skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more likely that sites became better at supporting mobile browsers and mobile browsers just became better in general.
This all leads to a better mobile browsing experience, javascript runs better on mobiles now, and site developers have learned what works and what doesn't, sites aren't Flash sponges anymore (which was the case even for sites with Mobile support 5 years ago), HTML5 and other W3C standards have taken off, the mobile screens even on low-end devices are usually similar to desktop/laptop screens in resolution.
People rarely care about their privacy, they auto accept pretty much anything that an app requests, Apple's lockdown of the permissions might help that case a bit, but again not because of privacy but because of the hassle of having to go into the settings and enable individual access for apps, this doesn't make people care for their privacy just annoyed and can't be bothered.

Content distribution and companion apps made sense when you needed to go mobile 5 years ago, when redoing your entire site to support mobile was too expensive and even then it wouldn't be a good experience due to how poor mobile browsers performed back then.
Now it makes absolutely no sense, it's another thing you need to support and worry about which costs money, it's much harder to make people download an app than press a link, and in the current "link-content-sharing" (e.g. outbrain) eco systems most sites operate in it makes very little sense since allot of the traffic is generated by those click-baity "25 reasons why Node is now considered harmful" links you have at the bottom of each TechCrunch article.
And on top of that even a low-end phone will usually have a 1080p(or close enough) screen, 2GB of RAM (unless it's an Iphone ;)) and a quad/hex core CPU which is more than capable of running pretty much any browser served content today mobile or not.
Is there an easy way to read this?
The explicit, stated strategy of Common Core Mathematics is to emphasize understanding and conceptual learning over rote execution. And it does this, in practice, by teaching multiple different strategies for solving the same problem, and teaching why they all work the same.

This, of course, leads to the hyperbolic frothing at the mouth on mommy-blogs and the like when a take-home sheet featuring just one of the many strategies taught is not the vaunted One True Trick that the parent in question learned as a child. Cue blogs titled "I'm a certified public accountant and even I can't do math this way!", which of course proves the very point Common Core is trying to make -- that older generations don't actually even know Math at all, but rather a bag full of tricks without a hint of understanding.
Try it your way. Maybe it looks more boring?
Wouldn't it be easier to just work in the reverse direction?

https://github.com/zkat/chanl
Hacked Amazon Dash Button Cools Down Tesla
A bit quaint in the light of the past 15 years. I find it amusing that the paper uses the phrase "type-based formalisms" instead of "type theory".
Very true. Less of a problem in scientific computing than web services, I think, since it's not common to keep slices around: you generally process a "frame" or an iteration of a simulation (Monte Carlo, etc.) and perhaps compare it to a previous frame, but the only history you keep beyond that are aggregates of the data, rather than individual slices that might go (say) in a global dictionary and stay around for a while. I don't think I've ever seen NumPy code where array slices were used as values in a long-living in-memory key-value store or cache... whereas you see that all the time with substrings in code for webservices. Thus it hasn't been as big a problem as in the Java community.

Still something that should be in bold text in Julia 0.5's readmes, though; slicing is cheap now, but it comes with this very important caveat!
Not so atypical for recent flags:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cyprus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kosovo
Ditto the music industry with teen pop stars, the professional sports industry with dreams of the major leagues, the tech startup industry where only a small fraction of startups will succeed, all of academia where you have dozens of Ph.Ds competing for each tenured professor job, the legal industry where thousands of deeply-indebted fresh-faced associates seek to make partner, and every corporate hierarchy.

As they say, "When a less-experienced businessman meets a more-experienced businessman, the less-experienced businessman gets some experience."

Not sure if there's any way around this, though. The people who avoid getting taken advantage of when they're young tend to get taken advantage of their whole life.
What a bunch of nonsense. Can we at least start acting like humans are marginally advanced by just skipping the whole flag thing, a fetish used in ancient times to indicated who you belonged to and to communicate across open space during combat and for wholly violent and militaristic reasons.

Sure, it's not really a flag, a piece of fabric suspended from a big stick, but at the very least, let's simply go with an icon, rather than "flag", aka, rectangle. It's so primitive an nonsensical.
Whether Julia replaces R has more to do with how R evolves over the next 5 years than Julia IMO. As far as "production use" I think that depends on whether what you're doing is well served by the existing libraries or not.
It seems interesting... Let us know once you have the first release :)
Indeed, intimacy and passion for each other is beautiful, but it is hard for two complete strangers to fake it. Sex is great, but it is an order of magnitude better when it is an expression of love.

It is like eating a hamburger vs a fancy French meal. In both cases you satisfy your hunger. But the experience of getting there makes all the difference.
TOTALLY mental poker
Blind (or double-blind) review in most of academia is inherently impossible -- the people qualified to do the review will generally be able to recognize who the paper must have come from.

I agree that blinding would be preferable, but when the material itself reveals the author it's simply not possible.
You should try ec2 container services. That's superior to beanstalk.
Sure seems like the EU has it's fair share of incompetent technocrats if you can throw $1 billion at some nonsense any handful of PhDs in the field could have told you was nonsense if you'd just picked up a phone.

Sounds like most VC firms nowadays.
The landing page has a map, but where are the interesting overlays? Strike that. Maybe they weren't planning on having a bunch of visitors. Lots of stuff popped up after a few minutes.
These would be the current candidates for humanity:

http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/ima...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#/media/File:Pio...

And my personal favorite: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Voyager_...

(BTW there is a flag for earth: http://static.news18.com/pix/2015/04/UN_flag.jpg )
If you read up on the actual Olympic Games and the Olympic Committee, you could get the impression that their purpose is to unite humanity against the Olympic Committe.
OVH provides very cheap vServers starting at $3.49 / month in both France and Canada (the latter provides good connectivity to the US East Coast):
https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

In Europe, also Hetzner is a good choice with good connectivity and vServers starting at EUR 3.90 / month:
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx10

I would not host my production-quality business on these machines, but for playing around they work very well. And BTsync should not be a problem, I have BTsync running on a Cubietruck and it works flawlessly.
It doesn't have an organisation or even a not-very-organized ideological movement or anything to back it up.

Thus, all the symbolism remain meaningless because practically nobody cares about it. And those who care or say so (for whatever purposes) are probably sporting UN emblems, and have been doing that for about half a century.

In reality, if the need arises, we'll use the UN org and its flag to represent Earth, if it's still around (it probably will) and security council can decide upon what to do with the aliens (no idea).

(Assuming the pessimistic but oh-so-realistic scenario, cooperation won't probably work out, so we'll probably have the majority of security council maybe waving the UN flag (if the majority is suitably overwhelming), the others waving whatever alliance symbols they bother to come up with (if at all, in the world wars just different compositions of national flags were popular in the propaganda, and that's not likely to change), and the first global civil war. After it's over and if there's still someone around to declare themselves as the winning side, the victors' flag (which will be used) will be a meaningful flag full of symbolism.)
A lot. Even more by giving young men ANY access to women :-)
You are partially right. It is about convenience, but it is really about the convenience of search and the proliferation of voice search.

I don't even know anymore what apps I have on my phone.

I simply search and let Google search my phone and the internet at the same time and I click on the most convenient result.
Now, I'm not even close to being able to weigh in on the physics side here... but my observation, as someone who has spent several hundred grand on servers in the last decade is that Intel is run by profit-maximizing professionals.

Look at how much better/faster/cheaper the intel stuff got after AMD's release of the hyper transport opteron.

and look at how much Intel tried to collect rent from their position of market dominance (say, by making us buy rambus and then FBDIMMs) before that.

AMD needs to step up their game.

There's another market force at work, too, and that is demand. On the consumer side of things, at least, there isn't any need for faster x86 computers, because Microsoft isn't doing it's job. It used to be that every three years, Microsoft would release another office suite that everyone needed, that ran like a dog if your computer was more than a year or two old.

I just upgraded my games box, a decade-old core2duo, to windows 10. Works fine (modulo spyware bullshit) - Microsoft has been focusing on the "mobile" market and has been putting a lot of effort into slimming down.

That, and (and I'm so shocked to say this) but it turns out that the people crowing about 'mobile is the future' were mostly right. When I was in high school, even my poor friends had desktops. Now, I know a lot of people, even technical people who only have laptops... and a lot of the people I went to high school with got rid of their desktops and now only have cellphones and tablets; nothing with a full keyboard and intel CPU at all.

If that trend continues, I would predict that we'll eventually switch our servers to whatever architecture the mobile devices use. AMD and Cavium and a handful of other companies have been talking about doing that with ARM, but so far there's nothing I can buy except at engineering sample prices.
Maybe "seek first to understand, then to be understood."

Perhaps there's something for you to learn here rather than "taking charge" as you say.
All I can see is a striking resemblance to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard
If you read until the page's end, you'll see this is an undergrad school project. So, I'd guess bringing all the world's nations to consensus was out of scope.

That said, they did a wonderful job, and, as indicated by the fact this is on the front page, they have captured a world wide consensus of sorts.
I doubt too many people will become permanently celibate due to porn. But they might forego a random risky encounter with a stranger in favour of ten minutes with tube-something. That seems like a win.

Future sexbots, on the other hand...
That is functionally a horrible design. Imagine a couple hundred solar systems. It is very likely that one will have exactly 8 planets with their 3rd planet being their home planet. And even if such a system doesn't exist, this map doesn't stand out at all. At a glance it could represent any solar system: "Hey, this map has planets and a sun. Which solar system is that? I have no idea." This introduces unnecessary confusion and possible conflicts.

Symbolic representation of a solar system is the most generic thing you can choose about a solar system. A flag should be something unique that stands out from other ones.
> What arrogance. This is why your generation fucked up the planet.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.

Generational generalizations are also a trope we can do without.
It is called acting, and the television/movie industry seems to have figured it out. Of course, you do not want strangers, but rather long-standing co-workers, but this is as true for porn as it is for acting and coding.

Even if, for some reason, intimacy and passion could not be faked, you could just hire couples.
> All of Earth, considered as a whole, has nothing to compare itself to.

Except other planets.
It was a school project.
It might be easier, but showing both directions is still very cool.
That's ... not a ringing endorsement of twitter engineering.
Types help you enforce invariants. When you need to care about representation, representational types are quite useful. But it turns out, when we don't care about information interchange or a whole lot about performance, we usually don't care about representation as long as it's handled correctly, and a lot of automatic systems are okay (or better) at handling representation.

More of what we care about is domain relevant, and that's a place where enforcing invariants can be important. As an incredibly simple example, passing a "bid" price where an "ask" is expected could be an expensive error, and is unlikely to trigger an exception.

A type system like Haskell can be a big win, but we can enforce surprising things in something as simple as C. I had a project where I had several threads devoted to different activities, operating on their own static data. With a little creativity, I was able to track at compile time which threads a function could be run from and detect when I accessed data from the wrong thread. Without adding any run-time overhead, and while leaving me a free hand in organizing my data and functions in both my source files and my executable. It was tremendously convenient, when changes in specifications required me to move functionality from one thread to another, to be told everything that needed to change along with that. Over the course of the project, I can count on one hand the number of concurrency issues found in testing and only one - a complicated livelock - ever made it into production.
This is great to hear. This should have been how arrays worked in the first place in my opinion. Julia is all round very good but currently, as someone looking to move from a Fortran codebase, the array implementation is lacking in many areas and the performance is bad due to implicit copies everywhere, allowing arbitrary number of indexes to get elements, temporary arrays created for array arithmetic, and temporary arrays inside functions having to be allocated and deallocated on every function call. All of which is a bit disappointing in a language which is trying to be the future of numerical computing.

As it stands if you translate Fortran into Julia without a deep understanding of what is happening below the surface, your code will be much, much slower.
Ruled by emotions. Great VC in the making.
This is true at the layer of "why mobile browsers are capable of competing and beating app usage today"... the ante to get in the game...

But, the reason people are using browsers more than apps is simply because search is becoming the main use case of a smartphone.

I never look for an app on my phone beyond my home screen anymore, I just search or voice search my phone and expect it to either direct me to an app on my phone, or a search results page in Google.

I dont care where the solution to my need lives, I just want the quickest, easiest access to that solution.
True but I think lisper's answer is correct since I'm sure they haven't kept the Parkes radio telescope trained on one target for eleven years.
>To contrast against this, we may need a symbol against nationalism.

The 'against-nationalism-ism' would just turn out like a nationalism. After all, it has a flag.

Just look how the International turned out when they managed something resembling of the revolution they longed after in one corner of Earth.
The story itself appears to be at http://www.baen.com/chapters/w200506/0743499107___2.htm.
Also some of the shades don't match - these are precisely defined, I think.
> The cars power unit was at first thought to be a derivative of the never raced early 2014 spec Volkswagen F1 inline four engine

I had no idea VW had f1 engine, is it used? I know that they have some presence in f3 in that sense, had no idea about f1 though.
Everyone's ragging on this article, but it matches my experience exactly. I feel like I can't talk to anyone nowadays without fearing that little buzz in their pocket, at which point they pull out their phone and start playing with it while I'm mid-sentence. And I'm not some grumpy "get off my lawn" old man; I'm barely 25 years old.

Friends say "but it was [such-and-such nonsense]. I had to check my phone!" Really, you had to? Your life depended on you checking that text? People get frustrated with me because my phone is dead all the time (and thus I don't text back immediately), but I hate feeling tethered to some device.

I notice an overwhelmingly huge difference in the quality of my conversations with people when their phone is not present in the room with them.

This isn't to say I'm anti-technology at all — I spend 10 hours a day programming. I just don't attempt to do it while conversing at the same time (nor could I; without uninterrupted focus, I make a lot of mistakes in my code).
I think you're overstating how much the author associates socal with only Latino and Mexican culture:

"Before I describe the nations, I should underscore that my observations refer to the dominant culture, not the individual inhabitants, of each region. In every town, city, and state you’ll likely find a full range of political opinions and social preferences. Even in the reddest of red counties and bluest of blue ones, twenty to forty percent of voters cast ballots for the “wrong” team. It isn’t that residents of one or another nation all think the same, but rather that they are all embedded within a cultural framework of deep-seated preferences and attitudes—each of which a person may like or hate, but has to deal with nonetheless."
Please do not editorialize the titles of stories you submit to Hacker News. (Submitted title was "Can 14 companies in the US exist selling Japanese candy in subscription boxes?").

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It might be worthwhile to examine this phenomenon in a larger context. For example, I know a girl who is obsessed with watching sticky sweet romantic shows and movies like "twilight" and "the bachelor". The romance portrayed in these shows is extremely unrealistic and I feel it gives her unrealistic expectations of romantic relationships. Certainly there are no shortage of young men smoking too much marijuana and watching too much internet porn and generally not trying in life who wonder why they can't find a female partner, but likewise there are a lot women who are overweight, unclean, disorganized and generally not exciting (or even downright repulsive) watching romantic shows or reading sexy novels and thinking their world should be that way.

The larger phenomenon is, in my opinion, media substitutions for reality. It's like to much sugar and causes certain individuals problems. But it's not a problem isolated to porn and young men.
Then excuse yourself and handle your business in private.
> If a few people get together and spend large amounts of their time on their phones, then why get together at all?

Why do you care how other people enjoy themselves?
I absolutely agree. The VOC was a very bad company. Basically, they took the blood of the native people in the spice countries and made money from it.

The enslaved the people and killed many, when they did not cooperate.

When the VOC is seen as basic example of corporations, it is a real gruesome heritage!
Ok, assume gravitational influence travels at the speed of light.

Now imagine you pick up a heavy object (the Earth, say) and wave it back and forth. Can you see how the spreading gravitational influence manifests itself as a wave?
Tame() – bad kitty, no socket for you
I am guessing that Baidu must have the proper censorship and control mechanisms built in. I bet there is a really interesting story underneath this.
The Millennial generation is just the same as every other generation when it comes to ruining the planet. Every time a young guy gets in a car filled up with gas, he's no different than anyone two or three times his age. It is not a conscious effort, it's just the way the society is, and everyone is responsible and everyone is guilty.
How a two-day sprint moved an agency twenty years forward
Google Announces Plan to Put Wi-Fi in 400 Train Stations Across India
Because strangers are interesting and different and you can learn new things. Because strangers can become friends. Because that stranger is attractive and I'd like a date on Friday night.

Our obsession with hiding ourselves in our little toys drives me absolutely bonkers. And I'm not blameless, I know I do it, too--most of us fall prey to the fact that hiding is so easy that we do so goddamn much of it.
Bringing the Internet to more Indians
The basis of the argument is that if decisions correlate with race, than the cause of the decision is race. This is of course wrong. Correlation does not imply causation and the algorithms cannot even have a concept of race or sex unless that data is deliberately and explicitly placed into the data set.

A realistic complaint would be that these algorithms dehumanize people and create a weird algorithm based bureaucracy that mimics The Trial.

Maybe someone is trying to conflate the two arguments so they can dismiss the second one by pretending it's the first?
SkyDNS is pretty nice, but I'm not sure I see a huge value in layering DNS on top of etcd for microservices, unless you also standardize the SRV format being used. Why not just use etcd directly?

After all, the format has a proprietary format/structure that no tool (outside the SkyDNS sphere) knows about. So you've already invented a new protocol on top of DNS. You're not able to leverage any existing tool/library out there that resolves names via DNS, because they can't use your information. (SkyDNS can of course be used to look up A/CNAME records, which I totally agree is nice, but as more of a backwards-compatibility layer kind of thing.)

You do get some value from libc's name resolution, and you can institute a policy across your apps that they resolve subdomains relative to the domains listed in resolv.conf, so for one app to talk to another, they just look up "fnord", which resolves to "fnord.dc-east.production.example.com" or whatever. But I'm still not sure I see a lot of value over a client library that talks directly to etcd. You're going to want a client library anyway, to deal with those SRV records.
Interesting, looks almost like how you'd write Go using S-expressions. Seems like you have access to the stdlib from the examples. I wonder if you could use other Go libraries. I also wonder if you can use co-routines or channels.

This[1] allows you to write something resembling Scheme R5RS but with some Go extras like channels/co-routines, but no access to Go's stdlib.

[1] https://github.com/kedebug/LispEx
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