skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely an impressive benchmark by any standard. However, there are some things to be aware of:

1) They used Infiniband interconnects. Running on ethernet is likely to yield less impressive results.

2) Their benchmark does simple primary key lookups. If you start doing joins or transactions that need to hit multiple data nodes, things will slow down. Depending on your workload, this may or may not be an issue.

3) NDB is an in-memory storage engine, so you're limited to the aggregate RAM in your cluster for max storage size.

4) AFAIK, MySQL Cluster doesn't re-balance, you need to pre-determine how data is partitioned and changing it at runtime is hard. I don't know if this has changed in the later releases.
Thanks - feel free to email any feedback to erin[at]betakit.com.
I know about GA & FA, and that FA is a bigger deal. I disagree that GA isn't a big deal, having watched people try to GA good-looking articles and fail. I should have been clearer: this article was on the front page repeatedly, but not necessarily because it was a GA.
I think warning them that Wildfire would be disabled for them on a certain date if they didn't pay/add a link would be more reasonable, but they just threatened legal action. They didn't even suggest stopping use of it, almost implying that having used it in the past indebted them.
No - a Fiber is completely different to a process/thread. The server is still evented. https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers
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The team running BetaKit is sharp and really plugged in.
Can't wait to see what happens.
Mine is mostly work focused too. i always found that if I forget a task while I'm out, then I'd equally forget to look on my phone for outstanding tasks.

Shopping lists are just pen/paper. And if it's important enough, I trust my brain with the info :)

I guess the only other case is google calendar alerts for time sensitive to-dos like "cancel LoveFilm subscription by today"...
ha! I will bust out my best sweet thing voice and biggest innocent eyes next time some one tries to tell me that. Even if it does only apply to the xray machines.
An encyclopedia is a survey of existing secondary sources. It's not a research venue.

The true waste would be taking valuable research and synthesize and hiding it in an encyclopedia. Pokemon aside, most new knowledge that merits inclusion in Wikipedia deserves its own independent source.

It goes research -> authorship of secondary source (journal article, book, magazine article, whatever) -> citation in encyclopedia.

And that's really all that happened here: someone tried to skip the middle step (notably: they tried to skip it while authoring the secondary source --- the author of this article published an authoritative text on the Haymarket Riot later on), and Wikipedia called that out.
If every company had 'creating an internal to-do list app' as its number one (and initially only, for obvious reasons) priority, then we would soon end up with a natural "survival of the fittest" scenario. Pretty soon there would be a victorious company with a to-do list app the likes of which the world has never known. The minute they make that public, we will have a productivity singularity. I would pay five thousand dollars for that winning app: the to-do list app behind the next Google or Facebook. /s
Dodging bullets is one way to become more "agile".
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For some reason my iOS device can't edit a .txt file from Dropbox... silly :( Evernote for me.
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Ah, sorry, I misread your comment :)

(Agreed over GA, wasn't intended to belittle it!)
While I see that is solves some issues I actually know few non-tech web users that keep their email constantly open. Implementing this would also remove the convenience of password saving tools.

Also, if all you need is an email to log in, if my email is compromised I have little to no indication that the offender has logged into that service if they delete the email. With the current web standards, if someone reset my password vie email I would no longer be able to log into the account. With your suggestion, my email could be compromised, services could be logged into and I would have no indication.

Some of these problems could be solved, but I'd say the biggest problem now is that it's very far removed from typical web standards.
Thanks Ryan, glad we're in the same building :)
Beautifully visuals, but unfortunately very very rough UX. Sooo much text and moving graphics on the page, my eyes don't know where to focus.
What it comes down to is you have to trust someone, eventually. You've got to trust your distro and it's installed verion of GPG, or yo've got to trust your own compiled version of GPG, etc. Unless you're savvy enough to download the source code and confirm it's safe, you're stuck trusting someone.

It's sort of a chicken and the egg problem, PGP. A better web of trust would help resolve these issues (I'm probably not that many trusted steps from a Debian developer), but without a better web of trust, it's hard to build a web of trust, if that makes any sense.

And it seems no one does key signing parties any more...
It isn't about limiting scope, it's about parsing and understanding the language. A refactor can change every file in your project (for example, renaming a global variable named 'i').

And, yes, it is very nice. Eclipse comes close with Java but, last I tried Vim and Emacs refactoring plugins, they were nowhere near as good or even very discoverable/usable).
We are happy to experiment with pricing. This is however Software as a Service so I think a monthly fee is probably more suitable.

The problem with a fixed price for SaaS is that you only receive a one-time fee but you have ongoing costs. You are guaranteed to eventually lose money on that customer which for a small start-up like us is not viable.

We will probably develop a downloadable desktop version that people can use on their own computers. This would just be a one-off cost.

Thanks for commenting.
This is a nice concept. If you are looking for a full-featured Markdown documentation product, I just released an app called GuideKit (https://guidekit.com). It's free for open source users. We track document versions with Git, offer a Markdown editor with live previewing, and every site has question & answer forums built-in.
Slam dunk.

http://nerdr.com/bitcoin-laws-imminent-bit-coin-soon-to-be-i...
This is awesome. I presume this is targeted at Bootstrap 2.0. Correct?
One question I have is, how do you plan to deal with changing versions of Bootstrap. Just so I understand, are you recommending dropping the chosen variables.less along with bootstrap less files to compile it?

Thanks
What the studio lawyers did was typical and it stinks. This is a valuable story to be told. But i hate to say it, this guy would probably not have made it in the movie business as a director (if that is what his aspiration was).

First of all, having one failure and then giving up - that business is constant rejection and having to overcome difficulties with every project. Projects fall apart all the time. Lawsuits happen all the time. You have to stick out your neck financially over and over.

I'm not judging him, it's a crappy thing he went through, but if you want a career in the arts you have to be undeterred by situations like this.
It's distasteful, yeah. But I can't imagine having enough energy to get very worked up over an utterly-unnecessary-to-survival product's price varying by a couple of dollars in response to demand variance. Let's get a million other issues in the world solved first.
Should try the 4.0. It's much faster :-)
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I understand what you are trying to say however, you are incorrect. The specific case cited being that the original article made the statement "The prosecution, led by Julius Grinnell, did not offer evidence connecting any of the defendants with the bombing. ... ". This statement while presented as a fact is factually untrue. there is no uncertainty involved. One could argue the quality or value of said evidence but can not deny that said evidence was presented.

Regarding what I consider to be "trivially true" is true. The show trials article itself does not contain a single example of a U.S. court case where the prosecution has "gone to court with zero evidence to present".
Yeah, this is a sort of problem with well known solutions which aren't being used in the US for reasons that are entirely opaque.
Jared Spool's article "Market Maturity" [1] published in 1997 is a very good way to understand what kind of experience is required for success. He argues that success depends on market maturity which roughly follows four stages: 1. Basic deliverability war, 2. Feature parity war, 3. Productivity / "ease of use" then finally 4. Price war.

Stage 3 is generally where UX becomes a priority. For a consumer web product or startup this generally makes sense as a marker for market maturity as delivering technology and shipping features has become easy and cheap. Crafting UX is difficult but probably won't be for long. For example Twitter Bootstrap seems to be lowering the cost of boilerplate UI which in turn lowers the cost of UX in general.

[1] http://www.uie.com/articles/market_maturity/
That's really cool!!! Thanks a lot !!!
> The MacDonalds hot coffee case should rightly be viewed as a textbook example of a frivolous lawsuit

It's McDonalds, and I wonder if you know the actual facts of the case. McDonalds had received over 700 reports of burn victims from their coffee. They knew they were injuring people by the hundreds yet maintained policy that franchises should keep the coffee 40 degrees hotter than other establishments, a temperature so high it would cause 3rd degree burns in under 2 seconds.

Have you seen what that kind of burn looks like? Here's the plaintiff (NSFW image): http://neufeldlawfirm.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/st...
One of the people behind it, Philip Ryu, is also one of the creators of MacHeist. That was basically a giant sceme to gather a large mailing list of folks. He also works with tap tap tap, who makes use of that mailing list for marketing purposes. He calls himself a designer, but he's essentially an online marketer. And he's really fucking good at it.
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I don't really see a problem with what they are asking. They want to be paid either in ad links or in subscription fees. The user of the service who wrote the article doesn't wish to do either. He also (in their view) ignored their previous email about it, so the second email is slightly less polite about it and brings up the possibility of legal action.

I see how it came to this: he says he didn't notice the previous email. Given that perhaps he should have more sympathy for their position believing their request has gone ignored.

I do agree that legal action claims are premature. It's also not very clear if they could prevail in a theft of services case against someone using their service after being asked not to (obviously consent to use the free version has been withdrawn).

Clearly it would be a lot simpler to shut down the former client's access than it would be to drive something through the legal system. It could be argued that without properly notifying customers a service is about to be shut down, the customer might have cause to bring legal action against the company, this may be why they are doing notifications and requests rather than just unexpectedly disconnecting.

Either party taking legal action at all in such a case is probably a foolish move. Not because it's a reaction to "not monetizing", but because it is unlikely there would be a positive outcome for any of the parties in such an action.

Blogging one's (I think) unjustified rage seems as premature as the legal threats.

Now looking at another angle. I don't think ad links are worth $6000, but the company says they would be happy with that. It sounds like the $6000 figure might actually be a fake number that they believe will motivate users to choose ad links instead, which is the real goal. The way they have approached this goal is poor. In this case, the user obviously doesn't want to use an ad link. Perhaps he would be willing to pay $100 a month instead of $500? We'll never know because of the way it was handled.

Both sides should have given the other side more of a benefit of the doubt until determining the real intentions of the other party.

edit: this being vigorously downvoted is pretty amusing.
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That's not what he did. He synthesized from the primary sources text that contradicted the majority of all published sources on the incident, including what was up until then the most authoritative source. That obviously should not be happening in an encyclopedia.

But let's be careful about wording. It obviously shouldn't happen in an encyclopedia. But it obviously should be happening. And it did. He went on to write an authoritative secondary source and the article is sure to reflect it.
When did we go from standard measure of per second for these types of things, you know, requests per second, transactions per second, to per minute? Statistics eh?
Having gone back to Things after walking in the ToDo wilderness for a year or two (the lack of cloud sync was killing me), it seems to me that there is a necessary complexity to real ToDo list organization which Things' GTD-inspired interface does very well.

The main distinction is that you really have to have a way of saying "These are the tasks for today" or "These are the tasks I can do now" and clear out the other ones. Too many of these new ToDo lists create a sort of productivity anxiety, shouting in your face ToDo items which are not completable yet, or not feasibly completable today.

I haven't found an app which decently replicates Things' Today view, where ToDo items you said you'd do Today appear, and if you can't do them, you just click "Not Today" and they'll come back tomorrow (or you can schedule them if you have a better date idea).

I'm now in the Things Cloud Sync beta, and can't talk about it due to an NDA, but cloud sync for Things is coming, and it'll be great when it arrives.
I really like this, maybe add some more sample images, the ones that are there don't work so well...
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I love RubyMine's code formatter (never seen any other ruby formater that handles multiline expressions as well), but much prefer editing in emacs. I wish I could buy only the formatter, and run it from emacs.
In theory every editor (even those without an account) have equal weight. It doesn't matter if you know what the subject is or not. It doesn't matter how long you've been working on WP.

What does matter is if you can source everything you write to a 'reliable' source; and if you can write clearly.

Obviously, in practice this is not the case. Anon editors are often treated like dirt; people making 15,000 twinkle edits feel as if they should have some extra power or consideration. And there's a bunch of meta stuff which is, frankly, toxic and probably doing a lot of harm.
> I've never been millimeter scanned and frankly the radiation aspects of it scare me.

The fact that Michael Chertoff had a financial interest in the scanner company while TSA was examining them for safety should tell you everything you need to know.

TSA needs to be shut down.
I'm not even a little bit upset about CEOs trash talking each other. I'm sure Gruber doesn't care either. Not sure what lead you to believe that.

Observing something happening and writing about that doesn't mean that it upsets you, or that you like it, or that you dislike it. It only means you find it interesting or telling in some way.
I am a little biased since for many years JetBrains gave me free licenses for their products (although I have bought my own for the last two years), but I think that JetBrains has won the "IDE wars" as far as Java (including Clojure support), Ruby, and Python development goes.

I live in IntelliJ, and also use RubyMine for much of my Ruby (and Rails and Sinatra) development. My Python programming skills are weak, but that said, I have an easier time using Python with PyCharm when I have to code in Python.

All that said, even though you can get 30 day free licenses, evaluating new IDEs is a major time sink. If you are a Ruby developer who is all set up with a TextMate or Emacs, etc. environment, it may still be worth the several hours required to really kick the tires of RubyMine.
I agree. While I respect the editorial team very much I think the design should have been simple to allow for faster reading. Anyways, I this day an age every new coverage medium for start ups is ell received.
I was one of the engineers who worked on SMS Defence between 2008 and early 2010. I wrote a lot of the filtering, monitoring and throttling code. We deployed it in Syria because a large percentage of their sms traffic was caused by a virus and they wanted a way to reduce this traffic (as well as other spam and preventing the spread of viruses).

Feel free to get in touch if anyone has any questions.
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Fun with analytics: pitting Hacker News and /r/programming against each other
Ok so hate to point out the obvious, but if you want people to pay for your service ($6000 a year no less) or backlink you.

You might need to put in a bit more effort than a single email with a crappy subject line and a follow up email threatening legal measures. Maybe something nice and friendly even?

Someone said maybe they are a young team..sounds like the kind of crap corporate dinosaurs would pull to me.
If you can make a dataclip, you have access to the database. We've audited it for privilege escalation and put some simple shooting-yourself-in-the-foot protection in, but if you REALLY REALLY want to screw yourself over you can probably find a way.
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Agreed. Except for the super-user crowd, I'd image changes in login and signup flow would generate more confusion that good. With a large enough user base, AB testing something like this could yield good results, but reinventing the wheel at an early stage isn't a risk I'd want to take.
No?

Experts shouldn't want to write encyclopedias. There's a reason you can't cite them --- not Wikipedia, not Britannica --- in real work: they're encyclopedias. They're not just tertiary sources; they're among the least prestigious of the tertiary sources.

I had exactly this problem back in 2007 when I spent some time on Wikipedia. It frustrated the hell out of me, but when I calmed down, I realized that even if WP worked exactly the way I had wished it did, contributing new research to WP is a waste of my time, and the alternative, contributing citations to published sources, is dreary work indeed.

The best advice I can offer a subject matter expert uninitiated in Wikipedia that wants to contribute to Wikipedia: write a book.
Hey, I think they have some upgrade plans.
There is a limited amount of attention that we pay to events of the past. Eventually one of them wins, and the others are mentioned only when the first one is notably wrong. There will be other biographies written, and at least one of them will be better than this one.
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Sweet: I just installed 4.0 and my existing license for 3.x is new enough for a free upgrade. Putting away my credit card...
thanks, some intelligent way to automatically assign colors would be nice. May be I'll look at colors brightness and hue. For now, you can manually reassign them if the generated theme doesn't work.
Some of us like Linux on our desktops (and laptops) and do not use web apps for anything intensive.

The only web app I make intensive use of is Google Reader, and I plan to move away from it. I am glad that so many programmers and startups can make a living on a platform (the web) that is not controlled by any gatekeeper, but I would be sad if I were forced to move to something like Chrome OS.

Yes, only about 1% of users of desktops and laptops run Linux, but that situation is probably sustainable given how knowledgeable and resourceful that 1% is.

If you do not want to see discussion among that 1%, maybe you could just avoid articles like this?
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The primary flaw with every RDF theory is that most Apple customers have never heard Steve Jobs speak. They only know new products are coming out when they see them on the shelves or when news hits CNN or by word of mouth. And if the media and word of mouth are so resoundingly bad at reporting on tech, how are they supposed to be so good at propagating the RDF?

How in the world could the RDF be so powerful as to bamboozle users over the utility and novelty of features, when most of the people buying new Apple products don't even know what the specific features of the next product are?

That's what's so damn offensive about people trying to push the idea of the RDF, even when they try to soft-pitch the idea by saying the products themselves aren't bad.

The entire theory insists that the person who just used an iPod and iTunes for two years doesn't know a thing about their own experience. That their high opinion of Apple is driven not by their actual experience but by the magical mind powers of a person they've never heard speak. That they're objectively wrong and some person who's never used an Apple product for more than five minutes is right, as evidenced by some techno-gibberish on a spec sheet. And that when the happy Apple customer decides to try a Mac, because the iPod thing went so well and the Dell PC thing went so poorly, that the only possible rationalization is that they've been brainwashed.
Didn't TradeHill operate out of Chile? Kind of disturbing that the long arm of California law can shut down operations there.
Ethical feud splits Silicon Valley pundits down VC fault lines
Links to wrong story.
Though I'm blown away by it's simplicity, design and speed, Clear's biggest challenge (beyond syncing) is intuitiveness. You can read my thoughts about the app on Quora at http://www.quora.com/Clear-iPhone-app/How-could-the-Clear-iP...

tl;dr Almost nothing is intuitive and the interface will be jarring/polarizing to the (average) user.
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Why not use a pen on the back of an envelope?

I suspect that searching for the perfect to-do app is a displacement activity.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DisplacementActivity
Totally OT, I suppose, but I have friends in Cologne and always (if very infrequently, these days) enjoy visiting them.

I haven't been in a decade, and I hear things keep changing, but in Cologne I've always felt I could just relax. "Livable", I guess.

Hanging out on the "wrong bank" of the Rhein and having the sheep graze by you is just a bonus. ;-)

Perhaps a bit more on topic, I occasionally note one or another tech / programming shop that has its offices in Cologne. Not infrequently, they look pretty good / sharp.
Ask HN: How do I track down the HTML5 Rocks' Scrollbar source?
I really like the look of the scrollbars on HTML5 Rocks' home site under Mobile and Business (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/business) and I want to use them, or at least check out the code for inspiration on making my own.

That said, my usual route of inspecting the element (Chrome Development Tools), grabbing the relevant class or id, and then scouring scripts via Find has left me empty handed, in large part due to the minification making the scripts much harder to read, and my inability to find any js references to that "one_half" class that is applying the new sex.

Does anyone have any other strategies?
A very succinct way of putting it and I fully agree. What will be interesting to see is how these stages will change as the rate of tech innovation continues to speed up.

With new products coming out all the time, disruptive technologies may arrive so quickly that the price war stage is cut short. I think it will still exist, but just in a more truncated version.