skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Glfs has a severe problem with small writes, both with writing small files and small writes into large files. FhGFS does not have this bottleneck."

GlusterFS has implemented many smallfile performance enhancements and with the latest release I am seeing a 20-50% improvement on smallfile performance. There are more improvements in the pipeline:

http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Fea...

I would be curious to see these tests run on a properly tuned(readahead on bricks is important for spinning disks and read workloads, I didn't see any mention of brick tuning in the article) and on the latest version of glusterfs with the smallfile performance enhancements.
This guy is selling out hard. Coming from a guy with a more active GitHub and projects, I don't see how this guy is any different than any American college kid.
Unity Will Be Able to Build Games for Microsoft’s HoloLens
What? "The point" of selling equity for cash is to get liquidity. That is the justification for allowing founders to do it early, not to reward them when their company goes bust.

In fact, when executives sell a bunch of stock right before public companies announce bad news or go bust it often warrants an insider trading investigation.
That's an interesting approach. We probably won't do it for the same reason that you won't. The contact list experience has not been really great for us. We are going to press on, I think we have a 50-50 chance of making it.

I feel like the world needs a good way to send birthday cards to friends, someone is going to figure it out and we have a good shot at it.

We were on the old API for as long as possible. We made the switch a little ahead of schedule. So far it is going OK.

What app are you working on? Feel free to hit me up, my email is in my profile.
I hit a speedbump pretty fast when they wanted me to give up my address book. Yik Yak never asked for that. Yik Yak is still on my phone. Both are kind of crappy ideas, but if there was a clear winner it was the people that just let me use the damn app.
A lot of the major accounting agencies have a 2 week break around christmas because they expect tax season to be busy.
Wow. This is really really good. blows sublime away for node / html / js
> Why would I pay so dearly to do something I can already do much more generally?

For the same reason you might pay to use a typed language, when an untyped language is more general. Or why you might pay for encapsulation, when globals are more general. Or why you might pay for structured programming, when GOTOs are more general. Or why you might pay for a VM, when machine code is more general. And so on.

I also don't see why it's difficult to mix and match monadic/non-monadic IO. We can convert back and forth easily: "return" turns a non-IO value into an IO action and "run" (AKA "unsafePerformIO") turns an IO action into a regular value. We can think of it as just delaying and forcing function calls; in the same way that we can think of booleans as their Church encodings.

What's more, in an imperative context like the JVM, everything is already in IO by default, so we never need to do any conversion! Nothing becomes 'incompatible', since the JVM lets us perform side-effects whenever we like.

I think the more important distinction between the JVM and IO a-la Haskell is the laziness in Haskell. Without laziness, it would be awkward for a JVM language to abstract this stuff; in the same way that it's awkward to write ifThenElse as a function, or to write short-circuiting boolean operators.
Spot on. A lot of what's very challenging for today's web startups, like hiring, is easy for startups in cleantech, since there's so few funded startups. Conversely, it feels an order of magnitude more challenging to raise the money in clean tech...
> Are there any experts here who can give a reason why error correction in quantum computing will scale polynomially or better?

Because it takes a finite number of Toffoli/Hadamard/whatever gates to error correct local errors.

That is to say it's like check (or ECC) bits in traditional RAM. It's a couple extra transistors per memory location. Error correcting codes in general tend to be very lightweight and can be made to work locally - the the quantum world is the same.
Fair play to you. That's some shockingly explicit wage theft. Thankfully, skilled workers (such as most Hacker News readers / contributors) usually have other options and don't have to accept such nasty work conditions.

BTW, I'm impressed that you're organised enough to keep notes on such exchanges after they happen; memory alone is too damn unreliable.
Good bye Sublime and Webstorm!
Making the life of the developer easier is the highest objective

It's particularly ironic when these developers themselves use software written by other, wasteful developers. Developers are users too. They're basically shooting themselves in the foot indirectly, but I could see how someone might think it's better to spend the day being paid to mostly wait for software than to be productive...

I think it's all rather selfish.
"What happens if you make $9 now, make $15 tomorrow, but tomorrow the prices of everything you buy suddenly doubled?"

Wages go up 66% and prices double in response? Not gonna happen, except in the greed fantasies of a few petit bourgeosie.
That's not what a zip bomb is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
They look like Neilsen's Designated Market Areas to me - that weird little square one around Alpena, Michigan is a pretty strong indicator.
Nice shroom haircut.
I recall one of the full professors back in grad school commenting about how the (print) layouts in Wired magazine were so hard to read, and lamenting about his old eyes. He was immensely gratified to learn that we young grad students couldn't read the small reflective silver block text on neon orange backgrounds either.

But for the NoTCP site, I have a sneaking suspicion that this may have resulted, in-part, from only previewing the site on HiDPI (aka Retina) displays. It's an increasingly easy trap to fall into, especially for "casual" designers. My eyesight kinda sucks, but I've noticed that really good modern HiDPI displays make much lighter fonts comfortable than I'd otherwise be able to use.
Seriously? If you were a Mexican national, why wouldn't you come to the US? Better jobs, more safety, more hope for your kids. Mexico has so many problems that a trip across the border solves. I have no ill will towards anyone traveling north. It's a rational response to conditions in Mexico that seem intractable.
As a result format for web search, this could work well on big screens.

With web sites putting all the useful info in a tall, narrow bar,
the user can use their screen real estate better. Have a desktop browser tell the sites it's a mobile device with a narrow screen, get the smaller mobile version of the site, and lay the search result out in columns.
If you guys are real "hackers", why can't I just log in with my GitHub? I mean I don't want to fill out a custom username/password for your site when all my coding related stuff can be regulated from GitHub Auth.
How to generate Flask-SQLAlchemy models using Vertabelo
This seems like a complete copy of Sprig to be honest. The food is only part of the battle though- will they be able to tackle the actual backend logistics? We'll have to wait and see...
What you're saying is correct, MIT vs GPL is irrelevant if Microsoft owns the whole copyright to the project.

Contributors to .NET need to assign their copyright to the .NET Foundation (http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/faq), which seems impartial but also has a board of 100% Microsoft employees. If .NET were GPL, then only the .NET Foundation would have the power to let others create proprietary extensions, which I guarantee they would give Microsoft.
I think one of Windows 10's improvements will be a better command line.
Unity says it’ll support all of HoloLen’s flagship features, including spatial mapping (allowing you to detect real world objects around you and render things accordingly), gaze (detecting where you’re looking/focusing), and gesture/voice recognition.
Friends (a secure P2P group chat app)
> I guess the whole point is to write cross-platform code, but is the .NET environment that much better than Swift/Xcode?

Well, probably it is better if you have (say) a company full of people who know how to write C# but have never used Swift. And the whole write once run anywhere thing is nice (sure, native apps "feel" better, but if there are no native apps I'd rather have a Java version than nothing).
Microsoft announces public beta support for Mesosphere's Datacenter OS
That would be a bug in the translation. We'll investigate. Thanks!
> That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over.

If you point at a crack in the wall and say "The wall is falling over!" I'm going to laugh in your face. Then I'll get some spackle.
But Android is _open_ !
Is application dependency management in windows normally a problem? Apart from the odd runtime, I expect Windows applications to be pretty much self contained, and not dependent on any system-wide libraries (which is a huge benefit I think).

For development it's a different story, there you can have several levels of dependencies, but there NuGet at least appears at least as powerful as similar options on other platforms.
Creating vs. Disrupting
Well, thankfully there's nothing like the nightmare 1.8.6 -> 1.9 switch, and it has loads of tools working with static code that ruby could never have.
I don't know but they removed the reflow from the browser used in Motorola E 2gen and for me who only uses it for reading on the tube this almost made it unusable.

I can only read in horizontal mode or scrolling left and right on every row.

I set opera as the default browser because that supports it but apps like Pocket are unusable for reading stuff like HN comments.

According to them it's a wontfix.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378

This makes me so angry, I wish I wouldn't have upgraded from a Huawei G510... I feel I wasted my money on shit.
Secret Shutting Down Isn't the End
> I would have thought proximity could also ease tension if there is a degree of integration.

It might, but racial proximity in America often doesn't involve much integration, it is proximity of communities segregated by a combination of voluntary choice and informal discrimination. On the black/white divide specifically, there are in many areas strong cultural forces on both sides working against integration, and making it so that proximity increases conflict which reinforces hostile attitudes on both sides.
The honor is mine. Thank you for posting and allowing me to be a small part of a much greater conversation.

Keep hanging in there. Remember how hard you have worked, but also know that there is more work to be done; it's the same for all of us, no matter where we are on the path.

I love this quote from Carlos Castaneda. It reminds me that it's a life-long process:

"To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other."
This was exactly my experience, even before the hype died down. 99% of the posts were from my gay friends (and friends of friends) talking about some sexual fantasy or sexual encounter.

It was simply not compelling content, so about two weeks in I deleted it.

I wonder if there was something in the marketing or the initial group of people that created some zeitgeist that eventually killed the idea? I'd be interested to know if they actively made some effort to try and get out of that rut.
From my very limited perspective from outside Silicon Valley, Secret looked almost like an exercise in Silly Valley self-parody - like an elaborate joke that went too far. Did it implode? Yeah, sure. Did it ever make sense in the first place? Not really.

pg says that great ideas often look like bad ideas. But I think it's also true that bad ideas often look like great ideas.
The investors got exactly the behavior they wanted. They let (encouraged? obliged?) the founders to take money off the table so that they would double down on a high-risk/high-reward go-big-or-go-bust strategy. The Founders did that, and the dice broke against them. They absolutely should not give the money back, and no one should give them a hard time about keeping it.
I knew day one the idea and execution was going to fail.
How do you get good restaurant margins without alcohol sales? I wonder if the savings of not running an actual restaurant offsets that (or more).
The move toward responsive web design works perfectly with PolyBrowser... These days you can resize the website down to a narrow strip and get just the key content. We also have a user-agent switch addon that you can use to retrieve the mobile versions of websites.
This is gonna happen as soon as the tools are publically available :)
Sen. Rand Paul questions DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson about encryption, privacy
>One problem with organizations that bill by the manhour--law and consulting--is that even if the employee output diminishes, the firm still bills the same rate. There isn't a lot of incentive to keep your employees heads fresh.

I think you've hit a pretty good point straight in the head here. The article also seems to focus on a consulting company which very likely sells man-hour packages so it is on their best interest to have "heroes".
Nice blog post about how entrepreneurs should aim to create a new industry vs trying to disrupt an existing one.
The libraries still leave a lot to be asked for. Not to mention that much of the 'big data' world is all JVM.
I don't think capital punishment and creationism follow the same trend as women's suffrage, interracial marriage, etc. The issues in the article started with low state-level support and rapidly gained acceptance across the country; at some threshold the Supreme Court stepped in and said "this is now accepted as law nation-wide.

I don't have the numbers to back this up, but I don't think creation teaching and capital punishment started at a low level of support and rapidly ramped up across many states. State-level legislation on creation-teaching is limited to a few conservative areas. Capital punishment has been around forever and support for it has fluctuated with the times.

I agree that abortion doesn't really fit the pattern of the other issues in the article, though. Supreme court approval seems to have come prematurely in that case.
Coffee - born and raised on coffee, black. Milk and sugar etc adds too many calories with little benefit.
There wasn't a Google then and Apple was much weaker. But I'll hang on to my surfboard nevertheless.
> Apple was dead in the water.

That's very much debatable. As a particular counterpoint, Apple hardware had a pretty significant market share among educational deployments. There were quite a few schools that were Mac-only even as late as the early/mid 2000s, let alone in the 90's.

Now granted, a big reason why that changed was because all the homes and businesses used Windows (or some specialized Unix like Solaris or IRIX), so the education market eventually shifted to the Windows world, but that happened quite a bit after the 90's.
Krugman presents this as a dilemma between two choices.

1. Institute austerity now.
2. Institute stimulus now, pay down debt responsibly once the good times roll.

This is a sham dilemma. The real options appear to be.

1. Institute austerity now.
2. Institute stimulus now, but half-ass the debt paydown in the future, condemning future generations to a high debt to GDP ratio.

Given this real dilemma, which is worse? I don't pretend to know the answer. I know austerity sucks. I also know that governments lack the self discipline to pay down debt significantly in the future.

Which option is actually worse?
The good news is they seem to be accepting Pull Requests for updates to their documentation (along with everything else): https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-node/pulls?q=is%3Apr+...

I know that doesn't help you when you need to consume the docs, but at the very least they're allowing the community to help out (finally).
I certainly don't think this is the end. Was writing a comment but decided I will post it on my blog https://blog.scrape.it/secret-shutting-down-isnt-the-end
To be honest, the investors knew what they were signing at the time. If they didn't do their due diligence to figure out how the application was going to make any money, they deserve what they had coming for them. That's the kind of shitty "let's throw money out the window, in case we hit one successful startup" attitude that'll get us in a bubble.
An open letter to Matz on Ruby type systems
Well it seems like the market is bifurcated. One is the Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/Facebook market where the starting salary is between 100-130k USD/year. My understanding is that Amazon is basically on par with this group, possibly at the lower end of it depending the specific position.

Then there's all the other companies out there that employ software development teams, and probably pay 20-40% less than the aforementioned behemoth firms on average. If you work at one of those companies (and I do), Amazon's compensation package seems incredible. But maybe a bit less incredible if you divide it by the actual number of hours worked. Amazon is notorious for being a workaholic environment.
> Developers* are sick of proprietary stacks

And Microsoft will rescue them... Yeah, right...
What else would you want that liquidity for? Paying off the founders lets investors worry less about them wanting to sell before the investors want to sell (the investors don't have 99% of their net worth in the startup like the founders likely do).

It would be nuts to try and claw back that money. The founders surely had remaining equity which is now worthless, everyone is taking a hair cut.

> In fact, when executives sell a bunch of stock right before public companies announce bad news or go bust it often warrants an insider trading investigation.

They didn't just do this, the last round was in July 2014. It was a flash in the pan.
I worked in fast food as well for a while. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch for the restaurateurs either - at some point people want more for the demands of increased productivity, and if they don't get it they'll quit. Employers have been in a buyer's market for most of the last decade, while a great many employees have done a great deal of belt-tightening. If labor pricing is such a concern for a restaurant owner, it may be time to consider raising prices or raising the quality of the offering, or watch your employees walk across the street. there's enough churn in the restaurant business that anyone who thinks they're the employer of last resort is lying to themselves.
My guess is that they'll just add Chrome (through ARC) as an install target in the play store once ARC has been available for a bit longer.
God, its like you took a dozen unrelated words and shoved them in a blender and this is what came ou.
1. What do you mean "if they take it..."? It is their money. They gave away personal equity that was at the time worth $6M for the cash.

2. It is ridiculous to assume they pulled any move. Startups are a high risk gamble and the VCs who put money in them know it better than anyone else does. So they didn't pull a move on anyone.

3. Let's say a company raises $1M on a $3M valuation. Then in one year the valuation goes up to $300M. Would you be calling for blacklisting of those investors? Because by your logic, they should know the company was going to be so successful and should have given the founders a better deal.
Highlights from Day One of Microsoft Build Developers Conference
This has been a fascinating story to watch unfold (and experience as a user.)

When Secret came out, the addiction bug bit me hard too -- it was _extremely_ compelling. I posted. My friends posted. Everyone was checking Secret obsessively. People were "communicating" with their exes (or so they thought), people were guessing who was posting what. It was fun. It was interesting. It pulled some emotional heartstrings (I had a few interactions with "friends" who I was pretty certain I would never have spoken with in real life - i.e. bad breakups, etc.)

Then it took a nasty turn. There was gossip, there were attacks. They didn't get too bad, but the tone changed.

Then they released the Android app. More users signed up. It started to take on a high school feeling ("omg my crush winked at me"). It got more popular.

Then, at least in SF, it started being almost entirely about gay sexual fantasies. Friends in my circle started using it less, so it got less interesting to me. Eventually I stopped using it when nobody I knew was posting.

After that, I stopped following. They did some massive redesign which seemed terrible, and I didn't really pay attention after that.

In the end, it was a niche fad that had particular appeal if you were a tech person in SF. All the gossip - as taboo as it was - was interesting and compelling (I admit it!). It was a fun, exciting, interesting fad, but it succumbed to the sort of thing fads usually succumb to -- time.

The problem with these sorts of things - flash in the pan community-specific fads - is that they're _incredibly_ hard to sustain, and even harder to monetize as a business. I certainly understand the instinct of VCs to throw money at a hot app experiencing meteoric growth (and I doubly understand the response of the founders to take both the investment and the secondary $), but it was a longshot to start with.

Frankly, I admire them for giving it a shot, recognizing the reality, and returning the leftover capital. Well and rationally played all around, me thinks.