skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary.

Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.
This is still better when you are able to experiment versions without quirks and workarounds. Hail virtualenv.
Promising website for the startups. It has got the potential to be one of the top funding sites of all time.
California Bar reports lowest passing percentage since 1980s
If you want to actually solve this problem without doing the thing in the slideshow or shooting yourself, when you see

if(self.predicate_function())
foo()
else
bar()

and self.predicate_function() is only called once in the program (this is the case several times in the slideshow example), try pulling the if statement into the function (and simplify), making a

self.handle_case_something()

function instead. If the predicate is called more than once, consider subclassing. You're already doing OO, may as well do it right.
The article uses jsFiddle while the legal disclaimer on JSFiddle reads JSFiddle. The announcement of "The Lifting" uses JSFiddle. Meanwhile, the documentation can't make up its mind:

jsFiddle Documentation

To file a bug in JSFiddle

Though it mostly uses jsFiddle.

/begin edit

The Medium post uses JSFiddle: https://medium.com/jsfiddle-updates/the-lifting-cb3c9f216c2f...

I think it's safe to assume it has been changed to JSFiddle.

/end edit

More on topic: I'll have to see if there was anything new besides a facelift. Personally using Codepen atm.
Awesome article! One point of contention, though:

>and stolen time (by other guests, or with Xen, the guest's own isolated driver domain).

This isn't necessarily true. If there is any sort of credit scheduler interaction ( http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Credit_Scheduler ) resulting in the CPU being throttled, it will show as steal. Steal actually just means the CPU was not in a runnable state, which can be caused by multiple things, but predominately throttling by the CPU scheduler.
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Typical case of code providing policy instead of mechanism, the solution of course being to provide policy over numerous classes, rules engines, etc instead of writing a few methods that provide mechanism.

eg. Why is this method concerned with whether the notification is email or something else...

Are persons not also the case of a group with one member?

It seems less like refactoring and more like hiding complexity in frameworks.
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Telegram does (as well as a web client and mobile clients on iOS, Android, and Apple Watch).
I'd be careful about the use of the term ponzi scheme.

I think it's a rather dangerous example of doublespeak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

Social Security exactly fits the definition of a Ponzi Scheme[1], has serious sustainability issues[2], and could do far more damage to hundreds of millions of people if it were to collapse.

No one is going after the people running Social Security though it is far more dangerous.

[1] "operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator."

[2] Social Security is a Ponzie Scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States...
Exactly it seems like you could replace all this code with:

send("#{group.type}_notification") or its python equivalent.

Maybe a hash table with strings as keys and functions as values for a less 'scripty' language.

Perhaps I'm thinking the variable group is of type group, but it also looks like it suffers from poor separation of concerns... eg. Why are groups sending email?

Probably also a good candidate for guards instead of nested ifs
Here are a bunch making anywhere from $50k per day to a whole lot more. You may need to be Facebook logged in to view them.

https://www.facebook.com/games/query/top-grossing/

Edit: Also, I believe Kongregate has a whole ton of games with In-App Purchases. I don't have any experience publishing on there but I do have experience on Facebook.
> world of enterprise Java

By that, you mean code that is fast, easy to maintain, typed, tested and scalable?
This might be a good time to mention that Django is always trying to raise funds: https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/

The really quick turn around on tickets and pull requests is largely thanks to the Django Fellow, who is paid to manage the community. The last two or three releases have been on time because of the Fellow. The Fellow is funded via Django Software Foundation fundraising activities.

If your company is deriving financial benefit from using Django, consider asking your company to sponsor the fellowship program, so that we can ensure that bugs are getting fixed, releases are happening on time, and security releases are being processed as a priority.

(Disclaimer: core member).
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I think that’s countered a bit by less of a need for custom widgets. In fact I’d argue that one of the big points of appeal for native Mac apps is that they eschew tons of custom widgets in favor of the standard system kit whenever possible.

There’s also a good deal of power that you gain when writing custom Cocoa widgets; drawing is usually done with Core Graphics, which is a blazing fast, extremely capable C API. There’s a lot you can do in custom Cocoa widgets that would be impractical or dog slow with HTML+CSS+JS.

EDIT: Also, one big, big difference between WebView apps and AppKit apps is that while WebView apps might get their appearance reasonably close to native, they almost always miss the mark entirely when it comes to widget behavior.
I get it, I should have seen this coming.

Either way, its near impossible for any Indian to accept anything negative told about their state, regardless of how shitty the actual conditions are.

Either way, very happy to know that Kerala == U.S.A

All the best.
Thank you for the info. This is helpful to know.

[edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.
What makes you think your view is dissenting? It sounds quite aligned with everything you hear from the HN cabal.

Edit:

I mean, sometimes a story slips through, and a subthread happens, but generally it feels like there's a big hard clamp on that. Maybe I'm projecting.
The US has 4% of the world's population. If you're not in the top 25% of the US, you're not in the top 1% of the world.

Europe has 10%, and Slovenia and the ex-Yugoslav countries are not known for their wealth.
Not looking to start a fanboy-war here; but i would like to hear some opinions. If you were to start a new small to medium sized web app today, would choose Ruby on Rails or Django?
Heating a house from 30F to 70F uses far more energy than cooling a house from 100F to 70F:
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/03/cities-dependent-air-...

The question is where does the electricity for cooling come from. If it's mostly coal-powered electricity, that's pretty bad, considering the low efficiency and high CO2 output of coal burning electricity generation. Obviously that needs to change.

Hopefully they start using more nuclear and renewables as the cost of those drops. For one thing, India has incredible solar resources (http://mnre.gov.in/sec/DNI_Annual.jpg, http://www.dlr.de/tt/Portaldata/41/Resources/dokumente/insti...), being as close to the equator as it is, and it also has large populations living in areas with high irradiation, in comparison to Europe or even China.

Once the price of solar drops further (it's within reach of the middle-class in US and Western-Europe), they will have even more reason to adopt it.
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I've been using Chit Chat on Mac which I find suits my needs (https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat), and which is essentially a wrapper around the web interface
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Not to get into a tangent about social security and how the program manages money, but this isn't quite an applicable comparison. Gov't sponsored 'ponzi schemes' can pretty safely be assumed to exist for about as long as the sponsoring government does (or, if they're dissolved, one can pretty safely assume some kind of payout. At least in a revolution-fearing democracy).

If the government goes away, your investment into a pension program is probably a pretty low priority. A ponzi scheming company disappearing has a much more direct effect on the people who've invested in it.
Only now in 2015 the FBI fullfills FOIA requests electronically? That is incredible backward. I thought the Department of Interior was bad because they couldn't do global email searches on even global searches within a specific Bureau, but Interior is light years ahead of the FBI.
If you like Ruby, Rails.

If you like Python, Django.

Both are full featured with active communities. The 10,000ft view of each is very similar.
(famous?) Age of Empires article on lockstep multiplayer: 1500 archers on a 28.8 modem:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131503/1500_archers_on...
Facebook games are also declining, from Zynga at their peak to collectively less revenue than Candy Crush Saga on iOS.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-payments-revenue-dec...
... Or even, dare I say it, look at life as quality not quantity, as something unquantifiable?

(You could have chosen a less contentious example of a meritorious practicing artist :-)
It will show up like CPU usage - the hyperthread that is waiting for memory will appear busy executing.

perf can record hardware counter events - use "perf list" to see the list - including those that count frontend and backend stalls (stalls in the instruction decoding and execution stages respectively). A high stall ratio / low instructions per cycle throughput is an indicator that you're running into memory bandwidth limitations.
Bill Gates lays out vision for clean energy
#machine learning
Not sure why the downvotes, your point is valid. Though it should not be a surprise, facebook business is designed as such (empty shell to be filled by the facebook used + everything shady and dirty trick in the book).
Good question. One guess is that the total amount of bitcoins mined by a given device is finite due to obsolescence — competition from newer faster devices would push returns to zero in the future. So long as the price of bitcoins falls/does not rise, the sale price of the device might be enough to purchase the equivalent number of bitcoins on the open market and still make a profit, and the customers would be none the wiser.

There is also another very general problem with selling/buying miners (beyond the general suspicion of bitcoin fraudsters): if you buy a money-printing device from someone, why on Earth would you trust them not to run the money-printing device for themselves? You'd think it only ever makes sense to sell obsolete or broken devices, never the real thing, so why would anyone want to buy any?
Social security isn't a Ponzi scheme because it's mandatory.

If it was a true Ponzi scheme, you'd have the option not to participate in it.

/s
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American people think bananas are only those. Most of them have never seen a different banana.
What point are you making? Are you saying that's a lot or a little? We all read the 99% number. Adding periods between the words puts emphasis on it sure (great job putting in the extra effort to enhance the discussion by the way) but given the nature of this discussion I can't for the life of me figure out what you're actually trying to say.
A machine requirements check would be useful, but I can't think of many companies that would implement something that results in less sales. What's the upside? Maybe some good will? I'm not saying valve wants people to buy games they can't run or anything like that, but it would be an expensive ongoing effort to make less money.
Right. A USian, who would be reasonably presumed to have, um, connections with the US Government, that had imposed trade embargos on Cuba for.. um 50 years... Attempting sedition... from a country that has been activily hostile for 50 years. Furthermore the US had a travel ban to Cuba at the time -- he could NOT have been a tourist.

I guess that after 40 years of a trade embargo, allow "humanitarian" exports is a thing -- Thanks, Clinton.

I am not sure that Internet is a humanitarian export. That point could be argued.

With the claim that the Cubans doing the incoming inspection SHOULD have known what the embargoed equipment was... having never seen it. They wouldn't have known what a fuel injector was!

That was a prime example of USian arrogance. Good for him he got out in 5 years.
For a small project I'd take Flask :)
So, you can do a couple of things:

* Start Steam when you log in to your computer, but have yourself signed out of Friends so you don't get friend activity notifications.

* If you're concerned about data usage, or don't want all of your games to update when you launch Steam, set your games to only update when you launch them. [0] Sadly, there's no way that I can see to make this the default update strategy, so you have to do this for every game in your library that has annoyingly frequent updates. :( Also note that you can configure Steam to not download updates when a game is running [1] and that Steam makes the update game you're trying to launch the highest-priority download.

* Run Steam in Offline mode (assuming you're not playing multiplayer games ;) ) : https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-AGC...

Sadly, I don't see any way to run some sort of "Steam client and game updating" service that runs in the background and just keeps the client and your games updated even while you're not logged in to either Steam or your Windows account.

[0] Right-click on the game->Properties->Updates, change the value of the "Automatic updates" dropdown menu to "Only update this game when I launch it".

[1] IIRC, this is the default setting.
I stopped reading at
"While there were widespread expressions of concern and respect for students, nearly half of respondents (45%) think trigger warnings have or will have a negative effect on classroom dynamics"

Nearly half said it will have a negative effect? So.... More than half said that it won't? What kind of biased "reporting" is this.
When things like this pop up, as well intention-ed as they may be, I just think to myself, if this were just a regular guy and not famous, would anyone give a shit?
That's what the SEC does. About once a week, they shut down some investment scam. This was a straight Ponzi, dressed up, as the SEC says, with techno-jargon.

These were some of the people behind Paycoin, too.[1]

[1] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/death-paycoin-employee-...
This should not be too surprising: law school now adversely selects for intelligence, for reasons discussed in Paul Campos's Don't Go to Law School (Unless) (http://jakeseliger.com/2012/11/11/dont-go-to-law-school-unle...) and elsewhere. Jobs that require law degrees are scarce outside of the top 30 or so schools. Even those who get legal jobs often then must contend with having to be actual lawyers.

I went to law school for a year, for the usual bad reasons. Quitting is among the smarter things I've done.
Couple problems with this otherwise well-intentioned effort:

1. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what governments spend on a regular basis trying to solve these problems. (Bill Gates has said as much.)

2. Private charity by the billionaire class is not a scalable solution. Historically most social advancement has happened through popular organization and government programs, not charity.

Silicon Valley itself is a product of government spending. The Internet and thus Facebook wouldn't exist without billions of taxpayer investment in early stage high risk research and procurement via DARPA and other government agencies. That continues today (just a couple examples: Siri and autonomous vehicles).

If we are serious about accomplishing social change and "long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years," the answers lie in greater government investment in these areas. Just like Silicon Valley. And that means all Silicon Valley companies should be paying back to the government just as they would an early stage investor. Not as a "noble choice" but as an obligation. (Currently they get the core tech pretty much for free.) That would drum up an order of magnitude more funding for much-needed social projects.

I'd like to hear more Silicon Valley CEOs talk about that.
> You can cover literally the first two things with LuaJIT.

Not at all. You don't have explicit control over generating machine code in LuaJIT. OTOH all Terra functions - whether dynamically generated or pre-written - will get compiled to machine code via LLVM. So it's explicit, i.e. more work, but more predictable. Arguably Terra code generation will cover more scenarios - consider some code paths may not be JITable at all by LuaJIT (due to NYI) but if you can generate a Terra function, you're guaranteed machine code.

> If you're using Lua to not use Lua, you never wanted to use Lua to begin with!

You're using Lua as a meta-programming language for Terra. If you know Lua, it could be a lot more convenient than using custom or archaic meta-programming languages.
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But you also use "vous" as a form of politeness, be it to people older than yourself, more formal situations, or just people you do not know. It is very prevalent. This form also still has the verb in its plural form despite talking to only one person.
How do you know that the business you are buying already has product/market fit?
You've also reminded me that while they do show up as CPU time, they wouldn't be 'user' time (for example in the output of the command 'time')
I'll give my stock response when this question comes out: the reason why I chose Django back in the day (we are talking pre 1.0) was because it stuck with the Python philosophies of configuration-over-convention and "principle of least surprise".

It made debugging issues much easier than in the equivalent Ruby on Rails project (I tried to build the same proof-of-concept using both frameworks.) When something broke in Django I could usually just follow the code to find what was wrong. With RoR sometimes I would put stuff in some place, expect the framework to pick it up (convention-over-configuration) and the code wouldn't work. Much head scratching ensued.
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Yep, because it's built into iOS at the system-level. I also don't like Google and I generally avoid all their services except Search & Maps.
If you're the FBI, what motivation do you have to implement the system? No one ever use an FOIA request to get info about something good to praise them. It's always to get info to smear them.

Why would they want to make this easier?
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Thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I just need to run through it about a dozen more times to keep the difference between align-content, justify-content, and align-items separate in my head. So many words, so close in meaning.
Only for a moment. An extensible claw would fly out, grab the untoasted bread from your hand and fling it into the garbage can, after a brief but unpredicatable interval.
Don't forget Grails
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The letter doesn't do much fixing, but the billions of dollars do.
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> Because hoarding up billions of dollars into family dynasties is pretty much doing nothing.

Well, his money isn't stuffed under sofa cushions, so it would bankers choosing what to invest in, but your point still stands. ;)
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This made a big impression on me when I read it. I think it helped me. When I find myself yielding to a certain kind of programmer's temptation, I will mutter, "four-bit microcontroller..."