skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You understand that 400M tweets a day is the number of tweets posted to their system, right? That speaks not at all to the consumption of those tweets, which is the metric you're using for your ad platform.

Additionally, they don't just deal with 160 characters, because again, somehow you're still talking about data being posted, and not data being consumed. Data is consumed off their site via polling APIs, streaming APIs, and a website, all of which are pushing those 400M tweets a day out to plenty of consumers.

They may not have as ridiculous a scale as they act like they do. But let's be clear: it is nowhere near as trivial as you make it out to be, either. Armchair quarterbacking is always easy, because you aren't exposed to the complexity that arises when you've spent a few months and years hitting the corner cases of the problem you're commenting on.
>These guys should provide instructions for "Kickstrap-izing" existing bootstrap sites

They do, on the github README.md [1], under Install:

If you already have a Bootstrap installation running, drop the /extras folder into your Bootstrap root. Drag the sample_index.html file in /extras to your Bootstrap root and /extras/css/bootstrap(.min).css wherever you have your existing bootstrap.css file. It should be linked and ready to go. (If you already have HTML files you want to use, see "Advanced Setup" below.

1. https://github.com/ajkochanowicz/kickstrap/
Lion is the problem I have.
We spent the 90s and 00s rewriting the 80s again and again. The 10s look like they're going the same way. Same concepts, same functionality, different syntax only, no progress.

I'm having a lot of fun right now doing 68000 ASM for my personal projects. Going to try to figure out where we could have been if we didn't get stuck in a rut in the late 80s.
It's almost correct! Just replace "costs" with "outgoing cash", cross out "not including your salaries" (if you pay yourself a salary in cash, it is by definition included in "outgoing cash"), and replace "revenues" with "incoming cash". ;-)
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How many have you tested?
I think the reasoning goes so that of those who are willing to pay something, most are willing to pay $9.90/month. If there was a smaller plan with lower price, quite many would probably go for that one, instead of paying the $9.90.
Tried it. It works.

Technically I look at methods as functions with a hidden first parameter that accepts a pointer to the class object's data. If you don't try to dereference that pointer, then the function should work like static member.

I was wondering if the compiler will add some check code preventing me from calling any method on a NULL pointed obj. But obviously its permitting it.

Of course virtual methods are different. Then you are calling a pointer to a function, the address of which should be stored in your obj data structure.
Have you gotten the H5BP build script to work with Bootstrap? Last I tried it would error and exit on some of the Bootstrap files.
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I will say this post is going to come out as if I'm trying to boast or show off, I really hope most people understand that's not the point of why I'm asking for advice here.

Most of you in the tech industry (especially in the Bay Area) realize we aren't suffering from the same economic downturn and jobless issues as the rest of the world. Our world is ripe with opportunity, but it's a lot of hard work, and a lot of companies will do or say anything to lure us in.

I would say I've been a victim of this. After several years of being successful at a mid-sized company, I started seeing talent trickle out the door (bosses, colleagues, VPs, CxOs) for better opportunities. I decided to take a look myself and saw that the industry was full of neon signs and flashy banners.

I joined one of these high flying, well funded start-ups that promises insane amounts of rewards, great learning experience, incredible growth opportunity and best of all, family like culture where everyone tries to help each other. It was everything but this... months into the role (I was employee # in the single digits), I started realizing we were having issues growing past employee #10. Most of the problem seem to stem from things like location, industry, but then came the hard sell. I started hearing interviewers literally start telling lies about company culture, life-balance, opportunities, ...

I left that mess for an older/significantly larger company, hoping the culture would be established, reputation is known in the tech community, etc. Wrong again. The promises of interesting work and startup like feel translated to "lots of work to make investors happy and politics up the wazoo". Being from a startup, my natural inclination was to make sure we delivered on time. At this big company, it often translated to "If you don't think we can make it on time, you must speak up so you take the brunt of the blame. If you do pull this off, you're going to have to do parts of all of our work along with yours." Stupid me did the latter, the team got the praise... good times for all, but after a few years of that nonsense, I don't think I can take this any longer. I secretly was hoping by doing all this work, I could rise the ranks quickly to stick it to some of these guys, I ended up seeing them climb the ladders quicker (perhaps cause they had more free time for presentations).

Back to the point where I would love some honest advice;

What are some good ways to find out what a company culture is like? I've been reading on GlassDoor, I've looked at the Fortune Magazine rankings, I've read about Zappos and actually recently phone interviewed but decided I don't want to move to Vegas, so the conversation died there.

But I'm worried, every time I talk to a company, I am worried that I'm getting that same sales pitch that I was so morally against at my own past employer. At the end of the day, a few hours won't tell me much about the people I'll be working with. What to do??? Help...
funny, I feel almost exactly the opposite. If someone gives me a fairly concrete problem to solve I love writing a program to solve it. Of course there are times where I get bogged down in tedious minutiae where I'd rather be programming on some other bit but for the most part I find it pretty motivational to be solving a concrete problem for someone.
What does content size matter? The challenge is that every single page of content except for each individual tweet is utterly unique for every user. That defeats the vast majority of straightforward caching implementations. You can't cache fully rendered pages ever because the chance that one random timeline view at a given time will be identical to any other view (even by the same person at a different time) is pretty much as close to zero as possible. Every view is dynamically generated content from up to several hundred or thousand different streams of data and needs to be put in order and have all of the per-user metadata set correctly.

Once you start looking into the actual mathematical constraints of the problem of twitter you realize that it's a scaling nightmare. Hundreds of millions of updates per day and tens of thousands of views per second (billions per day). There's only a few people in the world who have the right to look down on stats like that.
World War 1, 2 and the Cold War have been the greatest engines for technological progress the world has ever seen.
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Forgive me if i'm wrong but aren't people being actively locked out of the taxi industry in NY due to the current regulations?
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It seems like he's still stuck thinking about computers the way he was many years ago. Wikipedia isn't amazing because it doesn't have a WYSIWYG editor and can't run code on the (very few) pages where that's even applicable?

He doesn't seem to get that what makes the web amazing is the data and people connected to it. That's generally far more interesting to users than novel interfaces or whiz-bang features.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yelp, etc aren't technically all that interesting or innovative. They're infinitely more transformative than nearly all software that came before them though.
Full disclosure: I worked on a Magnetar trade; not the one that was in the press, but another deal basically identical. And I bought, sold and analyzed Abacus.

All of these transactions are explicitly caveat emptor. My grandma couldn't go out and buy a piece of ABACUS 2007-ACA; sales are restricted to "qualified investors".

Of course we all know that's basically meaningless, at least the assumption that "qualified investors" always understand what they're doing. I know from experience that "qualified investors" in this kind of deal mostly don't do any serious due diligence. [On Abacus, it was practically impossible anyway. There were O(1,000,000) loans underlying the deal and there is no way you'd have been able to get the loan details for even a significant fraction.]

But I wonder whether we're expecting more from GS/MS/etc. than we expect from our local car dealer, and whether the remedy should be any different. That is, everyone is told to be suspicious of used car dealers, so you poke around, kick the tires, look for leaks, get a mechanic to look it over, read the repair records, etc. before you buy. If it still turns out to be a lemon, and you discover the dealer told you something explicitly false about the car, you have a legal remedy; otherwise (IANAL) I don't think you do. But you have a social/market remedy, i.e. don't buy from that dealer again and tell your friends not to buy from that dealer again. Likewise, if you find a dealer who always tells it straight and prices it fair, you go back to that dealer the next time and tell your friends about him.

Why isn't that the right remedy for these CDO deals as well? Sure, if GS said something provably false about the deal, there's a fraud case. But if (as I suspect is more accurate) they just sold it for what it was (namely an extraordinarly complex and impossible-to-price derivative financial instrument, offering an attractively high risk-weighted rate of return), and the buyers didn't bother (or have the computational resources, as almost none of them did) to do their own pricing analysis, is that the fault of GS? If you buy a CDO and lose your shirt, well, don't buy CDOs again and maybe don't buy from GS if you didn't like how they sold it.
Add to that, the challenges of sub-60ms RTB. All the fun!
No, actually, the purpose of a business is to make money. That's why it's created, after all. Now, businesses do bring benefits to society, on the whole, but that's not why they exist.
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> I don't get your argument. MySQL was also released around that time and we don't call it "cutting edge" because we found a bug.

Not supporting astral planes and saying you're supporting utf-8 is not a bug, it's a lie.
yes it's called chemo sensitivity test, but how many people ask for it? also you can test for expression of various genes, which would help eliminate drug that are know not to work with a particular gene being expressive.
unfortunately, today patients know too little; there is too much reliance on doctors, but I am working to change that.
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Take a look at the code again, specially lines 180 - 188. You'll see that the velocity is varying proportional to the distance, not the acceleration.
What deregulation? The financial industry is the most heavily regulated industry save medicine. The problem is there are too many regulations - banking regulations are so complex only the bankers understand them, which is the basis of the revolving door between banks and government regulating agencies.

Too much regulation gives companies as much freedom as too little.
As someone with an interest in this subject, where did we go wrong? Plenty of people say *nix. But I'm not old enough to have witnessed any of that firsthand.
Actually that's possible, for example if the battery in a Retina Macbook lives for 800 - 1k cycles because they use better technology and the battery in a average PC laptop only lives 400 - 500 then yes it's possible that the Mac could be better for the environment. Someone would have to do a thorough check on each component to objectively verify if it's better or worse then EPEAT certified laptop. All things are not equal standards like EPEAT are too generic to rely on in all cases.
> Honestly it's probably better they don't change the behavior of an existing MySQL character set.

Or they could just have implemented it correctly to start with, considering unicode "support" was introduced in mysql 4.1.

In 2005.

> Who knows what software out there depends on it breaking on 4-byte characters, or whatnot.

Then again, mysql routinely drops and corrupts data anyway, I'm sure its "users" could have dealt with it corrupting data slightly less than before.
Upvoted! What I really miss (in general, not just here) is a certain level-headedness when it comes to things like this. I know it is hard to avoid the hype since it is everywhere and omnipresent. but as technical people I still want to believe that we can avoid it and think things through before we open the champagne. We can do it in our own domains, why not in others too?
The incentives also don't line up on the buy side. As a buy-side fixed income investor, you can buy a 10-yr US Treasury (AAA) yielding X%, or you can buy a slice of the 10-yr AAA tranche of the Abacus CDO yielding X+0.50% (made-up but representative numbers). You're suspicious of the long-term performance of Abacus (it's 2007 and you're already hearing rumblings about problems in the housing market) but your bonus is based on the quarterly performance of your portfolio. It's pretty clear what most institutional investors did in this scenario.
Bloomberg's coverage extends the discussion a bit, and mentions purchasing policies at Universities as well as companies like Ford. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-11/apple-quitting-gree...

Apple may be right in claiming EPEAT wasn't evolving - but large organizations with environmental targets & commitments to meet depend on standards rather than the non-scalable need to scrutinize & validate every individual vendor's approach.
Private cars / limousines / independent sedans are not regulated the same way as taxi cabs under the specific assumption that they are scheduled in advance (which changes both the information and market dynamics, often involves specific drivers, and provides more opportunities for strong contracts to be in play); this is actually required by law in some jurisdictions, including DC.

> “It happens to be D.C. law," Linton reiterated about the situation with Uber. "D.C. law prescribes that limousines must enter into an advance contract with the passenger.”

http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-on-foot/2012/01/the-kojo-show-b...
Google also has this link as the #1 link ... well for me anyways.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120329124823AA...

It does in bring into question whether or not gridspot.exe was installed nefariously.
Making it fast enough from a user's perspective comes at a cost though (where it is possible at all). If you have many users and you have to pay that price for each one, it becomes very expensive.

All I'm saying is that at some point it becomes way more expensive than paying developers to optimize or rewrite in a faster language, which is exactly why Google and Facebook are doing so much work in C++, not exactly a language known for developer productivity.

And obviously there are many places where you can't scale your way out of a response time or battery usage issue because you're not the one buying the machine.

So I totally disagree with your assumption that developer productivity always trumps runtime efficiency. It is also my experience that the productivity advantages usually ascribed to some (mostly dynamic) languages is way overblown. But that's another debate.
Ah yeah ? How do you demonstrate that?

Looks like the industrial revolution had nothing to do with wars at all... strange, somehow stuff got invented anyway.

I'd be very careful about making such implications that "wars are good for technology". We have seen more advances in the past 20 years in technology than any time before, yet it was already the end of the Cold war. How do you explain that??
Yes! http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
I would be curious to know what makes you think that technological progress is happening because of competition. It might as well be despite competition, I see no rational way of telling for sure, as there are too many interdependent factors at work.

But I will say this: the academic world as I've been witnessing it is a world built on cooperation, and it seems to me to be the real driver of strong innovation. Another lucrative social website is not "strong innovation", but a new research algorithm that pushes the boundaries of what we can do, is. One is driven by profit, the other by curiosity. One happens because of competition, the other because of cooperation.
Again, as the parent poster also posted, I think you have never worked on large data. Twitter is like a big mailbox, only that every mail only has 160 bytes. This has been solved 10 years ago.
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If you start your day by reading your favorite software development news aggregation sites, containing news about interesting libraries, frameworks and how different people have succeeded with them; you can get disillusioned about the importance of technology choices.

Your project is not the framework you use, nor does it matter which language you chose. It is a non-issue if Facebook or Google uses the same stuff you do. Your projects value is not a combination of buzz-words.

Choose technology based on what gets the job done, and all the better if it makes the project fun to do. Don't be paralyzed by the choice, focus on solving the problems of your project instead.

Off to write a Clojure compiler in Haskell which can run natively on iOS and translate itself to HTML5 for live development with SocketIO backing the Closure optimized Javascript using node.js for the concurrency model.

PS. The last bit is a joke
If you like open source web projects, there are great ones listed at http://libreprojects.net

Most of them also need developers, and some have specific jobs. ownCloud for instance has some starters: http://owncloud.org/dev/junior-jobs/ and so has Unhosted: https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/State-of-the-moveme...
Thx for the response! I've always been a droplr fan and, even thought ssl should've been there, I'm glad it's fixed and I'll happily continue to use it :)
Seriously, who writes this stuff?
I do this as well - - everything from the JavaScript framework, to the ORM, to the web-framework is built or assembled by me. I even use my own special databases built on top of Tokyo Tyrant and Redis. It's basically my world where I know every part of the system. This makes me super productive and I can change anything. It's also a great learning experience. This said there is a huge problem with this approach and it's scaling your development team... It's hard for people to figure out how stuff works in an environment where nothing is standard.

My plan to solve this is to open-source my tools/libraries and switch to Flask, so at least some of the stack is familiar. Open-sourcing these tools will force me to isolate them, clean them up and write some documentation - - it can benefit other people and maybe open a pool of developers that know the tools better.
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This is so trivial. Why is it on the front page?
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iScroll [1] does a pretty reasonable job of rebuilding the scrolling events.

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I'd be interested in a similar contest but with business class seats instead.

It would be interesting to see how much it takes to fly around the world in comfort :)
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Then they should publically commit to permanently exceeding the EPEAT guidelines.
To quote from the article:

"The letter to municipal agencies will cite a 2007 policy that mandates that city funds only be used to purchase EPEAT-certified desktops, laptops and monitors..."

Later on: "...the EPEAT registry does not yet include certifications for smartphones or tablets..."

Finally it also says: "...the city spent $45,579 on Apple desktops, laptops and iPads (the last of which are not certifiable under EPEAT and would not be barred by the city’s policy.)"

Headline too generic?
If you set LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 you are declaring that you want your filenames encoded as ISO-8859-1; the behaviour sounds like exactly what I'd expect. It's certainly not "broken on linux"; at worst it's "broken on linux when not using a utf-8 locale", and frankly I'd expect most things to break under that circumstance.
I'm worried the new figure also depends on the hardware in the Nexus, but that would be absolutely splendid news.
Well said. Indeed, a flamethrower can "kill cancer" too. It's what it would do to the rest of your body that's the showstopper.
I think the customers in quite a lot of markets don't care about what language you use to implement your software--they only care about what it does.

The same is true for projects: there are relatively few projects that force you to use some particular language.

As people like to endlessly repeat, you should choose the best tool for the job. And, unless there are strong reasons against it, the best tool is one you like.

On a more cynical note: the job market is great right now. If you don't like the technology you're using, it's a prime time to look at new opportunities. Apply to some cool startups doing cool things with cool technologies--at the very least, it'll be exciting :P.
So you had 500m reads on a relatively static data set + 5m writes on an unrelated log? Sounds like a fun problem, but I agree I doesn't sound like rocket science. On the other hand, it also doesn't sound like Twitter, having 400m writes per day, and 400*x million reads on that very dynamic data set. Just seems that's a slightly harder problem.