skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really excellent. It's funny, although not entirely surprising, but we have also been using parts of Khan and Bret Victor. The students seemed to really enjoy the sandbox of Khan as a starter to what is possible with code. Repl.it was a big help as well. The hard/fun part is transitioning between the experimenting and learning with these out-of-the-box tools to experimenting and learning by actually making your own stuff. I - and I'm sure the other ScriptEd folks - would love to hear more about your experience (scriptednyc@gmail.com).
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I don't think anyone has managed to get interactive speeds (~seconds to max couple of minutes) at the PB scale.
No, I could not get much from the slide show.
Everyone is lazy for signing-up. Unless, there is something very compelling, people will not got for sign-up even it is free.
Not any more easily than before. Previously you had the full power of the OpenGL ES API to program the GPU with, but if you wanted to do anything that didn't fit into the API you were SOL. Now you're in exactly the same situation, because the "high-level interface" to the GPU firmware is just OpenGL ES with the context set-up and buffer management replaced by something nastier.
Eat more fiber
You didn't answer the questions. That's because you well know that anti-spam is security. Just because DKIM isn't foolproof, doesn't make it useless as a layer in anti-spam and security.
> It appears that the author has some customizations (plugins..) that are really slow.

The slowest piece of code on the network today is the Recent Comments Widget. That's not a plugin, that's right there in the base install.

I worked this out myself, based on preliminary detective work by Page.ly. And then Page.ly went the rest of the way to ask a Wordpress core contributor for their opinion. The key issue is that this widget performs a query on the wp_comments table which becomes slower and slower as the number of comments rises. The only real fixes are either to move to Disqus (my bloggers said "no") or partition the table (Page.ly politely said that this was outside the scope of anything under their enterprise plans).

> Why not route your traffic through cloudfront ?

I do.

> Why not leverage full page caching for anonymous users ?

That too.

I also have memcached for the object cache, I use a tuned copy of PerconaDB and nginx is configured to serve static files and supercache-generated whole pages without ever touching PHP.

The blog post you read was served from a blog on that very blog network, on Linode servers in Tokyo that I once again personally managing.
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Maybe he loves the place he lives in, he's quite happy doing the kind of work he does, and thus want to stay instead of moving to another place.

The rat race is not for everyone.
Not ReadyBoost, but ReadyDrive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyDrive#ReadyDrive
He showed his hand there in the second to last sentence. Apple UI is stale. The grid-of-dancing icons in iOS and bouncy-bouncy dock in OSX with it's faux 3D reflections is insulting and tired in my opinion. It's OK to love a stale UI. But why attack UI that is forward thinking?
So we don't apply the caching stuff to the staging server because the purpose of the staging server is to stage content and test new plugins and themes.

We invented this feature in response to bloggers and site owners who wanted to be able to test a new plugin before adding it to the live/production version of their site. We're also the only managed WP platform to offer such a feature as standard with all accounts.

I can see that in a true dev/staging/production test suite environment, it does't stand up as a true mirror of product for the reasons you stated - but then neither does the staging/local version of Google App Engine or Heroku offer the same exact environment of their production platform.

If you need true like-for-like mirroring of production and staging, then yes, you need to create another WordPress instance - that's the case for most providers. Also its wroth nothing all WP Engine accounts, other than the Personal plan, come with multiple WordPress instances, so rarely that means actually buying anything further.
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When you figure out how to outsource going to the dentist, let us all know. That's one of those services that pg talks about that everybody needs but nobody wants to provide: great startup opportunity.
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Python most definitely.
What do you think it's competing against? Certainly not a Kindle...

Is the $600 price a steep one? I'm not sure. It's the same price as the iPad and not only can you consume/play with it, but you can also do work. This has the potential of replacing your iPad+laptop combo.

On the other hand, for $600 you could also buy a mediocre laptop that can run full Windows 7/8. But likely without a touch screen (but win8 works fine without one anyways so whatever).

At the end of the day, if your budget is $600 it really comes down to "do you care about tablet use cases". If you do, then buy a win8 device like Surface over an iPad. If you don't then skip this form factor and get yourself a "normal" non-touch laptop with full Windows and likely better hardware.

I guess my original meta point was that if this isn't worth $600, then the iPad shouldn't even be worth $500.

Re: "but with an iPad you have 250k apps" - sure, but I'm confident that the apps will come to win8. It's a matter of time, and I don't think it will take too long. I expect lot more AAA apps to be released after October 26th.
Even if it were faster in modern browsers with a high speed connection (see MartinodF's comments) it'd still be worse on high latency connections like mobile. The number of requests has a huge impact on page speed when you get 100ms+ of latency per request.
Thanks for doing that. I'll leave my original comment up in shame--I shouldn't jump to conclusions so quickly.

A note for the FancyHands team, though (I know the founder is hanging around here somewhere): I didn't notice the referral link at first; my first reaction when I saw "Steven Corona knows you'll love FancyHands" was that Steven worked for the company, which detracts from the authenticity of his blog post. I'd seriously consider removing that 'feature' and making the referral process more inconspicuous, leaving it up to the bloggers to disclose their participation in the referral program.
You attach some markup to the cost of something? If so, what %?
Firefox graphics are just ridiculously slow for me lately, and I think it's because I'm not getting any hardware acceleration under Ubuntu. I wonder if you're having a similar issue.

My attempts to cajole Firefox have so far resulted in nothing more than flickering UI elements.
The point was that you were doing it in an obfuscated way, (using shortened links), without disclosing. I don't think people generally mind when they are explicitly made aware.
I tend to think it's best to stay away all forms of analogy unless the goal is demonstrative and abstract enough to fully warrant it. Using a bad metaphor to kick off an otherwise straightforward argument is asinine.
No.

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

It's really not more complicated than this. You can use scrypt instead of bcrypt if that makes you happy. The secret crypto keys in separate storage locations stuff is silly. Get the basics right.
Yes, page sizes have steadily increased over time. See http://httparchive.org/
We posted our passenger+python announcements on the Python reddit before, but we didn't get much attention for it. Do you know in what way we could really address the Python webdevelopment community?
Watch the demo with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMNNpIksaI on, in the background. It makes it much more enjoyable! ;) Haha
The Placebo Gene?
May I ask: How large is the markup on that?

I mean if the flowers cost $60 (from the florist), how much would they cost the client via your service? I mean outside of the normal cost for using the service.

Essentially what I'm asking is if there is a "service fee" on purchases?
There's also Kudos:

http://takekudos.com/

which seems to do the same thing as Square. Anyone used both services and is willing to compare them? Kudos seems to be slightly more expensive ($50 signup + higher swipe fees).
"Arguing anything other than differences in levels of exercise/activity and calorie intake has a large mountain of evidence to overcome."

Not accurate. Smoking takes about 10 years off life expectancy, which is thought to be the reason why hispanics have a longer life expectancy than non-hispanic whites in the US. Mental illness takes another 10 - 15 years off life expectancy. Being religious adds a couple years to life expectancy, as does social belongingness in general.
Thanks, Ben.

FYI, the problem is with the Recent Comments widget code that ships in the Wordpress base install. Page.ly had the same database connection dropping issues you did and I presume for the same reason. (edit: By the way, use the db-error.php facility to put up nicer error pages. It's also a really obvious point to insert some monitoring logic -- I think customers would like it if you noticed their problems before they do).

The core issue, as I said elsewhere in this thread, is that unless you partition the underlying wp_comment tables, performance becomes steadily worse as the total number of comments rises.

The only reason that this was never a problem for me on my own servers is that I am loltastically over-provisioned for my requirements. I just never saw it.

You will see it more in future. Like I said: this is not a badly behaved 3rd-party plugin. This is mainline code. Your customers can reasonably expect that you can run Wordpress out of the box without degradation.

None of changes the fact that my original migration experience was a total disaster. I know you're experiencing growing pains.

Well here's one of them. I hope it serves you and your future customers well.
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My mini-review, from about halfway through WWTCPS:

Just as in "Working with Unix Processes", Jesse really knows how to explain things clearly and concisely, which is a rare gift among tech authors. The frequent code examples reinforce without excessive repetition, and he smartly limits the topic to just the socket API rather than trying to teach all of Ruby, HTTP, low-level TCP and so on. The result is not just an effective learning tool, but an enjoyable read as well.

I'd also like to note that rather uncommonly among programming books, both WWUP and WWTCPS come with a version of the book in plain text format. The plain text versions are suitable for viewing with 'less' in a terminal or (after stripping the color codes in WWUP's case) in your favorite text editor. It's a nice touch, the plain text book feels right at home in a tmux pane alongside a shell or two to run the examples.
If you are so proud of them, continue to submit them as single links to HN.
Great work!

Node.js and python support will be nice.
I really wish Fresh Direct would do unattended deliveries like Amazon Fresh in Seattle. Amazon uses an insulated temperature controlled crate that keeps things safe for at least a few hours. Scheduling my life around FreshDirect deliveries is annoying. It would be nice if I can just give them a 3-4h window before I get home from work and just find it outside my door.
The hybrid drive feature in Vista was ReadyDrive, not ReadyBoost. It never took off due to lack of driver support from manufacturers and/or Microsoft. Even so, you're right that techically it's a cache because copies are stored on both physical drives backing the logical one. I just wanted to point out that ReadyBoost was about using additional drives to use as caches, while ReadyDrive was about using hybrid drives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyDrive#ReadyDrive

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg4...
Seems to be up and working now. You can tell as the credit cards seem to be limited to Visa/MC as opposed to the US version.
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This is really nice, but it would be even better if you made a non Sharpie version. I would get it if it worked with a normal pen because I never use a Sharpie.
I can only imagine how pissed someone would be when they accidentally touch their phone or tablet with the wrong end of the Sharpie. Would rather put it on an actual pen than a permanent marker. Seems way too easy to make that mistake, since the ends even look fairly alike.

By the by, Sharpies are pens? Is it like one of those "all squares are rectangles" things?
anything like this in London or Belfast?
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I'm Alex Dzul, From Mexico.

I'm Django Web Developer.
I have a Youtube Channel where I explain this framework in Spanish ( my native language) http://www.youtube.com/user/alexexc2

I would like to participate in this update of the Django Book :)
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First mistake in a long time? You mean apple's maps on the iphone wasn't a mistake?

Without sounding snarky what would you consider their last big mistake?
Plenty of crappy DNS web admin "tools" limit the maximum length of a TXT record. Sometimes it's harder than just typing "1024" instead of "512"...
I think the point (directed to you and parent) is that it is for BOTH. That's the whole idea behind "no compromise solution". You can be playing Angry Birds or be browsing the Metro Hacker News app (hypothetical, I don't think there is one yet) or otherwise doing "iPad things" and then the next moment, "click in and do more" to put it in marketing speak :)
Even from Windows7, I've been using the Office web apps via my SkyDrive almost exclusively. No real issues that I've run into and I think most people should be doing that on a Surface(Poor messaging by MS). The full Office is there for power users IMHO.

That said, its desktop mode Office because they are emulating(or just ported) the old Win32 libraries used to run old office code. This is likely the cause of the CPU spike.
Not entirely but 90% of it. Your programs, data and profile will move around and be cached if you sign in with a Live account. Some application state may be persisted differently but when you sign in to another PC, it'll all move across slowly.

plan9 doesn't do what he wants either. You can't detach a window station from the 9p network and take it and all your data with you. Communication networks aren't reliable enough to maintain a 9p connection either.

At least surface handles this...

Hell RDP'ing into the office is the same as what he wants...
What would be amazing is if they started taking Interac as well.
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I think parent's point was that 'truly poor' people don't have time to consume media because they are too busy working to keep their head above water.

I don't necessarily agree with the idea that only people in this state of existence can be called 'poor.' I'd say that 'poor' is more general, and that those people are at the extreme end of the 'poor' spectrum.
I had similar services in London that were very useful.

Of course they didn't have fancy web frontends, but they still picked up and dropped off laundry (charged by weight), cleaned the house every week or two, delviered groceries (most UK supermarkets will) Etc.

These things are not expensive and take much of the annoying drudgery out of life.
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A very commendable effort, but I'm not sure you will find product-market fit by targeting homeowners as early adopters, because most homeowners are extremely busy and therefore happy to pay for the convenience of a grocery store and last-minute takeout food. (I'm speaking from personal experience: I don't have the time or desire to install and manage something like AutoMicroFarm in my home, but I routinely pay for online grocery delivery and take-out food.)

The two early-adopter markets I would explore first are: (1) restaurants/hotels, who are always interested in "fresh produce at 10% of the cost" and are always looking for ways to differentiate from competitors ("our produce is fresher because it's grown in-house with hydroponics"); and (2) large grocery stores in urban areas, who will have the space and staff to install and manage AutoMicroFram and are also always interested in fresher produce at a lower cost.

I suspect that if AutoMicroFarm is packaged as a standard product (e.g., the same modular box for everyone) that truly delivers value from day one (e.g., the box is delivered with grown plants of the buyer's choosing) to these two market segments, you would get much faster adoption.

PS. Obviously this would require a meaningful amount of venture capital.
Bash is network transparent: you change directory in a nfs filesystem or in a curlftpfs the same way as on a local disk.

X separates the thing that paints the screen (the X server) from the things that computes (the X client).

Your idea or pushing pixels means that you need a virtual screen on the machine where programs runs and you want to copy this virtual screen to your screen. Do you imagine the complexity of window management with such a setup ? Have you already launched many VNC clients at the same time ?
There's a fair amount of criticism flying around about us on this thread, but that's one I can't make any apologies over.

There's all sorts of interesting things we're doing with NFS, along with caching layers, that ensure this is never a bottleneck -- and even provides benefits in other ways.
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I love this. And I think being in the business of Automation is pretty cool too : http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/automation-as-a-service
What kind of analysis are you trying to do on that dataset? Log files can be verbose as well. Do you need all the data in the logs or can you cut down the data in each row to only what you need?
I took the photo in the background - it can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyitsadam/8119390724/in/photos...

The icons I overlay on top of the photo are from a collection called Geomicons Squared:

http://geomicons.com

Hope that helps.
Wow, I clicked on the link out of random curiosity to see what he'd say; but that's pretty disheartening.
Only in the Shuttleworthian sense of you already trust MSFT with your data.
We put this app together in 1 hour, it's rather a quick hack for fetching RSS entries than a complicated project. In terms of design there are like 2 pages: list and single entry. You can use this code to create a « mobile app » for your own blog. I wouldn't go so far and say we give away our work for free...
Totally agree Coda gets the basics right and I love that article. In fact, our CTO wrote a response blog article to that in February: http://www.stormpath.com/blog/strong-password-hashing-apache...

However, to quote from that post: "The author is correct assuming the attacker has direct access to your password store. This is a big assumption - most organizations go through great lengths to ensure access to say, databases, is levels of security 'deep' beyond just a web login form. Anyway, assuming that this might ever happen to you, how can you address the issue?"
I'm avidly looking forward to Python and Node.js support.
Metamarkets also open sourced their data store today. High performance, distributed query database.

http://metamarkets.com/category/technology/druid/
Ask HN: Should I attend Startup Weekend?
I'm currently an university student, taking a technical degree (not computer science though). I guess I should mention that I live in a smallish European country, so the StartupWeekend event is probably not that big.

I have only dabbled a bit with web development and programming in general. E.g. I have some half-finished Django sites, written a few Python automation scripts and stuff like that.

My point is, I don't have any experience in shipping anything. Therefore I'm not sure if I'll have anything to offer to any of the teams and will just be standing on the sidelines with nothing but a SW ticket in my hands...

Should I attend anyway?

If I won't be on any teams, what's in it for me?

Also if someone could share their experience attending for the first time or point me to blog post about that, that would be great! :)
I do. And I will.
I have daily job and children. On side I have an huge open-source project. Procrastination was my huge enemy.

I solved it by 'will'. TODO lists, monthly shopping, booking everything on time... It is easier than you think.
Curious - does DNSSEC add much to the amount of trust one can assign to DKIM verification? Or are there better solutions (both for trusted DNS and DKIM-alike)?
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Actually, I would characterise WPEngine, Page.ly and ZippyKid as mid-tier. The low end is served by thousands of shared hosts and resellers.

Look at the pricing: Wordpress VIP starts at $500; WPEngine is selling a $250 plan.
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GMAIL! Locked out on computer, yet can access on Android. 
I have been repeatedly locked out of my Gmail when accessing on my computer. BUT, I can still access it on my Android.

1) This blows.

2) The error message says my account is disabled yet I can still access it on my phone. I can't access on my computer (MBP, Chrome) on another browser (Safari).

I have activated 2-step verification and access-specific verification. I have cleared cookies.<p>Please help! =)

Here is the error message received:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down

To keep our systems healthy, Google has temporarily disabled your account. This primarily occurs when we detect unusually high levels of activity on your account. In most cases, it should take one hour to regain access. In rare cases, it can take up to 24 hours for access to be reinstated.<p>We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

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Shutdown will hibernate session 0, though and thus will not do a full cold boot the next time.
You're ignoring the fact that your post on WPEngine is actually relevant to this site, whereas only one of your promoted posts has anything to do with tech.

It's not wrong to be proud, but I have to agree that blatant advertising is distasteful no matter which way you slice it.
I want to buy a hard copy!
While I understand the basic idea of "make the idea their own", is there any way you could either maybe expand on that a bit, or point me to an existing blog post or something?

Regarding the communication bit, I definitely agree with the order. While not doing it on purpose, looking back I did notice differences in the responses of people based on how I'd pitch an idea/project at meetups.
Good observation. I stand corrected.
I wonder how Zachary Harris would defend the lack of neutrality of that quote, if he was asked to do so.
Because it's insinuating those girls actually feel that way and are acting out because of it, instead of assuming they're confident enough to make these decisions because they actually want to. If every girl/person you see with unconventional style is presumed to be weak because you think they're doing it for attention, that's discrimination with a hint of ego for not having to 'stoop' to those tactics.

This is similar to throwing goth kids under the bus for obviously all being from broken homes, worshiping the devil and wanting to shoot up their schools. Why do we treat people coming out of their shell and avoiding the status quo as weakness instead of strength?