skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because the article literally says it's 50.6 million uniques in the US: "Between desktop and mobile devices, MySpace reached 50.6 million unique users in the U.S. in November. That’s a massive surge of 575% versus the same month in 2013."

I read this as implying their uniques (as measured by, say, Google Analytics) were 50.6 million in the US, which probably means less than 50.6 million Americans visited the site in Nov. For instance, if every one of those uniques visited on both their smart phone and their computer, then it'd actually be 25 million real people. The truth is likely somewhere between 25 and 50 million Americans visited in Nov.
One of many possible reasons is the way arrays are stored. In a matrix representation, should the memory be laid out one row at a time or one column at a time? It's mostly an arbitrary decision, but different languages have made differennt choices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-major_order explains it nicely.

If you wanted to take a native Fortran matrix and turn it into a native C matrix, you'd either need to copy everything to re-arrange the in-memory layout or do funky things with the indexing. Neither option is great.

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Bringing it back to a higher level, I'd agree that your point makes sense most of the time. In most cases, the cost of a memcpy(3) would be a rounding error. That's certainly the case for most web applications. In a tight loop in a math-heavy application, though, the standards are a bit higher.
What's the financial outlook for this career path? I've always heard bad stories about early hires dealing with a below market salary(for a while) with worthless stock options. Is this a myth? It never made sense to me since I feel an early hire should make significantly more than average, since they don't have the power/equity advantage of a founder, probably have to work long hours, and a large part of the success of the company rides on their shoulders.
Yes, but the world's fastest mile is still 3:43.13, which is not much progress over the last 60 years.

More people will climb 5.14 & 5.15 in the future, but the progress of peak potential is slowing.
Thanks, but I am not the logic coder of my team. I'm the designer & design coder only.

We could use some more dev/manpower. Everything is written in the latest javascript frameworks like Web Audio API, Node.js and other similar frameworks.

If interested or know anyone who is interested in working on what we feel is game changing, we'd love to chat.
It's simpler then that. The advertising based site wants to show you the ad, they have no incentive to implement SSL. There's no https://espn.com, for example. Even if they did implement https it would be mixed content because the ad networks' iframes or whatever are http.

The solution is things like NoScript or Adblock on Firefox (not Chrome which downloads the ad and just hides it). Or blackholing the ad networks in /etc/hosts.
People love the idea of learning it. Though often give up. Just like learning foreign language.
Correct me if I'm wrong bu blackholes are compressed matter. They are typically formed by a star that collapses on itself, so they are always very small in comparison. That's why I couldn't believe it when I found out there were some so large. Unless... they become so large by eating worlds over time? Where are all the HN physicists when you need them?
The parent is basing it on the article (as quoted). If you're going to be snarky, at least read the comment/article.
It doesn't have anything to do with who owns the device.
The best thing about FBSD is that it mostly works the same way it did a decade ago. It's a lean, mature, core that isn't subject to flavor-of-the-month changes to core systems.
"the best weather, culture, food, wine, beaches, etc, you name it."

Hmm. Why not go there, write some code for the broader world, start the business somewhere else?
If the statistics agree with it, then yes, of course race can be used as an indicator of problem areas. But as I said in my second paragraph, there are certain things that invalidate that completely.
Small note: Alex and Hans did not set the speed record by freeing the Nose. They definitely aided sections.

Only 4 people have successfully free'd the Nose. The 4th happened only last November. So far it happens about once a decade. (http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/jorg-verhoeven-free-cli...)
A very interesting idea. Although there would not be much lucrative work within the OS community.
I really like the analysis of finding versus maximizing product cycles. There are a few aspects of "Moral authority" that I think have been left out.

1. The rank and file know (or at least think) that a professional CEO is less likely than a founding CEO to be around in 5 years. So when a new professional CEO says "Jump" it's much harder to get people to change their way of doing things, particularly if they suspect the next CEO will undo all the changes. When a founding CEO says "Jump," you might as well get with the program because the change is likely to be permanent. (For the economists in the audience, this is a version of the Lucas critique applied to organizations.)

2. The "knowledge pyramid" isn't just about the CEO's epistemological state and decision-making apparatus; it's also about communicating the values and identity of the company back to the company. Founding CEOs are in a superior rhetorical position because they can say "I hired you all because each of you ________", and give everyone the warm fuzzies. The professional CEO on the other hand has to speculate or impute motivations to the previous CEOs, which is less motivational. As a recent example, I think Satya Nadella has done a relatively poor job of communicating what makes Microsoft employees different from other employees; instead of saying, "You guys understand the full stack better than anyone" (or something), he can't help but to talk about market opportunities and cloud-first productivity blah blah blah. (Which is to say -- not only was he in an inevitably weakened rhetorical position with respect to BillG, he squandered it when it came to articulating the company's identity.)

3. Founding CEOs are in a better rhetorical position when it comes to navigating value conflicts between quarterly earnings and something else ("changing the world"). When communicating with immediate subordinates they can do a kind of good-cop bad-cop routine with the board of directors ("The board really wanted X, but I thought that'd be bad for customers, so we're doing Y."), whereas a board-picked CEO will be assumed to act only in the interest of the stock price. For many companies (e.g. organizations that profess to be on some kind of higher mission) this sort of CEO will be rather uninspiring, and therefore the professional CEO will be less capable of effecting change throughout the organization.

4. Professional CEOs have to navigate a more precarious political situation because there's a good chance that one or more subordinates want the CEO's job. (I would hazard to guess that insiders usually replace outsiders and outsiders usually replace insiders.)

One thing this article leaves out is a deeper analysis of why the conventional wisdom is to replace a founder with a professional when there are so many famous counterexamples. It could be that at a certain stage in a company's growth investors prefer to be more risk-averse and will give up a potential grand slam in order to get a two-run double, or something. (And by extension the OP is willing to take larger risks than the average VC.) Or that there are hidden social dynamics at play.
There was a Physics instructor at Pierce College in Washington State who was one of the best Physics professors I had. He was also the hardest. I doubt I would have passed any of my university courses if he hadn't put the fear of god into me.
Unsurprisingly, there's no answer to this ticket. Sigh.
Google around for "Martin Thompson mechanical sympathy". He talks a lot about related topics and is primarily focused on Java.
How do you see this dynamic playing out with SaaS services vs. IT? In theory, an external SaaS provider could create economies of scale in usable software for apprentices. Would custom enteprise apps reincorporate those learnings? Or would the enterprise pay a cost to integrate the output of SaaS services (possibly with apprentice errors) into corporate systems?
How Not to Be ‘Manterrupted’ in Meetings
I agre with what you say except for the salary comparison with India. Even though salary are low in Italy compared to various other countries, in IT too, according to payscale[1] the average salary of a developer is 340k Rupie per year, that is around 4.7k Euro. The average salary in Italy for IT should be at least 25k-30k Euro.
But to be fair it would be interesting to compare it to cost of living, because as Italian I know for sure that IT guys are not paid better than others in Italy, while I have no info about India (it could be that they are pay not too much, but really well compared to other workers and local cost of living).

Having said that, I agree with many others saying that it's not a great idea to go to Italy for startups.. things are moving and are improving compared to 5 or 10 years ago but in no way comparable to other places in UE (let's compare for example Berlin, London or Paris with Milan or Rome...)

[1] http://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Software_Developer/S...
CCSF is an excellent community college. One of the best in the country. Too bad it's mired in political fight over state accreditation and students are scared away.
Being Italian as well, and having worked both in this industry and academia for a few years I can confirm: believe each of those words. We have no data, but enough experience to assert this. However if you need data,just search how bad Italy is ranked for corruption and think how difficult will it be to work in a country where bribe and not competition is the main driver when it comes to choose partners.
Some landowners ban chalk thinking that it's the chalk that makes routes white. It isn't. In most rock the hardest stuff is the quartz crystals. As all the soft stuff is eroded away by foot traffic (mica and such) the white quartz is left exposed. You can always spot a climbing route by the polished-white toeholds. Chalk or not, climbing makes marks.
Normal exercise will not cause weight loss - countless studies have shown that.

But it will make you healthier, so it's worth it anyway.
Are there good history books on the origin of this business culture?
Congrats to Otavio and crew for bringing Word Lens all the way to such a spectacular success.
Sorry to disagree. I am an Italian (one who did not leave) and the situation is the same as always. Sad to say that this is a doomed country.
That's a nice study.

The main result is that most of the benefit comes from putting everything through one TCP pipe. This, of course, only works if almost everything on a site comes from one host. This is a good assumption for Google sites, which communicate only with the mothership. It's not for most non-Google sites.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" -- Alan Perlis

It's not solely just about if it is ready for commercial/real-world applications right now. The language itself is interesting and it definitely shapes a different mode of thinking.

Haskell is evolving rapidly and in interesting ways and those that are interesting in programming (as most of us here are), it's a good place to look and learn from.
My Italian ex-roomates/friends (Italian 30-something entrepreneurs living here in L.A.) echo many these sentiments you write. No matter how much they love their country and families they are living (and creating) here and in New York for many of the reasons you mention above.
Community college is an excellent place for continuation education as well. Over the years I have taken night classes there have nothing to do with my date job, like laws, commercial contracts, real estate, investment, languages, etc. It's a great way to expand your horizon in a classroom environment.
I would say obesity implies inactivity, so the headline is rather misleading.
Had to affirm this beyond an upvote - don't even think of going there.
Ok, but in this case shouldn't it be better to go remote and open to the whole world? BTW, I love in Italy, I have a phd and I am seeking a new job, so if you want to give R&D in Italy a try, drop me a line ;-)
> I was lucky not have the pleasure of such acquaintances but don't worry, if you become large enough or successful enough, they will come to you.

I'm Italian too, live in Italy, and I'm really sick of this ill-informed self-disparaging attitude from so many Italians. There are millions of Italians who will say "I haven't personally never been touched by this, I don't even know anybody who was personally touched by it, but I know this, because... well, just because, everybody knows it".

Are there corruption and crime in Italy? Yes, of course. But, except for some areas in the South, they are nowhere as prevalent as so many people seem to think.
4-ft Tall Personal Robot on Kickstarter
Wait, why is that sad? Good for India. They actually have some great developers, despite the best leaving for the US.
There clearly have to be exceptions like Elon at Tesla -- not the founding CEO, but clearly not a hired gun.
A New Kind of Social Anxiety in the Classroom
Some of these aid routes (the pitons) eventually go clean as the scars get big enough to hold a nut or the new paper-thin cams.
I interpreted the suggestion as for those not using Verizon to inject fake UIDH. Of course, this could be filtered by making sure the traffic is actually coming from Verizon's networks...
Couldn't agree more. If your startup sells internationally, the current crisis won't affect you.
The creative economy, signed originals and blockchain technology
I don't know, sorry. I just live the situation
Yes, and that's also true regarding organized crime and corruption.
I agree. Article makes it sound as if inactivity causes poor health (which it may). Alternatively inactivity maybe is just an indicator of poor health and not the dirct cause.
If you are using a VPN that proxies your request, couldn't you hide from this tracking?
This is because modern wars aren't really wars. When was the last time America fought a war against an enemy whose weapons were designed and manufactured in any significant way by the enemy? When was the last time America fought a war against an enemy with remotely comparable military strength?

The reason that "real wars" aren't fought any more is the weapons we have (nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, ships, planes, etc.) and the weapons our potential opponents have as well as experiences in the world wars together convince everyone that open war is absolutely undesirable. We build and maintain advanced weapons for the explicit purpose of not needing to use them.

The weapons accession strategy has much to do with maintaining the ability to manufacture advanced weapons to use against an advanced enemy so that we can continue to prevent such a war.
You can pack data with primary type arrays in Java for memory (cache) friendly processing. Or go the JNI route, with less portability.
The io and NW sites were likely rushed to get something out there to correspond with the io release. My guess is they'll get things cleaned up in short order.
>> I only look at technical accomplishments

Without age discrimination

>>accomplishments are in light of how much time they've had to achieve them

Age discrimination by definition
Is the language on the action alert (linked in the article) any better for you?

https://act.eff.org/action/hold-verizon-accountable-for-viol...
I believe the singularity point, where all the mass collects, is small (dimensionless) but the gravity well that is created by the mass is what is measured when the size is determined. The edge of the gravity well is referred to as the event horizon. The event horizon of a black hole is the point which matter can no longer escape the gravity of the black hole.

However, I've been wrong several times already in this thread so take it for what that's worth.
Sometimes I imagine it to be fun to lead a company like MySpace or Yahoo. Something, which was once enormous and is still quite big but declining.

Imagine all the cruft, which amassed over the years and you could clean up. Killing the loss making properties, applying best practices to the profitable ones. Improving efficiency of all kind of processes. Of course, you would have to be some kind of dictator immune to all the politics. But imagine the manpower you would have at hand. A small boat is more agile, but once a big ship steers in the right direction …

I once read or watched an interview from a MySpace person doing SEO, who stated, that they increased their visibility in the SERPs by some high amount (forgot the exact), just by actually using sensible title tags. I find these kind of inefficiencies/potentials in big organizations fascinating and off-putting at the same time.

You would not make the same relative increases of value you could do by starting a new company, but the risk would be much lower and absolute value created could be about the same.
Google: Guide for Technical Development
I just realized that truck drivers may also be regulated regarding what types of devices they can have when driving, which would explain a lot. Yellow cabs in NYC for instance are forbidden to use GPS due to safety reasons and generally rely on dispatchers to get around. Truckers probably have even more safety rules to follow
Xiaomi: A bluffer's guide to 'China's Apple'
while i agree, this concept is easier to sell if you approach it from a different direction - i.e. "you can't outrun your fork."

this is much easier for most people to comprehend, since anyone who's ever been in a modern gym even once knows you can run an hour on a treadmill and wipe it out with a single donut.
In some fields, especially science, you probably need to be 10-15 years in to start something, so 30's and up. The question: what is the age stats if you do not calculate science oriented startups.
Blockchain Closes $30.5M Funding Round
Wouldn't this be a great way for non-EU citizens to get a residence-permit within the EU? Then, one could move and work in more lucrative places, like Switzerland. (Full disclosure: I am interested in tech-recruiting in Switzerland - see https://medium.com/@techrecruiting.ch/eight-reasons-why-i-mo...)
Collecting Products, Customers and Competitors Data for Product Inteeligence
this is what VPNs help prevent.
Growth Hacking?
Govt could have companies bid salary offers on H1-Bs. There's a concept of prevailing wage currently - use it as a base, have companies raise it, until they either pay something close to real market, or are not getting the worker. Thoughts?
Both of these athletes are blessed with amazing genetics and have spent years training their bodies and developing the physical capabilities required for this climb in addition to spending an inordinate amount of time on the actual route developing muscles memories allowing them to precisely execute these particular moves while straining their bodies to the limit.

Objectively, there is actually less danger to a climb like this which occurs on a steep wall far from the ground since you can fall a long ways before you hit something. People have fallen for 50-100 m (the length of a rope) on el cap and been fine. The 10-30 foot "clean" falls these climbers risk are really not bad with a soft catch by a stretchy rope. It takes a bit of time for your mind to accept this fact but it happens rather naturally with time spent on the rock.

There are those who focus on climbing without a rope or doing climbs with ground fall potential. Some claim this is a mental challenge but I've found these people are largely idiots or attention speaker who have deluded themselves the can handle the danger or accept death. To me there is no real mental challenge and certainly nothing admirable in this sort of climbing.

FWIW I've free climbed routes of 5.11+ difficulty and ~1000 ft of length range which is sort of the "advanced amateur" of multi pitch free climbing compared to this routes 5.14+ difficulty over 3000 ft. Achieving this took years of climbing several times a week combined with dedicated finger strength training and numerous road trips to different climbing areas to practice on different types of real rock.
How would ISPs tag requests going over HTTPS as being from a particular subscriber?
> Most performance impact of SPDY over HTTP comes from its single TCP connection

This is not a surprise at all, because Google never tested SPDY against HTTP pipelining. And at least in their mobile test they included the TCP connection time for HTTP but not for SPDY; I suppose their test software just reused the same SPDY connection since the mirrored web pages all were served from the same IP.

They compressed sensitive headers with data leading to CRIME attacks.

They had a priority inversion causing Google Maps to load much slower through SPDY than HTTP.

This new protocol is a complete mess, from beginning to end.
> The last piece of protection you have is over 10 feet below you - meaning, if you fall, you fall twice that distance.

Minor nit, but the ropes used in this type of climbing will be dynamic, not static. That means you'll fall the 10 feet to the last pro, that 10 feet again plus the stretch on the rope...more like 25-30 feet. I've only climbed lead in the gym, but those kinds of falls are still scary as hell. I can only imagine what it would be like that high up.

Also, good call on the finger thing. I know the story is about him doing something that no one has ever done before and his injury shouldn't be the focus, but not calling it out is insane and I've yet to see one story include that tidbit. Anyone who's climbed knows just how important fingers are, it's hard for me to fathom climbing an indoor 5.13 without my index finger, let alone this many outdoor 5.13/5.14s. It's utterly amazing that he's continued to be an elite climber after his injury.
yeah, but people will justify it with a hard-on for verizon's network. where somehow in a large city, not a single other provider gets acceptable signal...
Because you need a residence permit to stay for more than 90 days for each 6 months, and you won't generally be able to rent without it. No school for kids either, etc. And that's if you come from the first world country that has a no-visa arrangement with EU. Otherwise you will need an entry visa as well.
As an Italian, I have to say that Italy isn't the first place where I would open a startup, but many comments here are really exaggerated. Corruption and crime, in the center and north of Italy (the most economically active part), is nowhere as prevalent as they say. Unfortunately, because of the crisis that really hit hard here, there is a very gloomy sentiment in lots of Italians.

But as a consequence of the crisis, there is a lot of talent that can be get pretty cheap for European standards, especially now that taxation for newly hired workers has been greatly reduced.
Yes it's a great idea, and in the OP article he asks "Is anybody working on this?" The answer is yes - there is a proof of concept illustrated in this article:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/party-magazine/who-made-could...

And others are working on this as a service for many uses, including signing artwork, see BT Proof, for example: https://www.btproof.com/
BTProof – Trusted timestamping on the Bitcoin blockchain
>They're still in early stages though, I'm sure this is in the pipeline.

I would not call Digital Ocean all that early. This has been an issue for years.
http://objectlayout.org/
> ..retaining IPs..

I noticed since few month back, if you destroy your droplet and create fresh droplet even after few days, you will get the same IP. Only in same DC though.

Maybe some sort of temporary policy while they're working on proper IP retainer.
I'm very curious; can you expand on what they were pessimistic about?