skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i will admit i'm not expert on this, but i often see Google pretty much more than ok with another browser as implementing new technolgies. It makes things standardized if another broswer is implements newer technologies and not just one implementation from major browser vendor.
JS is a language like just about any other.. and, like VB the ubiquity of new developers starting out with it yeilds some pretty bad code. I've seen bad code in a great many languages.. and some of the worst JS code I've seen has tended come from language snobs who favor other languages, and bring in patterns that just aren't appropriate for the environment.
New startup aims to transfer people's consciousness into artificial bodies
if your earn >125k€/y your are in the top 1% in Germany
Ask HN: Losing interest
I learned how to code in University and did pretty well at it after an initial struggle. I studied EE but felt like being a programmer matched my interests better so I got a job in that.

I've been working a few years at the same place. I write Python REST APIs at the moment. The other person on my team does UI work, which I started out doing and still do sometimes. I've built the whole back end system from scratch so I feel like I have a good understanding of how everything works and the ability to work on any level of the stack, though I know the most about the back end.

I have been feeling disinterested in what I'm working on. My team is only 2 people and we don't work together on much of anything. I find this other person difficult to talk to. A couple of friends from Uni work there but all 3 of us are different projects.

My company seems to have issues hiring people and the people there are mostly B or C level. It seems constantly disorganized and like there isn't any vision or clear direction of where my team is going. I'd like it if I were on a larger team and was able to get feedback on my work so I can get better.

On the positive side, they pay pretty well, have no dress code, and allow flexible hours. I'm enjoying making money and building a life outside of work. However, I think I would enjoy my life more if the 8+ hours I spend every M-F felt more meaningful. I can think of other projects that have been mentioned that I would like to take on, but it seems there's always something in upper management that keeps them from getting going.

I don't know if I'm an A-level programmer that could get a job somewhere else. I'm probably a B or B+, but I think I might rather be working at a company with A and B level people so I can learn more. As it is, I feel like my interest is going downhill and that might start to show in my work. On top of that I'm not sure if it's a good idea to stay at the same place for too long.

Any advice on how to get back into it mentally or how to find new work? Is this how it is everywhere?
Political horse race stories are off topic here.
Fair enough. MoarVM is just another interpreter targeted, but it just happens to have been designed with NQP and Perl 6 in mind, so it maps extremely well.
Most automation scripts these days tend to center around PowerShell. That said, JS is an option for integrated applications in Windows 8+, not to mention electron, nwjs, firefox/xulrunner, and the like.
That totally makes sense bshimmin, Sicilian is considered a language per-se for example, so it's not very understandable by people talking just Italian and not even a southern Italian dialect at least. But all the schools use Italian language so unless you talk with an 80 years old in Sicily that is not able to talk Italian at all (rare but possible), you can understand easily what people tell you. However within families or colloquially it is possible that most people in small towns use dialects.
Some thoughts on faraday bags and operational security
Care to provide some actual data to back that up?
Maybe you want to post this as a show HN instead. Sounds nice.
Getting Started with RethinkDB and Phoenix
The last sentence of the first paragraph really struck me

>In general, no single section has both write and execute permissions as this could compromise the security of the system.
My guess it because HN can feel a bit stifling to those that enjoy actual discourse.
Slightly off-topic but I find the BWAPI more interesting than the AI aspects. Does anyone have any further reading regarding this kind of thing?
Appears to be household:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...

(That data is from 2012 though, so somewhat dated.)
The math is rather easy, it is however questionable what you define as one of the largest nuclear power plants. Most power plants have multiple units, if you take the power per unit you more or less end up with 20 years.

Capacity of large nuclear power plant unit: ~1 GWe [1]
Total world electricity consumption is 20,900 TWh/year [2], of which 40% is generated by coal power plants.
A total power of ~1000 GWe, so you'll need 1000 nuclear power plants to replace all coal-fired plants by nuclear power plants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption
Post-hoc edit: "now" should have been "not" in the first sentence.
You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX
You can run Php 7 and Nginx, that would be faster and stable.
When running nginx should use the nginx proxy caching features together with Wordpress that is very very fast!

Why not benchmark a raspberry pi cluster ?
For something like algo quants the distinction is a bit harder since there is a lot of programming involved for algos. I think a good question to ask is about R, Matlab and Python. They aren't really used in IT but they are used more by quants so would be a pretty good indicator.
Ah, thanks! I’m new to HN. :)
Using Gimp since the 90's, sure has changed for the better. Lately trying 2.9 on Linux, most recent versions seemed to have ironed out bugs pretty well and I can get work done with it.

Under Windows, gimp 2.8 has been marginal at best, runs quite slowly, sometimes crashing or freezing, kind of frustrating to use. I downloaded the 2.9 development binary this morning. While still slow, seems a bit faster than 2.8, and didn't crash. More testing will show if this holds up.

I know about people disfavoring workflow of gimp vs. photoshop, but given cost of latter, gimp remains a potentially worthy alternative. It depends on improving the efficiency of operations at least moderately, if so, it looks like the new version of gimp can succeed, even on Windows.
Isn't it a perfect circle ?
50 Ways to Start Fresh
Feels a bit like the url hash bangs google foisted on us back in the day. three years from now, new devs will be asking "Why does is this cookie named '$Secure-...' kinda like they were asking "Why do our urls have '#!' in them?"

"Well you see, google had this idea that was gonna help everyone..."

Snark aside (gotta get it out of the way before commenting for real), I think this is a step in the right direction, and securing cookies, even though they still aren't "secure", is a big deal for everyone who uses a browser. I'm excited that they are willing to push forward something that's a little rough around the edges to start to get data and verify results.
I agree, wrt youtube's current policies. I'm just stating that given the pricing model Udemy has in place, that a manual review process on every video would not be unreasonable, as compared to say youtube.
Have you seen their new San Francisco headquarters, on the waterfront at the Bay Bridge?[1] Wow. What a location. Who gets the corner office?

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7895755,-122.3886589,3a,75y,...
article seems to suggest we are at the mercy of governments and corporations to do the right thing instead of individuals to protect themselves

in fact, not a single action by an individual is suggested -- only hinting of policy changes

policy is just not enough
Even if we stop burning fossil fuels, another problem remains, which is thermodynamics - the waste heat from our energy use has to go somewhere, and right now the only place it can go is into the earth, or into space - and we're not doing much of either, other than inadvertently. If we keep up current rates of energy growth, we'll cook ourselves before too long regardless of what source the power comes from.

Not remotely true. The amount of solar energy that falls on the Earth and is not immediately reflected is 120PW (petaWatts), or 120,000TW. The total amount of energy being used by humans is about 15TW. So the heat we're generating changes the Earth's energy balance by a little more than .01%. (Numbers from Morton's book.) Essentially all of that 120PW is also being radiated away as infrared from the night side of the Earth.
He's describing coal.
We have a lot to learn from the animal kingdom.
I'm not sure I agree. While its possible the overheating was due to a failed fan or something physical, but its also very possible that the software running on this hardware caused it to overheat.
> No one said toxic. They said jerk.

Being a jerk is toxic. Being an asshole is toxic. If they're not toxic, why are you calling them these things?

> I quite like working with a bunch of opinionated assholes that are willing to argue to the bottom of something, and have no personal investment in me liking them.

I like working with opinionated people that are willing to argue to the bottom of something. So much so that I ended up following the most argumentative person from my previous job to my current one.

None of that required them to be an asshole. We have a boardgames night every couple of weeks now.

> The great thing about jerks is that they don't take it personally.

Jerks tend to make it personal. That's one of the main reasons they tend to be jerks!

> Not friends, not enemies, just coworkers doing your job

I'm entirely fine with professional relationships. Professional doesn't imply jerk.

> willing to step on each others toes to get things done the right way.

Sure. But a professional can do this without finding their cleats and stomping as hard as they can.

> I've worked at places where everyone is nice. It's hell. "Nice" people are bad: morally, ethically, and for the bottom line.

Your inconsistent air quotes betray the problem here, I think.

People who are bad morally and ethically are not nice people. They are jerks. They are assholes. That some of them are grinfucking everyone to appear nice doesn't make them nice.

And, conversely, the fact that some people aren't grinfucking you doesn't make them jerks. That they're willing to debate something honestly with you doesn't make them an asshole. That they're trying to do things right - and save your team from future stress, crunch, or whatever other consequences would come from doing things wrong - sounds like they're trying to do everyone a favor. If anything, they sound nice.

-------

EDIT: Ultimately, I wonder how much of this thread is you saying...

Rock star "jerks"

And me hearing...

"Rock star" jerks
That appears to account for 210k of the 320k[0].
I wonder how it compares with similarly sized enterprises (~1000 employees).

[0] I'm interpreting "software development" as "salaries".
Thanks andreyf.

I'm not familiar with most of those terms, but I'm guessing it's a big deal if it's got a decent number of upvotes. Do these findings have any benefits that a layperson might be able to understand (you can assume some programming knowledge if that's relevant)?
200m^2 at 500w/m2 * 8 hours a day x 20% efficency = 160kwh. Which you could get in the UK using mid range solar cells right now. 50% would get you 400kwh.

Further you can mix solar and wind farms as the wind farm does not take up much space.

Also, he uses mixed units when not realistic. A Tesila roadster for example gets 390 km from a 52kwh battery pack. Doing a direct petroleum has X energy so you need that much electricity is dum as cars have terrable efficency.

But, most importantly the UK already imports a lot of food and energy, making this a really silly comparison. Solar cells in Africa can more cheaply provide energy so that's a better place to put them.
I'm "rich" by my third world country standards. I used to make individual (humble) donations when I was younger and lived in the same standard as the majority of the population. Nowadays I don't. The more I earn the more the government takes (now almost 50%), so it feels to me I'm already doing a forcibly donation, as there are countless wealth distribution programs (which didn't exist when they would be of use to me, and I did fine without them). I have zero intentions of making any kind of donation, only if it works as a tax reliever. I do however make regular donations to free software organizations and other organizations that produce something that I use or like.
Don't anyone tell Ben Carson about this...
North Koreans Interiors
Survive and Thrive
> Mozilla's revenue in 2014 was $323 million

In other words, if every Firefox user paid $1/year, donations would more than surpass the amount that Mozilla makes from Yahoo.

I don't think every user is going to pay $1, no, but just to put that into perspective, it's not a prohibitive sum of money.

EDIT $1, not $5: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/ataglance/
You said "Love the sinner, hate the sin" was not considered an acceptable viewpoint for him to hold.

No, that's not what I said. Or even close to what I said.

I'd continue with you further on this, but it seems there's been a lot of gratuitous word-bending and insinuation in what you've been saying of late. That's not my style of communicating, and I don't see what I can learn from it -- but if you want to continue to feel the way you feel about the issue, that's fine with me.
> (shiver)

Nice "syntactical" touch :)

Let me try a variation:

(shiver 'me 'timbers)
No, it has two foci—that's the point of the table. One focus is a hole, so a ball hit from the other focus will always bounce towards the hole. That's the diagram at the top of the page.
One thing people outside the US may not realize about studies like this is that a very large percentage of socioeconomic breakdowns in the US are proxies for the traditional north-south civil war divide. Compare a map of income inequality by state and overlay the 1860 election and you'll be looking at extremely similar maps.

So, to a large degree, this study is merely saying that upper income people in the US South are less generous than upper income people elsewhere in the country, something that isn't a surprise to anybody to anybody who even remotely follows US political trends.

http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2007/07/17/united-state... of income inequality by state
this is the same mozilla that bundles the closed source "Pocket" tool into firefox, right?

to defend the free web, boycott mozilla
Yes, that French design that has such a horrible safety record in France. Oh wait, it has an excellent record and France is still exporting power from those designs. And I don't think everyone knows that safety is not their primary concern. What other country shoots CEO's in the head when they put citizens at risk with poisoned products or environmental disasters?
Is that actually enforced in modern linux kernels? I thought it would be possible to call

mmap(..., PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, ...)
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Humanity is unable to comprehend the long term (> 4Q of earnings in this context). Gene editing is cool, but we are 100% certain to experience some world-changing screw ups from this.
Interesting, thanks. What confused me is that we've all seen pie charts like the one at http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-Electricity-Gene... that show the relative "market share" of various energy sources with nuclear playing a significant but not dominant role. In this case it's 11% nuclear, 39% coal. It's easy but incorrect to assume that the number of plants of each type is proportional.

Wikipedia says there are about 50,000 coal plants online, as ScottBurson notes, but I know there aren't 50000*11/39 = 14000 nuclear plants in the world. Googling "number of nuclear power plants" returns an answer of 438 "reactors." Obviously the number of plants is somewhat smaller, and we don't know if the statistic includes military reactors on subs and carriers. Call it 400.

So what I've missed appears to be the fact that a typical nuclear plant must generate 14000/400 = 35x as much power as a typical coal plant. The largest plants of both types are in the gigawatt class, so most of those 50000 coal plants must be significantly smaller.

So, at some point, it must have been decided that most nuclear plants needed to be as powerful as the largest coal plants. Absent a change in policy, that clearly denies the nuclear industry the benefits of economies of scale... unless those economies are realized on a per-plant basis. (E.g., if it doesn't cost much more to build a 1 GW nuke plant than a 100 MW one, you might as well build the former.)
I wouldn't call countries with strong property laws socialists because of their welfare programs. After wall socialists want to abolish property (as the comment I replied to mentions). Unless you're talking about some Keynesian welfare state "socialist". As to your comment on the dictatorships... https://i.imgur.com/41fsQ9z.jpg
I agree we all most stick together and support Mozilla, even if it is as something as simple as using it as our default browser. I've been a Mozilla (Netscape, etc) user since 1998 or whenever the first version came out, and I've always been a fan of what they stand for. Yes they've made a few mistakes, but nothing that can't be easily forgivable.
> including proprietary bloatware like that

No matter how many times it's disproven, this meme just never ends, does it?

The Pocket client code is free and open source, just like Firefox itself[0]. If the user uses the Pocket feature, that code makes HTTP requests to another server, which runs a mixture of FOSS and proprietary code. If the user does not use the Pocket feature, it does not.

Remember that we are talking about a web browser, the primary function of which is to do exactly that: make HTTP requests to another server that may be running proprietary code[1].

[0] Pocket's client is arguably more free than Firefox is, if we look at the fact that Iceweasel is distributed with the Pocket logo included whereas Debian cannot include the Firefox logo for its patched builds.

[1] Unless you only use your browser for accessing http://fsf.org, but at that point you're probably using Lynx or Seamonkey anyway.
I don't want to discuss politics on HN, only technology. Unfortunately the topic seems all too popular. It's noise to me as my comments are for you.
Batteries aren't the only solution here. Any kind of efficient energy storage will work. For example LightSail Energy has been working on compressed air storage for several years now.
The Coin universal card is ready for 2012
SABnzbd is so slow I don't know why anyone would want to use it
not surprisingly, plugins seem to have been a big issue.
Another instance is ex-Alias|Wavefront Maya. The software had a very similar design. A tiny core for the intensive tasks, and most user facing interaction programmed through the Mel (Maya Embedded) language. The fun part is when you realize the whole maya software is a big set of mel scripts. The program can be run headless, it becomes a mel repl for a geometry DAG and time varying values.

ps: Saying this circa ~2000-2008. Since then they rebuilt the UI it may not be the case
It is.

As a comparison, the EFF received only $13 million in annual donations according to their last annual report: https://www.eff.org/document/fiscal-year-2013-14-audited-fin...
The crux of this argument and the propaganda the current administration lawyers have been shilling centers around whether these searches (ie, mass collection of US citizen data) are unreasonable. I reject your argument that searches are reasonable because the internet infrastructure is currently fundamentally flawed; as already concluded in Katz v. United States, an unlawful search occurs when a "reasonable expectation of privacy" is violated. Given your own argument, any and all attempts by end users to obtain privacy, via https or otherwise, constitute an individual reasonably expecting privacy and therefore any information gathered is done so illegally.
There's still "eternal-september.org", which offers the non-binary USENET groups. The "comp.lang" hierarchy is still widely used, and the main discussions of changes to the C and C++ standard are still on USENET.

There is almost no spam.
Yup, I'm aware of that now, but you can't blame me for thinking that it did a few months back.
People seem to be missing my point. To be clear, i'm trying to suggest that there is a high chance that the hardware fault that was triggered by overheating, was potentially caused by a software fault.
Virtual DOM is not a feature
Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?'
Some people, including myself, find it much easier to speak when the grammar is more advanced than the speaking - or at least conversations. Reading aloud for the sake of learning how to say words, was the sole exception. I'm in my second year of language classes now. Once I got a good sense of grammar - more than just basic - the ease of speaking jumped.

In contrast, my brother really does well with audio learning - such as the pimsleur method. Immersive environment methods do well for him. He also benefits more from things like classroom lectures than I.

My sister is somewhere in between, but since she does well with inter-personal communication, she would pick up on sayings and slang and dialects a bit faster.

These sorts of differences, along with differences in learning difficulty, are noticable in class.
They all said they didn't resign because of Eich. Sure, they could have been lying. But I'd rather not get into divining intentions and back room discussions none of us were privy to.

I'm all for freedom of speech and quite opposed to the recent college campus behavior of throwing huge fits over anything remotely politically incorrect. Anyone is free to think whatever they want about my marriage and that of others, but the law should always treat people equally. When Eich donated money (and thus most certainly voted) to literally strip existing equal rights away from a minority, it ceased to be about just speech and opinion, and instead became something quite vindictive and nasty.

I'm not going to get into whether it was right to pressure a company over a certain number of employees and/or when they reach a certain position in the company; I'm just going to say that I don't care for Eich's donation to Prop 8 (nor for his design of Javascript, but that's a separate discussion.)
Great to learn about this.

see also their Baltimore project (mentioned in passing): https://www.detroitwaterproject.org/baltimore
Yeah you're probably right.

Often when you review critical failures you find multiple things went wrong at once to cause the catastrophic failure. I would place a good bet that there was a failed fan, poorly secured heatsink or maybe just a clogged air filter that meant the hardware was unable to handle the additional heat being produced.
Disrupting Mr. Disrupter
>The lack of serious competition in the browser market is quite unsettling.

A browser is just the most complicated piece of software that there is.
The most interesting part about the Glassdoor reviews is the trend over time.[1]

Overall Ratings Trend

4.0 Dec 2013
3.7 Jun 2014
2.9 Dec 2014
3.3 Jun 2015
3.2 Overall

Ratings

2.7 Senior Management
3.2 Career Opportunities
3.5 Culture & Values
3.9 Comp & Benefits
3.9 Work/Life Balance

43% Positive Business Outlook
55% Recommend to a friend
62% CEO Approval

The other part of the story is reflected in the number of jobs open: 39 (not counting the 16 internships).[2]

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Mozilla-Reviews-E19129.htm...

[2] https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/
Using static typing with Gulp (Angular 2 example)
Not really, callback hell is as avoidable as anything else.