skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write Go and I have been satisfied with the low-level control and direct memory access. The language has pointers and you can cast between ints and pointers, so you can do anything you can do in C.

If you're writing realtime code, you can avoid triggering the garbage collector simply by not allocating memory on the heap. It is harder to get anything done this way, but writing realtime code in any language is difficult.
I'm hoping they'll provide some more insight into what the breakdown of tasks are between the machines, and if that 800 million number is actually correct.

It seems extremely high for what my absolutely-no-idea-what-these-sites-could-possible-need-that-many-servers-for thought process can fathom.
Just over 20,000,000 people hit my API yesterday 700,749,252 times, playing the ~8,000 games my analytics platform is integrated in for a bit under 600 years in total play time. That's just yesterday.

There are lots of different bottlenecks waiting for people operating at scale. Heroku and NodeJS, for my use case, eventually alleviated a whole bunch of them very cheaply.
Any decent professor hands out old test answer keys himself.
Read the whole paragraph. It's C.

"100% of our production system is now running Go as 95% of our application (C being the other bits). Not side bits, but our critical path."
Which is precisely why the 'hey we won't need insurance' call is completely wrong.

As long as people can override the function, people will make mistakes and cause damage. And this will always be the case, nobody wants to be stuck on an isolated road, unable to proceed because their lane is partially blocked, but it is safe to cross the lane and proceed.
We use heroku, and every now and again that terrifies us. I'm not sure which will come first: Heroku going multi-region, or us having an outage due to another AWS problem and switching providers.

:fingers crossed:
I absolutely believe that the process of developing an app with RubyMotion is revolutionary in terms of mobile development. The flexibility of Ruby paired with the interoperability with Obj-C is nothing but a win.
Is shopping left for the weekend?
Also, where's the cooking? Is it included in dinner?
I am having one-on-one's currently and this is how I do it.

1. Talk to your manager about your career aspirations. That include promotion, raise and other learning opportunities.

2. Discuss what will get you there- Write on the white board clearly defined tasks you need to do to get there.

3. Put down a plan to execute and track them. And record it- I generally take a picture of the whiteboard.

4. Ask him for feed back on how you did from last one-on-one to this one.

5. Give him feed back about project, technology, company and things in general.

6. Have him sign off and agree that you are doing well which he agrees and acknowledges it.

7. Repeat 1-6 in every one-on-one scheduled to happen every 2 two weeks.

A good appraisal, evaluation at the end of year is something that doesn't have any surprises between you and your manager.

[EDIT: Even if your company doesn't have 1:1 - Ensure you take personal initiative to have discussion of this kind with your manager it helps a lot in the longer run]
Give it a go anyway. I had the same thoughts as you when I first started using it but after using the beta for a few months, the binary classification is freeing rather than restricting.
This is a nice one.
This is such a busy and satisfying summer. Thanks Song (fersho311) for being my mentor!
>>> 20000000/24/60/60.0
~231.46666666666667 requests a second?
This project attempts a middle ground between SOAP and "roll your own"

http://barrister.bitmechanic.com/

It's JSON-RPC with an IDL grammar.
do you feel that the one way movement of the market has impacted your trading? how do you think your strategy would hold up if everything wasnt going up?
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yeah, and the inability to just decided to earn 100K+/yr "on the side" should not discourage people from going to college. just make sure you actually learn something.
Maybe it's because I don't live in Silicon Valley... or because I'm less "into the startup scene" than other people on HN... but I'm surprised anyone even cares about the TechCrunch article.

Shirley Hornstein is a nobody to me. She fooled some people, which is a shame. But, how many people are really affected by photoshopped pictures with some celebrities on her facebook page. The rest of this isn't particularly newsworthy either.

The TC article is irrelevant gossip. This blog response is sort of a stretch too.
Is your graph showing concurrent (as in active connection) users?
I really wish we could fix the situation here in Toronto. I really don't want to have to go to the Valley, there are competitive reasons why I want to keep my startup here. But if funding is as difficult to find as Torontonians make it out to be, I may have to move.
This is just like the garbage collection versus manual memory management debate.
It's probably necessary for click tracking. Macy's will pay either a CPC or a CPA for traffic coming into their website, and that includes traffic to their homepage.
I think that Mozilla's Rust is aiming squarely at C++ developers, whereas Go is more of a Java replacement.

And it's interesting to see Python and Ruby being squeezed lately, from various directions; Clojure, Go, other languages. Since Python went mainstream and started being picked up for serious projects, it naturally came under the spotlight a lot more than it had previously, and I think many people have started to see some of its warts. The transition from version 2 -> 3 wasn't exactly a smooth one, either.
Furthermore, although Python is a pretty good all-round language, it doesn't really excel at anything in particular, unlike for example Perl which continues to maintain a strong niche in the areas of text processing and system administration, despite its popularity having fallen away in some of the other areas it was formerly strong in.

In my case, although I have recently moved from Perl to Racket for larger and/or more complex work, I still use Perl a lot for small, simple scripts (which constitute most of my programming). A couple of the Java guys I know switched from Python to Clojure for scripting tasks (I could never convince them to like Perl..), and have started to take an interest in languages like Scala and now Go for more substantial projects.

For many years now, Python has been the fresh, fun challenger going up against older (and perhaps clunkier) languages, whereas now things seem to be shifting and Python may soon find its role has reversed and it has become the old, crufty language.
Yes, in 2012 there are still people who disable cookies. I know, it's weird.
People are piling on Shirley Hornstein because (1) she got caught, and (2) she's female. The second of these is 90 percent of it.

If you "trick" powerful people into accepting you as one of your own by claiming connections you don't have, and succeed in doing so, you've earned it. (If you fail, then slink away quietly and try again in a couple of years.) A lot of people are dumbasses who let the crowd make their decisions for them, and they deserve what they get from people who can mislead them about the crowd opinion (and mostly, those outsiders are just as competent, and would only be rejected because they weren't born in the "right" place).

Overt fraud is wrong. If you claim to be a doctor and don't know a thing about medicine, that's quackery and it endangers people and you belong in jail. If you convince the powerful that you are part of their club until the lie becomes true, then it's not really my thing, but I see nothing wrong with it.
I've worked with dishonest people. "Everyone is bullshitting, so I have to too" was always their excuse.

I disagree that the existence of liars "forces" others to do the same, and I think it's a really harmful way of thinking.
Google has invented a new login state between "logged in" and "not logged in" called "not logged in enough". It's kind of like being logged in, except nothing works and you get asked to login again. Also, you can't logout.
I meant "what functionality is the remaining 5%." Not "what language is it."

Basically, once you are 95% Go, what parts are hard to convert to Go to make it 100%
Ngmoco Axes Bulk Of Staff At iOS Game Studio Freeverse
On a related note, does anyone have an idea on how Google plans to commercialize their technology?
Analyzing Shakespeare with Python and XML
It's great that you shared this with the internets, even if you were in a hurry. Now that you have some feedback on the article you can iterate :-)
No I agree, and ended up un-subscribing from their e-mail list. I was sick of seeing the same bad offers popping up day after day.
Why not work on Light Table?
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Claiming that you worked at company X when you didn't is like claiming that you have a degree from a university that you didn't attend, and is one of the most clear-cut and common examples of professional deceit. I don't think this is a sexism issue at all -- look at how roundly Alexey Vayner was mocked. While I don't think the TechCrunch article was an example of charitable judgment, people are bloodthirsty and love to string up an "example case" every so often.
Vehicle integrity is the responsibility of the driver for human driven cars, I assume it would be the same for autonomous vehicles. The problem comes when you are driving a 15 year old car because you can afford new. For non autonomous vehicles mechanical safety is dependent on powertrain, steering, and brakes, all of which are under manual control. Maintaining the integrity of autonomous system--its computer, its sensors, its radar/gps, the accuracy of its maps, will be even more important than the maintenance of those manual system.
Standfords Cooling Glove: "Better than steroids"
They had some huge hits on iOS: Flick Fishing, Skee Ball.
I pointed out unreasonsble claims that disagree both with Wikipedia and with media that have serious fact checking -- he keeps arguing. (I stopped checking after the three top results on Google)

All that without any real point. Now you claim there is a point?
Silicon Valley Pasquinade
This. Give it to Archive.org and let them have their way with it.
Aaron Swartz has a post on dishonesty: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/intellectualdishonesty

> Dishonesty has two parts: 1) saying something that is untrue, and 2) saying it with the intent to mislead the other person.

He goes on to agree with Feynman: there are times where we "should ben[d] over backwards to show how [we] are maybe wrong" [1].

Yet, Aaron later states that "intellectual" honesty is an "impractical standard" to apply to every-day life. Some occasions call for it, others don't. Unfortunately, where we draw the line seems to be moving towards the latter.

1. http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
Gartner Hype Report Predicts HTML5 Still Years Away
Moderately appealing. I guess I'd better give the context... I ride my bike whenever I can, which is >90% of my journeys (I live in SF; the same was also true in London). I've only ever commuted to work by car for a brief period of time, and I plan on avoiding it in the future. I prefer to combine train (CalTrain) and bike for commuting. I occasionally use my car to do a big grocery shop - it's 5min each way, so I can take or leave a robot there. The reason I own a car (Subaru) is to get to very remote places in the Sierra Nevada mountains, to go white water kayaking. The drive across the Central Valley is very boring, and for that I would love a robot. The bits on hairy mountain roads (often broken dirt roads), I'd be amazed if we see a robot car capable of that in my life time (we're talking reading individual boulders to figure out the line through). What I really need is a helicopter, and pilot..

So that's why I'm only moderately excited for my personal car - I just avoid using it so much that its not a big deal.

Now, if we could remove SF's rude and navigationally challenged taxi drivers* from SF'd taxi's, then I'd be happy..

* - they arent all rude..
Granting that Postgres can't get around all locks all of the time, it still seems like an awful lot of work in your code to get around MySQL not doing its job. Sounds like a pretty sophisticated solution though.
Boomerang Effect? Your Party Hub, back to Norfolk?
I think it’s important to write honestly and note that we sometimes lose talent to larger markets, that’s okay though, I grew up in the Greater Washington, DC area and yet find me here! I met the guys at Your Party Hub a few weeks before Start Norfolk 2.o, simple emails back and forth, “We live in NYC, but grew up down there, can we still participate?” My answer was simple, Yes! Little did I know that they would win the Twitter competition and be a finalist come the wee hours of Start Norfolk day 1.
The graph shows http requests, each individual person sends 'event.general...' requests approximately 2x per minute.

In the last minute ~460,000 of those requests were made which means somewhere around 230,000 people sent data although there's room for that to be higher or lower depending on sessions starting, sessions ending, and just what period of time you want 'concurrent' to live within.
They apparently seem to be using JSCocoa (which I find kind of a surprising choice in comparison to Cycript, but hey: I'm biased ;P).

(edit:)

Looking into the debugger protocol some, it seems like it might be irritating to integrate Cycript and have it work with Chrome. (The problem being that it parses the JavaScript on the client and sends over an RPC, do you'd have to drop down to objc_msgSend semantics; one of the things I had disliked about JSCocoa then actually makes it easier to use in this environment: how it kind of munges all of the namespaces together into object properties.)

The entire idea of mapping the semantics of a native app into the HTML reality of that debugger, however, is somewhat awkward if you want to attack the parts that aren't networking and database (which is what PonyDebugger is currently nailing really well). I was working on something a little more general a while back as part of Cynoptica (mapping all processes to an HTML debugger interface); when I have something I'll hit you up on IRC.
The more I read up on her, the less I like her.

I agree. "Borrowing fame" is one thing, but claiming you worked at a company where you didn't is unethical.
10 years seems optimistic to me. If autonomous vehicles take off, I doubt they'll hit majority in less than 30 years, 50 more likely. These probably won't even be purchasable for 10 years.
"I think that Mozilla's Rust is aiming squarely at C++ developers, whereas Go is more of a Java replacement."

I basically agree with this as a Rust developer (although I'm not sure about Go being in Java's niche; I think of it more as in node.js's niche -- highly scalable web apps). Early on, I think both Rust and Go were thought to be targeting the same segment, but it turned out that we really weren't. Personally, I'm completely fine with that; different language designs are appropriate for different roles. The huge amount of work that we've done to make non-allocating and manually-memory-managed code easy, predictable, and type-safe is totally overkill for Go's niche, for example, while for games and web browsers this sort of thing is essential.
>isn't an employee supposed to take direction from a manager?

No,

The manager manages the direction[reviews, tracks, corrects course], but doesn't necessarily set it. Its not like the manager is a father and the employee is a day care kid. Who needs to do his homework, eat vegetables and drink milk at the fathers command.

Essentially the manager acts like a intelligent information router which can improvise decision making based on information he/she is routing.

The job of a manager is to make himself redundant to build great teams that can manage themselves. So that he can himself grow up to the next level and manage the managers and so on..
Then let this be the moment where you realize not everyone on HN is a web developer.

Some of them are painters.
Yes you are definitely right, the bear market has made it very easy to make money by simply "buying low, wait days/weeks, selling higher"
Having open quite a few tabs before it killed my Firefox.
An app which crawls over internet and gives best deal/price for any item you search and you never have to search 100s of diff deal sites to compare the lowest.
This is a beautiful app. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't see how on earth it could support 7 full time employees and 3 co-founders [1]. Are they just hoping for an acqui-hire?

[1] http://blog.lift.do/post/24988178079/join-the-lift-team
It's from Bootstrap's new header.
Not after two minutes, no. For me it’s plainly obvious even on a colourful background, but that takes ten minutes.

I’m astonished by the acceptance of this defect by so many people. I do not get it. That’s unacceptable.
What they give you is very incomplete. Ironically all the data in my 'archive' was from 2010 right before the v5 collapse with all the stories about digg's own fate.
Yeah this isn't going well: http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?pid=242571
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Awareness. I will often see someone post a link to Hulu and be genuinely unaware that no-one outside of the US can view it.
This is interestingly non-viral. Although it's one of the coolest links I've seen in a while, it takes much longer to "consume" this, and sharing doesn't have until after consumption. Interesting to note how much less frequently this was shared than some much interesting "popular links".
No, it does not. I've been casually following the development of GCLI (formerly known as "Cockpit") for a while now. It started as a debugging component of the Ace editor.
The most successful people I know are straight shooters who tell it like it is.

Once you're successful, you can be that way. I think it's pretty rare that people get successful as "straight shooters". Telling the truth makes you a bearer of bad news a lot of the time. I know, because I've been described as "pathologically honest", and often it doesn't end well.

You can "speak truth to power" if you wish. Power already knows the truth. So the only thing you do, by doing so, is identify yourself as a threat, now that they know you know. And the last thing power wants is an epidemic of truth-knowing (i.e. a morale problem).
Yeah, seriously. It's amazing that people are still afraid of cookies in 2012.
I am excited by this for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it seems like a true joshu project--simple infrastructure that uses simple approaches to engage crowds in collaborative activities. With del.icio.us it was enabling structured discovery via folksonomy, with human.io it is enabling broadening the reach of crowdsourcing. (If only I could somehow coin the term turksonomy and have it make sense in this context.)

A couple of crazy ideas would be to use this to perhaps improve upon that niche that Flickr and Twitter are sometimes used for, which is crowd sourcing collection of digital media for some event (like a concert, conference or news event). Instead of showing live tweets as a screensaver at a conference, show images collected via human.io.

I also think there is a huge potential for creating interactive narratives and even games.

When I try to explain the idea to people, though, the question is always "what is in it for the worker?". With delicious, the creation of a good folksonomy that added value to the ecosystem was simply a side effect of the selfish benefit of keeping track of your own bookmarks. That's why I think for human.io to go viral to the point where you have a large and engaged workforce, you need to find its "win/win" proposition. It could simply be the game aspect (see games with a purpose) or maybe a give a little/get a little dynamic.

Great stuff...can't wait to see how this one evolves.
Amazing visuals. I have no idea if the idea scales. Technically might be a bit PITA. The sensation of time. Passing. Wait, what? The modular decomposition. Birdseye flight sequnece. Functional redundancy. An innovation communication language? Dunno. Pity about the ad-part =D

Edit: pls, though. not in the wrong hands.
"100% of our production system is now running Go as 95% of our application (C being the other bits)"

So... 95% of their production system is running Go.
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This is a news aggregator. How can that be illegal in the US?
It seems like human.io solves a very rare problem: "I have a lot of people who will do whatever I ask them to, but organizing the result of their efforts is difficult".

This is a very real problem for the people that have it. Imagine you have a following of hundreds of thousands of people (like joshu actually does). You could do a lot to help yourself and others simply by posting one tweet. But then you have to deal with lots of replies from different people in different formats, keep track of it over time, set up consistent systems for recognition and reward, etc.

human.io turns all of that into an api like process. But you have to explain that idea to a very large number of people, when only a tiny percentage of people even understand what the problem is like. I can understand how this would be difficult to "explain". It seems like the problem isn't so much the message, but the fact that such a specific problem has to be explained to a wide audience.
I saw this and thought the exact same thing! Super excited to test it out upon release.

The other nice thing about FF for devs is that Chrome is a little too robust sometimes. I've had some egregious errors in my markup and Chrome still manages to do what I intended. But then it's broken on every other browser.

As far as I've experienced, anything that runs perfectly in FF runs perfectly in Chrome. But the reverse is not true.
Because it is not necessary to learn PHP/MySQL. And if you add JS, even worst, don't use bootstrap at all. Don't use any PHP framework too at this stage.
A 29.3MB video runs multiple minutes - so long as your available bandwidth is above a relatively generous minimum, the experience will be smooth and uninterrupted.

I'd wager that the average person would burn through this 29.3MB faster than it can be downloaded, considering how fast you'd be scrolling.
I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti
Interestingly, I frequently heard the idea of not needing parking because your car would drop you off at work, drive home, then pick you up at the end of the day. But since almost all cars on the road right now are gas or gas hybrid, you are doubling your miles driven, thereby halving your effective fuel economy. You are also doubling the amount of time on the road, so now rush hour lasts twice as long. From 7-8 in the morning driving everyone to work, and then 8-9 empty driving home. This may potentially have infrastructure issues--road capacities, paving, etc.