skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Comparing QNX and Plan 9 for system development?
Can anyone compare the benefits or difficulties of self-hosted development on QNX Neutrino and Plan 9? I'm looking for an alternative to Linux that would make life easier by having cleaner structure, direct support for distributed processing, and a microkernel architecture to simplify driver development.

The project is a non-commercial/open distributed system (both in the senses of multi-processor and peer-to-peer) on x86 platforms, with no realtime requirement.

From looking briefly at both and reading the docs, my impression is that Plan 9 has a more elegant design and frendlier license/community, while QNX has a more developed environment. The tradeoffs give them about even appeal for me, so I'd like to know how they fare as you get deep into a project with them.

Tell me if I'm wrong, but of the alternatives, Amoeba looks very awkward, Chorus seems completely dead and gone, and GNU/Hurd, MINIX 3, and Genode look far from ready to be used in anger.
It's mostly clever way of doing manual moderation. No matter what you try, it all comes down to a guy reading another guy's post and moderating it. Nothing has really changed for 20 years.

You might be interesting by this article on Edward Tufte's forum, a lot of good principles based on years of experience:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I don't fully understand why you had to start from scratch every time you were forced to change programmers. Was there no way to get the incomplete code and continue building on that?
Another YC hit that I would never have expected to explode like this (along with JTV). Good thing I am not an angel/VC. So hard to discern what is going to take off.
Over in the Python world, pip supports a scheme for specifying either the package name on the main Python package index, or a combo of repo URL + name to install under. Works with SVN, hg and git repositories, IIRC, and lets you pin to specific points in the repository, which ends up being pretty useful if you want to develop against a consistent snapshot of a dependency.
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Ghetto Geo-Location or How To Find Your Users Location Using Pron [SFW]
To be perfectly honest, I don't make operating-system-specific packages (in Python, the language I use on a daily basis). I make standard Python distutils packages, and then anyone who has Python can install them anywhere. Folks who want to can generate RPM, extracting Windows .exe, etc., from that package.
I did a port of a word processor to QNX 25 years ago, so that makes it old as the hills and the system calls must have been Unix compliant. Other than that I dont remember much. Plan 9 is of similar vintage. Even Linux is newer.
I'm surprised that hacker news didn't get mentioned (okay, I'm glad they didn't mention it).

IMHO, this moderation system is the best (or maybe a close tie with slashdot)...trolly posts don't disappear, they just get lighter and lighter until they all-but disappear. All it takes after that is a highlight and you can read it.
"This relates your page semantically to the concepts "Web 2.0" and "Twitter"."

I'm sorry, but no, it doesn't do anything resembling "semantics". Some background for why I say this is here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/8ly99/ask_web_de...
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Find somebody who already has a startup. join theirs.

You don't want to have to go through the hassle of starting one your own. trust me.
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But I wonder whether that's necessarily language bound - shouldn't it be more a VM issue?

Yes, this is the whole point of Parrot.

If you want to see a production example, consider how common the use of C# libraries in F# programs is. (Or Java libraries in Clojure.)
Map-Reduce implemented in year 2001 at SenSage (Addamark)
A recent HN posting referenced article http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=89508453919 where Facebook engineers discuss Hive and Map-Reduce. The description there maps very closely to this 2001 patent from SenSage/Addamark: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=_VaHAAAAEBAJ, in its discussion of:

* distributed compressed storage
* columnar databases
* temporal partitioning
* distributed query planning and processing
* ... many other aspects ...

The CEO of SenSage (formerly Addamark) points this out at http://www.sensage.com/blog/2009/06/11/mapreduce-made-easy-the-future-of-database-analytics/. Various other companies have also taken the Hive/Hadoop/Map-Reduce model, including Vertica (founded by Michael Stonebraker after his stint as tech advisor at SenSage). These commercial offerings are quite popular and have lots of uptake in the market. Probably a lot faster than standard Hadoop/Map-Reduce.
It's a very cute video that shows the growth in the national in miles per hour along a map across the US. I still think Bush and Reagan were nut cases and Obama is cool.
def trying
yield day_job.problem.to_idea if day_job.has_problem?
trying do |idea|
idea.attack!
end
end
Versus 550 for http://rubyonrails.org/ or 545 for the site itself ("damn sure").

Pity nothing like an explanation of the rating system.
(Seems these notes did make it into posting ...)

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A recent HN posting referenced article http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=89508453919 where Facebook engineers discuss Hive and Map-Reduce. The description there maps very closely to this 2001 patent from SenSage/Addamark: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=_VaHAAAAEBAJ, in its discussion of:

* distributed compressed storage

* columnar databases

* temporal partitioning

* distributed query planning and processing

* ... many other aspects ...

The CEO of SenSage (formerly Addamark) points this out at http://www.sensage.com/blog/2009/06/11/mapreduce-made-easy-t.... Various other companies have also taken the Hive/Hadoop/Map-Reduce model, including Vertica (founded by Michael Stonebraker after his stint as tech advisor at SenSage). These commercial offerings are quite popular and have lots of uptake in the market. Probably a lot faster than standard Hadoop/Map-Reduce.
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ThoughtWorks' assessments about Ruby's productivity, speed and maintainability
I really, really don't like Scribd. I'm sorry, but PDFs work much, much better in Preview than in some Flash app in my browser. In fact, does anyone know how to block Scribd results in Google?
This actually sounds very similar to the package manager we're working on for Narwhal (http://narwhaljs.org/), currently called "Tusk". It has virtualenv-style environments, dependency resolution, installation from git repos or plain HTTP servers.

Perhaps we could collaborate to make a language-agnostic package management "standard". We can of course have implementations in our languages of choice, but things like the .rip file format, directory structure, etc could be standardized.
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Hi Schapirama,

I love the idea. But I have a visual problem with the page (other than the massive loading times, which you've already promised to fix):

Way too many fonts on that page.

The logo on the top left, the "Album of letters" script, and the "TOUR" button are all different fonts, and it's ... less than pretty :)

Get rid of the military-style "TOUR" font. Maybe tone down the crazy "from a birdie" logo ... it looks too twittery.

Also, tone down the cross-hatch on the back of the page. Nobody writes letters on corduroy pants :)

I think you should work with a graphic designer to choose a good color scheme and typography set that work. The idea is excellent and your page almost gives the "vibe" you're looking for. Seeing that page, I really wanted to write some letters: so that's a huge plus.

I like the layout of the elemnents: the "An album of letters" is intriguing, and simple "big middle box" layout works well, because it feels like a letter.
Incidentally, I am now offering trademark registration for the low, low price of 1 upmod.

Post a comment, and I will give you a unique registration number... or you can just pick one yourself.
Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font
Yawn.

Compare to Prelude, an entire sans serif family Palm commissioned from Font Bureau: http://typophile.com/node/58935

First Microsoft, now Palm; Apple, you really need to raise your game here.
I think it has to do more with policy than it does with the telcos. Japan, Korea, and Sweden are outliers which have had massive funding (direct and indirect) from the governments to build up their broadband infrastructures. The hands-off, let the market decide, strategy of the previous Republican administration has led to the largest commercial fiber deployment in the world (FiOS), but it isn't as far-reaching or speedy as the government-assisted rollouts. When you look at penetration rates and bandwidth capacities of different nations, the US is in the middle of the pack.
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Hmm, a domain leasing agent...paying rent for a domain name, kinda like renting office space. Has this been done already?
I may be interested in this domain.
thats just stupid, pagerank != brand equity, not by a long shot.
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I love innovation in a market that doesn't see enough of it. It is great to have options of medium complexity between Slicehost & etc "In the beginning, there was an Ubuntu install. Then God looked upon the bare server and said, sudo apt-get rubygems, and it was good." and Heroku & company managed environment cloud solutions.

One bit of friendly advice: you'll see a lot of people here attach great importance to the difference between $15 and $20. It is very difficult to build a business on this kind of customer, since they will also attach great importance to the difference between $12 and $15 when somebody comes along and offers it next week.
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This architecture works well for event based apps. For more flexibility though you should make sure the logic is in Javascript on the client and just use Flash to keep the socket open managing the xml snippets to the ejabberd server. As long as you are not pushing a lot of data between Flash and Javascript via ExternalInterface the performance is pretty good. Hopefully the need for the Flash bit will go away if Web Sockets makes it in HTML 5 (http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/)
I think the argument is that we can already simulate a single neuron fairly accurately today, and so some decades from now we'll likely be able to simulate them all, plus their interconnects, and thus by pure brute force we'll get a human-level AI.
"I don't think undergrads ever do anything substantial (as part of their official coursework, that is)."

Really? I've heard of:

-Systems programming: Implement ext2.

-Operating systems: Write a kernel.

-Compilers: Write a compiler for a C-like language.

and that's at my school alone. Though 2 of those are senior level classes, systems is a junior level class.

I just assumed that's how CS was done everywhere. Want to learn about (foo)s? Write a foo!
What is a browser? (Video)
That is a novell idea. It is like balsamiq, but low tech. They should sell it to every ad agency. Because the one were I work, we continually get asked about making iPhone apps.

I hope they design one that is made for website ui as well.
NorCal, SoCal, NY are expensive places to start a company and almost never show up on these types of articles.

But yet most of the biggest names in tech come from these areas. Y Combinator moved to NorCal for some good reasons.

Pro-Business means more than less laws and low taxes. I wish there were more articles focusing on things like VC money flow, startup activity, tolerance for non-traditional idaes, creativity and the cheapest ramen/pizza options.
"You're using an ad-blocker."

Yes. Is there anyone who doesn't block pornographic ads?
Yeah I've had the same experience in the past, though not so much recently. It's really quite weird!
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Please define an actual use-case for 10G burst to the home. The reality is that the most important parts of the network are not the last mile, but all of the interconnects upstream and at the peering points.

This sounds nice, but provides no real benefit to the end-user over a 100M connection that was actually backed by infrastructure that could maintain some reasonable fraction of this amount of bandwidth. If the amount of cash that the telco dumped into this 10G marketing ploy were actually used to upgrade the backhaul all of the users would benefit more.
And I'll suggest the opposite approach: what do you hate doing? Now, what can you build that removes that task or makes it easier?
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Invest in a whiteboard. Write down a random idea everyday.
I really like the concept...how neat! In addition to the design issues, I just wanted to second the idea of allowing the person who ordered the album to purchase it and have it sent to the person it's for. I could see using this for older relatives who don't really do computers if it had that option, or even for my MIL, who uses computers but is also obsessed with physical pictures and scrapbooks.
QNX is going to have better hardware support, plan 9 seems more interesting from a distributed system point of view. Why not the plan 9 follow on, Inferno? It comes with a VM for other oses so you could get linux or windows contributors.
Not only those. If the native client is a go, then we have no need for any desktop applications on x86 systems, no more dll hell on client side running x86 code.

This technology maybe the stone that kills Microsoft.

-- edit --
probably we still need browser and IDE and debugger on desktop. It is hard to imagine developers wants to use web apps. But maybe we will run even a disassembler in browser...
I can't think of any use case for 10 Gbps to the home, so I admit this is a theoretical discussion. I also agree that backhaul is needed, but higher burst speeds don't hurt anything as long as they don't cost more.
Robert Scoble Interview with Facebook CEO Zuckerberg (Video)
whereim.com

Geo-located IM service?
Great question. I answered it by putting together a list of what entrepreneurs I interviewed did.

http://mixergy.com/how-to-find-an-idea-for-a-new-startup
Interview Questions You Can't Ask and Sneaky Alternatives to Get the Same Info
FYI: the person uploading a document for sale is allowed to choose from {website only, website + pdf download, website + adobe drm download}.
Ooo... I actually started something "just" like this, and this domain name is perfect. Would you part with it?
This is great. For me, prototyping != laptop.
Looks like you can buy it from their shop if you'd like it.

http://www.designcommission.com/shop/
Watch out, Oracle: Google tests cloud-based database
There are quite a few cases where 'speculative fiction' authors have been invited into DoD commitees to provide a fresh perspective.
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Kind of related - I tried the 28 hour day / 6 day week when I started my PhD.

I could still code but I couldn't do theory - turned that part of my brain off like a switch.

And even though I only did it for 1 or 2 weeks it took more than month for me to get back to feeling normal.

It turns out a lot of systems in the body like that 24 hour thing. I'm glad I stopped before my digestive system got angry :)

Still kind of glad that I tried it because a) I know I won't try anything like it when stakes are higher and b) the amount of discipline it took was roughly equivalent to the amount of discipline it takes to time manage myself to peak productivity on a regular sleep cycle.
Tell me then, where are the observations that form the scientific argument for Macro Evolution?

Here, let me link you to Science 101 so I can help your tiny brain understand this:
http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/howscienceworks_07

See that little formula?

Idea + Expectations + Observations = Scientific Argument

1. We have the scientific idea - Macro evolution over 4+ bn years

2. We have the expectations (aka what you call circumstantial "evidence") - fossil record and a whole mountain of other expectations.

3. So where exactly are the observations that confirm this idea produces our expectations? Nowhere. You can't observe Macro evolution in action. All that exists is a mountain of circumstantial expectations with no observations.

Two-thirds of a scientific argument doesn't equal a scientific argument, moron. It certainly must seem like trolling when you don't even understand the process by which scientific arguments are validated.
maybe it's the other way around?
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Sotomayor on Affirmative Action
Sorry, I don't understand the comparison? How does Prelude have much to do with Apple's 'new' terminal font? And how does Microsoft play into this?
Maybe it's because metabolism slows down and so you don't need as much sleep to 'recover' from the day?
Twitter Dev Tea Party
If Reddit had an article on the next Google or on Microsoft declaring bankrupcy, would it be off topic on Hacker News _because_ Reddit had an article on it?
The aliases are great, but Facebook is promoting a goldrush mentality that will lead to squatters and lots of unhappy people.

I also don't like the way that journalists are being paid off with advance, special access. It's certainly going to up the fluff content of future stories about Facebook and its founders and senior execs:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/10/facebook-vanity-urls-jo...
Maybe people think they're done when they see the mid-way confirmation page?
If it looks like a receipt - it must be one.
This happened to me when my bank introduced a new online banking system. In the very beginning I just did not notice that there was a new "Yes, I'm still sure I want to do this" button. I did not expect one and therefore did not look for it.
Couldn't they log out, check the thread, see their posts omitted, and become as inflamed as if they're banned? Or was the entire forum private?
Menlo is nice. I use it as the default in Xcode, Terminal, and Safari under 10.6. It looks to have been tweaked from Bitstream Vera Sans for Quartz's anti-aliasing—like Consolas was tweaked from TheSansMono for Cleartype. The letter forms in TheSansMono are the most beautiful—if you're printing a program listing or samples for a book buy and use TheSansMono—Consolas is the sharpest, easiest to read on Windows LCDs, but looks funny on Macs; Menlo is clearer and easier to read on Macs than Consolas. If you want to use the same font set on Mac, Windows, Linux, et al, the Liberation fonts are the best plan; Liberation Mono is pretty, consistent, and doesn't morph too much between renderers.
Anyone from design commission at WWDC? I'd love to buy one directly.
Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com
For console fonts nothing beats Terminus, period.

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* Was planning on developing these into some sort of information portal.
Are there any HN'ers (patio?) who live in Japan and could shed some light on what you actually use all this bandwidth for, if you do? Is the current situation really as it's painted?

I'm in the UK and I current have a (fairly flakey) 24Mbps ADSL2+ connection and I can see running everything like TV, radio, music, voice, etc via this connection. I would do this more if it was more reliable - and I already download a lot of video and stream music via last.fm, use skype, etc... I can see myself using maybe 5-10x my current bandwidth quite happily but not really knowing what to do with anything on top of that.

Obviously while it was novel you'd just gleefully 'download the whole internet' because you could, but what then? Apart from bigger, better, faster, HD/HiFi versions of current applications, what do you (or would you) use a really fast connection for, in the long term?
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Maybe not. I don't upvote pg's comments because it's redundant. He doesn't need the encouragement, and people listen to what he has to say regardless of the score.
I'm at [dylans]at[gmail.com]
There's actually tons of DRM-free paid content on Scribd. DRM is just an option.
I have something I could use for ListLocal.com. If you're willing to part with it, I'm at: [dylans]at[gmail.com]
Apple has famous typographic literacy and graphic design taste.

But Microsoft, with a far worse reputation for taste, has employed famous typographers for each major release of its OS, contributing serious, important typefaces. Vista included Lucas de Groot's Calibri and Consolas, for instance.

Even Palm, a relatively minor company, has a real face commissioned for the Pre.

But Apple's new typeface is just a tweak of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Linux's open source monospace sans?
I applaud this user for sticking his neck out to write such an article, but I find it quite lacking.

"MVC is designed to solve the problem of simultaneously having multiple control entry points, and multiple display outputs, and it acheives that very elegantly. But web applications only ever have one entry point and one output point - the request and the response. You don't have multiple simultaneous controls or views to worry about, so there's little point applying traditional MVC to solve this non-existant problem. Your application, be it a CGI script, mod_perl handler, or even an all-in-one embedded Perl template, receives one and only one request for any one invocation, and it must generate one and only one response. Flow of control is linear and predicatable."

Any web application that can be reached at from a web-enabled phone, a desktop, has API calls to respond to, feeds to deliver and 3rd-party apps to integrate with can hardly be classified as having one entry point and one exit point.
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It's impossible because you'd have to separate the comments where pg is speaking as pg, administrator of this site and partner in YC, and comments discussing articles in a less official capacity.
The tone made it sound like How to Discriminate and Get Away With It.
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bowbefore.us sounds really appealing to me, but I'll need to come up with a concept before I offer to take it off your hands.
I have tons of ideas. Shoot me an email and we can chat.
I gave up on MacPorts a while back when it kept trying to compile the world, and never used fink because its packages were ancient. These guys build binary packages of all the fink unstable packages, presumably as part of some CI system, and host them as an apt repository. So instead of getting Ruby 1.8.1, I get 1.8.6.

This is exactly what I was looking for in Mac OS package management, and given the complaints I always hear about both MacPorts and fink, I'm sure other people have been looking for this too.
What's stopping you from just setting up a wiki on it then?