skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>even longer checkpoints

yes, that is the point as big flush instead of many small ones would take either the same or, usually, less time than cumulative time of small flushes because of IO ordering and probability of some writes hitting the same data block.
As the government seems at least equally incompetent to debug their own medical market website, you're making my point while millions are being victimized by a government's mistakes, negligence, and pursuit of profit in medical markets.

The USA was founded on the premise of liberty: that individuals have rights which may not be dictated by the self-righteous and/or greedy whims of the majority & powerful. Now get government out of my health care, which served me very well during times which I could be dead four times over.
I read the article, but I'm not convinced that there really is "bloat". Higher education is bigger and more complex than it once was, and the people best able to make strategic decisions might also be expensive. Coming from private industry, those salaries don't seem particularly high.
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I doubt qualified people are as disinterested as you think. Some people have knee-jerk reactions to job descriptions like this but I think most do not.

Honestly, 3 years of web dev plus system administration for what looks like a junior-ish position in a small but busy and high-profile shop is not outrageous. If I was actively looking for work and willing to relocate I would contact them to get more details before writing it off.
> but in terms of sound

That may be so, but that's also pretty much it. Then again, for that price you could buy an Amiga 500 and a synth :D

(amusingly, Ensoniq was founded by ex Commodore/MOS engineers, including Bob Yannes, who created the SID chip found in the C64)

> File System Translators - it could read and write all sorts of disk formats.

Just like the Amiga. There's dozens of filesystem implementations for the Amiga - you just drop a device file in the right directory, and add a very simple configuration.

E.g. here's a small selection from Aminet: http://aminet.net/search?query=filesystem

There's even at least one editor (FrexxEd) that exposed it's currently open buffers as files in a filesystem (so you can e.g. run your compiler directly on the editors buffer without going via a temp file, and have the compiler output go directly to another buffer, without any explicit support in the editor)
Check out this series of posts as well - they had some interesting experience with municipal WiFi ISPs:
http://www.muniwireless.com/2010/04/06/wireless-isp-experien...
The thing is, if you're visiting some business's site often enough that this kind of repetition is going to bug you but you're not actually engaging in a way that is beneficial for them, you are exactly the kind of dead weight that they are probably better off without from a commercial point of view. Irritating you enough that you go away and stop wasting their bandwidth is likely to be a (very small) win for them.

Of course, if you're visiting a site for a person or organisation that you are actually engaging with and they still do this, you are entitled to feel karmic smugness the next time they forget their umbrella and it rains. :-)
Touché. Agreed when I switch screens. Thanks for the feedback, need to tweak it a bit.
>No one is going to dump NGINX over this.

His post seems to contradict that. People will dump products for very trivial reasons if marketed correctly.
While I agree with your statement on it's face, in the context of the OP, this is just whinging. The author is not just offering constructive criticism on a possible fork of NGINX, he's calling the NGINX business out for "withholding" features. The tone is distinctly one of being "owed" a feature common to another popular FOSS project, instead of being grateful for everything NGINX provides (which is a lot, and probably why switching to Apache is suggested with some reluctance in the OP).
I think one of the points of this posting is that if you take it too serious you already are not fit for the job. Thus, it's helping to weed out candidates that may not fit well with the company.
Possibly the most realistic job posting I've read.
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What does this give you over e.g. YAML, which has widespread support?

Not that I like YAML either - I detest encodings that depend on indentation for meaning...
Quora and Quartz are two of my least-liked websites. Quora because it obscures content, Quartz because its layout is just so utterly execrable that it gets in the way of reading the content.

Another trick for me is to have Readability's "Read Now" bookmarklet on by bookmarks toolbar, which renders unreadable pages readable ... most of the time.

But as with OP, I find this trend hugely annoying and very regrettable.
I am going to second arcft now. You are now my hero too! Wow, 10 years!
We need someone young, naive, with stars in their eyes
going gaga over internet fame about a website they'll
never have any creative input on, unless they swear a
blood oath to never take credit for an idea that already
aligns with our PG rated middle school sense of humor.
Has 23andMe told their side of the story yet? The FDA's press release made it sound like 23andMe was very negligent, but there has to be more to it than that. I can't imagine a company just ignoring the FDA's requests.
Just as there will be people who get surgery due to false positives (which happen with regulated testing too), there are lots of people who otherwise have no preferred means of testing if it's regulated away.
Sadly, many of these sites and interstitials are driven by CSS.
That course isn't representative. I don't know the thinking behind it, (it was one of their earlier MOOC courses) but there are many courses with much better and harder content.

Of course it is better to have a real person, but not everyone has that luxury, or their real professors are no good.
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Friendly reminder that in something like 48/50 states the highest paid public employee is the football or basketball coach, and the hockey coach in NH or VT.
You get so much from NGINX and yout don't want to pay?

The world has gone crazy.
It's not "malicious", what a silly word to use. It's just business.
Maybe this would be steering out of the point, but doesn't something like collectd suit the problem?
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There's a Stanford professor that has the videos from his class about the Fourier Transform on youtube, go compare that to (just about?) anything on Coursera.
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Apache 2.4 with event MPM should give you comparable performance to nginx
this was helpful
Applying app design concepts to web design
From the 23andme TOS:

"You should not change your health behaviors solely on the basis of information from 23andMe. Make sure to discuss your Genetic Information with a physician or other health care provider before you act upon the Genetic Information resulting from 23andMe Services. For most common diseases, the genes we know about are only responsible for a small fraction of the risk. There may be unknown genes, environmental factors, or lifestyle choices that are far more important predictors. If your data indicate that you are not at elevated genetic risk for a particular disease or condition, you should not feel that you are protected. The opposite is also true; if your data indicate you are at an elevated genetic risk for a particular disease or condition, it does not mean you will definitively develop the disease or condition. In either case, if you have concerns or questions about what you learn through 23andMe, you should contact your physician or other health care provider."

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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netproceeds.asp

That's not what the term means, and musise of poisons the well for all honest correct-speaking charities and their beneficiaries.

Just say "$25" or "50% of proceeds", and don't mislead customers.

Edi: looks like you already changed it to "$25". That's refreshing in its direct honesty. Thank you for doing the right thing.
I'm curious what business model the author of the post thinks would be possible for the author of nginx and not result in this scenario for feature x/y/z?

Also, as an aside, it seems like the author of the post pays for NetApp and the very, very expensive support contracts that come with it, nginx contracts are a walk in the park, financially, in comparison.
I'm reminded more about their actual reality show that ended with a job http://penny-arcade.com/strip-search/
I assumed it was posted because whoever posted it thought some people here would be interested enough to apply. If it was posted as angst bait, well, whoops,I fell for it.
Any explanation of what the advantages are to having so many rotors? Based on a recently-linked article [1], it seems like you'd take a big efficiency hit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6730309
This was a fantastic read, and very educational. I was most surprised to see it put as we are lending money to our banks. Thought there might be mention of FDIC but didn't see any.
"censorship evasion..."

Unfortunately, having your own copy of Wikipedia could also be used to enable censorship. For example, a fundamentalist school could have their own version of Wikipedia from which they've purged all articles about evolution, etc. Then they could configure their firewall to block the real Wikipedia.
Its list handling seems broken? tojson(fromjson(x)) !== x.

Paste { "name": "John", "age": "29", "foo": [1,2,3] } into the JSON side, and click in the left and move the cursor to force it to update and see what happens (I see it drop the first two list items).
Reasonable proximity to a major city is probably a decent starting point.

What's a major city? If we're still in the coarse-estimate mode, I'd say a city most people have heard of.

Maps of internet backbones will help you locate the ideal places, from a connectivity point of view.

http://www.nthelp.com/images/InternetMCI.jpg
And this is also why people type in "Ad block" in to Google. It is the obnoxious few that ruin it for the rest of us. Now 100 people won't view your quiet embedded ad because some video pop-up. And these are mainstream websites that shouldn't be using dirty tricks like this.

These websites are losing business. They are listening to a team of marketers who are looking for quick conversions. What about that long term reader of a decade who just deleted your bookmark?
Agreed, that's annoying and just lazy marketing/development.
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Given the name of the blog (and how it's written), I assume this is meant to be satire?
Given it seems to be a product of http://www.simulantproductions.com/ is this just satire or link bait?
> VMs are meant to be ephemeral anyways.

While ephemeral VMs are a great way to operate if your able, I really don't think you can say that your "meant" to operate that way.

Many workloads don't fit that model, and certainly a lot of commercial software is of the type that your not going to want to be re-installing too often and going through re-licensing hell.
Extraordinary, and praiseworthy IMO.
So the tester got to be in the beta for Soylent?
They're both just across the river from Manhattan, so it would be a relatively short trip. I believe the trains run all night.
Does this come with a free dickwolves T-shirt and lecture about how transwomen are men?
Without getting into the general argument here, I'm just going to dispel a few misconceptions about earthquake engineering:

No one (basically) who is involved in earthquake engineering would ever use the term 'earthquake-proof' to describe one building, much less an entire country's construction practices. Instead, we generally design buildings to not require any repair after earthquakes which occur more frequently than once per century, and design buildings not to fall down after earthquakes which occur more frequently than once per 2500 years. There is always a chance that an earthquake will occur outside of those limits, and nothing is designed to withstand those.

While you are correct in assuming that adding weight to a structure (all things being equal) will increase the seismic forces it experiences, the contribution of sound insulation to the weight of the building is pretty insignificant. And for lightweight structures it is much easier to increase their strength than to decrease their weight.

Third, earthquake resistant 'technology' [re: design practices] is not as ever-changing as you might think. While there are some examples of innovative solutions like putting water tanks at the top of skyscrapers, for low-rise structures there really isn't that much to it. If you take a 100 year old house, screw some plywood sheets between the floors, and bolt it to the foundation, then it will be 90% (estimated) as safe as a brand new house. Earthquake resistance is not so much about technology, and is more about making very sure that all of the force generated in the house can make it to the ground without breaking anything (though physicists would say that the force goes in the other direction from the ground to the structure). This means that earthquake safety is fairly proportional to the amount of time and money spent on construction, which is very much not incentivized by disposable construction.
I was going to put a big block in it, but several moparheads told me the bb's unbalance the car (too heavy) and that the 340 was a great block that could be upgraded to pretty hefty power levels.

They were right, and I'm pretty happy with it.

I dislike chrome plate and billet engine dress-up stuff, I got all go and no show parts. (And a few whoa upgrades.)
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NB: There is a lot of hard-earned wisdom distilled in man_bear_pig's comment.
GUI application code actually is one that often can be very clearly thought as a DFA.

In particular, the UI often is non-static and can be in certain states, with the effect of user actions (and possibility of certain actions) depending on that state. If it is implemented or "grown" ad-hoc, it sometimes may turn into a jumble of interdependent code and flag/visibility variables, but very often the exact same behaviour can be modelled and implemented much simpler if you think of it as a DFA.

For example, the UI of recently popular single-page webapps, where JS is used to change 'screens' without page load, or change functionality by hiding/adding large parts of the page, can often be naturally be thought of as DFA, planned (on paper or wireframes) as states='screens' and transitions between them, and then implemented as DFA.

Thinking of UI as a DFA also forces you to consider the 'proper' effect of every user action in every state, which is just good UX practice. For example, in a classic url-based web app you may draw a graph/process of how an user proceeds through making a purchase on your site. Usually it will include only the typical process - but if you think of it as a DFA, you define behavior for actions such as 'requested url /ordervalidation/step2-address' at every state, since the result likely should be different depending on if the user went there from step1 by clicking 'ok, i want to buy this', step3 by clicking the back button, or two weeks later by clicking on a link that he accidentally bookmarked.
No, because it can't be used in straight up C, while C++ libraries that expose their functionality with valid C can.
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Looks more like a factor of 2 difference to me:
http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2012/02/apache-24-faster-than-ng...
Sure. Learning from data (caltech) is a good course. But all I got from the course was to go pick up the book and learn this stuff by working through the problem set. And I have a pretty decent linear algebra and probability background. Imagine if you are getting into this stuff new (which is not an unreasonable assumption considering the diverse background of ML folks), this would be brutal. Math is a contact, no holds barred sport where some hand holding initially is pretty damn nice.

Also, I did some schooling in the third world and I am never going to come out and say that someone putting material for a course online is a bad thing. I am just annoyed by this idea that a bunch of online videos is a superior or equally effective replacement to an education at MIT or Stanford.
Lines of text should be as long as they are, and you can scale your view accordingly for comfortable reading.
I think this is very cool. This could really lower the bar for entry level developers who don't want to deal with running a web server. It reminds me of github pages, but even further along.
I can't tell if this post is serious or not (the domain name throws me off a little). I use NGINX myself, but I am also aware that Apache is playing catchup quite quickly as well and Apache 5.4 is a decent version of the popular open source server.

Use whatever fits your needs, just because it didn't fit your needs doesn't mean you should go forcing your opinion upon others. Many people including myself have had nothing but great experiences using NGINX and I don't actually see any real argument here to stop using NGINX.

Based on the tone of the article I get the kind of vibe that the author has the "I liked this band before they became mainstream" mentality about software. NGINX deserves all of the money they can get, they have a great product that is worth paying for and it's quite usuable without paying a cent, so I don't understand what there is to complain about.
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The video game industry is generally much less explicit about the fact that they are structurally dependent on exploiting enthusiasts to work for them for below-market wages until they are burned out and replaced by younger, cheaper enthusiasts. So props for transparency.

Career advice: Like video games? So do I. Buy them. They're cheap at programmer salaries and will, when used as directed, very rarely ruin your life. The same cannot be said of burnout-inducing jobs.

n.b. Structural realities of the video game industry are common knowledge but you can take a grizzled old hand -- say, a 30 year old engineer -- out for coffee if you want to hear about what a typical development cycle looks like at a company you love.
Agreed. However, I think it would be less work for them to block access through firewall policy, than to remove them from XOWA.

By and large, for most private individuals, an offline app would allow them to evade censorship. I'd hope that this benefit outweighs the risk of the other's abuse.
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Edit: excerpt
>Nowhere am I pushing anybody to build their business on it yet...

"In fact, InfiniSQL ought to be the database that companies start with--to avoid migration costs down the road."

This is far from looking for hackers and early adopters. I understand that you're enthusiastic about something you've created, but let's be reasonable for a moment. I'm more than happy to try this out, but starting my business on something that isn't proven yet and has a fair number of durability features yet to be implemented is a no, no.

Edit: My posts on this thread may be coming off as negative and that's not what I intended. I'm cautious of new technology that purports to deliver the world to me on a silver platter. That said, I'd be happy to throw everything I've got at it to see what shakes loose so you can get this to production quality sooner.
I agree about fitting in well with HAML and CoffeeScript. You might also consider Slim as a less noisy HTML shortcut language.

This covers why I like Slim over HAML

http://me.phillipoertel.com/articles/2013/02/03/why-i-like-t...
This blog post demonstrates why the syslog feature is ideal for segmenting Nginx's market.

Almost nobody cares about it, except the sort of place doing > tens of millions of requests per day. The sort of place that might have some money and the scale to realise that a few thousand bucks is cheaper than a bunch of engineer time.

It's a good case study in smart pricing.
Performance is pretty good in Apache 2.4, but compare RAM usage alongside NGINX and you'll notice that NGINX's event based threads approach takes a big dump all over Apache's separate process lets consume every bit of available RAM the server has until it starts throwing errors and filling log files. Apache is getting better, but it's not really on par with NGINX (yet, but it will be).
Do wanted to note that this does not work with Compass currently as Compass extends SASS with Ruby.
It is not in terms of the content:

"Logging to syslog is available as part of our commercial subscription only."

http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#error_log
us lonely adults like to keep it bottled up where it belongs
Sigh, another example of the worst thing about OSS - privileged, self-entitled users thinking the world owes them something.
Is there a spec or a grammar somewhere?

Edit: here we go https://github.com/nudgepad/space/blob/master/spec.txt
Really, it isn't too hard to patch the logging in nginx and/or have a named pipe that writes to syslog. My team made a patch to have it log to UDP multicast, and it wasn't too bad. If you're really pissed at the nginx guys, contribute the patch back.

Sure, I quibble with their approach to a commercial model, but I really think this is a case of "me thinks she doth protest too much" in both the literal and implied meaning.
They posted this to Facebook:

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> Also, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't do it this way.

Credit risk and liquidity risk, as well as systemic risk exasperated by asynchronous transfers and time lag.

Banks do sometimes go bankrupt. While MFGlobal was not a bank, it did demonstrate difficulty in unwinding client funds. LCFIs [2] usually cross regulatory environments, and failures of financial institutions are numerous, the combination quite unsettling. Herstatt [3] in 1974 led to continuous settlement in FX, having received DEM but not paying out USD. There's quite a reason for sometimes not netting things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_and_complex_financial_in...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstatt_Bank
Why not log into a pipe where syslog-ng listens on the other end?
why not pointing access_log/error_log to fifos and use rsyslog/syslog-ng to read direct from it?
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