skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will this optimization help on virtualized machines like Xen? Or does all memory appear to be the same?

On an EC2 m1.xlarge:

$ numactl --hardware
available: 1 nodes (0)
libnuma: Warning: /sys not mounted or invalid. Assuming one node: No such file or directory
node 0 cpus:
node 0 size: <not available>
node 0 free: <not available>
libnuma: Warning: Cannot parse distance information in sysfs: No such file or directory
I'll give another nod to Mezzanine, which is quite simply "really good".

Another great alternative is Hyde, which is admittedly more "Jekyll" than Wordpress (the name is not an accident), but is a drop-dead simple way to build static-paged blogs that scale (as all static pages do.)
half glass full vs half glass empty: I'm curious to see how adoption of this product compares with adoption of umbrellatoday.com.
Appengine+Youtube+<everyone-using-Go-in-production> isn't exactly one data point. Each independently is probably a ton of datapoints as services tend not to use one machine.

While it is a bummer, I'd argue that the OP is the one that does not define a trend.
People outside the finance world seem to think beta is the same thing as standard deviation, and forget about the market correlation factor. I think the natural conclusion goes like: beta ~= risk ~= potential reward. It's hard to remember the bit where the ups/downs correlate with the market.
When I first saw Notch's page about 0x10c, my takeaway was, "This guy is going to try making a cross between Elite and Minecraft."

And I squealed like a little girl. Because I've wanted a game like that for a long time, and have even made a few game prototypes of my own in that feature space.
Speaking of evenings... this would work much better if a beautiful day encouragement be made conditional on "get your ass to bed within next 5 minutes" clause :)
Another idea popped in my mind: I don't know what the api and rules are, but AFAIK, an app could register itself to open, when the user opens a url with a certain prefix (for example, I think Facebook.app opens and displays iTunes' wall when you go to 'facebook://itunes' - I don't use Facebook so I don't know for sure, but I've seen other apps do this).

You can register for 'newsyc://'.

Now, when a user is on, say, 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3814563, if s/he opens a simple bookmarklet (which is a 2-line javascript code), s/he'll be redirected to 'newsyc://3814563', and magically your app would open!
From Google Cache, this one exploits the theorem (which the page proves) that the longest palindromic substring of a string S is the longest common substring between S and its reversal S'. Since there are linear-time longest-common-substring algorithms, finding longest palindromes therefore is linear time. It doesn't actually say which LCS algorithm they'd use, since the page is more about the proof. They even admit that it probably isn't the best approach in practice.
"While there are many downsides to the mainstream exposure of Silicon Valley — the myriad fakers and sycophants that come along in any sort of high visibility situation — I’m willing to trade in occasionally having to deal with an annoying person if our values (entrepreneurship, self-reliance, fearlessness, disregard for a hierarchy, technical excellence) get a wider audience and more importantly, excite a fresh crop of high school seniors applying to college to go into CS because it 'sounds cool.'"

To the extent that I worry about this show, I have the opposite concern. Jersey Shore did not exactly make me want to move to Jersey and take up the lifestyle.

At the moment, to the extent that the country thinks about us at all, I think they think of us as brave folk trying to build the future. If this show convinces them we're a bunch of partying douches, that'll be sad. I'm not too worried about it, but that's the potential bad outcome.

In 2002, I thought of I-bankers as smart, hard working people who were well compensated because what they did was difficult. Now I think of finance as mostly parasitic. Impressions can change.
Is this such a book? Or is it discussing implementation issues? There's a very big difference. I read books and articles talking about approaches and likely pitfalls. Of course I also read things that are advocacy. Some are both.
I really enjoy reading this judge. He's seems like a good guy.

THE COURT: All right. I don't see the point in taking up our time now with that because who knows how they will come out, but, all right.

You are ready to argue it? Are you the one that is the young lawyer?

MR. MULLEN: I am.

THE COURT: Then I do want to give you that chance.

Go ahead.

MR. MULLEN: Thank you, Your Honor, I appreciate it.

snip

THE COURT: Okay, no, I appreciate -- you succinctly said it. That was an excellent presentation. (Laughter.)

MR. MULLEN: Thank you, Your Honor. I appreciate the opportunity.

MR. JACOBS: Your Honor, Mr. Boies will respond to that argument.

THE COURT: Thank you. Let's hear from Mr. Boies.

MR. BOIES: May it please the Court, Your Honor, I do not qualify for the young lawyer rule.
Good to see this. I've been building computer games for decades and one hack I learned early was that it was much easier to make a game with only a text-based interface, whether CLI/REPL or curses-like. (Like my Rogue-like, Dead By Zombie.) It puts constraints on what kinds of UI features you can have, and it puts a ceiling on how visually beautiful you can make it. But it does allow you to knock out features at a higher velocity. A much higher percentage of your work is spent on the core game engine and game mechanics, with only a thin slice spent on the UI layer.
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i just create shortcuts to my home or frequent addresses. The major use case is not from frequent location A to frequent location B. The major use case is from random place A to frequent location B. Creating shortcuts on the dashboard to navigation has been the simplest solution, pretty much what you're doing here. Hold down on dashboard, create shortcut to location.
um.... no there's no reason other than habit. I will put that in my todo list. :)

## C-c C-c "~/.org/tasks.org" -> "* "
## C-u C-c C-c like C-c C-c, and immediately visit note at target location
## C-0 C-c C-c "???" -> "* ???"
## C-1 C-c C-c to select file and header location interactively.
## C-2 C-c C-c as child (C-3: as sibling) of the currently clocked item
## To switch templates, use `M-x org-remember'. To abort use `C-c C-k'.

* TODO switch to org-capture
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press '?' to get a list of available keyboard shorcuts
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I switched from Netnewswire and Google Reader to Fever (http://feedafever.com/), and highly endorse it. It claims to be designed with the goal to "reduce unread feed guilt".
Its not that I agree with the parent but did you read the linked article?

"The results may help explain why zebras' skinniest stripes are on their faces and legs. "That's also the place where you have the thinnest skin," said Åkesson, of Sweden's Lunds University."

But as I stated up thread even if this research was definitive it does not preclude the camouflage benefits...
the entire microcontroller world is hopelessly obscure with the exception of Arduino and all of the projects that it inspired

I dunno, it doesn't seem that bad to me. Cortex-M microcontrollers use the ARM instruction set and seem to be gaining ground. I've personally used PIC24 (the 16bit PIC microcontrollers from Microchip) and various 8bit Atmel ones without using Arduino. The 8bit PIC16 still seems reasonably popular too.

Certainly none are as popular or accessible to beginners than Arduino, but is it really hopelessly obscure? Hell, if I can get started with PIC24, then surely anyone can! (Though I do admit I've started doing prototyping on Arduino lately because the wealth of sample code saves tons of time and headaches, while before the PIC24 was my go-to microcontroller. I have used the AT90USB162 and some Atmega micros for some work too and will probably use them much more in the future).
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http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2009-12-25-174540_palindro...
My guess is because suffix trees are covered in data-structures courses, and then finding palindromes comes up as a possible application. Whereas Manacher's algorithm is pretty specifically a palindrome-finding algorithm, so people only know about it if they're looking for palindrome-finding algorithms in particular (as opposed to example applications of data structures).

Although, it and variants have gotten some web press. A 2007 blog post was much passed around (http://johanjeuring.blogspot.com/2007/08/finding-palindromes...), which turned into some software (http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~jeuri101/homepage/palindrome...). There's also a good exposition, and Python code, in another 2007 blog post (http://www.akalin.cx/longest-palindrome-linear-time).

I used the latter code to scan a local mirror of Project Gutenberg for word-unit palindromes, which are palindromes where words rather than letters are the units (http://www.kmjn.org/notes/word_unit_palindromes.html), which I why I know about it. It actually works for that with minimal modification, since it can operate on any Python sequence, not just strings.
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It's relatively easy to hide accident stats. It's very difficult to hide fatalities - especially over time.

I would be unsurprised at better safety stats than the US. With DuPont as one of several exceptions, the safety culture in the USA is still one of compliance. The mining record is awful versus global large companies.
Apple and other customers are able to demand and get certain requirements met. A key part of that would be safety, and the first rule is integrity in measurement.

I've seen plants in Colombia and Mozambique operate at industry leading levels of safety. China can do it too - it really helps when you have a workforce that is motivated and eager for the relatively high paid work.
yeah I don't think "multiple people mode" would work. I'm not too inclined to let other people at the files in my home directory either. :)
the same thing was true for mexico 6 years ago, and in 6 years they just built up all the required infraestructure.
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it's likely only 1000 lines of less, sass, scss, or stylus which can be well organized into modules and output compressed css if bandwidth is a concern. It would also be possible to only deliver the css applicable to the user's browser (the vast majority of the lines are redundancies due to vendor prefixes). I don't see it being the case that you couldn't optimize the file size down to about the same size as the equivalent jQuery animation.
If you're wondering why IE still has a strong market share...
I'm sure they could have. But would they? The story would have at least played out differently if that initial conversation had gone, "hey, let's pay someone to painstakingly draw animals and then transfer them to scratchboard" rather than "hey, look at these gorgeous woodcuts".
And another suggestion: use inputAccessoryView (http://stackoverflow.com/a/8998216/347353) to add a bar on top of keyboard when posting a comment (for the character asterisk, for italic text)...
I want to fund a "GroupOff", the opposite of GroupOn.

You pay more. Sometimes a lot more. Yet you get something extraordinary in return. What would that be? It's up to the vendor.

It'd probably have to work something like Kickstarter if there were different premium perks, or just a one-shot thing. It'd give mid-range restaurants a chance (and budget) to pull out all the stops for a special VIP night, for instance.

Nothing says to your retailer "I hate you and I want you to die" more than using a GroupOn coupon.
I was a bit confused at first when I was just starting to use GitHub, but got accustomed to it by now. Though making configurable menu or at least a lightweight option would indeed be nice, that would help people get used to the site.

Seth Godin had a good piece on UI and information density the other day: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/03/information-...
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It appears possible to compare two album covers that were created by the same generator (some of them have pretty distinct styles). Not sure if this was considered, or how it factors into scoring.
This won't work in Seattle :)
I often wonder what the culture of a third tech innovation hub would be like outside NY/SV (And I hate to say it, but Boston and NY are interchangeable for the purposes of cultural discussion).

The only cultural thread I've been able to pick up that is common to all the U.S. tech hubs is great baseball teams.
Clojure vs. Common Lisp
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016566
It's just a flag in the PE headers. It can be modified after the fact with a tool; the Go linker doesn't need to know.
This article seems like mostly bullshit once you reach the the point in the article that concludes that the talent crunch is due to SV "taking itself too seriously." I'm not currently an SV engineer and I'm not entirely sure I want to be, but the claim is patently ridiculous.

And as a side gripe about the article, it annoys me at least a little for everyone to be diminished to "coders" by someone who admittedly hasn't put in the time to learn basic programming. As far as I'm concerned, "coder" is a half step above "code monkey" and the engineers building the next Google or Facebook or any moderately successful tech company are not code monkeys.
It's possible the book is just discussing implementation issues. But if it's implementation issues for something that has not been convincingly established to be a problem, it seems like putting the cart before the horse. Why discuss hard choices that need to be made before establishing need? What is the point of such a work?
Ah, you're right, they have to be in low physical frames, I'm getting confused.
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This would, however, allocate memory rather than just address space.

(Yes, it may be lazily committed, but it's still not as cheap as address space.)
> I guess the answer is (as always!) to use a purely homoiconic Lisp dialect, so you get the best of both worlds but that's asking a lot of statisticians.

For what it's worth, Julia is homoiconic and "underneath" the Matlab-like syntactic exterior, quite a lot like scheme.
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They could have offered some real problems instead of standard exhausted algorithms. I don't feel the least compelled to compete knowing that thousands of variations of the code are available in 2 clicks.
I'm not sure what to make of the Giants being considered a great team, but it's probably not a discussion for here.

I kind of want to plug Austin, though, as the third tech hub. There have already been some successful companies come out of Austin and Capital Factory is trying to build a YC of Austin of sorts. With Austin being a top-5 fastest growing US city over the last 10 years[1], plus the awesome climate, relatively reasonable cost of living and UT's engineering program, I think the pieces are in place for some exciting stuff to happen here.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/real_estate/1204/gallery...
Of course you are correct, but that is not exactly what Golang.org has done. I believe errors have been made on both end of this story.

Please consider this:

a version 1.0 of an open source project X has been released by a team that actively engages its user community. Release manager indicated before release (in issue tracker) that a special problem with platform P is not making the cut. It is true he didn't tweet it /g but it was a public announcement.

Developer D has decided to use X1.0 to create a software product for paying customer C on said platform P on a tight production go live deadline. Apparently there were issues in his deployment testing regiment, as his initial tests were apparently satisfactory, and he typed a ton of code, and now he is busy retyping the same in C as something went boom with X 1.0 on platform P.

IMO, it is not thoughtful to spec 1.0 software for your paying clients unless you know what you are doing and have land mine detectors and have reviewed field maps. (An example of folks fitting the requirement are Heroku -- they use Go in production.)

IMO, stories like this will (a) stem the rush of those who compulsively (but superficially) seek 'the new' and then blog about their own misunderstandings; and likely keep thoughtful hackers who like to dig deep (and will avail themselves of the public resources and available channels) and make their own determination. And these hackers will build great software on Go and that will attract more developers.

There is no real reason for Go to seek a footprint via "PR". PR for languages is for those who need users for their language's survial. Sun (RIP) didn't really need Java, did it? They had to push Java to gain users. Go has Google for its deployment foot print (as a client of sorts); is already an option in the cloud.

Go has a solid team of engineers [1] behind it. It is definitely not a flavor of the month language and would not benefit from a flavor of the month community.

All opinions, of course!

[1]: for a sample of both: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
No. A 32-bit OS is capable, on the x86, of addressing much more than 4GB of physical memory. The 32-bit server versions of Windows, for example.
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The train station in downtown LA is called Union Station, the one in NY is Grand Central.

Also, they are extending the lines that feed into Union slowly but surely. Pasadena already has good coverage, Hollywood coverage is decent, Santa Monica's Expo line should be done in a couple of years - it's already halfway done to Culver City. South LA lines already get lots of riders.

The REAL problem in LA is a taxi is still the best way to get to LAX.
The problem with Austin though is that once a company gets successful, it moves to Silicon Valley, destroying any sense of community Austin might be building.

Austin is a great city -- they need to figure out how to get successful people to stay there.
> Live-to-workism and California Ideology

Wow, I haven't realized that libertarianism and Austrian economics are now such an integral part of the Left Coast ideology! things must have been changing fast there lately.

Interesting perspective, otherwise. I do suspect you may not find academia entirely to your liking either, but good luck.

For something that was not mentioned, one thing which is often rather unsettling for people who move to industry is discovering a system that is not actually focused on maximizing your individual productivity/output/value added/job satisfaction/etc, although of course circumstances vary.
The lack of a 'star/bookmark' button on projects is the single, most annoying problem I have with Github... I hate 'watching' projects I really don't care about, but am afraid I would forget in a few weeks...
Source code should absolutely be required. If you can't reproduce results, you aren't doing science. I do not understand why publishers would even accept papers while _knowing_ that there is code out there that would verify the papers claims. The phrase _willfully ignorant_ comes to mind.

Not too long ago I emailed someone at UIUC about a tool they wrote which was mentioned in a research paper I ran into online. I wanted to see if their method really was much better than previous ones, and if the trade-offs they made were worth it.

Did I get it? No. Instead, they sent me a link to some new company founded based on the tool. I apparently had to be a "researcher" to receive the magical tarball.

It also seemed to me to be a conflict of interest for a Professor to be working for a University and company at the same time - all while selectively choosing who can and cannot get access to their results.
> Otherwise it comes off as a form of ad hominem.

Please don't think that. Wasn't my intention. I've followed your posts, you're a very bright person, and I love reading what you have to say. I agree with you that Apple is being target both because it's a big brand and because there's political motivation. I also do agree with you they make great products, I never implied otherwise.

I only think "integrity" only because "Word would get out" between poor Chinese workers who barely have an alternative is a little bit pushing it.

I didn't mean to offend you, nor apple, when I said their marketing is genius at making their users emotional about their products. I was being honest, if a smart and reasonable person like you can get emotional with their brand. That doesn't mean that you're a sheep nor that they're dishonest. It only means that you're human and they're genius at doing they're job. And we as entrepreneurs should recognize that and try to understand how they're so good at branding.
That is just a fork of the original.
Excellent! I love this app. Now if you could only do something about the HN performance issues, the app would be an even greater pleasure to use! Thanks for your hard work.
That's pretty much what happened to me as well. At first they wanted their standard fees per photo of £40 for the first, £20 for the second and £10 for any after that. Those fees were terrible, and I was successful in getting a lot better rate. I ended up waiving my unauthorised usage fee and setting for a a reasonable amount that I would have been happy with if they had contacted me in the first place. Still, several people are saying that I should have stuck to my guns and demanded my original invoice and that I was too lenient. Perhaps a learning experience for me...
If I may share my favorites:

* BubbleUPnP: Streaming UPnP media (music, videos, pictures) over the internet. It's the only nice way I can find of managing music on a computer and accessing it through the internet. (I don't care much for any of the cloud music services.) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft...

* Lightning Bug: Really nice background ambiance player. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media1908....

* QuickPic: Fast and clean photo gallery app. (Way better than the Gallery app in 2.x) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.Pic...

* FX File Explorer: My file manager of choice. Great looking, good amount of useful features (the Dropbox integration is top-notch). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.fx

* AdAway: FOSS hosts-based ad blocker. Requires root. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway

* Hacker's Keyboard: Full PC-style virtual keyboard. Great for SSH and local terminals. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...
Arrgh: when, not then. Thanks again iPad!
I agree with all that except "awesome climate". I guess it's subjective, but average highs above 90 for four months out of the year is the #1 thing I don't miss about living in Texas! But, it'd be great to live there Oct-May.
Can you just put your sim card into it and use it?
I don't know why but I was expecting a service emailing me some positive message to help me get out of bed and dismiss the cobwebs of depression and anxiety I usually feel every morning I wake up.
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> 2. Some Perspective

Indeed - Stressing out because you failed, for instance, (your own) deadlines is useless. The concept of a deadline is just too abstract for your mammalian brain for the stress to have any useful impact. I used to get very stressed over deadlines, thinking that the stress would help me align better, at least next time.

Turns out that not stressing out had only a single result: I was stressed out less often. Just the thing I wanted to achieve by stressing out more. Brains are weird, but sometimes they are just bloody simple.