skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not so sure the US is outpacing the rest by far. Assuming 179 million American FB MAU [1] and the next highest (India, a country I am a citizen of) having ~3200 requests for roughly 78 million MAU [2]. you get (78/179 * 11500) ~ 5000.
So India is not too far off and I would suggest giving it time :).
Btw, I used 11500 for America as the mean between 11k and 12k since only the range is given.

I guess all governments are spying on their citizens :).

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/facebook-mobile-user-count/

[2] http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/NwNFvLukHEbgbVQH9Dd7UK/Indi...

EDIT: corrected American FB user type to MAU from DAU earlier.
The problem is that clients would get mad saying I ignored them.

I probably didn't care about them, but I do care about keeping good work relationships.

I'm totally reachable. I have email, and Messages. The thing is just that I can decide when to check them, and they're less invasive.
You contradict your own point though: yes, we can predict - but we can't know that a program - an arbitrary program - will halt.

Evolution is much the same, but most people are worse at it because they make the mistake of prioritizing human-values as evolutionary advantages for all species.

For example, cows get slaughtered by the billion by humans. But they're an evolutionary success story from a Darwinian perspective: by being easy to domesticate by early tribes and delicious, they've proliferated far beyond anything which would've happened un-aided by humans.
I didn't say get everyone to build apps. It would simply be another option. App development is getting more competitive, of course, so people that want to stand out might need to move to Go to gain an edge. Plus, I image that a Go environment might provide a better interactive development cycle.
Some interesting ones jump out at me.

Hong Kong: 1 user, 100% hit rate.
Iceland: 1 user, 100% hit rate.

I wonder who could have been logging into Facebook from those countries?

Russia: 1 user, 0% hit rate.

I wonder if this is for the same user I'm alluding to above, and if Russia has a firmer stance.

Of course, it's all wild speculation.
I'm just going to leave this here.

I worked at a FX broker as a software engineer. When nerds first read about this stuff we all have the same knee-jerk reaction: "I write code. I'm smart. I could build a robot trader and make a Walter White pile of cash."

In short, I would recommend you stay the hell away from FX. It's bullshit. It's not like the any type of trading (algorithmic, quantative, manual, good luck charm) you see in stockes. I do thank the blog author for mentioning that his system never seemed to work long term. That's the key element most people can't accept.

Here are a few notes from my time in FX:

FX is traded on margin, and it's easy to lose all your money. Nearly every single person will lose all their money in FX, and those who claim success are riding a temporary wave. Even "experts" in the field can't hold big gains much more than a few weeks or months at best.

A few years back our company bought a trading system we'd been marketing like crazy and had customers buy into. Senior management decided to invest a 6-figure sum in this system with the intent of using the profits for employee bonuses. The day it crashed, not only did we have angry customers but our employees were pretty depressed.

FX trading systems are hype. Always. You'll hear the term "holy grail" in reference to trading strategies. That should be enough to keep you away. The real money is made by selling systems to idiots and writing books about it. As a matter of fact, you'll notice a lot of forums and blogs have referral links to brokers ;).

A common sentiment I heard tossed around traders and employees goes something like, "rather than trade FX, just go to Vegas and play roulette. At least you get free beers."

The technology is god-awful. You'd be blown away if you saw how shit-tacular the backend is that handles your money. I thought it was just the place I worked, but nope.

The company I worked for is very open and compliant, which I found admirable. This has continued to be their focus, so that's cool. Many brokers are corrupt, particularly if they're not in the US. Brokers have been caught increasing margins against traders, stop-gapping trades and worse. In the US the NFA is insane so they do a decent job of regulating, but it seems every year or so they nab a broker on something. Most NFA fines range in the millions so we took this seriously.

I have more war stories, but that's enough. Best advice: do not trade FX. I realize that may rile some of you, so be it. I wouldn't put my money near that shit.
That's the problem -- you use it for work. Get a phone and only give the number to close friends, if that. For clients, you coud use a Google Voice number which is not forwarded directly and just sends you e-mail alerts.
Lots of people unhappy with the Conservatives seem to have this idea that a minority government means they have no mandate to rule, etc. Personally, doesn't it represent the country better to have multiple parties with non-majority representation? If you keep winnowing down until you give most of the power to one group which the majority of people don't mind, they can push through whatever legislation they want with impunity. I would rather have the population represented proportionally by MPs who share their views, so that legislation lives or dies by what proportion of the general populace supports it.

As an (extreme) example, you could have parties with different opinions on disjoint issues, like abortion (A) and legalizing marijuana (B). You could then have four parties, AB, A'B, AB', A'B', and some of the populace would vote for each of them based on their support of those issues. If you require that some party 'wins' and gets a majority, people have to work to rank the parties by least distate, by preferring some issues over others. With a whole bunch of minority parties (ideally 2^n, with n binary issues), every voter could actually encode their whole stance on a set of issues, and bills on that issue would pass or fail proportional to the support of the populace.

My point being, FPTP might not be the best at the riding level, but there's no reason to mess with which party becomes 'the government'. The country is well served by the existing Parliamentary system. The Senate, on the other hand...
Yes, it's all a conspiracy! Because that's how open source development at Google work: create shitty technology, spam HN, Reddit et al. with it, and then let the massive Google workforce and the fanboys upvote the postings.

/s
My favorite way to define "algebra" to my students is to go back to its etymology, from the Persian textbook "Al-kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa’l-muqābala", or "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing".

Specifically (borrowing from Wikipedia):

"The al-ğabr (in Arabic script 'الجبر') ("forcing " or "restoring") operation is moving a deficient quantity from one side of the equation to the other side. In an al-Khwarizmi's example (in modern notation), "x^2 = 40x − 4x^2" is transformed by al-ğabr into "5x^2 = 40x"."[1]

I'll also tell them that Algebra is solving equations through the use of inverses. I admit that both definitions are reductive but mostly to the point.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendious_Book_on_Calculation...
Putting people with mental problems in prison is shameful and a serious problem. But certainly you aren't claiming that black and brown people have more mental problems than white people?
My only experience is with equities, but yes forex is both highly leveraged and poorly regulated.

Even in equities, your brokerage is not your friend: if you place a limit order, there's nothing to stop them from placing the same order just a bit closer to the market and using you as their free stop loss.
Thanks jzelinskie! Right now, a rewards system is in the works.
Their philosophies are so different, though. Mostly the only thing they have in common is being "modern" in their own ways.
I absolutely LOVE psy-trance. The best parties ever.
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Okay, but trains are legitimate ground, because the TSA has previously set up in the New York subway (http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/travel/tsa-vipr-passenger-trai...). To some extent, stop-and-frisk (as I linked to above) means that there are governments in the country who feel that they can search you while you're walking around, so my bringing them up isn't that silly.

Again I ask, what modes of transport are privileges and how many of them can we take away (not because you are incompetent at controlling them, but because you refused to subject yourself to a search) without completely destroying freedom of movement?
Marketing... I've seen people converting (catastrophic) human errors in that kind of marketing, where you look so professional dealing with "the attack". Now each time I see DDoS news, I question myself about it.
I have a different view on stack ranking
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"My phone is turned off and I normally check voicemail once a day around 5pm. The best way to reach me is ..."

Works for me. I use the standard iOS features to make sure important callers (eg. the children's school) can get through.

The trick to getting this to work is to be consistent. Don't tell people you are not reachable and then pick up their calls.
>I think we need more than 1 account of Go in production before we start high-fiving each other about Go in the mainstream.

I've been programming in Go full time since Go 1.0. Lots of companies use Go: http://golang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go -And that is list out of date and not maintained. For example, companies like Mozilla and Walmart are not on that out of date list.
> I think we need more than 1 account of Go in production before we start high-fiving each other about Go in the mainstream.

http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers

http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SuccessStories

Just sayin'.
Why is that hilarious? They could easily have gotten the idea from the same place.
really - which ones? (just curious)
@jbooth - possibly, it sometimes depends on the smaller party. In Irish politics, typically coalitions are formed with one large party and another smaller one. In some cases (a rightwing party known as the progressive democrats) they have been very effective, while in others (the Greens) they have been completely pointless.

Normally, the smaller parties take the blame for the decisions of the larger one, which is a facet of irish politics which I have never been able to understand.
I think Rails is wonderful, but it's not for me. It's explicitly designed to shut down many design decisions because they were made a priori by DHH. Don't want to co-mingle persistence and domain modeling? Too bad! Tie yourself to the ship and get on with it!

I realized the other day that Rails is designed for Internet time: ship as fast as possible, see if it sticks. If it does, then needing to re-write every few years is assumed to be no big deal, as, presumably, it is succeeding.

I view rewrites as a fundamental failure of design. I should be able to evolve the domain model independently of the UI. Only when there are massive, breaking changes in the scope of the application ("we're going to sell video games instead of show classifieds!") is a rewrite truly necessary.

But, IMO, industry hates design because it alludes to the fact that programmers are not easily replaceable. So, it pushes a new framework or language every 2 years to keep people hopping around, solving the same problem over and over. Meanwhile, it fails to train those people in the (mostly timeless) ways of solving problems reliably. And devs lap it up, secretly hoping it will fix all those icky maintenance problems they're starting to run into.
If you read my first comment I said exactly that.

If it's wild — freeze it.

If it's farmed — it's probably OK (from a parasitical point-of-view).

Even in wild salmon the main risks of parasitical infection are from Tapeworm [1] (easily treatable) and Aniskasis [1][2](common in all fish, not a human parasite, usually not harmful). Plus, in the case of Anisakis cooking doesn't destroy the toxins that we react to so if it is infected theres a chance of a stomach upset and/or an allergic reaction even if cooked.

With the current crisis of overfishing wild fish in the waters around the UK the environmental argument against farmed fish is tricky and complicated. I'd sooner eat farmed fish than endangered fish or bottom-trawled fish.

As your link states, the biggest danger from eating salmon regularly is from PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin, and toxaphene etc. Freezing & cooking will do nothing for them. Plus these dangers appear in all large fish.

As for:

after all, all salmon sashimi you'd get in any Japanese place
comes from the deep-frozen fish.

May be the case in the US but it's not the case in the EU or, indeed, Japan.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/30/garden/eating-raw-fish-the...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisakis
I'm hoping this turns out to be incorrect - a false lead. It would really suck if in order to download mindstates, we needed to get inside the chemistry of neuronal cells.

We can conceivably find an imaging technique that would let us 3D snapshot a brain and all it's connections. But its a big step from that big step down to getting nanoscopic views of the chemistry in every cell.
I absolutely agree, setting expectations is key. But I can also see the point of needing the extra push to modify your own behavior. I don't have a TV. It died and I didn't get a new one. I have found new ways to watch TV, but now I cannot idle away hours in front of HGTV. It sounds ridiculous, but the few mouse clicks it takes to watch a program versus the single click of a button is all it took to create a difference between mindless and mindful behavior.
This is actually an incredibly important point.

The FX market is a zero sum game and due to that its' incredibly cutthroat.
A different way of looking at responsive design: Intention.js
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I'm one of the authors behind Phusion Passenger (https://www.phusionpassenger.com/), a polyglot web server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

We recently wrote a demo demonstrating SSE on Phusion Passenger (https://github.com/phusion/passenger-ruby-server-side-events...). During writing of this demo, we found out that sinatra-contrib's streaming code relies on EventMachine. That means that sinatra-contrib's streaming only works on EventMachine-based servers, like Thin and on Goliath.

Based on my knowledge about Puma, I'm pretty sure SSE works fine on Puma as well. The Phusion Passenger SSE demo uses the Rack socket hijacking API (which we've blogged about: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/23/the-new-rack-socket-hijack...) to implement SSE. This approach should work on Puma as well because it supports the Rack socket hijacking API too.
Organize your packages in a directory tree. You can check the entire tree into a single repository. There's no requirement to put the code in a repository or use 'go get'.

The page at http://golang.org/doc/code.html explains how to organize code into packages.
How about we avoid both trollish sarcasm and tedious back-patting, and say what we really think politely? That's not so hard.
I'm surprised people (especially clients) react better to you not having a cell phone at all than to you not always answering.

I always make sure to disable the auto-away setting in all chat/IM programs so it always shows me as online, and then I explain to everyone that since the program is not smart enough to know for sure that I am available, I prefer to avoid the confusion.

With phones I follow a similar philosophy: I make sure to avoid answering it all the time, I let it run out of battery, or in Silent mode, or I leave it at home, etc. and I'm very vocal about having done so.

I don't know if this makes me antisocial, but it seems to work fairly well in removing other people's expectations (except with my dad heh).
Google has said they don't use 'go get' internally to manage dependencies, so they appear to agree with you.
To understand the interest, you need to understand the moving parts:

Logstash is a sort of pipeline for data you want to log: you can define multiple inputs, transform/filter the data, and then define multiple outputs.

Example 1: read in your apache logs (input), attach geoip data (transform), and then push the resulting data to elasticsearch (output).

Example 2: read from syslog (input), grep on the input to ignore certain files (filter), then push to graphite for graphing (output).

you can have multiple inputs, multiple transforms/filters, and multiple outputs. You can also chain logstash instances together, so you can have "roll up" logs. Logstash itself is a bit heavy in terms of CPU/RAM (it is written in Java), so there are a few, lighter weight "shippers", and you can ship into a Redis instance to proxy events.

Elasticsearch is a java-based search engine with a great REST API and a _lot_ of features. It is built on top of Lucene. It doesn't have a built in GUI. It also scales out super easily.

Kibana is front-end to Elasticsearch, which lets search/visualize your log events.

Ok, those are the parts, why this is interesting: As other commenters have pointed out, this is a powerful combination for understanding your log data. You can ship logs from apps, services and hosts, visualize what's going on, search, correlate, etc.
That's a very interesting question, maybe better phrased as "why would a white-dominated psychiatric profession diagnose more mental problems among underprivileged non-white people than among white people?"

(Also worth noting: there's a strong correlation between cannabis (marijuana) use and schizophrenia. The drug warriors tend to get alarmed that this means cannabis use causes schizophrenia. But schizophrenics also tend to smoke tobacco, drink, and use other drugs. What if they're really self-medicating, and the cannabis correlation is there because smoking a joint makes the voices go away for a bit? I suspect the answer to this question is again down to cultural norms: privileged white folks determine the norms and set the laws, and this works against underprivileged/minority folks. Oh, and privileged white folks get to pay lawyers to either get them off drugs charges, or get them a lighter sentence. Hence their under-representation in prisons. Full disclosure: I am a privileged white person.)
I also see this ad repeatedly. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I should comment in case it helps making your campaign more effective.

Just to show you how much it shows up: my WIFE already recognizes it, just from hearing it when I'm working by her side.

I'm sure retargeting works in some context, but I'm guessing you are overdoing it in some cases. (I'm in Brazil, but I browse mostly in English. Maybe it makes me a particular case?).
Interesting long-term issue.

I think the next decade or two of railroad history are all about moving commodities like oil and produce. Hyperloop is all about passengers (something the rail industry has never cared out) 3D printing requires raw materials to print stuff, which will drive more demand for rail transport. Nothing can move billions of plastic pellets faster and cheaper than a train.
Adblock works for desktop browser. But I watch youtube on mobile or android media player in app mostly.
Sweden for example, I think it's slang for people with Down's syndrome there or something.
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Very true. Case in point, Ameritrade's odd marriage with Citadel... think they might be reading the tape?

https://www.tdameritrade.com/forms/AMTD2055.pdf‎
I think, just like a religion, it's not really the skeptics job to 'disprove' the theory. I think the job of the ones promoting it is to prove it.

A link to skeptics dictionary:
http://www.skepdic.com/tm.html

TM recruiting literature is full of charts and graphs demonstrating the wonders of TM. Things like metabolic rate, oxygen consumption rate, bodily production of carbon dioxide, hormone production, brain waves, etc. are measured and charted and graphically presented to suggest that TM really takes a person to a new state of consciousness. Some of the studies done by TM scientists simply show that some of the same physiological results you can achieve by relaxing completely are achievable by TM. Nevertheless, according to TM advocates, tests have shown that TM produces "neurophysiological signatures that are distinctly different from relaxation and rest "[Judy Stein, personal correspondence]. Critics disagree.* The particular value of these physiological changes one can achieve by meditation have not been shown to be unique to transcendental meditation.

EDIT:
Another interesting read:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/03/08/r...

"The Transcendental Meditation movement publishes scores of "peer-reviewed" articles in minor journals attempting to prove the medical benefits of their seated chanting. Reputable studies show that there are, however , no benefits beyond standard relaxation techniques."
Source:http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
Intro to MongoDB on Node.js
Exactly what I've been wondering. I've done `import "./[internal_module]" in some of my little experiments, but I've read that's unacceptable.
That is just your personal opinion which is completely subjective because of the fact that Java is obviously your primary language.

Specify some examples and show us why is it so. Show some effort!
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Whether or not it's appropriate to be using sports analogies here, it's not true that football is unique in the secrecy of information. Plenty of sports have information that is known between teammates and not shared with the other team (baseball pitchers don't communicate what they're going to throw, basketball teams draw up plays, etc.).

The only thing that's unique about football is how much complexity they can factor into each play since they've got 11 players to work with and there's a stoppage before each play during which they can regroup and coordinate.
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Fair enough. Just thought I might have missed something new and big! :)
Interesting thing about railroad stocks, and no doubt one of the reasons Buffet bought BNSF, is that they own one of the most valuable things in the world of transportation: rights of way. Is hyperloop the way of the future for freight? If so, the railroad companies can build that out faster than anyone else, because they've got the rights of way.

Incidentally, this is one of the things I don't get about Hyperloop versus CHSR: there is nothing inherently cheaper about building an evacuated tube versus putting down a few steel rails. You still need a right of way and grade-separated crossings, and you still need to do all the engineering/environmental work for all that and that's where the expense piles up. You think laying some steel track down on a rock bed is the expensive part? Now, once you have the right of way in place, that's going to be valuable no matter what technology comes down the pike. Amtrak estimates the cost of upgrading the northeast corridor to 220 mph HSR at $160 billion. A lot of money, to be sure, but imagine what it would cost if there wasn't that existing right of way from DC to Boston, through downtown Baltimore, Philadephia, and New York, already in place! That'd be a trillion dollar project, whether you did it with a HSR or Hyperloop or whatever.
See my post [1] on SO on "Polymer elements (e.g. web components) vs. Angular directives". Essentially, Angular directives allow you to create new elements in HTML. That's done through JavaScript because the proper API primitives haven't existed in the web platform to create components. Now they're getting built in via Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, etc. Frameworks also win because they can leverage these new APIs.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18089075/what-is-the-diff...