skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish that DNS could just switch over to another availability zone when this happens. A datacenter with all the sql replicated. Sure you'd pay twice as much for EBS, but it could also double as a backup. As for the other resources at the availability zone, they are hardly utilized until they spring into action (EC2, etc.)
My quest to win a point against one of the world's best table tennis players.
I think you are referring to this study: http://blog.opower.com/2012/09/how-much-does-it-cost-to-char...

Which has the iPhone 5 at $0.41/y, the Samsung S III at $0.53/y and the iPad (model unclear, but I guess the 3), at $1.36.

I agree with your point though: the electricity cost of these devices is already negligible, an e-ink display wouldn’t make much of a difference.
Understood - and I was just making the observation that the expressions produced during the process were junky in a way that's characteristic of the way they are evolving : Mixing together two honed expressions would produce much more extreme deviations in 'children' than the offspring of two of these hairy expressions.

Not only are the expressions tending to get more accurate with each generation, but their degree of 'evolvability' is also being selected for.
Part of the contributing evidence was that the Italian scientists individually weighed as much as a duck. It was pretty much a slam dunk for the prosecution after that.
> My understanding is also that currently no tests have ever returned a positive for him

True. However, consider the following anecdote: The most prominent doping agent in professional cycling during the 1990s, erythropoietin, was undetectable for a long time. Eventually in 2000 a test that could distinguish the endogenous and pharmaceutical versions of the hormone. But even then, all that needs to be done to render this test ineffective is to come up with a way to produce a synthetic version with the same chemical structure as the natural one.

So there's that. And there's the amount of money wrapped up in doping in professional cycling, which seems to be enormous. Given that, it would seem that this is a situation where absence of evidence is by no means evidence of absence.
Where did you find "communist imagery in the logo"?
http://nginx.org/nginx.gif
As "novel" merely refers to a long-form narrative which can either be fiction, non-fiction, or a mixture of both, a "fiction novel" is an appropriate term that properly characterizes the novel as wholly fiction.

See, for example, Truman Capote, who is considered the foremost example of the "non-fiction novelist".
Given that YouTube allows custom "opener" screens, why must a rather bad frame-still of Bill Gates be used? Bias, perhaps? Would this have happened if it were Steve Jobs?
I'm downvoting you because this method of cherry-picking large quotes or abstracts out of citations makes for a lot clutter but you don't actually offer us any synthesis. I would rather read your synthesis and read the abstracts if I want to. I came to HN to converse with you, not Johnson, W. and Chabris, C.F.
Stahp!
I was there, and the #1 thing I noticed was that of 11 presenters, exactly one was a woman; and of the CEOs telling stories, zero were women. It was, uh, not exactly an experience full of female role models. The 'fewer than one in ten' ratio may be true of startups in general, but the way to balance out the gender divide is to provide more role models, not to magnify the status quo: I was pretty unhappy to see such an exclusionist panel.

In general, if I were a woman, I would have felt pretty unwelcome at the event, in general: of my small amount of wandering around during the breaks, I saw one attendee wearing a shirt with the text: "SELECT * FROM girls WHERE free_sex=TRUE;". More distressingly, I saw a speaker (Ben Horowitz [1]) wearing a shirt with the text "No bitch-ass-ness" on it; I suspect that this may have been a cultural reference that I missed, but that sure does seem as unwelcoming as a shirt that would say 'man up and do it' might.

The content was, in general, high quality. I wish that the experience, however, had been designed to avoid shutting out half of the population. A good start for making Startup School more inclusive would be to adopt something along the lines of the Conference Anti-Harassment Policy [2]; I hope that Y Combinator will do something along those lines next year.

[1] Yes, I know. This is part of Horowitz's persona: he wants to come off as 'edgy', compared to, for instance, Ron Conway; he wants to show that he's hip and with it. For instance, as I recall, he used the word 'fuck' a few times during his speech. This is fine; now we get it! You're one of us! You can be edgy without being a dickhead.

[2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassmen...
Yes, each Ruby method needs to get executed 50 times to JIT to JVM bytecode, and from there it takes an additional 10,000 calls for HotSpot to JIT that to machine code.

Any hotspots therefore need to be hit at least 10,050 times in order to be fully warmed up.
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Well that is CSS. And of course there's a performance improvement - unless you're applying a transformation to a hundred or so elements, it's usually much quicker to directly manipulate element.style than generate some CSS, put it in a style element, append that to the DOM, and wait for the browser to parse the CSS.
Congrats. It seems awful pricey, though. I hope the intention is to bring it down to commodity cost.
note that there is also pretty bad 720p content sometimes, but in general i can't make the diff between good 720p and good 1080p content, even at 1.5m from the tv (ive a recent 60 inches tv) (or even at 5cm away for that matter, since anyway i start seeing the physical pixels on 60 inches at around 1 meter)

By good 720p content, i generally mean 1080p content reencoded by x264 in high profile mode or the like (so, it could still be better, but its pretty good)

Generally i watch at 4m
Sadly, on Ubuntu, Chrome and my ATI card's drivers don't get along, so I'm forced to use Firefox when doing anything with 3D CSS Transformations or WebGL.
I take your list and modify these:
- Can make calls and/or emails
- has a phonebook with name and number/email

Ok so really I want a pure email and/or phone call device. I doubt anything of the sort will be available in the near future so I just have to make my own. We'll see how that works out.
It doesn't (and didn't) always involve drugs, but it can. From the "Methods" section in the article you link:

The term blood doping originally meant doping with blood,
i.e. the transfusion of red blood cells. . . In the late
1980s, an advance in medicine led to an entirely new form
of blood doping involving the hormone erythropoietin (EPO).
I enjoyed the talks (hadn't seen these folks speak before).

I met a couple people, but wish there was more time between talks to chat with people. Perhaps if there was designated signposts/corners-of-the-courtyard for random topics, like "Funding" or "Solo Founders" or "Web" or "Mobile", etc... then it would have been easier to seek out like-minded folks.

I agree with previous posters about poor logistics. I'm not sure why they didn't just let us into the auditorium before 11:58am. That would have greatly reduced the congestion in the lobby area. I was worried there'd be a stampede :-) to see Zuck.

I was too tired (old) to drive up to SF afterward. Too bad Box (or some Palo Alto company) didn't host the party, so we could stay down near the campus afterward. :-) I'd have paid to go to the party if it was just on the Stanford campus (at the student union or whatever).
> Combinator has funded over 460 startups, the vast majority are unheard of and presumably not breakthrough successes like Airbnb or Dropbox (yet?). This number alone was one of the more interesting data points of the day. Will Dropbox and Airbnb pay for it all 10x over?

I'm no accountant, but say they give every startup $18k * 460 = $8,280,000. AirnBnB gets valued at 1.3 Billion * .07 = $91,000,000.

There are generalizations aplenty in my reasoning, but I'm sure that ycombinator being profitable isn't an issue.
So... a story about a non-story?
> We've gotten great up-time with Linux where our last server reached 480+ days up-time before we switched hosts

I'd worry about reliability and security of any service with that kind of uptime. Security if the uptime was achieved by not applying kernel updates, or reliability if some kind of hack to update a running kernel without a reboot was used.

The latter is a reliability problem because rebooting after a major update serves a purpose other than just loading the new kernel. It also serves the purpose of showing that the update has not broken configurations or dependencies required to boot. It's a heck of a lot better to discover that an update has left your system non-bootable right after the update, rather than finding out months later when some hardware failure takes down the server and then you find it doesn't boot and you've got to go back through months of changes trying to figure it out.
likewise, its painfully slow on ff even thus it renders correctly.

i wonder what the cause is however. 3D stuff may go more or less fast on FF, but that one is particularly super slow.
True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd
Breaking DRM and making personal backups should be the first step for those who use such services.
I have a Java background, so the addition of typechecking and structural types (classes, interfaces, inheritance) without losing the JS syntax (benefit of being a superset of JS) made TypeScript a pure joy to use to dev JS apps.
Or more entertaining, is seeing what those sites think about Comic Sans.

http://daringfiresearch.net/searches/comic+sans
Why is this amazing advance neither voted nor read? It's a 10,000 X improvement!! This can completely change the economic equation for desalination plants, improve efficiency in so many other areas....
Because RDS is built on EBS, any slight issue with EBS manifests itself as a nastier issue for RDS.

Interestingly, EBS will never return an I/O error up to the attached OS, which is likely a good decision as most OSes choke on disk errors. What this means, however, is that if something even get slow within EBS (let alone stuck), applications that are dependent on it will suffer. Most of these applications (such as databases) have connection/response timeouts for their clients, so while EBS might just be running slowly, a service like RDS will throw up connection errors instead of waiting even a bit more.

You can imagine the cascading errors that might result from such a situation (instance looks dead, start failover...etc)
While I think your reasoning is noble, even commendable, I don't think it would hold up well in a civil case.

For the record, I'm in favor of this sort of "cultural hedging" as well, but I don't think it's something that most people would even think to do.
You can buy some seriously big boxes, and easily split off a lot of services onto multiple boxes. The big problem with the "single big box" strategy is being able to do upgrades -- I see hn go down frequently for 5-10 min at a time in the middle of the night, which I assume is upgrades/reboots.

The happy medium is probably splitting database (master/slave at least) and cdn (if needed) and some other services (AAA? logging?) out, and then having 2+ front end servers with load balancing for availability.
It also illustrates how startup success is mostly random.

So increase your luck surface area, work hard - and most importantly of all time your entry and ideas just before their time.
Construindo um Datacenter com Contentores
Actually I was looking at the auto show data. One of the fastest 'show to road' cars was the Toyota Land Rover at 18 months but the electrics have taken longer (at least the Volt and Leaf did). The steps I saw at the San Jose show were tentative at best.
I read it less like she was correlating those conversations to a frat as much as she was making an (albeit poorly described) observation about who was in the lab. I'm not sure if she was trying to be humorous, but it would be silly to assume a sorority or female-heavy research facility would be doing anything different.
I dual boot my CR48 with Ubuntu. It also has a 16did SSD, so space is tight. I do use an SD card for extra storage, bu some applications (like Dropbox) don't like to use an SD card.

However this is basically a 2 year old prototype and it still serves me very well.
Amazon runs all of the Amazon.com web servers on EC2 hosts (and has since 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...). They've just made sure that they have enough hosts in each of the other AZs to withstand an outage.
May be you consider it a rental, but most consider it a purchase. That's why throwing out DRM and making a backup should be expected the moment you buy some ebook.
Which is why I donate to the EFF.
Interesting points - thank you.

Is deploying a custom application to the iPad (without going through the App Store) as easy was sideloading to an android device?
> I don't know anyone my age who has an account on ancestry.com or who cares about their family tree, but I have lots of older (and richer) relatives who do.

Not sure how old you are, but I'm 24 and have a premium Ancestry.com account. My family tree is really strange, so tracking through it is interesting to me.
If you're worried about your Chinese withering away, you should definitely study abroad in China (e.g., Shanghai).

If you want to go to a different/interesting/pretty city, study in Kyoto. I've met folks who studied at Kyoto University. There's a tech industry there, since Nintendo is in the area (and small game startups have grown up around senior folks who have left Nintendo). Or you could live in Tokyo or Osaka (big cities with tall buildings).
1. There actually is a title and author, it's just in blue below the box and hard to read.
You're thinking of nomnomology. :)
I mean this in the most neutral and unassuming way possible, but...

Are you familiar with the basics of a distributed hash table? To say that "each machine is potentially a single point of failure" is... inaccurate.

According to the algorithm's authors, you can lose the vast majority of your cluster simultaneously without affecting the stability of the cluster, in certain cases. As a worst-case scenario, you'll need 16 servers to drop offline simultaneously before there's a problem.

Am I saying my solution is better than RabbitMQ? No. Am I saying people should use my solution instead of RabbitMQ? No. Am I saying my solution is closer to what I want than RabbitMQ is? Yes. Yes I am.
According to a site which doesn't document what its reports are based on. Given that Netflix worked for me during that period, I'm suspicious that downrightnow might be using EBS somewhere.
Somehow, I knew I’d be called-out for this :)

I’m not sure either quite applies, strictly; but my dictionary defines “commutative” thusly:

> adj. Mathematics: involving the condition that a group of quantities connected by operators gives the same result whatever the order of the quantities involved, e.g., a × b = b × a.

So, I don’t care who first made it link-baity; the product is the same.
I did the math a couple years ago and dedicated hosting with or without colocation was about 10x cheaper. Maybe things have changed, I dunno.
They have: m.facebook.com

It might not be entirely 'snappy', but it's a hell of a lot better than the installed app version. I laugh every time I go to the website and it suggests I install their app on the login page.
For what it's worth, I have a Motorola smartphone, and I certainly wouldn't trade it in for an iPhone.

The point I'm trying to make is that that the prediction is correct assuming "people" refers mostly to the people making the predictions. Or... people tend to project their ways of thinking, and likes and dislikes, onto other people.
I have a server for a client in our colo, that has been up for 1753 days. (Client doesn't want to move to new hardware, etc. otherwise we would have moved them long ago).

During that time, there was maybe network outage (at 2AM mostly) of perhaps 2 hours.

Complexity reduces reliability.

Claiming AWS' uptime approaches that of fairly standard colocation in a decent facility, is laughable.
Yes, but I've been using Rails long enough to remember when they removed `Post.find_first`, and there was even a time when `Post.find(:first)` was the only version - `Post.first` was added late in the 2.x series.
OK. Back to August 29th, JRuby 1.7.0 preview2, invoke-dynamic=true on the right, the last number is elapsed time in seconds (so 451.046 vs 258.643 with invoke-dynamic=true) --

http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/shootout/shootout/website/w...
Apple, Google, Amazon are so profitable because they know what to lose money on
You know I was hoping when Gumroad released that I would start seeing tons of things being sold through Gumroad. I have yet to single a single thing. Good to know it's still on people's minds.
I agree, been with SL for 3 years, never had an outage apart from a drive failure one time but it was fixed within an hour.
If you're confused about what InvokeDynamic is...

Previously languages like Ruby suffered on the JVM as the set of JVM instructions available were designed around the Java programming language. This meant that for invoking Ruby methods and other things like accessing instance variables could not take advantage of many of the JVM's features such as method inlining.

Since HotSpot is unaware of Ruby semantics, invoking Ruby methods involved a bunch of custom logic implemented in the form of bytecodes which were completely opaque to HotSpot and thus could not be optimized away.

InvokeDynamic allows JRuby to teach the JVM how to invoke Ruby methods in a way that plays friendly with the HotSpot inliner. Here's a contrived example of HotSpot inlining a Ruby method and optimizing it down to a single assembly instruction:

https://gist.github.com/3728777
I've been saying for a long time that things like Startup School and YC (I went through YC S09) aren't about teaching you the path to success, but rather to teach you about known paths to failure.

It's always a little disappointing to me to hear stories about how someone succeeded, that's likely to contain relatively little replicable information. A story of failure however tends to contain plenty of examples of concrete things to avoid doing! Not a universal precept of course, many of those who succeed do so by violating known rules, but after hearing many failure stories you start to better understand common threads.
I got married a year ago, the organisation was so painful that I considered (and quickly dismissed) and idea to go into this space myself..

If I had to do it again, I'd want (and pay good money for):

* RSVP: via web/email, Facebook and post. Charge for post.

* Wedding Website (incl gallery!)

* Gift management (use a partner)

Then you can add:

* Make deals with Photographers, possibly vet them. Maybe get them to fill your galleries? It could be a hard sell, especially if you try and compete with them (i.e. by offering prints). Actually, why not partner with them: give them the ability to sell their prints more easily, not just to the Bride & Groom, but to the guests!

Actually, building a wedding business around the problem-domain of Wedding Photographers seems like an excellent strategy. If you increase their profits then they'll evangelise your site.

* Wedding plans / inspiration. Nice because you can sell stuff there (via partners).

* Directory for Wedding locations: it was hard finding good pictures and prices of wedding locations.

* Directory for Reception locations: same problem as Wedding Locations. This is also a more general problem, the discoverability of these places is terrible.

* Diversify into cards. This'll be a massive win for men: never forget your wedding anniversary again. Heck, implement this as a simple reminder service. Make a fun "Groom" styled-skin to solve his problem (and double your market!). BTW this also works for anniversaries / birthdays etc. Men forget this stuff really quickly.

The post wouldn't be complete without some feedback:

I personally don't like the copy on your site. You sound like a Bridal magazine. Your focus is on "curated links we found on google", but it should be on how you actually solve the problem of organising a Wedding. I don't care about the pretty things you've found on Google*

Question: why on earth are you charging a monthly fee for a one-off occasion? Why not let people try your site out for a month, with a larger flat fee at the end? Then offer to host the wedding picture gallery for N months, with the option to buy N months extra hosting.

What is your conversion rate like?

I like what you're doing, there's certainly enough to support a small but healthy business.. it would be cool to see you succeeding, especially if it comes from advice from HN :)

* NOTE: I'm not your target market.
Notes from Failcon 2012 – part 2
Your users may be, too. It's not unusual for me to open my sleeping laptop several days later and expect the open web pages to work without refreshing them.
Well, it was like this: 25 people were elected to serve on a council to draft a new constitution. As a part of their process, they set up a website where people could post comments and have discussion on certain articles, or the constitution in general.

There was no form of voting. Just discussion, serving as input for the deliberations of the council.

It's a nation of 300k people, of which only a fraction of course involves themselves with political discourse. I don't think there was any room for gaming or abusing the system here.
I have a Samsung Convoy II. It's not super-thin, but it does pretty well as just a phone (plus texts). It actually has a decent web browser for when you need to check email (about once a month something comes up). Ruggedized, waterproof, and well-made. I think I paid $70 for it on eBay (in brand-new condition). Doesn't have an e-ink display, but I'll deal with that.

I got a low-battery warning this morning, and realized that I hadn't charged it since last Sunday (a week ago). Plugged it in for an hour, and the battery was full again.
It's bizarre the way "cloud" makes so many people think disks never fail, networks are perfect and data centers always run smoothly. Now we'll get the backlash blog posts from people ditching the cloud – and I'm jousting waiting for the inevitable rebound outages when they learn that high availability requires geographic redundancy either way.
There's not much sweating to do, as it always comes up relatively quickly.
The Role Of Fate In Your Job Search
Just to be clear: I'm supportive of Tesla's current practice of "vetting" people and charging for test drives (or just denying them completely ) if warranted. I see no reason for them to waste their time.

What I don't think they should do is charge for test drives as a matter of practice, because that doesn't help them court their target clientele that are getting free rides (as vetted customers) at the competition.
how did you figure out that this LOC slowed things down?
Would you mind elaborating on how WordPerfect in 1992 is better than modern day Google Docs?
The tragic fact about scapegoating is that once a community has chosen a scapegoat it is very hard for it to "regain its composure."

Who will be the first to defend the scapegoat? There are big disincentives. You risk being grouped with the scapegoat and suffering the same fate. You risk becoming the new scapegoat. You risk reprisals from the folks who are hiding in shadows while the spotlight follows the scapegoat.

And it probably won't even help. Once a person has chosen an opinion, they tend to defend it, and this applies tenfold to a group. (This plays out in social media every day.) Changing a mob's opinion is hard. Time doesn't necessarily help. There are scapegoats that are centuries old.

The social dynamics favor letting the scapegoat take the fall. That's why scapegoating is so common that we have an ancient name for the practice, even though almost everyone would agree that it's immoral.