skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last section on sex differences is interesting. It explains boys having greater variation in ability than girls by boys having only one X chromosome (XY) while girls have two (XX).

This would be a neat theory, if girls somehow used an average of the two X's... which seems compellingly logical, though the (current) theory is that only one X is used, chosen at random. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_body
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Why Facebook will start serving ads on Instagram soon
It's not just the sleeping state which this improves, it's the reduction in cache-misses for Level2 (Core2) and Level3 (i7) that this helps.

In my experience writing high performance VFX software, the Linux kernel's scheduler has been the best of all major OSs in terms of balancing threads since around 2.6.35.

OS X is the worst, it bounces threads all over the place, and on top of that, thread_policy_set() on OS X is only a hint, so often OS X will ignore affinity settings anyway.
This is one of the reasons women have superior colour vision to men so it's likely enough. Some women have two different types of red cones while men have a maximum of one. There are many other sex linked diseases as well. Unless an allele is fully dominant if it's on the X chromosome men will display hreater variance.
I have done a bit of scrapping with ruby mechanize, when we hit limits have circumvented by proxy and tor

google as a search engine crawls most all sites, but offers very few usable stuff to other bots

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

Disallow 247
Allow 41
Yes, light, enlightenment, etc. - no way that could fit something an university does. It is very offensive - how they could use the same words that are mentioned in Bible? And worse yet, the same letters too (well, at least if you take the English translation, but that's what we are offended about, right?) I think somebody should sue them for all the great harm they caused by displaying such an offensive slogan. This can not stand! Let them use words and letters that could not be connected to the Bible in any way! Let them use Klingon!
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The IBM PC was the serious business computer.
I don't think you could say it was superseded
by the Mac. The Mac was for artist types and
relatively expensive.

Yes, I think that is a serious overstatement. I've never even seen a mac before I got my first job when I was 18 (in 2001) but everyone had PCs (I/my parents had a clone since 1987).
I think all this drive to make new logos hip is a bit misguided. It's not a rock band, it's university. It's supposed to be dignified and yes, traditional. Is it me getting old or what? I have no idea but even when I was a student belonging to something with a tradition and identity that does not change with each fashion wind would attract me more than trying to be hip. It's like a professor performing calculus lecture while signing and dancing along latest youtube hits. It may be hugely entertaining but I'm not sure one could learn calculus this way. But that's just my opinion, I wonder if anybody asked the students and the staff and what were the results?
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1. Tranquil would be the word. Work best during wee hours when the night is quiet and peaceful.

2. While it is good to stay disciplined, I try to miss a few work day timing to stay productive at night.

3. Evernote is what our team used to keep track of ideas, feedback, improvements. Bound to have hiccups along the journey, but if there is a SOP in place - everything should be just fine

4. I love developing, but i am starting to learn the ropes of business management from my partners

5. Almost daily. Remote management with clients require us to stay online via chat, email, etc

6. I get more done away from people. I am easily distracted.
Great memories programming those, but especially reading the manuals, books and mags made for them; they were much more focused on programming than for other home computers at that time and I like(d) programming!

I have 2 pocket TSR-80s, 1 TSR-80 'laptop' (model 100) and a model III in my 'museum'; all working. Switching them on is an interesting change from my ipad/mbp retina tools. What I find most interesting about all 80s computers I have is that they still work and work perfectly.

I really wonder if that would be the case with after '95 computers. I have a lot; they are all broken except my Sun E450, SGI O2, Sparcstation 5s and Ultra 10. Almost none of the over 50 laptops, netbooks, pads and desktops from '95 till now I have work perfectly. It depends in how far they do not work; most desktops do nothing (besides spin up the power), most laptops come on and start beeping. And I don't work in a builder yard; i'm a programmer, so I didn't expose them to the elements. Computer museums and retro collectors depend a lot on the fixability of computers; all 80s stuff you could easily solder / repair yourself and it is worth it. In the 90s you still could, but after a certain time it gets annoying and people just 'buy new'. We now moved in the everything SMT, micro, system on a chip, glued computers, which means repairing them, especially in 30 years from now, will not be so easy I recon.
Sir, I believe key pieces of the bible have been translated to Klingon.
I think they were positioning these TRS-80's more for business markets while C64 for the home? That was a mistake obviously as IBM was firmly there already. Same mistake Philips made in Europe with MSX and after that PC. The home market was fine, but making the systems very expensive for the business market was a crap strategy as you could buy an IBM compatible (with horrible graphics/sounds, but he, we are talking business here) for the same price as for instance the 8250 or 8280; why buy the latter?

That went on for Amiga/Atari as well; for the entertainment market (graphics, video, audio and games) these systems were excellent and great value; upping the price with the Amiga 2000 for instance and selling it 'for the business market' was a nail in the coffin.
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This illustrates the significant difference between the use-cases of "web APIs" and conventional APIs, that the former are more like a database CRUD (including REST), rather than a request for computation. They (usually) are an alternative interface to a website (a GUI), and that's how most websites are used. e.g. an API for HN would allow story/comment retrieval, voting, submission, commenting.

They could be used for computation, but (mostly) aren't.
A man made Malthusian crisis is still a Malthusian crisis, crop failure and improper agricultural policy have a bearing on how big a population can subsist.

1% of the world's then population passed away in the Irish famine. Ireland's population is now 5 million and Britain's around 60. Ireland's population was extraordinarily large compared to the subsistence farmer's yields in 1845. Here's a chart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IrelandEuropePopulation17...

Ireland may have been a net exporter of food during the famine, but I would hope you agree that policy can bring about a very literal shortage of food.
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>Of the startups that didn't pivot - they either skipped the pivot thanks to previous side projects/companies or already had traction - and all they had to do was lever up and ride.

Like twitter, right?
Right, I missread !

Copyright is now 70 years. So, assuming it was published between 1940 and 1942, it effectively felt in public domain hence, inmho ianal, both original story and recorded are now in public domain.
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another thread, blog ref'g this paper

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4871661
They did literally thousands of shows and over 90% of them were taped! That's a pretty impressive historical record of a band's performances.
You seem to be taking this very personally AND making unwarranted assumptions.

Let me correct a few of your misapprehensions.

> You appear to be an emissary from the Rust community.

I follow Rust with interest, because I like a lot of its basic principles. This does not make me any kind of "emissary".

> Let me make a request and hope you can forward it on to your dark masters in the land of Mozilla.

I am in no way affiliated with the Mozilla organization.

> Please stop using every single topic on HN to mention "Rust does it better".

I am also not aware of 'using every single topic on HN to mention "Rust does it better". In particular, you may note the lack of the word "better" in my comment.

> 1. Add more content to your comment so it's substantive rather than name-dropping

This is quite ironic considering the meat of my post was a complaint about the lack of content in TFA.

> 2. Ask the Rust community to stop trying to outdo the Haskell community at propagandizing (hi dons!)

Again, I'm not clear where you see proselityzing in my post. Maybe there was something unclear about the way I wrote, but the idea was to take something ill-defined (the C# dialect in question) and compare it to something with clearly defined semantics which has been discussed here before. I've made no claim at superiority of one approach against the other. Considering how little there is in the article, it would have been silly even if I had been so inclined.

> 3. Start building things in Rust and show HN. A brief blog post describing pros/cons/future improvements would be boss.

Again, you seem to be reading more in my post than what I wrote. That said, and to address the point you raise here, the big problem with Rust until now is the syntax and feature sets has undergone significant changes between point releases, which is not an incentive to spend a lot of man-hours working on it just yet.
The PCB is the easy bit. Making the firmware which delivers your keypresses down a PS2/USB pipe is not. You have to consider things like n-key rollover and ghosting/blocking particularly when using matrix encoding/scanning which are a bastard to code.
Google has a reputation for being cliquey. I've also noticed a tendency toward trying very hard to make your coworkers look stupid rather than trying to look smart by actually accomplishing things.

I'm sure it depends on where you're working, but there seems to be a lot of that Marissa Mayer "excellence means putting other people down" attitude. And because of that, there is a lot of mediocre talent at Google despite its reputation.

I have no idea whether any of this has to do with Guido's decision, a lot of engineers like to change jobs for all sorts of reasons, sometimes for the sake of it, but I'd probably prefer Dropbox to Google as well.
Do devs think DELL can make a decent computer? NO.
Squirrel - The Programming Language
Reddit JSON api (just add .json to any URL) is not good enough for you ?
Good point. I simply avoided regex for HTML for this reason and it wasn't justified (although a good choice).
Lua compared to Squirrel
http://wiki.squirrel-lang.org/default.aspx/SquirrelWiki/gjhp...
The danger for many (or most) people on Hacker News is not that they're going to slack off and only work 25-35 hours a week, but that they're going to work 60-80 hours a week on the wrong things.

And sleep deprived people are really, really crippled at deciding what the wisest thing to work on is.
Twitter began as Odeo, which was a failed podcasting startup.
In my experience, fluidity of simple commands is not much of a problem, because muscle memory will take care of that eventually anyway.

However, C-x C-S-8 is certainly a more complex move than qq.

And the one for recording a macro to a register is even more complex. So complex in fact that I don't remember it. Hence I use those commands less often.

But the flip side is that something like occur or REPLs or magit or org-mode offer different benefits that you can not quantify in keystrokes as easily.

I guess there are different kinds of fluidity. To my mind, Vim is unmatched in low-level text manipulation fluidity. Emacs optimizes for a kind of higher level work flow fluidity.

Maybe Evil is the answer. But my brain has seemingly disparate modes for Vim and Emacs that are weirdly incompatible to each other.

Also, it helps to reimplement your favorite commands in Emacs. For example, I have M-s and M-r bound to something like f/F in Vim. Similarly, M-o and C-o act like o/O.
I think the problem there is that just because someone has made a name for themselves in one field does not imply that they have some sort of superhuman intellect that means they will offer useful insights on a range of subjects.

You might think that to be the case but there is no evidence for it being so.

Hawking's pontificating on metaphysics are of no more interest to me than Linus Torvald's on laptop screen resolutions or Richard Dawkin's theoretical thoughts on cosmology.
Ten things I have learned from Elon Musk.
I don't know how successful they are but wilmaa.com is doing that in CH.
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Well, if it's actually a pathology, it's hardly idiocy. It's pretty moronic to swim in ice water, but if your motorboat sinks halfway across the English channel, you do your best to get back to shore.
While this is all true, it wouldn't tell us much about the actual experience of feeling the emotion. That would remain metaphysical.
> Sidenote: I wonder if any webapps use randomly generated IDs and class names (linked in the CSS) to prevent scraping. I guess this would be a caching nightmare, though.

These guys do a stellar job on the IP addresses: http://www.hidemyass.com/proxy-list -- the good thing is the data is available for an amazing price.

Other sites I have some across will use large images and css sprites to mask price data.

I write a lot of scrapers for fun, rarely profit, just for the buzz
Do NOT get behind this project, if you like Objective C help out the GNUstep project on linux, WINE is a fail and it serves no useful purpose in the age of pervasive VMs. Make GNUstep better. Its worth your time.
One of such useful general ideas is to know when to stop.

Pilling up meaningless words (or Java-classes, or CL macros) is not just waste of time, it creates even more confusion and messes everything up.

When very few people trying to capture the essence of a phenomena, so to speak) they end up with something really clever, like Plan9, or Scheme (or Arc) vi, Emacs, etc.

So, there is a simple heuristic - as long as you saw piles upon piles of crap (J2EE, NodeJS, Clojure, everything that comes from MS or SAP) - just avoid it.

"Perfection", as we know, is achieved not when it is nothing more to add, but when it is nothing more to remove.) This means, for instance, that we need less special forms (but moar small macros), less special characters (and using them consistently - I could write a brochure, about why using ~ instead of , in Clojure's macroses is not just a stupid break of consistency and familiarity, but also lack of taste - , "matches" with ` while ~ not.))

Most of the time, even a single glance at a text or source code is enough to form a correct intuition.
Does he ever get any less arrogant?
Very Useful Hidden ViM Feature You Do Not Know About
I can't find any actual citations of the word regulate used to mean "to make regular". The only references I found are in articles trying to explain the Commerce Clause.

The word regulate comes from the Latin regulare "to control by rule, direct". I don't see any evidence that the meaning has changed much over time.
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It depends on your app.. if your selling movie tickets as below, then you are fine.

You also could make different versions of the app with payment system for different markets, but that can be a headache.

depending on the interpretation of "were payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the application itself (e.g. buying songs that can be played on other music players)" You could arguably make a free app that uses stripe to sell other apps, but I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, and even if legal, that won't mean google won't boot such an app.
First I recommend looking at the groups on LinkedIn, please don't dive in there and ask stupid questions, but read and perhaps ask a well placed question. Give context and you'll find the experts there mostly willing to help.

There are different types of cable companies, but things you need to know are:
1) Coax costs more than fiber optics
You might think this is a stupid statement but when you are rolling out over a wide area you will find this. Look at GPON technology, even small community cable companies in Spain are using this advanced technology.
2) You either use digital TV or IPTV technology to deliver the channels. Digital TV (like DVB-C), will allow you to use a lot of legacy technology but it will leave you stuck in a legacy quickly. IPTV will require using all new hardware but that hardware may be cheaper to invest.
3) TV networks often need heavy constraints on content security (encryption and DRM), don't think that you can change the world, the Hollywood/MLB/NFL/NHL/Premier League lawyers won't budge and even the TV networks have to bow to the rights holders. If you don't have security built in then you will fail to get content, poor security will result in you having to do a major swap out which could bankrupt you.
3) IPTV should be multicast in order to reduce the costs of delivery on the network.
4) You will need a big internet connection.
5) Employ some people who know what they are doing already, there are lots of semi-retired engineers who can help you achieve what you want and they needn't cost you the earth. Again, check LinkedIn for this.
Depends where you are, I guess. Public domain in the States extends back into the 20s still because that's when Mickey Mouse was created.
I don't think they are referring to the phenomenon of consciousness, rather than the experience of consciousness itself.
This was always something of a killer feature for me in Python, and one of the reasons I use Flask a lot. Good to see Rails support for in-browser debugging, it's a super convenient workflow to never have to go back to the terminal, just alt-tab from editor to browser.
"The success of smartphones comes at a price" errr, what?
How Larry Page Built Google Into The World's Most Important Internet Company
That, and hoodies.
(a) no evidence of better performance. Lua/Nginx is very fast too.
(b) Its just a proxy, while Lua/Nginx/openresty is much more of a full web development environment. You can use it as a proxy, but it is not the main use case.
(c) I don't think Traffic Server has more capabilities, as far as I can see, I think it has fewer as it is much more focus on being a proxy product, while Nginx is a full web server.
I've found diffbot to be quite useful for scraping.
Here is some example auth code for Amazon services in Lua for Nginx I wrote ages ago, which might help get an idea of what the code might look like https://gist.github.com/948423

It is very fast doing that type of stuff in Lua, and it all gets done in the same request context.

There is some new functionality in openresty since that example, so there are probably other choices of ways to implement it.
Interesting read, somewhat worrying though -- hopefully along appification we will also see (open) "API-ification" that will help preventing fragmentation/compartmentalization of the web. We were fighting silos (in the corporate setting) in the past and would be unfortunate to see this coming to the web too.
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wow, this is amazing.
Browser uniqueness [pdf]
So in the end it didn't have something to do with monothreaded and CPU affinity, when you read the comment.
It was just that he was using the powersaving CPU governor which scaled down the CPU frequency on the cores..
Birds are often cantankerous and mischievous.

Could this be because they evolved form the dinosaurs?
I didn't finish to read this article
The End: NZBMatrix closes
Apple TV does not update over ethernet
As a Rails n00b, I can't wait to try this.
Inspired by the African parrot's speeches in past, I had often considered raising an African Grey parrot with human teachings from a young age, akin to gorillas. It would certainly be exhausting with learning how to teach and teaching it. At least to see if it can pass it on to other animals. Perhaps even demand the right to vote!

However, the African Grey parrots are becoming endangered because people want them as a pet. I feel bad for wanting one now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Grey_Parrot
The branding re-colouring and what looks like will be a proper functioning web design I think are actually really great ideas. I mean it can be argued what is the best looking logo. I think they are taking something from the USA Today rebranding with that giant circle.

I used to work in higher education, and the web is amazingly decentralized at large universities and that means look and feel are often as well. It is very hard to police or even gain the power to police look and feel across multiple faculties, departments, and associations, so you have to provide them with a template that allows some freedom. Think of it as the tug-of-war between state and federal laws.

Often the team in charge of the top level domain will be in charge of look and feel but are given surprisingly little resources. They often can't attract top web-talent because they can't compete on wage and excitement (but can slay on benefits and working hours). They would probably have had to fought for years with higher ups to get a 1 time pool of money to do this re-branding initiative, but often after that is gone so does the upkeep, and evolution of the brand.

I was involved on a large re-branding committee almost the exact same as this. They paid big money for what was considered a goofy tag line. Students immediately graffiti'ed jokes and wrote protest articles about it. But years later with the new undergrads now graduating under it, it has stuck, and from what I can tell has been successful. Same thing will happen here, it is to attract and brand to a new generation.

Also they will still have a classic seal, that won't go away. That will be gold leaf stamped on your diploma.
An inline REPL? I love you more than I have words, particularly if you can somehow snag context for it.
If You Have Competitors, Go On With Your Idea
I remember setting up a rune collection in my house/shop (you could set up NPC vendors to sell stuff to other players). The collection was free to use but my vendors sold copies of it you could take away or (for much less) runes that would bring you back to my shop. This meant that people would use my shop as a transport hub, and buy stuff while they were at it.

Such a harsh game, but that's what made it exciting. Interactions felt real, and just like in real life while people could be dicks most people chose to be decent.
Maybe you just shouldn't use it now when it's not ready.
There is no reason to complain about missing documentation or other stuff if they didn't get to do it until now. That what "not ready" means. Keep calm and wait ;-)
Worth noting for any of you Apple TV users out there. This last update will constantly fail unless you use WIFI. I wish I would have seen this post before but since the update came out a couple weeks go. I tried resetting my settings, restoring to factory default. Today, I decided to fix it once and for all or buy a new one. Finding out that I needed to unplug my Ethernet cord to get the update to work was a mind blower for me.

This article seems to simulate a lot interesting thoughts for me on the future of Apple. It might be interesting discussion material.
Another proof that spending 15 minutes on research can save you days in development and production.