skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it puzzling as well. Google heavily uses python, as do a number of other web companies. Further, Ubuntu and Redhat have it as a system administration language. It's almost the default language for O'Reilly books that aren't language specific. Given all that you'd think there'd be a few more corporate contributions now that a x5 speedup has already been proven and it seems to be just a matter of polishing it up.

A bit of searching and it seems the memory problems I raised in my other comment aren't so drastic after all. Theoretically it can use less memory in many operations and the current blowouts are not as high as I thought (I was going from one benchmark a HNer, brianh, was kind enough to run for me[1]).

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357160
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note: my own opinions, not those of the company, etc

A few reasons, some good, some not. We have a large dev organization in many different groups, and there's a lot of cross-group coordination that has to happen to make things go. As a result there's a lots of quick hallway whiteboarding, conversations, stuff hashed out over lunch, etc, as well as lots of meetings. We do have a lot of contract developers and QA around the globe (Montreal, Austin, Brazil, Russia, and India, not necessarily in that order), but as someone who does work remotely (I've moved to contractor status after moving abroad), I can testify that the culture of distributed teams is still evolving.

The other reason is that corporate HR is wary. Which IMHO is somewhat misguided but given the first reason above I can see why.
Great news, blogs are where people express themselves - my feeds definitely wouldn't be interesting to me.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349429

If you search for my username in that thread I asked for someone to run the code from the story on a similar dataset with PyPy. Twice as fast but x10 memory usage. But as I said elsewhere a bit of searching suggests it won't be a showstopper.
Some reasons why this may not be a great idea:
* No one really reads their own posts afterwards.
* The crap you write on facebook is for others - ie, rarely deep enough to keep for yourself.

One place I think you could make money: New Parents.

These guys post pics of their kids all the time and text. Grab all that put it into a book. I think that would be very easy for a new parent to do (because they already do it) and very valuable. It would be 0 effort for parents which I'm sure they would appreciate. Otherwise they'd have to download all the pics and then make a book adn add text etc ...
It doesn't work for me at least. Part of the value of note taking is to flip through the book quickly and see the notes and then recall the most interesting parts. This seems lost.
> the Texas Board of Education can decree a global search and replace for evolution

In 2010, Texas voters tossed out two conservative members of the State Board of Education, although conservatives are going to try to regain control in 2012. [1]

In 2011, some of the remaining conservatives on the SBOE lost a battle to try to eliminate some lessons on evolution (they compromised because they realized they didn't have the votes). [2]

[1] http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/public-education...

[2] http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-social-conservatives-...
To me, the abstract idea is a 3D wireframe world where you accumulate points and avoid being shot by wireframe enemies, much in the same way that the Munchkin ruling says:

Other games, such as "Rally-X" (described in Dirkschneider)
and North American's own "Take the Money and Run," illustrate
different ways in which a basic maze-chase game can be expressed.

The idea could still have been a 3D wireframe world where things try and shoot you, but it didn't have to be tanks. Atari's own Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back from 1985 shows how the idea can have a radically different expression.
Agreed. I worked in a remote-ish situation early on where the people were in town but didn't have an office so I worked from home most of the time. I feel I've definitely progressed a lot more now since I started working in an office, but then there is a point again where you can get enough experience to where working remotely may be the better option, but starting out I agree its not necessarily the best option.
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I agree with your insights.

>>But the flip side of high-speed rail is that it's simply not cost-competitive over the distances we're dealing with, especially once you factor the cost of deploying it, which is spectacular. Just look at the problems California had with secure rights of way.

The longer we wait, the more expensive it will become. I say we should act now and swift. Instead of bailing out failing financial systems, we should have solely put that money to our infrastructure. That would have put deserving people to real work. Imagine how much harder it will become in another 20 years, and this is the future of America we are talking about.

Also, I believe cities ordinances should start outlawing the development of the traditional suburb. It should not be legal for these developers to build suburbs with out having a library, hospital, and school in walking distance. Having grown up in a suburb, and traveled the world a bit, I want nothing to do with suburbs. The reason why many in our government likes suburbs is because it encourages consumerism. Some have even argued that the reason why we solely have an almost auto based public transit system is because of auto lobbyist in congress during the 20th century. Although of course there have been many other social economic factors as well, such as 'white flight', as you touched upon.
I associate cars with constant paranoia

Now you know how many people feel about their computers...
That's nice. But I have a feeling there isn't just one method in your whole program. Having such short methods probably means that you'll wind up with many of them in most useful programs.

That means that you'll be spending a fair bit of your time editing, which means that you'll want the ability to use your editor of choice, rather than being forced to use someone else's editor of choice.
I know. I'm talking about this particular construction as applied to "teams" and in the context of "fit."
I live on the western edge of Oak Park and our office is on top of the Jackson blue line stop; that stretch of the blue line is one of the better, faster public transit runs in the US.

Meanwhile, my driving connection to my office is I-290, the Ike, one of the most congested highways in the US.

I'm pretty optimally situated to take advantage of public transit.

And yet a commute on the blue line, in addition to being much less pleasant than the freeway (the trains at peak time are packed) takes roughly an hour. Even in rush hour, driving to the office is so much faster it makes a meaningful difference in my morning logistics. After hours, the train still carves an hour out of my life, and the drive is practically like teleportation.

I've done the blue line for months at a time (car trouble, &c) and I don't mind it and I'm happy I have the option, but there's a litany of car unpleasantness on this thread, and I want to contribute an honest counterpoint.
Hmm, that's interesting. Did you witness this first-hand? If so, what were some of the struggles they faced?
some companies just want an ass in a seat and giving you a remote project doesn't accomplish this.
This is a perfect example of why Avichal Garg's post was spot on:
http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/build-something-peop...

This company was certainly building something that people might want, but failed to see if the roadblocks that had stopped similar efforts before them had been removed. They should have been able to find out how much work, money in the form of advances, and relationships they needed to even come close to pulling this off far before they ever raised so much money. The fact that they took $87M and anyone gave it to them without this analysis is just sad.
How much of the $87M went toward legal fees? Lots of negotiation here. The technology is trivial by comparison.

Thinking out loud...

Has any publisher managed to control their content in the digital age?

Academic publishers still manage to keep their content under control. How?

The cost of a subscription is exorbitant. Only large entities can afford it.

The large entities, e.g. universities or large firms, pass on the cost to their customers, e.g. students or clients/customers.

There's also the small fact that the content is not marketed heavily and in high demand among the general population. Unlike music.

Perhaps music should only be marketed to customers who can afford it: large entities.

It wouldn't stop piracy by individuals but it would ensure the existence of some customers who were willing and able to pay, and to refrain from piracy.

Imagine a situation where working for a large firm or attending a university gives you a temporary subscription to a vast catalog of not only academic journals but also major label music. It would be a huge perk.

Yes there would be piracy, but the large firms would have an incentive to try to stop it. They know who their employees and students are and could no doubt do a better job preventing piracy than the RIAA lawyers have done. Whatever might happen, the labels would still make money from exorbitantly-priced subscriptions.

Nah, it would never work.
I wish more companies were willing to consider option 1. it does mean a few months of less-than-ideally-productive time while they ramp up, and a corresponding time commitment on the part of the senior devs to handhold them while they learn, but you get some very passionate and dedicated employees out of it. also, they don't have any bad habits they're attached to (:
That's a good point: MG might just be bored because he doesn't have enough interesting work to do, so he's going to stink up the place until people give him work/money/cocktail-weenies.
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There are many factors at play, other than just generalizing 'public transit'. In many American cities you may be correct. But have you ever been to Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, etc? Do you really think driving would be more practical and cost effective in those cities?

One of America's greatest problems is the lack of any development into great city infrastructure. Our American society lacks the idea of planning for the future since post WWII, and only focuses on the 'now'. Where are the great cities in America? NYC, Boston, DC, maybe San Fran, rather a few for a country as large as ours, with a population of 300 million.

We need to start thinking about our infrastructure more. And thinking of the future, with integrated design through out our public systems.
I am ashamed to have been part of it
$89MM. The $10MM in 5/2010 was series B, they got $2MM before that.
Not within reach for most of us mortals, anyway:

http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/
Try ennobled as an alternative.
I am sure this is all correct. But some references would have been nice.
Can we get your app name, and a link to the spamhaus listing? It'd be nice to hear the other side of the story.
Just think how far that $90MM would go at other companies in the same space.
City ordinances can't outlaw the development of suburbs.

Counties can, but it'd be suicidal, because the people it would push out of the county are the wealthiest and most important part of the tax base.

Cities can tax suburbs by imposing commuter costs, but that tactic is in tension with the city's need to keep businesses, which will move out of the city if it penalizes the workforce.

I think parking is generally too cheap, and tolls are generally to low. But apart from that, I think the "white flight" stag hunt will eventually be counteracted by a "suburban decay" stag hunt that'll contract populations back into the cities.

The only thing I can see that would prevent that would be cost-effective personal transportation (say, hydrogen fuel cell), which would be a vindication of the suburbs.
It's rather obvious that articles authors of articles like this still walk on eggshells.

The author is a mainstream author on the subject, and he is sharing conclusions (that the effort to find large-effect genes on IQ has been unsuccessful) that are widely known in the behavioral genetics community. I am in a Facebook private group with most of the leading behavioral genetics researchers, having met quite a few in person at my alma mater, where I regularly attend the weekly behavioral genetics seminar,

http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall10/psy8935/default.htm

and their reaction to the new article by Christopher Chabris and his co-authors is that the article simply shares the last several years of well known findings to a broader audience of psychologists. Alas, members of the general public are years behind the professional research, and often turn to blog posts or old popular books to obtain superseded "information" on this subject. A good source for current information is the listing of articles by Eric Turkheimer on this personal website,

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/vita1_turkheimer.htm

which includes several highly readable review articles that summarize the current research results.
Executive and contractor pockets, though they probably didn't get the whole $77MM, as that kind of thing tends to be doled out via milestones. Still not chump change all told, I imagine.
Agreed, do we have any documentation on this? (I know the lobby industry conveniently has little documentation in general, but I'd love to see any papers written on the subject)
My main daily driver is a 1983 Mercedes diesel. It's likely not a car many people would consider to be "cool" but I paid less than $2000 for it, maintain it myself, enjoy doing so, and it's the most reliable car I've ever owned.

I understand that not everyone likes working on their own cars. I don't enjoy gardening. It's a diversion, a hobby for me. Like anything else, it's not "scary" once you start to understand it. It's just a machine, and in particular the older Mercedes are very overbuilt, designed to be repairable, and are generally easy to work on.
To a degree, we want to capture both the deep meaningful thoughts and the inane daily business, to capture a whole picture of someone. It's interesting seeing how little things (a check-in, say) can trigger associated memories for the reader.

That said, there are certainly a number of people who fill their social networks with crap, and just don't care about it. For them, we have the option of omitting services from the book, and as we add more blogging platforms the value may increase.

We also encourage users to keep a journal within Scribr itself via our nightly email, which makes the process super-easy.

New parents are definitely a target market for us, we have a few in our Alpha group and we're finding they're really into it.
note: my own opinions, not those of the company, etc

A few reasons:

-- Zappos, to a certain extent, is selling commodities. Every shoe can get photographed exactly the same way, doesn't need to demonstrate fit, doesn't need to communicate a larger style vision. I think they do all their photography when the product enters the warehouse, and the photos don't get much of a touch-up.

-- Macy's, on the other hand, has a creative vision of the various customers and lifestyles we're selling to, and the photos generally have to communicate that. That means: model selection, pairing with pants/shirts, posing, etc. Same with home products like bedding or towels. It's a fine line to walk between making sure to show all the product's features and attributes such as fit, fabric, pattern/embellishment, etc, and communicating the aspirational style vision-- who the customer wants to be when they buy that shirt. It's a tradeoff.

-- Photography is expensive. It takes a lot of people and stuff to create a good fashion photo: model, photographer, hair, makeup, wardrobe stylist, art director, digital capture tech, retoucher, studio, lights, cameras, computers, catering, .. the list goes on. We're ruthless negotiators on this stuff and really efficient, but on a per-product basis it ain't cheap.

-- Macy's fashion is highly seasonal so we might not buy as deep into a given style since it's only good for 6 months or less, so that cost is amortized over a fewer number of sales.

All that said, we're working on it for sure. We're shooting a lot more views of almost everything going forward.
Driving a fire-breathing muscle car you put together yourself is pure joy.
The products would have tags like they do today but would be NFC tags unique to the product. Fill up your basket - push it through the designated scanner and you've got a list of the items in the basket.
Less than 2 years.
I don't think you need to necessarily choose one or the other. I've gotten a lot out of texts that give you practical assignments that get you thinking about what you just learned.

I feel that learning in general is an iterative alternation between theory and practice. At the end of the day if you get both sides of that coin, you're doing fine.
Honestly, while it's "cool" conceptually (because of the electric thing), I find the Tesla styling pretty repulsive compared to a Mini or Smart Car, both of which I consider pretty adorable (and I hate cars).
That's why you use a 3rd party cloud backup service like backupify.
American youth may have fallen out of love with automobiles, but they are as hopelessly attracted as ever to convenience and the ability to change their minds at a whim, neither of which jive well with public transportation in its current state.
tl;dr: worked on wall street, feels better about not working there any more. read up on passive investing.
The only one that I can think of off the top of my head is Lex Machina - https://lexmachina.com/
How do you know that Hacker News developers are too smart for their own good?
When "Unknown or expired link" is considered acceptable UI and the Search bar is on the bottom of the scrollable content.
The GOP wants to zero out Amtrak because it isn't cost-effective; it would have been bankrupt but for tens of billions of subsidies.

I like the Acela, a lot, and I disagree philosophically with the GOP's take on public infrastructure, but I think it's a bad idea to pretend that they don't have a valid point regarding Amtrak.
In my opinion, they could get more contributors if they simplified the rather byzantine build process for pypy. It's especially annoying for developers attempting to port to other platforms.

(No incremental build, it takes roughly three hours on a high-end nehalem workstation, and if it fails for any reason, you get to start all over again!)
Ask HN: Anyone want to buy cctome.com?
A few months ago, I made a site called cctome.com. It's a nifty bookmarklet with which you can e-mail yourself anything from the internet.

I never did much marketing, didn't even launched on HN, but it got picked up by many websites including Lifehacker, TheNextWeb, many tweets and facebook likes, abduzeedo, makeuseof, and most recently a newsletter by radio host Kim Komando (no idea who she is) which sent over a boatload of mainstream-type users. It's even been touted as simpler alternative to evernote, instapaper, and the like.

Here's the deal - I love this tool, and I use it every day. There's so much that can be done with it (I have a document full of features I wanted to implement) to make it bigger and more powerful.

I don't, however, have the time to maintain or grow it right now, with school and work demanding more of my time every day. I'd love to see it go to someone who'll grow it and make it awesome.

Anyways, in case you're interested, the site has over 11,000 users, it's built using Ruby on Rails, hosted on Heroku under their free stack, and uses Sendgrid for e-mail. It's gotten 21,000 visits throughout december (mainly due to Kim Komando), and over 80,000 e-mails have been sent through it. I wish I had set up proper analytics for the use of the bookmaklet and better user stats, but I never expected it to grow up to this point.

You can contact me at cctome@joelmonegro.com :)

Oh, and happy new year everybody!
GM bought and destroyed almost all sustainable transportation in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
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I recommend stick shifts to everyone. It should take all four limbs to drive a car.

When "driving a car" means turning a key and then pointing it in the right direction, it's no surprise the experience has lost its luster. If your life is about constantly being online, then I see the article's point—public transit is your best option. If you enjoy driving, then get a car that's fun to drive.

Unfortunately the appeal of manuals is lost on most Americans.
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They spent on a large center code test - multiple recruitings over many months - of which myself and some coworkers participated. Not sure that I can say much more about it due to NDAs.
Cars are expensive, maintenance is expensive, insurance is expensive, traffic is a pain and giant waste of time, tolls on bridges add to the costs.

There are maybe a couple of activities that I still cannot do without a car, such as getting tons of groceries (say, going to Costco), transporting anything heavy, and doing road trips. Something like ZipCar already addresses most of those.

Also, I always feel bad for driving, it feels lazy from both a physical exertion standpoint (I live in a highly urbanized area, it's not like I have miles of cornfields to cross), and burning gas does nobody a favor.

Can't wait for some sort of personal automated pods to be developed.
I don't think they support DNSSEC
> When we worry about driving and texting, we assume that the most important thing the person is doing is piloting the car. But what if the most important thing they're doing is texting?

I can't even imagine the thought process that would even consider this question.
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Is there an app that helps you track VC relationships (CRM for raising VC)?
Yeah, arbitrary RSS support would be cool.

I was also thinking if you could integrate with Daily Mile (which I use) or services like that, that could be really interesting. I have some memorable bike rides in there.
It's hard to take seriously an argument that the only great US cities are NYC, Boston, DC, and SF. NYC is the most populous city in the US, and the spread between it and the next most populous city on your list includes the twelve next largest cities in the US.

Seattle, one of our greatest cities, is all the way down at #23, meaning you have to disqualify almost 20 other bigger cities to add it-and-only-it to that list. Sure, I'm no fan of Houston, and that list includes Detroit, but dismissing Austin? San Diego? Philly?

Come on.
Reflect on the saying, "more money than God."
Could you post this as a reply to whatever offended you please, instead of passive-aggressively posting it at the whole of HN.

And please don't presume to speak on my behalf.
Good heavens. I had no idea. So many replies here on HN so far seem to concur as well!

I am young, and I love motoring. I guess I am out of touch. But, I suppose it wouldn't be the first time.

Though there is one major problem encroaching on my enjoyment- the decline of the sports car. The number of true-blue sports cars coming out of car makers is steadily declining. I can only pray it does not grow worse in the future.
Nice, checked these guys out and looks great. You know they're legit since they give you some alternatives if their pricing plans isn't to your taste.

http://url2png.com/alternatives/