skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"because he's empathetic to people"

Given how easily manipulated people are, and us being people, you may be a little over optimistic in your evaluation of reality.

Adding another level of indirection nobody cares whats accomplished, just whats signaled.

So you're cool because he's got good PR that signals well, but assuming the world will be OK because he actually is doing stuff. That might not turn out so well.

Note I'm not interesting in arguing about Bill in particular, but as a general problem across the entire culture, because, after all, thats how inequality is measured.
I think it will bite them in the ass the same way glide did for 3dfx. Vulcan/SpirV may end up as the openGL of heterogeneous computing. Nvidia has the momentum at the moment with a focus on GPGPU, but if we can get an open API that leads in performance across vendors for both CPU and GPU we'll see that competition again. We just have to hope that nvidia doesn't nerf their implementation like they did with openCL.
I agree that Bitcoin's energy costs risk becoming ridiculously high, but general IT energy expenditures are currently 10% of the world's total, eclipsing aviation [1].

Bearing this in mind, using things like PHP, Python and Ruby to build massive web services also seems massively wasteful to me. I'm quite sure that compared to a lower level language like Go or C++, those languages use up an order of magnitude more energy. The energy difference between those two language groups almost certainly exceeds Bitcoin's total energy usage right now, and I don't see people moaning about this.

I mean, build your prototype using one of those languages, but once you starting building a significant audience, switch over to C++, Go, or Rust, and use a fraction of the energy you use with Python or Ruby.

1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/it_electricity_use_w...
Awesome tool, but wish the url was a bit easier to spell/remember!
>You might be over-estimating how much alcohol the average French person drinks, or under-estimating the harm that results tot he regular drinkers.

Well, I know how much people back in my village drink, and I probably underestimate it. As for effects, they merely live to 80-90 and still manage to work on the fields and such.

>"a glass or two of wine with your meal" "every day" is unequivocally harmful. It's a dangerous, pernicious myth (mostly promoted by alcohol companies) that daily alcohol is some how healthy.

Actually daily alcohol has been the norm for very long living populations, including this famed one, which I've met and seen personally:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1037448...

http://processedfreeamerica.org/resources/health-news/817-th...

Where: "the Icarian diet includes a little wine at every meal, even breakfast? They usually drink between two and four glasses of wine per day."

And counter to your claims, the science seems to support it, e.g:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11066516/Glass-of-win...

http://www.endocrineweb.com/news/diabetes/17936-red-wine-din...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heart-wine-idUSKCN0...

>A small number of French people drink very heavily. A bit less than 20% of the French population drinks wine daily. This contributes to the 49,000 or so who die of alcohol related disease each year.

While that's true, that has to do more with the economy and modern trends (sodas etc). Historically it has been a much different picture:

"France's average wine consumption fall from 160 litres per adult, per year in 1965 to 57 litres in 2010, roughly the equivalent of a drop from three glasses to one glass per person, per day"

A lot of the fear about alcohol in the US comes from the fact that people are not properly taught to handle it (as something you drink with company, accompanying a meal, enjoying slowly etc), and use it in moderation from a young age (heck, the drinking age is 21 years olds), and instead use it in excess as some kind of recreation/pain killer/etc combo. Very few people at 19-21 in Europe (and especially regions like Spain, France, Italy, etc) would ever do the kind of BS stunts an American college student would do with beer and alcohol. (Though protestant and Northern countries tend to fare worse in this cultural aspect).

To quote:

"Comparing patterns of alcohol consumption between the United States and the majority of European countries, for example, reveals an interesting trend. In the U.S., the nation with one of the highest binge drinking rates worldwide, people tend to abuse alcohol. In Europe, by contrast, more people enjoy drinking alcohol without binge drinking because leisurely drinking is an important part of social interaction."

http://mic.com/articles/57211/can-you-guess-where-in-the-wor...
I had a friend in NYC just hit by a case of mistaken identify with ALPRs being used by roving repo men looking to reclaim vehicles. It certainly isn't restricted to the realm of law enforcement...
Whatever you set the URL to, that HTTP code will be returned
> What exactly does a mod have to do for you to consider it completed? Stop development?

... That's exactly what the word "completed" would mean in every other context. Things are typically not called "completed" unless there is no more pending work on them. I would maybe look at terms like "feature complete" as an alternative here, where the intent is that the only development will be in maintaining compatibility with future releases.
There is a yesscript! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript/

But your point stands. That should be done in the browser by default
"mainly produced by carbon resources"

No, many/most miners use hydropower. See next-to-last paragraph in section 1.
You're comments are correct, but I don't think replacing the 1 brief paragraph in TFA with your 3 would improve the article.
It's still popular. For example, LMAX still uses Java. There were a number of things you needed to avoid if you wanted to use it where latency mattered though. GC pauses are fairly detrimental.

Where latency is really critical, things are implemented in FPGA though.
Consulting on the side isn't bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is funding your business development with revenue from that business. Bootstrapping a startup, keep in mind that a startup is a business designed to grow very fast, is very, very difficult, requiring a certain kind of consumer-facing business model.

Consulting on the side is a time sink that takes resources away from your enterprise. That's all but incompatible with growing fast.

There are plenty of other kinds of businesses you can bootstrap. But startups are particularly hard, which is why so many of them rely on venture funding.
I can assure you the number of false positives you get will make the experience the opposite of immersive. (I've tried)
Apple rolled their own, non-standard Push workalike at https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi... which is available to members of the $99/yr Mac Developer Program.
Here's a list of larger ones I'm aware of (These sites have it enabled for Chrome, some may not yet have it enabled for Firefox):

Facebook
Vice.com
eBay
www.mercurynews.com
Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Have you tried the open AMD radeon drivers lately?
Its a Multi-Cloud Orchestrator. It lets you abstract multiple cloud providers, so you can say use Azure, S3 , Rackspace Openstack, your own openstack and your own VMware all at the same time, and have unified management.

At the moment it supports any cloud with a OpenStack endpoint/integration.

Blog post: http://www.walmartlabs.com/2016/01/oneops-now-available/
On Being Relentlessly Resourceful (HT Paul Graham)
"OneOps Open-Source PaaS now available!" January 25th, 2016 says their press section (scroll down): http://oneops.com/about.html
I made my own extra-large (memory foam) beanbag mattress for exactly this use case. ten feet wide, eight feet long. Took a weekend to sew, but cost about $500 in materials. Highly recommended.
I don't read it that way.
They are used for other things, but

* They're better at graphics than that other stuff,

* Other auxiliary processors exist which beat GPUs on most kinds of that other stuff (though they aren't as accessible as GPUs),

* Most importantly, what sells GPUs is first and foremost their performance on graphics workloads. A GPU with stellar OpenCL performance but sucky OpenGL performance will be outsold by a huge margin by a GPU with the reverse characteristics.

So they're GPUs alright.
Developing MVC Using Django and Visual Studio 2015
The intent is not clear: did they not pay because they want to "stick it to the man" or because the mail was lost (no uncommon, especially in bad neighborhoods)?
I never ment to imply any malice. (A famous quote comes to mind.) I'm just saying that (as Ben pointed out):

* the bug breaks the browsing experience for millions of users

* the fix is well-understood and simple: re-add a single file that was accidentally omitted.

Closing that as a WONTFIX is.. bad.
Pretty much.

Q @ anyone whom chimes in: what format(s) do sites use for silent, live-action backgrounds to make their websites and apps seem friendlier?
Yeah, but it is more work and you end up with a Java version :P
Many businesses will sell consulting services and a product, transitioning away from consulting if the product supplies regular income and is more time-effective to invest in.
as soon as you are in, yes. but as a startup you need to waiiiiiiit
I will admit I am not up on block chain tech or the process it uses, but it does seem like a lot of wasted resources to just compute hashes. It seems like someone could make a system where real work units count as credit in an issuing lottery. Kind of like SETI @ Home, medical or genome work where you distribute a problem and then people get tickets for accomplishing some form of work. Seems to me that this would be a better use of such vast computing power and would help with discovery at the same time. Again it's not my area of expertise so I don't understand the details or issues that would arise in ordering the work units around distributed computation to solve large problems. It would be nice if researchers had open and free access to such a system.
This looks like oneopsmanship ..
Or how about finding out exactly why companies do once-per-decade upgrades instead of something more timely. Its not about being lazy.
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The following comment is incorrect.

"Unlike Cassandra, Kudu implements the Raft consensus algorithm to ensure full consistency between replicas"

Cassandra does offer transactional consistency in the form of PAXOS that achieves the same goal. Additionally PAXOS or RAFT based consistency models aren't really necessary if you're willing to accept out of order processing and adopt idempotent data models; you only need quorum based consistency.

I'm curious to see what your throughput was in TX/s not just bytes/s in order to get a more apples to apples comparison.
Actually, many high school math teachers in the US did not major in math, minor in math, or receive any teaching certification in math.

In high school it's not so bad -- only 28% of high school math didn't major in math, and only 12% of our total math teachers in high school have no qualifications whatsoever. [1] In middle school 55% of math teachers didn't major in math, and about 30% didn't major, minor, or get a certificate in math! [2]

So -- you're right.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=58

[2] http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015815.pdf
"More generally, as you rise up the social ranks, you have to get more and more comfortable with gross differences in wealth and learn to be able to be comfortable with and accommodate socially those with so much more or so much less than you. This guy never seemed to learn that trick."

I am struggling with this as my income increases. My friends are looking at me like I am Bill Gates. Any advice?
There's also the utility argument.

If I'm the best farmer its probably in the entire cultures best interest if I get the most farmland because we'll share in the utility of an average increase in production despite the unfair concentration.

If, people earn their pile of wealth by providing the most utility, then them having it is naturally great news. On the other hand if they got their pile via less than fair means, and they are not using their pile of wealth to maximize societal utility, well, then there's no real loss in taxing it away from them, if they're not the "best holders" of that wealth.
React Simple Universal – A proposal for simpler React/Redux apps
The drone footage on this was amazing... and of course horrifying.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all, especially when someone is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970417 and marked it off-topic.
More likely the state would simply share the already-disambiguated data.
Even more important, npm doesn't reliably reproduce builds. Different runs of the same shrinkwrapped build could either fail or succeed -- which is odd given that builds should be deterministic. Additionally, shrinkwrap is also broken in the same way.

This is the first time I've heard of ied, a little competition could go a long way!
The network utilisation is much different between npm 2 and 3:

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10380
Heroin addicts don't usually go around saying that they're just as healthy and beautiful as non-addicts. And they don't promote Heroin Addiction in schools.
> what if doctors just stop... negotiating with public insurers? is there some legislation I don't know about that prevents that?

Doctors aren't negotiating at all with public insurers. Medicare doesn't negotiate, for any meaningful definition of 'negotiate'. They set the rates they are willing to pay, and you can either accept it or.... accept it. As a provider, it's very, very difficult to refuse to treat Medicare/Medicaid patients in practice, for all sorts of legal reasons.

(Also, it's usually the hospital that's in this position now, not doctors. Private practice is a dying breed; most doctors in the US are now salaried.)
npm 2.x user here. Does anybody want to share a video of the 3.x progress bar? (Easy with QuickTime or CloudApp, btw)
If memory serves, there's a critical detail that isn't in this study and wasn't checked by it. "Higher social class" people cheat to help themselves and "lower social class" people cheat to help one another when both are given salient opportunities.

Neither group is more honest than the other.
Also the second run probably used stuff that was put in the npm cache during the first run. Not sure how good a test this is.

A good read: "Programmers need to learn statistics or I will kill them all" http://zedshaw.com/archive/programmers-need-to-learn-statist...
Yes - I was confused about this as well.

I would guess that YC's traditioanl initial 7% equity stake would typically be diluted to around 3-5% by the time a company sells or IPOs.

So 1.5% of sale/IPO is clearly less than that, but it still feels a bit weird.
What if we went in the opposite direction. Let's say we discovered another more advanced civilization on a relatively nearby star. I wonder how bad would people on earth would now feel, and how the feelings would be distributed. Would rich people be more affected or poor people? Would some people find excitement in trying to attain what the aliens had? Would others become despondent? Would it be a complete non-event because they are so distant?
Also from Yaron Minsky, in the same vein - http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036
Ulfius: Web Framework for REST Applications in C
except it's kinda pointless because it does exactly what noscript does - it selectively blacklists specific scripts.

the desired behavior is: when on https, auto-blacklist everything except current and sub-domains.
Downloaded it and played it. It's almost Flappy Bird level of difficulty! Super fun though.

How long did it take to make?
Could you use this on someone's Twitter? I have a bear of a time knowing when new content is posted.
Not cool.
That sounds awesome! Any visual evidence of the project?
Seconded. Load testing tools seem to either be the "hammer with a single, anonymous GET request" or jMeter which is capable of anything but painful to work with. There are some other tools out there but the lack of documentation makes it hard to tell what you can and can't do.
> Web development seems to be even worse than neuroscience in this regard. I feel like I have to perpetually study to be abreast of best practices.

The worst part is web development is a completely arbitrary made-up system without any abstractions you can learn and use in a different field of work. It does not even transfer to something as closely related as desktop/mobile GUI toolkits. I view "knowledge" like that as a waste of time and avoid it whenever possible. I wish there was a word for it, something to imply "garbage knowledge."
...on desktop only. Which, in a way, make it even more glaring that they haven't done it on mobile.
Upon first seeing npm 3.x I immediately added `--progress false --color false` to my npm installs and never looked back. Color and terminal graphics are the work of the devil.
This case sounds more like a library design issue. Lua also has operator overloading.
The benefit of taping a piece of paper to the wheel is that you could apply the same technique to something like a treadmill where you wouldn't want a magnet to be traveling along with the tread. The benefit of Arduino is lack of OS overhead/risk.
Minor correction: with the exception of libdl (and its equivalent on various platforms), Lua uses only the C standard library, not even POSIX.
Are your movements in public really private information? "John Smith as seen on the corner of 14th and Main Sts at 12pm today" doesn't really smack of private info that needs to be protected.

Yes, someone could analyze all the data and learn about your habits, but to what end? If you've got someone that dedicated to watching where you go, you probably have a larger problem than just the information existing in a database (i.e. a stalker, abusive ex, etc.) and that problem needs to be dealt with.

Your location in public has always been publicly available to anyone near you, it just wasn't recorded and stored.
YesGraph’s Android SDK
I was just about to post the same thing. So much business-speak, no idea what in the world this could be.
Any idea how much simple tickets cost after compounding for months/years? They'll end up costing multiples of the original. This sounds like a win for both sides.
He doesn't - it's written in jest. The next sentence starts with 'Seriously, ..'
Thank you. Now that you've summarized this, this sounds like a great idea, a good way to kill lock-in on cloud platforms. I don't know why they couldn't write something so simple and concise...
you mean the progress bar that takes up way too much screen real estate to the extent that it completely cuts off any useful information from the install process?
How to avoid common SPA pitfalls when using third-party plugins
It yields the same results in reverse order and also when the cache is primed for both and cleared for both
> It's basic reality that there are people we are told we need to have compassion and empathy for, yet they have none for us

Even if you succeed, and you provide enough for an abundant lifestyle ... perhaps they then have many children. Perhaps they raise those children with the same values.

It's just not a bright vision of the future in my head if just because you were born a human you get the special privilege to live and multiply.

How could it possibly be sustainable?
Meet the New Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7″, the Best Android Tablet Right Now
Because the much more parsimonious explanation is that you're counting calories incorrectly, instead of a wide body of literature being completely false. Put simply, without very careful weighing of everything you eat and extensive tracking, it's impossible to get an accurate assessment of calories consumed.

Eating a caloric deficit will predictably result in weight loss, but there is some feedback between diet and resting energy expenditure (REE). The macronutrient balance you eat can affect REE.

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1199154#...

> Among overweight and obese young adults compared with pre–weight-loss energy expenditure, isocaloric feeding following 10% to 15% weight loss resulted in decreases in REE and TEE that were greatest with the low-fat diet, intermediate with the low–glycemic index diet, and least with the very low-carbohydrate diet.

Because diet can affect REE, you can change your diet isocalorically yet still gain or lose weight. Your particular example seems to be an example of this, but the effect is likely very exaggerated. Differences are on the order of 10%, not 30%.

TL;DR: eating less carbs makes you burn more energy.
Isn't this what Dalvik does? (And by extension, ART)

IIRC, a register-based virtual machine would alleviate the cache-miss behavior the GP talks about. (Because larger, more complex instructions = fewer hits to cache)

It's been a while since I've mucked around with this type of stuff, though.
It is tremendously unfortunate that that needs to be said at all.
Solo Travel in a Group – Best of Both Worlds?
Apple reports a quarterly profit of $18.4B, the largest in history
I've heard of this argument. 'Why do the rich need so much money? Why not just create a 'wealth cap'? The problem is, capitalism is about incentives. When you create a negative incentives, it creates externalities, possibly in the form of companies moving overseas, job loss, and economic stagnation. Second, is it fair for someone or some entity to confiscate what is not theirs, beyond taxes? Third, capitalism is expensive. Venture capital is funded by wealthy, an example being the Space-x and Blue Origin rocket programs, both very costly and funded by billionaires Musk and Jeff Bezos. If taxes were much higher, such programs may not exist.

Most venture capital is private:

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-CQ161_KEYWOR_16...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/humanitys-last-great-hope-ventur...

High corporate tax rates create an economic incentive for companies to move factories and offices overseas through 'inversions' to get a lower tax rate:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/08/ec...

Relative to most developed countries, America has a very high corporate tax rate:

It’s a rock-solid fact that the U.S. corporate statutory tax rate is the highest among developed nations and is significantly higher than the average. According to 2014 data from the OECD, the combined federal and state statutory corporate tax rate for the United States is 39.1 percent. The average of the other 33 members of the OECD is 24.8 percent — 14.3 percentage points lower than the U.S. rate. Weighted by country GDP, the average for these 33 countries is 28.3 percent — 10.8 percentage points lower than the U.S. rate.
> willing to accept out of order processing and adopt idempotent data models;

I think you meant able to adopt those things. Those techniques are tenable and even excellent in some domains, but completely impermissible in others.
I agree, you should build your own. It's quite fun!
I've shared the code on https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news please feel free to fork it. It's free.
The hard part is the caching. I suggest using http://cloudflare.com as a free solution
Neat idea.

Please support “451	Unavailable for legal reasons”.

http://www.451unavailable.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
They have single point checks as well (some of which are variable). Personally I quite like the average speed checks+ as they keep people driving at the speed limit which I like to do myself.

+ When they are used properly. Often they are used in conjunction with spurious roadworks and a very low limit (I've seen 30mph on a motorway).