skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been wondering how much of the total bandwidth and electrical energy consumed by the internet is the result of advertising infrastructure. I've also been wondering about how much time is lost waiting for pages to load because of it.

I got interested when a vBulletin site I frequent added a Facebook "Like" button. I was amazed at how much crap went back and forth to Facebook every time I visited a page. I didn't have a Facebook account at the time, but it prompted me to switch to Firefox fulltime and install NoScript.
Christopher Langan.
Yes, you are wrong. Einstein did very well in elementary school, and was accepted to a competitive gymnasium at age 9. He also did very well at the gymnasium, although he didn't like the rigid structure. He left school at 15 and applied to university with special permission. He was not admitted due to mediocre grades in French and Latin; his exam grades in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry were excellent. He finished another year at school and passed the entrance exams with excellent grades. Hardly an underachiever, although it's true that you couldn't tell the later greatness from this.
great story! A friend of mine got her iPhone stolen, Find My iPhone didn't render anything for days so she gave up on it and got another one. This kind of technology should be standard on any new device
It's not crazy. Just because you can't believe it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

People will think that Samsung is just selling a version of Apple's iPhone. After all, that's what a lot of phone manufacturers do. HTC sells a version of an Android phone. Samsung sells…you get the idea.

People not steeped in geekery tend not to understand manufacturer licensing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
None of the qualities mentioned here are really specific to startups. Even if you work in a big company with lots of product managers and marketing people, being able to focus, take responsibility and empathize with your users is key to being a good developer. And definitely good qualities to have if you ever want to be promoted beyond an entry-level job.
Kindle Fire won't go big to take on iPad
How does one forget a bag of $600k in cash at lunch?
In fact, I think if anything Perl would speed up the time it'll take to train a dev and get him/her to have an impact on the product from day one due to how easy is it to learn.

Which will be negated by how hard real-world perl code is to read and maintain.
Coolest part of the post is actually the map of traffic by city and hour: http://www.webgl.com/reddit-webgl-barack-obama-ama-globe/. NYC at 5PM is crazy.
Please don't up-vote vapid, zero-content tumblr posts. This does not "gratify one's intellectual curiosity"[1].

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That is a really cool video but I'm not sure if I'd take that to say "humans are better long distance runners".

The fact is that humans are the most intelligent species (excluding dolphins and mice) and have used that to their advantage. For example, carrying water and weapons. Since these tribesmen can carry water they can replenish water that the other animal cannot. If the tribemen and the antelope had the same amount of water (none) who would win?

Also, I'm not sure if it is the case in this video (also, my audio is not working so I'm at a loss for anything said during the video), it wasn't clear if they were using a triangle approach where you have two hunters on either side and one in the middle. In that instance the antelope might run back-and-forth over that long distance and not run in a straight line (meaning it ran farther, just not smarter).

Even if we disregard the benefits from a higher intelligence it still only says "humans are great long distance runners in hot/flat terrain when carrying water". For example, try out-jogging a deer this December in the midwestern wilderness, or slap on some tennis and try to wear out a husky when it is twenty-below and 30mph winds.
I personally wouldn't work for a company ONLY because of the programming language. I have to be super passionate about their product as well and then the language choice comes after.

So far hiring hasn't been a problem for us. However, we don't focus on hiring Perl hackers, but outstanding hackers instead. They grow to enjoy Perl after a few hours and sometimes during the interview ;) haha
Since when? A quick Google search shows articles from a few days ago that say Samsung will be releasing a device in 2013.
I'm still down, sucks too since I just transferred a major site over!
Is that a real question?

In this case, income and its recurrence, expenses and their recurrence, current cash reserve and trends give you a pretty good picture to figure out if you can pay the 4 families behind workfu or not.

I'm not talking about complicated monster companies with heavy fiscal tactics, more about classic companies where you sell something.
I don't even think it's about poverty necessarily; we're far worse off financially it seems than people we know on state benefits but I'd class what we've managed to do for free/low cost over the summer as being pretty enriching.

We do have a car which is essential for work but if we didn't have to run it then we'd still be able to make the trips we do - with extra arrangements and some extra time - and be no worse off financially.
This isn't exactly the same thing as "no camels" but it feels like it's in a similar completely-out-of-your-frame-of-reference ballpark: People thought all-touchscreen devices with no keypad would be useless as phones—they didn't see how the inconvenience of punching numbers in on a touch screen without tactile feedback could be greatly outweighed by other stuff the large touchscreens would end up enabling. Yet it would be ridiculous to say the reason anyone failed to initially grasp the possibilities was a lack of intelligence.

I imagine that being told "there are no camels in Germany; how many camels are in this German city?" simply sounded ridiculous to the rural Russians. And so I assume that with no background in abstract reasoning or "word problems" where you're supposed to rely on just the information presented in the problem, they fell back on what they knew about cities: they're places with camels. Imagine if someone came to you from another country and said something like "we don't have people in our cities. But Atlantis is our biggest city. So how many people do you think live there?" It would sound meaningless.
Developers that write unmaintainable and unreadable code exist. This has nothing to do with the language. That's where "Good Developers" come in.

You don't even need to know how to write code to understand the code written at Crowdtilt or any other company that really uses Modern Perl and have good practices.
It's already common knowledge that not every child learns the same way - it's a product of both genetics and environment. My wife teaches in a district that has a good mix of middle-class and disadvantaged students. When summer is over, the teachers see huge discrepancies between the kids whose parents worked with them over the summer and the ones who didn't - and the economic class isn't what's dictating that discrepancy. It's unfortunate that some parents can't accept the responsibility of continuing their child's education outside of school, but if that's the case, maybe the best bet is to let the districts - not the state or federal governments dictate the curriculum and schedule.

This would put more responsibility on school boards, superintendents and administration. Underperforming administrators no longer can just sit back and play with politics and cronyism - they will have to accept the responsibility of creating and maintaining an environment that most reflects the community demographics, or they're gone. Blaming the teachers has to stop - it's the same thing that's happening with law enforcement - "We're going to pass more laws that make your job tougher and more involved, but you're going to have to do it with less money and support. Good luck."
Key takeaway from the article:

Flynn’s interpretation overturns one of the most ­dangerous myths of IQ research — that blacks have been shown to be fundamentally less intelligent than whites. With what seems to me to be a series of cast-iron statistical analyses, he shows that this has, in fact, never been proved ... What the evidence actually shows is that racial differences, once all external factors are removed (primarily the social and cultural context of the testees), seem to be almost undetectably small.
I bet you could apply this method to other participation-based business. One that springs immediately to mind is gym membership.
I agree with pg, all possible ways of "connecting with merchants" have not been invented and will forever be evolving. That said, what new kinds of e-commerce problems could be solved for merchants from photos uploaded with smartphones?
...five years ago. Is markbnine a bot?
Agreed. Sadly, my flag ability has been removed. Otherwise, I'd put it to use.
I started with CI like you, and have recently move to Django/Python. I feel as if Django completely blows CI out of the water when it comes to robustness, community, features, extendability etc (and I'd assume Rails is the same). Although I also probably just like Python better.

I'd say if it's a side project/more wishful success, go with Rails. At the very least, you'll learn something new and improve your skills. If it's something that absolutely needs to work now and is a bit more complex, use your existing CI knowledge for now.

But at some point (perhaps now) I'd just bite the bullet and go with Rails (or Django of course, but either would be a step up).
Cool thanks!

Bad ass application btw. Looking forward to it.
"American educational system" is a misnomer, as it is currently only equipped to produce standardized test passers (in aggregate), not educated individuals.

However it has spawned a lucrative vertical market for NCLB grant specialists.
I don't see what your anecdote has to do with kindness. Presumably both Guttmann and his colleagues were all kind enough to want to reduce suffering; Guttmann just happened to be more correct about how to do so. Neither approach was more or less kind than the other, but one was more effective.
The announcement mentions in passing a client-server model that allows the UI to handle things like touch interaction without blocking on app code.

Can anyone elaborate on how this actually works? I would expect the UI rendering and Javascript execution to be all happening in one WebKit process. I would be excited to learn if the webOS team has come up with something I don't know about here.
For those who wonder whether that is worth a new idiom to learn: the stylistic effect is enormous.

For example, there could be 5 layers of code between a condition handler and the code signaling a "file not found" condition, and the top levels of that stack might not even be aware that they could trigger such a condition or even any condition at all.

In some sense, this is the reverse of Java's checked exceptions. There, you have the problem that an interface declares exception X and Y, and an implementation that wants to throw a Z has to encapsulate that exception into a X or an Y. Here, the intermediate layers _can_ be blightfully unaware of those conditions.

A common use case is to use conditions without registered handlers as "break on exception" breakpoints, with the benefit that the human working with the debugger has more options than "stop execution", "continue and pray" and "tweak some memory, set the PC, go, and hope for the best". For example, if the 'open file' system call has a restart, users can easily fix "oops, that lengthy computation is done, but I mistyped that output file name." error conditions.
Most companies make it hard to transfer by setting headcount policies that make it really hard to move internally, so people have to change companies to get a better job. Google isn't as bad with the headcount issue but they have this mean-spirited and possibly illegal thing where your "perf" numbers are visible in the transfer process and the result is that it's hard to get a good project unless your political success is top 25% or so.
Well, if they could buy the street they would probably rename it Google Drive
I'm not sure I understand the article's point. In the very first sentence, the author says:

> Samsung too closely copied some elements of the Apple iPhone, and for that it should be hung up in the public square.

But the rest of the article gives good arguments for why none of the Apple patents should have been granted in the first place, much less upheld in court. So why exactly should Samsung have been punished at all, then?
That page doesn't say anything about university admission exam.
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Correct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Ever_Change_(House)
I'm back up!
Think Big
Our company is primarily a Perl shop as well. Hiring is one of the big challenges with a technology stack based on Perl. Especially hiring younger talent who are more interested in the latest trendy language.

When I first started here I asked the same question: "Why?" - and I got essentially the same answer as this article.

In the end, as long as the development team is comfortable with it, and it works, and there is still a community of supporters, I suppose it doesn't really matter what it is written in.

Hey - at least it isn't PHP!
Flagged, but if you find such stories interesting google turns up other similar tales:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-12-09-cash-returne...

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/akron_canton_new...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/utah-man-finds-45000-house-re...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/05/11/dpd-to-return-unclaimed-m...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tennessee-man-returns-1...
Very unlikely, looking at his post and submission history. Why do you ask?
The IQ test is, to many people, an evaluation of themselves and their capabilities. It may even be received as an assessment of one's limits.

If you think that the Stripe CTF challenge has the potential to evaluate and define you as an individual, then perhaps you should either think twice about it, or work really hard. For most entrants, and I guess probably you too, it's a harmless and fun challenge with very few implications for your core identity.
the article, and the scientists behind it seem to be saying there is a line to draw, between Denisovia and Humans and Neanderthal.

There is a line because you can differentiate between almost any two groups of people using DNA. Ashkenazim Jews versus other Jews for example. That obviously does not make them different species, it just means you can separate the two groups with enough math, like principal component analysis.

That's why the quoted scientist in the article says:

"It was the first time a new group of distinct humans was discovered"

A new group of humans.

what are the metrics in DNA used

That information is hopefully in their paper. Usually it's some fairly straightforward statistics.

how can we call them different species if we were still interbreeding 40k ago?

I think we call them different species because the status quo used to be that we never interbred with them. We couldn't find any Neanderthal mtDNA in humans, despite the strong archeology evidence that we had contact with them.

As DNA technology kept improving, we were able to recover more DNA from ancient samples, and looked at the Y chromosome, and surprise you might have enough Neanderthal DNA to count as full grand, grand father!

So I think at this point, we can't call them a separate species any more. But inertia being what it is, we keep doing it. Also it makes for more eye catching article headlines.

while human/denisovians could never produce fertile offsprin

That was just my example about how we define species. According to the article:

"...but the evidence also suggests that Denisovans and humans interbred."

can we estimate the odds of that being mutally independnt mutation

Yeah, that's kind of what they are doing. It is heavily based on statistical estimation and that's why when then guess the age of a sample it is between A LOT of years. They know their error margin is large.
Good Story and Dancer is really good. For these that want to give it a try we support dancer on the free hosting at http://1.ai

Perhaps how popular a solution for the web is depends also on free or easy hosting options where people can experiment ?
It's incredibly easy to write good Perl.

It's just easier to write bad Perl, and most Perl is set it and forget it in scope.
Grounds for Jury Misconduct in Apple v Samsung Patent Trial
Windows 7 SP2 coming your way in 2 years, and in 5, Windows 7 SP3.
I don't refuse to take them but midway through I always start thinking about the philosophical implications Wittgenstein rule following paradox, computational learning theory and solvable games.

I also wonder if I would have a higher IQ (or would that be an IQ that appears higher?) were I not to think those thoughts (and would I be stupid for thinking them in that case?)
Why not just go to a store?

http://www.hamradio.com/

What's in the ads that makes you enjoy them?
Just because something is in high demand doesn't prove anything. There is high demand for homeopathic sugar pills and suburban shamans who charge $100/hr for consultation.

All those companies you've mentioned have huge problems which points them directly at the revenue streams they've bet on.

Facebook is taking a beating because they can't monetize the fastest growing mobile sector.
Google is desperately working against the clock to beat the bubble by branching out in all kinds of industries unrelated to AdSense
Yahoo has been bleeding money for a decade
Twitter is in the same position as Facebook sans the stock market pressure
...and Pandora has been charging monthly fees for a service because they've seen the writing on the wall.

No company on that list is doing anything exciting or disruptive that's tied to ads. It's a dead end.

"The people you know". Yeah.
There is some decent justification in there, but I think the generic question, in a lot of questions is:

Why did I choose to build X with Y?

The generic answer is usually:

Because it is what I know.

The extended answer may include particular features of the language or environment or it may include the support provided by a particular cloud infrastructure.

As an example, the stuff I am personally working on now, I mostly use Python because I know it well and the ecosystem for webapps is pretty mature. 7 or so years ago, Python (in particular) mod python wasn't even close to modphp, so I went with PHP. Today, if I was adamant about building on Azure, I'd choose NodeJS (thus JavaScript) or C# because they are first class citizens of the platform.

In other words, choice of language can take on many facets. Good to see PERL mentioned again.
It would have been interesting to see if MS had patented AJAX, DOM and other browser goodies, singing its laurels on what an awesome IE6 browser was, where would the internet be today!
OK, I was thinking of getting a Mac, but now I'm reminded that in not too long I will hopefully be able to play TF2 without WINE...

I have renewed hope.
The problem with single words is it is very easy to lost on the definitions. Kindness, cleverness... what does that mean?

Here's how I would have worded it. Given a company of a 100 people working on the same product, which do you think would have a higher chance of being successful:

1) Everyone has a varying degree of intelligence but all of them shared the same (positive) moral compass

2) Everyone shares the same (high) intelligence but a varying moral compass
Well, if you know how to solve the problems I mentioned, you would be aware that they have nothing to do with knowing the sizes of things. To solve these problems, you must think practically and state assumptions about how much you expect the average sizes to be and how much in comparison. For example, the way to solve the high school question is start off with assuming the amount of people living in is about 300-400 million range and that maybe 10-20% of those are old enough to be attending high school. And then you go to estimate the amount of high schoolers in each state and whether that state was small, medium, or large, etc. Those problems are only about approaching a problem with those sorts of practical, reasoned thoughts in your head. To alot of people, including myself, this way of thinking is very foreign. However, if you were to ask me to design a database, I'd have no problems. This discrepancy does not show a lapse in intelligence.

Also, "a lot" is obviously not an acceptable answer if "I don't know, there should be some there" isn't for you.

> Can you give me an example of a problematic question that isn't caused by using unfamiliar nouns?

Maybe if I tried really hard? But that's the point I'm contending. A lot of IQ and standards test use unfamiliar nouns/concepts/abstractions to test intelligence, so does a certain group of people struggling with them show their lack of knowledge?
Oh, right, I seem to read a lot of trouble with FileVault and I should have mentioned that I have a MBP with 2x750GB striped using SoftRAID 4.3.3 as the driver. Obviously my superdrive is gone.
This is certainly more legal than technical, but I've been very intrigued by the comments that the jury foreman has made to the media.

After some research, and speaking with attorneys, I think there may be a problem with the way the verdict was decided. Not that I'm trying to make a judgment on who should have won, but it seems that this foreman was a bit too excited by his role and the information he claims to possess.

Any thoughts?
I wonder if you could install something on the BIOS as well in case they try and wipe the Operating System (which they really should do if they want to be safe).
OP here.

The lack of an index on the junction table definitely did have a major effect. By just doing the following:

CREATE INDEX ON movie_person (movie_id);
CREATE INDEX ON movie_person (person_id);

The junction query speeds up to around 2ms—it's comparable to or faster than the bloom filter query. But the trade-off is revealed when you see the total size of the movie_person table (including indexes):

SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('movie_person'));
=> 45MB

Whereas, by my calculations, the total size added by the bloom filters and hashes on movie and person is just 2094kB in total.

I plan on adding an erratum to my article explaining my error, the time/memory trade-off, and ideas for further improvement or exploration, potentially including bloom-based GiST indexes and the opportunities for parallelization.
Glossary of power supply terms
Playing CS:GO on Slackware 13 64bit with old nvidia drivers is an absolute joy for reference.
I personally don't like the 'flavor' of most Perl that I've seen or written - and it was my first programming language - but it's obvious that it remains one of the most relevant languages in terms of shipped code.

That being said, I don't feel that any of the reasons given in this post are in any way leading to the conclusion 'Use Perl'. In fact I think all of those points apply to just about every major high-level language today. CPAN is definitely a very high-quality system, but I think nearly every language I use has something functionally similar. The same sort of argument works on the other points, or so it seems to me.

The one exception is the ease of extending the language. I'm not familiar with that functionality of Perl, but I can say that extensibility of the core language is by far my favorite feature of Scheme. If Perl has a similar ability, then I will absolutely concede that that is a powerful feature indeed.
And what if I'm just distracting myself thinking about irrelevant philosophical problems because I'm too stupid for the test?