skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
request rate is not influenced much by the polling mechanism (epoll/kqueue/poll/select) when all you're doing is listening to one fd and processing new ones then closing then immediately. These multiplexers matter when you are working on lots of file descriptors.

It matters because select will have to iterate over all the file descriptors you passed to it, while kqueue for example have knotes registered to it when it wakes up and won't need to iterate over everything, but just the knotes it got. Not to mention the data copying from userland to the kernel in case of select/poll.

Back to the request rate limitations, the limitation is mainly coming from the # of system calls you can execute in a sec (accept() in this case) which is heavily influenced by the context switches.

Looking at the application CPU gives you a very good idea of what your bottleneck is. If your CPU is 100% then it's clear your application is hitting the limit, but if the application CPU is at 30% and you cannot process more requests / sec then you've hit the system limit here.
Yeah, I was on the 5th floor. I had a good view actually, but it was a little bit hard to hear, especially at the beginning while everyone was still moving around, trying to find a place to stand.
Read closer. It's not an attack. It's an analysis. I have affection for both Aaron and Nathan. Things are not so black and white.
What he says actually is "get 1 million" "you don't need a billion"

Well yeah. 1 million is pretty cool. It means you're free to do whatever you like.

Cause hey i'd be pretty happy with 1 million. Or half that. Or quarter that. Or less.
Positive words carry less information than negative words
But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience.

Maybe. But it doesn't particularly make me want to be a billionaire. If the main satisfaction you get out of having $100 billion dollars is giving it all away again, I'd rather let someone else make those $100 billion dollars and give 'em away.

I figure Bill Gates made $100 billion and gave it away so I wouldn't have to. Thanks Bill!
Totally - the startup scene now seems to be trending more Hollywood than real meaning. There's so much awesome talent going to optimizing coupons, and not to improving the human condition.
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Yes, I have another:

"I realize this is blatant self-promotion, but hopefully it won't ruin anyone's day...

In case anyone is interested, I've recently published a book that's pretty directly related to PHP, as well as issues of programming, intellectual property, and computer security and privacy. It's called "Authoritas:... "

And now I think Aaron also uses sock puppets.
You and I have the same problem; even in the winter, I rarely need anywhere near the amount of clothing that people around me seem to.

What's really annoying here in Tokyo is that, during the winter, the thermostat in every office, train, and department store is set to about thirty-five million degrees centigrade.

I have to strip off pretty much everything I'm wearing whenever I transition from the outside to the inside, and then put it all back on again when I do the reverse. Amazingly annoying.

What's helped me out a lot are Marmot's Gore-Tex jackets. Because they're breathable and have vents, I can just unzip a bit and cool down rapidly. Admittedly, they don't look as good with a dress shirt as a nicely-fitted suit, but it's a compromise that keeps me from bursting into flame.
This article isn't really about whether GiftRocket is a cool service or not. It is about getting PR coverage. It really doesn't matter if their service is good or not.
> Every user who has uploaded a video has seen the guidelines and agreed to them.

Sure. You mean you have to click through them to post. Yeah yeah. Click, click, click.

Obviously many who use the site didn't see the guidelines and don't agree with them. Click-through terms-of-service rarely get read.

> The focus at Vimeo on creator-contributed content and community are what has likely kept it from becoming the YouTube comment and content cesspool that is mocked the world over.

This is creator-contributed content. As much as if I took a video of a lego creation. The legos are bought, and I'm using them to make a video.

Also, the Windows (tm) desktop is just as (un)protected as game content and yet I see it in much Vimeo videos. Surely they care as much about any copyrights, regardless of the context.
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I was surprised by how much he seemed to know about research happening here at UW.

I ended up leaving shortly after he started the Q&A. The crowd was too fanboyish for me to handle.
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You know what's cool?

Actually making a difference in this world.

Fuck anything for money's sake.
Yes, but won't that new old' fashion bakery still have "extreme uncertainty" in its successful outlook, especially in today's dire economic conditions?
There is an official Chrome extension for RSS:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk...

I have no idea why it is not part of the default install though.
Yup, sorry, don't know why I typed that.
It's the DVD of the audio world, ten years from now. It's supported everywhere. The quality is good enough, but we have better.
Congrats to the team! I've run through the exercises they've posted and I think they're really on to a cool learning format here. I'm excited to see where they go from here.
I find it appalling that you have reached a conclusion that a law was broken based almost entirely on the words of a bitter gossip peddler.

What law was broken? You do understand that merely sending spam isn't illegal, right? Please read the CAN-SPAM Act for yourself.
This is because there's no law against it. This is caused by the ease of rogue DMCA takedowns. Any type of content that tends to get noticed gets banned just to avoid the nuisance.

Which is exactly what many people predicted non-court based takedowns would lead to - absolutely no standards.
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A million bucks isn't much nowadays. Certainly not enough to retire comfortably in the US (yes yes, I know we've had a recent rash of articles on how to retire on $9000 a year or whatever, but I don't wanna live in a trailer park). I reckon you need at least $2 million, preferably $4 million, before you have enough money to never have to worry about money again.

Still, I like to think that Bill Gates, having been a many-billionaire since the 1980s, has lost track of what the hell a mere million dollars is worth nowadays.
Interestingly enough, at North Carolina State University, Computer Science is part of the College of Engineering, and the coursework largely follows the same path as their other engineering programs (complete with the standard E 101 course at the beginning and a senior design project at the end), albeit more theoretically focused than most.
You have to give credit where credit is due. This app is extremely well done. Looks like they have some kinks to work out, but I expect it to be great. And very useful.
It's cyber bullying. Don't take my word for it, look it up.
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It's great to see them teach JavaScript. It's a really nice language and lets people do shiny things immediately.

JavaScript doesn't have the barriers to entry that other languages do: it is dynamically typed, already installed and fairly transparently tied into both a UI framework and distribution channel.

I also rather like the interactive approach they take. I learned programming by reading random tutorials and using Notepad, but I think I would have learned faster with something like this.
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None of them are right, so I suppose 0% - none of the above.
It's their site & all, but criticisms like "ugly, tasteless, boring, & unoriginal" could just as easily be levelled at about the same ratio of films as games.
But then you have things like the Core i7-980, which is also about 300 mm^2 but retails for up to $1200. I don't know what the average is, but $1-$2/mm^2 is in the right ballpark at least.
A Brand New POS-X XPC-500 w/180x180 DPI printer is ~$1500 - with XP - google should create a free OS to replace XP and run the whole POS inside and out. What are they waiting for?

If this 'app' never needs to synchronize with a server to 'process' my rewards, i'm gunna be getting everything for free from now on.

GPS triangulation? (yea - i was on the moon, wtf?)

Velocity analysis? (timestamp += TOO_FAST + 1)

Statistical Variation? (yea - i go here 20x/day, wtf?)

// good luck with that google

while(1)

GetMeFreeShit(qr_code, bus_gps, timestamp)

the hack will be opensourced in a week.
Except in many places in Australia is actually cheaper than buying because poorly-educated investors have been sucked into the dream of financial freedom through owning an asset that always increases in value.
Personal computers have been commodity for at least a decade. In this respect they are no different from modern cars or any other highly computerized equipment. Users do not mess with their car's firmware. The whole point is lost.

Regardless of Stallman's contributions, the whole point of "free software" is no longer relevant. Not even for software enthusiasts -- those who care just use open source.
It's arbitrary, not legally required, and just stupid. They can enforce whatever they want but when they're this bad at it they're only alienating their users.
Perhaps naive if someone focuses on the first part on the sentence and not the latter half and the second sentence. I assume too my understanding of what truth is to vary from what I suppose I would refer to as a 'common' understanding.

People discover truth and until they do they often act in ways that do not align with truth hence, slavery and so on. Some people still think slavery is good and that women are inferior to men.
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I would primarily like to see/hear a recorded version of the talk because the "transcription" in the article is very tough to follow.
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This is one of the biggest things that needs to get addressed, I think. Looking in the queue, there is a lot of stuff that is obvious spam (user just joined, trying to promote a useless conference or something).

It makes finding the goodies tougher, and it makes especially link-baity things more likely to hit the front page (because they stand out, and can get the 2-3 votes needed before they drop below the fold to actually stand a chance of being seen by anybody).

Not to whine, but there was an article that I wrote recently that I thought a lot of people here would enjoy. It was something that most hackers that I showed it to, loved, so I figured the people here would too.

The people that saw it, did. They tweeted about it, liked it on facebook etc, but it never saw the front page, meaning it never got very many eyeballs on it.

Now...I can see this because when I write the article, I can watch the traffic. I see the same trends (without being able to look behind the scenes and see how much traffic is actually being sent) on anything else I submit.

Look at stuff like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109235

This is the type of thing that got me originally addicted to this place. Maybe I'm just getting smarter, but lately the articles here seem a lot less hacker-oriented. It's a lot more business-gossip.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I have to say that I still can't use the site due to how they handle keyboard events. It breaks with my normal keyboard layout: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120338
ULib is a mature and well-considered C++ framework for developing high-performance applications that includes a blazingly-fast async HTTP server--more batteries included.

https://github.com/stefanocasazza/ULib
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Every time this comes up, it makes me want to do try making a DIY version...
You probably meant "HNfluence."
Show HN: My Chrome extension, Better History, recently hit 1.0
Hey there. Chrome is a great browser, but browsing your history sure stinks and the history extensions available feel poorly designed.

My extension is called Better History.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/obciceimmggglbmelaidpjlmodcebijb

I've tackled a few important milestones that take Better History miles above the other history options. Core features...

* Organizing history into digestible time intervals
* Grouping visits from the same domain
* Enhancing day filters
* Using Preferences UI
* Deleting beyond removing single visits
* Evolving the time interval interface
* Making search actually work

I think the last point is the most important. Searching your history in Chrome is completely broken if you ask me. I put lots of energy into fixing that and you can read about it here:
http://automagical.posterous.com/making-chromes-history-searching-better

Fun Facts. It took about 85 days to hit 500 users. It took 1 day to up that number to 1,840 users. The next day it doubled to 3,763 users. Pretty exciting!

The jump in users was due to the Chrome Store redesign and the promotions that I prepared. Check them out here:
http://automagical.posterous.com/three-promotions-for-better-history

Any feedback you have about Better History would be awesome.
I agree, but the larger point I'm trying to make is that there is a reason we don't see good open devices in the market.

So many tech people complain about this issue, yet none have succeeded in making one. If so many people are sure there is a need that isn't being fulfilled, then why don't they fill the need?
>There's something about the way that money is discussed on HN that I find odd, but I haven't quite put my finger on it yet.

I haven't frequented Slashdot in years, but this is definitely the most striking difference between it (as I remember it) an HN.
I think the fixation on money is mostly because it's quantifiable. Most people, at least at some point in their lives, feel the need to compare themselves to those around them. There's 2 problems with value and meaning. First when you have a life that is fulfilled and meaningful you tend to be less interested in demonstrating that you are provably superior others or even ranking yourself, after all if you are fulfilled what gain is there? And more practically, it's a qualitative thing, there is no ordered relation on the set of value and meaning in ones life, so you can't really compare in an absolute manner.

Having gone through several large pay increases in my life, the really strange thing is that salary doesn't really affect that much. It slightly reduces stress about 'having enough' though most middle class (upper and lower) people can always be wiped out by disasters, and it only slightly improves your day to day life. When I was younger I'm sure I dreamed about making what I do today, but having gotten there I realize that if I were ever to arrive at my revised dream salary today it probably wouldn't change all that much.
The point of making the billion dollars yourself is having a say in where it gets spent, not in "giving it all away" indiscriminately. Indeed, someone else might choose to just keep their billions in the family, for the sake of obnoxious levels of luxury. I'm sure there are some billionaires exactly like that.

Anyways, the whole problem with trying to become a billionaire is that it's really a lottery. Sure, someone determined could probably earn a few million through effort alone, but becoming a billionaire requires a special mix of smarts, hard work, and luck. Mostly luck, disproportionately so. You can't just will yourself to earn billions.
He could give me a billion, and then I'll tell you.
My guess is that a lot of the psychoacoustic models used by lossy codecs aren't tuned for electronic music. The resonant distortion on the bassline of the linked track, for example, might sound different in the original. I have one song in which I can tell a difference for sure: Who Said by Planet Funk, about 1:30 in, has a rising modulated treble sound that sounds awful in 320kbit MP3 compared to the original.
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I just installed it. I use my history a fair amount. I'll be back here on Monday.
Totally. I'm not on one side or the other from an idealogical standpoint.. it seems like there are some large organizations that do enough good with their size to make up for the downfalls that come along with it.. I just haven't been at one of those.

With respect to functions like IT, I'd imagine the department needs to do what other functions in a large organization do in order to remain effective and useful... decompose.

It seems like distributing things like risk management, and the security of assets among parts of the organization effectively gets the organization closer to looking like a bunch of smaller, more effective organizations who collaborate... and mitigates risk. The idea of a monolithic IT function in a giant organization providing more safety than a distributed version of the same idea seems on it's face a misplaced comfort.

Then again, I'm really not someone who knows enough about what it takes to run an IT department to be suggesting such a thing.
Your argument makes Aaron Greenspan look like the Winklevoss twins ... and I agree with your argument.
If you, Stallman and whoever are talking about what people learn (I.e. they don't have complete control over hardware) it is near entirely useless to speak of those who do so.

Assuming everything Stallman holds dear to his beard is true and will benefit everyone, with effective teaching (So, people understand the idea, see why it would benefit and are able toact) people would begin to change.

Lambasting Apple, Microsoft and whoever is such a petty way to go about this and shows a certain lack of trust in their own ideas.

Steve Jobs showed more trust in his own ideas. He [and others he worked with] went ahead, built something, and people now use it. Jobs and friends seemed less worried about others and whatever their ideas and products were which seems to be the opposite of Stallman, companies, groups, etc.

"There are those who always speak of themselves, and they are either insecure or proud. There are those who always speak of others. They are usually very boring. There are those who speak of stirring ideas, compelling books, and inspiring doctrine. These are the few who make their mark in this world."
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There is a small but vocal subset of people on HN who find it hard to believe anyone cares about anything besides money. I think some people just want a simple way of deciding how good they are doing at life.
Every one of those companies has survived by finding some way to decommodify their business. Lenovo and Sony by hardware design, Dell and HP by sales and service.

Also: Windows PC manufacturers have always attempted to differentiate themselves in software as much as was feasible. They were never as free to modify the platform as Android manufacturers are, though.
Well, counterpoint to that is whether the billionaire is giving to things with which you agree. If you're the billionaire, you get to choose where the money goes. :)
If a "baby bird" metaphor doesn't connote growth and scaling I'll eat my hat.
In The Enterprise, there's often no way of streamlining your own install. Users often a) don't have the administrative access necessary to remove the bloatware, and b) wouldn't dare uninstall "critical security applications" installed by IT. Sometimes the only way to escape the protocols is to put yourself in a situation where they can no longer be applied to you.
It looks like it's been done, as of Honeycomb for tablets and Ice Cream Sandwich for phones: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1461
The proposed negative impact is that votes from "bad" users would be counted less. So it can't be that your best option is to not participate: if you stop voting, you already punish yourself worse than this algorithm would.
but, however much it contributes to your living, do you genuinely believe that end-user restrictions are a good thing?
Right. The University of Michigan does the same thing. But there was discussion on the first day about how computers aren't grouped into science or engineering, because the broadness of compsci provides opportunity in both fields.

Vision might be an example of what I'm trying to explain, moving from researching how to get a computer to see, to something that is practically being used for face recognition and license plate recognition. At the same time there is still more research on vision to be done, especially when paired with robotics.
Writing a fact based analysis of the personality of a public figure is not bullying. I have a lot of respect for Aaron both personally and professionally. In fact I used the words "moral perfection" to describe him.
I have had something like this for 3 years:

http://www.logitech.com/en-au/speakers-audio/wireless-music-...
Note to uriel: your last few posts are all [dead] for some reason.

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Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where
the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg
Vorbis.

In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, and
never had trouble with metadata, sounds like a bug in
whatever player you were using.
The old' fashioned is not creating anything "new", by definition. If it is delivering it in some way like Zappos delivers shoes, or Uber send cabs, it is another story.

The "extreme" part usually conceives that you don't know if what you are doing is something people want. We know old fashioned bakeries is something people want. This can be seen on how much Eric Ries talk about "pivots". A bakery pivoting will not be an old' fashioned bakery.

Again, the definition is loose. Eric Ries' mentor Steven Blank has a more precise definition[1] which removes these cases:

a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

I don't think these definitions are made to replace one another, they are made to give different views of the same object. The same way an elephant is not a wall, snake, spear, tree, fan or rope[2].

Edit: Swombat recently argued[3] that the difference between a startup a and a lifestyle business is that a "lifestyle business" lacks vision.

[1] http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant#John_...

[3] http://swombat.com/2011/10/19/startup-vision
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I think it's more likely he wasn't worried so much about gotcha-style internet scrutiny than making a general point about diminishing returns.
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> Front-page stories with 2k votes don't need another 1k - we know it's a good article.

Once an article has hit 100+ votes, displaying more does seem kinda pointless.