skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering reddit's current bare-bones design, a designer would have a hard time coming up with something eating less bandwidth, lest he removed all colors.
So are there any novels that portray such a "hybrid" dystopia?
You are exactly correct on this. Gradebook software that doesn't have parent access (and cover the associated problems and security issues) and interoperability with other SIS is a solution without a problem. Or perhaps better: a problem with many solutions, including Google spreadsheets.
This presupposes that a standardized test can test anything of value. I've spent the majority of my last 16 years in school, since the 3rd grade or so I've had no problems evaluating the competence of my teachers, and I didn't need a test to do so.
I read a puff piece on this place in Harvard Business Review. It did not have the intended puffing effect.
Wouldn't any novel set in contemporary times be portraying the hybrid dystopia that we all currently inhabit?
That response didnt make much sense to me :(
I had something similar, but we're lucky. If you go to work for a "big company" they'll have their whole dumbed down training program, you'll have to learn to push paper around "their way", etc.
I read a lot of comments mentioning how the author is overqualified for the jobs he's applying to.

But we've gotta consider two things:

1) We're currently in a depression/recession. Jobs are scarce out there.

2) He has a Masters degree in English! Compared to most of us on Hacker News, we don't have experience job hunting with an arts degree.
That software idea is actually a job posted on one of the many freelance job finder boards, scriptlance in this case. There are a few jobs that seem to catch a lot of attention and get re-tweeted by a large number of popular twitter accounts, including @hulufans and @rootzreggae, which don't seem to be ones that should be interested in freelance job offers.
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Actually, Godwin's law states the the probably of comparing your opponent/opposing side to the Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

You need that ad hominem for it to be a Godwin.
You're being intentionally ignorant of the way everyone else uses the term "creating value," which describes work that improves the world around you, not just work that happens to keep you alive.
I've had a lot of success relating to the employer like a frat boy. It's way easier to get hired this way than actually knowing how to do something.
The Scottish writer Iain M. Banks has come up with a rather splendid utopia in his Culture novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture).

As he notes this causes a bit of a problem for a novelist in that a true utopia is actually pretty boring - so imperfections pretty much have to be introduced to give you something to write about.

[NB: I would be more than happy to become a Culture ambassador, if anyone is listening ;-)]
Both arguments might be correct. If you are dealing with a language that makes a strong distinction between the object and the memory layout of that object, you might be better off handling the serialization yourself. But Varnish is in C, and data on disk is mapped to memory then used directly as a struct.

Thus there are no small objects scattered around--- each 'object' is contiguous, and most likely on a single page. Prefetches happen automatically --- in Linux at least, disk caching and the VM are essentially synonymous. The benefit of using the VM directly with mmap() is that you have more control over the details and less overhead.
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It would be nice if he would link to the test page he is using, so that we could see what this looks like on non-windows platforms.
Is that supposed to be a reason? How does being a quote from Idiocracy make it worth posting?
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You're telling me, my expectations absolutely were too high in this case.

However, at this particular company, it was actually the accepted culture to hate your job and hate the company. Seriously, people seemed to compete with each other at how miserable they were. 2-3 years would not have made a difference here.

That aside, assuming it would have gotten better in 2-3 years, is it really worth spending 2-3 years of your early-twenties being miserable, convincing yourself that it's necessary and will get better at a later time? Afterall, that's what everyone at this company had done, except replace 2-3 years with 20-30 years; they were in it for retirement.

Where do you draw the line? I guess that's a personal decision everyone has to figure out for themselves. My line was 8 months.
> hey, 'antirez, what's your take on that? You wrote an ad hoc pager for Redis.

I am very curious about this too. I could see doing that in Java where you don't have ability to advise the VM on how you're going to be accessing memory mapped files (no madvise() or fadvise() available despite NIO support for mmap, thanks Sun!), but asides from portability to non-Linux OSes e.g., ZFS ARC Cache on Solaris doesn't honour madvise()/fadvise() the same way Linux page cache does, what would be the reasons against trusting the VM in C/C++ code where you can explicitly "advise" (Linux treats madvise() as imperative rather than advisory) the VM on your usage?

Redis is a cool product and antirez is a smart guy, so I am sure there must be a reason for this.
These "1975" programming concepts are essentially the same ideas taught in the CS computer architecture course I took (circa 2006). The main focus was on the memory hierarchy of modern computers, which was fine, but there was not much advice about letting virtual memory do its job - the course covered mostly how things work under the hood, but did not give practical programming recommendations. I can see how budding programmers could get the idea that "disks are slow, so I should try to manage when data gets copied to and from RAM" without realizing that the system software is already taking care of it and that attempting to do it manually will generally just make matters worse.

As an aside, I found it really hard to read this article because of the grammar errors. Nearly every paragraph has a run-on sentence, and there's plenty of missing punctuation. The style also seemed more like off-the-cuff rambling (especially the long-winded attempts at humor near the beginning) than carefully-written advice, which almost made me stop reading before getting to the real content. The message is good, though, even obscured by these problems.
Here's a video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34-7VLQ5wE
Bah! It would be nice if it was :)

Thank you for the clarification.
Ask HN: (No) Microsoft based start-ups?
Since I've been a user of HN, I've seen numerous posts and stories about (successful) start-ups.

However, most of those I have seen are based on some open-source, free or otherwise non-MS based languages, technologies and products. For example, there are a lot of web apps running on Ruby, Python or PHP, using cloud services offered by Amazon, Heroku or Google App Engine, using open source databases, and a lot of mobile applications aimed at iPhone/Android (although, it's true, MS has no real mobile edge anymore), etc.

The thing is I don't really hear (or think) of Microsoft when I hear about start-ups. No start-up comes up and says it's using MS SQL Server, or Microsoft Cloud Services...or C#.

What's the deal with this? Is it just me, or is it true? Are there any start-ups that do use Microsoft products or languages? Any example cases?

If this is true, how dangerous would this be in the long term for Microsoft? And what recommendations would there be for people proficient with MS, but who want to begin a start-up.

I'm curious about what you think. Cheers!

TL;DR: I don't hear of any MS based start-ups. Why?
I was looking for it too - I've never seen Safari render anything that badly, and I'm not convinced until I see it in person
Also reminds me of the fantasy game in Ender's game. Of course that thing eventually turned into a universe-spanning uber-being, so maybe it's not such a good idea...
If this story is trying to convince me that it makes sense to dumb down credentials ("at least I was employed") it was not successful. He apparently sent out his resume to roughly every business he saw on the street. Perhaps if he had represented himself better on it, he would have gotten a different job that doesn't suck.
People are treating cancer fairly effectively with antiangiogenic drugs, which restrict the tumors' blood supply.

Tumors generally have a poor blood supply in the first place. A while back I read about some researchers who were using some kind of microbe that attacked cells with poor blood supplies, as a way of attacking tumors.

I had just read about antiangiogenic therapy, which I think was fairly new at the time. So I thought, hey, combine the two! Use the drugs to restrict the tumor's blood supply even more, and then apply the microbe!

So I tracked down the email address of one of the microbe researchers, and sent him my idea, prefaced by saying that I was an amateur and was probably wasting his time.

Unfortunately he did not send back "OMG you just cured cancer!!" But he did send a pleasant response saying that some of the best ideas in science come from people outside the field.
I disagree. An ineffective totalitarian system is not totalitarian. A totalitarian system is only totalitarian insofar as it can effect fear on the part of those subjected to it. If the US government (or any other government) were able to suppress the output of media that criticized it by its intelligence services such that ordinary people would not dare reporting what was happening in their communities, this indeed would be totalitarian. The trend, however, is mostly to ignore problematic areas in favor of ones that make one happy. For instance, focusing on the bright side rather than the dark side of mass immigration with a few selected pieces of anecdotal evidence. One can almost always spot this selective highlighting at the expense of the larger dataset by the departure from math and "feel good" (or, conversely, "shock") stories. Since in general people prefer to feel good about themselves, they are either drawn to news which invalidates other parties (other races, members of other political parties) or to fluffy Hollywood productions (there is immense feel good value in watching things blow up on screen, esp. when the other side is ascribed to be "evil").

That said, I have no doubt that there are many who would wish to see the United States (or other places) become more totalitiarian than in fact they are. The free market system we are in has reduced virtually everything to economic motives, which are good about preserving certain information channels at the expense of others.
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I think we're talking about independent observations. I found it remarkable that Google's papers received 60583-19354=41229 citations between (presumably) 1998 and 2000 but only 19354 between 2000 and 2010. That's a pretty staggering difference, especially as the number is an aggregate, as you say. Based on this observation I theorise that the PageRank papers were hugely influential, but the recent published work has paled in comparison. (i.e. those 19354 will also include later citations of the early papers, inflating the 41229 figure further)
Have read it! Deserves a read. Because it's not by an Anglo-American writer I'd say it gets ignored somewhat. Besides, it's not very famous unless you like dystopian fiction and seek out a lot of it. Also, author's name: Yevgeny Zamyatin is a stonking name.
Google has really embraced this in the web world I think.

They reduce costs by eliminating phone/email support most of the time, which allows them to offer free (ad supported) products on huge scales.

This can be infuriating in the rare case where you hit a true bug and can't reach a real support person. But I think the trade off for them was worth it. It's almost like they are saying "we build stuff for smart people and make them free, if you need a lot of hand holding this might not be the right product for you".

The quality of questions coming through a typical support center is so low, it's tough to find people who've encountered a true bug that needs fixing.
I wonder what the campaign cost to run in comparison to these increased sales.
> Clojure and Haskell might be interesting, but I worry that the non-modifiable memory could bite me in the end

For the record, this is absolutely no problem given the generational GC in the Hotspot JVM; the structural sharing in Clojure's persistent data structures generate a little extra garbage, but it's barely a blip on the radar. Laziness can have more of an impact on memory usage, but it's usually really easy to spot.
note: this interview is from 2007
Republicans outsmarted by pornbots
CA Republicans didn't know they were following X-rated accounts on Twitter until a journalist told them.
"Everyone wants something for nothing."

Is this surprising to you?

Look at many of the discussions about piracy. Many people feel it is their "right" to download and use software that would otherwise cost them money. It doesn't surprise me that people would have this same mindset for other things in their lives.
Specialization can definitely be a negative when you apply for a position where your degree doesn't apply.

As an employer, if you see someone applying for a "billing specialist" (read: fairly unspecialized) job with a masters or PhD, you instantly think: "This person is not going to be satisfied working this job, this person is going to want to get paid too much, etc"
> in Linux at least, disk caching and the VM are essentially synonymous

Ah that could explain it. The people I know seem to be working on fs-level caches that operate at least in part on file granularity, so maybe they assume Linux/FBSD do fs-level stuff as well. They seem to try to do things like deciding whether to cache or not based in part on how big the file being read is, and what its historical usage patterns are.
I also hate debuggers. Tried them, don't like them. They're great for when you don't have the source code and need to reverse engineer something, but for finding bugs, I think they're terrible.

Different people like different things though. It sounds like you're doing a very different kind of development than I do - that whole scary J2EE beans webapp enterprisey stuff.
Well, yeah. That's precisely what I'm doing. :)
I'm with Desjardins. I may have been mislead into believing all banks do this but it may be a Desjardins-only thing:

http://www.desjardins.com/en/particuliers/produits_services/...

Q. Why are fees at the ATM lower than those at the teller counter?
A. Teller services are more expensive because they involve caisse employees, unlike other access methods like ATMs, direct payments or AccèsD.
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I think the prevailing thought is that that $15b valuation for Facebook was always a bit of a red herring. More recent investments put it at around $10b.
Here's an idea: Start a website where you suggest to bloggers a better title for their blog posts.

Seriously, I think the whole blogosphere could better counter one another's hype through your solid, middle of the road editorializing.
It's not about control; the world-controllers are not power-mad dictators, they are the architects of a great society. They decided that happiness was the most important thing to maximize and created a society in which everyone is happy. They, unlike the rulers of Oceania, do not seek power and control for its own sake, they seek it in order to do what must be done for the benefit of society.
Brave New World is not about freedom from control, as it is in 1984, it's about what we value as a society. It questions whether happiness is so worthy a goal and shows us the sacrifices we must make for happiness.
I only enable js on sites I trust, and only when needed.
His command does exactly what he says it does. Your command truncates the file and then writes a newline into it.
He would occasionally mention how some people wanted to give him money for using his name on a book.

As to a "place like that," I'm not sure what you are referring to, but UIUC is one of the top CS schools in the country. I went to school with some of the smartest guys I've ever known, and many of them have gone on to start some of the most well-known companies in the tech industry (PayPal, Yelp, etc). The school is a little overly research focused -- at the expense of its undergraduates -- but I wouldn't trade my time there for anything.
Microsoft isn't free. You need to get licenses for MS SQL, MS Windows Server, etc. As you expand, you have to pay for more licenses.
Ask HN: Where to live in Boston/Cambridge?
Like many HN-ers, I was really impressed by the recent "Guide to where your cofounders should live in the SF Bay":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1510553

Is there anything like that for the Boston area?

My startup (currently based in Providence, RI) is about to go into fund-raising and talent-seeking mode after a summer of prototype development, so I'd love to be in the middle of a strong startup hub. I'd also like to live somewhere reasonably cheap, with necessities within walking/biking distance. Suggestions?
I can see this as a privacy threat, depending on how comprehensive the archive is.

Running for a political office in the next 20 years? Do you know the state of your Facebook profile when this archive was created?
Perhaps its not trendy enough :)!
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Connect.aspx
Mongrel2 is still in early development, but may be relevant to you. There's a chat demo in the source repository.

http://mongrel2.org/home
If you're building a platform, yes, you should at least be testing your point releases against a handful of the most popular applications that run on your platform, because things like this, even if caused by bad decisions in those 3rd party applications, look bad against the platform as a whole.

If this was a big feature release like JDK7, that's one thing, but a bugfix release is completely different.

Edit: Everybody would be grabbing for their pitchforks if Facebook all of a sudden updated their backend and broke FarmVille. It's the same concept.
I think what would be really cool is if you could make this process so incredibly simple that my non-programming customers could actually tell me their ideal workflow in my application (for new and existing features and such).
What about raw text rendering and SVG rendering? I would like to see that as well
I do as well. One thing I am worried about though--the first (cheapest?) plan has 1 user, which seems to defeat the purpose of the app. The attraction here is sharing and comments; it's easier for me to draw 10 flows in my Molskine if I'm not sharing them with anybody.
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Just give them enough time and they'll become the Monsanto of ideas. It'll be great!
Part of the problem is that there is almost no career path for the specialization called "Masters in Humanities." Even with a PhD, the career path is very limited. I've watched my sister-in-law, with a PhD in English and teaching experience, pretty much give up on her career because it is nearly impossible to find a tenure-track position in the humanities.
From the TFA ... All of the text is rendered with the canvas .fillText.

Of course you haven't seen anything that badly since there aren't many HTML5 apps around that render text on canvas. Duh!

Here, you can create your own test page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_text_using_a_canvas
No humor allowed. Got it. Thanks.
For a lot of startups, I would assume that free is better than paid. Even for those willing to pay for Microsoft products, the pricing is confusing:
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/pricing.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/pricing.asp...

I have also found Windows programmers on average to be more expensive than LAMP developers, which is an important concern as you look to build a startup's team.

I'm not so much concerned with vendor lock-in so much as I would be concerned with the support of an open source community. The free resources and tools available for PHP, Python, Ruby, etc., are hard to beat. I'm not sure if the same breadth of resources exist for Windows.
The guy who did it, and a link to the actual torrent file: http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887
That's because #666666 is the color of The Beast.
stackoverflow is a startup based on microsoft tech, jeff atwood has had various posts which I cant seem to find right now, sometimes complaining about the cost of licenses, sometimes giving microsoft props

I avoid the microsoft stack because I believe in the massive advantages open source brings, and because its better (imho).
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Chevy Volt not green enough for California
You haven't been out on the market lately, I suspect. People don't read resumes anymore, so there's no real chance to impress anyone. They scan keywords. If you try to represent yourself well, chances are you won't be keyword-rich enough to get attention.
Except my point is that you can still improve the world around you (create value) even if your work does not do so. In that sense, maintaining your own survival is also a means of creating value. On the other hand, you seem to define "creating value" in excessively narrow terms by accepting whatever preconceived notion you insist it is defined by.
While I think this story is largely fictitious, when someone argues that they're downtrodden and victimized because they sound smart -- in verbal or written form -- they're often missing the forest for the trees.

Unless you're debating esoterica of a specialized domain, the smartest people manage to communicate in a simple, effective manner(1). The person accused of using too many syllables, in contrast, tends to be someone who isn't actually terribly smart at all, and the compensation is a verbal find/replace of commonplace words with a cargo cult collection of "smart" words, because that's what they think smart people do.

When someone says "you're too smart", or "you sound too smart" or "try to dumb yourself down", most of the time they're not really saying that you're too smart. They're saying "can the act."

(1) - The best example of this, I think, was Richard Feynman. He never tried to sell the idea that he was smart -- anyone who needed to know that already knew it -- but instead managed to communicate the most incredible ideas clearly and effectively.
Not having the source available screams rigged test to me.

Edit: If only because I remember what they tried to do with this chart - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/compare/d...
1. It's optional.

"rake environment resque:work" will give you access to the whole rails environment, so you can write normal rails code. But it of course uses a bunch of memory.

If you're doing something quick and dirty and don't need the rails model (sending out a password email or whatever), you can just run "rake resque:work" and avoid the overhead of the whole rails environment.
I'm lazy as fuck. That's why.