skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two years back I decided to make my own antenna. I had no idea what a folded dipole was, but found a website that instructed me to use a metal clothes hanger cut to the proper length for HD US signals, and a block of wood. I had neither so I taped some leftover enamel wire to a piece of cardboard. I still use this antenna today, and get about 50 channels, living 30 miles away from the nearest broadcast antenna.

Point is, these broadcasts are incredibly easy to access, and it doesn't seem like the voodoo designs of $200 dollar antennas are actually needed by most people. It's somewhat surprising TV manufacturers don't simply add simple antennas as an accessory the same way my FM radio tuner came with one.
Well, that's why they give acquihired employees a whole bunch of RSUs. I worked for a boring corporate acquihirer for a while because they were paying me the stock equivalent of my salary (which also increased) every year.
Blue Light Exposed
A Real-Life Thor's Hammer That Can Only Be Lifted by Its Creator
If the NSA wasn't doing this, you can bet they will be soon.
I lived like that for some years.

My friends sent me e-mail with a youtube link and I literally waited one hour or so to view that. Just let it loading while reading something else.

So, the trouble here is not me having low bandwidth, but having connections on broadband places.

And even people with no connections in the first world want to see video clips online.
"He’ll be waiting with a spare charger." I always get a tad choked up by stuff like this in articles about people passing. Makes me feel like a sentimental goof, but there are worse things to be I guess.
I don't know what in the world you're on about, fried chicken is delicious no matter what color your skin is.
Perhaps. But maybe, if you add googleads, amazon adsystem, moatads, rubicon project, taboola, scorecardresearch, krdx etc [1], then you start wondering why are users using adblockers, so you add pagefair, and at that point you want to find out what works better so you add optimizely... maybe, just maybe, at that point, you're actually losing money because your page is so damn slow, rather than getting more because of your efforts to perfectly monetise it.

[1]: Just copied them from coldpie's news site screenshot comment. That was about 1/2 of them, there were many more.
Companies see social media as a big way to promote their "brand." They are afraid of something going viral and hurting this brand, like the video of the AA attendant earlier this week, so they spend money to monitor their social media presence. Twitter has some hefty restrictions on their public API, but provides a private "firehose" that serves all Tweets. Companies pay Twitter, or Twitter's partners, a fair amount for access to this API. This is a major reason Twitter is still relevant. It's essentially a public customer service line, where anyone can listen in. Imagine if you go to a website, and listen in on anyone's call to Comcast.

Twitter is not the many to many graph that people envisioned it would be. Instead it is one to many. Either many "ists" talking to followers, or many customers complaining to companies. Twitter will be kept alive by its publishers, not its subscribers.
~"It's not the mobile internet, it's just the internet"

- Apple, at iPhone release
Thank you Jonathan!

As Jonathan mentioned, we made this decision around 9 months back and at that time Kinesis wasn't as mature and had less flexibility around retention period etc.

Kafka is very reliable (as I had seen it handling billions of events a day at LinkedIn) and has a huge open-source community around it. At IFTTT, we always prefer to use and contribute to open source ( http://engineering.ifttt.com/oss/2015/07/23/open-source/ ).
Easier to read the linked articles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/...

http://www.hebaamin.com/arabian-street-artists-bomb-homeland...
Showcase of clean and minimal Wordpress themes
I was going to comment here that the answer didn't actually answer the question. That is, it elaborated why Python is so slow, and how slowness can be a problem, and how other languages are faster, but it didn't address the question of why Python is used despite it being so slow.

Turns out I had to restructure my response because the author already used what I believe is a British colloquialism to preemptively reject a challenge to the legitimacy of the answer, saying:

> a self-proclaimed 'Python fanboy' complained that I did not answer the question in this response. I think I did, although it's true that I would score nul points on the modern A-level style box-ticking approach to scoring exams. Whether that is a negative thing depends on your perspective!
Racism is just shorthand for prejudices such as ethnocentrism, Orientalism, Othering.
> Never knew you could be "racist" against a religion.

Excellent, this graffiti taught people that one can indeed by racist against muslims, because race is a pseudoscientific social construct used to attack people!
Would it matter though? For how long is "ignorance" an excuse for one of the biggest TV shows ever?
Yeah, it's not like various programmers don't write "denunciation" emails/posts all the time for every kind of thing. Not sure why this particular denunciation gives the issue much weight.

Besides this guy is associated with even more failed projects than CSS color names, such as XHTML2, XForms, and RDFa.
I've come through the other side on this topic. When someone levels an "ism" charge, I assume the accuser has an agenda and become suspicious.
Fried chicken is general is associated with African Americans, particularly of lower-middle or lower status. Coffee shops in general are associated with younger, upper-middle class white people.

That's not to say there aren't areas where it doesn't hold true very often, but that's the general sentiment.
Probably not. Downloading the video is going to depend more on throughput than on latency. The initial connection & page load, as it hits all the domains and resources, is going to be much slower because it relies more on latency and roundtrips.
That failure should still be documented somewhere.
Most definitely: if he slammed into the ground after the malfunction, there would have been no second attempt, the prototype is too fragile.

Also, water provides uniform flat surface; spectators and their pets are excluded naturally without need for employing a small police force.
In apps properly coded against the UIFont APIs, you can: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios//document...:
We emailed you a repost invite but you never responded. Did it go into a spam bin? (Edit: We also emailed you one for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10345055).

I'll take this as a data point that the repost invite experiment is working, i.e. is helping to reduce the randomness of what gets noticed here.
Homeland is not intentionally racist, but that isn't the main concern. Homeland leans on lazy stereotypes way too much, and that's harmful regardless of intent. This opinion piece from last year has details:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/...
>The colors they call “red”, “green”, “blue”, etc. are nowhere near the colors humans would consider closest to matching those labels, and combinations of basic CSS colors result in unusably ugly design.

Is there even a standard for what people would say represents a given color? Color perception may very well have a cultural component to it. I know the perception of sound does have a cultural component because there are certain distinct sounds that, if not exposed to while really young, are effectively simplified into a single sound by the brain. The common example is the r and l sound among Japanese, but there is far more.
Hi,

author here, I agree the site content definitely needs some work - it is built with fragmenta itself, but I need some videos of editing, a demo site, things like that, I wasn't quite ready for publicity yet, but it looks like it made it to the golang newsletter...

It is more at the stage where tinkerers and those building sites in golang will be interested, rather than end users. If you have any other comments or criticisms I'd be happy to field them here, I'm genuinely interested, though I know it is hard to judge without a demo of the backend (unless you download the code).

It's intended to be a CMS which eventually rivals something like Wordpress for ease of use/themability etc, but to be significantly easier to extend (more like rails in that sense). I got tired of building the same building blocks again and again in go for clients.

Another site built with this is http://golangnews.com (source available), so it's not just for simple websites, it's also intended for building things which are a little more complex quickly.
I think that he was referring to http://www.rsync.net/
"people"? What people? This OP's experience seems to indicate that there is a lot of patience in "Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and even remote regions of Siberia".
Yeah. And then we decided to break that and re-invent the mobile internet with "responsive".
That's right, but it does mean there is a totally valid distinction between "authorizing" killings, and carrying them out yourself. The top level comment is blurring lines that shouldn't need to be blurred.
When Obama says something meaningful, you can assume that it is a lie... like stopping the militarization of local city police forces with MRAPs and such (or not renewing the (un)"PATRIOT" Act..
Why was it relevant to your friend what the demographics of her neighbors would be?
I've been "obsessed" with Elixir lately, and it truly is a breath of fresh air in the current programming language landscape.

I've started with C, built a career with backend Python services/dashboards, and spent some time on the "fringe" learning about Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Clojure. And once you rewire your brain with functional programming constructs or immutability, it is really hard to go back to Python, using large libraries feels too much like magic (if you ever used Django, raise your hands if you've ever had to delve into the source code to understand what is going on).

I've had a fling with Go, I really like some of its ideas, namely static linking, native compilation, no exceptions, easy deploy (I wrote a huge Django 1.6 app shipped as RPM for RHEL 5 enterprise servers, and that was truly the definition of pain). I disliked the lack of functional constructs such as map, reduce, filter, and it felt a step back from the "fringe" languages I've been studying.

Then I discovered Elixir.

It's a mix between Haskell without purity and types and Clojure without parens, with a Ruby-style syntax and a battle-tested framework for concurrency and distributed computing.

It's like an immutable Python. With built-in virtualenv + pip tooling. And first-class macros. And pattern matching.

Pair that with a sane standard library (unit testing? logging? documentation? We've got you covered), a REPL, a LINQ-style lightweight ORM, and a very interesting web framework built around modern tech (websockets, JSON APIs, ES6).

And binary compatible with the most robust concurrency and supervision system, Erlang/OTP.

I know I talk like a fanboy, but, man, programming feels like joy again.
You still need to have and use python, that's the "external tool" I was referring to. Whereas with the preprocessor, you already have it and it's already being used.
Actually that History channel show already premiered. That's where the article gets the information. The show was decent for what its worth. It gives some pretty good evidence that those boys survived the escape and has the US Marshals on it and stuff. At least worth fast forwarding through
I've been using Erlang on and off since 2003, and used it heavily at the last place I worked to build a pretty cool product, so I'm a fan. That said, this article is a little bit hypey, although it's all correct as far as I can see.

* I'd still build most products in Rails, because there is so much ecosystem that lets you get something up and running quickly. The exception being if I absolutely knew that the system had to aim for really big numbers from the get-go (which is not the kind of market I'm particularly even interested in these days), or had to be super-reliable, or some kind of semi-embedded system like what I did in the last place I worked. I loved Joe Armstrong's answer here: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-October/08... - "My goal would be to get something up and running as soon as possible and get users - and not worry about implementation details."

* By the same token, if you know you need something with raw computing speed, Erlang isn't it either, as the article mentions. Although it'd certainly be possible for Erlang to farm out work to something faster, if the additional architectural complexity isn't a problem.
>The implied argument here is that if engineers make social justice their number-one priority, then little engineering gets done.

Right. And the argument I'm making is that they are NOT mutually exclusive. A lot of people seem to be taking the road of logic implying that taking conscious actions in increasing women's participation in tech will not get engineering done. I am contesting the logic behind that.

>Regardless of whether or not gender studies departments are responsible for reducing female STEM majors, women prefer working with people rather than things

As someone else pointed out in the thread, the women participation in tech has actually gone down. Now, you can argue women have actually gotten MORE people friendlier, but then I'd go back to my original point: what was in tech that drove them away?

I'll restate my general position once more: this is not a liberal wishy-washy 'ooh lets make all equal' argument. Diversity in tech is diversity in thought process, diversity in approaches to solutions, more resistant to specific types of failures. Just like you wouldn't want monoculture forests or crops, you don't want mono-culture engineers. I'd go one step further: even IF hiring women costs you quite reasonably in terms of 'efficiency' originally (measured by LOC's I guess? How do y'all do that?), your returns will be much higher in terms of longer term gain.

EDIT: I'll bite my words a bit. Above is necessary only if you want to (or want to pretend to) care about the long-term future of your company and environment for your employees. If your strategy is to pump and dump, forget women in tech (they just are not the coding type--right-- don't even get the starTrekWarsRingsLords references?)
Except it isn't. There's a clear distinction between Jews as an ethnic group and Judaism the religion. Hence frequent criticism of and among various Jewish movements without it being anti-Semitic.
Companies are using this content-mill fluff is to keep their blog alive.

See this example:

main website is

http://www.livinginchico.com/

Their blog:
http://blog.livinginchico.com

This is unnecessary requirement enforced by Google on all these small shops. By keeping their Blog active they will maintain their ranking in Google.

Now see this blog post
http://blog.livinginchico.com/blog/have-a-stress-free-thanks...

Now you will notice one thing, there are couple of outgoing links in the content:

"other dishes" going out to
http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/recipe-collections-fa...

"Check this one out here!" going out to
http://www.cozi.com/live-simply/complete-plan-thanksgiving-d...

These are called backlink. This way realsimple.com and cozi.com will keep their raking up in the Google ranking.

So these days when you search in Google you click around from one content-mill fluff to another content-mill fluff. Google has been hijacked by these content-mills.

I am frustrated by this crap.

So after these so called content writers are done with this useless fluff. Someone in Demand Media will insert realsimple and cozi links into the article and post it on main website. The main purpose of this is to bring Cozi and Realsimple raking up in Google.

Search for "Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Recipes" in Google and enjoy the results.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Make-Ahead+Thanksgiving+Reci...
It comes under the racial steering section
Yep. I've been creating my own local stylesheets under Stylish, including a default which pretty effectively nukes social elements and fixed headers, with some collateral damage I _may_ fix selectively on specific sites.

If you're naming your primary elements, or ascribing them values of "share" or "social" (wildcard search), they're likely to get nuked.
I think you're trying to make a point out of semantics and not reality here, but i'll take the bait...

here's the first definition google gave me ( http://storage8.static.itmages.com/i/15/1015/h_1444933364_24... )

"a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group."
You're never going to shuffle a deck of cards 52!+1 times. It's unique within the extent of this physical universe. If that's not the universe of discourse, you're going to need to specify what is.

Of course life is special. But it's not special just because it's rare. I don't know why it's special, but I do know that's not it. And I know that whether or not life is random, even if it would be repeated in a universe with infinite time, it would remain special.

If your definition of "special" relies upon subtle facts about the universe that may not ever be knowable... I'm going back to "that's really weird".

Similarly, I know that special and valuable aren't the same thing. But I don't have a good definition of special (you gave a bad one), so I was attempting to point at the sort of things that correlate with it.
People of many different ethnicities are Jewish.
Non-technical founder launches art collecting web app without engineers
> you'd still want to watch a video every now and then

My favorite example of this is YouTube repair tutorials. If I need to get something done, these can be irreplaceable. If I had a slow connection, but my car was up on the jack stand, I'd just have to wait.
Wal-Mart Takes Aim at Amazon with Free Grocery Pickup Service
Print mode (offered by websites) so often 1) launches the actual browser print dialog and 2) closes the fucking page when the dialog's closed that I've largely abandoned use of it.

I'll sooner copy/paste text into a vim buffer.
Awesome. Care to share the resources you used for this project?
Testing susceptibility to peer pressure in an individual mind is very a interesting idea.

Unfortunately, we can't accurately test it _yet_. A huge amount of data and tests -along with massive improvements in the understanding of the human brain- would be required to make a complete snapshot, without which testing isn't possible. We can't eve be sure this theoretical test is possible.

This alone wouldn't prove that their hands are clean, just that they wouldn't be as much to blame as someone who didn't succumb to social pressures and had more of a choice in the matter.
2500 kcal of spinach is... (searching web)... 10.8 kg. That's... that's just... wow. 85 liters of spinach. That's like eating more than half of a short (36") bale of hay.

~So yeah, not inherently obesity-preventing.~

The downside is that you will be consuming about 80 grams of oxalic acid. The LD-Lo is 600 mg/kg, meaning that unless you are 135 kg (300 lbs), that much spinach could possibly kill you. Aside from bursting your guts from the inside from the sheer volume of it, that is.

I guess the steaks just kill you more slowly.
The "otherwise excellent design of CSS"? That's something I've never heard anyone say...

The IE5.5 border-box box model issues happened because the CSS box model was so strange they assumed it was a mistake in the spec.
I have never, never seen anti-Christianity been referred to as "racism" by anyone, not even evangelicals and fundamentalists. It would make large swaths of criticism of Christianity (not to mention many extreme metal bands) post-facto racist.

"Othering" is far more general than racism, and relates to identity as a whole, not a specific racial identity.
Can anyone who's been though an IPO comment on what happened to the early employees with their 0.1% stake (of the original 10 million shares)? Everyone understands that they'll get diluted with new rounds, but when I read that Dorsey's giving away 40,000,000 shares I wonder what happened to the poor sap who started with 10,000. Do companies typically issue more options or RSUs to existing employees? How many?
I think that's a great idea. Make it more visible, and then you get normal people to care about it and put pressure on content owners, developers, etc. Like Google did with their "mobile-friendly" tag; I could yell at my managers all day about how we need to improve our site's mobile experience to no avail, but Google steps in and threatens lower rankings and suddenly it becomes top priority.

Perhaps the simplest solution is for Google to start penalizing heavy pages, but as far as I know, page weight isn't part of their mobile-friendly criteria.
I hope next they protest how much of a propaganda tool for the U.S. government this show is - a cake for drone striking someone? Really?
I think the "plentiful examples" exhibits very strong confirmation bias.

Yes, exponential growth trends result in overestimating short-term, and underestimating long-term, changes.

However very few phenomena show persistent long-term exponential growth characteristics. For all the obvious reasons. The growth rapidly becomes ridiculous and/or unsustainable.
downvoted. ha. keep it classy, HN.
I consider myself to be a generalist and pretty personable, the latter of which I don't think many folks remember to demonstrate during interviews, so I wholeheartedly agree with the points about chitchatting & showcasing your collaboration abilities. However, on the topic of working through a coding problem, I find myself struggling not so much with the asks per se, but rather, I focus too much on the fact that I'm thrown out of my usual dev/coding environments and working through a problem in a Word doc or some other non-text editor platform and it becomes a bit of a mental block. Compound that with the fact that my style of coding includes referring to existing code of my own or looking things up in mediums such as Google and StackOverflow to jump start me, and it becomes more of a crutch that does not aid me in these sorts of situations.
You're right...there is a substantial difference. Financial motives generally tend to be much weaker than religious or philosophical motives because financial stakes are much easier to trade, liquidate, or abandon. If the evidence ever becomes overwhelming that eggs are bad for you, proponents of egg consumption can easily become a proponents of kale consumption. Veganism, being a fundamentalist philosophical extension of more pragmatic vegetarian diets, does not share the same strength of motive; evidence to the contrary is a refutation of the validity of the entire belief system. It will always be much harder to move away from a belief system than it is to move away from money.
This guy built and sold his startup to Box in 7 months (now Head of Mobile)
Oh so that's the powder that guy on the street is adding when preparing my meal... Thanks. I didn't know about it before.
I like to make pretend-airplanes with paper. But I also write on it too.

And, while I only make simple things with paper, some other people are able to make fantastically complicated strcutures with it.
A more intelligent approach is to evaluate whether claims about racism hold water instead of issuing a blanket dismissal.

During the McCarthy era individuals got persecuted by the state for their beliefs. That's not at all comparable to people voicing an opinion that you may not agree with.