skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you share some example of how you are using them together. I am currently using Python scripts with boto to bring up the instances and doing all kinds of configuration stuff on them. Just wanted to see if there is any better way of doing this.
Back in "the good old days" you wouldn't dream of creating a website using anything but Java code and hosting it on your own server sitting in the back of your office: That required grabbing a $100k a year coder, a sys admin at at least $75k and costly hardware (and rent). These days you'd write the code in a language like PHP and outsource everything else with a cost of under $10k.

Something else we also tend to forget is that in 1998 the mere act of writing HTML was an overpriced and highly sought after skill in the hands of a very few. These days anyone from a child to a great grand parent can author a webpage without thinking about it by using Facebook.
Well, both MySQL and PHP appeared in 1995. My got my first paid web development job in 1999 and we already had MySQL and PHP in production.
Link to your competition (2010)
alwaysagoodtime had one piece of advice that really resonates: Find the right woman/(man) or don't have one at all.

And I recently reread a PG article where he says he only had a gf two months in the three years he was working on Viaweb. Good to keep in mind, but I read it, and then promptly forgot. Lesson learned!
Indeed. As you say (and I tell every dev I find whining about it), computer programming is the single best job you could ever hope for.

Where else can you convince people to pay you well into six figures to sit at home in your boxers and solve puzzles?

Of those industries, how many of them not only allow, but encourage you to work short contracts at your whim, allowing as much free time in between as you'd like to spend that massive overpayment.

A good developer can produce so much value in such a short time that companies can afford to pay you pretty much any number you can say with a straight face. And if they balk, the bad/cheap developer they hire in your place will teach them such a lesson that when they finally come back you can double your figure again and they'll probably take it.

I tell ya, I used to bag groceries for a living. It was nowhere as good as this.
If you find that a useful learning experience, you may want to try http://projecteuler.net/

I've thought "How can my solution possible be wrong" numerous times while doing those problems. Makes you realize how often mistakes slip through in real code, 'that can't possibly be wrong'. Even when you have tests, because for complex behavior, your test case solution may easily be wrong (or worse: derived from your algorithm... I'm guilty of that mistake)
> change your domain once your product gains traction and you have a proven product. Then you can spend the big bucks on the domain you really want.

Makes sense but at the same time, I guess there would be no harm in trying to get (buy) it at a lower price right from the beginning.
HN request: Nordic startups, we'd love to feature you
My local startup hub, Klak in Iceland, is publishing an online magazine about startups, innovation and the like, but so far, we're a bit too local to Iceland.

We'd really like to have more range in the content, so we'd like to feature those of you who are running startups in the Nordic countries or something like that.

If you're interested please send an email to info@nordicinnovation.is

We've released our first issue and you can check it out on our website: http://nordicinnovation.is/ - It's currently not very web-friendly - we're working on that...
Nice! Does that site uses HTML 5 ?
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From the blog on the rack website: "Rack aims to provide a minimal API for connecting web servers and web frameworks."

The PHP SAPI handles the HTTP request and dissolves it into super globals for the environment to consume. This is all you need to handle a HTTP request. It just doesn't get any more minimal than that.

You can, if you want, take it a step further and add request routing, i.e. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.router.h...
How you view this algo change, I guess depends on if you control websites that might be classified as "content farms".

Job sites, classifieds sites, news archive sites, social sites like HN or reddit etc.

There are a few legit businessmodels (as in, not against Google TOS) that feel the heat from this update.

I am all for banning scraper sites, especially if they outrank the source. But I don't like this update at all: There are still too many what-if's and classification problems (where do you stop?). Do the giants get a free pass, and do the new sites have to fight an uphill battle?

What do I tell new clients? I've seen the same with Keyword-In-Domain's outranking more established sites. What is a whitehat SEO to do, but claim a few Keyword-In-Domains. Now KID's start to become more and more greyhat. Not because claiming a KID is so bad, but because Google has problem ranking relevancy over KID's.

Having a curated content farm, in itself is not a problem and perfectly whitehat. If its a good idea after this update, time will tell. I would really like to know if curated content farms with an editorial staff will be hurt by this update. I don't feel safe right now at all.

P.S. I guess I've found the first blackhat technique to combat being classified a low-quality non-unique site. Google says to add value. So you pull in content from multiple sources, instead of a single source, you article spin the content a little, you add reviews and comments, and then you comment on/review your own stories. Content farms will turn into comment/review farms, and no one will be the wiser.

Also affiliate sites (Google always had you in her sights) and ecommerce sites that used the supplied product descriptions will have a harder time now. Realistically that would include smarter affiliate sites like hackerbooks.com (no unique content, just an Amazon storefront for all Google cares)
700k? What dream world are you living in? What I wouldn't give to be able to buy a house for 700k. Relevant:

http://www.crackshackormansion.com/

The worst part about that site: It's a year old. It's worse now.
Saying a city isn't expensive because it's less expensive than New York isn't exactly a great argument.
Just sent you a pull request! Lets make this awesome.
If I'm reading that test right, it's Apple who cannot ship and not Firefox.
One new product for AWS per month.
I don't think any company could do better than Amazon in the cloud business.
I too read this book shortly after doing my CompSci degree. His beautiful technique of explaining complex concepts through allegory made me finally understand a lot of stuff from my various Computation-related courses, that was opaque at the time.

If I had read that book before I took the courses, I would have understood the courses a lot better. However if I had tried to read the book before taking the courses, I may well have not understood parts of the book properly.

Deliciously, this kind of recursive, chicken-and-egg problem is an embodiment of some of the book's central concepts.

Go and buy it now!
Thanks for sharing.

> Also, dropping support for IE6 cut our compatibility testing/fixing time dramatically.

This is interesting. We've been thinking about this but haven't done much research on IE6 usage statistics - are you saying it has generally dropped so low that we can afford to stop testing with it?
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I don`t know much about that.
Money doesn't make you happy, but not having money _can_ make you unhappy.

Not that it always does; it depends on your dependencies, in both senses. With a wife, child and mortgage I would be pretty unhappy if my income dropped to 0.
That's kind of how I approached nift.ie ... the code is convoluted (which is probably why most task management systems don't handle subtasks), but hey, it works!
The presentation reads as a nice advertisement for Clojure. I do not like Clojure because it runs on JVM and all the Java stuff leaves a bitter taste in my mouth - it is a language that was forced down our throats by industry.

If they really want to rewrite R from the start to create a new language why don't they use Haskell? It will compile to machine code, it is ready for using multiple cores, it does not embrace JVM.

My 2 cents
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Its a online debate site.
If you look at,

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/

Then it is almost one significant announcement per week.
The reason is mainly 1) licensing and 2) integration. I took what I found that fitted the BSD license and wrote the rest myself. The idea was having all the things I needed in a single, concise package. I like carrying around 1 MacGyver knife instead of a heavy toolbox - even if all the separate tools in the box are more robust than the knife.

As for the JavaScript graph library: Daniel Friesen had already ported 90% of the Python code, so it only took me a day or two to finish it. The result is a single file (graph.js) with lots of things besides visualization (eigenvector centrality etc.) which seemed better suited to Pattern than integrating another, bigger project.

Best,
Tom
Its an online debate site.
Rack is about composition and modularity of the request handling components, not just providing programmatic access to properties of an http request.
All flash.
The state of the art for custom geek clocks is in hardware AFAIC.

RGB LED color clock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKT-0qB9l8A&feature=relat...

I also enjoy the classic 'pong clocks' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxbknBYYAQ&feature=playe...

Clocks are a common beginner project in DIY hardware, they are both simple to make and have good potential for adding stuff like RSS readers and so on when you want to branch out.

http://hackaday.com/?s=clock
When Pagerank was created, it worked really well to find the most relevant sites. The old search engines such as AltaVista and Excite were drowning in spam since the SEO experts had figured them out.

Does anybody else feel that Google has been figured out now, and that they are now just applying patches to a system that is fundamentally broken (in the same way Excite and AV did)?

There might be an opportunity here for a new search engine - one that creates a new core method of ranking, as PageRank was, to filter out duplicate content, content farms, malware sites, etc.

"Relevance = links" today looks as tired as "relevance = keyword density" did 10 years ago, but I have no idea what the new "relevance = " is
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Nice to see others using Mathematica. Here are my solutions: http://bit.ly/gghd5K
I wonder if having an Ipad-enabled EHR system will be a compelling enough proposition to migrate practitioners from existing experienced vendors with a track record. I would imagine if you already have a system, even if it is an old expensive legacy system, you would not switch simply because of an IPad enabled device.

Even if there are other benefits associated with it such as being SaaS-based and cheaper/more secure, the conversion rates I would think would be low when there already exists free cloud based solutions and open-source solutions which they haven't already converted to already.

Thus, this makes me think the target market would be the pen & paper crowd. I'm curious to see what the conversion rate is for this crowd since this seems like a tough crowd to convince.

Even in scenarios where the EMR/EHR system is completely free (either through pricing plans or government grants) you don't see many of them moving away from the pen & paper which signals price might not be the most important factor here either.

To me this leaves overall usability and learning curve which I'm not sure if DrChrono necessarily promotes as their pitch seems to be portability.

I'd like to see how their product matures to tackle that issue since in my opinion their competitors really aren't other EHR vendors as much as the huge pen & paper market that's a much larger share of the pie.
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+1. Great find, even though a bit dated, still valid 100% imo.

I think every startup, webmaster, marketer, SEO and wannabe SEO should at least read this.
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I already read this a year or so ago, and I did it again today. Got me again, and will get me every time I read it. It's beautiful and sad at the same time. Sigh.
Well don't discount the PR and hype. Reputation plays a huge factor on a service like this. Yes, hard work and persistence is the real factor of this success.
Where is the fail over? If ever a system needed 99.9999...
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Salts won't give you that much greater security these days. Password-cracking GPGPU hardware is already well into the consumer domain. Using a pair of AMD's HD 5970, you can get cranking to just over 1bn SHA256 hashes/s.
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Toad for cloud databases is a useful Hadoop/NoSQL tool
Remember that jQuery's selectors can be used separately: they're a wrapper around the Sizzle library. It's 5kb after minification and gzip.

http://sizzlejs.com/

Can't speak to the performance relative to JQuery or to raw javascript however.
"human needs to be distinct, special, better"

Mission accomplished. Humans are the only ones who actually care about such things, therefor they are distinct and unique. We can change things, animals can not.

To me animals are basically biological robots - no free will, all actions pre-programmed. Yah, some of the smarter animals edge toward non pre-programmed, but just barely. Humans however are in an entirely different category.

Humans can reflect on behavior and decide to change it - but more importantly humans can realize that it may be desirable to change a behavior. Animals can not do this. What they do is what they do, not only can they not change it, they can't even recognize the concept of wanting to change any of their behaviors. (And forcing them to change externally by training doesn't count.)
Unfortunately sometimes fail over isn't a solution. Until they've at least narrowed down the problem, a fail over system may make things worse.

Personally, I'm curious about the testing that was done - given the complaints and problems that have been reported so far, did they even try to run the new and old systems simultaneously for any period of time to verify that the various components could all keep up properly? Or at the very least, did they try to test the system at full load for a decent period of time?
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This looks wonderfully simple to configure considering what happens under the hood, and the conversation on Convore is already about how long it will be before a Django template is written by the community.
the more i read about this HBGary the more i feel that justice is being served. These fat and lazy morons thought that because they've been doing dirty things for government they are above the law and basic ethical rules ... Of course, they are above the law that enforced by their government friends, yet there is the Karma law and "we the People".
I don't think famoreira was trying to blame Linux. --That's just the part of the new system that you can reference easily.
I don't think that "linux is to blame" or even that any choice of programming languages or other tools are to blame.

It's a large system with extra-ordinarily tight performance requirements, and a lot of integration with external systems, and by nature hard to phase in gradually. That kind of system is very hard to get right first time regardless of your toolset. I'd be interested to hear more about thier methods to deal with these requirements and risks, less about thier platform choice.
IIRC, both this and the previous failed system were outsourced, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
"And as a final note, solely for the seriously nerdy techies, there's been some talk about the failure being due to F# error."

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Sorry, I can't seem to find the point you're trying to make under the snark... did you forget to add one?

If one were feeling really unkind, one could note that languages at the opposite end of the spectrum to PHP tend bring about this tendency - maybe you need some kind of snark compiler to enforce this kind of thing so that you don't have to rely on expertise?
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I did something very similar some time ago:
http://pedro.si/experiments/color-clock/
It's CSS3 and some Javascript.
I'm not sure of the exact number, but I have heard that they have something like a 12-18 month backlog of things to release for AWS.
What if all these systems were open sourced? Including all the load tests.
I think that 20 is a bit extreme, I always multiply by 3 and it proved to be quite accurate over the years.
Clearly the problem stems from writing a finance-related application in something other than VBA-running-inside-Excel. "Linux"... what will they think of next!?

(I'm being sarcastic, but people say stuff like this every day and aren't. That's what's scary.)
That's why it's not very common for young professionals to live alone in London. Anyone earning a typical software developer salary in London and renting somewhere in town at £2000 a month just for them is a fool. Most people live out in the suburbs and commute in or live with other people and split the costs. You can get a nice flat in somewhere like Croydon or Kingston (hardly bad places to live and only 30 minutes out on the train) for £800 a month - call it £1000/mo after council tax and utilities. Split that with the girlfriend/roommate and you're spending peanuts.

All that said, the point is that £60k/$100k isn't a common salary for this sort of full-time worker outside of management or in an early stage of their career (<10 years). Clearly people are managing on a lot less because that's what people are earning. The most common solution for the older family types is to have multiple earners in the home which, again, splits the costs down. I can't think of any British family I know around my age where both partners aren't working except for me and my wife..
i know, but the Matrox Solutions make your external monitors into one big monitor, so the dock and basically every new window that pops up will be in the middle and split between to monitors. Its not really that convenient.

USB2DVI is nice but USB 2.0 is too slow. USB 3.0 is solving that problem already and thunderbolt will too, i am sure. DisplayLink is already working on USB2DVI for USB3.0 which makes stutter free 1080p playback etc over USB possible and thunderbolt is alot faster.
The problem is that the LSE can't hire top tier talent. There are plenty of people who are experts in building hugely concurrent and fail-safe exchange software, and they pretty much all work for investment banks.

The LSE can't afford to compete with $1000/day salaries so they end up hiring second-tier developers. And unfortunately second-tier developers are a lot lot worse than first-tier developers.
Yes thats what we assume.

But if you look into Zen philosophy - you will see that this "human condition" is not treated as blessing (or making us better if you will) - instead it is treated as curse. Thus human is encouraged to become more "pre-programmed" or to give in to our pre-programming to achieve happiness and content here and now.

Yes we clearly pride ourselves as being distinct - thus better - however we might in reality be corrupt. We wont solve this issue here in this discussion. However I employ you to keep this possibility in some corner of your conscience, however unlikely it may be.
It doesn't have to and I believe you are mistaken/oversimplifying.

As far as I understood the whole Bing ordeal was that users with the Bing toolbar reported not the links and ranking shown, but what the users chose as the "correct" hit for that search.

In that regard this doesn't really have to alter Bing's results in any way at all.
While I don't agree with the opinion expressed or the tone it is expressed in, I do think the JC Penny story sound interesting.

Personally not having heard of it before, I think this comment (accidentally?) contributes somewhat to the discussion. Has HN really become this trigger-happy on the downvotes?
I've no idea where they got this from, although I mentioned it on Twitter as a joke: https://twitter.com/tim_g_robinson/status/41086872876892160
Hi RiderOfGiraffes,

cronsync was actually developed for the internal use at Kontrollfeld. We wanted to improve our time tracking and accelerate invoicing procedures. To find an appropriate solution, we screened all existing time tracking and invoicing products and found out that they were either easy to use, but too superficial for what we needed, or way too comprehensive and complex. So we started to create our own solution which was supposed to be „just right“ for our purposes. Many of our business partners started to be interested in this solution and we made it available for them. As the feedback was very positive, we made the decision to offer it as a software as a service and call it cronsync.

We have launched cronsync this year. I look forward to your feedback!

Best, Jakob
Your experience sounds a lot like mine, except my team thought that expertise in Javascript was a sign that you had wasted your life.

I'm not bitter. At all.
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Since you've removed the link, I can only speculate: you direct a mob of people to occupy all other seats in the restaurant except for the one across from her?
That'd be terrible. Can't reproduce it though. Which browser were you using?
http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.10#Language...
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Via mono. If that's true... that would be an interesting news for the project (not because of the bug itself of course...).
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I doubt they'd be using Mono - if it really is an F# issue it maybe indicates it's a failure in some of the legacy system they are replacing.
Fink is apt, and it is by far the worst of the three package managers available for OS X.
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