skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...you've just built a business which promises things like "infinite scalability" on top of WordPress ...expect 1000x more of situations like this!

...if I were in your place I'd drop the "solving this while yawning in my PJs" relaxed attitude and prepare to bring a sleeping bag to work and stack a fridge full of red-bull (or whatever makes you "fly") ...or try and hire someone like Ledorf ...'cause all the other "PHP gurus" are at Facebook now ...tough luck. I'd hate to be in your place, but no matter how much I hate the "PHP ecosystem" I hope you guys manage to make this work
I'd rather not use per file encryption with dropbox because that could break syncing in big files.

The idea would be to have everything auto-login when the drive is mounted and nothing auto-login when it is not.
I have the opposite problem. Bands etc that I "page-like" and who post too much take over my newsfeed and I only have the option to hide everything or view everything (if FB wants).

IIRC there was previously a "see only important messages from this person" choice and it was better.
Thanks for the link.

Agreed I don't think it would be an easy task, but I wonder how would perform a "bag of word" approach.

Harder part as I see it would be to categorize the comments on middlebrow dismissal / Not dismissal. It seems like we would be spending more time preparing the data than in the algorithm itself.
I don't have much java stuff yet unfortunately but check back regularly at http://pineapple.io
Especially considering his intent for them to see his posts on facebook are to drive "viewers" to his site so that he can extract advertising revenue.

Sounds like someone's bitter that their free marketing channel dried up, and they have to make actual decisions about how to fill their pipeline back, beyond just posting on facebook.
Ask HN: Is it just me or is the new Jellybean update really screwy?
I updated my Nexus S with the new Jellybean update and now my 3G/4G connection is slow, it takes a long time for my phone to connect to Wifi and Gtalk just doesn't work . Is anyone experiencing the same problem(s)?
I could tell the general path the HN discussion was going to take - free service, free country, etc. - but the bigger issue is all the companies that have been paying Facebook millions for page like campaigns.

I'd be angry if I'd given Facebook money under the old system only for them to change the value of what I got from them. The basic takeaway is that the rules that were in place where I might be willing to pay $2 for a like - a person who likes your page sees your post - had to be changed because there wasn't that much user attention in existence. Now it's been inflated to be worth about a tenth as many views, which is what you were buying, only Facebook called it a "Like" and it somehow means something completely different now.

I guess the moral of the story is don't invest in anything whose value can be arbitrarily changed by someone else.
I really like this take on asynchronous gameplay UI, it's tough get the "glance" aspect of the UI correct and yet make it compelling. The "Draw Something" problem where you're drowning in partially played games perhaps led to it's demise, a victim of the UI's inability to scale?

(Sigh... should have spent more time studying design / HCI in school...)
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A bunch of pithy snipes about Apple products. Not sure I understand.
Appears that he has 188590 rows. It definitely sounds like a configuration issue. Maybe the mysql table cache might be bogged down or the query cache is full or malfunctioning. Could be a lot of things.

Sorting that into a temp table, and caching that in memory would be really fast on a server with reasonable RAM and proper indexes.
I don't understand the correlation between the two. From your perspective, since the financial market is terrible, all people working on finance are terrible.

WordPress is a bad piece of software. But there is a lot of money there, and you'll find lots of smart people working on it.
I wasn't suggesting that it was conscious con-artistry (though I don't completely rule it out either).

I worked in business consulting for a bit. Part of what I learned is that at least some emperors have no clothes. There were really two main types I encountered:

(1) Extremely competent, hard-working executives who try their best to build real value.

(2) Fast talking dominance machines. Sociopaths, really. They make big promises, send a lot of primate dominance gestures, and generally build vapid unsustainable businesses that eventually fail. Yet the failure never sticks to them, and it often never sticks to their initial investors. Usually it's handed off to someone down the line (later investors, the public, employees, etc.).

When I see a resume that consists of a series of a series of unsustainable businesses where the early investors and executives made out well by handing a bag of flaming poo to later investors, I tend to suspect that we're dealing with category (2) players.

I also suspect that when I hear of extremely magnetic reality-distortion-field personality types. There is a certain kind of charisma that I take as a contrarian indicator.
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Yeah, WordPress powers (by some estimations) 18-20% of the freakin' Internet. It's not flawless, but it's a great piece of software that makes millions of people (and developers) happy.
My immediate reaction is "no," but it is interesting to dwell on this. ARM chips power consumption is optimized for devices that do not use their full capacity all the time. Intel chip power usage is optimized for high performance, and their chips more efficient at levels of sustained intensive computing. While it does not make sense to put ARM chips in, say, an iMac, the idea of putting them in a macbook air or even a macbook is intriguing.
Yes, it is. Because it creates bad assumptions. Now, you'll have a ton of noobs assuming that you do that and that for free because you already did it.
What Browser am I Using? (from Google)
This was an interesting story and sounds like a good program. Are there other "non-traditional programming internships" out there (i.e., entry-level training positions for people who are not 18 but also not already programmers)?
I can believe that. Others have reported before that there will be 3 billion Android devices in use by 2016. By then I expect Android to be the #1 platform for developers, thanks to sheer numbers.
I'm surprised there's so little talk about the new iMac. It's pretty amazing.
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Yep, the repository is public and a big chunk of this public data is accessible on BigQuery for anyone to query and analyze.

Ilya Grigorik and myself just gave a talk at Strata[1] on interesting analysis and visualizations that people did with the GitHub Archive as part of the GitHub data challenge[2].

We'll post a link to the talk soon. We announced during the talk that BigQuery will soon (in the next day or two) have an archive of the GitHub public timeline from February 2011 to now. I can't wait to see what people do with it!

[1] http://strataconf.com/stratany2012/public/schedule/speaker/2...

[2] https://github.com/blog/1162-github-data-challenge-winners
I'd choose an Asus tablet over a Microsoft-made one any day
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That UI affordance is actually incredibly frustrating for us, because we get that question a lot. Tons of people get confused by it.
Ten percent of the US population is (a) a very large absolute number and (b) easily enough that you're likely to see an iPad every day if you look around you.

Then if you move into San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and similar population hubs - the places that matter in the US - you can expect to see rather higher than 10% market penetration, especially if you then look primarily at affluent people (like engineers and entrepreneurs) in those areas.

Ten percent is not a small number here.
I think we can assume that Square will transition to chip readers eventually. In the meantime, the swipe works on Canadian cards so it's not really an issue.
I feel like Google has went too far with their maps. They've always claimed "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." However with their maps, they're actually _creating_ the worlds information and making it accessible and useful.

What do I mean by creating it? Well, can you get these trails as public domain data?

If you want to volunteer to get trails onto a map, use www.openstreetmap.org. (And you'll run into the same problems with the accuracy of GPS signals in canyons.)

I'm not looking forward to the time when I try to find the Pacific Coast Trail and the result comes back with ads for backpacks and boots.
To address this point raised by many... you're glazing over the difference between support and consultancy. Many companies provide both but charge extra for the latter.

You quote 'we can help you track down and troubleshoot WordPress issues.' - that's exactly what the support team helps customers with all day long.

But we don't get into consultancy around helping to build custom code, etc.

There's always going to be a point where a hosting provider will not be able to support you further. Many dedicated providers and VPS providers will ensure that the machine is powered up and has connectivity and leave you at that. What we're trying to communicate is we go a lot further into supporting your use and configuration of WordPress - but not into consultancy.
"Philosophical" means related to wisdom or knowledge. Philosophy inquires about the nature of things and the boundaries of nature itself.

In that sentence, «philosophical reasons», philosophical meant abstract, remote, detached from practical concerns. The freedoms sought by FLOSS people are very much practical (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and with many concrete effects on your daily life. Engineering problems (problems with your video driver? Want to update the OS of your 2-year old tablet?) and social problems (ever heard of somebody whose books have been deleted remotely by a FLOSS app?).
Cool game. The design Looks like a windows 8 app
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"I find his pricing strategy for the game rather interesting."

It's called "shareware".
Saw this https://squareup.com/directory/payfirma
I get what you're doing and why, but you could've avoided some of the pushback that's happening just by not pointing a finger or mentioning Heroku. So instead of "we can only run good code and yours isn't," make it more like "gee whiz, you have it doing an in-memory sort of 189k rows! Is that what you intended? Because that's really an edge case in our world?"

A friend of mine once said, "a customer will defend his bad decision to the death if you point it out to him."
It is a great project. However, it's not based on crawling, as far as I understand: Github pushes their data to Google's BigQuery tool, which this gets its data from.
This is bad. Know what else is bad? It's 2012, and MS still has no plans to support C99. Waiting for MS to follow standards is frustratingly often futile. (See also: IE.)
Sorry, it's just my personal opinion as a WPEngine customer, and I stand by it. I don't want to see the CEO of a service that I pay money to publicly behaving this way towards those customers and others who have had issues. It's the opposite of good customer service, and a great example of biting the hand that feeds you.
C++11 is a newly sandardized language. It took years for C++98 to have conforming compilers. I have no sympathy for OP, especially since he could have implemented hs game fine by simply using more compatible syntax.
Thanks there! I agree, I was heavily inspired by the Mathematica solution and after looking at Dan's D3 JS code I knew a simple UI was finally possible so I made it all last night.

Ideally I'd like to be able to export the d3 graphs as images, any idea on how to do that?
> But writing is much more than 'get to the point as fast as possible'.

I agree with you, but my personal reading sweet spot is to get to the point a bit faster than the author of this piece did.
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Yeager, a new WCMS. Open codebase. HTML5 UI. Developer-friendlier.
Plotting sin(x)/cos(x)*e^x and changing the refinement has interesting effects.
If you don't know the salt you can't crack the password.

So, if say your backups are compromised and someone has all the user names and passwords they still need the salts before they can login to your service.
OPEC is a cartel intended to maintain a high price for oil.

The US has been the second or third largest oil producer for decades, well ahead of all other OPEC countries except Saudi Arabia. See: http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_where

In addition to being one of the largest oil producers for decades, it has also been the largest oil consumer. Therefore it has not been in the US's interest to join OPEC. The US would prefer lower oil prices. There's no reason to expect this will change if the US moves from number 2 or 3 producer to number 1.
I don't think that posts ever reached 100% of your friends or fans. I can't find the article but I remember something like 40% was the amount of friends who see any given post. I don't really mind it but it would be nice to have a little better understanding of the logic behind it.

A few years ago Facebook had a feature where you could weight your friends' from 1-10 and that would affect your feed. Now you can just limit by "only important updates" and such. It's not really clear what that even means.
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This was launched in 2009.
A more accurate title would be "The Sorry State of Microsoft's C++ Compiler".

As usual with native code, portability is actually quite easy to achieve - except to Windows using MS's native tools.
Unless I'm gravely mistaken, the cost is dramatically understated. $25/month will only buy you 5 'requests'.

Related: $1/day is a really bad way to present a pricing plan of $25/5 requests. Yes, that's technically correct, but I don't want to amortize the cost over the number of days in the month; I want to amortize it over the number of days I actually use the product (or, better yet, the number of times I use it - so $5/task).
I would say it all depends on the reach. If a company publishes 10 posts a day, without promoting them, then I would think that only a few of the fans will get more than 2 or 3 of the posts that day (if we're to go with the 10%-20% estimate in the article).

Now if you were to promote all those 10 posts, and 99% of your fans would see them all, then most will get annoyed. And if they don't get annoyed within the first day, they will get annoyed soon enough,
It's interesting that an experienced app developer chose to create a game instead of a new app. Especially since the game category in iOS seems to be so saturated with free or freemium options.

Of course, I'm also surprised that experienced developers are still cranking out timer apps and weather apps. I guess it's just hard to come up with a good original app idea... much easier to fix what's wrong in the apps you use already.
That is a pretty glowing review. I went through their blog and found a couple others. Thanks for the pointer.

It looks like there has already been a bit of code released to help make it more like programming with other Ruby frameworks. I'm sure this will continue to improve.

As an aside: the rendering of their blog is a little messed up on my current machine (Windows 7, Chrome)
Great! Thanks. I'm inferring that you're on the East Coast... :
> Nonsense about antioxidants in the diet is exactly that: nonsense.

Well, it is nonsense if you look at it as the sole source of longevity.

But get a diet rich in antioxidants. Add low saturated fat intake. Continuous, low level, healthy exercise. Plenty of fresh vegetables. Low-stress lifestyle. Sense of belonging. All that stuff. Then you reach a tipping point and things start to improve suddenly.

The secret of longevity is probably an all-of-the-above type of thing.
Don't crawl the site, please. The place to get data is the HNSearch API.
Correction: We (GitHub) do not push data to BigQuery. Ilya's project archives the GitHub public timeline. That data is then uploaded from his archive into BigQuery. The BigQuery project is public, so anyone can use it.
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It should not be possible to jail people this long without charging them with something, contempt of court doesn't cut it for me.
I beg the differ. It is very relevant if you want proper infrastructure with reliability and speed.

3G sucks in Singapore, but the 4g is amazing. Ericsson is in charge of the 4g infrastructure here. It's not fully done, but for me it feels like island wide coverage.

http://www.techinasia.com/wake-disastrous-rainstorm-beijing-...
I'm not sure! I was talking to our CTO about it and he thinks it's less common than it used to be. Though, in a startup like ours it really helps to transition people on the job and teach them the tools.
Depends on the customer - if it is a government agency and SHA2 is mandated for their own passwords (per NIST standards), we comply (with a huge number of iterations based on CPU/GPU target specs). Additionally, we automatically increase iterations over time as CPU/GPU targets change - something a customer never needs to worry about (which is nice). Otherwise BCrypt or SCrypt is used for most customers.

It seems like some of the finer points of your concerns aren't being covered in this thread (e.g. # of iterations, if sufficiently high, will probably address your GPU concerns). Unfortunately for me, I can't read Hacker News all day and must move on, but if you'd like, definitely give us a call at Stormpath and we'd be quite happy to geek out and talk through the all of the details. (And I apologize if any of this came across as negative - no coffee today I guess).
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I don't mind using a Microsoft tablet as long it's not the RT one.
I have to agree. I used Square in the US and loved it; since coming back to Canada I've been singing its praises to anyone who'll listen. However, now that it's launched and we've had time to think through what it looks like on the ground, these all look like pretty serious limitations to its widespread applicability in Canada. Although it's still useful for my needs (the odd Craigslist purchase, craft fairs, pop-up stores in the neighbourhood), I can't see it being as disruptive here as it is in the US given these limitations.
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Actually, our shipping infrastructure is fine. It's our geography, population density and relatively small population that gets in the way.

Square in Canada is good thing, and I'd say potentially far more disruptive than they were even in the US. Having been in a seat where I had to negotiate and deal with almost every payment provider in Canada, and all of them verging on being downright evil IMO, a service that focuses on the customer experience (both merchant and end consumer) will be a fun disruption to watch.
Now that it’s here, is there a place for Windows RT?
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This is actually fairly good advice. There are only a few things I'd disagree with.

* You don't have to use 4-5th grade level English for our
sakes. It might force you to explain things better though.

* When answering the question about the most impressive thing you've
achieved, it's not necessary to "focus on things that can be useful
in a startup." In fact that's a common mistake. If you won an
Olympic gold medal and can also write hello world in Ruby, we want
to hear about the former, not the latter.

* How you hacked some real-world system to your advantage is not a
super important question. Probably not even in the top 10.

I don't know about the other YC partners, but the two most important
questions to me are what you've done in the past that's impressive,
and why you chose the idea you're working on.

The biggest mistake founders make when applying is to confuse us. Half the time when I'm reading an application I'm thinking "I have no idea what this person is even talking about." I suspect this often the writer's own confusion showing through.

It's surprisingly hard to explain oneself. Even startups that we've accepted and have spent months working with say things in draft Demo Day presentations that make me ask "what does that even mean?"
Since this is a board for computer folks, this type of opinion is not surprising. :)
Odd, Intel i7 2600 ( windows 64 + Chrome) = 9%.
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Creationists are waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

God says...

hear such things? And he desired to see him.

9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they
had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert
place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

9:11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received
them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that
had need of healing.

9:12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and
said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the
towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are
here in a desert place.

9:13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We
have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and
buy meat for all this people.

9:14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his
disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

----

Say sompin about evolution.

I believe in Intelligent Design through evolution.

God said the hardest thing was getting monkey mothers to hold babies for nursing. Smothering is one problem in nursing.

----

God says...

made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat
offerings, and the fat.

7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all
Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept
the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent
the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the
goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to
Israel his people.

7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's
house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of
the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
The major issue he has seems to be that visual studio is much easier to use than the command line + makefiles. Ok that may be but if you are porting to linux then you probably are already familiar with the command line and makefiles. Supporting gcc on windows from a makefile that you already need on linux is not super hard.

But in any case I find visual studio a horrendous piece of garbage.
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Your examples are making money out of it... facebook users aren't.

Maybe the "product meme" is misleading, but i think that the "customer" label is also misleading.
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It's totally disrespectful. To act as if a crowd of savvy users who run their own services aren't to be taken seriously and that a single user - who tried for weeks to get help based off of the company's own claims - is this loudmouth minority? That's completely ignorant and rude.

I actively ignore Twitter for the same reasons some might avoid HN, but that doesn't mean that there aren't valid and intelligent conversations to be had there, particularly if you have to deal with customer service and PR.