skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC there were some issues in how Phoenix was configured for the techempower benchmarks, I expect that it will have much better results in the next one.

You may want to look at these benchmarks also:

https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown

https://gist.github.com/omnibs/e5e72b31e6bd25caf39a

Here is a post about using 2 million active websockets connections in Phoenix: http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-w...

From my experience, Rails and Phoenix speed isn't comparable. Even in development mode (with code-reloading etc) Phoenix is much faster than a production Rails server.
I've also replaced three Node.js servers with one Elixir server which did the same work with less memory and CPU usage, but I'm aware that most rewrites have a similar story, so I won't claim that this is enough proof.
Yes, well, its a start ..
> In other words, to simply "pick and choose" would denigrate the tradition that nikolay has decided to uphold.

I guess what I'm missing here, is how does one come to such a decision. After all, the "tradition" is just an arbitrary set of rules that was made up by someone sometime in the past. I mean, even the name "Eastern Orthodox Christian" reveals that it's a refinement of Christianity, which is itself a refinement of Judaism, which is itself probably a refinement of something else that just wasn't written down. And all refinements keep changing; e.g. Jews shouldn't use "fire" on Sabbath (originally, AFAIK), but they adapted that to modern times to include "electricity" as well.

So my question (or failure to understand) is exactly this conscious choice - what makes one consciously decide that a set of rules made up by someone else, which may or may not still be relevant, is the best way to conduct one's life? I guess uprbringing has a lot to do with this - religious people rarely go window-shopping to see which religion is "the best" - but IMO the idea of growing up is that you make independent decisions about your life (which ideally includes learning from others - adopting other people's rules - and learning from experience - changing your rules), possibly contrary to what your parents though and taught you were the best choices.

Edit: also, I would like to point out that I see the following as distinct choices that one can make more-or-less independently: belief (into the general framework your religion describes, e.g. how the world was created), obedience/following (of religious rules, e.g. Muslims shouldn't eat pork), and belonging to community (e.g. you might not eat pork just because you don't want to be excluded from the Jewish community).
> When you let people make decisions on things they don't really care about then they will make poor decisions.

This assumes McBoatface is a poor decision, which is a completely personal (and most likely wrong) assessment.

There are no objective parameters for what a good ship name should be in generic terms. For something with military applications, probably easy spelling and brevity would factor in, but in reality a lot of military ships have long and windy names anyway. Something with a publicity element, like a research ship, could do with something memorable and fun, which Boaty McBoatface undoubtedly is; naming it as some obscure last-century researcher would make it utterly forgettable.

So it looks like there is wisdom in the crowds after all; it's just that often it doesn't match the wisdom of stuffy establishment types.
This website just looks like spam. Is it offering anything that vagrantbox.es doesn't?
Actually, serious research tends to point to the opposite of what you say... it's pretty much biological. Even studies with monkeys show that female baby monkeys prefer dolls while males prefer cars as toys...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/gender-toys-childre...

Unfortunately, there are so much political agendas and sensitive issues at play here that this kind of science is not disseminated too much.
Löve looks indeed awesome, thanks!
There is a part of me that loves these stories about serendipitous discoveries. Of course the trick is to recognize what you have found and to use that information.

Some technology/inventions discovered by accident: penicillin, x-rays, post-it notes, pacemakers, ink-jet printers, saccharin, microwave ovens, potato chips/crisps and of course Coca Cola.
My idea was that the client (HTML+JS) will transform the binary data into JSON or skip the conversion and process it directly. Seeing how fast JS engines have become and the amount of typed binary arrays processed in JavaScript, I believe it's a viable approach. But I'm not a frontend dev, so I can't be certain.
GitLab 8.7 Released with Due Date for Issues and Remote Mirrors
> allergic to whimsy

British public life is nothing but whimsy. Consider that "wheelie bin" is the actual normal name of a thing, not a cutesy nickname.

A little non-whimsy is frankly refreshing.
Everyone is wrong. It should have been named Boaty McFloaty.
> Really seems that SCIENCE does a lot better in the public eye at the moment when it goes populist rather than cloistered

Except vaccines. And chemtrails. And moon landings. And and and...

I'm a populist by nature but let's not get carried away here.
Facebook is the cigarette company of our times
What the article doesn't mention at all is that many people pursue a PhD not for financial reasons but because it (often) provides an opportunity to work on very interesting problems with very smart people, something which is just not possible in most industry jobs. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way, it's just that (non-applied) Academic research is something that is fundamentally different from company research/work because it is (usually) not money-driven and has a very long-term focus.

Not everything in life is about the money, otherwise all people would try to become investment bankers.
I don't disagree with that, it's exactly what I would do, and it's shown in the example in the article, too.
The example of surgeons helps your parent comment's point... among doctors, surgeons (together with radiologists and a few others) are among those with the smallest social contact with patients and their families. During most surgeries, the patient can't even speak!
Don't you keep having to take everything out of one closet and then putting them back in, to prevent the coat hangers from breaking and dropping everything onto the floor?
Why working with REST APIs sucks, and a case for how it doesn't have to
I'm sorry but this is the second comment in this thread that is trying to push people to the author's personal blog. I don't think the point of commenting on HN should be to drive traffic.
Three times more Canadian teens gambling online than previously thought
There's different twists to it, no doubt, it's just distracting the point I was making though.

I just found it highly interesting that 12 year old's gambling was such a recipe for success that 3 out of 4 of the most popular games out there have it as a core feature.

I tend to have a Bigger issue when it's in-game than out of game because do you really want the worlds best digital-heroin makers to run casinos where your kids are the guests?
RPerl Synopsis – Running Perl 5 Faster
So much better, thanks for the share.
Yeah, think that makes sense.

I like using the auto-responder emails to push the subscriptions and affiliate links...

Seems to work pretty well.
To be fair, the title doesn't say it will tell you why the suicide rate in Greenland is so high...

Fact is, it isn't completely clear why the rate is so high. Rapid modernization, decades of Danish control, a disappearing culture/way of life and lack of mental health facilities can all be named as factors.

Sorry were annoyed and feel like you've wasted your time on a well written, well researched human interest piece. And yes, sometimes you need to know just the bare facts. But do you really have to know the reasons behind the high suicide rate in Greenland? Or were you triggered by the headline? In that case a human interest story conveys the message a lot better than just the numbers. To me, Hacker News is about triggering curiosity about things that were previously unknown by me. Stories like these remind me that there is a world beyond choosing if I want soy milk or regular milk in my mochachino.

But hey, let me save you a couple of minutes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Greenland#Reasons
Ask HN: How to get PR for your website?
Hey,

I am currently looking to gain some PR for my website but have no idea of the best ways to start doing this??

Has anyone found a good way of getting your first couple of PR exposures?
> For context: Bash is not available|installed everywhere, and has some inter-version weirdness.

Can you cite some sources here? No one knows what you're talking about.
> the other is marking a preference for someone who you hope will perform executive actions

You so wish. It's a popularity contest like any other. Proof: Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Ventura, Berlusconi, Trump, Franken, the Ghandi dynasty, even the last Troudeau. Name recognition alone pretty much trumps (eh) everything else, once you couple it with pre-existing popularity you've basically won, no matter what your message is. You can try to outweigh that with massive doses of continuous higher education, sure, but the natural rest state is that any electoral process is mostly a popularity contest.
I hope someone sticks a couple hundred FOIA requests in that hole they speak to the people from. Hold them accountable: "What did the FBI get out of this?"
Here you go:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Greenland

I suggest you just preface all your searches with wikipedia, then you won't have to hear a story.

That way, nothing needs to be stopped, and people like me who enjoy some context and humanity with their facts can continue to find excellent stories like this.
I'm just saying that a lot of programmers have bad taste when it comes to UX. I see a lot of very OSS powerful apps but with horrible interfaces that I just can't use. Design is part of a app, not just beautiful code that the end-user doesn't even see.
Without any certification or registration, yes - if you're CAA registered then the limits are quite different.

Additionally, if you're flying FPV the ceiling is 1000ft, not 400ft, although you must have a spotter who can maintain unassisted line of sight. Get friends with good eyes, fly further!
Cool, I didn't know about this technique. Thanks for the detailed explanation!
Agile Is Dead – Pragmatic Dave Thomas [video]
I live in The Netherlands. One week of sunshine in February is by far the best cure for the winter blues. It gives you something to look forward to in the darkest days, and when you return it's almost springtime. Well, psychologically at least...
> “Can you imagine one of the world’s biggest research labs travelling to the Antarctic with your suggested name proudly emblazoned on the side?”

I know it is silly and childish, but that would be so awesome. That joke would never get old.
The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Data
I know a lot of expert tools with complex features and with beautiful design/nice to use design. One thing is not a trade-off of the other. That's a fallacy that doesn't help the stigma that OSS tools should continue to do IMO.
Just running someone's credit card costs you 3%. This is why gas stations offer discounts for cash.

Ever notice that online companies hide from their customers? As in, no phone number, no email address, no way to contact support, they just direct you to a FAQ. This is because customer service is very expensive to provide.
AFAIK there's nothing to stop someone creating a character called Boaty McBoatface that teaches 4 year olds why the ice caps are melting, without having its internet joke name attached to a real life $300 million scientific research vessel.
For me, when working in dynamic languages (that lack static checking of types, null, etc) I'm a bit too nervous to "really fly."

When the computer helps me find errors, misspellings, and bugs—given that I understand the type system well enough to not get very confused—that's when I "fly."
Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't see Canonical make the claim that Snap provides confinement on Ubuntu desktop, the blog post linked to by this post doesnt seem to?
A book about psychopaths from a software developer with no qualifications to speak with any authority on psychopathology whatsoever - that doesn't sound highly insightful.
Before anyone suggests the X SECURITY extension (as in SSH's "untrusted" X forwarding): That only provides one level of confinement. Everything running behind the SECURITY extension trusts each other. So if I run ssh -X somehost emacs, an "untrusted" XEvilTeddy won't be able to snoop on the terminal where I ran SSH, but it can snoop on my entire emacs window.

In college I spent a bit of time trying to write what's effectively a NATing proxy for the X protocol: clients get their own XIDs in their own namespace, and can't refer to other clients' resources. They see a virtual root window that only has their own windows. If X is going to stick around and people are going to attempt to care about security, it'd be worth implementing something like that.
I'd agree with the difference. Maybe it's the articles I've read recently, but Amazon seems to have more agile / startup philosophies (trying, failing, continuing support, and iterating) embedded higher up.

I've seen too many instances of pretty simple Google usability / feature bug reports closed as "will not fix / working as intended" to chalk it up to specific teams. "We built the Pontiac Aztek perfectly, and you should love us for it" type project design seems embedded in their DNA.
Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity [pdf]
Working with Distributed Teams in Ukraine versus India
River Rockets of the Soviet Space Age
“The new royal research ship will be sailing into the world’s iciest waters to address global challenges that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, including global warming, the melting of polar ice, and rising sea levels,”

"Imagine Boaty McBoatface sailing into the world's iciest waters with the wide-eyed fascination of a child. Observing global challenges that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, Boaty McBoatface absorbs new facts and ideas without the jaundiced and prejudiced views of older research vessels while providing fresh perspectives and iron-clad observations of data regarding global warming, the melting of polar ice and rising sea levels."

I think it works!
My experience has been that the advanced degree would have helped a bit with VC interest and probably attracting cofounders. If there's not a specific time-sensitive market opportunity that you're going after, then I think you are right to consider it.

Working tech probably trumps academic credentials in these matters though -- so as long as you know what you're in for, dive right in.
AMD licences x86 tech to Chinese company
...said the keyboard warrior.
Sadly, I have to agree. In Germany, some people demand that the government should offer Snowden asylum, but while I would appreciate the gesture (not that the government would seriously consider doing something like that), if I were in Snowden's place, I would not set foot in a country that is so deeply in bed with the USA (not to mention the US military bases in Germany).

Which does not leave many places where Snowden could go and be safe.
This doesn't look super pretty, but seems to do the job:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timestats/ejifodhj...
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Is There Smart Way to Procrastinate and Get More Done?
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Plant patents didn't cover crops that had to be replanted annually, so the only licensing restriction they imposed on farmers was that they had to get certain varieties of fruit trees and other similar plants from approved breeders (and honestly, I don't think most of them were even that expensive). In 2006 a company did begin using its plant patents on a variety of apple called SweeTango to force farmers to agree to a restrictive contract that forces them to only sell their produce through the apples through them and pay ongoing royalties, but that practice was previously unheard of.
It's not about advocating human stories vs facts. It's about the goals of writing a title.

The title should communicate what the reader is to expect when opening the piece.
There is no hope of that happening. You're never going
to convince people to remove safety features,

Not only is this legal, it currently happens with hire cars. Enterprise rent-a-car, for example, brought 66,000 Impala cars with the standard side-curtain airbags removed, saving them $175 per vehicle [1]

With that said, I don't think the savings from removing safety features would be big enough to have much impact on Google's finances. I'd have thought the real savings would be from avoiding the costs of being in accidents. Or capturing some of the value of people being productive when they would otherwise be driving, although that value might be hard to capture.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/enterprise-rent-a-car-removed-a...
The title is a bit ambiguous ("Batteries last 400 Times Longer") and could be interpreted that the battery can store 400x more energy. It would be more precise to say that the discovery was for batteries that can last through 400x more discharge/recharge cycles.
what is the point of sending integer "amount" as a string?
Has been. Try it now and see what happens.
From a recent interview with Snowden by Reason magazine

I mean again, this sort of political direction gets
beyond my expertise so I don’t like to talk too much
about. You know you brought up an interesting point
there about Russia that I think is actually important
to contextualize. There’s a lot of fair criticism
that’s like, “Hey, this guy’s in Russia.”

It’s important to understand that I never intended to
end up in Russia. Originally I was hoping to get to
Iceland. After that, Latin America when Iceland fell
through. But the State Department cancelled my
passport, trapping me in Russia when I was initially on
the move, as soon as they heard I was in the air.
Despite the fact that I’ve asked several times, they’ve
refused to reinstate it, which is quite interesting.
The United States of course criticizes me for being in
Russia but at the same time they won’t let me leave.

Full arcticle here http://reason.com/archives/2016/02/25/edward-snowden/
The data the agent perceives is going to be very different from what would be attained from access to dooms internals, as a 'normal' AI would have. The challenge is to bridge the image recognition and intelligence together efficiently and effectively.

Of course it does not make sense to use in a real game implementation. The idea is that such technology could (with further development) be used in real world scenarios/applications. The problem is simply posed in a game environment to make it interesting and easier to approach.
Or a bumblebee, right?

Beats me. I've given it some thought, and I could speculate.

My point was to separate that part out, though. Acknowledging that there must be a scale is the first step. Once we go there, then we can start talking about what goes into producing one. Some folks don't even want to go there (as this article implies)

Being conscious, in my mind, is the ability to observe information and change your mental model of the world based on it. If that definition works, then animals are certainly conscious.

Perhaps sentience is the ability to do that as a community, over time, and about abstract concepts. Monkeys might be able to locate new sticks in their environment, use them to spear fish, and pass that to their offspring. But they couldn't formulate a theory of virtue over several generations. (At least I don't think so) Perhaps that definition is a starting point?

(Just trying to provide you with some kind of answer)
Suicidal ideation (as well as completed suicide, of course) is known to be higher in the indigenous peoples of Canada than in the white population. I have seen it advanced that the eskimo tradition of suicide by walking out into the wilderness if you're a burden on your family probably has something to do with this.

This is mildly in conflict with the finding that there's more suicide in Greenland in summer than in winter, but worth considering.
Currently Snowden have permanent residency for 3 years (as another country citizen), with right to leave RF for three months (if longer, permanent residency can be repealed).
[1]https://www.justlanded.com/english/Russia/Russia-Guide/Visas...
There are times using my iPad (which I'm doing right now) where the screen starts to remind me of a Kindle reader.

This looks very interesting.

How are the reflections? If there is an overhead lamp, can you recognize your face on the screen and see the lamp reflection clearly?

Disclaimer: I am in the crowd who despises reflective screens but all the advertisements arrange the devices such that there is no visible reflections when in fact you are staring your own face or reflection of the lamp all the time. I find that most of the companies should be slapped with hefty fine for deeply misleading advertisements.
Yeah, serious new Royal Navy boats need serious names, like its predecessors HMS Speedy, HMS Child's Play, HMS Happy Entrance, HMS Arrogant (later renamed HMS Insolent)...
Mozilla could end losing big time
Yahoo deal could end for Mozilla losing big time if it would be cancelled
Water interaction model for boats in video games
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Assuming that Valve just hasn't gotten around to closing this loophole seems remarkably charitable, if not naive.

Valve is making untold millions on people gambling for items in the game itself. They're looking the other way as secondary markets allow for monetization. I respect Valve as a game maker, but I have no respect for this extremely dubious, gray-market gambling. Claiming that the article is "dishonest" when Valve is one of the largest beneficiaries of this seems dubious.

It's also worth noting that this is very real money. I can put $70 on my Steam account and buy a new triple-A game....or in the land of Valve I can sell some skins and buy the game. It is trading things in CS:GO for real world value, so comparisons to closed-systems (throughout this thread) seems deeply suspect. I can also use that CS:GO loot to "gift" a new game to a friend who then pays me in the real world. And so on.
On yeah, I used to take home around 200GBP a month when I did teaching. It did make Tuesdays a minimum 12 hour day though.
Thats the theory. Plenty of PhD students I see just do what their supervisor tells them and don't seem to be especially smart these days.
Some Meteorites Are Million-Dollar Finds, Others Are ‘Meteorwrongs’
I can see a country like Singapore banning human-driven cars in a few years.

There are set to get self-driving taxis before the end of the year there. And you already need to bid on a pricy permit to operate your own car. (Certificate of Entitlement. A ten year one goes for more than 50k SGD.)
>I don't recall Jesus saying that you shouldn't do euthanasia for terminal cancer

Jesus didn't speak about how to reply to comments on Hacker News either, but that doesn't mean that Christians are given no insight on how he or she should conduct himself or herself here.

>Most of the anti stuff comes from right wing nutters

I do hope you will evaluate this opinion more critically. I mean, I'm pretty sure Aquinas was against euthanasia, and that would have been well in line with the Judeo-Christian views on the issue throughout history.
It will be Firefox, in a sandbox, out of the box.