mayank

33 ms·

301.
by mayank 13y ago
Google "Hindawi journal scam". These guys regularly send me spam soliciting publications, and are most likely a thinly veiled paper factory. I wouldn't trust a thing I read in a Hindawi "journal".
302.
by mayank 13y ago
That doesn't really change what MatthewPhillips said. "Framework" can mean everything from Rails to startup.sh that boots up your node process. Express really doesn't do much, and is closer to middleware than a full framework.
303.
by mayank 13y ago
It's a whole team, actually :)
304.
by mayank 13y ago
Not sure what you're getting at. "Walk" usually means a sequential scan. An index is sorted, so you can binary search.
305.
by mayank 13y ago
No kidding. Without details, it really sounds like the author is a bit clueless. He mentions the lack of joins, but doesn't say a word about Mapreduce. "MongoDB needs to walk the index from the beginning to the offset..." You don't "walk an
306.
by mayank 13y ago
Technically, yes :) But I had a beer waiting for me at a bar...
307.
by mayank 13y ago
I link to a few others in my post.
308.
by mayank 13y ago
You should be able to examine that by looking at the MySQL data dump. I save titles as they appear on /newest, indexed by href, so you should be able to see title editing in action.
309.
by mayank 13y ago
Why on earth would that be slower in a relational db? That makes no sense, since indices in both nosql and relational dbs are variants of b-trees.
310.
by mayank 13y ago
Bottleneck, or opportunity?
311.
Should you submit to Hacker News?(mayank.lahiri.me)
127 points by mayank 13y ago|58 comments
312.
Data mining Hacker News submissions (with downloadable data)(lahiri.me)
4 points by mayank 13y ago|0 comments
313.
by mayank 13y ago
It's been running for about a week I think, and I'm just taking the top 80 or so tags by article count. Glad you like it :)
314.
by mayank 13y ago
Funny, I just built a HN article catcher that uses Diffbot to collect and classify submissions from the /new page [1]. I've been a Diffbot fan for quite a while now (although their entity recognition/tag classifier needs a bit of work as yo
315.
by mayank 13y ago
These look a lot like the posters sprinkled around Facebook HQ: http://bluebones.net/2012/09/move-fast-and-break-things/
316.
by mayank 14y ago
I might buy a mouse because of the deal, and if the quality is as good as you say, I'll be back in the future for more. But as of now, mice are commodity to me--the coupon helps push me into trying out a "luxury mouse". It's risky but perha
317.
by mayank 14y ago
FWIW, it's an inevitable occurrence of cargo cult management, a sort of post-hoc reasoning, and it's not just young CEOs of tiny startups that are prone to it (but immaturity and inexperience do seem to be correlated with this particular br
318.
HN Feature Request: Jump back to original comment after replying
1 points by mayank 14y ago|0 comments
319.
by mayank 14y ago
Check out caolan's async module. It changes how you think about writing nontrivial js.
320.
by mayank 14y ago
Perhaps you could enlighten us about these security issues or how any language "plays big data and science". I'm genuinely curious about what you mean by security issues, even though the rest of your comment is bizzarely bitter.
321.
by mayank 14y ago
That's the tradeoff, with the crux being that adding more memory for a bit of JIT-compiled bytecode is preferable to having an app that just won't work.
322.
by mayank 14y ago
Aah, interesting approach.
323.
by mayank 14y ago
This is my login screen: http://imgur.com/w8gLXmY Upvotes on this story suggest that others are seeing the same thing too.
324.
by mayank 14y ago
It's quite simple: speed. Javascript engines predating V8 tended to be on the slow side, which discouraged in-browser scripts from being complex or large. As a result, nobody really cared about the JS object model or the flexibility of the
325.
Ask PG: No more new accounts at HN?
9 points by mayank 14y ago|12 comments
326.
by mayank 14y ago
Keep in mind that if you're not an experienced C/C++ coder, you're going to be (largely) benchmarking your relative ability in either language rather than the intrinsic speed of each language.
327.
by mayank 14y ago
You can try my news side project: http://newstandoff.com
328.
by mayank 14y ago
If it doesn't consume electricity at a high rate, it's not proof of work, ie there's nothing to "fix".
329.
by mayank 14y ago
Yes, it's more of a meta-search engine that fuses results from Bing, Yandex, etc.
330.
by mayank 14y ago
Gmail already integrates with Google Drive. This is a cheap way for Yahoo to replicate that functionality.

More ›