skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atmel is so visible though, no wonder they're getting gobbled up. From a hobbyist point of view, I see so many projects involving Atmel chips is almost makes me think they have a monopoly on that, growing, segment of the market. This probably has as much to do with cheaper cost as it does with (relative) ease of use.
The postal service is a networked delivery service, just like the Internet. The difference is that the data packets are physical envelopes.

Now, the cost of running the postal service is the cost of supporting the whole network of delivery vans, sorting offices, collections and so on, including all the staff.

The cost of supporting the network is the same whether it carries a very large number of packets or zero packets (up to the point where you have to add infrastructure to cope with extra traffic. Yes, like the Internet).

This economic structure means you can carry traffic at a marginal cost if you know the cost of supporting the whole network is covered.

All of which was worked out before Sir Rowland Hill launched the Uniform Penny Post in the UK in 1840. This disrupted the whole messenger business (where you paid for distance traveled) and was widely copied everywhere else. After that, nations formed a Universal Postal Union on the basis that "we'll deliver your letters if you deliver ours" (like the Internet).

In the early days of the public Internet (early 1980s), I used to explain how it worked by comparing it to the penny post. It's nice to be able to do the reverse ;-)
Needing to have satellites and needing indigenous design/build/launch capabilities are very different. Most satellite users do not design, build, or launch their own satellites.
Assembly Is Too High Level: SIB Doubles
Here is an "Hello, World!" generated by C-Reduce (a compiler bug finder with genetic algorithm):

#include "ostream"
namespace std {
basic_ostream cout;
ios_base::Init x0;
}
int main() { std::cout << "Hello"; }

The ostream content is very interesting:

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1278

Wren is a cool language :-)
There's a far better way to do this, which essentially decomposes into an insertion sort. Details here: https://github.com/theocean154/dau/tree/master/sort
This is my best guess too. As a founder of a moderately successful startup that has never been through an accelerator or taken outside investments I have had to be 100% focused on the business and its success by necessity.

Why there is great value in a program like YC, it appears easy as a founder to fall into the trap of thinking getting into YC is an end in itself. This can’t be good for business success.
That works, until the plane really is full and you need a new one, or your letter carrier really is fully occupied and you need a second person.

It makes little sense to give nearly everyone free shipping, but charge every 100,000th person $50,000 because their item was the one that needed a new plane. So instead, they divide the cost across all the stuff that gets shipped so everyone pays a share. That per-item cost is typically more than what these sellers are charging, thus the questioning.
As a Carolinian I can't help feeling left out when I look at their proposed map. Even if this is just fiction at this point, I would be interested in hearing their reason for completely bypassing both Carolinas.
> spent thousands of hours working for free to get to the point where anyone would pay them.

That's still true. Writing for the web is generally a low-paying job. It would be even lower if the media properties went out of business.
Exactly. Loss leader, plus the fact that they now have a list of customers that are not only active and recurring but quite literally pay Amazon to buy from them. The avg yearly purchases of an Amazon Prime member is more than double the site avg.

I also think there's a sense of membership that if you are paying you might as well enjoy the benefits.

I personally enjoy Amazons packaging. I know my items will be well packaged, whereas there's always a surprise on Ebay or other store. I have chosen ship with Prime (Fulfilled by Amazon) on items that other Amazon sellers have cheaper.

It's just more consistent and efficient. And that's sort of a benefit.
Extended validation, and the other products they already offer.
Then enjoy your doubting. Even on the geekiest websites I don't click on ads, I barely even see them; except when they slow down loading and rendering, Then I go mean in and pass it through printfriendly.com. And for other products well meh, I'm not a "consumer", and few ads will ever make me believe any product is really that valuable to me. I have soap and water thank you.
I'm sure you'll think of something. Interesting how there was evidence that Marconi was stealing some of Bose's IP - some things never change.
In the article? The bones showed spear damage, jaw damage consistent with removing the tongue, and part of one tusk removed. No other 'butcher marks' were mentioned.
thanks, yes you're right. i also write for free but can't share everything unpaid. do you know anything about sites like tutsplus.com pay authors or not?
Humans have always tended to sprawl out. Arguably, all successful animals do as they reach the carrying capacity of their local environment and seek out adjacent territories. I don't think they were moving fast or far enough to notice the weather changing; by the time the next generation comes of age, a slightly colder climate is just "how it's always been." Repeat until Arctic.
rate of occurrence is the same as certainty when it comes to p values, isn't it? At least 6.9 million hits use both phrases - https://www.google.com/search?q=p+values+certainty+%22rate+o...

The top one might be interesting here.
>It is trivial to have the payment messages happen in near-real time. [...] receiving institution simply trusts that they'll receive the money and releases the money as soon as they can //

Surely the message is "the money", it's not like a truck pulls up at the bank each night with the transaction balance for the day?

I don't see how there's a risk if there's a transactional process: for example Bank A sends request for money from B (eg to fulfill a payment by debit card); B reserves the money and sends a verified payment (crypto signed and what-have-you); A processes the payment and increments the relevant account with reserved funds and sends a receipt to B; B processes the receipt completes the decrease on the relevant account using the previously reserved fund and acknowledges the receipt; A receives the acknowledgement and verifies the funds as available in the account.

So, if B doesn't have funds to reserve then the payment can't be processed and A won't acknowledge any receipts claiming the transfer of monies. "A" thus won't increase a balance for any accounts. Where's the risk?
I had read the whole discussion when it was posted originally.

And while I understand moxie's concerns about fdroid, and I would like fdroid to fix these, I'm not sure if he is making the correct compromise. Getting access to Google Play throughout the regular route implies getting closed stuff from Google into your phone...
The Rise and Fall of a Small Orange (How EIG Ruins Web Hosts)
congrats to eugene and the blend team! have seen them come a long way :)
Yes, it should. That's what my entire comment says.

Each kind of contract is used in different kinds of situations. That doesn't mean it makes sense to be that way. Much of that is antiquated tradition. The kind of thinking that gave rise to Uber in the first place.
Not sure Americans are going to give up driving their 15mpg SUVs and F150s when gas is dropping to $1.50/gallon

Maybe millennials or their children will finally think differently though.

ps. I really hope it was a marketing idiot and not an engineer that came up with the concept photo of the tube sitting lower than the bridge so ships cannot pass.
Ships, airplanes, trucks, and postal workers have substantial ongoing costs. The marginal cost of additional traffic is still pretty high, and indications are that these sellers are getting away with paying less than that actual marginal cost.
Having worked on a small/medium React application after stepping back once the work was complete it began to dawn on me that React wasn't the holy grail of web development. The number of packages needed in order to glue parts together, the managing of state at times is just confusing and on boarding new team members can be painful. Not to mention the constant battle with updating packages and API churn of these packages. But what React does have is an incredible community and a very large backing (Facebook). There is also some very intelligent people working on React (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov, https://twitter.com/schrockn, https://twitter.com/soprano to name a few)

The idea of Elm (http://elm-lang.org/) excites me greatly but then again what's to say that Elm will be dead in a years time? My question, is there a framework out there that mixes the better parts of React (virtual dom, large community), the idea of functional programming and a server side aspect to build the back end in one package?
Maybe part of the "JavaScript fatigue" is that, as each shiny new toy rolls in, the ensuing commentary immediately elevates it to The One Solution We've All Been Waiting For --- followed just as quickly by No This Is The Most Flawed Solution Ever They Got It All Wrong And Here's Why....

The reality is that many species can coexist in the same habitat. You don't have to pick just one. Cats don't have pincers, but does that have to mean lobsters are superior? Nope.
I've been seeing news stories about Planet X for far too long to take any of this seriously, no matter how seemingly trustworthy the news source is.
To counter this anecdote with my own, I often get "2 day" shipping items delivered the day before they were supposed to arrive. Likewise, there's been multiple times where I've walked out the front door on the way to work at ~8AM and my package is already sitting there. Maybe it has something to do with location?
I don't know that there's a way for them to be "objective". Like n0us said, no framework's perfect, and anybody who chooses something or builds something is going to tell you the thing they chose or built is the best, or at least better; if they didn't think that, they'd be using a different option. I've used React and Angular. They're both fine. They're just ways of doing the job. You can build stuff in them. The whole "pick a side and engage in a holy war" style of debate in programming is ridiculous, but it gets the clicks and pays the bills.
The technical origins of “death algorithms” in self-driving cars
There is ScrapyRT: http://blog.scrapinghub.com/2015/01/22/introducing-scrapyrt-...

In the project I work on we do have the usual periodic crawls and use ScrapyRT to let the frontend trigger realtime scrapes of specific items, all of this using the same spider code.

Edit: Worth nothing that we trigger the realtime scrapes via AMQP.
Thanks! And yeah, I considered many times to switch over to a subscription model. But I wasn't convinced that the numbers would actually net higher than what I was doing here. I've got a friend/"competitor" in the same space as me on a subscription model and we've exchanged numbers before. I don't know that one is better than the other.

And yes! It's on the list of things to do. Need to put those referrals on the site sometimes soon.
I wonder how quickly routing resources will cause the fan-out time to hurt the speed of sort as well.

Also fun is Radix Sort. If you can guarantee a fixed size key(say 32bits) a Radix Sort will do O(kN) where k is usually 1-4 based on your cache line size. Destroys any other sort due to linear data reads by almost an order of magnitude in some cases. I've used on on some previous gigs to sort thousands of quads front-to-back in record time on some older ARM chips.
Thanks for the handshake tone! The more, the merrier: did anyone archive examples from 1200bps up?

I've also been fruitlessly searching for line noise examples ~~~~~}}~00 etc. Remote Access had a line noise simulator; someone has to have details…
I like the comparison, maybe there was even a political reason for telling people they'd fall off the earth if they tried to go somewhere..
I feel the same about what to learn to get a job (I'm a college senior). I like the ideas behind Cycle better (and in fact I am using Cycle in my senior thesis), but job-wise I cannot ignore React/Redux/React Native. Fortunately I don't dislike those; I just like Cycle better.
I really agree with this. But I have to say it's not just companies. Look at the fast pace of open source software, web frameworks, etc.

So much focus on "getting there quickly." A few keystrokes and a marketing page, and everyone's using "Foo.js" v0.0.1.

And then you're spending time as a developer dealing with deprecations because APis changed.

But as painful as that is, I believe we need external feedback to deliver better software. Trying a thing, seeing how it's used, and improving it is a good way to go.

It is just going to result in bad times in the short term.
The number of packages needed in order to glue parts together and the managing of state at times is just confusing.

Sounds like there's an opportunity to package a lot of those things together into a single Rails-like "opinionated" package.
Meituan-Dianping Raises $3.3B Round at $18B Valuation
When you get older

I'm 35 - how old are you?
Well, it looks like they left off Boston?!? Given their graph, they are certainly making some routes pretty foolish.

Being in North Dakota, I'm not very amused either.

I do believe someone who expects to build a tube with no stops across a whole state is going to learn a bit about politics.
on a tangential note about free shipping, aside from this China mystery, there is no such thing as free shipping. free shipping is a marketing ploy which makes you feel like you are getting some value where you actually lose it. when you add the shipping component of an online purchase into the item price, it removes the ability for you to save when you purchase multiple items. each one is priced as if it were being shipped on it's own.
I'd gladly trade more boilerplate for stability and confidence of non-breaking updates. You can also write higher-order components to DRY things up.
What is the best way for founders to structure their pivots then in your opinion?
Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age
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If I'm watching 2 streams and #1 is on intermission, I can watch #2 without worrying about missing #1 the instant it returns.
They're not discouraging people from seeking help elsewhere, they're just saying that going through any accelerator starts the clock on your company.
> Ships, airplanes, trucks, and postal workers have substantial ongoing costs.

Yes, those are the network costs, ie the cost of supporting the collection-and-delivery network. They're assumed to be (more or less) constant, regardless of traffic.

You don't make any money running a network with empty vans.
There is a large gap between survival and having a well-balanced diet for 13+ developmentally critical years. As strange as these sounds, the US actually has problems in this area resulting in a noticeably shorter population. There where likely successful tribes in the short term 45,000 years ago where people actually grew to 6 feet in height, but the average case is likely worse.

One thing to consider is population growth was fairly slow overall. Just 5% every 100 years and 2 people grow to ~6.8 billion in 45,000 years and there where far more than 2 people back then.
>Obviously YC is now also funding energy and biotech companies that are at least as risky as anything from 2005, but if you look at the verticals where they've been active the longest it certainly seems like the trend in those areas is toward later stage and lower risk.

I am sure this is a reflection of the companies they get to look at. If we use a dating analogy they seem to be getting more interest from supermodels, but this doesn’t mean they are getting more interest from potential life partners.
I think the problem with Meteor is that it's not meaty enough...

https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier
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Being that you're already on a JVM, you might like my project https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
Same here, both now (in Chicago) and previously (in Boston). I think there are Amazon warehouses nearby...
I strongly disagree, there are many people (myself included) who strongly discourage the use of jQuery. There are much better solutions out there that follow the "do one thing well" philosophy.
True, although the harshness of Ice Age Europe varied over time. It wasn't some hellish landscape but a thriving ecosystem with all sorts of wildlife and other food sources.

The difference is that Neanderthals had hundreds of thousands of years to adapt to the environment of Ice Age Europe. They had even evolved actual physical adaptations to help them with the cold.

But the humans who moved into the Arctic only had a few thousand years at most to adapt, if that. Neanderthals certainly weren't dumb and primitive, but as you said they were narrowly focused. Modern humans were able to rapidly adapt their lifestyles and technology to allow them to thrive in extreme environments such as the Arctic.
It's an upright one (not inverted), so it represents virtue/protection/etc.
that money will be in the economy anyway unless everyone decides to take cash and stuff it in a mattress
Divine intellect.

God says...
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Yes stop worrying about YC and get on with building your business.
Likely because the stateful portion of any system is going the be the complex part.
> The fastest possible resolution for your fact pattern would have been "money withdrawn on Friday" unless one or both of your banks decided to covertly extend you credit. This is because ACH pulls are an overnight batch process in the US.

I don't think this is true. There is the NACHA same-day ACH initiative [0] which is opt-in and at least some institutions have already opted-in.

I've experienced frequent same-day resolution of ACH transactions when using bank services from two very large US banks (one based on the west coast, one based in the east coast) and also a small employer credit union.

It's true that my experience is not common and it often does take longer than a day. Many banks still do use overnight ACH. But I don't agree with the statement that overnight is "the fastest possible resolution" -- some banks have opted-in to doing faster and have already begun doing so.

[0] https://www.nacha.org/content/same-day-ach
Immutability, stateless function (or referential transparency), the ability to reason about state, the edge it gives to concurrency etc these are all valid, and objective arguments. It might not be the end of the discussion but at some point the churn is going to settle down and let a framework/lib/language mature in a rich and reliable ecosystem. I think the churn and js fatigue is a reason to have more of those conversation rather than less because we want to get there faster not later....
Actually a few weeks ago there was a big movement in the React community about that. The problem is that the JS community is too big and people use different build systems and tests frameworks, let alone coding styles or project/files layout.

I think only Ember has been able to have a strong set of conventions, mostly thanks to ember-cli[1]. I consider it the Rails of JS.

That said, I am looking into nwb[2]. Looks fine for personal projects.

[1] http://ember-cli.com

[2] https://github.com/insin/nwb
In the section that you mention, the author of the article is comparing techniques for dealing with local function calls vs microservices over the network, specifically in regards to the fallacy that the network is reliable.

With respect to local functions, I think most developers would agree that defensive programming is well-regarded (otherwise this browser would crash on half the web pages I visit).

With respect to distributed system, basically the rest of that section agrees with you, concluding with:

"In fact, using a middleware or services layer that forces engineers to think about their resilience strategies in the face of network failures is quite valuable. After all, the engineers are the best people to decide how a system should behave when things go wrong."

So you basically just re-iterated what the author wrote.
Why a new browser, instead of plugins for existing browsers?

I dislike ads, but there are already solutions for blocking them. Although I do like the premise of this, I'm not eager to switch browsers just to start supporting advertisers.
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> Components that expect “onlyChild”

> Some React components have an invariant: “Invariant Violation: onlyChild must be passed a children with exactly one child”. Which means this is an error:

I'm surprise the author called this out as a negative of React while saying the compile time type safety is a positive of Elm.

If I have something that expects one child, I expect one child, not an array that has 1 element.
The items are all fulfilled by Amazon so they know at the time of order what to promise, and also that it is Prime "2 day" shipping. As mentioned sometimes items come really quick, but it seems the ones you want the most are the ones delayed the most. (Of course those are also what you are paying most attention to.)

My memory of prior years is that the vast majority of items arrived within time, and that it has been getting worse over the last year or so.
It seems that way to me. The current administration desperately hope to be able to do nothing and have it resolve itself or do just the bare minimum response to each crisis, but usually underestimate just what that bare minimum response is and have to ramp it up a bit due to political pressure or saving face.

Of course, that attitude is pretty much due to the previous administration being too naively adventurous and stupidly causing big messes that are still causing problems.

And the previous administrations attitude is due to them thinking the problems were caused by the previous previous administration being too weak in their military responses.

etc etc ad infinitum...
So wait was this all just serving Hello World?
Ask HN: What new web tech would you hang your hat on for 2016?
I used to prototype/develop cutting-edge web experiments a few years back (when WebAudio, WebSockets, NodeJS, LocalStorage, etc. were just taking shape), but I know a lot has changed (with hundreds of competing javascript libraries).

I figure HN is a pretty great forum for a question like this, so what do you think? What libraries/approaches seem like the best places to focus for building new and experimental web apps and services of the future?

Some potential starters:

- What's the best core js library(s) (it used to be jQuery, but there seems to be a lot of competition now)?

- What page model is best (the buzz used to be "single page applications" but not sure that still rings true)?

- What backend structure looks to be a solid foundation for most things (Node and MongoDB on solid state drives used to be all the talk)?

- What new HTML5+ web technologies look most promising (used to be WebSockets, WebAudio, LocalStorage, and getUserMedia)?

Thanks in advance, and I hope for a fun (friendly) discussion!
So? The fact that they're not mentioned in the article in no way indicates that the meat wasn't eaten. If anything, it's to be assumed by default.
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