skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They spend a ton on data centers and talent. Last quarter there was no user growth and profit per share was 7 cents. Shareholders definitely don't agree with you about this.
Threadspotter (paratools.com) and maqao.org might be of interest, at least for x86_64 GNU/Linux but I wouldn't know about C++ specifics.

[TAU is doubtless a good bet, but for what it's worth for general interest, the other common systems for HPC are openspeedshop.org, cube/scalasca (scalasca.org), and extrae/paraver (bsc.es). A good comparison of them all would be useful, but I've not found one.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
[Someone famous] [accosted by authority figures] at [somewhere controversial and well known] for using [harmless trendy tech]

"Alec Baldwin kicked off a plane by TSA at LAX for using Words with friends."

Sound familiar?

This is clickbait, not a tech discussion.
Not many other programmers are looking, though: most are happy with C, C++, and Java.

I'm looking, however, and I think I'm on the right track. I'll need time. I'll believe I've succeeded when Lisp is no longer my favourite language.
This is pretty cute. But you're missing a golden opportunity to call it "Purrlin Noise".
If you don't want to use TDD, then that's fine. But make sure that you are not doing TDD for the right reasons.

The reasons to not to TDD are:

1. You don't care about the quality of your product.
2. You don't care about the quality of your code.
3. You don't care if there are any bugs.
4. You don't care if the team slows down month after month.
5. You don't care if the project is late.
6. You don't care if the project fails.

If you _do_ care about any of these things; then you should be using a unit testing discipline that guarantees that every line of production code is covered, and checked, by automated unit tests.

Oh, and make sure you know what TDD is. TDD is NOT:

1. Writing all your tests before you write any code.
2. Slow.
3. Too Low level.

If you think TDD is one or more of the above, then you need to do some more research.

Honestly, the year is 2015, and people _still_ resist the one discipline that can actually make a project come in on time, with high quality, and good structure.
What's the point of linear algebra?
(words from Venezuelan living in Venezuela)

Easily, year to year (aug-14 to aug-15) is around 300%, maybe 400%.

Of course that depends on which items you calculate it. Maybe some industrial supply is been less affected (if you can find those) and of course any inflation number is artificially affected by the free gasoline, which not even in this catastrophic situation has been adjusted.

But if you are like me, a middle class salary dependant professional, anything you usually spend has been increased in 300-400%. A breakfast in a bakery (panaderia) on aug-14 was around 100 Bs, now is between 400 and 500 Bs. On aug-14 I averaged a weekly visit to the supermarket around 4.000 Bs, now is 12.000-15.000 Bs. I tire for your car was around 3.000 Bs, now is 20.000 Bs (and you can't find them). And so on...

Of courses salaries has been, in most cases, or freezed or marginally adjusted, so you can see where this is heading.
The Ziggurat Algorithm for Random Gaussian Sampling (2011)
I got the feeling they were mourning the GUI environment macro type scripting not the bash/python type console scripting.

ie ARexx and that stuff MacOS does or used to do with traditional desktop apps.
Oh man, I grew up in Central PA (Chambersburg). I now live in DC, but I get back to see my parents very frequently. Find my email in my profile and keep me in the loop if you do this.
There are. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29
> An air-cooled engine willing to run at much hotter temperatures...

Are they "willing to run at a higher temperature?" I feel you're begging the question, but I'd be delighted to be shown I'm wrong. The engine has cooling requirements, and they're met by careful ducting and a fan that the engine runs directly, or indirectly.

VW Beetles and early buses ran a fan off a generator or alternator via a belt from the engine, and VW type 3 and 4 engines (and at least later, if not all air-cooled Porsche 911s, (and 912s?)) are run off the engine crank. The engine needs to be cooled, needs airflow (ask a knowledgeable BMW airhead motorcycle owner). So, "why not put then engine up front" could be answered with "we've contained all cooling requirements in the engine itself, so we put it where we want."

As I read more about this there are lots of interesting considerations[0]

but I don't see "willing to run at a higher temperature" as a consideration, yet.

[0] "Internal combustion engine cooling" on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine_coo...

Edit: s/chilling/cooling/
I bet if you sign up to support the dev on Patreon you'll know all the news that's fit to print. There's also a dev blog, if you can't be as generous.

To me the dev seems really with-it, I doubt they'll announce it with a figurative chorus of silver trumpets across the inter-verse.
You should check out QPython or QPython3 from the Play Store. It includes the Python binary, an editor, and a terminal emulator. It is all bundled up. So easy to setup a child could do it.

Unfortunately installing Python manually has not gotten much easier, though it's certainly doable. You can even use Tkinter, but that is beyond the scope of this comment.
There is the "Metric Cup"[1] commonly used in Australia. It is 250 ml, which is occasionally a significant enough difference to be important. The US Cup has two definitions; the "Customary Cup" (237ml) and the "Legal Cup" (240ml). The difference between these is rarely significant.

The (rarely used) UK Cup 284ml, and the Japanese Cup is 200ml.

If you don't live in the US and get a random recipe book, these differences are confusing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29#Metric_cup
FB is a shitty company on certain levels... I was let go for being "too social" (Really? WTF!?)

I also inadvertently caught a VP lying about the status of a project. I was doing weekly status reports on certain projects, and one project VP wanted me to get my status from him only... as opposed to me going to the other contributors like I was on all other projects.

After he was not responding to my questions, I went to the direct contributors for status and found out the schedule was behind and things that were said were done were not.

I reported this, true status, along with my others.

Within hours of doing so, my manager and the rest of my team (we sat in one row) got up and left... then I got a call telling me I had to leave the building immediately.

This was just hours after having a meeting with several people telling me how happy they were I had joined and what a great job I was doing.

FUCK FB.

The internal culture is a set of ambiguous bullshit rules enforced ruthlessly. It seems that there are a lot of people jockeying to be the bid swinging dick in each area.

There are thousands of cool employees, and a ton of assholes.
It may be from the early 1970s, but compared to the mainstream programming languages of today, it still look pretty futuristic to me.
When I was just a couple months into being a teenager, I went to Russia in 1993. We were the first group of Americans allowed into the Udmurt region, and we traveled from Saint Petersburg to Izhevsk to meet our host families for a short stay, and then to Moscow before leaving the country. It was the first time in my life when I saw anything like that. I remember a few times when I said things that I still cringe at saying to this day. Prior to entering Russia, we stayed in Stockholm. Stockholm was a shining jewel compared to Saint Petersburg, which itself was a shining jewel compared to Izhevsk. I remember I asked out loud if a hotel was going to "be like Sweden", completely oblivious that I was embarrassing the Americans and Russians around me. Things like this that still make me cringe today. The city of Izhevsk was famous for being the home of the inventor of the AK-47, as well as the Baikal munitions plant, which supplied a lot of the world's Soviet ammunition. I remember seeing a group of children, perhaps six or seven years old, running through the street and drinking from a bottle of vodka. A few months later, our Russian host-family counterparts came to stay with us in the States for about as long as we were in Russia. My grandmother gave me a hundred dollars (kind of a big deal in '93 heh) to take my counterpart shopping. When we were at the store, I remember talking about buying some toys and taking my counterpart to the toy section at Walmart. You know what he did instead? He bought Levis and cans of coffee for his family. I still cringe every time I think about how I behaved back then, but for sure it taught me an enormous amount about the world in a very short time.
I assume you guys do know Regular Car Reviews, made by another Pennsylvanian? He's gotten quite a fan base now, including me.
Yeah... I hate recipes calling for "X amount brown sugar (packed)"...
Royal Bank of Canada for sure. Other banks from Big 5, probably too.
Plus, to compare it to Yahoo! is obviously a bit of a self-defeating analogy (as Yahoo! is struggling in most of its operations).
My Great Grandmother’s Industrially Processed Food
Why? Especially if you ssh into a workstation. That seems to support my point...
For me it was a Subaru STI. I enjoyed it more in almost every way than the Porsche, other than how it looked. My father has a nice 90s Miyata. I've driven it quite a bit and for the money it is a pretty well thought out and fun vehicle. He's got less into the whole car than I have in my Porsche engine and trans.
This is most certainly false. If this actually happened to you, email me: breanden@toptal.com.
>Did you live through Soviet style communism?

No, but I lived through a military dictatorship sponsored by the US (though, admittedly, 30+ years later Clinton on an official visit did say the US was sorry for its support of it) imposed on my country so that a large percentage of my countrymen who preferred socialism wouldn't attempt to try it.

Oh, and it was preceded by a prolonged civil war (provoked by the UK, and with the right-wing side given arms and support by the UK and US in a typical Cold War scenario), followed by 15+ years of imprisonment, exile and even torture for tens of thousands of the most prominent left sympathizers, among them war heroes who had just before fought heroically against the nazis, like this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolis_Glezos

So, yeah, there was that side too.

>And guaranteed house? Like the house that my best friend grew up, with his mom, his dead, and his sister, all sleeping in the same bed in their 250 sqft studio.

And in our modern day and age, in advanced countries, there are tons of people living all 4-5 of them on the same trailer house. Or even worse, being homeless. And that's in a place like the US. In Mexico, Latin America, Africa, Asia etc it can be much worse.

So, while bad in itself, I'd say a guaranteed 250 sq ft studio for 4 people, plus a job for all of them, plus the basics, plus education, etc, sure beats people living in the slums in 1/3 of the modern world, e.g. as in:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/19/shopping.societ...
Raise your hand if at first you thought this was scope creep (based on title alone)..
A game where all you do is throw money into a hole. With in-app purchases
America Is Shaking Off Its Addiction to Oil (2014)
Is @clowwindy involved in this?

I was under the impression that @clowwindy was ordered to take down shadowsocks by Chinese police.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9506224
The fact that different countries have different standard "cups" isn't really relevant to "converting measurements from US recipes". The US has just the one cup.
I found myself thinking something today that I've thought to myself before when looking at a particular car. It basically boils down to, "I can't believe how ugly they made the Gen Current Mustang. I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, the Gen Current - 1 has the same problems. But the Gen Current - 2, now that's not a bad looking car."

Repeat for the last 15 years.

There is a certain continuum of conservativism that one brings to their appreciation for fashion. Some people want ever-lasting stability. Some people want to understand what they have on their hands. And some people want to immerse themselves in the bewildering stream of ever-changing trends.

I see some merit in each. Ultimately, I'd like to be most comfortable in that river of change, but hell, I got work to do.
What's not to agree with exactly? The fact is they grew sales 61% - with zero user growth. For a company that large to be growing that fast, they're very clearly having no problems with growing the business.

They need 47% growth in the next four quarters, and then 36% growth in the four quarters after that, to hit $3.5 billion in sales. Given first quarter growth was 74%, then second quarter growth was 61%, it's not a far stretch to hit 47% over the next four.

Shareholders have sent the stock down on the basis of user growth, not sales growth.

Twitter has three problems.

1) They're not Facebook, it is not about users, and they should stop trying to be something other than a broadcast platform. It's about consumption.

2) They were extremely overvalued right out of the gate. There was a lot of delusional thinking around their potential. There's one Facebook, there isn't going to be another any time soon. Twitter will never be another Google type company.

3) They're carrying vastly more cost in their business than they need to. They have 36% the head count of Facebook, with 12% of the sales. They've stacked the business on the premise they were going to be a massive company like Facebook - they're not, it's time to adjust costs accordingly.
> Of particular interest is the Met Office's constant demand for bigger more expensive computers, and its recent moves into the more politically contentious territory of climate change policy.

I am confused at why this is contentious, this is exactly what I would expect them to do?
Powershell is fantastic for that kind of thing in the Windows environment...
...you cannot go and just copy stuff.

And not to mention thats pretty much the growth model of China's entire economy
I had heard about the IMS issue, but it seemed like it didn't affect most people. Good info.
... and the current inept Venezuelan Government is making all it can to help US convey it's plans, apparently
I did, but I still don't know why.
I use the health insurance provided by my employer for the things that the VA could kill me for. When I first got out, I used the VA for everything, until I learned how truly awful the system is. Now I only use the VA for physical therapy and psych stuff, but no medication. All my medication and everything else is taken care of using my normal insurance.
Yahoo is one of the largest consumer tech companies on earth with $4.6 billion in sales. Yahoo's problem isn't their size today, it's their lack of sales growth for ten years. Twitter doesn't have a lack of sales growth.
The fact that you've attached "hipster" to anything involving internal combustion engines means that you're just using "hipster" to mean "the other", like how neocons use "communist" or neoliberals use "fascist" to refer to each other.
A criticism of the paper this article is reporting: http://epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com/post/127416455028/over-inte...
What a difference a word can make
Japan's Anti-Crime Orange Balls
My girlfriend is Polish and, to my own surprise, I don't think I dislike Poland that much right now. Why are you in Romania?
Every large financial institution, airline, or large company that does millions of transactions an hour that isn't competing with IBM or young enough to implement a different platform that can scale to that level.

There is a z/OS security talk I saw that partially dispels the myths and prejudices against mainframes as legacy. In some cases z/OS is more modern than what you might find on your desktop and OSs like Linux are implementing features in its kernel that have been in zOS for years.
Cooper Minis are cheap and available in manual. I recommend getting the S model; the turbo makes a huge difference.
In my experience, they all seem to fall down with:

(1) Lists, especially indenting and nesting properly.
(2) Tables. Everything about tables.
(3) Pasting rich text from other apps.
(4) Accumulating invisible formatting data.

From what I've read, if your library uses "contentEditable" and tries to clean up after it, you're in for a bad time. Instead, the best thing is to write your own engine, like Google Docs did (this is of course very difficult and no one has mastered it).

I'll give yours a shot!
Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes
From what are you basing your opinion about the VA being able to take care of its patients with "pretty good quality"? Are you a veteran? Have you actually used VA services? As a former NCO and one of the first in my unit to get out of the service, I have led about thirty or forty guys through getting healthcare at various VAs around the country. One of those guys is now dead because of the VA, and the VA is explicitly forbidden from being sued for murdering patients, or from firing people for making those kinds of deadly mistakes. My guys wait months for appointments, and people die while waiting years to see specialists at the VA. Whatever you have read about the VA is plainly wrong, if it leaves you with the impression that their care is of "pretty good quality".
While violence has always been a part of the human condition, the scale of destruction wrought by modern war is novel. Violence in pre-Neolithic (pre-agricultural times, which characterizes the vast majority of our time as a species on this earth) was much more interpersonal. Think, two guys fighting over one girl, kind of personal. Organized group on group violence was a rarity. It's only with the creation of complex societies that we see the kinds of wars where whole ethnicities are targeted and uprooted. It's entirely possible that people experience more 'trauma' due to the differing nature of violence these days.

Here's a link to a good article by an anthropologist explaining it better than I do: http://aeon.co/magazine/society/human-beings-do-not-have-an-...
It looks like smoke is coming from the funnel on one of those photos? Did people board it while it was adrift and start up a boiler (presumably there was fuel still on board?)
There's no controversy, it's just an affection of the writer. They mention further down that there may be film purists who insist that movies are only correctly made and preserved in celluloid, but that luckily there's a "new generation of scholarship" interested in the history of home video. Apparently Leonard Maltin was part of this "new generation" when he wrote the Complete Guide to Home Video in 1981 :-P I find it extremely hard to believe that there's anybody academically involved in the history of cinema that would see this collection as without value and recommend putting it into the dumpster.
What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?
Can a Public School Teacher Live in San Francisco?
Many retail (brick and mortar chains) use them extensively. Way back in the day, that was what you did when you wanted to process "big data" in the 80's and 90's. Those systems became so ingrained into the business processes of the retailers that they are hard to remove.

I've seen some retailers in the North East try and "get off the mainframe" by moving to a modern ERP from Oracle or SAP only to have the projects fail after spending $250m-$500m and to this day they are still running 20-40 year old backend software for things like financials, pricing, payroll and merchandising. I've seen production COBOL code running that was authored in the late 70's.
You can stop reading your comment after the first three words for the real lesson. Politicians will just pay anodyne spokedroids to manage their accounts for them.
I worked with SABRE -- it's a GDS, and a reason I really want to avoid the entire industry.
I'm wondering if early Boxsters and 996s might be good values now because there are fixes for the IMS bearing issue on the market. I've read it can be done with a clutch job.
There's a good list of them here: https://github.com/cheeaun/mooeditable/wiki/Javascript-WYSIW...
You can say the same thing about any text editor built with any technology. This problem is fundamental and the tools to solve it are foundational. It's also no different than a game that doesn't render objects behind the player or obscured by walls. You need to choose data structures that enable efficient visibility queries.

For a game, there's some sophisticated math involved. But for a text editor? You only need to perform basic arithmetic on the scroll position and window height to index in to a vector of lines.

In React, you could render exactly 50 <Line> components and choose which 50 by exactly the same means vim chooses which 50 ncurses lines to show.
"And so it’s sad to see scripting die out as the popular platforms for application development fail to support it. Instead of the personal control of the script – I will take this information from that app, and put this part of it in that app – we have the corporate control of the API. This app maker and that app maker are BFFs, sign in here to let them share everything. After all, they know best."

Given the author's background along with this paragraph, I'm going to go ahead and guess that he's referring to iOS.
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I had heard of this when living in DK, but never thought it had gone so bad.
I agree with

> The implication that tweets - and by extension, history - should be mutable feels like 1984.

You've pointed out the problem: people in a democracy need access to the truest history possible; mutable history is a slippery slope.

But I disagree with

> Then don't tweet dumb stuff?

The challenges we're facing are new, and need new solutions. Political entities are acting on incomplete information and perspective; inevitably, they'll tweet dumb stuff (like I and many on HN have). I'm not saying that they should be able to delete tweets, I'm saying that politicians haven't had this ability before. Now that they have it, we (the democracy) have to decide what to do about it. "Don't tweet dumb stuff" is impractical and simplistic (sorry!).

Considering a democratic populace wants from its leaders intelligence, strategy, and (at least in the US) authenticity, American leaders will be struggling with a tension between authenticity and advertisement. This struggle leads to the deleting of tweets. I don't know the solution; knowing the solution is a different matter.
If you want to get all definitional, then one might say the porsche/VW were also liquid-cooled. They had oil which did move some heat around. So the line is really whether or not the engine has a separate cooling loop, usually filled with water.

There are a couple different temperatures to speak of. There is the overall engine temp, which may well be very similar to a modern engine. But there is also the temperature of the cylinder walls deep inside. An air-cooled engine relies on metal to conduct heat away from the heart of the engine. A water-cooled engine puts a pipe of cold water right alongside the cylinders to physically move heat away. So the internals of an air-cooled engine go through a much wider temperature range during normal operation. With differential metals that means gaps... gaps between the cylinder wall and the piston. That in turn means increased wear and emission-related problems. An air-cooled engine is willing to suffer these issues for the advantage of decreased weight and complexity. An air-cooled engine not willing to suffer this internal heating would be a very slow and heavy engine.

Having a hotter cylinder wall can also impact choice of fuels (need higher octane) and compression ratios (need less) as the hot walls might ignite things before the spark.