skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running WP.com, I'm very sensitive too the performance implications of our stack. A small percentage change in performance could mean the difference of racks of servers for us. At Automattic we've also had a peek behind the curtain of pretty much every high-scale WP installation out there.

The vast majority of performance issues I've seen are not from something intrinsic to PHP or MySQL, but how people configure them. (MySQL is especially confounding.) There have been ports to other DBs but nothing that matches the performance of regular WP with a single layer of caching, like Batcache or Supercache.

For dynamic pageviews, ck2 is correct, our biggest barrier is just the amount of code we're parsing and executing on every pageload, which a different DB backend would not change. This problem is bigger on WP.com. I think we can fix this by becoming more conservative and clever about what we load for a given page and it's something I expect to be addressed bit by bit over the next few releases. (BTW ck2 if you want to work on that, please ping me!)
There's an assumption here that presidents get to do what they like regardless of anything else.

Planet Money has been running an infrequent series within the series about policies economists of all persuasions believe should be the US economic policy. It's great - all solid, reasonable stuff from an economic perspective but also (as they make clear) entirely contrary to public opinion.

Even assuming (and it's a massive and somewhat arrogant assumption) that a programmer knows what's right for America, it completely fails to address how that programmer (or anyone else) might get such policies enacted, especially as of the 8 at least 5 are contentious and 2 (congress and immigration) are potentially politically suicidal.
Well, at least you can plug a card in there.

Just out of curiosity, how is it on other tablets (ios, android). Is some portion of the marketed memory occupied at all times? If so how big is the percentage?
I think democrat presidents are actually worse for the discourse, as the blue plebs turn into complacent government supporters, while the red plebs think that repeating the republican party line is a form of dissent.
Hey! Datasift+Gnip both seem to supply conversational data, which I currently don't track. My focus is on user-data, which both don't seem to provide. And yes, they're expensive, wow.

The streaming API idea is a good one to get the most out of all of Twitter's data sources... someone else suggested this as well. Seems like it's worth a try.

Your Alice/Bob/Fred assumption is correct. I had a cache of sorts, through a large mysql table which went way over a couple of gigabytes and kept crashing all the time and restoring took half a day.

The twitter investors haven't had a chance to see any of the service since they are still waiting for results :) tough one to ask for intros ;)
-- Perhaps best to make a conforming edit to the HN title
This is a good point. The most common profession among legislators in the US so far has been law. They have most definitely not shown any interest in making it easier for foreign lawyers to practice in the US (I'd say they've shown remarkably cartel-like inclinations, really)... but they are relatively enthusiastic about getting more STEM workers here.
What are the roles of user as the most valuable resource in software production?
Note that none of those involved dolphins.

Maybe they're more civilized than we are.
Yeah, this is a great tip. It's great for a final review prior to actual commit. Often, I'll build my commit message based on my walkthrough at that point. Additionally, you get cleaner diffs because you can skip over goofy stuff like whitespace changes (which you then can destroy after the commit by a quick git checkout HEAD myfilewithwhitespacechangesinit)
Cool stuff. JavaScript wouldn't be my first (or second, or third, or even fifth) choice for numeric work, but I'm sure this will come in handy one day in a project that already exists and just needs a little numerical help.
Obtvse did:

https://github.com/natew/obtvse/tree/refresh

http://cl.ly/image/0m3d3k230b47

It keeps position as you scroll and write.
Ask HN: Help, I'm new to HN ...
There's a (1) next to my username at the top right implying I have a message waiting for me. When I click on it, I'm taken to a page where I can update information but the (1) never goes away. What gives?
I must say though, they do get a lot of bonus points for honestly laying out exactly where everything went and how much space each component takes up. On top of that, they even gave storage improvement options aren't simply giant advertisement for their cloud services. Color me impressed with MS's upfront honesty.
Even the physical object is ambiguous -- do I slide it to the side with the label that represents the state I want, or does the label represent the state?
I reference people I just don't use the term people. A big part of being an engineer is know that there are others who know more then you about different parts of problems. Hence look for experts in other domains.
I should point out that I completely agree -- this is a market Apple needs to play in, the Android boxes are great too and providing huge price pressures, and Apple's margins absolutely will shrink in the future. And all of that is a good thing for all of us.

Nonetheless from the perspective of an Apple shareholder, it's a "bad" thing, and in the short term you'd expect their stock to reflect that.
I want each process on my computer to have its own core.
you do have a point. it's incredibly fascinating to use an API since it instantly connects you with a large eco-system in this case, a large twitter universe - but once you start charging and making it a business, it becomes very much a middle-man-ish high-pressure type of situation.
I currently live in this district and the amout of political ads coming through my mail are INSANE.

There is almost no right choice here.
"Children can no longer look to their parents for patterns on how to live their lives"

This stands for at least a century when the big shift from the village to the city occured.
I'd say it wasn't any less radical than the shifts ahead us. Maybe a bit more radical even.
This sort of size is necessary to support a tablet which isn't hopelessly tethered to a PC. The iPad avoids a big recovery image by requiring you to restore it from your PC. You've offloaded this function onto an (arguably) more capable device. But how much external storage can you buy for the cost of a whole PC. For some users who don't create a lot of content, the Surface realistically could be their only device, and being able to restore it without a PC is a lot of convenience.
While they provide a bigger touch target, I don't think they are intuitive.

Edited: I distinctly remember being confused about what kind of control they were the first time I saw them.
I think there are many more players than you hear about, in this space. The company I work for builds distributed, large-scale energy storage (I work on the management and monitoring system that controls the "distributed" part), though we're relatively unknown right now. There are several other companies that we're aware of, all shipping products today and beginning to carve out parts of the market with relatively little fanfare. I chalk it up to their / our technology not being as "sexy" as something like LightSail, but nevertheless many are beginning to deliver results right now.

Hopefully I don't sound like I'm disparaging LightSail or any of the other possible avenues - I think we need continued investment in new methods as we should always be pursuing improvement, and the LightSail approach sounds very promising. I hope Thiel and Gates' involvement in this industry will bring even more visibility to it. However, I do want to make the point that there are people doing this today, in consumer and commercial applications, and having real effects.
I've got a 16GB iPhone and it's listed as having approximately 13GB of usable (non-OS/firmware) space. The ipad is about the same percentage, I just haven't looked at it in a while.
Agreed. It's a triviality but git add -p is one of the main reasons my commits in Git are cleaner than in SVN. It's also one of the advantages I cite when advocating for Git.
"4. Only one guy to a each hack"

Oh, okay then.
Just so that everyone is on the same page on what is being discussed here: this is a “study” by a competitor who can't implement personalised search and thus is spreading FUD to spin that as a differentiating advantage. It might be a good marketing strategy as he managed to get coverage by a couple of outlets during the elections frenzy in the US, but this "filter bubble" buzz-phrase is nonsense. Don't fear personalized results they are just another way of sussing relevance, and as mentioned in that post it concerns a tiny number of queries and has minimal effect on the results page.
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That's your karma. You start at 1.

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
No, google needs to work for the masses and confuse them as little as possible so adding even more sub-options doesn't seem like a good idea; specially when it only affects one or two results.
I forgot to mention our biggest architectural change, which is already ongoing: an ever-increasing percentage of our codebase is shifting to Javascript instead of PHP. At some point I expect it to be the vast majority.
@heathanderson?
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I agree with the point you're making - we can address more than one problem at once - but I'm not sure the charity example is the best one.

People have a kind of mental 'karma quota', where once they've done so much good deeds, they don't feel a need to do more. It's a problem for environmental awareness, because people get daft advice like 'unplug your phone charger' (which achieves almost nothing), and then feel they've done their bit.

So the person walking past a homeless man probably won't go and give the same money to charity (hands up, I've done that). But the accumulated guilt might eventually make them go and donate money to something.
Morality is only inherently religious if your diety is human society. Otherwise religion only impacts morality in the way that its doctrines are passed on by that society.

Person B is not fundamentally immoral, only by the standards of a society and if his moral framework is incompatible with his society then they will leave or be terminated.
I think you could gain momentum surprisingly fast with a new project if it offered a quality alternative. (I say this as the author of a CMS in another content-type space which has done that fairly well)
My plan is to not re-elect EESA supporters. I don't think this plan will work very well, though.
Another alternative would be freezing money transfers for 30 days or so. Or use a payment processor that is used to deal with high risk websites (for example, CCBill).

> The uncomfortable truth is that Gittip, Balanced, and our legitimate users are financially incentivized to turn a blind eye to laundering, because we have benefitted and are benefitting from it.

That's only true until you start getting chargebacks.
The (1) next to your name is your "karma", which is designed to make the primitive hoarding and status-seeking parts of your monkey-brain feel inadequate when no one upvotes your comments.
I guess I'd never really given it much thought, but I'm glad to hear others are motivated by insecurity, proving others wrong, etc. The first company I ever built was when I was 15, to this day I remember a conversation I had with my dad explaining an idea "I'd heard about". In reality, I'd already built it, but his response was something along the lines of "that sounds like a terrible idea, and it's probably not legal". It hurt, and he probably wouldn't have given that appraisal had he known it was my idea, but it made me want to prove him wrong. A year later, he was managing sales at my company while I went to high school during the day.

All these motivators seem like emotional instabilities, is motivation really internal at all? I wonder, what if I hadn't been told my idea sucked, would I have had the same drive to make it work?
> For instance, could a person with Down's Syndrome be denied protection from murder?

Since nobody seems to have given a straight answer to this, I will. Someone with Down's Syndrome easily counts as an intelligent being, and is not even close to any borderline.

I suppose your question assumes that, since intelligence comes in degrees, any value based on it must also come in degrees. But instead, most people who see personhood this way believe in some sort of threshold above which everyone deserves equal protection.
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I tried to do part time to support my startup but ended up working on my part time gig full time in order to meet deliverables and dead lines. I find, its better to 1 thing at a time. In my opinion, It's better to take a hit for year and work on your startup full time.
I guess it's clear if your voting entirely on one issue, which is what the OP is about.

For me, the alternative is a Republican candidate, who if he wins, has the potential to change the majority of the Senate, and has taken positions I do not agree with, including reproductive rights, marriage equality, energy and global warming.

I don't agree with SOPA at all but I feel like it's something that would actually be debated. These other issues are so polarizing that it becomes majority rule and to me, that makes them more important.

Regardless, it's good to be educated about your candidates.
i also tried this and it helped a bit, for every 100 user details request I pull a random set of 100 ids from different places in a user's follower list to minimize getting stuck. it helped a bit. but main problem are still the time-outs.
Thanks for the feedback!

On adding CLI functions to the dashboard: this is the most common request, and as we hinted in the announcement: "going forward, you will see more command-line features making their way to the web dashboard, and vice-versa. It also means the CLI and dashboard experience will converge over time and feel more consistent"

On local dev environment: you are definitely not the only one asking for this. We're not quite ready to communicate on the topic, but you should definitely keep an eye out for future progress.

Feel free to hang out on freenode/#dotcloud, we'd love to get more feedback from you!
64GB iPhone 5 here: 57.3GB usable storage (89.5% of advertised).
This is actually a pretty decent last word on the subject, IMHO.
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Well, the salary is what we can afford-- and so that obviously works as a filter. We're an early stage startup, so we're hoping people will believe in our vision + recognize the upside they can help create... and that then the salary becomes less important.

Plus uncapped commission doesn't hurt (especially if you're confident you can close deals) and this position, in time, is definitely one that can earn a meaningful amount of equity. Anyway, just our take.
6366HE has a base frequency of 1.8GHz, with 2.3/3.1 turbo.

For the same money you can get a six core Intel E5-2630 (2.3/2.8GHz).

The benchmarks [1] say the Vishera (desktop Piledriver) has about 50% of the Intel performance per core at the same frequency, so unfortunately the 6-core Intel is roughly equivalent to the 16-core AMD.

[1] http://wccftech.com/amd-vishera-fx8350-x86-piledriver-pitted...
great design for your audience -- reminds me of http://hackertyper.net/ -- for those moments where you need to pretend like you're a total badass
This is no longer the case with iCloud.

All of my 'iDevices' are now untethered from my computer. When I bought my iPhone 5 they actually made me wait for the iCloud restore to complete before I could leave the store.

Backed up my iPhone 4 before jumping the train to the Apple store. Walked in, purchased the new one, iCloud sync, walked out with virtually the same data I walked in with on a faster and prettier device =)
You basically have to catch it before the charge is even settled; either within the same business day before your settlement cutoff, or by authorizing without capturing for a day or two so you have time to review. Once the charge is settled, a refund almost never stops someone from charging back the payment -- for whatever reason, when a card is reported stolen, people and banks simply charge back everything unauthorized even if a quick review of the account would show some of the payments were already refunded. You can dispute these chargebacks by providing proof of the previous refund, but you're still out the chargeback fees, and these chargebacks still count against your account -- so they can end up getting you terminated if your CB rate is pushed too high.
Just came to comment on the lack of accessibility for this page - thank you for pointing it out to the author.

If you insist on using images instead of actual text, at LEAST add alt-text of the content to the images! Then the page would be screen-reader accessible.
> It will turn the price of drugs into price + taxes. The current complex distribution and supply network doesn't have to pay taxes because they are already illegal, so they'll continue to charge the current price.

Under the current scheme, the street price of drugs represents price + cost of maintaining a standing army + maintenance of baroque, multi-tier, low-capacity, high-overhead supply chain + "hazard pay" level wages for everyone involved in the enterprise.

So just focusing on taxes gives an unrealistic view of the situation. No, they're not paying taxes, but they're paying for scads and scads of other things, and have to pass that cost on to the consumer. This is pure deadweight loss, just as taxes would be. But it's also a relatively enormous loss; it would be very easy to come up with a tax rate that fits in below it. I suspect that anything less than four digits should do the trick, which means that we could even set the rate many times higher than the current rate for cigarettes and be fine.

And the market will not support operating an illegal network that's more expensive than the costs imposed by taxation. Take tobacco: organized crime is absolutely still involved in tobacco smuggling. And with excise taxes on cigarettes in the US averaging over 100%, that shouldn't be surprising. But at the same time, it doesn't seem to be supporting organized crime and associated social costs on anything near the scale we've seen with groups like the Zetas or al-Qaeda.
This is a stupid article written for stupid people. Here's the probably original reporting:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/7904696/Dotcom-trumpets-fr...

with such quotes as:

Morgan, who was chairman of Pacific Fibre, said: "I
haven't talked to him [Dotcom] but I would be happy
to have a chat.

The only story here is Kim Dotcom is desperate for attention and whore journalists are desperate for pageviews.
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Well if you wanna go that route, a loaf of bread for dinner is 'only' trillions and trillions of atoms.
Informative, thank you both. On this ticket we discussed why Gittip isn't the best system for extracting value from a card:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/329

The desire to verify stolen cards with the added benefit of recovering that waste seems to explain the motive for using Gittip.
Also:

* vertical scaling (you can allocate arbitrary amounts of memory and cpu to your containers)

* You can allocate raw TCP and UDP ports
It was mean as a hypothetical question expressing something between surprise and disdain, rather than actual doubt. I do understand that people think differently to me.

No specific issue with Greatist but I'm actually genuinely curious why this language works. I'm guessing demographically Greatist's readers are more likely to be intelligent and educated (that correlating with health and fitness, particularly in an organised / hobby way) and yet this language seems to be working for them despite being of low (or negative if that's how you count things that are incorrect) informational content, something you'd guess smart people might react badly to.

Based on your bio you're clearly smart, educated and super fit (or have been). How do you feel about the line "sweat is just fat crying"?

I ask because if you don't like it (and maybe you do), isn't there the possibility that this sort of thing could make better use of language rather than just going with the same old cliche's gym's always use?
It's not even about stealing money per se, it's a step in the process of credit card theft. Fraudsters often do the same thing on Amazon and iTunes - they'll make 1 dollar purchases that allow them to 'verify' the cards. In these cases the 1 dollar purchases aren't for any direct material gain.
Seems like adblock got a new entry in the list. Seriously guys, aren't there any alternatives to ads? I just used a PC without adblock yesterday and the browsing experience was horrible. Popups, which hide the content and have no close button(appears after 10 seconds), blinking ads, flash ads and other colorful ads. I'd never buy any product just because it was advertised somewhere. Thats the reason why I still stick with adblock and noscript!
For us, it's less about having a killer professional recommendation than it is about caring about Greatist/this job enough to ask someone to help them out. Obviously, a meaningful professional recommendation would be more effective-- but not saying it's necessary, you know?
Thank you for the info -- I'll give it a whirl.
The post is suggesting that people vote based on issues vitally important to the freedoms of this interest group (HN).

I am pointing out that one should live (and vote, and think, et c) based on issues vitally important to the freedoms of all humans, as these are much more life-and-death than internet censorship (and that one is huge, too).

Political flamebait is usually of the pro-/anti-skub variety. I argue that it is just that - flamebait - as we can expect near-identical behavior on the issue of basic liberties from any candidate in the US with half a prayer of being elected.

It is now time to leave. This is not a drill.
doesn't work. tried this briefly at the beginning but they return error pages after a certain amount of calls per IP. and no, splitting up to many IPs isn't feasible. unfortunately.
>"Playing" with the prey is a good way to weaken the prey before the killing bite is inflicted.

No it isn't, it extends the amount of time the prey is alive and capable of causing harm, and the amount of contact between predator and prey. Domestic animals play with prey because they still have deeply ingrained hunting instinct, but have no actual need to hunt. This is why they will hunt a laser pointer just as intently as a mouse. They aren't after food, just reacting to instinct.
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Yup.

Kinda felt like Google shot themselves in the foot by missing them out of their nexus tablets. The idea that it's a negative because people don't like managing what they use the space for... well it doesn't fly with me.
Apple's playing in a market that is much more competitive than the PC / MP3 player market though, with competitors working on vastly different business model and undercutting on product whenever they can ...

I for one am glad that Apple is so much more international than Google and Amazon, because I live outside of US.
This is what I found as well. At first I regretted my purchase as I was trying to use it to replace my laptop. Then I played one of my favorite iOS games -- Eliss -- in 2x mode. I've never experienced the level of interaction while playing a game as I did at that moment. There is no reason, save for pocketability, that any kid would pass up an iPad mini.
If you care about the tech industry, vote for Obama
there are 4.5 mln android devices sold every 3 days
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