skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History: (from http://www.luadns.com/about.html)

I was a happy user of a free DNS hosting service for many years, when this service was acquired by a competitor in august 2011, I was forced to move somewhere else.

While migrating my zone files I realized that I don't like Bind syntax files neither administering tens of domains through a web interface. I've started to experiment on how it should look a perfect DNS service for me. I've realized that I would love to store my configuration files in a Git repository and I would need some configuration language for templating (Lua).

This is how Luadns was born on October, 2011.

I don't know if this is an after the fact explanation, but either way it's a very good story about scratching your own itch.

By the way, they had me at I would love to store my configuration files in a Git repository. As soon as I have a use for this in a new project, I'll be their user. The examples are pretty cool too.
Please explain article rewriting.

EDIT: That was my #fail at answering the question with spun text. Duskwuff did it well!
Techies love to downplay the value of an MBA because they are insecure. Just because Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Ellison, Page/Brin, etc. created world-class companies they think MBAs are worthless.

MBAs are indeed worthless if you're Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, etc.

BUT YOU'RE NOT.

There are thousands of world-class companies (Fortune 1000, small businesses, start-ups, etc.) that were founded/run by MBAs. the VCs, Investors, etc. who funded your worthless start-ups have MBAs.

Every Arrogant techie should remember this: For every successful start-up, there are 1000's other start-ups that failed because the techie founders did not have the business knowledge or experience to execute, manage and lead their companies.
My thoughts on ES6 Fat Arrow Functions
Are Google Ads for Competitor Keywords Wrong?
Ada's verbosity is one of it's best qualities making it perfectly suited for our large, geographically distant team. There are far less questions about the purpose and meaning of code when its in Ada. Seriously! And to boot the documentation writers have fewer problems determine this either since it's all spelled out in plain language. Of course this applies some to Pascal, Oberon and Modula for example, but they are missing other things that make Ada a great choice.
Yes it is unfair.
And there are exceptions to discrimination laws for certain cases eg. for small companies, or time critical operations - similarly to exemptions for jury service.

If you make it clear in the interview that there is a deadline - we are working to a product launch in 6months and we need you to start immediately, and you took the job without telling them that you were immediately planning to take 6months off then the employer would have a pretty good case in most jurisdictions.
I work at BigFix, and it's awesome!
From the author of Solandra, the next generation of Cassandra + Solr integration
left side, 'show search tools' -> 'past year'.
But shouldn't the solution (formula) be "simply elegant"?
eBay seems to be on to something with:
positive/positive + negative rating system. The user knows how many data point are in the pool which over comes the one positive rating gets five stars.
Much in the same way http://demanddriventech.com/home/solutions/replenishment/ has come up with a "simply elegant" formula for supply chains that is human understandable and effectively solves the problem.
RIP forkqueue, i loved you greatly and used you daily
This would fall under the heading of "political discussion".
Yes you can get a big discount. Then when your business booms, and you need to expand, upgrade or (for some licenses) renew, Oracle gets decide how much of your profit to take off the table in licensing fees, up to the full list.

But of course I'm speaking out of school here. I have no proof Larry Ellison or his minions will pursue such ruthless business tactics. Just a feeling :)
Yeah, I'm realizing that there isn't a great starting point for someone to get into web development from scratch. I don't think Django or Rails should even factor into it.

I've liked what I've seen of Code Academy, that might be something to look into if you haven't already: http://www.codecademy.com
PodCast: PHP no Brasil e PHP Conference Brasil
Here is a non-stacked line graph of the 6AM Monday to 6AM Tuesday data, created via the appallingly low-tech approach of measuring the pixel locations at a few timepoints:

http://imgur.com/3Y7K7

The Philippines is indeed dramatically flatter than the others!
Very cool. Not in NY but curious to see how it turns out. Face-to-face is definitely the best way to do an in-depth customer interview, if you can get up the gumption.

One thing I like to do is visit coffeeshops (chains like Starbucks work best) and target people who aren't in a rush or engrossed in work. Being friendly and giving them a gift card (hence the chain coffee shop) for their time works wonders.
If that's the case, then why did consuming nothing but freshly-juiced fruits and vegetables (6 kale leaves, 1 cucumber, 4 celery stalks, 2 green apples, 1/2 lemon, 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, with some variation of amounts and ingredients, taken as many times per day as required to feel full) literally save the lives of these two guys (Joe Cross and Phil Staples)? I understand that it's an infomercial for the lifestyle brand "Reboot Your Life", disguised as a documentary, but if it's for real, then the results are truly impressive. I ask because I'm seriously considering doing an all-out, 3-month fast like they supposedly did in the film. Thanks in advance for any useful info which anyone can give me about the efficacy and safety of this regimen.

http://hulu.com/watch/289122/fat-sick-and-nearly-dead (Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead)(2011)

http://JoinTheReboot.com
Is this the right launch strategy for all startups? If there was no competition to showcase Appthority would it still make sense?
> SV type stuff?

I was being purposefully vague--I just meant the Silicon Valley scene. I have a college friend who just got a cool job there, and some family friends, too. It sounds like a fun place from the culture side, but also from the technology side--specifically, I'm amazed by what a small team can do in a 48-hour hackathon with today's technology. The one that comes to mind is that "Infinite Scrabble MMO" from about 18 months ago. 150 man-hours can produce that? Wow.

I did research in undergrad (mostly over the summers, but a bit during the year). I had a lot of fun, and it was motivating work. But it was programming work! I wrote a bunch of data analysis code and did a little bit of GEANT simulation stuff, and it all felt more like programming than physics. And the "physics research" (experimentalists) that I have seen looks more like engineering (designing/building some apparatus, then fixing all of the problems...).

It just seems so slow-moving compared to the software industry. There's a lot less room for individualism, and it feels like you've got a lot of really smart people doing a lot of menial, commodity tasks (I'm thinking of every PhD candidate and postdoc I've ever known).

I'll have to give theory a closer look. It's hard to see myself in it any time soon, because there's more material I'd need to learn first.

(I think I'm rambling to myself now.) All this, I think, is to say that I'm pretty sure the physics charm has worn off. Unless there's something really exciting around the corner, I think I'm over it.

I seem to have written this comment as if there's some point I'm trying to prove. Habit. Sorry about that! Thanks for the advice and encouragement, and I'll keep my eyes open!
MapBox Streets w/custom styles - powered by node-tint & node-blend
I remember when the Morton's Steak story was originally published. Apparently the recipient of the Steak is rather well known and Morton's recognized this and capitalized on the fact that they could get good marketing out of it. Morton's probably would never have done the same for just anyone.
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This makes me want to go and read Dune again.
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I really like what you just ended up calling appropriate...
I'm seriously laughing here!
In my experience, it has not been possible to predict the audience of such things ahead of time: in fact, it is the things where the most audience-specific assumptions are made that end up (I believe due to those specific assumptions) ending up in the most surprising and irritating of places.
Yet another reason why Github supporting PubSubHubbub would be amazing, as they have RSS for any repo anyway :)
The point being, though, that perl regexes are compiled at parse time, with no extra syntax hanging around.

And no, I simply have to disagree that a separate object instantiation is "more readable" than the straightforward syntax describing the object itself. That this argument should appear in a discussion of a dynamically bound scripting language shows as well as anything why the python community is eating itself. A LISP or Ruby nut would never have made that claim.

The point to having code there is to read it. Hiding it doesn't make it more readable, it just fools you into thinking you understand it better than you do. You probably call your regexes stuff like "split_at_word_boundaries", right? And how many bugs have you had to deal with because the whitespace conventions aren't clear from your source?
Sorry, my fault both for not creating the graph properly, and for not giving the data. Both fixed now.
What is on a US Secret Service mainframe anyway?
How about some advice from a better writer? Like "Politics and the English Lagnuage": http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

"(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent."

Like saying "orthogonal" when you mean "unrelated".
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No doubt. It must be noted, though, that for a very-well-thought-of, modern language: python has a staggeringly large number of "incorrect" ways to do things.
Star Wars Episode IV ASCII movie playing in the Terminal
Yeah, this is old news. Tor blog: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/knock-knock-knockin-bridges...
Rails was promoted as being productive, i.e., able to produce amazing results fast. To my recollection, it was never promoted as being easy to learn.
> worth in terms of cherished personal values

Yeah, that's probably part of it. I guess The Internet can't help me with that one.

> I ended up deciding against choosing a narrow specialty and becoming a miner, so I headed to industry to become a maker.

I like this. Sums it all up quite nicely. Thanks!
It was promoted as being easy for people who already knew how to program. Which it was. The 5-minute blog video wouldn't help a total newb at all, but to an experienced developer it's clear how powerful it was.
Asking at an interview is crazy - all it does is open you upto lawsuits.

I have worked at places that do Google tracking of your name/company email/company name.

I only discovered this when I posted on a tech support forum for a product we use, using my company email. Then got dragged before HR because "any corporate publication", including apparently my support request needs to be approved by legal!

I can see a short step to tracking FB/blog/twitter of employees to check they aren't saying anything about the company.
This is actually really cool in that it occupies a space between Haskell and Python. It seems excessively verbose at the moment but hopefully that will sort itself out in the end.
This is what Sinatra is for. Everything has its place.
Or just:

my $data = `cat $file`;

Some folks dislike the useful use of cat, but anyone who's ever read a shell script will recognize the idiom. And it's a trivial one-liner much simpler still than the python code .
Or just check for an @ symbol and use confirmation email.
With this improvement, how much is Postgres hampered by a lack of a parallel query processor?

For OLAP work, it seems to be the primary bottleneck.
Getting Listed on Google Cinema Listings a HowTo
I'm not sure when the last time a HN post made me actually laugh out loud. Well done yourself!

Also, it helps to be part hacker :)
Tim Cook has an MBA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
East Meets West Infographic
> There are many more system resources associated with threads, most of them are more important than mere virtual address space consumption, like context switch time and thread creation time.

I think you should read the M:N scheduling links. I'll leave it at that.

> Calling C code is very fast and it's trivial to do from Go, http://golang.org/doc/articles/c_go_cgo.html. Segmented stacks are available in some C implementations as well.

http://golang.org/src/pkg/runtime/cgocall.c

Read the comment at the top. Hardly trivial.

> It's not Google Go, it's simply Go, there's not a single Google reference on the page and that's intentional. Looking at your previous posts I see you have an obsession with Google. ... In short, you have absolutely no idea about what you are talking about and you spread malignant misinformation.

Shoot the messenger. Maybe I post from a different account when I am critical of Microsoft, or Apple. Why would that matter to you?
How Groupon accounts for its deals
Your account was created 4h ago, so I really do not know if this response is for real or just trolling. The CloudStack offering was one of the few that got traction in the marketplace and had several high profile production deployments, including major telcos, Zynga and GoDaddy. You can discuss many other aspects, but in terms of maturity it has always been ahead of the rest of private cloud implementations (and that was one of the reasons for the Citrix acquisition)
Hopefully this is adding value to those who are calling in. It looks a little self serving Exec marketing stunt. But, good on them!
Maybe something on http://tm.durusau.net/?cat=151
> There are thousands of world-class companies (Fortune 1000, small businesses, start-ups, etc.) that were founded/run by MBAs.

There are hundreds of thousands graduating with MBAs each and every year. You are not going to be the guy running a world class company any more than you are going to be Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

I don't think an MBA is worthless, but it seems a little foolish to think that it is going to change your life. There is no such thing as a magical formula you can follow to success. While an MBA might lead you to that million dollar job, taking time to do an MBA can just as easily take you away from a million dollar job.

All you can really do is focus on what you think is right. If that's an MBA, do it. If not, don't.
They have some pubsubhubbub support (http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/#pubsubhubbub), but you still need write access to create a web hook on the account.
Though the results may have changed since, I once had to parse a very, very large file (about 5 GB) line-by-line. I tested a number of different methods, and ultimately discovered that reading the entire file using .readlines() was faster by a significant margin. I vaguely recall it was more than four times faster, actually - and that was a really big win when you're talking about a data set that large.

Granted, our machine had a perhaps-unusual design in that it had multiple RAID 6 data banks, a very powerful dedicated IO controller, and about 128 GB of RAM. So your mileage may vary.

Unfortunately I don't have access to that machine any more so I can't perform the same benchmark, but I have a nagging feeling that if I ran the tests again with Python 3.2 I'd get different results.
> But today's computing really can't be compared to the experience in the 80s, when you as a kid >could master your CPU and know its complete instruction set, its registers and important >memory locations and feel completely in control. I shudder when I see where general computing >is headed with kids dreaming of owning iPads.

I wish too that computers were like they were in the 80's. Growing up now, I remember when to me the System Preferences on a Mac were a place that you didn't go or else you might mess up the computer. Still, with programming knowledge and all, I always get a little bit frightened when I'm about to do something the tiniest bit dangerous that might it so my computer won't turn on, like using `dd` even though I checked the name of the disk I was trying to write at least ten times. I blame it on my generation and the "magic" about computers today that some other HNers mentioned.
It's mostly the course work and preliminary tests (studying for them) that I'm not liking and dreading, which are supposed to take another ~2 years. At that point, the sunk cost fallacy would probably keep me in for the whole thing.
Neverblue's parent company has filed for bankruptcy. $1 billion in debt
It was not that long ago that 'serious CAD' and 'Unix' went together like ham and eggs.

Then those pesky Windows computers got underfoot and that was all she wrote.
Is Venture Capital Just a High Stakes Poker Match?
it's sloppy the other way around too. you can have low body fat and still have high BMI.

i'm more muscular than average but have pretty low body fat (consistently <14%). but because of the BMI calculation I'll often get told I should lose weight when I get a checkup (unless they have half a brain and look before they speak).
Proving Amy Hoy Wrong: The $0.99 Challenge
I'm desperately fighting the urge to snark: but another very effective treatment for dealing with unreadable regex syntax is to learn regex syntax. In my experience probably 90% of people who complain about regular expressions simply don't know them very well.

It's a declarative language without symbols or recursion: that means that it's just not well-suited to being "broken down and simplified". You just have to bite the bullet and learn it. With a little practice, the basic features (e.g. beginning/end of line markers, character classes and captures, maybe non-capturing parentheses too) should be readable without trouble.
Indeed. This is pretty much my plan for the future.
The Recruiting Funnel
Just signed up. Looking forward to it!
Kinect+Magic=Awesome
The formula for BMI is simply wrong. It's based on a square of the height. This would be great if we were two dimensional, but we're three dimensional.

Tall people routinely have high BMIs and short people have low BMIs. I'm 6'5", and though I am at the 20th percentile of weight for people of my height, I have a BMI that indicates borderline obesity. And I'm skinny with about 12% bodyfat.

It's just a weird measure. I'm not sure why anyone uses it.
Corollary: if you charge more, deliver a product at least as good as your cheaper competitors.
Another huge vote for Intercom. I use them every day to get to know our customers at http://beanstalkapp.com and the product has saved me a TON of time and made my work much more easy to gain insights from.
I used the wilson score method to generate star ratings off of individual user up/down reviews on a commerce site thirteen years ago.

You can do something very similar with plaintext reviews by doing sentiment analysis to mark them as a yay, a nay, or a no opinion, and generate a similar score.

There are other, more complicated, ways of doing things, but this is fine for somebody who only has a modest knowledge of stat.
Brand name. Instagram is very well loved on the iPhone by many users and has been something Android users wanted.

Anecdotally, my friends who use Instagram typically verbify the word as well, e.g., "I'm going to Instagram this cup of coffee." That, to me, illustrates the brand penetration Instagram already has.
Poland wants to regulate cookies [translation]
How then do you explain the fact that his methods have worked? He has outed doctored photos that appeared in news stories and they have been retracted after investigation.
Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap
Filipinos are great for business process outsourcing. They tend to have fairly good written and spoken English and have a decent work ethic.

I'm not as big a fan of them for software work. For coders, eastern Europe is your best bet, with Brazil picking up a lot of steam in the last few years as well.
V8 is a non optimal VM for heavy IO?
That's a little simplistic, and I say this as a capitalist.

The analogy doesn't ever consider that "man 10" often doesn't pay $59, because there is a rule that he can buy 2 shots for the bartender's hot daughters at $1 a piece and reduce his beer burden to $12.

It also doesn't consider that the whole point of a progressive taxation system is to pay for a finite amount of beer that cannot be counted on to be equally allotted. Not everyone receives 1 beer every day. Sometimes, the men only collectively use 8 beer, other 12 (especially when the men figure that they should buy some beer for the bar across the street). Sometimes, "man 6" needs 3 beers because he had a bad day, but he still only pays $3, because paying $9 would bankrupt him and create 5 people paying nothing, which is a detriment the entire group.

The breakdowns continue... 2-3 out of the first four men actually do not stay permanently in this state. Often, they become payers into the system as well at different levels. The system is designed to encourage this mobility, because at the end of the day, we are better with as many "tenth men" as possible.

The tenth man often can only be the tenth man with men of 5, 6 and 7 calibre to work for him. Without this labour, he is only a "eighth man".
The system is symbiotic. The 10th man cannot just up and leave, anymore than the first man can, otherwise he would have already done so. The fact is that he too benefits from this relationship.

At any rate, my overall point isn't that one way is better than any other way, it's that the taxation systems of modern western nations - in that they are meant not only to fund government but to change macro-behaviors - are much too complex to be compared to 10 men buying beers.
I've been wondering. How do I do that and also search for the exact phrase "iPhone 4"? Do I type "iPhone 4" "4"?

(edit: this seems to work.)
sure, there are some tangible differences and pivot is probably a strong word...I like focus instead.

I was just shocked by the timing. I mean, its sort of tongue and cheek, lots of ideas are similar all the time.

Shoptiques has a great thing going and ShopJoy will plow forward like it's supposed to.
There is a difference between a small business, and a start-up. MBA's are suited for the small business, and suited very well for it. Techies are suited for start-ups.
Well since their humorous responses go back to the early 2000's I suspect they have a bit more experience at this.

One of two things are required to enforce laws across sovereign nations, a co-operative government or a occupying military force sufficient to displace the indigenous military. While the US may have the latter, they don't have the former.
The mentorship, networking, and experienced devs to bounce questions and misconceptions off of is such an important that you really miss in Udacity, etc.
Designing Experiences for Young Kids : Child Proofing your Application
It shows up in search now, but it's about the 20th result (may have been true earlier as well, I didn't try scrolling far). But even if it wasn't indexed immediately (which is still ridiculous - it's all their system), they're still not taking app name or current trends into search results.