skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. I didn't intend to diss C, and if one were to write Oracle from scratch today, C is (sadly?) still probably the best option given its performance and portability constraints.

What I had in mind was that for anyone who is technically capable of maintaining the core Oracle DB code base, there are more interesting and rewarding things they could be doing instead.
More or less: yes. It's the combination of both removing those excess bytes.

If you transmit 10 static files per page request, and have 256bytes of cookies you're sending 2560 bytes of cookies, or 2KiB per page load. That's on the end user's upload bandwidth too, which is typically dramatically less than their download.

The lessening of the connection limit also allows more entities to load at the same time, the combined effect is a good increase in speed. Two tweaks for the price of 1. =)
Yeah, that's worrisome after their long track record of competent diligence in web dev. "If you hire all A people, he said, they'll also hire A people. But if you hire B people, they'll hire the C people and then it's all over."
I have a script in my ~/bin that does some very inefficient calculations on some numbers from /dev/random. It is called heat.py and used to get run in the winter, when I lived in a less than ideal place with a barely working heater and poor insulation. Definitely made a difference.
I wouldn't call it inappropriate. I don't know that it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity," though.

I found your headline off putting, mostly because it reminded me of something I'd see on reddit now days (hyperbolic "best" and "ever"). You seem to have your reasons for sharing, and I would have liked to have seen at least some of those in the headline. I think a better headline would have made the submission more interesting and relevant to the HN audience.
I do know a lot about the industry. I was an audio engineer and session musician at the time myself. I knew people and had lots of friends in various places. That wasn't the problem.

I said "levaraging the Internet and file sharing." That's an intentionally simplistic description of what I was up to. There was much more to it that I just didn't feel the need to go into to make my point.
I don't know about voting, just a random thought.

One thing I would be interested in though is an aggregating tool that would let me see if more than one of the people I am following have submitted the same item. I might be more inclined to look at/buy something if 40 of my friends have submitted it rather than 1.

Well I figure you will want to demonstrate the service or fill the home page with some kind of content to non-logged in users. If it is nothing but the same product link over and over or affiliate links, there is no way I am going to join it because I figure it is just a spam service.
Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The “Facebook Phone”
I had not heard of them before.
Collusion in Silicon Valley Investing?
Netflix apologizes for using actors to meet press at Canadian launch
thats a great idea, thanks dude
I especially like the "not so boring" Atari 2600 game manual-themed CV. Pitfall 2, Asteroids, Outlaw, and Berzerk screenshots. That takes me back.
"Would it be dishonest to donate their product or offer a discount to a single non-profit ? If not, why would it be dishonest to offer the same deal to 10 non-profits or all non-profits?"

At our discretion, no. Just like you may choose to support a specific charity or cause without supporting all charities or causes, we may choose to put our support behind a specific charity or cause. As I mentioned in post, we've done exactly that.

But to say we should support every single non-profit by offering them a lower price simply because they are a non-profit doesn't make sense to me.
I know that Hector Garcia-Molina pioneered the re-purposing of exotic hardware to be used as a space heater, but really, there are cheaper ways of doing this (and arguably less likely to impact the lifespan of your computer fans in a negative way).

Normally speaking 'orthos' would run at a priority low enough that it would not interfere with other foreground tasks but you can actually set it to be 'bad', and then you would definitely notice.

see: (http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/sorting-out-chess-e... for the space heater usage of very nice machines)
I think we pay over the market median price, but we love our provider, and will pay a premium for consistency; that premium is attached to a business relationship that took time to form.

I'm in the same boat.

If I was better off, I would gladly pay a much better premium than I do.
Can't he hire another cook as a subcontractor and also pay him with an on-demand model?
First party vs. third party
Using a CPU that is under (artificial) load and using slow CPU are extremely different. The responsiveness comes from properly working scheduler, not overpowered CPU.
Because everyone who has sacrificed a chunk of their life to chase a dream has secretly thought these thoughts.
For those who don't get the chickens vs. bulls reference:

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use?... Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"

- Seymour Cray

There are a lot of other great Cray quotes.
...saw a spade for a spade

I haven't seen that one in a while :-)
Engadget has a picture though.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/michael-dell-teases-new-7...
Lovely hack. I'll be trying this out. Reminds me of a mention I saw somewhere about ice cream made with liquid nitrogen. Supposedly much smoother than any other kind.
hi, using it now.
I don't code, I produce sites though. at home I mainly view blogs, read a lot of news, watch videos, listen to music and play games. I used to do all that on a pretty meaty pc, but now I exclusively use the streak.

it's got loads better since getting 2.1. typing on it now, its pretty fast. error correction is good. not quite as fast as a real keyboard, but fast. as fast if not faster than the qwerty on my old Nokia e71 (which I was really happy with). can add a Bluetooth keyboard if needed.

it makes a fine phone, no problems there. fits fine in my pockets and the screen is prefectly big enough for browsing and reading.

any other specific questions let me know.
There are almost as many issues as there are lines of markup.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.shep.ca/cv.html
I'm fine with the title being altered [mod?] if the community feels it link baity. To be honest I probably should have thought a bit more before pressing submit, just went with my heart at the moment.
This seems to be somewhat related to the idea of test marketing an idea with some Adwords and a landing page. In both cases this is a wonderful example of what can be done with the many valuable services that have popped up over the last few years.

This was a very timely article for me. I hadn't heard of Unbounce before so thanks for the tip.
A good glider can easily do dozens of meters while losing only one meter in height(I flew one), so it is impossible to tell from the shaky video. But if he knows those guys and tells the truth, awesome!

It looks beautiful anyway though.
Wow, down-voted for providing some first hand information? Maybe there are some angry drivers reading this.
Qt 4.7 Sports App-Friendly Features
FTC settles privacy violation claims with online data broker
Sustaining, maybe; initiating, never.

If you own one of those X-twin foam planes, try mounting wheels on them. They only take of from tables and such, not form the ground.
Their primary product (the SEO tool) isn't what this article was about. It was about NEW offerings that he wanted to test, how he went about it, and what the results were. IMO it was exactly what was represented in the title.
When the Vent begins, you might confuse this for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don’t problem solve.

This is one of the most important things about conversations I've ever learned. When someone comes to you with a problem, you need to detect if that person wants
1) your help with problem-solving, or
2) commiseration.

#1 tends to be a calm, analytical conversation, while #2 can be emotionally motivated.

When someone is looking for commiseration but you offer problem solving, you might actually add to their frustration by your lack of compassion for their situation.

If they're looking for problem solving but you commiserate, you might actually add to their frustration as they wonder why you're doing so little to help them.

Identification is the first step to being an effective conversation partner.
We are going to have liquid nitrogen ice cream at our office next week or so.
I have been aware of domains like yimg.com (yahoo static content) forever, but it never occurred to me why you'd bother doing this until I saw this article. Thanks.
Considering the way he has guarded his identity (if only he wore masks at conferences) and his zany attitude combined with his sudden disappearance with not so much as a tweet, I tend to suspect anyone with such art as _why
A good point, but from what I have observed, it is common for people to copy Apple blindly. It's curious that they're not doing so here.
PS one small glitch is that you can't seem to set a different color for hyperlinks you've already visited - something of a necessity on sites such as Craigslist.
Some companies actually do have career paths of technical people, and most companies will claim to have them. It's hard to tell from bottom rung exactly what track you may or may not have a few steps up.
I was about to suggest mountain climbers. I use some of the services on summitpost (climbers logs etc). The site has a vast amount of information, but it's backend is garbage. I routinely use google to extract information out of the site.
Human powered planes already exist, using propellers.
It's just a matter of time. Once a tablet-friendly Android version comes out more manufacturers will get on board and you'll likely see huge diversity. Android phones right now range from 2.8" screens in the low end to 4.4" in the high end.

As to why we're seeing 7" tablets right now, I can think of two good reasons:

- it's easier to hack android into a 7" screen versus 10" as 2.2 isn't tablet-friendly.

- Differentiates the product fairly well - compared to the ipad it is lighter and smaller with a higher pixel density.
agreed, although its also worth noting that for the majority of people, paying for the bleeding edge of anything in their computer isn't going to really be tangible or worth the premium they'd pay.
I can't begin to try to understand someone who works in a cube filling out TPS reports however much I try.

Anyway.... I think you'd do well to lighten up and not take everything as a personal insult.

My original point: It's better to hire people who love what they do, rather than do it just for the money.
Ask HN: What's this email about?
I just got sent this. I'm guessing it's spam of some sort. But what purpose does it serve for them to send it?

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Yeah. A lot of punk, folk, and electronic bands are DIYers and that's been around for a long time. Bands like Fugazi are a great example of finding success outside of the mainstream industry.

I have friends who run indie labels and they do pretty good for themselves.

But the kind of success Courtney Love is talking about doesn't happen on a DIY budget. She wants to get a better deal for artists at her level, but I don't see that happening. There's no one for her to negotiate with and that gives the majors a lot of leverage. The kind of fame that artists who want to be on the same level as Courtney dream about costs a lot of money. Majors are the loan sharks who have that kind of money.

Could there be a major label that doesn't give its artists such crappy deals? I like to think so, but it's a hard problem. One I've tried to solve once and failed (ah, youthful ambition)... but one I'd take another stab at if I get the chance.
Would you care to post that? I am going to have some problems in my new place.
in fact it would be a (relatively) simple additional theme style that could co-exist with the existing PHP themes

In the process of adding a templating system to Wordpress you would come across many instances where you'd wish that instead of having to bother with structures like:

<?php
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
...add posts to an array, then assign to template...

The developers had just used an object model that let you do something like:

$smarty->assign('POSTS',Post::getRecent(10));

And then access them in the template like this:

{{foreach from=$POSTS item=post name=posts}}
<h2>{{$post->title|truncate}}</h2>
<p>{{$post->content}}</p>
{{$post->url->permalink}}
{{/foreach}}
There are a couple of things:

1. The servers aren't all application servers. There's load balancers, memcache servers, lossy memcache servers, etc.

2. It's the cloud. It includes large instances, HA-Proxies, memcache servers, etc.
3. There's very high write characteristics for social gaming's data store, but the read is similar to normal web application.

4. He took an aggregate server #, and generalized it over a period of 30 weeks. It's directionally accurate, but I wouldn't take it literally.
I used to be a mechanical engineer for several space shuttle missions. You're missing a critical element. Human space flight is insanely dangerous with today's technology. Astronauts accept this and NASA's engineers accept this. The safety requirements for a shuttle launch are voluminous and arcane - to the point where they restrict the freedom of engineers to solve problems to a significant degree. Most people don't know that spaceflight technology has barely improved since the 60's. The primary reason is safety.

That a shuttle (and it's crew) blows up is regrettable, but when you strap a cargo truck to a giant tank of hydrogen and light it on fire, someone is going to die from time to time. It's not like they don't know what they're getting into.

Figuring out how to keep the crew alive after the shuttle's main tank explodes is just a bad idea. Wouldn't it make more sense to figure out a way to keep the rockets from coming apart in the first place? How many additional failure points would you introduce by creating a failsafe for that unlikely case (of which there are thousands if not millions).

Of course we should learn from failures, but the surest way to kill the space program is force it to be safer. If anything, they need to inject more risk into space flight so that better technologies can gain the ever-elusive "flight heritage". Trust me, astronauts would still line up for a chance to fly even if you doubled the risk of death.
If his prospective employers were looking for coding skill, I'd agree - but he's not a coder.
If RIM did not exist today and someone suggested it, could it get funded?
GE actually writes a lot of software, especially industrial applications. Their software division is bigger than most software-only companies: http://www.ge.com/products_services/software_services.html
US Population by Phone Operating System
When Are the Best Times to Buy?
David Foster Wallace - Kenyon Commencement Address (2005)
Seriously, you think Clarendon is a great "back pocket", "top of my tool drawer" typeface for designers to be using?

If I'm theoretically limited to only 25 typefaces, there should be room for a few slab-serifs, and I don't see why Clarendon couldn't be one of them. It's a classic slab-serif in the same way that Helvetica and Akzidenz are classic sans-serifs. I don't think it's great because Pitchfork and Ruby Tuesday use it, I'm saying that it's more relevant than you suggested. Designers, somehow, ARE using it.

Maybe there is a Clarendon revival. Don't forget that trends are a big part of graphic design, as they are in any design industry. Helvetica, Avant Garde, Clarendon go in and out of style just like tapered jeans, Ray-Bans, and plaid shirts.
This is exactly his point.

You choose causes to support based on some criteria. Others choose causes based on the US Tax definition of 'non-profit'. Given that both are a matter of choice, it is harsh to call a set of criteria different than your own dishonest and unfair.

Or to strike more directly at the heart of the matter: when we behave charitably it is almost always suboptimal. A dollar given to the Gates Foundation is a dollar not given to Habitat for Humanity, and vice versa.

To criticize a system of generosity for being suboptimal is certainly reasonable, but now how most would probably want to spend their time.
The joint mobile operating system: A risible idea
The best quote of all: And then it all went wrong. Mobile utility providers became mobile operators. They decided they knew what their customers wanted. They turned into the electricity company trying to sell us toasters.
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So would I. I use a 4GL development application (Genexus) that takes hours to compile on some days.
Ask HN: I'm trying to find a game posted on here.
It's an iPhone app, if I remember correctly. There's a "runner" and you move right jumping from roof to roof. If you fall into the gap between roofs you die.

What's the name of it?
To be honest, I didn't bother to check. The broken CV page successfully repelled me.
Can Android change the distribution of profit among phone vendors?
I don't mind a little whimsy, but this is the top story?!? People saw it at positions 2-30 and thought, this needs more upvotes and attention?!?

There are a nearly-infinite number of similarly fanciful digressions on the web; they have their place. But this is barely more than the 'cute animal pictures' explicitly discouraged in the HN guidelines.
Oh, I agree 100%. The software industry barely understands software (see also: offshoring), so I simply don't expect a non-software company to even be in the ballpark.

Big companies assume software projects will be failures, and treat their employees accordingly. Then they get what they expect.

(Hire a bunch of good programmers with good management, and you can get amazingly reliable software from a team of two. Hire a bunch of bad programmers, though, and a team of 100 produces something worse than most kids' intro-to-java app. But nobody but the best programmers understand this, and it looks better to the business to pay 10 people each $60,000 a year instead of paying 2 people $200,000 a year. When a big company "gets this", their software becomes a lot better.)
I once saw a level of aggression both hilarious and frightening.

In 2001 I was biking Market Street to downtown SFO. Agro Biker, several hundred feet in front of me, was heading straight through a green light. That didn't stop Stupid SUV from rushing to turn right, nearly causing Agro Biker to t-bone.

In response Agro calmly reached into his messenger bag, pulled out what I can only describe as a smoke grenade, and lobbed it at Stupid SUV's rear window. Direct hit. Shock and awe filled the streets!
Maybe an expletive detector too, then.
Verizon launching competing Android market
Canabalt?
Should there be an app for that?
Fair enough, but Stylebot is user-centric (ie I can quickly improve my browsing experience, rather than leaving the browser to and changing my entire task focus), and it was available 10 seconds after I decided to try it.

Also, the creator presented his idea using simple video and pictures, emphasizing simplicity and accessibility. SiteMesh seems interesting but since I'm not a web pro it also looks like a learning curve that I don't have time for, and it doesn't seem to have been updated in 5 years. Finally, screenshots > schematics.

Perhaps it was just ahead of its time, and is worthy of a re-release.
>Some might say that non-profits do good, while for-profits do business, but I don’t believe that 1. matters, or 2. suggests that for-profits don’t do good.

It's pretty easy to say "non-profits should pay the same as for-profits" when you exclude the entire foundation of the difference.

Non-profits get treated differently to incentivise their work. Instead of working to increase shareholder value, they work for some ulterior goal -- generally a beneficial goal that couldn't be brought around as a side-effect of some profit-making enterprise.

This difference isn't just a "some other difference", it's the crux. It's why they get special tax status while for-profit businesses -- yes, even those that "do good" -- don't. Society wants to encourage the work of non-profits.

Companies should consider offering special pricing to non-profits because it helps to encourage organisations that exist purely to do good, not organisations that are legally mandated to make money and may do good as a side-effect.
a) to see if it bounces (if it doesn't then they can sell it as a valid email address)

b) to test anti-spam trigger words by seeing if you receive it or if it bounces due to spam.
Suppliers say Apple will build first batch of CDMA iPhones in December
Can you get rid of the numbers left of up vote arrow? I don't know what purpose they serve.
Can't right now, as apparently my home internet connection is down. Off the top of my head tho, basically I used python's random module, and got a random int, and a random float, then did a bunch of pow(rfloat, rint) and multiplications in loops and bit shifts and so on. Basically i tried to utilize all the parts of the CPU I could think of, and keep the cpu usage pegged.
IMO, 7" is a better form factor for e-reading (at least for novels, as opposed to magazines or textbooks). Holding an iPad in one hand is possible, but becomes tiresome quickly. I suspect they're intended to compete with Kindle-type devices as much as the iPad, and their size creates also creates a nice differentiation point, up until Apple makes an "iPad Mini" or somesuch.
Whether a person will notice depends very much on how they're using the machine, and where the bottlenecks are.

I'd notice if you swapped out my CPU for a slower one or a faster one, because it's my main bottleneck in SC2. But if I was only browsing the web, I wouldn't notice. I have friends whose main performance hits are coming from hard drive access, from too little RAM (and therefore paging/swapping), from underpowered video cards, from a weak CPU, and from having too many resource-wasting processes running in the background.

So, to expand on the guy's point: you might or might not notice the difference between a faster and slower CPU, because it might or might not be what's holding you back. If you're going to upgrade, make the right upgrade.
fwiw, the firefox extension "stylish" allows per-site css overrides in the same way, although without the fancy inspector.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108/

i've been using this to get rid of the gray on HN for a long time (http://i.imgur.com/uVNzT.png) and also to do some custom ad blocking/content shifting on other sites.
Nokia General Manager Believes N97 Will Beat the iPhone
c) To confuse adaptive spam filters to either allow spam through, or cause it to flag legitimate email.
I like how my snark was taken as valuable evidence.
I completely agree - so much midtier and enterprise software is a complete mess because of these things. People have to be willing to listen to customers, but say no when it serves the greater good. You must kill ruthlessly - but you must have the metrics to know what to kill, and you have to examine those metrics as part of the process.

Feature bloat is especially painful, for the longest time "enterprise" has been synonymous with "a ton of mostly unused features and confusing UI". Don't make your product into something which resembles a pile of tools in the crap-drawer in your kitchen. Say no - kill things, make it clean, organized and usable.

Your users will thank you. On the other hand, the guys who make more money than you every year "consulting" on how to "properly use and setup" you bloated confusing product will hate you.
Divided Minds, Specious Souls