skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statistical math involved in determining standard deviation in poker is a lot more complex than you're giving it credit for. A hand itself is a very large set of potential outcomes, not just a win/lose scenario.

100,000 hands is nothing. Ask any long time pro who understands the game. I've personally known several who play a very consistent, disciplined style against a consistent level of opponents whose results would vary greatly across 100k hand sets, from being a huge winner to barely breaking even to losing even though they all were at least steady winners overall.

When you get in the 500k+ realm, it starts to get more reliable, but even streaks of this size are possible at the statistical fringes.
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I like their API. :-)

hello(name)
Greet name. Typically required to initiate further interaction.
The costs of 10 programmers with a $120k salary is way more than $1.2M. You're forgetting to factor in employer paid taxes, benefits, and the costs associated with providing a work space.
Nah, that's too many cooks. They all want different things.

Guido is interested primarily in usability, and Python is notoriously poor in performance.

Rob Pike writes systems languages.

With Java, Gosling has written a very enterprise-friendly language, that drags C++ halfway to Lisp.
>What happened to concept of developing a great product that actually takes some effort?

I would be happy to do that, but if the market doesn't value those kinds of apps then I would be a fool to develop them.
If I do that, can my blog still have replies?
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The only reason I'm still using a dynamic blogging engine instead of a static site is that I want to be able to post new articles to my blog, and edit posted articles, using a web browser. The perfect solution, to me, would be a simple site or service with a management interface just like Blogger's or Tumblr's or Posterous's, but that instead of hosting a dynamic blogging engine, simply has a big Commit button that generates a new static copy of the site and writes it to a specified S3 bucket/commits and pushes it as a git repository/whatever else.

Is anyone working on something like this? If not, would anyone else be interested if I scratched this itch?
So I don't need to do 99% of what photoshop does. But I paid several hundred dollars to buy it so I can cutup photoshop PSDs without making mistakes caused by programs not properly rendering things.

I'm figuring the same thing can work for you and your email addresses. While it would certainly be nice for something to do ONLY what you need now and the unknown other 3 things you need, chances are a bigger system does what you need a few other things you'd like to do anyhow.
Not in my experience. Most HFT shops only pay if an order fills; and if they are adding liquidity to stocks, they get a rebate.

If your messages/fills ratio gets REALLY wacky, the exchange might complain.
The problem with complaining about people who make a different amount of money than you is that it's completely relative. While the $100/hr designer bitches about $10/hr designer "devaluing the market", the $500/hr may be complaining about the $100/hr designers doing the same thing. Usually, whatever level you happen to be at will seem to you like it's the ideal level. The same concept applies to taxes. The tendency is for people to think that people who make more than they do should be taxed more, while people making less than them should be taxed less.
We built a system for doing exactly this type of provisioning of physical hardware at Digg:

http://clusto.org/
What's Yours Is Mine: Using a Wireless Network You Don't Own - The Atlantic
Intel doubles capacity, drops price in refresh of popular SSD line
You should set your page's charset to UTF-8.
Look into Microsoft's CHESS proejct which analyzes the code to quickly converge on error cases as well as a system by which thread interleaving is predictable and thus testable. It actually tests every possible combination of thread interleaving through a code path.
I put together the following in my "Tech to try" list. On the offchance that I'm not the only one here unfamiliar with these technologies, I paste a copy here:

* Backbone.js http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy
applications by providing models with key-value binding
and custom events, collections with a rich API of
enumerable functions, views with declarative event
handling, and connects it all to your existing
application over a RESTful JSON interface.

%%

* Node.js http://nodejs.org/

Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable
network programs. In the "hello world" web server example
above, many client connections can be handled
concurrently. Node tells the operating system (through
epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be
notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes
to sleep. If someone new connects, then it executes the
callback. Each connection is only a small heap
allocation.

%%

* Redis http://redis.io/

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is
often referred to as a data structure server since keys
can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

%%

* Socket.io http://socket.io/

Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every
browser and mobile device, blurring the differences
between the different transport mechanisms. ... making
creating realtime apps that work everywhere a snap.

%%
Thanks so much everyone for your input. For anyone interested, I asked some people on Twitter and got the following responses.

@rmurphey (Rebecca Murphey): @stevenklein JavaScript Patterns and Object Oriented JavaScript would be next on my list

@thomasfuchs (Thomas Fuchs): @stevenklein http://javascriptrocks.com/performance/ :)

@paul_irish (Paul Irish): @stevenklein what rmurphey said and also zakas's high perf js
It's all marketing spin. Let's not forget the iPhone launch in 2007:

"We start with a strong foundation. iPhone runs OS X. ... Desktop class applications and networking."

Flash forward to a world that has been fundamentally changed by the iPhone and iOS, and the new marketing line is:

"The power of Mac OS. The magic of iPad." and other such lines about bringing iOS to Mac OS.

It's all about perception, reality, and marketing.
and you'd be, well, wrong.
Longer article, with a lot more detail here: http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/G...

This seems to be the original article that the others are either borrowing from or that tipped them to the story.
What if you don't want to include a reference from a former employer because (a) they fired you; (b) they'd subjected you to psychological harassment, bullying and an attempted rape before getting to the firing part, leading to the employee having to spend three days in the hospital and I still haven't recovered fully even seven years later?
Private vs Protected Method Debate and Symfony2
Listening to music, day-dreaming, and cursing at the other drivers on the roads; not necessarily in that order.
Take a look to the Boost libraries and cry.

Indeed!

The thing I don't understand is that you go to the boost library website and you see that it touts itself as an all-volunteer effort.

Who are these people who volunteer their time to produce this massively bloated, over-elaborated code? What is their motivation? What's going on here? I understand bureaucracies usually bureaucrats are paid and produce code and memos to expand and control their turf. But here? What's up?

Boost certainly seems well done for what it is. But does this particular niche attract so many people?
Preview of Flex on iOS
I'm usually not a grinch -- and I'm currently in a good mood. But this article is just wrong, inside out.

How many times do we (Apple users who have no particular allegiances) have to say this: Apple products aren't winning because they're 'desirable'. I'm taking 'desirable' to mean socially hip, because otherwise this whole article amounts to saying someone likes something because it's likable. Duh.

Apple UX is dominating because they understand what users expect to happen when they interact with the device. The red herring that distracts most of the (good and bad) criticism of Apple is the 'look'. The aesthetic design is the icing on the cake, and quite frankly it intersects with the usability a lot, but it's not why the consumer is switching to Apple.

I'm not a fan boy. Every day I wish some other company would come out with a quality and usable laptop that fits my life so I don't have to advertise my allegiance to Apple (the exterior) to the pubic. I have an interest in NOT buying Apple. Similar to a lot of hipsters, I have weird neuroses about being judged in public for having something popular. Yet hipsters are still on their Macs. There's got to be something else at work besides the Apple brand, because believe me, these things are too popular to be hip at this point.

Does it piss me off that a 19-year-old girl has a MacBook Pro for Facebook and Word, while I make due with MacBook for much more demanding tasks? Yes. I agree with people who say that many users are paying too much for things they don't need. But I'd argue that a person who just doesn't want to be hassled is at least justified in paying the up-front markup price of an Apple machine.

Being good at design doesn't mean it looks pretty. It means you thought out your product enough to make users have an easy time. And the days of releasing crap stuff out to ignorant consumer and huge inefficient businesses is dwindling for a number of societal reasons including a younger workforce, open source, the success of web-based smaller business, and so on.

I have no problem with you using a home-built linux box or anything you feel comfortable with. In fact, if you can do that easily and enjoy it, that's a great situation and you probably saved money. But I can't recommend to anyone I know to buy a Windows machine: It's simply an inferior product with fewer advantages.

If that offends you, I'm sorry. But look at the stats: Do you really think the tremendous amount of consumer Apple growth is simply due to its hip appeal? If that's the case, every person I see outside an office building is hip at this point.

Phew. Sorry for the rant.
"What happened to concept of developing a great product that actually takes some effort?"

That doesn't fly when you only want to make a living doing what you feel is fun. Not everyone wants to become a titan of industry. The brass ring resizes to fit many hands, not just really big and ambitious ones. "Go big or go home" is a philosophy for some, but not for all.

Put it another way, the chances of injury when swimming in the shallow end are minimal compared to swimming with sharks in the deep end. Sure, that's where Zuckerbergs and Brins and Ellisons all swim, but not everyone wants that headache.

"but do it with a great product that you believe in, not with bs e-books and movie quote soundboards."

First off, you're quite presumptuous in saying his e-book is "bs". Would you call "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham a "bs e-book"? All it does is dole out advice on value investing that even Suze Ormann dishes out every day on her CNBC show for free. Why would anyone buy Graham's "bs e-book"?

And, one person's "crap application" is another one's "purchased/downloaded application". FWIW, I despise television shows like "American Idol", "Tosh.0" and "The Jersey Shore", but that doesn't mean that the producers of that show don't believe it. They know people are watching it, so they proudly produce and air it. If kreci made crap apps, no one would download it. But download they do.

With the preponderance of apps out there, what's the harm in creating a few yourself and having a go at it? "Polluting" the market? So, you would rather app stores go back to the featurephone style of curating a "market" of only 100 games and 100 utilities all costing $10 each and 3 dollar ringtones.
Private vs Protected Methods: The Debate That Never Ends
What do you guys do with tmux? (as opposed to screen)
Your complaints seem focused on poor implementations and not the language itself. You don't want C++ language evolution, you want tool support evolution.

Also, as far as I know, most compilers were settling on a fairly standardized IA64 ABI, even for other platforms. The problem gcc had, last I checked, was after every release, they found a bug in the implementation and fixing it made the next release incompatible, but the goal was to be interoperable.
Made more sense on iOS as it could be read as "App iRater", but I agree in principle.
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How to Insult a Computer Scientist
It seems that we want to think of a world that is logical and populated with verifiable facts. However, the world of the lawyer is fundamentally illogical (as are most humans most of the time) and facts only exist when either agreed to by the parties or determined by judge or jury.

This observation that "legal logic" is not quite the same as traditional rational-thought logic has led to an interesting "legal reasoning" subfield of AI over the past decade or so (with some precursors dating back further) that tries to formalize exactly what logic it is following, and how it differs from traditional rationality. That area develops alternative logics, reasoning procedures, etc., in order to do things like simulate case outcomes, suggest possible arguments to make, evaluate alternative strategies, etc. Until relatively recently many people did think that the right way to make a legal reasoning system was to treat the law as logical rules, and the legal reasoning problem as a problem of rational inference over rules+evidence... which turns out not to be that accurate an account of how law actually operates.
> Unified C++ ABI call for making shared libraries without worrying about compiler manufacturer or version.

There's too many implementation decisions for this to be feasible. E.g., you'd have to standardize exception handling implementations and object layouts.

In practice, GCC has tried to standardize a C++ ABI for some platforms, but each proposed "standard ABI" has been buggy and required at least moderately backward-incompatible ABI changes between GCC releases.

> Massive bloat. Take a look to the Boost libraries and cry.

Define "bloat"? Large parts of Boost are absolutely horrid (e.g. Spirit), but I don't know what you mean by "bloat". Do you mean that the resulting object code is big?

> Poor debugging tools for templates (debugging templates it is crazy, and the promise of easy template debugging is almost a decade old).

Agreed. Hopefully clang is fixing that. http://clang.llvm.org

> Obsession for doing everything in "user-land" (e.g. source code templates) instead of built-in abstractions at object code-generation time instead of compile-time.

Huh? What do you mean by "built-in abstractions at object code-generation time"?

> C++ hour will come, with a non-bloated, system-software capable, "better than C", which could be labeled "simple C++", as in "simple English".

I was hoping that Digital Mars D would be the "Simple C++", but it feels like D is losing momentum.

(Sidenote: I've been programming in C++ for about 13 years, and am a recovering C++ "language lawyer".)
As I suggest in the article, you can outsource your comments to Disqus, Intense Debate, Facebook or other service.

So you won't need any server side technology and you'll give your users a much better commenting experience.
Don't know why they wouldn't use protocol buffers for this. Much more efficient.
That it's potentially a direct threat to one of their few profitable divisions?
Their API seems too complicated. Can't they just support JSON? It'd be way easier to parse.
relevant image

http://i.imgur.com/2OD93.jpg
In some cases I am experiencing trouble when using the hello() function call. It would appear that certain high performance instances are optimized to only accept() hello()s from other high performance instances, and will not respond to some or all other instances.

Is there somewhere I can report a bug?
There was also a competitor to Second Life, First Life. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/first_life_sl_parody.ht...

One of the selling points was "Fornicate using your actual genitals!".
"Massive bloat. Take a look to the Boost libraries and cry."

Aside from your tears, what is the evidence that boost is bloated? Too slow? Too much source code? Too many files?

I've been using Boost for nearly a decade. It does a ton of useful stuff (from template metaprogramming to fast matrix algebra), it's loosely coupled, and it's insanely fast. Given it's scope, it's the least bloated library of which I know.

C++ has been evolving, but for the last decade, all of the evolutionary changes have come in the world of templates and template metaprogramming. I think this is hard on the people who have restricted themselves to the C-with-classes mentality. They're missing every modern development in the language since ~1998.
WWDC 2011: Mac and iOS Scoot Closer Together. I hear wedding bells...
That would be awesome! I love rapportive and have already wrapped it around my Google contacts.
Since the browser most people are reading this in is written using C++, I'd say the answer is no.
Brian Dunning wrote an article about how New Age enthousiasts use the word 'Energy'. The girl in the video mentions that 'air is 6% positive energy'.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4002

"I asked what type of energy is it, and how is it stored? Is it heat? Is it a spinning flywheel? Is it an explosive compound? Is it food? These are examples of actual ways that energy can be stored.

In popular New Age culture, "energy" has somehow become a noun unto itself. "Energy" is considered to be literally like a glowing, hovering, shimmering cloud, from which adepts can draw power, and feel rejuvenated. Imagine a vaporous creature from the original Star Trek series, and you'll have a good idea of what New Agers think energy is."
Has several vulnerabilities some of which include sweet-talk and wearing a nice suit. Hashtags may include side-effects.
LED-screens affect circadian rhythm and cognitive performance
Gary Dahl made millions in the '70s selling Pet Rocks. It's not like there's no precedent.
I'd like to mention that this sort of research at SLAC and other Office of Science facilities and programs in the DOE, is being targeted for heavy cutbacks. A bill passed the house proposing a 20% cut ($1Bn) from the Office of Science budget, but the consensus is that it won't pass the senate or the president.

More extreme examples come from people like Rand Paul who have proposed eliminating the DOE completely.
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You have to go to 2:55 to get to the part about this topic.
When a major university says it is running out of things to teach a 12 year old and is trying to move him into a paid research position, there would seem to be something more than an over-promoting parent and a gullible reports.
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The first computer bug
Right, but you can learn enough about the software development process without getting into the nitty gritty of how anonymous functions in Javascript work.
But who is going to be taken advantage-of by corporations here?
You can prototype a product using Axure RP, Powerpoint, Illustrator, Blasamiq or Mocking bird ... you don't have to spend time learning html, css, javascript and or PHP just to do that.
This is awesome! I don't know if this may be of interest, but I know a lot of Universities in our area with college students trying to start non-profits or social ventures whom need help with the developing portion or coding portion. Here's my email: ckc653@gmail.com
Please let me know if you are interested!
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If you hire a software shop to deliver it for your internal use, then you're also on the hook to pay for any and all future versions, or they won't get built. If the software isn't going to be your advantage over your competitors, then keeping it to yourself just increases the amount you'll pay for upgrades.
Right ... no argument here, what I take issue with is the idea that if a non-technical guy doesn't start learning how to code to build his idea, it'd be a cause for concern.
It simply isn't.
But you can already have "simple C++", just specify for your project which parts of the language you want/don't want to use, and enforce it. This I think is a good coding practice, and for example Google also have its own C++ Style guide (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...). For example, you can specify that you will not use exceptions, template meta-programming, default parameters, etc.

This I think is the power of C++ - it is a multi-paradigm language, and you are perfectly free to not use some of the paradigms, or more powerful techniques.
I'm not quite sure, but does plaxo not do some of there things? I know they made some updates recently.
I've been beta testing their API for a while now. Sometimes it's hard to initiate wanted actions with other users, but I guess it's OK in most use cases.
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I live in a part of the country that has pretty mediocre tech options, which means that anyone doing any interesting dev work telecommutes. The result of this? There's a growing community telecommuters that all hang out with each other, meet monthly, do hacknights, drop by co-working spaces etc. It's actually pretty awesome because rather than just your coworkers you have this "other office" of people you get to learn from. As telecommuting/remote working grows I think we'll see much better social interaction start to form, communities that are more based on what your passionate about rather than that you happen to share an office space. Additionally with remote work comes a lot more flexibility, which means a lot more social flexibility, it's easier than ever to grab lunch with a friend an in entirely different industry. I think basing social interaction around a 9-6 schedule and being locked in a building is much more damaging than the alternative.
This is a quote from a HNews submission a couple of days ago:

"'A lot of wealth holders were very sincerely concerned about others and were doing something about it.' His recent papers, many co-authored with John Havens, the associate director and senior research associate at the center, have done much to exonerate the rich from the charge that they are more tightfisted than the non-rich. (They’re not, Schervish and Havens say: as individuals move up the wealth scale, they give away a greater share of their assets.)"

HNews discussion link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364922