skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point. I use the word "intuition" but feel it might be overloaded, things with intuitive knowledge, psychics, going with your gut despite the facts, etc.

The sense I mean is closer to "grokking" or "clicking", when symbols and definitions actually mean something. You start thinking with the symbols, not despite them. You actually look forward to checking your understanding with real problems, because when it clicks the problems become easy :).
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The thing is that freedom of speech isn't all that important in the long run. It's important, yes, but speech is the first, tiniest baby step in a very long process towards change. To focus on it to the exclusion of all else is to no different than silencing yourself.

Indeed, having speech and naught else is like a vent that lets off steam, making change and better lives harder to come by. It is the fool's prerogative to speak his mind, but at the end of the day, the king is still a king, and the fool is still a fool.
Ah, good catch. It should still be highlighting, but I think the "selection" color is matching the background color of the text box. Will fix!
>My guess: it's the unfamiliarity of the mathematical modulus operator that trips most people up.

This is an interesting hypothesis, can anyone confirm that this is a particular sore spot? I wonder if that would show up as a generational gap? If the younger generations are working with web pages and never used much arithmetic, let alone remainders. But older generations grew up with low level graphics programming and arrays in languages like C and assembly where the modulus comes up all the time. So could we come up with the moral equivalent of FizzBuzz that a much larger percentage of the people who failed FizzBuzz could pass? And then I'd like to see how hard I'd think that test was.
Very neat. I think that with some slight tweaks this could be very applicable to home owners associations. This model could also be offered as a hosted version like someone else commented.

(not that I really like HOA's all that much)
A lot of mathematics people feel this way about programming, too. Both sides expect one to devote the time to build intuition to grok their subject. I think it's easier to learn programming coming from the mathematics side, because you're going from nobody holding your hand to a compiler giving you error messages. You can't interactively test whether your intuition in mathematics is sound (you can, but you have to play both the role of the compiler and the tester).
That's awesome! I hope you can make use of the site. One goal for the site is to provide "ammo" to teachers who are looking for other ways to present difficult concepts.
Wasn't gmail released in 2004? Your timeline shows it in 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
Yup, great advice, the court does not give a shit about your humanitarian blah blah blah, it's a case with specific points, if you defeat those points you win.

All he really had to say was that investing in more factories would lead to more profit down the road.

Basically like this:

1. Invest in more factories.
2. ???
3. Profit.
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Here's the non mobile link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-24/netflixs-con...
talk netflix gave at NYCBSDCon
NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4
I once gave a Fizzbuzz-style question to a candidate, handed him a sheet of paper and a pen, and he writes down nothing and simply says "I'd use machine learning to do it."

...yeah, good idea, bro.
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It totally fixed my issue.

Even my half-sized SD card on the size is mounted on wake. (Whereas before, I would have to take it out and put it back in again)

Before the update, it was pretty annoying and felt like someone really dropped the ball in competence.
I wondering the same thing myself. I did a bit of searching and found this: http://allthingsd.com/20130514/netflix-still-eats-a-third-of...

According to that article it does mean all HTTP traffic other than the specific sources listed in the chart.
Hey there, I'm the author. I agree with you. These terms need to be clarified. We decided to use volunteers in the intro to introduce the idea of what 7 Cups is doing. While the members do technically "volunteer" their time, you wouldn't usually use that terminology. Technically, they're just giving their time to the community.
How to grow awareness of your mobile application?
I was recently brought on to a start-up with an unbelievable mobile product but a small user base and no progress in terms of internet awareness or virality, and I'm in charge of changing that.

I know that this community has more collective knowledge about viral growth than most other places online, and if anyone could find a moment or two to give me some advice on how to approach this problem and make the world aware of what we've made I would greatly appreciate it.
Indeed it is. A lot of wonderful work has went into FreeType and Pango. Linux font rendering went from the worst to (arguably, and when well-configured) one of the best.

I do hope that they don't go a few steps back in a case of "rewrite everything". Example of who did: Metro apps in Windows 8 no longer use ClearType (RGB subpixel rendering), but plain greyscale antialiasing. I believe many Desktop apps are falling back to it, too. It looks like pre-windows XP. It's easy to miss the correct flags as a developer, and many people don't care enough or don't have the eyes to see the difference, but it's annoying for those who do care.

Lets just hope that they get everything right with fonts with the switch from X to Wayland...
As someone with a lot of experience in the nonprofit space, I should point out that you would be able to take this over to membership groups that aren't specifically churches very easily. There are companies in the space that sell products like this to associations for tens of thousands of dollars.

I realize your goals here are more altruistic in nature, and that's to be greatly respected, but it's certainly worth pointing out.
Tim, you built something amazing. It looks beautiful! Thank you.
My thesis is that practically everyone is a bad interviewer and people like to throw the antisocial stereotype on software developer.
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It doesn't really solve the fundamental issue: Because of the volume of traffic Netflix generates, ISPs are highly sensitive to the size of Netflix's audience and the bitrates Netflix chooses to stream. Both of those have the potential to grow faster than their capability (or desire) to expand the capacity of their networks.
Disallow Shadowing?
The site looks really nice and polished. I just passed it along to a coworker who handles most of the IT for his church. I know he has been kicking around the idea of spinning up an online directory and some social networking aspects for a while. You may have just saved him a lot of time!
(Posted about the contest an hour earlier, only got two votes. Oh well.)

If I am reading the problem correctly, there is no interactive component this year? You get one submission and don't get to test it against anything else.

> It is not essential that the judges be able to run your code

So is this a beauty pageant?
Thanks for letting us know about such a thing!

So, what exactly does Sandstorm do for me? Does it turn web applications into SaaS with individual instances of software per user without the user having to install it on their own hosting themselves? But there's a price to pay for that: each application has to be specifically ported to work with Sandstorm. Right? Where is the catalog of currently ported apps, then?
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What do you want to do? Do that.
I'm confused why you would tie Amazon's future, an eCommerce company who also has a strong cloud (AWS) and digital media division and a growing hardware division (Kindle, Fire) to a brick and mortar retailer such as WalMart.

Even discarding all other revenue streams, you want to compare the company to a retailer growing sales at 1% y/y (WalMart), while they grow sales at 22%? All this while only being in 12 international markets and citing a lack of non-English content as holding them back in the high margin area of digital content.

Your evaluation seems entirely misguided and ham-handed to be honest.
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In web frameworks, "MVC" has come to mean something quite different than what it originally meant in desktop GUI frameworks like Smalltalk and Cocoa.

Was Rails the first framework to use this interpretation of MVC? Or did it come from somewhere else?
Most of the time, the factually correct answer to "why did you choose to work with Language X?" is "because when I arrived on the job, the existing software was implemented in X".

Is that a well-reasoned opinion? "I'd like to pay the rent this month" is a good reason. "The company doesn't have the time to reimplement working software on a different platform" is a good reason.

Of course, a well-socialized programmer understands that these answers, while truthful, are insufficient, and will have duly memorized a stock answer like "You pick C when you really need runtime performance and don't mind all the segmentation faults, otherwise you pick Java."
Greetings!

When I was IT guy at APC I called a bunch of local churches and talked to their IT folks. Was interesting to see all the variety. And of course McClean Pres was the most professional of the bunch, makes sense because they have like 25 people on staff, they have a campus of buildings to maintain, etc.
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Z-series (mainframes) and Power systems (high-end UNIX servers). Yes, both are in a shrinking market, but they've got significantly higher margins on both sales and support than commodity x86. They're also what's keeping IBM's domestic hardware manufacturing going.
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The outcome of the shootdown was easily foreseeable given the circumstances, so I don't see how it can be described as an accident.
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It'll show a window periodically (without stealing key focus) to remind you to buy a license.
What’s going on with YouTube and Indie labels?
At this point in time, Rails is basically the reason I have a career, get paid, and provide for my family. Sure, any programmer could say that about any framework/language/platform they use regularly I suppose, but in fact Rails is the first platform I've been able to leverage to get great jobs and work with great people. Before that, various combinations of WordPress and homegrown PHP code were my bread-and-butter but I also did projects in Java, Python, and others. (I still shutter when I remember what I had to go through to work in Java...)

I think the thing that was so amazing about Rails when it really got popular was that you could build almost any sort of web app you could imagine and everything would just make sense. The full-stack, the conventions, the fact it took much less time to get something working than its competitors...it was SO much easier to build stuff and stop reinventing the wheel.

I can't tell you how many times in the PHP world I had to figure out how to write code to send hand-tuned SQL to the server just to do basic stuff. Obviously, these days you can do cool framework-y full-stack stuff in PHP as well, but in many respects that was a response to the rise of Rails. (Actually, I must admit, I built a PHP 5 framework somewhat inspired by Rails before I jumped onboard the bandwagon...what prompted that was Zend announcing their PHP 5 framework, at which point I figured I'd either drop my framework and go with Zend or...just go with Rails, learn Ruby, and stop fighting it. I'm so thankful I decided to do just that!)

So thank you Ruby, and Rails on your 10-year birthday. You have made this programmer a happy man.
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Nokia has already done what this company is doing in their Windows Phones. What Colbert was talking about is something much different.
I think I mixed together the April 1, 2004 launch date and the circa 2002 internal development period. I'll update the date.

It fits in better with my thesis if it came out in 2004. ;-)
Totally fair observation.
"Bezos has been completely transparent about his philosophy"

I don't know if this is transparency as much as controlling the narrative and preempting and spinning potential criticism. Rhetoric. This is often done in marketing whereby you take a disadvantage and turn it into an advantage in the buyers mind. "Sure we charge more because we take the time to hand craft ..." instead of "we can't afford the same people and machinery and distribution to make our product cheaper and widely used ....
Hello Brazil. First post ever in a Rails app =)
https://twitter.com/arthurnn/status/492715391362154497
I'm writing a blog post to clarify this.
No, the primary target is PTX in CUDA devices.

This is one of the reasons OpenCL is still playing catchup with CUDA.

Thanks to PTX, you can target CUDA directly with C++ and Fortran, besides a few other languages.

OpenCL only this year got SPIR.
Apparently people are taking advantage of that right now...
Gliph (The Secure Messaging App) just released a MAJOR Update
Not too long ago I read a thing I ruminate on every now and then:

I love getting paid, do whatever you can do to get paid, but do not
let the money whisper to you that you are worth it, it will be
lying and you will believe it.

But that's just wankery over "deserving". I can still say good on them for getting theirs in an f-you-I-got-mine world.
yes, but you're not counting all those potluck dinners!
> _Cars would still work so people could move around.

Any car that was running at the time of the CME would have all of its electronics fried and become inoperable.

> at least while there are refined gasoline reserves

As another poster hinted at, any gas station in operation at the time of the event would have its pumping equipment fried. Even if the pumps weren't harmed, you still need electricity to run them, so you'll have to wait until the grid comes back up.
> We request (but do not strictly require) that you include in your .tar.gz/.zip various additional material

That's the part they don't have to be able to run. They won't even try unless your entry is in the running, it seems.

The .ghc and .gcc (the actual submission) does have to run, since that's what's being scored.
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Definitely not an expert, but I found a few good articles on this (just updated the article):

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/prime_numbers_get_hi...
Nice summary: http://carbonatoms.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/prime-numbers-ar...

Primes appear to be zeroes of the Reimann Zeta Function. Nature loves minimizing energy, so there might be some reason the Zeta Function models how atoms behave. Then, primes are the most "stable orbits" or have a similarly useful property.

Super high level, but I think it's interesting.
I'd finally get my CFD stuff off the ground. I currently only spend about an hour a day working on it, and I'd like to just work full time (or more) on it.
Although I'm a critic I don't think it's a stretch that they could be profitable. I still buy from them even though they now charge sales tax in my state and that was one of the reasons I started to use them way back. I think they could increase pricing to the point of profitability and if they are the last man standing (or have gotten enough people into same habit) they could end up profitable.

It's a big deal that I can buy almost everything I need from Amazon and get it quickly so they are in the forefront of my mind instead of getting a camera from B&H or a PC from Newegg. I think this is pretty typical behavior with many of their customers.

Amazon has become a habit. Just like showing up at HN has become a habit.
The Vatican in no way represents the average. They're about as far an outlier as you're gonna find. The parent comment mentioned specifically small churches with low budget/tech-phobia as well.
I read it as Cringely being sarcastic, esp when you read the last para taking a potshot at Ginni.
Not quite there yet, and might not be quite what you want, but here: https://github.com/AndersSchmidtHansen/Kaidan :-)
First, I'm not in the "cool crowd" here in the Valley, nor am I particularly interested in it. I actually enjoy writing C++ code, and developing in C++ code bases. It excites me to see compiler errors that break my terminal's scroll history almost as much as to see a successful build, I get a bit giddy whenever I have the opportunity to fire up gdb, and I enjoy the prospect of trying to design a system with a multithreaded or parallel execution model (although I wouldn't rate myself as being highly skilled at the latter). I think we share similar views with respect to SV's myopia regarding hiring practices.

That said, suffice to say that I view quality as mattering at least as much as quantity when it comes to making these comparisons.

The kinds of jobs you describe, with some exceptions of course, are analogous to Wal-Marts or Target jobs in retail. Sure, one might say that technically there is a "large retail industry" in an area filled with Targets and Wal-Marts, but one wouldn't say it's a very good industry that attracts the best retail talent, and admittedly I suppose that's something I implicitly include when I determine what constitutes "large" or not.
WebSphere may be upgrade from a lot of the scripting lang stacks, but it still is a horrible crap. I think that open source J2EE compliant alternatives exist and are much much better.
It came from Java, believe it or not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_2
I didn't badmouth any other language in that comment.
Have you got a demo site where somebody who's interested can log in and play around with its features? Two feature questions I can't answer by looking at the screenshots:
(1) Does it have a way to highlight "Mass times" (or whatever), or is that just thrown into a general calendar with all the other events?
(2) Does it have any way for the pastor to post messages to the front page in a prominent way, or is his user account just another user account?

It looks outstanding -- keeping my eye on it.
Saying that "church" can refer to other religions places of worship is like saying that "coke" can refer to other cost-drinks besides coca-cola.

I've lived in upstate NY, Maine, and Boston my whole life and I've never heard anyone use "church" to refer to any non-Christian place of worship.
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Okay, but if I use Bitcoin I'm still paying a price that has credit card fraud baked into it, while putting myself at unnecessary risk because I can't chargeback. It's giving free money to the retailer.

Do you really think merchants are going to lower their prices? Wouldn't it make more sense to just pocket the difference?
How come this code has 117 stars on github?!

Here's something that is probably safer and that actually scales:
https://github.com/reginaldl/librinoo
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Ah, sorry...
No. That's not sufficient to classify the action as illegal. If you're accessing a public website, but through a wireless router that the owner doesn't want you using without paying for, then the data you're accessing is still data you're authorized to access (it being a public website, after all).

To get charged under this law, you would have to be accused of the unauthorized access of something on the router itself, since that is the only relevant computer you aren't authorized to use. The charges against you would have to be based on the theory that sending packets with a spoofed MAC address or user agent is accessing the routing program and tables on the router in an unauthorized manner. That argument delves much deeper into the law than just the first clause.
Have you are thought about making this project MIT licensed?
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"Then don’t put it online. We love you, but we’ve heard it already."

I don't come across much unheard of articles on the internet as it is. Why so critical of this subsection of articles that you're going as far as telling them not to put their stuff online?

Read it like what it is - a blog article. Its not a technical paper or a journal submission that should be rejected on grounds of incorrect assumptions/conclusions, error in experimenting or something that's previously done.
CFD? Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics
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I responded on Reddit with a link to my litheweb (the sources still say picoweb throughout it. I yet have to rename-refactor it).

https://github.com/datenwolf/litheweb

Lithweb is developed network API agnostic and requires no dynamic memory allocation (malloc/free). Its main target are microcontrollers and it has a memory footprint of as little as 0.5kiB. To make it work you'll have to provide an implementation of the ioops functions.

GET variable support has the scaffolding up, but URL parameter parsing not yet implemented.

However POST request support it fully implemented, including MIME Multipart reconstuction.

See the test/bsdsocket.c for an example on how to implement ioops and for a file upload example.

So far the repositry does not contain the tag nesting functions, but I have those, too.

Security issues? Probably some but so far not identified yet. However when I tried fuzzing it, the fuzzer got crashed by litheweb %) (litheweb was not impressed).
If you're looking for a platform, I STRONGLY encourage you to look at either OpenDSA or Runestone, two open source interactive textbook platforms. I've been hacking on the latter this summer, porting it over to Runestone for a course I'm teaching (on Computational Thinking) (https://github.com/RealTimeWeb/runestone-flask is my public facing copy to give you an idea, but it's not a full copy of my port).

I'm very familiar with the development teams for both these platforms, and they're both very friendly and desirous of collaborations!
I've written dozens of sizable single page apps that you'll never see because they're behind a firewall that only my company and its clients can access. Not sure about everyone else.
Are food stamps being applied to snack foods in large quantities? What is the percentage distribution of foods being bought with food stamps in terms of their nutritional value?

And does government have the right to dictate what people poor enough to require food stamps must eat?
Point taken. Thanks for the link.