skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, I did not see your question in time. Note that valarray is just a standard API, an implementer can write it as they wish. That said, these kinds of optimizations were indeed a motivation for creating valarray. Standard libraries do use exactly these optimizations in valarray (with some SIMD vectorization thrown in as well). You can also take a look at pixelglow's implementation, he has a comment downstream. It is pity that no one in the standards committee took ownership of valarray and it was included in a semi broken state.
I'm not sure if this is a positive or negative comment, but I'll explain why they do that.

There are two main ways to mask domain name whois information: 1) go through a proxy service, i.e., a company buys the domain under their name and gives you control, or 2) effectively use another entity's contact information with the exception of name, which is what Gandi does.

a) is rather risky to both parties. You do not own the domain, but another entity does. If you somehow lose the domain name or the entity holding the name goes under, you won't be able to get it back because it technically never belonged to you. The holder is also now legally responsible for the domain name.

b) is a much safer route with the constraint that your name must be attached to the domain name. This makes it so you always remain responsible for and the registrant of the domain name. It is yours.
I think backend freelancing is harder than front end which needs some graphics design skills and HTML/css/javascript implementation. Most of the in-house systems are outsourced to contract/consultant companies instead of using freelancing due to the amount of work and time constraint.

With two years of experience, I guess it's too early unless you have intensive experience with many backend systems. Different companies may require different tool set and server stack. So it's hard to cover everything.

I've got a list of questions asked in my Kickstarter project: "How to build a website like an engineer", which may partially qualify you as a competent engineer in the job market. If you think you are over qualified to cover all the topics I provided, maybe it's a good to go. http://kck.st/SY4CXv
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When someone says "off the coast", I would not expect 850 miles of distance. And, even more, when they say "off the east coast", I would not expect it to be almost directly south of the east coast. Those were the points I was attempting to relay.
Agreed. Was simply trying to demonstrate that we're far too comfortable with the consequences of unsafe driving. In any other circumstance we'd all be up in arms.
Strange, I just turned 40 and I feel better prepared than ever :)
Hi,

I'm Ben. Please people pay attention to me!

-Ben
Don't Mock the Water Sommelier
Point it to one of the tens of programming environments for the iPad that also run on the iPad? Like this, for example:

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

And then I'll tell him that with just a Mac (which he might already own) and a $100 dollar subscription, he can program and even sell iPad apps worldwide, to a market of half a billion people.

People seem to forget how, in those 80s computers, to get a compiler (besides the built-in BASIC one) you usually paid lots of money. And that a worldwide distribution network for your apps, with automatic payment handling et al was also out of the question. As was an SDK even 10% as complete as Cocoa Touch or the Android one.
Quirky jumps into home automation with a Linux hub
Three Essential NuGet packages for ASP.NET Applications
I have a hypothesis as to what make fanfic(probably equally applied to novels and original works as well) popular:

The longer and more frequently your work update, the more popular it will be. By how fanfic.net works, it's very much hit driven.

So the advice is that you don't want to post chapters for your stories all at once, and the longer the work, the better. It means you can keep accumulating fans until you finish, which then partly spills over to your author profile.

This is the strategy I am taking with my fanfic as well. The interesting thing is that I haven't gotten over 700 pageviews much on the days I updated, but I am pretty sure if I don't update, I won't get as much traffic. I am pretty sure that traffic to my fanfic will increase as I steadily accumulate followers.
Holy shit that's cool! Makes me want to get a FF phone.. just about now!
Is it weird / bad karma to call this "Lotus"?
You're [1]

[1] http://www.wikihow.com/Use-You're-and-Your
Ask HN:  What if the world's designers and developers collaborated together?
Imagine 10,000 of the world's most talented UI designers, developers, project managers, etc, working together to build the best software possible. Currently, our society has a surplus of information, yet a major deficit of knowledge.

How many of us know how electricity really works? The percentage of electronics users who actually understand the technology they're using is terrifyingly small (myself included). Economics, physics, biology, chemistry... The most productive concepts in life are only understood by such a small percentage of us. Even the basics - manufacturing, construction, education, are lagging so far behind where they could be.

Better software is the answer to life's problems. This means faster software development.*

Software == Communication == Education == Knowledge == Better Living.

* Software development is incredibly tedious and expensive

This is inevitable and in time you'll know it to be true. This movement will change the world. I'm looking for help. Most importantly, I could use a designer / animator to help convey this message more adequately.
Thank you. I came here to say exactly that. There is still an oversupply of houses from the housing bubble.
Art is perhaps more important than engineering.

Engineers maintain the world that we see. They build roads, bridges, the internet, and so forth.

Artist (writers, game designer, etc etc) create things that we can enjoy using the infrastructures that engineers built. Without these artistic creations, the world would be a very boring place.
I use the same products (Fitbit, Withings, Lose-it) and in my case because the Fitbit scale didn't exist at the time.
In 4 year it's always worked for me.

edit: years
I think the misunderstanding is that you're trying to say "hey, this bad thing is possible" but you're wording it in such a way that it sounds like you're saying "hey, this bad thing is happening" and tptacek is taking offense to that claim not coming with any evidence.
There is something very, very wrong/unsustainable at a systems level if people are forced to use cars (or some other singular mode of transportation not based on their own power). Perhaps we need to have goods delivered to us, or have our own supplies of things, or be able to remote in, or whatever...

Indeed, if biking is so dangerous, I propose that there is something wrong with the traffic rules--there's a great writeup about how streets were (at the beginning of the 20th century) almost completely mixed-mode transportation and that car companies pushed for redefining norms to plant the idea that they were only for cars.

You've been brainwashed.
Create a beautiful system – Software Architect
They also spend time and money keeping that dataset up-to-date.
PageRank: A Diagram of Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of Common Intellect [pdf]
Thank you for such a great link. It is also well-maintain. last commit was 2 months ago. Its base is small enough to understand for me too. I like to understand more Ruby by reading the code. However, Rails was so big to me. Thanks again.
I met Nikki in Sydney while at a start-up camp.

I will admit to being slightly jealous because she did get a lot of attention due to what I thought was solely being a tall attractive female that dresses well. However having read this seeing and seeing how this played into her impostor syndrome  has made me re-evaluate my thinking. The attention might be useful, but I can totally understand questioning if its because its who you are or what you are doing. Since everything in the start up world is about what you are doing I can see this attention leaving you with self doubt.

She certainly has done more then I have, and at a far younger age.

Sorry for the bad thoughts Nikki. I had been following 99dresses loosely over the years and I had hoped you would succeed as there are so few start-up stories that come out of Sydney. Wishing you the best of luck with whatever you chose to do in the future.
Hacking and addiction
I have lurked here for a while. I am an engineer that struggles with opiate/opioid addiction. I am curious to know, do you struggle with addiction and have a technology related role at a company?

What is your drug of choice?
Great point about the Bluetooth LE.. I've been doing some BLE investigations recently and one of my apps showed both my Fit Bit One and My Wife's. I've been thinking maybe I could use this to automate some stuff around the house.. ;-)

"Supposedly" it randomizes the BDADDR but it seems everytime I look it's the same for both devices.
Intuitively, this makes sense at human scales.

But microprocessors are tiny. The i7 4770, which is in my machine right now, has a die size of 177mm^2. The die has a thickness of 775um, for a volume of ~137mm^3.

Even if you made the whole processor out of helium, you could make 100,000 of them out of a single 14 liter party balloon.

The Zeppelin NT, which holds 8225m^3 of helium, contains enough for 60 billion high end processors.
This is very similar to what Brad and team did at Perfect Audience (recently acquired by Marin Software). I always liked being able to create my own custom segments off of regex pattern matching.
I'm not saying your math is wrong, but I'm confused as to how the breakeven can be a 7% cut when the capital gains rate is 15%. Can you explain why my intuition is wrong here?
I would suggest that the court avoid ruling on the issue and instead pursue along the lines of perjury and obstruction of justice which provide a pretty wide latitude, given that 'whole truth' thing.

Put a couple cops and prosecutors in jail and the system will figure itself out.
If our company was hosted on Heroku instead of AWS, we would have to shut down. Want a 50gb redis? $4k/mo. MongoHQ's largest heroku instance is 150gb at $2700 / month? We'll need at least 50. Want 300 workers? That's $20k / mo for less quality servers.

Heroku is great for working on your own project or if your data scale is small. Otherwise, the cost is just too high.
Google people are too busy driving their segways thinking of the next breakthrough to answer the phone or have passable customer service.
This is so cool. Built on top of Sinatra. So I can consider it like chaplin to backbone, right? It creates an architecture on top of original framework.
Lotus::View is the first library for Ruby that marks a separation between view objects and templates.

This is a great idea, but Lotus::View isn't the first. See Mustache.rb, for example.

https://github.com/defunkt/mustache
More startup tools for you
Is there a way to get this data per county or even state? I'd like to see how my area compares (San Francisco Area).
HUKD is approaching its tenth birthday. Not everyone will be celebrating
Ordinarily, one wouldn't buy life insurance in aggregate as an investment. The insurance company has done the calculations, and it would be a net loss to the buyer. (The buyer is willing to take that loss for security, which is just fine.)

The only reason it's happening here is that the government gives tax breaks, and those tax breaks are higher than the insurance companies' profit margins, so it actually turns out to be a net gain for both the seller and buyer of life insurance.

Surely, this is the result of lobbying by life insurance companies. It doesn't make any sense on its own.

Similarly, it makes no sense for companies to buy their employees health insurance. The reason it started is because of the tax breaks which make it cheaper for the company to buy you health insurance than for you to buy it on your own. (Aside: I don't believe for a minute that it somehow results in some magical savings from group bargaining.) Now that's a big part of the mess we call our healthcare system.

Direct your criticism to these special carve-out laws that make a mess of everything. Don't direct it towards the companies that rationally take a tax break that is already on the table.
Perjury and obstruction of justice. The disbarring should at least follow a minimum sentence, it sure would be sad if the ASA lived in a 3 strikes jurisdiction.

Alternatively, throw out the warrant because it is the fruit of fraud, then charge the ASA with conspiracy to computer fraud and abuse (unauthorized access) with one count for each subscriber in the area, and refuse to admit the warrant as evidence because it's null and void.
It's purely a survival decision from the banks. Enough single-family housing was built during the bubble to safely house us all well into the next decade. Every homebuilder in the country is smart enough not to invest in adding to that overhang. The prices/sales are dropping now - what will they look like a year from now?

These articles are like those skills-shortage rationalizations for the current level of prime-age employment that ignore the fact that neither hours or wages are rising, so there clearly isn't a shortage that is having an economic impact.
I'm not sure what the "rent related phrases" are but just looking at the trend chart for "rent" reveals a similar pattern [1]. "Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart."

[1] http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rent&geo=US&cmpt=q
She's being ultra honest here about her feelings and opinions. You can agree or not but before you judge too hard, think twice how hard is it to tell your startup story when it fails. We are all young and naive once, hence we learn and grow.
How is a company to insure against a disaster wiping out an entire branch's worth of employees? That's certainly a low probability event, but many companies with single-digit locations would be in big trouble if they lost such a huge proportion of their workforce at once, which is pretty unlikely to happen naturally.
I have no axe to grind. I read the post; you said you didn't read it in the first line of your comment.
is this a joke ? why are you telling others ?
Yup, +1. I had a few questions during an Exchange to Google Apps migration last week, and I [voice] called support - they took my call, called back, followed up by email and voice and allowed me to re-open the case as required with related questions; all with the same support representative. Top notch, happy to be paying.
If you register a domain with Google Sites you have have a choice: Enom or Godaddy.

Perhaps that has changed.
Increase in number of searches (?) on the Google Insight graph could simply mean that more people are using google to search for rental properties than in the previous years..
The author seems to have missed the point of the "Let's use them to build Narratives" line.

The World Cup is not popular DESPITE having a fairly random outcome.
The World Cup is popular BECAUSE it has a fairly random outcome.

The point of the World Cup is not to find the best soccer team. The point of the World Cup is to build a strong shared narrative.

In this case, much of the strength of the narrative being built comes from the integration of unexpected events. More of the strength comes from the interaction between the narratives of the stadium audience, and the live team as random events occur.

Perhaps this is why introducing random events into tabletop RPG's is effective.
>We've been using stuff like phantom types in Haskell for years, where have you been?

Lusting over a language that borrows its syntax from the Algol we all love and doesn't require a degree in Type Theory?

Oh, and without laziness, and with speed and no-GC guarantees...
Swift and JSON Reborn
Do you think that trains should yield to cars at railroad crossings as well?
Just curious, what are you guys doing that you need to "scale up"?

Even if you get a hundred thousand hits in an hour, that's only 28 per second. I am pretty sure even my toaster can handle that.

I've been fireballed, HN'd, reddited, etc. All on my little 256MB Linode instance (now 1024). It has never been anything but zippy.
Disrupting Our Oceans is the Next Big Thing
>What's the benefit of being able to say you're a YC founder?

Being able to attach the YC brand to your resume is probably very helpful when seeking investment for a new venture or applying for a job at a BigCo.

Although I have no knowledge of the situation beyond this (very well written) post, I don't think it's farfetched that a couple developers would join an existing company just to experience YC and improve their Valley credentials.
22 is young. yeah, when kids in other countries can't even get food , walk 10km for glass of water we are wasting money on these so called , self proclaimed "start up" people and promote such behavior.
Yeah, that's kinda the "catch 22" of it all. I'm definitely more prepared now, for sure. But my feeling is, if this startup fails, by the time it fails (and I won't give up until I'm verging on death anyway), I don't expect to be able to muster up enough mojo to pour this kind of energy into another shot. Whether it's emotionally, mentally, spiritually or physically, I think I'll be spent once this is over.

Now maybe I'm wrong, so who knows...
>I've heard from people that learned Haskell independently or went through my guide alike that benefited greatly from having learned Haskell despite not using it at work.

Could also be a failure to admit they wasted their time, because of sunk costs et al.

Not meaning it as snark -- it can always be a valid hypothesis when we're talking about people.
What makes your art (writers, game designer, etc etc), more important than my art (being able express my presence as a human being through "Yo")?
that's good point.
So I see another startup failed story. Thinking I'll read it later after getting something done. an hour later, I start reading...

Right in the first sentence I see "99dresses". I have to admit, it took me a minute to process what's going on. She has been receiving significant coverage in mainstream Australian media. As someone, who is running startup from Sydney (there aren't so many of us), this felt like someone in your family has passed away even though I've never even met Nikki.

I'm not even sure what I'm writing here... I just feel sad.
Can we expect GeoFire for Swift anytime soon? :)
What is "Pocket", and why would I want an account?
Getting WebRTC video up and running for your app in less than 20 minutes
Actually, if you were to implement something that monitors the state of the door lock, the same hardware could run an OCCUPIED/VACANT LED on the door itself to avoid the awkward door knock in the event that the door is closed while the bathroom is unoccupied.

Of course, if someone forgets to lock the door, that's basically an invitation for everyone else to walk in on them. On second thought, it seems to me that the best solution here is to mount webcams in the bathroom so that anyone can see if it's occupied. Seems like the only foolproof way to go here.
Price (and the possibility of future price changes,) is just one aspect of control in walled gardens.

There are good reasons some people want to steer clear of any vendor lock-in. If there can be comparable open implementations, I'll use those. If there can't be, then the prospect is that much more alarming.
Google Vault – eDiscovery, Email Archiving and Storage for Business
The language in common use with the closest syntax to Algol is probably Bourne shell.
Thanks, that is really good to know.
Yep, and paying for 8/5 and getting 24/7 is unreasonable. ;)
Visualization of Twitter activity during the USA vs. Portugal soccer match
There is also just weeding through to prove very blatant frauds, which can be forensic in nature, if payments are hidden in group company loans or sale and buy back deals, or discounting tax rebate incomes. I mean starting with a very obvious con, you still have to prove it. Currently a project if mine, in this way. Not huge, but close to twenty million dollar property fraud.
Withings Activité hides a fitness tracker inside a gorgeous watch
Free whois privacy. Hopefully this pushes some other dns providers to do the same.
I totally agree with you that the people that kids can look up to in these programs should actually be engineers. I think there is a danger of forgetting the power of spokespeople and the ability for people who aren't engineers to help lead these organizations. I agree they shouldn't be held up as role models themselves, though, at least in this area.

Honestly, though, my experience with Girls Who Code (and why I mentioned it) has been entirely local, where the women up front have all been engineers or close enough. This is the first time I've actually heard of Reshma Saujani (or, if it's not, she wasn't notable enough to stick in my memory).
No, I know what you mean and I've run into that. I take people don't use/write Haskell regularly and claim to understand it less seriously for this reason.

But people that I think got something out of it seem to be benefiting. One is a startup CTO that was using Clojure before - he's ship-of-theseus'ing his way out.
Make Your Own Vacuum Tubes (2008)
Merry Cemetery
I've been using Haskell "at work" on my side projects (which involve other people and a live website, not just toying around), and I'd say that having learned it has impacted the C that I write in my day job. I wouldn't say I'd wasted the time, with or without an impact on my C code.
As promised, MANIAC WEEKEND: http://youtu.be/VwOCXRp1zn4
If any of the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmin types out there are reading this:

Twitter is looking to fill five open SRE positions in San Francisco[1] and two in Seattle[2].

[1] https://about.twitter.com/careers/locations/san-francisco

[2] https://about.twitter.com/careers/locations/seattle

If you'd like to know more about the SRE org at Twitter (Seattle in particular) drop me a line. My email address is in my profile.
HR may not see the loss of institutional knowledge of high worker turnover, but they do see a lot of the more monetary costs: with all that constant hiring of replacements going on, HR sure needs a bigger budget next year! We might be looking at an incentive problem, amongst others.
Mad props to the Cruise guys for taking this on. This kind of life and death programming is not something I'm willing to do. Just too freakin scary.
This is a textbook example trademark infringement. IBM will not be humored.
This.

I remember sitting opposite Nikki in co-working spaces (Fishburners) and incubators (Pollenizer) back in Sydney throughout 2010 and 2011. Her gumption, determination and focus back then was (and is) a force to be reckoned with. If there is anyone who's failure I would never question - it would be hers.

It's heartbreaking to hear these stories, even more so when it's someone you know. But Nikki - thanks for sharing. We're all made a little stronger for it. For the rest of us it should serve as a reminder that no matter how hard we strive there will be always be forces outside our control that shape our destiny.
I was talking about incentives and I provided evidence for the one claim I made [that numerous companies already do the bare minimum].

So I'm just confused how he could read it that way. But alright, I guess it is on me to be clearer then. :P
How about Search?