skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this has come a long way since the prototype from a year ago. Congrats!
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Update: Square have changed the name to Crossfilter:

"Renamed to Crossfilter, partly in homage to Chris Weaver's work on multidimensional visualization. It may not have the intrigue of "tesseract", but it does describe the library's function succinctly."

-- https://github.com/square/crossfilter/issues/1#issuecomment-...
Thanks for the feedback, it is good to hear someone is happy with it.

Have replaced google.com with random pick from the top. Tweets should be avalaible for almost all major websites, what is your platform/browser combination?
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Thanks for your comments. The post wasn't written as a beg for money. It's more of a commentary of how I feel about all the startup advice. I fully understand a working product backed by good research is the ticket to get in the door.
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>>Can you point to the rude parts? Or is that too much to ask?
> Any of his comments in this thread are rude. Practically each on seethed with immaturity and rudeness for the other people in the thread. Any particular part? Yeah, the parts where he was commenting.

So, you accuse the other guy of being rude, but when asked to give a specific example, you resort to platitudes and generalities. Thanks for the mature contribution.
I'm a Norwegian living in the UK using a US keyboard layout.. Definitively couldn't handle using a Norwegian layout for programming any more.
Not bad money for ads. That surprised me.
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Ask HN: Denied US Visa As I am too young to be a CTO, Now What?
I am a 24 year old guy who is the co-founder and CTO of a 1.5 Million dollar web / mobile software services company based out of Mumbai. Most of our clients are from the US. This was my first US visa interview and I got rejected.

The consul officer asked me how could I become a CTO a such an young age and it does not make any sense to her.

I was asked only four questions by the Consul Officer:

Officer: What do you do

Answer: I am a software developer and currently working as a CTO at XYZ

Officer: What is your age

Answer: 24

Officer: You are too young to be CTO. Whatever you just said does not make any sense. How long is your visit?

Answer: 1 month

Officer: Who will sponsor

Answer: My client is sponsoring my visit (I had relevant documents but she did not want to see them when I handed over to her)

Now I am confused that even if I re-apply, I will be asked the same question again right? Any suggestions from someone who might have faced a similar situtation earlier?
I would imagine that the UN woudl say that any contract "to abdicate authority through democratic process " would be invalid and unenforcable. - they will point to the enableing act on 36 in germany and the UNDHR.

For example you can sign a contract to waive your rights to anual leave but its invalid and unenforcable.
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> while at the same time believing that lack of regulation in finance is destroying the economy

It's not a lack of regulation in finance that's destroying the economy, it's too much.

The rules and regulations now are so punitive, so lengthy and so complex that it's making some (many) banking services non-viable or at best very expensive. And ultimately it's the end consumer which bears these increased costs as they get passed on. This means banks make less money, customers have to pay more, staff get paid less or cut, shareholders get reduced dividends, pension funds lose out from suppressed stock prices etc.

Many of these rules don't make sense or make the bank "safer" - they're really just a penalty for conducting finance-orientated business - with such rules sadly being driven by politicians attempting to appease the baying mob.

It's unfortunate that these regulations will have the opposite effect of what they are trying to achieve. Indeed some very large names may actually go out of business as a result which would be catastrophic for the economy.
Exactly. An autonomous car can make the decision to swerve into the empty lane next to you much faster than you ever could, if for nothing else than increased situational awareness. The sensors are monitoring a 360 degree view constantly, we are nowhere near that.
>I am indeed saying that you are acting like a nutjob. Well recognized. And nice work confirming that with a rambling 25-paragraph reply

Let's see: another ad-hominen insult, and still no specifics or counterarguments. Oh, and you managed to miss all of my arguments. And the problem is the length of my reply.

Yes, I can see how I am the nutjob for expressing an unpopular opinion (with arguments), and not being satisfied with just being called names for it. Nothing like the internet to give so considering, well spoken, and intellectually stimulating discussion partners such as you.

Since you took the liberty of calling me a nutjob, may I add an ad-hominen too? You are acting like an idiotic, PC, middle class American white man-boy. I'd take "nutjob" any day...
Legal battles are expensive. Also, these settlement talks were court-mandated: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012032323250553
I agree. Unless all you know are functional languages, you should understand all of these concepts.
Of course, we don't know what the recruiter's idea of "clear and concise" answer is.
“Can we predict what restaurants you’ll like when you’re in a new city? It may not be that you search for pizza, but we know you tend to like pizza places, or you tend to like more casual, loungey bars, so we can suggest things.”

Thanks Google for helping me stay the same forever. Just what I needed a search engine for.

“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next,” Schmidt said

And you would be totally wrong to think that. Searching for things doesn't work nearly well enough for Google to move on to useless suggestions that extrapolate my current behavior in a completely uncreative way.

They are simply on the wrong track.
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To figure out your list, I have to

No. You have to know none of that. You just have to copy/paste the steps from the rails-homepage (where they should be prominently listed, the lack thereof is the real bug).

"hey, download this all-inclusive, up-to-date, guaranteed to work disk image straight from us!"

Wait, how is that different from above?

Yes, you may be done 2 minutes faster. But you just deprived yourself of at least getting a glimpse on which parts are involved, even if you don't understand them yet. That means you're now even more hopeless when stuff breaks later (and stuff always breaks later).

And as a fun fact: Any sane bootstrapper would use the exact same script behind the scenes anyway. There simply is no other way unless you plan to re-invent homebrew and rbenv along the way.

I'm really troubled to understand who we're trying to care for here. It sounds like you want to make this Really Easy for absolute beginners who can barely setup a printer.

That is a noble goal (for a printer driver), but if you want to teach someone programming then there's a point where you have to stop dumbing it down artificially. And that point is as early as possible.

The worst you can do to a newbie is to put him into an opaque sandbox with different behaviors and errors from what the "big guys" are using.
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Congratulations. Good job, I wouldn't say no to a few hundred a month with no effort. ☺

Have a look at some of the stuff patio11 is doing for SEO & content creation. Might be helpful for you.
ootachi does seem to like to pop into discussions about Go, throw around statements about Go's GC as if they were facts, despite never having used Go.

A 200ms GC pause is entirely possible for a busy, unoptimised server. The question you should be asking, though, is whether it's a problem. And if (and only if) it's a problem, whether the programmer has tried to reduce allocations. The easiest way to reduce GC time is to produce less garbage.
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"... it was exactly 40 years ago that you and four partners founded SAP. Today the market leader for business software is worth some $85 billion (€64 billion) on the stock market. Why is SAP the only German IT company that's a major global player? ..."

Older than Microsoft & still going. I enjoyed reading about the early days of SAP, "SAP: Inside the Secret Software Power" by Gerd Meissner ~ http://www.amazon.com/SAP-Inside-Secret-Software-Power/dp/00... The bit that surprised me was the founders, ex-IBM used their client machines. They did this for many years developing their products on-site. All the development would be off-site on paper. To start work they'd walk in with decks of cards which represented their software product. The book also described the development of ABAP ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP A lot of technical knowledge went into doing this. Great read.
> - how did you find what to optimise? - what approach did you use?

I used profilers: Chrome developer tools and Firebug. The Chrome profiler is very nice and easy to use, but it looks like it is a statistical profiler. When the usual invocation takes less than 1ms, it might get the times wrong (there might be a bottleneck that Chrome profiler is not showing).

The Firebug profiler is more precise, I believe it traces every executing instruction, which also makes it much slower to run you program in, but does sometime gives you interesting insights.

Also, there's intuition. I wanted to keep the code readable.
The interpreter loop is basically something to the effect of

while(true) {
op = decode(mmu.read_32(cs.pc));
cs.pc += 4;
(optable[opcode])(op);
}

which I believe is very readable, but it counters everything one expects about writing fast javascript code that runs in a tight loop. Bellard told me he thinks my "dynamic interpreted" version might be slower than a throughly optimized interpreter version, and he might very well be true. But I found the readability of the interpreter to be of the upmost importance, at least until I had a working "dynamic recompilation" version.

To optimize the interpreter version, the profiler showed me that basically three things take most (about 65, 70% of the time:
* Instruction decoding
* Memory access

There's not much I found to make instruction decoding faster , but the memory access time could be improved.
In the beginning, I used the form mmu.read_32(addr) to read from any region of the memory, including RAM. Most of the accesses are of course from RAM, so it made sense to optimize for this fact (despite it being bad for readability).

So nowadays I do:
op = (v8[rpc] << 24) | (v8[rpc + 1] << 16) | (v8[rpc + 2] << 8) | (v8[rpc + 3]);

For memory accesses.

Some other things I found randomly. The processor in the board I'm emulating has a 75Mhz clock. With that emulated frequency, Linux was spending a lot of time on the "idle task". Whan I told the emulator that the frequency was about 8Mhz, the problem went away.

Then, I thought to myself: it would be neat if I could implement parts of the libc in Javascript. That's how https://github.com/ubercomp/jslm32/blob/master/src/lm32_libc... came to be. So I implemented some string.h functions in javascript (memcpy, memmove, and memset), and voilá, the boot time went down about 3 times.

But in the end of the day, lm32_libc_dev is a hack with very negative consequences. I would have to modify every program I wanted to run on the emulated board to use my libc functions instead. I did this with the linux kernel and it was a bad experience. So I focused my energy on the dynamic code generation side of things.

I can tell you I have succeeded as the jslibc thing is now deleted on my local source three and I didn't experience any slowdowns whatsoever.
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>> “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next,”

How convenient that they have millions of clients paying them to advertise their stuff to do/buy.

Google, can you please suggest a better search engine that is not full of it?

Can you please not show me a local retail clothing store as the first result of the query 'scala'?

Can you please stop mixing your business strategy with the actual fucking search results?!?!

Anyway, don't even mind me google, I'm on DuckDuckGo now.
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Simple answer is "it depends". The device has to be assigned a risk category, and depending on that there's a range of possibilities from the manufacturer being able to self-certify (so long as they stand ready to demonstrate the design process that went into a new revision of the product), and at the other extreme, every revision having to be independently verified.

My employer is able to self-certify, but our products are much simpler than a Raspberry Pi.
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patio11's blog, in case you're not familiar with it: http://kalzumeus.com/. Read everything there. No, really.

I'd imagine you could benefit from doing some industry-specific content creation. One that comes to mind immediately is spa/massage gift certificate templates. I have no idea what search terms business owners are using to find these things, but you should be able to determine if industry-specific keywords will help with a trivial amount of research.

Good luck!
Congrats, Tommy.

If you don't mind me asking, what CPM do you get from the ads? Which are the ones that work the most, the horizontal visual banner on top, the textual ones in the right, or the squared image in the bottom?

I'm quite surprised that you managed to have such high number for such a small niche. That's great!
And that's my point, Rails has a lot of functionality that it provides through a lot of dependencies.

Exactly the opposite of the self-contained mini-framework (if not micro-) it started as.
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I should clarify that: I agree that WebOS is an amazing OS. I had a great time using it. I really liked the Enyo framework, and most of the apps were well optimised for tablet. Despite that, the app ecosystem as it stands is dying, and I wanted to see what things were like on the other side of the fence. Installing Android was straightforward (I'm going to develop a nervous tick with relation to the iPad in a few months, no doubt).

Note that you don't remove WebOS when you flash Android onto a Touchpad; it sets itself up to dualboot :).
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I wasn't aware of that; thankyou for the link.
There's nothing wrong with the CE regulations (as can be seen by the fact that Rasberry Pi expects to pass fairly easily).

CE regulations make sense - electricity is dangerous enough on it's own, but the real problem is fire.

Hardly anyone argues sensibly against fire regulations.
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> To add insult to injury, you would be forcing them to spend possibly significant amounts of money to get it working again, something that not everyone has ready access to.

Somebody needs to pay the money. In this case, it appears to be the taxpayer. I'm not sure I like this. I'd prefer software companies writing vulnerable software to pay the bill, or the people using the vulnerable software, or perhaps the ISPs (who are being paid by the people using the vulnerable software).

I don't like the taxpayer paying for it because software businesses are making more money by taking security shortcuts and as long as the taxpayer pays for the cost of this then there's no incentive for them to stop.
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The evidence doesn't really back you up.

Countries with stronger financial regulations didn't have to bail out banks in 2008/09.
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Show HN: Level-Up "game" for people trying to lose weight
Our first iPhone app is finally out: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slimkicker-calorie-counter/id512812753?ls=1&mt=8 . We also got a website: slimkicker.com for those without iPhones.

As the title suggests, we try to apply gamification for people trying to lose weight. We use a points system similar to Weight Watchers, except in reverse (the more healthy the food, the more points).

Some people have commented we're similar to another site: Fitocracy (their app also is out today). But we're reaching a different audience: people who want to lose weight or live healthy, but don't know how/where to start. We offer 7-30 day challenges that help people build long-term habits such as "quit soda for a week". The point is to break down the abstract goal of being healthy to smaller subgoals, and winnable games.

We're also working on providing concrete, personalized advice based on your activity too. Tracking and gamification are nice, but it's useless without actionable advice.

Links:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slimkicker-calorie-counter/id512812753?ls=1&mt=8

http://www.slimkicker.com
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Clickable:

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It's not that I'm blind to that, it's that I don't consider it a good enough excuse to go around pestering one's co-workers.

The other thing is that there are more than two parties in this situation. There is the guy who put the TWSS bot in place, and there's this person, who put the anti-TWSS bot in place.

Let's assume you're the third person (or fourth, fifth, whatever). You didn't put any bots in place. You're just going to work every day trying to turn your startup into a profit center. You're head's down, nose to the grindstone, and you would like to have used the IRC channel as an effective means of communicating with your co-workers so that you can be efficient.

Sure, you maybe considered the TWSS bot a distraction. Now, you've got an IRC channel that's half as useful as it was.

You didn't do anything wrong, but now you're suffering the effects of pranks from both parties.
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No, I'm not suicidal. Thanks for stating that, as I'm sure some might be in that situation.

I'm just experienced in a different kind of burnout than what the OP was talking about. And it's a kind of burnout that a number of developers experience at some level after some number of years, but frequently not the sort that you find on HN. I've tried to fix via sleep, exercise, losing weight, etc. and that surely helps but it doesn't fix it. In addition, placing power and trust in the employee definitely helps in that case, as a lot of what drives it is a mix of poor health due to lack of sleep which there are fixes for, lack of ability to concentrate, and weight/fitness, but an important component is out of the control of the employee: the developer/IT employee notices that we all seem to fuss about things that in the end don't really matter, because all code is thrown away, all implementations are replaced, and there is nothing left standing of what is created, and in the end we would seem better off and the nation more employed if that technology weren't distracting everyone. However, activism is not the answer. Technology is inevitable. So you want to become a landscaper, a bartender, or anything to get over that feeling, but you know you can't provide for your family if you do that, so you have the privilege of suffering in a job you hate, knowing that you are spoiled for complaining about a job that pays well. You can't even feel good about complaining.

I've also experienced the other kind of burnout which is what developers usually mean, which is burning the candle at both ends to meet demands you didn't set at work and could not influence even though you tried diligently to, so you have a period of lack of motivation or effectiveness. The result of that for me was that I never want to work for a startup again, because you can get sucked into the idea and the promise- the hope- later to realize that they are desperate and do not care about your family. That is what the OP's post is about, and they are framing it like it can be solved by the employer. Perhaps.