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How is that statement good PR or good for recruiting?
If you are talking about Gallery the abysmal Android photo viewing app-attempt, I wouldn't lump that in with your list of impressive technical achievements. I hope you are referring to the web album builder or something else.
I'd be interested to know how he's doing on the other pledges he's made.
Why do you think mortgages are reasonable? With a little luck, you give half your life's earnings to a bank. Much better to rent, save up cash, and buy property outright when you can.
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Where did you dream up the idea that interns work 60hrs a week?
An honest question: Why is wireless broadcast of electricity physically impossible?
That's not true; many of us still use Emacs and Vi and do remember package names.
Tennyson once defended Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh's notoriously tempestuous marriage by noting that "By any other arrangement, four people would have been unhappy instead of two".
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And I assume those 50% Lenovos were in the MacBook Pro price range? Meaning, just the Xs?
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I wrote a very similar blog post a few years ago when I first encountered the same fact:

http://mark.reid.name/iem/warning-high-dimensions.html

Thanks to the comments, I learned this is a common warning, used in at least three textbooks.
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There must not be much going on in the world right now. So many headlines have similar grandiose statements recently. The valley is not dead. There are future disruptive companies being ran by two guys in a garage all over silicon valley. Sadly, you have to have the foresight to wait five years while they build momentum. There's never not a next big thing.
This one: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3996652
Actually, I want to amend that a little bit.
Rocket city, spaceport, JPL, etc., I feel space travel is on the same precipice that tcp/ip and compuserve were in the 80's. The next 20 years will be fun.
I made a vow to myself to never reply to a comment that used both "tactics" and "strategy" in the same sentence, but here goes...

Why should programming be any different? The very best IDEs in the hands of a skilled programmer should produce code better than a similarly skilled programmer who insists on using a dumb text editor. If the resulting code can only effectively be modified by a similar computer/human team - well that's a small price to pay.

That's true, but show me an IDE that lets someone write better code than someone without the IDE. The reality is that IDEs provide very superficial features that help beginners be more productive, but don't help experienced programmers much. (The most cited feature, symbol completion with docstrings, is available in pretty much every text editor. It's nice confirmation that your mental model matches the tags table, but hardly essential.)

All I can say is: Java got a lot easier for me when I stopped trying to make Eclipse useful. It turns out that Eclipse doesn't really do anything except sleep(5) after every keystroke.
At first I thought this title was linking to an article about classic car restoration.
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In the same boat as you are. The bank that I work for is outsourcing very heavily to India and East Europe.
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This thread really is an embarrassment. Ugh.
People like to name-drop to show that they're "in" a certain community. If you know and hate Ulrich Drepper, you're cool, because you hang out in the glibc community. Even better if you know where he works, that means you probably know him in real life, tripling your coolness.

Of course, when explained, it doesn't quite sound as cool... but I assure, the OP is very cool indeed...
User event aggregation using MongoDB
http://www.shrikar.com/blog/2012/05/20/designing-apis-for-aggregation-of-user-events/
My gmail's not working right. -- Hahahaha. I hear this all the time.
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Any comments appreciated..
Ask HN: Coding speed
Hello All,

I realize that I am not coding very fast. (49 wpm only). I am using only two fingers (index for characters and thumb for coding). I wish to increase my typing speed. If any one has made an app that helps people practice over text, give statistical information with correct finger to be used for each letter or anything close to my description, please provide me the url for it.

thanks.
If you can't talk about a prenup without ruining things, was your relationship stable and mature enough for a marriage?
Sure, although it's not an "instead". Let me explain.

No, it would take too long. Let me summarize.

If you look at high-dimensional cubes it's pretty obvious that the corners get further and further away from the center as the dimension goes up. People (quite rightly) feel that this can be visualized as taking an ordinary 3D cube and tugging on the corners, stretching them out and thus making them "spikey".

With spheres, though, there are no corners, so people think they remain "smooth". Which they do, in a sense, but that leads to the wrong intuition. Lopping off a high-dimensional spherical cap gives you virtually no volume at all, and in our 3D world the shape that is as symmetrical as you can make it, but which when you chop it off, has almost no volume, is a spike.

Add to that these comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997551 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997681

These allude to the fact that when you've on the surface of a high-dimensional sphere, almost every step takes you out. Getting into the interior is like trying to get into the interior of a spike from its tip.

Does that help?
Allow me to join with PG in congratulating you on a great snappy comeback. Ignore the haterz, PG gets it worse and you wouldn't believe the ones I get.
Have you got any references there?

A quick google suggest at least one supercarrier has 280,000hp split across 4 engines. I'd love to read up on something that makes 70,000hp in the volume of a trash bin.
Excellent point. Fortunately, at least in this case, we can resolve the issue somewhat by taking a screenshot and linking it: http://imgur.com/zdUDf

(Edit: cr4zy already addressed this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997613)

(On a similar note, I've done some online math contests that gave the problems in Word .doc format. Once, on a collaborative contest, OpenOffice was not sufficient; there were images that got misaligned or didn't even display. I took the documents, sent them to an online Word -> PDF converter, and posted the results to the shared email account "for great justice". Things like not having Word should not be barriers to doing math contests.)
Dis-allowing links like this seems extreme. I think appending something like "[requires facebook]" to the title as a matter of etiquette would work.

As a kind of loose analogy, no one really has problems with links to pdfs, but you don't need to have a pdf reader to sign up for HN (and I often see the "[pdf]" notice appended to such links).
Trust aside, people who truly love each other and are honest with each other sometimes do get into a relationship ending fight or stop feeling the spark they once did and break up. If two people know each other deeply enough to get married, their communication is hopefully open enough to be able to have a rational discussion about anything, including prenups, without hurting the other by bringing it up. After such discussion, if they come to the decision that the existence of the prenup would psychologically decrease the success rate of their marriage, they are welcome not to enter into such an agreement. But if they don't feel that that's the case, it makes a lot of logical sense to have one.

Disclaimer: I'm not married, and I honestly don't know which camp I'll fall into.
> So 'pointy' cubes reasons out the 'paradoxes'
> without resorting to 'spikey' spheres.

See elsewhere why this comment misses the really important bits that relate to machine learning and high-dimensional visualizations.

In particular, this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3998259
And now you are doing for DR vs. SJ what Forbes did for the other two!
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It may not be about the money. If Prescilla has played a major role in making Facebook the $100B company then its OK. However there is no point splitting the company in half, because she was married to the founder. There is no need to demonize prenups here.
A month ago, Kyle Sluder proposed a namespacing system for Objective-C[1]. There has been a lively discussion both in the comments and on the objc-language mailing list[2].

1: http://www.optshiftk.com/2012/04/draft-proposal-for-namespac...

2: http://lists.apple.com/archives/objc-language/2012/Apr/msg00...
Actually, WikiPedia comes through:

"The HPFTP is a three-stage centrifugal pump driven by a two-stage hot-gas turbine. It boosts the pressure of the liquid hydrogen from 1.9 to 45 MPa (276 to 6,515 psia), and operates at approximately 35,360 rpm with a power of 71,140 hp. "

I'll keep hunting for dimensions. Thanks for the tip-off to another interesting Sunday nights trawl through the internet…
Two things in particular.

Firstly, if you stand on the surface and chop off a cap, it has almost no volume. Secondly, if you step in a random direction, you'll be outside, not inside, the sphere. These are almost equivalent if consider a ball around your current location - almost none of it intersects the sphere.

In our 3D world this are characteristics of a spike, not of a sphere, so thinking of high-dimensional spheres as spikey helps stop you from making natural mistakes driven by otherwise perfectly good visualization abilities.
Yes, Galois is also a great example of fictionalization. "Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois" http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~trothman/galois.html
Panic Software already blogged about theirs and it's just as awesome: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldandersen/3272600774/
I live in France (altough im not french so really miss tv shows in english) and see this nice message:

"We're sorry but This video is not available in your region due to rights restriction"

Some people really just don't get the internet! well... i am going to have to look for sites that "offer" this video
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that first image looks like the old munching square effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching_square
Right. Unfortunately, especially in Africa, the --- and --- religions are fighting their war of who can produce more children.
How do you know they signed the marriage paperwork? A wedding isn't a paperwork party and CA isn't a common law marriage state.
It's impressive, but a fairly standard technology for launchers to have. The Space Shuttle did the same thing five times: main engines would ignite at T-6.6 seconds, and there was a brief window until the solid rockets ignited at T-0 when sensors could safely shut down the main engines. Four times it was done at T-3, the remaining time at T-1.9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#Space...
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About 2.5 years ago, I went through the exact same thing. I managed to survive an ascending aortic dissection, and the resultant 11 hours of emergency open heart surgery.

post-surgery, my RBC count was abysmal. Simply walking would cause an intense headache. I feared it would never improve, and that I would be stupid forever.

but I did.
Despite the accepted answer saying to use bundle unloading, please don't. It may be supported in theory but in practice unloading a bundle leaves all kinds of opportunities for stale pointers and crashing.
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Latest repost was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3426699, 4 months ago.

hackertyper.net seems to be offline now.
Strange sounds. Funny mystery or fake?
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Ok. In what way is this Hacker News?
Taking money from everyone to fund science... could be argued, I suppose. Taking money from successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to fund government science would be merely stupid. In other words, what I object to about the parent comment is the notion that the U.S. government could possibly, possibly, be better-intentioned and wiser in practice, on average in real life, than the winners of the great startup contest.
> I happened to be up late last night and saw they were webcasting the launch, which I watched. I was surprised at how excited I was by the whole thing TBH.

I also watched the webcast, and few years ago I used to get up in the middle of the night to watch Space Shuttles take off and land live on NASA TV streams. It always was exciting to me. The awe and wonder of technology we use to send things into space, the joy of a successful launch, and (in case of Shuttles) the worry for the crew, because as you watched live you never knew if they'll launch/land safely or end up as a big fireball.

To quote a song[1] about the first Shuttle launch,

"Excitement so thick you could cut it with a knife
Technology...high, on the leading edge of life"

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Rush_song)
Could be a Slovenian thing :) I pronounce it that way, but it could be entirely possible that it's spelled "Rakija" (wouldn't know, I'm not a big fan of the drink :)).
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The other way around as well.

High population growth causes slow economic growth /per capita/ (because the available income is distributed among more people).

In the book "Poor Economics" the authors show how poor parents tent to invest most resources they have in only child's education. All the other children get much less education and therefore only low paying jobs, thus remain poor. Less population growth would have a direct positive economic effect on the society's average level of education.

High population growth is also very expensive in terms of public services, you need to build more schools, hospitals, police, etc. All that investment in /quantity/ prevents you from investing it in /quality/.
Martyr yourself? Your comment basically says "Obama isn't black enough, and he's a Muslim, but not enough of one." It's so far removed from reality that it's hard to even think of a response other than "flag for craziness". You didn't get downvoted for saying something controversial, you got downvoted for stringing a bunch of incoherent half-thoughts together.

And yeah, the top comment is pretty good.

You seem very bitter about something that would not make any normal person bitter. It's been several years since that comment. Move on.
If you can talk about leaving your partner with nothing, are you in a marriage-caliber relationship?
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That's not an analogy. Anybody with a computer can get a PDF reader without giving your information to a third party. There many PDF readers, not just one.

I vote for disallowing links that require login for the reasons explained in grand parent's comment.
I'd be really impressed if they open sourced SecDB/Slang.
This is a great post, itsprofitbaron. Thank you!

I will follow your advice and build something i am interested in (and expand my programming knowledge). Good luck with your ventures!
HN isn't the place for facetiousness.
I still think it's a better value. Actually, I just use a nearby computer because those are free and can charge many devices at once.
I can understand the reaction on this community to the news, and I'm sure that there are elements of PR and recruitment strategy here, but I happen to know that the primary driver is pretty sound; job satisfaction for top employees.

Goldmans has its share of top programmers and, like any company, is keen to retain them. One of these people made contributing to Open Source a major goal for last year.

Well done to him, and well done to GS for supporting him. The company (rightly) gets a ton of bad press, but that doesn't mean it can't do good things as well.

Disclaimer: I'm an ex GS employee, but have nothing to gain.
Best Tesla reading I've found is Mark Seifer's book "Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla". The audio book is excellent as well. Gives great insight into Tesla's personality and many events in history and the people around him.
I'm not referring to "it's good practice to test your code". I mean, TDD aka. writing tests to fail, then writing code to make the tests pass. Specifically, behavior driven testing, not just TDD.
usually a different websocket port. not what you wanted to hear i guess :|.
"the pressure starts to build when your a public company."

Oh, really? What are they going to do with 40% of the stock while MZ has 60%?

Maybe they will fire him and he wont be able to feed his family. It must be so stressful.
Chrome has gone a long way to alleviate my issues with PDFs, but a lot of people still absolutely do have problems with links to those - to the point that Scribd was successfully launched. As for FB, it has much worse penetration than PDFs, which are still near the pain threshold for general news.
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It's nice when things are explained well for novices, and I think this article does it very well. However, I found this one to be a bit incomplete near the end:

The input string : beep boop beer!

The input string in binary : 0110 0010 0110 0101 0110 0101 0111 0000 0010 0000 0110 0010 0110 1111 0110 1111 0111 0000 0010 0000 0110 0010 0110 0101 0110 0101 0111 0010 0010 0001

The encoded string : 0011 1110 1011 0001 0010 1010 1100 1111 1000 1001

This makes the encoding look much more effective on small strings than it really is. Namely, just like you need an ASCII table to convert the first byte (0110 0010) from the input string to a "b" (but virtually every computer has an ASCII table - or a font - somewhere!), you need the huffman table, stored in some efficient way, to be able to interpret the compressed string. Storing (and reading) a huffman table size-efficiently isn't perfectly trivial either, and no matter what it would blow up the "compressed" string to be bigger than the original.

In other words, IMHO this article only explained half of what Huffman coding is about.
Same here in Spain. Some people live in the last century.
Wait, won't you be seen as too indispensible to promote to the corner office?
While much of what you say is true, it seems to me to miss the main point of the article. It feels like you've read the first part about the sphere inside the other spheres, but not read the rest that talks about the other reasons a sphere is "spikey".

You say:

> It's not the spheres that are "spikey", the cubes are.

It's true that cubes are spikey, but it's in an obvious and easy to visualize sense. Take an ordinary 3D cube, stretch out the corners and you've got the idea.

The reason high-dimensional spheres are "spikey" is more subtle, harder to visualize, and easy to get wrong when working in machine learning. I've now explained it in several replies in this thread, clearly I need to go back and revise the original to try to forestall this mis-reading.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997551

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997681

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3998259

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997215

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3998259
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Is Haskell suffering from a research language problem where the only things considered valuable are things that can be made into papers, i.e. only new additions?
> How can any guy beat IPO + married in two days?

IPO and not married?
I'm far from an expert, but I agree with veteran programmers who say that typing speed and coding speed are not related.

If you're refactoring, you may be deleting and reworking code, not typing at full speed. Sometimes you have to stop and think through your code to make sure you're not making mistakes.

For a typing speed, 49 WPM is pretty good, especially for 2-finger typing. If you want to improve your typing speed, there are lots of programs - Mavis Beacon was one from 20 years ago, newer and better typing programs likely exist today.
This is an annoying behaviour, but it is consistent with Python's design . It is not exactly caused by broken closure, rather by the object model of python, and how named are bounds to objects. While this does not make it less annoying, it explains why the difference between using x vs x.val is logical from python POV.
Namespaces don't really solve that problem, do they?. Your options are to either fork SBJson and give it its own namespace/prefix, or require SBJson as an external dependency and lets your users provide their own version of the framework.
Yes, but why? Actually, it's No, because python culture aims to use one way to do thing, the least surprising one. In this case it's:

def f(x=None): if x is None: x = []
Parse do this with their SDK, which requires Facebook Connect: all Facebook classes are prefixed "PF_".
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The formal definition may mean 'possession', but English doesn't always work like that. Sometimes we say or write things that depend on the context/geography/community for the true meaning. It's not black and white.

Also, I think tersiag was stressing the person for which he wore a suit, not that he wore a suit for HIS woman (instead of someone else's woman).
Yes, but that's a flag that our library's users would have to figure out how to add to their project. And if they forget to, it would create crashes at runtime. That's not a can of worm we were willing to open.
Place 1 on the front page of hacker news? WTF?
I'm not trolling, maybe I didn't understand your question. The shortcut to go to viewport from the address entry bar is Tab, at least in Chrome. Maybe I don't understand what you mean by "viewport"?
Strawman. A prenup doesn't mean "leaving your partner with nothing".
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I'm on chapter 4 now. Started with UC Berkeley video lectures but switched to MIT ones. They follow the book more closely.
It also reminds me of http://www.jasondavies.com/hamming-quilt/ where the Hamming distance is used.
I guess this question is very subjective and might start a troll, I am turning this into a kind poll so, that ppl can up-vote their choice.
I find that an irritating pain with scala, actually. I move a file from one directory to another, then spend ten minutes trying to figure out why lift still can't find the class, before the facepalm moment where I realise I didn't change the package declaration in the file.
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It's surprising that setting up your own servers on EC2 works out to be cheaper than using CloudFront. Is Amazon just not doing a very good job of charging their real costs, or is HTTP/1.1 pipelining such a big win that this actually works out in EC2's favor here?
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> We've never received a dime of money for it from anyone

"Fuck you. Pay me" - Mike Monteiro.