skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ergo,

First search!
http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/companies/1
Wages are in general lower, and on the whole the spectrum is compressed -- so low-paid jobs tend to be a big higher, but a software developer in Berlin makes about half to a third of what they would in Silicon Valley.

Also, the article is a bit off on some of its numbers -- 6 weeks of vacation aren't required by law, 24 days are (i.e. just under 5 weeks), though 6 is a common perk.

Additionally, at least in the software industry, I've commonly seen people reporting fewer hours than they actually work because by law overtime must be compensated by money or vacation, which is often an annoyance for the employer and employee (i.e. you're working late to get something done, by choice, and your boss is annoyed because now they're supposed to give you vacation time for that), so I got in the habit of always just reporting 40 hours.

In general I'd take this article with a grain of salt; it's not that it's mostly wrong, but it's clearly written in fandom, rather than a quest-for-understanding sort of way.
The real early adopters of Minecraft largely overlapped with the 8-bit/lo-fi enthusiast community, which consists of active forum goes and very connected social gamers. I think a lot of people overlook this when they comment about the graphics of the game; the ones that hold the most credence in gaming are the ones who have a nostalgia further back than anyone.
Doesn't stop people from groaning about Debian's package management. =)

I've always said I know the Linux, Windows, and OSX well enough to hate them all for specific reasons. =) And, I know I'm fairly picky, probably too much. But I'm only that way because I care enough.
Netflix, NBC Universal Deal Brings New Shows To Streaming Service
Better textures and lighting?
Chasing Technical Rainbows
Try going to a University like MIT or CMU. Then you literally can't "take" time. 12-6am you say? Its already taken by your classes, homeworks, and projects...
Because, as the article mentions, the culture of presenteeism.
To be fair about the criticisms, it seemed to me like somebody made a list of things they could possibly do wrong while doing a reddit AMA (in front of a bunch of hardcore tech people) and then went on making those mistakes.

What were they expecting when they decided to do an AMA on Reddit? If their main goal was to make more people try IE9, and stick with it, I think they did a really horrible job.
Interesting post, thanks for sharing!

About the suggested sysctl.conf settings: I think you'd also need to adjust net.core.rmem_max and net.core.wmem_max in order for the net.ipv4.tcp_rmem and net.ipv4.tcp_wmem settings to be effective.

Furthermore it couldn't hurt to increase net.core.netdev_max_backlog, which is the maximum number of packets queued on the input side, when the interface receives packets faster than kernel can process them.
My concern with texting-while-driving laws is how do they get enforced. Do your phone records automatically get handed over to law enforcement if you are in an accident?
Who says that they're going to a hub-and-spoke model? That would hardly make sense. They've acquired a bunch of gates at ATL, which is great for Southwest. That doesn't mean that they're going to "hub" there in the traditional sense.
This post feels like a bit of a tease - I was hoping for details on how airbnb is currently solving these problems today. :)
OAuth Bearer Tokens are a Terrible Idea
Google and Mozilla did several AMAs on reddit too (I am trying to dig them out), they were done by no-bs engineers without PR people and lawyers hanging over their heads.

Edit:

I couldn't find the Mozilla AMA yet (I thought they fixed the reddit search!).

But some Google AMA I could find:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/art8x/iama_google_sear...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cj7im/iama_google_code...

One from MSFTi

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/b142w/i_work_for_micro...
I'm sure it is. However that doesn't mean they don't owe their (apparently paying) users information. From what these folks are writing, nobody seems to have told them the service was going to be unsupported.
HTML5 Simplequiz #1
I want to know why Google wanted to sell to Excite.
The pigs can't hurt it. But there are animals called 'creepers' that could mess it up quite badly. Only if you're close, though.
The problem is that Germans have engineers, and an engineering culture and we don't (anymore). Even Aston Martins aren't made here anymore.
That's why I said, "It's not perfect, but a simple, effective guide". It's a guide, not a fait accompli.

If it fails that test, then it'll fail more thorough tests. Fail and fail early.
Twingly's TechCrunch Disrupt Live Board
I havn't seen this movie, but Hollywood traditionally has had an exceptionally poor record at depicting anything related to computing with any sort of accuracy.

My guess is that a large number of people will assume that this is a completely accurate biography of Zuckerberg, and that PHP coders enjoy a lifestyle of luxury and excess similar to that of a rockstar.
Actually, you do touch it.
Seeing as I know that thread pretty well, I'm not sure I agree with your characterization; for example, the first couple replies from committers raise a valid point about whether it's a necessary feature given what Django already offers. Later replies go into specific questions about use cases, technical issues, etc., and honestly that's the way it should be.

Meanwhile, for all the people who are apparently up in arms about this feature, only one's ever bothered to put a patch on the ticket, and the patch is three years old and has technical problems that I brought up in the email thread. That's not the way to get a feature into Django, as far as I'm concerned.
What type of DSL do you prefer?
I am working on an OLAP database for .net (pure managed code). Write once, slice and dice data many times.

For the record, I do know of many products that do the same thing, but they are inadequate for different reasons. Pure managed code is one thing, price is a huge problem with a lot of them, lack of easy managed programmability, or just plain slow. A b-tree index cannot compete with bitmap index when we talk about intersection and aggregations on millions of records. And yes, I do know about SQL Server Analysis Services, PowerPivot, SPSS, and all the big ones.

But the MDX is not very intuitive, and SQL does not gives me the fine granularity to intermediate results that I need (I mean, yes it can be done, but a price is paid in performance). So I am into creating a more granular DSL.

From .net I am looking into 2 options:
* A .net API. probably some type of fluent interface
* A text DSL that the developer executes against the engine. Maybe a graphic front end on top of it.

If you had to write an application that queries this kind of engine, what would you prefer? To interact with classes and objects, or to write strings that the engine will execute (ala SQL)?

:^)
Many people keep talking about "driving the point home" like the majority of people using IE6 are doing so by choice. Gmail doesn't work, Youtube soon won't work, site after site that people use for personal browsing are limiting IE6 users or shutting them out. Which begs the question why are there still IE6 users. I propose the simple answer - the majority of IE6 are corporate users. Those who have no control over their browser.

I'm not going to be redundant, but I spelled this out further down the page and I think it's been mostly ignored. If you want to cut off corporations using IE6 from getting to your site - go for it. Just be aware and let you clients know this is what they're doing.
I don't think the course is worth the time for anyone. Yes, maybe a freshman could struggle through it, but freshman need to be in a hurry to get to the 'good stuff' and have better things to do.

Students, be warned: I know all the material there much deeper than there and have done applications to military and commercial problems and have published peer-reviewed work in applied math, mathematical statistics, and artificial intelligence, and I don't think that book is worth your time or effort -- you need better material.

The quality level is just too low:

A quality problem in the book is a lack of emphasis on proofs which are the main means we have to get new results we know are correct and know that long before some rack of computers has served one million unique users a day.

The math background in Knuth 'The Art of Computer Programming' is done with much higher quality.

Of course, measure theory, say, from Papa Rudin, is the way to do probability, but it is not done that way often enough in the US: Nearly the only people who take Papa Rudin are pure math grad students, and pure math in the US doesn't much like the applications to probability.

Still, it is quite possible to give a MUCH better treatment of probability with just calculus plus, say, a few theorems about calculus, e.g., about improper integrals and interchange of order of integration, usually not covered in undergrad calculus.

Yes, conditioning is a big deal, should be covered, and is touched on in the book. But more is needed in conditioning. Then the classic limit theorems should be covered -- at least the weak law of large numbers and the central limit theorem.

For computer science, it would be super nice to cover Poisson processes and the renewal theorem since operational networks and server farms are awash in these processes.

There are plenty of good books on probability without measure theory although I am not a fan of Feller I because it is too difficult to see the forest for the trees and too easy for an unguided tour to get lost.
So what are the other problems - the worst ones?
Anyone know what these "strange pavilion-like stands topped with polished reflectors" they mention might be? I'm not finding anything via Googling, as that's pretty vague.

edit: as to the main meat of the post, I'm amazed that this sort of thing isn't checked prior to building a gigantic mirror. To the degree of "can they get sued for this?". It strikes me as near-gross negligence on the part of the people who approved the design.
The approaches stayed pretty much the same:

1. Serve many clients with each thread

2. Serve one client with each server thread

3. Build the server code into the kernel
How do you know it wouldn't be better and more successful if it was a Valve product?
Barry Diller: Ask.com Has No Value Inside Of IAC
Any plans to expand to outside of SF?
An example of Excite's bad business judgment that matches its bad search ranking algorithms of the time.

After edit: not knowing what has motivated the downvotes, I'll note for the record that I was an active researcher on the Web at the time, and right from the beginning it was noticeable that Google returned much better search results than Excite did. Excite had some rules about ranking search results that actively penalized pages with relevant content compiled by page authors who weren't spamming. And despite efforts not to be subject to spamming (Excite was not the worst available choice at the time, and was once one of my top-three search engines), Excite could be fooled by spammers. As soon as Google came on the scene, a lot of serious researchers rapidly abandoned Excite, and Excite certainly suffered from a precipitous drop-off in favorable word of mouth from general consumers once Google was on the scene.
Remember that police officers are still normal citizens, too, with the attendant rights and protections thereto. If you followed me personally around with a camera 24/7, that would be harassment. If you just followed me around 24/7 without a camera, that would be harassment. By "harassment" I don't mean necessarily that exact legal term but I'm sure there's some legal recourse if such a thing happened.

We don't necessarily need lots of "special" rights to film police, we just need them not to have special rights not to be filmed.
Regarding the `net.core` parameters. We do modify those, but my assumption (probably wrong) was that the `net.ipv4` changes would override the core configs. I'll take a look and update the post. Good point about `netdev_max_backlog`, I need to read up on that one too.

Thanks for the feedback!
Amazon opens doors to Seattle techies, gives cloud pitch
Shameless plug, I wrote something to scratch my itch:

http://www.moneygement.com/

As a bonus, it is translated into Spanish, so you should feel right at home.
I agree, people from a local region or at least those originating from that region can always localize a product better than somebody from half way across the world (unless they are really good at soaking up foreign cultures, even there, there are limits)

And this is the reason why, many of the MNCs have, not just business offices but also technical/development offices across the major markets.

Of course, most startup unless they are really innovative and have some inherent advantages, cannot carry out that feat. One very good example that I can think of which has carried out an excellent simultaneous launch across two different markets is Ginzametrics. In my view Ray Grieselhuber having worked in Japan for long must have been a huge factor in his successfully tapping the market there, right from the start.

I have seen the business side of really great HR/PR policies/strategies like encouraging diversity in workforce that is quite common in the big MNCs. That diverse workforce helps a company gain understanding of a global market much better than a homogenous workforce. Also, that diverse workforce can help a company replicate/customize systems in nascent foreign markets much faster.

Hmm...there is something incredibly sexy about a strategy that delivers a double or triple whammy.
Cool. Its a promising tool.

I know from experience that image delivery times are significantly reduced using the get_serving_url method, so it could be a killer feature.

The hard bit will be that the cdn distributed URLs are not guessable, so you would need to communicate the cdn URL back to the app.
The C10k solutions are effectively the same as for C500k, those being epoll (Linux), kqueue (BSD), etc. Our Java NIO server utilizes epoll to handle C500k.
There's a chance? Remember, Google was years away from their breakthroughs in scalability and AdWords. Excite purchasing Google would have simply killed it before it got off the ground. Larry and Sergey just wanted a payday. They would have stuck around for the requisite 2 years or whatever and then bailed to start something else.
I've explained this to my some of my friends before and they are always shocked. Programmers seem to be the only ones who know 'delete' doesn't really mean it is gone forever. Even if Facebook really did a hard-delete on the data, there could still be screenshots, temp files, and caches out in the wild.

I'm glad non-programmers don't realize this though, because then the internet would be really boring and half of these sites wouldn't exist. Having stuff from my past pop up 5, 10, 20 years later could really suck.
When you put it that way it makes sense. It all depends on what he wants right? Does he want the freedom of being able to do whatever he wants WHEN he wants or does he want to do a huge dream product w/ the dream team with all the bells and whistles.
YUI Theater —  Dav Glass: “Using Node.js and YUI 3″ (36 min.)
..so that's why it renders like a hog ;)
If you think the pool needs efficient heating during the day, I suspect you've never been in Vegas. Particularly not during summer.
Peer to Peer Urbanism
That arrow drives me nuts. The formerly used crosshairs icon implies a specific target, and is intuitively associated with a precise location. Arrows, on the other hand, are used for all sorts of things in lots of different contexts, and implies a direction rather than a specific spot.
PlentyOfFish.com Architecture
The number of copies are in Euros, and there are 1.44 US copies per Euro copy, so the number sold is 36000 US copies per day.
There it is my hopes dashing on the rocky shore a few thousand feet off this cliff.

I wonder how much time Mark Persson spends on HN?
Who cares? Google 1999 was not what Google 2010 is. Google 1999 was a slight improvement (yet to be seen) on what Excite had built search engine-wise but not what Excite was portal-wise. Look at their history: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

You can see this occurred before the $25m round of financing which Kleiner Perkins was a part of. So at the time it was a money losing PC-Magazine declared "search engine of choice" operating out of a garage competing in a space with Excite, Yahoo, Altavista, and many others. Google was not a business, really, until October 2000 with the launch of the incredibly successful adwords. Prior to that search was a money losing venture.
Stories like this always annoy me, because they seem to imply that Google had some special intrinsic value at the time that was worth more than $1m. The Google that we've all been using for the last decade did not exist when this went down, and there's a possibility that the Google that Excite turned down really wasn't worth $1m at the time. The fact that it went on to grow (ie change) over the next decade into a $165b company doesn't imply anything about its worth in 1999.

EDIT: Although, I bet that scooping up the founders would have made it worth it, though their willingness to sell for $750k makes me wonder if they were the visionaries then that they appear to be now.
Waxman says net neutrality bill dead, FCC should assert regulatory authority
I'm playing around with the exact same things -- maximum concurrent tcp sockets on Amazon EC2 large instances.

How many did you get running?
The clues are nothing for the American people and rogue finance shop...
I had no idea TurnItIn checked submitted papers against previously submitted papers.

Today begins my quest to get all of my papers removed from TurnItIn.com's database.
According to this table Germany actually has LOWER productivity than the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_Productivity_levels_2...

Or MUCH lower according to this table
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_ove_pro_ppp-economy-ov...
Worlds collide: Apple iPhone app manages mainframe
This is the kind of stuff that made Arrington want to sell to AOL.
I bought it a few weeks ago but only played twice (no time). My first time playing the demo I immediately was struck by several opportunities

1) converting 2D images into 3D minecraft world for artists and lazy people

2) Connecting 26 adjacent worlds to have a fluid adaptive minecraft universe. As users move from one world to the next it pulls in the data from the next set of adjacent worlds (no crossing lag). Folks can host their own worlds and pay for virtual real estate (hosting) or lay claim to a parts of a big cube, Thematically clustered worlds would be fantastic (hell worlds, water worlds, sky citiies, shopping districts, space worlds.. etc).

There's something oddly beautiful about building your own game world.
I guess you need to be careful not to use this on any confidential documents.
How to Create a Shitty Brand by David Brier
We got over 500k/instance:
http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action...
On an EC2 Large we hit 520K.
Apply the same line of thinking to drunk drivers - maybe if they were allowed to drive obviously drunk, they'd go much slower. 5 in a 25 will get you pulled over as it stands, so our drunk drives 30 and figure on blending in - with, which reduced reaction times, causes accidents. So in some cases, perhaps drunk driving laws could be making drunk drivers more dangerous.
Hm. That's an interesting question. No sure, but I do think that web app design can almost tell a story--for example, there's the super elegant TeuxDeux (http://teuxdeux.com/) It doesn't tell a story per se, but the choices of typeface and color and layout definitely speak to a very specific audience in a fairly unique way.
Sorry, but this has nothing to do with CDN.

There was a lot of similar projects back in the day when AppEngine was still new and when people thought that content from AppEngine is served from multiple locations because of how Google load balances/routes their traffic... But this simply isn't true and data is served from single US location.

On top of that, you're using datastore, which adds 30ms+ latency (on a good day) by itself.
These are domain specific examples of what I mean, yes. However, my vision would span the entirety of what you do on the web, suggesting for example that you go to a certain page after visiting a sequence of pages, or click a certain button after performing some sequence of actions.

I guess that's why I'm asking if it's pie in the sky. Is this too hard of a problem to generalize? My gut says it isn't. Thanks for your responses.
I can picture hundreds of data pack-rats writing the exact same shell script, hoping they're not too late :)
I believe AirTran uses a hub and spoke model. It would be very difficult to unwind this from an operational standpoint. ATL is a key airport, but it's quite congested and thus may delay Southwest's turnaround of aircraft.
A Play on Regular Expressions (written as a play)
It's not the language, it's what you do with it.

Everything else is just hot air.
Even if it were "just" $50k/day, that's not far off from how much some programmers make in a year, working for someone else. He's much better off on his own. With that kind of cash, he could pay other people to help him realize his dreams.
Webbynode's take on rapid node.js deployment
Today we released support for node.js application deployment on our Rapp deployment engine.

This engine is installed on your Webby (a VPS server) and then you can publish multiple node.js (along with rails, rack, php, ...) applications using git.

We would like to get feedback from HN and we've recorded a 2 minute screencast that walks you through the process.

Let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Webbynode Dev Team
> And if the subcontractor does crappy work, the client will think you did a crappy job.

If you passed through your subcontractors work without reviewing it, you did do a crappy job.

> I would think that if the subcontractor was good enough not to do bad work, he/she would also not want to do IE6 compatibility work.

That's assuming a lot about other peoples priorities. You'll be surprised how many perfectly qualified people who does not place the same premium on creative freedom you do.

If you find yourself with a lot of well-paid IE6 work, spending some time on elance finding someone good to offload it to and putting him on a handsome retainer could turn out to be a very good investment.
Yeah, not so hot:

> -55 pts: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a comment on Reddit" --Carter

> 43 pts: You are a smug asshole. --EddieLomax
One marketer, one gun, and one engineer is better than having a team of dozens of PR flacks compiling a dossier on an interviewer and debriefing all interviewees: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/03/enough_about_me/
Hi, thanks for posting this! Was just going to post myself to ask for feedback.

Twingly Liveboard is an HTML5 web app aggregating users, mentions, hashtags, links etc in everything posted on Twitter in a combination of search terms.

Far from all of the stats gathered is so far displayed in the app, but I think it's a good start.

The app utilizes Orbited for realtime transport/Comet. The backend is in Python.

The app was made especially with iPad in mind, but text rendering on canvas doesn't seem to work right on iPad so all text is actually absolute-positioned div elements on top of the canvases. The diagrams are made from scratch on <canvas>, no libraries are involved.

It as an awesome experience doing the diagrams from scratch instead of using a lib, I can really recommend this if you have a few extra days to spend. It gives an uncomparable freedom to invent new ways of visualizing the data.

Anyway, if there are any questions I'll be happy to answer them, and feedback is very much appreciated!
The outlook burn was perfect, but you should have added monthly ethics training.