skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my consulting company, Inaka, we built this originally as a side project when we were using Redis and thought we needed multi-master larger-than-RAM datasets, but then we ended up moving to CouchDB for that project.

It's currently a research project for us and we have an intern from Uppsala University working on the HA features including paxos leader election and multi-master conflict resolution. See the mutinode branch. Some people have added some additional database backends, but I don't know of any serious production users yet.

I gave a talk on it at the 2012 Erlang Factory as it's entirely Erlang-based. Here's the talk - http://vimeo.com/42630498

Benefits over Redis: Faster startup time over big datasets, pluggable backends, (eventually) Multi-master and HA (with a different approach than Redis is currently taking with Sentinel).

Drawbacks: 3x to 10x slower on all operations. We've done no work to optimize.
I used the Nexus 4 as an example of the most extensive Google integration. However my other devices are a GS 3, GS 2, Galaxy Glide, and Nexus 7s. Given that Google+ is an app (and is actually the same app on all of them), the same behavior was true on all of them.
Well, remote job isn't exclusively connected to linkedin and personally i think that remote jobs are going to become more and more common with time. Linkedin is, mostly, useful for headhunters and people who want to sell themselves (which is totally legal, but it's personal choice). I've deleted my linkedin account and doing just fine with one important addition -> don't have to pump my ego on profile and live all that shit related to virtual narcissism. So, if you ask me, it's much better in mental sense.
Ask HN: Have you had any sub-$1MM exits?
Everyone in the startup news world seems to revel in the big exit ($20MM+) but the chances of one are extremely slim. I honestly don't need or care for that much money and would be extremely happy selling a company/product for $500-750k, but you never hear about the small exits.

Have you proceeded with a small exit? If so, what did you build? I'm a software engineer so I'd like to experiment with some small business ideas and I'm lacking the knowledge and inspiration to find such projects.
Make an About page to explain what the site does.
you got obj-c for PA? I got JavaScript for Philly...
I believe the author was more annoyed by bad recruiter emails ("dinky little HTML and CSS job positions from recruiters who don’t understand any of the technology requirements") than recruiter emails in general. Unfortunately, there's no way to easily differentiate when reading an email subject header.
This is really neat! I think it would be interesting to see how the graphs of different reviewing websites compare. did you test it with any other sites and compare recommendations?
Nevermind, I see your reply elsewhere in the thread. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617082)
Hey, great idea! I found a couple bugs:

1. There is not much user input validation, if any. For example, I submitted <h1>Broken</h1> to the San Francisco page, and it broke the "Explore Review Frequencies" section.

2. There is no checking for repeating submissions. Using a while loop on "send_review('stuff')" repeated my submission until I refreshed the page. A way to fix this would be to save an array of user ids per topic, but unfortunately that would require user login. Or, you could save an array of ip addresses, though obviously there are easy ways to get around that.
>You're awfully close to a No true Scotsman argument, there.

Not really. More an argument that all Scotsmen are men.
Ask HN: Would you participate in a website like this?
A website where 5 pages are written per day, and you get to choose what you want the main event to happen in the next 5 pages (That will come out the next day).
> until you see the many lives destroyed by drugs. from mothers abandoning their children, to ending up homeless and alone, to deaths and murders.

luckily there are other fun and legal substances like alcohol that never cause such damage. oh, wait.
Agreed. He made the point many times in the video that yes, he could get a movie funded, but he thinks that a Kickstarter funding mechanism is a superior alternative. He presents some arguments to that effect. I have no idea what the state of film funding is, but I figure Braff is a lot more in touch with it than I am.
Wasting time on what we all know to be near meaningless makes you a concern troll.

I'm all for regulating what you can inflict on those downwind of you, but if you called the city inspectors because you were worried about second-hand e-cig vapor they'd arrive in a car that produced literally thousands of times more known deadly toxins.

We definitely should start testing common things people use like deodorant, makeup, hairspray, e-cigs, etc. But if we do it in order of suspected toxicity you'll be waiting a while for those results. And if you read the list of things to worry about and get to where second-hand vapor is even visible on the cost/benefit scale, you will have to be living in a bubble.
By the way... feel free to delete all the "broken" tags in the San Francisco page...
Keyword: Friend. Most recruiters don't do the effort to make developers feel that they're cared for and in good hands. Hell, lots of times they don't even read the CV, all they care is that you have the right buzzword there.
The Hilbert Curve
I'm surprised these sorts of crimes don't happen more often. They probably do, but we just don't hear about them as much.

Trackers are cheap these days and even Mission Impossible style devices/bugs can be had that are just a little bigger than a car remote. Or if you're the DIY type, there are circuit and project boards with built in GPS chips or add-on modules available and you can buy plastic cases in standard sizes.
Why Atlassian's founders are the pride of Australia's Startup ecosystem
as someone who does have blue-green colorblindness - I can't tell whether or not there are colors I'm not seeing.
I don't know what you mean by 'better in a mental sense'. I have my LinkedIn account and log in at best every 2 months. I don't even realize when I have internal linkedin notifications. People contact me by email, not by linkedin.
Except it wasn't an amateur contest, or even a contest; they just chose the best professional musicians they could to back them up.
Prior to using LinkedIn I, like many others, kept my resume on a publicly accessible website. For me this means there is zero downside to moving all that information to LinkedIn, and only upsides - While I haven't accepted any jobs that came my way via LinkedIn, I've learned about some interesting new companies I never would have been exposed to otherwise, and I now get some more useful metrics on who viewed my resume.
Networking. Funny enough, LinkedIn is a pretty decent tool for that. I got my current job by contacting a friend here and I would not know I have a contact here without having found that via LI.

It's a self-updating rolodex for me.
Europe is just PHP as far as the eye can see. I think Berlin is the only major city that bucks the trend.
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The problem is, as you say, 95% of tech recruiters are utterly incompetent, and even the good ones don't have a firm grasp of specific technologies.

I once had a conversation with a recruiter that went like this:

"I see you're very qualified for this senior back-end position I have. Do you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?"

"I do, but those are front-end technologies, and I'm not interested in a front-end job at this time. Thanks, anyway."

"No, this is a back-end job."

"I think you have the definition of front-end and back-end switched around."

"You know, I'm looking at your résumé again and I think maybe you're under qualified for this role. I have a junior position..."

"Goodbye." (click)

----

It's not just the emails. It's the constant phone calls, too. Software developers get tired of talking to "air-quote recruiters", e.g., "Are you familiar with... 'Hadoop'?"

I understand these guys aren't going to be experts, but given that most positions are found through referrals, some tech people just feel like it's not worth the hassle.
Everything around me in a 15 mile radius wants me to learn java. Programming gods help us all.
Hitchhiker’s guide to the eLearning galaxy
Is this a directed serialization of written fiction? How are the choices presented, multiple choice, user suggestion?
I honestly don't get spammed by these recruiters. What's the difference between my account and all these other people who are getting "spammed"?
After a dozen or so years of pack-a-day smoking I quit by just switching to nicotine gum. You can get a big kick out of one of those whenever you need it, and I was very liberal with them and probably actually increased my nicotine intake heh. After a couple months of gum I moved over to patches and then after a month or so I started forgetting to put them on.

It's about a year and a half since then, I still get cravings occasionally but they can be beaten by going for a walk and sucking up some second hand smoke.
All information you've explicitly disclosed to them yourself.

If you'd complained about how much stuff companies like this infer about you then you'd have more of a case about privacy. e.g I've never given Facebook my phone number but I'm almost certain that FB already knows what it is since my friends have it in their address books. Address books which they've (perhaps unwittingly) handed over to countless companies. Even then, me leaving such services doesn't stop them from knowing things about me.
Brazillian affirmative action students have lower performance
I deleted my LinkedIn account about a year ago. I still regularly work with recruiters and talk with them. The key difference is the recruiters I now work with are very good. They understand me, the jobs, the industry, everything. Having to find me on github and StackOverflow becomes a great filter.
As a Java programmer I see no problem with this.
I don't really understand your comment. You seem to simultaneously acknowledge the problem and complain about someone else acknowledging and doing something about it.

I have very little reason to doubt that you are a good recruiter. And I think it is very respectable of you to help out friends who are looking for work and for whom you can make useful connections. But how many of those friends did you meet through LinkedIn? How many of those inquiries are coming to you through LinkedIn? Could all of them not be made just as well (if not better) through personal email?

The fact of the matter, which you readily admit, is that most recruiters on LinkedIn aren't very good. If 95% are "worthless annoyances" then why would any qualified person stick around on the platform hoping to meet the rare gem like you that might actually understand how to do the job properly?
Surely it should be regulated. What if somebody's e-cig juice formulation consisted of asbestos and ebola? The idea that e-cigs must be safe because they are not tobacco is far more hysterical about the possible dangers of smoking than the idea that the FDA should be regulating them. I want the FDA to regulate mascara, too, which is also not tobacco.
I only have one tutorial written, I actually just finished it just before writing that comment.

You can get to it here. http://folkrobots.com/2013/04/27/clojure-compojure-tutorial-...

It's only a hello world web application example, not sure if you'd be interested in that. I plan on going through building a simple blog and then building upon that with tutorials for authentication, form validation, etc.

I'm also still not sure if I'm going to keep it in a text format or do screencasts. I searched HN for opinions and people have said that they like text better because they can go at their own pace, but some people like screencasts.

Let me know what kind of tutorials you're looking for. I'm going after web development because I'm mainly a web developer and I find there is a huge lack of resources for beginners.
This whole thing reminds me of the H-1B debate in a way. What we have here is a heavily bimodal system that is also poorly understood. There are amazing recruiters (I've the pleasure of knowing a few), and then there are awful recruiters. There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground - you're either in the "awesome, great to work with" camp, or you're in the "omfg leave me alone" camp.

What you have here are people treating recruiters as a monolithic entity instead of the highly binary one that it actually is.

Knowing some good recruiters is extremely valuable. I agree that sometimes these "hurr recruiterzzz" posts seem like attention-seeking or bragging. I ignore almost all recruiter contacts on LinkedIn, and they waste 10-20 seconds of my life daily. Hardly something worth a blog post about.

Anyways, something concrete from the post that bothered me:

> "For now on, if I like a company, I’ll contact them."

And you can do this while still talking to recruiters. I contact companies occasionally just to chat, even if I'm not looking for work, simply because I find their work interesting and want to make the introduction. I also talk to recruiters, because I am not an encyclopedic source for good companies in my area.

The secret is talking to good recruiters and wasting no time with bad ones.
Sounds potentially interesting, tell us more.
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This idea is brilliant. It's been years since I ditched Facebook, but this might actually convince me to come back.
Would be more useful weighted by salary. (Or maybe I'm just saying that to boost my favourite language).
You will find you still get LinkedIn invites from recruiters. And LinkedIn will send you a "reminder" email about the invitation every couple of weeks. Still don't understand why LinkedIn feels it needs to be so slimy.
I tried using various Single Sign On solutions but somehow their system are not satisfactory. I recently heard about this new company called SmartSignin - https://www.smartsignin.com and their website says that their patented technology doesn't store your password anywhere so it's impossible to hack it. I don't know how they do it but I'm intrigued. Does anybody else know anything about them?
thanks for the heads-up
Ten people at the same time is my max for a personal project (http://sproutsheet.com or http://sproutshit.com as the haters like to call it) when I linked it on reddit.
5 Years of Bad Ideas
Challenging the Digital Entertainment Industry
What One Skill Do All Entrepreneurs Need in Order to Succeed?
I can't wait for the day when Clearchannel crumbles.
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Seven Lessons from Building a Large, Distributed System
There will be a poll, where users can choose between 5 options. They can also put up their own options, and the option with the most votes is what will be in the next 5 pages the next day. The options that people put up can be anything, which makes it more interesting. I am also trying to figure out a way to get it more interactive.
The $20 million figure is not based on nothing there's a lot of public information about how much Braff made from scrubs (e.g. $350k per episode in the 2007-2008 season.)

The fact is he doesn't need this Kickstarter to make this movie, he COULD do it himself. But he doesn't want to risk ONLY his own money. So he's taking advantage of the public.
:) I know exactly what you mean.
But those weren't doing house calls and were under guard. :)
SSL includes a feature called client-side certificates: http://pilif.github.io/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clien...
> "then why would any qualified person stick around on the platform hoping to meet the rare gem like you"

Because there isn't really another good way to meet exclusively good recruiters. This might mean the market is ripe for disruption (i.e., a place where good engineers can meet good recruiters without all the noise).

It's the same game as online dating. 99% of the people you will meet you will not have a relationship with, but lacking a better alternative you must wade through the 99% to get to the 1%.

> "Could all of them not be made just as well (if not better) through personal email?"

LinkedIn's value is not as a communications platform. Anyone can throw up a textbox and send someone the contents of said text field. LinkedIn is known for discoverability - and that remains an unsolved problem. Not every programmer has an up to date resume, on their website, and properly SEO'ed to boot.

So the question is, without LinkedIn, how would a (good) recruiter even find your email address with which to contact you?

There are alternate ways of discovery, but each one seems to leave a large group of qualified candidates on the floor. Not everyone is on StackOverflow, not everyone is on Github, etc.
Gingerice
Okay, cool - so it seems like you do actually have quite a specific piece of technology missing, but it also seems to me that this is an architecture / technical design problem rather than just needing someone to code it up. It also seems that it's pretty core to what you're trying to do, which to me suggests that you really need a find a way for yourself or someone with a long terms stake in the project to own this piece.

If you were able to encapsulate that part of you product (the simulation and associated data store), would you feel comfortable architecting the rest of the system (whatever that is - web interface, associated company website, etc.) and bringing someone else on board as a contractor using fairly standard technology (e.g. Rails / Django)? If you could do that it'd free you up to focus on learning the bits which really matter.

Putting my two cents in technically, the way you're describing this makes me think that it's not necessarily a good fit for a traditional RDBMS - 'hundreds' of tables of fields strikes me as an unconventional way to use these technologies, but I don't know enough about the problem you're solving to suggest what might be more appropriate.
Then don't give LinkedIn any information that you wouldn't want becoming public? The tool is just as useful with just your résumé transcribed into their system as it is with that plus a bunch of your secrets.
You know... As someone who works in a very hard nice of IT to find talent (Linux systems engineering at an electronic trading firm), I think recruiters aren't always necessary. Once you've been in the industry long enough, you can just reach out to friends and former coworkers. It is similar to using a recruiter, but they tend to cut all of the BS. Granted, I've worked with 1-2 great recruiters, but I've also talked / emailed back and forth with hundreds of marginally competent or fully incompetent ones. Using professional recruiters is necessary at times, but when it isn't it is much less of a pain.
I can confirm this on Firefox and Chrome on Linux Mint 14.

Notch needs to get back to work on 0x10c [1]

[1] http://0x10c.com
Finally found a spot with Ruby as #1 -- Boulder, CO.
Any one in Sydney is gonna have a hard time: PHP, SQL and Java. Luckily Melbourne is JS.
thanks and regarding filters, am using https://www.hnsearch.com/api as the data source and the 3 filters "score, create_ts, points" with descending sort.
For any smokers out there reading this and thinking, 'God I will never quit if I have to spend the rest of my life resisting the urge for a cigarette', like this article says, note that it doesn't have to be that way. I quit smoking six months ago and every day without cigarettes is a blessing. I _hated_ smoking, and I wanted to stop, and for years and years I couldn't stop. And then I did, and I am free, and it is wonderful. Why the hell would I want to go back to the thing that I hated and was killing me, like this person? If you see cigarettes for what they really are, as a non-smoker sees them, how could you ever want to smoke?

These arguments come from Allnn Carr's stop smoking methodology. You can read his book or do a seminar. And for those out there who say 'it doesn't work': I read that book the first time in 2003, and probably more than ten times since. I attended the seminar three times. It was finally the online seminar that made the ideas click for me. (The breakthrough was the realisation that the response that says 'I want a cigarette' is a broken thought process that was learned, i.e. is not natural, and can be unlearned.) Now that the ideas have clicked into place for me I am absolutely certain I will never smoke again. When I hear the 'I want a cigarette' thought, I don't have a melancholy response that I can't smoke. I hated smoking! I have a happy response that I have learned how to get back to very close to the state I was in before I ever smoked at all.

Anyway, I am sure this article is well-intentioned, but I would strongly strongly suggest that if you haven't tried Allan Carr's method you give it a shot, and if you have tried it, give it another try. Smoking is a nightmare from which we all can awake.
Failed repeatedly for me in Chromium, worked in Webkit first time.
I think this is a great idea! What i don't get about the current version is how do i know who also wants to watch the movie? I think you'll need to add search features because as a user Im down to see a movie with almost any startup person, college student, regular mate but I don't want to be set up on a blind man-date with homeboy in the tenderloin. It would be cool to see some graph search used. For example I want to see a movie with people who like saving private ryan and the batman movie who also has a background in computer science.
I'd believe that.
python, sql, coffee/js, haml, sass
FYI: Win8 does a better job of sharing between devices. especially xbox. the music app for example has a "play on xbox" button if you are on the same network. and skydrive apps are available everywhere. So they are catching up there.
DIY Print Shop
Have you seen Raft? It tries to be a much simpler and much more understandable alternative to Paxos.

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...
i will fix those, thanks
Changing your password doesn't unlink applications or devices from your google account. See "connected applications and sites" at https://www.google.com/settings/security
Most of the US based scientists were either US citizens (some natural born; others naturalized) or came to the US in the 20s or early 30s. Even then very, very few of these men were German citizens. Fuchs, who was one of the few German refugees, was part of a contingent from the UK. The only reason why Fuchs was even allowed to be a part of the project was because of political pressure outside the project.

This is all documented in exrutiating detail in Rhodes' series on the making if both the atomic and hydrogen bombs.
If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated?
I fail to see why one can't manipulate parsed SQL's AST.

I think that this is the "every problem in CS can be solved by another layer of indirection" part. You're basically sidestepping the issue of SQL not providing the functionality in the first place.
I cut myself cooking sometimes. Nothing to be proud of, but hardly unusual I'd think.
I had this reaction too, but if an offender is given opportunities to become a more conscientious and educated human being through hard work, it seems reasonable that we would want them released (and contributing to society in a positive way) sooner rather than later.
I really like the design! Nice concept!