skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly? I would at least consider it; I'm a pretty well paid senior developer in a lower cost of living area relative to the coasts (upper Midwest).

Why? As I get older I am less and less capable of sitting in front of a computer screen all day: I just get antsy and want to go outside.
I'm not afraid of hard physical work: I live on a small farm and there are plenty of chores to do every day. If I could be paid my current salary to do something where I didn't have to sit under fluorescent lights all day I would really think seriously about it.
Ah, I see. So it's more likely that 23 people upvoted the story, said, "Ho-hum, stupid MTV!" clicked the "Install" button, said, "Ho-hum, stupid Wordpress!" and then moved on to the next iPad article. Well, I'm less inspired by HN's collective magnanimity, but my mind is also less blown.
The feature I'm thinking of is/was (I thought) a core feature of the form helpers -- form.error_messages and error_messages_for.

I think since the beginning of Rails' inception, this feature has been included in scaffolding, shown in docs, etc. I would expect most Rails apps to use that particular feature.

And that's just one example.
I was hoping this link was Hypercard related...
Although in that sense, they were in fact forced to drop the DRM due to competition. You can put any music from any source on an iPod.
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I see an impending problem with using a 3rd party service like stack exchange, not just for hosting but for operating the content you create. Just like there is voting to enable a site, they could just as easily take it away from you someday.

It's like the few hosted forum services out there, or an even simplier model, wp.com blogs vs. a blog on your own vps.

If it's important to you and you want control over quality, content and features, build it and host it yourself (yet another reason why I am not crazy about clouds).
Yep, just to provide some context / quick review of the talk:

It seems like the primary concern for Domas (presenter) is concurrency within InnoDB. Just to get it out of the way, he dismissed MyISAM, and went right into the low level optimizations & tweaks they're working on at Facebook. High level points are:

- they're using XFS, and he stressed understanding the block math and how it relates to your record sizes, etc.

- using "correct" scheduler has a big impact

- swappiness = 0, etc.

For InnoDB itself, it seems like they're carving out entire chunks of functionality that he claims "never worked correctly" anyway. For example, deadlock detection is something they disabled outright because it gave them a large perf boost. Likewise, for read-ahead functionality within InnoDB. Those were the two he went into a lot of details.

Concurrency + threads: there is no definitive formula, but he suggested setting thread concurrency to be the min concurrency of your lightweight requests (claimed: threads are cheap).

For ops / day-to-day, they focus on slow servers and dive right in: custom tools + gdb + freeze the server. They are playing with the idea of providing stored procedures interface to app developers since it'll avoid the round trip time between different queries (TBD). Also, they sometimes go very aggressive (timeouts of 3s, or even 1s), to force internal app devs to respect the DB layer.

Also hinted that they're using "smart caches" which are capable of buffering counters / updates and doing one update instead.

All in all, their biggest problems seems to be thousands of (app) servers that are always connected, hence the need for high concurrency...

(I'm sure I'm forgetting a whole lot, but that's off the top of my head)
Wow I never realized Spore was so bad (although from the reviews it sounds like they were based as much on poor game play as draconian DRM). I remember being excited about it and then not hearing anything and forgetting, thanks for the link.
" I'm comfortable using a computer, and I don't tend to surf the Web as a form of entertainment"

This is going to be the biggest factor to determine if a tablet is right for you. I'm comfortable enough at my desk using my computer but I can only take so much of it. Most of my web browsing outside of work is entertainment or at least long form reading. Both areas I think the iPad excels at. I could use a laptop on my couch or in bed but I find that a bit awkward but, most importantly, the iPad blows it away on battery life and screen quality -- and for entertainment purposes it's just easier to do most stuff.
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style.mtv.com is an alias for style.mtv.com.edgesuite.net.

style.mtv.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1177.g.akamai.net.

a1177.g.akamai.net has address 67.148.71.26

a1177.g.akamai.net has address 67.148.71.11

Hopefully Akamai isn't configured to proxy POST requests.

Edit: Someone less cautious about being logged confirmed that this is not the case.
They were not forced to drop the DRM due to competition. They dropped the DRM because they didn't like the DRM. They owned the market both before and after they introduced "Plus" tracks.
I guess what I'm talking about is the craig's list or blind date situation mentioned in the Techcrunch article. Can your service help prevent something bad from happening by making the other party aware that you use the service?
I figured the iPad wasn't widescreen because it doesn't work well vertically.
It's interesting that other companies are also feeding their employees quite well. I did some contract work at Twitter a while back, and I have to say the food there is also top notch. Whoever caters that gig is amazing.
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It would be interesting to know the size of the customer set being served to understand how far this method has scaled. Of course in the early days Excel can replace SalesForce and GMail can substitute for a CRM, how would you tell that the current GMail/IM paradigm is breaking before you start to lose prospects and/or customer issues?
The first beta works with Ruby 1.9 fine. The second doesn't. This one ...?
I find myself emotionally torn about this.

This is sharecropping, pure and simple. That's bad, since it's not me doing the share cropping. I suspect they can be very successful. Usenet was wonderful .. until it wasn't. A network of sites that can give us high value information instead of the adwords dreck that is polluting the web, should indeed, be a net positive to the world.

Much like an interstate highway is a net positive to society, I suspect this network of sites will be also. It doesn't always work out so well for the little towns the highway goes through, however, and I fear the carnage that might result from this as well. Creative destruction is still destruction, hence my torn emotions.
The problem with people who make this argument is they attribute causation to the fact that Apple was integrated when in fact Apple lost out to the PC because it stagnated. Anyone who looks at Apple's history realizes that they managed to stay ahead of Microsoft for almost a decade. If you look at the original Mac versus Windows which really didn't overtake the Mac until Windows 3.11 in 1992. So Apple didn't lose because it was an integrated provider Apple lost because they basically didn't move forward for an entire decade while Microsoft continued to move forward at a rapid clip. There are other reasons like Steve Jobs leaving and them choosing the PowerPC but in the end you can't say that Apple lost strictly because of its exclusive nature.
I am not very sympathetic. To me Twitter is a public stream, and you have as little right to complain about your output there being republished in the context of a large quantity of other people's tweets as someone whose likeness or property appears in a photograph or film taken on the public street (where the emphasis is on the street as a whole rather than the individual person or property visible thereon).

Yes Merlin, your tweets are 'nothing', and your window is not broken, any more than a photograph of your window from the sidewalk would have been forbidden by copyright. I'm afraid I am classifying all the hullabaloo over this as pure poutrage.
All this can be traces back to a root problem: using, maybe even needing, C++. Solution: don't use C++, or run away. (And spread the word[1]) I am dead serious: I don't follow my own advice, and that makes me miserable at work.

[1]: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ (I actually learned quite a few things there)
What Google Must Do to Make Its Tablet Competitive
I agree that VC is dead for all those reasons and more.

I think what's next is this: http://me-vc.com

Companies have to register in Jersey (the island, not the state), and there are some other legal and regulatory hurdles to overcome, but the future is definitely in micro-equity.
I've pretty much switched everything to Ruby 1.9.1 and the first Rails 3.0 beta. Works like a charm. That's why I was so disappointed to see the 3.0pre2 rely on Ruby head rather than current Ruby stable (1.9.1).
Maybe for them the task has gone from being cognitive to being mechanical.

Either by practise, or by some self-hypnosis-like trick.
Same here. Though I get all the networks plus two PBS via over the air. I'm continually amazed that via analog I couldn't get a single channel that was watchable, but with the switch to digital I can get 6 stations (plus sub channel) perfectly clear.
This looks very cool, but there's no way in the world that I'll actually create anything on the platform if there is no way to run apps on my own server or locally. I have a feeling that this won't go anywhere unless you use completely open technologies (and frameworks, middleware, etc) or you open source Akshell itself.
This one was also funny, although I think accidentally: "Extra money for my new child's college fund."
The last seems like it'd have a lot of ways to backfire, though. Will there be a grace period in bad economies, so people who lose their jobs, or involuntarily get moved to part-time work, don't also have to move out? What about people bootstrapping startups by living off savings from a previous job?
The situation is somewhat similar, but with some key differences:

- the PC/Mac market has Microsoft taking a cut of every PC sold. Not so with Google's Android. With minimal software costs, making Android handsets is dirt cheaper.

- in the PC/Mac market, Apple makes most of their money selling hardware. In the mobile market, Apple is also making money facilitating the sale of content (Movies, Music, Apps).

- currently, Apple has an enormous advantage in the number of developers targeting their platform. As the industry matures, developers will gravitate even more to the device where they can make money selling their apps. When people start realizing how to easily pirate Android apps, I predict Apple will be the clear winner here.
Does anyone really think that VC can be "fixed"? I don't think VC is broken - it's just the nature of the beast. Interests rarely align 100% in business.
Problem is the iPod is for listening to music, being in a different category altogether.

Computers are about running general purpose software done by third parties. Companies / developers are targeting those platforms which are the most popular or which provide the path of least resistance.

History can repeat itself because smartphones are also about running software.

You just need to convince major players to standardize on your OS, and ironically Apple is playing a part in this by acting as a bully that might push established players out of the smartphones market.
Not sure how much Steve Jobs has really changed his opinion: iBooks is a separate install.
Oh, I agree that the camera is just one tool in a filmmaker's arsenal. Great film is a combination of amazing talent and technology.

My point is that we've never seen a leap in technology quite like this one. You could mount this camera on a rock at the beach and potentially pull in film-grade footage. Until now, you simply couldn't, short of renting Arri, buying filmstock, paying for processing, grading and converting it to the digital domain.

That changes things. And it is that shift in power, through technology, that is fascinating.
New York City 3D in Google Earth
I've gone to Dell custom screens and MacBooks to fight this trend. I feel some distress that all the reasonable priced retail laptops seem impossible to use for real work anymore.
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But "Windows" wasn't the product Apple was competing with, it was MS-DOS and the PC platform in general. And Apple was losing there too. Windows 3 was a big product event inside the PC world. It had little to no effect on the Mac vs. PC marketshare numbers (though it did force a lot of churn in the PC deployed base as it finally managed to obsolete all the XT clones).
Has VC funding reset to a lower, healthier level? ($5.9B in 731 Deals)
They realised that StackExchange was failing, but because they don't realise the reasons why their attempted correction is only making it worse.

Their software is a hideously complicated and over-engineered attempt to twist human relationships into math. It only works on StackOverflow because:
a) The tech community was desperate for an alternative to hidebound mailing lists on one hand and expertsexchange on the other
b) How to put this? A whole lot of nerds really would like to be able to reduce the complexity of human relationships to math, too, and willingly participated.

But without a userbase that's dying for a solution, any solution, and especially a userbase prepared to put up with convoluted ranking-rating-have-I-got-enough-points-to-change-my-profile-picture-yet point-scoring games the software is actually a millstone. You're not going to get a liberal arts Q&A site that takes off with those restrictions. This is why StackExchange was such a dud.

By not realising this, their solution is more of the same! "Sure, you can start a site, you just need pi+4 users to seed your initial contract bounding, then that will need to be ranked to 6 by a quorum of level 3 users, and after an initial 26-day period of zzzzzzzzzz <click>".

You want to create a good Q&A site, you need to have a community, and it needs to be well-tended by empathic people who know how and where to prune. The software is pretty much irrelevant. Look at http://ask.metafilter.com/ for a success story: totally flat, forum-esque, but answers are obvious, there's no chatter or bullshit, and it works on the most amorphous and wide-ranging types of questions.

There is no shortcut solution to this problem. There is no way to mathematically manage human connections like this that works in this space. The route to success is careful relationship management, not yet more programming.
I forgot to add the word "community".

It should read: "The success of the StackOverflow community was built on the backs of smart programmers...

And yes, SX2.0 will have a hard time building the critical mass around anything other than programming.
Except, the future is already there: our bandwidth is asymmetric, running our own server is increasingly impossible, and the Internet becomes more and more centralized, like good old closed networks like AOL.

The iPad is the symbol of that trend, but otherwise is tiny, irrelevant, even.
Looking at Olark's pricing model it would seem that it would have to scale to 1000 customers + prospects (estimated breakeven for a team of 4 at 20K/month divide by $30 as most popular plan yield 670 customers, assume 330 prospects in pipleline needed to counteract turnover and enable grown) just to get a reasonable breakeven point for a small team. What is the limit of this approach in your plan for growth?
Taking ideas from the beginning of "Keep Your Identity Small," I'd like to read something about art and / or artists. I choose that topic because, on one hand, I can say without justification that I prefer one artist's work over another's work, yet there must be some justification to say that one artist is obviously better than another artist. I'd like to see pg's treatment of a topic that is based in both opinion and fact (and one in which he has some expert knowledge).
The New MacBook Pros are Here (finally)
Personally for me is hard to find work at that rates (I live in Italy). I think I have the skills but I'd me more than happy to work for ~$50/hour part time remotely.
I would cautiously advocate a claim that Apple cannibalized their own iPod market share with the iPhone OS devices precisely to avoid getting cannibalized by everyone else.

The problem is... where do you go from iPhone OS?
> When people start realizing how to easily pirate their Android apps, I predict Apple will be the clear winner here.

You could've said the same thing about Windows apps.

Piracy (which always acted as a marketing scheme for software) is also becoming irrelevant since many apps on the iPhone are just frontends to online services.

Besides, the free lunch is almost over. People are getting tired of fart apps.
Porn magazines for the blind. Something else the iPad can't do.
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> I like driving, but I wouldn't enjoy having to do it for an hour every day.

Good for you. My point is that other people are, wait for it, different. More to the point, they're getting something out of their drive that they value. It's okay that you don't agree with them, but it's not okay to insist that they're wrong or that they don't exist.

> When everyone drives because everyone has to do so, you get a mess: traffic, sprawl, loss of community, ugly places not worth caring about.

That's your opinion. Their opinion is different. Why doesn't their opinion deserve as much respect as yours?
Unfortunately, I believe the answer is yes. I run a MacBook Pro as my main machine and I own an iPhone and believe that they will be the last apple products that I buy for a while. After the Amiga dies, I was a apple user until shortly after the PPC and got burnt on that transition as I bought a machine right before the transition and then they killed OS support for the old 040 chips rather quickly, swore them off and then slowly got wooed back by their flawless handling of the transition to Intel. Now with the constant compromises I have to make for the iPhone, I am finding it to restrictive of a platform and am actively looking for a replacement.

For example, I was at our family lake house in NC last week on vacation, I am actively in talks over a few CIO positions and one of the companies asked me to forward my resume in word format. If I could upload files to my phone then I could have attached it to an email and sent it out. I have a striped down Google doc resume that I use for just this case but it doe not compare to my word or PDF resume which contain charts and diagrams to visualize my accomplishments. Due to an arbitrary platform restriction, I have to do funky stuff like email the file to myself and then forward that email to any requester.

Moving on from that, the tethering thing is another pain in the butt that to me has no rhyme or reason. I have to use my Wife's Blackberry (on AT&T) to tether my computer at the lake house. Same network but one phone has tethering intentional disabled.

Anyway, long story short I am starting to feel the restrictions of the platform and now it looks like Apple is abandoning a lot of good solution providers because they might compete a little on their platform. With no competition innovation stifles even in a company like Apple.

Time will tell, and Steve has pulled off some miracles but as for me, I think Apple has lost me again which is a shame because they are one of the few companies left that put such a focus on quality.
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And why would I put myself through this when I can setup one of the many stack overflow clones on a VPS right now?
HMAC/SHA-512 Tests
HMAC/SHA-512 Short ASCII Text:
HMAC/SHA-512 Short Hex Key:value="0123456789:;<=>?@ABC0123456789:;<=>?@ABC"

HMAC/SHA-512 Short Hex Result:
value="74ed1131b8e37c0e18829b7ae7d99925664cfe055c2d01fa00d0f152ac321a50f3ef1ee91a36fd6248de60ede4196a4f9e5acca4981a09a91a0745d674ca11d3"

HMAC/SHA-512 Med ASCII Text:

HMAC/SHA-512 Med Hex Key: value="000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f202122232425262728292a2b2c2d2e2f303132333435363738393a3b3c3d3e3f000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f202122232425262728292a2b2c2d2e2f303132333435363738393a3b3c3d3e3f"

HMAC/SHA-512 Med Hex Result:

HMAC/SHA-512 Med Correct:value="e3c46b747b407ae103d75d94cc2247d6fef607a019e9dca6a1183966a163eb19317e7642da27b6e6ed22fea8224c493d5f20a458f83a555b94264253ddceb242"

HMAC/SHA-512 Large Hex Text:
value="53616D706C65202333"

HMAC/SHA-512 Large Hex Key:value="505152535455565758595a5b5c5d5e5f606162636465666768696a6b6c6d6e6f707172737475767778797a7b7c7d7e7f808182838485868788898a8b8c8d8e8f909192939495969798999a9b9c9d9e9fa0a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9aaabacadaeafb0b1b2b3505152535455565758595a5b5c5d5e5f606162636465666768696a6b6c6d6e6f707172737475767778797a7b7c7d7e7f808182838485868788898a8b8c8d8e8f909192939495969798999a9b9c9d9e9fa0a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9aaabacadaeafb0b1b2b3"

HMAC/SHA-512 Large Hex Result:
HMAC/SHA-512 Large Correct: value="a2a8627f166e8c52d95fbf5c55271d466d43b73696e94977d08262f021d9a916f9d10f09f40db64e038c2ed3b16fbb9e61082c9173acfa86445612ccd4d8836c"
Microsoft Kin A brand new gadget
Aside from you informing that person, I can't think of another way off the top of my head but I'll give it some thought.

I do think that it could deter a potential issue if you communicated the basis of the service in regard to GPS breadcrumb and the alert if you don't checkin. The Natalie Holloway case comes to mind.
This sounds immensely complicated, maybe they should have worked out a better way for selling the software. Making it free and having this stupendously complex proposal system seems kinda short-sighted.
Someone simply forgot to remove install.php
I'd think if you truly cherish that goal (as I do) you'd have noticed by now that no single device or technology represents a step of any significance in any direction.

It wasn't the existence of the internet that changed the creator:consumer ratio for the better. It was the use of the internet as such. And that use exploded thanks to any number of consumption-focused technologies along the way.

Consider that even if no-one creates long-form text on an iPad, it's existence as a consumption machine might re-popularize the format and draw more creators to write for digital bookstores, shifting the creator:consumer relationship thanks to the ease of entrance (compared to dead-tree publishing).

Or for a more proven example: consider the App Store. Reviled-since-inception by techno-freedom purists, its net effect has been positive for entire classes of software that are as-of-yet implausible via the internet.

Though the store serves only these consumption-focused devices, the audience those devices attracted and the comparative low barrier for entry by creators has drawn creators and been a huge step forward.

Windows tablets have had more pure potential to push the creator:consumer ratio forward for a decade and they've done essentially nothing. How useful is a world-view in which they're viewed as a step forward and the iPad a step back?

All that aside, the core argument is still bogus. The iPad is getting a rap as a media consumption device solely because it's bad at text input without peripherals.

Well, guess what? Any form factor is bad at some Arts without peripherals. And peripherals often dictate ergonomics. Keyboard/Mouse PCs suck at digital painting, a/v capture, a/v editing and any number of disciplines without peripherals. We don't pan them for not being a creative panacea out-of-the-box. And we certainly don't begrudge laptops their convenience, even though a digital artist has to lug around a cintiq to do decent work on the road, and is thus limited in use cases.