skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Arc programming language [1] was created by Paul Graham (and Robert
T. Morris). Arc was used to create the original "Startup News" site which eventually
became "Hacker News". Kogir is one of the developers at Y Combinator
that currently works on the HN code.

[1] http://arclanguage.org/
Either to help them wage war against less profitable companies or to help defend themselves against an attack from a fellow superpower.
There was a kickstarter for a Never Ending Slinky Machine, if you want a more portable thing that you could put on your desktop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISz-_ahvh4

But their website (creatables.co) seems down at the moment.
Just over a week ago I thought I'd ask why HN itself seems so incredibly fast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990630
I got some pretty interesting replies (and someone from CloudFlare even checked in at one point!).

I argue that if you want to make a site that's impressive and memorable, make something that loads like "∗clic∗--kaching!" At least in my case, you'll get an immediate "Wait. What? Wow." out of me. :P

It can be done. I thought there was some secret sauce somewhere, for HN. There isn't. The pages here are, on average, <25KB - one person showed that my post, replies and all, was only 12K (compressed). That's quite impressive, and it's what makes all the difference.

Obviously, though, there is a tradeoff: you have to be really, really good at JS to get frameworkless code right, fast, without much mental effort. For prototyping and rapid development (and let's face it, rapid is the new "normal", sadly, and has been for quite a while now), using a framework is obviously the wise choice.

Looking at the problem from a slightly different angle, if you take the .NET-vs-WinAPI problem of a couple years ago, .NET slowly gained adoption and is pretty much standard now, and most devs use it for everything.

And yet you can build dependancyless ~30KB GUI applications with the standard API.

One of the big things that made .NET standard was the fact that it became a standard part of Windows. That hiked adoption up quick: suddenly people didn't have to download a 300MB support package.

But you can't "install" a support framework into the browser such that it stays put. A JS framework has to download every single time. This is so obvious it's almost a nonconsideration but I think it's worth remembering, because current mobile browser caches can decide to make themselves less than 200KB. 200KB.

I think that a "precious trusted cache" would revolutionize a lot of things, but looking at the current state of things, I doubt such a system is likely to be implemented. :(

For larger projects, or wherever you have an opportunity to slow down a little, I say strongly consider rolling your own code, so you can control everything and cut down on bloat.

If you want to go even deeper, here are a couple more links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9791606 (from a reply to my post), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825557 (from a reply in #9791606)
Meet WorkFlow by InVision: Design-Driven Project Management
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Why can't the original devs just leak the reason behind all this? I don't expect it on their official website but honestly, how difficult is it to just let people know?
It's a matter of time that they can search for your face, on every internet-connected camera, on real time.

The question is, as with any technology, what are we going to do with such capability.
Any suggested purchasing outlets? I'm a hardware newbie -- I have no idea where to get my hands on something like this.
My personal opinion:
Because there are very few if any leaky abstractions waiting to blow up in your face.
True WYSIWYG.
Not to answer your question, but here's a simple, unsolved problem:

Dissect the circle into congruent pieces
such that the center point is in the
interior of one of the pieces.

It is widely believed to be impossible, but neither proof of impossibility nor construction of an example have been found.
This is a great one.
But honestly, I hope that I will never see it again. ;-)
The Economist Group strengthens independence through share buy-back from Pearson
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1303

It's extremely misleading at best. It might even be fiction if you're strict enough about the facts.
Can you start an issue so we can start discussing what this would look like? What kind of APIs would you need for this?
Gowalla Founder Josh Williams Shutters Last
Thanks for pointing that out. Too bad.
Hey Matthias, taking the opportunity you say thank you. I look forward to your videos each week and really enjoy your no non-sense approach to wood working.

Thanks for all the videos, especially the dresser ones.
Those intrinsics would be exactly cgroups, they isolate much more than just part of hierarchy in filesystem.
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1310
Sides and/or angles. It's possible to have all the sides the same length, and yet still not be regular. Similarly, it's possible to have all the angles the same, and yet still not be regular. It is instructive to construct examples of both types of failure.
Lockfree protection of data structures that are frequently read
Design Thinking Comes of Age
The title, being a pun, is only meant to be misinterpreted for the first half of the sentence. It can hardly be clickbait if the reveal is made by the end of the anchor text.
"Teflon pans are cheap ... after a year or so get a new one."

Really? "Real" nonstick pans (not walmart) sell for something like $40 to $100+ a piece, but cast iron (Lodge Inc, etc) sells for something like $20. So CI works better, last forever, is cheaper, and its less toxic.

Its true that you can buy a pan shaped object from walmart for $5 that doesn't really work, but in all fairness the CI equivalent is the "free to a good home" pile of CI at an estate sale, so CI is still cheaper.

I will say there is one, exactly one use for teflon pans and thats burned cheese or burned eggs. Just something about it chemically that makes it stick to cast iron. Yet meats don't stick, very strange.
I hope that's true, but I have reasons to doubt it. While the consumer bit might be accuratr (albeit it's more early adopters oriented), I don't think KS is "the best place to gather feedback" since your partnerships with the various institutes and companies should have given you just that without the pressure and obligations that come with KS campaigns.
Thanks for your replies!

We have convinced the customer that it is better to get the English version into production first, get market feedback, get some traction, and then proceed with i18n+l10n.
And what? Eat bad food with a bad view for the rest of your life?
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Yikes. What makes you think this results in fewer carcinogens on your pan's surface than teflon?
Those 2013 articles are outdated, Monsanto had a number of permitted approved this year. They either never withdrew their pending applications as those articles stated they intended to, or they got new applications approved in less than two years start to finish.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4843_en.htm
You can ™ anything you like. That doesn't make it valid. You have to file to ® and that's more enforceable. I say more because USPTO just accepts your filing and its up to you to enforce it with lawyers and courts.

Maybe NewTek licensed to VMware. Maybe they didn't. In any case, NewTek has to get involved to prevent us all being confused...
Tomorrow's news: Google buys BMW.
I highly recommend you check out https://github.com/chfoo/wpull
I love how open and transparent you were about your process and the mistakes you went through to get it working. It's much more exciting than just a slick video of the final result.
> The question is, as with any technology, what are we going to do with such capability.

The porn industry will put it to good use, somehow.
This may be the highest ratio of buzzwords to meaning that I've ever seen. It took three or four reads to figure out what this is ... i think...
If I was concerned about my data, I wouldn't touch TrueCrypt with a 10 foot pole. More specifically I wouldn't touch Windows.

Developers don't abruptly shut down projects. If there are problems with the code, they release statements and patches. If they lose interest in the project, they call it orphaned and ask for maintainers. If it's a mix of the two, they at least say so.

But what happened with TrueCrypt was truly bizarre. No warning. No phase-out. Telling people to move to BitLocker?

I think there's only one way to interpret that. They did something bizarre because it was all the noise they could make without telling us what really happened. AKA some of their developers got served gag orders.

But what on earth could a TrueCrypt dev be gagged for? A gag order implies that some three-letter-agency had enough foresight to know they were planning to disclose something. If it was that there was a government backdoor in TrueCrypt itself, how would NSA/FBI know that they discovered it? How would they know that it could be tied back to them? Why didn't the audit [1] catch it? Gag orders are pretty loose in terms of legality in the first place, but even still, would a gag order prevent them from releasing a statement about a security hole (without mentioning its origin) and releasing patches?

It's a total guess, but my theory is that TrueCrypt discovered something outside their codebase (EG: Windows itself) that was undermining encryption. They reached out to Microsoft, who contacted FBI/NSA, and they were served their gag orders. This is the only theory I can think of that makes a gag order possible, in other situations the FBI/NSA wouldn't have been able to know about a disclosure before it happened.

[1]: istruecryptauditedyet.com
Ask HN: GitHub cloned your project, what can I do?
Today, I look my github page, and I find 10 cloned repository of my project: they have the same name, but they are built from different account. They are not Fork, but just clone. So how can a user know what is the real repository? and if I update the repository, the new update is not available on the other cloned repository. So what do you suggest? Shall I contact the users and suggest to fork the main repository? Any ideas?
Does anyone care? https://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.htm...
The race to the bottom is more applicable to the panel manufacturers. The lowest cost producers are mostly Chinese companies, and the financial performance for these companies (ReneSola, Yingli Green Energy, Trina Solar, etc.) has been pretty terrible so far. Probably the best way to invest in solar through the stock market is to invest in a developer of solar projects. The best of these in my opinion in terms of scale and expertise is SunEdison (ticker: SUNE), and incidentally, the stock has been in free fall for various reasons over the past couple weeks, so this is probably a reasonable entry point.
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There's two sides of that. First there's trends, which has been flat-shaded minimalism for a few years now[0], but before that we had a range of photorealistic or cartoonish icon styles.

On the other hand, I do believe that most of these illustrations are way too detailed to properly function as icons. Styles and trends can change, but unless the author is working with a different meaning of the word "icon", they are always intended to be displayed at medium-small to tiny scales, staying instantly recognizable between a row of different icons.

They are beautiful illustrations absolutely, but I'd not use them as icons. I would use illustrations like this maybe for the front cover of a manual or brochure, perhaps a nice wall-painting(/print) at my office's reception, that kind of thing.

Now I haven't watched the videos (who here has?), so it's possible that some of these artists actually made less detailed and smaller versions of their designs, and it's just the largest one that's showing off in the display frame (it's actually not a very informative article on the whole, IMHO :) ).

BTW I've seen the term "skeuomorph" thrown around this thread a few times, but it's not a synonym for "photorealistic". Icons on themselves don't generally have skeuomorphs in normal apps or OS's, however they are more common in videogames. And when they do it usually pertains not to what they're a picture of, but to their function as icons, e.g. a paper tag/label, road/wall/door sign, icon (in religious sense), charm/bead, pill design, etc. In which case I'd argue the skeumorph is still more part of the UI than the icon design itself.

[0] counting "flat design" and "material design" icons as pretty much the same things here, when you compare them to the much more photo-realistic icons we had before.
Ford Motor Company Management 101
Plausible Reasons for Usage of Combat Mecha
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...all effort being equal. And assuming, of course, that comments are read (on average) once.
I have a 3.8kW rated system (cost about £5k) at about 56N, and it actually produces that much on clear summer days. Currently it's grey outside and outputting about 2kW (I can ssh into the computer looking at the meter). The high latitude does mean extended summer days. Admittedly it probably wouldn't be viable without subsidy today.

I don't think individuals are very good at adapting to the long term market. If I know gas will be more expensive in 5 years, I can't do very much with that today. There's also the old "the market can stay irrational longer than you stay solvent": if I invest too early I can just as easily lose money.

In the UK, I think the general public are ahead of the media and politicians on the issue. There's a noisy anti-environmentalist and anti-windfarm contingent, but most people recognise the tradeoffs. I don't think people want to be their own producer en masse, any more than grow their own food or be their own bank, but if they can make a capital investment that saves money and produces income then you're speaking the right language to the middle class.

People might start to get vocal when gas prices go up in the UK; complaints about fuel poverty and demands for more fracking. It'll require a long period of gas being more expensive than electricity for fuel and heating for people to switch their homes over.
Could you list the subsidies you're against? All I ever find is general business items or for non-conventional fuels.
Under siege, for-profit colleges cry foul over new federal rules
Correct. Instead of a second router, you would buy a dedicated wireless access point. Ubiquiti sells those as well.
I believe almost 70% of that cost is in feed-in tarriff payments, not network upgrades, and is spread over the next 25 years?

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Trillion-Euro_cost_of_G...
Is this still WIP? I would really like to see how spark fares in a distributed environment.
Enlightening:

"Though students at for-profit institutions represent only 11 percent of college students, they make up 44 percent of students who default on their loans, according to the data."
Most people seem to be able to comfortably produce 30 W over a sustained period of time.

If you're used to bicycling, dress appropriately, and work in a cool environment with a fan, you can produce 50-60 W.

Above that, it becomes difficult to maintain your concentration on your work while trying to pedal hard at the same time.

On most days, I maintain about 35-50 W, depending on the load.

So far this morning, I've ridden for 2 hrs, 5 minutes and produced 74 W-hr. The computer I'm using this morning is a Raspberry Pi2 with a 19" monitor. I'm also powering our DSL modem/router and a 12 V fan while recharging two tablets, four AA batteries, and my phone at the same time.
Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?
I wrote an article how to learn Erlang by example [1] which got a lot of good feedback recently when it was posted on HN. Thanks for the good feedback! :)

The past weeks I am working on finding bottlenecks and try to improve the performance of Erlang Open Source projects.

Based on my findings and insights I was asking myself if you would be interested in a book about way to measure and improve Erlang performance. Like my blogpost it would use real world examples, this time from more Open Source Erlang projects.

What do you think?

Best,
Robert

[1] http://robert-kowalski.de/blog/lets-learn-erlang-and-fix-a-bug-on-a-couchdb-cluster/
Microsoft fanboy here (and OP of this sub-thread). PowerShell is a great example of how the two camps never meet in the middle. The syntax is mind-numbingly stupid. Also it's a scripting language not a shell -- but if they called it PowerScript people would just make fun of it for being bad Python. The syntax is hideous.

And let's not talk about the shell itself which -- dear lord.

Meanwhile Unix folk will never realize how much time they waste with broken scripts that have three sets of nested escaped quotes just so they can get text from one place to another -- even though "plain text is everything" hasn't really solved problems in a robust fashion since the 80s. Add in six different variations on regular expressions, a couple Python 2 vs 3 wars, endless battles of how to handle service startup, and the the fact that basic tools like sed and grep are stuck in some BSD never-never land on the Mac and you've got yourself a real mess.

So when you're writing a script to move users, mailboxes and databases around? Maybe that PowerShell ain't so verbose after all. Better to type a little more now than deal with the pissed-off VP with an umlaut in his name later.
I am still not so sure that Bell's theorem and subsequent experiments really do rule out hidden variables.

After all, if I split a coin down the middle and took the two halves to different sides of a continent, it wouldn't be surprising if one was found to be heads and one found to be tails.

It would also not be surprising that if I then repainted one of the halves, the other half would be independent of the repainting and the "entanglement" would be broken.

The difference could be simply in that quantum particles behave differently than having only TWO sides to them, like a coin. But the principle is the same ... that the FTL "spooky" communication never happens even between two particles -- rather, they are correlated because were taken from the SAME PLACE at the same time. We just don't understand how their states work, because they're not just one dimensional states.
It would only have been misleading with a capitalised "Pentagon".
Yea, I saw some of the runs during Summer Games Done Quickly that involved some attempts at RNG manipulation although it was not obvious what was happening at all to me watching at home.
Building a Culture of Learning in Development Teams
This has to be one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. This business model is nothing like Airbnb. It's more closely aligned with something like TemplateMonster, eLance, or oDesk.

I see no way you can rent out a algorithm for a business use and lease basis..which is what Airbnb is.

Other then that this I see the reason that something like this exists. Creating accurate mathematical formulas is definitely an art in itself that not just anyone can do.
Off topic, but did you know the word "forte" in that context is pronounced "fort" not "for-tay"?

I just learned that recently.
As the article says: this is another tobacco case, so they'll deny everything even with fake/bought peer-reviewed studies. Just look how they treat their own workers... My family already moved from non-stick cookware to stainless steel. Consider doing the same in the mean time. As with the tobacco this will be a marathon, and hopefully common sense will win.
Would be awesome if it could be used with nosetests. I've just given it a spin but nosetests seems `overpowering` the profiler.
If you are familiar with Apple routers and have liked them in the past, I'd say stick with them and buy another.

They perform well, as easy to setup, and regularly receive updates from Apple.

If you decide you want something more powerful, with more features, or generally want to learn more about networking and security, I'd recommend buying an official pfsense device. See: https://www.pfsense.org/
No. Eventually renewable energy becomes a lower hanging fruit.
> I wonder what do people do when they read bullshit that they agree with.

They agree with it (maybe while realizing it's bullshit).

I think among people calling for content diversity, there's a mostly explicit assumption that encountering more opinions you disagree with will cause you to either treat those opinions with more respect, or else smell bullshit on your own side of the fence more often.

IME it doesn't work that way, regardless of what happens in the lab. If anything, reading bullshit you disagree with has the opposite effect -- "wow, that's a really shitty reason to believe X. People who believe X must be stupid to believe that reason."

Seeing high quality justifications for opinions you disagree with or meeting people you respect who disagree with you can both lead to attitude changes and even changes of opinion.

But reading punditry on the Internet? Nope.

> Is Facebook trying to find ways to maximize how much bullshit will you agree with?

Well definitely, because most marketing is bullshit. But I don't think that's what this paper is about.
Well you could launch a website istheslinkyslinking.com with a live cam that shows your contraption at work with the regulation and everything ;)

You could even ask for donations with a "keep the slinky slinking" button, so you could pay for electricity and server.
The Future of Organization
I don't care much about ridiculous amounts of pixels. 4 MP is fine for me. My problem with my HTC One was that the microphone didn't work properly during a call, and after several attempts, it clearly couldn't be fixed.

I've got a Samsung Galaxy now. It sucks in different ways.

I wish someone would make an actual good phone. I find myself pining for my old Motorola Milestone, despite its stupidly locked bootloader.
S3 and High Availability
Crawling can be broken down to:

1) fetching resources
2) finding out what new resources to fetch

1) is an network bound problem, 2) is mostly disk/CPU bound. Realizing the difference between these two things and separating them is the key to building a good crawler.

Depending on how you find out what resources to fetch (parsing static documents vs. dynamic JS analysis with multiple dependencies on other resources (included JS &c)), "good-enough" crawlers are mostly bound to the network.

I've seen people running 1 crawl/process on their back-end and some management guy saying "we need to crawl faster, add more threads per crawl" when one crawl cycle spends 10x times more waiting on the network than it does parsing a document.
Great contribution!
Yes, it's definitely better to power everything using DC if possible. The best, reasonably-priced inverter I've found still draws 2 W whether it's powering anything or not. But it's difficult to get the right voltage and connector for every electronic device you might want to power.
Paywalled article (in the UK at least).
That's not precise. If you modify the package and distribute it to your users, they must have access to the source code (including the changes, which also become licensed under the same terms). Up to this point, it's the same as with GPL.

AGPL also enforces code and changes to be distributed to the users if they directly consume your database over the network. This would be the case, for example, of a database-as-a-service.

Put it simply: you use an AGPL database, internally, even for your SaaS: you're fine. You either modify RethinkDB and ship it as a product or you provide a RethinkDB or RethinkDB-derived database-as-a-service, then you have to also provide source code to your users.
Ah true. A lozenge has all sides with the same size but not the same angles
Contract them, but also put the link to your github repo in README. Maybe even as links for bug reporting and wiki.