skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other things being equal, a high inequality society is going to be less happy than a society with moderate inequality.

This is actually empirically true, someone recently mentioned the book The Spirit Level in another HN discussion about equality, this book shows that on some metrics like social issues.
White middle-aged people in US dying quicker than in any other developed nation
Very informative read and eye opener on this topic: http://thorconpower.com/costing/should-cost-versus-did-cost
So implicitly saying "Riots in Istanbul are my favorite!" is better? This is just same problem with liking. (e.g. "My dog died." "Like!") Will changing the terminology and the icon boost engagement? I don't know. I've seen stupider stuff work before.
99% of the worlds grid storage is pumped hydro because nothing else works out. Pumped storage is 70% to 85% efficient, can come online within 15 seconds, and works at scale.

The reservoir can provide about 13 GW·h of stored gravitational potential energy (convertible to electricity at about 80% efficiency), or about 2% of China's daily electricity consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhuangping_Pumped_Storage_P...

Construction cost: $900 million USD maintenance costs are also minimal.

PS: ~14 GWh for 1 billion ~= 14 MWh for 1 million = ~14 kwh for 1000$. http://www.teslamotors.com/powerwall = 7 kWh for 3k or 2.3kwh per 1,000$ and much shorter lifetime.
While driving south on I-65 through Indiana from Chicago, there is a huge wind farm just north of Lafayette. Each one of the elevated turbines, as a potential hazard to air traffic, has a blinking red light on the top.

At night, you can look out across the flat terrain and see dozens of red lights, blinking in unison. Every time, I think to myself, "This place wouldn't be half bad for riding out the zombie apocalypse."

Though now that you mention aliens, the first strikes of an alien invasion are far more likely to hit the more centralized generator plants, so areas served by wind farms might just retain grid power long enough to organize some form of resistance. Or at least until the second-wave bombers arrive.

When I stand next to one, I just think "free electricity" and sometimes also "free bird stew", but usually "Why don't these things get covered in graffiti?"
so everyone just built wheels in a little close source circle just like traditional company.
the real value of open source software project is the uers and community who used the software。the decision of xmin will lost many uers and destroy the community,i don't think it a good decision.
try this through Google, works for me: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> You see, the biggest advantage of open-source, its raison d'être if you will, is the possibility to fork

It might be the raison d'être of open source, but the goal of free software is preserving users' freedom, not ensuring usefulness of software in some commercial proprietary context. That seems to be at the root of your disagreement with FSF. You simply care about different things and therefore prioritize differently; everything else is secondary. FSF does not aim for popularity, convenience, or playing well with one's commercial interests as its primary goal.
> This completely ignores the fact that probably the best way to learn is to be surrounded by people more intelligent than yourself.

It might feel great interacting with your intellectual peers, but being among your actual peers will train in you in the kind of interactions which will form the majority of your life.
Irish guy here (although I live in California now). Demographics, mass abandonment of the Catholic church in recent years (not least due to sex scandals, and the bruising effects of the global financial crisis, which has led to a more pragmatic assessment of priorities.

I'm very happy about it too. While I'm not in any rush to head home to the inclement Irish weather it feels like a great validation to see this tide of social liberalization. I was born in 1970 and grew up in a country where divorce was illegal, corporal punishment in schools was legal (and liberally dispensed), and drug use was presented as a moral/class failing. Growing up in a violent household in a country where family life was reified, I fled to the UK as soon as I was old enough to leave home and have rarely been back since. Maybe I should start planning a holiday.
At least in UK the costs got offset to clear up. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21298117
High voltage transmission lines are actually pretty efficient. We routinely distribute power over hundreds of kilometers. There are a couple that are over 2,000 km long, and numerous examples over 1,000 km.

http://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-l...
> To me, the 5 is near the optimal smartphone size.

This would appear to be reasonably dependent on the size of the person. The idea that a smaller person and an NBA player would like the same size is a bit silly, no?

Hopefully there will be a future update at the smaller size.
A very random and uninformed guess -

A lot of tech companies have opened up offices in Ireland (ostensibly due to tax laws) and have started to attract young, progressive talent into the country. This investment has helped the economy and raised the standard of living in Ireland, so less people are concerned with enforcing conservative/religion-based regulation.

This article has some better stats/anecdotes:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/12/08/368770530/u...
As far as I know, I've not read it anywhere :).

Google thinks its original to me so I've not accidentally stolen it unknowingly.
Yeah, there are a lot of alternate nuclear reactor designs that look great on paper but have never had the full scale engineering done to see if it is practical. And they look cheap because you don't even know half of the stuff you have to do that makes it expensive.

It's like rocket design where you go "just put a bunch of explosives in a tube and go into space, this shouldn't be too expensive or difficult..."
I think CDN is over-kill/hype. If you do everything right, all you get is better latency.

If your dynamic site loads slower then a static site, you are probably doing needless database round-trips, redirects, synchronized writes, or html rendering.
> That's a very professional process.

There's nothing professional about choosing the wrong platform for your application and then jumping into a new proprietary language in the hope of fixing things with a rewrite.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499434
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Can't believe I missed that! Thanks :-)
Battery cost are projected to drop significantly over the next 5 - 10 years.
Not to take away from either positive story - both are really fantastic - but I think they're both isolated events, with slightly different causes, and sadly don't really represent a paradigm shift.

The national recognition of gay marriage was a worldwide story largely because it was a popular vote. Other - perhaps more generally progressive - countries had already legislated for it without needing that public vote. We only needed it because our actual constitution is so outdated and regressive to begin with.

The drug decriminalisation is more surprising, and rather than being something representative of the current government (who are otherwise extremely conservative), it seems more to be the work of a single relatively maverick government minister. However, while he seems genuine in his attempt, there's a general election in the new year so it's likely a pre-election promise and not something that there's intent to deliver on in this term.
If anyone doesn't know enough to put comments like this in context,

Hamachi was a free VPN service most commonly used by gamers. LogMeIn bought Hamachi, and turned it into a paid service, earning the eternal hate of the gaming community.

None of these aspersions are worth considering if you're thinking about enterprise software.
A million LOC is a lot of work to create. Any chance you were exaggerating?
We are big fans of http://thenewstack.io and heartily recommend it. While we will talk about technical and market trends and amplify some of the things the new stack is covering, memleak.io will at its core focus on advice and learnings from entrepreneurs on the tactics of building developer-facing businesses. Hope you enjoy it.
Baby steps to taking on Okta et al. They're going up market with this launch — doesn't seem wise to jump too far at once.
> This completely ignores the fact that probably the best way to learn is to be surrounded by people more intelligent than yourself.

Isn't the best way to teach other people? You soon find out what you don't know when you teach other people and they ask you questions.
Doing some rough math and my limited understanding of linux network internals, it's about 40KB per connection in this benchmark. I know that cowboy is going to require ~4KB or so per connection. Consulting a local ubuntu install, the default minimum buffer sizes in TCP will be at least 4KB each (2* for read and write), but by default 16KB each, and by default the max goes to 1.5MB or so each. This is required for TCP retransmits and such. If you have clients on shoddy connections or see packet loss, your memory could skyrocket on you. I remember reading of a case where someone had a service die despite memory overhead of 33% when the TCP packet loss rate went up (still under 1%), but it caused their buffer sizes to grow large enough to run out of memory.

So that's 8KB (will be higher with more usage) for TCP buffers in the kernel, 4KB or so for cowboy, and 28KB or so left for various other bits of the system when amortized per connection.
Glad you enjoyed it.

1) The PageSpeed service takes some time to run, so it always returned a new image in my tests.

2) I haven't - but I wasn't stress testing it. It happily coped with a few dozen per hour.
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iOS and Android together or go with Android now?
We're a fairly small (4 people), but productive startup. We're launching our mobile apps soon. The Android app is only about a week from ready, but the iOS version will take longer. The app is valuable to the individual without any network value.

In terms of marketing and adoption (we get 40-60 each month on web app) and marketing strategy, do you think it is better to launch/announce Android the moment it is ready and then iOS or wait until they can roll out together?

The web app can be found at http://www.anycloud.co
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There are services such as snipcart and foxycart that you can trigger via html and javascript. Like most non-locally hosted ecommerce solutions they send you to a subdomain for the final checkout. I have tested both on a static site and both work very well. Snipcart is easier to implement but lacks customization. If you are looking for heavy customization (like custom products beyond just sizes, colors and options) without having to build out your own system, check out foxycart.
You might be surprised. Population of US: 300m,
South Africa 50m, Canada 35m (but not all of those are English-speaking), Australia 20, New Zealand <5, Ireland <5, UK: 65m. You can cut this multiple ways.

So, the UK is the second largest English-speaking country by population. Also, you could say that around 1 in 7 of the English speaking world is from the UK (and that's a lot).

And that's before we consider the ridiculous amount of power and wealth the British Empire had, and just plain history. It's not entirely surprising to see the UK cropping up almost everywhere.
> she barely has time to get through the mandated material

My mother being a public school teacher for many decades, you'll get no disagreement from me that teachers are over extended and under resourced.

> There is no time for "parenting" tasks, beyond basic safety and welfare.

Most of parenting is safety, welfare, and being a positive example.

> And even if she did, the child's family's values are often not in alignment with my wife's. More than once, simple discipline tools have been challenged by parent to effectively remove any consequences for ill-behavior by the student.

I'm not sure consensus is a requirement for parenting. Even within marriages, consensus isn't guaranteed.

> So while you may view the role of school as an extension of parenting, many parents regularly stick their noses into the school environment to dictate their own norms, and you cannot have one teacher "parenting" 30 different ways.

I don't really see it as a view. Rather an observed fact. Whether they are equipped to do it well or poorly with or without conflict are details about the mode and quality with which they help raise a child rather. They rear our children by virtue of being a primary authority figure and adult mentor for most of their lives previous to adulthood.

"Parenting" is a bit of a nebulous term. Many don't think most parents do a good job of parenting. But child rearing is unambiguous. The school system undoubtedly rears our children.
OS/2 Blue Lion due out, 28 year old OS gets a new version
Ah, thanks. I've changed the title.
UPS and FedEx. They don't do individual letters, of course, but they compete with the US Mail on packages, and compete by offering better service, not on price.
My first snarky response was: "Do they also track beef prices?"

But yes, they do (sort of):
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Beef-prices

But then I wondered if those pages were auto-generated, so I tried other things:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Taco-prices

Ok, how about non-food:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Obama-prices

Yeah, it's kind of free form:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Why-Am-I-A-Pickle

The first time you specify something unique, it takes a little bit to load, but then it's caching it.
I wonder, how many years iPhone 6S will be able to stay relevant. For example iPhone 4S started lagging on iOS 7. While it's certainly usable on iOS 9, it feels as an old and underpowered device.

The iPhone 4s used the A5, an 800 mhz 32-bit processor with 512MB of RAM.

From the review, the iPhone 6s is a 64-bit processor with access to 2GB of RAM. And with the advancements announced at WWDC like App Thinning and LLVM and Swift optimizations, we may be close to the end of seeing any noticeable slowdown in the foreseeable future of these devices.
Just what I was looking for... Devs send your project mgrs to this site, make 'em look good. http://mobile1st.com
Great perspective! From my own experience, having a strong grasp of the overall architecture and implications thereof is very important, however, thinking that you can do better than the Engineering team or that you know how that system should be designed is a liability. Collaboration is the name of the game.
Why write them if tools can do it automatically for us?
Cooking use very much energy compared to led lamps or even tvs.
I recently graduated from the Wharton / SEAS undergraduate dual-degree program. I can't currently think of any PMs that didn't have a technical background. I completely agree that being able to grok technical concepts is necessary, and that being a good software developer isn't. However, it is pretty difficult for someone to grok technical concepts in a way that can add value to software engineers without some soft of software engineering or computer science background. I haven't been able to think of a better way to pick up the technical context than to actually program. The banking analogy is the stereotype of the "clueless" MBA associate who didn't put in the two years as an analyst, can't build models, and therefore doesn't add much value to his or her analysts.

In other words, I submit that it is significantly easier to fully understand the architecture, as sologoub is referring to, with a technical background.

It seems like your CS minor and Rails experience gave you the necessary background, which supplements the soft skills that PMs also need.

A lot of my friends and peers who were "interested in technology" but did not understand software engineering took jobs as PMMs, venture capital analysts, or investment banking analysts on a TMT desk. I think this makes sense; I can't see them being very good in a PM role.

It wouldn't surprise me if this were somewhat different for MBAs, though.
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What did these frontend engineers dislike about the idea?
I preferred the top button, and have no trouble reaching it.

Now, when I go to hit it, I almost always push the volume button at the other side as well when squeezing. I'm getting used to it, but this is it's third location! My first ipod touch had it on the top left.
I'll repost what I commented on the LastPass sale. LMI basically just skirts by, doing just enough not to drive their users away -

"A lot of folks only have experience with Logmein from the horrible way they handled transitioning users from the free to paid service.

My company has used Logmein Central for remote access to hundreds of PCs for years. The core software is great, reliable, and has been ever since we started using it.

The problem is that Logmein the company knows they're on top of the heap when it comes to remote management. They have no reason to innovate or improve where they can.

They added 2FA but otherwise we haven't seen a single new feature that we've taken advantage of in a very long time. Any features they do add hint at them wanting to be a RMM service but you'd have to be an idiot to trust them with more responsibility of your networks. Also a lot of those features require Logmein Pro which adds an insane amount of cost depending on how many systems you're managing.

Meanwhile there are bugs that have been around literally since we started using the software. For instance copy/paste while in a session will randomly break. The Logmein client software is very buggy on OSX, crashes often, search will randomly break.
Their support is basically non-existent, although I haven't tried in a while if you opened a ticket it would take days if not longer for a response and they'd usually just direct you to some unrelated KB or tell you post on the forums.

We use Lastpass as well so this should be interesting. I've yet to see a merger that actually improved things from our end as a MSP. Cisco bought Meraki, Dell bought SonicWALL, at this point I assume any time we see a merger that its time to find a new vendor."
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Guys, the trick is to kill the person that falsely accused you of rape, not yourself.
I thought they had added hearts along with stars that would have made sense! Stars for bookmarking and hearts for liking/showing appreciation. Stars doesn't send a notification to the poster but a heart does.
I have looked at Pelican but isn't that more for a blog (chronological updates vs. static non-changing content)
The current regulation has been pretty effective at what it was intended to do: stop the production of nuclear power plants without the politically unpopular attempt to outright ban them.

People saw Chernobyl and said "none of that in my backyard" and successfully managed to write rules so onerous that they're effectively a ban.

Unfortunately, any plans they had for a solar power revolution in the 70s died when the technology turned out to be outrageously expensive and impractical, and we've been stuck burning coal waiting for the technology to catch up. 40 years of filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses because of one spectacular failure halfway around the world and one scare in our own country.

Another irony is the fact that all of our current reactors are old designs and less safe than new ones would be if we were allowed to build them.

Of course all of the political pressure has also killed our waste management plan as well, so everybody has to make due with less safe ad-hoc setups on every site.
For your convenience: http://hubris.the-good-guys.net/monbiot.html
I don't know if you can give the credit to tech companies, but Ireland is keeping more of it young people in the country after a decade of emmigration and brain drain. Their more progressive attitudes probably have something to do with it.
Firefox. Chrome has not released support for rest params yet (it's in beta).
> I'd advocate for an experimental approach with smaller populations with different possible solutions, ratcheting them up as they are shown to be successful and sustainable.

That sounds like exactly the kind of situation where different states try different things, then the Federal government does something after it sees which ones worked. This approach has been something of a pattern for trying new things in the US.
Out of curiosity--have they been successful with this strategy?

I'm guessing there's some short term revenue gains, and maybe some initial fallout. But the question still stands of whether this works long term. A lot of companies underprice their offering, so this could very well work and an acquisition seems like an ideal time to raise prices while promising more down the line.
Unless you're taking video very often, there's no difference. I take a lot of photos, and I found the smaller form factor of the 6S outweighed any small improvements on the larger handset.
Ethanol has its own source of problems in many of these countries. Source: Share office with people selling biomass stoves.
The author has clearly never worked on a non-trivial mobile project. Today, more so than ever, the two mobile platforms differ so drastically in APIs, user experience and design that anyone seriously considering writing mobile apps will have to do so using two different code bases if they want to have a remotely usable app.

Portable frameworks might have a place where you target extremely simple like forms based stuff. But even then I would personally never deliver something like that to customers. I guess we all have different standards when it comes to quality.

"A revamp of the language is already in the works". Of Javascript? Haha, that is hilarious. Progress on ECMAScript has been a such boondogle in regards to politics, glacial adoption rate of new features and other general fuck ups that we will unlikely see something even close to a modern language in our lifetimes. But, you know Linux on the desktop will take over the world anytime now, won't it?
There's a difference between regulated nuclear and over-regulated nuclear. If you take a look at the regulations around nuclear startup/operation you'll see some of the policies are insane.

Compared to fossil fuels, which has been successfully lobbied to be under-regulated, you'll stark differences. If fossil had to even approach the same safety/environmental rigour of nuclear, fossil fuel market share would drop quickly.
I use leech block. I can't get the timer to work for multiple sets of websites.
Plus Uranium is dug up across the ditch and comes in a Wallabies jersey - how very unpatriotic.
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The author has clearly never worked on a non-trivial mobile project. Today, more so than ever, the two mobile platforms differ so drastically in APIs, user experience and design that anyone seriously considering writing mobile apps will have to do so using two different code bases if they want to have a remotely usable app.

Portable frameworks might have a place where you target extremely simple like forms based stuff. But even then I would personally never deliver something like that to customers. I guess we all have different standards when it comes to quality.

"A revamp of the language is already in the works". Of Javascript? Haha, that is hilarious. Progress on ECMAScript has been such a boondoggle in regards to politics, glacial adoption rate of new features and other general fuck ups that we will unlikely see something even close to a modern language in our lifetimes. But, you know Linux on the desktop will take over the world anytime now, won't it?