skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bluebird made a name for itself by really, really focusing on V8-specific optimizations. Also it has added a lot of features that go beyond the promise spec, thus becoming one of those bandwagony swiss army knife sort of libraries. I personally use it for how efficient it is in Node.
Add skype and hangouts to your list...
The Advantage of Abundant Thinking
That makes it better? This is a marketing post and should reflect your company's strengths, especially when the topic of the post is about said quality.
I am willing to accept tradeoffs in resolution for more working area.

I basically have the equivalent of 8 1080p monitors, but if I can get the equivalent of more 1080p monitors over a larger area but at a lower pixel density (downscaling is ok provided I can zoom in and out), I'd be totally good with that.
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More realistic worst case scenario is a huge chunk of those 18 year olds trying to get an account after school. You'd need a tad more than 400 requests a second to handle it. Even one percent of one percent of them doing it is 7,300 users at once. Maybe request buffering and storage could help while the main node just does its measily 400 a second.

Then again, 400 a second doesn't sound that fast given what HSM's and databases do. Maybe this software is just doing something complicated with each request.
Wordpress only sucks if you don't configure it for the expected traffic. At scalability anyway.
Parent probably meant humans, or perhaps cattle as well...
To be fair, amphetamines causing dopamine deficits seems pretty obvious. Anyone that has ever gone on a speed binge (and yes, that time you took adderall for 3 days straight to get some shit done counts) knows that the next days afterwards can be pretty blah. There's dopamine precursors that help, but as with all substances -- what goes up, must come down. Everything in moderation, including moderation.
SE-Daily podcast on Mesosphere, DC/OS from earlier this year: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/01/27/mesosphere-wi...
I've been using the News Feed Eradicator for Chrome for a while now so I can still get event invites without getting sucked in to mindlessly surfing the newsfeed. It's been pretty helpful. I'll still check the feed on the mobile site on my phone sometimes, but much less than I used to.

At some point it just became people sharing articles so that everyone could agree with them. There's also a lot of people being outraged about things and demanding that I also feel outraged about whatever the injustice of the day is. It gets very tiresome and is mostly a waste of time IMO.

That's not even talking about the clickbait, which I started resolutely blocking. Whenever a post has a clickbait title I'll choose "Don't show me posts from this page / site anymore". It cleaned up a lot, but even what's left just isn't that great in terms of content.
> In a few years JavaScript will most likely be the 'bytecode' of the web

All major browsers are working on WebAssembly as a bytecode for the web: https://webassembly.github.io/ I expect we will skip JavaScript for TypeScript/Dart -> WebAssembly in the future.
They might mean just getting the question "why write a female lead".
Attribution: http://www.fiercemedicaldevices.com/story/theranos-asked-mil...

"But things didn't shake out that way. A military regulatory expert contacted the FDA with concerns about Theranos' technology without telling the company first, stalling the project and prompting Holmes to reach out to Mattis for help.

"I would very much appreciate your help in getting this information corrected with the regulatory agencies," Holmes wrote in an email to Mattis, saying that since the "misinformation came from within DOD, it would be "invaluable" to have the information "formally corrected by the right people in the DOD."
In this case though, it seems like the amphetamines had reduced dopaminergenic effects for chronic cannabis users. Again - lack of motivation is a pretty common anecdotal report of heavy and chronic cannabis use. Moderation.
The website works again now, so I can finally look up the current prices:

MacBook with 8GiB RAM, 256GB SSD: $1,299 (base model)

MacBook Air 13" with 8GiB RAM, 256GB SSD: $1,199 (upgrade from 8GiB RAM, 128GB SSD $999 model)

MacBook Pro 13" with 8GiB RAM, 256GB SSD: $1,499 (upgrade from 8GiB RAM, 128GB SSD $1,299 model)

So the MacBook is somewhere between MacBook Air and MacBook Pro pricing, $100 pricier than a comparable Air in terms of RAM and SSD, $200 cheaper than the Pro. Interesting.

In their default configurations, the MacBook has an m3, the Air a low-clockrate i5, the Pro a high-clockrate i5. On the other hand, the Air does not have Retina, while the Pro and MacBook do.
PeeringDB – Information related to Peering
This is pretty neat - does it actually support unknown identifier search though?

Like, I can see "if:a===b" as an example, but what if you don't know the variable names? Like "if:<ident>===b" or something?
But the byproducts of USING the resources do.

What, did you think there are no byproducts from operations done with raw resources AFTER they are mined?

And how about the mere transport of resources?
If you want to see more about Ascension island, check out the Departures episode about it. Here's a short clip from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJHxN4lXCc

The full version can be found by searching, kat, etc. BTW the whole Departures series is great, for those who love traveling (or wish they were traveling).
Future of Mobile – Y Combinator Application on Hacker News
Okay, so then allow for a bike switch if the bike breaks, as judged by a race official. One bike per stage doesn't seem like it would put too much strain on the hardware compared to one bike per year. Surely it would be possible to build bikes at a high enough quality that the number of DNFs would be so incredibly low as to be negligible.

I love these Internet arguments that are like "okay, we have to argue and nitpick until we come to an agreement, we are obviously authorities on the matter and now the rules will have to change IRL."

Imagine the existing rule was "one bike per stage". What would the arguments in favor of switching to "unlimited bikes per stage" be? And what would be the arguments in favor of keeping the existing rule? I mean, at some NASCAR races only 50% of the starting cars actually finish. Why shouldn't they allow drivers to grab a backup car and keep racing? Does the 24 Hours of Le Mans (another endurance race) allow for backup cars?

What's so bad about DNFs for equipment failures? Surely the bikes are a major component to the TDF, otherwise it would be a foot race.
I always remember in moments like these that Cloudfare is something like $50-200 a month. Wait, a quick look is $0/$20/$200 with $0 or $20 probably covering it. Hmmm.
Show HN: Load StackExchange Data as Spark Dataframes and run analysis over it
Yes, you'd have to implement the drawing and input handling code but this seems like it would be a good fit. You need to implement a fair number of drawing primitives, but certainly less work than a whole GUI.
Sell options, if you're brave.
Why is that "getting crap" though? It's a legitimate question to ask with many possible interesting answers. His answer was actually quite good, no real reason other than it felt right for the character.
Self-taught. Still learning. I'm avoiding books and trying to draw my own conclusions by watching the market.

One thing I have learned is that most of the other people talking about the market are full of shit. There is so much misinformation and red herrings that it feels like seasoned investors WANT newbs getting lost in the spiderwebs.
Since we're recommending books, Peter Lynch's "One Up On Wall Street" [1] was a very informative and interesting book.

Peter Lynch ran Fidelity's Magellan fund from 1977 to 1990. He avergaed a return of 29.2%, increasing the value of the fund from $18M in 1977 to $14B in 1990.

His philosophy is to invest in what you know, and that the market misses things that everyday people can notice just from going about their life. I think his advice worked a little better before the age of the internet, but it's still a very solid and easy to read book.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/One-Up-On-Wall-Street/dp/0743200403
Artist's homepage: http://www.ccelian.com/index.html
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Used to watch my dad come back from work and stay glued to the television tracking the tickers. I used to help him keep track of a few stocks as well. Slowly got interested and picked up some random book that explains the stock market terminologies.

The #1 takeaway from the book is
"Before you buy the stock, give an elevator speech with facts(data-driven) and reasons as to why this stock is going to be a good buy."

Turns out a lot of my investments don't stand this test!
Are you going to post updates to the web anywhere? If so, where? I have the same penchant and am extremely curious.
While some of the US's propaganda is the direct overt military type, most of it is dressed up as "news" or "entertainment".

This year especially, look at the fervor of support for The Party(s). It's amazing how adding a narrow choice sidesteps people's inherent distrust for being told what to do.
Kim Jong-il might have: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31628415
I just discovered this yesterday. I'm excited to dig in and make sure it works well, but if it does it's very likely that we'll start using flexbox in our production stuff sooner rather than later.
Yes, it is. It's linked directly from the paper (https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepap...) that documents their use of the protocol.

It's the exact same code we use in Signal:
https://github.com/whispersystems/libsignal-protocol-java
You've received some excellent answers here. I won't reinvent the wheel, but I will add one small detail.

If you're interested in learning about the stock market, it's also helpful to get a good primer on financial accounting. You don't have to be good enough to actually do a public company's financial statements, but it's helpful to have enough of an understanding that you can look at a company's quarterly report, compare it to past periods and get a good sense of how things are going.

I can't think of an accounting primer that is good for this, but I studied accounting in University so I may be biased. So, if I were you, I'd:

- pick five or six public companies you are interested in.

- read their annual reports.

- Google terms you don't understand.
Not at Google, in California. When I was working there, one of the things they really liked was a dynamic compensation system. Basically everyone got a calibration score and that score dynamically adjusted your compensation, up or down.

To be fair it is a very creative way to avoiding the trap of over paying people. The bottom line is that all grants are legal contracts, generally very long and dense legal contracts, and it is useful to spend time to understand them. California is an "at will" state, if either you or the employer doesn't like the situation, either one of you can end it and be done.
It looks like mrjob development has been re-started, but there was a disconcerting period (nearly two years) without a release.[1] I used it for rinky-dink projects, and it seemed fragile at the time, so I can understand your inclination to divest from it.

[1]: https://github.com/Yelp/mrjob/releases
An Introduction to Serverless Architecture
Even though their Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison page [1] do test uploads only, this new feature is documented to accelerate downloads as well.

I guess optimized WAN network routing between S3 regions and their edge locations usually beats regular internet routing.

[1] http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/e...
(I think he meant "commuted" 60 minutes each way??)
Its a "blog" on the WSJ.

I wouldn't call a story truly "from" the WSJ unless it was explicitly called out from its editorial board. Even things on the opinions page are typically from the opinion of a specific writer as opposed to the whole newspaper.

This article for example has no author, and is on the official "www" web page. We can presume its a full statement on behalf of the WSJ's editorial board: http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-his-apologists-1437345...

Unfortunately, newspapers don't seem to "get" the online community. Newspapers need to better brand their "blog" pages, which are typically full of crap (but are typically written by average Joes, as opposed to professional journalists).

If online newspapers better branded their "Editorial Board" stories, maybe this confusion wouldn't happen as much.
That's interesting. The article talks about "shortfall", not about absolute lifespan. What is the baseline for that shortfall?

It almost looks like it might be the gender-segregated data for "high income", which would explain why those have (a) no shortfall at all and (b) no gender disparity.

Reading the article, it does look like the "shortfall" is gendered, being based on gender-specific maxima.
Future of messengers: bots, channels, media
Frequently Acquisitions Deliver NO Money to Founders, Early Employees, Investors
Mr. Musk had described this first-time processing event as like a “dog catching a bus”, per working out what to do next.
That's true, states do regulate insurance including licenses for sales. And there's some Federal regulation too.

The tension between commissions and neutral financial advice is an important issue. Sometimes advisors disclose their compensation but not always. In our case we could not only disclose that but also reveal the logic and math behind the recommendation. The rules aren't a secret; anyone can look them up in a book. The value we add is not having to look them up, and then reconciling all the different rules into an algorithm that takes all the variables into account.
Implementing something as simple as W3TotalCache and CloudFlare, and eliminating slow plugins via p3profiler, should mitigate any initial scaling issues assuming your server architecture is set to scale properly via dynamic scaling or horizontal if for some reason you're using on-prem, physical hardware.
Curious thought experiment:

Wouldn't malicious actors always be able to profitably bid more than legitimate companies for AdWords?

Assumptions:
- Illegitimate business models are more profitable than legitimate ones
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This is a list I made for my college investment organization:

https://theinvestmentsociety.com/finance-resources/

It includes links to websites (news, blogs, data sources, etc.) and recommended books (classics, modern finance, randomness, risk, psychology).
Future Games: Nostalgia in Video Games
Joel Spolsy's advice: https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
I have been at the airport briefly, twice. Once on the way into the Falklands, once on the way out. Both in the early 2000s, both times on an RAF Tristar. I was a contractor going down there for a months worth of work, surrounded by civilians and military on my flights.

I remember being there on the way down middle of the day and all the army guys were grabbing beers. It was 35C and I was necking water. I thought they were crazy. I am told there are parts of the island that get hotter.

On the way back, middle of the night, 4am I think we landed. I remember thinking the plane was too warm, and I couldn't wait to get some fresh air. I stood by the door as it opened waiting for the cool breeze to come in. Nope: wall of hot air. It was in the 30s.

There's nothing there, really. It's obvious who runs the comms stuff, and it's obvious why it's kept the way it is, but nobody will talk about it.

A few people I spoke to have ventured further afield.

The lady I stayed with in the Falklands who ran a B&B told me she had holidayed there. It was beautiful, apparently.

A friend of mine was stationed there during the Falklands War helping refuel planes. It was hell, apparently.
This has always been my biggest issue with FB and Zuckerberg. Having multiple identities is inherent to being human.
It was a big Job sites in teh UK (I wont embarass them) they canoicalised all the jobs to the category pages lost 20% of trafic just like that.
What's the fastest & cheapest way to get data off Amazon's cloud services?
How have your personal returns compared to the total market return?
My wife and I both have to travel. This is my favorite travel computer. At home, or when working all day on location, I prefer my MBP retina 15. At the airport, in a plane, or next to bed I like the 12 inch MB.

There is a lot of speculation over the single port. There are a couple of USB C dongles. One is USB-C to regular USB. The other is USB-C to USB, USB-C, and HDMI. The later allows charging the MB while using USB and connecting a monitor. I keep a little zip up with my Apple USB-C charger and the larger dongle. I leave the charger and dongle at home if getting coffee with my MB. On the road I carry the little zip up bag with charger and dongle. Even carrying both is lighter than any other laptop charger I have. (The USB-C charger is only a bit bigger than an iPad charger.)
The Market Wizards books are a bit dated, but still do a good job of profiling various trader mindsets across a number of markets.

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Market-Wizards-Conversations/d...
http://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Interviews-Weinstein-Hi...
Looks like they're using the Cloudfront infra to have files sent to s3 via cloudfront. Uploads to a cloudfront edge down the street will be a lot faster than the s3 datacenter.

Will this allow the HTTP sliding windows to be optimized more in any way? Any idea if this could approach UDT upload speeds for large files?
Seconding this. If I could have all of my friends read a book after graduating college, it'd be this one.
Well obviously no one is being disqualified on this video alone. The idea is to draw attention to what could be a real issue.

But calling it debunked because of another video that is just as dubious seems a little like hand-waving. What's happening is that people are trying to get the officials to look into the idea that there may be tiny hidden motors in some bikes. And what you're doing seems like you're trying to avoid that from happening.
not worried about complex... i miss being able to surf the internet on smaller systems than it takes to run entire clouds stacks on
The stock market exists at the intersection of a few academic subjects.

One is economics. This is a social science, like psychology, and deals with human beings, and why they act the way they do: why prices go up and down, the effect of regulation and policy, supply and demand, etc. Economics is the bedrock underlying any market because ultimately, markets are made up of people. It's sort of like how math underlies all of programming -- you don't often use it directly, but it's the intellectual foundation of all market behavior.

To learn economics, get a basic micro textbook or listen to Russ Roberts' EconTalk. It's an outstanding scholarly podcast once/week with a huge range of topics including environmental regulation, financial market behavior, food and cuisine, and the effect of law on public welfare.

The second major discipline is finance. In a nutshell, finance is all about trading flows of money, and how that's priced: if you promise to pay me tomorrow, how much should I pay you today? What is a 10% interest in a company worth? Part of finance is "corporate finance", which is "I have a company, how should I fund it" and the other part is "financial economics", which deals with markets for stocks/derivatives/options etc. and how they're priced and traded. Finance is built on economics, because the whole reason financial markets exist is to facilitate the reorganization of money/capital to better align with peoples' preferences: saving vs. spending, borrowing vs. investing, etc.

The third major discipline is business management/analysis. You'll learn this if you work anywhere for a while: how companies operate, why people are hired/fired, etc.

Mostly, just take it in a little at a time, be curious, and pay attention to the markets. Read the news. For instance, there's a lot of discussion about what the Fed will do, raise vs. lower rates. Why does this matter? How will it affect output (how much is produced), securities prices, and firms decision to invest (build stuff) vs hold cash? What will the effect on the housing market be? Will mortgage rates go up or down? Try to fit this into a conceptual model of how the world works, and refine it over time.

EDIT: Accounting, especially tax, is also important. Accounting is the basic language of business. If you want to understand the words people on TV/news are using, like "non-GAAP" or "gross margin" or "restatement", learn a bit of accounting.
Cool, like async/await in Typescript and which I think is coming in ES7.
Ask HN: What do you do when your app is slow?
I'm not a developer, but with a background in performance engineering, I've worked with many developers over the years helping to predict and troubleshoot the performance of their apps. However, that was in a corporate setting.

I've since started my own consultancy, RootPerformance, focusing more on app troubleshooting.

I'm looking to get a sense of how dev shops approach performance issues with their own apps or client apps they created or support, and whether they need a troubleshooting service, which is typically used more by bigger enterprises.

What do you do when your app is slow?

You've confirmed that it's not your code, but the app either is still slow or your client is blaming you. Do you bring someone in to help you look at issues external to your code? Do you just plow along trying to figure it out?

Or is this not an issue at all for you?

Thanks.
I guess you missed the articles that say marijuana has positive effects?

There are positive and negative aspects. You ask why people are biased towards the positive and, similarly, I ask why are you focused on the negative?

There is much research to be done. Let's wait and see how it turns out. :)
True, but the post is about scaling Passport, not really scaling Wordpress. I haven't seen the site crash, so I seems like its just taking the server a while to server up the static content.
> which declined to allow their E2E code to be audited.

Could you cite this? The Signal Protocol implementations they're using are both open source and well audited.
No, let them text the image to a number.
I've just been using the meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

More Info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6771258/whats-the-differ...

Works fine for me in new projects as long as there's no need for those conditionals and specific legacy code.
Mobile Suit Gundam covers this ground as well. I think that when we settle beyond this planet, there will be "13 colonies -> United States" transitions - probably with conflict. “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes" ~ Unknown
Nope it was based on the cost of buying the lost organic traffic via CPC - They are a big *ie millions of pounds monthly) user of ad words budget
Wow. I really love this idea. Simple and impactful to the receiver. Really makes people reminisce the days before technology took over our lives.
REDDIT files trademark for AMA, again
The term AMA is over 20 years old but Reddit wants to own it anyways. If they do, many businesses who currently run AMA on their sites may be targeted.
Franz v2.0 released, support for Windows, Linux, added WeChat, Chatwork and more
Utilizing Smart Markets to Regulate Drones