skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is most likely a negotiating tactic pr-release vs. at&t. By announcing how they "could" get around the limitations of the current deal and presenting Verizon as a serious suitor, Apple should be able to increase the dollar amount on the renewal of the exclusivity deal when that happens.
Well, one of my friends drop me one formula. Let x to be the rate of GC time out of total running time, and we can get

(1-2x) * 14 = 1- x => x = 13/27

which means now ruby spends 13/27 time on GC, fast enough? (before patch, it spends 26/27 time on GC, really bad)
I can't speak for all of their data but they quality of their address and geocode data for Canada was not very good (as of 2005). The formatting was fine but it was outdated by as much as a few years.
Ah, but living a happy, healthy life implies moral endorsement of the society you live in. Right?
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It's definitely intentional. History management is more than switching from one hard reload to another, it's now used to go back to content that you had just viewed. A little more intuitive with all the javascript loading, many javascript loading pages use this to keep their site working with browser navigation.
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Eh... unnecessary.
I think the key thing to note about these two examples is they are both popular, established brands in niches that advertisers are willing to buy against. Newcomers won't command such high CPMs, and neither will sites focused on other topics. I remember someone discussing why Consumerist would be so hard for Gawker to sell -- what vendor would want to put their products next to content that's all about criticizing greedy/insensitive/clueless corporations? Gawker did end up selling it, but I wonder if it was at the price that they wanted.
when you change videos, your browser url changes to reflect that. the back button is then navigating to your previous anchor. this is the same technique used to maintain ajax states in apps like gmail.
I like the idea, but not the faux-wood visual interface, which reminded me of a Flash game at first blush. I think the weak part is you're offering coupons, rebates and special offers. These are already used and abused by many websites, and my first reaction was 'meh...more spam' - which is unfair, because such things do offer a value to the consumer...but it's just that I seem to get special offers when people have something they want to promote, rather than when I want to buy.

Suggestion: give users points, then let them claim the rewards they actually want. This would be a source of more saleable data in itself. Alternatively, give out cash. Since the amount owed to any individual user is miniscule, you could adopt a lottery model and give 1 user out of 1000 a $100 every month, or whatever your numbers allow.

It's a good concept, I just think you need something to set yourself apart from other information marketing companies and give you an unusual angle.
ah very true! that does suck. You probably know, but just in case: Craigslist is pretty active in Silicon Valley, so definitely keep your eye out there.

goodluck on your searches!
Even the map is of Cupertino...
What happens if google shuts down or demands pay for youtube?
Some of these techniques are still very useful. For example when developing for embedded systems you don't have the luxury of infinite cpu cycles and ram, you need to understand the algorithms you are using, implement your own, and be able to optimize for performance.

Another way to look at it is this -- how can having more knowledge, more tools in your toolbox, hurt?
looks like they just changed their name a few days ago to PBWorks! Seems like they'll unleash more than just wiki functionality.
Well, evgen already provided evidence better than I ever could.

My general take would be:

The most advanced binary package manager in existence is apt-get. The most advanced build dependency manager is portage. Both have evolved over many years (apt celebrated 10th birthday just recently) and are at the core of their respective distros.

MacPorts and fink, on the other hand, are afterthoughts, somewhat akin to strapon-dildos. Fink at least builds on proven technology, MacPorts reinvents the wheel altogether. Neither has performed convincingly for me over the longer term. I was regularly confronted with outdated packages, broken builds or other screwage as soon as I left the beaten path of the few most popular packages.

The package situation may have improved recently (my expirience is from 6 months ago) but the parallel universe, second userland issues are inherent.

It's just not possible to match the real thing™ by piggybacking a package-manager on top of a system that wasn't designed for it. Even when the package manager is as good as apt.
Kinda, but I think it's more of a question of "tact" from a US'ians point of view. There's a high priority placed on politeness (real or not), service, and ultimately obedience. While this conservatism may have it's roots in religion, the attitude permeates through the rest of the culture.

The US is a country of immigrants, and if you look at the history - immigrant groups tend to be pretty dang religious. Pilgrims and Puritans, Africans embraced Christianity with zeal because of their circumstances. Later waves: Irish & Italian Catholics, German Protestants, European Jews; all very religious. And modern immigrant groups, Latin Americans, Koreans, Indians, etc. can all be quite conservative. Religion and culture intertwine because people tend to hang out with their own in the beginning - and the place to find them is usually at a church/temple/whatev. I guess it's like the old lunch table theory, you'll prefer to hang out with people that you think are more like you.

[edit] And to extrapolate this to the current topic, the presenter's greatest sin in the eyes of many US'ians is not his gratuitous use of sexual imagery to convey a point, but his complete lack of tact when doing so.
It's really jarring how this article switches between talking about linked lists and then explaining what multitasking is... is this for technical people or not? Reminds me of mainstream news coverage of any technology subject...
that's neat!
How does this explain the feeling of vomiting when you have worked out past your body's capacity? Is that all in your head too?
What the hell kinda crap is that article. You don't need to know sorting algorithms?

You may never write one to use in a production environment, but you better damn well understand them and then some.

And no need for memory management? I don't care if you're coding in a garbage collected language you STILL better understand how computer memory works.

This article is literally below coding horror standards.
I switched to that example because it is real. But no, I don't think I'd be offended by a racist joke in a set of slides. For instance, comparing one database to a short white basketball player and another database to Shaq?

In this case, there isn't even a sexist joke. The slides say nothing in particular about women. All they did was compare one database to a fat woman dressed as wonder woman and another to a beautiful woman in a bikini. What statement does this make about women?
Sure, whatever, just don't forget to pick up a burrito. If you're headed toward LA, get some tacos.
The factory closing bullshit was incredibly insincere. Oh, yeah, it seemed to make sense when it was just abstract ideas in his economics cram classes, but when he saw it as a seven-word news ticker blurb connected to a real, live, concrete stock symbol, it was suddenly a great punch in the gut! The humanity!

Really, how naive are we supposed to believe he was? He was a Wall Street trader but hadn't thought capitalism all the way through to the fact that gasp! factories get closed?
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The point of teaching sorting isn't to teach sorting but to teach big-O notation and how to understand complexity. That will never be obsolete.
This and this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585324

Is why I think we should ban all computerworld.com articles form HN.
You win at the internet http://reddit.tv/#20090429-15/wtf/5
I remember feeling the same way about Siamese Dream when all the jocks suddenly got into the Smashing Pumpkins. It was, looking back, a pretty excellent album anyways.
It's a question people, I'm not endorsing the idea that google should or will do that.
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I think in this case, knowing how a GC works was more important than knowing your way around the tools they used. Don't get me wrong, knowing what a compiler does, how to use gdb well, and the semantics of the stack well is important, but I think, in this scenario, understanding the garbage collection algorithm was more important than the tools they used.
...which is also exceptionally difficult. Yeah, there're tricks you can use to make it easier, like RAII and thoroughly documenting ownership of parameters. But once you get past a few tens of thousands of lines, written by more than one programmer, it becomes essentially impossible to understand it thoroughly enough that you can tell by inspection whether it'll leak memory.
Email me the contact info of your employer and we'll send over some hired goons.
I have a Windows Mobile Verison smartphone, and I can fiddle with the data all I want. It takes third-party apps to back up EVERYTHING, or edit the registry, but that shouldn't be surprising. Plain ol' Windows ActiveSync is enough to go in and monkey with the filesystem at will.
It wasn't about women (to me) - I would have had the same reaction if it was gay porn. Or if it was a talk on security and featured photos of real life cops and criminals breaking the law. I'm sure it's a great database, but the visual baggage wound up being a major distraction.
This kinda misses the point of Hungarian. I don't care that two variables are both floats, the compiler will keep track of types for me. I do care very much that I'm not trying to add a width to a height, for example. Hungarian can help with that in languages like C and Python.
"Selfish" implies that it's a personal problem. Making half the human race feel unwelcome just because they happen to have been born female rises above the level of a personal problem.

As a "macho hacker", you've probably adopted some beliefs and values that are a misfit to what you perceive to be the beliefs and values of the academia. There are no such beliefs and values endemic to being a woman. When a community starts to exclude people, not for having incompatible values and beliefs, but for having vaginas, I'd say there's a serious problem.
Beej's guide is really about writing synchronous network code. You connect a socket. Your program waits for the connect to complete. You write something to the socket. What, the write might only complete 10 of your 20 bytes? Wrap the write in a loop that keeps feeding more bytes to the system call! Ok, the request is completely sent? Great! Now write a loop that sits there waiting for all the data that we need to come back on the socket. Back and forth, back and forth, in lock-step.

Efficient network code just isn't written like this. It's scheduled, the same way processes are in the kernel. Even in threaded code, nothing sits there waiting on a socket.

Beej touches on this a little with his description of select(). But select isn't a utility function in socket programming. It's the kernel. And getting that loop completely right isn't trivial (timers alone can offer you 4-5 mainstream data structures to choose from). Moreover, select isn't the end-all kernel interface to scheduling I/O; if you're writing a server, it's probably much faster to use a more modern interface.

Libevent both hides the complexity of the event loop from you, and also abstracts it so you can drop in kqueue or epoll or whatever without being tied to a single old system call interface.

None of this is a knock against Beej's guide. I loved this thing, 15 years ago. =)
Wasn't there a cyclist who died on his bike because he had taken something which precisely turned off the brain's fatigue response?

My googling sadly turns up nothing but unrelated doping articles.
Back isn't showing me stuff I previously viewed. It's showing me new stuff I've never seen before.
UberVU (the conversation tracking engine) just launched the public API today
If yes, what exactly would trick the brain into not feeling mental fatigue?
I'm using "rock star behavior" to describe the macho culture found in the RoR community.

Lets talk about the specific incident. Some people were offended by a joke. The joke did not say that women were unwelcome or say anything about women specifically. It did not say or do anything to negatively affect women.

Women may have disproportionately disliked the joke and the culture which it exemplifies. That's all. That's simply a complaint that "I and people like me don't like this, therefore the world should change." I believe my generalization is fair, certainly more fair than your comparison to active legal discrimination.
I think Backtype has already one...but this is interesting to see how it evolves.
I know uberVU and Disqus partnered and powers now the conversation tracking on Mashable.
Let's see what Artiklz.com will respond (another competitor)...
How can you argue that working as a programmer is more a hunter role than a gatherer/care giver role?

Lack of role models at the young age is a more likely cause imo. Who do young girls in the 12+ age group have to look up to in our industry or in pop culture? In the comedy "Big Bang Theory" about 4 male Nerds, the female lead character is the dumb blonde next door.
In this case, changing the anchor also allows you to link to videos directly - like http://reddit.tv/#20090429-15/sports/1

Then, once on the page, you can change categories/videos without a full page reload. The anchor content controls which video you see. So I think they got it right here.
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I'm so glad I don't have to worry about these things anymore! Now what do I do with all this legacy code our company depends on?
I think that's an insulin thing. I can put myself in a similar state with healthy home cooked food, it just takes a bit of empty sugary/starchy calories.

Some foods spike your insulin levels and 3 to 4 hours later your body is so glucose deprived that you feel bad and depressed, but take one bite to eat and within 5 minutes you're chipper again.
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The irony is, if you use Twisted Python or EventMachine Ruby and pit it against Beej-style socket code, you're likely to wind up faster in Ruby or Python.
As someone who has run everything from 10 miles down to the 100m for the past 15 years, there are two types of barriers of fatigue when at maximal performance.

The first barrier is the pain felt because you're running at max performance. This is all mental, and you learn to love it. The mental barrier grows exponentially more difficult to fight as you get closer to...

The second barrier. The true hard limit, as defined by your body's innate physical capacity to perform. At this point you've managed to push past the mental barrier and used up every ounce of energy. It's typically marked by a visible decrease in performance aka "hitting the wall". I've done it before, and there is no amount of mental convincing that will get the body moving when there is no more fuel in the tank. This shutdown might be a protective function of the brain (as a physical organ) looking to ensure it can still function, but there really is no physical capacity left to continue at speed even if the will is there.

Any true athlete intuitively knows from their training when that second wall is approaching and will time it as best as possible so that they get as close to it as possible just as they finish their performance (hence running faster at the end). This is much more evident in endurance events where blowing past the anaerobic threshold too early is disaster for the competitor.

One of the best events to watch athletes hit the second wall is the 800m.
Substitute Perl for Python, Ruby, Tcl, or any other language and I'll almost agree with you. ;)
I know I'm just feeding the troll here but if you re-read the thread carefully you might notice that I am not the one posturing. In fact, maybe show it to someone else and let them judge. Thanks for playing, this conversation has ended.
You're right, probably the nature of how they serve videos from each category. I guess history will work differently for different sites, looks here they want you to go back to a previous category, rather than the actual video.

edit: see joepestro's reply to the other post.
While the user interface is very different, the functionality is fairly similar to what digg Videos has been for a long time.

http://digg.com/videos/
It confuses us about the traits we are trying to display by harping on vague terms at the wrong levels of description (wealth, status, taste)

I think wealth is a non-fakable vitality display in the world we live in. Sure, you can be physically and mentally as bad a mess as a badly inbred Habsburger, but even if you inherited your wealth, that wealth is real power and advantage you can share and pass on to your offspring.
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Class representatives do not have the right to bargain on behalf of members in materially different circumstances. Technically, orphaned book authors should not even be part of this class action because an orphaned-book author is not in the same position as an identifiable author. At best, the orphaned book authors could be part of a subclass, but they would require a separate settlement (or rather, sub-settlement). The problem is clear, as here, where the Guild negotiated money on behalf of orphaned authors...to be paid to the Guild. The Guild is not required to attempt to locate these orphan authors, or their successors/estates...it can just keep the money until the authors claim it. Even worse, the Guild is allowed to use this money for its own purpose, rather than setting it aside into a trust account for the orphan authors.

In this case, others have challenged the settlement on two grounds: (1) antitrust, which is the most important issue, and (2) the orphaned authors were not fairly represented by the Guild, as evidenced by the lack of proper notice, the Guild negotiating to receive money for orphan authors, and the Guild granting itself the right to use that money for its own efforts. (Note: the challenge on (2) is both to the settlement AND to the class certification.)

You're right, the pocket summary says a lot about the quality of Google's research. But it's not a clever hack of the legal process, because a law student could easily observe the antitrust issues arising here. It's an example of Google's lawyer's fucking up on an issue, and getting the Justice Department involved (and millions spent in responding to the JD's subpoena's and information requests) where the JD didn't need to get involved. If this had been an outside law firm, it would be considered malpractice.
I noticed that too, interesting.

I agree with the initial post completely, but given Palm's position, if you can't make something better, you could do worse than basing your design on the best of class available.

I think a more accurate automotive analogy would be comparing a Hyundai to a Honda.
"A lot of the "OMG Scala <3" stuff being written recently comes from people who have written Scala books and therefore kind of have an agenda."

My guess would have been that they were excited about Scala before they wrote the book.
the content they show seems to be pretty dynamic, so changing tabs is the actual action you're taking at first, going back will take you to your previous tag, and it will load your video then. Or with the anchor getting you to the videos directly, then the history works differently, since you're actually linking to a video directly.

these features are very subtle and useful, probably and definitely not the main focus of the site ;)
It's not rock star behavior. It's frat boy behavior. But it's the information systems management frat that can only get six women to come to the party. And the guys blow it with the only six who show up.
check out admob - they have a download exchange (basically a link exchange for apps) that a lot of developers use.

http://www.admob.com/exchange/
While this comment is pretty low quality for HN, it lead me to discover a bug: links are not persistent. Thats not good for virability of the site.
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Lets talk about the specific incident. Some people were offended by a joke. The joke did not say that women were unwelcome or say anything about women specifically. It did not say or do anything to negatively affect women... Women may have disproportionately disliked the joke and the culture which it exemplifies. That's all. That's simply a complaint that "I and people like me don't like this, therefore the world should change." I believe my generalization is fair, certainly more fair than your comparison to active legal discrimination.

You know, your statement pretty much sums up your perspective on the issue and quite frankly, I see no reason to dissect it. I think there is enough in this thread for people to read what you have just written and decide for themselves what to think of your point of view.
Thats just a subcategory. Reddit has a video subreddit too: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/
No one excluded women or made them feel unwelcome. The slides said nothing offensive about women. Women may have been disproportionately offended by them, but that is not the same thing. Anyone who is offended by the presentation is offended because they have adopted beliefs and values which lead them to be offended.

If the community is actively excluding women (e.g., not allowing them to participate or treating them badly when they do), that's a completely different matter.
Programming, especially at the start, is a very solitary thing usually. You sit hunched over a computer bashing out code. That really suits some people and not others - in generalities, I'd say it suits Men more than Women.

Just like a hunter, you're alone, competing with several other lone programmers/hunters.

I'd say roles that Women excel at in Tech are PR, design, managing communities, etc where art, communication and caring are more important.

In general Women are far better at communication than men IMHO.
Which is why the Affero GPL exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License