skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that C# came out with 36% more lines than Java would make me doubt much extrapolation about productivity from these numbers. You can do a token for token substitution of Java and end up with close to compilable C# code; there are only a handful of things Java has that C# doesn't, while C# has many more abstraction tools.
Eliminating Schema Rot in MPP Databases Like Redshift
This will be the world's largest plane
If humans had perfect control of their actions we would have far fewer problems, type 2 diabetes being the least of them.

You're body tries very hard to make sure you have enough nutrition. It increases hunger and reduces will power, and most long term research on diet based obesity/diabetes intervention shows that they have terrible effectiveness rates.
I don't have docs yet because I haven't written them, but it's running on AWS right now.

It runs inside of any hypervisor or on bare metal.

Feel free to email me at josh[at]terminal[dot]com if you want to talk more. I can peel back the kimono quite far (we're also in SF if you wanna meet up).
So uh, how did you find out that you match for this phrase?
Nimoy Explains Origin of Vulcan Greeting
Replace "use ActiveX" with "drive smashed-arse drunk" or "commit premeditated murder." Same answer.
I've lived in Santa Clara for 3 years and I've never seen Mountain View referred to as MTV.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. If you're committed to code quality, existing low quality code should not prevent you from doing the right thing with new code; on the contrary, doing the right thing with new code will free you to refactor or update the old code to be cleaner.
It's not really "hacking" - it's just marketing. Occasionally you may beat use a trick to beat a system, but mostly it's a bullshit buzzword that marketers came up with.

Unfortunately, it works really, really well.

I wrote a (free) book[1] on user acquisition, following the pattern of a lot of the programming tutorials that helped me learn to program. I originally called it "The Hacker's Guide to User Acquisition." The title got tons of traffic and interest - up to 100 tweets a day, many from people I'm convinced never read it. When I changed it to "User Acquisition for Developers," the traffic dropped significantly, so I changed it back. But I don't think I can live with myself, so when I have time I'm going to take the word "hack" back out of it.

Bullshit buzzwords sell. And for every critic in the comments section, this post has a bunch of upvotes. That's almost a marketing truism - a few people will be annoyed, but it's really easy to drive the masses.

[1] http://austenallred.com/user-acquisition/book/
Good lookin' out! Thanks for reporting this. Got that all patched up now.

So I guess our first end-user impression has already happened! I hope it was good for you.
Reminds of of one of my childhood favorites:

book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIM...

movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH
How long ago? And have you been able to keep it off?
Google elsewhere, another time, kind of said that they'll be pushing for HTTPS "all-the-thing". It is their agenda. An agenda I do not juge nefarious, just one I disagree with.

That said, I've gone back reread the mail and you're right, I probably jumped the gun a bit here. I did understood "migrate these features to secure-only" as disabling those features on non-HTTPS at mid/long term.

I think HTTPS "all-the-thing" trend is not necessarily a good thing. It is not _always_ needed, it can had complexity, it has a cost a it leads to an over simplification of security in general. It is a trend that annoys me a bit and I sometimes overreact about it.

Note that I distinguish HTTPS "all-the-thing" from HTTPS "when and where it is needed" for security concerns.
What is the future of the digital economy?
A lot of academics are using tools long since abandoned by their authors (typically because they were written on a research grant, and maintenance doesn't lead to publications, so only bugs that effect their ongoing research ever have any chance of getting fixed) for things like the above. I know several people who have old machines running Mac OS 9 for stuff like this!
With a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache you should not be hitting the database very often. I take this a step further and cache the entire site (not just resources) on CloudFront.
Sigh. I opened a ticket with Softlayer regarding it, too. And got pretty much exactly the same response - nothing is scheduled 'at this time' but they will 'let us know' if they need to reboot any of the hosts we're on. Joy.
Last post: January 27. Second to last post, June 10, 2014.

Not really a blog, more of a half-abandoned PR portal.
Yep. Things like this:

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/cs/core.cs#L272

Could easily be turned into one line ... not that any sane person would want to, though.
Crossing the Streams: Connecting the Dress, Spock and Everything
I am no fan of the search engine company named after a misspelling of a very large number. But nevertheless, in reading this article I immediately felt that I had missed something fundamental in my understanding of gTLDs: I had never previously assumed that any of the owners of these gTLDs were under any obligation whatsoever to open them for widespread public domain registrations.

Last year, when I argued the gTLD plan was a nefarious money-making scam cooked up by ICANN and large Internet corporations, a central premise of my rant was that Google and the rest of the usual suspects would snatch all of the best gTLDs for their own sites. I suggested that Facebook would probably buy .fb, allowing you to navigate to their site by just typing in something like "w.fb" or maybe just "fb" (I'm not sure if TLDs can resolve directly to a host as second level domains can).

I never once thought that Facebook as the owner of .fb would permit you or I to register a subdomain within .fb. My understanding was that all gTLD buyers were left to their own prerogative, be it exclusive use of the gTLD for their properties or leasing of subdomains in the traditional sense ala .com, .net, et al. In all the press coverage I consumed about the gTLD matter last year, I never assimilated a requirement for leasing of subdomains to the public.

Google's behavior with .dev is just a sideshow to the main attraction of silliness that is gTLDs.
Anyone remember this? ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(1995_The_Outer_Limits...
When comparing to reply all it will be fewer. Most people sending invites send one or two. Making that two or three, on average, is huge.

It's hard to generalize about performance like this because apps are so different. Even within Dropbox for example, there are multiple invite channels, and their performance stats aren't similar.
We were wondering if we were going to get any CAH requests. That's an easy thing for us to do, we just weren't sure about letting the product turn into that instead of a serious design tool.

Then again what does "serious" even mean.
>It's hardly the only area where a paid-for experience includes obviously unwanted advertising.

True, but we shouldn't pretend that this isn't a product of very recent history. When cable television channels started running ads, and when movie theaters began running commercials before the feature, it was really shocking to people. Most were enraged at the time.

The Overton Window has changed us.
Thanks for the link, it taught me something. I wonder if that's how Styx did that album cover long before Photoshop was invented? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_(Styx_album)
AFAIK, there's been problems with building new plugins when it comes to video codecs since these Apple changes:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2300/_in...

Here's more info on the change Apple made here with details on the issues it has caused with Quick Look:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/114578/quick-look-s...

See the post at the bottom of the link above. In a nutshell, things like Perian that used to allow Quick Look (not to be confused with the QuickTime Player) to preview a bunch of video formats got hosed when Apple switched over to "AV Foundation" or something.

Considering how many less video formats work with Quick Look after "upgrading" from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, I personally consider it "depreciated" at least in principle.

Quite a lot of Mac users (especially those that work with a lot of video formats) have been waiting for something to fix this Quick Look issue for some years now.

The best you can do at the moment is install this to see thumbnails in Quick Look for some video formats:

https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo

more info on the issue:

https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/issues/3
READY OR NOT? (App tracks social media posts and maps their likely location)
A 15x speed up in a few short years, how delightful.
>to serve the interests of The Biggest Fucking Company Ever

Going by market cap, I thought that was Apple, no? Not that it really matters.

Also, I doubt the parent commenter doesn't know what a TLD is, and it is kind of rude (and snarky) to write such things.
This article is nothing more than a thinly masked advert for Treasure Data.
It's just calories-in-calories-out. You can keep it off if you then eat below your TDEE.
Swift fun fact #1: You can use emoji characters in variable names
> I'm not sure of gTLDs can resolve directly to a host as second level domains can

I'm pretty sure that "ping pt." used to work in the late 90's - though you had to supply the trailing dot.
Can't they remove it via a software update? I know they've removed add-one before.
I'm pretty dissapointed with the news coverage of Nimoys death. He died of "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)." This is what the media reported, but it means almost nothing to me, and probably to most people. It turns out this condition is generally, but not always, caused by smoking, or have been a smoker.

Not one of the stories I have seen so far gives even a brief description of COPD.

We spend many billions on fighting terrorism, and on fighting 'crime', but most of will die of cancer, lung, or heart deceases.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-d...
That might be true, but look at .ceo or .luxury you can't buy those domains very cheaply. If google doesn't want you using a .app or any of their gtlds they can simply make them prohobitivly expensive.
It would have been nice to, as a Linode customer, to have received this information in an email at the same time it was posted on their blog. I might still receive an email it's just odd that I have to find this out by looking through Hacker News first. Ah, well...
I think CAH is probably some low-hanging fruit to at least get people to your site (though I'm probably bias because I am looking for it), but your the real differentiator is that you support full templates. Just keep advertising it as is.

Custom templates would be rad too.
It really isn't (Disclaimer: I work there and wrote the entry)

In fact, you can replace Treasure Data with anything that is:

1. Schemaless storage

2. Allows you to output results easily and reliably to MPP databases.

What I noticed is that a lot of people tout various MPP engines, cloud or on-premises, as the only storage layer with any queryable interface that they need, and we think that's a bad approach.

Some folks are starting to realize this. For example, here is an article by Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html that talks about the concept of "data lake". The problem is, most data lakes are utterly inaccessible to the data scientist/analyst camps.

EDIT: some grammatical clarifications
> At that, what is ICANN doing not making those TLDs available, not under some draconian Google lordship, but the same way you get every other TLD ever?

Other TLDs are either proprietary for countries who can set their own policy (ccTLDs), or assigned to organizations for either open or closed registration based on various policies, some "open" (in that the registry that controls them accepts registrations under generally-open terms, with perhaps some limits) and some "closed" in that they belong exclusively to one organization (closed TLDs include, e.g., .gov, and .mil; restrictive, but not exclusive, TLDs include .cat and .edu, fairly open ones include, among others, the ubiquitous .com)

The new "pay money to ICANN and get a gTLD" thing is different than the past in that you've got a large number produced on application and going to the highest bidder, rather than a small number each (other than the ccTLDs) created with their own fairly unique justification. But Google bidding on them is doing what lots of other people are doing since ICANN announced this process.

Is the process good? I think not. Is Google's use of it especially problematic? I don't see how.
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The article comes across quite ranty. This is rather unfortunate because it may distract, from an otherwise important message:

Why should corporations be granted permission to carve off valuable and generic domain mindshare for their own agendas?

One could argue "You couldn't register .blog or .dev before, and now you can't either, so whats the problem?"

Well, the issue would seem to be that it's reducing the possibility space for everyone. Indeed, there are other competing applications that would in the future be open to all, but will not come to pass, if this closed corporate capture goes ahead.

One last point to consider, why can't Google apply for .googdev or .googblog?
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We could call it "Personal Hypertext Processor". It'll be great.
DNP scares me. I don't think you ever hear much from the guys who take too much because they don't survive.
Google indexes pages that link to those pages, but can't index the pages themselves. The PageRank algorithm still sees inbound links to unindexable pages.
Ask HN: Why do we accept gore in movies/games but not nudity/sex in sitcoms?
Violent movies are constantly full of gore, and I rarely hear complaints about this. It is accepted that you will see some blood, trauma, dismembered body parts, etc, if you're watching an action movie or playing an action game (FPS games like Half Life or F.E.A.R in particular). Sitcoms on the other hand, largely have no nudity, yet they touch on mature topics like sexuality almost every episode, and occasionally, taboo. So why is it that sitcoms constantly talk about these topics but never portray them (i.e., fully uncensored nudity/sexual acts)? I've thought of this for a long time now, and I can't think of any particular reason other than that it would be "weird" because we're not used to it. Thoughts?

EDIT: What I mean by uncensored nudity/sexuality is showing actual genitalia or depictions of sexual acts, as in what you'd expect to see in pornography, except I wouldn't call it pornography here - it would have the same "realism" effect as what is currently done on the violence fronts. As far as I know, no mainstream media has made such depictions so far.
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>what is ICANN doing not making those TLDs available, not >under some draconian Google lordship, but the same way you >get every other TLD ever? I want a .dev and a .blog!

I'm probably one of the biggest slackers/ dumbest on HN and I know all about the ICANN process (it was highly covered here on HN), and how Google came to control those TLDs. How could you have missed it? It only happened in the last couple years, and it wasn't a secret or anything.
He had a minor part in Fringe, and if you watch it it's pretty clear he had advanced emphysema. I have to assume they did what they could to minimize how obvious it was, too.

I was kind of surprised to see him last this long.
Which Scientific Ideas Must Die?
I really like your writing style - it's a little verbose in places. The paragraphs detailing what each line number does would be easier just as pictures / diagrams with arrows to the source code sections. Likewise quite a lot of this could be made mode succinct, which would aid readability.

Along with that, it's really hard for me to get used to right-hand line numbers. Shoving them along the left hand side like most editors would be much much much easier to read for me, at least.

That said, I do enjoy your writing and find it quite readable.
Because sex and nudity is reserved for advertisements.
you're probably going to receive a ticket (and thus an email) for your specific linode(s) soon enough. This is a general status post for everyone ever, might be a good idea to sub to the rss feed or something.
So far as I can tell, the actual meat and potatoes of Wordpress has been largely untouched for more than a decade. I first looked under the hood in 2004, last looked in I think 2013 or so. And basically it all seemed spookily familiar.

Wordpress is the triumph of style and marketing over all other considerations. Having managed a small fleet of Wordpress sites for over a decade, I am not a fan.

And I am not very optimistic about Grand Visions In Blog Posts. I've had a few of those myself.
I could see pro's and con's. Non-child plasticity might help evade indoctrination or the effects of advertising.
Same thing on Windows 8.1
I guess that's one danger of work and hobby being the same thing: when you get tired or run into problems, you may have nothing to turn to.
everything I've read suggests exact match domains have been declining in SEO-potential, I don't think they have any merit now in 2015. Google changes it's algo pretty frequently so it's hard to get a fix for what exactly works and what doesn't.
I tend to use HTML to create my prototypes in. I find that it's a pretty good medium for the purpose and there are plenty of developer tools around that makes it easy to work with. Plus it's easy to script.
Wouldn't that be too much, too late?

The idea is to capture it before it escapes its previously permafrosted enclosure.
Man on Wire gave me an amazing "think big, think crazy" feeling.
Shame you didn't carry on. All the interesting stuff was after that paragraph.
So, who was going to spend the $175k to make these generally available? A registrar who would probably decide they would let you have one for $100/yr? Did you know that there was a process where you could object to the proposals for these TLDs before they were allocated?
This is exactly what the Baby Bells are required to do with their lines. This is why you sometimes see small regional DSL providers - they're leasing the lines from the Baby Bell and reselling them.

That might also be why the two companies doing really shady net neutrality stuff are both cable providers rather than DSL providers - the DSL providers wouldn't be able to get away with it.
I agree that the problem of schema rot is an issue, and I'm sure that Treasure Data is a great solution. I'm also sure you had good intentions posting this. However, that said your article reads like an advert rather than the kind of detailed technical explanation that HN readers deserve.

A visitor is probably looking for a technical answer to "How can I prevent schema rot?" and the only answer I see in this article is "Contact us to learn about Treasure Data".

If the technical details about how Treasure Data works and what it does under the covers beyond just sit between my app and RedShift were more prominent and the sales pitch was less prominent that would be fine. But instead it just looks like self promotion of an advert article.
Deciding actions based on consequences is consequentialism, not utilitarianism. You can just as easily have an ethical system that says an action is moral if if furthers the interest of the race, or if it saves the planet, or if it furthers your self interest, or whatever. Utilitarianism is simply a form of consequentialism which can be (kinda sorta) reduced to "an action is ethical if it maximizes society's global utility function."

Well, except for rule utilitarianism, which on one level is anti-consequentialist (though on other levels it's still deeply consequentialist).
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I certainly hope so. I run 12 Linodes in a VPN. I hope I can control the order in which the VM's are shut down and rebooted. We'll see..
Is Twitter Really Bad for Economic Growth?
> Are you doing any DPI change hackery?

No, it's just the beta version. You need to be in the G+ community.
The article that this article is about is a lot more informative and has a lot more photos.

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0127-dozens...
Exactly.

And to clarify, I very well may have missed something in the gTLD process that expressly requires—or attempted to require—the leasing of subdomains to the public. Although I was familiar enough with gTLDs to decide I was opposed to their creation, I nevertheless have spent little time actually studying gTLD requirements and processes in detail.

But even if there is such a requirement for public leasing, as you said above, the cost and process for subdomain registration could be designed by the owner to be prohibitive.

I am not joking when I say it not once occurred to me that owners of gTLDs may be required to lease subdomains. I assumed, in fact, that a great deal of them would be used as the exclusive playgrounds of their well-off owners. As far as I can tell, the linked article/blog entry doesn't actually establish that requirement, but I could be wrong.
It just means you are physically required to perform the operation - work that is automated is not physically done by anyone, and where it gets confusing is we both provide the automation yet are required to keep it running.

Heroku and other PaaS systems eliminate server administration and scaling for many companies. That same work is still fundamental and critical for organizations like Amazon. But it is really just an inefficiency we are learning how to automate completely, with manual labor in the interim.
I have protection from fraudulent purchases when using my credit card. They also give me the ability to reverse a transaction if I am not satisfied. Bitcoin gives me none of this. If I pay someone in BTC for something, and when I receive the item, it's just a box full of rocks, I have no real recourse or ability to get my money back.
Not quite a TLDR, but this is a nice presentation by Lars Bergstrom that assumes more background knowledge:

https://vimeo.com/120512790
http://planet.webkit.org
Unfortunately, you need to complain to Microsoft that is blacklisting all the current APIs for hardware acceleration.

If Microsoft was less blocking, you would have hardware decoding since a long time.
The first "rule" in this paper contains a sentence that is strikingly similar to Elon Musk's advice on learning. I wonder if that is a coincidence?

From the linked paper: "when faced with new knowledge, try to establish nodal points in the knowledge network;"

Elon Musk's advice: "it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles" (via) http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk_...
So you're not bothered by this behavior because there are alternatives, but there are only alternatives because this behavior was previously rejected. The ease with which you would give control over public concepts to private institutions without restriction is terrifying to me.
>Thus re-inventing Lotus Notes.

I would like to veto this with deadly weapons - up to and including nuclear.
An article published last year in J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry proposed that chronic emotional stress may cause Parkinson's disease:

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/85/8/878.long
I think lot of those real businesses are selling their products this way, because scam/adware networks are much cheaper than AdSense (few dollars for ten thousands of views)

I saw lot of adware ads are also for courses for _rich life_/making money on internet etc. I can imagine these businesses' target demo are people that get affected by adware.