skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! I'm the author of that benchmark. Note that the machine has been set-up so this particular comparison could happen without interference of other features which speed up performance dramatically, most notably the query cache. Also, regardless of the overall performance, what I've been trying to observe are the results when compared to each other.

That said, if you would like, I can post the scripts I used for the benchmark, I'd love to be pointed wrong as based on these benchmarks I've neglected this tmpfs idea.

Cheers
Actually I'd expect almost any career to be like this, for those who are in the top 1% or so of their profession.
Hi! I am ok that my submission got killed - but not if it is killed for the wrong reason. I definitely did not "create 12 accounts" to vote it, all I did was tweet about it.

In any case, I have utmost respect for the community, and I definitely want to play my part in making it work.

Thanks for all the clarifications
The default form of disagreement
Ask HN: Has modding down become the default way of disagreeing with a post? What happened to "I disagree with you because of X, Y and Z"? Why so many people prefer to mod down instead of engaging in a discussion?
Heh, one of my Windows annoyances is the inability to drag windows from any edge except the top, since dragging from anywhere else either rearranges toolbars or resizes the window.
The optimist in me sees this getting used to greatly reduce the amount of code required for many repetitive things that are often done in C. Partial Application could be really powerful in such a verbose language, and MACRO tricks to accomplish similar results are hard to debug and pretty ugly.

The pessimist in me sees a lot of very poor design decisions resulting from this feature, because everyone will be excited to play with the new toy.

The realist in me does not expect to see this in ANSI C any time soon.
Pro athletes make enough money to alleviate most of the issues that their lifestyle brings about. Plus, they are pro athletes. Yet they still get divorced. And sometimes they don't. Musicians, actors and artists get divorced all the time. Or not.

Artists on the other hand never make any money, they are busy all the time, and have a very predictable lifestyle (always broke, always working). They usually get dumped because their SO wants to live in an apartment that has its own bathroom and shower.
yes, we had the api implemented, but decided to go with this interface - it is almost exactly the same UI as both facebook and twitter.
AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
The way it works is you use a web interface to enter the number you wish to dial and the number you wish to dial from. Then your phone rings, you pick up, and the number you are calling subsequently rings and the connection is made.

Incidentally there is a 3rd party app for the android that transparently handles all this for you-- you just enter a number to dial and it connects you with GV.
Yes. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

There have been a few other job postings on YC, but they tend to be unusual -- either revealing that the hiring organization is awesome or clueless. Since posting a job can be fairly expensive, it's a good idea to be careful. I've written at least one job ad targeting the kinds of people who visit news.yc (not for a tech position, though), but posting it would be counterproductive.
IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch. Downvotes have always been used to express disagreement. Or more precisely, a negative score has: users seem not to downvote something they disagree with if it already has a sufficiently negative score.
If you right-click (or two-finger click) on a Dock icon it brings up a mini-menu, but I don't know if any of these include "New Window". It varies by app.
is it possible to start using without adding anyone?
Ah, interesting. It didn't do so for me, they appeared as different sites.
Math model may decrease phantom traffic jams
No. We observed that the abandonment rate was 100% when a user had no contacts, so we made this a requirement up front, since we were losing everyone who skipped this step anyway.
I just went through the whole xbox live cancel thing too. No place on the site or in the console to quit. Tech support e-mail would always say call them. The person on the phone was able to take care of everything and even mentioned billing.microsoft.com would allow you to stop the auto renew. I didn't try that out since I was already on the phone. I don't know why the e-mail support responses left that out. If that site works for someone, it would be nice to know.
Newer Mac OS X versions don't tend to be any slower than older versions, though. But I definitely agree with you when it comes to Windows.
Evolution suggests that convergence occurs with the best adaptation.

If you take for granted that striated prints are better than smooth ones, it seems obvious that fingerprints would be nearly random striations because converging the design has no benefit (ie randomness is the norm, not convergence.)
I can appreciate the sentiment but "how much does one person really need?" isn't really the most compelling argument in favor of file-sharing.
How many proggit readers even see ads?
Among the problems that this has, it will shatter PGP and S/MIME signatures silently.
I don't see a problem with it if the translation is 1-to-1 (and that's a pretty big if). Disregarding federal law for the moment, what is the harm in the mailman reprinting your letters with nicer font on nicer paper? It seems to me that if the mailman wants to do that, as long as they don't lose any of the information of the original letter I would benefit from having an easier to read letter.
NSMutableArray and removeObjectAtIndex: in Objective-C
Google's digital book future hangs in the balance
Is Amazon Taking Over the Book Business?
jobs for subreddits is a more focussed audience.
Location, Location: Physical Proximity Still Pays
13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface
Besides, the "if everyone drove small, everyone would be safe" assumption is wrong because many car accidents don't involve another car.

Lose points for misreading and putting words in my mouth. I said that, "engineering quality, not greater mass, would be the dominant safety factor for the buyer." It is the prevalence of large passenger vehicles that makes greater mass an issue in North America. I wouldn't see so many small single women driving around alone in Suburbans, Expeditions, and other SUVs if there wasn't an on-road arms race here in terms of vehicle mass.

I've spoken with two other people who have been in major collisions in a little teeny Honda CRX. The engine dropped out the bottom of the car, the front end crumpled, and everything happened exactly like it was supposed to, and everyone came out mostly unscathed. Consumers here as a whole would be much better served by paying attention to the safety engineering of vehicles, instead of just feeling secure because they are perched high in a huge metal behemoth.

No scheme or factor is going to make everyone safe. Don't put that straw man on me. More consumer attention to safety engineering is going to ground the market on more economical principles, however.
But if it becomes normal for a mailman to do this, there is now an expected man-in-the-middle. Sure the mailman might be benign, but what about if there is another man-in-the-middle (less benign), now that I expect my communication to be tampered with I won't notice anything suspicious.
[Note: Zed's proposed solution is to forward on the original mail as well so it can be verified]
I still don't get it. The author didn't actually explain what the benefits of Twitter were for him. I know people use it for a lot of stuff.

But how does it make you happier, smarter, a better person? How does make your life easier, pleasant, or fulfiling?
The site seems easy to use, but I think http://jottit.com is easier. You don't need to select a site name or enter your email address before your site is created. Although you can afterward if you like.
A Cheap Route to Robust LEDs
I have yet to find one that gives the option to create a new window from the context menu in the dock.
To be fair, the Unicode folks totally screwed over the Japanese. Now there are many people who can't even write their name on a computer.

Needless to say, these people would rather use the "legacy" character sets that didn't have this problem.
Steven Pinker discusses this topic in his books:

- "The Language Instinct" covers it in detail
- "The Stuff of Thought", in which he pretty much responds directly to this article.

I definitely side with his views on this one, though it's too complicated to discuss here, and he does too good a job not to recommend the read (which is why I'm pointing to his books!).
What is lamson doing with mails that makes just leaving them in their original charset unworkable?
Thanks for the prompt answer. That's an interesting detail. I think I was around at the time of these discutions.

Anyway, the question I wanted to explore is if the fixed karma threshold for downvoting (100, IIRC) does not risk becoming a problem when a larger population (and less active on average) becomes able to manifest disagreement this way or if the threshold should be a function of the average karma of the active population.
Especially considering the premise of the article is that they wouldn't have achieve the success (and money) they have now without file sharing.

But nonetheless, Fleet Foxes freakin rock and I'm super happy to see them pop up in the hacker news headlines!
Ask HN: Marketing offline on a bootstrapped budget?
I'm bootstrapping my startup. Once I am launched my overhead will be minimal (< $200/mo) not counting my time. Although it won't cost much to run the business initially, I am concerned about marketing offline on a bootstrapped budget.

I do have some money set aside for this sort of thing. However, my product is focused toward health care providers who are used to schmoozy sales reps with huge expense accounts. I feel that my target customer isn't spending a whole lot of time online looking for my sort of products and that I need to really focus on marketing offline.

Once I am launched, I plan on hitting the pavement and personally visiting my target client. However, in my experience, doctors are busy and rarely take unsolicited meetings, so I am not sure how effective this will be.

I have a lot of confidence in my idea (duh!), and feel that it is especially relevant given the recent press on the Obama healthcare overhaul and using IT to decrease healthcare expenses.

Advertising in trade journals seems like a good option, but it is also expensive. What are some ideas that can help me gain attention offline?
I guess the proprietary stacks use proprietary editors, and the open stacks tend to use open editors.
New MySpace Offices Would Have Been Over Indian Burial Grounds
Yes, I was hoping to create a conversation here with this seeder list. There doesn't seem to be much interest here though. :-)

BTW, number of bugs should probably be weighted with number of incidents for each bug and its impact. The mere thought of this makes me rethink my design - how will know the number of incidents? Should I instrument my code to download "bug signatures" and report back the findings? For a web app it seem a straightforward thing to do. How would I do this for desktop/iphone app? I could proably send down some script code to walk over the local storage to look for problems. How about UX bugs though? Should I log UX interactions into a local database and send down queries as well? Hm...
I don't think that's their primary argument or that he's trying to make an argument at all; its more an an observation that piracy helped him obtain some of the music he loved most growing up, especially the obscure stuff. Again, I agree with you, its just you're framing his thoughts as an argument that's trying to win people over when I think that is a bit unfair.
So the Japanese get paper and the US gets cars? sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
A slightly better writeup:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8097324.stm
He's just distinguishing between pure and applied maths.

Pure math -> "level one". Start with axioms and apply logic.

Applied math -> "level two". Take some pure math, and find an analogous system in the real world.

The question in applied math is whether (or better yet when) the analogy is a good one.
There's no substitute for living and working with the homeless in solidarity. If you want to learn real lessons about how they live their lives or about how they got into their situation, get off your chair and go work at a soup kitchen for a day. Trust me, they are just as eager to hear from you and also in need of a good friend.
Umm, no. Drop badly encoded email because most of it is spam. Or, at least, that's the hypothesis that he's asking you to help verify. Did you even read the article?
Continuous Deployment is a very intriguing idea. I haven't tried it, but in the the limit it makes sense. A few years ago I worked for a company that did large batch releases, scheduled every 3 months. The first month was spent negotiating with product management over product requirements and writing functional specifications. The next month was writing code. The third month was fairly rigorous QA, so much so that there was usually another month to fix the problems that QA found. The breakdown was 25% design documentation, 25% programming, and 50% fixing bugs that should have been caught in programming. The quality of the code that made it to production was very good, except for one time where a single bug brought the company to its knees for a week.

More recently, I did a consulting gig a company that released every two weeks with a one week QA cycle that allowed for a round of critical bug fixes. This was much smoother. There were rarely any show stoppers and even those were so fresh in eveyone's minds that they were quickly fixed.

Neither place practiced TDD or even rigorous unit testing. Testing was pretty much walking through manual scripts. It seems to me that continuous integration to production requires TDD or something close to it. I also question whether it is appropriate for an application with fiduciary responsibility, but I would love to be convinced otherwise.
The design is very pretty, but it actually seems kind of broken to me in Firefox 3.0.11 on the Mac (OS X 10.5.7, res: 1280x800). This is how it loads for me:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1438/69220612.jpg

As you can see, the "Free Sign Up" button and video are out of place.
At first I thought this was about Google image search and artists having problems with that but I don't really understand why this is newsworthy. Google called asked and got turned down, seems perfectly reasonable and unobtrusive to me. Now I'm not an artist but if Google called me and asked to feature something I've coded I'd be absolutely thrilled if I was (well I am) an unknown struggling coder.
I did this and subsequently resubscribed, but only using the purchasable cards (which can often be bought at a discount). Not giving them my credit card again...
seems like we have this discussion like once a week. i have several comments in similar threads that are all now under dead submissions.

i think the better point to be made is that people downvote opinions that they don't agree with (as opposed to downvoting something factually inaccurate or bad in some other way). its good to have different points of view, and if people get punished for expressing the unpopular one, fewer people will express them.
They're for sensing textures and other vibration filtering: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5920/1503 ( DOI 10.1126/science.1166467 )
Something the article fails to note: The WaPo op-ed they are quoting left out some fairly significant information:

"The poll that appears in today's op-ed shows a 2 to 1 lead in the thinnest sense: 34 percent of those polled said they'd vote for Ahmadinejad, 14 percent for Mousavi. That leaves 52 percent unaccounted for. In all, 27 percent expressed no opinion in the election, and another 15 percent refused to answer the question at all. Six percent said they'd vote for none of the listed candidates; the rest for minor candidates."

See http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2009/06/... for more details.
There are of course other ideas: Secure Login with voice prints; Paid Content; Voting Lines; you name it.

There's no such thing as voice prints. Period. Even the FBI states that voice prints are no conclusive evidence for speaker identity.

Of course there are speaker recognition systems that allow to some extent closed-set speaker verification, but the problem of first establishing a verified speaker identity is going to be quite difficult to solve.
>> "Some of the worst classes I had as an undergrad were the ones taught with a professor's class notes instead of a proper text. It's true that texts are overly expensive, but the amount of work that goes into a good text isn't trivial."

For two reasons at least. One: the amount of effort that goes into a good text and Two it means that every one taking the class from a different teacher is either getting taught something different or being taught from some one else's notes. Same with anytime a new teacher takes over the subject.

A couple years of this and suddlenly people are being taught with error ridden cryptic notes from a teacher who retired years ago but the course material is now so different than the text book that upper level classes relying on what you learned from the teachers notes would need to be restructured so you can change the low level course.

which is exactly what happened at my school, NMT, with the sophomore level physics courses and it's been a 4 year head ache so far.

All of which to say is that the text book industry sucks, not necessarily the text books themselves.
> I am more likely to try something if I can back out painlessly if it doesn't work out.

Yup.

I would like to see information about ease of exit included more often and more prominently in reviews of sign-up-based products. In fact, it would be interesting to have a site that gave only ease of exit information, for all kinds of products.
I have to disagree based on my weightlifting experience. When deadlifting heavy weight (1.5x bodyweight and higher), friction makes a big impact on my grip. Sweaty hands, and even a bar with worn-down grooves, can significantly degrade my grip. This is why weightlifters (and gymnasts) use chalk.
Also depending on the sample size "big" is subjective - because they take paying customers they result could be anywhere from $900-5000 more each month.
While I agree with the context of your article (though sometimes it is VERY necessary to rebrand), I think you missed an important point on how to avoid rebranding woes. Most established companies tend to favor unique typographic or vague logo marks more often than detailed illustrations to avoid narrow definition and the hassles of a complete rebrand. By adhering to a simple and less specific brand mark, the logo becomes more organic in nature. Companies can redefine their marketing message and expand their product offering with flexibility.

Think about the most prominent web/software companies such as Google, Microsoft, Digg, Facebook, Vimeo, Flickr... most have unique typographic logos because features change overtime. Case in point, Flickr now supports video. The fashion industry is also a very good example of this. Non-specific logos allow them to build (and change) associations based on lifestyle photography. Why is this important? Product cycles are seasonal and generally very trendy/volatile.
A table of battery life/mass ratios would be considerably more interesting.
I spent a couple of months on a market research for one of my own (external) monitoring projects, so it's a rare case when I can produce an intelligent comment :-)

As others noted Server Density looks nice and functional. But I am just not getting the idea of using 3rd party service for monitoring CPU usage of my boxes. This goes against the grain of established IT practices, so I suspect you won't get much traction in a professional crowd.

The non-professional crowd (i.e. bloggers and such) will stick with a Free version for the eternity. The jump from $0 to $180 per year is just way to much for something that effectively solves the problem they don't know exists.

One professional IT niche you may want to target is an outsourced IT segment, i.e. companies providing managed server administration for organizations lacking their own IT departments.

I would also strongly advocate for selling standalone version. Not through the "contact us if you have a lot of servers", but right there on the front page. See how haveamint.com does it, for example. But even here you will have an uphill battle to wage against well entrenched existing monitoring solutions.

In any case - good luck. Looks like a thoughtfully designed product, but the positioning will probably require substantial tweaking.
I wish I could help but, for $200 per month, I don't know that there is anything other than some guerilla marketing techniques that would fit.

How about this: You agree to buy breakfast for the staff at a doctor's office/building in exchange for the chance to glad-hand. $50 per meeting means four meetings. You do that enough and you're bound to meet some good people.

Other than that, I'd invest my $200 in my time/travel and attend trade shows, buy business cards, and try to do as much networking as I could with local organizations. Some cost money to join/attend so that would eat your budget but it might lead you to wealthy individuals who like what you're doing. Don't shy away from entrepreneurship organizations either - join the heck out of those since there are tons of ex-doctors as well as friends of doctors.

I don't know - good luck.
Can we please give the silly "it's just speculation" cliche a rest?

Of course it is speculation. The NTSB experts (or at least, their equivalent) are doing the same thing at this point. I guarantee that the way root causes for aviation accidents are established is exactly via speculation (aka hypothesis), followed by rigorous testing of that speculation where possible.

Peter Garrison is well-known in the aviation community and may well be considered an expert on flight safety. He is a pilot with thousands of hours of flight time. He designed and built several airplanes himself, and for decades has written Flying's "Aftermath" section, which takes a hard look at general aviation's accidents.

Should Feynman have avoided "speculating" when he compressed an O-ring in ice water on television during the Challenger safety board inquiry, when NASA and the Rogers' board were plodding along? Or did it help lead to a rigorous and open inquiry?
I'll confess now to definitely not being an expert on mail systems but what is to stop this tampering from happening now by a man-in-the-middle? I don't really see any new avenue of attack that doesn't already exist with current systems (encrypted email excluded).
Ask YC: how would you pay for music? (if you could choose)
Would you prefer to pay by the download (like itunes), subscription (like emusic)

or, have unlimited music downloads included as a part of your ISP deal?
Wow, very informative - even if I struggled along at some points and had to look up definitions :D

For someone who last dabbled in assembly just a bit on a Tandy 8086 eight or nine years ago, what's the best way to start clean and get a fresh understanding of x86_64 architecture? What are good beginner projects? I assume no one's building a blog application out of assembly, so what's the equivalent?

Looking forward to struggling through part two!