skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true among native speakers with a roughly similar background, but it's not necessarily true in terms of language varieties and non-native speakers (most likely because the non-native speakers may only recognize one form, or spelling, or construction, or lexeme, and not be able to guess how an alternative is related).
Travel Guide: Rio de Janeiro
You would have had a long walk, then :)
Apart from joking, you have to try to understand the deep respect Italians have for their roots.

Trust me, nobody would have complained for "a pizza with tomato, mozzarella and garlic". A "pizza margherita with garlic" is a very different thing.
There's a company called Globalstar which already has the satellites in orbit, and is awaiting FCC approval to begin providing WiFi over their spectrum.
But the article is not about the precision of timers happening at exact moments. It's about the nature of their relative timings. I don't see why the OS would need to be involved in the latter.
So I ran this BigQuery:

SELECT repository_language, COUNT(*) as num_repositories
FROM [githubarchive:year.2014]
WHERE type="CreateEvent"
AND IS_EXPLICITLY_DEFINED(repository_language)
GROUP BY repository_language
ORDER BY num_repositories DESC
LIMIT 10

which returns the top languages in 2014 by # of repositories created, per your statistic.

The output is:

JavaScript	1273811

Java	930359

Ruby	769712

Python	630549

PHP	601101

C	473113

CSS	445501

C++	355996

C#	183349

Objective-C	165102

Which doesn't completely match up with the order in the chart for 2014. (Positions for Python and PHP are reversed)
I wonder if this could be used to make traffic corners slightly less dangerous. If it could be scaled up enough, you could maybe put a tube diagonally through a hedge, with a big viewing assembly on one end.

Otherwise, i'm a bit at a loss as to possible uses of this.
For every clock your CPU gets, a developer will find a way to waste it.

Why is there so much interest in HTML + Javascript based normal applications? They are slow, the langauges are awful, but besides Qt they are the ultimate portability. So sacrifice all those hz gains and power efficiency to make the developer workload minimal.
Less power? The j9200 has a TDP of 10W and an average usage of 8W [1]. The entire ERLite unit, not just the CPU, has a maximum power draw of 7W [2]

As others have mentioned however, network offloading on these units is the selling point for these machines. It's also a great value for those looking explicitly for a MIPS or big-endian arch.

[1] http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-J2900-vs-Intel-Core-i3...
[2] https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf
Enjoy your McDonald sandwich
'reach out'

<vomit>
holy moly how times have changed. a few years ago such an opinion was objectively unthinkable.
xhtml worked like that, html5 has moved towards specifying the quirks that are used to deal with poor conformance.
That said, if you look at a webdev console, things that cause poor performance (à la document.write) tend to be noted.
But waste heat is a valuable resource, thermoelectric generators could turn it into electricity, for example.
My fingers hurt.

I doubt it's exclusively to do with time as fraction of life. I suspect it's more to do with novelty: when you're young, much of what you see is new so you take it in and mull it over with some awareness. As you hit your working life, days can blur together as you engage in the same sort of tasks over and over. Later, as you reach mid career, most situations you encounter similarly become routine and you don't notice stuff which may have been remarkable a few years before. The effect is that you don't notice the weeks and months whipping by, since much of it is tuned out by your ever-growing filters.

Thinking more, I wonder if there aren't two effects at work: one is the fractional piece the presentation talks about: that's what makes being asked to wait five minutes seem intolerably cruel to a four year old. Then, the sense of time speeding up in adult life is caused by the growth of experience and dearth of novelty.

Explains why travel keeps you young and a change is as good as a vacation.
>Neither me, but you and I have agency and free will.

"These humans, they might have agency and free will, but they don't have fuqismatk or missildrigg like we do and so it's ethical"
In one of the first texts it says it is a theory, hence not a proven fact. At least that's how I understood it.
The problem is that one language might require less lines of code to achieve something of the same size/complexity of another language, if it's terser.
omg, I'm so close, 237...help...please...anyone? =p
I have 48 hours of Hacker news at http://skimfeed.com/news/hacker-news.html

Planning to add pagination soon for even more history.
You are evil.
I genuinely think it is useful to have articles like this on HN. We do have our share of pedants, and many with comments that do nothing but correct someone's grammar or spelling. I suppose a debate can be had over how useful any of that is. Is it worth shutting down or diverting a discussion due to things like grammar?
Do you know what plugins they used to transform Markdown into HTML?
How IDEO Helped the SF Unified School District Redesign Its Food System (2013)
Stephen Hawking's speech tech released by Intel
Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year
If you like animated GIFs as art, you might enjoy Olia Lialina's work.

http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html
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UI Dynamics Is Gold Master
I've declared defeat on "begs the question". The original meaning (a logical fallacy where the premise for an argument assumes the conclusion) is just not known to enough people, and the modern (mis)use just sounds too close to what the words mean in isolation.

I've also mostly given up on "literally", which I think is worse, because it's now coming to mean its opposite.
I know Bezos had to come out and say "gee guys, nothing's wrong here, I've never seen any problems", both for the sake of positive P/R spin and for his shareholders who would rather not see a brain drain happen.

But to double down and claim nothing is wrong is just inviting a flood of anecdotes from current and ex-employees, like this one and like the one from an Amazon spouse yesterday.

http://qz.com/482080/dear-jeff-bezos-i-wish-you-had-asked-fo...
Over generalized and inane comment. He/She clearly states that their progress was objective and benefitted the company.

Every knows that in any workplace, corporate politics is expected, but not to an extent where someone gets sick, or frustrated after contributing so much. There is a reason meritocracy is needed, and amazon is an extreme case where meritocracy is not present, and will lead to its own collapse if not checked, which is exactly what he states.
Basically, there's no convection, so the only way to dump heat is by radiation.

And since a radiator absorbs as well as it emits, you need to create a shade with reflective material and point a directional radiator in its shadow at the emptiest space you can see.

So sure, superconductors could be really cold in space, but if their solar shade or thermal control system fails, they are suddenly really hot.
I feel the rich vs poor country is irrelevant and the key point is the "hangs out mostly with Americans and Europeans". E.g. if I move to Japan, work for a Japanese company and have mostly Japanese friends, I'm an immigrant. If I work at an English-speaking workplace and have mostly English-speaking non-Japanese friends, I'm an expat.
Came here to say the same. It makes sense that older companies are locked into their database as migrating would be too difficult like Facebook. I though Pinterest was a relatively young company and I'm surprised it chose mysql. Instagram is build on top of postgres and was founded in 2010, pinterest was founded in 2009.
Its more interesting when you consider how it applies to living beings. If I replace every part of a dog with cybernetics, is it still the same dog? At what point does it stop being the same dog? The brain? The nervous system? Other various senses? How much of identity is tied up in how a creature perceives its environment? What happens to the creature when we alter that perception or enhance it?
I only have Iris Pro in my Retina Macbook Pro from late-2013, and it works so great! Never missed having a dedicated graphics card, and I can even do casual gaming in WC3 / CS1.6 / CS:GO / Half-Life 2.
How many of those 65.9 percent are learning something useful to society? Because those that are will not have a hard time paying back loans.
It's an interesting exposé. It'd be prudent to release the full document. I'd like to see management discussion (if any) around the "Product" expense line item of 47M.
Honestly, I'm a pedant about most language rules, but the "begs the question" rule is just dumb. There's no reason why a phrase can't have a very specific technical meaning in a particular jargon (debate theory) while also having a different, more literal meaning when used colloquially. If the manager of a football stadium told you he was moving the goalposts to have them cleaned, you wouldn't reply, "Actually, Moving The Goalposts[0] is a type of logical fallacy. You should say 'transporting the goalposts.'"

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

Also, the colloquial meaning of "begs the question" doesn't always have a good alternative. Sometimes, a situation doesn't just "raise the question" like some tired bureaucrat raising his hand in a meeting. Sometimes, the question is too immediate and obvious to just be ignored. It's the elephant in the room. It cries out to be answered. It begs.

Allowing "begs the question" doesn't degrade the expressiveness and utility of the language, it improves it. This is unlike, for example, the misuse of "literally" (which results in there being no easy way to indicate that a statement should not be interpreted figuratively).
Well, Relativity is a theory, but it is also a fact.
The biggest thing with WoW, is they push end game content so heavily, and part of the way they do that is accelerating leveling through old content.

So while you used to have to grind through most of these regions, players now end up leveling much faster and only seeing a few of them.
Ruby: look at me, being cool!

Java/JavaScript: lol, no you ain't!

PHP: whatever...
The article lost me when it began citing ancient texts as examples of data capture. Topic sentences and a high-level introductory paragraph would have been useful.
Intramuscular/V vs insufflation is another factor. The dive into the rabbit hole is more acute in the former, and most recreational users will be snorting it. I believe studies have only shown injections to give antidepressive effects.
The Galileo was advertised as low-power, but the reality was rather uglier: https://learn.adafruit.com/embedded-linux-board-comparison/p... (And remember, that's comparing it to the original RPi with its already-ancient main CPU and inefficient linear voltage regulators. What's more, take a look at the performance comparison on the page before. Nasty.)

Also, the competing chips are fast enough and low-power enough that they essentially are dedicated pattern recognition engines with the right firmware. If you look at for instance Apple's M8 motion processor, that's just a Cortex-M3 chip, and not even a particularly power-efficient one by modern standards. I wouldn't even be surprised to find that Intel's just embedding a competing microcontroller core as their pattern recognition engine; it's how everyone else does it.
It's hard to look at the drastically different ideas of what is "tasteful" across different cultures and believe that there's any such thing as a universal view on it.

Well said, have an upvote. Taking a global view really does put things in a different light. It reminds me of the old saw about atheists telling Christians:

"We're both Atheists, I just believe in one fewer God than you do".

When you step back and realize that there are thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of religions and deities, it is kinda eye opening. And you can apply that thinking to many (most?) things.

OTOH, if you do find any universal patterns shared across all (or most) human societies and cultures, then it probably means something important. :-)
There are much cheaper, well made templates available for bootstrap, e.g.: http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=bootstrap
The Amazingly Accurate Futurism of “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Show HN: Get Remote Work with Your Side Project
BBC iPlayer takes on Netflix with new catchup features
Well, I built a theming engine that utilized LESS in combination with a whole host of other stuff. It became a big problem there, but that's not really a use-case that is applicable to most. For more common issues, the way LESS does guarded mixins was super annoying, the breaking changes in minor version release, etc.
Music Streaming Now Generates Trillions of Plays – Are Royalties Keeping Up?
Nice but... page down...!?
It looks like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ has already included the data from this leak (though there's a lot of questions about fake sets of this leak data, so who knows if your site, or this site, has the legitimate leak).
yes, the fact that it applies to people makes it very interesting.

am i the same person as when i was born?

i would like to think that i am... but 'knowing' this makes me question a lot of the seemingly obvious things about self, to the point where i wonder exactly what i am, and realise that it is very poorly defined to start with... and probably not so special. :)

also... Trigger's broom is classic. :)
I made this with Ruby on Rails, it's still a work in progress (e.g. the mobile version is not ready yet), but I would love some feedback. Thanks, Nina
Oh, this is about CSS:

Right now, I have a near frictionless CSS workflow. I write in Sass, compile with Libsass and get vendor prefixes added with PostCSS/Autoprefixer via Gulp/Grunt. Why would I want to upset that?

I'd read "SAAS" (software as a service), rather than the Sass CSS library thing. Move along.
Robots Discover How Cooperative Behavior Evolved in Insects
Iris Pro uses high-bandwidth eDRAM.
Similarly, the ATF solves this by saying "the lower receiver".
I had a sandwich making machine while growing up, it was amazing.

(my father was a terrible cook, but could make an amazing sandwich)
The Minimum Wage Machine
>> "I accomplished my goals, but I didn't gain peer support...partly because in order to accomplish my yearly goals I had to alienate my peers. I had to tear down their pet projects that were inhibiting progress, I had to inform them of misinterpretations of data that they held dear, and I had to make specific types of failures as obvious and clear as possible, whether that was with a bug report or a published analysis. This does not bode well for a promotion process that ultimately relies on having people like me. In order to do my job, I had to destroy my own political capital."

The author clearly acknowledges that they're not only ignoring politics, but actively "alienating" themselves from their peers to achieve the best performance they can.

>> "So why was I not promoted? There are fair criticisms of my personality that I'm willing to accept as legitimate, but my performance was real and measurable."

Despite these characteristics the author still expects and insists that they deserve a promotion because of the 'merit'.

Hence the TLDR.
The Intentional Innovation Manifesto
Username checks out.

Thanks for that level of detail, very interesting to read.
Shuttleworth says Snappy was born long before CoreOS and the Atomic Project
I've also had a great experience with awesomium which imo has a more powerful api than cefsharp, I'm curious why they chose it over awesomium.
Keeping one object for a zillion years sounds like an interesting project, now that you bring it up.

Our data integrity is such that it will survive universal cataclysm and the reduction of all data to a single point of infinite energy.[1]

[1]guarantee applies to a single bit of data[2]
[2]bit value must be 1
I know nothing about scaling databases but this reminds of Amazon's Dynamo DB object store but without the consistent hashing trick .
> For humans the chromosomes are marked in this way.

I'd like to read about this. Can you give a link (or just relevant words for googling), please?
There was also a decent amount of discussion about it here when it came out two months ago; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769330 .
I understand your point (and it’s a good one) and here is mine: Unless you're working in a team with a lot of good IT guys, you're likely to end up with worse performances and problems.

For example, when I started in Big Data, in less than 3 weeks I was able to optimize some batches just because I read the documentation of the framework used (PIG in this case) and read a small part of the source code to dig deeper. And it was not some touchy optimizations: I used in-memory joins and reduced the number relations in the scripts to reduce the generation of Hadoop jobs (which led to batchs 4 times faster).

There are often problems with our HBase database because it’s often overloaded (I’m not an IT operator so I can’t give more details) and no one really masters this database whereas it’s in production since 2014.

I do understand that in some cases a NoSQL database is mandatory and like you I like to understand what I’m doing. But:

-	I’m not working in Silicon Valley

-	Most of my co-worker are not geeks (and I respect that)

-	It's VERY hard to find guys with real Big Data or NoSQL skills (this comes from a French technical recruiter)

So, if the geek part of me loves Big Data and NoSQL, the rational part prefers using well known technologies. If NoSQL and Big Data becomes mainstream and more known then the rational part will love them too.
No you didn't gott my question. Image you have 500 SSL certificate and one server? How do you manage this?
The volume of air ionized by a lightening strike is small and dissipates quickly because it's so hot.
I'm familiar with a high-level executive assistant at Amazon, and they are well aware of the "burnouts". It's very intentional. Amazon is acquiring young talent, extracting as much value from them, and making no efforts to retain them.

Among the local tech scene in Seattle, there's a quiet view that Amazon is kind of a boot camp where young workers get experience then move on.
Git was developed by kernel hackers for kernel hackers, and it really feels like it from an interface perspective. Git commands are baroque and arcane, and it's a pain in the ass.

Hg, on the other hand, was developed from a perspective of "let's make a distributed version of Subversion", which resulted in a much more user-friendly set of commands. It feels like using SVN, only with all the benefits of DVCS, which is a much better workflow for me because I came from an SVN background before I started using any DVCS.

It's also changeset-based rather than snapshot-based, which I find easier to deal with (again, because I come from an SVN background). It's also nice having revision numbers in addition to the hashes.

Oh, and I don't have to deal with staging-related headaches when working with hg, unlike git.
Ah, thank you. I don't read a lot of feminist writings. Not my cup of tea.

It still strikes me as a not great thing to say, even with that context added.
There's a wonderful Indian film with the same name which kind of touches on the subject - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus_(film)

I would recommend the movie to the fans of cinema/indie movies.
This would inflate the popularity of a language in proportion to its verbosity, but that could be approximately normalized by using line count ratios from the Great Language Shootout, which explicitly tracks how many lines various languages use to solve the same problem. Precision is pointless--the line ratios vary from problem to problem--but a rough approximation would be useful as long as you could get the statistics with and without it.
English sentence construction flexibility is super. You can invent a construction to fit your point (and nothing else), but that doesn't mean there are hard rules.
author also wrote

I always prioritized my work based on a cost/benefit estimate. Amazon
culture always places higher priority on work that direct-line superiors
consider higher priority. If I had a billion dollar project in the backlog,
I could still have my time redirected towards a Senior Manager's pet project
or a Director's pet peeve. [...] I had to directly refuse to work on a VP
escalation

So basically, (s)he was difficult to manage and assumed, at a relatively low level of visibility, to know better how to allocate his or her time than the relevant management chain. And stunningly, was not well rewarded for this behavior.
This is one place where pg is simply flat-out wrong, on a couple of levels. If taste being mere preference meant that you couldn't be better at design, no matter how many people want it to be possible to be better at design, that wouldn't refute that taste is preference. That something implies something people don't like doesn't make it untrue.

But more fundamentally, he's wrong that taste being preference makes it impossible to get better at design. A big part of design -- as with any form of communication -- is understanding the particular audience you are targeting and how to address that audience. In design that means understanding the preferences in the target audience and how best to make tradeoffs among them to achieve the effect you want -- whether it's too maximize appeal to a narrow group with cohesive preferences or a broad group with divers preferences. You can get better at that even though taste if preference.

You may not be able to reduce the practical skill involved readily to simple mechanical rules, but for designers that's a good thing if true -- it means it'll be hard to automate then away.
While reductive, I do agree with your TLDR here. The sub-text for me reading that, and I admit this may say more about me than OP, is that she sounds like she helped to make a culture that would have made _me_ develop kidney stones. I find OP's view of what the workplace "should" be a pretty insular an inflexible one.
You should disable upscrolling >:-)

Also, this doesn't intuitively work with a trackball unless you know to use the down arrow. Trackballs? Who uses trackballs? Well, they get across screen real estate a lot faster, IMHO.
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I think that lying about having a vasectomy is seriously wrong, and probably (but I'm not a lawyer) you can get sued for this in some countries.

However, in which country is this considered rape? It's consensual sex between people of legal age, only that one of them is a lying, amoral bastard, and the act can lead to serious long-term consequences like an unwanted pregnancy. But rape? Seriously?

Also, while lying about safe sex is certainly a despicable and immoral act, it's still a private matter between two people. I don't see that it's morally right for a group of strangers to arbitrarily decide to publicly expose and shame unfaithful people, particularly since, in the context of this discussion, they cannot even know if anyone is lying about any vasectomies -- it's entirely possible the cheaters practice perfectly safe sex -- or has actually committed any act of infidelity!
You can always save it to Pocket and view it that way of use the reading option (where the extraneous graphics are removed) of your browser.
i would guess that you are actually not allowed to do such work, that is kind of the point... at least here (UK), to be legal i'm pretty sure you need to get a DVSA (used to be VOSA) inspection and approval rather than just a regular MOT if you do work like that.

although the regulations in the US are famously lax compared to the rest of the developed world... so maybe there is just nothing there. XD