skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These people struggle (or think that they do..) for so long in the rat race that they forget that they have risen above it and gone far beyond that.

India definitely makes you feel this. I know this one senior guy who lived for a very long time in New York (~10 years) after his grad school and moved a few years back to Mumbai. He is very rich but he says that he feels poorer in Mumbai than he ever felt in New York, even compared with the time when he working in his first job, fresh out of grad school.
There's very little code on the internet that uses British English. I'm Australian, and even when I write software that will only be used by other Australians, I still use American English so I don't have to think about it.

Spelling in documentation is much less important.
Rocky - Reminds to never give up, dream and reach goals.
|it's you that should manage this situation.
With Go, you don't need to worry about this.
Drive. Blown away by it. Thought it was another car racing film after seeing the trailer, but it was actually IMHO the best film in 2011.
Edit: Forgot the why: Minimalistic. Beathiful Story and propably the best music editing in a film.
Do you have any examples to share? All the languages I've used have been american english, which is a sensible decision.
I gritted by teeth and tried to ignore it, but I just can't help myself: the past tense of shear is shorn.
Could this be used to prove to the Bible blind the existence of God?
People make a million by accident these days!
nice1, you are shadow-banned.
maybe if you install their TLDR plugin - it will help you find out just the right info you need on their website ;-)

more seriously though - I felt the same. Lots of marketing talk, but little actionable stuff to see this put to practice. The Samuru search engine didn't seem to respond with anything vastly better than google or duckduckgo, but I didn't really compare searches, or can't think of an intelligent way to do so.
> Pumping is easy, sure, just load heaps of cash into all exchanges, buy every single wall that is put up, price explodes.

That is NOT how the "pump" part of pump-and-dump works. You get gullible people to put their money into the asset.That way you still sell at a win well into the collapse.
Shawshank Redemption: "Never ever ever ever ever give up"!
Actually I find the opposite. Python is easy for quick wins but from a maintenance, performance and reliability perspective it rapidly falls off a cliff. If your code propels your business then these concerns need to be considered up front.

Even off the shelf functionality doesnt have the same time/complexity properties as say c#, java or go resulting in a fairly basic algorithm reaching ridiculous time constraints very quickly.

As for CRUD type apps, you are probably right but its the bits that aren't CRUD which add the most value to your product.
Do you think that most Python developers can write safe C code? I doubt it but I have no data on it either.
If you don't want them to transfer it for you then you can either hire someone or do it yourself. Either of those 3 ways require your login details.
If you assume the absurd growth just before the peak is "normal". It took over a year to get back to the 2011 peak, after going down much more than the first, sudden collapse.
I am not sure if it is relevant. The most famous Chinese dating show now has a channel on youtube and the show supports English subtitles. I just took a look at it. The translation is very accurate and they show English and Chinese at the same time. I think it can be very helpful for you in learning English. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmGYsqlsbdQ
The Godfather...Everybody knows why..
I was at a talk by Rayid Ghani, the chief scientist for the Obama campaign. He said that they shut down everything after the campaign simply because they can't afford to keep on all the staff full-time for the 4 years, but they don't throw away the code.
But it has a cute title!
It's not quite the same but some of the use cases (and a bunch of other stuff) would be covered by numpy arrays. You can create multiple views on the same in memory data with different start and end points and different strides.
Awesome movie..
> I personally rather regret the automatic recitation of Arne's ditty when visiting the page.

Possibly the first time I have appreciated auto-play music on a site, made me laugh. And now it's put me into a baroque mood which is always a good thing.
I accept both points. I was reflecting on usage I have seen in late Victorian/Edwardian sources. That seemed to fit with the style of the text (although not the visual presentation of the page).

PS: 'Spiffing' is later and the Jeeves references in the HTML markup point to 1920s. Biggles. Biplanes.
Rule number one: You don't talk about your favorite movie
Thank you Terry, this is great
I agree. I certainly don't feel like we're arguing, just adding more pieces to both sides of the puzzle.

I guess what I'm saying is, if the neighbor doesn't say "hi" back, it might be for reasons you haven't considered, and it might not be as simple as asking them to just say "hi" back.
Um... you'll need to actually find a proof for it, though. So far as I know, there are no known proofs of God's existence that can't be reasonably explained in other ways.
Pillow, a better PIL
Well. I hope the people here don't think that's what Chinese women look like by the show. :D
A fairly moot point. Do you think most C developers can write safe C code? The 2 I've encountered in my short career basically have no idea what they're doing (which I suspect is partly why they stuck with C instead of exploring alternative languages).
The original, with Harrison Ford's voice-overs, was perfect.

The various-re-releases such as the Director's Cut ruined it.

I hate Director's Cuts! They invariably make great movies worse. Why can't Hollywood leave well-enough alone? Why do they feel the need to mess with something that was great to begin with?
He is talking about "Fight Club".
Yes, Koyaanisqatsi is my favourite too. This is a film with no characters, plot, or dialogue. Instead, it offers 90 minutes of images set to music. The film begins with shots of nature, such as clouds, lakes, and mountains, and slowly moves its way into civilization, with roads, mines, cities, factories, and endless throngs of people. Watching this film is a unique experience, and really allows you to see the world in a different light. Plus, it's great art.
Rocky, Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence.
I never said "just working hard" will solve the poor's problems. All I said was that it's better to do all you can than to expect help to come from the government or charity because that is unrealistic in countries with such a large poor population and would most likely only get you a lifetime of false hope.

And I am not saying that most poor people expect handouts. If anything I would guess that most of them are hard-working. I only brought it up because of the parent post. I realise I owe my own middle-class status to the fact that my parents are middle-class.

And I am all for the well-off helping the poor. I only wish the (South African, in my case) government would do their part.
> !please instead of !important made me laugh

Reminded me of INTERCAL:

INTERCAL has [..] modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite.
The auto-play might have worked with a more appropriate visual presentation...

http://www.victorian-novels.co.uk/?page=shop/flypage&pro...
The Fountain: for it's seemingly-naive-but-deep take on the effects of death on those who experience it.
Always used to be Children of Men and/or La cite des enfants perdus. First is the most intense movie I have ever seen, some scenes literally blew my mind. Latter is very dark whilst beautiful and sweet, like Amélie but better - more techfriendlly.

-------------- Don't really like trailers, but still --------------

Children of Men: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o

La cité des enfants perdus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSPmtX5KzEw
Google launches tool to help users plan for digital afterlife
it's nice to see something that could be left as a side project evolving into a functional and hopefully successful product. Good luck! Did you switch programming languages in the process?
That is so true! one trick (dunno if that's the best word for it though) for dealing with the challenge of delving into some big new project is really starting small. I try and pick the smallest most trivial task and get going from there. I've found that it helps me get into things more easily (divide and conquer I think). I'm curious if anyone else has tried this or has some other techniques to share about procrastination?
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Once i wrote SurveillanceSaver. A screensaver with random webcam streams. Eventually Google blocked searching for cameras and people recognized their cameras are unprotected.
http://i.document.m05.de/?page_id=438

This is the web service behind it. Unfortunately the list is not up to date anymore.
https://code.google.com/p/public-viewpoints
> there isn't enough wealth to go around.

Though one often reads that acquiring/making wealth isn't a zero sum game.
Because my bullshit detector went off when he was claiming 100% coverage. If you can't see the fact he's grand standing I don't know what to say. In near perfect conditions its not achievable let alone when the odds are stacked against people. Or are you forgetting the world is full of arseholes, war mongers, dictators, and centuries old hatred and conflict that often undermine efforts to improve other people. If that can be fixed in 10 I'll be well and truly surprised, hell if they even get proper phone networks, cell coverage, internet to rural communities in western nations I'll be mightily surprised.
That would be the Google Drive Realtime API, https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403021. I don’t know enough about either of them to know how they compare.

Edit: Actually, they’re really different things.
I have to say that at least from standpoint, this seems to be pretty heroic (to use quite a strong word) and kind of inspiring! To be able to believe in and forge ahead working on something you believe in. Regardless of the end result my own sense is that the at the end of the day the writer Mark can really be proud of his accomplishment.
Night on Earth. 5 cities, 5 cab drivers, 5 stories. Just beautiful storytelling. If you haven't seen it, you totally should
Not really answering the specific question you've asked... but all the same it could be useful.

A 'top graduate school' is actually somewhere that probably gets a large number of applications from students (Stanford etc.)

That means when you apply for a phd in that school, you are really trying to appease the admissions department, you may not be allocated to a 'phd supervisor' yet.

But if you find which area you'd like to go into and the various 'leaders' in that field, you will probably notice they are not aligned to a 'top graduate school' and possibly deal with admission enquiries directly. (To quantify a leader check someones h-index score on google scholar then take with big pinch of salt)

What's different in this case is that they will most likely appreciate any additional work you've done which shows how interested you are in that particular field.

An admissions department on the other hand will probably look for GRE, GPA, awards, scholarships as ways to differentiate people.
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Bless you dude. You have no idea how this will change our lives!

Scala has been very interesting for me so far, but I've had limited know-hows on the best practices of doing certain things like using actors efficiently. Thank you so much.

And please complete the guide on authentication and authorization...It's by far one of the most important topics :)
Groundhog Day. It's a comedy with some dark elements in it. And it's also something that I would like to experience myself so long as I could resume normal time when I wanted to. A day with no consequences would be fun.
The second coming of Facebook
Autoplay music had me cracking up. How can you people actually criticize it of all things for what is so clearly a joke?
I think that for me it's "Spirited away" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiEzl7SEtkI

The story of how the heroine matures in front of our eyes as the weight of the world is placed upon her shoulders was really moving to me. Coupled with beautiful hand-drawn animation and an overall sense of gentleness and wander, it's been an real favorite for me which I enjoy watching time over time.
If there really are business-critical parts of the app that are too slow a good developer will drop down to C (as noted by others). That doesn't negate the reasons for using Python for the rest of the app.

Your mentions of maintenance and reliability in the opening sentence are unfounded. What makes a Python app less so than the same app written in any other language? Surely it comes down to the developer. A well-factored app written in Python (with tests) is going to be far more maintainable than a big ball of mud written in C. The choice of language has little to do with it.
Yeah, it was just the eutopian arrogance of the statement that ticked me right off. I watch those homeless people who can't even make it to the shelters and food banks due to substance abuse every other day from my desk. It hit a nerve with me that those people are treated as sub humans, the forgotten, and his statement precludes them from his little dream. Just a personal rant I normally try not to put online but this one got me for some reason, probably should of deleted after I had my knee jerk disgust at it :)
Very trivial (or maybe not?) to illustrate that kind of money next to one single human being. Interesting though.

Something similar - Greek's debt illustrated on trucks of cash: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_gree...
How about jump starting the planet in The Core.
Regular expression or not; all code must be tested. Coding to check for ip addresses using /127./ is a wtf mistake IMO. It is not a case for 'testing regular expressions.'
What is a maturity model?
Taiwanese -> Complicated Letters
Chinese -> Less complicated letters
Japanese -> Rounder letters.
Just a rule of thumb. The modern chinese letters are a simplified version of those taiwan still uses, and describe entire words. Whilst Chinese is looks more stroked, Japanese looks a little more organic, even though yes, unless you know either of them, they're still hard to differentiate.
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How else are you going to record and remote view the monitor?
Thanks for mentioning (& developing) this, vim-expand-region is awesome.
This is a very good answer! I also want to add. Reference letters are extremely important! If you can get top researchers/professors to write you an awesome reference letters, your chance will be increased greatly! Another way is to contact the prof you are interested in working with directly and try to work with him/her. Many profs like to accept students who have already worked with them
so where does the utility make their money?!
what is the font used in the example gifs
Lispyscript: A javascript with Lispy syntax and macros
Any chance you could add Node.js? Perhaps installing bundler would be a good option too. That way you can get straight into development.
> Then you're not actually performing performance analysis. Python is S-L-O-W.

You totally miss the point. There are large classes of systems where CPU time in your app is not a significant factor. E.g. my go-to example of this is the first Ruby project I deployed in a production environment:

A queueing middleware server. If we served the queues entirely out of memory we could serve a few million messages a day out of 10% of a single 2005-era Xeon core (and while Ruby doesn't scale across cores, this system could easily spread load by simply running multiple queue processes).But of of that 10%, 90% was spent in kernel space. So even if switching to C (or whatever) were to speed up the user-space part of the code 90%, it would only cut CPU time spent from 10% to 9.1%.

This is fairly typical. If your code is CPU-bound, and it's not CPU bound because of stupid algorithm choices, then things can look very different. The first thing to do is find out if you're CPU or IO bound.
This is definitely inspiring, and it looks like Mark has developed a very viable SaaS platform if the right demographic is targeted.

With that being said, I would suggest that he seriously consider a pivot in his marketing strategy due to competition which has emerged during his product development; Webs, Weebly and Squarespace come to mind. I would say at this point, small brick and mortar businesses are the most viable market target for a product like this.

Additionally, it might be worth investing a small sum to recreate the UXD, or at minimum reduce the use of gradients and move toward a more simplistic approach graphically. The center gradient overload is almost migraine inducing.

Other than that, I truly hope he's successful with the amount of work and personal funds which he's put in.
"Hardware costs pale in comparison to revenue and the cost of programmers."

That's not a law of physics. The number of servers you need depends on the number of users you have. The functionality you have to build usually doesn't. So the more users you have, the less true your statement becomes.
The interesting thing here is that Bitcoin isn't set in stone to forever exist exactly as it does today — it depends on the majority of miners not modifying the protocol. I'm talking about what's essentially a 51% attack, but rather than it being performed by a malicious party, what if a technical/political decision with very strong opinions on both sides had to be made? It would be like a democracy where those with the most computing power win.
If that were the case it would make the situation even worse. It means the whole "write performance critical parts in C" argument is bogus.
2001 a Space odyssey - Saw it on a school trip when it came out. Have watched it dozens of times since then

Also Metropolis.
I knew two people in their residency, their problems were a lack of sleep not lack of money. They lived off loans, but they had enough money to eat out everyday. I am not sure about the weight of their loans. The only thing thing I recall it stopping them from doing was buying a fancier house. This isn't poverty!
It’s implemented not using the old-fashioned tags, but by embedding an invisible Youtube video.
There's a nice demonstration of a zero-knowledge protocol here: http://aperiodical.com/2012/03/using-a-zero-knowledge-protoc...
> Don't even consider solar panels until you've reduced energy needs first.

i suppose its good to watch out for unnecessary power usage (like keeping the lights on all the time), but i will not want to give up any modern luxury to save a bit of power. For example, if its hot, i will turn on the AC, or heater if its cold, take long hot showers/baths etc.

What i want out of a solar panel is so i can spam electrical appliances all i want.
And BTC24 is currently offline, having had their bank account shut down by the Polish Authorities. https://bitcoin-24.com/
This is crazy.. All I want to say..
Mobile app design: Clutter free using 1% prominence.
In the UK we would call them the Upper Middle Class instead to clarify that they are merely rich merchants, not actual aristocracy. It's a matter of blood, don'tchaknow.
It's quite a long way out of Cambridge!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mullard+radio+observatory...

Still being used as part of the UK synthetic aperture radio telescope IIRC, along with Jodrell bank and a few other sites dotted around the UK.
"the amount of RAM [...] determines how many concurrent sessions you can keep"

I don't understand. Concurrent sessions? Do you mean open connections? Worker threads? What exactly?
Well, you're talking about making easy things even easier (CRUD web apps connected to DBs; the inherent complexity is low). That's very important for horizontal technology expansion, i.e. 'easy IT everywhere'.

For vertical progress, i.e. making complex things possible, these micro-bottlenecks are important.
These same DBs with their query processing and other domains with extremely high inherent complexity would greatly benefit from high-level languages yet still the most difficult parts have to be written in the already difficult C(++).
OK, I live at 53 degrees North, so of course we have short winter days and long summer days. Any reference on the longer cycle regulation of melatonin?

I've noticed that I just do more when the longer days return...
Evaluation of boolean values in JavaScript
But isn't that also exactly how someone would talk if they wanted to manipulate technolibertarians into joining a project?
What website is that icon from? I know I've seen it before.
It would be interesting to know if people born with more than ten fingers are better typists.
To answer your original question - no, but there's less C code than the equivalent C-only program, so you're still better off. Or if your argument is that C is a security nightmare (which you won't find much argument from me on), replace C/CPython with Java/Jython.
I believe that’s posted at http://www.example.com/archive/johndoe.htm ;)
It's also an interactive proof, nobody can store this proof with the balls for other colour blind people to review later.
!(!result) // ??
!!result // you can just do this
Agreed. I think numpy arrays a rather overlooked by most python programmers. They allow all kinds of useful tricks like that that are quite handy even if you're not doing strictly numeric work.
Interesting, but the active voice is rather misleading in the headline.

The argument seems to actually say the expected: Humans who used stone tools were selected based on their tool use -> humans more suited for stone tool use continued to be selected -> stronger hands & wrists.

I guess it serves some purpose to find specimens which verify the expected. Perhaps some less obvious insight will come of this.
Currently, the maximum transaction rate that Bitcoin can theoretically handle is about 7 transactions per second. Increasing that limit will require a hard fork that breaks all existing clients. A chunk of the community and at least one of the developers is really hostile to the idea, partly because it increases resource usage - every node needs to receive every single transaction and store it forever. At the current, fairly low, transaction rate limit that's 52 gigabytes of new transactions every year.

The other reason is that they feel that, without transaction rate limits, mining won't be profitable when the rate of coin subsidy drops off. Some argue that we need the competition for limited block space in order to drive fees up enough to keep mining profitable. Those same fees kill microtransactions.

Since a hard fork would require agreement from essentially everyone involved in Bitcoin, there's essentially no chance of this limit being increased.
No, you gave a list consisting of: one huge government agency (there's ESA, and pretty much every EU nation has some king of space exploration agency), one giant hardware corporation which made tons of money doing incremental improvement on others' inventions, a giant software company milking a single innovation to build an effective monopoly, and a private space research company.

It's a vast difference between "technology innovator" and "a successful international corporation built on technology innovations", and Europe has a ton of the former. For every Tesla there's a Rimac Automobili, for every SpaceX there's a Hipersfera -- and that's just from a small country on the edge of EU. I'm sure others could come up with better results from elsewhere.