skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can handle all my own devops but am looking to avoid all the monotonous stuff as you say. Sounds neat anyways!
It's fairly well-known that Array#forEach is up to an order of magnitude slower than a for-loop, across browsers. The usual reason given is the overhead of invoking a closure from the VM. A JS implementation of forEach ought to be somewhere in the middle.

The speed-up for "concat" is surprising to me. I wonder if it holds for "splice" and if that is true across browsers.
People are messing with you because C99 is used almost exclusively by script kiddies as a web shell into servers they compromise. Almost no one has ever used it as an actual administration shell for their own servers.
About Denmark, there was a longer article in Information about it recently, which I still have to muster the courage and the dictionaries to read in details, but it sounded like "not unfounded" was quite the understatement.
Interesting idea, but like the others I have to say there is no way I am entering my SSN into your site. I'm half convinced the fear is irrational, but there it is.
M$ was founded in mid 70s and had not made a dent until the 80s. More so their killer product was launched in the 90s that put them as the definitive leader on the map. In a way, it took roughly 20 years for M$ "to take over the world." Not to mention Gates and Allen started off writing software for traffic systems and I don't recall that was a huge hit.
“Innovation” does happen relatively faster these days. But it's really hard to do one-to-one comparison of companies that are mega successful (aka they make a lot of money) and those that relatively bring in lesser revenue. Besides this I believe one really has to derive the meaning of success on her own. I would not consider you a failure by any means as you gave your best to the startup. There is so much you can take away from this experience. For example, you can write a book about your experiences as you have got a good talent for writing. You can travel around and give motivational speeches at colleges and networking events. You have got a good story to tell and I bet many of us out there would be interested in hearing about it. Don't worry too much that you could not save up. I don't think this is any way puts you behind anyone your age. I bet most kids your age have spent lots on crack, booze, food, superfluous relationships, etc. Whereas you have built a pretty good reputation that really can take you far.
Right. I'm saying that I expect the marketing to be at the point of sale of the dishwasher and to be rather mild, so that it mostly targets people that already own a compatible thermostat. Or in press releases and the like.

I think home automation is mostly composed of things that sound neat and provide modest utility; Nest might pay itself off faster, but most buildings would see more benefit from increased insulation. Something like programmable lighting is fantastic, but it probably isn't going to save much money or energy, and switches just aren't that burdensome. I'm glad there are people trying to figure it all out, at some point the cost might get low enough where "neat" is enough justification.
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I may move in the next few years. Just not practical for me right now. Plus, I generally like Maryland's other aspects.
Another way is to add a file, say init.rb, to a directory and require_relative that. It achieves the same thing, of course.
Single page web apps are broken for a lot of the most important purposes that the worlds largest and most important web-apps need to fulfill. For example how could Wikipedia function as a single page app since it wouldn't be consumable by screen readers and robots of various shapes and sizes ? That's just one example, but there are many. What about the semantic web ? microformats anyone ?

Google isn't the only search engine out there so the fact that you can use a crutch to let google crawl your site doesn't fix the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
And presumably ignore cheap tricks and fiddled data on the the other opposite side - a comment not improper given your dismissive tone.
C++ is indeed a high level language, comparable to, say, C#. Let's enumerate some features that we take for granted in most modern high level languages

1. Type deduction (C++ has it)

2. Lambda functions (C++ has it)

3. Support for OOP (C++ has it)

4. Generics (C++ has it)

5. Static typing (C++ has it)

6. Support for functional-style programming (C++ has it)

7. Support for garbage collection* (C++11 has it)

8. A powerful library of data structures and algorithms (C++ has it, and the library is growing very rapidly as well.)

C++ supports pretty much every feature other high level languages support, but the features are opt-in, that is, if you don't use it, you don't pay for it.

*As far as I know, however, no compilers are currently implementing garbage collection. But the language support is there already.
I'd argue that everyone should be spending money effectively - poor college student or not :)
Really? You read A New Kind of Science and were awestruck by his genius?

I've read parts of it a few times, and it just reads like a summary of other people's work[1], but if you don't read the appendices, it seems like that all of that other work was also Wolfram's. He's got a nasty habit of saying stuff like "cellullar automata theory teaches..." instead of saying "Marvin Minsky showed that...", as if the theory existed in a vacuum, independently of those who developed it.

Wolfram is well-known for claiming other people's work for himself and suing anyone who claims otherwise. That's how he acquired Mathematica, but trying to find the origins of that story is difficult, because he succeeded in suing everyone into silence.

[1] Plus a lot of "look at the beautiful pictures... LOOK AT THEM!" He's got a weird sense of mathematical rigour, something akin to believing that whatever the computer computes is right. Probably part of his idea of why it's ok to hide mathematics behind NDAs.
If you have an existing app, use the Google Play Dev Console to find the phones your existing users are using and consider buying the top 2-3.

These sites are also helpful: http://choosedevice.com/ http://www.handsetdetection.com/

My picks (with no context): Nexus 5 (straight from Google, use this as the gold standard), LG Optimus Fuel ($30 unlocked at Walmart, runs KitKat but has a tiny screen), Samsung Galaxy S4/5 (whichever is most popular), Samsung Galaxy S3 (still tons of those in the wild), and Kindle Fire 7" (covers tablet and FireOS).
or to scoreunder: https://github.com/loop-recur/scoreunder
You probably should have mentioned that the service is available only in the US.
Which seems like a potentially reasonable policy tradeoff: make it easier for more people to get their licenses, then make it harder for them to kill each other. (NB I would prefer more stringent licensing standards).
Reminds me of my MisterHouse (http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/) days...
This is my own list, I've not read these yet but collated this list after a similar promotion

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6398792-growing-software

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6233608-software-product-...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13705334-enterprise-softw...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6278270-the-principles-of...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9706236-management-3-0

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17278287-the-founder-s-di...

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Minds-Technology-Officers-Peopl...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1118443667/ref=as_li_ss_t...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Essential-Drucker-Management-Ess...
I'd like to know this as well- I was doing some research into it recently for KYC purposes.
I'm not sold that this will provide any user-measurable increase in performance. If you are sold by some personal app benchmark, there is a good chance you are writing too much client side JS. And what is to say of other dependencies like jQuery, Bootstrap, Knockout, Angular, etc that do NOT use fast.js under the hood? It seems that the only real "win" I get is a fast "map" command, which, IFAIK, has NEVER been the problem of writing good software.

Now, if fast.js made sure we had the correct requirements, no distractions, clear milestones, and a dedicated team with no turn over, I'd import it in a second.
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in HTML there are such things as anchor tags[0] that allow you to link to other pages instead of using the footnote-y reference-y markup.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html
Here's another one for you, one of my favorites that used to be drastic: http://jsperf.com/pipetrunc

blah | 0; // fast!
Math.floor(blah); // slow(er)! (except on FF nightly)

Caveat: Only works with numbers greater than -2147483649 and less than 2147483648.
This is why I'm a skeptic, change my mind:

Let's say we have 150 years of accurate temperature data, and it shows an increase of a few degrees. What is the standard deviation in global temperature for 150 year periods for the last 100K or 1M years? How do we know what is significant change?

Any data gathered from models (ice core, tree rings, ...) just doesn't have the resolution to answer these questions.
My grammar is an atrocity. I literally have no idea what a comma is, or why I should trust it. I will report back if this book helps.
To prove its worth, try showing a Real use case.
Aaaaaand.. Amazon thanks you. (As do I.) :-)
except its a good "publicity" strategy in right direction but agreed the method is little more than a moot point.
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This is where selective censorship and commoditization of mass opinions begins. These are the most important stories.

A famous author once said that to trade underlying agendas and flow of control, follow the money.
toml is unstable and has no real spec + YAML has a well defined spec and is widely used?
Sudan death row woman Meriam Ibrahim 're-arrested'
If I want to pay the market clearing price to get a parking spot but cannot, the market has broken.

This is otherwise a functioning market. There is demand that can react to prices, and the city can adjust supply based on price data.
Or tolerant of a society that uses women to sell cars, films, magazines. Objectifies them to the point where they are mere symbols of sexual desire.

Or we could tolerate a society where your private correspondences will be read where your home will be invaded and your every move monitored.

Or a society which takes your wealth and funds a bloated military industrial complex, banking system, or anyone else with a large enough lobby group.

But it's the internet, spouting assertions from positions of ignorance is common place.
I warmly recommend you to read Peopleware:
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As I pointed out on Twitte(1), this looks like it might be illegal in the UK.

Things such as ethnic background, political opinions, and religious beliefs are classified as sensitive personal data(2)

Such data can only be recorded in specific circumstances and only with explicit consent(3). Such quizzes, from my point of view at least, do not make it clear that you are consenting to the data being collected.

(1) https://twitter.com/p8952_

(2) https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act

(3) http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guid...
Hi,

The sources are the 3 credit bureaus for SSN, direct access to DMVs for MVR, and different databases and sources for criminal data.
> 32 bit is dead except for ARM, and it will be dead on ARM in 4 years.

Uh... sure? ... but the parent post was about how building for 32 bit _today_ simply does not work and will not work.

Whilst it's not necessarily best to build for technology almost gone, there definitely will continue to exist 32 bit devices that people would expect to run Python on for quite a number of years yet - today's 32 bit ARM chips aren't going anywhere awhile and not every form factor (say non-desktop) is well suited to a 64+-bit architecture. :/
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Have you tried Wattvision?
I... don't write any client side JS[1]. I'm also not necessarily 'sold' by the benchmark.

I just take objection to the perspective given by the parent post on the _safety_ situation surrounding this library.

[1]: ... not recently, anyway.
Well, my previous job was more data pulling involved than statistical modelling. It could have been just me, but the company had more than 30 DSs and I think only two of them did anything advanced. I read on HN once that 95% of the DSs where in the same situation as me.

So for me it seems that Data Science is more a fad and company are hiring PhDs more for the sake of having an impressive data science team than for using advanced modelling tools.

I may be wrong of course, but Nathan mentions in his blog Netflix and Khan Academy. I guess Netflix can use data science to make recommendation system, and Khan Academy to gauge the level of the exercises they propose, and see if the progression curve of the students is right. Honestly, I don't see how this would need something particularly advanced in term of modelling.

EDIT: typos
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Theres a bit of politics that get in the way of "fixing rails". Mainly, many things that others consider anti patterns, DHH and other maintainers are fine with.
I was just commenting to my girlfriend the other day after the John Oliver "Statistically Accurate Climate Science Debate" that I would love to see the US government spend $100mm or $1b or $10b (say over 5 years) on grants to try and disprove climate change.

Now obviously there might be some issues ensuring that you get researchers who want to make a real go of trying to disprove it rather than erect straw men and tear them down. But that's probably solvable.

Yes in many respects it would be a big waste of money, but after you poke a million little holes in climate change they will be fixed. And that will strengthen our understanding of the climate and in all likelihood substantially bolster the claim that climate change is real and man-made. And if it takes $100mm or $1b or even $10b worth of very public extra research to really convince people it would be worth it.

The US Global Change Research Program's budget is $2.6b annually so $20mm per year is a joke, $200mm a year is a bit substantial and $2b per year might actually be a reasonable amount.

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2012/02/14/presidents-201...

Again I realize that for many people it would be a "waste" of money. But if it was publicized properly (and I do realize that's a big IF) it could go a long way towards garnering the public support necessary to do some economically difficult things. When politicians are happy to kick the can down the road every couple of years it's pretty tough for the public to understand why this is an issue that can't be kicked as well.

EDIT: I also realize it's stupid to waste taxpayer money, something I'm vhemently against. But while I'm dreaming here, let's suppose that the money is taken from the military budget for the duration of the grant period.
There are plenty of areas to pick apart this article and motivations behind it. 97% consensus isn't one of them.

Denial, is old and dead amongst the well informed. Join us.
I think it would be just as easy to package rust programs using OS native package management as anything else, and I'm sure packages will be made for popular things for common package managers. But OS native package managers are a royal pain to use when actively developing on a project that has some dependencies, and bespoke Makefiles are a very imperfect solution.

Flipping your question around a bit: will package manager creators and maintainers ever develop better solutions to the use case of development rather than system administration so that we don't have to keep creating these language-specific tools?
Another caveat: for negative numbers, the bit-or rounds to zero while the floor rounds to negative infinity:

> -0.5
-0.5

> (-0.5)|0
0

> Math.floor(-0.5)
-1
"And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?"

'Howard Beale' from Network(1976).
> It's unlikely you're making [net] money if you're paying to get in and getting payed when you leave.

Getting payed when you leave requires being willing to spend extra time when you are done -- and depends on how willing you are to do that. People with reasons for being in the spot beyond arbitrage may have other needs that make that less viable.
Where does the gasoline tax then go to? Are we just so numb to government pork that any new tax burden is immediately accepted as long as it 'sounds right'?
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"Being tolerant" of a person's views doesn't entail "being respectful of" them, nor does it imply one must simply abide their expression in silence.

Here's a counter-question: why is it that when people who have extraordinary or extraordinarily extreme opinions are questioned or challenged there seems to almost always be an attempt to deflect the discussion toward one revolving around respect and tolerance instead of the merits of the issue involved? (That's kind of a rhetorical question, really--my long and varied experience on topics of this sort has led me to one conclusion if nothing else, and that is this: people who hold such views and attempt such deflection aren't interested in honest dialog.)
Or you could do this:

function qux() { return [$foo, $bar, $baz]; }

list($foo, $bar, $baz) = qux();
That would be an excellent bet for the person betting that the temperature will increase. However, it doesn't prove that human actions are causing it. I think most deniers do believe that the climate is changing - even that the temps are going up. The problem is that causation is hard to measure. I'm not a scientist, but I think theories explain causes, and you can't directly measure a theory, only the observations that support it.

So, maybe a bet that includes more measurements (green house gas emissions, etc.) would be needed to prove man-made global warming. The outcome of the total of those bets would either support or not support the theory. But that might be a lot of bets and a mixed result could complicate things.
If you do it scientifically, meaning by experimentation, you've really only shown that in all observed cases water boils when you add enough heat. It's an inductive process, which unlike deduction is never logically valid - excluding mathematical induction which is really more like deduction, since you can actually test all possible cases that way. It is a philosophical issue, but epistemology is the basis of the validity of science.
I had the impression this fills the same role as bower, mpm (non global) dependency or plain custom vendor dirs handled with your favourite git module paraphernalia: your build is the place your dependencies live (+ possible cache directory somewhere else).
And, these you use this packaging system to manage your build, not the deployment of your (iirc statically linked) build artifacts.

While technically the cache directory is a place where files can accumulate outside the view of a well documented and designed administrative tools, this is common problem shared with many tools including your favourite browser.
>This phone is not aimed at people who a power users.

I think we have started confusing "power user" with "power app purchaser". A Pakistani cab driver that runs his business off multiple cell phones or a dual simmed phone is probably more of a "power user" in the context of a mobile communication device than your average 1st world iPhone wielding instagram-aholic that happens to have extra disposable income that can be trifled away on an IAP in Angry Birds.
When the boss in question is Ambani, one would understand why nobody wants to be identified.
I feel this article is a little weak in one major sense: comparing the US to European countries based on non-working time is okay, but you also need to compare a metric like GDP. Using this, the US is #6 world-wide only behind two European countries. So yes, Euros may get more time off, but the US is a way more economically powerful and productive country economically.

Hurting the economy, sure people get burned out, but it is hard to come to that conclusion based on the data given and the authors points.
A lot of it has to do with crossing boundaries between C++ and the JIT'd code and losing things like inlining. Doesn't really have to do with JS warts.

This would likely get even faster if you manually specialized a map/forEach/etc for each caller, but then you might as well just write the loop out by hand: http://rfrn.org/~shu/2013/03/20/two-reasons-functional-style...
The plan is for that to be `cargo project`, but that might be a fun alias. :)
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Virginia Tech	$14,853,103.00
Clemson Univ.	$14,688,975.00
North Carolina State	$11,609,800.00
Georgia Tech	$9,350,858.00
Univ. of North Carolina	$7,289,263.00
Univ. of Miami	$6,767,811.00
Univ. of Virginia	$3,076,978.00
Florida State Univ.	$2,613,485.00
Duke Univ.	$1,796,461.00
Univ. of Maryland	$1,676,620.00
Boston College	$1,211,197.00
Wake Forest University	-$2,289,583.00
I don't have strong feelings about toml, but the YAML spec is incredibly complicated, and has way too many features for a config file format. And security vulnerabilities O_O
QWERTY evolved: typing on a circle
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Feel like this is an infomercial directed at me. Instead of coming on at 3AM during a TV movie, it's on in the middle of my web browsing. That said, I've had some success buying random self published books of the interwebs (lookin' at you idiomatic python)....
Programmable thermostats (even before Nest) have long been able to set the house to the temperature you desire at the time you desire.