skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MapReduce Part II
HAProxy L7 load balancing at 10Gbps
True -- but that way it's just another of ten billion How To blog posts. This way, it's a tight, rapid fire (anaphora ftw) Essay.
Because understanding the notion of suburbia at that level of detail can't possibly be useful or relevant.
This has been posted before, when it first was announced in Jan and mentioned in other posts: http://searchyc.com/dreamit

Since it was announced, I've seen Dreamit up close and personal, and have been encouraged from what I've seen. The principals involved are experienced and intelligent. And there are some promising companies in the first batch.
"And I still think Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. I actually like it more now than I did as a teenager."

lol!

I wore out 3 vinyl versions of it.

Then, I hated it when it was on CD.

Then, it was the first thing that ever went onto my ipod. I've come full circle.

Nothing else brings back more memories for me, good and bad, older and recent.

And nothing is better now for "mellow" hacking.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo
I suspect a black scientist was included not because of powerful groups but because of guilt on the part of teachers who wanted to appear racially-sensitive.

I remember that as a kid, between PBS and the racial sensitivity of my all-white suburban school, I lived in complete terror of doing or saying something that could be seen as racist.
I wouldn't have posted it if I didn't think it was useful and relevant :)

The essay spends a few paragraphs on it, hence its relevance. That is certainly the same level of relevance of some of the other upvoted comments on this thread.

The usefulness is two-fold: 1) I think the essay suggests a very black and white picture of what is suburbia and what is not, yet does not define it at all. I am trying to get to the core of that definition (if there really is one). Pg responded to my question, but didn't make it that much clearer, hence the follow-up questions. And 2) if you believe the essay, you presumably want to avoid suburbia, so it would be useful to know what it is!

The essay suggests that the only reason people move to suburbia is to have kids. I'm totally unsure whether pg or anyone else would say I live in suburbia (I would guess so though), and yet I don't have kids nor moved here to have kids. And I don't think where I live is suffocatingly fake either.

The truth is there are many, many types of different living environments in the US and other countries, and not all places near but not in city limits are unappealing. The questions attempt to start to delineate which parts in particular are being attacked. Is this really an attack on geography or housing style or is it an attack on the average person who lives outside the city?
Oh, I don't know about that. Many of the details seem different -- for instance, instead of the partners trying to advise everybody at once they'll assign you a "guru". They distinguish between "innovators" and "strategists" as two types of people that they want applications from. They are less focused on the "web app" field than YC seems to be.
I can definitely see your points. Having good intentions and trying to teach good values is a good start, but it certainly doesn't imply that what you're teaching is truthful.

My dad was quite opposed to video games, and he even tried to get me to stop playing Quake after the shootings at Columbine (didn't work). Parents can misunderstand the uses and dangers of technology that never existed when they were young. It's easier for them to just dismiss the whole rather than try to understand. I think it's much better to stress the underlying values rather than the superficial rules or my own faulty interpretation of how to apply those values.

You're right that I would not be swayed by people justifying things in terms of the will of Ganesh. In fact, I would not be swayed by mere arguments in terms of the will of any supernatural being. I do not see gullibility as a positive trait of any human being, religious or not. I certainly don't expect to find it here, and that is a very good thing. If I justify my arguments in terms of the will of the god I believe in, then they are weak indeed. I think there is a common ground where we can reason with each other. My defensive comments about the anticipated anti-religious tone here were not appropriate or at least not in tune with the "common ground" feel.
I clearly say I'm talking about their episode "The Giant Pool of Money" which was very clearly a news show, co-produced with NPR News.
One thing not mentioned: if you write funny reviews, Yelp is a much better dating site than actual dating sites.
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BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away
this is pretty sweet. i really wanted this when I tried watching the presentations from the Startup School. i could see this being used in higher ed for distance learning or for recording lectures. more and more schools are focusing on distance learning in the last few years because the technology is finally getting viable.
Ah, missed that. Sorry.
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The "don't fix it until it's broken" is an interesting discussion. From what you've said, customers and developers can have a very different definition of what "broken" means, and the customer's definition trumps the developer's. I don't imagine you'd throw out all the refactoring and "cleaning up" jobs though. There'd have to be some consensus case-by-case on what is really broken and what isn't. Managers can overlook some serious code rot just because the front end seems okay. I'm guilty of being the perfectionist though, and it'd be wise of me to keep my pragmatic hat on more often.

I'm a little wary of code standards. I've found that they can be a bag full of cargo-culted banalities like "never use break statements", "never have more than one return statement", "the tertiary operator is the spawn of the Devil", "if you use a one-liner if-statement you will hang", or "duplicate all of the version control history by hand at the top of every file". I'd feel much more comfortable if I worked in a small team and we all got together and agreed on some important and useful standards rather than have them dictated by a manager who used to code back in the 90s.
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I sympathize as well; this certainly one of my 'faults', too. But there really is value in completing things. Perhaps more importantly, a lot of otherwise bright people can become quite conceited after having 'figured something out'. One of the most valuable things about bringing something to completion is that, on the way, it challenges assumptions.
"Very, you would never hear the dialogue How brilliant was it? Fucking."

He obviously doesn't know my friends. Some would also say "Fuckingly."
is it google's search business that's bigger, or the ad portion?

just how is bigger really defined?

the search business per se, doesn't really generate revenue in the same category as the ad portion.

if we're really talking about the revenue from the ad portion, then you need to consider what might throw a wrench in the advertising model being run by google. i can easily imagine a few that could have serious implications of the cash cow that's the google ad engine..

so just what is meant by "being bigger than microsoft"???

peace
Finally, a use for Twitter: exercise Orwellian oversight on sysadmins.
How is search a natural monopoly? Switching search engines is much easier than switching operating systems. I do it all the time. In fact, every day I type queries into many search boxes besides Google's.
Software's Classic Mistakes--2008
What I like most about Omnisio (besides the Ozzie accents) is that they are tackling structured video. It's a hard problem, but creating a system that turns days worth of static conference footage into a highly navigatible (not a word) site is pretty awesome.

I wanted to mention a similar open-source project whose creator I met at SDSH 24: MetaVid.com. It's built on a semantic version of MediaWiki and structures the hell out of the Congressional video record. It's a pretty cool project.
http://MyHouseResearch.com

I quickly threw this site together for myself because I wanted a way to compare real estate that I was thinking about purchasing. It's nothing earth shattering but I found it useful in helping me organize my research when I was looking to buy a house.

I have some more ideas that will make it more useful - I've just never implemented them because I ended up buying a house! Do you think others would find this site useful?
"Together, these three points seem like the recipe for a genuine news show: intelligent, comprehensive, and entertaining. And yet, I can't think of a single thing that follows them."

Isn't this the concept behind 60 Minutes? Frontline, 20/20, John Stossel, etc. also follow a similar model. These shows are all both high quality and popular.
"JasonNation," haha. Nice.
Maybe the rule should be "don't fix it unless you're capable." Then you could have some guidelines for when someone is capable. Some of that might have to do with skill/experience but even with my own code I don't like to make fixes unless it's related to a feature I'm in the middle of. Otherwise I'm at risk for making subtle functional changes that I don't have any capacity for understanding or predicting.
My 12 year old's school allows swearing, and while it is curiously disturbing to hear a six year old swearing like a sailor while playing a video game, it is interesting to see what happens to the older kids as the novelty wears off. I allow my child to swear, but he respects which words I would rather not hear around the house, and I've never heard him swear when it was inappropriate. So, I teach my son how not to be banned.
Obligatory xkcd comic:
http://xkcd.com/290/
6 Ways Remote Workers Can Prove They're Working
Yeah, mine too. I guess we're on the cutting edge of swearing.
Dreamhost implements Passenger; Rails on shared hosting becomes easy
Vista isn't as usable on such a system as XP was on a system that was less than half as capable. (XP is faster with less than half the memory and one slower processor.) More to the point, Vista is annoyingly slow on such a system, and that's after I managed to turn off the indexer. (Said indexer made the system unusable.)

Until Vista, buying a new computer meant getting noticably something faster. It may not have been as much faster as the underlying hardware change, but it was faster. Vista broke that.
I realized after reading this (and 'Lies We Tell Kids') that we may not want children to use profanity for the same reason that we don't want them to use drugs or have sex: they're more likely to exercise bad judgment in how and when to use it.

The downside consequences are much more limited, of course, but whereas George Carlin will make us laugh while dropping 'fuck,' children are more likely to use the word in ways that make us cringe.
Ask YC: "Staging" for startups?
I was reading about the practice of young chefs routinely taking time off from work to "stage" or work at other restaurants and it occurred to me that would be a wonderful experience as a developer. It would be similar to an internship, except for working developers. It doesn't take long to come up with a list of companies I would gladly volunteer at for a month or two just for the experience.

Does anyone know of such a practice? If not, would it work? Would you do it?
Yeah, I totally agree. When you keep getting off on knowing you could do something instead of actually doing it, the evidence on which you're basing that knowledge starts to get pretty shaky.
If people are really interested in doing this, I'm sure there are some companies on this board that would love volunteers. I know mine would :)
Bookmark to read later.
begin sarcasm. What would be really great is if you added up and down arrows and the ability to comment on things! That'd be innovative to the max! end sarcasm.

I like it. It's super simple and will make my life a little bit easier. Thanks!
They definitely were, once upon a time. 60 Minutes has lost its edge over time; I'd say they never really recovered from the episode with Brown and Williamson (dramatized in the movie "The Insider"). I don't know when 20/20 disintegrated, but when I see it now, I can barely distinguish it from Dateline NBC, which is little more than a new cartoon for children.
Seconded. I use Photoshop Elements though. It is much much cheaper, and I haven't grown past it yet. Certainly not for mock-ups.
Bullet-dodgers versus bullet-swallowers
Strange they haven't heard of antialiasing.

And they're using ASP?

I guess it's pretty clear that whatever advice they are giving you, it's not going to be technical; and that's underscored by their "guru"/speaker list of management types instead of programmers.
Worst type of bug that could possibly exist, and unnoticed by the general public for so long. Incredible. Something like this could trivially be detected with basic prng tests. I'm certain that there are groups that discovered this long ago!
Like any show, 60 minutes has its ups and downs, bad stories and good. But on the whole I still watch it and find it very high quality and well produced.

Other news(y) shows I like (some of the time): Q&A (on C-SPAN), Charlie Rose, Sunday Morning, and Meet the Press.
The problem with this article is that the examples suggested never happen.

Once in a while with dynamic languages you come across a "librarian" who likes to use the arcane language features. Perhaps more often, if you use Java, you will encounter code where a lot of AbstractWhatTheFracktory design pattern abuse is going on. However you will never, ever find the "ascetic" who rewrites the zipcode-padder using lambdas.

Sadly, most of the time you just see the typical egregious dailyWTF mess.
His essay here touches lightly on a pattern I've noticed among people who work in large corporations: they fall into the habit of asking for permission and guidance too often.

It doesn't make any sense to complain about inept suggestions or withheld permission when the problem could have been solved or a critical decision could have been made without blessing from above. Invariably though, if you ask for permission, now you really do need it.

Many of the greatest projects that have ever come out of large corporations happened because the innovators didn't ask or wait for permission (e.g. Unix).
This is a new phenomena that is unfortunately gaining a lot of traction in Silicon Valley. I used to work with guys who know and love your guys and all the other guys who have the blogs and the tweets and the meetups and whatnot.

I actually left my last startup because they hired an engineering manager who was more into test/code ratios and migrating to the latest deployment framework instead of fixing longstanding user complaints. 6 months after I left, the (easy to implement) features our users were complaining about are still not up on the site, and I see job postings looking for a new engineering manager.
I think you should show respect for others' beliefs, at least to the extent of not ridiculing them, except when those beliefs are themselves the topic of conversation. In that case, there's really no way to have the discussion without being willing to disagree.

When talking about lies people tell each other, the beliefs are the topic, whether or not you believe they are lies or truths. If you don't want to have other people weigh your beliefs in such a context, I would suggest not mentioning them during such a discussion. There are beliefs I have which I'm sure most don't share, but which I don't feel the need to defend (anymore) at every opportunity. For example, as an atheist, I wouldn't typically go to a Christian forum and announce that God doesn't exist, unless I were prepared to have my views ridiculed.

Please don't take this as meaning I think you shouldn't discuss your beliefs in this thread, but only that I think you shouldn't try to influence others not to debate you honestly by implying they're being uncivil.
"Life has meaning."
Couldn't they at least anti-alias the graphics on the homepage?
Simon Slade on lessons learned while launching a startup
We are definitely interested too if you want to dive into Lisp. (No prior Lisp knowledge needed)
I would rather have a judge that impartially followed the law and was not swayed by his personal life circumstances or beliefs.
NullFuckingPointerException.
If all you're going for is a stream w/ all the information, it's good.

However, I think 250+ posts listed on any given day has a high tendency to lead to information overload. Part of the value of the sites you listed is the community helps bring the better content to the top without the distraction of the second-rate posts and articles.

It's a great start to the site though and if you're able to offer sorting options or search in the future (by topic, keyword, whatever), it could become a site worth using on a regular basis.
This might work for a developer but definitely not for 'aspiring executives.'
And the alternative: those who've tricked themselves into "not believing," but're still in the same reality tunnel, with the wall furnishings taken down but the same core dogma.
Moore's law, for how long?
how accurate is Moore's law lately?

i sometimes see people dismiss it without backing it up with numbers and generally when it fits their agenda.

the wikipedia-article on the other hand says it will continue for another decade.

will it?

and more important perhaps, when will it be trumped by other forms of computers like memristors ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor ) and quantum computers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer ) ?
how accurate is Moore's law lately?

i sometimes see people dismiss it without backing it up with numbers and generally when it fits their agenda.

the wikipedia-article on the other hand says it will continue for another decade.

will it?

and more important perhaps, when will it be trumped by other forms of computers like memristors ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor ) and quantum computers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer ) ?

(for some reason this wasnt posted with the OP so consider it the OP).
I've watched a few lectures from the authors of DTrace and I've been nothing but impressed. Especially with the Python ad Ruby instrumentation. Being able to instrument ANY OS call with zero off overhead is pretty useful.

It's a shame that (for some reason) it's crippled on OS X and the FreeBSD port is progressing so slowly (my dev and deployment platforms).
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I can not conceive of a more colossal waste of time. In fact, I'd like the brain cells back I lost from writing this comment.
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very important insight:
"most of the rules are just hacks for managing large groups efficiently".

this explains most of the things that conspiracy theorists wail and gnash their teeth about.
you should be able to have your certs reissued with a new CSR.
I don't know, it could be worse, like their partner's Comic Sans logo: http://www.midcoastcapital.com/
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Really? I went to a predominantly white suburbia school, and have plenty of friends who use the term ¨dirty jew¨ as a derogatory comment without second thought. Totally Acceptable.

I don´t know if ya were livin in a utopia, but I imagine racism is higher with people forced to pretend PC.

I still don´t understand why PG is taking his school experiences and painting that brush as what all schools are like, but apparently quite a few here have had the same experiences ...
"...one of the symptoms of bad judgement is believing you have good judgement."

I thought this was a great quote.
http://esposure.com recently launched. It hasn't quite failed, but nobody visits really. It's a place where you can post screencasts/demos of whatever it is you or your Web app does.
A History Of Erlang
pdf link: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/ppxt/HT2007/gen...
I know two of the companies in the first batch, and they're both exciting ideas with smart founders. They differentiate themselves in some ways from the YC model: they're broader in scope, focus less on "hackers", and get an MBA student to work with each team.
Of course you never see people use the y combinator to write a string padding algorithm. But do you ever see people overuse metaprogramming or abuse open classes?

The story was not meant to be taken literally.
First of all, I hope we all understand that "free speech" in its purest sense doesn't really exist. The proof is in "Falsely shouting fire in a theatre." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_thea...)

Point being: Some people do believe that there is a minimum amount of decency required on the nation's airwaves to preserve ethical standards particularly of children whose values are highly malleable. It is justified as not being a violation of free speech with the same idea as that of the schenck ruling, that there indeed are limits to what a person can say without punishment.

Personally I feel people have a right to their belief in something like this, while others feel it infringes on our rights. But again, no matter what society we live in our rights are always limited by boundaries anyway...and boundaries serve a good purpose in shaping the morality of a nation. Morality...is often useful. I'll leave it at that?
The 6 ways are all just restatements of: "communicate with people back in the office."
Shouting fire in a crowded theater is wrong because you don't own the theater, so you are violating the property rights of the theater owner. If you did own the theater and shouted fire anyway, you'd be defrauding your patrons out of a show they paid to see, and you'd be liable if anyone got trampled.

Nowhere is 'free speech' involved here. Free speech is the idea that the government will not use force to prevent or punish you for speaking on your own property or on the property of someone who is willing to have you.

If you break into an auditorium and give a speech with a stolen microphone, your ultimate arrest has nothing to do with the 'limits of free speech.' Likewise, if you use a pen or your mouth in the commission of a legitimate crime (such as fraud, assault, or murder), then free speech is not the issue.
Gee, that's like a third level of aggregation... Is there not a practical limit on the number of effective aggregation levels?
I'm self-employed since 1996 and did and do this from time to time. And I learned a lot of useful things about both the topic and the different business cultures. And got valueable contacts. I do this especially when I enter a (more or less) new discipline for my next big project. Often I feel my knowledge from lifelong ongoing university education (distant teaching) is not enough and I need a kind of an "internship" to know "how they do it".

So my advice is: Be well prepared (know at least the basics so you can get the advanced stuff out of it) and do it only between projects of any kind (development, education, ...) so you're not distracted by parallel duties.
ok, maybe that wasn't clear:

"Somehow, only the owner would have access to the exact coordinates of the computer."

Note to self: Privacy issues should be highlighted in an explicit and unambiguous manner.
Thinking Machines
Why you might soon think you're hearing things
On the topic of code standards. PEP 8.

And more importantly. Every standard is meant to be broken. It's just supposed to make you think about why you're breaking the standard. Cost-benefit and all that jazz.
Does the script have the ability to remove all my typos and those sets of commands I run 50 times in a row trying to debug some stupid mistake?
PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code
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