skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but then one has to ask the question if this is pain that we (humanity as a whole) care about or not.

We cause pain and suffering in hundreds of thousands of lab animals a year, not to mention our livestock, etc. While acknowledging that pain, we've determined it doesn't matter (or more precisely, that an animals pain has less weight in our moral/ethical considerations than equivalent human pain - if such a thing could be said to exist).

We've determined that any pain a fetus may or may not experience in an abortion is less meaningful than any social or economic pain the mother might experience (not trying to start a pro-life/pro-choice debate, here, but it's kind of hard to talk about this without looking at how we as a society handle abortion). What makes this different from using aborted fetal tissue? What meaning should we attach to potential pain in an organism created specifically for scientific study (assuming this was a living organism, which it doesn't seem to be, but I could be misreading the article).

Sorry for the rant, I'm still working out all the questions this raises and some of that spilled into this comment.
Eh, if language is primarily about communication, there are many benefits to standardization. It feels like a cop-out to just say that everyone gets to make up their own rules of grammar. People also used to make up their own spellings, but standardizing increased the efficacy of communication.
There's also no transactions in Cassandra, although that's questionable useful given that the unidirectional map may be on a different machine.
Only because of the way they are currently implemented on PC. Both current-gen consoles for example use integrated graphics to great effect, but they are engineered around them with high-bandwidth memory (GDDR5 or eSRAM), as opposed to the after-thought they usually are on PC.
> Patients receive a low dose of the drug: about one-tenth of what recreational abusers of ketamine take or about one-fifth of what might be used as a general anesthetic.

This strikes me as odd - shouldn't the recreational dose be well below the anesthetic dose?
Even in the K-hole you'd like to retain some conciseness.

The effects the patients describe are pretty much the recreational effects.
From Pitch to Sale: 5 Steps to Optimize Your Agency's Sales Process
> Are there any good case studies of app developers using Go as a full-stack language?

It's been done, but the best use I'm aware of is under NDA.
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t
Which, is often on purpose. Sometimes I want you to. Trip.
Tried it as a pill, over the course of about 90 minutes started feeling what I can only describe as dreamy, and pleasantly spacey - almost abruptly the spaced out feeling dissipated and what I assume to be MDMA begin to take effect. It was a profound experience, and I wish there were more clinical studies [1] of these drugs which have an unfortunate stigma attached. Mornings after I've never felt too bad, and never felt urges of addiction, although I've certainly seen friends who've struggled with addiction but that is the case for alcohol and video games as well.

The problem with prohibition and black market drugs is the products are of unknown quality and origin, and there is a lack of education and understanding in regards to therapeutic dosages vs abusive dosages.

Luckily at the time, I was aware of sites [2][3] that allowed people to submit and comment on street E "brands" with reputed effects and suspected contents. Anecdotally, a few years later I came across the same brand/label/color pill and it was undoubtedly a different set of chemicals.

In retrospect, it was a life changing experience that broke through a blinding state of depression I had at that time, and acted as what I can only describe as a positive "spiritual" experience.

[1] http://maps.org

[2] http://ecstacydata.org

[3] http://pillreports.net
This is blogspam for http://gawker.com/snapchat-lost-a-ton-of-money-last-year-170...

The latter domain is banned on HN, however.
>The same issue exists with v3 needing a LESS compiler.

Only there are TONS of LESS compilers, even a straight PHP one, a pure JS etc, whereas Sass has either Ruby or a C/C++ dependency.
Fuck Winning
Recreational users build up tolerance.
I wouldn't focus so much on the tech as on the purpose of what you'll be doing.

In the end, follow your gutt feeling and don't look back.
Documenting Your Data Warehouse
How an indie game dev reality show collapsed on its first day of filming (2014)
Getting redirected to: http://practicaltypography.com/blacklist.html

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Luckily found here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150810014540/http://practicalt...
Sure, but in this case "knowing the rules" is equivalent to being fluent in a language, not some document that you can read.
It was grown from skin cells actually. Its the size and structure of a fetus brain, because it is essentially a fetus brain.
On Party Rounds and Crowdfunding
Good idea, maybe something like the number of code lines. That would value bigger projects higher then small projects. Which actually make sense to me. Because small projects are probably written in a specific language for a reason: batch files, css, html, examples, tests. Whereas I am interested in what language people choose for bigger projects, where several languages could used but still one has to be chosen.

It would also make sense to weight in the date a project started. Newer (big) projects would then weight higher then older (big) projects.

So I think taking in account the number of lines and age together is a good way to really visualize trends.
You can resize a top-level font size value (namely, the "html" node, e.g. to make it smaller for a mobile screen) and the rem-based fonts sizes for all your components change respectively.
The author was possibly referring to how chastity belts are often used in less-informed feminist writing as an example of how patriarchy looked in the past.
I liked the quote: “We don’t tell people not to sleep because they might dream.”
You didn't cite the biggest advantages of neovim: for example, the possibility to embed neovim inside IDEs or background processes. You did mention the new plugin architecture, which is quite exciting.

Regarding the support of old machines, it doesn't matter at all, really. Even vim 1.0 would be enough for old machines. I'm not aware of anyone that wants to develop in an old machine. At most, you might need to ssh into it, and even vi is good enough :-)
So, who's gonna be the first to blog about compiling a Go lib as c-shared dynamic lib and call it from Rust for serious HN karma? Seriously though, there are several well-written Go libraries for accessing systems that I wonder if the runtime isn't too much baggage to keep the shared libs from being used outside of Go.
Yes, lots of folks are counting.

http://www.blitzortung.org/
Freed of the bandwidth bottleneck by eDRAM, Iris Pro actually matches lower-mid range dedicated GPUs: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-5775c-i5-5....
For a somewhat practical example of such a ship:

"The detachment estimates that approximately 10–15 percent of the timber in Constitution contains original material installed during her initial construction period in the years 1795–1797"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution
Which issues have you encountered with neovim? You could use it daily and wouldn't notice too many issues. It's relatively stable for an alpha version.
Krugman: Battles the austerians
That's a good way to get your ass sued, or worse. Most employment agreements specifically state the company owns the code, which you have now stolen.
Enyo was/is an amazing web component framework, but I think the whole HP webOS debacle pretty much scared people away from adopting it, due to uncertainties about it's future ownership and development. I believe it's still in use in the LG webOS TV SDK, at least.
I think what is often getting lost in the bustle is that not everyone who had an account on Ashley Madison was a married person committing infidelity. These people too have had their information exposed. I am one of them. I signed up for Ashley Madison many years ago on a whim, without much thought put into it. I'm single, have never been married, have never even been into a committed relationship. I also never used any site services or paid any subscriptions fees. The sum total of my experience has been getting spam emails for a number of years. Yet, I too am one of the people who is being "outed" by this hack.

We all need to pause for a moment, put down the torches and pitchforks, and understand that there are broader more nuanced realities than the simplistic and self-righteous one we'd choose to believe when looking at the net result of this hack.
Minecraft runs great on HD4000 integrated graphics.
For me there are only two honest responses:
A) "I can understand that vigilantism of this kind can hurt innocent people is therefore wrong"
B)"if needed, the innocent should suffer so that those who I dislike are ruined".

The latter position can be dressed up in all kinds of fancy words "bad people must be brought to justice no matter what". Stripped down to its core, however, and barring the exceptional circumstances, I would say that the desire for street-justice is pretty much evil. So far as I can tell, the rationale for position B is full throttled emotion: "I [want to] hurt the people I don't like and I [want to] kill the people I hate. Doing that makes me feel good, so it is good."

Needless to say, I stay as far away from those who subscribe to position B, as humanly possible.
There are benefits to standardization, but only if it is a decent standardization. As the article points out, language is about communicating ideas. A standardization that makes this task harder is probably worse than a non-standardized way that makes it easier.
Pumping the Primes
You're correct that this is foolish for any entity who's primary differentiator is their website.

If you're Seemless, competing with 10 other companies that do identical things, you probably don't want to also look exactly like them. If you're Cloudflare, Heroku, Twitter, Mint, Chase (or even Google), as long as its not hindering improvements to functionality or ergonomics (which it might - but also might not), who cares?

Meanwhile, primarily this is appropriate for small players. If you're in the early stages of building anything, you want to build your core product but have your website still look professional. The correct sentiment here might be: "$99 to have your site look as professional as all the others! Yes please."
Minecraft modding.
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IMO, if you use dedicated GDDR5 ram it stops being integrated graphics. Granted, I can see the argument, but there are still issues with things like heat dissipation outside of low powered devices like a cellphone.
Well you should care if you want to be hired, published, or generally taken seriously in certain environments. (Note that speaking "proper" English is not always what you want either; there are some social situations where other dialects will get you farther -- and, of course, all of this also applies to languages other than English.)

But I also take your point. The problem--as is often the case with various forms of stereotyping--is that such preconceptions are simultaneously useful as indicators about a person you are dealing with (such as level of education), but also deserving of serious skepticism since they can have the effect of disadvantaging certain groups, cause you to miss interesting opportunities, and generally making life less interesting by enforcing a stultifying uniformity.
That's really cool! I hope that IE/Chrome implement this.
Neither me, but you and I have agency and free will. This model has neither of those things.

I think the crucial question is does this 'model' have the capacity to develop those things. If it does, that creates a serious problem for continuing research along these lines. If not, then I don't really see them problem - in that case I would compare this to growing and running test on kidney or liver.
'Zer0es' Takes the Cyber-Thriller to an Electrifying Extreme
Here are the top 10 programming languages used on GitHub
I think this is due to many existing projects moving to GitHub. With Google Code stagnating (and now shutting down), and a lot of Apache work being done on GitHub, I imagine many of the new repositories are actually just moves.
I don't think that was the case for the fellowship.

Applied after the 2 days with my team!
Didn't get a view on anything not even a click. Again, yeah it might be the case that it was nothing interesting to them and just skipped it. But to be honest it's a bit disappointing to see no indication that someone have actually looked at 2 days of work.

Because in a startup life, 2 days (48 hours) would be enough to build and ship a feature to a customer.

I agree though with the regular YC applications, I've heard that advice more than a few times from past alums.
Thanks. What about em?
That just reminded me of Mahir[1] and his "Welcome to my home page... I kiss you!" fad. Good times...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20040905074540/http://www.ikissyo...
Meh, better we use these models than entire living mice or rats, which would be the alternative. I highly doubt there is any kind of sensation or consciousness inside of the brain models, seeing as how they have no sensory inputs or organic energy inputs (especially oxygen) whatsoever. On top of that, even 5 week old fetuses (which these model brains are definitively not) aren't remotely viable or sensate anyway, and don't even have an associated behavior model AFAIK.

The ethical boundaries for experimenting on living mice are, in my opinion, a bit perverse at the extremes. There's a general consensus that mice are sensate and can experience in some form basic emotions and learning behaviors. Despite this, it's acceptable to do experiments which deplete or wildly manipulate various neurotransmitters or neural circuits inside of the mouse's brain far beyond normal physiology.

Imagine having 100% of the "feel good" chemicals removed from your brain and replaced with 10,000% the normal concentration of "feel bad" chemicals. Obviously this is a huge simplification, but it's pretty clear that it would be hellish-- and that experiment has actually been done using mice. Sure, it's not as bad as if it were done with a real person, but it'd be much better if we could spare the mice and use a model brain in a vat instead.
I'm continually surprised at how fast the Go team works.
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Thanks for the work! I would have no clue on UI without bootstrap
The mapping tables are used to store relationships between objects, not to define shard locations. The shard mapping is encoded in the object id.

In any case, I would have a knee jerk reaction to not trust any database system that hit 1.0 a month before I wanted to start using it, especially for mission critical core data.
> There is no mechanism for submitting or approving formal proposals for English grammar rules.

Yes, but to some extent that's a peculiarity of English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators.
It's unclear how a brain would run without blood.
bitwise operations.

241294492511762325 >> 46 means shift the binary form of number which is

0000001101011001010000000001000000000000011010111111011110010101

to the right 46 spaces while replacing with 0s

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000110101100101

0xFFFF is hex version of 1111111111111111 (note two missing bits he reserved for gold :D )

& 0xFFFF is doing a AND operation of the bits.

0000110101100101
1111111111111111
----------------
0000110101100101

so 0000110101100101 in decimal is 3429
That's the thing: going beyond what the parent commentor said, tools that "work as advertised" can still be bad.

"Pure wire-mesh electric blanket -- no insulation whatsoever! Only $20 dollars. Will raise the heat with sparks of electricity, plug directly into your 110v outlets!".

Sure, works as advertised. But it's ill concived and will fry anybody trying to use it, either because he wants to or because he is forced to (by his boss or needing to deal with legacy code in the case of a programmer).

The example is contrived to showcase the point, but the gist is: "works as advertised" doesn't mean much with regards to quality or well thought-out architecture.
Confessions of a UX Designer
Also, who cares if people label you for your use of language. Those people can get over themselves.

Theoretically true, but how far are you willing to go to defend this? E.g., how much less are you willing to earn per year? How much risk do you want to take for your children not getting into that school you have your eye on? What about getting that promotion "because the boss thinks you show promise"?

Having the benefit of the doubt is a powerful thing, and it makes or breaks decisions in or out of your favor every single day.

That is, assuming you're living in a society, of course. If you're crazy Chad in his forest cabin, then, by all means, talk to the spirits in any tongue you please.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/

XKCD guessed 15EB in 2013
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies...
I wonder if there was an idea of a "strict mode" at any point? When making sure every site works surely you guys will have to render invalid code "correctly", I assume.

For example I am willing to develop in your browser if it meant I wouldn't broke some rules and the browser would care about that. Of course html validators exist and browsers display invalid css in their inspectors but I am asking for something like that would expect valid code. throw an error in my face if I didn't close a html tag or used an invalid css value, at any point.

Like if a javascript code resulted in my page getting invalid layout then browser could yell at me that causes an invalid layout. Maybe even a small performance improvement if my code conformed to every layout rule.
The dosages used to destroy a bladder are very high, generally multiple times a day usage, and fully within the realm of addiction and severe abuse. That said, the fact that this is possible is concerning, but it is most certainly not the norm.
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The documentation isn't released yet (it usually trails the hardware release by a few months) but when it is available it will be located on the website of Intel's Open Source Technology Center: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/hardware-specific...

And, my team at Intel is writing drivers for it as part of the Mesa project (http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net)
My Amazon Burnout Experience
Interesting. Just curious, why do you like hg more than git? Not trying to start a flame war, just interested in learning more about it.
I feel the same way about women/woman. It used to irk me when I saw someone mix the two up, but then I realized I do it all the time by accident. For example, in the first draft of this very comment.
I think it only impacted people who were using Compute Engine and storing data on a hard drive instead of using Cloud Storage. I suspect that Drive data has redundant copies stored in multiple data centers in addition to frequent backups.
How many of those 65.9 percent can reasonably afford the loans they take out in order to go attend college?

Seems to me the issue is loans in general, and that free public university is a proven way to provide education without extraordinarily inflating the costs.
> Agreed, but within class that are buried amazing designers like Martin Wallace and Phil Eklund, who have used kickstarter to become largely independent of the big publishers.

Martin Wallace has been self-publishing games for two decades through Warfrog/Treefrog, and that accounts for all of his most important designs. Things he did for other publishers tended to be either inferior and quickly forgotten, or straight reprints. He was also pre-selling straight to consumers (and getting pre-paid on) a substantial chunk of the games Treefrog published long before Kickstarter existed.

Phil Eklund has been self publishing his games for at least two decades through Sierra Madre Games. I can't think of a game he designed for another publisher. And I don't think he's run a kickstarter other than the High Frontier reprint, either. It's really hard to argue that the main problem for Eklund has been lack of independence, he's pretty much the defining example of auteurism in board games.

Sorry, don't think these examples work at all for making the case for the Kickstarter effect :-)
Absolutely. This is useful but it is highly unlikely that any of the languages in this chart will disappear anytime soon. As I plan my learning-time investment budget for the next few years, it's only marginally interesting to me that blockbuster language Number 2 goes to Number 4 or whatever. I already know that any of these languages would be a good choice as long as they fit the applicable domain.

What matters much more to me is that language number 40 suddently find itself at 20, for example. To really plan for the future we need to peek at the nascent trends in small-language land. I'm much more interested in Ocaml, Julia, Nim, Rust, or Lua, even Cuda, OpenCL, Chapel or Cilk, than I am in Python, Java/script, or (sigh) CSS.
I have never seen a situation where using a less common spelling or grammar was more distracting than the pedantic tangent it produced.
Despite this, it's still valuable to be able to speak with precision when necessary. The same is true of speaking concisely.
Huh. Same reason it was banned from Reddit for a while?
There is such a thing as linguistic prescription, but there isn't really such a thing as "prescriptive linguistics". There are linguists, who study and describe language, and then there are people who promulgate their opinions about language. Opinion promulgators are not "prescriptive linguists" and what they practice is not "prescriptive linguistics".
Nothing is requiring you to use these tools, but as web projects become more and more complex we develop tools to deal with the complexity. You could just as easily ignore all of this and use server-side rendering in your language of choice.
"Well, we handle it by Scaling Out."

Or by optimizing the code, switching to better algorithms, making better use of cache, etc.

"So, if the whole system is designed to Scale Out, one is in a relatively good position."

Not of the scale out overhead dominates the cost. A relatively recent, and widely read, article about this is at http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/... , titled 'Scalability! But at what COST?'. Quoting from it:

> Folks have gotten all wound-up about scalability, despite the fact that scalability is just a means to an end (performance, capacity). When we actually look at performance, the benefits the scalable systems bring start to look much more sketchy. We’d like that to change.
Ah interesting! The hack itself does not worry me at all - I fully expect it and many subsequent hacks on most or all privately held data. A data breach requires a single slipup by any one of thousands of people - it's inevitable in my opinion and does not really worry me.

That people will give information that will cause them harm does worry me though. So we're worried by the opposite things here! Also a good lesson in how the values we have change everything.

Your approach would be to try and prevent hacks to private companies in the future (futile?). My approach would be to try stop people from giving over this kind of data (futile?). I think both of our approaches are probably futile.. even more worrying!