skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite horrifically, but not well. Wikipedia tells me the T94 processors are worth 1.8gflops each, while the range-topping i7 is 109gflops.

Of course, in its day, intel and AMD were still in the middle of the mflops.
The Steve Jobs of useless plastic trinkets
Wow, someone else using Beanstalkd; my hero! Beanstalkd may be one of my favourite but most neglected pieces of software.
That's sort of the point of the class in question: use it derive your own class an you've extended the Spring framework...
You may wanna read up on what free software actually is. The free used by the FSF generally denotes that you have access to the source code and are free to modify and redistribute it.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I switched from Resque to Mike Perham's Sidekiq earlier in the year, and the improvement is just sensational. I'm curious to see how Resque can be improved to bring it up to the same level.
Agreed. This is what I would like to see done.
Funnily enough, there's a J932SE computer going for $16k - works, but crashes. 3.2 GFlops. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cray-J932SE-32-processor-supercomput...
Any idea how this would compare in power and capability to today's modern desktop machines?
Is it? How many of these are currently on the market?
Torvalds' quote about good programmers
Indeed, the class isn't hilarious. Perhaps the class name initially boggles the mind, but when you learn what it does not only does it make sense, but you probably would be hard pressed to find a better name!
It created a fireball 5 miles in diameter, destroyed all buildings up to 34 miles away, and could give 3rd degree burns to people 62 miles away. I can't even comprehend how one bomb could do so much damage.
> My startup currently is about nothing. It lacks a product, idea, or even market. I have a few thoughts about what it could be about, but nothing has been chosen (or even tested).

I don't understand how this has garnered so much attention. I feel like I'm at a self help meeting where we are all applauding each other for not eating a piece of cake, or smoking a cigarette. In other words, a bunch of noise over nothing substantial. While I'm glad you have a lot of success under your belt, how is it relevant? You specifically state you have no idea, concept, or product. Nothing at all.

You don't have a startup. You have a desire to work hard at something, but you have no idea what to do. Thanks for sharing???

Funny, I was just reading Steve Blanks article on why so many startups suck I'd suggest reading it: http://steveblank.com/2012/09/21/why-too-many-startups-er-su...

But to reiterate: you don't have a startup. And please don't start a company just to start a company ... Do something that you love AND that people truly need. The signal to noise in our startup world is out of control.

Finally, I admire your desire to be open and transparent but honestly coming out and saying you have no idea/product/service is just a waste of a database row. It sounds naive. You won't get anywhere on a wish. You need substance.

P.S. services that I want right now:

* A concierge (iamexec on roids) to find me an apartment. Given a criteria, find me X places per week to review and then take Y that I like and arrange appointments to see them. A human touch is most certainly required. Padmapper is a pain in the ass. I'll give a service a hundred dollars to find me 5 extremely solid leads in a week. Between this and that price, studio or 1br, near the metro (dc). If you build an engine to scale that so you and a few other people can handle business... You're the next Donald Trump.

* register me to vote. I pay $x and you do the rest. Oh you need a birth certificate? Damn. Oh, but you're providing a fax number, iPhone snapshot, or other means to get it or other required docs to you?? Great! Here's $20 fucking dollars. I don't care how much it costs, within reason, as long as it works and it requires zero thought from me.

* I'm a fanboy. I want a heroku coffee cup but they don't exist. Follow the HNTees lead: provide people who might frequent HN or understand the meaning of the phrase NoSQL with swag. I'll give you fifteen bucks for a purple heroku coffee cup. And don't do zazzle/cafepress garbage. I want quality goods. I also want crap pertaining to ruby and python. Tasteful, quality goods/swag for people like you and I.
Really gives you some context of how far we've come in so little time, eh?

I sometimes find it sad that pieces like this T94 wind up as museum pieces or conversation pieces, but it's just one of the casualties of our rapid rate of progression. I mean, the Qualcomm Snapdragons in cell phones are probably more powerful, and they run off a battery worth a couple thousand mAh.
You thought that HN was somehow racist-free? It's not going to be, mostly it's just hard to spot them since it's relatively rare for non-white people to even be mentioned on here in the first place.
Japan's One Petabit per Second Fiber Connection
Asking price is what you think someone will pay for it.

Market price is what someone will actually pay for it.
is your name Borat by any chance?
I have this printed out on my desk: http://mlkshk.com/r/97VP

It's part of my attempt to be more humble, ask more questions and don't try to impress people.
... biodynamic pastures ...

Come again?

Biodynamics is a spiritual-ethical-ecological approach to agriculture, food production and nutrition.

... oh boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaUuesmgU8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttS0wkJpXs&feature=playe...
If there was no one to build the road, then no one would've built it. It took a personal crisis, self-sacrifice and dedication to carve the road out of the mountain.

He probably saved a lot of lives after it was built, even one life would have been worth his efforts. I was just talking about opportunity costs and if some had helped him, less people would have died/suffered while the road was being built. If heavy machinery was involved, less people would've died waiting or suffered less traveling the long way to medical care.
I can see the argument for having a special symbol for this - but that is not what's happening here. The underscore is still a perfectly valid variable name and is used as such, only it behaves different from every other variable name. If it's supposed to be a special symbol don't make it a valid variable name.
The really crappy old browsers won't see the feedback button. We do store and show HTML doms, which helps to debug if necessary, but most of our users collect feedback on such a large scale that it would be too time consuming to offer a manual solution like this.
Realtimify your Django with SockJS and Tornadoweb
Buy and hold; Cray just might buy it back from you in a couple years - http://steveblank.com/2009/11/19/closure/
I prefer to read from people who know what the fuck they are doing.
I really don't think it's as big an issue as people make it.

People commenting about this in lists and forums and blogs make the issue more complex than it is because they have all sorts of assumptions about how it has to work. But as Rob Pike says when you assume you put plum paste on your ass. "Discovery phase." This is nerd stuff.

Put all the nerd stuff aside for a moment. When you want to telephone someone, how to you handle the "discovery phase"? You look up the telephone number and place the call. Everyone does this the world over. Second, how many people do you actually telephone in your entire lifetime? Hundreds? Thousands? (Are you a telemarketer?) Third, how many of them are people you see face-to-face at some point? People do not normally call lots of anonymous people.

A telephone network. (Actually a system of regional networks.) Everyone has a number. You get their number and you make the call. But how? According to nerds on the web, this should be a complex problem with no easy solution. But millions of people, non-technical people, make telephone calls everyday.

To think the web equivalent of a telephone directory is an unsolvable problem is ridiculous. And to think that every person needs a directory with billions of names is similarly silly. They will only need a small subset.

Moreover, with modern storage capacities, you could store a billion names and numbers on a small device no problem. Searching billion row databases is quite fast, if you use the right software. But you will never even need to go that far.

AFAIK people do not change their telephone numbers very frequently. Certainly not on a whim. If they do change it, then they have to let others know. Somehow they manage this., even if they are non-tecnical. Of course if you keep changing your number you'll be harder to contact. This ic common sense. But why would you do that? Why would you need to keep changing your number? Get a number and stick to it.

If you think stuff like MobileIP is the solution to roaming then you need to keep looking at what's possible. There are simpler and more reliable ways to do it.

How many people do you call in a lifetime? Think about it.
lolniggers
Blogging with the IPython notebook
That's how home births get their low mortality rate: Midwives (luckily) just send all the high risk cases to hospital, and even a cancelled home birth where the actual birthing happens in the hospital would count towards the hospital's mortality rate.
It is a blast. Although we had our concerns because you can't see what's inside a Beanstalkd queue (duh, because it's a queue), but building a system for monitoring the failures was not a big deal.

And of course the tubes rock. Now I can build a separate tube for each retry, I can set different priorities for the tubes (so the more fail prone tubes won't block all workers), I can set a deadline for a job to finish and if the worker dies in the middle the job will be returned for the other workers. And best of all, I can monitor all tubes nicely with Graphite.
What are you talking about? Canonical doesn't sell Ubuntu. That's one of the reasons they've added ads.
Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
If that's what they actually checked, I can see doctors avoiding washing at the washing stations to not get caught with errors, which is even worse than getting it wrong. Talk about bad incentives...

However, I would consider bad hand washing almost as neglegient. It's really not rocket science
How to tell if you have leadership potential
Please don't submit this to hacker news... this is far from quality material & it is the same "I want attention" bullshit that needs to stay away from hacker news.
I had exactly the same response (i.e. "I can't believe what gets upvoted around here sometimes"). Still I virtually never flag something, although this one is very tempting...
On Bubbles, Facebook, and Playing for Keeps: 10 Questions With Clay Shirky
For reference, most smartphones made within the last year or so have superior specs than the Cray T94.

The T94 has a peak theoretical performance of about 8 GFLOPS, 1 gig of ram, half a meg of L2 cache and an SSD up to 4 gigs in size.

http://www.craysupercomputers.com/downloads/CrayT94/CrayT94_...

Compare this to the Galaxy S III, which has at least 1 GB of ram, 64 GB of flash storage, up to 8 MB of L2 cache per core (4x), and nearly 20 GFLOPS of real world performance (on the GPU).
But won't all the processes in my example have the PGID of sh?
It compares to smartphones, a modern desktop machine (say, a Core i7 w/ 8 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD) would leave this thing in the dust.
I hope you understand my saying you seem similar to how people in those groups you mentioned think about groups of people they dislike. You must see the difference between strongly disliking what someone thinks and disliking the person intrinsically because of what they think. You should not justify it by claiming he treats people like you equally poorly, especially since in this thread he specifically called you "brother" and said he does not find you revolting even though you find him revolting. When you admit to having an instinctive negative reaction to a class of people and then justify it with logical statements, you seem to be a stronger example of cognitive dissonance than the example you gave.
There were several articles recently where I was reminded of the Linux Genuine Advantage satire website:

http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/

> Did you wake up this morning and say "I wish someone would figure out a way to let me do less with my computer"?
Another similar open startup bootstrapping blog: http://bootstrapchallenge.com/

Started with 10k GBP some months ago (to bootstrap fulltime) and keeps a spreadsheet of all expenses and income.
There is 100% hardware compatibility on many laptops already, I'm not sure that that is the problem.

Canonical need to be more profitable, indeed they're probably not or barely profitable yet. They seem to have two ways of increasing profit a) monetising their existing desktop user base and b) Getting more desktop users so that more businesses become comfortable with it and buy business support.
We've already migrated to Sidekiq which seems much better and supported MQ.
I believe a much bigger indicator for success is the person rather than the idea. I don't know what this person is like, but I wouldn't get hung up on the idea part of things.

He already got to the front page of Hacker News and garnered some attention, that isn't a bad start.
...hopefully this will save me from the semi/badly-documented Hyde and all its features that I don't use and dependencies that annoy me (hope I'll have the time to properly check it out and figure if it really can be more "Zen-sh" than Hyde...)
I don't know a lot about RetroShare but from what little I know I think they actually had the right approach. It was real peer-to-peer.

I'm not thinking about peer-to-peer from an anonymous file sharing perspective. I'm thinking in much broader terms. But I know anonymous file sharing is what many projects have focused on.

You are right that many puported "peer-to-peer" solutions are not true p2p. Look hard and you'll usually find a middleman somewhere in the scheme. Of course as we all know many users are not really interested in how something works, just so long as it works. How many people really look hard at the scheme being used?

As for IPv6, I think it brings a lot of complexity. And where there is complexity, there will be problems. Working with IPv4 is complex enough as it is. I like IPv4 because it's more widely found. Not everyone will have access to IPv6.
Woah this is awesome. I've been terrible with flight planning but this is a great read.
That's a great point thank you. I will fix it.
I don't agree with this. Having worked on the product side of several larger scale email infrastructures, it's impossible to scale this correctly. Yes, we all want to talk less with robots and appreciate getting a reply from a human, but if you're a web company looking to grow your product to be used by millions, you can't get this to work while keeping your co-workers happy (when I discussed something similar with our community support team they looked at me like they wanted to kill me).

There might be a way to scale it by filtering messages and sending certain replies on certain topics, but then again, your support team will ask you where the reply address will redirect to. Who will manage that inbox? Who needs to reply those emails? Do you want to increase the load on your support guys even more?
In 15 years time, someone will sell the Galaxy S III on ebay, and people will compare it to the mini processor found in their coffee mug.
a huge_asshole with 4 posts says it's so, who are we to question it?
I coded it and tested it a little bit. Not all features work and I don't recommend you to use it. OSX issues kinda different filesystem calls that I should have been handled but I didn't.
My UKHAS 2012 Conference talk: "HAB Software Woes"
Still better than $400
There are already solutions that can mount s3 as file system, for years. I know it is more widespread but I work for Microsoft Azure and I provided a solution that didn't exist for Azure.
HN or Digg?
Traffic doesn't pay the bills. At some point, all businesses come down to sell something for less than it costs to make it.

Apple is very good at this in the traditional sense. Google has found a way to sell people who are looking for something to people who are selling that thing.

Facebook? The jury is out. They can capture a lot of attention. Right now, the easiest businesses to compare FB to are TV networks. Unfortunately, people don't really like being interrupted by a few-minute-long commercial break on the internet.

Where is Facebook in 5 years. Either they figure something out, and are huge, they find a small niche profit source, or they go the way of AOL circa Y2k. How you rate the likeliness of these outcomes determines how you should price the stock.
> groups you mentioned think about groups of people they dislike.

I'm sorry - but what?

The groups I stated had core goals that promoted the rights of the strong over the weak (Nazis/Communists - indirectly/Racists/Libertarians - indirectly).

Seeing as I dislike said groups, their ideologies and utilise the veil of ignorance thought framework (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance) to protect the weak (which is what liberals do) - I can't possibly see how you can compare me to them.

Perhaps you're right and I'm perfectly willing to concede that.

Two questions.

How do you know that he wasn't being sarcastic?

Did I ever state that I wasn't subject to cognitive dissonance, irrationality or faulty logic?
Diffie-Hellman is fine if there is no one between you and Alice, otherwise if you read the protocol you will see it is easy for Eve to do the protocol with both ends and just act as a conduit for messages after reading/altering them.

SSL/TLS relies on trusting a number of certificate authorities to verify that, yes, the other end is Bob. Note that for this to work securely you must already have their public key info. There are problems with this also but it's the best we have got right now.
The difference between me and you is, I make arguments to defend my positions, yet all you did is characterize me in a derogatory way.

You are free to ignore me anytime, you don't need a new feature for that. Or you can reply to me with arguments, but you don't.

In making this choice, you impeach every claim you make against me.
The first exercise of Coursera's crypto class had the size and level of a final exam and I left.
Ok, so I felt the article was leading up to something profound, but then it ended with Romney. I am disappoint.
Your response is exactly what I'm talking about. You believe, but you don't know. You can't make an argument, you point to someone else, and advocate faith.

Imagine if a religious person had used that kind of "argument" to you, and referenced a priest regarding the law?

It is ok to not know. And it is ok to take things on faith. The problem is, when people think that their faith means they are right and people who make arguments they can't counter are "Wrong" because it goes against their faith.
s/start/post about thinking about starting
I've commented on the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shoppin....

you should too if you feel strongly enough.
I am not sure if pirating something you bought is actually technically illegal or not.

You are not buying the disk with the data, you are buying a license to run the software. Even when you pirate it, the license should still apply.
Closing open hardware "not ethical", "dead end" - Bre Pettis of MakerBot [2010]
Features of the Prefect Responsive Web Design
Thus, it is seen that perfect responsive web design examples has a lot of features that are very beneficial for the web designers and web developers.
So cray.
Ask HN: I want to put my desktop computers in the cloud.
Something occurred to me recently: I currently pay 5 different companies to run code/programs/databases/scrapers/etc for me (AWS, Linode, Google, Dropbox, PythonAnywhere). While I'm ok with the costs I accumulate across the 5 companies because they all solve the problem I want them to solve, I can't help but stare at 6 desktop computers that I have around my place and think: why am I not just using these to do [almost] everything?

On one hand, the answer is simple: my Comcast 15mbit connection is far too slow. The other quick answer is security: I do not transmit personally sensitive data, so the normal privacy issues old-school security engineers have with the cloud aren't there for my use case.

Ok, so that got me to start thinking about how to put my capital to productive use. The batch processes and scraper type work could easily be done in house. 4 of the 6 desktop computers I would like to put to work are actually fast by current standards (8GB+ DDR3, 2 are i7 2700k, etc). I mean, if I were to rent the same machines "in the cloud", it would cost me a significant chunk of cash.

Ah, but that leads to the other cost: energy. Getting estimates of those costs is pretty simple to do. So, this is where I started thinking about how to actually solve my problem [which is more of an itch than a problem]. Upgrade my Internet? Or, more interestingly, asking friends who have faster Internet already if I can stuff a desktop somewhere in their house and just set up SSH access to it.

I'm beginning to ask friends if they'd be willing to let me subsidize their Internet/utility costs if they'll let me put a computer in their house.

Has any one else done this before? Any input or discussion here would be useful. Thanks.
Don't hate yourself for teaching me something new;) thanks for the clarification. I always thought Ahi was just yellowfin.
But you didn't give a brief summary. You gave your take on the bits you found interesting (or possibly the bits you bothered to read) which, to the rest of us, is worse than useless.
Digital distribution and how we can improve it
The patent system doesn't apply to things that are "plain", though this word is a bit broad, so it isn't clear if you mean it the way I take you to mean it. Further, I didn't say that this was the justification for it, I said that this was one of the advantages of it, and thus, even if you disagree with the advantage, that doesn't ipso facto, make the system broken.

>When there is a whole big system, of various obvious costs, and you do not even know the net effect is positive, the sensible thing is to stop doing it (probably by phasing out), until something proves otherwise.

Your argument also applies to government, in fact, from an economic perspective, government has a clear negative return (to the tune of $70 Trillion in the USA roughly).

Get rid of the patent system by getting rid of government, and you'll have my agreement.

If you think it is ok to have government but not a patent system, then there's contradiction in your positions.
yeah, I'd also like something like http://www.devswag.com/ but with more choice. I'd like to have stickers with my OS, programming langs, frameworks/libs, etc. and it looks like I either have to order them on 20 different sites and get ripped off by delivery costs, or make my own pdf and order it in sheets.
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You might be able to cook up something, but I doubt that it will be any more plausible than positing a preferred reference frame.

Personally, I think that supporters of FTL should stick with subspace and run with it. And, hey, the author of the FTL faq even wrote a whole subspace faq too.
Show HN: Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project]
I helped sell a Cray on eBay once, in 2000. I remember offering to let the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center use my eBay account, because I had hundreds of karma from selling Magic cards.

The coolest part was a decade later, I ran into the guy that bought it... on Hacker News. And that guy was Steve Blank, who turned out to be a hero of mine.

http://steveblank.com/2009/11/19/closure/
Robots at War: Scholars Debate the Ethical Issues