skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By level of investment, both me and the OP meant in terms of products that are key to the company's operations, and need to be continuously supported and improved. Facebook is one such app for Facebook that uses React. Instagram is one such app for Facebook that also uses React. I honestly don't know any such app for Google that uses Angular. Until that changes, there is very little incentive for the Angular team to keep improving upon the existing solution instead of building something completely new with no regard for the people that depend on it.

The so called upgrade path they offer for Angular 1.x is a complete joke. That you can "mix Angular 2 into your existing Angular 1 application" would be a true statement with any component-oriented framework in place of Angular 2, like React, and Ember. And this was not true for Ember just a few months ago, which is living proof that gradual improvement can in fact be accomplished with any framework, but of course, throwing everything away is much easier, so the framework developers need to have strong incentives to not do so.
it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it

All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.
Why anybody wants to run node.js instead of Java. Java is much better suitable for the server side than node.
You could just put your JSX in a separate file and import it. "Problem" solved.
>> "Marissa Mayer is a hero for taking on the challenge at Yahoo."

i already imagine the spin here in the 2028 Republican primaries :)
> Elon Musk put 100% of his personal fortune into risky world-changing startups. That's heroic.

I wasn't aware that Elon Musk put in 100% of this personal fortune in his ventures. Source?
because the people who live in those kinds of areas are the least likely to want a bunch of foreigners around.
let's be fair, Pipes can do a little bit more then pure functions. E.g. the async pipe which lets someone directly use Observables in the view is really helpful. And a simple function in combination with Observable.map() or Promise.then() won't bringt that functionality to React (you need to write lifecycle hooks or mixins, and in the end it would look similar to your construct.
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We've been using TeamCity for many years, and recently evaluated Jenkins as a possible replacement. Stability was a huge concern and decided to stick with TC. I agree, TC does have its share of flaws, but it's way ahead of Jenkins in many areas.
I was making this argument in another thread yesterday.

The fact that aviation currently assumes it has exclusive right to all airspace does not mean things have to be (or even should be) that way.

The vast majority of commercial air traffic file flight plans and flys along well know routes.

There's currently outcry about drone pilots "flying in dangerous manner for airplanes/helicopters", but it seems to me that nobody ever agreed that the occasional police or news helicopter flying over my local park was automatically reason to ban flying drones/kites/rc-aircraft there _ever_.

Same here, just because general aviation has had un-contested access to the sky and the freedom to assume they're entitled to unimpeded safety _everywhere_, is not something we've ever chosen - it's just "the way things have always been", which isn't necessarily "the way things should stay".

If someone comes up with a technical way to make tethered balloons work as a reliable and cost-effective renewable energy source - I personally don't think that "but it might impose a safety risk to airplanes who want to fly there" is a good enough reason to not allow them to try.

There's is (I suspect) a great "safety risk" to flying your Cessna or gyrocopter over, say, Area 51 or Groom Lake or The Whitehouse, why shouldn't pilots have the responsibility to avoid tethered-balloon electricity plants as well? Surely the net benefit to society of a few GW of renewable energy is way more than the ability of civilian pilots or news choppers to have unlimited access to all airspace at all times for no reason?
Certainly there must be polls out there with this information, but apparently I can't quite suss out the search terms to find it. What area's do you think these union members are conservative on? Free trade? Minimum wage? Corporate tax rates? I suppose those might be on the labor side of things. Abortion? Military spending? Public school spending? Universal health care? Social Security privatization? Legalizing marijuana?
That's exactly what I was thinking, too, when reading:

> I know, it sounds like one of these “duh! moments”, but I can’t think of an instance where I saw this pattern explained in some article.

The comment section was pretty quick to point out the article that the author couldn't find. I mean, some readers are pushing back because they legitimately disagree, but I was more so confused because React already does this. And it's somewhat well documented. Though the author coming to a similar conclusion by himself is praise worthy.
> Steve Jobs took a nearly bankrupt company and turned it into the richest company in history. And he didn't care about making money off it at all, or he'd have been the richest person in the world too. That's heroic.

Well, let's walk that back a bit. Saint Jobs always cared a great deal about his ownership stake in Apple, to the point where he burned bridges in order to retain and increase it. He wasn't exactly poverty stricken, either.
It's not that "I'm very important". It's not even that I don't have time to read a long article. I don't have time to read nearly as many long articles as there are out there, though.

And to me, it feels like the shoe's on the other foot. To me, a long form article is the author deciding that he/she's so important (or the content is) that I will find it worth the time to read the whole thing, and that it's therefore fine to hide the main point somewhere in the length, because I'll get the point so much better if I go through all the rest of it as well. That's fine for those who like that kind of thing, but, well, let's just say that it's unattractive to more and more readers as we have more and more things that we want to read.

For it to be worth my while, this article has to be worth more than whatever I didn't have time to read because I took the time to read this one. The longer the article is, the higher that bar is, because the more I could have read with the same time.
No, its not an apples to fruit basket comparison. When people talk about React they're not talking about only React, but more likely a front end app that implements React.

No one is saying "oh I love writing view layers. It's way better than actually building things".
This kind of thing is par for the course from private equity. I'm surprised they only suggested firing 3/4 of the staff and they didn't suggest outsourcing everything to the lowest cost body shop in Bangalore.

PE is all about giving a temporary boost to stock price and cashing in quickly before the long term damage becomes apparent, mixed in with a healthy disdain for the people who do all the actual work.
The media's Mayer pile on is getting old. Every article is focused on her personally, as opposed to the company as a whole. I understand how echo chamber effects and memes work, but this seems a bit extreme even for the internet.

It's like blaming someone who dropped a last second touchdown pass for losing the game. Yes, it would have been nice if that player could have done a better job. But it would also have been nice if everyone else on the team hadn't made any mistakes either, making a last second play unnecessary.

She was very well compensated for failing, but that doesn't mean that she acted in bad faith. Many executives have compensation packages that are heavily based on performance. Apparently hers wasn't. Ultimately there is a lot of blame to go around for the demise of Yahoo!, not the least to other half dozen CEOs they've had in the last decade or so. You win the fight today based on the preparations and positioning you did years ago. For all her mistakes, that's not on Mayer.
well I have experienced new management whose first item at hand was to insult everyone already there. from telling them they will be made in a world class organization to stating on a five point scale everyone is a two unless they prove otherwise, a two being "performing less than expectations". It ain't just finance people
"any successful business venture" There are a vast number of successful companies, ones who actually turn a profit, who don't provide either food or transport to their employees.
The fuel cell part is a bit dodgy. It would make more sense to include a little hydrogen bottle on the tether if extra H2 is needed to top of the balloon.

And there's no point to storing power in the air like that - it's better fed to the grid when the sun is shining to be stored at the grid level. Generating hydrogen just isn't a very efficient way to store power.
same for me
I wonder why the author does not recommend Mozart for beginners. I find Mozart’s operas to be much more accessible than the popular romantic ones. Not only is his music way catchier, but Mozart and and his librettists also do comedy like few others.

I find that most of my beginner friends tire quickly of the long, drawn-out, exaggerated drama and dramatic music of Italian operas (i.e. Tosca, La Bohème, etc.). Some comedy sprinkled in together with an interesting plot can keep newbies interested for much longer.

I would recommend starting with some of Mozart’s lightest and craftiest operas (e.g. Cosí Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute). And of course, watch Amadeus first.
OP here. I mostly agree with you. If the filesystem was better at a few things then it'd be the ideal PK. Right now though it isn't enough.

It's too slow or too inconvenient for most things you'd want in a PK. Creating files isn't fast or easy. Usually you need to open some other app to do it, even if it's just a terminal. Linking one file to another and showing the connection with metadata like the direction of the link is possible, but not easy, especially if you want multiple links to and from a file. You can sync with things like Dropbox, but search is painfully slow and viewing/editing files means opening a different app. It's just cumbersome.

The reason I like TheBrain is actually because it's good for much more than todos and project data. I have one "file" that has over 10 thousand notes in it. It's organized arbitrarily by my preference, but definitely structured, searchable and "infinitely" expandable. The best part though is that it's really easy to visualize related data in TheBrain. In fact, as I've read comments today, I've come to realize that that is the one crucial thing most PK's are missing. There aren't good visualizations for Evernote, OneNote, most filesystems, org mode, etc.

I"m with you, there's no reason the filesystem can't become the best PK, but it's far from that now.
"In-place" editing of files (2011)
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Threat of shouting likely increases the cognitive load leading to poor performance.
Words of wisdom, especially your first and last paragraph. Besides upvoting your comment, I wanted to tell you that.

It's easy to get involved in the ratrace of using the whole shebang for your projects, how big or small these projects may be. I've used some frameworks in the past, but I eventually found out they added more distraction, took forever to learn and they crippled my flexibility. Good old HTML, CSS, PHP (I'm very afraid of saying this here out loud), Javascript and XML worked for me. And programming without a framework was more fun, like a completely blank canvas that makes it very clear that you are the one who has to do it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-overcomes-chall...

"In 2008, struggling Tesla nearly collapsed during the financial crisis. When Tesla needed cash to fund the Model S, Musk chose to bankrupt himself — giving up the money he earned from his success with PayPal — rather than let it die. He sunk his last $35 million into the company, the New York Times reported."
In the meantime, at SpaceX, Musk and top executives had spent most of December in a state of fear, but on Dec. 23, 2008, SpaceX received a wonderful shock. The company won a $1.6 billion contract for 12 NASA resupply flights to the space station. Then the Tesla deal ended up closing successfully, on Christmas Eve, hours before Tesla would have gone bankrupt. Musk had just a few hundred thousand dollars left and could not have made payroll the next day.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/
Sure, but that's not an advantage unique to netlify, is it? I mean, one could run the express server on Amazon CloudFront and have the same situation and a more competitive pricing structure. Or is there something else they do that I'm missing?
"Tab Tree"?
So Montana doesn't get the medical specialists, so Montana has fewer MDs per capita than Salt Lake? That seems plausible.

I'll go one step further, though: I suspect that people in Montana visit even a primary doctor less often than people in Salt Lake. I think this is partly because the per capita income is lower, so that it becomes a higher bar to decide to spend the money to see a doctor. But also I think that people in Montana are just more independent. They'll try their Aunt Sally's home remedy, or just ride out the illness or injury (not just because of money, but because they'll take care of themselves, thank you). If that doesn't work, then they'll see the doctor.
>1. Fixing the extension "code review" process, which is a mess. Make it be actually automatic 99% of the time and not a big hassle

Also read as "doing the literally impossible (but not really)".

http://danstillman.com/2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning...
you might gain more traction by presenting a sample story or two that can be read without signing up.
At school, I had a friend (studying to be a Physician) who referred to Chiropractic as "applied regression to the mean".
No, she will be hauling in around $1 billion over 4 years.

The Yahoo! ex-CEOs is known as a billionaire's club.
As always: use the right tool for the job.

React is not an MVC framework also, and it could actually make things much easier for this particular job.

If you don't need MVC or frameworks then don't use them, you'll be happy they are available when you need them ;).
Under the One Electron Theory, positrons are created some time in the future when an electron decays, and destroyed at some point in the past when the positron decays back into an electron. So the lifetime of a positron is bounded on both ends, and never crosses the "big bang" singularity.

It's not that antimatter 'created' in the big bang is traveling back in time, and only exists 'before' the big bang. It's that the big bang is when the antimatter is 'destroyed', turning into matter in the process.
> it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer

Is this 1994? We've been playing fancy, high definition, multi-channel audio on our computers for decades now, and it's been ages since I've seen it impact the CPU.

> All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.

I would say that in 2015, for most people it is unique to web audio. Generally speaking when someone wants to play audio on their computer it just works.
Isn't part of the Drill Sergeant's role to encourage close team cohesion? If you have 50 diverse marines that need to get along, giving them a common enemy (the shouting Drill Sergeant) is beneficial. If he shouts at everyone all the time, there are no favorites.
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not seeing how/where this refutes the OPs claim. Can you be more specific?
Are you paying people to cook your food and clean your dishes for you?
My favorite way to illustrate this is to imagine your 'recruits' are coins that you will flip. Heads is a good result, tails is a bad result.

Now, flip all your coins. Yell at the ones that got tails, praise the ones that got heads. Now, repeat your test. Wow, 50% of the ones you yelled at 'improved' and 50% of the ones you 'praised' got worse!

It is clear we need to yell at coins more.
Launch your own subscription box
Well it can also serve as DRM it can be made so it locks your OS to only the one that your device came with out of the box and any modification would be impossible.

Not the sort of behavior I would classify as "trustworthy".
> Then you're doing federated development, and you should continue to use Git or another tool that supports that style of development as a first-class activity.

So, let's say I want to work on an open source project done in fossil. Let's say I don't personally know anyone associated with the project, and kind of just want to play around with it and I'm not even sure I'll be able to fix any bugs or add any useful features, or I just want to hack on an idea I had. How do I do this? Private branches? Isn't that what git offers?

Sure, if there is never an expectation of an outsider looking at or hacking on the code, then a non-federated tool might make sense, but in any situation where the code is suppose to be public, I don't understand where the advantage is (or why I would ever voluntarily learn fossil unless as employer required it).
Yep. I stand corrected. Those are similar and on the same scale (i.e. larger than I had remembered). Like I said, there are worst sights than an old house.
A friend showed me http://gethibou.com/ yesterday. Basically the idea seems to be that you bookmark a page, highlight what you want to remember and they use spaced-repetition to help you remember it. It might go along well with the PK that you created yourself.
It's perhaps specifically a problem with YouTube, or the JS events for the video playback, or something related to that:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163327

Oh well, I'll just use a bookmarklet/AppleScript to open YouTube videos in VLC, if is too sluggish (VLC supports YouTube URLs via menu item Open Network…).
Alternatively, he could switch to the Extended Support Release (ESR) channel -- which BTW I've been using happily for years. The ESR channel gets security updates, but otherwise updates itself only once a year:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/?q=E...
I'm talking about this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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I love the focus on accessibility! (considering I can't even view their landing page without javascript).
> No one has ever found an efficient algorithm for an NP-complete problem, and most computer scientists believe no one ever will.

I find these kinds of assertions somewhat misleading. There _are_ "efficient" algorithms for, one could say, "pragmatic variations" of NP-complete problems. Some only work on some subset of cases (perhaps most of the useful ones), or non-deterministic (but you run them enough times and get the right answer), etc.
I think GP is stating that the East India Company was, inflation adjusted, the wealthiest company in history (not Apple).
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Were you told why they were removed from the front page? That's more interesting to me/the community than the fact he reinstated.
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At first it seemed strange that a Node.js-replacement needs a full IP stack including DHCP.

As far as I understood this, they are building a whole operating system to be run in a VM like QEMU which then acts like a Node.js-instance - except that it's programmed in C++ and linked as one whole exeutable which also is a complete OS.

I wonder how this compares to Docker or Sandstorm where the existing kernel API is used in a virtualized container instead of emulating a whole machine.
Hydrogen fuel cells promise to keep drones flying for hours
Android's "p2p" wifi is an implementation of wifi direct, which has one device host an AP and the other connect as a client. Real ad-hoc mode is only possible on rooted devices, and google has been ignoring this issue for years.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
Congratulations to the Angular 2 team on shipping before Christmas. The estimate was originally somewhere around early 2016, so this is a huge deal for them to get this out before the year was up. Unfortunately, Angular 2 launched into beta too late. In the amount of time that Angular 2 has taken to get to beta, ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken developers by storm with its simplistic component based approach.

Unlike React, Google does not really treat Angular as a first-class citizen because they have such split focus and conflicting React like library for web components called Polymer. They provide some resources, but nowhere near the amount of resources that Facebook throws behind React and React Native.

Now lets talk about the fact that the Angular 2 project got off to a shaky start and I know they actually rewrote various parts from scratch more than once (hence why it took so long to reach beta, approximately 2 years). That horrible templating syntax needs to be mentioned, the decision to use square and rounded brackets for binding events/data and using things like asterisks in my opinion makes Angular 2 fall into the same trap that Angular 1 did in regards to developer accessibility.

I am really loving TypeScript these days and I think the decision to support it as a first-class citizen out-of-the-box was a good one (the partnership with Microsoft definitely paid off). But with that said, I think Rob Eisenberg (of Durandal fame) beat the Angular 2 team to the punch in the small space of a year in releasing his framework Aurelia (http://aurelia.io). It is what Angular 2 should have been in my opinion. Nice syntax, convention over configuration and a breeze to use.
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I don't think that argument holds. Usually it's true, that if something hasn't lasted a long time, it likely won't last a long time in the future. But we live at a quasi-special time, close to a boundary condition.

There exists no software that has existed for 100 years, because software was invented sometime in the past hundred years. You can reductio ad absurdum that argument by saying, the week after the first software was written, that no pieces of software have lasted more than a week, and therefore very few pieces of software will last more than a week.

So very few pieces of software have lasted 40 years, because very few pieces of software were written at least 40 years ago.
This also ties back to the Reflections on Trusting Trust[0]. Living things are not made in a single factory, but are akin to the compilers compiling compilers. It's interesting to ask just how many things about us are not expressed in the DNA at all, but instead propagated implicitly by the replication mechanisms, Ken-Thompson-style.

[0] - http://fermatslibrary.com/s/reflections-on-trusting-trust