skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "double bubble," with all of the engines located at the rear of the aircraft could be a dynamite combination with the unducted fan. The unducted fan would give a 40% fuel savings, but it has the disadvantage of failing fan blades potentially flying into the fuselage. Locate the fan blades at the rear, and this problem largely goes away. There's also the problem of noise, but such technology could be limited to "cargo ports" located in remote places, acting as hubs for intercontinental shipping.

The Aerion supersonic business jet has good potential for a trans-ocean jet sharing business. Executives and VIPs could land at coastal airports, and transfer to a supersonic jet parked close by on the tarmac. Actually, using this scheme, there's no reason why one couldn't use rocket-planes with mid-air refueling to shoot VIPs on sub-orbital ballistic trajectories across the Atlantic or Pacific in well under an hour.
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I read almost all of my technical books (I've stopped buying technical paperbacks a couple of years ago) on iPad. For whatever reason (natural born cyborg?) my eyes appreciate glowing screen. If only I can make iPad lighter...
Understanding Macro Use Cases for JavaScript
First, it is very hard to hired by just applying - you need to find somebody in the company to introduce you. In relatively long career as a dev manager in a big corporation, I have not hired a single engineer via job post (HR will forward resumes that were never even near match - it was so bad that before I left VP hired a special recruiter just for his team).

Second, find a good recruiter. They do help to find an exact match.

Third, you probably need to be looking into Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. - companies which are "product development" oriented. It seems like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Twitter are really not "product development" oriented companies: they use technology but technology is not their product. So my feeling is that they are looking for more "very very smart and sharp people" than "I can ship people" (I read somewhere how it is easier to get hired in these companies if you are "smart and did nothing" then "smart and here is what I did"). [ I'm just saying that they weight candidate characteristics differently - nothing wrong with that approach ]
These are all superficial syntactic complaints, following Wadler's law. My experience is that every new language gets more than its fair share of these.
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In terms of networking, go to web dev type meetups Rails, Django etc they tend to have a lot of people hiring or looking to hire. You also gona meet a lot of independent contractors who tend to have large networks, tell people you can make iPhone apps.. profit

Big problem might be that bank in UK pay A LOT, so people do not expect you want to take a pay cut. Pay cuts suck.
When I was searching for a job, I made a CV that looked different and would maybe catch the eye of the poor guy flipping through hundreds of resumés. Worked great for me.
Make a great first page/impression, and a regular second page.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2938449/CV.pdf
They could have their own agenda, sure. But given how much money there is to influence American government these days, I think it's also worth asking "who could benefit financially from this action?"
I think he meant ~$100 each.
As a dinosaur in this industry myself, it's a bizarre feeling when your skills suddenly becomes too much experience! It can be a positive though because you have the luxury of being selective with the skills you present and still be 100% truthful. I personally try to customize my resume for each job and leave out any parts that I don't think will be relevant for the interview.

Good luck!
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I take your point, but there books that are hundreds or thousands of years old that still help to illuminate the human condition and that people can learn from - Shakespeare, Plutarch, Herodotus etc.

I'd take those over some buzzword laden piece of Gladwell-lite that will be irrelevant in five years.
What do you see as the primary goal of the news feed?
I think that motivation and interest is a much better predictor of mental performance than anything mentioned in this article.
meh, I actually prefer the 'pay for what you use' model. My big problem with it is that they don't optimize for speed. For example, instead of charging you extra for checked bags, I think they should charge you extra for those overhead bins; loading/unloading would go twice as fast without those bins. Don't tell me the weight makes that much difference; the difference between me and some of my friends would be the weight of two or more checked bags, and I'm not particularly unusual. (I mean, I'm what, 6', and 200# just over a 27 BMI, so yeah, I'm fat, but I'm not unusually so.)

I guess as Americans, what, with the TSA, we have already made the choice that well, speed doesn't matter.

I can't complain too much, really; flights are almost miraculously cheap. It's hard to complain about something being less than luxurious when you can get halfway across the country for the price of taking someone out to a nice dinner.

"The only area where technologists have failed to improve efficiency is in reducing the weight of passengers, says John Corl of Flight Sciences"
I would also buy if there were a PDF version. Since my entire library is pdf, I won't install a software and register an account just to read this book.
If he wants. But he could also read Marcus Aurelius, Plato, etc.
This sounds just like Django. I wonder if this is just something that inevitably happens with comprehensive frameworks?

I remember I once suggested that the people behind GitHub consider whether they could leverage their pull requests as a practical alternative to Stack Overflow, but they basically told me (in a formal boilerplate response) to fuck off.
Hm, but it doesn't appear in Smashing's ebook store: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ebooks/
The book Clever Algorithms (free to download) is also covering some swarm algorithms: http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/swarm.html
Here's some: Lyst, Songkick, Box, Moshimonsters, Peerindex, Smarkets, GoSquared, Nuji, Hailo, StylistPick, Duedil, GoCardless, Moo, Huddle and GroupSpaces
So you are looking for someone that will manage the website while you go try out ycombinator on a different idea? i might want to do that
It's probably not Amazon; what the blogger hasn't realized is that the books he's looking at probably have different publishers (with different pricing policies) in different countries. Not to mention different rates of VAT, from 0% (the USA doesn't have VAT) to 20% in the UK and even higher levels elsewhere.
Fascinating! Please tell me more about how I run my company, and all the things I apparently believe. Plus more about what kind of manager I am.

You certainly have an active imagination, so I'm sure the next things you make up would be just as interesting.
>Now I don't know anything about you nor have I seen a resume of yours but I will say that when I see Java developer with 10 years experience writing java, it sort of already puts a negative connotation on the experience right away.

This statement raised my "shallow language hipster" alert.
Yeah, what a dope. He should set up an affiliate account. He'll never get rich at this rate.
All machine learning techniques build models for you.

ADTrees, Random Forests, and Decision trees are all classifiers, so they serve this guy's needs. Genetic Programming is not a machine learning technique: it is an optimization method for a very specific task and is quite unsuited for his purposes.
I've got the same habit with code, taking it offline with a pen in hand and stepping through it. Found it much more effective for working through logical issues in code because it strips all of the syntax checking, typing, temptation to execute out of the way and forces you to slowly evaluate the program flow.

With IDE's, Photoshop, Word, I think it's important to remember that they have activities and workload in themselves that isn't relevant to what you're trying to achieve. Separating this load out from the core task has some value.
Best explanation for the differential is from the 1930's
You said, in this reply (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528076):

>Example 2: a small town declares with pride that all streets controlled by the city finally have limits of 35MPH or slower, even though there are several roads capable of much higher speeds.

Other relevat comments that set the discussion:

>Or so simple as speeding when you drive? There are many laws which do not function as they should.

and

>By itself, speeding is a victimless crime: if you hit something or someone with your car, you were doing something wrong besides just speeding. The main idea behind speed limits is to "make criminals," in Rand's words. They are a tool that gives law enforcement a valid reason to pull over virtually anybody and everybody on the road. At the end of the day, the result is less respect for traffic laws and police in general, but more revenue for police departments, municipalities, and insurance companies.

So yes, it sounds to me like we're not limiting this to highways, but rather to the governments right to set things like speed limits and whether those limits are effective. Now, if you think that there should be a right to set speed limits in town but not on highways, we need to establish that.

You, yourself, included non-highways in this discussion. I respect your decision to exclude them but clearly you are limiting the scope of the discussion from what you personally set it at.

And of course the scope matter, the relevant facts change(i.e. the politically influenced decision to lower speed limits to 55 MPH) when you change the scope. This isn't a matter substance, it's a matter of deciding what we are all talking about. If you want to just talk about highways, you should do that, but clearly not everyone else feels we are talking exclusivly about highways or they wouldn't have brought it into the discussion.
Couple of thoughts:

Build your physical network: The best way is to attend User Group meetings and Conferences. With time try to get involved as a speaker and with the organization of these groups.

Built your online network: I would recommend contributing regularly to an open source project or two. Also you can blog to help build your online presence.

Code outside of your work more: Glad to hear you launched your iPhone app. I think working on another project is not a bad idea. This is not to say that what you have already done is not enough, just more of a 'always be delivering code that is not necessarily on your employers schedule'. You seem to have a background in 'big data' projects - I would try to build something on a similar topic but using some of the open source projects (like Hadoop, or Twitter Storm).

Type of company: You seem to be a little in between. Good coders want to work for software companies (as opposed to being part of an 'Enterprise IT' shop). Your bank background might mean that people in 'Software Companies' will not pay as much attention to you. You can make the transition, but it is not as easy.

Headhunters: Try talking to one or two of them. They can help find you a company that is a good fit.

There are lots of points above, just choose the ones most in line with you.
> CoffeeScript

How is coffeescript 'daring' in any way ? It is a thin veneer on top of javascript, syntactic sugar for your coffee.

Dart is a hundred times more daring. It is trying to push optional typing. No mainstream language has such a feature, and not even so much non-mainstream ones.

It doesn't say anything about my opinion of any of those two languages (i actually use and like CoffeeScript), but it just sounds to me like you're looking at syntax only, where the important part of a language is its semantics.
You need to remember the iPhone 5 uses a different architecture (armv7s) that Geekbench currently isn't compiled for. It's highly likely there wil be a number of optimisations to be had from moving between armv7 to armv7s, so the benchmark score for the iPhone 5 is highly likely to increase once the binaries are re-made.
Hey Paul, though I'm not drawing from the largest sample size I've computed my DOD with SpaceX to be 2.00, which is telling compared to my 178 average.
The results on the chart aren't averaged by name; they're averaged by name, by processor, and by processor frequency. We're aware that many Android devices with the same name use different processors, and of the fact that many Android devices are both over- and under-clocked by enthusiasts.

Sorry if this wasn't clear from the preamble on the chart; I'll have to update it.
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Wow. I spent a good 30 minutes here, and it was awesome. Thanks!!
I can feel myself getting dumber reading this discussion. Christoph Husse is a donkey.
The track record of everyone else is very poor :)
Agreed - that or a white board.

A lot of times it helps to get out of the office if you hit a rut/wall.

Just getting in a new environment and re-approaching the problem with a fresh perspective makes all the difference.

I like to take long walks with my dogs and try to let my mind wander. Usually, I'll end up thinking about work or a personal issue that requires a solution to be addressed.
My favorite part is the third comment in on the question:

"How can one manage thousands of IF…THEN…ELSE rules? By developing a drinking problem"
Because assumptions generally make fools of both sides - you'll assume that someone will tell you and they'll assume that you knew.
The idea of things on resumes shouldn't be to make hire/no-hire decisions (well, unless your job is to bin all the incoming resumes written in crayon..). Talking about this situation during an interview may provide insight though.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/compare/1030202/10...
Back in the day, when my (central-european) country was under soviet rule, people would queue and wait for hours to get essentials: from meat to toilet paper. Today -- this.

Honestly, I can't comprehend -- either end of equation. Why is there shortage of devices, and why are people waiting so stubbornly -- especially given Apple's history of lowering prices a few months after launch.
How far off are the VTOL, hypersonic, high altitude electric jets Musk always talks about?

Why aren't the airlines pursuing this angle - seeing as both drag and landing at airports consume the vast majority of fuel, time and cost of an airplane.
> I stubbornly believe that efforts to clone Rails in any other programming language (Go included) are just ridiculous.

Why? There are other languages that are just as powerful. From a social/community standpoint, Rails does have a big advantage of a large established community with very good dynamics and practices. Neither Ruby nor Ruby on Rails is the be-all or end-all of computation, however. Maybe cloning Rails is ridiculous. What people should strive to do is surpass it.
Au contraire, these [swarms can be very useful](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence). No one machine learning algorithm is best for all tasks. With current state-of-the-art technology, a human must choose the most appropriate algorithm by using what you could consider a priori knowledge about the task.
What frameworks do you use for this?
>How do you know grove.io was dropped for the new hot thing?

Because that's what happened to her last six projects?

Are you completely incapable of inductive reasoning or are you being obtuse so that you can make the total unaccountability of SV founders a moral crusade?
Why we'll pay for someone to process our personal data: Fortune telling
Minus the fact that there are some DRM in the Kindle books which is rather anoying.

PDF is an open standard, the Kindle format is not.
> It's not designed from the ground up as a web language so it might not be as suitable to write web apps using Go as other languages

By that logic, Ruby shouldn't be suitable to write web apps either.
I'm always surprised how many shipping Apple products are beaten in benchmarks by about-to-be-maybe-shipped-but-don't-yet-exist products from competitors. You think they'd do better than that!
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999121000105NWLF
I'll try again, starting with this:

"... something to be passionate about is the main thing I lack in a job."

This is backwards. A job generally won't give you something to be passionate about, passion comes from inside of you. Passion is the thing you choose to do when you can do anything, passion is the thing you invest in when there is no obvious 'reason' for doing so, investing in your passions is its own reward.

Small anecdote, worked with another engineer at Sun who was struggling, and he asked me why it seemed so easy for everyone else and so hard for him. We talked about passion and its not 'easy' for someone who is passionate about something but it is 'fun' so they exude happiness digging into the problem not pain. At its root there is a attitude difference, just like people who are passionate about fitness aren't excited about doing exercise, they are being excited about how this exercise is giving them new capabilities in fitness. They look past the means and luxuriate in the ends. That is following your passion [1].

The engineer I knew realized his passion was helping folks get ahead in life, he was always happy seeing someone get past a challenge an on to something more fulfilling. He ended up following that passion and last time I heard was living in Mexico helping folks build sustainable communities without the stigma of 'technology backwardness.'

Ok so back to your observation, there are lots of 'engineering driven companies' they make all sorts of things from sex toys to intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its a wide range and 'engineering driven' doesn't say a whole lot about passion other than solving problems. But if solving problems in an engineering context is what you like to do, then you might start looking at jobs for program manager rather than engineer. I don't know of course, I'm not you. But its a way to approach your question which I suspect would get you further down the path.

[1] A litmus test might be, imagine you've been in a car accident and you're paralyzed from the neck down. What thing did you wish you were doing yesterday before the accident? Lots of self help books suggest pretending today is the last day of your life, what do you want to spend it doing? Etc etc. The bottom line is people with passion make a difference, and folks can tell that in an interview from a mile away if you're pursuing your passion or just marking time.
The reason why the wicked is so fast in Firefox is because of the literal string and the optimizations done by the compiler.

Try this (creates a function and then show the source):

Function('return ~~(1 * "12");').toString();

And you get this result:

"function anonymous() { return 12; }"

Notice that the expression has been converted to 12 in the function, so each call to it will just return 12 instead of converting it. That's why it is so much faster. The same is true for "<<", ">>" and "1 * '12'"

I created another test where it actually do the conversion, by assigning the string to a variable and use that in each test. There parseInt is faster in Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. Surprisingly it is the slowest in IE, where +str is the fastest.

You can find it here:
http://jsperf.com/parse-number-from-string

Also notice:

* All the logical operators (~, <<, >>, |) operates internally on a 32 bit signed integer, while parseInt, Number and + operates on a 64 bit signed float. Try to convert 2147483648 or 2333444555 for a little surprise.

* At the other jsperf someone added "0+'12'". That returns a string, not a number.
And some more: http://pineapple.io/resources/tagged/ruby-on-rails?type=tuto...
These people aren't camping out to just get an iPhone. They are using the publicity to raise donations for cancer research.

Most of the people are camping out for publicity, not for the phone.
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How are you evaluating feed relevance?
That description sounds like exactly who Twitter would want to hire. Knowing Scala beforehand isn't a requirement; I certainly didn't. It's possible that by sending the resume only to a specific engineering manager, it got lost in the shuffle. Have you tried following up, and/or contacting recruiting?
Stanford's class2go is said to be open source but where is the source?
I turned off the news feed the second day I saw it. As it turns out, I don't really want to receive articles shared by every professional contact I've ever had.

"People I've worked with" is just not a good filter function for content.
> Isn't that like saying if Compaq wanted to ship BeOS or dual boot machine, it could forgo getting the OEM incentives that Dell, HP etc. received from Microsoft?

No, since BeOS is not claiming to be compatible with Windows. If they wanted to ship machines with ReactOS, though, that would be a different story.

Google is not complaining because Acer is making phones with a competing OS (they make some WP7 phones as it happens), but because they're making a phone claiming Android compatibility that isn't really compatible.
I take it you didn't read the article?

Just asking, because I didn't know about this, but do Apple usually lower the prices after the initial launch? Isn't it like usually when they release upgraded models?
TL;DR - Publicity seekers/marketing opportunists not hard core Apple fans.
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I think it's handy to have both, actually. Use the laptop for email and the like, and reserve the desktop for real work.
What the heck are you talking about? Apple does not lower iPhone prices a few months after launch.

Apple frequently doesn't lower prices on anything until the next model comes out.

And I think day 1 lines have a lot to do with the stores being crowded with limited space and staff, not just supply.

Also, ramping up factories to build this is hard. And you don't want to have an extra factory just for launch day, you want supply/demand balance longer term. You can build up some supply before launch but you don't want to delay launch for a long time to build up aging supply.
The mystery is that on earth these types of structures are the byproduct of a type of bacteria, these are slightly different though the atmosphere of Mars is also not the same as Earth so in that whilst that in some ways point towards a sign of life we still don't know for sure and until we work out with complete confiedience if they were made the same kind of way then we have a wonderful mystery.
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I'm confused then. The US S3 with the dual-core krait SoC doesn't appear on the list at all but searching for the S3 shows results for a 2 core version, strangely a 3 core version, and the dual-core version doesn't have the expected clock speed of the krait cpu (1.5ghz).

Are these just the quad-core model with cores disabled or something? If so are they included in the average? They appear to be based on a cursory look through the data as 4 core @ 1.4 seems to mostly score 1700-1900 but the displayed average is obviously much lower.

I also don't get the One X results. Its like a 50/50 split of scores of ~1500 or ~600 and the difference seems to be android 4.0.4 vs 4.0.3. No idea what the difference was but almost tripling the score on a minor OS version seems odd.

Sorry but I'm still saying the results here aren't very useful, there is far too much variation in these tests to assign any significance to them.
Very solid approach. As an incoming Fall '12 DBC student, I've found Ruby Koans (http://rubykoans.com/) and Ruby Cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Lucas-Carls...) to be incredibly helpful in grounding and adding more context to my Rails Tutorial experience.
import by url would be nice to have. Great work.