skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked you how you would architect something that needs 1M writes/sec if you weren't using Cassandra. Ignore the fact that netflix is making this into a single cluster.

I'm not saying I'd do it by myself. I'm saying with the write tools its doable and not unreasonable.
You have exactly the same problem with a non-standard key-binding/layout and vim. For instance, the default file browsing plugin netrw hardcodes its shortcuts…
What's even funnier is that in javaland they took advantage of long-lived objects by having deep and broad class hierarchies, with all code in instantiated objects ... which the PHP community emulated in their frameworks, instantiating a bazillion objects on every request just to throw them away immediately. IMHO it's no surprise that in the techempower benchmarks raw php is orders of magnitude faster than a symfony implementation.
The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police
Do you consider the shell an overly-featured program because you use it to copy/delete/create/link files, install packages, etc? No, because it's a tool which loads up other tools for your use, providing some conveniences like job control in the process.

Emacs provides a lisp implementation. People have used this lisp implementation to write ftp clients, web browsers, and yes even text editing functionality; you then use emacs to load some of that lisp code and execute it. I don't say the Bourne shell fails at "doing one thing well" since people write shell scripts and run them from within the shell.
If they would have denied helping me because of some security policy, I would agree with you, but their support didn't understand the problem and just stopped responding.

What if you run into a bug? From my experience I would not expect to get any qualified help.
What do you think of 21:9?
Flat fees/taxes are unpopular because people tend to believe that the capitalist system is inherently unfair. For instance, a rich person who gets $100 can invest all of it, while a poor person must spend it on necessities. (And there are deep psychological drives and practical reasons that also cause most people to spend more irrationally when theyre poor as well)

Theres also Pikettys argent that return on capital grows faster than the economy.

But there are counter-arguments, and its always good to consider and experiment with new ideas, so believe what you will. But I think people have a prettty good reason for liking a progressive tax, even rich people like this.

Personally I think the economy has deep flaws. Like private ownership of natural and limited resources being a thing (which i believe will cause wealth to consentrate in a counter-meritocratic way) and the transfer of money not accurately reflecting the value of intellectual "property" (transfer of money of physical goods, which money is supposed to model, is zero-sum. sharing intellectual products is not). So I welcome new thoughts. But I dont think anyone has the right solutions yet, and flat fees/tax isnt exactly a new idea.
Jekyll is Awesome
I struggled for a long time to find a font that looks good even when it's tiny and subpixel smoothing isn't very effective. I've pretty much settled on tamsyn: http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/

It's not "pretty" but I find it the most useful and visually appealing. The only downside is that not everything works properly with bitmap fonts.
Ah, the irony of making sure we're careful to make subtle distinctions about the top fraction of a percent of the population... in response to a comment about massive class imbalance.
That's really interesting. I remember when this [1] article came out, showing the difference in streets' income level with the greenery in the street, I found it amazing. Once I started thinking about it, I figured it should have been rather obvious.

So, the way to do would be to first figure if there's more crime in lower-income streets (likely. Right? No data to support me here) Then using the 'foliage detection algorithm', which you can use on LIDAR data available from USGS, which urban neighborhoods have less, and more crime. Do some tests, to see if your hypothesis holds and water at all, and it should be a solid test.

http://mashable.com/2012/07/18/google-maps-income-inequality...
Well, it's not unreasonable (the maintenance part) with Cassandra.
Corrected headline: "How safe would humans say this street looks?"

Not the same question at all.

While the research into computer vision and machine learning is interesting, as a human I'd like to know when my intuition about safety is wrong, not just have a machine that can mimic my intuition.
Really thought, is this going to be the future aspect ratio?
I don't understand your point.

The type of companies who could afford this are the types of companies who need 1M writes/second. Which are few and far between. And yes 10K is not that impressive but 1M is. And with Cassandra you could continue to improve that number just be rolling out more nodes.
As opposed to how VC's drain competitor's adwords budgets?

Meaning, this is too often how I see competitive bids going over time:

1) You sell a widget for $100, and it costs you $50, so you spend $10 on the ad, & make $40 margin.

2) Your competition gets in, & has similar price/costs, & bids $11 on the ad.

3) After a few iterations, you both bid $49.50 for the ad, making near zero (positive) margins & stay in business.

4) But, VC-backed businesses enter that market. The VC (rightly) tells the startup that they aren't going to make profit in the first year anyway, but they MUST show user-growth. And, here's the VC money to pay for user growth.

5) So, the VC-backed startup bids the ads up to $100+, far above profitability for legit bootstrapped or existing profitable companies.

That's how the ad budgets can be drained in the ecosystem.

I know a lot of investors here that don't want to take the blame for this impact and may downvote me, but I do see this happening for many keywords over time. I don't need to be popular on this issue.
The time delay is 48 hours. During that time they attempt to contact you at multiple previously specified email addresses and phone numbers (which can belong to multiple people if you want). This ensures that even if your account is hijacked without your knowledge and a withdrawal is started, you will be able to stop it before it happens.

The offline storage is likely done in such a way that no one storage location is critical. This is easy to achieve with cryptography.
> You must have a slow hash function to store a password authenticator. The salt provides virtually no protection; it blocks a single corner-case exploit.

You're referring to simple dictionary attacks on a large database of passwords? Even bcrypt won't help much with a password from the top 10k list. I wouldn't say that stopping rainbow tables is "virtually no protection". Please explain what you're referring to.
All Power to the Pack Rats
From a quick glance, the software - while being marketed as one for churches - isn't really religious. Accounts, profiles, timeline, photos, directories, attendance tracking - that's generic stuff not specific to churches. And verses are - technically - just articles.

From a quick glance it seems it could be fairly easily adapted for use even by non-religious organizations (say, clubs) with mostly basic UI text editing, so possibility of use by mosques seems even more trivial.
None of my non-STEM friends has any interest in doing what I do. They'd love the paycheck, but nothing else about it entices them. There are lots of trade offs; it's neither the world's best nor worst job. This author comes off a bit whiny, but many of his points are sensible. In particularly, ageism is a bigger problem in computer technology (especially on the web, where a lot of the jobs are) than in most other industries. Outsourcing too, though less so. Somebody above linked a better written and less whiny post from michaelochurch about the same stuff.
I don't understand what does the software do. It is a "group manager" for churches? Something like Facebook Groups or many others of the same kind?

I really liked the aspect of the app and that it was built, because I really think group management and group data is an issue, but WHY is it a problem when there exists Facebook Groups, email groups and lots of other solutions?

Is church directory a totally different domain? Have I understood everything wrong?
Individual people/families (regardless of race) are not to blame for the effect they have on the housing market, even though the consequences are predictable and well documented.

The effects of gentrification and white flight demonstrate how ingrained the bias against black people and other minorities still is.
I have been around professional golf my whole life and have seen many hole in ones. No one ever purchased me a drink. I have made a few hole in ones, and no one has ever even asked me to buy them one.

I have heard of this "tradition", but after travelling week to week with the PGA tour for years and playing golf with a multitude of new people every week, and have never even heard of someone buying more than three drinks for their playing partners.
Ya know, Apple could add hardware to their iOS devices...

IJS...
Just post the link in these cases, it is better.
I'm not the person you responded to, but I did read the article. The article kind of highlights the OP's point IMO. eg. (from the article):

"Bose alleges that Beats has infringed on 50 years’ worth of research, development and engineering of noise cancelling tech"

Well, the whole point of patents is supposed to be to publish the implementation details of inventions so that technology is available for all (the public commons) to use freely after the initial (14/17/20 year -- depending upon what year the patent was issued) patent period is up.

This whole concept of incrementally improving a technology with amendment patents to keep the protection going virtually indefinitely is a very modern concept, and one that the "forefathers" who wrote patents into the Constitution would have been dead set against.

Far be it from me to defend Beats or Apple since they are both IP-abusive companies themselves, but I'm not going to defend Bose either; the patent system and the lawsuit industry that has exploded around it in the past decade is completely out of control.
Patents are really designed for the "little guy".

You only need to look at companies like Dyson who was just one guy in a garage coming up with crazy new approaches to an existing problem. Someone like that deserves some protection from bigger companies who could simply steal his idea and put him out of business.
Ah, but this is why insurance works- if you don't have a spare $500, the pain of a $500 payout is greater than $500. That's why, even though the liability multiplied by the probability is less than the premium, it can still make sense.
It's funny how someone who doesn't want to "think of an API as simple resources with HTTP methods" can take inspiration from HATEOAS, where that's pretty much the whole point.
Nice theme. You mind sharing?
There is a difference between actively and maliciously targeting adwords to destroy people's money and healthy competition b/t pools of capital/businesses.

You are engaging in false equivalence.
Golfing is a game for the wealthy

Tell that to my $20 set of clubs and $5 bucket of range balls.
An angle for this could be a Show HN / Product Hunt for trendy new mobile apps.
Excellent PBS Nature episode on the subject too: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/fu...
Interesting program. This info needs to be taken with a grain of salt, or somehow correlate to existing statistical information on certain neighborhoods - I doubt ~400 W 63rd Street in Chicago is a 9.1. The theory of it is great for visualization, and I'd love to see more incorporated data in the future.
That is a handful of firms offering that, and some are tiny. W&C is legendary and like 200 people out of a single office... they grew to 200 people in 45 years -- do the math. These firms are hiring the absolute best... heck, if we keep an exclusive list like that, I bet with stock options software developers crush lawyers -- if we only care about the top sub 1% .. with some of the crazy stock adjusted packages at Google, MS, Amazon ... excluding the crazy start-ups.
A semi-interesting, completely off topic note on something I just learned after walking the earth for 28 years. The word "primer" as it is used here is actually pronounced primmer and not PRIMEr. Apparently the origins of both words are pretty unrelated.
They should add an urban planner to the team.
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Well put, you specifically put eloquent voice to a couple of things which I've grown weary of attempting to discuss [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086619
Every audio enthusiast I know would scoff at that assessment of Bose. They have a reputation for commanding a premium for cheaply made, mediocre products using fancy marketing and gimmickry. They're no different from Beats in that regard.
The lifetime of patents in the US is only 20 years (roughly). Most of those 50 years of innovation are no longer eligible for patent protection, including their original noise cancelling technology. Unfortunately companies seem to be very good at finding ways around this limit.
What percentage of applicants are his age or older? Probably very, very small for obvious reasons. Most founders PG's age and older have more financial resources (and network, etc) making YC's terms less appealing than for younger founders without any experience. In terms of diversity, age doesn't quite fit in here.
> You get lured in [?] with images of the lone hacker building a billion dollar [?] website overnight in his dorm and hear about the excitement of building a new product or even embarking on a new project for a client.

> It was thought that business could just hire 75% of their staff offshore for a third of the price and use that as downward price pressure in the domestic market.

> Either way you're down a dev and probably not sure why.

Corrections are emphasized. It's worth mentioning that - in addition to the ending list of things that programmers/developers/etc. should do to make themselves look professional - proper spelling and grammar is absolutely vital. When writing a commentary about how programmers deserve respect, having spelling/homophone errors detracts from that argument.
I started watching 'Portlandia' for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Its basically the HN readership. Funny stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfOKeZ-MWI
You mention yescrypt as an example of a good KDF, but its main design goal is to be a password hashing function!

The main difference between a password-based KDF and a password hashing function is that the KDF usually needs to support variable-length output. Otherwise they perform the same task: take a secret string of low-entropy s, and stretch the cost of breaking it to 2^(s + w) for some work factor w. In other words, a KDF is a superset of a password hashing function, and it's OK to use it as one.
Actually I downvoted him for pure rudeness, plain and simple.
Your words, not mine.

My actual intention was to get the OP to move away from an emphasis on the "Ivy League" brand, which I think people need to stop putting up on a pedestal.
Wikipedia Supports Emojis?
Take a Look!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%9F%98%84
I've been working with Julius a lot, another open-source speech recognition engine.

How easy did you find it to work with NLTK?

Did you have a lot of NL experience before this project? Do you think something like NLTK would be easy to pick up?
Does this help you?
https://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/
I'm always in inference mode, which is what makes "Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?" so irritating. It feels like you can grasp the meaning if you just think a bit harder, but it's just linguistic trolling for people like me.
It does when the "insight" is about respect for programmers and professional conduct. Frequent spelling and grammar errors do not convey a professional, respectable impression.
We use HuBoard, and while it's definitely preferable to managing issues without an overview, it is also fairly inflexible in our experience.

We will have some feedback about this coming your way. :)
Yea, maybe I'll try one.
If the technology is covered solely by expired patents, I doubt any judge would call that infringement. Is there even a concept of amending a patent and getting it extended as a result without filing for a new patent?
Same here, six week old daughter. Best feeling ever.
The whole purpose is to spur innovation, not allow for blatant copying.

The point in contention is whether or not Beats innovated, or just copied.

And please, for the sake of intelligent discourse, don't say "the forefathers would have". It's so alarmingly meaningless and just strikes the conversation with a weird cultish vibe.
I fell in love with this font: http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/

The only thing that bothered me was not having a slash in the zero so I added one.

I just wanted to throw this out there and see if anyone likes it.
You're missing a few pieces of the stock market. The total number of shares increases over time, and some shares pay dividends.

Edit to add: My point is that the total value of the stock market fluctuates over time. If every sale is zero-sum, how are such fluctuations possible?
Review: Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1, An e-ink device ideal for notes and papers
You have your numbers very, very wrong. You're about 10 or 11 orders of magnitude off.
I haven't used CoreOS, mainly just watched, but have you tried deploying a Galera cluster at a scale of 5 containers?

That is more likely what they'd have in mind than a single MySQL master container.
Unfortunately, once you place the imprimatur of machine learning upon it, people will tend to conflate "perceived safety" with "actual safety." At the extreme, it becomes a way to create an apparent but false confirmation of the prejudices of the crowd.

This is one of those rare cases in computer science research where there is an actual ethical component to the work being done; while machine scoring landscapes according to their relative attractiveness is fairly harmless, scoring them according to "perceived safety" without mentioning the obvious limitations thereof is heading towards trouble. As I recall, there was a crowdsourced app last year that supposedly would inform its users if they were in "bad" neighborhoods (using the opinions of other users to tag areas), and it received a wave of criticism for essentially similar reasons.
I was speaking about unsafe by design.

Sockets are library/OS responsibility.
Slightly related, for arch linux users (and probably others but I can't say for sure) the infinality fonts bundle can GREATLY improve font rendering, and is also highly configurable to taste: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality-bundle+fonts
Q: how do they do this with no fee?

If some guy on the street corner offered to watch all my cash in a secure facility for free, I would worry a little bit.

For as much fun as banks can be, they do provide some pretty good oversight and legal protection. The dude on the street corner, not so much.
Me too! Really enjoyed your article applying the concept of the assemblage and (de-/re-)territorialization to software development. Just finished a reading of "Difference & Repetition" myself and have been working on applying some of his concepts from that book and ATP to programming as well. I think software is a particularly rich area for application. Excited to see where you go next and refreshed to see someone thinking in a similar vein :)
For me on OSX/chrome, the emoji to properly renders in the address bar but not on HN or wikipedia. Suggestions?
How did you find that?

EDIT: if I wasn't using Chrome I wouldn't have to ask :-(

I don't know how I feel about the Emoji trend.
One tip I can give: As soon as you start getting closer to a normal number of hours of sleep, get some exercise. You'll feel so much better.
Unicode "Bridge at night"?
Same on Windows 8.1 + Chrome
It appears in the favicon in the comments on chrome also
Chrome does its own text rendering and their font doesn't have characters for the emoji code points. There are a number of chrome extensions that add these characters. (Here's one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for...)

You can also use Safari on OS X.
> Patents are really designed for the "little guy".

That's the marketing by the pro-patent camp. However, it's the big guys that benefit, at the expense of the little guys. The big guys can afford the lawyers, the filing fees, and the patent war chests.

How often do we hear about the little guy receiving a patent infringement cease & desist letter by a patent troll or large company?

Patents add another layer of complexity to the market resulting unnecessary expense & process for everyone. We focus on hiring lawyers for protection & litigation instead of innovation. Derivative works result in innovation. In the end, the ultimate beneficiaries of patents are the patent attorneys & bureaucracy. Hardly a recipe for innovation.

The little guys are at an advantage over the big guys because they are more nimble & can explore markets that are "too small" for the big guys.

And then, why are we choosing to favor anybody at all? Why not let the free market determine the winner? Manufacturing, development, & marketing are becoming more decentralized as time moves on. Why have a centralized legal roadblock to new product development?
This is a problem in Chrome only. It renders fine in Firefox and Safari.
Why are emoji's being used in URL's now... ?

For me, it's just a square. On Windows 7 SP1 + Chrome.

This is not a good trend to set.
People have been paying to look at it in cinemas for a long time, that's about as much social proof as you need.
Sure, you'll probably need dedicated low latency hardware. But that's probably relatively cheap, and shouldn't prevent apple ,or even a smaller company doing something in that area.
Will give it a try, thank you.

Edit: just installed Streak - it's exactly what I needed!
Where is the text you find confusing? What I found about licensing says "Code produced by the CoreOS team is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license." That's extremely clear about what the license applies to.

http://coreos.com/products/
For anyone that is seeing the square block, if you have a browser that supports emojis it looks like an emoji bridge. It's interesting that even though Chrome won't display it in the text, it does render the emoji in the title bar of the tab.
http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?p...
Win7/Chrome doesn't render it..
Outlook 2010 (rss reader) does :)
> The point in contention is whether or not Beats innovated, or just copied.

Have you heard of derivative works? Are you aware of how derivative works have contributed to innovation throughout the course of human civilization?
Do any of the audiophiles on HN know if it's just fashionable to hate Bose or are there actually double-blind studies done in which music listeners consistently rate Bose as worse than price-comparable alternatives?

I'm not an audiophile by any means, but I also get the sense that many around me seem to have disdain for Bose. I also stumbled into possession of QC headphones and some Bose speakers for my house and think they're great. So I've always wondered at what the precisely stated and justified beef is.