skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moral of this blog post seems to be that most tech companies' execs are all as big of tools as this gal.

Okay.

So I'm supposed to somehow trust someone's company that's trying to be some fake Silicon Valley star effer? I dunno man. Maybe she has the best social kitten mashup ever but I can't imagine if I had a million dollars to invest that I'd let this one anywhere near it.
The Imgur-creator recently did an AMA where someone asked the exact same question:

>do you hash and store only one copy of duplicate images?

>Believe it or not, we don't. All the images only use up about 3TB of storage space, so it's not really a big issue.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_...

On the other hand, YouTube stores 76 PB: http://www.afshispeaks.com/2012/08/youtube-storage-costs-per...
Speaking of pen and paper... When I was in college, Dijkstra had given a talk for the class a few years before his death, and my instructor passed out his notes. They were on a non-ruled piece of paper with perfectly drawn bullet points for each item. If he made a mistake, he would scratch the word out with a near perfect rectangle. The neatness and clarity was striking. I think it was the only handout in my entire time at the university that was hand written and photocopied instead of typed up on a computer... and it was from one of the most famous computer scientists.
Universal single payer health care would cause an explosion of entrepreneurship the likes of which the USA has not seen in a long, long time. In the current situation, anyone with a family or a chronic condition is pretty much restricted to working a BigCorp job unless / until this happens.
> IMHO, node.js as an edge server providing connection handling and templating with backend services giving it JSON seems like a reasonable 3-tier architecture, especially because your edge tier can then be maintained by people with front-end experience.

I have yet to try it, but this seems like a great approach. Manage most of the computing intensive tasks in whatever environment you like/need. Use Node to talk to APIs and render templates. With a well developed client framework you can even make only the first render in Node and the following in the client talking to the same APIs.

This leaves the most complicated back-end problems in the hands of developers that like and understand those problems and creates a friendly environment for the front-end developer who usually focuses on building features. The front-end developer even has already some experience with async code because of events in the browser, so he'll probably get up to speed quickly with Node.
And Phelps is all athletes? And what is he eating? I'd bet it's not optimized for caloric density.
It's invite only. Tried a few different urls and got this one: https://lobste.rs/signup
Interesting comments about using Windows.

When it's difficult to use Windows at one of the world's biggest Tech giants, you have to wonder how long windows can stay relevant in the tech/dev space.
Sharpie makes a pen specifically for writing with now; grandparent post is probably not referring to the gray permanent marker you're envisioning.
You just wooshed my comment, hard. I'm not saying it's not a real issue, I'm saying he'd have to be an idiot to address it. It's a no-win situation for him: either piss of the young voters he's trying to court, or piss off the swing voters he needs to court. There is simply nothing for him to gain by addressing marijuana legalization.

Ron Paul doesn't suffer from this problem. He's not trying (or able) to win the White House; he's trying to bring issues to the forefront of the public consciousness and raise awareness of libertarian positions. Ron Paul can afford to address the issues that would lose real candidates elections, as he's not about to win any elections outside of his House seat.
I was trying really hard to register so I could make some votes and comments, but could not.
Alternatively you can use something like EncFS.

http://www.arg0.net/encfsintro

To me it fits better with "The UNIX Way" - works with all the other tools and so on. Doing it in vim is probably more portable, though :/
Why? That is of no scientific interest. Testing the specific phenomenon of caloric restriction - substantial lifespan increases from cuts in high quality diets - is of interest.
You could monitor sites like seqanswers.com or biostars.org and offer coding-help when someone seems to be stuck.

I can't see the value in a site like you propose - a lot of data we analyse here (bioinformatics) is proprietary, just to touch it I had to sign two NDAs. In these circumstances it's impossible to invite strangers from the Internet to help work, the maximum we can do is hire local interns.
"For example, maybe everyone likes the fact that the maximize window does different things depending on the app"

It's not a maximize button, it's a zoom-to-fit button. If you want maximize, there's full-screen mode.

"hate using keyboard shortcuts"

Macs have lots of keyboard shortcuts.
They really need a Live Listener stat so you know who else you're coding with...
According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News."

EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features
Along with the (Nobel Peace Prize Winner's) wars, this is the major reason why I have left the US until there is a revolution. It is simply sickening that most voters ignore this issue.

As far as I am concerned, the United States of America, as conceived by Thomas Jefferson, no longer exists. That is why I choose to reside outside the USA.

If any possibility arises of a shooting revolution, I will be back with a gun, and willing to give my life for freedom.

http://www.infowars.com
The link to the mp3 is broken, anyone have a working link?
In a comment Miguel says,

Because the developers have moved on to greener pastures.

Of course, it all boils down to green at the end of the day.
We don't do "company hack days". If you feel like hacking on something, hack on it.

We do have days where multiple people will be waiting in line waiting for their chance to deploy their tweak.

That particular day consisted of staff deploys on multiple in-progress branches, some performance tuning, bug fixes, etc. Nothing crazy.

I'm also quite sure the number counts deploys across all of our applications. For instance, deploying a change to github-services counts as two, since I have to deploy changes to GitHub.com also.
"All he says is that her business model is a good business model, and he's inspired by it."

He says:

"She’s been doing it some twenty-odd years, and that’s just an incredible success story. To me that’s far more interesting"

I have absolutely no idea why he feels that someone who has cleaned homes for 20 years is an incredible success story. It's almost as patronizing as it is naive.

What would be at least somewhat interesting is if she figured out a way to get paid 2x the hourly rate and/or get houses cleaned in 1/2 the time. Her station in life is to be happy cleaning homes. So she's a happy person. Great. What I'm not hearing is that he's living in her neighborhood or having her over for dinner etc. I hate this "I'm just a simple person let me go visit an ashram and live in nature" crap.
Honestly Prismatic is so very good at content curation -- at least for me and my friends -- that a "tech/startup/general geekery news" content aggregator is superfluous. I come to HN now to see the comments on the articles I read on Prismatic.
Show HN: Simplest chat for platforms and marketplaces
The only solution is to never give up! If you make it 3 weeks before forgetting, then when you realize 6 weeks later, start again until you forget. Repeat ad infinitum.
Oops, I didn't notice the broken link. The article has a transcript at the bottom, though.
The patents didn't cover the touch screen sensors. The sensors and their drivers--not covered--just give you points corresponding to fingers and pressure. The same thing with this touch table.

You could take the exact same software written for the touch table and feed it the touch sensor (again, not patented) input. Under the ruling this would be found to infringe.

Think about that. Software written before the patent in question fed data from a different device--infringement. It would be like me filing a patent for elements of the standard desktop gui running on an LCD instead of a CRT, and suddenly getting a free pass against all prior-art.
I'm prodding the Enterprise team to blog about this :)
This maybe wild conjecture but I think the crux of the issue is that Twitter feels that developers of third-party apps "owe them something". After all, even before Tweetie the Twitter apps were generating profits for many small companies before Twitter generated any significant revenue.

The problem with Twitter is that they provide an infrastructure service without owning infrastructure but paying all the costs to provide it (aside from bandwidth consumed by users).

If Twitter's going to go with this API tokens implementation I think they should stop this love/hate relationship with third-party developers and tax them per token. As long as it's a reasonable fee and not prohibitive, third-party devs should be happy to pay. This 100,000 users cap is both arbitrary and prohibitive for startups targeting growth.
I prefer HN's background.
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> Linux can't do this. Or maybe there's been no one with the drive, conviction and gravitas to pull it off? Who knows?

I say Mark Shuttleworth is doing this, and no one is paying attention. Unity was a unified vision, it was just different and no one wanted different. And that is fine for a new target audience he wanted for the OS, which was everyone else in the world. Look at what they are doing now, Ubuntu on tablets, Ubuntu TV, they are pushing a unified vision, and nobody is getting behind it en masse in the Linux community because it isn't everything they wanted. They want Cinnamon, they don't like Gnome 3, where is my Gnome 2, etc. The inherent strife is the proble, not a lack of visionaries.
well, that's an odd definition of spam.

also, while writing this I happened to recognize you from reddit..

http://reddit.com/user/joshu/submitted/
Wonder why Olark didn't build it. I just didn't realize that this was missing.
Any competent manager would agree with you; a candidate who knows they're not going to take the job, but comes in for an hours-long interview with several people anyway, is wasting your resources.

But that's not quite what happened here. As I understand the situation, the prospective employee thought he wanted the job when he went into the interview; but, during the interview he learned things about the place he'd be working in, and the people he'd be working with, that made him change his mind.

This is one of the main reasons that interviews are part of the hiring process: So the company and the individual can learn more about each other before a firm commitment is made, and cancel the impending hiring at minimal cost before it's final, if it becomes clear that that would be the better course.
Samsung to Apple: Game On
I wonder if this article will be removed...
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JCS was banned from Hacker News? What the hell?
Oh no, invitation only.
Legitimate question.

Not many do. There are quite a few things I build myself if I really really want to use it. A lot of the time it isn't worth it.

I would totally be using MongoDB for some projects (it fits the bill -perfectly-), but my resources for those are usually limited to Solaris on SPARC.

I do have an x86 desktop with Linux as my main PC at work, so I don't miss out on all the fun completely.

However, I do mostly sysadmin stuff, so a lot of the things I use come in the form of scripts, so it's often cross-platform.

Though I do come across some install scripts that just blatantly assume that everything is running Bash on Linux. Those are fun.

I have very little expectation that the MongoDB team will ever push a non x86 version. They do a lot of optimisations deep inside that rely on architecture specific things. But one can hope :)
The problem that they want to solve and what Gaglers solves are for different people.
Because the vim macro changes all settings so it behaves just like less, including making the file effectively read-only, and without the overhead of loading all the plugins.
We should explore topics like topology and infinity, topics that still blow my adult, math-major mind...

One of my happiest conversations was with my 7 year old inquiring into infinity...days after our conversation I overheard him saying to a classmate, 'Inifinity is not a number, it's a statement saying numbers never end...'
If you are thinking of them like they are interchangeable, you need to stop, use a SQL database and quit messing. Seriously, they are not at all the same category of thing.

Mongo is an update-in-place structure store with powerful atomic operations. Mongo will not grow storage if you are just changing the value of existing fields.

Couch is a compare-and-swap document snapshot store with multi-master replication. In replicated mode it's eventually-consistent with manual conflict resolution.

Riak is an indexable, eventually consistent key-value store with tuneable tradeoffs for speed versus safety, and no central point of failure.

Cassandra is a horizontally scalable, eventually consistent key-value column hybrid designed for huge data.

And so on... they are not "databases", they are not something where you replace one with the other, they are specific tools for specific tasks, usually much more so than unsexy but adaptable SQL.
"They're not important" as a rationale for being selectively discourteous and/or unprofessional will put you under the adage of "Beware the person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter" in the eyes of those who you deem are worth keeping an in-tact relationship

No doubt, but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying "treat people the way you feel is appropriate, based on your standards, principles, etc., and don't go out of your way to kiss ass or bend over backwards to appease people, just because they might be valuable to you someday because, among other reasons, that probably won't happen anyway."
Because that's one of the promises he made during his first election campaign, and he broke it.
I remember how much I really enjoyed seeing points...
So he is good at managing you say?

I mean, that’s one of the most important traits of any President: The ability to hire the right people and delegate. You cannot administrate a country alone, it would be truly sad and pathetic if every good idea he ever decided on implementing came only from himself.

You are naive and have a very simplistic view of the President’s role if you think this is totally worthless if it wasn’t his own idea.
He links to https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker... from the projects page
As the guy who wrote the first bits of the Rdio code in question, it seems worth mentioning that the part in question has nothing to do with Backbone, or Ember, or anything else. That code is a cleanup function on an object that helps to abstract HTML5 <audio> vs our Flash fallback.

No matter what framework you are using, if you are solving the problems that we are solving, you are going to end up with that code.

Now, that said, I agree that learning all of the frameworks out there is advantageous, but you can't assume that the code in the blog post is indicative of anything having to do with Backbone or any other framework.
What are you exactly using to determine that in the city of Chicago "they have one of the nicest offices"? Impossible to say that from the pictures.

As far as the car goes, very little info on that and additionally you are drawing a conclusion as far as DHH's money which could have come from other sources as well as 37signals.
Seriously... Is this discussion still relevant?

Anyway, my bet on what "killed" the Linux desktop would be the Windows OEM licensing terms. Nothing really killed it because it was always a very specialized product.

Do we always have to see a problem when someone doesn't make the same choices we do?
I'm using it because that's part of the default install. At one point I had the time and inclination to spend futzing with stuff to get it to work, but that's not where I'm at. If something isn't ready to use on a desktop OS, they shouldn't ship it.

My previous interviewing experience wasn't like that say, five years ago.
I hope they've got a way to keep squirrels off the lines.
The irony is that the current submission's title needs to change from "Yehuda Katz..." to "Joshua Stein..."
Master / slave is deprecated. Replica sets can run on 2 nodes however, running on an even number of nodes in a set is a very bad idea as a primary node failure will cause the rest of your nodes to go read-only. Always run an odd number. Avoid master / slave.
I've been stopped numerous times as well. I am ethnically Japanese and speak Japanese as well. Usually this happens to me after the trains have stopped running and while I'm stopped at a light anyways.

This has stopped recently though... I am wearing a cycling kit, switched to a road bicycle, and riding in traffic. So likely I've dropped out casual thief profile.
Exclusionary tagging seems nice.

More than giving why you're downvoting, I wish HN didn't ban/banish-to-purgatory people for low karma, but for upheld flagged posts. Someone can be horribly wrong, often, and still learn, and become worthwhile to the group. At least in theory.
As someone who's close to Japanese culture ('married into it') and has loved Sony products in the 90ies this stuff just makes me angry. At this pace Sony will soon need some berserk of Jobs' calibre to turn it around (they still aren't at the point Apple was in '97 but it's getting closer rapidly).
People? I thought this was supposed to be for marketplaces right?
$25/mo is a lot easier to manage and justify, especially since it's a guarantee of free access for at least 6 years past the last payment.
"Currently I'm in a country in a different hemisphere from the USA. I walked into a store and bought and off the shelf no-name brand displayport to HDMI adapter. Worked no problem."

That really has nothing to do with the OS you're running. The OS isn't driving the DisplayPort<->HDMI protocol conversion in any way (your 'no-name' brand adapter is probably relying on DP++ and just passing through the HDMI signal anyway).

This is like saying your VGA cable is compatible with Macs with a VGA port. Of course it is.
I'd like to register on the site
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How is this different from Olark?
Yes, that's it! Oddly enough, I can never remember the name of it. I'm going to attempt to commit it to long-term memory by classifying it as a cognitive bias; hope it sticks this time...
While that's all true, sometimes you have to accept some drag on growth to get from here to there. Market solutions take some time to settle out, and people who are hungry today aren't going to wait. Revolutions are a problem when you're trying to construct efficient markets, so as long as the growth arrow is going in the right direction it's probably wise to leave these kinds of programs in place. Presumably as the Indian economy modernizes they can be phased out.
A typical engineering setup. There are quite a few of us using Goobuntu Thinkpads or Chromebooks. (Since you can't have code checked out on your laptop, a Chromebook is not as disadvantageous as one would imagine.)
Huh, this looks pretty cool. I like the transparency. JCS, can I get an invitation?
I've mentioned Labradoc (http://labradoc.com/) elsewhere on this thread but it seems like it might be worth you considering it too.

More so, if it doesn't suit you I'd be interested to know why--given you seem to have implemented a more manual approach to what Labradoc aims to do.

The major difference from what you've described is that Labradoc has a project-based rather than day-based focus. (Although there's no reason why a "day view" couldn't be an option...)

(Labradoc also uses Markdown.)
I know this might come as a surprise to some.. but no one outside the valley cares. :)

In fact, I'd bet very few inside the valley care.
He seems to now be unbanned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4324381.
Very helpful. How have you done this to promote interest in your ecommerce sites ? Examples?
Ha, I was just thinking about how to architect a discussion forum (ala HN) this morning.
Olark cannot be used by sellers at Ebay or at Etsy for instance. Gagler is for people who sell at other websites like marketplaces and platforms.
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Is this the thread where you request an invitation to lobste.rs?
While I agree with your not being on a side - my personal opinion is this:

Techcrunch was founded and run by a douchebag - thus douchebaggery is in its DNA.
Yes. Derek Lowe discussed the articles, and I made almost your exact point in the comments there.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/29/caloric_rest...
I'd like your leave to go a bit meta here, hope you don't mind.

What I find interesting about this exchange (the original TC article and Lanewood's response) is the message "don't do this because it hurts."

Yes, it does. But my experience is that pain is a signal you listen to, it's one of those things that says "stop doing what you are doing." It is a corrective force.

Making exaggerated claims about your influence or connections or importance to folks is wrong. It is wrong because it abuses the trust the other person put into the person lying, which then causes great hurt and shame when they realize they have been "duped" or "fooled" or "lied to". Calling someone on it, is hurtful too, but its important to do as well. That pain going the other way is a signal to moderate behavior, or change it.

So this conversation is "Shirley is a liar" / "You shouldn't do that because it hurts her feelings" seems to want to shut down a force working for good, which is better behavior.

I know I would love it if people were more honest about themselves, but I also know that some folks have convinced themselves that their own self worth is tied up in how influential they perceive themselves to be. Thus exaggerating that influence is like make-up, or fancy bling, its a crutch to prop up their self image.

I think there is pain on both sides of this conversation, at least a couple of kilo-snarks. If it helps someone to become a better person, its beneficial. But if they don't have the mental tools to process it they can (and sometimes do) become simply depressed by it. I don't think either party in this conversation represented themselves particularly well. If Shirley is young now would be a good time to come to grips with the way she presents herself. TC should work at doing better at informing rather than blaming (it did read like it came right out of Valleywag). Continuing acting this way on both parties will only hurt them going forward.
> My original goal for it was as a way to get ideas out of my head and onto "paper".

Yeah, I've found a project log as a good way to get an idea out of my head too--or out of the tabs in my browser :) until I'm ready to get back to it.

Sounds like your app has some similarities to my Labradoc site (http://labradoc.com/)--I haven't yet succeeded in being able to monitize it. :)
You as an individual have no bargaining power when "signing" Apple's or Twitters's developer agreement - it is take what they offer or leave it. If we banded together it might be possible to negotiate with big companies.

Every engineer thinks they are better off without a union because they are above average and would be pulled down by joining a group of average workers.