skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny that none of the replies here seriously address the issue of happiness in arranged vs. non-arranged marriage face-on. I'm inclined to believe that there is an inherent bias against arranged marriage to begin with and so certain angles of reasoning are simply not considered.

I will say, very frankly, that I believe arranged marriages have the ability to make marriages, on average, more happy. Before any of the free-choice fanatics decry this, here is why that does not work here: happiness is purely perception. If you change the parameters of the environment, the equation for happiness does not remain the same, as in, more freedom does NOT imply more happiness as many people would like to believe.

If you are starving, anything edible tastes good. If you are a slave since birth, any reward is enjoyable. If you are resigned to an arranged marriage, you are less aware of the pains of opportunity costs, therefore it is very plausible that you try to make the best of the marriage.
What if that junk starts a worthwhile discussion? I have occasionally been known to post a junk link, but only because I see it as a starting point for a conversation that is far more valuable.
Not unless they also send people directly to Amazon from paid search ads.
That seems much more reliable than the modern, Western one on one method.
History teacher spends his spare time dreaming up new inventions and making them come true
Yes, it's a tough decision. But I don't think rankings really matter.

Do you mean that CS classes are better at CMU? How so?

EDIT: I claimed that "Gatech was ranked as #1 in CS but everyone I speak to tells me CMU and Stanford are definitely better (just look at the alumni of these two as opposed to gatech)." It is not. Its undergraduate program is ranked #6 and its graduate program is ranked #9 by the U.S. News & World Report. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/com/s...
It is not a waste of time to write web application. You have a comparative advantage in that area assuming that you're any good at it.
Does every link you submit come with your endorsement of truthfulness and accuracy?

Absolutely not! Every link I submit comes with my endorsement that I have actually read it and found it interesting. I have very low standards for "interesting:" If there is one valuable thing in a post or article, that is enough for me.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/10/how-to-use-blunt-instrum...
I don't think they need the money, I think they want it. And that's perfectly fine, they can be doing this for both the money and passion.
I recommend gatling: http://www.fefe.de/gatling/
It's the fastest httpd I know of.

You might also want to try thttpd: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
I heard all the porn sites use it to host their images.

With only the http server for the images running it should work quite well to rely on the filesystem cache.
I'm sorry, but this is complete nonsense. Rails is a framework for building web applications. Erlang is a programming language optimized for distributed computing.

Rails doesn't have any inherent scalability problems. It uses a share-nothing architecture which will scale just fine. It's true that Ruby (the language that Rails is written in) is slow and presents some additional challenges to scaling (green threads, memory leakiness), but ultimately the burden of scaling rests on the architecture. If Ruby were 100 times faster it would be a very fast language indeed, but that still wouldn't make scaling easy. 100x is nothing when you're trying to go from 10 req/s to 1,000,000 req/s.

As to your second part about scaling not being a big issue if you think about it up front, that is also a load of crap. Yes, don't do stupid things, but once all the obvious optimizations are gone you will usually be surprised by where the bottlenecks are. Most applications won't ever get to that size that scalability becomes seriously difficult, but then they certainly won't have a problem with Rails either.
Gross rent is before costs, isn't it?
Fascinating article. I read a report about Chinese brides recently that found a huge dip in interest of marrying overseas. Something like 20% or 40%. I'll dig up the article if anybody is interested.
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Indeed a very enlightening discussion. Everybody knows this stuff is complicated but the author does a stellar job in pointing out just how ridiculously convoluted it really is.

Having a powerful <time> element as the author suggests would definitely be amazingly useful. Not only for historians but also for us mere mortals. For example, many web-developers could benefit greatly from being able to perform simple date arithmetics in markup. All those little time-related tidbits such as "posted 3 hours ago" or "due in 2 days" have to be computed somewhere and being able to do that in straight markup instead of the current server-side or javascript approaches would be an advantage. At the very least it could do away with many of the timezone and "browser time vs server time" related headaches that we deal with today.

Anyways due to the massive complexity this would very well deserve to be spun off into a separate project maintained by specialists, akin to MathML.

But given the track-record of the W3C I fear neither will happen. Instead we'll get the usual half-baked solution after the usual 5-10 year snail-race.
And then, ofcourse, MSIE will come along and establish a broken parallel universe...
They certainly seem to need constant self promotion

Can you think of any profitable business that doesn't?
I'm not sure what that means. Financial analysts don't expect this to be as profitable as previous Pixar films, and they see this as a trend in Pixar films. It doesn't reflect upon the quality of the film, no one currently care's what wall street thinks in that respect.
That's not why people don't use Linux. I'd have used Ubuntu had it not broken my sound system. OS X would have the exact same problem.
Anybody have more stories to share about this? I am wondering how difficult a problem this is. Most of the Indians I have met in the US are all extremely competent with very good looks to match; this article was very surprising.
Current employer uses WhatsUp. Previous employer used SiteScope.
Scientists use virus to help build battery
Seems to be a duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=548669
which also has a funnier title.
they were able to do that only because of government enforcing their monopoly.

corporations will always try to subvert the free market because perfect competition drives margins down to almost nothing. But without a a government to use courts to enforce their monopolies corporations can not stop competition.
Hi mahmud,

Thanks for the tip. Chronicity is now asdf-installable.

I hadn't worked with asdf-install in such a long time, that I didn't even think about making Chronicity asdf-installable. But it was nice to find out that it actually can be installed with asdf-install.
Dead cat bounce, in my opinion. How many jobs have been lost each month for the past 3 months? About the same number each time.
I don't think so, mainly because ion3 doesn't really have a "desktop". It is fully programmable though, so you could easily write a script that searches your $HOME for .desktop shortcuts and adds those to the builtin menu, creates keyboard-shortcuts or even dock-icons for them.

Personally I have never cared much for desktop-shortcuts. My most used applications are all on the keyboard (F1 xterm, F5 browser) and for the less used stuff I simply "F3, amar<TAB><CR>" (runs amarok via the "launch" shortcut).
I wasn't calling him an idiot to refute him. I did that in the grandparent.

It's very misleading to say that Google "run their services on the back of information provided by others, without adding much or any original content." The people who invented chemistry and physics also did that. They didn't provide any original content; all they did was figure out and describe how things worked; but that was immensely useful.

And it's simply false to say that Google has done no original research. They've had to solve all kinds of problems no one had solved before. If they cared they could have generated thousands of conference papers. But why bother?
depending on your language, modifying an immutable variable may throw a runtime/compiletime exception, giving you insight into your bug (potentially)
George Soros: US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are 'Basically Insolvent'
the organism can take in electrons and use their energy to convert carbon dioxide into methane.

I don't know how exactly this organism works. It would be really game changing if this can be modified to use photons instead of electrons. Especially given that it's 80% energy efficient in terms of the final energy, after burning methane.
I'm still hoping that I wake up one day and find out the rest of the world has decided to stop talking about Facebook and Twitter...
We should change the headline; I clicked on this to see what PB's response to that would be, but instead it's just another TechCrunch trend story.
Perhaps you are :-)

A friend of mine likes to tell the story of him discussing a technology idea with a business-owner friend of his. The reaction of the businesss guy was "you know, I see all these tech guys building these grand online empires that never make them a dime. Meanwhile, Town Hall has a contract out for $100,000/year to vacuum the floors and scrub toilets and no one is bidding on it!" Just something to think about :-)
It might be too early to decide, but if you take the entrepreneurial route, stanford is the better choice given its affinity to the valley. cmu is possibly a better choice for academia if you enjoy paper & proposal writing.
This is great news. PayPal and the Big Card companies really need some competition.
I think we'll be hearing a lot of this now, and it's my feeling that it's a sucker's rally. Every single one of those who correctly called the financial crisis are quite clear: it's not over by a long shot. The fundamentals have to return, and to do that we have to pay off debt and start having savings again, which means not spending (i.e. liquidity trap), which means that we'll go through a period of undervaluation, both in terms of assets and labor, before the smoke clears.

There's no happy six month reversal here; just a dead cat bounce. And those who are selling you that it's the end of the depression are those who sold you the whole Ponzi mess in the first place. Shame on them.
Why is this a difference? Does MS need Yahoo at any price?
It's about using the right tool for the job. It seems most of the companies you mentioned have decided that relational databases are actually the right tool. You mentioned...

Google: Proprietary stack for document-orientated systems (search, GMail), use MySQL to run AdWords (their revenue business). http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real-database....

Amazon: Major Oracle customer. Functionality is managed by modular teams, each of which has their own architectural choices, so difficult to generalize. Certainly in the early days was entirely Oracle (and look, it's a story about Oracle failing!) http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/03/early-amazon-oracle-down... Want you to use SimpleDB, but difficult to find Amazon groups actually eating the dog-'food'.

eBay: Oracle. http://www.addsimplicity.com/downloads/eBaySDForum2006-11-29...

LinkedIn: Oracle & MySQL. Custom caching layer on top to get round the 'graph' problems you talked about. http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture

OK, what about some others:

Facebook: MySQL. Memcached for caching. Custom data stores for images and for inbox search (so non-relational for document storage again) http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/05/scaling-facebooks-databa...

Wikipedia: MySQL. They're document storage, so it is possible to get document storage to work on MySQL. http://venublog.com/2008/04/16/notes-from-scaling-mysql-up-o...

Maybe it's just not sexy to stand up at a conference and say 'We architected this system to run on a relational database, in the normal proven way, and it runs wonderfully in production. We scaled it using partitioning, in the normal way. We're generating real money with the system.' You only hear a biased sample, which is why you think the companies you named are good examples of people that use non-relational databases.
This is a very bad advice for a number of reasons.

As others pointed out any sort of quirky publicity stunts will only complicate matters for the designer should the case (in whatever form) end up in court.
The problem with trying to pick the bottom of a slide is that you never know until you're many months if not years out of it. It could just be a bear bounce. I certainly wouldn't start proclaiming that people have missed the boat on the value.

Either way, the bottom line is that there's historic value out there today and it just depends on your level of optimism whether America and the civilized world in general (and their economies) will be around for another 100 years.

So unless you're glenn beck, there's cause of optimism.
Who claims GT is #1?
I bought AAPL on the way down and am quite happy with my decision so far. I was also curious to see if the S&P 500 would get to where the name was an indication of the value as well as the strategy. I am not as well versed in the DOW (partially because I'm not well versed in trading in general) to know where the world ends, but I suppose if the ship has turned around there will be some really insightful postmortem activity going on and I can't wait.
Where?

The US penalizes imported methanol. It subsidizes domestic corn.
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A counter-argument can be made based on the ridiculously low barrier to entry for web apps though.

I'm finding this amongst even startups I think are darn useful. It's just hard to get noticed anymore.

Everyone's (ie; the investors) are just looking for "disruptive technology", the next google, et al.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a guy's looks or competence. In an arranged marriage the practical factors take precedence. Marrying a guy who is supposed to support you and your future family, but only makes $80K-$100K a year in the Bay Area simply isn't very practical.
In the article it mentioned that they will do user to user transfers for free. That alone makes me want to sign up, and get my clients to sign up too.
If you object to the grandparent comment, then object to it civilly. He criticized (his comment is too weak for "slander") the community you are a part of, and you criticized him. You didn't "take him to task." You insulted him.
This piece is completely bizarre and reads like a thirteen year old girl's livejournal. Flagged.
I believe one of the things that helps make WALL-E appeal more to the adult market is that the story tows a very narrow line between Comedy and Tragedy. It wouldn't have taken a big change in the script for WALL-E to have been a tragic love story.
Software Development Competition Now Under Way
tf–idf: term frequency–inverse document frequency
Another link just submitted to HN says that the recession will last for a long time. Somebody is wrong. My bet is that the recession will last longer than indicated by this Economist article, based on other trends that The Economist (a good magazine, which I like a lot and subscribe to) has missed in the last few years.
My graph-fu is weak. If it's not too much time could you give me an example of something that can't be done with a transitive closure statement?
This is actually true. You don't have to fix anything. Changing environmental pressures will induce change in any state of affairs as long as there is interaction among agents.

What I just wrote may be controversial, but it does not make it false.

The difference is to what degree does another agent, external to the system in question (here, the system that has apartheid), feels they have the right to intervene and accelerate the change in a direction they judge is fit.

Sometimes you can argue that everybody is better off -- people inside the system and outside (on the outside, I would argue it is mostly a psychological benefit, at least immediately after the change is induced) -- but the arguments are never perfect. And to think that there is a "correct" side to it is (usually) a fallacy.
I don't know anything about the folks that run TS, but they'd be terrible investors if they let something like overly frequent updates determine how they invest.

The simplest explanation is that they didn't like the team or the idea as well as the other options available to them.
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Munin and Monit, mostly.

And it's a PITA to set up but Puppet is incredible, especially when combined with git. You can automatically redeploy your infrastructure pretty much at the drop of a hat.
Unemployment is a lagging indicator.
MySQL Doesn’t Always Suck; This Time it’s AMD
That seems like a bad investment. It would take 4-5 years to break even, IF the building is fully rented.
They use free p2p payments as a loss leader to up-sell their credit cards. It's a pretty interesting model.
> I think part of the problem here is lack of regulation. Without any punishment for bad behavior, it just grew out of control.

We had regulation that rewarded bad behavior. Subprimes were "encouraged" by regulation because it was considered a social good to for folks who couldn't afford houses to get them. AIG was told to figure out how to "insure" loan portfolios. Banks were given favorable treatment if they held fannie and freddie stock. And then there's fannie and freddie themselves, creations of regulation. The only lack of regulation was of fannie and freddie themselves - they were protected from oversight by the very pols who are currently screaming about more regulation. (One of Obama's chief financial advisors was CEO of Fannie and pulled out $90M. You don't hear anyone asking him to "give back".)

FDIC insurance tells depositors that their money is safe, so they don't worry about whether they're depositing their money in a bad bank.

Regulation also pushed banks into technical insolvency when they arguably weren't insolvent. (Many of the portfolios are performing as predicted, cash flow and everything, yet the market is spooked so the market price is so low that the banks are deemed insolvent. The banks want desperately to keep these portfolios or to "buy" them at the current market value.)
Virtual Business Card...
This reads exactly like the comments I've heard from several of my tech-savvy friends. Your experience may be different, but there are some serious user-interface, data-hiding issues being discussed.

I think it's informative and relevant.
Yes. It makes composing larger programs out of smaller programs easier. Especially if functions have to be real mathematical functions, and can't have any side-effects.

"Composability means that you can put two bits of code together and important correctness properties will be preserved automatically. This does not mean, of course, that the composition is automatically correct in a wider sense, but it does mean that you don’t introduce new bugs merely by sticking two things together." (http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2007/09/composabilit...)
Networking in an Uncertain Economy
To me, I feel that it was because you guys got so much progress in a way that you don't need to be in the program since you've already got your site to a point where you can start acquiring customers.

And the brutal truth is David and TechStars will look at how much money your startup can make or potentially be valued at and I have no doubt if you do the right thing, this could be a business that generates a million/yr but that's not the magic number that they are looking for.
Although it reads like a shameless plug for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=549148 I was more or less interested in your thoughts and opinions than advertising their service.
It seems funny that no one bothers to mention that most of Ext's "so called" core is actually YUI. They did some find and replaces and added some wrapper code, but it's all still based heavily on YUI.

Why use this license mess, when I can use YUI/jQuery and know where they stand?
It's very misleading to say that Google "run their services on the back of information provided by others, without adding much or any original content." The people who invented chemistry and physics also did that.

Sorry, but I think that's a very poor analogy, unless you happen to be using Google to search for information about how to mine large data sets or how to make enormous amounts of money through on-line advertising.

Experimental physicists and chemists aren't useful because they develop novel experimental methods. They are useful because of what the results of the experiments tell us about physics and chemistry. The methods are merely a means to an end, and if we discovered how physics and chemistry work through other means instead the information would still be the same and just as valuable.

Similarly, Google is not useful because of all the clever algorithms it uses and the fact that they didn't realise "downloading the Internet" was supposed to be a joke. They are useful because of the web pages, newsgroup postings, etc. that they help visitors to find. The content is what matters, the content would be just as valuable however a visitor found it, and the content is written by other people.

IMHO, a far better analogy is that Google is just a middleman trying to get the market to finds content through its services rather someone else's, just like publishers and record labels. Just as in those other cases, it's the people who create works and the society that consumes them who really matter. The middleman is only worth as much as it helps the other roles to function better than they otherwise could.
Do you own Facebook? Or does Facebook own you?
" Every single one of those who correctly called the financial crisis are quite clear: it's not over by a long shot."

Who are these people that correctly called the financial crisis? It could be that they are perpetual pessimists. A broken clock if you will...
> You didn't "take him to task."

Yes, I did. Else how do you interpret my asking him how he thinks musicians should be remunerated? And my response to his suggestion that musicians are just in it for the money?
xp64 - works fine, some diver issues, some apps don't work
linux amd64 - works fine, some driver issues, some apps don't work
OSx64 - not used it
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We seem to be oscillating between "key value stores are the way!" and "relational databases are the way!"

Both have their places. If my notes were read as seeming to advocate the end of relational databases, please excuse me because that was certainly not my intent.

Of course all of those companies use relational databases. Often they're the best tools for the job and in an IT landscape as large as their respective setups, of course they're the right tool for several jobs. But they've also got problem domains where they've decided RDBMSes are not the best tools for the job, which was my point to begin with. This thread started off with the assertion, basically, that if you weren't using a RDBMS to store everything, you probably didn't know anything about databases and I feel like we've (including the original poster) been slowly narrowing in on something closer to reality.

As for the examples on the non-RDBMS side, BigTable, SimpleDB, Voldemort (+) and, well, the guy that I met with last week that wrote eBay Germany's search system and told me they had their own non-RDBMS storage system.

+ http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/03/20/project-voldemort-scalin...
How about Publicfile? - http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html

Super duper secure and very, very quick, especially for smaller files.

I'd try and run some tests against it, thttpd and your existing apache setup.