skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course you realize how easy it is to apply that quote to completely absurd things, e.g. the Flat Earth Society or pretty much anyone who has reached the ridicule stage. It gets significantly harder as you go along (ignored, ridiculed, fought, victory), and the first two are relatively easy...

It's basically a rallying cry for the severe underdog (which I don't think Android is in this case).
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Look past the "we're turning into reddit" HN angst: the IAmA reddit really can be very interesting.
A method I like is to pick a few hypothetical change requests, either new features or modifications to existing ones, and ask how straightforward making those changes would be. This has the advantage of also giving the candidate the opportunity to talk in greater depth about their code and any design choices they made, hopefully providing some insight into how they go about this kind of thing in the wild.

Edit to add: the point being that, on one level at least, good code is that which is easy to change.
The retort wasn't bad either:

How bad can a 3½-inch floppy be?
I guess I just haven't seen memcached integration in .NET. All of the caching examples I've seen use the framework caching components.

I was also wondering if they'd developed any generic custom code to fetch from Redis or fetch from SQL/insert into Redis, and how it fits into their application logic. (e.g. does it happen before they make a LINQ to SQL query, or does it intercept LINQ to SQL queries and return results from Redis).
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So apparently Ken Jennings is about 9000x more hilarious than I expected him to be. Good to know.
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It's tough to come up with some better examples for me. I see your point. Every example seems to have seriously charged aspects (sexism, racism, violence, etc.) I just react negatively when people use emotionally charged examples in a discussion.

I'm not so sure it was a logical explanation of anything other than your thought process. Just because there were previous examples where things were legal but unethical does not mean it applies here.

Still, I'm glad we worked through this. I've learned from it. Didn't mean to sound as critical as I came off -- if it bothered you, my apologies, that wasn't my intention.

Thanks to both of you guys for the interesting exercise in thought.
Those came with ghc 7.0.1.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.1/html/users_guide/relea...

Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1908503
"It won't help existing victims" doesn't mean we should give up on this. Based on the little bit of data in the article, this sounds like it could work as (or be modified into) a vaccine.

I don't mean to sound cold butif we can prevent HIV from spreading then sooner or later it will cease to exist.
No. Narcissists are usually quite smart, and very dangerous.
Just stay away from them at all costs.
I think SF is a bit of a strange case. I grew up and lived in the area for a long time. SF has the unfortunate confluence of very limited land, desirable living conditions that drive real estate prices sky-high, a core of super-wealthy people willing to pay those prices and more, and a culture of "hip-poverty" (think hippies and the kids you see today hanging out in Lower Haight) that lends itself to a more relaxed attitude towards the poor. Unlike cities with more land, there really is nowhere for people to go... just as you can't leave homeless on the street, you can't put them out on a raft in the bay. And buying the land for shelters is likely prohibitively expensive.

It's a homeless situation that I think is a little more complex than many other big cities face, and I don't know what the right answer to it is. But if people truly have no other place to go than the Civic Center sidewalks, I'd let them lie there for want of a better solution myself, just because the situation in SF is so particular.

Anyway, just kind of musing out loud.
Sean O'Connor (Django NYC, Co-org of Django Con US) is Congregating Us
Personally...regarding your last point, I'd rather there was not any site like that where a person can leave feedback on a person as a whole. It's like Yelp! but for people instead, and quite frankly I don't have much trust in that site. On a professional level, LinkedIn probably works as well as I'm comfortable with.

But just for the fun of it, I gave you five stars on chattel with my city reference :)
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Why do we bother using "assembly line" metaphors, or trying to make "knowledge work" into a trade, or even unskilled labor, when we have the warm reassurance of Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...) and the answer to Hilbert's 10th problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matiyasevich%27s_theorem#Matiya...)?

I mean, really, truth is not an industrial product.
Look, empty platitudes like "more freedom" are never the answer, unless the question is, "how do we sell people on something so crazy that they'd never agree with it otherwise, like for example, 'giving jbooth and dpatru the ability to sell a MD degree for 5 bucks on the street corner'"?

You may as well say the solution to the medical credentialiing problem is pancakes.

There was a point in time where you didn't require a government certified authority to give you the title of doctor. People decided to start certifying. For obvious reasons.
There's much of reddit that is still interesting and useful, and there's plenty of good discussion to be had - it just has a much worse signal to noise ratio since its exploded in popularity. If you're willing to unsubscribe from some of the bigger subreddits and take the time to "roll-your-own" so to speak, there is a lot of value to be had.
> These few individuals left Africa by crossing the Sinai and went to spread around the world. That was definitely bad for Neanderthals.

And the relevance is.....?
7.0.1 was the release candidate for 7.0.2 (stable).
So making things up about something/somebody is a sign of respect?
Slightly OT, but if you liked American Gods, might I also suggest "Good Omens", a book he wrote with Terry Pratchett. Easily one of the funniest books I've read, and a brilliant storyline.

[Coincidentally, I read a downloaded version of this, and have since bought about 10 copies and gifted to people.]
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Under rated?
I've toyed around with one. It's horribly confusing to use.
Kudos for trying a new interface though.
I seem to recall the iPad being pretty roundly ridiculed as 'just a big iPod touch' no USB, no flash, etc. etc, and I hear plenty of ridicule from the Xoom crowd.

What's the rule in this situation? Does the one who ridicules first lose, or the one who ridicules the most?
GHC provides a parallel programming model,

* K sparks scheduled over
* M lightweight threads scheduled onto
* N OS threads over
* C hardware cores.

The runtime manages this, and does load balancing.
Great question. There are a few ways we could handle it, but in principle we want to see how the problem happens before solving it. A confirmation process is a great idea but adds friction, and as we roll out we don't want to discourage usage. Basically, we want to see what happens so we don't optimize or problem-solve too early.
Yes, the title is confusing. GHC 7.02 is significant because it will be included in the next Haskell Platform release -- GHC 7.01 was only available separately, and was not much installed.

GHC 7.01 was also a time of upheaval in the code base, with an almost total rewrite of the type checker. This was a bit buggy at first, but early experience with 7.01 means that it is much more polished in 7.02.

The full changelist from 7.0.1 is modest and available at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.2/html/users_guide/relea...
I had a couple of ideas: given a machine (or a VM) with an amount of RAM which is enough to handle all the db in memory (eg: 8GB for a 512MB dataset), maybe it's possible to track the OS overall used RAM and have a rough idea ?

One other way would be to have a more intimate knowledge of how the stores work and make a computation: for instance when some column stores, you can compute the bytes taken by column if you know how the inner engine works.
That's highly debatable. There is evidence that the longer a nation was colonized, the more developed it became. See this paper, for example:

http://www.economics.neu.edu/activities/seminars/documents/i...
if doing startups, talking with other founders, hearing the stories that are never published, and reflecting on my own experiences has taught me anything, it's that you can't predict how the cards fall. Nothing ever goes 100% to plan, and if it does... something's wrong and you better start worrying.

here's an example, maybe up your alley -
http://www.inc.com/articles/201102/a-dating-site-thrives-in-...
Wow! Thanks for the response. These are all things I've thought about but I managed to brush aside my concerns. I wonder how many of these issues would go away if data was stored outside of the image in something like Gemstone/S or even just a database?
Post natus?
At some level, I wonder if length of this article is also to make a point... I'm only about halfway through the article.
"I don't want a bunch of drunks sleeping on my sidewalks"

Who's sidewalks do you want them to sleep on?

What is your solution, exactly? Where are they to go?
Well then HP, Dell and Acer make the most beautiful laptops in the world.
ha ha, good one.
North America is a pretty unique case, in most places the locals weren't so completely wiped out (See: Africa, Asia). They also faired slightly better in South America (there are significant numbers of people of indigenous descent alive).
A few days ago they reinstated the account of Courage to Resist, a Bradley Manning defense fund. The organization seems to think it was because of the pressure from bad publicity:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20036476-38.html
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
Affected Sites Complain about Farmer Update to Google
Google asked people to submit good sites that they were hurt by the Farmer Update. Seems like lot of the sites complaining are bit on the spammy sites.
there are plenty of metrics for complexity, efficiency etc, and you'd hope it's idiomatic to the language used.

Your associative array example may not be the best. It just shows your own bias. Depends on how it's implemented, someone could likely come up with a different implementation that performs better.
Right, there's really nothing fundamentally different about HN and reddit other than the audience. At their core they are both vote-based commenting communities - and the generally high quality of comments makes me wish more sites (like Gawker, Engadget, etc) would use the same mechanism. Yes there is a lot of herd behavior but it's leagues better than the "First post!" cruft you see everywhere else.
I've used this service a couple of times, and everytime I don't have to wait on hold, I smile.
While MongoDB does this, I don't think that Redis takes this approach. In theory, it manages the memory itself, reading from disk into its own cache. In practice, I worry that it might end up competing with the system, leading to "full memory" like conditions far before memory is actually exhausted. Thus my interest in how it performs in a simple real life test like this.
So which is it? Do we spend 50 hours or 60 hours on hold? It looks like an inconsistency on your home page marketing copy.

This looks like a great idea. I think it has great word of mouth potential.
I've never been asked a good non-technical interview ? in an interview for a technical position, but the best non-technical ? I was ever asked was for a summer job cutting grass at a golf course.

"Do you party?"
The social level who can afford to buy apple?

A Toughbook costs more than a comparable MBP.
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I read the camera is just VGA (640x480). My niece is on a MacBook, so I suppose her screen resolution is at least four times that.
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It about how power behaves when threatened. The iPad was a challenge to the dominant netbook model. The Xoom crowd isn't at the top, but android is surging, so they're just noise at this point. Apple's at the top. That's the key difference. Ridiculing Android means that it's progressed to the point that they can't ignore them.
Great link to Impostor Syndrome. Another thing I have that I didn't know I had.
Why should the resolution be overkill? Apple just put HD webcams into their new line of MacBook Pros.

The other end of the chat might be on something else than an iPad. (Also I say Skype, but Facetime might be an option in some cases, too).
I believe the major assumption is actually that getting rich is the underlying reason entrepreneurs build businesses that they are not passionate about. Of course, "getting rich" could be something to be passionate about, but I don't think that precludes other sources of motivation.
You make the mistake of thinking that the iPad is the iPod of tablet computers. While MP3 players require only a minimal featureset this is not the case for tablet computers, there is still a lot of room left and a lot of market left. Apple could lock down this market, but the market has not even fully developed yet so it's silly to imagine that they have done so yet.

See also: the mobile smart phone market.
We put our entire life and livelihood at risk for the startup.

I hear this a lot and it bugs me because in so many cases it's just not true, and I think it actually stops more people from starting companies.

Founders don't risk their lives to start companies. In the Silicon Valley, they don't risk their careers either. At most they risk a few years of below-market salary and a bruised ego.
Eh? As far as I can tell, these services do everything yours does.

EDIT: actually, Lucy makes you do the phone menus yourself. But Fonolo crawls the voice menus and generates a matching menu online (which is very slick, if it works).
I always thought that quotation was geared towards innovators, and not merely underdogs who are following an already blazed trail.
No mmap in Redis indeed.
Another way to avoid PayPal fees is to 1) decide how much to give, 2) multiply it by six, and 3) decide by dice roll whether to give it.
Ask HN: Is Facebook going away?
So it seems that a lot of tech people and hipsters are leaving Facebook for other serves. Does hacker news see this as a growing trend (Facebook dying off)? What sort of time line?
That's because for most of the population, they don't understand photography. They have to make some kind of comparison, and megapixels are the easiest - a linear number that presumably indicates more of whatever the camera is doing.
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When Apple Does This...
Sure there is, check 'maxmemory' directive. Especially in 2.2 it was extended a lot. You can configure it to simply trow error on writes once the limit is reached.
If you're interested, here is a C# Redis Client:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis

With downloads for windows:
https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads

Here's an example of an OSS 1-page mini-StackOverflow, written only using Redis:
http://www.servicestack.net/RedisStackOverflow/

And this page has caching web services examples (at the bottom), with source code of non-non-invasively dropping in a Redis cache provider using an IOC.

http://www.servicestack.net/ServiceStack.Northwind/

If you want to learn more about Redis, here is an article on how to build an application using only POCO's and Redis:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis/wiki/Desi...

With more info on the wiki:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis/wiki/Desi...
that is the reason explaining why "thus we can trace our ancestry to a few individuals!"
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If Apple had added a USB port, the same folks would be singing praises on it. Same thing happened with the G5 to Intel switch. The exact same people who were railing on Intel and praising the G5 for speed/features etc. did a complete aboutface.
Great idea.
I think a lot of companies would love to add this to their own apps. You should start selling this to them ASAP.
Clearly IE is less evil than we thought :)

Seriously though, if you have evil IE-compatible rules I'll gladly add them. It just wasn't worth my effort to boot a VM to test these in IE, or even look up whether they were supported.

Some of these could be fun: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532847(v=vs.85).as...
Or they don't want to be freeloaders.
I don't know anything about the details, but apparently it's mostly GPLv2 or later: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/COPYRIGHTS
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It may not move the debate forward but it does wonders for his karma.
Thank you for your feedback. This is my first article and it's a bit confronting to see only negative feedback in a comment.

Sadly there weren't more examples and that I didn't address every piece of the puzzle here! I do hope that despite this, you were able to take away something useful from reading the article.

On overengineered, why not have a look at the value of each part of the structure described and remove what is not providing value? We found that each part was valuable to us.

On asynchronous work - I shied away from it since it's such a big topic. If it helps, our most complicated interaction was three concurrent asynchronous calls. We wrote a small state machine that was notified of the result of each call and managed the complexity of deciding what to do.

On the DOM, it would seem that the DOM bit left too much room for interpretation. Unless we had to trade of simplicity for performance, we always used jQuery to access the DOM and do XHR. We certainly appreciate and even take for granted the safety that such a library provides. The point was more about reducing the surface area of the application code that interacts with the DOM, for reducing complexity and having a well known part that is good at working with the DOM. And anyway, we never did it - which says something too.
Another possible contributing factor: If I were homeless, I'd try to go somewhere with mild weather.
Hey, welcome to SF. Take the good with the bad.
Ah, a quick google turns up a lot of references to that, I had missed it. I took the lack of lines on launch day to mean it didn't break any records, but I guess that's not the case.
I know I've only been thinking about the problem for about an hour, but seems like you could hack together a solution involving a kinect processed to do audio output for a lot less than $15 million. The kinect's range isn't 1000 ft (i think more like 10, tops) but it's a "the future will inevitably upgrade" part. Audio output would be in normal hearing ranges, no surgery required, and could be adaptable to different users.
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Interesting.

From what I recall, LucyPhone is based near you guys. You might want to link up, at least for a powwow. Mike is an awesome dude.
Why is this in the museum? Well, Don Knuth once said that the MacPaint program was the best code ever written, and asked that the source be made available for study. Bill Atkinson rescued his old source code, and got Steve Jobs to push it through Apple's legal department. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/a...
That you would reply to this - makes me respect you even more
Ask HN: Hacking on THREE.js
Context: trying to take THREE.js and use it to display conic sections.

Method: creating a mesh of vertices and then connect face4's to all of them. Used two faces to produce a front and back side so that when the conic section rotates it won't matter from which angle the camera views it.

Problems encountered:
1. Trying to find a good way to create a intuitive mouse rotation scheme. If you think in spherical coordinates, then it feels like just making up/down change phi and left/right change phi would work. But that requires that you can move the camera. As far as I can tell, there is no way to change actively change the rotation of anything besides the objects. Does anyone know how to change the rotation of the camera or scene?
2. Is there a way to graph functions that is better than creating a mesh? If the mesh has many points then it is too slow, and if the mesh has few points then you cannot easily make out the shape of the conic sections.

Any sort of help would be most excellent.
I'm talking less about the physical design and more about the functional design. Apple products are extremely minimalist as a design decision: only include what is necessary, allow the form of the device to reflect what is necessary and the material chosen that expose that functionality. I mean design from a "how things work" perspective, something more objective than just how the thing works.

The designs of other companies appear to be aesthetic or functional primarily without regard for the other: design the look of the object and then fit as much functionality in as possible, or the opposite, get as much functionality as possible, and wrap it in some plastic. In either case there is little interaction between form and function, and often complete neglect between one or the other.

And even in the great case where both are considered, say Sony's line of VAIOs (I formerly owned a VAIO desktop), the build quality is low, or semifunctional (opening the case on my VAIO was a pain).

As others have noted, ThinkPad's may be the best counter example. They are extremely utilitarian. Their good looks, in my opinion, comes from their purely functional approach.
Kanu? If you mean kayak, I disagree. Kayaking is good for upper body strength, but (exaggerating) atrophies the legs.

Also, I think there is a difference between 'good on average', and 'good for those who manage to do a lot of it without getting injured'. For example decathlon training is good for overall 'athlete look', but the risk of dropping out with some injury is fairly high.

For that reason, I would rank the impact-free sports such as swimming, cross-country skiing and rowing a bit higher.
Binary plists over the wire? That's a hardcore innovation that I will file away in the back of my head for next time I'm building a backend for a mobile app.
Stunning still images capture glimpses of people in the most extreme environment
I'm definitely a fan of both services, they're great. Our goal is just to take it one step further, and do it all for you. Fonolo does have a beautiful system with the menus, but they do call your phone for you to do the navigating. You can try it out at http://consumer.fonolo.com/
But personally, I think promotion of a new version - because it's compatible with an accessory which fixes ergonomic issues - is a bit a wrong. The iPad 2 is faster and slimmer .. and has some web-cams built in - but this constant pursuit of 'progress' is a bit worrying. Especially when an iteration provides such (arguably) small gains.
Why do you tie my flight searches with my UDID and submit it to third parties like flurry?
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