skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience 10X is more to do with the environment than it is to do with the programmer. I have been 10X and more in the past over maybe a 10 year stretch when I was doing lots of greenfield development and I also had control over the design, architecture and system configs. But now, in an environment with messy legacy code, and no control over architecture or systems, I seem to be more like .02X. At some point I will have mastered refactoring a big ball of mud and I will be able to get to 10X again.

And in case you were thinking, rewriting from scratch is not sufficient to transform a big ball of mud into a greenfield.

In any case, the opportunities for refactoring big balls of mud are growing exponentially so it is a worthwhile skill to master.
"whatever works."

Well if the State™ has to circumvent it's own laws to achieve some ends (which i doubt are really ends since incidents like this will continue to happen), one could argue that grounds for morality are null and void.

After all, that's what Terrorists™ do.
I'll aim to feed it some 5k articles, thanks! Definitely interesting, but it's such a tease of an article :/
Curation and Urgency: Two Requirements for any Startup (and Community)
I got fairly good results using decidedly esoteric queries, and although I'm on a very s-l-o-w connection I didn't notice a great speed discrepancy.
Perl eats C++'s "most vexing parse" for breakfast.
Facial Recognition Technology Helps Identify #Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
>>> he listened to vinyl records at home [1] — which shows that he was ignorant of how audio quality works

Obviously you are ignorant of the difference between an analog music and digital music,
many people still prefer vacuum-tube amplifier than solid-states amplifier because of
the music quality it produces.

People listened to Vinyls because of their distinct sound it makes, for people who are as old
as Steve Jobs and Neil Young, the experience listening to Vinyls is nostalgic.
That's a weak point. You could just as easily say it makes you "the Northern Alliance", "the French Resistance", "the Black Panthers", or "the Swiss". Weapons do not dictate ideology.
Why?

It is in times such as these, it is the most important to remind us of this.
This post is wrong on so many levels.

First, it's irrelevant whether deaths occur on accident or on purpose. What matters is preventing death and suffering. Let's say I gave you a large sum of money, and somehow proved it could prevent 1000 accidental deaths/year or 10 murders/year. How could you morally justify choosing to prevent the murders over the accidents? What makes up for those 990 lives lost?

Second, the "message" we sent via our response to this situation was anything but good. We essentially showed terrorists how to easily cause $billions in damage to our economy and effectively publicize their message to the globe. On top of that, we've proven our inability to prevent and defend against poorly-executed attacks in crowded locations, and our difficulty in apprehending injured teenage suspects traveling on foot. Great. If I were a terrorist, I'd be drawing up plans to bomb shopping malls and little league football games.

Third, you don't fully comprehend the inefficiency with which money and attention are currently being spent. Accidental deaths are not unavoidable. With additional research and attention focused in the right direction, we can prevent far more deaths due to accident and disease than we do currently. We stand to save tens of thousands of lives per year.

But that would be boring.

People don't care about run-of-the-mill deaths. They aren't exciting, they aren't captivating, and the media knows this well. The average Joe cares more about watching a firefight and "sending a message" than he cares about saving lives or reducing human suffering. And that's a damn shame.
I genuinely want to know.
If you kill somebody with an intention to kill them, you are a bad person. If you kill somebody without an intention to kill them, it's tragic, but you probably aren't a bad person.

Why exactly is that hard to understand?

RMS is not being a sociopath, he's analyzing an emotional situation in an unemotional way.

He's bringing forth a dispassionate, disturbingly cold analysis of an event that should be emotional by any psychological norm before the day has even closed out. It's so outside of social norms as to only be classifiable as an emotional disconnect so extreme it has to be the result of a severe psychological disturbance.
Just have someone put it on wikileaks?
Innocent Brother Was Made Into a Bombing Suspect: Sunil Tripathi's Sister Speaks
Exact same situation. I'm switching majors.

Edit: Another thought: Computer Science is boring as hell. Even the tiniest bit of ADD makes it impossible. Even a person without ADD will probably show some symptoms of it. Rather than figuring out ways to just "get through it", I think avoiding this situation altogether is a better solution.
Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
Naughty link. :P
Here ya go.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

The detailed statistical list of things to be worried about and in what order.
Maybe. For single-stack magazines carrying 2 extra magazines can make a lot of sense, but once you get into double-stack magazines on guns with full-sized frames you start talking about a lot of bulk and weight. From my own observation, which is certainly anecdotal, I don't see that being commonplace at all.

It's within the realm of possibility that there are "tens of thousands" of folks who concealed carry with that amount of ammunition, but I would be surprised if that was the case.

Also, even if it is that many, it's still a tiny fraction of the populace. Even in the most enthusiastic pro-gun states only a tiny fraction of the public carries on a regular basis.
Or snapshots in a torrent file...
The point isn't that we shouldn't pursue and prosecute these crimes. The point is that the approaches we have been taking have been working - keeping the threat level from terrorism where it has been is basically acceptable: if we can do better cheaply (in terms of tradeoffs) then let's, of course, but going to huge expense to stamp out the last of it is stupid because there is basically no room for huge gains there.
>>> Steve Jobs was not a "hacker".

History was clear, Apple had delivered so many great products when Steve was their CEO, period. Even if Steve was not a hacker.

Do you mean if a person is not a hacker, he has not the right or he could not deliver great products or is not fitted to produce any products at all?

>>> He knew almost nothing about computer languages, computer architecture,

ditto
I put my first app into the App Store last July and had it selling for free until 2 months ago when I set it to $1.99. People continued to buy it even though I don't advertise it.

After that success (2 figure revenue!), I built another app and put it on the App Store for $9.99. People are downloading that as well. I admit that I am making more off of contract work, but based on my estimates the App Store converts really well, even at >$5 and has the potential to be profitable with paid apps.

(anecdotal evidence based on my sales of http://free2goapp.com/download)
You can't meaningfully talk about death in numbers unless you are counting deaths.

And by then you've lost the point.
As someone who also was recently diagnosed I highly recommend seeking out a counselor and speaking with your doctor. After getting treatment for ADD I am much happier and productive at school and work. In general, I'm less stressed as well.

A therapist almost diagnosed me a couple years ago but I was biased against the idea of accepting that I had ADD. Of course, now I realize how much wasted time, money, and effort I might have saved if I had been willing to seek treatment the first time a psychologist suggested it to me. Counseling and medication have all been very helpful.

It's tough because it isn't well understood and the public has many wrong and negative impressions of ADD/ADHD. One of the toughest is of course that many people don't think it is real. However, personally, after a year of treatment looking at my life before and after being treated for ADD, it is clear that treatment worked for me. That really dispels that notion for me. If it walks like a duck and quacks like duck... My university also had a lot of great resources to help learn about ADD so check in with them as well.
So what's the "public safety exception" about then?

We're starting from the position that, absent a public safety concern, the defendant's right to know his rights is greater than the law enforcement interest in not encouraging the defendant to exercise them, and if the cops don't read the Miranda rights then the statements aren't admissible.

Now throw in a public safety issue -- the cops have to interrogate this guy or some people could get hurt. Why does that change the result? If the public safety issue is more important than reading the defendant his rights, then it's also more important than allowing the police to use the defendant's statements in court, since we've already decided as between those things which is more important. So the consistent outcome should be for the cops to interrogate the defendant and resolve the public safety issue, but for them not to be able to use any of those statements in court.

Is there some non-obvious reason for it to not work that way?
Young people nowadays have so many things to cause distraction. When I was younger, we didn't have cellphones and the numerous electronic related items that cause you to lose focus. Try eliminating everything but the necessities, and then focusing on one thing at a time. Even if you get distracted, set a goal of going back to it even if it is for a very short amount of time. Just like a tree, keep chipping away at it, and eventually you will make it fall. You can go for medication, however, they can cause dependency, and can cause more issues in the long run.
So what you're saying is that people who value human life equally -- regardless of whether it's lost "actively" or "passively" -- are sociopaths? That people who advocate for a system that tries to save the most lives possible are sociopaths? What?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're saying that adhering to some arbitrary societal standard of behavior in the face of tragedy is more important than, you know, saving lives.
Well he seems to be particularly angry about something related to the locks on the building, so I don't even really know what the hell he's talking about.

There's no doubt that Stallman is intellectually inflexible and completely tone deaf. It's one of his primary virtues, really.
But by doing yoga and other psychological therapy, your neurochemistry may be changed. That is how cognitive behavioural and mindfulness therapies work. I think in the end, your neurochemistry needs to be changed in order for the therapy to have an effect. But using drugs are not the only way to change your neurochemistry. In short, I don't think he is suggesting that the author of the article to use willpower. He simply suggests that maybe he can try some psychotherapy.
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I didn't submit this. I didn't know anyone was submitting it. Or I would have written a post about why it is different than other search engines. Better is still up for grabs because it is new.

Samuru doesn't use link authority, it analyzes pages and matches what you queried to the types of pages and picks the best matches.

Let me give you an example.

You search for "How to Make cupcakes"
Google says give me the pages that have the most inbound linkes (over simplification) that contain all those words.
The winner is Brandon's Cupcakes (not really but play along for a minute) because it says, "We know how to make the best cupcakes, because we have been doing it for 25 years"

That is not a useful result. Samuru on the other hand says "how to make cupcakes is a search for instructions" and it looks for pages that match the words, and are written as instructions.

We weigh other factors, like is there an author associated with the article. Do they routinely write about the topic?

We do this for reviews, products and other things as well.

To be a full replacement for Google we need Driving directions, and image search and a lot of things. But in order to do all the other things we are doing we needed a search engine. (related content, analysis, speed testing, building a corpus of words)

Responses get better if you search something someone else has searched or do a second search 30 seconds later. This is because we haven't deep indexed the entire Internet yet, and so we don't have all the deep data.
I'm curious. What kind of marketing have you done? Or do you only rely on the app store?
Which major are you switching to ?
The gun industry is $32 billion. Mainstream media and fed government are not on a "side". Soros is $20 billion but a tiny fraction of that is devoted to advocacy. OFA, assuming you mean Obama For America (?), is not a single issue entity. The gun corporations are, and that single issue is maximizing profit.
I think that name was mentioned in relation to a completely separate crime that was going on a the same time.
So the reason of having segregated scouts is to protect their privacy? Wouldn't it be enough just to have one scout organization and separate bathrooms as well?
In all honesty, what the hell are you on about?
It's not that I'm against background checks per se, it's that they are useless in stopping crime. It's simply a feel good badge we can throw on our sashes.

Plus, if we're serious about reducing gun violence, we limit handguns, not rifles. We can pat ourselves on the back and make us feel better over dead kids, but the real problem in this country with gun violence is handguns. The fact that it's all about "assault rifles" (a meaningless loaded nonsense term) shows that people are not the least bit sincere or knowledgable.

I know 3 places right now I can purchase a handgun without paperwork that are not gun shows.
Here is my app. Location based time tracking.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onsite-time-tracker/id470803...

Here are my sales
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Asp1Qlg4fVlzdFk...
The FBI page on the "public safety exception" is really interesting: http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforceme...
Ha, I can see how you'd think that. Nah, I've been on their site a lot lately because of TEDMED.
So why should the deaths of those in Boston be more prolific to me than those that died in Texas?

I don't think prolific is the word you mean, but I'll assume you meant "meaningful" or "emotional." No one is telling you how much you should care about Boston versus Texas. The point is that for those of us who are personally affected by the Boston incident, we resent being told that we should care more about the Texas incident, because it is natural that we would be more upset about the incident that personally affected us.

You can't change the words he used to misrepresent his argument because you didn't appreciate his bluntness.

The change of wording wasn't relevant to my point, I was simply trying to summarize his view. Insert "let's make an effort not to get... as an excuse for tyranny" (his actual quote) for the paraphrased quote that I used, and the point still stands: the government's supposed tendency towards tyranny should cause us to resist tyranny, not to temper our emotional reactions to the deaths of community members.
You're right, RMS is perfectly within his rights to say whatever damn fool thing he wants, I'm also within my rights to call him a damn fool when he does.
Genome complexity puts origin of life 9.7B years ago
Startling Find in Manhattan as Bombings Struck Boston
Petition for the Summary Execution of Senator Lindsey Graham
Yeah, but it's mostly a joke, like most of the technical merit badges.
No, you're wrong. He has the right to remain silent and the right to counsel; the article even mentions that. The right to remain silent and right the counsel are built into the Constitution and can't be waived so easily just because the FBI decide they want to. What they can do, as determined by a few courts, is not remind the suspect of those rights in situations where the FBI believe they need information for public safety.
Doesn't terrorism make it federal?
Nope it doesn't. We decided that it was hard enough getting advertising without having "adult" search. We focus on text analysis so we aren't very good at porn searches.
A fast and fully-featured autocomplete library
But the child IS safer at the Boston Marathon, even considering what happened. How many people have attended this event over the years? Now how many have been maimed or killed in those years?
Or so thats what we are being told at this point without any evidence being presented in court with a trial in front of his peers…

But believe in your State™.
I must assert that this is not the case. Many textbooks, especially in b-school (ok, ok) are fictional narratives of a heroic quest to solve a problem. Through that narrative, lessons are expressed.

The Goal, by Goldratt, is an example of such a textbook novel.

Since it does not have a conventional novel form, I refrain from claiming the same status for Everyone Poops.
Search your name a second time. It will do better. The rankings require us to have looked at all the pages a second time.
Probably business. Something exciting. Sitting at a computer or solving math problems all day is a nightmare, even though I've been doing it forever. These things are usually a "sudden realization".
The federal government does
Features
Displays suggestions to end-users as they type
Shows top suggestion as a hint (i.e. background text)
Works with hardcoded data as well as remote data
Rate-limits network requests to lighten the load
Allows for suggestions to be drawn from multiple datasets
Supports customized templates for suggestions
Plays nice with RTL languages and input method editors
I'm fairly sure that the various agencies and investigative apparatuses have generally come to the consensus that there is no remaining threat, and have explicitly said as much. How can they invoke this Exception when they have stated (and, now as it has become obvious) that there is not a threat? It just seems that invoking the Exception is tantamount to a post facto repudiation of their previous statements, and would require some sort of justification for a reemergence of a threat other than some assertion that conflicts what the entire rest of the world has agreed upon (something which they don't seem to have). They're trying to have their cake and eat it, and it doesn't seem as though it will go over well in court.

I'm not versed in the law at all, but this seems intuitively sketchy and lacking in justification. Am I missing something?
That's cool did you directly work on any of the systems?
I have been poking around the NSTS 07700 Volume X Book 1 Flight and Ground Specification. The EVA, and Video subsystems are highlighted there.

Crazy stuff.
Does anyone know what was up with the paypal link a few commits back?
Curious who else on HN does large scale scraping? (ie can scrape Upcoming.com entire site within a few days)
<---- reddit is that way
I am surprised that it too so long to mention the most obvious inspiration for _why's poignant guide to ruby.
Want Google without the input field?
It will be tried in federal court.
It's product-market fit if your market includes risk-bearing customers. This is, admittedly, less a problem with nebulous mental claims and more of one when it comes to, say, claiming to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's.

I'd say healthcare companies in the behavioral/digital/connected health segments that have scientific strategies are outliers. Without regulation it's easy to justify trying to sneak by... but hard to cross to the b2b market.
I'm highly ranked on organic search (#1 for most terms), have paid ads, pursue articles when the opportunity arises (these have historically helped a lot), limited giveaways, and watch google alerts for mentions of the app and respond as appropriate. The main app is generally in the top 30 grossing for its category, and I've found being high in that to be self-reinforcing. Being in the primary field the app is for has definitely helped since I have friends and contacts there.

One notably potential source I have not really pursued much is social media, Twitter in particular. I'm one of those people that pretty much never uses it and doesn't understand the allure.
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In what way? Writing something the meets our qualifications for "what is a review" is much harder to game than Link spamming. You can game the system only by writing content that is useful to the user.

The only easy to game part is that we give brands a pretty big bonus for themselves. Sony.com/playstation will always be the top hit for Sony PlayStation. Even if we should favor a .gov result that says they are recalled for bursting in to flames. But as that rarely becomes an issue we are ok with that being number 2.
interesting idea! i think it would be great as a mobile app, so it could send you a notification if a language exchange partner is nearby.

I was also expecting a coffeescript & bootstrap mashup and was pleasantly surprised to find a language website!
Family of accused bombers divided over allegations
As an iOS developer I speculate that it's not the price that hinders people from downloading an App, it's the psychological barrier of paying for something (regardless of the price) that they haven't experienced yet. Sure reviews and screenshots help ease this tension as well as the standard $0.99 price tag, but I don't think it's enough. It would be really great if users could download the App and play around with it for a couple of minutes to "test drive" it and then be presented with an option to buy it.
I like slash tags and Booleans, but the truth is search should work with out the need for those things. We support - to make things go away. Later we will expose some of the cooler things we do behind the scenes like "reviews" or "instructional" or "oped" searches, or "Simple English" but we want to do that in a way that doesn't require syntax.

"If it requires syntax it isn't user friendly" is our internal battle cry.
The author is a her.
What App is this? If you don't mind me asking?
In addition to all the other advice you get, consider this:

It's a not a minor thing by any means, but it is at least a relatively common thing. You're not the first person to encounter this.

Unless you're a literature scholar, no one will look down on you for not having read War and Peace cover-to-cover.

You don't have to figure it all out right away. You have the rest of your life to figure out how to operate your head. Thinking about thinking is fun, but too much at once can be like eating too much candy.

Keep up your expectations for self-discipline, it's valuable and has gotten you this far. That's enough for most people, but you're different. So let yourself off the hook a bit judgmentally.

A lot of folks end up having fun with it.
http://www.city-data.com/ is pretty good for this sort of information. The forums are very active so feel free to ask subjective questions that are particular for your situation.

For example,
http://www.city-data.com/city/West-Linn-Oregon.html
http://www.city-data.com/forum/portland/37192-lake-oswego-vs...
Perhaps then we can say there should be some expectation of terrorism as long as the US continues to elect leaders that pursue this sort of foreign policy in the Middle East.
Before takedown: http://imgur.com/8r9cDxS
"Gisse didn't return a voicemail and e-mail seeking comment for this report. A Court docket shows he is scheduled to be arraigned next month and gives no indication he has entered a plea in the case. He's being held at the Harris County Jail on $20,000 bond, a spokeswoman at the district attorney's office said."

Wait, wait, just because the guy's in jail is no reason not to return voicemail and emails!