skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we please have people stop assuming that the password is recoverable just because it's put in an email when it's set.
Cassandra initial team was lead by Avinash Lakshman who was one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo. So it's not strange that Cassandra is hugely inspired by Dynamo (and vice versa).
Yeah, it's kind of hilarious that California's biggest selling point was that it's really far from New Jersey. (Well, that and its somewhat corrupt (or at least, California-biased) judges a century ago.)

If only New York City could be as far from New Jersey as California is--
It's a really good way to evaluate different styles of companies. I've interned at a 7 person web dev shop, 70 person tech company writing custom software for the big 4 accounting firms, HUGE manufacturing/design company in the process control industry, and I find out today if I got an internship at Microsoft.

My experiences between working for a tech company and a physical product company were vastly different. Likewise, working for a new web dev startup (no SVN, no bug tracking, solo projects) and a mature company (yes SVN and error tracking, group projects) were vastly different.

When I graduate, I'll have a good idea the size and style of company I want to work for, plus I'll know the questions to ask to make sure it fits the dream job I have imagined.
Yeah, but penny stocks and gambling have unsavory reputations. At a minimum, someone researching them will be met with a blizzard of warnings about how the odds are stacked against you. I'm not sure that's true of entrepreneurship.
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I'm not convinced charging is the correct way of monetising this. Could you not target advertising instead?
Link-bate with an obscuring "pop-up" add - terrific stuff!

If you are the type of person that "hates" people then I for one would not want to work with you.

If someone proves impossible to work with - then don't. If someone is just difficult to work with then charge a premium.
I think I may have asked this before, but would you mind describing a bit about how you foresaw Cinco coming together? What would it have provided on top of Backbone.js + Stitch/Sprockets?
The conventional end-of-line hotkey for Windows applications is the End key, which on a fairly traditional keyboard like the one I am typing this on requires that my right hand move several inches to the right and find that key on the island; I can't touch type this effectively and it compares poorly to C-e or even $ (itself not especially a convenient operation). Gnome and the Mac don't have this problem because both of them largely retain the simpler Emacs style keystrokes; Firefox does have this problem (at least here) and it pisses me off every time.
FWIW, re-replaying the stack trace to figure out what was imported and re-implementing it is a horrible idea. There are much better ways to do this type of import voodoo, specifically the import hooks that Python ships with. Here's an example of their use inside a small side project of mine: https://github.com/tswicegood/maxixe/blob/master/maxixe/__in...

All that said, this is horribly un-Pythonic. A much better route to so is something like envoy[1] which simply wraps `subprocess` in a sane API.

[1]: https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy
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Who's the target market for this? Most marketing teams want analytics on the actual links in the email body, rather than the signature. And if they had that in place, then tracking the signature is pretty simple addon.
DynamoDB is not open source, at least according to a blog comment by Jeff Barr of AWS. (http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/amazon-dynamodb-internet-...)

I'm certainly not going to commit to platform lock-in like that. I know a lot of folks were hit hard by Googles app engine price changes and it could happen again here with DynamoDB.
Good job, I am working on a similar tool. There are lots of free great recipe managers on the web. What is the main differentiating factor that makes this worth 10 a month?
$10 a month buys a lot of good recipe books.
Casinos are intensely regulated. That's something you want for startups?
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How does this work? I thought that most email clients these days tried to avoid tracking by refusing to display external images by default. Am I missing something?
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I like Kenneth Reitz's envoy too. He describes it as "Python Subprocesses for Humans™", similar to how he describes Requests, which he also wrote.

https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy
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"What separates the Dentist from the bank teller?"

One of them has his or her hand in your mouth and might need to drill, remove, fill or otherwise mess around with your teeth. I think a lot of people would be more comfortable with a human element in all medical interactions, even if robots are eventually as effective.
Shameless self-promotion but as opposed to lean, how about beautiful domain search courtesy of nametoolkit.com and Twitter Bootstrap?
Wow, only 6334 lines of code? I find that to be shockingly small. It's less than projects I've worked on by myself for 4 or 5 months, which is nuts considering they've (presumably) had 5+ engineers working on Next for a year now.
It's just an image in the bottom of the email. Many clients do avoid tracking but many don't. For example on an iPhone all images are loaded by default. Additionally a lot of people press "Display Images Below".

Initially I thought that images being blocked would be the biggest hurdle to this project, but it was being used prelaunch by 20 customers and we served over 110,000 impressions during that time (an impression isn't recorded if the image is blocked).
Fast fuzzy search across your entire project is called grep. Why do we keep rediscovering tools that have existed for such a long time?

Yeah. And a car is called a horse carriage. Why do we keep rediscovering tools that have existed for such a long time? (facepalm)

Grep does not:

1) know about the scope of the project, i.e what files to search, without instructed so specifically.

2) have knowledge of code structure (methods, classes, etc). So "fuzzy" here means just using regex.

3) does not know how to present you with the results in a way that you can open quickly in tabs, etc.
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And figuring out why that still results in such a large binary delta is over my head.

On OS X these binaries are fat binaries:

$ file /usr/bin/true
/usr/bin/true: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/true (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/true (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386
Very good looking site! Does it function as a locker for recipes from other sites (allrecipes, etc?), or do you need to manually input everything?

I agree with alexchamberlain - I'm not sure there's enough value to be found in any recipe service to justify $120/year, when multiple options exist.

I hate to fallback on advertising as a business model, though. I'd say offer free accounts to pull in early adopters while you use their feedback to refine your product and keep working on building out features.
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How does Cassandra stack up against HBase these days?

Both projects seem to be moving so quickly that it's really hard to find an up to date comparison.
You've been corrected already on your misinterpretation of the slide without watching the video (at 38:08), but I wanted to add that Simon has repeatedly made the point (including this presentation) that prior to IO Monads, the designers of Haskell were envious of other languages and the slide is repurposed from earlier presentations.
Wow this is so frighteningly magical and will break in many entertaining ways.

For a sane alternative I'd recommend Kenneth Reitz' awesome Envoy (https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy)
Any company with employees that send out a lot of email every day. So for example if you have a big sales team, the marketing department doesn't have to tell them "Ok this week we want to talk more about widgetX" instead all they have to do is upload one banner and instantly every email that the sales team sends out has a banner a banner talking about the widgetX".

It's also great for charities, schools and political campaigns to raise money.
The most important thing to remember is you can't be hired if you don't apply. I'm a freshman in university now and had my internship between Junior and Senior year of HS, and I certainly wasn't qualified for it when I started, though the hiring company seemed to disagree ;) Having the audacity to ask was what got me that job, and it has lead to plenty of opportunities since.

To get back to your question, the answer is "it depends". Is the team you're going to be working on essentially looking for a new employee they'd like to hire post-graduation and have around in the meantime, or are you going to be applying for an internship at a larger company where they might not be focused on coding prowess so much as "smart" and trainable? Either will figure out during the interview process whether or not you're a good fit, and find a place for you to use the skills you have and learn new ones.
As a Junior at Berkeley who's had some internship experience, let me add me two cents worth.

Definitely start looking for an internship during your freshman year. Chances are almost nobody will call you back, you won't get many interviews, and the ones you do get you won't be able to answer anything, but all you need is just to get one person to agree and it'll make your resume look infinitely better for the following years.

Startups are definitely a good option for an internship. What I see a lot of the time, especially here at Cal, is that nobody wants to work anywhere besides Google, Apple, Microsoft or Facebook. People don't bother with any company that doesn't have a huge name and since many of these students don't have any prior work experience before applying to these tech giants, they get rejected. I think that's a huge mistake. I learned more from my summer working at a startup than a years worth of schooling (and it's not bad learning while being paid).

One last note, GPA doesn't seem to matter as much as work experience. While it can never hurt to have a good GPA, I've been on dozens of interviews and not once have I been asked for my GPA.
that doesn't mean all the people in the profession should become programmers

No, they shouldn't become programmers, but knowing how to program (and I wouldn't expect them to know much more than the basics required to write real programs and learn more later if they so chose) will not only help them better understand the modern world around them, but they will be able to apply these skills if and when they make sense or at the very least they would have a better idea of how to best communicate their needs to a real programmer.

I'm not a historian because I was thought history in school, so why would everyone be a programmer if everyone learned how to program?
The important thing that differentiates this is that it is solely a replacement for a recipe box or other strategy for storing recipes. Most other recipe managers are tacking added on to recipe discovery tools. 7courses allows for sharing recipes, but is 100% focused on making it dead simple to manage your recipes.

And we have a kick ass mobile web app.
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I worked pretty much alone on the code base for the first three months. Then we were two people for another three-ish months. Then the last four months or so we've ramped up the team to have 4-6 programmers on, depending.

But we're also ruthless about keeping the code base small. In the beginning I would go through the entire code base every week and prune it. I still read through the entire thing every now and then and make sure there's no excess fat.
The micro instance seems incredibly slow for me running Rails. It runs out of memory while doing a git index-pack.
Good point. We tried doing something where if the same email thread was loading multiple banners we would only serve one - but good email services like GMail load an image once and then display it multiple times throughout the thread thus defeating our anti-annoyance measures :)
Magic!!!!!

I code in Ruby for a living, and this is even a bit much magic for me. I suppose you can use it in magic-less mode with `from pbs import Command`, and set up your command set manually.
i have no use for this, but if a customer stops paying the monthly fee do they suddenly lose all of their recipes? is there an export function?
It's not about solving a problem. It's about solving the same problem slightly better. The reason why new MVC frameworks pop up all the time is because everybody organizes and writes their code differently based on their own use cases and mental model of how things should work.

There is no ubiquitous JS MVC framework because to be honest, either the APIs out there are not very good or it's too much overhead to simply pick up and use for a beginner in many cases.
For any algorithm that’s heuristically searching a very large space (in this case, the space of model parameters to compress a given string), you can expect it to do better given more time. So it would actually be surprising if the best compressors, in terms of compression ratio, were fast.

In practice, the competitions that people like to use to measure which compressor is “best” have resource limits, and compressors from the PAQ family are at or near the top of most rankings.

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html has some nice charts of the Pareto frontier for at least one competition. This lets you see the most efficient compressor for a given compression ratio and vice versa. The log scale gives a sense of the diminishing returns: it’s really easy to compress most structured data to 0.5 its original size, but getting from say 0.214 to 0.213 can be a hell of a lot of work.
I'm not sure charging $10/month is the right way of monetizing this service. It's useful, but you have to think is it valuable and critical enough to pay $10/month? For "consumers", you should target somewhere around $3-$5/month. That too, not all consumers will pay this - so you have to have some Freemium approach. I feel current version of service should be Free and do Ad-based revenue. And then you add more advanced features based on user feedback, and then make that Premium plan with no Advertising.
Except that changes what it is trying to accomplish. The goal (as I read it) is to make shell scripting more palatable in python. Needing to continually differentiate between "this is python" and "this is system" gets old very fast.

In your example, what pbs is doing is no different than a bash shell script reporting a "command not found". It isn't what I would want if I were writing a complex piece of software interacting with ffmpeg, but for a simple script to process a bunch of files in a directory, I like it.

I've tended to shy away from using Python for shell scripting because subprocess is so ugly (even its out-of-favor, crippled relative os.system is nasty), and pbs looks like it does a really great job at addressing that.
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More searches could also mean that the results aren't great and users keep on searching before giving up. Google is successful when you search less.

Isn't "the number of users buying a domain" the best metrics or at least "the number of outgoing clicks to the registrars" ?
I haven't seen it written anywhere, but judging by the __type in errors like this, I would say Java:

{"__type":"com.amazon.coral.validate#ValidationException",
"message":"One or more parameter values were invalid:
The provided key size does not match with that of the schema"}
Keep in mind this is a sensationalist story. The TSA unfortunately consists of workers trained to follow procedures by the book and have no authority to use common sense. Luckily the only place you ever deal with them is at the airport and usually you'll just walk right on through.

This does not represent the people US who generally like tourists and will be delighted and impressed by your accent, and helpful to show you around our country. (Yes, even in New York City!) Don't be put off by a few assholes, unfortunately we have them here too.
Then you don't use S3?
I applaud you for tackling this niche, but $120/year seems a high price. For example: this is the same price as a 50Gb plan on Dropbox.

There are some features that could make this really valuable - such as automatic parsing/importing of recipes from other sources, or a tablet app with syncing for offline - but if these (or any other value-adding features) do exist, you really need to expose them on the front page.

Have you looked at http://onetsp.com/ ? Their freemium model allows a limited number of recipes. Pro version is $5/year.
How is this better than just storing recipes in Evernote? (One thing I thought it might do is automatically scale recipes up or down, but it looks like it doesn't do that.)
This.

The article is one of the best ever written on the topic.
Some advice on views, returning DOM nodes is not performant. DOM insertion is costly. Consider a view representing a message in a chat room or tweets. What if you want to insert 1000 messages in to a parent view? Building all the messges in a string is much faster than inserting a DOM element for each message. Google jsperf and see how badly the jquery template engine performs which is based on DOMs versus micro-templating.
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Agreed. As a way to write one-off scripts that one would otherwise use bash for, this seems like a nice trick.
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I've had to rewrite gems and Rails code to work properly with Heroku. The biggest drawback to Heroku IMHO is the read-only filesystem. It makes simple tasks like creating ZIP files on the server more challenging.
Just to clarify. I applaud this type of development for people trying to learn various parts of Python like playing with the stack, but the idea of this being used in the wild scares me a bit.
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PNG compressors generally try a couple different strategies, which can get very expensive. You might be able to ask the compression library to be a little more hands-off, if you don’t need great compression.
maybe http://thisdeveloperslife.com/ can do a show about it.
It seems similar, but one significant difference is that, in a drug bust, it's pretty cut and dry as to whether the targets are doing something illegal. The mere presence of drugs automatically makes it so. That's not really the case here. A judge could very well determine that Megaupload never broke any laws.
As an NYC techie, I think talk of NYC (or anywhere) overtaking SV is nonsense. But that doesn't matter- different places have different strengths.

I'd imagine that startups in a few industries (fashion and media are two that come to mind) would benefit greatly from a New York location.
Use RFCs
So you're working on a new protocol/format/etc you're proud of, and want to make a standard out of it.

You write a nice PDF with all your nice graphics.

People read it, and don't understand it the way you meant it and implement something incompatible, or just give up reading it because its not technically straight to the point / not technically precise.

Guess what. This issue has been solved years ago. It's called RFCs. I beg of you to USE THEM. Make a RFC. Follow the standard format. Submit it as RFC.

Thank you.
Love the UI. What I would really love though is a site in which I can give a URL to a recipe I like, and it parses everything for me into a common format. Having to manually enter ingredients / directions when much of the time I'd just like to pull the recipe from somewhere else is going to be too much work. Something like that I would pay for, a simple recipe manager, not so much.
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There's an open implementation of S3.

http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusStorage_v1.4
If you think MU is the victim here and that the FBI are the criminals, you’ve got it backwards.

They took down individual links only, while still keeping the infringing files on the server, and all the other un-reported links to that exact file (they also hashed each upload, so to detect duplicates, and complete the upload instantly and have 1 data file... a fingerprint system they never used to prevent re-uploads of copyrighted material that was reported).

Then they conspired (shown in leaked emails) to only follow DMCA requests coming from large US entities (while ignoring requests coming from Mexico, for example).

Their entire business revolved around tricking people into signing up for paid accounts so they could download copyrighted material. And made 175 million from it.
Oh wow, I had never seen onetsp before. They compete almost directly with me. I agree on the price, and currently brainstorming different ways to monetize.
Only for MU; not from a third party such as the federal government. The ToS is a private contract between MU and their customers. It is completely inapplicable to any issue between their customers and the federal government.

That said, the users will likely never see a dime because the government's sovereign immunity prevents anyone from suing the federal government over damages relating to law enforcement seizing evidence of a crime.

This immunity is what enables the executive branch of the government to abuse this authority and treat seizure as a form of extra-judicial punishment without going through the courts.
Hello Matt, I just want to say thanks for Lean Domain Search. A couple weeks ago I was struggling to think of a domain name for a small project of mine and then I saw your post. It helped me find a pretty good unregistered domain name in just a couple minutes. Since I'm no very creative myself, this really took a burden off my mind and helped me stay motivated.

Thanks!
You can download your recipes as a pdf at any time.
There is none. You can download all your email any time in an open, industry standard format (IMAP).
CSS support varies hugely across clients, and even modern ones like Gmail have odd quirks. You can't count on it rendering like on a regular website - hell, to look good in most clients you still have to use tables.
A parsing bookmarklet is on the horizon, I've begun on the backend for it already.
Ah, makes sense. I didn't realize you guys keep things so small. Is Next going to have an API when it launches? And if so, do the stats posted include lines of API-related code?

EDIT: And since I'm already asking so many questions, how do you guys feel about supporting older versions of IE?