skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing the comments below., the similar questions could be raised for a even bigger bandwidth beast. Youtube. And imgur is essentially the Youtube of images.

And speaking of profits, 140 Characters is barely generating any revenue despite it would be the only service of its size consuming the least (hosting) resources.

So I guess investors do not see the value in profits rather in popularity when it comes to crazy start-ups. Considering Instagram which got acquired for the ‘notorious’ 1 Billion. If we use the same mathematical formula, I guess imgur is worth at least 2x of Instagram.
Anyone want to help me make TaaS? (Tarsnap as a Service)
Lot of good stuff here: http://www.quora.com/Startup-Founders-and-Entrepreneurs/What...
Thanks for the motivation. Like others have said, it takes a lot of guts to do what you're doing.
> Wow, the acceptance into CMU's CS program is more meaningful than you may realize.

Does mitchellh really seem like the type to downplay accomplishments?
roc is correct and, additionally, remember that part of the reason that you pick up more moisture per second while running is because while running you lean forward - by changing your orientation from the vertical, your cross section relative to the path of the rain increases as well.

whereas with a plane, it's exposing the same cross section to the meteor whether it's flying level at Mach 2 or sitting on a runway.
This sort of comment really annoys me.

First of all, the post is full of constructive, actionable advice. Does the advice seem good? Then that's all that matters! The post stands by itself even without knowing who patio11 is.

Personal attacks like this literally add nothing while at the same time actively stifling future discussions. You should never have a personal attack unless there is a very good, concrete reason for it to be relevant and you're still polite about it. Anything else is simply both rude and unconstructive.

Second of all, he's somebody who both has a successful business in a vaguely similar niche and used to be a successful consultant optimizing others businesses. That is, he was a professional doing exactly this sort of criticism! And people were paying him for it. Because it's extremely useful.
No worries. Sorry we don't have the opportunity to have a more in-depth conversation about it.
I believe Erlang will be supported, so just enlist :)
Neat, I'll need to look into that.
You're correct that foreign tables do not allow explicit index creation (though cstore_fdw does use skip indexes internally), but ANALYZE can ask them for statistics: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-analyze.ht...

cstore_fdw supports ANALYZE so these statistics can indeed be used by the planner; however, the autovacuum daemon doesn't do this automatically for foreign tables, so it's up to the user to decide how often to run ANALYZE on them.
I also appreciate the question. As a follow-up: for anyone that can't afford going, what are some other side events you'd all recommend attending during/after WWDC?
It's just an IDE. Get over it.
I don't like the words you're using to describe the people in your second paragraph, it doesn't sound like a problem with skillsets as we normally think of the word, or culture necessarily, at least the "culture" of workplaces.

It sounds like these people have to be on a short leash, period. It's just that the leash is implicit on site, but has to become explicit in a bad way when they're remote.

Although I do empathize in other contexts (especially the long term unemployed, or those not making it into the job marketplace) the general "skillsets" of working, of "showing up on time", being diligent, properly subordinate to your superiors, etc.
Between Dart at Google, Hack at Facebook, and now Pyston at Dropbox, it's really neat to me that there is a resurgence in interest in language implementations. The field seemed quite moribund through most of the late 1990's, early 2000's.
I have been wishing for the same open source project myself. Just don't have the time to build it :/
Even if they do intend on a changing the screen size, they're not going to let the cat out of the bag at WWDC.

When the iPhone 5 changed the screen size, we heard nothing from Apple besides a very oblique "we have AutoLayout now, use AutoLayout!", which wasn't anywhere close to conclusive about anything.

The push on AutoLayout since iPhone 5 probably also means even less chance Apple will be forced to admit anything during WWDC.
There is no such thing as an unbiased fact...

This is incorrect. Facts do not have bias by definition; only the presentation of a fact can show bias.

If you're showing all of the data you have objectively, you're at least limiting the bias you introduce to what was present in the collection method. It's difficult if not impossible to completely remove bias from the entire process from experiment design to execution to reporting, but that does not mean that bias is somehow intrinsic in data.

Having a point of view is also not the same as making a biased presentation. Stating your point of view (if you have one on the data you're working with, which also is not absolutely guaranteed) is a great way to establish credibility, but the presence of an opinion does not guarantee the presence of bias in presented results.

Telling people you don't have an opinion when you do? Yes, that's lying. So obviously it's not a good thing, particularly in this context. But you're making assumptions here that don't really fly.
I'm not sure any of this would have happened without Miguel. Mono really gave .NET a second life when MS dropped the ball.

It's also somehow satisfying to witness Xamarin's success and further opening of .NET after all the bashing and hating Mono received from the free software community.
Not the OP, but in this context, I think Asian men are meant to feel privileged by virtue of being a) male and b) heavily represented in the tech scene. And yet at the end of the day, Asian men suffer from racial disadvantages that may never be addressed in our lifetime. Hence, there is sort of a cognitive dissonance that develops.
Does Perfect Audience support such testing feature natively? Would be fantastic if I could do that without any configuration on my end.
Show HN: Octobox – Organization for busy minds with the power of Dropbox
Visual Basic 6: The Looming Crisis
I live in SF and operate a startup in the US but almost exclusively work with resources outside of the US. I believe this model, with it's challenges, does work and can work for many business. I also believe that many talented people (right now many of them coming from Eastern Europe and South America) lack the ability to get exposure to opportunities from well funded US (mainly SV) based companies.

That being said, if anyone (mainly front-end UX/UI, iOS, android, rails/django, node, and various MVVC js frameworks) who feel you are talented but aren't getting the right opportunities to work on cool, well-funded projects in the US, feel free to get in touch.
In case others are stumbling across this, http://blog.iconfinder.com/detecting-duplicate-images-using-... was recently featured on HN, using the dhash algorithm, from which I found http://www.pureftpd.org/project/libpuzzle

also related:
http://hackerlabs.org/blog/2012/07/30/organizing-photos-with...
Greenpeace Blimp Buzzes Silicon Valley, Blasts AWS
I like it too. I'm fond of it partly cause I learned how to do plugins and can create myself one if I would want one. Not that I do it often, I just like to have the possibility.
Ok in the interest of harm reduction and informed consent, please please read the following two links if you are thinking about undergoing FMT:

http://thepowerofpoop.com/epatients/fecal-transplant-faqs/

http://thepowerofpoop.com/epatients/is-fecal-transplant-for-...

The biggest medical risk of the procedure involves contracting an illness from your donor, so it is paramount that you properly screen your donor with appropriate tests. (I really, really hope OP did this; otherwise he might have put himself in substantial risk.)

Also note that the effectiveness of FMT for autoimmune disorders has so far been anecdotal and not nearly as robust as for C. difficile infection and, to a lesser extent, IBD/Crohn's disease. Be very aware of the risks and the conjectural/unclear nature of the claimed benefits. As of now clinics in the US only administer the procedure except for C. difficile infection, which is why some patients have resorted to at-home DIY transplantation. Please see the links above for specific guidelines on how to follow the procedure safely, should you decide to proceed.

Also as other posters have repeatedly pointed, the microbiome changes you report are well within variation/assay error and perhaps not as informative as you might expect.
scrypt is a key derivation function, not an encryption algorithm. Tarsnap still uses AES-256 CTR mode for encryption.
I'd much rather hire very good and local to the best and remote. Someone who comes into the office adds so much more to the company besides the work they produce.

They attract other very good people just by virtue of being there. They contribute to things outside their specific job description in ways that a remote person can't (company policies, culture, company direction, leads on customers, etc - often serendipitously). They are frankly worth more in an acquisition scenario because they are more likely to stay with the company. They can grow into senior or leadership roles in a way that a remote person simply can't.

Frankly, I think the best and the brightest is kind of a mythical unicorn anyway. If you keep chasing them, you'll end up passing on a lot of great people.
Thanks for the kind words. I hope others out there in a position to hire have the mentality you do. I was a bit discouraged because it took me about 4 months to find my first job as a dev, and at no point during any of my interviews did anyone care to test if I had the aptitude to learn.
I feel the same way. It reminds me a lot of https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ where they pretty much say that they are server guys and suck at design. I respect that.

And the redesign in the article looks like someone grabbed a free theme and swopped some text and a image.
Indeed. The proposition is "If you finish this work successfully, we will put it in production and you'll get paid for it."

It's hard to get more real in my book.

I do agree it's a hoop (what hiring process doesn't have those, even if it's a mutual trusted friend vouching for them?), if you can't get it done then one or more of us has made a mistake, but....
Retargeting is a pain in the butt, you click on an interview of an actor that happens to be in a women's magazine, and then you get ads for dresses and bikinis for week. You click one popular song, and you're flagged as a teenager.
Getting an invoice is not that hard. Tell Colin once and you get a automated invoice the first of every month...
I think we're all very lucky to have a corporation as innovative, open-minded, and generous as Microsoft. Microsoft is a company that every company should look up to.
@BuckRogers, these two are related somehow. We've definitely benefitted from conversations with the M# people and they've likely benefitted from conversations with us. In fact, Joe Duffy once worked for our humble little .NET team :)
The high speed/slowmow internal shot of the slushie at 120mph:

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/soda-cu...
That makes sense, but doesn't address the OP's other major point: how do you deal with people who either 1) are contractually prohibited from freelancing for you or 2) are too busy with their day job to be able to give an honest effort? Have you ever had a candidate that you suspected would be a good hire but was in that situation? How did you deal with it?
Data show surprisingly young founders in the billion dollars clubs but I'd be interested to see the breakdown of tech/business founders among the 20-24 yo founders
What's even worse , is that your manager is not aware that you are spending the first hours of your day troubleshooting other's problems and answering questions.
In the office environment the junior dev will come to your desk and everyone sees it, in the remote work he will ping you privately because he is too shy to ask it in the general chat...

Allowing only public chats will not help but just pollute the general channel of communication.
I'm not wondering. I fully expected hackernews crowd to be gushingly pro-european. This view is thankfully not echoed in the UK.

It's not about being selfish. It's about democracy and freedom. Imagine laws being created by people who don't even live on the same landmass as you, speak the same language, or know anything about your country or culture. Imagine if Brazil started making laws about what US citizens could do.
"Devices & services"
Azure is your servers and the .net + C# tooling story from dev to deploy makes the question of selling Windows servers in a VM world moot. Many of the moves coming out of this Build seem to point to a world where it's going to be cheaper and easier to pay for all the MS services and tooling than to try to cobble it together with other people and platforms.

We're looking at a lowered on-ramp to .net apps that run more smoothly than java+linux+every-support-tool-bit (dev-wise) across devices (and things). It's compelling.

Everything from dev to deployment and ops is getting touched at this conf. This shows where MS's strengths can present differentiation. Their profit source is, and has been, building/selling tools and platforms for others to run businesses. When the thing people hate becomes more like what they aspire to have/be, the tension is palpable.

Google is about the only other player nearly capable. But Google's mission has far less to do with selling shovels vs. harvesting and monetizing.

Apple is just not in this space. If anything, they sure feel like a device-only company in this conversation. WWDC is about the garden. Build is handing out spades, shovels, and, now, dirt.

Xamarin's Evolve, last year, felt a bit like all this does. The are big things happening. If nothing else, at least it feels like change, if not progress for devs and consumers.
Hi, Kyle.

View through conversions are a metric. They are not a bullshit metric. We know this because we work with thousands of companies and have run lots of "lift tests" to determine incrementality.

Some folks see a big lift, others see a smaller lift.

It depends on your product, funnel, and a host of other factors outside our control as an ad company.

The other annoying thing about the "view through conversions are bullshit" meme is that it implies that all advertising throughout the history of civilization is bullshit. A trip down 101, where several companies with very smart marketers are running billboards shows the fallacy of that. People still buy print ads. Bus ads. Any business that comes from those would also qualify as "view through conversions".

At Perfect Audience we record all the conversions, click and view, and then give you tools to assign a "multiplier" to them based on how much weight you want to give them.

We're rather give you lots of data and easy ways to organize it than offer a black box experience like most of our competitors.
> But let me ask when, if ever, your sister will be able to leave that sequestered environment and enter the real world. Isn't it our goal to take down these barriers and achieve gender equality?

Keep in mind this will be her first experience actually programming. I created an iOS app with her - she drew everything an did the voice overs - but hasn't programmed at all.

I want her to get so excited about coding and making something, that she sticks with it. If she's scared away by her first experience, as many women are, there will continue to be a pretty big inequality in tech.

That's why programs like these are so important. I stick with it because I LOVE what I do now and have the confidence and knowledge to stand up to my coworkers, etc - but it took a lot to get to this point. Having safe support in the early stages is critical.

> I know a secret that I'm going to reveal to you -- that works for men too. But it has the unfortunate side effect of making men intolerant of the presence of women. Do you want that outcome for women?

I work with men all day. I also go to meetups where there are men - going to one tonight b/c there is a great speaker and I will not miss out on the opportunity only because there are men at the meetup. Also going to a tech conference later this month, where there will be men.

However, going to these events takes a lot of effort and work for me - I have to deal with people not taking me seriously, guys potentially hitting on me, having to prove myself, etc. Would be great if guys made some effort too, but most don't. I can only tolerate so much of it.

That said, again, if there is a safe space for women to learn together and discuss issues they're facing, they're more likely to stay in the industry, which makes a more equal society of women and men. And as more women work with men in tech as programmers, the more men learn to tolerate and work with women. As more women are supported by other women, we will venture out and go to the normal meetups, but the women who code meetups are a great safe environment to get started with and keep as a support network throughout our careers.
> If you have no choice but to work or be discarded, then, when the value you can provide via work is less than that required to maintain your life, you have no choice but to attempt to indenture yourself. And failing that, you're truly, completely fucked.

Work or be discarded? Really? Most people have, you know, other people in their lives. Hell, 20% of the country at any given time is children, and they don't work at all. Somehow, miraculously, they aren't just discarded.

The same is true with old people (i.e. parents). This world you imagine is a complete fantasy, and has never, ever, anywhere been the case.
It's great to see M$ embracing open source. If you think Open Source is important, let me know! https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/What-Open-Source-Means-To...
That sounds like a pretty good summary.

From a workload perspective, row-stores are predominant in the OLTP (transactional insert/update) domain. They are also used in OLAP and data warehousing. Still, column stores have benefits when the underlying tables have many columns and the user's running analytic queries over a small subset of those columns.
If anyone compiles this; remember to set your turbo button to off or the timings will be wildly inaccurate.
Wow, you go all out! I've mentored remotely and been mentored remotely with nothing beyond email, text chat and (rarely) phone. I'm not sure how that couldn't be sufficient given all of the open collaborations successfully occurring.

Of course it helps if the junior developer also has a project (or any other tasks) matching their current skill set to work on so issues don't have to be solved in real-time to prevent idle+frustrated engineers.

I've actually had more trouble with local mentoring. It is hard to get people thinking deeply about how something works and how to solve problems when they know an answer is a few grunts away.
Everything in adwords seems designed to dump more money into google than you want to. Ads going to wrong places, "enhanced" campaigns that make it impossible to ignore mobile and tablet traffic, questionable quality score rating, etc. I've had my fill of it. Better to hire a firm to let them handle the mess.
I'm exemplifying
Heh apologies, my fault for trying to be clever, the mechanism I actually use is incremental and deduplicated. I substituted it for tar to simplify.

I actually use ZFS (filesystem), so my backup flow is closer to:

TSTAMP="backup-$(date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")"
zfs snapshot -r $TSTAMP
zfs send $TSTAMP | \
xz -z | \
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -salt | \
> /mnt/your/networked/google/drive/backup.$(hostname -a).$TSTAMP.aes.tar.xz

The underyling ZFS filesystem is deduplicated at filesystem level, and snapshots are incremental. THere're a few other minor differences (the dest is another ZFS host which syncs to Google drive, and I nuke the local snapshot after send because RAID 1+0 space is more expensive than RAID1 .. )
Psychedelics are certainly not drugs in the antibiotic sense; they don't seek out depression-causing neurons and cure them or anything remotely like that.

Rather, psychedelic drugs offer a means for the user to "get out of their head" for a bit. In the right set and setting, the experience offers an opportunity for intense introspection. “Psychedelics probably work in addiction by making the brain function more chaotically for a period — a bit like shaking up a snow globe — weakening reinforced brain connections and dynamics.” It is the experience, not the drug, which causes a fundamental shift in attitude/mindset/worldview, and that is what "cures" the illness.
Yes, but I think that's misunderstood.

Mona and Nate were simply writing an article to educated the populace that NY is not an outlier in women in tech. In face, they specifically use the term "Gender Balance".

No facts were brought up about communities trying hard to teach more women in tech (such as Rails Girls) or any mention of inequality.

I'd also be willing to lay out a prediction that communities with lower than 50k computer jobs have 85%+ men. SF, NY, Boston, and other tech hubs are attractive areas for women to work.
A Password hashing scheme
But considering GvR works for Dropbox and tweeted this out a few minutes back, they do have his backing.
> In previous generations, nursing was a non-degreed (diploma) profession. It shifted to BA/BS-required in the 70's and 80's

AFAIK, LPN/LVN programs generally do not require any degree, and at least some RN programs do not require a bachelor's degree (though the RN does require at least an associate's degree.)
Actually, meant to imply that your claim is your opinion & the debate on that is another can of worms. I actually found your comment quite insightful. I was hoping to get your opinion or those of others here about whether a world with more free time is necessarily "better" than one where people toil (perhaps needlessly) but are "happier".

People imposing their views on others inherently implies they think they are better and smarter than the other, and in general I have found reason to distrust such people. Not saying you are such a person, but I assumed you might agree that your viewpoint of life is meaningless is absolute or the "truth" just as the inverse is not. Most smart people can/should determine that themselves. My comment was not meant to be an ad hominem attack, apologies if it came off that way.
> largely due to a very tolerant reddit admin team.

... and a very tolerant reddit user base.

Even though direct links to images are available, many people share the imgur page link instead (with the intention of helping imgur show more ads)
The .NET VM would be pretty much useless on other platforms. It is tied to Windows and it would be pretty hard to rewrite. But standard libraries would be different story.
Their description does not suggest they don't understand how PyPy works, but rather they don't think they can tackle the yet unsolved failure modes (blowup, etc) of trace compilation.

They approach they're describing is one that already works in V8, JScore, and IonMonkey, which is to mix type prediction, type analysis, and runtime handling of unexpected cases. Basically, you use type feedback information to get an initial set of types for a method, use type inference techniques to squeeze out type checks, and then compile the method in a way that handles the expected types in a fast path and traps into a slow path as necessary.
Dart and Hack are new languages, not new implementations of an existing language. Pyston seems like a new VM for Python (more comparable to HHVM, PyPy and V8).
Ha those evaluation website tools are worthless BTW.

I would suggest posting it on dnforum.com. There are some knowledgeable members there and they may be able to give you a better estimate on it's worth.