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> Wow. So, less than 300k or so and you stay in L1, which is crazy fast.

Look at the colors again. L1 is ~12KB or less. 300kbish is probably L2.

I tried hard to recognize the CPU from the graph, and failed. Any help?
Ask HN: Time to shelve that idea?
We are in the process of setting up a new service/website. We know that others competitors are working on the same idea.

Today, a competitor has released a service which is identical to ours. They have much more experience, resources and have managed to generate an incredible amount of media coverage. So far we have only spent a very small amount of money.

So the question is, considering that our competitors have beaten us to it and have a great product, do we cut our losses and run?

Oh, and in case you were wondering... our competitors are these guys:

http://zeebox.com/
I was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains.

EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached page.
For the nth time, it's not about the language. What ever gets you started is fine. Then you learn some more.
Openbsd was never meant to not be a desktop OS.
http://codepad.org/

Click on Python.

I'm not sure how many of the Khan Academy tutorials you could get through...
Then namespace it. As I said, there's nothing stopping you from having namespaces and modules.

import Arithmetic (even)

even :: Integer -> Bool
even i

Also, you can call function calls messages or object operations or dictionary lookups, but I don't see the benefit in 99% of cases. I guess the dynamism may be useful in GUI code where it's not that hard to see if you're wrong and if you are wrong, nobody's world really ends. In most other cases functions are best described as having a formal mathematical definition so you can reason about them with some accuracy.
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Hey guys, i'm just offering my monthly help to the community. If you have any questions give me a holler.

If you don't know me from my past offers, then you can check out cameronkeng.com where I've posted answers to anon questions I've gotten in the past.

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I should say that my answer is no... but I am interested to see what the HN community thinks!
HN is truncating them display wise, if you click on them they work :-/

(can't edit anymore to make em URL shortened)
Not exactly. I don't recall Experts Exchange ever implying their data was free.

It was more like:

"You know that flavor you desperately need? We've got it, and we'll show you the box, but if you want to taste it you'll have to pay."

Don't get me wrong - I hated EE and I'm glad to see them gone from Google, but I don't think they implied their content was free.
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Actually, we're working on supporting Australia right now. We don't have an ETA, but we're not talking years.

If you like, you can sign up to be notified when Stripe is available in Australia at https://stripe.com/global.
R to C compiler (MS thesis)
I had not read that. Thank you. Those guidelines, if followed, will address some issues with software patents, but not the problems I mentioned. This is understandable, because the problems I mentioned are intractable.
There are tons of industries that should require it. The issue is that we focus in on the software that can directly kill us, rather than all the software that can indirectly do it. We instantly reason that all software we use to control things like cars or airplanes should be highly controlled, but what about financial software, phone systems, medical records software?

One of the sloppiest and haphazard programmers I ever worked with is now writing software for non-critical medical monitoring devices (external monitors like O2 sensors, and blood pressure monitors) and it scares the living daylights out of me. When I'm in a hospital room I look around to see if his company's hardware is in use. It might not kill me, but it could contribute to that end.

I'll come full circle around to my initial assertion that I don't know if we can even get to the point of a true Professional Software Engineer. Many of the tasks we deal with are highly abstract. How do we define an acceptable failure rate for a TCP stack? And even if we do, how do we take that into account for a monitoring application? There are many hard questions we have to tackle prior to our industry being taken seriously as a true engineering discipline.

What troubles me is that very few of the leaders in the software community even care about these questions.
Google's ability to crawl JavaScript in IFRAMES was confirmed by a Google Search Quality Engineer just recently today.

https://twitter.com/#!/mattcutts/status/131425949597179904

There might be something to this theory...
I think it's a general trend. They were complaining about it on a panel session of IUE2011 (http://www.iue2011.com/presentation_stateofux.html)
Ask HN:  Do You Want Me to Create an Infographic?
Hey guys, i'm wondering if there is anything that you guys are looking for someone to create an infographic on? I've created an infographic recently that can be found at autotax.me.

If you want an infographic made let me know the topic and i'll work on it with you.
Not exactly analogous, but FishEye from Atlassian is less money/user and LOTS less money for teams less than 10.
http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/pricing

Obviously, the feature set is pretty different, but I think it still falls into the Enterprise SCM category.
Ness Computing. Los Altos, CA (H1B applicants welcome)

At Ness we're building a personalized search engine which combines personal data about an individual along with signals from their social graph and delivers uniquely tailored results for each query. Our first product focuses on restaurants and has been featured in the App Store since our launch 8 weeks ago.

Behind the scenes we're combining collaborative filtering and other forms of machine learning with traditional information retrieval to predict what users will like, explain our prediction to users, and rank what they will want to do in the moment.

Doing all this requires well architected, scalable systems for pushing lots of data and answering queries with minimal latency.

I know this is only the broadest possible overview and I'd be happy to talk if you'd like to learn more. My email is in my profile.

You can see the product at http://www.likeness.com
The two methods are certainly not mutually exclusive, and reflect the differing needs of the user bases. We could just as easily say Debian is part of the problem that AUR seeks to solve, but "problem" is a bit of a loaded word.
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Frankly, I expect that there is far more discrimination against foreign born Indians and Chinese in Silicon Valley than there are against black Americans. I've seen it. I don't believe it to be racism since it is rarely directed towards anyone who was born in the US regardless of their descent.

I think there is a very real sense of lack of shared cultural values and overlapping social circles.

During my stint at a certain mid-sized company in Mountain View that happened to hire quite a few H1Bs, I noticed that engineering teams were split. You had a tight knit group of people who were American/Western European and sometimes Japanese and then you had foreign-born Indians and Chinese who socialized with other foreign-born Indians and Chinese in other parts of the company rather than with their own team.

It was a bit dysfunctional and depressing.
"He is just trying to inspire you without committing to anything...at all."

How out of character for the Obama administration.
Matt Mullenweg's talk has some great starting advice.
Max Levchin's talk shouldn't be missed.
Lookout Mobile Security, San Francisco, CA - Full time
https://www.mylookout.com/about/careers

I'm the data scientist here and like every other company we're looking for good people across the board. Lookout is the current leader in consumer mobile security, and we're aiming to keep it that way. We're a small, well-funded team tackling big problems on small devices.

Perks include: competitive salary, benefits, mobile phone of your choice, dream hardware setup of your choice, and a new office space in January when we move (We'll be on two floors at Market and 1st). There's also the standard start-up perks like a well-stocked fridge, craft beers on tap, and the fuzzy feeling that comes with shipping meaningful, net-positive products.

For engineering, experience in Rails, iOS, Android, and/or network/mobile security are awesome to have, but not required.

For data, it'd be cool if you had experience in SQL, R, Python, or Hadoop. If you're interested in machine learning and implementing it, then I'm interested in a conversation with you.

We're also looking for PMs and Lead UX Designers.
Regardless of whatever job position you're interested in, send me an e-mail with questions, resumes, requests for beer, etc. to thomson.nguyen@mylookout.com. (Response guaranteed!)
At, $250/user/year its cheaper than any published perforce pricing (from http://www.perforce.com/purchase#) Of course perforce is about as expensive as it gets for enterprise vcs
Then you're missing the point of his points.
I love felixge's comment on a bug he found with the price estimator:

https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise#co...
Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto, CA and more - Splunk (full-time, H1B, interns)

A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people. Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you.

I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

Also, check out our new dev portal which we launched recently: http://dev.splunk.com
Quick aside, I'm glad the next version of virtualenv (1.7) wont install site-packages by default, so you won't need the --no-site-packages flag anymore. In fact, you'll need the --use-site-packages flag if you want all the installed packages for your python dist.

Quite the welcome change (at least for me).

http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/news.html
Personal. I love Arch, but lack of a separate channel for security updates pushes me toward other production systems. (Not saying it can't be done--don't want to start that argument.)
Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...
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If you're trying to decide which to watch, I recommend:

* Lindenbaumm on Heroku and creating a great developer experience.
* Ashton Kutcher with the story of Carl Fischer.
* Matt Mullenweg on the journey of making WordPress.
* The office hours with Paul Graham (if that's there). Interesting to see the questions he asks the startups.

Some of the talks were actually Q&As, which aren't my favorite format. Talks are much more compelling to watch because (ideally) the speaker tells a story and each part adds to the story. Q&As may have a few good answers or quotes sprinkled throughout, but most of the content is not so useful.

The VC talks were also not as interesting to me, as they seemed mostly to recap information that most of us here probably know (like the examples of entepreneurs in Conway's talk).

It was really cool to see the people behind the startups -- its easy to forget that products like WordPress and Dropbox were just nuggets in someone's head at some point.
I'm lazy too, and that's why I prefer to type in keywords rather than having to tab-tab-tab-tab-tab until I get to the relevant field or worse, having to grab my mouse to select the kind of search I want to do. It seems it will still be possible to type directly keywords in the field so it's okay. I hope they also let all the key-binding (for instance, '/' to focus the searchbox).

Now, let's hope that the next step is not to make Gmail just a Google+ app, like they did with Google Reader.
How odd that HP calls these servers Project Moonshot. A moonshot used to be slang for something with a low probability of success.
Why?

The two technical justifications (objects all the way, and enumeration) in the FLOSS interview [0] are both arguable and not nearly convincing enough to justify further fragmentation of the open-source science ecosystem. If I want cleaner semantics, s/python/ruby is at best moving sideways - for the sake of a few keystrokes? Ruby is slower both in the interpreter itself and in the lack of f2py,Cython,Numexpr,PyCUDA,weave (even Theano sometimes).

If I need a real change, I'll use Ocaml or Clojure, and gain speed from the change.

It seems like a waste to discard (or attempt to replicate) the 10s-100s of person years represented by SciPy and the ecosystem including f2py, Cython, MayaVi, IPython (not just a REPL), Pandas, Chaco, PyCUDA/OpenCL, and SAGE - to name a few.

Are there any other, better reasons to want to build an ecosystem from scratch?

[0] http://www.floss4science.com/interview-sciruby-team/
> While I tend to agree that modeling and approximation error are usually greater than floating point error, floating point error can be more devastating in practice because once you realize you have a floating point problem, it's much more difficult to work around.

There are many well-understood approaches to reducing many sources of floating point error that don't require throwing more bits at the problem.

> When we develop models or approximation schemes, we're usually cognizant of the fact that we're fudging some things

I think that may be true in some cases, but false in general. To pick one model as an example, it takes a bit of effort to really understand the point where Newtonian mechanics is no longer a valid model of a physical system. In many cases, this is hand-waved away, with no attempt to quantify the contributions of the known model error (Newtonian physics is a flawed model of reality) against the contributions of the calculation error (floating point is a flawed model of reality).

> it's much more difficult to work around.

Floating point error may be more difficult to work around, but in most interesting cases model error is more difficult to detect. This is especially true if we have an incomplete understanding of reality.
Thanks for the note.

Couple of questions.

1) Do you consider yourself retail? I would have not considered a hedge fund retail.

2) Can you say if you are colocating your servers?

3) Can you say if you are using JVM in a latency-critical application?

I am working on a benchmark, building a fake exchange framework as a platform to test relative performance of various languages, where various includes Lisp, C, Java and possibly others.
Backstory: last November 1st we launched this little project featuring some awesome content on building and launching an app, in a daily reminder/motivation email (with progress tracking!) We've had about 1200 developers go through in the last year, and thought we'd just repost it and see if anyone who hasn't seen it finds it useful.

You can read more about it the last time we launched: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857508
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I'm really glad to hear it. We've got even bigger things in the works. :-)
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I never really saw BSD as a desktop operating system, regardless what OSX achieved with Darwin.

It made for an amazing mailserver last I tried it though. I used 3.4 on an ancient P4 with maybe 256MB of RAM an 8GB hard drive. Turns out that was way more computer than it needs, and it was so stable I began to think of it the same way I think of my router.
can anyone else not log in to sign this?
In addition to the ones already mentioned, watch PG's "office hours" sessions. It's painful to watch but every founder should take the lessons to heart and then go think about it some more and then really make sure they get it.
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$250/seat/year is actually fairly cheap for enterprise development products. The administration cost in IT staff is likely to be much higher.

It sounds good, though I guess my fear would be that git's mindshare in the kind of locked-down IT environments this is targetted at is still fairly low. Clearcase still rules in that world, and a SCM system is among the least flexible infrastructure items.
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It was obviously some rather sophisticated speech-to-text program that didn't realize that "ycombinator" is what he meant in the video

The actual article is rather good.
This entire issue is crap.

...some BS issue that has no value.

My only advice to "black" and other entrepreneurs is shut up, go code and make something awesome.

This entire issue is being exploited to get attention for Angela Benton and her new accelerator.

It's easy to tout self-reliance when you're a white male. It's easy to overlook all the tiny advantages you get that accumulate in an invisible, insidious way. It's easy to see people bringing up the issue as whining.

It's hard to understand what it is to be someone else, what it means to struggle with others' perceptions every waking moment of every day in such a pervasive manner as to be incorporated into your very identity. It's hard. But we should all try.

Sometimes, self-reliance means putting your head down and doing the best work that you can do. Other times, it means finding other people with a common experience and taking collective action to actively change your circumstances. Sometimes it looks like a minority-focused startup accelerator. Sometimes it looks like the Civil Rights Movement.

If it looks like whining, probably the best thing to do is to try to refrain from meta-whining, and deeply consider whether the issue could be a real one, even though your own experience is different.
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The big four cities are SF, NYC, DC and LA? I know Boston is slipping a bit, but in what context is it not "bigger" than LA or DC for startups?
I desperately need some help for some projects of my startup. It would be awesome if I could get some help from these guys. Thanks.
Seattle - Full time - H1Bs welcome.

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Your order is like English, but your semantics are the exact opposite. My code asks "is 2 even?" -- it calls the even? function to check to see if it's a boolean. If you notice, the even? object function is referentially transparant and implicitly contains its own argument. It's not really a function. It's a field. What Ruby has done is define a field of every Integer instance which returns True or False based on a separate function call that determines whether or not the object is even. It's irrelevant how the function is implemented because those are the semantics -- you have defined a method that answers if the quality of evenness applies to 2. Your own example is exactly why I dislike the semantics of this object method.
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I don't know what the stats are, but netbooks (and tablets) are becoming increasingly popular. I don't think you can just default to ignoring them anymore.

I'm also glad to see the 'mobile first' idea gaining traction, with css/html5 frameworks coming out based on that. There are more and more use cases where a mobile site that gracefully expands to desktop size works out better than the inverse.
Efficiency kills jobs by definition.

Yes, efficiency kills (old, existing) jobs, but that gives new leverage to expand production beyond what it was before.

That's why the wheel, the industrial revolution, etc. have all increased the well-being of the world, not decreased it.

It's called progress.
What was in my mind is more like what you describe as "Doodling" in [http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html]. NOT the type thinking that gets you with the next social geofenced daily deal. There is some differentiator between the two that I think instinctively I understand, but quantitatively I haven't been able to describe.

EDIT: First crack at a description: You want an idea that solves a problem, not starts a startup, and sometimes a startup is a decent vehicle for the solution.
I recently had to point my browser to a local copy of a public domain and after trying in vain for several hours I found this blog post. It turns out that, for some reason, Apple changed the way OS X resolves DNS requests and it now involves some gymnastics instead of just changing the /etc/hosts file. :(
It's worked pretty well for the last three years. Arch Linux will never reach the same scale that Ubuntu or Debian will simply because of its barrier to entry, so I imagine it should work fine for the immediate future.
HPs urls are terrible: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx
I hope they have tested this new design with some of the old "Gmail Labs" modules. I've been using the "Right-Side Chat" Labs module for a long time, and so far, using the Preview Theme, resizing my browser window sometimes causes me to lose my chat box.
A un-initialised varible made our script to mail 20 copies of the same email to almost 10k users. One of our mass email script basically breaks the email list in chunks of 500 and emails them. The array variable that hold this 500 email chunk was not initialised. In our test everything was fine as the test list was never more than 500. When the time came to send emails to the production list, the script basically kept sending multiple copies of the same emails (since the array retained the old values across the loop iterations).

I realised this after about 10 minutes but already multiple copies of the same emails (20/user) was send to more than 10k users!...The end result was annoyed users unsubscribing in droves and possibly a hit in our email reputation. This is all because a stupid array variable was not initialised :)
We're trying to build a platform that's more geared to long-form writers instead of people mainly aggregating content created by others. Services like Tumblr, Posterous, and Wordpress are focused more on real-time, constant updates. We're looking to build something for writers, not the blogging set.

Our monetization strategy is focused on providing writers with the tools for selling their content and then building a solid reading experience on top of that content.
Uh. No.

If they wanted advertising they could have bought google adwords and pointed it to the appropriate landing pages to buy the answers.

If they want free advertising, well TANSTAAFL.
Not sure if I feel stupider reading this but something definitely just clicked.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read in my life. Nope, haven't killed my company with a completely innocent comment made on HN. Sorry to disappoint you.
the same thing that im using for planning and keeping my notes - ToDoList, similar to evernote, but much more customizable. freeware obviously.