skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was very conservative (although I guess not all Opera employees are senior engineers). I was trying to make the point that there's no way Opera can be profitable from just selling search engine traffic. The open accounts show that they spent around $25M on salaries in Q4 of last year.
"Royals" came to mind from FlameWarriors - though maybe my predispostion to think of PG as the Philosopher King of HN played a role. Anyway, "Plebians" was just pushing the political analogy a little further. I'll take your word about the differences in interface. I really was just conjecturing.

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/royals.htm
He easily could have discovered that during debugging or when he was actually trying to make progress on the project, not benchmarking. But I agree, he should be explicit about that variable.
crappy product + great sales = $$$

great product + crappy sales = :(

It always depends, of course. There are great products that sell themselves. But then, for those products, you don't need commissioned sales to begin with.
I have friends telling me to try python. I don't know how I will survive without curly braces. :)
DRM pushed into the video interfaces is sheer idiocy.
I can't help but connect this: "When I looked inside myself, I didn’t see ambition or even drive to continue. I’m not sure how that happened."

with this: "It’s Sunday night as I publish this. That means it’s a working night for most managers at Apple. Even more so for Director-level personnel like I was."

I used to be a sysadmin, and I loved it. After a few years working lots of hours in a high-pressure role for financial traders, I was, like Don, just done. I had nothing left for that. In retrospect, that was burnout.
Here's Maria's response to these accusations: http://www.scilogs.com/next_regeneration/internet-curator-ma...

In particular, she states, "Regarding his Tumblr article – first of all, those numbers are ludicrous! If Amazon gave me even a tenth of that a year after Uncle Sam takes his fair share, I’d be delighted. Delighted!"
It's possible to write tools that generate code instead of building it into the language too. I wonder if it can be done better than building it into the language.
It's only confusing if you are a language parser. I doubt that anyone else would have any problem guessing what this means.
Best thing that could happen to Burger King with the horse whoppers thing in the news.
No. To be honest PyPy is very sensitive to cache usage, so running any other program trashing the cache might be a serious problem (can lead to 30% performance degradation, depending on the load even if the core is unoccuppied at all)
Also, you can limit your adwords,bing ads by city. You might also look into groupon and livingsocial.
Of course he is, he is as happy as the NYTimes is to put this fiasco to a close. Disregarding opinions on the matter this was not good PR for ether of them.
Clearly true, as stripping HDCP, while useful for interoperability with noncompliant devices, is an obviously fussy and inefficient way to store or distribute video supplied in a compressed format with cracked DRM (e.g., Blu-ray, iTunes).

Well, that and inertia, HDMI being the digital evolution of the old "analog hole".
I've been following this story, as my co-founder and I are in the midst of an advertising-policy debate.

I think the main issue was Popova not disclosing, even in some tiny font somewhere, that there were affiliate links. She may have avoided that in order to hold the "ad-free" moral high ground.

The FTC guidelines on this are an interesting read if you make endorsements, even affiliate links, on your site. I'll track it down.

EDIT - Here it is: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides...
In many countries, the amount of government money spent on scientific research is rather low. Therefore a lot of researchers have to attract interest from companies willing to fund them, otherwise they can't afford to do any research at all. Unfortunately, even if the researcher is a good scientist and the data is valid, they won't be able to continue in their field unless they dress it up as the latest great breakthrough and hint that it will enable lots of profitable new technology.
> What makes you think Opera is outsourcing development to Google? Just because something is using a framework doesn't mean they aren't using it to build their own thing on top of it.

They are using Chromium as their browser. Chromium is a full browser, so basically almost all the work on Opera's new browser will be done by Google. That is why I said "outsourcing development to Google", but of course I didn't mean it literally as in "paying Google to develop for them".

That's not speculation, that's just what it means when Opera is switching to Chromium.

Opera will add stuff on top. But Opera can't differentiate much in the core browser stuff, otherwise it would be forking Chromium and it would become harder and harder over time to get updates from upstream. That makes no sense technically or business-wise. What does make sense is to add things on top that are modular and separate, for example remove Google's login and replace it with Opera's, etc.
It looks she now has a disclaimer at the bottom of the page that says they participate in the Amazon Affiliate program which allows website owners the ability to earn a commission for products that are linked to.
Excellent article. Although it is quite obvious how venv worked, I had never bothered to actually look up the source. Consequently, I was always a bit hesitant on using it, because I have a customized environment for installing stuff and didn't want to break it. But venv is doing just what I'm doing, but automatically :)
Top Firefox OS bloke flames Opera for WebKit surrender
3 steps on how I convinced developers and designers to join my unfunded startup.
This will generate separate function bodies for different values of N.
That's actually a very good market there if you think about it. I usually pull up a game of Ruzzle or Words w/ Friends on my phone in-between commercial breaks. If Microsoft could feed you content via this it might be a good money maker for them.
Using 'static' in this way compiles with both Oracle Studio 12 and IBM xlc 11, but neither exhibit the behavior that gcc is shown to have in the article. Passing in both NULL as well as an array of shorter length work just fine with no warning/error from the compiler.

So, YMMV.
Asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers
https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=65
I think the story is one of the best works of sci-fi ever... the terminals play with storytelling/narrative in all sorts of ways.
Just to preempt certain comments, I realize that many people have known this for ages, but there are many who have not, and to them this might just make their day.

Also, "+new Date" is neat
Can I tangentially point out without much connection to this benchmark more than any of the others recently, that one of the great things about PyPy is that if you have a thing and you run it on PyPy, you can usually pop in the IRC channel and often get even more tips on how to tune it to be even faster?

There are the simple tips like "write everything in Python where possible, don't use C extensions" like the OP noticed, but even after you've made the decision on using PyPy there are often specific performance characteristics of the PyPy implementation that can be really helpful to keep in mind, and it's a great resource to try and take advantage of (human interaction with PyPy developers like fijal who care about making things fast).
Neat! My place of work has a surprisingly attractive IP address palette.

It would be cool if you could specify an IP address; I'd like to see what the IP for my hosted VM looks like. (I suppose I could set up an SSH tunnel if I am really curious...)
I don't think CPB has had BK for a while [1]. Though I agree this could have been in Crispin's spirit.

[1] - http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/burger-king...
Facebook Hacks Points to Much Bigger Threat for Mobile Developers
I am downloading the file now. I was a little surprised to see that you went with gzip. Given the target audience it is not that hard to imagine that the end user will have access to bzip2 or xz. With the size of the file why choose gzip? Hopefully `gzip -9` was used. I am curious about how much smaller xz/bzip2 will be. I will update this post once the file is downloaded.
Just about anyone that has programmed for any length of time has done something like this. It is one of those "fixes" that after it's actually fixed you try to never think of it again. Good to know PG is mortal. :-)
Thanks for the links, including a response at the end of the first link.

From the second link:

> To a certain extent, this is a female thing: positive happy
> bloggers tend to be female, as do their readers.*
> ...
> *Update: This sentence has not gone down well in the Twittersphere.

Surprise!??
This isn't a paradox. As computers replace people, the productivity gain is net 0. The only reason this paradox exists is that it's published and nobody has published a study to illustrate the obvious.
Your advice is good in general. However, note the OP is reporting user time (probably as shown by the "time" command). This time is the total CPU time used by the process. It's not measuring how much wall clock time it took to complete or the time used to complete involved IO operations. I think trusting that number should be fine in this case.
I don't know, it's a lot easier to be transparent when the stakes are so low. Most service providers have a real incentive to not put out quotes that can later be used against them, which tends to make explanations very technical or deflecting.
I think it depends a lot on when you leave. If you work past the point of being done with it, you really start to hate it. And then it's very easy to blame everybody and everything else, rather than your decision to stay past the point where you loved it.

I get why people do that, though. Sometimes they love something and want to fight for it. Sometimes they have to keep working if they want their kids to keep eating. Sometimes they just don't notice that moment where they crossed the line.

So kudos to him for knowing when to quit.
Removals Bromley BR1. House removals in Bromley
"You've obviously never worked in a for profit corporation"

Wow, really? I don't think that attitude is warranted at all.

At any company (for-profit or otherwise) there is a finite amount of time and money -- and surely we can agree that solid development/deployment practices carry an upfront time/money cost, can't we?

In an ideal world, all projects would have continuous build processes, automated tests, and management tools extensive enough to render live database surgery unnecessary.

Perhaps you've worked at companies so flush with cash that every single line of code, research project or otherwise, has gone through rigorous development/testing/deployment practices. If so, I'm jealous. I've always worked at companies that had to be choosey about how they spend their resources.
The user who replied incorrectly?
The last time the bubble burst, a lot of the devs I knew moved into banks and hedge funds. They stayed employed through 2007-now, and two of them are running their own portfolios now. And demand for Quants with C++ is hotter than ever right now, because there's huge demand for risk management after the Credit Crunch. Your point was?
Technology blogs with affiliate links and/or adsense are known to have much lower conversion rates than average because tech savvy people tend to be more blind to ads (and many even use adblockers), and these users are typically aware that these programs exist.

I know I for one always hover over links before I click on them to see if they're affiliate links, and I can't remember the last time I clicked on an ad on Google or elsewhere.
A gallon of gas costs around $4.00 here right now, not much different from the $3.50 assumption in the original calculation.

Lots of people in NYC have cars. NYC isn't just Manhattan, and much of the area in the outer boroughs is more suburban than urban and not accessible via subway.
Doesn't crash Safari on 10.8.2
Same here: I've been working on a couple of projects by myself for the most part of last year, and when even the duck failed, I could usually figure out an answer just by trying to find the words to post my problem in SO in a way somebody would take the time to read it and be able to answer it. I don't recommend it as a first approach, though, since it's quite time consuming (Or maybe I should blame it on not being a native speaker...)
That could alleviate their shortage problem.
Here's one https://github.com/droundy/gotgo
C and even C++'s spec are still easier to remember than bash shell scripting imho. For bash shell scripting, I need to keep a document full of examples to copypaste from, otherwise it's always wrong on first try anyway!
This is fantastic - feels native (iPhone 5, iOS 6.1).
Semi related: does anyone know of a good js library for displaying side navigation(a la face books app) or detecting swipes from the edge of the screen?
For the end benchmark I've used "runlevel 3" (multiuser without window manager) to perform this tasks, to maximize cache and RAM usage.
As mentioned in one of the links below, item 10 in the Amazon.com Associates Program Operating Agreement requires disclosure:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...

> You must, however, clearly state the following on your site: “[Insert your name]
> is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate
> advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising
> fees by advertising and linking to [insert the applicable site name (
> amazon.com, amazonsupply.com, or myhabit.com)].”
Don't how many of you'd seen this coming, but @homosaur and I'd discussed exactly this discourse [1] a week ago.

Personally I think that entrepreneurs working on products that solve immensely challenging problems should always be given a benefit of doubt. Or two or three or may be even five times. Clearly this did not happen in Tesla's case.

And yet in the original post from OP this part still seems a bit questionable: Mr. Broder’s irresponsibility in fuel management was in hope that something beyond “inconvenience” would happen to make the story more interesting. (Otherwise, no one, including me, would have paid much attention to his article.)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203207
Seriously. It's like this article tries to tug on your heart strings and make the reader want some justice for this early pioneer in tech and then totally never mentions that he's even more famous for being a total creeper.
absolutely... especially for an editor! she talked a lot and said nothing! she has no opinion and leaves it absolutely open, aparently there is no fault by anyone? ... well at least the CEO of Tesla gave facts and not just his opinion (like the new york time journalist and editor)!
Timelike: a network simulator
Teaching Real-World Programming
Appreciating the details.

"Hacker News was down all last night."

With the internet there is no "last night" ;-) Europe - and more so Asia I assume - had to live for many working hours without HN.
The LHC (and even the HGP) were largely engineering projects. Basic science is much more hard to focus, but there is an overarching goal nevertheless: "figure out how the brain works by any means". I presume imaging methods are part of this.
"But I believe our undergrad (read B.S) is just fine." - That is not true.
Let's add to that fMRI data is next to useless for actually studying the brain. It can map large scale organisation, but it's like trying to measure the economy based on which power stations are in use at any given time.
One core. One HD. Bandwidth is trivial with no images. How much do you think this site costs to run?
> I don't think her statement, that she uses Amazon data to find other books her readers enjoy, is an admission of immoral conduct. She said a quarter of the books she recommends are from information she gained from Amazon.

Visiting the website for myself now: http://www.brainpickings.org/

I think it's clear that she's deliberately and forcefully fishing for clicks on Amazon affiliate link hits. I mean, just take a look at the number of large images (every one of them being affiliate links), one after another, encompassing probably 6-page'fuls at times (and I'm on a 1080p res.). I'm a person who's usually very well aware of what is an affiliate link or not... and yet I found myself strongly wanting to click the images. I don't buy it for a single second that Popova is not exactly aware of what she is doing. Her repeated requests for donations (after every post, in which she stresses that this is a site that doesn't have advertisements) leave no room for doubt -- I strongly believe she is disrespecting the user in a very fundamental way by misleading them like this and playing them on.
Why most social media blogs are shit
Not really:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=62108

>Usable memory amount is very much tied to available memory bandwidth. More bandwidth allows the games to access more memory. So it's kind of counterintuitive to swap faster smaller memory to a slower larger one. More available memory means that I want to access more memory, but in reality the slower bandwidth allows me to access less. So the percentage of accessible memory drops radically.

In this case, if the 360 is really at 60 GB/s and the PS3 200+, that's a much larger disparity than the current generation.
But it seems like they had to deal with the details themselves, plus they are paying a crazy amount of money. Seems like a lose/lose situation for them.

Also the amount of money really gives no indication of how optimized a site is or how much traffic it gets. I've seen sites that are in the top 500 spending ~3K/mo on hosting and sites that get 60K uniques a month spending 2x that.
_I posted this on the techcrunch article, but thought it might be useful to post it here as well_

Perhaps one thing that the "startup world" could adopt is the practice of postmortems. The game industry, which many have pointed out have many parallels between a new game venture and a startup, embraces failure in the sense that they talk truthfully about "what went right, and what went wrong". There are postmortems at industry events (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqk4aqpXlQ), and the industry's media publishes them (http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/). Of course, in many cases the postmortems are of popular/successful games, but at least they speak freely about things that went wrong ... and there are even some small failures that work up the courage to post about it (http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1289).

The point is that the culture in the game industry does not look down on failure, even while celebrating successes. And yes, I do realize the irony of me using the game industry as an example of healthy culture (ea_spouse, etc.) :P
That's assuming that what they said was said truthfully and not under the threat of a loaded gun. Opera the company shows signs of being on track be acquired (with the founder reportedly selling part of his shares to not have a majority stake anymore [1]) and management would probably like to minimize dissent and bad press.

[1] http://gigaom.com/2013/02/12/opera-founder-sells-shares-pote...
Not that big. About 140 I think. My admin would know for sure.
It can be a fundamentally shitty job. In 2000 when I was selling Sun servers and Oracle licenses to dot coms it was a fundamentally awesome job. My golf game improved a lot in those years :)

There is no simple answer here. You can hire smart salespeople that care about the company and know when to walk away from a bad deal. That comes from corporate culture too though. For all the lip service about good sales and partnering with clients at the end of the month or quarter most of my employers have not given one shit about anything except getting the deals done. It's not salespeople that creates bad sales, it's management. We just do what we are paid to do.

If you create an environment where the sales force is expected to bring in only deals that are good for the company, and pay the sales force in a way that allows them to walk away from bad deals without worrying about the mortgage that month, it can and will work. Commission can be a part of that setup, but it can't be 75% of the comp plan. Pay the sales force a base they can live on during a bad month, with commission or bonuses that reward them for bringing in the right kind of new business, and it can be a win-win set up. It's not rocket science.
1. 42% ABV (where Maker's was headed) is fine for a mint julep. Here, Eric Felten of the WSJ gives an appropriately glowing review to Evan Wiliams based juleps. Evan Williams is 43% ABV. (Maker's is 45%.) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120916374801546109.html Yes you make it with lots of crushed ice and some branch water but that doesn't mean you need "~100 proof liquor," which is 50% ABV seen in contemporary "barrel strength" bottlings but not in any bottled whiskey available historically when the julep became popular. In other words, the julep is meant to be a little "watery," and in fact has enough water to open up the bourbon so you can more fully taste it. You might prefer it with a strong whisky but that's really an orthogonal issue as the julep became popular when made with standard strength bourbon (and anyone who wants a meaningfully potent bourbon will upgrade to barrel or cask strength anyway).

2. Other than the julep and perhaps the "whiskey highball" (not drunk nearly as much today as 50 years ago) you should not find many "bourbon drinks" with lots of ice.

The most popular cocktails today made with bourbon are the Manhattan and the Old Fashioned (both arguably better with rye, but whatever). The Manhattan is traditionally served "up" (no ice); the old fashioned is properly served with either one very large cube or a few medium large cubes. Anyone serving with smaller ice (bad idea) is not going to go to the trouble of serving a 50%+ ("~100 proof") ABV barrel- or cask- strength bourbon. And anyway over proper ice a 40% ABV bourbon is just fine, thank you, in an old fashioned.

Another popular bourbon drink would be the whiskey sour, served either iceless or like an old fashioned (ice wise).

3. In no way are whiskey cocktails particularly likely to be icey or watery vs cocktails made from other spirits. Gin has the Tom Collins, Gin Rickey, and Gin & Tonic, all watery enough to compete well against the julep and whiskey highball. Rum has the mojito, for which the same holds true; vodka the Moscow Mule and screwdriver.

Anyway, I agree that this was a dumb move on the part of Maker's Mark, but not because it involves any actual functional issue in terms of mixing drinks. It's dumb because the brand stood for a particular flavor profile, and people paid extra to get that flavor profile, and you don't go changing it out from under them. Life is complicated enough without liquor brands getting all dynamic on us.
Extremely appropriate as Fry is his own grandfather and the site software can't handle that relationship.
> I've always found it's a good idea to not deviate.

> you run into potential problems that you hadn't anticipated.

The second statement is no reason to live by the first. In fact, I think you'd be doing yourself a disservice by staying so comfortable. Being comfortable with the unanticipated, however, is a powerful quality to have.