skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is a great time to make the argument that AMD chased short term profitability ahead of long term profitability. The pushed the fabs and debt off their books, and in the process handicapped themselves for the future.

They really had no control over the engineering stack necessary to push innovation and keep pace with Intel. It's especially difficult if you cannot have your own engineers intimately involved in manufacturing to go back to design and make the necessary changes to keep pace with your competitors who can do this. Has fab-less worked before? Sure, but that's a different ball game than the market AMD is in, often shipping much lower volumes and in lower power devices with smaller die sizes.

And obviously, this on top of other management blunders at AMD.

2 cents.
>You've essentially just argued that NOAA stat tracking is pointless because "you can stick your head out of a window".

I've argued that the translation and re-display of these particular NOAA stats on a smartphone, for the viewer's location, is pointless because I can stick my head out of a window.

When operating an aircraft, I love NOAA stat tracking. I think NOAA and the National Weather Service are probably two of the best deals the American public can ever expect to get for their money.
Take note: this is a great example of how customer service should be handled.

1) Explain what went wrong and why

2) Explain the countermeasures and how long it will take (obviously, they didn't meet their goal -- in that case, a note explaining why more time is needed)

3) Increase support staff, especially if there is an influx of callers because of the problems

4) Offer your customers something of value as an apology

5) Bonus: CEO makes himself available to small-time reporters. I think this step alone shows incredible goodwill.

The first post on this thread starts with "As a technologist my sympathy goes out to Virgin." I can't imagine the same response if the company was not so open through the entire process (Delta comes to mind).
I wonder if they have any "special sauce" in running PostgreSQL on EC2, or if the real value is in the easy provisioning? We're running PG 9.0 on EC2 now via EBS, and everything I've read says it's tough to get it performant - even with large volumes and RAID 10, you still get spikes when your virtualization neighbors slam the disk.
Plus if you need a larger instance like a 7.5GB RAM instance, it's $800/month on Heroku vs $75/month for a reserved EC2 instance with comparable RAM. That's an astounding difference in price for cloud storage!

Of course, the real competition is other data-storage services like Amazon RDS, MongoHQ, MongoLab, etc. (all much cheaper)

(OK, so I excluded EBS costs from my EC2 comparison above but at $0.10/GB-month it's still going to be a huge difference for most cases)
You have a reading comprehension deficiency.

The example above was made by me, on purpose to explain the difference, which I did.

On the JVM - I've implemented dozens of parsers and simple compilers, I did a lot of bytecode manipulation. I know my bytecodes, I know very well the challenges involved.

Your oppinion is based on gospel and the authors of Clojure or JRuby dissagree with you ;)
Realities of IT Consumerization Will Be a Boone for Mobile Device Management
I spent the summer road-tripping with my wife and have been working remotely. While we didn't travel around the world, we saw so much beauty in America. We bought an $80 annual national park pass, got a copy of the book "National Parks of the American West", and took off. So if you aren't quite ready for the round-the-world trip, try going to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Arches/Canyonlands, Crater Lake etc.
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I apologize, I hadn't updated my profile at that time; I've since updated it and emailed you.
Oh. My. God. This is the best thing I've seen on HN since I first discovered it!

I'm in my first year of business and after reading your post I see that I've made one huge mistake. I'm not working to reach a goal like you did. I'm working for the sake of working. It doesn't matter how successful I am because in the end all my work will still have been for nothing.

I think you make a great point (maybe you don't realize you made this point) about how we should be working to live and not living to work.

This has inspired me and touched me so deeply I cannot even describe it. This is going to sound lame and cheesy but your post hit a nerve with me and from this moment on I am going to set out to make a goal to live. Find what I love besides my work and go out and live. I'm going to work my ass of because I love my job but after the work day is done I must be able to tell myself that this work day has brought me just one bit closer to being able to go out and live. No more working 12 hour days so I can wake up and work another 12 hour day and pretend like work in and of itself is an end. It's just a means to an end. I'll always program and love it and I'm sure others are the same but im also sure that all of us also have other external motivations that make us human, not just our work. Just thank you for this. Thank you for reminding me why I'm doing what I'm doing. I feel like I sound like an over emotional... person. You're younger than I am by a few years and seeing you do this and the sentiment behind it really just lit a fire under my ass.

Thank you so much for this post. I hope everyone here can one day write a blog post along these lines. You are truly living. Congratulations and I wish you continued success.
It's working for me. The DNS propagation has made it to the midwest of the USA. Beyond that I can offer nothing. :-)
When did you start programming? Survey says CS careers start young.
No, that isn't the business I was referring to. Those are usually pretty open and shut projects -- and I don't do many of them anymore. Thanks for the Internet sleuthing though.
"The peculiar thing about programmers is that they're the one profession that can easily work remotely and travel, and yet they're the one profession that doesn't."

Not true! My gf and I have been doing it for 5 solid years (she's the designer). So far we've lived in Argentina & Uruguay for a year, New Zealand & Australia for a year, Thailand, Vietnam, France and Spain. I have met a few others on my travels. We never plan to go back; there's no point settling down when there's so much to see and experience. Yes, a lot of people get angry or jealous and say it's the dream life, but it's also hard work -- not just coding and keeping in touch with clients 24/7, but also travel itself. It's exhausting. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Good customer development is filming the trailer and then deciding whether to make the movie.

FWIW: Tarantino & Rodriguez's movie _Grindhouse_ included several fake movie trailers. They were so popular that _Machete_ and _Hobo_With_A_Shotgun_ were turned into real movies with good boxoffice returns; more such projects are underway.
Whil etalking about traveling on Peru you wrote;

"The picture below is of one of the Colca Canyon's fabled Peregrine Falcons, taken whilst I was climbing down the canyon, the world's deepest."

it looks like a Condor to me.
Pricing things to be affordable for early-stage web startups seems like a good way to go out of business.

$200 per month for a database server is ridiculously cheap for a large company.
Most 2011 tech IPOs are unhappy today. The market is volatile and bearish. In the absence of news, you can't interpret stuff like this --- especially given the fact that Groupon doesn't have a listed competitor --- without understanding where the whole market is at.
I second the daily deals vote and add some of the latest fashion apps like Snapette and the others that keep an inventory of the fashion items people own.
Yes, about 2-3% above $20, the stated IPO.
not really. it wen't public at 26+$/share. only if you had put an order (as an institutional investor, prior to going public i.e. traded) you would of been able to get in at $20/share.
There's actually code that throttles the level of nesting comments to prevent a IRC like flamewar or even just vacuous comments that have not been well thought out; the deeper the nesting, the longer you have to wait until you are allowed to comment on that post.

Edit: your way works too if you want to short circuit that delay.
Heroku dynos are still ran on EC2 instances, exclusively on the East coast of the US.

I'm not sure if these postgres servers are. However one interesting note is that the "maximum database size" of the heroku server is 2TB, while RDS is 1TB.
AppMobi to Open Source its HTML5 Tech on Nov 25
Hyup. We definitely make a lot less money. But you can drink and smoke and talk to animals on the job. Guess it all depends what's important to you =)
http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/working-from-the-road-082513
Apparently everything since that statement doesn't compile
I tend to agree with this sentiment, though for some read heavy applications you can mitigate this problem via a distributed cache layer in your web tier.
I have been travelling a lot lately because of my current work and would love to know more about these kinds of community. So you arrive at some country where almost nobody speaks English, how do you actually find anyone you can meet up with?
What are the Market Risk in Forex Trading?
Is there really that much demand for Rails devs, compared to iphone/android etc? (genuine question, not trolling or anything)
Tractor beams on full First steps towards light-based tractor beams
No love for OCaml and Erlang?
The CNET article[0] says Universal's claim is justified by Grooveshark's upload database, obtained in discovery during a previous lawsuit.

[0]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57327815-261/lawsuit-claim...
that is no explanation:
- investors do not consider Groupon a tech company (it's all over the research reports)
- Google, Intel are down marginally (non retail), Apple is up (tech retail). Nasdaq is ONLY 0.07% down.
- Falling 14% is intrinsic to the stock, not the market.
> The government's duty to protect your life does not extend beyond protecting it from the use of force by other people.

You are mistaken: http://www.amazon.com/Darwin-Economy-Liberty-Competition-Har...

Chapter 1: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9509.pdf
The Amazing History and Invention of the Bendy Straw
Or just do a:

val source = scala.io.Source.fromURL("http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264849")
ONLINE MOVIES: Me
Is this a test to see if it's possible to make the programmers companies are looking for instead of just hiring programmers, or a test for your teaching skills?
Researchers See Retina Display, Raise Them A Cornea Display
I found a good candidate then saw this: Hireable: false

:( I will look again ...
I wish that they also sold their minimal shared 20GB $15/month database plan as a separate service (i.e., being able to access it from your own EC2 instances and not just from Heroku deployed apps).

I have a use case for a low volume app that I would like to host on Heroku, but have other software also have access to the database, without resorting to the obvious workarounds.
vimpulse is an extension to viper and gives you (for example) visual mode (copy blocks using 'v').

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Vimpulse
Why Jeff Haynie at Appcelerator isn't worried about HTML5
in my opinion, yes
Open source software is useless if the hardware only runs code that's been signed by the manufacturer. This is exactly what GPL3 is about.
Considering their "Continuous Protection" feature, could they be streaming a write log out to S3? I think that way they could use the backup as the sole guarantee of durability, and use instance storage for the database.

EDIT: also, I'm not sure if this is generally known elsewhere, but might they not be on ec2, they are advertising 1.7 GB cache, which is the same as a small instance, except without any room for the operating system or postgres itself.
Too short!
I was hoping for more tricks and tips.
I started learning Android programming by making a game. (http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/)
It's tricky to get things like multiple activities, dialog activities, efficient service communication.
Then of course, multiple displays and sizes. Also, different keyboard layouts, etc.
Great offer. I can't take you up on it, unfortunately, but that is a great idea!
Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production
I strongly recommend Yes, Minister.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
Why? It would probably be a much weaker signal than that of a cellphone (~500 milliwatts). Assuming the tech is similar to short-range RFID, it could run on a transmission power of a few milliwatts.
I can corroborate the being pulled over on a bike. I had it happen twice in one day. On my way into work, I was riding the road when an officer stopped me and cited this law

>"A low-speed vehicle shall be operated at a speed of not to exceed 25 miles per hour and shall not be operated on a highway or street with a speed limit of more than 35 miles per hour except for the purpose of crossing that highway or street. "

Since this road was 45mph, he told me I had to get on the sidewalk. On the way home, I'm on the sidewalk. Cop pulls me over, tells me I have to be on the road. He cited the law

>"A moped or low-speed vehicle shall not be operated on a sidewalk constructed for the use of pedestrians."

I did not get searched, but it does serve to back up that everyone is a criminal when it comes to traffic laws, and in quite a few cases they're crafted so carelessly that they can become impossible to follow, and even more impossible to understand.

I _can_ relate an anecdote from a friend who was biking through a DUI checkpoint and got stopped and checked for alcohol. He said the officer asked to look inside his backpack, but he refused and the officer didn't press the issue. That's second-hand information, though.
Open Source (Almost) Everything
"I think there are many more issues involved than simply "it's my hardware and I'll do what I want with it.""

Actually, that's kind of my point more than yours. It isn't as simple as a knee-jerk "it must be closed source". You argued black and I argued not-black; not-black isn't "white", it's white and the greys, too.
thanks all for your feedback. this is just for personal use. thanks for the perl suggestions, I am just learning
Ask HN: How to find meet ups?
Someone at Heroku wrote a very useful article a few years ago on getting around the pain points of EBS, using RAID on EBS, etc. (This is probably the article I remembered:http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs...)
You can buy a 10 pack of evaluation chips from Green Array's web site or single from schmartboard's website http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=products_csp&...
That it's possible now with most hardware doesn't mean much. There are powerful entities that have been working for years to ensure that open source is only possible where & when it suits them.

New devices are much more locked down than they would have been a decade ago. That's not an accident or a fad.
Mm. So many nails in this coffin.

Many times I've had a need to grep or tail a log in a hurry. This kind of change compromises the entire modus operandi of good Unix admins.

There must be tens of thousands of Unix-based tools out there that use the syslog(3) interface and I'm damn sure that most of them will not change Just Because Someone At Fedora wants them to.

I don't believe a binary format is any more inherently secure than a textual one. Want non-repudiation of logs? Sign them and send them off-box.

They would be much smarter to introduce incremental improvements i.e. extend the existing syslog protocol to accept a structured data format; introduce a log signing journal for integrity checks.
Stop Wasting Your Time Building Multiple Websites at Once
Resume writers
If there were no trained resume writer online, many guys would face with writing interesting documents!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
These sorts of pressures are the reason that I made http://www.CompassionPit.com - a site where you can chat anonymously, 1-1, with someone who will listen to you. Just join as a venter. Or, if you're feeling charitable, join as a listener. "Get it off your chest without it biting you in the ass".
Your numbers are a bit off.

It's more like 162 bucks a month for a comparable reserved EC2 instance. And 208 a month for a comparable reserved RDS instance. And that's of course with a 12 month commitment.

You can't really compare EC2 to an offering like this because you're paying for the amount of time / labor costs it frees up. And of course RDS doesn't support Postgres so there's not a lot of competition at the moment.
Google Groups Hacked, Posts Appear in Porn Group with SEO Keywords
The new content distribution companies (what article calls silicon valley) need to invest 5% of net revenue in lobbying out of existence the old content distribution companies (aka music, movies, books).

That stuff will still be made, this is a war over distribution not creation.
The thing I really didn't like was how you used the word "fun" as if to minimize the seriousness of the problem. In fact, it came off to me as if you were minimizing the seriousness of depression in general. I could have just taken it that way without you meaning it like that.

Your comment about pills also came off as if to say its not a valid solution. Like maybe pills are somehow for the weak or lazy.

Honestly, I just really detected a lot of snark in that comment and in this one and I don't know why. You just called my participation in CBT "an enjoyable hobby" like a backhanded compliment. I wouldn't call it a hobby at all.

Maybe if you want to get technical and argue semantics a moral failing and disease may not be mutually exclusive. But we're talking about the real world. As it applies to depression and addiction, disease and moral failing are mutually exclusive. People are looked down upon and carry a stigma because so many people want to call it a moral failing. They say "just snap out of it" for depression and they call addicts weak people when the reality is so far from being so black and white.

Everyone can pull out studies to discredit the other guy's study that he pulled out. Let's be real when we talk about this stuff and not hide behind studies. Researchers disagree all the time so the best we can do is use our own experience, best judgement, and widely accepted truths to argue our points.

At the end of the day I took less issue with your facts than your ton. It just sounded demeaning and like you were minimizing the seriousness of this stuff. Plus there was a bit of snark detected. I don't think I was the only one either. That's all, this isn't a personal attack, man. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you really want to be managed by an AI?
What kind of skills/training are necessary to do research on stuff like this?

I can imagine few things that are more worthwhile (and probably stimulating to work on as well).
Batman.js v0.8.0 released with association support
slightly offtopic: would it work to tag music on Youtube via Musicbrainz(eg http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Jaikoz) and replace GS tracks with YT streams? Would it offset legal issues onto YT?

Probably better to do for a new startup.
As an indicator, my short position was closed out on Monday by my broker -- they couldn't find shares to borrow anymore.
Paying Grooveshark member here, will be sad to see this go. As unorganized as their service is, their library is massive. Of course, it's obviously illegal how their library is able to be so massive. I'm hoping I can at least save my playlists so I don't have to recreate them later off memory.

I would really love it if Spotify could take some UI lessons from Grooveshark.
Pop Science's special issue: How Big Data is Driving the Future
I'm VERY interested in this. Please email me when you have everything set up. Either at my email here or admin at 1every dot com. Thanks. I look forward to seeing you in February.
That is a cool idea. I would suggest not including advertisements just yet because they are generic and probably the least appealing of all ads (besides pop-ups). Just a suggestion, though the service itself is cool.
I think it is likely that Amazon will do a Postgres RDS soon too.
Your First 100,000 Users: How Successful Startups Did It
It's an attempt to find 6 people who would take 2 months of their lives to learn Ruby on Rails. If anything is being tested, it's interest in the program.
It still seems to be the easiest way to setup and manage a small mailing list. I don't need more features and we just got a big UI update.
>If you remove drivers from the system, you also remove a source of revenue for the city in violation fees -- speeding tickets, moving violations, parking meters and tickets, etc.

Fines are as legitimate of a revenue source as lawsuits are. I'd rather not have our government be Righthaven. The idea of "we need more money, so start giving out more tickets than you normally would" is not a good solution.
Don't they also store all of the uploads?
to be honest your best off not using the channel 4 web player. It completely crashes my browser at least 50% of the times I visit.
Y U NO SPEAKERDECK?

Seriously, it's a much more pleasant slide-consuming experience for your great slides.
Google, Intel, and Apple aren't unproven '11 IPOs. Look at Pandora, Zipcar, etc.
Indeed, the problem of depression is precisely that the activities that used to be fun are no longer fun. Depression is a lot more complex and a lot harder to fix that just saying "get out and have fun".
That's not a hack, that's opening a door locked by a piece of tape.
Thanks. Can you give me some insight into what stands in your way? The time commitment? The tuition? Lack of interest? Just looking for as much feedback as I can get.
Down Economy? Bah. Not at Code Camp
Thanks. Shoot me an email shereef@gmail.com
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it
as the purpose of life. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny,
your self-interrogation exhaust themselves on that."

- John Stuart Mill (who suffered serious depression) on Carlyle's "anti-self-consciousness theory" http://theliterarylink.com/anti_selfconsciousness.html

A wrinkle on serving customers as this purpose is that they pay you. So... are you serving them, or making money? Being a servant of two masters is tricky (e.g. who is served by "raising prices"?). A resolution is to elevate one as the master, which prevails when they conflict. Also customers can be fickle (like those 2 communities), not knowing what they want. So, yet another purpose is to make something great, according to your ideals (if others like it, so much the better...). This is not other-directed, but at least not self-directed.
When you are in South Africa again, drop by Stellenbosch (40km from Cape Town)! Would love to hear some more stories.

EDIT:

I also travelled from Singapore to Bangkok (not all the way to Hanoi) this year. Great trip. Took the train. Beautiful countryside.
It didn't really work for me, but I think the concept is funny.

Sadly, I see a C&D in your future...or if SOPA is passed some jail time.
"But Duck Duck Go doesn’t do anything significantly different, or significantly better — as in 10x better."

Their respect for my privacy is 10000000000x better than Google's.
6 reason why Trump could be President