skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And what I still don't see is anything saying they are taking their performance problems seriously.

Hmmm, you have heard about PHP-FPM right? And the built-in APC cache? And HipHop?

Besides, in my experience performance problems will arise with other parts of your architecture a lot sooner that your application code (e.g. database if you're not clever about load balancing and caching), regardless of what language you are using. Network calls and disc I/O are a lot more expensive than CPU cycles in your app code.

> Still nothing saying they are fixing their documentation.

Define fixing. It works fine for me as-is.

> Nothing addressing their hodgepodge of legacy code and mixed methods of implementing features.

Again, define addressing. Deprecating? They're doing that. What else do you suggest, breaking existing popular applications by removing legacy code that you find offensive? Let me know how that works out (see Perl 6, Python 3...).

> Its like their upset that people have moved on,

Define people. Seriously.

> but instead of providing a better core for people to build products on they keep adding chrome to the fringes of the language hoping to get more people sucked into developing for it only to realize that once they do anything of significant size in PHP they will need to do a full rewrite into a language that can actually scale or turn to a PHP to C++ lexer to actually get a product that doesn't also server as a Data center toaster oven.

Wow, that needs a comma.

I hate these ranty posts attacking open source projects. Have you any idea how many hours of dev time went into PHP 5.5, free of charge? If they work that hard to build something this significant for the community free of charge, the least they deserve is your respect. In the meantime, feel free to go use Scala/Ruby/Node/whatever excites you.
Hopefully half-billion taxpayer funding to Amazon will bring down consumer prices even further elsewhere in their network.

It's all "fun and games" until that network is hacked and info on half of the United States is copied to a foreign country or a foreign mafia.
PHP 5.5 released and other things PHP related
The system you describe is exactly what we have in the world now. The financial system has numerous checks and balances and is notoriously prone to non-virtuous behavior. Aren't hacker news or stackexchange examples of creating virtuous behavior using an algorithm, and a strong community? It is self regulating because if you suddenly have a deep opposition to the ethos of a community you can just leave (slashdot -> digg -> reddit).
You're correct that they are acting like a turtle. I was trying to re-frame the question of spying so that it didn't involve them personally.
Uh, Myth #3 looks like it was proven correct. Apple users had 2x the conversion rate (.18 vs .4)!

To be sure, conversion rate isn't the best way to measure Myth #3. The correct measurement would be revenue per user (in app purchases, etc.).
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J2EE ecosystem and the Open Source ecosystems have little overlap - if that is your first choice, it is likely your sympathies for all other decisions, technical, methodological and organisational, will not be in line with common practise in the OSS world.

In other words, they hired the wrong guys.

Liam Maxwell and folks at GDS are hitting all the right notes so far.
It's iterated if there are multiple patent trolls or similar entities that might gun for you and your industry. It's probably hard to tell in advance whether this is true, though.
True; but this is a PopSci article. Most people who read such media are probably not familiar with the term. They'll probably think of a petting zoo when they read "petabyte".
This is the latest PHP weekly. With PHP 5.5 just being released today we cover this and other news related to PHP.
I can't reply directly, but in reference to:

huge fixed banner at the top of the page, and a fixed sidebar.

I see what you mean - but I don't think I"d call that "cruft" but thats my opinion. Thats the Navigation Bar at the top, and the sidebar is a Queue of the Articles in the feed. These are basic page elements.

We get feedback specifically calling this out as good and relatively distraction-free (hence your comment struck me as odd)

Also - the width of the page dedicated to text/images is the same as the NYT mobile site (600px aprox)
Obligatory link to the moronic Daily Mail article about gov.uk:

"And the award goes to boring.com! Government website beats off 100 others to be named world's best design" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310191/And-award-go...
I've never seen any citation that Google ever used these kinds of question. Especially the idiotic one about pushing a car to a hotel. I think it was just an urban legend and a good piece of linkbait.

There must be thousands of people on HN who interviewed at Google over the years. Did anyone ever get a question like this?
The problem they'll notice will be the slide in demand for our software and internet services. We'll get hit in the wallet and they'll wake up. Because the US loves a lot of stuff. But money always come first.
What were his reasons to do this? It seems to be a horrible idea to "leak" identities of domestic abuse victims.
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He went free and only had seven other apps in his category, and he made a few dollars.

My question is what does it take to build a real business in the app store? Companies have to pay employees, etc. Are 1% of the companies making most of the money? I think it's going to be hard to build a company 99 cents at a time.
Physicians group labels obesity a disease
For those who have not seen it yet, the movie about Pirate Bay and its founders is a pretty interesting watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
DVD-sized disk.
Not sure what the point of this question is. It seems all it does is to test whether the candidate has heard of Monopoly.
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Generally very little, but there are things like http://php.net/trader_stoch
Looks like a clone of https://www.meldium.com/, I think?
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1. SNES games were more expensive because they were on cartridges and manufacturing cartridges was/is far more expensive than manufacturing CDs/DVDs

2. So while someone's connection is flaky they can't play games. Users in entire countries would regularly have problems playing games. Overseas military wouldn't be able to play at all. You can say, "Just make a military edition" but how exactly would you control who can get one? How would you prevent military people from reselling them.

And perhaps the biggest problem with the online DRM is that if the DRM servers ever go down, every XboxOne on Earth would be insta-bricked. Xbox Live has gone down multiple times and PSN was down for a month, it is more than a passing possibility that the DRM servers could go down. Especially because they make an extremely attractive target for hackers.

Even with all of that, nothing is stopping Microsoft from offering digital-download games for cheaper than physical games. Maybe their DRM architecture is an all or nothing deal, but that would be the fault of their lack of foresight.
Indeed it would be wonderful, but exactly how viable this technique is remains to be seen.

Back when I started using CD burners a typical big hard drive was far smaller than a single CD. (A CD burner was usually hooked up to a dedicated Mac -- always a Mac -- with an unusually large and expensive external hard drive.) If this technology becomes available within, say, five years, it should still be far further ahead of our 4TB SSDs for a good 12 years (assuming Moore's Law in both cases, which is probably optimistic for SSDs). For comparison, CD-Rs probably stopped being useful for backups about fifteen years after I started using them in 1992 (by 2007 it would be a one large or a few small projects on one CD).
this is exactly what adobe trying to do with their easily crackable software :) they want you to think there are no other option available.
I feel like I'm missing something, the post keeps saying you need to "create a story around your product" and "you need to sell your app with a story" yet the post never explains what this means, or does it, instead he has made a cool app that wasn't selling and made it free instead and people installed it and liked it. Doesn't this post demonstrate the problems with selling vs. free, not story this or story that?
Could you be more specific? What's your performance problem? Where do you think the documentation is bad? In my experience these are two areas where PHP is doing pretty well.

I share your reservations about legacy API (the naming scheme and parameter order of many standard PHP functions should have been cleaned up years ago) and I think adding yet another slew of OO sugar coating isn't going to encourage developers to write better PHP apps, quite the contrary.

> Its like their upset that people have moved on, but instead of providing a better core for people to build products on they keep adding chrome to the fringes of the language hoping to get more people sucked into developing for it only to realize that once they do anything of significant size in PHP they will need to do a full rewrite into a language that can actually scale or turn to a PHP to C++ lexer to actually get a product that doesn't also server as a Data center toaster oven.

Wow. This big run-on sentence about not being able to do "anything significant in PHP" is just not true, and that's me parsing it generously. Big projects can and do run on PHP. It's a valid choice. If you're using PHP for genome sequencing analysis, you're not using the right tool to begin with - but the same applies to pretty much any other web language as well.
What did you change to get Mountain Lion running?
I love how the media keeps portraying CC as an anti-piracy measure. It may be a segue to it, but unless software truly lives in the cloud this would never be the case.

It's changing the revenue stream and in a lot of cases, it's more compelling for users to switch over.
what might also be interesting is to see how karma is accrued.. from a huge number of submissions, or from a large number of insightful comments, or what the breakdown is..

for example, i've made two submissions, both making it to the #1 spot, and have been afraid to submit any more lest my streak be ended

some measure of quality over quantity would be nice :)
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"huge selling point" is exactly the problem. I liked the post as well, it was very descriptive. But, I feel like he gave up by making it free. I'd be more interested if he can turn it around to profit. Although this was much easier to do in the early days of the app store. Less so now.
I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.
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I did a little playing with it last night.

I find that one can do object-oriented things, but constructors are a bit of a catch.

struct A : [a, defaulted]
struct B : A [b]

//You can do it this way,
//but each subclass has to init every field (brittle)
function MakeA(a): [a, 99] : A
function MakeB(a,b): [a, 99, b] : B

//Or use the super constructor syntax
//but this uses a copy and is less efficient
function MakeA(a): [a, 99] : A
function MakeB(a,b): [super MakeA(a), b] : B

//Or something in between
function InitA(me::A, theA): a = theA; defaulted = 99; me
function MakeA(a): new := [0,0]; new.InitA(a)
function InitB(me::B, theA, theB): me.InitA(theA); b = theB; me
function MakeB(a,b): new := [0,0,0]; new.InitB(a,b)

I'll keep playing with it and see what else I discover. I haven't gotten far enough to use coroutines, multi-method, or to make my own control structures yet.
How to drive clicks in four steps:

1. Invent a bunch of silly riddles that a non-technical reader might accept as tech interview questions.

2. Pull a major tech company out of a hat (today it's Google), and claim with no evidence that their interviews are based around silly riddles. The article will be cited for years as proof that people working at $COMPANY are weird and obtuse.

3. Wait a couple years. Ignore all evidence that $COMPANY does not use silly riddles in interviews.

4. Once traffic on the original article dies down, write another article claiming $COMPANY has "admitted" silly riddles aren't useful for interviews.
1. when I go to this link: http://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteaser...

It shows several stories at once, not just the google brainteasers stories.

2. In general, people would rather read the real article instead of a summary of the article. When someone submits a summary of an article to a site like HN or reddit, it is usually flagged as blog-spam because we'd rather read/support the original content than a summary with questionable value.

3. For long form articles, nothing beats reading the print-preview page to get rid of all the sidebars, comments, ads. Look at the print preview page: it is not possible to get less distraction free than that. Any other format has more distractions.

Even aside from that, the New York Times has some of the best information architecture in the business. These are the guys who did NYTProf. Their web team is awesome.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

4. Some visual issues I had with quartz:

4.1: No left/right whitespace around images.

4.2: I see a vertical scroll bar in the middle of my screen on Firefox.

4.3 The black header bar which is fixed and stays on the screen all the time even though it conveys no useful information to me.

4.4: A bunch of text blurbs on the left side of the screen that convey no useful information to me.

You say you're trying to be as distraction free as possible, but that's not actually true because it isn't possible to have your business model and be as distraction free as possible. The print preview page is as distraction free as possible.
Looking at the code, its interesting how much more code you need with Ember vs. Angular (2x the lines in the JS file and also much more templating expressions in the html file).
Online news is becoming easier to sell, suggests study
I would love to get my hands on one of those. What provider did you get it from?
Now he has the story he needed for his app.
From my experience, you really don't make much on ads from apps and they tend to drive people away. To do well on mobile app ads, you need a fairly massive audience and then you need to market your ad space directly. In particular, video ads on mobile can be very lucrative, but you'd need a very engaging app to keep people around when you start showing those kinds of ads.

More than likely the reason his free app did so well against the others is that the others likely had ads or nag screens or similar, while his was genuinely free.
>Your definition of mainstream must differ from the dictionary's.

I have got the same two agents constantly bugging me "oh you know some Erlang right?" at the moment, but the only one that I begin to describe as mainstream is F#.

If your in any kind of LOB space which deals with 'Maths' F# is rampant now. Which is handy for me, as I used to instruct labs on OCaml at uni.

Just using www.inqjobs.co.uk looking in London for contract rates on 500pd+ I find over 20 roles for F#. Compare that to the Python or Ruby number.

That to me, is mainstream. Not quite Java/C++/C# league, but certainly out there.
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Dev Bootcamp Chicago: Sells out 2013
I conducted hundreds of interviews at Google and never once asked (or saw someone else on my slate ask) a brainteaser such as these. Urban legend.
Learning to use GIMP won't help you when you need to get a design job.
@liammax and @MTBracken (twitter) are "UK CTO" and director GDS, and currently the leading lights in this one.

One thing to note is the Open Source software, in guidance handed to all government departments, should be preferred over proprietary software. (link in here somewhere http://www.oss4gov.org/policy_activism)

In addition the "G-Cloud" - a online catalog of pre-vetted service providers, has 80% SMEs on it and a govt buyer can simply sign up online for a Saas service there and then with a govt credit card, legally

I feel that Open Source in government will have serious network effects globally, so getting this right now for the UK could lead to a very long tail / virtuous circle for UK devs in the future.
Thanks for keeping me motivated with the great selection of tutorials.
Well, at least you're sorry about it. Try not to do it again :)
Yep, looks like it. Thanks for posting this. I was focused on the big players in the space, and I missed this one. It's interesting that it never came up while I was talking about it with others.
Apache 2.4 vs. Nginx - A comparison under real online applications
Is organizing stuff systematically an algorithm by itself?
Clone? Wouldn't Competitor be a bit more fair? There are many.
Yeah, I still suspect there was another, unknown factor at play when the app was made free. I've seen tons of paid apps trickle along at the same rate of downloads after reverting to free. I'd love to know what the catalyst really was.
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Signed up 2 weeks ago. Keep up the good work
sorry, cryptography is illegal in the UK?
Huh?
If I recall that wasn't clear. The IRC logs were quite the jumbled mess of Meth and hacking discussion. "For the lulz" though I don't believe they used that term.

I do encourage you to check out the investigation protocol, even though most of it is in Swedish, the investigation is very extensive, surprisingly so. It puts the Swedish IT investigators in a very good light, from my amateur perspective.
You're welcome. I'm not sure how well-known Meldium is -- I think the only reason I'm aware of it is that they're a YC company and I work for a YC company.
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Fermi calc: What percentage of available data does the NSA capture?
They still wouldn't be paying for it though, and when they can afford to, they will.. And yet again, it just grows their market share and continues to make their products the de-facto..

If the 2nd/3rd world started to standardize on non-Adobe tools, then all the 1st world agencies that use that cheap labour could potentially start looking into those other tools, right?
In Head‑Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
> I can overlook the warts that really bother me (like not being able to use [] notation after a function that returns an array?!)

5.4 already added that.
Michael Hastings: Web goes wild after NSA, CIA reporter killed in crash
The haters are going to hate...

Identity, access/SSO, provisioning and management are all massive problems that need to be dealt with. For an MVP you are hitting on the important stuff.

Security and being trustworthy are going to be extremely important and I would stress that if I were you. You don't want to be a weak link.
It sounds like you build estimation models by looking at the data you have and combining it together to try and figure out your goal.

The disadvantage with that approach you often end up missing factors (because you don't have the data to hand) and end up with a suboptimal model.

In the same way that a lot of startups end up analyzing user behaviour by page analytics rather than user analytics simply because Google gives them page analytics.

It's a good idea to know how to do both top-down and bottom-up estimation models, as best practice is to make estimations using several different models and compare the results.
Sorry, yes. I just meant to imply technological equivalence, not copying.
There is 'the law' and 'the rule of law'. The former without the latter is pointless, and is what existed in the Soviet Union. The worrying bit about the current state of the US is not the law itself, as much as it's the erosion of the rule of law: concepts such as due process, meeting your accusers in a disinterested court, equality before the law etc. being eroded.
Easily add code coverage to your Node.js projects
Let's disregard the blackmail aspect of nothing-to-hide.

Consider that lobbyists & bureaucrats now have the capability (prevented only by policy) to snoop the past and present communications of elected officials.

Imagine your squeaky clean politician, whose friends are equally squeaky clean. How effective will this politician be when at negotiations, hearings, etc, his opponents have already studied his history and relationships? They know where he likes to eat, where he's been on vacation, where his dog goes to the vet. They know how the talks are going, they know which strategies are working, and which lines of thought aren't.

In short, they know which ideas to push, and which ideas to back away from.

This politician will be both ineffective at representing his constituents, as well as unable to point to why this is the case. And he's never going to cry out "blackmail!"
Absolutely.

There are times when a new algorithm (or actually a new data structure) will revolutionise the system. But taking advantage of that is an effort of reorganisaing the code.
They have been allowed to just link to the old government websites for lots of things so they didn't have to create a feature complete drop in for the old site(s). I think this has made it much easier easy to make a nice looking site.
By Steam you mean GoG, they don't even have DRM on them, but they update the Windows installers so they work. Though I have to criticize their lack of the Linux ports of the old titles =\
Assume I know nothing about this, where would you go to get started on this any books?
I've definitely taken a look at Object Rocket, and it's a really nice looking service. However, our dataset size would take us right into your custom quote plan, and based on the rate of increase between the different plans, we'd paying significantly more w/ ObjectRocket than we would w/ DynamoDB (if we do indeed move to DynamoDB).
An entire day? What a bunch of lazy slackers...
Great idea, lets hope it catches on. Unfortunately it seems like parts have been translated into 'trendy' - for example

> Government should only do what only government can do.

uh, what?
It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.
The U.S. is not there yet, but it's getting close.

American citizens can be arrested on U.S. soil and sent to Guantanamo, they haven't "disappeared" but they are out of sight.

There has been at least two American citizens sent to Guantanamo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Hamdi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(alleged_terr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_detainees_at_Guantanam...

It feels like something out of the Niemoller poem:

"First they came for the muslims,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a muslim."

OT: I always feel awkward about writing "American" when referring to U.S. citizens, as we in South America also call ourselves Americans ("Americanos").