skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find out: write a script to populate sets in Redis and run some commands. You'll likely find it's fast enough for your needs.
The people who come along later to scale to those millions of users your site attracted might.
I suppose that's where some of the "I found an answer on EE I couldn't find anywhere else" responses come from.
Well, isn't it what they already did by deprecating Java on MacOS? Make sure you develop for iOS/MacOS and not for all available platforms? The exclusivity will come naturally,
Show HN: soft-launching one of my pet projects
So a while ago I was thinking it would be neat to build a site that had the most absolute utility. The idea I came up with was a site to store those little protips that are super useful, if you know them ahead of time.

I hired a guy to work on it with me, and ClueDB was born: http://cluedb.com/

Please give it a whirl (it uses Twitter auth as login but doesn't tweet anything) and tell me what you think!

(Various trivia: My first try at a project coded by someone else and "product managed" by me. Runs on Flask + MongoDB. Also, this is totally unrelated to my startup.)
I still hope, that somebody finds a non-constructive proof for P=NP.
Good TLDR: "So what do we have in total? A Web application with SQL injection flaws and insecure passwords. Passwords that were badly chosen. Passwords that were reused. Servers that allowed password-based authentication. Systems that weren't patched. And an astonishing willingness to hand out credentials over e-mail, even when the person asking for them should have realized something was up."
Where are the software architects of tomorrow?
Totally unique ideas don't make it. You can't build a business on being ten years ahead of the market - you'll have a 0.0001% response rate. To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be fifteen minutes ahead of the market - and that means that, yes, there are other people with ideas very, very close to yours who are working on it at the same time.

(Edit as afterthought: sometimes you can be way ahead of people and still make it big, and these quantum leaps make history. It's just that it's poor strategy to assume you're going to win that lottery - and the people who aren't actually ready to start a startup tend to underestimate the length of the odds. Hell, we all do, it's what makes H. sapiens so much fun to watch.)

The larger point here is that in starting a startup, you're not really working on an idea so much you're working on assembling a team of people to implement the idea, learning how to build a business, how to manage customers, marketing and sales, technical support - all that stuff. The idea is just the irritant that gets the pearl going.
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Facebook might count, depending on what you mean by stealth.
It's a little sad that expert sexchange felt the need to respond to an interview they weren't asked for in such an immature manner, and yet they still haven't realized that they weren't invited to the party because their content is paywalled, littered with ads, and generally considered spam by most users who are seeking answers.
This sort of overanswering seems to be usually accepted, as long as the correct answer is contained in the wrong one.
Do you know if there were any legal cases regarding these issues, or if that's simply the way things worked out?

I'm sure I can find the cases if there were some, so please don't search for them if you don't know them off hand.

Thanks again
Dan
You can even prove that. It's called the Curry–Howard isomorphism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_isomorphis...). Guess who has a the highest bid on ads for `curry howard isomorphism' on Google?
Watson's response to Jeopardy category "U.S cities": Toronto
I have tried very hard to get an interview with ee for Mixergy and got rejected.
I don't think it's as simple as comparing the percentages - the App Store generates much more revenue than the Android market and other, similar stores on other platforms. As it stands now, the decision of whether or not to port a successful iOS app to other platforms is based on whether or not the revenue generated is worth the time and money to do the port. However, if there's an exclusivity deal in place, you also have to factor in lost earnings from the iOS version as well.

However, you're right that it's not a typical Apple move to reduce the margins, but nevertheless I think it would be a very effective strategy for keeping high-quality, high-revenue apps exclusive to the iOS platform.
Very well written article - it does a terrific job of explaining things like rainbow tables for a non-technical (or at least, technically-but-not-security-minded) audience. The only part that seems off is the theme that /all/ of the exploited vulnerabilities were necessary to render HBGary vulnerable:

"Even with the flawed usage of MD5, HBGary could have been safe..."

They homebrewed their own password system. Can someone switch on the tptacek bat-signal?
Similarly, I've been hoping that Rust (which is somewhat run by Mozilla labs folks) would turn out well:

https://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki/
And the vast majority of technical people (very, very clever technical people) are useless in terms of execution.
There are some domains, like Geometry, where trying enough random numbers is actually good enough for a certain kind of proof.
If you were going to found a web based start-up tomorrow, what stack would you develop in?

Depending on the details, probably some combination of:

Groovy on Grails, Tomcat, HornetQ, CentOS Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcache; with the possibility of falling back to plain Java (or even going native with C++) if necessary for performance critical stuff. If absolutely necessary, maybe Thrift for cross-platform RPC.

Note: I'm not making any claim that this is objectively the best stack available in any universal sense. But it's what would be best for me, based on what I know and am productive in.
Man, I shoulda known better than to lend credence to that. This is what comes of failing to examine one's assumptions.
Apple's Greedy, Anti-Competitive, Evil, Brilliant Announcement
Ah yes. That is what I would have thought. I was out of home for the last 4 days with no internet connectivity on my laptop. I actually made checkins to production with ssh on my iphone. It was an absolute pain to do but got the job done. Not so much the "screen size" but more the painful typing. Point is if push came to shove, I actually managed to fixing critical bugs SSHing from my phone. Marginal improvement in my productivity would be higher from a better keyboard than a bigger screen!
Ha! The trouble with the joke is only Australians would get it!
I've just realized what Apple is up to here - it took me a day, and some of the excellent comments on HN - but I now get it.

My inability to see what was going on, was that I couldn't see how Netflix/Amazon/Rhapsody/etc... could operate, profitably, under this plan. The 30% cut would eat their entire margin (and more).

And the plan is brutally straightforward and honest, if you just mediate on it for a few days.

Apple isn't interested in hosting Amazon Kindle, Netflix, Pandora, Rhapsody, or _any_ of the middlemen that have been selling their content on the iPad. Effective today - those sellers no longer have a business model. They are middlemen, and, in fact, they'll need to seek other pastures to sell their wares. They will all be removed from the ipad with 3-6 months. Gone.

So - what will replace them - well, let's see what's leaving:

o Music - Itunes
o Movies - Itunes
o TV Shows - Itunes
o Books - iBooks

This is the master plan, and I'm surprised we didn't realize it immediately. Apple will get their 30%, because _they_ will be the platform providing this content, NOT netflix/rhapsody/Pandora/Amazon.

I suspect all of those vendors realized this in about 5 minutes, much faster than us "Customers."

Apple is going for the whole enchilada, and will henceforth be dealing directly with the publishers, labels, and studios.

What's staying?

o App Developers
o Newspapers
o Magazines

Basically, anybody who creates _original_ content, will be okay with the 30% cut (they already pay that much or more through other channels), though they may gripe a little at the lack of customer information (That's the bone that Apple tossed in todays release - the "option" for customers to let the publishers know their user information.)

This is nothing more, or less, than the continuation of the Apple "Walled Garden" philosophy, where Apple is able to control the entire experience. Jeff Bezos realized this when he ensured that Amazon had a platform of their own to deliver content to the customer.

It's customer centric, and, if they pull it off (With a good streaming, book reading, and content delivery platform) - brilliant.

I have a huge investment in the Kindle, and it's books - so I'm still unclear on how I'm going to respond as a customer. I would have _never_ purchased a book through iBooks (I like the ability to read books on my e-ink Kindle, and Apple has no comparable platform, yet). I also have both an extensive list of cultivated Pandora Stations, and, have a Netflix AND Hulu Plus account - all of which I'm going to lose on the iPad. If Apple doesn't come up with a compelling alternative for me - I'll actually consider an Android Tablet. They'll be able to replace Netflix, and Pandora, I'm certain - but I do love my Kindle(s) - so, I don't know what my next step is going to be.

What I _do_ know is Apple has unambiguously signaled what they will be doing. They don't have a great streaming solution yet, for music, or movies. So they have some gaps in their portfolio of offerings - if I'm correct, we'll see a Netflix and Pandora competitive application being offered fairly quickly - possibly in the next release of IOS.
Is there any (standard) technology stack that has proven to be unscalable?
Was he perhaps trying to say that "if you're a US citizen in Brazil [with a heap of money] then you won't be extradited to the US on a charge of insider trading in the US exchanges".
This is what I don't get. ASP.NET scales pretty well as Joel opines. Why do people think .NET is bad just because it feels enterprise-y?

More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ
cool. This is like the Middle Earth's Der Untergang (The Downfall)
A common application works well to make the process of applying easier, but my memory was the best schools used to add a supplemental question or two (although it's been a decade since I applied to college). Lower-ranked schools wouldn't add additional questions because they benefit from the increase in application flow by removing the friction of applying.

YC doesn't have to do anything really. What will likely happen is that the common app each year will just be the questions YC asks or a subset of the questions YC asks (effectively giving YC the benefit of a supplemental set of questions).

One other point. Unlike college admissions where you typically have to pay an application fee (and with incubators, a time cost associated with filling out disparate applications), it doesn't appear that there's any penalty for submitting your common application to every "incubator". There are probably some unintended consequences of every incubator seeing every application.
I disagree. For starters, I care what I build my site in. I'd have a lot more fun using say python or (if I'm lucky) lisp or Haskell than I would using PHP. And more fun = easier.

Secondly, developers who might join your company are going to care. Developers are more than the technologies on their resumes. Good ones can learn new technologies quickly. And they might even be happier learning something new.

This view is typical of business people. There isn't anything wrong with that, and it's necessary to a certain degree. But as he scales up, I hope that he can find someone who can help him make a more informed technical decision.

(And for the record, this isn't necessarily targeted at ASP.NET. I can think of worse technologies to work with)
As a newbie, you are as likely to write shit asp.net code as you are any other code.
You almost always have to rewrite your whole system anyway to scale to millions of users. It doesn't matter whether it's PHP, Python, C++, or ASP.NET; it'll have to be rewritten.

The real problem is the flip-side of something that the OP mentioned as an advantage: ASP.NET coders tend to be cheaper, less experienced, and hence less likely to know about some critical detail that'll boost adoption, whether it's usability or latency or security. As someone relatively inexperienced himself, the OP can't know what those things are, but it's highly likely that one of them will bite him.

In other words, it's correlation, not causation. ASP.NET won't make your site suck. However, ASP.NET biases your talent pool towards developers who suck, and that will make your site suck.
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Taking over what? The playing of trivia games?

Imagine the terrible effects on the economy when tens of thousands of professional trivia players are thrown out of work.

Although, come to think of it, I don't think the rise of computers to the top ranks of chess hurt the chess community at all. Humans just play the game between themselves and ignore the computers, just as we ignore the speed of racing cars when we run Olympic races and ignore the superior mobility of eagles when flying kites.

The future of trivia is not particularly imperiled by Watson. It's imperiled by the fact that we're all starting to carry Wikipedia and Google around 24/7, and therefore the ability to memorize and recall trivial knowledge has about as much relevance to our futures as the ability to turn raw cotton into clothing. It's likely to become a quaint hobby that young people can't understand the point of.
I work with a large number of professional creatives, including copywriters. They're all pretty well aware of copyright laws. This story might make sense if his "copywriter" was his 16 year old cousin. Also, I'm going to say that placing pictures isn't really the job of a copywriter.
Very nice, thanks for sharing! For my own purposes I implemented the function in clojure, which I find more readable. Destructuring and literal vectors are great assets of clojure. Autopromotion to avoid overflow (as in common lisp) is also great.

(defn mean-variance [data]
(let [square (fn [x] (* x x))
[n xs x2s] (reduce (fn [accum xi]
[(inc (accum 0))
(+ (accum 1) xi)
(+ (accum 2) (square xi))])
[0 0 0]
data)
mu (/ xs n)]
[mu (- (/ x2s n) (square mu))]))
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And people do give a damn about somebody who rants and curses in his blog post.
Hang on, Experts Exchange has actual people behind it? I thought it somehow spontaneously congealed out of the random spam swirling around the Internet, like how the Sargasso Sea forms in the dead zone of the North Atlantic out of the detritus and flotsam there. It's where content goes to die. The notion that some sort of malevolent intelligence fuels it is a disconcerting one.
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The kickass office space also helps =)
I'm doing the same. I'll give a shout out to appharbor. They have made it insanely easy and cheap(as in free) to deploy a .net app.

...and here is a little secret that they may or may not want you to know...if you don't have the MS tools, it doesn't really matter. You don't even have to have windows. They build the code for you. You could used notepad to write an ASP.net app on their platform. Push. Test. Repeat.
Attempted joke; sorry.
It is the place of consumers and web developers to make any demands they please of any multi-billion-dollar company they like, regardless of their understanding of the issues. It is the place of the multi-billion-dollar companies to decide whether to honor those demands.

Also, it's not terribly difficult to support more than one drawing API as long as you abstract the drawing code, as is most likely done for Direct2D in Firefox 4.
Your argument is based on tangential statements relating to your mores. I made no moral or value judgements, just a simple analysis of the situation. None of what you said even addresses my central premise, that the ecosystem is the issue now. One killer app on the android will do absolutely nothing to the IOS ecosystem.

If history is any guide, the only way to kill a functioning ecosystem is through some type of fundamental shift in technology, paradigm shattering change, or through long attrition with a competing ecosystem.

Sure I know numerous people that have gone to Android based phones. I also know that the app ecosystem on android is not vibrant right now. There are a lot of factors involved, but before android can build a sustainable competitive advantage, they have to build a functional ecosystem. I have questions about how android can do that with the fractured market places. Android came out in 2007, four years is a long time to not have any killer apps. Given their wide distribution, I am frankly surprised that android is not much more prevalent. The reality though is that ecosystems are incredibly hard to build. Phones are one thing, I have yet to see a single android based music player or iPad competitor. How do you attack a fortified, focused competitor with more cash, better design aesthetic, and an innovation pipeline that is the envy of the world? I honestly have no idea, but I'm fascinated watching it all unfold.
It scales well but the pool of people with the experience and inclination to run a major Internet site using .NET is small and more importantly, getting smaller. Nobody graduating with a CS degree in the States right now is excited to work with MS - it just isn't sexy right now.

Sexy isn't everything, but it's not nothing either.
Yes. The one you started out with is always unscalable.
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I recall twitter originally being written in something that proved unscalable, so they had to switch. Can't remember what it was though.
The right answer is almost always to go with what you know best. As long as what you know best isn't completely ridiculous it will be the least of your problems.
I don't think most are concerned with IE9 because they'll be using it themselves. It's more than they'll have to develop to support it, and if Microsoft put a reasonable effort into this it would mean much less work for web developers.
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You're right, .NET (even though I despise it) scales as well as anything else. Scalability is much more about design decisions than language/platform choice.

However, Joel Spolsky is a tool. Everyone I know and respect thinks he's a tool. He is a prime example of being successful because of being lucky, rather than being good. Do not quote Joel, he can't form a valid argument for a topic without circling back on himself to save his life.
Because having a night-light server plugged into your wall will prevent the government from turning off internet services?

Because encrypted distributed servers running around the country will efficiently serve internet traffic?
I wonder if it might also be that Microsoft has 1st-party knowledge of its own OS, and this biases them towards depending on specific new features of the OS in their applications, whereas Google et al have a 3rd-party mentality of just looking at the most obvious and stable APIs.
It was Rails and, it wasn't that it wasn't unscalable but because they did it wrong then, they hired a bunch of developers that knew nothing about Rails, so of course they moved a lot of new and core development to other technologies.
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What you've said doesn't add anything to the conversation. It's roughly equivalent to standing up in the middle of a lecture, yelling "You suck!" and then walking out without any explanation of your own ideas.

Why is his idea flawed? What would it require to succeed? Are there other similar ideas that you think are good? Answering these questions would be interesting. Doing what you did is not.
Machine Learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem
When I was growing up, asking for a Coke would result in the counter-question "What kind?" Coke was just the general name for any dark carbonated beverage that wasn't root beer. Although I still don't know why root beer was excluded. :-)
To me this sounds like my friends who didn't want to go to UT because it 'was too big'. The awesome thing about too big is that if you look hard enough you are almost assured of finding someone like you.

Yes there are crappy c# developers. I've also seen some bad ass c#.
Plenty of successful startups had money coming in from another source (see also: Microsoft) or piggy-backed off another company for a while (again: see Microsoft). It sounds like you could easily transition down to a 6-7 hour day and then later to a 4 hour day there, and be working hard for 7-8 hours a day on your other startup ideas.

Who knows? They say a change is as good as a holiday, and doing something different may also re-invigorate you to provide more energy back into the original business. I know I get better results when I have multiple jobs to think about than just one.

Working two jobs sounds too hard? Some people work three.

But I agree with the other commenter who said it sounds like mentally you've already 'checked out'. Go the whole hog for a while, and start treating it exactly like just a paycheck. You want to do other stuff? No one is stopping you, but you.
Nevermind Google, New Extensions Block Spam Across Browsers & Search Engines
Pretty much. Apple is pretty well known for being a one-size-fits-most company.

They don't seem interested in stretching to make things work out for certain sets of customers and potential partners, and it can seem maddening. And they always keep themselves in control wherever they reasonably can. It is their strength and their weakness.

So far it's served them pretty well, but I agree it's not the ultimate model for an app store or a platform. It sure does seem to cover the most profitable surface area, though.
Article should be called "I should not have built my site in ASP.NET, but it's too late now, so I'm going to rationalize it as follows."
Both my current and previous managers have been excellent for one overarching reason: they each understood that developers are individual artists of a sort and are not interchangeable gears. This fact may seem obvious to HNers but if you've ever worked within a larger organization, you know how quickly this jewel of wisdom is often forgotten. Knowing where the interviewee stands on this point will be priceless for your whole team.
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