skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realise the author coined the term 'meritocracy' in the first place and therefore gets to decide what it constitutes? I think you have the wrong end of the stick in any case as he contrasts it with class and nepotism and finds it an even worse form of government. I suspect his definition isn't far off yours or mine: "merit is equated with intelligence-plus-effort, its possessors are identified at an early age and selected for appropriate intensive education, and there is an obsession with quantification, test-scoring, and qualifications." That's precisely why his critique of the arrogance and complacency this elitism leads to is interesting and not so easily dismissed. He thinks that a system where "every selection of one is a rejection of many" is overall a net loss.
I was thinking about whipping together a perfJS for the curry function and putting it in the post but ended up not... I might make one and post it back here.

---

UPDATE: I made this jsperf: http://jsperf.com/curry-function

There might be better things to test, but the results were actually unexpected. Currying "manually" with nested functions is actually slower than using my "curry" function.

As I mentioned in my post, if you are touching the DOM at all, I really doubt you will see much of a performance hit from using this...
That was a terribly thought through reply. It sounds like the sort of bullshit you hear on sunday morning political shows. "Let's pretend I didn't hear my opponents points, and throw back my own talking points which fail to address his points.".
I'm curious how big their staff is, what their burn rate is, etc.
I also am curious if they have 22k paying customers, how many are free tier?

That seems like a very healthy business right there, which might be able to squeeze a bit more growth out of its free tier.
"they just closed the factory in Minnesota that made the servers"

....which they moved to Guadalajara, Mexico. Given the money they put into Watson, I would expect they keep the POWER machines.
The word processor can spay what you are typing. Also this web page can spy the comment I am typing. Including the stuff I deleted.

Please before it say "it spies", show us what it captured and sent to third-parties (ie not YOU).
HN search (hn.algolia.com) is down
On the page. Under the heading 'Transcript'. :)
This. Earth Class Mail is an amazing service. It has none of the disruptiveness, but is simply useful and "just works".

There was a show pilot on them on Mojo TV (now defunct?) - http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/about.jsf
Agree completely... I think _why said it best with his "Little Coder's Predicament": http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hacking/theLittleCodersPredica...
>>>If so frankly how is it even still in business?

Newspapers sell a lot better in a universe with constant supervillain attacks.
Mentoring at a StartUpWeekend is Tough
a voxel is under construction
"So what did Outbox do to upset USPS?"

Adopted a "laws are for other people" business model.
Why a prolific Clojure user switched to Haskell
Ask HN: Any information security specialists/pen testers willing to give advice?
Hi,
I am currently a SDET, but I've been really interested by InfoSec and I wanted to see if there was anyone on here who would be willing to speak with me for 30+ min about how to get into the industry, what kind of skill set you need, etc.

How did you get into the field?
I.... I'm not sure you got his point.

Steve Jobs was not a technologist, but he seemed to do a fine job of running a technology company. Bezos is not a technologist, but he also seems to be doing ok.

The argument here is basically that the apparent opposition between what business wants and what engineering wants is mainly illusory. That if you think about business correctly, a lot of engineering desires are exactly what the CEO should want.

The "engineers must control all the things" urge is exactly the same one that managers have. It's really, "People like me must control all the things." The reality is more nuanced, and more mundane: giving a single viewpoint control rarely works; what we need are contexts where people respectfully collaborate.
Starting out with a flawed analogy to placebos makes the whole article hard to swallow. Placebos are complicated, especially for drugs with receptors in the brain. Stating that we know placebos "don't work" is outright incorrect. We know the opposite: placebos can produce real results, and there are physical mechanisms that explain those results. Nothing paranormal about it.

If the conclusion is that there is no magic wand in methodology that makes an experiment "good" - that's true. But the approach gets off to a rough start.
thanks for the feedbacks :)
I would imagine that "most cases" don't require this kind of alignment, because most cases don't involve vector instructions.

There is certainly a set of performance-critical problems where making optimal use of vector instructions is essential. It does seem that Rust is unlikely to be competitive for those today. But i think it's a minority of all problems.
No SSL? Not even for sign up and sign in? How is my info (user, password, e-mail, name, banking info) going to be "protected"?

Has people given up on SSL (and any security for that matter) already because of Heartbleed? I guess I can hear some people talking: "We don't need SSL! Not having it is pretty much the same, but with less overhead!"

Seriously, without SSL, you are Beta at best. And if you have been operating like this for a while, well that's terrible... Your users should be very concerned.
You made a typo!
What you're essentially proposing is, "All employees have to declare whether or not they are sexually available to every other employee."

It's demeaning, unprofessional, and a legal nightmare that this would be part of the terms of employment!

It also gets consent totally wrong. The onus shouldn't be on employees to explicitly swipe, "No: I do not want to be subjected to sexual and romantic advances at work." That has to be the default.

Plus, are managers involved? If your boss swipes "yes" and you swipe "no", how are you to know that won't bias their evaluation and treatment of you?

And when someone swipes "yes", what are they swiping "yes" to? Being flirted with? Being asked out on a date? Being propositioned for sex? Are you proposing that "Hey, she swiped yes" stands up as a refutation of any sexual harassment claims?

Etc. etc.

Think it through, man -- this would astronomically increase workplace drama and legal woes, not reduce them.
You can cross-reference the Crunchbase API to have filters on the companies such as funding, employee coutn, location, etc. That would guarantee the startup fits the profile of what the applicant is looking for.
First item on Hacker News (/item?id=1)
This is an absolutely brilliant move for both companies. I imagine baremetrics will double or triple their revenue by the end of summer because of this.

Well done.
The section, somewhere near the middle of the podcast, where each panelist describes the random harassment they've had to put up with should be prescribed listening for all guys in tech — especially those who go to a conferences.
Killing XML (it's my pleasure)
It is not that the technology on top of XML failed.

XML itself failed miserably:

1. Namespaces (and 4 ways to use them) & Namespace-Prefixes

2. Element-repetition "</element>"

3. Attributes -> just not enough added value

4. Angle Brackets (Markup) "<", ">"

5. xsd (just not needed)

6. All on top: xslt, xpath, WS-x, SOAP

If you subtract the bad, then there is nothing left...

For what I do ((fast) message transformation) you require a (message) tree (and nothing else). That would be:

"XML-Elements only"... but still with angle brackets & repetition (of the element name): Both bad ;)

What am I missing / am I missing anything ?

Can we consider XML to only be a choice in rare circumstances?
http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/04/28/inside-google-tyan-...

Tyan boards, RH, SLES, Ubuntu.

> I wonder how

http://www-304.ibm.com/events/idr/idrevents/detail.action?me...

IDK when POWER8 get's integrated into Bluemix, but it will as systems get out there.

Virtual Loaner Program:

http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandl...
Sam Raimi stated that the reason for the biological webbing was the implausibility of a high school kid in his room developing a super-strong adhesive that Dow Chemical (or Oscorp) couldn't. The Amazing films, for all their faults, did a pretty good job of justifying his mechano-chemical web shooters (he stole super-webbing from genetically engineered, farmed spiders at Oscorp).
The similarity in names is only a coincidence.
Google Cloud DNS is completely different than Google Public DNS. The former is an authoritative DNS service ("hosting") while Google Public DNS is a resolver.
The problem is the only time you actually have latency issues is when there is not enough bandwidth. Almost nothing is so sensitive that it can't stand for packets to be buffered for 25ms. The problematic latency is when you're sufficiently bandwidth constrained that packets are dropped and have to be retransmitted, in which case you can't drop streaming packets either or else over a matter of seconds the client's buffer will shrink into nothing and the video will start stuttering.
I also disagree with the name of Reddit for startup jobs. It would still be better to call it a "Socially curated startup job board".
This was a big deal on /. when Chrome launched. As several /.ers pointed out, there is a setting for that in Chrome, so it isn't a good reason to prefer one browser over another. http://www.thechromesource.com/how-to-turn-off-search-sugges...
Use customization to lose the extra search bar. Then you can have a single, clearn bar on top.

If you need to access it, command-k is your friend.
Agreed. It's brilliant. The great thing is you can see if that happens by just watching this page: http://demo.baremetrics.io
No API docs, no concept of nesting that I can see (see first point), no streaming mode (so not low-memory), ...

Fun to write, I'm sure, but there are better fast low-level json decoders.
Programming is beautiful and interesting and filled with creative folks who want to express themselves. That's what I see in programming.

Should every creative and expressive person be on a team writing code, hell no - we've seen what they produce and it's not something you ship to people.

The individual themselves though, their ideas and their input and their drive and passion. I enjoy that company and when we gel as a team.

Programming is beautiful.
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It is always right to institutionalize correct ideas, like Newtonian mechanics (while having in mind its later refinements, of course), or the notion that parapsychology doesn't exist.
I'm a marketing consultant with a technical lean, so I also had to learn a lot about development and coding without it being my primary responsibility. Here are some things that helped me:

1. Learning to code. There's no better way to learn than by doing. A basic course on Codecademy should be mandatory for any marketer or salesperson working for a tech product.

2. Reading books like "Dreaming in Code" to empathize with developers and to understand the kids of challenges they face.

3. Read Hacker News to broaden their tech vocabulary and basic knowledge.

4. Your product's documentation.
That quote specifically says there isn't "one true way". You are ignoring the "something as effective as TDD" in the middle of it.
Nope I goofed. It should be PSET not PUTPIXEL. And SCREEN 13 or SCREEN 10h, not SCREEN 13h.
Articulate programming
To me this is basically essential at the moment. Not because I hate change and am stubborn but because many extensions are still completely broken in Australis, and many websites are and will always be broken by badly implemented popup status bars
One of the first things I notice after installing, the text on the Gmail buttons is blank (I can see the button outline but can't see the text so I have to rely on the tooltips). Kind of a deal-breaker.
Much of how the USPS operates, including how much they charge and what services they offer to other businesses, is mandated by Congress. They don't have any choice.
They are completely unresponsive, at least in my experience.
It might.

The associated paper makes the assumption that for every division of rent, some room is acceptable. However, the lemma itself makes no such demand, but only guarantees the existence of an approximate rent division. The algorithm given refines the rent division iteratively, so an upper spend limit only means you might end up with rooms assigned and a portion of the rent unpaid. You could then fix the underfunded tenant's room and iterate on the others, but there's no longer a guarantee that the others wouldn't envy the bum's rent.
45 seconds of "latency" to be exact!
When we say "bad", let's remember that that's very close to the speed of light through fiber.
I guess I didn't mean nondeterministic in the philosophical indeterminism sense, but in the sense that different runs might produce different behavior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm
I'm struggling to find any sort of counter argument that isn't, "But we get to make something cool!" Which is wrong, because most of our time, we're coding up something that shits CSVs so someone can go into a meeting and highlight some menial point to other managers.
I remember a trade unionist saying: "a good deal is one that everyone's unhappy with".
Anti-Post Office hatchet job:

> So having worked on the Hill they knew of the USPS’s well-documented inefficiencies. As they describe it, they “knew that the USPS would not be able to work out its own problems, so perhaps naively, we hoped to partner with USPS to provide an alternative to the physical delivery of postal mail to a subset of users, hoping this would spur further innovation and cost savings.”

The Post Office is insanely efficient. The only reason it has budget problems is because Congress causes the budget problems. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/28/330524/postal-no...
The link is https://demo.baremetrics.io :)
Of course there's always ways around things, but browser vendors have to (unless in specific cases) cater for the general public who don't know about personalisation. These are the people who need safe defaults most.

As power users, we tend to ignore the power of default settings. Their values have to be chosen carefully because only a small part of the public are even aware of them.

Several commenters here seem to imply that they shouldn't be the ones personalising their browsers. Turns out it's the other way around: they are the ones who know how to personalise it, whereas defaults should be about users who don't know how to do it.
What to do with $10k of marketing dollars
Do you really need to eat your vegetables? Deliberating dropping out  MIT.
That approach is directly suggested in the accompanying article. The suggested problem is that square footage may not be sufficient to express the actual value preference difference between rooms. For instance, as the article suggests, what is the value of having a window?

That's, thus, exactly the neat part of this algorithm. So long as the participants are honest then it converges on an "envy-free" set of room selections and prices. In other words, by using only your own preference for room-X-at-price-Y it builds a set of compatible room-X-at-price-Y choices provided to each participant such that they've shown they would not want to trade with anyone else for their room-X-at-price-Y option.

The beauty of this is that the entire interface is done through these room-X-at-price-Y preferences and options so it abstracts over technical details like the relative value of a window. It's simply up to the participants to decide what they value.
How Squarespace’s CEO Pivoted to Scale for Millions
Other businesses are also not required to pre-fund their pensions and few other businesses are not required to go to congress for a price increase.

The cost of mail has not kept up with inflation, there are some very expensive routes available for 49 cents, and they are one of the very few government services expected to be revenue neutral.

Thus, junk mail.
It would be completely unsurprising.
The sourcecode of a hypothetical Github commenting bot searching for this vulnerability will have the same search token, and will be flagged.
You know what I love about these kinds of posts and articles? It's their awesome logics: private entities (who, naturally, seek to maximize their profits) are damaging net neutrality (to make profit); therefore, we should limit the government (FCC). My natural reaction whenever I see FCC being bashed over net neutrality is, "either there is some weird causal fuckup somewhere, or logics stops working; either way, WTF?"
If your tests take 10 seconds, how much did you really test?

The point it sounds like he's trying to make is that if you say things like "they were nightmares that too many minutes to run" you may be approaching testing from the wrong point of view. He sounds like he wants to say "let the tests take 5 minutes" and I agree with him, thats what CI is for. Commit your code, mark the issue your fixing, let CI tell you if its done or not, take your pomodoro break, coffee break, etc, then sit back down, and pick back up with your test results on the CI server and repeat the cycle, a 5 minute test suite is NOT A BAD THING...

If you think 5 minutes is terribly long spare a thought for us deployment engineers... my test suite involves building and tearing down entire VM's or PXE booted machines and depending on what software is being built and tested through deployment can take an hour or more.
There’s a lot of discourse on whether to “drop out” of college to work on a company. I think current conversations are important, but misdirected.  Namely, the question “Should I dropout?” misrepresents the end people are striving to achieve.

Instead I think people should focus on big ambitious things they'd like to accomplish in their lives, then enable themselves towards them.

I want to keep conversation on campus and in the community going on this topic. I feel it's important. Specifically at MIT president Reif is looking to revamp undergrad education-- we may be able to provide some insights.
I just found out, that you can rotate images with the rotation gesture on OS X with Firefox.
> One often thought is that the technology is too dangerous to share with people or governments considering the bad things they might do with their creations.

When one hero does this, it's reasonable. When every science hero does this, it's suspicious. It's mostly visible in the Marvel Universe, which is notably science-hero-heavy. The fact that civilians aren't driving around in flying cars in Marvel is incredibly conspicuous.

And yeah, the commercial applications of spideyglue are obvious and numerous, even with its short lifespan.
Unless you're in tight loops you wont notice this perf hit. Disk, Network, and DOM manipulation will be the 99% time sinks.
Elasticsearch buys the domain es.io for $30,000 – hack.ly
But is is a disservice to under-design systems to not accomodate real usage capacity.

You should always have 10% more hardware available than what your peak usage is, so when that goes up you have wiggle room to move your boundaries up more.

That, or you advertise your service as 10 - 20MB/s during non-peak hours, and throttled rates from 6 - 12. Which would naturally drive consumers who want the bandwidth to distribute the load throughout the day.
Start off designing furiously, get that Super Slick Packaging, and then switch to Sales/Marketing until the end.

Final Cash:
$1,633,350.26

Final Valuation:
$147,397,541.20
I think it's more the fact that this one is "hidden" in the beginning than anything else, but there are possible rationalizations one might conjecture as to why at that age.
I believe you can't using the Customize UI, but for a hacky solution you could add spaces in bookmark titles, like this: http://cl.ly/image/2Q2b3L3c061a
"Is that called arrayReverse?"

"s/camel/_/"

"Cool thanks."

> Wasn't that guy helpful? With the camel? Doesn't that seem like an appropriate response? No? Good. You can still find Jesus.

That made perfect sense. Aw crap.
Fair enough. I just thought it was silly to call it a Reddit for X
There are plenty of reasons the $1M might have not found a psychic new owner yet.

(1) Randi is condescending and downright nasty to people who identify as psychics. $1M might not be worth being in his presence, let alone scrutinized by him.

(2) Randi has a lot invested in being right, so the tests could be downright rigged

(3) Many psychics propose all humans radiate quasi-electromagnetic energy, and their power comes from consciously directing it. Randi could therefore be unintentionally interfering.

(4) The test could be inadequate to describe the psychic phenomenon. For example, the psychic could be skilled at generating a particularly strong placebo effect, which would get written off regardless.

(5) The results might dismissed because they would invalidate too many existing theories, all of which have been constructed on the assumption that psi does not exist. A frequently accepted circular argument.

I'm not saying any of these explanations are true, but I am saying that no one knows either way.
> So from what I can tell, the regulation of the BT-owned "last mile" seems to have created a market with real competition - which can only be good for consumers.

You shouldn't conflate the "regulation" that net-neutrality proponents are calling for in the U.S. with the "regulation" of BT. BT started out as a public corporation, which was privatized in the late 1980's and early 1990's. This privatization was accomplished with an express eye to ensuring that BT would continue to have incentives to invest in its network, and investors had notice of the terms of the arrangement.

What net neutrality proponents in the U.S. are arguing for is an additional layer of restrictions on existing networks that were built with private capital.
Tab sandboxing is planned to be part of the ongoing e10s (Electrolysis).