skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was decided that it was okay, so long as his assigned tasks were being completed. Of course, one wonders why he was ratted out if he was completing his tasks... :-)

Jealousy. You never need to put a cover on a bucket full of crabs because anytime one crab tries to climb out the others will pull it back in. Sadly, people (even friends) often act in this same manner when someone they know is excelling in some way.
The streaming node.js example he wrote uses a blocking call. This is not the node way, and would cause a definite slow-down.

If you're worried about your programs containing rogue & misbehaving code like this, I recommend you use https://github.com/isaacs/nosync
Hey James, there's no pre-packaged system to do this, but you do have some options: you could use the widget API http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/html5-widget

There's no special insider trickery happening on that page: it's all using the public API to load the sound and then just listening to 'time' events while the track plays to trigger scroll actions.
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The expectations are much higher now.
Yes, but if you're doing HPC idiomatic Python comes second to raw performance.
I keep getting it. Seriously people, STOP sending me email.
Apple Paid 24.2% Tax Rate, Not 9.8%
You are correct. Thanks for your pedantry, it _is_ appreciated, as I'm always looking to improve my english.
A knob also instantly tells you the current level (relative to minimum and maximum) and is very easy to adjust.
You already have Scala+Async IO+Netty, it's called play framework 2.0

http://www.playframework.org/
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I am surprised nobody here suggests that he should build a product out of this. Aren't we all in business of unemploying people?
They've been spying already.
No. While the subpoena itself is public record, the information turned over would not be.
No more "serving the technologist for <X years in scientific notation>" Sad to see Condé Nast has sucked the humor out of yet another site.
Etsy Seeks Scale without Losing Its 'Street Fair' Aesthetic
You should watch the video. They give concrete examples and code demos that are pretty compelling.

The Zelda-like game running across three screens separately and independently in the same game space was particularly inspiring.
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http://phpir.com is a good one. The blog claims to be on IR but has decent ML articles too.
Jaw-dropping.

Perhaps it's too late to predict that 2012 will be the year of realtime interaction, but between this, Meteor, Firebase, etc., not only are all the tools converging in that direction, but they all appear to be drop-dead easy to use.

Thank you for this. Is there an IRC channel or Google Group for questions?
You don't have to Flowers for Algernon your own productivity just because other folks working in the same firm, in the same industry, in the same country, whatever haven't caught on that computers are eating the world yet. There's nothing unethical about earning the lion's share of the bonus pool assuming the human-assisted script is, indeed, an acceptable substitute for elbow grease. (There are plausible reasons why it might not be but that isn't the way I'd bet.)

There's a common mindset on Reddit that I struggle to find a name for but I know it when I see it: "You're not a scumbag, but the gravy train will have to end eventually. Your company will likely catch on and make changes to the data entry process." The size of the pie is fixed, the allocations of the pie are controlled by other people, and a mouse who successfully steals a few crumbs from the pie is a) stealing and b) must guard his stolen crumbs against the predations of other mice.

That is a mindset I do not associate with rich people. I'd expect them to think something closer to "Now would be an excellent time to contact the decisionmaker at my client and propose restructuring their business process for a 20% discount to the total cost of everything right now."
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“What is Game Design?” with Soren Johnson
If it doesn't make much difference then you do it your way and I'll do it mine. What difference does it make? Plus, you can choose to indent however you wish so that's not much of a reason.

Personally, I just like the idea of opening and closing tags that clearly define what's going on in the markup.
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This is like Apple's App Store.
>I'm sitting in a chair as I write this. Nobody else has sat in this chair today. Am I on the cutting edge of research?

No, but you're on the cutting edge of straw-man argumentation trivializing.

Doing something that has been done very few times, or not ever, in a whole programming paradigm (building a game functionally)

is qualitatively and quantitatively different than:

doing something that has been done trivially for centuries just not in this particular day && by somebody else than you && in one piece of furniture you own (you sitting on a chair).

If you cannot understand this, I guess it makes no sense further arguing about it.
If I were a member of management, and I found out that he was doing this, I would be furious. Not because he gamed the system and received the bonuses, but because he didn't share his innovation with the rest of the team and improve everyones' efficiency. If he had done that, I would recognize his talent and initiative and promote him, allowing him to do more rewarding, higher-level work.
Thanks, really happy to hear it. We have a hipchat room (http://www.hipchat.com/gNs0OdqVJ) and a Simperium tag at StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/tags/simperium/).

You can also reach us at contact@simperium.com.
So how do you reply when the interviewer asks you why you left the previous job?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge has a bit on the languages.
I wasn't actually saying anything one way or the other about your project, I was just making the comment that there were discussions of doing this directly in CSS.
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Perhaps I am alone in this, but when I play a song I don't like the inline social comments that popup in their player. I wish I could create a cookie that disables them by default.
I agree. I think a business person would either tell his boss or find a way to start a business associated with automating similar data entry. A person who doesn't say anything and tries to "get theirs in the short run" will eventually lose out. It's not a huge ethical concern in my opinion, but it represents an unproductive attitude towards creating value/wealth that you identified perfectly in your post.
This is a good move. With the proliferation of Facebook apps there needed to be a better way to discover apps, especially ones that your social network is using. It is a social version of Apple's App Store.
"Am I reading this correctly that then these 20 people have their info in the public record after this trial closes?"

Allow me to venture a guess. At some time in the future the county will auction off its surplus assets (old computers). The computer with hard drive, data & all else will be sold to the highest/only bidder for about three bucks.

It is also possible that the county has data retention/destruction policy, in which case the county commissioner's brother-in-law will be paid on a contract basis to have his children / some migrant workers remove the drives and feed them into a tree shredder, and then sell the bits for scrap.

Here's hoping for option two.
Did you even try the demo? I'm using it on an iPad right now and it works great (with one finger even!).
I think there's a difficult decision to be made between making decent money working 8 hours per week and taking the risk of leveraging your skills to bump yourself up a level in a data-entry operation. Lacking details, the first scenario seems more attractive to me. I would encourage the OP to develop another money-making operation on the side while he has some free time.
No, but you won't earn the Royal Victorian Order either.
That is awesome and looks 300 times easier to implement than iCloud! I wish inClass had Simperium to sync across any device and the web.
In addition to Artur's point, I would affirm that yes, that is definitely the reason.

Every day without fail, there is a post in /r/relationship_advice that goes something like "My fiancee just sold my cat and wired all of my money to her secret boyfriend in Albertville. Am I right to be mad?".
Care to share any of the ones that stood out? I recently paid off my car and realized that paying off debts feels awesome. So I've switching into hardcore save mode so I can dump as much money per month on my student load as I can manage.

Food is one area in which I definitely need to cut down on my spending.
Absolutely priceless! This is an amazing product, and I can not start to imagine what developers are going to be able to do with this. Very exciting!
If there are other folks interested in using this approach, drop us a line. We're happy to try to help other startups make sense of their data.
Apparently developers will be able to charge fixed price for their apps: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/170047/Facebook_now_allows_de...

Wonder what this means for the App Center running on iOS?
Well, I'm sure it's easy to beat servlets with a load that requires only one thread with a simple enough computation model. Servlets (and any truly multithreaded solution) trades single-thread performance with the ability to scale with the number of cores. That's what I meant.

So I would think that given a heavy load on a many-core machine with interesting enough computations, nothing could beat servlets' performance.
Still cool, dude. Now do RAM by GB, filtered by type!
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This one is the best so far:

1. Works with any JavaScript library

2. You can write server-side logic

3. Operational Transformation baked in

Seriously I cannot find anything bad about this project. (I really wanted to.)

My questions:

1. Is the server side written in Python?

2. Is there offline support for JavaScript apps too?

(I tried this with my own library and I think it was a wrong direction -- it only made it more complicated than it should be)

3. How about relationships in JavaScript objects? How does that work? (I suppose it's all automatic in Core Data objects, but how about JavaScript?)

Thanks!
I agree. The first 20 or so times I heard about virtualenv my thought was, "this must be for the people stuck using windoze or OSX that can't just sudo apt-get install python-whatever." Now that my Ubuntu 10.04 install is getting a little outdated I have picked up virtualenv use, so as to have a nice container for more up-to-date python packages. It isn't for beginners though.

Also, I almost dismissed this whole blog post as just whining, until I saw the "How to draw an owl" graphic. Nice touch.
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Got it. You'll definitely be able to do that with a custom channel.
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He probably rightly senses that his boss wouldn't feel the way you hope you would. In fact I don't think most people would offer him a rational incentive at all.

If he saves the company $1 million a year are you actually going to cut him a $200k+ bonus? I'd be very doubtful of anyone who says they would.

Most people would give him $20k if they're especially generous and a pat on the head.
You're definitely not alone on that. There's been a lot of work put into a new model for inline comments -- now they're less 'noisy' and definitely create less visual clutter than before. On some tracks, users have completely filled the waveform with comments (looking at you, Skrillex fans...), but we've hopefully come up with something that still won't get in your way even in these extreme cases.
presumably it is management who nurtured the environment that lead to team members competing against each other for a slice of the bonus.

So though management might be furious, they should re-consider they should turn some of that fury on themselves(this never happens).
Also see: https://simperium.com/samples/
Well talk about an excellent way to show off your platform. It's really smooth, nice work.
1. Server side is all python (combination of tornado/gevent/zeromq)

2. We've experimented with it, we'll likely add it as an option in the future since there may be security concerns depending on the app.
I've had a couple of blog posts hit the front page for a few hours and they only got about 10,000 hits for the whole day. Not insignificant traffic, but it shouldn't be enough to take down a university website.
I'm very interested in the relationship between decolonization, liberalism, and the civil wars that raged through Latin America since then. Can you point me toward any good resources that tie those subjects together? I've been considering a country-by-country approach to the subject, but would really appreciate any resources that have a broader or more holistic look at the history of Latin American civil war.
suggestion: frequency domain instead of time domain. The waveform in time-domain doesn't really contain info, with a spectrum you can see lots of patterns, scroll to the section where the beat kicks in, look for vocals, ...
The mindset you speak of, using words like "client" and "contact the decision maker", is associated with people who are used to having a great deal more power and influence than somebody hired to be a data entry grunt.

The mindset may be useful for climbing out of the data entry grunt "class", but probably not for "fixing" his existing employer's practices. Someone on that level in a company of any substantial size is going to be ignored, disciplined, or outright fired for rocking the boat.
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For god's sake at LEAST put a towel over your head when recording a voice-over.
Everybody and their cross-stitching, jewelry-making mothers are raising money now. You'd think there was a bubble going on.
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Thanks! Can you please tell me something about the number 3. Sorry just edited it!
You're an expert in gold panning yet you need tools?
Am I a lazy for making a machine wash my dishes while I browse HN?

I agree with Laat, sounds like he should make it into a business/product.
The design is visually nice.

UX-wise... I never encounter controls like this, they don't look functional, and I wouldn't necessarily be likely to click one in the wild.
Link to my comment on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq/reddit_my_f...
God is just. There is a system of credits.

God says...
C:\Text\2CITIES.TXT

the mail to the summit of the hill.
The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to
skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let
the passengers in.

"Tst! Joe!" cried the coachman in a warning voice, looking down
from his box.

"What do you say, Tom?"

They both listened.

"I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe."

"_I_ say a horse at a gallop, Tom," returned the guard, leaving
his hold of the door, and mounting nimbly to his place.
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Wha?

God says...
C:\Text\SWIFT.TXT

ose in the great royal park, the tops
whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched. The other
vegetables are in the same proportion; but this I leave to the
reader's imagination.

I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for
many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them: but
their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the
left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the
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This might be a bit weird (and OT), but when I visit the that site, it looks up my local server.

> [Thu May 10 10:17:59 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/jquery.tablesorter.min.js, referer: http://www.getpebble.com/
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"Sorry, your IP address shows you are coming from a country that requires us to block access to this particular site."

Is .at now on the axis of evil?
Unless you have nothing to offer him, which is often the case for many layers of management. In which case, he's screwed.

There are reasons people do not take initiative in certain very bureaucratic positions and organizations. Sometimes, it is not rewarded -- in fact, it is punished.

Any decision (e.g. whether to tell management) needs to be made with a good deal of contextual awareness.

I hate to sound like a party-pooper, but speaking from experience...

P.S. I'll add: He's already found the built-in reward. It sounds like it's a significant amount of bonus money, plus effectively a very light workload. What are they going to offer him that improves upon that? How high up in management would one need to go to find authority for such a decision/spend? How many layers of management do you think separate his data entry position from a manager with that authority?

P.P.S. OTOH, if they are not entirely brain dead (and who knows?), metrics will eventually cause them to investigate. So, enjoy it while it lasts, and maybe consider whether he can turn eventual exposure to his advantage. (And if metrics don't attract attention, that's a pretty good sign he is indeed dealing with a brain dead organization.)

/cynicism
They do make sense, they are and have been the standard for years, and even the new generation understands what they do, in almost every case.
The floppy disk icon has always frustrated me. Though I still haven't seen a great replacement. Would love to see this list with more thoughtful options to use instead.
Apple: App Store

Google: Android Marketplace

Facebook: App Center

If you take all combinations of similes for "App" and "Store/Market/Center/Hub" and trademark all of them, I wonder if some random company could become a trademark troll.
That's another interesting place to draw the line, though -- self-preservation, or at least protection of your own industry.

Arguably this could be justified the same way you would justify refusing to support drug dealers, even though you disagree with the War on Some Drugs. Your only justification for turning down such business (as I understand it) is that you can't accept the risk of having the whole company shut down by law enforcement. Not many people would take you to task for that reasoning, I suspect, and it would be easy to dismiss those who do.

It's easy to argue that software patents carry the same existential threat as law enforcement would. At first blush it seems reasonable to write this into your TOS: I agree that I will not assert any patent claims as a non-practicing entity. I agree that my account with lessannoyingcrm.com will be terminated without recourse if I assert any such claims in a court of law, or threaten to do so.

The problem is, you've only narrowed your ethical dilemma -- you haven't eliminated it. What if the patent troll in question was instead offering to buy your company for 100x revenue? What if the patent troll in question was (e.g.) Google or Apple? Would you have the fortitude to tell them to pound sand then? Google may be a good example, in fact, because they've probably already found it necessary (or soon will) to threaten other companies like Microsoft and Oracle with patents that they don't practice, but have purchased for defensive purposes.

If you had turned down the patent troll's business, you would indeed have found yourself in an even murkier ethical swamp, so in that sense you did the right thing. Out of all of the entrepreneurs I've known in a long career spent in and around small companies, I only know one founder with the personal fortitude to tell a patent troll to get bent. I don't expect to meet any others, because I'm not sure you can build a large, successful company around strong personal convictions in the general case.
It's funny how muscle memory is. I just instinctively went for Ctrl 20 years on!
I cannot comment for deelowe, but every time in the past I've seen such a wide difference for such a simple benchmark, there was some methodology problem. After all, for such a simple benchmark, most of your time is spent in the OS.

It's possible vert.x really is that much faster, but given history I'm reserving judgement. I.e. until profiles and root cause(s) become available.
The idea that people don't know what a cog or a wrench is seems like the author is taking this a step too far. I wouldn't call those things "shrouded in mystery".

Similarly there are still plenty of microphones that look like that, they're professional microphones, not "old fashioned" ones.
There was a discussion on stackoverflow that talks about it
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019573/save-icon-still-a...
How could you possibly associate an object with an action without first intimately knowing the object's function?

And when did we all get rid of wrenches? I didn't get that memo.
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The authors of the papers are also copyright holders.I believe this is worth pointing out: Elsevier is not offering some irreplaceable service by having a web server. Their value mostly lies in setting up the journal review teams and process, and making sure they live up to their standards.
Very cool! What a great way to show off the RubyMotion REPL. Maybe this will encourage some folks to buy a license who were on the fence about it.
I'll take number 3. Core Data one-to-many relationships are indeed handled automatically. On the JavaScript side, you'll see these relationships reflected in both directions using unique identifiers, but you need to interpret them accordingly. This is pretty straightforward using collections in libraries like Backbone.js.
This discourse goes beyond the anachronistic references indicated by these icons and calls into question our entire system of interface metaphors. At one point in time imagining the information stored on your computer as a system of "files" and "folders" was pivotal in transitioning a society from the physical world to the digital one. Now that the transition is largely complete and many people are coming of age who have never known a world without computers, its time to move beyond anachronistic metaphors. We must discover new means of interaction that take advantage of the unique features of the digital medium.
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I have a handset in my house.

Envelopes are still used for lots of things. I still get mail.

I use screwdrivers pretty often, and I have access to wrenches.

I recognize the old microphones from movies (and even if I didn't, they look similar to newer mics.)

I've also used a polaroid in the past 5 years.

I've also seen TV sets with "rabbit ears" in the past 5 years.

The others I'm at least familiar with.
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I am on a tablet, so everything is a pain. Here are links to some notes to myself that I made with at least some of what I found:

http://talithamichele.posterous.com/dollar-a-day-websites

http://talithamichele.posterous.com/more-dollar-a-day-sites

http://talithamichele.posterous.com/hungry-for-a-month-and-b...
The article began with an introduction to what could have been a really great dialogue. Why do those who didn't experience the inspiration for icons still inherently understand them? Yet it dropped that in favor of the same schtick for each icon.
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This is fantastic. It might solve the issue of low quality apps on Facebook, and it's awesome to see that they're using their knowledge on who their users are in developer analytics - that's something Apple can't provide.
Or he could simply be replacing himself with no reward.

Oh, you've automated it? Thanks. Bye.