skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bugsy, I don't doubt that a lot of really horrific stuff has gone down in Saipan, owing in large part to the US's willingness not to enact labor laws there until just recently. But can you see how your method of saying this out overshadows the point your trying to make?

If someone were to walk up and say "Mexicans are lazy," most of us would consider that person racist. Nevermind that "lazy" is a culturally relative term, but you go way beyond that when you describe the Saipanese as "the worst fundamentalist christian ignorant half retarded hillbilly sex fiend town straight out of the movie Deliverance...", and you only hedge that toward the end by saying your comments apply to the people in power.

You getting downvoted has nothing to do with people trying to promote political beliefs. (Most of us didn't have any opinion on Saipan until now.) It's about maintaining the otherwise typically high quality of discussion on HN.

Want to point out that Saipan's lack of labor laws led to terribly exploitative behavior up into this decade? Please do. Want to share your personal frustration in dealing with Saipan's corruption? Sure, I'm interested. But please leave the abusive ranting for someplace else.
Except paypal works with money almost exclusively. Thus, it's easy for them to monetize it.
Screw the layout, whoever came up with the dependency manager is a friggin' genius.

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I've stopped recommending when they didn't fix a bug I filed them MONTHS ago http://zalew.posterous.com/test-if-posterous-fixed-the-bug

just checked, and it still loses photos. I guess they were to busy being social to care about it.
I like http://cocoacontrols.com better, but I'm also a bit biased :)
This has always seemed like a solution looking for a problem, to me. There are better Open Source operating systems for (more than) 80% of real world problems, and have been since before ReactOS began. If you're choosing an OS that can't run most of the big apps on Windows, anyway, why not simply choose a better OS to start with. It's obvious that Linux and UNIX systems are pretty vastly superior to Windows in all but application support...and there are several very good free and Open Source Linux and UNIX systems. And, as far as I can tell, WINE can run as much or more Windows software as ReactOS.

It's a tremendous amount of work to make a bug-compatible version of Windows. Of course, I can't argue with people and what they want to spend their time on, but I sure as heck wouldn't volunteer to work on a Windows clone. It seems a big waste of some really talented people's (and I'm certain they're quite talented; getting this far is a monumental feat) time.
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I work at Basho. Specifically I've been doing a lot of work on Riak Search lately. I absolutely agree that the Search documentation is underwhelming and could use some major love. I take it as a personal challenge to improve the situation before the 1.0 release comes out.

That aside, you might like to know that for the 1.0 release Search is bundled along with the standard Riak package (you just need to set a flag to enable it). You can try using the latest pre-release or even build from source on master or the 1.0 branch. If you don't actually need full-text search then you could also checkout Riak's new support for secondary indexes. Please drop a line on the mailing list or IRC if you have questions.
maybe http://bitcasa.com would like the technology if they already don't solve all those problems...
the last 5 percent is the hardest
We will see. Actually some backup companies also have such claims on storage (e.g. http://www.crashplan.com http://www.backblaze.com)

Well this is also backed by CrunchFund.... we would see
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My current wait % on the global lock is 0.02%. Deletes and updates will yield. Inserts won't, but the insert happen to memory, which is fast. I think disk saturation on long sync delays is really the only major pain point now (and even that seems better than it used to be)
I think if they want to keep it purely arithmetic they should drop the period. It's MongoDB 20.
Oh my Gaahd! I like totally can't wait to buy Arrington's next startup... the transition will be so seamless... he'll help preserve and expand value during the transition and afterwards...

well, on second thought, maybe not...
I think if they want to keep it purely arithmetic they should drop the period and just use integers.
Hardly conclusive. From the same WSJ article: Other attorneys who specialize in helping the Americans expatriate say the reason is that the IRS is cracking down on overseas bank accounts and offshore income. There is a population of U.S. citizens who live overseas and may never have paid U.S. taxes on their non-U.S. earnings and non-U.S. accounts. Now that the IRS is enforcing the rules, with criminal penalties for scofflaws, the overseas residents would prefer to expatriate rather than pay. ...and a great many of the comments (by people who have actually left, as opposed to people venting their spleen) say the paperwork is more onerous than the taxes.

The Time article contains several factual errors, such as ignoring the fact that most countries have tax treaties with the US which prevent double taxation, and stating that the allowable visiting period for US expatriates is 90 days rather than 120 (which is 90 more than what it used to be- perhaps sloppy copyediting is to blame). The NYT article quotes one person who has been abroad 20 years and renounced citizenship after 10, which must logically have been back in 2000 or 2001. I fail to see how this provides any insight into current behavior. It strikes me as somewhat telling that both stories use the example of people living in Switzerland, a country famous for banking privacy, and somewhat infamous for acting as a tax shelter. I'm not sure that typifies the expatriate experience at all.

Not that I don't think taxes are an entirely irrelevant factor, mind. This paper offers a rather more plausible explanation, albeit a dry one: that low-tax entrepots with high standards of living risk becoming unaffordable for US residents unless consumption taxes can be offset against income, and recommending repeal of taxing on citizenship rather than residency (which I support, incidentally). http://www.aca.ch/joomla/images/pdfs/taxnotes.pdf
Having designed www.mogotix.com, which is completely responsive, I can say that fluid layouts absolutely create challenges that fixed layouts do not. That said, they're not insurmountable, and the benefits are substantial.
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I really like the idea that you want to consolidate all these categories into a central hub. Like others said earlier, the landing page info is a bit too much. Perhaps you could try using shorter sentences and keep it to 1-2 paragraphs (1 being preferable).

An upvote system would be incredibly useful also. I don't really care about some of the news generated at the top and I'd like to look at what others found useful. Just my thoughts - good luck to ya!
For, uh, small values of infinity? Or something?

I find that I don't run out of storage on my computers any more, so perhaps I'm not their target audience. Best of luck competing in that space, though--it seems pretty crowded already. :)
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Er, I think you meant http://www.backblaze.com/ . The link you've got goes to a somewhat NSFW site.
This looks similar to the http://www.news.com.au redesign which was rolled out 2 weeks ago. Lots of white space and thin grey lines.
From what I understand the concept is something similar to Dropbox, except instead of simply syncing files between the folders on different computers where all the files are physically present on each, it focuses on remote access (possibly with an AFS-like caching layer).

And by infinite, they probably mean "as much as you are willing to pay for," or, during the beta, "as much as you want until it gets ridiculous."
Whaaa? AVL trees don't split the work between insertion and selection. Selections are plain old read-only BST lookups.
Well done! But after viewing the Chicago events it made me realize how old and out-of-touch I am (I have two little kids at home). I think I recognized 4-5 bands out of 100 in Chicago! Maybe I need to take my wife out more! If I were single this would be a great tool for finding out what's happening in Chicago--easier than metromix by far.
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Est was big in the 70s and attracted a lot of celebrities. For example, there's a video on Youtube of John Denver guest-hosting the Tonight Show and interviewing Werner Erhard. His teachings were a mixture of Eastern religion, 60s ideas about psychotherapy (e.g. Gestalt and encounter groups), and the early 20th century American self-help movement that used to be called New Thought and that gave rise to such writers as Napoleon Hill. Est was controversial because its groups had a confrontational style that some people found reminiscent of a cult, and because Erhard got unapologetically rich from it. Eventually he was attacked by mainstream media. In one famous case, 60 Minutes did a hatchet job on him and were later forced to retract all of it.

It might be an ok approximation to describe Erhard as the Eckhart Tolle of the 1970s. But Erhard was more aggressive and perhaps less delicate about making money. He eventually sold Est to a group that became the personal development outfit known as Landmark, which is still going and subject to the same criticisms.
The first guy was doing K-6th iPad stuff, and Paul didn't have much advice. Anyone interested in this space should checkout ixl.com. Most people haven't heard of it, but they are crushing it when it comes to K-6 math skills. By my estimation, they do something like $100M rev/year. As far as I can tell, they actively avoid the press as they don't want competitors.
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From http://www.reactos.org/en/about.html

ReactOS 0.3.13 is still in under heavy development (alpha stage) and is not ready for everyday use.
Hulu's a very dangerous commodity for whoever buys them. Once sold away by NBC, Fox, and Disney, they'll also lose the exclusive contracts they have with those networks, in which case the only real service they're providing is ad-sourcing. Fox et al were trying to hike up Hulu's content licensing rates dramatically before selling them was even a discussion. No way Hulu will keep the same advantaged deals after a split.

Makes sense for Google just like DoubleClick did, but Hulu's platform is in jeopardy.
If you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it.

- Joe Kraus (@jkraus)

http://startupquote.com/post/10144996044
It seems like a lot of normal people (i.e. non-hacker types) thought they added some value to the world.

Tetra Pak (who make milk cartons) are worth billions of dollars. The people who make the toilet paper you wipe your ass with will make more money than most of us can ever aspire to! Boring pays the bills.
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As a PostgreSQL fan myself, the main thing I miss in PostgreSQL (as opposed to DB2 or Oracle) is nice and simple hot backups with point-in-time recovery. It is certainly possible but (at least in 9.0) it requires a non-trivial level of understanding of the WAL archiving process to set it up and run it smoothly and safely. Given how important backups are, I still tend to stay away from messing with WAL logs and just use SQL dumps (pg_dump) for backups for the time being. I really miss the simplicity of dealing with transaction logs and roll forwarding in DB2.
I haven't tried Riak but I will confirm that MongoDB was really easy to get started with. It's performant enough that I don't really need to look at anything else right now.
> Finally, for comparison we implemented this in simple C++ (nothing fancy) without any Python. One would expect that the C++ code would be faster but surprisingly, not by much! Given the fact that it's so easy to develop with Python, this speed reduction is not very significant.

This is the problem I have with Python+Scipy v. MATLAB/C++/YourFavoritePlatform comparisons. I agree that Python code can be clean and clear, but once you start to worry about vectorizing, inlining, manual loop optimizations, or a C or Fortran FFI, then you end up with the same solution that say MATLAB users have to deal with by writing mex functions in C.

Granted there are differences between Language A v. Language B, one may be more concise or their functions are _even higher-order_ than the other's. Point is, once you go down the road of "let's optimize this dynamic language script," your choices are not that different. You lose the "ease" of developing with Python, and if you really performance then it's ultimately inferior to just writing it in C++ or even Fortran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Omniplaces technology is very fast... and impressive
What are some rituals/habits you follow when working? 
Some people I know must have music blasting with their headphones, some have to have a certain kind of food like pringles or cheetos. Before I start working, I always make sure I have at least 6-7 cans of green tea and a bag of honey dijon kettle chips before I begin working.

Anyone else have a similar ritual/habit that you follow when you're about to work for hours?
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Why does alistapart, which appears to focus on usable web design, have these features?:

* A tiny font
* huge spacing between lines
* excessively wide columns
* that cannot be resized
its to similar to craigslist without the benefit of the audience.

but, if you can use it help your group of friends then it could grow organically.

i think your main issue is making sure that people are actually getting what their looking for. if you can help facilitate transactions then you'll succeed to a small degree.
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I understand what you mean (I myself almost started "another bloody coupon site" but changed course for the same reason you didn't like the end of the post). But obviously what they were doing before wasn't working and they ended up being successful by giving people what they wanted in a way that provided some sort of value. There are so many similar sites out there that I think it's impressive they were successful doing something that is, like we all know, so overdone.

So I guess my point is that sure, we don't need another damn coupon site (we even have plenty of aggregators too) but that's beside the point and I appreciate the words of advice. That was motivating to me.
sometimes programmers let their other head do the thinking too while holding it!
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I hit most of the 8 points when I wrote a mobile app in my free time as an intern. It provides remote monitoring of our hybrid battery lab (we staff one shift, test 24/7). It's not a product, per say, but our lead test engineers use it daily. :)
Well from an outsider look I'd say the problem is the majority of businesses are running Windows and have reasons not to move off Windows. Even basic reasons such as staff training. This from what I can tell is addressing that issue.

As for your statement about Linux and Unix being better thats far from true. There are many areas where Windows doesn't compete at all with those systems, but its also completely true that Linux and Unix is completely rubbish at certain things Windows excels at.

Like most things you should choose the OS that meets your needs, and for most people using a Microsoft stack, with Microsoft trained users, using software aimed at Microsoft platforms then this could be the answer.

Proof will be in the pudding of course, these guys are far from ready at this point, and are approaching the hard part of a project.
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I think it looks pretty good. The best landing pages are the ones that simply explain the idea. Perhaps you could create a short video to let us know how it works once you launch.
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I'd start here - http://astore.amazon.com/possiboutpos-20

There's no one book telling you "this is how you should do blah". You have to research. You'll notice those books deal with scaling websites to millions of users but I always found the lesson they teach/preach to be really important.

Anyway, once you start covering those topics a lot you notice patterns and hopefully you can start to incorporate that sort of thinking into your own development.

One thing to remember. Good design/engineering is about simplicity and elegance. Those are two beautiful things.
What's the current state of thought on why Apple trades at such a lower P/E ratio than other, seemingly far riskier, tech entities? They seem to have transcended radical innovation dependency and just appealing to niche markets, so what's wrong with them?
Oh if only they were all just trolls, out to take the piss out of the entire Internet. Unfortunately, the majority of them aren't.
I also remember ComputerLand stores. Sounds like he was a hard working guy who earned his success... who then decided to use it to become a tax cheat for the rest of his life.

Regardless of what you think about the Northern Marianas, this guy doesn't deserve anyone's pity, he's been a tax cheat for well over 2 decades.

And no I don't "believe the CEO's story that he was never served", that's horseshit. He left Saipan for a reason, to continue to dodge taxes any way he could.
I was the same (well it wasn't BASIC, I was 8 in 1998). Programming is fun, and I never considered it work, but I don't think you and I were typical 8 year olds. Not sure if general problem solving is more fun, but you're implying 'programming is fun for 8 year olds', which may not hold true for all 8 year olds.
AngelList dev here. Feel free to send questions, ideas and other feedback my way. I'm more than happy to whitelist any HN users that want to do something awesome on the API.
Saipan is indeed one of the most corrupt backwards places on Earth. I know because I've actually been there and got to know some of the locals and politics of the place while there.

To say more eloquently what bugsy was trying to express, while it is unclear if Mr. Millard did commit a crime, you must take into account that the people chasing him for supposed tax abuse are some of the most corrupt people on Earth. Much of that information is available on Wikipedia, but just read some of the websites of ex-pats and such and you will get a good idea. Thus, I would take anything said by anyone in the Saipanese government with a large grain of salt. Furthermore, even if Mr. Millard is guilty, if the Saipan government gets his money, it will be a negative outcome for everyone.
There are lazy and corrupt people everywhere, saying "one of the most corrupt backwards places on earth" and "the Saipanese are mostly incredibly lazy" tells me more about you then the N. Marianas. Tacking on "this is just about the people in charge" doesn't work either, paint with a thinner brush in the first place.

It's just an internet board, don't get worked up if you get downvoted now and then. Try not to call everyone monkeys and ignorant fools, we're mostly human beings and above average here.
I watched them present on the TC Disrupt feed. I wish one of the panelists would have asked them how the file system stream impacts data caps imposed by many ISPs.
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Theres many many issues with this. First, barrier is to high. I'm not mailing you my drivers license or giving you my work email, I'll just head over to craigslist. You have a chicken and egg problem, which one are trying to solve first and how are you going to solve it. Interface is simplish bordering on very amateurish. If you want people to take you seriously spend some money on design. You've built something, but haven't give one good reason why to use it. No way you're going to be craigslist with something like this. best of luck
ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/904/

There are certain topical areas which lend themselves to automated content generation. Sports, financial news, weather, astronomy (astrology isn't worth mentioning), earthquakes and other severe events, machine monitoring.

Domains in which a quantified or measured outcome tied to a specific point in time or event (final score, market close, daily forecast, etc.) occurs. The important data has already been highlighted, all you've got to do is sprinkle some syntactic sugar around it.

Oddly enough, these are areas in which you're already most likely to find existing "AI"-type content generators.

In areas in which you've got to do significant determination of what is salient, the approach isn't nearly as successful.
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A negative outcome for all of us would be to have a 20+ year tax cheat end up owing nothing. You can bet the plutocracy will be watching this case closely.
Yup. It's kind of like being a web developer and building a startup. You have to be clear that you're trying to build a business, not a web site.

In business, you don't get points for being creative/sexy and win by getting the most points. You win by simply winning. At business.

Seriously, there is no reason to be so negative towards anybody's startup, no matter how "bloody" you think it is. Be happy for other people.
Thanks for this. I'd like to see more Tech x Music posts on HN.
This person could also be counting the cards, and adjusting their play according to the cards remaining in the deck, i.e. they're a better player than you!
The notion of memory-mapped files (mmap on POSIX) is central to how MongoDB works. It doesn't really manage its own writes or buffers. They just update data structures in memory and let the kernel figure out how to map that to disk. However, IIRC they're forcing it to write dirty pages every 10 seconds by default.

Thus I don't see how's that related to locking. My understanding is that the reason they still use a global lock are:

a) They're young and haven't gotten around implementing this yet.

b) Since writes are fast, this hasn't been as big of an issue as people might expect (it was for us, though)

And everything works as expected as long as you're fine with your writes being asynchronous. But once you call getLastError() requesting your writes to go through after every insert, then you start seeing the global lock bite.
Exactly. I use scipy, and only use R when forced to, mainly because I want to know what's going on, and write my analyses in a real language.