skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has said that it won't add a URL to its index of URLs to crawl as a result of seeing the URL in a rel=nofollow href [1]. This is over and above not weighting the link if the URL does otherwise make it onto its to crawl list.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/robots-exclusion-prot...
I don't see why this post was downvoted. It is subjective, but it has a point - TeX is harder to use than Word or LibreOffice for most people.

My anecdotal evidence - my professors stopped using it after 15 years around the year 2000 if not earlier. Writing a simple document in Bulgarian was an extreme hassle for me. Selecting the correct packages, setting up your environment (weird encoding errors in both Windows and Fedora).
This is hardly a set of libraries. Total code size of both combined is around 1.5kb.

These files are just a simple value watching tool I found very useful in a recent project and wanted to release. I don't know knockout well but it seems like a framework style library (you're expected to base your code around it), while these are meant to be treated as an additional tool (add them to existing code when useful).
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For the first two you want to look at https://github.com/quarnster/SublimeClang
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i've checked how many pageviews we've got the very next day, it's >100K as well. that's without caching. i have not observed any problems that day. the real deal here is handling such jump in a very few seconds.

and yes, increasing ulimits should be standard. one does simply forgets every single optimization when you just have to deliver a working app.
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Just remember: it's only in France and other countries that lack panoramafreiheit.

I thought the RIAA suing grandmas was bad, then I read about the panoramafreiheit situation in Europe. It's far, far more stupid than you can ever imagine.
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Were you doing any connection pooling with Mongo? I'm curious what driver you were using, etc.
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Plain old Java compiles way faster than Scala I don't believe the JVM is the main contributor to the slowdown.

Scala compilation is complex, partly due to its extremely sophisticated type system, it is also quite resource intensive - I have got the type checker to run out of memory on multiple occasions I have never seen a Java compilation fail due to lack of memory. fsc and incremental compilation do speed things up but it is still slower than compiling an equivalent amount of Java.
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And are designed to make judgements in the absence of humans. No one can prepare a computer for every use-case mankind can possibly think of. We're orders of magnitude more clever than a computer can deal with.
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I know i'm a bit late on this, but here's a PRIME example of someone using the shotgun effect in the itunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist... 504 apps all with slightly different title and keywords, all with sub-par execution (based on looking @ screenshots)

I think their company name says it all: "FQ Publishing"
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But, MG Siegler is correct, is he not, that google have chosen not to link to artists twitter pages alongside their G+ pages, and that this could easily been seen as anti-competitive.

e.g. https://www.google.com/search?&q=music
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A pre-production move checklist would be very helpful :)
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Great answer, that's about what I had figured. It looks pretty useful for putting that kind of functionality into an existing web app. Hope to see you continue to develop it.

You're right about Knockout expecting you to design your app in consideration for it, although it really just expects you to adhere to a RESTful JSON approach, not a "knockout" approach.

But I digress...

Best of luck!
The first person to take these XX.js projects and put them into an extensible and well-featured IDE with the usability of Visual Studio will have all my money.
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In Belgium, a court order forced the ISP's to block TPB. They complied immediately.

The same day TPB registered a new domain name in Belgium, to prove the uselessness of such action.

What a waste of public money.
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Indeed. When getting really funky with ruby's metaprogramming, completion isn't going to help you.
Actual link to files for cloning purposes for those that don't know github's url structure well enough to realize that the actual files are here: https://github.com/qix/watch.js (or of the lazy :)
Looks like a similar approach like we have in http://kippt.com
That itch is the issue. Thats what I am worried about. Will more thinking based on the ideas I am getting from you guys. Thanks!
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Also: Best software license EVER!

https://github.com/qix/watch.js/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
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That's an awful lot of assumptions to make just to force your personal views into the conversation.

It's a press release. Getting annoyed at marketing in a press release is like being angry at water for being wet. Save your anger for the "journalists" that copy/paste the release into an article so they can make their deadline.
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That's a new sidebar feature that goes where ads have traditionally gone. Google has decided to literally promote G+ over ads, which is a story in itself, but a totally different one.

It doesn't change the search results in the main column.
I connect to gchat using a third party program, and my contact list in this program is still full of unwanted contacts that I have to manually delete.

I said do it before you join to save people in a similar situation.
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$60,000 per online + print subscription, perhaps?

http://www.ieee.org/documents/55589_ieee_sub_price_list_2012...

If we get to just say what we're worth, I'm worth a billion dollars, and my employer is woefully underpaying me. The government needs to step in and ensure I'm paid what I'm worth!
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If you're having trouble of the sort of ratios you're talking about, you're doing something that alienates people. That doesn't have to be the end of things, because if you work at it eventually it'll change.

You can't change other people. Focus on the things you can affect, like finding ways to make yourself a more relaxed and relaxing person to talk to.

Some people are trying to give you feedback in other parts of this thread. Much of it is not constructive, but some is. But you seem to be focussed on reiterating your points rather than taking it on.

Work out how you can be more open to feedback. Find someone who will give you honest feedback. Distinguish between people who give good, direct feedback and people who get off by demeaning you.

I assume you created this account as a throwaway because you had an idea what you were saying would be controversial but this stuff is troubling you you and you wanted to talk about it. Good move. Now take the next step.
Sure, but the probability of having an URL shared only through a tweet is zero. Google is insanely efficient at finding new URLs. So, it will find it anyway, but it will not be shown to you as "shared by your friend John" because of the nofollow.
Sounds like less of a Mongo problem and more of a "trying to do too much, too fast, too big" problem. The Greek call this "Hubris." Great lesson/reminder to share. Thanks.
I don't want to put the looks over functionality but when we are talking for a GUI application we need a good icon.
I added links to the files and actual source to the github pages; should be a fair bit easier :)
I actually see potential for confusion there.

"and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed."

Does that mean that the file can't be named LICENSE.txt, or does it mean that I can't title it the "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE"? If I renamed it to license.TXT, am I in the clear, or do I have to name it LICENSE2.txt? Or can I keep calling it LICENSE, but have to change the title?
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Stop blogging and start growing a pair. Aside from the monumental error of judgement in developing on an unfamiliar database in 4 days with zero testing, the 'morals of the story' crack me up:

"Do not accept responsibility for anything that you had to do in a very limited time."
Yeah, because the ability to stand by your decision is a function of deadlines.

"Do not accept the job if the timeline is short, the work is big and the load is heavy."
Wow, that's some pretty serious ambition right there.

I also like the way these points are first on the list, before actual lessons like:
"Do not have trust in any of your tools until they prove themselves."
(I am new to this debate and so may be way off, but)

As far I understand, even this article is not very clear. It says:

Google is simply complying with Twitter.com’s directive to not follow outbound links in tweets it crawls, and the consequence is that there will never be ”… shared this on Twitter” in the search results.

Wrong.

You see, when I share some random link in my blog and then you search for that topic, Google will not say "niyazpk shared this in ...." in the search result. Why? Because Google probably considers shares from a few trusted sites/partners only.

Let us read Google's explanation again:

We are a bit surprised by Twitter’s comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer (http://goo.gl/chKwi), and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions.

And this quote from Google[1]:

Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2.
While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google.

It is pretty clear what happened. Twitter did not renew the agreement with Google and Google stopped considering Twitter as a source for the "shared on" snippet. The "no-follow" attribute has nothing to do with except that it work exactly like it works for any other site.

[1] http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...
Rails only does that to optimize certain function calls. eval() is used as a method to compile/inline certain functions. Most code in Rails does not use eval.
Then just use fsc instead of scalac.
It is part of the standard Scala distribution.
Last time I tried it - fsc was not that much slower than javac.
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Agreed, what should be a simple thing has turned into a usability nightmare. Why is Google limited the number of people I can add? Why is there a hard cap of 5000 profiles that I can add total?

If this is supposed to be a social network, why are these limitations in place?
Indeed, but Mongo is actually quite good at failing predictably. I think the biggest issue is not Mongo, but failing to test the application correctly. Particularly when working with a new technology. Mongo isn't the best fit for everything but nearly all the issues he describes are more down to not having enough time to plan and test before the project, and one would have probably encountered similar issues if using nearly any software at that scale, with no prior knowledge or tuning.
LICENCE.txt is the filename, and the original licence is actually distributed on a web page [1]. "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE" is the name of the licence.

[1] http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
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I also found it mildly frustrating that a "do what the fuck you want" license was copyrighted itself :/
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I suspect those A records are probably grandfathered and they are of course ccTLDs so the rules are different. None of the gTLDs have A records for their TLD (although they almost certainly have glue A records). From memory I queried John Craine (ICANN Security, Stability and Resiliency Director) about this a number of years ago and again if I remember accurately his response was that they wouldn't allow any additional types of records. I suspect this is a policy decision rather than a technical one.

RFC 2822 has been superceded by RFC 5322. The problem is not being allowed to put MX records in the zone for a TLD, and hence the mail is not routeable. Also remember that you would need to differentiate between "me@mytld<.localdomain>" and "me@mytld.", I'm not sure if all MTA software (let alone MUA) will do the right thing with differentiation. This is probably considered to impact stability and hence is discouraged.
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I think that learning to stand up to people making unreasonable requests is an important lesson.

I hope he also learned from his error in judgement.

And he actually did have some courage in submitting his mistakes in public for us to discuss :)
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Sudden increases are hard for any app. I just find it strange that, when you talk about Redis with such familiarity, you'd choose a new technology with 4 days to launch. An F1 car might be fast, but if I had to race one I'd end up in a wall.

In saying that, I'm quite envious of your job, that sounds pretty cool (until things go wrong).
This was posted in 2009. I think that some of the arguments are no longer valid, e.g. Java 1.7 now uses escape analysis to eliminate heap allocations where possible: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/10/06/jdk7-d...
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This post was very helpful indeed. we are facing almost simliar issues with our default box configurations (ulimit and connection counts etc) while we are serving real time updates to our visitors..

Thanks for posting this.
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I want to know how to disrupt their operation or take them down. It seems people will not take action against a police cruiser for example, but I see less opposition to zapping buzzing cameras flying around.
The post you're linking is discussing the META tag version of nofollow, not the hyperlink rel attribute which is detailed here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-sp...

This article doesn't say explicitly that it won't follow those links and I would suggest it often will as comments are a rich source of pages to index. The nofollow on a link like this just indicates that the page owner can't vouch for the quality of the linked page (e.g. user submitted link) and therefore doesn't want to pass pagerank to it.

Edit: it's also implied in the parent's link that the META tag only prevents the following of links to pages within your site. This sounds reasonable as who are you to tell Google they can't index a third party domain?
There are some good replacements floating around the web. The one I think best matches the aesthetic of Sublime Text 2 is here: http://dribbble.com/shots/337996-Sublime-Text-2-Icon
This. ICC is known to beat gcc usually.
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Thanks for the script, I installed it myself.

With that said, I think HN is the only community where the maintainer of the site merely has to wait until someone fixes usability problems themselves.

It is frustrating to see a slew of "Boy, this feature really sucks/broken/why isnt it here?" posts. Not because they are wrong (they are usually correct, like this post), but because the automatic solution is "fix it yourself" rather than "why hasn't pg fixed this?"

It just strikes me odd.
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Uhm, for some reason it didn't even cross my mind such possibility. Instantly thought it was someone quitting GMaps for some other tool, and that's what it was.

Afterwards I did ponder why it was showing google.com domain, and yes, I can understand it can be misleading.
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The barrier to entry to get oneself added to this list doesn't seem to be much. I added part 1 of 2 of the circle and already my stream is being flooded with stuff like this -> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/442/gplushn.png/

Information overload in a language I don't even understand!
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That's the thing though: I do think the code that I write is fairly worthless. I do custom programming for a small company. The work I do is a competitive advantage for them, but it is so specific to them that even if I were to, say, get approval to open source the whole lot, they wouldn't lose a penny, nor would their competitors really gain anything. The value isn't in the IP, the value is in the fact that it enables them to get their work done quicker and better and be more responsive to their clients.

The code isn't the key part: the value is the fact that I can take complex and changing requirements and build them a one-off tool that does exactly what they want.

The code will be gone in five years, probably ten, as business needs will change.
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A while back I was interested in implementing a much less naive algorithm for classifying TWSS expressions, based on this [1] paper. Never actually got around to finishing the work.

Interesting problem though, and nice work.

[1] - http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/brun/pubs/pubs/Kiddon11.p...
Now if only they could make electrochromic gorilla glass that will "white" out your screen after failed password attempts. On second thought, it would probably result in worse than Android battery life.
They aren't. I am very smart and, of course, stunningly beautiful.

But seriously, surely looks are a very subjective thing?
I've recently started using Sublime Text 2 for iPhone development on Windows. Okay I admit, I've been doing it for a while. Rather strange setup perhaps, but with Synergy it's a fairly seamless workflow between my Macbook Pro and Windows desktop. I keep telling myself I'll get around to purchasing a license and this finally did it for me. I wouldn't say it's purely on guilt, more of a slowly growing relationship. Auto complete is an enormous help, why wouldn't I return the favor?
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> new to this ... may be way off

You are indeed "way off".

The article is factually and technically correct, while your "Because Google probably considers" is speculation.

The "special" feed supported crawling efficiency, giving Google a real time firehouse of new tweets, instead of having to crawl Twitter as any visitor or spider would.

The "no follow" breaks the association between a tweeter and the shared content, exactly as the linked article states.

In Google's own words, "Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web."
Most of the comments here seem to indicate that HN should not black out, but the votes say otherwise.

I voted yes. I believe that any gesture, show of solidarity or whatever you want to call it can help.
That's one annoyance out of the way. Is there a decent way to work with remote files yet?

This is always the killer for me.
I wrote a comment there, but for the sake of discussion I'll copy it here:

I had similar experience with Quora. I answered on two or three questions on quora about POS Software for restaurants, and on one of them, in the comments wrote about POS Sommelier, our soon to be lunched POS Software. I also left link to www.possommelier.com (with launchrock.com signup page)
The thing is, we didn't have complete product and was just starting with it, and from there in couple of days we get 50+ signups.
It's amazing how niches like ours can get specific users (in our case restaurant owners) from Quora.

Who would thought that there are restaurant owners on Quora looking for the POS Software?
Having purchased a new laptop for the family over the holidays, in general, the low end of the laptop market appears to have moved upward by about $1000 due to Netbooks having established a fairly stable price low end of approximately $250.

What I observed was that the $249-$299 laptop segment of a couple of years ago is now largely $349-$399...i.e. cheap laptops are no longer competing with netbooks and any $300 laptops are a combination of Atom (or equivalent) processors and a big case.
This is a really terribly done study, with a misleading title to boot.

First, even if we take the conclusion as given, "Fortran" isn't faster than "C". The median of one set of programs, compiled with one Fortran compiler with one set of options and run on one processor, is faster than the median of another set of programs compiled with one C compiler with one set of one and run on that processor. This tells us approximately nothing.

If you only expand your consideration to include the whole distribution of programs they tested, GCC actually looks better than iFort (eg. there is a single program which ran 2x faster with iFort, but multiple programs ran more than 2x slower). Median is a spectacularly poor choice of metric, especially with so few samples in the distribution.

But also: Intel also makes a C compiler. Why wasn't that used? How were these benchmark programs chosen? Etc.

This study says close to nothing about "Fortran" and "C", or about any of the other languages involved.
For the shootout, all the source code is visible to the compiler (though at least GCC needs to be told so with a flag). So I don't think there's much more assumptions that can be made.
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The future? You mean the present. You also forgot warrantless Backscatter vans scanning vechicles on the roads: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/technology-x-rays-hom...
+1. I should change that opening to "stop blogging and continue growing a pair."
It's times like this I wish I had enough karma to downvote.

How does your comment in any way add to the discussion?!