skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is funny that a company that told people specifically what other phones to buy if you want to "re-flash" your phone, gets a whole forum full of people that tell them what doom they have brought on themselves. Given a lot of the comments, I would expect it to weigh in favor of not having the commenters as customers and continuing this policy.
Er...a Linode 512, at $20/month, is $5/month cheaper than their smallest plan, and $90 cheaper than the comparable plan. Unless you really, really cannot do a simple

tar xf redis.tar.gz
cd redis
make

then I don't understand why on Earth you'd do this.
Ermm, one of the tenets of Agile is that all members of the team are interchangeable (i.e. anyone can take anything from the backlog).
Yeah, except Clojure is more awesome :-p
couch hits a number of sweet spots. Documents can have attachments so you can build a complete application out of html,css, and javascript and have the entire app reside in a couch database. Coupled with P2P replication this make for some interesting possibilities.

couch also inherits a lot from it's choice of implementation language, Erlang, and it's append-only storage design. A high level functional language such as Erlang makes for a small manageable code base. So if you want to extend or enhance it there's not as much to get your arms around as you would have in C++.

On the other if you're a web programmer or could just otherwise care less about db internals, the JSON based RESTful API is all you need and there's a client already out there for just about every language I can think of except maybe Rebol.

I've been poking at it for a couple of years now and one thing I have to say is that it is really truly rock solid. Moreover it has an active and supportive community and at least two companies building businesses around it, Cloudant and couch.io, both of which boast committers to the project.
True, I've seen people do crazy things when It came to pagination because they didn't think rownum would work.
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I would imagine the constant bobbing up and down would be even worse for your eyes...
I'm finding with my standing desk that having good shoe support and a good soft carpet/pad to stand on is quite important.
Khosla Ventures And Founders Fund Invest $15M In ZocDoc
I'm finding with my standing desk that having good shoe support and a good soft carpet/pad to stand on is quite important for that very reason. It does help me to walk around more. I tend to move around quite a bit more than when I was just standing.
I'm finding with my standing desk that having good shoe support and a good soft carpet/pad to stand on is quite important for that very reason. It does help me to walk around more. I tend to move around quite a bit more than when I was just sitting.
If that is the case, then HN Classic is very good proof of the change seen in the submitted stories. I loved seeing the HN Classic homepage and might keep it as my goto page (if it is still updated).
Free vulnerability scanning for web apps
I have near life long friends who I still see regularly enough but several of us live in different states / countries now. I wasn't implying that they should alienate themselves from their friends but they shouldn't make drastic changes to their life just to accommodate them. ( I consider changing your lifestyle + moving to a new location a 'drastic' change ) One the best things having FU money allows for is the ability to 99.9% of the time decide to travel to X at 1pm on Tuesday and be on a plane to X by 4pm the same day.
Okay, I'll try this approach.

"You" is both intimate and formal today for native English speakers. There is no distinction between the two cases.

For the Greeks and Early Modern English and really everyone except "modern" native English speakers, there is a distinction between the two, and "thou" is the closest translation we have. Much as you might not like it, it is not incorrect to translate another language's intimate second-person pronoun into English as "thou" because, in fact, that is the closest approximation we have.

Or, if you prefer, we could start saying "You-familiar should know you-familiar's self."
wait, what do you mean he "has no Internet"?
Northeast VCs pretty optimistic for the 2nd half of 2010?
This article almost seems to suggest that it's some kind of CAT5 balun, which is a technique that's been around for many years, carrying VGA, DVI, USB, and all manner of protocols.

And running HDMI over CAT5 is not exactly brand new, either:

http://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2007/12/honeywell...
There are a number of article recommendation engines out there that can fill the need for "outlier" articles fitting even the most peculiar tastes. I personally use http://www.euraeka.com and even though it aggregates news from less hardcore programming sources I find it an incredibly powerful source of science and technology news that fit my taste. I tried Digg and Reddit recommendation engines but they all work on user-to-user based recommendations and most of the time i get either inaccurate or trivial recommendations.
I did nothing intentional there really. You seem to be making me defend some brainchild of yours about what "Agile Development (TM)" is. I wont go there. Nor will I be associated by TDD advocates that you don't like.

I just find pistoriusp to be quite agile in that they see themselves as a team, and that they have a todo list of things to finish in some order (backlog in agile terminology).

Since I am being down voted, there must be people that think it is a bad idea to introduce a fixed sprint length and perform time estimates on todo list items. For the conversation, I want to hear those arguments.
When scientists say that an additional theory is ugly, they mean that adding the theory means ugly math. Ugly math is complicated, unsupported calculation--it's tweaking the theory to suit the data. In other words, the very reason they call it ugly is because of the things you cited. Now, it is certainly pseudo-science or wishful thinking, but cherry-picking the current knowledge base is how you create new theories.
I stopped reading the feed too. People were never going to leave facebook in droves. But the controversies eventually become exhausting to the point where it's difficult to justify regular visitations, which is a hit to facebook.

Social networking have been deprecated in the past. It happened to myspace, and friendfeed before it.

I remember the proponents of myspace arguing it couldn't lose momentum when it was at its peak, but it surely did. Perhaps predicting these things is a bit of a black swan event.
Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation?
Other than being a great tool for its problem domain, I think part of the reason CouchDB is successful is because Chris Anderson (jchris) is hilarious. Watch his video (http://vimeo.com/5288034)...

When asked about writing CouchDB in C++ he replies "C++ is great- but then you have to use it." Priceless. Anyways congratulations.
I suppose he's going for the 16 cores instead of 8 given the interconnect isn't used. It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between the xlarges and the cluster instances on simple speedups like this.
WeinbergAlpha: DuckDuckGoes opensource with its WolframAlpha integration
I am definitely a fan of a service which passively learns my tastes as a side effect of activity (like amazon recommendations, last.fm) vs. Requiring me to manually enter my favorites, especially over a large and evolving set of items.
Two weeks ago someone submitted the Paypal vs. Merchant Account Calculator to HN
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471371

Are hackers going to post every calculator they come up with?
these numbers aren't correct.

FourSquare didn't grow to 2m users on $1m. Last month before they publicly closed their financing, they had 25 employees and were expanding (http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/28/checking-in-to-foursquare-a...). Maybe Dennis used his own cash but it certainly cost more than $1m.
Best Places to Live: Top-Earning Towns
I found just having access to high-quality ingredients at a reasonable price to be difficult in the US. More difficult than in Europe at least & waaay more difficult than in Asia (ok, one datapoint: China).
Would this be a simple firmware or software upgrade or would this require new hardware for it to work?
Maybe i missed something obvious, but why call yourselves a social network at all - why lead with that? Opinion engine is much more accurate and much more compelling.
Indeed. There + becomes isomorphic to XOR and * to AND.
Aren't just about everyone already running 1.2 head? Just asking.
Arrrr, I'd have to say I doubt it. Plenty of methods of (partially) counter-acting "piracy" exist, mate.

Shiver me sides! The "Madonna" wench put sound files full of swearing that would embarassa deckhand on file sharrrring networks. These files probably only appealed to perrrverrts, but piracy is filled with such perrrverrrts.

And what about bands/label pre-emptively releasing sub-optimal (mono, low sample rate) singles to the file sharing networks, but sellling pristine, high-fidelity versions?

This whole mass-lawsuit thing smacks of incredible dumbness, or of a general tendency towards larceny rather than honest labor. Which a pirate, can respect, mind you!
Is your shop 20+ developers? Monkey patching isn't dangerous in and of itself, to my mind, but the prospect of code-surprises is ever present. When I read code, I may not realize it has been overwritten elsewhere. I'm not sure at what number of hires that guy makes his way into the group, but debugging becomes an increasing part of development costs.
The servers are located in EC2, and there is authentication.
That is cool also! For a long time I was experimenting a lot with both Clojure and Scala, but then I took a gig with a Clojure shop earlier this year. Scala is still on my short list of languages I would use for my own projects (as is Racket Scheme, BTW).
Sorry Thomas, I am a D.C-area native and surrounded by IT security people like the type I wrongfully characterized you as.

FWIW, I thought I was doing you a favor answering on your behalf, so you don't have to.
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Download Powerpoint maps
Right now we have around 20 PowerPoint Maps covering all major regions and continents. All maps are ungrouped so you can emphasize a certain state or Right now we have around 20 PowerPoint Maps covering all major regions and continents. All maps are ungrouped so you can emphasize a certain state or region on the map. All maps include a slide-set optimized for PowerPoint 2003 (or 2004 for mac) and one for PowerPoint 2007 (or 2008 for mac).
If anybody is upto it I think there is a huge market for these board games implemented for touch screen phones (because of the big screen).

PS: Why do I get the feeling that such a thing has been done on Apple App store
Honestly.

You forgot about the elephants.

http://infomavensdesktop.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/discwor...
He could have been trying to make conversation, and you shot him down.
I would use this to replace MySQL or PostgreSQL and I would use it over MongoDB or Cassandra because it is high-quality software, built on top of Erlang (highly concurrent and fault tolerant language, great foundation to start with), and implements really great features.
Why newspapers? News sites are far more efficient and environmentally friendly.
Hunter-gatherers would be running around, tracking prey in the distance. Maybe the brain is wired to handle that well.
I wonder how much of pre-internet newspaper readership was really attributable to people just using the newspaper as a convenient source for mundane information: stock quotes, sports scores, weather, traffic, movie times, etc.

If newspapers do still provide the highest-quality journalism, despite no longer being the most convenient sources of mundane information, but the end result is that newspapers can no longer sustain their business model, then the value of journalism may be grossly inflated.

If few people actually want newspapers, it's not a significant problem if they go away.
Totally, I lost 50+ points once on a bad comment. Weak. Show mercy hacker news police!
I'm extremely excited about "case". It's the one thing I missed the most from Haskell & Scala.
Speaking of Square. I signed up 2 months ago and still haven't gotten my swipe device. Anyone else waiting?
But they are not to be taken away from the team during a sprint! There is absolutely no recommendation to change the teams between sprints for the sake of changing either.

The interchangeable part (although I have never heard it called that) is more that knowledge should be spread, so you don't end up with domain experts that end up "owning" part of the code.
Security analysis of Posterous
Wow, misleading title. CouchDB has been used in production by many users for a long time.

1.0 is not a magic number for versions.
Exactly what occured to me in this context.
I've been thinking about an ergonomic sit/stand desk for a long time. A friend of mine, a teacher, has bought one and praised it immensely.

Have a look at these products
http://www.leuwico.com/web_e/products/office_furniture/ergod...

The height can be adjusted either manually (hydraulic system) or with a motor. It works better than it sounds. You can adjust the height even with a loaded desk easily.

The only question is: Would I remember to change my posture regularly?
interesting, I actually like it. The syntax took some getting used to but I find with functional languages I think more and write a lot less and spend a lot less time debugging.

I found Armstrong's book useful also, as well as the tutorial at erlang.org

When you consider all that's in CouchDB, the smallness of the code base is impressive. I think that's a direct consequence of the choice of Erlang.
I also thought this before I made the first few million. Except it’s almost impossible to keep the exact same lifestyle you had before ( if it was an 'overnight' FU event like the sale of a large asset ) as you have a lot of new possibilities that you never really payed attention to. It is easy to double, and even triple, your monthly expenditures and still be /very/ conservative with your money. A lot of these new expenses will come from traveling more, socializing more, helping friends and family out ( trust me, not matter how hard you try it will happen more than once ) and this is not even taking into account you starting new projects or testing new ideas that will certainly burn through some cash.
$40,000 grant from the Chilean Government for your startup
Slightly ironic since Poly9 was fairly Flash heavy (not all but many of their maps were Flash - they developed several geo related API's too).
This is pretty impressive - especially the part where it highlights which nodes are currently being played when you are on the phone testing the application out.
Probably. ;) The whole point of making these things is because they are fun to show off and potentially useful to other people.

No sense in building something useful and not telling people about it.
Nicely designed site, and the ability to modify the file structure is a very nice touch. Thanks.

Just thought of a question: how does the app deal if you resend an item of the same name, but with internal changes? Does it reject the upload? Put it copy the new over the old? Rename? (I'm going to test myself, but I'm also curious what you think it should do.) I know that Dropbox can support changes, but I'm not sure how much of the API is available to developers.

Final update: revised files are handled perfectly (i.e., the item is updated with the same name and versions are available through Dropbox itself). Lovely.
They're delayed: https://squareup.com/letters/the-home-stretch

Also, I thought you misspelled "Swype" at first. Man, that keyboard has invaded my brain and I can't even use it with my new iPhone!
Opinion Engine reminded me of Bing calling itself a decision engine.
Khoi Vinh is leaving the NY Times
I think lots of people are waiting and they have come up with a few versions of them. They have been silent for a while but rumors are that they are working on something awesome.
If it has come out before HDMI and DP, it would indeed have been a great idea.
Can anyone explain to me why people think he's egocentric? As far as I can see he just wants to share things with a technical community rather than with a bunch of teenage beggars. If he was so egoistic he wouldn't be closing down everything that gives him attention, no?
This is well worth reading for any developer once you get past the first page or so. At first the complaints about existing software seem overblown because it's not obvious where the shortcomings are, but once you get into it it's an interesting study in how multiple small flaws can be seriously aggravating to the trained eye...and the dangers of unthinking abstraction that works fine in simple cases but falls apart when applied to more complex problems.
Big, Expensive, VC Backed, Unprofitable and Proud
http://wanttt.com/posts/topic/startups
Your Mobile Phone Becomes A Robot With Cellbots
Non-iOS4 Mobile Safari doesn't like Google WebFonts. http://code.google.com/webfonts
I think it is pretty cool that http://couch.io/ is a website served directly by CouchDB.

Server: CouchDB/0.12.0ab71f475-git (Erlang OTP/R13B)
What is it about improving health that brings out the most ridiculous concepts in fitness tool designs? This was advertised next to the article: http://i.imgur.com/PXsxO.png

What makes people want to spend money on tools like this when the greatest fitness tool is the human body itself?
> I have always thought that a hack is making something unexpected out of things that aren't supposed to be used this way

Ideally that'd be the type of thing that people present at this group, though I'm fairly certain that not everyone will present these types of innovations. That's OK by me. I just want to develop a platform for people to get help offline with their projects, which may encourage "hacking" as you discuss. It's an experiment to see what happens. Zed Shaw's Freehacker's Union failed, I think, because he put this sort of restriction on it. "YOU HAVE TO PRESENT SOMETHING AND IT HAS TO BE COOL AND HAVE VALUE OR YOU CAN'T COME BACK" is not a language we'll speak here.
I hope someone creates mongodb account and responds to your comment. Nothing better to follow than hot, fierce war between databases. Keep'em coming! May the best prevail!
Nice job, I guess plans and getting into the Heroku alpha program nets you more upvotes on HN. (than http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456431)

The game is afoot!
Follow up on the Toyota "Acceleration" problem.
Joined. I will allow myself to re-plug my networking event next Thursday in case some NYC HN'ers missed it:
http://sunsandandstartups.eventbrite.com/
Patching with "git format-patch" and "git am"
You're obviously being a bit dramatic here - there is a difference between covering the basics of these JS browser APIs such as how to do simple things like fetch location with navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition, compared to writing a back-end server to integrate with WebSockets..
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Great job but the site does a terrible job in telling a new visitor what exactly CouchDB does. I'm still not clear what it does - why are they offering a download before actually communicating the benefits.
These are genuinely useful tools for an audience of startup cofounders. When you're bootstrapping or working off your angel funding, every dollar counts. If you can save $200 a month, thanks to these calculators, you've just extended your runway.
So he's... re-doing WolframAlpha's complex and carefully designed language parser? Is that working well for him?
Hm, this is true. Perhaps you could scrape /newcomments and keep track of which stories are getting new comments?

This would hinge on the frequency of all comments to the site and having your scraping interval be less than the difference of the most recent comment and last comment displayed on /newcomments.

I think it'd just be really great to have another view into "Most active discussions".
I think we have different definitions of "production-ready." I find Cassandra to considerably immature having weird bugs that cause it to outright crash and both Cassandra and Mongo have seen issues from many people with data loss. Yes, people are using these systems in production but they're both still young and immature and it is in everyone's best interest to continue to evaluate possible solutions that are coming out.
Indeed. I wouldn't use it unless it was an encrypted file, just because of those security concerns.
Very nice. But--pardon my pedantry--there seems to be some HTML in this "pure CSS" tree menu.
Iterative development works and anything complex that works was built off a series of small things that work. Agile is simply a set of core principles like "satisfy the customer", "welcome changing requirements" and "working software is the true measure of progress". Scrum is simply a framework of team commitment and forces frequent communication (one of the principles). Typically if people complain about agile or scrum it is because they really do not understand that iterative development is and has been done for years and recognizes that requirements are perishable and maintaining them expensive and wasteful. The list goes on and on but if you understand agile as principles and values you would be hard pressed to disagree with any of them. Most managers do not get it though so the better question is "what practices do you use to be agile?" and you'd better damn well hear TDD, XP, BDD, Continuous Integration, etc.
"The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB [...]"

It's amazing how little research went into that first, very bold, statement. There have been quite a few non-relational datastores that have been released before CouchDB. Even if we restrict it to only document stores, we still have MongoDB which was released as 'stable' (1.0) on the 27th of August, 2009.
Thanks for the input.

It is their product and I'll incorporate this info into the pricing factors, thanks.

I have somewhat of a spec but it needs more review before it can be considered a serious set of requirements.

Time-estimate is fine. I'd rather do it for a fixed price -- the company did agree to have a term structure for compensation 15% at start, 15% at first milestone etc.
Multi-node: Concurrent NodeJS HTTP Server
Now if only someone can invent a connector that doesn't have a brittle little tab that is bound to snap off or snag on wires. HDMI and DP connections are far more rugged.
First, it sounds like that wasn't your intention, so sorry for putting you on the spot.

I don't care about Agile Development, proper. I want people to be able to discuss what techniques increase agility (which needs a better word, now) without the Agile people stepping in and derailing everything into being about their personal ideology.

I just think the advocacy tactic of, "You've been unknowingly following my Special Technique all along, and that's responsible for your success...do it right and you'll do even better" should be seen for what it is: taking all of the credit and none of the blame.

And about, "You hate Agile, so you must think waterfall is better"? Don't get me started.
I'd happily pay for this sort of service, but but don't want to deal with the overhead of having to post on odesk and pick someone suitable (plus the hassle if they're not very good at it). It would be good if there was a more specialist online marketplace for this sort of task which reduce those overheads.
Yes, many are running 1.2. This indicates that 1.2 is nearing completion.
The Sims taught me to keep my stats balanced. I'm hungry at the moment, I better eat something!
When people need to know where the "Any" key is, maybe having a suggested port for mouse and keyboard wasn't such a bad idea.