skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people have run benchmarks that show exactly that - non-paging, in memory working set Varnish clobbers Squid. The difference is even more noticeable when the working set is larger than memory. Most of those benchmarks are micro-benchmarks that can be criticized. To the extent that we have data, Varnish is much faster than Squid. It's not just PHK's reputation.
Gem Sawyer, Modern Day Ruby Warrior
I know; I just threw that out there.

Here's the problem I have with what you're doing. You're going to a Startup conference and asking that someone "sponsor" you. See the mismatch? You're off to learn about starting businesses, but really aren't showing any ambition or entrepreneurial thinking on your own. Someone sponsoring you has no reason to think that it would be a good "investment."

$300 isn't much to make in two weeks. Seriously. Around here you can charge $30/hour easily to scrub toilets/clean houses. I'm sure the rate would be higher in Seattle: just target rich neighborhoods and be polite. I just spent an hour on my riding mower and I'd have paid someone $20 to do the same thing using my equipment and my own gas.
I don't have Facebook, and I don't use OpenId. What now?
PostGIS domain expired
Thought I should let someone know. It appears that their mailing list was on the same domain. . I'm having to use the google cache to get to their documentation. :(
That's interesting, because it seems to me that sales (RM/AM) work is one of the few places where there's a bona fide need for (appropriately narrowed) noncompetes.

How can it possibly be reasonable for a company to invest millions in lead gen and awareness campaigns, double (or even triple) you up with sales support (SE's, PM's, postsales), sponsor conferences, and fund expense accounts, only to have you walk the resulting client list to a direct competitor when you get in a fight over what your yearly number should be?

I don't know you personally, so this obviously has nothing to do with you, but it was my perception that most sales staff worked under noncompete. We're hiring sales right now, so maybe I'll find out otherwise.
Is there a similar site for the US?
What you say isn't wrong here, but it's one-eyed.

Specifically, it's much more true in consumer than B2B. In B2B, biz dev is building partnerships, channels, distribution, obtaining resources you need at prices you can afford, all that good stuff. It's the absolute engine of your business.

If you're writing a B2C app, doesn't matter about the platform, then what biz is there to dev? In a similar sense, you need marketers, not salesmen, because your problem is getting a call-to-action out to your potential market as effectively and efficiently as possible. You can't do that door-to-door at scale.

But if you're doing enterprise software, the converse is true. You need biz dev to shape your proposition, and you need a sales force to go and hammer down doors and melt the copper in the phonelines.

Different problems, different solutions, different solvers, that's all.
Tynt Case Study: Spreading A Brand New Idea To 600,000 Sites – with Derek Ball
Michelson and Billiards
Firefighters watch as home burns to the ground
As someone who has bad wrists from working on shitty desks, I can assure you that it matters. A good desk a fraction of an employee's annual cost. If you can't afford a desk, you can't afford to hire.
If I understood correctly, Google is positioning itself not only to defend Android for themselves, but to further open the Java platform and support Apache Harmony in the process. This sound like great news.
Two questions:

1) Was this 'affiliate marketing' related?

2) Was the offer in question a 'rebill'?
The whole point of MongoDB is that you SHOULDN'T have to worry about a server becoming overloaded! You're giving up a lot for this privilege too, so if that doesn't even work properly then... back to PostgreSQL in my opinion.
But the full document is unintentionally hilarious.

The various invocations of

Google is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations of paragraph _, and therefore denies them.

amused me greatly when I looked at what was denied. Similarly there was a lot of Google denies any remaining allegations of paragraph _. when every claim of that paragraph had been admitted.
I agree with your last point - I won't purchase Groupons for events anymore, as they are miserably packed, and many of the people aren't enjoyable to be around (obviously anecdotal).

Most recently, OMSI (local science museum in Portland) offered half off admission to their adults only evening admission. The place was crawling with trashed people complaining about too much reading and that there needed to be more hands on exhibits.
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Bunch of ninnies.

We all know it's more fun and easier to do stuff ourself, but because all that's bad is good is a moral compass, people decide "not invented here syndrome" is bad.

If it's bad, it must be good, is where these ninnies come from.

"You must set permissions to the least possible required access" and feel really holy for doing it in this strange church.

If you want a break from ninnies, see LoseThos. You can do all those things you're not supposed to. It's for recreational programming.

I can't believe how people get so passionate on these "if it's bad it must be good" trips.

Were you raised on a localvore organic farm? Strange weirdos fall for any "if it's bad it must be good" morality.
Facebook event Skype deal, Facebook email accounts
I doubt wheat is the most energy efficient plant. I'd guess it's actually pretty poor, although it may be one of the best in terms of us eating it.

That said, you tend to lose a ton of efficiency if you grow a plant, cut it down, process it, and then eat it. That plant is doing a lot of things other than making you food. If you are producing your energy straight from the sun, you'd do this a lot better. I'd say you could get away with far less than your estimate.
This posting in the MongoDB mailing list provides more detail from the developers:

http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/th...
Very cool, thank you. =)
congrats on the launch, it's really great for a first effort!

I also hear app engine can tolerate a fairly large amount of traffic before you have to pay, so it seems like a solid choice to start on.
Yes, I completely agree! I had that planned, and just decided to launch this before completing that. It will happen soon.
Don't you guys have any in-house programmers, or did you fire everybody once you launched your business?

I only ask because this seems quite common these days.
Are you sure that was due to an Oracle bug? I heard of one eBay outage while watching a talk on ZFS that was due to misconfigured SAN volumes that overlapped and caused repeated data corruption in the Oracle DB, but wasn't related to any bug in Oracle.
"Really?? It took a simple blog post for someone to go "hmmmm" about over there?"

Of course not. Yelp, like any other large and growing website, is constrained by dev resources. We have to prioritize features, and the more great designers and PMs who work here, the more resources we have to make every page look great.

But as far as hiring goes, it's always a great sign when someone is so passionate about your site that they're writing blog posts about how to improve it.
Remember Google Wave and Buzz?

Yeah, except the verdict on Buzz isn't in yet.
Is it only for exchange server support? Or did they license some of the more general/ridiculous patents?
Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons?
Much more than that. Almost any waking activity >= 1 MET
Wait, people shard on a key other than something approximately random, like an sha1 hash!?
Ask HN: Best Javascript Async Tutorial?
Looking for a good tutorial on getting used to working with callbacks and asynchronous programming in Javascript in general. I've found that my explanations of the topic to others tend to lead to confusion, so keen to see if someone has already put together a tutorial that generally helps developers more used to the synchronous execution models of other languages transition to JS effectively.
That's about my experience, although under a shorter time frame (6 months instead of 4 years).
Good point. I guess I was hoping to avoid violent revolution.
Taman Shud: An unsolved murder. A key clue? An unsolved cipher the victim hid.
Screencast about bubbling text in Vim
One thing that'd be nice would be if Yelp could geolocate the IP address I was coming from (NYC) and autofill in the "Near" textbox with "New York, NY" instead of having me go to /nyc.
Two very good points. I speed like crazy on an open highway when on my motorcycle, but I accelerate very slow and stick to the speed limit when in the city. Too many bicyclists and pedestrians, not to mention intersections. Speeding on an empty and straight freeway has considerably less consequence.

I definitely agree that the worst 20% of drivers create 80% of accidents (made up numbers), which makes most any speed limit conversation null and void.
Make the plunge. I recommend AdRoll (though it's my baby, so I must admit I'm biased). As for second opinion, a large number of YC companies also run retargeting through us.

We provide great ROI bang for buck and charge transparently on a CPM or CPC. You can setup a campaign in under 5 minutes.
Ask HN: Blogs or sites for hardware, cpu design, low level optimization?
Are there any sites/blogs you follow for hardware, cpu design, low level optimization tricks, embedded systems design, compilers etc?
Most of the regex engines in languages (like Perl) allow keeping track of state by using back references. If you're talking about this, then theoretically, they aren't "finite state" machines.
Nope. Yelp is engineering-driven (the CEO sits 15 feet from my desk), and the the team is great. We're hiring like crazy.

If you're reading this, and you're a developer looking for a gig in San Francisco, send me your resume.
I do development in the Salesforce world but I wouldn't call most of what I do implementations. My blog, linked in my profile, has a link to my Linked in profile.
Like r7000, my recent blog post featured on HN had this data for 1680 hits:

Browser - hits - percentage

1. Chrome	- 805 -	47.92%

2. Firefox	- 521 -	31.01%

3. Safari	- 270 -	16.07%

4. IE	- 45 -	2.68%

5. Opera	- 23 -	1.37%

________________

Also of note, here's the OS breakdown:

1. Windows	- 636 -	37.86%

2. Macintosh	- 562 -	33.45%

3. Linux	- 382 -	22.74%
hit the 3D button -- "not supported on Chrome"
I understand the pants thing.
No, I believe that in an early-stage tech startup, each founder should be able to wear more than one hat, and be willing to do tasks they don't enjoy when necessary. The business founder should have some technical knowledge, and the tech founder should have some business knowledge. These aren't prerequisites for success, but they can give you a significant advantage.

Edit: reading your other replies, it doesn't really sound like we're disagreeing.
No, I don't. That's actually my point. If the results changed, it's more likely one of the test results was inaccurate. The MBTI is a hint, not a pronouncement.
Like make your page break ;)
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/gravity/
Ask HN: I need help 'guessing' initial startup cost
I'm only asking for napkin level calculations here, so...

Imagine you're putting together a startup for a new magical product/service. You know you will need experienced 3 engineers (lets say 5 years experience covering web, mobile apps, backend), 1 designer. Add 1 for business dev/marketing/ceo'ish responsibilities. Assume that these people are highly qualified.

Now we need to factor in medical, dental, 401K, office space, admin, laptops/desktops/devices/licenses, server space, business card, legal, expected travel expenses and such... I know there's more I've left out...

Presumably it would need funding for at least 1 year (aim for 3?)? Also assume that the into toon is to launch a service/product within the first 9 to 12 months which marks the beginning of a revenue stream.

Bearing in mind I only need an estimate and I recognize that there are a million things that factor into the true and final cost and I won't hold anyone to this...

How much funding would you need?
Yes, I agree that raw speed would affect those conditions you mentioned, but it's primarily a misjudging the correct speed effect and not a "speeding" effect. (eg. the correct speed was probably under the limit), therefore driving 1-2KM/h slower the rest of the time would have absolutely no effect. This is why most accidents occur under the speed limit, because people are driving under the limit but too fast for the conditions.

What this study advocates is that we should drive a couple km/h slower ALL the time and what I'm saying is that we should drive faster than the limit almost ALL the time, however when conditions are bad we should drive SIGNIFICANTLY slower than the speed limit.

eg. Driving 5 km/h under the speed limit on the interstate on ice won't help you, but driving 5 km/h on ice on the interstate will. Unless you get hit by someone stupidly going 100 km/h on ice, my personal ice speed record is 140km/h in Idaho, but it took me 4 miles to slow down to 20 km/h.

We don't need to reduce our average speed, we need to reduce our speed greatly in very certain circumstances.
"Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD" by Michael Lucas is one of the best technical books I've read:

http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-FreeBSD-Complete-Guide-2nd/dp...
I've been wondering about this for a while, my current idea is to wipe my computer before every trip. I keep a backup on a desktop computer that I access to while away. If this happened while coming back to canada, I'd probably still argue and see what I can do. Not sure if I'd go all the way to letting them take my laptop away for ever. They can't refuse to let you back into the country so.. at least on that point you are safe.
damn. that's a really good point, but i still think it'd fall under the 4th. A password is closer to providing a key to a locked door rather than testimony.

It would be interesting to know if there was ever a hybrid case where there was a password-protected door with a numeric keypad, and someone refused to give the pw. I'd assume in a case like that, however, the cops would just smash shit out of it.
Any keyboard is truly ergonomic as long as you rest your elbows on the desk...
I really like it. I just wish it was available for cheaper. To drop $200 and possibly not like it would suck. But bravo for an ergonomic keyboard without the number pad. If I come into some extra dough I may just go for it.

Also a big + for the blank versions.
Take 5 seconds to actually read the page:

> Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible
>> Coworkers that are really smart that you can learn from?

So how do startups solve this paradox? - founders/current employees are always looking to hire someone better than themselves, while prospective employees are looking to work with smarter people than themselves at the same time.
Is the other person not disrespecting me when they ask me to refer or participate in their choices that I might not agree with? Why is it that when someone deviates from the norm, everyone else has to respect them while they do it?
I have had to work with maven and integrating it to an existing project is insanely hard if not impossible. On other projects I worked with Maven it spends more time updating itself than doing any useful work.
Just had a second look at your algorithm.

You're essentially running a well-known DFA-minimization algorithm (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFA_minimization or http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cdm/pdf/minimization.pdf ), and then running Brzozowski. This isn't new at all, though I'm pretty impressed you reinvented the minimization algorithm.
Username: "kimidorisakana"

I haven't posted much, but I read HN regularly.
Is it whatsoever possible for Google to get a group of companies together and counter-sue Oracle and Microsoft en masse? I mean Motorola isn't without a strong patent portfolio, and I doubt they'd be the only ones on board?

Forgive me if its a naive thought, but it seems like we might just be seeing the beginning of Google patent issues (and I obviously treat the MS/Motorola thing as a Google patent issue).

Is the risk of pissing off MS/Oracle too great (not for Google, but for potential allies?)

Why haven't they gone nuclear yet?! I wanna see that bad.
one could also argue that the less time you spend thinking about cops, speeding tickets, and slamming on the breaks; the more time you can actually spend driving well.
"... The Hacker News community/West Coast is being unnecessarily harsh to @abraham here: http://bit.ly/bT6yj4 Midwest folks: Let's sponsor him! ..." ~ http://twitter.com/mathiasx/status/26501001577

When did HN become the mean spirited place it's become?
If a non-user navigates to Status.net, you get an "Access denied" message in red. How adorable.
Both Russia's space program and ours are very impressive, and I can't wait to see the next 50 years of space exploration. Here are some related photographs of the Cosmodrome (Russia's equivalent of JFK launch facilities in Florida) on the big picture from about 2 years ago.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_baikonur_cosmod...

Anybody have good collections of photo's of other space programs?
No one made that bed but Apple, and it is but another example of Apple putting Apple first. It also seemed remarkably irrelevant back when the iPhone, still just on AT&T, dominated the my-company-didnt-buy-it ranks.

It is interesting though: a year ago Android was doomed by, well, people like you for being too crazy with too many choices and confusion versus the simple perfection of the iPhone model. Now that is some burden that Apple heroically bears.
My worry on these is that my hands are much larger than average so it may be extremely annoying to adjust to, but I feel like ergonomics in general is worth optimizing for...
Clang 2.8 release now considered "production ready"
arguments like this are put together for political reasons. someone is looking for more revenue.
Oregon news team finds ice cold.
Where I work (Etsy) we keep an index server that maps each user to a shard on an individual basis. There are a number of advantages to it. For example, if one user generated a ton of activity they could in theory be moved to their own server. Approximately random works for the initial assignment.

Flickr works the same way (not by coincidence, since we have several former Flickr engineers on staff).
Odd that the backspace key still has to be used by the pinkie finger. I'll be sticking with my Kinesis Advantage for now.
I'll gladly send you the .eps of the hipmunk if you'd like to un-eyesore it.
Denial is the first stage. Anger will come next.
I think RSS will hurt him. I've had a hard time building my email newsletter readership (http://dlewis.net/nik) because I run in tech circles, and we all use RSS. However, I've had a much easier time when I get once step removed from RSS culture.
Now that's throwing down the gauntlet:)
This brings up a somewhat more scary discussion:
It's more efficient to be a cybernetic organism than a gene-modified human with genes from plants.

If I get this correct, this (cited) Wikipedia-article says that solar cells with a 0.01 m^2 surface area would produce approximately 1.4 watt. Multiplying 1.4 watt by 20, to get a 0.2 m^2 surface area, gives us 28 watts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells#Energy_conversion_e...
There is a blog post with more information at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-in... .
Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
Yup, that's the case. The question is whether or your hard drive is protected from a criminal charges subpoena. The data is kept encrypted on the hard drive, but of course the authorities don't know what's on the hard drive until it's decrypted.
From the article:
"many, though admittedly not all, courts have held that contacting former clients regarding a change in employment constitutes a solicitation. See e.g., Merrill Lynch v. Schultz, 2001 WL 1681973, *3 (D.D.C. 2001) (noting that “such initiated, targeted contact is tantamount to solicitation because there is no reason to believe that a customer on the receiving end of such a [communication] does not assume that the [employee] wishes for him to transfer his account.”)."

This reasoning doesn't necessarily hold for linked in. If a person has lots of contacts on linked-in, some of which are customers and some of which aren't, changing your employment status isn't targeted, wasn't specifically initiated, and can't be assumed to be a solicitation.
It might work with Mac, but it looks like you'd have to sacrifice a modifier key.
Peter Norvig - Singularity Institute Interview Series [video]
How do you deal with information overload?
Speaking of job boards, are there any with non-trivial number of remote/telecommuting gigs or permanent positions ? The ones mentioned here have few if any such jobs.
Also, (I haven't run a BSD for several years, but, from memory) one of the biggest philosophical differences is that *BSD runs a monolithic kernel whereas Linux runs a modular kernel. Might not sound like much, but it is very different mindset when it comes to security, user-land and such. Is that still the case?
Thanks for the response. I see that you wrote this at around 4:25pm. If you are focused, why are you chatting on HN? Especially when you've publicly commented that you dislike the HN community.
This seems akin to economists claiming that a 10% chance at $10,000,000 is just as good as a guaranteed $1,000,000 because on average you end up with the same amount of money.

Although it's technically true, any given person is better off choosing the more certain result.

that's my initial gut reaction. Though I should add that my gut reaction has a fairly low success ratio when it comes to statistics.
Ask HN: First-time demo jitters
Okay, so I've given talks before — some of them were even pretty good:

http://vimeo.com/4031833

Tomorrow I have to give my first Great Demo. I'm working out the kinks, I'm "doing the last thing first" and generally trying to contain my instinct to start with a personal narrative.

That said, I'm still just an introvert trying to channel my passion into confidence.

What's your secret?
I find that even people who do the real save-the-world type stuff (doing unheralded AIDS relief work in Africa, for example), are in it for some sort of "selfish" motivation (feel good about themselves, appreciation from others, etc.) I find it counterproductive to speculate about people's altruistic motivations since everyone, in some way or another, is working towards their own benefit.
Make sure you are actually using your EC2 reserved instances
I love the app. The minimal design is exactly what I was looking for in a desktop mail app. The Gmail intregration was excellent and took a lot of hassel out to setting up the app. I have since recommended this applciation to my friends and family, especially because it is so easy to setup.

One note, when I saw the "Star" I thought it would be correlated with my gmail stars, but it appears these are local stars. Other users may have been confused by this as well.

Love the app, and you should put up a donate button on your site or in the app. I would pay for this.
How is what I'm doing any different then what you are suggesting? Instead of targeting a rich neighborhood I choose the HN community and Instead of lawn mowing I choose web development my current practiced profession.
Because you sit opposite them in an institutional process, and you're at their mercy.
Note how they had multiple VC firms to mitigate signalling risk if one or more decline to invest in a priced Series A round.
"While I don't care much for the bi-weekly Arrington Yahoo bashing..."

So true...