skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: how much are houses to buy in silicon valley?
how much is like 2 bedroom apartment or 3 bedroom house in silicon valley, im talking averages here, it deosnt have to be in the nicest area, but not far away from the geeks and techie hype? cheers :))
Innovator: Adobe Researcher Todor Georgiev
Addictive Gifting: How Patronage Became a Consumer Experience
I'll bite as well. Are NoSQL databases faster? Smaller? Simpler? If any of these statements are true, then they are giving something back, although quite possibly that trade-off is not of interest to the author.

I am reminded of another Holy War (beware! reminded-of is not a euphemism for is-just-like): "Ruby took away the power of static typing and gave nothing back."
Welcome to MySQL in 1995. You'll be wanting to "manage" transactions next...
I built a CNC 1.7m x 1.3m with 800+ IPS for ~2000$ - with a lot of googling and persistence. Ping me if you want to build your own, I'll give you details, it's really not that hard at all.
Yes I've been playing it continuously since getting it about 3 or 4 days ago.

I just finished (reaching the end of year 20) after re-starting several times. All in all the game totally lost it's fun after year 14 or so due to being incredibly easy. I had way too much $, characters were all super powerful, etc. (as such I see no replay value right now).

The only thing that was still hard was getting a perfect 40 on the new games, I would always end up with either a 38 or 39 and only got the 40 a few times.
> She was probably talking to the man who was walking in front of her, but the frame of the shot prevents verification of that.

The complete clip shows that he isn't reacting so it's unlikely that she's talking with him.
only the Revodrive x2 is bootable
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/10/28/ocz-announces-revodrive-x...
I think you may be confusing "anarcho-capitlism" and "anarchy." (and "anarchism," for that matter, though I guess this isn't the time and place to argue over "is an-cap anarchism?")
Apple Used Front Company with Clever Name to Grab iPad Trademark
For the outright losses this is true. But overpaying can transform the moderate wins into losses. Buy in at 1M sell for 10 you get a 10x return. Buy in at 20, sell for 10, you get a 50% loss. So if you're playing the middle (which is where the reliable returns are to be found) valuation matters. A lot.
1) Well that's true, but we were talking about competition for workers, not customers. Most government services don't compete with businesses for customers. The few exceptions show that private industry does successfully compete with government (Fed Ex and UPS versus U.S. Post Office.)

2) Maybe they could, but in practice, most government jobs don't pay high salaries. You're much more likely to be outbid by another private company.
I'd like to submit a bug: when I stare directly at the sun, my eyes begin to hurt. Also, there's this weird force pulling me towards the Earth, what's that all about?
That seems great ! Thanks bgraves.
Http://www.microoyun.com/
There is a mention of the Free Plan on the Sign Up page, right under the Max/Premium/Plus boxes.
Introducing the new jMockups Color Picker
clones of mobile games don't seem to do well. Angry Birds is pretty much the #1 mobile game and I haven't seen any outright clones do well on the app store. If a game is popular and most people know about it, people will quickly recognize clones and avoid them.
Is the web getting faster?
What Arduino kit would you recommend for a "competent" beginner? Is the linked kit a good option? Better options? Thanks in advance.
Thanks to Ricardo for stepping in to offer to help organize it.
I see it as a high-level vs low-level thing.

The relational model is a high-level language for describing the structure of data. And a pretty elegant one if you can look past the awkwardness of dealing with current SQL databases (not a fault of the model itself).

That said if you want to scale and tune things you often need to drop down to a lower-level view in order to get things done, hence NoSQL. But that's not to say the relational model isn't still useful, or that it shouldn't inform any formal reasoning done about data in NoSQL systems.

I have some more thoughts on this here: http://matthew.yumptious.com/2009/07/databases/nosql-and-the...
Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps
Opera?
Is that a browser? Like for surfing the internet and stuff?

If so, there is at least one thing Opera did not have before the other browsers. Guess what?
Is Facebook Moving in on Groupon’s Turf?
Can you just have multiple lines for Nth percentile and/or min and max, rather than candlesticks? You'd want to bold or otherwise emphasize the mean or median line, I think, but it shouldn't be too hard to read, since the lines shouldn't cross.
Whenever I join a project, I spend the first few months working at half speed or slower because I investigate every dependency before I make a fix or build a new feature. Even working on an unfamiliar part of a big system slows me down as I ask questions and double-check dependencies.

Carelessly changing things you don't understand and expecting the tests to save you does not count as "productivity." Good design decreases the amount you need to know to safely and productively hack on a system. Tests don't. Tests can save an experienced and knowledgeable person from their inevitable mistakes -- they can tell you something is wrong -- but they can't direct you toward the right solution. Someone who doesn't know what they're doing can hack by trial and error until the tests pass, but at that point their code is still likely to be wrong.
There's an awesome Ruby library called 'autospec' that watches for files being saved, and then automatically runs your test suite in the background, and gives you a growl notification if they've failed or passed...
How about I help you with whatever needs to be done to sell? I'm a jack of all trades can understand design/coding/UX and also like the aspects of marketing.

contact me at jaspal.sawhney@gmail.com
http://www.zillow.com or http://www.trulia.com/

(Downvote WTF here - he wants house prices, I gave him house prices)
Open vs closed source software: The quest for balance
Yeah, I do actually, because I want a storage system to be a storage system and an application layer to be an application layer.

I've seen corporate code bases consisting of entirely PL/SQL before, it's a nightmare. No thanks, from both a maintenance perspective and a performance perspective. YMMV.
My Common App essay: on iPhone apps.
Is that lib. available? I was nearly going to write one, but I would rather not start from scratch.
See also historical recommendations:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465816
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580073
Any more info about the venue for this?
I'm the same way. The App Store helped me (although it hurts in the long run) because I am selling despite not doing one bit of marketing (aside from a few tweets here and there to my 100 or so followers).
> I'd like to point out that unlike Calacanis I don't feel comfortable suggesting to people what they can and can't do as I believe it all really depends on the individual and the context in which they're operating.

That's a key insight right there, most people will go around and tell others what they can not do based on the experience of what they themselves can or can't do, and then they automatically extrapolate to the rest of the world. The reverse also holds true.

Whatever works for you is something you will only know by trying and doing, nobody can tell you what you can or can not do.

> Taking the kids to the gym is probably where I gain the most leverage of the day because it's a kill three birds with one stone, triple-jump move.

Very clever!

> Also, you know all the time that most employees and on-site contractors spend in meetings or other such unproductive organizational activities, well I engage in none of that.

Haha, score one for all the guys and girls that work from home. I try to avoid meetings like the plague, though I do have an 'office' in an IRC chat running. It's where I gather with everybody that I work with and where you can dump questions or have a few minutes of 'watercooler' talk.

> Another thing is that we keep our expenses pretty low and don't tend not to live very extravagantly.

Another winning quote. People that freelance sometimes fall in to the trap of adjusting their lifestyle upwards when the money is coming in quickly, but can't scale back when it does not. The safe approach is to stay low to the ground and be frugal all the time.

Once your saving account is nice and fat and you've been consistently performing at a certain level you could consider raising your monthly allowance (a bit!), if you feel the need to do so. For myself, I keep our personal expenses to an absolute minimum.

> Another circumstance that allows me to pursue a startup is that my wife and I have figured out a very clear division of labor and separation of concerns.

Clarity and openness are another key element in both a relationship and running a business. Having things clear is going to make sure there are no underwater time-bombs too.

What a super article, bookmarked and I'll re-read it again in a couple of days, lots of it applies to my situation directly and I'll try to get as much mileage from it as I can squeeze out of there.

One key insight that is not spelled out here is that you seem to be living a very regular life, and I suspect that that structure helps you to optimize what you get out of a day.

Thank you very much for writing this all up, (you even found time for that!), it is certainly inspiring.
C'mon, we're talking modern technology here, they didn't introduce a telegram system.

So clearly we're looking for an elevator, not a flight of stairs.
Well, they have higher-end options too that go to 1.4GB/s, they're pricier but still way cheaper than fusionio -- roughly comparable to 1.25X the price per GB of a 2.5" drive for 5-10X the bandwidth.
Why The Answer To The Smartphone Patent Thicket Is Not A Patent Pool
I've seen a handful of these in my career as an Search Engine Optimizer. I often ignore them since there is good chance it is a scam and the author of the e-mail may not even be affiliated with the website in question.
I hear Mt. Everest now has a serious litter problem because of all the people - and it's only been popular since the late 70's.

Imagine how much litter is going to be on the moon someday once people can go there for "just" a million dollars.
The only problem I've run into is an issue with URLs being too long when trying to chart large amounts of data.
I think the main problem with the google charts API is just that, it's not a library that is self contained. You need access to google's servers. Second, if you have sensitive data, you rather not send it to google.
If you double the valuations, the # of bets halve. This affects your likelyhood of getting ANY wins.

My own angel portfolio: since 2006: 46 deals, three possible winners, four dead, one weak exit.
Flamebait title is wrong. From the article:

Update: Benjamin Black said he was the source of the quote and also said I was wrong about what he meant, ill-informed even. His point: The meaning of the statement was that NoSQL systems (really the various map-reduce systems) are lacking a standard model for describing and querying and that developing one should be a high priority task for them.
A very clear post on the future of the Python language that should probably be sung from mountain-tops in addition to being said in this blog post. Or at the very least, stated on every download page of the latest 2.x releases on python.org.

I still wonder about the rate of 3.x adoption will be, though. My university (RPI) still had Python 2.4 on all the CS machines last year, which made some minor things (I wish I could remember one!) a bit frustrating.
It's a little complicated and (I'd argue) mildly broken[1], but roughly, 'in', 'cm', and 'pt' all refer to real-world distance measurements; 'em', 'en', and 'ex' refer to sizes relative to the font size; 'px' is a modified real-world measure that scales with distance[2]; and there is nothing at all that refers to actual, honest-to-god pixels. Scaling 'px' during a zoom is no more standards-violating than scaling 'in' etc. during a zoom.

[1]Because 'px' doesn't refer to pixels.

[2]It refers to a unit that scales according to display resolution and usual distance from eye; essentially it's a measure of the angle subtended on your retina. This is useful because (in theory) 1px will look "the same size" (and be about as legible) on a mobile phone, on a laptop, on a desktop, or on a projector, whereas 1in or 1pt(=1/72in) will appear much smaller if further away. What 1px is not, however, is a "pixel".
There's actually no externally-visible long type at all in Python 3, it's all done transparently now. That said, I'm not using Python 3. The promoting behavior you speak of is how Python 2 works.
The short version is this: Python-Dev is working on the release we hope people are using in a few years, not the one we hope you use in a a few months.

Python 2.7 will live for a long time (years) as a stable, bug-fixed release.

There are no compelling features to "force" the existence of a 2.8 release, which would overly stress already over-allocated resources.
I had been a healthy-earning Ebay affiliate for 3 years under the old (Commission Junction) system; after seeing Stewf's success with Mid-Century Modernist, I hired the same developer to build a similar system for Hewn & Hammered (except in my case, it would present the stream of auction items right on the front page, alongside the editorial content). The developer finished, and is going to bill me any minute ... and Ebay just denied my application without any explanation whatsoever, and said they wouldn't accept a second application.

(I had to reapply as they've migrated from Commission Junction to their own proprietary system.)

I have about 1000 uniques a day and my audience is absolutely well-off, 90% homeowners, interested in collecting Arts & Crafts furniture and the like. They have money to burn and are interesting in buying.

Oh well. Thanks for screwing me, Ebay.
How to beat an fMRI lie detector
Sure. Ultimately, it all comes down to preference. So yes, you could represent your min/max as separate lines, but candlestick charts are the most widely accepted means for representing volatility. That's why they're so widely used in finance.

Candlesticks are also useful for giving a good visual indicator of your interval, which is another area where line charts fall down. There is no visual clue given with a line chart that shows you whether you're looking at a 5 minute interval, 1 hour interval, or 1 year interval. The thickness of a candlestick relative to the x-axis (usually time) gives a strong visual clue about the interval.
Yep, nothing says performance and reliability like doing everything in the app.

Here's a neat trick - for every query SELECT * FROM TABLE, then filter and sort it in the application too.
iTerm in full screen does hide the top toolbar. I have no idea about its embedded graphics support.
Where's the option for a 5-row keyboard, and a trackball? This is conceptually cool, and I think the first Android phone available with a gig of memory, but it doesn't have any of the options I really want.
LinkedIn’s Co-Founder On Why It Took Off
The inventor's kit is really great if you are getting started or re-started. If you've got a specific project in mind you want to work on, I'd highly recommend any of the Arduino "shields" that match your project. We (and others) have them with GPS, LCDs, an Ethernet stack, GSM modules, wifi -- you name it. It keeps the simplicity of the Arduino platform, but lets you play with more advanced stuff.
Wouldn't be subtle enough.
The name relational model is quite unfortunate, as it leads to confusion about what the model is (not much to do with 'relationships').

The key concepts are using sets to store data (making you think about your data in a way where duplication of tuples and orderings don't mean anything), and always using values instead of pointers to store your data and references.

I think that these concepts are very useful when it comes to managing data, but they seem to get lost in the all the talk about "relationships" and "sql" and "structured tables".
Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted
Amazingly Human Japanese Robot
Couldn't have said it better myself.

The main theme of the reddit topic on this seemed to be people excited about 'only paying for what they want', yet by doing so you remove the main advantage of mass production; lower per unit price.
Demand Media files for IPO
Thanks, I've added them.
Not only do I not have an interpreter for any of these languages handy, I've never even used them!
Early humans who made tools 55,000 years ahead of their time
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
The fact that it uses GET is a huge limitation IMO. Especially considering that the workaround is to use POST and iframes.

Especially when there are more functional, prettier alternatives
Could it be that this letter was written automatically by software using a template? Maybe they have thousands of auto-generated sites and this is an automated scare tactic they use on their perceived competitors?

That explanatory model makes some sense, but then there's the specifics where they complain about the sort order: "The listing of the dates on your monthly playlists go in ascending order rather than descending. This is just one of the many flaws of your clearly haphazardly designed website."

Are lawsuits really that cheap to file?
Ask HN: Historious or Pinboard.in bookmark caching?
Any thoughts on which service is superior when it comes to caching the bookmarks and searching through the contents of the same?

While 25$ is not a big amount, migrating the data from one to another if I'm not happy could definitely be a PITA
The Mars rovers were amazingly successful and continued to function well longer than anyone expected. It was a minor miracle that they even survived the landing and everything deployed as planned. They got so much data from the rovers they actually made an IMAX movie with the gigapixel imagery! Scientists have found tons of evidence of water and more, but they are extremely hesitant to discuss because no one wants to be the scientist ridiculed for saying aliens existed on Mars. Here's an article that discusses a little - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4480097/
Why is everyone so concerned about this? This is a a no-brainer because:

- people pay a lot of money to go there, and \
- people die there

Safety is at a premium there. Even the best climbers don't always make it. Watch this TED video and tell me this is a superfluous use of technology: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_kamler_medical_miracle_on_evere...
Many great mathematicians would disagree with that. I like this definition from a prof at Stanford:

A proof is a nothing more than a clear, compelling argument.

If it feels wrong, no matter how rigorous the math is, you still shouldn't blindly believe it. It's an opportunity to delve deeper, and either find a flaw in the proof (or your understanding thereof), or to educate your intuition.
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That still requires people to make self accessment of their skills. There's isn't much incentive to be completely honest on their resume, if they put it on their resume they should be able to 777 all those skills but that rarely happens.
I recently used Django to implemented sales reporting and analysis service for sales organization of a few hundred people.

For charts, I've used flot and it's been so far adequate for my needs (timeseries and some bar charts). I personally prefer more Tufte-like charts than the default flot style, but the customer has been delighted of flot's style.

By the way, forget pie charts, they are a bad idea. Use e.g. a simple bar chart instead.

To quote Tufte: “The only worse design than a pie chart is several of them, for then the viewer is asked to compare quantities in spatial disarray both within and between pieces.”
Violin Memory does just that (no relation) http://www.violin-memory.com/products/dram/

I'm not finding it on their page, but they had one product that was 1TB of ram, backed by a 1 TB disk with a backup-battery. You get super fast storage, and if the power went out, the TB of ram would get saved to disk.
tmux a(ttach) is the same as screen -r
Images aren't fixed in size when zooming any longer, so why compare?
Not an uncommon practice when you need to grab real estate either. You also sometimes use multiple front companies so people won't see the pattern.
"$8,000 for a 160GB model" according to the article. But looking at Newegg.com, it seems that you can buy 24GB of RAM for $750 so 8K could buy you 240GB with some cash left over.

And looking at supermicro's page, their 4U tower allows you to populate up to 192GB....

Naive analysis, since it doesn't take into account um..persistence, but still interesting to see how expensive these fusion io parts are...
Isn't the hole idea behind HTML to give the client, that has the knowledge about local condition, the discretion to handle rendering? If you want to control rendering, use a picture or PDF.
Yeah, I got the runtime down from 40min to 10min. Then I implemented a Python->CUDA compiler and got it down to 30sec. :)
You're welcome.

bc and dc are probably installed on your Linux or Unix box.

By the way, you should fix "Below are some examples of sending .1 + .2 to standard output in a variety of common languages." to "[...] in a variety of languages."

It also seems like the names of bc and dc are non-capitalized.

For the Haskell entry, please just shorten it to "0.1 + 0.2". The "Prelude>" thing is just a prompt for the REPL. ":m + Data.Ratio" loads the rational number module, please take the entry about Haskell's rational numbers out since yours is a page about floating point. (You might want to replace it with a comment, that Haskell supports rational numbers. But so do lots of languages in their libraries.)

C would be a good addition. (Plus Fortran, Cobol, Ada and J.)
I know Ben Black and I can assure you he is very experienced with NoSQL data stores. He is calling for more attention to the query interface to these various data stores. He's specifically not saying they should be relational or dismissing other merits of NoSQL.
The problem is that pixel-perfect layouts are no longer pixel perfect when the page zooms and the text doesn't, or vice versa. Full page zoom keeps everything in proportion.
Racket (aka PLT Scheme):

$ racket
Welcome to Racket v5.0.1.
> (+ .1 .2)
0.30000000000000004
> (+ 1/10 2/10)
3/10

Steel Bank Common Lisp:

$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.0.43 [...elided]
* (+ .1 .2)

0.3
* (+ 1/10 2/10)

3/10
The surface area of the Moon is much larger than Everest though. IIRC it is similar to the land area of Earth. (Remember that the Moon, although smaller than the Earth, has no oceans.)
Here's a better trick - treat a database as an indexed storage layer that's doing the minimum of CPU work or complicated transactional conditions that create lots of blocking and bottleneck conditions for threads on your monolithic back end.

And then implement the app logic in some slow-ass web language that doesn't hold a candle to your database's optimized C. What happens when your web server can't keep up? Buy another web server. That's an easily solvable problem. A saturated DB, on the other hand, is very hard to fix, especially if all of your application logic is running in it and would require a rewrite to scale.
Indignance must have tempered memory.