skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That shows a lack of understanding of what kind of hardware is being used in the real world to handle this.

With a half-decent SAN with 15k drives and 4Gbit fibrechannel connections, you can get 1000+ IOPS without the storage system even breaking a sweat. Under load it can easily give 10 times that.

This is something that's everywhere in the business world.

Pair this with a bunch of cores and a few GB of memory, and you can have an RDBMS that chews through impressive amounts of data. Unless, of course, you optimize nothing and swamp it with lame queries that do nothing that table scans. Funny enough, the same people that are fine with doing everything in code are the ones that can't be bothered to think more than one second about what kind of queries they are throwing at the database.
the two guys that created it were not idiots after all

Care to elaborate on this? Do you have a personal account on the origins of Flash? Would love to hear :-)

I know Lynch was there from the start, but who are/were the coders?
Not just the number, but a manifest of prisoners, so they can't be treated as fungible with other people.
Feedback welcome. And if you encounter any problems, I'll fix 'em quickly.
> as much as 90% of the cost of a new drug is meeting FDA requirements

Really? I'll take it that you're not including marketing (which is where most of the money goes), as that doesn't kick in until the new drug is going to be approved.

Does that 90% include things like clinical trial, which should be done anyway?
Evernote Drops .NET for Native C++
I have heard that most acquisitions are done as talent acquisitions especially the ones Facebook has been doing lately. Can anyone elaborate on that?
we are sending them out as fast as we can! we will make sure to add you in the next wave
But they are not including payroll tax of %15.3 that is paid on every dollar of income UNDER $106,000

They call this tax Social Security but it is just a tax like any other.
Really?

Let's put aside the single-parent part. Last year I made about $25,000.

I enjoyed the protection of the US military, was treated at hospitals using techniques developed with federal funding, and benefited from the federal regulation of interstate commerce.

I also had a nice room in a shared house in Santa Barbara, CA. I had a car, ate healthy food, went out to bars, and lounged on the beach.

Why shouldn't I have had to pay taxes?
Ask HN: Which IRC Client?
TL;DR summary: What IRC clients do you use and like? Why?

Long story:

Increasingly I'm seeing development communities using IRC as their main backchannel. I've poked around with IRC clients before, but haven't found anything that stuck.

CLI is fine and preferred in this case.

Is running identd still a requirement/recommendation?

Recommended use pattern? I'm fine with leaving the client running all the time on a machine, and getting at it remotely with ssh/screen|tmux.
Sorry, off-topic: I highly recommend the audio book version of A Short History of Nearly Everything narrated by Richard Matthews (not the one narrated by the author).
According to China Daily, "China's greatest danger is that US policymakers face economic and national security crises they cannot solve.

Is that an unrealistic view? While the economies in Asia and Europe are recovering – quite a few of them rapidly – the US seem to be stuck. They might even face another recession. If you think that the Tea Party Movement won’t solve the problems but only further polarize the political landscape and make sensible solutions hard the fear of a USA unable to solve its problems doesn’t seem that hard to imagine.
Because I'm obviously missing something. What else is a shopping cart besides a session associated table?
What interested me in this was the mixture of the traditional and the modern:

- Traditional: You are the breadwinner, your wife has the primary housecare / childcare duties.

- Modern: You do your breadwinning from home and are self-employed instead of working for a company.

- Traditional: You and your wife recognize the importance of passive income.

- Modern: You both recognize that investments are no longer a reliable way to make passive income. Instead, you are working on a company / product / service (AppIgnite) that will create new wealth. [1]

[1] I'm not saying that the passive income is the ONLY reason you're doing this, or even the primary reason. But I'm sure an awareness of market changes factored in somewhere.
No cost, potential benefit. I've had to make harder decisions.
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If I had to guess, I'd say that people are downvoting you because even the MySQL guys who spent the 90s arguing against it have now come around to thinking that foreign keys and transactions and stored procs are good things, and they can't be bothered to engage in the discussion again.
My numbers might be wrong. But I think they make 100X, not 10,000X their investment. Which is still magnificent, but not enough to say that the only investement that matters is the one that turn into the next Google.
I liked one of the comments, there :

"Now shut up and get back in your cubicle."

No, thanks. I'll keep dreaming.
Even more impressively, this appears to be for the new protocol version - the new protocol is significantly harder to implement a server for than the old one (I say this having written custom servers for both in Python), and requires, among other things, a full lighting implementation in the server.

I'd be curious to see how this compares to the Java one for speed (and some other SMP servers that are springing up) - it's quite difficult to store an infinite size map efficiently in memory and still keep good random access times.
The cost is "false sense of security", and believe me, from field work, that is a real cost. A majority of programmer applicants can't solve FizzBuzz, so you're deluded if you think that a good chunk of webdevs don't think "HttpOnly fixes XSS".

The potential benefit is... what, exactly?
One question: If you're a freelancer working remotely from home, why don't you move somewhere cheaper?

On latam most people live at $5 a day, you can live like a frikin' sultan with $500. Live there for six months at 2 hours of consulting work and finish AppIgnite, then return with the product done.

btw, I'm a super-fan of TechZing even when I got bad publicity there ;)
Because of these things:

- Apple decides which apps go and which don't.

- I have to read a list of rules to know if I can actually sell my application

- Apple takes 30% of my money.

- Apple decides what programming language I can use.

I thought it was agreed upon that the app store is not overall good for developers.
ah, ok, this make sense. So, the ecommerce programmer would write all of the catalog stuff, then hand it over to a 3rd party shopping cart for payment, coupons, taxes and shipping, etc.? is that that non-trivial part?
anybody?
I think they do understand this. The problem is, they don't care. Their incentive is to convince marginal voters to vote for them, not to make the economy work.
"a Verizon Wireless logo on the back of the iphone isn't out of the realm of possibility"

I get the feeling that a carrier can be displayed on the screen, but no way in heck do they get a sticker.
Clearly the liberal media is a global operation.
I can't talk about all NoSQL but I can talk about CouchDB as I have worked with it some. It gives multiple write nodes, easy replications and syncing, it gave map reduce. I love it
I'm not sure the problem is that most politicians don't have a decent grasp of the power of incentives or lack a basic understanding in economics.

Unfortunately I think they are in fact extremely adept at understanding incentive. Is it possible that you haven't carefully considered which incentives are driving their behaviour :).
in my experience, tracks on smp hosed the clients, not the server.
TI's new uC platform is the MSP430 LaunchPad. They're only $4.30 shipped!

Not as user friendly, though, so if you're new to this kind of thing, the Arduino might be a better place to start.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_(MS...
I suppose that "big enough to palpate with both hands" would be already a tremendous progress for blind people :)
If Apple ports UIKit to Lion, the API side of things could be very easy. The big challenge here is in interaction design.

Some games might make the transition relatively easily. A game that relies mostly on single points of touch has a somewhat decent analog with the mouse, but only if it relies on certain patterns of finger movement. A game that, for instance, involves alternating taps on opposite sides of the screen, would translate badly—it's nowhere near as easy to leap that distance precisely with a mouse as it is with your fingers. Can you imagine playing the iPhone classic Dactyl with a mouse?

That kind of difference is present all over in touch-based applications, in differing amounts. It's up to the developer to find what transitions well and what doesn't, but in most cases it won't be a trivial task.
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You only have to pay for marketing for the drugs that make it through FDA trials, not the 9 others that didn't.
I for one would love to read your story of escaping Somalia.
Machines that make
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Working 5 hours a day on projects for clients, taking 15 minute breaks once an hour, and then working on the startup whenever there is time left after all that isn't really the same as creating a startup in a serious way.

It also sounds like the wife is home all day and either a freelancer herself or not working. Having full time child care available from a live in caretaker is not really the same as having to raise 3 kids on your own or with a full time working spouse.
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Agreed upon by whom?

An App Store isn't that great for developers (in the "developers being free to do whatever they want" sense of "good for developers") when it's the only option available.

That is not the case with the Mac App Store. If you don't find any benefits in the tradeoffs that particular option provides, don't pursue it. Write your "own licensing code, host a web payment code, and host autoupdates" like the "good old days", if that's what floats your boat. But it's still better to have another revenue option at your disposal than to not, even if you don't choose to use it.
As someone who grew up on Dick Smith's Fun Way Into Electronics kits [1], I love the Arduino. I can see three Arduinos on my desk as I type. I'm not so smart with electronics, but it is a lot of fun, and it's a golden age for this kind of thing.

[1] Dick Smith is a successful Aussie entrepreneur who created a chain of hobby electronics stores and sold the chain when it had (I think) 200 employees and he couldn't remember all their names, so it wasn't so much fun anymore.

When Redhead matches was bought by overseas interests, he created Dickhead matches in protest and sold them in Aussie supermarkets.

He jumped a double-decker bus over 15 motorbikes when I was a kid, parodying Evel Knievel. He was my hero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(entrepreneur)

He recently created the Wilberforce award - "$1 million to go to a young person under 30 who can impress me by becoming famous through his or her ability to show leadership in communicating an alternative to our population and consumption growth-obsessed economy."

http://dicksmithpopulation.com/wilberforce-award/

"It has become obvious to me that my generation has over exploited our wonderful world – and it’s younger people who will pay the price."

Edit: He's also a founder and patron of the Australian Skeptics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Skeptics

Edit 2: Picture of the bus jumping the motorcycles

http://www.dropbears.com/m/models/specials/busjump.htm
Divide and conquer? Get them into separate rooms, say that one sold them out and then see if they turn on each other or something to that effect.
I think that python is sufficiently different from javascript that you'll need to provide your own documentation beyond explaining the transformation.

Coffeescript is mostly just javascript shorthand; Python on the otherhand has language features with no javascript equivalent (I'm thinking keyword arguments, generator functions, classes, and especially super() here)

That being said, I think to make this project really work you're going to be responsible for documenting the dom, and providing support for libraries like jQuery.
It really does. It's as if I was paying UPS to pick up my packages, but it only delivered 2/3 of them. I wouldn't be wracking my brain very long to come up with the same solution.

My guess is that the problem was that there were no incentives for politicians to think of this as a problem, and seeing as it survived a "scandal," probably some incentives not to care. I'd like to know who was getting the contracts, and who their connections were.

I also wonder if there was some faction screaming about not imposing crushing regulation on the noble businessmen who were providing a crucial and critical function to protect our civilization, and if they overlapped with the connections:)

EDIT: Also, this is a simple matter of paying for what you want. If you want people to get rid of the prisoners, pay them to haul them away. If you want prisoners delivered somewhere, pay them for what they deliver.
Prison (a horrible place, especially in those times) and a quick trial then the gallows.

All in all a pretty high negative incentive (which it had to be, to keep starving people from committing crimes).
It works fine for me.

The problem is probably that in the url:
src="../photos%2FProfile%20Pictures%2F432293561980.jpg"
some browsers will convert %2F to "/", whereas others don't
At first blush, I'd say this similar to Coffeescript in that it's meant to be javascript shorthand also.
drains battery too fast
I agree with you in general about the similarities between the two languages, but I haven't seen any movement from one to the other regarding the differences. I simply meant to address your comment regarding JS becoming AS.

Re: compilation...sorry..that's exactly what I meant :-]. As far as I know, you can't open a prompt in a Flash app and code AS on the fly like you can in Javascript. I don't consider this a problem...I actually prefer JS to AS.
Very nice indeed. Could you put a tracker in it to show the change month over month? Also could it show the people not on the list that are almost there etc?
I'm a guy, and I don't have a kid, but "whoopie" is basically what I thought when I saw those other articles.

I would think that a startup -- especially in the initial stages -- would be way easier to manage than a traditional 9-5 tech job you're already heavily obligated to. Of course a startup has a different set of challenges, but not having to attend to rigid meeting schedules and such could be quite a bit easier for child-rearing purposes.
Study: Many pancreatic tumors are slow growing, taking 20 years to become lethal
They should be. They should teach how to think, how to approach new problems. But with 100-200 students/class, 4 hr/week marathon lectures they cannot be teachers, even if they want to, but only fast food chain operators.

I went to large schools, may be it's different in small "boutique" colleges, I don't know.
Idle Speculation (on Apple's datacenter)
Using a Lisp dialect helps me pick up where I left off: http://ourdoings.com/2006-05-01

Sales/marketing seems to require extended effort though, or money.
It doesn't actually work that way, if you think about it. In an election your vote pretty much doesn't matter. That means that if you're just going to vote for your own self interest you might as well not bother getting out of bed in the morning. Instead people mostly vote in ways that let them tell themselves that they're good people. Empirically, this is pretty well backed. For instance there isn't much correlation between income and how people vote on taxes, or between age and how they vote on social security.

Of course people have little incentive to find out which policies will bring actual good results as opposed to those which superficially seem nice. Luckily politicians who hope to be reelected can't do anything that turns out to be too stupid in practice... some fraction of the time. And so we sort of muddle our way through things.
I call bullshit.

Yes, learning takes effort even with the best teachers. Yes, it's good to be self-motivated and seek out more information on your own. But if this guy is right that an incompetent teacher is no barrier to learning, then why do we need teachers at all?

My experience in grad school was that a course with a bad teacher took three to five times as much work as the same course with a good teacher. That's mostly because advanced texts in technical subjects are supposed to be exhaustive references. They're full of details and corner cases that make it impossible to get the big picture without reading them several times over.

Showing you the big picture is the teacher's job. If they can't do that, they're basically forcing you to read and reread a thousand pages of reference material, looking for a synthesis that isn't there. Eventually all the repetition forces your brain into a kind of acceptance, but it's not the same as understanding and it isn't worth thousands of dollars a class.
Prison didn't keep all the other inmates in there out. :)
Thanks for sharing your library, I'll try it for a little project of mine.
I was hoping this was going to be an article about backlash, or a new approach to security screening.

Instead, Resistance was literally a euphemism for the author's penis.
Supercomputers have real value, in the sense that they are used to solve real problems that can't be solved otherwise

Sure, and this answers the question "why have super-computers", indeed, the US has several.

I'm not just sure if any of the reasons you specify, all valid, suddenly become invalid when there is simply a delta between the power of US vs China systems.
Exactly. It's purely syntax to syntax.

Thanks for the confusion -- I've made the first paragraphs more clear about PJ's scope.

Title changed: s/compiler/syntax cross-compiler/
EDIT: title changed again
Irssi => http://irssi.org/
Don't worry about schools, just worry about what 90% of economists agree on and it'll be a huge improvement.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists...
Cool, let me know how it works out! Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions. (see my profile)
I have just discovered loads of 'top companies' and startups sending me spam based on this vector, but it turns out their email marketing list provider was hacked.
HTTP Authentication is dead and is never coming back.

What should WebDAV shares use instead? I don't think form auth really works for that.
In the U.S., we pay taxes on a graduated percentage of our income directly to the national government. Due to various offsets and credits, most low and moderate income taxpayers actually end up owing nothing. Some states and localities have their own income tax systems that work similarly.

It's important to note this doesn't take into account national, state, and local taxes that everyone pays regardless of income including sales, gas, and property taxes, tariffs, filing fees, tolls, etc. The whole "who pays federal income tax" argument is somewhat of a red herring.
> Your analogy is flawed because a person's home is not analogous to their Facebook account. Their car might be -- and I don't think opening an unlocked car door and leaving a note on the dash is wrong.

Are you serious? If someone did that to me I would feel terribly violated! Even if I forgot / just thought I lived in a neighborhood with human decency, that is wrong on so many levels.

Trespassing by accessing someone else's property, home, car, or virtual, is wrong. Harm is harm, physical or not, and you can cause plenty of harm by accessing someone's facebook account, embarrassing them to friends or co-workers for starters.
Yes, it is replacing WPF.
"There’s now evidence that E-ZPass may help save babies."
Trace victims
So I should not use the best tool for the job, and give up say 5x productivity, in the fear that some company will take me hostage -- especially since AFAIK, this has never happened. And if it has happened it has happened an order of magnitude less frequently as projects getting killed by using the wrong tools.

That I've seen happen first hand, including as recently as last year.
We have built this already...
Here:

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/10/paypal-site-is-back-up...

They declare it was back up after 1:17, whereas "customers" are still complaining after four and a half hours.

Good old PayPal.
> Instead, Resistance was literally a euphemism for the author's penis.

I was under the impression it was his testicles.

From the article: 'That's funny," I said, "because 'The Resistance' is the actual name I've given to my testicles."
>It was hell. But in retrospect it turned out amazingly well.

Sure it did, but poor teaching was not the reason, the difficulty was. My university has special courses on most fundamental topics, the difficulty of which is ridiculously high compared to regular ones (which are much more difficult than on most other schools in my country anyway). Although these are taken mostly by really great minds, completing them with good grade is next to impossible without spending a lot of time on research, discussion with friends and instructors, and problem solving. Having that done, problems on regular exams seem trivial, and possibility of someone not being able to solve them is unimaginable.
the video is a little annoying but the comic is amazing.
Cool dude. Good to know that I'm arguing with a close-minded person who doesn't know much about libertarianism and doesn't care to learn anything.
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I wonder if shareholders are aware of this.
In general I find the MSDN information to be lacking. It's about as dry and straight-forward as you can get and rarely does my search for the 'answer' end there.

It would be nice if you could choose to see these results mixed in or not. A check-box next to search field maybe?
If I were to use a time machine to travel back over 10 years ago I'd say IrcII with BitchX.
I think you're misunderstanding what an off the shelf shopping cart is. It's not just a way of storing the items a user has chosen along with their quantities, like you say, all that requires is a session array.

It's product management and categorising, product options, coupons and discounts, multiple tax rates, bulk buy discounts, user registration, payment gateway integration, promotions, image galleries, I could go on.

Basically when you buy an off the shelf system like zen cart, you're getting an entire e-commerce site that you just configure and style. And even if it's not a full site, but a PHP library to interface with your own site, it's a lot more than just the action of storing product id's and quantities in a session.
Pleased for you to know all that effort didn't go unnoticed. :)

Intrigued to see another tech company based in Boulder. I spent some time visiting a client there a few months ago. Seems like there's quite the tech community growing there.
In the Present. Demand Delays.
3 kids.
Are there any hackers out there that like to code stoned? My marijuana-days never really overlapped with my coding days, but I can't imagine that would be a very good combo. I'm all for legalization tho I no longer partake -- I'm just wondering if it's a regular part of the lifestyle of many successful hackers...
The dangerous thing about security theatre is that it distracts resources and personnel away from the things that would actually improve security, in the interests of PR and cosmetics based on inconveniencing the non-terrorists.

As the author points out, detailed background checks would be far more effective than either looking at or touching people's privates.