skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really psyched to see IndexTank open source their technology (as notes mentions).

Very intrigued to know which specific components of their technology will they open source - and how they fit within linkedin sna different projects http://sna-projects.com/sna/ and lucene / other open source projects at large.

Really curious to know if any IndexTank / linkedin team member reading.
I'd never come across his site or anything by his hand before, and feel like I've missed out on a lot.

On the upside, I'm excited at going through all of his archives. I haven't felt inspired like this in quite a while.
Are Silicon Valley VCs really in decline?
Not sure if you need 14 years to graduate to HN though..!!
You list Java as supported on this page, but the link 404s. http://websolr.com/guides/solr/clients Do you guys support Java integration?
Subversion 1.7 is out
Win-expressions are a standard part of common Leet.
I'm looking at enclosures that can hold 60 disks. So 3TB SAS disks would be 180TB. Most enclosures of that kind have dual everything. Some SAS drives even have dual connections I believe (should look that up again).

At some point it's really a function of the size of the drives that makes the volume large. I think 60 drives is going to pretty much be the physical limit in 4 rack units.

You can buy the NL-108 from Isilon which has 108TB (36 3TB disks) if you want "enterprise." ;) Eventually they'll use 4TB drives in those.
I wonder if SmokeyJ remembers what happened in history...
Hilarious!

T.
He is right about isolates: see https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/group/misc/browse_t...
However it is wrong to compare them to Perl threads, because a new Dart isolate has a freshly initialized static environment, and is not a clone of the isolate that spawned it. Dart is designed to make static initialisation fast, so spawning should not be too slow.
I own the same button up Dickies shirt (15 or so) in various different colors. I own a similar number of colored T shirts to go under my button up shirts... With these I wear one of my 3 pairs of pants( 1 jean, 1 khaki cargo pant, 1 khaki cargo short). This takes care of all of my needs.
I would go one step further and just send me back to the homepage.
"We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits."
I thought that was an output field, showing what motion it had estimated. Guess we'll have to wait until it's released to find out :-)
I think the typical young tech founder signature style is sandals or flip-flops, shorts and an assortment of stupid/funny t-shirts.

Sweaters are deprecated.
Is this the biggest (till now) ISP on the binge of deploying IPv6?
Very cool! If you add peerbind to it, it can be multi-machine. I wrote peerbind - and I added it to a game my boys built too. No more fighting over keyboard space. ;)
Creative user interfaces aren't just for movies.
Would it be likely that if the site was to use another monetization plan that it would be less likely to be penalized e.g. advertising instead of affiliate links?
As of 2007[2], the company has:

2,6 million customers for the satellite television service DigiTV.Satelit.
1,6 million customers for the cable TV service DigiTV.Cablu.
1,5 million for the landline phone system service Digi.Tel.
2,0 million for the mobile phone service Digi.Mobil.
1,1 million for its broadband Internet service Digi.Net.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCS%26RDS
I feel like this is something that might affect my drupal sites... thanks for the link...
That's a little spooky. I wonder how many people have AJAX posts for handling deletes?
That's not true at all; many (probably most) huge companies have never received bailouts. Compliance is also a tricky issue - you don't want to let the market compete on nuclear power plant design without some sort of supervision, even if the current system doesn't work very well. Lobbyists are a different story, but Google, for example, or Amazon, got to where they are without leaning on governmental support or anti-competitive laws.
AFAIK 3TB SAS drives, of which there's only Hitachi and Seagate I believe, cost about $320 CDN. ;)

I use that number to figure out how much enterprise storage chassis actually cost by subtracting the number of disks * $320. :)
I just open up each page I'm interested in reading in its own tab, I've never really had a problem with the error message unless I take too long on a comment.
Honeycomb emulator is also much slower because more parts of the UI use 3d acceleration which the emulator has to, well, emulate in SW
It's not really having null that's bad. What's bad is making types nullable by default. More often than not, null is not a valid value for a variable (in my experience - YMMV). This is a common source of errors.

Some languages (I'm thinking of ML and Haskell) require you to opt into nullability with an option type (e.g. http://www.standardml.org/Basis/option.html).

What's worse is that many mainstream languages do not allow you to opt out of nullability. I.e. most or all types are always nullable.
I agree. IPhone is clearly a great smartphone and I pretty sure it has a very good market share... can somebody quantify this please?
Thoughtbot's Playbook for starting a new business
That's one of my favourite Steve jobs stories.
Authors of german government trojan submitted it to virustotal for testing
I probably should have linked to the release notes instead, which are available here:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html

Some big changes in 1.7 extracted from the release notes:

Working Copy Metadata Storage Improvements

A key feature of the changes introduced in Subversion 1.7 is the centralization of working copy metadata storage into a single location. Instead of a .svn directory in every directory in the working copy, Subversion 1.7 working copies have just one .svn directory—in the root of the working copy. This directory includes (among other things) an SQLite-backed database which contains all of the metadata Subversion needs for that working copy.

svn patch

Subversion 1.7 features a new subcommand called svn patch which can apply patch files in unidiff format (as produced by svn diff and other diff tools) to a working copy.

Improved HTTP protocol usage

Subversion 1.7 offers a simpler HTTP protocol variant that can be used when connecting to supported servers. This simpler protocol (sometimes referred to as HTTPv2) requires fewer client-server round trips to establish a connection, making Subversion much more performant on high-latency network connections.
I always figured he was inspired by Tom Wolfe, who always wore a white suit in public. Wolfe emerged in the sixties and wrote novels about the counter culture movement. Job's references to things like 'the whole earth catalog' and other 60s icons always seem to point to his style.
If that were the case Amazon would have a much simpler solution by stopping the affiliate account altogether, instead of having to ask Google to stop some of the traffic.
I remember reading those articles way back. They were really good at the time. :) Brings back sysadmin memories.
Cool! I did a forward jump then started kicking. I levitated in mid air able to kick indefinitely. I have never felt closer to the Matrix than that moment. :) Great work!
"I understand how it gets here, but I wish people wouldn't upvote this kind of pointless pandering. I'm sure it has a place somewhere, but it's not HN."

Should HN only reserve a place for the other kind of pointless pandering, the one the article mocks?
Who you gonna call? [infographic]
Stypi is phenomenal! Looking forward to the vim plugin. I see a tremendous number of use cases, especially as it starts to be integrated into more and more apps.
I agree on both counts.

My problem with armies is that we have these essentially slave-cults for protection and we call ourselves free. Better off, sure. But not really free because we've got this slave system (Military justice/prisons) to enforce discipline in our enslaved warriors (they might have chosen to serve, but you can't reasonably give consent for personality breaking) without whom we're unsafe - or so goes the theory.

I simply feel that each and every one of us needs to tote a gun through mud, and know why we're willing to do it, to live in a society that practices war. Not only so that we choose wisely, but so that we're really safe - not just under guard.
Xero investor funds 10-month old start-up Go Vocab
FYI I am aware of the staleness issues. I update items less that cost $2 or less hourly. I update all other items daily.
I was in Melbourne for 3 months this year and enjoyed it, but it was shockingly expensive. Groceries are 2x the cost of NYC, clothing is 3x. If you drive, fuel is 6x. Housing is about the same. From what I know, Sydney is even more expensive.

If this list is to be believed, all major cities in Australia are more expensive than NYC, which is about the most expensive place in the USA.

http://www.citymayors.com/features/cost_survey.html

As to your first point, I traveled extensively in Australia. To an outsider, Perth is more culturally similar to the rest of the country than Sydney is. :P
I don't think LtU is all about type system design. There are plenty of discussions about parsing, semantics, programming language implementation and so on.

And type system is optional? Besides Assembly, I can't think of any widely used programming language that is untyped.

Yes, there are plenty of languages with weak typing or dynamic typing, but that's very different from no typing at all.
Mobile Performance Manifesto
Fair enough! Was there a way Brower could have received this clear explanation without appearing on the front page of HN?
Cool, I'll send in a reconsideration request. You might want to add http://filleritem.com/iframe.html?q= as a pattern too.
With as much success as implied by the checklist.
On the internet, language is the new fashion, and that guy is so last season.
Experiment | Real-Time Monitoring for the French Socialist Party Primary
That said, seeing an exclusion from organic based on an AdWords suspension is extremely alarming. That may be exactly what the DoJ is looking for in terms of violations by Google.

According to Matt Cutts, it was the exact opposite: he got the organic suspension then the AdWords suspension.
Generated html; callbacks make for rapid prototyping by grabbing necessary state directly from the environment rather than making you specify the state field by field in the URL. Your 3 hour prototype doesn't come close to the features in this forum so it's not comparable. No links ever require sever state if you take the pains to manually specify routing and parameter information for your links, but that's something callbacks eliminate the need for by trading server state for programmer time.
Since this article brings up an LSD anecdote from Steve Jobs, I'll add one from someone who is not famous at all, but which I think is no less useful.

A few weeks ago, I spotted two men fighting outside of a bar. The older man got violently pushed to the ground, and I went up to him to see if he was okay, and ask him what had happened.

He rambled on for a while, telling me that dropping acid in the early 1970s was one of the most important experiences he had ever had. It put him in touch with a higher dimension, and he would sometimes receive messages from there. The reason people beat him up sometimes, he explained, was that he spoke the truth, directly as God sent it to him, and that people didn't like hearing the truth.

Make up your own mind about LSD, but try to take into account more than one data point!
Nope, that didn't happen.
I suggest that there are legal implications that make it more difficult to use that information on cases that are not "high value".
It's coming from a Ruby perspective but it certainly is not just for Rubyists.
Is this a never released apple product?
Great piece. Did you follow his advice re: LSD? :-)
I don't work for websolr, but I do quite a bit of work with Apache Solr. I'd imagine Java integration is supported through the native Java client, http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj, which is maintained by the Solr team. There are also a number of Solr client libraries for Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. All searches against a Solr index take place over HTTP through an RPC interface, so building an API for a specific language relatively straightforward.
"[ ] You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification"
I always like this one. Even thus I have no real thing against PHP, it makes me smile.
I contemplated websolr recently but went with IndexTank simply due to the free storage they provided. It's nice to test out the service in dev mode to see if it's a good fit before committing to paying for it. Any chance Websolr offers an option like this down the road?

Plus, Solr just seemed to struggle with geo search. I used Sunspot as my search interface and had to specify a minimum precision of 6 (supposedly a 6+ mile bounding box) to get any results, even those that were less than a mile away. I know Solr uses geohashing, but it just appeared wildly inaccurate...at least for me.
Ask HN: Is this email from Y Combinator or scam?
I got the following email from YC on October 4th sayingthat application process is closed and we were rejected. But I still seeing tweets for PG that application deadline was yesterday October 10th. So I'm wondering is that email a scam? Here is the email:

Thanks for applying to startup school. Unfortunately we couldn't
accept you this year. There were a particularly large number of
applications this year: over 2400, and the auditorium seats only
716. So we had to turn away a lot of people we would otherwise
have accepted. We are however going to stream the event live on
Justin.TV. And we are looking into options for even larger venues
in the future.
==============================================
Unsubscribe myname@gmail.com from this list:
http://ycombinator.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7567183ee894c630e3b8f872c&id=76bd670699&e=55bdf23383&c=70c79a2e18
I dont see why a great product cant have a great market share which seems to be an implication. Google search was one example. I am sure there have been other examples.

I am sure there are many lessons to be learnt from Steve Jobs, but I think we should be careful in not making everything he said or did as a lesson to learn!
Anything that does not remotely target Google is allowed. /pun
Does It Show A ‘high’ Wind Speed Or ‘low’ – Wind turbine.
Android is from Mars, iOS is from Venus
Am I a robot?
The problem with null is that when anything can be null, your type system is always lying to you and as a result you don't get the full benefits of a real type system (see Haskell for a great type system).

When a var is a boolean, you can't assume it's true or false, because it could also be null. Or when you pass a Car object into a function, you've been promised a Car but were lied to because it might also be null.

In a proper type system, if you ask for a boolean, you know that variable is either true or false and when you ask for a car, you're guaranteed to get a car.

Of course, you can always have the option of allowing null values, but you should explicitly have to state that it's okay.
There’s a strand of thinking which holds that null references are a common source of avoidable errors that the compiler could have prevented in a better-designed language. The objection is not so much that nulls exist, but that it’s impossible to declare a reference variable as “not null” in a way that the compiler can check.

Tony Hoare recently (2009) called null references his “Billion Dollar Mistake” [1, 2, 3].

1. http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/presentation/Null+Referenc...
2. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi...
3. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3186
ONLINE MOVIES: Blood Runs Cold (2011)
People trying to improve things should be encouraged; even if they always fail; and if its related to programming it should be here.

People that mock those people should be taken as amateur comedians, and should be on reddit (not here).
Startup School != YC funding.
Is it just me or does it not work at all in Firefox? My keyboard inputs don't have any effect.
"Java" ugly ? Please name some beautiful languages.
I'm very interested
I take it you only read the first part of the article.

They used RAID6 over 15 drives each, combining those 15 drives via LVM, allowing the loss of 2 drives from the same group without data loss. This is the same configuration Backblaze uses as well, because even though their fancy custom software mirrors all data to different storage pods, it is easier to just replace a drive and rebuild the raid than rebuilding the whole JBOD from the data on other pods.
I have a Rails project that I previously considered moving to Heroku. At the time, Heroku's only options for full-text search were WebSolr and IndexTank.

I decided to avoid WebSolr because I couldn't find many reviews of their service.

I found some positive reviews of IndexTank, but I decided to avoid their service because it was proprietary and I was concerned about lock-in.

Now I read that "LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months". I'm glad I avoided IndexTank.

I'm currently evaluating recurring payment services such as Chargify, Recurly, Spreedly, etc. I hope I don't choose one of these services and later read that "Company X has agreed to maintain your recurring payment service for the next six months".
A website written in Lisp? That is awesome.
This is a (valid) rejection for startup school - which is different from YC Winter class. Two different things. So no, not spam.
Box Lands Another $81 Million in VC Funding
[ ] Clever but I'm not eager [ ] to

[ ] take thoughts on programming languages from

[ ] someone [ ] (s) incompetent at markup.

[ ] Sorry.
I have a few sites hosted on Rackspace Cloud Servers and some on Amazon EC2.
TwitchTV/Justin.tv is hiring
Your comment to my response is too deep for me to reply, so I will reply again here.

Thanks for submitting the reconsideration request. I just added Disallow: /iframe.html?q= as suggested.
This looks very cool, but statements like "Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love" are hyperbolic, given what this actually does, which is to reductively model a "storyverse" out of the people, places, food, music, and movies referenced in works of fiction. I realize that a lot of people derive some kind of satisfaction when the fiction they read acknowledges their pop cultural reality, but I don't think that this goes to the heart of the myriad ways by which fiction can be emotionally and intellectually resonant. Certainly not for everybody, at least.

Having said that, I can see how it would be hard to go further; it must be relatively easy to both identify people, places, movies, etc. in a text and to locate pertinent data for them out on the Web. It's much harder to do this with historical events, intellectual currents, literary tropes, and so on. The Web is still an ontologically simple place.

I would personally see Small Demons as a fun research and exploration tool, sort of a very special kind of concordance. I could see literary scholars of the "distant reading" school popularized by Franco Moretti finding some use in this. I really do think this is cool.
The biggest differences in my mind between the online ml-class and the lectures I attended in college are:

1) ability to watch the videos at 1.5x speed. this is great because I usually find speech to be such a low-bandwidth transport.

2) ability to have captions on the videos. I don't know why, but I understand what people are saying better if I have captioning. I do this with regular broadcast tv as well.

3) ability to pause or go back when I don't quite understand something. I can look at the formula for a little bit longer until it clicks, or I can jump back a minute or two to figure out where I went off the track.

4) broken up into 10 minute chunks with memory of what you've already watched. this way I can watch the lecture when I have time, but without having to go searching for where I left off.

5) the interstitial and end quizzes. the interstitials make it so that I can be sure that I understand the material before I move on. the end quizzes are awesome. I forgot how much I liked tests in school & how life in industry is pretty much devoid of such things.
Has anyone done any research to find a difference between "desktop" drives and "enterprise/pro" drives? I'm inclined to believe it's marketing speak and targeted at the same people that buy electron-aligned speaker cable.
I use Dreamhost for my little sites that I don't pay much attention to and AWS for anything bigger. I recently deployed some rails apps on Heroku and have been loving it so I will probably be using that for a while.
> Any chance Websolr offers an option like this down the road?

We're definitely open to adding easier free trials. As a developer myself, I respect when a service meets you half-way on that initial integration cost.

In the mean time, we're pretty liberal with trials. Hit me up at info@onemorecloud.com if you're interested and I'll hook you up with a free month to try things out.
I see a lot of comments on : braces, semicolons ? Do they really matter for serious programmers ?
Thanks for the heads up on that 404, I'll take care of that. See cedrichurst's comment for what I ought to be linking to.
FYI, the Python 2.7 runtime is only supported for apps using the High Replication Datastore.

This is important to note for any 'older' apps that were created before HRD was enabled.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/hr/#S...
Work is very nice by web standards, but Mathematica's version of interactive documents is much more sophisticated. Strange that he seems to be unaware of what Mathematica can do, given the rant on tools at the end. Its pretty much exactly what he wants, only just proprietary and not on the web.
In order to delete any content owned by a user, the Google bot would have to have logged in as that user first, which seems unlikely - so long as all destructive actions are behind access control, which they definitely should be already.
You feel exactly the same way I do.
An acquaintance of mine actually runs his own hosting company. Feel free to check it out. I don't believe they offer windows solutions, pretty much just Linux based server support, but I could be wrong.

http://www.thetemplehost.com/

In terms of the hosting providers I've worked with in a professional capacity, they've all had their ups and downs.

I couldn't really recommend one over the other, but a lot of people seem keen on Rackspace, and I don't think anyone has ever told me that they enjoyed dealing with 1and1.
Zynga Details Platform Plans
I'm going to use that one! ha!
I'm going to use Dittit.com to help me write blogposts for the next six weeks
Born Digital
in terms of 'different' or 'innovative' the first one that comes to mind is http://nearlyfreespeech.net
Coder's Remorse
Actually I think that has to deal with the lack of "nationality" experienced among Jews. For generations Jews have experienced being treated as second class citizens (if they were considered citizens at all). Because of this being ingrained in our culture (being the underdogs) along with the realization that we can relate to others who feel the same way.

Another big point is the importance of education among Jews as compared to other second class citizens who may be of the same race/ethnicity as those in leadership but are poor. Even today in America, poor Caucasians and African-Americans concentrate a lot less on education than the wealthy or certain ethnicities (this of course is more complicated than just being educated). If you look at all of the revolutionaries, regardless of race, they are typically highly educated.

Between feeling like they do not belong within the current incarnation of the country while also being educated enough to point out issues and know about successful revolutions in the past, Jews were able to lead these movements.

It is that or the probability that a lack of bacon makes us all a bit more uppity.