skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: any? use cases. While dramatic speedup is not too common, MyHDL, a hardware description and verification language written in Python, is known to run 10 times faster on PyPy.

http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/performance

I also remark that MyHDL's simulation is competitive (on PyPy) with open source Icarus Verilog, in case you wonder why would anyone write HDL in Python.
How to start developing web apps for building MVP?
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Because it's the CCC, and they're very reputable.
Lua 5.2 features, which LuaJIT doesn't support

Just being pedantic: LuaJIT supports some 5.2 features. Search for "5.2" on this page: http://luajit.org/extensions.html
Still, even after taxes, a minimum wage salary probably goes a lot farther in Texas than in a place like NYC or SF, where the cost of living is much higher. And having even a minimum wage job puts you a lot closer to getting a higher-paid job than being on welfare, since it gives you a work history and references.
The Real-Life Waterworld Project
> Distributors are even instructed to avoid exclamation marks and use of the word ''new''.

New! Apple! rules! for! advertisers!
Netflix Scores Its First Emmy With House Of Cards Directing Win
PayPal and Square are engaged in a pitched battle to win mobile and small-shop business. Square does about 10% of PayPal's volume.
did you try half text in white panel and half in the third? it turns BLUE!! Ingenious. So they got the right direction, but they have to fix the sensing on that because yes, it still has trouble with the lamp
That's why I've never been a fan of sales taxes over income taxes. Texas, and the other states listed in that piece, don't have an income tax but instead rely on a sales tax and excise taxes (alcohol, tobacco, and gas) for revenues, which are all very regressive.
> ... since a positive number, no matter how small, is greater than any negative number ...

Strictly speaking, not "greater", which is an absolute measure, but more positive. -1 is absolutely greater than +1/2, but +1/2 is more positive than -1. Magnitudes don't have signs.
Congratulations to the shares and options holders, but that is too bad. My first introduction to Braintree was this Profitable & Proud article from 37signals[1]. Braintree's principles of providing exceptional service both to business people and developers, their work to improve the overall industry, and their concern for the people employed by them will probably not survive being merged into PayPal.

1 http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable-...
For me, the one thing this project is missing (or at least this write-up) is how they survive on the floats. Do they grow their own food (I didn't see anything) and live off what the waterways give them?
Actually, I agree with that.
>> Which glass surface? The oleophobic glass on the iPhone itself?

That brings up another interesting point -- I wonder how many people are going to put screen protectors on their 5S's that are not oleophobic.
>Are you referring to formal immigration requirements, or the job market?

This was my perception as someone (without a degree) looking for a job that would have required going through the immigration rigmarole. A potential employer would have to want me enough to help me (or at least wait for me) to get through the government stuff, so... both.

Come to think of it, the closest I came was some startup in Israel who wanted me; Their interest level dropped a lot after they found out I didn't have any Jewish relatives (and thus would not have an automatic 'in' during immigration; I don't think this was racism on the part of the company; it was just the extra work they'd have to do.) I mean, I might have been able to get the job anyhow if I tried hard? but turns out wages in Israel are less than half what you expect in silicon valley, and I had this idea that I could make /more/ elsewhere, (which I now think is... pretty unrealistic.)

>Degrees are good, but not critical. They're seen as good in part because there's no tuition, and in fact you get paid a stipend while you attend school to cover living expenses.

Really? There are no good private schools?

Is there a time limit on the stipend?
LBWR = long but worth the read

In summary: The increase in GDP of countries is tied to their increased energy utilization. Energy is the important variable when you want to talk about countries and "the economy" and money is a less important factor. Modern economics is BS since it is based on the financial aspects of the economy.
Cookisto: local food sharing/selling network in Europe.
First off as a rule of thumb, I generally avoid talking about people. In the rare case I do, it's only if I've had significant experience with them.

As an operating partner with Khosla Ventures for the past two years, below are a couple things that I respect about Vinod that entrepreneurs may misinterpret in all the tech gossip.

1) Bold leadership
Rather than be in the business of doing "deals," putting money in, getting money out - Vinod is truly in the business of building companies with meaningful impact on the world.

Research KV's portfolio and you'll see how Vinod is contributing to fundamental human needs in food, agriculture, clean energy, healthcare and education among many other areas. He even setup an impact fund where others aren't investing. His leadership pushes me to focus on making a bigger and positive difference in people's lives.

Also read his perspective on Silicon Valley: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/khosla-the-silicon-...
To me, it was a healthy reminder not to be so small minded and uphold our larger purpose for innovation.

2) Honest feedback
I highly recommend you read Vinod's point of view on venture assistance and the role of board members before commenting on this thread:
http://www.khoslaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ven...

I admit, I've been in meetings where's he's given me candid, no BS feedback. Although sometimes it was uncomfortable to hear, ultimately I'm thankful because it made be a better entrepreneur and designer. I prefer honesty from someone who challenges me to be great rather than hypocritical politeness.

Think about all the great founders of our time, from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg - they all have strong points of view that not everyone can get along with but don't confuse this with being a jerk: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/09/do-you-need-to-be-a-jerk-to...
The primary use case here is keeping kids from buying apps or in-app purchases when their parents lend them the phone to play games. A casual solution is perfectly acceptable. If someone is going to go through the trouble of stealing my phone and cloning my fingerprint I'm guessing they would want more than purchasing music or apps under my iTunes account.
The issue is one of evaluation: I am prohibited from using the software at all, even on toy problems, to determine whether I'd like to buy a commercial license. Crazy, perhaps, but that's how hostile the AGPLv3 is to businesses.
Notably, the article didn't state whether EdgeSpring was profitable yet. If its only "success" so far has been its acquisition by Salesforce, that could explain why nobody has ever heard of it.
The spies were caught. At the time, there was a lot of public outcry in the west.

Pretty much any documentary on the tu144 will explain all this in great detail. YouTube it!
> Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction?

I'm not the OP, but I think the claim is ambiguous at best:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/fi...

2010	2011	% Change
Adult Nonfiction	271,518,000	263,030,000	-3.1%
Adult Fiction	194,775,000	160,336,000	-17.7
Juvenile Nonfiction	36,931,000	35,799,000	-3.0
Juvenile Fiction	151,116,000	143,316,000	-5.2

Based on that statistic, nonfiction outsells fiction among adults, but among
juveniles it's the other way around.
I'm pretty sure I said worse things to my friends in private when I was that age. I shudder to think what it would feel like to have it disclosed publicly.
Yeah, I should have just added it.
Even if it was, that would be great.
I strongly disagree with your characterization of him as 'cartoonishly twisted' and think that if you're going to write someone off for being overly glib in a private conversation while they're in college, then you're casting an incredibly wide net.
"There are a lot of problems to debug"

Is that normal English or just programmer English?

I am not native speaker so I really don't know. Is "debug" a known word for public?
Just How Inept Was Nokia's Board?
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No, Three Kings paints a few AWOL oddballs on a quest to steal a treasure as benevolent, and apart from the whole theme of the movie being the ill impact of our involvement in the Middle East, goes out of its way to talk about how the US military killed children.
> The only thing that's changed about Zuck is he's learned to not say these things out loud

I am not a fan of Zuckerberg, but I don't think you have any right to claim such a thing. People can change.

It's good to hear you were so responsible at age 16, but not everyone matures so quickly. My own personality has basically done a complete 180 since my high school and uni days, from the biggest prick you ever met to someone who genuinely tries to show compassion and consider others' points of view. Is it all a façade to conceal the inner asshole? I'm sure you could make that case, but in the end it's outcomes that matter. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the flip-side of that is that sometimes people who might still be assholes internally can do a lot of good.

Track record is important, yes. But giving sincere people second chances is also important, and that goes for Zuck, too.
My argument isn't that there's no propaganda.
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That's not cynicism, it's just realism. The drug companies don't want their product associated with drug abuse, so they add a megadose of something that eventually causes liver failure (acetaminophen). You get a lot of dead addicts, but fewer abuse scandals.

Acetaminophen doesn't actually reduce swelling (although it does reduce fever). Ironically, it's mostly... a mood-altering drug. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tyle...
Yeah I know, and we broke Skylab on the way up, didn't we? That's embarrassing.

But on the bright side we did prove that telepathy doesn't work on the moon at all.
I forgot that you have the ascii crypto challenges - I'll certainly look into them, ta.
Watch 32 discordant metronomes achieve synchrony in a matter of minutes
So today I learnt that paracetamol is also called acetaminophen. I'd always assumed Tylenol in the US was functionally equivalent to Panadol in Australia - ie, a brand name used in place of a drug name referring to the most common form of over-the-counter pain relief.

When I started reading this article I was surprised to learn Tylenol had a different active ingredient, and almost tuned out to the warning because I've never encountered acetaminophen in the wild. But my linguistic assumption compelled me search further, and uncover the connection.
> Easy karma, pg.

Considering pg can likely award himself arbitrary karma points with a single SQL statement, I think your assumption of his motives is probably mistaken.
No, it's not commonly used by non-hackers. I'd guess most people can figure out what it means given the context, but it's probably not entirely clear.
Great advise from dylanrw. SF is an expensive place. Why not take a 6 months or a year to learn how to code somewhere cheap. Thailand is amazing. You can live in tropical paradise for a couple of grand a month, build an app, get some customers, then move to SF to take your business to the next level.
I've just finish rewatching those series. I'd forgotten how much fun they were, and surprised at how little had gone out of date.
Sorry to be nitpicky, but did you mean fallacious leap instead of "phalous" leap?
One interesting feature, as yet unimplemented (it seems) is semantic diffs: why show 1000 renames of a class or variable name in your diff, when a simple "foo was renamed to bar" would suffice?
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Big O notation with a constant amount? If so, that's the same as O(1) or is that another notation I'm not familiar with?
> though no one really knows at this point

This is half the problem. After 30 years in IT, I note the NBN has no feasibility study, no cost benefit analysis, and is running way beyond schedule. This is the sort of project you try to get off because it will damage your career. What could possibly go wrong? But there's more...
It is what is known as a "CEO mandate" project, in this case it resulted from a Kevin Rudd thought bubble. These invariably end in disaster. NAB's ISI project was one example of these and resulted in $billions of write-downs (this is in the public record).
Turnbull has promised an actual feasibility study and cost analysis. This at least seems sensible.
People act as though it is obvious that NBN is a good idea. It is not obvious to me. NBN will deliver nothing to my area for at least 5 years - assuming NBN gets back onto its planned schedule. The conservatives' plan will deliver a major speedup much more quickly, and as others have pointed out, it retains the option to implement FTTN as an add-on later, if and when and where that makes sense.
and also the fingerprint.
HN uses text files for persistence :-).
This might be the right place to ask:

Can I simply lend money on my own? setup my own site. People request for loan and I choose whom to lend money to. Kinda micro financing. How easy it is to do that?

I want to do something like $1000 @ a flat 5-10% p.a

What are the risks? Is defaulting a big issue?
> Regardless of the capabilities of their scientists and engineers we know that the Soviets were obsessed with copying as much western technology as possible.

They would be stupid not to? Why spend billions of dollars on research when you can spend $100k to pay off a defector or a mole. It just makes more economic sense.
Gotcha. Well, I'm sure we can arrange an eval if you e-mail us.

Forgive us for not having these options on our website (yet), it took us a little bit by surprise that some companies might want the option to relicense.
I can't understand this comment at all. Do you think Zuckerberg secretly agrees with ~50% of America about building a new oil pipeline through Canada? Or do you think he's ambivalent about oil pipelines and happy to quid pro quo them for immigration law support? Or is it something else?
I don't subscribe to the belief that people deserve to die for not doing exhaustive research on the over-the-counter medications they take. You might want to rethink your position, since you apparently didn't do enough research yourself when you said that acetaminophen has "a lack of negative interactions with other drugs." Acetaminophen interacts with a lot of commonly taken drugs, such as alcohol, ephinedrine, and lomitapide, not to mention things that most people don't consider drugs like white grapefruit juice.

The reality is, unless you're a child or a teenager, you should just take aspirin. It won't damage your liver or give you an ulcer like acetaminophen or ibuprofen. And it is actually an anti-inflammatory, not just a fever reducer and mood-altering drug.
The NBN rollout area missed my house by about two streets...

Aha! So maybe FTTN (Fiber To The Neighbour) or FTTO (Fiber To The Others) would be more accurate topology summaries?
Judging by latest Apple TV jailbreak status, it still might never appear.
Too bad. I had nightmares with Paypal and always considered Braintree as a viable alternative. I'll be switching off soon.
You mistake my attack. pg is hiding from the fact that the people that made him rich hate him.
But wont most of Braintree's customers jump ship rather than deal with Paypal? They're effectively killing it by buying it.
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Because of over dependence on Google money, Firefox are essentially an arm of Google at this point. I've lost trust in them. The first thing a fresh install of Forefox does is ping Google.
There is a cache flush tool for Google DNS too!

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
I feel same as you but don't make this mistake: He is nervous but he still chooses his words very carefully, and connects his points. He is just physically nervous, but his brains works just fine.
Thanks for the response. That seems fair, and I'll definitely give it a shot. :)
The 5S is a game changer for location- and motion-centric apps
I don't blame Abbott, he is merely doing what LNP does best.

We have better things to spend our money on than, like keeping the population white and burning lots of fossil fuels.
This is so true. I was wondering if the service makes avatars for you (if so, what do they look like?), stores them for you (if so, how many at what cost?), or if it sorts them for you, finds them for you, etc.
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As a graphic designer who clicked: Darn.
> [Private schools] turn out better test scores and spend around 25% that of public schools per student.

I don't believe you. Proof?
Sad to see another great Minecraft host go down. Minefold and CloudCrafting were the only two hosts which offered hourly servers.
At the one hand of the spectrum, we have people who get thrown in jail for years for possessing mere ounces of marijuana.

At the other end, we have people who stole tens of billions from Americans, committed outright fraud by packaging risky investments inside healthy ones, obstructed justice by lying to Congress, and countless other crimes, who get... nothing.

Perspective is everything.
Since humans banded together to form governments thousands of years ago, every government in existence has been able to investigate effectively on behalf of its citizens, mainly for crime prevention and national security. Unbreakable encryption changes all of that. In that respect, this bill could be considered a dangerous experiment. Not only are no prospective trials planned, but no thought at all has been given to the unknown risks involved in changing the ancient tools of government so radically.
The only thing that's changed about Zuck is ...

Pure projection. You can't possibly know such a thing.

To be a public figure is to be a cartoon character in a lot of imaginary dramas. Elsewhere on the front page right now is a story about successful companies with founders no one has heard of. It's easy to see why they'd prefer to keep it that way.
PyPy has LOTS of problems with 3rd party libraries. If you want to deploy it in production you'll have to check that each one of them does exactly what you need it to and oftentimes you are surprised how things are broken.

We are using PyPy for some of our services (where it is doing about x3 faster than CPython), while for some others (Django UI - at least the way we are using it) we found that PyPy is actually slower, so we are sticking with CPython.

Unfortunately PyPy team has not even made it their priority to test PyPy with Django. It is one thing to have a cookie-cutter test suite that measures simple use cases and it is entirely different matter to test how well it can run the whole stack of apps on top of it.
The only reason Zuckerberg gained a sudden interested in politics and PR is because he thinks it will help his bottom line. He is a CEO of a multi-national, publicly held corporation. Every decision he makes is going to effect his company. The only thing that matters to a corporation like Facebook is profits.

The thing I don't like about this interview, and pretty much anything public he has said in the last 5 years, is that he tries to hide his reasoning behind some desire to change society and 'connecting the world'.

He needs stop pretending he is running some charity. He is either being foolish to his shareholders or dishonest with the public. Either way, I take everything he says a grain of salt.
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This is where things start to get tricky. I've read up on "chip and PIN" in Europe, where purchasers have to insert their cards into a reader and enter the numeric code that is stored on the card.

From what I've found online, chip-PIN does indeed reduce fraud, but when fraud does happen, it becomes extraordinarily difficult for the cardholder to get a refund from the bank.

I could see fingerprint scanning going the same way -- with vendors saying "what do you mean you aren't the one who made this purchase? The device was unlocked with your unique fingerprint!"
I'm all for contrarian viewpoints, but what are you actually adding to this discussion?

If you want to discuss your fascinating ideas about pg and his motives, why not start your own discussion thread and see how popular it is, rather than trying to hijack this one?
People will here what they want (you included), i'm not entirely sure what you're getting at though.
I'm, of course, interested in arguments with some base to them. Wikipedia marks the section as "disputed" and mentions that stolen (if) were the preliminary designs.

Again, you have to know a lot to have use of plans like that - especially when the design is a moving target.
No. That line of thinking is incredibly tired.
Just add a basic income, and it balances out, again.
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Nah, you're projecting too much.
People who had Yahoo! shares in the late nineties hate PG? When did that happen?
A couple of years back when I was deploying twisted using Debian packages, it was not using epoll by default.
Because I'm taking pot shots, not engaging in full discourse.
Even without the JavaScript R and Python can communicate using objects in the IPython namespace via %RPush and %RPull
I'm confident that if you or most people existed under as much scrutiny as Zuck, they'd find something equally damaging you'd said somewhere in the past.
This isn't worth your time.
pg, I'd love to hear what you found interesting about this interview, because I never seem to gain much insight by listening to Mark Zuckerberg. He's kind of like Bill Gates, that way. They're both brilliant guys, but they don't ever seem to publicly say anything that leaves me with any new knowledge, any spark of inspiration, or a new perspective on the world.

I have a lot of respect for both of them, and I'm usually very dismissive of the idea that they don't deserve their success, but this interview really gives me the impression of a man who got lucky to be where he is, and doesn't care for much beyond being keeping Facebook secure in its position (and dipping his toe into humanitarian issues).

Good counterexamples are Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Jobs, or yourself, who have often surprised and delighted me with whole new ways of looking at things, and who frequently leave me excited and motivated to go out and strive to make my work count for more.

Did I miss something important in this video?
The road to heaven is paved with assholes.
Tricking Taste Buds but Not the Brain
Ohio State University Gets Armored Military Vehicle, Dodges Questions About It
I heard the continuum analytics folks are working on something similar but I don't know if it's a public repo yet.
Of course the American government engages in covert assassinations. That we tried to kill Castro several times, at least, is common knowledge. Every modern government probably has an office they call on to get their "laundry" cleaned, legally or no.

I don't think that has any relevance on whether or not this particular bill will pass, though.
What is the best climate for raising crickets in the US? Or does it matter that much?
People can, he hasn't.
lutusp has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about psychology and psychiatry. His approximate view is that if a field can't be held to the same evidentiary standards as experimental physics, it's not a science. Because the two fields are imperfect, they are therefore of course completely and entirely wrong. But fear not! fMRI will save us!