skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious whether these numbers factor in people who are looking for you/interacting with your profile. My list has some people I don't recognize as well people who I definitely have not clicked anything of recently, which is why it might.
I feel for people getting into programming today. While GPLed software and better dev environments than I ever had are easily available, there's less of an emphasis on computers being programmable for users - less useful manuals, etc

Sure you can get Ruby if you know where/how/of it, but your computer likely doesn't even come with BASIC installed by default.
I don't actually even see eventmachine in there, aside from a remark about having tried it in the opening introduction. Seems it is just comparing node with sinatra+mongomapper running under thin or unicorn.

Based on the title I assumed it was something like goliath or sinatra/async with rainbows!/thin. Looking at the git repo linked in the article though, I don't believe that is the case.
Doesn't work on the Samsung tab 10.1 either, which is an awesome gaming device if you don't mind virtual controls.
Wow, this is horrifying:

"I hope your PC blows up and leaves your miserable face disfigured forever," read one. "You will surely burn in hell for an eternity for this one."
Neither does the yellowpages and they make a small fortune still.
... and this is why logicians tend to make poor lawyers. It doesn't matter if an argument is logically sound; what matters is whether the argument is convincing, and saying "sure I can do this with pencil and paper... it will only take a hundred billion years" isn't going to convince anyone.
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Clipart images are another way to go. Search for them either on internet or any software program you have. Thereby, you will be able to generate interesting ideas for your business identity.
I disagree. The salutation sets the tone of the body. Just by reading "Dear Sir", I know that the body will probably be impersonal, yet polite. If I see "[Name]," I know the body will be professional and to-the-point. "Hi [Name]" sets a friendly tone, often followed by a request. If I do not see a salutation, odds are that the body was written in haste (or in reply to an existing thread).
Working towards a positive outcome doesn't always mean changing oneself. It can mean recognizing potential situations and avoiding them. For example, if you get really cranky when you haven't eaten in a while, you can always make sure to have some food with you (food bar, energy bars) or realize that skipping meals is a bad idea, etc.
> Somewhat off-topic, but what's the rental situation like in Australia for those moving to the country? Are there substantial obstacles to a non-citizen resident like there are in other countries like Japan? My wife and I are planning a move, and this is something I've not been able to Google up very well.

Which city are you moving to? Perth is fairly competitive right now, and price will be heavily dependant on your proximity to the CBD and major transport routes. I'm about 7kms from the CBD and pay about $440/week* for a 3x1 '60's home. House is weatherboard with great floorboards throughout and a huge (as in, too big for me!) yard out back.

Took us a few months to find a place though, and it is pretty competitive. It's a sellers market right now so they can afford to be choosy with who they lease it out to, but the actual paperwork requirements are rarely very onerous (job references, rental references, holding deposit).

* To own a home like this, which sold for $600k to the current owner (or thereabouts), would cost me closer to $1000/week in mortgage repayments over 30 years.
I believe there is good reason for the game being dumbed down for the mobile version. An intense session of Minecraft probably won't translate so well to mobile - UI in particular possess a legit challenge for a game originally designed with a keyboard and mouse in mind.
Advice for an aspiring programmer?
Hi everyone,

I'll try to detail my situation as quickly as possible, any input or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a 2010 graduate of a liberal arts college with a degree in philosophy and classical studies (emphasis on Greek). Upon graduation I took a job on a mid-term senatorial campaign, before going off to travel for the winter and part of the spring. I then took temp position (through mid-September, with the possibility for an extension) at a marketing agency in the New York metro area.

When I began college, I thought I would be a comp lit or English major, but through my exposure to philosophical writings, I gradually became enamored with the type of rigor and lucidity associated with analytic philosophy and symbolic logic--had I had my current preferences then, I would have majored in mathematics or cs, but as it is I have the degree I have.

Lately, I've really taken an interest in programming--it's really not too far off reading Greek, in certain respects. I've been working my way through LPTHW and I think SICP will be next on my agenda.

I really would like to get into development one day, and I'm more than happy to teach myself the relevant languages. My worry is that no matter how hard I work, I will still lack the appropriate signaling mechanisms. I have no practical experience with python, nor a cs or math or econ degree. Given the level of competition in the economy generally right now, is there any feasible way I can make up this deficit? My hope is that I'll be taken on in a more permanent capacity at my current firm, so I can have 10 or 11 months of employment while I polish up my python/lisping skills. Does this sound like a decent plan? Is there anything else I can do to bolster my resume/make myself more appealing to perspective employers? Am I making any obvious mistakes? Is this whole thing hopeless?
Thanks again for any input.
The anthropomorphizing is appropriate because it illustrates a very real phenomena, and the only thing I can say to that is you cannot predict the timing of events (or at least I can't) as well as you can recognize the fundamentals.

Buffett's approach is to invest based on the fundamentals, and then just wait for the timing to prove him right. And he can wait a long time.

I view all the people keeping the price down (or up) when the fundamentals say otherwise as contributing to market inefficiency. (to the extent that the market doesn't shoe the "perfect objective" price) I agree that the market may be very efficient at showing the balance of the demand from people who think the fundamentals are one way, vs, those who think the opposite. In fact, I think that's what makes for the "inefficiencies" I'm talking about.

EG: Many say gold is in a bubble, while others say gold is under priced. I would say the market is reasonably accurate at putting the gold price at the equilibrium of these two views, but that the fundamentals makes one of these views right and the other wrong.
I am wondering this too, there are many people in that list which I am not friends with and have only visited their profile once, yet they have a higher score than some of my really close friends.
that's a damn bad design. I stared at my laptop for a while to a bunch of hats?
It's not that fast, Facebook actually starts the search query from the second letter (about 174 ms), before that, it uses the prefetched cache of first degree friends and apps.
Ideally, the hour-long meeting is a collection of many small communications from several different people. If meetings consist of getting talked at by one person for an hour, I think most would agree that something is wrong.
For the record, they didn't start among young people. Emoticons were in use on the Internet before I got online in 1990. Kids ran with them because they want people to know what they are feeling and the feeling they are trying to portray, which can be nearly impossible to do in reasonably succinct writing.

An occasional emoticon can be useful, but it is easy to over do it. If I see five, I think "immature". If i see one, I don't think anything.
But the best writers aren't throwing out 60 short stories before lunch. They also have an audience who will actually read all the words.

When communicating via email, brevity us crucial. If I can drop two sentences by inserting a ;), you better believe I will. To not do so would be disrespecting the recipient's time so I can hone my writing skills (or lack thereof, in my case) at her expense.
You have a point. But you are assuming that meetings are about exchanging textual information. Usually there's more than that.

It's often important to get an idea about how stakeholders feel about different ideas. You can see facial expressions of everyone in a room and hear the way people speak at the same time as you're processing what's being said. All this information will not be in your chat/email thread at all. Also, not everyone is a great writer, many people will communicate much less details in writing than in person. Part of the reason why management likes meetings more than developers is because non-verbal data tends to be more important for their jobs.

Plus, what about visuals? Drawing on a whiteboard is easier than drawing in any software package I know of (even if you've got stuff like Wacom tablets). It's also easier and much faster to point to something than to explain it verbally.

Overall, I think the benefits of asynchronous workflow far outweigh the drawbacks (btw, anyone got a list of companies that use it? :), but it's important to understand the drawbacks as well.
Would it be possible for somebody to create a virus that would grab this file and publish it to people's profiles? I think I'd crawl into a hole and die if my ex girlfriend discovered how highly she ranked...
As some have mentioned, doing a couple of tests with dummy accounts seems to indicate that a friend visiting your page can influence your first_degree.php, which would explain why there are a few people who you never stalk who happen to be on your list.
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Hmm, they're supposed to be down the bottom of the page in the footer. Perhaps it doesn't render correctly in older Firefox, I'll have a look at it.
Yeah yeah, not arguing, just wanted us both on the record on this point. Crypto: dangerous.
Do like the Brazilians or Puerto Ricans did and hijack an old unused US military satellite.
Starting out I felt it was most helpful to learn at least the basics of build up languages so that its easier to understand ones that are thrown at you. Good ones to know are PHP/Python C++/C# and Java. My reasoning was that if you work hard to gain an ok understanding of all of the different programming areas, you can learn new aspects of the languages to suit projects you receive. Hope this helps..
Web hosting tech-support people are NOT "Engineers". Or for that matter tech.
For those of us with baby skin you are our friend.
Stop reading books and talk to people.

Make it a goal to speak to two people you've never interacted with before every day. At work, say one intelligent or funny thing at every meeting you attend.

Make small talk. Be nice to people. Don't "network". Compliment the person who serves you at a reataurant. Say hi to the mailman. There is no magic here, and no book has some secret that will somehow allow you to socialize without getting up and talking to people.
If you set goals in each language (such as a functioning PHP website) and maybe pick up a couple books I think your plan is obtainable!
It's pretty rough, I hacked it together over dinner last night, then haphazardly bolted on a few more things this morning. I'm amazed it works as well as it does.

Shoot me an email if you want the code regardless though - paul [at] bieh.net :)
I've used SolidWorks once for graphic that was used on a webpage. The only reason was having some shadows that didn't look like they were drawn by a 4yo. SolidWorks doesn't have any HTML/Code capability to create a webpage.

Curious or trying to figure if SolidWorks is a viable web design tool?
I thought Tufte was OK with non-zero baselines:

"The urge to contextualize the data is a good one, but context does not come from empty vertical space reaching down to zero, a number which does not even occur in a good many data sets. Instead, for context, show more data horizontally! "

-- Edward Tufte, October 18, 2001

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
What portion of Groupon clients use it once and then never again?
Same is true here in LA. The locations where there is a glut of housing is not the same places where people want to rent.
Out of my top ten, seven are women I have had a crush on at some point. Seems they are on to something...
IPad's first mover advantage kicking in
I've been waiting for the day when something is breached and you can see who's viewed your profile...all hell will break loose
Well I changed my privacy settings to visible to all, made a dummy account and click raped my profile and my dummy account didn't show up. I'll add the accounts as friends and then make note of the number, then do clicking from the dummy and see if it changes. There could be some privacy implications behind the initial coolness of this.

Also, if you make an account and do nothing your value for yourself is 0.939565, which I guess is some sort of baseline of 0 interaction? Although I don't understand how they are modeling your interaction with yourself, tbh.
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Friendly reminder indeed.
Please, tell me this is Adobe trying to mock IE. It has to be, right?
I mean, they've always sort of not valued source code, but this is beyond torturing it.

This is so inspirationally horrible someone spent hours remaking it, like it should've been: http://studentweb.infotech.monash.edu/~wlay/FIT1012/muse-dem....
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That is extremely culturally dependent (also personally dependent). I won't react any better to "Hi Jarek," than to "Hi,".
- an expert pulls me and some others into a room to update us on some secrets where we can ask questions

Sounds like gossip.

- lunch

Nice. Nothing like food time to discuss business.

- a very busy production lead needs to "use" (not waste) everyone's time so that she can efficiently figure out where a team is at

Email or a status board are much better for this.
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I think this is a great idea. Apple could allow filtering to see _IF_ I really want to upgrade to iOS 5 right away or wait until iOS 5 reviewers are happy.
http://www.gwern.net is built on Hakyll as well; I'm currently hosting the static files on NFSN, but they're noticeably more expensive than Amazon S3 and I've been thinking of doing the same thing. What did you have to do to get S3 working?
I'm reminded of the recent HBGary hack/infodump which contained a lot of material about creating software to ease/simplify sockpuppeting and plausible background generation for the US government.

One article: https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/12250-HBGary-Federal-...

Dozens of others, including probably the leaked docs themselves via Google.
Suggest me which platform I should use for my new project?
I'm about to start a new project, a web+mobile application that will use Facebook, Twitter and Google+ API(when available). The application is social in nature and may attract lots of users. It will extend existing social network functionality to help users plan an outing with friends using features such as "Places", "Interests", "Activities", "Meetups" etc. In short, it will help users plan and get involved in active offline social life.

Now, right now I am in the process of finalizing the features of version 1.0 and designing user interface. I need to select a development platform .

I'm comfortable in php and have never done any development using ruby or python but I can learn it if required. So, please suggest me which platform I should use for my project? PHP with any framework, Ruby on rails or python/django?
That would require the virus to successfully log in as you, and at that point does it matter?
That's likely the market growing and diluting iOS' market share.
benchmarks like this are prolly the reason _why left us :O
Nice description I guess, definitely written for marketers, not so much those of us who are interested in algorithms. Worth a quick read for those who are unfamiliar with it.
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Are those really issues for a static site? (Heck, would any of your examples be a static site in the first place?) And if a static site is dumped by Amazon S3, is that really so bad? You're a rsync and a DNS edit away from the site being back up - that's the beauty of a static site, it's just files in directories.
I believe that approval of the iPhone was held up until Samsung had their Galaxy out in the market over there[1].

"Many customers who have been weighing which smartphones they should buy are turning to Samsung's Galaxy S as the release of iPhone 4 is being delayed," said John Park of Daishin Securities.
Samsung said it had sold 500,000 Galaxy S phones in South Korea alone in the 33 days since it went on sale in the local market..."

[1] http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8mylIu-T...
Epic, is all I can say to this post. It has inspired any future post I write on Craigslist
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In a time when Internet is called God and it is the most important part of our lives, how difficult it becomes if the Wi-Fi connectivity of your Dell laptop starts behaving erratically that too when you have some really important work to do and you aren’t very comfortable using the other mode of internet connectivity.
Have you considered making a service for people who live outside Nepal?
It seems like there is a lag time between clicking stuff and the value changing, because I'm not getting my dummy to show up at all.
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I started using a method really similar to this to host a blog a few months ago, shortly after the S3 static website feature was released. However, shortly after a post ended up on the front page of hacker news, requests to anything on the S3 bucket started responding with 503 errors.

Not entirely sure what the issue was, since I use S3 to host static assets for other sites that see similar traffic levels, and haven't gotten any 503 errors. And clearly ATD
seems to be handling the HN traffic just fine.
Part of the algorithm may involve them trying to predict who you will want to add as a friend. People that attended the same events as you, people who have recently added your friends as friends, stuff like that.
Else fail. A kind of set up fear of failing, I guess.
It is an interesting idea at first glance, but it does run up against an age old problem in CPC: incentivized clicks.

Any time a person clicks on an ad for any reason other than they want to based on the content of the ad then they are worthless about 90% of the time. I know this because I've dealt with incent traffic for years upon years.

A charity based CPC ad is basically a fun idea at the start, but I'll do you one better: I'll donate a portion of my revenue from each lead you bring me to a charity.

One other thing..."Advertising sucks! Especially online. It's evil. It takes and takes, and never gives back. It's frustrating just thinking about it."

You just turned off pretty much any advertiser ever, including their agency and most publishers. You might want to tone down the evil talk just a tad... ;)
I often wondered why Moodys, Fitch and S&P got away with the MBS issues. In some ways their failure there made me less concerned about the downgrade of the US debt. I mean, how authoritative could they be?
A little bit in the topic. Trustworthiness of Beards:
http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/2355_infographic.jpg
All of the users that "liked" this article have bitcoin.. in them.
Boy, this would be a great way to hijack Facebook accounts. Just convince a bunch of people to run your bookmarklet on their Facebook profile.
Besides the issues of hoping to climb the economic ladder or wanting to avoid being on the absolute bottom, there is always the moral issue of avoiding theft.
Current implementations of Cilk, no, not as far as I know. There's also the fact that you need to transfer the data to the GPU. The transfer costs may kill any benefits from parallelism.
Indeed. The inefficiency here is astounding, especially considering the relatively straightforward page layout involved.

Original: 1496 lines, 77.9kB

Your version: 104 lines, 4.75kB

I'd thought we'd progressed beyond the state of a decade ago where Dreamweaver or what-have-you would build you a cumbersome and baroque html splooge to match whatever you had done in the designer, but I guess we haven't advanced that far. Just goes to show you that front-end devs are still as necessary as ever I suppose.
> Extremist commenters repel moderates who might otherwise be aligned with the cause, and/or attract other extremists.

I seem to recall reading something a while back that suggested the reverse is often true - that moderates will back the extremists for "fighting the good fight".

Even the moderates will tend to have some topics that they strongly support/criticise, and applaud that someone is doing it, especially in the case where the opinion is a minority view. The argument also suggested that extremists tend to generate the most media coverage of a topic - A terrorist bombing is going to generate a huge amount of front-page news compared to, say, some reasonable people meeting and making reasonable compromises. That will then raise awareness of the topic &c. Granted, the publicity will be overwhelming negative, but some people still subscribe to the "any publicity is good" theory.

I can't seem to find the original reference, but I'll edit it in or post a reply if I do find it.
Previous discussion (2 weeks ago):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861825
Not yet, I am a beginner, student of computer engineering, with just a big dream & a hope to solve few problems of the world. http://blog.skg.com.np I just tried to make a website for local community, http://chitwan.info. :)
Hi, my name is Keith Adams, and I worked on Facebook's typeahead. The system has evolved a bit since we launched, but I talked about first_degree.php in the tech talk we did about the typeahead back-end last year:

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=432864835468

Briefly, first_degree.php returns objects you're directly connected to in the graph, and if there's space a few machine-generated guesses at other good results. We preload these as soon as you focus the "Search" box at the top of the page, in the hopes of having some decent results to show when you start typing. The index field does, as the article inferred, represent our best guess at a ranking function on these first degree objects. The inputs to this ranking function explicitly do not include other users' behavior on the site. I talked a bit about our ranking function in this quora question:

http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-new-Facebook-search-engine...

Edit: To clarify what a lot of people seem to be wondering, visiting someone's profile does not affect the search results of anyone but yourself.
Cap'n, Engine Room here - We've diverted emergency DIVs to sensors, increasing noob sensing range. We'll need more add-ons if yer want mowr DIVs!
Good point! I never did something like preordering, so it didn't even crossed my mind.

but well, that's goes to show why they don't have to offer free DS version along with it :)
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