tim_sw

Isn't nginx written in C?

I've been following along, and this course has been great so far. The author also has made the code for one of his publications about image captioning publicly available: https://github.com/karpathy/neuraltalk

Along with various other nice work about neural networks:

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/started.htm...

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/recurrentjs/

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

Nice visualization about classifiers from the class (various svm, softmax):

http://vision.stanford.edu/teaching/cs231n/linear-classify-d...

You might like org-mode especially if you're an emacs user.

could this be a way for quora to evaluate acqui-hires?

This is one reason why Alibaba is listing in the US instead of HK http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-16/alibaba-to-start-pr...

'Hong Kong’s bourse doesn’t allow share classes with different voting rights, as the U.S. does. Such arrangements helped Zuckerberg and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin keep control of their companies after they went public."

learning from only the last couple of years risks ingraining habits that might be dangerous going forward, as the last couple of years have been a bull market. Once you've been through an entire market cycle, there will be even more perspective.

Assuming by intelligent, you mean minimally loaded, choice of 2 requires less bookkeeping than this. (choice of 2 requires only local (per-node level) info, where as most other intelligent load-balancing requires global info ie. the min, etc.)

Taking the case of minimally loaded, you need to keep track of how many active requests each node/replica is serving, as well as globally keeping track of the min. (which past a certain load, will suffer a lot of contention to update)

To do choice of 2, all you need is to keep track of active requests per node/replica.

Under spiky workloads, there is also a problem with choosing minimally loaded. The counter for numRequests of a node might not update fast enough, so that a bunch of requests will go to that node, quickly saturating its capacity.

Choice of 2 doesn't suffer this problem bec of its inherent randomization.

randomized routing is not necessarily bad if they look at 2 choices and pick the min. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-choice_hashing and http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20...

With this, Google gets a lot of data about the last stage of the funnel, conversions/purchases.

Are the "upstarts" personally liable for the funding if they can't pay it back?

and youtube

they can pay contractors on odesk to write these reviews.

They only have 5 months of burn rate left, they are doing a big rearchitecture of their site, and they go on a "hacking retreat" in New Zealand?

I understand that taking a break and getting perspective while in the midst of a lot of work can be effective, but this seems a little bit extravagant.

recordStream provides some of these features. Take a look here https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

You can also use tools like recordStream, which allow you to do grep, etc. on individual json fields. https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream (It has a lot of other features as well)

Sidenote: benbernard worked on Amazon dev tools team

Has anyone read both this and Knuth's Concrete Mathematics? http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Comput... How do they compare with each other?

One usecase is analytics workflows. It can also be used to build more elaborate machine learning models (say over data that is too large to fit in one box, and requires distributed coordination)

can some of KA data be made available for 3rd party analysis?

won't this make it really easy for spammers to create fake accounts on other sites?

use an interval tree

would be more interesting if they talked about their test framework method and the numbers from their benchmarks.

there's this one called "keep your crisis small" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc

i love this product. it's really useful for remote dev stuff

programming clojure is good for java devs coming to clojure, functional programming, check this one out (http://learnyouahaskell.com/) for haskell Little Schemer (and subsequent books are good too) I personally started from the Little Schemer a few years back.

I'm pretty sure that there'll be other business models besides mobiles apps if data proves to be valuable =)

I think tripit tells you delays when the airline/faa actually announces delays, vs flightcaster which tries to do it earlier.

thank you. pinchmedia looks promising. will check them out

congrats to my favorite ycombinator product.

thanks.

php is a great language... for a hack