skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This is sort of like car advertisements, that always touts "350hp V8" or whatever, even though in the vast majority of real-life usage you can use that power for at most a second or two at some freeway onramp or in a passing lane.

Saying that the connection is technically capable of 20Mbit/s is different from guaranteeing 20Mbit/s in any possible usage situation. The problem with my analogy is that people generally have an idea that you can't go faster than maybe 80mph regardless of what car you have, but there is no way to know if the "up to 20Mbit/s" connection means actual usage will show 15, 5, or 1... So yeah, they should somehow be required to tell you, at least at signup, what the typical throughput on your connection will be.
System administration of remote hosts - automation, applying distro-updates, and related things.

(I used to be a remote sysadmin for a hosting company for seven years, and have all the expected experience at both the technical level, and at working remotely.)
Diving into HDFS
Thanks! This was awesome to visualize some abstract concepts I've read about but never implemented.
awesome, thanks for the thorough clarification; will have to take some time to peruse that doc
I think the question was not why there are members of different parties in the FCC, but why do they differ in this vote based on partisan membership? I.e. why would one party find these rules good while the other not? It's as if one likes net neutrality, while the other doesn't.
It looks like an implementation of monit in Perl...
In general, I think the average human being provides some good for the world. If nothing else, the average person in most[1] of the world can vote, hopefully on average stabilizing the political system. [2] They also act as an allocator for the market, enabling capital to go where needed. Each actor in the market acts as part of Adam Smith's invisible hand, helping decide where resources go. At the same time, most are parents to children enabling the whole thing to happen again.

Is your belief based on human impact on the environment, or is it something else?

[1] Better resources a Google away but this is something at least. http://www.economist.com/node/8908438
[2] http://www.stier.net/writing/demstab/demstab.htm#_Toc5203975...
Those examples are funny, because, e.g. our water infrastructure is the subject of underinvestment to the tune of $55 billion a year: http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/12/asce-report-o...

When you make an industry a public utility, and eliminate market-rate profit incentives, you get underinvestment, which is exactly what we see in water, power, etc: http://www.asce.org/failuretoact.

You can talk all you want about making internet service into "dumb pipes" but you can't make investors and shareholders pour billions of dollars a year into the "dumb pipe" business. They'll just dump their regulated business lines and shift the money to something more profitable, like Goldman is encouraging Verizon to do: http://stopthecap.com/2012/01/09/wall-street-encourages-veri....
> But the open command doesn't allow you to pass the environment

Uh? I’ve been using open to pass NSZombieEnabled and other debugging stuff to apps all the time and it works.

From man open(1):

Opened applications inherit environment variables just
as if you had launched the application directly through
its full path. This behavior was also present in Tiger.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. Care to explain your CDN/ISP hypothetical further? Wouldn't the content providers who are capable of paying have an advantage over those who aren't?

I'm not clear on how money changes hands in your case, but undoubtedly this arrangement would favor the ISP. As far as peering goes, it's a bit more complicated... server locations are more mobile than consumer locations, so there is less concern about an effective geographic monopoly for backbone providers. Without fully thinking through the economics of peering, my initial thought is that there should probably be a regulated amount that ISP's can charge to peer with backbone providers. Maybe cost plus a maintenance fee based on traffic volume.

Regarding voting, I just feel it's the better of two imperfect solutions.
It seems to me that people view and treat the same as politics: your voice is supposed to matter but collusion, corruption, relationships, lobbying etc. seem to matter more.
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Flash is written in actionscript. Actionscript is Javascript (ECMAscript) with some additional functions added. Implementing flash on a highly optimized JS JIT is probably better than Adobe's buggy and insecure VM.
You're reading too much between the lines.
It's important to note that the FCC is avoiding dealing with the peering issue (so, for example, Netflix's issue) with their current proposal. Wheeler specifically said that they want to delay that part of the net neutrality debate until later. In my view that's a mistake.
Radio serves the purpose of being one of the only freely available wireless com networks. For this reason I think radio will be around for a while (will almost definitely out live cable television).
This looks interesting. Will it come to US?
Most of those links just lead to a zipped version of the 7-zip source code. There's some kind of browser as well. Nothing you can't get elsewhere.
I think you can be a succesful solo founder... but you need some kind of positive support group or network.

Especially if it's a "niche" or lifestyle kind of app (as opposed to the take-over-the-world plans VCs prefer to fund).

By support groups or networks, I'm thinking coworker spaces, accelerators (like YC itself :) ), meetups or other places where you can network, bounce around ideas, get motivated, etc.

And maybe you'll find a cofounder there :) , but I'd go to meetups and events with a very different mindset - just discussing ideas and learning from others and generally motivating yourself :) .

What I've heard is that co-founders help smooth out the ups and downs in motivation and the emotional state that comes with the startup roller coaster.

I never tried quitting my job to be a "solo founder", but I did try several side projects. All of them failed so far:

For my latest "failure" (which might revive :) ), I teamed up with 2 friends which were also working full-time, and we didn't agree on the direction, the tech stack, etc. and we didn't "put in time". I'm especially guilty since I was supposed to be the leader.

I've also failed teaming up with family members (which expected to be the "idea guy" and let me do all the legwork). The ideas were good, but they weren't available and didn't want to commit their time.

And mostly, I've failed on my own, starting up a project, and letting it die by not commiting time to it. Lack of motivation. If I'd put myself out there and validated them, maybe they could have grown. So, I've failed as a solo "founder".

I'm cautiosly optimistic about my current side project, I teamed up with a coworker, we see each other every day so we can prod each other :), we agree on the tech stack (what we do everyday), and have a similar vision. We also have a prospective customer and beta tester :) who was the one that initially expressed the need to be solved.

Besides being a second set of hands to work on the project, I really appreciate his perspective and motivation. That's what I get from a "cofounder".
I didn't naturalize to the US, I naturalized to Australia, so I never swore that oath. I was born in the US.
You are thinking of allogeneic bone marrow transplants (bone marrow is transplanted from a donor) where there is a 20% chance of death. Typically, myeloma patients get autologous transplants (the patient self donates bone marrow stem cells) which are much less dangerous (less than 5% death rate). I know someone who has had five ASCTs (autologous stem cell transplants) and he is still kicking. It's not a cake walk but at least you don't die.
That's in the US, though. In most european countries, there are close to no guns in circulation and this could change a lot of things.
I went ahead and added it to the main page of the website:

http://facebook.github.io/jest/
I'm wondering if good coders are just good writers, and "a good coder" is simply what we call someone who writes well in a particular genre in the same way we call someone "a good poet."

To put it another way, we see a continuum between the acts of writing a product manual and a textbook and a news feature and a short story and a novel. Why are we convinced computer programs ontological different?

All that said, Literate Programming often seems over done to me. Stripped down to it's essentials code can be crafted like poetry. Literate programming is only literature when being crafted as a literate program allows for something literary to be expressed which can't be said without untangling the knot of procedure and weaving it into a document.
How much is she or her peers willing to pay? How much do the existing tools she mentioned cost?

How does the hard copy method handle multiple editors/reviewers?
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Chris Rock might agree with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrFVtmRXrw

Making low-quality bullets isn't that hard, nor is reloading brass, but at present, neither can be done with a 3-D printer.
One major problem with this: Business lies.

Not maliciously, it's just the way they do things. They think they're negotiating instead of cooperating. If they really need feature X in 6 weeks time, they will tell the Programmers they need it in 4 weeks.

Programmers however will be honest, and worse, optimistic. When they say it can be done in 8 weeks, 10 weeks is probably more realistic.

That huge difference removes all the room for coming to a mutually satisfactory compromise.

Even if both sides agree on a compromise, the Programmers will be fucked. They only difference is that they've fucked themselves, but since in the end it will come out Business "lied" (we all know it, the moment we delivered just in time, and nobody cares for weeks), they will still blame Business.

Business and Programmers need an interpreter that doesn't take sides, but hey, we just figured out management is useless, right?
The current hiring process already does this over 2 days of 1-on-1 interviews with over half the faculty. Those faculty can ask whatever questions they'd like (talking about specific papers and methods are very common). But there are a lot of smooth talkers who aren't very productive, but can market themselves well in an interview. So looking at actual published work is also important.

Given the choice between pure interview, versus counting the number of peer-reviewed publications in top conferences/journals, I'd most certainly pick the latter. In the worst case, you'd get someone who can get a lot of work done and published, versus someone who can talk about "big" problems and sound confident.
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Author here. As I explain in the article, I cannot recommend any framework that encourages asynchronous code. It's simply the wrong approach, no matter what functional tricks are used to make it more palatable. And the blocking Play APIs both feel foreign to Java, and provide no benefit over the standard, and widely implemented, JAX-RS.
"ALTER SYSTEM SET, which enables modifications to postgresql.conf from the SQL command line and from remote clients, easing administration tasks"

This is fantastic. We're always adding and removing ip addresses and restarting the server with each update was a pain.
Compiere is another FOSS ERP, but it's made in Java
Could an analogy be drawn to other issues where consumers have no hope of understanding all the issues and influencing the market, like medicine and automotive safety? There are decisions consumers aren't expected to make because of the enormous hidden complexity combined with powerful entrenched interests. Why, then, do some use consumer apathy as a sign that it's okay to force DRM onto everybody for the sake of a relatively small industry, or to charge extra to turn off intrusive deep packet inspection (AT&T)?
So, charge consumers for what they use. Why does this seem to rarely come up?

The problem with the networks comcast and others currently maintain is they are saturated. And I'm not getting what I pay for as a result. They need a new pricing structure that properly values their product (bandwidth) and charges me for it.

Can anyone explain why the ISPs don't go down this road?
And a long history of not becoming wide spread. From TFA "Russell said he and his team had engineered the virus to make it more suitable for cancer therapy." I just assumed the term "suitable" really meant "profitable" but some of the comments indicate it was modified to target the cancer better (how so?). It seems the cost of trials and approvals is too high for a naturally occurring virus, so everyone wants to customize them so they become patentable.
You're not going to have a good time trying to run multiple concurrent Netflix streams on a 5Mbps connection. That's only enough for a single HD stream, assuming you even get all the bandwidth you're promised.
TFA doesn't mention banning the machines themselves. In fact only thing worth mentioning is the seizure of plastic %80 lowers because they were just too easy to finish while leaving the metal ones. There is no intent to regulate even the %80 lowers.
The logical decoding feature is a very important foundation that will help multi-master solutions. No multi-master out-of-the-box today though.

EDIT: logical decoding allows you to get access to a stream of logical data changes, e.g. inserts, updates, deletes, in a robust and efficient way.
The homepage doesn't do a good job of convincing any business why they should adopt it. At the moment, it's too technical for businesses to care.
Good points, but I must disagree on some details:

* We did not develop the application from scratch and therefore we cannot control its memory consumption, especially if it's a garbage-collected environment. We used WordPress as an existing application template provided by Azure. The development on our side was only about developing a custom WP theme, which is 90% frontend development. The developers barely touched the server side, and we tried to configure the environment to consume not more than X MB.

* Regarding not being built well for shared environments: WordPress powers about 60 million sites in the world, and I bet the vast majority of them runs on a shared hosting. Currently, this blog post is served from one of them :) During the typical days, our traffic is really too low for a dedicated environment, so it would really be an overkill.
"We recommend testing only one difference between the A and B groups. When there are several differences between test groups, it’s difficult to figure out which change impacted your engagement."

A/B testing may be better to figure out one specific aspect (time to send, sender name) but wouldn't multivariate testing make sense if you were looking for the best combination of those variables? i.e. if I wanted to find out that sending an email at 9pm, from a corporate account, with larger images is the best combination?

I'm interested to hear others' opinions on the pros/cons.
I completely agree with the OP's advice. Without knowing anything about the site at all (I'm not familiar with your services at all so I can probably offer a pretty useful data point), I clicked through, looked for about five seconds at the Basecamp example, and clicked the dreaded back button. Not because the info isn't useful, but because I didn't have the desire to look beyond that right at that moment. Chances are that after a day or two I would have forgotten that the site existed and never returned (not a slight, it's just a realistic fact about most people). It's very unlikely that any resource is going to be so useful from a single use that users will frequent it from that day forth. It requires a bit of nudging/reminding over several interactions.

I think it's a mistake to avoid being salesy. People who want to improve their conversions (presumably your targeted customers) want solutions that your book or mailing list very well might solve. In fact it wasn't until I read the OP's comment that I realized you had a mailing list or training materials to sell.

One suggestion would be to put a WP-style banner at the top asking people to sign up for your mailing list. It isn't overbearing and if people aren't interested, they won't sign up.

Anyhow, not trying to sound condescending, just offering some advice that I think could be helpful.
Citizens who are concerned about browser standards? I'm having a hard time picturing this. It's hard enough getting developers to care about official standards.

When I click play on a movie in Chrome, I don't know (or care) whether it's using Chrome's embedded Flash or an "open" HTML5 video tag or some crazy proprietary thing. I only care when it doesn't work.
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Functionally, as far as displaying video goes, there is very little difference between a Flash Video player, and a Adobe CDM Video Player.

Sure it might have a slightly smaller attack surface because it does not have all the other flash "features" that are not really used any more, but do not fool yourself, it is still executing arbitrary code that is beyond your control, and any attempt to control what this code does could be considered a violation of DMCA.

It however in no way promotes the open web, I do not know where you get that from. This is the exact opposite of promoting the open web

As to who loses out, it is not just people that find DRM objectionable. Will Adobe DRM work on ARM for the various SBC system like the Raspberry pi? Doubtful.. Will there be a CMD for midori? Ice Weasel? or any of the other less popular browsers? Doubtful. With the Adobe CDM work well, and bug free with out killing system resources under Linux x86? Doubtful (it will probably work, just not well)

So we are back to a world where only "approved" platforms are allowed to use the web fully, this is direct opposition to W3C's stated mission.
After weeks of public outcry over the proposal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency would not allow for unfair, or "commercially unreasonable," business practices. He wouldn't accept, for instance, practices that leave a consumer with slower downloads of some Web sites than what the consumer paid for from their Internet service provider.

Because they've done such a bang-up job of that thus far..? It's no secret that at comparable advertised speed, Netflix on Comcast was far worse than Netflix on other ISPs.

I'm not sure if they're really so deluded to think their enforcement is super great, or if they're just delivering placating sound bites.
The great thing about Homejoy's business model is that consumers who are happy with the service will provide a solid source of recurring revenue. Also, there is no need to maintain a physical presence in a city aside from the city operations manager, so overhead is remarkably low.
> It's as if one likes net neutrality, while the other doesn't.

"As if"? For the whole length of the net neutrality policy debate, the support has concentrated in the Democratic Party and the opposition has centered in the Republican Party -- not just on the FCC, but in Congress and everywhere else. The reason the Democratic majority of the FCC keeps trying to find a way to advance Open Internet principles within the framework of existing law that at best addresses the issue indirectly is because neither mostly-Democratic supporters of express FCC authority (or mandate) for net neutrality nor mostly-Republican supporters of expressly prohibiting the FCC from regulating for net neutrality have sufficient support in Congress to pass legislation incorporating those goals and get it signed into law or override a Presidential veto.
The existing (annoying) tools she mentioned seem to be simply Word and printing things out on paper.
Obligatory "Shit Shovel" AK-47: http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DI...!

TL;DR: A man starts with a shovel (formerly used for shovelling shit) and forms an AK receiver using little more than a furnace, some hammers, a spot welder and a drill.

So yeah, the printers change very little. What they have actually done is effectively communicated the idea that guns can be made in your garage (previously that message was not getting through for some reason which I cannot for the life of me understand).
Outside of the professional writing industry, Track Changes is a blessing. Funny how he complains about Track Changes. When I show new users the Track Changes functionality in word they get giddy with excitement. It's not perfect, but it's a hundred times better than what I usually expect from a stakeholder "hey, I sent back your Word document with some changes. What? No I don't remember what page I made them on."
> submitted a Firefox addon for approval a few years back that introduced a separate cache for all the AJAX libs, but it was rejected for silly reasons

I have actually been looking for such an addon. I too clear cookies/cache/etc on exit in addition to using NoScript and a strict Adblock Edge (block social networks/tracking/not just ads). The only area remaining to be fixed would be the AJAX libs to be hosted locally.

Would you consider making a github page or something so you can provide the addon without being in the firefox addon explorer?
You had me until you said Asynchronous I/O is faster than Synchronous I/O in Java.

http://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf
I don't get the point of saying that application servers are dead and then... embedding application server within the application.
If applications should be isolated they can be easily deployed on different application servers. The result will be the same, with the difference that we get all advantages of easy application deplyment using war files, and some nice tools supporting the whole process.
All the demos are amazing. Wish I had this when I was building out my previous product. I really liked the circular loading demo. The site has been bookmarked.
ERPNext - https://erpnext.com

GPL v3 - Python, Javascript, MariaDB

Github - https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

(I am one of the developers)
Any idea why Apple has it set up that way? I don't spend much time in the terminal, but case sensitive auto-complete just doesn't sound helpful.
You're a tech guy, and you expected IIS to use Apache configuration files?

EDIT: And as a customer, you're expecting managed hosting from a service that clearly isn't a managed hosting provider? Yeesh. There really are managed hosting providers in the world, if that's what you want.
anywhere that the internet can be routed via paid priority is the spot where the snooping can be installed.
No, all the users matter. The number of people using Firefox gives Mozilla leverage that e.g. GNU Icecat doesn't have.
That may not be as hard as it sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless_ammunition
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