skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engadget's title originally did not include the word preview, and hence was misleading.
Actually this is explicitly applicable to the web/Internet performance. The person who discovered this distribution was the same person for whom the language Erlang is named after-- and was developed for the purpose of predicting waiting times between telephone calls. This also describes times of web page requests arriving to a server.

Much of what flowed out (queuing theory) can just as well be applied to Internet packets or to web servers (with various threading/request handling models corresponding to various queues) processing requests.

This may not sound exciting, but it's vitally important (particularly for modeling and simulation-- which is vital in cases where you can't do a live test of a certain algorithm without incurring an expense).

Fundamentally these algorithms are fairly easy to implement: all you need is a prng producing the specific distribution. I wonder how many of the HTTP stress tools actually do this, though.
I would be keeping everything in memory (using lazy loading) regardless. It makes life simpler.
Just thinking off the top of my head, but wouldn't cloning the MAC cause conflicts with the existing MAC on the network?

I've done something similar with cloning my iPhone MAC to get free WiFi access on my laptop using the free AT&T WiFi provided to iPhones.

But if what you're saying actually works, this seems like a dead simple way of getting free access. I already have Kismac installed, so I'll definitely try it. Thanks!
Thanks for the great feedback!

Regarding 1,2 and 3, I agree Ill look into changing this now.

5. I see what your saying but I think its possible to put these concerns to rest by building a strong brand based on things such as security. I don't think a new name is what should express that, I think thats the brands job.
Guarding the U.S.-Mexico border, live from suburban New York
TomTom Can License FAT without violating GPL
Don't get your panties in a bunch. This isn't a threat to the GPL.
The loss of sixteen (16) minutes of office time twice a year has a cost, clearly. I will add that my rhythm takes a hit for at least a week on each shift too. I suspect other people share that cost too. That written, in my opinion, the cost is more than worth it.

In exchange for the cost of thirty-two (32) minutes I get ~eight (8) months of an extra hour of daylight later on in the day (~240 hours more). I'd argue that this has a benefit to people. Further, I'd argue this benefit outweighs the cost.

This article strikes me as only pointing out the thing that is seen and wholly ignoring the unseen. It is cute but reality is not nearly so simple. In the context of a company that makes monitoring software, this article makes sense. They produce a metric, their view is through that metric, and they report the metric.
Why an Apple tablet is a great idea
Forget about whatever I wrote - if you saw it!

Well, I think it could be this one... it's very similar to it, but the other one was very specialized about airline tickets.

But almost I think it's this one... since it has the same box!
I briefly looked into doing this. The answer is pretty damn difficult, at least in the case of mozilla.
Is it callous of me to not really care about these things? Thousands of people commit suicide each day. While I'm not indifferent to that, and hope that the individual cases (including this one) turn out for the best, every time one involves the internet it seems to end up here.

Why? How is it news, or even interesting to people who don't know this person? Because the guy is a programmer? Are we going to also bump up every amber alert where the parent is a programmer? If we extrapolate this far enough, it some point in the future, we'd probably never see anything else here.

I'm really hoping its just the newness of the internet being used as the sucidial's cry for help that makes this get front page here, because I think I prefer stories about erlang.
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Android is a worthy competitor that's ahead of the iPhone OS in many ways (behind in others). A comparison between the two is not a bad thing.
Does Python have a libxml2 binding? I have had pretty good luck with its parse_html_string function.

Failing that, you can always use Perl and HTML::TreeBuilder / HTML::Parser. They work pretty well on malformed input.
Wow! Pretty excellent research.

Question, because I'm certain somebody knows: is that story of 100 IQ - 60 = 180 - 140 in terms of relative intelligence true? Or is that just metaphorical and not actually representative of "people doing such-and-such are on different planes of existence"?
They earn monthly revenues off of their iPhones, I wonder if they would really mind if every iPod user switched to the iPhone.
Rapid Iterative Startup Product Launch and Delivery the Open Source Way
That list of people is the most interesting part of this thread.
Actually, I think it would be pretty easy if you are willing to have a running Mozilla process. Just connect to it with MozRepl, get it to render a page, and then inspect the DOM with JavaScript. (This could be library-ed up so that you get a W3C DOM back on the Python side, or whatever.)

I use a similar technique to get emacs to syntax-highlight my slides. Connect to the running emacs (with all my settings), run htmlify via emacsclient --eval, and enjoy perfect highlighting!
I don't think not caring is really all that callous.

Spending three paragraphs complaining about it is probably a little misguided, however.
Are you seriously saying you think there aren't any legitimate situations where a person would want more than a single physical phone?

I'm saying there are no situations in which I'd want more than a single physical phone. I've used more than a single physical phone, like when I'm outside the US and want a local cellphone number but don't want to lose my US number, but in every situation I'd prefer to keep a single physical phone.

You've never lived or worked in a building with terrible cell phone reception

Switch providers. Though, ideally, I should be able to get calls through VoIP on my WiFi.

had a dead battery but still really needed people to be able to get a hold of you

It's easier to find/carry a charger than it is to notify everyone that needs to be able to get a hold of me of the new number.

had your phone stolen, or had your simcard go bad?

These are exceptional situations. I can get a phone replaced within a day in such a scenario. If it's urgent I can borrow a friend's cellphone.
I wouldn't call not caring callous, but certainly expecting the rest of the community that does care to not use a very public forum as a resource to ask for help could be considered callous.
I understand the criticism of the process and the products.
But there is a market for these types of apps, and you develop for what the user wants.
There definitely needs to be a good way to search for the shining stars, so a search service akin to Google for the AppStore needs to be developed.
But until then, you develop what the user wants and is willing to pay for.
> I would be more inclined to believe any differences in intelligence, if there really are any, are due to the environment in which the child was raised, rather than genetic advantages and disadvantages.

Intelligence measured by the general intelligence factor is highly heritable. The general intelligence factor is a factor analysis of intelligence and is a measure of “innate” intelligence and attempts at “boosting” this fails. The test that measures this the best is Raven's progressive matrices which is culture and language negative. The general intelligence factor is highly correlated with IQ and highly correlated with future success. The performance of a person in these tests has to do with the physical make-up of the brain (there are a lot of online articles by (dr/prof) Haider that is fairly readable that sheds light on this subject.)

> Here is a list I have compiled. IQ scores may be disputed, but the intelligence of these people generally are not.

A note about your cited IQs – it is probably not correct. The popular press like to “guesstimate” the IQ of historic persons – but this is of little value. Rigorous intelligence tests (such as IQ tests) is a 20th century phenomenon. Leibniz lived in the 17th century – well before these tests. So to try and determine any IQ or measure of intelligence from him is a waste of time.

Also – you collected only a point sample - I bet someone could get the same example with selecting a different group of famous persons. You also only selected the top 1% and not the general populations – so to draw assumptions of this sample to the general population would be wrong.

I do agree with you that the study is somewhat worthless. Here are several conflating factors:

People involved in menial labour (i.e. without tertiary qualifications) generally get children at a younger age. A lot of older financially secure men would generally marry younger less intelligent women (trade-up/Russian bride phenomenon). The age of child bearing of different social classes differs significantly.

Also - a three point IQ difference with all these conflating factors would probably fall under the heading "not statistically significant".
Science inspired the web. Now, the web has repaid the compliment by changing science
The previous submission was not news for your entertainment. It could have helped find him or cause him to change his mind.
Hmmm. Yeah - good point - also the appstore stream to tap into.
You don't need to wonder. You can do it and then forget about it until you're interested in it again.
Windows NT used an embedded Prolog interpreter to configure its networking
It's not a competitor.

Apple controls their hardware, their software, their packaging, the computer-related software (and hardware, in some cases) and, in short, the entire user experience.

Android is a phone operating system. It's a competitor like Windows Mobile is a competitor, which is to say it competes with one of the myriad things the iPhone is doing.

A comparison might make for a good separate article, but when somebody says "I like these features" the response isn't "Well this OS" has it, because the first guy obviously isn't saying "These are the features I absolutely need." They're just things that would make the iPhone even better.

This is why, every time I see an argument over Linux GUIs, I don't insert how much better OSX + iLife is as far as Unix systems go. There's a time and place for comparison, but simply saying "Hay guys Android does this" isn't adding to the conversation.
FWIW, these numbers are pulled out of an orifice that contains hundreds of millions of second-by-second attention data.... Not our asses.

Now, I'll concede that some of the other numbers (salaries of knowledge workers, numbers of knowledge workers, etc) are not toooo thoroughly researched, but they are in the neighborhood.

A commenter suggested that "we make it up on the other end" (with "fall back"), so we compared the fall DST to typical mondays and found that PEOPLE LOGGED BELOW AVERAGE TIME THERE AS WELL (which was a bit of a surprise). I'm assuming that people take the extra time they get if they wake up early to have a hearty breakfast or watch the news or somesuch.
Okies -- they might have copped the same thing.
Does anyone have any ideas to get the gov't to ban daylight savings time?
Univac Mainframe
Visitor Pattern. To me it really depends on the context and how many "majigs" you're going to have, how flexible your application needs to be -- do you need to leave layers open to other implementations (different view, different transport, different persistence strategy)? I've gone both ways in the past with different projects, but if I were identify a rule for myself it would be that frameworks go the first way (easier to extend or swap components) while plugins go the second way (self-contained functionality).

If you can handle a larger number of classes you can sort of get around the question by using a good plugin loader that can associate the proper Persistamajig or Displayamajig with a particular object at run time.
I write code.

Some people think that diminishes what I do. I don't just sit at a computer and type code in from start to end. I have to plan, design, revise, and test. I have to read and criticize. I have to consider very high-level structures and very low-level structures. Therefore, I should say I do something much grander than "write code." Something about "science" or "engineering."

It's surely not science. Calling it "engineering" would be fair. Sometimes I do. I don't see what's wrong with calling it "writing," though. After all, don't I write code principally for other humans to understand, and only incidentally for machines to execute? Writers plan, imagine, write, revise, test, and rewrite. Writers read and criticize. Writers consider high-level structures and low-level structures. Writers produce rivers of words one afternoon and struggle with a single line the next. Writers excise large sections of their work with mixed feelings of triumph and regret.

Writing code is what I do. If the language had evolved differently, I would be proud to call myself a "code writer" or simply a "writer." The closest equivalent seems to be "programmer," so that's what I call myself. Or, on my resume, as a concession to corporate dullness, a software engineer.
I would put my work phone on permanent call forwarding, but I can't figure out these damn cisco phones. If it had a multi-touch screen and gestures, then maybe I could get it done.
http://wundrbar.com/ it's almost this one.
Verizon Media Store
Ask HN: Do you use wireframes to mock up your site?
Do you use wireframes to mock up your site prior to development? If so, what software do you use to create them?
I live in Switzerland, yes, but I have Scottish college who worked previously in Germany and several friends from South Africa who've worked all over Europe. None of them can get much past "ja" or "nein".

The thing to remember is that, outside of the U.S., most companies of any size are international. And once they're international the main language is probably going to be English because that will be the most accessible middle ground.
The day i realised i had started to read the comments before the actual articles was the day I realised this. Sometimes the comments are of greater value.
And Tony is?
Funny, I was just referencing this issue the other day.

When people ask me what I do, I say "computer stuff", and occasionally I'll lift my hands and kind of type at a non-existent keyboard. They invariably go "oh" -- to date, not one has said "ok, but what KIND of computer stuff?" which would be my own personal response.

This tells me I'm either consistently gauging their level of computer savvy pretty accurately, or that occasionally I come off like a bit of a dick. YMMV.
There's a DOE study that shows extending DST saves energy and also has no statistically significant effect on fuel consumption... So this $480m "lost" productivity is potentially offset by energy savings across the US.

I'm also less inclined to believe the RescueTime productivity number when they take their own solid figures on user involvement and then mix them in with a few SWAGs to come up with what people now believe is a solid figure. Once you throw BS into the recipe you've spoiled the final product.

From the DOE report---
Changes in national traffic volume and motor gasoline consumption for passenger vehicles in 2007 were determined to be statistically insignificant and therefore, could not be attributed to Extended Daylight Saving Time.

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/ba/pba/pdfs/epact_sec_110_edst_r...
no.

i don't like them, really. in the past when i did some, i felt it took too much time in comparison to the benefits i got out of it. my concepts change too much, sometimes in big ways, even after a mockup is complete, even after work has begun.

/not a designer, but plays one on tv
First off: You stole Tumblr's icons. That's a really, really shitty thing to do. They paid good money for those icons and you blatantly ripped them from the site.

Not just that. You copy your "translucent borders" from Facebook, your "close window" dialogue from the original lightbox and your feedback tab links to Getsatisfaction. The one original idea you had, putting notebook lines in the background, you couldn't even bother to sync up with the size of your font. (Aviary does this but they actually sync up the lines.)

Second off: How is this better than Tumblr? Do you know what Twitter is without ultrasimplicity? It's a downgraded version of a regular blog. That's why "Twitter+this" startups fail. Twitter is only good because it's so simple.

I use my blog as a diary. I write 20-30 posts a day about whatever comes to mind in the hopes that I can preserve it as a diary for half a century and then figure out a way to make use of it. Why would I pay $10 a month for something that gives me less than I've already got?

Third off: I like the header design but it's hard to navigate. I'm also a little offended that as your "famous diary person of choice" you picked Anne Frank, whose diary is most famous because the person that wrote it died. What's the implication? "You'll die so write stuff down?" For an online service, that's pretty obnoxious.

All that stuff aside, it looks nice, though I wonder just how much of this design you ripped off sources of which I'm not aware. (I could swear that font looks remarkably close to the "sparse black-on-white" that Posterous uses.)
It would be nice if they had a comparison document detailing the differences between the Cloud Servers and their Slicehost service. I currently have a handful of slices, all of which might benefit from these offerings. However, I know with the Slicehost offerings I have persistent storage, bandwidth, etc. However, I don't normally use all my bandwidth or storage.

It would also be nice to know if they have any details regarding whether this will be integrated into Slicehost's Control Panel, or products, to allow easier migration, scaling, etc.
It would be opt in I would hope.
Like with the Hans Reiser story, it's just more interesting because it happened to someone in our clan.

Hell, we've already got TMZ for nerds in the form of ValleyWag so even our educated consort likes drama & gossip.
HN Suggestion: Add flag link for comments to the comments page.
I only see the option to flag comments after clicking reply on a comment. This was confusing to me when I first joined the community and was instructed by people to flag comments I found inappropriate. Maybe it's not present on the comments page because of my karma level, but it would be easier if the option to flag was presented next to each comment on the comments page.
Use Balsamiq. Kicks total ass. Super super simple and highly productive. Non-technical users find it easy to work with and this is very valuable.

You can mock up an entire site in an hour. Balsamiq is actually quicker than paper mockups when you take into account ease of changes.
I would use them, but their data center is located in Germany, which really sucks latency wise for Asian traffic.

What latency do you get between DE and US?

Also, I tend to saturate ram much faster than bandwidth, so getting cheap ram can be more important. It all depends on the use case of course.
I feel almost exactly the same [1], and I too would love to have a reasoned, non-emotional debate about this with someone to see if I am indeed missing something. But I think lionheart is correct that it's probably not realistic. I think pg gives a good explanation as to why this is the case in [2] and I find this unfortunate. If you can't see any flaws in what you have, how can it be fixed?

[1] Well, actually I'm not convinced setting up a business is that much more expensive if at all. It depends on living expenses. Getting investors is harder, but the trend seems to be going away from investors anyway.

I'm also not convinced on shopping. The selection is obviously better in the U.S. but all the places I've lived in the U.S. seem to have utterly abandoned quality in favor of "cheap". The worst of these for me is the food.

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Machine Language For Beginners
Disagree. HN is a community very much shaped by conscious decisions and discussion of what is and is not appropriate.

I care about this guy I've never known, and that he gets help.

I also care about HN, and that discussion here continues to remain on topic. I do think this case is important enough to maybe make an exception, but still worth raising the point afterward that it is a bit off topic.

If these three paragraphs can help shape this community, and what people do and do not choose to up vote, I think the comment is spot on and very well directed. I think that was the point, not trying to emphasize callousness or whine.

[Edit: some poor punctuation]
And additionally, cases when volatile is really necessary around setjmp()/longjmp() are pretty rare.
well, do you get to skip the bad period on the other side?
Daylights savings also increases the number of heart attacks http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/18/1966
I usually just tell people I'm a programmer. If you say you're a writer, that tends to provoke some people into an attempt to discover whether you're "really" a writer, which in their minds equates with making your whole living from it. Despite the prevalence of open source, this sort of person tends to believe that no one would write code except for money, so they'll usually take your word for it if you say you're a programmer. Even though in fact I make some money from writing and none from programming.
Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners
Wait, why not just port SGMLParser to Python 3.0? Did I miss something?
The Mind Behind the Web: An Interview With Tim Berners-Lee
Fossil - source control w/ built-in bug tracking and wiki
I think he's greatly overestimating how well people understand engineering jobs. Half the time when I tell people I'm an electrical engineer, they go, "Oh, like an electrician?".

Also, I've never met anyone outside of engineering who knew what a P.E. license is.
I do wonder how many people responded via HN with relevant info? (purely out of interest).

That said I guess one can hardly blame his IRC friends for posting to the list just in cae :)

EDIT: removed Off Topic comments. ;)
He forgets to mention "Computational Mathematician". Computer stuff is more often like math than it is like science. Out of math, science, and engineering, I would say it is like science the least.

I hereby request to be called an "applied computational mathematician".

Although, often I get the feeling that I am a sort of wizard in training; constantly learning new spells (programming techniques) to apply to new situations. So I will also accept "apprentice computational warlock".