skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this! Love the map!

I think the maps api allows you to use custom pins, so how about different icons for different types of events.

Also noticed you have an empty meta description.

Also, to both projects, how about implementing machine learning to find events (scan twitter, FB, G+ and sites). Hehe, someone smarter than me would have to figure out how this would work :)

This really is the key to success with sites like these, you needs events, and you need alot.

You don't really want to be entering events manually if you don't have to. The future isn't manpower, its algorithms.

P.S. I've bookmarked this.
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In my experience, maybe 2% of software engineers are incentivized more strongly by positive social change than by money or fame. These are the idealists, like Richard Stallman and former members of OLPC, who are often ridiculed by the rest of the community. Until the academic and governmental infrastructure is able to put anywhere near as much money into CS research as private industry, the majority of technologists will (have to) be driven by the desire to make money.

For all the talk of how doctors make a lot of money, the reason they do is that so few are both qualified and willing to take the long, grinding road through 8 years of medical school and residency, $200k in debt, and 80 hour work weeks, with fierce competition at every step of the way. According to the med students I know, if you aren't inspired by some higher calling it's almost not worth it because you won't make it through.
The assumption seems to be that muslims born, brought up and living in Europe would have the exact same birthrate as if their ancestors who lived in a very different society at a different time.

For that matter, birthrates are plummeting in many developing countries including the middle eastern ones - this is generally not acknowledged in these kind of projections.
The app was long-awaited, and people were annoyed by Facebook's decision to not release an universal iOS application.

That's why it's news. It's not secret. That's just sensationalist reporting.
I'm not arguing 'more constructive'. I'm arguing that it has value, no matter the delivery method.

You cannot change people. Trying to do so is wasting your time. Instead, learn to accept what information you can glean from them and move on. When you get a good report, be appreciative. When you get a bad one, use what you can and ignore the invective.

For your extreme example, the constructive information you can get from that is that something about the problem is confusing people. They wouldn't be saying things that don't matter... They think it DOES matter!
Love Google Reader, have ~2,500 subscriptions, it is the only RSS reader that could handle such volume -- NetNewsWire make my Mac sputter and smoke with only ~300 feeds or so.

Many might be aghast at the humungous subscription set, but I do not do RSS like email -- it is more akin to a stream I surf, skim and dip. And it is lightning fast, permitting me to breeze through content in a rapid pace.

That said, I am astonished at how Google has allowed it to languish and stagnate, or by adding incomplete and inconsequential features.

* One of the big reasons I made the switch was the ability to search feeds, but sadly, of late, it looks like "search" (which I thought was the bread and butter Google raison d'être) functionality has deteriorated, not as robust or comprehensive as even a year ago or few months ago.

* No public API.

* Control to let me jump in at a given time point in the stream. Sometimes due to just mistakenly hitting a hotkey that refreshes and resets when I'm in the middle of a stream. Or it might be that I just want to jump to feeds earlier than 8 hours ago, 3 days ago, or 3 months ago.
Nice work! A "check on the spot" definitely helps validate the idea.
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My definition of hack is something like "Use/modification of a thing to achieve a solution that was not intended by the creator." As such you can hack software, Kinects, Roombas, and IKEA furniture.
If the index key does not start with the partition key, then won't that end up being everything in the majority of cases?

In the examples given (price, license plate) there is no locality between the partition keys (armor id, person) and the index key. A query for all armor priced between 200-400 would end up touching every partition that contains armor priced between 200-400. Unless the set of armor is small you will end up needing to scan every partition.
People haven't started paying $2000 for it yet. It may still grow.
This actually pisses me off, a lot. I don't put my ebooks up on torrenting sites or distribute them - but seeing my own email address show up on every page of my ebook means that I'm not going to buy from you again, ever.
Here are two (minor) considerations

1) If you want to be pedantic about HTTP, RFC 2616 states with respect to responses from URIs containing query strings that "caches MUST NOT treat responses to such URIs as fresh unless the server provides an explicit expiration time." Although this clause is broadly ignored by the vast majority of middleware, it could be argued that slashes are more correct.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13...

2) Middleware like Squid comes with strip_query_terms on by default so if you put Squid in front of a Riak cluster and you wanted to see what was actually being run you'd have to make changes to the config file. Otherwise the request uri in the logs just reads "/buckets/loot/index?"
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Glad that was cleared up. All this time, I thought a 'hacker'
was a navel gazing, media junky who happens to know a bit of ruby on rails and javascript!
If you go by that logic, nobody would study finance (or any financial business career). But they're hugely popular.
It's funny how the points stated in this article will be so true for a Microsoft hiring manager. No disrespect intended.
Disclaimer: I was an MS employee till last month.
> Nobody's stopping you.

Immigration discourages westerners from reproducing. Immigrants drive up housing costs, lower wages, and increase competition for school spots and good neighborhoods. All this makes family formation a more daunting proposition for people who aspire to maintain a middle class standard of living.

Western and East Asian birth rates probably reflect collective decisions that the lands are full. To respond by opening the borders to millions of foreigners makes no sense.
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Yeah, in the Frozenbyte bundle Notch and Garry helped in a big way.
Three comments.

1. I can't comment on the original article. Are comments closed, or am I dumb?

2. The author seems to have assumed a web server responding to bursty traffic. Several people have pointed out workloads to which the 0.7 heuristic doesn't apply - compute servers, I/O bound servers, compile jobs, desktops. He should have stated that assumption up front.

3. Hyperthreads. For purposes of load monitoring, you should be counting the number of threads, not the number of cores. Yes, hyperthreads are slower than cores, but that doesn't matter. The load average is the ratio of work available to work being done (oversimplified, I know), and, as such, it's scaled to the actual throughput of the threads available.

Fortunately, the author suggested counting CPUs by reading /proc/cpuinfo, and /proc/cpuinfo lists threads, not cores. So those two errors cancel out. (-:
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Would there be any reason that perceived performance would decrease when the cpu load is 50% of the total number of cores? We have an X5660 with 24-cores and once the one-minute average gets over 12, pageload times increase dramatically.
Here is a comprehensive article on font hinting by Peter Biľak a very respected Typographer:

http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting

"[font-face] also raises new issues, including poor onscreen display of non-hinted fonts. And because hinting is tedious, time-consuming and widely believed to be nearly obsolete, 99% of all fonts, even commercial ones, are non-hinted."
What about

/buckets/loot/index/category_bin,armor/price_int,300,500

Looks a lot like link walk syntax, don't it?
Hey Andre,

I love the implementation of the app and think the UI is very well thought out. I'm sure you already know this, but people love to criticize to feel important. Skimming the concerned replies, almost all are pedantic usability tradeoffs I'm sure you considered. So just wanted to say good job, dude.
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I disagree, I think it is the browser's job to get out of the way as much as possible. That the browser provides you shortcuts shows that it thinks of itself as being more important than the websites it renders (Opera knows Web APIs and chose to implement a feature that butts heads with one because it's rarely used).
if you want a stable career, this is not the industry for you.

Well, yes and no :). Depends on where you work. If you work at a tech company then yeah, that's probably not the most secure workplace, but I work at a bank, and the only way you're ever going to get fired from there is if you're a really, really crappy worker, or if you screw up big time.
Pathetic, how so?

The people paying that amount could already own the games, they could already donate to charity. This is pay what you want for a reason, a large portion of people purchase just because it's a donation thing. If someone has a spare $5 why don't they spend it here? It isn't pathetic, it's better than nothing.
If you need someone to explain to you why it would be bad for the West to die and be reformed along the lines of current mid-eastern muslim nations, I really don't know what to say. You don't find it obvious that Western Civilization is good and worth preserving?
The same can be said for a number of old games as well. GoG's Summer Gems daily sale had a bunch of games that can't possibly compare graphically these days but still surpass modern games in many ways (e.g. Independence War which I would argue is unique in the space shooter genre).

That and my aging single-core computer simply can't keep up with many AAA tiles.
You won't be downvoted because what you say is true. It's going to be very challenging to pay for all of these entitlement programs.

We've essentially outsourced to the government what for millennia has been taken care of by families- caring for our seniors and elderly. If we want to have a sustainable path forward, this is something that we as a society will eventually have to confront, come to terms with, and hopefully solve.
At least for the texting side of things, it's downright trivial. My fuzzer texts me every time it finds a crash, and it takes all of 3 lines of code to do this. Works like a dream.
They would obviously not have to release OS X under the GPL, but they could be forced to release the applications using the client libraries. On the other hand, this has been true for years; this policy was created by MySQL AB, even before Sun bought them.
I'm a female developer. I'm not going for CS, but a Systems Engineering degree. I share classes with lots of women (well, in the best of situations, we're 1/3 of the total population of a classroom). Even knowing lots of women going for a SE degree, I can count with one hand the female developers I know. Most of them aren't interested in developing, but in functional analysis and leading teams.
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Which is simultaneously anecdotal and proving the point. A statistic like 1/10 can so easily be an outlier - those aren't numbers you can use to prove a point. And 1/10 is somewhat (although not statistically significantly, given your sample size) smaller than 10/90.
I'm sorry I was unable to recruit you to Splunk back in the day, but good luck with Browserling!
1 GB is pretty meager for general use these days.
The pictures in the article show an old IBM-style computing facility, the domain of the sages in white robes who tend the machine. This raises two questions in my mind:

1. Have hackers and the hacker culture risen in importance and influence in the broader tech ecosystem since, say, 1985?

2. Has this resulted in a change of computing culture contributing to the decreasing numbers of women entering the field?

One of the things present in Levy's Hackers was that the vast majority of the movers-and-shakers in the hacker community were men. Roberta Williams was, I believe, the only woman mentioned in the book with any direct involvement in computing. Has that culture risen in influence, and is it (partly) to blame? The IBM terminal & mainframe rooms with their hospital-clean appearance don't make press much any more.
His answer for why he lives in Ogaki is amazing. Excerpt:

By total accident, that job was in Ogaki. I'm not much of a poet but I would write love sonnets for this town. I love the air, I love the water, I love my friends, I love my community, I love my little church, I love the little sushi shop I've been going to for seven years where everybody knows my name, and I love my girlfriend.

Tokyo is a nice place. New York is a nice place. Chicago is a nice place. But I want to live in Ogaki.
Try disabling all add-ons, it got me to really low RAM usage and I had AdBlock & Firebug only earlier.
> There's no such thing as an "ethnic" European. Race is a very recent sociopolitical construct

It's funny how a tiny fraction of college educated white people in the West are the only people in the whole world to believe this. Everybody else knows what race and what white people are.
"What happened to all the talented female teachers?"

In the 1960s teaching was one of the few professional occupations considered "suitable" for women, and as a result many of the best and brightest women went into education. As other occupations opened up to women this resulted in a huge brain drain, with the average ability of teacher to drop dramatically.

I imagine the same happened in programming as well, as women has more choices open up to them they naturally moved on to other fields.
Don't you mean (Load / # cores) > 1?
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Please don't use URL shorteners. It is considered bad form on HN where we don't have a 140 character limit. We want to know where we are going before we go.
make sure you are looking at physical core count, not hyperthreaded cores (which should be a 2x difference for your CPU).
Nice site. Years ago, we used to determine the luminosity of a colour to determine whether we should use white text or black text.

Now, there are calculators to help determine whether a pair of colours contrast each other effectively. Here is one that kind of works:

http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorcontrast.asp
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"it just means Firefox will run like crap for a while."

Put an "ionice -c 3" on that job and you probably won't notice the performance effect on Firefox anymore. (You probably don't need conventional "nice" because compile jobs tend to get their priorities dropped anyhow because they are using a lot of CPU without yielding, but dropping the scheduler that hint can still be helpful in some cases.)

(Annoyingly, unlike nice, ionice requires the specification of the class; I wish it would just default to -c 3 like nice has a reasonable default.)
The best layman explanation for the Higgs Boson : (from the second link on that page)

Higgs proposed that ".. the whole of space is permeated by a field, similar in some ways to the electromagnetic field. As particles move through space they travel through this field, and if they interact with it they acquire what appears to be mass. This is similar to the action of viscous forces felt by particles moving through any thick liquid. the larger the interaction of the particles with the field, the more mass they appear to have. .....
We know from quantum theory that fields have particles associated with them, the particle for the electromagnetic field being the photon. So there must be a particle associated with the Higg's field, and this is the Higgs boson."
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More than that, medicine is more portable.

At a typical large company, the ingress point into the company is at an entry-level position. Many women want to interrupt employment when they have children, which isn't practical for a IT person or programmer at a bank or government agency.

My mother, to use a fairly typical example, is a nurse. She took 5-6 years off at various times when my siblings were born or when daycare costs became prohibitive. Impact on her career? Not too bad -- hospitals need nurses, especially nurses with the specialist certifications she had.
> The Android space is way too cluttered to really make an entrance.

It's a huge market and Nokia's handsets have always been very high-quality. I doubt they would have a problem competing on quality.

> Win 7 makes a lot of sense in that context

Why? Any other manufacturer has been able to make it sell? When the same manufacturers that sell Android well can't make an attractive WP7 phone you start suspecting the difference between the products may be the problem.
Did you read your own chart? Between 1942 and today, it ranges from ~14% to ~21%. I don't know if you're aware of this, but 7% of GDP is a big deal. Incidentally, the same chart you point to shows how tax income is about as low of a share of GDP as its ever been since 1950.
Except you don't have to be able to program to be accepted to a CS program, so that shouldn't have a dramatic effect on why there are so few female students interested in CS.
This is getting ridiculous, when these patent trolls first started appearing I wasn't sure where I stood on software patents, but enough is enough, software patents need to be abolished.

It reminds me of a mob protection racket, only it's legal!

I wish you the best in fighting these assholes, when was their patent filed? Surely there must be some prior art?

Good luck
It should be noted that Safari is including the iOS market share, too, while Android browser market share is not included in there.

The "growth" of Safari is not really growth of the desktop browser's market share but the addition of Safari Mobile market share, which wasn't included in previous market share stats together with the desktop Safari.

"Among other browsers, only Safari has been able to grow over the past year, creeping up roughly 2.6%, largely on the strength of growth in iOS devices."

The full article from a few days ago:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/google-chrome-continues-its-r...
I am in complete agreement. And quite honestly it grows tiring actually refuting the various anti-Firefox rants with actual fact -- it is a bit of a hobbyhorse of some people while they cheer on whatever team they're waving the flag of.

It honestly must be emotionally exhausting to work for Mozilla projects. For all of the incredible work they have done (Firefox is the reason Apple still exists...I'll argue that point if anyone would like), there are so many anti-Firefox fanboys who appear in every single Mozilla discussion to express their ridiculous anecdotes or to make uninformed, naive performance observations.
The time was right for the Personal Computer revolution in 1977. In 1997, it was the Internet revolution.

In 2007, it was the Social revolution.

There's always opportunity, you just need to find what is now worldchanging, which would be difficult, expensive, or plain impossible before.
"Success, I was known in the Silicon Valley!"

Good read. You can feel the passion jumping out of the post.
Am I using the wrong command to count physical cores (I'm guessing so?
grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l
What should I use to count physical cores?
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I like that one, too. But then I read the others and they seem to give a totally different picture, like: symmetric pencils falling in space. It is interesting to read how the different physicists visualize and explain this concept.
(1) England and Spain were at war around that time (The Spanish Armada sailed in 1588 so maybe change the date to 1600).

(2) England was protestant, Spain was Catholic.

(3) Because of the language difference probably most English couldn't communicate with most Spanish.

I am also taking into account the average modern Swede is probably fairly well educated and relatively liberal.

Of course I may have pushed things a bit to make a rhetorical point ;-)
So women somehow magically ship from the factory with a natural instinct to avoid IT jobs?

In my city, they gave a civil service exam for a garbage collector -- 2,000 people took the test.
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Shopify is pondering open-sourcing our internal tool called Tiller. It runs all the reporting for our considerable data warehouse efforts, yet it's lightweight and super fast to get running.

Watch this space.
First, I don't think there's a single Western Civilization; Europe is in many ways different than the US, even if they're both 'western'.

Second, I don't think a change in the genetic makeup (which is what the projections point to) would necessarily mean the death of the Western civilization. In fact, the many Western values have already spread beyond the West, leading to miscegenation of cultures. The same would be true for an Europe with a higher number of people with different genetic makeup.

Personally, I'm more worried about the loss of local values in the face of the giant which is the US, which has much more power to disseminate them than any Muslim country.
This is exactly the point that Martin Belam makes:

So, if anyone wants to pick up the challenge and build a
prototype of Andy’s redux from our content, I’d love to
see it...and test it with users.
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"Yes, but there is no train of thought from semiconductors to stupid ideas about eugenics."

You badly underestimate the perverse creativity of a paranoid schizophrenic. I've never seen that one but I've certainly seen things every bit as crazy.

(I have a bit of a soft spot for paranoid schizophrenic rantings; it's like outsider art for philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art)
"It's better than nothing"

Agreed.

Introversion managed to stay alive through selling their four games for $5 on Steam. That's ultimately not too much better than the current average bundle sale (http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?...).

These deals tap into the reservoir of people who aren't invested enough in the games to pay full price (I forget the exact term for that), and these games certainly aren't new, and each has been on sale on Steam at least once so the people who were going to buy for full price likely already have.
Isn't it the case that if you want to get rich as a GP or specialist you have to start your own business, too? Also known as a practise? It is known that you'll never get rich working for someone else, but that applies to all trades and I don't see any reason why starting one as a programmer is dramatically different from starting one as a GP, or a plumber, or any other kind of highly skilled and valuable trade.
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