skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured that either the original situation went over your head or that your post went over mine, so at least now I know which. That and that I should have gotten more sleep last night. :)

At least you were able to work the system there for a good six months. The vast majority of people finding themselves in that kind of work situation don't tend to fare nearly as well as you did.
excellent idea. For weekend projects like these...where do you get the pre made de facto buttons like login, signup, forgot pwd among others..
Heh, awesome.
Wouldn't this method at least have the advantage of being a drop-in replacement, where multigrid methods require a bit more work to integrate in to your solver?
Airline passengers are captive audiences, as far as the airport management is concerned. Anything that lets the passengers relax (for free) is only grudgingly given: the goal is keep passengers moving, hopefully through the shops, or if they must sit, hopefully in a restaurant, bar or cafe where they'll spend some money before being shifted on, like the temporarily homeless people they are.
The stage wasn't set a few years ago, even using Ubuntu was too high-level for many people, since it inevitably required at least a bit of command-line usage. I expect linux will continue to get more popular as the medium level of computer users decreases.
New Relic, Nagios, Cacti, Pingdom, few custom alerts/stat graphing (using flot), alerts and on-call handling between all with PagerDuty

Also working on integrating Splunk for analyzing log files and alerting on a few aspects.
Self plug: kraftwerk at www.kraftwerk-wsgi.com runs exactly this setup, but automated (even cloud server setup).
What a beautiful post.
Yeah their credits are a bit sneaky :) Twilio only supports US numbers which is a problem. If you're looking at telephony companies, Tropo (https://www.tropo.com/) is only 2c per message and sorta supports international numbers. Their 'support' is basically "if it works, awesome, if it doesn't, well we never said it definitely would". It's worked well to Australia for me so far. International support is coming at some point, though I don't know if it will still be at 2c per message.
Ah, makes sense, you just get the empty string instead of "turtles marching through peanut butter".

I am used to Perl where your code won't compile if you reference an undefined variable in a string interpolation.
My initial response was going to be "No", but that would have been a snap response based on my previous prejudices on the MacBook Air.

I'm currently doing all of my development (iOS, web and Java) on a 2 year old 13" 2.4GHz Aluminum MacBook and it's been fine. Compared to my MacBook, the new MacBook Air has a slightly lower clock speed processor with twice as much L2 cache, an ultrafast hard disk and probably a better video chip (GeForce 320M compared to my 9400M) and a higher-resolution screen.

I say go for it.
A bit wired but its really a fun read that many years later - although the truth is, his reasons for the swap in the end were probably the same as mine (although even later, because my team then wasn't using Python). And I still think Python beats any other in syntactic beauty by simplicity. Although Lua is a nice solution, too - I just don't like the end.
I'm definitely biased, but I use the product that I develop, Netmon -- www.netmon.ca. It may be worth checking out for you.
Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix has coin-operated showers (which I was very much thankful for, as I'm sure were the folks who had to sit next to me on an outbound flight).
'High availability' means that it doesn't go down - or at least is much less likely to than a non-HA system.

It's not really to do with being 'fast' per se, although sufficiently slow response times are indistinguishable from downtime.
the handbrake is a lot less effective than the main brakes. Especialy on cars with all round disks. The handbrake only puts a small brake on the rear axle.
I'd like to know about the economics of being an indie game dev. Is it a an industry where it is easy to turn a profit once you've learned the basics? I've read that games are really hit-and-miss, so you need a large game portfolio to spread out the risk.
Evidently you haven't read or used WSGI, Tornado, or Twisted in any significant form. So Python sucks at multithreading, which doesn't mean that there aren't some very good workarounds, and that multiprocessing works as good as any other place.

Btw, if you HAD tried to use Python on any significant way, you would have known that WSGI on Apache recycles the VM for multiple requests, which is the reason why it's suggested to do static file serving outside of Apache within the same server.

And, oh yeah, I have yet to hear from anyone except people doing CPU-intensive processing have the programming language be the bottleneck. Congratulations if your system is CPU or network-limited, in which case I'd hope that you're writing something in a lower-level language to handle the situation, but in 99% of large site installations, even if you cache all your IO, it's still going to be the big bottleneck of your system. Seriously, opening a remote socket and sending shit through it is almost always a bigger issue than pushing HTML.

Finally, it still doesn't change the fact that some of the biggest web sites are running Python in the back end and they couldn't be happier.
Exactly. Last weekend I watched UFO conspiracy videos all day, just for the entertainment value. I see people reading Marx and sometimes even Hitler's stuff, and they're neither Commies nor Nazis obviously.
Assumptions. Too many of them. The real message of this article is that people will silently judge you.
I pay 800$ for a single bed apt(~600-700 sq.ft) in Sunnyvale. Apartments which don't have gated community,pools,gym etc are cheaper. I realized I never used those anyway, so I moved to an apt which have none of these(but has covered parking). Usually these are smaller blocks of ~6 apts and older. There are plenty of those in south bay when I looked.
Me too. This is what I use. It was dead simple to setup. It had great default settings. Pfsense also has an agent package available for it and is a one click setup. It was also very easy to setup custom scripts for monitoring my custom back end software. I tried nagios, hobbit, opennms, and others recently and zabbix worked best for me.
I moved to Mountain View about 2 months ago and paying $1400 for a two-bedroom as well.
In this type of situation, simply telling someone the concern you have and asking to address it may lessen the misunderstanding.
That's him, thanks. I didn't know he wasn't a dietitian...
Oh dear gods please no! I'd be like the Facebook movie all over again: I'll feel obliged to watch it while intensely hating myself for this humungous waste of time and money :-/
This sort of 'student' (or hooligan of the day) action has worked quite well historically - the government has always caved, and basically printed money. Such efforts are one reason that the highest end French restaurants are better found in Spain today - it's too damn hard to remain profitable in France - read Au Revoir to All That for some insight. Also, read a funny book called 'A Year in Merde' for some examples of the French 'way' of doing things.
Reading this, my first thought was that it's certainly nice that Heathrow Terminal 5 has faster than normal baggage reclaim and smoother security procedures, and that Calgary International Airport has free wi-fi outside the Tim Hortons, but it's never going to sway my decision. If I have to travel by air, I have to travel by air.

Then I actually thought about recent times I've travelled by plane and I realised that competition does exist in London at least. I have:

Spent £50 more (a 70% fare increase) to fly to and from London City Airport. LCY is smaller and as such seems to be much more efficiently run. There's no long walk/shuttle between security and the gate. Security takes all of 5 minutes at most. The check-in desks have no or very short queues and there's seating nearby if you do have to wait. It's closer to the city centre so there's a 20 minute transfer instead of an hour long transfer between the airport and London. This extra expenditure netted me a nicer airline as well, but the main justification was the airport. About £20 of the cost was mitigated by not having to travel to another airport on the outskirts of London (with the exception of the ~£8 journey to and from Heathrow)

Spent £50 more (a 10% fare increase) to fly to and from London Heathrow Terminal 5. The terminal opened in 2008 and is very modern. Baggage reclaim seems faster than other airports I've visited, the overall layout is more sane and security tends to move quite fast for an international airport. It's certainly worth a little extra in my opinion.

There's room for improvement. I still prefer the 4 hr 30 train journey from London to Edinburgh v. the similar priced 1 hr plane journeys. Air travel might win if it can beat the convenience of just turning up at the train station 20 minutes before the train leaves, only paying a small extra fee if I want the freedom of using any train that day instead of a specific train and compete with the fact that the train stations are in city centres, whereas the airports are on city outskirts. These problems are quite hard or impossible to solve, so it's going to have to try harder in other ways. Oh, and the trains have (somewhat spotty in parts) wifi as well.
Its all in the implementation, not the idea. Its certainly worth giving it a shot if you can identify flaws in the original implementation.

Even if its only for fun, do it. I'll be incredibly surprised if you learn nothing from it, even if it fails.
Well, the accelerations involved here would cause the most significant time dilation, right?

I was going off of memory of the chapter "Saturn by 1970" in Dyson's "Disturbing the Universe".

I probably mixed this up with something else; traveling at 1G acceleration to Orion (not in orion =P), would take 30 years--3100 years would pass by on earth.
I am about 15 miles from St. Pete, FL, 75 yards from the Gulf of Mexico, in a nice sized one bedroom apartment with parking and small fenced yard: $700/mo. Gorgeous sunsets through the big west facing front windows, and 20 miles of sandy beach to get AFK and clear my head, throw a disc, walk, swim, or fish.

But I could trade it for a couch and a subway pass in a city with good subways and international impact. (SF, NYC, CHI, BOS ;)
I use it, it's expensive and slow and hard to develop for, but it never goes down or causes operational headaches

You must pair it with an in memory cache, even then it's still slow and expensive

I'd still recommend it though for some use cases
I mainly just keep everything open in screen on my server so I can pull it open on any machine. I usually just alt-tab between a browser (usually Opera) and my terminator. I can just as easily work on Dell Mini 9 (well the keyboard layout of extra keys sucks for most coding) as my desktop as my laptop.. I just can't do the screen -x and split the window up as nicely. But seeing as the Air has such a nice screen resolution and a full keyboard, I see no reason why it couldn't work.
please tell its april 1st.
Startup Quote: Jen Bekman, founder, 20x200
A quick look at craigslist will tell you that there are indeed two beds in MV between $1200-1500
It’s very important to us that we use our success to support risk-taking.

- Jen Bekman (@jenbee)
So it's slow and needs memcached or something? That's dissapointing. What usecases would you use it for?

Never going down just doesn't seem that big of a deal for me, their aws mysql service also "never" goes down, so I might as well use that and gain all the sql advantages, right?
I have a rubber dome switch, which I always considered a step up from the membrame keyboards. I didn't realize it was considered one and the same; my Packard Bell keyboard feels almost as nice as some of the mechanical keyboards I've used.
That's awesome. When it flies above international waters it won't be regulated?
After yelling about censorship, NPR's critics now want to censor the news network by yanking a small amount of federal funding

They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Much better! I think the icons add little value really, they could be even smaller, or even leave them out.
I'm betting you did more than mere guessing, because you can reason the whole thing out from the context.

If you did what I did, you first assumed that kilometer was the same in both languages, then that Volgograd was a proper noun (due to being capitalized) and used the context of 'pointing to a map' to infer that it was a place of some kind. That means that Skolka is a question word due to the question mark at the end of the sentence. From there, it's hardly a stretch to assume that Skolka means something like 'how many', because there aren't many questions involving distance and a place that it would make sense to ask.

The context of smiling and shaking their hand means that "Speciba" is a word expressing appreciation, so you can confidently translate it as something like "thanks."
How to price your product.
Or use srm.
Scala is cool.
On your home page, 'every-day' should be 'every day'. (You only use the hyphen when it's a compound adjective, e.g. 'every-day event'.)

And actually, re the sentence 'Doing something, every-day, until you achieve it', you could remove all the commas and it would mean the same but read better.
This is one of those things that should be tested.

I use tab but I know many people who don’t. Replacing tab with something much more common like space might help. Or it might just confuse. I honestly don’t know.
There is no guarantee this goes on the same sectors on the disk. I think that would only be guaranteed by a "secure delete call" to the drive's firmware.

The only way I know to securely erase the empty space on the drive is a call like "cat /dev/urandom > file; rm file". This will error once the drive is full, then be deleted.
But even sales guys normally do not behave that way.
Does it solve a problem for you? Is it a subset of something bigger you will face eventually anyway? Is it fun, actually?

Yes, if yes to any of the above. And regardless, implementing something that's been done already gives a huge advantage over the edge-of-existence startups--because you begin with at least two data points. What worked or failed before, and your own project state.

May learn more about the existing thing, and almost certainly have a clearer picture of your own relative progress.
I won't speak for facebook but we REALLY DO spend a lot of time thinking about our privacy settings on foursquare, and we try very hard to balance a "as secure as possibly by default" vs a "as useful as possible by default" model while at the same time trying to make the options as easy to understand as possible for our users. If there's any specific way you think we might be able to improve I'd be very interested in hearing it.

-harryh, foursquare
GetGlue apparently stores much of their data in SDB. CEO (Alex Iskold) talked about it in TWiST #78:
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/this-week-in-start...

Netflix is also migrating to SimpleDB from Oracle:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/22/paper-netflixs-tr...
That is correct for classic ec2 instances, but in this particular case the offer is for a "micro" instance which uses ebs booting. So it works less like your writable cd image analogy and more like what you'd have with linode

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/12/03/amazon-...
Perhaps after reading two relevant articles :P I just posted a third, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824959, but not on the same series.
I wouldn't want to go chasing rockets.
Hrmm...people still listen to Balmer? As far as I am concerned, Microsoft would be in the exact same position today (or maybe even better off) if there was no one in top spot.

It has become a well-oiled machine that can just continue churning out Windows & Office versions.

There will be no one to drive new product innovation, granted, but there is no one there right now either.
My Former Best Friend's Wedding
Interesting, I had no idea. I did wonder how much trouble it would be to place sensors under the roadway; this makes for a much more elegant solution.
Adclays helps publishers sell ad spaces directly
Depends on whether or not you have a car. You won't be able to survive out in the suburbs, but you'll be fine in SF proper. If you have a car for free, then go for the suburbs, but if you have to buy one then the "savings" you get from living in the middle of nowhere might not be very high.

I visited Mountain View yesterday, and it was one of the most depressing places I have ever seen. It's the suburbs, but as expensive as a big city.
I actually had a similar experience on a flight from London to LA a couple of weeks ago.

Was dreading speaking to a man next to me who was reading through some self-help guide for Christians and underlining and circling words and phrases on every page.

I have no problem with religions (though I myself am an atheist), but I really can't stand the type of religious person who insists on never shutting up about that topic (in my experience, normally born again Christians.)

After an hour or so of the eleven hour flight we did start talking, and not once did he mention religion in any way for the next ten hours. Instead we just talked about our lives. Turns out that, after joining a gang, dealing drugs from 13, and going to jail three times before he was 20, he then discovered God, and now spends time helping disadvantaged children, at home in California and in third world countries, and none of his work involves trying to convert the children to believe in God.

It was really nice being reminded that finding religion can turn a person's life around, and make him a better person (yes, my general view is biased heavily against religion.)
Disk Utility can overwrite empty space on a device with zeros. It also has the dubious 7 and 35 pass overwrite options.
BackBlaze, an online backup company, posted a great blog article a while back about building their custom 67TB servers for just under $8,000. They even include all the how to, and a link to the custom case manufacturer if you wanted to do it yourself: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...
This is a picture of a hall-effect keyboard, made by Sperry-Univac circa 1973. They were very reliable, and the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used (punch cards tho, but wth).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kd1s/4448262833/
This is one of the things that node.js is really good at, and it's interesting that the sample code on the front page of nodejs.org was pretty similar to this app. Here's the rough equivalent in node:

require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
var time = Math.max(0, Math.min(60000, parseInt(request.url.slice(1)) || 0));
setTimeout(function() {
response.end('This page load took ' + time + 'ms\n');
}, time);
}).listen(8124);

(They have since changed it, and I suspect that it was because new users were confused as to why their supposedly "fast" server always took 2 seconds to respond to requests)

(edit: code formatting)
There must be something hard about it. I work at a huge company and constantly get emails about deleting files from my home directory, because there is only 100G of storage for everyone.

All I know is that I have a 1TB 3-way RAID-1 array at home, and it cost less to build that than it costs to pay me to cleanup my inbox. Not My Problem, I suppose...
Interesting. But that would only be true for journaling file systems right? Or are there consumer hard disk drives that transparently journal writes a la ssd's?
Why dubious?
You should check out Rigor for performance and uptime monitoring of your web servers. It's a subscription service that goes a step beyond the basic cpu/process details and lets you monitor the accessibility of individual pages and transactions. They have a free trial that takes two minutes to set up at http://rigor.com.
Agreed. A small screen and the right IDE is perfect for focusing. At first I thought I'd miss the extra real estate but after about a week I adjusted and never even think about it now. Especially with Spaces and gesturing between apps.

And the startup time you mentioned, with the SSD - true. It's phenomenal. My Air starts up (and shuts down) about 5x faster than a Pro. It's almost instant-on.
Hacker News really needs a better dupe checker:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808910
Second this. Some basil and sage go a long way for pasta and other things. Rosemary and some parsley next. Then oregano.

Salad greens are super easy, climate is good for it most of the year.
Gigantic New Solar Installation Gilds the High Speed Rail Lily
It's time for the US government to stockpile rare earths as a strategic resource.

By doing so they will raise prices, which is hopefully help some closed non-Chinese mines to open.
Perhaps the Chinese near monopoly on rare Earth is a hedge against their dependence on foreign oil.
Related: Python to JavaScript compiler http://pyjs.org/

Pyjamas is a port of Google Web Toolkit to Python.
He has a lot of passion and it shows. Also, he is awesome sales man to enterprises. Personally I like guys like him.

You put 5 geeks in a room and one guy like him to motivate and keep them happy once a week and rest of the week doing sales. Great combo :)
I use a 2009 MacBook Air with 128GB SSD as my only computer with a screen. (i.e. Everything else is headless)

A few things tax the machine:

1. Streaming video, especially flash, and especially when you multitask it.

2. HDMI out. I like to plug my Air into an HDTV and stream video using VLC. Sometimes this will overheat and start skipping.

3. There is lowered responsiveness when the Air is doing a backup to Time Capsule.

4. The Ethernet is not as fast as a normal PC, which can be kind of obnoxious sometimes.

5. If I put it on the bed covers for too long it overheats and slows down. Likewise for couches and occasionally my lap.

All in all I'm happy with this setup, and I use many big apps concurrently: Photoshop, Word, Mathematica, Eclipse, lots of PDFs, iTunes, Safari, VLC, SABnzbd+, as well as many other less taxing apps like Aquamacs, EverNote, Mail.. all concurrently.

The Air has never had a problem for me running standard apps. The issues always crop up when I'm trying to watch video (esp flash) or doing large amounts of i/o either through WiFi or ethernet.