skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using Joukuu to manage my Dropbox and Google Docs together
I don't think I would take the time to input things about my car. (not to say that is a general case, as I'm sure there are people who care about their cars more) But even in my case if the oil change or tune up place i went to gave me a url for my car's history and an email alert for next oil change/maintenance, it would make me more loyal to that place. even better if they shared history like on your site. I dunno, that may be an angle that would work with me in particular.
Awesome idea dude. I'm going to buy my first car and was going to record all my repairs, inspections, MOTs etc in an excel spreadsheet. Might use your app instead. Good luck!
Agree, we are planing to change it soon.
The most-deployed interpreter, MRI 1.8, doesn't compile to bytecode, so it's not possible for there to be a general system which does this.

HOWEVER, I would suggest that your fundamental assumptions are wrong here. Without a cache, PHP has to re-interpret the source files for every single request. That's not how Rails works: the code is parsed once at server startup (or the first time it's used, depending on which part of the code you're looking at) and reused in the same process for subsequent requests, so there isn't a per-request parsing cost.

As ever, benchmark and profile before making optimisation assumptions.
I typically use tcpflow or Charles on Mac OS X. They are both useful tools that any back end engineer should know how to use. It helps diagnose any problem your app/code is facing and it's another good way to learn how existing apps interact with their back end web service.
I often check how iOS app interact with the server by usually setting up a proxy on my laptop and configure on the iOS device settings to use my local proxy. Then simply fire away tcpflow or Charles and watch all the HTTP calls being made.
Ask HN: Help me find motor oil, fluids, and parts wholesalers
Anyone know where I could find wholesalers on the west coast that sell auto supplies like oil and fluids?
What is sad about what conventional medicine has to offer?
I think this especially helps with older cars. For example my truck has 110K miles on it and I just had some major work done (timing belt and new radiator). As life goes on, I need an easy place to remember what I did so some scammy mechanic doesn't try to lay one on me.
Yes, every time I see a comment like this on some email list dismissing the value of internet relationships as not really real, I bite my tongue and resist the temptation to ask "then why are you here?"
Just an idea - can you integrate what the recommended changes for vehicles are at various mileages? That would be killer and a heck of a way to plan in advance. I know the info is out there, every time I go to get my oil changed they pull up a program for every car and review the recommended updates...
Reasons to use Haskell as a Mathematician
sorry, your website-blog.css is written to disallow me the ability to resize my window to make a less-wide column.

I hate stupid systems. stop writing concrete widths in CSS

I'm very sorry for the off-topic content but i'm old-enough now and I dont have to give a crap anymore.
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Let me introduce Erlang to you: http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/talks/armstrong.pdf

Slide 27 describes an Erlang system from the late 90's/early 2000's that contains 1.7M lines of Erlang, with "99.9999999% reliability"

This suggests that complicated compiler type checking is not "the greatest need of high dependability".
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I feel bad for criticizing this article because while I agree with the author, I feel that he needs to write something else at the same time. It's the same old thing he's been talking for ages.
Funny that it mentions twisted (briefly). I last used tcpflow not long ago to debug some issues in twisted proxy. Twisted has two quirks that make it slightly less compatible/forgiving with the web at large than most browsers.

1. It lowercases headers, such that Cookie: becomes cookie:. Technically, the standard says they are case insensitive.

2. When reading responses, it strictly looks for \r\n line endings. \n will not cut. Standard does say \r\n is the only acceptable ending.

Guess which web server violates both of these rules? The one in arc that powers Hacker News. Figuring out why my proxy worked with every website except HN probably wouldn't have been possible without tcpflow.
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The article is about fossils found in meteorites that have been on earth for a very long time.

I'm not worried about fossilized bacteria taking over Earth's ecosystem.
Then I actually sent a patch.

One thing to note when contributing code, is the project maintainers probably won't commit it right in. Often they'll suggest small (or not so small) improvements (be it stylistic, to make the patch follow the coding style, or suggestions how to better organise the new code).

The important part is: they don't think your patch is bad; they would love it to hit the trunk/master; they are happy at having new people taking time and effort to contribute. Their initial "rejection" isn't, and don't get scared away by it.
If you read his comments, he has been battling cancer for 6 years. He has apparently had multiple surgeries. He is stopping the medication so he can have a "lucid ending" and spend some quality time with family and friends. He has been tortured by chemo. He plans on having jello as his last meal so he doesn't "mess" himself again.

I have cystic fibrosis. I've gotten off of 8 or so prescription drugs. The drug side effects were crippling. I was miserable and unemployable. My sister has been battling cancer for 11 years or more. I belong to email lists for people with CF. I've heard lots of stories like this. What conventional medicine does is pretty gruesome. I am getting well. I only wish I could more effectively share that information. BTDT, got the t-shirt and it saddens me that so many people are doomed to the same fate as Lucidending.

Edit: I would be seriously interested in knowing why this is being downvoted. There is something wrong with finding a better way and wishing to share it and thinking it sucks that other people are suffering so horribly?
Regularfry's points are absolutely correct.

However, in the event that you do need caching, it can be achieved through a variety of means, including ORM level object caching, controller caching and/or view/fragment caching.

Lastly, have you read this guide on Rails caching? Much of this is readily available in the standard distribution of rails: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/caching_with_rails.html

(final thought — this is a question might have been better suited for StackOverflow, just given the manner in which SO and HN are geared.)
The NBA example is exactly what I meant.

I'm not really referring to PG or YC specifically, more to the general attitude in the startup community: it's becoming increasingly becoming Hollywood-like, with founder profiles in Vanity Fair and NY Magazine (and startups like Quora that follow the Hollywood club model of celebrity hype + watered down drinks), but while most people know that success in Hollywood is largely random, few realize how much this applies to exit-strategy startups.
hg bookmarks are the equivalent of git branches for the most part. Check out those next time you use mercurial.
Yes, we will be adding that info gradually and hopefully community will help us. But there is a fun part. Once we get enough amount of actual info, we can show some interesting statistics. For example how much does it cost to own particular model or how often particular problem happens, etc.
It'd be cool if I could just text in the things that I get done on my car. Example: #OilChange at Jiffy Lube on 3/1/1 at 75,000 Miles; and then I could get a reminder text 3 months down the road about how it's time for me to get another oil change...you could also have a local car company sponsor that reminder. Good luck!
As an American I see this as a problem for America. However, there is a big upside to this. The rest of the world gets some of its talent back, which will help it develop faster. There are over 1 billion people in India, for example. They deserve to be more than a call center or a place to outsource for the US.
The article is a basically a video re-cap, without much added insight. If you're gonna get to the bottom of the article and watch the videos anyway, just skip right to it and watch the videos from the git-go.
You've got a minor css issue on your frontpage with the 'shdtxt' class positioning for your text shadow effect, where the shadows appear misaligned/flow differently than the callout text. Maybe try using text-shadow instead?
tcpflow is rather simpler, but probably a lot better for examining multiple connections. You specify a tcpdump/pcap filter and it saves the traffic to files (two per connection, one for each direction). You review the data at your leisure, it's not all jumbled up in your terminal.
What if certain companies made a pact of increasing their services/goods cost by some percentage (let's say 15%-30%) and call it "the iPhone tax".

Make a beautiful logo out of it, constantly reminding people that the price increase is due to Apple.

... and at the same time offer a clue that they can get the same services/goods cheaper on another platform (say... Android).

Would that help to drive users to understand how bad Apple is and hopefully start a public uproar?

Perception right?
Old car owners and car enthusiasts - this is our primary target.
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Hmmm...the summary that claims GNU is "mistakenly" called Linux is a bit misleading as well.

There's no question that the OS named Linux takes a lot from the GNU project, and somehow GNU didn't receive much fanfare.

But, GNU is only an "operating system" with a complete kernel, and their planned kernel was called "Hurd". An OS released with the Linux kernel is a different operating system, even if the bundled tools and libraries are otherwise the same as what was planned for GNU.

A more accurate summary would be that he leads a project whose components are integral to multiple Unix-like operating systems.
All my tests were done on the 'naive' bot that had no prior knowledge of play.
If your target market is in the USA, I think you should change your tag line.

"Put your car expenses under control."

Should read,

"Get your car expenses under control."
You might want to compare incarceration levels in the US with other not-particularly-corrupt countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration
I think the gallery is awesome actually... Maybe a voting element would get more interaction.
He had what could be considered a rough week with one of his other pet ideas... why Silicon Valley reigns supreme: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/03/wh...
I do consulting work for startups, mostly using rails 3, jquery, backbone.js, and mongoDB. My contact info is in my profile if you want to chat.
What browser is it? I know about a problem on IE6, but didn't get to fixing it yet.
I searched but I cannot find any scientific criticism of ALH84001. Can you bring to light what you're referring to?
This is true not just for SV but also the biotech/pharma R&D sector. I personally know people who have already moved out of the US to places like Singapore and India, and are doing way better in terms of peace-of-mind, moving ahead with their lives, having kids, putting down roots etc. On the other hand, I know a few others who are much like nomads within the US, moving from job to job just to keep their H1-B visa status valid. The biggest threat for them has not been joblessness but the threat of deportation if they do not land a new job within the ridiculously low time span exceeding which would put their legal status in jeopardy.

<cynical>It appears that the US citizens and their government just do not give a damn about any of this.</cynical> It is only in the last 12-18 months that some murmurs are being heard in the MSM in this regard.

I have to wonder: the US taxpayers financed this advanced education, almost entirely in case of Bio/Pharma PhD programs, and then to throw out (literally) all that investment out the door makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!

My time is coming soon... I am very apprehensive as to what the future and this country has in store for me. :-/ :-)
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Summary: Sinfonia, A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems
Actually, the point about selling a bootstrapped venture was that you'd presumably do it early in your career (hence the low price) so it's an accomplishment for the resume, the same way Stanford and HBS are.

My argument was that Stanford and HBS acceptance in a lot of cases indicates a good test score, whereas selling a company shows you can execute... you've actually DONE something.

I've met too many MBA's ("idea guys") who can't execute, or at best they can create 10% more value working from a base of hundreds of millions. But in general, I haven't seen too many create value from nothing. So that's what's different about exiting a bootstrapped venture.
You should have a field for adding "where i repaired my car?? which shop and location?"(maybe with map or link).This would be very useful for search. people who wants to do a repair or buy a part at certain budget and at certain location can search for it and find a link to the shop so they can do it for their car. it would be nice if you collect all the list of car service shops so it would be easy for people to add it to their notes.You can build a comprehensive car maintenance service. Good luck!!
Safe harbor is only granted conditionally, contingent on, among other things, the organization having "an effective policy" [1] and that they "act expeditiously to remove the purported infringing material" [2]. Liability also requires "actual and constructive knowledge of specific and identifiable infringements of individual items" [3] which a proper DMCA notice provides.

So in this case, where they are said to have been properly informed, and either lacked an effective policy and/or failed to respond expeditiously they wouldn't be protected by safe harbor. Organizations need to be liable at some point or else you could just register a DMCA agent, and run a pirate site with impunity while failing to act on notices.

[1] http://www.pillsburylaw.com/index.cfm?pageid=34&itemid=3...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...

[3] http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/?p=8165
Here is a summary of the Sinfonia paper.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294378

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2011/03/sinfonia-new-paradi...
"What conventional medicine does is pretty gruesome."

What are you talking about? Chances are you would've died a century ago because of the lack of effective treatments for CF. There are people who have dedicated their entire lives to researching the genetic mechanisms that lead to CF, not to mention the efforts being led to better understand those behind cancer.

I think you need to give conventional medicine some credit.
You just gave me a eureka moment. I really like how simple and clear your homepage is. It instantly made me realise what I am doing wrong with the homepage of http://www.mightycv.com which is my first startup. So I just wanted to say thanks.

I had better get to work and start rethinking, redesigning and restructuring things. Great idea by the way, good luck I hope it takes off!
Yet another Vivek Wadhwa story with his same pet theme. Here is my question: is there any Vivek Wadhwa story on this issue in which he shows detailed figures for NET immigration flows into and out of the United States in comparison to countries like China and India? Or does he consistently do as I have seen him do here and in other stories, relating individual anecdotes and asserting the existence of a problem (too few high-skill immigrants to the United States from India or from China) that may not actually exist? What do other authors have to say about this subject?

And, by the way, what countries offer better opportunities for immigration to found start-up businesses for young people from India and China than the United States offers? What are those countries' rules about immigration? Do young people from African countries also find it easy to emigrate to those other countries? Can anyone from anywhere in the world settle in any European Union country to found a start-up high-tech business? Is it possible for foreigners to settle in China or in India to found start-up businesses? What visa rules apply to cases like that?
There also one more thing to add here: H1B workers also contribute to Social Security and Medicare taxes and most of them do not get those back because they leave.
What is AMA?
I personally know people who have already moved out of the US to places like Singapore and India

May I ask some follow-up questions to make sure I understand your point of view on this issue? Are you referring to people who are originally from Singapore or India, or to people from third countries who settle in Singapore or India rather than settling in the United States? How does the number of those persons compare to the number of persons who stay in the United States after completing higher education? Aren't there official statistics about this?

It appears from your post that you too come from another country and have studied in the United States. Why did you think originally that it was a good idea to study in the United States rather than in your country of citizenship?

After edit: I have lived abroad myself, for two three-year stays in different decades in a country across an ocean from the United States. So I am always curious, as an American who left his country of birth, why people leave their country of birth and take on the challenge of living with new laws, perhaps a new language, noncitizen status at least at first, and perhaps new climate, food, and social customs too. What countries these days are best succeeding in attracting immigrants from all over the world? What example can those countries provide to countries that are less attractive to immigrants?
The ERP where I work wraps RCS with a bunch of scripts. It's used for source control (of course) but also schema migrations, source generation, and a million other things

I've checked files out that were last modified before I was born.
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I would brave the Boston snow and wake up early in the morning to attend some of my grad school lectures. I LOVED the interactive nature of attending lectures. I loved listening to concepts unfold. I loved listening to other students ask questions and responding to them. I loved the debates with the profs. I loved interrupting the prof and asking him to explain it in a different way or providing better analogies. I miss school.

Here are what I think makes a good lecture series:

1. Small class of students who are not forced to take the course. I hate those "Intro to" courses that we force students to take just for the credit. These kinds of students ruin everything. They hate it when people who genuinely want to learn interrupt. They hate the assignments and any form of work. They hate extra references and readings.

2. The teacher should be free to be interrupted.
There should be enough buffer in a class for questions. I hate it when teachers come jam packed with 3 hours worth of lecture slides in a 3 hours of class. These are the kinds of classes that are best watched in a video.

3. The teacher should ask questions and have students respond to each other.
A healthy debate is the BEST part of the classes. You really do change as a person with these discussions.

4. We need to go fully prepared for the lecture. In grad school, I didn't have classes every single day, which would mean I would have time to go over the slides, glance on the topics, look at previous assignments and just be prepared for what was to come. You end up constructing a LOT better questions if you do this.
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That thread provoked two distinct reactions in me. One was I shouldn't spend more the necessary at my desk working, when there's is an entire world out there to live and experience because you never know when the day will come. The other is I want to really accomplish what I'm working hard for, so that I could feel like I succeed in my goals.
I think Mz is trying to make the point that conventional /wisdom/ in modern medicine, is primarily to prolong life, and does so in preference to giving quality of life.
Not that it makes a lot of difference, but this page is from 2000.
I do give conventional medicine some credit for keeping me alive. But if I continued pursuing conventional treatments, I would be a life-long legal drug addict and too ill to work. My life would suck in quite a lot of ways. Conventional medicine keeps people alive. But at quite a high cost, a cost that makes many people -- like Lucidending and, at one time, me -- feel that death would be preferable.

Anyway, probably not a good idea to do an AMAA if this is the reception my comments get here, where I am already a member and speak pretty openly about having gotten myself well.

Peace.
Well put. But a lot of H1B workers also contribute to the economy here as said. It is the illegal immigration that makes things worse, not the legal ways of a small percentage of skilled workers.

Also, H1B workers contribute to Social security and medicare , taxes etc. with most of them not expecting or making use of it.
At the very least, Scrappy (Perl) should link to Scrapy (Python).

Otherwise, it seems remiss of this developer to pick a name that is easily confused that of an existing open-source project with similar purpose.
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Clearly not as her response complains about the side effects taking cystic fibrosis treatment, and nowhere did she mention how she would've rather died than had the disease treated.

Edit: Yep, missed that part. I was wrong there.
I wonder what happened to it...
Sorry about the lack of instructions...

Collect 4 marbles of the same color in each rotating device to explode the device. Explode all the devices to proceed to the next level. There is a time limit.
Apple's service agreement actually demands price matching, which means a content provider must provide their best price available through the app. It is probably possible to charge more for an "iOS edition", but Amazon specifically has a standard publisher contract that requires them to charge the same price on all platforms.
"my whole goal was to just hurt less. Suicide would have been gladly welcomed"
Robin Hanson has an interesting take on (and links to) some criticisms of the paper, from evidence and philosophy of science pov, here, http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/03/alien-life-info-but-no....
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Don't be silly. Haskell Curry was a mathematician.

Oh... It seems I got the title wrong ;-)
and nowhere did she mention how she would've rather died than had the disease treated.

Maybe you missed this part of my post:

...I got well in part because I stopped trying to live. At one time, my whole goal was to just hurt less. Suicide would have been gladly welcomed, so I understand why one would do that.
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My worst fear is actually not to die. I don't believe in hell and the worst that can happen is that I stop to exist.

My worst fear is the process of dying itself. After watching a close family member die of cancer, that process frightens me. If I end up in a similar situation, I'll move to Oregon as well.
I went to the site, read the first page and then decided it sounded like a good idea. I then looked at the top bar and saw "pricing" and realized that I wouldn't pay for this service because I could make (almost) the same thing with the piece of paper. Do you think you can overcome that?
I am here because I am not going to die in 51 hours and have a lot of time to spare.
So over 10k people agree with me.