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It has been a while since I looked - the one thing I wanted to fix was the expired link issue. It is rare that I can get past page 2 of the /newest listings before getting the Expired link notification, so, I probably miss quite a few submissions.

Basically, the link code that you see is a closure that contains the results for your particular view of the articles. In that snapshot in time, your list remains 'constant' until you refresh it with a few to /newest or / allowing pagination to work consistently as you move through the list. When you get the expired link notification, it means that your closure has been removed due to GC or a server restart.

Each time a story is voted on, the global pool is updated, but, until your closure is recreated, you would not see the effect of the vote. Therefore, the shuffling you would see when you or others upvote a story that might change pagination won't affect you.

I believe the top 1000 is separate from the normal operation of the site and is run 'at some interval'. I don't recall, but I don't think it is recalculated frequently.

Ranking is a function of vote velocity over time. A story that gets a rapid number of upvotes will get pushed up higher than one that has a lot of upvotes, but was submitted hours ago. i.e. 100 votes in the last 20 minutes will be pushed above 140 upvotes in the last 60 minutes.

I'm in the middle of some code, but, if I get a chance this weekend, I'll take a look. My lisp is rusty - haven't used it since the late 80s.
My marriage definitely benefits when I take tiny bits of time to tell my wife I'm thinking about her. For example:

- Text her a random emoji

- Email her an image I've found (usually using our app Prism http://www.steamclocksw.com/prism/)

- Send her a Draw Something drawing

The point is to send a "unit of thinking about you" that's simple but unique enough that it's not mechanical (like a "poke" would be). Pair seems like it could bring this little habit to more relationships, or at least displace text and email for those who do this.
A minor correction: Ruby is not as whitespace dependent as Python. Ruby uses "end" to end blocks, not changed indentation. Whitespace matters though in other ways, for example newlines and in some places if there is a space or not.
My wife and I just tried it out and loved it. We were giggling like little kids playing around with the app's features.

On a more serious note, the shared todo list is great! No doubt a lot of other apps have this but with chat, photo sharing, Facetime, and thumbkisses, this makes Pair an awesome app. I would've easily bought this for $2-4/user.
What about Fedora? It's hardly a "random free distro" but it is free, and it has that same yum-my RHEL flavor. ;) Or is there something even more specific to RHEL that not even Fedora has? Even if I weren't a Red Hat associate, I'd be curious to know what that is.
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Hopefully data from the WVSS-II system will help a little, by at least giving more realtime data to feed into the various models. http://amdar.noaa.gov/FAQ.html

Think data downloads from commercial aircraft collecting atmospheric data as they travel to augment the traditional weather balloon data.

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That's interesting. It was exactly what I was thinking while reading the C# thread at the beginning of this article's comments. Yes, yes, mono whatever, but really ...
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It's also not a coincidence that this story broke the same day Facebook tried to assert trademarks over terms like "book" and "wall".
I'm a bit late to the party here but isn't she being sexist too?

For example, with the notes issue - how does she know that she is being chosen because she's female. She probably doesn't. She's probably assuming that's the reason, because men are misogynist pigs, right?

It's one of those situations where we can't tell at all. The mens rea, if there is one, is hidden.

Why doesn't she assume that she takes the best notes or that the boss thinks that because of her CV [made up example:] having documentation experience or the best English pass scores of the group that she'll be the best note taker.
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A few people have touched upon it, but the Chicago startup community is very small (compared to SV). Regardless of your opinions around why they were bought, it is nice to see an exit for a Chicago startup (even if they are eating their own) :0)

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Love it!

But I cant paste images into the body of the blog.

Support for that would make it perfect.

Actually - put explicit IMGUR support in there with a tool that allows me to simply paste the imgur link...
Very small indeed. FeedBurner was the posterchild of Chicago-based startup success for a while until Google eviscerated them in the most publicly-humiliating fashion possible.

But as another Chicago-based startup founder that has had the pleasure of doing business with the FF team in person, I wish them all the best, and am confident that they will stick to their guns and keep FF/Samurai the quality product that it is.
I've always thought Facebook's was pretty good - "work fast and break things"

I doubt that's the top corporate motto (I think that would be "making the world more open"), but it's been associated with them quite a bit and it rings true (in both good and bad ways).
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Have you considered the possibility that Facebook and 1and1 have different terms of service?
I think their PR department made a drastically clever move. Why is that sinister? I didn't get the sense that FB spun the story--someone in the HR department of that company messed up. When the story broke FB knocked their legal response out of the park.

Is facebook the knight in shining armor? nope. Did they make the right call? you betcha.
Out of curiosity, can you suggest some of those unified tools?
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I just broke down and got a login on HN because of this poll. I was astounded at the number of python votes. Mmmm -- I got a reg and also voted for python, but still... Why is this poll so lopsided? I would have guessed a murkier distribution, after all, we all have to write in at least 5-6 langs just to get along. Does HN simply attract pythonistas?
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also, check out the quora thread on this subject:

http://www.quora.com/Technology/What-is-Svbtle-all-about
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>I don't want to defend the right to leer at work, //

This sort of thing is often in the eye of the offended though. Fat slob with a beer-belly and greasy hair glances at you - bleurgh, X is leering at you. Six-packed, chisel-chinned near-divine human that drives a Ferrari checks you out - phwoar.

>Should Star Wars posters really be banned //

Can anyone give a cogent argument as to how a film poster bearing fantasy sci-fi imagery is sexist aside from specific content like an image of a man with their top off that is intended to objectify them?
The problem is calling the lottery an investment. To me, at least, it's not. I buy maybe 10 a year, just for the hell of it and the "never know" factor, but I am never pulling my hair out at my so far horrible "investment decisions."

You can look at the $10 as being 2-3 Starbucks coffees
Would it really be in their best interest to shut down the marketing efforts (and Facebook pages) of every company with the word Book in its title? If that ever happened, this would get challenged and antitrust laws would rule against FB's terms of use.

Social is a proven channel and there's a lot to lose when you keep your business off of their platform.
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I'm curious -- how does this work? I.e. what kinds of organizations contract her for what kinds of tasks / duration? I would have thought that research was inherently un-estimatable.
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I still disagree :)

Who said anything about simplification? I think "the design methodology of simplification" is a) not what the article is about IMO, and b) orthogonal to the idea of the power of not trying to do everything that crosses your desk.

The anti-pattern is that in many circles it's essentially a best practice to do everything. Sales guys sell everything, even if it's not in the wheelhouse of the company. Software guys add features that they should probably have the courage to say no to. Musicians over-do their music (ie trying to show off). So that's the anti-pattern; people realize that sometimes saying no is better than the alleged best practice of always finding a way to say yes.

I will admit I certainly could've worded things better, but I was writing from my phone and that tends to decrease my willingness to craft better comments.

That said, the book "Getting to Yes" which is the inspiration for the article's title isn't at all about always saying yes. It's about principled negotiation. It is an amazing book; there's a reason it's standard fare in the MBA world. I would argue that someone practicing principled negotiation would say no in the situation of the article as well; in that sense the articles title is kinda just a cheesy headline (but still nice, it made me click on it).
"I've only tested it on Chrome."

...so I thought I'd test a few more browsers:

* Firefox 11 - Works perfectly (I guess that's to be expected)
* Opera 11.61 - the bottom bar doesn't appear.
* TouchPad browser (WebKit-based) - Works great!

If anyone can verify other browsers (like IE?), I bet the author would appreciate it.
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Which isn't true anyway, since anonymous inner classes are just very verbose and awkward lambdas. (I'm a Java hater but I'm also a horrible pedant)
"And about Python? Why is it so awesome?"

Because you already know it. Turn around and look at the pseudo-code on your whiteboard.
" … it just doesn't add up, the MPAA-represented copyrighted part of those 25 petabytes can only be a tiny fraction of that amount."

Interesting. My completely uninformed assumption is diametrically opposite to that. I'm guessing there's not much sophisticated de-dup going on, and _way_ more of the diskspace on MegaUpload is probably various bit-wise different rips of the same smallish set of Hollywood blockbusters. And while I agree the long tail suggests there's almost certainly lots of people out there with lots on non-mpaa-copyright encumbered files - I'd be quite surprised to find the area under the "long tail" was withing 2 or 3 orders of magnitude of the "fat head" occupied by all the copies of all the dvd rips and broadcast tv recordings.

I wonder if there's any believable data anywhere to see whether I'm wrong?

(Note: I've got a non-US-centric view of this too, here in Australia internet connection plans lag behind the US in terms of speed and bandwidth caps, so even though I've got friends who generate lots of GoPro footage for example, but they'll in general be storing them on locally attached harddrives, not trying to push gigabytes of raw data out into "the cloud". That might explain why I make tghe possibly-incorrect assumptions that I do…)
Its surprising to me this is news.
If I wasn't using Google Chrome's web developer tools I'd probably consider JavaScript to be a nightmarish corpse of a language that punishes the slightest of typos with a silent malicious grin... Only by the grace of tools is JS tame at all

+100000. We can thank the Webkit Tools team (including folks from both Apple and Google) for making the web platform environment as pleasant as it is. Kudos!
You really only need one or the other depending on the style of the code you are using in the rest of your project.

If you write js using semi-colons everywhere:

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(function () { })(this);

(function () { })(this);

If you dont want to use semi-colons unless you have to:

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;(function () { })(this)

Basically, never start lines with `(` or `[` without semis and don't throw in line breaks liberally without understanding what semicolon insertion is going to happen.

http://blog.izs.me/post/2353458699/an-open-letter-to-javascr...
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The main argument against it would be the theory that consciousness is something we tap into. Completely unproven, but it has a certain elegance to it. There is actually some precedent for this as an argument. Back in ancient Greece the third of the three arguments in favor of the earth being spherical was that it would be the perfect shape for it to be.

As it stands, it's completely unknown why subatomic particles have precisely the mass and charges they need in order for matter to exist, even though the chances of that are supposedly trillions and trillions against one. Perhaps because matter is designed to tap into consciousness, and the more evolved the matter the more complex the slice of consciousness it can capture. That would be my working theory at least.
I'll clean up my code a bit and post it on pastebin, there's probably a mistake in my logic somewhere.

Overall; I agree [and having played my share of a variety of strategies] I found the data to be confusing, hence my peaked curiosity. :-)
I haven't taken the class, but have helped many friends through the course if they needed it.

The class is more of an introduction to programming using Python than a class about learning Python the language. They learned some things like sorting, searching, testing, basic hash tables, etc. However, the primary reasons the course exists are to see let students explore Computer Science or because their major requires that they take either 6.00 (This course) or 1.00 (Same type of course, but in Java.)

If you want to learn Python and you're an experienced programmer, this class will take you maybe a night or two to breeze through. I would recommend taking other courses on OCW instead though with a more specific focus. If you want basic-intermediate algorithms, take 6.006. If you want low-level, 6.004 is a great introduction. (If you want advanced algorithms, buy CLRS and take 6.046).

tl;dr: 6.00 is more for people that have never programmed anything before, not to learn Python.
Most of my "for fun" coding lately has been in Arduino's C/C++ language subset - which, given it's lack of many of the standard libraries usually assumed available when people talk about C or C++, I tend to not think of it as "C programming". In fact the resource-limited nature of Arduino programming feels much closer to assembly than anything else.

(Perl is still my "favourite" of all the languages I get paid to write…)
You should definitely read Porter's "What is Strategy", it should blow your mind: http://hbr.org/product/what-is-strategy/an/96608-PDF-ENG (paywall)

It will help you develop a clear strategy for your company / product; once you have that in place it becomes very easy for you (or anyone using your activity maps) to decide whether something is a good fit or not. It's because of this book that we have a "Strategic Fit" rank which we use in our product management process. The only others are estimated time (cost) and estimated value (revenue).
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I am creating an app and I need to be able to allow users to measure their productivity at any given activity. Since I code I am starting with that activity and I would like to understand all the ways people track their productivity ie: velocity, github commit activity, lines of code etc....

Thank you in advance for any help you are able to provide.

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Sounds like`virtualenv` for Go. But shouldn't the need for this go away over time as Go 1.0 use becomes widespread?
It could be the Nagle algorithm - setting the TCP_NODELAY socket option on the sender would be one way to test.
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Well, he certainly excited interest in it.
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There is a difference between:

>...(you) are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password and your account

and Facebook's version, which goes:

>You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account...

One says you're responsible for whatever happens on your account, the other explicitly says not to share your password. Kind of different, wouldn't you say?

It's worth mentioning that letting randoms into your Facebook account isn't only playing chicken with your account security, you're also playing with the security of everyone you have friended, who implicitly trust that the only person on the account is the person who's name is on it.

That is something you do not have the right to do on an ethical level, let alone a legal one.
Your thinking of a basic classifier Neural net from an AI class. But, that's a poor analogy for anything more complex than reflexes. We have both short and long term memory, and we can do planning. A really simple way to thank about short term memory is to have a single neuron in a feed back loop. Basically it's output leads to it's input and it can be switched on and off. Of course real neurons have far more than just 3 connections and tend to work in fairly large networks, but it's gives you an idea of how you can have a short term memory you keep cycling though the lyrics of some song and it's 'stuck in your head'.

Long term memory is a physical change in the layout of a neural network. Spend long enough walking around a new city and there is an abstract but physical map that's actually stored in the layout of neurons in your head. At the same time pieces of that layout represent locations on the map and how they connect to other locations. Think of an entrance to a parking lot and you might have a fairly static picture of the location linked to the choice of where that will take you if you go there. (So short term memory is now a neuron that cycles, a network that picks which target network to activate, and a network that represents something, plus feedback to turn on and off the targeting.)

So what's consciousness? It's the ability to think about things as abstractions. When you say Apple to your self your actually activating neurons that keep cycling Apple over and over. Picture yourself tossing a ball and your thinking thinking about starting the cascade of muscle memory that causes you to through something while picking the perimeters of where you want the ball to end up and how hard you want to to hit the target, and possibly the position you need to be in to actually be able to through the ball. You can play around with the outcomes of if I do this that will happen by checking what neural net's predict the outcome will be. Chess is a great analogy for this, players don't think about moves as picking a piece up and moving it somewhere else, but what it means when the piece is in a new location. Though experience, education, or just thinking about things you can even train these neural networks to get better at those predictions.

Of course the actual implementation of these things is horribly complex, and many of the specifics are not all completely understood / studied. Also, chemicals play a major role, there are actual chemicals that represent things like pleasure in the brain. EX: Cocaine mimics the mostly hard coded chemical reward response for things like having sex by blocking the dopamine reuptake transporters. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1704

PS: Still I hope this simplified model helps you understand what's going on.
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Are they planning to introduce a pro version of the application? Some multitenant upgrade? It could apply advanced machine learning techniques to identify which of your girlfriends/spouses is using the phone and hide all the other communication. Not that I would need it, but it could significantly lower the divorce rates :)
How about a service that you could enter all these things in the morning and it would send them throughout the day? Like a Buffer for "unit of thinking of you".

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