skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not guaranteed. I have had more than one customer experience hardware failure, resulting in a corrupt or suspect SQL Server database, that was unrecoverable via normal means.

In each of the cases where the customer had a true standby system, implemented via replication, log shipping, or mirroring, they were able to failover with little (log shipping) or no data loss.

In the cases where they had a single, standalone server, the option was to restore the last known good backup, or sent the database files had to Microsoft for analysis and repair.

ANY system (RDBMS, NoSQL, or otherwise), should have a standby replica to prevent data loss. If you data is stored on a single machine, you are doing it wrong.
It's a lot easier to give my parents a disc as a present.
I'm guessing that Mug produces bytecode very different from that which you would normally want to run through GWT, and therefore might not be a very representative benchmark.
Interesting, I was just tackling semaphores on Windows this past month. The result was an open source class, written in VB6, that uses semaphores to communicate across the user boundary in Windows. (http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=634635)
Should you outsource your social media accounts?
Allen Downey writes great books. It's hard for me to overstate that.
Basically none, and I like it that way. You know why?

> I imagine you could save a lot of money by optimizing apache/mysql rather than using the default configuration Heroku sets.

I really doubt this, that's why. Their entire life is making reliable systems for applications. Mine isn't. They know waaaaay more about this than I do.
Agreed. I typically default to a larger font size. An example of my blog font size: http://ryancole.co/just-another-page-full-of-lipsum

I think it's just easier to read, all around.
Too often, I really should focus more on doing stuff rather than reading about others doing their stuff.
No, by wire. No need to pay those kinds of credit card fees for such a large transaction.
Many distributions' version of Firefox comes with that disabled out of the box.
Thanks Google, but we're already happy with bit.ly. URL shorteners were hot a year ago. Now, not so much.
"students benefit by being exposed to students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds"

You got any evidence about the trade-offs on that? In my experience, the very diverse student body of my alma mater formed closed cliques (racially, nationally) and the wide variance in backgrounds caused most, if not all, classes to slow down to the lowest common denominator.
Words with Friends, Facebook & Apple
I understand this isn't really comprehensive, but money wise, 2 people spent about 1.5 years on the apps and finally made 100k. Seems like they are just starting to get decent ROI and the battle for profitability is yet ahead.
Australia is marked as 'under surveillance' (together with Russia and Turkey if I'm reading the map right). I don't know what this is meant to be.

Currently Australia does not have a mandatory filter (and given the political climate is unlikely to get one). Locally hosted sites which host material with high levels of sexual and violent content (which would be illegal under normal publication laws) can be given a takedown notice, but this is a paper tiger as the material can be moved to an overseas host. Australia has the normal range of laws against possession or distribution of material such as child pornography (and normal IP laws).

I don't know of anything currently in law which would materially distinguish Australia from Europe or the US; and in comparison to Europe we have fewer restrictions on, for example, Nazi material.
It's not really random, though. I made a comment elsewhere in this thread, but Mongo is _almost_ a freaking Object database as far as Ruby is concerned. I could do it either way, but doing it with an RDBMs feels like BDSM compared to the loose and fast feel of developing with Mongo.

That said, I always try to use what's right. I don't care how easy it is to store credit card numbers is... I'll just use BrainTree's Vault product instead. ;)
3DTin uses Catmull-Clark subdivision to create smooth surfaces. Details here: http://blog.3dtin.com/smoothing-or-subsurfacing - 3DTin Developer
Almost every extension I've tried has worked fine on Firefox 4, and certainly between the 3.x releases. While you might be right that this should be considered occasionally, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.
From what one of the Geek Squad guys told me, they actually sell their Apple products 'from' Apple (IE Apple gives them stock to sell, rather than Best Buy buying it to sell).

I'm not sure how accurate his statement was, it wasn't exactly a thing to verify with his manager. It's certainly interesting if true, and would add credence to Apple expanding the Genius Bars into Best Buy through a bigger cooperative deal.
The NYC technorati feel that with enough investments it will one day usurp the Valley as the technology hub of the world.

I'm pretty certain that will NOT happen and it will be more widespread. In fact, places like Austin with it's climate, the young people it attracts, atmosphere and relatively reasonable prices have a greater chance of becoming a global tech hub than NYC does. NYC has way too many other things going on to be heavily focused on tech.
From http://www.phpfog.com/pricing:
"We will provide simple one-click installations of some of the most popular PHP applications out there."

I'd say that taking a 'Heroku clone' approach might work against them.

Their biggest feature may be the ability to easily install and deploy pre-existing PHP products like Joomla, Drupal, vBulletin, etc.

People that use these commercial PHP projects are likely to appreciate such a service for many reasons. In a way, they are capturing a lot of the value that cPanel offers.
WePay can handle the bills/rent side of things. http://www.wepay.com
And last I looked, that's how Chrome/Linux works too, at least on Ubuntu. When you download and install the deb, it'll set up apt sources so you get updates through the system.
The number and rate at which people are choosing 10+ is almost frightening. However, it's definitely predictable - as well as comforting to know that we are not alone.

jasonshen brings up a good point by saying that the data will be biased towards the people who check HN more often. This is true and, while I don't expect this to be a formal, or even accurate, poll in any way whatsoever, it seems as if it has reached the front page - which may help. For example, if this stays there a little longer, we'll have a better idea of the number of people who check 10+ times a day in comparison to those who check 1-5.
That might be an 80% solution, but it still means that you're tying your presentation to the way that the computer needs to have things ordered. What if all of the parts need explained, but I really want to explain the <do stuff> before the <set up> and <tear down>?
It's a good way of explaining it to people as many more have heard of Heroku. It's not like their directly competing so I can't see a negative side.
Like the service, hate the name. Though I personally would like it better if it included plug-and-play framework too. (Heroku has Rails, for example)
I can do the same. I'll check once a day for say a week, then I'll post frequently and check several times a day (considering I'm away from a computer for my job, it's a feat when I can check 5+ times) and then randomly I won't check for a few days to a week.
I particularly like the additive mixing. Fantastic implementation.
Also - how much more frequently do you check right after you've posted an article or reply?
Did you actually read the article? retraining other devs to use Ruby was identified as one solution. Nevertheless, bringing new developers in who need training is not a zero-cost process compared to hiring an experienced developer.
Too often
I'm not disagreeing with you, all I'm saying is that SQL Server databases are built from the ground up to resist data corruption and does exceedingly well at it. Not so with NoSQL data stores.
As a Square customer through the non-profit cooperative I help run, I can tell you that we chose Square because they are a quick and inexpensive method of accepting swiped card payments from our members at a monthly meeting. Many providers offer mobile payment solutions, but at a cost of $25-50 per month in addition to the discount fees. Square's lack of a monthly charge (even with the slightly higher discount rate) is a big deal for an org with a sub-$1000 budget.

Plus, they accomplished something PayPal couldn't: Creating an account for us that didn't result in a subsequently-frozen account and reams of paperwork being faxed to an abyss.
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Citing air conditioning doesn't mesh very well with describing the weather as awesome. Lows of >70 with humidity mean you're going to need some AC help sleeping, too.
How are the other taxes? I know that some Oregonians I know often talk about how no-sales-tax Oregon has very high property tax to compensate.
I think accuracy in prediction happens when you're exposed to a lot of information in aggregate over a long period of time. You begin to see attitudes change and trends unfold at their earliest stages, sometimes even beforehand (backlashes to a popular concept for example).

It's more subconscious than conscious. You just have to let all this information wash over you. There's no way you can mentally grapple with it all.
Konsole does this automatically, at least on openSuSE linux.
Please make a screensaver out of this!
I just used Google to purchase Chinese food takeout for two
It sometimes work for me when hitting ctrl-shift rather than just shift
Weren't we talking about livelihoods? Of course people have hobbies... For a very large percentage of people, their livelihood and their passion are not the same thing, and it's mistaken to use programmers like Linus as representative of most people or what would happen in something like Communism.
I subscribe to the RSS feed. Pull it every hour. I guess that's 24x a day...
Technically speaking, we'd made about $40K in app revenue from our previous apps before we launched iMockups. That $100K is just iMockups revenue, not total for the company.

But you are correct that it was the best ROI so far for any of our apps.
Back in the day I used to have fun with my TRS-80 by hand-typing in a program to infinitely looping poking a random value into a random memory location. Some of the time the program would stop because it changed the BASIC source code, sometimes it just...stopped. It was just RAM and ROM, I'd disconnect the cassette storage before doing it, so it was harmless.
I thought it was well known by now that the PS3 is the only set top sized device to have the computational power to properly handle all that the blu-ray media can throw at it.

After all, media playback is a streaming decoding problem, and the PS3 is (in)famous for how the Cell Architecture is well adapted to that problem!
As a follow-up, I should post:

Poll: Are you ashamed of how much time you spend on HN?

However, that would be pointless as I think we all know the answer...
Property tax is 3%/yr, re-assessed annually. Own a 300k house and you will pay 9k/yr in property tax, even if you don't make 100k.
Why should he have to point out anything at all about how men can put it into action? Presumably close to half the people who use OKC are women looking to attract men•, so the message to them ought to be fine.

•modulo gays and lesbians, of course.
Does anyone else get nauseated reading corporate speak like this?
We're not lowering the bar on who we hire. Process + skill = lots gets done. I was up and running my first day and released code my first week. Work and requirements are decomposed and estimated as a team so when it's time to code it flows quickly and everybody is on the same page.

The only change to our hiring expectations is to open up to great developers that don't already have Ruby/Rails skills. Aside from that, we are working on the big hiring push as a creative engineering problem. I'm on the team doing the push and we've been given lots of freedom, resources (both time and money), and responsibility. And there are many. Ore initiatives that promise the same opportunity.
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I'm not sure actually.
I'm going to lie and say 5-10 because I hope to god its not much more than that.
If I tries to shorten the url of http://google.com several times, goo.gl always give back different result. I just wonder will goo.gl merge theses url together sometime later?

This interesting found implies how goo.gl is designed. They prefer writing directly to avoid duplication check and random seek caused by the check. And they though most of the urls are cold so it is not essential to merge them together to keep the hot cache small.

Or they assume nobody wants to play the system in this way. :-)
Haha. That was probably the wrong question to ask. I agree Nobel Prizes have a greater positive effect on our society than National Championships. But, the point I was trying to make was...

Do you believe that USC should "follow a similar path" and begin to emulate Caltech or are they allowed to be happy with the success that they've had in their own respective areas? My take from this article was that Caltech was the one and only true example of a successful college and all others are doing it wrong. Can we not have some schools that aren't focused solely on the hard sciences and welcomes students who may want something else out of their college experience such as a diversity of backgrounds and ideas, a path to professional sports, or a focus on the arts?
>But, ugrad school is not supposed to be so challenging that determined students "could not make it".

Some students will never make it there no matter how hard they work. If one had to take a "test prep" course to do well on the SATs, then realistically Caltech is not the right school for him. And I'd never be an olympic athlete, no matter how hard I tried.
i like the idea but i dislike the execution of it (so far, having tried it).

it isn't as complex to deal with a php app, but it can be stressful to play server admin on an app that gets to be popular. simply not having to worry about setting up a server, optimizing it, scaling it, backing it up, etc. is just nice.
I wish I had more upvotes for this comment. Its crazy to me how many people want to cry bubble 2.0 when all of these companies are turning good profits.

The dotcom bubble was all about people throwing a bunch of money at companies that had no clear or proven plan of success
The usual benefit of porcelain is that it's on top of metal, and the metal takes a magnet. So if you're going to be putting something on the board that would benefit greatly from magnets, like, say, a timeline that you update everyday by moving a series of magnetic pointers, then porcelain is for you.

OTOH, if you're just going to write and erase as is most typical, melamine is nice because when somebody inevitably comes and writes in permanent marker on the board, you don't feel bad throwing it away for a new one.
Congratulations to all participants! I would like to see more apps implementing diferent ideas around indextank. Next contest? :)
Square does seem poised for success/acquisition but m confused.

Square makes money on credit card processing right? So they have a revenue model. What exactly do they need $25m for?

I'm 100% sure they have a plan. I guess what I'm really saying is there must be more than meets the eye.
Put that in a cocktail. :)
3 times a day. Is that bad?
What kind of developers are you hiring? I may misunderstand what Groupon does (though I have both offered coupons and consumed coupons via Groupon) but apart from tooling for your sales staff, what kind of 'rearchitecting' needs to be done? Wouldn't expanding the sales staff be a better investment?
If you're a business owner or remote freelancer, it may net you more money to be headquartered in a no-income-tax state (e.g. Texas, Florida, Nevada, Washington). This is assuming you're charging similar prices as your competitors based in SF/SV or NYC.

If you're a single employee, your best bet is to live somewhere with high salaries (California or New York) and be frugal with your expenses.

If you're an employee that's married and/or have kids, I don't know. I don't have that experience yet. Best to ask someone who does.

--> BUT income tax is just one of many state taxes. For an aggregate tax %, see The Tax Foundation's report on State "Tax Burdens." Scroll down in the doc to 2008. http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/336.html

Here's some of the state tax burdens:

* Nevada: 6.6%

* Florida: 7.4%

* Texas: 8.4%

* Washington: 8.9%

* Oregon: 9.4%

* Massachusetts: 9.5%

* California: 10.5%

* New York: 11.7%
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Why is Shopify listed under the apps? I always thought Shopify was a hosted rails app.
Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard
I think the assumption is that movies on iTunes are not available on day 1 of theatrical release and that you don't have a 70-foot TV. Standard movie ticket prices would indeed be too high to bear if the movies were all long gone in other theaters and you watched on a 32-inch screen.
> Also no one is streaming 5.1 surround sound yet either.

While NF streaming is great, this is one thing that it's really missing.
"But you join others on the more dubious side of the issue when you cite errors like this as excuses or justifications for vastly more abusive practices elsewhere, rather than violations of civil liberty that shouldn't be tolerated by self-respecting people anywhere."

Or to put it more bluntly: "America sucking is no excuse for China sucking" ;)
i hope the funding will allow you to create a free plan, like heroku. i like the idea of whats provided. i don't like the pricing structure.
I wonder if there's some statistical technique you could use to correct for this..
Nook Color meet Ubuntu, Ubuntu meet Nook Color
It's the equivalent of defining a term. You could offer a synonym, or you could circumlocute.
I was just answering a hypothetical that stated that the student clearly hates school. I took that as a given and worked from there.
Wow, I've never seen such a high rating on Amazon! Thanks, I will definitely buy, and I can make my judgement between your method and your detractor's.
Tell HN: Increase your crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools
I found that only a small percentage of my site was getting included in the Google index even after submitting a sitemap, however after putting the crawl rate upto the maximum (i.e. allowing Google to hit my server hard) my entire site was pulled in.

In theory changing the rate should have no impact on how much of your site is crawled, but in practice it does.

I'm guessing Google allocates crawling your site a block of wall time and then stops crawling after that period, hence increasing the rate Google can crawl at allows it to reach more of your site.

The end result for my startup CoderStack was dramatic, search traffic increased by an order of magnitude (roughly 10x).
Insufficient bandwidth at home for great quality, plus better selection at the video store. Also, it's kind of fun to stop at the video store with a friend and browse the shelves.
My comment was more a reference to the fact that my original post, and most other posts that express inflationary views, are rapidly downvoted.

This opinion is very unpopular amongst the Keynesians/deflationists at HN, who prefer downvoting as a means of expressing disagreement.
not necessarily--i typically click on at least one link every time, but if i only check it once every evening, i don't waste time on garbage links, and the comments are already mature
I would be curious to know which two Blu-Ray players the author purchased. Personally, having a PS3 has made my Blu-Ray experience rather flawless. I haven't had a single issue. Great picture quality from Blu-rated films on the AVS forums. Bonus-material is more or less the exact same as DVD with the interactive ones being mostly a waste of time.
Did you ever finish the original game?

Did you ever consider outsourcing the artwork?
Silk + electricsheep-like selection = screensaver

http://electricsheep.org/
8.25% sales tax in Texas (8.25% in CA, 8.875% in NYC).
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I think I've just been convinced not to go to Caltech.
Actually I check HN via Google Reader, and I open the actual page only when [I think] the discussion around a link may interest me.
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Originally it wasn't suppose to be just a piece of paper and actually was worth something. The greenback at one time was a certificate that you could exchange for 1 oz silver. I hate linking to wikipedia but they have a decent article about the history of united states paper money: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_do...
Why doesn't pg write a script to show this histogram across all users? I hope every hit is logged.
Does anybody have a clear answer as to nVidia's right to make Intel chipsets for i7, etc?

"Intel will pay Nvidia for access to its patent portfolio, which includes its GPU and supercomputing technology. In addition to the cash, Nvidia will also get access to parts of Intel's patent portfolio, including patents covering microprocessors and chipsets. However, the deal excludes proprietary Intel x86 designs, and some other areas like flash memory." [1] Unfortunately, this doesn't really clear it up for me...

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17059232?nclick_check...
Fragment. Damned good device.

Written language has more legitimate uses than completely formed sentences. Pronouns can be troublesome enough, figuring out the antecedent, without requiring yet more context analysis.
Note, though, the app is now generating a fairly steady income. If the app does not require much maintenance effort on their part they can go on and work on their next app.

I think that might be the path for most app developers to profitability--having many apps that generate steady income, rather than having a big hit.
lightoverhead,

I agree with the sentiment of your post - there is no reasonable way to censor a fundamental technical topic such as Bayesian statistics. I find myself wondering what the author did not post from his book that was questionable.

However, the tone of your post makes me wonder if you are a shill paid by the Chinese government to counter commentary critical of China on the Internet.

If I am mistaken, you have my sincerest apologies. The actions of your government have caused me to become a skeptic.

HackerNews,

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JH14Ad01.html

In action, in relation to the underage Chinese gymnast in 2008 Olympics: http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/09/yang-yun-speaks-out.ht...
* Rather, they sought out qualified women and recruited them, much the way other schools recruit athletes*

that is exactly what affirmative action is.
These two sentences seem contradictory to me.

They don't sound remotely contradictory to me. Heat and humidity FTW, as far as I'm concerned. Cold weather bites. :-(
this is what MongoDBs $rename operator is for...
I suspect using a square steel tube would work better because it gives the pipe a very tiny bit of give relative to a round tube. It would allow a smaller hole and faster extrusion without cracking.
He'll certainly miss the incredibly good strategic portion of the book, but don't you think "perverted the meaning" is a little strong? It's about systemizing the execution of customer development instead of theorizing over it, and the OP is clearly someone who has had enough with the pie-in-the-sky "do your passion" advice, and wants some help Getting Stuff Done.

The rip-it-out-and-tack-it method will be less effective than proper use of the book, but more effective than spending 2 years thinking about it at a theoretical level.