skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean like sunglasses?
> I.e. I suspect that those using 4 or tabs also use long lines.

Not really, I think length of indentation affects the length of the line only if there is a lot of nesting. For HTML I use 2 spaces as I know there is going to be a lot of nesting, whereas in JS, not so much, so 4 spaces works perfectly for me. Also, in JS, chained function calls be aligned on multiple lines which makes it more readable as well.
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I used to think I can tell fixes that require one line of code edit. But after having worked on couple of somewhat complicated projects, even the smallest of edits often impact at least some other system and even if they do not, because of the possibility that they may, you have to do rigorous QA. So yes, while this could easily be a 10 second fix for a new product with few users; facebook likely spent several hours to implement a fix for this,
The 90s represented a period of growing pains where the industry was scaling its budgets and team sizes very quickly and, for the most part, didn't have any processes in place to deal with scale or to maintain a codebase for the long term - why would they, when up until that point, games usually shipped within a year or less, and the technology changed with almost every project?

Today the picture is still varied, but engineering practices have generally improved - for example, daily standups are popular with many studios now, there's a corpus of books and lectures about how to architect an engine or various subsystems, etc. A lot of today's commonplace material was being put into production for the first time then, and was previously only known in some other context - research, high-end graphics and simulation, etc.

In current AAA the bottlenecks mostly lie with the art and design teams. Programmers still have plenty to do, but they're also quite frequently building on old technology that has some roots in the 90s - which entails a whole different set of problems.
Yep. I am learning a lot about box-shadow, but I won't be making iPhones with it!
Not only that but it's 10 times easier with Homebrew. So it's an incorrect article imo. Shouldn't make the frontpage. Especially with that title.
It's to teach you CSS3 techniques, with a whimsical demonstration.
The "manufacturing things entirely using software" dream died a little for me after I looked at Michal Zalewski's labor of love, the giant "Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting"[1]. The amount of variables in meatspace that you have to account for (that I simply had no clue about) was mind-boggling.

[1]: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
He says the hyperloop is kind of electrical, ground level, supersonic concord plane.

So maybe it is a kind of bullet train riding on the shockwave. But he must confine this shockwave somehow(if he want´s supersonic at ground level with out neighbors burning it down) , maybe with a tube?. Maybe this tube could provide the support for the solar panels, stabilize the flight of the "train"(using the shockwave to steer it?) and storage the energy as a kind of capacitor... This way you don´t need an actual very expensive sealed tube with vacuum in it , just some metal plates with enough form to deflect(and mute) the waves once the "plane" passes...(and serve as capacitors too).

I am guessing all this with just one sentence so it must be way off :).

Thanks to spaceX and Tesla he has more knowledge now of electrical engines, electricity storage and transport, high energy aerodynamics, etc... it must be something that combines all that somehow..
So damn true: "Necessity the mother of building cool stuff"
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> On the other hand, MIT did somewhat cultivate an exclusive attitude among its students-- particularly the undergrads. During my time there, I felt there was a pervasive strain of "We're the best in the world..." getting shaded into "...therefore nobody else is any good."

When I was in the military there was always a few officers from the service academy that liked reminding you that they were "special", we called them "ring knockers". Never encountered that 'tude from MIT grads until one day I showed up for work where we had very limited park slots. A very nice sports car with custom plates "MIT" was occupying four spaces. The driver shortly received a small interoffice envelope that morning with four valve stems and a business card to a local garage.
I see a ghost in the smallest kid apart from the others in the hill. Changed positions between filters.
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I can confirm this. Arabic TLDs and hostnames stay Arabic for me.
In the book "The Paypal Wars", an account of the almost complete history of Paypal through the eyes of one of its employees, Elon Musk is painted as a stubborn, semi-ass. According to the book, when he was assigned as CEO after the merger, he wanted among other things, to replace the Paypal brand with the X.com brand. The whole company saw this as a bad idea because a lot of people knew and trusted friendly Paypal but not weird, porn-sounding X.com, but Elon apparently didn't care and just wanted "his" brand X.com to be the main look of the company, even after a lot of discussions and metrics showing this could end the company.

He ended up being replaced as CEO after a vote because of this whole debacle.

It's the only description of Musk that I've read in which he is painted in a negative way. Keep in mind the author might be biased against Elon because Elon was CEO of X.com which was "the enemy" of Paypal.
Americans don't walk around being sad, unless something bad happens to be sad about. In fact, sad Russians look stupid wearing sad-face all the time.
> pass: the standard unix password manager

Can a crappy script be more pretentious?
This might become my favorite blog ever.
http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-exper...

Google did some research on this with their datacenters. There is apparently no correlation between heat & diskfailures.
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If I'm learning a new language, the very first thing I want to see is Hello World. It lets me see the basic syntax. Introducing a simple variable and if statement comes next. You pretty much have to start here before you can start creating.
I just don't understand why there should be female only events. It should be a beginners class, regardless of sex.

Making divides just feels odd
Well people need to stop writing code specifically for IE and just stick to web standards. If Google/Facebook/PayPal/All Banks stopped coding hacks to get their sites to work in IE, the users that use IE would have no other choice but to switch to a standards compliant web browser.
Early photos had very long exposures, with clamps used to hold people still. That may have set the expected look for a long time later.
It's hard to believe but Google merchant accounts still aren't available outside of the UK and USA. Even Stripe is still USA only.
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Will this affect debugging under node.js, or just browsers? (Googling doesn't seem to make this clear.)
Have you tried looking at the top of the page? It even has a photo of him.
I think Hebrew dietary restrictions may be more instructively viewed as a mechanism to enforce group cohesion than as a primer on suggested health practices. It is difficult to mix with other groups when you cannot eat with them. Matrilineal line of descent serves the same function. Children fathered by in-group men with women outside the group are simply excluded, while in-group women face censure for the same behavior. There are structural reasons why Jewish culture has remained distinct in diaspora, while many other disjoint populations are absorbed by host populations over time.
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Not true! Many in the charter-cities movement got into it as a way to help poor people in the third world who cannot emigrate to first-world countries. The movement was largely the result of an analysis of third-world poverty that blames third-world governments for not creating "institutions" or "frameworks promoting trust and cooperation" its citizens can use to work their way out of poverty.
Did you read the fucking article? The application began as a simple CLI for executing JS, and had underscore as its standard library. So it was a CLI for underscore. Then they made it JSON focused.
IMO one is trying to do with karma what Google are doing with SERP positions - reward valuable content.

If you do what they've done and personalise results then gaming the system becomes a lot harder; the only real way to win has to become producing quality content.

Metrics such as rank, average, sd, account age, up & downvotes could be combined by the reader in order to personalise story listing and comment rank/display on the story page.

That way if I want to reward a persons comments with a karma boost for average comment karma I can do so, but you could just do upvotes or just rank on inverse of downvotes or whatever.

This way the site users generate competing algorithms, algorithms will be adjusted and 'evolve' to generate the prefered ranking of comments. Those who dont want to write one can pick a recommended or default algo.

If user written algos are too expensive to use (though I'm thinking it would be client side in js) then a selection of algos could be offered by the site.
As the article mentions, the next big step will be access to the debug console.
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This conflicts with the sibling comment where the analogy is that the teacher is expecting a particular answer.

Think I'll have to find a proper mathematical treatment of the process ... anyone recommend a link, wikipedia didn't do it for me.
Doesnt this mean that it youve got slower hardware then youll always lose at finding the next number?
I saw a hi-res version of this film two days ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeF4HXCq5z0. It was almost anachronical. Low res. jittery black and white movies makes everything look obsolete.
Yep, this is correct, at least to my knowledge.
... using the new 3.5ish seccomp-bpf.
If I walk away from my desk for a minute or two, and someone points my browser at my bank [...]

To do that someone would already have to have typed your OS password to unlock your screen, right? If you're in the habit of leaving your system unlocked when you're not around it, you're already inviting someone to install a keylogger.
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Huh. I guess the benefit is increasing the resolution while improving light sensitivity by removing the filter. For a couple of years, manufacturers tried to increase resolution size by packing more sensor elements (which end up as image pixels) on the same area, leading to a higher resolution. This ended up making each sensor element smaller, thus reducing light sensitivity.

So this is quite cool. I have to wonder, though, that even if you don't affect light sensitivity, if a higher resolution is going to be very useful. For instance, the glass you put in front of the sensor might affect sharpness in a way that 3x 18 MP won't look better than a Bayer pattern in front of 18 MP. Does anybody know how much light a Bayer filter eats?
Not sure if you're aware, but the Tony Stark character from the IronMan movie was actually based off of Elon Musk!

Edit: source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Interests
> You don't need any changes in hardware for this, you can use memory mapped files.

That still triggers the OS drivers on the other end which has to go through the same complicated drivers to read blocks into RAM before mapping them into the process, so it's nowhere comparable to what he's proposing.

Flash on the main bus would mean the only thing a read would go through would be the MMU page translation, then straight to either the flash chips or the flash controller, without being bottlenecked by passing through other parts of the system.

And that bottleneck is already real - I have SSD setups at works that are pretty much maxing out the PCIe bus on those servers, and they're not even that expensive (as long as you want performance, not large amounts of storage).

Now, there are still challenges, not least that either you're still talking to a flash controller rather than directly to the flash chips, or you have to handle wear levelling etc. yourself if you want to do writes. Both have disadvantages.

Some embedded systems do talk straight to the flash chips themselves and handle the wear levelling directly - I once put Linux on a BIOS-less x86 system with flash directly on the main bus where the "bootloader" did the equivalent of a memcpy to copy the kernel into a suitable location, set up some very basic stuff and jumped to it, and where the "disk" used an FTL (flash translation layer) driver that handled wear levelling in the kernel code.
Franklin Autobiography:
http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Benjamin-Franklin-Illust...

Franklin Biography by Isaacson
http://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Franklin-ebook/dp/B000FBJG4U
Why does the link lead to AllThingsD ?!?!?!?!?

either point to the YouTube video itself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8

or to the show page at http://foundation.kr

Don't give News Corp the traffic it doesn't deserve.
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Yeah I noticed this too.

Sadly there also seems to be an emphasis on style and tone, instead of the content of the message.
Pork production in the United States is monitored and tapeworm free. You're much safer eating American pork than you are eating fish.

As noted in the article, the discussion is about human to human spread of this parasite. The solution there is even simpler, though more difficult: wash your hands regularly and thoroughly.
Yes, but google ran all their drives within the specs of the drives (right?). So making sure that your drive is within the specs seems prudent.
I use what is essentially Smart Tabs¹ (tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment) in JavaScript, and pure spaces in LiveScript/Coco, which complain when you mix.

¹ http://www.emacswiki.org/SmartTabs
With 1Password, you don't even have to click. You can just use the Command+\ shortcut in any browser, enter your 1Password password, press enter, and have 1P autofill and login.
You really want to play with physics/math with ECMA 262? O_O (hint JS knows nothing of integers)
Floats are way to slow (and faulty when div/mul are called) compared to int to do anything serious.
All 3D engines tricks are about doing complex math with integers (EDIT: or other tricks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overvi...)
Not the most on point headline, but hey, it worked. Thanks for linking this, I don't think I would have come across it otherwise. Video can be found at http://vimeo.com/4105144 && the album is more easily downloaded from the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/zero124 than it is from the site the OP linked.
Ouya had a ceiling: in the beginning there were a limited number of rewards on every tier shipping hardware. But most projects would probably do what Ouya did: keep increasing the ceiling amount, giving the impression of scarcity to drive demand.
Of course it's a joke.
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Well, it must be working for the guys at Buffer because it's brilliant software. I use it for my clients and my own projects.

Buffer is to social media as MailChimp is to email marketing. It's that good. Keep it up!
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If you enjoyed those and don't know who Albert Kahn is, you should also check out:

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/photos.html

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/about.html

There's a small museum in Paris dedicated to his work (situated on the grounds of Kahn's old estate no less) which is a wonderful experience if you're ever in Paris and looking for something cultural to do that's a bit off the beaten track. It's on the end of the metro line and is an oasis of calm compared to the typical Louvre pandemonium :)

Edit: found the link to the museum: http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/english/
Agreed. Sanitation practices that seem obvious in the developed world assume infrastructure not available in many other areas. People who live in these places are not stupid, and I, for one, am glad that my morning ritual doesn't involve hauling fresh water from a mile away.
Why would you post a link to an example using floats then? I mean sure, part of the trick involves treating the float as an integer but the number is still meant to be interpreted as a float.

Your assumptions about speed might be true for something like a Nintendo DS which doesn't have a floating point unit but a 3DS does, a vectorised one no less. Also in Javascript integers that can fit into 32 bits are actually integers nowadays.

All in all, I believe your information is outdated.
'On the other hand, MIT did somewhat cultivate an exclusive attitude among its students-- particularly the undergrads. During my time there, I felt there was a pervasive strain of "We're the best in the world..." getting shaded into "...therefore nobody else is any good."'

Really? I never ever felt that way during undergrad. I interacted with many grad students and every single one seemed more capable than I would ever be at their field (not self deprecating, just a true statement). While I would like to speak on behalf of all MIT students to say that this isn't likely, I can fully see this happening in small social circles. Maybe I got lucky, but I just never really saw this happen or felt that way towards grad students.

While interacting with some Harvard students, I definitely felt like I was the "lower pedigree" though. This is probably due more to the Cambridge rivalry than anything else though.

MIT is a pretty stressful place for grads and undergrads a like. Sometimes social skills aren't necessarily placed at the top of the list when there are many PSets, Exams, and other items above some pecking order ;).
I think its fascinating that Honduras even amended its own constitution to allow for this sort of experiment. I've been to Honduras several times and I have to say I'm intrigued!
You really want to discourage someone playing with physics/math in their browser?
Another good one is seeing ancient Greek and Roman statues in the colors they had and not just dull, white marble

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?device=andr...
There is a popular Russian saying, “A laughter without a reason is a sign of stupidity”

I'd read this, and spent a couple weeks in Russia last fall, and noticed the lack of smiling a lot when I was there. The thing that struck me about that mindset, and particularly that phrase (and others like it) is that it presumes the person looking at me knows if I have a reason to smile/laugh or not.

There's no doubt a lot of layers in the thinking that produced that (and similar) phrases which I can't unravel or fathom, but it's still strange all the same. To presume someone is stupid if you see them laughing is certain a cultural thing. Here (US) we'd probably just assume they were happy.
I strongly disagree with this article.

I remember reading a story about some speaker (maybe Malcolm Gladwell?) who convinced business executives to just stop thinking, and make snap decisions from their gut feelings. However, it turned out to be terrible advice, and their businesses went downhill. (Sorry I can't provide citations.)

I saw Men in Black 3 tonight. There's a scene where Agent K decides to stop worrying about their problem, and just go and eat pie. They took a moment to think and talk about unrelated things, and J had an epiphany that solved their problem. As a programmer, I love being 'in the zone', when the hours feel like minutes. But sometimes I get stuck on a problem, and stepping away from the keyboard gives my brain a chance to regroup. More often than not, the solution just pops into my head while I'm thinking about something else.

If anything, I think entrepreneurs should try to spend more time thinking.
If you want to know what your customers want, you need to listen to them. Listening is defined as 'giving one's attention', and attention requires thinking about what they're trying to tell you.

Anyway, I think you need to strike the balance that works for you. That might be anywhere between 'just doing things and failing a lot', and 'over-analyzing every decision', but both extremes can be dangerous.
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Douglas Crockford doesn't really care about spaces or tabs as long as the code is clean and legible. He said this in one of his talks, back when he was with Yahoo! Personally, I would prefer the 2 space indent.
While I agree with delivering great software, I disagree with the notion of spending ages at the computer being the right kind of tool in a variety of circumstances. Often thinking stuff over well will decrease the time you have to spend coding. (And that can include thinking together with a colleague.)

I think we do not so much disagree in the essence, but just in the amount of hyperbole.

(As a snarky aside, I almost never sit at my computer. Sitting kills you. I might be able to do 12h at a standing desk, but no way I'd manage to do that sitting down. Though my eyes (and brain) will give out long before that.)
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From http://lesswrong.com/lw/tz/my_best_and_worst_mistake/, a quote that I spent a long time thinking about:

"As a general idea, high level intellectual exploration should consume substantially more time than goal-directed action, but there are few social encouragements to behave in this manner so the only people who do so are essentially those who are addicted to such intellectual exploration and have no propensity or willingness to take action at all."
> Its easy to see how an animal that eats human feces could be viewed that way.

Pigs were considered unclean more for their consumption of human flesh than for their consumption of human feces. Geological conditions in the Levant meant that bodies were typically interred in crypts or caves rather that being buried 'six feet under' where the decomposition couldn't be smelled by scavengers.
it crashed Outlook. Also, it would be nice if it stayed open in the menu bar up top.
> The worst part of this is that often when disks fail, they just become extremely slow (100s of milliseconds) rather than explicitly failing.

This is the main difference between consumer-grade and enterprise-grade drives firmware. Take the HGST Deskstar and Ultrastar, or Seagate Constellation ES and Barracuda 2 TB; they are physically exactly the same, but behave very differently when encountering an error. Basically the enterprise drive will fail shortly BUT recover (because it's probably RAID-backed), while the desktop drive will try to read the data when asked at all prices (because it's probably NOT RAID-backed), therefore suffering from extremely long time-outs.

> . The probability of zero errors after reading 3E13 bits is ((1E14-1)/1E14)^3E13, which is about 75%.

Still not the sort of statistics you want betting your precious data against...
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