skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is particularly acute in monitoring because you tend to need to monitor many disparate systems and subsystems in a very fine-grained manner. It needs to be reliable and not impact performance no matter where it is run which usually has to be everywhere. The Unix philosophy is definitely useful on a wider basis, but monitoring could be the poster child.
I don't see any change at all, whatsoever.
I think you're giving "programmers" too much credit or "project managers" not enough.

I'm the product guy at a small-ish company and my main dev-side pet projects are deployment/CI and development workflow, and I've implemented 95% of the solutions for these as well as architecting our overall system.

Some would just say I'm a programmer then, but I think what padobson was getting at is that good people in any of these roles get their hands dirty in optimizing their area of concern, even if that overlaps in other areas.
Show HN Again: Automated email newsletters, social media sharing for any website
Apologies for the re-post, my original topic is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130935 However, the feedback I got was that there was not enough information about what the app actually does, how it works, and how to get started. I’ve put some work into addressing this now and am really excited about getting some feedback from the HN community and so am re-posting it so soon after. Plus my original post got me ONE new user (@carRapide thanks for trying us out!) which has got me real excited as well.

I look forward to hearing from all of you.!
One subtle point: there are sometimes legal processes for declaring independence from a host country.

The most clear example of this is the Statute of Westminster 1931, which the Parliament of the UK passed in order to create a legal process by which its colonies could file for legal independence.

As I understand it, in British law classes, there is often a question asked of students: "If Parliament repealed the Statute of Westminster today, would we (in principle, legally) get all of those colonies back? Does Parliament have the right to repeal the Statute of Westminster and the grants of independence under it, or were they something otherwise unprecedented in law: a surrender, effective forever, of certain legal powers?" Etc.

So yes, there are sometimes legal processes for starting a country, although the U.S. doesn't really have one. The U.S. does allow you to apply for statehood however, so it might be interesting to immediately declare independence (illegally) and then immediately apply to become a state (legally) to see which imperative wins out.
Inline all the things (CSS)
Write an algorithm to match articles from different sources that are about the same story. That way you can autohide news that you've supposedly already read from another source. Clustering news from different sources would be a killer feature for me :)
I'd love to see el-wire glowing drone "night birds" flying around at night @ Burning Man
God is something outside (and can be inside at the same moment) the Universe, meaning that it is something we cannot grasp. If we cannot grasp how God operates then whatever we look at is just an observation of a single event, however long we look at it. So whatever time we perceive within our Universe it may be just a single very short moment to God. Hence evolution isn't really how we interpret it - it can be completely possible that how God creates us we perceive as evolution.
I'm quite interested by this: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/paypal-payments-advanced

Do you have any news when it would be available in the UK/Europe?
Torrent it as a dataset for researchers perhaps? Researchers in information retrieval, data-mining and so on might be interested. Would be a cheap way to distribute it. If it has user metadata etc., I suppose you'd have to clean/anonymise the dataset though (but if there is user metadata, then this could prove the dataset's true worth). Could be good cheap promotion for ThatsToday too.
What the London business community really think about banks, Britishness & China
my condolences to the poor bastards
I'll go ahead and recommend RegexBuddy (http://www.regexbuddy.com/) as another useful tool for testing regexes. (No affiliation, this just happens to be one of the most useful programs I've bought with my own money.)
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i believe you also can set `{ *zoom: 1}` on the container block, that should also work in old browsers and it doesn't cause hidden scrolls
If you watch TV that might be the cause. It's like being second hand smoker while you are quitting.

I'm speaking from personal experience. When I was alone for prolonged time I noticed how miserable watching TV makes me. Only after that when I ditched TV the calmness and true peace that OP wrote about came.

Human contact really plays on the same strings in human brain as addiction complete with binges, hangover and withdrawal. At least for me and the OP it does.
A few other tips I gathered from my conference experience:

In a conference spanning several days, know before the conference on which day and at what time you are speaking, and know when the social events are. If you are speaking on the last day, or after a social event, market your talk beforehand or you'll have a smaller audience.

Have a bottle of water on stage with you, not soda or coffee. If your talk lasts more than 20 minutes, believe me, you'll need a sip now and then. Taking a short break to drink is OK, you can use the silence to highlight the point you just made.

Speaking of silence, don't feel the need to talk all the time, use silences and pauses, it adds rhythm to your presentation. Don't forget you are the expert, the audience is not, they might need some time to digest the information you are giving.

As an expert, you might want to shove everything you know in your talk. Don't do that, ignore the smaller details and focus on the story. No one care about the small optimization you have spent a month tweaking (unless this is the topic of your talk). Focus on the broader picture.
For me there's a difference between cheating and hurting someone by doing so and cheating without hurting anybody.

Yes you could say cheating always causes damage in some shape or form and you would probably be right, but I'm not a good enough person myself to judge anyone on a such nuances of morality.

Of all not quite morally flawless sales practices this one is on the harmless end of the scale in my view.
If you come to Mars and you manage to grab one animal's ear without the rest of body, you hope to clone the whole animal?
Yay! Someone finally invented the clearfix method!

Or wait, hasn't someone else done that before?

My personal favorite: http://nicolasgallagher.com/micro-clearfix-hack/
Brooding isn't voluntary. Bad experiences with people don't fade away with time and can return in flashbacks many years after when your mood is down for whatever reason. I perfectly understand OP as I'm also the kind of person that has this strange memory for people doing me harm by what for most people seem nearly benign act.
A Tale of Secondary Namenode in Hadoop
If I start talking about traffic jams in big cities and do so for a long while without giving the whole picture, then everybody will think that's just how big cities operate.
Great Idea,

visting your frontend2.com-site, I encountered, that I am not able to scroll in Chrome and that I am not able to activate a sound twice.

So "give me more and more" would not be possible.

But keep up the great work, please.
I suggest you change your privacy policy (i am sure you have one) and tell the users that you will open the database for researchers, and make the open database a donation based service, this way you can pay to host it and might get some good extra money.
http://www.regexpal.com/ is a good alternative too
http://www.webtoolkit.info/css-clearfix.html
Hmm. Is current state of Exchange support in WP7 really worse than in iOS? Just asking, if someone did any comparition.
The Value of Experience
It's a very first start. I worked on getting the basics done, hopefully tonight i can update it with pages, flowing, queuing, etc. Thx for your feedback!
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EFF taking on software patent reform
Please tell me why for years you have made me suffer a slow PayPal website. Some pages take up to 5 seconds to load. PayPal is infuriating to work with.
ActiveSync, huh? After completely broke direct sync with desktop Outlook in WP?
I was gonna recommend this as well, then I saw your comment, and then I saw your username, and then it got really weird.
There's always someone coming in with facts that ruins the wonderful ideas. I'm going to pretend it is an active volcano and Larry Ellison is actually Hank Scorpio.
Amazon's Failure at Targeted Advertising
How To Join Pakistan Army for Females And Women
Holy bananas, I'm 22 tomorrow
As they say "in business there is no morality"

ADD: sure it's unpleasant, so let's just downvote and stay happy.
MEP vote rejects piracy treaty
Anyone know what kind of hardware a Bravia has under the hood?
With Siri and new alliances, Apple takes on Google search
New Year Party Theme Rock Your Event 
However, parties are best part of the any celebration and new year eve parties are also most admirable part of the celebration and people of every age enjoy the parties with same enthusiasm.
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You can seed a community without engaging in deceptive practices. At least you could, it may be harder now that some people are doing it. As usual...
You are cool people.

Right now the grid buttons can't be unclicked, it seems (on a Galaxy Note/Android 4.0.3 here). Is that intentional? I can't scroll either. I assume a reset button will be coming eventually, along with a play-phrase button. How are you thinking of organising the words into panes?

In its current state I can't see this violating any patents, since it's essentially a soundboard. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundboard_%28computer_program%... ) It would be hilarious if it turned out soundboards (those programs/pages that play funny phrases and sounds when you click on buttons) actually violated PRC's patents.

Will you (eventually) be bundling the app as .apk/.ipa for distribution? That seems like a great way to ensure it stays out in the wild forever (better still if the audio can be included, so it won't break).
Lets be honest, if you'd just lost a very public scrap with Google wouldn't you want to buy yourself something nice to take your mind off it?
Armenia Tourist Attractions - Armenia Travel Guide
Each Armenian site is unique and interesting, but the Greatest Tourist Attraction in Armenia remains the Holy Mount Ararat, which is the place of Second Birth for All Human Being. Holy Bible says that Noah's Ark landed on Ararat in Armenia during the Great Flood giving second birth to the Human Race. Thus both Armenia and Ararat are considered as Holy Places. In addition to this very fact, Ararat has such a miraculous beauty that everyone is deeply touched seeing this mountain's panorama from Yerevan, the Capital City of Armenia, or from other places in Armenia.
This might be useful: http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Wiki_index
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LinkedIn class action lawsuit over passwords
a bunch of interesting things. It is a nice NLP corpus. Put a dump on S3 and make it public
You've got the basis for a "you-like-this-so-perhaps-you-will-want-to-read-this" recommendation engine. Perform some - mentioned in another reply - n-gram analysis on the corpus; do some basic cosine-similarity analysis with the feeds people subscribe to and see what pops up. Try other techniques (from e.g. ICWSM[1]) (last time I did something like this is April 2007); iterate; analyse results; publish.

At least you'll have fun (YMMV)...

[1] http://www.icwsm.org/[2007-2011]
> Why are Rails people so obsessed with accelerating the trivial?

From a Rails beginner perspective...

Having spent days trying to get Rails up and running on a Windows box, this product looks absolutely awesome.

Even the so called out of the box solutions still needs hours of customization. Every new release of Rails means starting from scratch with limited documentation.

Anyone who has struggled with installing Rails on Windows, then finding a decent IDE, installing all the other packages etc etc will appreciate being able to get to that point in 60 seconds via their browser.

I am sure some Rails experts and Mac Users may disagree but getting started in Rails takes a lot of effort.
There is already a simple sqlite database that holds info on all the sounds. a name, an icon, a backgroundcolor, and the page it's on.

Pages haven't been coded yet, but are already available in the database. A simple sqlite crud interface should suffice for that.

More important, as you notice is the UI. Right now it just show the toggle, gets the wav file and hits play.
This will be fixed hopefully tonight, so that you can gather a couple of audio files in a que to form a prhase.
Should be peanuts, but is was 02:30 am for me last night. This is the progess up to that.

And indeed, it's just a sound board, but in my opinion so is the software that started all this.

We haven't decided yet on packaging, but since i believe everyone on the team are mobile developers, that should not be a problem at all.
RegexBuddy is fantastic, I bought it ages ago and lost my license key thing. Also it's Windows only (boo!).
It's the beard, isn't it?
Interesting because they are going after LinkedIn primarily based of the algorithm they used to protect passwords.
Camelcasing & Underscoring Strings in Objective-C
The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing
works fine on:
Win7 - Opera 12
Rubular is great - I like their UI better than the one of the [js|re]Fiddle[s]?.
Relationship Between Internet and Web Design and Development
The web development companies provided the services by analyzing the demand of the clients. Most of the web design and development company designs the websites according to the customer's point of view. The websites has to grasp the attention of the end users.
That probably needs internal architecture redesign work - it won't be a UI issue but a back-end scalability one (and presumably a problem that can't be fixed by throwing more/better hardware at it, or they'd have done that).
It looks more like a bastardization of Django QuerySets and Q object API.

But with the Q.foo() style syntax maybe its more like underscoreJS for the Riak?

Jquery is more object oriented.
So what they are? Why it doesn't work? Your quote don't clarify.
Wrong. EFF, this is not what we the members are asking - software patents should be abolished, not changed to "acceptable" terms.
It's just a boil-the-frog strategy. There are no conditions that would make software patents a good thing ethically and economically.
I tend to think it's true. With the exception of when business means something bigger, ie when it actually has been defined by moral principles, like wikipedia, which more of a charity than business anyway.
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How Big Data Sees Wikipedia
go here:
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/home
I didn't know I get to come to Mars as well. Well this is fantastic. I'll certainly give it a go. I take it you are paying for the tickets? I'd like a first class window seat if that's at all possible. Have the lab cleaned up and I'll go find a suitable elephant.
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The title is misleading. Paypal's homepage got the makeover.

The rest of Paypal.com (i.e. the actual application) is still as terrible as ever...
Doing what needs to be done
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And the content is fixed width, and wider than my browser window when I first hit it. I hope there is something in there to detect really small displays otherwise the page will be unusable on small-to-smallish screen devices (netbooks and 10" tablets or smaller).

I suspect from the technical nature of the article he is a front-end programmer and not a designer, and from the display issues I would guess he works in a large enough team that he rarely has to worry about front-end design as someone else is responsible for that.
> the db is getting large and difficult to handle.

Did your store the raw content in the database? If so, you might consider writing files instead. These blobs, like pictures, are better stored as files. In your database, you should keep relational data: url, time, adder, etc, properly indexed (probably by adder, time and maybe keywords). Then a 6M rows table is quite a small thing for any RDBMS (if your SELECTs are filtering on indexed columns).
I founded the largest discussion forum in Africa. I seeded it by posting good topics, responding to every topic posted by a newbie, and begging my friends to get active on the site. I believe deceptive practices are not required.
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EFF's position is too moderate. 5 year monopoly on software ideas? If not even the EFF is willing to take an unequivocal stance against software patents, the trolls and the system will keep their legitimacy.

We should not be afraid to take (seemingly) radical positions. Fear of offending the status quo is what keeps it in place. Not too long ago the idea of patenting a theorem or a gene was dubious; the moderates may only slow the tide, not push it back.
Decorating a teenager’s room
Is your teenager demanding you to redesign and renovate his room? Then why not do this for him on his birthday, to give him a big surprise!
Large forums with several million users are, by definition, NOT just starting out, so I'm not sure this experience is relevant.
Stross on: why my Android tablet experience sucks
Exactly. Which means it's time for everyone else to start considering their Web application's security. For a change.
ACTA rejected by committee in crucial blow before final EU Parliament vote
What is Wasp Sting Treatment and Wasp Nest Removal
I disagree, even someone with 10 friends will show one face to five and another face to the other five (if those five are a separate group.)

I completely agree. I'm hardly a social person, and even I have at least five different "selfs". Family, coworkers, college friends, high school friends, random people on the Internet, I behave differently with all of those groups.
The first half is a bit easier - if you can show some implementation meets the specification it is at least consistent.

The second isn't so clear, but sometimes you can get a bit more confidence by showing that other good properties are implied by the specification alone.
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I already use "find similar articles" techniques using Lucene. But I'm thinking it might be more interesting in another more data-centered website?
If you are looking for a command line regexp builder I highly recommend txt2regex. It is a giant bash script so it runs anywhere bash does and supports:

a) +awk m) +mysql
b) +ed n) +ooo
c) +egrep o) +perl
d) +emacs p) +php
e) +expect q) +postgres
f) +find r) +procmail
g) +gawk s) +python
h) +grep t) +sed
i) +javascript u) +tcl
j) +lex v) +vbscript
k) +lisp w) +vi
l) +mawk x) +vim

http://aurelio.net/txt2regex/
Yay! Someone finally invented the being a dick attitude!

http://fatkidatcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/youre-a-d...
Good idea! When i'm importing the raw data I add it to lucene to make similar-articles-matching, but after that it could be dumped to text.
Sure, it's a mish-mash of inspirations. But I was fed up of seeing string interpolation used in search queries. Just because they don't have the ability to modify or destroy data, doesn't mean they don't present an attack vector.
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> And indeed, it's just a sound board, but in my opinion so is the software that started all this.

Agreed, and that's why this is the Lord's work you're doing. Heck, you might invent some better methods for users along the way. Keep going man.
In some way yes, but in general not really.

(+),(-), (*) all have the type (Num a) a -> a -> a

abs, signum both have the type (Num a) a-> a

In the first case it works as documentation because I already know what they do. In the second case I read signum as sig num instead of sign num, and was left scratching my head as to what a signature number was, until I read the actual documentation.

So I would say types make a good reference documentation but not a good learning documentation. Contrast this with python doc strings which can be both a good reference and a decent source of learning.
We don't have unequivocal evidence that the status quo is wrong. It is prudent to take small steps and study the effects carefully after each one. Startups are rewarded for being bold. Countries can't take 80/20 decisions on faith.
The concept of this poem is not bad, but the writing is atrocious. Where did you get it?
Thought of that, but I need to add it to a 50GB+ cloud SQL storage which cost a few bucks... :)
Seems to get a timeout error on a lot of stuff, even if I set the timeout to ~60seconds with wait_timeout :(
Recently someone posted a link to change.org petitioning the EFF to take a tougher stand on patents:

Petition the EFF to Oppose Software Patents -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134873
My entry into this category:

http://regex.powertoy.org/

It makes use of a hidden Java applet -- so it supports the somewhat larger Java regex syntax, doesn't send your data anywhere else for matching, and can hook into the string-probing to animate the process. (Click the 'animate?' link to show the animation step/speed controls.)

For example, you can watch the regex that tests whether a number is prime (by failing) or composite (by succeeding) via these two animations:

49: http://regex.powertoy.org/?pat=/^1%3F%24|^%2811+%3F%29\1+%24...

47: http://regex.powertoy.org/?pat=/^1%3F%24|^%2811+%3F%29\1+%24...

Is the applet requirement a deal-breaker for casual use? I might be able to feed the OpenJDK 7 regex classes through the Google Java->JS cross-compiler to get a pure-JS solution with the same syntax/animation capabilities.
that is what I thought
Amazon spreads its Web in Washington
I'd love to do that, but how can I finance storage and bandwidth? Paypal donations?

Hmm.. I know a few peeps at MS/Azure.. maybe they can sponsor..I'll get back on this one.
Using Couchbase as a flexible session store
Sounds tempting!
Where the Hell is Matt? 2012
50-60 GB
Thank you for the answer! Too bad, though.
How much do you offer? ;)
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"If the patent is invalid or there's no infringement, the trolls should have to pay the legal fees."

By offering to reduce the time to five years, they are implicitly supporting the idea of using and defending the patent for those five years. You might legitimately think there's infringement and then the court might find otherwise. Calling anyone who goes to court with a patent a troll seems unnecessary in that case.

"Infringers should avoid liability if they independently arrive at the patented invention."

You don't pay damages, and then what happens? Do you still have to get a license or can you keep going because you invented it on your own? Also: how do you prove you independently arrived at the patented invention? Who's burden is it to prove / disprove it?
Does your reader record which items in a feed were read? I'm sure lots of feed providers would be interested in metrics on which of their articles were frequently read (and possibly some clustering of interests based on what else readers subscribe to)