I would want a host that would support that ideal.
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I assume it's as dark as being deep down in cave? It's much easier to experience that, and I'd say quite a few people have.
This is resting on the rather significant assumption that you are a _successful_ entrepreneur. There are plenty of entrepreneurs out there with less than $1m in net work who are struggling in the current climate.
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On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people see that presentation every year. Lincoln had a crowd of just 15.000 at Gettyburg. Surely, PowerPoint is a superior medium by many orders of magnitude.
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Thanks for filling out the casual side of the article. I like the Express example, I believe because it is pocketless and a solid color. It seems at the root of all this advice is the idea that clothes should fit so there are no folds, bends, or creases when standing straight, clothes should follow the shape of the body as much as possible, and pants at the natural waist.

The 1MX shirt is nice, and I've been convinced $40 is an acceptable price for a single shirt, and want two, but isn't this a bit much? Where is the room for the industrial Dickies and wallmart boots? The dickies are only baggy if they're purchased oversized, but they look okay with bulky footware if fit properly. And track jackets should be equivalent to hoodies.
And who would that "someone" be? I'm not advocating GConf for becoming the standard config storage mechanism for Unix. I'm simply defending it from people who think that it sucks for the wrong reasons.

And as someone else mentioned, the files are plain XML that you can edit with a text editor. No special tools.
> On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people
> see that presentation every year.

Are you sure? It seems to me to say that from 2000 to 2006 a total of 1.5 million saw it, not 1.5m/year. If I'm wrong please let me know ...
Jeans. Don't get designer jeans. Don't get them torn. Don't get them baggy. Regular or slim fit only. Get them in colors ranging from dark blue to blue/gray. Do not get light blue.

If the jeans that suit you are designer jeans or more expensive than you would typically pay, do get them. Not only do you benefit from the fit, the girls recognise the brands.

I judge the fit of the jeans that I buy by putting my keys/wallet/phone in my pockets when trying them on to make sure that the jeans fits properly in the typical conditions that I'll be wearing them. Also note that your jeans will stretch slightly as you wear them, but that is brand/material dependent.

Do not get jeans that are too long. They should never, never touch the ground and they should cover 1/4 to 1/2 of your shoe laces when you are standing.

To me it's more important that your socks (anklets only with low-cut shoes) or ankles can't be seen when sitting down than worrying about if they touch the ground. I'm short and have short legs, so I counter the length of my jeans by wearing slightly bulkier shoes. I make sure that I wear my favorite casual shoes (at the time) to double check this.

How much of your shoe they cover is based on the cut at the bottom as well as the length. You should be able to at least see some shoelaces, and that's about it.

Casual Shoes. Women notice shoes. Seriously. It's really interesting how much they look at your shoes. You can have everything else right, but if your shoes are big blocky white gym shoes, you have failed.... The good news is that you can crowd source style selection by looking at Zappos's most popular (http://bit.ly/bep8vN).

The golden rule of casual shoes is don't buy black. Black shoes are for suits. I personally prefer white or bright red as it breaks up the dark jeans and t-shirts that I usually wear.

Crowd-sourcing your shoe selection is interesting, but you'll notice that Zappos most popular shoes were all low-cut retro shoes by Asics, Converse and Vans. If you find as nice/nicer shoes that didn't appear on that page when you're out and about shopping, get those before the crowd-sourced ones. Why? If the girls are paying attention to your shoes, they'll also be paying attention as to whether you are wearing something similar to the others or whether your shoes are very nice and something they haven't seen at all.

Boots.

I like my Cherry Red Doc Martens, but red is my favourite colour for shoes so I'm heavily biased with that choice.
And here's the depth of the ocean scaled to width (via Reddit): http://i.imgur.com/1oLog.png. Seems a bit shallow when you show it like that.
For me (and AFAIK for many people here), it is not about either.

We want to get the work done, and run the businesses. We want to solve people's problems. We are prefer tools that helps us solve these problems in the easiest and most efficient way.

If an application/OS/tool has a user friendly and intuitive interface, great!
If it gives more power to the developer, great!

But in the end, neither of these factors make us go blind and make us hide behind the tools rather than getting the work done in the best possible way, with or without using any given tool.
"In" colours don't apply to anyone except fashion industry people.
The idea is for "doers" like you to take something and run with it. If you profit from it, that is good enough for me, as it validates the strength of my ideas. I don't want to receive anything from the people who do the hard work to make money from it. That is the reason for the CC license, so that someone can take an idea, profit from it, and not have to worry about lawsuits down the way. I am still trying to see if there is a better option to reassure people that they won't need to worry about me coming along and saying "Hey, my idea, throw me some cash!!!" This is especially important if someone takes an idea and has to look for finance later.
You have hit the nail on the head regarding the website. In researching other websites on ideas out there, there are a crap load of sites where people put up one-line ideas, with no thought of implementation. Due to the years of work I've done creating CMS, CRM and ERP software, behind the site will be an IMS (idea management system) that hopefully will force people to take their idea through my system from "spark" to implementation.
I am a strong believer in competition making us stronger. So I want to put my ideas out there to see if someone can beat me to implementation. I think that could give me extra impetus to solidly push my ideas out.
The end goal (maybe) is instead of you making a million and giving 1%, is to work with me later on down the line and make 2 million together.
It doesn't look like the lego I grew up with.
> You can't outsource your liability.

No, you can; explicitly, legally, with a contract that states that any failures will be fiscally compensated for by the hosting company.
Yeah, you're right, it's accumulative. But it doesn't change the fact that the PowerPoint version obviously have a significantly larger impact than old dudes speech. He didn't even use a microphone, go figure.
Aware that I have just started to moan. An OS in so intrinsic to using a computer, I wish they'd get the basics sorted. A bit of competition is good, but the Microsoft stranglehold on the OS hasn't been healthy.

I fear the whole thirst for profit and protecting intellectual property is just dangerous here.

Innovation and ease of use should be rolled into an uberOS.

Open protocols and filesystems should be at there.
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It's too bad he hasn't released it for free, but it's highly worth reading if you do presentations.