skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because patio11 is telling you how to keep your site alive under load, while that page is telling you how to decrease your page load times. They're contrary goals in this case. Keep-Alive makes things load faster, but it puts a cap on how many clients can connect to your server before it curls up and dies. It would be ideal if Apache would let you set a high-water limit for Keep-Alive connections after which it turns the feature off, but I don't know any way to do that. You can set how long they're kept alive, and you can set how many requests are allowed per Keep-Alive session, but not how many sessions are kept alive.
Working for the man in a very versatile/not-typical group. Happy with PTO/free time for my own geek projects & hobbies, steady pay & bonus plan, etc :).
So it's ok to have Google Search be a monopoly that nobody can compete with because they own the content too?

Personally, I think competition in the search space might lead to better results.
I can't see even a red button. What am I doing wrong? I'm outside USA, enabled it in /experimental. Using Chrome, Firefox.
And the link is to Caffeine-- Google's new indexing system. It seems really crazy. Like saying:

"Facebook's servers are running blazingly fast PHP code and they're not even using Android, Google's operating system for cheap hardware."
Hitler was a vegetarian
I'm not clicking all these links about this bit of news, but I'm not seeing any headlines about all the other crap OEMs really do put on computers. I was hoping an event like this might get more attention to all that rubbish we don't ever want, and we know what it really does unlike most users.
Thx! Yes, a good JS framework is not only about performance but also about the number of plugins, the good doc and its users base... And I have to admit, jQuery is good on those points! Give my.js some time, it's gonna grow!
Why GNU grep is fast
It's similar to making things up when you are linking to small sections of an article and trying to paint a narrow view of an argument. His commentaries are also incredibly horrible.
I can sing but I don't play any instruments. Some people play guitar, but not piano... your point?
I have a monopoly on the content I own, much like Microsoft has a monopoly on Hotmail, Windows and Office and Google has a monopoly on the content they created or captured.
> In fact you can argue, people who are successful inside the system because they have the attributes you mentioned, are the least motivated to challenge the status quo.

Confidence that your contribution is worthwhile goes a long way. Most of the people I know that do not consider themselves to be "creative" are simply unwilling to take the risk that their final product will not be praised/enjoyed. They fool themselves into believing that a work is wasted time if it is not the next Mona Lisa.

I think there is also a "blank page" component. They worry about wasting time and having to redo work. Many people are simply unsure where to start, focused on the forest when they haven't yet created the first tree. They're not comfortable working on different components of the problem and trusting that at some point they'll be able to connect the dots.

Creative entrepreneurs have programmed themselves to see the journey as the reward, learning at every step regardless of outcome and applying those lessons immediately to the following steps. They redo, pivot or do whatever is necessary to get closer to the goal because they've realized (subconsciously) that the current action is already in the past. They can't change the past so moving forward is the only action they are concerned with.
Well yes, I'm going to pretend just that :)

If Google never releases Honeycomb, then I'll agree; until then ...

Any other industry player can take Gingerbread and create its own Honeycomb, while keeping compatibility and totally being able to take the market by storm.

That's the very definition of open-source -- when unhappy with a project's governance, you can fork ; and you can fork Gingerbread, or Honeycomb when it will get released. You don't have to trust the company, just the source-code / license of the last release.

So what stops you or any industry players from just doing that? Lunch not free anymore?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I'll tell you the problem with the business model that you're using here - it doesn't require any discipline to give it away for free. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility...charging for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on TechCrunch, and now
[pounds table with fists]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: you're giving it away,
[pounds table again]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: you want to give it away!
I'd vote for unemployed but I can see I'm not allowed to! :)
Tighter security available to .com sites, but upgrades required
the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u
git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

-Andy Rubin, Google VP of Engineering

http://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429
I think HN gives off the impression that most people own company or freelance due to the content, but it is a bit of a filter effect. Similar to how everyone is living amazing awesome lives on facebook.
I find your reasoning faulty. Frankly, I think it's you without a leg to stand on.

Tu quoque much? Murder, child abuse, blah blah, is widespread everywhere as well. Arguing this is somehow justifiable because something is "widespread" makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever.

And implying that Parson's gutless little stunt is justified simply because this is great for his company puts you squarely in the ends justify the means camp. Inhabiting that miserable landscape, you and he will not mind when I declare open season and cull a few company CEOs and feed a whole village, too. Would you then say that's actually a good thing, too?

It's not like we'd be wasting the fucking meat.
In the spirit of the poll, you are very clearly employed at someone else's company.
Rats, they got me:

The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:
http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js (1 day)
I've always liked Unfuddle.

A lot depends on how you run your team, of course.
Thx! See you next month at ParisJS!
Oh, I seem to have missed that.
The solution to your first question is to realize that all professional developers have learned from other developer

All professional anything have learned from others: teachers, doctors, lawyers, authors.... It's how society gets better. Business is the engine that powers it (even if indirectly), and money is the fuel that allows it.

There's absolutely no harm in charging for something of value you create because of what you have learned. Besides, you can always give back to the open source community- maybe even moreso if you are in a position to provide a little funding for some projects (because you charged for your product).
Is the question asking if I'm addicted or in control? I suspect yes.
> on Windows it was buggy and late.

There are emails that say that that was due to being deliberately hampered on Bill Gate's orders, unless I'm confusing them for one of the other companies he did that sort of thing to. I think someone else linked to that already.

> And lets be clear... VC was never shipped as part of Windows nor any bundling of VC with OEMs. So there's no monopoly ties that help push your case that VC became dominant through some monopoly manipulation.

They also had access to Windows internals and such, but I will grant that they made a good product too.
Congress Vanishes into Infinitely Recursive Loop
You could choose to be a vegetarian because you disagree with factory farming and the industrialization of the meat industry. You could become a vegetarian because you don't like the texture of meat.

All 'vegetarian' infers is dietary choice. The reasons for becoming one can vary greatly.
Namecheap offers a 4.99 USD transfer special using the "byebyeGD" coupon code, valid until 11:59pm EST 1st of April 2011: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
"fairness" is a human-invented concept.

Capitalism is open, but unfair; mother-nature is open, but unfair.
African elephants aren't an endangered species.
All you are doing is quibbling over definitions. It doesn't matter if you call it a "good-code-writer-ocracy", a"meritocracy" or "wheezlebum" - we are describing the same objective reality.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/
Denial - the second of five Stages of Grief.
ptrdiff_t is signed: http://www.viva64.com/en/t/0041/
I like how Google.com scores a 97, while Bing.com scores a 96 (ha!)
(1) Design  Quora (Web2.0 Expo Presentat... by Rebekah Cox - Quora
NewsCred is looking for engineers in NYC.

We're looking for engineers interested in Information Retrieval, Solr, Lucene, Machine Learning, NLP etc.

We're also hosting the NYC Hadoop meetup tonight (Thursday) at our offices at General Assembly. Come by!
Update - reddit has come around to the truth. :)
should be:

Anger - the second of five Stages of Grief.

Denial is the first stage.
Working with the Man?
so why isn't this headline: @Jack offed the #dickbar ?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492835

Many, many, many comments there.

Repeated here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647662

You've submitted a huge number of items in the last hour or so, and these last two appear to have been pulled from HN's own history.

Is this deliberate? It certainly looks so, given that you've added a "#" on the end of each URL, no doubt to avoid the duplicate detection algorithm.
Intel's new X79 chipset details leaked
Android’s open-door policy days are numbered
1and1 are quite simply the WORST company I have ever done business with. Avoid them like the plague.

I've been using namecheap for a couple of years, and I'm very happy with them.
I'm rather excited to see how hard it is for Jeremy Clarkson to refrain from making light of this situation. I love the man, should be entertaining.

Also, the BBC has an enormous amount of money and power (not to mention it operates under a Royal Charter), I don't imagine this lawsuit being very easy.
Well you said it: Lunch isn't free anymore.

The point is that Google is using Android to do precisely what they claimed they stood against - which is to control other players in the industry. That's what makes it hypocrisy.

I assume you'd agree that someone who forked a months old version would be at an extraordinary disadvantage against a competitor who had access to the current source and ongoing contributions from Google.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626305

Many, many, many comments there.
I use dreamhost which sells domains at 10 bucks with automatic private registration. But dreamhost only sells .com, .net, and .us I believe. For the others I use name.com

Honestly I haven't done enough research, but I completely agree with the OP. I'd rather pay double than to have to sift through godaddys utter bullshit of a UI.
Is your mother-in-law really using a 7 year old version of Linux?

I would assume that's a typo, but then again your description of updating doesn't sound like any recent Linux experience I've had. And you do mention the hardware is too old for a modern distro.

If she was using that version, and the only thing that broke after all this time is Flash then that's pretty good going.
Obligatory post by ridiculous_fish on grep's speed optimizations: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30/old-age-a...
I'm slowly moving all my domains to Name.com. Once your account is setup and you've purchased one domain, all future domain purchases take a grand total of two clicks.
How about all three?
In my opinion, someone truly living an amazing awesome life wouldn't have time to advertise it on Facebook. But it might be that I have a different definition of such a life.
I'm really enjoying seeing more transparency coming from you guys. Not that you weren't before, but this kinda stuff is that much better.

Keep up the great work!
The last question should be first. I clicked on the first one, not realizing the fourth one would be an option. Just a thought.
I thought this was a very insightful read. When I was starting out in my career I pointed out a huge problem in the company to the CEO, I naively expected to get a gold star for having such deep insight into the business that I, a technical guy, could reason out the issue.

He threw a fit, I think it had been building. It was naive of me to think he didn't realize the issue, it was poor form of me to not come with at least an idea of how the issue could be resolved. I took that lesson to heart. My motto, "Don't dwell on problems for which you cannot propose a credible plan to address them."
Google +1 Dedi
Facebook investor buys $100M Silicon Valley home
ActiveInbox has become the most valuable tool I use every day. When I occasionally have to use gmail without it I feel like a surgeon with only a wooden spoon to operate with.
When would someone want to use intptr_t instead of uintptr_t? Does a signed memory address even make sense? Perhaps intptr_t is available to avoid compiler warnings about mixing signed/unsigned ints when adding a uintptr_t and a (signed) ptrdiff_t.
Sunchild didn't say anything about killing living beings for food. Only that as a person who cares about living beings, this seems offensive.

You're assuming a very specific value system on the basis of a single, vague axiom.
Ah, it's that day again. When I take a holiday from the internet.
I agree. I never said anything about fairness. I simply showed that Google is being hypocritical.

Hypocrisy is a perfectly valid strategy under capitalism.
I totally agree with the need for more visibility and condensed stats on Github! Once you start trying to follow a larger number of projects, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow what is going on with each project.

This has been a minor related rant of mine across Github projects: a need for project guidelines, similar to http://semver.org/, in terms of having versioned projects, properly tagging those versions, and having a dated changelog summarizing those changes. Projects have different levels of organizational needs at different lifetimes, but having a suggested format/guidelines would help I think, similar to the Readme that Github suggests you make for a project.
ec2 is blocked in my company!
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017708

Yup, same pattern, looks to me like you're harvesting HN's history and resubmitting URLs with a "#" appended.

That feels a bit grubby.
Is it really that hard to parse Youtube? These are the guys who made an operat..

I can't say it. I can't say Microsoft actually ever made an operating system. The one thing I've noticed with them is that they offer good download speeds. To get all the patches quicker.
This is perhaps the most insightful comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1522
This suggestion from Google especially looks fun:

The following publicly cacheable, compressible resources should have a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header:

* http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js

However, it's a useful tool. It gives me useful suggestions for improving.

Anybody knows a simple tool to minify javascript?
LaTeX easily accessible from PostgreSQL, C, C++, Python, Ruby, and PHP
Very deliberate: I post in groups as time allows. I open a tab group with my news sites and I work my way through submitting interesting news. Then, once and a while, I use http://searchyc.com/ to post a few that are more than 200 days old.

It's an OCD thing.
I'm that there are tech communities all over the country. Especially in places I never expected like North Carolina!

Heh, it amazes me how many people haven't heard about the NC technology community, considering the history of RTP (the largest research park in the US)[1] and "The Triangle"[2] in general.

I guess we need to do more to promote the local scene. But FWIW, there's a big list of Triangle area startups here:

http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+direct...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle
We just don't want all you freeloading communists stealing all of our hard-earned capitalist bandwidth...
Does Pair Programming Obviate the Need for Code Review?
Interestingly enough, awk is many times faster for an inverted grep (grep -v) than grep is. Get a large file and test yourself!

grep -v regex
awk '$0 !~ /regex/ {print}'

This is possibly due largely to this not helping in that case:

GNU grep AVOIDS BREAKING THE INPUT INTO LINES.

awk is very fast at breaking the input into lines (that's what it spends most of the day doing!). I don't understand why it's so much slower though. (I had a 100+MB log file that I was searching when I discovered this).
.. and so you generalise and point your finger towards others as a response?
thats really cool
OK, this is 5 years old and I hate the spam that April Fools Day generates on social news sites. Flagged.
That's cool, so does mine, and I have zero problem with that. However, GoDaddy is not it the elephant butchering business. Slapping their hats on people butchering an elephant strikes me as a crass marketing attempt (even for them).
It's a slightly longer wait. Instead of a few weeks it's a few months.

Whatever clever rewording you want to do to "spin" it your way, at the end of the day it's just a bit more time to wait for them to open source the code, with good reason. You want the source code to work on for your tablet device? Just ask Google, they said they'll hand it right over. It's just not quite ready for the public to start hacking it on to phones.
So this is Google's April Fools joke in Chinese?

The translation is pretty hilarious, though. I especially like "Samsung Centauri" ... I guess that means that Alpha and Samsung are written the same in Chinese?

But maybe we should just be grateful that HN isn't full of Erlang submissions right now.
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I'm making fun of C++ programmers that think C++ is better than C, like the authors of this article.
If you don't believe there's a rational basis to this consideration, it's hypocritical to criticize somebody else for having a different but no less valid set of qualities he considers.
Most interesting part:

> you usually don't have to do things as fast as you think you do. … David Heinemeier Hansson describes VC as a time bomb. Once you light the fuse, you have to make your business work within a short period of time.
How is Google cheating?
Before or after income taxes?
Well, I have no official standing, I'm just a user, but I find your actions with regards modifying the URL and resubmitting old, high-karma items less than honorable.

No doubt others will find it useful, especially those newer to the site who won't have seen the originals, but to me it's just polluting the stream with old material, to the possible and probably detriment of valuable items.
So they put up some lame facade and waste effort on "professional" headlines? Should we start badgering them for not wearing suits to work?
you missed this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393371

and this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393387
I beg to disagree, but that's okay too ;)
Yes because rich and stable African governments are completely able to ensure their wildlife is protected properly in the same way a western country can.

I like the free market too, but let's be reasonable here. We can dump money into Africa at far greater levels than they can sustainably support.
I just checked your profile out - cool niche!

(Apologies for not responding sooner. Still figuring the HN interface out and didn't see your reply to me!)

I'm very much talking about tendancies here rather than absolutes. Certainly some very principled sites manage to keep their editorial courage - in the gaming community, for example, Zero Punctuation and Penny Arcade both run ads, and neither are afraid of pissing people off.

But it's a dichotomy I've always found uncomfortable and difficult to reconcile with when running sites myself, and I think a lot of people have the same problem - you're to be applauded for managing to steer a straight path, and I'm sure you've had to fight to do it.

(Indeed, you could view the entire content farming industry as a manifestation of the same problem - when your client isn't the person coming to your site for content, it's very easy to let the content slide.).

And even in your company, at the end of the day, if there's a strategic meeting about how to increase revenue (assuming you need to), the questions you'll be asking will tend toward discussing the advertisers' needs, not the readers' (except in as much as you'll be asking how you can increase views, of course). I know this is an impossible question to answer, but in similar situations I've always ended up wondering "How much better would our services have ended up if any revenue-focussed meeting centered on our users/readers rather than our advertisers?"

Incidentally, I'd strongly disagree that advertising is a dead model. And I agree that particularly in the gaming sector, it's possible to give users genuine value with some ads - my partner runs a gaming site and she's experimenting with the same model, with the same intention of giving users ads for things of value to them.
I feel obligated to comment since I inspired this poll: I don't think the way this poll is worded is contributing to accurate results.

For example, I can truthfully say that I am currently employed at someone else's company (a startup that I am consulting for), I am a freelance contractor (for the startup I am consulting for), owner of my own company (an apparel and design studio that I am currently working on with some close friends), and I have numerous side projects including my own startup. If I feel like I should select multiple options, then I'm sure others are having the same problem. I don't think the options in the poll are leading to an accurate answer to the question.

I think the real question is what the percentage of cubicle dwelling office workers being watched over by a boss is compared with the percentage of self employed, freelance consultants.

My initial estimate was that there would be more self employed individuals with self control built by working for themselves, and fewer cubicle workers who are trying to sneakily browse HN behind the back of their bosses.

This poll hasn't answered my question one way or the other though.
I dislike the whole karma farming business, but the article itself is very interesting and I missed it the first time around.
Skype's Mini-Outage On March 30 - And The Need For Greater Transparency
Microsoft Ready to Turn Advertising Upside Down
Why would you get fired over browsing websites that fall within the set guidelines by your employer? If a website like HN doesn't fit in there, you got screwed over and time to find a new job.

An employee should have the freedom to browse the web with limited restrictions. If that is not the case then it is a violation of the employees creativity and could hurt the employer in the long run since his/her employees are bound to limited creativity on the job sight.