skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, thank you!
I do a lot of analytics work for my day job and have been writing some fun things on this database. It is a great idea to expose that data to showcase the contributor.

Thanks!
Kellee Santiago on breaking the chicken-and-egg cycle with Ouya
go read what nuclear decay is.

Trust me. I'm smarter than you and it's God.

God says...

ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of
bounty, and not as of covetousness.

9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.

9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give;
not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye,
always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good
work: 9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given
to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for
your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of
your righteousness;) 9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all
bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

----

I'm not inclined to speak to the digits of pi. I prefer a quantum random number, like what I used.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Hotbits?nbytes=3&fmt=he...
I think that depends on what your startup is. If it's some silly app solving a first world problem that will honestly be replaced by something else in a year, I couldn't agree with you more.

On the other hand, if it's something that really matters, that you really care about, and your goal isn't to make money but to somehow change the world, I can't see anyone taking the same perspective.

That being said, I haven't really seen any startups that do have a goal or mindset like this recently (other than perhaps watsi). That's a totally separate discussion, but still makes me sad.
There was a point a couple years ago when Posterous was really innovating and Tumblr seemed dead-- the Tumblr staff (CEO?) were ranting at their users and there were technical problems.
I had a great conversation the other day with one of the OpsWorks product managers. Been using Opsworks for a new client and so far I'm loving it over Rubber/Capistrano. Rubber was ok, but Opsworks wraps up the entire process just enough (but leaves enough control)
I get a 500 when I go to the site. It seems like a bad omen for an article about your hosting setup.
People are notoriously poor at recording and estimating both food intake and actual caloric output including changes in base metabolic rate and overall activity level including sleep and even mood changes. Unless you were in some kind of inpatient medical facility under medical observation I'm not thinking your data is going to be accurate enough to detect any change, especially short term.

The other issue is a crude engineering rule of thumb (why isn't it a dietary rule of thumb?) is something like one hundred calories per day, every day, equals one hundred pounds of fat per decade, either plus or minus. Very few people get fat (or thin) in a week or a month or even a year. It takes a fairly heroic effort for a woman to just gain baby weight in 9 months. Try four thousand calories per day for a decade and get back to us, if someone can roll you to the keyboard at that time (unless you're all pro atheletes or lumberjacks or something).
Mass storage doesn't work on a device like the Galaxy Nexus that emulates the "SD card" on its internal storage, because it requires making the blocks of the underlying device available to the host OS.

IMO it's worth it to avoid that awful old chestnut where you'd run out of internal space with heaps left on the card, but unfortunately MTP isn't quite as convenient :(
As it should be for this kind of thing.
NodeFly Buzz profiles The Node Security Project
What do you mean by "does not invite the player to explore ideas and concepts that are going within the game at the same time"? And why is this so important to a child's development that without it, "overall the child is no better off"?
Technically, Facebook was around since 2004 and open to anyone over 12 since 2006, so she jumped in about 5 seasons in.
How much research are you obligated to do before purchasing stock, going into surgery, buying a house, or accepting a job?

I've noticed that the answer to this from others is always "should've done more" whenever a victim (of luck, of poor planning, of circumstances, whatever) dares speak up.

Did a group of people knowingly screw you over on your mortgage? Your fault.
Did a group of people knowingly suggest surgery you didn't need? Your fault.
Did a group of people knowingly conspire to screw your stocks? Your fault.

Curious American pathology.
Back in the 19th century, non-Euclidean geometry was considered the work of the devil and many amateurs and cranks attempted to "prove" the parallel postulate (which had already been proven to be independent of the other postulates).
Thanks, that's awkward...
10 Commandments of Web Design by Luke W.
Or enable availability monitoring with the (free) newrelic addon.
Yes, but no one person is experiencing that, so it doesn't really make a difference for user experience.
The Google Toolbar was once a very widely used piece of software. The vast majority of those who used it did so to add a Google search box into their browser chrome. So integrating unrelated services into the toolbar was a way to use the popularity of their search product to boost the visibility of other, unrelated products.
That can depend on whether you can hit the internal IPs, or just the external IPs. If you can only hit the external IPs, you're subject to greater network latency, plus data transfer fees.
I used the Mac in the old days and have a fondness for the single menu. However, Unity's is broken. Why? It hides itself if you are not hovering over it. So the fitts-law advantages are effectively nulled. Talk about clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Unfortunately there are a number of these amateurish decisions throughout Unity, even though it has some nice parts.
According to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense#History

ad sense was part of the Applied Semantics acquisition mentioned above.

Adwords, according to this:

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

was done internally once an acquisition attempt for a similar product failed.
Structural Change In The Mobile Processor Marketplace: Intel Wins; ARM, AMD Lose
Isolamento Térmico de Paredes com Materiais Naturais
I wonder if this focus on tackling hard problems - problems which had the potential to end up being downright unsolvable and a waste of time - might have been facilitated by the fact that he was a clerk in a patent office and had, so to speak, nothing to lose. If he had wasted 8 years, so what? It would not have made his situation any worse.

Whereas an acknowledged figure in the academia needs to defend status and name and function. So they are perhaps less motivated to deal with bet-the-farm ideas.
The baked AMI comes up and pulls, so it doesn't need to be baked each time.

If you take the route you just mentioned, I highly recommend using Netflix's Asgard (https://github.com/Netflix/asgard) and check out their recently released Aminator (https://github.com/Netflix/aminator). Asgard specifically makes AMI based deploys outrageously easy.
How come nobody thinks about Google's App Engine (and/or Compute Engine) in these situations? Is it really that unbaked?
Ha! I'm surprised I didn't catch that... edited.
How liable is a programmer in these situations?
>>I doubt a chief architect's job would be made easier if the C-level executives were contractually obligated to attend his presentations.

Perhaps not, but blowing you off would sure be more difficult. Wouldn't this also at least give you an influential audience to sell your value to?

I'm not saying that clause is a good idea, it was just a example of something concrete enough to be contractually enforceable.
The shameless and outrageous sodomy of the consumer by every telco in every EU country (especially when roaming) and the vested interest of continuing to sodomize consumers in this way makes me highly doubt that any of these companies have any interest at all in creating a "single telco" market as described in this article.
Add in reasonable max-node count: automated processes that cost you money are dangerous if not governed. You don't want your provisioning tool spinning up endless amounts of nodes, all because some backend database has become slow (some new user pattern has emerged and is causing indexed queries to queue up), and all response times are getting trashed.
RDS is subject to the exact same intra-region latency issues that other AWS instances have. Perhaps worse in some cases, since their failover appears to be DRBD based.
The view you present shows no pride in ownership, quantity over quality, and it still works though.

I wonder how you got that from my comment? All I said is that in a business, the focus is on profiting. Code takes a back seat, because perfect code ever made anyone money. Though I'm not saying to develop a shitty code base. But in reality, the software is merely the product, and not the business. I take a lot of pride in my work, and do not ship/sell products built on top of bad code. But I do know that the focus is on the business side. That's why I'm able to successfully bootstrap while others fail with millions of funding. (:

Myspace failed because it did not adapt to the market. They got lazy.
So Dave Winer gets sanctimonious about a tiny change to a small side-product of Google's and he extrapolates many conclusions based on Mayer's entirely natural eye rolling.

As a meta comment, Winer is a unfortunate last name for this gentleman given the overall tone and timbre of what he has to say. Google giving preferential treatment to Blogger content, by giving special SERP positioning, distinctive formatting, or other embellishment, would have been worth making a fuss about. That would have been a big deal.

But this is a little button on a toolbar that many Google users never even used. And it's only for creating content, which is a side-show to Google's main purpose, which is finding content.

This is how you squander your capital.
x does not mutate at all. x is simply a placeholder for the values in the series of additions that your expression expands to, that is, 1² + 2² + 3² + ... + 10². Or stepwise, to 1² + sum_{x=2}^{10}x² etc. all three expressions are equivalent, and no mutation of x occurs anywhere

The series of additions can also be infinite, in which case it would be quite difficult to expand fully, but that doesn't prevent you from doing mathematics with it.
I would LOVE to see a detailed breakdown on how an experienced sysadmin would set something like this up. I've cobbled together systems before, but I've found that doing so in a robust way is difficult.
Intro to Coding Fundamentals (with fun illustrations)
2 apps, same profile
SSL $20
postgres basic $9
1 free web dyno $0
1 additional worker $36
Scheduler addon usage: $5

$70 for each app(Its actually ~$140.00) (approximately 100-200 business customers might use the apps daily)

And of course, bad billing practices where they dont stop charging you for addons you have stopped/remove and send invoices 1 month late so by the time you notice, another round of billing as occurred incorrectly. Have resulted in me paying $350 and $251) in the past 2 months.

Exact quote from Heroku customer support email, after overcharge of ~$300 in past 2 months

"I'm sorry that the delay in receiving your invoices caused the charges to continue for longer than you would have liked, however please keep in mind that we offer your Current Usage details[ on your account page]"

Yeah, not happy with heroku at all. Even though i can better use my time generating additional sales for the apps, Im so pissed, I plan to burn time move and cancel ASAP...
Looks like money is no concern to Marissa when she wants to get laid.

(Reposted because it's funny and censorship is not.)
I don't think this is correct. Google, which is world-changing, would have sold out if the prices being offered were higher.

http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html

Additionally, most large, "world-changing" companies (GE, GM, ExxonMobil, etc.) are public, which is selling out to an extent (usually with good reasons, but it's still selling shares in the company).
Simple c++
The quote (at least now) is: "we did not want to bloat the application by introducing a proprietary framework."

I think they may have meant that they didn't want to write their own.
The D.O.J. Versus James Rosen
5 Things your Logo Should Immediately Say about your Business
Infonomics and Info-accounting – Part 1
This has started happening to me a lot. My guess is that A/B testing of titles has caught on in some parts of the media.
How to find the Facebook profile from a direct image link
I was thinking about this more, if the contract made you a chief arch in the new company and then the president told you to your face that they had no intent of really honoring the contract- if you had a recording the conversation cough glass, would the purchasing company not be provably in breach of said contract?
Exactly. Blogs are a super easy sale. All you needs to do is upsell customization. Plugins, themes, more storage, etc.
Thanks. That makes more sense, and I guess a reasonable price if you consider you don't need this every month.

According to https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ - the developer support is within local business hours though...

I still wish this could have been factored into your hourly AWS costs rather than as a monthly fee. Say, pay extra 10% for every EC2 instance-hour or something and get it included (without the $100 minimum as in the business support that is).
I wouldn't say there is much effort required at all with RDS. We use it without issue and while there are some annoying issues with limited access to the environment, it's been pretty solid for us.
San Fransisco? Please fix the spelling error, it should say San Francisco.
Print a pair of Google Glass lookalikes
YouTube probably benefited from the deep pockets of Google since it had no monetization strategy and used crazy amounts of bandwidth and storage (especially for the time).
Step 1: Create landing page with call to action to measure interest

Step 2: Post on hacker news
Seriously. The only thing this episode teaches me is that instead of gaining publicity or attempting to help in any way at all, exploit the victims as hard and as fast as possible, doing maximum damage once financial and information gains have been appropriately optimized.
My (unspoken) assumption is that Yahoo management can successfully monetize Tumblr. Is Tumblr going to continue to bleed dollars? Yes, in the short term. But the Yahoo board is willing to invest 1.1B in them, and obviously think that in the future the Tumblr services will be a complementary product offering and will become profitable. Hopefully Marissa & the board have a roadmap for fixing & growing the firm, and that this wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision.

There are other likely synergies - back office functions (accounting, HR, etc), but also ad serving. I don't personally know how good the Yahoo ad network is, but by all accounts, it has got to be better than Tumblr's.

I think the key change that has to happen is that acquisitions have to have the choice in picking a Yahoo technology to adopt (or not..) and that it can't be forced down their throat. And if Marissa is smart, she'll block any Yahoo people asking questions like "So, why aren't you using our fabulous tech?", because merely asking the question takes away valuable time.
Congratulations!

Come on. . .You´ll still have all your nights free! :D
But they have no water and it would never be possible to live there.
I think (for technology companies you're correct).. Private money is 'cheap' for growing tech companies, so going IPO as a way to source further growth capital makes little sense (also worth noting, the cost of starting/ growing is accelerating down).

So, why give up massive amounts of control - in many cases having to actually listen to those owners, be forced to share information with competitors through filings, and deal with the headaches when VC money is so cheap and relatively plentiful?

Look at an example like Groupon, where many of the major shareholders had largely cashed out before ever making it to the stock market (through VC fundings). Similar situations have happened with both Facebook, Twitter in terms of pre-emptive cashing out.
I have a background in ethics and law so I've seen too much to make apologies for being suspicious. :) In fact, this sort of suspicion is a good reason NOT to establish a track record of litigating away freedom of speech (as VMWare notoriously threatens to do if someone publishes their benchmarks). But again: nothing to do with Redis, if (as you say) VMWare is no longer a sponsor.
Just fixed the placeholder issue! Curious -- what operating system are you on? I'm using the latest version of Chrome on Windows 7 and can't reproduce the "anyone" issue, I'll check it out on my Mac in just a few.
I wish there was sth like : Making Mac and Android Get Along.
This is required.
As of now we have got poor iTunes sync using doubleTwist and a buggy app from Google that lets me copy files to my Android via USB and adds itself to system startup every time it's started.
Candy Crush, le jeu mobile très en vogue
Not trying to scare you, but:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/coder-charged-for-g...
Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
echo "feed me"

Done
I am not sure what you mean by "You can't restore to a running instance from snapshots" cause, well, I've done it a few times.

Could you expand a bit maybe?
Tumblr & Human-scale Design
For what it's worth, go further south to Naples for better pizza... :)
This puts very uncomfortable dynamics between users and startups. Done repetetively it could cause startup fatigue with end users.
It does feel like a startup strategy is that if you can just manage to get a large amount of free users - then you'll be able to figure out how to monetize it later.

We all know that it works in exceptional cases. But many times when I see it, it reminds me of an old Saturday night live skit about "the change store" that provides change for any amount of money without taking a fee. When somebody inquires how they make they're money the owner replies "volume!"
I tried, it felt like the old Linux I did not like from the past.
I don't understand your argument. Who "knowingly screw[ed] over" this woman?
Yes for mobiles. Licences are sold by each state separately. If they were sold by a new EU institution, there would be EU-wide operators instead of state-wide ones.
Thanks for the great feedback. :)

Getting started would certainly be much simple when using screenshot or page HTML for comparison. Sieve could do that too! More work needs to be done to make startup faster.

On the other hand having filtered text provides multiple advantages. The filtering becomes accurate. It can be used to compute rules to take conditional actions. Notifications delivery via email and SMS would make more sense as well.

Running a browser on server enables another cool function. User could record macro and run the macro when text satisfied a pre-condition.

Edit: typo
I need a Hacker ASAP
I need a hacker to help me with hacking a Twitter account. I know nothing about hacking but I have a great Idea. I promise to keep you anonymous.
10 Rules to a Great Startup Idea
What do you do when your idea is already taken
The blog post from Alejandra was about how Canonical is developing the Ubuntu web presence. In general, it's about how you balance a complex set of needs from a wide range of users - probably an interesting read for some people in this Forum.

The actual article seems to be focusing on the implication that this means Canonical will continue to value and maintain the link to it's Community of users. Still in the context of the web site.

ps I work for Canonical
it's not funny and that was not censorship. it was an expression of collective disappointment at a user's attempt to marginalize the CEO of a large and influential tech company made purely on the grounds of her being a woman.

it's an interesting move for yahoo! and i'm curious as to see how their revitalization campaign plays out.
> The shameless and outrageous sodomy of the consumer by every telco in every EU country

Speak for your country. I'm pretty happy with the competition in Finland.
Lots of hindsight bias. There's always a grain of truth to it, but the overall American sentiment is that you and you alone are to blame for anything that happens to you (unless it happened to me, in which case it was bad luck). That's why Americans seem less understanding of poor people and tend to put rich people on a pedestal.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough there. I feel that the way you construct an array and pass it to WP_Query is clear and easy to use.

Here's a random example from that docs page:

$args = array(
'post_type' => 'my_custom_post_type',
'meta_key' => 'age',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'ASC',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'age',
'value' => array(3, 4),
'compare' => 'IN',
)
)
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);

So it's returning posts that:

- Are of the post type: "my_custom_post_type",

- That contain a custom field with the key of "age",

- That are in ascending order by the value of the aforementioned custom field,

- Where the "age" field is equal to either 3 or 4.

That seems relatively easy and straightforward to me.

The bit that you brought up is the loop, which is the canonical way of displaying the posts retrieved by a query. You don't have to, of course, you can just get an array of them and foreach your way through. The abstraction does allow for quick, easy, and relatively flexible development. I'd fully believe that it's messy on the backend, but that honestly doesn't normally affect my day-to-day usage.

Now, I'm not about to argue the merits of the core architecture of Wordpress - that's beyond my expertise. But I use it daily for client work, and it works very well for my needs.
Well, it depends on the application. Most people think about scaling far too early, and the same applies to configuration management. I am a fan of shortcuts, early and often... worry about things when you have things to worry about.

That being said, making some easy architecture choices early on can have an enormous effect on your sanity. It is probably worth it to bring someone in to hint you in the right direction after you have a prototype to show and have already started to make choices. This is basically where I helped Adrian.

If your app is struggling under success, you are ideally in a better position financially than most startups are at the beginning. This is when you bring someone in for longer term engagements, or potentially when you hire someone to work on this full time.

I think you are hitting on something that is really a need in the market right now. When you don't need a consultant, and you need 30-90 minutes of "how do I do this?" Q&A, it is hard to figure out who to talk to.

From my perspective, it is hard to find those engagements. I do a sad majority of my time in the sales side of things. Recently, I spoke to some folks at 10xmanagement and Adrian pointed me to anyfu, both of which are approaching this problem but in slightly different manners.

Lastly, you don't want the soup to nuts guy. This is your app, and if you aren't deeply involved with what is going on with it, you are putting yourself at a huge disadvantage post consulting engagement.