skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just took the first free one that I could find of the Big Five tests. Definitely a different approach, but I'll admit, I was surprised at the results.

On the OCEAN model I scored {80, 64, 27, 22, 84}, which is a bit weird.

Link to the one I took: http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive
No one has mentioned what seems to be one of other most seemingly positive developments of this -- the App Review Board [1]:

"We’ve created the App Review Board to provide you the opportunity to appeal the rejection of an application if you believe that the functionality or technical implementation was misunderstood. You will be able to submit details that the App Review Board will use to determine if the rejection of your app should be reconsidered."

Of course it's unclear if this will actually work, but at least there's a seeming opportunity to make an argument compared to the previous "just resubmit it to the App Store" approach. Hopefully these decisions/adjudications won't be under NDA so we can see if this process actually works.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html
Prgmr, Xen and Gentoo
So I found another post on how great prgmr is, but I'm a big fan of Gentoo. Does anybody have experience installing a Gentoo Xen image on prgmr?

I found a post on hn from a user that has performed this installation, but have had a hard time locating instructions. Any advice?

HN Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005115
What mythical market are you referring to?
... and then the customer called and asked why the graphs on the front page were wrong even though they clearly just edited hugetable.

You explain them that it'll just take a little while to be updated, but the customer didn't like that answer. The data needs to always be current.

Apparently, you need to flush parts of the cache as new data arrives. Unfortunately though, you can't as memcache is a strict key/value store. So you change how you name the cache keys and make them dependent of, say the max(timestamp) of your hugetable.

Load goes back up to 2 because all requests now still have to check the table.

But it's still not as bad.

Until the next phone call...
Zynga CEO: "Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."
What happens if everyone did this? Wouldn't the spot price then always reflect the on-demand price?
Really? 300 workers making $30k/year is less than $10 million.
Does anyone know of a firefox plugin that will allow us to blacklist sites we don't want to see in our google search results?
this is especially significant because the original Motorola Droid received its 2.2 OTA update recently, and that phone accounts for a huge percentage of US Android handsets.
I pay about $18 for hosting from a provider and get 500 gigs of transfer and 60 gigs of storage space. I was hoping this would be a real deal.
"Diminishing returns" also means next to nothing. Technically speaking, it means that the second derivative of output with respect to input is negative, when we care about the first. For example, you exhibit "diminishing returns" for each calorie you eat-- the first 500 is far more important than the second 500-- but this doesn't mean you eat only 500 calories per day.

What actually matters is not whether returns diminish, because this tends to happen right away if inputs are allocated to the most efficient projects, but the point where the marginal value gained is less than the cost of the input.
Lose It or Lose It - Why, How, and How Much
If you keep your offer high enough, you can keep spot instances running 24/7, unless there's no offers at all.
Amazon takes the Kindle offline for sales at Best Buy
Or you could just update the cache when the data changes.
Your reply would fit even better to the person I originally responded to.
Also like the big "No." mid page.

The team seems to be pretty focused on getting to be faster than Chrome/Safari. Great idea to have a simple goal, and a simple answer to whether they have achieved it or not.
"It's not about more taxes, necessarily, it's that everyone should pay their "fair share", not some people pay 50%"

I wish this was the case in the US.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-a...

Nearly 50% of US households didn't pay federal taxes last year. It seems people only complain when the "rich" don't pay their taxes.

I also seriously doubt that the only people not paying taxes in Greece are wealthy.
Are you doing freelance development work for clients? Why? I would have expected you to just focus 100% on BCC and AR.
I've had 2 spot instances up for over 6 months. My bid price for those instances is the on-demand price.
For those non-registered developers, here is a link to a pdf posted by Engadget:

http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/app-store-guide...
$10k per month is peanuts, considering how much money they could make if they knew how to monetize their site. It's pretty clear, from their pathetic advertising strategy and their mis-handling of "Reddit Gold", that they have no idea how to do it. OTOH they don't really have much of an incentive, since they are owned outright by Conde Nast.
They're not mutually exclusive approaches anyway. Alternating between them quickly can be a good way to nibble away at hard problems. And it's not a big deal if you throw away some work in either mode. Think on what takes you there faster, not necessarily with less (wasted) work.
I don't care what company puts their name on the product. $1,400 for a new-in-box 5D Mark II, with the EF 24-105 lens, is all you need to know that it is a scam. You can't even buy a used 5D II body for that price, and for such a high-demand item as this, there is no surplus market.
How I got feedback from 200 people for just $17
My comment was based on the assumption that the OP thought the picture was different on Android. I know there are platforms where you can release without being so dependent on others (e.g. the web).
Apple's change
Yup - you could - this is a fantastic move by Amazon - this is the one thing that's been missing from my experimentation world - Linode is fantastic for the servers I run permanently there - I have no plans to remove them, but the commitment to an instance for a certain period of time is what keeps me from using it to work on deployment scenarious and whatnot. Amazon is fantastic for this (and has differnet constraints, of course)

This just brought AWS down into the realm of competition with the likes of Linode and others, and we can now figure out how to spin up a dozen nodes and work with all the innards of aws without worring about getting accidentally hosed on forgotten instances... works for me.
Cheap, portable personal 3D printer: the UP [video]
I think procrastination is not the problem. It is an effect rather than a cause.
I procrastinate waiting until I feel I can focus on the problem. Removing distractions won't help much. When I feel I can focus, nothing can distract me.

Probably what should be tackled is how to maintain focus, and regain focus quickly.
Looking at their v8 bench speedup: from 0.7 ms to around 0.3 ms we get again 2.3, comparable with the simple loop measurement. But interestingly enough, Google's V8 gets its speed in a very different way, as my mentioned benchmark loop performs much worse in Chrome: 3.9 sec on Chrome 6.0.472, thats 4.4 times slower than ActionScript or Firefox Beta 4.
Reading that essay was a revelation. It provided a name and an explicit description of what I was already doing - albeit in an ad hoc, guilt-ridden manner.

It wasn't until I decided to accept my temperament and make it work for me that I became comfortable with how I get things done.
In the end, it's our fault for electing people that refuse to regulate the cell phone carriers properly. Or, it's our fault for doing business with them. There are some countries where carriers are not allowed to include un-uninstallable apps. But not the US. Why? Because consumers in the US don't care about anything but a low, low price.

Right now, Android is the only popular mobile OS that you can clone from git, build, and install on some piece of hardware. All hardware? Nope. But some? Yes. This means it's basically open. Just because someone sells you a box you're not allowed to open doesn't mean that all boxes are un-openable, after all.

I had no trouble hacking my EVO 4G, deleting the stock OS with HTC and Sprint crapware, and installing a build with 100% open code. While it's not possible to do this with every Android phone ever made, it's not possible to do it with any iOS or Symbian or WebOS device. This makes Android the most open; and after the industry has been closed tight for 20+ years, it is quite refreshing. We haven't achieved perfection yet, but Android is the only software stack bringing us closer.

(Remember commercial UNIXes? Neither do I. Linux and Free/Open/NetBSD relegated them to a very tiny niche market. Android is the beginning of this for mobile; you don't just wake up one day, free of the oppression of closed hardware and proprietary software. It takes time and effort, and Google is leading the way right now. Someone else will build on this in the future, and things will become even more open.)
It's hard to resist the temptation to follow that line of thinking, but given a complete absence of evidence and a very public acknowledgement that they listened to their developers I think that's the prudent option for now.

It certainly looks like they are sincere about it, and if they are not this will hollow out their position in the future quite a bit and they did not have to give any reason at all.

Listening to your developers is not such a bad thing, after all.
Tech. Talk: Global Broadband Capacity Boosted by New UK Fibre Optic Technology
Can you HNers think of a way to separate the teaching aspect of university from the research aspect?

They seem to serve two different customers. Teaching is really for students to educate them and season them up for life. Research is for the government or business and makes the professor and university money.

I think we can all remember a hard core research professor who could not teach a class worth a damn. On the other hand having students proximal to research projects is good for both; students receive early job experience and research projects have access to cheap educated labor.

What business model in the future should universities follow?
Surely they are not really expecting approval?

I can't imagine that Apple would let anything through that weakens the iTunes/iOS death grip on media playing. Especially something as robust as VLC.

It seems to me that software that allows the iPad to stream movies from any brand media server is a game changer.
True, if it's possible.

Let's say that hugetable is some interface table filled by a different system you have no control on. You could add a trigger on the database that shells out to some script to clean the cache, but if the that external tool adds rows one by one, that's really expensive (aside of the fact that this is NOT what triggers were invented for).

Or the data in hugetable depends on a lot of different components in your application. Then it's really hard to always be sure to invalidate the cache correctly and there's sure to be a location where you'll forget.

In addition, invalidating the cache on write works counter to the pattern described in the tutorial that concentrates the caching around retrieval.

Don't get me wrong: I agree with the article. It's just never as easy as these tutorials make it seem.
Even worse is the fact that most of these blog posts just seem to be rehashes of previous blog posts about getting stuff done. Avoid distractions, declutter, pomodoro technique... I don't know how many of these posts I've seen on HN.
In fact, they offer incredibly good financial aid packages to people not even remotely poor (families earning over 100k still get discounts). Thus, very few end up paying the sticker price.

I wouldn't say it's "incredibly good financial aid", especially in light of the nightmarishly high tuitions universities now charge and the fact that an inordinately high percentage of people have to take on nondischargeable debt. It's price discrimination. I'm not saying this is a bad thing; it's arguably for the better that colleges do this, because if they didn't, poor students would have no hope of attending, but price discrimination is still what's happening.

Also, only a token number of low-income students are admitted to the top schools, due to "extracurricular" admissions criteria that are socioeconomic by design. This is why these universities can fearlessly offer need-blind admissions; poor kids rarely pass the extracurricular hurdles.
I've got nothing against your point on using the tools you know, but I can at least see where Apple is coming from with disallowing write once, run everywhere, especially regarding UI (think Java apps on OS X).
I wish he could be more detailed about the problems with HN. There is simply too much Wired magazine and/or Silicon Valley entrepreneur culture & group thinking around here and I think he didn't point it correctly.

Issues routinely bashed and ignored because they don't belong to this culture: anything Microsoft, global warming, market trends in the 3rd world & Europe, etc.

Irrelevant issues overly hyped just because they're loved by Silicon Valley "hipsters": the last time Steve Jobs went to the toilet, the newest irrelevant fad from Silicon Valley (Yelp, wtf?), libertarian-like conspiracy theories...
I believe that the quality of the code you write only shows itself over time. Every other metric we use to measure quality is subservient to one simple truth. How does your code age?

How easy is your code to modify later when you need to add a new feature? I think that's the only measure of good code that I trust. I get a little proud of myself when I need to modify something I've written previously to add a new feature and it's relatively easy. So I look back at how I wrote it then and try to learn from it. The opposite is also true. If I need to modify my code to add something and it is truly painful then I know I did something wrong way back when. The same is true for bugs found. If every bug found requires massive code changes than I did a pretty piss poor job initially. But if most bug fixes only require a couple of lines than I did well.

This makes identifying good and bad practices especially difficult because it requires that you stick around for things to fall apart. This is one of the reasons that commercial software sucks so much and why consultants leave giant messes in their wake. The short-term priorities of business conflict with the long-term reality of determining software quality.

As a developer it's your obligation to learn from your past mistakes and better yourself.
European Parliament Vs. ACTA: Rejection is the only option
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Awesome open-source profiles, Maori
Apple to publish guidelines for app approval
I'm ENTP, as I have been every time I've taken a B&M test (except one time, when I was ENTJ).

E: 44 N: 62 T: 75 P: 44
See http://www.andrewlipson.com/lstest.html for the Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test, a tongue-in-cheek variant that I suspect will appeal to many HN readers. (I'm apparently an ICIE.)
This is brilliant. I love how he shared his milestones, and costings. What do you guys think of the app? Do you think he will get venture or angel?
Google Instant Search - Predictions for 0 to 9
Interestingly, INFP came out on top in a similar poll on StackOverflow. I wonder why? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102702/are-people-with-ce...
He is cash flow positive and didn't rely on anyone else to do it. What is wrong with that? For those that think he is lesser because he didn't do his own coding, what do you think about people that don't do their own graphic design? or their own taxes? Be happy that someone made it, with an idea and a little bit of luck and determination.
I've heard this left-brain right-brain stuff before and I'd like to know where it comes from. Do you have any sources you can link to?
Debugging shared library problems: a real-world example
I get your point about how busy your wife is, but do you not see the irony? Your doctor wife "needs" to buy a lot of clothes? What, to put under her white lab coat where no one will see them?

Nobody "needs" a lot of clothes. The fact that both you and she think she does is just an artifact of internalizing the recreational drug that is acquisition of shiny things. So your wife's movie is that she that she needs to live up to the public image of a well-respected doctor, and my movie used to be that as a female techie, I need conservative, well-made things to tone down the sex appeal in order to be taken seriously at work. Name any profession, it's not hard to come up with plausible reasons to shop whereas in reality, apart from jobs in fashion, there is little correlation between career and clothes... and even there, you have your models' uniform of jeans with a white tanktop and everyone else in black.

As far as online shopping, yes, it's a recreational activity well-known in the e-commerce world. Shopping sites like Saks and Neiman Marcus get huge traffic spikes on weekend nights, i.e. the time of recreation (just google "drunk online shopping"). However they are in the same boat as the physical stores. If they start optimizing for efficiency, they will lose the impulse buyer, a huge chunk of their sales.

All in all, my point was not that 100% of women are recreational shoppers, even though we overwhelmingly are. It was to bring to the OP's attention the reality of their market. I've wasted my time on a startup that was a time sink similar in the sense that it optimized a big ugly inefficiency that our market just didn't want optimized and my post was motivated by empathy rather than negativity. I still don't want to say categorically that there isn't an opportunity here but I think it's important to go in with a clear head so I wanted to put in my 2 cents, especailly since the OP asked for some female perspective.
But people in the US (mostly) pay the taxes that they are supposed to pay, not the taxes they feel like paying. If they don't like that, there is a democratic process they can go through to get them lowered (or raised, or whatever).

> I also seriously doubt that the only people not paying taxes in Greece are wealthy.

If you read the article and the comments, the people who actually pay their taxes are those who work for companies and have them withheld, so pretty much "middle class".

> It seems people only complain when the "rich" don't pay their taxes.

I wonder why ... I'd be pretty bitter if I had to pay, and saw some guy living a life of luxury who isn't paying a dime.

There's a difference between being against taxes, and fighting to eliminate them, and simply cheating because you don't like them.
Search Engine Optimization Marketing
Where to you get the idea that FB isn't profitable ?

2010 at least $1bn in revenue - http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/03/facebook-revenue-2010/

2009 $700m in revenue - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/sources_say_facebook...
developers have some ugly looking profile/portfolio sites. I made Maori for myself and hope it works for you guys too.

drop a link here if you want to be included in the examples.
Notification Progressbar - working android example explained
2.11 Apps that duplicate apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many
of them

I wonder how quality of the current apps vs quality of the new app applies here.
Apple's App Store Review Guidelines
I think the crux lies in the habits you cultivate. If you know how make a habit out of something (if you have the habit of deliberately creating good habits) all the other pieces should fall into place.

As the saying goes: thoughts become actions, actions become habits and the habits define your character.
3 reasons to use MongoDB
A Guided Tour of emacs-git
If it runs on their JavaScript engine outputting to their HTML component, it's fine.
Perhaps a more complete definition of altruism would be this: you are altruistic to the degree that your personal welfare is driven by your observations of the welfare of those around you, and the level of action you take as a result.

This satisfies both the commonplace meaning and the annoying but correct sophomoric objection.

It all adds up to normality.
While reading this, I couldn't help but feel like he wants the "more open" platforms to beat Apple mostly because it means that he (and others) can just leech off the work being done by the OS or hardware vendors so they don't have to bother with everything themselves. It feels lazy.

Apple does everything themselves so they can offer a complete, cohesive, unified package that their customers want. The PC vendors always seem to be looking for an easy way out so they only have to do half as much work. Either they don't want to mess with hardware, or they don't want to mess with software. They want someone else to come and build stuff they can take and bundle rather than digging in and doing what it takes to make a complete product for their customers.
Startup Mixer in Cambridge, MA on Friday 9/10/210
That's obviously a large part of the problem - to claim otherwise would be silly. But the overarching theme of the article is how everyone is out to "get theirs" and screw the next guy. This includes both the unions who got wages and benefits far out of proportion to the value of their work, as well as many people cheating on their taxes. It's a vicious circle, because when you see the next guy cheating and coming out ahead because of it, you are more inclined to cheat yourself, or grab what you can, the consequences for society be damned.

I think this has a perverse effect on markets in general: when you're pretty sure the next guy is out to screw you, rather than just make a fair trade, it erodes faith in markets and capitalism.
I'm running 4 m1.small EBS-backed LAMP servers in all 4 regions. I pay about $1/mo for EBS IO (8-11 million IO requests per instance per month). The servers get a few thousand hits per day. The cost of EBS IO should be minimal in most cases. The benefit of EBS versus the local storage you'll get with Rackspace or Linode is greater durability because it is off instance and AWS automatically duplicates the data. If the VM host system fails (i.e. power supply goes bad), you can bring your instance back online within a very short period of time on another host at the exact state it was at the time of failure.
What I'm getting out of this is that you prefer the term "price discrimination" to "financial aid." The specific choice of words doesn't really matter to me if they're describing the same phenomenon.

> Also, only a token number of low-income students are admitted to the top schools, due to "extracurricular" admissions criteria that are socioeconomic by design. This is why these universities can fearlessly offer need-blind admissions; poor kids rarely pass the extracurricular hurdles.

Since we're talking about top schools, let's focus on Yale. Enough people with some degree of need are passing the "extracurricular hurdles" that 55% of Yalies receive financial aid. Yale spends nearly $100 million annually on financial aid. And this is up from roughly $32 million in 2001. This is not just a "token" expenditure, nor is it a token growth in spending.
Does that get annoying when you browser to sites that detect iPhone for example and give you a "mobile" version of the page? or can you change the user agent back after your first request?
> ssh prod-db
> mysqldump what-i-need > file.sql
> exit
> scp prod-db:file.sql .

You can definitely do better than that with ssh:

ssh prod-db "mysqldump what-i-need" > file.sql

If the dump is large and the network is the bottleneck, you can also do it like this:

ssh prod-db "mysqldump what-i-need | p7zip" | p7zip -d > file.sql

Edit: Noste gave the right oneliner, sorry I didn't notice it at first. Consider mine only as an expansion of his second point.
http://vmkit.llvm.org/ becoming ready? ^_^