skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit curious about this. If you have 140M concurrent users (since this was the original complaint) and you are NOT prepared or capable of servicing/monitoring/maintaining 1000 servers, that seems like a fatal flaw in your server management and analytics processes.

Certainly 47 servers vs. 1000 is far nicer. But at 140M concurrent users levels (there must only be a few handfuls of sites with these types of concerns), not having a team prepared to oversee 1000 servers seems like folly.
I figured that I need at least 9 hours of sleep to function properly. I'm 34 and I think I always needed to sleep that much.

When I undersleep, I struggle to oversleep. It is hard, but needed anyway.
This was one of the first things we thought of ourselves and have came up with a few precautions to ensure the security of items. We will give users the ability to restrict who delivers their item, whether it's a professional, a friend, a trusted user.
It's a good idea and will save me time. But, I really think it needs a subject line.
An extension is definitely on the to-do list, rest assured.
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It seems reasonable that MIT wouldn't want it implied that MIT wrote the guide.

You'd have the right to ask me to rename something I wrote from "mcantelon's guide to DDOSing websites".

Clearly MIT has enough of a sense of humor to allow the current name to stay.
I've wondered about smaller LTA vehicles being used in tactical situations where rotor-blades would prove impractical. Could a sufficiently nimble LTA vehicle make skyscraper or mountain rescues by navigating laterally to the rescue point? I helicopter will almost always need to have a vertical approach and rescue path because of the large rotors, but an LTA would not be restricted in that way.
I don't think anyone was confusing the MIT Lockpicking Guide as an official publication. In fact, as I recall, it had a fairly sizable disclaimer that did pretty well to disperse such notions.

I really don't see how this could be a problem, but the name of the United States Chamber of Commerce isn't.
Thank you!

1) You're right, an extension is on the works. I also like the right-click context menu idea a lot.

2) Yes. I was trying to make it as simple as possible. Regarding the subject line model you suggested, I ommited that because (at least when using gmail, my client of choice), the message contents are previewed, so I thought it would be unnecessary.
You're not just eliminating a ton of boilerplate, you're also eliminating set oriented thinking, which is key to working with relational databases effectively and efficiently.

I find ORMs useful for simple CRUD but that's so little of what I do that I mostly don't bother adding a huge framework to my code just to do some CRUD.

A set oriented DB API that cuts down on boilerplate is the way to go in my view. And that is simple enough to create on a weekend.
Works for me, Android 3.2 Browser.
Resize the window to 5 cols and 5 rows?
Yepp, defenitely. Some spam filters don't like emails without subject.
I don't find that mutually exclusive. Having a high priced contest on 99Designs is the best way I know of to get in touch with great designers. You can work with them further offline as well.
It's also interesting to note that if you were to purchase 100 btc per day of stock using day-old coins, it will appear to be the same as 10 btc per day using 10-day old coins.
Do they? I wasn't aware. I answered a question about subject lines a bit ago.

Edit: for the spam filter thing, I added [cc:to me] as the subject line while I figure out a better solution.
Google already cached the pdf. Just paste http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/lockpick/mitlg-a4.pdf in Google and open in quickview. Then you can save it in Google docs if you want.
Look at what's actually happened, never mind the future:

1. Dart development (Dash, whatever, and there may be more, including CSS and HTML killers; not sure, rumors swirl) has been ongoing for approximately 2 years -- or more. It didn't start last November.

2. Google members of Ecma TC39 have been working on ES.next (some harder than others, I observe) without being able to show how Dart solves "unfixable" JS problems. Such demonstrations would help either:

2a. steer JS toward fixes if the "unfixable" assertion is false (as seems likely to me; little is unfixable on the web), or else:

2b. abandon doomed fix-the-unfixable attempts and instead work harder on other and fixable problems (e.g. being a better target language for Dart-to-JS compilation).

3. Delayed open-source means other browser vendors and volunteers have a high hill to climb to become committers/reviewers/co-owners, so Google controls the open source. This has happened many times. Competitors are unlikely to join, especially if the code is complex and has deep dependencies on other code (cf. NaCl/Pepper).

BTW, WebKit is an example more than a counter-example. It was Apple-dominated even though early-mostly-open, and now Google has taxed Apple committers/reviewers and is gaining the upper hand.

WebKit was early-open, a fork of KHTML at first, then set up as webkit.org in 2005 patterned after mozilla.org and in the aftermath of a recruit-half-the-Safari-team-to-fork-Firefox attempt by Flock. This history shows more open that closed, and earlier open at that, but mixed up with various intrigues and corporate control agendas.

While the history is not a clean win for any point of view, WebKit is a "commons" of its own. Note how chromium.org has to hold the Google-only extensions that Apple et al. won't take.

4. Standardization of Dart could happen anywhere, but it would be perceived as anywhere from wasteful to hostile for Google to bypass Ecma TC39. Early opening of a draft spec or even just an open-source implementation again could have won friends and influenced people on TC39. Late opening goes the other way.

What actually has happened, from what we already know: late-open.
If 'mcantelon's' was a school that you attended, I would say you would be well within your reasonable rights to write such a thing.
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Have something exciting and technically trivial that you want to build. Draw it. Build it.

My first "programming" projects were a Processing app that fills your screen with randomly colored dots that increase in size, a website that will send an email after a one-year delay, and a pair of headphones that play back everything that happened 20 minutes ago.

These were perfect projects because they were "correct" and presentable when they were done, they have small enough scope that you can spend days perfecting the details, and they were done when they were done.

Lower the bar. Incorporate things you already know about. Build it for yourself. Make the objective a thing rather than a skillset.
I agree. I don't want old money / new money culture in Bitcoins, I hate that attitude among people when dealing with conventional currency.
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Can anyone recommend a good lock pick set and maybe some locks to buy to practice on? My mom expressed an interest in lock picking a while back and I was thinking of getting her some stuff.
Some people just don't wear their emotions/beliefs/etc. on their sleeve. I'm one. I have things I'm strongly but quietly passionate about, and don't feel the need to make a show of it. I know there's a famous quote about that somewhere, will post if I can find it.

There's also the problem that I express myself much better in writing than verbally. This is definitely a problem I'm working on, but many times when I start talking about something I'm passionate about I feel like I'm making a hash of the explanation and not doing it justice, or worse sounding like a bs'er.

Point being, don't take a perceived lack of enthusiasm for actual lack of enthusiasm (or more pertinent, lack of dedication). Even though Americans are taught to 'express yourself' wily-nily, there can be lots of reasons why some of us may not. Try to see past that, don't hold it against us.
This was a very graphic and easy-to-understand explanation of indexes in general. Although I thought I understood indexes, it helped me understand secondary indexes better. Thanks for linking!

Did they ever write the promised second part where they wanted to present B-trees in a similar form? I think I understand B-trees, but it wouldn't be the first time I realise I didn't really understand something after all...
I know some people that have the excitement-meter ratcheted up to 11. I don't put any faith into what they have to say, because the hyperbole makes it so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I have noticed a similar trend in the last few years of startups - the field's just so crowded, everybody's trying their hardest to get noticed, so what better way to attract attention than to bludgeon the word "awesome" into a bloody pulp?
Hmm. Works for me in Win 7 Chrome. I'd be curious if the issue is related to the login method. I use clickpass with Google.
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That's just not true, though. Most ORM's I've used use the set as the primitive element. You declare your schema in terms of sets with relationships. Then you join on relationships. So if you want to find all artists whose name contains 'foo' that have released an album that starts with bar, you would write $albums->search({ name => { -like => 'bar%' } })->search_related('artists', { name => { -like => '%foo%' } }). This looks a lot like the SQL that you would write for the query, except that you don't have to write it and marshal the results back to some format that your application understands. And, the object you get back isn't a set of rows from the database, it's a description of what query you want to run. So you can pass this object around and further restrict or expand the set of results you'll get back when you actually start asking for row data.

This works out very nicely for things like web applications where the currently-logged-in-user can only manipulate his own data. You can write your model so that it takes the current user and restricts all data to his rows so that your application doesn't even see data that the user is not allowed to see. It's really quite wonderful and something that raw SQL queries simply don't provide enough abstraction to handle flexibly.

Ultimately, people dislike ORMs for the same reason they dislike things like CoffeeScript. They're not mentally comfortable delegating code generation to a computer program -- that's their job. And so, they will complain whenever they are looking at code that's not exactly what the lower level of the system will see. But in general, that's due to inexperience rather than actual dislike.
Works for me on OSX Chrome 14.
Awesome & fast. Just a thought: selected text is auto-added to body?

Anyway, thanks!
Blimey they're not wrong when they say it'll open some pop-up windows. By the 13th window and no sign that it was going to show me anything I decided I didn't need to carry on playing ...
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If you were to monitor velocity of money http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money naively, by calculating total bitcoins transferred, then it would be trivial for any party to increase the velocity arbitrarily high, by just sending their 10 bitcoins through a very long cycle of addresses. And there have been examples in the block chain, where parties unknown have moved large amounts of bitcoin through many accounts, for no obvious reason.
Bitcoin-days-destroyed at least seems to avoid that problem.

I agree its still a flawed metric. Your example of the same bitcoins being used in multiple transfers, in the one day, seems completely valid to me.

But I don't think there's a perfect way of measuring the velocity, unless you've a complete map of addresses-to-identities, which isn't available (and even that is neglecting transactions done within exchanges, that aren't backended onto the bitcoin system - which is probably a fair enough limitation.)

The same is true, if you are trying to calcuate velocity of money in any traditional economy, where cash transactions are permitted. The cash could be used in several transactions between observations - theres no way of telling - and theres nothing that can be done to solve that. So, such measures are always going to be approximate.

On this topic, something that surprised me recently, was the assertion in Paul Krugmans blog http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfett...
"The actual value of transactions in Bitcoins has fallen rather than rising. In effect, real gross Bitcoin product has fallen sharply. "

I'd love to know how he came to that conclusion, or what sort of data he used, and whether its accurate.
Logout is NOT broken in OS X Lion either in Chrome (14.0.835.163) or Firefox (6.0), on my machine at least.

However, logout can be extremely slow, and it seems to get slower if you bang on login/logout a lot; HN might have coded in some delays to keep users from slowing the server down.

My guess is, this user just didn't wait long enough for logout to work.
Many long-standing members of HN won't have seen this - it didn't exist when I first created my login. I came across it when I introduced a colleague to HN and they asked a question.

But even if you have seen it, it's worth remembering and re-reading every now and again. HN has its faults, but in general it's a great community, and this document outlines some of the reasons why.

Also of interest:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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I did think about that, but decided against it for usability reasons. What I might implement is a keyboard shortcut that adds this.
The data isn't from Krugman but was in the article he linked to.
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It would be great to have you give it a try - email us at friends@classmetric.com and we can get you hooked up with the alpha version.

ClassMetric actually started as Bookxor, where the focus was on document analytics and discussions. We showed teachers which pages students were reading and how long they spent on each page. The system also let students post questions and have discussions in the margins of the document.

Over the next couple months we'll be bringing some of these ideas back to ClassMetric. Maybe these document-centric features would be more useful for you?
I've experienced something similar as a child by doing an exchange with an English family who had a kid my age when I was ten. I went 6 month in England in that family and went to school with the kid and he then came to France for 6 months.
The first few weeks were hard of course, I was alone in a family where no one could really speak French and I could hardly speak English but I quickly learned the language and at the end of the 6 months, it was harder for me to speak French than English and I spoke both languages with a british accent (which I've lost since then unfortunately)...

I enjoyed the experience so much that I did the same in Germany and in Spain (I wanted to go on and do the same in Japan during high school but my parents nixed that). Kids are really adaptable and even if it is a bit hard at the beginning I truly believe that it's broadens the mind.

So, to answer some of the comments who mention it's child abuse, well from the perspective of someone who was put into a foreign environment as a child I think children are more resilient and more happy to learn and discover news culture, languages and things than you imagine.
A friend of mine did so too, on my suggestion. I have been using Arch for more than two years. I disagree that pacman is an outstanding package manager. It is very good though. You should try portage on Gentoo. I used Gentoo before going for Arch. I still have Gentoo and whenever I want a system to be stable for long time, I will use Gentoo. I use Arch because it is bleeding edge. From Gentoo I learnt so much that Arch practically had little less to offer. For a comparision check http://intosimple.blogspot.com/2011/09/arch-linux-my-perspec...
The problem is that, plainly, your ORM sucks. Serious ORMS allow you to inject custom SQL and still return objects; many can just take the result of a plain SQL query and map it to objects as you please.

Really, there are good and bad ORMs. Bad ORMs produce the results you mention. Good ones are much more adaptable.
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Nice. I swear by Vimperator myself.
For a bit more in-depth understanding have a look at some of the problems as noted in Google's closure library (goog.i18n.uChar).

Any unicode character can be used as a JavaScript identifier for example:

var 按 = function (){
return '\uD869\uDED6';
}

works with no issues.
“You can do whatever you want, and we’ll attempt to glue it together. It won’t always work very well, and you might not like the results, but we will do exactly what you asked for.”

Sounds a lot like Facebook right now actually.
the #1 thing I want to see out of candidates is a lot of evidence that they are keeping up with the industry

I've met plenty of very capable people who only programmed 40 hours a week at their jobs. Our hypothetical 55-year-old maybe has a family, outside interests, and so on. This is something that is unique to the IT industry, expecting people to work in the field out of hours. I can't think of any other industry that does this. In the case of our COBOL guy, he's probably been refining his domain knowledge, and has probably learnt a lot about solving business problems with code which is what we all actually do.
I am a fan of programming by contract myself, but I'm not quite sure it could be pasted onto Go's interfaces quite so simply. In the case of Heap perhaps it could be done in a straight forward way, but what about more generic things that have more to do with side-effects?
Article should have been called "Starting Your New Job Like Machiavelli"
Learning Catalytics is cool but different - it's the work of Eric Mazur, a famous Harvard physics professor who created the practice of "peer instruction." It seems to be a very effective method, but it requires a huge amount of work for the professor.

ClassMetric is intended to require very little additional effort from the professor, but still give them good feedback. ClassMetric's discussion system is very much in the spirit of Mazur's peer instruction. Students often answer each other's questions on ClassMetric.

LearningCatalytics and ClassMetric are different, but we'll definitely learn from Mazur's research. Thanks for the link.
I checked one of your statements that had data -- "Stranger abductions are extremely rare (a dozen a year)". The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, citing DOJ data, states:

- 797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported missing each day.

- 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.

- 58,200 children were the victims of non-family abductions.

- 115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. (These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.)

(source: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?L...)

The video was interesting. What was the reaction of Russian people to the video, as opposed to drivers on the bridge, who may not have noticed what was going on?
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This is neat. Although, I can't get by without some VIM commands and is there a way to export text?
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Ok - it looks like they reached that conclusion by multiplying the number of Bitcoins transacted, by the dollar value of a Bitcoin.

Fair enough, but its a measure vulnerable to the problem that days-destroyed is trying to solve - it'd be easy for people currently sitting on large volumes of Bitcoin to 'solve the problem' that is highlighted by Krugman, by just shuffling their coins around.
I experimented with Gondor and Epio(http://ep.io) at one point when I wanted to get out of hosting Django projects on my own servers - I can't speak to what it's like on Heroku, but Epio was significantly easier to get up and running with than Gondor was - just about as magical and hassle-free as the first time I tried Heroku with a rails app.
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A solid alternative to working from an apartment is to find coworking spaces in your city. In Atlanta, myself and my cofounder work out of a place that has plenty of space, tables, printers, etc. and only costs $80/month/person. Also a great networking tool, as you meet other bootstrapping entrepreneurs!

Additionally, if your city has an entrepeneurship society or network of any kind, go for the food if nothing else - aside from meeting other entrepreneurship-minded people, nothing better than a free meal.
This is an interesting tool, do you have an explanation of what the scores mean?
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As with all of their other products, Google is in the process of breaking the Groups UI by adding useless frames and whitespace. Try this instead:

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/7030eaf21d3a0...
It would be identical to an exploit wherein some distro, for some reason, included . in the default LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Fortunately, I know of none that do this.
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Not cheap, but not really expensive. And, I can attest it has worked flawlessly for me.

It's nice not waking up groggy because my alarm is timed to my EEGs.

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That’s the one problem with living abroad. You end up getting those weird feelings like, Oh, I can’t leave; I can’t stay.

Amen.
Ideally, the "business guy" should be able to sell, whether it's customers, investors, new hires, etc.

Also, not a big fan of the phrase "grow a pair". I can understand it being used occasionally but as a blog name?
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Can someone explain to me the Y-Axis here? I don't can't figure out the denominator of that percentage. I assume the numerator is "days destroyed". Is the denominator the total number coin "age days" at the start of a given day?
> A good example of the impact of epigenetics is obesity. Children's propensity to obesity often has a lot due to with epigenetic influences during neonatal development. For instance, if a mother is pregnant during a famine and thus doesn't eat much, the fetus' digestive system will adapt to starving conditions through epigenetic changes in chromatin that bind the relevant genes, thus developing a "thrifty metabolism" (digests food slowly). This trait then stays through generations, and when such people move to the West, their metabolisms incline them towards obesity as their body still digests food slowly thinking they were born into starving conditions.

I think it'd be fair to characterise this as an early hypothesis?