skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually setting up a new ec2 instance tonight as my current one is set to expire.

I currently run DUNG (nginx/gunicorn), perhaps I will run nginx/uWSGI first and compare performance. I will ping you if I get around to it.
What is Electric Imp?
Agreed, it's troubling. Ada is easier to learn than C++.

I'm wondering if the whole thing was orchestrated by C++ static analysis tool vendors. Or some set of byzantine keyword-centric recruiting requirements make it difficult to hire someone who is capable of learning Ada.
2. Edit ruthlessly

I would add one more piece to your excellent suggestions: find a skilled editor if at all possible. An editor will find things you won't and offer suggestions based on an entirely different reading history and pool of knowledge. You'll learn much vaster and write much better material with another person to help you than without.
My favorite: http://www.whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/
Oh I get it, you're talking about from a package developer's standpoint. Not having to register your package with a central directory does save a bit of time for you I guess.

But when installing packages, I have to say, npm is fantastic.
if the business doesn't require a lot of physical interaction , try moving to a lower cost country. Your runway will increase two/four fold.
and more money
FYI, man, if I put in 85382 (my local ZIP), it takes me to a burrito place from the starting point that is about 2 miles away, when, in actuality there is one probably 200 feet from the starting point (called Caramba's).
Proper unit testing makes split-brain validation a non-issue. Client-side validation does feel more responsive, it also saves bandwidth, and prevents impatient users from spamming the server with invalid requests.
Amazon SimpleDB: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
I don't think they have redefined any of those words, merely provided more concrete meanings.

It is true that the writing style RFCs is hard to read, but I don't think there's much hope of changing that while maintaining the sort of precision that is necessary in this sort of document. Legal documents are also hard to read.
Or more useful information.

So far, Google has done an awfully good job of hiding everything not immediately relevant, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
People take TPC-C seriously because not much has come along that's more useful as a transactional benchmark. There are lots of transactional benchmarks, but they're often flawed in some annoying way and don't serve well as a baseline as TPC-C.

That said, TPC-C is horribly out-of-date. For example, you have to simulate human data entry time within transactions. How many systems have that problem today? It also only ever adds data, so if you run it fast enough, you have a petabyte problem, and most OLTP isn't a petabyte problem.

As for the second point, those clusters are clusters in name only. They use fancy and expensive interconnects and caches that effectively give them shared memory. Also, they won't tolerate failure of any individual component well. Finally, individual nodes still act as gatekeepers and transaction monitors. Most of the cluster is simply there to apply predicates on data coming off of disk really fast.
It's a bit funny that the title of this article is broken English.
> how hypothes.is has anything to do with this

Hypothes.is annotations are great for legal content, and are similar to the stated goal of the GitLaw project -- namely to see how the laws are created, modified, debated, and by whom.
Folks who use CloudFlare already have IPv6 as a free option just be flicking the IPv6 switch in the control panel. Even if the real web server is IPv4 only it's possible to go IPv6 immediately with that.
It showed me a Chinese carry out a couple blocks away.
I hate the term "the 1%" it's just a bunch of malarkey. Whether you got your money through savvy investing or hard work, it doesn't matter. What you earn, you should KEEP. I detest handouts, especially when someone tries to give them to me. Each person should get according to their work (or their ability to work. The disabled are the only ones remotely eligible for handouts, IMO).

Now I'll just watch as my karma plummets for speaking my mind on something. Oh well I guess.

Edit: I do think though that TED is wise not to wade into this battle. It is a very politically charged topic, especially right now.
How the fuck should I know.
Count yourself lucky you don't live in the UK, where you can be convicted for tweeting "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"
1.5k to 2k people in a country the size of the US is hardly an 'epidemic'.
The ALL CAPS nature of weather alerts is due to the constraints of a very old but extremely widely deployed alert broadcast system. In the US, at least, the NWS is upgrading their alert broadcast systems so that this will no longer be the case, but this will definitely not happen quickly.
Another rich guy trying to persuade average folk that all our problems would be solved if people like him were taxed more. Never mind that the Buffet-rule (minimum 35%) would net $31 Billion over the next 11 years versus $7 Trillion in estimated deficits. (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74232.html)

Another reason this idea is so wrong-headed is that there can never be enough superrich Americans to power a great economy. The annual earnings of people like me are hundreds, if not thousands, of times greater than those of the median American, but we don't buy hundreds or thousands of times more stuff. My family owns three cars, not 3,000. I buy a few pairs of pants and a few shirts a year, just like most American men. Like everyone else, we go out to eat with friends and family only occasionally.

I can't buy enough of anything to make up for the fact that millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans can't buy any new clothes or cars or enjoy any meals out.

But you can invest... Your money isn't stuffed under your mattress, is it??

That's why taxing the rich to pay for investments that benefit all is a great deal for both the middle class and the rich.

Are they really investments or are they just political favors that over-cost and under-deliver? (See the Department of Education, TARP, Medicare, war, etc.)
The way you learn to write well is by reading.

And of course it makes a difference what you read.

Learning how to do anything well takes practice.

But you will not become a good writer unless you read.

As for what you should read,

"Garbage in, garbage out."

What do you think are the effects on your writing from reading blogs like "codinghorror"?

If your aim is to be a better written communicator in business, then you should read business correspondence from good sources.
My coworking space comes up on the drinking site.

So that's pretty accurate, actually.
Unless the hotel booking system has a captcha...

I always try to mention his when people get over excited a out the semantic web. Most of the important stuff that we would like to automate we also insist that a bot not be allowed to do it. It's pretty scitzo in my opinion.
This Is How You Will Connect Everything in Your Home to the Internet
Yeah, it's just a great API. Hits an important pain point.
I'd say that is a pretty good start. But I think you need to expand your recipe index. I tried several different sets of ingredients and it just kept telling me to make soup.
This is just Wikipedia in-line in results...
I agree it sounds pedantic, but think about how muddled discussions areabout what "object-oriented programming" means. "real-time" is a well-established term and actually means something really specific. Diluting it doesn't benefit anyone.
How about it raises the costs of coordinating a conspiracy - it signals to other protest groups that if someone starts suggesting violence, you should decline because they might be an agent. That could then prevent violence in cases where no undercover agents have infiltrated the group.

I still think the tactic is unethical, but this is one way it could be effective.
^^ this. Most of the sites containing such words are classified by Websense as "tasteless".
As it feels relevant, here's a site of mine that includes all the HTTP Status Codes in an easy referenceable format: http://httpstatus.es/
I wonder if he could regenerate the screenshot on the server side, or more realistically simply show the same information on a web page. Then he could put all the information that goes into the screenshot—“amounts, tax, subtotal, top and total for up to 16 individual people” doesn’t sound like that much data—into a billr.me URL, and shorten that with bit.ly. That would save some money because no screenshots would need to be stored on S3.
I can personally vouch for the maturity of Node especially Socket.io. We're building a web-based email client that relies heavily on real-time communication with a Node-based email importer. See http://philterit.com. I've found Node to be faster and more lightweight than Rails 3, which we initially used for our prototype. With JavaScript being the lingua franca on the client-side, specializing in it as a team has permitted us to master it and offer a far better user experience.
"Savvy investing or hard work"

So, you are up for some kind of strong inheritance tax to ensure that people have to work hard or invest savvily rather than just inherit money from their family.

'Cos, you know, inherited money is neither gotten "according to their work" or "earned", but rather received purely on the basis of random genetics.
Good thing he's not avoiding taxation then. I'm not sure where that idea started, actually. When he leaves, he will have to pay an "exit tax" that's just as if he'd sold all his stock. The standard 15% capital gains tax would come to about half a Billion dollars! So he's actually going to be paying a lot of taxes when he leaves.
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yea right now it's just searching for 'mexican near your address' with google maps. Oh well.
If there is one thing I've learned its to ignore benchmark tests on relatively established technologies.

You'll drive yourself into the looney bin if you hop from one thing to the next based on these comparisons that inevitably popup every month or so.

If you enjoy programming in JS with Node use it - if you enjoy programming with Go use it. Your enjoyment will far outweigh performance differences that will be minor in 99% of real world cases.
Hopefully after Double Fine throws some weight behind it the docs will get better. In my experience, they're not great.
There’s one idea, though, that TED’s organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is a bad thing for America, and that as a result, the rich should pay more in taxes.

I'd suggest it's not too controversial but too pedestrian. Or maybe I'm seeing this through European eyes; ideologically, this topic/argument is mainstream here, even if politicians fail to do much about it.
You aren't supporting your case at all. I said "just because you can accomplish something with bad software, doesn't mean you accomplished it because of that software". And you responded with "it is possible to build big things with bad software". Yeah, I know. That doesn't make the bad software good though, which was my point.
Netflix: Disgruntled customers rejoining service
Relationships between facts are also facts. Having more facts enables you to do a slightly better job but I suspect that is all there is to it.
You invest whenever you buy something from a company.
Perhaps it is better to have many millions of people making small investments in the form of purchases and therefor "voting" on what is better.

Rather than having a few large investors who may likely invest in stuff they never or rarely use which could have a habit of creating a bubble.
He would have done so much better to shop his Gardens of Democracy book around. That at least presents some new ideas that aren't talked about enough. Like vannevar, I fully agree with Nick but the talk is completely pointless.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Gardens-Democracy-Citizenship-Gove...
Can you confirm that the burrito is not hiding there?
Investment: noun. Political payoff made with other people's money.
You might want to use the Yelp API.

http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/search_api

https://github.com/Yelp/yelp-api
What’s So Scary About Google Glasses?
This search worked in my town where WhatthefuckshouldIeat had trouble finding anything.

Could the difference between as layman friendly to understand as different search queries?
Yeah. IHOP was the second option for me.
The most telling thing about the state of startups is that this thread has been so ignored.
Rage level depends on what you're paying for. I have a server at Rackspace, it's my job to ensure backups, not theirs. That's the service level I pay for. They offer a backup service through Cloud Files that puts your backup on a different server. About once a month (which is all I need for the little usage my server gets) I log in, click the button to do a Cloud Files backup, and I'm done. Costs me about 60 cents a month for the file storage, pretty cheap for an off-server backup. If the server holding my instance fails, it's a couple of clicks and about 10min to restore it back.

I hate it for anyone who loses data, but if you're not paying them for a backup service, it's an expensive lesson to learn.
> have to remember their redefinitions of words like SHOULD, MUST, MAY, MIGHT, PERHAPS, QUITE POSSIBLY

I find that to be one of the easier parts. They establish a very careful set of vocabulary and then use it consistently and CAPS it to make sure you don't accidentally miss it. The definitions match the standard of the definitions, so it's not hard to remember. They embody the concepts "you have to", "you are not allowed to", "you can if you want", "we encourage you to", and "we don't know for sure but we think so", and a couple others.

They have to be precise, they're trying to write the equivalent of human code. Wiggle room and vagueness is bad.

One problem with RFC quality is that they pull in standards from other areas, so sometimes X was written for one standards body, Y for yet another, but they were both converted to an RFC and thus the styles differ.
Microsoft and DevOps
Microsoft a DevOps player - it's true and on the way..
Missed two burrito places closer, but I love the idea.
It reads like an "Reader's respond" column on the op-ed page in a local newspaper. The guy makes utterly standard and conventional arguments and then rests on an appeal to his authority as an whiz-bang investor.

Hardly too hot for TED, more likely to set people to snoozing.
Right on, and #1 is actually an excellent result had the advertisers parleyed that into social proof for newcomers.
Wow, cannot WAIT to see this out in the world!
Windows 8 Schools Google Chrome In Building A Great User Experience
So is the fact that you have a home as a child. I don't see that your argument holds water. The fact that you live where you live is pure genetics as well. Why don't you ship your money to starving ethiopians?

If you're going to argue that, then you have to be willing to give up what you have too. If you're going to talk about the 1% in America, you have to talk about the USA as the 1%, because, let's face it -- if you live in the US, you've got a hell of a chance of being better off than most of the world.
Perhaps it is not a very new or well supported argument, but this is not why TED chose not to show it. The TED curator basically admits that he doesn't agree with the idea and that he also finds it too partisan to distribute. I would be worried if it is really being cut because the curator doesn't agree with it. Now as to whether it is partisan or not, this is not the first TED talk that has that "issue", there are TED talks about creationism, atheism, global warming, contraception, etc.
Them saying that?

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo...
The article quotes law/procedure that indicates that he would be 'excludable'. I didn't see where it gave evidence that he would be excluded, such as precedent? All aliens are supposed to be treated as a possible immigrant and must provide reason/evidence to prove otherwise.
You mean it's a fucking joke.
Inequality is a stupid measure. What matters is absolute poverty. If I have a comfortable standard of living, what do I care if Bill Gates has a million times more money than me?
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Yeah, I'm sure the US will close the doors to a billionaire... just out of spite.
"new customers" is not a valid metric for a restaurant or a pizza place. You want new customers, sure - if you are a small place just starting up. What's important though is repeat customers. Perhaps if they marketed to people who 'like' them on facebook, those customer would more frequently visit that restaurant, thus increasing revenue. Just because they got no new customers doesn't necessarily make the campaign a flop.
The Facebook IPO in Perspective
Life insurance companies are the largest lobbies for increased death and inheritance taxes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hanisarji/2010/12/01/life-insura...
Good core-values = easy decision making
I can't believe my eyes actually. As I was opening this comments page, I thought that majority will represent vastly different opinion here. But since that's not the case, I decided to speak up.

Nick Hanauer cannot be more wrong. Taxing rich people means punishing someone for his success. There is no argument that could justify such Robin Hood's behaviour. In fact that's what was (or is) happening in the communism. So regression at it's finest. I think that someone hasn't had his history homework done.
The things is that the root of the problem is somewhere else. If you think about evolution for a second. Weaker species are removed, stronger survive. It leads to creating better and better species. On the other hand, if we helped weaker species to survive as well, then not only this natural filter is effectively stopped, but also ironically, the situation is even worse for the stronger ones. That would inevitably make the whole ecosystem poor.

To wrap it up, if God (or some other kind of Force) decided to help poor species, we, humans, would never exist. Why don't you just support the idea, that put you into existence?
The Business of APIs: Elastic Path Interviews API Evangelist Kin Lane
Taking academic research to production ready code is far from trivial.
A quick way to test this is to use:

http://websocketstest.com/
Yes, but then he won't have to pay additional capital gains tax on the stock if it happens to skyrocket in the years following his renunciation of citizenship. You only pay tax on the profit you make on stock investments, so any profit he stands to make in the years following his renunciation will be tax free.
How to hack engineering culture
Random fact: the bottle of wine pictured on that page is one I drank in a restaurant. On the bottle there's Lorem Ipsum text that accidentally hadn't been replaced: https://twitter.com/#!/jgrahamc/status/140827340757417984/ph...
Show HN: Daydream.fm - build and share your own world of soundscape and music.
Hi guys, I want to show you a site I built, which lets you build your own virtual world of soundscape.

I work out of cafes all the time because the white noise and ambience helps me concentrate well. Then one day I wondered: what if I could have my own cafe on my laptop, so I can enjoy that state of mind anytime, anywhere? And what if I can share it, so other people can enjoy that emotion too?

So I built Daydream. It lets you create your own world of soundscape, by combining visual, sound samples, and music. Once you set it up, you can just use it as an ambience player, or a music player with ambience, by adding more songs to their relevant contexts.

Here's the link: http://daydream.fm

I would really appreciate it if you guys shared what you think. Thanks!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913719
if ingredients in recipe.ingredients:

suggest recipe

else:

suggest soup
Not to mention that people may reasonably disagree on the definition of "strong economy," and if having a "strong economy" is even a high priority compared to, say, personal liberty or socioeconomic equality.
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Vibrating telepresence robot baby for hugging during phone calls
GrowLab Accelerator Matures with Announcement of Second Cohort
I suspect their letter will be ignored. How many senators do they control?
As I read the relevant law, it's sort of a de facto determination that you're renouncing your citizenship for tax reasons if your net worth or income are over certain limits (which he's waaaay over).

It's possible to have that de facto determination overruled by certain government officials if you can present a convincing case to the contrary, but I haven't seen anything indicating that he's done that.
- Quanta IDE very web developer friendly - nor or less died with KDE 3.5
- Kooka scanner tool (which incorporated OCR, there is a quite a lack of Linux OCR apps.)
clickable link: http://daydream.fm
Post the damn talk and let people make up their own minds. This is a PR disaster.
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Ooo. I like that. "Ideas worth spreading... to the peasants."
Some Fucking Points:

1. You should already know where the fuck I am, it's 2012.

2. Maybe you'd really fucking impress me if this was a mobile app. (You'd also know where the fuck I was)

3. Don't fucking send me to a place across town, what the fuck.
China Flexes Its Regulatory Muscle, Catching Google in Its Grip
I have to disagree. 31 billion may not wipe out the deficit, but it is a good start. The alternative minimum tax is another good start. I think there will be no single thing that eliminates our deficit, and have yet to hear negatives to the "rich" paying a bit more, especially if many of them are for it.
I think part of the "problem" is that Node represents two different "radical" ideas together: first, using JavaScript on the server, and second, using evented/runloop programming. As such, the discussions become kind of confused. For example, not being someone too excited about Node myself, I still found this particular article kind of strange: I see no issue at all with using JavaScript on the server and in fact think that's the best part about Node. I am on the end of the spectrum where I don't even understand the point of discussing what language "deserves" to be on the server.

However, due to the hyper success of Node, we were left in this strange place where Node became the defacto JavaScript platform, and you can't really use JavaScript on the server/desktop without it (you can I guess, but don't expect anyone else to be able to use your code easily). As such, I think part of the reason you have people who want to use Node "for everything", is that a lot of them just actually want to use JavaScript "for everything", which is a less contentious issue in my opinion. In a world where you had "JavaScript on the server", and the optional "Node library" where you could do evented programming, vs. a different Rail/synchronous style library, you'd have something that looks a lot more like the other programming worlds.

I for example want to use JavaScript as my ideal scripting environment on the desktop, which is not that well suited for the asynchronous model of Node (just reading a bunch of files, operating on them, and then spitting out a new file can be kind of tedious with this model -- I'm not really waiting on anything or trying to hold a million open connections simultaneously). JavaScript itself I think competes just fine against Python and Ruby for these tasks, but again we can't really compare them in this abstract way, we have to compare JavaScript in the particular way it exists in Node, which brings along a lot of opinionated asynchronous APIs.