skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austin is hot, over 100°F for a long time in the summer, snowless 4 years out of 5. It has a deliberately bad highway system leading to a three-hour rush hour from 4 PM to 7 PM on weekdays. Granted, anyone from Los Angeles would probably laugh at this plaint, since even in rush hour, one will still make it home at some point here. There's a little light rail, and an unimpressive but functional bus system. Be warned that bicycling in Austin can be challenging in some areas. Austin's surrounded by bible-belt, republican Texas, but - in part due to the large university-derived community - has a diverse and surprisingly democratic/unaffiliated contingent in the city itself, including fringe religions and spiritualism (Wicca, etc), and a wealth of musicians, artists, and digerati. (We've likened it to West Berlin surrounded by East Germany before 1994) Restaurants are legion, we have Frys Electronics, Alamo Draughthouse (cinema + dining + local attitude) and lots of 3D cinemas, maker shops, etc. Consumer ISPs here are Time Warner, Uverse, etc, although getting both a static IP and good customer service from them is a faint dream, and Austin is not a mecca of cheap Internet, sadly, although offered speeds are pretty good. ISP options are a little wider along IH35, including Grande and possibly others. Google networking is coming in 2014. There are a lot of good options here for server colocation. Houses are easily available under the $200k mark for ~2k sqft in some fairly nice areas farther from the city center, with property taxes perhaps being around[ $4k/y on such - however, prices scale up substantially in some areas, especially deeper in town. There's a sales tax just over 8%, but no state income tax. There are a number of nice outdoor areas, some scenic views in the western, hillier side, parks, a (smallish) river through town, Lake Travis nearby (both are typified by rather murky green water), and so forth, although more popular in summer with those who can take the heat. The downtown area has scads of live music performers and dancing available. We have an active local faultline, the Balcones Fault, but the most notable earthquake on hit a 3.0 in Irving, TX, and Austinites aren't aware of any local earthquake activity. Burning Man isn't here, but we do have a Burning Flipside event popular with much of the same crowd.

Austin is rife with startups :-)
Startup Weekend Employees win Seattle without disclosing connection
A team composed primarily of Startup Weekend employees won the event in Seattle (evidence below) without disclosing their connection to the SW organization. While SW isn't intended to be a contest, the event concludes with celebrity judges awarding prizes. I believe the employees should have, at a minimum, announced who they were. Anyone else see this?

The team Red Ride came in 1st place at the Seattle event. For full disclosure, I worked on a different team that I thought could win. When we learned that Red Ride bested us, I congratulated them, accepted a friendly defeat, and genuinely was thankful to be part of the event. Last weekend I learned that one of the group members worked for SW. Curious, I started digging and discovered that 4 of the 6 Red Ride team members currently work for SW. Am I off base this is dishonest?

Red Ride homepage with demo: http://redride.squarespace.com/

SW blog post: http://seattle.startupweekend.org/2013/06/10/startup-weekend-seattle-was-awesome-heres-a-recap/

Redfin blog entry: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2013/06/the-culmination-of-seattle-startup-weekend.html

Team:

Mohammed A - High School Student

Dan Cromer - Software Engineer at SW

Ben Gilbert - Global Facilitator at SW (and also Microsoft PM)

Chet Kittleson - NW Regional Manager at Up Global

Gabe Pelegrin - (Previous) Intern at SW and now contractor

Demi Wetzel - Culture Manager at Up Global

Note: Up Global is a SW subsidiary
There was absolutely no tuning other than adjusting buffer sizes (which only matters because it accepts large POST packets).

The options that a standard application will use are almost identical between the two. UWSGI just provides numerous lower-level options that I (and it sounds like you) probably don't care about.
Interestingly, important parts of the Linux kernel are proven correct (e.g. the scheduler). But yeah...not the whole thing.
> the release of the diplomatic cables and US military logs which included the names of people who talked to American officials could easily put those people at risk.

That speculated risk is one which no one has been able to connect to a single actually death or injury. Its not like government PR would not love to bring proof of the dangers of leaks.

The reason why no actually body has been found, is that the included names was mistakes made by the people in the field who mistakably put some in the low security reports. Normally, such names are only added to high level security reports, which mean that the number of names in the low level reports where quite few/limited, and possible already evacuated long before the reports were made public.

High level security reports was sorted out by Wikileaks/leaker before publishing.
Must be hell to maintain that code. Imagine to change the fifth row in any .php-file and you have to change it in five different places. If you try to write code to be able to NOT repeat yourself in different parts, you're programming the right way :)
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By being broke and needing money, and by representing a voter base that doesn't want to pay any more taxes?
I'm obligated to chime in: http://airbr.us/h/tipsum
+1 here! I think that each version was a consistent and strong improvement over the previous.
>Their business / server / tools groups are by far and away the future of the company, as of right now.

Further evidence of this: The Sony PS4 that you point out as being competitive, is built on top of more than one Microsoft technology:

"Sony is building its CPU on what it's calling an extended DirectX 11.1+ feature set, including extra debugging support that is not available on PC platforms. This system will also give developers more direct access to the shader pipeline than they had on the PS3 or through DirectX itself

...

The development environment coders will use is based on Windows 7 and fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, allowing developers to debug PS4 code just like PC code."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/sony-dives-deep-into-t...
This has happened before, and usually has a non-pitchforky reasoning (e.g. PG pulled it temporarily because of network/server issue). I'm sure it will be back soon, and we will have a rather reasonable answer as to why. There are way to many google employees, that frequent and enjoy HN, for it to be banned for some arbitrary reason
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Ask HN: How can one make money with Wordpress and the like
I see a lot of people in this community indicating Wordpress as one of the sources of making some amount of passive side income (1K+). My question is word press is a relatively mature platform what are the gaps that people can make plugins for to make money.

Can you identify some specific items/tasks that one can do to generate some passive income.

If your answer is tied to a different 'ecosystem' besides wordpress please indicate that too.
Stopped reading at "evented models never work anywhere in Python."

Gunicorn+gevent has been painless for me.
Ecuador's fight against Chevron is likely the largest obstacle to the renewal of the trade preference, not Snowden. Ecuador likely opted to retain the claim for potential billions instead of the trade privilege allegedly worth $23 millions.

[edit] Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_Agrio_oil_field
$ twistd -n web --wsgi your.wsgi.app

You have been misinformed.
Mastercard can see almost exactly how much Stripe is growing, I don't think they needed to be very perceptive in "seeing value in selling directly to merchant developers".
I'm going to have to go with "no". Or perhaps "yes and". We should not be forced to curtail our use of one of mankind's greatest triumphs because a few cold-war troglodytes think that they are somehow entitled to read all of our mail and arrest us for word-crimes.

These people don't deserve the power given to them in trust. We should remove it from them. Nothing less than that will do.
People want to have sex. They do not want to commit suicide, but are driven to it.

This "they will find other ways" idea is silly, dangerous, and not supported by the facts.
I found this old thread, where pg had blocked most of the Google bots, and it caused Google to think the site was down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661

Could be a similar issue? I'll take a look.
So-called "negative" comments are usually far more useful than "positive" ones.

"Positive" comments only serve to make people feel good, or even just neutral. This really doesn't bring a wider or prolonged benefit of any sort.

"Negative" comments, on the other hand, often make flaws and problems more obvious. This is the first step in actually getting them addressed, which is a truly beneficial thing.

I would hope that useful comments, which often are seen as "negative", do get more attention here, just because they are more useful. This is especially true if the people here can in fact make a difference in some way by helping to resolve some of the problems.
Just an FYI, IITs are not the only Institutes of National Importance (INIs) in India. 30 campuses of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are also in that bracket. NITs also have more than 10,000 alumni in Silicon Valley alone. Though IITs, justifiably, hog all the limelight and we don't like it one bit. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutes_of_National_Importan...
> the HN homepage is just links. Since that triggers Panda

To be more specific, Panda is triggered by low quality/duplicate content. 'Penguin' is triggered by spammy/bad backlinks.

I'm not saying you're wrong (a page of links would look pretty low quality to google's algo), I just wanted to add on for clarity's sake.
A couple of things:

1. That is true of some cell-based mobile data solutions, but others use an actual IPv4/v6 address assigned to each mobile session.

2. Some popular webmail systems hide the source IP address, while others include a special header with the data.
I see it as a divide between either having a client / designer relationship and making a custom theme or website, alternatively you could make a theme and sell it on something like Theme Forest(http://themeforest.net/).
As I was watching the Google I/O webcast last month, the one thing that struck me was how some of the most important products and services from arguably the most influential tech company of our times, were headed by IIT graduates:

Amit Singhal, a Google fellow, who heads their search team and essentially rewrote the critical ranking algorithm in 2001, and a graduate of IIT Roorkee [1];

Sundar Pichai, who heads Android, Chrome/Chrome OS, and Google Apps [2] - a graduate of IIT Kharagpur;

Vic Gundotra - who heads Google+ and social and is a graduate of IIT Bombay [3];

Nikesh Arora, who is Google's Chief Business Officer, a graduate of IIT Varanasi [4];

Sridhar Ramasway - SVP for Ads & Commerce - a graduate of IIT Madras [5], plus dozens of other key people.

(The latter two are listed on Google's management team page at : http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/ )

Not to make too fine a point about it - but IMHO Google is one example of the influence and impact of IITians on the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Singhal

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikesh_Arora

[5] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sridhar-ramaswamy/2/220/972

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Stripe's terms of use prohibit both weapons and virtual currencies. If Simplify's terms of service prohibit either, I can't find the relevant paragraph. That alone makes Simplify somewhat more attractive.
I can completely empathise with this viewpoint. People jump through increasingly complicated hoops because everyone else is doing it, without stopping to think whether the end result they're after can be achieved in a simpler way. Then again, there are definitely benefits to competition encouraging a strong work ethic, even if what you finally end up doing doesn't require such efforts.

(Anecdotal case in point; I wanted to do Mechatronic engineering at university, requiring me to place in the upper 0.75% of university applicants. This requirement was purely because of the popularity of that course. I noticed that a combined BE/BSc degree was less popular, requiring only a top 20% score - and yet the combined degree let you study exactly the same courses, and you could drop out of the BSc part if you wanted! Lazy ol' me took that option...)
> For my part, I hope that we find some of those hidden dimensions, and it turns up on the other side of the solar system in a couple weeks.

Now that would turn the solar system into one huge game of asteroids...
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they would bother because it's not easy for rippers to get eg HD video rips before the bluray version of the movie is out. So at the very least, it's making rippers' work much easier, and it brings the date when HD content is available on torrent from "whenever bluray is released" to "whenever it is available for streaming", which we are all crossing finger to become "when it is released in theaters".
gevent is a very simple webserver that wont handle many things that the "real" servers do.

One of the main things I'm talking about in this post is load balancing, which gevent (and uwsgi, and gunicorn, etc) don't implement very well. Nginx does a pretty good job at this, in addition to many other things (like buffering).

You can definitely get a lot of performance out of a coroutine, async, etc framework, but at the end of the day it's not going to be the entry point to a production application.
Not all startups are purely technical execution.
I'm pretty sure Roberto De Ioris (the creator of uwsgi and lead dev) has complete faith in his code (as he should do because it's awesome).

unbit.it (an Italian hosting company) employ him full time to work on uwsgi and they use it extensively throughout their production infrastructure.
This is cool, but much cooler if they will support businesses outside US. it seems i'm stuck with paypal and Payment gateway in the Philippines are way too pricey for our business
Hey Millerm,

So I did a bit of detective work -- and as it turns out, the company you ought to be upset with is Google. Apparently, if you add a Google Group email to your Google Calendar event, and then you select "don't send invite email", the Google Calendar event displays the emails of all the people in that group (along with names). Anyway, just thought I'd through that out there, as it was a surprise to me as well.
I moved from Austin, TX to Seattle, WA a year and a half ago after having lived there for 14 years.

I liked the first 10 years and couldn't stand the last four.

What ultimately forced me to move were seasonal allergies. Once you develop allergies to the cedar and oak pollen in the region, your life will be hell for five months out of the year. They also coincide with the months in the year that are actually tolerable to be outside.

Texas has been in a pretty severe drought for most of the last half decade. In the past, triple-digit days were concentrated in August and part of July. Recently, those triple-digit days start as soon as June, with 90s starting as early as late April. Summer doesn't end till around October.

Austin is the liberal oasis of Texas, but it's still in Texas. It's a lot easier to be a Republican in Austin than in San Francisco or New York City.

Public transportation in Austin SUCKS HARD. You will need a car.

That's my naysayer's perspective on the city. There are more than enough opinions out there about what's good, and I agree with them.
I was thinking the same thing. But by and large, 2004-2005 was remarkably a case of "if it ain't broke...". The fox was just the right shade, the globe was there, but not overwhelming.

Considering this was right before the rise of Web 2.0, we can see the gloss was appropriate at the time, but it suddenly follows the flashy trend downhill.
On the merchant side, the picture is a lot less friendly than the consumer side. With a traditional merchant account, there is basically a march of monotonically increasing fees here and there that add up, and are only brought back down a bit when someone wins against them in court.
How much memory usage is "insane"? Are you sure the memory cost grows with the size of the application? It sounds like you tested a minimal test case, saw high memory usage, then didn't bother to test a large application. Maybe the memory usage is constant.
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Link backing up your claims?
"Safety lanyards" could be anything, and there's a whole lot of personal anchors that people think will protect them, but actually won't. The problem being that even in a short fall, your body will generate pretty amazing forces on static equipment.

Black Diamond did a great article about it, though they are going through some growing pains right now with a new website. The article was, "Daisy Chain Dangers"
Mmm, the logo you linked seems to have lost all meaning concerning the globe. When I look at it, the blue sphere doesn't seem to fit well. The fox also seems just a bit too rounded.
The operating system as a whole is GNU and that project started in 1983. Hurd is just the kernel.

It took them 7 years to even name the kernel that hadn't been written yet. I feel like that says something.

And then when an actual GNU-licensed kernel came along, they ignored it and kept plugging away on vapour.
If you want performance, tune. If you don't, leave the defaults. How can more options be bad when the default is as good or better than standard Apache + WSGI?
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I saw 5x memory usage, which was already something I was trying to optimize.

There's a ticket I opened on the PyPy tracker, but this is sort of expected if I understand JITs correctly.

I didn't exhaustively benchmark it, but the initial results were too far outside the bounds of my limitations.
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Exactly - and I don't think OS X was ever truly a microkernel, it used Mach as the base for XNU, but it was always a hybrid kernel even going back as far as the NeXTStep days.

Well, it uses it now. (But yes, not as a microkernel.)

You never know how something will come handy — learnt Hurd programming => now not afraid of Mac OS X kernel'ish stuff
Gandi registrar giving away usernames in WHOIS
If you've registered a domain through Gandi, the WHOIS information readily divulges your account handle and Gandi support refer users who've forgotten their handle to refer to it. Registries don't necessarily include all the information a registrar sends, but going to Gandi's WHOIS server directly never fails to give all the information and handle. I've submitted a customer service complaint about the issue.

When looking at the whois information for domains registered through Gandi the gandi handle is included. Other registrars do not include the usernames holding the domains. Gandi showing this information is an *extreme* security issue. Rather than guessing the username, the registry lays it out explicitly for all to see.

I encourage others to contact them as well.
"The models that have been thought to predict what should happen are all incorrect"

A bit off topic, but that's why you should never ever draw conclusions from models.

Use a model to guide research (i.e. tell you where to look), but never consider the model as an answer.

I see far too many papers published based on models. This should not be accepted, this is not science.

It doesn't matter if the model is the only available thing. If you have no other way of getting information then you must admit defeat (hopefully temporary), but never give in and start believing your models.
It is something I don't understand... It's not possible to patent/copyright the whole design of website to see it as a whole product? And avoid people to do exactly the same design?
The real strength of uwsgi is it's emperor mode [1].

On my servers I have one upstart job whose role is simply to start the emperor daemon and make sure /var/run/uwsgi permissions are correct for writing sock files.

Each django project deployed on the server has a uwsgi.ini file in it's etc folder. This ini file holds the config for that app only. It defines where the socket file is located, where the virtualenv is located and where the project.wsgi file is located.

It's simple because you can host multiple websites on a single server, but you uwsgi configuration is separated into 'system' and 'project', so your 'project' specific config can live in git and your 'system' config never has to change.

Nginx is setup in a very similar way.

[1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Emperor.html
Jerking it, Firefox edition. Nobody cares about the details as 99% of the users will look at this logo in a 16x16 or 32x32 px version.

Is it a fox hugging a globe? Is the fox red/orange? Yes? Is it somewhat detailed? Okay. _Good enough_.
I sometimes wonder if I could pass the IIT JEE, were I taking them today :)
It's done by bending the fiber, causing leaks. The signal has a single wavelength, so a prism would serve no purpose.
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There is Voyager 2 which eventually will be on similar distance from the Sun.
Ecuador hasn't embarrassed the US, the US has embarrassed itself. After a run of such events over the last 10ish years you'd thing an approach with less aggression could be tried. See the Afghanistan and Iraq adventures for the best examples.
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Absolutely. Uwsgi is rock solid and Roberto is very proactive in maintaining and progressing it.
Maybe so, but to what end? He knows what he believes. Who really cares what "a mob of Internet trolls, eco-zealots, and other angry folk from every corner of the Internet" think? I wouldn't.
Very nice. I can say that I understood the questions, but without consulting external resources, was not able to solve either. (It's been a long time since I've done chemistry, and factoring/roots was always a weakness for me)
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GOG is a DRM free game distribution service, and they seem to be doing well even despite the ease of pirating a DRM free game.
It doesn't work that way. The VCs have covenants and agreements with their investors that make them try to get to a certain target ownership.
pg also commented that he doesn't want traffic from Google anyway:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808990

In which case, he should add:
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
to the html head of every page.

(I have to say, that's a smart way of avoiding any Eternal Septembering, but it'd be a shame. I often use Google to find old HN threads that I vaguely remember from months or years ago.)
The comment is at top because it has constructive criticism, which is quite a bit different than just a "negative" comment. Constructive criticism can just as well be delivered with a positive tone and I've seen those rise to the top as well. Likewise, there are plenty of negative comments that sink below if they're devoid of useful, entertaining or otherwise noteworthy content.