skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point 1: FB can't U-turn. Only the local telcos can do that. Judging by history they will in fact do that.

Point 2: FB is not a gatekeeper in free basics. FB simply provides a convenient door for the local telcos to open.

Point 3: The telcos, better known as the Indian government's corrupt cronies (meaning the Indian government gave ownership away to specific individuals), were, are, and will be the gatekeepers.

Making it slightly more difficult for some multinationals (other social networks, MS, linkedin, ...) to make profits in the future does not justify taking this away. If you feel this is unfair, then either convince the Indian government to provide your brand of free internet. I'm sure the amount of money that requires is a factor 10 less of what you'd think it is, which of course still makes it half a billion dollars or so.

In case you've missed it somehow. The internet is centralizing. That's the whole point of the cloud. That is what's being defended here. You're just defending one company centralizing against another. Amazon (including ec2), Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Oracle, ... all are centralized computing platforms that give you zero say in how your software runs, how your data is kept, and you can bet your ass all of these will lock you out. That is the thing they all agree on.

You seem to think this hasn't happened yet, but think about it. This has happened, it's too late.
simple10 said service works and the repo that we're all discussing mention only service workers. I think it'd be safe to assume we're all talking about service workers.
To bad Google play doesn't offer older version downloads.
I'd prefer RSI in the wrists vs. the neck, ijs. Probably works great for a healthy young woman though.
MOMSpider was the one I remember.

What's interesting about web crawling is that it has always been controversial.

Many website operators back then did not like crawlers. And that sort of sentiment continues to this day. The web has never fully consented to being indexed.

This has always struck me as odd. Perhaps there should have been more thought about a bifurcation of "private" web and "public" web. Of course in retrospect the value of the public one seems far greater; Google's corporate wealth points to that conclusion.
There has been a lot of critical attention towards theranos. I have no opinion whether it is granted or not, in general I feel critical is always good, but the volume is so high, does anyone have any insight into the intense scrutiny theranos is receiving?
DoneJS[1] a fully integrated solution that's still modular (you can use only parts of it if you want). It also has the most full-featured SSR solution of any framework out there (even goes as far as to include the correct CSS for a given page).

[1] http://donejs.com/
What is the markup in the US? We do have a markup in China, but it isn't that large...about 10% or so, which seems quite reasonable.
Hmm.

Aside from the debate over whether the speed of light
was infinite or not, a common side debate throughout
history was whether or not light originated in the eye
itself or from something else. Among the famous
scientists to believe in the “light emitted from the
eye” theory were Ptolemy and Euclid. Most who thought
this theory correct also thought the speed of light must
be infinite, because the instant we open our eyes, we
can see a vast number of stars in the night sky and that
number does not increase the longer we look, unless of
course we were previously looking at a bright light and
our eyes are adjusting to darkness.

I must be missing something. How dumb would someone have to be to think that light comes from peoples' eyes? All you have do to disprove it is ask someone if an object you're both looking at seems dimmer when you close your own eyes.
I wonder when Amazon is going to invest their ungodly earnings into UX. Their UI is absolutely terrible and I shudder every time I have to log into it. Is it purposely built that way to confuse people who don't belong in there?
Ah, you're absolutely right. I forgot WebObjects was a NeXT project. Now I'm wondering when Steve Jobs first saw the WorldWideWeb.
Full disclosure: I work for Linode and I am super biased. This is my own opinion etc etc

Perhaps the first AWS mistake you might make is... using AWS? Even before I started at Linode, I thought it was terrible. It's extremely, unreasonably pricey. The UI is terrible. Their offerings are availble elsewhere. I started MediaCrush, a now-defunct media hosting website, on AWS. After a while, we switched to dedicated hosting (really sexy servers). We were looking at $250 a month and scaled up to millions of visitors per day! I ran our bandwidth and CPU usage and such numbers through the AWS price calculator a while ago - over $20,000 per month. AWS is a racket. It seems to me like the easiest way to burn through your new startup's seed money real fast.

Edit: not trying to sell you on Linode, just disclosing that I work there. There are lots of options, just do the research before you reach for AWS.
and HTTPS :)
The article is about lithium-based batteries.
Zinc-Air batteries killing children is news to me.
link?
In general if a company is unfairly receiving bad press claiming its product is a sham, the usual response is to counteract that by being open and transparent and allowing independent assessment to disprove such claims. Want to pop in unannounced to test our product? Sure, no problem, let us show you how wonderful things are.

The fact that they keep acting all shady doesn't bode well for their efforts to claim that the current criticism against their product and leadership is inaccurate or unfair.
Or sit in a dark room, unable to see anything. There is more to it. See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)
I've never used x11 on the pi but it seems like a lot of the memory is allocated as disk cache in the default distributions. Plus if you use a crappy/huge DM/WM it will feel sluggish even on a fast computer.
GHC also has a -ddump-stg option (according to `ghc --show-options | grep stg`). I assume it does what it says on the tin...
Untrue. You could get commercial internet connections from UUNet and others much earlier (1992?)
It also seems like a lot of people really dislike TH. Half the time I see "foo is great, but it uses Template Haskell," with the implication that that's a non-starter.

Personally I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but it looks to me like it's contentious enough that it won't be added.
Maybe non-redux-specific would be useful, too?

https://github.com/xgrommx/awesome-react#boilerplates
Ask HN: Who does gravatar work?
Its a service I use a lot. I can't help but wonder how the whole service works(very technical is fine with me)
Progressive enhancement is easy. Your framework or development tools should do most of the work for you. Maybe try different tools?

> run on Gopher

Nonsense - CSS is very powerful, and all the functionality most websites need works fine with <form>s.

Part of the problem may be the difference between nice features with necessary features. Nobody would expect fancier features such as custom buttons/widgets or fancy client-side form verification to work without Javascript. You have to do all the checking on the server anyway.

> cognitive dissonance

Err, no - leaving out progressive enhancement is just lazy. Why would you prefer to shows people a broken website as a first impression? Do you even know how many people see a broken website? (i.e. do you check server logs?)
How is it different from the pro Hamas and Hezbollah protests which included nice signs like gas the Jews even in Berlin?
This is super important - I've run a number of 'oversized' instances just to get better networking. AFAIK none of the cloud providers offer a way to create a 'network' optimized instance, though containerized deployments should help with under utilizing the rest of the instance.
It's absolutely fascinating to hear this story. I'd never heard it before. That was a historically significant moment. Do you recall if the software was internally developed at NeXT or acquired from a third party?
This is obviously a parody (actually funny one : maybe a little over the top). Is no one picking this up?
Simplicial Complexes of Graphs (2008) [pdf]
What makes you think that Google will have a layoff?
Dutch city to pay everyone a basic income
There really should be a "this month's boilerplate/starter kit" site that has a starter kit using the current state of the art technology set.

Whilst this comment might sound facetious, it isn't intended to be.

The JavaScript ecosystem moves quickly and starter kits are outdated almost immediately as the JS world develops better ways to do things.

At any given month there tends to be a community accepted (to a greater or lesser extent) set of technologies that are the "current best". It would be great to be able to go there and pick up a "January 2016" ReactJS starter kit built around the "current best".

Another related idea is a website listing JavaScript technologies and every month a new poll shows how many people favor one technology over another.

Or a list that allows people to use checkboxes to select the JS technologies, with a grid showing which starter kits use that tech.
In the past during security incidents (and there have been more three than major ones in as many years), there has been absolutely no transparency from Linode management.

That's more than enough reason for serious customers to avoid Linode...
Because the middle east is not "we" while France and the rest of Europe most definitely is "us." And war is going on in Syria, so a death that occurs in the homeland isn't a casualty of war, because the war isn't occurring here. Its over there. Deaths here are caused by terrorism, deaths there are caused by war.
I suspect it's because medical stuff deserves more scrutiny than the average tech startup.
It has nothing to do with the kind of battery, just the size.

It has to do with swallowing something that can electrolyze anything wet (like the surface of your insides) into nasty chemicals that will eat holes in important things.
That doesn't really address GP's comments directly. It's never a good career move to trash someone publicly, and it's not fair to call out anonymous sources for protecting themselves from a backlash.

As for your complaint, it's certainly true that almost any angle can be supported by a single source. Good journalists can solve this by finding other sources before publishing or verifying in other ways (viewing email histories, for example).
I feel like you wouldn't be too pleased if a super-biased Amazon employee posted a similarly anecdata-filled post about Linode. Is it really a smart idea to bad-mouth AWS in a post that really doesn't intersect with what Linode provides in any substantive way?
In fact, most garbage collection variants are very pleasant to implement if you assume that your system only has one type of object. (Simple enough to ask undergraduates to do as a weekly homework.) Things get more hairy when you (1) want to support multiple objects, and (2) want to make it fast.
Turkey is wants to dump its own Kurdish problem on Iraq, this isn't that dissimilar to what Israel tried to do with its attempts to give back Gaza and the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan during both peace processes both of which refused to take those hornets nests back.

Egypt under Sadath exiled most of the Muslim brotherhood to Gaza between 56 and 67 and didn't want them back, and Jordan was already a Palestinian state demographically ruled by the last of the Hashinites with the Bedouin minority serving as their henchmen and didn't want to increase thier already quite hostile population by a third.
There's a lot more that goes into the decision than service costs. There are lots of other costs that must be considered. E.g. if using AWS can save you one employee, that alone might make it worth the extra service costs.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just that your analysis is incomplete.
Whatever Happened to Photon Rockets? (2013)
From what I read, OP did speak up at the beginning to say that backend was late, but never directly put K's methods as the center issue, to avoid 'pointing fingers'.

Even when transferred team members complained, before leaving, OP didn't state in the text that anything was brought up to management.

There are orgs where managers 'above' the team lead level are completely clueless about the technical side, and OP's company seems to be of this type if K's getting away with her behavior, meaning that she can bullshit her way through this if nobody on the same level rises the issue.

Still, I'd agree with getting out of this type of org anyway, but upon reading I just feel like OP didn't 'fight' properly. There are several levels of action that one can take in this situation: trying to influence the coworker's behavior, face to face discussion, documented report of what's wrong to management, asking for an assessment of project state by another experimented tech lead... And these actions have to be taken early on, quitting being the last resort.

Note that I'm bringing this up because I haven't seen these mentioned explicitly in OP's writeup, so I assume that none of these strategies have been tried, but I may be wrong.
A parody with a working $25000, Shopify-powered order page?

http://thumbsnap.com/i/7aninkHz.png?1226

Some next-level "parody" work there.
The origin story of Theranos is carved from pure Silicon Valley mythril: 19-year-old drops out of Stanford to build a massively disruptive startup and in short-order, receives hundreds of millions in funding and near-decaunicorn valuation. On top of that, the founder is a photogenic woman who dresses and speaks and acts as if she were Steve Jobs incarnate. And unlike Facebook and most other tech startups, Theranos was outright in its mission about achieving a meaningful and life-saving benefit for all of humanity.

In the current debacle, you again have all the classic ingredients in force: pride goeth before a fall, the extreme secrecy, the aristocracy > meritocracy, venture capitalists all wearing the VC equivalent of beer-goggles, the ignorance and laziness of tech media exposed. You even have a co-inventor who committed suicide and, for no obvious reason, Henry Kissinger is just hanging out.

The fact that Theranos aimed so high in its disruptive mission has come to bite it a bit...it's one thing to butt heads against government regulations when just making it easier for people to catch a ride or sleep on a couch. A lot different when you're allegedly subverting regulations explicitly constructed around human health.

Basically, there's popcorn for everyone.
Not maxing it out, but many people have an automatic 5-15% payroll deduction that may even be on by default. That money is already out of sight and out of mind, same as tax withholding. Whereas not draining the checking account requires more deliberate discipline.
I've heard this a few times -- AWS is a very complex product that gives you a lot of freedom in how you build your product using it. I think the web UI works about as well as it could given that complexity.

If you want something simpler, you have Heroku and a bunch of similar things which make a bunch of decisions for you -- but you don't have the flexibility there that you do with AWS of course.
It acts like Alfred web search, but in command line. I still prefer Alfred, but for those who use Linux it is convenient if you do not use vimperator.
Lack of memory seems to be the main issue I've hit with the Pi. Having the Graphics card use the system memory gives you the worst of both worlds with so little memory to begin with.
Women in US lagging behind in human rights, UN experts report
That's alignment, not indentation. There's a semantic difference there.
Auto CRLF is awesome for languages I use. Which ones can it change meaning in?
Too bad this otherwise good article thinks pop culture references are needed and funny. They are not.
I interpreted this to indicate a tribal connection. Where Ruby developers have explored and migrated to other languages like Scala and JavaScript their indent preferences have remained. Obviously this is conjecture but one could test the theory to see which users commit to which types of languages to spot some trends.
So your question isn't "what's going on here?" but "why do so many people want to know what's going on here?"

Is Theranos holding open tryouts for their PR department or something?
Huh, interesting - what browser is that?
Download links available from https://csound.github.io/download.html

apk: http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound6/Csound6...

I would like an f-droid version as well.
QuantumLink for life. (Actually, I couldn't afford QuantumLink and used bulletin boards, instead.)
Hey that's great folklore! Do you have a link with more of this story?
I'm sure there's a situation where AWS saves money on TCO. If you ever find it, please let us know.
I read that a few months ago and was incredibly upset when I turned to the last page.

Such a fun read, requires no more than early college math (maybe not even that), but dives deep into some really, really interesting and quirky problems.

Can't recommend it enough.
Considering he put the disclaimer that he is super-biased up front, I personally appreciate the insider review
All this progression rings true, but also the initial attraction of Perl. Back in the late '90s I used Perl at a job where everyone else worked in C. This was in the days that programmers of compiled languages were skeptical of interpreted languages. One day a friend invited me by where he worked, where the sysadmin was a "real computer guy". The sysadmin turned out to be a man with long hair and a long gray beard. He was using a very thin Sony laptop with Linux and a command-line TTY (he said he'd never bothered to install X-Windows) and after he deployed a new release of the company's code using a single command and started nmap running on the internal network (he wanted to see who else was running a Unix), he asked me what sort of programming I did. I was a bit cowed, and apologetically said that I didn't really program, I only did scripting in Perl. He looked at me in the eye for the first time and said, "Perl is most bodaciously a real programming language."

Seeing Perl 6 release notes like "Use of EVAL now requires a declaration of ‘use MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVAL’" and "Non-digit unicode characters with a numeric value (½ and such) can now be used for that numeric value" reminds me of the nerd coolness of Perl, so different from the straightforward sensible air of Python. I don't see many deep-hacker sysadmins these days, but I hope the excitement of Perl 6 can inspire some inefficiently marvelous coders...
I have trouble learning Python for the past decade, after I learned Perl in order to deal with DNA sequences and BLAST APIs in college. Although its syntax is straight forward, I failed to find any inner feeling to comprehend it.
Because the Rpi doesn't have much in actual working acceleration for X, it's all CPU driven for drawing, and display. That's one reason for hoping the VC4 stuff gets into the 4.5 kernel, then the KMS driver and Gallium3d should be workable on the PIs allowing for a much saner X experience.
No knowledge of the biotech, but this is really shady. Above-board companies simply do not look like this.

1) Refusal to use the ground-breaking technology:

>Then I asked about what Theranos calls “nanotainers” or tiny vials that can give you test results with a single drop of blood.

>“Oh you have to order that separately,” she informed me. “We take those intravenously if you bundle a bunch of tests together.”

>[...]I then informed them I was a journalist and would like to take the test separately to test the technology. They told me I would still need to order it separately.

2) Sudden delays and bizarre excuses when you insist on using their ground-breaking technology and identify as a journalist:

> So I went to order it separately.

>That’s when things got weird. It took much longer to process this separate order at the counter. I was told it was because they had to manually type in my order on the other end.

>[...]I spoke with Chris, the Theranos manager, on the phone who informed me it was about supplies. Okay, but the people with the supplies to administer [the] test thought I could take it until management said they could not that day.

3) Extreme concern with following a central PR script when people ask questions:

>Then I walked myself back to the testing center and could overhear one of the women on the phone with management in a panicked voice telling them I was a journalist doing an investigative piece (I wasn’t, just curious as to how it worked).

4) Scouts that are instructed to alert central command whenever people start asking questions (edit: especially when that was during a patient consultation):

>I reached out to Theranos head of communications Brooke Buchanan for an explanation as well. She’d already been informed I was in the store today.

5) Insistence that you check only specific cases of their product:

> I was asked why I chose not to go to the Theranos main office in Palo Alto for a test instead [of the Walgreen's location the author went to].

Also -- just a personal observation -- the use of the phrase "at this time" strongly correlates with how badly someone wants you to stop asking questions (police officers citing you, HR employees with bad news, PR spokespeople in a bind, etc).
I don't think it's appropriate for me to comment on security incidents (before my time, anyway), but I'm not trying to sell people on Linode here. MediaCrush was actually using a combination of Voxility and Digital Ocean (and Route 53, actually). There are lots of options, guys.
I'm hopeful that Perl 6 will prove more endearing and long-lasting than Duke Nukem Forever, which was, frankly, a stinker (then again, we all grew up waiting for it, and Duke's 12 year old boy humor does not age gracefully).
> A world where data tracking people's behaviour is useful to those wanting to sell them products.

Like...Apple-branded shaving cream?

In all seriousness, this is not a situation Apple cares enough about to spend time parsing logs/activity streams.
Umm, does linode offer higher level services like SQS, Lambda, SWF and friends?
For quite a long time, mongodb defaulted to buffering writes (presumably to win benchmarks) and dropping errors on the floor. Storage is not the only layer at which their dangerously poor judgment could screw me and my users.
AWS hands out credits like candy and there's tons of ways to get AWS credit or earn it. I wouldn't be surprised if cash-strapped startups built on AWS credit to go out and get funding and then just never move off of it.
I don't think this book is it, but I've been trying to find a book that covers the spread of literacy as it relates to the invention of the press, i.e. the "Learn to Code" movement of the 16th-century, in that it must not have been immediately evident that learning to read and write for oneself would have a lot of practical value (e.g. "Why do you need to do that when we have priests who talk directly to God? And what if you misread the Scriptures and f*ck everything up?").

I gather that the advent of mass literacy, as we know it, is likely influenced by many other factors, such as changes in agriculture and, well, the Industrial Revolution, and other such things that changed how we work and live. But I'm interested in the century or two after Gutenberg, what the valuation of literacy was now that there was something that made its fruits much more pragmatically accessible?
The return of the Honky Chateau
I wondered about that too. In some of those benchmarks, the Pi was only 4x faster or so. But the 700 MHz Pi clock is about 12x faster than the 60 MHz SPARC. So in a same clock rate test (e.g. a theoretical 700 MHz SuperSparc), it seems like the SPARC should be faster.

I have an SMP SparcStation 20 in the closet (either 2- or 4-way, can't remember). I should dig it out and run those benchmarks myself.