skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what's stack share and how does it compute the numbers?

also rails has a much bigger adoption in ruby community and node in javascript community than django in the python community (I would guess).

lots of people using flask, tornado or other frameworks now a days
Why would Wired care about people that use ad blockers and never visit their site again? They're really no value to Wired so why expend resources on them? I have no problem adding Wired.com to my whitelist because I enjoy their articles.

>I don't see this ending well for any party involved.

I would get used to this. Ad blockers are relatively easy to defeat and if that 20% figure starts getting higher we'll start to see more and more sites employ these countermeasures.
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teachers in bad / poor areas in the states aren't paid less than teachers in the "good" areas. cps for instance, chicago public school teachers are among the best paid and worst performing in the country.
From their FAQ:

> Q. Is Lumberyard “open source”?

> No. We make the source code available to enable you to fully customize your game, but your rights are limited by the Lumberyard Service Terms. For example, you may not publicly release the Lumberyard engine source code, or use it to release your own game engine.

So according to them it's not even "open source".
> Those guys don't care about nano or containers or whatever

That's ridiculous. Just because someone picks a different tech stack does not mean that they do not care about the advantages that all that fancy new stuff gives.
Damn good observation -- but it begs the question, why can't federated be as frictionless as centralized? Is this a matter of effort, funding and organization, or something more fundamental?
Developing an algorithm is not the hard part. Adapting it to customer data and wishes, is.

If/when Twitter launches an algorithmic timeline, it is probably going to suck at first. Only by measuring huge volumes of user interaction with the feature, will they get enough data to make it work well.

I mean, look at this thread--people are praising Facebook's ease of use, but back when Facebook starting filtering their timelines, a) power users were super pissed, and b) a lot of random stuff showed up. For a long time there was a semi-hidden "show me all posts" option for the timeline, which power users turned on. That doesn't exist anymore, and most people don't miss it, because the filtering is good enough now.

There's not really one algorithm. There's a learning system that creates, on the fly, a billion custom algorithms--one per user.

Learning systems need two things to work well. They need a huge corpus of data, and they need clear guidance on the desired outcome. Twitter has a lot of tweets, but they won't really have clear guidance until people start actually using the feature.

I'm sure they're trying to collect some now, with their "while you were away" feature, and tracking interactions like you unfollowing Bob after seeing that tweet from Ann.
To use academic terminology, we would refer to "floating functions" as "first class functions" (since they are not second-class citizens in the language).

I would argue the true distinguishing feature of a "lambda function" in a PL is that it is first-class, nest-able, and lexically-scoped (that is, it captures bindings from its definition site).

A closure is simply a way of implementing lexical scope for functions.

A variable is a "free variable" not because it is "freed" from its lifetime, but because it is not bound by its enclosing lambda. (It would still be a free variable even if the function and the variable binding had the same lifetime.)
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The ending was pretty good.
can I sing you the little Blobby[0] song?

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
Did you read the same article as me? They are only charging if you block ads. If you whitelist them on your ad blocker, you'll see the content. Its clear they know no one will pay, but need to address the neckbeardy complaints that will come their way about 'being forced to see ads,' 'being forced to be tracked,' etc.

>Suggested Solution:

I see nothing wrong with the solution as is: view ads or pay to block. It seems like the rational middle ground here. Oh and they're committed to 'polite' ads. I don't think I've ever seen a loud ad on their site, ever. So this is a pretty easy commitment for them. I do hope that all this drama is making web publishers reconsider how loud and obnoxious most advertising is on the web, especially the mobile web.

My big fear is that publishing will move into free hosting, namely on Facebook and other walled gardens. I think there are some pretty evil unintended consequences of ubiquitous ad blocking that no one is really considering yet.
Same as wanting to put your money in a credit union that invests your deposits in the community instead of a bank that spends it on executive bonuses.
I dont eat Salmon sushi because of the potential for parasites which some other(true salt water fish) do not usually carry.
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Also, minors drink alcohol.
That's really in there! There are lawyers with a sense of humor?
Language Log has a post about this topic

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4396

I quote:

"My own view is that there are contexts where it’s okay to treat data as a plural, but none in which you can’t treat it as a singular—and that contrary to what many “reasonable” usage writers counsel, this isn't simply a matter of “style and personal preference.” "

Other, shorter, humorous, posts about data:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4401

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14970

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20635
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This is probably a way to limit supporting legacy versions of AWS as they anticipate the service will evolve over time. It also means that any game based on Lumberyard might not work past 5 years without continued developer updates.
All game studios I have worked at have used Maya. I do know of some that use Max but it's definitely not the case that Maya is only used outside of games.

As a side note, Maya added Python as a scripting language a while back. You can also write plugins in C++, which can be a nice way to write custom exporter code sharing engine code files for file formats and such.
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Sorry I was harsh. I tried the translation service and it work better.

Anyway, I don't remember exactly all the articles I tried, but two of them were

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/pubs/mst.pdf
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~condon/papers/chungcondon96.pdf

while one news that failed to parse was

http://www.repubblica.it/economia/2016/02/09/news/borse_9_fe...

I tried other articles and news, but I do not recall each of them exactly
Credit Unions tend to merge with each other instead of just growing organically, I think at least in part because the administrative employees can use the increase in size to justify larger compensation.
Probably not. The lua module hooks into internal symbols not considered part of the module API.
I meant that lots of people outside of the "geek" demographic clearly are using it successfully, whereas they're not e.g. using Linux on the desktop, or GNU social, or IRC, or Ello or whatever. I wonder if this is website vs app usability or similar?
+1, please and thank you.
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Uncomfortable's a good descriptor. I get the impression Patio11's involved in mostly "solo" enterprises. If that weren't the case, I'd like to think he'd run these "discretionary expenses" by his partners.
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> Do males really need a sex change just to play with barbie dolls? Do females need really need to think about sex change just do play with "action figures"? That's an extreme change to make just so you can fit into social roles.

I doubt we would be having this discussion if it was just about playing with culturally acceptable gender relative toys. I suspect, because of what I've heard and read, that feeling like your body does not match your mind, is traumatic and troubling. Additionally I suspect that without having experienced this feeling, it can be hard for those of us to understand quite what it feels like. As such, this is probably a good time to error on the side of caution, and accept that some people may have vastly different experiences from the norm, and we should support them where possible.

> And there are barriers that far surpass gender, like the barrier of money.

Do you have anything to back up that it's a bigger barrier? Keep in mind, we aren't talking just about gender, but whether you feel comfortable in your current gender. I can imagine not feeling comfortable with my own body being quite an issue, and overwhelming a lot of other problems I might have.
Sure, but this isn't a serious option for most people. Other commenters have pointed out that credit scores have gone beyond just borrowing money, so I won't address that aspect.

Many people don't know how to make money as adults without borrowing money to go to university (and student loans are non-dischargeable debt), so as soon as you become an adult, before you can even enter the productive workforce, you're saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and interest payments that'll follow most people around for decades.

Culturally, people in the U.S. are pressured to buy a home as quickly as possible. If you're in your 30s and still renting people assume you don't know how to manage money. Renting and tenancy in most places in the U.S. is configured such that if you want stability, you need to "buy" (meaning, you need to pay rent to the bank instead of a landlord).

If you want a decent car that doesn't break down constantly (which is a functional requirement in most places in the U.S.), one generally needs to borrow money to afford that, at least until he's well into his career and has the opportunity to redirect some student loan money into paying cash for a car.

You have to borrow money on credit cards to get a decent credit score that'll make it so you're not immediately underwater in these fixed collateral-backed installment loans.

While it is theoretically possible to go without borrowing much money, it's not practical for the majority of people. It was made that way on purpose, because banks like money. The system is structured so that the average American pays at least 2x the real cost of goods all the way through to retirement (pays once to the vendor/seller, and once or more in interest to the lender that financed the purchase).

I personally find this disgusting and really hope we can see changes that make interest and borrowing truly and practically optional for average people in future generations.
You may be interested in this blog post, by Eric Raymond:

"Preventing visceral racism"
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001

In it he reports a similar "natural" reaction to some racial group that he'd never met before. But his theory is that simple exposure is enough for people to move past this, as long as they don't construct rationalizations for their initial feeling of "something isn't right here".

Kind of ironic, as he says a lot of things that many, myself included, would consider racist, but you never know, he may be onto something.
I don't think we're done making game engines. We're not done making blogging engines. Wordpress may be one of the largest incumbents but it's not the dominant platform and there are plenty of competing alternatives along every axis. Unity may be one of the current incumbents but it's not the best engine and won't be the last.

More competition is good. It means Unity won't be able to stand still and we'll get to see more features and interesting ideas. Cloud + Twitch integration? Pretty cool!
That is general rule of thumb, but there are variations in this law at state and local level. In Texas, there is Robin Hood, basically a portion of a rich neighborhood taxes are used to subsidize poor ISDs.
"Mostly only well-educated and well-off parents get their kids into these programs. That kind of sucks,"

It's really important not to let 201x social concerns get in the way of this stuff. The good stuff always starts out with the rich. Always. It is virtually structurally impossible for it to happen any other way. (Not quite, but very much the exception rather than the rule.) Rather than complaining that only the rich have the thing it is far more important to work out how to get it improved and shared more widely; complaining about the rich having the thing doesn't help that and in the modern political environment runs the risk of strangling the improvement in the crib. It is always easier to bring "equality" by cutting off the top than bring up the bottom, and you have to be very wary of that, because people will propose that in various subtle ways if you fall for the "class inequality" memeset too hard.
I don't think there was much debate if we were in a valuation bubble. I'm more curious how this will affect employment within the industry.

Back in 2001 we saw massive layoffs as companies which had no right to exist went out of business. While I'm sure there's a bit of fat like that around the edges (those "Uber, but for dogs" companies which existed purely out of VC funding), many of today's technology companies are profitable. Those companies are unlikely to need to go through large rounds of layoffs.

If that proves to be the case - we see valuations drop without extensive industry-wide layoffs - I believe that fits more into the "correction" definition rather than a bubble. At least in my mind.
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FYI I believe they meant emergencies as in, any kind of medical service or procedure that your life may depend on. Which does not automatically mean the "emergency room." I.e. a much-needed surgery, drug, testing, etc.

This happens all of the time, people cannot go see a doctor or receive a medication because of an insurance goof up. And then they have to wait. And wait. And legal remedies are not guaranteed to solve the problem, and such remedies should not be relied upon as a fallback for untrained insurance salespeople.

What exactly are you trying to convince us of? That insurance sales should be have no licensing requirements? And you're hinging your argument on the fact that it is "financial" and not "health" related (which like I said above is not true). In that case are you also in support of getting rid of licensing and other regulations in the banking and finance industry?
Why should I help Google make money, for free? I'll gladly discuss their employment options if they need my help.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we'll have state-of-the-art open source deep learning based speech recognition libraries this year that will run on local hardware without significant latency.

Baidu open sourced their warp CTC a few weeks ago, give it another few months before someone will release a trained English network for it

https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc
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> Linux is mostly perfect as it is

Your critical thinking has not been engaged. Linux is a useful bit of code but "perfect" is not what it is known as everywhere.

My side of the room like this little ditty

Linux, by amateurs, for amateurs -- Dave Presotto [1]

Or

i’ve wondered whether Linux sysfs should be called syphilis -- Charles Forsyth [2]

Or if you like your detractors with a bit more fame

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. -- Dennis Ritchie as quoted by by Boyd Roberts in 9fans.

I won't go on

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/author4927.html

[2] http://www.terzarima.net/
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Ok, so I'm bad at landing pages, but ... I mean, really.
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and people don't read ToS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

There's no reason to simply sell insurance you should need to be licensed. Now to PROVIDE insurance, sure.

Just another stupid overreach IMO. Exactly the same as Uber/AirBnB/etc.
It's totally true for things like spotify, where you can easily stream thousands of songs just in the background every month. Imagine how silly it would be if you had to make sure that spotify is closed when you leave your computer on for some time :)

However, consuming written content is different. It's much more involved, conscious action. So I am not sure if it is really much worse for the user.
I wonder why they changed writers. I wonder if Seth got expenses paid by employer.
It's a step in solving the underlying problem, since at this point only someone studiously incapable of learning from history can think that the school system is going to produce a superior math curriculum on its own. I'd say "it had its chance", but that's hardly true... it has had its several dozen chances.
Yep. My creative process: "Need quick & nice fantasy-styled logo" => "Hey, I remember Wales has a dragon on its flag" => "Ooh, and Wiki Commons even has a CC0 SVG! Done."
Submitter/site creator here. The thing is it's Free Pascal, a fully object oriented version of Pascal geared up for visual applications. Language features include intrinsic events types (delegates in C#), run time type information (what makes live components possible), managed types (such as string, array, interface, and variant types), generics, operator overloading, implicit/explicit type convert plus a whole lot more.

That and it's based off Turbo Pascal and Delphi (it supports the full D7 dialect and many of the newer Delphi features as well). As such people have created a wonderful cross platform OS and widget set agnostic visual library called the LCL.
Single button trackpads are a pain in the arse, if you like middle click to paste.
There needs to be a much better solution to the use case of having to jettison from an existing federation that might be disappearing soon (or where the admin changes the rules and you no longer want to be there).

Currently, the only fix is to create a brand new account on a different federation and start again.
Can I call you someone that's invented a zero-sum scenario and is getting annoyed at their own misconception?

You contribute and therefore probably benefit OSM, you're using a google captcha enabled site so you're benefiting from something on that site, that site benefited from the captcha service because they didn't have to write one themselves so could spend their time improving the site you're benefiting from.

You're a link through which google captcha is benefiting OSM :)
I partly make my living through OSM. The better Google Maps gets, the less compelling OSM is, and therefore my earning power is reduced. Google has the right to compete, of course, it's just not in my interests to help them.
I read this article, which was very enlightening by the way, and the first thing I did was go to check and see if I had fallen prey to the dark patterns of LinkedIn. The first thing I see when I log on is that they're asking, "Add an extra layer of security to your profile, add your phone number"

Really?? This made me even more uneasy than before. Why would that add additional security to my profile? Has anyone else seen this on their home page yet?
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Continuing the theme of replying to this post with good examples of these kinds of game: https://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/ ("a user javascript adventure game")
Yes. Explicit control of memory is one of the big reasons C++ wins for high performance realtime applications like games.
Like everything in life, there are two sides of the coin. When I was in law school, I worked with a small town in central Illinois that Big Chemical Co. had left polluted with heavy metals after a decades-long mining operation. Making headway in the lawsuit was extremely difficult because of all the legal barriers put in place to protect defendants. The legal system has become very unfriendly to plaintiffs over the last 20-30 years and it's affecting a lot of legitimate cases.
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how many people working on demand for you?
People in these places can be quite ingenious with physical hacks.
Ask HN: As a developer, how do you say that something should not be done?
I think we have all been there, you receive this requirement where something is being asked from business. Like for example some load tests where made, and at 3500 users they found memory issues.

But the application in production has only 2 concurrent users, not to mention most of the times zero.

Refactoring the application to optimize the memory consumption means basically rewriting the backend.

So its not that its impossible, its that its not worth the risk given the fact that the use case is not valid.

But that's your assessment as a developer, that the organization tends to discard. What do you do in these curve ball situations:

- do you just say its impossible, and basically lie?

- do you say that its not recommended, the usual reply of which is basically "its your problem"

- other solutions?
> There's a (minuscule) performance advantage to static linking.

Is that actually true? I would have thought networking latency overshadows any memory latency introduced in a `call foo@PLT` v. `call *(foo@GOT)`.

Are you aware of anyone who has benchmarked this? i.e. not a microbenchmark e.g. inside something like nginx?

If so, it might be worth fixing the dynamic linker: the cost difference is absolutely fixable, as it's a tradeoff for sharing pages with other processes.
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Well, it's all about plausible deniability. The people who run these sites know that minors are using them, and it would be cost-prohibitive to make it really hard for minors to use them.

So, instead, embed some text in your ToS and pretend to act shocked whenever confronted with direct evidence that people aren't complying with the ToS.

It's the same for porn. An "are you 18?" page isn't going to stop anyone, but it shifts the blame from the publisher to the consumer.
Surely the spare word allows the dictionary of potential CAPTCHA words to add a new word for every CAPTCHA solved (sure they probably run them past many users for validation purposes). This effectively allows the CAPTCHA service's dictionary to scale/evolve continuously, preventing an anti-CAPTCHA service from 'learning' the whole dictionary.

I thought this was the entire point of re-captcha, so regardless of the 'time necessary to complete' element, their case doesn't seem very well thought out.
Are you looking for something like https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels
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They tricked me too, despite being very careful on the desktop, one wrong click on mobile and boom. They're not the only ones either.

Does anyone remember how FB ensured growth? "Import your yahoo/google contacts to see who is on FB". What they didn't mention is that they would hold on to the email addresses to notify anyone who signed up that they had friends already, and exporting your contacts was disabled soon. Despite being officially dismissed, the "shadow profiles" claim rang true to me too.

Before FB, MySpace was built on spamming the bejesus out of people [1].

[1] http://gawker.com/199924/myspace-the-business-of-spam-20-exh...