skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analytics of Phone usage. Graphs showing time and money spent on the phone.
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In the case of websites, auto scaling is useful only if your application is not too dependent on DB but most web apps have DB as the bottle neck. The way auto scaling works is to launch new instances but that works only for application servers. You can't autoscale a DB by launching new instances.

So, even though this feature is useful it is not taking away the biggest headache in website scaling..i.e how to scale your DB.
Oh, yeesh, a Gottfredson publication in the journal Intelligence. The obligatory link for any discussion of a report on a research result like that is the article by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Check each news story you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the story.
Well, AA is unlikely to read it and fire their team based on Dustin's say-so :-)

But from time to time companies wake up and smell the coffee all on their own. AA may get fed up with their marketing team and "clean house" themselves, hiring a new manager and looking for new outside talent like contractors and consultants.

When that happens, the new team are often looking for people who think just like them--that the old stuff was garbage and the old management inept. Dustin could get a call under such circumstances.
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I agree, except for one thing: I couldn't find a way to put a 24-hr hold on a ticket through their website. Seems like a pretty standard feature; not sure why they don't allow it.
There are plenty of sophisticated tools at hand that can be used to solve specific problems which email is ill-suited to address.

I'm still politely requesting more specifics here.
Thanks everyone for the insightful answers, you've given me some good ideas to look into.
Another which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned - NERDTree (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658) will give you a tree view of files and folders.
Sweet. So let's just test everyone at birth, then discard those that don't make the cut. That way, we'll be able to keep health costs sufficiently low.

Should be easy once we liberalize the laws on abortion. Hmm... but people might object to their less fit children being eliminated....

Better not tell them. We'll just let the Doctors make the decisions. They always know best anyway. After all, why else would we give them white coats?

"Genetic fitness" was at the heart of every terrible ideology of the past century. Watch out for this type of thinking. Its the first step to a place you don't want to be....
It's my own observation. As a programmer, you are better equipped to arrive at insight through reflection better than most people, using your debugging and profiling skills ;-)
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Do you know of something like this for emacs?
How about this approach...

Make something so compelling that you won't need to collect emails for follow-up; they'll be back.
Venture capital. I know it's not as hip as ramen but it sure pays the bills.
Didn't find any contact info in your profile.

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(after first contact I'll give you my real email)
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Link to the primary research finding, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False," from PLoS Medicine:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
- Steve Jobs has had precious few 'misses' in the course of h1is career as an executive
Although he is very successful jobs had more then a few 'misses' in fact he has a history of many mistakes, he just kept going: Twiggy drive, apple III, lisa, lisa 2, NeXT (I suppose you could _rationalize_ this as a non-failure) along with some bad business decisions. If you read his life story its fascinating and inspiring that he ended up where he is today.
So Amazon is paying publishers 3$ more than they make on each book, yet the best deal they are willing to offer to newspapers is 30% of their revenue?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
Quite an interesting way to frame the discussion. The question addressed is actually "How much will people pay to read a file on a Kindle?".

If I buy a real book, I have a physical object I can lend or give away. If I "buy" an e-book that's encumbered with DRM, I'm buying a license to view a work on a specific device. Amazon can remotely disable various features I've already paid for.

Make the ebooks portable (e.g. PDF) and DRM-free and you can directly compare them to paper, but not until then.
For anyone interested, this is the code which "parses" the page:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js
"Genetic fitness" was at the heart of every terrible ideology of the past century.

Yes. And "genetic fitness" is very ill-defined here.
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Nice rant, good PR for yourself. I guess it would be easy for anyone to redesign this site if they threw all business and technical requirements out the window as you have.

What are you supposed to do for one way trips? What if I am booking a multi-city flight? What if its an award ticket with miles? What if I want to check first class flights only? Flights with fully refundable fares? How do I check fares for children? What if I want non-stops only? Have you tested your "when" box with users? I can guarantee some of my less technical friends and family members would have no idea what to put in that box.

If you want a simple tool, fly an airline that has simple routes. All of you who love Southwest, go fly them. No one is forcing you to fly American. If you don't think they are providing shareholder value, don't buy their shares.

Anyway, like I said, nice PR. You suckered me in.
What, Emacs-like keybindings for Visual Studio? That seems kind of like putting a steering wheel on your coffee table and calling it an Aston Martin.
What is buttesfire? I looked through the repo but there wasn't any information on what it does.
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How does it compare to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ?
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Robert Klemme ponders why we see catch ... throw so rarely in Ruby, among other things.
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I don't knock something till I try it. I have been using Emacs recently, and I like it. I was simply asking a question. I was not looking to be made fun of.
Re: Landing on the moon

National Geographic's special Aftermath: Life After People was rebroadcast last night. It examines what would happen if humans simply disappeared from the planet. It was sobering because it seemed like Earth would recover and heal itself, in time, without us.

Day 14 after humans: Diesel backup generators that kept the cooling pools pumped at Nuclear power plants run out of fuel, causing catastrophic nuclear steam explosions, releasing multi-Hiroshima levels of radiation locally.

100-150 years after humans: Earth absorbs the excess CO2 that was generated by humans and the baseline level returns back to normal.

500 years: The outer shell of cellphones made of plastic still look like they were made a couple years ago.

100K+ years after humans: The only sign that humans existed on planet earth would not be on planet earth but on the moon (the flag, the footprints, the TV camera, the rovers).
t-mobile provides an app for that. Its in the G1 Android Market
I discovered this via pinax and love it. It's trivial to setup for django users.
The difference is people who fly ALOT.

In 2008 I flew 150 segments on AA (a flight with a layover is two segments). I fly Southwest sometimes, but I would never consider it for frequent travel.

On AA, they recognize that life is hard for people who fly very frequently. First class upgrades after a long week make a big difference. Being able to show up late to the gate and still get my preferred seat makes a big difference.

Southwest is great for casual travelers. While AA costs more it is 100% worth if for someone who travels every week.

As for the website as an indication of overall customer service, I have to disagree. I can call in and they know who I am and what flights I have booked from the caller id. When a travel day is going less than smooth, being able to call someone directly and get it resolved is great.
Bacterial food poisoning can lead to various long-term diseases. Look up Reactive Arthritis, and Guillian-Barre syndrome.

I speak from experience. Reactive Arthritis is not fun, and one can be genetically predisposed to it.

But, it is true that Salmonella in eggs is pretty rare. And given the string of recent outbreaks, you're perhaps more likely to get it from something else.
"The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body.

I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and he says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic.

The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have."

From Milton Glaser's "Ten Things I have learned"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592580
tom999 is correct: Network for Good (http://www.networkforgood.org) does permit anonymous gifts. So do JustGive (http://www.justgive.org) and GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org). (In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I'm GuideStar's director of communications, and Network for Good processes donations given through our site. GuideStar also powers JustGive'scharity search. I'm also a customer, though; I give through the Capital One Giving Site, which is powered by Network for Good.) Just be sure to select the "Don't give my information to the charity" option before you click the button that authorizes the donation. You get a receipt that you can use for your taxes.
Definitely "Readability" should have more exposure.

I've been using it lately and I love it.

Simple is beauty.
ViEmu rocks. I hope the guy who wrote it does reasonably out of it, because it's a great piece of software.
I can't believe they talked about MiniBuffExplorer and didn't mention Vim 7's tabs.
was just the first "big" hardware name that came to mind. (they're in my city)
This project should not be confused with "readability.js", here the point is better CSS Typography, not java-script cleaning "noise" methods.
Learn that you don't know everything. :) It's hard, but definitely essential to hitting that next plain of existence.
I would love to post a hugely insightful reply but I'm really struggling with that.

All I can say is that I know exactly how you feel and I completely understand your problem, which is why I find your description of your problem perfectly clear. Either someone KNOWS what you mean or they don't. Simple as that.

From my experience, it is impossible to explain this particular "problem" to anyone who isn't in the same situation without being accused of arrogance or ignorance.

For me, it is the curse of being an intelligent, semi-geeky, extrovert and intellectual young woman. I'm a bit of too many things, which means that I don't really fit into any group. But honestly - I wouldn't have it any other way, because I am grateful for the intensity and depth of my emotional and intellectual life. Although I have to admit that it can be a bit lonely at times. But then again - who doesn't feel like that sometimes?

Fortunately for me, I'm slowly learning to attract like-minded people, who don't need an explanation. Having at least a couple of people who just "get you" is crucial for sanity, although they don't have to be geographically close.
It was about time... Pidgin has this a while ago, they just needed to port it and add the fancy ui ;)
Advertising always has been, and always will be, a black art. The percentage of time, effort, and money that works for one company might fail dramatically for another.

I disagree, the great ad agencies have been around for decades... far longer than any software company to date. It's an art that can be mastered and requires creative genius, the right brain equivalent of an engineer.

The problem is, it usually takes two to tango. Therefore, many times bad advertising is the result of 1) insufficient research by the marketer, 2) poorly executed product, or 3) a client that thinks he knows what he's doing.
We, my long-time girlfriend and I, are moving to Portland, Oregon, from Lakeland, Florida, in 1 month. A friend sent me that article a few days ago and all I could think was, "informative article, but it doesn't matter." We're moving anyway. And we've never been. Like wallflower, everything we've read and heard points to Portland as a place we need to be, or at least live in for a while.

The company I work for has no problem with me working remotely. I pointed my boss to RandsInRepose's excellent article (The Pond) about remote workers, so we've started the discussion about things we'll have to work through. Needless to say, I'm incredibly thankful and lucky to HAVE a job, especially one that's willing to keep me around as I move.

My girlfriend is a painter (website; http://daubery.com etsy store: http://hollypaints.etsy.com), and has had little luck finding work in Lakeland. So if she doesn't find work out there it won't be much different.

Paul Graham's "Cities and Ambition" article really hit home when I read it a year ago. It made me think about how deeply where I live affects my quality of life, my future, my happiness, my creativity, my productivity, my resources. Lakeland is a "settle down, raise a family, go to church" type of place. It's not for us. I want to run a software company of my own, hire great people, and be involved in a community of artists, musicians, programmers, designers, and makers. My girlfriend needs to be around artists that don't bullshit, have creativity from within, and aren't in constant competition with each other.

Moving to a new place is going to be invigorating. We're hoping the people we find in Portland will continue to inspire us once the newness of a new city wears off. Wish us luck.

If you have advice, or live in Portland, don't hold back.
I am frequently in the market for web design services, but I would never hire an opinionated snot regardless of his talent. Be professional and save rants for beers with friends.
was that blurb run through babelfish to 5 different languages before being brought back to english? i could parse that for hours trying to figure out what it says.
If anyone here was asked to write down a checklist of things to consider when choosing a CMS it would be more comprehensive and provide better advice than this. I really don't see the value in this page, but I am willing to be educated.

Was this page of value to you? I'd be interested to hear how.
It's easy to price too high though. Would you rather sell 10 at £4.99, or 100 at 99p? Though of course I'm not saying you should price at 99p just because everyone else does, just remember that generally, the higher price your app, the less people will buy it. Find the optimal price point for your app, to make the most profit.

eBooks do kind of have an upper hand though — people have been buying paper books for years, at least it has a proven base price for the market (plus a very low piracy rate). While on the other hand, as you said, the majority of people still don't put a value on software…
Also, you might want to offer a compelling product...
oh it's a campfire-style theme for colloquy
Wikipedia?
Sounds a bit pre-WolframAlpha to me :)

[EDIT] Wolfram seems to be doing the same job as Wikipedia but with dynamic data rather than linkable data. But I'm sure wikipedia is a source for WA too.

[EDIT: I removed the word "Coz"] I just read that WolframAlpha is able to answer a question like "Why did the chicken cross the road?" by saying "to get to the other side".

P.S: I'm not sure if it's just an easter egg or the brilliance of the AI system of the Alpha. I read it here: http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/wolfram-easter-eggs/
You're right. Lots of research and testing would need to be done. This is just a seed. I did think about a lot of this stuff, though.

For one-way flights, you just put one date in, rather than a range. As you pointed out, this has some problems. I'm willing to live with them for this mockup, though.

For multi-stop flights, you click the plus button next to the destination. Users who are not looking for multi-stop flights would not be looking for a way to add a destination, but the plus sign is just forward enough that if you are, you would press it and find your answer.

For the more advanced filtering stuff, I think it would be best to add those controls to the flights listing on the next page rather than clutter up the front page and first impression a user gets. Simplicity with progressive disclosure.
Let's hope not. We like having him around at Frogmetrics. :-)
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Actually, Visual Studio does come with Emacs-like keybindings by default - check out Tools > Options > Keyboard, and choose the Emacs option from the dropdown menu.

Nice analogy though :-)
Can you expand on what in particular is wrong with this research? I want to hear a critique of the argument not the source.
the colorscheme being used is oceandeep: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=368

in case you were wondering...
The load balancer seems nice. We used HAProxy, but it seemed like the sort of thing that Amazon could easily take care of on their own. I see that it has health checks, but I wonder if it's generally as nice and configurable as HAProxy.
"Genetic fitness" was at the heart of every terrible ideology of the past century.

Except for the worst.
Tag clouds? What is this 2004? This article is light on details and low in value to tech providers and site owners.
A screencast on the subject:

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-c...
Step 3: Will the CMS be compatible with your host?

I think that's putting the horse before the carriage.
This is an indispensable tool for my Django development.

Highlights:

* shell_plus - will open a Python shell with your models from the project already imported.

* runserver_plus - http://code.google.com/p/django-command-extensions/wiki/RunS... is a great debugging tool. It will give you an Ajax Python shell where the error occurred.

* dumpscript - is the most pythonic way to make backups of your database. "Generates a Python script that will repopulate the database using objects"

If you are using Django, use this project.
An opinion from the other side of the pond:

You're right that southwest, jetblue et al are pretty good for what they offer- but don't misunderstand the next steps- heavier competition, higher price crunch and then you end up with a service like easyjet or ryanair. If you've ever flown either, you'll understand just exactly how unpleasant flying can be.
I have reached an enlightenment recently.

Pretty much all the technology around me is an instance of a gadget, that has-a microprocessor, and has-a bunch of I/O ports to connect to some breakout circuitry. In my 10 years of work since school, nothing I have touched did not fit that description.

So if I could go back, I would probably major in Electrical (instead of Mechanical) Engineering to have more fundamentals about hardware and software. Not complaining though - my work has been interesting for the most part.
At work, I have a standard issue cubicle with L-shaped desk. We all have docking stations and one monitor, but I have acquired a second one from the cubicle's previous inhabitant. So, I run dual 19" 4:3 monitors from the docking station.

At home, I've tried to match the environment as best as possible. I bought a simple Ikea table that I use as a desk and a thrift store bargain task chair that really needs to be replaced. I run dual 19" 16:10 monitors on an identical docking station, acquired from my father. When I work from home I just plug in my USB keyboard and mouse, dock the laptop, and the monitors auto-detect and switch over. If I'm not working, my i7 gaming rig powers the dual displays.

For general computing. email and web development unrelated to my day job I use a MacBook Pro from 2007. I wouldn't trade it for anything; except maybe a new unibody MBP.
As a startup based on EC2, our greatest risk last year was not scaling in time to meet demand (yes, even on EC2). That makes this fantastic news.
My favorite section of the article:

"Don't mess with Moore's Law. This metronome of the digital age, says Mr. Barrett, isn't really a law, but "a social contract, a road map, a sign post. It's something to hang in front of the bright, bushy-tailed new young graduates and tell them: 'We've kept this thing going for 40 years now, so don't screw it up' -- and by God, they don't."

The social construction of computation :)
I found the blog linked to this page (which looks like it uses the css) really hard to read on my monitor. They letters were too small and close together. There was even one word that I couldn't tell if it was worn or worm until I highlighted the last letter. ( I suspect the author had a similar problem, I have never heard of words giving a "worm book welcoming".
Am I the only one who's a little scared that a company who relies so heavily on another companies' service, has got funding?

I wish them luck with their ongoing success of course, it's just worrying, that's all...
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Wow, that's tiny! I vaguely remember working on counter tops bolted to a wall, and our space was about that size per developer.
This is pirated material.
Minor irritation: Having to click an image 3 times to see it in full resolution.
As the database is hand curated it is highly unlikely an AI response. just simply the programmed response.
I would pay more for the work of writers and artists whose overall careers I want to support. I will buy Saramago's books and Outkast's albums.
It doesn't really require a huge amount of computing power, but I always thought that a dating / matching application that ran in the background on a phone would be pretty cool.

It would probably work best in places with good public transportation, or other reasons for people to be in relatively close proximity to each other. Then when a good match was within X distance, you'd get a notification saying a match was nearby; and if you both had a minute you could meet RIGHT NOW.
Does anything prohibit someone from hacking together a way to scale their DB using this service? i.e. fire up instances that of a certain ilk? Not sure how detailed CloudWatch is, but you could conceivably automate anything that involves looking at numbers and taking steps to reduce load on your DB.
As far as I understand it (the blogpost, not the linked story), the point is: listening to the whining of others is pointless.
I'm willing to bet that the "neat programming language" he's referring to is clojure.
I wasn't making fun of you - I was pointing out that (in my opinion) what makes Emacs Emacs can't really just be a "plugin" thrown onto an IDE.

Maybe a better analogy would be asking what sort of engine I need to purchase to turn my Civic into a 747.
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