skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is more whether you can tell me what besides it's size is great about the Android ecosystem? Yes it allows you to do anything and do not curate but that is not in my world a benefit in this context.

What is great about the iOS ecosystem is that the quality is much higher, people actually pay for their apps apple constantly and consciously help evolve.

It might be a walled garden, but it is a very well kept garden.
/me shakes head in disbelief

"Index" is by far the big lesson here.

Also, 0.6s is still way too high. What kind of funky join are you doing?
Thanks for the words of encouragement.

I was thinking about setting up an LLC, though I'm not sure if it will be worth it in the long run. I would have to pay to start the company, and then hire an accountant to help file my finances every year.

I am considering it, but it would be better to find another workaround.
We replaced memcachedb with Cassandra a while ago, because memcachedb pretty much hit a wall at some point.

As for replacing memcached, I'm certainly open to it, but from what I've read, the performance of memcache for what we use it for is better than redis.
As a new found "tech geek" the "angelInvestor" world can be quite discouraging and complicated. I was never one for formal education and always taught myself, however there are certain areas where information is limited one being this. So I believe this site offers a great connectivity tool to at least allow you to introduce and connect with key people.
I can't really imagine why they wouldn't have released one. The only plausible reason I can come up with is that their manufacturing costs couldn't come close what Apple was able to do to put out their $499 16GB WiFi model.
I was 30 miles south of the launch. It kinda sucked, I saw the first few seconds (which was amazing), then it disappeared into clouds.
But the iPad _isn't_ a better book reader. Electronic paper reads much better in sunlight. I did a side-by-side comparison with the iPad and the Kindle and I much preferred to read on the Kindle.
Ask HN: Open Web?
Hi, several months ago I saw this cool proyect about people trying to make the internet free for everyone. Or it was free internet hosting? Shared hosting? I cant remember but hey i can ask HN because they may know!
It appears there is no way to contact the author for feedback. This is not how specs work.
Yes, we are above 99%. We just have a community that is very vocal with things are broken, and then continue to be vocal about it after it is fixed because it is funny.

For example, we heard "search sucks" for weeks after we switched to the new service, until we announced the switch, and then all of a sudden the tune changed. :)
Gene Expression: The changing face of fame
Nevermind, this was authored 2 years ago and appeared to gain no traction. http://labs.omniti.com/labs/jsend/wiki/WikiStart?action=diff...
>for a database that's primarily in-memory but drops least used data off to disk

>so although your "working dataset" can be far larger than RAM your actual "active working dataset" can fit in there

To me that's the exact same pattern as cacheing, merely stated in reverse. If you want full persistence, everything's going to have to hit the disk anyway no matter how you phrase it and how and when you store it. In regards to your user logs problem stated below, that sounds easy to parallelize. I would hash+modulo the username to a data server number, on the selected data server traverse a B+ tree of dates\entries in order, and buffer or stream until 20 entries matching the usernames have been retrieved in response. High performance and fully persistent.

Waiting for a new memory+disk database pattern that does everything more intelligently and faster than every other disk+memory pattern seems like procrastination of parallelization, which is the unavoidable long term answer to these problems.
As everyone else is saying: it's a buzzword. :-)

Re "private clouds", though: While many of them are just P2V projects as the OP said, some organizations are using them in "cloud-ish" ways in the sense of dynamic provisioning and resource allocation. In a large company with many quasi-independent units (such as various R&D groups, a group running production simulations, etc), I've seen "private clouds" allow a generic infrastructure to provide dynamically-sized resources to those varied groups. No one department has to maintain hardware; each one can still exert a large amount of configuration control without consulting central IT for more than resource allocation; and it's all "in the family", so there are no security concerns.
I don't understand what led the author to believe that this was filmed using an iPhone 4; nor why that has anything to do with the rest of the video.
Rails 3.0.5 released
I think almost all passenger vehicle HUDs are displays in the dashboard that are reflected off the windshield - I suspect they also sometimes put a lens on it so that it appears to be further away than it actually is, because it might cause major headaches for people to frequently change focus from the road to the windscreen.
I don't understand the fetish with caching every variation for every user.

Here's a thought: dynamic apps should render a page exactly one way in html, and rely on javascript and cookies to post-process the site so it APPEARS to be customized for that particular user. That includes admin widgets.

That particularly applies for displaying how many minutes ago something was generated. Serve it with a date-time format, use javascript to post-process into "x seconds ago" or "x minutes ago".

If someone isn't logged in, or isn't an admin, and they hack their javascript to display user or admin stuff, who cares? The user/admin requests sent to the webserver won't succeed anyway, because they rely on having an admin session cookie.

If there's meaningful rather than just UI stuff that users or admins get to see, then you have to cache that separately, but you can even do stuff like loading it dynamically with js so the publicly visible (cached) content can still be used, and you cut down the amount of stuff your server has to auto-generate. It can cache the separate pages (xml, json, whatever) that serve the logged-in user content, as well.
> Also I'm not sure any big company 'completely depends' on FOSS. Yes it's an awesome thing, but big companies would survive just fine without it

The cost of non-FOSS is often a barrier to entry. I'd wager most companies would never exist without FOSS providing the initial setup. This is an assumption, but take DDG as an example with $20,000 in revenues. If they licensed all their servers from Microsoft, they might easily be in the red from that investment alone.
If you're serious I'll take you up on that. Sent you an email.
Pretty sure it's just a little model of buildings in a box right behind the display.
Very nice work.

Too bad webkit browsers don't allow to turn off image smoothing like Firefox does, which makes true pixel art impossible. I'd love to see support for nearest-neighbor resampling included in the future versions of Chrome/Safari.
A good little snippet:

Charlie and I hope that the per-share earnings of our non-insurance businesses continue to increase at a
decent rate. But the job gets tougher as the numbers get larger. We will need both good performance from our
current businesses and more major acquisitions. We’re prepared. Our elephant gun has been reloaded, and my
trigger finger is itchy
GreenGoose: A true story of living the entrepreneurial dream
Statically typed languages generally need to have strict requirements for booleans, unless you have a weak type system like C. But for dynamically typed languages, the only one that I can think of with strict booleans is Erlang. Are you aware of any others?

I'm also not convinced this is a special case for Lisp syntax. In Ruby, one often finds code like:

hash[key] ||= value
find_resource(key) or not_found

And even if it is a special case, aren't we talking about how suitable this is for Clojure specifically?
I work with Brian at the Cambridge Coworking Center. His work ethic is absolutely absurd, and he deserves every bit of this success. It's an awesome and inspiring story.
Minor nitpick, it's not removing the middleman, it is removing information asymmetry.

Thanks for the insight.
Aaron Patterson (tenderlove)'s first Rails release.
Portrait of a Noob (2008)
No experience on Android, sorry. My experience is with Maemo devices, which have the excellent Maemo Mapper software, with extensive caching options. It supports a million data sources including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap (and you can add your own). Functionality ranges from simply caching every tile it displays to a function that downloads every tile for every desired zoom level for a given area, and the area can be defined by simply what's visible on screen right now. Zoom out on NYC, press download, and you'll get every corner.

I'm not sure how legal Google Maps caching is, but in my experience OpenStreet is a decent alternative in most of developed world.

Having experienced this, it's really annoying when Google Mobile Maps on my Blackberry insists on redownloading the map of my neighbourhood for the fiftieth time. It's extra fun on EDGE.

I also have no experience with possibly caching directions, being a man and having never needed them ;)
The only iPad price point that matter is the $499 wifi version. Seriously.

The rest are there to capture some price discrimination value, and that's all.
How We Think with Bodies and Things
>Google can't as easily remove a larger brand from their results.

Google was willing to ban BMW for hidden text.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8252259&page=1
Also, the author does not substantiate the claim that ehow benefitted from this tactic.

"Self-promotion" means getting customers to like your site, not tricking search engines into thinking they already do.
Everything looks linear until you zoom out and find out it's exponential.
Relative Valuation of Ego - Ep 0007
Fast transportation, as needed by most humans, has very little to do with current space programs, most of which use extremely expensive and mostly single-use systems.

Again - there is no real need, right now, to live on Mars, absolutely. Neither is there a real need to live on ISS. Still we are doing it.
Ack, you're right. I totally misread this.
I have most of those and a lot more in a list of content farms I compiled. There are links provided to speed along adding them to your block list:

http://www.jongales.com/blog/2011/02/14/list-of-content-farm...
I think a better scheme would be having embedded OLED dots mingled in around the eInk microcapsules. Then you don't get the degradation you get with layering one thing over another.
tail recursion (n): how to refer to tail-call optimization when you want to troll your programming languages professor
Show HN: Retroshare, a private and secure F2F network
My discomfort with AngelList stems from what I see as a disproportionate advantage on the buyer side (the investors), with less advantage going to the seller side (the startups).

For investors, AL is a firehose of Shiny. If you're a Shiny junkie, then connecting the IV tube of AL into your veins will keep you wired into dealflow like nothing before. Instant gratification, severe acceleration.

For startups, you hear the occasional startup praising AL with stories like "we posted our profile and 3 days later we have $600K woo-hoo!" but my question is, until I see AL post detailed stats and analytics, I assume that for every success story there are dozens, scores, or even hundreds of stories where basically nothing happened.

I would gladly be proven wrong: Nivi, Naval?

Lastly, I get the brilliance of AL, I get that it works because there are tons of investors signing up, but it's the scale that worries me. As it scales, the win rate for entrepreneurs will just get worse. Has to.

A similar thing exists in the publishing world with literary agents and editors. (Heck, there, writers (the entrepreneurs in this analogy) have to go through TWO hoops not just one, to get an advance (investment)). There are too many writers and not enough agents and even less publishers, it's a very very tight funnel and rejection is the norm.

AL will probably wind up this way too, unless AL thinks of ways to improve the service to better balance the features, acountability, and responsiveness of each party. I want to see investors being forced to respond to investors who've submitted their pitch to them specifically, within a set amount of time, or lose reputation points. AL should facilitate rapid communication between both parties, but it seems that all AL does now is email investors when entrepreneurs submit companies to specific investors, and at that point AL's job is done and the ball is in the investor's court. Not enough. AL should be all over the investor and help the entrepreneur get closure as soon as possible with each investor they submit to -- even if the answer is no. Any answer is better than silence.
> > Why not? The comparison is considered fair whenever it favors Northern Europe, so why is it unfair when NE doesn't do as well?

> US is a single country with a common language and culture.

True, but that doesn't explain why the comparison is fair in some cases and not others.

>> So, why is their GDP so much lower? We keep hearing how much better they are, so why doesn't it show up in output?

> In my opinion it's not a good comparison.

How about some support for that opinion? (And, as I noted, no one complains about such comparisions when they're trying to make the US look bad.)

> If we look at the GDP per capita, you will find lots of states with lower rates than many European countries.

Actually, you find a few states that would be in the middle/low europe and a fair number of states that are over the top.

But, so what? There's variation between and within European countries. There's variation between and within US states.

That doesn't change the fact that US per-capita GDP is significantly higher.

> If there was something special about the US political system that generates wealth, you would expect the results to be more evenly distributed.

Why would you expect that?

The US poor fare rather well on an absolute scale.

You seem to think that what your neighbor has matters more than what you have. I disagree.

As to "relatively similar culture", the US TV culture is fairly uniform and the areas that techsters see are fairly similar, but go to south San Jose and tell me that it's just like Palo Alto. Heck, go to East Palo Alto and Redwood City. (They're not the same.)

If you're willing to travel a bit more (the US is big), there is lots of cultural diversity. Do you really think that Madison Wisconsin is much like Dry Creek Missouri?
As a startup employee, the biggest quality of life boost for me is that our company actually has an office manager/general gofer, and treats him well. It's amazingly important to have someone around whose job it is to handle tasks not related to the core business, but which are not easily outsourced.

Obvious? Maybe. But I've worked for, and observed, too many small companies in which either a co-founder founder ends up doing office-manager crap or it gets offloaded onto the first tech employee who's convenient. It should not be the tech staff's job to restock the fridge, replace office supplies, handle invoicing, pay the rent, ...
And the iPhone wasn't the first phone or even the first smartphone.

And the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player.

His point about being first is misguided. It's more accurate to say Apple was the first to do each of these things right. The competition are simply mimicking what Apple already did right and, in doing so, chasing last year's model.
LCDs are supposed to be transparent.

What would be cool is if I could have a sun-powered backlight for my laptop when I want to use it outdoors.
Nintendo 3DS already cracked
Thanks for the e-mail reply Brandon. Looks like MS really is serious about getting other devs on board!
9 month old news? I'm clearly missing something.
Figure out what you're trying to do, convince yourself of why you're doing it and then figure out a way to do it. Consider everything else a distraction.
Combined with flex-time, this is amazing. Results-based evaluations ftw.
"Additionally, Facebook has become a waste of time for me. "

And writing this blog post wasn't?
no, Twitter frowns upon bulk-following...
Google also buried many of JC Penney's results for linkfarming earlier this month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html
how about notafath.er?
ashh yes. I was missing something. Context is everything.
Yeah, or at least look at problems with the iPad that are non-obvious because they seem insurmountable: too big to fit in your pocket (fold-up tablet?); screen is poor for outdoor use (e-ink display on the back side?)... rather than 'we do Flash.' I remember so many people saying 'that will never catch on' or 'nobody needs that' in reference to the iPod, iPhone, iPad, because they broke the mold. They need to put out something that makes iPad owners sit up and think 'actually, that's pretty cool' or 'what?... that will never work!'
Works fine here... ? ff4.0b11 / Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit...
This is the same model OkCupid uses to notify two users who've given each other high ratings (4 or 5 stars).
Good currencies share certain properties:

1. Durability - bitcoins check.

2. Have no intrinsic value - check

3. Cheap to store - check

4. Encourage the "right" economic behaviors - debatable - since we do not all share the same definition.

For instance, oil as a currency would be interesting, because much economic activity is tied to harnessing energy. Relative decline in oil reserves point to declining wealth.

The problem with a guaranteed deflation scenario is that it leads to long term economic stagnation and lack of investment activity. There will be no good times to wait for.
Must be hardware specific then with the gfx cards.
damnit firefox.
I believe the logic here to be very flawed.

There is likely no SoftMaker officesuite for WP7 because WP7 comes with Microsoft Office. How many people are going to by a non-market-leading competitor when the market leader comes for free?

There is no skype for WP7 because apparently Skype needs access to some lower-level apis which WP7 has not yet oppened up. http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=769383&st=60

It's an early platform, and what 'killer' productivity apps are available for other devices, with the exception of Skype?

When/if WP7 gets more traction (as a happy user, I believe it will), I'm sure there will be more 'sophisticated' apps.
We originally had our site on a GoDaddy VPS server

Developer friends don't let other developer friends use GoDaddy VPS/hosting.
How Germany Became the China of Europe
Agreed. Awful experience we hope not to repeat.
The Very Rich Indie Writer
Is Tor Safe? Think Again.
Our first big viral hit! We're learning!!
We actually have no joins haha. The support always asked if he had joins but no...I actually don't even know how to do joins. But I hear that Facebook highly encourages not doing joins anyways...so efficient learning?
Well, since you work at Google, I'll keep walking on egg shells... Please don't kill me all powerful Google! :-P

In all seriousness, I liked the Google of 5 years ago that temporarily banned BMW better than the Google of today. I wish that the rules were applied for big and small brands in exactly the same way -- but it doesn't seem they are. When BMW was blacklisted I was impressed -- but this stiff punishment hasn't seemed to happen for JCPenny or Demand Media in the same way it has been applied to smaller businesses.

Another example: these are clearly paid links: http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/17/thank-you-techcrunch-sponso... - if small time bloggers try shit like this they get shut down, but this is TechCrunch, so it slides. I think this shows how there seem to be two sets of rules, one for the established and one for the startup.
You'd overflow your stack after inserting 600-700 records:

https://gist.github.com/845874
why wrap your second example

That's hardly much more complex

Well, sorry to be snarky, but you couldn't have supported my point better.

Both you and the article author (where the code snippets are from) missed this critical detail during the first iteration. And not on some complex, esoteric problem but on one of the most basic language constructs.

I blame neither of you, I only ask that we please not discount the extra complexity.
What the what I'm walking backwards?? What crazy magic is this? Super Mario Bros. should be frozen in time exactly as I remember them, damnit.
You said

"I'd be much more interested in seeing the differences in median wealth (for the population as a whole, and broken down by race/ethnicity), adjusted for inflation."

Which I agree with wholeheartedly.

But then to my disappointment, you posted information about wealth distribution rather than median wealth.

I got the impression you were saying that wealth distribution says something about median wealth. I don't think it does.

The wikipedia links were good though, so thanks.
Oh nevermind, it's just an artifact of the smaller viewport.

I still want you kids off my lawn, though.
Hey, I've waited since the 90's for my PADD and its finally here, I have no doubt now that my holodeck is not far behind.
Yep, reading Yegge is still as fun as it was back in 2008, when he wrote this post. Could you put the year in the title?
Your original comment is about relative wealth. Therefore, I think his point is that your original comment is irrelevant in the context of a 6x increase in wealth.
If you go to a casion, look out for WMS slot machines, specifically this one (Goldfish (the new one, not the old machine)) I played this in Atlantic City at the Trump Taj Mahal downstairs next to the noodle bar and they use a transparent LCD over their spinning reels. Pretty cool stuff.

Demo promotion video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E08IvXQ-rZI&feature=relat...

Edit:
A pretty nice in game example of the LCD on the slot in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eEyr6y8kNE&feature=relat...

It looks really really cool in person.
I write all my PDFs directly in PostScript instead of using InDesign or Illustrator, because that way it's breathing instead of catatonic or whatever.
Could Google's Latest Investment Really 'Transphorm' the Electric Grid?
Are friends important in educational outcomes?
Amazon would start paying us to take Kindles

I fully intend to take delivery of a Kindle once a day or so instead of working. It's gonna be pretty sweet.
Kind of humbling, no? I've got plenty of excuses why I don't contribute more to OS projects, but when a guy bangs out a patch with his knees using morse code while dying of ALS, they all suddenly seem pretty lame.

My hat's so far off to this guy, its on the floor in front of me.
Also, a fair number of whole projects take the organization donation and donate that to organizations like the FSF and SFLC. (they get 500$ for each student they mentor)

Chris (disclaimer: googler)
Facebook photo uploads fail if you don't allow the app use your location
If anyone in Google is interested, you guys might want to check out Jure Leskovec's works on blog influence. I think it has the capability to solve the junk-farming issue.
Websocket Games In Python With Tornado
Good point, then the Android ecosystem is both more favorable for developers and consumers (sadly).
Fly Over the 'Brainbow'
For anyone looking at his app be warned that it spams your Facebook wall without asking for permission.
I wasn't talking about leaking windows. You can't seal a house up and think it's going to be a nice place to live. You need a way for the house to breath. Which is exactly what you've said.