skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
does this scale? Just recently I was using mongoid_search and it performed very slowly on just 5000 documents, autocomplete was not usable. I switched to solr and its easily handling 100K documents as of right now. I don't know if mongo is really a good fit right now for search functionality. Id love to see benchmarks with mongoid_fulltext.
Related topic, different country. I discovered last week you can take a MSc in Software Development with the Open University (a partially government-funded distance learning university in the UK): http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/qualification/f26....

The really interesting part is if you have enough experience, you don't need to have an undergraduate degree to get into the prerequisite diploma course. So you get on to the diploma course which takes two years part time, then do the Masters project for a year.. no degree to Masters in 3 years. An education hack, if ever there were one. Who cares if you have an undergraduate degree when you have a Masters? (Genuine question - if there is a reason, let us know.)

The only downside, it's not cheap cheap. You're looking at about £1000 per unit and there are 8 units for the diploma. The Master's part is then £1900 ish. So that's about £10k ($16k) in all over 3 years. Still, only slightly more than a single year of undergraduate study in the UK from next year..

Note: Yes, this is really for people in the UK or Europe.
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Could someone comment on Haskell in comparison to Erlang, Clojure or Scala? I felt like when I started choosing between Ruby on Rails and Python/Django, they were so similar that choosing either one would be a fine choice. Now that I'm interested in functional languages too, it seems that comparing Haskell to Erlang is just not the same as Python to Ruby.
Could you release a GPLv2 CCV library for the time being?
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Haskell takes the complex and tames it with a wonderful type system and sensible abstractions; personally I have never been more productive using any other language.
If you have an iPhone 4, and you haven't played Infinity Blade, it's a great game and looks beautiful. I am on the verge of buying an iPad 2 for two reasons. 1. I lost my iPad and have a bunch of software I paid for. 2. Infinity blade on a bigger screen.
it is surprising because most people probably expect NSArray to just work like a plain array (see the naive C implementation)
I love the point he made about search engine results not making too much inherent sense. It took a little bit of work, but I really tried to imagine what I'd like from a search engine, and it wasn't a list of textual links.
I'd wager WebTrust doesn't really care or else this wouldn't go unfixed for so long. While I appreciate this problem, I really wish we had something usable between CA-signed HTTPS and regular HTTP. We can't even have encryption on the web without paying somebody.
What I find interesting is that the first two submissions got a total of 15 points over >10 hours each.

This one has 78 points in around one hour

Timing matters :)
Looks like he did--in the comments to his post, Osherove says this (sorry, not linkable):

BTW - I DID sit down and learn how to implement a binary search after the first time I got asked. I do not like leaving things 'open' like that. so the next time I got asked I had a much better and faster answer. But it wasn't fast enough (I assume - they never said why)
April 5, 2011 | Registered CommenterRoy Osherove"
No clue, but I'll give the Android version a spin on a Nexus one for you (Gingerbread; anigbrowl (a) gmail).
Daily deal companies are hiring like crazy right now.
How do I ethically justify downloading music?

How do I ethically justify speeding? Jaywalking? Throwing metal cans into the garbage instead of recycling? Serving alcohol to minors?

The answer to all of these is that I don't.

I simply don't give a shit.
I think this is similar to why Silicon Valley is so attractive as a start-up hub. You have seasoned VC's (instructors) and bright peers as your self (other students).

You can do it all by your self, it's just going to more time to find funding and partners. Something your competitors in SV would have an upper hand with.
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I got an error like that also when trying to log in.
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To a certain extent sound thinking people already follow this rule, though I don't think it's yet been named as such.
"Who cares if you have an undergraduate degree when you have a masters?"

I'd turn that around and ask: "Who cares if you have a masters, if you have requisite experience?"

Ultimately, undergraduate and masters level degrees are just pieces of paper without the career track record to show for it.

Personally, I'd hire the individual who's smart and can get stuff done, who spent a comparative amount of time building his/her skill-set, than someone who spent the same number of years in a classroom doing instructor-driven tasks.

And, for what it's worth, I have both an undergraduate and masters degree (though neither in software or CS).
It looks interesting, perhaps you could put up a screencast that shows me the sort of experience fourleaf offers.
Scale depends on what you're trying to do. I definitely think that mongoid_fulltext will work for 100K documents if you're trying to do relatively simple autocomplete. But this technology is not meant to compete with solr or any other dedicated search engine.
It's simple really. If you increase the value of 100 by 10% and then decrease the resultant by 10%, you get an overall reduction in value (even if you do it the other way around) ;)
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And at least version R2009B, to get the new syntax for unused function arguments or return values ("~"). Otherwise, search and replace them with dummy variable names to get it to run. Should just take a couple minutes.
Cool! I checked it out after your mention and found this playlist on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/DizzMoll#grid/user/D0E4471D25CD4...
Being an Indian, I agree that it is a mad race & it is very tough to identify the right guys in the vast pool of students coming out every year.

I faced similar issue in my previous startup & to solve it, started http://stalkninja.com . It is a way a deserving & self-starter student can differentiate himself/herself from the rest even if they are not from one of the top colleges like IITs.
Wouldn't signing `localhost` be useful in testing browsers and testing locally-running versions of websites which have signed SSL certificates? The alternative being intercepting and faking the responses from the CAs when your browser attempts to verify your localhost:8080 website? Or is there another viable, non-"master SSL off-switch" option here?
The main thing that sets Haskell apart is its type systems, there is none better. In addition to the strong type system Haskell is purely functional which means the compiler can reason pretty strongly about an applications side-effects. I'm not sure Erlang or Scala can really compare on either of these things (though I am not an expert on either of those languages). The last big thing I can think of is that Haskell is "lazy" which means it only evaluates values as they are needed, this aspect has its upsides but also many downsides. Laziness can help one write clear concise code but you must be aware of it or things can get a little sticky.
The page isn't coming up for me. Here's the Bing cached version.

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They're not mutually exclusive. Most web designers can't make rockets.
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You still need to include the employees of DPH and DPW in your count - so the count is still really high. ~25K
Yes, it is, which is why console gaming surpassed PC gaming in developer support years ago, not to mention sales.
candu say they can do thorium, but no-one's actually doing it. Yeah maybe india and china have each experimented, but I don't think anyone's using thorium for power.
there's a huge, rich thorium deposit down the road from me, but they're planning to bury it all again after extracting the associated REEs.
Like I said, maybe one day we'll be making decisions about thorium reactors, but here and now it's uranium reactors (most of them GenII) that deserve our focus, because these are the ones which are operating or scheduled for construction.
No weight as far as I can see, but I guess it could be happening above my level. I am but a lowly engineer.
The HN rating system could normalize for this - decreasing time decay for periods where ratings are less frequent.
A top 30 application in Paid Utilities nets around $500/day in my experience. It doesn't even show up in the Top 200 Paid All.

[edit] - the app is $1.99.
Totally agree. Google is dropping the ball by not being more strict in it's compatibility program. Google even has more leverage than Mozilla does, as they also own the core apps that provide most of the value in Android. Gmail, Voice, Maps, Market, etc. are supposed to be the wedge that prevents the sort of fragmentation that is happening in the Android ecosystem.

On a side note, I don't see delaying the release of Honeycomb as a big deal. Google clearly feels it's not "done" yet and will release when it is. It seems to me that Motorola simply jumped the gun in releasing a Honeycomb device before it was ready.
Reading this reminded me of some of the parallels one can make between writing and jazz. Ask any jazz musician and they will say that there are tons of "rules" and "suggestions" for what to play over specific harmonic movements. This is important, vital stuff for a jazz musician.

However, they will also say to forget all that and go beyond, because expression shouldn't be confined by rules.

I've always thought you abide by the rules just long enough to spot their usefulness and then your throw them out the window and create something new.
14,000 full and part-time city employees to run a city of 800,000.

You love the city's services so much that you chose to live there, yet because you are an expert city planner, you are confident that all those services could be provided with fewer staff. Police, Fire, EMS, garbage, roads, parks, public health, water supply. Feel free to check the box next to the services in that list that you think should not be provided, and feel free to relocate to a city that does not in fact provide those services.
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It's another in a long list of attempts to create a digital cash scheme which will never work. Regular money is more than satisfactory for almost everyone.
The "concise" in "Writing clear, concise, sentences" is a non-restrictive adjective, tacked on as secondary information, and spoken between two pauses, with a different pitch to the other 3 words. The sentence could mean the speaker or author thinks sentences must be concise to be clear.

The "concise", like the "clear", in "Writing clear concise sentences" is a restrictive adjective, primary to the meaning of the sentence, with all words spoken at the same pitch. Clarity and conciseness are orthogonal. Perhaps there's a slight pause between clear and concise, which could be shown with a single comma.
"Most web designers can't make rockets."

Probably explains why they're not too into hiring web developers...
Hit the sign up screen, then the take a tour link (before signing up). I think this should be more visible from the front page. In general, rather impressive so far.
I found the result worthwhile as a counterweight to negative thinking. I showed the draft to a close friend and he had a similar reaction which was "so what?" I fleshed out the conclusion a bit more, but you're right that it still doesn't have a strong takeaway. I might just be too wrapped up in my interest in empirical studies of human happiness to write a really useful blog article on the topic, but I've got to keep trying! :)
The HTTP request parser doesn't look readable or trivial to me at all.

I'm not familiar with Haskell, so to me the code looks like a mix of high-level declarative and low-level specialized constructs (e.g. skipWhile, takeWhile) interleaved with syntax noise. And it seems to be using quite a lot of external libraries. Also, correspondence of the code with the HTTP spec is completely non-obvious.

In contrast, here's an HTTP response parser I wrote in OCaml using just one library: https://github.com/alavrik/piqi/blob/master/piqi-tools/piqi_... (see lines 26 - 218).

I've just noticed that the code you are referring to is an example. Well, looking at the example, I can hardly come to a conclusion that Haskell shines for parsing.
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You ready to pay $10k? $50k? $100k? Because it would cost at least that much to serve the handful of people who want to pay for that feature.
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In my particular case, I noticed continual slow down every 1000 or so documents I kept creating when using mongoid_search. I was only doing a simple search, indexing on just a title field in my documents.
I don't see how it's any less relevant to the discussion of "they should charge so the service is smoother". If we're going to have that conversation, then it's important to acknowledge that they already have a business model that addresses this. Google isn't hurting for money nor are their projects and when something like gmail encounters a hitch, it has nothing to do with funding. Giving gmail more funding or funding it by direct service fees over their existing model isn't going to make it any more reliable, since it is still susceptible to "things just going bad" from time to time. Really, if my comment is inane, then so is the whole submission (which I would kind of agree with - no slight intended to the submitter).
Pulling a random top 30 utilities app ( http://www.appannie.com/icon-skins-builder-create/ranking/hi... ) seems to indicate that that corrosponds to #460 or so on the global list. Interesting stuff!
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As an elitist alum, I don't like these programs one bit. I can't help but feel that they are, in a small but meaningful way, watering down the value of my degree. And even though it's petty, I'm chagrined that my diploma features English rather than Latin text.

Harvard's Extension School was designed to teach the greater Boston community, and I think it should be a vehicle to improve town-gown relations, by convincing locals to not perceive Harvard as "the other". I certainly don't think it should have as part of its mission handing out Masters degrees to people from Kansas over the Internet.
From the blog post:

"Organizations relying on certificates for unqualified names should use their own private CA for their private namespace. For example, all those Exchange shops can use Microsoft's CA software."
Well, really we pay CAs for authentication, not encryption. Your computer can encrypt just fine on its own.

Most of the solutions I've seen to this problem are done in one of three ways:

1. Create better tools to monitor for abuses, ie. Google's new DNS-accessible SSL repository or Perspectives.

2. Tack on trust-on-first-use, ie. SSH or CertPatrol.

3. Make industry-specific root CAs that self-regulate, ie. a financial services CA with browser chrome that displays finance-specific info. Then the SSL observatory can play each root off eachother with comparative stats.
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"Insulting" is a gross exaggeration. That's this forum's style! Where do you think I’ve learned it from?

You and the parent both admit that I have a point. That’s good enough for me.
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Do you know how they're able to create a top 500 list? I thought the app store rankings only went to 200.
Here's a darker version of this, aka Metrofy.

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LCARSish too!
Adding to this, what are the potential ramifications of having accessed this data in terms of seeking health/life/other insurance? It seems a range of these services give insight into risk factors that I imagine insurers might not look favourably upon (given they're typically not able to do such screening themselves)...
Because if you want to take fuel with you, that's a lot of extra mass you have to lift. Which requires bigger engines and even more fuel.
When I see CVs with masters degrees I can't help thinking "this person has been more interested in academic study than real world experience". I value the latter more. Some formal education is good to see, but I've seen too many masters students who can't cut it in a real world situation.
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Then I stand corrected. Thanks for the insight.
Harvard educates the world, and you'd rather their mission be a way "improve town-gown relations, by convincing locals to not perceive Harvard as "the other"

Seems completely unfounded, and yes, categorically elitist.
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location based companies (geolocation apps & stuff), mobile payment companies, and the secondary market.
DuckDuckGo is indeed useful. I just spent a while looking around the site and the only obvious monetization was selling logo clothing and a water bottle. Just curious: what is their plan for making money?
Seems to work pretty well for Honda. They innovate and everyone still copies their designs and products, but they also have great financial results magically with innovative products. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/112.html [2006]

I hope this is a trend in America, Google can set a great example (as all companies early on do) on keeping innovators in charge with a startup culture/meritocracy.

Before the recent change in CEO, I felt Google was getting too suits focused and simply competing on a byline/reactionary technique. Bring it back Google.
If social status == money, why is starting a company so frowned-upon by Indian parents? Is it risk aversion on the part of brides' families? Is it considered better to marry your daughter off to, say, an IBMer where both the upsides and downsides are bounded than it is for your daughter to marry someone who is a risk taker? BTW, I'm a white American guy who is simply trying to understand.
If I didn't have my own startup this one of the very few job postings I'd apply to. I've observed Weebly from a distance for a long time and always thought they were one of the best companies to come out of YC.
Well he got a PhD for this one, that's something.
Operating equipment like a particle accelerator is surely not cheap. If they decide that it would be better to share time on newer equipment rather than face the rising maintenance costs of older, less capable equipment, scrapping it is likely the best option.
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Your point is valid and well taken, but I would like to call out that 1) I specifically mention the use of optimizations as impacting my argument, and 2) I did not mention gcc. I completely agree that for system programming you "have to understand exactly how your black box works," however, I would argue that even if this is technically possible in C++, the cost is prohibitively high. The mapping between C code and machine code is fairly straightforward, /unless obfuscated by compilers and runtimes/.

I fundamentally disagree with the notion that you can write /good/ kernel code in a HLL. A kernel is ALL ABOUT interacting with the hardware and performing low level system management. Sure, you could write kernel code in a HLL, but it is just not going to be as performant as if you wrote the code with "the super low level details" in mind. These are important considerations that compilers do not have insight into. I would go on to argue that to anyone who understood the low level details required to write quality kernel code, those details are not something they wish to overlook. Anyone who doesn't understand those details shouldn't be writing kernel code.
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Considering GC and concurrency issues, this talk is good for people making language choices on the JVM. In the end, he said he personally thinks STM is not a good way to program concurrency. And, I think immutable data is good for GC.
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I predict 262140 for the inflection point.

Ok, not so much predict, as read in the CFArray.c sources from Darwin.

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#pFm0LxzAWvs/darwins...

I think people forget that huge portions of OS X are available under the APSL. It saved me hours of debug time when I was writing a PKCS#8 certificate that openssl was happy with, but Keychain could not import. (openssl will happily use encryption methods that are probably not part of PKCS#8. But the RFC is cloudy.)
You could probably get away with remotely updating some sort of declarative grammar/schema, as long as it doesn't allow arbitrary code execution.
No, I don't love the City's services; I love the people who LIVE in the City. The streets are full of potholes. The public transit system (MUNI) is chronically broken (why? because 70% of their cost is personnel!). There are 9000 City employees who make more than $100K per year; when I have friends who are barely able to get by.

Remember: the Government of SF didn't make this City like some Disneyland and then people moved in; the people were here first . You'd be hard-pressed to find anybody in San Francisco who moved here because "the City's services are great".
Indeed. I would love a browser plug-in that fucked with cookies and spread disinformation.
Read this on an iPad 1. Couldn't tell the difference between the pictures. Oops.

/play him off, KC
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Can you help me understand your statement 'watering down the value of my degree'? I'm curious, why do you feel that way?
You're assuming that everyone spends all of their waking life either working a day job or spending money/consuming stuff?
Yea, I know:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118742

In fact, I know this is only one of the horrible things that MBA courses at least used to teach.