skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually do get your point. Let me paraphrase it to ensure we're on the same page:

- you have seen organizations pay $20k for SQL Server
- 50 boxes like that will cost a lot of money.
- SQL Server is actually worse than (at least one of) the free options

Here's my experience:

- I've actually purchased SQL server, bundled with the OS and all other necessary software for $2k.
- 50 boxes like that won't cost significantly more than they would with free software, if you consider the dominant cost of operating it, which is hosting fees.
- SQL Server is actually really good.

So yeah, I imagine that people overpay for SQL Server all the time, and they certainly pay a ton for Oracle. They don't need to though. Microsoft is really good at making sure that businesses use their software, and they'll find a way to price it in a way you can afford.
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It's already there - it doesn't break down completely in the digestive tract and some of it gets flushed out with the urine, which, well, sooner or later ends up in the water supply.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3545684.stm
I don't want to get into the details (for obvious reasons) but we are quite lenient about public link usage! We're mostly interested in cutting off the potentially expensive long tail, which can get very, very long.
"Nerd" ? :)

Well, I'm a nerd, and I bet most of the people frequenting this forum are nerds too.

I guess this was another good example of people overreacting then.
Actually, if you are making fighter jets, and if your CEO isn't a retired ex-air force brass, then you'd better be damn sure that your sales force are. I can't imagine an ex-newspaper tycoon having much luck selling fighter jets to the Pentagon.
What is the benefit of not being "a bit socially deviant"?
There's a DAM Elephant in the Room, called Adobe
Lots of mood changes are due to a _lack_ of minerals in food. I had a pretty bad bout of feeling tired in high school, and it turned out to be at least in part lack of Calcium.
Thanks, I know it exists - I'm just stubborn ;-).

I dislike opaque executable blobs delivered inside HTML, proprietary plugins to deal with them, and browser extensions to deal with the problems ... feels like piling bricks on moving sand - tiresome, ineffective, unsafe.
Ask HN: Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites
If I want to manage 10 sites, each in it's own browser with its own gmail, dashboard etc, how would I go about doing that?

I tried site specific browsers like Chrome but they don't allow me to open 10 gmail accounts in 10 separate SSBs (signing into an account in one SSB logs me off from a previous account in another SSB)

Edit: I'm looking for a solution in Windows.
feels made up.
Also, Facebook is just really well designed software, which I think counts for more than any of the things you mentioned. There's no reason to leave.
I think you mean:

1. v
2. i
:wq
Something like this: http://fluidapp.com/ maybe?
1. Launchbar / 2. Fluid / 3. Firefox & Firebug / 4. Querious / 5. Photoshop
Hi Amir,

Speeding up real-world applications can actually range from being very easy to incredibly difficult, depending on the facilities they rely on. And we are far from finished: while number-crunching applications can see substantial speed-ups, Rails is currently not accelerated by our modified interpreters.

As a services business, however, the CrossTwine Linker kernel allows us to quickly develop language-, domain-, and even problem-specific interpreters. In effect, we can “cheat” as much as we want if we know what the target problem is. (Cheat safely, that is; a problem-specific customization would retain 100% compatibility with the language—it would just be much faster on some kind of workloads.)

So while our demos currently feature generic interpreters for Python 2.6 (only in the labs for now) and 3.1, plus Ruby 1.8 and 1.9, we can “easily” whip up an enhanced custom interpreter tuned for whatever performance problem you are experiencing; and we can decide to integrate these improvements into the mainline on a case-by-case basis.
Textmate has the awesome Javascript Tools extension http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200901/javascript_tool...

shift+control+v and it runs it through Doug Crawford's lint engine. It also has the option of running it on every file save.

Also, I'd suggest using IE8 instead of IE7. It has way way better dev tools, and built in support for IE7 (using the compatibility mode button). As for IE6, you should do us all a favor and drop support for that ASAP.
Sorry, I should have specified I was looking for an answer in Windows.
The BBC report mentions studies with similar results in 1980s. I remember them from my grad school days in 1970s.

However... note that these are epidemiological studies, and demonstrated (as I recall) that bipolar (aka manic-depressive) depressive illness is lower in areas of U.S. with higher natural lithium.

Even if it could be demonstrated that lithium-ingestion in water did reduce incidence of bipolar illness, this would not be expected to improve depression among those with the more common, uni-polar depression:: There has never been evidence that lithium is a "mood enhancer" or "psychoactive" - only that deficiencies of lithium may bring out or aggravate latent bipolar depressive illness.
— A (non-clinical) psychology Ph.D.
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Mozilla Prism: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/prism/
In practice there usually isn't a problem when making these sorts of decisions, because the decision requires popular support. If adding lithium reduces suicides by a factor of three, probably adds to the general, measureable, happiness of many more and is shown not to have any adverse 'side effects', including effects like 'being less critical when appraising opinions of authority figures' (which is a sort of effect that likely would be investigated, as a natural part of investigating the mind altering qualities of adding lithium to the water) then almost everyone would decide in favor of adding the substance.
Does this work for you? http://onlinedev.blogspot.com/2008/01/run-multiple-versions-...
Note that JIT compilation in itself does not improve speed that much, but it's an important enabler for partial specialization.

I actually believe HotSpot gets a lot of its performance from the fact that the language is “fully managed,” and thus allows for very efficient garbage collectors and other runtime mechanisms. AFAIK, HotSpot actually does not do that much partial specialization besides—very effective—method inlining and lightweight inline caching.
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I don't have a "supercomputer" at my disposal to run complex simulations on, but my common sense tells me that once we go beyond 1000 infections that thing is long out of control. Remember that for each reported infection there is probably at least one unreported one - and since flu spreads nearly exponentially you don't need a supercomputer to do the math.

Well, good thing this virus doesn't seem to be as lethal as it was made out to be in the early days. Let's just hope it doesn't mutate into something bad.
A good way to visualize this is to imagine a family tree going back for many, many generations. You'd find that certain males were your ancestor "more than once", i.e. you might find the same man was your ancestor on both your mother and father's side.

Of course, females can also be your ancestor "more than once"; it's just that, as a matter of fact, more men have this property. This is due to the fact that some men have dozens of children, by several different women.
Same problem. Logging into a new gmail account in one logs out a previous account in another.
This looks like it! Can I run 10 browsers with 10 email accounts (1 in each)?
FYI, the newest version of NoScript (1.9.2.6) stops doing this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589683
MySpace had all of these things too, but it didn't prevent people leaving in droves when FaceBook really took off.

FB competitors seriously missed a trick when the new real-time feed was rolled out. A lot of my friends hate it deeply, but there wasn't really a good competitor ready and waiting, so people stuck around.

MySpace looks like it's trying, as it adds ever-more FB-esque features, but the brand is tarnished and the site is burdened under the weight of legacy accounts with their hideous custom CSS and auto-play music. The hordes of spammers don't help either. The solution there is either to clean house (a big risk), or set up on a new domain. Either way, the window of opportunity is almost closed.
This may work? http://broker20.com/
This looks like it will allow me to be logged into 10 different email accounts at once. Are the browsers secure?
It seems to me that "permanent/temporary" is an instance of "general/specific".

As explained in another reply here, that occurred to me but I resist summarizing it so. Although it seems to be trivially true, it may turn out that if you collapse the categories in your mind you lose the benefits of hacking your mind when you do that.

Also, collapsing things to the most "general" observation may be a psychological turing tar pit, a place where "everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy." If you only think of the most general aphorism, it may require a lot of work to apply it to various situations. The "specific" rules (personal/impersonal, permanent/temporary, general/specific) may require three times the storage but be very easy and fast to apply.

I don't know, which is why I resist trying to editorialize. If I were a psychologist, I would take a conjecture like that and test it. Which is often the difference between pundits and scientists. A pundit wonders if such-and-such is the case and writes an essay. A scientist wonders if such-and-such is the case and then sets about trying to devise a means of testing the conjecture.

I don't know if being pessimistic abut my code would make it better. I do know that tending towards pessimism of the sort described by Dr. Seligman has made me unhappy.
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Also, it's probably better if we don't have to deal with people on zour team constantly thinking how they're 20 times better/worse than some other guy.

Not really... If you had one of those guys on your team, chances are you could fire most of the team, thus resolving most of the inter-personal tension you're referring to. There are both advantages and disadvantages to that, of course, but in a start-up context, for example, I would say you should have only top notch people who can work "faster than 20 normal programmers". Otherwise the communications overheads will kill you.
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Steve Blank and Eric Ries Customer Development Talk at Startup2Startup (video)
Well, the essay goes further than suggesting that people think before speaking and communicate a certain and possibly different way: The essay calls on people to actually think in a certain and possibly different way.

If someone is looking at something and thinking of the positives in personal, general, and permanent ways and thinking of the negatives in impersonal, specific, and temporary ways, then I trust that whatever they choose to say sincerely will work out just fine.
Emacs, Firefox, Python, Clojure, Totem.
Yes, Google, we know exactly what you mean when you talk about cloud
I can't see why not. Create 10 profiles, and login to each of them separatly with no-remote. Better yet, you can copy the firefox launch icon, go to properties and modify the firefox command like so:

firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager profile1
firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager profile2

etc. and have 10 shortcuts for each profile.
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For linux users, a very useful app: BasKet Note Pads.
It's an organization tool, you write pages with notes, format text in those notes, dragndrop files into the page, and the killer feature: at any time you can capture a part of the screen and it goes directly to that page. (e.g. you can be writing notes about a PDF and capture text/a graph/an image from it, directly, in a second)
I can't live without it. Out of curiosity, does anyone know similar apps? (in any OS)

link: http://basket.kde.org/
He actually talks about starting new company's so the link to HackerNews is not that hard to see.

But a more interesting link why men become obsessed with specific specializations. For a well understood example consider how many partners a highly talented and successful musician might have over 30 years. The long term impact of effective birth control will probably have long term impact on the most successful approaches.
I came across this - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/use-multiple-google...

Figure it's faster and easier. Thanks for your help tho!
Found it!
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/use-multiple-google...
Speaking of lithium in water...

If you ever go through Ashland, Oregon (you're driving north/south on I-5 for instance), be sure to visit here for a nice break:

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

It's a popular prank to bring visitors to the park and let them sample the water, which is really wretched.
Use incognito mode in Chrome
It would be worthwhile here to read the article by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Lithium's mechanism of action in patients who take it as a prescribed medication is not well understood, and it would take a great deal of follow-up to see if this epidemiological study is verified, especially as to its effect size reported here.

Re: the comment about unipolar versus bipolar depression posted earlier, the suicide risk is much higher for bipolar depression (it is highest for the pattern of mood called bipolar II), so reducing bipolar mood variation would seem to have great promise for reducing completed suicide.
At my employer, no one in the Product Development group is strictly a manager. Even the VP does active development (though he still is responsible for managing the group). Product managers function as cross-functional managers, driving both the product development and the cross-functional teams that will support the products.

This seems to make project deadlines more reasonable, since my direct managers are in the trenches with us.
ClipX - ClipX allows for mulit copy/paste functionality.
Did any of them have children? Getting married is one thing, but most people, at least the responsible ones, who don't have a stable income will tend to use birth control.
There's a very good reason to run NoScript: most web developers still don't understand CSRF, and hence many web applications are vulnerable to CSRF attacks. Running NoScript prevents untrusted sites from exploiting CSRF holes in sites that you care about.

That said I don't personally run NoScript (I use Safari), but I totally understand people who do.
>If you took birth control out of the equation

And if pigs could fly...

Birth control changes everything. The number of children a man has is inversely (and counterintuitively) related to the number of sexual partners he's had.

http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2008/10/fewer-sexual-partners-...

You can have all the sex you want, but if it doesn't result in babies it doesn't count (at least not in this context).
Encourage the uploading of lots of pictures without an easy way to download them again in a batch.

It's not just that; tagging I'd argue is FB's killer photo feature (and weirdly something LJ could do easily, but never did). It's easy on FB to attend an event, then associate photos with that event and with the people and it's all cross-linked. Even if you download the photos, if you leave FB you lose all that linkage.
IPhone Camcorder?
In addition to tracking the calls & durations, it should track the pitch and tone to provide more accurate results. E.g. did a user speak in a melodious voice or had to raise the tone, while speaking with another? Coupled with a statistical model of the specific user's tendency about the tone, will give very precise information.

A chilling scenario can be: serve ads to the user for improving pronunciation based on an analysis of their speech.

Not sure about the privacy implications, though. Technically, it may or may not be possible to achieve at this stage, since powerful hardware is required for such analysis.
Thanks for the link. It was sold out, and I went to the pub afterwards but had no way of identifying the group. But with the link I can get in touch with them.
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Two. Then myself, for lunch for a few days.
DSL for WATiR to do automated web app testing I've created
I've been working on a web application for the last year or so at work. In order to do some lightweight automated testing from the UI down I started using WATiR; which is pretty cool. However I took this one step further and wrote a DSL on top to speed things up. I call it WSL - WATiR Scripting Language.

The ultimate aim is to simplify the API so much that non-devs can use it (ie. testers). I'm hoping to open source this soon but in the meantime you can download the gem and install locally to play around with it. I'm in the process of creating collateral and examples that people can refer to at the linked site, in the process I have learnt a hell of a lot of other skills/technologies, which is really gratifying, but my submission primarily is about WSL so far - What does everyone think?
I've been working on a web application for the last year or so at work. In order to do some lightweight automated testing from the UI down I started using WATiR; which is pretty cool. However I took this one step further and wrote a DSL on top to speed things up. I call it WSL - WATiR Scripting Language.

The ultimate aim is to simplify the API so much that non-devs can use it (ie. testers). I'm hoping to open source this soon but in the meantime you can download the gem and install locally to play around with it. I'm in the process of creating collateral and examples that people can refer to at the linked site, in the process I have learnt a hell of a lot of other skills/technologies, which is really gratifying, but my submission primarily is about WSL so far - What does everyone think?
JSCoverage, code coverage for javascript
Visualization makes things much more understandable

Does it? Are you http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ ?
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No: there are less total fathers than mothers, because more people have the same father than the same mother. People who haven't lived long enough to reproduce have no impact on that figure.

There are extreme cases for both genders. While my paternal grandmother had seventeen kids, the comparatively extreme male case probably had well over a hundred. You can only give birth so many times, so the upper bound for women is lower.
Ask YC: good service/api to send emails?
For a community site, I'm sending lots of emails, but the more I send (all opt-in), the more end up in spam filters. Is there an affordable (so I can send 100s or 1000s of emails a day for a reasonable cost) service with a simple API that lets me send email? I want to use one so that they can worry about contacting ISPs about not being spam etc...
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I'm currently sending a few 100 a day, expect to send 1000s of emails a day. Again, this is all opted in, but a lot of them still get lost in spamfilters, that's the main problem.
I want to highlight a point "start from the basics".

Most of our teachers (in tunisia) ruined studies by starting and giving students hard exercices to do, which makes them fear and afraid from science.
is the problem only with gmail (google services) or you want to access any sites??
Why not create different versions of browsers (then you should go to FireFox) and every browser uses it's own cookies.

Simply, you need to know how to hack FireFox
Why would this be news, it is not too difficult to achieve. I have been using "Cycorder" http://cydia.saurik.com/info/cycorder/ on my iPhone for months now and it works flawlessly. The only gotcha is that you have to have a jailbroken iPhone, and use cydia to install it but the video quality and sound quality are fine. If as the article suggests, this is a software only upgrade it is not a big deal. The article talks about doing video editing on the iPhone itself which I don't think is practical. It would be news if the next version of the iPhone had a real hi-def camera to allow to acquire HD video, however I doubt that this is apple horizon any time soon.
Hi Damien

I applaud your efforts. One thing to note thought is that the market-share of Python 2.x is a lot larger than Python 3.1 - - and I think this will be the case for some time, as Python 3.x requires lots of porting.

It would be great if you could optimize an interpreter for web-applications - where Python is used a lot. I would be very interested in paying for an web-application optimized interpreter - - and you could probably do this optimization more generally?
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Yours ? Not being regarded as "odd".

Society's ? Not having to deal with the friction created by eccentrics.
Well, I'm about to launch 10 sites and I wanted to monitor everything for each site on a separate browswer - email, analytics, dashboards etc.

So yeah, I could hack firefox. But I dont know how. But the chrome incognito mode serves the same purpose.
True. Could he be made a British knight posthumous?
The search probably runs off a separate full-text index in their back-end (an inverted index if you will). When people post public tweets these probably get enqueued to be added to the index, so they will be included in search. They just need to delete all tweets from the index an account once it's made private. Maybe their index is append only, or it's very computationally expensive to remove old records (which is usually true for these data structures), so they've opted not to do this yet.
Since he was lost in early 2007, I would say yes for all practical purposes.