skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you reread my statements, you will realize there is no implication that we need more government. As an ideologue, you have projected onto my statements a position that you want to argue with. To say that the government never relinquishes power is a statement of ideology, not fact. The Supreme Court, a branch of the government, has taken away government power to regulate political donations to PACs, and decided that certain state governments are not beholden to the federal government while modifying voting policies. There are two examples. Repeal of Glass-Steagall is a congressional example. Federalist political movements only make sense in the context of reform to shrink the power of the federal government.

"any implication that the government is hugely understaffed and desperately needs to grow larger is an ideological claim I'll dispute."

This is only an ideological position if you view the rule of law as a ideology. I guess it is, but it's the foundation of civilization, so it shouldn't be controversial. If the government passes laws, it should enforce them. Currently it doesn't have the staff to enforce passed laws. That is a statement of fact. YOUR position, by comparison, IS ideological, because you are holding that the government has more employees than you would prefer based on your political beliefs.
This is a tangent, but the post reminded me of this.

I've done quite a bit of cold-emailing to reach new mentors and new clients.

One of the things I started doing a couple years ago was to offer buying someone I was cold-emailing a "virtual cup of coffee". I even played with using that in the subject of the email.

I'd say: I'm working on a new product and I wanted to see if it would be handy for them. If they have a chance to talk on the phone or Skype, I'll send over a gift certificate to Starbucks so they could get their favorite drink before the meeting.

Those emails got some nice hit rates in responses and meetings. And you can very easily buy a $5 gift cert. online from Starbucks and email it.
Can you drop me a line (jesse.noller@rackspace.com) or a bug report (details here: http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/welcome-to-performance-c...) so I can add the tests you ran (especially the CBS ones).
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Depends on your role within the business of course, but I always file these kind of expenses under business expenses myself. In the end, the meetings help my professional life a lot.
Compelling information that promotes organic engagement is more fun to look at.

Designing infographics requires someone adept at visual storytelling to understand exactly what to put where. Pretty graphs and large fontography(?) are merely the byproduct, not the catalyst.
Welcome to Performance Cloud Servers – Have Some Benchmarks
After briefly checking out your blog, yes I do. Unfortunately my availability is limited. When and where were you thinking? I am on Long Island.
I have met a lot of Brilliant people from India that have blow me away on their technical knowledge. What is stopping them from helping to fix the infrastructure problem that India has? A lot of educated people seem to be seeking a way out to another country. While most of the people in India are living in poverty and have no chance of a decent education.

Forget Mars, for India the problems are too great at home.
Yes!
Type of product, Industry, team composition, Skills, team background etc. etc.

It can't be disappointing, I am sure it would be interesting.
We will need data of all the applications V/S the selected ones.
I wasn't clear in my OP: there was poor communication on both sides here. I was receiving mixed messages, with the company's VP basically claiming I wasn't able to deliver anything good enough and my immediate boss telling me to kind of punt on the thing. In retrospect I should have dug more deeply. Actually in retrospect I should have started looking for another job, since the VP line-jumping the team lead is a sign of insanely dysfunctional politics.
Author here, I agree. Title could have been better for sure, it's in the end more about the UX part and how Apple supports their developers delivering a better experience to the iOS users.
"No news in the truth and no truth in the news."
Sorry, no, that does not logically follow. You do not need to be a professional to recommend that you use professional advice. It would only be hypocritical if memracon had subsequently made specific recommendations.
It's more like he took Infiniminer and made a fun game out of it.
Competitive Mindshare Maps
But there you use the word 'need'. If you have been working 48 hours straight and want to hire the neighbors kid to mow the lawn that's now a foot high, fine.

It's just my viewpoint, I know how much time I waste (heck I'm wasting it right now) and how much time I have to take care of the lawn, etc. I don't need to add to the waste because I don't feel like doing it.
Slurm - open-source, DIY nutrition on-the-go
That's what I thought too.

The posts starts like "you don't need to be an extrovert to be a successful entrepreneur" and then goes towards "look at me ... I learned to be a temporary extrovert"
That is a brilliant idea! I'll have to try that sometime
Make it not have anything to do with LinkedIn, and you've got an awesome idea!
Dang, LR has been big in the underground communities forever. Bouncing money between international Paypal accounts and then through LR has always been the way I've heard of it being done. It will be interesting to see what follows it. Also curious if they will try to prosecute any of the LR users they are able to track down.
Uncontended interlocked operation is typically about 100-300 CPU cycles. Uncontended mutex is about 30x-50x that. If
there is contention, multiply everything by another 100x.
Additionally these instructions impact not only the calling thread but also other threads by forcing cache synchronization.

Therefore a relatively simple operation like pointer assignment can be one cycle when using GC and a hundred to several thousands cycles when using refcounting. Sometimes you can ignore this overhead, sometimes not - depends on how often you do that.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/choosing-between-sy...
Great! As neat as Icomoon is, this is a much needed feature. Could you add the other icon sets from Icomoon?
I used igoogle to load a gmail iframe on my (insanely awesome) custom start page. It really sucks they shut that down.

I was also using the Google Toolbar (do not consume) spelling auto-correct "API". I was doing some really neat stuff with that technology and they shut that down too. Sure, I can't really complain about that one, but the end result is the same...

If you adopt Google technology, prepare for labor intensive migrations, alternative scrambling, and disappointments.
I absolutely don't think people writing thank you notes to their boss is weird. I do this on almost a daily basis via email or text.

This block of text does seem weird though - I think it's because she was highly emotional while writing. (Completely a guess.) And this particular portion would have likely been the most emotional for her. It's not as well composed as the rest of the fairly well-formed critique.
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Yes, Apache:

http://incubator.apache.org/wave/
The third option is I find it to be an excellent source of light exercise.

So I could pay someone to mow my lawn so I'd have the spare time to take a short nature hike as exercise ...
If you have a truly busy life and just really need a break, I've got no issue with that. I just surmise from my own observations that it's not how much time people have to do nothing, it's that they are getting more and more sucked into that mindset of doing nothing. Think Wall-E :-).
I've done a few lunches in SF through http://letslunch.com/ which I'd recommend if you're looking for a "scalable" version of this.
Most people don't even know they can use extensions (or even what a browser is), but they do know that Facebook has a chat function, because it's right there.

This seems to suggest a web app or suite of web apps that "competes" with Fb, in some sense. You don't have to install (or even know the URL of) a web app! Mozilla may get there eventually, but they're not going to travel the obvious, NSA-(or plug in your favorite bad actor-)vulnerable way. I think their current work with identity on Persona could grow into that, but they're going to keep it distributed, which I appreciate.

EDIT: Now that I've RTFA, I find that you also are thinking along these lines. However, I think you've glossed over who is actually running the server. In order for Persona to function, in order for all my data to be synced across all my devices, in order for any of my friends to see any of my comments, someone has to pay an electric bill every month. If there is a vast marketplace of server-operators, they can compete on price, {NSA, advertising}-resistance, etc.

I could see Mozilla carrying the web to that paradise of individual autonomy, but I could also see Fb and Fb-alikes derailing the effort along the way. They embraced-and-extended the web once already; I can imagine them doing it again: "Sure I can chat with my friends and "like" my favorite brands through Firefox, but did you see that Facebook allows me to frobnicate my Facebook snorrzlers as well?"
> Housecleaning and grass cutting are really common to pay people for in the U.S., though.

I don't know the numbers but it likely varies a lot even among those with houses and decent-sized lawns. My guess would be that in upper middle class developments where this sort of thing is more or less the norm, people will be more likely to avail themselves of these services. If all your neighbors cut their lawns on the other hand, I can see able-bodied people feeling funny about hiring someone.
Yes, sorry - the "we" is rackspace.
Operating a medium of trade for profit that others use consensually shouldn't be illegal. The act of people trading value consensually also shouldn't be illegal. The parent post is likely affirming both of these positions.
The Future of Bomb Sniffing Is in Shit
> Well, the browser already is a chat client for millions of people. It's called Facebook.

"Is a" and "has a" are worlds apart.
Calca 1.2 - Experiments in Text Editing
Bitcoin at risk of network attack, say researchers
Just use that as fuel. Good luck!
IPad Air Has Spendier Display, Costs Less to Make Than Earlier Models
I'm not in a position of power and probably am not worth meeting, professionally speaking, but hey, if I were in San Francisco, I'd put in an application. :)
BitTorrent Sync launches API for building decentralized apps, comes to iPad
If you're a developer looking for more benchmarks / comparisons - I put http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/welcome-to-performance-c... up this morning. Raw data in github; and I'd love to get more to run.
All the web console screenshots are missing

http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-ops/circusweb/#c...
Where did you hire them from?
Good call call on the contradicting lines(left an edit note giving you credit). Removed the first one for more clarity. I think what I was trying to say is that it's assumed every entrepreneur is a born an extrovert, but some need to overcome their natural inhibition and learn to have the extroverted skills needed to succeed. It's a learned process for all, but definitely nerve wracking for an introvert based on my experience. Great points, thanks for reading and helping me improve the post!
I've written thank you messages to CEO's for every company I've worked with/consulted at. It's a small thing, but I don't think it's common.
How to recover an orphaned .ibd file with MySQL 5.6
GoCardless (YC S11) is looking for software developers in London
GoCardless is a London-based startup simplifying Direct Debit for businesses across the UK, and soon Europe. Our team is small and technology-focused. We are growing fast and backed by some of the world's best investors, including Y Combinator, Accel Partners and Passion Capital.

We value people who are experts in their field, care deeply about building great products, and get things done.

We are looking for a full-stack software developer to join our team to help us build our next wave of products. Our product is primarily built in Ruby and JavaScript, using frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Angular. We strongly believe in test-driven development, and deploy code on a daily basis.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to different areas of our code base, and build open source frameworks like Hutch[https://github.com/gocardless/hutch], or Statesman[https://github.com/gocardless/statesman] along the way.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be:

- Building out internal services to communicate with international banking systems.

- Working on systems to intelligently identity-check and risk-assess new customers and merchants. As we grow, this is likely to include a significant machine learning element.

- Helping us to scale our services to serve our fast growing merchant base.

You should apply if you:

- Are proficient in at least one dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (e.g. Ruby, Python), and have significant experience with a modern web framework, such as Rails or Django.

- Have an awareness of the full web stack. You live and breathe HTTP, feel comfortable optimising SQL queries, and have at least a basic understanding of JavaScript.

- Demand that code be well-tested, and believe that tests are a helpful tool in driving design, not merely a tedious afterthought.

You'd be a particularly good fit if you:

- Have built and scaled web services to perform while serving hundreds of thousands of users.

- Are excited by the world of technology startups. You're a self-starter looking for responsibility and a place you can make an impact.

- Feel comfortable in the UNIX world: you grep, sed, and awk your way through text files, and have experienced the joy of writing SysVinit scripts.

- Are familiar with any of the following: Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Chef.

We have roles for experienced & more junior developers - the salary is extremely competitive and will depend on experience & ability. Stock options will form part of the compensation package.

To apply, email maria@gocardless.com
Can An 8-Node Raspberry Pi Cluster Web Server Survive Hackaday?
Nowadays that everyone has lots of accounts and there are so many good password managers around I don't know why losing passwords is so important.

I couldn't care less if Adobe stored my password in plaintext. It's unique to that service and used absolutely nowhere else and I don't even have to remember it.
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Nudge: an IDE in your browser
I was just being silly but you have a point.
don't be shy
Apache Wave (I believe the intial code was contributed by Google):
http://incubator.apache.org/wave/source-code.html

I don't think it has gained much traction, though.
What app to make that list?
Yes thanks - I have fixed this and triggered a build - it should appear in a little bit
I'll be around all day to answer questions, or better yet - merge things into the repo to run, execute more tests, etc. I have to hand it to plot.ly - they definitely make charting... addictive.
How to configure WordPress Automatic Updates
WordPress automatic updates are now available. This tutorial explains how to configure them and how to use filters to fine tune them.
Several million people who use Android had downloaded Google Reader.
Thanks for sharing your application. It takes guts to be open about this kind of stuff.

One thing I didn't see in the application was what your distribution strategy will be. I understand the collaborative nature of GitHub for Writers, but are there established channels that you could take advantage of to help your customer acquisition. Publishers are one group but perhaps they don't closely manage writers in that way. Perhaps advertising firms or print media might be a way to go. A couple big enterprise customers might be good validation for your business.
A New Bar (in vector graphics)
BTW: Here is the post of someone who thought he can use shared_ptr as a poor-man's GC: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2502394/the-cost-of-passi...

shared_ptr took 17% of time. This is far beyond what GC takes even in a very memory heavy Java application (typically GC stays below 1% overhead).

I'm not saying you shouldn't use shared_ptr at all, but only: be careful.
From travelling across India for a few months (also among the "backwards" populations, as they are referred to even in Indian legal texts), I can tell you that yes, corruption is amazingly prevalent. As far as money exchanged, you might be right (I don't know), but the way it affects day to day life is nothing like in western countries. It's a credit to the resilience of people there that they can function on top of that structure and still be enthusiastic about "India" - over a dozen fairly geographically homogenous languages, with most people never travelling outside their cultural comfort zone.
... and VoIP?
Nice idea.

The contrast of the font-color/bg-color however is really bad.
F**k you. Pay me. - Startup t-shirt inspiration in profanity.
Cool. You can reach me at peter at quill dot org
Ditto. All-night LANs at our parents' houses playing Counter-Strike and other Half-Life mods, WC3, Starcraft, Diablo 1 & 2 in the basement.

Online games aren't all addiction and grinding and no-sunlight, there are an immense amount of social interactions going on. I attribute much of my writing skill to posting on internet forums with people I met playing video games, and chatting in-game.
Google's biggest enemy will continue to be themselves. If they are unable to promote and market this save for a few blog postings (as is their want to so often do) then it will die on the vine...just like so many other projects of theirs they can.
Video game playing found beneficial for the brain
For some reason, this came to mind first... :) http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hello-my-future-girlfriend

Jokes aside, it is a much more positive experience when you meet someone one on one, outside of some meetup event networking shuffle.
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Israeli planes strike Syrian military base, U S o
> but are there established channels that you could take advantage of to help your customer acquisition

Yes, absolutely. See "How will you get users" question. I listed 6 different growth/distribution strategies, but redacted 3 of them for the purpose of sharing publicly. They are not necessarily groundbreaking, but I'd rather not just hand over my growth strategies to competitors.
The project uses the PDO database abstraction library, so supporting other database back-ends in the future would not be a major task.
I think this was slightly mentioned in the Apple Special Event on September 10 http://youtu.be/yBX-KpMoxYk?t=43m45s
We should do it: the Win9x on ARM project!
Computer-generated 'Sweetie' catches online Pedofiles
An Interview with JavaScript Legend Kyle Simpson
€450 million investment to triple size of Google datacenter in Hamina
I was extremely disappointed by the noise given by the M7. To make use of the data it spits out, you need to apply filters to clean it up. There are better out of the box solutions for programmers. For example, https://www.alohar.com/developer/. Also, it is not as battery efficient as they promised. It is more battery efficient than the 3rd party offerings. However, I ran iOS 7 on my iPhone 5 for months and got better battery life running the same apps. Amazing since by that time the battery on the iPhone 5 was 1 year old.
So, what are you working on?
It might be weird, but I'm a thank-you letter writer. I wouldn't write those exact letters, but I've written similar sentiments.

I've written my CEO, because I live in a house I bought with money earned from this job, raising a family of three kids, and appreciate that my enterprise is sustainable. I'm grateful for my job, the opportunity to do the work I do, and to the people who make it happen.

However, I write a half-dozen or so such letters per year. Not just professional: personal, community, and so on. This rate is trending up as I get older. I'm getting more and more grateful for how our lives all fit together. There are many people working hard toward good ends and probably not being thanked for the good work they do.
Hiring:  tech skills and great customer skills
http://www.cognitivenetworks.com/technical-operations-manager/

Huge scale video fingerprint/search/match company already doing a million transactions per second. Customers lining up out the door. We need someone who can talk to them and help our technical team make sure their needs are met. This is a gateway pposition into either a development or ops gig. Contact greg.herlein@cognitivenetworks.com
Not to nitpick... ok actually to nitpick, sorry. Your page bugged my to run a media player, which when allowed, changed to a background that was hard for me to read over and then sat there "buffering" interminably.

After 10 minutes it had reached 15%. What happens at 100%?

Edit: Ah. It finally got moving. It was coffee pouring. As the background. I guess if I didn't have my browser set so I have to approve plugins and it wasn't being HN'd to slowness so it started right up, that would have been kind of cool. As you were then.
Asian kids with golden voice
What is a good way to pay then? I can't get a normal credit card so I have to make due with a prepaid card. To make it right from the getgo and buying a new domain as well as hosting my alternative idea was:

buy domain/mail at namecheap with bitcoin -> paypal on my bank account with that address -> pay digital ocean

I wanted to avoid bitcoin and paypal so I came up with a different plan buying a prepaird card and:

buy domain/mail at namecheap with cc -> pay digital ocean with cc.

This makes me wonder if I run into the same trouble in two instances. I don't have a scanner or a camera (believe it or not) so I'd have to run to a friend who lives an hour away. I'd rather avoid that...
I still dont get these so Called Cloud Hosting, When i can order 2 Dedicated Servers in OVH / Hetzner for Redundancy and it will still cost 50% less then what RackSpace offers.
The input box's for email address wasnt exactly obvious to me either, do I ommit the @? Do I just put my name in the first part and email in the second? Do I split up my email address with the prefix before the @ in the first part, and the suffix in the second box? Do i need the '.com'? Or is the first box a subject line or something?

I think just putting an @ symbol between the two boxs would pretty much answer most of these questions.
And, for good measure, a recent ABCTV documentary on the bad science of cholesterol-heart hypothesis and statins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTkyS5yV82Q
Silicon Juche Rising: North Korea Launches a Tablet
A simple tar backup script
Very interesting, but how does this compare with other providers out there?
Analysis reveals popular Adobe passwords
Hiring:  python developers
http://www.cognitivenetworks.com/senior-software-engineer/

Like high performance networking and python? Drop into C when you need to? Does huge scale interest you? Over a million video fingerprint match transactions per second already. At all interested? Contact greg.herlein@cognitivenetworks.com
There's a weird parallel to having browsers implement applications and having governments handle business needs. There's only one upstream, and it can destroy the downstream whether it works or not. You gotta be really selective about what you implement there.

It's more important that FF enable downstream to make applications which can then compete with Facebook and break the silos model, which I think is happening with WebRTC.