skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quoting you:

> I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.

It's not a matter of taking offense. It's a matter of your assumption. It took you little effort. And it might take many people little effort. But by saying "anyone" and "their belief that they can't do it" in the same sentence you disenfranchise people who, you know, might actually have tried this and failed.

This type of statement tends to irk some people (and I'm here assuming sillysaurus is part of this group) because the same structure is present in all kinds of victim-blaming statements ("oh, you don't work hard enough, that's why you're poor. You have to believe in prosperity").

Let me be clear, I'm not saying that you'd actually use the more horrible versions of the pattern. I'm simply hoping to explain sillysaurus's strong reaction to your original post.
Anytime you move rendering off the client (Disqus) you'll see performance increases. Everyone is focused on server-side speed, though most of the load time is network latency and DOM rendering.
From the look of it I think it might be too complicated.
Why can't we talk about IQ?
is the environment also available? are environments first class? it talks only about expressions - the environment in which they are evaluated seems to be implicit.

what could you do with first class environments? could you implement logic variables and backtracking? something like oz?

also, i think julia is optionally typed? what's the type system like for expressions? i saw an 'Any' in the link, which looked worryingly vague.

[having said all that, as a "scientific programmer", i am worrying more and more that this is a language i really should be using]

[edit: thanks for the informative replies]
I think you can fit a 7.5ft diameter tube inside an 8ft square box.

You are not going to give yourself 6-inches of clearance for a component that weighs (using your numbers) 19.2 tons, that pipe is going on a flatbed. You also have to allow room for tie-downs, flanges, support blocks, etc. You also have to account for bridge weight limits.

I'm not saying this isn't doable (the Big Dig was able to truck in 100 ft soldier piles, although they had to do it at night), it's just that it often takes extra planning and work which increases costs.

The tube joining/welding/grinding jig could be 40ft (or 200 ft or more) long and fit inside the already assembled tube AND the to-be-welded tube.

Are you basing this on something that already exists, or is this something you are proposing?
btw, do you [heavely] use c++ at fogcreek?
VC money is a big part of the ecosystem but not everything. For example I'm from Texas and there's a lot of angel activity going on here which isn't captured by VC funding metrics. There is also an emphasis on startups which can be cashflow positive early and not require years and years of VC funding first.
I like how this article moves the discussion on what "readability" means (or ought to mean) in code. Its point is that what matters is the intelligibility of programs, not individual lines or names. Most "readability" discussions reduce to the same handful of beans: whitespace, comments, and descriptive names. As if readable systems can be built out of those alone! They can't. And so on larger scales, complexity is left to grow like weeds.

This is a variant of the bikeshed problem. It's hard to talk about whole-program design, but easy to argue about indentation or criticize a short name. Worse, some of the techniques that improve readability locally can end up impeding it globally. What we badly need and would be very interesting is a discourse around what makes an entire system easier to 'get'.
Didn't he answer that? The A-10 also turns out to be a useful bit of materiel, but it too relies on other equipment to provide air superiority.
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Which part? We are a Django stack, though with our own framework over it: https://github.com/nyaruka/smartmin

The main Flow UI leans heavily on JSPlumb. We use Angular JS for our analytics side and use the mad combination of HAML, Coffescript and LESS to avoid writing closing tags in anything at all.
Workers commute both ways on those buses -- there is an office in downtown SF as well.
If you hit it with enough examples of input as was done here, you can be fairly confident. But you're right, short of that, assert heavy code is going to cause headaches in servers. C is a nice and quick language to run tests on which makes it doable.
I should write it up. The short story is that I was losing my mind in an "Interactive Fiction" course I took as an elective within my major (Fiction Writing... I know, I know). I was self-taught in CSS, HTML, JavaScript but had never used Flash, which at the time was still fairly new. However, everything we were being exposed to in Flash was difficult for me to work through to do even the most basic action, so while I was particularly stumped on an issue I wrote the email (http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html), intentionally using the word "website" in every sentence because I just thought it'd be funny.

Didn't occur to me til just now the irony of struggling with Flash and then writing to Strongbad, which was all done up in Flash.
Thanks for the reply.

One word of caution: not all aggregators are equal. I've had experiences where aggregators had their master aggregator change their rate to a particular destination and that aggregator then had to 3x their rates to our client. Not fun.

Telecom is a pretty messy world :/. Again, thanks for sharing, I really appreciate your time!
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4615378/elon-musk-will-pro...
What is this attitude?
Personally, I would rather have a mediocre memory and mediocre emotional intelligence, than an exceptional memory and the complete lack of EQ which you're demonstrating here.

Hopefully you don't resent other people telling you how with little effort they were able to increase their vertical jump or learn how to play the guitar.

Nope, I wouldn't. But if they then concluded from their own lack of effort that I should also be able to jump higher and play the guitar with similar ease, then they should expect it.
Thanks, but that seems to be just deactivating the email part. I want to close the entire MS account and it still won't let me.
The problem with single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) is mainly weight. I think using composite tanks is enough to make a SSTO rocket. X-33 was supposed to use a composite tank, but the fuel tank failed during testing in 1999. Recently, NASA has succesfully tested a composite tank[1].

1. http://nasawatch.com/archives/2013/07/composite-cryog.html
I recently benchmarked an uncached remote ASP site versus a local Node.js copy that returned identical HTML. Of course, Node was 100x as fast. (1ms vs 200ms)

However, in the browser, they felt like the same site. The 199ms head start resulted in only 50-75ms difference in the browser. Anyway, it turned our focus from backend work to CSS and image improvements.
Not in my experience, and families with children face a great many obstacles.

The abortion rate in the US is about three times that of Germany; the majority of women who have an abortion cite that they cannot afford to have a child as a primary reason.

There is no statutory maternity leave in the US (let alone parental leave).

Depending on what health insurance you have, even having a baby can be pretty pricey; a friend of mine who recently had a baby ended up paying over $2,500 in coinsurance for the delivery alone.

Daycare is generally much more expensive than in Germany, where daycare is heavily subsidized (daycare subsidies for low-income families vary by state).

Having a positive attitude towards families with children is great (and it's arguable whether there's actually a difference), but it doesn't put food on a table or a roof over their head.

The biggest practical problem that German parents face, in my experience, is that schools or daycare centers that are out at noon are difficult to square away with having both a job and children (though the problem of latchkey kids is hardly unknown in the US, either; google "Kim Brathwaite", for example).
Followup to this post with some more details on our blog:

http://plivo.com/blog/plivo-launches-bring-your-own-carrier/
Good luck to Twilio if it thinks it can charge a penny per minute when others charge a fraction of it.
Gmail Users Have No Reason To Expect Privacy
When you say high number of calls per second, what are you referring to...

There are people in our industry that think high is 30 and there are people who think high is 10000. Can you give an order of magnitude?
1. Google does not "dodge" taxes. They follow the incredibly complex web of rules the system specifically designed for this sort of use (or abuse). Its absurd to expect any corporation or person to go out of their way to pay more than they need to. (Milton Friedman Why Tax Reform is Impossible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TruCIPy79w8 )

2. Muni does not need more money. SF does not need more money. SF's budget is twice that of Idaho's, and we have far fewer people and far less space than Idaho ( http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci... ). Look no further than the ridiculous extension of muni from China town to downtown to see a clear indication of how funds are being completely misused. No one wants to fix the budget problems in SF and its so much easier to just blame whoever happens to be successful at the moment.

3. I'm not sure I disagree with your third point at all but also don't understand how its a negative thing. You are describing normal competition between companies. I can at least provide one piece of information: I used to work in the South Bay and hated the commute and would do everything in my power not to ever do it again, bus or not. So there's plenty of incentive to stay and work in a small company here, I assure you. Do you see lots of small companies running buses (honest question, I'm simply not familiar)? I seem to just see the flipside happening: more small companies simply being in SF.
Please don't confuse JS modules and closures, they are completely different things.
True, but the question was whether JS had any native ways to support modules, and closures are literally right there. That's a good way to start them. Add more shit on top to make it robust, but they're still there.
so many sigils, is Julia channeling Perl?
The redesign looks good. Out of interest why are you not using something like websockets or SSE to push updates to the client?
Is it just me, or were other people cursing the StreetView interface. It seems to be "sticky" exactly when it would be most annoying. The number of times I unintentionally moved or zoomed was over 50% of the number of times I intentionally moved or zoomed.

This seems to be a pattern with Google interfaces. I've gone into the "flyover perspective" mode 10 times as often unintentionally as I have intentionally. The reason for this is that two finger pinch-zoom usually lets you pan as a side effect. Google Maps has hijacked this to signal the perspective thing. This is horrendous, because the ability to zoom and pan is really useful.
Open source AngularJS directives for payments and Stripe
RichRelevance Acquires Precog
> The buses from Google, Facebook, etc. are far better than those same companies quietly doing nothing as their employees clog the freeways, which is very common among other companies but basically invisible. So they get crap for doing a good thing.

This is a false dichotomy. You are assuming they would drive instead, when in fact most would not live in SF in the first place. I know plenty of people who bus down to Google/FB/etc and I'm fairly confident in saying the vast majority would not live in SF if the buses didn't exist - its a long grueling commute that is expensive to boot, regardless if you drive or take Caltrain.
To keep this historical accuracy trend going: Balanced has been doing marketplace payment for the likes of Zaarly since early 2011.

But congrats to Braintree on the launch!

(Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Balanced)
The only way a battleship would help against nukes is if it somehow fell on whoever is in charge of the nukes.
> I've always found Palantir terrifying. The name itself is just so brazen.

For those who missed the reference, it refers to the all-seeing stone used by the (spoiler!) evil wizard Sarumon.

Depending on your political persuasion, you may find that to be a very fitting name. But I'm surprised that the founders would have chosen it.
Attitudes like yours smack of the smugness and arrogance that I've had to deal with all of my life

Take a breath, my friend. I'm not the person who's been keeping you down all these years that you are apparently lashing out at.

I responded to your other comment down-thread. My comment was aimed at a normal demographic. You state that you have some undiagnosed mental handicap.

If I posted a comment saying how I was able to increase my vertical leap by 10% through almost no effort and I think anybody can do it, should people in wheelchairs respond with self-righteous anger as you have? I would hope they would read it for what it is; a call to believe in yourself to reach your best potential. People have different potentials - I would think that was self-evident.
IPhone Fingerprint Reader Talk Boosting Biometric Stocks
Plivo Launches Bring Your Own Carrier
yep, the article is thoroughly seeded with absolutely not subliminal "cool" stimuli especially effective for young males.

Living in the Valley, that one struck home with me, was hard to stop laughing. Aura of danger and secrecy... Dragging with you a 6ft+ 270lb ex-Marine bodyguard _conspicuously_ in Palo Alto. Friday night on University: I'm Dork, James Dork. Well, everybody has his own way to overcompensate.
The underwhelmingness of Facebook
The importance of timeliness
Just using the first-stage without significant refurbishing will bring costs down like 50%. SpaceX has already tested their rocket engines for multiple (long) firings, but I don't know how much they refurbished them.
Plivo is cool, they iterate fast and they're doing some serious stuff in the industry.

Respect from a fellow telecom geek :).

Quick question for Be: do you guys support IP auth or User/Pass auth or both?
That's a non-apology apology. If he wants to apologize properly then he should hire the person back. Otherwise it's just damage control.
I like your analogy, I usually use a slightly different pizza restaurant analogy. In my town there are all sorts of places to get pizza:

- 1: Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's

- 2: Little Cesars

- 3: Mom & Pop shops selling ~$5 pizzas

All three types offer pizza (not identical, but still) and seem to coexist just fine but their strategies are pretty different: 1 & 2 spend millions on national campaigns, 1 & 3 offer delivery, 2 & 3 have really cheap pizzas, etc.

I think the takeaway is that product alone isn't enough, you also need a solid strategy to take a place in the market.
Its his personal blog, what do you care what he writes it in? Maybe if it was 10 years ago and getting slashdotted was still a concern you could point out a better way, but if a free Heroku instance can keep up with HN traffic, then perhaps "doing it right" no longer matters. It seems the OP wanted to learn something and see if it could be done, so I'd say he achieved his goals. Getting all butthurt that he didn't achieve yours instead just seems silly.
Hmm, seems a bit less snappy, somehow.
>everyone of those google employees who lives in SF pays SF taxes, quite high taxes as a matter of fact

Not sure what this refers to but San Francisco funds come mainly from payroll tax, sales tax, property tax, and real estate transfer tax.

Payroll tax is levied on companies not people, and even then it's not being levied on the people using these buses as they work down in Mountain View (excepting the small number of SF Googlers who also use the bus, if they do).

Sales tax is going to impact Googlers roughly the same as others in SF. Maybe even less since days are spent in South Bay (if you use the bus and don't work in SF office) and you're likely doing a disproportionate amount of online shopping :)

Property tax is relaively low in San Francisco due to Prop 13, so if you're renting it's not hitting you hard as the property has been held likely for a long time and is held basically steady under prop 13. If you're buying a home in SF you may pay some higher than average property tax but this is held in check by the fact that a 2/3rds popular vote is required for any property tax hike under prop 13. So they're not that bad.

>2-3x more than any of these hippy touchy-feely types who claim that SF is theirs and theirs alone.

Citation needed. This sounds pretty out of wack.
I'm sorry but what the hell kind of reasoning is this?

"It could be worse in other countries, so how it is here isn't really bad"

We could have a full on police state like in some other countries so what the NSA does isn't really bad at all.

It is the huge wealth disparity in SV, the complete apathy towards public policy/politics, and a mind sight like yours that evades all responsibility.

Here are the facts: record numbers of poor people, staggeringly high amount of homelessness, public schools that are essentially privatized by wealthy parents. Then look at the campuses of Facebook and Google, you practically don't even need to leave, everything you want is at your job so why venture out and see the problems of the unwashed masses?

All of this isolation creates a sort of cognitive dissonance, where everyone thinks they are solving the worlds problems by creating a new social app, when some major problems affecting real people are sitting right in front of them. I'm not saying SV is inherently wrong, but a dose of reality and some acceptance of responsibility would go a long way.
No, not even close. Each thread on a Haswell CPU, just as an example, has 8 execution ports. Each Haswell core has ten execution units. The CPU can retire way more than one instruction per cycle.
>Electric cars more accessible to the average person.

That's starting to be a pretty moot point given the Nissan Leaf.
Your posts would be way more readable with links as footnotes instead of in the body. They read more like link dumps than actual explanatory prose.
That's an inconvenient fact for the standard liberal wisdom to explain. Here's links to information about the French riots:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_civil_unrest_in_France

and London riots/flash mobs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
Engineers Identify 12 Asteroids We Could Capture With Existing Rocket Technology
Do some digging into Consumer Watchdog, they are basically a FUD group that basically comes up for air to launch Google smears then recede beneath the waters. The identity and funding of the organization are totally obfuscated.
daemon13, you might also be interested in reading this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6114282
I would love to work there, but the rents look completely ridiculous compared to the rest of the country. I live in the heart of a wealthy urban area, and still pay close to a third what I would pay in SF. I am an engineer, so I could afford to live there, but saving would be impossible. It is a bit worrying that the tech community seems to be so irresponsible with where they choose to set up shop. Sure, an office in downtown Manhattan would be awesome, but is it really necessary for a non profitable startup?
Familiar situation, but in the longer run, the minute pricing from resellers is less important. What Plivo is doing here is very smart - they are leaving the lower margin pricing games to carriers and focusing on the true value-add, which is the business logic stack.

Twilio is following these moves too with their SIP-out product. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the support receiving SIP calls and registering endpoints.

For smaller customers that do not have the buying power necessary to secure proper redundancy, both Plivo and Twilio offer minutes. Plivo's emphasis on more advanced telephony management is definitely a good differentiation from Twilio, who is focusing more on customers that don't know much about telco.

Remember, if you are routing 10s of millions of minutes, you likely have at least a few people focused on supporting it and revenues to underwrite carrier relationships.
This article was announced before hand and there's been some debate about how it will affect the price of BTC. BTC has already been on the up in the last 48 hours so it'll be interesting to see if this compounds that growth.

"I'd like forewarn everyone that in about 5 days an article will be published that is likely to generate a lot of buzz around Silk Road and attract new people to the site. New information about me, the site and many things will be discussed and I have no doubt that it will produce some controversy. I will be available to answer your questions here on the forums, and hopefully we'll have a fruitful discussion."
Yes, they are restored. Thanks for fixing this for us.
Oh god, this debate is getting old :-)

There are two ways to "misuse" "literally":
- You believe it means "figuratively" or "metaphorically". Like: "The hyperloop is a revolutionary technology, it is literally an iPhone". Using it in this way is plain wrong, no matter if you are descriptionist or perscriptionist. "It doesn't mean what you think it means."
- You use it as hyperbole. "I had such a hangover, my head literally exploded". Well, it certainly didn't explode for real, it's clear you're exaggerating. Everyone knows it's a metaphor, you just want to reinforce it. a la "Really guys, it was almost as bad as if it really did explode". This is not wrong, but people often don't get it (when they're smart enough to know the difference, but don't pick up the hyperbole)
(- Or you could use it ironically and mix it up on purpose. However, people probably won't get that either.)
25 years is a short lifespan for a military aircraft -- Most military aircraft have been in service between 30 and 50 years.
SF and California should raise income taxes. There's no way for Google employees in California to dodge them. The best part is that the bill falls on those people who need city resources.

I doubt that SF will get its act together regardless of how high it raises taxes. But we can run the experiment to try.
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I guess you'll just have to wait for someone to develop Perl, then...
Suspicious TEM images in Nano Letters
If an empty loop does no computation (i.e. has no observable side-effects), then arguably there should be no difference in observable behavior from the program. Of course, sometimes we "know" something that the compiler can't "see", and so must indicate as such in our code (e.g. using something stored inside the loop, adding volatile, ...).

Probably the most common (or at least my favorite) example of DCE leading to a surprise, is when embedded programmers use so-called "delay loops" which can be eliminated by the compiler because it too is "empty" (the loop produces nothing that is used outside of the loop).
>And with what filters?

From my years of spending time on HN: being involved in banking or finance means your wealth is undeserved and ill-gotten. When your business fails, you should go to jail.

But the excesses of the technology world are lauded. Because, you know, Napster.

It's some interesting hypocrisy.
The explanation, as described in the article, is lacking, since it does not really explain why no other elements are liquid. The suggestion is that it is that the 6s orbital is full. Why don't other large-Z elements with filled p- or d- or f- orbitals also become liquids?
Literally Egregious
That's a mighty impressive video, but 1995 was pretty good computing power wise.

What blows me away is some of the stuff they did in the 60's, including the moonshots.
the complete lack of EQ which you're demonstrating here.

I would think someone with even a mediocre EQ would have more tact than telling someone they have a complete lack of EQ.