skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That anonymous function is a literal, just like the number 50 (the next argument after it). In the same way the 50 doesn't get created each iteration, neither does the anonymous function.
Thanks! Good type's the way to go.
Good for you, Jonathan. Apptopia is an incredible service and this is a great response to being ripped off. I know how hard you work on each sale so it's frustrating that something like this would happen.
"As I Sow or Choose, So Shall I Reap"
And that's awesome until yo need to go beyond that single charge range. Then charging might be a problem where ever you wind up still, though it is getting much better I admit.
When Digital Ocean has a west coast datacenter, I will give them another look. Latency has a larger perceived impact to users than any of those benchmarks given.
> The concept of entrepreneurism as a small-time life-style has evaporated from the culture, and now entrepreneur and start-up means “get big fast.”

No. Get yourself out of the filter bubble, because it is seriously warping your understanding of the world.

There are still orders of magnitude more "small-time" start-up businesses in the world than "get big fast" start-up businesses. Your town probably has dozens of them: they're restaurants, roofing companies, independent tradesman, etc. Those people are all doing exactly what you're talking about.
this is very true for some of django's components. the template engine is probably the most opinionated part of django and is also one of the easiest parts to swap out. other parts of django are not so easily disposed of. for example, the ORM is very tightly integrated. its possible to swap it out for SQLAlchemy or something but this is really a huge headache and not worth doing.
I think this is evidence that we’re in a golden age of web development. It’s the opposite of monoculture, and it’s awesome.
Email transparency
Jokes shouldn't stop because they offend someone.

You should be allowed (both legally and morally) to make crude fun of leaders and politicians, including the leader of your country and leaders of companies, parties and NGOs.

You should be allowed (both legally and morally) to make crude fun of people's habits, including the current religious practices of your country or other peoples.

These are important core freedoms to have - but these already offend some people SO much, up to and including murder, that the other sensitive topics (racism,sexism,etc) pale in comparison.
I think DO compares to Linode (or even better) in CPU performance because the software used (for Encoding or whatever) doesn't make use of extra cores. You'll need multi-threads aware software to take advantage of the available cores.

I have a Linode 1Gb (and another 512Mb) and I rarely go over 110% CPU utilization even when my server is busy (the max is 400%, 4 cores being used).

Also, price comparison, Linode charges an extra $5 (for 512Mb) and $10 (for 1 Gb) for Backups. DO seems to be giving them for free.

My yearly bill on Linode : $900

My yearly bill on DO : $180

I think I'm trying DO soon, especially I'll be in need for more servers.

Edit: I'm a little afraid from DO. They are simply too^8 cheap and it's scary. Will they be around for too long? What's their down time like? Will they lose my data (and backups)?...

Price wise, DO beats the hell out of anything. I can renew my smartphone yearly for free just by moving.
Thanks for the comments, I agree we the key for the map could be clearer (yep it's those lines!). I'm also with you on the bar chart.

The pings are on google.com (which resolves to it's local site). And, extra clarification, we're using cloudfront CDN for the download tests.

OK will makes some changes then. Thanks!
Well looks like I'm just spunking away ~£12 every month!
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.p...
If it's measuring public wifi, then I'm not surprised. I rarely see better than 2-3Mb. My HSPA+ phone easily beats almost every public wifi that I've seen, aside from the issue of data-caps.
I personally believe that long tail searches will become even more important in the future with users entering their search queries via tools like Siri and Google Now.

I do not have any hard facts to support that subjective opinion, but to me it feels a lot more natural to speak out a query as a full sentence than to say a few keywords.
I get your point and I think I mostly agree with it, but from a utilitarian point of view, it's actually not that much of a stretch from 'because people like it' to 'it is okay' ;-)

This fundamental problem of any form of normative ethics is that they are all subjective. If you accept the notion that everyone is entitled to his or her own personal views on ethics and morality, this inevitably means the majority opinion is what ends up as being the accepted morality.

Of course we could argue about whether normative ethics in general, or utilitarian ethics in particular are 'wrong', 'incorrect' or 'unjust', but that even though that could lead to a very interesting discussion, it wouldn't probably get us anywhere. Over two thousand years of thinking before us haven't reached any kind of consensus on this topic ;-)
If you don't make just a list of keywords, then I think you should go for the more SEO-heavy name.

When searching and seeing the results on a device, if your current app name is what comes first (it should be) then your potential users will mainly see that. I think it's something like the 19 first characters that display on the App Store before the "..."
That's good to hear, I was thinking of switching to Linode which I use for work, but I think I will try buying two 512MB DO servers instead.
A lot of people use Windows, that doesn't attest to quality.
For me, it is a horrible experience.

They need to call your over the phone in order to verify you are a human being and they need to know what you are going to do with their "cloud" - they called it "Onboarding"

I told them I just want to experiment with their apis and maybe they think I have no business value or I am a potential spammer, so they rejected my "Onboarding" request without any reason given. (So you know I am not commenting from the technical point of view since I have never access to their system)

On the contrary, AWS give you free tier access for a whole year, no question asked.

IMHO, don't waste time on Rackspace.
I don't agree with this rant. Just becuase 50 libraries exist doesn't mean you have to be an expert in all of them or even use all of them.

I think it's great that so many frameworks are sprouting up, and once you've been around long enough, it shouldn't take more than a weekend to try one, see the benefits, and use it or learn from it and move on.

Since when is having more choice bad?

I've been out of web development for a number of years, and it is delightful to have all these options now. I am loving working with knockout.js and looking forward to trying ember next.
I made the switch from Linode/AWS micro instances to Digital Ocean recently.

Pros:
Great pricem, performance is excellent,UI is great for creating servers

Cons:
I have had two periods of about 20 minutes of down time in the early mornings recently.

Digital Ocean is great hosting for developers. They are really doing it right.
only for PHP developers
> I think it raises a pretty reasonable point: Why do we even have prisons at all, other than as detention facilities for pending death penalty cases? If someone commits a sufficiently serious crime (or re-offends sufficiently many times), put them to death.

That's a great insight.

I would point out that prison is still an acceptable in-between for community service and death. E.g. what happens if the convict simply doesn't show up for their community service?

Depriving someone of their own free use of their time is a powerful motivational tool (just ask anyone who's ever had to "hurry up and wait" in the military).

However any possible positive effect you would get from prison, either for rehabilitation or non-recurrence, would be had within the first year, two at the most.

Any prison sentence beyond that and you have to wonder what the marginal additional value is (I would think none).

I'm not sure if you're entirely serious about the death penalty for sufficiently serious crimes, but the normal argument is that even if that were acceptable in theory, that it's been proven not implementable in practice, and we'd rather optimize for not accidentally putting something to death who is innocent.

This itself could be fleshed out further though... governments all the times do things (or don't do things) that may indirectly lead to fatalities later on. Things as simple as redirecting a road away from a cliff face to prevent people from driving over the edge at night can save lives, but we as a population generally accept that there is an economic reality that government can't pay to completely prevent all foreseeable accidents. So could you argue from there that if we already let people drive off of cliffs because it's cheaper, that we could let government accidentally execute innocents if it had a net positive outcome?

I don't know... even I'm pretty leery of that logic. Personally if I were to be fradulently convicted I'd rather a lifetime of prison than to be put to death (assuming I could still read, program, etc.)
Cldoc a clang based documentation generator for C and C++
HOW SPEEDS COMPARE doesn't really mean much. Japan has a higher density of users per square kilometer, so it seems to me that there should be some sort of normalization done to the numbers. I get better speeds in Kyoto (less simultaneous users) than I do in Shibuya (many simultaneous users!)
They claim forever if you read the comments on the article. It seems likely if they're limiting CPU access.
Also lot of electronics nowadays uses switched-mode supply so it doesn't really matter all that much.
Why would they need your phone number?
A commitment to the Catholic priesthood is not a commitment to being poor. It is possible for a very wealthy man to become a priest while retaining his personal wealth, because the Church has no hard and fast rules on the subject.

Religious orders such as the Dominicans, Franciscans, and Benedictines, whose members are often (not always) priests make a vow of poverty. Ordinary diocesan priests do not.
Have you tried Newton's Principia: The Central Argument from Green Lion Press?

http://www.greenlion.com/principi.html

I have this book, and it's really swell. No calculus, because Newton's Principia doesn't have calculus. It's all geometric arguments. They put Newton's text in red and their commentary in black. I haven't studied it (I'm still trying to work my way through their Euclid) but I like having it on the bookshelf.
That was only one of the things the video said. Overall, it was pointing out how overuse of classes was resulting in lots of extra complexity and additional lines of code, making programs harder to understand and maintain
Same for me, please let us know when this is resolved
Elon Musk: "NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/301049593385340928

From another article the "long detour" appears to have been getting stuck in traffic in lower Manhattan. Now, I don't know if Elon does much NYC driving, but IMO it's not worth pinning your credibility on a quick trip back to the interstate from the city.
That's a BS argument, that's like saying Windows servers are better than Linux because they cost more. There's no reason to distrust them SOLELY because they are cheap. You're getting 1/4th the cores, that's why it's so cheap.
Worth noting: this was built using RubyMotion (http://www.rubymotion.com/).
Wow, I had no idea. Now I feel sorry for him. I wish him well.
They are crazy about Latin in Finland! I don't know why. Here is their Latin news broadcast:

http://yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini/
Thanks for that wikipedia link. From now on I'll associate skeuomorphism with wood-paneled station wagons.
Do's & Don'ts of Startup Weekend: Lesson Learned (Part 2)
Are HSPA+/LTE speeds really that "bad" generally? My HSPA+ phone typically gets 8-10Mbps down and roughly 50ms ping, and I've been led to believe that LTE here (the US) is considerably faster.
I'm sorry but I fail to see much value in this pamphlet. It's just the same old message from Typesafe (productivity! scalability!) wrapped with buzzwords and anecdotical data.
you get to take advantage of sovereign immunity

Not all countries have that./
No problem with self promos when you're dropping dope softwares. I'll check this out later.
Money helps, but you hit diminishing returns so votes become really expensive as in 100-1000+$ per vote.
We're not even talking about John Baez here, just blogs randomly selected from the set of blogs on the Internet that I actually run across, which is admittedly a biased sample. The thought that any mainstream media could possibly, possibly be as trustworthy as a John Baez blog post is a thought worthy only of derisive laughter.
Depeds how you define quality. Quality as in for developers? Sure windows is not preferred. Quality as in "Lets me do my things the easiest way when I want to browse internet, watch movies and most importantly, have a GUI that even my grandma can use". Windows wins hands down.
Apple makes more from iTunes + accessories than most do from phones
On the other hand, the main disadvantage for consumers is fraud increase, for the same reason.
I agree. Separation of concerns is a very good design pattern. MVC server frameworks (like Rails and Django) have already separated out the concern of displaying data to the user with their template systems. its a very reasonable next step to just migrate the entire template system off the server and let the client do it.

This has gigantic performance increases for servers under heavy load, and it puts the display logic in a domain that is more naturally suited to dealing with it (JavaScript and the DOM instead of treating HTML as just a string).

The pattern also promotes the use of RESTful APIs for data access from the server, which has the wonderful bonus of allowing you to make your data publicly accessible for free if you want to.
Opera founder sells shares, potentially clearing way for acquisition
tl;dr : "No"
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OCaml, as the name ("Objective Caml") implies, also supports object-oriented programming. It actually has a pretty clever implementation of it as well. That said, many people tend to stick to the functional bits of OCaml and don't venture out into the OOP bits very often.
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You can easily build a Fortran compiler for Android, the NDK source code is available and it contains gfortran. The official binary NDK however has only gcc and g++ build.

BLAS and Lapack can be compiled natively for Android with gfortran.
Wow, now that's an old book by a real guy who could breadboard TTL chips into the equivalent of a graphics card at that time. Sort of another Wozniak, though that kind of bare metal knowledge was expected of all EE's.

What he has to say is not compatible with the current pop culture "startup" hype but it's still valid.

One thing also mentioned is correct: when you're in business, sometimes you get more than you expected, just for showing up. That very rarely happens in a regular "job."
Here's the original post with more data:

http://www.asymco.com/2013/02/11/counting-stool-legs/
You also need to monitor or update the software and machinery, so you'll probably want some kind of internal network. But can other things than the control systems connect to that network? Then you're screwed, unless you can absolutely guarantee that e.g. a laptop connected to the same network can't be compromised/transported out of the facility.

Iran's SCADA controllers were not connected to the Internet when they got owned by Stuxnet. They were just connected to a network with a laptop with a USB port.
I can read Greek and Latin, and I think they make great hobbies for a programmer. Reading Greek feels a lot like reading Perl. (Take that however you like. :-)
"""Employees are a hassle, a waste of time and ploney and a psychic
energy sink. You should avoid them at all costs.
Your incredible secret money machine should have 0.834 employees-that
is 83.4 percent of you, nothing more,no less. The remaining
16.6 percent of you should go for fun and rewind time"""
Careful. Your valid point is one KK is making too by recommending this book. He's just setting the stage by contrasting this approach with how 'start-up' has come to be associated with "get big fast" in our tech world.
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Even if it was, it is not the same as in many European countries where it is still compulsory.

As Portuguese it always surprised my that in some European countries people have Latin before any other foreign Language.

In France it is still a differentiator as only good students take Latin. So if you don't want to be seen as a bad student, Latin you go.
This is cool. We had cargo-culted the idea of open email and CCing the entire company at CircleCi, so its great to see the details exposed. Looks like that structure will be really useful once we get a few more people.
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The majority of the western world doesn't think such BS is sexism as the Americans and the British mostly do.

Oh, and using the "western world" as a sign of some "superiority" moral or otherwise, is extremely racist. The majority of the world doesn't think the "western world" as that advanced or superior anyway. Not to mention that the majority of the world still has deep scars and mourns its people because of the "western world" colonisation and treating them as slaves.

Not to mention that people living in a country where a young girl dies giving birth because she was denied an abortion don't get to say what the "western world" does.

(Nor do people living in a country that still has the death penalty and had black/white segregation until 40 years ago).
Fatal flaw or working as intended?
> uppose for a moment that you are a guy who just graduated from college, make $20,000 a year in your dream internship, and are on the long trek to success in your field. You're in a new city, and don't know many people. You're constantly bombarded with pictures of men who "made it", have $200k cars, wear $10k suits, drink $500 bottles of liquor, and buy their mistresses $80k pieces of jewelry.

I know what you're trying to get at with this but there are two types of people in the world - those who start to feel depressed because they haven't "made it" and those who take it as an inspiration for what they could become. Which direction one goes in is a choice. The losers will give up, the winners will fail over and over again until they succeed. I would not want to be in a world where success is hidden from me because I might cry over not having it myself.

For the record, I agree that bikini shots are not appropriate at a software conference whether women are present or not. I do not see it as sexist but I do think that it is entirely irrelevant and misplaced and would question what the person who put them in there was thinking and whether they might be drunk.
Wow. This is an amazing point, and quite honestly i am sorry for not including it. My intent is to have people DO SOMETHING WITH IT. Not just to look at it. I want people to very much do anything they find of value with it. Would that be more GPL or BSD? I will update the post...
Made my day. I will quote this tweet as often as I can to coworkers.
He had a lot of prescient advice about patents, way before they became the giant sucking nuisance that they are today.

http://www.tinaja.com/pasamp1.shtml
I really appreciate the kind words.
The Familia Sancti Hieronymi (Family of St. Jerome), out of Florida, promotes the idea of Latin as a living language within the context of the Catholic Church.

I have no special connection with this organization except that, having struggled to learn Latin on my own for some years, my breakthrough came via the Cursus Linguae Latinae Vivae (Course in the Living Latin Language) offered by that organization, as taught by Fr. Suitbertus Siedl entirely in Latin (for a rich set of Latin-only materials offered by FSH, see http://www.hieronymus.us.com/Venalia/IndLatin.htm, with English translation of the offerings here: http://www.hieronymus.us.com/Venalia/IndEngl.htm).

The premise of the Cursus is that language is primarily an aural experience - hence, trying to learn Latin by translating words and sentences into another language such as English is a fundamentally poorer way to learn than by simply hearing and repeating it in the Latin itself even as one learns the grammatical rules and syntax. Asculte et alta voce legere (listen, and repeat out loud) is the command one hears throughout, along with Repetitio est mater studiorum. In each segment, there is a teaching from the ancient Latin of Rome, from historic Catholic Church materials, and from daily life. And you will hear Fr. Siedl vigorously proclaiming: "Lingua Latina non mortua est sed viva."

Take it for what it is worth. But clearly there are pockets within today's world where people take seriously the idea that Latin should survive as a spoken tongue and where their gatherings are held entirely in Latin. For anyone who wants to learn the language, it is well worth dipping into that world. A pretty fascinating place for those with an inclination to learn about it.
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A thoughtful plea for LAN enabled play in COH2
You are looking at it from the point of view of the user if the system is working as desired.

From the point of view of the website, you're not driving clicks. You're not making money. You're not driving growth.

It is also bad for users. You do not drive clicks. Cannot pay for marketing. So your site gains no traction. And with no traction, actual users show up, can't find the people that they know, and then leave the virtual ghost town.

Therefore it sounds logical, but fails in practice.

Now add in a single feature. Add notifications to people saying that X people like them. Now people have a reason to come back. A reason to click on others. You get growth. Your website can make money. And you've become a spam site which completely lost the original idea. But you're a profitable spam site. And will probably drive more actual hookups than the pure form.

And this is why dating sites either fail trivially, or go on to suck.
Don’t be afraid to ask customers questions
Go with BSD if you want people to do something with it. Unless you don't want for people to make closed source apps with it, then go with GPL.
Not true (anymore).

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/golan...
Robocalls are evil!
Yes, lots of them in various departments. I live in Brazil, by the way.
Those are called small businesses.

When you tell people you are doing a start-up it is deeply implied you're doing something with the hopes of hitting it big. Because if it wasn't you would just tell them you "run a roofing company" or are "an electrician" or "sell stationary on the internet"

A start-up, even to non-technicals, connotes an attempt to hit it big.
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The fundamental problem with this in my opinion starts with the executive order. As the article states: the executive's job is to enforce laws, not make them. EO's have stepped well beyond that in the last 20 years, with the executive branch becoming more sovereign in nature, which scares the hell out of me.

We do need a cyber security bill, but it should be passed by Congress, whose job it is to iron out all the competing needs, instead of passed by fiat by a wanna-be king[1] who "knows what's best for the country".

1. EO's aren't the exclusive domain of Obama by any stretch. Every president since HW Bush has used them in increasing number and, IMO, in increasing defiance to the separation of powers. Another 20 years and Congress will be nothing but a complete farce, much like other dictatorial "republics".