skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I found Forbes post re: SSD to be very interesting, and rather than just claim the debate has denigrated past the point of usefulness -- just ignore the rant from the other guy and respond to the substantive comments made by Forbes.

As a person who is investigating NoSQL as viable for a particular task, the substantive posts on either side have been valuable to me.
Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/04...
Oh please. How many MBAs do we need? Get a degree in something useful, then get an MBA.
But imagine you can solve that by having each business run by qualified business people who have a profit motive. The government would be the funding source, set a few high level rules, and otherwise stay out of the mix.

Now imagine you have a new pony. See how easy that is?

Sorry Scott, being able to take labor and capital and make money with it isn't just something you "imagine" and it happens. Really smart, sharp, excellent business guys flail around at this all the time and couldn't make a dime with a lemonade stand. There's simply a lot more to it than people wanting to work and smart business people.

You're doing a lot of skimming, hand-waving, and smoke-blowing. I love Dilbert, and you are an awesome person, but in my opinion these blog entries of yours aren't hitting on so much lately.
Personally, I'm drawn to Mongo, etc. because I can develop in my language of choice, and not have to write/debug SQL of any dialect to store and retrieve my data.

An ORM with a relational database would let you do the same thing.

SQLAlchemy in Python is reasonably good for a project nearing a 1.0 release and Linq works nicely with C#. Virtually every other major language has at least one ORM available to it.

That is not to say that a relational database with an ORM is the way for you to go at all, just that avoiding writing SQL code it probably not the best reason by itself to choose your database platform.
Sometimes you do. If you're doing it right. :)
Finally something that explains Rails architecture.
A careful reading of your link seems to support parent's comment.
Accelerando, Saturns Children, Dreams of Perpetual Motion
Anathem by Neil Stephenson (Fiction)
Oh, lots! I wish you'd narrow down to some categories you're interested in.

A few example i enjoyed:
The State of Africa, Martin Meredith
The Code Book, Simon Singh
Pity the Nation, Robert Fisk
The Great War for Civilization, Robert Fisk
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges
Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
Fermat's Engima, Simon Singh

Lots more....
any formula is irrelevant for married people.

And funny how this became a me-too thread.
Maybe people who are using non-relational data stores for actual work are employing it in tandem with RDBMS but most talk is about completely replacing RDBMS with NoSQL. This latest round of fun started with Digg replacing MySQL with Cassandra. Even other HN comments on this very article don't talk about using it tandem with SQL; most would probably consider that a waste of the advantages of NoSQL.

I use non-relational solutions combined with a RDBMS solutions but that seems to put me on the other side of the debate.
maybe ppl ought start adding "we accomodate dsps" in job descriptions at startups here.
I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience. One thing to bear in mind is that we (reddit) also run affiliate links, so you were competing directly with us. If they clicked on our link first, you won't get credit for it. They may also not count the click from that user twice, which could explain your lower numbers.

Our traffic numbers come from the same system we use to track our own website traffic, so we work very hard to make sure it is as accurate as possible, since we sell our own advertising based on those numbers, and if they were over-inflated, our other advertisers would complain vociferously.

I suspect the error lies in the affiliate program, who has an incentive to under-report.

However, if you'd like to provide us with the numbers you got from your affiliate program, we would be love to take a look and try to figure out what happened.

Edit: I forgot to mention that AdBlock blocks a lot of affiliate trackers, but a lot of reddit users specifically disable adblock for reddit, so that might also be a source of the discrepancy.
What does that get me over Upstart or the other event-driven init systems?

(This is a question of genuine curiosity. SMF has led to many headaches when I've had to deal with it, simply because it didn't seem to comply with normal conventions like returning nonzero for failure or actually printing what goes wrong to the console.)

EDIT: add trailing parenthesis.
kraftwerk seems to have a different use-case than fabric. There is some overlap, but they are different tools for different jobs.

Of course this article pretty much hits the overlap right on the head...
Achieve less
I've used both, but prefer Bazaar because it always felt more intuitive to me. But again, try them both out, its not that difficult to import/export history from/to.

One big difference is git's speed over Bazaar. You'll typically only be annoyed with it only large projects but still, it is noticeable. Though, there has been huge progress from the earlier versions of Bazaar.
Yes, but they most likely will sit at the local shipping depots until 4/3, just like the 3GS pre-orders.

"When the iPhone 3GS shipped last year, Apple commanded UPS to hold on to the packages until launch day, even if they were sitting there, ready and waiting in your local branch like gifts under a Christmas tree."
I realize that not everyone is happy about the email signup. However, producing such a screencast requires a sizable amount of effort. It's a marketing initiative after all, and a signup allows us to make contact with a person who is potentially interested in other revelant screencasts (both free and commercial).

It really doesn't take long to sign up and then immediately unsubscribe after the download, if you are not interested at all in other free and commercial screencasts.
One thing I've noticed is that the "NoSQL" side of the debate (such as it is) always beats on MySQL as an example of a relational database.

MySQL, for all its virtues, is like the little kid brother of real RDBMS systems. Getting slightly improved performance opposed to a NoSQL system is NOT going to convince someone with a behemoth Oracle rack to switch.

I'd like to see some systems and benchmarks showing how NoSQL systems can compete in the ridiculously high-volume, high-speed space. And yes, I know Google does with BigTable, and that it's theoretically possible, but I haven't seen any implementations prove they can, yet.
I would imagine they don't publish things that they cannot verify as probably true, or things that aren't newsworthy.

On the other hand, here's something they did publish: a leak of their own donor list. http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/46864/. I see that as pretty good evidence of their integrity.
Regarding accreditation: there's accreditation for distance education in the department of education. the online learning institutions also have their own body of accreditation.

But this doesn't give a strong brand like leading universities have.
Yes. I think we understand each other.

As a contrarian, my concern is that this issue is being painted with way too broad of a brush. There are limits from a U.S. constitution standpoint for free speech. There are also practical limits as to how useful to the global public an organization can be if it has an agenda and a megaphone for disseminating secrets. Lots of room for third-party players to screw with public opinion.

As a libertarian, however, I think these guys are doing the work of the angels and I support anything that levels the playing field between the individual and the state. Rock on.

I just don't think everybody involved has thought it through completely, though. Lots of sloganeering and simplistic arguments going on. And that keeps nagging at me. I get this feeling that we are missing something important.
This has never been true of MIT (although I'll double check that WRT to the very beginning, which I'm studying now), and to this day every course is taught by a professor (I know of one exception to this rule, an EECS grad student who walked on water and who everyone in the department thought was the very best person to teach one particular course).

MIT is deadly serious about undergraduate education, to the point where if a professor violates certain rules (e.g. no homework of X sort N days before final exams), a committee charged with this sort of thing will take the course away from the professor.

I was also once an employee who's office happened to be
in the complex that included the EECS undergraduate HQ. One term a very good professor inexplicably did a horrible job of teaching 6.002 (or maybe 3, but I think it was 2). I read every one of the student course evaluations and with one special case exception they were uniformly negative with plenty of specificity. Then, due to the open office nature of that complex, I got to listen to the department head force the professor to read every single one of them, and then be told he'd never, ever be allowed to teach that course again (which he took very hard, since this is an area the professor really cares about).

In all my personal experiences of taking courses, the professors were seriously dedicated to teaching, although obviously their ability to teach varied. But they tried, and some also would devote a little time to telling us about their research, how it excited them and they tried to give us a little facility in what it was all about. Generally the latter failed, but they seldom failed to get across how something as dry as say physical chemistry might be very interesting.
The article does actually cover your serious point.

> Indeed, it may be more useful in a "top rated" list to display those items with the highest number of positive ratings per page view, download, or purchase, rather than positive ratings per rating. Many people who find something mediocre will not bother to rate it at all; the act of viewing or purchasing something and declining to rate it contains useful information about that item's quality.
I just finished and enjoyed:

The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein

The four pillars consisting of investment theory, history, psychology and business. I ascribe to the indexing model of investing and this book helped crystallize my view point as well as provide an interesting overview of investment history.

Plus I'll throw in one of my favorite, bloody gems of a book:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Plato - The Republic

George Orwell - 1984
IRS Data Center Gird for Tax Season
Pretty interesting. Designing the whole system from scratch and being able to remove all unused overhead associated with 'modern' OSs certainly helps being able to fit it all in 1MB.
There's a list at stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210
The two game series are called Brain Age, and Big Brain Academy. Both are great fun - and helpful.
basically you are trying to hack a solution for one thing that can be solved with your wallet.

And i dont mean to pay for the most expensive option becausw that's what you isp wants.

I'm talking about hiring a smaller isp that does not goes extra lengths to block your connections
But the beauty of commands being implemented via python code is you can extended it arbitrarily. One of the first things I did with fabric is write some additional code that would optionally dump a shell script instead of running all the commands so I could more easily debug it/see what's going to happen.
yeah, me to. I wonder what I would have been able to achieve if I did something useful during the handwriting drills that ate 4-8 hours of my week.

hell, after all that work, at this point, I can't even read my own handwriting.
I believe the OP was referring to the fact that if you are replacing a RDBMS with a NoSQL solution then chances are the RDBMS was not really a good choice in the first place. If you need the CA section of the CAP triangle and can't pass a possible inconsistency to the application level then a RDBMS on a big honking box with master/slave replication is probably your best bet -- a lot of the NoSQL traction has been in providing solutions to people who don't specifically need that part of the equation but fell into a RDBMS because it was the default/traditional solution to "I have some data, now how do I access and store it?" question or because they did not know that options which relaxed consistency assurances were not quite the heresy their DBAs claimed.
Reddit is one of two sites that have AdBlock exceptions on my computers; and it's largely because the ads are usually pretty interesting on reddit.

The self-serve advertising system has been a win for me, both as an advertiser and as a reddit reader; so until Coca-Cola and Viagra ads start showing up in the ad boxes, I'm sure that lots of redditors will still keep the AdBlock exception on their machines.

(I guess this is a roundabout way of me saying that I like the way ads work on reddit, so I didn't mind turning AdBlock off personally.)
Maybe it will help people who think ordering a large caesar salad is healthy.
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28-year Microsoft veteran Tandy Trower remembers Microsoft Bob and Clippy.
No, it's very clear who funds Wikileaks. Individual donors do. They make it clear that they do not accept money from governments or corporations. They are, in general, very open about their finances, and the information is not difficult to find.
Yes kraftwerk came after Silver Lining and even uses some of its code.
Why not start your own?
Of course, if the problem turns out not to be food calories but food composition, the only thing this will do is push more useless information into people's faces. Making it more prominent won't make it more useful.

Personally, I would take this as further condemnation of the calorie counting approach to health in the first place. Our ancestors did not need it, and there's nowhere in the human body to input raw calorie counts into our satiety mechanism. This is the classic hacks piled on hacks pattern, instead of fixing the root problem.
No, because the truck itself weighs several tons, which is what I mean by the overhead of the shipping mechanism. You're right that the engine efficiency does go down with increased weight, but at the same time we can't have 1 billion mini trucks running around carrying 1 soda bottle each -- there are gains and losses for every factor you try to optimize.

As another example, many laundry detergent makers have started making "3x concentrated" detergent, which is basically the same number of loads as a regular jug but in a smaller bottle, and they advertise that part of the reason for it is that it reduces shipping costs. Now the weight change there wouldn't be as much because we're not talking about packing efficiency, but it's an example that reducing volume by itself does reduce shipping costs for these companies.

I don't know for certain that reducing the volume by 50% will guaranteed reduce fuel costs because that's a lot of math to do, but I think it's a good guess based on the above info.
Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon, too. Or pretty much anything Neil Stephenson writes.
True. kraftwerk is a deployment tool (Python WSGI only) and Fabric is more general although it leans towards deployment automation.
This is a really great idea. My only gripe is that it uses AES (due to that being the only cipher in jsCrypto).
Or people pretending to be dogs to score dates.

On the internet, nobody knows you're not a dog.
Define Paper’s Success with Interesting Analysis Essay Topics 
Nowadays we can find a lot of potential analysis essay topics on the websites that can help the student to write an essay. Most of them are thought provoking, captivating, and stimulating, helping the students to mobilize their creative skills..
I've also never seen anyone deploy OSX Server in any capacity

I've done it, but it wasn't very pretty. Well, I mean the admin tools are a pretty GUI, but underneath it is all a BSD, but instead of being able to upgrade components, you're tied to a vendor that doesn't really update things that way. For example, I had 2 G5 Xserves running 10.3 (Panther) and one Intel Xserve running 10.4 (Tiger). Unfortunately upgrading the version of Python or MySQL on the systems was a royal pain in the ass. Custom configurations is also odd, because they do a lot of custom stuff to the point that it isn't quite a *nix. But if you run off the shelf things designed for a Mac Server or need to use one of the Core Media frameworks they would be good. However, for typical web stuff, they really aren't that good of a server. Great hardware though... I'd love to rip out the Mac OS and put Linux of them.

To put this back into context for the post, OSX Server is probably deployed less often than Solaris.
well I wouldn't call it a bad experience, I know the reddit crowd so I wasn't expecting much. + that 1 sale, made me back the money I spent, so no loss on my part.

Yeah that's one of the reasons I didn't go for the Amazon affiliate link, since I figured it'd get overwritten quickly by someone else's code.
Why MBAs are Going East
I was thinking the same thing about NYC (though I don't live there) as I remembered reading that a study found it did have an impact on people's eating habits:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/starbucks.html
Video Demo of the iPad App Store
It's a bit of a ridiculous question isn't it? Relevant in what way? Even if you narrow it down to business and technology the scope is just far too broad.
I'd keep the archives open on your site. An archive that large and that old will continue to drive traffic (and ad revenue..?) for some time to come.

This should preserve your page rank a little longer than just letting the site die and it gives you time to consider your options.

You could find someone interested in running the site where you retain ownership but share profits from advertising.

Or you could outsource moderation. As others have suggested, re-establish the rules, then look for a freelancer to moderate the forum for you.

If you've put 10+ years of your life into this it would be a shame to let it die. Sometimes that's the right choice but why not wait a few weeks/months and be certain if that's what you choose to do.
Wow, you actually believe your ideas are so new and complex that you have to invent new grammar to express them?
Quite possibly it's just quirks in the trendlines caused by small sample size or something. I would imagine the original paper has more numbers and information on methods, but sadly it looks like it's behind a paywall.
For me it's just reddit and google. Reddit because I like the way they work. And Google since I want to see what kind of sites advertise for a particular keyword
I'm a big fan of Sci-Fi because I feel it makes people think about what they want the future to be, as well as avoiding the re-hashing of historical and current events that many fiction books set in the present do. With that in mind a list of great books to read:

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Gridlinked - Neal Asher
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton
The Dreaming Void - Peter F. Hamilton
Fallen Dragon - Peter F. Hamilton
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Market Forces - Richard Morgan
Blindsight - Peter Watts
The Electric Church - Jeff Somers
Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
1984 - George Orwell
"...reddit specific discount code (I went with diggsucks)"

Proving you don't know reddit that well. That will appeal to the 13 year old digg converts. The people with money to spend will just see it as immature, and therefore perceive your produce as being unprofessional.

OK. I just found your ad - http://www.reddit.com/comments/bgb99. You might want to consider the fact that A Small Orange were advertising pretty heavily recently. That would have cut down on people looking for entry level hosting. Or, perhaps you are right in saying that redditor's are cheap.
The article explains why the VC doesn't want to give the referral, but it doesn't explain how it can hurt me to ask. If you have ever sold something, you know, you have to ask a lot of unlikely people for help before you get any.
Don't miss sivers's great list: http://sivers.org/book

As for mine,

Science Fiction (I like these authors so I'd recommend most of their books -- listing which ones I think are a good 'starter novel' for them):

Charles Stross: Halting State
Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon The Deep
Iain M. Banks: Culture novels, start with Player of Games
David Louis Edelman: Jump 225 Trilogy
Daniel Suarez: Daemon and Freedom(tm)
John Scalzi: Old Man's War series
Dan Simmons: Hyperion

Self-improvement:

The Talent Code
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Non-fiction:

Amusing Ourselves To Death (highly recommended)
The Science of Fear
The Black Swan
Tokyo Vice
Racing The Beam (Atari history, very cool)
books by Daniel Pink
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Prize by Daniel Yergin

Fantasy:

Anything by Gaiman or China Mieville, pretty much.

EDIT: links to previews (legally) available online

Charles Stross's Accelerando (entire book): http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

David Louis Edelman's Infoquake (1st 7 chapters): http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/jump225/infoquake/
How to Think About Breakthroughs in Business, from Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer
Budget Projections
Agreed and good point.

But remember in a small and growing business you can look at stock options as part of the compensation. If the newly hired person really believes the company has a chance, that could make them very happy even with bargain salaries.

Also, remember that set up often is harder than maintenance, so even if you expect the bargain talent to leave when the economy picks up later, you can often gain a lot from having them for a while and then replace them by someone less experienced at that point.
Coderpath podcast: Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson 
Inaugural relaunch of coderpath as a podcast, with guest David Heinemeier Hansson. Hosts Miles Forrest and Curtis McHale.
I have wondered whether the poor response to online ads isn't simply because the ads are so bad. There might be many people like you who don't mind the ads per se so much as the flashing, annoying ads for stuff you don't care about.

So a site that made "interesting ads" part of their brand and actively rejected boring and obnoxious ones, could potentially be valuable. Maybe reddit is consciously doing this.
I'm still on the path (trying to get a product out this week), but I don't think these two are mutually exclusive.

The first step is to get to #1, then get feedback and grow to #2.

But in the start-up world, I think that there is no such thing as "low risk". Even start-ups that are 'guaranteed success', often fail.
The shuttle computer does what computers do best: crunch numbers. I'd be interested in knowing what sort of hardware that RAM plugs in to, and also exactly how fast operations need to be completed in order for the shuttle to not fall out of the sky.
Yeah, and parts of Indiana as I recall as well.

But the numbers may be too small, and the populations too unrepresentative, for this approach to be very useful.
For me it's an intermittent issue. 3.6 and 3.7 both used to keep crashing on me if there was any flash involved. However, with the plugin sandboxing in the latest nightlies 3.7 is much more stable.
I know lots of econ MS/PhDs who have jobs. Why no prospects at grad school?
The hidden cost of picking the wrong technology partner
Never underestimate the cost of bureaucratic creep: picking the wrong technology provider may cost you dearly because of unnecessary red tape. Especially if you're a small business red tap can quickly turn into a killer.