skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Varnish is indeed crazy fast...for things you can cache. The complaints I've been seeing center on slowness and timeouts for posting stuff, in which case Varnish (like the recent pagination change) might not help.

I think PG opening up the latest code and giving people a chance to actually diagnose the causes of the slowness is a great a idea. Anything else -- premature optimization.
The real question is: can this offering compete with the specialized PaaS services we have seen emerge in the last year - heroku, GAE, djangy.djangozoom/eldairon, various node.js services, phpfog, etc...

The specialized services will be less work to maintain for developers, and will offer unique additional features that Amazon will have a hard time keeping up with if they try to spread themselves too thin.
I considered the fact that I'm logged in to Google on the ssh connected PC, and I have an Android phone sitting next to me, logged in to the same account.

I logged out of Google on my ssh connected PC, to break that connection between phone and PC, but my location still said Portland. Of course, perhaps it's slow to update, or not so easily fooled.
It increases my rate of signing up for things, I'll tell you that. I'm always refreshed to not have to make Yet Another Account.
I fully support anyone who puts the time, effort and resources into gaming any system to their own advantage.

If people are unhappy with the outcome, blame the system, not the individual.

If he bribed someone that would be a very different matter. But he didn't, and there is no suggestion that he did.
Ditto. I actually spend long hours at home reading programming blogs, tech news, programming stuff or toying around with system administration tools and techniques I may use later in production. What is work? Am I working when I'm reading HN at the office waiting for some test to end ? Am I working when I'm answering support emails from home at 11PM while still reading HN ?

I spend about 35 hours a week at the office or customers premises. I spend 80 to 100 hours a week doing work-related stuff. I may pretend that I'm working even while I'm running in the woods, every morning, because while I run I'm probably rummaging about a couple of work related problems, even if it's on the back burner.

What's work? Frankly, I don't know anymore.
Call them.
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Actually the article has a section on "Why it matters". Including this:

There's a huge shortage of software developers in the UK, the number of software development roles is increasing by approximately 10,000/year. The UK just isn't producing enough talented software developers to meet the demand. When it comes to expanding the talent pool it makes sense to target the groups who are most under-represented.

But it is also an issue for society as whole. Having a 90:10 ratio of males to females for software development should be as shocking as having a 90:10 ratio for literacy. Software development is fast becoming one of the fundamental skills of the 21st century as technology starts to dominate every industry. Of the 26 billionaires the web has produced in the last decade, only one has been female. Only a tiny fraction of technology companies started today are started by female technologists. By neglecting female adoption we're creating the potential for huge disenfranchisement issues in the future.
I was actually wondering about that... there's a featured challenge on the front page: a biomarker for ALS.

The prize is 1m$... now, that is a lot of money, but something doesn't clash. I'm sure that'd come out to about the yearly salary for 10 researchers. No mention of lab costs, testing, publication, blah blah...

I'm not sure, but it smells like the typical Scriptlance (http://www.scriptlance.com/) fare, with a similar cost/reward point.

Meh. My lab will stay dusty :(
You need a good team just as much if not more.
Looks very interesting. I'd suggest that you offer as much feedback to losing submissions as possible (see my other comment), to help losers improve and keep them interested in trying other challenges.
Geeky example, but it's like RSS. Instead of having to manually check every website for updates, they all get pulled in to a central place where you can keep tabs on them yourselves.
I can't understand why we can't just go with
"Women just aren't interested in Programming" and leave it at that.

I never considered going into fashion or nursing or anything other remotely female dominated profession, because they just weren't interesting to me, and no amount of PR would have changed that.
Successful use of rmagick also requires that you explicitly call the ".destroy!" method on all images(including intermediary ones) to ensure that memory is freed up. Looking at Ruby's Object space shows that this method successfully marks the images for deletion. This eliminated the memory leaks for me. You may have to also call GC.start after ".destroy!" if you want the objects cleaned up as quickly as possible.

See: http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1374&foru...
Hi, HN. About a month ago I showed you all my November launch project. A few of you seemed interested in it, and I've added quite a bit since then, so I'm showing you again :).

First, the point of the site is to share lists. Originally it was a place for me to keep a Christmas list, but I quickly wanted to be able to add stuff like "coffee" to lists like "things I love".

After that, the ability to share pictures of the things I was listing sounded cool, so I added the ability to upload a photo along with whatever item you were listing.

Then I noticed that one of my favorite lists (songs I love) was pretty much all just links to youtube, so I added the code to automatically embed youtube videos instead of just linking to them. The same now goes for soundcloud and vimeo.

Something an HNer asked for last time was the ability to expand a list onto one page...which I added (and it looks like this: http://thingist.com/t/pageview/1674/)

The "notifications" have improved quite a bit since I showed you as well. If somebody comments on one of your items, or comments on something you've commented on, or "relists" one of your things, or mentions you in a post (by prepending your username with a $, so $blhack, if this was HN), you'll get a notifications about it.

As far as numbers go...the site growing has stagnated, and I would love it if anybody could give me some advice on how to fix that... The people that do use it use it quite a bit, I just wish there were more of them.

Anyway, maybe this post will get ignored, sorry if it's against guidelines to submit a project twice. I've been having a lot of fun building this so far (the most fun for me was definitely working with soundcloud's API...something that I had never done before).
This article comes up repeatedly, and uses a thousand words to describe one: drive.
A company like ZipCar could leverage this technology. They'd be in a good position to ensure that the cars are properly maintained to ensure the trains function smoothly. Customers would request transit from one city to another and be given a rendezvous time. Rendezvous would only be allowed for vehicles with fuel tanks more than 3/4 full.
Wouldn't you think that http://dojotoolkit.org/ might be a good alternative?
This is totally a personal/team comfort question, but is there any reason why you can't have two remotes? "git push jamistest" might use a few bits on a spinning platter somewhere, but that is cheap, and there is no reason your team has to see it if you don't push it to the master repo, any more than they see changes you keep on your local repo.
This is no place for a DMCA. I think that your other actions are on track. At this point this seems like a technical issue, not a legal one.
Overall this is one of the best top-down looks at the "roles" front-end developers can fit into. However, the point I'm so apt to obsess over is that people (who hire) can't get it that these differences exist ... so I'm compelled to encourage everyone to push this on hiring managers, recruiters, cto's, whatever.

The "hybrids" and "full stack" folk are out there (and I always stress the need to overlap on either end of the spectrum) but the vast majority of talent has an overwhelming strength in one of those three core capabilities: Design, UI Development, Server-side Development.

That's not to say you can't be A+ in 2/3. Instead if your company looking to hire a "2/3" then you better get ready to pony up. OR, you can target the area whose needs you are most in need of and see if their interests or overlap into the other capabilities.

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But much easier on the programmers.
PayPal had a big demo day where they invited the press to demonstrate their cool new technology: PDA-to-PDA money transfer. They made a big case of the fact that their investment was transferred using PayPal's technology.

Then, later, they found out that people found the web-based money transfers a lot more interesting than the PDA stuff. But they had their big launch day - before their product was even really completely conceived.
Apple picks technologies and features that only enthusiasts would normally appreciate, and educates consumers on why these features mean something. Their products are an embodiment of an up-sell.
I'm in virtually the same situation, so make that two of us that would like to hear that answer.
The VC could of been great, but at least in this article was too busy to take a board seat so just put someone else in.
Must be an incompatibility with the master version of node.js. git checkout v0.3.1 of node.js which is the version I'm using.
You might get a bit more agreement if you claimed women are more broadly interested in people issues.
Seadragon. See e.g. http://gigaom.com/apple/microsoft-releases-seadragon-iphone-... .
Health insurance isn't the issue here. There's an absolute scarcity of donor organs, which necessarily means that some people who need a donor organ won't get one. Changing how we pay for medical treatment isn't going to solve that problem, unless some of that money somehow goes to organ donors, which is an idea that makes everyone really uncomfortable.
The problem is that some women are interested in programming, but are discouraged by the education process, which is as male-dominated as the field itself. I know several guys who are in fashion, nursing and other female-dominated fields, but they have never been made to feel ostracized and alienated to the extent that budding female programmers are.
"Dislikes working with computers" is a new argument you just made; the article cited "Working with computers is a "solitary" activity which attracts more men than women", IT is not particularly a solitary activity in practice. Not like programming can be, though the solitariness seems overstated to me there too. It doesn't do anything to disprove the assertion that there is something about programming particularly distasteful to women, the real argument. (Which I am neither advancing nor attacking here.)

Like I said, all this article "showed" was a reiteration that there are "no" women in programming. You can't get to causation from there.

Besides, if you're going to argue that because women go into IT you can disprove some things, you need to take it all the way, not just use it to prove a couple of pet points then run away from the other implications, like the fact that there are obviously no systematic barriers to women in IT, and it seems rather unlikely to me that there are systematic barriers to programming occupations that don't exist in IT. Certainly I'd like to see one demonstrated rather than asserted if it's going to be the core of your argument. So using this same data we can plausibly argue that the data shows that there is something about programming that women legitimately of their own free will prefer on average not to do.

This is not the argument I am advancing; if I were I'd be refining it a lot more. My point for this post is that there mere fact that I can use this data in favor of such an argument is proof that the data proves nothing. It's not enough. (Trying to disprove the previous paragraph in a reply would be entirely missing my point.)
But that is completely spurious. Let me tell you a story. I get coffee every morning on the way to work, in London, and at the place I go, everyone who works there is Polish. Now, my fondness of all things Eastern European is well known but even so - is it not insane that we apparently have such a "shortage" of coffee makers in the UK that we have to fly people in from 700 miles away to do it?

And as for your next point, that's spurious too. Was there ever a time when the UK - or any country - fretted that not enough people were being trained to make paper and pens? That people can read and write, sure. But don't confuse the tools (computers) with the results (economic productivity).
I wonder how these comments would look like if instead of Jobs it was about some Goldman Sachs exec.

(downvotes for this comment, here they come)
This isn't their first app at all.

They've already released Windows Live Messenger http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/windows-live-messenger/id3761...

as well as a Bing client. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bing/id345323231?mt=8
The patent thing is just FUD by Apple proponents. But, I won't support WebM until it's an ISO standard, frozen is just a promise at this point.

Their own site says "dedicated to developing a high-quality..." which, taken literally, means that the project is still underway. Also listed on the front page: "Submit patches and improvements" Yet again, saying that it's a work in progress.
In Comp Sci, Architecture and Civ Eng you basically have to make it stable, make it work and—least & last—make it pretty. Fashion and Design have slightly different priorities.

I wonder what kind of gender ratio UX, UI and IA have.
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Interesting problem for those who've worked with record linkage or any fuzzy string work before.
Just went to try it out, but I get "Login failed, error 400." If you look at the reviews, you'll see this is a widespread failure. This is not the way to launch.
Homogeny begets stagnation.
> I find it incredibly frustrating that the Grubers of the world have spent months attacking Google for supporting the evil, closed Flash, but then manage to spin Google dropping a closed format in favor of an open one as evil and using it as a roundabout way of continuing to hate on Flash.

You just simply cannot deny the audacity of Gruber's comments about WebM/H.264/Flash. They are completely self-serving.

I think if Gruber allowed comments on his blog, or had to talk about WebM vs. H.264 in an engagement, he'd have trouble shoving the pro-H.264 side of this debate down people's throats.

While he occasionally makes some valid points, Gruber tends to pick and chose which articles to post that'll support his esoteric rhetoric.
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Have you contacted them and asked them to stop? If they continue, then you start to have legal rights.

Figure out how to uniquely identify them, use mod_rewrite or an equivalent if you can determine a UserAgent or something unique. mod_evasive perhaps.

Find a way to automate your pattern searches, i.e. x hits to site without fetching a single image or static asset, must be bot, deny.

80legs was doing this to a client, numerous requests to get them to stop hammering a site went unanswered. Same with cuil - though, cuil's bots finally got fixed.
Autotest sounds like a great tool. Is there a Python equivalent?
I don't like systems and I dislike rules. I would definitely bend rules for people like Steve Jobs. This guy is an amazing, one of the most influential and most competent CEO in Silicon Valley for almost two and half decades. When the king of Silicon Valley needs a new liver, he should get one. No questions asked.
The end of thumbnails and the future of the web.
I believe you're looking for the presentation "Grease Your Suite" hosted here on Heroku: http://grease-your-suite.heroku.com/
I don't see people trying to get more women into garbage collection

That is the dirty little secret of feminism. It's not and never was about "equality". It's about cherry-picking the best jobs - by means other than open competition.
You can spoil us now.
Oh god a link cloud, I wish people would stop using those.

Also, http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/US/FI recommends Tom of Finland books to learn more about Finland.
Interesting. Hopefully someone (preferably someone that already knows the library code) extracts a fix so that stuff like this don't happen.
Great site. Be cool if it included average weather - sun vs rain or something like that?
I'm going to second calling them... You might have to pay some money, but I'll bet it isn't lost forever.
I agree Google is being self serving, but I also believe in this case their interests align with the average internet consumer.
Aside from me simply wanting to be able to quickly run my tests locally, you mean? :) Mostly it's just an issue of configuring that so it works for all the programmers. Each would need their own remote, and each would need to be hooked into CI. Definitely possible, it just hasn't been a priority.
It seems that Steve's aim was to raise awareness to the problem so other VC start thinking about it.
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A couple notes. First, this is seed stage only. We are looking for Python-hacking founders generally.

Second, we are limited on space - 16 total slots right now. Seven are filled, and 4-5 will be filled based upon people's performance at Startup Riot. (See @startupriot's latest tweet).

Our purpose in holding Startup Row is to give these startups some attention and publicity, without overloading their time. Accordingly, our current plan is to have 8 small booths on Startup Row in the Expo Hall. There will be 2*X startups, so each will be there during Expo Hall hours (about 10-4) for one day only.

During the time on Startup Row, startups will be able to buy, sell, hire, demo, network, or whatever they would like in your booth.

We will be evaluating any other startups that come to our attention and awarding the last few spots from there.
Exactly. And activists' communication from foreign slacktivism, but that's another story.
And http://www.akshell.com/
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Add to the list any client that tells you how easy a project should be: "I need a widget that does A, B, and C; it shouldn't be too hard, just a couple lines of JavaScript." No matter how low the estimate you give them, it will be too high because it's "such an easy project."
You can specify any JDBC connection string. Thus, you can point to any type of DB storage technology you want. The article is just highlighting the AWS DB offerings.
Ask HN: what happened to the first distributed social network, the blogroll? 
The blogroll + FOAF and such was the first distributed social network, as far as I can tell. It pretty much failed. Is there any real activity going on around these open standards these days, or has everyone given in to the FB juggernaut and the religion of walled gardens?
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> However if we're talking "childish", then the "Plugins! I thought the point of HTML5 was to avoid plugins" argument wins by a mile.

Which doesn't challenge anything I said. In fact, you can remove plugins from you browser, including Flash, right now.
What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months?
Maybe Somerville, MA should change the city's name too. How dare is is Kentucky to name its largest city Louisville? Louisville Slugger, you make really good baseball bats, but you'll have to change your 30 year company name because "ville" is copyrighted by Zynga....... I mean really? I just think that's absurd.
Except it's not "free" in the Free software sense. Google specifically addresses why they didn't use a GPL license but rather BSD. They want to promote WebM in proprietary, closed, products.

http://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/
"One of the goals of having this code licensed as liberally as possible is to encourage adoption by as many users as possible. This includes both proprietary and free software. Using the GPL license would not be a good match for this goal."

The WebM issue is far from black and white. I still haven't figured out which side I agree with more. What I do know is that a lot of people are arguing tactics. This is a battle between corporations and everybody should be taking 100 steps back to try to figure out the strategies at work on both sides.

Edit: What I'm alluding to in my last point is a lot like Paul Graham's point in this essay from a while back: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
AutoCAD for Mac came out of beta stages recently. It is still rather clunky in usage. The GUI is also in need of a little love, but it works. Revit for Mac can't be that far off.

Vectorworks (used to be called MiniCAD) for Mac is still excelling in areas AutoCAD seems to have forgotten about. Its 2D drafting is unparalleled, although use in a multi-user environment is lacking. There is also ArchiCAD; a system second only to Bentley. Once one adapts to the different method of drafting in these apps they rarely want to go back to ACAD, if only for import/export checks.

Much like moving from Word to Pages... annoyingly odd at first but much more productive once learnt fully.
I think Paul was just about to enter college then, so he was old enough. My point is that it was actually quite forward-thinking to try out anything on the web in 1993.
iDOS Emulator Reappears in the App Store
The FSF has always been about the long term. This move is actually much less short-term user-hostile than many of their other moves.
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JavascriptMVC's unit testing is definitely a big advantage over backbone.

But backbone.js integrates well with my project structure ; I am under the impression ( and I could be very well wrong about this) is that JavascriptMVC requires its own project structure and it has its own code generator of some sort.

It seems that javascriptmvc is geared for huge applications whereas backbone.js is suited for single page apps.

If I am wrong, do please let me know.
Ron Conway is the man.... I just thought I should make that statement. It's not exactly an intellectual statement, but I appreciate the fact that legendary figures like him is reinventing the game. I think that just juices up the system, and bends the traditional rules. And I like that.
I didn't think the article was vacuous at all; the A-level and GSCE data were very interesting. And I thought it was great that you included a section on "why it matters".

On the other hand, you didn't really disprove the myths. So a different headline and organization might be helpful, focusing on your core arguments: A-level choices are a big contributor to the lack of women in computing; the number of women choosing math IT implies that it's not aversion to technology or math; GSCE and A-level scores imply that it's not a matter of ability. Then design your graphs to show that more clearly. And it would have been helpful to include references to other data supporting these points -- there's bunches of references at http://geekfeminism.org/2010/05/31/ask-a-geek-feminist-the-d...
Photo Of Hipster, The Social Networking Site EveryBody Is Talking About LEAKED
I made this site. I do cache the comparison pages, but I actually started hitting the bitrate cap on my slice. I moved a bunch of the images and other static content to S3 this morning to help out.
This is a good list of Tor endpoints that is proving to be useful for stopping spammers on my site: http://proxy.org/tor.shtml

Is this a continuation of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085859

If so, did you try the iptables rate limiting as described? Or the Varnish rate limiting?