skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our statsd cluster is handling 7,500 reqs/sec right now
We're currently rolling back the change that added an unruly statsd logger in our stack. As the title implies, our statsd servers are handling around half a million UDP messages per minute. I can't speak to how much RAM, etc. the servers have, but I can say that the service has held up, despite the fact that we can't handle enough I/O to send process the data fast enough for Graphite.
It is refreshing to see posts like this that are willing to teach. Wish I could do it. Have a good one, and good luck filing the position.
Should A Startup Spend VC Funding On A Domain Name?
I think Skype (now Microsoft) should be the primary example for others, to show that REMOTE employment should be pervasive these days.
San Francisco, CA (full-time, H1B welcome) Expect Labs

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Expect Labs is a startup based in downtown SF that is building a product called MindMeld (www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld). We're backed by some of Silicon Valley's most well-known investors as well as some of the technology industry's largest and most influential companies. Our investors include Google, Samsung, Intel, Telefonica, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, IDG Ventures, KPG Ventures, Quest Venture Partners and several prominent angels.

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Given the price of BTC, can we start talking about bitcoins in a more readable unit? Like...
an iPhone costs 300cBTC? centibitcoins? or 30dBTC 30 decibitcoins?
How can we know if your typical French meal is balanced or not, since you didn't indicate the portion size of any of those foods?
Move 2 hi-def movies around in one second
The servers are getting hammered right now! If you sign up, the automatic weekly planner starts running right away to make a week of meal plans for you, but it's running very slowly at the moment - sorry about that, and if you give it a couple minutes, it should send you an email when it's done. You can use the in-browser planner to make plans more quickly, but they won't have the leftovers planned out from day to day.
It's John Kozubik, who was the founder of JohnCompanies collocation (the first VPS provider, circa September 2001).

We provided offsite backup services since day 1, but spun rsync.net out as an independent corporate entity in 2005.
So my real gripe is with javascript popups triggered on click - they aren't blocked (which is reasonable since that can break apps), which is why the idea of displaying it only within the tab and not interrupting the user was brilliant. Except chrome doesn't do that anymore! (or maybe it never actually did, I can't remember).

"There's no concept of a drive-by pop-up in Chrome. JavaScript has no way to force a pop-up into your world. Pop-ups are scoped to the tab they came from -- and confined there. If it's something you want, though -- just drag it out and it'll be promoted to its own window."
> The basic concept of hyperlinking had an origin at least as far back as 1960 by Ted Nelson for Project Xanadu.

This reminds me of a quote from Tim Berners-Lee:

“Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together.”

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ber1int-1
4 oz is ridiculous overkill for direct infection of certain diseases at the same time it's not enough explosives to harm much more than one room. It's a pretty useless threshold to have.
Regarding Over Night Successes, Grinding, Schelp, & the Lean Startup Mentality
> Then it would have ended up like Gopher

That's a decent guess, but I think it's also possible it would've followed the path of one of the pre-web online services like AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, or eWorld. Those systems are what happens when somebody owns the marketplace and you need to get permission to set up shop, which (if the WWW took off at all) would more or less have been the state of things while the patents lasted.

Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like the realm of the app store in some ways.
I don't know how much calories I need, I gave it my stats (23 yo male, moderately active, 85 kg, 1m 86) and it auto-populated the field for me.
Come help us hack the Auto Industry – full stack engineer – CarWoo (YC S09)
We are looking for an awesome full stack Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.

Responsibilities

Work with David, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Derek, Jeremy, Peter, Adam, Jon, Todd, Matt, and Patrick to create a world class set of products. We're a small team, but we work smart and get a lot done. Here's some of the cool stuff we're working on right now: a queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, mobile apps, application of game theory, and a lot of other great things we can talk about when we chat.
You'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.

Qualifications

- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (Backbone, node.js)

- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)

- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release

You get extra bonus points for:

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)

- Ability to write complex SQL

- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.

- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx

- Story-driven development

- Web service/API development (REST)

- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously

Perks

- Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)

- Unlimited PTO

- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)

- Competitive salary and equity in the company

If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to tommy@carwoo.com.

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).
voidnull == lgv ?

Just a wild guess based on some quick searching
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755073
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I have 4 errors, 5 warnings...
What is TAGFEE? Is that some SEOmoz-specific term? I found other places they'd used it but no actual description in 2 seconds of googling.
I did not see that job posting coming.
There are many ways to sort peaks out. For instance, there is a script for RRDtool that removes obviously irrelevant spikes [1].

The vast majority of hundreds of thousands metrics are common for any node/server actually, so predefined recipes/settings should be used for them. Only aplication-level metrics for only in-house applications have to be tuned manually.

[1] http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/contrib/removespikes-20080...
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This is obviously lies. I don't recall it existing.
This isn't the standard language VM, but a special one designed for this purpose. Presumably, in addition to the normal VM features, it implements the "OS" elements that the regular runtime would rely on.

Looked at another way: its a single-purpose OS, whose single purpose is "run Erlang code".
It's not that the idea of redoing the UI is a bad one, but the execution reminds me too much of Skype. Skype went from a compact, easy-to-set-aside layout to an elephant on the desktop. It's ridiculously huge now (size-wise).
Yes. I wouldn't mind doing some part-time culture consulting, but I also want to keep my tech skills sharp (and, beyond that, improve them). Then again, most corporate jobs are just as dulling to the tech skill set as non-technical work, so maybe I should really look into it.
Holland Bulb Farms - Milwaukee, WI

We're looking for an entry level ASP.NET (C#) web developer to assist current developers with maintaining our group of e-commerce sites. Knowing C# is ideal, but we're willing to teach you.

Other projects on our to-do list include things such as increasing integration between our warehouse and sales systems, very basic maintenance of our iPhone app, building data feeds for shopping comparison sites, and working with drop-ship suppliers to automate order placement.

Apply on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=5558451
Idk, portion size seems fairly explicit in my post. This picture sums up nicely what a french meal would look like:

http://i.imgur.com/5XRulJK.png

With the appetizer plate topmost, dessert in the middle, main course at the bottom of the picture.

It's also common for hungry/active people to have a second serving of the main course; a third helping would be rare.
It's such a good idea though, I wish they would implement it!
This type of pattern recognition is a very interesting approach to fingering people, even anonymous ones. I've often thought that perfect anonymity is essentially impossible, mostly because nobody wants to enable it, and nobody is smart enough to pull it off for long enough (essentially have a split personality, from even before the time of beginning the anonymous side). As benmanns points out, that ssh command is unique so far. If voidnull has been talking IRL with people about this, they would be able to associate him with it.

Related to the issue of the postmark, there is also the issue of (potential) fingerprints on the envelope and money. The point is, even if the public cannot find identities, the authorities (almost) always can.

Anyways, anonymity is an odd thing: in the US, anonymous speech is allowed (by court decision), but not guaranteed. The government isn't obligated to facilitate it and businesses aren't forced to allow it. voidnull's access to anonymity rests solely on SDF's goodwill and solvency. And the government could easily harrass them, even if they are overseas.

Which brings up an interesting thought experiment: what would it look like if anonymity were guaranteed by law, how could it be implemented reliably and verifiably, and what would the counter-balance be against illegal activity?
Right now it's hard to do numerical analysis on large problems using Go. To fix that, I'd be really excited to see bindings for MPI or something like it. In particular, go doesn't have a concept of an Allreduce or an AllToAll communication. I know that one can do that by calling the C MPI bindings from go, but it would be cool if there were a natural way to do it using go's parallelism and concurrency patterns.

It would also be nice to have a first-class array object - from what I understand, current support for multidimensional arrays is very C-like in that you're really dealing with pointer arrays.
Then just add some extra vegetables and fruit, if that's what you want...
>Describing the entire corporate culture as "A" level is just laughable.

And it is an excellent means to cover up bad management. When expectations are unrealistic, then everyone is probably failing. It just boils down to office politics about who avoids blame.

It is a nice idea to always be A-level or work towards there -- that requires a significant investment in recruiting and training that few companies are actually interested in. But a company that cannot make good use of B-level work in most places surely has incompetent management.
Fanium (http://www.fanium.com) - San Diego, CA

If you love Android, fantasy sports, and are alright with the idea of working 3 blocks from the beach (La Jolla business district) then Fanium is the place for you.

We are looking to bring on an INTERN (with the huge possibility of being brought aboard full-time if we just can't let you go) to help us with the development of our native Android application, this summer or ASAP.

We are offering very competitive compensation with the possibility to let you work remotely or to work locally with us here in La Jolla for the summer.

What we are looking from you:

- Talented, motivated, and able to get along well with 22-24 year old recent grads.

- Java-seasoned with prior Android experience.

- Comfortable on the command line and Git experience.

- Linux/OSX is a plus, just because that's what we all use.

- Like the idea of taking ownership over the development of our entire Android platform.

A little bit about Fanium:

- We are a team of 5 building out a mobile-centric platform to disrupt and revolutionize the way fantasy sports are played.

- We have spent the last several months building out our native iOS experience (in RubyMotion) app, which we are launching on May 7th.

- We are a product-driven, cohesive team that allows for major ownership over the project you work on.

Feel free to email me (john@fanium.com) if you have any interest. I'm open to speaking with anybody and am ready to look at any relative info (resume, Github, etc.) so we can see if you're a good fit!!
True as an example its unfair to pick on one dude. BUT... if he's a "A" level hero 1% astronaut then statistics indicate at least 10 of his coworkers are just joe average, maybe 100.

See, here's the problem. You can get one, maybe two geniuses to found a company. Maybe even a couple peppering the whole company... But wikipedia claims they have over 2000 employees.

Can you have an organization full of geniuses? Sure, although its rare. Think of the institute for advanced studies in its glory days. Or Bell Labs in the good old days. If you twist definitions and turn the Manhattan Project into one org and only count the top physicists and not the rank and file, sure. A two thousand person video rental company, um, no, I don't think so.

Now the Kool-Aid drinkers could proclaim that they only hire personnel with Nobel Prizes in Physics. But 2000+ prizes have not been issued yet, and quite a few of those people are dead or otherwise unavailable, most (all?) of the early 20th century winners for example. Even worse the whole industry also claims in public they also only hire Nobel Laureates.

I guarantee that NFLX does not fire all B and below performers because there is not enough talent to pull it off industry wide especially with everyone else having the same ridiculous demand.

Frankly that's good. Who wants to work in an industry where 99% of the graduates are permanently unemployed and only 1% ever get to work? Or even worse, a society with 99% unemployment rate?
It computes to 15c per GB, per month, and there are no other charges - no access or bandwidth or usage charges.

So it's comparable to S3, depending on your usage and request level, which can add up ... and it is quite a bit cheaper than other competitors like Barracuda and so on.

We have large discounts for .edu, teachers, and FOSS contributors/authors, so please do email us if you are interested.
I was about to put "Made Of Awesome" on my resume but I couldn't decide whether to put in under Skills or Experience. Problem is, it's kinda both.
I remember seeing a speedrun of Half-Life where the player went through a wall (that you weren't supposed to go through), kept going (past all of the weird clipping visual nonesense), and finally came out in a different level (which IIRC wasn't even populated with enemies), and kept going through the game.

That seems like cheating to me. Little glitches in the game mechanics are a little bit different.
Don't be embarrassed; HN has taken down far simpler, yet more famous sites than yours. I am very impressed it is still standing at all.
I know. I can't stand Quora. I'm not sure why I followed the link, but for once I was pleasantly surprised.
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He'd probably even send $10 to SDF if they could find him. It would be somewhat more trivial for a Wordpress employee if the site was at voidnull.wordpress.com.

The difference seems to be that he doesn't want to have trust anybody, whereas you'd be happy trusting organizations such as Wordpress and the US legal system.
So each language is stored with a prefix in the Judy array. This means that to identify the language of a token, you have to loop for all languages, prefixing the token and looking it up, keeping a count of matches for each language. Does that sound correct?

I wouldn't have used the prefix approach, instead storing a token once in the judy array, and using the data stored to indicate which languages match the token.
Surprisingly difficult. Often offensive and disheartening. Real Google results reveal the dark side of society.
Is that actually going to matter to a company like the Gamma Group, though? They have enough governmental cover that they can pretty much do what they want, it seems like.

I'm genuinely asking - how do you even begin to prosecute a violation by a company like that?
I'm guessing most people in Europe would eat (a lot) less fat than 33%.
int isPopupUseful()
{
return FALSE; // 96% accurate
}
> > (This shouldn't be surprising, since IT-as-industry is effectively just the outsourced version of IT-as-internal-organization.)

> You're right. I've never thought of writing the software for a self-driving car as the outsourced version of configuring Active Directory for IE7, but when you put it that way it seems so obvious!

"Configuring Active Directory for IE7" is only (in some organizations) what is left for the internal IT organization to handle because they've outsourced the rest (like "implementing operating systems, web browsers, etc.") to other firms in the IT industry, whether via purchasing COTS products to meet common requirements or by having custom development done by contractors to fill less-common requirements.
What is the problem with "well-actually" especially in online environment?

I can understand "This is especially annoying when the correction has no bearing on the actual conversation." case in a face-to-face conversation but the manual forbids all corrections whether they are essential to the discussion or not. Or should the rule be interpreted as: essential corrections are allowed but the literal phrase "well, actually" is forbidden?

If someone says if X then Y; you should be allowed to say: actually X' and therefore Z i.e., a subtle imprecision in the premise might lead to the big difference in outcomes.

Otherwise technical discussion degrades to a smalltalk.
Well, to celebrate our first (I think ?) hn frontpage, please allow me to offer hn readers a lifetime locked in rate of 10c per GB, per month.

Grandfathered in forever, applies to all future upgrades/increases. The only catch is there is a 50 GB minimum order, and you have to pay annually.

You also have to be a new, non-existing customer.

Just email info@rsync.net if you are interested. We would be glad to serve anyone from this community.
I think you're misinterpreting my comment.

My culture and upbringing have given me broad indications on what consists "eating healthily"; here I am seeing a tool made by a citizen of another culture, that claims it will produce healthy meal recommendations.

But the recommendations it gives me are wildly different from my cultural expectations.

All I'm trying to do is understand why there is this discrepancy.
(I used to work on Chrome.)

When we sent the very first Chrome out to reviewers, one reviewer sent back a draft of a review that said Chrome seemed like a nice browser but it had the strange additional feature of popping up ads inside the pages as you browsed.

The reviewer was so accustomed to their existing browser simply blocking pop-ups that it didn't occur to them that the pop-ups were caused by the pages they were visiting, and instead thought it was some Chrome monetization strategy!

Because of this, the feature was scrapped at the last second. There is still some "constrained window" code left over in Chrome that is still used for e.g. HTTP auth prompts. Because the ports came later, I seem to recall we didn't bother with implementing all the draggy window management stuff on Linux and instead centered a dialog over the page content without the window manager controls.

You can search on http://cs.chromium.org for [constrained_window] to see some of the remaining code.
"People have this idea that you can reduce a program to a precise set of specifications that can be formulated by non-programmers and shipped off to China to be coded up."

Yup... If this was actually possible, we could just write software to do it and not need programmers at all.
I don't have quite such a way with words, but Matasano is awesome. It's also worth noting that they take interns (full disclosure: me, twice) and yes- you will do those things, for real, immediately. Don't know how? Ask and prepare to learn.

I say to all of you who like to break things: talk to them.
On the rumor that iOS 7 will ship on time
Definitely not the same thing. Take a look at our earlier graph post. http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2013/2/1/graph-abstraction...
There are some hourly people who make more than salaries employers ("consultants" vs. "contractors", i.e. people hired for particular skill or experience vs. to fill a role, generally). There are some places where pretty much everyone but the very top management is some kind of hourly-billed contractor or consultant, which seems weird.

In practice there are usually client and contracting firm cultural solutions to the ambiguous billing situations. Generally the thing to avoid is giving people unaccounted-for discounts; it's better to bill for more time but then give an explicit discount, or at least to make it clear you're not billing for something, vs. just silently not charging for things -- otherwise it is taken for granted and expected.
The algorithm primarily targets the nutrition constraints that you ask for, with only a few other rules about how meals should be structured. It makes more realistic looking plans (I feel) at lower calorie values, but you're right that the meal plan you posted doesn't look great. It would probably suggest more fruits and vegetables if I required all of the necessary vitamins and minerals to be constraints, but in the interest of algorithm speed, I mostly suggest adding a multivitamin to your diet :-) Definitely not ideal, but adding a few vegetables on your own shouldn't change the nutrition too much if you're watching your calories.

I actually built the first version of the site to make it easier for me to gain weight, and my strategy now is to lock a few cups of whole milk into each meal and then tell it to generate around it, giving me much less to cook.
this is a cool improvement from swole. great work
I think people prefer to donate to people vs a cause. I do like the idea of grouping students by class, however I want to keep the goal amount as low as possible. We are focused on making charity more accessible to the masses, so I want someone who donates $5 to feel like they have a direct impact. This would dilute if the goal was $1000 vs $100.