skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in no position to judge the quality of the Haskell code (I couldn't program my way out of a wet paper bag in Haskell) but after half a lifetime of writing C for a living I can say with confidence that the C code is horribly written and horribly inefficient.

It is tempting to pull the code and fix it.

If you want to compare two languages make sure that you are proficient in both.
stephencanon is absolutely right about the microclimates in the Bay area. I used to live in Polk Gulch and work in the Mission. Sometimes, when I'd go to work at mid-day (which eliminates the possibility of time causing the change), there would be a 10-15 degree change in temperature from home to work, with complete changes in wind and fog as well. That was a 2 mile distance in a 7 mile wide city. Pretty crazy.
And myself too, please. It would find it extremely helpful. (Email in profile).
I think this is what Herb Kelleher was getting at - treating his employees well while still providing a good customer experience (which Southwest is still known for)
In providing customer service for our business, I always keep these two things in mind.

* I'll bend over backwards for you, but I won't bend over forwards.

* The customer is not always right - we discontinued that policy years ago due to abuse.

With that said - you'll get my absolute best effort to support you.
What works, and what doesn't, on Kickstarter
"The Singularity": There's No There There
Nothing? Really?

>But in 2009, findings were published from a well-controlled study that had been going on for more than a decade, and the results were very clear. The study randomly assigned almost 600 children with attention problems to four treatment conditions. Some received medication alone, some cognitive-behavior therapy alone, some medication plus therapy, and some were in a community-care control group that received no systematic treatment. At first this study suggested that medication, or medication plus therapy, produced the best results. However, after three years, these effects had faded, and by eight years there was no evidence that medication produced any academic or behavioral benefits.

Perhaps you are concerned about the lack of a citation (which is standard practice in op-eds, an editorial decision of the paper, and something which the author has no control over). Here is link to the study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19318991
I can confirm this because (a) I too lived in a tiny studio in a super convenient area for a while and (b) after shopping around for a while I can confirm that $1.7k in Manhattan is definitely a steal.
So if breaking grammar provides certain effects, wouldn't the standardization of such constructs into canon grammar diminish the effect?
Here is link to the study showing no long term benefits to adhd meds: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19318991
The "Parrot Math" Attack on Memorization
Testing education
This Is What Happens When A Buggy Algorithm Goes Crazy On A Stock
Redis is far more than a simple KV store.
Code a E-book (kindle) with perl
Funny, but sometimes you do want to clean up your laptop - for example, before crossing the US border.

I would be irked if I had taken steps to remove a downloaded file from my laptop, including secure deletion, only to leave evidence that I'd downloaded it in a sqlite database.
If it's a foregone conclusion that the people involved need to be fired, why bother with the investigation?
I suggest you acquire an MP3 version of it. Quite a powerful speech. I have been studying it for quite a while and learning about what makes it such an amazing powerhouse.
I managed to read it on a desktop just fine.
"Lessig is a giant, imagine how much it would take to hurt a man of such stature that he needs to recover incommunicado and contrast that with the piece written by Mrs. Ortiz.
Worlds apart."

Come on. One was a close, dear and personal friend of Aaron's for many years, the other was someone who saw him as the defendant in a prosecution.

It hardly dehumanizes Ortiz to react and respond differently to Aaron's suicide than Lessig, and is something of a pattern in your posts over this week dehumanizing and demonizing her.

I work in EMS. I see death regularly, including suicide. Though I see (however fleetingly) the pain of those surrounding the deceased, including their loved ones, I don't feel it. The person is, to me, a person and a patient, but I cannot be expected to have the same dark despair as I would, had I lost a long and close friend, and it makes me no less emotional or human to not have that response.
There are worse customers, to me, than those that simply aren't polite. For example, a few times a year, someone will show up, subscribe to a webapp for months, then send an e-mail asking to cancel and get a refund for all their past payments "because I meant to cancel before" -- when they were logging in and using the service regularly the entire time. Even the most polite ways of saying "no" seem to lead to "I'll just call my bank for a refund then". A series of chargebacks, even if they're easily disputed, is more of a threat than the lost revenue -- and running into people so unethical messes with my head more than a "fuck you" ever would.
Years back, when being treated for major clinical depression, someone asked how you could tell if someone was clinically depressed. Someone else (and I forget exactly where I was for this) said, "You respond well to anti-depressants."

The average person, given various antidepressants (or at least certain ones; I've not kept up on all the research) would not get any benefit. Desipramine, for example, is not some all-around, casual-use pick-me-up.

I think this is true for at least some ADD drugs; how does a person respond to stimulants? Do they calm down, or do they get wired? Ritalin and Adderall used to calm me down; so did black beauties when I was self-medicating. Eventually they stopped doing anything for me.

Unfortunately there is, to my knowledge, no objective marker for various mental conditions. You have to try things and consider the context and see what works or doesn't, and you may never really know exactly why, or what the underlying problem is.

ADD? Occasional distraction? Depression? Bad time in your life? Bi-polar?

The lines are blurry.
> My life means more to me than money.

Do not assume that money is the reason for living an hour away from work. There are many reasons, including schooling, which is even more important with special needs children. I realize you didn't intend to say that, just making it clear however. =)

On that note, don't also assume that an hour long commute means an hour wasted. As someone who makes that hour-plus long trek every day, I've learned how to fill that time. I'm a big audiobook fan, and because of the commute, I'm able to commit to reading a lot more than I would otherwise.

On top of that, in the city, commuting becomes easier with public transportation. When I was living in Montreal, I could read more than just audiobooks.

I'm not saying it's for everyone, but those days aren't necessarily burnt.
I like types. I do have a question though: Why do you call it "sig_t" as opposed to "sig_h" or something. Based on its positional appearance, it's pretty clear that it's a type. Or does t stand for something else?
I'd love to know how it got through their formal Make Developers Hate Us processes.
That is a very interesting bit of code. It would be even nicer if you could somehow see the original CoffeeScript...
I completely disagree. I'm making $27k and that's more than enough to keep me happy. Sure, there's some niceties that that I could pick up with a $48k salary that would ease some stress, but I'm certainly not living like a miser. I'm seeing Joshua Bell in concert next week, my fiancee and I have two cars, and the we go out to eat regularly.

Honestly, if someone can't be happy with $75k, I can't imagine that $75M would fix it.

To prevent anyone from asking, yes, I'm living in the US.
> I get customers can be hard but "can't replicate it" translates directly into "find another service provider".

Omitted for brevity (as others have pointed out in the comments): we maintained a relationship with the customer long after the exchange. The goal definitely wasn't to get him to "find another service provider" so much as it was to reset the tone.

All that being said, clearly my casual response ("can't replicate it") definitely was the wrong thing to do, as I didn't intend it to offend at all.
how did they manage to teach this little discourse to everyone? Incredible.
Agreed that it takes determination to continue, but I've managed to do the 1 hour morning and evening sittings for stretches, including a year or so while working full time and going to school. It's just a matter of incorporating it into a routine. Also, in my experience, since it helps maintain productive use of time, it's a net gain.
I think the point is wealth does not induce happiness. If you are unhappy when making $75k and think you will be happy when you become a millionaire you are most likely wrong.
That's extremely unlikely to be related to the Stripe checkout widget. International purchases often raise fraud flags.
I hate to say this, simply because I spend so much there, but you pretty much just described http://fab.com/ Much of what's there is just high quality versions of minimalist furniture and decorations you'd see in Ikea or any dorm room in America.
In my opinion, Yann LeCun is one of the top celebrities in ML/Neural Net research. His voice really has weight.
All usage is outdated to some degree. Last year's buzzwords are this year's forgotten fancies.
I should have fleshed out that thought more fully. I agree it's a mouthful, but I was trying to convey that we no longer have to believe in such strange (bad) ideas because we have a new set of strange (better) ideas (connectomes and such) that actually have evidence underlying them. The way the course described Sakarnas was as 'bad non-physical spirits/objects/states' that were generated by the body, and that meditation would enable one to "release" them, and prevent their development in the future. Obviously the more evidence-based interpretation of meditation is that it in some way re-wires certain neural connections in a manner that seems to be generally positive.

I'm not in favor of change for the sake of change, but when better reasons are available to describe a phenomenon, I think we should adopt those reasons. Surviving for thousands of years is not a virtue when it comes to the validity of ancient texts or the actions of (historical?) individuals (Buddha, Jesus, Big-Mo, etc.).
That is really nice. Love the integration hooks as well. Next up is a 'we know who you are' stripe cookie that would let you "pay with stripe" on web site A without entering any of this data. Or, for the paranoidish "Enter your StripeID: xxxx" pause "Enter the code we just texted you: xxx" thanks!
How Boeing responds to this will show us how the company management is willing to adapt.
Wow, maybe I should go buy a house. When my parents refinanced in 2004 they thought interest rates were historically low at 4.5%.
You shouldn't use it on an insecure site, just like any other site requesting credit card credentials. If the site's insecure someone can MITM the whole thing.
You, or whomever did the screencap, must have a retina macbook. That dialog in the screencap looks huge on my computer.
Nice story.

If I flatly said that JavaScript was 50x faster than C, I'd have butchered your story and some real points of interest here.

Supposing your team is productive in JavaScript, but not too exceptional with C, then a similar time investment can produce significantly faster JavaScript programs. In this way, in real practice, language productivity can totally drown technical performance differences. Even when you need to optimize, optimization is also subject to productivity differences.

It is probably inherently somewhat harder to reach the required level of ability in C to get the required performance, and thus to find people with this ability. Ergonomics and ease of entry don't just make people happy, they also have an impact on the performance of the average program to be written.

But even if it turns out that C is at no disadvantage here - it matters more what you will be able to use well. If C makes insane things possible that you will never do, they aren't a good reason for you to use C.

Moreover: following a general policy of writing JavaScript (or other favored language, within reason) is going to give you good-enough performance in a HUGE variety of problems.

Even if this performance is less than C's for an important program, there are two mitigating factors:

1. The slower performance may still be easily 'good enough'. There are diminishing returns on speed improvements. More speed does not always make the software better.

2. You can get the required speed by optimizing and replacing the bits which are bottlenecking the speed-critical bits, without committing to writing the entire project at 'max speed' out of the gate, which will often be a gigantic waste of resources on speed improvements that no one will ever see.

Most projects have limited applicability and limited lifespans. What matters isn't whether you are at maximum performance. What matters is whether performance is good enough for purpose.
Makes you wonder if Opera has thrown the towel on their device-stock-UA HTTP header proposal
> is there a reason you only run two of the Octane benchmarks

As the FAQ states at the very bottom of the page:

Porting benchmarks correctly takes time.
As more benchmarks become ready, we will publish more charts.

Some Octane benchmarks are quite hard to port either because they are very big (PDF.js), generated by some sort of compiler (e.g. Mandreel and EarleyBoyer) or exercise things that might not necessarily have any direct translation to Dart (RayTrace is using class emulation code take from prototype.js).
You're willing to pay 20-30k more to very slightly prolong the "ooh shiny!" luster? Ridiculous. Keeping up with the Joneses is an exercise in hating yourself.

Debt is financial slavery. Assume it only when you must.
Sorry I meant the condition is concocted, not the drug.
I was terribly bored in school for the same reason.

If I had a child with this problem, I wouldn't even consider drugs. I would do my best to challenge them with higher-level reading material, computer games, programming (Logo or something) as soon as they're ready, etc.

I would also try to get them to meditate with me. That is the best way to learn to manage a wayward mind.

Neurofeedback, if I understand correctly, is a kind of electronically-assisted meditation. As such I think it might be worth trying if they just weren't ready for more self-directed forms.
Facebook's shares recover as it fixes its search problem
Before admonishing everybody to be serious, did you bother to even skim the article? The study didn't claim that $75k is a lot of money, or that it will pay for all the yachts and hookers and coke a man's heart could ever desire.

The study claimed that money only correlates with happiness up to around $75k. Beyond that point, the correlation between additional money and additional happiness dwindles. In other words, if the study is to be believed, your notion of "happiness inducing wealth" is entirely backwards. The true happiness-inducing wealth is that first $75k that lets you provide the basics for yourself and your family.

The money beyond that point, which affords you a fancy car or the luxury of living comfortably in SF, apparently does not make most people happier. At least, not to the same extent as that first $75k.

I think the point is, if you're not happy with $75k, there's a good chance you won't be happy with $150k, or $300k, since the source of your unhappiness is probably not money related.
Psychology has some of the worst 'science' there is. It's studying alchemy before understanding chemistry. Reading psychology journal articles is painful.
Yes, but also why Go does it's declarations the way it does.
Feel free to compare MITs reponse to Ortiz response if you feel that Lessigs response as a personal friend is a bad comparison.

I have not dehumanized Ortiz, she did that to herself, she wrote that piece. It feels insincere and her husbands response seems to confirm that it is insincere.

I fully respect your professional detachment, but if you go so far as to make a public statement about a person you lost, possibly through your own actions then you should really mean it and get out of CYA mode, even if that's a life-long ingrained instinct.
> cant replicate it

That's how the co-founder of a customer service oriented company responds to a bug complaint? Three whole words? And then he has the nerve to "go nuclear" on the customer? Wow, talk about being rude and arrogant. Not only is your response unprofessional because of its poor grammar, you also didn't even give the cusomter the impression that their complaint matters to you.

How about something like, "Still haven't been able to replicate it yet, but we're trying"?

I wouldn't respond how the customer did, but I think you deserved it.
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If you don't understand the implications of eventual consistency, you're heading for a fall.

It's not a trivial topic and unfortunately "it appears to work as you'd expect" on a small dev cluster which can lead to statements like yours.

Your parent's post is actually very very accurate.
* What about a culture where people end up feeling entitled to ask for everything? Should I accept abuses?

I don't see anything wrong in people being entitled to ask for everything but they shouldn't feel entitled to actually get it. You can and normally should say no. Edit: Politely and where possible with a reason.

Having said that there are businesses that make their money from catering to insane requirements and going to insane lengths to look after customers but they really make them pay for it. E.g. super luxury hotels.
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It's not that easy. From papers cited it may be easy to deduce who is the author. Typically, there are projects resulting in many papers, not single ones - so it is natural, and desired, to refer to previous works.

Additionally, it may be easier to find if an author is not committing self-plagiarism (sending the almost the same thing to a few different places).

More on that topic:
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/625/open-versus-...
>Amazon sells books, movies, music, and other IP products

Amazon sells everything. Microsoft and Universal are very much affected if you use your money to buy a faster computer or a bigger television instead of a software license or a DVD. Amazon isn't, because they're just as happy to sell you either one.

>Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, etc, are the giants on whose shoulders Facebook, etc, are now standing. They built this industry.

An ironic statement if you look at the technologies underlying Facebook et al: Almost to a one they're Linux servers running open source or custom in-house database software. And I don't think it would be a stretch to say that the newness of this is attributable in significant part to the steps Microsoft took in the 80s and 90s to thwart competition, if not for which the cracking of the Windows monopoly that we are only seeing now may have happened ten or twenty years ago.

But more than that, I still think it's fair to say that the tech industry today is on the whole not supportive of these draconian penalties, and it is more appropriate to point the finger where it belongs, at the specific entities who actually were (and, barring any reversals as a result of recent events, still are).
That was a fault of circumstance though. It was a combination of Japanese values as well as being born in relative poverty as well as what was necessary to elevate above that.
Happens to me all the time. I run an online football management game, and there are a lot of children who play and think calling you names is a reasoned response to an issue.

The thing is, you don't let it get to you or even register it. They pay you money, you deal with it. That's the way it works.

Also, I've never once told them it's not very nice. They know it's not very nice.

I've turned paying customers around from "Fuck you" into "take my money please" by just responding to the issues they say around the insults.

Here's an example.

Customer - "One of my players was cut off my team, this fucking game is stupid and I'm never going to play it again. FUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUU"

Me - "Wow, that sucks to hear. I looked over your team and it looks like you signed 1 too many players, and it had to find someone to cut. I can go ahead and reassign him to your team if you'd like, but you need to specify who so you aren't over roster limits."

Customer responds with who, and thanks me.

Completely normal. No big deal, don't let it ever get to you.
And before that, too. I'm still struggling to see what, if anything, Color did to enhance anybody's life.
my startup was funded in Chattanooga 18 months ago... I can confirm all of this..
So, only one drug has ever made it past clinical trials into actual "recommended" status? That's not a great track record.
I thought the same and deleted the cookies in order to log myself out (I always log out when not using it). This underscores the need for them to have a separate Log-off link instead of relying on the toolbar.
I love Opera Mobile on Android, so them making advances makes me happy.

Although other Android browsers might be slightly faster and have a more native look and feel (hello Chrome), Opera Mobile has the most impressive Text wrapping (text reflow) feature of all the browsers. For me that is one of the single most important features in a mobile browser as much of the time browsing is spent with websites that are not mobile friendly.

I can't believe the other browser vendors haven't worked harder to achieve better text reflow results.
From Jelte Wicherts writing in Frontiers of Computational Neuroscience (an open-access journal) comes a set of general suggestions

Jelte M. Wicherts, Rogier A. Kievit, Marjan Bakker and Denny Borsboom. Letting the daylight in: reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 03 April 2012
doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00020

http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.338...

on how to make the peer-review process in scientific publishing more reliable. Wicherts does a lot of research on this issue to try to reduce the number of dubious publications in his main discipline, the psychology of human intelligence.

"With the emergence of online publishing, opportunities to maximize transparency of scientific research have grown considerably. However, these possibilities are still only marginally used. We argue for the implementation of (1) peer-reviewed peer review, (2) transparent editorial hierarchies, and (3) online data publication. First, peer-reviewed peer review entails a community-wide review system in which reviews are published online and rated by peers. This ensures accountability of reviewers, thereby increasing academic quality of reviews. Second, reviewers who write many highly regarded reviews may move to higher editorial positions. Third, online publication of data ensures the possibility of independent verification of inferential claims in published papers. This counters statistical errors and overly positive reporting of statistical results. We illustrate the benefits of these strategies by discussing an example in which the classical publication system has gone awry, namely controversial IQ research. We argue that this case would have likely been avoided using more transparent publication practices. We argue that the proposed system leads to better reviews, meritocratic editorial hierarchies, and a higher degree of replicability of statistical analyses."
There's tons, like you say. It's more interesting when it's used outside the corporate world - for example, by the Israeli Defense Forces:

http://www.idfblog.com/idf-ranks-game/