skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Maybe I'm being the kind of developer that the blogger was talking about, but would it be such a bad idea for a Mailinator like site to use Redis to store the email messages but hosted on the same box as the web server?

At least that way, if you started to hit memory limits it would be relatively simple to scale out to more machines by moving Redis to its own box. It would be a configuration change rather than having to re-architect your custom LRU cache.

Another benefit would be that you could get disk persistence for free while still staying fast. If Mailinator needs to reboot all the emails are lost. That wouldn't necessarily have to happen if he was using Redis.
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News is the only property in the list (with Google+) that has a useful homepage and no link back to the homepage from its search result pages (see https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=hello+world), which means it would very frustrating to carry queries for users who click this navigation links to go to Google News homepage. For all other products, either the homepage is useless (Images, Videos) or there's a link to the product homepage at the top of the page (in Maps, you remove results / go to Maps homepage via the maps' top-right menu).

NB: few months ago, results were carried for Docs, Gmail and Calendar. So I assume they measured the % of users who landed on the search results page for each products and directly clicked the Google logo to go the product homepage (as they expected). In the end, Google preferred to satisfy the X million users who didn't expect product A to show results for their previous query to the Y million others who did. Now, would you favor 5 very angry users or 1 million lightly confused users?
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Real hackers use butterflies: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
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People hate this question, and they should love it. This question is your opportunity to bring out whatever you most want to be accommodated on. That way if you get the job, you are in a good position to negotiate what you need for your life.

Here are some examples that apply to various people I know (I actually have used one of these in interviews, but I won't say which one):

- I have considerable child-rearing duties, and my schedule has to revolve around that. I have little scheduling flexibility if you need me at odd hours.

- I am a very social person, I need to spend a certain amount of time every day actually talking with people or I'll go crazy.

- I am an orthodox Jew, so I have to leave early on Friday night.

etc
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Honestly, google's UI for many things is just awful. I recently had to help an aunt who was trying to import contacts from her old gmail account into her new gmail account. It's a simple enough task if you're on our side of the digital divide, but it's impossible for anyone who isn't "good with computers." Of course the documentation for doing this was woefully out of date and unhelpful, so I couldn't just point her to that. Even the simple step of signing out of your gmail account is totally hidden and only available when you just try clicking on things (wich "we" do, but "they" don't). To get to your contacts you click on the red word "Gmail" (obvious, huh?), and then you have to click on "more", and then "export" (export what?). Absolutely none of this would be obvious to a non-savvy user. At the least they could provide up-to-date documentation or a more useful "help" feature. Gmail is great for me as a savvy user who employs all of the keyboard shortcuts, ala vim. But I can't blame the older generation for just giving up whenever they need to do anything slightly out of the ordinary, because we're just not designing/developing products that are usable to them.
Assuming that this is in fact out natural sleeping rhythm.
I don't really understand the point of that. The Q&A experience still exists, you just have to ask the search engine first, then a human if the search engine doesn't help.

The important things about a Q&A knowledge base is that the answers to real questions are persisted. This means that one answer can serve many askers.
Public keys, surely?
matplotlib (python) is quite good:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

another python tool to consider is chaco:
http://code.enthought.com/projects/chaco/gallery.php

matplotlib is ideal for matlab-style iterative plotting. chaco is considerably faster (at least ~1 year ago) as it is specifically designed for creating interactive plots.

if you need 3d graphics, consider the mlab library used in mayavi and some other projects. the commands are matlab-like, and it produces very nice graphics using vtk:
http://github.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/examples.html
That sounds pretty cool, I'll give it a try!
The one thing where Flash is still apparently unavoidable is something like tinychat.com (or chatroulette) which does web-based videoconferencing. The last time I checked, it isn't possible to replicate that without Flash.
You are lucky :) Some math - 1 hour a day less sleep than "normal" people give you:

1 hr * 365 days / 24 hours in day ~ 15 days.

And these are 24hours day. What it really should be:

1 hr * 365 days / (24 hours in day - 6 hours you sleep on average) ~ 21 days.

Which is, well, in office terms, work month :) congrats, you got 1/12 life for free :)
The point is to never give an honest answer. They _say_ they want to know how hear how weak you are but they _don't_ want to find out.

A person who reveals his weaknesses to anyone will be perceived as not dependable.
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I'd add Daniel Suarez's Daemon and FreedomTM to that list, at least if you're interested in this technology's ability to mobilize an army of nerd-assassins to remake society.
It's really coming together. Now if they will just allow autocomplete to search across all open files, my life will be perfect.
In Europe, or at least Nothern Europe, it feels like working days are actually becoming shorter. I seem to recall 37.5hrs/w being standard for most office workers, at least in Sweden.
Will have a look and see if I can find a source later!
I don't really think Smarty has anything to do with this. Though I do agree on the "one of the worst examples" point.
I've always assumed the Google News link losing state was a bug. It's a tab bar, and it used to keep state. Now it doesn't.

I suppose they had to do it this way or nobody would ever really see the Google news homepage (as if that matters).
I would suggest you read the Lean Startup book by Eric Ries and perhaps browse thru videos at Udemy, several videos are free and they sell great content like the StartUp MBA, etc.

I like listening to the This Week in Startups show every week and also to read Hacker News daily.

Try to follow as many relevant people as possible in Twitter and also build a strong list of RSS to follow.
>From the press release it seems NPAPI is OS dependent while Pepper is less so.

Correct. The NPAPI version of Flash is very platform-dependent; whereas Pepper Flash is almost completely platform neutral, and Chrome OS needs most of the same Pepper platform bits anyway. So, our maintenance overhead for Pepper Flash on Linux is very small. On top of that, Linux is broadly deployed throughout Google (and is very popular among Chrome developers), so we're scratching our own itch a bit.
I always answer "bullets" and get a blank stare in response.
The Weight of the Inheritors: are we obligated to the future?
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I've tried this but find it to quite a pain to remember what browser I should be looking at what in.

What I want is a browser where I can be logged into Google, and any link I click will open that link in my "private" (not logged into Google) browser. Same with Facebook, Twitter, etc.

So I've started developing XUL apps to run each in their own sandbox.
Lithiums' templating "engine" does something like that, using the tokenizer.
Ask HN: Python v. Lisp?
Is there some kind of rivalry between Lisp users and Python users? Maybe it's just a generational thing, or maybe simple syntax preferences, but it seems like Lisp users complain about Python quite a bit, and vice versa.
Http://www.placenoun.com/(keyword)/(width)/(height)/
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> it also will encourage users who contribute low-quality but easily-upvoted content

Sounds like Hacker News. It seems to me that only the StackExchange people have avoided this.
Plausible deniability is needed when you want to hide your role in something. Since I'm not sharing kiddie porn, I have actual deniability. No TOR traffic needed.
Tesla are crony capitalists building a car that is worse for the environment (toxic battery, power waste across the grid, majority power from coal powerplants) than traditional combustion engine machines.
I wonder if this proposal (which was inevitable eventually) is a direct result of a couple things.

- Apple decides (wrong or right) to not support Flash on a wildly popular mobile platform

- Flash begins its demise in general (again inevitable but IMO a little too soon)

- Adobe cedes further development on Mobile Flash

- secure video content deliverers are immediately faced with loosing the only existing "secure" video "standard" on the web and having to develop platform specific solutions

- a proposal is put forward to put DRM into HTML5 video (which it is going to have to get eventually for ubiquitous adoption, like it or not)

That's the chain I see.. which may have pushed this HTML5 DRM thing to the forefront before it has been properly hashed out. Not placing fault on any of the parties there, just a chain of events to me.
For me, it was gradual. I had had random bouts of insomnia for awhile, and realized those correlated with days I had caffeine after 4 PM or so. So I cut back to noon, which improved it, then cut back to the morning, which was even better, and then just cut out caffeine entirely. I've never slept better.
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One of the interesting things about Groovy for me has been the runtime AST transformation stuff - annotating something as @singleton, then having the engine make it in to a singleton at compile time, etc.

Certainly this project doesn't get us there immediately, but might give some neat ideas for future PHP versions to incorporate.
https://github.com/aaronmerriam/Placenoun

https://github.com/aaronmerriam/jquery-placenoun

There is also a special keyword 'random'

http://www.placenoun.com/random/400/300/

You can also leave off the dimensions to get a random image of that noun.

http://www.placenoun.com/bacon/

Or just get a random picture.

http://www.placenoun.com/random/
Thanks for the insight. As a matter of fact, I do meditate :) From my experience (nothing scientific), to replicate these states, what you need is to shut down your rational mind. You see, everyone has in there mind a small voice going "hey, I like this lamp" or "mmm I forgot to do something". This voice is your rational, conscious part of your "self". However, it's not your entire "self". Meditation aims at quieting this "voice" (it's really hard, and I'm not there yet). Once its quiet, you've got "space" for actual inspiration to come in, and once this happens it's amazing, and can happen in many levels. That's why meditation is a mystical experience. Mystical means that it is not possible to communicate via ideas, just by personal experience. If you get good at it you can actually control you emotional states and LISTEN to them, bringing you a lot of wellbeing in many ways. (ok, I'm waaay off topic, sorry).
My only real complaint with the icon is that the perspective is completely out of place. See it compared to everything else on my Dock: http://sta.sh/01giwsf26wey
I wonder if Celery could still use SWF as its backend in the future? Instead of having to manage your own EC2 instances and databases for the Celery daemons.
No, we don't. In Spain, some people take a quick 30-minute nap after lunch, but I wouldn't call that sleeping in segmented blocks.
I remember writing a paper on endosymbiosis (mitochondria and chloroplasts) back in middle school. It was a research paper so I culled from all kinds of sources, and I remember asking myself at the time, why isn't any of this in our Biology textbooks? (It wasn't! most of my sources were obscure science journal articles). Anyway it was one of my favorite papers ever, because the topic is so cool.
The whole point of this question is to see if you are looking to improve things. It's not (or shouldn't be) a trap. It's to see if the candidate says "I'm not happy with my X skills, and I'm trying to get better".

It's also a good honesty test.

The thing is, it only works when the interviewer knows it, and candidate doesn't.
In order for us to earn our Ghostbusters badge and stop the haunting of decisions past, teams must take more responsibility to capture the “Why?” behind the design decisions that are made throughout the evolution of a product. >>I AGREE.
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Those are quite analogous to Facebook, no?

No. They would analogous to Facebook only if you are a professional web social marketer or something like that. Then Facebook would be to you like github is for programmers.

Still 90% crap, but still somewhat professionally useful crap. For everyone else Facebook is 100% unprofessional. (It may not strictly be a waste of time if you consider genuine keeping in touch with physically remote loved ones.)
The world will end in 2012: I fucked up.
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Sure, I agree with you. What part of my comment are you disagreeing with? Previous comment says that Tesla changed the image of the electric car, I'm skeptical of that.

(except that I don't get your example of Aston Martin as not well-known brand. It's James Bond's car!)
„Net consumers of IP” — where did you get that?

I guess by certain measures every country is a „net consumer of IP” if you just consider Hollywood movies. But I don't like this sweeping generalization. I don't think it serves any purpose. Even the phrase „consumer of IP” doesn't make much sense. What does it mean to „consume IP”? Is China a „consumer of IP” when your product gets cloned?

These kinds of generalizations are a real problem and I'd suggest avoiding them. ACTA creators used them well, by the way — after all, ACTA is officially about „Anti-Counterfeiting”.
Am I the only one who can't use Solarized because it gives me a headache? I'm not trolling, I'm being serious. The contrast between the text and the background is lower than in a black background/white foreground setup. It strains my eyes, giving me a headache after about 10 minutes or so.
We use Pepper to sandbox some fully native plugins, where NaCl is not yet a good option due to things like codebase incompatibilities and startup performance. Two examples of this are the native PDF reader (on all platforms) and Flash on Chrome OS.
I've never really cared about credits (I have about 13000).

The problem with all of this is that the main content I love is when a deep subject matter expert or insider writes a single answer to a question. Getting someone like Larry Summers to write about economic policy during his tenure, or various PayPal Mafia to write about their experiences at PayPal, etc. is worth a lot more than someone else answering "What is the best way to dump my girlfriend". I don't think those guys care about credits, and any hoops they have to jump through are good many.

Quora should focus entirely on recruiting real experts or people with deep insights to make 1-10 answers or posts. Have a Quora staff member edit or otherwise guide the process, and maybe give real-world benefits to those people. Probably the best benefit is link juice for a personal blog, Amazon book, etc. -- Quora is great for that.

Avoiding being taken over by social media douchebags (which was the big threat around January 2011) is the other problem, though. I'm not sure how Credits helps with that either.
Or a theme park. There's whalers on the moon.
Sounds like we have a different understanding of "good" voices - I found four or five quickly and picked "naplesdave"

I don't think you are giving me the same low fiverr price, considering the estimate I had yesterday was in the $45 range for my sample script...
This strikes me as extraordinarily foolish. It's not that hard to have a hard shutdown mode in which most of those parasitic loads are gone and trigger it if the battery charge drops bellow a certain level. We've had that technology in laptops for quite a while. This is not a hard problem to solve, and it is obvious enough that it should have occurred to someone. Also, monitoring the current it is getting for charging and displaying a warning if it is insufficient and perhaps a projected charging time would be a good feature.
Yes, you're right, my mistake. I expressed myself wrong (thought one think, wrote another...). We can live on renewables + nuclear (if we get there, which would be a monumental task - both politically and in terms of building necessary infrastructure, not to mention electrifying pretty much everything that now burns fuel), but definitely not on renewables alone. And this transition needs to be started ASAP.

The final comparisons of stacks were against electrified and reduced consumption (author started by pointing out how to reduce overall energy use to little more than 50% of the base value). There are many easy tricks that can help with this reduction - like better home insulation, keeping heating few degrees lower, using heat pumps for air conditioning, etc. - that don't mean one has to live without hot water & computers. But people need to start implementing those measures if we are to have any chance in transitioning to a sustainable energy economy.
Anyone with access to your account (this would include root) on a machine which you have forwarded your agent to can use it to authenticate as you. For your use case, the least evil option would be to set up an SSH key that is restricted on the SVN server to only be able to do an svn export.
Twitter suspends accounts unfavorable to Sarkozy
Particularly noteworthy, these censorship issues are despite French law allowing this kind of parody. Additional link (found in the article, too): http://www.internetsansfrontieres.com/Twitter-Censors-Accounts-Unfavorable-To-Nicolas-Sarkozy_a397.html
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> If I wake up in the middle of the night and go back to sleep... I feel like ass the next day.

If you wake up because you have to, or if you just happen to wake up in the middle of the night naturally?
I wonder if this plan is true. hmmmmm..
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No, you are not the only one.
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The issue with Smarty is that it is yet another syntax to learn. A PHP template system that uses PHP for the logic and control structures makes a lot more sense IMO.
Rivalries between programming languages are silly. Certain languages are better for certain things, and these debates come from people trying to shoehorn one language to do everything.

I haven't seen much Python vs LISP, usually it's Python vs Ruby. Python and LISP are very different and are good for different things; it's strange that people would get up in arms over them.
I think that is alarmist in the context of this conversation. Google is not 2 people watching me sleep, shower, drive, date, make love, etc. It is software that stores and analyzes data that I choose to send to it. I choose to send my search terms to Google because I value the responses I get from Google; this strikes me as a voluntary exchange of value between two parties, not Big Brother from 1984.

The Abstruse Goose comic is much more applicable to pervasive government surveillance. To the extent that I fear that the government would get its hand on Google's cache of data about me, I blame the government, not Google. I think if people spent as much time focusing their attention elected officials as they spend on hand-wringing about Google, we'd probably have better laws.

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I”m really surprised that no-one’s talking up the accessibility benefits of something like this. Imagine a version for blind users that dumped the screen in favour of a headset and mic. A little voice recognition and your glasses could tell you where you are, what you’re facing, and even do basic hazard avoidance. That sounds invaluable.

Actually, it sounds like the 90s kids show Knightmare :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIfcYwI6Ps
There are various answers:

a) There should be no key developers, no indispensable people in your projects. This is often hard to achieve on small companies.

b) Communication: In a group of developers there should be good communication about ideas and functionality. Documentation helps a lot, but sometimes just sharing the basic reasoning behind a component is enough to carry on.

c) Adaptation: Provided there is a lack of a) and b), your team should be good enough to adapt and survive to such drawbacks.

Now, for your particular case (I believe you are in c)), consider what will be better for the company overall? What will take you less time or be better in the long term? Trying to understand the current code or writing it from scratch?

I wouldn't worry about what will happen when you leave the company in two years time, because whatever path you choose, you should follow a) and b) to prevent from this happening ever again. Write documentation, share your ideas with fellow developers or even team up with some for this project, don't take on it on your own.

Hope this helps.
I am not a fan of the how dense the information is presented on the first page, but the other languages are being mentioned only as possible pre-requisites - they are not trying to say that they teach those languages.
You can get slides in PDF/PPT and it looks like subtitles are coming but you're right, the video is a bit annoying.
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The Public seems to be fairly on the side of pirates, if the numbers flaunted by MPAA and RIAA etc, are to be believed. by those lobby accounts,piracy is exploding all over, so I would bet the public is concerned with privacy. their own.

All the laws currently debated are either negotiated in secret, or have significant dangers of overreach. As such, "Privacy" and "freedom of expression" are not fig leaves yet.

Perhaps when the conversation is not completely hijacked by MPAA and their ilk. and politicians stop masking these laws as functions of "protecting our children" from online predators (the fig leave du jour for any politician seeking online legislation) We might have a sensible conversation.

In the meantime, many people face the dilemma so comically illustrated by the oatmeal http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones It is ridiculous to expect the public to have continued patience with an industry that insist on playing by rules that only benefit them. If they change, they will get a foothold in the public mind, not before.
Google ngram explorer has the term 'first sleep' peaking in use in English Language circa 1870, before declining ~80% to present day. http://bit.ly/zt8AfD

Tough to say if this was a 19th century phenomenon or was persistent through history based on the structure of their corpus.