skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks more like a feature than a business. Why wouldn't bitly add this into their product as a feature?

I tried your demo url snip.ly/dBy and it took me few seconds to realize the iframed content in the bottom. Wasn't sure what to do with it and I moved on. I'm sure this is just the beginning but please move away from iframes - its not new and blocked by many social sites.

Congrats on getting a YC interview tho!
The British Library charges extra if you want to reprint or republish pages from their out-of-copyright books and manuscripts. They also assert new copyrights when they photograph or microfilm things.
You are looking at it the wrong way. You should comment when you feel the need to add value to the discussion. In fact, the more good/meaningful comments you post, the more chance you have to get upvoted and actually increase you average over time.
2000 hours/ 180 days = 11 hours a day? :( scary
To reiterate a bit on what hardwaresofton has already said, yes you could use Cassandra. However, Cassandra like ZooKeeper is just a building block. It doesn't actually provide service discovery, health checking, etc. You could use it to build all of those, but it doesn't provide it.

We compare Consul to ZooKeeper here, but much of that applies to Cassandra as well:
http://www.consul.io/intro/vs/zookeeper.html

Internally, Consul could also use something like Cassandra to store the data. However we use LMDB which is an embedded database to avoid an expensive context switch out of the process to serve requests with lower latency and higher throughput.
Once you get 500 karma, you are able to down-vote (with certain restrictions).
This is actually not a bad lecture. Very interesting, a nice idea and surprising.
Their other acquisition today - Loom - is on the annihilate Flickr path.

I must say I do like your auto monetization angle though. If carousel is anything to go by, their 'we build UX ontop of your content' execution is so far a bit meh.

Trouble is, as Twitter showed, there's no long term joy in building a competitor to a service using its API.
Let's please write the replacement in a language that has some built-in safety guarantees, and ideally some features supporting correctness proofs.

Haskell comes to mind. If we want to avoid a runtime, let's go for a language like Rust, which also has strong safety guarantees and lots of Haskell/ML-inspired features that help improve both safety and readability (advanced pattern matching, Options, immutability guarantees, etc.)

Both of these languages are sufficiently fast to develop high-performance crypto frameworks, and both have good FFIs for calling optimized C code if necessary.
I think they don't have majority in Russia as well. To Yandex I think? With Seznam, it was just two years ago or so that they beat them to first place in search. In neighbouring Slovakia, Google was first long before that. Simply because there was no real competition.
This explains a lot; hopefully you can add "confirm extent of pre-disclosure distribution" to the list of things to do when this type of info arrives in the future!
The threshold has been 500 karma for years. We've got some ideas for lowering that, actually.
Regardless of whether or not you are correct in your assertion that these regulations are arbitrary and exist only to benefit existing taxi companies (which, of course, disagrees with your former claim...), you don't get to break the law because you disagree with it.
How do you know DO's $10/m plan is most popular?

(Please don't say it's because the pricing page highlights the $10 plan ass "most popular". You know that's just a classic up-sell trick, right?)
Remember the 32-bit multiply bug?
On average, governments spend a higher percentage of their income on innovation and investments for the future than individuals or corporations do. Infrastructure, Education, Innovation, and Civil Order are critical to society's long term success. Eating out does not.
The city reminds me of City 17 in Half Life 2.
U.S. venture capital investment is at its highest since 2001
I guess it's time to go back to standalone desktop apps?
Thomas, sounds like a possible new client or two.
The bottom 50-90% of the top 10% of earners is very much part of what is traditionally called "middle class". People in high-paying professional occupations such as doctors, lawyers and engineers have always been considered part of the middle class. The upper class is made up of capitalists and high-level executives, not people who work for a living.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Academic_...
Yeah, looking at it again, you're right, I was lazy and obnoxious. My comment should have been "For those who don't know what QEMU is (I didn't), it is ...". Won't do it again.
I'm sure he is serious, and I'd actually take him up on it. That's out of self interest - if people can freeload, then it means you are less likely to survive in the long run. So how about a license fee? Maybe $39-69?

That's kind of the point of this thread, in fact. If you don't charge enough, then you won't survive, and your users lose. I would be uneasy using an important service without paying for it (but I do like the idea of my data living in my own s3 bucket).
Yep. It was on the schedule.
DOM objects are reference counted in Gecko, and there is a cycle collector to collect JS/C++ cycles. They aren't allocated in the JS heap.

WebKit is similar, but without the cycle collector.
They've evaded taxes

The government screws up the tax laws through utter dysfunction and you imply/say that Apple and other big companies are breaking the law?

To my knowledge, Apple is paying all of the taxes required by US law. The fact that the government wants a bigger chunk doesn't change the fact that they aren't legally entitled to it.
Hmmm. Stashed in BTC or LTC?

Maybe one em gambled it all away.
Not necessarily. It can be fixed in point releases. This has happened before.
- 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030614084310/http://www.linode....

- 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20071214070928/http://www.linode....

- 2013: http://web.archive.org/web/20131228003146/https://www.linode...

- 2014: https://www.linode.com/

Give me my beveled borders back!
This is awesome, I wonder if there is a more constrained web rendering engine somewhere. Something where rather than 'render everything we've ever seen' is 'render the following html 'standards' correctly' (or at least predictably). I was looking for something like this for a modern day sort of serial terminal thing.
A government that prints money to spur innovation is merely redistributing wealth around. Arguably it does pull top talented citizens to do it's bidding in a captive economy. But eventually it goes down in a spiral despite more and more poured in. The govt. is an inefficient machine for such ventures as it eventually attracts scammers who systematically drain the pipe. For every 1 of successful outcome there are millions of screwed up endeavours for which it guzzles our money.
I've experienced minority view comments being hit with downvotes, so I'm not a fan of creating permanent statuses...or rather creating coarse rules for applying permanent status.

It is also the case that comments with poor tone can be rehabilitated and getting people to edit poorly presented thoughts to be presented more clearly and directly.
First Discovery Of An Earth-Sized Planet In The Habitable Zone
Your second guess can account for a lot of the discrepancy. Stolen credit card records are sold for $1 or less by the original source. The real profit (and risk) is in the process of extracting value from the cards.
The amount of upvotes a comment earns is a function of how many upvotes the parent submission receives. (Makes sense: the more upvotes the parent receives, the more people will see your comment)

Often I see threads in new submissions which ask for quick feedback to a startup idea or blog post. They would never get upvotes enough to hit the front page normally, and so I would rarely get more than 1-2 upvotes for them.
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
We recommend three or five because that will get you a high level of fault tolerance. Consul runs just fine with one server, but you'll have no fault tolerance: if that one server becomes unavailable for any reason, then reads/writes for your cluster will not be served.

The leader is elected using Raft as the consensus algorithm (it is linked in the internals section of the docs).

You are correct though that if you run multiple servers, the leader election will happen automatically. There is no way to manually override it.
There's a point at which saying, "The Matrix has you," is no longer amusing.
My library is not as big as 1.5T but it won't fit in any standard cloud offering as well.

One of the advice I received was to batch export to JPG to have a small and easily sharable copy, and keep all the originals in Glacier or other cost effective backup that doesn't need to be accessed too often. I haven't done it yet but it seems to be a reasonable approach.
It might make sense to increase the amount of time in which a negativemy scored comment can be edited or deleted.
How the SuperPET came to be
I had this setup 5 years ago using Bluetooth. When my laptop detected my phone was paired and connected, it would unlock. When the phone disconnected, it would lock.
Being Data-Driven: My Venmo Friend-Trolling Experiment Results Shared
Farewell letter of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (hoax, but poignant)
That depends on the degree to which money equals power in that setup, I suppose. It doesn't have to be smart if you're willing to pay for enough accounts just to create a buzz.

Although granted - for the site to be worth the effort it would already have to be popular.
>"[G]overnments spend a higher percentage of their income on innovation and investments for the future than individuals or corporations do"

I would like to see a citation for this, as it seems unlikely (due to the vast sums of money which governments spend on redistribution); but even if I assume arguendo that you are correct, the spending is not at issue, the results of the expenditure are what is important.
Here's another really fantastic reason for the research Servo is doing: by using concurrency and parallelism pervasively, Servo is discovering and mapping out all the places where sequentialism is baked into the web standards themselves. With any luck, their experiences will help to guide the next generation of web standards and prevent them from being inadvertently hostile to parallelism.
It is relevant, however, if the avg metric is being used for the new HN algorithms.
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> I thought this feature was present in OS GUIs since about 1997?

It was, until all the fancy compositing WMs like Compiz came around. Those usually had it as an option, but not as the default because it lagged way too much.

Progress!
Agreed 100% It's like selling someone a rubber balloon. We're buying services and products, not party favors. We expect balloons to pop.
Iv'e always wondered why Twitter and Facebook weren't more connected so I built a chrome extension that connects them through a short link at http://2fb.me

This is an enhancement for Sound Cloud which offers up a way to share sound cloud's more easily between them.
There's a pretty good one in the New Yorker (paywall, though I've seen scans of the article floating around): http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/05/29/1995_05_29_045_T...
None of our recent changes consider avg. I personally never look at it and forgot it was even a thing.
Icehouse: New OpenStack cloud arrives
Very clever. When I realized why the shakey elements were disappering (not having yet read the text above the game) I smiled.
The Internet. Government served only to set some basic standards and fund initial military & research networking.

Factory farming. Food costs have been driven down tremendously, and productivity increased hugely, by private farming.

Heck, Y Combinator. Smaller scale, but it sure isn't public money that's going into funding these startups which make a big difference.

That the government simply established standards amid otherwise competing options is a proper role (nice that we're all agreed to drive on the same side of the street). Government is also sometimes useful to force concentration of funds into something that needs development but has prohibitive startup costs.

But there are certainly plenty of vast proliferations of spending which occur absent of, or even contrary to, government involvement. Don't confuse the presence of free money (say, farm subsidies) with the successes; anyone will accept a large enough check. Don't overlook the destructiveness (say, many wars, or the "Cash for Clunkers" disaster that destroyed the used car market, or the multi-billion-dollar "bailouts" that lost vast sums of cash, or the 100M dead from government conquest spending including the Chinese Great Leap Forward).

Yes, there are some successes. Let's talk about private successes, which DO exist. Let's talk about public-funded failures, which DO exist.

Yes, large-scale government spending not pure evil incarnate, but it sure isn't the benevolent deity which many are increasingly making it out as.
Psychology of Engineers: Managing Extroverted and Introverted Developers
Ask HN: How to meet angel investors in SF?
(I realise SF is full of them but I'm relatively new in town so my network is small)

My friend and I made a web app for us and our friends. It is a rough prototype made over 5 days but our friends (3 individuals) got quite engaged with it and asked for changes/feature requests.

We now think this has a chance (however small) at growing into something big despite it being early days (there are still many hypotheses to verify), but we need some money to continue (we are both at the tail end of 'fun-employment' and will need jobs for income in the next month).

Questions:
a) Does it make sense to ask for money now?
b) What is the best way to meet angel investors?
> Linodes are now SSD. This is not a hybrid solution – it’s fully native SSD servers using battery-backed hardware RAID. No spinning rust! And, no consumer SSDs either – we’re using only reliable, insanely fast, datacenter-grade SSDs that won’t slow down over time. These suckers are not cheap.

http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

Not to slam what Linode is doing here, and I'm sure there are probably lots of great reasons to buy datacentre-grade SSDs, but just thought I'd point out that slowing down over time (or data integrity issues) are not really consumer-grade problems any more :-)
Can you elaborate on this? Because there were plenty of projects funded by no-bid government contracts that failed. Likewise, plenty of government R&D dollars have also gone toward efforts that have failed.

Nobody bats 100%, but it all becomes worth it when they hit on something very big, like the micro-processor or the internet.
A 2048 spinoff to raise funds for cancer
Can I use the new HN comments algorithm on my new website? :)
I think the author and many people who look at this fail to distinguish between a research grant (good thing for the government to do) and investment/tax break/subsidized loans for an on going business concern (iffy thing for the government to do.)

It's a good idea for the government to get involved in basic research, research which might not have a positive economic return for at least a generation. On the other hand, if the government is involved in trying to make unprofitable companies profitable, it's social policy not technology research.

Grant proposal -- good; Business plan -- bad.
I'm fairly certain ISP owners with high-end hardware would not risk their business running Tor exit nodes.
Did you watch it?
I'm curious what Chrome's plans are for the future, in particular related to parallelization. Has anyone seen any articles about that anywhere?
IMO you can't generalize every problem domain by specifying schema first approach.

I developed a real time analytic solution where the system was suppose to receive unstructured web data. And each client of system can send any type of data & generate unlimited number of reports with unlimited number of fields and all of this in real time. When I say real time, I literally mean all processing was supposed to be done in sub-second. Above all the size of data was 100s of GBs every day.
None of RDBMS would have modeled this problem with the efficiency like MongoDB did.

Most of the web related things like analytics, CMS systems or when you need high performance and horizontal scalability, its hard to beat Document DBs like MongoDB.
Can anyone explain to me how this is not putting the common denominator in more power even further? At this point, unless you extensively agree with the majority of the echo circle, I doubt you will be able to have any impact on discussions.

Every thread is a rehearsal with same opinions at the top over and over and non-fitting opinions float to the bottom. In which turn, they get less "downvote-power" so they will stay low and can't get their peers above. I am not saying that the current flow of discussion is bad, I am just saying that participation is flawed.

We are simply in a system where you get awarded to fit to the masses and you get more power once you have been accepted into the hive-mind. A circular-reference at some point.
The Kremlin Tried to Use VKontakte–Russia’s Facebook–to Spy on Ukrainians
You were looking at very, very old documentation which is why I wanted to drop it. Cassandra is on 2.0 and uses a practically identical consensus algorithm [Paxos] to Consul [Raft] except for the implementation details. I'm not sure how much practical advantage something like Consul has over a discovery layer built on Cassandra.

I didn't see a good way to sort this conversation out without a very, very long conversation in a thread dedicated to a release announcement.
Could start by choosing different colours.
I wonder whether being able to downvote makes you a more thoughtful commentor. Perhaps run an analysis on quality of comments (maybe as simple as avg. karma per comment) 400 to 500 vs. 500 to 600?
This is harder now, but as cities develop, I think we'll see this become easier as open space is emphasized and communal gardens are popularized even more.
Kind of surprised that you haven't been contacted regarding GTD as well: http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/GTD/Copyright_Issues
Picat is a simple, powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language
I used to worry about that as well, but then I found when I tried to make comments really meaningful and useful, I couldn't quite get them just right.

Now I view comments as a means of continuous practice, so even if there's no recognition by means of votes, I'm still improving my ability to contribute positively.
I never really got this line of thought. While creating life in a laboratory and creating life through sexually reproduction between a man and woman (or however it is other organisms manage it) have the same end result, I think it's fairly reasonable to recognize that they are two very distinctly different things.
You seem to be laboring under some serious misapprehensions here. QEMU is very much a virtualization solution. It calls itself an emulator because it's older than the name 'virtualization.' KVM is merely the kernel infrastructure that enables ring-0 access for faster hardware access. For many years it was called qemu-kmod; to this day the actual process that you run is called 'kvm-qemu.'

You are overstating the difference between 'virtualization' and 'emulation.' There really isn't one. What used to be called 'emulation' is nowadays called 'full-virtualization' as opposed to 'paravirtualization.' QEMU, KVM, and XenKVM are full-virt, while traditional Xen is paravirt.

KVM is not a hypervisor; libvirt is. Xen blurs the line between virtualization platform and hypervisor because both pieces ship within the same project. Either libvirt or Xen can act as hypervisor for QEMU or KVM.

QEMU's lack of hard-dependency on a specific gui is in fact its strength, not its weakness. This makes it much easier to modularize and deploy at scale, which is what OpenStack does, for instance. Every QEMU VM is capable of listening on a given port for VNC connections, which means you don't even particularly need a GUI for basic use. More featureful guis can be found in the libvirt project (e.g. virt-manager).

QEMU is not particularly fast at cross-architecture stuff because that was not its original focus. However, it was one of the first packages available for linux that even made that possible at all, which is why it is still known for this functionality.
He's in character of it being 2035 and the pronunciation was lost/changed.
Pretty incredible user experience on mobile, haven't seen graphs that look that good in a mobile web browser (and interactive no less).
This podcast is fantastical.
I thought it was supposed to be some future pronunciation thing, imagining the way languages evolve. I've seen SciFi movies where in the future english is heavily influenced by spanish.
This is wonderful news for the many women who are currently forced to carry someone else's child via in-vitro fertilization if they want a child. Hopefully they'll be able to have a child that is biologically theirs in a reasonable timeframe as further developments occur.
That's not an economic lesson they're learning. It's a public policy one.
Very relevant. Thanks for sharing that.

I definitely had bought into the adobe dng idea of it being the superior format for compatibility, but didn't consider there might be situations where something could read CR2 better than dng.
Good Guy Sam
It's an RTS/RPG hybrid. A standard top down view strategy map with two opposing bases, with tiered fortifications. Each base is already generated at the beginning of a match and automatically creates computer controlled units and sends them to battle. The human player is a single hero trying to affect the outcome of that battle.

10 players make up two teams (5v5). They each begin the game as weak lvl 1 heroes. Initially the focus is on killing the computer controlled units (creeps) to gain experience and gold for items. As the hero gains levels and items they are able to do greater amounts of damage to the opposing creeps and opposing human controlled heroes. At high level heroes will destroy entire creep armies and siege base defenses. The game is won by destroying a primary building at the base of the opposing side.

What makes it fun/compelling to me.

Games are short with no character permanence. No standard RPG style grinding. Just a 30-45min RTS style chessmatch

Minimal wrote build orders. Unlike the first 10mins of most RTS matches

Controlling a single unit lessens the clickfest aspect of most RTS style games

Coordinated teamplay is vital, but this can also result in new players getting flamed mercilessly

Beginning with a full base with defenses and creeps by default prevents the standard RTS formula of rush > boom > turtle > rush. Opens up more options for gameplay and strategic depth. Dota is designed in such a way that games tend to explode rather than stalemate. Hero HP is additive, but damage is multiplicative (avoiding games that drag on despite being over).
"We didnt expected that being a startup is so hard. We worked for 2-3 years 10 hours a day 6 days a week and it brought us to barely breaking even. We just cant do this anymore, living in uncertainty is killing us. We have failed to pursue our dream but we hope that we can just shut down this part of our lives, move onwards to working for large company that will care for us and hopefully our skills, pain and experiences will help us to achieve something that we couldn't do alone - create revolutionary product or feature, but under bigger brand."
"A browser plugin that replaces occurrences of the word 'literally' with 'figuratively'. That's figuratively all it does."
I think the hardest behaviors to manage are the marginal ones, such as the mechanical turk who calculates how little work he can do and not get kicked.