skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give the mongo and reddis version numbers?

Just curious if you were using reddis 2.0 or possibly 2.2 ? Also what version of the reddis client were you using? There were some performance improvements recently.

Edit: thanks for sharing your experience, even if your test wasn't done with the help of a nobel winning computer team, it can still be useful data.
Ok, I agree with antriz's statement. My results are very specific. I will make note and be sure to be very thorough next time around.
Ask HN: I am unable to login to my HN account. Please help
I made an account in HN about 195 days ago using my open id. It is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Andrew-Dufresne
I tried to login today but my several attempts failed. I will click on open id button, it will take me to open id page, there I will give my open id which will direct me to enter my password. This is not new. I used to do the same to login into HN.

But this time after that it will direct me to a new page "make account on HN or sign in if you already have an account"
I tried to enter Andrew-Dufresne number of time but it said invalid name or it's been already taken. I tried both, sign in and sign up pages, but Andrew-Dufresne worked on none.
Finally, I clicked on sign up and entered Andrew_Dufresne which it accepted. So now I am able to make post.

How can get my old account Andrew-Dufresne back? Earlier I just had to click on open id button in login page, enter my openid, then password and it would redirect me to HN with Andrew-Dufresne as my user name. But this time it was different, as it asked me to make an account.
Kindly guide me how can I get my Andrew-Dufresne account back? I have mentioned my email address in my old profile.
Thanks for your time.
Shoppert sounds like a shopping trolley* with bugs.

* http://www.transport-impacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/...
This is generalized from one example of a fairly poorly executed marketing campaign.

So I have to like a Facebook page to listen to a new Jay-Z/Kanye song? It's just too obvious of an attempt to create a viral loop. If the page had a great design or interactive concept, it would be different and might have worked.

"Ok Go" have done some very successful and creative campaigns to promote their music and music videos. With the right concept and execution, Facebook marketing can be very successful.
> I can't imagine working for years on an important project without any backup system whatsoever.

I've "worked with computers" since I was a teenager, but for a long time I didn't make backups even though I knew it was something I should have been doing. It wasn't until I actually had a hard drive crash on me that I got backup religion.
I'm a big Mark Zuckerberg hater. He seemingly screwed over a couple people along the way taking the idea and running with it (breach of contract, unethical etc, even if you are doing all the work). But at this point Facebook has made all of those people incredibly wealthy through settlements of cash and even people owning sharers. Those people will only get more wealthy when they IPO.

Do they really think they could have made more money if Mark hadn't walked out on them and run built it all himself? You have $150 million dollars now, could you have made a billion dollar business? The idea behind Facebook was not all that unique. Certainly it was bad that he walked out on them and stole it, but would they have built a $50 billion company?

Just based on how they have acted since getting the settlement, I think not. You have $150 million now, that is enough money to fund 15 new ventures without ever going to a VC.

If these guys thought they could make more money than Zuckerburg without him, then DO IT. You can try 15 times before you are broke. That is a luxury almost none of the rest of us have.

Instead by constantly going back to the golden goose and trying to get money they are proving their inability to build a business. Facebook was a lottery win for them and they have no ability to do better. They are probably better off today with Mark having walked out on them ,than if they all stayed in it together and it failed and they owned a larger percent of 0.
Volume of what? I think your pyramid is correct in terms of revenue, although maybe it's not so much a pyramid as a fairly stark line.
That attitude is giving me horrible flashbacks to the .com boom.
Looking at the design my eyes wander, rather than being directed -- element are too stylistically similar. It doesn't help that the images are roughly the same size which prevents them from denoting relative importance. The constant use of blue is overwhelming as well.

I never thought i'd say this, but the new mashable makes TC's design look inspired. At least on TC its very easy to ignore the right column.
This is one of the reasons I love CSP and languages with CSP-like concurrency like Go (and Erlang, although it is more CSP-inspired than CSP-like).

I really can't understand why anyone would want to use anything else for concurrent programming.
Flash...has in fact supported H.264 encoded video for some time.

Could someone offer a citation for this? My understanding has been that the codec typically used for Flash video has long been almost-H.263, not H.264. Wikipedia, for what it's worth, currently reflects that version of history, saying "Commonly, Flash Video FLV files contain video bit streams which are a proprietary variant of the H.263 video standard", and "The most recent public releases of Flash Player...also support H.264 video".

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

Does Wikipedia have history wrong here?
The solution is simple here: have an alternative search engine that makes their money a different way. Even though it would just be a niche, I bet there's a pretty healthy income to be had for a highly SEO-spam resistant paid search engine. (Supplemented with Google-style search ads.)

A small minority would use such a search engine, so the impact on legitimate sites would be minimal.
That's grossly negligent behavior on her behalf.

Family pictures, unpublished novel and a gigabyte of emails? Fine. But research data that only exists on one consumer-level machine? Work that was financed by her employer and various other organizations? Holy shit.
Middle School Research Paper Topics are Usually Not Complicated and Altere
To write a good middle school research paper, you need to come up with some good topics. These topics will not be complicated if students understood the various disciplines of writing research papers. Knowledge will make the task easier.
Global food chain stretched to the limit
Actually, there are some pretty nice places on airbnb.com. If you do that, you should go with one near a MARTA station since there is a MARTA station a block from the Tabernacle. That way you won't have to drive or find a parking spot at the venue. Which will be way more convenient.
Shopping trolleys already have bugs.
With this as an alternative on platforms that don't support webM, wouldn't you get more native support for a video encoded in webM using flash as an alternative than you do currently from h.264?

With firefox overtaking on browser usage in the EU, I think it's at least true there. Here's hoping this helps to open up video even further.
1. Its not that hard to get to zero if you know the keyboard shortcuts to Gmail: use 'J' and 'K' to move between messages and 'Y' to archive. If you're in list view, 'X' highlights the message so 'XY' will archive things very very quickly.

2. Liberal use of autoarchive for high volume mailing lists that I don't need to be continuously updated on. I'll clear those folders out every once in a while.

3. Boomerang is a great tool that lets you temporarily archive a message. It will come back to the Inbox when you tell it to, so you can put stuff you don't have to act on for a while away and stay near zero with it:

http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

(I am not affiliated with Boomerang.)
My friend who runs a child daycare centre told me (after I made a joke about the amount of Comic Sans on the walls) that Comic Sans is one of the only fonts on her computer that has the tail on the lower case a shown correctly.

Consequently it helps her children learn how to write.

So there you go.
I am not an economist, but to me arguments 1,2 and therefore 5 seem specious. 3 and 4 hold water, but they are pretty self explanatory.

China's economy, to me, seems like a leverage play on the US. If the US economy seriously stagnates, China's economy will follow suit, and likely in a much more dramatic fashion. The opposite is also true, when the US consumers get to spending China (at least for now) stands to benefit tremendously.

For me, the best option if you are looking at foreign currencies, is to go buy a brazilian government bond and get 10% on your money in 3-5 years.
I don't think so. There are people which are way more visual than programmers.

I myself have refrained from contributing to Wikipedia because I didn't want to learn the syntax. Not wanting to break things, I just submitted some fixes here and there in the body of some articles.
Trust them to do everything they can to keep it growing. People are in China are only generally content with their government because every year everyone gets richer and richer, except the family five blocks down the road that had their house confiscated and compensated only 25% market price because the local council is planning to build a `public facility` on the land.
Competition & Class
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so years of work to find the cure for cancer is on a white macbook and the guy didn't backup it? yeah right.
No, no, no, no, no! This tripe has been circulating the 'net for a while and it really bothers me to see this gain some semblance of acceptance/traction.

Yes, studies show that poorly set text causes you to spend more time reading it because it's hard to read. However, this is not the proper solution to improve recall! This is a through-and-through design problem that can be solved without destroying readability. There is most certainly a visual solution here that would improve recall, but this is not it.

Can you imagine reading an entire textbook or novel that looked like it had been printed on a greasy old photocopier? I certainly can't.
Facebook was a lottery win for Mark, too.
Well, the term "boring" is of course very subjective. I'm certainly not claiming that I have nothing left to learn from C#, I'm just not very interested in it right now, for various reasons.

Other than that, I completely agree with your thoughts on this.
I was using redis 2.0 and mongo 1.6.5 with the latest drivers for each.
To know the version may be interesting but not really useful, I bet that if you change Redis with a dummy TCP server that is only able to reply +OK, whatever it receives, you'll get the same numbers here.

Basically every kind of networked server with a simple request-response protocol, in a busy loop over loopback, will show performances between 10k and 20k requests per second, mostly up to the speed of the implementation of the client.
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel pours money into his Utopia
I'd be interested to see the results of applying this to the output of /b/.
What is Ditto? My elevator pitch, feedback welcome
Also another good "beginner" (was already a programmer, and it was still a great course) course that actually has everything - lectures, notes, textbook, assignments, tests and answers! - available free online is the UC Berkley CS61A course.

The course teaches the fundamentals of Computer Science with Scheme (Lisp) and the book is SICP (a really great all-around CS book). I watched all the lectures, and did most of the assignments over a month or two last year and learned a lot. Sometimes you have to Google around for old tests/answer keys, but resources for the entire course are online. I highly recommend it if you are remotely interested in programming.

Multiple Semesters of Audio/Video Lectures are on iTunesU

Resources from the Summer 2010 Course:http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/su10/

Edit: Formatting
A growing economy does not necessarily correlate to an appreciating currency when its value is decided by political actors.
Isn't that redundant? :)
Would you mind discussing your development setup? What editor(s) do you use? Other software that makes writing Java easier?

There are many opinions about this on the internet, but most of them are geared towards enterprise developers in large shops; not towards startups.
What the fuck. The author may die now, painfully.
Ask HN: How to change the world with no profit model
I just had one of those amazing ideas. You know the kind. Song birds sing a little louder (or maybe quieter in your perfect world). The sun always shines and it's 76º F with no wind. All after this idea is put into practice.

Here's the hitch -- it'd be impossible to make money off of. Seriously. It's a decentralized system. I could position myself as a main aggregator, the go to source for information about this system, but by its very nature others could try to do the same.

So... to my question. Should you follow an idea that's literally world changing if you realize right up front that ever making money (not even a profit, just bringing money in the door) is, if not impossible, at least very hard?
Why should I have to go to a facebook page and like it (when I 'm already a fan of both their pages btw!), just to listen to a song that I can hear with one click through to hiphopdx.com?

They botched the execution of releasing the song on facebook, that doesn't mean marketing on facebook suddenly sucks.
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WebM encode gives you native Firefox / Opera / Chrome / newer Android, Flash for Safari / IE and nothing for iOS.

H264 encode gives you native Safari / IE / iOS / Android, Flash for Firefox / Opera / Chrome.
Much like the tech bubble and housing bubble, by the time you read these articles in the mainstream press, it is FAR too late to invest. You've already missed 10-15 years of explosive growth in the Chinese economy.
This is most definitely the best (existing) tutorial for getting started in kernel development. It explains how to implement a small unix-like kernel, focusing on interesting problems like virtual memory, multithreading and system calls rather than fiddly details of the x86 architecture from 20+ years ago.
Check this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103945

it could even be a dummy server just replying +OK and the result will not change.

You should try this against MySQL too, and you'll see similar numbers, for sure not an order of magnitude different than that even if SQL involves much more query processing and so forth.
Is there much inflation in the US right now? It's really high in the mainland at the moment, particularly with relation to food.

My business partner just sold an apartment in Beijing. I tried to convince her to buy up some land back in the US, but she chose to buy another apartment here instead. Part of her concern was that the US housing market was going to be relatively flat for the next couple of years, which is her desired time range for selling the new property. The future potential weakening of the dollar vis-a-vis the RMB also played a role.
That's actually an argument for why it doesn't matter, so we can all continue to do as we please.

Is there a good reason the browser messes up my spacing? Certainly not for readability!
If Facebook had invented Facebook, they would not have bought $40 million of patents from Friendster.
Wealth is notoriously hard to measure.

What is the absolute value of your house right now? The local gov't values your home by a complex system that often does not reflect reality; it may be several years out of date. (see current US home debacle)

How do you value a retail store? The value of the real estate, the building, gross sales, etc, etc. Truth is until you find someone else to buy it, you don't know what it is really worth (or what someone will pay for it).

Compare this to income. You know exactly what you make every week/fortnight/month. It's easy to extract a percentage of this. There is little ambiguity.

Hence, for the foreseeable future, a wealth tax just isn't practical. (Imagine estimating the worth of your computer equipment, TV(s), jewelry etc...EVERY YEAR).
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FCC Launches Open Internet Apps Challenge
This interview was done pre-WebM for what it’s worth.
I cannot upvote you enough on this point. Index/mutual fund is much less risky and provides much better tax benefits, especially if inside an IRA.
A nice thing about Go is that is a relatively small language, and you can grasp the whole language and have a chance of holding the whole thing in your head without going insane in the process.

And despite that, it has plenty of interesting and fun parts like the implicit-interfaces type system, etc.
Article date: May 10, 2010.

Not that I'm writing off the content. Just be aware that things have changed somewhat since then.

For example, the royalty-free end user bit through 2015 I believe has been extended in perpetuity [1].

[1]: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Featured-News/To...
In my experience VirtualBox works okay for low-level stuff, but it's impossible to debug with. qemu and bochs are much better tools since you can actually debug your kernel.
Roundcube 0.5 (stable) released
Like the author says, these guys want the impossible: they want everybody to acknowledge that they were the genius behind Facebook.

Lawyers are very good for telling clients what they want to hear, and for taking their money in battles to "do what's right".

If these guys had any sense, they'd bail out of the case, fire the lawyers, and write a book about how totally awesome they are. Hell, pay ten million to have it promoted. Then spend the rest of their lives trying to recapture the magic or sitting on a beach with drinks with little umbrellas in them, whatever their choice.

I don't think they'll do that, though. There's a lot of pride and ego involved here.
I clicked it yesterday, then gave up before even completing the first round because I don't know anything about mixed drinks. This time I stuck it through a whole round, guessing blindly most of the time.

It's kind of a long game to just take a stab at. A practice round where you could get immediate feedback after just one patron would be nice in my opinion. That way I could see how I was being scored, instead of waiting until the end.
Off the top, there are a couple of problems with the article.
First, the number of likes may be the easiest quantifiable measure to refer to, but by no means does it reflect the effectiveness of a campaign
Secondly, music isn't the best subject for this "case study". Music is very fan driven and online marketing for rap and hip-hop is largely dominated by blogs (like nahright, illroots, smoking section). I would say rap spreads first through the blogs and reaction is very often expressed through Twitter. While This facebook "campaign" had significant visibility, I doubt it was their primary focus when releasing this song.
If the article referred to a household good campaign (for example), I'd be more receptive to the conclusions.
When you are up against human nature, no amount of learning can help you.

Of course, she knew about backing up, but who has the time to do it? After all, who wants to figure it out, install stuff, port stuff or even choose a service! Who has the time...

Such things really aren't a result of ignorance, but laziness. Yet again are we any different?
How the hell is his personality anyway related to the news/facts going out of wikileaks or its credibility?
TYPO3 4.5beta4 released
If you've ever worked in an academic environment you wouldn't find this story hard to believe.
I think the sentence's grammar is awkward. That pile next to the monkey has both black and white beans in it.
So _this_ is why cancer hasn't been cured yet. Gotcha.
I tried to look around for a better source than the Daily Mail, especially on something scientific in nature. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything I could vouch for as authoritative. However I did notice the images in this page referenced many times in other sites:

http://www.indiashines.com/Balgates-photos-95294-dubai-artif...

If anyone knows of a better source or can find information about it on the National Center of Meteorology and Seismology website:

http://www.das.ae/

I'd be most grateful.
Running your benchmark I get 11216 increments per second

Running the redis-benchmark from (http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.0.4.tar.gz)
with 50 parallel clients 37800 requests per second

I would like to see the numbers for 50 clients to mongo doing the same.
There are billions and billions of pages in the index, let's say they produce a page classifier that can correctly identify spam an unrealistic 99% of the time. They'd still misidentify tens of millions of pages. Regarding your second point, how do you determine usefulness in a way that can't be gamed? My point is, this is a very, very, very hard problem to solve at their scale, a lot of posters on here are trivialising it.
There is no reason to write your own x86 bootloader- it's just an exercise in abstracting away the most brain-dead ISA on the planet.

What you should do instead is write the kernel and just load it with GRUB. It allows you to immediately jump into the interesting stuff that makes your kernel unique, makes it easy to test on real hardware without getting a second machine, and makes it possible to dual-boot with it if/when you get that far.

I haven't tried this, but it might be fun to write a kernel for some other system- some ARM device, maybe. Any kind of bootloader would be infinitely less encumbered with x86's layer upon layer of compatibility stuff.
I had a real hard time determining if this article was serious or a sarcastic rant against people who get overwrought on trivialities.

>in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men's shirt buttons on the right and women's on the left.

Those are both examples of arbitrary decisions carried forward by inertia and slavish adherence to dogma. Makes me strongly believe the two space rule is another example. I read most, skimmed rest (it was kind of hard to find sentence breaks actually) of article but I found no argument or justification other than "typographers" say it's so.

I also frequently use monospaced fonts. So, author and these unquoted/unspecified typographers he claims to speak for can kiss my shiny double-spaced ass.
How about something that defaults to Google or Bing for searches that aren't spammy? How about coupling this with a browser add-on that detects spam in the search results (or uses a list of "known to be spammy" search terms) then does an auto 2nd query to the SEO-resistant search engine in those cases? This makes the hurdle quite easy to reach. Essentially, it gets you the best of both worlds.

I'd be tempted to monetize this through search ads and micropayments based on Amazon AWS hosting costs X2.
the fact that you can hit iOS as a user means I guess H264 would be probably the better option for now, but it does come with a possible price tag in the future of whatever the legal bills may come to :)

also, H264 isn't native in IE at all on release versions either, and things may change drastically before release, so I wouldn't bother including speculation on prerelease versions. That means with ID moving over into the flash for both, you're left with native on Firefox / Opera / Chrome / newer Android vs. native on Safari / iOS / Android.

I guess if your target is mobile then pick the closed format, and if it's deskop go open rather? Or perhaps if your target is more likely to be using Mac than PC, then go with H264, or webM if it's PC?
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Ditto for the dollar. You're taking a bet on the Federal Reserve's competency in regulating the US economy.