skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the keypresses (to prevent inadvertent credential sharing), and just doing mouseclick heatmaps while anonymizing the IPs involved and sites visited would be interesting (you'd want to keep screen size/browser.version data, for an understanding of what the heatmaps represent).

Would provide lots of info without compromising much details.
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That's not the only problem. Plutonium has numerous allotropes, and the allotropes have different material properties such as hardness and density. Given that creating super-criticality in a fission weapon is highly dependent on density and that the implosion dynamics are dependent on the properties of the fissile material this has a significant impact on weapons design. Given that an allotrope of Plutonium can change into another over time this makes keeping an eye on Plutonium based nuclear warheads quite necessary.

Additionally, radioactive decay releases Helium gas (alpha particles) over time which will lodge in the crystalline structure and cause disruptions over time.

Either of these factors can result in a change in the reliability and yield of nuclear warheads kept in storage for a long period of time.
>Of course there would be the point where I would need help from people who are specialized in database design / sharding / partitioning, etc - likely earlier than going the cloud hosting route

Where does this misconception come from? That is the exact opposite of reality. With the "cloud" route, you are limited to absurdly inadequate servers, which is a large part of what drove the "nosql" fad, you need to shard if you are on EC2, because they offered nothing with reasonable IO. Even now they have an SSD option, but it is a single crappy SSD, and barely any RAM. With the dedicated route, you can do a 512GB RAM, 24 SSD array server and not have to worry about sharding until you are in the top50 sites on the web.
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It's nice seeing how you actually used the feedback from previous HN submission & made changes(and havent been rementioned here).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703380
there is an interesting TED talk from this year about this, how checklists for surgical teams has been designed and implemented in a few hospitals around the world:
http://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_how_do_we_heal_medicin...
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> The site would be every naysayer's 1999 prediction for what Wikipedia would become.

The naysayers in 1999 said Wikipedia would be hopelessly inaccurate, not that it would contain lots of information. I don't think "This site will become a vast repository of information about all subjects great and small" would even have counted as naysaying.
I genuinely wasn't doing it to feel superior.

Yes you were. The whole tone of your post is "lol, look at those right-winger idiots!". Remember, you thought it'd be "hilarious".

For what it's worth, I've seen left-wingers also brainlessly forward untruths and non-quotes the same as the right. It's not a political spectrum issue, it's a general issue with people in an information-dense environment.
It's amazing but not all that surprising how geeky the google plus hashtags are. I wonder if we'll see social networks splinter into cliques.
I totally dislike comparisons of dedicated hosting versus cloud. Especially when they dont factor in any of the costs of the support contract, hardware replacements, etc. involved in supporting physical hardware.

He also mentions that there is no way to see what your next bill will be in AWS. They offer an 'Account Activity' link, that shows you current charges in the current month. That can be helpful when testing things.

I hope people that are new to setting up infrastructure and supporting it do no use comparisons like this to make the decision for them. There are far too many variables not discussed in this article for this to be very valuable to anyone.
I'm just tired of seeing memes on places of "serious business," as bti points out.
Content is already hard enough (i.e. nearly impossible) to keep accurate and updated. If all of us wanted to record the tree in our garden... it would be too much noise compared to signal.

The "aha" moment with Wikipedia is realising that it is not an archive (which is what some people want). It summarises archives, of course, but the point is to write a compendium of useful knowledge.

Where to draw the line is not easy; I think we are too heavy on the notability front. A better way is usually to think "how many people would find this useful or interesting", and if it is a reasonably significant then it is worth writing about.

The culture is a monolith and can be hard to break into - I've long moaned about that. Changing that is hard; I don't begrudge people moaning or criticising it, but I suggest that the most constructive approach is to take part and bring some common sense on board :)

Just don't get sucked into the politiking and game mongering.
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wow, impressive guys!
Z80 was only out of date when you were born if you're not TI.
Laptops should still have fans for when they're plugged in and have the power available to ramp up clock speeds.
Trust the lawyers to make out like bandits in just about any situation. This reminds me of the various UK "public enquiries" e.g. into Northern Ireland which last a decade and cost literally millions of pounds. Nice work if you can get it.
"On the other hand, if the cheater is going to get found out by his lack of skill, he won't achieve a reward and his cheating is irrational and self-defeating, and not something we need to worry about. It's self-punishing behavior."

The impostor will still gain a privilege from their ill-gotten degree and claims of expertise in a subject, even if the coding-related job screens them out. Those charismatic persons may also receive their jobs because of cronyism/nepotism, their lack of skillset given a pass because of the credentials.

Worry is a loaded term. I didn't worry about the cheaters when I was getting my degree, but I would still prefer to see them removed from the system, once found.
But it takes someone with a good understanding of language to really test copy. If you put a designer in charge of A/B efforts, if all they have a design hammer, all they will see is design nails.
Agreed, but I think they took a second approach that was also workable: Offer as much guidance and as many tools as possible (.e.g., 2to3, from __future__ import, etc), and then expect it to take years for the migration to occur. I don't know how possible it was to run both in the same interpretor process; I believe that it wasn't just because of the changes they were contemplating.

Lots of people like myself have been following our key libraries, but it's worth noting that, at this point, the migration seems both inevitable and not terribly difficult since 3.3 fixes most of the complaints about .0 and .1, and a lot of struggle to migrate has already been accomplished and offered lessons learned.
If anyone has topics they'd like to hear more about in the talk, post them here and I'll try to cover them.
Dynamic image distortion in the browser
Similar to the logic behind the stagnation of microsoft stock over the last decade - institutional investors just owned as much of it as they were allowed to.
"...a scientist whose brain is uploaded into a supercomputer' while trying to create the first ever sentient computer"

It's hardly creating sentience if you're just installing an existing intelligence on another piece of hardware...just sayin'....
Also includes holiday bonus easter egg from npm.
Not sure I agree. There is a shorthand github option in bundler already which is there (presumably) due to the fact that a good percentage of the gems are sourced from there.

It would be helpful if pre-bundle update to know that the significant gem source is not available and exiting.
Hopefully Nolan rehires Hans Zimmer for the soundtrack. I could use some more epic coding music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kGAz6HYM8
I assumed that the killer app for the stylus would be Chinese and Korean character entry. Any actual Asians want to validate or dispel my assumption?
What is the downside? What of a contemporary web app is impossible to degrade?

I think there are two major downsides.

Firstly, there is the opportunity cost. Any time and money I spend catering to a niche group who choose not to support modern technologies properly is time and money I didn't spend improving the experience for everyone else.

Secondly, a lot of web apps are about convenience or entertainment. Beyond a certain point, a degraded experience isn't quantitatively worse, it's qualitatively worse, possibly even to the point of effectively making the entire service worthless.

As far as penetration of these plugins go, a comparison of Google Analytics numbers with raw logfile analysis makes that very clear.

Yes it does. Having done that analysis for the businesses I run, the people blocking Analytics specifically are a small but noticeable minority, but the people blocking JavaScript entirely are noise, and quiet noise at that.

Based on that data, when it comes to so-called graceful degradation, we are far more interested in supporting the significant minority of visitors who have older versions of IE that don't support things like HTML5 and CSS3 well than we are in supporting those who nerf a perfectly good modern browser. YMMV, of course.
Now, that's personal information... :-P
Ingram's standard color is meant to be cheaper

http://www.ingramcontent.com/MRKNG/2012/52856-29853/29853.ht...

Don't know about the quality.
A good balance I found is to have a dedicated server with a stand by AMI in the cloud and switch over using DNS.

What you pay for in the cloud is convenience and not performance.
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Here's a criticism of the Singularity I've seen a couple times that originates from the web comic, Pictures For Sad Children.

"There's a special kind of nerd though who thinks computers will overtake mankind in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now. Ignoring the third of the world without electricity. So the singularity is the nerd way of saying, "in the future, being rich and white will be even more awesome". It's flying car bullshit: surely the world will conform to our speculative fiction. Surely we're the ones who will get to live in the future. It gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment or warfare, and gives nerds something to obsess over that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives."

Although in my mind that's more of a criticism of the adulation of the Singularity by its adherents than of the actual Singularity itself.
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People do scan, but certain words will pop out to them, or if they're styled in bold or italics.
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It kinda has a similar problem to the Hegelian dialectic that Marx built his stuff on. The Singularity argument observes some trends and presumes they will continue along the same profile, carrying our society towards a specific phase-change that we've never seen before. Extrapolating trends is one thing; arguing that some novel configuration is inevitable is another.
"My point wasn't about the quality of ethics, but that it's being left to schools and not the, you know, parents."

Your mistake lies in assuming that parents before were somehow a better source of "ethics" than parents now. History books are always exceedingly kind to prior generations.
Someone should write a book about that, it's a great conspiracy theory. Reminds me of Robert Harris - The Ghost in a way.
I don't know if it's a good place to ask, but I was puzzled for quite some time already and can't figure it out on my own... So, the question is, what made PSY and "Gangnam Style" this popular (in the West - I read on Wikipedia that in Japan it had "luke-warm" reception)? Could someone please try to explain this to me like I never heard the song and never saw the video? Thanks.
"This is something you need to consider regardless"

I'm not talking though about a separate issue which is proper backup procedures. I mean if you have a server racked at Hetzner (or elsewhere) what is your "plan b" when there is a hardware failure.

In the case of a server that I just racked somewhere I will purchase a supply of the most logical parts to fail (fan, hard drive, board, power supply etc.) so that the parts are available and can be replaced quickly. I know that some providers take care of this for you so if the hardware fails (your hardware) you are back up and running quickly.

In the case of a VPS, by contrast, it can generally be assumed (nice if a way to verify this but I'm guessing there isn't) that they take have taken care of and planned for hardware issues and spares and have a strategy. Of course if they haven't you have a big problem. At least with your own hardware you can plan accordingly and insure a better outcome.

There are other issues as well. If the colo place is close to you do you keep the spare parts yourself or do you leave the spare parts with them? The answer depends on many factors (such as is there security where the parts are and who has access to them. If that is not the case better to keep the spares and drive over yourself with them even in the middle of the night).
I totally agree. Just hearing the name Kurzweil enrages me these days.

But! I think the singularity deserves to have a presence in fiction, even if it can't have one in reality. Some of the best sci-fi is built on whimsical and unrealistic technologies.
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Used to be silverlight, moonlight? Didn't catch on.
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That and the quality of the developers also matter.

Many still write code without thinking one second about performance.

Java isn't C, but if you code thinking about performance it is possible to write quite usable applications for many use cases.
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Every single thing that the other people have replied plus 2 things:

1) Tons of experienced and battle-tested people in the ecosystems

2) Standards that keep improving

It's a dual-edge sword thingie, on one hand standards are good for stability but bad because sometimes it slow innovation down. Having said that, the Java ecosystems typically have one strong alternative outside the standard so your choices, in most cases, come down to 2: use what comes from SUN/Oracle or use the leading open source alternative solution. Simple.
That's like saying if you're using a swiss army knife as a knife, maybe you should just use a regular knife.
I received no ActiveX warning with Windows 7 and IE9. What version are you running?
That's similar to http://bl.ocks.org/
It's not just political "hot button" topics. No matter how innocuous the topic, if somebody takes notice of it, you'll often find yourself constantly having to fight random people — who are not the normal contributors to the articles — over stupid legalistic crap. This article with five sections and 20 references should really be a short subsection of that article because, well, he likes shuffling things around; another one should be deleted because the guy has never heard of it and most of the publications that covered it are online-only, etc.

If your particular niche has avoided this, bully on you. But I personally wouldn't want to join it, because if more people come on board, that means more attention and thus (in my mind, at least) greater likelihood of attracting the wikilawyers.
I like how to titled your post with the (s).
I don't respect him solely for choosing challenging projects. I respect his ability to direct really smart films, which are self-consistent. I usually don't care much about contradictions in films, as I think "It's just a film." But with Nolan's films, if there are contradictions, I don't find them. It's as if he has a very good set of rules for a film and sticks to the rules meticulously. And I enjoy that a lot, which I guess makes me a Nolan fan.
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Using Github as a public humiliation platform = WIN! I love this code review!
great point w.r.t. MSFT. I actually think that with FB, institutional investors are responsible for the move back higher. As long as the social space exists and this is the big name there, it will be important for them to have some holdings. The outstanding float is pennies compared to overall investment dollars.
What if they are palestinians "being bombed back into middle ages"[1] or from other arab country that provides 1/100th of the opportunities we have to know `how to be a pro hacker`, a foreign language or, say, an expert modern coder that know all the little beautiful standards?

Suddenly all the smart comments feel a lot less fun

[1] http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/tikkundaily/israeli-minist...
I noted v8 in my comment; it won't be a panacea. It certainly doesn't fix the encoding/decoding overhead of BSON<->JavaScript, but the JIT and multithreading will help in other areas.

Group still will not become sharding-capable with v8, either.
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I am sorry but I think you are posting in the wrong thread. We are talking about Christopher Nolan here.
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... that's what we were all hoping
As there's already a "Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace", that title is unlikely. :)
Is there one that goes in the other direction?
I use codebasehq.com and religiously create separate tickets for each commit/"feature" (commit logs look like: "[completed: 1234] Added feature X.")

The reason behind this is that I might go for a few weeks without even looking at the code and then when I come back to it it's like picking up someone else's work...

I also have boatloads of unit tests so that I don't have to be as terrified about making big sweeping changes, and try to add tests along with every "feature" I put in.
Lol I think that was his email password.
Hispanic refers to Hispania, the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.

Thus, Spain and Portugal are the two original Hispanic cultures. Any culture that has Hispanic roots (i.e. most countries south of the US) is also Hispanic.

Anecdotally, a friend of mine was a first generation Spanish immigrant, and won a college scholarship aimed at Hispanic immigrants.
The nerd adulation comes from the idea that having understanding of computers will be more awesome, not being rich and white. The fact that they make that substitution shows a certain mired pathos.

EDIT:
FWIW, I think the Kurzweil view is ridiculously optimistic.
Agreed, Gladiator is my favorite soundtrack of all time, and I've never heard a soundtrack of Zimmer's that I didn't like. I'd put him right up there with John Williams even though he's only received a fraction of the awards.
am i the only one who doesn't like quora questions being posted here. I'm unable to see the answers without an account.
You're talking about colo issues, not dedicated servers as originally mentioned (the Hetzner EX6 package). It's simpler and sometimes even cheaper to just rent the hardware and let the hosting company deal with all those issues, while of course taking care of redundancy yourself.
20M? Doesn't alter your point, but a pair of 3-gen-old ATI graphics cards manage on the order of 5000-6000M:

Hash type: MD5, Hash: 6df23dc03f9b54cc38a0fc1483df6e21
Device #0: [RV870] 850.00 Mhz 1600 SP
Device #1: [RV870] 850.00 Mhz 1600 SP
CURPWD: @uX5G DONE: 22.30% ETA: 1m 34s CURSPD: 6436.3M=3217.8M+3218.6M

http://www.golubev.com/hashgpu.htm
I'm getting 503 errors on the images.
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Wow, this looks fantastic. Basically Skype chat done right. (and way cooler than Campfire, etc.)
Something no one can see, compared to:

- http://2012.twitter.com

- http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world
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Well, if you really want to have a native looking experience (even though it seems like apps look more and more different from one another, and increasingly less consistent), you can do that in Java, too, and with probably less work, and for free with world-class tools. I run NetBeans on my mac and it looks and behaves quite natively. Far from mediocre, I'd say.
Christopher Nolan And Johnny Depp Sign On To Film About The Singularity
Exactly. We already have silent and fanless tablets so I'm not sure why GE would be so troubled to get "almost silent" coolers.

How can the Dell Mini 9 be fanless, though? I don't think any Atom processor besides the smartphone-only Medfield is fanless. My old EeePC is also quite noisy when loading stuff, and it gets quite hot, too.
The man is a really good actor.

But thank you.

There are some celebrity actors who have stopped playing new roles, and made the roles they take on into studies of their public personas rather than explorations of a character.

If he gets along with Nolan and gets pushed in the right ways he might not phone it in, but all of his recent work points to him being emptily encouraged to do the same thing repeatedly.

I want some art, dammit.
Esoteric programming languages are very interesting. "Whitespace" is probably my favourite. If you want to read more, have a look through this page (be careful, I've wasted a whole evening here):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language
You can also do javascript with it. I can't speak to it personally but friends have used Script# (http://scriptsharp.com/) for client-side javascript with good results. Never heard of anyone attempting node.js with it... yet.
This is exactly the mindset among evangelical christians that believe the rapture is right around the corner - and every generation of evangelical back to the 1800s has believed that the rapture is imminent and of course, that they as individuals will be saved.
The song is catchy and the dance means there's an incentive to have heard and recognise the song. Same deal as the Macarena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarena_(song)) and Crank That (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_That_(Soulja_Boy)). The combination of the internet growing and gaining mainstream adoption (it's now "cool" to know about internet memes) and the "old medias" desire to be in on "new media" made it inevitable.

Gangnam Style is just the "perfect" combination of everything needed to be a success. Also he attended almost every big TV show around, so after appearing on one or two big shows every show had to have him.
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I'm sure most people would be ok with an Ubuntu version.

Perhaps more of your customers would use Linux for Xamarin stuff if it was available?
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> but it's not actually valid ruby.

You are correct that it is invalid for 1.8.6. The code runs just fine in 1.9, though. I take advantage of many things that don't work in 1.8.6, so I'm not particularly concerned with my method chaining breaking compatibility.

I prefer the more-than-2-spaces indentation because, by the shape of the code, it is clearer to me that this is a method chain and not a change in control structure. That is also obvious by actually reading the code, though, so I'm fine putting that down to personal preference.