skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Since not everyone is objectivist, the first is sort of contradictory.

That seems like circular logic to me. It assumes that being subjective blocks objective arguments, based on the subjective opinion of some people.

>The second point is lost on comparing the job to illicit drugs.

It's just an example of a tempting but harmful habit.
I say read:
http://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Revenue-Business-Practices...

Also your website reminds me of
http://www.businessinsider.com/jessica-beinecke-teaches-chin...
I am just wondering how this never shows up in any discussions (public or private) pertaining to Microsoft when the Wikipedia clearly states that 7-Eleven pulls in over 80 billion in revenue a year.

I mean how come we have not seen Microsoft try to merge/scheme using the 7-Eleven brand with other products or services they offer? Maybe they do and I just never noticed.
I agree that from a functionality perspective this is largely true, at least on paper. That said, if running costs become a significant bottleneck CouchDB becomes a less obvious choice. Sometimes there's a reluctance to migrate from one technology to another as requirements change over time but this seems one of those occasions where exactly that step is required. Sometimes it's good to take a step back, look at your current requirements in terms of cost and performance and determine what technology best suits your needs. I would question the know-how and objectivity of anyone that would land on CouchDB/node.js in this instance.
Except if you do that you risk being banned yourself.
Also your thermal environment is going to be quite different, which could be a significant factor. How often do you power-cycle that drive BTW? I've had more drives go bad on power-up (just failing to spin up and move the heads correctly) than through surface errors and such.
Interestingly, one of the few ways to vote down an article on HN.
"Shortsighted" and "ignorant of justice" come to mind as synonyms for "stupid".
1) I don't think I am. The problem of (structural) subtyping is well known and researched and applying it to a database would not break new ground either.

2) The preallocation overhead is not what is the problem. The files are simply extremely large for the amount of data in them.

There has been plenty of measurement and I have done some of my own. With unacknowledged writes it's quite fast, but no other database client I know of does that because it's stupid. With the highest durability and safety mode it's slower than at least Postgres and Mongo still doesn't have transactions or generic indexes.
44% actually. But I agree that this figures seems unrealistic.
You are as confused as I (still am) about the cloud :-). It's a cheap, stupid marketing ploy that honestly doesn't mean anything. Originally, it may have referred to IP(v6)-enabled small home automation devices, like smart light dimmers, distributed sensor-driven HVAC systems and the like, with obvious advantages. Half of the things marketed under the IoT mantra are too expensive and have way too much computational power to be of any use in this context.
I think what is more interesting, is what drives people to upvote certain things.
This website is not scaling well.
Spot on. Also, introverted != shy. I've known plenty of introverts who are very capable of working a room if they need to, they just prefer not to.
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We're trying to determine if this is a joke. Is this something that is real?
Middleman (http://middlemanapp.com/), easy to setup and deploy and uses Ruby.
You don't think "Internet-libertarian" is a good description of the dominant political ideology around here?
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Come on NYT...
This is perverted.
I use Nanoc for http://illuminatedcomputing.com/. I tried Jekyll first, but I didn't like using Liquid. Instead I write the templates in Haml and the content in Markdown.
Without providing an easy way to pay they are losing lots of potential customers. If they just added a simple Stripe form, their conversions would double overnight.
Then he should have said that. "I am often called the inventor of public key cryptography.[1]"

But it would not have been as cool to quote on web forums.

[1] I don't know if that's heresy or whatever; Egghead's legal team, however, would know and could coach him appropriately.
If you're interested in other Node options, the good folks at WalMart Labs have built this "Express for APIs" framework:

http://spumko.github.io/
The problem is the patent model itself.
IANAL, but the justification for fair use seems tortured here. EFF made the case for fair use in this article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/beastie-boys-goldieblo...

... and I think the commercial element is stronger than EFF argues for, and the fact that the video uses the ENTIRE SONG pushes factor three (amount and substantiality) in favor of the Beastie Boyz.

My first thought on seeing the commercial was "Awesome!"

My second thought was, "Did they get Beastie Boyz' permission to do this?"

I have to say, I agree with the Beastie Boyz statement in its entirety:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/580...
Fantasy Sports Startup DraftKings Raises $24 Million From RedPoint And Others
I never have had a problem copying stuff in Nautilus or text editors in Ubuntu...the biggest problem I have dealt with is Nvidia drivers...but Ubuntu 13.10 runs very smooth on my laptop with nvidia drivers...Ubuntu is coming along pretty nice...
Would Be Snapchat Competitor From Ex-Amazon Engineers Wire Raises $1.8 Million
It's actually very much over built. I had the budget, so I built for growth. This setup should easily last us through this year, assuming 4x growth over last year. I am actually putting together another similarly spec'd machine with 384gb of ram (why not, it's cheap) because the current secondary is on 15k disks with only 24gb of ram. Still more than enough to handle the load through this last year, but probably not this coming year, at least without a bunch more ram.

In regards to actual iops, not sure what this thing can peak at off the top of my head, but we'll easily be doing 100 queries a second this year, with a considerable portion of those queries pulling out ~1mb documents.

Playing it conservative, so I am moving towards gzipping those large documents (never need to access anything but the full data, > 90% of accesses are directly served to clients that can handle inflating the data). For now they will stay in mongo, but I am building out an evaluation of using a flat file structure and just letting nginx pass them out.
Works nicely when combined with "classical" PNG optimizers (PNGOut, Pngcrush, AdvPNG). And the same author has a frontend for these (ImageOptim)
Sega Games Partner Extreme Reality Raises $10M For 3D Motion Analysis Tech
You want them to work for you for free?
AWS Mobile Backend with the DreamFactory Bitnami Stack
I wonder why external drives are cheaper than internal drives. One would think that they would be more expensive, since the cost to the manufacturer of an external drive includes not only the drive itself but the adapter contained in the enclosure, the enclosure itself, cables, possibly a power supply, more elaborate packaging and the additional labor required to assemble the external drive. I assume that this consumer cost differential arises from differences in the markets for internal and external drives, but naively it seems like the internal drive market would be more price-sensitive and thus lower margin.

Does anyone know why external drives are typically cheaper than internal drives?
Words have meaning. You're welcome to make new ones.
The failure of pysandbox
Politics seems to elicit a substantial amount of unwanted behavior from people who otherwise would behave normally.

I like forums that remove it as much as possible.
Show HN: 8Tracks for Video. Watch Handcrafted Online Videos.
How I'm gonna save time by not clicking on linkbait.
I use Pngyu ( http://nukesaq88.github.io/Pngyu/) and it gives me the same compression as tinypng.
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I would say they are wrong too. But the PA ad is almost certainly looking for exactly that level of skill, while using words that sound like they are looking for someone who actually knows what they are doing. So when the guy writes a response to it acting like their requirements are absurd, he isn't crazy, he is just getting a different mental picture of the requirements than the PA people had in their head when they wrote it.
It's sad that the only numbers appearing in this article have dollar signs attached to them and that the quotes are all about people's feelings.

This one has some numbers without dollar signs (and of course some with): http://gigaom.com/2013/10/18/how-has-vc-funding-changed-sinc...
I think the author skates between praise and criticism as they are different sides of the same coin--Robert is a great businessman.

I find this type of knee-jerk response to the job posting disappointing. When did we become so sensitive or insecure or helpless that we need to shame this person or this job posting?

It's been said multiple times over in this comments thread that Robert is actually being uniquely transparent, that the candidates who apply have lots of other options and no one is being forced to take this job given those two factors. If this was a Craiglist ad for some deviant act, would we jump on our horse and say, "How dare this person ask someone to do [deviant act]?" No, we'd probably just ignore it because we're adults and we get to make our own decisions. That [deviant act] is not for us.

You can say Robert should follow best practices and be more competitive in his offer, and to some extent, this post does that. But to use colorful and aggressive language, presuming that the founders of Penny Arcade are cashing in "trade show checks" is not productive. Robert isn't breaking any employment laws. The best you can do to show your disapproval as a great developer is to not apply.
Here's a link to a text I think it's worth it (and relevant).

It's a funny account of some 2005 hazy "Open Media" event, written by a photojournalist called Jim Lowne and titled "Party like it's 1999".

Sadly the post is not up on his website anymore, lost to some restructure:

http://pastebin.com/4qvDX9hd
Probably some AdvPNG &al as well, on top of pngquant.
Absolutely, but a real-time indicator of our customers is not something I want to hand over to them.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/09/25/pardon-edward...
US patent law counts as infringement making, selling, or using anything covered by the claims. NewEgg uses SSL with RC4 to secure their connections, the combination of which TQP contends, perform the steps covered by their claims.
This is just too much.
https://findalakethatlookslikeadog.com

Started as a joke among my dev team and we've now sold a few shirts and plan on developing the idea.
Here is some back of napkin analysis:

Starting with this benchmark report: http://www.percona.com/files/white-papers/clustrix-tpcc-mysq...

Basically, InfiniSQL does not currently support complex indices, so it can't do a TPC-like transaction.

The maximum throughput on 9 nodes is 128,114 per node per second. I don't know if that's 4 or 8 core nodes. If roughly 10% of transactions are multi-node transactions, then 12,811/node/s for multi-node, and 115,303/node/s for single-node transactions.

I don't know if full redundancy for Clustrix was configured, or a hot spare, so I don't know how many actual usable nodes were configured, but likely fewer than 9. But I don't know the precise number.

Roughly 10% of those transactions are contain records on multiple nodes. Based on 9 nodes, that means about 12811/node/s for distributed transactions combined with 115303/node/s for single node transactions.

InfiniSQL maxsed at over 530,000 multi-node transactions on 12 x 4-core nodes. http://www.infinisql.org/blog/2013/1112/benchmarking-infinis...

That's 44,167 per node.

---------

These were not apples-apples benchmarks, but Clustrix performed about 12,000 multi-node transactions per node per second, along with a whole bunch more single-node transactions.

I don't know how it would perform on the benchmark I used. And I intend to do a tpcc benchmark once InfiniSQL is capable of complex keys (among whatever else it it currently is missing).
Also they have great support for downloading Youtube videos.
See comment below. Definitely a small database size. You hit the nail on the head. It's going to grow fast this next year, and I'd like to put off sharding as long as possible, hence gzipped storage of the data.

postgis isn't a good fit for the data we store in full fidelity, since it's not just geo data but also sensor data (heartrate, cadence, power in watts, temperature etc). However I'll be storing a point reduced version of the full track in postgis, so i can move to using actual intersection queries for matching tracks, instead of the current brute force approach (check everypoint in every track sharing a bounding box) that works now. All bets are out the window though with 2-4x the traffic and data we currently have, using that brute force approach.

I already run another beefy postgis setup (192gb ram, though spinning disks not SSDs) for serving OSM maps, and eventually OSM routing hence the ram.
I think this is excellent! I loved the original idea behind Pricenomics (I had built some toy side projects exploring the same concept) and have enjoyed the direction change to focus on understanding pricing rather than just returning dumb results with a web scraper.

This announcement ties it all together. Philosophically, it's less important what actual products/services they are outputting, but that they're sticking to their original mission -- discovering the best price for a commodity and sharing it with the world.

While we're on the subject of philosophy and prices, I really liked this ribbonfarm article about bartering that seems relevant, I think you will enjoy it:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/03/16/bargaining-with-your-ri...
But many people are downvoting with their comments.
> When the domain version of the name is available

When did that ever happen?

For every prototype I have build, I (or we in some cases) spend days looking for good name-domain combinations.

In my experience it is a real pain to find a domain worth buying for a specific idea, let alone 3 per day.
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And I assume it's locked to Koodo.
This is a really awesome demo. Great work.

I'd love to see it with different ocean floors to be able to see how waves break in different locations based on certain conditions. Someone please make this happen! :D
"It is not an argument, it is a statement of fact, like saying water is wet."

Oh nonsense. You're ignoring the legal system, which is hilarious, because you're talking about a LEGAL construct.

So yes in your little hypothetical world where copyright exists AND there is no legal system, sure, copyright has no effect and you have no control.

But otherwise, saying "if you publish you lose all control" it's like saying "if you go out in public you lose all control over what happens to you. Mugging... rape... murder... you have zero control".

It ignores the legal system, and your ability to seek punishment or compensation for being wronged under the law.

I don't understand the value of such an asinine hypothetical.

In the real world: you do retain control of what you publish after you publish it.

If you think otherwise: Mickey Mouse would like to have a word with you.
You can. But my point is that as soon as you're using a class as an actual class rather than a struct, you'll probably have both public and private elements and at that point, I'm not sure any of the "advantages" described in the article are still relevant.
I see a lot of articles about how you need to be connected to find some capital and that the decision makers always rely on sergeants for introductions, so I guess the meritocracy soundbite is slowly coming to a rest.

But criticizing SV is still not finding a good way to conduct our life that would make us happy and avoid having a negative impact on the society in the long run. This is a negative feeling.
If they're right, it means the The New York Times has successfully predicted eight of the last two tech bubbles.
Implementing In-App Payments in Your Firefox OS App
NPS is the magic number + 4 other things I learned at Hardware Workshop
I think if more companies actually did that, maybe those IP cases would work differently. This is actually great idea.
Let me be clear...for my own personal projects and works, D3 is the way to go. It makes the most sense for the crazy ideas I have, and from my limited perspective, just seems to be the best API among all viz libraries.

But in the domain of common chart type that areperfectly serviceable, clear, and customizable...there's not much choice. Google Charts seems like an easy win because hey, it's Google. It'll definitely be around for at least a few years, as it seems to be the dogfood tool for Fusion tables and other Google products.

But other than that, there's not much else that seems to be widely adopted. Raphael is more of a visualization library and seems to be going by the wayside after D3. Highcharts, in this context, seems to be an all-out winner compared to Google Charts, and against most of the D3-chart-wrappers that I've seen so far (Rickshaw, nvd3, etc).
If you buy a domain for x and can't resell it for some approximation of x, then you paid too much.
403 I Didn't Buy a Domain
I think I peaked at 5% lock utilization this year, so I haven't seen any real issues.

Our actual track data isn't updated frequently. Mostly it serves as an archive for a user, and is only seen by 1-2 other people. Most people use our service to store all their activities, which for the most part are really boring. They are interested in aggregate metrics like "I've ridden 200 miles this month".

A smaller portion of our data is from planning a route using google maps, which has much more modest storage requirements, since it's optimized data (one point every mile if it's a straight line) instead of 1hz logging from a GPS unit. This stuff is edited, but I'd say only 10% of planned routes are ever modified, so actual updates on the track data are small.
I'd have just made the posts visible to company affiliated people and nobody else.
Figuring out which problems should be solved is a pretty hard problem in itself. Maybe you could ease that pain point somehow?
Fee = $360,000,000 x 0.029 + $.30 = $10,440,000.30
Meh. Everything is moving online. Hype or not, that's what's going on. Snapchat? Well, kids don't watch TV anymore, but those TV ad dollars still exist. There's millions of kids and billions of dollars. Where is that ad money going to go? It's going to go into ad platforms provided by Facebook and Snapchat and Youtube and on and on and away from TBS and CBS and AMC, etc.

Across the board, the money is moving laterally from one offline component of some infrastructure to it's online-only equivalent. It's happening now, and it's happening fast.

The hype is real.
The hoops are also confusing (at least to me). It gives you a few options, but doesn't tell you which option you should choose if you want to keep things the way they currently are...
'New Incognito Window'
4 Organizational Hacks That Helped Us Grow from 4 to 30 People
Too sad they are using "OES_texture_float" extension :( It would be more interesting to see it done with pure WebGL.
Are you not a normal person yourself? Do you not have problems? Go scratch your own itch!

Just yesterday I chewed through a (pretty good) idea for a modern review-oriented site for gear-centric hobbies. As a guitarist and photographer, I read a lot of gear reviews, and the sites that provide them are often horrible to use - 2002-vintage antiques, or ugly and unnavigable, or both. But the hobbyists have well-used forums (awful ones), enough to make a living for some small time businesses.

So the other night, I was researching Japanese kitchen knives, as I'm planning to get my daughter some for Christmas, and butted into the same problem. And I thought, "Wouldn't it be great if someone built a really modern review app and built hobby gear review sites with it?"

I spent a couple of hours poring over the financial model for such a business, and decided it was a bad idea. Running on ad support and waiting for the content to build would be a slow, painful time with a fairly low income ceiling.

But hey, want an idea? There's one. Run with it!
McDonalds' revenue in 2012 was US $27 billion. Dropbox's was US $200 million. Certainly there's a lot of potential upside in Dropbox, but it's risky too - their business could easily be disrupted by unexpected developments. McDonald's is pretty much safe as houses.

So yes, I think the question stands - is Dropbox really worth 10% of McDonalds?
Suuuure... put it back to the way it was earlier. Youtube comments were great then!
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But my point, reinforced by the numbers I gave, is that there is overlap in the distributions between "how good I think I am" for those actually at the bottom and those actually at the top. There may well be other cognitive biases at play.
Since no one has answered you, I'll take a stab. I haven't actually used Docker yet, but I've been lurking extensively. Hopefully someone will correct me if I get this wrong.

A developer will use a Dockerfile to build the main dependencies that you need, and then save an image. Then to deploy code (or other frequently changing data), you pull that base image, add or update whatever else is needed, and save it again. (You can add layers to an image as often as desired.)

Then this saved image is pushed into a production environment. It seems like configuration data is often saved in images, so they require zero configuration. However, you can pass as many command line parameters as desired to run the image in production, so you can keep your configuration separated (like http://12factor.net/config) if you want.
In the dot-com bust, one big problem was that with IPOs average folks were dumping their life savings in companies with no solid business and they got burned. Right now, that's not happening much. Crowd-funding might change that but hopefully it doesn't cause another bubble burst.
Linux Insider: The Graying of the Linux Kernel Community
Well damn, I was just thinking about putting this together last month. Great work
Maybe, with the advent of laptops becoming more popular than desktops, there is just a bigger market for them. Cost is usually due to demand constraints.
I eventually caved and created a G+ page for my "channel". It is annoying how many times YouTube asked, but the result is quite satisfactory. The sharing settings actually seem pretty reasonable to me: whenever I interact with YouTube, Google is very clear about who will see my content (the "Public" icon from G+ is reused when posting a comment, +1s and upvotes are explicitly mentioned as being public, and so on), and having a "page" for my "channel" lets me not use my real name on YouTube, which I irrationally do not want to do. (jrockway is fine. A two-word Real Name is just too damn formal for trolling YouTube.)

Overall I do not think this is such a terrible thing; as someone who used G+ pretty actively before the comment system merge, I do see a lot of relevant comments on YouTube videos I never would have seen before, and since I would probably be sharing the videos I like to G+ anyway, it doesn't bother me that my comments show up in both places.

It would be interesting to invent a time machine, go back in time, and try doing the merge the other way: fold G+ into YouTube. G+ users probably wouldn't be mad, since they already use YouTube, and YouTube users probably wouldn't be mad, since they wouldn't notice anything changing. But whatever, the current version of the integration is fine with me, once you decipher what "page" and "channel" mean.