skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a wonderful article for the Chrismas season. Helping people is so overrated. May we all strive to live in a world like the 1920's; when a 12 year old child could work in a coal mine for 16 hours a day and receive 1-2 dollars, when minimum wage laws were non-existent; and the income disparity between the top and the bottom was at it's highest point in all of US history. What a wonderful time to have lived, and this article is exactly the type of attitude we need to cultivate in todays society.

I hope you detect the sarcasm.
Gaug.es uses Mongo. Its data model is pretty simple (just counters), but he has blogged about the approach in detail.

MongoDB Counters:
http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/06/28/counters-every...
http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/07/31/counters-every...

Kestrel: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2012/03/05/misleading-tit...

Gets some decent traffic and works well.

http://twitter.com/jnunemaker/status/282141258816827393
Nathaniel Borenstein on Paper and Airplanes: The Long Road to Obsolescence
I've noticed that most large companies go for a sterile look. Google, Microsoft, etc. I've always thought of Apple design as sterile as well.

Getting off track, Apple design is simply not a monolithic, "zen" one-stroke entity. Apple design amalgamates understated hardware with loud, lickable user interfaces. To see my point, consider that Apple hardware is definitely NOT lickable, whereas software generally is. Historically this may be due to the dissonance between Forstall (software design) and Ive (engineering design).

(Feel free to shred me as I don't really know anything about Apple design.)
>One cannot just look back at all the things that have happened and conclude they are right because you have prospered.

Absolutely. This is the just world fallacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Mailinator adds a new host every so often. It shows you the new host as an image, to make it a bit harder for websites to block it.
Sure they do... after those things. He said "chief loyalty", not "sole loyalty".
It was absurd when used to judge potential employees but using it in personal life reads like satire.

Also the formulas for the credit scorer are proprietary black magic - so use a metric that selected few know exactly how it works and tells nothing about a person to take decisions.
OT:
I submitted this because, I was just looking for some open source project in WAN optimization .. and it is really hard to find something, because in google search there is only one project which is annoyingly dominates search results(my guess because of SEO).

Another project:
http://wanproxy.org

But still this space is heavily owned by big corps. I guess smart developers/startup could find some real market here.
"On Lisp"

"Programming Erlang"

PAIP
Qualia follow rules. They interact with the world. For example, the air vibrates one way instead of another when we talk about them. That's all that's required for something to be explored and understood, at least partially, with the tool of science.

Phrased a different way, p-zombies are unlikely ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ ):

> Why postulate an extramaterial soul, and then postulate that the soul has no effect on the physical world, and then postulate a mysterious unknown material process that causes your internal narrative to talk about conscious experience?
Thanks for pointing that out. I had been assuming it was factual.
I don't use *ubuntu myself, but this is what I install on friends' PCs (Ubuntu earlier, Xubuntu now). By "simple things like red eye removal", I was referring to something the original author wrote. I then teach them how to add/remove software themselves, and to click on the occasional software update notifications. Life becomes a lot easier for me after that.

I have seen disk space problems on Macs though.
This is exactly what I'm doing. I was able to score a high paying, relatively entry-level job in the South Texas oilfields and saved up quite a bit of money over the course of a year. I ended up quitting my job and enrolling in a CS program as a full-time student, which was the plan all along.
Right - it's angular momentum.
In other breaking news of interest to the digitally connected elite, e follows d and precedes f. It is also generally not used as a grade in American educational institutions.
Rails is new J2EE, don't you see?)
Fieldoo launches online sports network to become the AngelList for football pros
incite the signed up user with interesting offers

I’ll bet they’re just fascinating.
The "enterprise" bit is a misnomer for this book. Doesn't have anything to do with enterprise.

I love talking about patterns when the discussion is centered around actual code. Which is exactly why PoEAA is so good.
Where exactly is the net gain in your situation?

So right off the bat, you've lost the querying power that SQL offers. When dealing with data that's intended to be analyzed, that sounds like a pretty big loss.

Clearly its built-in sharding support, which is often touted as one of its biggest benefits, wasn't suitable for you. So you had to invest some time and effort coming up with an alternate system. That sounds like a loss to me.

When it comes to the schema issue, it sounds like you haven't actually reduced the effort or work in any way, but merely pushed it somewhere else. Like you admit, you still do have to deal with the schema, it's just handled within the application logic, rather than the database. That sounds worse to me, especially if there is more than one application using the database.

I'm just not seeing the benefit.
You quit.
Well, this is "Python for Beginners", so that name will attract the kind of person who has never touched the command line. Likely they'll be using a system in which Python is already installed, but they still won't know how to access it.

Another thing to keep in mind: this kind of beginner will also have trouble finding these "standard" tutorials that have up-to-date info. No, it's not that they can't use Google, but they don't have enough technical sense to tell what's a good source of this installation info from what's a bad source. Hence, it's good to have this super-basic info packaged into any kind of tutorial that purports to be for "beginners".
That page is updated regularly. You can also check out more in-depth case studies of MongoDB deployments here: http://www.10gen.com/customers

And there's s growing list of stories at 10gen.com/presentations

Some good ones to point out:
Analytica: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/exploring-pu...

Apollo Group (The University of Phoenix) http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/how-we-evalu...

AOL : http://www.10gen.com/presentations/managing-large-scale-data...

Github: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/mongodb-anal...

Banjo: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/real-time-location-based-...

Telefonica: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-uk-2012/MongoDB-o...

MapMyFitness: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-seattle-2012-mong...

Sailthru: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-seattle-2012-sail...

Stripe: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/high-availability-mongodb...

eBay: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-ebay

These are all large deployments. It's a mix of small startups, startups that grew up and large engineering companies (like eBay and Apollo group).
Minecraft Documentary Makers Put It On The Pirate Bay, Despite Launch With Xbox
Join foundations like Apache, FSF, Linux and Mozilla?
Join open jobs like Valve, Github, 37signals?

Either way... I don't think changing the tech world is the answer. It's our SOCIETY that needs changing, requiring people to be politically active, self-educate, protest, etc.
I'll switch to Xubuntu too because I need remote access. It's not just a matter of UX. Cloud service doesn't solve my problem.

The future looks dark because applications won't be able to support Wyland and X11. There will be a fork and Ubuntu is betting on it with the goal to compete with Android and iOs. On this path, users like me are left as orphan. I've change OS before, I can do it again.
No, "he" is the default generic.
No, because like it or not, "he" is the de facto pronoun for a person of irrelevant gender.
Politics aside, I'm fascinated by the personal recollections of people who have met Bill Clinton [1]. Bill Clinton is legendary for making people who shake his hand feel like they are the most important person in the room.

A book I read (can't remember the title) said something that has stuck with me. Paraphrased: "Everyone can be as charismatic as Bill Clinton. You do it on a job interview or on a first date. The secret is... he does it all the time"

"Clinton had this huge charisma. He was wearing a pair of black trousers and a blue checked shirt with his sleeves rolled up. His presence made everyone around him so comfortable. He had this extraordinary ability to make us feel very special. He took time out to speak to each one of us — asking about our family, where we were raised and educated, what were the things in our life that we hold important." [2]

[1] http://www.bing.com/search?q=meeting+bill+clinton+%2B+charis...

[2] http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120507/jsp/calcutta/story_154...
Sookooroo: real-time collaboration
>> "Europe is not a country"

I completely agree. I was just referring to it as the article referred to it. I was talking specifically about the UK & Ireland.
Can anyone comment on "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby" vs. "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns"?
What other jobs can you do with only a high school education and make that kind of money? College isn't for everybody. For those who decide not to go, this sounds like it beats working multiple minimum wage jobs.
Show them youtube clips! My 2 years old son is crazy about winnie the pooh for example.
Did you read the entire article? He is not talking about becoming uncharitable. In fact at the end, he does suggest that he didn't become some sort of 1920's Scrooge but decided to instead re-prioritize his life to focus first on his family, work and next on other people. I am unsure of how this is an unreasonable thing to do. Also, I fail to see how the wider societal issues of that age are correlated with his viewpoints. This is just like a hobo saying "rgbrenner didn't give me $5 last time I asked him, this is why gay people cannot get married".
May I ask why you chose Redis?

I love Redis, I'm using it as a storage for my application. But as I develop my app further, I realized that Redis also has it's disadvantage. First of all, it's not really a database. Well, it can work like it. It's faster than it. But I still feel that the stability of a database is better compared to Redis. Also, searching. Damn! I can't search through Redis. Or maybe it's hard to search keys, indexes, or such in Redis. It's possible, but I don't like how it will be done.

To answer you question, just use Redis To Go (http://redistogo.com/). Well, it's not in Cpanel but I think it's better that way. :)
I had a crazy thought recently that I need to test:

If you had your swap partition set to a raid array of SSD's. Like two 64GB inexpensive SSD drives... I wonder how it would perform compared to RAM.
I learned Python because I wanted to make stuff fun little scripts in Blender. Tutorials helped. So did reading source code and drawing inspiration from it. Ultimately, it was just one project inspiring another inspiring another.

In your case, I guess the thing to do would be to google an open-source django app. Find something you like from the templates director. Copy what you like and build out from there.
Goodreader on iPad (fantastic), and some random games.
Some odd Android stuff.

iRacing on PC. This game has made me its crack ho. I keep buying cars like I'm the Sultan of Brunei. For the closest thing to real racing, nothing comes close.
GP has a point, though: if you got a CS degree without understanding this stuff, your CS department failed you. Still, it is nice to review, and as you say, good for those who don't know.
When I wrote about disk space problems, I did not refer to user content. I agree that there is no easy fix for people keeping fifteen copies of bmps, etc. Instead, I was talking about disks getting filled by OS components, and by other software made by Microsoft, Apple and other large companies. This is something I have not seen on the Linux distros that I have come across.

As for "sufficiently non-tech-inclined user WILL kill his OS rather sooner than later", well... some OSes and distros are more resilient to abuse than others. Ubuntu seems to be one of the best ones around. I'm an Arch-er myself, but that's because I'd rather give up some resilience to stay on the cutting edge.
I have Crichton Amnesia
Donald Duck?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/08/10/inception.donald.duck...
AUXO est disponible sur le Cydia Store
So, if someone asked you why they should use "Riak and countless others" and not MongoDB, what would you really say? Also, you seemed to imply that Riak was a go-to solution (my wording) while implying that MongoDB was more of a fringe "buzzword" technology ... when, counting features, I think most would acknowledge MongoDB as being more mainstream.

There are a large number of well-established and quality installations of MongoDB. It works really well at both small and large scale and with a bit of tweaking (like any technology), can perform nicely.
I'd say the pay listed in the article is a bit off. McDonald's workers in Williston ND (not far from the MT border ) make $15/hr or $31,200 starting.

Any quote of $40,000 is probably base salary without the overtime everyone is getting. If the kid learned how to do a vocation in high school / at home (e.g. welding), then they are probably getting a lot more. They started recruiting out of Canada because they were having a tough time getting welders in the USA[1].

The article does point out the biggest problem, finding a place to sleep. If I had the capital, I would probably build a capsule hotel[2] (modified a bit for Americans) with laundry and a drug store in the area. I have an uncle in the area renting 3 people parking places / power cord for their RV for $300/mo each and a mobile home for $1,200/mo. If you ever wanted to run a food truck or a business based on long hours / problematic shelter, this is a good place to try.

1) any job that cannot be done over the wire cannot be outsourced

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRT4dU6r-KQ
Much like the speed of spawning new processes under Linux (and other UNIXen), I think it's something that has been very well tuned because it needed to be (ie, it is so widely used).
Hold on, wait second, stop the presses.. you're telling me that I can get a device comparable to a Cintiq for the price of an Intuos.. and a device comparable to an Intuos for the price of a Graphire/Bamboo??

If this is true, and this entire thread is not some cheap marketing effort by Monoprice/Yiynova my mind if officially blown.

I really thought Wacom was my only option... but for $80-90 I'll give one of these Monoprice devices a try.
Tell us the story.
I seriously think such a site should go 'wiki' and allow addition/editing of posts by public (moderated, of course). that would be a good idea to implement for any programming language
I do not see any of those other NoSQL databases as really being equivalent. MongoDB intends to be a general-purpose application database. It has many of the features developers expect from MySQL/Postgres, such as arbitrary numbers of indexed fields, partial record updates, aggregation queries (simpler than Map/Reduce) and many others. Couchbase may be much closer in feature-set but its developers claim they do not really compete with Mongo.

I do not see Riak or Cassandra as competing at all. In fact I would expect most applications that use Riak or Cassandra are also using a general-purpose database as well (such as MySQL or Mongo). You could use some of those databases as a general purpose database but it would be more work for little benefit. It makes more sense to me to use Riak or Cassandra for use-cases that really need high-throughput and unlimited write-scalability and use an app database for things like user accounts and preference management and all the little things that can take up a lot of development time but will never have really demanding runtime requirements (for 99.99% of internet apps).
There is quite simply a vast array of libraries out there that every developer has access to. As Ben points out at the 10:50 mark, looking at GitHub we can find something on the order of 150,000 C projects.

That's great, unless your employer/client/etc. is allergic to open source. I really can't consider something part of the language unless it's in a standard library that comes out of the box with the major compilers.
The Problem with Being M-Shaped
Disney runs over 1400 instances according to this presentation: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2011/a-year-with-...

Also foursquare runs a very large MongoDB deployment.
http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-foursquare-cloud-...

Craigslist: http://www.10gen.com/customers/craigslist

Shutterfly also has a very large deployment: http://www.10gen.com/customers/shutterfly
Looking at this article, I feel quite lost. I don't have the necessary background in machine learning.

Could someone point me to some reference materials (books, articles, videos, Coursera, etc) that will get me up to speed on the stuff I need to know in order to understand this article?
iOS programming.

Machine learning.

Open source contribution workflow.

Advanced Algorithms from various websites.
This creates a remote (in this case just another directory on your local machine) and you have to push to it, rather than your commits and changes instantly being synced to dropbox
Tomorrow should be better than today
If Ubuntu pushes the wayland path, xubuntu will be dropped as desktop 2D is now dropped. There will be a split in applications and user base. Good luck in trying to compete with iOs and Android by hijacking volunters work.
shared_ptr helps, but it won't cure your circular dependency blues.

When do you allocate on the stack vs. on the heap? It matters, and is something you don't have to think about in Python or Java or C#.

Are you passing by value or by reference? Are you passing a pointer by value?

What's the actual behavior when you use the unary * operator? The copy constructor? The assignment operator?

When you use MyType foo = 3;, what's actually happening? Did you mean to use the implicit constructor, or was that a programming error?

And then you have all the warts related to the single-pass compilation and inlining of headers because that's the way C++ does things...and let's not get into the misfeatures that were brought over due to C compatibility, like macros.

So no, C++ is not as safe as any language. It is manifestly unsafe. It can be a bit easier to manage its complexity with C++11, but it's still far from safe. And C++11 makes the language even larger and more complex...
Yep, I can also confirm that the UC-Logic devices are supported by the wizardpen driver on Linux. I wrote up some instructions a long time ago on getting it to work[1], and I'm sure there are more up-to-date instructions now. The USB protocol is almost trivial to figure out without documentation, and the wizardpen driver has been around for a long time.

[1] http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/45
Time to dig out the secret sysadmin anti-tarnish/corrosion "Bit Polish" recipe. I'll make a fortune.
So its Christmas & Boxing Day... Drunk yet?
I hope you detect the false dichotomy in your response.
I hate everything about Unity too.

Mint is good. But if one is already on Ubuntu, it doesn't even take a re-install to convert the machine to Kubuntu or Xubuntu.
This is totally reasonable. MongoDB, more than any other "NoSQL" database, directly competes with MySQL/Postgres as a general-purpose application database. I don't see a need to have more than one for most applications - at least as long as there is only one development/support team for that application.
And this article survived from 1922. So it is probably good. Selection bias?
Funny how the calculation seems to be done backwards

(For an initial 100% interest) "If the interest is credited twice in the year, the interest rate for each 6 months will be 50%"

And of course this is wrong, because the interest is not 50% but (2^1/2) - 1 (that is, 41%) since x * 1.4142(first interest payment) * 1.4142(second interest payment) should be 2*x
Reading this article rings so true with me. It's why I quit playing MMOs... I always felt like I was doing work for others rather than enjoying myself.
This article and most of the comments ignore a major factor. I suspect that location and lifestyle play as large a roll as salary in this decision. It is hard to give up wide open spaces and recreational opportunities once you are used to them, let alone family and friends. Waking up at 4am isn't even that big a deal when you do the same thing on the weekend to ski, climb, hunt, fish etc.

I recently moved to Western Montana to work remotely for my old job (far from the oil fields though some do comute to work two week on week off arrangements). The Northern Rockies are full of people trying to figure out how to live here and make a decent living. For some this means an advanced degree to get them into the medical, legal, forestry, teaching etc fields but the cliche of PHD's waiting tables is common as well.

Some companies and the national lab system have taken advantage of this willing work force (there is a glaxo smith klien vacine facility in a small town near me for example) but not enough. It is a pity that fracking technology is booming while improvements to the electrical grid and wind/solar development procedes slowly despite great potential in the region.
I stayed with a friend in a then-new building designed by Philippe Starck, in New York.

The bathroom sink faucet handles were very cool -- just smooth steel cylinders sticking out, that you rotated.

Until I tried turning them with my now-soapy hands... and discovered that they were impossible to turn, because there was nothing to grab onto! His stylish cylinders turned out to be completely useless. Turns out knobby handles exist for a reason.
Same in Israel, with the caveat that households which keep kosher often have two sinks side-by-side; one for meat and one for dairy.
Full list of new gTLDs
Boeing uses potatoes to simulate humans in test of Wi-Fi signals
Wow. Please, please tell me that these are just hobby projects which have this happening. I can understand a beginner who doesn't understand git ignore doing this, but if there are people building products with this ignorance, that is troubling. I can see why a lot of greybeards hate frameworks, because someone who builds web apps with a much more bare bones framework, (Sinatra, Webapp2, Express, etc) most likely understands the fundamentals of encryption/hashing simply because of the fact that lighter frameworks require understanding the fundamentals in general.

This isn't to say that a developer for one of these frameworks couldn't easily overlook adding the files with secret_tokens in them to the .gitignore.
Care to elaborate?

Keep in mind that the "modern C++" mentioned involves the use of things like RAII, smart pointers, the STL and Boost, rvalue references, move constructors, and the buffer overflow production offered by the major C++ compilers.

The use of pointers and direct pointer manipulation, for instance, can often be completely avoided with ease these days. That cuts out a large number of potential problems.

It's a much different situation than it was in the past.
He was very much inspired by Ayn Rand for that book; I can't find the article that quotes him on it, but the wikipedia article at least mentions the connection. Similar to Ayn Rand, I thought he was a bit over the top and heavy handed with his philosophy, but obviously that's just a subjective takeaway.

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_the_Fallen