skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this book will also be of interest: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Linear-Algebra-Geometry-Tool...
1. They fit exactly. You download the templates, and place them against your guitar to make sure the holes are going to be right.

2. The weight is probably slightly less than what you have now.

6 grover tuners from my les paul = 272 grams on my scale

The tronical tuners, including battery pack = 268 grams on my scale.
Thanks! I'm rerunning it and updating the tables progressively every few hours as optimisations are suggested. Feel free to make a pull request. Ideally within a day or so the implementations will have all been optimised enough to make for fairer comparison.

I understand that a Pandas table would be a better idea, but the purpose of this benchmark is comparing the speed of the raw languages.
sounds like someone has watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDLw1zIc94
This sounds like PowerShell
This is a very old (and nice) problem in streaming algorithms. The solution currently used in most places is HyperLogLog[1], which basically uses the distribution of log(minimum value of hash) for a set of hashes.

[1] http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf
If you can make Vim seamlessly work with a REPL then this would be worth me upgrading (if all my current vim plugins still work).

It's the only reason I use Emacs + Evil + trying to get it to be as close to a Vim clone as possible. You know how cool it is to type ":" instead of M-x?
What boat did Google miss? Seems to me they're achieving their goals. They own search, they own video (YouTube), they have a very successful mobile OS, they have a successful desktop platform (Chrome OS and the Chrome browser), and they're innovating faster than anyone.
Blogger isn't the winner of the blog engine wars anyway. That would be WordPress, which is open source and now runs about one in five websites.

http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all

It's fun to imagine a world in which Blogger was open sourced, with the core developers working for Google. Would WordPress have "won" in that alternate universe?
I wonder if there were some structural attempts (at Google or elsewhere) at mitigating this effect, like voluntary creating nano-competition by spinning off a bunch of companies just to see how the perceive trends and create on their own.
> Perhaps I'm severely impaired, is the suggestion that
> this somehow caused it?

Yes.

> Is this hinting at a conspiracy?

Not conspiracy, incompetency (Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.").

> I didn't quite understand "we forgot about the VAX"
> and rebooting it part.

I'll break it down:

Relevant characters:

- "the gnome" (the company comptroller)
- "the data center manager"
- "the shift supervisor" (of the datacenter)
- the author/narrator, who is the VAX expert

The gnome is using the VAX to transfer a trillion dollars from one bank to another. During this process, there is a period of time when the money has been withdrawn from one bank, but is not yet deposited in the new bank.

While the money is in this in-between state, the data center manager saw the narrator, which reminded him of the VAX, which (to his knowledge, since he didn't check his messages) hadn't been checked on during the whole ordeal. This causes the data center manager to scream "we forgot about the VAX" to the shift supervisor. So, "he" (either the data center manager or the shift supervisor) reboots the VAX, since he is incompetent at working with the machine.

It is suggested that because the machine was rebooted before the money was deposited in the new bank, the money disappeared. The date suggests that this sudden disappearance of one trillion dollars caused the stock market crash.
France's Minitel
This. I work at a big Erlang shop and the "dependency handling" is either git submodules or rebar which is glorified submodules. I think this is due to packaging not being sexy enough to work on, much more fun to think about the internals of the Erlang VM.
Why google does it? If its for publicity then why dont they list all of those.
How did you obtain it?
Has anybody looked into the application of this for headless acceptance tests on web apps?
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I grew up thinking Finland was also Scandanavian, but I'm a dumb american, and so Geography isn't really my forte.

My girlfriend is Swedish-Finn and she was the one who insisted.

If you didn't grow up in Finland, have you at least been back to visit? Helsinki is such a great city.
There are many similar programs on google play and apple app store. But good job.
Thought experiment: you see a man, same age as Linda, doing all the things Linda is doing (squinting eyes, and then abruptly opening them and doing an affected laugh, fixing clothes, fixing cute socks, sitting on a sofa with legs bent and shoes sitting alongside, jumping up and down on the couch, etc.), what do you think of him?

If you're not picking up on the flirtatious undertones, if you have no problem with that kind of unprofessional presentation, it's not me who has some serious issues, it's you.

Also, I'd rather have my kids focus less on trying hard with clothes and looks and more on the more substantive things in life. The focus in that video simply should not have been on Linda and her awesome persona. But it was. I wish I didn't have to sit through Linda fixing her shoe-socks, but it was in the video, I watched it. It was peculiar.
Android support is dropped? My CI is uploading APKs just fine, and I can still upload APKs through their web interface.
A woman who becomes a doctor or lawyer or banker (because nowadays she can) is a woman who is not a nurse, librarian, or K-12 teacher.
Wow, I forgot about Tripod. Had a few sites on there.
Care to cite that "one in five" figure?
By none other than rms himself.[0]

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00...
the first two or three version were unbearably slow and awkward, but since the 'card' redesign, it's reactive (coming from a fps fetishist on a 2006 laptop) and usable. When G+ came, FB had all this in place, their html framework was hyper lean in all possible ways. Every time I had to use FB after G+ I was shocked to witness the difference. FB gained some weight since but it's still a smooth cut.
Microsoft killed my Pappy
> It can not do bare metal programming or real time applications without major changes to the language standard.

TIL that these are required for text editors and related tools.
32 employees * 100,000 = 3.2 million
Let's say a million a year for office space and another million for infrastructure and bandwidth, seems like they were fairly profitable for what they had. No idea how Facebook plans to recoup $20 billion though.
Some things make sense, but surely not all; and surely not all as means to serve that goal. For example, storing all the world's videos makes sense while taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online does not.
Even as someone who regularly carries a handgun, I can completely understand that. Coming from a culture where "gun = criminal or solider" to the US must be a huge culture shock.
I did: just follow the link.
BitTorrent shuts down its live streaming website to refocus on mobile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Helpouts is a paid video mentoring scheme; some of their offerings involve tech stuff. https://helpouts.google.com/search?q=programming
Facebook doesn't just have the social graph of who your friends are and what they search for.

They also have an increasingly insightful record of your personality. Probably moreso than Google, since Facebook gets more of your "casual" life than Google.

Google is in a good position to record and analyze the intents you express, but Facebook likely has a better record of who you are outside of those expressed intents.

Turning that into a useful product is difficult, but I'd be very surprised if they never work in that direction.
You could add presets for different tunings and strings. That would help :)
[related] ii irc client where everything is a file http://erthalion.github.io/2014/02/16/ii/
I'm glad we have this guy to tell Google how to run their completely unsuccessful business that missed the boat.
Wow I didn't think it was supported on Android Chrome yet or any mobile browsers. That's awesome!
> Makes me wonder how Larry Page was convinced
> that Facebook was a threat.

Larry wasn't the only one. I don't think it was hard to see how Facebook posed (and still poses) a threat to Google:

Their site generates (a) more content behind a walled garden, and can produce (b) better demographic targeting for ad sales, which together pose a pretty serious threat to Google's core business (of selling targeted ads against public content). Couple this with exponential MAU growth and a very "sticky" property and you better get worried.

The comment you linked to is a bit ranty; IMO it confuses the execution flaws with G+ the product/business unit (of which there are many) with the overall decision to make a huge, concerted effort to compete head on in social.

Half-assed efforts like OpenSocial and Buzz were not going to get anywhere close to Facebook-style data and ads. (And I don't mean to disparage those teams; the half-assed part regards the company's priorities.) In hindsight maybe the walled garden of Facebook isn't such an existential threat to Google's business, but in 2010 it was still very hard to tell. Larry would have been negligent not to act.
I am in China right now. I have actually translated that text from Chinese to English out of interest.

IIRC it's incredibly vague, with a long string of generally disconnected locations with little identifiable information. Scholars have determined that it relates to Southeast Asia (a path south past Vietnam toward Indonesia) however the specific route is debated.

IIRC the origin of the identification of the destinations described lie in a very poor interpretation published 100 years ago.
Google allows many browsers on Android, you can install Firefox or Aurora and use Firefox apps. You can run all the newest HTML5 features on Chrome for Android. The promise of HTML5 is the open web, not apps in the Google Play store.

Right now I'm running WebGL apps on my Android phone, and in Chrome you can put web apps on your homescreen with a single click in the menu. You don't need to go through any store, and you can open it like any Android app from the homescreen.

What's more open than that?
I hardly think so. Let's address them:

> "LateX is slow, inconsistent and needs to be ran multiple times to give a correct result"

It is not slow, it runs in under a second on most documents I have authored.

> "Inconsistent"

I'm not sure what tinco meant by this, but it does in fact return the same results for the same file across multiple runs.

> "Needs to be run multiple times to give the correct result"

This is true for things like references, etc. However, this proves to be a non-issue in practice as you are recompiling so often to view changes that references are always up to date.

> "It's syntax is ugly."

I don't see how learning LaTeX is different from learning any other programming language. I don't think that many C++ gurus would call C++ "ugly". Calling a progamming language "ugly" is often the last argument you see when someone couldn't come up with a decent argument against it.
6 Reasons Why Facebook Didn't Pay Enough For Whatsapp
Small business activity does not measure entrepreneurship
Gawker affidavits explaining why its greedy interns didn’t deserve to be paid
I strongly believe that was the right way to go. I never understood why Google didn't make a big push for standard structured information. They could have published standards for different industries similar to RSS. Everyone would have gotten on board similar to how every blog was pushing a RSS feed. Once the web moved towards structured data it would have been the first big step towards Semantic web.

Imagine writing apps that could do this: "Phone, please book top movie at the box office and dinner for Friday evening and adjust Nest at home accordingly".
If you're talking about streampix, read the disclaimers [1] and see why Netflix still wins (availability, selection, not tethered to one set-top-box, always on-demand, no random fees/taxes tacked on, doesn't require bundling to a subscription level). Until that changes, Netflix has nothing to worry about.

"Not available in all areas. Set-top box required to access On Demand on TV. Programming not available On Demand in all areas. Basic Service subscription required to receive other levels of service. Not all programming available in all areas. Equipment, installation, taxes and franchise fees extra. Pricing subject to change. Streampix included with the following tiers of service: Blast Plus, HD Preferred Plus XF Triple Play, HD Premier XF Triple Play and HD Complete XF Triple Play. Services and features subject to change..."

[1] http://www.comcast.com/streampix (see the legalese at bottom)
Internet connection through LiFi technology (Harald Haas's vision).
It's true, Microsoft is quite different, but not different enough.

For entirely pragmatic reasons, I'd rather use Chrome, Linux, Android, Gmail, Google search and Google Docs.

Typescript looks nice, I might use Babylon.js, and I still use Skype from time to time, but I'll still never use Windows, IE, Hotmail, etc...
I suppose that's true.

Still an improvement/would take longer.

Also the only way I've tried takes a while to compute, so it might be more efficient to do it based on reasoning instead of based on brute forcs?

But that might be annoying to users, depending on how long it takes to run each thing.

Is there a sweet spot for the computation time is long enough that it is more efficient for a person to reason it out than for a standard home computer to brute force, yet short enough that a human player would not find the delay to be noticeable/annoying?
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HN reorders comments on the fly - so your comment floated up...
Every time I upgrade Firefox I get a notice that Pentadactyl isn't compatible, at which point it asks if I'd like to check for a newer version. Then it searches and installs the latest snapshot and that's it. I've found nothing wrong with the nightly version.
It definitely happens in the valley; Cisco was notorious in the 90s and 00s for acquiring "spin-ins" (startups founded by ex-Cisco leadership/teams with an almost certain expectation of returning to the mothership), and I'm sure there are other examples.

Less drastically, Google (and I'm sure many other valley peers) will often set up special incentive structures for certain teams: bonuses tied to aggressive adoption metrics and separated from the company-wide bonus, for example. I doubt it comes close to cutting that safety net (and making people truly hungry), but I give them credit for trying.
To those making over $200K – questions re: career advice, salary ceiling, etc.
I'm a software developer a few years into his career. I've been very aggressive in terms of "moving up" so far in my career (have made a few jumps after short 1-2 year stints). I'm currently earning about ~$150K as a software dev.

I'm passionate about software but recently I've felt like I'm approaching a salary ceiling. What are some perspectives from people out there making over $200K?

- Do I need to start making moves towards managerial positions?
- Is it common for developers to make over $200k?

Any advice appreciated!
This is a shockingly honest and open assessment of Microsoft's PR from someone who actually works at the company. I think the underlying notion is spot-on, and -- as someone who doesn't bear any particular ill will towards Microsoft besides the travesty that is Excel for Mac -- its interesting to see the seeds being sown of irrational Google hatred.
http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/c...

In many ways, Microsoft's Open Specification Promise is quite a bit stronger of a promise than most people might expect.
Every time I have to suffer through the archaic UI of Word and enjoy late 1990s performance in the mid 2010s, I am reminded that my Pappy is still dead, even though MS could have made amends. They haven't. And in addition to my Pappy there's a whole other cast of characters that are dead, and they've saddled the entire world with mediocre-to-bad computing experiences. No amends for that either. Perhaps can't make amends, because they are themselves too stuck in the past, unwilling to fix their ways or legacy programs.

The world of computing could have been and would be today a better place if they hadn't dominated through business practices, but instead dominated with products.
> Is Microsoft circa 2014 worse than Google, Apple, or Facebook? We're not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to be as evil as you might think we are.

Microsoft is not any worse than the other companies. They are all at the same terrible level.

But Microsoft became a bit better over the last years, I would say.
When you stop shaking down your competitors with software patents, let me know. Until then, your talk about openness is just talk. Extracting settlements from android OEMs over FAT patents is contrary to all the values you've mentioned in this post.
Apple security flaw could allow hackers to beat encryption
It could be a poem. Psalm 119 has 22 stanzas, with the first letter of each sentence of the stanza being with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the first stanza, each verse starts with aleph, in the second beth, and so on.
Gruber, is that you?
It's not just that.

When you are small, a small trend which is likely to be big can yield huge growth percentage-wise. When you are big, these are in the near-to-moderate term marginal at best so what you do is you buy startups.

One of the big breakthroughs for me personally was modelling business growth on a sigmoid curve.
I agree. I don't know anything about that part of the company, though. I work on the web.
Fundraiser for Pitivi (video editor)
You may be right. I think I must have been running a nightly all this time! But anyway, it works.
> Their search engine was and still is the glue that holds the web together. So, why didn't they build around that?

Yeah, if only every product they offered either:

a) had comprehensive search capabilities (YouTube, GMail, map, etc)

b) was at least decent integrated with their flagship search (News, YouTube, images, Blogger, heck, Android, etc)

c) was a variant of their flagship search (images, news, sound, etc)

I think it's fair to say that Drive/Docs/Keep and Calendar are fairly independent of Search. Tsk, tsk, for shame.
This was a great point:

That's 20 years ago. And for bundling a browser
in the operating system that couldn't be uninstalled
or easily replaced? Sure, no operating systems do that
in 2014. I wonder if I can swap out Chrome from Chrome
OS or Mobile Safari in iOS. Point is, it's common now.

I lived through this time "hating" Microsoft for some of the stuff it was doing then, and it's probably well past time to bury those hatchets.

But they still do rather icky things: Rockstar Bidco lawsuits and the "Scroogled" campaign come to mind. I'm biased, but they've got to can it with these things (and just innovate) until I'll look at them as a pleasant company.
I can't speak for anyone else, but as a Web developer, I hate Microsoft because of their current and recent handling of Internet Explorer - specifically that it doesn't auto-update.

I love my job, but in my job, Internet Explorer 8-9 is pain. It's why we can't have nice things. I checked out a Windows Phone in a store once, and thought it was pretty sweet until I saw the IE logo and physically recoiled. There was no way I was going to own something where I'd have to hit that logo every day to browse the Internet.

That's not ancient history, that's present-day reality.
Linux, yes. Unfortunately, Android seems to be stepping away from "Linux" proper and is becoming its own beast. (OpenBSD and FreeBSD are closer in form and function than Debian Linux and Android).

Chrome? Gmail? Maybe. Google however is pushing far more than Microsoft has as far as dropping my anonymity from Youtube, pushing me into their Google+ features and making me share sign-in information across Chrome sessions. I'd say its a Tie between Microsoft / Google here, both want me in their cloud services.

Although, Outlook.com works a hell of a lot better on Android than Gmail / Google Calendar works on Windows8. So from a usability point of view, Google is beginning to lose it in their anti-microsoft wars. I don't like getting caught up in the middle of their politics. So that's my tiebreaker: Microsoft's calendar platform is supported in more platforms than Google Calendar.

Google Docs vs Microsoft Office? That one is easy. One of them runs on my computer, and the other one is untrustworthy, in the cloud. Do I really trust Google's servers over my own computer? Will Google protect the privacy of my documents from prying eyes?

Nothing beats cold storage on my own computer, Microsoft Office gives me that. Open Office vs Microsoft Office is another story of course... but Open Office is pretty terrible IMO.

Open Office is pretty bad in my experience. Instead... its about Abiword and Gnumeric. Unfortunately, there is no adequate replacement for OneNote and Powerpoint, so I'll keep using those.
Ya, Scroogled was weird. I like the new office.com, though.
Even if I concede all that, in the meantime, we've had the "Secure boot" fiasco and some other things I don't remember distinctly. I just remember constantly trying to fight the instinct to hate, to give MS the benefit of the doubt, but I just can't do it.

When discussing past wrongs of an institution, the question to ask is not "how long ago did they do it?" but "has the institution changed since?". In Microsoft's case, the answer seems to me to be "not enough".
Im not sure google have any clue what people want.

The general impression I get is that they facilitate hundreds and hundreds of projects, let them develop, and if it looks good, let them loose into the wild and see what sticks. Most people only get to see the successful ones. I think the vast majority of these projects never see the wild.

In contrast, I get the impression that other big tech companies lean towards thinking something up, then trying to push on to users.

Perhaps I've just fallen for PR, but thats the impression I get.
This sounds pretty similar to my experience. Confiscated modems rang a bell! I've also dreaded the day the phone bill came. A friend and me used all kinds of workarounds: Free AOL CDs, Toll Free Dailup numbers where the banking data was not validated in time... got serious trouble (rightly so) for that. Not much later I got a small job and we had 64k ISDN there, later at that time insanely fast DSL 384k. Learned Linux at age 13, Debian 1.3, Redhat 5, I now make a living of that... The addiction is still there, through.
This is the same kind of short-sighted programmer selfishness that leads to idiotic ideas like "let's abolish time zones and just everyone use UTC". Do you realize how many man-years of other people's time and effort you're proposing to spend adding zero value to that software?
Past behavior is a great predictor of the future, and winning back trust is both hard and slow. This post would be more believable if MS isn't still exhorting companies with their large patent portfolio.

Maybe Nadella can change the culture but I have my doubts.

Scott, actions are much louder than words.

EDIT: I'm not saying other companies are much better. However I think it's more productive to have an internal company awareness campaign and mission of "Don't be an asshole", instead of publicly whining about people who still remember past misdeeds or current ones.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-most-profitable-mobile-opera...