skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not a trait of "smart" people, that is a trait of "assholes." You need not be smart to be an asshole. You might find "smart" people are particularly well equipped to wage effective verbal arguments, which can be frustrating.

But some of the biggest prescriptivist assholes are incredibly stupid people. My favorite example is the Westboro Baptist Cult. These people actively eschew any kind of real education, history, science, or even causality. And yet they protest everyone's activities ceaselessly with offensive signs. Surely the WBC members think "they have carte blanche to dictate the correctness of other people's preferences." But are they "smart"? Surely not.
Has anyone run similar tests on the JVM after warmup?

Theoretically the JVM should be pushing memory around to negate as much of the cache penalty as possible, and I've definitely noticed this in some algorithms (this is how people come up with code where Java outperforms almost identical code in pure C, and I've seen 3:1 speed differences in favor of the JVM), but I'd be curious to see the graphs.

Maybe I'll do it later today if I get a few minutes...
I didn't find it offensive. It just means you have to think twice before using fancy stuff in code other people will be maintaining.
Yes we do. I don't know that we could go from office to remote like this with any amount of success, though.

Also, as an anecdote, I think many of us would prefer to have an office we could go to one or two days per week.
This is the comment where I point out that, based on the number of votes the submission has received, it seems that you're alone in considering this submission to an example of the decadence of Hacker News; and note that, in any case, the correct response is to flag the submission, not to complain about it in the comments.
And when he has to touch with both hands, they keep crossing over each other like some kind of crazy-advanced piano sonata.

The author has never had piano lessons, I see. I remember hand crossing being taught in John Thompson's first grade book. (I verified this before posting.)
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@vaksel Thank you for the feedback. This is what we need so much!
Some of the points (2, 6, 8) we are solving and those should be live this week.
#10 there is a counter - '...get an estimate' link (we can do better I am sure).
I really appreciate your time spent on this and will try to get better!
I knew it! This was written by a salesman! You could smell it all along.
Snooze. Paddy here has a good point, but his delivery is a cheap rip off of Dustin Curtis's "custom design every entry" blog. And his design skills are sub-par at best. Throwing paragraphs around with absolute positioning is in no way groundbreaking.
the difference is that smart people can cloak such proscriptions in pseudo science (see: happiness research) and a lot of people don't have the expertise to debunk them.

edit: jerf13 is making this point better than I am.
Or perhaps much more than half below average.
I have a 2010 Prius also. When I'm slowing down and hit a large bump the car suddenly lurches forward as if I've released the brakes (which I know I haven't). This ain't cool when there are pedestrians crossing in front of me. I should probably ask the dealer about it before I kill someone.
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no problem.

btw, you need to hit "reply" since HN supports threaded conversations
/usr/bin/nice is your friend
Fighting corruption in India - A zero contribution
From his article: Many common types of data are intrinsically heirarchical and loosely structured, so storing them in an RDBMS can be difficult. Examples: books, articles, and most other written documentation. HTML. Search indexes. Filesystems. Game worlds. Classical music scores. It's just easier to model some things this way.

I don't see how to interpret this as anything other than a document database. Could you explain to me?
I don't think he offended Yegge in any way. It's a valid point to make when someone goes to make inaccurate predictions: you have to take that into consideration for future articles. But well, this is Hacker News these days.
The estimate I received was 8 pounds. I mistook the pound symbol for euros. In any case, the conversion is nearly the same. Please don't take my post as criticism. I was merely reflecting on the fact that I spent a few years of my life building what I thought was amazing and then found out that no one wanted to pay for it. Even if this doesn't work out for you, you only spent one week. Bravo.

p.s. - It's better if you use the reply link.
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oops, I see, thanks again :)
I just installed Read It Later (http://readitlaterlist.com) so I can bookmark links which are interesting tweets to my followers. They have an API, which could be used to automate some of the work needed to prepare the tweets.
it is our concern too, and we are trying to become independent. The costs are quite stable so far, though.
The Principle of Selection in Evolutionary Robotics
Henry Petroski — Occasional Design (January 2010)
These are great suggestions--and good points about the limitations. Thanks! Do you think IRC is superior to other IM clients? A lot of folks in the offices have never used IM before--and may be more comfortable with something like AIM or GChat.
I think that I type similar to the way that you do.

I don't make my individual fingers move, instead I arrange my fingers into different patterns (repositioning my hands if needed) and then kind of execute the key sequence. It is weird and I don't really think about it but my fingers never return to the 'home keys'. (Normally they are already on the next key that they need to be on). (If i'm typing 'ere' my left-middle will stay on 'e', if i'm typing 'different' my left-middle will be on 'e' and left index will be on 'f' before i'm done typing 'i').

I think it has to do with being able to think a few of symbols ahead, as you would with music.

I'm probably > 90 wpm, as well, and no RSI.
Great advice. This is why HN is awesome.
I know exactly what you're talking about. I am happy about any non-positive feedback, because I want to keep contact with reality.
First victim of Oracle since sun buyout?
Hello fellow Project Administrators,

It's with a sad heart that we have to announce that the Kenai.com domain will be shutdown as part of the consolidation of project hosting sites now that Sun is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle.

Project Kenai has always existed as two different things: Kenai the infrastructure, and Kenai the website (Kenai.com). While it has come time to close the domain of Kenai.com, the infrastructure (which is already used under NetBeans.org) will live on to support other domains in the future.

With this decision from Oracle to close the Kenai.com domain, it is now time for project owners to begin the process of migrating their repositories and content over to other locations. A few things to note as you begin this process:

* More then one forum thread is going on at this time discussing alternative sites for hosting projects; this one appears to be the most active:

http://kenai.com/projects/help/forums/general/topics/2406-Alternatives-for-Kenai-com-

* For Source repositories, SVNSync can be used for Subversion. Git, and Hg are pretty simple by nature to move.

* Wiki source code is available to all project admins and can be cut and paste into any other site that supports the Mediawiki syntax.

* For Issue Trackers and Forum content, we are looking at ways to make that content available, but we have nothing at this time in place. If you can come up with a way to move the content on your own, proceed as such. Please do not wait for us.

The website will be closed to the creation of new projects in the next week. The complete shutdown of the site and the removal of the domain will be completed in the next 60 days (April 2nd 2010). This should provide ample time for all projects to be moved to a new home of the project owners choice.

If you have a private project (only available to Sun internal projects) those projects will continue to exist. We will send information about how to access those in a separate notice.

Any public projects that remain after the 60 day limit (April 2nd 2010) will be removed when the site is turned off.

It has been an amazing ride, and a great pleasure to personally work with so many of you over the last year or so. From the entire Project Kenai Team I want to thank you for all of the feedback, criticisms, and support over our time together.

With much respect,
The Project Kenai Team
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689: "CNNIC is an evil organization. Reproducible: Always"
This is the comment where I begin a new comment thread, in hopes that it'll be more prominent than if I had just contributed to the existing comment thread.

This is the sentence where I really don't add anything to the conversation, but simply seek to obtain more upvotes. This is the sentence where you decide to downvote me because you find my ruse to be so blatantly obvious.
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That book is detailed, but that's also the problem with it. The relevant signal is all but drowned in the noise of 114 pages of details of CAS/RAS, circuit diagrams for SRAM and DRAM cells, bus protocols for hardware transactional memory, descriptions of Linux APIs for configuring NUMA support, etc.; frankly, things that need not be known unless dealing with those issues specifically.

In the article of this post, on the other hand, a handful of key characteristics of the cache hierarchy are graphically displayed using pretty minimal code snippets and attractive graphs. I believe programmers would generally be better served by the intuitions gained from the blog post than daunted by the exhaustive detail and verbose presentation of Ulrich's book.

IOW, keep in mind simple things like: measure; be aware of the cheapness of adjacent accesses, of the possibility of false sharing with certain strides, of the cost of following pointers, of the pitfalls of concurrent access to adjacent memory locations, and even serial access to the same memory location (dependencies wrt ILP). Concentrate on building a mental model for providing intuitions of cache behaviour at the appropriate level of abstraction, but always be prepared to measure to verify intuitions, as the hardware changes all the time, and different architectures can give rise to surprisingly different results.
I'd like to see some numbers showing how much of a difference in overall system performance was attained due to the changes he made.
You know, dcurtis didn't invent the idea of a unique design for each article. Unless I'm mistaken, he refers to his site as his "blogazine", which kind of implies that he took his inspiration from something else, doesn't it?

And for what it's worth, I thought the design was great. But even if it wasn't, at least the guy is creating stuff. What have you created?
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Sony’s John Koller’s
My bad...it was 402 words.
I didn't mean to trivialize horrible things that have been done by evil people in the past (regardless of their IQ). I think that there is a general definition that an "intellectual" is someone who is, at best, detached from reality in a way that you brought up. This wasn't my intent with the word.

I was referring more to the high-school-like effect where people interested in exploring "intellectual" topics like math tend to be treated as "uncool" because of how our education system tends to focus on how to perform a calculation rather fostering its real applications as Devlin mentions here.

If math was just boring calculation, I would also say it's "uncool."
In the case of this particular review, however, I think the "helpfulness" votes indicate that readers enjoyed the review more than found it helpful.

Other "helpful" reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Whole-Milk-Gallon-128/dp/B00032...
My grandmother suffers from this so the info is great but I am having a hard time finding out if there is a clinical trial she can participate in. It says that the units are currently available for investigation use, well we want to investigate.
Interesting hypothesis, Dr. Lightman, but doesn't the principle of parsimony makes your eyes wander towards a more basic explanation like health?
"I've never been compared to Homer before...."

I have, but it involved the word "Doh!" :)

Thanks for the extra-informative post; it makes poking around Clojure less daunting.
I very much like what you say about "newfound willingness." But I, Triceratops, am perfectly willing to experiment:

cd project/loom
cp -pr code ~/version/loom/95.before_zany_idea
# hack away; restore if irredeemably stupid
diff -r code ~/version/loom/93.released
# you get the idea

I'm not trying to denigrate git. I still use it to publish code, e.g. http://github.com/chkoreff/Loom. But my dirty little secret is, I still shamefully use "cp -pr" and "diff -r" anyway, and only git-commit right before pushing to github.
Pointless article. Why can't people just wait until the device is released and hold one in their hands before trying to judge how comfortable this thing is.
Your comment speaks about awkwardness derived from the difficulties of giving a presentation. The article speaks about awkwardness derived from potential ergonomic issues.

You've made some good points, but the two are not mutually exclusive.

This article raises points that I've been wondering about myself. The thinner cross-section and lack of non-interactive space in front represent a significant potential gripping issue, at least for those with larger hands or arthritis. These aren't present in iPhone shapes since you can alternatively grip it with your hand wrapped from the left to right. Anecdotally speaking, when playing my Nintendo DS Lite for longer periods, my hands cramp up from clutching the thinner form factor. This makes me wonder how I would be holding an iPad comfortably.

How would you expect to hold yours?
Actually, the purpose of Femtoo is to inform people of new website content so they return to the site to read it - thus, it is in the site owners best interests to allow Femtoo to poll it.

Femtoo will ultimately drive more traffic to your site.
One big annoyance: 10 years ago, when I searched for a snippet of song lyrics, I got a fan site for the band that accurately transcribed the lyrics. Now I get nothing but pages and pages of shady sites selling me ringtones, with inaccurate lyrics, even when I know there are fansites for the band with better lyrics.

A guess is that this is the result of the reliance on domain names for ranking. The high-quality lyrics are distributed across millions of separate domain names, since fansites typically are dedicated to only one band. The low-quality, ring-tones-heavy lyrics sites, though, are centralized, with every band's lyrics on the same domain.
which is trusting their beautiful theories too much

I think this mistrust of intellectuals is misplaced. Any kind of person, no matter education level, is susceptible this. Any person who is single-mindedly perusing his crazy view of the world and does not care of consequences is dangerous. Historically, intellectuals have had more means and knowledge to pursue their crazy ideas and I guess that is why they are more prominent.
"Intellectuals claiming to be in the service of high intellectual ideas will show up in at least two of those (Stalin's farm purges, Mao's political purges)"

This is, maybe, a non-sequitur, but for the sake of intellectual correctness, I believe the Cultural Revolution, at least, was anti-intellectual. Mao closed down schools, burned books, and put teachers and intellectuals into re-education camps until they were ready to join work groups where they toiled in factories and fields. Mao's greatest intellectual rival, Deng Xiaoping, was held under house arrest for years. Mao promoted hard work and nationalism, not intellectualism.
To remove it

Firefox: Tools > Options > Advanced > Encryption > View Certificates > Authorities > find and delete the CNNIC entry

IE: Tools > Internet Options > Content > Publishers > Trusted Root Certification Authorities > find and delete the CNNIC entry

Chrome: Wrench > Options > Under the Hood > Manage Certificates > Trusted Root Certification Authorities > find and delete the CNNIC entry

Note, removing it from either Chrome or IE will remove it from both.

[Edit: added instructions for Chrome and IE]
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I don't agree; perhaps 80% of the time.

For example, the algorithmic purist may insist on using an O(1) or at least O(log n) container for maps or sets, where in practice, if the container will never hold more than a handful of items, a linear search through an array may be faster - because of cache effects.

Similarly, an overemphasis of pure OO design can result in lots of fine-grained objects stored in the heap, with lots of edges needing to be traversed to accomplish productive work. If one isn't aware of how expensive following pointers can end up owing to cache effects, you can create designs that lose substantial chunks of performance in such a way that it's not obvious with e.g. a simple code-based profiler where the bottleneck is..
Cool, well would defiantly be up for meeting people. March 3rd sounds like a good day for me. How does that fit in with everybody? Anyone know of a good way of organising this?
This is the sentence in which I try to steer the thread back to he original topic. This sentence is my backup in which I blather unrelated, anecdotal stuff from my workplace, because it just popped into my head and I have the slight feel that my first sentence won't meet his purpose.
Speaking as someone who deals with this on a daily basis, I say not true. PCI is common sense written down into an "industry standard". You don't have to do it, it's not a law. But if you want to continue to accept CCs, then you should comply. Compliance is as easy as redirecting all of your CC work to a processor that is PCI compliant. So long as you yourself do not store, transmit or process the card data, you can worry about your business and forget about PCI and it won't cost any more money.
The people I know who've left have left mainly due to the secrecy this article also talks about: they developed cool algorithms they wanted to publish research papers about, and weren't allowed to.
Fair enough. I'll leave my post as-is for the record but consider it edited.

Further followup, it is obvious that "intellectualism" can have many definitions. My primary point is to demonstrate that for a large set of definitions, mistrust is rational. Playing with the definitions as so many of my repliers do makes it easy to lose the point in a flurry of words as we redefine "intellectualism" to something harmless by definition, which proves nothing about what's out there in the real world. All this is a way of obscuring and hiding from my point, though, which is that there is a kernel of truth here. That there are definitions of "intellectualism" that are not scary does not prove that there isn't a rather large, scary line of "intellectualism" that has proved very dangerous in the real world, seductive academic ideas and theories trusted over empirical evidence to dangerous effect.
Medical journal retracts study linking autism to vaccine
Clever satire! ANKoS is a worthwhile read full of great nuggets of interest. You could read the Notes as a standalone work. But it is not quite as important as Wolfram believes.
Interesting that the Objective-C runtime has a VS solution file and Windows #ifs: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-437.1/
Yes, I would pay for this.
The evils of threads, and how to replace them with something else to use multi-cores, is very high on the list of blogged about programming topics.

They may be high on the list of blogged about topics, but in places where performance really matters threads are used more and more. If you for example look at the article http://lwn.net/Articles/357658/ you'll see that Google uses thousands of threads on 16-32 core machines and in fact is making changes to the Linux kernel to make it support a larger number of threads.
You say you think the mistrust is misplaced, then proceed to (in my opinion) explain why it is not misplaced in your last sentence.

It's certainly true that non-intellectual theories of the world can be very destructive if society places too much trust in them. That would be "superstition", I think. But it hasn't been the problem in the 20th or 21st century in most places.

Superstition does rack up its own respectable death toll though; a number of the other slaughterings that can't be credited to intellectualism of any kind can be credited to some large degree to superstitions, especially if you're willing to call racism a sort of superstition, which is at least debatable.
I think a lot of people miss why we need a massive improvement in education. As a civilization, our knowledge and understanding increase year to year, but instruction time stays constant. The basic level of understanding needed to perform most non-menial jobs is skyrocketing, but we're still getting a constant number of learning-hours. It's not just "oh, we need students to score 10% better", but rather "we need to compress 17 years of current education into 13, because next decade, we'll need those college years to teach people about the new stuff". If we want to graduate and employ well-rounded and well-trained citizens, we have to make education more efficient just to keep up year-to-year.
It's usually not appropriate to compare your site to 37signals.

I suspect that a lot of their visitors are already familiar with their products or have seen 37signals' name in several places. Therefore, these people are more inclined to read 37signals' long homepage prose, they've already been sold on the idea that it's worth reading and learning more about.

Your website/brand probably isn't as well known. So you have a shorter window to capture your user's attention. You need to control exactly what they read and what message they hear. It has to be short and sweet, preferably only a couple of sentences that hopefully new visitors will actually read. If they're interested, provide ways for them to learn more, but they're not going to take the time to parse and understand what you do if it takes more than 2 seconds. You need to make sure that the gist of your message is conveyed in these 2 seconds.
Pretty much every other cop movie that I watched had LAPD in it. I wrongly(?) inferred from that were good.
Hey, hey, speech recognition is really here.
In fact, I ham dict eating too the come pewter write now.
After reading another article pointed to by HN, and watching some YouTube reviews, I rushed out and bought a pair of Vibram Five-Fingers and have been wearing them almost exclusively ever since. They've changed my life.
The system is largely idle, so there aren't any great #s on overall system performance. The key is when some background process runs, e.g. a backup, it now runs at lower priority. So when you try to do other stuff during that backup, the other (more important stuff) completes faster.
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It seems you are conflating (intentionally?) "intellectual" with "ideologue".

Also, what can this following sentence possibly be but doublethink?

> Distrusting intellectualism is not a sign of irrationality; in fact I'd go so far as to say too strong a faith in intellectualism is rather the irrational position.

(What is intellectualism if not a deep faith in rationality itself?)
True in most cases, but I think there might be exceptions like when dealing with an emergency like a hostage situation.
You seem to be under the impression that I'm afraid of short-lived branches for minor work. I'm not sure how you could have gotten that impression unless you didn't actually read the article.