skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This technique naïvely assumes the only thing that is slow is the client. If a backend data provider that the web server communicates with (e.g., database) is also slow, this arrangement merely adds complexity without much corresponding benefit. The origin server will still block waiting on the data provider, which can cause process starvation in the pathological case.

Moreover, issues with slow clients often can be solved by raising the TCP send buffer size. As long as the response size is less than the send buffer size, it really doesn't matter how slow the client is: write() will return immediately, leaving the webserver free to serve the next request. Getting the data to the client then becomes the kernel's responsibility.
In the case of "my washing machine ate my homework" and other non-standard expressions, many people will be confused by making the obvious associations. It's only when the new rules are explained to them that they come to understand what was meant.

The failure of a machine to understand a sentence given a set of rules, may simple mean that it needs to be taught new rules.
Drugs can be helpful, but it's important to find a good doctor first. A lot of doctors will just try lots of different meds and see what sticks. When you're dealing with toenail fungus, that's ok, but when it's your brain, the result can be catastrophic. And if the drugs turn out to be wrong, getting off can be a nightmare. Google "brain shivers" for a good example. In my case, CBT has been a much bigger, more lasting help.
I am right there with you. Sometimes I need an energy drink to make one part of my brain catch up with the other, or it's a beer or two.

Frankly, I would have never finished college were it not for a strange mix of kidney-liver assaulting caffeine/alcohol liquids concurrently being imbibed. At times it seems the solution is the same for writing code for extended periods of time..

I'm going to bet ADD. I was never diag'd either.
According to that benchmark native Object.create is faster than constructor functions on Firefox 4.

That said, I wouldn't base my coding decisions on those kinds of micro benchmarks. They say nothing about the impact on actual javascript applications. Using new instead of Object.create may prove completely irrelevant in an application where you are constantly updating the DOM or are doing lots of network calls.
Couple things:

* Wow, an O(n^2) require algo. I guess this really drives home that we shouldn't make basic assumptions about the quality of the libs we use without actually looking at them. Great catch.

* For all of you waiting for this to be pulled into Ruby master. Why not just patch your copy in the meantime?
He's making fun of people who look for meaning that is not there in "the collapse of the wave function" by coming up with a outrageous metaphor.
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The point of Neutron Star is that the tidal forces kill you - although the #2 hull will be fine.
I would try to join martial arts class. Stuff like brazilian jiu jitsu force you to be close (in proximity) to other people. When you train in pair, and change your training partners few times per training session you're forced to connect with people.

I had this problem (although in pretty mild variant) before I started to train. And the best part is that you can take it slow if you want. You can just introduce yourself and focus on the technique, and after few sessions you will start to talk to people, and maybe even connect with some of them.

I still get anxious when I come to the new club, but it lasts shorter every time.
When you are extremely ill, you expect your doctor, who has many years of training and experience, to know what the correct treatment regimen is. When you are severely depressed (I'm not talking about "the blues" here!), you are exceedingly unlikely to do the research because you just don't have the energy to do it.

So what happens is the depressed person hears comments like that above and, in a situation where doing anything for themselves is almost impossible, thinks, "I should make sure I am an expert on these drugs before I seek treatment", but they never do the research.

I'm an exceedingly educated shopper when it comes to medicine, to the point that I've taught my doctor about some medicines, but there are certain times where it is better to just get into the doctor and start moving forward. Antidepressants and psychotropics are inconsistent at vest and require experimentation anyway.

Finally, I think it is an extreme, and dangerous, straw man to take the position that, for the majority of people, antidepressants will worsen their condition.

These are the kinds of comments I have personally received while sitting at the bottom of a dark hole. All those comments did was make it harder for me to get the help I needed. Severely depressed people are not rational and saying, "you should do all this rational stuff before you get help", is patently harmful.
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I don't know , why these guys are being so ridiculous in replying mails and being jackass solving the problems regarding to Customer Payments.

I really like the CrossLoop as a product.
I see a probable scam/ fraud in distributing the Payments by CrossLoop system.
Views expressed here are solely mine.
It must be nice to never have to worry if people are obliquely uttering or perpetuating epithets about you or people like you! Strange that you have to go out of your way to discourage other people from expressing that curiosity though...
What's wrong with a pointer? Not coherent enough? It seems like a real laser when you shine it on a CD, at least (ghetto diffraction grating).
Yes, especially since it seems like that's what the author wants to imply. In reality, I think we're seeing Google hiring volume marching with the broad tech outlook, here proxied by MSFT.
I don't know , why these guys are being so ridiculous in replying mails and being jackass solving the problems regarding to Customer Payments.

I really like the CrossLoop as a product.
I see a probable scam/ fraud in distributing the Payments by CrossLoop system.
Views expressed here are solely mine.
Before you all get uppity, don't forget that both America and Canada are:

1) Spying on their citizens.
2) Not above an Internet kill switch. You know, for the kids.
Yes. Also, you'd probably expect a slight delay, if you are somehow assuming Microsoft employees are planning to jump ship. 2009 to mid 2010 almost would fit that profile.
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what's really missing is the phone numbers.
The flaw in your analysis, and your linked article, is following the fallacy of Homo Economicus, which is
"an arbitrary definition of man, as a being who inevitably does that by which he may obtain the greatest amount of necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries, with the smallest quantity of labour and physical self-denial with which they can be obtained."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus

In reality, humans rich and poor alike have many considerations of equal or greater importance than their utility function. For example, people not work full-time because they are in school, because they are practicing an art or craft, because they are taking care of family, because they have a wealthy benefactor, because they are employed in an illegal trade like drugs or prostitution, or because they are trying to break into a difficult industry like film.
Lera Boroditsky (the author of the Scientific American article) on how language shapes thought on Fora.tv: http://fora.tv/2010/10/26/Lera_Boroditsky_How_Language_Shape... (1 hour 41 minutes).
I don't think we're having the discussion you think we're having; I'm well aware of how "horrible" PHP is. But I program in plenty of languages and there is very little difference in code size, code organization, or pain between my code across those languages. I could translate my current PHP project in Python and the differences wouldn't be that great.

I imagine you haven't experience any real pain: programming large projects in VBScript, C++, or doing any work in COBOL. The minor irritations of PHP is just that.

I suspect your problem isn't so much PHP but the code that you have to work with written in PHP. Most PHP code is embarrassingly bad. I'm lucky that, for the most part, I don't have to deal with a lot of terrible PHP code. I bend PHP to my will, not the other way around. A lot of people fault the language design for the insane way people use it -- it doesn't have to be that way.
Cherry picking based on which engineers are around is much more about our daily releases. Everything checked into trunk on Sunday will go out on Tuesday. But if I've requested a diff be merged for the Wednesday release, it won't happen unless I've told request_bot that I'm around to support my changes. This also means that if there are merge conflicts, the engineers who wrote the patches will be there to help resolve them.
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There's also a two minute version at https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=778890205865&....
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Acoustic Doppler velocimetry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Doppler_velocimetry
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"You expect your doctor, who has many years of training and experience, to know what the correct treatment regimen is."

Again, there is an entire literature devoted to examining this claim. You don't just get a free pass on claiming this is true when there are hundreds of scientific studies looking at whether or not this is actually the case.

"I think it is an extreme, and dangerous, straw man to take the position that, for the majority of people, antidepressants will worsen their condition."

Again, it's not an opinion question, there is actual research.

"Severely depressed people are not rational and saying, 'you should do all this rational stuff before you get help', is patently harmful."

You are defining getting 'help' as abdicating all personal responsibility, and doing something with unknown safety and efficacy. This is completely irresponsible. There may be certain cases where the problem has spiraled out of control to the point where it's unavoidable, but as a general recommendation this is really crappy advice.

Yes, depression does make it harder for people to think rationally, and it does sap one's energy. But it's not all black-and-white. Some days are better than other days, and even moderately to severely depressed are still be capable of reading books and using Google most of the time. Otherwise bibliotherapy wouldn't be such a popular treatment.
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Makes sense. Philosophy is the root from which all rigorous knowledge domains diverged into specializations.
Similar graphic on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg
It should also be noted that we have a tendency to leapfrog each other on terms, rather than actually bringing them in line.

Some consider this a strategy.
This has been one of the very interesting questions that probably a lot of universities tried to tackle.
Taking the approach of just analyzing over 600 startups and finding relevant pattern is remarkable and smart.

I truly believe that this work can have a huge impact on how we're going to build high scalable companies in the future.

Taking a new approach is at it's time where business plan competitions are not "the way" to go any more.

Great work!
There's a growing body of evidence that statins are actually net harmful to the body. Millions of people are on medications that are helping them, and other millions of people are overmedicated.
I think the idea is that they use it as much as possible, but haven't contributed a single thing back, given that copyright has always been extended long enough to keep Mickey under copyright. Not to mention the trademark issues.

Plunder doesn't seem like the right word for that, though.
7. Alcohol is a funny drug. It's done less damage to me than antidepressants, but unfortunately if you have a history of mood disorders your doctor will try to talk you out of one or two drinks a day.
Title should have the date (2006). The real question is, did the revolution happen on YouTube (or Facebook or twitter)? There is some evidence that it has helped, but, in the end, the revolution can only happen in the streets.
Thx Phil :) I hope so to :)
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Beginning the comment with "Summary:" would be helpful.
Medication is absolutely not quick&easy. It takes 4-6 weeks to take effect, and 80% of its effect is ascribed to the placebo effect. Incidentally, the only time an antidepressant had any effect on my mood (I've been on 6) is when it launched me into a manic episode. The withdrawal from some of them is also excruciating.
Why don't they use GPS to determine the altitude and the speed? Even a $100 GPS in my car is more precise than the speedometer.
Also see IcyBall [1], a type of gas absorption refrigerator that was used in the 1920's and 1930's.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icy_Ball
I bought the Doxie on Amazon and it arrived today. I paid extra for Saturday delivery because I was really hoping to use the long holiday weekend to get through the pile of papers lingering around my house.

Turned out mine has the same grinding issue mentioned on the blog post here, and there were a couple one star reviews on Amazon about it as well. I don't want to bother replacing it, because apparently they must have a QC problem and who knows what the next one they send me would do.

I'm just going to send the thing back to Amazon and buy either the Fujitsu S1300 or S1500 instead. My father always told me to "buy it right or buy it twice." I thought I could take the cheap way out rather than buying the more expensive Fujitsu, but once again father knows best.
The article is a summary of this:
http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/05/22/picking-the-rig...

The review of Cassandra:
http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/05/24/nosql-databases...
I didn't read the author that way. I read the author saying drugs are a viable choice. Don't discard them simply because there is a social stigma against them.
Please, please, please learn more about depression and try to understand what people go through on a daily basis. Depressed people are often confronted with attitudes like this that fundamentally misunderstand the issue. People with major depressive disorder, bipolar affective disorder, or their cousins can be miserable and hate their lives even when they have everything they've ever asked for. It's not their fault.
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Maybe some forms of depressions are, but certainly not all of them. Sometimes circumstances are actually depressing, and people become depressed as a result.

Sure, the actual depression is something physiological (neurons firing, hormones, whatever). That doesn't imply that it is caused by physiological malfunctioning.
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Alcohol is highly associated with mental illness. For example, alcoholism is associated with an 800% increase in psychotic disorders in males. It also is associated with a 5 - 20x increased likelihood of suicide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol#Me...

The causality runs both directions here. For example, the adverse childhood experience study shows that having an abusive childhood makes one dramatically more susceptible to drug abuse and mental illness:

http://www.liftchildren.org/admin/upload/The%20Adverse%20Chi...

http://www.nijc.org/pdfs/Subject%20Matter%20Articles/Drugs%2...

However, drug abuse also greatly increases the risk of depression and other mental illnesses. There are probably several different mechanisms here. For example, alcohol causes inflammation. Inflammation seems to be one of the things that causes depression:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=alcohol+inflammation&...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cytokine+theory+of+depre...

Also, once one has an alcohol dependency then one is going to suffer depression whenever one isn't drinking. It's the same thing with any drug. E.g. you can smoke weed one or two times per week, or you can smoke weed 30+ times per week, but if you smoke weed say 5 times per week then you'll just be depressed all the time except for right after you smoke. (Because depression is a symptom of withdrawal, and you're essentially permanently in withdrawal.)
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I cannot overstate how important this is. I had a doctor hand out pills like candy and the brain shivers are devastating (I've had them for about 8 days on my way off Pristiq). All kinds of therapy are roughly equivalent in efficacy (I don't have the citation on this, but I believe it was on HN a couple weeks ago), but the most important part is finding someone you can trust.

My psychiatrist is now fired after playing games with my brain and missing some pretty obvious calls, but my therapist is indispensable.
A severability clause has nothing to do with closing down the contract. Severability in contracts essentially means that the terms of the contract are not "all or nothing" -- they can be severed from one another. So if one of the clauses in not enforceable, only that clause will be thrown out.

Whether you want a severability clause or not depends on a bunch of factors. Sometimes people insist on clauses that are not enforceable -- that can be used to your advantage.
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Seriously? Ruby made it to 1.9.3 with this shitty of a module loader? Is the language written by a bunch of ass clowns or what?
GPS will give you groundspeed, not airspeed. And since you don't get lift from groundspeed, it isn't as relevant to keeping the airplane flying.
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I wasn't aware of that implementation detail. Hey, now I respect PHP even less than I did before.

Your solution makes for some good boilerplate, but things like that are exactly why I use Python for everything it makes sense for: these things are baked into the language (in Python it would be array.get(key, default) ).
Great additions. Can you provide some kind of confirmation or statement that you are not logging the data entered into bulk availability checks? This would put a lot of user's mind at ease, particularly those in the industry who may be using your tools regularly.

Looking forward to seeing DomainHole develop further. Excellent UI, UX and concepts.
Can you please setup and make modifications to a Hackernews like website?
I am trying to find a LISP/ARC coder who can basically be my "webmaster" i need you to install the Hackernews source code on a server (going to have my a VPS soon, you can use your own hosting if you want and charge me) and make modifications for me as we go along. I'll pay you by the hour, just name me your price and we'll work from there.

Hint: i am building a deal site using the superior hackernews algorithm.

benbakhshi at gmail so we can start the conversation.

Thanks
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I want you to know that, in general, I agree with you completely, but the rabbit hole goes much deeper and gets much darker. I have been the person there, not able to do anything (barely able to get out of bed) for most of a year. I watched as my job slid away from me and every relationship I had deteriorated and fell apart.

I knew drugs were an alternative, but I followed the same thinking you are encouraging. I would do a little research on drugs, find the one post where somebody said the drug didn't work or some side effect was bad or some withdrawal was painful. That was all the research my broken thinking could do, and it ruled out every single drug that might have helped me.

I finally threw myself at my doctor's feet because I was close to suicide and I cared just enough about my kids to not want to do that. I had to let somebody whose brain wasn't broken do the thinking for me or it was over.

So while I agree people should be informed and drugs shouldn't be a first choice, I strongly object to anybody saying things that get in the way of people who are in the depths of depression I've experienced from getting help, which often does require drugs to break the mental feedback loops that get formed.

Conversely, drugs should not be taken without counseling to help retrain negative thought patterns that made it so difficult to get better in the first place.
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I attended a local business college that turned into a diploma mill experience. They were later snatched up by Kaplan University and morphed into one. I finished out my BS because by the time I realized how bad the decision was, it was better to just finish it up and graduate than quit and pay off a debt with nothing to show for it.

I'd like to think I'm a little more self-aware now, and definitely have picked up on much more knowledge since then. Does it really matter that I attended a diploma mill in relation to looking for great jobs down the line? I currently have an average junior DBA/development gig that is decent for the area, but would love to do something more inspiring someday soon. Does anyone have similar stories to relate that might give me some insight on how I should treat my career?

(Just a note that I've been out of school for about 6 years now, and now have about four years at said gig under my belt, if that helps clarify a bit.)
I imagine it scales fairly well, though perhaps with some modifications. Historically, the purpose of a cellar was that it was cool underground storage for food to get you through the winter months. My recollection is that some cultures also buried large clay pots in the ground to store grain. I am trying to look for supporting links. So far, this is the best I have come up with:

http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/vita/grnstor3/en/grnstor3.htm

Edit: This (link below) appears to be a good source on historical methods of food storage, including underground and pottery storage.

http://bioconservation.co.uk/Documents/FGO-all3209.pdf
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Statistical learning as a field benefits humans most when its augments our actions. I think instead of comparing humans and statistical algorithms to see who fares better, we should focus on how the two can blend together, and help each other out. As the author points out, all the success stories are largely man-machine collaborations (imagine search engines without user data and inputs).
Thanks for the pointer. I've ordered it and will give it a try.
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I can officially state here that we do NOT store the domains entered into the Bulk Domain Check tool. If it would help ease users' minds... we can work on adding something to this effect to the End User License Agreement.
I don't know what WebLogic can do for flow control exactly. Please email rabbitmq-discuss to get a definitive answer and discussion on what you can do with Rabbit, which supports various mechanisms.