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Ask HN: Whats your least pressed key?
I want to know the least pressed key on your keyboard. Mine is the pause[break] key. whats yours?
> It hurts and is potentially embarrassing and SCARY, because it is a prelude to rape,

Agreed. It is also highly unprofessional.

> which in turn is a prelude to death and/or babies

I think this is a little bit over the top, there are short-term birth control pills and most rapist do not kill their victim, and this is no longer the case:

> Fathers have killed daughters for getting raped, husbands have killed or abandoned their wives for getting raped.

Accusing someone with rape has been used as a weapon for a long time now, I don't think it's that surprising, that a lot of people are skeptic.
I'll change the Ruby tool bit. I mentioned elsewhere in the post that it's a great tool whichever language you're using.

Regarding tools other than Chef for provisioning, while there is a Python clone somewhere Chef will very likely have the ability to use other languages for recipes very soon. I've seen at least Java and Python mentioned.
That's not really an argument against my policy of globally disabling JS though is it. I have enabled it for this website, but it shouldn't have been necessary.

Besides, who knows what might happen to the website in future? He might add some premium services and require a login?

The important question is this though, how well does this website work with screen readers? I'm guessing blind people are out of look here, but I know there are a few blind people who hang around here so I'm hoping one of them gives it a try and reports back.
The right click alternative on Keyboard.
It's funny, but I have thought about going the dating site route.

Looking at the state of gay oriented dating sites, they all pretty much cater to one-night hookups and there are folks in the LGBT community that aren't into that and instead want to make a relationship of it.

I have been playing with the idea of building that type of site. Not only will it fill a need I see, but I could play with web telephony and stuff like that.
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Oh indeed, right tool for the job, I'm 100% with you there.

The issue is, from the NoSQL camp we hear about "schema rigidity". We hear "SQL doesn't scale". These things simply aren't true! It's as if someone had only ever written .BAT files on DOS and thought that all its limitations applied to Python as well (and went and told experienced professional Python devs that!).

There have been "object repositories" such as Versant for a long time. The NoSQL types seem oblivious to these too.
It doesn’t make sense to me how the government didn’t ban the paint after hearing that the researchers were assigning monetary value to lives. The usual mistaken followup to “you’re assigning monetary value to a life?” is “but a life is sacred and precious, and all measures should be taken to save them, no matter the cost”, not “money is incomparably more valuable than mere lives”. Some people say that that human-overvaluing mentality partially led to the TSA implementing so many annoying security protocols in airports, because it thought “yeah, these security checks may be really annoying or demeaning, but if they save just one more life they will be worth it”.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to James Madison - October 28, 1785
People might be interested in DoubleDown (http://blog.devstructure.com/introducing-doubledown) from the DevStructure guys. It uses rsync in a similar background manner and it's designed with this exact problem in mind.
And to deliver measurable success, some sort of domain expertise in a business area is needed. My answer to anyone asking which language/platform should be learned is; pick your favourite, get to an average level, have basic knowledge of all others and after that work on acquiring business domain expertise.
Some guys are serious to death.

First, I am not afraid to call a woman who sleeps with 50 men in ~5 years a slut. Even if it costs me karma on HN, lol.

Second, I dunno what happened there, and if there was an incident, the victim should have gone to police and that'd be it. She could have even written a post about how she made a stand for all the women rights. As of now, whole case looks like pure attention-whoring.

Third, I am not a goddamn rapist, and I am quite sure that we, men, should protect our women.

P.S. I found another gem:

It hurts and is potentially embarrassing and SCARY,
because it is a prelude to rape, which in turn is a
prelude to death and/or babies.

Wait, what? SCARY babies, oh my gosh.
I find this a very strange question. It would work the same way most other websites work...

You'd enter a domain into a form, hit the submit button, a new page would load with the results.

It would look slightly less fancy because all the results would return at once and there would be no animation.

However, you'd then add some javascript to the page to overload the submit button and make it use js to retrieve the results to get the current effect. So most users would have the fancy bits instead.
OK, so that's about 50 feet per gallon, using imperial gallons instead of US gallons (assuming they used dry gallons rather than wet ones).

Hmmm. Maybe it's better to say 1.5 chains to the peck to avoid confusion over the different gallons.
Google and Facebook have all the money and talent required to deploy epic Oracle systems. Instead they use GFS and BigTable and Cassandra and HBase and Scribe and Hadoop and MySQL and a host of other systems. Amazon has massive Oracle deployments, so plenty of money and knowledge on the topic, but still built Dynamo and S3.

There are billions of dollars riding on this for them. Instead of insisting they are wrong, ask yourself why they might be right.
[edit to the link] good you ask, but as a kind remark, you could as well have started your journey by googling what you asked and you'd have found a lot of stuff by yourself including: http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html and college.html Showing you did an effort to find, before asking, increases chance others will help you.
Personally I edit the code on my mac using gvim and run and use git on the VM. I've used ExpanDrive to mount the directory from the VM for editing previously but I've been moving towards using vagrant with it's NFS shares.
Man that is such an inspiration. I am gonna hack around too. I wanna have a minimal room - so I can focus and enjoy being around.

Right now it's a typical teen's super messy room. Hmm Where to start? =/
There is this one:

http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html
The assumption is that Indie sales hurt XBLA sales. XBLA pay good money to get on the platfrom/certification, XBLIG's pay peanuts to do so.
Schema rigidity is a canard originating with the same folks who think a hash is a type system. I encourage you to dismiss the folks who say things like that, rather than dismissing some very useful technologies.
If the answer is "Spend millions on Oracle", people will be motivated to ask a different question.
I rate it 0 out of 10.
All I can see is "No input file specified."
The problem is that over-engineering often has its roots in the very same drives that brought many of us into technology in the first place: the opportunity to work on something "really cool." As a developer turned manager, I've seen both sides of the coin, and it is a delicate balancing act. You don't want to completely stifle innovation (and morale) by being hard-headed about over-engineering. Conversely, you want to direct that energy appropriately so that you don't create a culture of "under-engineering" and unhappy developers.
On my Macbook: The eject key. (At least the function keys get some usage due to their secondary functions, although I never use the keyboard lighting controls either)

On my Model M: Scroll Lock
Sorry, but, again, what’s wrong with sleeping with 50 people by 25? I don’t get it. Or is “slut” supposed to be a compliment? What do you mean when you call someone a “slut”?

(Oh, and let me hand over to you this toddler real quick since you are so damn fond of babies.)
Very, very cool. The fact I'm instantly down my CC info and $60 on three purchases is some incredibly convincing concept validation for myself, but the potential here, both in terms of impact and unique experiences, is unimaginably cool.

One important thing to note, you need to make your referral codes and messaging (i.e. refer a friend and you both win) more prominent. I told my friend about the site and when he asked me for a referral code, I had no clue what he was talking about, since apparently you don't get a referral code if you sign up in the purchase flow and I had to sign up with a secondary fake account to see what the deal was. So you probably want to:

1) Make the referral code actually accessible on the account page (It currently isn't there at all? Unless I'm in some n-way test?)

2) Make the referral code available on every completed transaction. Personally, I'd also recommend tossing in that cute turtle that appears during signup :)

3) Send the referral code, and whole welcome email, for that matter, to the user if they come in through the payment flow.

4) Add an entry on how to find your personal referral code in the FAQ.

Given the empirical success of such tactics (PayPal especially comes to mind) and especially given that many people will want to enjoy these experiences with their friends, you really want to make sure the user is aware of the promotion. Obviously, there are some considerations regarding the cost as you give out $10 and make less than 12% back after fees, but if you're going to run it on the traditional sign-up flow, you might as well put it everywhere. Especially since people who sign up via the purchase flow or make a purchase would be much more likely to refer their friends, since they've already validated the service.

Anyways, congratulations on the launch. See you guys at lunch ;)
scroll lock. I actually stuck a big red panic button[1] over the light on my old keyboard.

[1] http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/panic-button/index.html
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This whole thing was more like - let's build a random profile. Nothing that I didn't already know.

Interviews are supposed to give a reflection of a person, their thinking process or get an insider scoop. Nothing here.

EDIT: Sorry people, just saw that interview aimed to know the tools he used to get things done. So my bad!
I did this last year: http://daeken.github.com/Dyna6502Asm/

I took the awesome 6502 emulator from http://6502asm.com/ and converted it to accumulate instructions from each basic block, turn them into functions, caches them, and let the JIT do its magic. While I never benchmarked it, I'd say it got between a 5x and 20x speedup on most things. It breaks certain self-modifying code (never bothered to add cache invalidation), but overall it works well.
Like I say, in business there is no cheap or expensive. There's worth the money, or not.

Yes, Oracle costs money. But so does "rolling your own". How much of their VCs cash has say Twitter spent doing that? Yes, Oracle "locks you in". But your own legacy code locks you in whatever platform you've built it on.
Sorry, but, again, what’s wrong with sleeping with 50
people by 25

Honestly, I don't get it what's okay with that. How can I believe that my future wife won't cheat if she changes her partners every now and then? Are you going to tell your daughter "know what? it's not a big deal if you sleep with every stranger".

Since you asked for definition, I went to wikipedia and copied it:

Slut or slattern is a pejorative term meaning an
individual who is sexually promiscuous. The term
is generally applied to women and used as an insult
or offensive term of disparagement, meaning "dirty
or slovenly."

And no, slut is in no way a compliment. I can't take a morality lecture from someone whose moral principles are far from ideal.
My MacBook Pro 17" non-chiclet keyboard has a small 'enter' key on the bottom row between the right command key and the cursor keys. I don't think I've ever touched it. Newer models have an 'option' key there, so it must not have been popular.
There will always be Xubuntu for older computers though.
In the context of a JIT, you have a tradeoff to make: do you exhaust all possibilities for optimization, or do you do as little as possible to get something running. That's why you have things like Hotspot, where they initially do as little as possible to get things rolling, then optimize heavily as it finds bottlenecks. This is no easy task.
I will no bother with this challenge, since there is no a clear good solution. I would find more interesting working with semantically rich documents in which your work can be tested to measure the quality of your solution. That is, a good work must always gain enough recognition to be pursued.
If you look at it as a group of kids figuring it out as they go, it's an interesting adventure to follow. If you look at it as a group of kids running a business, it's embarrassing.

The fact that they hit so many completely unexpected hurdles really makes it seem like they had no idea what they were getting into. Not a good thing when you're taking people's money up-front.
In the specific case of FlockDB, that's actually not the case as the shards are modular. SQLShard is one implementation. There was an experimental Redis shard implementation, as well. You might be both overestimating the cost of building things like this and underestimating the enormous drag of using closed source components in these systems. If you've personally built online services this big with Oracle, well done. What did it cost?
And whole different matter is about babies. A healthy woman, who doesn't want babies because they'll make her fat, does not deserve to live. Her parents gave birth to a worthless creature. European and US people have total demographic disaster because of such women.
What framework do you want to use?
Just to point out that each of these things were ingenious hacks at the time they were invented.
On my Thinkpad tablet, the lil blue Fn key next to the left-hand Ctrl. It's not actually necessary for F# keys...I have those. It seems to turn the F keys into other things...basing on the icons, I'm guessing sleep, alternate display toggle, brightness controls, eject (eject what? this computer has no optical drive).

Actually...no. I hit that key on accident sometimes aiming for Ctrl. Not sure if it counts as being on the keyboard, but the least pressed button on this computer is the 'Access IBM' button. I don't even have the tools or whatever it's supposed to launch installed, this laptop's been completely wiped and replaced with win7.

Scroll lock and Pause are definite runners up.
Thanks for all those advices.
So bootstrapping a company to sell stuff to big companies seems pretty hard ( being backed by investors would relieve big companies I presume ).
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The site is about interviewing people asking them what tools they use. I think that is achieved in this.
I'm agnostic, which is why Dawkin's dogma annoys me so. He argues as blindly as the religious right wing, IE out of faith. His theories on god have not been proven, and as yet cannot be proven so he relies on faith that he is right.

The only reason God exists is because people respond to the idea of it. Dawkins like everyone else in the atheist religion of his is waging a crusade against something that will be forgotten with education, but they promote it with idiocy - if you make people choose sides, they'll choose the comfortable one over the rational one.

There's also a way to deal with the devout who are blindly substituting 'god' as a cover for their needs. Give them a few anti-psychotics and see if it clears 'god' up for them like the Schizophrenics who believe god is telling them to kill people.
Google and Facebook aren't good examples, because they have no hard transactional requirements for their main applications. If a web page isn't included in one search result but is in the same search executed on a different node 5 minutes later, who would notice or care? If a status update gets dropped, it might be annoying, but you can always just resend it.

If you want to compare like for like, ask why Visa isn't using MongoDB for authorizations, or why American Airlines isn't using Redis for reservations.
Nothing superfluous here. He's a minimalist.
I will since you said please.

I don't want to give up an email route to my inbox just to see what you can do with my site.

I would, however if I were actively shopping for such a thing.

If for some reason I think I should be browsing the .com version with Firefox, ie from a Google search, it lets me stay stuck there- it tells me the browser's wrong, but there's no way out.
If I didn't know any better I'd think you're design was crap & move on.

I was surprised at the entry requiring my participation in policing the site, as the last entry in the TOS states. Are you going to boot me for not clicking the 'flag spam' button? Maybe that's standard & I've just scanned over it until now, but today it seems silly.

I don't know about your market, so site UX is about the best I can do for you.
I’m sorry, but I really don’t know where you get the impression that she sleeps with random strangers. She didn’t say that.

I also don’t know how your personal preference for partners with few or no prior sexual partners comes into play here. You may like (just an example) long, monogamous, heterosexual relationships, other people may not, and that’s just fine.
Well, he multiplied both numbers by a huge number and included far too many digits, obscuring what it means. Here comes the advantage of SI (notice that only multiplication by 10 is needed):

29573.53l/100km = 0.29573531 l/m =~ 0.3 l/m

A way to visualize this is that if you put the fuel needed in a pipe along the route the vehicle rides, then the pipe has a cross section of 3 cm^2 (hey those SI units are handy!).
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Actually it has to do with the fact that the newspaper doesn't sport bylines on their articles.

In blog entries they use initials since a variety of writers write for the blogs and to avoid confusion.
Special reports have bylines too. While there may be contributing authors for a report it's byline is by the author responsible.
Some guest articles are also signed, for example if Tony Blair writes a piece.
The final article with a byline is the farewell piece by an outgoing editor in chief. Alas, this is a rare event, since the newspaper (which actually insists on referring to itself as a newspaper) had 16 editors in chief since it's founding.
That was in 1843.

The paper's point is that it's a product of all editors and should speak with the voice of the paper. Thus the "Your correspondent" moniker.

They certainly never shied away from opinion, or tried to cloak uncomfortable opinion in weasel words.
The keyword here is "constructed" or "engineered" language. You can find the whole lot there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages

Try stenography.
Nice article. Adds another dimension to the Innovator's Dilemma

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/11/04/understanding-...
Once you have hash joins, shards start to look awfully restrictive compared to partitions... MySQL (et al, I don't know about FlockDB) can freely shard because they're not losing functionality they don't have in the first place.

Maybe I'm not a good example because I've mainly worked in financial services, but nearly every Oracle project I've worked on has been wildly profitable, and most have been at the level (in terms of transactional throughput, and in terms of features that were cheaper to buy than build) at which there are only really two choices, Oracle or DB2.
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So you are aware, yours is the traditional response. Somehow, doing what Google and Facebook do is "easy" because not everything requires transactions. This is false both because scale like that makes almost everything difficult, and because, as Google recently published, they are using transactions for their main application. NoSQL does not imply lack of transactions and transactions do not imply relational databases.

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html

"Databases do not meet the storage or throughput requirements of these tasks"

And Mongo or Redis? Come on, scro.
I'm not saying it hurts the theory, I personally don't have a problem with it. I'm just saying the absurdity of it on face value is something not many people are going to grasp or understand.

I'm agnostic, if someone says "Why are we here?" I say "Because you wouldn't be asking the question if we weren't." I ask these questions about the universe because I can. I'm sure there's some little alien critter on another planet who's asking "why are we the only ones here?" and I'm sure there's a few billion of myself in existence, likely in the extreme of beliefs from Religious-right-wing-sociopath to Atheist-left-wing-sociopath.

Although, then again, I'm a writer so I don't really need a multiverse to be that schizophrenic, I already have a family of people living in my head.
That's interesting, in his interview on Mixergy, PG was asked about investing in lifestyle businesses and he did not seem enthused - "there’s got to be an exit for it, equity holders to get any money. I mean, maybe — maybe in the future there is some model where companies pay dividends instead of an exit that like we’ve never tried to get anybody to do that, and we don’t have any real hopes about it. So, no."

Wonder if there's a change in outlook or something else we're missing?
other people may not, and that’s just fine.

Here's my point. That's not fine. Promiscuity is not the same as polygamy and promiscuity is a thing that should not happen in a healthy society.
Paul Graham has a screen smaller then mine and uses two software I didn't know existed which I will now check out, that's everything vaguely "interesting" I found in this.
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I take my hat off to you, sir.
The Windows key
Depending on your usage, a terminal isn't necessarily minimalistic, apart from the visual side. I've known a lot of people who live in Excel, who could be deemed more minimalistic than a lot of Unix users, using umpteen command-line utilities, a few ad-hoc programming and expression languages…

(Not saying that pg does it that way. For all I know, he might just use vi and mzscheme after all)