skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should probably know this info but managed to forget it since the site I run has to be placed outside these devices (our everyday traffic is almost indistinguishable from a DDoS.) In fact, that might tell you something, since our Chicago data center was taken out as collateral damage and we sit in front of these devices if you were to draw a big-picture network diagram of the site. From what I can tell so far the attack was just melting the uplinks and it took a few minutes to null-route the various attackers; when things got fixed they did so on specific routes (e.g. Layer3 to the east coast came back before another route the Dallas and the southeast, etc.)
Goo.gl service gets an API
The people working on, say, "ext4" also have to maintain their own patch stack in the form of a git repo.

How to they manage to do that while still being able to go from one kernel to the next? How is that different from what Red Hat does?
I think you've missed the point.

The topic outlines the person in question is interviewing for a coding job.

If you come into an office looking for a coding job, but have never attempted to program before, you have not shown any level of commitment to the job of being a coder.
Apple, Google, Amazon, And Microsoft..Top Most Admired Companies
The industries in the US that are in the deepest trouble are:

1. financial
2. health care
3. education

Is it a coincidence that they are the ones with the heaviest regulation and government involvement?

Contrast that with the computer industry, which is pretty much unregulated. We have fantastic innovation, progress, price reductions, etc.
Sorry, I still don't understand. When you say there were 47 stories, where did you get that list and how do you know it's comprehensive?
I would still pursue your idea and target a younger audience since you are focusing on crushes and not dealing with internet addresses. I would contact people on youtube who have demographics in a younger age range who don't have social skills yet 13-20 and ask them to help promote your site and try using it. They will think it is funny and will help you out. You might contact the Hank and John Green and explain that you are trying to help young people find love....

Also, you don't have to worry if someone got their product out before you. The initial media coverage will not make the product.

Also share your idea with school and parent groups.. they will like your idea (I am a parent)

Also, contact teen magazines etc. The would find your application interesting and applicable cause teen girls are always having crushes on guys...

Hope that helps a bit.
Puzzles can be so easily misused. If the interviewer(s) all know the answer to the puzzle they'll have trouble being objective when it comes to measuring the responses of an interviewee who hasn't seen the puzzle before.

Worse still is that an underinformed interviewer might simply tune out until the candidate returns an answer to the puzzle rather than actively participating in the candidate's problem-solving process. Two engineers and a whiteboard is how all the best work gets done, right?
>"Couple this serious play tool, which every teenager with a shred of curiosity about music would want, with the serious work tools like Pages, Keynote and Number"

The first part correctly identifies the conceptual basis for the iPad's appeal to consumers. The latter part [mis]identifies the reason the iPad has less appeal to enterprise. Apple's productivity apps don't scale well, and the iPad versions of iWorks alter permanently documents.
VIDEO: Nivi+Naval of Angel List w/Mark Suster
For those who aren't reading it the ServerFault blog http://blog.serverfault.com/ is a treasure trove of information. The work they are doing and blogging about on the systems side is something a lot of people take for granted.
A collection of iPhone UI screenshots, showcasing design patterns
I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Yunus in Dhaka and touring a village bank back in 2008. His personal office was simple and sparse (and not air conditioned) and he was very kind and down to earth considering his accomplishments. It is sad to think that a (probably) corrupt government could oust him from his own creation where he has done some much for so many.
Reddit search on Reddit
Did anyone else think of Twitter while reading this article? Specifically re providing a platform and then competing on that platform.
The misquote was the straw that broke the camel's back. Everything else in that presentation was exactly like every other presentation given by Apple or any company touting a new product: Bring up the places you're better and leave out the places you're falling down.

If it wasn't for the obvious misquote, in bold type, nobody would have batted an eye.
It's arguable whether such a thing is possible. Cooperation, where all stakeholders have say in the endeavor, is probably close to ideal. But that's not colonialism. Once you start fixing all the problems that colonialism has (authoritarian outside rule, no power held by the governed, operating solely for the profit of the colonizer) you wind up with something that really doesn't look like colonialism at all. At best, you need another word, but as my earlier comment stated I think there are more fundamental flaws with the scheme.

I think a more relevant (if less sensational) question is "What role should outsiders play in defining the goals and mechanisms of development?"
Courage is Contagious - (or Wiki and the Leeks)
Don Knuth Jokes
Gotcha. It's more of a signaling mechanism, rather than a generic way to identify coders at an early stage.

What do you identify with programming potential outside of a hiring context? I've been working with my friends to get them programming (it's the single most valuable skill a person can have in this age). I know that I can help them most by identifying their positive traits (and just pointing these out can reinforce those traits). So what do you think I should look for and "amplify"?
Group theory for Maths, Physics and Chemistry Students [pdf]
> then you're still in effect talking about donations.

No. Donations would imply that you do not have a business model at all. Just set up a business in a way that you do not care about people copying information bits.

> but if the producer of a good is not capable of

> determining the terms under which that good is sold

He is determining the price of his copies and selling copies. But he knows that if everybody else is _also_ allowed to produce copies, nobody will buy his copies. So instead of solving _his_ problem of a obsolete business model (manufacturing and selling copies), he solves it by downgrading everybody else's rights to freely exchange information with eachother.

> This has nothing to do with buttons

It has absolutely _everything_ to do with buttons. Its the same "prohibit DIY-X so we can keep selling X"-principle.

> there's no aristocracy attempting to limit your access

They are limiting what kind of information I and my neighbour may exchange for the sole purpose of making their copy-selling business thrive. The button guild criminalized ordinary people for making DIY cloth buttons in order to make them buy their originals.

> it should be perfectly fine for anyone to read that book

> whether the creator agrees to that or not.

This is not what I am saying, but a consequence. What I am saying is that neither the author nor anybody else should have absolutely any say whatsoever about who is "allowed" to copy what bit of information. Allowing copies only when somebody "agrees" (usually for money) is protectionism and for-profit censorship, pure and simple, and I am against it.

> "DIY" isn't pulling torrents, it would be producing the

> content or software you want to consume or use yourself.

No, the author created the work once, and is afterwards selling copies. This worked 50 years ago, when ordinary people couldnt produce copies, so his copies had value. Today they dont any more, since everybody can produce them effortlessly themselves. My grandmother can copy Avatar as easily as 20th Century Fox can. 50 years ago she couldnt. So today the business of manufacturing and selling copies is gone like the button business. The only way to sustain it is to scare people into not DIY-copying in order to make authors copies "valuable" again, so the author can continue making a living by "allowing" copies like he did in the 50s by selling real-value copies.
tl;dr; Woody Allen something something
The linked article is from Fortune Magazine, although it lives on a cnn.com domain. Considerably more credible in my opinion.
The author, Seth Weintraub, also owns the Apple-focused blog 9to5mac.com
>That's why the average consumer isn't in the market for a Toughbook.

The average consumer isn't in the market for a beautiful piece of a glass laptop that breaks with little impact either.
Most folks I know living on reservations would debate that. Just saying, it's a strong claim to make.
Ozzie, we made the change to the appstore screen shot (well the first one), to highlight what is user content and what is not, will work on the text and screenshot order next. tks again for feedback.
What's the average profit margin on a phone? $100-$150? Now imagine you bought a $10/month service - over the life of a contract, that's $240? 30% to apple - that's $168 - that's would be about breakeven - not including R&D costs, etc.
I hate when people compare Apple products specs with the other competitors.
I mean, if a device runs smooth including apps, and no crashes. Why the hell do I need to know if Xoom as 1GB and iPad2 has only 256mb ?

This will only shows that the iPad was better developed in terms of memory optimization then any another other >= 1GB device that does the exact same thing.
Not settling the vocabulary is so very useful. You can always retreat behind your semantic wall and declare victory :P
>You could easily learn fit the amount of material in a K-16 education into 12 years

>Let's improve quality of education before increasing quantity.

nice sound bites. Complete rubbish. The whole amount of K-12 material is comparable in size with amount of material consumed in just one, max 2, years of college. But it doesn't work in the opposite way. I graduated from a top math and physics high school where students were selected from half of the country. The amount of additional material what we were able to consume during the high school pales in comparison with amount of material we consumed later at the University. The brains is still not there at this age. Hormones already are :)
The Google Earth Time Capsule - Reliving any part of your past from anywhere
i'm reminded of zadie smith's article awhile back about how using facebook means to interface with the mind of mark zuckerberg -- a place where a human becomes a list of likes and a relationship status. a friend of mine has strongly encouraged me to change the copy and tone of the site to something that reflects a more fun, creative side (think chatroulette meets facebook) rather than the sort of dark, "set yourself on fire" attitude related by the site currently. i think he's on to something, but i just don't know if it's me. in some sense, i think the site mirrors a personal and universal human desire to stalk and say crazy things about people. that i know for sure.
He did. Your comment was a long winded apologetic on why Apple was justified in lying, bending the truth, and promoting half truths.

You started by saying "I don't agree" then ended up "Apple needs to state their viewpoints" which is subtly justifying their behavior.

In my opinion, this is an open and shut case of Steve not being honest in his keynote, and he should be called out.

It's especially disappointing to hear this as a fan of Apple as I don't think this kind of reality distortion is necessary given Apple's success. It just makes them look desperate and much lower then their actual position would dictate.
In fact, it's so in the works it's already done! :)

http://hipmunk.com/hotels

(just launched on Tuesday)
I think this is one of the things that a lot of people in the FOSS don't get. Most ppl I know on the MS stack use it because its the best tool for their job. But will also use FOSS where it makes sense. They're just not as ideological, and are much more technology driven.

I suspect the staff at Stack Overflow never blinked at using FOSS software. I suspect they said, "we need capability X, lets find the best tool to handle it".
I was being facetious, I might have said, "sure the government service is great, if you survived."
yeah, and in that sense, the use of the word is somewhat "harmless" (although i don't think the name reflects any "harm"; i mean, slavery happened).
Or a magical unicorn! We are just throwing concepts around right?

In all seriousness folks, humans and cheetahs and a few other species, are uniquely susceptible to extinction by disease.

Something bad happened to us a long time ago and thus we can trace our ancestry to a few individuals!
This means one individual group of chimpanzees can have more genetic diversity (and thus greater resistance to diseases) then all of humanity.

But if you really want to bet on what the "next big thing" will be, I suggest you put your money on the plain old (and ever new) flu.

Also the "next 1918" flu will not care if we've conquered HIV or not.
I always did the upgrades once to see how they worked out but I would usually just go fresh install shortly after. (It's what I do now with Ubuntu upgrades). With the exception of Windows XP, and only because I had one of those disks that would only do an upgrade.

There might have been a way around that at the time but a fresh 98 install with XP on top was clean enough for the one or two times I did it.
Guy Kawasaki's Photo Contest
What's the point of this project? To prove that your coding skills are top or to prove that you're some kind of an a-hole who gets a kick out of screwing with people's stuff? Don't answer these questions: either way, you are a d-bag (your avatar pic proves my point). BIG fat F to github for allowing projects like these to be uploaded. BIG fat F to hacker news too: gotta have one more hit, huh?. What a joke.
You're entirely right. Oddly enough, though, this never occurred to me before, even though in retrospect it's ridiculously obvious. Always interesting when that happens.
I'm saying that when they can make those things a good experience, they do. They add memory when they can get it in sufficient supply and it doesn't increase the price too much. They add OTA such-and-such as they have appropriate methods of doing it that don't negatively affect the customer.

Copy/paste is a great example. They didn't have a decent implementation, so they just sat on it and released it when it was ready. I think, when it comes to consumer electronics, this is exactly the right approach.
The site states that they are using a WISC stack via BizSpark, which gives companies free use of a TON of tools and software for something like 4 years or once they make over $1 million in revenue. Sure, you could also do this for free using open source tools, but I would GLADLY pay a couple grand in licensing fees if my company was making over a $million in revenue using the Microsoft stack.I think the fact that StackOverflow uses a WISC stack is a testament to its reliability and robustness. Hey, whatever gets the job done.
Cell sorting can be done cheaply, but cheap cell sorting is just that. For this you would want high-purity and low-contamination. The HIV pandemic is hardest hitting in places like Africa and SE Asia. Many of it's victims are extremely poor and do not have access to facilities who could manage this type of experiment successfully and at low risk.

The cell-sorting isn't the only expense either. The genetic manipulations costs quite a bit too. A cheap vaccine is still a better alternative, or better yet, social interventions, or a combinatorial approach. It is great to see this type of work pushing the envelope, but I think of this type of stuff more like concept cars. They always look awesome on the show room floor of Detroit, but you never actually see them driving around the streets. Maybe someday in the distant future, but for now, the victims of this pandemic need more realistic options.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
The promise and fear of an assembly line for knowledge work
can someone comment on issues of libel?

why is the url path named "humEn"?

also, i'm not sure what you were thinking with the name. slavery?
Yes, you're totally right! ScummVM was a great part of this, as well. I remember getting an otherwise shitty Nokia phone in 2006-07, only because it could run ScummVM (iPhone wasn't even in the rumors then)
Firefox 4 Web Demos: announcing Web O’ Wonder
One question I really have is: for the exact same dataset, how much RAM is used to handle it with MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, or even a column-based store.

If someone has such a benchmark already, I'd love to read it.
>When was the last time you were forced to pay for something you didn't want?

For a large number of people in the US, 2014 when health insurance becomes mandatory.
Second that. Especially VAIOs like this http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryD... Red Z/
Thanks, will definitely check it out.
Welcome to the modern Internet - where the digital equivalent of the crazy homeless zealot also happens to know your name and career details.
Agreed. And on the resolution point, as mentioned several times by daringfireball[1] and others, the only way Apple will up the density is if it's doubled. Why? Because it's the only thing that makes sense. Less than double = terrible scaling or forcing apps to supply apps with yet another resolution in mind.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/cold_water_ipad_retina_dis...
In Redis performance is the same regardless of the number of keys, there is no such an issue. But of course in Redis is easy because everything is in memory, and we use O(1) data structures for lookups.

If you use Virtual Memory things are different of course, unless you almost always hit the part of the dataset fitting in RAM. With diskstore there is also to flush things on disk from time to time, so if the site is write-heavy regardless of the amount of memory you'll see a significant slow down.

Basically we think that for write heavy apps the default (in memory) is the way to go. Actually it is a bit different than that: everybody should run Redis in memory, but some specific applications where disk-backed makes sense.
Hm. I love Stack Overflow but architecture only starts to become interesting at 4-5 times their traffic.

95M/mo translates to a mere 36/sec avg. A single web- and db-server will handle that without breaking a sweat, although you of course want some more machines for peaks, redundancy and comfort.
Apple wouldn't allow a ScummVM app into the app store (that it would play any ScummVM game), but games made on ScummVM platform are ok.
Oh calm down, it's just for fun.

evil.css is purely for entertainment purposes. I'm not responsible for anything you do with evil.css, nor do I suggest doing any of the above activities, especially hacking backbone routers.

Do they have a demo page? I wanna see it in action.
It seems HN has lost a lot of very valuable contributors lately due to the impact HN has on general productivity.

Have you given any thought to measures to stem this tide of dissent?

The most productive people would probably tend to have the best insights, and if the trend keeps up it almost feels like I'm getting advice/comments from those with generally lower productivity.
I found no information about license. All it says is:

By submitting the form you agree that the art you share is
your personalcreation and you allow other users to use it
for free.

Is the license attached to each image pack?
Sadly, we are not "done" with syphilis. It is actually still a big problem in some communities:

http://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm
Only if you're horrified of print popups.
The status of recent browsers ( usability webbrowser vs usability web-app )
RStudio: a new IDE for R that makes coding easier
"I'm tempted to label the author a "socialist""

And you really tempt me to label you something actually derogatory. The 50s called, they want you back.
> Why would I have to do that?

Come on, I'm sure you can think of a reason or two why you might want to enable or disable specific patches.
At the moment we allow the user to post hints to their wall that they like some of their friends. We have a list of approximately 20 other ideas for improving the viral aspect which we are shortlisting as we speak. I'll take the opportunity here to thank you all for your input. Greatly appreciated!
People also ignore a subset of A. Got the pirated version, but never consumed or used it.

I can't tell you how many versions of AutoCAD I downloaded as a teenager, either because I thought I might learn how to use it or just because I could. I don't think I ever installed a single copy. Likewise, I once had several hard drives filled with pirated TV Shows of things I will never watch, just because it was available.
There is no way you can call this article good journalism, no matter who you agree with.
fine, make that “more than 85%”.
very different.
This site is just begging to be hit with a libel suit.

Who's going to be the first to "subscribe" $CELEBRITY?
You created an account just to post this comment? Whether you think this project is a good idea or not, there's no reason to resort to ad hominem attacks.

"Don't answer these questions [...]"

But I suppose you're just not interested in having a discussion.
>In all seriousness folks, humans and cheetahs and a few other species, are uniquely susceptible to extinction by disease.

Cheetah aren't going to stop using protection just because there is nothing to fear anymore.

>Something bad happened to us a long time ago and thus we can trace our ancestry to a few individuals!

These few individuals left Africa by crossing the Sinai and went to spread around the world. That was definitely bad for Neanderthals.
The problem with Mongo's concurrency approach is that when you introduce writes to the equation (which take out an exclusive lock on the database), the system becomes unusable.

Here's a link to some of the benchmarking work I did. Ignoring the comparison to Clustrix, you can clearly see readers getting starved out when a writer does io.

http://sergeitsar.blogspot.com/2011/01/mongodb-vs-clustrix-c...
What are you trying to say and why do you call it a reminder? Are you reminding us to do something specific?
TechCrunch hosts itself on Wordpress.com? I thought they just run Wordpress off their own servers. Wouldn't that make more sense?
Of course. I definitely agree memory is good. All I'm trying to say is that Apple's typical consumer customer doesn't care about the numbers. They need enough memory to have a good experience, Apple attempts to supply that experience without sacrificing other areas (such as price, battery life, or availability).
> Right. It's worked out soooo well for Native Americans here in the US. Except for the whole smallpox thing. And the reservations. And the massacres. And the Interior Department.

The US didn't colonize NA land. We took it and "gave" them reservations, which we mostly ignore.

They'd be better off as colonies or independent. As colonies, we'd care about getting a return on our investment. As independent, they'd benefit from whatever development that they did.
What you're forgetting is that social networks are a threat to Google's primary business because they offer better signals for/an alternative to search. I think the strategic play for Google is own all the social signals, or at least have them be in open formats that they can crawl.
I suppose the article talks specs because in the keynote the specs of the competition were being dissed. Reap what you sow.

Actually, the one spec that REALLY matters to me is resolution of the front facing camera. A smooth tablet is a nice gadget, but I really NEED a skype capable device for my mum, so that she can chat with her grandchildren.

It seems the iPad 2 is actually losing out in that spec comparison.