skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't see the exact place in the video, but perhaps you are talking about the nozzle stiffening ring? http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/02/09/falcon-9-flight-1-pict... has a still of it happening on a previous flight towards the end of the page.
"could not find the link"?

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_s...

Sorry to say, but that was literally a matter of googling "reddit spacex ama". Come on.
Yes, in terms of concepts, Go is pretty much a Java 1 with a native compiler as default implementation.

However, it may still be quite good to move developers not doing kernel/drivers/embedded stuff, away from C into a more secure language.
The difference is rent, and the net amount in your bank account. In SF rent will set you back ridiculous amounts, but only 50% of your pay if you're a developer at most. The same is true in London, and in Germany.

The difference is in SF 50% of your pay buys 20 ipads. In Germany, 50% pays for 4 of them.
The so called (in English) "siesta", which in Spanish would be just "the lunch break", is a compulsory long break in many professions. Many would rather close shop at 5 or 6 than at 9pm, but everyone has to do it at once or it won't work.

The solution most would expect to succeed is a legal one: I know of a dev shop that could easily switch to a 9-5 schedule, as many banks and civil servants have already, but it has to keep a split timetable just because management wants it so.
Interesting. However that link says only three in one thousand children were completely unvaccinated. The percentage that were under vaccinated is larger but still not that terrible. So even if the demographics of Trader Joe shoppers and unvaccinated people had a 100% match that doesn't mean that someone shopping at Trader Joes is likely to be unvaccinated. The percentage of people who eschew all vaccinations is low enough that the percentage of the unvaccinated shopping at Trader Joes is also likely to be very low.
exactly, and pro version doesn't come cheap right? Visual studio 2012 pro right?
One can only hope it's actually for defence, because there are already astronomical resources devoted to offence. Good defence requires clamping down all perimeter defences, and there are a lot.

If they can get defence into good shape then they'll have achieved something worth admiring.

In all likelihood the new military branch will focus on weaponizing zero-day exploits and licensing NSA's surveillance/analysis services, which is far less interesting.
Anyone know ETA for splash-down? Will that be streamed?
This just looks like a development implementation of http://keycodes.atjayjo.com/
Since nothing was happening with the rocket or the pad, what purpose would that serve?
According to http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/02/09/falcon-9-flight-1-pict... , it's the nozzle stiffening ring.

I'm guessing that it's there to help with handling the incredibly thin nozzle extension in gravity, and that once the craft is in freefall (or under exhaust pressure) it's no longer necessary.
> C# was excluded for being too slow to start.

This is only the case if the code is JITed.

With ngen and mono-aot it can be compiled to native code directly.

> JVM-based languages would not fare any better.

It is all a matter of which JVM is used. Some of them offer AOT compilation and on disk cache of JITted code from previous runs, thus matching the startup time of native binaries.
Agreed. And it is true 10x developers make complex problems disappear by realizing the code does not have to be written, by skipping intermediate steps, or by embracing the complexity if the problem and not code until the problem is understood instead of piling hack upon hack.
This was common feedback, thanks! I went with the operating system metaphor because the UI more closely resembles that of mobile operating systems. However it seems that was a point of confusion and calling it a Content Management System is probably the better decision.
It looks like about half of the countries in that little map are off of their natural time zone by at least as much as Spain. Including basically all of the former Soviet Union, except the Ukraine and Baltics. And Iceland. And, well, France, which mostly overlaps Spain time-zone-wise.
I suspect that the strong disagreements between people on this thread on whether 10x engineers exist or not say more about the diversity of HN'er team composition than anything else.

If you put a competent coder among a bunch of not-entirely-stupid, well willing, but mediocre programmers, he can quickly be 10x as productive. He will also clearly stand out as such. Put the same coder among other competent coders, and nobody will notice anything special.

If this is true, there can only be two options:

- Hanselman only ever worked with mediocre engineers
- Hanselman only ever worked with truly competent engineers.

Hm. Given recent stories about Microsoft's employee quality downfall, something about my thesis must be wrong. That, or Microsoft really does mostly hire people in the rightmost quartile of a bell curve.

But anyway, no matter whether this idea makes sense, I believe that it never pays to try to hire "10x people". If you find that you managed to find one, it simply means that the most of your team has been underperforming. Get rid of them and replace by one or two other decent ones. Maybe the first mr 10x has some friends?
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Don't be naive, they'll be hacking into torrent websites in no time. The government is going to declare a variety of categories of targets that will be open game for sabotage and infiltration.
Obsoletive
It isn't bigotry to say that you want people who handle your food to follow good food safety protocols.

I mean sure we call them the "unwashed masses" but just because Jesus said we don't have to wash our hands any more in Mathew 15:11 doesn't mean that I'm bigoted against Christians because I want the guy who makes my food to wash his hands.
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I love to talk about prejudices and cultural biases. I always recommend an excellent paper: Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange http://m.nber.org//papers/w11005 (free download)
I cannot remember exactly, but in the discussions about page load times translating into revenue, 100ms was the number being tossed around, IIRC.

I certainly notice any time I boot something up that requires the JVM, I refuse to use the CLR, so I can't tell you much about my own experience with that.
It is worth mentioning that the first stage successfully was successfully relit. I would expect footage in the coming days of the first stage soft-landing.
I've had a nightmare about getting stuck inside a pure function. I was trying get myself out using console output functions. I couldn't get out because all my member methods were mutators. Wasn't able to cast myself to string.

Makes no sense, i know.
Cyberspace is distinctly separate from meatspace.
I live outside of London and commute in via a high-speed rail link - take me about an hour to get into the office. The rents are about half the price and the 'quality of life' is about the same, especially since friends in London are still quite close.

I used to live in London, was paying £1050 a month for a shitty one bedroom apartment miles away from the center - had no spare money and took just as long to commute!
> With this type of technology, shipping supplies and people to
> Mars will be so much cheaper than anyone has ever really
> envisioned. I can't wait to move there!

I used to be very personally excited about this too, but realistically
I can't see habitation on Mars becoming anything more than the
equivalent of a glorified trailer park in Antarctica within my
lifetime, except with little chance of return, and I'm not even 30 yet.

Exciting for humanity, yes! A nice place to go live? Probably not for
another 100 years or so. I'm interested in why you'd be so keen to move there.
Sure, and my point wasn't to necessarily defend the original parent but to see if there's data that would suggest whether there's some cognitive bias here or if the two groups are composed of generally well-overlapped demographics. I'm also not concerned as he is about this problem, just interested in the conversation.
Ha! I thought they were going to say that Spain should be in the Eastern Timezone of the United States.

Seriously, the Spaniards I worked with were up until 2am regularly - and the country eats dinner at 10pm at the earliest - yet get up for a 9am workday. Is there any doubt why they are tired?
Hep A isn't a mandatory Vaccine in most places. So most people don't have it. The types that shop at Trader Joe's tend to be the types that reject Adult Vaccines because they think that like Hybrid Crops they are just something cooked up by big companies to make money.
> The innovation of life, the kind nobody even understands well enough to fund, that causes people to scratch their heads and say "what are those people doing"? Hard to believe it will come from SF anymore.

I don't really know much about the history of SF. Can you give some examples here?
I signed up for your beta. Definitely seems like a wonderful idea. Looking forward to trying it!
HMAC actually double-hashes the input, so something closer to HMAC would be hash(combine(hash("a", t), "a")). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticati...
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Yeah I worked straight out of Uni for a few different companies, starting on £24k, but ramping up quite quickly to my last permanent job, which paid £40k (in Liverpool, not London). I then saved up a few months rent and just made the leap, setting up the business and accounts were easy, and earning roughly the same as I was before, but now just working half the time.

Edit: Oh for actually getting the contracts? I usually find them via ruby friends, or LRUG - the London Ruby User Group - a healthy supply of companies & contractors scour it to quench a never ending demand, it seems.
Yes. The mission component reached orbit in a very un-eventful fashion. :)

What we are really holding out for is tidbits about the actually fully new component of the rocket.. it's stage 1 recovery system.. if it's as mature as the grasshopper tech looks it probably was 100% successful but it's probably going to be a little bit before they let people in on how it went.
Wtf? Like your food is not touched by 20 hands before. Weird germiphobe problems is the biggest response to this?
> I'm interested in why you'd be so keen to move there.

tripadvisor badge. 'you visited 2 worlds!'
The impression I got was that actual requests and responses are still made by the client.
I know successful people who took advantage and opened his own shop earlier and closed later.
Perhaps that was more of a culture coping mechanism?

With an unemployment rate of a staggering 50% for those under 25, and with 68% of them leaving Spain to find work, and 12% overall unemployment for everyone else: that sounds like a lot of people that don't even have a job.

That's not a good thing, perhaps the attitude of work to live, as said previously, is more of a coping mechanism. Otherwise, maybe this is at the core of their unemployment problems? The more I read about their labor laws, it just sounds bad in Spain. And the youth unemployment problem sounds like a disaster in the making.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–13_Spanish_financial_crisi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–13_Spanish_financial_crisi...
Every single bit of which can be replaced with Gitlab, and in some cases, Gitlab has more and better features.
>stupid if you put the implementation on the client because it will break all the time

Makes some sense to do Apk downloads for this unusual implementation of it allows a fix push
They have done that a couple times, Variable Turbine Geometry comes to mind.
Well, the problem with F1 is the FIA. This is the body that owns F1. They are a bunch of dinosaurs who haven't figured out how to embrace the internet yet. Here in the US I can't watch F1 races unless I pay for an expensive cable/satellite package that includes the Speed channel.

I really enjoy F1 and used to watch every race back when I had the Speed channel but we've cut down our satellite package to the bare minimum necessary to have local stations, mostly for local news (now questioning that). With Netflix, Youtube and other Internet-based media sources there's plenty to watch and quality is often better than broadcast television. I wish the FIA would let go and bring the races to the Internet with all the wonderful tools and flexibility this could offer.

I love the idea of Formula E, but if it is going to be guarded behind the same kind of irrational thinking it will not reach as wide of an audience as possible.
I don't know what size your studio was, but as a student I've been in studios around 18m2, and I fill it up well enough with my own stuff. Might be more due to my hoarder personality than other things
Ask HN: Interview coding - whiteboard or keyboard?
In a recent interview I was asked to complete a couple of coding questions on a whiteboard. Both questions required a reasonable amount of code to complete. I didn't embarrass myself, but I did find it to be a difficult experience. I tend to type and revise as I'm going along, something which doesn't lend itself well to whiteboarding.

I've noticed other developers struggling in similar situations when I've interviewed them, so I switched to making sure they had a laptop to code on, with an overhead projector displaying the results for anyone wanting to observe the process. It represents a more realistic situation, and I've generally been happier with the results.

On the other hand, working on a whiteboard forces people to put more thought into what they're about to do upfront, which may be the point.

I'm curious to hear other perspectives on this.
My theory is that the time taken for an engineer to solve a problem is a hockey-stick/exponential curve based on the complexity, something like __/

The key thing is the knee of the curve is in a different position for different engineers. Basically, up to a certain point, you can crank through a problem pretty well. But once problems reach a certain level of complexity you'll slow down. And at a higher level of complexity, you're just going to go in circles and not going to get anywhere.

The point of a "rockstar" is not that they are 10x faster on the flat part, but their curve is shifted so they are on the flat part while another engineer would be on the exponential part. In other words "rockstar" depends on the problem. Knuth is unlikely to build a basic CRUD application 10x faster than an average HN programmer, but if the problem is building a typography system, he's probably 100x as productive. Likewise, if I had to build a Javascript compiler engine, a self-driving car, Minecraft, or a translation system, I would be stuck around 0% productivity while a "rockstar" would deliver. But "rockstar" depends on the project: on a simpler project, many more people would be able to deliver well.

TL;DR: for a particular project, people who can do that project well are 100x more productive than people who are overwhelmed by the project. But this line moves depending on the complexity of the project.
Likely because you don't need a formal relationship to shop at a store.

I wonder whether the difficulty with Trader Joe's stems from use of their name.
I have tried todo lists on and off. It definitely works for me in the short term when I have a lot going on. Recently I started using an app called Swipes. It has been working great so far. I think it holds up because rather than fighting it, easy procrastination mechanism is built in.
I also have to say in Spain almost 2/3 of PIB is generated by services sector (Turism is a big thing here) and the rest by manufacturing industries and primary sector (Fishing and agriculture) and in services sector the productivity is minor than in the other sector because you can't improve your production with technichal changes, you have to hire more people with the same productivity.

Pd: If you see the stats is not really a problem. The differences aren't so big.
Your sarcasm betrays an ignorance of the history of the relationship between Capitalists and labor, especially during the Industrial Revolution (European and American) and the several decades thereafter.

They literally did not care if their workers died. So workers were employed in deplorable conditions for less-than-livable wages, in order to maintain high profits, simply because the Capitalists could get away with it. I don't know what makes you think the Capitalists of today are significantly different from those of yesterday in this regard. The key difference that separates them, as I see it, is that today Capitalists may (notice the "may"--it isn't guaranteed) be prosecuted or, worse (to them) fined, if they violate labor laws.

And do you have actual evidence to support your second assertion? Especially in the case of the Bay Area in general, or San Francisco in specific?
Whether you should use SRS for any given domain is completely dependent on your specific circumstances. The answer could easily be different for you and a classmate of yours who fits the description above.

But I'd say that if there's some are you'd like to work in that requires specific knowledge that fits well within SRS, why would you not? As opposed to trying to learn and recall anything that might possibly be useful, ever.
This I found a bit condescending:

This extra-long workday has given us some fun Spanish cultural quirks, like the 9 p.m. dinner hour and the two-hour lunch break.

I know that folks in the US, Germany and some other countries eat at or around 6pm but I also know that folks in most of Latin America, India, Thailand, etc. eat at 8-9pm or so. So why is this considered a 'cultural quirk' ? A little culturally insensitive I must say.
Yup. rustpkg is a build tool that knows how to pull in dependencies and build them, too.

It is of course not mandatory, and won't really be used to distribute binary versions of Rust programs, just the source.
Although one of the best desktop RSS readers (RSSOwl) and two of the best IDEs (Eclipse & IntelliJ) are written in Java.
30 Shots for my brother's bithday
My brother's birthday was earlier in the month, so I decided to celebrate by drinking 30 shots of vodka.
No it doesn't. It has in fact nothing to do with that claim. If islam regulates slavery, it's obviously making it legal and pushing it.

Compare it with this, suppose some republican came to power and decided to legalize drilling through nature reserves but makes a big public statement discouraging it. What is that person doing ? Pushing it, or discouraging it ?

There is only one, and blatantly obvious answer : islam is pushing slavery. In theory, as you confirm yourself with your statement showing that islam regulates slavery. In practice, because of what is happening in Saharan Africa, Yemen, Kuwait, etc.
I think you are making the very fallacy you are purporting to fight.

The fact that there is a "People Of Walmart" site shows that there is a Psychographic that shop at that store that is a high enough percentage of the stores population to be unique.

You can't do a study of Obese Women outside the Urban Outfitters because the store doesn't cater to a crowd that is equally represented by the masses. It caters to "Skinny bitches" so your data would be skewed.

Trader Joe's caters to a crowd that doesn't like Big Companies, especially Monsanto, and Big Pharma. That makes their crowd less likely to get Adult Vaccines like Hep A.

Edit:
This was a response to a comment that eshvk made saying that you couldn't categorize a stores shoppers in to a demographic, and that "People of Walmart" didn't represent Walmart shoppers. The author deleted that comment, which was not written as well as I just stated his case. (and has been since been reposted above using something slightly closer to English, but with no more coherent an argument)
> Another alternative is to incentivize the poor to leave high cost areas and spread out to where they could be housed more affordably/safely/sanely.

That incentive exists in the form of cost-of-living savings.
Safeway is called Dominick's in Chicago (Safeway Inc. purchased Dominick's in 1998, but left the name because branch loyalty I would guess).

Source: Former Chicago native that purchased Safeway branded food at Dominick's.
Yeah, the final poll. That is one of my favourite parts of a launch as well, second only to the engine ignition. Both of these things are very powerful - dozens of incredibly bright minds working together to lift thousands of kilograms into the sky.
And why's this on HN again? I mean, what next.. Kardashians at the Gate ? I'm new to this website and I fail to see the relevance of this.
Are your shell scripts/aliases available anywhere?
Spain has a higher productivity per employed worker than Germany, however since the collapse of the construction industry they have rampant unemployment. The Spanish are not lazy, although your argument certainly is.

http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/southern-european-worke...

http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/jobs-and-productivity-i...
exactly! todo lists help ALOT. I usually use trello for this. It really helps me remember on monday what i was doing on friday and what needs to get done. None of the complains in the article make sense to me. When i make a todo list, i usually have a sense of direction so I dont get stuck in the "choices choices" problem. Besides, didn't anyone teach you how to prioritize stuff? "Urgent, Important; Important, not urgent; Urgent, not important; not important not urgent;"

Oh and trello really helps me enter a TON of information into a task so i dont face the "they all look the same on paper" issue. heck i even use the comments feature as status updates to keep logging whatever i am doing on the task. Todo lists are great! (or atleast they are for me. especially trello)
> I'm interested in why you'd be so keen to move there.

I don't think it is something that can be explained. Either it is something that you get, or it just isn't.
That and I think Pirate Joe's in Canada has been created a climate where Trader Joe's frowns on proxy shopping.
I think OSS has delivered a lot of excellent products but the issue that remains unsolved is the UX side. UX is critical in mobile devices. A bad designed interface makes you switch to another application beyond the product features included.
In Russia we also don't have daylight worth speaking of - most of the time of year. Nothing to synchronize to.
I unexpectedly stumbled upon Mercè this year, and it was a magical experience (I even have a burn from the correfoc to show for it). Barcelona was definitely my favorite of the several European cities I visited during a trip across Europe this past month.
Yep trello is great! I use it too to help me amange all my work. Unfortunately since i am the junior-most dev at my office so haven't gotten everyone else to use it yet. but am working on it. i am sure my manager would love being able to just make a list for all the things that needs to be done and we'd figure out how to do it.
Harsh climate? The summers where I live are regularly 100+ days of 39C. I don't think it's down to the climate.
> Also note the OP said he was a contractor. There is a fuzzy but real distinction between contractors and consultants. A contractor is typically treated like a FT employee, without the permanent job.

Yeah bang on - I'm treated as a full-time employee, just no sick pay, national insurance (state pension), redundancy, paternity leave, etc. Sacrificing these benefits pays around 50% more, but you have to file your own tax.

The biggest problem I had was last year when I caught a bug and was out for a week, cost me £2000 - something you often take for granted in a permanent job.
> Many would rather close shop at 5 or 6 than at 9pm

Wait, how does extending lunch by an extra hour push closing time by 3-4 hours?
Did the Spanish government commission a study to place their economic woes on a time zone issue?
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