skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
definitions of 'unusable' vary greatly. 16gb 2ghz quadcore 2011 mbp with 256g SSD and intellij is usable about 95% of the time - I get slow downs and hangs, but their OS-level stuff - I get the same stuff hangs in macvim, textwrangler, eclipse, pixelfari and other apps.
Of course, Gates mandated insane working conditions as well.
These sorts of businesses will tend to either be built over a very long time or require huge capital investment to get off the ground.

You can't really give a few college grads a couple of grand and ask them to sit in a room and build the next oracle.

What I mean is businesses that are not either win or fail dramatically.
For example you can run a consulting business out of your home office, it might grow into something the size of accenture, but if it doesn't you can still be comfortably profitable.
NYC should decrease income taxes and increase property taxes. I don't mind out of towners buying expensive condo's, but they should help pay for the services that make New York great. Right now, because their income is all earned out of town and property taxes are very low, so they are not really supporting the city.
Because the PR machine for Rails is big, and people are slow to admit they sometimes back the wrong horse.
Yes - well done devs for the quick turnaround in fixes.
No - constant sticky plaster patch fixes are not the same as proper design, security concerns, software engineering.

Less magic, and more security thought would be good!
very interesting! had same idea (parse gemfile.lock and follow changelogs). Waiting for proto
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Interesting list for sure.
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"So what were actually her arguments, other than just calling libertarians anarchists, her enemies, and mocking them?"

Well, let's see, from the first paragraph:

- She called Libertarianism "a mockery of philosophy and ideology"

- She accused Libertarians of "slinging slogans and trying to ride on two bandwagons"

Later, she accuses them of entertaining "amateur political notions" and "rushing into politics in order to get publicity".

She says that Libertarians

- are based on "half-baked ideas, and in part on borrowed ideas".

- "spend their time denouncing me, while plagiarizing my ideas".

- "are perhaps the worst political group today, because they can do the most harm to capitalism, by making it disreputable."

- would "like to have an amoral political program"

I could go on quoting her, but maybe if you actually read the article yourself you'll see what her "arguments" are.
For performance of compilation. Go compiles crazy fast -- think two seconds for complete compiler and runtime on a notebook. This provides for rapid hack-compile-debug iterations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r...
hi nateabele,

Author here. Did you also search for stdev, st.dev, variance? Just kidding.

The post is not about averages. Its about selecting the right metric to track website performance. Standard deviation would surely qualify the avg. latency a bit, but it would still be a pretty lame alternative to using a better toplevel metric like Apdex.

Best,
Mike
Which makes the fact that Tesla lost the lawsuit in the UK even more remarkable. The burden of proof rests on the defense in the UK, not the plaintiffs.
that's why I asked. I know attribute_assignment.rb code pretty well - no strip is called.

So conclusion: this doesn't lead to mass assignment. only DoS.
> Sometimes you have to cut your losses ;-) Another reason why I dislike the term "live programming" is because it confuses two separate concepts: continuous feedback and rich feedback.

Again if we go back to Hancock's thesis, it's all there! It's not just about continuous feedback, it's about feedback with respect to a steady frame, it's about feedback that is relevant to your programming taks, it's about feedback that is comprehensible. Hancock got it right the first time, there is no classical live programming (though there were other forms of liveness before). Actually, this is something I didn't get myself in my 2007 paper.

I don't think I need to abondon my word, especially since the standard bearer are Bret's demos; people want "that", not some sort of vaguely defined Smalltalk hot swapping experience. The community I'm fighting for the word is small and insignificant vs. the Bret fans :).

As for the rest of your post, explicit state migration is a big deal for deployment hot swapping (Erlang?) but ultimately a nuance during a debugging session. A "best" effort with reset as a back up is more usable.

But maybe take a look at our UIST déjà Vu paper [1]: here the input is defined as a recorded video that undergoes Kinect processing, and we are primarily interested in the intermediate output frames, not just the last one. So the primary problems are one of visualization, while we ignore the hard problem of memoization and just replay the whole program. We even have the possibility to manage multiple input streams and switch between them.

Kinect programs are good examples of extremely stateful programs with well defined inputs. One of the next problems I'm trying to solve is how to memoize between the frames of such programs to make the feedback more lively.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1793...
Is this something you put into contracts with clients (assuming you are doing client work)?

I'm curious about how people do security SLAs or whatever.
This is the 'fuck I shitted my pants' moment!

Really great to have him in public this way, I mean, most of the celebrities have help teams, that post for them, which is kinda boring, but there are always haters and weeners, that would fill up such pages with some meaningless crap, so my biggest concern is Bill Gates, getting err... unlovey to Reddit ? :( that would be sad
> this one is irrelevant to consumers.

Not if I want to put my car in long-term storage. Then this, too, becomes quite relevant.
Heroku does a good job of notifying its users.
It's an interesting showdown of personalities. Steve Jobs had invited the actor who portrayed him at WWDC. So looks like Jobs also thought portrayal was accurate. I think both of them had their own flaws as individuals but their strengths made them what they are.
I doubt Musk can instantly tweet the logs to prove his point... they're probably full of irrelevant data and have to be processed a bit before publishing in defense against this. Musk is just jumping on this so the article doesn't sit there for too long giving people what he believes is the wrong impression about his product.
I may say 50 to 100. It could be up to 250 I suppose if you have a very catchy title.
How about a hackernews discount code?
> Except that, you know, gas is everywhere and a tank lasts more than a hundred miles.

Not accurate on both counts.

1. If I drive East West or North from my house right now on major national highways, I won't find a gas station for many hundreds of KMs in any direction.

2. The Veyron will drain it's gas tank in ~10 minutes, as will other high-performance cars that achieve 1/4 mile results similar to the Model S. http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/driven/1206_2013_bugatt...
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No, I think the answer to the first question explains it pretty well.

She saw libertarians as anarchists, and anarchy as a form of collectivism.

IMO, Ayn Rand is like Richard Stallman in a way. A lot of her points are valid, and her intentions were good, but she was so over the top that it turned a lot of people off.
Top Gear's review was mostly very positive. Tesla picking up on the "bad" only advertised the "bad" to any one who hadn't seen the Top Gear review. Now we might see the same thing again here with the NYT.

I'm all for electric cars, seems to me to be the future. But if Musk and Co will insist on reacting like a scolded car every time some reviewer says something negative, in a really over sensitive way, they aint never gonna look good.

On top of that, they are aggravating relationships that could be crucial in the future. Dunno about the NYT, but I can see Top Gear just ignoring them, even when the car does improve. And there would come a time when TG does say, "yes this car is now practical". Well, there might have been. Who knows now.

Sad that Musk is still crying over the TG "BS" too. Seems a bit of a grudge holder, even when proved wrong in law.

I really like Musk's usual style and what he stands for, I also think he is doing a great job developing these cars, and soon, he will get there, but all this is a real turn off to me. And I can't help thinking he is making his own life worse with these reactions.
The point about people reinforcing things on forums is a very good one. I've found time and time again, people repeating and posting "tweaks" to your the Android phone build.prop file.

These tweaks mostly do nothing. There's no even any code in the phone that looks for the values being set, let alone acting on them. Yet there are blog posts, forum posts over and over repeating them.

You challenge people about it and they get defensive and angry.

All that said, I don't think good technical content isn't out there, it's just getting harder to find amongst everyone else non-technical trying to have a go!
There is support for graph rewriting for a Titan-backed data-set using Faunus. Titan does not support global graph operations. Therefore, Faunus was created to allow you to perform offline graph operations much like the one you've described.
Obviously it has to match or surpass the experience with gasoline. This is what Tesla has done, surpassing that experience for some(rich) people.

The rest is mainly a cost issue. Conventional cars have 100 years of mass production advantage.

It will take some time until price goes down, and catch gasoline. Electronics, batteries and electric engines are way easier to mass produce than thermal engines.
http://roversf.com/ is down.
This is ridiculously hard problem to solve and the likelihood of Wevorce succeeding is very low (as in all startups). But man... it's refreshing whenever I see SV funding large hard to solve problems. It's not all me too ideas, bloated valuations, social network XYZ with zero business models as the press might make it seem much of the time.
I have had over a dozen positive articles about me written in newspapers, blogs, and TV segments over the years. Every single one of them misrepresented key facts, exaggerated my accomplishments, and oversimplified the invention/process. Initially I was shocked at the inaccuracies but over time I realized that despite the journalists' best intentions, they have to look at my story from different points of views and pick the angle that best fits the column's theme/focus - prodigious kid invents technology even Microsoft can't (David vs. Goliath), smart techies whip up app on weekend (HP/Apple garage-style startup), friendly-neighborhood IT guy takes a stab at unrelated field (everyone's a hidden genius).

One could argue that news must be devoid of any such slants, angles, or specific POVs but then we get caught in a debate about boring news that won't sell vs. sensationalized news that is meant solely to increase sales. Just like for programmers it is a constant balance between quality, deadlines, and cost, for journalists it is between truth, importance, and sales. '12 more people dead in blast in Tel Aviv' is truth and important but not sensational enough to sell. 'No-name D-list celeb gets caught speeding' is truth and sensational but not important.

In articles like this, they're trying to make it sound important and sensational while skirting around the limits of truth. In personal articles we've been involved in, they play the angles to show importance and make it sensational while not caring much about the factual accuracies.
It isn't even all that necessary to be good. Even if you are mediocre or somewhat bad, a combination of connections and hustle can get you really far. I think many of us have seen examples of this, particularly in the context of startup booms.

People who are more successful tend to imagine that it is because they are better when really they may be in the right place at the right time. There is a skill to being in the right place at the right time, but this doesn't mean there aren't a lot of highly talented people who are overlooked or downgraded for reasons which don't relate to their raw ability.
Hopefully this can help people who don't want to deal with "jagin" to ensure that their divorces don't "wind up like their parents one did." Don't worry, "All of our clients our Wevorce clients."
Cute robot. Useful app. +1.
That would be an incredible legacy if he can achieve it.
"that they even mentioned it only got 55 miles on a full charge on their track (and faked it running out of charge). Most gasoline cars won't do much better when driving so flat-out."

Uhm, even NASCAR vehicles go farther than 55 miles flat out. Most sports cars do not degrade that far. Even dropping down to 8 mpg would still net almost all sports cars over 100 mile range flat out.
>they mentioned all the hoops they jumped through to prevent Tesla from knowing that they bought one.

Given Musk's tweet about how they always enable data logging for journalists, i'm wondering why it was so important for CR not to let tesla know they bought one.
Made me laugh :)
Attribute is multiline anyway. As far as i know attribute_assignment.rb there is no .strip. So: what is profit of the "Circumvention"? Would love to know
http://reddit.com/r/tabled, after a few hours.
I don't think the grocery store will change anytime soon. :)
Ironically, Crichton was himself known to play fast and loose with facts. Mathematicians laughed at his portrayal of chaos theory and its implications in Jurassic Park, and the scientific community cried foul over his portrayal of climate science in State of Fear.

It's of course ok to bend facts when it's in the service of a fictional story, but Crichton too frequently was portrayed (often by himself) as a true subject matter expert.
"integrate all three into one startup."

What would be your tagline ? How about "no hassles marriage to divorce in 1 package." Then could price your service as:

- Dating only

- Marriage only

- Dating & Marriage (value package)

- Marriage and divorce (value package)

- Dating,Marriage,Divorce (super value package)
I disagree. Let me quote Cutts: "I’ve said it before, but SEO is in many ways about change. The best SEOs recognize, adapt, and even flourish when changes happen."

There's a saying that goes something like "A computer will only do what you tell it to do". That said, merit is important, but you have to show Google merit with code. That's by on page content and structure and appropriate tags, etc or by off-page, with links. That's it. There's no other way. There's no black magic. Cutts speaks to SEOs but he calls he channel GoogleWebmasterHelp . That's the clue to website owners, but many times the owner is not a webmaster. So they can hire an SEO that knows a bit about ranking websites, or they can hire a web programmer. Not all web programmers have ideas on what to do. They likely will want to make a new site for the customer that is not even necessarily any better than the existing, as far as Google cares.

That got a bit preachy but it's not as black and white as you make it out to be. There's a niche for SEOs that involves improving existing websites that a web programmer might not be suited for, might not want to do, or might be too expensive for.
Let's assume her claims about Libertarianism's origins are correct, even though they aren't.

When you publish a book explicitly detailing your philosophy on the way you think the world should work (The Virtue of Selfishness), and people end up adopting parts of your philosophy, you should shut the fuck up, because you got exactly what you asked for when you published it.

I'm a huge fan of Atlas Shrugged, it's one of the 10 best novels I've ever read. I think that society can learn something significant from it. I can't say I'm a fan of it's author, her extremist philosophy, or the cult that was created in her memory.
The tagline: "Easy Come, Easy Go"
Divorce is one of the most stressful events that can happen in your life, as a kid or as a spouse. It's great to see companies like Wevorce work towards solving real and important problems.
This is not an issue for fatcache. slab item chunk size introduces internal fragmentation (because items sizes usually don't match "chunk" sizes unless you use slab profile, -z option, to match them up). The kind of external fragmentation you described is due to the eviction strategy memcached uses, which can be avoided by using slab level eviction strategies (Twemcache and latest Memcached both have this support). fatcache does slab level eviction based on write timestamps, which is the equivalent of LRC eviction in Twemcache, and you can read about the mechanism here: https://github.com/twitter/twemcache/wiki/Eviction-Strategie...
> so no one is going to mess with it while you're gone.

Rrriiiiggght.
No one would ever key the paint work, slash the tires, (attempt to) hack the onboard systems of, or vomit into an unattended luxury car.

A better argument would be that the car is being charged on camera at a human attended station that takes security seriously.
Oxygen density is also proportional to the density of the fluid, so this should be a wash.
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Our main client has one security agreement in place - anything but Ruby on Fails please!
They seem quite happy with Python so far.
As others have said, Django may or may not have security issues. I wouldn't bet against it.

With regard to this vulnerability, however, the '^' and '$' regex pattern characters in python match the beginning and end (or end + '\n') of the string by default. Multiline mode has to be enabled explicitly:

import re

re.match(r'^test$', 'test\n multiline') == None

re.match(r'^test$', 'test\n multiline', re.MULTILINE) != None

So, I think it's a little less likely that this particular vulnerability would be an issue. It's still possible for someone to leave off the '$', but at least that case is a little more obvious.

Also, the Django codebase doesn't have any param processing code that uses whitelisting/blacklisting like this; you have to explicitly lookup values in request.GET and request.POST or use specific field names in a Form. It's a little less convenient compared to mass assignment, but more secure by default.
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Unbelievable, that's disgusting..
That's what the concierge is for.
My car is markedly less efficient in winter on short trips, even though England doesn't moves vertically with the seasons. Over longer journeys this phenomenon is much less of a problem.

The engine's preferred operating temperature is much higher than any reasonable air temperature, and until that point is reached the engine oil will be less lubricative and the fuel (particularly in the case of diesel) less inclined to combust. It will naturally take longer to reach that preferred temperature when it is cold outside, because not only is the air cold but the engine is also this big lump of cold metal, absorbing the heat of combustion and pulling it away from the cylinder where it is needed.
I'd like to read more background on the graphic's apparent contradictions.

It calls IQ irrelevant, but values a metric of "high fluid intelligence" including logic, pattern recognition, and abstract thinking which... IQ is supposed to measure? If they've developed a more effective measure of general intelligence that correlates to actual success then why isn't this huge news? Why hasn't IQ already been supplanted by this metric?

And more personally relevant, what is the difference between "project completion skills" and the supposedly irrelevant "conscientiousness" metric? Something to do with intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation?
Are you seriously trying to suggest that people don't?

I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you, but desktop apps are still very widely used by all sorts of people. This includes home users, business users, scientific users, software developers, academics, and so forth.

Even when it comes to web browsing, traffic from non-desktop devices is generally only around 10% to 15% of a site's total traffic these days, for sites that aren't specifically targeting mobile users. The remaining 85% (or more) of traffic is coming from people who are, guess what, using web browsers implemented as desktop apps.
My takeaway on this subject is that if you're in good physical and mental health, you have a chance. If health isn't an issue, it's been done at pretty much any age, from the teens up.
Posted this comment on the article, but thought it would be useful here as well:

Good points on why average latency is a bad metric, and while the idea behind Apdex was good, it never ended up being the right measure. The Apdex score still depends on a HiPPO (Highest Paid Person''s Opinion) to determine what T should be, and this can change over time.

At SOASTA (and previously at LogNormal), we borrowed the concept of LD50 (the median lethal dose) from biology. The LD50 value has the property of adapting to what your audience thinks rather than what your HIPPO thinks is a good experience.

We described the method at the Velocity conferences (Santa Clara and London) last year, and wrote it up in a blog post here: http://www.lognormal.com/blog/2012/10/03/the-3.5s-dash-for-a...

Hope you find it interesting.

I should also mention that it's useful to apply some kind of smoothing to timeseries data (like latency over time). Holt-Winters double-exponential smoothing is particularly good at this. What it does is smooth out temporary glitches and show you when things turn unexpectedly bad. If you've ever received a page and said, "Oh yeah, that one... that goes away in 3 seconds. Happens every day.", then you'll find this useful. H-W D-E smoothing only shows you the ones that don't go away after 3 seconds.
So essentially, this is writing an application in machine code?

This is so fascinating I'm starting to get palpitations. I've always wanted to know how to program in machine code. I've looked through the web countless times in search of something like this, and haven't ever found it, until now.

Thanks for the great insight. This kind of stuff makes C/C++ look like stuff for total newbies. Getting this close to the hardware really is quite mind-boggling.
I would also take the cost of refueling in to consideration. Superchargers are free.