skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? Startup time as a deal-breaker for using this? What about other, much more important and relevant metrics? If you have to spend 23 seconds but save, let's suppose, thirty minutes with faster development and runtime, isn't the tradeoff worth it? I'm not saying that's a guaranteed with Julia as I can't speak to that, but I think of all the things to care about, startup time would be a relatively trivial concern.

Also, "one programming language to rule them all" is quite a fanciful stretch considering people having been trying to write that since the first programming language.
1-indexed arrays are pretty common in languages targeted at scientific/mathematical usage. Also the case in R, Fortran, Matlab, and Mathematica, among others.
Introducing Kaia: Longer than a Tweet, shorter than a blog post
If everyone on here set duckduckgo.com as their browser homepage, you might (that's a big might) get their attention.
Much to my amusement, one actually called me in the time it took me to load this thread and read the top reply.
The startup that won itself a Super Bowl ad
A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)
Ask HN: Am I ready to be a Python developer?
tl;dr:
want to be web-dev by June; have some experience building python webapp2 apps; trying to figure out what I should focus on between now and then to maximize possible outcomes

long version:
I’m a high school calculus/engineering teacher in Fort Worth, TX; 2 years ago I took the Udacity webdev course hoping to learn how to build apps that would be useful for me. Since then I’ve deployed various webapps (maybe 20?) that have been incredibly valuable to me as a teacher and my campus; some are even being used by 100+ other teachers I’ve never met.

The problem is: I now love programming and web development and want to do it full time.

Almost all of my experience is on webapp2 + Jinja2 (an artifact of the Udacity course) + bootstrap and I know that I need to learn Django, which I’ve started to work through. My current tasks are: learn more about test driven development (something I wish Udacity taught on day 1) and work through implementing solutions to the problems in “Programming Interviews Exposed” (an awesome book).

But am I really ready? Up to this point I’ve learned things when I needed to: Need to take in money -> learn Stripe; need to make it faster -> learn knockout; can’t stand all this code just for memcache -> move over to NDB; my brother laughs because my code has no unittests -> learn what the heck is a unittest; add unittests, etc.; but I don’t really know what core competencies companies expect out of new developers.

My question is: knowing that I have a couple months to pick up a few more skills/competencies, what would you recommend that I spend my time on, to maximize my hire-ability?

Thanks in advance!
Midemlab winners revealed
Ah, I kind of understand... Thanks for your help :)
Pt-visual-explain
Totally agree, I would rather have heated arguments about error handling and unrolled loops.
I don't have linkedin. I don't get any calls from recruiters.

At least I hope that is the only reason.
The main dynamic this article basically fails to describe clearly is that the status quo for scientific computing is that you do your nice, high level modeling in MATLAB or R, and then when you get good results, you port it over to C/C++/Java for production. It's usually a write-only process since the code you end up with in Java for example completely obfuscates the clean algorithm you designed in MATLAB. Julia's core value proposition (if I understand it correctly) is that you can build your models and algorithms in a MATLAB-like environment (with macros!) and then, lo and behold, you can actually just tune and deploy this code right where it is, without having to do a port.
FiftyThree: EVERY STORY HAS A NAME
Your absolute positioned social sharing widget makes this unreadable on my iPhone 5.
Nothing against Common Lisp but CL is not the lisp and it never will be. CL is a lisp same as Clojure - http://www.islisp.info/faq.html. Also you seem to have no problems critiquing a language which you obviously have no significant experience with - "Clojure is an experiment in STM". Guffaw.
Have you tried making the change in Google Maps? I've made 10+ changes in the last 2 years, and have found their QA team to be very responsive.
Do you use NoScript? Persona is heavily Javascript-reliant.
LightTable IDE Goes Open Source, Adds Plugin Support
Is there a reason why the text takes up 10% of my monitor width? So much wasted white space that could be filled with text.
I run http://codetriage.com/ on Rails 4, Ruby 2.1.0 and have 5 unicorn workers per (regular 1x) dyno. With a little GC tweaking I could likely get 6, but i'm being cautious. With puma hybid server I can get even more concurrency, but don't need it for now.
Zoomooz.js – Make any web page zoom
There's no need to switch Julia to an AOT model, it suffices to supplement it with one, which is exactly what happens for the Julia standard library on master. It's only a question to extend that capability to packages, which is ongoing work.
Vue.js removes all the directives during compilation, so your compiled markup would be completely clean. If you are still worried, you can change the prefix using `Vue.config({prefix: 'data-v'})`.
Destination Nowhere Teaser Trailer
This is a teaser trailer for the upcoming comedy "Destination:Nowhere". Starring Harrison Myles and Guy Levy. With a bunch of special guest appearances. New series premier coming soon to the internet world. This is hilarious comedy about some friends that sit in a car, talk topics, argue, fuss, fight, insult, and have loads of fun together on their journey to nowhere.
I get contacted mostly by CTOs and "spam" recruiters. CTOs have gone through my GitHub, read my blog and often checked out my LinkedIn. "Spam" recruiters are often recruiting me for "Java"-Script (They don't know the difference).

I always give at least a response to a CTO (As a consultant, this is one way I gain repeat clients)... but I have a template that I spit back at spam recruiters to quickly weed them out.
The other crappy thing is, even if the developer has a working version on another app store, there's no way (under the terms) to say "Sorry, you can't do that here, but here's a link to a version of the app that does allow it". I think even mentioning Amazon's app store ("you can also download this app in the Amazon app store", for instance) would be enough to get you banned.
and its not exactly trivial to renounce US citizenship either. They'll still come after you if they believe you're just tax dodging.
The successful fashion retailers are doing fast iteration, like Zara as shown in this rather good article [1] - sounds like many are just getting complacent with their brand.

"That means that if Inditex stores in London, Tokyo and São Paulo all have customers responding enthusiastically to, let’s say, sequined cranberry-colored hot pants, Inditex can deliver more of these, or a variation on hot pants, sequins or that cranberry color, to stores within three weeks. The company tries to keep the stock fresh; one promise its stores make is that you will always be buying something nearly unique. Merchandise moves incredibly quickly, even by fast-fashion standards. All those thousands of Inditex stores receive deliveries of new clothes twice a week."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-int...
If I was flying in an aircraft I would expect the pilot to have at least some understanding of how/why it stays in the air!
>There is no virtue in being bored; no goal to be achieved by doing nothing.

Boredom is actually good for children and adults.

http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/raise-great-kids...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405311190345450... - you'll need to view the google link to see the full article - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21895704

>Wasn't it great when you were stuck on train without a book, and just had to grin and bear it?

Seriously? Is it THAT bad sitting quietly by yourself that you had to use the expression "grin and bear it?" I would not be upset being on a train without entertainment. In fact, I don't usually bring entertainment with me on flights or trains and if I do, I usually don't end up using them anyways.
Apps Pulling The Advertising Identifier, But Not Showing Ads, Are Being Rejected
Surprised there is no mention of Dropbear SSH

https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
simply wrong. This is NOT another OpenID. Your judgment is an ignorant one. The long-term vision is even further from the current substantial departure from OpenID: to be verified by your browser instead via JS etc.
As Gogo is losing money, I think complaining that it is too expensive is curious. Yes, it is expensive, but the negative markup is much less than the airlines charge on baggage fees, drink prices, snack prices...

Of course, it's not like airlines consistently throw off huge amounts of cash either.
Seems to be having load issues -- CoralCDN link http://stevecoast.com.nyud.net/2014/01/30/its-time-to-make-o...
2 Awesome Tips for Reducing Memory Usage in JMeter
It's super important to know how to reduce JMeter memory usage. Especially for high performance testing.

The JMeter is OutOfMemory error, which occurs during report generation is one the most common problem during performance testing (with JMeter).

The misnomer here is that while folks complain that it's JMeter consuming loads of memory like a teenage boy consumes food, and it's simply not the whole story.
I'm in total agreement.
It's not impossible, but it can be extremely difficult.

Consider a short story published in a literary journal last week. Allow a copyright system to exist that covers each eligible work for 30 years by default, and allows multiple extensions of 5 years at a cost of $1000 per extension per work, up to a total copyright term of 100 years.

Someone in 2047 discovers a copy of this particular journal issue, which has now become obscure. They identify that this short story, though never being given acclaim, has had a subtle yet profound cultural influence. They decide to republish the story in their own commercial magazine, but want to check if the copyright has been extended. If it has not, the story is in the public domain. If is has been extended, the story is still covered by copyright.

They can search the central registry for the title of the short story and the name of the author. But they also have to search for the names of the editors of the journal, because it isn't clear whether or not the copyright stayed with the author or was transferred to the journal as part of the submission process. In fact, the copyright might have been granted to the owner of the journal, which may be an individual or may be an institution. The entry for the copyright might be under the title of the short story, or under the title for the journal, or under the title of that particular issue of the journal.

Furthermore, the author of the story, if they retained the copyright, may have submitted the story under a pen name, and/or may have registered the copyright of the short story under a different title than the title they used to submit to the journal, or the title might have been changed by the editors.

Or, the author, after having the short story accepted by the journal, may have sold it to a publisher who published it in a short fiction anthology, the copyright for which is registered completely separately and is essentially invisible to our hypothetical future researcher.

Any of these agents might have extended the copyright. It would be extremely difficult to prove to a high degree of certainty that the story was or was not covered by copyright.
You can't patent "compliance with the law", and you can't pass a law that requires licensing of a patent to be in compliance. So no, the "process" of being legally allowed to sell items in a country is not and cannot be patented.
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Some theories I have on productivity
In most US cities it's technically illegal to drive through the crosswalk until all pedestrians have reached a crub, even if they are crossing clear across the way. It's a great idea though.
You have just articulated the principle problem with autocracy, be it by man or machine, succinctly.
How to make 37signals metaballs. Metaballs, not meatballs.
One of my first full PHP projects was a WordPress site. I was very inexperienced at the time, but I remember being frustrated at the concept of the Loop, sub-queries, template overrides, and the like. IMO beginners should work without frameworks so that they know what's part of the language and what's part of the framework, especially when the framework has its own idioms and opinions about proper development.
Bad UX as it does not allow moving along pages with arrow keys or links.
Oh right a 21,000 mile round trip would explain some of it ;)
Ask HN: European startups, how did you get seed funded? 
Just curious about your experience: how long did it take and how much did you raise? did you look for investors in your own country or abroad ? is it worth attending specific conference or events to get in touch with investors ? how many investors did you get in touch with before getting funded ? how have you made it finally ?
What is the single advice you would give to a first-time entrepreneur in this area ?
There is also http://www.openlinkmap.org/
But nothing really usable I agree
Too often. And the fact that I've been at this same job for 5 years should tell you a little something about what they are offering.
>We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.

You'd lose that bet. Here are two HN polls.

http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/5-ways-to-tell-which-program...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104
Underground aquifers, reservoirs from streams, rivers, etc. Northern Utah gets a fair amount of snow as well. There are around 2.9 million people living in Utah[1]. There is also a fair amount of agriculture in the state, especially up north, which uses most of the water in the state[2]. States like Arizona and New Mexico are much more arid.

[1] - http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49000.html
[2] - http://www.water.utah.gov/brochures/wiu_broc.htm
The Apple template is just an example account so you can see how the service works and how the features can be used in a real company without explaining everything in a lengthy documentation.
This exists all over in a crosswalk timer. Usually the don't walk is timed with the light change.
http://goo.gl/SbtP9e
> I know C++, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Erlang etc are not for me. Not based on some 'religious' arguments, but because I actually investigated it or worked with it at some point.

> [rest of message filled with religious arguments]
Working for a small company that does a lot of parallel combustion CFD modeling and simulation, I'd love to see our engineers try out Julia and see how it much easier it could be on them.

But, from my experience trying to establish rules for using version control, I also realize that they're unlikely to ever rewrite (or even modularlize) their codebase to take advantage of any other language.
Never, they apparently don't know I exist.
Not intuitive, but zoom in and hit the edit button. You should now see all the data as vectors. Click on anything and you will see all of the metadata.
Mind you, the observation that "90% of the companies advertising for passionate programmers are crud" is uninformative about the nature of passion does not mean that Avdi's article was uninformative. It's highly useful to be reminded that such companies are nothing special, and that working 80+ hour weeks is nothing special. 90% of all that is crud, and that's ok.

And speaking personally, it's very important to be reminded that being passionate about programming isn't anything special, it's a personal choice. I don't believe that in and of itself it makes me necessarily worse than if I was "moderately enthusiastic," but it doesn't make me any better.
I don't why Mapbox's tiles would be pixelated (except that they might have the preview page misconfigured), but I don't think Mapquest Open supports retina tiles yet.

A solution is to make the tiles half the size, but then all the labels are tiny. In addition to this, I dislike Mapquest Open's tiles because they're subject to jpeg compression. Unfortunately, it's the only free tile service out there without usage limits.
Sorry for being "that guy" but this is not a full application neither did you spend two days making it work.

:'(
The problem at this point is with the other friends and family who make use of this software. Great, he writes a new implementation of this protocol that prevents _his_ client from improperly caching routing information. This still doesn't fix the problem of the software on other peoples' phones.
As much as I want to sympathize with the "original" Paper app creators, the name they chose is incredibly generic, common and they must have considered this possibility when naming their product. Not only that, Paper invokes almost no meaning by itself and Facebook's use of it almost seems more appropriate.

it certainly sucks when an 800 lbs gorilla moves into your space, but let's not break out the pitchforks until we've considered all sides of this argument.

Having recently met with the dreaded lawyers regarding product naming for a side project of mine, they were clear to advise against using generic terms in the product name.
Why does a kid who hasn't lost his baby-teeth need dental x-rays?
This is neat.

How does it handle logins that popup, eg, Login with Twitter?
How Facebook, and Zuckerberg, Have Changed Over 10 Years
The problem is how do we define "from scratch", the common definition seems to be "Whatever I had to do when I started".

Even if you throw out of the ORM and go with writing SQL queries by hand, do we need to understand how the database will parse the SQL, how it stores the data on disk and how it executes the query?

The main reason to understand SQL when building a web application is really that the ORM doesn't provide a full abstraction due to the differences between the relational model and the OO model. If we could solve that then we could happily never use SQL again.
Process, Product, Service – What is IT Selling?
Physics experiment suggests magnets with only one pole actually exist
Really a shame they used the mysql protocol. The mysql command line client is terrible compared to psql, and the mysql lib is much less pleasant to use than libpq.
How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data
How's your bandwidth bill?
Based on your link, use number 4 of the present progressive fits the OP's original statement: "actions happening around the moment of speaking (longer actions)"
>You can be spending $100ks per monthon adwords and still not have a competent person to call when you need help.

We just got bit by this recently. One day our organic referrals just took a nosedive (4000 -> 1000 clicks/day overnight). We got in touch with our Adwords contact, who said they'd look into it, then ... left. No longer with the team. Now we have no contact and no way to figure out what went wrong and how we can fix it.

It didn't have a huge impact on us, but it did cost us ~$3k/month, which isn't negligible. The worst part is that there's seemingly no way for us to address this, despite spending a pretty significant amount of money on Adwords every month.
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You're right, to point. It depends on which school. I teach at two Universities. At one I'm a lecturer and at one I'm an adjunct. Same exact duties at each.
FUNNY GIFS AND INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES.
Don’t Ask Your Startup Lawyer for Investor Intros
"Municipalities crafted anti-loitering laws and curfews to keep young people from congregating alone. New neighborhoods had fewer public spaces. Crime rates plummeted, but moral panic soared."

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/ap_thompson-2/
What did you mean by this then?

> It's not LISP and its not Lisp either
Paper – stories from Facebook on the App Store
Antivirus is still alive and kicking
We need to assume a threat model today where Advanced Persistent Threats can seize private keys from hosting providers and US companies. Both secret court orders and hypervizor exploits are part of this threat profile. This threat is greater from smaller companies. Large companies will be better able to resist secret court orders.
Why can't you just type in a section (say, a paragraph) of the work and have a fuzzy search locate it, instead of relying on just the title and author? I think your situation is only difficult due to poor technology. Youtube can now identify even distorted sections of videos and audio against an huge catalog of works, why can't the copyright registry?
How much bandwidth did you have in 2004? I definitely didn't have 50/5 Mbps back then...