skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest test you can run will just load a singe page, and all its dependencies (images etc) over and over again. However, if you register an account you can create your own load scripts that load different pages, with pauses in between. Paying users also get access to the recorder feature which allows you to record a session that you run in a new browser window - you surf around your site and click on things, POST forms, etc and when you're done you have a load script automatically generated that will let your simulated clients do the same thing.

We don't currently have any "crawler" mode though, where the system tries to follow links etc on the site automatically.
Can you use 821339 as the target to ln? (Sadly I'm on Windows right now... work... and can't really experiment.)

i.e. ->
ln 821339 new-file-name
They probably don't see that there's anything much to be said until we discover what the new persona actually has to say. If you loved or hated the old one, then you can already guess that the new one is much worse or better, respectively; if not, Insufficient Data For Meaningful Answer.
Awesome. This is a perfect illustration of all that is right about web services!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488875
Imagine a unicorn. Now sheathe it in white plastic

An Apple design meeting gone horribly, horribly awry.
Don't let bad implementations constrain your imagination!
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no, unforunately not, I hoped for that too, but it seems that ln does not have any documented feature that would do that.

Effectively all ln does is call the 'link' system call, the paramters of 'link' are two path names on the same file system.
this works on pretty much all unixes and recently saved my team's ass after a 3am finger fumble that unlinked a very important 500g file.
it let me run a test on http://127.0.0.1/
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy

The federal department of education was created in 1867. Strange how illiteracy decreased with the expansion of schools
Thank you for your expansion, just what I wanted to say. I was at work and severely time limited. My real point is that there is a huge amount to learn. The place to start is with good pages. I actually learned in the reverse order starting with SQL, but I spent a couple of decades at it.
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Looking at the interface the icons represent different load thresholds which can be customised, e.g. 100K ops per second on the http component gives a hurricane icon. So I guess it's a slightly whimsical at a glance status.
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The bike exists, it's just not that pretty: http://www.babygeared.com/stmifobi.html For acceptable frame rigidity in a folder that small and light, you need the triangle. FWIW, the rear-view sunglasses already exist in an uglier form, too: http://spy-stuff.blogspot.com/2006/06/rearview-sunglasses-w-... (as anybody who read the ads in the backs of 80s and 90s magazines aimed at boys knows).
Disappointing .. Doesn't really work with all the airline sites that it has on main page.
Thank you, and while I'm at it: thank you very much everybody for all the great feedback. It is very appreciated!

The session recorder is pretty cool, we think. We have managed to make it zero-configuration (i.e. no user configuration necessary) while still being able to handle client-side javascript. There are other HTTP session recorders out there, but to be able to handle javascript they're usually implemented as a true HTTP proxy that you have to configure your browser to use, or they're a browser plugin that you have to download and install.

The recorder outputs a load script that you can edit afterwards, if you want. However, the load script is currently more of a "list" of things to load, with pauses in between. It has no logic, conditional statements etc. and does not support parameterized data. This is something we intend to change soon though. It just needs some thought so we don't open up new possibilities for abuse/overuse of resources when we let users execute their own load script code on our systems.
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I do not see an opportunity for every region to have a successful me-too competitor.

Don't forget though, that the cultural gap between the US and Asia is much bigger than between the US and europe. It's quite likely that a successful US product can be made successful in europe by the same people. It's a different story when you move from US/Europe to India, Japan or even China.

The japanese Facebook (mixi.jp) looks quite different to the US and european variants. Not only in terms of aesthetics but also in many subtile usability and feature aspects.
Twitter really shines at this kind of thing, much more effective even than the massive protest Facebook groups were because it can more quickly connect like minded people, even if they don't happen to already be friends.

Now when some news breaks that I'm skeptical about, or if I want to get a quick poll of the public mood, Twitter search is the first thing I turn to.

It's like a massive town square for the whole world.
Nice effort! After a few weeks of mediocre "review my site" submissions here, it's nice to see something come through that I would actually use!

You did a good job of making the reports and graphs pretty while still keeping a clean feel to the whole site. There seems to be a good amount of polish and attention to detail there too. I don't feel scared to click anything while the test is running for fear of breaking something or redirecting me to a FAQ page and canceling the test.

I look forward to seeing how this pans out.
Very nice to hear: "good thing for the world overall", how cute. However, quality of life basically translates into resources/population ratio within a country and that's a zero-sum game. The planet at the current level of technology couldn't even provide for all existing Chinese to suddenly start living like people in US/EU do, yet their populations, especially if measured in number of households, much more relevant than just counting heads, keeps growing.

And no amount of Internet innovation will solve the problem of diminishing clean water, oil, ocean fish, disappearing forests, soil erosion and increasingly bad air quality. Right now 1st world countries are basically "exporting" these problems to developing nations, eventually these issues will be averaged out: eventually China won't be so poor to accept our non-recyclable electronic garbage anymore, what then?
I was with the author until this sentence:

“that are produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. When possible, these foods should be locally grown.”

Uhm... I eat foods with “pesticides” every day. Pesticides increases the crop yields and increases quality. Correct use of pesticides pose no harm to humans. Chemical fertilizers also increase crop yields (dramatically) and makes food cheaper. Oh... and guess what – anything is “chemicals”.

Some areas are more suited than other areas for crop production (e.g. climate, land and labour costs). Why should everything be locally grown?

“cash for every meal they serve — $2.57 for a free lunch”

170 grams of Tuna costs me as a consumer $1 dollar. I am pretty sure they can get it for cheaper. It is fairly healthy – a healthy meal can cost less than $3 (but I guess they want to grow the Tuna locally).

She suggests that the budget should be tripled – meaning at each lunch will cost about $8. That is just preposterous.

“not to the continued spread of youth obesity, Type 2 diabetes”

I live in a third world country – and there is no problem of diabetes or obesity under the youth. Most people eat a lot less and food that costs a lot less than that of USA school kids.

“Let’s prove that there is such a thing as a good, free lunch. “

There is no such thing as a free lunch. There is however a lunch for which another person pays.
I like it. If this proposal was to come through, I can imagine a web app (or perhaps a feature add-on to say mint.com) that took into account what your salary was going to be for a given year, and calculated how much you could set aside for entrepreneurship without changing your tax situation.
Who's "they?" If you had it, would you release it? There is no "they:" they is us!
It is mostly custom. The load generator is written in C and using libCURL - http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl

5,000 users is what one single instance of the non-threaded load generator can simulate today. We have some optimizations we can make that should improve this though, and we are also going to implement multi-source/multi-program load generation that means we can distribute the load generation for a single test over several processes and several load generator hosts. Using only our own infrastructure I think we can scale the system quite a lot, but obviously, if we want to run really large simulations with several hundred thousand, or millions, of simulated users, then we need to buy cloud server capacity.
having the kind of end-users that are brought in by marketing is a negative. They require lots of help, which supports the introduction of middlemen, and drags on the developers until the community hits a critical mass.

The network effect would indicate that the bigger the "tribe" around something the better. Not always, but for something that could benefit thousands, it's usually better if those thousands know about it rather than it being a closet technology / product / whatever.

having the kind of end-users that are brought in by marketing is a negative

Marketing seems to be a dirty word for you. In reality, it's a word much like "economics" in that even if you don't agree with it, you're experiencing it every day. You might think marketing is some evil, advertising-dominated thing, but really it's just the economics of attention.

Having a descriptive title on a Web site is "marketing" at some level, and that's how a lot of people will find you, through Google searches, etc.. yet I doubt most project maintainers consider this "marketing."
sounds like a sweet plan. i'm currently starting up an android project and would love being able to visit your place and connect with "geeks" :D
Ooh. Spoke too soon. Registration after finishing a test is really really painful.

- shelled off to the Pick a plan screen

- pick the free plan

- nothing happens, so click it a few more times

- scroll down to see if I missed something and find WAAY too many required fields

- click register

- screen scrolls up to the top, but nothing else happens

- click register again

- "this email is already registered"

- find login box, type in email an password

- get the homepage and a "Account not confirmed" message

- open my email client, find the mail, click the link

- get a "confirmed" page, and I STILL need to go type my email and password in again.

Guys, you're killing me. Such a good product, with such a terrible registration experience. It's completely unnecessary.

Ask for a username and password, and let me get on with trying your thing. If I like it I'll engage with you further. That's Startup Usability 101. Fix it and maybe you've got a shot.
How soon before Google takes over TV Advertising?
Super interview with Dogster/Catster founder. Love that a 1 sentence post in Craigslist was the company's first boon.
> “Well,” said Roswall. “It seems I am a little bit out of date.”

A copyright lawyer, out of date? Never!
Your approach depends on a lot of things really.

I often thing, personallly, that whilst reading books/articles is good it doesn't help instill a lot into a young hacker.

First I would buy him Kevin Mitnicks books. I recommend them to every new hacker because:
a) some of the stories are unbelievably inspiring!
b) it's all real life stuff
c) he manages to tell the stories of these great hacks without glamourising the illegality. It does a lot to prove hacking can be great fun within legal bounds.

The next thing I would do is encourage him to get involved with a programming community. Get him to learn a language and start ot play with it. :)

in terms of cracking (as opposed to hacking) sometimes pushing the boundaries happens (either for personal reasons or professional). I would teach your cousin that breaking the law is wrong. Breaking into the schools system is (speaking technically) as bad as breaking into a microsoft server. But the impact of the 2 activities (assuming it was simply to look both times) is very different. Try to show him that experimenting with something like the school system is fairly harmless but still wrong and he should take it no further unless he has permission :) (offer the school a pen test :D)

Finally a lot of people are saying "teach him not to get caught" (essentially). This is a most important lesson. I crack for a living (White Hat I hasten to add) and one of the things that makes me good at that is paying attention to covering my actions :)
Oops, I'm filing a bug report about that right away. Thanks.
I think a 1 day subscription makes sense. But from your own usage standpoint, theres a significant difference between running 1 or 2 tests and running 100 in a day. 5,000 seems like a good start. I'm looking for bigger :)

Good luck!
Someone wise once said:

"Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it."
He's jumping to conclusions. "Get rid of bad apples" sounds horribly intolerant. In the real world it is possible that the pessimist, the sceptic, the unmotivated or even the jerk may just see a problem the others don't want to aknowledge.

It's just as easy to jump to the opposite conclusions: a bad apple makes a group question the validity of its goals. A group who spends time making sure its goals are worthy is bound to be less productive, but is more likely to do the right thing.
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It is nice to see something mainstream take such a liberal view.

I can't believe that children are being put on trial for possession of pictures of themselves. It's the thought process that bothers me. Child porn is illegal because it encourages abuse of children, who cannot legally consent to sexual activity. Fine. But the problem is, it's hard to not consent to something you do to yourself. So I don't really see a crime here. The kid isn't a victim. Society isn't a victim. Sure, there may be consequences for taking naked pictures of yourself, but no worse than any other dumb things you can do.

Anyway, I'm not sure what the solution to this is. Maybe change the age of consent to something lower than 18, so that these kids can consent to pictures, and everyone is happy. (But of course, then porn sites featuring 14 year olds will be mainstream, and I don't think society is ready for that.)
That's funny, but it would be a big mistake. If they start acting arrogantly themselves, people will say "they're no better" and they'll lose the advantage of the contrast. The last thing to do when experiencing success is flaunt it and act entitled.
I tried to test my site (NSFW: http://fapseek.com) and got the message "This configuration contains addresses that has been tested too many times the last 24 hours." I assumed someone else had tested the site and that I would be able to test after logging in and verifying ownership of the domain. Even after creating an account, logging in, and creating the loadimpact.txt file, I'm still getting the same error message about my address having already been tested too many times.
"The photographs show three naked underage girls posing lasciviously for the camera. The perps who took the pictures were busted in Greensburg, Pa., and charged with manufacturing, disseminating and possessing child pornography -- and so were their subjects. That's because they are one and the same."

"... the trio text-messaged the photos to some friends ... in addition to the girls' being indicted as kiddie pornographers, three boys who received the pictures were slammed with charges of child porn possession."

Someone texted them some data, and they're charged? It's not like they requested it. Expecting 15 year old (horny) guys to delete nudies their female classmates sent them is... unrealistic.
I don't know about delicious, but I seem to have done OK on my mom's sandwiches. Government subsidized school lunches were crap 30+ years ago and, not surprisingly, are still crap today.
Any increase in someone's quality of life comes at someone else's expense.

Historically that has not been the case. Historically quality of life improvements have come from technological discoveries (e.g. penicillin) and social evolution (e.g. of the middle class). Who loses if penicillin is discovered? Who loses if some former serfs decide to become artisans instead?

The single biggest improvement in quality of life for most humans over most of history has probably come from improved hygienic practices. How does that come at someone's else's expense?

I also disagree with your specific claim that "Internet innovation" can't improve physical world problems. Would you claim books don't help solve the problem of clean water? Not literally, obviously; you can't use books to make clean water, except by ripping out pages and using them as water filters. But think how much harder it would be to solve the problem if books didn't exist. And the Internet is an innovation on the scale of printing.
Interesting how the cross-domain receiver file link is pointing to http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/xd_receiver.htm

Why not upload this to facebook.com?
also, it would be trivial to create a dns record that points to 127.0.0.1 or the ip of loadimpact.com, so you may want to blacklist things after resolving.
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Could you not just hardlink to the /proc/<xxx>/fd/<y> file descriptor? I haven't tried this, but considering you can `cp` from the open descriptor to a new file, I should also think you could make a new hardlink to that same descriptor.
I think you've missed the point. The real utility of coding to pass a test is not to verify the current state of the application. You can easily cross check that you're getting the right return values from any module manually. The real beauty of TDD comes a few months down the road when you've forgotten the current module, and you make some change that affects it. With a unit test framework in place, regression problems like these are found immediately.
How does it compare to http://litmusapp.com/ ?
/proc is its own filesystem so its 'inodes' are incompatible with whatever FS your disk is on.
once I selected all "travel sites" & all "airlines", i got a warning "you are about to open 20 tabs" and I promptly closed the tab. I don't like the idea of opening that many tabs or the fact that I need to select individual airlines or sites. I rather get all the data in 1 page first and then filter by removing airlines/ sites.

I really like the cleartrip guys when it comes to travel/ticket booking. It's mostly India only but check out the UI & usability -- really nice. http://cleartrip.com
In some countries there are varying degrees of consent. If you are over 16 you can do anything you want with everyone else over 16, if you are between 14 and 16 there is an age consideration, so if you are 14 and screw around with someone that's 14 you're OK, but of you're 25 and screw around with someone that's 14 it's not OK.

I think that's a pretty good way of doing it: Let the kids play, as long as they don't do so with adults.

As a strange aside: In Mexico the legal age of consent is 12!!
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Depends who is the buyer. If it's the store then Intuit will definitely account for them as purchased. I don't know how it works in shrink-wrap software retail, but in most retail situations products are bought wholesale by the store, not lent on consignment until the end-user purchases them.
Who cares if languages become extinct?
What about Open Travel (http://www.opentravel.org/)? Its a format being supported by some of the major players in the travel industry: http://www.opentravel.org/Join/Members.aspx

I am working in a startup that aggregates rental car rates, similar to Tripeedo using OpenTravel. Its all XML based, and can be a PITA--but the result are a better product and a better user experience.
I hit 'None', but it has been interesting for Tipjoy. We're finding more interest in alternative monetization schemes and social donations to non-profits. Both are aided by the recession, not hurt by it. We already have a round of funding in the bank, so we're not looking. We're hiring, and more people are coming on the market.

We'll see what our valuation look like in any following rounds of funding or other events. Overall though, I think we've been helped by the state of the economy.
I just finished the 2nd book by Jared Diamond (Collapse) and he claims that population growth diminishes the advantages of technological progress. Without penicillin, Internet, improved hygienic practices we wouldn't have nearly 7 billion people living on this planet right now.

At the current rate of population growth we'll have a density of 10 people per square foot (!) before year 3000, and the population growth is what usually follows a country's increased economic output.
Statistics is statistics -- just get a good introductory statistics textbook. MIT's OpenCourseWare is probably a good start, maybe this: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-443Fall2003/CourseH...
It depends in what way you mean. It generates traffic and measures performance in a similar way as ab/httperf. The biggest difference is that it is an online service, which means you don't need to own any servers yourself to run ab or httperf on. You don't have to install or configure ab/httperf, and you get results nicely formatted as graphs with no extra work on your part and test configurations and results are always available to you, on the web.

If you have the time, knowledge, interest and a server to spare, then ab or httperf (or I would recommend the Grinder - http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ ) is definitely worth a try however.
Where is the option for it's improved things?

There's a HUGE opportunity right now for offerings which help companies and individuals save money. The climate has never been better for small lean responsive companies to displace the large expensive lumbering service providers out there.
There is also an iPhone application called "Sales Report" that will download your daily sales data and give you a report with graphs & etc right on your iPhone.
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The basic tenet of capitalism is that trade is not zero-sum: it actually creates wealth.

If I have I pay you $10 for a service that costs you $5 to provide, you've actually created $5 of wealth out of thin air. I end up with a service that I value more than $10 so I come out ahead, and you end up with money that you value more than the marginal cost of providing me that service so you come out ahead.

As a simple check, the average person (in the world) today is better off than the average person 50, 100, or 1,000 years ago. Even though are population has increased significantly, our wealth has increased even more.
just a theory. Even if he couldn't code at all, he speaks VERY well (seen him at a Canadian conference) - that alone is enough to land a job in most pointy-hair-managed companies out there...