skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well take a look at any of the copious literature on the subject:

This paper shows some example speedups, but generally doesn't give anything to compare to. Find papers that reference this paper, to see more examples.

C. C. Minh, J. Chung, C. Kozyrakis, and K. Olukotun. STAMP: Stanford transactional applications for multi-processing. In IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2008.
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Maybe the term "communication problem" isn't the best. A better one might be usability, or interaction design. Good design has heaps of it. And it's not aesthetics alone. A designer should go a lot further - scope includes accesibility and (if you're unlucky enough to work with me) information architecture/design.

Knowing how a colour wheel works doesn't solve problems like a custom-designed, ticked-out über-awesome CSS -based drop-down list that doesn't respond to keypresses.

Knowing when to use search, and when to use tags, or how to group search results in a way that makes sense to the use context is worth paying a lot more for than just coming up with a cool UI concept.

TLDR - this blog post is bang on the bucks.
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Python 3 removes old-style classes and thus removes the need to explicitly inherit from object.

(Also it appears it's just an example to illustrate the use of context managers, not of the perfect Python program. You'd never want to use the code in practice, if only because it relies on changing global state and thus will mess up when multiple threads use it at once)
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It looks and feels the same with the originals.
This bug fix won't make much of a change right after starting Firefox, it just prevents memory from building up over time due to closed tabs. Additionally it's effective in nightly builds not beta, so 15.0a1 not 13.

Your comparison is useful overall, but not relevant to this change.
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That would be wrong on so many levels. A better idea would be buying Sun.
How much of that 7 million does the founder get to keep no matter what?
well, for one the space bars are at different angles. the space bar on the 87 is a bit sharper and digs into your thumbs unless you use the feet to tilt the keyboard, which i prefer not using. secondly, though both keyboards use topre switches, the 87 is made by leopold for topre whereas the 103 is made by topre in japan ... the build quality on the 103 seems better and the keycaps on the 103 seem a bit more rounded and smooth.

...all purely subjective, of course, but i just prefer the typing experience on the 103 to the 87.
Xubuntu is your "lite" release for old hardware. It's shipped with XFCE instead of Unity so it doesn't require much to run. I believe Xubuntu 12.04 is released same-day as the 12.04 release.
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> In my experience

Only a fool would pretend to be blissfully unaware of what he's talking about and then offer you advice on the very subject of his ignorance.
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I've worked alone for myself (freelancing), and alone for a startup (remotely), and together with business guys for a startup. Here's what I came up with: working alone for freelancing is usually fine because the freelance work that you get is usually not as complex and requires little to no fore-thought, you can just jump into requirements and go. Working alone for a startup has it's pros and cons, working alone is great for concentration but working together with others who share the same vision and discussing solutions to technical problems in non-technical terms is definitely valuable for all involved. The one thing that's an issue working with a team of strictly non-technical guys and being the only technical guy is explaining what is or isn't feasible in understandable terms. Having more than one technical person involved in a team of people who share the ultimate vision is probably ideal because technical issues can be discussed between each other to see if a solution can be found, sometimes I think you just need another point of view.
Surely this depends on the browser, rather than the mechanism in HTML itself?
The idea of composition over inheritance directly solves the issues discussed here... interfaces with a bit of DI work wonders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
We just have a database of sentences and a translation is a lookup in the DB by some unique identifier. Trying to semi-translate a string just doesn't work very well in the long run (for us).
You could add eBay, Amazon, Craig's List, Yahoo, etc. I don't really think they are outliers - if you offer a product with real value, lack of design may have an impact, but the value you provide to customers will vastly outweigh it.

Not that I think design should be ignored, but sadly some of the giants have ignored it and done remarkably well regardless.
Yeah I think we agree.

The only point I am trying to make is that there are many many great webdesigners out there that can make beautiful websites that communicate well. But it it's often the same guys that design something like an interface or a mobile app.

The creative agency world is filled with people able to do artistically stunning websites but they are approaching it from a communication/advertising point of view where you might be exposed to the site once or twice. This is very different than doing something like say hipmunk.
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Realised that after I posted. Still, as you said this shows that Firefox has come a long way since the 4 days.
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When the class is taught by the guy who puts the R in RSA, you can imagine he's going to lean heavy and hard into cryptography.
Who did the graphic design for their site? I really like it.
I wonder if they will eventually license the self-driving software in an Android-like model?
++ for calling it the Satanic Trinity.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_Uni...

Did you want published evidence of the structure of the government, or my personal conclusions?

If you don't believe the federal government is far and away more powerful and influential than all lower governments, just follow the money:

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/

Tons of info there on US tax revenue.

If you are more specific with what you want me to cite, I could provide better citation.
I wonder how long will it take till the price of something like this gets to reasonable levels. The lidar and other sensors probably won't get cheap anytime soon. Imagine the costs of Google having to drive through all the places first, mapping them. Then the massive insurance until its proven that self-driving cars are safer (and then it will probably get expensive again after a first accident)

Perhaps it would make sense for government to step in like it did with electrical cars.

Edit: It seems the LIDAR they use costs 75000$. :-/
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If you're searching in the US, give Google Flight Search a try - it has a data/price graph that will let you filter by departure/arrival time, and it's instant.
I do have to say that he's talking about learning the ropes of your business, not 'time-wasters'.

An example for me would be that we have one area of business where we organize events. In order to attract attendees, we tried Google Ads, Facebook ads, email blasts, flyers in popular locations/stores, newsletter ads. None of it worked, or it barely worked. By year two we figured out that for our market, postal mailers worked like crazy. Sending a letter to the prospects home gave us super ROI.

Do I wish I'd known that at the beginning? Yes. But it took going through all of those other methods to hit on the one that worked, which gave our company domain knowledge.

This is really just a version of the business axiom 'Fail faster.'
Sure, they're early to you, but not to the consumers or industry. The adoption cycle applies to a product family, not model. The iPad is not a new device.
Great idea! There are already tables in the database for tags, comments, rating and other features. I will include this feature in the next days. And you are right about the pronunciation too, it might be really hard to guess how to pronounce certain words. I will have a look at dictionary.com and merriam webster, I know they include a small audio file with the correct pronunciation of each word. That could work for speak like a brazilian.

It seems the DNS server has gone crazy, and the site is being redirected back to namecheap :-(

Thanks!
Python from that era didn't have generators, new classes, list comprehensions, annotations etc. If you're not using any of these in your code now you're not writing idiomatic modern Python.

But the point of my post wasn't to bash Python but rather to note that Ruby got an unusually large number of thing right on the first try.
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I don't think we disagree with the need for a strong user experience, and this will happen over time as everyone learns how users, developers and publishers use the system.

We do have an inline disposition, but it is not as in-page inline as I think you are suggesting, and even then it is up to the service how it chooses to be opened.
I'm working for a healthcare startup now and I feel like I'm starting to get burned out with the constant change and long hours. I think what stresses me out the most is that I'm employee #1, so I'm being paid, but we haven't raised money yet. So I've been working for exactly a year now on this project, we've had 1 team investor meeting in NYC, and I've been working long days to keep up with the constant changes. Like you guys I've also been looking to meetup with others who share my same situation, in my town theres a meetup but it's mostly freelancers who are mostly involved strictly in web design or graphic design, rather than the programming end of web development, which is what I'm really looking for. To be honest since graduating highschool I've wanted to move out west to work with others on a startup, just haven't made it there yet, but maybe soon. I have 2 friends that I graduated highschool with who got jobs at Microsoft, I don't think I fall into that category of wanting a stable corporate job, but I do want to work on something new and cool that adds value to peoples lives.
Thank you very much for this - a rare, personal and beautifully written insight in to what it's like at a startup after the initial enthusiasm and buzz has worn off and the hard slog has set in. I'm really looking forward to part 2.
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Yep. Launching something today that looks like the original Craigslist or even Google now is a waste of time. Expectations have changed.
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But when Microsoft change the GUI (as they did between 3.1 and 95, 2000 and XP, XP and Vista and will between Vista and Windows 8) so there is always going to be relearning as technology advances.

Shouldn't people have the choice which new GUI they learn?

And the relearning curve doesn't seem to be hindering the Mac, or the iPad, both of which face the same challenge and yet are taking market share.
Well I think it will happen in a way that circumvents their traditional oversight. It's not so much that the FCC will allow it, more that someone will find a way to operate largely outside the FCC. For example, cable TV successfully routed around equal time and content restrictions for broadcast networks in the US. The FCC was powerless to really control it because it was private. Also, wifi emerged as a standard because it operated in unregulated spectrum which gave companies a chance to innovate. Other than basic certification of devices, the FCC has little sway over what happens with wifi.
Rivest's class is usually described as the "applied crypto" class (I haven't taken it, this is just what I've heard). The "systems security" class is 6.858:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2011/
And there's another class (6.875, taught by Goldwasser or Micali) that is much more pure crypto than Rivest's class. In any case, 6.858 is super fun and probably the most useful for someone looking for practical security knowledge.
At least two of us posted looking for sysadmin work on the HN freelancer thread! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914001)

I'm big on automation using configuration management, although that's only really beneficial (cost-wise) once you have more than two-three servers/VMs.

Drop me an email if you want to discuss it a bit more: john@semantici.st
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A good design on a bad product or business probably won't help in the long run.

Conversely, a bad design on a good product can hinder a project in the long run.

Designers are an important part of the mix, but you'd be a fool to concentrate on design alone. In my own experience, we successfully bootstrapped a startup with no designer, winging it based on user feedback and our own intuition. But when we got funding, the first person we hired was a designer - and the popularity of the product rose accordingly.
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As often as it is needed, depending on your database settings.
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This is why I can't wait for more integrated speech/command based interfaces. It is great for infrequently used commands: "change this icon to open with safari." Only someone highly experienced with the details of a UI are going to be able to change settings faster than they can say them.
A squeeze page or a landing page?
If I were solving this problem in C# I'd probably lean towards defining specific properties of objects in interfaces, rather than just through a type hierarchy.

So we might have the interface ISecurityWithIsin , IOption etc.

This has the advantage of allowing

a.) easy use of mocking, dependency injection for testing.

b.) Classes can implement more than one of these interfaces.

The question then becomes- where do you put your base, shared functionality (e.g. a method that is common to all stocks with Isin numbers). Possibly this becomes another set of classes...
> How are you current Firefox users finding the RAM usage, especially compared to Chrome?

I'm fairly sure that multiple studies have shown that Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox. But that's not what's important - all that matters is whether the browser appears snappy to the user. That's much more so the case with Chrome than it is with Firefox.
I don't understand what surprises you. The memory load depends in large parts on the work requirements, I'd guess.

2 weeks ago I went from 4 GB to 8 GB (still would love to have more) here at work, because 4 didn't cut it and lead to lots of paging.

Visual Studio (often 2 or 3 instances, grabbing around 300-500 each)
MS SQL Server
IIS
OCR Engines (depending on load)

With Windows 7 as host (already not a slim OS) this killed my productivity with 4 GB, especially if (to get back on topic) I opened my beloved Firefox...
Artplant is not really a consumer orientated startup, they are a game studio producing games that are then published by big publishing companies like bigpoint etc.
So its more like a software consultancy/shop and i think there are many of those in Norway.
One could extend this idea to all "execution" related practices: design, engineering, etc.

"Good execution will not fix your broken business".

If you are solving the wrong problem, targeting the wrong market or building the wrong product, good execution will not save your business. Both the strategy ('what') and the execution ('how') have to be right for the business to succeed.
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With the change to the mobile web site all my bookmarks are broken, several facilities have been difficult to find, and it has seemed that DMs were significantly more difficult to get to than before. Someone else made the comment and it started me thinking, so I thought I'd ask here.

I've now managed to reconstruct most of what Twitter workflow I have, but it still seems that DMs are less convenient than they were. I have no specific concrete evidence, just a vague sense that DMs haven't got the love that other facilities have.

Probably nothing, probably just the fact that their UI change has cost me a few hours of trying to figure out where everything has moved to.
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Visual design might not fix your broken business, but if done right it can turn your good business into a great business. Which is the goal of almost every startup.
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Actually it's looking like most of the breakage can be avoided by a simple change on our side.
I'm including employer-side taxes and sales taxes.

Many of these taxes are regressive and decrease as a percentage as your income goes up. For example, I believe that Social Security tax is only assessed up to about $110k.
That appears to be a bug in the approach we're using, and we think we have a fix for it.
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I used to suggest landing page but now it seems "don't make me think" can become "don't make me link!" Internet users want everything on one page and having a long squeeze page is the only option rather than putting together a cluttered landing page.
> Visual aesthetics are rarely enough. Getting a product into the hands of potential customers is important.

The problem here is that 6 or 8 years ago, building a basic product was a lot harder than it is today. I'm a designer and I used to spend a huge amount of time coding a product I wanted to build and less time designing it. Back then the differentiator was essentially launching a product.

These days you can get hold of a decent framework that does most of what you need so the rest of the time can be spent on design (or whatever else is important to you). As a result, launching a product is no longer impressive and good styling / usability are important differentiators.

Out-of-the-box software is getting so good / complete that products need to look elsewhere to stand out.
No offense but your an edge case. Most users will have only 1 main browser they use.
Assuming the system’s not paging.
Do you know that your site works OK on IE9 when changing the UA?

Ironically, your site page does not include a doctype so it is interpreted in quirksmode [1]...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode
The cost of the hardware, sensors and mapping is expensive (initially) if you are talking about adding the hardware to a vehicle that one person or family will own. If you are talking about adding it to each vehicle in an autonomous taxi fleet, it suddenly makes a lot more sense and economies of scale kick in quickly.

You are replacing a taxi drivers wages with sensors and mapping essentially. Not to mention extremely-well paid surgeons who clean up after drunk driving accidents, theatre nurses, insurance costs, cost of mechanics.....this technology has so many implications it's hard to visualise them all initially. It's going to be extremely disruptive to some industries, and a boon to others (e.g. where I live, rural pubs are in trouble. This could change all that - "get driven home at 200mph in perfect safety after a night getting smashed!" etc.)
Love the headline, but a bit more needs to be explained.

As a designer, I get tons of requests to work with startups only to later find out that they want an aesthetic layer slapped on top. Is this possible? Certainly. But it doesn't address major problems with your experience, content structure, or the most important thing: the message you're trying to convey.

The thing missing in this article is that, for a good designer, it's quite the thinking man's game. For example, I'm working on a design now where the original menu system wasn't 100% clear and by trying a couple of different approaches, we came to something great. This is key: hire someone who thinks about the problems, not the aesthetics. A solid designer will address the problems and then devise an aesthetic strategy.

Most importantly: show respect for designers. The good ones can help you immensely.
You're assuming that a future society will have the same interest as we do in conserving physical artifacts. A physical structure like a coastline takes up a lot of space and matter compared to the amount useful information it holds. If we're going to be efficient about it, you could map California down to the nearest micrometer and save the data to some form of very high density storage.
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One of the fundamental principles of OO is go for interface inheritance(design) as opposed to class inheritance(implementation). Better way to enable code reuse is through association. That is why languages like Java do not allow multiple class inheritance, but allow you to inherit from multiple interfaces. You are doing it the wrong way!
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Haha yeah I did that too, I installed Firefox and renamed it to Internet Explorer. :)
I'm a COLOURlovers fan. Created this app to play a bit more with the Android platform. Just for fun. Feedback is welcome. A bit more background info on the app can be found here: http://lucasr.org/?p=2825
Wrong for some problem spaces, very right for others. There are many problem domains, and no tool right for all of them.
> What to know before moving to the US to be in a start-up: health insurance is considered a bonus

Another thing to know - it's fairly inexpensive if you're young and in decent health.

For the vast majority of you, worrying about health insurance is more silly than worrying about the cost of a car.
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Printf format is great, but there's an issue

You're repeating yourself. Why? Because C can't know what types you are passing to it.

So you have to explicitly do '%d' or '%s' to let printf know what this is.

But yes, I think it's easier to type than {0}
The problem with interfaces is that you have to reimplement all the code for the basic functionality in every class. Scala-like traits, which are basically interfaces with optional implementation, should help here.

Also, if you're using a flat type hierarchy where classes never inherit, but only extend interfaces, you're better of using a different language which natively supports a structural typing style, such as Go, OCaml, or Objective C.
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