skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that is his site, then I don't really have a big problem with it. The information was semi-alright and it looked legit enough (although there were a-LOT of google ads).
You know I'd love to see a writeup of the issues and challenges you've faced with this persistence strategy as the site grew. You know, more details of what you decided to lazy load, why, and how, and the impact it had.

Technically speaking, I find hacker news persistent strategy one of the most interesting things about the implementation.

I use a similar strategy for my blog and just playing with larger datasets I've certainly run into hard limits on what seems to be acceptable.
Dmsolar.com
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dmsolar is a member of U.S. Green Building Council.
I still remember the day that I had to let my C64 go. I held onto it long after I bought a "real" PC. I finally put it into the Goodwill donation center, hoping it would find a better home, and tried to not shed a tear as I walked away.
FYI, you need to sync from Leopard to get Alex on the shuffle, both Tiger and Windows use a lower quality voice (so says Daring Fireball).
Google Blocks Infinite SMS Unlimited Texting App for Apple iPhone
Should I be worried? Isn't this the kind of inside joke that permeates sites like 4chan, or heaven forbid, /.? (Albeit more tasteful?)
Make sure you read the performance results of Pagh and Rodler's 2001 paper before you get too excited.

Cuckoo Hashing is good, and it either lends itself to formal reasoning about performance bounds or has attracted extremely capable provers, but it isn't winning in real world performance.

Linear hashing probably wins because it makes better use of cache lines in the current architectures where a cache miss equals hundreds of instruction executions.
I don't understand the logic that says you shouldn't do something because what your doing today may not be possible a year from now.

In the meantime, this guy is pulling in a pretty healthy paycheck; I would assume he will be better prepared than most to handle any changes that come up.
The Erlang-C Traffic Model
Yes, but looking at the way some people behave in forums it makes you think people are really stupid :)

So probably someone reading that article, one of them stupid people, which seems to be many, will think wow that article was so amazing it really helped me out lol
A list of interesting Erlang links
Yeah, I caught that too. I think it's safe to assume they mean "the first music player that talks to you as it's primary form of interaction".
Seems like submitting boring Erlang stories immediately turned into a meme.

First one on HN?
The History of Erlang's Innards [pdf]
On average you are correct

For an individual click it varies.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/21/google-adsense-givi...
why do you keep comparing the homeless to people who were trying to actually make a living and raise families?

the situation is totally different.

When you're an unskilled laborer, your options are pretty limited by default.

and you want to limit those options further. I'm not grasping how giving someone an additional option makes their situation worse.

Say it was as bad as you say and these places were horrible.

Homeless person in city A options: normal homeless options

Homeless person in city B options: normal homeless options + low wage job offer

how is the person in city A magically better off?
The Biography of Agner Krarup Erlang
Mango helps Japan with compliance
The voice from that link doesn't sound that much better than the text-to-speech engine that came with my 16-bit soundblaster sound card in 1992. It certainly didn't take up 670 Mb. Sure Alex is better, but it apparently takes orders of magnitude of complexity to get just a small improvement.
no, just stay home and keep playing WoW.
Until I read this, I wondered about the sudden popularity of Erlang
Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine.
Tim O'Reilly's Keynote Speech at ETech09
And it continues. Is this legitimate?
Obfuscated Erlang Competition Results
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I think that in places like china and india this could be explosive.

you know how there's that company converting shipping containers into living accommodations? How about ad hoc office space?

go anywhere: drop off an office capable of being wired up and worked out of.
One of the coolest things made with Erlang (IMHO)
I wouldn't mind that too much. Erlang is a neat language.

The problem with 4chan and the like is that they take it overboard. I have hopes that HN will know when to quit.
This was the string of logic I followed. The people who will be most upset by the need for a converter are the ones who are hardcore fans. Like for my workouts I use behind the head headphones rather than earbuds. But the majority of users stick with the standard earbuds.
Do you think this is related to the multitude of company launches in YCW09 in preparation for demo day? That's a lot of TechCrunch posts.
Peter Norvig has written some very nice Python and Lisp. I think most of the code he has on his website (http://norvig.com/) is in Python, but PAIP is all Lisp.
Lisp flavored Erlang
This guy made a LISP syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.
Ask HN: Any sources on Erlang?
Hey all,

I'm trying to learn Erlang. I'd like to know if you had any sources on learning it. Thanks.
Can we submit posts about women who use the innards of Erlang to create sites to get hired by Twitter?
You know, I might actually like a real article about the innards of erlang.
blogspam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dazaVijHY
Multi-Core Ant Colony Optimization for TSP in Erlang
I would consider one of my best friends to be way smarter than I am, maybe even a genius. But he has odd execution patterns. If a professor gives him an assignment, he'll produce an A relatively effortlessly. He had 3 majors in 5 years, and was in the top 1% in each department.
I considered him to be an asset, so when I told him about one of my start-up ideas, I expected he'd translate his academic execution into product execution. Definitely not the case. It was 6 months before I realized this guy was brilliant, but failed to connect the dots in real applications. He just did not have the personal drive to get anything done, nor did he *care*. And this was someone who initially showed a lot interest, and wasn't even a threat!

My point is that even people who may seem like they may be a threat to copy your idea, probably do not even care enough to pursue it. I'd be willing to bet that the population of individuals who actually execute on their ideas to completion is pretty rare...so those who execute on others ideas is probably even rarer.
Erlang Shen
I have a couple friends who are freelancers (as well as myself) that do consumer-based articles. For a good 500 word article you're looking at $25-40, depending on the writer and topic. With a tech/gadget article you may only need to pay $10 for 500 words, but if you get into health/sports/fashion/whatever other topic, the prices go up a bit.
Or include some fairly simple auto-generated questions.

"At what point does y = 2e^(2x) cross the line x = 2, accurate to 2 decimal points? y = __.__ x = __.__"
Extremely simple for a hacker, daunting for the general public. (answer: tinyurl.com/b95cdw rounded up with x = 2.00, of course)
I come to the site daily, but haven't really noticed anything being really all that slow. Could just be timing.

One thing I like doing is following the Hacker News twitter acct: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/

It tweets popular stories and keeps me from visiting the site all that often (unless its a comment link).

Its not a fix, but if anyone out there didn't know about it you should follow. It'll keep you from visiting the site every 5 minutes to see if anything new has been posted.
It's more likely in places like Africa. China and India are very physically crowded. I've actually seen a number of shipping container houses in Kenya, years ago.

Also, being a giant communist country, one thing China does do is provide some sort of housing for most everyone.
(Building) The 7 Books of a Highly Effective Programmer
I was wondering what all those stories about Erlang were doing on the frontpage :-)
Would a delay between when you sign up and when you can do anything with the account help?
I agree with Jay's suggestion of adding a property list to the end instead of a hash -- this leads you with much the same effect for the passthrough args. For dynamic language on erlang vm, check out http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/03/reia-new-dynamic-languag...
Ask HN: HN going reddit with all these Erlang threads?
I've noticed a surge in Erlang articles.
Ask HN: Haskell or Erlang?
right, taxes are just changing the equilibrium point.
This place was starting to look like λchan, thanks for putting the cork back on it.
upmod the what web frameworks are missing. snoooze.
I'd think that you'd just be empowering big organizations (churches, unions, etc) that can just 'pass the sheet around' at a weekly meeting.

One way that I can think of to do it would be like so:
Start a person at, say, 0.6 votes at 16.
Voting in a state or national election = +.1/year, up to two times.
Graduation High School or getting a GED = +.1.

So a motivated 18 year old has 1 vote, just like now, slackers are a little behind but not much.

Graduating College, OR 3 Years of Military Service, OR Passing a (Somewhat tough) Written Test of Govt/Econ/International Studies = +0.2

Graduate Degree OR 8 (total) Years of Military Service OR Passing a (LSAT Difficulty) Written Test = +0.2

Graduate Degree in Econ/<Whatever Gov't Applicable Majors> OR 2 Years Gov't Service = +0.1

So a college grad is worth +20% of a 'normal' adult, but twice a high-school dropout nonvoter who's put no effort into it. And someone with a PhD in Economics is only a third of a vote ahead of a college grad, but worth 1.5 18- year-olds, and 2.5 people who've never voted.

Hopefully by keeping the military/service side roughly equal, we could keep the ideological balance about the same.

Intelligent, Motivated non-traditional people, especially those too poor or busy for college could still get to the highest ranks without any cost other than proving that they understand the basics at rough parity.

You're going to get crackpots with degrees/credentials just like you do now, but I'd argue that as a whole, educated people make better decisions with respect to politics (even, I would go so far as to say, in a party agnostic way), so the bad eggs will cancel out.

I'm a voting, high-school educated college dropout myself, but I'd definitely go and learn whatever I would need for the highest level, even if it took a few hours a week for months/years, but I'm also unusually interested in the subject(s).

Once again, the idea is nuts and would never work in the current system, but there's nothing wrong with a little thought experiment =).
Erlang - The Movie
Cancelled Fallout Brotherhood of Steel 2 Design Document - PDF (20 MB)
The webserver is written in Arc, right?

I wonder how hard it would be to inspect the referrer and if an abnormally large influx of users start coming from a specific referrer, start redirecting to programming.reddit.com or stackoverflow or something.
Prolog: Under the Hood
It was so ordered: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 ... and like lemmings, we followed.
Google only allows 3 ad's per page and that is what is used. The page length is very short so it could be that a higher percentage of the screen is ads than other sites. Still, it comes nowhere close to magazines which are probably more than 50% ads.
Can that request to skim the fluffy links be permanent, please? :)

[edit]
It's by request http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 .
Yeah, doing what he says might sound like a real job, but doing what he does is probably fun. Why would anyone who is making 15k a month tell others how to make 15k a month for free! I don't see business people going around telling others how do to business for free. I mean literally he is giving away "trade secrets".

Well, that is the illusion of course as most probably he does none of that but sit in his chair and think up ways of how making money through adsense may be done and turn it into awesome sounding language with plenty of cliche and then get plenty of posters saying ohh thank you you are my god I love you so much and most probably hardly any of them will implement what he said and if they do they will prob not make as much as he says cus the work sounds very time intensive.
There is another article that corresponds to this one. Keep reading to find it.
I think he or you are overstating the importance of the domain name. There's nothing inherently special about the Nike swoosh. It just happen to be on shoes that people like to wear.
This is what Facebook should have done shortly after launching the platform. Kudos to you for scratching your own itch and then opening it up to the world. Reducing developer friction, handling refunds, easy integration across payment providers, and the optimization of the offers are all huge wins for small app developer shops.
It's our new scalability strategy of "scaring new users away".
Google's fault.
Rise of the robogeeks
Your Last Stop for Erlang Information
we just really love erlang.

p.s.: boy this place is boring and very similar to reddit, isn't it?
The Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network
Sorry guys, I'm here to stay. HN's so much more intelligent than Digg, Reddit, etc. Even the tech parts of those sites don't manage to filter out the junk as well. I hope it stays this way, though...

Oh, and I actually found out about the site from Coding Horror (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001236.html), though I did read the Stack Overflow article as well (via Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8368a/the_value...).
Comparison between Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Subversion
I've seen another formula around and it has worked well for me in the past. It was presented to me at a project management session. It's basically a weighted average:

(Best Case Scenario + Worst Case Scenario + (4 * Most Likely))/6
yep, looks like the OP was right after all: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/11/ipod-shuffle-voi...

Alex takes up 18% of Leopard.
>> I offer to set up a subdomain for you which delegates all requests (see above) to your fake nameserver.

Isn't that just like publishing-to-all-hackers your "not so secure" server?
A 1 day comment ban after sign-up would be more effective I think.
This question might sound ridiculous to majority of people commenting here, but why are you making the site boring instead of trying to improve its performance (putting additional hardware, ditching Arc, whatever)?
[c++0x] DR 387 implementation in  incomplete.
Google Checkout fees to increase 5th May 2009
Personally, I find the Minix3 kernel to be a better read: http://www.minix3.org/doc/

The book serves as nice documentation and explanation of the principles (as well as containing the full source, printed.)
phew :D so glad you commented this. I think some people were taking it too literally..... there is a limit ;)
I read all the Accelerando stories as they came out in Asimov's some years back. To be honest, it's the Accelerando stories that made me begin to tire of SF. And Vinge's Rainbows End capped it off (although its library digitization process is mighty funny).

I'll be happy without a Singularity. And I'll be happy without a complicated smorgasbord of options for how to access and filter a &@^#)!-load of Information in a virtual reality post-cyberpunk world. Geekdom don't put no food on my table. Just ask the near-slave immigrant farm laborers and slaughterhouse workers.

The Singularity might be geek rapture. But VR and Singularity stories are geek wanking. I'm going to go plant a garden. Or become a lumberjack. Or something.

Well, sarcasm aside... I do enjoy Stross's blog when I wander over to it on occasion. So, if I can find some fiction of his which is not so computer-centric, I'll be happy to try it. Recommendations, anyone?
New Scheme Language Steering Committee
I refuse to call myself a hacker until I can test this. Hot!
Ask HN: list of applicable CSS properties for each html tag?
Seems like such a trivial question, but I'm stumped..

Can someone point me to a webpage where I can see a list of CSS properties applicable to each html tag? (e.g. the styles applicable to an <a> are: x, y, z....)

If this question demonstrates some underlying misunderstanding of CSS then please let me know. I've just started learning CSS, and so far it is my least favorite 'means of instructing a machine what to do' ever...

Tried googling it, didnt find anything.

thanks
Erlang Quan - Basic Applications
I wonder if anyone ever used Erlang distributions for website performance metrics.

His math should apply and offers an effective, statistically valid method of estimating resource requirements, much superior to the usual "requests per second".
Ask HN: Which DNS provider for a startup?
I'm running a startup on a couple slices at Slicehost.com and I really like that they provide a strong API for dynamically controlling things like DNS zones/records. Recently though I was contacted by UltraDNS.com about their services, and I've looked at another similar service in the past as well.

My question is whether it's worth it to go with a 3rd party DNS service, or if your host's DNS servers are sufficient as your startup grows? Is this something we should be considering, or is it a waste of time?
Everyone knows the best way to hear music is live, un-miked, un-amped, with analog instruments. That's one of the reasons I've gone into opera: http://gatewayclassical.org/
Google adopts Erlang
Honeypot for blind Erlang upvotes. Karma whoring for me.
Ah, gotcha. The Cult of Paul strikes.
Erlang and Neural Networks
Erlang:Hacker News::Barry Manilow:??
Saturn ring particles 'fluffy'
All In One - PHP to XML to jQuery via Ajax
Spending time to make your error messages interesting or fun or silly or whatever is time spent doing something that shouldn't be shown. Oversized pixelated graphics of freezing browser tabs says "our programmer created this in three minutes", which is most likely the right amount of time, considering the important thing about that kind of error reporting is the ability to let the user recover and try again.
First one I remember, anyway.

As much as I like being pompous and saying HN should try not to go into decline, this one I'm happy about. It was all a joke on PG, it had a terrific effect on the stories here in a way that was instantly noticeable here, and it was actually pretty funny.

Now we just make sure this fades quickly enough that a month from now nobody thinks they're "trendy" for mentioning Erlang Week.
I'm tempted to change my username to "gc", but I'm afraid I wouldn't get called.
Of course we're not looking at the other side of the coin: Government spending. The only reason we need to raise taxes is because they either spent too much and now need to pay it, or want to spend more and need the money to do it. But this is an entirely different discussion.
See, that's the thing with Wikipedia-- I honestly can't tell if that page is a parody...
There's an assumption that the articles that he's having written are of low quality. It's possible that they might not be, and might be informative enough for users to find out what they might be looking for.
Or even some questions to show they've read the guidelines @ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm curious, where does a site like HN have its bottleneck: SQL accesses, server bandwidth, CPU or memory consumption by PLT?
holy shit, i stepped away for like 30 minutes and the entire front page is Erlang. I just submitted the Innards of Erlang article as a response to PG's post/an inside lol for the community (the article is a decent primer though). Almost the entire front page is a bit much guys...
you "can" apply any css property to any element. some elements come with default behavior that might need to be overwritten.

i think your best bet is to play around with it.
How to (possibly) encourage payments for web content
You know what's funny? I don't see a single Google ad on this site.

NoScript extension for FireFox is wonderful. I got so used to it, I forget how many ads I used to see on websites.

Sorry for offtopic :-)
It took me awhile to figure why\how this happened but now that I understand it, it is hilarious to see this in real time on the HN homepage. Well done.
Actually it's the only mainstream example of erlang application (with telco, but individual people don't care about telco, it's capital intensive stuff).
I didn't like the third idea. It sounds like it would have a classic "tragedy of the commons" problem. Each developer spends full effort for each dollar he brings in, but gets only part of the benefit. In addition, being idle has a much lower cost than it would normally would since an individual's idleness is subsidized by the efforts of other developers. This incentivizes each developer to work less hard than they otherwise would.

Now the second idea is brilliant. I can't count the number of times that we had to email our clients private messages while we were on conference calls with potential investors. Having a way to privately talk with our clients would have been beneficial.
I just love the energy of the community - Erlang everywhere!
Haskell for me.
This is not "black hat." He's web developer. That's how he makes $15k a month with adsense. As a web developer outsourcing content creation and working his ass off on low cost SEM. You can do it, too!
Google makes its foray into behavioral targeting
The Eight Myths of Erlang performance
I might be wrong, but wouldn't this not help the situation at airports where the AP resolves all DNS requests to a page that is like "pay for service!"?

I was under the impression that in those configurations the AP intercepts all the DNS packets and responds with a fixed IP.

It would be nice to get around port blocking filters though...
"I don't see business people going around telling others how do to business for free."

Sure you do. Just look at this website. Or Signal vs. Noise or your local SMBA or Chamber of Commerce...
I almost thought the site was attacked by a group of guys that just trying to vote up all Erlang related sites. Now I know the reason.
We're on Authorize, too, and we didn't mess around with ARB at all because we anticipated that we'd need more flexibility around retries. The best I can recommend short of changing providers is to let Authorize hold on to the credit card info with CIM, and then run your manual charges through that system.
Wow, what's with all the upvoted Erlang articles today?

Edit: Never mind. An OTT response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
Higher density for lithium batteries
Ruminations of a Programmer: Web programming at a higher level of abstraction
Squared rectangles: A space-efficient layout for ranked graphics
I checked the frontpage and had to look at the calendar: for a brief while I thought "Wow, March really flew by. Is it April already?"

Btw, I think you just got yourself an idea for April fools: accept only links about Java or Visual Basic.
thanks thepanister. i already use that site a lot, but it's not what im looking for. it's just a list of css properties. what i want is a list of the relevant css for each html tag. any ideas?
Erlang on Rails
Ask HN: Why is Erlang so unpopular?
It seems like internet is filled with articles about Python and Ruby on Rails and .NET and LINQ and all that stuff.

Why don't people post more info on Erlang?