skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's another equally harmful myth gaining a stronghold among non-MBAs: that all MBAs are obviously stupid and good-for-nothing dopeheads.

It's simply not true. One of the few successful tech people I've seen admitting that their MBA helped them is Mark Pincus of Zynga. He said he wished he had paid more attention in his MBA class because he's had to learn those lessons the hard way.
My favourite bit is the <title> of the page scrolling.
Not that I defend the GPL, I simply don't care about which license a project have but Phoronix is not the league of GPL advocates as far as I understand...
I'm curious if the expression "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" is universal or just something we say in the states?

Would have been a good domain name (IsTheGrassGreener .com) but that's not to criticize on the content or presentation, very well done (and seems to be dealing with quite a load this morning).
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Would that make a good fit for an Apache Solr server? Put the index on EBS?
Instead of declaring that you are going to build this amazing idea, you should pose it as a question. Could one build this? How would I build the simplest version 1? Will I use it? Who among my friends or acquaintances might use it?

What is your idea anyway? Hiding it is the single best predictor that it's a dud.
The front page colors change based on where you're from. A nice idea, but many of the color combinations are unreadable. Finland has dark grey on dark blue, for example.
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Presumably Jython would be pretty easy to get running, and you can run eg Django on Jython: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/jython/
I suspect the bottleneck isn't cost so much as the mental bandwidth to switch hosts, etc. It would be a context switch for PG/RTM/bringing someone else up to speed on arc. HN's just naturally lagging other priorities.

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Farther in the future: HN's arc webserver uses simple flat files for storage, so moving from one host to two is probably a big context switch as well. I wonder what the current server's specs are, and how long we have until that kinda-sorta-Y2K-like barrier.
We had a stream of google-sucks/googles-dead kinda articles everyday just before while now. And now, suddenly all the bad attention turns to facebook since about a week.

I mean facebook had the same UI/policies/uglyness since quite some time, why sudden surge of facebook-bashing articles (followed by google)? I wonder how much of the content from above articles was written genuinely and not with alterior motives.
same here. the name had me confused for a moment.
automatic scaling would be a good benchmark for the true definition of cloud.

You can do this with EC2. You can set up monitors based on CPU usage over a time period and it'll start new nodes if required.

S3 is 'autoscaling' for serving files. Just upload your files and pay for what you use.
I know your concerns as I've recently had lots of thoughts on client-server-ajax-comet-websockets state of the art.

While your matrix seems quite radical, it's interesting approach. You may find other approaches attractive as well. For example Zed Shaw's Tir is making an webapp flow looking procedural by smart using coroutines underneath. While the idea was invented before, I like his implementation; i didn't yet hack anything serious in it though.

If you like evented style, Nitrogen is also very interesting. It allows you to program callbacks which jump from server to client and back in a clean way, IMO. That'll work for you if you can swallow Erlang syntax of course. I'd say this product is really production ready, btw.
ASK HN: Difficulties of Job offers
Hello HN community,

I didn't think I'd do any type of posting here but I happen to have a question that is starting to bug me. The general scope of it is that of employment.

I am probably your not so average "nerd" without the common stereotypes, as in, I am so heavily into reading and learning new things, my desk/bookshelf needs extra support. Anyhow, I have recently graduated and am still in the habit of reading graduate text, new books, new theories, etc. I believe I really would like to get into research.

Right now, I am working full time as a blackbox tester and I get paid moderately okay. I work about 9 hours a day and take the rest of the time+sleep to focus on my studies that work does not permit me to focus on (given that the topics are not directly tied to what my profession work requires of me). Recently, I've been offered a job that would allow me to focus on my studies more throughout the day, and I could directly apply those things to the tasks I'd be doing. However, unlike my current job, the one being offered does not come with benefits, and they offer to only match my salary(in which I have proposed 1.5x my pay, to cover the cost of insurance anyway).

A huge problem is that this company is a start-up and if they invest in me, something happens, they lose everything, I lose nothing more than my strict focus on other things I had been studying, and of course time. I am still young so each and every day is very important to fill with some type of accomplishment that is visible to the rest of <whomever>. This opportunity allows for more flexibility and maybe a little less stress. But in the end, it's ultimately going to be my part to complete research.

I feel as if the CEO would like to hire me because of my skill and what I can bring to the company, of course, but the CEO does not understand 95% of the things I say to him... His metrics are not very apparent, and I cannot get any straight responses from him as to what happens after a big project is complete (would I recieve compensation from fresh revenue? Shares? etc), a major plan on Results over Time, that are pretty hard to calculate given the research topics. Just like a PhD, you could plan for 2 years, and 6 years later, you only put a dent into your work. Being that this company can lose its financial backing, I could lose my job, and everyone gets angry, should I bother investing my time into such a company?

If you could give me your insight, I'd be most appreciative!! Thank you very much!
the beanstalk programming model:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/aws-beanstalk-programming...

This is pretty cool, but for people targeting it because of no-hassle infiniscale, it must be noted that you either use SimpleDB or good old MySQL for storage.

So AppEngine is still winner in that area, imvho, but it's great to see competition.
oh well, I guess I'll settle for less money if it also means less AIDS.

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/NZ/AU
What kind of an attitude is this? If you care so much about the memory leaks, fix them yourself. It's open source after all.

Requesting bugs fixed this way is bad in a normal situation, but doing so as an answer to a call for help to keep the project moving forward is disgraceful.
Definitely be interesting, but I think many of the figures would remain the same. The lack of state provided health care exists whether you look at the US or only NY.

It'd be nice to get some user contributed/voted on facts as well on the website... for example (some of my own):

US: You can't buy good cheese or chocolate
GB: You can't buy good milkshakes or burgers
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Yeah, agree I did not verify but it wasn't an obvious feature and I think my argument is still valid -- Facebook could use search as its central strategy.

As far as HN homepage is concerned, I don't know ranking internals but I think it is probably timezone issue -- as of writing this comment, the submission has just 7 upvotes and is still on homepage.
This is true, but a little bit of js would take care of that.
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Why Box.net doesn't have an app for free account holders? http://www.joukuu.com has done a good job!
How does politics get more complicated as you drill down into it?

Its about getting as much as possible for your self while giving all the blame on the "other" group.

I agree with the other examples you have listed, but politics isn't nearly that complicated, nor are those involved smart.
Those problems you listed are implementation-specific, and not necessary conditions of the feature.
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Hm, good suggestions - I thought about packaging up all the content into an ebook, but then I wouldn't have a website...

Consulting services is a great idea as well but I'm hoping for something that's more "set it and forget it".

I appreciate your suggestions though!
I don't think its all in vain. Each hate-cycle creates some residual hostility towards facebook. When eventually it crosses threshold (and some better option is available), so many people might jump the ship in a short time.
no, with different limitations I believe, e.g. no cool google storage, but only SDB or RDB (which may be ok anyway)
That makes it too easy to communicate with non-facebooked rest of the world.
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I think they Galaxy Tabs are already counted as a consequence of them going for the "big phone" approach before Google relaxed their requirments for the market. (They've since announced Tabs with only Wifi and an iPod Touch-alike called the Galaxy Player).
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but storage cannot be scaled like this, you have to design your own mechanic to handle it.
This is so much better now in IE it's not even funny - last few weeks the browser has crawled because of Twitter - now it is running smoother tonight.
Same applies for Android apps - your app will work on all Phones, Tablets, Media Players and what not with all the same caveats. So you either need to compare Android Phone to iOS Phones OR Android Phones+Media Players+Tablets with iPhones+iPod+iPad - that was the point.
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The problem with that is that unless the screen size is increased proportionately, the apps will be physically smaller. On a laptop this doesn't matter, but on a touchscreen device it would make buttons on the screen harder to hit.
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I'm planning a new version of this article. Do you have resources to suggest, that I could have missed?
or rewrite it in a more efficient language/runtime would likely have more effect.
Well… you know they're hiring all those Google engineers right?

Just saying™
One data point: Swedish has a very closely worded idiom: "Gräset är inte alltid grönare på andra sidan", which translates back as "The grass is not always greener on the other side".
Hackerne.ws has a real panache for comedic timing.
Wow. It's like I put a tag cloud on my website, then when I wasn't looking it went and had sex with every tag cloud in town. When I turned around oh my god tag clouds everywhere. It's like the Tribbles of web features.

I'm sure that could have been implemented better. Cool idea, though.
Shockingly, you don't have to be part of some secret free software in-group to write an article for your blog. So the "GPL advocates" that you "keep hearing from" may be different people than the person who wrote this particular article.
I don't think the performance of the stock market varies depending on whether the person reading the numbers is a Christian Scientist. If it did, that would be even more remarkable and weird than if Christian Science were correct in, e.g., its claims about disease.

(For the avoidance of doubt: No, I am not a Christian Scientist.)
I think it's more that he feels like he has to maintain a presence on facebook because everyone else does. And it galls him because he can't stand facebook.
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Since the SAT[1] is a glorified IQ test[2] the rankings from high to low by population group go
Ashkenazi Jews >> East Asians >> Caucasian >> Blacks.

The Disparate Impact legal doctrine[3] means that unless you can show business necessity any test that reliably discriminates between protected classes[4] is automatically illegal.

The strength of this argument is weakened by the fact that TTBOMK no equivalent law exists in the rest of the Anglosphere.

[1]And the LSAT, MSAT, GRE, GMAT etc.

[2]This isn't completely accurate for those tests that measure concrete knowledge like the MCAT, but the correlation is still pretty high

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_Impact

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
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I believe this was the original plan for Xiph's Vorbis, for similar reasons. I believe they abandoned it because of practicality but I can't Google up a link to where I originally read about this. I seem to recall it also involved Monty doing a demo for some company (Apple?) where they thought he was mental to suggest such a thing.

edit: http://www.systemtoolbox.com/bfarticle.php?content_id=6

Monty: The previous Ogg generation, Stormbringer, was a "meta-codec", a language and virtual machine for writing other codecs. It turns out very few people at the time were interested; they didn't want meta-codecs, they wanted the codecs themselves. A particularly abysmal demo of Stormbringer at Apple finally drove that point home (in addition to the fact that Apple was uninterested in Stormbringer, which needed more work to be practically useful, our demo laptop decided to overheat and break down in the middle of our pitch to the Quicktime group). That took our sense of direction away for a while; for most of 1998, no one worked on anything related to Ogg.

Then in the fall, Fraunhofer decided to start cracking down on free encoder implementations of mp3. That worried me. It also seemed like things were only likely to get worse; the trend was clearly for companies to start "cashing in" on the Net any way possible, often involving the basic technology itself, and it looked like digital audio would be no different. In 1998 this sense of foreboding was mostly a vague suspicion, but the trend strengthened and clarified over time. That gave me a clear direction to begin Vorbis; I knew what the world was going to need in a codec and soon.
They key point here is… who cares?

What's knowing what the iOS resolution is going to be in advance really going to get for you? It's not like you'll be able to take advantage of it any earlier.

You might say that it will allow app developers to design for the larger resolution now. However, one thing app developers should already realise is that the resolution will change over time and it may not be a simple, doubling of the pixels. Good developers are already using vector-based images, at least as their source images, for apps anyway - or they just don't care.

What's the point of wasting all this time on conjecture?
Not a good idea. I come to Facebook for one reason only - to see updates in my social circle. Nothing else. I don't (want to) come to Facebook to search for "consumer trends in the QSR industry". That's Google's job.
But that's true of every maturing technology. People who owned cars in the early 1900s had to be able to fix them - they broke down constantly. A hundred years later how many people can do repair work on their own car? I've owned a car for ten years and it's never broken down.
I think the money part is skewered due to a lot of wealth being had by top percentages.
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Every free capitalist democratic country gives great opportunities to be rich and have a lot of free time.

Especially for hackers.

PS: the site states that the less income inequalities, the better. Quite contrary is actually much better option for any country.
You've obviously never tried Gourmet Burger Kitchen in the UK!
Dear google please buy/support this tech and release it as opensource.

Signed,
We.
We all love to hate Facebook but cannot deny the fact that it has become a part of our lives.
you'll still have to build your application in such a way that supports these new nodes, though. Sessions, load balancing etc.

a "true" cloud would just handle all that stuff transparently.
Very interesting and nicely executed, even if the methodology does have its limitations (I won't repeat what meterplech has said).

It would be interesting if you could enter some of your demographic data and get a more specific comparison (e.g. gender, sexual preference, age, race, education level).

That might bring up some more drastic and surprising comparisons.
More like an outlet.
If Sweden would have been a US state, it would have been the poorest of them all.

At least that was true a few years ago.

EDIT: I only had links in Swedish to sources, but here's one in English:
http://www.shsweb.fi/forum/1/28783/28785/
Another:
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/11/sweden-mississippi-if-sw...

But do note that Sweden has seen a very strong growth the last year while the US has slowed somewhat.

EDIT 2: for those downvoting, see my response below.
He's simply a guy who's been in Apple's sphere for a very long time (he worked at Bare Bones Software from 2000 to 2002), quite obviously likes the company and has cultivated a strong suit of knowledgeable contacts.
True about NY, but not about Massachusetts actually. If you go to page 3 of (1), you see that people under 300% of poverty level are provided care through "Commonwealth Care." This actually adds to my point, because of the US's federal system, different states, regions, and cities have not only different demographics, but different laws as well.

I like the idea of adding the "what is good where" point as well. For example, they don't discuss things like access to beach, or frequency of bone chilling blizzards.

(1): Somewhat large PDF... https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/binary/com.epicentr...
Netflix's compression looks (unscientifically) pretty close to standard-def DVDs to me.

Sure, it'd be nice to stream 1080p content, but I know my pipe can't handle it, and I'd much rather watch standard-def content right now than wait 2 days to watch the movie I want in glorious high-def.

It's also why IMHO the PS3's movie rental capability is laughably unusable. When someone goes onto an on-demand system, odds are they want their content right the hell now. The PS3 only supports downloading your rentals.

Now, what would be interesting is a standard for storing streamed video. This way I can rewatch, rewind, fast forward, etc, without hitting my connection again, but also have the perks of beginning right now.
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Are you sure you can't do that?

http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html
No, it's worse for them. This is even noticeable when using Safari: the iPad can hardly keep a pair of pages in memory, it refreshes them all the time (very similar to the experience on a 3G). The iPhone 4's experience is much smoother as it has enough RAM to keep web pages cached as you switch between them.
> The obvious thing would be to rotate things sideways and display full iPad 1 resolution apps on screen with maybe 33% screen real estate left over for a menu of some type, or a second type of app, or tabs, or just blank space, and then to allow developers to make new iPad 2 apps if they really want.

Yes, but Apples doesn't do the obvious, messy, thing, if it can avoid it. They much rather do it right.
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Actually, the record-keeping party of accounting is simple and most accounting software packages store their data in much the same way as this post is proposing.

The complicated part of accounting, and the reason why we need actual accounts is the regulatory issues surrounding money and how to manage/tax it.

Real accountants (not just book-keepers) provide 'advice' on how to handle money, they don't go around balancing books and shuffling paper. This may have been what accountants did in the 1950's, but computers made all this 'busy' work obsolete and left them to do what humans are good at… thinking and problem solving.
I challenge you to develop that statement, so that I know what you meant to say rather than imputing it. An uncharitable interpretation would be that college could be taught with no resources beyond those available at secondary school, since in a number of fields it would be quite possible to use the secondary school intellectual tools to construct your own knowledge, e.g. 30 motivated Math students might be able to rederive up to Calculus II or III given four years to do it.
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Can we please all agree to disagree that there is no formal definition for cloud? I tripped across an article the other day where they were suggesting that these "PaaS" offering's weren't considered a "Cloud" by purists, and only "IaaS" (Infrastructure) - servers, cpus, network, storage - should be considered such. I was one of the original employees at Loudcloud - we certainly considered "Databases", "Applications Servers" to be cloud services.

Cloud = "That service/infrastructure/platform that you need that will be hosted by someone else in their data center"

If we wanted to be precise, we could refer to it as "Storage Clouds", "App Server Clouds", "Database Clouds", etc...
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/US/PK
Its good to be an immigrant, though the class divide number is surprising.

Also, the "more information sections" are written well - anyone know the source?
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Ask HN: What niche is good for Wordpress premium plugin?
I have done some researches but found that all good fit plugins have been accomplished and well marketed by other entities, such as job board / coupon/ and shopping cart plugin.

any ideas?

Cheers,
Note that 3 of those are links to mainstream media outlets. Of the other 2, one is torrentfreak talking about the pirate angle (which is the right angle for them, and fascinating as a reflection of the growing international seriousness of the pirate movement -- but is perhaps not the most important part of the revolution).

I kind of expect the online world to put the professionals to shame in depth and insight of coverage. Often that does happen -- here, not so much.
The real question is, how many designers would release the logo before the product has shipped? ^^
If performance is an issue, some sort of lazy load would be better, so just before you reach the bottom of the page more comments are loaded.
That's exactly what they have done with the new version of messages.