pangram

May I ask why Go was picked as the implementation language?

I'm not sure that whether the individual believes there is a reward is relevant.

Example: atheist terrorists -- atheistic suicide bomber, say -- would be heroic because they don't believe there is a reward?

Why do you find the Aeropress inconvenient to clean? I just dump the "hockey puck" of grounds into the trash. IMHO it's easier than a french press by a long shot.

You're aware of core.typed? If not, take a look -- it provides type checking / induction on Clojure code.

We switched from DO to Linode a few months ago. I think DO is great, but three things convinced us to move over to Linode. 1) lack of robust logging, 2) we'd get intermittent connectivity problems about once a month (this was in the SF colo), and 3) backups were unreliable, and support didn't really have a good answer as for why the backups were so unreliable. You can send me an HN message if you want more details.

Yeah, I was surprised by the fact that such a short duration of exercise (11 minutes of exercise twice / week) could have such a large impact on health. I wish there were more details on how much exercise each group had before the study -- my question is whether HIT on its own is good enough, or does it require normal exercise as well?

My cofounder and I were rejected by YC last year. YC provided great feedback, and we took it into consideration, but decided we still thought the idea was solid. We kept looking for funding and eventually found an accelerator that specialized in education startups (co.lab), and it turned out to be better for us in every way -- better terms, better ongoing support, so on and so forth. So, it's actually good that we were rejected.

I would definitely apply to YC again, though. Even if you're rejected it's still 10 minutes of concentrated feedback from smart, experienced people, which is always worth something.

Ideally you'd want to make it adaptive based on a variety of economic metrics -- set it to a particular level, watch the effects on the economy, and then adjust for the next year.

That could be caused by the routing, as well, though -- are the servers in the same approximate geographical location?

Not free, but I would suspect that paying electronically is at least a magnitude less impactful on the environment. That checkbook had to be produced, shipped to the bank, mailed to you, and then the individual check has to get moved around as well.

Convenience, mostly -- with an electric kettle you can just hit a button and when it pops back it's ready. Also, if you happen to get involved with something and forget about the kettle, it's not a big deal; not so with the stove.

Of course, the other possible conclusion from positing that drugs == fast food is that drugs should be legal.

I think Psyco was a separate code base, and not an actual progenitor of PyPy.

Yeah, I keep my blog posts in text files via git, and just push up to my server using XMLRPC.

https://github.com/brool/wordpress-shuffle

It's manufactured (mostly) in the United States, which is probably pushing up the price some.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...

They assume an upper limit with 100% efficient conversion of matter to energy, so changing the energy production method shouldn't make a material difference. EDIT/UPDATE: Realized you might be talking about the total energy budget (i.e., their total energy budget that is then multiplied by the "Space Devotion Ratio.") Yeah, that could advance the timetable by some amount.

There are a variety of techniques to reduce the dimensionality of data (i.e., Principal Component Analysis, among other ways), and you can get better results sometimes by running K-means (or whatever) on the dimensionally-reduced data.

Presumably, if you exercise then you'll have more days total in which to be productive (that is, you'll live longer)!

It definitely happens; here's a case from last year that the ACLU was looking at: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-pas...

The insidious thing about this is not if it happens for people looking for tech jobs (they're generally clued in enough to refuse, or go somewhere else, or make a fake Facebook account filled with stuff like "I love working so much!" and "I saved a man's life with a quick appendectomy at my volunteer gig"). People looking for lower-tier jobs are in less of a position to be able to refuse.

Dating does suck, absolutely.

But fundamentally it's a numbers game -- the more people you meet, the more likely that you'll find someone that you're compatible with on enough levels. To that end I think that online dating can be really helpful: it makes it much easier to find many other people that you know are also (presumably and hopefully) single.

So, dating sites don't necessarily make dating suck less, they just make it more likely that, with enough effort, you'll be able to stop dating.

Fair enough. Might I suggest you put a comment to the effect of "indexes are a work in progress" in the README for now? Would help users that just run into it on Github randomly.

A few more features would make it useful for prototyping. The README says that it uses indexes to speed up queries, but it doesn't, at least not in current HEAD (05786eada4); it always queries all the records. It would be nice if it allowed comparisons on relationships other than just equality; for example, >, <, and "LIKE." Ideally, it would also handle handle nested structures.

Based on a paper in 2007: http://allegro.mit.edu/pubs/posted/journal/2007-erez-trott-w... Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8023570

This is exactly my issue with stack-based languages as well; i.e., '(f g h)' vs. '(f (g h))' are pretty easy to distinguish, but both of those would be an identical 'h g f' in a stack-based language.

If I recall correctly, APL executes right to left -- so it would return 8 for 2*2+2.

I think you mean to say "your Router or Firewall" in the text. ismyportopen.com routes to another site; might want to make it go to the same place as www.ismyportopen.com. Also, it would be nice to have a visual indication when you click "Run It," since there's a pause until the scan comes up.

Reddit also found EBS to be unreliable; they've moved all their high traffic data to ephemeral storage. They have an interesting summary of their technology stack here: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers...

I got a lot of interesting comments from that article. Someone pointed me to this brilliantly evil implementation which can be seen at https://gist.github.com/1679908 (originally from http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html, which seems to be down). There's also Norvig's implementation, which is much cleaner, at http://norvig.com/lispy.html, and a Lisp to Python compiler at http://bernhardkausler.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/sinc-%e2%80%....

Yeah, it's a pretty dreadful article. This is a better one from our local paper:

http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_19501921

Out of interest, is there anything you can share about the particulars of your application? We did the same Flash vs. HTML5 analysis in the context of Facebook games, but in our experiments it looked like Flash still won handily in terms of performance.