skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm about to say negative things. I don't like saying negative things, particularly because someone could misread them as having personal animus behind them, which I don't have.

There's a particular type of college student who is not ready to work in a real job. They believe themselves incapable of working in real jobs, they signal this incapability, and employers generally hate working with them because they're needy and unprofessional. They don't thrive unless they have someone telling them "Do X then Y then Z" and then providing constant positive feedback ("100 points for X!"), which is a teacher-student relationship, not an employer-employee relationship.

Someone getting a certification is signaling a desire to continue being a student. Someone desiring to be an employee signals this desire by putting down the books and getting a job.
Palo Alto is definately not SF, they're fairly different.

If you come into SF, be sure to check out Noisebridge, Union Square, Alamo Square, The Golden Gate Bridge and get a real burrito (I recommend Taqueria El Buen Sabor).

In Palo Alto, be sure to check out the Philz, drive by the Facebook offices, then leave PA.

Check out Hacker Dojo in Mountain View.
Yeah, I was overgeneralizing - what I meant were industrial Californian tomatoes. The taste is probably much better in other regions of the US.

Also it probably depends on what chain you buy them from - it wasn't Walmart but it was still some big retailer iirc. If you buy tomatoes from Hofer here they won't taste very good either (but still a lot better than the ones I had in CA).
I'm very weary about this conceptually. If you don't know what a piece of code is doing, then you shouldn't be putting it into your project; because when it breaks, you wont know how to fix it. So a cookbook with explanations would accompany this nicely.

Licence concerns me, the page states (We've searched so you don't have to) are you certain you are legally allowed to publish these code samples? Creating your own is fine, but if you've searched places like blogs, stack overflow, etc, you could be infringing copyright. I'll release code samples for free use, but you aren't allowed to re-publish them or make a profit off of them.
Summary: extending patent duration will increase illness and death.

1. Antibiotics lose effectiveness when more frequently used.

2. New antibiotics need to be invented or common infections will become fatal.

3. Extending patent duration encourage drug makers to sell higher volumes of older antibiotics.

4. This makes old antibiotics less effective and reduces incentives to invest R&D in new antibiotics.
Can you please try now?
Or you can email hackers@hackerrank.com
Don't think anyone will respond, but I believe the statement is a stretch. I think they just mean THEY won't charge transaction fees.
Not against you personally, but I'm fascinated by how clear people are about aspects of candidates they don't want to hire. There are so many dealbreakers in this thread (in the main), it's like a dating site full of people who have a lot of difficulty finding partners (hint: all dating sites are full of people with dealbreakers).
It might be perfectly possible that I am completely off on this. But my understanding from reading about it is that software is written very differently in airplanes than in most other fields.

Down vote is fine if I am wrong. But would appreciate to learn how I am wrong then.
Google incurred that cost early, but that tipping point of being 'worth it' to engineer for uptime came pretty late in the game for twitter.

Interestingly AWS appears to be in the camp where it's not heavily focused on uptime either.

A pretty universal truth is that you can afford to be down more than you expect. Even in the cases of Amazon's store being down when you can measure the immense cost by the second, a total cost analysis may still well show that it was a 'cheaper' event than engineering away.
I think I will attribute it to the following things:

1. Google had a huge advertising campaign to promote Chrome. It was unique and nothing like has been done for any other browser ever.

2. Majority of internet users in India are young. The mom's, dad's and grandmother's browser, I hypothesize, doesn't contribute as much to the stats as others. Many might have not even seen the pre-Chrome (or pre-Firefox) world.

3. Orkut was huge in India, Gmail and Google Search are bigger. Google has been pushing users to move to Chrome for a better experience for a long time now. That would have seen significant clickthrough especially because internet speeds have only recently started to pick up in India. Making the need for a 'better experience' more paramount.

4. Not enough business machines. Indian corporate world is not as highly computerized as North America or Europe. Indian Governmental Offices are way behind. While machines in western offices may bring about a significant increase in IE usage there, they will have lesser weight in India.
Regarding doing un-encrypted cross-datacenter replication with MongoDB, I recommend the author of this blog post read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...
You can use Puppet to pre-bake your AMIs for you so you can scale very rapidly and still use configuration management to maintain your instances

http://puppetlabs.com/blog/rapid-scaling-with-auto-generated...
Really? They were running busybox? If not, it's not Linux. It's GNU/Linux.
Try a multi-infrastructure PaaS like http://appfog.com/
ref. the poor Morris Marina
Ouch!

My Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 is still standing

Oh well, reading the issue, the machine date is Sat Jun 30 16:11:31 EDT 2012

Stopped ntpd just in case
Yeah, I was overgeneralizing - what I meant
were industrial Californian tomatoes. The
taste is probably much better in other
regions of the US.

I'd actually be surprised that a rich and organic/health obsessed place like California wouldn't have much better produce than Atlanta/Georgia :)
I think some people just dont understand em. Or the concept of feeds. Maybe cuz Apple didn't"invent" it :p Some people are convinced that you dont get full stories or images etc, which I guess can be be true but seems rarer these days. I like to browse the headers & then if I still need to visit the site I can. Saves so much time wasting surfing each site when you consume many!
Dude, humanity is awesome! Look at us :)
My school didn't have computers, and my parents didn't see a point of buying me one, even when I made a decision to go to college. So, I built one. It took some time to collect the better parts as my own money was very limited. I collected 2 computers and a lot of junk in my room. Anyone to beat it? (just kidding). I'm foreign born and my sex is "F".

I largely attribute the problem to the culture of competition and entitlement instilled today on kids by their parents (makes me feel old), especially boys and especially non-technical parents. It's like "oh, my, he/she is so smart playing with THIS thing". Then this kid goes to college and feels they need to challenge everybody, and feels intimidated when somebody is better. How can somebody else dare to have an A+ on a test and ask questions to the teacher? I will pop up and ask smarter questions for the sake of it. Or withdraw from this major because I don't feel belonging. I'm entitled to feel that I'm a great programmer. And so on. This culture doesn't teach to just diligently do your assignments/job and collect your A+s/money. A clique of arrogant nerds sounds like an oxymoron to me.

I have a young relative whose computer skills are overpraised in the family even though they are nothing special. He had his first computer when he was 6, my old one. He knows how to create a powerpoint presentation, and attended a class how to build a web page, but when I offered to teach him to program, it wasn't taken (yet?). He's an A student, smart, but not very creative, doesn't take things apart out of curiosity and arrogant out of proportion, if there is any to arrogance. He ridiculed me when I wasn't able to find some button in Skype fast enough. In a few years he will be one of those "I'm a genius" kids in college, and his mother is already planning how she pays off his graduate education to get him the best job.
As a developer I too a, disappointed by Twitter's move to restrict API access as it has but again, still as a developer, I can understand Twitter's point of view and I'll actually say what they're doing is smart and other sites should follow suit.

We all want our API access, we want it now, we want it free, and we want it unrestricted whether we monetize our use of another app's API or not. But unfortunately we can't just feed off Twitter's teet and expect them to just cater to our every want. API access is a privilege, not a right. By monetizing their API as they are they are avoiding the most common mistake that afflicts tech startups - the problem of monetization. They have their "verified" accounts and "promoted tweets" which is a good start and now that the API has become so valuable they are monetizing this. They're a company that offers a free service and making a true profit instead of just taking on VC money and hoping someone will figure out how they'll make money later. They did this at just the right time too. They are now an established player much like Facebook. Now that users are locked in and so many people are getting value from Twitter's quick information sharing and marketing capabilities they made a smart decision with this new monetization strategy.

We all should have known the free ride would end eventually. In many cases, apps using the API are actually competing with twitter itself! Surely you can't expect Twitter to allow competing apps like iOS and Android apps to outshine them. So these restrictions force those competing clients to actually innovate still! Yes, access to tweets are limited but apps like Hootsuite and others have found ways to use the API in other ways like scheduling tweets.

I'll definitely concede that I think their limits are a bit strict and they are pretty much only useful for hobby projects. At the same time, though, we've become spoiled and entitled and I can definitely understand the restrictions. Reactions to policies like this are to be expected. Everyone always throws a fit when these things happen but we'll live and we have to understand that Twitter needs money to run so they can provide an API at all and if we want to make a buck off Twitter's API we can't expect a free ride. That's like asking the owner of an office building to let you use office space free because... Well... It's there. That said, they need to be smart about this too. Too much restriction will hurt them but too little will mean they aren't generating what they need. But right now I don't think we can judge whether these policies are really that bad because, like I said, any time a service makes these changes everyone starts complaining and a lot of exaggeration goes on.
It's true, we still need energy to power them- but the greatest advantage of an electric car, in my mind, is fuel independence. You can power an electric car with a nuclear reactor, or a hydroelectric dam, or a wind farm. All the same to the car.

Hopefully, this will lead to a bit less violence over fuels.
In both the US and China, IE is far ahead. But look at this Indian usage graph:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201105-201205
That's just it - they're supposedly separate - but each zone is on the same physical site albeit seperated. Unlikely to break at the same time, but more likely than two separate locations. Just google for aws multi zone outages.

Anyway - the article isn't suggesting to use four datacentres, it's trying to make people aware of the simple steps that can be taken to avoid failure.
Poor inherited architecture, working to scale out greatnonprofits.org horizontally but it will be a while before we get there.

I have nothing against colo but I don't really have time to run around the country checking on servers.
Encouraging young people is essential--even/especially when their ideas are incredible. The reply letter was just right.
I love RSS.

I like it so much I built an RSS search engine.

http://rssident.com

It's still a work in progress but I will be adding several new features soon.

For any of you that need jobs this is an easy way to find them:

http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=java

http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=ruby

http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=php

Or by individual feed:

http://rssident.com/feeds/?t=job&e=java

Right now it's only indexing feeds I added but soon anyone will able to add whatever feeds they want.
That's a cool idea for making a Siri API for anything, but in this application, the process is too slow to be worth it (you could open the Spotify app and type in "Lady Gaga" much quicker.
It isn't a showstopper, but it will certainly prevent many apartment dwellers from being early adopters.
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Honestly, this is by far the best explanation of Musk's success I've seen. Target calcified industries where great talent is under utilized.
Ahh! You just enlightened me as to why my manager (I'm a contractor) hardly ever talks to us. He's maintaining a hands off non-management management style. Which is kind of OK, but surprisingly disappointing.
The PhD Grind, and Why Research Isn’t Like Sex
And yet some people who can't get to grips with the idea of feeds happily signup to e-mail lists that promise "an e-mail every time I post to the site". It seems odd.
Oh, that was from you, too?

I just read this a few days ago (was actually recommended here on HN [1]) and thought it was terrific.

That might be one of my biggest problems in science - I have a hard time memorizing people's names.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4141353
My wife and I spent some time in France last summer.

One day, we bought some celery for a recipe we were making. When we ate it, I couldn't believe the taste. "Celery has a FLAVOR?"

This was just regular supermarket celery, not from a farmers market. I'm not sure I've ever seen celery at a farmer's market in the US, actually.
I wouldn't say stronghold. IE is still the leader but by a relatively small margin in most English speaking markets.

The strongholds are China and Korea, where IE usage is well over 70%. In fact, considering that China has the most internet usage of anywhere in the world I have my doubts about the veracity of the world-wide graph. It probably drastically undersamples Chinese numbers.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201105-201205
May I just compliment the author on the clever "dots" at the ends of the "J" glyphs on the website logo that stay in place as you scroll.
Maybe checkout this guide:

Hackers’ Guide to Silicon Valley
http://steveblank.com/2011/02/22/a-visitors-guide-to-silicon...
I think hes still doing pretty well on both counts.
I am in a technical field (ops) full of them and I have none. I don't see much worth in certs. Ability should be pretty obvious by performance in entry level positions.
Restaurant Listing Website

I have all of the data on an excel spread sheet pertaining to my sample area. I have 90 Restaurants, the operating hours, the prices of food, the types of food, the addresses, contact info.

A website that could show people what they could eat based off of the amount of time they have available, the amount of money they have, and the types of food they would like to eat.

The website or app would be able to produce results based off of the constraints provided by the user, and my data.

Show Operating hours and update in real time

Show directions to and from restaurant

List genres of Food and Drink Type

Show User comments and recommendations by integrating Yelp, Foursquare, Twitter

Business Model would offer restaurants a subscription service to offer deals, news, to users. Advertisements may also be streamed to generate additional revenue.
My Ubuntu servers seem unaffected thus far.
Would have been sooner if Teslas engineers wouldn't have died in that plane crash.

Life is dangerous when you try to free the slaves with technology.
No burps from my BSD boxes either, although they're all in UTC so the leap second hasn't happened for them yet.
How much should I pay a startup laywer?
I would like to incorporate a company in US. I am wondering what would startup founders typically pay to a startup lawyer to incorporate in Delaware + California and setup necessary documentation for the seed financing?.
Does $5k sound like a lot?
It's a shame you are suffering from what I can only assume are poor PHP code bases. This is unfortunately very common with PHP because of it's popularity.

I've dealt with my fair share of poor PHP code bases, and have experienced PHP mature over the years into a very capable language; so know how to wield it to the best of it's abilities. If you ever need any advice feel free to email me.
Is "Long-Term Shareholder Value" The Answer?
I know!? It IS odd. Such a simple concept that gets seemingly butchered with ignorance.
>Also, simply by showing up to work on time and not being irresponsible, the author of that book had multiple opportunities to improve her situation (e.g., her managers offered her promotions

Yes, and by also being white AND highly educated AND not having a family or people dependent on her AND not having a history of abuse and poverty to NOT draw strength from. Which was hardly the case for most of the other employees.

Not that I remember those cases for "promotion" in the book.
Altruism is definite, absolute. There are degrees of selfishness though. I think donating your fortune upon death is less selfish (or more selfless) than not.
Sharing Environment Between Machines
What a shame! To each their own -- I'm really excited by Apple's 2-3 year plan.
This article is useless. It doesn't even explain why he thinks this will happen.
OS X does have full screen apps and does support multiple monitors, just not at the same time. Which is just absurd.

The problem I ran into with Git was simple: I could not figure out how to build it from source or install it without administrator privileges. After about an hour of screwing around, I just gave up and sshed into a Linux box instead (both were for school).

Updating Java was an issue back when I was doing Java development. I simply couldn't get the version of Java I needed, period. I don't see how it can be a bad example when that's exactly what happened. I think Apple has since given up on packaging Java themselves, which probably ameliorated the issue.

As far as fonts go, I have no doubt OS X has decent font support. My point was that Linux also has great font support these days.

These aren't random problems I heard about: these are actual problems I've personally experienced. I definitely had a higher density of problems per unit time spent on OS X than on Linux or Windows, which says quite a bit.
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My wife and I are fortunate. We're not wealthy by our standards, but I do recognize that we certainly would be considered wealthy by a lot of Americans. Our household income is about 4-5x the national average, and we have no children.

My understanding of the stats informs me that our household income puts us in the top 2.5%. Certainly a very blessed situation to be in, and one that we both work very hard to achieve.

But here's the striking truth about wealth distribution in our country...

The power-law-ish distribution of our wealth means that quantitatively, as a percentile, I'm much closer to the "1%" than I am to the "50%". But qualitatively, the struggles I face -- saving for retirement, knowing that if I had a serious illness our cash flow would dry up, etc -- my life is nothing like the "1%".

Another way to put it... I'm near the very top of the small pile of wealth shared by normal Americans.

I'm having a hard time properly articulating this but I think you get the point. It's almost as if, by percentile, you'd think "wow, I really have earned a big slice of this pie" only to find out that more than half the pie was taken by 0.5% of Americans before it was ever put on the shelf to cool. That until you're invited to take a sliver from that first half, you'll never get more than crumbs of the share that's split 298.5 Million ways.
> let me know how your Equinox negotiations go for the next month.

How do cloud services compare to a gym membership? Are you implying you can't get out of your AWS contract?
SSL support is available - http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/ssl/ and latency can be an issue. Most drivers support routing read queries to the lowest latency slave. Again, obviously this is not for everyone. It's always a trade-off. Hence the title: rough guide. The point of this post was to increase awareness.
most of the code samples have MIT licenses which allow re-selling.
Gaikai ported to Native Client
That wouldn't happen if servers were Macs
those are some good suggestions, thanks.
That seems too bad but ultimately reasonable, as it is the eyeballs that select the tomato, to the mouth's eventual misfortune.

People of course would prefer tasty vegetables, but I imagine that one of the most common (if not the most common) reason after pricing that people do not shop at supermarket X is that "the produce looks like shit there." If that's at all a differentiating factor, well, this is what we get.
yeah, I'd need better sample images.
I don't know much about this, but I've heard Self mentioned as the prototypical prototypical language many times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)
Barry Eastbrook has a book "Tomatoland" [1], about the taste of tomatoes in America, which is based on his earlier article [2]. Also there was a good interview with him on NPR [3]. Tomatoes are grown for easy transportation, and appearance, not for taste. They're harvested while still green, and then treated with ethylene gas, which "colors" them in an attractive color, but doesn't add any taste.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Tomatoland-Industrial-Agriculture-Dest...

2. http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-th...

3. http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
>> I think you'll be hard pressed to find a single category in which contemporary Americans have less than 1970's Americans, for any reasonable value of x.

x = time and unencumbered balance sheets. The gains you indicate are partially the result of the other 50% of working-age adults (women) entering the labor force. The expected outcome of this is average household income increasing ~100%, with net increasing somewhat less due to childcare expenses.

Arguably this trend had mostly played out by the early 90s, when consumer debt came to the rescue in the forms of credit cards, securitized mortgages, and educational loans, which allowed the trend to continue. Outstanding consumer debt is much higher today than in 1970.

So while economic growth and technological progress have helped the middle class, they don't tell the whole story. And taken alone, they don't provide a useful roadmap for the future.
I choose dynamic look via Google blogger. It's probably why you cannot see it.
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Sort of. The average search results would have gotten a little better, but only because Excite/Altavista/etc would have poached some key early employees of Google and walked away with their algorithm, which was Googles key advantage back then. So the big incumbents would be able to use PageRank AND their pre-existing market share to destroy google easily. The huge leap forward in search (and it was a huge leap) would have never happened, because their would be no challengers who could match the purchasing power and market share of incumbents