skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And that's why none of the films made by The Asylum* are eligible to the "so bad it's good" category. They never had any ambition of being good in the first place, so why bother?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum
Can you give some numbers of your past experience?
How do you get that? Massachusetts's average is 13.5 Mbps. Japan is 12.8. New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware are 12 and up, above Switzerland, Sweden, Czech Republic, etc. The dense U.S. states compare very favorably to the top-5.

South Korea is the outlier because half the country lives in a single megacity with the density of San Francisco. The U.S. can't compete with that geographic advantage.
It's not high at all.

I have never worked with node though... so maybe it's ... sort of ... "fast for node". Not fast in absolute terms.
I'm not talking about the Shuttle but making a general point. You're talking as if SpaceX had invented the concepts of experimentation, testing and simulation, and as if such concepts were foreign to NASA, which I find an absurd position to take.
¿Only works on linux?
Just our realtime system, and we run some asynchronous tasks with Go now, specifying to replace a few things that were done by Celery previously.

See this shitty thing I wrote to bridge the gap: https://github.com/mattrobenolt/go-celery :)
That's what I was thinking, too. That's merely around 13,000 messages per second per core. Rates like that weren't all that impressive on low end server hardware a decade ago, so I'd hope that it's even less impressive today when using more modern hardware (or even VMs).
As an econometrician I cannot believe how many times he said 'magic'. There is something very wrong when you put things in your model 'because, who knows, it might be helpful' (like he did with host names). Variable selection is a very hard problem and using 'magic' is asking for problems. It is so disappointing to see machine learning, statistics, econometrics deal with similar problems and fail to learn from one another.
The energy content is significant, but it would have to be both transferred and absorbed.

As you note, odds of it interacting with some bit of you are relatively low. I disagree with your baseball comparison, as the result of the collision would be a cascade of secondary particles. Each of which would likely have only a small chance of interacting with yet another bit of you before exiting your body.

The net result would be something like firing a cannonball (or bullet) at a series of bead curtains. Most of the time, the bullet would miss. Occasionally it might strike one or more beads. Those then would also mostly miss the other beads within the curtain, though some might strike and cause secondary effects. Most of the energy would simply transit the curtain system as a whole. Or maybe even at sheets of laced (punched-out) tissue paper. The target simply doesn't have the capability to absorb the energy of the particle.

A more accurate answer would require some subatomic particle modeling, past my pay grade.
Oops, I didn't mean to type "orderLine" in camel case. I usually use underscores in the entity and attribute names, and separate them with a dash, like "order_line-item_sku". That way, I can distinctly select the entity or attribute, or easily search for all attributes for a given entity, like "order_line-".
That's interesting. Maybe we should try sports earlier than planned, then...
The Physics Diet
I wrote an article on negotiation when I was a trial attorney that is applicable to most situations.

"Ten Rules of Negotiation"

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=641BD45A41B1BD6C!645&a...
Stanford MBA students told George W. Bush is smarter than you
A quick search yields a lot of patents that Tesla Motors own which you can view here: http://www.faqs.org/patents/assignee/tesla-motors-inc/

They've got some patents on some pretty key pieces of functionality and technology which they'll be licencing out no doubt in the future when other car makers come to the table. This is what I meant about 50% of Tesla's future revenue possibly coming from licencing out their technology.

The crucial part of an electric vehicle is the batteries and if you look through the list of patents which Tesla Motors is the assignee, they've got tonnes of patents on functionality based around the batteries; temperature sensors, voltage sensors, connectors, pressure sensors and smart charging tech, battery shields and more. Sure, not all patents they've filed are in use, but it does show Tesla are at the forefront of electric vehicle tech.

Think for a moment in 2009 General Motors Vice Chairman Robert Lutz told The New Yorker "All the geniuses here at General Motors kept saying lithium-ion technology is 10 years away, and Toyota agreed with us – and boom, along comes Tesla. So I said, 'How come some tiny little California startup, run by guys who know nothing about the car business, can do this, and we can't?' That was the crowbar that helped break up the log jam."

I think this one quote sums up what Musk and the countless others who work at Tesla Motors have done, they spurned a revolution.

Yes, some people get caught up in the "aura of Elon Musk" but you've got to understand the bigger picture here, it's bigger than Musk, Tesla Motors are revolutionising the electric car industry which was basically non-existent before they came onto the scene. Nobody wanted to take on the risk of investing hundreds of millions of dollars into something that people might not want. The Global Financial Crisis most likely was a deterring factor for some companies considering the thought of entering the electric vehicle car space.
In addition to their overlaid streaming comments on videos (think youtube) and live streams (justin.tv/twitch, etc) they actually have a section for live tv[1].

[1] http://jk.nicovideo.jp/
There's absolutely nothing wrong with questioning something that somebody has worked on. In fact, such questioning should be encouraged.

Good ideas and creators will be able to withstand such scrutiny without any problems at all. Bad ones can use it as an opportunity to improve.
Out of interest how does your wiki integrate with your workflow? Or, in other words, what do you use it for?
Maybe Kibana + ElasticSearch + fluentd
More Than 100 Tech Companies Come Together To Defend Net Neutrality
Good observation, was also curious to know this.
Well it's still unclear Facebook is a good business, they're hardly a good example. I, for one, think it's hilarious how much money goes into the social black hole with minimal appreciable return. But hey, that black hole also pays my bills!
Agree 100%. I had the same thought process and assumed it was a tool for websites until I noticed the Objective-C syntax in the code screenshots.
I think s/he meant: where did you get the transcripts? How did you get the timing info for the vid/audio clips, etc.

Great implementation!
This may not be quite what you're looking for, but here's mine:

http://dnr.im/tech/articles/ff/
I'm nervous about any JavaScript because when Natural Language Processing was offered as a Coursera course, the first homework assignment had you searching for the obvious JS solutions and casing for them.
Convert Matlab plots to Interactive D3.js charts
It really annoys me that the website doesn't even say what the product is / who it is intended for.
Actually, there's a performance hit when drawing directly (via [UIView drawRect:])

The point of PaintCode is to allow dynamic manipulation of an image. If you don't need a dynamic image, the best option is a .png; second option is drawing once to a UIImage.
Oh, they meant moral panics over games. I'm against that too but it's boring.

What I'd really be interested in would be a history of in-game panics across MMORPGs and similar things. That would be interesting since it involves humans interacting in a novel fashion in contrast to the predictable politic garbage around dogs showing for the dog-whistle issues.
Marc Andreessen on the Choices of High Tech Geniuses
The Illustris project: a large cosmological simulation of galaxy formation
Unlikely, the positive reviews aren't humorous and this film is basically unknown except to people like me who are obsessed with marketing flops.
https://hn.algolia.com/#!/all/forever/prefix/0/by%3Asaraid21...
My friends and I made a parody of 2048 inspired by all the controversy about Threes and 2048, and how the latter is too easy. Your goal is to fill the board and run out of moves as quickly as possible, but there's an AI playing against you, so it's harder than it sounds.

We'd really appreciate any feedback and thoughts about the game, or criticism about bringing another unnecessary 2048 variant into the world.
what a lovely design!
nobody said the monitoring service has to run on the same machine as the application. you could mirror the app server port and feed the traffic into a completely different monitoring machine.
As for the clips, that was like 90% of the work. I didn't want mediocre results diluting the really good quotes. I was able to scrape some from abandon websites, but I had to capture most of them myself. There are about 22k in total.
That's exactly the recent criticism of 'big data': engineers and others getting correlations they don't understand from all the data they can collect, and attempting to use them for who knows what.
Apparently Dudes Who Use Female Avatars In MMORPGs Aren’t Doing It Right
Don Knuth's Lecture – May 7th 2014 – Slide text
Your crc32 files appear to have a GPL license on them. You cannot legally relicense / derive works from them under your own license.
I was finding it hard to understand why it wasn't differentiable (guess my maths is getting a bit rusty) until I read the below[0] which helped it make sense to me:

>The function has detail at every level, so zooming in on a piece of the curve does not show it getting progressively closer and closer to a straight line. Rather between any two points no matter how close, the function will not be monotone.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
I made a similar snippet of JS code earlier today (never got around to posting it). It's pure JS and only a few lines that devs can add to their sites. Feel free to use or modify it as needed: https://gist.github.com/matthewdfuller/69f990f58f1e0850443e
What's up with the weird digitalized Miles Davis tune in the background?
The array type is actually one of the most interesting, I'd love to see the performance implications of those specifically covered in more detail.
It's Linux only because epoll, which it is based on, is a Linux system call.
The new firefox dev tools are sexy af
Wow — beautiful.
SpaceX has already stated that the lifetime of the reusable rocket is 50 launches maximum, assuming it is recovered intact every launch.

If the cost of those launches drops by a significant margin (such as a 90% reduction as suggested), there will be many more launches as every country with two pennies to rub together launches communications and land monitoring satellites.
F.C.C. Commissioner Asks for Delay on New Net Neutrality Rules
I had always assumed that it was because Apple controlled both the client and server infrastructure in that case? Whereas with web browsing, they obviously don't control of the servers.
Gramofon, a Sonos contender?
That's more or less the idea behind Perlin noise. Start with a low frequency high amplitude smooth function, then sum it together while increasing the frequency and decreasing the amplitude.

See here for more: http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm
Mercedes recently announced their new tesla based car http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/27/autos/mercedes-tesla-b-class...
Every function with a Fourier series will have an infinite number of non-zero Fourier coefficients unless it's merely a finite sum of sinusoids. (Like, obviously.) So yeah, those are "everyday" Fourier series.
The Psychology of Bubbles
yeah, they mentioned that they built this for another project that does algorithmic trading, so probably they haven't cleaned all the connections up.
Ask HN: Bigger startup is stealing my features, what do i do?
I run a bootstrapped start-up by myself in a niche industry. I have built it over the past 5+ years and just recently it started to take off. Other startups have started to pop-up and have noticed me, but one in particular is copying my features.

Their cloned features aren't nearly as good, but my fear is that this is just the start.

I know how the game is played... companies steal other companies stuff all the time. Just look at the app stores. I also know the fact they are copying me means my idea is vindicated.

The problem is that I am just one person and this particular start-up has around 3 employees and a million dollars in funding. I don't make enough money to hire an employee full-time. So I am in an extremely tough spot.

So what do you guys suggest I do? Any advice?

I could be extremely aggressive about this and pose as a user of theirs and write negative reviews online. The hope would be to nab popular "review" keywords in Google so their users find them and stay clear. Though I am not sure if that's worth my time when I could use it improving my product.
Thanks! I sent them an email. If anyone else is reading this later, my code is here: https://gist.github.com/matthewdfuller/69f990f58f1e0850443e

It's pure JS and simulates the old dial-up-style loading of pages.
This is not a good generalization. I've usually only seen this issue with optimization problems when:

1) You haven't played with parameters
2) Implementation is not correct (usually the case with genetic algos, since it requires a reasonable amount of domain expertise vs say GD)
Why are you putting 200 lines of code into the console?
Google Ventures Leads $130M Round For Medical Software Company Flatiron Health
Samsung Launches KNOX 2.0
Whereas I can't watch recorded sports for the most part. I always feel like "why don't I just fast forward to the end?"

YMMV as they say.
It's 100% boilerplate. The whole "handicapping" debate that pops up every ICC thread is likely several years out of date (not that I don't expect to see it again and again for the next decade or two).

Case in point, take bench completion time on a Xeon supercomputer [1]. Compare that to relative completion time on an Opteron supercomputer [2] (for both, lower is better). If that's Intel's compiler handicapping AMD performance, I wonder what GCC is trying to do?

[1]: http://www.nersc.gov/users/computational-systems/edison/perf...

[2]: http://www.nersc.gov/assets/_resampled/resizedimage730421-ho...
Whitepaper: http://www.samsung.com/ca/business-images/resource/white-pap...
What he was trying to explain is called homoiconicity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 Is… Vurb
Consider this function:

f(x) = sum[n = 0 to infinity]((1/2)^n sin((1/20)^n pi x))

It converges because each successive term is bounded by [-1/2, +1/2]. But if you integrate it you get:

f(x) = sum[n = 0 to infinity](10^n / pi cos((1/20)^n pi x))

(Well... you get that if you play fast and loose about swapping the order of the integral and the sum)

Which diverges because the input to the cosine function limits to 0 as n -> infinity, so the cos limits to 1, and we get 10+100+1000+10000...

But if you integrate from two points and delay doing the limit until after then you get

F(x1, x2)
= sum[n = 0 to infinity](10^n / pi (cos((1/20)^n pi x2) - cos((1/20)^n pi x1)))
= sum[n = 0 to infinity](10^n / pi (2*sin(pi/2 (1/20)^n (x1-x2))*sin(pi/2 (1/20)^n (x1+x2)))

Which, for large n, acts like:

~= sum[n = 0 to infinity](10^n / pi (2*(pi/2 (1/20)^n (x1-x2))*(pi/2 (1/20)^n (x1+x2)))
= sum[n = 0 to infinity]((1/40)^n pi/2 *(x1-x2)(x1+x2))

Which converges.

Apologies for any math mistakes. This was all off the cuff. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the more general integration or summation strategies can also handle this case.
That's because Bloomberg moved all the homeless to the Bronx and outskirts of the city...
Considering it's practically the speed of light, one needs only to figure out the direction the particle was travelling in and point a telescope in the opposite direction. You will be able to see whatever it was that created it within 3 microseconds of the particle's creation.

EDIT: calculation error
I really hope your first instinct isn't to post fake negative reviews, it won't work out well.

You have a few options:

1) Just keep doing what you are doing the best you can do and stop using a measuring stick against copy-cats. Don't get into a feature-creep war.

2) Focus on your existing users and work hard to retain them and use them to generate more growth. Get them to talk about your product positively.

3) Find out how those people are getting users instead of you and try to replicate that.

Competition is a good thing, it means there is a need. Your feature set is only a small part of what users want, so make sure you are nailing other areas like support and satisfaction.
I'm tired of hearing that argument. Chromium !== Chrome.

Call me back when Chromium, not Chrome, wins a 20% share of the browser market.
>The speed hierarchy of operations is:
>
> comparisons
> (u)int add, subtract, bitops, shift
> floating point add, sub (separate unit!)
> ...
> (u)int division, remainder

This can't be right. A comparison necessitates either a branch or a cmov, and there's no way that either of those is faster than a basic ALU operation.
Thanks for working on this! I didn't send a patch because I have terrible colour sense and haven't bothered checking for light backgrounds. I figured you knew about defface and already had plans for that at some point. I haven't played with faces much myself, so it was more of an excuse to share what I was learning with people. =) Looking forward to the upstream-colorized version!
Not OP, but a solar flare can shoot 20 million packets per second..

http://www.solarflare.com/09-11-12-Solarflares-Industry-Lead...

You need to totally bypass the linux kernel to do this, and have high perf C or Java code...
"How To Win Friends And Influence People" in a nutshell
Thanks for the link. Now I have to brush up on my non-existant Japanese skills.
I'm guessing he doesn't mean branching on a result, he means just comparing two things via cmp.
I'm from Shanghai, ironically, most of the "out of town" license plates you see there are actually results Shanghai residents buying cars from nearby provinces.
In order to counter this, there are rules/restrictions against out of town license plates such as during rush hour or holidays their access to highway is limited, are not allowed to park in certain areas, etc etc.
It's all kind of crazy actually.
Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
Given it sounds like this application is not "web facing" (i.e. not an API nor rendering HTML), the use of any "web framework" or Gorilla doesn't make much sense.
After making sure you're using the correct basic algorithms, cache optimization is probably the one major thing that's really worth thinking about.

Even with hyperthreading and all the other fancy tricks that modern CPUs have, it's still a huge deal. I learned about all this stuff in general terms at university years ago, but it didn't really click until recently that even when the CPU is at 100%, it's very very often stuck waiting for a memory read to complete.
> What's the point of explaining what I'm going through to anyone? What can they do?

I'm a little late to this party, but this is really important: it's not about having the other person "do" something that will magically make you feel better. It is the act of explaining how you feel that is in and of itself therapeutic. I know it doesn't make any sense, but it's true. It has to do with how we are wired to be social creatures. The act of talking to a fellow human being and having them listen is woven deeply into our psyches. That's one of the reasons that the internet is so addictive. But it is also helpful to have an actual living, breathing human being doing the listening instead of some abstract entity on the other end of a TCP connection. So go find someone -- anyone -- and tell them how you feel. Trust me, it will help.
Aliens Invade TechCrunch Disrupt
Hmm. Might be a trade-off between density and longevity then?
Introduction : How to save data in your Android application
No, my first thought was these guys don't have any creative talent and I wish I could tell their CEO that I'm not buying his load of bullshit.

Your comments resonate with me though. After calming down a bit I went back to writing code. I keep telling myself I can only worry about the things I can control. And my product is the only thing I can control and work on improving.

Thanks for commenting.
What's your definition of a "good business"?
"I could be extremely aggressive about this and pose as a user of theirs and write negative reviews online."

That isn't "aggressive", that is morally bankrupt.
Note: I also think the public's LHC worries were unfounded.

One way that the LHC collisions differ from cosmic ray impacts is that the center of mass velocity is much lower. If high energy collisions created small black holes, cosmic rays could make ones that simply zip past at escape velocity (because (lots+0)/2 is still lots) while the LHC ones are captured (because (lots+-lots)/2 can be tiny).
You can’t reasonably even talk about the “speed” of operations in isolation. You can discuss their latency in isolation (in which case a branch or cmov, on average, really is faster than some ALU operations), but that has essentially nothing to do with their actual impact on performance in situ, except for in the most unusual cases.

Throughput is somewhat more reasonable, but then large parts of the hierarchy collapse entirely. A more reasonable approach is to think about resource (ALU, LSU, branch, cache, etc) pressure, but that doesn’t fit nicely into a soundbite and requires actual thought.
If the branch is predictable, and the cpu guesses correctly, then it is faster than integer arithmetic.

A branch miss on the other hand is much more expensive, about 14 cycles last time I was testing (on a core i5 desktop cpu from a few years ago).
Silicon Valley Sees ‘Grave Threat’ in Internet Toll Roads
There are some missing ones.

It says the first IKEA store in Melbourne opened in 2003 at Richmond. This is incorrect.

There was one in Moorabbin which closed its' doors in 2005 and had been open for quite a number of years prior to that.
I have items that I purchased there that still work.

And I'm surprised they never opened a store in NZ.
Most (all?) of the algorithms on the chart iteratively optimize an objective. However, most of the objectives are convex or otherwise admit an optimization strategy that performs better than a genetic algorithm.
UCL and others have done (and are actively doing) really cool work on MPTCP.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi11/design-implementati...

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi12/technical-sessions/...

Others: http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php/Researchers/References
Is it ethical to scrape from a scraper?
> I believe 64-bit ARM (AArch64) instructions are still only 32 bits long

Correct, but I wouldn’t say “still”, since some “thumb” AArch32 instructions are 16b.
Something is wrong with this. A dot appears in Southeast Michigan in 1985 when "Philadelphia (Conshohocken)" scrolls past. We're not anywhere near there, and the first IKEA in this area (excluding stuff in Canada, a couple hours away) opened in 2006.

What's interesting is that if I go to 2006 and find "Detroit (Canton)" and scrub back and forth this dot disappears and reappears.
Acquisitions were much much smaller in those days.
Yep. One whole day at least. Should be more! :)
The best solution I've seen so far is bind mounting /dev/log to a syslogd on the host and making sure everything in the container logs to syslog.

I would be pretty happy if Docker just had a simple implementation of /dev/log by default, so containers could rely on it being there. Then you could easily redirect everything to a production grade syslogd.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/kind-of-bloo...