skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When at full bars in my local area (in my brick-and-wood office in Vancouver, BC) on 3G, I can get 13.83 megabits down, 1.68 megabits up.

On three bars of LTE, I get 20.92 megabits down, 15.60 megabits up. This is roughly equivalent to the fibre connection I have to my home.

Typically, when I'm outside on full bars of LTE, I get closer to 30 megabits down, 30 megabits up. This is significantly better than my fibre connection at home.

So I would say the LTE speed difference is pretty impressive. Whether networks have sufficient coverage is another question entirely, and LTE on different frequencies can have severe penetration issues which can negatively impact your signal strength and download/upload speeds. Still, the numbers reported in that Verge article are pretty depressing and speak less to LTE as a technology and more to the poor situation that US mobile networks are in.

Thus: If you are targeting a purely US audience, then LTE might not make sense, but if you're selling to people outside of the US's broken mobile situation, LTE is a huge boost.
Can we move the clocks 30 min and then just call it quits?
Good points. Part of being okay with sucking is that if you're okay with sucking – you're more likely to be okay with shipping.

The surprising thing I've found about being okay about sucking at writing is that often the "barf drafts" (as I call them) that seem god-awful when I'm actually writing them, turn out being pretty darn good when I revisit them.
I suffer from this as well. It's called Analysis Paralysis. Now, I just need to figure out the best way to stop it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
This feels a bit cheerleadery?

This is actual PHONE MARKETSHARE being delivered (not necessarily sold, as many of them are subsidized to $0).

Additionally, looking at just phones is a myopic view of the mobile landscape, when tablets and mini tablets (aka, iPodTouches and sub 6" android tablets) are a huge source of gaming revenue.
It is a negative stereotype to presume that women cannot be a developer, or do a "hard" subject like programming and instead must be doing a "soft" subject like art.
Great wep app, it scanned and removed the applications without requiring sign up, providing email address, etc.

That is the key step so many things online mess up - let me try it out w/o having to create another user account!
The Droid RAZR i/M disagrees with you.
There is another database which can be used in the 'accumulation-based' space: http://geteventstore.com

It has the same main drawbacks as Datomic - it's young and multi-node deployment comes with commercial plan only, however it's really fast and easy to work with once you embrace the event-sourcing programming model.
Is that chart leaked? Looks like just an outside estimate by Business Insider:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-06/research/3112...
A pop song (even a teriffic one) has a shelf life of a few months, whereas code running in production, either foundational or in larger systems may be there for years. That's where developers need to build things that last, and things turn to more technically complex musical genres like Jazz or Classical where the music may not be catchy - but will last a long time. The lasting pop songs are the ones hardest to compose, but maybe the most beutiful - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBDF04fQKtQ
There seems to have been a couple posters with this complaint. I cannot for the life of me fathom why this is a deal-breaker. Can someone care to explain, or am I just missing some sarcasm?
I just have a habit that force me to write 500 words a day, no matter what. The result? I now have 10 articles that I am trying to improve daily.
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Think of the idea as a multiplier for how well you execute on ideas.

if you idea sucks, it's a zero, and no matter how well you execute, you arent going to end up with a successful product.

If you have a great idea, let's say it's a 1, your execution is poor, you don't fully realize the potential of the idea.

The problem is that you don't know whether the idea is good until you execute it (since the end result is a zero until you do something). And while you can weed out some really bad ideas by executing them a little bit, it's a lot of investment to determine if an idea is actually no good or you just haven't worked on it hard enough.

There are so many ideas out there, it would just be too much work for people to start working on every idea they've heard to see if there is something to it. Plus, people are usually biased in that they have their own ideas they are interested in executing on, and so yours aren't as attractive since they haven't thought about them as much as you have
It's not something I particularly care about. I'm not even using all of the 8GB on my current phone.
Salman Khan has done a wonderful job !!!!
Best fix I've found is iterative development. No better way to learn something then to try to directly apply what you're trying to learn. Build it. If it sucks, build it again. Repeat as necessary till it's 'good enough'.
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With foldl', of course. If you don't have tail recursion elimination, foldl' would have to be provided as a built-in.

Summing up numbers is inherently strict, so you'd want tail call elimination for that. But functional mainstains, like say, map or filter are usually not implemented with tail recursion in Haskell, because that would be too strict and would break on infinite lists.
All requests are flushed to the server before the test is finished. So yes it does hit the database and average latency will be correct.

https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/blob/master/hbase/s...

cleanup calls flushCommits. So all requests are there. No get requests are served from the client's buffers so all of those must hit the region server. In addition the client side write buffer size is 12mb. So we're not talking about all requests being buffered at a time.

This may or may not be what is needed for your application so autoFlush is a per-client setting (HBase actually defaults it to on). Deferred log flushing is similar, though it's a per table setting.
Orofino, I run http://skimfeed.com. It's a news dump site, currently in beta. Give it a shot.
Right, because alloca is the only thing (as far as I know) that can resize the stack. There is not going to be anything else that does the same thing. The best one can do is those stack allocators which overflow to heap, or an alloca-based stack allocator.

There's an interesting discussion[1] at comp.std.c++ about implementing VLAs in C++0x, and the issues with dynamic stack resizing.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.std...
I find their availability to be incredibly irregular, but the ease of setting up a project on their platform can't be beat.

Well short of a one-click installation, of course. :)

A novice could probably set up a GitHub project on dotCloud, whereas there is no chance in hell said person could do it on Heroku, last I checked their guide.

Their support team is also pretty great. Of course, the ideal scenario is never having to deal with support. ;)
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If ALL of the above matches you perfectly, your primary job responsibilities will be to:

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I really wish we could stop having this semantics debate over the word "worthless." When one side says "ideas are worthless," they're saying that they have no quantifiable monetary value until executed. When the other side responds with "ideas aren't worthless," they're arguing against the notion that ideas are of no use at all.

We've been arguing over two definitions of the same word for years, and both sides have been correct all along.
This title feels a bit cheerleadery?

This is actual phone handset market being delivered (not necessarily sold, as many of them are subsidized to $0).

Additionally, looking at just phones is a myopic view of the mobile landscape, when tablets and mini tablets (aka, iPodTouches and sub 6" android tablets) are a huge source of gaming revenue as well as advertisement revenue.

I think the ecosystem is still a vibrant multiplayer arena.
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Christopher Columbus had financial backing by the Spanish crown.
Austin: Front-End Developers
White Lion is looking for a full-time front-end developer.

We would like you to join us in our vision to be the recognized go-to regional interactive agency for handling complex and challenging web and mobile projects.

Does the following accurately describe you?

* I want to be part of an organization where my input carries weight and where integrity is a core value.
* I want to be trained extremely well and then trusted to do my job as I prove myself.
* I have an extreme passion for the creativity and discipline that goes into front-end development.
* I like to work on a wide range of diverse and challenging projects.
* I love the adrenaline rush of complex JavaScript requirements.
* I can work with jQuery in my sleep.
* I have a comprehensive knowledge of JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5.
* I have hands-on experience working with front-end coding frameworks.
* I know PHP and I am familiar with MySQL.
* I am so versed in what is next with front-end development I could teach classes on the subject.
* I am extremely reliable and dependable.
* I have an old fashion work ethic.
* My attention to detail is extreme.
* I love to continually learn and improve.
* Web and mobile technologies fascinate me.

If ALL of the above matches you perfectly, your primary job responsibilities will be to:

* Serve as a front-end developer for new projects.
* Help maintain and improve existing sites.
* Collaborate with project managers, UX and graphic designers, back-end developers and other front-end developers.
* Participate in helping the sales team price out new projects.
* Help fellow developers debug and trouble shoot challenging issues.

We are a dynamic, growing company with a casual, fast-paced workplace.

Over the 16 years being in business we attract and retain self-starters by having handcrafted a flexible, world-class work environment.

If you have carefully read all of the listed content and feel you have the chops, we want to hear from you!

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The new politically correct name is "the mujaffa game". You can play it here:

http://www.dr.dk/spil/mujaffa/

The old name is still referred in the title page.
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Great read, makes me want to quit my job and start building a rocketship...

I love that this brilliant guy is talking about interplanetary space travel as the obvious future.
One correction, for others reading the comments - Diggz isn't the "CEO of Tropo", his title is Chief Evangelist for Voxeo Labs.
There is a quote from John Gall that I really like:

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”

I mostly think of it in terms of software development, but I guess it applies more broadly than that.

Also, +1 for How to Win Friends and Influence People - one of the best books ever.
It's a problem that many have: http://www.joyofquotes.com/step_quotes.html
Ok But I think you are missing the point. They reached out to a firm "Matrix Partners" to help them execute by financial means and that firms individuals chose to spin off an exact duplicate of their startup?! Sham! ~That firm should be frowned upon and ridiculed and avoided by all entrepreneurs.
thanks, that is exactly what i want to achieve with my article: pointing out that the tech world is not just for über-nerds :)
This made me remember the awesome feature CreateHtmlBody (in CDOSYS) for classic ASP. Many mails were sent using that :)
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I agree these methods still require a fair amount of expert knowledge and intuition in order to make the various choices you mention. On the other hand, Bayesian optimization can prove useful for exploring such a space. A recent paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.2944.pdf) used Bayesian optimization with GPs to find hyperparameter settings for a deep convolutional network. The resulting hyperparameters gave state of the art performance, beating those chosen by an expert (Krizhevsky, the researcher who recently won ImageNet).
That's what I get for assuming blogs are correct. Thank you for posting the original article, I'll edit my post above to reflect this.

Thanks!!

Oops, too late to edit, guess my mistake has to rest in stone :/.
"That may well be the case at a subconscious level. But that doesn't go away because any or all of the people involved are in relationships."

Agreed. I'm lucky to work with men who don't seem to be looking for any extramarital dalliances, and our interactions reflect that. Being friendly and warm--what many would consider flirting--isn't required to affect the social status of those I interact with, but it can certainly help. And I think that's something that many people in a monogamous relationship learn to suppress, for various reasons.
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This is so true. Just last week I was struggling with writing a press release and couldn't get started. While staring at my screen an email came through from an old friend asking what the scoop was on my new project. I immediately dove into the email and began writing what would later become our press release. At the time though I was just responding to a friend. Funny how that works.
How dare you! The Emporer looks magnificent in that robe!
Here's the thing that customers, managers, and less experienced developers all have in common: they understand that no one thing is difficult. But they don't take into account that managing the complexity between a thousand, or a hundred thousand, or a million rules is very, very difficult.

That's why you hire more experienced developers: they're more experienced, not at things like cache invalidation (sure, just nuke your entire cache anytime anything changes! easy!), but at managing complexity.

Which is difficult.

That's why I try to keep my mouth shut about how somebody should "just do this, it'd be so easy, why are they dumb?"
You'd be amazed what you can do with pure CSS these days, however there's loads of sites out there offering stuff for free. Here are a few of my favourites..

http://ui-cloud.com/ (Search engine for UI graphics)

http://subtlepatterns.com/ (Patterns for backgrounds)

http://www.dinpattern.com/ (Patterns for backgrounds)

http://365psd.com/

http://www.premiumpixels.com/

http://www.designkindle.com/

http://designmoo.com/everyone/

You can also search on Dribbble.com for terms like 'free' or 'psd' as there's a lot of talented, generous people on there!

Be sure to read the licence of anything you download from these sites, often the author requires attribution or doesn't allow their use on commercial products.
it depends :D
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That's a compelling article and I think I'm going to be a lot more cautious about using pie charts in the future, but the thin-doughnut design they're using here looks OK to me.

When you're summarizing coarse relative size across arbitrary categories, bar charts and tables give your selection of categories too much weight: everyone looks at the biggest bar or the biggest number and it's really hard to measure a long tail distribution visually.

If the message you're trying to send is, "nothing but X and Y matter, everything else combined is tiny", I still can't imagine a better visualization than a pie (or a doughnut).
I honestly don't see how you get cheerleadery out of "Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold". That is about as factual as it gets.
Is it possible to be good at sucking? Or, is there anyone who is the best at it, and either in frequency or strength of sucking (e.g. do you want to suck tremendously hard once or suck very little very often)?
To quote:

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea; if it's original, you'll have to shove it down their throats." - Howard Aiken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken
The post I was responding to praised Google for ditching LTE buzztech in favor of (among other things) better battery life. Real world data shows that this isn't the case - the "buzztech" actually provides an enormous boost to battery life.
Headphone jack on the bottom: Hold phone normally, rotate forearm and place in pocket. Everything's fine.

Headphone jack on top: Hold phone normally, rotate forearm and place in pocket. Break expensive earbud jack or worse, the female connector on the phone. Alternatively, have your muscles relearn how to place phone in pocket by first gripping the top half of the device between two fingers (greatly increasing the chance of dropping your expensive toy), allowing gravity to rotate the phone between your pincer grip, and placing in pocket.
Doesn't run on Intel HD 3000 graphics, apparently. Alas.
The notion now that you bring it up sounds odd but, I wouldn't have thought about it otherwise.
The "callback hell" example is a rather tame one, since the code is readable in a single location just with some nesting. So when I see the FRP solution which is the same amount of code I'm not certain that in a complex example this actually solves the problem. You can still have lift statements scattered around a program just like you can have callbacks to various functions scattered around.

The solution to GOTO was to remove it and replace it with a few control structure forms that enforced locality. I remember converting someone's GOTO-laced code once and basically everything could be re-written with some clever use of do-while with break statements and an occasional flag variable. do-while, while, for, etc. replace GOTO in 99% of cases and enforce the desired code locality for readability.

So what syntactical structure could enforce locality of time-connected variables?

E.g. some idea like this:

data, err <- $.ajax(requestUrl1)
if( err ) {
console.log(err)
return
}
data2, err <- $.ajax(makeRequestUrl2(data))

Where the <- syntax could be like an = statement but say that the assignment and all following statements are placed in a callback.
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switch out DOWNLOAD_URL = "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-con...

with

DOWNLOAD_URL = "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-con...

for x86.

ssshhhh... don't tell anyone i'm 32-bit
I don't think a judgement can be made at this point as to whether he was or was not working in collaboration with some form of Russian gov.

I picture a somewhat disorganized system of Russian gov. employees sometimes working together and other times in opposition.

The Wikipedia article about the Russian FSB mentions certain internal groups spying on one another. It wasn't that long ago when federal agencies like the CIA and FBI were at odds and spying on each other.
I have done that with Spelltower (: https://github.com/flixic/spelltower
I shared this mostly because my wife informed me that this is a pretty big deal.
An iPad doesn't fit in your jeans pocket.
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What bothers me is why T-Mobile isn't marketing this more. That price point is HUGE. I'm wondering if Samsung and the Galaxy S3 have a deal with T-Mobile to continue to heavily market their phone.
Related: presentation on how datomic was written in clojure http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Datomic
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Yes, but it would still be fairly easy. My AI is already not trying to use the longest word, but instead tries to secure as many tiles as possible. In many cases it means using shorter words that have just the right letters.
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job comes to mind. They make an art of "sucking."

Lou Reed has a horribly sucky singing voice. I love him for it.
I can't stand pixelmator. And the last few releases have done nothing to improve it. Thanks for reminding me about the big Gimp release - I can't wait to switch it in!
It is a solution, kind of, but annoying on a few accounts:

0. it plays hell with threadlocals-as-dynamic-scoping, which is the only way most "modern" languages permit dynamically scoped variables

1. it needs to be correctly passed along to callers, and given it's usually used in dynamically typed languages there's a high risk of forgetting and dropping a yield

2. yield being also used for iteration, it can be confusing to keep them straight.

It's definitely a better solution than callback hell though. An other approach is runtime support as in gevent, where the "yielding" is done by the library/IO code and invisible to the caller. The final two I know of are baking lightweight concurrency and communications into the language itself (Erlang, and to a lower extent Go and Rust) or monadic systems (Haskell)
On the gaming revenue side, it's interesting that iOS accounts for about 85% of money spent on mobile games, and their share of the whole app revenue pie is similarly sized.

This suggests a very different picture than what we get from the raw handset shipment numbers. For the sake of argument, let's redefine how we subdivide the the mobile phone market market in terms of how people use their devices rather than what their devices are capable of. Considered that way, perhaps the app revenues suggest that Apple still completely dominates the smartphone market, and Android's handset shipment numbers simply reflect that the dumbphone market has been flooded with a smartphone OS because nowadays even the free phones are running Android.
my article isn't about gender issues....the intention is merely to show the perks of working in IT to a normal average girl that might not be sure about what career path to choose.

however, my writing style is indeed rather bold but i have no interest of watering it down with some political correctness filter. sorry, no chance :D
I think the angle vs. length argument is precisely what makes doughnut charts better than pie charts.