skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just started content marketing, so hopefully that will start to have an effect soon. Bootstrapped.fm looks awesome. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Or perhaps it's the decimal form of a base 16 number with eight digits.
> It's incredibly simple and blindingly fast as long as you stay on one server and you can get several thousand QPS of capacity on that one server (vs. like 10 with a Django/Rails + SQL database solution).

Wait, what? Even if vertical scaling was a good idea, scaling is far from the only reason you should have more than one server for anything serious.
> Personally I wouldn't be able to use such a device for everything, and I don't think most people could either.

HN seems to have a really distorted view of what real people are.

Chromebooks are great for things like Imgur or Reddit or all that other stuff, especially if people want to leave comments where a real keyboard is handy.
How to Crowdfund your Series A
Thanks! It only took me a day so it still has some rough edges, but I hope to iron them out soon.
Define "just doesn't scale"
Why do people think the Retina iPad mini would go up in price?
On the running side there are almost no downhill segments and the site still seems to be popular enough.
I know it's 2 different sports, but downhills bike run KOMs seem to be little cause for bragging rights.
“It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future”
seriously downvoters? how do you walk with that stick in?
Is it “Wicked” to Oppose Genetically Modified Golden Rice?
Linux sysadmin here - although I use vi for almost everything on the terminal, I still consider Notepad++ a "killer app" for Windows. It perplexes me that in all this time I have not been able to find anything comparable for Linux.

Games and Notepad++ are the only real reasons I have had for using Windows on my desktop instead of Linux.
Since it turns out to be a Danish proverb, one that Niels Bohr was apparently fond of, the author is asking for Danish speakers to help trace it further.
US government attorneys argue that the Supreme Court does
not have the jurisdiction to take the case...

The US administration also believes the EIPC suit cannot
move forward because it argues the court lacks authority
under the 2001 Patriot Act to weigh in on the legality of
NSA activities.

"This court lacks jurisdiction to issue a writ of certiorari
to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court," the secret
intelligence affairs court, Verrilli added.

Doesn't SCOTUS have jurisdiction over any case it wants to take, assuming the case has passed through the appropriate lower courts first?
Maybe the downvoters don't get the joke and they think you're insulting their website. :-)
FWIW the title was changed after my comment above.

There's yet another silk road, in the recruiting space, http://www.silkroad.com/
Both Chrome and Firefox run in a single window which you can focus full screen if you want, what's the problem?

If there is a complaint about tiling window managers it's that applications like Inkscape or Gimp which have tons of floating windows tend to not render well. Though most WMs have solutions to this.
About synthesizers and oscilloscopes? Sure thing! Whats up? :)
“We’re kind of thinking of it as a tech ‘surge,’” an HHS official told POLITICO.

The powers that be haven't read The Mythical Man Month.

Specifically the principle that adding people slows a project down, outside of unusual circumstances or methods (e.g. a Tiger Team). Which might be happening.

Then again, from the multiple independent reports from both the right and left, with CMMS doing the integration and the requirements changing through the week before it was launched, ditto last minute testing, it is clear the powers that be had no experience whatsoever in directing software projects of any size. E.g. we're seeing mistakes a lot of us learned about in small projects.
Mongo's really great for rapid prototyping. You don't need to worry about updating the schema at the db level, it can store any type of document in any collection without complaining, it's really easy to install and configure, the query language is simple and only takes a couple of minutes to learn, it's pretty fast in most use cases, it's pretty safe in most use cases, and it's easy to create a replica set once your prototype gets usage and starts scaling.

Mongo does everything well up until you reach the level where you need heavy-hitting, at-scale, mission-critical performance and reliability. Most projects out there (99 in 100?) will never reach the level of scale that requires better tools than mongo. And since the rest of it is so easy to use, it makes mongo a great starting point. You can always switch databases later, but mongo gives you the flexibility to concentrate on more important things in the early stages of a project.
Corecursion
An HP Chromebook 14" is more powerful than, say, a 2008 Macbook Pro.

Its possible (soon) to flush the bios of this thing and thus turn it into a commodity PC and install a lightweight Linux or whatever you want. So it will boot in 5 seconds into X and have almost 10 hours of battery life.

4GB is plenty for your browser, Vim, VLC, and irssi. The keyboard is decent. It doesn't feel as nice as a Macbook Air but it is literally 1/4th the price and IT WILL TAKE A SIM CARD.

Frankly, I'm considering using it as my sole device. Think about it;

Using an iPad as a thin client was a Moby Dick type dream in some nerd circles for a while - but now finally inexpensive hardware has reached double digit battery life and cellular connectivity.
I don't know if that's neccesarily the wrong way to get started, PHP and MySQL.

It's how most of _us_ got started, right? (Okay, I got started in Perl, and only dabbled in PHP).
Perhaps your customers were receptive because you were supporting it and they were happy with the existing support you got and unhappy with their internal DBA department? Its possible that they didn't care about the technology and just realized that the support was going to be better.
I should have been more specific...

Their repo is under DDoS

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=339366#p33936...
I would probably start with the Java meetup. I'm more in the Scala community, so my recommendations might not be relevant to you.

Drop me an email (see my profile) if you want to continue this conversation. It's easier than continually checking the comments.
Yes. When I had a Chromebook, I would download PDFs and read them in the browser. Of course, you can only store so much on a Chromebook, but it worked fine.
I like Wikipedia 100x better than Hacker News. 50% of the chatter here is robots repeating: logical fallacy, citation needed, not science, anecdote detected!, over and over. Like broken clocks, they may be right sometimes; but that is far from my idea of intellectual. 30% is short comments that don't add much, like this one. (Notably, that's up from 1% about 4 years ago.) I'm only here for the last 20% or so.
I'll add another 40 IPs to the mix tomorrow
I'm curious, how do other DBMSs handle a master switch/other cluster updates? I'm familiar enough with mongos to know how it works but not what e.g. redis or postgres or mysql does.
I'm posting this mainly because it will be the first release that implements PEP 3156 [1], that is, a standardized asynchronous I/O API.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/
The new statistics library looks interesting.
Well written post. Even as a detractor of mongo I'll agree that it works for your use case. But the key is "Our app allows for unlimited user defined forms and fields, some of which may hold grids". That really isn't a very common case. SQL is not great at representing large groups of documents without any common structure.

The vast majority of apps just don't deal with that problem. If MongoDB was really only used by people that its a good fit for (like yourself), it'd really be a niche product. They're marketing it as a general purpose product, which is why they've earned scorn from so many.
If someone wants to see a professional, she definitely wouldn't discourage them, but she also would rate highly most individual's attempts to fix their own problems using simple means.

Advanced cases are rare, and if you've lived your life up to now without any major mental health problems, chances are your recent problems aren't major either. So by all means, take a vacation and see how you feel afterwards. If you're still feeling shitty, set up an appointment.
"Its possible (soon) to flush the bios of this thing and thus turn it into a commodity PC"

What do you mean by the "soon"?
Why do web browsers feel out of place? When I'm using a web browser, it's almost always either taking up a whole screen or exactly half of one--it may as well be tiled already! So when I switched to XMonad, using browsers still felt very natural.

Perhaps it's just a cosmetic issue? For example, if you're using Chrome, you have to configure it to use system borders--otherwise it just looks wrong. I also set my Firefox up to be much more minimalistic, which looks much better with a tiling WM.
The i3 window manager and a full-screen browser on one display works really well, in my experience. Shuffling it or other things to the other display is easy, as well. I'd liked the idea of tiling WMs, but the ones I tried all seemed clumsy until I happened upon i3, and it was like coming home: 90% of the defaults were exactly what I would have picked, and all the others were easily configurable in a text file.
I didn't know there were that many infinite loops in Magic (I don't happen to play it). Could you link something describing the hilarious confetti combo?

I must have not been clear and concise. I apologize for this.
I was discussing the scenario where we introduce a set of cards that allow for an arbitrary number of triggers without human involvement. We clearly need to implement a way of handling nested loops, branching, and recursive calls. So the set of cards facilitating this need to either need to do this completely by themselves or construct the behavior given the state of the playing field. I did not assume we can do what is described in the paper (the site) because I have no reason to think the new cards must function in a way that is compatible with their setup. This is why I am interested in the possibility of implicit and bounded recursion.

The fuel comment was just relevant to implementing an infinite loop in a real game. If our supposed 100% autonomous system (with the new cards as mentioned above) relied on an additional resource (such as burning through cards each "tick"), then this wouldn't work in real life but would work if we generalized the size of the deck or available cards. This is not supposed to be a characteristic of Turing Machines in general (or at all). It was just a precaution for attempting to translate an instance of the generalized case to real life.
I wanted to read this article -- I bike frequently, use Strava, live in the Bay Area, and am in the tech industry. But bicycling.com kept kicking me off their site and auto-launching iOS App Store links!

I've never seen that sort of advertising before, and am surprised Apple / Google (I'm using Chrome) even allow JavaScript to silently throw me out to the App Store without clicking a link.
Yep I agree. They're now employing the "code like hell" strategy, but it rarely works - especially when a project has undergone as little integration testing as healthcare.gov appears to have undergone.
I posted this further down the thread, but I thought I'd share my thoughts on why I like mongo.

Most people don't like mongo because 10gen gives the impression that mongo is better than it actually is, many people feel that mongo is not reliable enough for at-scale applications. They're right; it's not. But that's ok, because:

Mongo's really great for rapid prototyping. You don't need to worry about updating the schema at the db level, it can store any type of document in any collection without complaining, it's really easy to install and configure, the query language is simple and only takes a couple of minutes to learn, it's pretty fast in most use cases, it's pretty safe in most use cases, and it's easy to create a replica set once your prototype gets usage and starts scaling.

Mongo does everything well up until you reach the level where you need heavy-hitting, at-scale, mission-critical performance and reliability. Most projects out there (99 in 100?) will never reach the level of scale that requires better tools than mongo. And since the rest of it is so easy to use, that makes mongo a great starting point for most projects. You can always switch databases later, but mongo gives you the flexibility to concentrate on more important things in the early stages of a project.
That Urban Archipelago is interesting in the way it's a sign of the times - from 10 years ago. After Bush got elected, the "blue" folks felt besieged, and there was talk of a republican government forcing its backwards ways on the world. The republicans controlled both houses and the presidency.

Times are quite a bit different now; republicans control only the house, although the Tea party has radicalized them. I still don't know what that has to do with anarchy, though.

The mere idea of anarchy is itself inherently sensationalist - it's something that wouldn't happen without an apocalypse. It's also something that we can never evaluate "Scientifically" - we're not going to just disband a government and see what happens in the aftermath.
Here's a similar conceptual overview of "how the web works" in terms of client-server operations but done in a more interactive diagram style: http://nilclass.com/

It's a work in progress which helped me get a lot better at d3.js but I truly believe in this style of teaching as foundational knowledge. I think one of the best things veterans can give to newbies is _awareness_ and _perspective_.
Why our brains love curvy architecture
I am as taken by the form as I am by the content. What beautiful writing. While there's something to be said for concision, an essay like this shows that medium-to-large sentences can be deployed to great effect. It almost feels like she's establishing a cadence at points.
Could you share any details about your setup?
If Google could detect this behavior, wouldn't they kick the culprit out of AdSense?
I think Bertrand Russell's comments about the eventual extinction of human race are, as a matter of psychology, much closer to the way most people think:

". . . if you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless.

I am told that that sort of view is depressing, and people will sometimes tell you that if they believed that, they would not be able to go on living. Do not believe it; it is all nonsense. Nobody really worries about much about what is going to happen millions of years hence. Even if they think they are worrying much about that, they are really deceiving themselves. They are worried about something much more mundane, or it may merely be a bad digestion; but nobody is really seriously rendered unhappy by the thought of something that is going to happen to this world millions and millions of years hence. Therefore, although it is of course a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out -- at least I suppose we may say so, although sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation -- it is not such as to render life miserable. It merely makes you turn your attention to other things."
from "Why I Am Not a Christian:
http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html
In my case, was twm, fwvm, fwvm95, kde , gnome 1.0 ... was SuSE 6.12 in the 1998's
Global write lock. Abysmal performance when your data set doesn't fit in ram. Clustering with durability. Clustering in a way that isn't horribly complex and fragile.
TextFreeBrowsing - Chrome extension "to turn off all text on the Internet"
When Jeri Ellsworth left Valve, she said there is a de facto hierarchy in Valve even though they claim to be "flat". Plenty of discussion about the effect from when that happened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6015182

You should look further than the USA for examples. "Power vacuums" attract people who want power. When a warlard gets killed in an area with no effective government, another one steps in.
"What do you do?"
Surrounding yourself selectively with intellectuals, is a luxury only super rich can afford(or can they?). I can live with a little bit of bias, PR or bullshit here and there. Of course, I assume, probably incorrectly, that I can tell the difference ;-)
and who are you to say that all of these things are "better" than watching a season of dr.who on your comfy couch? why is outside by default better than inside?

I live exactly once, so if i want to do what pleases me i should not be driven by some weird white man's guilt problem (aka minimalist movement). people from poorer places would laugh their asses off about this movement.
I've never understood (even after reading this article) how anyone who's anti-authoritarian can honestly believe that removing a government is a good idea. The author claims that it's human nature to abuse power as an argument in favor of anarchism. But to me it seems very obvious that that is exactly what will happen if people are left without constraints. Those who can get some power will get more, and there's nothing to stop them.

So, is there anyone who sympathise with the author who would like to explain how a society could become more equal/fair/anything positive without a government?
I hope it's shorter :) 60 chars:

!($1%3){$2="Fizz"}!($1%5){$2=$2 "Buzz"}!$2{$2=$1}{print $2}
Yup, I've used ion2 → ion3 → notion pretty much exclusively for 10 or 11 years now. I don't think I could switch to another wm for my main interface if I wanted to. But why would I want to? Gimp was the only slightly-annoying thing, and now that has a single-window mode.

I have only one feature request that I haven't figured out how to do myself: I want to hide the status bar (mod_statusbar) on certain workspaces (the ones that have a full-screen browser). Anyone have any ideas?
Couldn't you argue that e.g. Postgres and ActiveRecord give you the same rapid prototyping ability but with an easier (and more established) path towards scalability? It is easy to change your schema with migrations at the beginning of a project - just go edit the original ones and nuke your database. And I don't have to worry about properly configuring write-locks, replica sets, or writing map reduce javascript.
Op-ed/creative -- Wonderfully (Wild) West
I moved to STL earlier this year and am always looking for good restaurant recommendations.
If you want to dig a little deeper into anarchism & like gelderloos' writing, he also wrote a popular book called "How nonviolence protects the state", which raises some points in support of violence as a revolutionary tactic:

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-...

Main argument is, violence is necessary because the state always uses violence. He also raises some points about nonviolence empowering the state's violence, as well as nonviolent radicals' criticism of violent radicals being a form of oppression.

If you want to get real deep into anarchist literature, Derek Jenson's Endgame will tell you about how necessary it is for us to destroy civilization in order to promote the survivability of the planet.
He also mentioned that they were never able to crack the New York Times :)

That was, however, some time ago.
Your email is not visible, can you add it?
You started in Perl? That's hardcore.

The PHP/MySQL was ok back then, but there's so many great alternatives with great exposure today. Aside from ease of deployment, I don't see what benefits there are now.
If this was because checkout was a commercial failure they need to make that public knowledge. Otherwise this does make it seem like you can't rely on any Google product that's not part of their core offering. I'm specifically thinking of Google Voice & Keep.
I agree. You just need to witness hordes of Swedish women when they're travelling :)
lol, me too
The downvoters probably found a lot of pr0n and warez and (or?) unsavory content at that address. Imagine how painful it would be if you clicked on that and saw the legendary goatse, or tubgirl.
not sure mate.
Design tip: Never use black (2012)
That is pretty nifty! I also liked your graphic explantation with the asrtronaut.
MUMPS (programming language)
> A rabbi named Zusya died and went to stand before the judgment seat of God. As he
> waited for God to appear, he grew nervous thinking about his life and how little
> he had done. He began to imagine that God was going to ask him, "Why weren't you
> Moses or why weren't you Solomon or why weren't you David?" But when God appeared,
> the rabbi was surprised. God simply asked, "Why weren't you Zusya?"

http://chippit.tripod.com/tales1.html
The myth of the visionary leader
Photo Messaging app “Snapchat” shares users’ images with U.S Law Enforcement
Try a more minimalistic one like uzbl or w3m.
I would love to see some of the projects!
Beyonce Slapped
Commenting after TV Globo first revealed the NSA's
surveillance of text messages, Peña Nieto stated that
Obama had promised him to investigate the accusations and
to punish those responsible, if it was found that misdeeds
had taken place.

I would hope that any head of state would not be so naïve as to trust our current administration with respect to this issue. From most of my conversations, almost no one I talk to trusts them on the issue of surveillance.
And 6 cups of real coffee per day may not help that much, along with the alcohol at the weekends. I find anxiety levels rise with caffeine to the extent that I avoid tea or coffee after about 3pm.

Good luck to the chap anyway.
No, it works because the tool allows it by virtue of how it's implemented. Find a different ping or inet_aton implementation and it won't necessarily work.
Not always - they let doddgy "helper" sites that charge a fee for things available for free from government sites e.g. passport applications back in after they added some minor tiny text to their site.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/apr/15/passport-applic...
Our risk profile is slightly higher than that: the odds of a big meteor-strike, or a Yosemite caldera eruption, are non-zero. This is ignoring man-made (and so man-preventable) threats like global nuclear war or catastrophic climate change. But yes, I see it as an exciting challenge, not a reason to be depressed. I suspect that there is plenty of life in the universe - and I further suspect that precious few ecologies manage to reproduce. The challenges are mind-boggling: first, you need intelligent life. Second, that species needs to advance technologically to the point of being able to get off planet, and then (a much, much bigger leap) to get to another star. Heck, it may not even be possible. But we've got to try.
So was Mark Zuckerberg. If you don't come from a well-to-do family its hard to turn down a million dollars for a side project.

Look at the founders of Google, who came from middle class families, and would have been more than happy to sell Google in the early days for even 1 million dollars.
Nice. Using $2 as an auto-clearing global is a neat little hack!
I thought there where penalties for malicious use of the DMCA
I used to not like them years ago when I had a lot of servers, moved away, went back and we are very happy now. We are not experiencing the downtime / slowness you are referencing. And the competition quite expensive compared. I mean; I don't have to get the cheapest stuff possible, but Softlayer etc is really not economical for our business even if OVH would have some downtime.