skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is easily done with Elastic Load Balancers, simply proxy to different ports for SSL and instruct your webserver to listen there. The huge upside is you can automate this just as well as any other piece.
Has any government ever gotten smaller without a revolution/foreign takeover? Honest question.
Chromakode's xkcdfools at master - GitHub
dropbox?
Ah, I remember Altair ads in Byte magazine, right next to code listings for "Hunt the Wumpus." <pang>
The original JSTOR article is locked up here ~ http://www.jstor.org/pss/2781907
Are Jobless Recoveries the New Norm?
Try this:

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.trachten.html
I do it sometimes, when my job doesn't allow other OS's. But I install GVim. :p
I could never figure out why kids in sitcoms wore shoes in bed.
So true. April 1 should be a national "stay off the internet and go outdoors" day.
~sigh~
Swordfish doesn't do anything
Neither does Pass, Password, onMouseOver, or mouseover
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I'd try and explain more clearly what you guys do right on the homepage. I had to click around a bit before I got it.

Aesthetically, you could also use a more modern-looking logo.
Glad you like what you have seen so far. Be sure to checkout the guides (http://www.padrinorb.com/guides) and specifically the blog tutorial (http://www.padrinorb.com/guides/blog-tutorial) and if you have any issues, post them here: http://github.com/padrino/padrino-framework/issues
It uses flash memory, so yes. http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
Would you recommend it in a scenario where you're serving a significant volume of requests per second?
As a startup, owning hardware (or, sometimes, leasing) tends to eat up on your balance sheet really quickly as a cap ex (capital expenditure). You're immediately spending money and taking runway off the table and turning it into illiquid assets.

So sure, raw hardware you own in a rack somewhere is probably cheaper over 18 months. But then you're still stuck with it after 18 months (whereas you can just swap out for a larger sized ec2 in the space of a few minutes, whenever you want, without penalty).

Then again, unless you're buying a whole cage/closet you're probably paying the top whack fee anyhow, since data centers almost always deal with negotiating on the cage/closet level - anything smaller is typically not worth it to them. So you're paying full rate for your 2u box, and sitting on hardware that's depreciating.

Plus, to get into the good datacenters, the ones that have provable disaster recovery, multi homed bandwidth, power and cooling , you will need to prove your creditworthiness and such. But that's OK - you'll stake all you got to get a couple cheap servers hosted somewhere that won't go down (and if it did, be trivial to heal)

Finally: to the point about predictable usage lowering costs: amazon already does this, with reserved instances. You give them a heads up about what you're going to need over the coming year, they'll give you a discount.

If distributed, fail tolerant and instant deployable are three things that describe your startup, relying on your hardware to always work, that your sysop friend is always around and that you're on top of kernel bugs seems like a pretty fast way to fail.

On the other hand, offload all this to a company who's doing it anyhow, and you might find that you get to extend your runway, grow with your customers (who says it is bad to deploy more servers based on customer orders??) and get to focus on more interesting things, such as where to find the next beer. :)
Ever considered setting aside say 5% of your funding allocation for wildcard acceptances? Every company that gets rejected from YC could go into a lottery and depending on the absolute size of that 5%, a number of companies could make it in solely because their names were drawn from a hat.

Because the odds are so low that a rejected contender will win a wildcard spot, it removes any unconscious scoring bias you might implement. In other words, I was thinking of the scenario in which you might only make some of the rejects eligible for a wildcard spot based on a scoresheet. You might unconsciously bias your scoring to make some rejects eligible and others not. The beauty of the wildcard is that it's totally random.

EDIT: Another thought. Wildcard entries would set a nice benchmark for merit-based entrants to YC to compete against. They would have more to prove because they've been written off. I'd be curious how this would affect the larger group dynamics of the programme.
that's what i thought, however amazon's ec2 structure doesn't seem to be the most impressive for memcache throughput...
Fooled by Randomness
This kind of reads like its written by a future Howard Hughes (not the rich part, the insane part). Seeing shit on the ground naturally leads to an aversion to feet. Nothing insane there.
Padrino Developer here. Our team has developed several ecommerce applications using padrino for various contract jobs. Websites will be deployed soon with links available on http://padrinorb.com. Padrino is built directly on top of Sinatra and should meet any security requirements you might have.
Might be looking for a CTO with software project mgmt experience to lead a new product development effort around the Google Earth engine. AR with local content. Equity for brilliance and execution. Interested? Ping charlie dot mchenry at gmail.
"If you're doing a startup, you have to read Papillon."
Thank you. Great input. I appreciate it.
Tighter Government, One Nudge at a Time
Padrino allows you to also cherry-pick any 'section' as well. check out the doc here http://www.padrinorb.com/guides/standalone-usage-in-sinatra
It says "maintanence" on their technical details page. Hopefully they can fix that.
Some people are really obsessed with dirt and germs. Some people aren't. Some people find legs stretched out is quite comfortable. Some people really don't care about your dumb hangups and like to be comfortable. Trying to say this is some passive aggressive dominance thing is really, really stretching.
I'm tempted to send in a rant to Zed's new site entitled 'where's your fucking atom feed?'
Phone call recording gets into dicey legal ground. I'm aware that 2 party covers most of the situations but it's mess they likely don't want to deal with.
Philippines Typhoon Kills Hundreds | Millions More Homeless
Yet another device to support?
I think AngelList is great. I haven't found funding yet but Nivi has been extremely helpful and led to several introductions already.
Hahaha, I started reading this straight away without glancing at the sidebar. Nodding my head in agreement with the grossness of SF (even though I live here and love it) and then after a few paragraphs thought, "man, this guy does a pretty good impression of Zed Shaw."

Oh. I guess he just moved here from New York.
The Philippines Typhoon website is a great resource for learning more about the plight of the victims of the Philippines Typhoons and resulting Philippines flood. It looks like their situation is really desperate! Please check out this page, even if you can't or don't want to contribute financially, there are ways you can help sitting right there at your computer (which surprised me)!
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I love how it has 57 five star reviews without anyone actually having it yet.
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While it's aimed at Silicon Valley culture, I see some of this pretty much everywhere I go, and I'm not afraid to call someone out on it. Quote of the day: "It's kind of like if I went over to your desk, grabbed you by your greasy hair, yanked your neckbeard to my backside, and farted straight in your face while yelling, "I had Kung Pao chicken for lunch! HAHAHAAH!". Yes, that's what putting your feet up on shit is like to other people."

Putting your feet up on your own shit in your own home to get comfortable? Sure. Or maybe even on your own desk at the office. In a meeting, a professional setting and/or around people who aren't good friends? Please. I would personally walk out.
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Padrino developer here. I also like monkrb but if you check out the Padrino guides (http://www.padrinorb.com/guides) you will see that Padrino is quite a bit more full-featured but also modular. You can enable / disable various features of Padrino and even include certain pieces in existing Sinatra apps.

Our team has used Rails and Sinatra both extensively for contract work and I would argue if you give Padrino + Sinatra a try that you will find it does not defeat the mentality of Sinatra. Instead Padrino simply complements the existing feature set with optional enhancements you might frequently need such as form helpers, tag helpers, localization, mailers and more.

I agree that community support for Sinatra and Padrino are considerably lacking in comparison to Rails. I don't think this is something that cannot be fixed however. Sinatra has only recently hit 1.0 stable which means that the community has just begun to grow. I can say our team at least is committed to helping anyone with problems associated with Sinatra/Padrino. Feel free to post any issues here: http://github.com/padrino/padrino-framework/issues if you find any specific problems.

Thanks guys!
It's not possible for the NYTimes to have been on the web longer than all the people saying they don't get the web!
Cobalt WP Boost plugin increases WordPress Memory Limit
Yeah I don't know about the passive aggressiveness thing but it definitely shows a level of casualness that I'd be surprised to see in an interview or in a meeting with a potential investor.

We once had a candidate bust an apple out of his cargo pants in the middle of an interview and start chomping away.

While obviously we're not hiring people to be polite, it does show a certain level of social tone-deafness which often portends trouble down the road.
FTA:"...the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone"

Break me off a piece of that future history!
This is true. Sleep deprivation and logic don't mix well. :)
http://www.w3.org/2009/05/DeviceAPICharter

Google said they will implement all that into WebKit for ChromeOS.
I misspoke, I should have said 'many-core'.
Yes, you're probably right that no respectable database is going to have a problem with lock contention on 16 cores. But, AMD released 12 core processors this week. Its likely we'll see the average DB server have 48 cores sometime in the next year or two, and who knows after that.
I would say all that is worth a full-on article. Lots of info - would love to see it done up with 'proper treatment' :-)
> Trying to say this is some passive aggressive dominance thing is really, really stretching.

True.

> Some people are really obsessed with dirt and germs. Some people aren't. Some people find legs stretched out is quite comfortable. Some people really don't care about your dumb hangups and like to be comfortable.

A poor excuse for bad manners.
Bill Gates wrote about him as well:

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Thinking/article.aspx?ID=126
Good luck!!
Meh. Sounds like he's harboring the same kind of OCD as the schmuck that writes notes to his co-workers about clearing the "extra" time off the microwave.

Nobody is getting cholera from feet on desks, Monk. Double up on hand sanitizer and deal with it.
Oracle doesn't even support repeatable read (which seems weird to me). Read Commited should be doable in their system.
I'm Indian and I know this about many other cultures too - pointing your feet at someone is really an incredibly offensive gesture. And given how the workplace here in tech is a myriad mix of cultures, I'd avoid it. While it clearly isn't considered offensive in the US, it's still a pretty rude gesture. You may think you're just being chill and laid back but the other person is thinking (unless you both have feet pointed at each other lol) you're a moron.

My first week in grad school I went to meet a professor and the fucker puts his feet up on his desk pointing them right at my face. Since I was a fob at the time, I wasn't quite sure how to take this. I lost respect for him that day. Unsurprisingly, he turned out to be an asshole of a professor too.

In a professional setting, most people wouldn't tell you to put them down, but it reflects badly on you. Do it in India and your boss would fire you, instantly.
Set your login info in the preferences (from the menu bar icon), then you should be able to DnD to the menubar icon, or use the shortcut set in the preferences.
Will you guys be able to support all isolation levels?
If you liked that you may enjoy this: http://www.wired.com/print/science/discoveries/magazine/16-0...
Degree For All
One place to pull up all the information about colleges and the degrees.
Oracle is marketing, not software :)
This looks very similar to Droplr (http://droplr.com/). Has anyone used both? Does either one have a killer feature that the other is missing?
Nothing but great things to say about AngelList. I applied with my startup and while we weren't selected for that week, Nivi sent me a nice personalized email and has been super friendly and always open to chat about startups.
See also: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/1829/buzz-kill

The article notes that the keepers worst hit are the bigger commercial operations. A major argument is that they tried to industrialize beekeeping like the rest of agriculture, feeding them crap and constantly moving them, except it's a lot easier for bees to say screw you I'm going home.
"MBAs idealize jobs and ideas that used to offer outstanding returns. Private Equity and Hedge Funds offered outstanding salaries to HBS students from 06-08 and thus attracted “top” HBS students. As more talented students pursued these options it became conventional wisdom that everyone should be doing the same."

From an article today (http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/01/markets/hedge_fund_manager_p...):
"After plunging during the financial crisis, the income of top hedge fund managers surged in 2009 to a record high as financial markets recovered from historic lows, according to a new survey published Thursday.

Altogether, the 25 top-earning hedge fund managers made a record $25.3 billion last year, according to rankings in AR: Absolute Return+Alpha, a magazine dedicated to the hedge fund industry.

The highest paid manager on the list was David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, who made $4 billion last year on investments in the financial sector."

David Tepper isn't just an MBA, he has a business school named after him:
http://web.tepper.cmu.edu/tepper/about.aspx

I think he'd get a good laugh out of this article.
I can understand putting your feet on the table if A. you're at home, B. nobody else's gonna be using that desk, and C. you DON'T have company. Otherwise, it's a goddamn pair of smelly feet you're sticking within nasal range of somebody else. It doesn't matter what culture you're from - sniff it yourself and see how much you like it!
I like to be comfortable and lying down is comfortable, but I don't take my bed in and lie down during a meeting. I like farting but I don't do it in people's faces. Wanking feels good too but I don't do it at work.

Do you really not see how abhorrent it is to be inconsiderate of other people? It may not be passive-aggressive but it's certainly rude.
The recursive wildcard didn't come out right. It should be:

**/*.java

And the mapping is:

:map <C-n> <Esc>:n<CR> " next file, with control-n
:map <C-p> <Esc>:N<CR> " prev file, with control-p
Or you can, you know, just buy a $10 joystick for your computer and save yourself $490 for mountain dew and pizza.

Mac users amuse me.
Clicking and/or right-clicking the menu bar icon yields no menu. It doesn't even highlight in blue like when I click other menu bar icons. Should it be doing something when I click on it?
RMS to speak at WordCamp San Francisco
CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings
In 3-D, Masters Does Have Extra Dimension
boringgggggg - does anyone get new ideas anymore?
Everything shared on this service (by default, any screenshot a user takes) is mapped to a three character URL. In other words, it would be easy to download everything ever shared using this app. People will not realize this and soon there will be complete archives of every screenshot any CloudApp user has ever taken available on BitTorrent.

Some screenshots that were auto-shared will have sensitive info in them and there will be a massive privacy backlash.
I'm seeing a menu when I click on it:

http://cl.ly/5jL

They did just launch, maybe hit up the site for some contact/support info?
If you're interested in putting stuff in Dropbox by just dragging it to an icon as shown here, check out this:

Dropbox Droplet
http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet

Needs to be somewhat polished but it works!
Spatial Thinking and GUI Design
How to lose a pitch
Looks like you can use the Konami code on the site, too. No idea what it does though.
The recommended site vyew.com looks good, but

http://vyew.com/

301s to

http://vyew.com/site

which in turn 301s to

http://vyew.com/site/index3

Two 301 redirects, and a damn ugly default URL to boot—I have a hard time trusting them to get anything else right. Am I wrong?
False sense of superiority.
I'm not sure I trust Google App Engine; it's a roundoff error for Google. Why should they care if something goes wrong? Heroku cares about Ruby webapp deployment the way Google cares about search.
It was extremely unintuitive to figure out how to delete files (you have to hover over the icon, and an x will appear).
iTunes reviews are so completely useless.
I think they were not doing this to offend you. They don't even know this is an offensive gesture. In US the idea of of feet on the table might seem rude and unsanitary but it is not considered as an offensive gesture (like say, giving someone the middle finger).

> I lost respect for him that day. Unsurprisingly, he was an asshole of a professor too.

Hmm. Why do you say 'unsurprisingly'? Did you assume that he did it on purpose? If he did, then yes he is a douche bag, but I doubt he did it on purpose. Then your logic breaks down. The fact that he likes to put his feet on the table is independent of the fact that he is an asshole. And when you say you immediately "lost respect", that probably means you started to act towards him disrespectfully, and he was probably thinking "What a rude student, he is such an asshole. I don't understand why he acts like that towards me?" So to you he ended up being an asshole you probably seemed just as rude to him, all because he put his feet on the table and you mis-understood the gesture.

I think your university should have had some kind of cultural orientation for incoming international students to let them know that some gestures they find terribly insulting are just the norm. There is little hope the majority will change to your particular culture's sensibilities. I speak from experience, I lived half of my life in another country with different customs. There was some cultural orientation at the university, but there were also a lot of embarrassments and misunderstandings on both sides. I wish I had more silly little pointers and tips at the orientation rather than overgeneralized stuff like 'be prepared for new experiences and new things' -- instead something like this would be nice: "Americans feel strongly about their personal space. Stay the fuck away at an arm's length! Otherwise you creep them out" -- stuff like that.
When I was in school, this sort of happened to me at a school clinic waiting room.

I was crossing my legs in the American style. Without realizing my feet were pointed at what appeared to be two middle eastern men and I noticed they were giggling. I noticed and put both feet down and immediately apologized to them. They were impressed that I knew and it made for a good ice breaker (however culturally risky).
Favorite so far:
> go
Go where?
> go there
You cannot go there.
>> And when you say you immediately "lost respect", that probably means you started to act towards him disrespectfully, and he was probably thinking "What a rude student, he is such an asshole.

I think you should refrain from making judgements when you were not part of the particular social interaction.

When you point your feet right at someone's face whereby you only see half their face, it doesn't need the acceptance of that gesture in a culture to tell you it's offensive. It should be common sense and decency. It's called courtesy and respect to the other person. Unfortunately in the name of a "laidback" attitude, a lot of stuff goes these days.

As for your unsubstantiated guess that I might have been rude -- I would put the odds very much against it as I was looking for a research assistantship at the time. And if you've been in grad school as a foreign student without funding, you know how desperately in need of it you are.
Well meaning, well said. However, keyboards and mice supposedly have more germs on them then a toilet seat. So feet on desks probably isn't that big of a deal.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7377002.stm
Indeed, it does, but that's not Apple's decision. There's no reason why another emulator, such as one you write, couldn't come bundled.
I want to see this guy's expression when somebody introduces him to a dog or a toddler for the first time.
I read this and thought, "oh, Zed Shaw has another fucking blog". Then I realized that this is another of Zed Shaw's fucking blogs.

Incidentally, most gut flora does not live so well on sidewalks and the bottoms of shoes. Anything that does will just be killed by your immune system.

If you are this afraid of disease, never use a sponge or your keyboard.

BTW, I don't normally put my feet on the table... but now that I know it annoys so many people, I am going to start doing it.
I work/party/hang out in San Francisco, I'm there almost everyday, I don't remember ever seeing a human sized turd on a sidewalk. In fact, SF streets are some of the cleanest of any big city I've ever seen.
Big congrats. Smart people tackling tough problems get my vote of confidence.
Damn! I forgot to put that back in the headers. Thanks man, I'll add that.
hah, happy to be of assistance :)
Well, you got loads of class dude. But you know what? At least my blog works:

http://blog.jrock.us/
Yeah, it adds latency, so it won't solve every problem. It does scale a lot better than something that ends up thrashing the disk, though.
I want the lost numbers to work 4815162342
this reminds me of an article I read about how we need to shift our vocabulary when we describe digital interfaces. That the analogies implied in words like "file" or "folder" no longer accurately describe the functions and we need to ditch them and create new words that don't have the baggage of previous meanings. It also reminds me of a product design article I once read that talked about how most times when you pull on a push door or vice versa that it was most likely the door's fault for not being design properly for it's intended use.
I prefer Emperor Nero as a good model of future-crazy-but-maybe-brilliant. :-)
his does too! it says so RIGHT THERE.
If your shoes are so disgustingly dirty, I wouldn't bring them into the home/office at all. Take them off at the door like asians do.

Then, of course, people would put their feet up in socks, and Zed would have to come up with another token justification for why he doesn't like people relaxing too ostentatiously in front of him.
This is extremely slick, don't let your anti-microsoft feelings makes you miss out on this!
Settle down, Francis.
You probably should avoid acting/typing like Zed if you are going to make fun of him at all. Not that the arguments made against him are very poignant - shit transferred via shoes is still horribly gross regardless of health issues (and it's DUMB to do in a professional setting - even if it's San Fran).
Yes, because a 10 paragraph rant full of hyperbole about something I found funny is totally a description of my mental health.

Truth is, most guys are disgusting pigs. If you think that what I wrote is totally alright, then you're just proving that.