skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any single hash will be suboptimal; the "magic" would be to use a bunch of different hashes to partition your space into suboptimal buckets, and use all of them at once to get very good (though still approximative) query results.

This is what Spotify's excellent Annoy library does. [1]

[1] https://github.com/spotify/annoy
The advantage of basic Levenshtein is that it's a heck of a lot quicker (last time I checked) than Damerau-L or Jaro-Winkler in real world applications.

And I wouldn't go as far as to say it's useless. Basic Levenshtein only misses transpositions in comparison to Damerau-L, but it still catches them as insert/delete combos.
If you have a great product that you can get live quickly and works then it won't matter if you even write it in COBOL (don't write it in COBOL though) - ASP.Net & SQl Server (even the free version) also work very well together and have great performance.

There are of course licensing costs if you run on Windows and don't use MONO but these shouldn't really be an issue in comparison to all your other costs

Also there are a lot of ASP.Net/C# developers around (just look at odesk) which will help you build your team faster (unlike Ruby or Scala developers, which are great languages, just harder to recruit and also attract higher wages).

My advice... build a proof on concept as quickly as possible - if .net is your thing then use that vs. wasting time learning something else. The chances are that your concept may need to be reworked so why waste time...

Good luck!
Things PR Agencies Don't Tell Startups
Most likely this is major overthinking and your energy is better spent back here in the present day on first-order concerns like making people receptive to the actual product!
I fully expect the interstate system to be the first fully automated road network...

You drive up the ramp, either in a truck or a car, and at some point the on board computer takes over, when you get to your preprogrammed exit number the car/truck gives the driver back control once it is on the exit ramp, if the driver does not acknowledge control the car automatically decelerates and pulls off the road way
prototype for T-1000?
Hextris: A fast paced puzzle game
The worst part about the menubar itself is that you can't set it to be black without an add-on.

Modifying dock icons isn't hard, but it shouldn't be necessary.

My menubar: Flux, Gmail, Twitter, Temperature, Network, Time.
Okay how about I'll send you a contract to transfer all of your property to me and then you'll be free to spend the rest of your life in the Amazon rainforest. If you get malaria, don't worry, it's natural. Just learn to leave things be.

Exactly the same argument applies here.
The question is how well it is regulated. I don't know anything about the business. But I'd assume that with the right kind of regulations it can be controlled. E.g., require prostitutes to register. Registering should include a short course about basic rights and hygiene. They should have to go to regular health checks (maybe once a week), which should also provide access to social and legal counselling. The brothels should be required to keep track of anyone who works there and make sure that anyone working there has done those checks. This should be _regularly_ checked by the authority. Violations should be harshly punished.

Of course there is a risk if you over regulate it that there will still be black market prostitution happening. Especially if those regulations result in a price increase. Which regular health checks and access to social/legal counselling would certainly do.
This looks cool and I will try it out.

I'm curious: have you tried out Anki and Memrise? Both of these have free Android apps, sync progress to a central server and, more importantly, have pre-made and/or user-submitted 'decks' for common languages and texts.

Did you build this because you wanted something simpler, or were they missing an essential feature?

EDIT: I see from the last of the screenshots shown in Google Play, that you have a neat feature: show me a notification about a word that I'm ready to practice (or about to forget). Anki and Memrise don't do this, although Memrise will occasionally remind you to come back.
Write your product in the language that you know best and is suitable (which is .Net).

You don't want to be struggling to show hello world on a page with an unknown framework compared to building your actual product with a language you know.

I've written many projects in PHP and .Net.

My latest startup is all .Net and the right choice.
4-dimensional simplex noise is useful for creating tileable patterns. Sampling a 2D image based on the surface of a 3D torus floating in 4D space always yields a pattern with no obvious edges.
A piece of 2" x 4" timber is still referred to as "2 by 4" in the UK, except it now measures 50mm x 100mm (actual conversion is 50.8mm x 101.6mm, the difference being moot when building scale is taken into account)
The is a possibility that some MS hater would refuse to buy on that basis or made it an excuse to buy someone else. It's close to zero though.
Just as a data point: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an... Web Framework ASP.NET MVC 5 with MiniProfiler
Nginx distribution with advanced features, by Alibaba
Doesn't appear to be allowed per USDA regs either. Eventually we're going to pinpoint OP by a process of elimination.

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f10...

If that fails, for a negative perspective, go to eCFR, chapter 7 Ag, part 205 USDA organic program, 205.602 "Nonsynthetic substances prohibited for use in organic crop production" lists (i) Tobacco dust (nicotine sulfate). Which is probably close enough to OPs claim. Or for a positive perspective 205.601 "Synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production" section (e) "As insecticides (including acaricides or mite control)" and that lists 10 allowable bug killers none of which seem to be neonicotinoids.

By negative and positive I don't mean some electrical thing but words like "can if you want" vs "no you will not". Either way (edited: Both ways...) no nicotinoids on USDA labeled produce in the USA.

State regs are only allowed to be stricter than fed. So "Thats OK in California but not Wisconsin" is outright a non-starter if its already forbidden by USDA.

Now if you mean in practice, like if a chemist ran tests on randomly purchased organic produce in the USA, I'd say hell yes you'll find it in organic produce. There's like 50 layers of middlemen and shippers in the food industry, you have a personal relationship with none of them (I buy beef from a family friend and bought vegetables from a great uncle who retired into being a gentleman farmer, that's "different" than driving to a local food store), and all of them have a huge financial interest in taking visually identical apples from "Chemical McWasteland's Industrial Farm" and putting them in boxes from "Sunshine Unicorn Organic Farm". How many layers of middlemen would make about a buck a pound or more by merely accidentally selling non-organic food as organic? And how corrupt is this country? In practice the primary effect of buying and eating organic produce is almost certainly feeling better while making corrupt individuals wealthier, even if theoretically health benefits could be available from organic produce.

So the TLDR is legally wrong in the USA at the fed level both by being specifically forbidden AND by not listed as permitted, yet is also probably right that if you buy an "organic" apple at a convenience store, it probably isn't due to corruption.
"You make more than your sister doing "less" work because knowledge and high level skills are a value multiplier. You may come up with a world changing idea that generates billions of dollars. No kindergarden teacher could achieve that. Pay matches accordingly."

And then the kids grow up, and you are fucked. Do you think the first ever important thing those kids learn, for society, is when they become 20+ and one day they start learning compsci-simulated-quantum-biomolecular-teleportation-of-artificial-intelligence-nanoparticle-drug-dynamofeedback 101? (Yes, if it's not obvious, I just pulled that out of my...)

She gets less, cause the system doesn't care about if the world in totally destroyed 30 years down the road. (Actually that would be great. Opportunity for "growth" and profit.) It only cares about billions yesterday.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu...
A distributed, versioned, multi-dimensional array database [Clojure]
Really, it's more like accidently supported on Linux.
>How about transcending our own desires to control nature. Maybe learning to leave things be? That would be a real feat.

That's actually not a feat at all. There's no grander harmony of nature that needs to be preserved by killing people off at a fixed age. Hell, there never was: we evolved, suffered an ice age, drove the large land mammals to extinction, and emerged from an ice age, all before even inventing writing or agriculture.

Nature is the cruelest thing in the world.
There are or have been partial exceptions, but in general you are correct. I don't think that even the most expensive schools have consistent quality in the teaching staff.
Types of `map` function in Haskell, Scala, and Clojure
Previously known as Doc Brown. Here's presentation from this years Clojure West:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_HwCvAcfk&index=23&list=PL...

Recently open sourced.
Thanks for the feedback! I cover some of the "why" in the docs, but I agree the homepage could do a better job of making the case for a new UI toolkit.

The short version:

* System native widgets, not themes

* Installable via "pip install" - no third party or binary dependencies

* Not just naïve wrappers around widgets - capture the underlying use case and provide an API wrapper.

* Genuinely Python native. This means exploiting language specific features (like generators and context managers)
Responsive for me on Chrome / Mac - http://drp.io/Rl
Yeah. There's really no reason to put Angular in the title at all.
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its crap...whatz so angular in this? 45 points for this..really..!!!
I agree, Nancy is a lot of fun to use with Mono. However, I've been stuck trying to get a WCF (older ASP.NET) application running on Mono for a while now, and it's been a huge pain.
In the 1970s in Colorado, I used to hear that a Volkswagen Beetle could make it up any road that a Jeep could--I guess that the short turning radius helped, and the lower ground clearance didn't matter that much.
Instead of providing resources, continuation, or even references to these topics for interested minds to dive into, I find bashing and gloating. Or am I reading this completely wrong?

Don't get me wrong, it's good to point out the writing's shortcomings, but as you appear to be knownledgeable in the field, please don't force others to begin from the bottom. Share your knownledge.
I've actually worked in the construction industry in New Zealand, which was thoroughly metric when I was building houses ~10 years ago.

And we did everything in mm, standardised timber was "100x50" - mm was assumed, which was close to 2x4 Inches.
(Actually, I think the finished standardised timber is smaller than 100mmx50mm, but for some reason was still called 100x50)
sheets of Gib plaster (Drywall?) were 1200x3600,(possibly 1600x.. I don't remember) sometimes bigger. rooms had 2400mm or 3600mm stud heights.
90mm nails were used to assemble the house frames, and 50mm nails were used when the 90mm nails would have been excessive.

We only really used Meters when we were being vague - "Go about a meter further out!" and usually converted to mm when we were actually cutting or fastening something. I never poured any concrete myself, but I'm pretty sure the foundation boxing would have been measured out to the mm, even over 10s of meters of distance.

If I ever gave someone a measurement in cm I'd get told "Only Dressmakers user centimeters!" I don't think I ever used feet, and I only ever used inches when discussing lumber, and would always be told to use metric.
Because there are also other people that are more desperate, and are willing to work more for less.
At least it's less magic than puLP:

prob += x*2 + y, "foo"

This sets the objective function of prob to (2x+y), and assigns it a name of "foo".

prob += x*2 + y > 3, "abcd"

That puts a constraint that 2x + y > 3, called "abcd".

On both of these the string is optional.

I'm also conflicted. On one hand, it's about the most compact syntax you can get for something like this - when similar libraries in languages without operator overloading resort to passing strings into functions... On the other hand, it can be utterly incomprehensible if you haven't gone through the documentation.
So all you have done is try to shoot down the article, without attempting to replace it with any concrete suggestions of your own. Every argument has flaws and costs but you seem to be aiming at "do nothing" or nothing that will scare away the profits and technology, health cost be damned.
I think the main problem is that when you get into the exercises that require combinations of tactics, it assumes the student has the capacity to make that leap, or recall on demand everything they have learned and put them all together without a helping hand.

I'm towards the end of "Diving Deep" and I'm ready to give up as the exercises continually lead me to brute force moves until I hit the specific move you are looking for.
If you use Ubuntu 14.04 (like me) you have to install a newer version of libnss3 (at least 3.16.2) and than it works.

Runs smoother than pipelight + firefox at least for me.
50C summer time???

Where do you live? The sahara desert?

BTW you seem to have a greek name but you definitely don't live
in Greece! We do have some hot weather here, but definitely not in the range you described.
I'd imagine it's due to us actually being able to discover what effect things have on our bodies in ways we've never been able to before.
> not quite possible in the browser!

It's not the browser (or JS) that's slow, it's all the animations and stuff. If you write Javascript to do only what the OCaml code does, it runs fast enough: http://jsfiddle.net/qmw4d9p9/1/
Check https://github.com/openresty/ngx_openresty/issues/54

As agentzh claims, tengine makes much bigger changes to nginx and if you check the repo it's only 1.4 compatible while 1.6 has been out since April. Openresty has patches against 1.7 even.
I love iStat as a replacement for system controls: the clock, battery and seeing stats for cpu, temperature, network.

http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
It was 50x100 when I was building in Chch ~10 years ago.

It was explained to me that the rough cut timber was closer to the stated size, and that the finished timber we used for framing was named after the unfinished dimensions. Of course, I don't know how true that actually is.
Certainly the unfinished 75x50 we used for roofing purlins (spelling?) was noticeably thicker than the finished structural 100x50s
this is amazing. where did you get all the videos from?
We call that a "train". Steel wheels on steel rails just works better over long distances. Then trucks to haul from station to individual loading docks. I also live about 25 miles from a small port that on rare occasion does get container freight traffic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_freight_transport

Lots of existing infrastructure for this, cheaper to use than to put AI in each truck.
Actually, OS X Yosemite has a black menu bar built in, in 'dark mode': http://www.maclife.com/files/imagecache/futureus_imagegaller...

Unfortunately, not all apps support white menu bar icons and thus the result will vary.
That'd be KiPa, then (kibipascals) ;)

Standardised since 1999, I think. But no one really uses it. Kilobytes would technically be kB as well.
Ship the product and get traction. The back end doesn't matter unless it hurts you achieving these two goals. Maybe other backends will help you achieve your intended results? That is the only real question that matters. Traction is hard to achieve and is paramount.
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It's going to be supported as a backend in the next version of ASP .NET (currently called vNext).

Details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/05/12/the-next-g...
I disagree.

An hourly wage is a very special payment system which requires some kind of foreman to be sustainable. Otherwise, the labour industry tends to drift towards inefficiencies that allow them to claim money for less work. This is classic agency risk, where the incentives are not aligned, and heading down this path often entails major bureaucracies to try and keep everyone honest (like time clocks and punch cards, a "boss" looking over you, etc).

Simply paying more within the existing structure makes perfect sense. It will actually have a disproportionate effect on recruitment when some of the most efficient drivers start bragging about making $160,000 a year driving trucks (this is one of the big drivers of immigration by the way. Compared to poorer nations, the streets are paved in gold in the USA, and some lucky immigrants find shovels to dig it up. Unfortunately, most people who come never get a shovel so it remains but a dream...).

Paying more by the mile absorbs the costs of refuelling and traffic, without giving any driver an incentive to waste time when, for example refuelling the truck. So rational truckers will go to gas stations that are more efficient and will get out of there as soon as they can.

Where the trucker has no agency, however, it could make sense to pay by the hour. For example, since loading is in the hands of another group as soon as the truck docks in, and since it can vary quite a bit based on warehouse, better that the driver is paid for time sitting around. You could argue that the driver's incentive is to rush the loaders, but I doubt they have any coercion in that process. So better that the shipping company have an incentive to make loadings as fast possible through influence over choice of warehouse, penalties to warehouses for slow loadings, etc.

I've never really thought about this industry before, but thinking about it now makes it sound very interesting!
No, but a discussion around the tech you're using might.

It's about making something people want -- even if you have to do it using clipboards, rubber bands, and duct tape. If they want it, you can figure out the tech later. That's the easy part. The hard part is connecting with people you can help.
I'm a bit disappointed. Maybe I was expecting just a bit more out of this, but let's see what will happen. I'll contact them just to get more info.
Have to agree. Relationship with other people on the same boat and mission is always good. Is that an official community? Haven't checked yet.
I've been in this situation a couple of times before.

It won't make a blind bit of difference initially but if you expand, so will tooling and deployment costs and investors don't like that. Anything that takes off the bottom line is a problem. Microsoft licensing, particularly dev tools and SQL is incredibly expensive and an order of magnitude more expensive on deployment and diagnostic time than anything else.

We're like that now. Our SQL licensing is shaping our architecture not on technical merit but avoiding core license costs. That is beyond bad but we can't justify a £200k spend on licenses and kit to get rid of 2008R2.

Inevitably bits of Python are now appearing around the edges of the product and trying to stab the core. There are a couple of postgresql machines doing ancillary work. All the staff are slowly moving their operational task over because there isn't a purchase process.

This is the price of success though :)

Edit: just to add that the last two companies I worked for are Python/java/postgres houses now after being end to end MS outfits. The staff change over the lifecycle of a product. You can afford better people after time and better people seem to prefer to use other platforms even if they market themselves as .Net people.

Edit 2: also once you're locked in, volume licensing looks cost efficient. Then after a couple of yeara you get a call from the sales guys at MS who want to do a 'soft audit' (which it says they can so in the VL agreement). Then battle commences between MS, yourselves and the disty who handles your VL over how much you owe. This usually starts at £150k-ish for an SME and your ops team will be down for days whilst they work that down. Our liability was less than £10k which is within the VL safe zone but other companies are less lucky. Also the VL settlement says you can't discuss it but fuck them - the company this was against is dissolved.

Actually I look at my post and I couldn't possibly recommend it. If we'd started differently we could afford to be employ and sponsor postgres core team staff for example and gave second to none support and a positive impact on the community. Instead, pockets are lined elsewhere.
Err ... reliable experimental repetition of the hypothesized results against a control (and/or variety of controls) in carefully isolated environments using carefully controlled and documented methods that effectively remove all other plausible explanations?

Yes, we will never know for sure because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p... ... but we can be pretty certain.
Could easily do this with media queries.
I think a lot more apps might go colorful with Yosemite. If you switch to dark mode the monochrome icons don't really work. So either go with a colorful icon or design two (light and dark) monochrome icons. Not too sure if you can switch the icon automatically based on the system theme though.
Besides Adultwork (which is mostly UK), Europe also has http://www.callgirl-list.com/ (mostly Germany and Hungary). USA has http://theeroticreview.com/ pity Canada, New Zealand, Australia does not have one or I am unaware of such.
I'd caution against the performance claims. Yes its very good and can take a serious beating but there's a brick wall that requires a pile of tuning and tool purchasing to get over.

Oh and the instrumentation and debugging past the bits of code you wrote and the .Net runtime core libraries is utterly horrible.

See some of my earlier comments about this matter.

I'd rather build on the JVM now thanks to tools like VisualVM and profilers that can be deployed across the team for free.
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