skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With all of the changes mentioned above the overall processing time per packet for small packet routing is reduced by over 100ns per packet."

Right. This is for the case where the machine isn't doing anything with the packet except sending it back out. But it might also help when the machine is performing a service which requires very little CPU time but moves huge amounts of data. Like serving video. Are the big video servers still x86 machines, or does Netflix now use custom hardware?

If it's a web server constructing pages on the fly from a database, that work will dominate the time spent getting the packets in and out of the machine.
That's about what I was going to say. Basically, you can keep adding more features to your ASIC, but the more things your ASIC supports, the more it starts to resemble a poorly-designed CPU.
If Amazon is the aggressor, why isn't Play Movies or the Chromecast app available on the Amazon Appstore? Surely Amazon would've liked Kindles to work with Chromecast.

I think you're missing the reason for this fight.
I'm assuming GP is talking about "pictures", and not any of the other things Kodak does. It makes for a very stimulating sentence, though!
I don't think even MailChimp claims to be for transactional emails as they specifically have a separate product for that called Mandrill.

MailChimp is 100% intended for marketing emails. Though I'm sure they at least try to have their customers not be spammers.
Thanks :) I'd completely forgotten about enew.
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This "outside the box...inside the gutter thinking " was Invented by a Senior citizen from San Diego ..Sheldon Levinson . His wife wanted rainwater for her plants and putting buckets out just did not work very well.
Device just started selling on Amazon.
Simple and inexpensive....
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I hope you share the vision...

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Yeah, but Google's being investigated by the FTC for how they restrict usage of Google Apps. The primary aggrieved party there is Amazon, who's been unable to offer the Play Store on their Kindle devices.

Google should want to make this fight go away without the FTC, because it shines a light on Google's own misdeeds.
The previous formatting got me so confused, I thought `>` was a prefix swap operator ...

Anyways, I'd never have thought Gates was so mathematically inclined before starting Microsoft. Many times, articles about him in college were more about how he peeked on others code found in the trash. It's a tiny bit of a waste, but if he had kept doing proofs he would never have been the "historical" figure that he is now.
Is there an Internet-of-Things vigilante out there?
> how many people are stuck in a jobs they hate just because they have to pay the bills? If you give them basic income that covers all their basic needs then first thing they will do is they will quit their jobs.

Sounds like slavery. Is it humane to have a system designed so that people are stuck doing work they hate just to avoid starvation and homelessness? When we could greatly improve overall wellbeing through increased automation and redistribution?
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Vim Adventures is so much fun. http://vim-adventures.com/
Same here. I did both jk and kj. When I want to leave insert mode, I just mash those keys.
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We're bootstrapped, profitable, growing fast, debt-free, and in a brand new office near Ponce City Market, all with only 10 people. This is a great opportunity to join a successful product team that's still very early and playing in a huge market.
We recently scrapped Redmine (yes, the UI is horrendous) and started using Gitlab issues with our own labeling system. Working out fine so far.
Who reads this much text anymore?

Seriously, it's a wall of text.
Even better, there an option "this email is spam and should be reported".
I use them for learning a library or framework. I'll fold all of the functions, methods, etc. in a file and and then unfold to dig deeper. I work on a 13" mba so it helps with the lack of vertical screenspace.
Come back and tell us what you think in 10 years if/when you're married and have a few kids.

It is exactly the same with the tech hubs in the US - SF, Seattle, East Coast, etc. I'm from the midwest, which I suppose is the equivalent to North England. Like the author, one here needs to move to a hub to obtain an interesting position and good salary.

The problem is that housing and other costs (tolls, taxes, etc.) have been pumped up so high, it is nearly impossible to live well (past your early 20s) in one of these cities, assuming you'll one day move out of the shared flat with 4 roomies.

I've done the numbers, and the choices are grim:

1) Stay here with a high salary and job prospects but never have kids.

2) Have kids, move hours out of the city, and spend my life commuting.

3) Move back to the sticks, take a huge pay cut, work on crappy Enterprise crud apps, but at least live in something larger than 500 ft^2 studio in the ghetto.
I think this is all about trade off.

I do agree with your point 1,2,3, rule-based is better in some cases, but it's not as expressive, sometimes you have to express the logic in a non-straightforward way to satisfy your need, when the logic get complicated. We're trying to make the system flexible from the backend, and improve the usability at the UX level. For example, the constants inside the language will go to a separate section in the UI and will have various components of tuning them.

If the DSL code is organized well, it's going to look as clean as the rule based one.
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I started my career in 1999 at $55,000/yr. Not at a particularly prestigious company or in an important position.
There are actually two problems keeping us from writing on such devices: lag and temporal resolution. Many touch sensitive input devices have a too low temporal resolution such that movements at the speed typical for handwriting cannot be captured in sufficient detail. I agree that the lag of this noteslate thing is a problem but at least the temporal resolution seems pretty decent.
That's what happens when I proof read too fast.
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I think you you (he?) needs RejectionEvent[0]. If that is so, it is a solved problem :)

Basically, implementations log the error to the console and raise the PotentiallyUnhandledRejection event if an error occurs inside a promise and no .catch handler was attached. If a .catch handler is attached _after_ the error is already logged, then a RejectionHandled event is raised. You can listen to those global events (the context is process in node, and window in browser, I think).

0: https://github.com/domenic/unhandled-rejections-browser-spec...
Why do you figure overhead would be anywhere near 90%? It sounds like he's basically automatically scraping this info, and it doesn't need to be done at any particularly fast rate. He's probably leasing a single dedicated server for a few hundred dollars a month and working from home. I expect his overhead is near zero.
I thought it was an enjoyable read. It didn't take very long.
Why do you regularly need to know what technology various websites are built with?
>Using "rough relationship" to refer to abuse is already trivializing it.

The opposite. It's setting an extra-low bar for number-changing. That's taking things seriously.
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One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

There's a time for work and a time for play.
Video here https://youtu.be/ohvPnJYUW1E?list=PLcGKfGEEONaCIl5eU53uPBnRJ...
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This article fails to mention the billions of dollars that Vegas has sunk into continuing to tap Lake Mead.

Over the last few decades, Southern Nevada Water Authority has spent at least $2.5 billion driving tunnels and constructing structures in order to tap lower and lower parts of Lake Mead. The most recent tunnel job just completed and is known as Intake #3 and it is situated at essentially the lowest point of the Lake.

Water demand has continued to rise while the water level in Lake Mead have continued to fall. SNWA has assured that they can take every last drop out of Lake Mead with these improvements.
This article is well written, but it has nothing to do with mastering Vim. It goes no further than running "vimtutor" at the command line. It has all the same tips and shortcuts as any other vanilla Vim tutorial. This is a common problem among Vim articles and tutorials. Authors title them as if it will give you Vim mastery, but instead it only offers the basics.

Mastering Vim means going beyond vanilla movements and learning all of Vim's nasty warts to replace good GUI features. It means learning the wonky, dead Vimscript language. It means knowing how to use the arcane arglist. It means knowing how to go into insert-normal mode, and when to use the expression register. It means knowing everything about very magic search, and why default search is poorly designed. These are all randomly chosen examples, because mastering Vim involves mentally juggling a very large playbook of oddball features to complete editing tasks.

The main resources to help you master Vim are the book "Practical Vim" by Drew Neil, and if you're ever in the unfortunate position of needing to write or edit a Vim plugin, "Learn Vimscript the Hard Way" is invaluable http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/
I think he was just being conservative to make a point, that EVEN at 90% he'd be making a LOT of money.
IMO, Zulilly was headed towards $0 so this is a crazy outrageously terrific exit, if you asked me.
That's a great idea. Allowing for discovery at the command line is one of the biggest challenges I've faced. Your solution is definitely a good way to accomplish that and one I hadn't thought of. Do you think that the mode variable is a common enough pattern that advanced users would know to do that right off the bat?
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> From the perspective of the user, if the product fails for that user, its a shit product.

Honestly, even this is a hazardous over-generalization.

I've looked at gobs of software that failed to do what I needed it to do. Much of that software was good-to-great at what it was written to do, but it -like a lot of software- wasn't written to do what I needed it to do.

That doesn't make the software shit, that makes it unsuited for my needs. I am -and many others are- clever enough to distinguish between the two categories. :)
Why not both? I would consider an email provider that one, didn't run an ad network, and two didn't scan my emails at all a huge feature. Neither Google nor Apple fit both criteria however.

This doesn't have anything to do with the technical capabilities of each company, it has to do with the fact that my and Google's interests are not aligned. Google, like every other company, is going to do what benefits them the most and there's nothing wrong with that. But when what benefits them doesn't benefit me I have reconsider using their services.
The one advantage of C#'s async/await over Go's CSP is that by exposing the underlying Tasks, you can take more control over how the continuations get executed. The result of this is that it's easy to have async code that all runs on the same thread (usually the UI thread) even while it calls a function makes a network request that gets scheduled to a background thread.

Go's model doesn't give you as much control over which thread a particular operation gets assigned to. It's not theoretically impossible, I suppose, but it's hard to imagine what a simple API for it would look like.

But yes, if this particular problem were solved in an elegant way, I would also prefer the CSP model. It makes it so you don't have to worry about which operations are async or not.
That's why I still like the original Master of Orion: they really paired down the micro-management there.

The boardgame Eclipse compares somewhat. (Though Eclipse really wants to be a computer game.)
15 years later, the RIAA finally realizes this...

How about you build a platform that let's us purchase the music we want?
> the server is currently quite slow, only handling around 6.5k req/s for the GET handler, removing the database part makes it shoot up to 70k req/s so something must be going wrong somewhere around postgres

Dynamic typed language frameworks are also around 70k requests per second[1], something must be going wrong outside postgres too.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...
Looks like it did. Congrats.

And also, thanks for making this for everyone to enjoy.
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If you want to play the original GameMaker Spelunky, I suggest you apply the latest community community patch.
Observables are great, and are indeed the stream equivalent to Tasks. But the await/async keyword compilation doesn't support them. I think that's the parent post's point.
It's hardly a mission critical service though.
I've used Redmine. It's a MUCH better Trac.

Out of the box, it's ugly, but -frankly- who cares? We're all programmers here, and value proper function much more highly than lacquered handles. :)
I'm looking for a game that displays common state on the tablet in the middle of the table, and let's everyone muck around with their private state on their mobile phone.

Eclipse on the iPad is fun in local hand-the-iPad-around mode. But since you can't see the board while other people are mucking around, you can't plan ahead easily during the downtime.

(I guess I'll have to write that one myself.)
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Drew Neil also has this worthwhile video:

Vim - precision editing at the speed of thought

https://vimeo.com/53144573
It's already happening. Some games come with companion apps that replace a game master.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is an example. But there are more intricate ones.
As of July, the big mac index had the AUD at 20% undervalued

http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
Europe talks to hackers, security bods on Wassenaar recalibration
the active fork of ctrl-p https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
If you think the software methodologies of Olden Times did not consider the role of people in the software development process you are mistaken.

They might seem archaic (and even wrong) when we look at them today, but still: smart people put a lot of thought into the methods, they were hotly debated among professionals, books were written, and consultants made money teaching and preaching them.

In other words, not that different from today.
> I remember when my innocence was shattered when I was given the task to write code that would subtly "fix" user inputs to do the "correct" thing.

I had the same feeling when playing one of the newfangled Prince of Persia games a few years ago: the 3d environment gives you the impression that you'd be much freer. But there are not-so subtle rails that you move along when doing acrobatics.

The original 2d game had simple understandable mechanics, so you knew exactly what rails you were moving on. After a while you just ignored them and though `inside the box'.

The latter style helps much more with suspension of disbelieve.
Come! :-)

Seriously, the region is booming; there are constructions everywhere, and the community is truly fantastic. I moved from Europe over a year ago, and it was one of the best decision of my life.
What's the plan when Lake Mead runs dry and Las Vegas runs out of water AND power?
I know, right? Can you imagine how bad it would be if the department of defense blew a big wad of cash for a limited period of time on some sort of packet switched communication system that would survive a nuclear war? Geez, we really got lucky there.
(Original) Aesop's Fables - The Ant and the Grasshopper [~600 BCE]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ants_and_the_Grasshopper

(^^Fork) Aesop's Fables: Illustrated and Adapted for Children [1919] (translator not identified)

http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/milowinter/32.htm

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Interesting adaptation..
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Very mundane reasons, I assure you
> That sounds like a huge exaggeration or a broken phone.

Neither. The phone was an HTC Evo 4G:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G

Link describing the horrible battery life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/technology/personaltech/17...

I had the phone fully charged, used it to navigate by car from SF to a place in Mountain View, checked email a few times from Mountain View, and the phone was completely dead for the ride back.

If a single person at HTC or Google had tried to use this phone for any kind of normal utilization, I think it's quite likely it would not have been launched.

If I'd purchased the phone instead of getting it as a giveaway, I would surely have been irate. As it was, I sold it to someone via CraigsList for a few hundred bucks.

This is why I predict Apple will continue to dominate. Android and the Android ecosystem still have many of these same kind of lapses and warts. My Nexus 7 is very greedy on battery and does not go into any kind of hibernation, which means that if I forget to charge it, it's dead after two days with no use at all.
Is it possible to find the API for a cell companies star codes?
My cell company uses star codes. Which clearly depend on your cell number. That said, I'm trying to find a way to see if I can have an application that uses those star codes but without the phone (yet submits a phone number)
So let me get this straight. I can put together a list of footprints for various pieces of server software. Then I can send a web crawler out and record which sites have which footprints, and sprinkle in some whois data so that people can spam them. This generates $1.2M/mo?

Something is wrong with this picture.
In finance you'll find low accountability for developers. Basically finance is where great developers go to get paid a lot to become horrible developers. Very few companies in finance are pushing the bar on quality code since they culturally cannot accept the cost of that. It doesn't make sense until it is too late and by then their code base is too entrenched.

I've seen this at countless finance companies, and from interviewing people across the entire spectrum of finance. It is a rare corner of the industry where you'll find quality engineering. Usually everyone in a finance company thinks they are amazing engineers, and are just plain wrong.

My advice: work smarter, not harder.
Kinda works in reverse for Ruby. I wish the Ruby maintainers had seen the need for proper English language documentation.
Sadly, this is the norm in finance. You would be shocked at the shittastic state of the companies that dominate in this industry. They are literally a house of cards waiting for a strong gust of wind.
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There will always be a hard limit, but one thing I could see us looking back on and finding weird is that we have a single layer of transistors. If we could build more complex 3D structures I'd expect we could see vast improvements.

Not part of Moore's Law but there are also

1. Significant storage improvements, and bringing the storage closer to the processing (or the other way around) which massively improves the overall speed.

2. Better chip design. Not knocking the current designers, but it'd be foolish to assume we have the theoretical optimum chip designs.

3. Cost. Sure, you're not going to improve every use case but what if my motherboard was just a big layer of cpus with non-volatile huge caches because it cost pennies? Particularly when we hit some larger limits, we'd be likely to see that current best design being produced by lots of people and getting cheaper and cheaper.

Along with 3. comes more custom designed chips. If we can get the cost of design and fabrication down, we can speed things up by having a bunch of chips for specific functions.
How is MC a spamming service? How could they resolve this issue?
> Do you find that this really works out, in practice?

We often worked for clients that had media advertising booked and paid for. The product had to be ready.

So you make it work. Reduce scope, phase the releases, whatever it takes.
Yep. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?5-daynl?large#con...

Latest forecast has it going way out to sea now.
You're kidding me right? Android applications are allowed to run daemons that will continue to run if you like it or not. [1] Due to Google's lax review process basically you can write a virus and post it to the store.
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Think of it the same as the EMV chip on a credit card.
College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution
Basically imagine you want to buy apples from 3 different fruit stands in different parts of a city.

Fruit stand 1 is the cheapest, fruit stand 2 is the 2nd cheapest, and fruit stand 3 is the third cheapest.

You want to buy all the apples out there.

The rule is that you have to go to the cheapest fruit stand first, and exhaust their supply before moving onto the next cheapest fruit stand. If you want to go to ALL the fruit stands at the same time you need to tell them you are an 'OK' guy and are really buying fruit everywhere.

Well, someone deleted code and ignored one of the fruit stands. This violated a rule and cost the fruit buyer a lot of money in penalties.
I've noticed that there are two groups that downvote posts like this on both tech forums and in general:

1) 25 year old software guys making $100K while their friends are at half that, possibly living at home.

2) Older people (i.e. Boomer generation).

The software guys in their 20's are doing alright - for the moment. In 10 years, they'll have hit the glass ceiling due to offshoring and H1Bs, while they're friends in marketing and business will have caught up in pay, and won't be nearly as disposable due to globalization in tech. Living in a shared apartment with the bro's won't work either, when kids, wife, etc. are taken into account.

The boomers, OTOH, really don't understand how things are much more difficult for younger generations. They had it made, and anyone who doesn't have what they got must be lazy and entitled.
That's interesting - I wonder if it's just because I've used JIRA so much and I'm more familiar with it but I find Redmine's interface super frustrating to use and it just feels unpolished.