skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2015 clang & gcc have a more or less working devirtualization feature that eliminates the virtual overhead in a simple benchmark such as this. The compiler sees all classes and knows that a particular interface is implemented by only one class, so it simply elides the virtual table lookup. Add that features such as speculative devirtualization that can remove a surprisingly large number of virtual calls in an established code base such as Firefox: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00007.html

If C++ will exist in 10 years from now, I predict 'virtual' to be just yet another legacy keyword.
> I seriously doubt that people sign up with their ISP so they can pirate

"Thanks for fixing up my computer/Internet, now can you show me how to get the free HBO TV shows?" quoth several people I've helped before.
No, I just realized this too and a search on twitter for "google weather" indicates others aren't seeing it in search results or Google Now cards.
And that big business is buying the government more and more every day.. which indirectly means the only view in the media is that of the (big business owned) government.
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Thanks for this, going to try it out. I've tried hard in the past to get thunderbird to work properly and end up just using Outlook in a windows VM, feeling like there is absolutely no good alternative to it.
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And you sound like a typical asshole with a hugely inflated opinion of your own intelligence, which negatively correlates with actually having one.
Camel carts/wagons actually do exist (http://www.nomadderwhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dsc_...) and are quite popular in India and Pakistan. In fact, I would say that such is the primary way of using a camel as a load-bearing animal in this region. I think the big difference is, in the Middle East, the caravans had to travel very long distances (for instance, Mecca to Constantinople was a profitable route) over very _diverse_ desert terrain, some of which is probably very unsuitable for carts (mountain passes, loose sand).
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The Bene Tleilax think so.
Well, speaking of illiterate, no one actually disputed that.

It still is, however a gross oversimplification. Fructose is dense in calories, easily absorbed (which is calories in, not necessarily the food you swallow), contributes heavily to lipogenesis, and does not inhibit leptin, a hormone that controls hunger.

Lots of data and an entertaining presentation, which starts by addressing calories in and calories out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5X0i92OZQ
Why is this even sensational when all governments around the world do sth of this sort one way or another ?
I found studies showing that television in lieu of newspapers correlates negatively --- but that's a direct comparison between people who read the paper and watch news. The same studies showed little or no effect versus people that didn't consume the news at all.

My search was cursory (I was just surprised by your claim and checked it), but (a) the results appears to point in the opposite direction to your claim and (b) sort of misses the point of the 'tzs parent comment.
In the interest of being sure (because I'm interested) I had to second-guess that water is a greenhouse gas. NOAA had an interesting statement on it, which I'll just quote:

"Water Vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, which is why it is addressed here first. However, changes in its concentration is also considered to be a result of climate feedbacks related to the warming of the atmosphere rather than a direct result of industrialization."

And now I'm left wondering how to unpack that, politically AND scientifically. Ah, the luxuries of Saturday morning browsing.
For years I worked as a concierge programmer, and it was the most fun that I ever had, mostly because of the one-to-one relationship I had with my clients.

I still do this sort of work, and still love it (London though, not NYC). As you say it can be a lot of fun if your clients have interesting problems and rely on you to clarify and reify their ideas. I can confirm that world has not died out, and I suspect it won't, because there will always be a stage where people have some money to spend but not enough to take a risky bet on an untested idea and start hiring employees, which is a huge fixed cost - consultants will always be better for that sort of work.

When they're spending other people's money, of course companies are more willing to take on employees and fixed costs even at the start, so in some ways VC funding does distort this market.

The problem I've run into lately is the large number of people who are so sure that their idea will someday be worth billions that they do not want to pay cash right now, they only want to pay in equity. And that kills all of the fun for me.

If they were sure their idea would someday be worth billions, they wouldn't want to give any percentage of that away... IMO the reason they want to pay in equity is to spread some of the risk that this idea won't work - it's all upside for them if you are not paid in money now but in hypothetical money which they only have to pay if things go incredibly well.
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Yes. Thats one of the things India needs to improve upon desperately. Despite all these there is huge potential considering the 1 billion population and the fast adaptation of new technology.
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Hi all,
We have recently created a site for the global startup ecosystem, www.StartupBlink.com and so far so good for getting traction, PR and startups signing to the site.
My question is the following.
It easy to persuade startups to sign up (they get visibility and link), but we have yet to figure out a way to get them to keep on coming back to the site.
I wonder if any of you has any idea about a value I can provide the startups and other entities that will keep on getting them back to the site.
Thanks!
Since when was the definition of "crater" politicized? Oh wait, you're just making that up, aren't you!
Good point. The important part is that it illustrates just how vulnerable Komodia products are. That password will likely get people access to other things as well.
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Similar and overlapping as others have said.

But I often liken "consulting" to mean the product you are selling is yourself. Where as "freelance" means the product you are selling is some output (app, website, code, etc.).

It's a lot harder to grow a consulting business beyond 30 to 40 hours a week because a human can only sell so much of his time. But if the value you are providing is an output, you can scale by hiring others to help offload your work. Much more difficult when you have sold yourself as a consultant and the client is expecting YOU.
Sure, but that shift is happening under the same logic that leads businesses to run ERP applications on big iron mainframes even here in the 21st century.

It's a matter of degree, but human error remains. The subprime clusterfuck wasn't based on using Excel.
The benefits often include things like stock schemes, pension payments, life insurance policies and so on. It does add up.

I won't argue that contractors will probably take home more even taking benefits into account, and the tradeoff is then between more stable employment and a bigger paycheque.
This is crazy...we are no more secure
Geary's UI is a lot better than Thunderbird.
OP: You should listen to tptacek. He's forgotten more about crypto than some people have ever learned. :)
Why avoid it? The only type I've ever seen is the cyanocobalamin and similar.

What's the difference between the two?
There is a weird phenomenon going on now that relates to design. i agree that the page is super simple looking and agree that this is a turnoff for most people. But for some reason people now think that design is even more important than the service. In my opinion, it's the "judging a book by it's cover phenomenon". I wonder how many people would say that the design of Hacker News is too simple?
"How much / what sort of financial experience is required?"

One year perm at a bank or a project in a bank as a consultant. Investment banking and FX experience is valued much more.

If you never worked in any financial institution(like for an insurer), then there is maybe 1% chance you're getting a contract in one.

For £800 that's 5-10 years of experience with majority of it with one of the big consultancies(IBM GBS, Accenture, Deloitte) and a few big financial projects. Granted that's an introduction rate, that can go up if you negotiate well.
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I always called these waterfall charts - waterfall plots are something else in my mind and are very useful in examining spectra over time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_plot
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Incidentally bugger all in most cases I reckon unless you're working in trading. There's a bit of a vacuum at the moment so standards are low. Most orgs are willing to drag you through the relevant training.

In all my years of working in the financial sector (NOT trading I will add!), about as complex as it got was numeric precision, rounding, equation of a line and curve fitting which was all pretty easy. Oh and deciphering lots of poorly written regulation and rules.

Don't hit trading unless you like snorting coke and 100 hour weeks.
This is stuff that takes years to realize

- Formatting and readability including variable, table and field names (this save a lot of headaches in the long run)

- File structure

- Taking time to refactor to achieve the above.

- Don't be afraid to try a junk idea you've thought about, just trying it would increase your chances of discovering something cool
> On the other hand, the language chosen might ensure high turnover of the sorts of coders you'd really like to keep, assuming you could ever attract them in the first place.

I'm sure Bell Labs never had that problem :) I was reading someone's PhD dissertation on Chill [1] and what was interesting to note was how many of the players ended up outsourcing their software development to 3rd parties.

Software is hard.

There other day I was talking with someone in tech management from a national chain (think malls). They are rolling their own commerce platform since "nothing" out there can satisfy their ecommerce requirements. I didn't say this upfront -- a potential client -- but the idea that this chain will actually get into serious software development, develop an A team, and keep them, is complete and utter wishful thinking.

My advice to anyone running a non-tech company is own the data and the apis and off load the rest to a[n] actual tech company.

[1]: http://web.bi.no/forskning/papers.nsf/0/42215f66b6282965c125...
The Indian railway ticketing system was recently improved and it looks like its vastly better now.
I was a long-time Thunderbird user, but the mail application I really loved was Opera's M2. It had an awesome auto-folder system that would create virtual folders for mailing lists, people you regularly corresponded with and date ranges. It's only downside was that it was tied into Opera and there was no way to tell it to open links in another browser.
having to do grunt work is an effect of a lack of automation in most cases. one of the things he mentions is getting very tight and efficient with his tool chain, to eliminate wasted time.

also, you outsource the things you're bad at yourself, or you create a relationship with another contractor to trade work. typically this split is "designer & coder".
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Dan,

First of all, the LA Times changed the title from when I originally posted it. The first title they used was stupid quite frankly.

Second, under "sharelines", there are two headlines they suggest using when sharing the story. I picked one. I can't believe you guys are seriously having a problem with it. It describes the story well.

Third, from what I heard when first getting into this story, it WAS the oldest known living organism on Earth. Since then they have found older "things", and having found the Prometheus tree, they have found older tree(s) as well looking in the same area as well as areas that have the same general living conditions.

Fourth, I'm sharing a link, not writing a freaking thesis. I'm glad at least someone on this thread bothered to find out about this story because it's fascinating.

Fifth, for those who are more interested in the story than semantics about titles, there is a hero, Mike Drakulich, from the Parks Service who refused to cut down the tree. He even took his chainsaw with him because he didn't want them to cut it down. They found another Park Ranger to do it the next day. I met Mike's daughter at the memorial. It was quite touching. Here's another version of that story. (Not all accounts say the exact same thing btw): http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/816442-196/daily-twip---...
Cut caffeine. You may feel strong withdraw, but it sounds like you've burned your adrenals.

Don't force yourself exercising, the energy you'll have by fixing your diet/nutrition will force you by itself.

Sleep -> nutrition -> excercise -> habbits. In this order, the one enforces the other and you'll build momentum which enfiorces even more this positive loop.

- cut carbs (try keto?), grains, wheat and processed foods

- melatonin 1-3 mg one hour before bed

- vitamin d up to 10k UI

- omega 3

- magnesium 400-800 mg

Basically, you'll reduce inflamation (do you feel depressed?) fixing any chronic fatigue.

The other will come by itself, just experiment and iterate.
There is no point of no return, earth cycles temperatures regularly, humanity is just a pimple on its face.
Why are there annual bumps in the graph?
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I think you will find the Quick Filter toolbar much easier to use. Make it visible from View -> Toolbars -> Quick Filter Bar and then follow the tips here:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quick-filter-toolbar
Two seconds to fire a load event would not be allowed out of the test environment anywhere I have worked.
Except no one cares, and there are no consequences whatsoever, so WHY BOTHER?
In the U.S. it's a bit different because the category "benefits" often includes things that in other countries are part of the social system, such as health insurance, childcare, maternity/paternity leave, continuing education, etc.

That can all admittedly be solved with money, given enough of a pay difference, though in some cases it would have to be a quite large pay difference. The stickiest part used to be the health-insurance part, which was hard to buy outside an employee risk pool if you had preexisting medical issues, but that's mostly been fixed (or at least papered over for now).
I use Thunderbird since eons. IMHO it's the definitive email client - nothing beats it; hence, it has no "export" features. :-)
Some people think it was done knowingly, to make a name for Curry, the grad student who made the request. Others say that because the Swiss guy who was trying to get a core sample which is non-destructive, was unable to do so before heading back to Switzerland, Curry genuinely wanted to do this for science. At some point I found a link where some students of his defended him and said it had a profound impact on Curry for the rest of his life.

The thing is, they wanted to study the rings because they thought it was really old.
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The gist of this is really the Backpropagation algorithm [1]. It appears as though everything else is a means to detect when to stop. One of the clearest walkthroughs I've seen online is a short series of very short videos by Stephen C Welch [2] [3]. If you're interested in this space, start with him.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxe2T-V8XRs

[3]: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/stephencwelch/Neural-Netw...
Can't comment on Ruby, but in relation to Node.js in London it's very much a seller's market at the moment; good developers with commercial experience are contracting at £550pd, and very few are interested in taking permanent roles.

It's a good time to be a software developer in London, and not so good if you're trying to recruit one.
Try the new message indexing and search system called "Gloda", short for "Global database".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-search
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It contains the foreign key data, but not the constraint.

You get this:

<field Field="course_id" Type="int(10)" Null="NO" Key="MUL"/>

But not this:

CONSTRAINT `fk_courses_offered_class_details`
FOREIGN KEY (`course_id`)
REFERENCES `courses_offered` (`id`)
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You can choose from hundreds of community-contributed add-ons to customize Thunderbird's UI, or you could write one yourself.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/complete-themes...
I'm surprised this went past the Play Store filter for using "MyApp is the PopularApp for XYZ". I was under the impression you are not allowed to mention popular apps you are competing with.
It's too bad that no countries have the guts to stand up to the U.S.
Well i live in India and while I can't comment on "starting a business" etc, I must say that over past few years i have found IT enabled services (both government and private) refreshingly easy to use and in some cases superior to what i have found in developed markets -especially Europe. Train tickets are very easy to book online and you actually need only the text message with the confirmation number and a proof of identity to travel. Online tax filing now comes with many fields pre populated and corporates can now only file online - no paperwork. Seeing any registered company's annual filings takes about 5 mins to process. The providend fund is now online and so is passport application. When I've travelled abroad especially in Europe, i sometimes find their systems charmingly antiquated.
This is a pretty good writeup, but doesn't give enough language to argue between the DNA-first and RNA-first camps of early life on Earth.

One or the other came first, and both sides have logical well supported arguments.

The tl;dr (combined with bad metaphor usage) of the difference between DNA and RNA is, they are both dialects of the language used to write the Book of Life.
> It's a lot harder to grow a consulting business beyond 30 to 40 hours a week because a human can only sell so much of his time.

Good consultants sells access to their knowledge, not their time. A consultant who's selling their time is not going to go far, for two reasons:

1 - You can't sell more time than you have (as you mentioned).

2 - Selling time means billing time (hourly or daily). That means the cost of your services will be compared against other hourly work, like design, data entry, and legal services. That comparison never works out in your favor.
I know that. My point is if it continues to grow why don't they invest more effort. Just a little bit to fix the search issue everybody is talking about?
Awesome post. Couldn't agree more that the satisfaction is much higher than the working for a big company.
They were still there years after I left, so I think it was one of those "Facility Manager being cute" things.
I was part of a mobile dev boutique "shop" for a few years. We had maybe 10 projects a year, and the majority of the projects were your run of the mill projects (ie, me-too projects, simple apps,..etc) . It became just like any other job except that you had 10 bosses instead of 1. Everyone's experience is different. But my takeaway was that it's better to define your own passion projects and make it work than to be someone else's mercenary.
The terms are somewhat interchangeable to me, and you can refer to yourself either way if you are doing contract work. But I think freelance has a more individual aspect to it - you are working as a solo person (ie Joe Smith). When you start calling yourself a consultant, you might be working under a business name ("ABC Corp" for example) even if it's still just a one-person company. That might also involve how you invoice your clients as well.

Of course these are just my own impressions, there's no firm rules as far as I know for calling yourself one vs the other.
It's been difficult to take claims of "high performance" from AMD seriously for a while :)
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For those who saw me post this earlier, I have emailed the author (@clarkgrubb) an apology. It was never my intention to post this website making it seem like I wrote it, but now I know the rule to abide by (which wasn't very clear to begin with).
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>we should all do... what?

nothing, otherwise you put yourself at a disadvantage against other market players (at least in US).

US has no reasonable industry regulation, its more of a laughable industry written guidelines if anything. There are no consequences, no serious penalties for harming public. Whats more public itself is too clueless to care and incentivize proper behaviour. Only HUGE events are capable of changing (exxon valdez) perception and forcing real regulation.
It is sort of ironic that your mascots are 5 androids.
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Web content could be related/linked to a Google+ profile, with markup that became known as "rel=author markup". That was an important SEO feature offered by Google. You might be surprised -- like me -- that this feature is no more. The markup can be removed from your website:

http://gehrcke.de/2015/02/google-authorship-feature-deactivated/

TL;DR: the removal of the feature was communicated through Google+, half a year ago. I came across this accidentally today and figured that it's worth sharing, because clearly the ecosystem adjusted to the feature, and now requires active cleanup. The worthless/distracting remains will exist for years, probably.
You get what people think you will take; agents don't bother offering me low-paid jobs because they know I won't take them and they save the big rates for me.
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I agree with you which is why I stopped consulting after five years. I started to feel like I couldn't focus on anything because I always had 5-6 projects going on at once.

Another thing is that you really begin to feel the pressure of having all time on the computer being billable time - in order to pay your bills (or in my case meet payroll for employees). So that leads to not being able to do much exploration of new technologies. For example I would stress out if spending a week learning something new because that would be a week that I would have no revenue.
Just curious if you've ever tried a non-GUI client like Mutt[1]. I used to love Mutt, but switched to Thunderbird at work as I was increasingly having to deal with a lot of attachments and it was just easier to handle with the GUI. At home I still use Mutt though.

[1] http://www.mutt.org/
> Cons: It's not the prettiest software in the world, but it's not bad either. the UI is at this point pretty unremarkable, so while it doesn't amaze, it doesn't confuse too much either

You can choose from hundreds of community-contributed add-ons to customize Thunderbird's UI, or you could write one yourself.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/complete-themes...

> Cons: I don't know its keyboard shortcuts, or even if they exist, well yet, so I'm using the mouse a lot

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts

Thunderbird at this point is mostly maintained by community members. Feel free to get involved.