skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Alex, let me tell you I completely understand points a) b) c) and more. It seems we started our competing Ruby on PyPy implementations at about the same time [0]! My goal was to build a robust and documented Ruby parser, and hope PyPy make it magically fast. To that end I embedded PLY and modified it to not require kwargs. Then a thunder of work fell from the skies, and I was just recently unearthing PyPy 1.9 to put the thing back on track.

Congratulations for the release :-)

[0]:

$ ls -l playground/pypy
total 29160
drwxr-xr-x 12 lloeki staff 408 18 Feb 2011 ply-3.4
drwxr-xr-x 15 lloeki staff 510 3 Apr 2012 pyby
drwxr-xr-x 23 lloeki staff 782 27 Mar 2012 pypy-pypy-2346207d9946
drwxr-xr-x 18 lloeki staff 612 27 Mar 2012 pypy-tutorial
-rw-r--r-- 1 lloeki staff 14927806 27 Mar 2012 release-1.8.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 10 lloeki staff 340 3 Apr 2012 unholy
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Well written software follows guidelines from the NT age (%APPDATA%, %PROGRAMFILES%, etc). I have no idea why people still think its the dos age of just making arbitrary folders on the root. Heck, this is currently a huge problem in android. The root of my /sdcard is a mess. Are we forced to relive every mistake with every new platform?

I have no idea what capturing and redirecting writes mean. If you want to write, write somewhere you have permission to write to. I deploy software and sometimes need to changeup permissions for badly written software that likes to write to its install folder. I don't know why people excuse developer laziness like this. Imagine if your linux configs were written to /bin/ instead of /etc/ or stuff that should be in your profile is written to /sbin/ or if your logs were put in /etc/. Thats the linux equivalant of what lazy developers do to Windows.
Thanks! This is something we've had a few reports about this morning so we're working hard to fix it right away.
ePub or PDF on iPhone.

That's cool, but iBooks works pretty well. This is prettier in a Metro-sort of way and less skeuomorphic, so there's that.

My biggest complaint about ebooks in the Apple ecosystem is that iTunes is a miserable way to manage them. And I want a single app for iPad and iPhone, plus a Mac version, which handle at least ePub PDF and mobi, and sync content and metadata. Simple, right?
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That's exactly right. But the contended case is inherently non-parallel anyway. The goal here isn't to magically make serial-or-near-serial algorithms into parallel ones. It's to eliminate the needless synchronization that happens in correctly-implemented parallel algorithms.

And I agree with the grandparent: this is hugely exciting.
But RPython used to be the reduced version of the Python language. What name do you give to the jit-compiler generator?
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It means you're not signed into Chrome on the webstore, which Google requires. Are you sure you're running the most updated version of Chrome? If you're still having trouble send us a note support@chimeapp.com :-)
I've recently been appreciating Cal Newport's latest book "So Good They Can't Ignore You". Wish I was able to read it when I was younger, but like most I was caught up with the "find your passion" hypothesis. The book deconstructs this passion hypothesis for a fallacy, and prescribes a craftsman mindset ("what can I offer the world?") over a passion mindset ("what can the world offer me?").

Don't worry about finding your true calling, just get good at something which few other people are good at (skills in low supply - so not video games, sports, etc). Get good by doing "deep work", not just superficial exposure. This Ira Glass quote spoke directly to me: "I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in the abstract before you do them. That's your tragic mistake."

Doing "something with value" requires (valuable, low supply) skills ("skills trump passion". skills also trump courage, as in the "all it takes is courage to follow your dreams" message of courage culture from which comes the OP article). Developing skills requires deep work. The deep approach is to narrow the focus from "be good at math" or "be good at programming", or even "understand functional programming". This is the broad/abstract approach I've had in the past, which, in retrospect at the ripe old age of 28, has not worked super well.

New plan is to hone a craft by choosing to work intensely with "this particular design pattern" or "this particular javascript library" (looking at you d3). Most importantly, to get good at building stuff by building stuff (craftsman mindset). Get good first, because you won't become passionate about something you're not good at.
I didn't provide citation because it had been so widely reported that I assumed most people were aware.

This was only the first hit in Google - so there'll be other reports as well:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s3-outsell...
Names are not unique.
Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
You lost me at:

>>You don't need any examples from me. Just take Apple's homepage. It isn't responsive yet, so, if it is still a usability nightmare, would you still be buying their products?

WORST ANALOGY EVER.

I just love it when people invoke the, "Well, if Apple doesn't do it, then no one else should." As if Apple has some divine knowledge on web design and user experience.
This article sounds like a recap of Hertzberg's Two-Factor theory which is basically the application of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to the corporate world.

See: http://www.businessballs.com/herzbergmotivationdiagram.pdf
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory
Is not as easy as using the Scala Future API or Akka Actors.

In Groovy you have to use Gpars (http://gpars.codehaus.org/), a third party library which is not as simple as Scala Futures, IMHO
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There are dozens of claims that it is good for women - STEM is a desirable field - yet artificial barriers to entry are created by gender roles.

Further, women in technology and leadership positions has been correlated with business success:
http://reclaimingleadership.com/why-you-need-women-leading-i...
Brilliant branding: I had no idea that buy.com still existed, or that anyone still cared. I'm sure I'll have forgotten again within another day, but in the meantime this is more attention than I've paid them in a decade.
Is Rap Genius just a layer of fluff over a lyrics site? Are they using "commentary" and "criticism" of the lyrics to eke out a fair use claim?
In this case, Chocolatey's data files are actually program files for the rest of the system.

It's just a simple consequence to the fact that Chocolatey is not 'a program' with clearly defined 'data files', but a general purpose software manager (and one that should really be a part of Windows).

The Von Neumann architecture won over the Harvard architecture for a reason. You should learn about it.
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Risk I/O analyzes the current state of Big Data in the Security industry and how it relates to game theory.
topaz probably has a pretty slow IO (for bad reasons, it's an RPython problem)
As pointed out elsewhere, the grunts in Aliens were not "space marines". Once again: this is a trademark. GW doesn't have a monopoly on the idea of "Sci-Fi Marines". They have a trademark on the specific term "Space Marine" as used within their realms of business. That includes fiction, so the linked post was infringing. Sorry, but it was.
My grandfather had this poem framed and hanged in his home office and has since been cherished in the family (especially after he passed away). Also a personal favorite.
Not just obscure pulp. Heinlein, for example, is one of the notable users of the term.
Boston, MA: Jana wants Interns, Full Stack Developers, Python Developers, Web Developers

Jana’s hiring web developers. We recently added Dan O’Brien as VP Engineering and Craig Lancaster as Chief Architect (ex-Zynga Boston’s Director of Engineering and CTO) but we’re still looking for interns and more experienced engineers. Can you help us push the envelope of how the modern web can interact with mobile phones?

For more info/to apply: www.jana.com

We are:
Jana is a small (15 FT) Boston-based startup that came out of the MIT Media Lab. We focus on people in the developing world. We help organizations like P&G, Unilever, and the United Nations connect with people in emerging markets like India, Indonesia, Brazil and Nigeria. Jana meets these consumers where they're at, which is often the mobile web on their low-end phone. We work at a global scale: through partnerships with more than 235 mobile operators in more than 100 countries Jana can send airtime rewards to more than 3.48 billion people.

We want:
We’re hiring software engineers to work on both our back-end and front-end challenges. We are python end-to-end, hosting our servers in Amazon’s cloud. Our challenges tend to be systems-level ones, as we engineer the ability to reliably connect with individuals on the other side of the world.

We are looking for people who are passionate about what we are trying to accomplish: making a direct connection to developing world consumers using mobile technology.

We offer:
We provide a fun, relaxing, productive work environment. Our office is on Boylston Street in Boston’s Back Bay. We offer benefits like 401k, medical and dental and perks like an in office lounge with an Xbox and Wii. We try to accommodate employee wants, be it snacks, beer fridge preferences, game suggestions, kickball league sign up, etc.

Apply Directly:
Full Stack Web Developer http://jobsco.re/Rwi6X6
Python Developer http://jobsco.re/OVBhqL
*Web Developer Intern http://jobsco.re/Tqohbj
Go get a job, a warehouse job will force you to focus on things other than physics but any job is good. Also go to the gym, it won't help with your mind racing per se, but it will make everything else better.

I don't want to sound snarky, but I think I ought to mention that this actually works.
We might be watching a company eat itself here. Considering the amount of engineering types in the market for minifigs, plus the impending ubiquitization of 3D printers, customer good-will should be the most valuable asset of Gamer's Workshop.
The S3 is the biggest selling handset. Even beating the 4s as well:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013723/samsungs-galaxy-s-iii...
I think regularly scheduled (annual? bi-annual?) skip-level meetings would be a good approach to this. A skip-level meeting is one where the employee meets with his boss's boss.

BTW, the skip-level concept is something I gleaned from the Manager Tools podcast. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning how to manage better (or even, just, understand organizational behavior).

http://www.manager-tools.com/2006/04/skip-levels
FWIW the project is updated with a whole new gameplay mechanic and 'the missing instructions' are no longer relevant.
Given that you're taking Ritalin, the first step would be to bring these symptoms to your doctor's attention. You may need your dosage adjusted, or a need to try a new drug, or try some other treatment (or even stop taking meds entirely, though don't do this without talking to your doctor first). The important thing is to work with your doctor until you've got a solution that works for you; this may take several visits.
When I was hired, I had a list of five managers to interview with. During the first two weeks after I started, I talked with each of them and decided where I wanted to be placed. It was made clear to me that if I didn't like any of those five, I would get another list.

Just my experience; I started at the beginning of 2012.
Exactly.

time echo "hello world"
hello world

real 0m0.000s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
no call/cc yet, I do have a branch with fibers, but I'm waiting for an RPython branch to land for that first.
> USPS cannot go away because FedEx/DHS/UPS have no obligation to deliver to po-dunk-town, Montana

Who cares? Really. You are talking about keeping alive an organization that is now beyond obsolete just because people choose to live in these places? It's their choice. Their problem. Why is it my responsibility to subsidize people who choose to live in places that are challenged in more than one way?

I don't have any problem with people living in the middle of a desert if they want to. Or 3,000 feet up a mountain in a cabin that is only reachable via helicopter and has no roads in or out. That's fine. As far as I am concerned, you are free to do as you wish and live wherever you want to.

That said, it is YOUR responsibility to live with the consequences of the choices you have made in life. If this means that you have to drive twenty miles to pick-up your mail once a week, or pay for a helicopter to deliver mail and supplies, so be it. Your choice. You don't have to live there. Don't make it my responsibility. It isn't.
I wonder how green tea compares to that. After drinking 5 half liter cups of green tea throughout the day I felt in my chair like on the subway station with trains passing by. I had to lie down and sleep.
Security Pioneer Creates Service to Encrypt Phone Calls and Text Messages
I can appreciate the content of this article. I believe the author is correct about a number of things. I wonder though, if the author understands just how much his bizarre use of capitalization undermines his point.

If you are trying to apply accents to specific words, you'd be much better off with an underline or the even subtler italization. The random caps and questionable word choice throw me off. Why, for example, does the author refer to his engineers as ninjas and what does that have to do with their qualifications? I thought we were done hiring rock stars and samurai and that we could return to the days where professionalism was important.

In short, I appreciate the message, but despise the delivery. If you can afford to hire PHDs, ninjas and other such elite folks, you can afford to hire someone to edit your writing, and you should.
I think bullshit is it.

The best way I could think of to generate lots of variables is a random forest classifier, which is an ensemble of (say) thousands of trees. Each tree constructs a lot of variables at each node, so maybe you'd have (stretching here) hundreds of thousands to perhaps millions of variables. But 1e6 << 1e18.

Maybe they're counting each pixel of some remote sensing image of orange groves? Bullshit again, that would have to be a 1e9 x 1e9 pixel image. I'd believe it from NGA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligenc...), but not from Coke.

If there's a shred of truth to it, they're using some dodgy mechanism to increase the variable count.
These two sites just made my day.
I suspect Valve has a good way of dealing with this. There, manager is a role, and people can decide if you are good enough at that role to merit working with you in that capacity, or not. They get to vote with their feet, without leaving the company.
Your last paragraph on the link says it all: "BitTorrent is technologically complicated, infrastructure-wise inefficient, much less usable than a regular Web download, etc. But it got popular anyway, mostly because of unreasonable greed and paranoia of incumbent oligopolistic players."

After reading this (I started with reading the conclusion) I'm glad that I didn't waste my time with the remainder of the article. This doesn't seem to be an objective article, but just subjective ranting.
"In the worst case scenario, a large number of people go "up" to the point where they're no longer capable of doing the job they're in and then go "out" after a brief period of doing their job badly."

AKA, "The Peter Principle."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle --

The Peter Principle is a belief that, in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization's members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability. The principle is commonly phrased, "Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence." In more formal parlance, the effect could be stated as: employees tend to be given more authority until they cannot continue to work competently. It was formulated by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous[1] treatise, which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology".
Slow compilation, undocumented semantics, and most importantly: atrocious error messages..
"I made it so that the adwords landed on a dynamic url which would grab the keyword they searched for, load it strategically throughout the webpage in specific locations including description, title, keyword tags. This increased the page value in Google's eyes, and brought my cost per click down to $1.68 which was a huge savings!"

This reminds me of shill bidding; instead of fake bids that drive up the apparent value, your insert fake content (keywords) and thus fake "votes" for the searched term on your page. That doesn't strike you as a little scammy?

The Google algorithm is supposed to let me find the item I'm interested in. Your fake "detour" signs may drive more traffic to your web site but they detract from the usability of the web search for everyone else.
Note: the myth of co-founder-at-first-sight is dangerous. Starting a business with somebody is something very complex. Not something to take lightly.
echo "--no-ri --no-rdoc" >> ~/.gemrc

install every gem much faster, avoid rdoc vulnerabilities. Since gem installation can run arbitrary code, I am suspicious of rdoc xss vulnerabilities being a cause for concern (if you are not running a publicly-accessible gem documentation site...)
A bad manager is going to hire a bad manager, and if you follow the organization chart to the top it stops being a bad manager, it becomes the company mantra.
Continue, pivot or quit?
I designed and built Lemonade - http://getlemonade.com - end of last year. Wondering if it's worth continuing to work on it, alter strategy on it, or just drop it? Looking for some honest feedback and opinions from the community.
Hence the post...
I agree with you. Having my FB notifications delivered through Chime, I rarely have to actually go on Facebook now. That said, everyone has a different preference for their notifications. :-)
Why? Because I know personally very talented women who want to, and are capable of learning web development, and the mere current ratio of males in the industry is intimidating them.

Web development is a profession, not (just) a hobby, and if women move away from it just due to the fact it's already a high ratio of males then it's a problem
Amazon has its own app store so they are probably hopeful that even if google doesn't allow this the devs will push out a second version which accepts the coins. Amazon is selling a lot of Kindle Fire devices that don't hook into the google ecosystem at all.
It's a little unclear on the site if this is just for Austin folks?
This matches my experience about technical, "it's complicated" knowledge in general: the hard part is catching up to what everyone knows, but once there, contributing and improving are surprisingly easy and obvious.

Just recently I was given a task of debugging a major problem with our website that was causing frequent emergencies -- and apparently, was mystifying the developers.

My lead realized I'd need to understand the website's infrastructure first, so he took about 45 minutes explaining how it all fit together and where the problem occurred. But once I got to that point, my reaction was, "Wait -- wouldn't the problem go away if you just ... didn't do $STEP at that point?"

Turned out to be the entire solution to the problem.
Bose-Einstein condensate created at room temperature
Or maybe business success leads to more women in leardship positions.
I wonder which whistleblower is Obama going to prosecute this time. When the government itself is the criminal, then it makes perfect sense from their point of view to "eliminate" the threat, in this case the people who don't intend on becoming criminals.
Construction of 505-feet wind turbines offshore with a special-purpose ship
Emailing developers usually works for me and they are more than happy to help. I then usually toss a couple bucks their way for the help. It is a win-win.
Neither the OP, nor a woman, but I'll take a shot at this one since it's a fair question respectfully posed. I think that one aspect of this problem is that, due to a combination of cultural factors, women do not feel welcome at industry events, and do not feel like their input is valued, and that's absolutely something that should be addressed.
The title revision is less clear. The original title, along the lines of "How to live life at any age" I believe was referencing a post from earlier yesterday titled along the lines of "How to live your 20's".

The larger conversation (and intent of the post) is lost now.
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Is App-Era Pricing Making Software Better, or Worse?
That's the Gunfleet Sands phase III wind farm off the coast of England. The turbines are 6MW gearless Siemens.
Caffeine sensitivity is a real thing, as is slow caffeine metabolism (a different, but related situation.)

Please do not assume that everyone is the same.
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The project is certainly dead, but it's also historically significant.
"You are what you love, not what loves you." - Adaptation, Charlie Kaufman

In context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfGtwkq5sC0