skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the utility of your homegrown metric.

Yes, a 7K disk can output 160MB/s ... if it's doing a continous read, with zero seeks per second.

If it's actually doing 160 seeks/second, it's not going to have time to read 1MB (taking a further 1/160th of a second) after each seek.

So this metric means "how much data you can read per iop if you want to cut your iops by about 50%".

How is that useful above & beyond the input numbers?
That video makes it seem like they cured cancer or something.
But no.. they uncluttered the news feed!!

Is this really such a big deal?
I've had a system on Linode for the past two years. Zero problems, zero downtime. My experience with Linode has been very consistent and reliable.
It kind of depends on a history of a project. If the team is most familiar with Java, and all the processes work with Java, then that would make sense.

I actually started off as a Java programmer, and in the last couple years switched to rails. I found Java to be incredibly verbose. I don't know if things have changed, but in addition to declared exceptions, we constantly had to be catching runtime exceptions like NumberFormatExceptions, etc. I really find Java to be incredibly verbose.

Ruby on the other hand is syntactically cleaner, but I do miss compilations to catch some of my errors instead of in run time things blowing up.

I'd say the bigger question is Rails or J2EE? J2EE's overcomplex frameworks really wanted to make me pull my hair out (but I'm hoping the newer Java frameworks have fixed it since).

Digressing a bit, Rails is nice, but only if your application fits that paradigm.
You don't need a money transfer agent if you're using bitcoin. You just send it to the other party directly.

It's possible, though, that the law could interpret the global web of bitcoin miners to be "money transfer agents" and then all hell would break loose. I guess all the miners would just move out of california. :)
One very notable example is Sword & Sworcery EP. The guys behind the game did a talk at GDC '12 about making games for niche audiences instead of stooping to the lowest common denominator, but I can't seem to find it.

Simogo has made a couple of very unique and artful games, including last year's Mobile Game IGF winner Beat Sneak Bandit. It's notable that their games are premium priced ($3), but still have hundreds of reviews.

Mika Mobile is a husband & wife team with a number of fantastic brawlers under their belts, including Battleheart and Zombieville USA 2.

Tiger Style is (in their own words) a "distributed collective of independent game developers" that have most recently developed the award-winning exploration/space-gardening game Waking Mars.

Jeff Minter releases a new iOS game what seems like every other week. (Though he once characterized it as "run[ning] frantically on the iOS treadmill".)

Zach Gage has made a number of small, fairly popular games, including SpellTower and Bit Pilot. ("Net Gross for me is probably around ~110k for 3 years of work. but the profits would probably be quite a bit lower than that")

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Notable recent failures include Punch Quest (F2P model didn't yield any income, so they switched to paid) and Gasketball (again, the F2P model they were using was too permissive).

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So, not a perfect ecosystem, but not an abysmal wasteland either. Enough for the kooky hobbyists to get by as long as their products are top-notch and their business model makes sense. (At least that's how I see it.)
Cherry MX green mechanical key switches emulate feel of classic IBM Model M
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Define "lots better". Qualify with examples. My experiences with AWS have consistently been absolutely awful.

Things akin to "We're sorry your instance has gone away for no apparent reason. Thank you for writing."

This does not ever happen on Linode.
I've been doing CrossFit for a year now. I couldn't articulate enough how it has improved my posture and general fitness. There isn't one particular thing about CrossFit, rather the whole. I'd recommend to anyone.
Paying for great writing in the Internet Age
He can use a 2-core VPS with plenty of memory and he will have much more headroom than a single Heroku dyno.

How many people really have to worry about scaling past a single server? To me, the issue is more about uptime so that where PaaS's get extra credit as far as I am concerned. It is great to be able to go on vacation and not much worry about admin hassles.
Something new? Hopefully that was said with a bit of wink-wink-nudge-nudge, as that's the way it used to work and the "top stories" algorithm (and the way it keeps being set as the default despite me setting "most recent" every few days) has been infuriating.
Tech should be friendlier to women.

However, segregation isn't the way forward, IMHO. I'm always sad to see gender-focussed events and groups. I'd much rather see women and men -integrate- than congregate within their own gender.

And just to pre-empt, please don't give me the disingenuous "men are welcome too" line. This is, by definition, a women-focussed group.
My go to books for negotiating:

* Getting Past No

* Getting To Yes
My Linode accounts on their Dallas data center have gone through quite a bit of downtime over the years. Their support is why I've stuck with them, though.
Edits: context.

Fake it until you make it, as they say. However, this is dishonest (if it isn't a joke).

BUT... On the flip side, my anecdotal evidence suggests that naughty founders are statistically more successful. I think PG has some anecdotes to support this as well. Successful founders I know personally, without naming names, have: spammed inboxes, started automated 'conversations' with business owners as part of a pre-sales-filter, deceived potential employees about outcomes, fired the whole team to save money and pivot when there was still a crap-ton of money in the bank, and generally been willing to sell concepts to investors that are total crap. Then there are the well-known stories, like AirBnB fishing Craigslist for homeowners and renters. All shady, grey-hat, probably unethical to lots of people.

There is a low-bar of naughtiness that, if you're not willing to exceed, will limit your ability to be successful... anecdotally speaking.
Hell, I'd like to know how to get that first client even if you are selling yourself cheap.

Patio11 has a good answer here: offer to lower the rate in exchange for permission to write up a case study on their situation.
Find other things that are more engaging.

Find ways to be more comfortable engaging in them.

Physical activity and (healthy -- no need to be Arnold) strength tend to promote self-confidence and a sense of well being.

Take some walks -- even if by yourself. Walk in interesting/enjoyable places.

Buy some dumbells and spend 10, 15, 30 minutes a day on some basic exercises. Depending upon your work environment, you might keep them at your desk and do a few reps now and then or when you're tired or blocked, anyway.

Don't paint too big a target. Start with small things, and see where it builds.

Oh, and look at other things that leave you feeling more socially comfortable. A haircut. Clothing that blends in with the crowd you're approaching. You don't have to "sell out". Just... nibble at the edges of some of the emotions that might feed what you're describing as an anti-social tendency.

-- Your friendly neighborhood hermit (i.e. take this with a grain of salt, but I have noticed these factors, myself)

P.S. Ok, I'll add: I've had some abusive neighbors that made my life a hell. After several years, recently they've gotten somewhat better, but I still live in fear of recurring abuse.

The resulting seclusion has been... a self-perpetuating downward spiral.

It became easy to turn to and hide out in "online". But this did not stop the downward spiral in other aspects of my life.

Don't let such a pattern set too deeply. The longer it lasts, the worse it gets, and the harder it is to get out of.
The irony is that, in spite of these upgrades, my first attempt to load the blog post timed out, and the second attempt was not speedy (or should I say SPDY?)
Certain Goblins had patented the idea of dumping things from sky via birds. Obviously Gandalf could not risk getting sued.
I think it's suspicious as well.

Fine, here's the thing, if the person can't find the CVV in the card, I don't want his business. Period
Are you're saying that companies shouldn't give yearly raises except for inflationary increases? Wouldn't that be an implication of not considering time with the company?

Rewarding loyalty to the business is not a meaningless gesture, nor should it be an affront to new people.

The difficult thing from the employer's perspective is balancing the reward for many different aspects of each employee that makes that employee important to the company: leadership, loyalty, consistency, trustworthiness, performance, expertise, efficiency, etc.
That was used to describe the iPad. I'd argue it was a magical device relative to what was on the market at the time.
Is Windows 8 In Trouble?
The most striking thing about this is its unapologetic rip-off of Apple's product tours.
I have a hard time trusting Linode after the major March 2012 security incident where an attacker compromised an internal system that let him gain access to any Linode Manager accounts: http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.h... and basically had access to all customers servers!

I have a hard time trusting them because they specifically gave very little information. I would have expected a followup with a better response, like Google or Facebook do when they get compromised: "the attacker used exploit X on this developer's workstation, therefore we are doing Y to prevent this from happening again".

They can work on increasing performance all they want, but if I do not have basic trust in the security of their infrastructure, this does not matter. I expect top-notch security especially from a "premium" VPS provider!
"If the last math class you took was 20 years ago, ESL probably seems rather intimidating."

Actually, only ten years ago. :-) But I do need a refresher. Just started working on it recently. I feel actually smarter today than I felt back then, so I don't think will hurt that much.

"The good thing is that most of the book requires only calculus and linear algebra. By brushing up on those topics first, you could be in a position to understand most of the basics of machine learning."

Yeah, I've noticed. The scope of the whole book is vastly overblown for my needs, my application (NLP-related) won't probably need more then the basic stuff, but any good material at my disposal helps.
One nit-pick: The Peter Jackson film shows Saruman stabbed by Wormtongue before falling to his death from the top of Orthanc.

Furthermore, I believe it is only included in the extended edition of The Two Towers (but I could be wrong on that point).
Sorry to crash the party, but this belongs on reddit.

Could the eagles have flown into Morder? Sure. It's fiction.
Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.

Also a good way to write a product definition.
That was fast. Are we in the same country still?
> And based on their security incidents Linode is absolutely in the hobby box category as well.

Was that plural a typo or have there been more since the admin console phish that I missed?
> They just don't wait for the rest and do what they feel is appropriate for the popularity of Ubuntu (and therefore Linux)

The word "Linux" doesn't even appear anywhere on their home page [1] or "About Ubuntu" page [2]. "GNU" probably never did and "free" appears only in the "cheaper than Windows" context.

Nowadays Canonical basically takes a bunch of community and FSF projects, patches them internally to their liking and ships with custom frontend without giving much credit to the original authors. "Developed by the amazing Ubuntu community of open source experts".

They are as much about promotion of Linux and FOSS as Apple is about promotion of BSD Unix. Please stop spreading disinformation.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/

[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Don't improve your sitting posture: stand instead! We know about posture, but we're rubbish at it because humans are lazy! More scientists say you should stand or treadmill while working, and I definitely concur.

Standing is so much better for you:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20947605

and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...

and http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/business/stand-up-desks-ga...
Cacho.la: We are trying to create a new way to consume and share information.
It's not easy, even if you sell yourself cheap. It can be done, however. I never asked for references or kept a portfolio of my past work.

To get that first client:

1. Advertise and be picky about where. There are lists of freelancers who are specialized in certain kinds of work. Put yourself on them. You will get desperate people who can't find anyone to take on their job. Some of these jobs will be pretty bad. DO NOT take them, even as a way to build your portfolio. I learned this the hard way. You may think you are superhuman, but burnout is your enemy. Forget oDesk or similar. For example, if you know Django, put yourself into Django people. I got lots of clients that way when I first started out.

2. Use your connections, and build more connections. While I would never sell to friends and family, you can find clients through them. When I was a teenager I started a successful custom PC business this way. You never know who your acquaintances might know and what problems they might have that you can solve.

3. Deny everything. Do not act like you are new. You have to have confidence in being enough of an expert to do the job for anyone to take you seriously. Be the kind of person who doesn't need to give references to get a client. References have only rarely come up for me because I would always demonstrate a firm grasp of what the problem that needed to be solved was and I could offer a careful plan of attack.

4. Sell yourself. I don't mean by blogging or having a website. When you talk to client over the phone or meet them in person, you need to sell yourself as a competent worker. If you've worked on projects that have something to do with the project a client is proposing, say so. You don't need to add qualifiers about it being a hobby project or open source contribution. If you can solve your client's problem your job is to make sure you make them believe that you're the person to do it. Everything else is just details.

5. Avoid LinkedIn. This was easier when I started...it might be harder now. Connecting with potential clients on LinkedIn could expose you as inexperienced (or help if you have lots of corporate experience). Take on small enough projects to start that this doesn't come up. This almost always means your first clients will be small businesses.

6. Repeat to yourself before meeting with a client: "This person will judge me based on our interaction. They will only know my experience level based on this. I am only inexperienced if I lead them to believe it."
> OTOH, there's probably nothing to worry about now since Google has licensed the patents on behalf of everyone.

Or have they? The press release says that Google can sublicense the patents to other VP8 implementors...

edit: never mind, the rtcweb post (below) nails it down a bit.
...on the other hand nothing is patent free these days. If the diaphragm were invented today we'd all be getting our lungs ripped out for patent infringement.
To avoid the nil pointer dereference panic, could you use an idiom borrowed from Go's map implementation?

A library could take advantage of multiple assignment, a la maps:

`i, ok := m["route"]`

If the map has no entry for key "route", i will be the zero type [e.g: an empty string], and OK will be a bool indicating that the key wasn't found in the map.

So in a SQL library it might look something like

`func (s Statement) GetString(columnNum int) string,bool`

Called as: `str,ok := s.GetString(i)`

At least this way your program won't panic() if you forget to check that string != nil and dereference *string, but you still retain the information that the string is nil.
>High priced tickets to any tech event kind of bug me. I just don't get it. I've always hated the trend of calling developers "rockstars" and I hate the trend of tech conferences being like rockstar concerts

Can't say I'm a fan of the sensationalism either. Would be interested to see them make one more like an academic conference than a trade show expo.
> traveling to Austin during SXSW can be a big productivity and morale boost.

I like that you are including morale. I'm fed up with productivity gurus, GTD peddlers and existence hackers.

Being transformed into a list crossing drone is not my shtick.

Being a clone of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jack Welch (<insert your favorite prick>) is not what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Remember folks, you can end up dead well before your 100 millions yacht is finished.
That has been seen before.

Thanks for your tips anemtiz !
> I was sick to death of waiting whilst my Fremont instances were down due to power issues and receiving no response from support tickets.

Do you want their engineers bringing up the datacenter or answering up a bunch of e-mails with "we're working on bringing up the datacenter"?
> Of course, ideally every citizen would be able to sign anything with a public-private key pair, counter-signed by the state.

State-verified identity for payments is your ideal case?

Have you heard of Wikileaks?
MS refuses to honor damage warranty on Surface RT
If managed, but unmanaged starts at $16.xx for 512MB and outbound traffic is at 0.12/GB I think
I replied to the poster above you with examples, in case you're interested.
Ask HN: What do you think of my new startup's landing page? shopulse.com
Hey everyone,

I'm going to pitch my startup http://shopulse.com soon at a local incubator's demo day. I just wanted some feedback on my landing page and the text more specifically. Thanks.
One hypothesis would be to prevent ad-blindness. If you visit the same layout day after day, after a while your mind learns to subconsciously detaches adverts from the content, it will be like it doesn't even exist. New layout, the learning process has to start all over again.
I love the idea behind this software. I just wish it worked with Django.
They did announce such a view, and it should make brands, as well is some users, happy. I follow w00t, but only see the actual sales they post once in a while, now I can see the daily deals daily.
Well, they do correspond to the "Maybe a" for some fixed type a, and Maybe is a monad, however you are right that it would be clearer to to say Maybe or Nullable or Option type, since that's what is meant, not some general monad.
The nice thing about OAuth on a native client is that it allows a non-evil client the option of not storing the cleartext password in a recoverable way on the client.

This way if the device on which the native client lives is compromised, the attacker won't be able to obtain the cleartext password, unless it was compromised during the OAuth login process. Sure, the attacker will get the token, but they won't be able to get the cleartext password and log into other unrelated services with it.
Facebook Announces a Drastically Redesigned News Feed
If by "Hollywood" you mean whole movie/TV/entertainment industry, then yes, I think price of the scripts influences decisions. Blockbuster aren't the only movies made.
The other great part of teaching someone is you can usually get decent talent at a lower cost, and they can learn your process and standards. I've been in a few places where devs come in and they feel like they own the place and everybody should get in line with how they code the process they feel is right.
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That approach is insecure, however, because anyone with the private key now has access. When running ssh-keygen, you should add a passphrase to the key, then add the key to ssh-agent so you don't need a password for the account, nor do you need to type the key's passphrase constantly.
Probably people buying from their Android devices being counted under the 'Linux' flag?
I've never used linode before, could someone explain to me what is so amazing about them?
I think G+ should start relying more on content, as the network effect is not working out. Something like what Quora has done. If they manage to get people using G+ somehow, the chances of network effect kicking off will be higher. Right now, they gotta think of doing something else.
Yes, your code does need comments.
Agreed.
But as they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

:)
Women are underrepresented in technology. This event is to help promote the potential as well as accomplishments of women in technology.

I fail to see how this is segregation, they make no claim that this series is to be representing everyone, just highlighting women. It is an event focused on women's roles in technology and available to the community.
Others have pointed out that he could be very superlative, so I'll just say that when he used words like "cool" or "neat," he was super-credible.

My favourite over-the-top Jobs-ism was "Insanely Great." "Wicked Fast" comes in second. He may have overused these terms, but some of Apple's products hit the mark. I really think the Macintosh SE and first iPhone ware insanely great products.
I've found the same too in my own personal experience. That and a lot of minor fidgeting and constant changing of postions.
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" Try increasing your font size."

It'd be great if many apps actually let you do that. Finder on OSX - how do increase the font size there? IntelliJ - how do you increase the font size there? I can increase the font size of my editing area, but not of the tree area with files in it.

Have been using macs for the past few years, and this is my one of my biggest bugbears - font sizes are often very locked down, and I end up having to shift my position or squint.
I would definitely like to see this open sourced, ideally not in an iframe, and maybe with a few different variants for collecting different amounts of information, for those with different priorities among security/convenience.
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From the sounds of it the talks are all given by women, but men can come to see them. So not segregation.
I can back this claim up. I have a test version of an app running on winhost. It literally is cheap as chips (both american and english).
Don't forget, the amount of fraud that you need to worry about depends highly on the service or product you're selling. My company has only dealt with one fraudulent charge for $65 over the past 5 years of selling our product across a huge number of transactions.

No thief in their right mind would want to steel a Software as a Service product like ours since you can't really resell it. If they were reselling it we'd quickly find out about it and disable the account.

If we were selling hardware or an item that a thief could turn around and resell without any trace, we'd have to worry quite a bit more about fraud.

I'd hate for somebody who is running a SaaS company to read this and implement some insane IP/Tor/blah fraud detection scheme when the nature of their product/transactions doesn't necessitate it.
To be fair, it's not like the ground method had much room for second chances, either.
Because I want to close apps with a single [mouse] click with my right hand, without displacing my left hand to press that keyboard shortcut.
Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
That's interesting, though I only care about a few sites, and prefer the brevity of the ff keywords.

Sounds like the two could complement each other, like aliases and completion in a shell.
My thought too. What are the supposed advantages of using linear algebra for this problem?

Edit: my guess is divide-by-zero conditions.