skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the same situation 4 years back. Being an immigrant it takes some effort on our side to assimilate in the society and for introverts like me (us) it takes a lot more.
First thing I noticed is that I had a very low self-confidence. I've been an introvert all my life with only few friends.
Firstly, what changed my life is getting a fitness club membership. It wasn't easy in the beginning seeing all those big guys.
So I used to exercise late nights after 11p.m only because i was too self-conscious. My first friend in the city was a cop, he used to exercise off hours.He taught me lifting weights and that changed everything. He was like a coach.He wasn't like a friend i can hang out but that was fine.
I felt better and better about myself as I got stronger.
Secondly, I was a regular at start-up weekends and other business events .I made friends with couple of developers and business people. I was looking to make friends with them but they were only "networking". Later, one of them asked me if I wanted to be his roommate so we can work on cool ideas together. Slowly, I became friends with his friends.
Also, I used to hang out at a 24/7 coffee shop and met other developers and designers.
Thirdly, I volunteered at a local animal shelter. I made friends while we walk the dogs and clean the cats :-) .I met my ex-gf there.
Also I read lots of books on the art of small talk and how to master conversation skills. Recorded my voice and practiced my accent until it got better.
Hey Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock.
Good luck!!
Understanding and Managing Your Digital Footprint
Methanol.
A degree/certificate/certification is a signal based on reputation of granting institution, requisite work, and quality of others possessing the signal.

I am a huge fan of udacity, so I personally would take a udacity nano degree at higher value than an average certificate. I think their pedagogical approach delivers 2-5x the average course hour worth of knowledge per udacity hour. (1 he udacity ~= 2-5 hrs normal course).

Right now there's an enormous pool of self taught developers who can only point to portfolios to demonstrate their competence, and a portfolio is heavily, heavily bias able with a little bit of sales and marketing talent.

In the long run, the question is: how much do you have to know to get the nano degree?
This has been going on in the HFT space for a number of years. FPGA's are used to parse data feeds as the sheer volume of quotes overwhelms most systems.

In fact after moving the networking stack into user land and using inifiniband networking gear, its probably the third most common optimization I've seen/heard of for HFT systems.

Here's a quick, but surprisingly accurate description of a common HFT setup: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/01/07/what-is-the-tec...

Some one had asked about hte number of quotes that need to be parsed. From forbes...

> Mr. Hunsader: The new world is now a war between machines. For some perspective, in 1999 at the height of the tech craze, there were about 1,000 quotes per second crossing the tape. Fast forward to 2013 and that number has risen exponentially to 2,000,000 per second.

Keep in mind that the "tape" is the slow SIP line that exchanges use to keep prices in sync and show customers that don't use the exchanges direct feeds. ie it aggregates all the quotes from all venues and throws a way alot as they can't be parsed in time or didn't change the top level quote.

With 40+ venues at which a HFT fund can get feeds from 2,000,000 second is a fraction of what a cutting edge HFT would have to parse to keep up with all venues.

The typical setup is that you'll run strategies across multiple machines so you have the gateway machine that directs the quote to the appropriate machine. The biggest problem is the speed at which the quotes arrive.

Unlike a web request, that you can take 300 milliseconds to parse and return, if you don't parse and respond to the quote in under 10-20 micro seconds you've already lost.

So the FPGA transition is to make sure there is never a back log of quotes or any pauses in the handling of bursty quotes. This can't be overstated enough. Margins are squeezed so tightly now that your algo will appear to be working fine until a big burst of quotes happen and your machines can't keep up and when the dust settles in 20 seconds, you'll find you lost $5000, which might be your entire day's profit from that one symbol/algo pair.
The Ultimate Guide to App User Engagement
(Anonymous bc this is a very honest comment.)

I'm a massive introvert who spends most of his time coding, playing video games or Magic the Gathering, and my life has devolved 3 times into full-blown WoW addiction -- the fool's gold life people take on when they feel their real one sucks.

I have almost no friends, hate making plans and, generally, would rather be alone. "Hell is other people" is my motto.

And of course, this lack of relationships makes me very sad sometimes. The short term desire to be alone leads to long term sadness.

But here's where our stories diverge: I'm a tall, likeable (when I want to be), charismatic, good-looking, athletic white guy and can pick up women at will.

And yet, even though I can turn on the charm at will and get what I want (coincidentally, I'm a sales engineer), I'm still totally alone most of the time. This makes me feel like an outsider, an outcast, a loner, etc and the sadness can get uncomfortably dark.

So here's my point: As someone said earlier it's our desire to be alone that's the real problem, not what you look like or what your accent sounds like.

Introversion is a constant sabotage of happiness. If you don't maintain and work at friendships consistently over a long period of time, they will deteriorate. And doing that is nearly impossible for a "hell is other people" introvert.

The best solution, I've found, is to take the plunge and join a structured organization or group that you can't easily get out of. Being in college, specifically a fraternity, was the best time of my life. It forced me to be social and interact with other people, even when I didn't really want to. I think a healthy work environment with other people your age can help, too. It did for me.

One other note: I felt the same "Why is everyone else out having fun and I'm not?" feeling very profoundly in my mid-to-late 20s. It was a consuming, jealous, rage-inducing feeling. But now I'm 33 and I haven't felt that in years now. I don't even know why. Did I stop thinking that was a desirable thing? Or did I just give up?

TL;DR

1. Don't blame your appearance or awkwardness. The real problem is your short term desire to be alone.
2. Join a social or work structure that forces you to interact with others.
3. The jealousy of others' social activity should dissipate with age. Mine did.

p.s. Also, get off of Facebook. People are only posting pictures of their happy times, so all you get is an artificial stream of happy happy happy. This will inevitably make you feel worse. Facebook image crafters are probably just as unhappy as everyone else. They're working awfully hard to prove otherwise, aren't they?
Already a front page story on this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7899262
Microsoft to provide drag-and-drop machine learning on Azure
A Brief introduction to mobile and tech accessibility
>How might the fact that I like some certain artists affect me in the future?

Constellations of consumer interests might be enough to create a high likelihood that you're gay, a drug user, sympathize with anti-tax protesters, or with anti-globalization protests. The next algorithm to be run over your profile might benefit greatly from this initial filtering, and depending on the distinctness of the constellation, may not result in very many false negatives.

The second algorithm auto-authorizes full text email and full audio telephone collection and review. </dystopia>
Level 3 to Buy TW Telecom for $5.7 Billion
Is this really about introversion? You have a hard time with the language and you want to socialize. I would recommend first finding an asian group of friends that mixes with non-asians. That way to can hang out, get translated and slowly integrate into non-asian groups as well. It will take time, enjoy the process and be patient.
It's pretty common in the US (don't know about UK or EU).

Whenever I'm starting up a side project, I generally ask for a written waiver covering the scope of the project, signed by someone with sufficient authority (usually officer of the company, though different companies have different policies). That's important, because your boss may not have authority to commit the company to such things. Ask HR who does have that authority.

IANAL, but in my experience being told verbally "that's cool" means precisely nothing when the company decides it's not cool. Having something in writing changes that.
We're already there on Android. The only reason we aren't there with Apple is because they release so infrequently.
When I lived in Columbia, SC, we couldn't buy anything on Sunday mornings before noon. There were a few exceptions, mostly stuff like food and medicine. I tried to buy a broom and some cleaning supplies at 11am and every store that I went to told me to come back in an hour.

I felt like I was being punished for not being a church goer. It was an odd experience.
I think that's a little harsh. Vendor-specific certifications have earned a bad rep, some more than others, but that doesn't mean there's no advantage in any educational recognition short of a degree from an accredited university.

I wonder if the Udacity, in a few years, will be an accredited university capable of granting degrees?
Linode CPU cores are aligned with plan sizes.[1] The last generation of plans offered 8 cores across the board.[2] The hosts have more than 8 cores.[3]

[1] https://www.linode.com/pricing

[2] https://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardwa...

[3] http://ark.intel.com/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...
No doubt, Barney the Purple Dinosaur is also Satan! I have proof! http://www.fivesolas.com/barney.htm

/me rolls his eyes, and moves on.
India's forgotten holocaust
Speaking as an extrovert who is very comfortable talking to just about anyone about anything, I recommend reading classic books on good conversation as well (starting with How to Win Friends and Influence People). Even naturally talented communicators can benefit from studying time-proven analysis of why and how our communication techniques work.

For people with Aspberger's or other non-neurotypical issues (and I suspect a lot of "introverts" in our industry are actually just self-conscious Aspies), treating human behavior and motivation as a game-theory kind of exercise can be more productive than a million baffling attempts at conversation. Turning the black box into a white box with known rules helps a great deal when it comes to grasping the inputs and outputs.

Look at it this way... would you tell someone trying to learn to program to skip the books and just practice? Computers are incredibly complex, and there are decades of theory and understanding captured in classic books that can put you ahead of the game. There's a bright line between the learn-by-doing hackers and the engineers who take the time and effort to study the masters of the craft.

Humans are far more complex, subtle, and difficult than computers, and the masterpiece works of human behavior and communication are often centuries old. Study and be better!
Find interesting groups in meetup. Im from Chile and I meet a lot of people by joining running group, yoga group, etc. Good luck!
I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards.

I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking about really different hardware (780 Mb/s vs 250 Mb/s)

http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode
http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean

Maybe someone with both accounts can do a quick benchmark to verify or deny this data.
I was an introverted Asian in high school, how I learned to wane out of it is alcohol. I'm not saying I'm dependent on alcohol, but it teaches you to not care and just be more social, which you can try to slowly bleed into your personality when you're sober.
Nice idea!

On backend, how do you authenticate the email sender? Would someone be able to flood a task list by spoofing an email ID?
Personally I run a Ventrilo server on a free-tier AWS. Better than paying for a lifetime server with only 5 slots, considering mine is unlimited, free for the first year, and probably under $5 a month after that (plus it's always good to know I have an always-available Linux server outside my LAN for various reasons, so that makes the $5 a month worth it when the free plan ends).
I've been keeping a casual eye on them -- they seem to be selling to big customers, but at $750k apiece. They're also the size of a bike shed, and generate 100 kW.

This is the size of a stack of CDs, and generates 1 kW. (Which is enough for lights, tv, etc, but generally not the stove.)
Grails.nV: The vulnerable Grails application
Fox News during the day[1] isn't terrible other than their love of the same "hot" story but their is really no difference between them and CNN these days. MSNBC is 100% pundits all the time to the embarrassment of NBC's actual news staff. If you mean the IRS or Benghazi as false stories then we would have a bit of a disagreement given the documents the gov has released and that whole e-mail story.

Yahoo is an aggregator for normal news and does have quite a bit of original content in selected verticals. I will say they point to local papers that tend to get it right. I don't see any advantage to the "putting it in context" when it is such a prejudice and not-very-well-facted-check lens. The NYT (like CNN) is riding on an old reputation.

CNN asked if a black hole could be responsible for a missing airline flight.

1) at night is a whole different story - everyone has pundits everywhere
How power napping might save you hours of work
Health Apps Are Headed Toward A HIPAA Showdown
One thing that infuriates me whenever a company decides to do this is that we'll see politicians from both sides of the aisle laud this as an important and meaningful step, all the while oblivious to the irony that at one point, it was the federal government's mandate and responsibility to provide exactly this for its citizenship. So now we're supposed to just rely on the random benevolence of companies to provide investment into social infrastructure? Let's hope that never stands in the way of their profits -_-
Can't find pricing...? Am I blind?
One Month at Discourse
How the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings Affected This Year's Attendance
Tips to evolve a startup into a successful company
Exciting developments on the load balancing front. Is anyone able to decipher whether this can be used to load balance external (non-google) services? It looks like the input parameter is simply an external IP, but I haven't looked that closely yet.
Not a useful metric unless both use absolutely identical criteria for posting.
Any newly created Linode will land on a host with full SSD storage.
Probably for the same reason Apple and Google both produce their own browser - it's too important a part of the user experience to delegate responsibility for it to a third party.

It's unlikely Google would suddenly turn around and say they're no longer producing Chrome for Windows, for example, but it's not impossible.
Nice height converter
A Phone That Lies for You
A related issue few address: how many are willing to do what it takes to work thru an education of whatever level is available? As a sometime professor, I was amazed that about 1/4th of students just didn't do the work (and that's of those who were in fact in the classroom, so the educational opportunity was right there).

Sending the unwilling to college doesn't work. I'd like to know what percentage of "the uncolleged" really want to go, will do what it takes, and intend to actually do something with it afterwards. Just showing up isn't enough, no amount of money will make people learn if they are not inclined to, and no range of opportunity will assure success if they don't actually work at work.
@nicowilliams (github) and cryptonector (HN) are one and the same ;)

It's no secret either, just look at my commit messages' email address :)
I wouldn't vote to hire a candidate solely because of a nanodegree from Udacity but I would consider it a positive signal; not as strong as an MS in CS from Stanford or a long list of published apps, but evidence of a desire for self-improvement and the discipline to act on that.
Maybe Chrome team should have this MemShrink meeting every once in a while. At the current state it will eat every memory available be it 8GB or 16GB system.
You're not blind, lol. We're launching a business tier next which we'll charge for :)
Wow, that's a great article. I'm currently using mobile web stuff (Ionic, Angular, PhoneGap) to prototype some possible mobile apps. It's convenient, but I've been worrying about the long-range performance issues. This gives me a much more detailed way to think about it. That Apple got rid of garbage collection is especially telling.
Is there any breakthrough in programming these things? From a quick glance at the paper it seem like the kernels are still hand written in Verilog. Though there seem to be some significant software infrastructure in integrating the FPGAs into cluster management systems.

I think easily and uniformly programming disparate compute devices (CPUs, SIMD, GPUs, FPGAs, ISPs, DSPs, and eventually quantum) is the next BIG problem in programming languages. Several Haskell projects seem promising, but these still tend to be nice DSLs that generate verilog or shaders.

On most mobile SoCs the CPU usually takes an increasingly smaller part of the die; there are 10gbe network cards with FPGAs on them; and we've got parrella. The hardware exists, we sorely need the next breakthrough programming environment.
Why the Analytics vs. Intuition Debate Misses the Mark
Idea: teach/be a teaching assistant for an extra curricular class in the language you speak most fluently. You'll be able to help people speak your language, and also share your culture with them. Might also help eliminate any communication barriers.
I'm surprised that when you start a new account, Twitter places so much focus on celebrities and so little focus on local users. I'm aware that connecting you with local users would require more personal data, but getting connected with a group of locals provides many more opportunities for real meaningful interaction.
I have been thinking a lot about what can be done in this space but have felt the need to find some smart people working on the field so I could get an entry point into existing work. This is exactly what I have been hoping for!
There's a huge difference between wearing a t-shirt, which makes the information available only to people who see you wearing that t-shirt, and becoming a fan of a brand on Facebook, which makes the information available to who knows what Facebook affiliate.

In one scenario, you have full control over when you signal that information and when you stop. In the other, once you send out the signal... congratulations, you're now in several databases and have opened yourself to all sorts of soliciting.
Tim Cook hagiography != world's best journalism

Neither is war propaganda. Or kowtowing to the government on the Snowden documents. The NYT is the shiniest outlet for establishment "news." At a time when the establishment is so rotten, even the NYT can't make it smell nice.
Microservices vs. the monolith
I have been working on building better deployment systems for my Jekyll sites. I opted for using a Bash script for deployment and ended up integrating with CircleCI:

https://github.com/philipithomas/www.philipithomas.com/blob/...

https://github.com/philipithomas/www.philipithomas.com/blob/...
Says the Nordics?
I don't know if this also restores the old tab look, I think not honestly, but I just installed and I wanted to share this here to hear your opinions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-fox-only-...
It looks like the WebRTC Object API might happen for IE13, but no support for the full API is planned.

It looks like IE12 should have the Audio API and getUserMedia, though. That lets you do some interesting things with audio, at least.
Altera and Xilinx are starting to support compiling OpenCL to FPGAs. Not sure how efficient that is, but that is at least a step towards unified programming environment of various types of devices.
Okay, what the heck is with this business of secondary markets for licenses in the US? You can sell a liquor license? You can sell a taxi license (aka medallion)? Why? How does treating licenses as property make any legal sense, or serve any public good?

In the UK, if you want to sell booze from your shop, you write to the council and apply for a license. They check you and your shop out, and if you seem okay, they grant it. If you want to drive a taxi around your town, you write to the council and apply for a license. They check you and your car out, and if you seem okay, they grant it. This seems really simple and, frankly, natural. It's how all sorts of licenses work in the private sector too - think about copyright licenses, tenancies, etc. How on earth do you get from there to licenses being a kind of property?
Clojurescript compiles to Javascript, it does not run on JVM; Clojure does.
Do you worry about people flying planes over your house, looking over your fence, etc?
Cook your steak in the oven with an in-the-oven meat thermometer. Set oven to 250 and cook until proper internal temperature matches preferred doneness
The visualisations are broken for me, Chromium 34.0.1847.137 Debian 7.5 (268882) and Iceweasel 24.5.0.
Here's how. You seem like a decent person. Feel free to reach out to me.

Email me (email in my profile) We can first start with coffee and goto a few events.
My phone conversations aren't supposed to be "on the internet."
Agree. More data does not automatically equal more or better insights. It's a well-known problem in the Market Research world that frequently, more data clouds issues and makes focusing on core problems and insights MORE difficult.

The concept of "don't give suggestions to people who have more data than you do" makes no sense to me at all.

It's very easy when you have mountains of data to spend all your time solving the problem of what the data might mean instead of solving the problem of how best to get people to sign up.

Also, when you look at a thing someone has build or a process someone is using to accomplish a thing and you say, "I really don't like the way this works. Maybe you should try something different." You are, in fact, adding to that mountain of data that twitter already has.

It's up to twitter to go back to the data and ask, "How many other people feel the same way? Did we make this decision based on usability testing? Did we make it because we wanted to make sure we were collecting certain key metrics? Are the reasons we made this decision solidly grounded still?"
if you take a look at http://status.modern.ie/ you can see which major standards / features are in flight. or not, in the case of WebRTC
Pick up Magic: The Gathering.
See stories here: https://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/da....
Is this the link to that presentation http://www.slideshare.net/jooon ?
Regarding the age of entry, I recently walked past a bar in Chicago with a posted minimum age of 23. This struck me as odd (and somewhat offensive). I did a few searches, but had trouble locating any relevant information. Do you happen to know if the legislation provides insight into this sort of practice?