skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While other sensible language interpreters have a feature like byte-code caching built-in in them, PHP for quite a while did not, because someone was monetizing a proprietary cache add-on named ZendOptimizerPlus!

They released it as part of the language in 5.5 because alternative APC cache got just good enough and everyone was installing it by default.

So, to answer your question: yes, APC should be used on any PHP benchmark if performance is in question.
An action potential (the phenomenon that underlies nerve impulses) is not just similar to an electric current; it is an electric current. From Wikipedia[1]: "An electric current is a flow of electric charge." It really is that simple. Any net movement of electric charge is a current. If I pick up a positively-charged baseball and throw it across the room (using insulating gloves so the charge stays with the baseball), that's an electric current. This isn't just a pedantic point, either. The moving baseball interacts with the Earth's magnetic field just like any other current, and an action potential also acts like a real electric current, because it is one.

However, you might contend that the electric current in an action potential moves across the membrane, not along it, and you would be correct. But that is because the voltages involved in the action potential are oriented across the membrane. The electrical conductors that carry this current are aqueous solutions of sodium, potassium, chloride, and other ions, and this solution will happily carry a current in any direction in which a voltage is applied. So when an external source (like an electric eel) supplies this voltage, the muscular tissue conducts the current. The ion channels in the membrane also ensure that the current is not stopped by the membrane as well.

Fat has high electrical resistance because lipids are predominantly hydrophobic and nonpolar, which means that they exclude both water and ions, both of which are necessary to carry a current in living systems. Muscle has a low resistance because part of its function is to carry an electric current.

Incidentally, if you think muscle doesn't conduct electricity, you might want to consider why the eel would even bother with all this electricity anyway. What's the point of zapping your prey if it doesn't even conduct electricity?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current
Site probably shouldn't be live in its current state, might wanna consider moving it to a more private url.

Edit: good luck.
When I didn't have kids, I thought homeschooling was for nut jobs.

Hi. I'm a nut job.
"We have no plans to bring Macaw to Linux at this time. Once the Mac and Windows versions are released we will look into Linux."

Eh.
Nice, it wouldn't be hard to adapt these into an icon theme for jailbroken iOS devices - a WinterBoard theme is just a directory containing image files named in a standardized way (with the bundle IDs and filenames of the app icons you intend to theme). And if the artist wanted to distribute it on a default repository in Cydia, these are instructions: http://www.macciti.com/faq.php?faq=cydia_usage
Upvoted to counter the downvote. US citizen (who went to college in Europe) here and I agree that it's no surprise that AirBnB started in America. I've seen ruthless business practices all over Europe, but there is always a level of social responsibiltiy that is more generally lacking in the US.

Edited to add: Americans almost always say "vacation" instead of "holiday" but you could be a long term expat who is picking up the local language.
I just used and am now going to actually watch a movie instead of wasting time deciding and falling asleep.
The laser diamond in the new design is too big.
"The world is not flat and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs"

Best Bill Gates quote I've heard.
How about a "white-hat" troll? Get a bunch of patents, and threaten small players: you either join us, paying for insurance and lobbying OR we try and sue you.
Create a sexy, short and sweet, resume. Regarding the company I'm currently working for, I applied for two positions using two resumes tailored to each position (web developer, and helpdesk analyst). I had lots of experience in the helpdesk analyst position, but only hobby development (with no portfolio to speak of) in web development.

For my helpdesk resume, it was plain, black and white, very normal looking but had all of my real demonstrable experience listed on it. For the web developer resume, I took a different approach. Landscape orientation; my name HUGE at the top; colored with oranges and greens; listed technologies that I had taught myself. It practically looked like a printed out website.

I got a callback on the web developer resume. I told the HR lady that I had also applied for the helpdesk position, and she hadn't even seen that resume (I had applied for that position about 3 days before the other).

My initial resume, was basically skipped.

I think the best thing you can do is make your resume concise and to the point. The person reading these will likely skim over the resume. Don't be verbose, and don't list things that have no relevancy to the job.

Beyond that, I've found bugging people, and selling yourself helps a lot. You have to find that fine line between desperation and interest, though (I usually check in about once a week after applying to see if the position has been filled or not).

Interestingly, I didn't get the job in my first interview, but they had introduced me to someone else in the company that liked me enough to call me back in for a separate interview for the same position that was available for two of their teams. I had to interview with four people that time, and found out later (after being hired) that they actually flipped a coin to see which team would get me :P

Once you land the interview, just be your (professional) self, be honest (say I don't know when you don't know), and (against all advice you'll likely hear elsewhere) don't be afraid to make them laugh :)
Hm no.. have never heard of Infinality and didn't see anything OpenBSD-specific.

I'd say if you're needing extensive font support, or do any really heavy graphics work, OpenBSD may not work well for you as a desktop. For me, the stock fonts on OpenBSD meet my needs.
If anyone is interested in learning these types of probabilistic perception algorithms, especially pertaining to robotics, Prof. Edwin Olson's Mobile Robotics video lectures at the University of Michigan are excellent. They are located here: http://april.eecs.umich.edu/courses/eecs568_f12/wiki/index.p... . He even jokes near the end of the course that you could build a cruise missile with the math he teaches in the course, and kindly asks the students not to do so (I believe it was the Sensor Zoo video).
I'm still waiting for Code and Conquer... :(
I'd say it's still a generally true statement. Other than base 2, 8, or 16, there isn't much use for translating from one base to another.
If you want more money you have to go find a job that pays more money. High value projects get you better jobs somewhere else. The problem is you may not have any perspective on how your employer sees the situation. I suggest hiring someone to work for you even if you don't need to, like a maid or something. Experience the psychological roller coaster of trust/distrust and the utter unwillingness on your part to pay one more cent. Then I think you'll see that your boss's boss's boss by default wants to fire you no matter what you bring to the company. There is no one in your company, absolutely no one, that wants you to have more money or wants to give you more money. The only reason they gave you a raise is because there is a compensation department that is trained to look past the human aspect and psychopathic management and make a cold hard calculation of what $x dollars more per year will do to their numbers. The fact that those same cold, hard HR drones are also trained to make counter offers, if merely to screw over their competition, is the only minute chance you have of getting more money. So the point of this message is that you need to get out there and meet some people with money and forget about ever asking for more money where you're at.
How much do these bannings hurt your profitability ? Any way to quantify it ?
Yeah, I know that. I am homeless and people have told me I should not admit that online, they would not hire me..blah blah. But most homeless were not born that way. It isn't a trait like skin color. "The homeless" come from the rest of of the population. They aren't some distinct separate population that interbreed or something, geez. So you get homeless by failing all of your citizens in some important way.

Welfare in America was designed to "help poor single moms" at a time when most poor single moms were widows and intentionally having a baby out of wedlock was a huge taboo. The very framing of it changed the social contract and actively undermines the social fabric. It has helped foster an atmosphere actively hostile to fathers and has single handedly all but put an end to the practice of "shotgun weddings." In Europe, programs are more generally designed to help women (like maternity leave), help children, help families -- not POOR women, not POOR children, not POOR families.

America requires you to be a failure before you qualify for assistance. Therein lies the problem. It actively creates a culture of failure and too many broken, shamed people.

It's a terrible system. Just terrible.

But I don't really want to discuss this at length tonight.

Later.
The people who've been most interested so far have either been in some type of architect role where they had some advisory involvement in what a large number of teams are doing, or people who took over a flailing project. Part of the idea of this is to show something that's useful and relatively easy to set up, it could easily show attributes other than the author - it'd be nice to tie together tickets involving database issues or browser rendering for instance.

I have some material for a couple follow-ups to this, so stay tuned - dealing with code separate from natural language text is an interesting topic as well.
HackBCA: A High School Hackathon
It's hard to fault someone for going to a base domain, especially when it's content is identical to the www domain.
If you would've clicked through and seen that one of the co-founders was female, maybe we could've avoided this comment.
Why dont you use movies recommendation services. I like http://metataste.com very much.
It may not have good interface, but way better recommendations then netflix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel - Nautilus was originally the product of a company with multiple ex-Apple employees. "Its business plan involved monetizing online services to be offered through Nautilus such as storage, but it failed to do so before venture capital ran out."
I noted this as well, while still really enjoying the entire concept and undertaking. It's very interesting to see how the change in proportion of many of the elements influences our reading of them. The various spacesuits are harder to read in the new slimmed down versions. One takeaway for me: don't be a slave to your grid.
This test was clearly written in a time in which a cup of coffee was $0.06. :-)

In all seriousness it took me like 5 readings to figure out what was being asked for this question.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I'm surprised this is the top comment on "hacker" news.
That is a bizarre statement claiming "I am implemented this in days what was taken by a team of people over Months"

Similar to the Pintreest clones copying the original site design and idea

Finding an Idea, working out the idea, design and workflow takes time, after which a clone like you can copy it in days....
> All communication is analog at the lowest level, all common forms of network transmission are serial at the lowest level -- your analysis is all argument from ignorance.

No, but evidently yours is. Sorry, this is quite straightforward to anyone who has ever used a packet sniffer. The fact that it's analog has nothing whatsoever to do with how packet sniffers work, and he wasn't monitoring a serial bus.

Blurt doesn't do what is being described here. It wouldn't show up in packet logs. Which proves my point.
woah, this looks awesome. finally something aimed at high schoolers in the nj/nyc area
While may not be the best, but with no moving parts Alix boards are quite nice. http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm
Good point about reaching out if one can ve useful. If I may take it a step further, what strategies did you use to get in touch with these companies? Did you use something like linkedin and write to tue recruiter ? Just post your resume on thier website with a cover letter ? I think it becomes even more harder when you are not applying for a specific job but justifying your competency and compatibility in general. Please share. Thanks.
I recall some interesting '70s psuedomystical icons / labels on the keyboard during Ripley's self-destruct sequence. "Agaric," "yoni," and "lingam" among others. Will these start popping onto my phone's home screen if I upgrade??
Well, not nothing else. As the author said, it makes next to no money. And it sounds like the traffic is almost entirely transient, which reduces its value greatly. The site averaged less than 2 visits per unique visitor.

So, while I get your point that an interested audience propelled the site to great use without much work at all, that's not the whole equation, not even close.
Images and fonts are a very valid and useful tools for communication. Even the most old-school, respectable newspapers use images, graphics, and a variety of fonts--even in their most serious news stories.
The moment the person operates it as a hotel, the person has turned it into a business and semi-public space and regulation does not affect the privacy of the owner. In the dating scenario, on the other hand, it would.

There's a lot of behaviour that is undesirable to neighbours because it directly and negatively affect our lives, that we are still willing to accept (if possibly grudgingly) if doing anything about it would mean interfering in someones private life.
Eazel, which created Nautilus, was founded by a bunch of the original Mac builders. The team included Bud Tribble, Andy Hertzfeld, Mike Boich and Susan Kare[1].

There's some interesting backstory on Nautilus in one of the Don Melton epsiodes of the Debug podcast[2].

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

[2] http://www.imore.com/debug-11-don-melton-and-safari
Thanks for replying. Can you elaborate on what you do (be as specific as you can ) when you say 1) bugging people and 2) selling yourself?
Hehe, I find it ironic(although completely expected) that the stackexchange users' google search link now results in the stackexchange question itself as well as this HN discussion as the top results.
Look up a post by JangoSteve below, saying "...We act as CTO and development team for hire for early-stage startups..."
These Might Just Be The World's Coolest Lightbulbs
I showed the test to my wife who is a 2nd grade teacher in a school district implementing common core. She was appalled both at the grading and the test itself. Then I showed her that it was from Pearson and she exclaimed "That's your problem right there."
The Crazy Secrets of Internet Cam Girls (NSFW)
>captured something that so few of us can really relate to.
>Dude grinds for 10 years, keeps grinding, doesn't know where to go but will probably keep grinding.
>"Twicsy, you son of a bitch. You frustrate me so. I love you, but oh how I hate to love you."

Maybe not the ten years part, but I imagine that a decent number of people here can relate to this (i.e. working on a startup for awhile and having a love/hate relationship with it while it is not yet a financial success.)
Indentured Servitude, Money Laundering, and Piles of Money
Brazil and Germany draft anti-spy resolution at UN
> Are beginning first graders really expected to be able to handle word problems?

My wife thought that the test might have been for second grade when she saw it (2nd grade teacher) but you are correct in thinking the language is not appropriate for beginning of first grade.
The 520 really is a fantastic phone for its price point. Less than $100 no contract, and for 99% of daily activities I find it to be as good as or better than my friends' iPhones and Galaxies.
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Again, I think you're missing the point of this cloning process. My entire point was that while yes, there is considerable thought and consideration going into actually coming up with the user flows, interface etc., the best platform from an ease and speed of development for this type of real-time web application would be something like Meteor.
I then proceeded to put my money (or time, in this case) where my mouth is, by building out the entire clone in 1 hour. I never stated nor would think that conceptualizing everything would only take 1 hour, not even close; however, the development speed in doing things in Meteor if you know how to use it and have built a few projects compared to the same thing in RoR and Angular.. well, it speaks for itself. Not months, not weeks, not days. Hour(s).
Video is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHH5mNaseis
You're describing a current without actually using the word current. Guess what happens when you have potential differences and a conductor. A current. It's literally the definition.
> Google doesn't make any money from Android.

You might want to rethink that statement. If Google had not bought Android and built it into the ecosystem it is now, do you think Google had made more money by now?

> It is fundamentally not in Google's interest to ban iPhones, as they make money on iPhones

Google doesn’t sell apps for iOS, but it does pay Apple to be the preferred search engine in Safari. So that line tells me that you know Google makes money on Android (the way it always does, by collecting user data to sell ads – and on ‘Android with Google’ it gets more of that data than anywhere, except perhaps Glass).
Oh really? What makes you think Linux gaming is just about to take off? Something to do with Valve?
They're simply trying to get kids to use more abstract thought. The wording is strange, but there's nothing particularly mystifying about the answers. The abstractions are absurdly simple, but I'm not surprised that there are adults confused by this. I used to work for a factory and was constantly dismayed by how many adults are unable to read a tape measure.
Good point, it does seem like a lot of reading. Personally I remember being able to read around that level in 1st grade, but I'm pretty sure I was a huge exception. I doubt most kids have reached a high enough level of reading ability to understand this crap. And I should point out that children to do not acquire the ability to read, it's a purely _learned skill_ so it's kind of like asking them to be extremely good at one thing in order to do something only tangentially related.
That would be particularly useful once an iOS 7 jailbreak is released.
Right now I'm working mostly in python and javascript, with some database development (mysql and postgres) and general sysadmin (can't ever seem to get away from that). I've had success using the FreeTDS and sqsh packages to do SQL Server work (with a remote server, obviously. In theory you can run VMs on OpenBSD using qemu but the one time I tried it was so painfully slow it wasn't worth it).
An alternative would be for a bunch of like minded companies to band together and form an alliance. If one of them gets trolled, the others contribute to their defence. "One for all, all for one." You'd want to trust your allies, or put some limits in place to keep flagrant patent breaches outside the agreement.

Don't some insurance companies already do legal expenses insurance?
It is a SEO booster for that company, but don't tell anyone.
Note to "10x founders": both "twitsnbieber.com" and "titsnbieber.com" are still available.
And actually, wget will write to stdout with full buffering, which means that small files will actually be completely buffered before writing anything out to sh.

That doesn't matter though because the problem that matters is NOT the buffering. Sure that can mean scripts execute partially and then exit, but they will never do something that wasn't intended. The problem the blog is talking about is when you get an EOF in the middle of a script.
Wow, it looks like over 20k API calls were made any my API key won't work anymore. http://imgur.com/b6ZnAyc
That's a lot of traffic in such a short period of time. Let me get a few more API keys..
Corporations are people, so yes; Contact your lawyer though, your situation is non-trivial, and screwing it up could cost you more than the profits.
Happy to help you with some of your web dev and design issues. Check out some of my work at http://www.duetapp.com, http://www.getsoloapp.com, http://www.23andwalnut.com. Shoot me an email at from any one of those sites if you're interested.
Check out the StarCraft AI competition.
Looks fun, can't wait to get started. In your instructions, you said to run the program, call:

python kit/run.py yourcode.py yourothercode.py --render

If you try to run run.py from outside of its directory, it can't import settings.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "kit/run.py", line 1, in <module>
import game
File "/home/<name>/robotgame/kit/game.py", line 30, in <module>
settings = SettingsDict('settings.py').d
File "/home/<name>/robotgame/kit/game.py", line 28, in __init__
self.d = AttrDict(ast.literal_eval(open('settings.py').read()))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'settings.py'
Robbing homes has the disincentive of being illegal. What disincentive does this behaviour have?
Great idea! I'm looking forward to attending
Where have the years gone?

All I'll say is, I was "there" (meaning affected).

It was also amusing watching the news reports at the time. I remember one of the nightly "world news" shows (ABC, iirc) having it right up front and the anchor and reporter trudging their way through the story, trying to explain this "Internet" thing.
If you're thinking of doing this but aren't sure about the legal side of things, consider buying a duplex or quadplex and living in one of the units yourself. This will let you qualify for owner-occupied rates on the mortgage and insurance, likely insulate you from a condo agreement which would forbid renting, and means that you're the primary party who'd suffer from guest misbehavior, which strikes me as socially optimal. Also, if you tire of Airbnb transient relationships, duplex units are fairly easy to rent out "traditionally."

Downside: more capitally intensive, and requires you to be OK with owning a house.

This is (pre-Airbnb) one of the classic hacks for middle class Americans to start real estate businesses, since you can fairly easily get sufficient cash flow and/or equity after running a duplex for a few years to get a bank to OK you adding other rental properties.
agreed, a+
I used to be in this monthly subscription space..we did supplements though.

How big are the jars? $30 seems a bit high.
Smooth, skeletal and cardiac muscle cells and nerve cells do have some differences in their respective ion channel compositions. As a result, their action potentials will look somewhat different. And obviously muscle cells contract while nerves do not. Those differences aside, they are all are excitable tissues. Importantly, they all have voltage-gated ion channels. So they all will respond similarly when placed in electric fields.
This is more about the fall of once strong companies like HTC than Nokia's rise...and the eternal dominance of Apple and Samsung.
Hole-driven development