skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to believe you're on to something here, but how do you "tease" a show like "Mad Men" at low cost? The best tease for that show would be something like the incredible "Carousel" pitch from the end of Season 1[1], and indeed, a link to that from reddit was how I finally decided to check the show out a couple of years in. But that arose organically, after a ton of money had been spent on script, casting, production...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
I walked away and moved onto more exciting things like entrepreneurship. As the author states, HFT is like rebuilding gravity models every week, so your product is not sustainable and doesn't grow, cash generation from HFT also is usually not scalable on a per strategy basis.
Are you retarded or something? It does NOT cost extra to build a mobile version ESPECIALLY if you use a framework like Twitter bootstrap from the get go.

Responsive is built in--and you don't need 2 versions just one version that scales both ways. You are correct it is stupid building two versions - but you can build 1 version that ACTS as two different layouts.
What does the squeeze page show "Shared 16 times via ThriveLinks" on a link to a page I can almost guarantee no one has used ThriveLinks to share before?
Shameless plug: I've been moving over my own apps to Puma lately and definitely noticed improvements in performance without switching VM (we've used MRI so far). Lately, even did a small blog post on the topic:

http://jasdeep.ca/2013/07/deploying-rails-apps-with-puma-and...

This should get you started on non-Heroku platforms with Puma & Rails, well for development & staging purposes. I still have to do a post on setting up Puma for actual production deployments.
thanks jaime, we're here if you need help getting started
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I have several 8 foot folding tables that I tetris together. I never saw the value in spending an excessive amount of time or money on something fancy.
We know Musk wants to go low-end and affordable - he's explicitly stated as such.

The question isn't whether or not Tesla will make a play for the low/mid-end market, it's whether or not they can win it.

The consumer car market is very different from the luxury car market. It's a world where it's not enough to execute well, but also do it with razor thin margins. Tesla has proven their ability to concoct grand ideas and bring them to life when money is no object - it remains to be seen if they can do it to the tune of $20-30K, or even lower.

Tackling the high end first was absolutely the correct strategy, but now the market is heating up. Are we so confident that Musk can lay waste to every single major automaker out there that people think they will be worth the entirety of Fiat, or half of GM?
Tesla's working on a $30k model. They've succeeded in doing everything else they said, so the chances of the $30k model happening are very high. The pie size for electric cars isn't very big yet, yet Tesla is leading the way - they will be the name everyone knows when it comes to electric, and they will be far ahead of the game - likely Apple has been with smartphones, and more. Also, if you look at what matters with scaling and running a successful business that can continue innovating and beating competition - it's profits that matter, and Apple makes a good chunk. The profit on the Tesla is massive relative to current vehicle sales. 1) They have eliminated car dealerships, and so they keep whatever markup would exist there. I'm pretty sure the cost of making a car these days $5,000 or less to produce a car - unless you have huge union pension fees to way - another thing that Tesla doesn't have.
This is why I left. It is actually the ultimate brain drain for the United States.
Great.

Thank you.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/diffs.html#h-4.4
and Darcs. Which is more "patch based". Never used it much, but it has been around for quite a while (march 2003).

arch/tla/ArX was also an early one (2001? 2003?). I recall it was distributed and had branching.
I love dirt-cheap solutions too! I got interested in woodworking so it just became a hobby as well.
Oh no! What is 2004 me going to do to find torrents now?
The parts of it that are not nonsense are common sense. See 'Evidence Based Technical Analysis' by Aronson. Conclusion of the book: it doesn't work in a way you can make money from.
Looks like it inserts an interstitial into your link. Took me a little while to figure it out, using the example at the top of their page.

The page is completely blank with NoScript enabled, by the way. Surely you can figure out a way to display text without relying on JavaScript.
"...I am dubious about the actual epistemic value of the psychedelic experience; my interest, like William James, is in what I can learn from the experience about myself and religion."

If the mystical trip is what one is shooting for 10ug doses from blotter paper purchased from silk road in one's living room is just going to give you indigestion at best. If the author is serious about exploring this experience, I recommend to the author to step outside of his comfort zone and read as much as he can about what the psycohnauts (e.g. shulgin, mckenna, RAW, leary, watts, huxley, lilly) say (w.r.t. dosages, set, setting, _tools not toys!!!_, etc.) and then experiment with larger doses. Your life probably will change profoundly, for better or worse, but there is no going back. This discussion gives a glimpse into the material: < http://deoxy.org/t_weeke1.htm >.

"And this brings us to one of the issues around psychedelics. There are a lot of wannabe experts running around who didn't take enough, because you have to take a lot -- not a LOT -- but you have to take a frightening amount to get into what it's really about. People who have taken, you know, 50 gamma of LSD or 100 gamma of LSD or two grams of mushrooms or something like that, they are not qualified to hold forth on the nature of the psychedelic experience, because those doses don't deliver it to you. What they deliver is the periphery of the psychedelic experience: accelerated thought processes, a kind of depth and richness to cognition that is unfamiliar, an ability to analyze situations from unusual perspectives, or to reach unexpected conclusions."

If you don't want to go the drug route, I've had profound mystical experiences sober with flotation tanks and kundalini yoga.

EDIT: I should also mention that I've had out of body experiences with light and sound machines (i.e. < http://www.toolsforwellness.com/light-sound-machines.html >), but I'm hesitant to recommend these as they're newer and I suspect less researched (more fringe). Alternatively, ecstatic dance is a fun sober way to reach states of ecstasy, and there's lots of it in Silicon Valley!
I have the opposite scenario. When I left my job to found my start-up, it forced my wife to go back to work and NOT be with the kids. I can tell you that, while I don't suck as a dad, my wife was infinitely better at being a nurturing parent than I was.

To me, the real question is -- are we sure that women in the workplace is progress or will we look back 50 or 100 years from now and laugh at how silly we were to try to ignore gender difference.
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I guess I live in some alternative dimension. I have kitchen table twice the size (and probably more solid) for $60.
This is so awesome and inspiring - I had somewhat of an epiphany a few weeks ago (essentially I felt like I wasn't handy AT ALL) and decided to take a basic woodworking class at TechShop SF this past weekend (http://www.techshop.ws/take_classes.html?storeId=4&categoryI...)

I was a bit overwhelmed when we dived right in as I had absolutely ZERO experience before, but it was easier than I thought, especially when I got over the fear of losing limbs and whatnot.

I ended up building a basic shelf but am really proud of it - this inspires me to go back in and try to actually plan something to build - I know there's a bunch of resources out there but anyone you guys would specifically recommend?
Which is basically how serious psychonauts perform this experiment for themselves. The microdose threshold seems to be somewhere between 8ug and 30ug, depending on the person.

SWIM have tried 20ug and reported increase of energy comparable to drinking several energy drinks and have crashed pretty hard after 5 hours with increased perspiration, chills and unusual tiredness. He talked about mood elevation, heightened perception and both ability to faster enter "the zone", but also inability to stay there for a longer periods. He wanted "to have some fun" and "be more active" instead of programming.

He did not recommend it, because simply getting a better sleep and a nice breakfast have been more productive for him.
I did actually use LINQPad. My comment was in jest :P

However, there's no Main in LINQPad which takes string[] args. Also File.WriteAllLines takes an array as its second parameter, while OrderBy returns an IEnumerable.
I built my own desk last year because of the expense of a new desk and the fact that all the desks I looked at weren't quite the right size for what I wanted.

I've been using it every day for over a year and the desk has withstood a barrage of abuse much better then previous desks I've owned. If you have the space to build one, I highly recommend building one to match your exact specifications.

Here a blog post about how I built it: http://nolanbrown.com/howto/2012/12/19/desk-build/
>Does optional typing really work?

From my experience with Dart, I'd say it can work really well. Basically, if you just put type annotations at the API boundaries, you already get most of the type related benefits you would get with something like Java or C#.

Inside your functions, you can generally omit types. For the tools, there is enough type information floating around to make sense of everything.

If you use a literal, the type is known. If you use some annotated function, the type of the return value will be known. If you assign any of these things to "var", the actual type will be remembered. This means you get sanity checks, call-tips, and auto-complete without having to annotate the types there.

Putting types at the API boundaries also acts as documentation. It's so much better than writing JSDoc comments. Plus, you get all the benefits right away. It's a very sweet deal.
Deadline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(video_game)

Easily one of the best detective games ever created, and also my favorite Infocom game. Time passes as the game goes by, things happen in the game world independent of the player, multiple-endings, its got it all.
Protip: you don't even need an each() at all[1].

So the above could be written:

$(".down.arrow").click();

1. http://jsfiddle.net/k6FvQ/
Yep, fixed now. Thanks.
I went into LinkedIn and deleted all my profile details. No more spam from recruiters, but also no 'ghost' profile I have no control over. Not perfect, but it'll do.
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I respectfully disagree.

Maximal competitiveness means making elections closer, outcomes more uncertain. Every election race should be a knife fight. (A side effect of this will be to boost voter turnout, increasing the legitimacy of the elections.)

My views are informed/inspired by the lessons learned BC's Citizens Assembly on Election Reform's efforts.

"The Case for Redistricting Juries: Lessons from British Columbia’s Revolutionary Experiment in Democratic Reform"
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1405605

I've been following your other comments re FPTP vs proportional. Good stuff. While I support proportional representation for assemblies (eg council, House), it conflicts with my support for direct democracy, which I haven't fully reconciled yet. I'm sure you understand.
"What does this even mean in concrete terms?"

I believe that cable news broadcasts, where many Americans get their version of the news, do a poor job of informing the populous.

Instead, these broadcasts provide politically-slanted editorialized coverage of issues that may do well in ratings, but likely do little to advance the awareness of Americans about what's actually happening in their world. News agencies are afforded capabilities and access to the nation's political leadership that other Americans do not have, but I feel they're mis-using these rights in-exchange for ratings - what ultimately sells commercials. I don't watch cable news anymore - but when I did, it was full of guests talking over one-another, interrupting one-another, or waiting for the other person to stop so they could ignore whatever the other person had said so they could get their speaking points across. All the while, the host is cutting everyone short in order to say their 24-hour news network is just about out of time. And somehow a 6 minute segment split between two guests yelling at each-other, jammed between a commercial for a pill designed to make your penis harder, and a commercial telling us how much a too-big-to-fail bank cares about the families of this nation, is supposed to leave us with an informed nation capable of understanding why they're voting for the politician they're voting for next time they step into a voting booth.

I wish the news was less editorialized, and more factual ... but it's essentially been divided into two versions of the facts, and you choose which channel you want to watch for the version you'd like to receive. I realize there's other outlets to receive news - and I personally believe those hold the most hope for the future.
I get called by most of my women friends to fix their computer problems or for technical purchasing advice, almost never by men unless it's related to work and I'm the expert on the topic. Anecdote-wise I have a million stories about what it's like to be known socially as a technical person: I'm not sure most of those stories are any different from what it's like to be a technical person in any otherwise non-technical environment.

One thing that is quite special in my life: I have the honour to be around several young girls via my family and friends, and they don't treat me any different at all and often tell me pointedly how they know more about their devices than I do (I don't play games so they delight in showing me the details and beating me).
Could you elaborate? Materials, sources, designs, etc? I'm interested in making a desk on the cheap.
Don't forget entertainment. If you are going lightweight go with a harmonica. And as many books(fiction) as you can carry. Don't underestimate fiction when there is no TV and your cell phone battery has died.

If mobility is not a concern and we are talking long term collapse learn how to make a Still. Or stockpile booze. Booze will be more valuable than gold. And if we are only taking about a short term disaster will make you the most popular person on the block and you will have more friends than ever before.
Cool. I see in another response to your post that someone mentions minute load times just to load up the solution file, something which I thankfully have not experienced just yet.

Makes me wonder what's accounting for the varied performance? Probably some combination of project size, plugins, and machine specs, I reckon. If one mans (persons) 10 projects contain 100x the code that my 50 projects contain it would certainly make sense to have longer load times.
I'm not saying I have a fantastic answer, and I want to admit that. (I'd be a lot more successful right now if I did!)

I made some edits to my reply, and I think the answer I can best come up with is this: spend less money on development, and reallocate more of that money to production (either of more series in general, or on fewer and better series, or on licensing of exclusives from shows on other channels). Money in production seems to have better ROI, while money in development is a spin of the wheel.

Another thought: a lot of great shows get canned from the networks simply because advertisers don't grok them, or networks bungle the marketing and scheduling of them. Perhaps Netflix can get into the business of picking up these wasted opportunities? That seems to have been the operating logic behind its investment in Arrested Development, and I don't see why that model wouldn't work for other shows like it.

Small anecdote from personal experience: when I worked in development at NBC, we invested a ton of money into a high-profile Aaron Sorkin dramedy about life at a TV network. It was a fantastic script, by a confirmed creative genius with a track record ten miles long. As bets went, it was about as much of a sure thing as anybody had seen. That same year we spent a much smaller sum on a quirky workplace comedy about life at a network.

Of the two shows: Studio 60 lasted all of a season. 30 Rock ran for seven. As great a show as 30 Rock became, it wasn't all that great from the get go. A lot of the magic happened in production, with the hiring of a fantastic writing staff and the time to let the whole thing gel and find audience fit. I'm not sure what the operative lesson is from that experience. But it did teach me quite a bit about how you can't tell quality when you supposedly see it. Especially early on. :)
It's the number of times the donation page has been viewed.
For me, a used IKEA Jerker for $50 of CL with task light has been perfect. People worship[0] this desk. Now I see why. Lots more photos[1] available, including standing desks, treadmill desks, etc.

It's got adjustable height from slouching to standing (painful to adjust, but possible in 1.5" increments). The shelf I have up top has room for 1 full sized PC, 1 printer, and 2 NAS servers. I use another shelf on the bottom to rest my feet (also adjustable height). Adding an IKEA SIGNUM cable trough behind the tabletop makes it clean as possible.

[0] http://adam.pra.to/content/jerker/
[1] https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=&tbm=isch&q=i...
It's all about the subreddits, wil421. Just like twitter is only as interesting as we choose to make it (to whom we subscribe) so is reddit. What's your passion? There are amazing comments in massive communities like http://askscience.reddit.com
Note that the amount is 100% the same as TorrentSpy had to pay back in 2008: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/05/torrentspy-ordere...

I think this is not a coincidence.
All microsoft products are targeted at purchasing decision-makers.
the iphone is an overpriced NSA tracking device. It's not brilliant, consumers are just sheep
This is a huge problem in you if you don't know how to use your tool as a developer. PHP is just a tool. If you don't like this tool called PHP, use another tool like Snake or Python or whatever, and be happy. Have you seen a top carpenter ever to go to another carpenter to complain about the hammer used by the other carpenter?

Edit: Formatting
Does this Kubuntu strip the Amazon integration I've heard of in standard Ubuntu?
Could not recommend this more – strikes just the right balance between a Rails app and plain HTML/CSS for prototyping.
This is cool if your goal is to learn how to do this stuff yourself but I don't think saving money is among the reasons to go this route.

You can get a really nice solid wood desk in the $300 - $400 range on Etsy. Ad a piece of Paduit Wiring duct to the bottom for an inexpensive cable hide.

You can also build your own desk a lot cheaper if you buy a pre made unfinished pine panel ($25-$50) for the top and use threaded steel pipe for the legs. The great thing about threaded steel pipe is that you can tighten or loosen the pipes slightly to eliminate any wobble. And all you need to build it is a drill and a brush to finish it.
They also explicitly state that you are to make no more than 30 requests/minute[1], or restated, no more than once every 2 seconds.

1. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
GitHub for code and Aha for product roadmaps
> ... choose between adding type annotations where you don't particularly want them or ignoring compiler errors ...

That is just not the case. Types get inferred. If the inference isn't making it all the way through that means you have dynamic types, not a compilation error.

And yes, ignoring warnings is crazy. TypeScript has very few warnings, mostly just errors that can't be ignored.
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Very enjoyable blog post, thanks for sharing.
Fortunately, with a bit of hacking, this style of syntax is possible without generators :) (I'm hoping to open source a library I wrote that works all the way back to IE6)

Here's your example rewritten in the 'monads' library (I probably need a better name):

monads(function() {
var ra = opA.defer();
var rb = opB.defer();
var result = opC(ra(), rb());
});
I think the effectiveness of guessing what the function does by its parameters' types and its return type depends on whether or not the function performs side effects. That said, if it doesn't, or can't (even better), then the name and types should be documentation enough.
This is the same stack I've been using for a project at work, I was exited to see the Parse SDK wrapper but apparently it's a thin one. In my current project I have attempted to create a wrapper completely Parse-agnostic in hopes to be able to switch to another provider my changing a little config, it does the basics for now, but I'd have to rewrite it as it's a little tied to this specific project.

I'm curious to hear if anyone has done a similar effort or is serious about starting.
"If you look at the great mystics of past and present, you'd be hard pressed to find one that depended on external stimuli."

A good (albeit possibly apocryphal) example would be Jesus. His epithet was 'the anointed one', because he regularly covered his body in an oil that contained enormous amounts of cannabis, among other psychoactive ingredients. (At least a according to several linguists.)

"and here I sat several retreats with dagger-like pain in the knees, wandering mind, and a deep desire to somehow exit stage left unnoticed."

You're not going to have a mystical experience from meditation as a beginner, but it's pretty typical to start experiencing various energy phenomena after a few days. It depends what kind of meditation you're doing though.
I believe that's how LinkedIn works, but it's also the case even when attempting to permanently delete your account. I finally managed to successfully delete my LinkedIn account around 8 months ago, but then recently I accidentally followed a link to a LinkedIn page on my work machine, and apparently there was still a cookie around, so LinkedIn was kind enough to reactivate my account without warning. And oh how the spam did flow.

To be extra careful, I think you need to unsubscribe from all email, deactivate your account, delete all LinkedIn cookies from all your machines, and you might as well kill linkedin.com in your hosts files.
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So the world of computing is composed only by Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle, right?

No other software requires security fixes, I see.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? Conversation probably went something like:

Suit: People aren't using Visual Studio for JavaScript, why not?

VS PM: We can't do Intellisense properly, so people are using Sublime.

Suit: What can we do about that?

Anders: Let's create our own language that works better with VS.
It's because 'Real' means royal, and not real (truth). Isn't it?
That's for the API. I don't think the official web site counts.