skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so the conclusion really is: CPython is way slower than it should be.
Question: if the subset is small, isn't it better to use something like 'shed skin' ?
http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/

I once looked at it, and it does a fairly literal translation. The only problem is that it changes semantics of the primitive types. For example a python integer becomes a C++ int. (and overflow semantics change)
Well anyone who signs up to Facebook who's not in USA or Canada is technically signing an agreement with Facebook Ireland Ltd. So, the Irish company is responsible for the data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users.

(cf. section 19 of https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms )
that line being the definition of frugality
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2269172/pg1#...

A little known fact...

YEARS ago, the electronics company "Phillips" who invented the CD made a prototype of a new format that used "wave division multiplexing".

In short a full-spectrum laser (not red or blue or green) with 16.8 million colours was used, that could read data from a disc, using multi layers read via every "colour".

So in essence it would turn a 9GB disc into a 9 x 16.8 million GB disc.

Or 15200000 GB disc.

The Technology was shown working to trade insiders (myself being one of them) and then....

It just disappeared, never to be heard of again..

Some colleagues speculated that Government or Military wanted the tech and approached Phillips.

Not for the consumer market.

This was back in 1995.
To be fair, many of the things you mention are self inflicted. Fair enough some people have it tough through no fault of their own, some though make choices that set them up for the lifestyle they complain about.
advantage is when you manage to couple things at composition root (which is the very beginning of your application). that way there is one convenient place where coupling takes place.

read "Dependency injection in .Net" by Mark Seemann. it's the best resource to understand wtf DI is all about and what are benefits.
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Again, a $20 multimeter wouldn't measure shit with a draw that small. And there are devices which use GSM radios for communication and last half a year on a 9V battery, for remote monitoring stations and such. So a virus implanted in a bootloader could very easily keep everything off and stay ready to spy. Your inability to accept this as a technical possibility is very childish.
Terry Cavanagh's Google Play account suspended with no explanation
I have asked myself that question over the last few years and I have come to the conclusion that I really want these frameworks. In the case of jQuery, for example: you can program everything in Javascript without using jQuery. On the other hand, jQuery is not just a lot of code, it's tested code. It's not much fun having to add browser/engine-specific code to everything you do. Thankfully, the need for this specifically seems to be slowly fading away now that all browsers are to a certain extend on the same level.

In the case of such frameworks like Backbone/ember/Angular: these are implementations of MVC or MVVM or other such patterns, in Javascript. These make it easy to share data between web services you create, and, in the case of e.g. Knockout, bind data to controls on your page. You save yourself from having to write AND test all these things yourself. I have tried, for the first time, Backbone mere days ago, to see what the added benefit is. It gave me what's required to send data (in JSON format) to, for example, my controller, but what's nice about it is, for example, model binding.

It might not be entirely unlike PHP's situation: you can program your projects in plain PHP, or you can use the Zend Framework or Symphony or whatever you prefer, which adds a lot of (tested) logic that you otherwise would have to program yourself.

Do you NEED it? Not using these won't limit you, but you'll probably find yourself programming these things out yourself in a lot of cases, where many smart people have done this already.
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For me, it's a matter of confusion. What does BUILD offer that TechEd doesn't? Or that I wouldn't learn in one of the 30+ other conferences that MSFT puts on? Their website is so ambiguous - http://channel9.msdn.com/events/build/2013?Media=true&wt.mc_...

"At Build, we'll share updates and talk about what's next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, and more. Build is the path to creating and implementing your great ideas, and then differentiating them in the market. Join us for three days of immersive
presentations delivered by the engineers behind our products and services, while networking with thousands of other developers getting the first look at what's next."

If you contrast that with TechEd's main points, I just don't see much difference:

http://northamerica.msteched.com/#fbid=c1XGcXlXIYy

"Learn about the future of Microsoft’s products, solutions and services directly from the leaders with news, announcements, and demos. Connect with Microsoft and industry thought leaders, and fellow attendees that share your technology interests and business challenges. Plan the features and architecture to support your product and business goals and to prepare your skills for the future. Attend technical sessions delivered by Microsoft engineers and industry experts"
That is $200, then after a year you will have to pay $100 to get updates. That was not cheap, I was hoping that I can continue recieving updates for my initial purchase, since many apps which is payed only once does that.
I really don't understand how people manage to spend so much

Maybe they just earn less than you?
I believe that there is something special about not needing to spend large amounts of money on fleeting entertainment.

It's something that none of my peers have managed; they all still spend their income on drinking, cigarettes, tattoos, holidays and so forth. I don't particularly look down on them for it as they're obviously happy in their world doing it. I just think there's more enjoyment to be had outside of a 9-to-5 job and alcohol.
My first couple of years on a full time job I spent all the money i earned, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck (almost always carrying a few hundred dollars in debt), saving nothing, and it was freaking awesome. No room mate, lived in the middle of town, buy any thing I wanted, go out to any place I wanted. I could afford to fly to the States for a week (or even a long weekend) and stay in a nice hotel on a whim just because someone said, "hey come on over we're having a party".

Honestly it was some of the best times of my life, and I'm really glad a I took the chance when I had the chance. Looking back I can only say thank god these sorts of blog posts weren't popular when I was 20 or those years might have been much more dull.
One needs money to stop doing something?

I suspect the reasons for not closing Gitmo are less clean and clear than "they won't let me boo-hoo"

Start with a thousand wrongful arrest and torture suits filed against everyone at all positions of government for ten years, and work down.
It's never too late to be awesome. You just have to stop caring if YOU'RE awesome, and do more things you think would be pretty awesome.

When I turned 41, I started taking burlesque dance classes. I got a lot fitter and learnt a ton about how to carry myself confidently. I didn't have either of those things in mind when I started, or when I kept going to class. I was just getting out of the house and enjoying myself.
Yet, Wikileaks is claiming the opposite:

"WikiLeaks, which is assisting Mr. Snowden, has said that Ecuador issued him special travel papers and that it is his ultimate destination."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/world/snowden.html
Interesting. Maybe different people have different priorities?

The OP saved up to live working on things he loved.

I mostly save up to travel and try new things.

Some people save up to buy a shiny new red sports car.

When you are old, you are going to decide if you have lived life to the fullest.
Many? Besides kids and employees, which ones?
Is Varnish Working?
It's staggering that there's no discussion on this. I remember seeing the newspapers on the day Snowden broke the stuff about GCHQ. The Grauniad was indignant; nobody else even touched the story. Why aren't the government being hauled over the coals for this thing? Cameron's promising an enquiry over the Lawson investigation but his government is still pushing ever broader collection of digital communications.

It makes me feel angry and powerless.
Archimedes: Separating Myth From Science
"You can enjoy your life right now. You just need to spend less money on shit that you don’t need."

But it's the shit I don't need that ads to the enjoyment of my life.
Monorail, I agree with your points and I upvoted you. But I think you may be "dead-banned".
I found that most people I know spend their money according to their paycheck. If you don't save money as soon as your paycheck comes in, it'll be gone by the end of the month. No matter hwo much you make.

However, when you've come to the point of finding someone you love and want to spend the rest of your life with, living the frugal student life isn't going to cut it. You'll want to move to a bigger place, have kids (trust me, they're expensive!), need a bigger car, etcetera. For us, this was a conscious choice. We choose to spend money on our house, our kids, holidays, hobbies. We do save quite a lot, but I think there is a nice middle ground between spending next to nothing and living from paycheck to paycheck.
Wow... you're not serious right? What basis for a relationship is "don't share your problems with her", that's just crazy.
Sorry, I wasn't clear on our requirement. We do not need a chat between a customer and a sales/support person, but a chat between visitors...
The BBC may be impartial when it covers a story, unfortunately it's criteria for selecting what to report seems less and less impartial...
Same question I did myself with HTML/CSS. Do we need those frameworks to do a website?

The question came to me after I did my 3rd bootstrap like architecture for some projects I've been working for. You will end doing something like JQuery in the end, if you want to be organized and want to maintain all in a large team, you end up doing a framework so everyone does the same.

After doing it 4 times, I realized I can use Boostrap and do the same on 1/4 of the requiered time and, avoid the testing phase for many, many things.
What about AppCode and the vim plugin that goes with all Jetbrains IDEs
Visualized Flight Paths of the World
Wow, voted down for this. Fucking losers.
A helicopter carrying a dinosaur: the case against VC
Just imagine... Dr. Evil is able to get a list of those 9,000 people, and then able to co-ordinate terrorist acts across the land, using an army of thousands.

9,000 is a hell of a lot of people who think need watching. The IRA had no more than 250 active members outside of '70s and 1916.
okay, tell me a python library comes with consistent hashing?

(for the record = HASH(key) MOD N is not 'consistent hashing'.)

redis-router is just a library that wraps redis-py with consistent-hashing. nothing more.

I use it in production heavily since it solves the client-side sharding problem for me. When I wrote this, there was no trustable client library comes with consistent-hashing.

I don't know what do you want to see actually. "saving the world" is a todo though. wait for the new releases. you might like it. :)
I go one better than this: I have my monthly salary paid directly into my savings account, then I "pay" myself weekly into a current account the amount of money I actually live off. Your savings can accrue surprisingly fast like this.
It's just funny seeing how everybody now claims that removing visual noise is making a better experience for users. How come nobody had that insight before apple changed the design?
Out of curiosity, does this solve the memory issues caused by bad websites? Example, I have open three sites and my firefox memory usage is constantly increasing.

maps.google.com with route determined.
Hackers News, this story.

and the offending site, cycletrader.com where I chose a random ad from the front page that had more than one photo. All I did was cycle through the photos and leave the tab open.

Internet Explorer to the same sites does not even come close to the memory usage. In the time it took me to write this I have seen firefox go from 235m to 1.2g memory and IE stayed steady at 100m
Reading the back and forth emails was pretty entertaining. I wonder what caused FBI to go so cold on him for a while -- was it a negotiating tactic, or was there a block due to Sabu or other leads, or was it mostly unrelated bureaucratic stupidity?
SkyDrive | iCloud

MS account | Apple ID

Skype | FaceTime

As for changing the default search, it took me about 90 seconds to figure out. I'm really not seeing a problem here. None of the things you mention are mandatory.
Oh, the government issue was that they would outsource management of the data centers and server management. The incentives in these outsourced contracts rewarded uptime and little else, and the best way to ensure that was to penalise anything that threatened it... such as a new release.

The end result, is that to have a patch deployed you'd have to get the patch, the whole codebase, and everything replicated and proven elsewhere (with realistica data and use cases), and a third party was contracted to do this.

It became insanely expensive to do even the smallest thing to make users or project sponsors happy... we couldn't give them code in any timely way, so everything became workarounds.

And you'd always find some project that would fight with this so much that they'd start writing in back doors. Auto-generating a WSDL on one occasion revealed a method for running arbitrary SQL. I guess some dev got sick of waiting 6 months for the next answer they needed.
MOOCs, Pre-Reqs, and Car-Crashes
AOL Reader is Awesome. Death of Google Reader Wont Kill Me Any More
Thank you. History and reputation count in these things.
Ask HN: We need your feedback 
Our design team just developed and launched an app and we really love your guys to give us some feedback! It's an expense-tracking app called "Picaca" that users can track their expenses based on the pictures they take. Just like the combination of Instagram and Excel...

We wanna encourage users to transform their daily expenses into visual arts. Anyway, please...folks! Really appreciate it:)

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correct, "turing complete, i.e. you can do any possible computation at the type level."

I don't know if I feel joy or sadness, but I have the feeling that if type level computation is allowed, then it's better to be turing complete than falling short while giving the illusion to be useful.

As for the practical applications of a powerful type system, I know about this (but I would be interested into finding more examples, as most of the information about that is very theoretical):

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HList (http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~laemmel/TheEagle/dl/Kiselyo...)
Thanks, it is very valuable for us to have a feedback for such a designer! I certainly agree with you that usability is far more than the design itself. Even more, good design should lead the user to the desired action, I think.
Edward Snowden ranted online against those who leak secrets to the press
Nice! How does that work, though? Do you set budgets for things like food, rent/mortgage, insurances? How do you avoid overspending?
I thought the same. It's still looking for a distraction, just in another medium.
For those not familiar to Icelandic news this guy has been in it from time to time over the last year or so.

He's under investigation for fraud (more than one) in Iceland and to be honest he needs some medical help. He's burned every bridge he's ever crossed, it seems, and although he tries hard to become some kind of a celeb as much as he can (e.g. showing up with two bodyguards when he went to speak before the parliament)[3] it's not working.

His accomplishments:

Stealing confidential data from Milestone (Icelandic company)[0]

Bugging the Icelandic parliament

Playing nice with the FBI

"Stealing" electronics worth millions of ISK from small shops in Iceland[1]

Taking money for seminars/courses he didn't, and never meant to, hold.[2]

[0] http://www.visir.is/grunadur-um-ad-hafa-stolid-gognum-fra-vi...

[1] http://visir.is/-og-bdquo;siggi-hakkari-og-ldquo;-i-gaesluva...

[2] http://www.dv.is/frettir/2013/6/5/sagdur-hafa-haft-fe-af-isl...

[3] http://visir.is/kom-med-lifverdi-a-nefndarsvid-althingis/art...
WorldPay has new mobile/chip & pin payment service
The missed the "J" again...
In the short run, but for every dollar you spend, you give a bit more of your own freedom away.
Hall of Fame honour for web activist Aaron Swartz
I wonder if an alert based system would be more beneficial.

Think google alerts for freelance sites.
NSA leaker waits in Moscow.... and waits
And since when has awesomeness been mutually exclusive with decency, kindness, or even helpfulness?

I think that if you want to be happy, that's not going to come from success or ambition or striving. They seem more or less orthogonal.

Some of us require a certain level of striving to be happy. If we're not being awesome enough, we get depressed.

An interesting question might be: What would you do if you were already happy and content?

But short of a few things I cope with, I am happy and content.
No, the flat (anti-skeuomorphic) trend started well before Apple joined the party.
Could be, but I have coworkers that make about the same amount of money as me, yet they're not able to save money. They spend it mostly on clothes, restaurants and bars. Some of them don't even have kids yet they manage to consume their whole paycheck within the month.
Turkey seeks to tighten control over Twitter
The 8th Amendment is based on Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes And Punishments and the term "cruel and unusual" specifically means the punishment should be proportionate to the crime.
Strange that the URL for that article says June 28th!
Luck, Investment and the One Percent
Time for you to write that book on encrypted journalism.
And the symbol for metre is "m" not "mt"
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/blob/master...

This seems to be some HL2EP1 specific stuff in there X'D
I'm not surprised at this turn of events. It is a common accusation that Assange himself created wikileaks as a tool for self-aggrandizement. I think that's mostly just a smear calculated to discredit wikileaks - it is the other way around: without sufficient ego, Assange would not have preserved long enough to create wikileaks. But I don't think there is any question that an organization like wikileaks will attract people who are motivated purely by self-interest rather than idealogical goals - practically any organization attracts such people, even the non-controversial ones.

I was a little miffed to read that federal prosecutors fly on private jets, although if enough FBI agents were flying with them I suppose that could have been cheaper than a bunch of tickets on a regular airline.
> Redis is not just a cache. Let me repeat that. Redis is not just a cache. Lots of people use Redis as a primary data store. If >Redis is your primary data store, you can't afford to have any of your keys invalidated, ever. "Minimum" might be good enough when > you're talking to Memcached, but it's not enough when you're taking to Redis.

"minimum" is enough for the people who use redis for cache, since a lot of people use it for just, plain, simple, old "caching".
And so we enter the wilderness of mirrors...
Waycott says

> However, Slate fails to even take on the challenge of disabusing people of their expectations that one must submit to egregiously harsh punishment to be validly considered a civil disobedient.

and spends much of the rest of the article arguing that Snowden's actions pass the other requirements that thinkers have claimed is necessary for justifying civil disobedience. So I'm pretty sure the Waycott is trying to claim Snowden's actions are justified even if he doesn't submit to punishment.

But I can't find anywhere that the Waycott distinguishes between Snowden and the historical cases of civil disobedience where thinkers have agreed that submission to punishment was necessary for justification. Surely those past examples didn't submit to punishment for no reason. So what's different here?

The Slate article, for what it's worth, makes a distinction: the magnitude of the punishment.
> When I'm old I'd rather say I'm broke because I lived my life to the fullest

That's probably where people differ - how they understand what "living life to the fullest" means.

To the OP, it means spending less on what he does not need and working on the things he likes. To others, it's travel, meeting other people.

There's no shame spending your money the way you want. Just don't live beyond your means. Know your (financial) limits.
I'll file this under "corporate horror stories" :)

I was more referring to how easy it is to push frequently to production when you have a small team of good developers, though. As the team gets larger, the ease of pushing to production drops (leading to your example above, in the long run and with crappy dev culture, I guess).
The Aftermath of Snowden’s Flight
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Imgur takes over quickmeme's functionality
Disable Turblinks every X requests
Sorry, but the new Hangouts does not support federation. The old GTalk network, though, does. If a message comes into the latter from non-Google servers, they only show up in connected XMPP clients, not on Android or GMail after upgrading to Hangouts. If the intended recipient does not use a 3rd party XMPP client and has fully upgraded, he will never see the message!

For outbound traffic some odd stuff is going on. Presence from all Hangouts endpoints still propagates to GTalk and thus federates. Messages can also be sent. But again, that's one way and replies are not delivered to Hangouts. Additionally, XMPP iq-type requests to Hangouts endpoints are not responded to, violating the core XMPP spec.
Methinks you've spent too much time on facebook. In the dead tree world we don't usually have an "It's Complicated" option for marital status.
If it was your mother on the line, I wonder what you would say or do.
Great punchline:
>even one friend that isn’t a bottle is a better than none.
Just because everyone else jumps off a bridge, doesn't make you special for not following. Unless the bridge is on fire, then you probably are a bit special. ;)

Truth be told a lot of your peers feel the same way. They're confused as to why they need to go out and drink themselves stupid every night/weekend but it's what people do and they wanna be close to other people.
I agree with that, but it doesn't actually apply to the main situation described by OP, when nobody actually needed him, he was just killing time. It's odd that we bundled it with actually social situations such as having dinner with others.
3 developers, 1 server admin, 5 other who do marketting, design, etc
Then everybody would have their own startup. Awesome. :)
Your friends, family, coworkers are helping social networks gather intel on you
Ask HN: Have you / would you sign an NDA about a job prospect?
I stumbled on one of these "due to the awesomeness of the project, we cannot disclose more info without an NDA" job posts. I'm generally prejudiced against these things but objectively speaking, what are the pros & cons of signing such an NDA?