skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't just a small difference though. The difference between returning 10kb of json from a function vs 10kb of json from mgo was insanely different.

I don't think it's because the bson C++ implementation is so much faster than Go.

I think it's because Go is clearly faster than JS but it doesn't matter once you introduce db calls.

It's sort of like using "for in" vs "for" in JS in the browser. It doesn't really matter which one of them might be faster than the other, as soon as you touch the DOM the difference becomes meaningless and if you jsperf it with DOM touching the results will be the same.
That’s what I get for not proofing my comment. Cheers.
The answer is really easy: You should do both.

Disable password auth for root, and change the SSH port.
That's what they get for using Dreamhost.
Why only XML responses? :(
“The Silicon Valley data support recent news reports citing some employers who say they are having a hard time finding candidates that can pass the preemployment drug test,”

I never lived in North America but I want to say that if I wanted to get a job and the employer would suggest me to pass a drug test, I would be extremelly offended and my human rights violated, and I'll tell them to eff off right away.

It's just so humiliating in my opinion.

I'm a software developer not an airplane pilot.
>"The more intelligent ones reach for their phone to calculate it."

and I took so much crap in school for refusing to memorize things I could look up quickly (like multiplication tables).

What now 3rd grade math teacher; I have Wolfram Alpha in my pocket.
Our provider allows us to modify firewall rules through their control panel. Perfect for when we have a dev working from home or a hotel room for a few days.
> Am i missing something? Or is that just mindless hyperbole?

Note that the document uses namespaces but does not declare them. In Python, both ElementTree and LXML will blow up parsing when they encounter the first undeclared prefix (dc, from dc:creator)
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I would love to see a link to a counter-post of how to do it your way. Not generalities, but a specific guide.
And yet, this sounds amateurish compared to the exact same scandal in Italy, but on a national scale: the "official" tourism portal: http://www.italia.it/en/home.html.

It had been calculated that direct and indirect costs of the project summed up to about 140M€ over the years.

At the time, someone put up a dedicated blog on the subject: http://scandaloitaliano.wordpress.com/

The WSJ was on it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121969807244970447.html

It even won a wikipedia entry: http://translate.google.it/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=h...
Will you allow a nurse + computer to perform an emergency craniotomy (a very simple neurosurgical procedure) on your spouse?

Large parts of the healthcare industry can be deskilled as you describe. Actual neurosurgery might not be so easy.
We do not know what the number is based on, as the article do not say so. It might be that the company sale is declared invalid, and any product sales made afterward is thus under danish law. Or it could be taxes of the 10.8 billion purchase but with an increased cost thanks to it now being several year later.
Come on... these people never expected web scale nor should they have paid/designed/engineered for it (that said for the price they paid my comment is rather f*ing sarcastic)
>"The woman in the video saying how she wish she'd known that software was for helping humans achieve things. Great message right there!"

+1. It's all about solving problems more efficiently or making things better/easier to use. This is a large part of why computers frustrate me so; it seems that most software companies wholly discard the notion of /user experience/.
We will soon be able to produce food, houses, energy and tools automatically. We will soon be able to enjoy leisure all the time, and not work at all.

Except the doctors. Medicine is, AFAIK, nowhere near being automated. But the doctors won't accept a situation where they are the only people still needing to work where the rest of us are out having fun. That's why the rest of us still have jobs, even if they are pointless, and will continue for the forseeable future.
The API has actually been in active use for almost two years, which means it is both battle tested and also showing its age. JSON support is actively planned for v2.
That's absolutely amazing!
It gets even better, the company that designed the website doesn't even have its own website: http://letlaka.co.za/.
Taxation is theft.

Especially given that surely Microsoft hasn't consumed anything even remotely close to 1 billion in Danish goverment services.

Hopefully Microsoft will be able to resist this armed robbery attempt.

Otherwise, they could simply use half that amount, $500 million, to purchase missiles and drone planes to defend themselves and counterattack (they can buy 500-1000 tomahawk cruise missiles or 10-20 MQ-9 Reaper drones with that amount).
There are very few websites where xhtml is served with a proper MIME type. MIME type triggers xml parsing mode in browsers, so in most cases xhtml is treated exatly as deserved: just a tag soup.
Thank you. I have struggled for years to explain what is so magical about building anything creative. Most people cannot understand. But, your connection to the movie Shawshank is brilliant. This is a movie people get so well. I will probably use this metaphor for years. Thank you!
JS: Which one is first? Promise or Callback?
In a Javascript function, when both options need to be called (a promise and a callback), which one do you invoke first?
I use Pocket - it has extensions for desktop browsers, apps for major mobile platforms, and offline sync. Free.

https://getpocket.com/
My workflow when working with clients
Since we have no clue about the shape of the curve apart from the two extremes it is a quite useless tool.

EDIT: According to the Wikipedia page some studies indicate that the maximum for the laffer curve in Sweden was about 70% tax.
"I do spend most of my time in the ssh app."

Is there a decent VNC client?

Also is this a "real" SSH client like I can X-window forward and share ssh keys or just a "sorta SSH" like I'm better off using ajaxterm?

For portable use I've been using a very old netbook with android-x86 installed for some years now, but I'm not too happy with the (pitiful) battery life and I've used the heck out of it so I'm sure the battery is not long for this world. So its either a new chromebook or something like a new android tablet with a bluetooth keyboard is in my near future. Its probably going to be the tablet/keyboard route unless something/someone convinces me a chromebook would be better.
> You can fail at any point in time – in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end – literally on any given day until you are done – and if you fail, all your efforts up to that point add up to nothing

Not necessarily true, we all learn from our mistakes and get experience as we do stuff. But I agree with the spirit of this post.
glad to see you growing, egor.
I wouldn't mind a better bit of info about the sensor! For instance I'm guessing its a bayer filtered job, to keep the sensativity (at the expense of sharpness of say Sigma Foveon).

But I can't believe they have just had such an improvement by switching to larger wells and more sensativity, do they have some cunning time domain based filtering too. One advantage digital sensors have is that they can exclude certain bits of noise by merging the image results over time, obviously this comes at the expense of sharpness.
You probably nationalise the robots and we all get dividends not salaries.
The article is a nice bit of wishful thinking—I wish you all the best. You should always strive to be better and do great things.

But I disagree with the basic premise in the title. I went through hell in my first startup because I believed this, and thought I had to push through my broken partnership and disagreements because starting a startup was always going to be difficult.

Now I'm working with fundamentally better people; wholly great people, in fact, and I've learned that everything I was told about startups and difficulty and "overcoming adversity" was just flat out wrong. I now truly believe that I didn't have to go through that hell to become the best. It was a lie. I only started becoming better once I was in a positive situation with a set of positive people doing work I believed in. The improvement in my life and work was exponential.

Moral of the story: trust your gut. If it doesn't feel right, it might not be. Maybe it's just hard, but maybe it's also too hard. Of course you have to work your ass off, and of course you'll learn a lot, but it shouldn't drive you into the ground. Keep your head screwed on.

Advice I wish I had heard earlier; or from the right people, maybe.
Ah, you're right, I did miss something =)

Still nothing to be "shocked" about though ..
When I read the "It wasn't an iPhone" bit, I thought they meant it as in "Don't worry, it wasn't an iPhone, so it will probably survive the fall!". Which puts a more positive spin to it :)
Yeah sorry about that. Permissions issue in the cms. All fixed now. Thanks for letting me know.
Depending on how they handle the noise reduction, yes.
Most consumers won't ever see it, because one of the only ways to get that error is a manual configuration on at least one client which conflicts with the DHCP range.
For comparison, the Nikon D4 (a digital SLR) can shoot video at ISO 204,800, and it can resolve details in the dark beyond the ability of the eye, and I suspect this new sensor is more sensitive — or, at least, far more noise free — than that.

EDIT: Judging by some photos I've taken of the night sky, with an f/2.8 lens and with a shutter speed of 1/50s, you need an ISO of around 300,000 to get enough brightness.

If only Stanley Kubrick had this to play with. Instead, he used a f/0.7 lens to shoot some scenes in Barry Lyndon by candlelight, way back in 1975.
Ah, damnit =).

It's been almost 12 years since I lived in Switzerland :-)
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Moonlight is for the most part just reflected sunlight, so it's not surprising that the colors are very similar. Obviously it's much less bright, by a factor of 500k according to Wikipedia, but that's what this sensor is about.

You can get similarly startling images from a plain point and shoot camera by installing it on a tripod and taking long exposure shots of things. You need 30 to 60 seconds exposure, sometimes available as a "starry sky" scene mode. Architecture is particularly suited as it tends not to move around. :) Even a cheap, small, P&S sensor is much more sensitive to light when you expose for 60 seconds, all while being completely noise-free.
Is this a color sensor? The high end astrophotography sensors tend to be monochromatic, with a filter wheel placed in front of the sensor. That way, each well has 3 times as much chance of seeing a photon.
"There are no namespace declarations. No self-respecting XML parser will have anything to do with this XML data."

I would argue that any self respecting xml parser should parser it just find and shouldn't demand the namespaces to be defined at all.

"...invented their own ad hoc analogous namespace prefix, rather than understanding the role of elements in XML"

I don't think you understand the base concept of XML much. It is meant to be a generic container to hold whatever you want. XML in and of itself doesn't enforce node naming. Sure if you are talking about the official spec it does, but people pretty much globally use whatever node names they want. Don't have a cow.

"I haven’t been able to determine the intended encoding of the files"

Well maybe you should look into a parser that just parses as is without attempting to use some specific encoding.

Check out XML::Bare on cpan for perl. It will parse pretty much anything you throw at it, in any encoding. It leaves it up to you, the user, to decide what to do with the data after parsing.
The only issue is that with huge data dumps (the buildings dataset here as GeoJSON is ~2GB uncompressed and ~1GB as shapefile) it becomes difficult to make direct pull requests against the data. Indeed they zipped the JSON file up before uploading it so it's impossible to make pull requests (I originally suggested GeoJSON because a pull request could be read by a human as opposed to a shapefile diff which could not be read).
I'm afraid I have no idea about the answer to either of your questions. I assumed the "we" in your original post meant "we humans".

I do understand that humans don't have an instinctual understanding of using nipples, human babies have a physical sucking reflex that kicks in when you put anything near their mouths. They usually quickly learn that sucking a nipple in a particular way gives out lots of yummy milk.
How does that work? I never understood what a consultant does exactly. Offers advice?
I can commiserate with you.

I am from India and my college, a govt. college, had roads in college dug out twice every year and had it rebuilt. Later I figured they cited the reason "rain ruined the pathways" :P

My college, being an engineering college, ran its server through some 1 room it firm from the city. I cannot post the link to my college website(It's a shame in the name of websites. I am already ashamed) and that firm doesn't have one. Later I figured that firm's owner(only employee of the firm) was director's relative. Tender was 27 lakh(1 lakh INR is roughly $2000) INR an year.

We didn't have campus wide wired Internet, just a few wireless access points(total 3-4) and nothing in hostel. Later I figured the tender ran in lakhs annually.

There were few permanent faculty members. There was an open rate going for temporary faculty. You pay 30-40% your per diem(or per class) that is approved by Central Govt of India(yes, it was not a state govt college), to college bosses - directors, HOD etc. Later I came to know that the commission went up the ladder till Delhi.

We agitated, we went to the press. Press came to out college. You know what was the news next day - "* college students ran amok".."property damaged".... "They were demonstrating against exam results". Ever damn news paper that came and every damn TV channel that came that day. And nothing bloody else.
(Yes, in EEE branch 21 students were failed and everyone of them deserved the fail grade and we never ever fg talk about it during entire day).

Some seniors(we were in first year at that time) even went till Delhi and they couldn't meet anyone. They left the memo with the peon of PMO. Of course no one heard anything.

There's no press, no judiciary here. It's a system that just runs and will be a catastrophe it tempered from either darker side or the brighter side.

But it seems, that's al right because over the time I mellowed down too and the time police asks for some money to lodge a FIR I don't hesitate. Fortunately I have gelled with the system real well.
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It'll be interesting to see if they can compete with cameraphones. GoPro does have a few differentation strategies. First is that they'll offer higher quality video than phones. However, the video quality on phones will get better all the time, and the difference in quality will become smaller every year.

Another strategy is that they can compete with price. Consumers can always buy a case and a strap to house their smartphone in, but if you're filming sports there's a quite high risk to destroy the phone. The price of GoPro-style video cameras will go down over time (if they won't constantly add new features in), but the cost of phones will probably stay high in the future.

Consumers will likely choose the $79 camera instead of risking their $500 phone to film sports.
We don't need your CSS grid
I am glad you liked the post, and the connection to the movie !
I don't see any problem with this XML that can't be easily overcome.

The comment about GMT-offsetting the date is particularly pithy, Assuming the blog in question isn't about ephemerides. By and large, blog posts have dates. If you desperately need an hour-offset from GMT, one might suggest this is your edge-case because, by and large, it doesn't matter.

Count me among those who would argue that the omission of a schema is a blessing.

I've wasted whole f*cking days of my life wrangling with so-called "non-amateur" XML. Invariably this was over-bloated XML with schemas that did nothing to help the discoverability and the processing of the data. Plain and simple, XML is over-spec'd and many data publishers, aided by their inflexible toolsets, pushed their XML beyond reason.

Be careful what you wish for.

I would take this XML, map-it, iterate it, done! End of story. I don't think there's much to complain about here.
For me, this is a Major pain. I use pinboard.in, and kippt but neither tools is enough for me. I wish to discover a new tool.
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> Essentially, people have been oversold on what the degree actually gives them.

The degree certificate itself, perhaps. But I think people also miss what can come along while getting the degree. Networking with senior faculty members. Participating in undergraduate research. Independent classes with those faculty members. Networking with peers of similar interests.

It's what the student makes it. As such, you're quite right that just "getting a degree" doesn't make you qualified for anything aside from being a degree holder. I think it's important to keep this in mind when discussing undergraduate degrees.
this only makes sense if you're an alien abducted by humans unfairly and now in captive on this crappy earth. And you are devising a scheme to escape from this jail planet by working on your startup.
I use Sublime Text, Intellij, Eclipse, along with LibreOffice, Firefox, terminal, and a handful of other things. I'd be doing the same if I was using a Mac or Windows machine.
Ask HN: Any self hosting blook software?
Is there any self hosted software available where you could write a book in a blog format? The writer would write the chapters as individual blog items and the home page would be a table of contents linking to all the chapters/blog items. The writer could also export the blook to PDF, epub etc. I think something like this would make it really easy for a writer to get started and build an audience over time.
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I can't see this wonder, because it gives me a Connection Refused error. :)
XML is so complex and obtuse that one can hardly blame the practicioners for misusing it.
You seem to be missing the point they are trying to make. It's not so much about releasing (delivering) the data as it is about receiving user-contributed updated data in a more or less controlled way, that may allow them to curate it and update their official data. Koordinates seems great for publishing the data, but after briefly browsing its features, it does not allow users to contribute to the updating process, except perhaps via a centralized way, which seems to be what they are trying to avoid.

Github may or may not be the best tool they could have used to accomplish their objective; there are probably better tools out there and Github is barely "good enough"; however, "good enough" usually cuts it. On the other hand since their goal is to allow user-contribution, Koordinate is definitely not the right tool, at least not in an immediately obvious way.
No. Once you screw up encoding, the information is generally gone. It's not just a matter of munging, it's often a matter of having to grovel over the entire file, by hand, correcting things.

Programmers seem to love to think that encoding errors are a joke, but they aren't. The data is gone. That's a big deal. Why are you even writing a program in the first place if it's just going to output unrecoverable gibberish? So you can throw the onus on the user to figure it out?

And that's to say nothing of trying to recover the date.
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Maybe it's just me, but I found it difficult to draw any actual conclusions from this particularly relating to what women actual want.

The 'challenges' to careers could apply equally to men, likewise the incredibly vague and leading "Would you like more flexibility at work" question.

The main facts appear to be: women in developing nations (Brazil and India) seem to be optimistic about their careers. And nearly 1/3 of women could attribute a good career to their appearance.
I got that sense as well. Which led me to the ask: so what is the point of this post? To spend many more paragraphs essentially saying what we already know.

Cooking is not for everybody. But we still learn to cook.
Mechanics is not for everybody. But I was still out their working on the car yesterday.
Politics is not for everybody. But I still vote.
Accounting is not for everybody. But I still do my taxes and balance my budget.

It can all be summed up with one sentence: Every job is not for everyone.
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> I just can't comprehend why they'd need to reserve -- inside a comment.

It's because the feature was inherited from SGML, first for commenting in element declarations (e.g. <!ELEMENT -- this is an element>) and then generalized to the whole document: in SGML, the grammar for a comment is

comment declaration =
MDO ("<!"), (comment, ( s | comment )* )?, MDC (">")
comment =
COM ("--"), SGML character*, COM ("--")

HTML — as an SGML application — theoretically inherited this feature (most UA don't really implement it correctly so it's not exactly safe to use sequences of dashes inside a comment, browsers may or may not toggle commenting). See http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/SGMLComments.html for a more extensive explanation especially in relation to browsers (SGML-compliant comments handling used to be part of early ACID2, before being removed because it was a stupid idea)

Meanwhile XML took half of it, threw the rest away, and called it a day.
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Is this really a pivot? Maybe I'm not seeing it, or I may be blending what I had known (or thought I'd known) was coming for a while anyway - focusing on 'core'. Is there something more I'm missing?

By no means a criticism - great job to hear about the funding, and continued success to you guys!
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The first link in your article is broken.
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It does seem totally ridiculous, but I think in many cases governments bring these things on themselves with highly complicated tender processes and red-tape (many time in the name of due-process, fairness and transparency)

Imagine putting a bid for this work. Do you think most of the effort is in building the website itself, or dealing with so many bureaucrats, forms, approvals and so on? Making sure your developers have X certification and your office is compliant with Y regulation, and that all your processes are ISO certified and so on... This stuff costs money, and quite a lot.

So any sane company who wishes to enter into business with any government organization usually take these substantial extra costs into account, which ends up inflating the price. The sad thing of course is that it's the citizens who end up footing the bill.

EDIT to clarify: I am not trying to say that the price makes sense in this particular case. I'm talking more about the general problem with govt-related contracts.
Do any of the gateways, accept Indian merchants and also support billing in USD?
"on first pageview" at least seems to imply that you can scroll at all. On Opera (with Ghostery and AdBlock), it doesn’t work at all and I can read as far as ‘you can drop by the Palliate’.

So, uh, it's a great article, albeit a little short…
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