skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're in no shortage of production code. The problems are quite trivial - two people doing the same think might have different stuff in mind (so you cannot have a heuristic that works for everyone) and the fact that we're running on a shoestring budget compared to other JIT-for-dynamic-language projects. We don't even have 3 people full time.

As for the "single thing" - it's just the next thing on the infinite list of things that can be optimized better. Having a better assembler backend would be good (but smaller) win, etc. etc. For now and for quite a bit in the future, it's clear what to do to make X Y or Z faster.
At first, I thought why not take two colors, than make the kids who preferred black stood left and the others on right side. There should be many simple ways to deal with that situation quickly and easily. I

The story looks a little weird, even not true, like I don't quite remember which product had just released that morning,, is it true?

But at the end, I found I was misunderstood and also was touched.
Or the new WebKit browser in the recent versions of Blackberry OS mean that it's not as required as it used to be.
It's a natural enough thing to do, and not for some misguided reason of moral equivalence.

The striking thing about Nazi Germany is that it happened, and that people not too different than us let it happen. If your interest in studying this stuff is thinking about how we all keep it from happening again, studying comparable events - especially ones that happened right here - is potentially important. I could elaborate but it really feels like I'm just stating the obvious.
That would work, yes.
TypeEngine – Beautifully Simple iOS Newsstand Publishing
Sooooooo true.
Why Watching DVDs on Linux is Illegal in the USA
It does in general. Racism is still alive and well in the US, although if most white racists knew how many non-whites handled their food on a day to day basis, they'd starve to death.

That said, there is a lot less racism going on in the Bay Area. This shouldn't really be an issue as long as you speak clearly and enunciate your words (the hallmark of any good salesman, really).

Disclosure: I'm white.
In the early 80's there was a time Lisp compilers could even beat FORTRAN for floating point computations.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/lispfloat.pdf
Science Explains Why Our Best Ideas Come in the Shower
It's probably the wall time for the various backend services to respond to the query. If you think about it, a Google search result is actually many things; it has results from various sources, such as the web, images, videos, news, social signals from G+, etc. All of those are different services that are aggregated to build your result page.

Since all of those queries are fired at the same time, the only metric that matters at the end is the wall time, not the CPU time used during the query.

I also seriously doubt that the servers that handle the Google front page can only do one query at a time; at the very least, they're multithreaded, but probably concurrent. It probably works as below:

1. Parse query
2. Send query to backend servers
3. Wait until all backends replied or at most 250ms (or some other timeout)
4. Assemble the result page and ship it back to the client

While the server is idling for the backends to reply, it probably processes other queries; it wouldn't make sense to waste that much CPU power.

Finally, your example says 0.12s (a random query on my end gave a response time of 0.69s), which is 120ms (or 690ms for mine), which is more than twice 30ms.
Areon with a standing desk (motorized) is a very nice combination. I like having a choice about where/how I work.

Just make sure you get long enough cables if your computer is under your desk.
my bad man. been up too late, I meant theater and performance. From the link http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/col...

"In 2009 the U.S. graduated 89,140 students in the visual and performing arts, more than in computer science, math and chemical engineering combined and more than double the number of visual and performing arts graduates in 1985."

As for the museums, unfortunately kid science centers, imaginariums, and aquariums aren't science museums.
How does it work with Stripe connect if the marketplace wants to get a small cut/fee from the payment?

Example:
Buyer pays $10, seller gets $9, marketplace gets $1.
If you have an issue with the nukes, go look up the Tokyo firebombing.

Heck go hear the hardcore history podcast on the matter, then you will understand that it is just not that simple.
I'm guessing it is sticking around. The text in the Yahoo Message Board section says:

"We also encourage you to ask and answer questions on Yahoo! Answers, and discuss issues in the comments section on Yahoo! News."

However, it looks like the avatar images that everyone is used to will disappear, since Yahoo is getting rid of them generally.
Does anyone know the name of the movie for the "When my regex returned exactly what I expected" scene?
I totally agree. I understand being open to test things is important. Unfortunately where I am, I don't have a whole lot of time left much less pivot the entire menu. If this doesn't work out or turn around, I can't afford to even pivot anymore. I am doing my best to stay afloat but as I have pivoted twice, I am definitely open to change if we can manage to survive long enough for that.

I deeply appreciate the suggestions and will look into it. Thank you.
One must also be open to the possibility that due to the Jews' disproportionately large influence on the media - in that they are more commonly know as to "control the media", that said Jews would propagate lies to forward their own agendas.

I would argue that the holocaust has afforded the Jews enough to warrant motive.

To say "it did not happen", though, I wouldn't take such a stance. I personally would dispute its scope, greatly, in regard to the specific slaughter of Jews, and more relevantly, the constant reminder (read: disproportionately, as mentioned by other commenters) to sympathize with them.

Also, I'm with you on the [citation needed]. I've too little interest to contribute, myself.
Excellent question. I hope someone with more knowledge vis a vis the US student loan system chimes in, but I'll add where I can.

To begin with, in the US, it's important to distinguish federal loans from those issued by the private sector. The former are issued by the government, the latter by private institutions (banks, et al).

Federal loans : The IBR (income based repayment) plan was recently introduced [1]. It appears similar to the UK plan, except the implementation details are different (15% of income over 25 years). There are of course eligibility requirements that (shock of shocks) are not always crystal clear [4]

Private loans : nothing whatsoever AFAIK, nor much planned future legislation

Lastly, it's important to note that both public and private US student loans are notoriously difficult to have discharged, including in the event of bankruptcy. The bar is set high enough to almost be considered de-facto impossible [5] (opinion).

This, IMO, makes the astronomically high figure presented here all the more alarming. An affordable education is possible in this country, but we haven't been good at educating the public in this regard (ironically, I guess).

For a general breakdown on the differences between federal & private loans, see the linked chart [6]. While I guess I should have known this already, I was surprised to note that some privately issued loans come bundled with pre-payment penalties.

[1] http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/understand/plans/income...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income-Based_Repayment

[3] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-02-12/business/sns-2...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/your-money/student-loans/e...

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/business/shedding-student-...

[6] http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/loans/federal-vs-private
As for the museums, unfortunately kid science centers, imaginariums, and aquariums aren't science museums.

My estimate was only including institutes accredited by the American Association of Science and Technology Centers. They definitely do consider imaginariums, kid science centers and aquariums to be in the same class as science museums.
This is hardly a new idea though. Half of car navigation systems implement this exact type of entry method.
I agree, but gave up trying to convince people. I now use a userscript to rewrite all arxiv pdf links (outside arxiv itself) to point to the corresponding abstract page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/user_scripts/arx...
I have only watched a few US version. I am definitely going to put more samples out there, starting by hitting up meetups and getting people to try my food. Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
Your question is actually examined in history research. Generally there is something of a ,,forgetting curve'' for historical events, after which they leave the general societal awareness. (Of course estimations are hard, but around 50 years = 2 generations seems reasonable)
WW2 and the "Holocaust" are widely credited as falling outside the curve, meaning the events are much more salient today than would be expected given the length of time elapsed. Of course the singularity of the horrors plays a role in this, but some historical researchers do not believe this to be the main reason. Compare the general knowledge of WW2 with the knowledge of WW1, nearly everybody knows Stalingrad, Auschwitz, Pearl Harbour, but who remembers the Battle of Ypres?

One theory is that WW2 and the "holocaust" have a special role, because the weirdness of the period following it. Because of the fight against communism, the USA and West Germany nearly instantly became allies after WW2 and occupation with the horrors past became discouraged. For example Hans Globke, one of the authors of the Nuremberg race laws, was allowed to be a high ranking minister in the Adenauer administration and some believe he was the reason why Germany and the CIA were not very interested in finding and prosecuting Adolf Eichmann at the time.

That is why there was a certain time lag in considering the events of WW2. In Germany there were the student revolts around 1968 and in 1969 the German chancellor Kiesinger had to step down because of his "nazi past" - which in comparison to Hans Globke was totally harmless. In a similiar vein the word "holocaust" mainly comes from a US TV-Series in 1978, the preferred jewish term is the "shoah".

I guess we will have to wait until the 2030s or so,to see if it still overshadows everything else then.
>The Holocaust showed that Western civilization, not just Hitler's Germany, was eager to execute unprecedented crimes against humanity.

Western governments did nothing about Hitler's rise, but to equate that with Western civilization as a whole eagerly executing these crimes seems a bit of a stretch.
It maybe useless to you or me, but its very much active and used by a lot of people. I think this is one of the few Yahoo Services that organically grew over time and started having a name for itself.

I do think there is plenty of room to make it much much better. It looks the same for as long as I can remember.
Am I am missing something really "ripoffy" like stealing code, images or similar data?

If yes, sure credit should be due. If no, why should they give credit?
the person in charge of ordering must really hate fish sauce and made the final decision.
If you ever meet a Jew who is willing to discuss it, they usually have a relative or two who escaped to a more friendly country.

Have you ever heard of term "survivorship bias"?
What a horrible sounding url
iPhone three times more reliable than Samsung Galaxy smartphones, study shows
Would be driving tons of traffic to yahoo, it has great SEO on all kinds of questions. If anything they should double down on it and try and attract higher quality answers. Stack exchange is showing there is a pretty big opportunity in questions and answers.
Concurrent Programming Using The Disruptor
>Python is much slower than C and many other languages, however most of the time speed is unimportant. When it becomes important, there are many technologies to mitigate the problem in your "hot loops."

I'm not convinced by this "speed is unimportant".

Well, if you're writing shell scripts in Python/Ruby etc, OK, it might be. It might not even be important in web programming.

But for using any language as a generic programming language speed is very important.

The reason you cannot build full blown desktop apps like a browser or GUI libraries in Python? Lack of speed and memory control. And yes, you could offload the work to some extension. And that's a barrier.

Suddenly knowing Python is not enough. You got to also learn, e.g, C, and you have a segmented program structure, with some stuff here and some stuff there. Or you relegate Python to just the scripting layer for your program and do the real stuff in C/C++ (like Adobe Lightroom uses Lua).

I don't want to mitigate the problem in my "hot loops" with another language. I want to not have that problem in the first place. That would make me more productive.

One example: imagine NumPy in pure Python.

For one, it would be trivial to include in your project. Without building anything, it would work in all platforms.

Second, it would be far more accessible to people that don't know C/Fortran/et al to hack it.

Third, it would have been available for Python 3 or PyPy in a few months, not after several years.

Alright. Now, another way of achieving better speed is parallelism. But due to the bad support for it (GIL, lack of first class support) it's not easy to achieve this in CPython/MRI. Sure, you could use multiple processes but then you get all the issues of handling them and synchronising them with your own ad-hoc solution, and without first-class support from the language. Which is a barrier.

Yet another way to get more work done --for some kind of programs-- is evented code. So you have something like Node or Twisted. But Node doesn't have language support, so you get the "callback spaghetti" and Twister and co are external dependencies to the language, so they add another overhead.

Again, barriers.

People say "Speed doesn't matter" because they are trained by their language to only work on problems where speed doesn't matter. So it's more like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Or course, if you constrain yourselves in "convenient" domains that your language supports fast enough, speed doesn't matter. But every step out of this and you are in need of clutches, from C extensions, to Cython, to Psyco, to Numpy, etc.
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How hard would it be for all the PSPs out there to standardize on one API, maintaining of course the ability to add proprietary extension to it? There's a shitload of the most boring work on Earth to do for integrating with each... I remember using the PayPal api time ago and even that was hell... and no matter how good an API is designed, it's still hell because it's another one to integrate with... Can't we make something like w3c for payment systems?
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the only people who have the time and mental energy to get "offended" about this sort of thing tend be privileged
According to Admiral William Daniel Leahy, he highest ranking member of the U.S. military at the time, "the use of [nuclear weapons] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Leahy#Atomic_bomb

The nukes were used not to beat the Japanese, but to intimidate the Russians, who had advanced as an industrial force as part of their fight against Germany.
HN Clone On Free AWS EC2: How To Keep It Running After The SSH Session Is Closed
The girl seen in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PH8Da7lxpk&t=6m22s, her name was Anna Maria Settela Steinbach, she was gipsy, she, her mother and her four brothers and sisters were killed at Auschwitz in August 1944. More about her in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settela_Steinbach
Whilst I don't condone this articles sentiment I have used these sites in the past for learning to draw (digitally).

If you like Photoshop:: Free
http://ctrlpaint.com

These guys are amazing:: Paid
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/

and others:: Free
http://www.proko.com/videos/

http://theroundtablet.com/

Some inspiration::
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?870-Journey-of-a...

http://www.deviantart.com/

Probably the biggest factor stopping you from teaching yourself something is your own motivation.
If some dude with bunny ears stops by, that was me.
Add me on linkedin - Mitchell Abdullah
I'd be more than happy to chat with you about your business to hopefully help you get out of your current downward trend.
Not portable.
I would guess those Java "0-day" vulnerabilities have been known for months or years.

It's just that now, because of the previous spread of 2-3 vulnerabilities, the publicity and the extra scrutiny placed upon Java bugs by Oracle, those holding on to them started selling/using them in fear that they will be discovered and patched soon.

It's a use-it-or-lose-it kind of thing.
Congratulations! You've just unlocked "Revisionist" badge. And if you're in the EU, you're also under arrest.
It seems like he's critiquing the UI which is the core of their product - they have nothing to do with content. And by saying that content is more important he's saying that they are taking the wrong marketing approach to get people to use their pretty looking app that he basically designed. It is a bit funny that it ends up as a publicity opportunity for them though.
Interesting post, but I don't recall ever getting great ideas in the shower myself. Anyone else care to share their shower stories?
Sorry, is this you? http://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellabdullah

Maybe its easier if you add me: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/feldo-nartapura/7/b85/494

Thanks
The description on the UK Apple Store says that it "mirrors exactly what you see on your device", so that needs adjustment, at least.

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD826ZM/A/lightning-digita...
>For the past few centuries, society has richly rewarded strong systems thinkers, logical, analytical, objective people such as computer programmers who build software, engineers who build bridges, lawyers who write contracts, and MBAs who crunch numbers.

No, it hasn't.

Maybe it looks that way from your office.

But singers, actors, entertainers and athletes have been more than handsomely reward and esteemed.

Computer programmers? Not so much. Just that we needed more of them than we need actors or athletes.
Follow politics close enough, each step the police gets better technology and so what used to be ok, like the police beeing able to follow a suspect ends up meaning that they can slap a cheap GPS tracker on any car, all without a warrent.

Of course it is admissible evidence when the police see you sell heroin on the street, it is a little different when that gets changed intro a drone that can watch entire neighborhoods from the air.

And when the police gets those rights, so will other people.
I can't speak for Tobi, but my guess is he was talking about Rails. DHH isn't coy about having strong opinions.
>I don't think you can compare coding and writing so closely. I don't know about you, but I've never thought of coding as involving much creativity.

You know that you are in the forum created by the "Hackers and Painters" guy, right?
There are 2 major problems I have with world war II stories (the article tackles the first one extremely well) ...
First of all, most Holocaust memorial articles etc. in general just focus on jews, however, there were other people also equally affected by it (sinti and roma, homosexuals, political left etc.). They all were systematically identified and killed with the knowledge and help of "normal" people in Germany.

Why does the US not focus on their own wrongs in history? I'm German and as a consequence as adolescent I was "forced" every year during high school to hear about Nazi Germany (in German and History courses). This is very important and shaped me as an individual and a lot of my friends. So don't get me wrong, it is important to remember and it's important to understand what happend (and to realize that it's easy to do/support similar ideologies .. most of the German people at the time were no monsters and had also support from people all over the world, who believed that Hitler was needed against Communist Russia ... This is sad to hear yet important. Also a lot of the German scientists who did abysmal things to Humans continued working for the US after the war). I believe the lessons we should draw from Nazi Germany in World War II is that it is very easy for us (for everybody) to accept inhuman behavior, racism and genocide :(

Maybe as German, I don't have the right to say that ... yet,I find it hypocrite to hear from US researchers, French, Austrians or Swiss how much we Germans did do wrong ... When part of the Austrians/French/US actively supported it and some Swiss took the money and gold from Nazi Germany and closed the borders for the victims. This is by no means meant as a justification of the crimes towards humanity my ancestors did, it's important to remember. everybody should visit Dachau or a similar concentration camp and remember not what cruelty we Germans were capable of but what cruelty we as human race are capable of.

*edit: typos
Healthy food for hackers. Increases happyness+productivity and is a surprisingly big buzz these days with books on the topic and whatnot.

Basically the value you want to provide to startups is that they can use your excellent food as marketing for new employees.

Research customer support ticket software and maybe offer on demand food. Turn those late night hacking sessions on pizza into late night hacking sessions with fresh food (or maybe even a chef right there to cook)

And yes door to door sales ASAP
>I still think there is a difference in magnitude between installing a dictator in a foreign country and encouraging the systematic murder and rape of civilians

There has been a strong correlation between US-trained South American dictators and death squads.

http://www.laprogressive.com/school-of-the-americas-grads-be...

The US CIA and special forces supervised these kinds of tactics in the Vietnam war, with rape used for interrogation and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program#Torture
In many ways though being a 'different'/'ethnic'/'cultural', whatever you want to call it, brand and marketing as such can be brilliant for a business. I come from an arab/white american background and everyone within that culture will stay loyal to anyone with a good business that is also arab(to some degrees of cultural diversity). With that comes your base market to keep your business going, then because of that loyalty you have people hear about it and come regardless of their backgrounds. If you're running a good business those people become loyal to your brand even if you don't sell hotdogs and hamburgers per se (the typical 'white american' food :P).