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by yid 12y ago
> or who don't fit into an obvious mold, Genuine question: is that why you went in a completely different direction with Capn'proto than protobufs?
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by yid 12y ago
It's just another step in a stochastic optimization algorithm.
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by yid 12y ago
> sheer volume of quotes overwhelms most systems. I'm curious about what volumes we're talking about here. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I don't understand when FPGAs are needed (or justify the development cost)
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by yid 12y ago
> We don't ask the company to pay anything for 30 days, to see how it goes. I genuinely would be surprised to see a company pay a sourcing fee in under 30 days, sometimes 60 or 90.
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by yid 12y ago
You might need some fact-checking. Looking at the "highest recorded temperature": http://instanerd.me/v/97 The 1922 temperature record was recently judged to be most likely erroneous, which makes the Death Va
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by yid 12y ago
> However if you are using a load balancer in front of a handful of node.js app servers, does this offer any advantage over just using an arbitrary port > 1024 Nope. It's only useful if you're using a single server, e.g. on
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by yid 12y ago
Port 80 is not some magical port, it's just privileged by convention. Routing iptables from port 80 to 3000 does not hurt nor improve your security situation in the least.
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by yid 12y ago
> Another Note: This runs on port 3000. Making it run on port 80 would be possible using a reverse proxy (such as nginx), but for this setup we will actually run the app servers on port 3000 and the load balancer (on a different server)
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by yid 12y ago
I have the same requirement for my notes. Looks like Laverna stores notes on Dropbox in JSON, which is fantastic.
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Laverna: Self-hosted Evernote alternative(laverna.cc)
180 points by yid 12y ago|50 comments
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by yid 12y ago
I'll start the conversation. The best tool I've found is an open-source tool called Laverna: http://laverna.cc Self-hosting possible, Dropbox sync, tags+tasks+search, Markdown support, clean UI.
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Ask HN: how do you organize your startup research?
20 points by yid 12y ago|9 comments
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by yid 12y ago
> I add that Python is excellent at data representation and transformation Indeed! It's a very practical extraction and reporting language.
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by yid 12y ago
Renting in SF comes with its own set of strings and scams/opportunism, for example a lot of condos set out an attractive initial rent, but then either (a) tack on ridiculous extras like paying for water, and/or (b) raise your rent
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by yid 12y ago
The whole point is that nothing new is being said here. Node is obviously a polarizing issue, and if you look at my comment, I was careful not to make the claim that its good for everything. "JS isn't without its flaws," I sa
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by yid 12y ago
Sigh...commenting on a Node thread on Hacker News, what was I thinking?
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by yid 12y ago
It's a little tiring to see some of the same old fallacies about Node repeated ad infinitum in this thread. I suspect a lot of the complaints stem from poor development practices or not understanding norms in JS. JS isn't without
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by yid 12y ago
The biggest challenges you're going to have aren't going to come out of CLRS. Pick a large open-source project and practice getting up to speed with the architecture and organization, because that's what you'll be doing
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by yid 12y ago
I'm sure you're hurting and upset, and I do sympathize, but I don't think you have a leg to stand on. At multiple junctures, you sold assets related to your app, which suggests to me that it was a half-hearted effort, even th
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by yid 12y ago
Think of the SQL GROUP BY functionality as an example. You have a giant terabyte-scale text file that is a CSV of observations (say the raw US census results). You want to group people by some facet (say zipcode and household income) and co
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by yid 12y ago
Sounds like you might have been selected for their know-your-customer compliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
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by yid 12y ago
That link only shows results for a SELECT COUNT(1) query -- hardly evidence that its "faster than Impala". That's about as trivial a benchmark as one could imagine.
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by yid 12y ago
Autism and asperger's are now on the "autism spectrum disorder": http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disord...
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by yid 12y ago
> And _all_ of that interest was shot dead due to attempts to own identity by enforcing the use of real names[1]. It was an understandable, safe, and wrong decision at the time. Facebook's commercial power was widely attributed to t
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by yid 12y ago
Thank you very much for those links. In particular, the Stroustrup book looks phenomenal at less than $20 used for a dead tree version.
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by yid 12y ago
I have to say Doxygen has matured considerably in the last 4 years. Color me impressed.
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Ask HN: jumping back into C++ after 4 years, what did I miss?
58 points by yid 12y ago|25 comments
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by yid 12y ago
SWEs at Google and Facebook regularly get signing bonuses, but the trick is that sometimes you have to ask for one.
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by yid 13y ago
That's not completely true--if you load your route on wifi and start turn by turn navigation, you can be completely offline.
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by yid 13y ago
Google maps will cache the current map view at the highest detail resolution if you type "ok maps" into the search bar and hit go. You don't even need an active SIM to use gps and zooming. I cached all of central London and u

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