skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember Jason (of the Archive Team) telling me that Yahoo! had very little bandwidth that they were allocating toward Geocities and that downloading was horridly slow. Getting even 1MB/s was nearly impossible.

I'm wondering if Yahoo! increased the available bandwidth (or maybe everyone else just stopped using it, increasing what was apparently available) so that when you got to it then it was nice and zippy compared to when the Archive Team hit it earlier in the year.
Visualising Transport Data for Data.gov.uk
FWIW, this is true of all of Emacs outside of the "core" that has the most users. It's written in C and the parts that only have a few maintainers don't get read very often. The result is flakiness.

(I spent a lot of time reading the font/face handling code to make eslide auto-resize text. I couldn't figure out how to do it cleanly, as the API did not work as documented or coded (!). Eventually I hacked around it, and my hack works fine. Welcome to Emacs Lisp programming...)
Right, AI isn't recognizable as the Scifi thing you might have in mind... it's automatic financial trading software, or it's robotic path finding or target acquisition.
This is very neat, but for some reason I'm not super impressed. I don't mean to be glib, but genetic algorithms have been producing impressive results for a while. And if you feed them a huge amount of raw experimental data, I have no doubt and I am not the least bit surprised they can discover and fit equations to it.

I suppose there is a possibility that for some more complicated things formulas don't converge and thus a brute force search would not be able to optimize a solution. However for most thing, I do expect solutions derive from other solutions and things converge.

Still, often the most brilliant things seem obvious in hindsight, kudos to the team.
I think a healthy industry eco system requires life long investing from insiders. People starting and creating the business. The people shaping the landscape are the insiders creating and investing in ideas they believe in. This model was the way that was done in the past so why can't it be done again. Especially when the alternatives don't look that good or aren't available like they were.

I interpret the article saying if you don't have a profitable business then you don't have a business. Work on getting real sustainable profits together then apply this model.
He might have saved even more electricity had he gotten a laptop with the same specs as the mini. My Dell Inspiron 1525 has a 65W power supply, vs the similarly-equipped Mac Mini's 110W, and that 65W includes the screen. Adding an LCD to the Mac Mini adds another 30-50W.
Full print-view article:
http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3667
I apologize for initially considering you a crank, but gcc 4.2.1 agrees with you.
Hah!

Here is the war journal:

http://www.reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html

:-)

[Edit:

Quote of the day.

"It doesn't matter what you do with apache, if there is a problem you can always solve it with mod_rewrite. The question is how." -- jacquesm]
Outliers has also recently made me think more seriously about the role of luck in an individual's overall success. It is amazing the role it plays. In fact, I'm really suprised that the book didn't mention Lord Timothy Dexter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter), who is the epitome of success by luck.

However, it hasn't changed my overall viewpoint that it is largely up to the person to continually position themselves such that they are receptive to luck. Another way to look at it is by stating the corollary... that the only certain path to failure is to not try.
Gun control in the U.S.. I used to be more in favor, with the goal of a safer society as well as one less inclined to the isolation of sub-populations.

Now, I'm considering widespread ownership more in terms of a last bulwark against one or another form of totalitarian rule. Perhaps it is a limiting factor against pushing the population too far. You might call this a knee-jerk reaction; nonetheless, it's on my mind.

I still consider most unfortunate the additional, lethal violence that the ready availability of firearms (legal and illegal) seems to cause. The question for me is, is it a -- I hate to use this term -- necessary cost.

I feel a little uncomfortable writing about this, nor do I claim to be especially informed on the topic, but since you asked.
"Since Startup School is attended mostly by hackers"

I don't know that this is actually true. Judging by the conversations I had with a few handfuls of random attendees, a significant portion of the people there were business students from Berkeley.
Man, I really could've used this on a project that was due last friday.
Is there any small chance that you could release some of the code that you used to scrape it? I'm interested in archiving some site and wondering what you used to execute it? Just scripting a lot of wgets?
I am just surprised. I remember how much stress I went through to get basic things working, and I am surprised that other people were willing to waste so much time. (Example: installing libxml2 for XML::LibXML and the system perl.)

So it's not disgust at all, it's just shock. I keep hearing how nice of a development platform it is, but I couldn't get even the simplest things to work. (I used OS X for 2 or 3 years about 4 years ago. I still use it for my under-TV computer, as I am too lazy to configure Ubuntu there. But I am close to not being too lazy...)

Anyway, Linux is broken for many users, but not those that use conkeror, emacs, urxvt, xmonad and has Intel wireless and video. I am the user that Linux is best for.
Started using it recently. I'm finding that it's very limiting. It has very few features. For instance: no fixed/duplicate/wontfix/etc resolve status. Just "closed".
The doom that fell upon medical progress in the US
The technical debt is ever-present to my mind, but this is a registration page that involves a credit card transaction and represents direct revenue to my company.

It at least has to be tested thoroughly. The rest of the apps in the project are less important that in that respect (used internally, primarily).
That's very well possible. I have no idea how they were doing it, I have about 20 different IPs in the farm that is doing this, 8 machines in total.

Even the mail server is doing double duty :)

The only thing that is still doing what it is intended for is my main webserver, everything else is going flat-out. There is some risk of duplication but I'll take care of that later.

I'm getting nearly 150MBit/sec peak so I really can't complain.

I have to hand it to my provider though, we get transit times that are just about unbelievable, when it's quiet beteen 30 and 50 ms rtt, and when it's busy still under 150. That helps a lot.
The 40GB Kingston drive looks promising. I'm hoping that the larger capacity Intel drives will drop in price as well.
The article seemed to say that their system derived the law of conservation of energy from pendulum data. That seems pretty impressive to me, but maybe that's because I don't know enough physics to see how it's an obvious conclusion?
Thanks for the answers. I guess I was really asking if anyone is actually using the techniques.

E.g. in finance, I'm under the impression most people still use standard pricing models as opposed to something like an ANN (or other statistical learning algorithm). The reason that I was told is that people are afraid of using some generic black box and instead prefer something like black-scholes (or whatever) that has an explanation they can understand.
A new approach to artificial intelligence
HN won't let me reply direct...so I'm replying to myself.

If I spend $30 on a keyboard mouse/combo. And it breaks in 6 months, I can just throw it away and get a replacement and still have coffee money. And in 6 months, the keyboard/mouse combo I buy for $30 will be better than the one that I could have bought 6 months prior for $70. No matter what I bought, I'd likely be in the market for a replacement (or would just end up with one anyways) a year later.

You've used the word "investing" in a way that makes no sense. A BMW is not an investment anymore than is a computer. Unless they are really something special (like a Veyron), both cars and computers loose value over time.

The comparison to cars is apropos, similar to the subject at hand, I could buy two or three Toyota Corollas for one BMW 3xx, get to where I want on time, more reliably, with better gas mileage (read: lower TCO), and the only thing I'll suffer for it is not looking like a pretentious prick will doing it. And I'd still have one or two backup cars for demolition derby or loaning out to friends.

The real difference is that computing technology looses value so fast (even faster than cars) that to think of them as anything other than nearly disposable is a fallacy. AND at any rate, an Apple is not a BMW as a PC is to a Corolla. They are both Corollas, just one has a bit more chrome on it, for which you'll happily pay a 40% markup for.

Apple wants you to think that what they are making is so fantastically special that you'll buy their overpriced commodity hardware thinking you will keep it forever. Only until next year when they come out with the same thing but case colors and an extra USB port.
"It sounds dumb to me to write: "helped build X". Any ideas?"

Not all that dumb. But try to include concrete numbers about the value added to the company because of the team.

Rather than "helped build X", write "helped reduce operations costs (numbers if possible) by (whatever it was your team did)."

The goal of a resume is to get an interview, so you need to pique the interest of the reader. Showing that you were at least part of a process that made money or reduced costs suggests you can help do the same for someone else.

Also, pointing out how your contributions (if even via a team) affected the bottom line should indicate you have an important awareness of business needs.
Another difference is that:

array[-1]

is not valid, while

pointer[-1]

can be valid, such as if it points to the middle of a data set.
Best Way to Evaluate Potential Employees
Yes, just a bunch of wgets. That's the principle anyway.

But it is quite a bit more involved because you somehow have to avoid duplication and retrying of stuff that simply doesn't exist. Then there's the problem that the urls weren't case sensitive, which causes wget to retrieve much more than necessary.

The code I wrote is pretty geocities specific, I highly doubt it has any value outside of that (other than a sustained DDOS maybe ;) ).
This seems so obvious there must be a good reason why they're not doing it. Anyone know?
Enumerable should read as 'iterator' and Smalltalk provides for and while loops (though implemented differently) because they're useful.

The chaining isn't actually chaining. He really should know what the evaluation order is. This is why it would be nice for people to read SICP, it has a section on it: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html...

It would be much easier to learn Smalltalk than to deal with Ruby's weird syntax shit and it's blocks/procs crap.
One of the wisest things I've hard anyone say about running a company, wasn't in there.

"We're fine with making mistakes and looking stupid. Eventually you get judged not by how you look, but by the value you provide to people. There's a lot of pressures inside companies where people want to optimize for how things look." -- Mark Zuckerberg
Apple fanboyism is not powered by rationality or facts.
Pay-to-pitch eliminated at Fusion VC Forum in Vancouver
I have no idea why they changed this, I noticed it recently and I can't figure it why.

User testing must have somehow played a role, I hate to blame non-technical users but... still I can't believe anyone gets better results when the keywords are optional.

The odd thing is I remember switching from AltaVista to google, before google you always had to discount the first bunch of results, but google was just so amazingly accurate. And yet now I find myself skipping the top results in a google search.

I remember when google bombing first started, it didn't bother me much, but then google tried to counter it and I could swear searches got a bit worse. And recently they've gotten even worse.

It's a shame this seems to be destiny of all truly great things.
I'm a modeler who works with experimenters. Their general attitude is that unvalidated models are about as useless as unexamined measurements.

In that context, this sounds like a nice piece of work-- it integrates the data analysis and model validation steps.

However, it's also clear that the algorithms were fed pertinent data from a meaningful physical setup. In other words, good experimental design carried a lot more of the burden of the discovery, than the computer algorithm that sorted through the data.
This would help to distribute requests for individual objects, but doesn't help for multi-get requests. The problem is adding more nodes increases the number of actual requests a multi-get call needs to make (assuming you're asking for a sufficient # of objects they are likely to be distributed across all nodes). This decreases the # of keys requested per node but increases the total number of requests to the cluster. Because the bound was on throughput of requests (bound by CPU), minimizing the number of keys per request to a node doesn't help.

The proposed solution is to instead replicate nodes and load balance read requests. In this case, this doubles your read capacity, though you must write twice (or N times depending on your replication level).
If it's truly a really small thing, I just do it. Otherwise, "that's outside the scope of the original estimate, we can do it for ______ on top of the original agreed amount."
Believe in your product
Possibly a title reworking is in order so it looks less like spam...

edit: exactly, thanks.
I've always been weary of the advice to keep your resume at 1 page. Mine has always been exactly 2 pages. To get it down to 1 page, I suppose I could cut entire items and make me seem more 1-dimensional, or I could make the specifics more general (e.g. remove "increased sales by 23% in 6 months" kind of statements) which makes the resume much less noticable.

I've always just chosen to make it 2 pages. And I've gotten every job I've ever applied for (though this is only in part thanks to the resume of course).

Now this doesn't mean disregard the advice about making your resume 1 page. It just means that there are no hard-coded rules about your resume, interview, etc, that will make or break your chances.
In my experience and from statistics I have seen there is little correlation between intelligence and religious inclination. For example Donald Knuth is strongly religious. (Evidence: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/things.html. ) But can anyone honestly deny his intelligence?

That is not to say that there is no correlation. In general educated people are more likely to be exposed to thoughtful commentary on atheism, and are therefore more likely to consider the idea. But the correlation seems to be with exposure, and not propensity to be convinced by it.
Could this be used to improve the list of suggested words for Android text entry boxes? It seems like something that is aware of grammar could help filter that list, but I don't know if it would work on partial sentences.
The feeling of "spirituality" is certainly universal; after all, so many people have it that it would be absurd to call it purely a cultural construct. However, as far as we can tell, the generation of these feelings is not associated with any external sensor, the way that the experience of seeing is connected with your eyeballs. In all probability, the feeling of religiosity is mind-bound phenomena, much like love and awe, and are not capable of detecting any real external phenomena.

On another note...

I'm an atheist, but I wasn't religiously abused as a kid. I just am interested in science. The fantasies of others is considerably less entertaining than understanding the nature of the universe.
Nimbu = Lemon in Hindi
Just a heads up: The "some interesting pages" link (http://reocities.com/tablizer/) on this page (http://reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html) returns a 404.
Alternate Sorting Orders
Well, this is the underlying logic indeed. What the author mentions is seeing 50 requests for 100 friends, where these friends might be divided into 3 servers. So, the keys are hashed to servers, i.e., if there is only 1 multi-get request, each server would see only 1 request. However, if there are 50 multi-get requests, each server would see 50 requests irrespective of the number of keys (friends) it caters to.
In lieu of having a poll, I'll say in a comment: Yes, most definitely.
I usually summarize qualification as they apply to the job in question in the cover letter.

Another thing I do, rather than taking up space in your resume with a separate summary, is to simply make the important words/qualifications bold in your resume. That makes it easy to skim without using up more resume real estate.
LED backlighting is nice. But since these are LG panels, I'm sure we'll see them in refrigerators and washing machines by year's end.
I recently changed my mind about the quality of the producers and consumers on HN.
You're hinting at a general rule that goes something like "the most salient facts go at the top".

When I was trying to get my first job out of college, the fact that I'd graduated from a well-known school with a decent GPA was really important, and mentioned at the top. Ten years later, the fact that I went to school is just barely interesting enough to sneak in at the very bottom of the page, and my grades aren't worth mentioning at all.
Sure, since it's a software service thing the phone would need to talk to the service. I don't know if full-blown AtD would be necessary for this kind of feature but with the existing language model it'd be pretty trivial to add a call to AtD to make this kind of thing possible.
Where do you live? If it's somewhere warm I'd say not having fans might be part of your cost savings.

It would be much more compelling if you were giving us an apples-to-apples comparison with regards to the dates. My electricity bills in the winter are 1/6th what they are in the summer (although that's due to air conditioning).

[Edit: whoops, I misread the examples in the OPs link; for some reason I thought the lower bills were in the cooler months, and that is not the case. Still, my question stands with regards to wanting to make apples-to-apples comparisons]
Your power supply only documents an upper bound. It does not tell how much power your device actually uses.

Oddly, on laptops the power supply may not even be capable of satisfying the peak power consumption. There are laptops that can only go to full peak usage if they have their battery in and charged. The charger just covers average consumption plus charging current.
Is that the Mini's power supply max rating, or its average power draw?

I'm guessing the mini has a bit of extra power for USB devices and when the processors really kick it up. Would be fairly easy to test... where's my multimeter..
Don't worry, I've got them.

Restoring all this is going to take some time, it's spread out over a number of machines right now.

This is the master copy:

http://org.reocities.com/tablizer/

But that does not include all the other boxes, just this one.

edit: Ok, it's fixed now. Thanks again!
While your suggestion is along the right lines, keep in mind that computer power supplies are not like lightbulbs. They are spec'd to rate the maximum power they can produce to the device (and thereby draw). So, your 110W power supply is not drawing a constant 110W in the way a 110W light bulb would always being drawing 2x the power of a 55W lightbulb (all else being equal).

That being said, it is reasonable to assume that a PC with a 65W supply will generally use less power than one with a 110W supply, but much would depend on the use.
Can you clarify? You haven't been registered here for long, so I'm curious as to what sort of trends you've noticed that have caused you to change your mind.
About 15 years ago, I was at a state sponsored meeting in Minot ND. A group the state hired was there telling us about risk factors in the community. The group hired was from the west coast and all the research they cited was studies done in low income urban areas. They pointed out guns were a big risk factor. The head of one of the local social service programs took exception to this. He asked how many people in the room owned a gun. With the exception of myself, everyone raised their hands (my parents owned firearms and I never bought one myself). He then started counting upwards and more then half owned over 3 firearms. He felt the study had no relevance to the area. Examine Switzerland for another example of prevalent firearms.

People inclined to do violence to others will do so regardless of the weapons available. Swimming pools are more dangerous to children than firearms in the house. My take has always been that the weakening of one amendment will allow avenues of attack on the others.
You can keep lowering your component prices on your list till this makes sense to you. But let's be honest, you'd buy this machine no matter what because that's simply what you are into. The value proposition argument doesn't factor into fanhood.

not a knock, just an observation, I'm thinking these look pretty sexy as well
I don't understand your point about chaining and evaluation order. The example in the article is straightforward method chaining. Can you explain what you mean?
What did you do on project X? Was there a piece that you were responsible for? Something you're particularly proud of?
Quite so, my Studio 1555 is a 65W unit and my LCD monitor is now aging. Even with my 60W Acer AL1916W drawing power I use less than the Mac Mini would. And when I don't need it I turn off the LCD.

Doing a little math based off my electrical bill, my laptop and LCD (together) cost me $112.57/yr USD. At roughly $240/yr for the Mac Mini alone ... I'd say that my Dell laptop wins out.
>not to mention the whole thing reeked of plasticy cheapness

Well, it is a cheap combo. ;)
Mine is the opposite, for not having AC. Winter bills are much higher.

The month of the change is probably a very important factor. If you make the change between January and February, or June and July, the weather is probably a minimal factor if at all.
Well, the point is is that while maybe the guts are off-the-shelf, but the system design is not.
Ask HN: what's stopping you from launching?
hearing about Paul Bucheit's first version of gmail always makes me realise how much of a perfectionist I'm being.

what's stopping you from releasing a demo/beta right now? For me, it's the design.
It's high-end because it's Apple. Any more performance, and it'd be a supercomputer.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_...
For me, it's getting over the attrition of not starting what I really want to work on.
Apple would have to get their playback environment up to media center standards. Even the Apple TV was a usability nightmare by home theater standards.
Side benefit of low power: low noise.

That's actually the first thing I check when buying a new computer. How silent is it?
My desire to become a doctor. As a college undergraduate in a biomedical engineering major there's a lot of contact and allure toward that field, but after extensive shadowing experience in the ER I realized that while I undeniably admire those who can become doctors, there is absolutely something missing, for me, in that profession:

The ability to innovate, build, create, explore. An MD's life is more oriented toward dispensing the benefits of knowledge than actively seeking, crafting more.
give me a segment of text that was in there and I'll scan for it.
A lot of non-technical people lately seem to type whole questions and sentences in the search box. Syntax analysis is hard for them, it seems. But Google now encourages this and levels everything down.