skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of agree with this...

However, the saying "If you lay down with dogs, then you get up with fleas" still applies. Even if you publicly disavow the fleas.
Spotify kills music
Nobody who isn't a techie or nerd hangs around HN very long...without getting hell banned.
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> ... no college will ever endorse this book as a text ...

Yes, fair enough, however I think the discussion is not so much about schooling as education. Not all education takes place in college -- and with costs rising as they are, I predict a future with many more autodidacts -- self-educators.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
Interns these days. I remember the old Clinton days.

You couldn't type correctly with both hands busy and your mouth full.

Aah, those were the days.
This observation is also applicable to pretty much every single social startup in existence.
Regarding the big black button, do you mean after dragging a file, and clicking the button, the file doesn't upload?

Thanks for the feedback so far - I rushed the contact page (also need to clean up the HTML + reduce http requests). Regarding the TOS - I have the same issue here, but there's also a non visible scrollbar on the right that you can pull down (standard Safari) - I'll make a custom scroll bar to fix this however.

Now, to come to the big black button. Did you drag & drop a file first? And it doesn't go to the upload progress after clicking it? Or do you mean design wise? :)
This idea that MongoDB is dangerous is just crazy and seems to often come from the same people who endlessly tout PostgreSQL as the world's most perfect database. The fact is that very large companies are using MongoDB in production environments. Yes. MongoDB still has some issues in particular the write locks but the situation is improving pretty rapidly and almost exclusively affects very high end users.

So the answer to your question is simple. Use what matches your data model. MySQL if your data is more relational as it is proven and well known. MongoDB is perfect when you treat it like a document store. For example I fetch one User object (with all the user's data self contained) from the database and do everything client side. So in my case MongoDB works perfect.

But either way. Do whatever gets you up to speed the fastest.
yeah... that's what makes it amazing :D
Asynchronous JavaScript Programming
I usually end up writing with a pen because I find the greater level of contrast easier to read; I have pretty bad eyesight. Lately I've been using fine-point Sharpie pens and they're great for readability.

I do a lot of pencil drawings, though (http://orng.us/ob8yao) and I do find something magical about the feel of pencil on paper, and even the smell of the graphite. I can lose myself for hours. But if I'm writing, I like a darker line, which means softer lead, which means more smudging.... bleh.
'and this spike right here was our happiest DDOS in company history...'
Maybe they should just start courting some of the big media companies. I'm sure neither Time Warner or News Corp wants to go back to the days when they had to fill airtime with real content instead of reading tweets.
Thanks, Azat. Will work on that.
Do you have any specific points on usability?
The President appears to have crashed his AMA.
Yeah, this is basically the behaviour of a nut.

Now, that's not fair.

The candidate may have had a weak stomach, or lacked a sufficiently preternatural sense of cool to people-skill his way out of each and every awkward social situation. But that doesn't make him a "nut."
When Obama refreshes and gets the "You broke reddit" error 500 page it's actually true
Although I am a heavy user/believer of MongoDB, one caveat that is overlooked in this article is the administration part of Mongo Clusters.

Even the simplest replication needs 3 servers, add sharding to the dance for extra performance and the server counter jumps up.
For startups this is a major decision to consider as a full-time ops guy isn't always affordable.
Luckily, PaaS services as MongoLabs and MongoHQ save the day.
I was just discussing this with colleagues, maybe he gets access to a special page where he can answer questions without going through the standard load balancer/database stack.

At least, that's what I would do if I had some as high profile as the US president using a site that would get slammed HARD.
There were no other candidates... the role was being invented for me. It was weird.
honestly my first though was "Pricing?.... Pricing!!!" WTF?!

To me this really seems like it ought to just be a library on github. Just tag the elements you want highlighted, associate them with text, write some js to calculate their bounds and put an overlay over everything else...

It looks good, It's something i'd consider using, but I'm not seeing anything that makes me feel I should pay a monthly fee, or risk my help system going down or needing to be recreated if a 3rd party goes out of business or has an outage.
To be fair (as a longtime redditor), reddit is guaranteed to go down after anything slightly out of the ordinary (and even then it's not too uncommon).
AMAs are strictly user-run. The mods of the IAMA subreddit do a lot of work, although I think they do get a bit of support from the admins.
Check out the recent BBC Horizon documentary on this very subject http://youtu.be/Pfna7nV7WaM
"The mouse has three buttons, and the Blit software maintains a convention about what the buttons do."

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/blit.pdf

RISCOS and Arthur (Acorn Computers, UK) had a three button mouse and the middle button brought up a local menu for the window under the button. I often wondered where that came from...
I would be very much in favor of political leaders doing AMAs on a regular basis. Monthly, or heck, weekly like PMQTs.

Connect with the people more often and more directly. Eventually those politicians who made genuine connections would perform better on AMAs than those that simply regurgitated the usual talking points.

That kind of thing could make a real difference.

I think the odds are against it since it would remove some of the buffer that the current style of message-controlled, divide-and-conquer, us-v-them politics absolutely depends on.

But we can dream.
Especially considering the president only has a 30 minute window.
Obama's Tweet leads to Reddit overload: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...
I think the mods for r/iama take care of it.
for redditors having trouble reading the page:

log out your profile and you will get served the cache for the 99%, at least thats why theory why it works for me
I don't know what kind of project it is - but have you actually considered just using Postgres? Its not hip and takes a bit to setup, but after you are done, you have reliable workhorse with all the stuff you need (access control, schemas, etc. pp.) It has a vast amount of documentation and reading about its advanced features never gets old. There is a lot of talent around that knows how to use it. If you still consider Ruby but don't like ActiveRecord magic, don't forget to have a look at Sequel.

I would recommend against DataMapper. It is nicely constructed, but has some weird issues. Also, DataMapper 1 is going to be replaced by DM 2, which is a completely different beast (but better, hopefully).

Don't be fooled by ease of setup of the DB too much. It should be rather straight-forward, but even if a DB can just be downloaded and ran to dabble with it, always remember that this just shifts the moment at which you really have to dig into the details. You don't want to do that 2 days before going to production. Be on the lookout for red flags, though: unreasonable and weird configurations that have to be flipped for no understandable reasons at all before going into production. That shows that the project is not maintained very well or the developers have lost track. Also try to figure out how long it takes you to solve a new problem with the database, with documentation reading and all. Pick the one that you can wrap your head around best.
It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes.

I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an event, should've been easy for them considering they have a cloud deployment. Maybe this gives them greater reason to hire more engineers. I found it impressive that they served billions of impressions with just 2 engineers a short while ago..

Also, it says a lot about the "Come Cloud with us, we'll help you scale" marketing bandwagon. We've seen time and again issues with EC2s infrastructure and if EC2 doesn't have issues right now (http://status.aws.amazon.com/) then it's just sad that they can't order a gazillion instances for this event and have it scale easily.

Definitely makes me think that we still have a long way to go to compute in a truly 'elastic' way.

reddit definitely does have some crazy infrastructure in place but this would've been one of the most important moments in reddit history (so far..) and I'm sad to see that their engineers are probably going to get blamed for this..

EDIT: Okay, they're back in read only mode.. I wonder how they'll hack in some write access for the AMA while keeping everything else read only. Time for some app server redeployments! Funsies!

EDIT2: And they're gone again sigh
If you take the diet people used "a billion years" ago, it is definitely easier to control your hunger/cravings. But that would mean giving up on sugar (yup, juices and most fruit included), all sorts of bread and grains, potato, chocolate, beer, etc - all foods that alter your body levels and make self-control a struggle in the likes of an ex-smoker entering a room full of people smoking their lungs off.

TL;DR version: eating the right things can help you stopping when you're full...
Study: App.net, Medium, and Svbtle users are overwhelmingly white and male
Sony launches new Tablet S - Terga 3, Android 4, 8MB camera
Indeed.

Here are some nice titanium drops 3D printed for a bicycle in mass production:
http://road.cc/content/feature/63359-exclusive-printing-tita...

More of this happens than people realise. I remember seeing those drops and wondered how they did it given the temperatures that you need to have to work titanium.
I'm trying to lay out what I think are the reasonable expectations from this AMA, and how they differ from what a lot of people will want. I'm sorry if this somehow offends you. In the future I'll try my best to be unrelentingly positive about everything, despite the evidence presented to me.

Don't get me wrong, it's a bold and somewhat brave move by the Obama team to do this- there are myriad ways it can blow up in their faces (Rampart, anyone?). But as a consequence of that, they're going to be playing it very safe, I'm sure.
Redis has no clustering (yet) so is best used when your data is transient and you are able to repopulate.
Huffington Post is aggregating questions and answers here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/barack-obama-reddit...
I wonder how useful a map really would be since craigslist already provides a neighborhood filter on the apartment search. My experience when looking for an ideal apartment is that there normally aren't that many results that fit all your desired criteria so you have to relax your criteria and expand your search into adjacent neighborhoods. You're probably not going to find the perfect apartment in the exact spot on the map that you want.
>And you can still run your old OSX apps on Mountain Lion.

Having been a small-scale Mac developer for many years, that really made me chuckle. Not since OS X 10.2 did Apple release a major upgrade that didn't break my apps and make me struggle to push an update out as quickly as possible to fix all the things that Apple broke. Apple has heard of deprecation, but they don't seem to really grok the concept.

If I had been developing for Linux, I could have simply tested on pre-release versions of the distros I wanted to support and would have been ready when the new versions were released. On OS X I would have had to have paid a prohibitive fee for that privilege.

In any case, this article made me happy. You see, for so many years, I used a Mac, and everybody said "Apple is on its last legs; the Mac will be dead in a few years". Apple had to scramble to compete, and that drove them to provide such a good product. But I knew that situation might not last forever, and I was right. After seeing the turn that Apple had taken over the last few years, I switched to an Ubuntu laptop six months ago.

It's refreshing, once again, to be using an OS that people are calling "dead".
This has the opposite focus of a successful business.

To grow a business, you don't focus on what's easier for you as a developer, you focus on what information you can get to make strategic decisions that maximize revenue.

In this case, the smart thing is to dedicate everything into determining if there's a market for this app before deciding to take on the massive responsibility of supporting not just one platform, but two.
From what I've heard from Amazon employees, it's barely holding together and hardly genius.

Of course, that same scalability (AWS) is what powers Reddit and dozens of other major websites.
I can't wait upgrade.
Must try it with some music too! Glad you're enjoying it :)
OP was talking about companies judging the quality of your one-off side project play for-fun code in the same way that they might judge the quality of your professional work code.
He built up his hill of customers and you're slagging him because he didn't strip-mine the local quarry to build it into a skyscraper/mountain?

I'd say it's equally likely that 37Signals could have failed utterly in rapid expansion as they could have succeeded if they made their moon-shot.
I'm not saying poverty, hunger, and overpopulation aren't problems that can't be solved, but I do think they're more complicated than you propose.

In India, healthcare workers have had trouble convincing villagers to accept free vaccines for diseases like polio because of rumors (with some loose history behind them) that the government is actually trying to sterilize the poor.

Culturally, discussing sex is a very big taboo.

Even in a "first world country" such as the United States, politicians regularly block the availability of contraception on shaky religious grounds.

In the city Mumbai alone, it's estimated that the number of people living in slums could be as high as several million.

People in slums may see having children as a way to increase their potential income (kids can work too), or intake from begging, or as a way to ensure that someone will take care of them in their old age.

Given these issues, how would you roll out a program to provide condoms to the slum dwellers in Mumbai alone, and how do you convince them that they should not have children?
What does Reddit 'humour' consist of in this case? Tired pun threads? (He did Nazi that coming, Anne Frankly...) Reddit 'celebrities' posting inane comments with all of the child comments consisting of people fawning over them? A Shitty_Watercolor painting? Someone referencing Rampart like it hasn't already been done in every single IAmA since it happened?
Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots
I've read, I don 't know, hundreds of AMAs through the years on reddit and, in each and every case, I hate the UI experience. I wish there was a way I could say "Only show me questions that have been answered by OP". Right now, doing a find for [S] is about as good as it gets. When you get large AMAs though, they get buried due to the sheer number of comments. Ugh.
I go to the website. See a big black call to action button, so I click it. Maybe without reading the text first. Nothing happens. I get that if I drag and drop files then click it does stuff, but it needs to do something, anything, whenever it's clicked.
Barack Obama at Reddit
You can gift Reddit Gold to other people. Almost certainly what happened.
Given direct access to the most powerful person in the world, people on Reddit still act no differently. Yay consistency.
I would have to say Apple killed Linix. As many others have noted here, OSX has improved to the point where many Unix admins run OSX and it runs the tools they have for their work. Also Mac hardware is better than PC hardware so you buy a macbook with OSX and you are happy.
It is too easy to confuse the two. They're not using their grammar skills there. Perhaps distracted by NOLA and if he knew whether the new weather was bad there.

Homophones suck.
The text is over top of the images with javascript turned off for me.
I don't think it's fair to compare the aperture of this lens when zoomed in to the aperture of an iPhone lens. Without using it, my first guess is that having an optical zoom is going to do more for general purpose image quality than what is lost by cramming 16mp into a small sensor. Obviously it depends on the use case, but in general, people like to zoom.

On a less speculative note, I disagree that image quality = narrow DOF. There's more than one style of picture in the world.

That said, I agree with the overall point of it being mostly a marketing gimmick (16MP on a tiny sensor? app store access? yawn). But then I'm a guy who's not happy without at least an APS-C size sensor, preferably with interchangeable lenses. And even then, it does drive me crazy that this can have GPS built in and my SLR requires an obtrusive, reportedly-very-slow add-on.
As far as I understood him, some of the performance problems also stem from overly complex implementations by level designers. But I guess the big advantage of KISMET is that is allows level designers to do logic _at all_ without reading into the finer details of UScript or the scripting language at hand.

I must admit, my only experience with level building was some amateur work in UnrealEdit - the original, 1998 one. And there, I found triggers and stuff really annoying.
"looking better" also includes being able to walk without a segway, fitting on the airplane seat, not breaking the plastic chairs at the barbecue party, not dying with clogged arteries when you're 30, not dying with a liver full of fat when you're 20...

I'm curious: what things that "look healthy" don't make us live longer?
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Your second statement begs the question: Pres. Obama would argue that none of those killed were due to an illegal direct order from him (and he may rationalize this with his own begging of the question).
"In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through Reddit." <-- cold, hard common sense

If understanding how the world works and telling others makes you a hater, then sign me up.
> Sarcasm on the Internet does not work unless you use <sarcasm> tags!

It works fine:

If I'm sarcastic and you don't get it, it's because you're incompetent at reading.

If you're sarcastic and I don't get it, it's because you're incompetent at writing.

See? Perfect!
I'd be more interested in seeing how a site using a service like Google App Engine responds. In theory their Cloud Storage should just keep on scaling and scaling, rather than forcing the admin to spin up more instances, set up database replication, etc, etc.
> This company is not a startup; it's merely a successful small business.

Startup, n.: A small business that is not successful yet.
The amazing thing about this is that he was literally (like at 3:30) doing a rally in Charlottesville! Busy man!
AWS Elastic Beanstalk will do the same thing.
One-third of Americans believe "the cloud" is related to the weather, not tech
I don't understand your point.

You could use replication (master/slave) with 2 servers and you don't have to use sharding for anything. How is MongoDB not the same as every other database ?

If anything MongoDB is by far the easiest database I've ever used for setting up clustering/sharding.
So what's the pricing for Pixate?
http://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/z1g3a/i_started_an_over...
Way too true. I ended up going back to Windows, because the audio would frequently (3-4 times an hour) stop working on my laptop until I restarted pulseaudio. And that's on Ubuntu certified hardware...

Not to mention the problems we had with our streaming servers and ffmpeg. It turns out that there was a big flame war on libav vs ffmpeg, and someone from the libav camp managed to get the ffmpeg package marked as deprecated (it's not) and redirected to the libav package on Ubuntu's apt repo. So we're stuck either compiling from source or running our own repo. Seriously? (fwiw, the rationale is that libav pushes new versions more frequently)
Check out http://reddit.com/r/tabled. Only useful after the AMA is over, admittedly.
I agree that this is more of a problem with elastic cloud services than reddit engineers. I am sure that they anticipated the load and did what they could, but the traffic is surely immense
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Good point, I'll add an alert of some kind when no files have been added & a user clicks on the button.
Also, the upload progress screen flashing by is alarming for very small files. Either wait a second before showing it, and so skip it for small files, or keep it on screen for at least a second even if it's done.
backbone.js+jQuery+ROR+Mongo
I find this selection easy to use an powerful.
backbone.js+jQuery has a lot of adoption and strong community, so it's easy to find answers and additional components.

ROR got strong community and language. Almost every functionality is available as a gem with code published on github.
If I had the money, I would put one of these on my coffee table.
Except that a lawyer or financial analyst won't be interviewed based on the pro-bono work they've done for a friend.

Interviewer: "So, do you do pro-bono work?"

Interviewee: "Yeah, I've done some for some friends."

Interviewer: "Excellent, give us copies of all of it so we can determine how good of a lawyer you are."

That doesn't happen.
Just make patents non-transferable instead, so they always must be licensed from the originating named individual or individuals (no direct patents by corps). That at least restricts the ability to amass a sizable monopoly over a whole sector.
Forget Lehrer and Zakaria - Most Online Journalism Is Rotten to the Core
Laptops are not hardware now?
AFAIK Reddit aren't using it. If anyone can clarify I'd love to hear more.
I think people want to give physical things and experiences, which you can't really do by just giving money, especially money that can't be spent for decades. That's why you can give someone a Starbucks gift card, but it's not good to give them a visa gift card.

I think pairing "donations" with physical gifts is ideal. Parents should ask for gifts to be half as big, with the other half put into the trust.
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I can write things down and circle important bits as I go, or branch off particular points with other ideas; I can doodle little diagrams and annotate them; I can write annotated pseudo-code and little theories and ideas, and refer back to them on different pages, and so on...

If I type, all I can do with minimal effort is type. If I want to draw diagrams, or annotations, or brainstorm, I have to change to a different application, and use separate tools for each task, or otherwise spend more time formatting my document than getting my thoughts written down.

If I write, then I need nothing more than a pen and some paper and I can do anything, and I can do it fast without having to find the correct type of document to create, or the right place to save it.

Most importantly, I don't need a computer to do it, and it gets me away from my screen. And even if I never refer to the notes again, the satisfaction of doing it at all is invaluable.
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