skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was a really helpful read actually.

Currently our dependencies on AWS is..

[-] Route 53

[-] Small EC2 Instance

[-] Standard RDS

[-] S3/CF etc...

We are still in total stealth mode and I'm about to set up the actual architecture for our platform next week.

I was thinking about keeping everything in a single region.
I was going to have:

[x] Elastic Load Balancer

[x] Declare one zone as our main zone (this can be 1A for example). Have one medium instance in zone-1A

[x] Have my RDS in zone-1A

[x] Set up another instance in zone-2A, and then let the ELB distribute the requests...

The only problem is that clearly, I'm running both mysql and an instance in zone-1A, which is my single point of failure. I will be able to survive an outage on 2A though.

How should I handle the data locality?
I think it's stupid to compare the importance of such projects, that can and will be done only by the people in the future, when they will see the effects of what we are doing now.
That's MIT 2005. Here's their 2008 algorithms course:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
What makes Twitter Twitter?
I only see one person throwing a fit over a product comparison here.
It would be nice if there was some incentive to share a little of that income with the company's employees rather than only with the owners and directors.
>Excuse me, but Windows had a Taskbar before Apple had a Dock.

Of course they did. But the Dock was used quite differently than the taskbar (it is primarily used to hold shortcuts, not to show you what is open), so it made sense to rename it in that case. But Microsoft seems to rename things just so they can feel unique. Don't get me wrong; I don't think it's some horrendous crime, or that it's unethical or anything. I just think it's funny. Apple has, of course, been known to do the same thing. For example, it was rather silly how before Lion, they insisted on referring to all perfectly ordinary 802.11 WiFi technologies as "AirPort", and how they wrapped OpenAL in the most cursory of framework boilerplate and called it "Core Audio".

>Windows also had Quick Launch shortcuts before Apple had a Dock as well.

And Apple had the Launcher three years earlier than that. But the Launcher wasn't the Dock, and neither were Quick Launch shortcuts. Pinning to the taskbar, on the other hand, is the Dock, almost to a T.
I would suggest actual misconceptions are that:

1. Fungability: companies have similar tax flexibility as individuals and are therefore comparable.

2. Consumption equivalence: that income from capital gains or "personal tax breaks for these business gains" is actually redistributed back into the general economy in the same way as it would be as general (wage) income.

Both are clearly incorrect.

I would go a step further to suggest the US has a relatively high corporation tax compared to other developed countries precisely to compensate for other tax code deficiencies and trends.

Of course, in a sense, all the current arrangements do is capture the "middle" or "poor" class of corporates. Large or sophisticated corporates, especially financial companies, have very extensive means to ensure minimal or even, in some cases, no tax is ever paid.

A preliminary and revealing book on this issue for laymen is Shaxon's "Treasure Islands" (http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Uncovering-Offshore-B...).
I agree.

The swirling lines begin to tell an interesting story: from 1994-1997, and then again from 2008-2012, lots of technologies enter the picture, so we get some sense of when the bursts of innovation happen.

The clutter of the lines - and their tending to vertical rather than more horizontally slanted - suggests that browser adoption of technologies is quicker from 2008 on.

But this is impressionistic at best, and vertical vs. horizontal in the technology adoption lines is mostly a side effect of how close the lines representing the browsers adopting the tech are to one another.

I'm also wondering about when the tech lines are introduced. E.g. web fonts (in purple, swooping in from the bottom) shows up around 2000 but doesn't hit a browser version till 2008.

CSS2D transforms (purple, from the top) starts in 2009, swooping backwards in time to hit Safari 3.1 in 2008.

If these two swoops correspond to the real story that web fonts were designed much earlier than they were adopted, and CSS2D transforms were implemented before they were formally designed (perhaps by W3C), then that would be very cool. But I fear it's just as likely that the introduction points are arbitrary.

If anyone knows the stories of the design and adoption of CSS2D transforms or webfonts, I'd be grateful for a little enlightenment.
I'm shocked no one has mentioned http://www.cedexis.com/ yet.
Feedback is awesome. But, I guess you could've reduced a bit of causticness in it.

This is the video, I want everyone on internet to watch - "A real person, a lot like you" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8

PS/Disclaimer: Not directly affiliated to them. Founders are my friends!
I bet there's some competition for those dish-washer jobs: If you believe the article, he's being paid more than minimum wage since he's netting $7.40/hour after FICA and other taxes.

Why is he only working 27 hours/week? If he's serious about raising himself out of poverty, finding another part-time job would seem to be a priority.
Yes, they do, but we should rename them to social ad networks.
>And I am correct in saying that Windows had a Taskbar before Apple had a Dock because Apple didn't own NeXTSTEP when the Dock was released.

Only technically. As I mentioned in my other comment, System 7.5 had the Launcher, which was years before Microsoft introduced the Quick Launch toolbar in Windows 98.
The Mac App store is troubling these days too - locking non-MAS apps out of iCloud, for instance.
It's not even close to the world's best travel site. I've looked at it before - maybe it's good in America but outside the results are bizarre.

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OK, so I am thinking of going over to the old country, SYD-LHR mid october. That's a long flight, I want at least premium economy - wtf, I can't even specify that on hipmunk! Well, that search is over even before it begun. I am sorry but a travel site that doesn't know what premium economy is is literally useless.

I don't want to sound like a dick. This stuff must be hard. But World's Best Travel Site? Are you kidding? How about learning "chopsticks" before you claim you're the greatest pianist in history?

(edit - the sapporo price changed under me in the last few hours, rendering my comment pretty void, right now at least. What I said about no prem econ stands, though. I'm a tall guy, and I'll flat-out refuse an economy flight more than 8 hours. Business is very expensive if I'm on my own money. Premium economy is a lifesaver to me. It needs to be on the site, yesterday)
>An OS that practically nobody used at that time?

How is that relevant?
Do you call it Google Ad Search?
Has the notion of "files" outlived its usefulness?
Huh? How do you think places like Microsoft and Google attract top talent? That's the incentive, and it works very well.
The use of the word "projects" in this sub-thread made me smile.

Elon's "projects" are all changing the world, while my "projects" have me standing in the middle of Home Depot staring at concrete sealant, dumbfounded as to why one costs 2x the other.

What a depressing dichotomy.
No, It's not a flawed one

For a nanny, sure, but apparently you missed Accounting 101

Expenses are deducted from income for tax purposes (talking about a corporation)

So this means, for a company, that if let's say, earn (example values) $1000 and pays an employee $400, their taxes are calculated on the $600, not on the $1000

Hence, no double taxation, the taxes on that money are payed 'down the chain'
Starting without the 80 years of inertia that all the established auto makers have accumulated certainly helps too.
I don't know in India, but in Brazil, Google has been running TV ads about Chrome in prime time for a while. Maybe they're doing that there too.
Probably the page visibility API: https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibil...

Headers wouldn't work, because a prefetch often turns into a page view.

Edit: their methodology is public. They use the aforementioned API, and headers for the two other browsers that prerender (Firefox and Safari, who rarely prerender because pages must explicitly configure it). Pages pre-rendered and discarded would add 1.3% to Chrome page views if they weren't discounted. Here is the StatCounter FAQ: http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#prerendering
The conclusion of the article is sad - the great scientist is becoming a lawyer. There are already too many lawyers http://abovethelaw.com/2011/06/the-oversupply-of-lawyers-in-...
> You are not a badass multi-tasking motherfucker. You are a rude, not-paying-attention, asshole. You are disrespecting the speaker’s effort and distracting those around you.

Agreed. I've also seen possibly the worst mutation of this: a live "tweet wall" projector being filled with memes and inside jokes by these people in realtime. Jesus wept.
Who says he's paying FICA and other taxes? I worked for the same employer (Darden Restaurants) when I was fresh out of high school, and I saw the pay stubs of the immigrant workers - they did not pay any of that. Their take home pay was their hourly rate * the number of hours worked. That was a long time ago (mid 90s), but I have no particular reason to believe anything has changed.
Negative reinforcement might get the students to finish the course, but they will not enjoy what they're learning if they're doing it just so they avoid paying money for it. The best learning happens when you want to learn because you're curious and interested in the what you're learning, not because you'll have to pay money for not learning.
And you begin to wonder why Google didn't try to partner to get it bundled on the Galaxy S III.
The Top Gear review was somewhat staged for effect, but did point out a real shortcoming with the vehicle.

Top Gear reviews hardly make a difference anyway, I think anyone who has watched even a few episodes knows they exaggerate negatives for entertainment value almost constantly; the Tesla was hardly their only "victim" in this regard.
What about people that take notes on their laptop? They exist, they are strange I'll admit but they exist.
I wonder if Ph.D candidates in Psychology whose dissertations are on credit and recommendation ever have these issues?
> what's the more popular browser?

In the most general of ways, the browser more people use.

Which in this case, via Akamai stats, is clearly IE.
I hadn't thought through the numbers, but here goes. The Wiki article in my parent post says that the US federal corporate tax rate once beyond the lowest brackets is 34% or 35%. The personal tax rate on capital gains is 15% of the 65% that remains after the corporate taxation step, so 10% of the original total. The total of 45% is higher than the top personal bracket of 35%. (And it's reasonable that it should be, as the child comment points out, the corporation is buying legally protected limitation of liability. The notion that business owners pay less tax than workaday individuals is a media-created myth.)
The Tesla is still an impractical car for 90% or more of average consumers. It's still mostly a rich person's toy/fashion statement. That's OK though, if it eventually leads to something that is practical and affordable.
Yes, that looks like an objective, neutral source.
My thought: Have a very nice screen for your mobile app/website that says "We are down for maintenance, please stand by."

Sorry to be fatalist, but it's a hard problem. This last outage was more than just an AZ failure. Region-wide API usage was affected, so operations like static IP reassignment and ELB changes were not taking effect. This means you are hanging out in the wind should there be something unusual that requires manual intervention (as was the case with us).

Route 53 is a good service but I don't know how its control plane works, and it could be that problems in a single region would disable the ability to update DNS records (I would guess that DNS reads are a lot more available than writes). And in any case DNS is not a very good failover mechanism due to upstream caching.

Unless your business model requires higher reliability than Instagram, Netflix, and Pinterest, I'd suggest going multi-AZ, crossing your fingers, and doing everything else right.
Except you don't confirm anything. A fake UAC doesn't have any magic powers, nor can it pass your click on to the real UAC.

The problem UAC solves is that you click on a harmless dialog, but suddenly an important dialog is swapped in under your mouse. A fake UAC can't do that.
I think, for restaurants, what happened was commercial real-estate getting crazy expensive and clientele not cooking for themselves like they used to do. The first hurt wages as many restaurants were fighting thin margins, and the second made it easier for restaurants to sneak in the untrained to cook. Once the untrained were acceptable, it was a race to the bottom.
Under the theory of the tax code, an 'expense' is an expenditure necessary to earn income. A capital gains distribution is not an expenditure, it is a gratuitous transfer. Therefore it is not deductible.
I would agree 95%. As a freelancer, I kind of miss being part of a solid team. Lunch with the wife and kiddos is nice though.
Top 5 JavaFX 2 Tutorials for June 2012
It seems now you can go directly from a BS into a PhD program - in the past you had to have a master degree first before you were allowed into PhD programs.

Still many programs in the UK require you to have a post-grad / master degree before accepting you into their PhD programs, but you can often start research during your master and expand your master thesis into the PhD (depending on the subject).

In the UK most non-teaching/non-resident PhD programs take 2 years (US equiv. 4years).

The quickest route to an PhD equivalent is a German Doctorate of Law that you can do after your first German Law exam (min study 4years avg. 5years - equiv. to an U.S. JD) and followed by the second German law exam (additional 2years equiv. to an U.S. Bar). Most do their German Doctorate of Law in less than a year - some in 6 months - between the first and the second law exam - hence the large amount of lawyers in Germany with doctoral degrees.
Wouldn't that be great for foreign investors?
I must confess, while the grad school parts resonated for me, the part that was most engaging was the vein of applied provenance tools.

Having recently left my program (but enjoying research), I've actually been spending a huge amount of time planning out and slowly executing building a better tool chain for data analysis, and one of the really exciting details that has popped out of my design is a very nIce support for incremental computation and computational provenance, while having all of the constituent parts be libraries (rather than needing to mod a run time)

Point being I was really intrigued to see the thinking behind other folks getting drawn into that space
Whether its a top-down or bottom-up approach, the end goal is the same, right? Corral everybody into a Google universe, where Google (and its customers) can more effectively target you with tailored information (ads, etc) by tracking your interactions with friends, web sites, etc. Isn't that also what Facebook promises to its customers?
Yes, your link has been debunked. http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms
I took it the same way, although as you can see from my response, my assertion is that Apple do have faith they can compete in the open market against their competitor’s original designs and products.

The open question concerns any company "competing in the open market" against companies that simply clone successful products without limitation or restriction. Essentially, the question asks Apple how much faith it has that its products can compete against its products.
I'm not sure what happens when multiple apps register for the same scheme.

I'm looking for a generic mechanism to let the user choose an app and pass an 'http' url to that app. I don't think I can do that with custom schemes, because each app would have its own scheme.

It could be accomplished via a custom file type if everybody standardized on it (say via a .url file of type text/x-url or maybe even text/plain). But I was hoping for something official.

The current way people do this is via the pasteboard, but the switching and pasting process feels awkward to me. I suppose that may be the best solution for now. Maybe apps should just handle things better if they're awoken with a new URL on the pasteboard (i.e. offer to take an action with it).

I'll think through my use cases some more.
IMO innovation doesn't always mean coming up with a completely different genre of products. Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia entry on innovation.
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society.

OSX and iOS are definitely BSD derivatives with an exception that using them for a normal user is not equivalent to herding cats.

Apple is perfect combination of a mainstream and real innovation. GUIs are the best example which were originally developed by Xerox, but it was apple to innovate on top of that GUI concept to make it work for the masses.
tldr: Close your laptop, it's rude. Unless your intention is to be rude, then it's cool.

OP seems super judgmental and a bit narcissistic.
Yes. The multi-select feature is really nice, but it is nothing that cannot be added to vim:
http://shelr.tv/records/4fef105a966080237e00005e
Not sure this is the reason but Google advertised Chrome heavily in India in addition to the Google properties which are themselves very popular in India. They did advertisements in prime spots in TV, newspapers, other popular Indian websites etc. That could've definitely contributed. Also it's nice to see that Firefox is not lagging much behind Chrome in India.

Regarding your question on population, not sure how big is the Indian internet population. I would say 5% of the country(total pop. 1 bn approx) uses Internet regularly. Not sure how much that skews the data.
This is sort of inspiring, but until I see more legitimate businesses making money off of a better model than advertising, it just doesn't mean much to say it. If people didn't have to pay for costs for things like bandwidth and marketing, we would probably see a lot less advertising too.
For the SYD-CTS comparison, does the quantas.com price include all taxes and fees, the way Hipmunk does?
Google has a patent on pagerank? If their algorithm was patented, it would be open for anyone to read and understand - just not to use.
My understanding is their ranking is something they keep a closely guarded secret, and to apply for a patent on it would be silly.

Or was pagerank something they did early on and I'm mixing up two things.
Pgbadger: PostgreSQL log analysis tool
Read the steps again. They are pure sarcasm.
I've seen these sorts of things happen, and had one paper where the author list was a subject of much debate. Though it seems much more common in the life sciences.
I want to fevelop something too, someday.
Actually, it seems a sale or something just ended and the qantas.com price is back up to 1800!

I'll edit to remove that.

But yeah, all Australian sites have to state the fully loaded cost. I can't stand sites that don't do that..
Not only is the writer off base with a lot of readers, but he also kind of just sounds like a dick.
He's extremely smart and extremely hard-working; he has personally, aggressively recruited others whom he's identified as the key people he wants working for him, and by all accounts he inspires them to work as hard as him; he's trained himself into deep domain expertise in both rockets and electric cars and serves as the chief designing engineer of his companies' products; but maybe most important, he has really extreme determination. Consider this exchange after SpaceX had lost its first three launches in a row:

Wired.com: At the end of the day you're still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a rocket into orbit.

Musk: We haven't gotten into orbit, true, but we've made considerable progress. If it's an all-or-nothing proposition then we've failed. But it's not all or nothing. We must get to orbit eventually, and we will. It might take us one, two or three more tries, but we will. We will make it work.

Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa

Compare Paul Graham:

"I now have enough experience with startups to be able to say what the most important quality is in a startup founder, and it's not what you might think. The most important quality in a startup founder is determination. Not intelligence-- determination."

http://paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html
Data Mining as an Emerging Technology (2001 prediction - article)
From one of his talks, they have planned their roadmap in three phases:

- Very high cost, very low volume car to start off with.

- Moderate cost, moderate volume car (Tesla S).

- Low cost, high volume.

As we can see, they have achieved the first two targets (with surprising success).

If you consider the 'rich people' argument, SpaceX customers are still going to be fewer than Tesla's for the near future at least. (Although, that is not to say the businesses borne from using SpaceX like bringing better satellite based services etc won't affect a LOT of people.)
Really? Facebook represents a problem for Google: when your primary revenue source is display ads you want people to be looking at your adverts. Google+ is their solution to this problem - let people carry out the sort of things they use Facebook for, but on the Google.com domain (and with Google provided ads).

I think it's pretty clear one of the primary drivers behind Google+ is to reduce the amount of time users spend on Facebook and transfer it back to Google. The new 'Events' features are a good example of this.

The only reason Google aren't going around saying they're going to 'kill Facebook' is that it's only going to result in inevitable embarrassment. What Google PR says and how they develop their product strategies internally are very different things.
Paul Graham convincingly argued that the existence of wealth inequality was not a bad thing, compared to a completely level society, but nobody is really arguing for a completely level society where dishwashers make as much money as doctors and entrepreneurs.

Look at the second richest person in the article, the Amazon investor - no doubt he believes that entrepreneurs and investors like himself should be allowed to get rich, as does pg, yet he favors increased taxes on the rich. Paul Graham's article doesn't deal with his arguments, which are far more common in the real world than arguments for a return to the 98% tax rate of 70s Britain or the economics of East Germany, which are the most relevant real world cases pg refers to (at least nobody was arguing for that at the time pg's was written - I'm not quite sure about the Occupy crowd today). So pg devastated a strawman.
I'm a professor. If my student unilaterally posted something on arXiv, I would strangle him/her, at best.