skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point about rebuilding bad instances is just as easy to do with PXE and Chef/Puppet on bare metal.
This sounds like the logic of a bully who beats up on smaller kids so that they'll be "stronger" later.
Further, I think typically there is a 'ramp up' over time from the low-capital evolution => high capital revolutionary ideas.

Elon's first major success Zip2 was a company that provided "Internet platform solutions for media companies and local e-commerce merchants"[1]

1 - http://news.cnet.com/Compaq-buys-Zip2/2100-1023_3-221675.htm...
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What is this doing here? If you want to advertise your photo sharing startup at least bother to write a blog post.
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This is cool. I'm a beatboxer and think of rhythm in that "language" (the way I always see musical notes on a piano, because that was my first instrument). At this stage (at least based on the videos), it doesn't really offer any efficiency benefit over just tapping out a rhythm or putting dots on a grid, but it'll be cool to see where this goes...
Interesting idea, not sure if I understand it though.

So you "loan" money in exchange for "equity" and you limit the potential return on that money if the seed round is larger than a particular valuation.

It feels like a priced equity round that is held to just before the price gets set by the lead investor.

Why would I do this rather than price it? Or perhaps more importantly at the seed round stage how does this affect the LP's ownership calculation?
Hi Löic,

I feel I need to address this, as your two points about why there is a performance difference is false.

I just implemented and released a middleware to add the Date header, it's available here: https://github.com/knutin/elli_date. When running the "Hello World!" micro-benchmark where I'm only testing the performance of the webserver itself, there is no significant difference in performance. I used the same approach as in Cowboy and Yaws and cache the date string in an ETS-table and read it on every request.

As for routing, Cowboy offers very nice routing that makes writing applications easier. Elli does not offer any explicit facility to do this, but pushes it to the user, which in our case typically means function clauses matching on the url as can be seen in this example: https://github.com/knutin/elli/blob/master/src/elli_example_... The Erlang VM can nicely optimize matching on these clauses especially with HiPE. Claiming that Elli and the benchmark does not do any routing is false.

I have studied Cowboy closely and taken ideas from it. I'm very thankful of everybody in the community and you in particular who offers up their projects and ideas for general consumption. It makes the community richer. Building on the shoulders of giants makes projects like Elli easier.

I'm happy that with Ranch, Cowboy will see a performance improvement. I hope that there are some ideas in Elli that can be used by other projects to improve performance and robustness.

Knut
Absolutely right... :) We really liked the challenge and not knowing if we could pull it off... It was good fun...
I guess I was a bit brief. The discussion of the "bullshitting" article ended up centering around the question of whether startup founders are deliberately lying/deceiving or just paint rosy pictures for themselves and live in those pictures.

Of course, the answer to that depends on the founder. I strongly suspect the latter would be the case here.
Clint Eastwood appeared as a surprise guest yesterday on the GOP Convention in Tampa, Florida. He pretended that Obama was sitting on a chair next to him and proceeded to ask it questions.
Actually a lot of audio to midi are doing pitch on top of onset, and tempo.. some are also polyphonic; some are available as real time VSTs (are you on any of the music dsp mailing lists? you really should be.. the prob you are doing has been handled)...

The 2 minute hack to do what you guys are doing but being able to detect way more that 3 distinct sounds would be to use ableton with the following audio chain..

channel1(audio) -> looper -> vst audio to midi vst -> channel 2 (midi)

set your looper to trigger the on / off recording on channel 2.
I don't work at Etsy or have any specific knowledge, but it sounds like they already have the tool integration they need with their current setup.

Increasing densities through virtualization allows you to perform more discrete functions, but obviously reduces the aggregate capacity to do so. Etsy specifically has a goal of minimizing instance types, but virtualization would enable them go in a direction counter to their goals.

In my experience, the biggest weakness of virtualization is subpar I/O, and I would imagine that this would be an issue for Etsy as well.

Virtualization has a very real cost. If the performance hit (CPU & I/O) is (say) 20%, that's 20% of your capacity you pay to keep operational but don't get to use. The benefits don't outweigh that cost for every situation.
I cannot believe that anyone that bought a Samsung phone thought they were getting an iPhone. As much as they may have tried to make it look or act similar, it's still not an iPhone. Now if they made a phone like those Chinese knock-off iPhones that literally looks exactly like the iPhone, then sure, they violated trademark or something. But the whole idea that Apple lost sales to Samsung because people were confused an thought they were buying an iPhone is crazy.
What I don't understand is the Judge/Lawyers must know that the Jury aren't experts in technology or the law. Why do they not spend a substantial amount of time explaining prior art, the laws pertaining to prior art, and the Jury's options with regards to prior art?

For example, after the two sides have presented their case, why not spend a day or two just explaining the basics of the laws in play to the Jury before they start deliberations?
It appears to be related to his speech to an empty chair:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/31/politics/eastwood-speech/index...
There is a subset of music that is not available on the Spotify/Rdio net, for various reasons. If you don't have iTunes Match/Google Music/Amazon Cloud Player with this subset synced into, what do you do when you want to listen to a song now? You might find it on YouTube, or you might find it on Grooveshark.
I agree with both you, and the poster above you.

But I still wonder, how is Grooveshark still online legally? They let people upload their music and other people listen to it. It's basically Napster in 2012.
You've never heard of google?
When you don't validate your business, it sucks.
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A bully who carefully doesn't follow the bit about checking consequences.

(This reminds me of the old vein of criticisms of consequentalism which go: assume consequentalists are dumb; then they might do thing X with bad consequences...)
Awesome. I've been looking for a reason to start learning rails. I took a look at devise when I was doing some research it looks awesome. Gems are so sweet. Codeigniter has a package management system (sparks) but the modules aren't that great or maintained. Thanks for your advice I'll definitely be looking into Rails and the gems you mentioned.
More than the juries, its the approach of judges that seem strikingly different: Alsup - no loose ends, Posner (Apple-Motorola case) - no bullshit, koh - no time to think approach.
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So it looks like it's not good to have a jury decide and it's not good to have experts decide on the validity of a patents. Maybe it's that the idea of patents is flawed and the flaw manifests itself as a lack of a good way to determine if a patent is valid.
Narrator: Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I've
ever met... see I have this thing: everything on a plane
is single-serving...
Tyler Durden: Oh I get it, it's very clever.
Narrator: Thank you.
Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you?
Narrator: What?
Tyler Durden: Being clever.
Narrator: Great.
Tyler Durden: Keep it up then... Right up.
Why not? Unless you limit yourself to the domain of the set of rational numbers. Enlarge the domain by adding in the magic number "5^(1/2)", and from an algebra standpoint there is no difference between solving X(X+1)=6 and X(X+1)=1. Well technically there is indeed a slight difference: in the case of X^(X+1)=6 the roots live in the same domain with the coefficients, while in the case of X^(X+1)=1 the roots can only be find in a larger domain where new kinds of numbers are included.
it's more important to bring your grandmother soup in the hospital than to point out what she's doing that will put her in the hospital?
I think this it where we get back to the CPU vs memory bound tasks. If the task allows you to be running 1/8th of a newer Intel/AMD cpu at any given time (also accounting for bursting), why not look if you can squish some instances together? CPU bound I fully agree with you (although I wonder how hyper-scale type companies like Zynga did an analysis at this level and decided upon their stack... if there's a writeup out their about their decisions I'd love to see it actually... sorry, off-topic slightly).
Is this a good time to roll out the old joke about cases being decided by a group of people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty?
The obvious counterpoint here is that we're trying to teach skills before they're needed. After all, it would suck to have to rediscover Calculus on your own in the middle of your Physics II exam just because you didn't see a point to it at the time.
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Agree. We need to quantify. Here is a link to an earlier discussion. Articulating a framework.The orders of magnitude are really what's of interest. 100:10:1 etc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4435971
Easy, Judge Koh set forth an extremely limited pool of time each party was allowed in front of jurors. And what about putting it in the brief / instructions the jurors are intended to read? Easy, the jurors didn't read it; they were nearly prepared to execute maximum damages against Samsung before entering deliberation.
When solving high-school algebra problems, we try to reduce them to arithmetic. When solving calculus problems, we try to reduce them to algebra. When solving differential equations, we try to reduce them to integrals. In essence, we use some new technique in order to take a problem we don't know how to solve and transform it into a problem we do know how to solve.

That's why we factor: because we can (sometimes) transform a higher-order equation into a series of linear pieces, and solving a linear equation is essentially arithmetic.
There is a right way and a wrong way to chastise someone (or keep them on task). The previous blog post:
http://bhorowitz.com/2012/08/18/a-good-place-to-work/
demonstrates the absolute wrong way.

I started to realize in about 5th grade (by watching a threatening, playground bully that everyone hated and a popular friendly kid that everyone liked) that there are ways to get people to do things you want them to do without pissing them off (Those you can't you just cast off and replace). Perhaps the author was the bully, or he missed the lesson.

Threatened, disgruntled employees will leave or worse (cause dissension, loss of productivity, they will take their frustration out on their peers and underlings, They will conspire against the threatening, abusive boss, poor morale will spread). I have witnessed this more than once already thus far in my 10 year career.

If warning them in a human adult-to-adult civilized manner does not work, and they continually demonstrates incompetence or insubordination, then replace them... no need to threaten them in such a harsh manner and blog about it like you just won a fistfight against a little kid (smacked em down good). You are not doing anyone any favors - trust me.

Your Abusive Ego may feel good, but your company will certainly suffer. Funny that your very claims for doing what you did are to make your company the best place to work - but in reality you just made it worse with your approach and choice of words.

This approach may sound new-age, feminine, soft, or touchy feely to you - but (in some ways) unfortunately it is the reality of today's tech worker's generation and how they expect to be treated (with some respect and consideration). Those who do not understand this, will repeatedly fail.

I say in some ways unfortunate - because it is taken way too far in way too many cases by today's young generation and they are simply lazy, unmotivated and have an entitlement attitude. Their expectation of respect and consideration is taken way too far (they expect to be coddled and never reprimanded). I am not changing my earlier viewpoints, I am simply establishing a foundation by which my statements should be based on.
That works because somebody is being funny, and created a self referential strange loop inside Wikipedia.

That's a good find you found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loops
"Open Plan" seating is the Devil. Knowledge workers, anyone who needs to spend a significant portion of their day primarily using their brains, should have individual private offices... with doors. That shut. And walls.. that go all the way to the ceiling.

Sure, provide plenty of open areas where people can voluntarily choose to assemble into groups, or even work solo, but in the presence of some comforting babble (for the times when we want noise). And make those areas near sources of natural light, and provide couches, chairs, tables, portable whiteboards, good wifi, etc. But give people a private place they can retreat too for when they need solitude and peace and quiet.

Obviously there are a lot of concerns to balance here, and resources are limited, but I believe this should be the ideal. When the day comes that Fogbeam Labs have offices and employees, it's my intention to adhere to this mantra: "private offices for all, but plenty of communal work areas available."
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x^2 + 1 is prime over the integers? Maybe they've changed math since I was in high school, but I'm pretty sure that, given n, such that n is an integer, if x = (2n + 1), then x^2 + 1 = 4n^2 + 4n + 2, which equals 2(2n^2 + 2n + 1), which is clearly not* prime.
Seems like this is a combination of filters, labels, and vacation responders to "pause" messages. Nice hack but may be good to disclose that all your mail correspondences will receive an automated message about Inbox Pause. Personally I don't like it (the vacation responder), so it seems easy enough to disable while keeping the actual pausing functionality. Otherwise nice tool!
http://www.janbanning.com/gallery/bureaucratics/

Edit: Looks like a little backlog of problems to care of
To be fair, it only has 12 points at this time.
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The App Store Long Tail Myth
I'm going to make a bit of a ridiculous scenario here, but I'm curious. What happens if a site has a fixed number of copies and then transfers them to the downloaders? Does it being digital matter as opposed to a run of pirate discs?

Do I still have fair use rights for the ephemeral buffers used to play a file even if I got it illegitimately?
The quick response by President Obama's supporters make it even more obvious how much Clint Eastwood's comments hit the mark. We instinctively touch the spot that hurts immediately. One day later, here are a bunch of photos salving the wounds.
Mostly correct.

"Being mean to be nice as a strategy only makes logical sense if there is no way to achieve the same thing without being mean[.]"

Not quite. Being mean to be nice as a strategy makes logical sense if the benefits to the other person from your employing that strategy outweighs the drawbacks, as compared to alternative strategies. That it be the only option to accomplish the goal is neither necessary (if alternatives avoid being mean but have other huge drawbacks) nor sufficient (if the goal itself is not worth the damage done by being mean), though is certainly highly suggestive.
Awesome, we did Reco, the picture deals one. Was a lot of fun and met some awesome people!
students are most likely to outperform peers,
both in traditional district schools and at
other charters, if they attend schools that are
open at least 10 days more than the conventional year.

I have a hard time believing it was those 10 days that made a difference.

Anyways, I was fortunate enough growing up to be part of the middle-income demographic, so didn't share the struggles of the article. The already-long, unchallenging, insulting school days/semesters were a struggle as it was. Extending that awful experience would've been gravely detrimental.
You have a bug. Pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. (note the dot at the end) have a "geographic coordinate system" link at the top, that isn't part of the article. So queries like http://wikiloopr.com/Steve%20Jobs are actually returning wrong results.
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It's a topical story for the day, so we thought it was worth posting. The story is being told with photos.
>> Isn't it enough that Apple made a great, ground breaking product that enriched us all? Isn't it enough that they're printing money with this device and the biggest tech company in the world?

This is why I didn't like the lawsuit, despite believing that Samsung made some phones that were intentional look-alikes of the iPhone. Just because they could sue and win, doesn't mean Apple should have.

On the other hand, I'd add "Don't hate the playa, hate the game" with respect to all the anti-Apple outrage going on. The system's broken, and it was taken advantage of. People and businesses will always squeeze the most out of any system (the tax system comes to mind), and practically speaking, we're better off trying to fix the system than hope that people and businesses will rise above using a system to their advantage.

We live in an interesting time where we have tools like social media that can actually influence politicians, and I think we need to direct some of our outrage to show that politicians are at risk of losing their jobs if they don't address our concerns related to creating more reasonable IP laws.
Yeah, because that's related to whether or not he was a jerk.

Spoiler: It isn't.
It will be worth trying for sure. But the "Open Source Linux-Based Mobile Operating System" market is getting awfully crowed. We have WebOS and Tizen. MeeGo lives on as Mer. Mozilla is pushing Boot2Gecko which sounds to me a lot like ChromeOS. All of these are using variant combinations of the same underlying technologies and making many of the same architectural choices. Most or all of them, let's be honest, are going to die slowly.

And then we have Android, which maybe scores poorly as an open source "project" (and even worse as part of a "Linux" community) but nonetheless remains very open. And it's well supported by a large community in projects like Cyanogenmod. And it's very well polished, and it's feature-comparable with pretty much everything in the market. And it's successful, with a larger installed base than any other consumer OS in history and an application ecosystem larger than any mobile platform made by a company without a fruit in its name.

I'm not going to tell people what to use or work on. But isn't it time we in the free software world at least nodded to which direction the wind is blowing? In this case specifically, wouldn't it make more sense to try to evolve Android in WebOS's direction?
I have started messing around with the product, looks pretty good but I am not seeing any support for responsive e-mail or media query templates. Any plans for that?
Same thing here, also from Animation.
Actually, there's one thing the jury can do which is almost like setting a legal precedent -- jury nullification.

It usually comes up around drug trials: juries aren't bound the way judges are to respect, well, anything. A jury can decide to (say) find a man not guilty of having marijuana even if he was smoking it in court, because they believe it does not deserve punishment.

Likewise, juries could decide to begin nullifying patent law by always finding infringers not guilty, at least when the patents in question are as absurd as many people feel they are.
Well, 'production' may be too grand a term. My programs are usually on the order of a few hundred lines or less.

I'm a geneticist whose (work) code is centered around data processing. I previously used Perl for just about everything (although I've used Python & Ruby also), but started to broaden my programming horizons recently, and after a grand tour of what was on offer I settled on Racket as my language of choice for the more complex end of the scripts I was writing. I'm finding it easier to maintain (and especially refactor) complex scripts in Racket than I did in Perl (or Python or Ruby), and the increase in performance is substantial when processing huge data-sets. One current weakness of Racket here is the relative lack of specific libraries for bioinformatics, but most of my code doesn't need any anyway and when it does I revert to Perl.

I'm also excited about investigating other areas of the language, especially Typed Racket, as static typing is something I haven't really utilized so far.

In general, the more I learn about Racket the more I admire the quality of design that has gone into it; everything seems to be extremely well thought out, not just from a theoretical perspective, but from a practical one too.
any other insights as to why they are shutting down? did they raise anything after being featured on the TC London Web Summit in March? how were they bootstrapping?
Surely most of those are just abandoned games?
You keep using that word "serving". I don't think it means what you thing it means. Parent is spot on.
Yes, in effect, gambling.

The point I was trying to make is that the payoffs for X, for many real-world situations, are dwarfed by payoffs for "beyond X." So, in those situations, it's not a mind trick but rational to bet on the rare but high-paying "beyond X" potential, even though a sure "X" is available.

In other words, when Payoff(X) < Sum(Probability(x) * Payoff(x) for all x > X), it's rational to take the bet, not the sure thing.
I do of course, but I don't announce who our customers unless they announce it first (thanks!), or they give permission.
So here's how this goes: people buy an iPhone and get a clean experience out of the box, people buy a HTC or Samsung and deal with a crappy UX whilst respectable geeks tell them to root and flash it.

That's fine for you but not a non-geek no matter how easy it is. It doesn't matter if it's stock Android or not, their experience is tainted in a heartbeat. Having a bad experience with any form of Android will put someone off unless they know the difference, which most don't and don't care about.
You might focus on trying to get any job at such a company, and then be really proactive about showing off your designer/developer skills. I knew an Apple retail employee without any college education who landed an engineering job in Cupertino through an internal talent program.

You might also consider looking at startups or incubators. They tend to be less interested in credentials and more interested in ability to execute than some of the larger companies.

So, it's possible, but I would agree with the other poster that trying to stand out among a normal application pool would be really difficult.