skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
• Having the client open for more than a few hours will use many gigabytes of memory (I'm at 2.5GB right now)

$ ps auxw |grep -i Message
jordan 73227 0.0 1.4 4037928 113476 ?? S 13Apr13 13:21.86 Messages*

I've had Messages open for 17 days now and it is using 111 MB of memory (that's RSS, VSIZE is 3.85 GB). I have 4 accounts (three jabber + iMessage).

I don't know much about your other problems. My biggest problem with it is that it doesn't reconnect always when I start/end my VPN sessions, but other than that seems to work ok.

* Edited so it would display nicely.
Ive been using this app for almost a year now. I know nothing better for planning your diet, its a great tool for a bodybuilder.

Good Job Papa_bear
Excellent, thank you so much for this. "Next train leaving in <x> minutes" is sweet.
> "teams" sometimes turn on their strongest members

Can you write some more about this?
I really like the civility rules. One thing I've learned about programming is that, like creative writing, the insecurity only gets worse as you get better. (I'm sure that once you have fuck-you money or the consulting pipeline that's essentially the same thing, that changes, but it takes time to get there.) It's paradoxical.

For one thing, there's hard-core dimensionality in what we do. There are things I consider to be huge areas of computer science that I know nothing about, and many of those didn't even exist when I was in school.

It's really admirable that they're paying attention to the behaviors ("well, actually" and unsolicited advice) that make this worse and cause communication breakdowns. Of course, tone is more important than what is actually said, but that can't be legislated.
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Welcome to the game! :)

The good news is that you are reaching high quality folks if Google wants them.

Make sure they understand what they are getting into. Google is great (I'm a Xoogler) but they will be toiling in a very large machine and will have a very narrow locus of responsibility. There is nothing wrong with that -- but make sure that's what they want versus a broader startup role.
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Has anyone noticed a trend among employers asking for more and more Ruby on Rails developers? Also, Ruby on Rails developers in average make slightly more money than PHP Developers? Have you ever wondered why? Me too, and this is what I found...
Haha, yeah, I have experienced both ends of the stick. One supervisor I get along with beautifully, we've been meeting essentially every week for the last two years, and she has full access to the JIRA install I'm using to log my research tasks against. The other we just chat in the elevator, and have a meeting every couple of months or so.
I eat low carb, so I tried customizing for such a diet. Here are my thoughts:

First, huge kudos for allowing me to customize macronutrients that way.

Second, it would be nice to have a "How do you eat?" as the first step. You could have options like "Low calorie", "Low carb", "Paleo", etc. That could pre-set macro-nutrients and food-type checkboxes. The next step could be customization of important features (calories for low-cal, carbs for low-carb, ?? for paleo).

Finally, for my low carb diet, I unchecked the expected: grains, beans, some fruit, some dairy. Then hit generate. I kept getting bacon and pecans. A lot.

Anyway, this is awesome, and I look forward to seeing what it evolves into.
Really, its all about trust. People need to trust that what they say won't be twisted around and used against them.

The challenge is that the percentage of people from the population of people who want management responsibility that are willing to manipulate the situation for their own gain, is higher than the control population. Which means that people get exposed to them as managers more often than is ideal (in the ideal case they are managed to understand that 'winning' is a high level of trust on their team, but that doesn't happen often enough)

Just one of the ways that sociopaths have made life less enjoyable.
This is great, and really impressive. There's a couple minor things I'm looking for, in addition to all the things I looked for and found:

- A 'regenerate all meals' button. Having generated, but then tweaked the meal options for every day, it seems I have to load & regenerate each day in turn?

- Ability to customize frequency of automatic emails. I see that I can manually email a calendar range's plan, but I do most of my grocery shopping online, which incurs a delivery charge (and needs me to hang around for that delivery). I'd prefer to book up a couple weeks in advance, even if it means figuring out what I'll do about perishables.
One reason not to use it: the risk that the flailing of the desktop/client/table/mobile version will bleed over into the server version. I expect my servers to be very boring and I've always been concerned by the rapid changing in the Ubuntu ecosystem. (Note: I used Debian Stable on servers with some packages updated to Testing versions.)

The main benefit of Ubuntu was the focus brought by Canonical to the GUI and GUI tools. By the same token, I've consistently been wary of running Ubuntu on the server...
I may be confused what you're referring to, but switching between tabs is right click + scroll wheel.
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You're understanding his point incorrectly. The keyword isn't "points of failure". It's "attack surface".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_surface
> In June, Nestor returned to Pennsylvania, and began working the exploit with a crew.

I was rooting for the guy until that sentence. Book'em Danno.
That's a bit of a misnomer: diets like Keto don't "allow" set amounts of carbs, they require you to find your own carb limit to stay in ketosis.

If you constantly blow out of ketosis, you'll literally accomplish nothing with the diet.

Hence why keto-stix and other indicators are important- no one value works for everyone.

I had to eat less than 25g/day to maintain the keto diet.
Awesome app.

Small thing, though - on the homepage, kind of think that when I click play on the video, it should play. Right now, it just sends me to the video, and I have to click play on the bottom left again.

Should be pretty easy to change the embed settings on the Vimeo. I had that on my website too.
Let me guess, "Go" ? :-)
I'd have to agree with this one. Though I like these kinds of hack aggregators, I think yours missing some kind of fundamental product. A favorite of mine is codepen.io – the hacks are organized in a similar fashion but you have the advantage of building natively, forking, and creating collections.

I find the idea of using your engine as a aggregator for github very interesting though. I am not familiar with the github star and watcher apis but there might be a way to push upvotes/favorites/likes to github through interaction on hacksy, though you would still face the battle of bring users over.
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True, but it still limits the food variety a lot. Since my recipe database isn't huge to begin with, the meals start looking stale much sooner. I'm working on expanding the recipe database a lot, so hopefully it won't be a big problem for too much longer.
Still it's used in a negative way, suggesting Google did something bad.

You could've said "Google handed my third employee a $25K raise" ;)
PHP is the #1 feature request on their tracking page (and has been since almost day 1).

I assume/hope that it's not so much that people want to use PHP on AppEngine as it is they want to use popular PHP applications (WordPress and so on).
Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
Yes, I already have one.
I don't have one now but I may buy one.
I'll probably never buy one.
:) I guess this indirectly validates our hiring standard.
Every startup that plans on being successful must have at least one person on the team that is smart and driven far beyond the median. It's usually at least one of the founders. Then you can hire B people and maybe still succeed (but of course your chances are diminished).

Most frequently, I startups seeking out these one-percenters due to their own massive organizational ignorance - which, incidentally, makes getting one or more people with extreme clue onto the team a requisite for any success whatsoever, if only insofar as they will keep the ship from hitting an obvious iceberg.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that when dumb startups say they need this, they are frequently so dumb as to be right. (That person (often me) will be miserable there, though.)
From 2 days to a year. Depends on the person. I can knock it out in about 10 days if using a good framework like Django or Rails. But I'm no rockstar.

I would approach this by explaining the system on paper. Then break out the functionality into paragraphs. Each paragraph is its own library. Do those functions first, then move on to the actual program itself (what implements the libraries). Then its just a matter of making sure everything leads to the right place.

Say:

Puppybook is a facebook for puppies.

paragraph #1
Each user logs in. Using two factor authentication.

#2

the user arrives to his profile,
where he can see the latest puppy posts

..and so on.

For paragraph #1 I need to write the authentication code.
For #2 I need to write the code to pull the latest puppy posts from the database into the system.

Then you would import those libraries and do a regular MVC type app. I suggest your read up on one of those. If you are lost, then check out protocademy.com. You can learn to do just that there.
I'm facing a similar situation in which I've job offer from 3 big name companies and I don't know which one to accept. Those 3 jobs could easily be my 3 dream jobs :( Tough call.
As long as the increasing spending doesn't outpace the increasing revenue.

Growing revenue is great but only if the red number gets smaller (or is staying in the same expected/manageable range).
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Dart doesn't come close to qualifying as a "very popular" language.
Hey hands are among the deadliest of instruments! oO;
I hate Adobe. I also hate Flash.
Great idea and execution!
Sure, but I think you can agree that's one of the worst scenarios - there might be slightly better ones (softer landing, taking money off the table, etc.), and some worse (legal troubles, decades-long debt, broken relationships), but this is a common "worst case."
Ah, as long as the generator of pieces has a couple properties, this will always work. I find this interesting, mostly because if the generation of pieces is truly random, eventually you will lose; a sufficiently long alternation of S and Z tetrominoes cannot cleanly tessellate.
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Go was the previous language added to App Engine.
I think HR would have a huge headache separating the self-satisfaction people who coincidentally have huge talent from pathological control freaks, and fame seekers, and pathological types who just want to see the world burn, and probably other weirdos. If HR fails then the nuts might wreak havoc on the normal workers and the rest of the world.

I don't think NFLX will make it to that historical era. And appearing somewhat delusional doesn't help their odds.
Ok, say you can post something anonymously. But how will you link to it anonymously?
Is it OCaml? I bet it's OCaml.
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For starters, the blog post was informative and should get some creative juices flowing for applications in others' stacks -- piqued my interests in hacking core utilities. However...

The graphs never show a 30K token mark, which is what the heap-allocation counter showed for their [programming language] classifier.

It's not clear to me that much RSS was saved. Maybe 20Mb? So, the next question is how many classifiers are running, where such a "hit" actually matters. Again, there is no 30K mark on the runtime graphs, but let's assume the generation to the graphs' left are linear. It looks like we're saving a half-second and removing most of the jitter, but it's not made clear how the removal of GC chunking has any effect on processing outside of the classifier. I just can't imagine how a couple of these classifiers can't keep up with the push rate of files to Github -- the classification improvements are neither low-hanging or part of the BigO in Github's stack. The process seems very able to run asynchronous at push time and un-deferred, if unrun, on page view. Unless they're seeing more than 1 million pageviews/sec (per classifier; just run more? one 20Mb service per httpd server?), because I can't really imagine hitting more than 10x their tokens (300K tokens), which is still only ~50Mb; the RSS graph, again, has a weird scale to suggest they might grow their tokens by 67x.
PHP or Ruby probably
This is awesome! You might also add an option to buy some of the ingredients online :-p (for example, services like Peapod if the person is in that region)
I am honestly surprised it took this long.

Can't say PHP is my favorite but I know lots people who use it every day.

Will it take 5 years before they have ruby on rails?
You’d be surprised how easily you can get 33% of your daily caloric intake from fat.

1 gram of fat equals 9 kcalories, while 1 gram of protein or carbs equals 4 kcalories.

That means if your total caloric intake is 2000, you only need 74 grams of fat to reach 33%.
just throwing this in the hat, C# and .NET. It's possible...
Maybe they are forking it and calling it "Went"? I keed, I keed.
I'm one of those in the camp "No, but I want!" Any killer applications for this so far?
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Wie sich aus § 55 Abs. 1 RStV ergibt, trifft
einen Anbieter somit nur dann keine Impressumspflicht, und
er kann seine Webseite völlig anonym ins Internet stellen,
wenn sein Angebot ausschließlich persönlichen oder
familiären Zwecken dient.

Doesn't this say it is allowed to anonymously put a website online, if it is a purely personal/family page? I don't think she is running a business or has any commercial goals.
One other thought--you might also want to search a person's geographic area and see if you can find the best deals on the ingredients for recipes :-p But, generally--wow!!!
In the moments between the time I saw this and the time I saw that it was almost certainly PHP, I was hoping for JavaScript, with Ruby as a close second preference.

I can see why PHP makes sense, though, even though I have zero interest.
I remember seeing articles about people trying to live for a week without leaving the house but instead using "the internet" for all shopping and communications.
Thinking back to that time there seem to be so many parallels with how the internet was perceived then to how bitcoin is perceived now.
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Wait, did you just reduce the max number of free members from 30 to 15, and start charging $50/month for 15-30 members. Something that was free till now. That's definitely not the right way to respond to the Trello announcement.
I personally prefer working with Mods because when you're committing to an open source project because you're somehow limited with the owner of the projects goals.

They have a set of features that need to be implemented, and sometimes there's little room for innovations or ideas.

I find it more interesting when I'm allowed to mod a game because I can come up with my own version of the game using that engine, and if you provide an easy way to script my mods (LUA for example) even better.

For example, when I was a kid I always loved to recreate the american revolution in the starcraft universe.
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If you are looking to buy a 3d printer as a business investment/opportunity, let me know. I'm exploring that market and would like to talk to people with the same mindset.

Note that 3D printing is a huge, huge industry. Due to how it will allow companies to print or buy parts for their machinery at a fraction of the current costs.
We had the same concern so we designed each step of sending a card to be authentic - down to hand addressing the addresses on the envelope. You handwrite it all. But yes, you do skip going to the store and messing with stamps.
haha let's hug it out! :D
Here's hoping it's 6502 assembly.
+1 on Low carb isn't no carb. I had fantastic results on low carbs. I tried no carb once and it really will fk with your brain. Don't try no carbs!!!
Is there a "send on [date]" feature? It would be nice to pre-write birthday greetings, etc.
I've tried to make a meal planner that used linear programming to ensure that I got all of the needed nutrients and minimized calories, but it didn't work out. It really liked to suggest moose meat and some insanely healthful fruit from Argentina. It also suggested I drink 642 cups of coffee a day, I guess because coffee has some trace amount of whatever nutrient everything else lacked.

It was also difficult to figure out exactly how much of each nutrient I needed. There is no one list that has all of the nutrients, and different lists that cover different nutrients suggest different amounts of the nutrients that intersect the lists.
>understand how little faith and trust people have in us when we stand up at a meeting and say “we believe in our culture”

Because time and again employees have to read bs that makes their eyes bleed and keep a straight face. The netflix "we are the A++ team" slide is another example.

No doubt they are a great team, but all of their workforce deliver a perfect A score over all the worklife, no matter if they get ill, have children or broken hearts?
This is a pretty interesting question IMO. I spent 8 years living in Spain where people are convinced that their diet is the healthiest in the world, but by any "modern" standard is a nutritionist's nightmare: often no breakfast and fatty/sugary if you do eat it, tons of coffee, generally extremely high levels of fat including saturated animal fats, very high in salt and alcohol. Nearly all carbs are white and processed, very few vegetables. Breakfast, if eaten, is normally 10am, lunch at 2pm-4pm, and dinner at 9pm-10pm. No-one sleeps 8 hours.

That said, it does have some remediating factors - generally lots of fish and olive oil and (much) smaller portion sizes than the US. Also my cardiologist here in New Zealand said that they have a much lower incidence of heart disease than you would expect given the above, and no-one knows why. Maybe it's genetic, maybe olive oil is better for us than we currently understand.

Interesting stuff.
No, and I'm unlikely to buy one until there's a particular killer application. I'm excited by the potential, but I don't have any concrete ideas to explore, nor the time/disposable income to tinker.
FTA: Because the random generator provides strings of bags containing each of the 7 pieces in a random order, it is possible to construct a strategy around the relatively small variation, with looping patterns.

There is also a variant of Tetris called Bastet, which always gives you the most unhelpful possible piece :)