skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't think you're ever going to be able to beat nginx on the webserver end of things because you have to contend with the PHP garbage collector and nginx does manual memory management. And...well, C is a lot faster than PHP.

I fixed the backlog setting and re-ran the test, and pancake doesn't drop requests anymore, but it's not improved at all on speed.

https://gist.github.com/4063785

I was watching top during each test, as well, to get a sense of what was happening; pancake was pegging the CPU at close to 100% user and reached a load average of ~14, whereas the mod_php test was something like 85% user/15% system and reached a load average of 5. This would seem to indicate to me that Pancake is handling something that Apache/mod_php is able to hand off to the kernel, and since it's stuck in userspace, processes end up waiting around for their turn to do stuff.

90 req/sec really isn't bad - especially considering that without APC, my install gets ~35 req/sec - but given that it seems to get most of its boost from avoiding re-evaluation of the source files, and given that APC does the same, I don't think it's really all that fair to compare Pancake to a PHP install not running APC, especially since Pancake requires a specially-compiled version of PHP and has to be run as root, so anyone that can run Pancake can install and use APC. Additionally, APC transparently works across all your source files already - it has no manifests to maintain, so turning it on is literally as easy as "pecl install apc" and enabling the extension in your config. That's a difficult combination to beat. If you can do it, I'd love to see the results, but given what I know of the architecture of these various pieces, I'm skeptical that it can be done with pure PHP.

Finally, I think that trying to contend with nginx from a marketing standpoint is silly, because web applications are composed of much more than just PHP files; I have to be able to serve images, stylesheets, Javascript, and the like for a full web application, so I have to consider the performance of the webserver as a whole in terms of its ability to fully deliver a page to a client to evaluate it properly; a webserver that runs the script end of things, but then struggles to serve up my assets (and even worse, blocks workers serving assets while I have script requests pending) isn't going to be very useful in a practical scenario. I performed my benchmarks with my development Apache install; I can tell you from my own experience that nginx will trounce it solidly, so the gap to overcome is almost certainly substantially wider than in my benchmarks. Considered as a whole, from first-byte to request-fully-delivered, I don't think you're going to be able to approach nginx, let alone beat it, without moving major parts of the application out of PHP and into a lower-level system.
Menu items make for better screenshots when marketing features.
I certainly don't ever expect a data mining system to gossip.

Treating networked automatic systems like personal notebooks really isn't so terribly strained, there is no reason to expect a person is ever reviewing the data passed to them.
Steven Sinosky out at Microsoft
I'm calling shenanigans.

First of all, please don't pass off personal perspectives as fact. An "immediate association that people have"? Really? What actual data do you have to back such an assertion? I had no such image in my head whatsoever when I first saw the name. Am I in the majority or the minority? I have no idea. Neither do you.

Secondly, if we avoided each and every possible warped euphemism in the English language, we wouldn't be able to name anything. Teabag, facial, taint, snorkel... the list of potential innuendo is endless. These are perfectly good words that have been ruined by some jerk who thought he was being clever.

Don't buy into this. Let the 13 year-olds snigger in the back of the room if they want to. The only way to combat this prepubescent inanity is to use these words in their proper context -- as often as possible.
Some of the items you list are visible in cult victims too.
How do I know it will? I was turned off by the lack of a trial.
I hate Microsoft. I hate politics. I hate Microsoft politics twice as much.
Instead of version, I think it would be more accurate to say 3.8% time (two out of fifty-two weeks). 20% time would be over ten weeks by my arithmetic. Although I think it's a generous gesture for a mega cap like Apple, I think this is a little silly. At a big company such as Apple can't you gain or lose 3.8% of your day simply by shuffling around your coffee break or gratuitous meeting schedule?
Texas Instruments Official Confirms New Color TI-84+ C Graphing Calculator
I apologise! I didn't realise you're sufficiently qualified to speak about exactly what it is QuorumEx has done and intends to do with its research.

Please formally introduce yourself so we can get a proper conversation started.

I guess you're right though. That pesky cosmos thing is nothing but a serious of compounding mistakes. Why won't it ever learn?

We simply cannot be trusted with science because some of us just might happen to abuse it.

Pack it up folks. Go back home to the caves. Science has been cancelled.
This is neat. I was skeptical about the rhyme matching feature, but I ended up using one of its suggestions.

When lines wrap, they stop lining up with the syllable counts. It would also be nice if the continued lines were indented, but I'm not sure if that's possible with CSS2.
> In the legal sense, the third party doctrine is as inherent to the 4th amendment as anything can be--it's the Supreme Court's binding interpretation of the contours of the phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy."

Not really, because it has only been applied (and kept from application) piecemeal. Warrants required for wiretaps is one good example of where the Supreme Court has said the third party doctrine does not hold. The 6th circuit has actually ruled that email (even if older than six months) is protected by the 4th amendment. That's why many are hoping the supreme court will take up the case, or congress will amend the Stored Communications Act to clear up the inconsistencies.

6th Circuit:

Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection.... It follows that email requires strong protection under the Fourth Amendment; otherwise the Fourth Amendment would prove an ineffective guardian of private communication, an essential purpose it has long been recognized to serve.... [T]he police may not storm the post office and intercept a letter, and they are likewise forbidden from using the phone system to make a clandestine recording of a telephone call--unless they get a warrant, that is. It only stands to reason that, if government agents compel an ISP to surrender the contents of a subscriber's emails, those agents have thereby conducted a Fourth Amendment search, which necessitates compliance with the warrant requirement.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/breaking-news-eff-vict...

> In the practical sense, I strain to see how someone can have a reasonable expectation of privacy in say their e-mail when Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc, data-mine those communications in order to show targeted advertisements...

We're talking the government here, not companies. You can agree to all sorts of things that the government can't compel you to do. I'm not sure how this is relevant.
I understand one way hashing but what about DB passwords for instance? You need access to plaintext passwords.

This is getting long but the point is plaintext = he worst thing you can do. Even ROT13 is a little better.
I'm curious how they map Clojure's persistent data structures with many threads onto Lua states.
Depends if you encrypt your backups or not. If so, passwords are restored to the device along with the rest of your data.
Certainly not the whole company but to the person in question.

I'm certain any PM in devdiv for example would be a great coder.
I don't know if you saw it in the thread but you can actually long press the notifications now and find the offender.
Because "post hoc, ergo propter hoc."

Apple shits on Windows every chance they get, and now they're gonna hire the guy who was in charge of it? Come on.
agreed, however, I'm sure like the rest of us, work manages to come home.
Does the Microsoft Surface Really Fall Apart?
This is an entirely valid point - not sure why you're being downvoted. I recently participated on a project with a client whose product name was synonymous with an alternate spelling of a rare skin disease.

We brought up our concerns about it in development, but they resisted. Their product displaced the skin disease search results in a matter of weeks after launch.

My point being: names are just names, but they can make or break through connotations depending on how well delivery is executed.
Yeah you just rattled off the features of Google Voice (plus a few other services that do the same things).

It is indeed quite nice. No jailbreaking, managed in the same place as your contacts, texts, etc. Visible online, all the other benefits of Google Voice which I won't extol in detail.
I wonder. YC's initial stake is usually <10%, right? Dropbox got $1.2MM right after YCombinator, which to me suggests a high rate of dilution. So let's say YCombinator owns 5% of dropbox. Dropbox is probably worth slightly less than $6bn according to pg's comment that Dropbox + AirBnB are worth about $7.5b. That would value YC's stake in Dropbox at about $300MM.

Of course, this is just a guess-I have no idea how much Dropbox was diluted in their early funding rounds. Even so, Ycombinator's stake probably couldn't be worth more than $600MM if we assume Dropbox is worth $6bn.
"When you have a rooted Android phone, it’s widely understood that all bets are off as far as vulnerabilities are concerned."

FUD
Here's Sinofsky's letter to employees on his departure http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-leadership-changes...

He states that it was a personal decision to leave now, disputing the rumors that he was fired. Although offcourse that doesn't mean he wasn't being pushed.
Complaining from the sidelines is the only recourse available to users and developers outside of a project or company.
When you join the CIA you sign a piece of paper that says "You have the right to access all of my personal accounts of any kind."

Having gone through the process of accepting a job offer from the CIA (which I later declined due to the 2 year background check and a more fun job in the Bay Area) I can say this is an oversimplification. If you work for the CIA you explicitly agree to allow them to comb through any of your personal accounts at any time.
That is a controversial opinion, infortunately held by many in government (people whose unreasonable claims are the very matter the Constitution is designed to protect against) and repeating it is tantamount to propaganda, as it pushes people to change their expectations of privacy, which would then be abused by the Executive branch of government. Please stop paraphrasing abuses as though they are acceptable.
Its VERY hard to poison a dog. If it was a special op they would just shoot the dog with a silenced weapon.
Taobao.com breaks record for online sales in a day - $3.1 billion USD
Well, one definition of "compelling" is "demanding attention". Any web developer that's had to build for Internet Explorer will likely say that's a fairly accurate description.
could yahoo be on the cards? marissa meyer made the move recently.
IE 3 and 4 were very well received in their own time. Its only IE 6 that overstayed its welcome.
Sinofsky's farewell letter
* Visual C++

* IE 3/4

* FrontPage

...Windows is doomed.
Julie Larson-Green brought the Ribbon interface to Office and then to other parts of Windows. Her ability to bring change to something as stable as the Office UI and the Windows Explorer UI was seen as a good thing.
This Is Not War
SOA Software Launches Free API Management and Developer Community Platform
New platform brings App developers and API providers together to build dynamic, engaging Apps with scalable APIs SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governancesolutions, launched SOA SoftwareOpenTM, the industry’s most scalable and capable API developer platform. SOA Software Open offers users a real-world, viable solution for their API Management needs without the kind of unrealistic functional and capacity limits imposed by other solutions.
API Developers can:
•	Publish and promote their APIs through the SOA Software Open community for other developers to use.
•	Enable Searchby indexing their API content (name, description, docs, discussions and tickets) so that App developers can easily find the API, together with supporting information to help them use it.
•	Add OAuth (or other security features and mechanisms) to their APIs.
•	Proxytheir APIsto add security, monitoring, provisioning, QoS management and more. Or simply use Open to provide the social and search features they need.
Pricing and Availability
SOA Software Open™ is ready for sign-up and use at http://open.soa.com. The platform is free for up to 10 million transactions per month. For more throughput, branding or an enterprise-class SLA, you can upgrade to SOA’s Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service. For more details, please see http://www.soa.com/products/api-platform-as-a-service.
This looks cool. Is there any similar software for Windows?
I just updated http://www.cloudping.info/

From San Francisco, I'm getting 187 ms to Asia Pacific (Sydney).
Google access restored in China, says report
That is true. His Nissan Leaf segment was not that great either.
Google built such a converter, but it only works with a subset of SWF and ActionScript: http://googlecode.blogspot.ca/2011/06/swiffy-convert-swf-fil...
Exactly. Has nothing to do with this.
The thing I like most from browsing the site is that the demo programs look really interesting. One of the most discouraging things about my high school experience was that we spent what felt like a ton of time memorizing C++ syntax/include file boilerplate, and learning the fundamentals of pointers, and then just used it to sort strings and solve riddles entirely from a command line—but the command line didn't interest me at all back then.
Are you one of the 23% running an old and insecure web browser?
I generally count rock stars in the category of "celebrity actors", not "musicians".
Apple ditching Intel for ARM on the Mac? Stop the insanity
Starts at $49,900 (after tax credit): http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options
This gives me hope. Since I submitted early and have made a lot of improvements since, I'm crossing my fingers that they'll either check out the app in its current state or we'll get another chance.

BTW, checked out M.Dot and PoweryBase. Good job dude.
Steven Sinofsky Says He Wasn't Fired
False! Space is a vacuum. Vacuums cannot be smelt.

All matter smells, but, by definition, is not space itself.
Take A Lesson from Apple: A Strategy to Keep Customers in Your Ecosystem
Just to clarify, those are Platforms where the Flash Player / Browser plugin is not supported or available. You can use the Flash development and authoring toolchain to develop content for many of those platforms.
Innocent until proven guilty, no matter how many drugs he has used.
I've got one, and have the same problems with detection. Occasionally it shows up.
I'm confused. Are you trying to say that you don't have a background in journalism? Or you do, but it's just decades old from a time when the goal was to inform and not just get page views? Modern journalistic tack is to write sensationalist scare stories targeted at the least common denominator moron, as they'll be the most outraged and hang on every update.
Yes, I would say Brendan Eich probably knows a lot about JavaScript. Probably more than he wants to know :-)
For some odd reason, Phil Katz popped into my mind first.
How do you have a "community mesh network" without encountering a tragedy of the commons?
This is great. My high school didn't offer any AP computer science and most people equated programming with learning how to use MS Office programs. I think programming will truly become a medium like math that you need to know because it is such a valuable tool for whatever you end up doing.
Yeah, we definitely want to make it interesting. We've made some really cool libraries that make graphics on the canvas really easy to use and pretty intuitive, so you can make cool graphics, animations, and games very quickly.

For example, to draw a circle, you just need to type:

var circle = new Circle(radius);

circle.setPosition(x, y);

circle.setColor(Color.blue);

add(circle);
An occasional, recreational shooter aught to be able to recognize 9mm cartridges fairly easily. Here are a couple of lineups comparing 9mm with other pistol cartridges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CartridgeComparison.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparitive_handgun_round...
The Globalization Of Cyberespionage
Agreed. Other things that would probably drive people bannans is that a wiretap warrant is not needed to "tap" cell phone calls. The FBI can get access to cell call and logs much easier that a standard wiretap.
Whatever the outcome, us start-ups should always takes things in their stride and focus on the end goal. I've always held the belief that things happen for a reason and if you works hard towards something, you will get it, even if it was not the intended path.
Just, stop. Many, many people will be happy with the base model. Your argument is like complaining that an iPad doesn't have a keyboard or that the base model doesn't have cellular.
The Secret History of the Aeron Chair
I'm based out of Markham. Where are you from?
Yes, they could use the TPM/Secure Element, but that really only protects against attacks where the memory is removed from the device and the device is lost. (Unless you want to require the user to enter a PIN each time they want a password; then a hardware-based solution provides reasonable security.)
I'm shocked that an indie Mac app that isn't in the app store is trying to get away with selling a $29 license that has no free trial. To Github developers, of all people. Shenanigans.

It'd be one thing if you had an awesome video whereby I could see in this in action. Or tons of awesome reviews from people I respect. Hell, I would pay $5 to try it out.

But you want me to pay $30 bucks in hopes that this doesn't suck? There is too much competition in this market to even attempt this. This developer is shooting themselves in the foot.
It's not really a controversial opinion, it's a fairly straightforward application of 4th amendment principles. There is nothing propagandist or unreasonable about pointing out that the 4th amendment has never protected information freely handed over to private third parties.

The Constitution doesn't always protect everything we think should be protected. The language of the 4th amendment clearly refers to the privacy rights of a person in his person and his personality. Extrapolating from there to documents he sends in cleartext through potentially numerous intermediaries is quite a stretch. Despite the fiction, e-mail isn't, at the protocol level, appreciably more private than leaving little notes to people tucked under park benches.
Appcelerator Innovation Fund invests in early-stage mobile app startups
no, there is still no meaningful isolation in that regard.
He looks amazingly youthful for someone who's nearly 70...
Even ROT13 is a little better.

No it's not.
But I said it was underwhelming. Underwhelming != failure.
Ballmer reminds of Stalin - remove the smart guys around you, so he does not feel threatened. Okay, that's quite an overstatement, but it feels that way to me.
Summary:

- use f.lux

- blackout your room fastidiously

bonus:

- cool your head before sleep either with an ice-pack, ice-pad on your pillow or a cold shower
Great TEDx talk! Thanks for sharing.
You're setting yourself up for disappointment ^w^

We can dream though, can't we?
Contain that Facebook Like button
It's always been a nuisance but FB made a change recently that made it worse. Browsing the web while using Facebook as a page, the plugin div starts taking over.

http://imgur.com/G0Mr1

Wrap it up!
I think you have a point, but this type of overkill response makes me think you have a persecution complex.
> Modern journalistic tack is to write sensationalist scare stories targeted at the least common denominator moron, as they'll be the most outraged and hang on every update.

I don't think it's a coincidence that most modern journalism isn't worth reading, IMHO.

> Or you do, but it's just decades old from a time when the goal was to inform and not just get page views?

It's not decades old - I just like to think we did a good job of writing informative pieces instead of sensationalist nonsense.

At least, we made a very, very dedicated effort to follow journalistic ethics - I'll let others be the judge on how well we succeeded. :-)
As have I
Totally agree. Fundraising is a tactic, not a strategy.

It makes sense only if you're doing stuff you would have done anyway to build the company.
Just in case no one else says it, my friends say that Belize is actually a very lovely and mostly safe place to travel.
yep, one master, one GPU process.

plus, one per: tab, extension, and plugin.
Kingston (at Queen's University).
Medicating one's self in this fashion is not good science.
Even as a Mac only guy, I don't see how Surface is thought to be underwhelming. I think the tablet gestures they have, especially using the edges, are steps beyond the iPad and iOS and I expect Apple to copy them at some point in time. And then the actual interface is pretty nice as well: distinct, clean, beautiful. Again, I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple riffing on them.
Local Notifications are not disabled with the "Don't Allow" settings. I had to delete Diamond Dash after it sent me one too many notifications at 4 am.
I'd agree that the hardware manufacturers aren't necessarily to blame, someone should be championing a real spam roundup API that lets you easily click a button when you get a text or phone call and report the sender as spam to the FTC. The FTC is the logical place to start that, but I don't see why Apple or Verizon or anyone couldn't get the ball rolling.
Not only are you not right, you are not even wrong.

You have confused "Total War" [1] for "war" in general.

Furthermore, "Total War" is near impossible in reality and has yet to occur.

Stop trying to desecrate our language with your tapered definitions.

Open a dictionary.

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war |wɔː|

noun [ mass noun ]

a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country: Japan declared war on Germany | the two countries were at war for the next eight years | [ count noun ] : I fought in two wars.

• a state of competition or hostility between different people or groups: she was at war with her parents | [ count noun ] : a price war among tour operators.

• a sustained campaign against an undesirable situation or activity: the authorities are waging war against smuggling | [ count noun ] : a war on drugs.

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[1] http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war
In case my comments - or more likely my design - didn't give it away, I'm absolutely not a designer. Open Sans was a great tip, and the point about condensed versus paragraph text was eye opening. I've basically applied those points now, I haven't tested on a windows box yet but hopefully it's more legible.

Thanks for the 5-minute font picking lesson guys :)