skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's interesting — very few customers are actually bent out of shape about this"

Seems to me you don't get it. Sure there are some very vocal non-customers but you also have a lot of potential customers and users (spinning up free instances) evaluating your product and hoping for a better product. I agree that your true value is the abstraction you provide. Some of these potential customers want to ensure Heroku is as good an abstraction as promised to justify the cost and commitment.
This is a pretty decent flowchart to finding appropriate machine learning algorithms for your problem: http://i.imgur.com/iVo4AAw.png
Your example is extremely clear-cut, but doesn't match the situation with Heroku very closely. If Heroku promised an intelligent router, but then it was always down and never served you any requests, that would make your Dell example a good analogue.

A closer comparison might be: What if Dell shipped you a laptop that they advertised as having an SSD with really good performance (and they thought that was true, or at least they did when they wrote the ad for the laptop), and it turns out that for your workload the performance isn't so great? Would you expect a refund then?
No, but a gold coin buys a lot of swords and pays a lot of soldiers.

This was typically because gold was required to pay taxes.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...

(tl;dw: After a brief burst of happiness, wealth has the approximately the same impact on happiness as losing your legs in an accident (i.e. NONE))

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100431776

tl;dr the wealthy don't believe that money buys you happiness.

http://www.livescience.com/5462-happiness-wealth.html

"Wealth, fame and good looks may be a formula for anxiety rather than happiness, a new study suggests."

There's TONS of data on this.
Mark Cuban: Sometimes I truly do get GREAT advice from NBA fans
Oh, yeah, I'd be quite happy with that!
BloomJoin: Fast asymmetric Hadoop joins using Bloom Filters and Cascading
Sorry, typo regarding Clojure. Can't edit it anymore though :(
Will your customer or boss give you the time and money to rewrite the code base? More than likely they will not, especially if they believe they have something that already works.
I would suggest coming up with a plan to refactor the code and learn how to black box the things that are less important or too complicated to refactor easily.
It is easy to fall into a trap thinking a new design will be better, but it will take much longer to implement and if the customer/boss is asking for new features along the way it is almost impossible.
..and so it begins..
Yeah, we use 95% for all out stat testing. If you click the "Advanced" tab of any analysis you can see the actual p-value, too.
You can prove that equality using pure analysis, or pure geometry, using appropriate definitions. The metaphor is the intuition that the two proofs are equivalent in an abstract sense.
It's back, but slow.
True, although it's more confusing than this. We didn't make an explicit decision for Bamboo, and thus the big problem — docs fell out of date, at a minimum.

For Cedar, we did make an explicit decision. People on the leading edge of web development were running concurrent backends and long-running requests. Our experimental support for Node.js in 2010 was a big driver here, but also people who wanted to use concurrency in Ruby, like Ilya Grigorick's Goliath and Rails becoming threadsafe. These folks complained that the single-request-per-backend algorithm was actually in their way.

This plus horizontal scaling / reliability demands caused us to make an explicit product decision for Cedar.
I may have missed a step in your reasoning but why are you assuming they have to start with a "raw recruit"?

Why couldn't companies hire actual developers with no previous experience in {some_tech} or {some_framework} and train them in said tech/framework?

It seems companies, just like recruiters, feel safer when they hire a "rails dev" for a "rails position" when in fact a good programmer with zero rails experience would be much preferable to a mediocre programmer who has some rails experience.

PS: the song is excellent but I couldn't find any recent cover; this old guy with a Banjo is killing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUExq2hNBU
The problem with NaCl is that it is platform dependent. It is the 386 real mode instruction set which means it is bad for mobile platforms since nearly all of them are ARM based. NaCl will be slower to run since ARM devices will have to emulate the 386 instruction set.
The image_url variable references "constantguard/BotAssistance", which turns up in search results as a system used to alert customers of DNS changer malware.
almost all of them kicked ass

The past always looks brighter from the present.
Use the Play store/App store rankings and download counts as a factor and weigh them higher for mobile-only companies?
North Korea has "final approval" for nuclear attack on US
Analogy is inspiration, not proof.
My company has been building apps for startups for years, and I can confirm that Heroku is consistently perceived as a "I never have to worry about scaling" solution.
Are there papers in top-tier journals and conferences whose primary authors are still in high school? I would be curious to read these!

EDIT: spelling
Backbone.managedview
Hey dmor, mind updating "Balanced Payments" to just "Balanced" website is balancedpayments.com, but company name is Balanced. thanks!
So everyone knows the destination address of fraudulent transfer.
I wonder if it would make sense to mark it as "dirty" and mark as "dirty" every other address where the funds will be transferred from this address.
And then every legitimate merchant, after receiving bitcoin payment would validate incoming address against "dirty" list to allow tracking of thief?
This of course works only if every merchant and service in bitcoin world would do that.

Just an idea ...
How does Alexa get the information to rank websites? From a toolbar a user has to install ... maybe the people using some place like instawallet wouldn't be too keen on sharing data with a 3rd party.
How do you set the value of the goods you're selling?

Assuming you manage your life with some other currency (USD), you would ideally want something that has reasonable value when converted to your other currency.
Or reverse proxy not sending the right Host header.
I believe where iTunes differentiates itself from the streaming services is offline. The video you get is prefetched, so you don't need access to a large bandwidth pipe in order to view your content, and you can also store them on an iOS device or iPod and view the content anywhere. I'm not personally aware of other digital video services that work like this.
The thing is, Chase and BoA are often capable of reversing fraud and catching the people behind it. Bitcoins don't really allow for that sort of restitution.
I was referring to how Scala copied the actor model (though it is was not invented for Erlang either) and several other Erlang-ideas while adding new features and running on the JVM. In some direction similar with Go; You're right though, it wasn't the best of comparisons.
Rather hit or miss for me. Sometimes you'll get through and other times you'll get a 502. I've noticed it since earlier this morning (~9AM EST).
If you are interested in aggregating their google page rank you can look at my code here: https://github.com/databigbang/enriching-a-list-of-urls-with... using http://www.schurpf.com/google-pagerank-python/

Also, if you want to aggregate its related twitter, blogs, etc you can also look at https://github.com/srw/discovering-web-resources for a simple multithreaded crawler.

Related articles:

- http://blog.databigbang.com/automated-discovery-of-blog-feed...

- http://blog.databigbang.com/enriching-a-list-of-urls-with-go...

Hope it helps!
The longer ago you've read it, the more you like. Like so many nostalgic things.
Clicking the logo directs the user to http://localhost:3000.

On a side note... New Business plan:

1. Setup an online Bitcoin wallet service
2. Wait a while till people actually trust/use it
3. "We got hacked"
RFC 3546, which includes TLS Server Name Indication, has existed since June 2003. The problem preventing deployment is the lack of client support, especially Internet Explorer on Windows XP and Android 2.x [1].

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#No_suppo...
Except speculators and day traders.
I tried clicking through on the "Details, criticism, and gotchas" links only to get that overlay asking me to "Join the conversation" when I got there, and again when I got back each time. What an asshole move.
Hey HN, I'm still not sure why I wrote this but I get asked a lot about 'how to set up a business' and 'what is it like working for yourself', I just wanted to write about some of the real things that I feel and go through working in startups and building things
Then hold Dollars.
Thanks, I will check these out and really appreciate the interest in what I'm doing
One of my absolute favourite games bootstrapped themselves on the basis of pre-orders before Kickstarter was available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Selection_2

I think they pulled it off because of the strong reputation of the original Natural Selection (which was a Half Life mod). Still pretty amazing, especially considering they developed the 3D engine from scratch.
I agree. What is unique here? I really hope they have some advantageous licensing deal that nobody else can get or plans to do something, anything, different... otherwise this is a waste of time and investor money.
I don't disagree with what you said (in fact I upvoted it because it's spot on), but this sort of makes FDIC insurance a sham, right? They're basically claiming they will insure your money in a bank until they need it -- then it's fair game. Even if they never do renege on their promise, we are (through taxation) subsidizing people to give their money away to banks.
What's a stooge? Someone who enjoys their life and the byproduct of that is that someone else gets rich? The point is-- that guy you made rich? You didn't make him happy. You didn't impact his happiness at all (long term). So someone who gets rich on the back of your (rewarding/enjoyable work) isn't getting ANYTHING but shiny objects your monkey brain tells you equal happiness. I pasted these into another comment, but here are some studies around wealth and happiness:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...
(tl;dw: After a brief burst of happiness, wealth has the approximately the same long-term impact on happiness as losing your legs in an accident (i.e. NONE))

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100431776
tl;dr the wealthy don't believe that money buys you happiness.

http://www.livescience.com/5462-happiness-wealth.html
"Wealth, fame and good looks may be a formula for anxiety rather than happiness, a new study suggests."

There's TONS of data on this.
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Sorry! Misunderstood your comment at first :$
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stop. storing. your. wallet. online. (I wanted to write this in caps, but I resisted)

I'll add this to my list of things that people know they should do but are too lazy to take a few minutes and setup: don't repeat passwords, use a password manager, make regular backups, don't use GoDaddy.

Stop thinking you're the exception dammit, these things don't take that much effort to do properly.
Wage increases always lag inflation. In a market a with huge labor surplus, wages may lag longer than many can tolerate.
I wonder if it is being ddos'd in an effort to move/convert the 43K bitcoins that allegedly went missing from Instawallet? I'm trying to figure out if there is an advantage to be gained by having them offline for that or not.
I don't understand how the system behaves more intelligently when the edge routers increase. The core routers random behavior gets worse with the larger load, and increasing the number of intelligent routers doesn't help to solve that problem in any meaningful way.

Sorry, correct me if I missed something, but I believe that as the overall volume of system transactions increases (thus necessitating more "intelligent" nodes) the volume of random dispersal from the core routers increases as well, which can create situations like what we saw with RapGenius where some requests are 100ms and others are 6500ms (the reason being that random routing is not intelligent and can assign jobs to a node that's completely saturated). Adding more and more intelligent nodes doesn't solve the crux of the issue, which is the random assignment of jobs in the core routers to the "intelligent" routers/nodes.

This whole situation boils down to this: "Intelligent routing is hard, so fuck it" and that's why everyone is pissed off. Heroku could've said "hey Intelligent routing is hard so we're not doing that anymore" but instead they just silently deprecated the service. It's a textbook example of how to be a bad service provider.
The storage of random projection matrices is puzzling, because there's a well-known trick in always building the projection matrices from a known seed. It gives you the right distribution properties, and none of the storage woes. With a sufficiently fast RNG, this could actually be faster than storing it in main memory because of cache pollution.
About 0.4% of all Bitcoins currently in existence are stored there. Hopefully most of them find their way back to their rightful owners.
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IA is using bitcoin to support its programs, by paying its staff (in part) in bitcoin. In other words, the institution is getting the services it needs in return for bitcoin.
Not really. I still live with my parents to this day - all it means is that I become an adult in the legal sense of the word and any contracts I sign are binding and nonvoidable.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. Most of the teetotalers and very light drinkers I've met in my life are or were working class or poor people. I think middle class people drink more than poor people. If you go to a party with poor people, there's hardly any alcohol at all. When you go to a party with middle class people, there's a little keg of some craft brew and a few bottles of liquor.

(In fact, I think the fact I don't drink has actually harmed my career, because I don't really socialize as much as I used to. My SO hates alcohol. I like it, but can't partake.)

The main reason why poor people are poor is because they make like $8.50 an hour and no benefits. Also, grocery store stats refute your assertion about foods. The bag-it-yourself stores sell more per customer than the mainstream supermarkets.
Agree 100%. Having children changes your perspective and priorities, and you learn to make every second outside of raising your kids count. Parenthood has also taught me how to let go and say no to doing things which has, in turn, compelled me to work balanced days and to grow up.
Blockchain.info does this for a small fee.
They got ddos'd last week too. I think they're mostly just a big shiny target.
It's at least a step up from how studios like HBO operate. If you want to watch HBO's content, there's no legal way to do so without being part of an expensive cable package. If you wanted to watch House of Cards and you weren't already a Netflix member, you could just pay the $8 (or get a free first-month trial) to essentially rent the entire Netflix catalog for an entire month. That's what you might have paid not too long ago to borrow a single scratched-up DVD from Blockbuster for a few days.
1. DDoS mtgox and the other exchanges

2. BTC comes down in price, buy it

3. BTC goes back up in price, sell it

4. profit!!!
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I only skimmed over the article... but being from the UK, I've never understood the tax system in the US. In the UK I work for an employer, so I have a single source of income like the vast majority of people. The employer must pay their portion of the tax and at the same time they pay my portion of the tax. At the end of the year I get a P60 which states my income for the year, how much tax I have paid and under which tax code I paid. Assuming I only have the single job, there is nothing else for me to do.

If I have a secondary income (and I was inclined to declare it) then I would have to file a return with this info, I think it is all done online now.

I guess it just has always been the norm over here in the UK and so no one complains about it...
Also there is DOMBuilder https://github.com/insin/DOMBuilder which has separate modes for using HTML mock elements on (node.js) server-side or DOM elements in browsers. The mock elements are implementing only a very small set of the DOM functions, but if you extend it a little then it can be useful to share Backbone-like views between server and client.
Ha yes, I've noticed that - my 13-year old brother is giving my parents hell right now. I would not trade places with them.
I had the Jedi Starfighter game for the original xbox. It was fun, but completely lacked the enjoyment I got from X-Wing. It could just be nostalgia, but I still get the same enjoyment from firing up X-Wing in DOSBox.

The Rogue Squadron games achieved high popularity, but they felt more like spiritual successors to the Rebel Assault games, rather than X-Wing.

I want my sprawling space battles with Correllian Corvettes and Frigates and all the different TIE variations, Y-Wings, B-Wings, A-Wings.

Aw man, I'm going to reinstall X-Wing when I get home. Just need to find a cheap joystick that works with DOSBox now.
They should Counterspell that DDoS.
> Any system in which people can end up with the same portion of an economy after sitting both their labor and their capital out on the sidelines for 100 years is fundamentally broken.

Assertions. Words. Some of those strong..

To be frank, I'm disappointed, but.. I'll manage that, no need to worry.
As with the other recent anomalous results it's reassuring that there are these unexplained results still out there. The concern of physicists (and I'm many years removed from being one) is in pushing experiments like the LHC, finding what we predicted and nothing more.

This points to new physics and that's a good thing. The problem with the staggeringly successful and precise "Standard Model" is the number of hand-tweaked variables you have to include to make it work. Absent new physics, if this became all we could experimentally demonstrate, we'd be left with solely anthropic reasoning (we just happen to exist in a universe compatible with our existence).

So yay for positrons!
One place I worked had HR do screening interviews. It was like a resume-grep, except in person. They asked me if I knew SQL. I said no, other than the briefest exposure in class. Ultimately got hired anyway, but never came close to working on any SQL. I'm not sure we even had any SQL running anywhere in the company at the time.
> true

that makes sense, i was wondering how intelligent routing was implemented in the first place.
But is there a scientific basis to prefer this bet to, say, death-bed religious conversion?
Digital Ocean integration with Vagrant
I don't really see it as a complaint about reddit. I'm complaining about a sentiment that he seems to be supporting, which I've only ever seen on reddit. My response was informed by the assumed connection to reddit.
Yes! I'm saying this because 'some men want to watch the world burn'. And if you do I could only imagine your world crashing and burning. Rewrites are painful.

Rewriting anything from scratch is generally frowned upon, but you also have to consider this is not your company so I doubt you'd even get the go-ahead to make the transition.
GetFlow vs Asana ... Who Wins? 
Has anyone on here tried both?...
Which would you recommend (or would you recommend something else?)

What's the best/worst thing about each one?
> Asm.js guys however proved that using the declaration that specifies the very fixed assertions

Well, C compilers proved that long ago, nothing novel here. It is obviously easier to compile statically typed languages to efficient code. Especially if your language is limited to arithmetic and memory operations and your input source code is actually output of a sophisticated optimizing compiler that performs high-level optimizations for you.

> which otherwise is too demanding to be deduced

Let me repeat: JS engines already spend time on, as you say, deducing all kinds of information. This is not going anywhere, unless you are willing to make all JavaScript slower.

Because it is not going anywhere I am essentially arguing that it should be fixed to correctly infer more useful information than it does right now. Are you suggesting that VMs should just stay essentially unfixed?
No that's already bitcoin itself.
How do you do this if MtGox is down?
I don't find testing as a solution very convincing, it's just the same problem all over again: more code which may ran yet fail to live up to expectations. It's a tool, but static checks are better for things that can be statically checked. But I think you hinted at being in line with that, and yes you should still write tests.

But it's not right to think of Rust as a safe C++ in the small, particularly because of the ban on shared mutable state. IIRC, Rust is partly a product of the difficulty C++ had in this area.

I don't think they're rewriting Gecko. If the transitive property holds, the code in Servo is at least as different from the code in Gecko as Rust is from C++, and I think that's only amplified in the design. Servo aims to do things that are not realistic for Gecko, like parallelizing more of its operations. I don't think they'd be going this far with Servo at this point if it wasn't for that, I think Gecko would just see the necessary changes and that would be it.

Either way, Servo exists. We're told it started as research, but it is obviously at the point where its promise is more concrete. When the lessons have been learned from Servo, it will be a complete, embeddable (this is one goal Gecko gave up on) engine. There's no sense in backporting its innards to the C++ engine when you can just drop it in place.
Don't you have to prove that you're economically independent? I think that's how it is in Wisconsin.
The recent run-up is nothing.

The price will be $300/BTC by next week and $3000/BTC by next year.
a pattern if repeated enough times.
Do they not have [nearly] all that information already? How else can the IRS verify your filing is accurate without essentially doing your tax calculations automatically?

Most people's significant sources of income are already reported to the IRS.
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>On a side note... New Business plan:
>
>1. Setup an online Bitcoin wallet service 2. Wait a while till people actually trust/use it 3. "We got hacked"

Something tells me you're not the first to come up with this.
>Why are C/C++ so much faster than JIT'ed Javascript? Can't a subset of Javascript be converted to ASM.js JS that'll run around the same speed? loops, arrays, conditional statements, etc. Why does Javascript have to be so much slower?

"So much slower"?

Perhaps you haven't been around this web scene for more than 5-6 years. JS is so much faster now it's not even funny. JS used to be in the "slow as molasses" category pre-2005.

Now it's like 10 times faster than Python for pure algorithmic code.
Why make a "realistic estimate" without reference to actual figures?

US GDP ~$15 trillion
USD (notes and coins) >$1 trillion;
USD (M1 aggregate) >$2 trillion

i.e. a dollar gets "spent" on activities that contribute to GDP between 7 and 15 times a year, depending on what aggregate you count as a dollar
(of course the actual picture is complicated by a lot more non-productive transfers not counted in GDP)

Velocity of circulation (the ratio of national income to money supply) in real world economies is a surprisingly low number, and whilst Bitcoins are a little more efficient to transact with than electronic bank interchanges, they're also not designed to be inflationary to encourage turnover.