skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that you can't find _some_ differences that way. As others have you pointed out, there should be little difference between the software deployed in staging and production. But there are can be differences in performance and hardware configuration (unless you can afford to mirror your production deployment exactly). Most unavoidably, there are problems you only hit after cumulative amounts of uptime or load[1], which is nearly impossible to simulate in a preproduction environment.

[1] For an example, see our recent outage related having seen 200M PostgreSQL transaction: https://www.joyent.com/blog/manta-postmortem-7-27-2015
I worked in Bristol between last and this year. Sometime around August maybe last year on a Monday morning, as i was having a work break outside the building, i looked over the corner and a new Bansky was on the wall (girl with the earing). In the afternoon, a wave of admirers was already rolling in. By tuesday, someone had already dafaced the piece, by splashing black ink over some parts of it.
@patio11:

Why should I "play" this and not blog about programming? I still have to go through the usual technical interview when applying for a job. What's my incentive? I'm trying to find a reason to spend time learning this, because it doesn't translate into marketable skills. I can't put "Level 65 player in StockFighter" (because this might turn out to be a niche product that no one outside HN will know about), but I will definitely include "XSS research on Java Spring".

Note: I'm not trolling or trying to put the project down. I'm interested in it but unsure.
For most small use cases $0/month https://slack.com/pricing
I've never thought of a nonprofit as a foundation. Are they equivalent?

The primary appeal for me as a nonprofit is declaring unequivocally that profit is not the goal of the project, and to facilitate donations to support ongoing development. I am aware of the need to establish a board; I've been a board member on a nonprofit, and I've been involved with nonprofits in a number of other roles as well.

I think of a foundation as an umbrella organization, much different than a small nonprofit. Is there anything fundamentally off about my understanding?
Is there anyone else who hates Twitter because of its 140 character limit and overall focus on broadcasting rather than sharing?
For the 140 character limit, I get the historical SMS reasons and that it helps you "focus" your content, but taking 10 minutes to squeeze a thought in that turns from something half interesting to "bc u r 4 the GPL" or whatever.
Sure MAYBE I could reword things a little denser, but a tweet should be somewhat in the moment and nothing takes me out of it like editing to some arbitrary limit.
As for the aspect of people liking smaller messages, they can do what FB does and hide behind a "Read more" link.

Overall, Twitter feels like being in a crowded bar. Lots of noise, not many conversations.

This could all just be me, though...
The tag syntax looks like the biggest advantage over ES6. Couldn't ES6 do that though as a template string type? -- like

dom`<div> ${contents} </div>`

As far as I can tell on a quick google, this remains to be done. (I saw some hits for HTML string templates as opposed to direct DOM construction.)
This was going to be a thing. It didn't happen for reasons. http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/08/twitter-annotations/
For what it's worth, I just signed up for the mailing list. I did this because I want to read articles like this that are mostly high-level technical stuff with a dash of business details. That sort of article is the reason I pay attention to HN.

I'd personally be fine with first finding out about Starfighter itself well after launch. I'll probably check it out, but it's not like I anticipate spending hours on it every week. On the other hand, your blog takes only a few minutes to read, and has great signal:noise.
FAC?
FFS Solution 6: Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry and get health experts deciding priorities
Well as is the case for any decentralized system, perspectives can differ wildly.

But a major purpose of written law is to attempt to get everyone on the same page ahead of time so that decisions are predictable (otherwise it would be a lot simpler to just have "judges" that resolved each dispute without regard for precedent).

What you've said is very practical - a lawyer can't really guarantee some arbitrary action is fine but can only recommend the most prudent course of action. But this conservatism arises from the legal system's limits, not an ideal to strive for - a person deciding what to do really does want to know the individual merit of each action, so that they can choose according to their personal utility function.
You need a US bank account to receive transfers in USD. It will be great when Stripe allows non-US companies to receive USD without requiring conversion to another currency.
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Is an internationally-available Internet service running legally in its source jurisdiction obligated to prevent people from using it to break their local laws either legally or ethically?
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account1: practice.

account2: 'for-realzies'.

Succeeding by whatever metric because of this? Let the true games begin!
If you plot the homicide rate among people aged 18-24 you see that it spikes up to twice the normal level from the late '80s through the mid '90s. It nearly triples for teenagers over that time period.
Exactly. It's some vague personification here that doesn't make much sense.

Who is this marketing VP who covers data breach insurance with their marketing budget? Now they're the ones making product decisions?
The Mother of All Demos, Presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
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Also linked to the fall of the Roman Empire (lead-lined aqueducts leading to a lot of people making bad decisions).
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That is claptrap. If it were a family story you'd have a family blog, and a separate family member would write about how they all pitched in to help you get tenure.

All of us know that the main takeawy of the story is about you. Your desperate disclaimers don't do anything.
Playing with the TrueRNG 2 hardware random number generator
It's "retire at 30", not 50.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/09/15/a-brief-history-of...
> Its only the 'mass' part of that which is different from the status quo.

That's pretty important though. The status quo is that maladaptive traits tend to spread very slowly, if at all, in populations. Random chance might give somebody a mutation which gives them an unusually fast metabolism and disproportionate chance of an painful early death, but its not going to spread the mutation across a generation in the way that a marketing campaign for SlimKids(TM) could.

Whether more folks will suffer than before in the long term is less a matter of debate and more a case of how restrictive the use cases are.

For context, we live in a world where despite serious worries about antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, the most common uses of antibiotics are as chicken feed and placebos for the common cold.

Even if popular human genetic modifications are entirely benign there's reason to be concerned about the effect on genetic diversity if certain combinations become near-universal in a population.
I paid $560 for the courier service Uline provided. The rest was the cost of the 1,200 boxes, regardless of shipping method (Roughly $3,400)
It is indeed!

I decided to try it out the idea after seeing that the Python standard library had the SMTP support builtin. Without that I probably would have punted and just written a webhook. (Or _gasp_, used regular email -- but even that requires configuring some sort of server on the build machine).
In the world of business, good ideas are literally priceless - in that they have literally no value. Good ideas aren't even that important to a business. Good execution is what matters. Even sub-optimal ideas can be billion dollar businesses. I still think that the basic idea behind twitter is only mediocre, but it is so excellently executed that it is a joy to use. The same applies for pinterest. They are just not great "ideas." But the execution is phenomenal.

Let's put it another way. When you say:

>It would be interesting to put together a list of these "good idea, but poor execution" ideas.

I read:

>It would be interesting to put together a list of these "execution plans but poor execution" ideas.

There is absolutely no way to separate out the "good idea" from the "good idea but poor execution" because business is the art of execution.

But maybe I'm crazy.
That would seem to make sense if the three strikes laws are as significant a factor in causing the increase in felony convictions as I've been lead to believe.
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So there's another browser that is NOT Safari 5.

What part of this are you not getting?
The problem is that Twitter is trying to monetize like most with ad-tech at a time that many are becoming ad adverse. The rise of ad blockers should be a wake up call for such monetization efforts. Twitter is placing ads everywhere now. Auto play videos, promoted ads, a jumbled UX, and product decisions springing from a want-to-be-like-Facebook mindset are just damaging the brand especially with the lack of strong product leadership that exists (which shows in the official app). It's all about monetization and listening to advertisers who don't have UX chops.
According to this research, those laws are not a significant factor in the prison population.

(of course, that doesn't make them a good idea!)
Yes, I do greedy parsing. There are many advantages to this, which I'll write about before too long. Fundamentally, it's "the way forward". As models improve in accuracy, search matters less and less.

By the way, the beam isn't slow from the copying. That's really not so important. What matters is simply that you're evaluating, say, 8 times as many decisions. This makes the parser 6-7x slower (you can do a little bit of memoisation).
Many years ago, I wrote something about Universal Binaries - http://hohle.net/scrap_post.php?post=197 . IIRC, they've remained relatively unchanged since NeXTSTEP and have always been available in OS X (and even used during the G3/G4/G5 era in Mac OS).
> CoffeeScript doesn't work because it requires you to learn a new language on top of JS.

The folks that have been quietly productive with CoffeeScript for years, and have and continue to make millions of dollars because of it, would likely disagree with you on that point.

> Your point is that Ruby's role to all of the developments you mention is essential and unique. I'm arguing it's not. By far.

> The only remarkably unique thing about the Ruby community I keep noticing as an outside its rise and fall of the Brogrammer culture and the aftershock we're still experiencing to this day. But even that, I think, would have happened even if Ruby never existed.

Well, you've failed to sway me on that (by far), and the clear chip on your shoulder you have regarding the Ruby community as a whole leads me to believe your vociferous arguments to the contrary might be motivated by something other than your desire to spread the truth.
It hasn't been an all Apple show for quite a while. If you look at the past meetings on http://llvm.org, the first few mostly had speakers from Apple and academia, but for instance http://llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/ (November 2011) already has speakers from Google, AMD, ARM, Sony Pictures and Ericsson Research.
I agree that the spin up time is not 0, but how much that matters is really influenced by the size of your jobs.

I would also call out that, when developing against Spark, you can and should be running your jobs locally to develop and debug them. So, I would lean on local Spark execution to keep a tight feedback loop. This is one of the big advantages of using Spark over Hadoop or similar more complex systems. Your jobs scale predictably from a local laptop to a cluster.

Sure, there's a cutoff point, but within a range, this is largely a choice. We're a startup, so our traffic is always increasing. We want to worry about sizing our infrastructure as new jobs come on line. There is no perfect static size for our clusters. We've also been scaling down as well as up in the size of our infrastructure as we improve our code's performance and understand our systems better. So ephemeral just makes sense to us for the moment. Certainly we might want a persistent cluster at some point, but dynamically-scaled out clusters will likely still be valuable at that point.
It does not lead to the growth of a company directly. Better to work on more features than to work on cleaning up the desk.
A) is forthright. Standing up and saying, "hi, i'm bob, and joe sucks" is clear and unambiguous.

B) is an underhanded rhetorical trick. "Hi, i'm bob, let me tell you a story about Moe. For convienence, Moe looks talks and acts just like Joe. Moe is a child molester."

See, there's this internal conflict, either the mythical Moe is just like Joe, and Joe is a child molester, or Moe isn't just like Joe.

Just stand up and say Joe sucks. Leave Joe out of the story you're trying to tell.
That's not how it works. Enter the CTF and you get supplied as a lead to companies as a potential hire for doing well (if you want), it's not that you use it as a competency canary on your CV.
Since most criminal defendants are in fact guilty, perhaps the logic here could be something like: "prosecutors have made the system of adjudicating crimes so efficient using plea bargaining rules that sentences need to be ratcheted down sharply, both to account for the increased likelihood that the accused will go to prison and as a check on prosecutorial power".
Ditto -- took me two listens to get half of it, a third listen to understand fully.
I really like the idea of complex dark matter, because there be dragons.
> So, you're saying that baby boomers caused a disproportionate increase in the rate of crime that no other generation before or since has caused, for no reason at all.

No, I'm saying that historically, variations in the proportion of the male population in the 15-25 age range produce variations in the crime rate that are bigger than the changes in those proportions (essentially, the concentration of people in that age range appears to affect the propensity to criminality; its not just that that age range is itself more prone to crime -- which it also is. One explanation is that the bigger that demographics influence is on the overall society, the more criminality is produced; fairly similar trends, at least as regards violence, are seen across societies, not just in the US.)

(And its not unique among generations in producting a crime spike like that; the Post WWI baby boom hitting that age range also corresponds to a peak crime period, though the peak was sharper and shorter, even compared to the shorter WWI baby boom period, than that of the Post WWII Baby Boom.)
Ohhh. Ok I get it. I was under the impression that the goal was to have a Starfighter profile publicly, like a new type of credential/cert. Which, I guess now that I'm thinking about it, wouldn't be much better than those MS certs. If it's just a way to generate great leads for you then it makes total sense. And I imagine even if there are public scoreboards, the end point of your company isn't to provide an embeddable seal like those SSL resellers.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I don't know. Seems a bit timely.

Bob Iger of Disney this week has said, that they are at a point with their content/merch/theme parks etc able to "burn out" the entire consuming population of the country if they wanted too...

Imagine what that overoptimized machine can do in a few years from now.
In my experience when codegen shows up as a solution, you took a wrong turn somewhere and are walking down the path of very brittle code that becomes a nightmare to maintain over time. Several times the code generation libraries don't get updated and your are left in a difficult spot when migrating your code to a newer version of your platform. but hey maybe that's just a .net and java thing.
If a law is on the books, and has not been found unconstitutional, then it is sitting there waiting for a prosecutor to use it. In 2004, divorce attorney John R. Bushey Jr. was criminally prosecuted for adultery in Virginia. The prosecution dropped the charges after he agreed to do 20 hours of community service - I understand primarily because the ACLU wanted to pursue the constitutionality of the law, and the prosecution didn't want the risk and expense of that. No conviction was recorded, but I'm sure it was a stressful experience for him, and the prosecution probably thought the stress well-deserved. Why wouldn't they do the same in the future?

No one knows whether laws against adultery are constitutional in the US. Some argue on the basis of Lawrence v. Texas they are not, but the US Supreme Court has never addressed that precise issue, and it could rule either way if it was ever presented with it.
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That's my point. I'm being supplied as a lead for investing time learning something that I will not be able to use in any potential position. Why should I do it? I'm genuinely interested in understanding this because it might blow up and I'll have to learn it anyway.
Here are some interesting previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342348

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708844

and why not: http://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/
> and it's amazing how many hanger-ons that were there fawning over the founders. It was a very SF start-up version of a celebrity night-club in LA/NYC

Lol... I think your YMMV on what you encounter here, maybe I just know the boring founders that could care less about social status. In fact I think the ones who care about social status are by and large the ones who don't actually get accepted.
Very odd. It's like somebody's been hiding in a cave since 1995 and just discovered python, object-oriented programming and HTTP.
I'm a huge fan of Stripe and the benefits of using it, although I've had close to 40% of all international customers receive a 'your card was declined error'.

I've had to ask them to call up their bank/card provider and request for the restriction to be removed.

Is Stripe's ease of onboarding/getting started causing such a high rate of flagged transactions? What's going on behind the scenes between banks and payment services providers and is this something that could be improved in the future?
Here is article about the pain of dealing with Medical Industry

[0] http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.ht...
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oh great, another shitty javascript fraemwork
That's what you get from an X prize, usually. It would be interesting to see an X prize that also had some base level of pre-funding for all entrants.
It's what makes Twitter, well Twitter. I love the 140 char limit because it enforces brevity and aids quick consumption. That's me.
>If a dev found a solution just half of those times, and it saved them just 30 minutes, that's nearly 1.85 billion hours saved.

Those are very generous numbers.
It's quite a bit different. Economies were invented by people, are controlled by people, and therefore can be altered by people. The environment, however, has none of these characteristics. This is not a "logical fallacy" - it's simply a fact that the environmentalists of the world don't like very much and have spent billions of dollars (mostly of other people's money- i.e. your tax dollars) trying to get people to ignore.

There is indeed a logical fallacy playing out in all of this, and that of course is that environmentalists/liberals are attempting to control something that all of the credible scientific evidence says we can't control. Controlling the universe, as it turns out, is much harder than bribing legislators to use the government resources to pursue one's agenda.
Ethically, that depends on whose ethics you are talking about. Some people say we are ethically obliged (within reason) to obey the law, even if the behaviour the law prohibits is not in itself unethical - those people would likely say "Yes", at least in some cases. Other people deny that there is any ethical obligation to obey the law, except when the law's demands happen to be the same as those of ethics, so those people might answer "No".

Legally, the answer can be yes. If I commit a crime in country A, and you in country B help me, then you've likely committed a crime (as an accessory) under the laws of A too - even if B doesn't recognise my or your behaviour as criminal. Now, B will probably refuse extradition, but if you ever voluntarily come to A, you would be at the mercy of A's legal system.
Yes, that is the exact issue. Upgrading just costs money and does not really improve anything.

I see it myself, upgraded from Huawei Ideos X3 (2.3.7) to Motorola Moto G (5.0), and it’s just as slow as the old phone was. Despite being twice as expensive.
>Wait, what? React is a javascript library, not a programming language. Written in javascript.... How can Imba be faster?

The same way an advanced primitive in a language can be faster than another language + framework code to do the same thing.

What exactly is startling? It's not like languages/libraries and frameworks have some hard defined boundaries. What's a library for one language can be built-in primitives for another (e.g. consider using vectors and hashmaps in C vs Python, or consider something even more powerful like APL or Rebol).

>Does Imba also include a dom-diffing algorithm.. If so, why would you built that into the language... Woudnt it be better to write a library in imba-lang that can do dom diffing?

No, it's not always better to have "a library" vs first class support. Not to mention that some things are impossible to do with regular user code in a language vs first class code (e.g. consider how Go's make() is "blessed" to work as a generic function).

Especially here, where the whole purpose of the language is to be a DSL for web programming and to incorporate all these conveniences.

Nothing new either: we have had languages with first class support for specific use cases since at least the 60's.
>Attention. Get people to pay attention because the leak of customer data is personal (it'll probably affect you or someone you know), and then release the really damaging data once the press cycle has started and everybody's looking for more information.

Then they probably should have released the first data dump on Monday and the second dump on Tuesday. By the time the media dig through the CEO's emails it'll be Friday and lose a lot of steam over the weekend.
Also, is React a framework?
I think the natural log scale imparts a bias to the "The rich are different" chart.

Most countries are in the "rich" blob there, and there are very few outliers.

There are also extremely rich outliers with (comparatively) large numbers of airfare deaths.

As noted by another commeter, Indonesia receives tremendous amounts of rainfall, with well-documented consequences for aircraft and flights.

All-told, I think the way the data are presented in this article is not suitable for making conclusive statements like "it's dangerous to fly in $PLACE".
This would be fun to do, but there's a catch. The company sponsoring the contest wants an exclusive license to any submission, for use in the Energy industry. Unfortunately for us, we open source everything we do, and that conflicts with granting anybody an exclusive license. Too bad they don't just want a license, on non-exclusive terms.

Oh well...