skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if there's any specific reason why they have multiple databases on the same box? From what I see, one could trivially install the full text search engine on another server and reduce much of the space requirements and contention.
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This is interesting...the motivation for the prize givers, I was thinking, is simply to fit into their 'brand awareness' budget. Specifically, I was thinking of targeting companies that have new product launches and such (e.g. publishers with a new book, or Amazon with a new version of it's Kindle, or Apple with a new version of it's iOS devices, etc.).

As for the referral system, that seems a bit scammy to me. It's what existing affiliate networks to do - which is what I was trying to get away from...if that makes sense.

Btw, I agree about the charity fundraising...that's kinda where I got the idea, but was trying to find a way it could work for for-profits.
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Things are getting better...? Abuse of authority is as old as time. The only thing new here is that now the common man has a way to fight back.
I don't know whether the board is subsidized or not, but I suspect most people don't care why it's as cheap as it is.
Great idea! While the questions may not be the same, I love the simplicity of this solution!
You are right...about the affiliate program.

Also re: Amazon deriving value - you are right....I would need to find a way to demonstrate that this value does exist and show it to Amazon.

Because what I was thinking is targeting people promoting a new product (or some other launch). That way, they are in the 'building buzz' around that product/launch phase. I think it's a lot easier to quantify the buzz around a new product launch, than justifying the marketing expense of a regular marketing campaign.

Thoughts?
I've always been amazed how the stackoverflow (and various other stackexchange communities) turned out so much better than the other communities on the internet.

Jeff and the stackoverflow team have put together something really incredible. Congratulations... and thank you.
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If you read closely, you'll see that StackOverflow's database has been moved onto its own hardware away from other StackExchange sites.

I think they're using SQL Server's inbuilt text search engine (edit: no, see below).
I believe that people who are not surrounded by software development genuinely don't realize how many times a day a person that writes software sees an opportunity of a piece of software that does not exist. Because they may have one or two ideas about an app that scratches their itch over a longer period, I think they perceive the value of an idea as being higher than what a software developer does, because for them an app innovation idea is a larger logical leap than for people in the industry. I am not trying to imply an elitist point position in developers vantage point, rather I do believe that there is a lack of realization and understanding of the perceived value on part of the other party.
Good point, maybe I've been jaded by spending so much time on the internet. Or maybe I have a separation in the magnitude between what people write online and what people actually do in public.
Interesting re: MoreNiche. Never heard of them...but it just seems soo 'affiliate network-ish'. All of those competitions and such, they seem so scammy. I am trying to come up with a way to get people as involved as they are with the AppSumo deals, without being so scammy.

You are right about it being non-trivial.
Also, why not just store everything in memory. 512GB of RAM is also not overly expensive… even with the extra MS licensing required for it.
Mozilla shipped support for out-of-process plugins in Firefox 3.6.4 (2010):

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Status

Adobe is announcing some sort of out-of-process plugin support in Flash itself.
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I don't buy that. I find it hard to believe that a court could find that a slightly ambiguous clause means something so different from what the people publishing their code under it understand it to mean. If AGPL didn't exist, and if everyone using GPL claimed "convey" included a hosted service, then there'd be a case. But given that AGPL exists, and given that the intent of most people who use this license is not to prohibit hosted services, that's a major stretch.
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Back in 2005, I was at SEA getting a boarding pass at one of the kiosks. The older gentleman next to me was having trouble getting his. He asked a passing airline rep what the problem was. Her response: "Sir your name is Mohammed, so you're on the no-fly list. Come with me."

I'll never forget the sight of that man shuffling behind the airline rep to wherever he went. Unreal.
Thanks. That makes sense. The more you stand to lose by drifting off, the less likely you are to do it. Even if the cost of getting back on track is just pressing F11 or seeking back in the video, it can be a significant disincentive.

I think the whole computing experience -- sitting upright in front of a screen with a mouse in your palm -- puts your mind in "hunting mode". Web surfing is all about clicking, clicking, clicking. It's like a videogame -- a series of clicks produces a reward (or not): a funny video, a witty exchange, an interesting piece of news, an update from a friend.

I think this induces a certain state of videogame-style excitement, which is incompatible with "calm consumption", as when you're reading a book. On the Web, one minute you're playing "the Web game", the next you're supposed to read a serious text on math, history or geography. But you can't focus because your brain wants to get another dopamine fix. You need to calm down first, which takes time.
It is very intriguing as a front-end guy to see what server admins have to do. As a front-end guy, while I have to think about performance, I never have to be afraid about running out of space or random disk I/O. What do front-end founders do when they unexpectedly run into traffic spikes? I'm so glad services like Heroku take that from me.
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Uh, [0] explicitly refers to Omaha all over the place?

See e.g. this comment: // update and the related structures are used for parsing the XML response from Omaha. The response looks like:
Thank you, masonhensley. I really appreciate the advice. I think I will find the last link very helpful.
The situation is the opposite of what you seem to think. It's far easier and cheaper to scale up than out than it has ever been. Just 5-6 years ago it would have been nearly unthinkable to have a half a TB of memory, 16 CPU cores, and a TB of SSD for a few thousand dollars.

Most people's traffic/data hasn't grown nearly as fast as Moore's law. Scaling up makes more sense than ever. It may not be hip but it's the right choice for 99% of cases.
I've been a Apple & FreeBSD user for decades and it really looks to me like Apple is coming up for a long cycle of public and embarrassing security failures because of this...

Or perhaps I should say, I don't think Apple is going to either update the lagging GNU utilities to current or put for the effort to migrate to current BSD alternatives until they have a protracted public shaming which demonstrably impacts the bottom line of iOS sales. Which sort of reminds me of what MS went through before they started taking security more seriously. (I haven't used Windows in years, so I can't really comment on the state of MS security today).

Which is a shame because there is a lot of opportunity in the eddies of GNU, BSD, and Darwin. We all could benefit from an Apple sponsored security focused FOSS code review / bug hunt / development effort. Sort of like what Google does only focused on Security.
Talking to Sam for 15 minutes is amazing.He is extremely smart, and just helps you get rid of all the noise and focus.
Well, one of the main tools for data analysis, R, is already free ("democratized"). That said, automated access to datasets, natural language parsing and other AI goodies lower the barrier to entry for non-professionals.
I recently attended the University of Minnesota's Code Freeze conference (http://www.umsec.umn.edu/events/Code-Freeze-2012-Continuous-...).

While the conference is usually dedicated to "progressive" software engineering topics (this year was Dev Ops; it's about 6 months behind the hype) the area is not a tech hot spot. There are some startups and dev shops doing cool stuff, but most of the attendees at a conference like this work at big boring Enterprise companies (banks or Fortune 500s).

Inevitably, the question comes up (usually several times): "My completely broken company won't let me use innovative technology X/methodology Y". There's some equivocation from the speakers about how you have to change from the bottom, keep pushing, blah blah blah.

I, on the other hand, get very annoyed. You want to work at a company that is more innovative? It's far easier to _quit your job_ and _go work at a better one_ that change the ossified organization you work for right now. I don't understand why people put up with it, with the job market like it is right now.

https://twitter.com/#!/lof/status/157614221872463872
That isn't necessarily true. Xcode is a very awesome IDE, it has had its growing pains but with the new clang based backend it can go far and fast. Not being reliant on older and more stagnant and more tightly coupled GCC to get there.

It is in Apple's best interest to have a compiler that is also used to do the checking of code in real time within the IDE be the same. It makes more sense because otherwise you get differing results in the IDE versus compile time. It is within Apple's best interest to help developers develop and make it easy to find issues, clang's output for errors are absolutely fantastic. If you type something wrong it provides suggestions for what you may have meant (and most of the time they are accurate).

I think Xcode is one location where Apple is showing that it does care about developers by building a better product with better integrated tools (git for example ...). Are there things we miss from the old Xcode, sure, but overall it is clear that Apple understand they need to provide developers with tools that help them get their job done.

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Clang though is helping the ENTIRE development community. It is an BSD licensed compiler with some absolutely awesome features.

1. Their human readable error messages. I've spent a lot less time Googling random compiler failures or trying to parse GCC's or MSVC's output so that I can understand it and fix the error (especially in heavily templated C++ code) just by having the compiler give me human readable errors. This goes a long way for a developer that misplaced a semicolon or is attempting to use a const variable into some Boost code that expects a non-const variable thereby causing thousands of lines of template errors to be thrown.
2. The LLVM allows for very interesting "languages" to be easily prototyped and tested, and JIT compilation and a few other things can be created.
3. clang can read incomplete code files and make code completion suggestions. Not just tied to Xcode, but as a library. clang_complete for Vim is absolutely fantastic and by far my favourite Vim script.

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Why exactly should Apple be required to ship GPL versions of the software when they could ship BSD licensed utilities without having to worry about being GPL compliant. Just because a few people prefer the GPL version they can't remove it from their system? They believe the GPL licensed tools to be inferior (and with the GPLv3 causes more legal headaches than it is worth) and thus they are replacing them with a set of tools that fit their requirements. Why does that mean that they "could give a rat's ass about the developer community"? Why exactly would they continue to develop clang/llvm as an open source project?
The key takeaway for me was this:

"...the server goes to 288GB (16GB x 18 DIMMs)…so why not? For less than $3,000 we can take this server from 6x16GB to 18x16GB and just not worry about memory for the life of the server. This also has the advantage of balancing all 3 memory channels on both processors, but that’s secondary. Do we feel silly putting that much memory in a single server? Yes, we do…but it’s so cheap compared to say a single SQL Server license that it seems silly not to do it."

Clearly - if you are paying 10s of thousands of dollars for a database server License, it makes sense to fully utilize the ones you've purchased.

Also, in my experience, databases these days pretty much have to stay in memory in order to be performant whatsoever. I think the rule I heard from a FaceBook DevOps manager who was interviewing with us was "If you touch it once a day, it goes into SSDs, if you touch it once an hour, it goes into memory." - of course, at a certain size, you _have_ to scale horizontally with those in-memory databases as well.
Thats not the same. After you have a family things are very different.
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I use MacPorts and "oh-my-Zsh"... but thinking about it, it should not be all that hard to update all of the outdated GNU stuff in Mac OS... but I don't think the system would actually use the updated stuff, so the security problems probably would still remain.
LLBMC (the low-level bounded model checker) is a tool for finding bugs in C
Also, in many cases the title of a page is longer than the area it's supposed to fit in - in which case, appending the alert to the page title results in it not being visible.
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And as a backend guy, I'm glad I don't have to worry about things like why doesn't this look right in IE, and if I make this button this size vs. this size what will the sales impact be ;)
Interesting idea, get many people to edit the same JSON file.

I'd imagine you'd need to do a lot of hand merges, because everyone will try edit the same files section though (notably the bottom of the list), which in part ruins the whole "everything is a PR" vibe. Shame, because the idea of talking over changes in the comments and then pulling it in is cool.
I don't think that is the case, there won't be a requirement for public shaming, Apple is already removing more and more GPL licensed tools each release cycle and it won't be long until they are using more up-to-date BSD licensed tools.

Also, one thing I have noticed is that Apple has started reacting faster to security threats and is at least willing to acknowledge the researchers behind them in their updates, which is much better compared to what previously happened. Not only that but before Lion was released many security researchers received an advanced copy.

The other thing is that almost all of the GPL utilities are command line utilities and are not shipped with iOS so even if there are vulnerabilities in them it is highly unlikely that there will be a target painted on iOS's back. I don't foresee that there will be any major impact on their iOS product line.
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They organised a free one for members of the public to attend. Definitely worth the price. :)
Appending to the end of the page title doesn't work, because the end of the title gets chopped off when it doesn't fit in the tab title or window title.

Prepending to the start of the page title does work though.
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While you may be hitting the nail on the head: the system of finance hasn't changed enough to foster change in the ways change are needed. The problem is that the dominant firms wield market power and control the world's financial products. This means they can make out of control profits disconnected from normal business realities. When business wield market power, they typically garner profits that would otherwise be widdled away through competition.

The financial industry, through lobbying, the federal reserve system, and the revolving door between it and the government, have created institutions that have such a high barrier to entry, that they face no real competition. We cannot create a competitor to Bank of America. We have to trust the Bank of America's competition with Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Citibank will be enough to see the banks make smart bets, charge lower fees, take a smaller cut, and demand fewer bailouts when they screw up. The problem is we've seen them do none of these things. This implies the financial instituions are essentially working in trust, blocking new entrants, and marching lock-step to continue making massive profits.

The fact that the largest bonuses in Wall St. history occurred just after the financial bailout will always serve as the most obnoxious proof of the deceit of the industry as it exists in its current structure.
Some bash examples contains Linuxisms that is not UNIX-03 compliant which OS X is in full, might be that as well.
Just be ready for the day when you max out your IO bandwidth, or some other hard-to-forsee bottleneck.
It's mostly meta data and hashes of stuff. Uncompressed. Most of it in MongoDB, which is probably one of the worst technical decisions we made, for all the reasons that have been discussed at length.
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Well, an incentives discussion which leaves out the other party is not quite valid.

Although, if I were to take your implication correctly - there should be no incentive to take a patent or reject a patent other than its merit.

Which would in turn imply no cost on applying for a patent, except its applicability after review.

But that would also create a perverse incentive for firms to submit patents all the time - there is no cost involved, no barrier of entry and hence no loss in making the effort.

Alternatively, we could have a very quick review system, which would mean that soon after patent submission you get rejection or acceptance. Which would mean that the patent office would need significantly more funding - considering the number of patents it receives vs people who have to review.

If there was a solution which could automate the search for prior art, that would be cool, and a way to reduce the size of the work load.
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Clang is one side, but the other side is things like bash. Apple isn't developing a superior, BSD-licensed shell; they're just planning to ship the same old version of bash until the end of time. Some parts of OS X are getting better but other parts are stagnating.
I'll download FF10 and check it out, feel free to submit an issue and i'll stomp it.
I don't think the impact that stackexchange has had on the programming community is even well understood or appreciated yet. Still for many of us it is already hard to imagine a world without something like stackoverflow.com. It is a tool that we rely upon every day, not unlike Google. Thank you Jeff.
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I have 1.7TB of FusionIO PCI SSD at work and it's not even doing that much right now.

These guys should open their wallets and get more than a little bit of SSD, prob PCIe, plus max out on RAM. 96GB is what most would start at now in a larger HP server.
Hey, the number in title approach definitely has its place! (There's a reason why Facebook, Google use that approach right?)

But if you have an audience skewed towards modern browsers and want to do something a little different this works well and definitely draws the eyes attention.
After all of their evangelism about Windows servers, it is rich to see this: "but it’s so cheap compared to say a single SQL Server license that it seems silly not to do it."

Yes, that is the problem isn't it?
> Way more effective for a business to use Adwords and get like 100,000's impressions for the same price.

I've never in my entire life picked to go to a local business based on AdWords. When I want to find a local business, a restaurant, dentist, gym, etc., I always go to Yelp. If the business isn't on Yelp I will never know about them. The Yelp ads are highly targeted. If a business doesn't already have a strong presence on Yelp, the best way to make me aware of their business is to advertise on Yelp.

Maybe the article was written by someone who doesn't use Yelp. It mentions that it's a negative that the Yelp ads link to the business's Yelp page. To me that is a huge plus. If the ad linked to the business's website I would never link on it. In general local business sites are pretty useless, the Yelp page is generally much more useful for finding out about the business. Hours, phone number, neighborhood, map, reviews, price range, dress code, that's all info I want, and it's usually hard to find on business websites. If that info is readily available I'm more likely to go there.
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The startups I've seen in the area are not really much more interesting than the Fortune 500 jobs. Working at US Health might be lame but is it worth the pay cut to work at a website for high school volleyball games, just to use Ruby on Rails? (or whatever)
At a guess, then, your dataset is larger because of duplicated data.

One of the nice things about normalisation is that, by design, it removes such duplications. The data is reduced to the smallest usable form reasonably possible without compression.

In your case, and I'm just guessing here, there'll be many many cases of duplicate data. Whereas SO would store a user email once, you might be storing it hundreds or thousands of times. And so on.

Compression would help a lot, if it was available (some brief Googling suggests it isn't).

(edit) My guess is that you already know all of the above. I'm not really helping, am I? :/
What crystal ball are you looking at that says they are going to continue shipping bash? zsh is a viable replacement that is MIT licensed ...

There are plenty of other shells out there as well that they could replace bash with. Bash isn't the end all be-all of shells.
Not having used Git in 6 months (feeling rusty) this was a lot of fun! Thanks
It overlaps a little but it's still readable - I think the + approach would be good, i'll look at adding it soon :)
I was just the other day thinking of whether something like this exists, and this library is very aesthetically pleasing indeed.
I love YouTube as a grey-area on-demand radio.. For a really simple music mash up I also made http://fmix.heroku.com .. Enter an artist or Song you like, click search for a last fm generated then randomized list.. Jump from a song you like into a new list.

Has its limitations but works quite well for bgm (except when YouTube search gives a false positive though this can be hilarious)
There is always a bottleneck. Moving it from "disk I/O" to "cache coherency network traffic" doesn't magically make that go away.

Bottlenecks are not magically confined to only affect scale-up designs. And if you look at the design of scale-out systems, they usually surrender some desirable quality such as easy joins, isolation, atomicity etc.
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