skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's those 50-60 odd corrupt assholes on the top ...

Are you saying that corruption exists only among this limited group of individuals?
> And building Twitter [1],

Web server.

> and big-data next-generation databases [2]

Daemon.

> and android apps

No, Android doesn't have a JVM.

> and desktop apps

If you say so, I see very few of these in production.

> and big data

Daemon.

> Why do you feel that the JVM is limited in its applications as a development platform?

You can't write cli applications in a JVM language because the start-up time is too slow. Which means you can't compose scripts that call Java apps.

This is not just 1 type of application, it's the most important type of application by far. It's fundamental to how Unix operates. With Java you can't write small applications that do one thing well, you have to write big applications that are going to run for a very long time.

This is useful for things like web servers and daemons, but otherwise it sucks. It's why I can't get excited about JVM languages.
> Unlike Mongo, Postgres actually needs to write bytes to a disk (with a WAL!).

Not with unlogged tables it does not!
I've been quite happy with Codemirror so far. It does all that for many more languages, and is easily extendable. (and free+open as in really free)
I do imagine many people feel like the previous commenter, myself included. For cloud development many of us use vim for browser based stuff like this I love jsfiddle. I really felt it would have been beneficial to just let me see and use the product without signing up. The product is very niche and serves a very specific purpose. The reality is if I really liked the product and had intentions of using it I would have created an account. I saw the sign up page and left.
Hmm, they should pick up twtr.com.
If you want to scale out using a replica-strategy you really want to have the most recent version of PostgreSQL. It made things like log shipping pretty much an automatic experience. It still has rough edges, but the latest version really makes a difference here. See the release notes of PostgreSQL.

You will however find plenty of information on the wiki. Sometimes it is not completely up to date because of so much going on on that front.

You can use third party solutions too, but they usually have a number of caveats and general problems. However it depends on what you do with your database. If you don't deal with writing your own functions, use extensions or have fancy transaction they will work just fine. If you do, the functionality of Postgres is a more safe strategy. If you are dealing with extensions, etc. you should really be ready to get dedicated support for these things.

However, it really depends on what you do. For everything standard it won't make too much trouble once the first setup is done.
How would such a proof protocol work? I spent most of yesterday trying to answer that question and came up with nothing. Imagine that you and I are mining and we've agreed to use the ES "selfish" strategy. When I want to getWork, I have to choose which branch I'm targeting as the parent of whatever block I'm trying to mine (I have to choose which hash to put into my block). But how do I prove this to you? I could send you a commitment to the hash and you could promise to come beat me up after the fact if I lied, but that's outside the stated protocol. In fact, if your model is that you can coerce me to follow your protocol when it's better for me to do something else, then you may as well coerce me to give you all my bitcoins.

Our argument is that the protocol, as stated, is not incentive compatible. That's ironic, because the protocol, as stated, is offered as an argument that Bitcoin is not incentive compatible.
That's not irony, that's bad decisionmaking. It's akin to saying that it's ironic that the cost of the cleanup at Fukushima outstrips the amount of money saved by not building it well enough to withstand a large tsunami.
andrewchen wrote a blogpost about this http://andrewchen.co/2013/11/05/when-a-great-product-hits-th...
For me, as someone who has a "day job" and some side projects, it allows me to have access to the codebase easily, without having to download it to my work machine or use nano from ssh.
If it stays at $46, that's a gigantic fuck up. They left a billion dollars on the table, and that's borderline breach of fiduciary duty.

Of course, we have to wait and see what it settles at, and it's a little premature to heap scorn just yet. But the initial reaction is it looks like they overreacted to the Facebook IPO debacle (in my book, Facebook did the best thing possible for the company and extracted as much value as possible from the public markets --- and the value buyers didn't get screwed, given that a year later it's trading at ~20% above the IPO price.).
Well, yeah, fuel doesn't ignite itself in a car in working order. Something else has to cause the fire.

But according to the report, only 28% of fires started with the fuel igniting. So that's less than I expected.
Twitter's IPO will ensure that it no longer plays a role in world events.
It would be great if they could run these benchmarks with mongodb using TokuMX.

I think tokutek's fractal trees would make an exciting data store for postgresql, but benchmarks are difficult to find... Who is perceived to be faster these days generally? Mysql+innodb, mysql+tokudb or postgresql?
The entire commercial itself is geeky. ;)
SSAO with SlimDX and DirectX11
The proof is in the pudding - we've had solid success with Twitter advertising, to the point where the leads coming from them are higher-converting or higher-quality-after-convert than some other, more expensive sources.

As a Twitter non-user I don't get it either. But hey, the results don't lie.
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Report of Square discussing IPO possibilities
Have you ever seen a fire when it hits the gas tank? In real life, not a movie.
Perhaps that's because there's already a bigger/more serious discussion over there and your thread is a repost:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1puk1a/arxiv_paper_...
TLDR: Don't worry, no data was lost.
Facebook was Nasdaq. Twitter is NYSE. Wouldn't have the same problems.
Amazing service. I have been looking for this for a while. Thank you.
Microsoft merges Windows Phone and Windows app developer accounts
Missing picture captured on twitter:
http://t.co/8hF1i4DvNX
Sorry, I think I misunderstood the comment I replied to. I thought he was saying it would be hard to do diffs if people restylized each file to their liking.
I'm wondering how they end up with numbers like 17 million. Does anybody know?
My rule of thumb is the further away from pure computer science you go, the less likely a book is useful and will stay on your shelf in the long run (and the presence of solid alternatives):

- Frameworks: Only in rare cases should you buy a book, read the source code itself
and/or online documentation.

- Programming languages/paradigms: Only buy a book that gets into the nitty
gritty (e.g. Effective Java, Programming in Scala) or helps you wade into a new
language (e.g. Learn you some Haskell for great good, if you are new to Haskell).

- Computer science-y books: Buy them all! (e.g. Hackers delight, introduction to
algorithms, bayesian reasoning and machine learning, purely functional data
structures)
Codio is a complete, fully functional IDE, not a Codepen clone. We also have a lot of server side stuff coming out next week and server side support is an ongoing thing, as is offline editing, which will be coming out Q1 next year. We're still in Beta so we're listening hard!

Freddy May - Codio CEO
Are we going to go into this numbers game again?

Few people were killed in the Boston Marathon bombings. But many were maimed , and it will remain traumatic for them for the rest of their lives. But , more importantly, this bomb hit a group of people whose only reason for being hit/killed was that they were in the same geographic area as this bomb. There was no reason for this tragedy.

In drunk driving, you can place the cause relatively easily. Furniture falls over because a shelf was badly built. You can place the cause. Most acts of terrorism happen due to extremely nebulous and complicated reasons, so the people who die in events such as 9/11 and Boston died "for no reason".

Talk to some Japanese people about the March 11th Tsunami. the feelings about that event are very similar to those Americans have about 9/11, as a turning point in society and something where many innocent people died for no good reason. Terrorist attacks are basically on the same level as huge natural disasters, emotionally.

Terrorist attacks are extremely traumatising for people just like getting an arm cut off is traumatizing a lot more than being slowly bruised over and over on the arm. It's a huge shock event that feels unavoidable, and people don't want to experience it ever again (because we're not all robots who count lives like we're accountants). It's a major event and trying to avoid it is entirely reasonable.
Bitcoin isn't broken after all
Can someone who knows about these things explain why no one else does auctions like Google did? I mean, these guys are supposed to be about markets, right, so why the heck is the price decided by some kind of "central committee"?!
>Serious question, what are the points in favour of having IDEs as web apps instead of standalones?

The only point in favour is that it runs on crippled operating systems like ChromeOS.

Google wants us all running Compiler-As-A-Service, Editor-As-A-Service and Debugger-As-A-Service webapps that have Google Analytics and Google Adsense running on them. So they created a crippled OS that can't run Free and Open native apps leaving the users with no choice but to use closed proprietary software services running on some other machine that they don't control

Software as a service is the least free kind of software. We should be fighting hard against it. This is an even more serious fight than the fight against local proprietary software (at least in that fight we still had control of our own data and weren't forced to upgrade to new versions).

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.comp...

The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.

The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party.

We need to stop building these traps. If you find yourself using cloud services, think again and consider if there is native software that you could use instead that will run on machines that you control giving you full control over the data and the code.
Sony engineer disassembles a PS4
Yes, as rdl said, buy out of the money PUTS. You'll 5-10x your money. There are multiple ways to take a short position ;)

Anyway, this was in jest. But I also wanted to bring attention to the fact that TSLA is in unique position to be sabotaged for gain, more so than just about any other public company.
Damn, wish it were easier to get IPO shares as a retail investor... (then again Facebook fell on its face out of the gate, hard to gauge whether an IPO will have a huge pop on its first trading day).
Behind the scenes look at database startup
Imagine I have N resources, and instead of hopping between pools, I'm deciding what percent to allocate to ES-mining and what percent to allocate to "honest" mining. I could certainly allocate 99% of my resources to one or the other in each round, which would be a good (99%) simulation of fair-weather mining.
Would Mulally be able to make the technical decisions required? Could he point the company in the right way?

Gerstner was able to get away with being a non-technical CEO because job one was being decisive. When he moved strategically, it was to become a services company. He didn't need vision on the industry.

Mulally is also 68. How long would he stick around?

By all means I think Alan Mulally is one of the world's top CEOs. But is the right CEO for Microsoft?
Most likely thanks to Carbon Dating [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
I have to admit I was wrong. I assumed it would flatline like FB.

Congrats to the Twitter team!
I've always noticed that there is sometimes a correlation between those that make money and those that can understand what a "sucker" will go for.

What I mean is that many people make money by understanding the stupidity of people and taking advantage of that.

As opposed to thinking all logically with intelligence as far as why would someone pay me to do that! It's so simple!

An example of this (that might hit home to the tech crowd) is a "tech guy/gal" who under prices what they do thinking it is simple to install open source software on someone's box. Instead of realizes that to a "normal" it's a big ball of confusion and they would be quite pleased to just have an installed turnkey product with 5 minutes of handholding.

I can't stress this enough. You get paid for what you know that someone else's doesn't know. And you deserve to. So don't give it away without getting paid.
I think we're pretty much talking about setting it all on fire in this context. But dropping them out of 3rd story windows could be fun too.
Wikipedia[1]. I meant an all-electric car. Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid car. Model S only has about 20k sales.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_automobile...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S
Leiningen does dependency management and builds, etc., for Clojure work. http://leiningen.org Note the sample project on that page.

http://clojure.org/cheatsheet is made of useful also

The community won't bite, ask when you're stuck.

Use the Oracle jre, or your package manager's default (linux).

There's this stuff if you need it. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment...

Good luck!
I'm a maintainer for pillow. Feel free to ask any questions.

(I'm not sure PIL is a dead project. It's just resting. Beautiful plumage through)
Well, I'm reassured...

Reading through this and a couple of other articles (presumably yours)... yes, I see that research was done; but that it was largely superficial, summarizing marginally interesting content from a few different sources.

As GP noted, it seems more focused on link-garnering than providing in-depth information.

</brutal-truth>
I definitely notice that effect personally. The problem is, I often find myself easily distracted (e.g. opening HN!) when faced with a hard problem or a "mental wall". It really hinders my ability to finish tasks sometimes. What do you do to help you focus on tasks, specifically hard ones?
Your mom could've been interesting last night, but she wasn't.

CONSOLE BASED TEXT EDITOR "VIM". COULD BE INTERESTING.

Learn to use a computer, asshole.
Ah, ain't that the truth. I loved my HP Pavillion, until its motherboard glue melted and internal parts detached. Twice. Shame for them, too-- circa 2007, you saw as many of those on college campuses as you did MacBooks or netbooks. No longer.
Income statements:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&fstype=ii&ei=TL...

About $553 million in revenue in the last year, with spending of $668 million.
Based on the program icon in the screen shot, I think the tool was written in Delphi 6. I haven't seen that in years!
From the AGPL FAQ:

If the Program as you received it is intended to interact with users through a computer network and if, in the version you received, any user interacting with the Program was given the opportunity to request transmission to that user of the Program's complete source code, you must not remove that facility from your modified version of the Program or work based on the Program, and must offer an equivalent opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network to request immediate transmission by HTTP of the complete source code of your modified version or other derivative work."

That last part--"derivative work"--is somewhat the rub.
Wasn't there just something on HN claiming DDOS as protected speech?
Same thing in the US. There are major tax implications.
Testing it out, good experience so far. Question: shouldn't the 404.html page be displayed automatically on 404?
There's a lot of fuck up IPOs then. I know I got double my money pretty quick on the VMWare IPO and the Visa IPO, just buying as soon as they went public and selling at a peak after news.
I'm incredibly ignorant when it comes to the stock market. But why would any company elect to go public? Let's see: you lose your creative edge 90% of the time, you destroy the relationships with your users 50% of the time, your team vision becomes one that must equate to profits - forever. This is not natural - to be constantly growing and profiting. Small businesses (you know, the millions of them) seem to hold their ground better in turbulent times, despite their lack of hand-over-fist profits.

This idea of unlimited growth is unsustainable and people who can't see that are just as bad as a 2008-era stock broker as far as I can see. It's a very willing and eager group of apologists and utopian dreams. Honestly.
Plus, as we left it so late to intervene the Syrian opposition is mostly islamist nutcases now.
I think it's interesting to calculate how much less the BTC/USD exchange rate would have to be as a function of how much power the ES-adversary has. It's substantial!

One could even imagine creating "poison pill" derivative instruments where someone agrees to sell a lot of BTC if some predicate over the blockchain becomes true (such as a predicate that's only true if ES-mining is happening).
It could also means the functionalities of those files had been moved over to libraries. NodeJS does have an impressive amount of libraries, and dare I say probably more than Java.
Linode Enhances its Cloud-based Load Balancer Service With SSL
The Birth of Obvious Corp (2006)
Very interesting. Would you mind sharing which vertical/industry you are in? Do you think your success is because competition is currently low or because you can do something clever in targeting the ads?

The way I see it Twitter is either a broadcast channel for people who want to share lots of self-important things or a stalking channel where people can follow celebrities etc. Eithe way I don't see people buying stuff unless it is celebrity endorsed.
Hey caublestone, thanks for the compliment. Which country are you in? Is it in our database already? If not I'll include it for you.
Also, I'm really happy to offer everybody from HN the service without taking commission for a test phase in exchange for occasional feedback. Let me know if interested. You can reach me on laura(at)goshippo.com
I believe you have the logic backwards here.

Facebook was the fuckup because they priced correctly and all the buddies of the underwriters didn't make bank on the IPO. Twitter is back to the old system and nobody will be complaining this time around.
I still haven't found a web-based IDE that does what I want, but here are some of the theoretical advantages I can see:

• why have a real-time browser preview in your IDE when you can have a realtime-IDE preview in every browser you want to test in?

• access your workspace with your settings from any computer (and OS)

• you could deeplink directly to lines of code in a browser and place that in documentation or tickets to make it easier for people to reference

• real-time multi-user editing could be made possible this way

• never need to update/upgrade your IDE software as the online code can be improved seamlessly and instantly for all users

• instantly make code shareable to another person

• create and manage temporary access to specific parts of code for online users

I think most of what you are reacting to has nothing to do with the technology involved in running a web-based IDE, but rather you object to the hassles involved with running a business around providing a web-based IDE.

You could build a web-based IDE that didn't require a login, but how would it save your settings or projects? You could build a web-based IDE that didn't store or access code online and only worked from your local storage too, it would just be silly for many people to go to all that effort and not have the obvious advantages of being online as well.

Perhaps a better solution than public cloud services is a class of business software built using web technology that each user operates privately.
There is no indication that it has risen from the opening price for the public markets yet.
Just had a look at that Codeenvy page, it said,

"Developers Spend 13 Hours/Week Administering Their Desktop.".

That seems like an awful lot, 2 days a week on "administering"? Is this real data from desktop IDE users, if so then this is clearly a huge problem. What kind of things are people spending the 13 hours on each week that is saved by moving to a Cloud IDE?

I could see overhead if developers were constantly swapping from project to project to fix bugs and each of those projects had different set ups in terms of where the source code was stored, how it was configured etc.

I can't speak for other companies/languages/setups but using one of Eclipse/Netbeans for Java with Maven and SVN/Git is pretty low overhead in terms of configuration for me. For PHP we use SVN, SublimeText and pre-defined build and deploy scripts, which also do not have many pain points.

Genuine question: where is the 13 hours spent each week?
Why do you confuse being angry at something you like as being angry at everything?
IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available
I know Django isn't end all, be all, but with them moving forward towards 1.8 where PIL will be completely depreciated, that's really the first nail in the coffin for PIL.
for anyone thinking this is good -- this means twitter mispriced and basically handed a free billion dollars to the underwriters and their associates, friends and family.
The type of person that supports these sorts of activities is the sort of person I would also expect to delete their message instead of standing their ground regardless of adversarial opinions.
Right on. Reminds me that I really want to set up ARK OS or something for my family so we don't have to rely on Google so much. Cloud services are fine and dandy, so long as I own them.
"Find and compare shipping rates of more than 100 carriers" but only 11 listed on the "Supported Couriers" page. What am I missing?
And here are some detailed numbers:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&fstype=ii&ei=TL...
"You get what you measure" - Tom Peters

Quality must be designed in, but people won't do the effort if it's not valued.
Twitter Shares Double In First Few Hours of Trading
A much better link than the 'live blog' covering ... erm.. the stock price.

Congrats to the twitter team. Ridiculous overpricing aside (in the financial/risk management sense), that's a major victory for them. Whether or not this becomes a financially viable business, there's no question that they've built an amazing thing and are now getting well-rewarded for it.
Because that's how all of the original investors cash out. They originally purchased shares in the company to invest in it. The original investment went to the company itself. For argument sake, let's say they purchased those shares originally for $5 each. Now that the company is public, they can sell those shares on the open market for $45 each. The IPO is a combination of the company selling more shares to shore up its cash on hand, and for original investors to be able to sell their shares at a profit.
Bitcoin breaks $300
Haven't noticed that so far luckily; on Reddit people just stopped reading mostly I feel. If you are not the top comment, generally people won't read. I think people here still read all comments generally (about something they find interesting obviously that is).