skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you stick to Django, you probably want to look at http://www.django-rest-framework.org/ for the backend.
Or the nasty effect of Hudson's Bay.
Because he's benchmarking the system, not drupal....
It is (currently) not well suited to resource-intensive apps.

Basically you pay a "gas price" for every opcode executed by the EVM. Clearing a memory address? You pay for it. Setting a value? You pay for it. etc. etc.

(In the above paragraph "you" refers to the "user" sending the transaction)

You really need to think about what you are doing, whether it is allocation, computation, etc. Minimize the number of opcodes and the number of expensive ones at that. To date the contracts are quite simple, although some really interesting things are in the works.
NSA is an agency of the Department of Defense. CIA is an independent organization. FBI is counted among the set of US "Intelligence" organizations, but if there's one thing media and memoirs tell us, it's that organization in different Departments have a history of not playing nice. Case in point, all the finger pointing around organizations not sharing information pre 9/11.

DOD and DOJ in particular I don't think have such a close buddy-buddy relationship.
I still cannot believe the free world gave the head of this Administration a Nobel Peace Prize.
Even so, that strikes me as very low. I've always wondered where the bottlenecks are in Drupal (I haven't looked at it in many years). Getting that kind of throughput even on paltry hardware would give me pause about doing this in production.
Or how about the other way around -- Americans just didn't want to be part of the old dominion anymore, and split off, leaving a chunk of population separated by a border? The settlement patterns existed before the American revolution. We settled where the land was good and the resources and fresh water and trade routes were.
There was much silliness with the boarder. They actually drew some of it using blank maps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw

(And that map missed a huge part of the can-us boarder, focusing only on the southern one.)
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Hi HN! I'm a business grad with a heavy interest in programming and computer science, but with relatively little "formal" schooling. Most things that I build are heavily augmented from google-fu, and I lack a lot of knowledge about algorithms and classic CS patterns.

How should I go about preparing for a technical interview given these deficiencies? I have a lot of time (read: months, potentially) to prepare.
right. But it's meant to be used for consensus and not heavy computations.
I heard somewhere that 90% of Canadians live within 100km (about 62 miles) of the US border. It's partly for that reason I don't buy the telecom's insistance that prices are higher because of the huge amount of land they have to cover.
I signed, but it's going to be awfully difficult getting 100,000 signatures in a month. You'll need to campaign for it (contact professional organizations, etc.) if you want it to go anywhere.
I very much agree with you. Its hard to believe that this will rise to the bitcoin trust level. If anything I believe in sidechain.
I hope that ~25 years later that these Internet points I grant you can ease the pain of your memory.
Actually, in the article- the "very vocal minority who are extremely critical" were men from HN. Almost exclusively.

The worst attacks and most vicious criticisms came from the reaction from men here
I've been having success using Django / React together with this: http://owaislone.org/blog/webpack-plus-reactjs-and-django/
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> Give me any ethereum use-case & I'll tell you how to do it with bitcoin.

Is this your opinion because you truly believe it or because you have a horse in the bitcoin race? I'm not saying that Ethereum is superior to bitcoin but at least from a brief look over it, it seems to make quite a bit of sense. Whereas my experience with bitcoin is that it's an incredibly hacky and questionable system that primarily survives because of the collective investment into it, not on its technical merit.
wasn't a trick- see above. I just didn't call out this forum
What maps are those? And they include things like bee species extinction?

I've seen some people claiming that global warming will make the extreme North have a flourishing agriculture revolution, with enough productivity to compensate the loss of the tropical regions. Those people ignore both how to read a map, and that plants need sunlight to grow. Also, they ignore every single consequence that isn't plain linear, globally constant warming. To be short, they are a joke. I hope you are not talking about those.
The problem is the increased risk of nonsense benchmarks. I.e. if the unoptimized code is super slow because the naive implementation compiles to something unsuited to, say, the x86 microarchitecture. Or that performance is limited by lock contention.

That's way more likely with pre-release then production-grate software.

If you want to compare B1 and B2 that's great - but then you post to hackernews a comparison between two Drupal betas, not a comparison between two hardware platforms.
@boothead: As somebody who's never been in the military (drafting for military service was suspended just before my number came up) I'm curious. Does the level of engagement and team cohesion you speak of only occur in, or afterwards derive from, combat situations, or would it theoretically be possible to recreate these levels outside a military context as well?
> i have grounds to not want to be a part of this right? I want to keep our identity small.

As an equity partner in this start-up you now have a fiduciary interest in the Branding/Marketing/Public Image of the company.

You didn't mention your market/client space. Does the press attention only serve your older partner's ego or does it help convey your company's story to your market?

Before confronting your cofounder-- first seek to understand. Get the specific details of his media plans. Then consult with 1-2 branding experts, find one on Hourly Nerd > https://hourlynerd.com/your-matches/computer-software/grow-b...

A good chat with these guys should be the perfect sounding board whether or not the 'rags to riches' stunt is a sound idea.
The point is that many Americans treat 'Canada' as a bucket in which everything is cold weather. And yet the whole swathe of the northern states Minnesota, North Dakota, upper Michigan, etc. are _significantly_ further north and colder than where the bulk of the Canadian population is.

I once had a coworker from Atlanta at our office in Toronto. Overheard him on the phone talking to his wife, gobsmacked by the cold, which he said "it's just so far north!" and yet that's not the reason -- we're no further north than northern California. He happened to be here during a cold front that came out of northern Ontario. It's a classic continental climate; summer heat here is as intense as that of many southern US states.

The climate on the north side of Lake Ontario is actually milder than on the other side due to lake effect and weather patterns. Just got back from a trip to the Finger Lakes; our wines in the Niagara region are noticeably riper than those from down there.
So what projection is better at showing the relative sizes of countries, particularly when most projections seems distort at the poles (thus making greenland and canada huge)?
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Just gonna say +1 to what everyone else has said here (particularly nostrademons & patio11). You are not getting a fair deal. You should leave.
the post has everything to do with men here. As a woman, HN is a really unfriendly place. Of all the places- and all the traction that my post "VCs don't compare me to your wife" got. HN was the only forum where I got attacked and trolled mercilessly

https://medium.com/life-tips/vcs-don-t-compare-me-to-your-wi...
Drupal has always performed like shit. 10/sec is actually pretty good for Drupal It's only good for managing static content, the only way you get any sort of performance out of it is super aggressive caching.

PHP is a slow abomination. The entirety of Drupal and all modules have to be bootstrapped and run on every request. It runs far too many SQL queries and those queries look atrocious (nested selects, tons of joins, etc).

Same with Magento Commerce. I was always shocked at just how slow it is.
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How does government interference in a market make it near-perfectly free? The U.S. agriculture market is infamous as a source of government waste and pork barrel spending:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21643191-crop-pr...
I use it more as a glorified low priority to do list. For example some page I was reading (from HN) linked to a recommended article "How to Build Stable Systems" (https://medium.com/@jlouis666/how-to-build-stable-systems-6f...). I ctrl-clicked the link to open it in a new tab, because I'd like to read the article eventually even though I don't have time at this particular moment. So when I have a little bit of time I'll work through reading/dealing with my open tabs.
Should not talk of the can-us boarder, at least the southern one, without watching this great vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw
The basic argument is that the OpenZFS folks have not been assigning their copyrights to Oracle after the Sun buyout and are not subject to what you have encountered in Germany (which I find just wrong, sorry for your troubles). Perhaps LGPL would be a better license for an OS (might be an interesting discussion).
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> The GPL wrapper method has long been considered to be a subterfuge that GPL lawyers think judges would be able to see through.

However, the GPL lawyers don't want to press the point too hard as they could easily lose a lot of hardware that would quickly render Linux useless.

If nVidia, for example, got scorched by the GPL and started releasing binary-only drivers only for FreeBSD, Linux would start losing a lot of corporate seats.
- PHP is slow. Unlike JS, it's generally interpreted and not JIT (unless you're Facebook).

- Drupal has to bootstrap itself and all modules on every request.

- Drupal makes waaaaay too many SQL queries

- Drupal generates horribly performing SQL queries
Right, which is exactly why the same company shouldn't control Twitter, Facebook, and Google, whether or not any of the individual companies are enacting deliberate political censorship.

As it is, though, there are many social media networks, and users are free to choose the one that fits their needs. If a user finds Twitter too aggressive in weeding out misogynistic and racist hate speech, they can easily switch to Reddit, which takes a more hands-off approach.
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Benchmarking beta software is of course great and very valuable - it focuses attention and will hopefully motivate projects to improve performance.

It's just strange to do it in a piece which is predominantly arguing for the effectiveness of a cheap hardware solution :)
I agree in some respects, i.e. RootStock basically plugs onto Bitcoin what the Ethereum decentralized execution model does. You can actually run your Ethereum-developed apps on top of it, they mention it is fully compatible.

SatoshiDice is not quite the same as a Ethereum app, the former requires the central website to be online and operating whereas the latter would work even when the site is down since the execution is not centralised. Add Rootstock however and the same applies.

Source: Just finished building a couple of "games" on the Ethereum platform, http://the.looney.farm - one is SatoshiDice-like but not one of them needs the website to be up to operate.

Where you are 100% right - there are multiple ways to solve a problem, so to a user there should be no difference between gaming on something like SatoshiDice or something like mine. Central or de-central, the user probably won't care in the longer term. If you transfer value, you can do it on any crypto, however there may just be with a different way of implementing it or going about your business getting it up.
Yeah, I guess - but hey in my own defence, as somebody working with distributed systems I've seen too many a simplistic world-view blow up in my own face :)

Even though I'm not a fan of it, there is a reason for the old ops adage of "never touch a running system".

Complexity is hard (i.e. global climate) and even if life on earth is essentially anti-fragile that might not include our own cohort.

Also, I just might have pulled a human and have been subconsciously "cross-posting" as this super depressing article on "Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Global Food Supply" is trending on HN right now as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180782
Yeah, I like the ODROID-XU4:

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

The gigabit Ethernet alone is a reason to choose it over the RP2.
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Any equal area projection (e.g., Lambert equal-area cylindrical).
> I'm not interested in differentiating between readability and comprehensability.

Fair enough, but then please stop using single letter variable names, add type annotations where applicable, provide docstrings and contracts for functions. Comprehensibility is so much more than syntax that I think mixing the two will make for even more interesting, but even less fact-based discussion.

> I'd love to see eye-tracking data which show the tradeoffs between various syntaxes.

Yeah, that would be very interesting. The thing is, there is no such data available, but you still are convinced that one kind of syntax is better than the other. I'm not - from where I stand the differences and tradeoffs in readability of syntaxes, once you know them equally well, seem too minor to measure.

> Even the consideration to sprinkle such a trivial expression over multiple lines

No. It's just different way of getting to the same effect. I don't see why would one be worse than the other (splitting things using infix operators vs. splitting things using horizontal and vertical whitespace).

Other than that, you completely avoided the familiarity issue. Do you think that we're genetically programmed for reading infix syntax? If not, then it means we need to learn infix syntax just like any other. My question was, would someone not yet exposed to infix propaganda have a harder time learning infix (with precedence rules and resolving ambiguities) or prefix?

You also ignored my question about the difference in readability when you are equally well trained in both syntaxes. You can't compare readability of two syntaxes fairly unless you have about equal amount of skill in both. And the fact that readability is influenced by skill is undeniable. So, in other words, are you sure you're as skilled with sexps - that you wrote comparable amount of code - as with infix? Honestly asking.
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Python indeed runs fine on Android once you can get it to compile (the interpreter needs to be patched to compile with bionic, or can be compiled without patches using the CrystaX NDK). The Kivy graphical framework has the associated python-for-android project [1] taking care of doing this plus including other components like Python modules (including complex ones like numpy) and can compile with different kinds of backend (not just Kivy). There are also other projects running Python on Android in different ways.

[1] https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android
Or maybe a 3.5" SD card filled with SD technology ... I wonder how much storage that would be.
Yeah, you will need only a small REST interface for the single page app ...
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They're definitely obfuscating the amount. If it were just a couple of functions that could be ripped out and rewritten, VMWare would have done it long before this hit court.

This doesn't even get into "linkage". They're almost certainly using huge chunks of Linux code wholesale.
Is there an ELI5 about how a neutron decays into a proton? Aren't they separate particles?

Or maybe an ELI-only-took-undergrad-physics-101? :)
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It's short enough that it doesn't even touch the detector. The evidence is that the energy from the four neutrons all shows up at once, instead of being split among four individual neutrons. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/no-protons-needed-pos...
Cool. I don't have time to check it all out at the moment, but since it's possible to view your Wii U gamepad video on your computer, I thought it'd be cool to analyze the map in real-time and estimate ink percentages for both teams. (From what I saw, this doesn't seem to do that?)
+10C in St John's, NL right now.
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Yukon not see it?
If anyone is interested, this seems to be the source of this claim: http://www.purolatorinternational.com/canadian-market

According to the 2011 Canadian Census, more than 23 million people, almost 70 percent of the population, live in urban areas. Ninety percent of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border. This means that the overwhelming majority of the Canadian population is easily reachable through traditional distribution routes.
If "GPL lawyers" think that, where are the enforcement actions? When lawyers say they believe things about the law but aren't, it -- as the SF conservancy itself pointed out in their statement on the Canonical ZFS issue -- often represents what their clients have an interest in people believing about the law more than anything else.
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I personally find DRF to be my as nice to work with as Django itself. If I can get away with not using it, I avoid it.
Yep ethereum has been out for what 6 months and look at all of development on top of it already. BTC has tons of VC money and I see nothing interesting beyond a few regulated exchanges.

But oh ya we are all suppose to believe BTC can do all of this but apparently nobody really knows how. It's really just a bunch of people that think BTC is special because it was first, but it lost it's first mover advantage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/43fm3w/the_core_...

http://dapps.ethercasts.com/
Yes. I have done this with Django and Angular 1.x. Works really well.
I'm not mobile: my wife owns a pharmacy here and our kids are settled. Otherwise I'd be either in the UK or US working for one of the tech giants right now ;)
It seems like if you're going to care about performance this much you might want to use a language that doesn't discriminate between heap and stack.

Sure you can do all these gymnastics, but why not use tools that were built to do this from the start like Rust and C++?
One thing missing in the analysis is the fact that something approaching a fifth of the countries total population lives in and near one city (Toronto) that is nearly at the southernmost point of the country.

Ontario in total has nearly 40% of the population, and most of that is pretty far south relative to much of the rest of the country.
Well, not in the winter.
"The causes of the pressure on these creatures intertwine: aggressive agricultural practices that grow crops on every available acre eliminate patches of wildflowers and cover crops that provide food for pollinators. Farming also exposes the creatures to pesticides, and bees are under attack from parasites and pathogens, as well."

Seems like this should self-regulate quite well. If there are no bees to pollinate the crop that needs pollination, the "aggressive agricultural practices" would no longer be economical and the land would be naturally reclaimed.
Watch this video it explains clearly how it is used:

https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=662

And it is also fun!
If you are eager to start using it look at Typescript 1.7 - which transpiles to ES6. I have started trying it out on a side project.
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Some news story link the Volkswagen diesel scandal (and EURO6 norm/urea resin), gen modified crops (eg. Monsanto) and artificial fertilizer too the decline of such species (e. bees). We need independent research sponsored by the WHO, and states have to punish the bad actors like VW.
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Disclaimers: I live in another country, and I research in digital forensics -- that has quite an open community.

In my situation, I've never reached anywhere near that point. All my works are available for donwload as PDFs, and even if they weren't, my research group keeps a repository where we can re-download/point/email anyone who asks for them.

We haven't published in IEEE journals (yet), but as of our countrys law, we are the authors, and we hold rights to our work (for example, distribution) as we see fit. As a matter of fact, per a "new" law (it's a few years old, but it's becoming effective now), we have to keep that institutional repository I mentioned earlier.

My question is: how is your situation, and how were you forced into this ridicule thing of having to pay for your own work?!
>> That's not the server's fault, it's just Drupal being slow.

Agreed.

I had a static site running on Drupal 7 on Azure and it was really slow. I did a ton of optimizing the front-end code and caching everything I could and it still took between 3-5 seconds to serve pages.

Once I switched to a static site generator, I was floored at how much faster the pages loaded and the performance was night and day; and I was still hosting it on Azure. The only variable that had changed was Drupal.
That's not an i7, it's a MacBook Air really low-power CPU. And it's not quad core, it's dual core + HT (i7 4650U [1]). A "real" mobile i7 quad has twice the performance, and a "real" desktop i7 is about three times faster. So a better title for this would be "6 Pi2 vs MBA vs DigitalOcean".

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/75114/Intel-Core-i7-4650U-Proc...
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Is there a "Hello World" version of a DAC?

What is the simplest contract I can make? And do I need a 3rd party oracle to confirm anything?
A lot of field crops self or wind pollinate. Corn, wheat, soy, rice, etc.
I know nothing about the mathematics. But I think it's fair to say that in general people tend think of particles as being a _stable_ unit of some sort. So the term "particle" becomes less appropriate the less stable something is, and time is often a factor when thinking about stability.

If someone were simply to slam 4 neutrons together, for how long would they need to stay together for this to be deemed a real particle? I think it's for this reason the original commenter quoted the use of the term "particle".
I'm disappointed that 'prefork' version of fasthttp failed to run due to unknown (yet) reason. TechEmpower should publish benchmark logs later, so the problem with fasthttp in 'prefork' mode could be fixed in the Round 13.

Fasthttp starts distinct server process per CPU core in this mode. This should result in perfect scalability on multi-CPU machines.
A neutron decays into a proton by emitting an electron and an electron antineutrino.

A proton decays into a neutron by emitting a positron and an electron neutrino. (These are the antiparticles of the ones emitted in neutron to proton beta decay, above.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay
You might take a look at Lightweight Django: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032502.do
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176955
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