skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backend devs can probably use more computer resources, particularly cores and RAM. We want to simulate whole clusters on our dev machines and instrument them with tools like Ansible and Docker, and then deploy multiple (fairly heavyweight) processes like JVMs to them. But yeah, 4 (fast) cores and 16GB of RAM is available in a laptop these days, along with an SSD and the best display you can buy, for $3k. (Of course I'm speaking of the MBPr).

Games can always use more resources. AFAIK there is still a lot of progress being made with GPUs. 60fps on a 4K display will be a good benchmark. The funny thing is that GPU makers have taken to literally just renaming and repackaging their old GPUs, e.g. the R9.[1] As for the game itself, there is a looming revolution in gaming when Carmack (or someone equally genius-y) really figures out how to coordinate multiple cores for gaming.[2]

But yeah, most everything else runs fine on machines from 2006 and on, including most development tasks. That's why Intel in particular has been focused more on efficiency than power.

[1] Tom's Hardware R9 review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-280x-r9-270x-r...

[2] Carmack at QuakeCon talking about functional programming (Haskell!) for games and multi-core issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A&feature=youtu.be...
It says that, but the flow inside the can will be three-dimensional and not well modeled by the Rankine vortex. And no, the Rankine velocity profile is nowhere zero.

This gadget exploits a common technique for enhancing heat transfer; another example are pipes designed to transport fluid while also causing it to come to thermal equilibrium with the environment as quickly as possible: these pipes sometimes feature rifling which spins the fluid as it flows through them.

If this doesn't lead to carbonation explosions it's because the spinning is not very fast and doesn't lead to much shear.

In short, this is very well understood, in fact utterly routine, technology.

EDIT: On second thought the combined canned fluid + bath fluid together might roughly be considered Rankine-like; this might be what they mean. In that case the fluid inside the can would be in (very roughly) solid-body motion, which implies little agitation (shear).
I disagree with your analogy. In your case, I would say the banner represents the giant logo over the door, just before you walk into the building.

In most ad-based marketing, you're typically not just randomly throwing your brand out there. Obviously, the expected ROI goes up when you can target the right demographic (saturday morning cartoons versus world news with Tom Brokaw). This is not that. This isn't a demographic-driven ad, based on search criteria like "airline travel" or "buy tickets from DEN to DTW". The person knew exactly what they were searching for. Hell, depending on your browser, typing that exact string in your address bar will take you directly to Southwest Airlines. Google just managed to convince companies to pay them for this, while at the same time presenting a prettier and more useful direct links within that box.

As an afterthought, the most-searched for term in our company web portal is "google". I would be extremely surprised if Google, themselves, don't have a ton of searches where they could simply append a ".com" to the search query and send them directly to where they wanted. I doubt my parents would even notice.
Link to Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/249990/

Game is called FORCED.
Thanks! This helps a lot!

I'm interested in compiler development, so this kind of information is really valuable for me... Do you think something similar was achievable in Go, if you had thing like vectors (i.e. fixed-length numerical arrays that would have math-like semantics, and which would compile to SIMD), prefetch attributes/instructions for heap-allocated variables, and memory-alignment attributes for structs or even for specific heap allocations?
I have some doubt on that, but I can't give you any numbers.

With price, you have to consider the energy cost of freezing the ice.

With performance, this thing is less like a microwave and more like a convection oven. A bucket of ice chills the content from outside to the center. This machine creates a spinning vortex inside the beverage container, bringing the warmer center to the outside to be chilled by the surface (by which this machine blows cold water over it).

The idea behind the machine is pretty simple actually. I think this belongs in the clever invention category.
I've worked with entrepreneurs like this and they would change their mind on features and functionality week to week. Entrepreneurs are constantly testing new ideas and features to understand what will work.

I compared it to walking a dog. The dog runs around side to side front to back sniffing everything but at the end of the day, the dog is still tied to you and you to it.

If possible get more involved in the actual business and start to build in flexibility and anticipate future enhancements based on the business goals.

If you don't get a say in the business and have no path to equity, leave.
You can use the side of your finger with a sort of rolling action to lift the tab. I learned that a few years ago after I had my finger slammed in a doorframe pretty hard.
The GPA is calculated based on the ratings of the JS files in the repo. Underscore has only one file, which is an F, leading to the 0.0.

Here's the report for the underscore.js file with the specific issues that were identified: https://codeclimate.com/github/jashkenas/underscore/undersco...
Agreed also given how many past execs at Blackberry have been done for some form of insider dealing or another.

Having worked there I will say they are a lieing bunch of untrustful people managment wise and can even stand up ion a court of law and justify all of that and more.
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Russell Brand on politics and revolution
Even with gaming there isn't as much of a push as there used to be to constantly be on the cutting edge. This is mostly do to the fact that the industry as a whole focuses primarily on consoles first now and thus consoles tend to be the gating "LCD" target. If your PC is at least as good or a little bit better than a console released in 2005 or 2007 you're set. Of course, there will soon be a bump forward here with the next gen Xbox and Sony systems coming out in a month.

I fit into a lot of the special cases here: Developer, gamer, amateur photographer with many gigabytes of RAW files and even I don't feel the need to upgrade systems like I used to. Now it is about an every 3-4 year thing whereas previously it was yearly or more.
I can't provide a detailed opinion of this case because I can't recreate what the Guardian screenshot shows, but the end result in this particular case is Southwest airline's cost of traffic is vastly inflated.

When this particular user searches "Southwest Airlines", the giant image pushes all of the other results below the fold. The likelihood of the user clicking on an organic listing is very small to zero.

While most major US corporations have been purchasing PPC ads for their own trademarks for many years, and sitelinks have existed in Adwords ads for a few ads allowing more navigation options, this particular screenshot shows much deeper results. What I see in that screenshot matches the organic listings for Southwest Airlines right now on Google, "Check in Online" etc. The "sponsored" label within this element makes me assume that Southwest is paying any of those clicks.

The marketing departments of these large corporations, being dependent on their own internal results to justify further budget increases and bonuses are easily pulled in to this traffic attribution trap. They will be able to say, bookings from Adwords PPC traffic increased X times, when these were bookings that they previously were getting for free.

Figure out may be its not a great idea in two years? Too late. Google will just show something else in your place. (Google's ITA software prohibition expires in 2016, which will effect a lot of travel sites and airlines but that is a different topic.)

Is Google within their rights to do this, in the US? More or less yes. However, these corporations are baking in billions of dollars in extra costs to themselves. If I buy a Facebook ad or a Superbowl ad I get new visibility. Should I have to pay Rand Mcnally for users who walk through the door of my Starbuck's franchise because they used the map to find my location? It doesn't sound so ludicrous if I used a smart phone app to find a local coffee shop.

There is another side to this, the user's side. How happy are users once they know that most of what they are clicking on with Google are paid advertisements? For most of Google's life ads were just supplemental, a little additional content that made the company boatloads of money. No, for certain terms all Google is is ads. Its wildly more profitable. When users have been trained for years to believe Google is offering them objectively ranked content it becomes even better because their brains believe that ad they just clicked on is actually an objectively chosen "best" answer. Is this sustainable in the long run?

I'm not 30 yet and I feel like an old fart. I don't like the NSA reading my email. I don't like Facebook logins following me around the web. I don't appreciate perpetual history of every thing I do. I never even created a LinkedIn account. I don't like the idea of my Google experience being a boatload of paid ads. And I have my own company with well over a million monthly US users..

I hope DuckDuckGo does really well.
This is much more elegant than the spinning trick, as it doesn't require energy input.

Works really well in deserts, if you keep the sock in the shade.
I have always pondered over this whole question of PC being dead vs alive. Interesting thing is that even though with tablets and smartphones, lot of regular people can probably get away with not using a PC just to surf the net, facebook etc, the real question that comes to mind is what will happen in the future if someday coding/programming does become a commodity and more and more regular people actually start coding (to whatever extent) to solve problems. Would that ever happen ? What would they use then ? PCs ? something else ?
Why PHP is for Real
Me too. I wonder what Hofstadter's responses to it is.

Edit: Googling, it seems that Hofstadter's response is along the lines of Haugeland. That by describing the translator as a man, we are improperly being asked to identify with him, when in the actual metaphor, the man is only an implementer in a larger system. The larger system actually does understand Chinese. So the claim is that the Chinese Room thought exercise is actually a fallacy.
I would say volatility must decrease for it to thrive. Bitcoin needs to transition from a currency for speculators to a currency for consumers.
I tried QGis 2 with built-in OSM support but I was unable to properly download data through it. Perhaps I was doing something wrong, I'd love to read a good tutorial on this. If you happen to find one, let me know!
Then your new company is at issue not you as a customer.
It’s awesome to do cool, fulfilling things and for some of those things you need a computer. For others you don’t.

I really don’t see why everyone should use a computer, given the wealth of possibilities out there.

Also, I’m pretty sure the death of the PC doesn’t mean any of what you are insinuating. It will be more like the death of horse riding after the advent of the car. (If I want to go horse riding there is a club that offers that not five minutes from where I’m living. Horse riding is dead – but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible or even hard to go horse riding today.) Only that PCs will probably be an order of magnitude more relevant than horses are today and, while not always as relevant as in the past in certain contexts (at home), they will still be relevant in others (some work, academia, …).

I’m still pretty confident in the prediction that the PC at home will die. (Which will not mean that no one will have one at home. Just far less people than today.) I’m also pretty sure that the PC at work and in academia will not die.
Honestly, I can't remember if I have, but it would be interesting to read something about it. I wonder if it's kind of the same problem as trying to teach concepts to kids that are just at the limit of their ability to comprehend even if they are naturally gifted. It's tough, man. My experience of trying to explain functions, arrays, loops and conditionals to young kids is tricky, but I think you just have to apply the same techniques as you would teaching math and eventually you'll figure out some techniques that work. You can try breaking it down into the smallest of steps and go very slowly with lots of practice. Sometimes analogies help, but sometimes not. Sometimes, you can just show them a bunch of simple examples which they'll be able to pattern match against until they can absorb it, but sometimes not. More than anything, I think you just have to be patient and experiment.

As an example, my daughter Izzy, who's 7 and in second grade, is really struggling with her math and it's pretty frustrating frankly. But my wife has been trying lots of stuff with her like watching Khan Academy videos, doing practice problems on www.ixl.com, working through Singapore and JUMP math workbooks, working with physical objects as examples - counting change, poker chips, or whatever.

The bottom line is that every kid is a little different and what works for some may not work for others, unfortunately. ;)

Edit: In regards to how to teach symbolic logic to children who may not be naturally talented, you might want to check out JUMP Math: http://jumpmath.org. They seem to be doing some innovative things. Here's an interview with the founder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3YWnbxOxMQ.
When will people learn that gaussian blur is not a secure redaction method?
How I learned to stop worrying and love the RoboRoach
I was under the impression that the story was actually about taking chances when they're offered to you, and about the consequences of letting great opportunities pass you by. Not so much about the whole ethical responsibilities of big business.
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python_as_a_macro_language#S... has a sample hello world script that can be run as a macro

But I agree in general that the documentation is paltry. Good opportunity for an interested person to do some more digging, write a few blog posts and possibly contribute to the documentation :)
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> I truly wish someone was set to keep building something for the hobbyist

I really don't understand your concern.

Hobbists have a wider selection of computing tools than ever before (altough, that statement was true at any time since the 50's). We have the entire arduino ecosystem for hardware hobbists, throwaway PCs like the Raspberry Pi for embebbing real computers everywhere, several different standards of desktop-capable parts for more powerfull systems, and the server ecosystem for the real beefy ones.

Most of those computer types aren't even able to run Windows or OSX. iCloud and Secureboot won't make them go away.
Exoskeleton — faster and leaner Backbone for HTML5 apps
Ask HN: Founder post about his startup shutdown?
From a couple weeks ago. He couldn't raise a series B as I recall. Towards the end they pivoted to something similar to Yammer and said it was a good space to be in. But unfortunately they ran out of money.

Anyone remember where that blog post is? I can't find it on here. Thx!
Best are those that cut and paste the template into the review and failed to change the default star rating from 1 star -- seen few of those amonst the 5* spam.

Had fun flagging many of those obvious 5* reviews as spam, I was bored and sadly no way I could obviously see to flag underhand marketing of an app or indeed flag an app in any way to google so they may give this the attention it needs.
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This is a game changer. Love this idea, and also would love to see other big social networks using the same technology to make our mail more interactive.
Its been like this for many years; the bigger flag (to me) is that the massive picture pushes everything else below the fold and much off page 1.
> They are becoming more popular in my city, and the people riding them seem to feel the need to take up an entire traffic lane with their bike. <

Well, where I live bikes must follow the same traffic rules as cars when on the road, so they're entitled to a lane and you deal with it. Thankfully though, we also have many dedicated bike paths which enable commuting from nearly any part of the city, so the only place you ever really encounter cyclists is downtown, where most of them are capable of reaching the speed limit quite easily...
Minified files (auto-detected by long line length) are automatically ignored. If you're having issues with exclude patterns, please email us and hello@codeclimate.com and we can take care of it. We have lots of customers using it.

The linting is JSHint under the hood and is configurable. If you checkin a .jshintrc file it will be used automatically.
Bingo. And there's now some pretty fierce competition between Nvidia and AMD again, so you can often catch some pretty good deals on a GPU or a combo if you pay attention.

I still use an AMD processor on my gaming/development rig, because upgrading to a better Intel CPU would have cost me nearly twice as much (I already had an AMD motherboard, so that helped). I don't notice a bottleneck in most games.

I think the best strategy is to get mid-range components and just upgrade more often. You get way more bang for your buck, and you can always sell the old components on eBay or whatever.
The Commodore 64 was my first home computer, and Elite was hands-down one of the jewels on that platform when it came out. Yes, it hasn't aged well....but when it was new, it was breathtaking.
See also the ad package [1] for Haskell which has a number of interesting features of this vein.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ad
Your problems sound interesting. Could you elaborate?
The Plight for Pageviews: What Marketers at Media Sites Can Do About It
> The PC is dead

Dell, Lenovo Toshiba and HP all report sales of laptops are increasing; 3.5% in the last quarter.

Death doesn't sound too bad.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/10/technology/mac-pc-sales/
You seem to be counting all the files, not just this one file.

Update: no, you're correct, this log apparently only has one file.
"Billy Mays here for Beer Sock!"
I'll take a look at this and figure out what's going on for you guys. lib/ is not handled in a special way. (It's a blacklist that tries to exclude minified and vendor JS, not a whitelist.) Will reach out via email.
Google has gotten much more aggressive amount monetizing their existing inventory. They have been rapidly iterating Adsense unit designs that were fixed for 6+ years.

Search engine optimizers (of which I'm not one) have been terrified as they've watched ads creep over the search results and new elements push organic listings lower and lower.
Many of the complaints are due to the opinion that the braceless if is bad:

if(foo) bar();

I understand why you may think

if(foo) { bar(); }

is better, but it's unnatural for most people
Stop crawling Crunchbase for emails then spamming people.
I don't know why startups think this practice works. It doesn't. Every day I'm nailed with 2 or 3 of these emails from startup founders who spamming other startup founders.

I'd love to start a conversation around this shitty (but all to common) practice and spin it around into one that offers more positive suggestions to these naive marketers who don't know any better. I'll start:

1) Use a tool called Muckrack to search for reporters discussing topics relevant to your industry. Then use the platform to pitch them directly on why your story is worth telling.
As far as I'm concerned, the "News" results shown on the bottom 12% aren't quite search results either, though still useful. Everything is below the fold. :(
Division of labor. Not everyone has to be a producer in every sphere; it's okay to be a producer in some, and a consumer in others.

Plenty of people are too busy with other aspects of their lives — doing things which may, for all we know, be of great cultural significance — to spend time being a producer in the digital sphere as well.

Some people devote their lives to cooking for others; others devote their lives to other pursuits, and only ever consume food produced by others.
Instead, why not put CO2 dry-ice cubes in your drink? Or a spritz of liquid nitrogen? Or drop in a shot glass of liquid helium? Or super-cooled metal balls?
What is the difference between data that supports a hypothesis and data that defeats a null hypothesis?
Does it perform faster in benchmarks than later CPUs overclocked to their lower maximums? Clock speed alone is not a good indicator.
I agree with the author. I built my desktop computer in 2009 (I think) and it's still going strong. I see no reason to upgrade. I also recently purchased a used Thinkpad X220. It's a few years old but has no problem doing everything that I want to do with it.

It's wasteful to be throwing away computers constantly. In the PC world, I've noticed that it's particularly prevalent among "gamers" that are convinced that they need a new computer every couple of years.
I would pay for a silent PC. I paid a lot for a quiet Apple PowerPC Mac pro back in the day and built a quiet PC but they are not silent and I have moved to a quieter place and I can hear them (yes the Mac runs Fedora now). I have some silent ARM machines but they don't quite cut it yet though maybe the new quad core one will.
In such ways, let's say there's a team of 10 people working on a product. How do you avoid the "too many cooks spoils the meal" problem? Jane wants things open-source, Reggie wants the problem to be super-simple and will sacrifice features for simplicity, Joe wants infinite configurability... Without someone to over-rule the group and set the definite course, you could spend days/weeks/months along this track. You can make good arguments for any of these things, but there is no real "right" answer after infinite arguing sometimes. It comes down to what is best for the company, and people can disagree on that all the time.

In my (granted, limited) experience, I've preferred having someone set a definite course than have to deal with a group-think version of a decision.
It is very simple - depression is like cancer in a sense that it expands and captures/modifies more and more reflexes, thought patterns, habits and other aspects of personality. The single most important thing is to stop trying to be accommodating and understanding to its effects (feeling sorry for yourself), which is needed in order to increase locus of control[1]. Another key part (which comes later) is to absolutely believe and be determined that you're not depressed and that mistakes are just mistakes.
So, take lack of compassion and self-identification and you've got it. Still, being a bitter cunt is zillion times better than getting hit by a tram, because you don't care. Also, a lot of chicks just dig guys who are short on empathy, which is a nice reward. And when need be, empathy is extremely easily faked, because people are not very suspicious when they need it.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_self-evaluations
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While you're at it, you might mention that this doesn't address the bigger problem: software and "business-method" patents.

Eliminating those disgraceful patents would eliminate most of what trolls are working with in the first place.