skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people are mentioning the idea that this should actually be a continuous curve... As someone who has used the cafeteria for a couple months, I would say this is most likely an over optimization. You are creating a complication for every transaction, and making it so now there is now set points where you can save the most money, namely at the beginning/end of the window. Which actually creates more of the two 'two hump system' swombat, saalweachter, smickie and others have mentioned. Just like there is a natural gradient to lunch from 12 to 1, you still get a gradient in the discounted hours. 11:30 isn't a better time to eat lunch then 11:55, It's simply an attempt to split up lunch times so that the cafeteria can effectively have 3 rush hour instead of 1. And since traffic effects aren't linear, you get a much quicker overall experience as a result. "The people standing around" is overplayed, Those are the people's elevator rides who were are little shorter/longer than expected.
You have some examples? I'll be happy to see because as someone who searches I'm pretty happy with the results I'm seeing.
MAD is one factor (of many) which stops them from wanting to.
When should static_cast, dynamic_cast and reinterpret_cast be used?
This was covered by Typesafe's announcement. The linked 'article' seems to be spam for the author's books. The fact that the submitter is the author of the blog post and had no karma before posting doesn't bode well.
I had to look this up because it sounded so crazy. It Is: http://www.wna.biz/UserFiles/File/Metallized_Disposable_Cutl...

They coat plastic utensils with stainless steel, and then you throw them away. Unreal.
Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deploy
HN has come full circle for me. I'm pretty sure that I actually heard about this book through a recommendation in a comment on HN a year or so ago. First book I purchased since the last harry potter book too.
I'm narcoleptic. Sleep paralysis happens pretty often to me and it still causes me distress almost every time until I "boot up" enough to realize what is going on.

Hypnagogic hallucinations (at least that I remember) are quite a bit rarer and much more terrifying, since my brain pretty much dreams up the worst possible scenarios possible (burning building, demons, reapers, Sasquatch, being dead in a morgue drawer, and even evil leprechauns have made appearances).
This is no conspiracy. Ignoring that larger sites have better page rank, they can also spend more on SEO.

Ma and Pop's widget shop is a wordpress clunker built by their teen son. He's not spending 20 hours a week watching metrics and messing with SEO. $big_shop_webmaster certainly is.
OneNote uses a less rigorously enforced version of the block abstraction. You don't have to work in blocks but it encourages you to. What makes it actually usable is using tables to create structure.
We certainly were not as far along on demo day as we (or the YC partners!) would have liked. That's the reality of big enterprise sales. Our customers have incredibly long procurement and sales cycles. We aimed to get signed LOIs by demo day and instead we got very serious negotiations.[1]

We spent the summer building the product to support a heavy amount of sales and business development work. We put together a prototype (we essential built the platform against something we call "fake financial") where we can use the terminal and some simple application to show banks and bank customers how easy it would be with our platform-as-a-service.

[1] Whats important here is that you can't bullshit investors. The proof is in the pudding. We had to account for where we were with every potential customer, who we were speaking to at the companies (investors might end up knowing them!), what terms were discussed, etc.
Have you seen a doctor about this?

I know they have CPAP machines which have a heated humidifier, which I presume will keep your congestion under control over the course of the night and your airways open.

I'm no doctor, so go talk to yours and go see a sleep specialists to see why you are awaking in the middle of the night.
It would be really nice to have the same streaming interface (with EventEmitters) as Node, but you I can just shim that on top of Oboe I guess. It would be great to have the same patter as in Node.

Btw what are you using for the Node side, JSONStream?

https://github.com/dominictarr/JSONStream
~str used to be the only string type we had! And vectors were all on the heap and dynamically-sized!!

Kids these days, with your fixed-size arrays and your static strings and your global variables and your hoity-toity region analyses.
My digital resume was a popular github project:

https://github.com/philipithomas/cv-philipithomas
(It's deprecated - link to live is no longer accurate)

I'm in the process of trying to reinvent it. Here's the current iteration:

https://www.philipithomas.com/resume/

It's an ongoing project, but I think that either using a static site generator or javascript templates. I'm also planning on incorporating navigation like I used on this project:

http://scheduling.philipithomas.com
Meanwhile, very far from all of this, with no press, no hacker news front page, no praise for their cleverness, street restaurants in Brazil located on areas with high-density of corporate offices have been doing this for years. No capital efficience fancy wording, they just realized that people were going elsewhere because they had a very long line and did something about it.

Funny how hype and self-importance reinforce themselves. This is big news about what looks like a fantastic idea from the incredible minds of insanely clever bankers. If you are Goldman Sachs, whatever you do must be clever. If you are CNBC whatever you talk about must be important.
From what I remember, Apache will send you a single chunk if you have it on, for example:

<?
echo 'Hey<br>';
flush();
ob_flush();
sleep(20);
echo 'Bye';
?>

Will send you "Hey<br>Bye" after 20sec instead of what you would expect (which does work with gzip off).

Besides, even if you manage to stream it, I imagine inflating partially received content is not trivial for the browser.
On the other hand, it's as close to a minimum basic income as the US (and probably the world) will get this decade :-)
Anti-competitive lobbies, hugely funded by Google's competitors, have tried to make that stick in the US and EU. They have largely failed to do so both times. Prove it :)
And this is based on what? If people are 'forced' to use AdWords it would be because of the move towards 100% not provided keywords in natural search, thus nudging you to go into AdWords to see the full search report.
The best video game documentaries ever
THe ceremony is creating the "for insert" facade. To me the logical thing to do would be for Slick to have an "AutoInc Int/Long" type that is implicitly convertable from Option, so that you could just do a normal insert and the the None value just causes the id column to be omitted.
Similar, but Jobs was a genius businessman, Romero.... not so much.
>> But it shows that the so called designer has failed to understand what the point of design is. Design is supposed to facilitate, NOT make things harder.

You are the confused person here.

Design isn't meant to facilitate understanding in all cases. You're letting one specific use cloud your understanding of a general concept.

Designers design with specific aims in mind. These could be expression of content, ease of use for a specific culture, expression of a feeling, wow factor, or rigid conformity to a set style/concept, etc.

Do you believe that somebody that simply wrote in a black-and-white grid that they are proficient at beautiful animated interactive designs is proving this ability with the same authenticity as this guy was able to?

Resume 1:

Beauty: 10/10
Animation: 9/10
Interactivity: 7/10

vs.

Resume 2:

A time investment in creating something that shows this.

Resume 1 is extremely easy to fake, resume 2 is an authentic signal. You are free to throw resume 2 into the bin, but you are a fool if you do so.
A nice 10 ball if you got in on their IPO.
>HN has no particular attraction for fundamentalist Christians. //

Totally OT as it is, what are you getting at here?
To me (docker user and contributor) CoreOS is simply the smallest distro which can run docker. That is already extremely nice when building minimal server images: faster boots, less disk usage and so on.

To me etcd is a completely separate (and also awesome) project. If I use it, it will be as an agent on all my host machines, including Ubuntu and red hat-based ones.
Interesting comment, but it would be a lot intererestinger with a citation attached.
I'm not talking about asking questions. Surely you shouldn't ask questions that could be perceived as discriminatory.

My point is that since ordinary human conduct in a professional environment lets straight people reveal their orientation, the same treatment should be expected for gay and lesbian folks, and the expected reaction should be complete understanding and professionalism.

You're right that it will normally not come up in a job interview.

"People who organize gay parades etc.. are perceived as extremists who milk public budget." Not quite sure what this means, but it sounds suspect.
> There is no mental overhead like with Python where you have to use square brackets for lists and curly braces for dictionaries.

Seriously?
As the article itself mentions, the Big Bang hypothesis did not become an accepted theory just based on the single piece of evidence that other galaxies seem to be receding from ours. Indeed, the term "Big Bang" was originally coined as derogatory by the famous astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, a steadfast supporter of the competing Steady State hypothesis [1]. Many in the astronomer community found the idea of the universe having a beginning simply preposterous. However, in the end, it was the model that best matched observations, and thus became (perhaps reluctantly on some people's part) accepted. This is how science is supposed to work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_State_theory
I was wondering when some of these types of libs might make their way into the world, I know I saw in Nicholas Zakas' book "High Performance JavaScript"[1] that he demonstrated how to read back (process) a large AJAX result in chunks, allowing you to begin working with the response before it was finished downloading. It was called "multipart XHR", and he shows a neat code example and then links to a site that has sample code[2].

The main difference between multipart XHR and Oboe, that I can see, is that MHXR requires you to format your data in a specific manner (using a magic delimiting character), though I'm curious if the base method is similar or not.

1. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802806.do

2. http://techfoolery.com/mxhr/
You could serialise a state history as it happens, allowing your users to modify the futere state in real time and push to the always unfolding history stream. Could be great for games.
Interesting that you did spec work for the cover. A very distasteful move.
http://twentytwowords.com/2013/10/18/japan-has-two-islands-t...
Why would anyone choose to work for the Federal Government now?
This is because Google has started optimizing for the 99% use case, which most HN'ers usually don't fall under. They originally optimized for what most Googlers like (who are generally the 1%) and have since learned that you can't run a business just pleasing the elite and whiny ones.
Actually I do keep around a few old binaries, and I have more often seen something else: software that no longer compiles with a modern compiler, but the binary I built in 2000 still works.
Nice work kimerling. Congratulations and keep on cranking. That is all!
Honestly, I find these absolutely obnoxious
Surprised at the success given the potential non-compete shit storm situation with Stripe.
I make it a point to always separate the following things, especially with services that I run for others:

Domain name purchases
DNS hosting
Email hosting
Web hosting

That way any of the layers in the stack can be replace with sufficient planning and if, say, email is down then the web hosting should still work.
Time Machine will regularly (as in once a month or two for my household of Macs, sometimes in as little as a week) complain "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you." Apple says don't backup to a NAS. Plenty of folks have reported problems.

Thankfully it's easy to fix: http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machin...
TechCrunch has explored the topic of automated journalism numerous times; here's one example:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/automated-news-sports-stats...
I found an article from 2007 that predicted this. May be some even earlier.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/06/06/google-hits-all-tim...
> They originally optimized for what most Googlers like (who are generally the 1%) and have since learned that you can't run a business just pleasing the elite and whiny ones.

Well you can - you just can't offer the service for free.
And in my experience Google products have gotten significantly better and more polished in the last few years. Goes to show that their products aren't getting worse, just shifting in focus and priority.
Yes, thank you, very good points to add.
I'd keep a (small) OS X partition around for firmware updates. Unfortunately, it has to be on the internal drive. I haven't had much luck using an external drive to install firmware updates†, even when set as the startup disk.

† Other OS X software updates install fine on an external.
I'm curious why that's distasteful.
I'm not going to defend the overall conspiracy here but I totally buy into the theory that Google would prefer a big brand ranking over several small businesses...

The logic in my mind is -- Google wants the rankings to be unequivocally trustworthy, e.g., if I'm searching for an espresso machine, would I trust a small ecommerce shop where the experience could be terrible or do we just throw an Amazon or Bed Bath and Beyond result at the top because those are vetted companies.

Sure, the little guy has to grind to get a better ranking and free traffic, but it should in the long term encourage better behavior by companies as they attempt to earn that trust.
+1 for WYMeditor; it's the best solution I've found to writing copy for the web, though I wish it didn't have to rely on Rangy.
I haven't looked at MXHR but here's roughly what Oboe does:

1 Create XHR, listen to XHR2 progress event.
2 Use Clarinet.js SAX parser, scoop up all events.
3 From SAX events, build up actual JSON and maintain path from root to actual node.
4 Match that path (+ some other stuff) against registered JSONPath specs.
5 Fire callbacks if they pass.
>"Send email requesting a 2 page resume"

It's an extra step in the process for the hiring bod, the resume should come before this.

Also first time load on IE, Chrome and Firefox did this:

http://i.imgur.com/Wn62Rh4.png

At first I thought this was some cryptic "why the lucky stiff" malarky.

Only after hitting refresh did the site load properly, I almost closed the tab, he might not be so lucky with someone who is a little less patient or in a rush.

And finally what happens if the site goes down or gets slashdot/hn/reddited?

Don't get me wrong, this is a nice demo of this person's skills (except for the use of the down arrow key to navigate right which is a minor usability foible) but it's a portfolio work and shouldn't be used solely as employer first contact when applying for a post.
BitsOfCoin an Android, Bitcoin, News Reader. Thoughts?
We are trying to bring all the relevant bitcoin news into one mobile app. What do you think?
On a network volume it makes a disk image formatted in HFS+ into which it backs up.
And can everyone stop using '''triple single quotes''' to mark quotations. English isn't Python; they have different syntaxes.
The short answer is that we basically know a ton of people both in financial technology and in the valley. If people know you, know you're a good person, and know you're looking for something specific they'll often help you.

Tons of people have been surprised by our success to be honest. We had a talk with a potential investor recently and we told him who we were working with at [big bank]. The potential investor was shocked - the gentlemen leading our project at [big bank] is in charge of a 10-digit-a-year business and is a hard man to find time with. But one of our lawyers, who is also an investor, introduced us. They are old friends. Banking innovation / payments / technology, etc, is a small world.
Point one. No, I never said or implied what you are saying.

Point two. That is frankly so convoluted, I can only assume you just want to oppose what Im saying, but honestly don't know why.
The fact that RVM "does more" means that users need to understand more in order to fix problems that it causes. If you install RVM and other things on your system break due to its tampering with .bashrc, you need to understand what it has done. If I didn't understand $PATHs, etc., I would still be unable to use "man" due to $MANPATH being broken from the last time I installed RVM.
What exactly is the title of your dissertation? (just curious)
Am I a commie if I think Goldman Sachs is a bit creepy in itself?
http://i.imgur.com/eBtzYic.png see any organic search results there?
Scientists at Berkeley have actually recorded what cats see by scanning a vision pathway in their brain: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-1...

Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyY-UtyDZw
Is it a great book with advice even small companies can use, or just an interesting read? The only people I manage are contractors via oDesk.
And my point was that you shouldn't let one distro's failures set your expectations so low that this is acceptable and normal.
Carmack wasn't solely responsible for ID's success, but if the book is to be believed he's about 80%-90% the reason for ID's success.
Do you mean these?

http://inhabitat.com/spudware-cutlery-made-from-potatoes/

Potato, not corn, but they're good.
Twitter: Who is worth to un/follow?
It's depressing but giving people "s = d / t" then asking questions like "Bob travelled for 2 hours at 50 mph. How far has Bob travelled?" is still tricky for some people to work out.

We don't want people to learn formulae. We don't particularly need people to do mental arithmetic. We want people to understand problem solving and gathering information and relationships between different bits of the formula.

See also the viral video "meaning of MPH" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm7-LEBznk)

There's some unpleasant "HURR DURR GURLS ARE STOOPID" in some videos (and don't for the love of god read the comments) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0OsGu9B2o)
Well played. Title intentionally plays off the "question mark in title means answer is no" meme.
If you don't care about old browsers you could use the same connection to keep the state updated as you used to download the original state.

I built this for more-or-less standard downloading, only quicker. But, yeah, if you set a server up to feed it you could use it for lots of creative things.
"Easy to fix" for a pretty small segment of their customers. This is about as far from the "Apple experience" as you can get.

Anybody have any idea about if this is any better in Mavericks?
"Climate change" in this context is short-hand for "human modified climate change" and generally refers to climate change accelerated by human production of CO2.

That said, criticising assumptions is perfectly rational.
RVM doesn't suffer from those specific usability problems, but it most certainly does suffer from usability problems. I've wasted many, many hours debugging issues caused by RVM. For the most part, those issues are because RVM is larger and does a whole lot more than chruby, and since switching I haven't once missed any of those extra features.
Rapid schema development with PostgreSQL
Which products specifically have gotten better?
As others have noted, this isn't efficient at all. They've incentivized some of the highest-paid (ie. most expensive) employees in all of business to waste their most valuable resource - time - in pursuit of a token savings.

The folks at GS are extremely smart people, which leads me to believe that this isn't unintentional at all. Instead of achieving actual savings, they have:

* An effective PR stunt.
* A low-cost signaling mechanism for employees to show their dedication to Goldman's "cultural values"

Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with "capital efficiency" and everything to do with "image"
I agree. O(100s of billions) = O(1).
>How many startups do we see coming from Spain, or India, or Brazil? Very few. How many from Milwaukee?

Or maybe they're targeting local customers, just like most(?) American startups.
> Creating proper platform-specific packages is a mad undertaking, requiring huge amounts of manpower to setup and to maintain.

Of course you are right, and I am well aware of this. After all, that is the reason it has not been done before.

Still, a crazy amount of effort went into creating and maintaining rvm, rbenv and the myriad of other tools we now have. I cannot help but wonder where we would stand now had all of this instead been directed towards great packaging.

> You'd end up with at least 100 different packages, and you'll have to test each one of them. That's going to cost much more than a one-off campaign of $50000.

I am not quite so pessimistic. What I am daydreaming about would involve the distributions and their package maintainers. They already ship ruby right now. The packages are just not in optimal shape and oftentimes not up to date.

But one can surely build on the foundation already laid out by the distributions and work with them to hand off some of the work.

Still, I know this would be a herculean task. And not only a technical challenge, but a social one as well.
Why does everyone in this thread want to get rid of sleep? I like sleeping, and dreaming. 24-7 consciousness in the name of increased productivity sounds like a nightmare, no pun intended.
Advertising sales is a good indicator as to how well the economy is doing - if times are good then people advertise, if everyone is screaming recession then there is not so much money around to advertise.

Hence, if Google does well does that mean the economy as a whole is doing well? Is the Google share price a good indicator, perhaps a better indicator than conventional metrics such as employment level or the FTSE?
No, not confused. The fact you have widened the issue out to "all cases" seems to imply you might be.

The aim of this resume is like all other resumes, to get an interview. If not, its not a resume, its part of a portfolio.

Last point relies on making that comparison in the first place, which is a straw man. No reason to compare like that. Its your own invention.
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btw, Hubble Extreme Deep Field (2012) is deepest optical to date. "The exposure time was two million seconds, or approximately 23 days" [1] -- that's insane stability!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Extreme_Deep_Field