skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We chose Apache as it is the common front-end to the rest of our stacks (the idea is that you can mix and match all the apps in our library and serve them through a common Apache frontend). Regarding performance, what you mention is correct with older versions of Apache. Apache 2.4 with the Event MPM is pretty much equivalent to NGINX in terms of performance and memory footprint.

Having said that, we do include NGINX in some of our other infrastructure stack and we plan to expand its usage (as well as provide other NoSQL engines, we just started with the most popular :)
Great article and nice points. Yet another great article from Koding's CEO Devrim Yasar - http://blog.koding.com/2012/08/freelance-developers-you-are-...
It doesn't sound like this. At least they could explicitly point out the problem of heavy secrecy and lack of transparency in TPP as a sign of a bad agreement which they don't like to see.
You're completely ignoring the role and importance of notation. Type systems do not take on the role of efficiently conveying information to a reader visually through symbology, which is part of the role of notation. Types in a type system have names, after all, and the choice of those names is also one of notation.

Good notation comes largely in part from good names and has little to do with type systems. Hungarian is an exercise in notation, hence the name.
I don't know. In this case, I disagree. You seem to have a pretty good understanding of startups.
Although, Everpix was great as a product it was market that killed their chances. Today, for every photo I take from iPhone it is backed to Google+ and iCloud. And then there are other platforms like Flickr etc. However, I believe Everpix had superior organization technology. But did that matter to masses?

Institutional investors and VCs don't take market risks. They are willing to take risks associated with product, technology and even the team. But they never take risks with the market opportunity.

In the verge article, what did they get in terms of feedback when investors passed their opportunity -

"The reaction was positive for you as a team but weak in terms of whether a $B business could be built."

Also, I'm surprised why didn't team focus on any other revenue streams?
> I can replace the value they provide just by pointing my browser to another provider.

I actually can't think of an example of an established e-commerce tech company with a two-sided marketplace that this has actually happen to.

eBay, Amazon, Paypal, Google, Alibaba etc. - even Silk Road quickly took up a monopoly position and required the feds to make it go away, it was very resistant to clones that were cheaper, faster, better etc.

It is because they have network effects ^ 2. It is proven that they are resilient, there is tons of research in the field:

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-024.pdf

This is the reason why these business models are so attractive to investors, the companies are incredibly difficult to bootstrap, but very lucrative.
i instantly understood it was sarcastic
You're both insane... No one would have argued that Myspace was as easy to replace as simply "code and servers". Just like no one is going to argue that Facebook can be replaced with just code and servers.

What delusion do you tell yourself to discount everyone else that talks about the importance of network effects? They're the crazy ones?

Sorry, just blows my mind how people think in such black and white terms. Just because one thing is easier to displace doesn't mean it's immediately a "commodity" that can be replaced by the equivalent code and servers farms. Might be great dev-think but definitely gets you nowhere fast when trying to actually build a successful business.
Julian Sanchez identified this precise problem back in 2008 (and I'm sure he wasn't the first either).

Sanchez cites examples of Truman using an FBI wiretap on a potential supreme court nominee and Johnson wiretapping Martin Luther King and indirectly wiretapping presidential candidate Richard Nixon (ironic given how crazy Nixon went with wiretapping once he got into office).

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/16/opinion/op-sanchez16
I think it's really important for startups to promote their first managers from within, and to do so based on character & social skills rather than technical skills. The former is what gives you an opportunity to observe the latter. From what I've heard, Google's culture took a severe dip from 2005-2007 because they hired a bunch of outside managers, and to some extent the problem self-corrected but not before driving away some really talented engineers.

Also, I would advise against not having 1:1s with your direct reports' reports. To a new manager, it can feel like you're undermining them and don't trust them, and to an individual contributor it can make it very confusing who they should bring ideas or concerns to.

Instead, hold informal lunches with a subset of individual contributors without the manager present. This is a great way to get them to know & trust you as a leader, and you can still gauge the tone of their happiness from how they react at the lunch. You also sometimes become aware of whole-company cultural or organizational problems this way, things that really need a founder/CEO's intervention to get fixed. And if you pull the subset from across different teams, it also serves as a way for people from across different teams to get to know each other and strengthens social ties between different areas of the company.
Locking down.
I agree that the problem is primarily with the record labels. If they didn't exist, Spotify would be able to pay out to musicians on a level playing field. That said, given how closely intertwined Spotify and the labels are, musicians can't depend on either party to look out for their interests.
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Depends on the type of business, if they are going for the get big fast model that is probably true. If they are in it for the long haul something more sustainable will prevent founders from eventually loosing motivation due to finding it hard to make ends meet.
This reminds me of the 1998 movie Enemy of the State (I know, I know its hollywood but bare with me) where the NSA targeted Will Smith's character for having the video tape of them assassinating a politician. The NSA's first course of action (after wiretapping his phones) was to publicly discredit him in the media, lose his job, etc.

So if he did leak the video tape to the press, he would appear to be a quack.

Then again, in reality NSA wouldn't have been able to wiretap him or track him down independently, since they can't conduct direct surveillance domestically by policy.
It depends on the idea and how much you copy.

But it's probably moot anyways since the chance of success are so low.
It's not true that album sales are a lost cause. Look at Bandcamp -- musicians made $2.5 million via Bandcamp over the last 30 days. What's changing is the model. No longer is it "pay a set fee to listen." Now it's "support the musician directly."
Why is the author so sure this hasn't already happened? He gives the current (and past) administration a lot of benefit-of-the-doubt.

"To be clear, I don't think it's happened yet."
"Obama was probably as surprised as we were."
"But what about a future, less scrupulous president?"

(Paraphrasing.)
He's talking about the book, not the movie.
An Op-ed by Julian Assange.
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That's like saying your career as a web developer ended, but at least you're still a web designer at another company in another field. It misses the point that the project you championed for five years because it provided real value to real customers just got scrapped and tossed just to make sure none of your taint is left upon it, and half the people you helped hire in order to make it a high quality product got fired because they didn't spend enough time kissing ass rather than shipping code and you were covering for their occasional, warranted antagonism.

I honestly don't give a fuck about politicians' after-careers. You failed to lynch them. Fine. We don't do seppuku in this country. Fine.

No, I care, for instance, that Obama had to burn down his entire capacity to move and shake politically just to get a half-assed piece of healthcare reform into effect, and that it very well may have failed if Snowden had happened three years earlier.
A lot of money has been made by those savvy enough to know how to use Twitter to promote a campaign. I think thats worth quite a lot in itself, and if anyone is geared to understand how these campaigns work, its the people at Twitter with access to all the statistics ..
Definitely should review them then haha. Looking at it now "shortly" was the wrong word to use. He got re-elected after the initial story leaked, but more things started leaking, like the 18-minute gap in the tapes, and other things started to unravel.

Although, I think the fact that the cover up was so grand is pretty good evidence that the general populace is against that type of behavior once they become aware of it's magnitude.
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You're free to have your opinion. AirBNB isn't the only marketplace, and not even the first one I go to when looking for this product.

Yes, it takes time for your marketplace to reach critical mass. But there isn't anything that ties people there if there are viable competitors. If AirBNB doesn't have the inventory where I'm looking, I just open a couple of tabs and check out other sites with the same model. Just like I do with airfare.
Sounds like a slippery slope to dictatorship to me.
I see, thanks for the quick reply. Currently using Email on Acid for verifications and testing, maybe will move onto Litmus at a later stage. Thanks!
that's why I always play around with every new version of AirMail
Not all government agencies are the same. If you ignore the competence because its more fun to hate on their incompetence, you're just opening the door for more abuse.

A lot of things get done because: government. Don't kid yourself.
Wow, The Atlantic sure is on a streak of foul smelling turds lately.
To be clear, the specific part you mention is fair...but I don't think anyone would object to that.

The part where it seems somewhat unfair is where the director asked weixiyen to give up pay they were entitled to.

It's fair enough to ask for a favor ("hey, do you mind using up your vacay days before you leave?"), but you should make clear that it is a favor and what it entails - it sounds like that may not have done in this instance.
"Did the Obama Administration ever spy on Mitt Romney during the recent presidential contest?"

It's interesting, in hindsight, that probably the seminal event in Mitt Romney's loss was via an unidentified person making an unapproved recording:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81346.html

There was no real need for top down NSA surveillance here. All you needed was someone sympathetic to your cause ("an operative") who could infiltrate the oppositions meetings, with a cell phone.
I don't get why people wouldn't see it.

At the beginning it has a speech about the failure of democracy, how violence is the only legitimate force in the universe. Government by an elite, with restricted rights for civilians (want children? become a citizen), a propaganda network, a perpetual state of war; including belittling the enemy ("I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive") and belittling anyone who wants to live differently (mormon extremists).

What it doesn't have is any major character questioning the state that they are living under - but then looking around today, sometimes that seems pretty accurate as well.
I have three Interstate group 27 deep cycle marine lead acid batteries. They are rated for 65 amp hours (more at lower amperage draws...which is why having more batteries is helpful); which is enough to where I almost never have to run my generator, unless it rains for a couple of days.

They're nothing special, just heavy as hell lead acid batteries. I also try to never discharge too low...my rule of thumb is 50%, though I've run them until the inverter shut off due to low power. So, I've obviously gone below 50% a few times. They're three years old, and starting to show signs of degradation. I bought them at Costco for, I think, $98 each, and I'm pleased with the return on investment, given that they've gotten me out of being stranded on more than one occasion (I'm in a motorhome, and the chassis battery has been an interesting component, having more than it's fair share of failures, always in very bad places to have a motorhome that won't start).

I should point out that when I am off-the-grid, I am extremely conscious of my power usage. I charge everything during the day, religiously, so that I don't even have to turn the inverter on, some nights (lights, fans, water pump, and fridge igniter are 12V). It's a ritual...actually, it's a really satisfying ritual that I miss when I'm living plugged in. I need to go get lost in the desert or in Mexico this winter; been parked too long.
Part of that issue is the lack of high-performance and lightweight board for real-time machine vision (you won't have an NVIDIA GPU + x86 board as a part of your multicopter).

All hopes that Parallela board (http://parallella.org) will make it feasible.
A Navy jet like a F/A-18F Super Hornet can fly a "coupled approach" in gusty winds, onto a pitching deck and still put the tailhook onto the #3 arresting cable accurately. Navy F/A-18s can fly with terrain following radar to avoid hazards. Auto-pilot with "Terrain Aviodance" mode is related to the Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) [1]

Auto-Throttle on a commercial airliner like a 777 can correct for deviations caused by gusts and other weather conditions.

Careful parsing of METAR[2] information can guide jets away from weather fairly easily. Airline pilots manually set the autopilot to weather hazards but this could be done automatically in the near future.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR
As someone who saw a lot of satire in flicks Robocop and Red Dawn in the 80's, it bugged me when people took Troopers at face value years later.

I mean, did Neil Patrick Harris have to do a German accent or what? Did the Gestapo coat not make it obvious?
People said pretty much the exact same thing about MySpace.
Look how that turned out.
No? How does him being unsure that reality exists outside his own mind mean he believes he's the sole exception?

I mean if you're unsure there is a reality outside of your own mind, wouldn't that make you more risk adverse? Your death could potentially mean that everyone you've ever known/loved would cease to exist, even if they are a product of your unconscious mind...
iirc inverters converting DC to AC are pretty efficient - 92-95% is common, 97% is quite do-able.
Adblock Plus by default whitelists Google ads.

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I don't understand this comment. What's "bad" about the movie? I think it works very well. Of course the characters say cheesy things sometimes, they're brainwashed kids acting macho. I always found the action compelling and the acting is good - it's a very well made movie, as you'd expect.

I think you're missing some sort of point here. None of the points in your comment hit home for me at all. Galaxy Quest is a baffling comparison to make and is not in the same league at all.

Edit: You do realise there's a difference between parody and satire, right? GQ is the former, ST is the latter.
forget underground. I want a telepresence robot to go to the grocery. Would it be allowed to walk on the curbside and cross the street using pedestrian lights?
I think that many tech people use apple because its what they think hip techies use and that is what they want to be. Its a brand, and image. Apple also has an aesthetic that many people like. I'm not saying people don't have a right to make up their own mind, but I have a right to think they are choosing wrongly.
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I never read Starship Troopers (actually, never knew it existed) but always enjoyed it as a fun movie. I know, fun and dumb do overlap at certain points, and maybe that's why I liked it. I like one of the comments here describing it as "Ken and Barbie go to outer space" or something like that - sums it up well for me.
Ukraine having opposite result from Russia and Belarus lights the red immediately. Why would it be so? The rest of data on the chart may be noise too.
This fails to explain by what logic would Twitter have to pay me/owe me for my tweets.

Are they selling my tweets? Are they asserting rights over what I've written? Maybe I've missed something, but there's no explanation.
Guys help me here. It seems that I don't understand and maybe don't really know how bitcoin works. How can it be stolen? A change in the logs? A pseudo-transaction?
It says it takes a minute to write a tweet so you would be paid to add that content hourly...
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Learn to get along with the guy! This will save you money and be good for your business!
What's wrong with that?

Universal suffrage for free seems an obviously bad idea.
Agree so much. Everyone getting VC investment should know they're looking for 10x return. By aiming for a $5M Series A, Everpix indicated they were expecting an exit at least in the $60M+ range.

Everpix had a great business that could have easily hit $1M/yr in revenue, giving everyone a good income and a great place to work. However this wasn't the business they were trying to get funded.
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Google did it. Facebook did it. Then again, don't do a Facebook for dogs. Or dog-owners.
There's the dynamite circle (http://www.dynamitecircle.com), but they're less about programming and software and more about internet marketing and blogging. Also, more emphasis on baselining your expenses via traveling / living in southeast asia.
Going on a couple of years now.
They just weren't a great VC- backable biz.

Can someone explain why a fund cannot be structured to make wins at the $100m level as opposed to the $1b level? Its bizarre that free money creates funds so big they need insane 1,000x deals to return a net 15-20% portfolio premium over bonds trading at (yield-equivalnt) peanuts.

The problem in going for $1B's (as an investment thesis) is that these companies are outliers so extreme you are beyond lucky to predict them, and even if they show up on your radar, and you can get some edge, they are so small in number that they cannot sustain N=Large number of VCs. Its just not a strategy 200 funds (20? maybe) can pursue rationally at the same time. Or am I missing something?
If I was having a successful business that is doing $100k+/year I would think twice about integrating a new form with minified javascript from a cold email into my payment flow.

It's definitely not a bad idea to do outbound marketing for this. I just think conversions would be a lot higher if the readable source is also present in the offer.
I never said that they don't exist, and I would agree I must value them less, that is implied by the choices I have made. There are also intangibles that push in the opposite direction as well, say such as Apple being a comparatively evil tech company in regards to opensource interactions, market tactics, patents and labor/human rights.
Twitters API limits quick in quickly. Who knew. Sorting it :)
Okay, so a movie about all-out war for survival against genocidal aliens is supposed to be a good setting for an anti-war story?

No wonder so many missed the satire.
It only took 11 versions, but IE in my opinion is finally a decent browser. The amount of HTML5 and CSS3 features that it brings to the table are basically on-par with that of Chrome and Firefox. I can't wait until the minimum version I can support is 11, that'll be the day I am as happy as the day I could stop supporting IE6.
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the Web site has not changed in all this time. I am getting all nostalgic now. I cut my teeth with linux on slackware. Think it was slackware 3.x Found out about linux by chance, at a flea market a guy was selling a bunch of used software. browsed them, but once I read the bit in the slackware manual he had printed out 'setting incorrect settings can blow your monitor' I was sold. back then you had to recompile your kernel for new hardware, and no google to search for answers just irc.
You would rather work with below-average employees who always agree with you, even when you're wrong?
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The article's main point seems to be that Everpix could have done well by paying employees well under (half?) market rates and succeeded. Maybe by handing over a lot of equity to employees (probably most of it), it may have even worked. But I think the author is missing the opportunity cost here. All of these Everpix employees could likely have easily found employment in other startups with more VC money and received twice the pay Everpix could give them. This is the market in action - we have enough of these photo sharing gimmicks already. Those employees are better used in other startups who can actually make enough money (read: fulfilling market needs better) to pay them properly, and so I think it was the right move to shut down and move on.
Depends on how small, how powerful, how reliable and costs. Its amazing to think the core processors on an original (1990s design) F-22 Raptor could be duplicated on an embedded PC today. Current Multi-core PowerPC processors and FPGAs would be capable enough.

I backed Parallela but haven't received the board yet.
Why am I not getting an internship? Seeking advice desperately...
Hi. I am a CS student seeking an intern position in software engineering.
Originally I wanted to work in a thriving start-up company, or a big company, but now I am willing to work anywhere in the U.S.
I thought my resume was pretty competent, but I realized that might be false.
What is the problem with my resume, or with me?
I do not have much CS background, or software development experience, as I started learning CS in my junior year, and I know this is critical.
However, my GPA is good, and I achieved so many things within just a year.
Please give me some advice.
Also, if I can choose to do, or learn just one more thing(e.g. basic HTML, PHP, more Java(Hibernate, Spring, etc), coding competition, Android app development, or Java software development) this year to boost up my possibility, what would you suggest I do?
I attach the link to my resume

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EIc0Q8LGD1C762qKVN_sKVLG80wvKufaEAoUcZxXQ7E/edit?usp=sharing