skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been claimed by the D people that D compiles faster than Go. D has a very powerful generic/template system -- even more powerful than C++. Yet, they seem to have solved the compile speed problem, while preserving runtime types (it is a systems language after all).

As I mentioned in another comment in this thread, I have a feeling that the issue with generics in Go is how some language features interact with each other (and not in a good way). Mainly interfaces and object composition. I think this is a good indication that the authors were not aware of several developments in language design at the time of making Go. Not everything is a tradeoff all the time. Certain problems have been solved.
190+ IQ's. Now I understand why slide was such a triumph in the myspace Picfeed Battle of 2006.
There was an issue affecting some users that's now resolved.
>Once in a while I come across an animated debate on health benefits of sugar vs. high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It is enzymatically produced mixture of glucose and fructose that approximately matches the chemical composition of sucrose, aka sugar. It is not this debate that is my concern;

Why are people discussing what the article specifically says it is not about?
Interested in hearing some experience reports. Those stats look too good to be true, and they don't mention which algorithms.
>hitting a global price spike

Again, this is not a certainty. Prices may very likely rise gradually on their own, allowing market forces to dictate a shift towards renewables. No reason to get incompetent bureaucrats involved
Nginx's proxy caching[1] should help you with the load.

[1]: http://serverfault.com/questions/30705/how-to-set-up-nginx-a...
Technical issues are irrelevant if there are prohibitive legal issues at hand.
The UK has been doing just this for the last three years: people get paid for all renewable KwH they generate - even those they use themselves. It's cut the ROI for renewables to 5-10 years in many cases - and 'free' energy and income thereafter.
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Generating-energy/Gettin...
GOG makes games easy to find and you don't have to worry about malware. I'd say these two factors make it easier than piracy in practice.
I think this is a good one for some [romantic] relationships as well.

The goal is not always to be together forever and/or marry, just to keep making some timeless/edgy/groovy music together.
I'm not sure I understand. Could you please elaborate?
Win3 > Win3.1
Win95 > Win98
WinME > WinXP
Vista > Win7
Win8 > ? (unlikely to be 8.1)
He's putting his own cognitive narrative on a singular event. A few things change (they dont connect with elon, they dont give up on the palm pilot as a focus, etc) and the story ends radically different, to negative effect. Truth is, sometimes, if you bust your ass in the right place at the right time, shit goes marvelously to your favor. Or not. Either way.
> It's more common advice to never name the first price.

Yes. But that doesn't make it useful. I recommend e.g. reading http://diplom.org/Zine/F1997R/Windsor/lawdip.html

> In more than one case I've underestimated my worth and received more than I would have though I could get away with asking for.

Of course the other rule is: Know what you can get away with.
The poor already have a more effective, less wasteful way of acquiring these goods. It's called buying used and old, either at a thrift shop or on ebay. Used old laptops are already abundant.
Why would you even target a market you wont profit in? Makes no sense. What Google did is simple: They saw that there is no money in search (ask around), and saw that there was a lot of money in lead generation (advertising). They copied overture, and it grew.
That is a beautiful website. Is it custom, or is it something I can install myself? Feel free to refuse to answer :P
Study on STEM graduates finds supply not lacking
The original article title is very weak, though – corporate dullspeak that obscures the real news, the new 7-day standard replacing an earlier 60-day standard.

It is possible to improve many headlines, and despite the slightest twinge of editorializing added by the "...is enough..." wording, the submitted headline was both accurate and informative.
People that run big companies don't care AT ALL about getting products right. They want money, period. If they can get a promotion or bonus without getting the product right, they will. Sometimes that means stepping in front of progress.
If carpenters were hired like programmers (2004)
... ME -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 ...
Self-Driving Cars Get New Guidelines by US Gov't.
As someone who never felt like putting his own mug on his own website, I appreciate that at least for one person out there it's not a minus :)
Indeed they are both responsible. Right now I'm looking at page 6 of Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren, which has a table of climate forcings. CO2 is the biggest, but CFCs are in there too, along with methane, N2O, ozone, and black carbon aerosols.

It's just the "not carbon dioxide" part that seems dubious to me.
Why does it have to be a certainty rather than a significant risk we can insure against?
So just to clarify your point of view, would you also agree that smoking should be completely banned, and to varying degrees, any unhealthy activity should be actively prohibited?
That's a good point. Airbnb is asking people to do this online. This is likely the first time they have ever had to upload their license or passport online. I voluntarily did it, just because I stumbled on it in the settings of the site last week, and it was the first time I ever scanned in my license online. I think one time I sent in my college ID online one time, but I've never uploaded my scanned license online. Showing an ID in person is pretty different from uploading a photo of your ID online.

I was thinking more about this today... maybe it is just that Airbnb has such insane supply and demand that they can afford to make this move and still be massively successful. If they're able to have a network of all verified and trusted people, the implications are huge.
Fine with Chromium 25 on Lubuntu 12.10.
No, no. The future is 1.21 jigawatts, IIRC.
Okay, let's make the example even MORE explicit. In normal times we'd buy most of our actual supply from China or Taiwan, because they're the cheapest, fastest, most flexible supplier. We'd buy those side OPTIONS (that are never exercised other than in a time of war) from companies NOT in China. We'd buy the options from companies in, say, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Canada. Where the steel is typically a little more expensive per unit.

In the middle of a war with China or Taiwan, a foreign company in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, or Canada is unlikely to consider us "the enemy", so they'll have no trouble selling us all the steel they can make at the inflated prices we're willing to pay. The contract and the higher-than-normal price it specifies, should suffice to compensate them for inconveniencing their normal customers, foreign or domestic.
Are they just feeling insecure about the kinds of problems their generation is solving?

Yeah! Figuring out the ad you are most likely to click on next is the best way forward for mankind. This is obvious.
Right - but I'm unaware of any hotel who requires you to upload your license online before booking a hotel. It's done in person at the time of checkin.
Most poor problems are government problems. The problem is most of the money goes towards bloat and bureaucracy and war than actually providing services for poor people as well as the rich.
Was Win95 a failure? From what I remember, it was a huge, smashing success for them.
I use the start menu to launch apps. Other than calc, i rarely type a program name. I'm visual and icons work great. But screw me, right? :)
This is right, but the canonical/non-canonical distinction is all or nothing. Bash echos most characters, but it needs to treat a handful, like tab, up, and down, specially so it (or readline probably) puts the terminal in non-buffered mode and ends up echoing the normal characters. I read the GP as suggesting that there should be a way for bash to indicate which characters were "normal" and should be buffered and echoed and which it wants to see immediately. It's an interesting idea, but of course such a mechanism would require coordination between the kernel's terminal interface, bash/readline, and ssh in order to get a marginal improvement in network efficiency.
Luckily Airbnb's success is based off revenue share. So if there is actually a drop in bookings, Airbnb has an interest in killing this feature.

My guess? They already tested it on a small subset of their users and it's working well. Furthermore, if they have a network of all verified and trusted users, the network is going to be incredibly strong.

edit: sp error
Well, he was an intelligence officer. He should be able to know bullshit when he hears it.
For a sequence of independent random variables with the same variance, X_1, X_2,..., we have

var( (1/sqrt(n)) * (X_1 + X_2 + X_3 + ... X_n)
= (1/n) * (var(X_1) + var(X_2) + ... var(X_n))
= (1/n) * n * var(X_1)
= var(X_1)

This holds for any n, which means that, if you normalize by 1/sqrt(n) instead of 1/n, the "randomness" never vanishes even when n gets infinitely large. If you normalize by something bigger than 1/sqrt(n) the variance blows up, and if you normalize by something less than 1/sqrt(n), the variance collapses to zero so you get something concentrated at a single point.

The CLT tells us more than that, it actually tells us how the randomness is distributed when n gets very large, which is pretty remarkable when you think about it. (and it holds under much weaker conditions than what I mentioned above, it's just that those assumptions are probably the easiest to understand).
That's not unreasonable, but there should be proper risk management involved first. The decision is too important to leave up to scare tactics and knee-jerk reactions.
Chrome crashed that tab after the first problem- but that happening was kinda surreal. At first I thought it was part of the game ;)
How about do something to uplift poor people, rather than just siphoning more money away. Affordable medical, dental, and legal help would be great focuses.
"Because right now, it's still behind the pack."

Um.. Active Directory run's pretty much every Enterprise and Corporation worldwide. From that, I'd say Microsoft "has got it right".
Climate Slowdown Means Extreme Rates of Warming 'Not as Likely'
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

Sometimes chasing feature parity is a mistake.

And Microsoft don't really do that. They generally do best when they attack from a different angle.

von Clausewitz gave simple advice for winning battles: concentrate your strongest forces and attack at the enemy's weakest point.

How did Microsoft beat Borland? They attacked at the interface and ease-of-use, not on compiler speed.

How did they beat Apple on the desktop? They attacked on backwards compatibility, not on a better UI.
Both UDP and TCP have ports. ICMP does not.

The set of Source IP:Source Port:Target IP:Target Port is how most connections are differentiated. All four of those combine to form a unique connection identifier.
The only thing i can't grasp... If sugar is such a certain deal, why there is even one person investing in a HFCS factory instead of yet another sugar came farm?
Relational Theory for Computer Professionals - C.J. Date
I've spend hundreds of hours searching through Creative Commons photos on Flickr for a wall mural business and know how much flickr search results suck. No matter what I search for I always end up eventually getting asian children at a temple in my results or other nonsense.

Also, photographers with GOOD images don't sell them for $0.05 on Fotolia, Dreamstime, etc... Getty Images sucks because of it's restrictions and $3,000 / price tag and prehistoric policies. If you check the stock photo site's payout rates you'll realize why they have so many generic images and so little amazing photography. The good photographers keep their stuff off those stock sites.
Big Data with R and Python: A Mind Map of All the Packages You Will Ever Need
FYI, current mobile browser caches are very weak and unreliable. For instance, iOS clears all cached data just by exiting Safari. Android is also in a similar situation (unpredictable and can't explain).

I guess it is caused by the storage limitations. We can't rely on the mobile browser cache, at least for now.
When mice first came out for PCs, they included training software for how to use them. Earlier versions of Android used to include intro software for the same reason.

In retrospect drag and drop, pinching, double clicks, long holds, swipes, acceleration etc are all obvious. But at one point they weren't.
Wasn't 95 the first "full" DE and sligthly better game support? With 3.1 you'd still boot into DOS and start up windows to play solitaire.
Ask HN: What are Bitcoins being used for?
Even though more and more startups that revolve around the Bitcoin ecosystem are sprouting up, there still doesn't seem to be many legitimate uses for the currency. Outside of bigger companies like OkCupid or Reddit accepting Bitcoins as payment, what are they being used for? Silkroad? P2P payments?
SoftBank launches new non-seed, NYC-specific, $51 million fund
I'm stuck on the very first problem.

EEM: Here is your first assignment.
It is more useless than you. What is it?

I have no idea what it is and the hints aren't helping. Isn't anyone else stuck there too? Or is it personalized/randomized for different people?
So... instead of disagreeing out of hand, how did you overcome the fact that you had to pay for bandwidth between your terabytes of data and the computation centers?
Couldn't agree more.
Data centers anyone?
This is my 3rd year on Elance as a fullstack developer with a main focus on backend, and last year I made around 80k. In the beginning, it was very hard to compete with established users and 10$/h developers. In Elance, having a track a record with high ratings is pretty important, so my first few jobs were some easy scripts that were guaranteed to be 5 stars (I made sure on the proposal that I don't care much about the price but that I need a good review)

After establishing a bit of credit, you should be picky on the projects you choose and make sure that you are not throwing a generic proposal. Treat each one uniquely. Have a resume/portfolio ready. Ask questions about the project and more importantly, give suggestions about pain points.
Competition drives the cost of living up. We can explain this with supply and demand.

As far as the industrial history, yeah, service economy, information age, yadda yadda.

And I agree on Wall St, I pretty much despise them. But if you're going to preach unfettered capitalism via low taxes you should be worshipping it.
Isn't the point exactly that Google and Apple are doing it with few major screwups? And in the near future we'll see Canonical and Mozilla's versions of mobile OSes, and see hoe successful they are.
Works fine.
Chromium Version 27.0.1453.93 (200836)
To add to grannyg00se's comment: Should we also force people to exercise?
It can - see the FAQ right at the bottom.

"We have a backup WiFi printing mode similar to Octoprint..."
I may move to the US if that can be established :)

Message boards are fertile grounds for thought experiments.
>> Everybody is in one, or if not, they want to be.

Nah - some people leave the band, look back and just shake their head saying "yeah those were some pretty crazy times".
yup, i read that. that older study doesn't really argue for or against, though.

one thing that really bothers me though is that having grown up in germany i have big problems swallowing hfcs. mostly because it tastes dull, and feels very acidic in my throat. i've asked other people from overseas and they reported similar things.

the only thing I could find though is the addition of sulfuric acid. if you have some information on that, i'd be grateful.
I'm not sure how that contradicts what I said about DFA and other similar Kickstarters.

If you backed a Kickstarter that was pitched as solely a preorder for an already complete product, then you have every right to be upset if that Kickstarter doesn't deliver.

The original point though, was about kickstarters which are funding the development of products from scratch and allowing tracking and input from the funders.
I think you mean they control a second-level domain. The top level domain is "com" in the example of "internetsecurity.google.com".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain
I am stuck at the Xena and Xzoor part anyone want to help me?
Regarding 1: I think this is the product Microsoft wanted to ship. I don't think what they produced is necessarily a bad implementation of what they were trying do. I think their goal didn't match what their customers wanted. Some percentage(I'm guessing a high%) of users use Windows because its what they know and are comfortable with. Windows 8 throws out what a lot of these users spent a lot of time learning.
All I see in that post is hearsay and zero evidence either way of "lying". I can think of plenty of "maintenance issues" that would eventually cause a data loss - additional drives failing during a RAID rebuild, for example.
Look, the fact is you're directly attaching Firstname Lastname to a derogatory claim, signed by a respected expert, to the permanent record of the searchable internet over something rather petty.

Is it worth dragging someone through the mud over? He said he didn't appreciate it, just edit it out. It's more important than "being right."
So many startups have screwed this up. It makes sense why everyone is skeptical.

But really, why do they need my LinkedIn? LinkedIn is something I do not use. At this point, I just auto-accept all contacts and never check it. I know Airbnb uses my Facebook connections to show my friends that I've stayed at a particular place. That, to me, is fine. But, most of my LinkedIn connections are random acquaintances. I asked a couple of my friends and it's the same for them: Facebook for closer connections, LinkedIn for garbage. I don't need my LinkedIn connections knowing all the Airbnb places I've stayed at.

I've stayed at 10+ Airbnb places and have perfect reviews. I also willingly (a couple weeks ago) uploaded my driver's license. Host now have a clear idea of me based on my license and past reviews. Do hosts really need to know my LinkedIn profile? Honestly, to me, it seems like Airbnb wants to build out its graph and social connections. Maybe not spam you, but the social connections feature is pretty powerful so I can see why they'd want more social connections.

I have more to say but this is getting long. My opinion on all this right now is that Airbnb is experiencing a supply/demand tilt (more demand than supply) and they can afford to weed out the "crappy" demand (even if it's my aunt using Airbnb for the first time).
Thanks. Conversions come from relatively small amount of visitors but overall orders are getting placed pretty fast and I am more than satisfied with the results.
Yes, but in person. They are not asking you to upload it online... something few people have ever done.
Personally I don't think Microsoft's primary agenda is to produce user-enabling products. Imo their desire is to produce user-hobbling products; products that slow down or preferably reverse the knowledge-empowering potential of computing machines for the average person. It's a political not marketing objective, and you'll never see them admitting to it. You have to analyze their actions not their words to see it.

If you assume Microsoft has always been trying to achieve the 'best' product possible, then their development history looks like incredible incompetence. If you view it in the political context of Elites trying to cripple development of 'computing power to the people', it makes perfect sense and reveals a high degree of sophistication in the Microsoft inner management group.

Effectively their strategy is to steer development of their products in the most socially harmful direction possible, constantly pushing the boundary of what the market will reject as 'too stupid'. When they hit public resistance, they wait as long as possible then back off with a slightly less stupid product release. Once that version has become entrenched they then try again with something even more stupid. Windows 8 was just an example of MS pushing a little too hard.
> Because these days, everything is political even if it shouldn't be.

I think the problem isn't that "everything is political", the problem is that everything that is political is tribal. The problem isn't that it has a connection to politics, the problem is that it is tied up in group identity and that people respond to it on that basis rather than rationally.
You mean websockets? Those try to support all the legacy of HTTP proxies (which I don't understand the point of).
Agreed the video is somewhat ridiculous. It could be a supply/demand tilt (more demand than supply: weed out the crappy demand). It could also be a long term move. If they're able to have all verified people in the network, they'll have basically the most powerful local network ever created.
Linode currently, but that is likely to change. Their cheapest hosting is also extreme overkill if you're just using it for VPN.
The blood is clearly tainted

/s
Depressing analogy :(
This sounds like an excellent way to get your apps banned from the store
> (or at least, something more secure than just HTTPS).

It is demonstrably more secure than just HTTPS. Even if only slightly. Because HTTPS doesn't even try to do those things.
Seriously. The first thing I do if I strongly like or dislike an article is click the name/avatar to get more information about the author to better understand their background. Medium pushes me onto a page with the rest of their articles instead of a profile and I then have to hope that I can use Google to find their Twitter or website based on the small amount of information in their user blurb (because it doesn't force them to include either).
These do wonders: http://www.amazon.com/Chill-Its-6602-Cooling-Towel-Blue/dp/B...

(I live in Atlanta, 95% humidity, 90 degrees, way too often)
A theory that has been roundly debunked. Coca-Cola already had HFCS five years earlier, since 1980. Here's Snopes on the topic:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp

And the whole category of Cokelore:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp
Yup, and sorry to be that guy who says something simple isn't complex enough even when it was never intended to be complex ha ha. Here's an actual question though: do you think sleep debt actually adds up like that or no?
Only if you want to commit on every iteration.
Yeah. I feel safer.
I guess nobody actually reads the labels??
What's the most entrepreneurial thing you've ever done to get a job?
Tom Friedman recently wrote that you need to be entrepreneurial to "invent your own job" or to find a job. What did you do to
- convince a hiring manager you were the right fit
- get new skills for a job
- other stuff that lead to a job you wanted

Alternatively, what's the most entrepreneurial thing you've seen someone else do?
> Running an electric car on pure coal is more CO2 efficient than any gasoline car out there.

That claim is contentious. http://elpc.org/plug-ins#4
What the hell's happening to HN? Why so many negative put downs on pet projects? Someone just posted 10 free images for you to photoshop your startup's screenshot onto. Shut up, take it, and say thank you.

Jesus Christ! What? Your poor egos are hurt because you didn't change the world before age 25 and now have to attack everyone's pet project for not being the next flickr?

So what did you guys make? Post links please.
I think if there was more separation between oil companies and government (or in general, a decrease in legal power of the oil/government cooperative), then it would be less necessary.