skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been waiting for this for a long time. Case in point: Feedlooks.com.

I created the entire app logic in jQuery, which is amazing for rapid app development by the way, and all that missing was an http data server.

Of course I had to build my own interface on the server side to mediate the database transfer. It's really an unnecessary layer.

Glad someone had this idea.
Things I learned from my Node.js experiment
Checkout Johanna Blakley's talk on how the free copy of design in the fashion industry hasn't in any way hampered the creativity coming out of it -

http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...

Apprently copyright law doesn't apply to fashion designs because clothing is considered "utilitarian".
How is that the real problem?

Who said anyone forgot? The article doesn't. It clearly says the author of the content found their work being shared without consent.

The real problem is someone is ripping off someone else's work.

Leaving aside the never ending discussion on piracy, I don't get what your point is.
Could be?... but I suspect its more communities optimising their benchmark programs.

See footnote: Which programming language is fastest? No. Which programming language implementation has the fastest benchmark programs?
It's a bit like buying lottery tickets.
http://github.com/tidg/tyrion

A lightweight systems management tool that uses XMPP for transport and is written in C++.
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I used to use OpenBSD as a personal mail/web server on a freecycled 486, and decided to go with Linux when I upgraded to newer and faster machines. My rationale was that even though I respect OpenBSD’s security philosophy, if anyone pwns my server, they’re not going to go through a hole in the base system; they’re going to go through a hole in the PHP scripts that run my blog. (Where, oh where, is a featureful blog-server framework that doesn’t depend on PHP?)

For dynamic Web-based applications, what advantages do OpenBSD have over Linux?
Open source: A hardy few do all the work
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I'm messing around with a Javascript text editor. Mostly it is to improve my chops with JS. By day, I am a Java developer, and don't get many chances to mess with other things, except during my free time.
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While we're on analogies, I've heard older musicians say that while they've lost speed with age, they've gained taste.
I'm making a mashup of ebay and ustream, in node.js with a chat style ui.
That's just biology evolving your brain in such a way that you are hardwired to discredit Lamarkism lest you start interfering with the great plan.
That's okay though - At least MS is smart enough to make an investment in a nascent technology. I bet everyone is losing money on the cloud, or barely breaking even.

Even Rackspace's Net Income is only 10 million dollars, coming off of 178 million dollars worth of revenue.

New businesses take time to grow.
There is the same situation with the $100 bill. We all have to be able to identify a legit one but I would guess the US treasury would similarly have a problem with Wikipedia posting a "camera ready" image if a $100 bill.

The $100 bill image on Wikipedia is 659px X 289px and is marked "specimen." The FBI logo is 2000x2000
I once heard an Olympic gold medalist say "You can't go from practicing five hours a day to ten, but can you go to five hours and ten minutes?"

Of course there are limits to everything. It's just not very often you are at your limit.
Working on an iPhone/iPad application that uses data from NASA's SDO/SOHO satellites to display hi-res images/movies of the sun based on 'solar events.'

Sadly, no preview available yet, but the app should be out in a few weeks.
I don't want to be right yesterday, so thanks for that link. I agree that the book contains lots of promotion, but it still helped me a lot in understanding the role that nutrition has in our lives. My take home from that book is that eating a lot of processed foods and meat is harmful, and it's better to eat whole foods instead, mostly plants.

Edit: I'm not a vegetarian by the way.
I'm working on a web-based pixel perfect mockup tool called jMockups, which is built on top of HTML5's canvas element. Most web designers use Photoshop to do this right now, but Photoshop makes it much harder than it should be (the UX, lack of common HTML elements, difficult to share, etc).

An early alpha version will be available in a week or two. If you're interested in helping test it, shoot me an email: matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com or leave a comment below.
Great website, very interesting topics. I will definitely check those podcasts out. Thanks.

You sound quite promotional, but that's ok. I trust you HNers ;-)
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There are, I believe, buildings in Vienna where the bullet holes are left unplastered and the cyrillic graffiti left by Soviet soldiers can still be read. At least, there were when I lived there a decade or so ago.

And, of course, there is this

http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0005twp2
Not to wade in to the entire debate, and recognising that your stance probably has some validity (although I regret your method of expression) some of these designs are copyright and published in magazines. they are now being scanned and distributed without the designer's permission.

That doesn't necessarily invalidate your entire argument, but it does seem to be something you haven't addressed.
Someone should profile that and optimise it, think about how much more efficient those machines would all be.
How do you do your development? Do you work on the actual hardware or use an emulator?
"I need polling" => "Here are my options, which one is better?" => "They're good for different things" => "I'll pick the best one for the environment" is a reasonable design process. More so than some decisions that I make! Yes, there's a fixed time budget. But you're suggesting selectively ignoring evidence when designing a program, preferring random guessing and pattern matching to actual numbers. Should he have collected them to begin with? Maybe not, but sometimes you can't help your curiosity on a hobby project :). I understand your concern about this hypothetical production system, but the fact of the matter is that there is no production system right now, and no way to measure how it will handle certain things, but there are benchmark numbers. Better than nothing, I say!
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This poster has a point, why do you downvote instead of answering or disagreeing?

I'm rooting for the underdog (especially when it's a public service like Wikipedia vs the big bad US Government agency), but he's asking for Wikipedia's criteria for selecting the image size for display.

Apparently there are valid reasons, which the FBI will not like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_crit...

"(...) of sufficiently high resolution to allow quality print reproduction. Still images should be a minimum of 1000 pixels in width or height; larger sizes are generally preferred. The size of animated images is judged less strictly, though larger is still preferred."
FWIW, I've written an async webserver which handles a few thousand concurrent users, and does thousands of HTTP reqs/second. I've never seen poll/epoll as a bottleneck, but I'm using Java NIO which really seems to work extremely well (I don't remember how/which it uses, I think epoll).

Maybe Java does some of this cool stuff already so perhaps I'm shielded from the pain of dealing with things directly.

In the past I've written Java NIO code that dealt with around 60,000 concurrent connections pretty well. The time spent doing poll seemed to be completely insignificant. CPU usage was negligible.

It'd be good to see some numbers though - for example:

For average mongrel application, 40% of CPU time is spent in poll / average of 30ms latency is due to poll etc.

But I'm skeptical those numbers are true. That was my point.

If you don't start with those numbers and measurements, optimizations like this, whilst interesting, may end up being of no real use to anyone.
Google "tent cities":

http://www.google.com/search?q=tent%20cities

And the reason you don't see it every day? The criminalization of homelessness:

http://www.google.com/search?q=criminalization%20homelessnes...

The cushion is slightly greater because the lifestyles before this depression were higher than in the Great Depression (e.g. people have tents), there are more laws to protect lessees from landlords, and, of course, many people have credit.

But those are just cushioning. Cushioning slows the fall, it doesn't stop it.

It seems like about 25% of all children live in poverty - and the US' lines for poverty are lower than in many other countries:

http://www.google.com/search?q=US%20percentage%20of%20childr...
how do you get out from under the bus? Do they have exits that dive under the guard rail? I wish the story had a little more useful info.
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The funny thing is that he's either going to pick the wrong solution for the workload or spend a lot of time on creating a hybrid which will work as good as epoll would without augmentation.

Zed is clearly out to change the world and I would very much like him to succeed but he just seems to be missing the obvious here, which is that idle connections are the ones to worry about (because they're very expensive!) so his benchmark at this point in time is useless.
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Simple online selling platform, Hosting Provider www.fusionservers.co.uk - coding the backend stuff, trying to create an app for the iPhone (dont own an iphone) and finding it very tricky.
Companies that require those things do so because they aren't themselves able to spot talent.

Would you want to work for those people?
Ask HN: has anyone published their 23andme data? Would you?
Anyone know of a public repository where people could upload their 23andme data under a liberal license? Anyone shoved their data in gbrowse and made it publicly available? Would you do it?
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This post is actually wrong on many accounts. For example, you'll find that M-Z followed by C-s is followed by immediate disappointment. It also does not save the macro or even do what the vim macro does (going to the beginning of the next line before starting the macro), which would cause it to fail catastrophically. The real sequence (based on this one) is this:

C-x (
M-z "
C-s (
C-b
C-b
C-k
Home
Down
C-x )
C-u 50 C-x e

I did two "C-b"s. I did that as more of a way to get out of the search mode quickly and lead into the next move. The first C-b could be an enter. The second C-b could be a left arrow, saving a keystroke but taking you off the main keyboard; however, I thought it would be nice to hold down the ctrl the whole time and just double-tap the b, so I will be keeping that in mind for keystroke count. Not that this is a problem in emacs... after all, you are having to hold down ctrl or meta throughout most of the process here, so you have to make stretches.

If we count holding down the ctrl and meta keys as characters/keystrokes (and we also need to count the shift key), we have a total of 29 keystrokes.

I would not personally use the C-u combo, though, for numbers. I just held down Meta. That reduces your keystrokes to 28.

And it is 27 if you use enter and left arrow instead of C-b C-b... the fingering is more awkward and arguably slower, but it will work (as opposed to the other NOT working) if you are not in highlight search mode.

I gave all the shortcuts I knew about (not retyping ctrl in silly places, etc), but all those shift keys and finger switches add up.

With vim, you will find that you do a lot less of this song and dance with modifiers.

His improved/correct vim macro, btw, is qqdf"t(Dj0q50@q which has a total count of 18, counting smart use of the shift key. The finger stretches are a lot shorter and the feel more natural. Try both combos as listed (I am using a 28 keystroker for feel), and you should see what I mean.

qqdf"t(Dj0q50@q
C-x ( M-z " C-s ( C-b C-b C-k Home Down C-x ) M-5 M-0 C-x e

In other words, there is additional value over just number of keystrokes.

Note... if 50 was the wrong guess at the number of lines, he does not have to type @q or @0 again to recall the last macro used. He can just type @@. This makes life much easier in an uncertain wall of text.

Edit: Parbo's suggestion of using function keys (which looks like only one macro can be used at a time) brings the emacs count down a little at the expense of flying to the top of your keyboard: -6 keystrokes, leaving us with about 22. Try that for feel as well:

qqdf"t(Dj0q50@q
F3 M-z " C-s ( C-b C-b C-k Home Down F4 M-5 M-0 C-x e
Right now (for the next few years, at least) I just want to make some good, reasonably-steady money while providing value in a job that I enjoy. The specific problems I'd be solving have very little bearing on my thought process right now.

Um, it sounds like you really don't want to work for a startup. And, that's not a bad thing.

Perhaps you've been oversold on the startupian == special forces, genco employee == demoralized grunt attitude that's common on sites like this.

The opportunity to work with smart individuals in a sensible environment is pretty huge.

There is no generic startup, and many startups are far from sensible!

All that said, I'm in week two of my startup, but it's because I have an unbearable, pathological, un-fucking-reasonable need to work for myself.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with steady and sensible, but you're not likely to find it by generically applying to startups.
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Yes, I'm talking about a prime location property. That's why you are putting down $2million with leverage (say $4 million total buy).

Of course there are cyclical downturns, and also upturns. The idea is to get a low risk passive income, not to flip it and make money. Any blue chip property is going to stay blue chip regardless of market conditions, unless the location goes sour. But that's part of your due diligence.
It could actually be quite bad - maintaining a large featureset like this in a fork would probably cause major problems. Fortunately GCC compatibility is listed as one of the official goals of Clang.
Come stay in Europe for a while. You'll see what we (Americans) are missing.

I, for one, love living in a >100-year-old apartment house with 3 ft thick walls and antique wavy glass windows.

On Sunday, we took a little trip to the countryside and roamed around a big castle built in 1100.
"I need a filesystem" => "Here are my options, which one is better?" => "They're good for different things"...

STOP

For most things, it doesn't matter. A filesystem is a filesystem.

You only need to make decisions like that when you properly measure and decide that X may be a bottleneck, or you need features that Y has but X doesn't.
Who cares if there's no new music, or new paintings, or new sculptures. There are plenty out there already.

Who cares if there are no live musicians, we have plenty of recordings. Who cares if there are no sculptors, we have 3D printing machines that can scan existing objects and reproduce them perfectly.
That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't buy stocks.

It is extremely unlikely that you will time the bottom of the market just right. So even if it will continue to get worse for a while, it might still be a good decision to continue buying into the market so that when the bottom does hit, you will have bought some stocks right around that time.

This all depends on your investment horizon, etc. etc.
Now that it has broken up though, it does seem more positive for most of the previous members. Slovenia in particular is flourishing, my father worked there for a couple of years as part of an EU consultancy program to help modernise their economy, and they're now (according to wikipedia) at a GDP pp of 91% of the EU average, equivalent to South Korea or New Zealand.

I don't mean to gloss over that the balkans war was a terrible tragedy and was dreadful, but in the end I think they're going to come out better than they were before.
You need a number of 'points of difference' which varies between jurisdictions in most parts of the world. People can and have paid out significant amounts of money to companies whose designs they've ripped off and not sufficiently altered. Ask someone who actually works in the industry.

I'm most familiar with Australia, so one case: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/19/1026898914955.h... . I understand there's been a few others with Bettina Liano jeans (which are known for a particular cut that fits wide hipped girls).
These seem to be for normal doses, not tiny ones as the article suggests
Rentals are a shit-ton of work, even if you have an agent. If you always had dreams of being a landlord, I suppose this is the retirement for you, but for the rest of us, there's no way in hell this is a good idea.

You will have issues with tenants. You will invest heavily in maintenance, possibly due to your tenants. You will be hogtied by municipal and regional laws that heavily favour the rights of the tenant.

What you inevitably find is that if rent differs greatly from the amount of your mortgage (i.e this is profitable), all the good tenants have bought a house of their own. If it doesn't, you'll basically have a holding property that is gambling all your earnings on the property market. This isn't a very good strategy.
Well, obviously you don't buy an overvalued or speculative property. I'm talking about the dirt and building underneath an established business, like a fast food retailer, or, like I said, a government department.

For all the overvalued properties out there, there are still plenty which have maintained solid value based on solid cashflow from solid leases. As long as the lease is still going, then the value of the property is a function of the cashflow of the lease. The value of the lease is a function of the value of the tenant. If you do your due diligence all these mistakes can be avoided.
Yes, there are a few. The most recent one I saw was in the 5th district, by the Schlossquadrat, on a backstreet. It had a plaque.
Basically, his friends on Wall Street are telling him to not trust his friends on Wall Street when it comes to financial advice.

I'm struggling to determine whether this fits the Liar's Paradox, or not.
More information:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570551

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567658 <- This one has all the comments
clarification : remote as in 'a long time ago'. As you say, the new generation sees black and white images and thinks it happened a long time ago.

I was specifically speaking about families like yours, who have lived through this, my point being it might feel remote to a young person raised on a life of peace and prosperity, but for many people it is very real.
Thank you so much for pointing me into the direction of orange.

One of my long-standing projects is predicting soccer bets.
Lets say 95% of time is in your code, and 5% is in Mongrel2.
Lets say that within Mongrel2, 10% of time is in this poll/epoll stuff.

That's 0.5% of your total time being spent here. So even if it's made twice as fast, your app will only speed up by say 100ms -> 99.75ms

Find the big things that matter and optimize them. Adding extra complexity to small things that don't matter is a recipe for more bugs and more issues.
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I use a task killer as not all apps are that obedient. The gameloft games won't die when running in background. They continue to consume a whole lot of resources.
Ideally we shouldn't need a task killer. Unfortunately, real world has lots of clumsy programmers.
Once upon a time, this site had something of a tradition of saving the "piling on downvotes" for people who were outright rude/aggressive/trolling rather than saying something that was simply wrong.
Sounds very interesting! How do you want to do the OMRing? It will probably take a lot of resources...
They realized that companies have a lot more money to spend than consumers.

Which is essentially the same tactic that Microsoft uses to get high profitability.
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i've installed and used it in a few years ago at a previous organization. it's alot of eye candy and nothing more. very limiting in terms of analytics (you're better off with google's offering). if i recall correctly we dropped it shortly after signing up.

despite it's shortcomings it's kinda fun to watch for awhile if you have significant traffic.
I'm working on a high-performance persistent cache engine.
How not to trust a guy on HN whose nickname is captaincrunch?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper)

:)
So, what was their invaluable advice ?
I'm working on a little social network for developers http://www.superdevs.com I'm not sure in what direction I want to go yet though :(
what language? Sounds useful.
Boxed Ice is probably one of the larger MongoDB production deployments, and no doubt letting the DB handle the data growth will be a good thing for them. If anyone is going to run into issues deploying this, they will.

I have great hopes for Mongo 1.6: the automatic partioning and failover make it a very useful addition to startups' toolkits who need this kind of data storage. It's like having your very own Amazon SimpleDB that's cheaper to build and you control it 100%.

BTW, David gave a good talk about how Boxed Ice uses Mongo recently in London: http://skillsmatter.com/event/cloud-grid/mongouk
I'm sure he had tons of notes from Steve Jobs on the details though.
I wouldn't base your career change on the experience of your friends. You assume that because your friends are cheaper, that they'd have more business. I'd argue the opposite:

1. If you are bottom-end expensive, you get cut quickly. (e.g. $10k speaking engagement)

2. If you are middle-end expensive, you get cut... but not as quickly. (e.g. $20-30k)

3. If you are high-end expensive, you get cut dead last.

My husband and I did very specific, highly sought-after freelance services in the realm of visualization design/JavaScript. We are definitely high-end expensive.

As the economy went into the shitter, we only got more and more work.

Why? Because clients/customers often feel that the low-end and mid-end expensive people don't fully pay for themselves. Those people are basically getting "excess" budget, as opposed to being truly sought after.

Or they are a consolation prize: "Well, we could get Tony Robbins but he's $80k, then again, there's this dude, he's kinda interesting, how do you feel about $10K?"

Once even that $10k may be a stretch, they decide not to hire anyone at all.
Does this work? Don't VCs make you relinquish on that debt?
or they're just self destructive anxious twats
If you believe Dr. Colin Campbell you might want to take a look at these articles:

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/16/the-china-study-my-response...

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/cancer/the-china-study-vs...

They're both very well written and put some serious doubt into the validity of Campbell's conclusions.
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Maybe they should have that one guy make an iPad version of it now.
Median income also tend to be less in Germany than in Nordic states, and welfare safety net less extensive. All adds up to cost of living.