skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities publish degree announcements by the tens of thousands for commencement and often on their websites so I don't think it's a closely-held secret.
There are a lot of interesting benchmarks to run - updates, deletes, different concurrent loads, different indexing schemes, a variety of row sizes and variable column sizes, etc. Right now it's only three of us, and it's only been a little over two months. We're really looking forward to running all of these benchmarks (along with TPC and iiBench), but there is only so much we can do with a limited amount of time.

One thing we're finding is that people are skeptical by default. In retrospect, we probably should have expected this given the amount of false advertisement, magic bullets, and vaporware out there. We're not offering magic bullets - we're simply optimizing for modern hardware and modern workloads as opposed to 1970 hardware and database usage patterns. We'll be posting more benchmark results and detailed explanations of how RethinkDB works to win your confidence. We're not trying to trick you. What's the point? Eventually everyone would find out and the house of cards would collapse anyway. We just have only 24 hours in a day (btw, if anyone has a device to solve this problem, we'd love to beta test it!)
No, It'd be the third. :)
These are really troubling assertions. However, I went over and took a look at data.gov, which is the first project under the fed CTO's office and it is really impressive. I am troubled and impressed. Regardless, Vivek Kundra should address the points brought up in this blog.
Surely there is a way to let scripts actually make money, and for that money to be donated. A distributed computing app could work that angle to get good will.
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And y dont u guys advertise..

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Another article says its last known contact with the ship was off the coast of France headed toward Africa.
Why is he talking about 'terabytes of source data' then? If they're procedurally generated, then stored and rendered, they "are that large". Maybe I'm missing something.

[edit: also he talks about the workflow the artists use -- they are working with large images as well -- doesn't sound procedural, particularly]
I have mixed feelings upon reading this.

On one hand I want to say Thank you, John, for the kind of muchraking we need now more than ever. I sure hope this goes somewhere.

On the other hand, I have no problem busting my butt for thousands in hopes of millions. Until I realize how dishonest posers steal the key to billions without doing any work at all.

Knowing that this sort of thing goes on all the time doesn't diminish the anger that comes from reading about it.
Why do they insist in calling it "a disorder"? do extroverts suggest we need to be cured or something? I want my Asperger’s pride parade. Aspies of the world, unite! ;)
To the people talking about alcohol: it has a well-known disruptive effect on the second half of the sleep cycle. It makes you wake up earlier with less REM sleep. (For example, http://www.websciences.org/cftemplate/NAPS/archives/indiv.cf...)
For that matter, why not work at home?

When I worked at coffee shops a few days a week (or a month), I went specifically to get some new background noise and new background scenery.

Although, I suppose a library offers even fewer distractions than home does, and you do have to wear pants.
I click the link and get "504 Gateway Time-Out".
anyone would be able to see that the claimed improvement is well within stddev.

You appear to know words associated with statistics, but treat them as if they were magic incantations utterly disassociated from actual math.

I'll bite: what is the standard deviation in that example. I'm looking for a two part answer: a) a number, b) what the number is measuring.

Let me be intellectually honest with you: there is no basis for assuming that an improvement from 2.0% conversion to 2.6% conversion is not statistically significant.

You need sample sizes to even attempt to do the math. For example, try doing a chi-squared test on 100,000 people converting at 2% versus 5,000 converting at 2.6%.

I'm thinking you'll find that you reject the "just as awful" hypothesis with over 99% certainty.
I love working at the Georgia Tech library. Open 24/7 during the business week and it's nice and quite. It's one of the greatest perks of going to Georgia Tech for me.
Multiple appointments had tax evasion issues. This type of thing seems fairly common, which is of course horrifying.
Actually, I get plenty of overlap on my FB and Twitter accounts.
Don't worry, citizen. It's only those Koran-memorizing terrorists who have something to fear. You are quite safe. Go back to sleep.
Unfortunately, unions strongly oppose Teach for America: "Teach for America -- the privately funded program that sends college grads into America's poorest school districts for two years -- received 35,000 applications this year, up 42% from 2008. ... Union and bureaucratic opposition is so strong that Teach for America is allotted a mere 3,800 teaching slots nationwide" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124061253951954349.html
Vivek Kundra should definitively address these allegations.
For Princeton architectures, anyway :P
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Microprocessor_Design/Computer_...
This isn't the first software patent it's "The First Pure Software Patent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_S...
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On the trademark chasing thing: and not chasing Twitterholic etc. I'd call that fair enough: Twitterholic is a neat, non offensive service that plays by Twitters rules. On the other hand MyTwitterButler is something Twitter might not want to be associated with.

I dont know: I think it's fair to use your trademark power in that case?
I agree with an prior poster. Kundra's credentials, even if not phony, are terribly underwhelming. Why on earth did the Obama administration not choose from among the tens of people in the US who are much more recognized and accomplished ?
Edit: Well, I totally misinterpreted what the author meant by "work at". This'll teach me to RTFA I guess.

FWIW, GT's library does rock. They have quiet area as well as group areas and a great set of workstations as well. The only thing missing is a decent coffee machine.
Can somebody please explain to me what a "business coach" really does, and how one qualifies for that position?

Not trying to be smug, i'm genuinely curious...
Flash developer here. Actionscript is actually extremely similar to Javascript -- it's ECMAscript with adornments. The problems with "Javascript" are actually problems with the DOM. Actionscript programmers should be very comfortable with Javascript; but programmers accustomed to the sane APIs of AS3 and Flex naturally recoil from the seething pestilence of browser and library compatibility issues that characterizes AJAX development.
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Thanks. 1 down, 53 to go.
Bots might work in the short run, but in the long run it just reduces the amount that advertisers are willing to pay. Dumb idea.

FreeRice is awesome though. If I'm killing time with a game online, it might as well be one that improves my French vocabulary or geography. Not to mention that it supports a good cause, even if my individual "donation" is small.
This makes sense with how I feel when I go to classes.

Whenever I sit in the back, I always struggle much more to pay attention, even when the lecturer is good.
I hear really good things about Mixpanel
Just worked at the Library yesterday. Hearing a few kids laughing and looking at books is WAY better than hearing the espresso machine chatter from people in line.
Places like Starbucks and Borders charge for Wi-Fi access

Not entirely true. Borders is probably the only place I know that still charges for wifi. Everywhere else it is either free or you get two hours free by entering some kind of code.
These numbers are 4x as slow as Keyspace[1] with fast spinning drives as Keyspace can do 100,000 inserts/sec. Keyspace currently uses BDB as the backend, so this is basically a statement about BDB performance.

I'm curious, where does the Mysql/RethinkDB take this performance hit, or is this just a totally different benchmark?

Keyspace is a KV-store, but this shouldn't be a big deal, as a rowstore also inserts into a single btree as long as there are no secondary indices (A KV store inserts a K+V whereas a rowstore C1+C2..Cn.) Keyspace groups inserts into transactions of size ~1M in the benchmark I'm referring to. Are you inserting one row per transaction/sync here, or what's the deal?

[1] http://scalien.com/keyspace
Hi folks. I am conducting an experiment (this is phase 2) and need about 50 downvotes. Would you please downvote this post?
I doubt it. Baseball is declining in relative popularity as a sport, and collectible cards that are also games, like pokemon and magic, are just more fun.
The National Student Clearinghouse collects this information and makes it available to anyone with a credit card about about $5 ~ $8 to spend.

http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/secure_area/DegreeVerify...
I don't think that Microsoft likes IE6 any more than you do. They're just obligated to support it by their customers.
A college PE class, called "individual fitness".

For someone starting out, I'd recommend looking into a store where they are serious about running shoes: I have in mind ones in the Washington, DC, area--Racquet & Jog, the Adams-Morgan Fleet Feet, Pacers--but I've seen comparable ones in Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Such stores will have knowledgeable sales staff and often will offer training programs pointing toward some races.
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How many studies have there been of the actual teaching competence (as contrasted with the higher education credentials) of Teach for America teachers? Harvard's admission selection is stringent enough that I could well believe that ANY Harvard graduate in any major can determine the area of a rectangle. But, in general, how many of the graduates of Ivy League universities who go into Teach for America are the graduates who had a strong math background at university? There are some very non-quantitative majors at some of those universities, after all.

Note that I think anyone in Teach for America is probably generally smarter than a random graduate of a teacher training college, but I'm still not sure if every Teach for America teacher without exception has a profound understanding of fundamental mathematics.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/fall99/ame...
I do exercise, but not as much as I'd like to. Half the trouble is finding time in a busy day when I still think of myself as horribly unfit (I recently lost 70 pounds and am a lot fitter than I used to be!).

One of the first things I tried to get my body clock sorted out was morning gym sessions, but I just couldn't afford the time or subscription cost.
Best Buy has second thoughts about selling me a high-end HDTV for $9.99.
Yes, but starting the application is done via a non-X means (typically SSH listening) before the app then seeks a listening display to connect to.
I'd say that "off the coast of Sweden" is -in- and not "near" Europe.
Here are three personal reasons:

1) It is good to be in an environment where others are hard at work because you'll be less likely to screw around.

2) It feels like you are doing something fun (you are "out") and at the same time working hard.

3) Home can be quite distracting unless you are fortunate enough to have a large house with a nice office.
Evdawg: That title was an intentional mockery.
I don't have any downvotes. How about an upvote? :P
For me it's the blenders that drive me insane. I don't mind some background chatter and often listen to music anyway, but those damn blenders cut through earpieces and drive me a bit mad.

Still, I do enjoy it from time to time as a change of pace. Mostly I've started working at our local co-working place in Rochester - unlimited coffee, no worries about leaving your laptop if you need to run an errand, etc.
I don't like how the numbers on GA don't jive with my server logs.

If that is going to get under your skin, analytics is going to cause you a lot of mental anguish.

I use CrazyEgg, Clicky, Mixpanel, GA, and some homebrew stuff. The great thing about tracking things five ways is you get five chances to get the number you want ;)
That really isn't what I was trying to convey. The idea was that Twitter needs to be decentralized and we need services to do that. Like any open alternative to something popular and closed, it will take time to get going, but this can be just as user friendly as Twitter - there is just the option for people to host it themselves, essentially
Err, all the advanced database work, and we screwed up PHP. We redirected it to a mirror for the time being.
Why can't you use the chair for both?
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Yea. luckily I only have 7.
Oh, well, if they're licensed not to be a rapist then it's all good. ;-)
I tried trolling. Got me upvoted. :-(

The big problem is I like HN and I would never troll at Slashdot or Techcrunch aggression levels.
Starbucks has a pretty annoying card registration thing, but once you do that, the internet is usually hassle-free. Also, even though everyone seems to cite this two hour limit (I have too), in practice I've never seen my internet connection actually expire--and I spend a good amount of time in Starbucks. Headed to one right now, in fact...
No! Downvote, not upvote!
The feedback on this has been great. We'll figure something out so that it doesn't feel like a bait-and-switch. Maybe we'll change the button to say "log in and run report" or something for logged out users.
I've found that the quietest library on my campus is the Law library. Very few undergrad groups studying there (which is usually what causes noise I've found).
Little do your female friends know that the only reason that woman is with me is because I have the antidote.
Awesome feature suggestions. Thanks. I really like the live/chat deal. The email a report feature is already on our list. For the time being you can just export it as CSV or PDF.
> I've been thinking and the idea sounds good.

I think the idea is bad.

1. Shoveling ads down your visitors throats is a sure way to drive them away. Consider how Google does it - they display ads unobtrusively, in a way that helps you. If they were forcing you to read through the ads before showing the search results, do you think they'd be where they are now ?

2. Consider the artists. They need to be desperate to have their work preceded by 20 seconds of diaper commercials. I realize you can play relevant ads, but these might be very hard to come by. There's lot more Poker and insurance ads than those of high-end speakerphones and such.

3. In the light of #2 - desperate artists aren't probably be the source of an awesome material, so the quality of your site content is probably going to be low. Additionally the artist churn rate is probably going to be high and you will end up with stale material.

In general an easy way to validate an idea is to imagine that you are past the initial growth stage and now are at the stable operational state. Who are your contributors, users and advertisers ? Is their combination realistic and stable ? In your case it's neither, so the idea is not viable.
Grumpy, I would say. Did we overlook the part where Atwood helps run Stackoverflow which is entirely powered by user generated content?

I think Jeff raises a good question, but unfortunately uses a bit of a hysterical headline.
Also a little dodgy, but from Vestry Street, Halifax Nova Scotia Canada: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/95214342/in/set-7215760...

Dodgy because I had a few books out from the library that I arranged artfully.
Why are all of their data centers in the US?
It's strange that he listed "Phone calls" as one of the reasons he loves working at the library. If you read the explanation, it's a wash in terms of coffee house v. library in this category.

One downside of the library is that it's often not convenient to grab a cup of coffee or snack. The main branch in SF has a cafe, but it's way in the basement. The Chinatown branch doesn't have any food or drinks.
You can get 100,000 ops/sec out of BDB even in transactional mode (MemcacheDB uses BDB), look at the various BDB flags. Also, when storing larger values, you should increase the BDB pageSize parameter (default: 4096 bytes), otherwise BDB will allocate external pages (default: if key+value is larger than 1007 bytes) and you will experience severe performance degradation.

Also, the Keyspace KV store can do ~100,000 ops/sec as described in hour whitepaper at http://scalien.com/whitepapers
have you not been paying attention lately? a comment's score is not allowed to go below -4. so you'd need to have people downvote quite a few more comments than just this one.
Alternatively smart people and/or hard working people make more money, they also tend to take "hard" courses such as advanced math while in highschool.

No causation required.
You guys did look at the faq before voting this up, right?

http://www.freerice.com/faq.html

"Couldn't I just write a computer program to play all day and give a lot of rice that way?

There are two problems with this. First, it overloads our servers so that real people can't play and learn. Second, without real people playing and the resulting company sponsorship, no money would be generated and we could not give any rice at all."
There is a time and a place for experiments. I'm pretty sure it's not here and not now.
I thought you could escape backticks
> with adornments

Including a reasonable standard object system. With Javascript, different brilliant people have different ideas about how to handle objects and prototypes and have "wonderful" ideas for dynamically adding mix-ins, and manipulating what "this" should refer to... All of this leads to an absolute nightmare of coordination. The danger isn't as much with newbie programmers but with brilliant programmers who have individual styles and strong opinions. (And all strong programmers have strong and individual styles and opinions.)
I have. That's why I made a whole lot of them.
Where was the mainstream media? Where was the right wing media?

Those two are different?
I am going to disagree with you. I believe JavaScript is an excellent language, and as someone has already pointed out, it is based on ECMAScript, just like ActionScript. For one, it's turing complete, so it's not less capable than any other turing complete language. Second, JavaScript brackets and dot syntax will be familiar to any C, C++ or PHP programmer. In addition JavaScript's asynchronous nature and the extensibility power that prototypes provide make it a very easy and useful language, capable of creating very impressive applications. If you add into the mix the fact that it's standardized, supported by a vast amount of documentation online and powerful frameworks, known by millions of developers, and backed by corporations such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft then it becomes hard to dismiss it as a 'not a good language to develop in.' If your problem is with loosely typed, interpreted languages that's a different issue. If your problem is cross browser difference, then diss the browsers, not the language.

I also take issue with frameworks being described as "a twisty nightmare." Dojo is a joy to work with.
Chicago used to have an underground tunnel delivery system, using tunnels originally built to house telephone lines, used to deliver coal & remove ash:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
Wondering how much karma would I lose if I were flagged... Please, go ahead.
Regarding your first point, I find that if I am writing I need to change my work location every few weeks (or sometimes even more often). I become acclimated to the location and I become more prone to slacking off/day dreaming. Something the fresh location helps me a lot.
The potentially bogus credentials are disturbing, but I'm not ready to jump on this ship yet. IMHO, this article is poorly written, and reveals how little the author knows about the subject matter. For instance:

"What websites costs $18 million? And that's with no warrantee.

The incredibly popular Digg.com, one of the most advanced news gathering sites in the world was initially coded from scratch for between $1200-2500 according to one of its founders."

This is a ridiculous comparison. We've already discussed this on Hacker News ad nauseam.

Let's wait for more information before jumping to any conclusions.
Good luck getting 50 when the max is 8, genius.
And if I were a comment spammer, I would probably embed a link or two in my message ;-)
I worked with a friend at the GT lib in '88 on a startup. Great choice!!!
No! Not the up arrow! The down arrow!
Don't know about others, but I need some noise and distraction to work. A library feels like a tomb, no life at all.
I've used OWA, and it isn't that bad. It's not nearly as nice as Outlook, but as a web client it is not that bad.
We're going to need a companion "IT Offender Registry" iPhone app. Or maybe just an IE6 user locator. For taunting purposes.
Far too little credit is paid in that article to Mr. Kundra's unsurpassed work to provide the citizens of D.C. with the best public data feeds of any city on the country:

http://data.octo.dc.gov/

I believe he was hired to manage a similar initiative at the federal level. I heard him speak at a gov 2.0 convention in Portland, OR, and I was deeply impressed with both him and the program.
Could you please explain your experiment? I believe pg changed HN setting a while back to limit downvotes to -8.
I agree. Digg may have started with a small amount of money, but they keep raising VC funds, in the millions, to keep it running.

This is Dvorak at his best, link-baiting, self.
If an experiment has HN as its subject, this is precisely not the right but the only place it can happen.

As for the time, well... I got 40+ upvotes today (I started this morning needing about half a dozen).

The plan is to reach 1337 karma points (did it yesterday, but I wasn't monitoring to get a screenshot).
I'm personally pretty indifferent to him, but I know Kundra is well respected here in DC. He did visibly good work with the DC government websites.

Check out the list of available data feeds: http://data.octo.dc.gov/ Most cities and states still keep this sort of public data in a filing cabinet in the basement.

I find it surprising that so many Hacker News readers are focusing on his (lack) of academic degrees rather than his real-world experience.
Yeah you do. I ran a test on a friend's site, convinced that a short version would outperform the long-copy version. Conversions dropped by about 30%, which would have cost him tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Then that's not an experiment, but a spammy attempt at satisfying your vanity. This is not what HN is for.
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Thanks for the excellent follow up! It sure helps.
Also the original name that I saw (on Kevin's "spec") was digdug.com, which got killed because it wasn't available.
The fatal flaw with working from the Library is no coffee.
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If it's true, it's terrible - but I had to laugh when I saw this:

"I first suspected something was fishy about this fellow by listening to him on CSPAN where he simply did not sound like someone who studied computers or technology. His common referrals to Twitter and Google Docs as some sort of high-tech breakthroughs and a way to save money and empower the public stemmed from pure cornball pop culture and the blogosphere, not from computer science or Information technology."

Ironically, this is exactly how I feel every time I read Dvorak.