skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short answer is that v8 has several different ways of storing objects and resolving property lookups, and deleting a property causes that object to be handled in the slowest mode (i.e. "dictionary mode", with property data stored in a hash table).

If you want gory details I recommend Vyacheslav Egorov's blog (mrale.ph). Here's an old slide of his that lists all the ways you can force an object into dictionary mode (at least ca. 2011):

http://s3.mrale.ph/nodecamp.eu/#54
Black Mirror, episode Fifteen Million Merits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
Thanks for the info. I'll be paying attention to see if any of the specific details in this case come out. If it's anything like the stuff you mentioned then yeah I get it.
That one is right along the lines of 'the beatings will continue until morale improves'.
Wouldn't enforcing such a ruling require Cox to monitor all traffic? It would be like requiring the USPS to open all packages and read all letters.
everyone smiling there is a frontend dev
You can request it. It doesn't mean the request will be accepted. Unless you are big, can demonstrate an external deadline, or have a bug with nasty consequences (it seems "app crash at launch" is not enough, I got a request denied for that), your request will probably be denied.
SCADA
PersistIQ is hiring remote Ruby engineers
Ha, props or down votes for honesty? In all seriousness, I think my statement is only surprising for people not in the automotive industry. Most people I know that rent cars absolutely beat the shit out of them.
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oh, that's what you think..
I'll be honest even after reading that I have no idea what you were trying to say, or what global warming has to do with dolphin safe tuna fishing.
The regulatory burden facing credit unions from the NCUA is not near as bad as what banks face from the FDIC. Right now the FDIC regulators take the stance that your bank is "guilty until proven innocent."

One bank was getting examined to determine if it was engaging in unfair lending practices. The regulators pulled 6 loans at random from the bank's portfolio. 3 loans were to men, 3 to women. Then they looked at the average interest rate on the loans to the men, the 3 on the loans to women. They found a .5% difference between the male and female averages (the men had the lower rate).

The regulators fined the bank several thousand dollars and required it to adopt new processes to ensure that future loans were "fair."

Had the regulators looked closer, they would have noticed that the three random loans to men all went to older men with high credit scores...and each male was in a white collar job (doctor, lawyer, etc.). The loans to women, which were pulled at random, were each to younger women, just starting their careers. These were auto loans to a first time car buyer, etc.

The regulators didn't care about the details and punished the bank anyway. You are guilty until proven innocent, and they don't expend a lot of effort trying to prove you innocent.

In this day and age of big data, a bank or credit union's best bet is to use the power of business intelligence to continually prove that it is lending fairly in the community and climate that it dwells.
>No. It's mostly similar to HN IMO, it's just more inclusive

I disagree, Reddit is an obviously addictive time sink, a claim supported by many self-reflecting posts and comments of Reddit users.

>The content that is being created for Reddit

You mean like the Upvoted.com viral, social media optimized buzzfeed-like media? The one launched after reddit's series B round led by Sam Altman.
There is already a concept of TV checking (using Kinect-like stuff) whether you're there watching ads or not. I recall there being news articles about it, and people proposing it were not joking.
This has more implications for services such as Airbnb that measure 'trust' in part with real world identification.
Brilliant. It had genuinely never occurred to me that it might be anything more than an abbreviation for 'Unicode'.
More importantly: why aren't TVs doing it?

TVs should be turned off completely when you press the button, to save power. After that almost all smart TV boot up quite slowly. Which is sad :(
> nobody does business with any government without bribes. maybe he is not such an accomplished banker as he believed if he never got to that part.

I personally consider banking and government in general to be fairly corrupt, but do you have any evidence that literal bribery is common?
See Obiwan. pypi.python.org/pypi/obiwan/ Prettier?

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The episode was absolutely wonderful (and disturbing). The whole series is worth watching.

BTW. It took me a long time to figure out the meaning of the title of the show.
Sure they do, they're called "feature phones". Wiko sells some decent dual-sim models for $20.
>a mouse simply does not have the capacity to understand French.

we don't really know what capacity is required to do it. 1PFlops? 1P neuron synapse transfers/minute? What capacity and in what units mouse brain is?

Our human brain evolution has abused low efficiency size increase approach. As result we're using only like 10% of capacity of our brain.

This dog knows 1000 words in human language. That's more than i know in Chinese, and the task of learning a 1000 Chinese hieroglyphs scares the hell out of me:

https://www.thedodo.com/worlds-smartest-dog-chaser-752002926...

>Maybe humans do not have the capacity to understand the complete workings of physics.

why would it be so? So far the physics has been pretty simple (any abnormal complexity has been usually an indication of our lack of understanding and has been successfully cleared with time) , and even several orders of magnitude complexity increase will fit into our brain.

Edit: to the comment below on 10% - there is a difference between 10% capacity and 10% neurons. The fact that most of our brain is physiologically participating while producing that little capacity most of the time in most of the people is exactly the low efficiency i was talking about.
So earth had dingle berries?
Mobile software != web site.

Get over it. It's Apple's platform. Move on...
Guess they hired the wrong iOSers...
Escaping won't help. Parameterized queries all the way.
> Perhaps we don't have the capacity to understand how the universe works?

We don't understand QM but we can still use the equations to make predictions..

You're suggesting that we can't create better equations which explain more the universe? That's quite a bit early to say that..
I'm more worried about our possibility of creating experiments which can be used then to select which equation is the right one.
Fractions, diagrammatically, and Fibonacci's algorithm
similar :

Mozilla "Mentor Bugs
If you are looking for a bug with guidance, we maintain a set of bugs that are marked with an assigned mentor (see "Whiteboard" field). The mentor will help you get the necessary information to understand the issue, point out relevant parts of the code to look at, etc. You can browse these bugs on Bugs Ahoy!, but here's a list of unassigned mentor bugs to get you started:"

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Get_Involved#Mentor_Bugs

Other examples:

#easyfix: https://github.com/facebook/flow/labels/easyfix

#beginner: https://github.com/eslint/eslint/labels/beginner

#exp:beginner https://github.com/docker/docker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
Microsoft not supporting older IE doesn't mean front-end people won't have to if their sites have users who don't upgrade.

It just means Microsoft can't be bothered to ship patches for those older browsers.
Anyone have a road map for starting a tiny ISP?
I agree, the "Carte Michelin" is a LOT more popular than the guide, for normal french people.
I'm the author of the article. When I gave a preview of this at the PyRVA meetup, I gave this exact illustration, even using "my future self". So...jinx. :)
Easily inject jQuery,underscore,or other libraries into pages from devtools
Why should I get over it and move on? It sucks and I'm going to keep complaining as long as it does.
Seriously?

Technologists have a hard time being employed past a certain expiration date.
Buzzfeed-like media, yes. Upvoted.com is new; they don't seem to be optimized for addictiveness yet, but that could obviously change.

> The one launched after reddit's series B round led by Sam Altman.

I don't see how this is relevant.
A great book on good physics which did not pan out is http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Speculations-Theories-Revolutio...

Vortex theory was very cool, but not how the world worked.
I'm a little tired, sorry about the typo, been reading that Atari stuff until daylight and still got up at 9 am. So, yes, Black mirror, and it's definitely worth watching though some of it may not for everybody, especially not if you're easily disturbed.
I'd wager that less than 10% of iOS programmers know that #if works (by treating as false) when the token is not defined.
I guess there is no set format, just answer concisely and confidently. If you don't know something, say so, like I did with the last question. The last 5 job hunts I did I got the job after interviewing with only one company.
If you can deal with a different file navigation setup (and outside a terminal obviously), VIM emulation in PyCharm is very good.

Having recently switched, PyCharm really does make larger projects a lot easier to refactor / manage.

Edit: Also, to actually answer your question, this is a relatively new feature so I don't think any of the VIM plugins support it yet. Jedi has had type hinting from doc strings for some time now. I'd imagine they'll update that to use this soon.
This has always been my rule after seeing an ex-colleague of me leaving one of worst profanity you can say in a test build which was shown to clients during a meeting. I wasn't at the meeting, but I can imagine the situation
Pumpkin Pie in Miami: Thanksgiving Flight Patterns
>I don't see how this is relevant.

That's the ironic part.
Another programmer giving off the impression that programming is easy and we shouldn't even get paid for our work.

Thanks, man!
Wow, that's exactly my experience. Used to reboot 4-5 times a day and now it happens roughly once a week.
Did you happen to use Bluetooth more in the apartment by chance?
"Would it be reasonable to assume that the same applies at the opposite end of the spectrum: from the sub-atomic to the super-galactical?"

I suspect that its what we don't understand about quantum mechanics what finally will explain the macro observations that we don't understand.

After all, macro observations have to derive from the fundamentals and it seems that the fundamentals are in the quantum realm.
Isn't that what hibernate / suspend / hybrid sleep is?
Why do measurements of the gravitational constant vary so much?
The Dribbblisation of Design
Mentorship in OSS makes everyone involved a little bit better at something, be it following instructions, learning practical tooling, writing clear instructions, justification of process and habits, etc.
People are OK with frequently booting their mobile devices to temporarily "fix bugs", which can take up to tens of seconds, but waiting a moment to boot a desktop device? Nuh uh.

Of course there might be some market advantage to be had with faster booting and it's a plus for the whole UX. And optimisation is definitely cool, though I think many more problems would be solved if people were forced to think once in a while, whether it's while waiting for the bootup sequence to complete or a train to arrive.
I think lentils, chickpeas, soy and co. are the cheapest protein. In general in Italy canned tuna (granted it's solid and in olive oil) is never cheaper than 10 euro/kg, and can be as expensive as 35 euro/kg. That's more expensive than fresh chicken, pork and many cuts of beef.
Handing a bag of cash to someone isn't the way corruption at this level works. That happens with low level people, who trip up and get caught.

It's more a combination of favors, revolving door employment and consideration for friends and family.
> As result we're using only like 10% of capacity of our brain.

This myth needs to die in a fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth
Am I missing something here? Isn't Yahoo still highly profitable? So some senior execs left, so what, I'm sure they'll still have plenty of people wanting to work for them.

Look beyond the spin from the WSJ. Look at the profits. Are Yahoo losing money?
Not quite as cool as that, but I wrote a quick and dirty script and made a massive png of it: http://paste.click/UaodpC

You probably don't want to open in in your browser though.
Linux software also != website but doesn't suffer from these problems.
Current mobile software really sucks in pretty much every way and there's nothing more to be said.
Why to start a startup in a bad economy
I have experience with profiling the `delete` keyword. It slows down post-deletion access to the parent object significantly. Generally, I avoid using it and instead set the value to `null`. Technically, this creates a memory-leak because the pointer remains but depending on the characteristics of your application it may be worth it.

The usual disclaimers of "profile it first" and "YMMV" apply, but it's useful to be aware of potential low hanging fruit when JS performance is critical to your application.
Native Plugin Can Speed Up Games by a Factor of 10
> Other examples:

Rust has E-easy and E-mentor

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/E-easy

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/E-mentor
Businesses - man I really hate autocorrect

I doubt the affect on the daughter or the husband are temporary, they will get hit as everything lives on in search.
Have you tried performing using an android app? I used a drum-pad app the other week and the latency makes it unplayable.

There's a great explanation here as to why it's so bad: http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency
> I know of no website that contains user-uploaded pictures that allows SVGs

Wikipedia.
Exploring the physics of a chocolate fountain
> They are already bringing in outside consultants from McKinsey

This usually means a the execs need to take a political difficult action (layoffs, etc.) and need the "cover" of a highly paid firm to look like "experts" suggested it to redirect blame away from the execs.
Depends on the software and author. Case in point: sendmail; virtually everything ever made by RedHat (the software is free, but there's no useful documentation if you're not a paying customer… cf. NetworkManager, PulseAudio, GlusterFS … only systemd seems an exception, for now).
10 Signs You Should Invest in a New Website
Know of any stats to back that up?
11-month-old Israeli big data startup Iguaz.io scores $15M
> Or we could just continue to leave it up to faraway owners and builders to comply with code during construction and improvements. But it is actually quite obtuse to let law govern issues of human use in shorter time frames. Needs arise faster than concrete sets.

Um, we do leave it up to them to comply with local codes. I'm not sure what the objection is. They don't get an option to comply with codes or not. You aren't building anything in a major downtown area without a permit, which means complying with all local codes.

If a community wanted to mandate that x% of a building's lower level had to be dedicated to street level retail, they could easily do that. Builders would either decide if it were worthwhile or not. For the most part, developers/owners do not need much encouragement to increase rentable square footage in a building.
That's an interesting reference; turns out they have similar estimates for other power sources. For wind they have 3 to 45 g CO2-eq/kWh, not counting fossil backup.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012....
Not sure if it is intended or not. When I click a pokemon, new background spawns from an unrelated point and stretches to fit screen. pressing back button stretches background back to frame of pokemon in list correctly. It looks buggy and not uniform.

chrome 46.0.2490.86 m & windows 8
> A library with incorrect annotations in PyPI is extremely not-fine.

As is a library with broken logic or one that throws exceptions randomly. You want Guido and the developers to implement some kind of system that automatically scans all PyPi packages for any kind of errors? I'm sure them solving the halting problem won't take that long.

Incorrect annotations are a bug. The onus is on the maintainers of packages to fix bugs in their packages, not PyPi which is a distribution channel.
The problem with a desktop is that most people have at least one and mostly several applications running. Those need maybe saving as well, before quitting. The mobile phones are better in that way: all apps are required to save their state at any time. So rebooting can be a mindless procedure.
Well of course they are. Everyone knows that shotguns purchased in stores are much more dangerous than AK-47s purchased from a smuggler in a back alley.
Nicely written piece actually -- rather uncommon these days, thanks for sharing.
Theres a rather convincing episode of Black Mirror about this...
I don't understand why there isn't a Windows or Linux client from the start. This bothers me :/
Which browser? I'm running an AMD A4 and the SVGs are much smoother.
By my experience (based on the project I'm working on) regular build speed hasn't changed at all. Obviously I'm not saying there's no improvement, only that apparently it's not universal.
When googling "BSM-SG", the top result is a thread (by poelzi) on a cold fusion forum... Which contains this nugget:

"If Quantum Mechanics describes the Atom, why does it not provide the angles atom create for chemical bindings, every chemistry student has to learn?"

Really? You couldn't be bothered to sit down with an organic chemistry textbook and discover that QM is the basis for our entire understanding of how atoms form chemical bonds? You've never heard of sp3 hybridisation? E.g. Paula Bruice's book "Organic Chemistry" starts with QM as the most fundamental piece and builds everything from that. Read it.
> The Xbox one emulation of the Xbox 360 is what really fascinates me

That's nothing new, OS X ran PPC executables on X86 until recently.
Huh? Says I posted this 2 hours ago, but I'm pretty sure I posted it yesterday
For me, the question is bigger than just harm reduction and efforts at it, in fact, in the book a whole chapter is made around the example of slot machines, and the concept of 'autism as a design principle'. It's about the design decisions made and the way that we accept design which is clearly optimised to exploit human weakness. I guess, more broadly, it's about the ethical framework that one choses to make their decisions and broader policy within - which is really the whole point of the book I went against, and which your comment reinforces - But a politician would look pretty silly taking a stand against Mafia Wars on the floor of a legislative body.

That statement is only true within our current mode of thinking about these things, this book and all the other writing on the economics of attention is showing me that there's another way to think about this, and just because the standards we currently accept are normative, doesn't mean that they're exhaustive - and certainly not perpetual.
> The issue of slowing rents is most acute in Seattle neighborhoods that are experiencing an unprecedented amount of development, according to Dupre + Scott Apartment Advisors. The Seattle apartment tracking firm said that rents rose 5.6 percent region-wide from March through September, and were up 8.3 percent from a year prior.

How odd to think of housing as something that should always go up in price.
There are a lot of ways to contribute that don't involve making pull requests. Identifying and raising issues is a good place to start for someone who is not familiar with the codebase.
Yeah, I'd say ACM proceedings are where most of the good papers are published.
But then only on Vista SP2 and not e.g. Windows 7/8/10 I would assume.
HAProxy auto-configuration and service discovery for Mesos-DNS or SkyDNS
IIRC then didn't the US gov / Monsanto take to court the EU for

a) making these illegal
b) once forced to legalise, labelling it as such

I may be getting confused with another case, but I recall some trade episode as such
Understanding New Relic physical memory usage
I've always taken the opposite route, and insisted that my debug text be as profane as possible, to ensure that I wouldn't possibly ship it with them included.

99.9% of the time, this seems idiotic, and it is, but while it does force me to be careful (which doesn't remotely outweigh the self-imposed idiocy), there was this one time where it did benefit me quite impressively. when a co-worker was trying to take credit for having written a web app that he literally wrote zero code for. He would get there early in the morning before I could and schedule product demos to management so he would get all the credit for what was essentially my pet project. That all worked great for him until one of the error states insisted that the managers of the Fortune 50 company I was building this for all do something profane.
"use sketch" is a very strong phrase for what was documented there.

What that shows is creating three different SVGs in sketch and then animating them using the Snap.svg JS library to animate them.
> If Facebook "has social" that's because they were and still are the best social network.
> Microsoft "has the OS"

Do network effects count as excellence?

> Not sure what monopoly Apple has

Does vertical integration count as excellence? What about lock-in contracts (i.e., from AT&T).

> Google "has search"

Of all these, everyone could quit google.com tomorrow if they wanted to.

I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but just saying they make the best product is missing a huge part of the picture. Maybe saying they have the best business plan makes more sense, assuming you're fine with businesses driven by leverage instead of technical excellence.
Genuine question: why not rent out the house whilst you were in the other city? That would have probably covered the mortgage and got you out of the dip until you could either move back, or the market had picked up again and you could sell without loss.
There is a more nuanced story here. Blaming NCUA for the decline in small credit unions doesn't really tell the story.

Credit unions generally weren't underwriters of mortgages -- they were small savings institutions serving a community that wrote mostly small consumer loans with easier underwriting standards.

Nowadays, getting consumer financing is pretty trivial. So I don't need a CU to underwrite Christmas.

Also, the definition of "community" is watered down as to be meaningless. The credit union that I'm a member of is open to anyone living in like 9 counties in my area and is the 4th largest bank in terms of assets in the region.

So why would I join or start the "BigCo Helpdesk employees CU" when I can get most of the customer benefits and more services from a bigger CU?

I think the expectations here that these guys would suddenly appear and be writing mortgages in a short period of time is an unrealistic goal, and probably damaged their credibility with the regulators. The same regulators are easy scapegoats because they can't talk back.
If I was in the market to downvote someone, that last line would've sold me.

Can we please try to keep our delicate egos out of the discussion? If I wanted to see people gripe bitterly about their comments being downvoted, I'd go to reddit.
Good point! However, I would agree that server/system software that is "best-in-breed" tend to be FOSS. But I'm afraid I have no studies or other hard facts to support my case.