skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With this kind of architecture, do you risk reaching a feedback loop where too many queries overload the DB and slow it down (especially given how MongoDB delegates caching to the OS), causing more messages to accumulate, increasing pressure on both the application server & the DB, leading to a full-on thrashy death spiral? Or is this mitigated somehow? Basically, what's the failure mode when usage spikes more than anticipated?
Most 'mental illness' is completely unrelated to 'likely to go on a killing spree' and this kind of ignorant crap supports exactly the kind of stigma that prevents people getting help.
I actually did this policy to get one of my apps in the store. As more people eventually use it (and presumably good reviews roll in), I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed.

On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of apple having editorial review over apps for being too simple. The only app which I feel might be too simple is an additional fart or flashlight app. And I'm still inclined to let those be distributed in some way (if not directly through the app store process).
I think I'm seeing some people here upset with the possibly deal because service already sucks (for both companies).

If that's how you feel, then this deal is good. One large company can be taken down much easier than two large companies. Just one less competitor Google Fiber (and other up-and-comers) have to deal with.

The part that irks me is that Comcast will own everything from the content, network all the way down to the subscribers. It just doesn't feel right that one company has that much power.

But then again, as a business owner, controlling your own destiny is your utopia.
The HN circlejerk in full swing.
I wish i'd seen this a week ago, because I'd love to talk you out of the idea that your intended market is in fact any different than any of the other markets out there.

Many if not most of the other event services out there started out doing something different, some twist on the basic premise. Without fail one of two things happens: they go out of business, or they shift their business strategy to the market standard of taking a small slice of the ticket price at what has become the industry standard $1 + 2%, give or take a bit. Meetup is the only successful site that is doing something different pricing-wise, and I just don't think there's room in the market for another one.

I hope you're successful, and if you are, contact me (address is in my profile), but the total addressable market is a lot smaller than you probably think it is, and its incredibly competitive. Don't shy away from the pivot.
Police. Judicial system (all levels). Penal system. That's a good start.
To be fair, this email has been reposted on HN many, many times, usually when Linus makes an appearance on the front page.
The world _needs_ more people like them- not just because of what they've built, but because of their approach to it and that sheer brutish honesty of opinions.
I disagree, you don't need to say anything derogatory about Apple but saying that it is a blessing in disguise that Apple didn't let you into their walled garden when you have a much larger and open playground in Android is a very productive response.
Apple is curating a ten billion dollar marketplace [1].

Apple will error on the side of maintaining the overall quality of the entire Application selection, even if it means many very worthwhile applications are rejected.

I sympathize with huemanapp's developers, but they must realize they are competing for "virtual shelf space." I say to them; keep plugging away and good luck.

[1] https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/01/07App-Store-Sales-T...
>That doesn't mean you can arbitrarily set the price high.

You can if you corner the market and the good is required like food is.
rdl was talking about buildings in the peninsula & south bay, not in SF.
And if you notice, the URLs are different. It would be kind of you to not assume that everyone reads every comment. :)
Sorry, I may be missing something; I don't understand how this addresses the correlation vs. causality problem.

If they're tracking two measurements, and observing a correlation, "people who get obese stop eating full fat yoghurt" needs to be ruled out of the effect, somehow.
I was addressing chimeracoder's point about vertical integration. There might be tons of Android manufactures peddling phones, but Apple and Samsung are eating up all the profits because they are verticicaly integrated. That's the major play Comcast is making.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this coming soon to wireless. Imagine movie caching servers integrated into the backhaul network instead of going over the public internet. The improvement in QoS would make being a Netflix type entity untenable.
Technical debt comes down to the ideology of "make it work, then make it right".

Every time I make a technical decision, I ask myself how much debt am I taking on if I skip the "make it right" part. And what am I gaining from skipping that step?

I think the CEO's, CTO's, product managers, mid managers and lead devs all know they are taking on debt (if it has been communicated to them properly), they simply make what looks like the best decision at the time as far as the business goals are concerned.

- The debt can be hidden until, its to late. How many times have you thought, this code is duck tapped from top to bottom and on release its fine? On the other hand how many times do you think code is bullet proof only for it to fail once it hits real world use cases?

Technical debt is a risk vs reward equilibrium and everyone uses their best judgement to decide how much they want to borrow (unless they are ignorant to the the fact that they are taking on debt).

As the author mentions, in the context of a startup taking on technical debt. Its much less risky.

On one side of the equilibrium we have, "build a polished product that no one wants" then on the other side we have "release a buggy MVP, that will drive early adopters away forever".

I would rather save time and get a MVP out ASAP, after that deciding if its beneficial to pay off the MVP debt or to keep iterating faster and release a 2.0.
> we are also way above it already

Are you sure about that?
A unit like the Behmor comes with an after burner to burn the excess smoke. So you can home roast without the hassle these days.

A project like this is fun if you also enjoy the tinkering, but given the markup on roasted beans, spending money on an appliance is very economical.
An Amazing Web IDE For Web Development
Maybe I play too much Dota, but my first thought was to report this player as toxic. I've learned that if you treat your team members with respect they are more likely to contribute and return the respect. Conversely, if you are toxic to them, you might still win, but it won't be as fun :/.
Can we get a god damn amendment to the constitution that enforced net neutrality and prohibits ISPs from doing anything but being ISPs, already?! The net is part of the infrastructure of our country and needs to be neutral! Anyone who fucks with that should be charged with terrorism.
Yes. I can see what you mean.

I can absolutely see why Apple would reject an app like this, with such quality apps that are -not- “too simple”. For example: http://imgur.com/8N9GS6g
Read the last line.

The one starting with the words I think. I was just pointing out what the OP meant.

In other words, don't address your comment to me. I'm on your side.
I've published apps that were simpler than "Hello World" for iOS, if this is any indication:

http://www.appcoda.com/hello-world-app-using-xcode-5-xib/
I'm not. I wish.
a) Cloned products of a smaller retailer, and then

b) Cloned the style and branding of the packaging too, and then

c) Used a registered trademark all over the product descriptions for those cloned products

Wait, what? The court case I read about involved third parties listing products in Amazon's catalogue. Amazon didn't create any products at all.
Utility (general), which I believe ~ electric co's, spends $31 billion. Absolute numbers don't tell you anything; maintaining even a completely static infrastructure costs something.
One big problem is that the SF bay is shallow and there's a lot of silt built up in the areas where startups would want stops.
Cable and Internet suck in American The Land of Free. I have TV Box from comcast which I have not switched on for year because it is absolute shit. It plays may be 10-15 channels and for any good channel I need to shell in so much money.

I am 100% sure that someone like Google will shark behind these people and drive them out of business.
Why give them access to your account at all?

I did this with Facebook eons ago and they just kept the data and it haunted me for years. No, I don't want to add people I removed from my address book years ago.
Rand Paul to sue Obama administration over NSA
I have never had a LinkedIn and I just counted 213 LinkedIn messages in my gmail account (yes, I am horrible at deleting emails). Their email spamming has turned me off to ever trying LinkedIn.

Do people actually find LinkedIn useful anyway? Everyone I know has an account, but I have never actually met a person who has found a job through using the site.
I would like to counter this advice by saying that I don't think acquiescing to the whims of walled garden rulers is the best solution. If your vision was to create what you have already created, how could you modify it to a product that you think is worse for your users because its what Apple wants? It pains me just reading suggestions about implementing these tacked on functions.
I don't think that's the approach Apple is trying to foster. You will turn a simple app into a shitty app.
Beanie Babies Website Hasn't Changed Since 1996
No, I think psychology has medicalized a range of normal emotions and behaviors, like sadness and anger for example, and that there is not necessarily any such disease as depression. I know that's not PC and some may find that shocking, but it's pretty plausible when you look at the history of psychology.

Since I've already crossed the PC/shocking line... It's amazing the similarities between SSRI's and lobotomy. The mechanism of action isn't fully understood, yet some people are improved, and some people are made worse, and everyone has side effects. It was considered a breakthrough at first, then followed by controversy as people began to question the mechanism of action, the ethics of forced surgery (forced drugging) etc.
You're correct Denis, our developer page purely speaks to the "get templates out of source code" value prop -- maybe a mistake, but it was something we were testing today :)
You said "what little infrastructure investment they do make" which is directly contradicted by the enormous infrastructure investments they make. Also, electric companies are in the middle of a huge push to replace aging coal plants with gas and renewables. There is a ton of value being added in that sector right now.
Yeah sure, just trying to peel back the layers and have an honest conversation without getting bogged down by layers of social niceties intended to minimize my singular interesting attribute.

> Holmesian as it gets

Yeah, it wasn't a great example, just sprung to mind. But I think you got the basic gist of how it works. I think the difference is that Holmes deduces his conclusions by following clues, but Groundhog Day aggregates information to find patterns...which can then be used to make deductive guesses. I guess it's more of an inductive approach at the beginning.

> Do you find that this comes easily to you?

If I don't put effort into turning it off, which I do most of the time these days because I associate doing it with bad feelings, it's just part of the normal process my brain goes through when I'm getting to know somebody. So about as much effort as having a bunch of conversations and remembering a few things. I have a terrible memory so I have to spend some effort reinforcing a few key facts. But I can then usually derive the rest with reasonable accuracy without having to remember it all.

Why remember things when I can just figure them out each time?

It's actually part of the classic "gifted curse" I personally deal with. I never really bothered to learn good memorization techniques because I can usually figure things out from the few kernels I do remember. But when topics get too complex, or I'm just outright missing data, the jenga pile falls over and I'm rather lost.

I'm also slightly dyscalculic and dyslexic (took a few tests and everything for formal and second diagnoses), which provides their own sets of challenges -- this is surprisingly common among the very gifted, but we usually "solve" it ourselves internally and thus the research on it is pitifully poor. I didn't personally find out about it conclusively till I was well into my mid-twenties, though some early childhood tests raised the possibility.
Can you elaborate? I don't understand this perspective.
Net Cap Ex / Sales = 0.05% ?

I was going to ask what revenue they were bringing in with that CapEx. Am I right in thinking this means they're bringin in $34,000 million from sales and spending only $17 million on infrastructure. That doesn't look like "a lot of money" in relative terms - I must be misreading those figures?
I remember my first day on the internet as well. Complaining about linkedin has become as passe as getting upset when paypal freeze your account.
And then what?

You think Standard Oil is going to be repeated?

Not a chance. The Republican Party/side of the country would probably be more likely to rebel at the idea of such “government interference in the private sector”, especially on such a grand scale.
Fair question. Obviously that recommendation was supposed to be taken alongside the other recommendations about not touching too many records, so, yeah 'SELECT *' is probably not good.

What I meant here is thinking about making your publication queries simpler when designing your data models.

For instance, sometimes using denormalization you can use a simple equality selector rather than some more complex mongo selector. Mongo makes it possible to avoid the denormalization, but it might bite you as it means Meteor can't do a bunch of short-circuits that it might otherwise do on a simpler query.
This isn;t a great app if you want to reduce eye strain.
Hey Christian, valid feedback. As a product/business scales, small problems of modifying templates (and AB testing, etc) get magnified, and in house solutions don't scale.
I suspect that if anyone at GitHub cares, they are chalking up '__pThrow will never work for us' as another benefit of putting on this workshop. It's a convenient signalling device, which not only achieves something they value, but advertises their culture and helps prospective employees know whether or not they'd be a 'good culture fit' and self cull. Pretty impressive of them!
you can demonstrate your skills actually! just make something!
Comcast has a huge advantage owning the pipes into my house, but they squander it. Rather than provide services, they become highway robbers on their own toll road. Comcast could have been netflix, akamai and so much more years ago. So tell me how they don't have advantage?
I think that Ward Cunninghams methaphor should stand like he intended it to be.

Other factors like the number of developers is external:
There can really just be one facit to the problem domain, so there may be varying levels of technical debt throughout the codebase of a project, correlating to the members understanding. It is as simple as that.

The knowledge about frameworks, may also be viewed as plain technical debt, as this goes under the quality of how you solve your problem, or - it may be viewed as an external factor, and it is taken for granted that you use the frameworks, or have any necessary non - problem domain knowledge to solve your problem.

I think it is better to view it like that, than starting to complicate a metaphor that was good to begin with.
I've never understood why people do not track technical debt in the same way that we track bugs and other issues. At least that way you can report to management the increase in debt, and the ratio between the amount of debt and the time to fix bugs.
Android's 'Open' System Has Limits
I think the grandparent is saying we need a new law to replace the current one.

The courts having upheld a decision on what the current law says doesn't really preclude the passing of a new law - the only time court decisions trump legislation is when the Constitution comes into play.
This.

There is a rejection appeal process. Use it.

Of all big companies, Apple should be amenable to a straightforward explanation that sometimes simplicity is the right design, and that "adding features for the sake of adding features" is wrong.
For what it's worth, I have released about 50 apps into the App Store and observed how difficult it is to get organic downloads every time. But, 1 of my 50 apps (Bloody Knuckles) for whatever reason absolutely blew up - it got 10K downloads the first day and rose to #2 overall in about 4 days with absolutely no promotion of any kind. Based on my experience, I definitely know that it's possible to have a right place/right time/right game/right app name/icon etc. experience like that and I don't think Flappy Bird's creator did anything to hack the system. Just my $0.02.
I'm sorry you cannot feel compassion or empathy for your brother. From personal experience, it makes it much easier if not understandable.
> In recent years, the gifted community talks a lot about "social and emotional needs of the gifted."

Thanks, it's good to know. Better communication mediums have certainly helped us find each other.

Pre-Internet was terribly terribly lonely for me. But it's getting better. I've found little help in groups or associations (MENSA, Triple 9, etc.), preferring to find individuals one at a time.

Places like HN aren't a bad place to find other "outcasts".
I'm not sure what that column means, but the capex column is in thousands. So $17 billion.
I actually really like the concept of relating your happiness in a binary fashion on a day to day basis relative to the previous day. With each previous day forming a control the results can be dynamic and very in a range far greater than 1 to 10.
Know when you can brute-force your way out of a problem.
Robert Reich: America has forgotten its 3 biggest economic lessons
A Single Phishing Email is the cause of Target’s Massive Data Breach
This would be a really interesting experiment. Measure downlink speeds over a fully VPNd connection.
As someone who's planning to return to school as a grad student this fall, this article is very unsettling. I've never seen a therapist or sought the help of mental health professionals in the past, and while I've had periods of time where I felt some symptoms of depression I don't know if it was comparable to any of these experiences described. However, I know that graduate school is a high-stress environment for anyone, and I'm concerned at the notion that any potential issues I might end up having in the future could have such consequences were I to seek help or therapy.

If anyone here has experience in such matters, what should I know to be able to get any help or therapy that's needed, without risking this sort of punishment for something out of one's control? Is the solution to only seek non-student-health sources of mental health treatment, ones that in some way can't report back?
I can't stand it anymore! Why are we prosecuting these people instead of Comcast who is on a course to destroy our infrastructure? Of course I know the answer. I just can't deal with it anymore. I will just stop reading any news.
China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover 'could be saved
I played a game like this when I was in school around 1990.

I think we had a game like this on BBC Micros
I had an app released one month ago, a simple wrapper around webview, and 1 page only. Went through well.
America in general flunks mental health.
SCTP deployment stalled when NAT boxes took over the internet. Also it was originally from the telco world and didn't have a lot of cheerleaders among internet applications people.

There's now an incarnation tunneled over UDP that's used in WebRTC. But tunneling rtp on dtls on sctp on udp sounds like a real protocol christmas tree...
Sometimes I think I would do it for no promotion.
It's definitely a concern, but I think it's mitigated somewhat by the oplog-tailing approach. Writes go straight into Mongo, as usual, it's just reads from the oplog that potentially tie up resources on the webserver.

Those reads are throttled, so I think the net result of too many writes is just a choked up webserver, and slow "realtime". Potentially a future architecture moves the oplog processor onto it's own server and the effect is isolated to the realtime part.
Show HN: pydweet, a python client library for dweet.io
Ask HN: Why was my post lynched?
i posted- "Never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand? -Linus (marc.info)" half an hour back on HN. This was my first post here. It was flagged dead within a minute because a certain gentleman assumed that i had waded through his comments yesterday and had 'stolen' the post from there.

This is for him and his mob-

i'll tell you how i arrived at it. i read this post that trended yesterday-

33. Curse Of The Gifted (2000) (vanadac.com)
594 points by luu 1 day ago | flag | 340 comments

And then i started reading mail archives of the kernel-devel.

>> "Maybe I play too much Dota, but my first thought was to report this player as toxic. I've learned that if you treat your team members with respect they are more likely to contribute and return the respect. Conversely, if you are toxic to them, you might still win, but it won't be as fun :/."

As someone did point out there, don't play so much Dota that you start assuming toxicity around. i respect forums and the need of quality control, but shoving the read-EVERY-post-comment-and-thread-before-you-post is nothing more than self-righteous fundamentalism. You and your friends who flagged the post dead within a minute would've had a defense if you allowed me to put up my side of the story before mobbing me.
Well, if you thought internet plans and prices suck now...
Stay Tuned.
Do the bookmarklets execute in the context of the page?
The biggest issue is that this will mean that people who need help will likely now not seek it at all, for fear that the college will eject them from campus!

Ironically, these colleges are where you study to be a psychiatrist.
Recipe: "Volumetric Explosion for Two"
It can worsen (or improve) with age or biology. If you can, it could be worth finding a doctor you trust and talking to them about it, and try to determine whether it needs to be addressed or not.
I wonder if torrent/p2p would be a viable business model for Netflix. Think about it : they have a massive install base inside comcast where they can run programs and on most such programs they can run code, and store data.

Solution seems obvious.
The CEO of a company I worked for did this by accident: Invited all of his contact. Let me tell you, all the underlings and vendors were so excited to get an invitation from the CEO. His linked in profile exploded. I was tasked with trying to uninvite the 500 or so people that hadn't accepted in the first few hours! I eventually told him it was no big deal. LinkedIn isn't very personal, it's mostly image.
>"cross your fingers you find a reviewer who isn't a dipshit"

Now there's the kind of sentiment you can feel comfortable building a business on!
It's good that it's coming from a govt lab and not some crackpot.

Hopefully results will get duplicated!
Sendwithus is for your transactional/triggered email you're sending through Mailgun; a signup or notification email. At a basic level, get your product email out of your source code, and get the benefits of a dedicated templating product.
I never thought I would see the day. Best wishes Ian, no matter what path you take.