skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the point of ec2 style clouds was to create an ami with everything configured just how you need it ahead of time, and boot lots of small machines off that. The data should be fed from s3 or from rds or from an ec2 instance with a database which stores it's data on an ebs.

The main idea is that it's an easy platform to scale horizontally from.

It never really struck me as intended to be a service which you run something like wordpress from...

What this guy probably wanted was something like rackspace and linode offer, which is a vm with a persistant disk, more in line with vmware on the desktop or esx, or xen, than amazons offering.
Apache CouchDB will become best-of-breed software sometime after couchio/couchone/couchbase is out of the picture. The technical foundation is there, but the culture is just 'off' somehow.
> That said, if you have the chops

Is 'chops' the 'ninja' of 2011? It seems to be making a comeback.
also that was about the best meeting I've had in weeks!
info at ipaddevshop.com if anyone else is interested.

I've updated my profile, not sure how the email was removed.

I'll be in touch sachinag.
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I find google doc better for sharing docs, you can edit them online anywhere and also upload any kind of files now though I never do.
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Ask HN: Why all the rejects?
Hello HN. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm will be graduating this year with a Masters degree, and so I've been applying to a few places (big and small). And so far, all I've gotten are the polite "we don't have a position for your skills" replies or silence. Even for new grad positions.

Now, I consider myself a fairly competent developer and this is what I'd be doing even if I wasn't getting paid for it. I have professional .Net experience and multiple personal projects in sufficiently different languages. I would imagine that this would be sufficient to at least warrant a phone screen. But so far, I've got nothing. And I'm perplexed as to why.

Is this because I'm not from MIT or CMU? Is my resume not reaching the right people? Is there a stigma against .net developers (in startups, non MS shops)? If so, how do I convince people that I'm platform/language agnostic?
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Better discussion here, IMO: http://research.swtch.com/2010/03/utf-8-bits-bytes-and-benef...
my next step is to clean up the mobile build so we can get it in a proper public repo.
Correct, but classification does not cover regular citizens. The only people who can be prosecuted for revealing classified information are those who have sworn to protect it, i.e. people who have previously agreed to respect the secrecy. It's a covenant.
Ah, but you can steal a kiss.
Humans have stuck with flesh long after it was strictly necessary in an evolutionary sense.

Sure, it's not a strictly necessity, but have you payed attention to how hard it is to be strictly vegan? Evolution isn't going to pick what's morally right, it's going to pick what works best.
Spec (for webkit based browsers): http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html of how to access acceleration data.

Mozilla does it somewhat differently:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Detecting_device_orientatio...
I think people are tainted on Map/Reduce because they see how it is done with other NoSQL DBs like MongoDB where it doesn't store the indexes

Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by stored indexes, but MongoDB supports indexes (http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexes), it just doesn't require them so you can perform exploratory ad-hoc queries when you need to.
Personally, I think that the compatibility should be based on feature versions. If an addon says "I use version x of feature y", and that feature doesn't get touched for 20 versions, it would be automatically compatible.
If people signed up just for the goodies, why did the bootcamp (reportedly) sell out in 2 minutes?
The comments catch what Groupon missed. Worth more than the blog entry itself.
Go to college, but keep the burning fire in your heart and don't waste it. The hard truth is that without a college degree you are at a significant competitive disadvantage in getting a job in the future.

I agree that some people can be very successful without a college degree, but even more people suffer from the lack of it. Why take the risk? Perhaps you are the special one who excels without a college education, but if you are so good, you certainly can pass up the opportunity to become a junior developer and instead focus your energy in making your college education a successful and productive one.
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Anonymous' attack on Gene Simmons was for his advocating suing the pants off of anyone and everyone. Then he went and said, basically, that he'd found some of them and was going to post their pictures online. That really let loose the hounds.

In Anonymous' mind (I have absolutely no relationship with the group, other than academic curiosity), I believe it goes a little like the aversion we have as a society to not incite riots. He was advocating being (potentially) frivolously litigious. That made him a target - not some random opinion.

Compare how Gene acts towards the internet and how Trent Reznor acts towards the internet. Gene may have an order of magnitude higher net worth (~300mm vs ~35mm, according to "Celebrity Net Worth" - probably not a very good source), but he got it by playing crappy bass in a mediocre band, being a litigious douchebag, selling a lot of over the top merchandise. Trent made it by making good (subjectively) music, and continued to make it by making music instead of Nine Inch Nails-branded coffins. And uses the internet to great success.

Which is a better netizen?
The best bang for buck is always plants. Trophic levels are typically ~10% efficient, meaning an herbivore that consumes 1 BTU per hour needs to eat 10 solar BTU per hour's worth of plants. The same generally holds as you go up trophic levels- which means 1,000 BTU of sunlight provides a 3rd trophic level predator with 1 BTU.

Though, this is an ultimate efficiency answer. For short-term small-scale, herbivores/predators could be a better answer, because they gather energy from all over the place, so harvesting them is sort of like harvesting plant life from your entire block.
We had the Membase team visit the Seattle Google Tech User's group last month. We had about 100 folks in attendance - and I would say we were pretty impressed with the demos we saw of Membase - especially very nice administration dashboard and ease of administering a large cluster.

BTW - the official merger announcement just dropped in my inbox:

http://www.membase.com/merger
Here are the images if you want to cheat.

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While I'm sure your premise is entirely correct, blaming parenting is essentially punting on the issue. It might be entirely accurate, but it doesn't help any, because it is one thing that can't be changed by the teacher or school administrator.
I navigated through the entire doodle just to see if there was something encoded in it as well, like in the cr-48 ad.
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Please take your time ... Get well
StumbleUpon for startup ideas. Awesomely amusing!
I think the most immediately obvious solution to the problem of disruptive students is to separate them from the other students, and put them into a separate class. However, someone who enters that class at age 10 isn't going to learn anything, as the entire class is full of disruptive students, and they'll be stuck in the disruptive class for the rest of their schooling, after which they'll be released into society with few useful skills and a lot of problems. Also, very few good teachers will voluntarily work with the disruptive class.

One solution is to create a separate school with an educational model tailored to the problem, such as a military academy. This only works if there is a high enough population density to fill that school, the educational model actually works, and parents are willing to admit the problem and send their kids to that school.

There are a lot of disruptive students who are best served by going through the normal school system with a moderate amount of discipline when they act up. Many of these kids don't want to be in school, and would prefer to be at home playing video games, or barring that, in an easy, low-effort class. Allowing these kids to skip school, take easy classes, or putting them in a separate system risks allowing them to jeopardize their own future because of the impatience and short-term thinking common to almost all teenagers.
"I think it would be fair to say that NYC--particularly Manhattan--is now largely gentrified. Where there were race riots in Alphabet City in the 80s and you'd only go to Avenue D at your own peril, now they have a Whole Foods."

Additional tidbit. Where once (late 90s early 00's) there were bodies dropping weekly in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a block away there is a brand new 24 hour organic grocer: http://bushwickbk.com/2011/02/03/after-long-wait-hana-grocer...
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"[...] money at seed stage has become commoditized."

Investors have always waived around their experience and business connections as differentiators. It's still going to be in their best interests to differentiate themselves.

More competition is always going to be bad news for second-rate offerings in any market.

Does this mean more seed investments on the whole?
The big difference between blog hosting and things like Twitter (or Reddit, or Digg, etc) is that blogs are independent, so adding servers scales you up linearly. When you are looking at X's blog, basically everything you see is coming from one server.

You will have to have something that deals with mapping URLs in the unified logical name space of your site to the individual servers that the particular blogs on--that's the part that you can't just throw machines at and get good results.

With the social sites, you can't isolate things easily, because what a given person sees at any time is drawn from an ever changing set of content from other users, with each viewer drawing from a different set.
In these cases it is important for families to pull together. I would rather see the children get jobs and help feed the family than waste away in a school learning nothing because the parents are fighting off starvation.
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This news really hits me hard. Ken was a great entrepreneur and a friend to my family. He hired my father (Dick Hustvedt) out of Xerox to come join DEC in the early 70's. Ken tapped my dad for VMS.

To me Ken was always one of those grandpa mentor types quick to engage and share his business wit. I remember how the DEC hackers would always talk about how Ken inspired a culture of intrapreneurs within the company, pushing engineers to feel free to create new products and businesses from within rather than acquiring.

It was a different era, but the stories of the guys and gals that stayed up all night coding away at The Mill really made my love for tech. There was a passion for what they did, not for the payday.

DEC was also one of the first startups funded by the modern idea of VCs.
I honestly had no idea there were parts of the development community that actually used and preferred UTF-16...
Jailers are not very professional, and are allowed to treat you like livestock.

Teachers are professionals who are generally trying to help you become a better person (even if a few degenerate in Stanford Prison Experiment style guards, and they are the ones some people really remember).
"To Continue Reading Subscribe Now" I get that the key piece of information is in the snippet but it is frustrating none the less.

Some coverage we can all read: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/htc-to-invest-40-million-...
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and i find it fair that American characters require 2 bytes in Java as everybody else, not 1 as in utf-8! :)
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Cute quiz, but they needed a broader range of people for comparable results. My best match was only 68%.

Plus, there are presumptions in some of the answers that'll push you elsewhere than where you might really be.

But hey, still a pretty good quiz for the internet. ;)
I went to school full time, worked part time, and had an internship that ranged from 20-40 hours a week. It's a big commitment, but definitely doable.

Don't sell yourself short, but in the end, do whatever is going to make you happy.
I feel tempted to try to build an Android viewer, but then again the official app could be on the way soon...
Anyone running FusionIO products on membase or couchDB layers?

If not - take a look at them.
Do projects in the languages/platform you are applying for. There is no better way to concinve someone than to have actual proof.
> The problem is, no one has made the “Facebook solution” to > online learning

I am working on a similar product called class.io, there are already a couple more startups doing this, edmodo and schoology, schoology looks a lot like facebook
No no no no. It didn't occur to me that my words might be interpreted this way:

people you don't respect -- you think their "minds" are weak enough to need "vaccination" against a "disease" -- remedial text for political idiots

I respect (former) East Germans. I don't think they're idiots or have weak minds, or need remedial texts or any kind of higher education or higher intelligence. I don't think they're any different from West Germans. Same with North Koreans and South Koreans. There's no such thing as a mind which is naturally insusceptible to bad ideology. We all need inoculation.

Basically, you care about 1984 from the perspective of its effect

Yes. Orwell fought with a gun in Spain as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification. He was fighting with a pen when he wrote 1984. He was more successful with the pen.

would you still think it worth reading?

Dunno. I never claimed it worth reading. But it's short, to the point, and concisely illustrates some important ideas. It might be worth reading just to add "memory hole" to your vocabulary. On other hand maybe Milan Kundera is a more entertaining choice. I love this Kundera quote: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Whether any given book is worth reading seems very personal to me. I don't have much of an opinion about it. I, personally, didn't love the book. But I did love the movie.
Interesting. But I don't think they've chosen the best sample to work with.
Tow knights, upon meeting, show their mutual respect for each other by extending their hands away from their weapons and towards one another.

A modern equivalent is born?
It's called creative destruction, and it's a wonderful thing.
What do they call that style of illustration that looks like it was done with a fish-eye lens effect. (City with guy playing golf picture).

Is there a stock image site that has a collection?
Edit: Found it here, but no mention of what the "style" is called. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-10284891-beaut...
Investors in the round consist of the who’s-who of angel investing in Seattle, including Mike Slade, Nick Hanauer, Pete Higgins, Rich Barton, Erik Blachford, John Cunningham and others.

umm... Who?

But not to be snarky what I wonder is how some start-ups manage to generate press. Do they hire PR firms? Do investors pump the reporters? How can something so completely uninformative get out as news?
Anyone who programs in Java is using UTF-16. And in my experience very few Java programmers understand that UTF-16 is a variable length encoding.
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How are you going to make it work on iphone by the way? I doubt spidermonkey and erlang will be accepted there. What's the plan?
Python, too (it can be compiled to use UTF-32, but normally uses UTF-16 to mean "Unicode").
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I'll admit to spending 5 minutes flipping through - well done :)
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I used the wrong term, I apologize. From what I understand MongoDB doesn't store the results from Map/Reduce calculation and treats each query using Map/Reduce separately and on demand. Which means that if you have a large data set, your M/R might be too computationally demanding to run every time.

Where as with CouchDB, every time the view (M/R results) are accessed, it gets incrementally updated and stored. So even complex M/R queries on large datasets will be fast subsequently.
An extra bit of feedback, those auto-scrolling "feedback" vertical button things are incredibly annoying, especially on mobile devices and/or small screens. They obscure part of the page, can't be scrolled out of the way, can't be (easily) switched off, and are also a huge slowdown when scrolling, again particularly on mobile devices. It's also unclear what clicking it will do. Will it take me to another page so I lose the context I'm in, will it open a popover form, will it open a menu? Is said "feedback" targeted at the current protocol/page or at the site itself? I recommend getting rid of this, or at least moving it to the top menu. Sorry, minor nitpick, but I've been so frustrated by these unremovable auto-scrolling things obscuring information I actually need to see.

Oh, and as for the linking, you might want to check out how Ravelry does it (Ravelry is a site for knitters to organize their projects at). They have a text field where you can type in the name of a yarn/designer/pattern, and a link button. Clicking the link button pops up a little box where it searches for anything with a similar name in the respective database, and you can click on a search result to auto-populate and link the field to the result.
I think he meant that couchdb keeps stuff on disk (through btrees to be more precise) for the views so that when the corresponding database is updated, the map reduce does not run over the whole dataset, only on the new document.

As far as I know, this does not work on mondodb.

Personally, I simply do not see the point of map reduce for something like couch: the whole point is to be able to parallel jobs on multiple machines so that data do not need to move back and forth through the network. Debugging them is particularly painful, especially if you need to support non programmers (sql is used by many non-programmers people in my experience).
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Of course, now that it's a standard feature everyone is going to wonder if you really had a phone call.
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Actually, it's just stored internally as UCS-2. I'm not sure why that really matters, though. You shouldn't care how your Unicode code points are stored (i.e., the size of the integer) as long as they encode to a UTF encoding correctly.

Edit: Ah, guys it's actually UTF-16, the configure flag is just named ucs2. False alarm.
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I hope Onlive succeeds (they really have some amazing technology) but I would really hate to have my fate tied to the fickle finger of the big content publishers. They've already had issues with EA (Mass Effect and Assasins Creed have been pulled).

Their current library emphasizes shooters when Onlive is really perfect for casual players with lots of disposable income who may be more interested in Lego Batman than F.E.A.R. and are much more comfortable with $X per month than $X100 for a gaming rig or even $X10 for a console.
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All kinds of laptops have had accelerometers since the early 2000s or so. (IBM ran commercials for their ThinkPads with “airbag” all the time. Yep, this was already built into laptops when IBM still sold ThinkPads.) They stop the hard drive when accelerations get too extreme.
Very few people in HR respect the education they "require" in their job postings. With an M.S. you should almost certainly be able to pick up any toolkit or language quickly enough that, while you won't hit the ground running on day 1, by day 5 you should be full speed. You've almost certainly done harder things than learning LINQ, for example - that's what a degree is supposed to signal. I suspect that you're just getting caught by a moron somewhere in the pipeline, so you should not take this as a meaningful appraisal of your skills.

That said, not getting a job does suck. From the limited picture I see above, your technical chops aren't what's missing. I wouldn't spend a tremendous amount of time doing more coding work. Some folks like resume consultants, but I have never used one and can't speak to their effectiveness.

Best advice I can give you is to send out as many applications as you can get out. A few is not enough. In times of my life when I was in full-on application mode, I'd send out 5 relatively targeted applications a day, where targeted meant I wrote a specific cover letter and tailored my resume to highlight what they were looking for. Most places won't send anything back. Most places - startups and BigCo's alike - are staffed by assholes. Just keep plugging through whatever avenues you can find and something should turn up.
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Your post had little substance, and using the phrase "the internets" certainly didn't help.
> I was a teeny bit hurt (not offended) by the Cr48 warning against exposure to rap.

I agree, though I was a bit offended. I made a (downvoted) comment that I didn't get the joke on the original article, even though I understood that it was "peppered" with humor. Honestly, being exposed to hip-hop was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
In running and peer to peer betting (Betfair style) are indeed different. You can place in run (live) bets on Betfair.

Interesting anecdote, apparently Betfair had one of the busiest Oracle installs on the planet. They were (are?) creating some pretty neat infrastructure to get away from it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/matt-youill-betfair-flywh...