skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both this interview and the post (http://www.nosqldatabases.com/main/2010/12/9/sharing-lifes-j...) summarizing his presentation at MongoSV are worth a read for a few reasons:

- Great use case for MongoDB. Shutterfly is using MongoDB to store the metadata (folder paths, tags, etc) for all uploaded pictures. This falls into one of of the sweet spots for MongoDB - dealing with large amounts of semi-structured data.

- Why MongoDB matters to relational database users (Kenny is a long time Oracle and Postgres user, and worked at eBay/PayPal).

- What the path could look like for migrating large mission-critical applications from a RDBMS to MongoDB (or any NoSQL database).

- Assessment of pros and cons of putting MongoDB into production.

(disclaimer: I work with the MongoDB/10gen team)
"No college will actually do this because transparency goes directly against their interests"

This is simply false. Plenty of universities publish employment surveys with salaries by major. For an example, see the University of Pennsylvania's Career Services Web site. The fact that the author makes this statement lightly says a lot about how careful he is.
Thanks Alain, it was a pleasure working with you in the past.
APT/synaptic etc. don't 'auto-update' installed software. Some manual intervention is required. However it's possible to update all your software in one go, with one command. That's a great feature.
I don't think anyone wants to filter sites that could be gamed with "100s of votes". We want to filter sites that will require tens of thousands of votes to get rid of.
That never happens. Unless you start mucking around yourself.
BLAGGER FAIL.

The site form don't even work, yet you are all over this post with a +++++ reco

You just lost our business...
($15/month data + $20/month phone subsidy)(24 months) + $49 = $899

$20/month phone subsidy based on difference between T-mobile "Even More Plus" and "Even More" plans.
Please add .obj export. That format is easy, free and widely supported.
Countries are the new Companies
Selecting Research Ideas for a Project can Occasionally be Overwhelming
There are many reasons as to why students need to come up with good research ideas. The ideas generated for example, will show the student’s prowess at the task assigned. Therefore, students should take extra care to ensure that they come up with the most impressive research ideas.
Button on the right side of the page: http://playground.mobily.pl/jquery/mobily-blocks/demo.html
There's a demo button in the right sidebar, it's easy to miss and I think it would be better to have an actual link in the post itself
I click Order One and get:

Something is not right.

Profile not found.

Not to be mean but that doesn't reflect well
True, but as it stands, someone's ranking can be destroyed by not playing the black hat SEO game when your competitors are and allowing their crappy spam filled site to outrank you. Swings and roundabouts.
awesome! can you include opt for larger icon sizes like 256 for iphones?
Very sorry! I just fixed it!
NS Basic was actually around long before Palm OS, starting with the Newton. (!) We think /App Studio is our best yet.
I highly disagree. Native apps can provide way more better integration to your desktop and therefore improve the user experience. E.g. showing a consistent (growl) popup for tweets is not possible as far as i know from the web version. And that's just a very simplified example.
A very good reason to put demo on a separate page is to simplify the implementation and make the html/css readable. I love demos where I can view-source, read the few pertinent lines of CSS/JS and have the library working within minutes. Putting demos on the main project page means going through non-essential site-specific code.

E.g. see my http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ project demo on: http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/demo.shtml vs http://chir.ag/ - the search works throughout my site but it's very easy to see how to implement it on the simple demo page.
Bottom line: vaccines are good for society but fault lines occur because vaccines are not always good for individuals

Bottom line: vaccines are good for society but fault lines occur because some vaccines are not always good for individuals, however the MMR vaccine has been found completly safe.
> Who is "society" if not "all the patients?"

In your hypothetical case, the treatment is beneficial both for society and for the patient. On the other hand, if there is a 1 in 100 chance of a side effect versus a 1 in 1000 chance of getting a debilitating disease, the vaccination may not be good for the patient. But if the chance of getting the debilitating disease would be 1 in 10
without herd immunity, then the vaccination is good for society.

It's just that most of the benefits of the vaccination flow not to the patient but to the other people they don't infect, and transitively.
Please do not edit headlines unless necessary. Especially do not change the meaning to something false like this.
If I decide to pick up a new language, it'll probably be Scala. My only real reasoning for that is because the language is younger, which just seems more exciting. Now, if I could just find time or a reason to start using Scala then that would be awesome. :)
I used to think the same way as you do... I couldn't understand the point of using ruby or java (GWT) to generate javascript (and I didn't understand the popularity of rjs in rails). First, on the contrary to many, I actually like javascript and, second, I founnd that it's just didn't feel like a really good fit...

Now though, I use CoffeeScript but it's very different to the above. It was made with javascript in mind, it's more of a clean syntax for javascript, allowing you to code exactly like you would normally in javascript but in cleaner, neater way..
This is old news. Is there some reason this link has been posted ? What does @aegean wish to discuss.

I've used YAML quite a bit. However, unlike XML, content can get jumbled if there are say "-" inside a field. Complex content won't work with YAML. I once came across a ruby website builder that used YAML for its pages (i think it was called hobix, in the days of _why/redhanded). The YAML would get saved to a file, but when reading it would throw errors due to the content within a field.

So i ditched YAML and used pstore (unfortunately this is ruby specific and not a text file). XML has CDATA or similar tags to mark such data.
Short version: Anything Goldman invests in is being subsidized, so Facebook is being subsidized. Yawn
> My daughter had complications 10 days after her MMR in the UK.

A one-in-a-million coincidence happens 7,000 times in the world's population. There will always be anecdotes, correlation doesn't prove causation.
Maybe all he built was an MVP himself. Wouldn't that make sense :-)
You mean like Jordan Hubbard, the cofounder of FreeBSD (I know that FreeBSD is not Linux)?

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

Longtime UNIX users are not Apple's primary customer base.
I don't think there is any problem with a highly constrictive script if it works. Again, the teacher might be bored, but the purpose of school is educating the students, not entertaining teachers [1].

As for students advanced enough to make connections between metaphors in various literary works, go ahead and get off script. In fact, the few examples of DI scripts that I've seen do allow this - they tend to be flow charts, not screenplays. They instruct the teacher to skip/redo sections based on student performance on standardized diagnostic quizzes (i.e., go ahead and teach metaphors if they understand the use of commas.)

[1] Side note. I believe that "entertaining teachers" is why we tend to have so many literature classes, and a dearth of classes on factual writing. Teaching students to distill a spreadsheet+employee status reports into a department status report using only simple language is boring, but incredibly useful. I developed a lots of bad writing habits while an undergrad, which increased page count and obscured the vacuousness of my literary opinions. It took my PhD advisers about 2 years to beat those habits out of me.
Laissez-faire capitalism at work! No really, can somebody explain why institutions like this are allowed to have such advantages over their competition? This seems like it would be an easy political target FROM ALL SIDES of the aisle. "Big government" messes with the "free market" and the "rich get richer".

::EDIT::

Since I can't respond to my sub comments at this point, the first sentence, is, in fact, sarcasm.
How can you tell? The "black budget" is hidden in various DoD line items.
Hey Microsoft, Stop Making Us Dislike You
The examples you cite are mostly about physical actions (e.g. eating), your advice to adapt yourself to the world is sound because we can't change how the world and physics and matter work. However a search engine is a totally non-physical thing. Software has no body and essentially no limits like a pen does. We can make software do anything we want (almost). We can try to make software that understand how people ask questions. That's what we should do.

A better example would be languages. They are entirely intellectual and change all the time. Don't like speaking a certain way? Then change it, and it might take off! No reason to limit us all to Latin, we've invented all the other languages.
uh pretty cool, gonna contact you for a thing
> Desktop software isn't dominated by impulse buys the way phone apps are.

Ah, but perhaps that is true because there has been no desktop App Store. But now there is. Things may very well change.
Merit-based pay will never work as long as the unions and clueless administrators are in control.

Agreed. Sadly. :(
I don't get the hating on About.com. There are sub-sites there that I actually read intentionally, e.g., http://heavymetal.about.com/

This sure looks to me like real, original content.

EDIT: how about the courtesy of an explanation for the downvote?
Windows on ARM official, but leaves many questions unanswered
I'm curious, on what do you base your price? It seems impossible to me to realistically provide a fixed price on unknown specifications or are there any conditions (ex. max 40 hours of work)?
I don't think that's true, but the article is right there; anyone can read it critically for themselves.
Yes most of these are just tweaks. "How much reward for a X% increase?" "How much reward for an increase from Y% to Z%" etc. This can easily be adapted as time goes.
Prepare for takeoff
Videocon Mobile Phones
Videocon Mobile Phones in India Videocon has launched various new Videocon mobiles in India. All the Videocon mobiles are becoming popular in the Indian mobile market.
That sounds like what I want, maybe I can use that for myself.
The one difference that stands out to me is that sports coaches are allowed to pick their students for the teams and punish those who do not work. As opposed to most teachers which have limited control over who is in their classes and how to punish them if they are slacking ( besides bad grades ).
I want to publicly say thanks for the quick email you sent me to let me know that you replied and that the form was back up. I appreciate the responsiveness.
That analogy breaks down though. JavaScript is just as much of a high-level language as most of the things that are compiling to it. Most of the time the reason people don't just write in JavaScript is because they don't like it's _style_, rather then with C or assembly, where the goal is to work at a higher level to avoid writing boilerplate and managing things are are unnecessary.
apple fanboys were offended by my observations, my apologies :) (but i still stick to my point)
Ok fair enough, but it just as accurate as predicting the stock market then. Granted, now that we know we are in a prediction scenario, I'd be happy to take you up on a gentleman's bet that this won't happen in the next year or two.
Apple's leverage over Verizon and AT&T
It cannot be said that being anti-vaccine is a justified rational belief when it has an unjustified irrational basis. It is justified and rational to believe you're going 60mph when the speedometer says so because we all have experience with the reliability of speedometers, even though it's possible to be incorrect.

To use a different analogy, imagine I believed carpet was lava and stepping on it would burn me and break my mother's back. While this would explain why I'd avoid stepping on carpet, it would hardly be accurate to describe it as a justified, rational belief.
Because the resources are now dedicated to SEO?
Startup idea: Create a service around google custom search. Select the "Search the entire web but emphasize the selected sites" Then create a gui to allow people to prioritize or ban their search results.
I hear lots of smart people arguing that education can be improved by fired low performing teachers, breaking unions, enforcing discipline, raising test scores, etc. What I don't hear is lots of smart people saying, "Hey. I'm smart. I care about education. I think I'll become a teacher."

Not a single critic of education has come forward to say, I want to help by becoming a really great teacher.
Report Finds Skype Now Accounts for About 25% of International Call Minutes
This is lame dude.

You only fixed the prob but before that you had +++++ comments voting mine down?????????????

WTF?

Gamer????????????
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, but it's not a universal one. I did the same thing (4 years undergrad followed by 2 years living/working in the town) and had a great time. Other than reunions, I didn't do anything university-related after graduating, so it's not like I was just extending my college experience by two more years.
No problem! Fred Wilson at avc.com has some good posts on equity from the CEO/VC perspective that will help you start getting your head around it.

Things to remember: stock price is meaningless, company valuation is highly important. Baked in future dilution is important. For employees, vesting schedules are screamingly critical, as are terms and conditions as to what happens when you leave.

Very, very few employees make it through an entire startup lifecycle (either to mad growth, or stability, or death), so you should imagine when you read all the docs that you'll be leaving, possibly at a time when the founders are stressed or less friendly than they seem to be when you're signing the offer.
I vote for haskell. There are a couple of great online resources for free[1], and if you are at all like me, you'll benefit immensely from it, even though you never use it directly. Basically it is so weird that you have to learn new ways to think. The cool thing is those weird things end up being applicable in boring ruby/python/c type situations. Also, you start wishing everything had a badass type system, because you start seeing problems that could easily be solved by codifying them to ADTs and letting the type system sort out the rest.

1. Learn you a haskell for Great Good -- http://learnyouahaskell.com/

Real World Haskell -- http://www.realworldhaskell.org/
Rewarding teachers who work in poor performing (and usually more difficult) schools? Sounds like a benefit to me.

The rest is little details and tweaks. I agree we should reward teachers who maintain good grades.
Sorry, just to clarify a bit: it's not that I consider it unproductive because I don't like it, but because my personal productivity is much less for projects I am less engaged in. So I'm less productive due to the nature of the work.

And for me, developing the automated stuff is still not particularly interesting. I guess if I were designing cars, my interests (and thus most productive department) would lie with building the car itself (engine, body, drivetrain, etc.) rather than the safety system or QA. Maybe it's just my personality.
Local maxima and the perils of data-driven design
Yeah, Scala looks exciting, and from what little I've seen of its syntax, it looks different enough to be interesting. Plus there's an excellent online book that I could use to get started with it.
Two words: "corporate groupthink".

Microsoft won't be the first huge company to succumb as a result of adhering to the very outlook that made them big in the first place. (Anyone else remember IBM in the run-up to 1994?)
7-inch pocket gaming concept blows our minds six ways from Sunday
Gamer Alert!
Random quick first-sight design feedback, how I would do it or at least what I would give a try:

"Based on your specifications, I'll personally make you a MVP and design it within a couple of days for only $999." looks blotchy in my Opera 11. Get rid of the shadow. Minor.

"Order now" button looks absolutely awful. The text beneath is unreadable on my screen, almost invisible. Major.

Text | Image and in the next line Text | Text. There is a shift to the left and it looks weird. Screenshot has a light blur line around the border.

"— HURRY UP, I'M ACCEPTING ORDERS UNTIL JANUARY 10TH. —" -> "- Quick, I am accepting <other color and link to order>orders until January 10th</> -"
I would also move that line to the bottom. The user reads the page and then he might be interested. Also use a different link color, maybe green like the order button.

"Get a minimal viable product out there for only $999" -> "A Minimal Viable Product\nOnly $999"

Spaces before parenthesis in the "How does it work?" list.

Bottom lists need a different background. Something grey would work. Subtle texture.
I don't think changing the wording will solve the problem entirely. On the rare occasion that my wife receives spam via gmail she'll simply archive it. The action to hide an email you never did or no longer do care about is so common and so easily accessed by a well-learned key cut that it doesn't occur to her to do otherwise until after the fact; she is well aware that marking spam improve spam filtering, of course.
Julian Assange threatened The Guardian with a lawsuit for leaking
I just had to remove the Apple cookies. This is done by Opening Safari -> Preferences -> Security -> Cookies. Search for apple. Select them all. Remove Selected.
I think there's a pretty compelling argument that iTunes has become a monolithic abomination trying to do a thousand things. Split it up into more programs that each do something simple and well.
>99% of users are non-tech oriented.

I disagree. Let's call it 95%.

>Those users will not really be aware of the specific problems with the search results, they won't understand the concept of a good vs bad result and they certainly won't bother to tweak/ban/filter their results.

So have only people that have enabled the advanced features of Google search ban sites. All of a sudden only people that "get it" are the ones that can ban.

>So now, the complaints have gone away, but 99% of users are still using the broken system, so the good sites that create good original content are still ranking below the scrapers and spam results for 99% of the users.

So we need to use the votes to stop the spammers.

>(And you can't take the 1%s filtering and apply it to all users in some kind of social search because the spammers will just join the 1% and game the system)

Sure you can. If you couldn't then Reddit would be a wasteland of adds, but it isn't. They only have 4 or 5 engineers there and they can write code that will stop vote rings, let alone Google.

It's actually a pretty simple exercise to stop vote rings, unless the anti-vote ring code is open sourced, but even there it should be possible.
Who says that?

The original post has some quotes that say that, e.g.: "A degree in English is just as valuable as a degree in Biology — it teaches you critical thinking!"
This is not laissez-faire capitalism. This is state/private sector cronyism capitalism.
People are protective of their kids but they are not always very rational about the relative risks their children face. Vaccines are good for society and they are good for individuals, but like all medical treatments that occur to millions, even tiny risks will affect some individuals.

Measles kills. Polio cripples. Faking research to show a false result about vaccines doesn't protect children, it is tantamount to murdering children and adults by making them susceptible to dangerous diseases.

As you yourself admit, your daughter had a possible temporary reaction ("these symptoms she has never had before or since"). Temporary symptoms are hard to diagnose, especially in children who can't describe their symptoms. It was probably very scary but since I'm related to people who spent time in iron lungs because of polio, my family knows that there are other equally scary things. Watching your child succumb to a horrible easily preventable disease is probably pretty scary.

About the mercury:

The mercury in the preservative is ethylmercury not methylmercury, ethylmercury behaves differently and clears the body faster leading to a shorter period of exposure than methylmercury.

The bans in Japan and other countries weren't based on toxicity studies but on a precautionary approach and pressure from non-scientists. The bans may have been sensible or pointless but it doesn't prove things one way or the other.
Great question. There aren't any defined conditions, as this what I've put up is a MVP itself heh. As long as it's reasonable and can be built in rails3 is the initial condition;

Of course, after I get a certain number of applications I'll have to review them and contact each individually and a lot of people are obviously going to look at what they need and whether I can deliver that in a reasonable time frame.

Short answer: (and I hate to say this) It's relative, tho I won't spend more than 33 hours on a project.
This editorial is a not-entirely-successful attempt to conflate two different topics of discussion: FB's valuation (and Goldman's market-making involvement therein), and the dangers of leverage in the financial sector.

It's quite likely that Goldman would have made this play with FB regardless of its current special access to federal dollars, thus making the two topics incidentally and not fundamentally related.
scam-bait?
Resource management – A Thought
I agree, and am hoping they will sooner, rather than later, rewrite it from scratch.

I did just move to an SSD over Christmas though, and must say it is significantly better now - especially noticeable is I no longer seem to be getting beach balls during iPhone syncing.
And the local disk is just a cache for the cloud. So installed apps are just cached files from the cloud. Hence my analogy holds.
How many people were you feeding in your 'bootstrapping' years?
Buy gold:

http://www.kitco.com/charts/popup/au1825nyb.html
Laissez-faire capitalism at work!

No. Please use wikipedia to look up unfamiliar terms before using them in a sentence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire

[edit: my apologies. Didn't detect the sarcasm.]
Great marketing, although I'd argue that's not an MVP. MVP is a Minimum Viable Product. This is some kind of minimum proof of concept prototype. Whether it's viable or not is really up to how good a guess your client made as to the user's needs.

Also, the MVP for getting useful in one industry can be very different than in another industry. $999 is too much for some industries and way, way too little for others.

That said, cool idea, I hope it works out for you!
>" independent record stores about to be crushed by a shiny new Virgin Megastore."

I don't think that's an accurate comparison because:

1. the Virgin Megastore doesn't get 30% of the revenue from the independents.

2. the Virgin Megastore doesn't get copies of the customer lists and sales records of the independents.

3. the Virgin Megastore can't slap their logo on everything in the independents' stores.

4. the Virgin Megastore cannot easily create their own competing versions of the independents merchandise.
Have you tried to explain that to your mum?