skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, right thinking, I'm disappointed without Drupal 8 after waiting all these years. Wordpress could be where at PHP5.x native speed if they are on PHP7.

After that tweaking, I think you might be interested in SIMD for Javascript and hopefully, WebAssembly will make PHP even speedier performance.
Half of that is national insurance which is concentrated on £8k - £35k band, counteracting the progressive income tax bands.
Sure. I'm not opposed to ending death, and certainly not to work on extending healthy lifespan. I just don't think it qualifies as humanity's greatest problem.
np, if you know of any other tools I should check out let me know :)
I haven't read the article yet, but I was halfway expecting to see this picture:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ho...
Agreed, they are quite similar. But there are only so many ways to draw a lambda.

Comparison: http://imageshack.com/a/img907/4425/da9gGJ.png
I don't know much about this guy's story, but I do remember from my time as a UC Berkeley undergrad that being a popular lecturer with the students is a sure fire way to get yourself unpopular with the tenured staff.

The brass professors at UC Berkeley seemed to be catty like that in all departments. They didn't like it when some young gun became more popular than them for teaching the same topics that they'd been teaching for a generation. Which makes sense, popular professor sell things and get rich, and they way they saw it, they weren't going to lose to some young upstart.
I have a LinkedIn profile that I've not updated for a long time. Have programmers here found it to be of any value, apart from being in the know of what your friends/colleagues are up to in their careers?
Yep, I'm seeing the same thing -- a DOM attribute with values between 0 and 1. Interesting.
I'd kind of like to spend a day with the people who think up these schemes and pick their brains (lawyers, accountants, CFOs, whoever works on this). Not because I want to "optimize taxes" but because I'm genuinely curious about how they tick, if they see it as a game of sorts etc.

You have a complicated legal framework and try to optimize in it. At the end of the day I'd still wonder...gee is it "ok" that we pay only that much but like I said I'd like to see how this general problem is approached.
Facebook and Google and Amazon do not use Cisco networking equipment, nor do they use Dell servers:

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/facebooks-new-data-center-bad-n...

That's basically the point of the article: These companies that actually had to get up to that kind of massive scale quickly discovered that the way hawked by these big expensive "enterprise" companies didn't work. It was expensive and insufficient. So they've developed their own custom stuff (often built on open source; sometimes open sourced back out) that works a lot better while also being massively cheaper.

AWS isn't just a bunch of Dell servers hooked up to EMC SANs and Cisco switches. The only people who still use that stuff are people who a) have a ton of money and a desire to spend it freely, plus b) don't have really serious demands, which would mandate something better.

That's not a good place to be.
That's an old claim or characterization.

But, IIRC, consider Arthur Rock, Sherman
Fairchild, and Fairchild
Semiconductor.
or... you might become a realist, and maybe try to come up with solutions applicable in real world, on real people and real situations.

I'm not claiming I know what the solutions are. But I am damn sure theoretical solutions for theoretical situations tend to fail spectacularly in reality, no matter what topic they are about.
Trump's solution? Cut the U.S. corporate tax rate to 15% from the current top rate of 35%. This would make corporate inversion unnecessary. I think he also had the idea of capping tax at 10% for companies wanting to bring their money back.

At some point you have to ask yourself "why are companies doing this?" and fix the root cause.
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The essence of this hack is "turn LinkedIn into a tracking pixel." I suppose it's possible to do it with some other social-network-type sites too.
if you apply the same reasoning to seatbelt laws, the flaws become obvious

No, not quite: When one drives, one most often drives on shared public roads, and one's action can directly increase risk to others, costs to those who maintain the system, etc. E.g., if you are in an accident and unrestrained, your being unrestrained may place me at greater risk. Your being more seriously injured due to being unrestrained will have greater social costs (financial cost of first response, possible PTSD to first responders, etc.).

One can hardly but drive in a public space, one can hardly ever drive in a private space.

While similar arguments re costs of first response, e.g., can be made about drug use, drug use can be practiced wholly privately, and, with quality drugs and with appropriate delivery systems, including training, risks kept manageable, likely social costs kept low, etc.

Just to play devil's advocate, as you say.
California Craft Brewers Asked to Cut Water Use
That's a comprehensive list

- Really loved gelato personally

- Still wrapping my head if I should go the kong route or not

- Blockspring seems really cool, even for developers, definitively going to try it out
All of your examples seem to lack a lot of context. Yes, these companies are all under pressure. But most of them are still in slow growth and working hard at it. There is also quite a bit of innovation in these places. The problem is the market model is changing - that innovation (cloud) undermines everything else.

Their biggest liability is their customer base that IS NOT changing and continues to pay for these products. I see guys everywhere trying to cajole customers down the cloud path because they'd rather be at the seat of that inevitable transition than pushed out. Many customers don't want to. So they're stuck doing the old thing that's dying and the new thing is being done by smaller customers that wouldn't even consider them.

The story of if/how they fail or rise again will be a lot more complicated than you are suggesting. Keep in mind Apple was near bankruptcy 18 years ago.

Example - EMC. I'm not sure what you're talking about, there are a lot of products. Isilon is distributed storage and selling like mad. ScaleIO is free for anyone to use unsupported and a distributed Elastic Block Store. VxRack is scale out compute and storage. XtremIO sells more and is growing at pace with Pure (which just went public). Dell in swallowing them up which seems like the least worst option given Elliott is at their back and HP would be a death sentence. (I don't work at EMC, but a subsidiary and have some knowledge of how they work and sell.)
I haven't seen anyone claim that Facebook is failing to pay all the tax they are legally obligated to pay. Did you mean something else by "everybody pays his taxes?"
True of nearly every company I've worked at or for.

The old joke was "no one ever got fired for buying IBM".

It's not even about what the best technology is for a solution but rather the intersection of what's the best I can buy that isn't gonna get me fired if it goes wrong.
Part of it is being outside the US as well- there is a reluctance to keep sensitive data on servers owned by a foreign company. Attitudes are changing though ... MS and Amazon for example have a really good presence in Australia these days.
That was no fun. I've come to expect better from Nautilus.

The hypothesis, that past supernovae may have affected life on Earth, is as interesting as it is complex. It is surprising the article, when picking only one hypothesized effect to discuss, chose this one:

>"While no mass-extinction events happened 2.8 million years ago, some drastic climate changes did take place—and they may have given a boost to human evolution. Around that time, the African climate dried up, causing the forests to shrink and give way to grassy savanna."

We could have learned how supernovae may have affected cellular, or even pre-cellular, biochemistry. Instead we got a proposed nexus between supernovae, climate science and human evolution.

The weakness of linking three complex questions, each with large and uniquely-varying uncertainties, shows itself in the article citing only one piece of science: the estimation of when past near-earth supernovae occurred from Fe-60 concentrations in subsea Ferromanganese crusts.

Which makes this bit, buried at the end, even more unbearable:

>"Some scientists think Fe-60 may have been brought to Earth by meteorites"

Unlike the article, which offers it no counterargument, this argument is revealing through its simplicity.
You could support Lawrence Lessig's presidential campaign.
"you end up in a situation where there's little point voting the way you want, because it won't be effective."

How much of that situation is due precisely to that mindset?

It seems like circular logic to me.

10 Why not vote for the guy you want to win?
20 Because he won't get enough votes
30 Why won't he get enough votes?
40 Because not enough people will vote for him.
50 So why don't more people vote for him?
60 goto 20

FPTP is arguably broken, but people engaging in "tactical voting" isn't helping matters. You're supposed to vote for who you want to win, period.
Thank you to everyone who has kept my project alive in their hearts and minds. I am still on hiatus and while I do plan to start it up again I am not sure when.

In the mean time:

- Roger Moore has been working on his Wikipedia entry and notes: "It seemed easier to find citations from my brief time in academe than the remainder of my life. I will have to wait and see what Wikipedia editbot thinks of it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore_(computer_scientis...

-As for my father, there's not much new on the programming language front however his Alpaca business is holding its own: http://www.manitoulin.ca/2015/06/30/lobo-loco-alpaca-farm-th...
Certain #Car_brands will profit by the #Volkswagen's woes
No, you repeated Coward's own assertion, stripped of its original context.
The size of a LinkedIn profile page:

<iframe src="LINK TO YOUR LINKEDIN PROFILE" height="1" width="1" frameBorder="0"></iframe>
Node.js Kademlia implementation gets WebRTC transport support
I remember reading once that back in the days of medieval guilds it was illegal to advertise which also included saying “hello” to passersby. This engagement was illegal because the casual conversation could lead to a, “Why don’t you come inside to see what we have to offer.” It seems a bit ridiculous but where would you draw the line of what is considered advertisement?

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Very large hosting/cloud providers will eventually build their own hardware. Even if Dell is involved, it's going to be in a supporting role and won't yield the kind of profits X-many server sales will. And besides, support contracts will also be of lesser value. This and Open Compute is not good for Dell-type of shops. Compound that with Microsoft building PCs in a shrinking PC market, the problems are numerous. Dell can't make a Windows PC better than Microsoft.[1]

All this also because these companies have never really tried to attract the best talent by paying above market compensation. It's fine.

[1] The kind of detachable GPU configuration we saw in Surface Book is harder to pull off outside of MS. Doable, but MS will have the advantage of getting inputs directly from the DX12 team.
"The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m."

So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?
There are still people who can statistically make money betting sports, so I'd be hard-pressed to call that any less of a game of skill than daily fantasy sports or poker.

For a long time, professional sports leagues in the US were extremely anti-gambling because they didn't want to be associated with it and they were worried about integrity.

However, the NFL got in bed early-on with fantasy sports, so they didn't fight things when it became clear that daily fantasy sports were becoming more popular, despite clearly being gambling.

Now, the NBA has come out in support of bookmaking. They were an interesting league to do that since one of their refs was caught tampering with games a few years ago. However, analytics in the NBA have become extremely sophisticated (they have tech that tracks every step each player makes), and looking back at the data, they could have caught that ref much earlier based on data. So I'm assuming they are confident enough in the analysis to thwart any tampering and are now trying to get into bed with the sports books in efforts to increase their revenue.
i believe that the false dichotomy was used in order to attract clicks and to provide context for the relevance of IA. The article hardly talks about AI at all except that it was the AI agenda which IA was born from.
I'm not an anarcho-capitalist, I'm just conducting a mental experiment to see how far state minimalism can go. I'm quite convinced we can (and probably should) limit the competences of current behemoth governments - what I don't know (and am therefore trying to discuss) is to what extent.
Oth there are thousands (probably millions) of companies out there where cisco kit would be just fine.

Very few companies have the kind of network requirements of Facebook or Google.
Money is a curious sort of behavioral information network, in that the information is destroyed at every hop. If you pay five dollars at my hot dog stand, I accept the exchange in value without the slightest clue if the money came from tutoring orphans, or human trafficking. I'm honestly unsure which has greater perverse incentives and moral hazard: behavioral opacity, or behavioral transparency. (Note that the only entities that have access to at least some of the information of each money hop are governments, banks, credit agencies, and to some extent online silos like Amazon.)
Like I said I have +20M records so potentially tens of thousands of results per query.

This would mean that every time a user triggers this API call we have to insert those tens of thousands of documents into Redis and run an operation at the end. Even without taking into account the JSON serialisation / deserialisation costs, this would take forever where we need something that runs in around one or two seconds at the maximum.

The problem is actually pretty simple and can be summed up by this sentence: "I want to group documents by field X, take one document per group of X and return documents from index OFFSET to index OFFSET + LIMIT".

In MongoDB for example this would be quite easy with a $group + $first operation in the aggregation framework. Sadly MongoDB lacks the nice full-text search features that ElasticSearch has. It's highly possible though that going forward we'll have to hack a full-text-like search on MongoDB and switch from ElasticSearch to MongoDB since stuff like this doesn't seem to possible.
The opening, if you don't feel like clicking through, but want the gist:

"They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters. Across a sprawling country, they reside in an archipelago of wealth, exclusive neighborhoods dotting a handful of cities and towns. And in an economy that has minted billionaires in a dizzying array of industries, most made their fortunes in just two: finance and energy.

Now they are deploying their vast wealth in the political arena, providing almost half of all the seed money raised to support Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Just 158 families, along with companies they own or control, contributed $176 million in the first phase of the campaign, a New York Times investigation found. Not since before Watergate have so few people and businesses provided so much early money in a campaign, most of it through channels legalized by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision five years ago."
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Being able to contact former co-workers is invaluable. I moved out of New York in 2009 and moved back in 2012. In between the startup I had worked at basically gone out of business and everyone had new jobs. I didn't have anyone's email address or phone number or even Facebook connection, but I was connected on LinkedIn. I was able to reach out, find out what companies were hiring, get some interviews, etc. It massively helped in my move back and I'm in a far better place because of it.

All the recruiters, resumes, cover letters, and interview prep pale in comparison to just having a bunch of people that want to work with you again. Ultimately whether you use LinkedIn or Facebook or a paper rolodex of phone numbers, the key thing is that you need that collection of weak connections. These are not my 20 friends, these are the 150 people that have been in a company with me and know my reputation but probably don't know much more than that.

I find LinkedIn is a good tool for that. Sure there are some negatives, but I haven't found anything better. I don't necessarily want to be Facebook friends with all of the people I currently or previously worked with, and there is no way to keep an up to date contact list by yourself.
That's another option, but it's generally cheaper to pay a pilot to fly them. Risky or not, there are always pilots looking for work.
Great blog post!
There's a hidden assumption that signalling and belief have to be the same.

If some weird signalling is just an annoying valueless externality, then acting (assuming its any good) isn't as relevant as the belief within.

Maybe an analogy with politics, nobody really believes sloganeering except the smallest of minds; its merely a traditional weapon that has to be used as part of the show. Ditto obeisance to political correctness, its just signalling you gotta do in public, nobody believes that stuff internally or in private except a small cadre of insane people. "Emperor has no clothes" moment and all that.
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The market expects a big Netflix move this week
> a foam like this would stop sloshing at almost no weight penalty

So would filling your gas tank with sponges; however, with that much surface area exposed to the liquid, I suspect it would be really hard to get the majority of the liquid back out.
This is why I hate the term "growth hacking". It encourages this kind of behavior.

I'd be curious to know if anyone on HN thinks that this is morally and ethically ok?

What happened to the good old days when "growth hacking" was building a good product that people want to share with each other and then making it easy for them to share?
Oracle is not quite as fucked as everyone else on the rest of the list. Oracle has the benefit of offering products that solve very real, very complex business problems: they aren't selling technology infrastructure. Oracle's core products are largely around financial and operational automation, and they are well understood by integrators across many industries. Their biggest threat is something like Salesforce -- but even then, the capital cycle for ERP systems is something stupid like 15-25 years. IBM is largely in the same boat as Oracle, albeit with slightly more government focus.

Oracle is ultimately a software company. Where their customers run that software is largely irrelevant to their core business. Is there margin to make by running an Oracle cloud? Sure, but the bulk of their profits are made just by licensing their LOB software packages and the associated annual support contracts. Oracle will be fine, and Larry Ellison will be able to buy an even bigger yacht in a decade.
Creating a race to the bottom is the opposite of fixing the root cause. The US already has a way to deal with this as it's the system used internally between states: levy taxes where sales happen.
I wonder what impact it has on page rank? I remember playing with 1x1 pixel links a few years back and finding my page completely disappear from Google.
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The problem of these companies is that they sell highly overpriced hardware that is in the best case sold because the consumer really wants support and risk avoidance, in the middle case because of vendor lock-in and in the worst case because of direct or indirect corruption.

Obviously this is not economically efficient, and thus eventually the scheme has to unravel.
There's a new development board coming real soon that will implement it. It is also implemented by the firmware on APM X-Gene (Mustang) and HP Moonshot. Not sure about Cavium as I've not used it.

However it's unlikely you'll find a small format SBSA-compliant board any time soon, because the server stack simply assumes a lot more RAM than is available on phone/tablet SoCs. For example, the minimum RAM required to run RHEL/aarch64 is 1 GB/pCPU (so in reality 4-8GB min), and even the Snapdragon 808 only has 3 GB. I personally wouldn't be happy doing development work for 64 bit ARM SBSA with less than 8 GB of RAM, and for OpenStack, 32 GB is the minimum I'd recommend.

(I do run Fedora/aarch64 on my LG G4 phone though :-)
Reminds me of when Peter Thiel called them the "Technology Rust Belt" in a talk.
Vblock is a management and communication nightmare. It runs on an independent AD domain with no integration with your own environment. It's just like having your own hardware in your own rack, but you have to call them to fix what you'd just normally fix internally. You have to have people who know VMWare, Cisco, and SAN to run one, more efficient to just set up a vCenter.
Not sure why you're downvoted - because they already do this for businesses, just not private users.

There's no money in it outside of selling data to businesses but LinkedIn, Facebook and tons of other major internet properties all share login data specifically to identify users across the web.

(I work in digital advertising)
It could be done at the airport level. If your last known departure was from point A, how did you get here with an aircraft that is not suited to fly such long distance. Not only that, you shouldn't have been allowed to depart from point A to begin with.

But again, I thought that something similar already existed. Today I learned, that it doesn't.
Exactly. The moment I get a cold contact like this, I'll put your business on the "Never use them for any reason" list.

After I send them an email explaining why.
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Why do people think that taxation follows a simple accounting mechanism of collect-and-spend? Taxation is collateral for a soverign to get loans and bonds. Taxes do not pay for anything.
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Is Slack just another Microsoft or truly something new
That's actually a sneaky way of following up with people who visited your carrers page. Check their linkedin and if they are a nice candidate send them a message through linkedin.
What will the online video delivery of the future look like? A few ideas
I really like the scripting interface you've got set up. It looks friendly, easy, and effective.
Facebook Name Police: Native American Names Aren't 'Authentic' Enough - http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/13/faceboo...
So it is a good idea?
I suggest you view it in a different light. In the 1980s, as this article points out, the human genome project was funded by the DOE and worked on at the national labs. The NIH came in and earmarked money just for the project. This pushed it from being second class citizen to being on a pedestal.

Much of the doubt expressed was based on the experience of the previous 10 years of the project, and the changing budget situation that took money from other fields.

As a somewhat distant parallel, the HST, once fixed, produced great astronomy. How much other great science wasn't funded to put up the HST?

> Opponents doubt that the human genome project will quickly cure any diseases, either.

Spoiler: they were right.