skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Load balancing storage the smart way
There seems to be this complete disconnect for most people as to why a business exists. It exists for the owners and the employees. Helping customers, or creating something a customer wants may be a welcome side-effect but it's not the _reason_ a business exists.

Of course you get the "pageant-effect" when you ask a business why they exist. They always have some altruistic reason as the "official party line" just like "miss somewhere" wants world peace. But businesses are bottom-line driven, indeed they have a fiduciary responsibility to optimize share-holder value.

There are organizations that exist exclusively for the benefit of the customer. they're called "not for profits" or "charities". We even give them a different name to show they're not a business. In their case the side effect is paying employees, but their _reason_ is to help customers.

Every time you use a "free" service on the internet you have to determine if the provider is a charity or a business. If a business they _have_ to have some sort of payment strategy. (Or, if they don't they quickly go out-of-business and the free-users will moan bitterly about that too.)

If you are not paying for the service you are _not_ a customer. You are a _user_. Customers trump users every single time. (Of course users may turn into customers, that's the precept of most startups. Equally this is the point most of them fail at.)

>> What about the general public that you were trying to help out with your product?

The general public were being helped only in as much as they fulfilled the business' needs. Google filled the need better (with cash), and so they became the customer.
There is a fourth quantity of some kind - a falling ball is not where it was a moment ago, and you want to be able to express that. The exact nature of this "fourth quantity" is up for debate, though.
Ask HN: does Google and other search engines save all search queries?
> I'm surprised that prison-guard unions aren't more front-and-center

If they are smart they won't be, they would hide beyond a couple of layers of lobbyists and front groups, as it would be pretty clear what their motivations would be -- "We need more people in jail" is a little tough political sell. Definitely not in the same league as "we need better educated children" What the prison industry should do is lobby for "tougher" laws, then they can hide behind the "tough on crime" crowd. That works well usually.
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Can't add links to questions it seems but can to comments. Links mentioned above are:

http://inspiredbeta.com/
http://zootool.com/
http://alfredapp.com/
http://designmoo.com/
http://designerscouch.org/
When I am running a startup, I am running it really for just two constituencies: for the shareholders and for the team. And this was awesome for the shareholders and was awesome for the team.

What about the users? What about the users?
Why? These firms needed money badly and someone stepped up to offer it. What do you care if it's a public or private fund?

Of course we'd all be better off if loser companies were allowed to fail, especially banks. Bailouts should go to cheated customers, not the cheaters.

ObTopic: Renting the resource to the gangsters wouldn't be half so bad as the outright sale. That's just ludicrous.
So what do you use then? (Honest question)

I don't disagree with you about bloated middleware products, but you don't have to use them to use soap,xsd,xsl,xpath etc.
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Carrier-branded HTC phones are locked down, but IMO that's OK and I have no problem with that as long as I have the choice to buy and use an unbranded phone.
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Is this similiar to coderwall.com
According to Einstein, time is relative. If I move really fast time is passing slower for me. So time and its effects vary, there should be more than 1 dimension for time in the existing model. Or time should be separated from spatial + other dimensions just because its an outcome of gravity (and other factors) that we cant override and change. This is what Einstein quote is claiming I suppose.
I come from an officially poor background, but it wasn't until I started learning about my girlfriend's family back in her native, third-world country that I really got a sense for what third-world poverty is:

- Constant verbal, physical, sometimes sexual abuse--the stuff that really traumatizes people into doing these same things across generations. This isn't the stuff you learn about in the news because, sadly, to many people living in those conditions, it's part of life.
- Simply not have any positive role models at all to look up to. Their role-models are their parents, or their neighbors who have basically grown accustomed to living in poverty and can offer no guidance.

And I can go on and on.

My girlfriend and I have simply concluded: "some of these people don't know any better." If they had better role-models, they'd have a better shot.

So it is about the network in a way, but the author doesn't go enough to explain why. I'd like to give it a shot based on my observations: the network effect matters. Escaping one network to join a knowledgeable and competitive one exposes you to different ways of thinking, makes you question preconceived notions you have, makes you realize just how badly things really were, etc. I'm sure others here can relate even more, but coming from a modest background, it has been truly eye opening to be in the bay area, for example. There are so many talented, ambitious young people that inspire you every day to push your selves to the limits, that question your abilities, etc. Most people, I must say are unfortunate to not even know what YC is, entrepreneurship is all about, etc.

So for anyone who doesn't really understand poverty (I myself, included), I really recommend you visit a third-world country and actually live amidst them. Find a friend who comes from such a background and go stay with his/her family and him/her. You'll realize just how fortunate you are. By all means, don't feel bad about this, just gain some conscious about the fact that there are less fortunate people out there and begin to question what you can do with your companies, at your job to educate these people.

To finish, for anyone that questions a university's worth... remember this, an education isn't just the material you learn during lectures or books, it's what you learn about others and from others that really , also. And this latter component, I think is the secret to reducing poverty: simple exposure to new ways of life.
With regards to selling software online, they are on the low end of the scale.

His methods and communication are definitely top of the scale though.
I'm not sure who David Pollak talked to at FuseSource - nobody on the ActiveMQ team there know him - and the execs are scratching their heads too.
There is a lot of research indicating that criminal behavior is strongly tied to inability to be deterred by far distant punishment. Therefore the high recidivism rate could happen because criminals are a preselected group of people people who are hard to deter through punishment.
How can this be trade secrets? Japan has been doing this for years! [1] This is not new technology.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaifu-Keitai
I couldn't post this in the Facebook comments on the post, but you can fix the Rake 0.9.0 error by putting the following right before load_tasks in your Rakefile:

module ::MyAppName
class Application
include Rake::DSL
end
end

module ::RakeFileUtils
extend Rake::FileUtilsExt
end

There's a fix on the way, too.

Also, I believe if you're using SASS/SCSS you can interpolate the asset like so, without having to use erb:

background: #00ff00 url(#{asset_path 'rails.png'}) no-repeat fixed center;
I didn't say that issuing bonds is getting free money. The point is when the Central Bank prints money and then spends it on X, the institution selling X is indirectly getting free money or, equivalently, everyone else holding dollars becomes a bit poorer.
Has there ever been a time when Coca-Cola was not the world's best selling soft drink?
Perhaps to create "unique content" in other languages, to rank in the local google search engines.
"a feature of the open source Erlang VM that's improved in the pay-for-support version"

Erlang was created by a telco in the 1990s and since then has been battered in production by serious users. It's real software. The version that Ericsson provide as open source is not crippleware as you seem to imply.

"RabbitMQ pays the performance cost of bouncing everything off the disk"

No it doesn't.

RabbitMQ only uses the disk if tell it to do so, eg if you require messages to be persisted when they cannot be delivered immediately.

"memory usage can grow and grow"

If you stuff data into a messaging server without draining it on the consumer side, then memory usage will grow. This will also happen if you write your messaging system in C++.

There are two solutions to this problem:
- flow control, where you tell producers to back off
- paging to disk, where you flush data from memory when it is on the disk

Neither of these is trivial to implement which is why there is a big gap between toy messaging systems and serious products.

As others point out on this page, RabbitMQ has support for both these features. In particular a lot of memory management capability has been added since 2.0.

I hope this helps.
Its surprisingly easy to write a messaging system that meets your requirements. Having a messaging system that meets every use case is extremely difficult. ActiveMQ is deliberately highly configurable - to try and address this - ActiveMQ is now stable and performant - with a high degree of fault tolerance built in. The things you should care about - like what happens if you loose the network, a disk etc are automatically taken care of with ActiveMQ.
> that's certainly not how the pdf on the ico site says. (http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Privacy_and_...)

That document has this:

"The new rule is intended to add to the level of protection afforded to the privacy of internet users. It follows therefore that the more intrusive your use of cookies is, the more priority you will need to give to considering changing how you use it."

> It doesn't talk about third parties at all. This discussion isn't even about how it affects ad networks.

The document you reference also contains this:

"However, some uses of cookies can involve creating detailed profiles of an individual’s browsing activity. If you are doing this, or allowing it to happen, on your website or across a range of sites, it is clear that you are doing something that could be quite intrusive – the more privacy intrusive your activity, the more priority you will need to give to getting meaningful consent."

it even goes on to offer:

"It might be useful to think of this in terms of a sliding scale, with privacy neutral cookies at one end of the scale and more intrusive uses of the technology at the other. You can then focus your efforts on achieving compliance appropriately providing more information and offering more detailed choices at the intrusive end of the scale."
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That seems unlikely - there aren't too many, they don't make that many calls, and Google could just shut them down.

I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 (andymurd) presents a more likely explanation:

> I think the "abuse" they are referring to is the common practise among blackhats of using Google Translate to spin stolen content to make it unique. Translating English -> $LANGUAGE -> English makes for a cheap, low grade article rewriter.
This then implies that if nothing is moving there is no time. Absolute 0 is timeless. Kinda makes sense.
We've had M-Pesa in South Africa for ages.

Mobile was the next obvious step.
If you have any questions or problems involving RabbitMQ please email us (info@rabbitmq.com) or post to the mailing list.

"one interesting concept about queues is contention and this is where RabbitMQ and others are behind"

Can you explain what this means? What kind of contention are you talking about. You say "RabbitMQ and others" - which others? Who implements this feature and what does it look like?

"you can't block a produced in RabbitMQ based on the number of messages on the queue"

Yes you can.

Well - it depends on your use case. RabbitMQ enables you to determine queue length, and supports flow control.

But, perhaps you had something else in mind?
It's also worth noting that GUIDs in this case have nothing to do with persistence but rather with associating urls with behaviour in much the same way as the fnids you'll see on various urls (like flag) on hacker news.
Screenshots please!
Thanks for the info, I'll update the post shortly. Out of interest, what was wrong with the FB comments? I only started using it yesterday because disqus doesn't have a HTTPS option (that I could find anyway).
IRS, IRS... You Americans keep forgetting there are other countries in the world.
I got my first gig on odesk but I can't find anything good on there any more. All the jobs I am interested the employer wants to pay $10 for.

Elance on the other hand has some good jobs and good pay but I can't snag anything.
The new instances won't count CPU at all for API calls, you'll just have an API call allotment per day to use.
If you want to know what motivated the creation of RabbitMQ please read chapter 1 of Jason and Alvaro's book, "RabbitMQ in Action" - http://www.manning.com/videla/Videla_MEAPCH01.pdf

RabbitMQ's main motivation has been to make it easier to join systems together, scale your applications and manage complex environments. That is what messaging is for. Back in 2006, we felt there was a need for a good, stable and scalable open source licensed product that could compete with the incumbents.

Notice that I did not mention performance. RabbitMQ has good performance and it is used quite a lot in finance, but the majority of users are what you might categorise as "anyone using MySQL or Postgres".

Re activemq vs zeromq, I recommend reading "broker vs brokerless" on our blog.

Hope this helps.
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The muni broadband issue is about towns being allowed to offer free net connections at all. As is obvious to almost anyone, only free access is worth offering because the micropayment problem means you can't collect any worthwhile payment for the service. A town could offer throttled wifi along a main street for a hundred dollars a block - an amount too small to break up among the thousands of visitors over the next years, and this tiny expense could easily pay off in tourist dollars captured, etc.

The telcos want to retain their captive market (the townspeople and tourists) and want barriers on sharing to do so. Remember, every cookie you bake and share with friends is theft-of-potential-service from a local bakery!

As for competition, no. That's clearly wrong. Everyone agrees that the waste from multiple sets of roads would be too much and the state maintains a monopoly on roads, etc - delegating this (toll roads) but never letting go of it.

Some things are natural monopolies. While maintenance of a sewer may be contracted out you don't see many parallel competing sewer systems. It'd be a waste. Heh.

As for what we know about market economies, we know we've never seen a communism that wasn't a totalitarianism from the beginning. Basing anything on a few obviously horribly twisted examples is wrong.

And lastly, don't conflate state ownership with state regulation. You may have to pay for the EM spectrum your wireless ISP uses - because it's everyone's spectrum and you are blocking it from other use, but that doesn't mean the government necessarily has any control over it beyond collecting payment.
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My "quick writing" didn't do me many favors. Aiming at business and then calling it "Friend" may be mixed messages. ContactWith? ContactInto? Or maybe aim it at friends, and stick with the other... But, yeah, you get the idea.
unfortunately, that's not the regular clueless legislator.

That's an example of the shift of power happening in the web.

Remember when you started using firefox because of all the options and "about:config"?

Now, remember how you ditched it for Chrome, but have to start firefox to be able to use crazedlist.org because to disable cross-site referrer on chrome you have to recompile it? (they even removed the command line option!)

In a few chrome versions (what happens every 15min), I doubt you will be able to disable cookies.
a)
1. Picky high-maintenance clients that change or add requirements midstream
2. Clients who don't pay on time
3. My own issues with estimating and managing time
4. Finding quality clients
5. Finding ethically appropriate projects – I've been roped into religion-oriented work unwittingly as a subcontractor far too often.

b) Craigslist is consistently the best, because Craigslist is just a thin technology layer over real people talking to each other. The barriers to entry and restrictions that come with oDesk and elance are more than I have time to deal with (I'm also a full time student).

c) I get direct referrals sometimes, but right now, my best bet is new clients.

Also, is there some kind of filtering mechanism on your site? That would be nice.
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Theory. "We think that X comes from Y and the reasoning is ..." and then somebody else says the exact opposite, with an equally likely-sounding reasoning, and then you don't know what to do. "Evidence-based" means "shown to work - we may not know why, but at least it does".

On this topic, I recently realized the dangers in trying to propagate "evidence-based" throughout all sectors of healthcare. A nurse was complaining about a doctor questioning if a certain drug was safe for breast-feeding women (well for the child, actually). Indignantly, the nurse said "but this manual right here says it's safe! How much more evidence-based can it get!". To her, "the book says so" was "evidence". 'Evidence-based medicine' is no panacea - the principles maybe, but the hard part is in the implementation.
Carrier lockdown only happens when you buy a phone under contract. You can buy unlocked phones, easy.

But they are so expensive!!!!

Well, yeah, that's because you're paying the real price, not a subsidized price. When you're paying the subsidized price, IMHO you have less leeway to complain about carrier lockdown.
Never heard of crazedlist.org but you can use extensions for cross site referring http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html
Also, remember the old firefox moto? "Take back the web"?

it's just changed to "Made to make the Web a better place."... can it get more Orwelian? :D

Give me back my browser control. and stop hiding my url bar, dammit! ...they start removing the protocol, nobody bothers. ha http, who cares? Then move a little to the side, 'to align with the tab'. Then will make it autohide. And before you notice the only way to go to a page is to use AOL^H^H^H GOOGLE KEYWORDS.
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The implications of this theory are interesting.

Let E = {e0, e1, e2, ... en} be the set of all events in the universe, ever. By this hypothesis, the temporal distance between any two adjacent events, that is, the 'amount of time' separating then, is exactly equal. If there is no substrate upon which time is measured, then you cannot say the temporal displacement between e0 and e1 is anything but identical to that between e4 and e5. For that matter, the delay between e1M and e2M precisely equals that between e10M and e11M. This seems utterly bizarre. (edit: corrected grossly mistaken arithmetic, thanks atakan)

By this hypothesis (assuming I'm understanding correctly), there is a "Planck length" of time, which is simply the separation between any adjacent events. It would be meaningless to speak of anything smaller, as there is no substrate upon which to measure the distance between them. It is simply 1. What can it mean to describe a time between two subsequent events but that there is a third between them?

This whole thing is bloody strange, and yet oddly intuitive. Substrates for which there are no direct evidence have a poor record in metaphysics, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a parsimonious rejection of time as a distinct entity follow this trend.
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When something is frozen is there still movement at the subatomic level (electrons orbiting etc) or does that cease too?
That hasn't been the case for a long while
Sounds like Facebook vs Winklevoss reloaded..
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I think these things were identified several decades ago by sociologists. Namely that poverty isn't so much about money or level of education, as popularly supposed, but is primarily about "social exclusion", where there are few or no opportunities for someone of modest upbringing to break into other kinds of social circle.

My grandparents generation had a very acute understanding of social class, and it played a central role in their lives in a variety of ways. I think the kinds of issues which they faced are now returning.
Don't think we are talking about the same thing.

I'm talking about the referrer headers.

It used to have an option. Then they moved it to a command line[1]. now they removed it completely!

Disabling referrer header kills some google features in adwords and analytics. So they have more than enough reason to kill it first.

[1] http://darklaunch.com/2011/05/07/chrome-disable-referer-head...
what version you working with?
You can build a textfromlastnight clone using WordPress, and WordPress has an incredibly low barrier to entry. Start there, then move on to something more complicated, like Ruby on Rails or Django.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you avoid compiling in production if you package everything as part of your CI build? Rather than deploy off of a git clone, you compile at the end of CI, vendorize your gems, generate a tarball, and push that up.

This minimizes production dependencies (including the need to compile gems live) as long as your CI environment sufficiently resembles prod.
Oh, it seems to trip out on double colons. If I wasn't being lazy I would have just posted a gist.
Time is better implied as a consequence.
> I strongly disagree with your assumption of a reasonable right to privacy when you are using my website.

You're pretty much at an irreconcilable position with UK/EU legislation with this firm stance. Based on that, your preferred approach of sacrificing operations in the entire UK is a logical avenue for you.

Keep in mind the longer-term implications of that if other countries decide to adopt a visitor privacy-centric approach. The growing concerns about online privacy isn't showing much sign of dampening, so it's a risk you need to evaluate appropriately, and take the path that's best for your operation
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BTW - David Pollak didn't talk to any of the ActiveMQ team at FuseSource - else we would have helped him out - he didn't speak to any of the execs either. Its a shame he doesn't allow comments on his blog.
That's the same site that paid £585 for their favicon http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175321