skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh- raise your hand if you've ever worked in development or operations on any enterprise CRUD apps. 90% of the companies I've worked for, from a systems architect and operations point of view, the developers never told us a thing, except when to deploy updates.

I'm sure it is the same from both sides- we usually didn't tell them what type of back-end storage we were putting their database on, and they didn't tell us how hard they were hitting our database. It's pretty much messed up. I would kill for a good DevOps relationship, but most organizations are so dysfunctional that giving out too much information to other departments is considered a bad thing...

Like the developers that put outer joins into production code and then wonder why everything is slow. It takes a DBA to analyze it and say "stop doing that" before the developer tells us what they were trying to do in the first place. It would be nice if more communication happened, but in corporate America, it is not about to happen any time soon.

My thought is that the development department just doesn't want to show the rest of the company how bad of shape the code base actually is in, and the operations team just doesn't want to show the rest of the company how bad of shape the servers, storage, and network is in.
Are you sure? I just made a quick test and it works ok in FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari, IE9 (Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10):

<body style="background:url(image.png)">
<span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Hello world</span>
</body>
I didn't even know that existed...thanks and appreciated!
Isn't that encouraged? From the guidelines:

Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"If all you are getting from work is a paycheck, you are underpaid." -Jim Rohn

Someone once explained to me that capitalism is based on overpaying you for the first few years of your career and underpaying you for the next forty years.
AOT in many instances is less performant than JIT compilation...
So, setting rvm_project_rvmrc=0 will still execute RVM's cd script, but it will skip the part that loads an rvmrc

Not exactly: setting 'rvm_project_rvmrc=0' causes rvm's cd script to immediately bail out. From .rvm/scripts/cd:

if [[ "$rvm_project_rvmrc" -ne 0 ]] ; then

Everything else in the cd script hangs off that if. So by setting the environment variable, that whole branch (which is the whole script) is skipped and rvm won't get in front of cd.
They claim to be using Adwords. But, I think you're right. Just getting a handful of people from Adwords is hardly likely to be conclusive.
Just because I know how to script in Perl, can automate my own patch updates, and store my own server and backup information in a MySQL database using DBI and my own hacked together scripts - that doesn't mean that I'm qualified to hack on your production code.

Hell, I don't even have commit access to the corporate SVN repository, so why would you expect me to be a cowboy and fix bugs on production systems?

I'm happy to help automate deployments, etc, but you stay away from my Perl scripts and I'll stay away from your code, thank you very much.
If Diaspora fails, it will have less to do with the awesomeness of the project, and more to do with the lack of everyone's friends actually using Diaspora.

I figure it will be a huge hit among geeks like us, but then will fall out of usage due to the lack of updates from people that matter, like friends and family.

I use Facebook for staying in touch with the mostly non-technical people in my life who actually use Facebook, and that's what will end up swaying most users (like myself) back towards Facebook in a relatively short period of time.
I think this is nice, especially w/ customizable questions. But let me play devil's advocate and ask: what is PopFeedback going to do for me that KISSmetrics or another couldn't?
Ironically the 40hour week in America came about because it was MORE efficient than working 6day weeks - in fewer hours you got more done with the weekend to rest.

Then somebody forgot this and decided that if 40 was good 48 must be better.
I think it is because most sysadmins didn't study computer science in school, and don't know much about software lifecycle management.

When you have a big complex environment with thousands of servers all running the same code, it makes sense to start treating the hardware itself like software components. All modifications to hardware can be committed to a central SVN repository and pushed out with post-commit scripts. As long as you can script all types of OS patches, firmware updates, etc, using some type of language and an automation tool like Puppet or Cfengine, this can be done.

For a large company like Google or any cloud provider I'm sure it makes sense to start treating your server infrastructure like software components and have the same type of change control, QA, and deployment methodologies wrapped around it.
"University tuition ranges and often includes housing, which is necessary in less urban areas."

Really? I'd think campus housing would be more necessary in urban areas, just to provide subsidized living space in often expensive areas. I go to a rural university, and there are more than enough apartments around--just living by myself, I'm paying less than half for a studio apartment than I would for a bed in a dorm room.
I don't think there is any difference between believing something about "model-entities" and believing something that a theory predicts will be the case. You haven't justified your implied assertion that predictions according to theories are not only different, but more trustworthy, than predictions according to models (theories in computational form).
It's horribly confusing to someone who doesn't understand that it's not being rendered by the browser itself. PDF's (especially when rendered inside the browser) break the browsing experience.

Your browser controls stop working as expected, history gets bent, links don't work as expected. All of a sudden you're now working within an Adobe Reader application or FoxIt Reader (albeit embedded in the browser) without even realizing you're in an entirely different context outside of an HTML page.
I stopped reading as soon as he trotted out the "JVM is slow" line. If you still believe this, you are ignoring reality or arguing from something some guy told you ten years ago.

Yes, you can argue that in some cases, you can get about a 2x speedup with native code, or more by using hardware features not exposed in java (stream processing), but that's not relevant to the argument this guy appears to be making.
GDP is a terrible measure of a population's wealth.

As a famous economist said - "the ideal GDP is a chain-smoking terminal cancer patient going through an expensive divorce whose car is totalled in a 20-car pileup"
I'll believe this when it actually ships. Also, there's a kind of karmic justice to see Intel on the losing side of an instruction set monopoly.
Wow, spending $10k on UX this early seems like an interesting move
Briefs.app
Totally agree, as i am a beginner programmer, i am totally confused which database to use and when, particularly when. I have read up on so many, so many blog posts that contradict each other, i have looked into coudb, cassandra, mysql, neo4j, hbase, persevere and a few more. I have just decided to learn each one well and judge as my knowledge grows, so i have started with mysql and couchdb.
It seems it mostly depends on whether FTL travel turns out to be possible or not. If not, contact between alien inteligences is going to be highly unlikely even in a universe relatively filled with life.

Things are not looking very good at this point...
Altruism can be explained by natural selection
I think cycling the usage of caffeine holds promise.

The body quickly becomes use to caffeine so there's really no sense in ingesting it day after day. But if we could restrict it's usage to a couple of cups every three to four days, we could get the benefits of it maybe while not having to incur the cost of withdrawal symptoms.
Part of that view, at least as I understand it, was driven by a similar view from the theory side, that computational modeling isn't theory in the traditional sense. From a more academic-politics point of view, computational modeling is often a difficult sell in traditional theoretical publication venues as well, which prefer the computation to be minimal and the equations to be hand-worked--- big computational models are seen more as something that belongs to engineering. So the pushback is: fine, it's not theory, but it's still important to science, and it's clearly not experimentation, so it must be a third thing, and we'll start our own publication venues for it.

I do agree more with this article that it's a kind of theory, but I think the people who disagree aren't only computational science people, but also (some) theory people.
Well, we actually made it because we wanted to use KissInsights on our other startup SocialBlaze, but it was too expensive (we're bootstrapped). So we made our own for ourselves and decided to open it up and charge a price we would have paid instead of making it.

Honestly, right now it's just price (and even free surveys are customizable) and the fact that you can setup a follow up action such as asking for an email, asking to follow you on twitter, or like you on facebook. So if the user is already engaged enough to answer the question, he/she is more likely to give you their email or follow you on twitter/facebook. But we have a few other ideas on what to add to make this even more useful and differentiate ourselves better.
As an example of this, look at BankSimple. Josh and Shamir had been working for several months on the business deals and the beginning of the technology stack. They brought Alex on months later, but all three are now considered co-founders. Obviously, your situation could be different, but if the person's coming on as a partner, and not as an employee, then I'd go with "co-founder" for all involved.
I assume I got few upvotes as well, its sad to see HN overtaken by Apple fanboi's.

For those who disliked the comment didn't the POTUS [Obama] himself comment that iPad was a distraction.
It's sad that they didn't just tack onto an existing project like Pinax and add functionality to it to handle the federated system. There was no need to reinvent the wheel, the existing ones just needed a little truing.
Ask HN: Is there a market for Skype plugins/apps?
Hi guys, curious to know if anyone has any experience in making money off Skype apps. Seems like the only practical apps out there are business/productivity related, like call routing or voicemail stuff.

Anyone ever sell anything skype related? Thanks
Most applications won't need the features of an RDBMS that MongoDB & friends don't provide, so whatever definition of "relation" I used, its irrelevant. MongoDB provides enough "relational" algebra for 99% of web apps, without the additional "relational" constraints that a RDBMS forces on you.
What about this one? http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Why are you using UserVoice instead of your own product?
The title made me nervous that this would be run-of-the-mill fanboy garbage. But I trust the author (Alex Martelli), so I read it, and I'm glad I did. It's reasonable and sane.

My two big take-away points:

1) It's very nearly a wash. Ruby and Python are so close together (beneath any superficial differences) that distinguishing is almost an exercise in futility.

2) The key thing about Ruby he doesn't like is its "TOTAL, unbridled "dynamicity", including the ability to "reopen" any existing class, including all built-in ones, and change its behavior at run-time." To M's way of thinking, this makes Ruby less "suited for use in large production
applications" and more suited for "tinkering."

I don't buy the argument myself, but I will admit that when I first started learning about Ruby, everything I read went on and on about how cool it was that you could open everything up and play. But as I read more, I discovered that the community seems pretty heavily tilted against monkey-patching now. (I may be wrong about this, but it's my impression.) I don't think that means Ruby is for tinkering only, but it does suggest that Martelli's concern is legitimate.

He also offers some nice pasta recipes along the way. (So much so, that now I'm hungry.)
Having a UserVoice widget on your site suggests that you don't have confidence in your own product. I recognize they have slightly different purposes, but the general thrust of both is "give us feedback" ... so having their widget feels like it's undermining your offering.
This title is wrong. This is not a CSS3 feature.

Is it too much to ask that everyone stop calling any and every engine-specific CSS extension "CSS3"?
Their entire business model involves displaying PDF content on the internet.

The fact they have to jump through hoops to achieve that, while potentially impressive, is a function of their entire RFB (reason for being... I just coined the term).
You didn't even spell decent right, you wrote descent...
And anyways, I don't want a "descent" laptop, I want one that I actually like using. I have a Dell for work and a Macbook for home. There is absolutely no comparison, Windows ruins the experience and hardware is not the sum of the product. Specs are meaningless, it's how the product actually performs.
We're using UserVoice to vote up feature requests. But are using our own product on our other startup SocialBlaze.
So, took some UI classes, ate some bagels, gave some talks, met some interesting people, off to Burning Man. All wonderful things but none of them actually say or show much about what they have got implemented and working.
I guess the difference is that in one case they have to explicitly allow you in -- by issuing the visa. And in the other case, they have to explicitly not let you in (presumably by stopping you at the airport before boarding?).
Q objects are a way to represent complex SQL in a progressive fashion that would be unwieldy or impossible with the standard Django ORM chaining technique.

It really doesn't address your use case.
Hmm interesting perspective. We were using it for feature voting, but you might be right. It might have that perception.
That's almost what Google Docs PDF viewer does. Each page is a JPG. This is served to the user with a catalogue of text layout then JavaScript is used to simulate selection and copying.
I disagree. I think round rects have more edge cases than ovals (such as a 10 pixels high rectangle with corner radii of 8 pixels)

It could also be that he thought it would be too hard because he knew he only had 42 bytes of ROM space to play with.
That, IMO, is one of the best things they could spend the money on. This project is going to suffer from being a technologists dream toy. By bringing in outside help to focus on who the end-user is, they have a hope of overcoming this and making it usable for mortals.

UX should be the first dollars spent on a consumer product, not the last.
I'm actually working on something to address what I think are the major weaknesses of fantasy football as it's currently played. In the process of setting up a good scraper with an API. E-mail me if interested.
> Well, from looking at it, it's actually very predictable.

Yes, that's it of course! you have single handedly out proven hundreds of man years of scientific study from watching a 5min video!
Ok, how can you disprove EMH without a profitable strategy? I'm aware of a few mathematical techniques for proving something exists without actually building it (probabilistic methods, baire category theorem), I can't see how any of them would apply.

Also, the statement that "X will go down but I don't know when" isn't really a prediction - it's more of a truism.
Weirdness. They have a section titled "Detecting the font family", where they're supposedly comparing Trebuchet and Courier, but in the example they show Trebuchet and Myriad.
That actually varies as well. Typically one would expect the USC line to always go much faster, and it usually does, but sometime a flight is just full of USC/PR passangers and not many visitors, so you get the opposite effect (happened to me twice).

Also now they fingerprint and photograph permanent residents. So what used to be "Hello!" + 2 questions now is "Hello!" + 5 questions + fingerprinting + photographing.

But, hey we all feel safer, right !?
Damn. I should've hired you as my Adsense consultant. I haven't used Adsense in years and I couldn't find the spot to put in the keywords? I was probably doing it wrong. Too busy fixing all my broken databases.
The key question is what is the benefit of Salesfolio compared to other available solutions that seems to do most of the same. For example, https://www.dropbox.com/ipad
They charge 9.99/mo for 50GB.

Or a Memeo Connect Reader tied to Google Docs (document sharing being done in Google Docs)

This will help identify some pricing models currently in practice.
Suggestion: before adding other features, add the features you really need. Chances are, others need it too.
I don't have any particular use for Scribd but I love them anyway.

Any company that can kick Adobe in the nuts by publicly reconfiguring their business to shun Flash is all right with me. And what technical prowess these guys have. Incredibly smart people there.
Use a little rubbing alcohol. It literally pulls all the dirt/stains off.
Rumor: Social networking coming to iTunes
Not in this case. One of the variations must only draw an outline of the shape, and one must allow inversion of the pixels.
Definitely cool.

If when creating your own multiple choice questions, if you select the "show text box upon selection" checkbox, I think you should be able to define text for a label that appears next to the textbox (that would contain something like "Please explain", or "Tell us more").

Good stuff. Thanks.
Arcimoto
Huh. Didn't realize it was that much. I thought it was only equal to 1-1.5 cups of coffee/day. Thanks for doing the math!
Opinions obviously differ widely on that one. To me it is unacceptable, especially if done in such a sneaky way. Other people seem to be fine with it. If enough people who are fine with it become their customers, why not.

I don't think they announced this big when they rolled out their massive "all other blogs are stupid" campaign...
> Some investors clearly have made returns over the last fifty years at substantially above the market rate.

That doesn't disprove the EMH as seemingly consistent winners and losers are consequences of any random system.

Note that the EMH just says that the market price reflects all public information. It doesn't say that the market price is the correct value wrt every individual.

For example, I may be spending down, perhaps because I have a terminal disease while you're saving for a new car. Those situations mean that the "value" that I'll get from certain purchases is very different from the value that you get for the exact same purchases.
Why don't they use a sans serif font? Sans serif fonts are just more legible and easier to read.
>I blame the whole failure on a drive to systematize data, which SQL databases foster. If you just view health records as a bunch of bits of paper, and just say we want to store them in one place, in a way that is vaguely sequential, the problem is much simpler.

It's simpler, and tremendously less usable.
The sad part is. There is nothing you can say to that. You cannot argue with them. The best you can do is not say anything and take his abuse.
What clients look for in lawyer bios and what lawyers put in them
Excellent point! Thanks for the suggestion, we should have that.
The demise of Google Wave must have been a hard story for them to read.
Dev-Team Blog - Winning moves - no jailbreak for iOS 4.0.2 or 3.2.2
Links and history work as expected (at least in the browsers I know with native PDF support) and I’m not sure why it is bad that some users might not understand that a PDF document is not a HTML page.

I also don’t know how Scribd helps users understand that better. Seems horribly confusing to me if you don’t follow them closely. (Wait what? The PDF is suddenly a webpage? But sometimes Flash? I can still download the PDF? Why doesn’t it look exactly like the webpage? What’s going on?) It’s perfectly usable, even without a deep grasp of the concepts, but so are PDF viewers inside browsers.
I agree, but I don't see as big of a difference between theft and piracy. As a software developer people pirating it sure does feel like theft. It evokes exactly the same kind of feeling as when somebody stole something physical from me. And the actual results for me are the same too: it costs me time and money. Moreover, the grounds for making theft illegal are good-of-society arguments too. Of course there are some differences too.

Positive vs negative rights is just an artificial distinction. It doesn't make a difference to me as a software developer. About as interesting would be classifying things according to the letter they start with (T for theft and P for piracy). You can phrase copyright as a positive or a negative right, it's just a difference in the wording not an actual difference:

"Copyright is the right to stop other people copying your work."

"Copyright is that you're not allowed to copy the work of people who don't want that."

Note how this is exactly the same as with property rights.
Security features? I will bet no give you a large sum of cash if you can show me that a server under a large pps DDOS survives with rp_filter and syncookies on with iptables on and without any crazy tcp modifications. In the real world there are no "specialized DDOS tools" most viruses are simple. EDIT: Why would you use a single server? Why on gods earth would you track tarpitted connections?
"Raison d'être" actually. Damn you France ;]
I understand your point, but despite the fact that the Y chromosome does not carry that much genetic information, it is highly susceptible to genetic drift. A smaller male population passing on its genes would cause a higher amount of genetic drift (a smaller population means that outliers have a larger effect on the genetic makeup the population), which would cause the Y chromosome to change at a faster rate (and it is already much more susceptible to change than the X chromosome).
I cringed when I saw this link, because I was a regular on comp.lang.python at the time. I remember very clearly this discussion and the ensuing flame war. This was when it dawned on me that these types of discussions live forever on the internet. It pays to tone down your rhetoric, especially if you use your real name in the discussion. <sigh>, at least the link was not to the flame war in general.
Looks fantastic, immediately I want to use it on my sites.

I have looked for a live demo on your site but can't see one.

Don't just go for the hip startup crowd. Create a landing page specifically for Travel agents, with questions and examples relevant to that industry. Do they same for real estate agents.
Here is a coupon code for 5 free surveys (w/ 50 responses to each survey): hackernews

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My favorite would be a comment in some generated html (no other comments around it

<!-- this are some comments -->

Later it was "fixed"

<!-- these are some comments -->
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Deltacloud: Is This the Cloud API Standard We've Been Looking For?
World’s Most Advanced Machinery Was Reason For Apple’s Liquidmetal Deal
How ironic – an article about "web scale" and a "503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request." error when I try to open the link :)
(I'm certain that Mongo DB is not the one to blame though)