skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Is this agreement verbal or on paper ?

2) If you can do the technical bits then do it by yourself. Then once you have it all finished you will be the one the VCs will be chasing.

3) I don't know anybody who does consulting/freelancing in the IT industry. You are either a permanent employee or a contractor. You want to get a contracting position where you are doing something low level e.g. fixing bugs or testing websites. That way you will earn tonnes of money and not be stressed from work. Anybody can get into contracting.
qwiki, turntable.fm, color, quora
Black & Decker LDX172C 7.2-Volt Lithium Drill/Driver Review
First of all, I'm glad you have chosen Fan-out-on-write over Fan-out-on-Read because, reading how your newsfeed works it appears to be operating similar to Twitters & I believe I have a nice solution for you :)

I'd use BigTable as the data is distributed among a cluster by rowkey & then individual records are stored as columns which are then sorted by column name. As BigTable stores are designed to deal with relatively unbounded numbers of columns and considering that each timeline is given a unique rowkey e.g. username & a column is inserted to represent each event - the column name also has a time sortable unique ID (this becomes important in a second) & the column value would contain the event's data.

As a result, this type of schema would see a timeline which potentially could contain hundreds of events (even though you're currently capping it at 300) and can be read from a single node with a few disk I/Os & the time-sorted ordering (as I mentioned above becomes important here) allows it to be efficiently paginated by using a range slice operation. The result is an append only commit log meaning that insertions are pretty cheap (because afterall this is what is important!) and you usually can do tens of thousands per second per node!

I believe that BigTable would be best suited for this which means that you're really looking at using Cassandra as it can stay fully available for writes and it reads during a network partition. I did consider MongoDB to be used but it only has a limited document size limit so I ruled it out. Anyway back to Cassandra... as things are going on in your timeline for the users, additions/subtractions are commutative so you can easily exploit the likes of Amazon DynamoDB [1] so you can fully exploit the weakest consistency guarantees of Cassandra.

Its important to note the system would require queues & workers to perform the fan-out operation, event deletions & updates to the list of feeds for each users timeline but you could make this part of the background system. Similarly, as the workers won't immediately get around to permanently mutating the timelines of your users I would recommend that you also cache the mutations in memcached so you can temporarily perform the data scrubbing at read time before the workers perform the task which will considerably improve consistency.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
If It's Your First Year At Merrill, This Is How Much Your Bonus Will Be (BAC)
The pricing page lets you discover pricing for inbound/outbound/messaging/numbers in the countries you are looking for.
Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
I'm getting ready to launch my first rails app, and I thought it would be interesting to hear about the software projects people are developing. It's amazing and inspiring to see what problems people are solving through software. So, what product or app have you developed or are you working on? It can be anything from a full-blown startup to a small side-project to a quick hack.
Rapid Language Hacking (TED)
I'm an ex-intern of Iron.io (ply me with enough alcohol and I'll tell you about it), and I can roughly explain IronWorker: background processing without servers, with a scheduler on top.

I wouldn't call it a 'negative value add' because it means you don't have to babysit a server somewhere, assuming you want to add scheduling onto a Twilio action (call/SMS).

If you took Iron.io out of the equation, how would you schedule the Twilio call? I assume you mean via cron, which is all well and good if you want another server/script to babysit.

That said, I haven't used anything from Iron.io since I've left, and I've written scripts which use a loop, sleep and two if statements to 'schedule' a Twilio call.
The "Back to the Future" hoverboard is very close to being a reality.
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http://tube.sbayaa.com/1434
https://crypto.cat/
It's funny, because for me this is it's greatest weakness. I prefer not to wonder if I'm making the wrong decision every line.
Why does {} + [] return 0 in Javascript?
GitHub's usage of history.pushState with a simultaneous lack of on-page DOM caching causes back/forward sequences to be painfully and epically slow as it destroys the browser's page cache (note: I don't mean the request cache); this is painfully evident if you go to a page like Homebrew's formula list[1], click to another page, and attempt go to back: everything locks up for a few seconds as the webpage painfully attempts to re-compose and re-render the massive document that a normal Web 1.0 era website would have been able to re-render nigh unto instantaneously as it would have been in the page cache.

[1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula
Do you mean that the victim-blaming is what these people actually believe and therefore it's a form of "truth"? That we can say victim-blaming is wrong but the truth is, there's a lot of people out there who blame the victim for rape and that's something that should be acknowledged?

That's something I think I can agree with. Clearly, victim-blaming is a bigger problem than people might like to admit and while reddit represents a relatively small niche of society at large, there's clearly a lot of people sympathising with rapists and to just dismiss such comments as unproductive or unhelpful is ignoring a large problem in society.
You haven't said anything concrete enough to attack. Just a bunch of stuff about "the telling of the truth", whatever that's supposed to mean.

I hold that when you consider both subject matter and the community together, there are things which should not be discussed and analyzed. The reddit thread in question is an example. The community clearly demonstrated it was not equipped with the tools to handle that discussion.
They keep inviting comparisons to e-mail and instant messaging, and they keep insisting how app.net is not twitter. In many ways, all we know at this point is what app.net is not, and not what it is designed to do.

The additional problem in all of this is that they're selling this service to developers, not users. Users are not going to care whether they use app.net, twitter, or whatever. Most are just wanting to see what Oprah or Shaq are going to say next.

I see this project as more of an expression of collective frustration on behalf of anyone working in social media. I don't see it as a viable service.
Dock Spawn: A web based dock layout engine
Except your blog is down!
Exactly, the use pattern we've been seeing is teams adopting it all at once.

With respect to biot's comment, a lot of teams have found effective ways to work remotely, but a lot of teams are still looking for more fluid communication channels. QuicklyChat isn't going to appeal to everyone, especially not at first, but it definitely seems like we've struck a chord with a fair number of people.
I'm stupid, epic fail? Nice.
My understanding of bitcoins is that there is some maximum limit of 21million and that there are currently 9.7million mined. So there are a little less than half of the bitcoins mined.

http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc
SingTel investigates suspicious pop-up screen
Is it really for no other reason? Tiny phillips (cross) head screws are really easy to round out.
Twilio is the 800lb gorilla in this space in terms of buzz, but it's fantastic to see that there's strong competition offering a wider set of countries and better pricing. We're using Twilio because they meet our requirements and the great sign-up promo, but phone numbers are not very sticky.
Groupon Shares Fall as Sales of Daily Deals Miss Estimates
Ask HN:WHich testing framework should I use as a Rails beginner?
My question is for TDD which testing framework will be easier to pickup for a beginner?
I find RSpec a bit hard to grasp.
Fine. almost any tech company..
I'm sure a bitcoin only VC would have no shortage of dealflow.
Feel free to release You App #2 and charge me another $2.
The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Towards Concurrency
Be fair. I do get around to saying there's more to it. Why, it's in the very next sentence after the one you quoted :-)

The pleasure and beauty is in your perception of it, the concepts you develop to give intuitive substance to the abstract rules.
Something like that, yes. Combine that concept with the notion of the SWR bridge, and there's no reason you couldn't do vector analysis, rather than just scalar sensing.
This reminds me of a Dilbert episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEOOFanQms0
I think it'd be hilariously ironic if a story came out next week claiming this story to be a fake.
We can open the blog.

Its on http://blog.plivo.com
TL;DR - another post about tos-dr.info.

6 days ago, 602 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350907

1 day ago, 129 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373610
The masses are not stupid, they just don't care. Most iPhone buyers don't want to open their phone, and would never consider doing it and don't care whatsoever what kind of screws Apple use to hold it together.

Edit: OK iPhones don't have external screws. MacBook owners then. Same holds.
I really like where Plivo is heading and Venky (bevenky@HN) is very helpful.

I love that Plivo is concentrating on features and functionality that make building a scalable product easy. It's one thing dealing with the pain of scaling telephone infrastructure, but Plivo is allowing us to more easily scale our backend control infrastructure too (primarily though callbacks).

Not to mention that we are based in Australia, a country that is generally ignored by this type of service.
Valve just successfully rebooted interest in a five-year-old game
In theory, you are correct, of course. In practice, users do not select nearly close to 5e+19 unique passwords when asked to come up with a "random" password on their own. And if one is given to them, then it's inconvenient for them to remember 29c!8z79c. I would rather remember 5 words than 10 random letters, and 5 words would also equalize the space in your example.

Here is what I am pretty sure is true:

1) The salt just has to be unique enough to make rainbow table attacks on any significant portion of the userbase infeasible Any given rainbow table will only work for one salt. From this perspective, usernames are just fine as a salt.

2) The real danger is password re-use (http://xkcd.com/792/) and more generally, just lousy password selection (know anyone whose password is "password"?) Pass phrases are better (http://blogs.technet.com/b/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28...) and if we can deliver to the users a space of 10^14 possible phrases that actually sound like they make some sense, as an inspiration for them to choose a phrase of their own, then I think that's a good thing to do.

3) And of course, we use key strengthening, running the hash function a lot of times (a prime number of times, just in case ;)
Which programming language do you use where one can't worry about this?
This is wishful thinking. App.net describes itself as essentially a third-party-developer-friendly Twitter with user-friendly privacy practices.

From their FAQ:

"OK, great, but what exactly is this product you will be delivering?

As a member, you'll have a new social graph and real-time feed that you access from an App.net mobile application or website. At first, the user experience will be very similar to what Twitter was like before it turned into a media company. On a forward basis, we will focus on expanding our core experience by nurturing a powerful ecosystem based on 3rd-party developer built "apps". This is why we think the name "App.net" is appropriate for this service.

From a developer perspective, you will be able to read and write to a Twitter-like API. Developers behaving in good faith will have free reign to build alternate UIs, new business models of their own, and whatever they can dream up."

Notice how the only differences between their described product and Twitter are the two factors I mentioned above.

Developers don't build Twitter-based products because they need a stream-as-a-service to build upon. They build them because there are users there. This is why I don't understand the App.net hype.
Gonna try the test next, but I think I answered this very question a while ago ( http://blog.rizzif.com/2012/07/10/parisian-profile/ ). Intriguing topic though!
Working in IE8 here.
Fair enough. It actually reminds me of this push-to-talk cell networks that I first saw advertised 15 years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_(cellular_network)

That technology definitely struck a chord with a niche audience. I think the product's name of MiKE was chosen to appeal to male-dominated industries such as construction where it essentially functioned as a walkie talkie with unlimited range.
Perl 5 is still what a large portion on what the community uses, so it's not out of date. Then again, very little of the text refers to anything technical. It's a discussion of the cultural differences between Perl and other communities.
That's exactly what it is, a Twitter clone. The inspiration is clear from looking at the UI mockups and API.
https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/blob/master/objects.md

Maybe it will turn into something else someday, but not today.
Give www.plivo.com a roll and let us know your feedback :)
Thanks kondro for the nice words. Happy to help :)
He also provided no context and no relation to the article, so downvotes aren't surprising on HN for that.
What I find appealing about Gentoo is its documentation. One of the best documentation on a Linux distro. Arch is very well documented too. I switched to Arch from Fedora and happy with it. But on one of my netbooks, I plan to use Gentoo, in spite of the scary tales of huge compilation time. I checked out Slackware. Its documentation is sparse. I can conclude that it is not for non-expert users like me.
Ah, I'm glad you see the potential of where this technology can go! Those are all great ideas. "We have nothing to announce at this time."
Wouldn't mind seeing Emacs ported to NaCl. That would be a fun project, I think.
Fear of money seems more like fear of failure to me.
I give up on long threads. There's no way to know at a glance which comments I've already read which makes keeping up-to-date on a quick moving discussion so painful I just give up. A simple colour coding of replies would make it much easier to revisit a thread.
That's one thing I really like about bitcoin: it can't be printed on a whim. Also, possibly a reason why its price is rising.. that the currencies purchasing it are losing purchasing power.
Hi Josh!
A little contrived, but it's interesting to compare digital piracy to something more familiar, like physical theft.
1) It's only verbal

2) I will probably try. It's not a technological project though. It's much more Twitter-like rather than nuclear-fusion-like. So the business and execution side is really important. It involves non-trivial technology but it's no rocket science. A similar idea was very popular at a last year's TechCrunch disrupt and I see that the team is still pursuing it...

3) Interesting, that's new for me. But thinking about it actually I probably also know only people who are contracting.. In any case, I have some interesting potential offers that would allow me to learn stuff that I probably wouldn't be able to as a contractor, at least not easily.
So it's a web-wide Pinterest?
My advice would be to use the included test frameworks if RSpec isn't a fit. Anything besides those two options will be likely to be less documented (or more rough) than appropriate for a beginner.
This isn't for the whole thing, but a common pattern to clean up that inner part could be something like:

return { '>': '&gt;', '<': '&lt;', '&': '&amp', '"': '&quot;' }[t] || t

All formatted nicer than that, of course ;-)
Arch Linux vs. Slackware
Haha, I'm sure. As far as product design goes, I think you've done a bang-up job. Individual branches are easy on the eyes and comfortable to consume for extended periods, and the primary actions are easy to identify. congrats on the launch.

Out of curiosity, where does it fit into your workflow specifically? Do you find yourself using either/any of Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc. less in particular?
Doesn't this require a server for a signup page? Once you have that, you get cron for free.
Not sure this is 100% fair, the film industry don't really have much choice but to leave their product in plain sight since that is basically how they make their money, unless they moved to private movie theater showings only.

Their problem is that their product is so easily stolen.
Where are you located? I'm currently looking for a developer to code my app.
Quite off topic, but well worth reading nonetheless.

So often we live out lives with the subconscious belief that we'll be happy when ...[insert big goal]. The reality is though, if we can't learn to be happy with our imperfect lives as they are today, we'll never be happy.
If people acting like jerks offends you that much, you are going to have a bad time on the internet. Although if you know of anywhere besides HN that is mostly reasonable, please PM me :)

nitpick: just as you are offended by rude comments, I am offended by advocating violence as a response to rudeness. I don't think you were serious, but I have to say there's nothing you can say or write that actually warrants a punch in the face.
Those... really don't look as close as you seem to think. Certainly not carbon copies.
> That's one thing I really like about bitcoin: it can't be printed on a whim

However, someone can start Bitcoin2, which would have substantially the same effect.
Yep. Bring it down to $500 and I'll buy one!
I didn't downvote you either, but I call this response the narcissistic defect of security / privacy analysis. The "I'm not interesting / I've got nothing to hide / X is not interested in me" level of analysis which is about as shallow as you can go in considering privacy / security.

Because looked at from a societal level, more secure citizen communications means a society less able to be manipulated / blackmailed / spied on by bad actors, both domestic and foreign. It doesn't matter if this particular mother never says anything interesting / compromising in communications with her child, because there are many other situations where they will. Their child might be a politican, councillor, businessman doing signficant overseas deals, political activist, dissident.

Your logic is faulty on a number of levels:

* assumes only the US government is a potentially bad actor. This is simply not the case.

* assumes the political / technical climate will never become more hostile to milder expressions of dissent between citizens.

* assumes the parent poster's communications with his mother does not contain any interesting information to any potentially bad actors

Ultimately though, with all the theorizing aside, the parent is simply wanting a solution that provides secure communication with family members which is a very uncontroversial, reasonable goal to have.
Also see Tweet-Templ (0.1 kB): http://mir.aculo.us/2011/03/09/little-helpers-a-tweet-sized-...

More micro-frameworks at http://microjs.com
Not only are conversations and discussion critical, so is the feedback the professor gains from the students. Many online-replacement articles are student centric - I have not yet seen an article that analyzes the impact on those who teach.
The rate will slow though, to 25 BTC per block (down from the current 50 BTC per block).

So it took 4 years from 0 - 10.5 million, then the next 4 years sees 5.25 milion minted, then 2.125 million in the 4 years after that, and so on for decades until all 21 million have been minted.
Are you saying you can't comprehend what I was trying to mean?

Your second paragraph is exactly the attitude that I despise. I don't care what your intent is: the effect is you want to hide what people really think.

There are no tools to handle that discussion. And that doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. And that means we'll find the tools for it.

Clueless.

edit: I feel like I'm in the midst of the argument that HN doesn't want. And I both don't want it and do want it in the same breath.

HN doesn't have the self-examination reddit does. It just doesn't. HN manages it by careful changes to its ruleset.

Reddit manages it by having an incredibly uncontrolled diverse ecosystem of recursively examinative subreddits.

And while I admire HN's adherence to quality, I will endure downvote after downvote unto hellban in order to defy our stodginess.
Cardiio: touch-free pulse sensing, turn your phone into a biosensor.
I suppose it depends where you are. In Washington DC (where I live) there is a DC Nightowls group (http://nightowls.dcacm.org) which meet up at night for people who want to work. It's a nice community of people. Maybe your city has something similar? Or you could always start one.

I also work late at my coworking space, sometimes there are other people, sometimes there aren't. I've definitely scheduled late night work sessions with fellow coders there though.
Man I dislike the language shootout benchmarks. I'm not a chemist :-(

The DNA complement substitution is close to string processing, but still feels like mostly bit twiddling. Likewise, lot's of numeric fidgeting in those benchmarks.

I want something that does numeric and string conversions; string concatenation; file I/O; network I/O benchmarks. Also, something that could indicate how the strings were encoded, perhaps separate benchmarks for 7 bit ascii vs UTF-8, etc.
Re: Computer Based Math - Differentiation in Code
WikiLeaks suffers massive DDoS attack, seed "insurance" file
how are you going to get people to use bitcoin2? I've thought about it.. unless you're the founder, there's no straight answer (and even if you are the founder, you'll end up with little incentive by the time you can convince people to)
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 1
> "You know cognitively, he's functioning at the bottom 1 percent of children his age," [our neuropsychologist] said. [...] "That means 99 percent of children are doing better than he is." [...] He waited, seemingly perplexed. "Having seen what I saw, and of course you have to be with your son all the time -- I have to ask you, how do you have the patience?"

I'm confused, can anyone offer any insight as to how a neuropsychologist would be genuinely surprised by this case? I would have expected that a rather large percentage of a general neuropsychologist's (or at least one that specializes in children) patients would be people who "function at the bottom 1 percent".
Up 155% in 2012.

Up 80% in the third quarter so far.

Up nearly 30% in two weeks.

Ya, crazy stuff.
For me it had a lot to do with who taught my math classes. Out of all of my high school math teachers, I'd say less than half really understood what they were teaching beyond the most superficial depth. (It was even worse in my science classes.) I love teaching and would have preferred that as a career but the pay scale is really discouraging even at the university level. So now I build educational apps and hopefully can be part of the solution.
Bitcoin is open source and anybody can create a bitcoin clone and many already have. There is little value in that alone though...
FPComplete seems to be a Haskell services firm. Not sure how big a market that is. But few companies use Haskell for Business Intelligence. May be they are looking at them.
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