skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So people publish this, but for some reason, either these are high quality ideas, or they resonate with me better, but I really like them a lot.

Since it is open, I might do some and who knows, it might even work.
Sure, peasant populations where often really short relative to us for a range of reasons. But, but that says little about 45,000 era hunter gather lifestyles.

PS: I have wondered if part of the disdain historic rulers had for the lower classes was not just education, but also poor nutrition lowering IQ's. Diet can easily make a 30 point difference in IQ which is huge.
Trippism
SherpaShare Pulse – The Voices of Drivers
The principles of a non-shitty sale
Asimov was my favorite Golden Age SF Writer.

And by Golden Age I mean roughly 13 years old.

More than his fiction, his books on science had a tremendous influence on me during my larval stage. I still have my old copy of "Asimov's Guide To Science" on my bookshelf.
Linux namespaces with aggressive seccomp and other attack surface reduction.

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices...

Linux has CVEs all the time, but our approach seems to mitigate most of them:

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-non-event...

I suspect you'll find those two pages answer many of your questions. :)
Brave seems to acknowledge a smaller part of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" [1], where you're paying to access content.

From the Project Xanadu Wikipedia article:
"9. Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document."

Ted's approach is (in my view) also a deduplication effort, as you're citing the original content, tracing it back to its origin by reference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
I like this Moon analogy you've made. I'm sure it's a broad stroke but still serves as a simple and effective answer to the question. Thanks.
"I'm a Software Engineer with around 5 years of experience hired as a junior developer 1.5 years back but perform on the level of a Senior Engineer."

I've met many junior level engineers that think they are senior, but just don't have the experience yet.

Being senior is as much about the wisdom and experience as it is the programming aptitude (which is only one part of it).

I don't think you can be considered 'senior' with only 5 years of experience total.

With that said, if you are unhappy with your current wage, start looking for another job. This is exactly how I got raises every few years when I worked as a developer.
I think the op was referencing buying a bunch, shipping them to Amazon, and then selling them via FBA, so people can buy it with prime shipping.
Cronicante13: El objetivo
I think there are cases where the company spends pretty much all the money trying several pivots and never comes up with a viable product; but the founders still want to try again. At that point, if the company really isn't worth anything (in particular, has no IP) then I can see that it might be acceptable to scratch it and start over.

Your point is well taken, though. I wonder if there might not be a middle ground, where a new company is formed with the old company owning some of its stock. This gives the new venture a cleaner cap table while not completely screwing the original investors.
I predict that Meteor will won't go anywhere in 2016. I know this sounds negative so I'll try to explain. The surface area of Meteor is still too large. Keep in mind this is a venture backed company, people are getting big salaries to work on a framework. Look at what it's led to: in house tools like Blaze which even the creators are already tired of. At best Meteor will be 90% cannibalized and replaced with open source tools (as this blog post is implying), and sit properly in the same place as other CMSes, which inherently don't get that popular. What's worrying about this post in particular is it's not business focused, and the only long term company goal mentioned is "meteor will be a back end solution that makes sense." To what end? Why wouldn't you do that in a non-profit or pure open source model?
That was a deliberate design choice for Drupal 7. The reasons were:

- Loose coupling. Drupal has been becoming increasingly API-centric and storage engine agnostic. Focusing on the physical storage schema for a DB engine misses the point of the architecture.

- Performance(!) Supports schema changes on existing large datasets (migrations are only starting to appear in Drupal 8, and elsewhere bring their own complexities when you want zero downtime). Unsurprisingly there was some gnashing of teeth when this 'table per field' approach was introduced and as a result it was decided to build denormalized read layers on top (materialised views and bundles). However, it turned out that they showed no perf improvement over Drupal's object caching whilst adding complexity to the design and were therefore abandoned. (The fact that this performs as well as materialised views speaks very positively of Drupal's architecture and code quality.)

- Multiple revisions of any data.

- Multilingual capabilities.

- Support of tree type data models.

https://www.drupal.org/node/1035804#comment-6860070

On the whole I would call this a thoughtful and reasonable design choice, and one that is supported by real-world implementation on millions of sites at all scales.
I'd like to think of Patreon as validation for this model of supporting content creators. Even if Patreon can't turn a profit (which seems impossible considering the amount of money going through them), it's validated the idea that consumers are willing to pay the people they like to make the content they like.
Everybody is commenting about loving Aasimov, but did anyone read the article? I read it 3 times and it still makes no sense to me. What is this all about?
The progression of USB Type-C is simply going to continue to split the web of port connectors as we enter into a season where Thunderbolt 3.0 is already confusing everyday users vs Thunderbolt v.1&2.

What we need is a single identifier for a wireless standard, not the continued progression in port and the problem with icon design. USB was supposed to the universal port, but even what the author suggests will be the dawn of a new era of connectivity, what we really should be relishing are new steps in wireless methodology.
Looking at the course page, it does indeed look like meteor is a good fit; it appears that if the course was from the late 90s it would be 2 parts html, 1 part css and 1 part cgi.

But for a little higher level I always liked web2py[1] - it always felt like they managed to balance bundling/simplicity with proper documentation that build confidence in what is (and is not) included: like having a db schema accompanying the section on built-in auth[2].

But it certainly fails the test of "just one language". And it appears their chosen host (pythonanywhere) need to fresh up their SNI/SSL handling.

[1] http://www.web2py.com

[2] http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/09/access-control
I think it depends on what kind of article you're looking at. It's related to a political issue early in the U.S. election year, so there's alot of noise from people who don't usually comment. Only 10.5 months until the nonsense goes away for awhile.
what are the best resources to learn about streaming, dataflow, etc? Not necessarily the Google implementations, but the core concepts backing them.
Air travel is still only responsible for about 2% to 3% of global anthropogenic carbon emissions.

This figure has remained constant mostly because even though air travel has increased jet engines these days are much more efficient than 25 years ago.
Redux is literally ~100 lines of code (you can check out Dan Abramov's Egghead.io series about it in which he basically rebuilds Redux).

I'm among the many people who previously used vanilla flux and prefer what the Redux style brings to it.
Um, link for the cats? That sounds like a comic I would enjoy!
I always ask myself in these cases, what do you mean by "progress"?
Fission is effectively catalyzed radioactive decay from neutrons at the right energy levels. There could be some differences in decay products, but simply waiting will eventually release that energy. http://www.mpoweruk.com/nuclear_theory.htm
What does an Oracle audit look like? This one certainly wasn't pretty
That's exactly how it works. The example doesn't show more than one, but it will return multiple resolutions ranked with a confidence percent (the meaning of which depends on the method) as long as it's above a reasonable threshold.

Usually multiple results are a misdetection -- for example heavily compressed JPEGs will mess it up pretty badly:

$ convert Lenna.png -quality 50 Lenna.jpg
$ resdet Lenna.jpg
given: 512x512
best guess: 448x384
all width height
448 (77.49%) 384 (90.19%)
384 (66.99%) 448 (89.78%)
320 (60.68%) 320 (72.54%)
388 (55.92%) 256 (56.43%)
445 (55.49%)
345 (55.47%)
242 (55.06%)

(the block-based nature of JPEG compression/quantization creates a similar zeroing effect along every 1/8 of the spectrum)
Phoenix is the only other thing that really appeals to me as something I want to try that is fun. That was the great thing about Meteor, it got a lot of shit done, and it was fun. That's important.

What do you do to hook into Elixir? What's your tech-stack for the other side of the back-end?

I was looking into phoenix/elxir generating GraphQL but that seems pretty immature and at least a year out to be comparable with Minimongo/ddp.
Can someone chime in as to whether React won the frontend war? As in the super majority of new project will be developed in React. I'm not that well-versed in the Node ecosystem (I got my news from ... HN). But from little I've seen, I found it hard to believe that React would be able to react the place where jQuery was (is?).

Heck, we even have a post staying on the front page today lamenting the inferiority of React.
Little Yangon, a Gathering Place for Burmese in Tokyo
I completely agree and I'm excited about this vision for Meteor. The dream would be to have a go-to choice with formidable standards that Just Works.

Personally, what I wish existed was a full-stack framework AND dev ops built with the "best" open source libraries. I'm fine with not having my favorite X if it means having a set of well supported, highly performant with lots of documentation and training materials services that work perfectly together.

Starting a new project the "right way" is a pain right now. Again, I would gladly trade my favorite libraries/tools for a great full-stack solution (including dev ops, continuous integration, roll-back deployment, scalable servers, etc etc.)

Software engineering is still a new field and it's hard to establish "best ways of doing things", but I'm wondering if it'll start converging to "The Proper Way". Similar to how building houses is pretty straightforward. Of course, part of the reason that it's hard to do in software engineering is because technology keep changing so fast.. I.e. Tools from a few years ago will most likely not play well with VR stuff.
That's the wrong way to think about it! You need to think about the system not the individual transactions ;-)

Do you pay more for web pages from China than you do from the USA because they travel further? Why not?

The problem is that the whole accounting and tracking overhead would be far more than it's worth.

The only real issue is whether the total income from carrying traffic is bigger than the total cost of running the network.

Yes, there are anomalies with China because Chinese charges reflect Chinese costs (and government subsidies, if any). The fact that USPS has higher costs is not something the Chinese have to worry about -- or not until the US negotiates higher fees via the Universal Postal Union.

Otherwise, the USPS charges a lot for overseas mail, so it makes extra profits when that mail is delivered in low-cost countries such as China and India. On the whole, it probably breaks even or comes out ahead....
> The crux of the problem is that not all USB Type-C connectors support all of these different capabilities and, with one important exception, it’s almost impossible for an average person to figure out what a given USB Type-C equipped device supports without doing a good deal of research.

A Google engineer has been reviewing USB Type-C cables on Amazon, in order to resolve some of the confusion[0]. His reviews have since been collected in a spreadsheet[1].

0: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leave...

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3robzo/google_spre...
Pgsql: Support parallel joins, and make related improvements
Can anyone ELI5 what it means for an open source project to become an Apache project? Why doesn't Google just push the code on Github?
>policy solution?

You could always look to the rest of the developed world which doesn't seem to have quite the same issues
People always say that it's about the 'execution' and not the 'idea', but it's still not a good idea to share your good ideas until you are sure you either will not use it or have already gone past the initial execution stage.

Why? There might be a person that has way more resources than you do (or is just better at executing) and will beat you to the market.
Ah, thanks for clarifying what round that was, and kudos to David! Like I said, you guys have been doing a better job distinguishing between your accelerator and venture portfolio, although that hasn't always been the case.

In a similar vein, what are your thoughts on Techstars calling themselves "the #1 startup accelerator in the world" and claiming "the best results" for their program? Given that YC's performance is roughly ~12X yours, this does seem to be somewhat of a misstatement. That is, unless you're claiming to be #1 for some arbitrary metric that isn't actually the benchmark for your industry (which to be clear, is the market cap of the companies you fund).

I think Techstars is clearly a great program, but stuff like that just strikes me as disingenuous. :)
I just use Phoenix/Elixir. I can wire it with React, but honestly I am starting to question this. Only if I really need React, I will actually use it.
So far I work on simpler stuff, api's and smaller apps.
Yep, sorry if I was unclear. FedEx has local offices around Australia, USPS is handled by Australia Post, UPS is handled by whoever has the contract at the moment.
> - can't change the pin for my card online.

I can't see a way for a chip card's PIN to be updated online, without physical access to the card.
From my own experience, this might be a good time for Atmel employees to polish their resumes.
Really appreciate this response. I think you're someone I'd like in person. I agree with most of the above, and have a similar attitude in many ways.

A few points I have key differences on. You'll probably get where I'm coming from, even if you don't agree.

> We have a process, a set of rules and laws for deciding what to do when you and I disagree on what is right for other people. This is what our political system is for; to solve these sorts of disputes in a organized way, without degenerating into war or lynching or what have you. I mean, it doesn't always work... but the political system is the tool for the problem, and while not perfect, it's a pretty good tool. Certainly, it's the best tool we have; people should be encouraged to use it rather than direct action, I think.

Well, back to your point about functioning in the real world, this process has all sorts of backdoors and "corruptions" which probably account for the majority of what actually gets done in the world. Campaign financing, backroom deals, organized community pressure, deals with powerful religious leaders, straight up bribes, and on and on. So losing your job in a public position of a very public company because of public outrage seems not only in keeping with the way the real politics work, but also on the tamer side of those workings. Had he been a rank and file programmer at a consultancy in SF, and somehow lost his job for the same reason, I'd agree that something wrong had happened. I think it's naive, though, even damagingly idealistic, to pretend that those situations don't have important differences.

> I want to acknowledge the question you bring up here, which I read as: "Is this (accepting people who have abhorrent values) actually a good thing? or is it just something I tell myself so that I can function in society? Is this just my rationalization?"

This really gets to the heart of the matter. Don't know about you, in particular, but I do think, in general, that the "I'm so tolerant I tolerate intolerance" position serves those with a bias against conflict and a blindness (often wrought of idealism) about just how steadfastly and unreasonably evil some people are (I'm not talking about Eich here anymore). It's disheartening to me that many who hold this belief are well-intentioned, intelligent, otherwise good people. Because I believe it does have pernicious consequences, in the "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" sense. Or, to take a game-theoretical perspective on it, as long as people can be racist or sexist or otherwise evil with little loss of social power, such people will continue to flourish. And, in an example of the tragedy of the commons, it takes only a very small percentage of them to wreak havoc.

Of course, there are gray areas here about what consititutes evil, but I don't think suppressing equality of basic freedoms is one of them.
I really wanted to like this concept, but I think I have identified my philosophical nit:

Client side templating takes advantage of the structure of data to predefine reusable components which minimize bandwidth and latency.

Intercooler could provide a class system that predefines inheritable element configurations, but I feel like verbosity is their core tenet.
The three things to keep in mind about radix sort are A) It's noncomparative, while other sorting algorithms' performance is measured in number of comparisons, so there's a bit of apples-and-oranges going on. B) What is `k` for `n` unique keys? Log(n). So O(kn) is...? C) Despite those considerations, in practice radix sort can often outperform everything else, so use where appropriate.
I think it did, but this is JS we are talking about and tide will turn quickly.
The Electric Car may be entering its “cell phone” period
Off-cpu flame graphs are probably my favorite tool for discovering possible optimizations. They can also be created efficiently using SystemTap since you can do pretty much anything in-kernel. In fact, I was able to really narrow in by limiting my set of stack traces to only times when the process had been asleep for longer than some time. We had a network server where the p999 and p9999 latencies would spike up very occasionally (a few minutes out of an hour). Looking at the traces where the process was blocked for a long time pinpointed the exact issue and we were able to fix the problem.
They have pushed it to GitHub I think they are giving it to apache to be more vendor neutral.
> There is still a lot of that material

I never said there wasn't. The cleanup is ongoing and will take a very long time, but it still isn't "destroyed for good". At least the caesium eventually goes away. The Pb, Hg, and As in the 1.1 billion gallons of fly ash slurry that the Tennessee Valley Authority spilled[0] over homes and into the Emory and Clinch rivers doesn't have a half life.

> economy and agriculture

The tsunami also did incredible damage to the economy and agriculture of Japan.

> Can you claim without flinching that this will never ever happen?

Absolutely. Even the idiotic RBMK design can be run safely after being modified to fix the void coefficient. I suggest actually reading my link[1] above, which explain in great detail the problems in the design of that reactor. Even with those problems, it took incredible effort[2] to trigger the steam explosion.

> 'heroes of Chernobyl'

I'm give a lot of respect and thanks to those that had to deal with Chernobyl's immediate aftermath and the 600,000 liquidators that were part of the cleanup afterwords. In particular, the 3828 people that cleaned up the worst section of roof in two minute shifts. Their story - in their own words[3] - is something I will never forget.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...

[1] http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/chernobyl.html

[2] https://leatherbarrowa.exposure.co/chernobyl

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDa8tR25dk
One interesting thing about React is how some big names (Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Yahoo) rallied to React instead of creating their own libraries, whereas they all had their own-cooked libraries before.

Also, which is more of a personal opinion, but I've tried a lot of frameworks/libraries and React is the first one that really "clicked" with the way I work and design. I don't think it will "replace jQuery", but for modern single web application, I think React is the way to go. Or said differently, "Nobody will get fired for choosing React" ;)
The sad state of web development
The selection still happened: It's probably the main reason we're still here and the other homo species aren't.
Sure the startups that make the most noise are typical VC backed businesses. The ones you don’t hear about are the ones where the founders control 100% of the business, are in highly profitable niches, and where they make a few million a year in profit which they get to keep.

These type of businesses get very little press, but they are very good to own and run - I of course know nothing about them :)
I disagree with saying "instantly made rich" (with respect to Patreon). The reality is closer to what you stated in the last sentence of your comment.

This is actually why I like Patreon... the model seems to align more with sustainability.
Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks
First we had mSATA and M.2 types A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M with profiles S1, S2, S3, D1, D2, D3, D4, and D5. Now we have USB Type-C which may-or-may-not support a handful of other standards, speeds, and wattages.

What happened? Did the hw/cable vendors take over the standards bodies and "growth hack" in some defensive differentiation?
Ali has already beat you to that and has Amazon fulfill some of their larger items.
Who do people still smoke? It's been know to cause cancer for 50+ years and is expensive. It's not like the education isn't there (I've seen anti-smoking ads on TV for the past 10 years and at the theater before seeing a movie).

Just like alcohol, it seems to be people that willingly want to be taxed.

I don't see it as a problem.
After gzipping and so on, I would contend that most partial HTML payloads (outside the original frame of a web application) compare relatively favorably with the equivalent JSON payloads.
It just a summary of who he is and how he operates.
I'm pretty sure the parent is talking about burning advertisements into the content, where instead of having separate images (content images, and ad images), they are the same images with advertisements baked into the content images, videos, etc.