skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company has a very large application that still utilizes an ORM (Doctrine).

The primary benefit is the lazy (proxy) loading of entities and mapping data onto complex graphs, not to mention updates that span multiple entities in a single transaction.

Performance-wise, we've reduced lazy loading via eager selects, result caches, and one instance of mapping SQl results back to an object.

All in all, it feels better working with objects than it does with raw data, and it is very reliable in my experience.
I'm looking forward to hearing why Heroku is using such a strange load balancing strategy.
Is program speed less important than X?
So do you think I should black list them on Nuuton? I'd rather not waste my time with a site that does this.
You're relying on undocumented behavior. They'd be well within their rights to change it (say due to this adverse publicity). What happens then?

You got me to go login to Quora after over a year to see what you were so concerned about. Perfectly reasonable, well thought-out comments on respectable topics. I think you're trolling, sir.
While I think it is appropriate for Heroku to respond to this thread (and other important social media outlets covering this), linking to a blog without any messaging concerning your efforts might not be the greatest move... This may not be a sink or swim moment for Heroku, but tight management of your PR is key to mitigating damage. Best of luck, Heroku is a helpful product and I want to see you guys bounce back from the ropes on this one.
Twitter/Facebook grew virally, not through paid marketing to acquire users.
If you're a Republican in the spirit of Barry Goldwater, then you should do as Barry Goldwater did and become a Democrat!

Seriously, his belief in individual liberty lead to sharp disagreements with his party on abortion, gay rights and drug laws, with the result that by the 1990s he was endorsing and voting for Democrats over Republicans.
>The figures for the PS3 are well known.

From what source?

>And the Wii/Wii-U's profitability per unit is also well known and publicly admitted.

Really?

And Xbox, I figure, is also "well known"?

>With any console you can generally just look at the parts list and compare costs to retail.

True, if you know the costs of parts you can do this.
Furthermore, SO makes it very clear when someone has updated a question, so it couldn't reasonably be misattributed to you. (It shows the editor's avatar and date.)
I really enjoyed reading this article. More articles like this need to be on HN, rather than the run of the mill startup success stories. It's refreshing and visceral to hear how a startup can fail, being so close to success.
I recently moved to the U.S from Israel.

Baruch ha'ba! Where did you move to?
The mod vs. unmodded issue is a classical problem on the internet, and may never be solved fully. I don't think SO's modding is any worse than Wikipedia's. As such, both are good enough.
We're discussing Rails on Heroku specifically which, non-unicorn, should be a "next available checkout counter" situation. Ideally it should be possible to make this an optional behavior that you can choose to turn on for Rails apps.
Except both of those tlds are a lot more expensive than a .com and as the article notes, do NOT register with the general public. So if you have the money to spend on a vanity domain that you don't need to have "regular" people remember, it is an option.
Less good for strategy but more for simply being excellent military sci-fi, I'd recommend David Drake's Slammers series and Joe Haldeman's Forever War.
You seem have written one of the very few articles I've seen benchmarking this. I'd love to know more about how Puma compares to Unicorn (especially unicorn configurations mentioned by some in this conversation) and Thin for serving rails on Heroku. Many of the Unicorners pushing their solution don't appear to be aware of Puma and its potential benefits. I'm curious if Puma with MRI has benefits, too. Thanks!
Odesk you can't, Elance did not say anything about it. And that is not stopping him from freelancing himself. There's plenty of opportunities in the Hiring Freelancer thread as well.

I'm not familiar with these issues however, so I'll refrain from posting more haphazard advice. I just feel the OP could make some more effort.
Quora is such a piece of crap, a blight on internet.
Does the world really need a TLD "for geeks"?

This feels like a money grab to me, and £60 ($93 US) to register a domain is a pretty steep premium.
Since you mention World War I, and new tactics, you might like to read about the original stormtroopers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper).
There is another downside to the YC credential, which is the paltry funding in return for a huge chunk of a startup's equity. Is the program worth such a substantial cost? YC uses its reputation and an almost cult-like glorification of the startup to create a factory farm for newly minted college grads to toil away in, each in their own niche. All of these startups come from the same school, and so they work the same way, using the same ideas, shared among them--so when the majority of these startups fail, the many graduates leave with the same monoculture of thought, which lessens the value of their experience.
Tell HN: Stripe is coming to UK. I just got invited to the limited beta.
Well, as the title says, I just got an email to join the limited beta. This is awesome for all UK developers who needs to accept online payments. How many of you received this email?
Saw the same thing.

Thought it had more to do with a childhood experience of tracing scissors on paper.

You don't realize how important the scissors are for context until you remove them from the paper, just as someone else peeks over at what you were drawing. :/
Can you guys tell us more about your hosting backend when someone runs `meteor deploy`? Is that code open source?
I faced the credential trap and the biggest problem in overcoming it were my ex-peers. When I decided to be an entrepreneur and leaving the traditional path of gathering strong brands on my CV all my peers -- employees striving for 'big' job titles at popular corporations -- derided me. The last sentence of any conversation with them was a pitiful 'Good luck man!' and this made me angry.

The best thing I could do was to stop seeing or meeting them since it crushed me everytime and I was questioning what I was doing. Once I succeeded being an entrepreneur and building my own brand looking back was much easier and you know that you chose the right path and pity you ex-peers sticking on the same crappy job titles, doing stuff nobody cares about.

YC solves that problem since it's now a huge brand and people tell you in the first sentence that they are YC alumni but actually any angel or VC who invests in you (or even cofounders) is gradually solving your credential trap. Being with other entrepreneurs helps too. So you shouldn't chase the 'YC dream' too much since it could defocus. As an entrepreneur you have to learn to be confident without the need of external brands, anyway. Just build something great, get traction and the rest will come by itself.
Because people hate being coerced to do something. Stackoverflow didn't need to force people to do so. A Q&A site only purpose is to give you the best possible answer. FAST. Anything else degrades your experience.

If quora breaks me out of the flow to register to their site ... they have cost me way more productivity than they could possibly bring back.
I don't know if I'd call it serious since it's a demonstration project and not a business, but have you seen http://telesc.pe ?
In any attack, South Korea is doomed, not just militarily. There is more than one way DPRK can attack. DPRK also has nuclear weapons. They have a built a dam called Imnam dam and wired it with explosives, they can simply detonate the explosives and flood Seoul(There are ways to stop this, but still there will be considerable damage).

Their army is pretty strong, and can fight until they cause significant damage. And beyond all they have a huge cache all kinds biological, chemical weapons.

Also don't forget, China gets a buffer zone due to North Korea. Speaking from a Geo political stand point North Korea is very important to China.

All this means war is impossible in that area. The best way is to exert economic pressure and have the regime collapse. But I'm believing that isn't possible either, China won't let that happen mostly because they don't want a refugee problem.

Its a stalemate. Hardened more by Nuclear weapons.
I can't speak for his personal beliefs, but the reason one might so often encounter the "atheist jew" phenomena is simply an inherent compatibility. This is seated in the resistance to anthropomorphism of god, skepticism of false idolatry, etc. The past thousand years of rubbing with christianity has formalized what we now recognize as "religious" rite, but faith is the paradoxical belief in something that doesn't necessarily exist -- that's why it's faith.
This is the world's most secure garage door opener
"What it means in practice is that we tend to spend free time consuming culture instead of making it. Instead of writing a story or attempting to paint something or learning a piece of music, we watch TV or go to a movie.

There’s nothing wrong with consuming culture, of course. But what are we losing if that time is never spent making things, and making them for their own sake?"

Beautifully said, and reminds me of this equally beautiful tweet by why_:

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
It's not a "guy that found an issue". Nothing has every been hidden and it's not a privacy slipup. Come on.
It's funny, I'm more likely to fiddle about with chrome's inspector to try to remove just the right divs to get a quora page to be readable than to spend however long it takes to sign up. It's personally grating to me that they take such a boneheaded tack to content in the 21st century. Did they learn nothing from expertsexchange? It grates even more that they are putting crowd sourced content behind a wall.
I had to take off my pants in Ben-Gurion on my way from the Google Tel Aviv office. It was more invasive than any security check I've ever heard of in the United States.
Yahoo Answers is open. Has millions of questions and answers. Lot of people who truly appreciate a good answer, use it. Just that elite don't want to answer questions from ordinary folks and seclude themselves in quora.
The Internship (Google)
Startups are intuitive for most founders because of the scope of our resources. It would usually be counter intuitive for a big business or wealthy individual(s) to create a business as a startup (unless there's a lot of risk involved, perhaps) because they have what would be necessary to go at it full force. Imagine having 1mm in funding the day the MVP starts getting built because you, as a founder, have that liquid cash ready to invest. This isn't a scrappy startup, it's a well funded one.

Most people don't have that. Most people HAVE to start small, or burn the midnight oil working on their MVP, trying to get traction. It's not because we necessarily want to, it's because we're hungry to win and we just don't have the firepower that our established competitors have.

It seems like there are a few different frames people have to think about startups. Some think of it like gambling (as you've said), some think startups are x-wings trying to take down the death star (with enough skill and a LOT of luck, a startup will hit it big), some want to reign startups back into being a business (start with an idea that makes money!), and then there are the founders in the trenches fighting on the daily. We're the guys that have been persistently working on our businesses, our projects, our hare-brained business models that just might work. We're grounded by reality - that this is very hard - but we just keep fighting down here. I'm going to stay on these front lines until I lead the guys here who believe in me to a decisive victory.
Nice to meet a coincidental fellow traveler so to speak.
I had a similar thought when reading the article and these comments. I've been a member of Quora for a long time, and I can't remember the last time I had to log in again in my desktop browser. Any time I've navigated to a Quora page, I've seen all the answers no problem. So a lot of these complaints are news to me.

I completely agree with the mobile blocking through Safari & others, though, especially if the whole page is being downloaded.
...along with anyone who flies on business...

Not quite. As a counter-example I give you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz. Due to his past felon status (now exonerated so not a felon), he is not eligible for TSA Precheck.

But he flies business a lot, and has made it clear that he'd love to be in TSA Precheck. He's simply not eligible.
Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars
Nice speculation. I invite you to give this stuff a shot with an open mind, and no expectations.
I was looking at the 10 years from 9/11, when I made the statement.
I agree there should be a better way - it's just important to understand than Rails doesn't get any special treatment on a PaaS done correctly, so it's important to come up with a generic solution.

I think part of the solution would be customizable option(i.e.. how many requests can each dyno handle simultaneously), probably combined with intelligently monitoring/balancing proxy load so new requests always go to the least-loaded dyno.

Buildpacks could probably be used to parse of Gemfile/etc, see if you're using what mix of webrick/unicorn/rails/sinatra/rack-stream/goliath etc, and set an semi-intelligent default. But apps are increasingly unlike a checkout line. Apps are more like the supermarket, which is harder.
Looking forward to your blog post. Hoping things get cleared up!
Hollywood tryin another shot at Silicon Valley
Maybe I'm biased given my background as an iOS guy, but...

I'm just happy they got the hardware out and it's working pretty damn well. I want to write code for this new platform more than anyone.

But they're a hardware startup! And they're shipping their hardware! That shit is impossible, and frankly, worth prioritizing over any other goal. Getting an SDK right takes time. It took Apple a year for the iPhone, and they had enormous resources and a comparatively luxuriously-appointed platform.

How much RAM do you think a little guy like the Pebble is working with?

So I can imagine there be dragons in Pebble SDK town. They're going to get there. But be realistic and cut some slack here. As a fellow backer, I'm looking at all of this as having gone infinitely better than expected. Maybe you want a bit more communication on this subject, and that's fair, but keep some perspective.

Creating the future takes time.

All their incentives are aligned with yours. The better the dev ecosystem for this platform, the more money they get to make over time. It's gonna be fine.
I agree. Ultimately, he does all the things he does because the system is using him. Harry Potter is closer to a perverse ideal than Ender.
BATMAN wants to break Android free from WiFi
Nytimes paywall depends on inducing different feelings. They just use it to remind you that "Hey we are doing great work here, show us some support" ... so they don't mind it being porous.
You've just unraveled one of the mysteries of the world to me. :)
All the numbers show stagnation, and Quora getting dwarfed by other (less prone to ass-hattery) answers sites, like StackOverflow. Quora traffic hasn't grown in years, according to Alexa and others.

I believe they're simply optimizing the wrong variables. It has certainly driven me away. I use the google personal block list, and Quora was among the first sites to go on it.
New Adobe Reader Zero-Day Vulnerability spotted in the wild
Being a serial ideas man, I'm always coming up with different things and am always purchasing domain names that I don't really use more than once merely for experiments in hopes of them being the next big thing. The cost of registering these new popular domain names is sometimes astronomical compare the cost of an .io, .fm or .tv domain to the cost of a .com or .net. Just come up with an even more unique .com if you want to register a domain.
A last gift while in this body, awesome :-)
Finding Angels That Deliver More Than Cash
I have a bookmark on my iPhone that scrolls to the bottom of the page using Java. Is it not possible to hack something together that takes the hidden data (since the OP says it loads the actual info behind the white blocking screen) and reveal it instead of the white?

It's another couple of button presses but if it fucks them over for this scummy tactic I'm all for it.
>>The thing that I don't understand is how such a repressive regime could possibly have developed nuclear weapons.

One Answer: Through Nuclear proliferation. And of course they work hard. You can't build something like without working hard.

>>It seems somehow unfair, not to mention dangerous for the rest of us, that advanced science can be done in such an environment.

Who is 'us'?

Is it unfair to the rest of the world that technology to develop something like a F-16/drones etc lies in the hands of one country which fights/has fought many wars in the past and present, undoubtedly killing several hundreds of thousands innocent people.

>>I've always assumed that anyone smart enough to do such work would be smart enough to refuse to do it. But I guess I am wrong.

Like? What about employees at Lockheed Martin? Or say some other defense company.
How to estimate
Maneuver warfare is not just for little guys and startups. US military doctrine is based on maneuver warfare.
I had the exact opposite experience. After everyone gushing about it, I finally grabbed it a couple of years ago. I would've loved this in my teen years, but as a 30something, it felt like a rather mediocre military sci-fi book with a huge Mary Sue protagonist and dubious moral conclusions. Well, at least it wasn't as long as Atlas Shrugged.
I think it could be as something as a keyword match, and its either my middle name, or the fact that I have such a common first and last name that matches me to someone, somewhere who may or may not have done something, at some point in time.
Since when does Heroku support WebSockets?
> In the US, if you look at the last 40 years of flights, you are still more likely to die by accident than by terrorist attack.

Alright so not a complete wash, but fairly close. I might go so far as to say the difference between ~4000-5000 vs ~3000 out of ~250-300 million is statistically insignificant. I know using the total U.S. population in this instance isn't fantastic statistical analysis, but there isn't a great metric to use for a comparison between the total number of passengers on U.S. flights and the population exposed to 9/11 type terrorist fatalities. The best sources for total airline passengers include both U.S. and international to U.S. passenger total (~800 million[1]), and while it's unlikely someone in Montana is going to be killed in a 9/11 type terrorist attack it's still a possibility.

Anyway you put some effort in and clearly there is a slightly higher chance of dying from a normal plane crash than a terrorism induced one. So I'll admit you win this bet.

However if I want to argue the point (which I'm bored and do), I might say that looking at the trend in the data we might find those numbers evening out. We should expect air traffic control and safety to improve as newer technologies are implemented, people are trained better, etc. We can already see fewer deaths after the 1990's and I'd expect it to remain at that lower threshold. Now the terrorism number is harder to comment on, because presumably with all the extra safety measure another 9/11 won't happen. And even without the TSA around, it's still rather unlikely an event of that magnitude would occur again. I don't doubt the next hijacked airplanes that go close to an urban area will be intercepted and shot down. But for (my)arguments sake lets say without the extra security measures we could expect the same rate of terrorism related deaths, though perhaps not all in the same event. Given all of that, my statement about it all coming out in a wash will be true within the next couple decades :D

(Yes, I know all of that is nonsense speculative crap, but I already typed it all out so I'm just going to hit the reply button anyway.)

[1]http://www.travelpulse.com/dot-reports-17-percent-increase-i...
Why Our Metrics Are Breaking the American Education System
There isn't any such thing as a "healthy" fear. It's more that fear arises and passes without obstruction. "Oh, I feel afraid. Noted. Oh, its gone now."
What makes you think "humans have been anxious about it ever since they had the cognitive ability to see it coming, and the time to stop and think about it"?
The problem is similarly being solved by Venture for America (ventureforamerica.org) which gives recent college grads the opportunity to work for startups while being able to put something prestigious/career building on their resume.
I believe the pool's antecedents and ideas are much more diverse than that. I recommend the recent book 'The Launch Pad' (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591845297) as a good introduction to YC.

Personally, if I were in a peer group any of whose members managed to succeed, I'd be much more motivated to give it another try even if my own effort had failed, compared to having made the effort alone.

edit: But I agree with you in another way. Hurting for the lack of such a credential is a self-confidence issue. If you managed to hunker down and make something on your own, you're already ahead of the unwashed masses. Surely making a case for that is not so difficult in comparison (to the effort itself).