skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, how does updating work? If you improve the scaffolding, people need to merge in their changes? Why is this not a CLI tool that would be effortless to update?

You hit the nail on the head! This is a huge problem. We had a scaffold that included isomorphic rendering. At one point we discovered a potential XSS vulnerability in how we were serializing the initial state. Updating was trivial but we had to manually patch multiple apps.

We wanted the same thing and it didn't exist so we created it. https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick
Let's reword that shall we ...

> Consider that the one with a problem might be you if you can't even have one line of coke.

> Consider that the one with a problem might be you if you can't even have just one hit of this joint.

Why is it a problem for you if I don't want to put something that is not good for me into my body?

Would you feel the same if I questioned why you don't have "just one cigarette with the guys" I mean go on, one cigarette won't kill you and you make us all feel uncomfortable when you don't join in. Be a team player don't be that guy.
> So I don't really buy this rant..

He explained that himself in the comments below his post: C++ is his tool of choice but he "just wanted to stir the pot".

Anything in his post is contrary to my personal experience with C++.
I have long looked for an answer outside of security theater as to why the ban on liquids continues. If anyone has an answer, I'd appreciate hearing it.

If you go through a screening line and a liquid is found, the liquid is not tested. It is not handled carefully. It is not thoroughly inspected. It is tossed in the closest garbage can.

If the liquid really did pose a danger, wouldn't it be handled more carefully?
"but the 'elites' would not be the ones a good solution would favor"

Depends on who gets to define what a good solution is. Given that our country has a huge history of, and still has a problem with suppressing and disenfranchising minorities and women, I am not willing to experiment with anything that's not designed to expand the vote to as many people as possible.
To many, Netflix reachability is their #1 concern.
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>What is Fast.com measuring?

>Fast.com estimates your current download speed. You will generally be able to get this speed from leading internet services, which use globally distributed servers.

>Why does Fast.com only report on download speed?

>Download speed is most relevant for people who are consuming content on the Internet, and we want fast.com to be very simple and fast.
That's because ISPs game SpeedTest.net and give you your full bandwidth for the test data. So the 350-500 is more accurate to your actual milage (at least for Netflix's peering agreements).
That's exactly right. The author does have a problem.

And one perfectly excellent way of managing the problem in question (alcoholism) is to not drink alcohol.

Pressuring unwilling non-alcoholics into drinking is already a dick move to begin with. Coercing alcoholics into drinking (and possibly triggering a relapse of a problem which kills tens of thousands of people a year and ruins an order of magnitude more lives) is a hundred times worse.
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These kinds of issues fascinate me, aside from how frustrating they can be. They highlight the immense complexity that underlies what I, a lowly web developer, do on a daily basis, and what effect some decisions can have. It definitely motivates me to be a lot more careful and thorough about the code I write, and that's probably a good thing considering that I'm a painfully self-aware javascript coder who eschews, among other things, writing tests for my code and who thoughtlessly uses modules that solve whatever problem I'm facing.

I could go on to write a love-letter to how a number of HN posts make me want to be a better programmer, but I'll keep it a simple as possible.

Being here, even now, and even though I do sort of feel like one of the 'older crew' suspiciously eyeing what appears to be an influx of 'others', to put it vaguely, ultimately what I love most about this place is reading about the 'old-timers' and how they worked, the 'oldest code that is still in use', the argument for and against LISPs, the problems of the JS/Node ecosystem (bit sick of that), the crazy shit some programmer created, and so on.

I'm pretty much addicted to HN, while I managed to cut out Facebook and Reddit. What keeps me here is the intense desire to be a hacker, and how, even now, HN fuels it. To not just make websites or work with the latest framework, but to geek out on things and become better at what I truly believe is a craft.

If at some point the noise overpowers the substance that I care for, I hereby request anyone who takes pity to let me know where to move on to. But so far, with dangs good moderation, I'm impressived with how well HN is holding out.
> This response came out unexpectedly negative.

Because for most people whether or not they drink isn't a moral decision, and comparing it to a drug from Brave New World is a wee bit of a stretch.
Meat from a butcher does not. Food from your own garden does not. Restaurant food also does not typically have barcodes.
Discover weekly is ok, but I can only assume is processed vs your entire library at best. What I would love from Spotify is playlist button that said play this list and related music.
An R930 on Dell's site configures out to double that. And that doesn't include power/bandwidth.

I'm sure you would also get a hefty discount if you were a customer who regularly buys servers that cost that much.
This article is implying that the impending real estate implosion signal is that mansions are taking 2 weeks to sell instead of one?
When you are writing safety critical systems, you start with formal use cases, then verify/validate to show conformance. Sometimes, you have to show conformance to some statistical metric.

You simply DO THIS. It's not optional. It's not negotiable.

Also, calling this UX creeps me out :)
It's interesting to describe something that gets people what they pay for as selfish on the part of a third party. I mean, yes, there is something in it for netflix, but it arises from making things better for their users. I'd describe that as win-win, personally.

Now, killing performance on a service your users want so you can force an inferior product on them? That's selfish.
Agree. My $100 Global Entry (includes TSA Pre) fee is my hedge against the American public's apathy towards the TSA.
> but you MUST provide EANABs

What taught you this?
That's a very interesting problem. I wonder if one solution to the 'control group' is for the control to be an alternative intoxicant (i.e. not another psychedelic).
The Falcon 2000 she flew on this morning is about 1/3 the weight and fuel load of the SWA 737 she might have otherwise.

I'm not sure what's unreasonable about the comparison. If the TSA were actually necessary, it would seem like a huge gap in security to allow just anyone with the cash to charter a few private jets around the country.
We had someone who came to work for us that told the whole company he was a recovered alcoholic and everyone was real nice about it. The bosses and co-workers in this story just sound like colossal jerks.

I actually have an opposite problem, though. We stock the fridge with craft beer but since everyone is a health nut (I use it as a terms of endearment) no one wants beer at 6:00 so sometimes I end up being the only one and that feels awkward. But I've been at the office 11 hours, I want to treat myself.

Also, I find the thought of Beer Pong at the office to be very alarming. Foosball, sure, but Beer Pong? What are we, Freshmen in college?

But I'm in a East Coast office. We're annoyingly all business here. It is probably different elsewhere.
Yes, that'd be great. Gym is open-source — would love if someone built an integration!
At least you can prevent the wreckage from landing in the side of a building with controlled demolition charges in it.
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salad leaves, not much going on at the moment missed the boat this year and settled mostly for sunflowers, got a few pots but no visits from snails or the 'snails without houses' as my Austrian friend calls them :)
My service is fine for all other use cases but remote HD video, with its need for constant high bandwidth, is always going to be a fundamentally more difficult problem to solve than local digital video, traditional cable-delivered video, or regular downloads that can tolerate variance in transfer rate. It doesn't feel like it takes a conspiracy to explain that. When cable companies wanted to be our email or news/content portals I never had any issues using competing services on cable internet.

I was never going to cut the cord. I like having many channels and the serendipity of a wide variety of programming that's on "now" to choose from. There are shows/movies I never would have chosen myself but I stumbled onto them because they were "on" and they became favorites.

With a DVR I can also time-shift so I'm not tied to watching something on the broadcasters' schedule when I don't want to.

I tried Netflix to augment this with what I thought would be a big influx of other programming but it wasn't only the streaming experience I didn't like, I was unimpressed with the selection of the Netflix library. If they do another season of Arrested Development, I'll subscribe for a few months to support that.
Because he does not seem to have knowledge of the decision process and the different actors involved, which is why he puts up several conjectures , such as that the people involved in the funding of this project are either malicious or stupid.

I just really don't like this way of arguing, and I think it does a large injustice to most of the people involved, many of which are excellent scientists that have put lots of work into their winning proposal. Claiming that they are driven by greed or are selling "snake oil" is very unfair and also a bit ridiculous: The funding process was very transparent and open to debate, and there would surely have been a way for the author to voice his critique through an official channel, especially if he is a faculty member of a European University. To me it seems that he's just unhappy that the funding didn't go to his department, and instead of interacting with people in a constructive way (or better yet, get people from the crypto community together to write a proposal of their own) he just belittles the people involved in this project. This isn't scientific debating, it's just ranting.
Fast.com improves upon speedtest.net in the following says:
* Page loads quickly
* No Ads
* No ISP partnerships
That would be totally valid, except I get a perfectly fine and stable 500 down from, for example, Microsoft's MSDN, depending on the size of the ISO showing this straight for a couple of minutes..
Wow, that is brilliant.
I would leave my last comment, doing 'cheap things' is/are habitual.
I disagree; the equation only changes somewhat.

Passengers under a hijacking still don't expect to survive by cooperating, so the cost of cooperation is still effectively infinite high.

Guns still run out of bullets, and are somewhat difficult to wield in a close-quarters situation - it's not a magic first-person shooter. The cost becomes higher than fighting someone with a box cutter, but still lower than evaporating into mist.
What do you need to do to be able to get this convenience ?
Yes, even to the point of locking out the co-pilot for a suicide mission.

:(
I think you are probably living in a bubble if you think that those reasons are rare. I'm in Boston (not the most diverse place) and I know a bunch of people in the local industry who don't drink for religious or dietary reasons. Moreover, two of the things you mentioned as being red flags (alcoholism and an allergy in scare quotes) aren't things I would ever consider red flags. If someone is an alcoholic and abstains from alcohol, that's probably a pretty good sign about the person! If someone claims a medical condition which prevents them from drinking, well, I'm not a doctor/health expert so I'm not going to judge that.
I was also surprised to see this here. It needs a (2012) tag in the title at the very least, as this is not what is being litigated right now.
"It shouldn't matter if a Democrat is voting Republican or the other way around. People can change their minds, and should not be disallowed to vote if they find that the other party is doing a better job in making the country a better place."

This is the Primary. Not the actual election. Those people are free to vote for whoever they want in the general election.

"If a whole bunch of Republicans vote Democrat, it means that the Republicans have failed to do their job!"

In the general election, yes. Not in the primary. In the primary, it means that one party is trying to choose the candidate in the other party that would be easier for their party to beat.

" Saying you can't vote because of that is like a childish loser saying you can't play for the opposing team."

No, it isn't. Not when you realize what election you're talking about.

"My point is that such a decision should not be made and it segregates our democracy and makes it an "us vs them" fight, when in reality we're all in this together."

Your point doesn't make sense when a party is trying to pick it's own candidate.
Just use clojurescript its simpler. By the time you have set up webpack you would already have a webapp in clojure.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11720169
The good news is that this becomes less of an issue with age. In another 5 years you'll deal with this situation slightly less, and another 5 years after that (when many of your peers have kids or whatever) nobody will care at all.

I think most of this entire discussion simply revolves around the young age of the startup scene in general. It's the same with any scene full of people your age.

Now that I'm in my early 30s, I can tell you that anyone this age who's still doing peer pressure is someone you need to remove from your life immediately. Most of us just want to have a few cocktails and call it a night.

BTW, it's not "soma" when used in social situations. It's social lubricant. I'd equate alcohol with soma when a person is sitting on the couch watching NFL or MLB with beer, not caring about anything in the world. Which also has its place in the world, you just don't need to do that on a consistent basis.

Long story short, my advice to you is to find a few older friends who just don't care.
These kind of studies address bell curves which by definition always has outliers so your statement is correct but statistically may be an outlier. You can always say "it depends" in other words.
It was called Pudge Wars! The DotA 2 version is here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29683... where you can see its subscriber count (and my name cited as the originator)
Even with virtual debit cards, this kind of data is still extremely useful from a fraud prevention point of view. Maybe you can spot a pattern that signups on one particular brand of virtual debit card from one particular IP range are most likely to be abusive. With fraud prevention, anything additional that can be used as a signal is useful.
The trick is to get one small beer and drink it all night. I do this all the time because I like to be out socialising and sometimes because it has professional benefits too but I do find it strange to base it around taking what is essentially a hard drug.
beta.speedtest.net does the same but without flash.
Sucks. I had one for years, switched to Android (for the GearVR) and have been frustrated ever since.

Windows Phone is better in a lot of ways, too bad they couldn't make it stick. It just seems like to me they mostly had a marketing problem and they needed to incentivize the mobile carriers to actually try to sell them. I remember going into the Verizon store and watching the sales people actively steer people away from the phones and push them towards Android. I don't know why that was but it seemed like a huge problem to me.
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If you don't want the '360' version, you can watch the regular livestream here - https://events.google.com/io2016/
I'm not a sober alcoholic, I'm just a person that doesn't drink for a variety of reasons. I can tell you that this isn't just startups. It's our entire society.

I work at a non-startup and there's a happy hour every Friday at the end of the day. Everyone else is VERY EXCITED for this Happy Hour. I'm still excited because we basically stop working, but not nearly as excited as everyone else.

Even outside work, when I go to social gatherings, people are drinking. Drinking is the main attraction for most people. If I go to a meetup, I'm the only one who cares primarily about what the meetup is supposed to be about. Go to a concert, other people get drunk, I am the only one actually trying to enjoy the music. Even hanging with my friends watching a movie, I'm actually trying to pay attention to the movie, but for everyone else, they have to "enhance" the experience with some beverages.

Go to any conference or convention? After-work party? These events are ALWAYS at bars. What am I supposed to do in a bar? It's the most uncomfortable place in the world to be for someone who doesn't drink. It's like someone who can't swim hanging out at the public pool.

While not drinking makes social life, especially in NYC, a bit more difficult, I do not have the same experience as you. Nobody has ever been a dick to me about not drinking. They just accept it. I've had some people ask why, but that's fine. I'll just explain to them. I guess that might be more troubling if my reason was a past of alcoholism. I've never had anyone get mad or anything. So I think that aspect might just be an aspect of startup bro culture. Not that I needed another reason to never work for one.
"Why should private clubs be determining who is on the ballot?"

They don't. They pick two of the people on the ballot. Anyone has the chance of getting on the ballot if they aren't part of one of those groups.
People using AWS are not typically, say, small business people looking to eke out savings however possible so they can take an extra vacation or buy an new car. They are corporate people or people running startups using other people's money. Their success or failure doesn't depend on saving the organization money so they are willing to pay more to have less to worry about themselves personally.
You may be interested in an SQLite version of the dataset that is 553 GB vs. the 908 GB JSON: https://archive.org/details/2015_reddit_comments_corpus_sqli...

The storage format of a dataset can make a big difference in memory usage.
The AWS instance is very predictable, in operation and cost, and that's valuable to business.

If your unique snowflake in your own datacenter (don't forget to factor in the physical space and your datacenter personel into your costs) doesn't work well, it can mean replacement, additional costs and downtime. If the AWS instance has a hickup, terminate and replace (I'm not saying that's going to be trivial either at a 2TB RAM instance size).

A big hunk of hardware of your own also represents significant CapEx and a depreciating asset for business. Spinning this monster up costs you $13 to start testing immediately, and you can walk away from it at any time. That's worth a lot.
For most personal and business use cases, it does not make sense.
Legally speaking, the startups do have a problem if they discriminate against her for being a recovering alcoholic.
The map was called Pudge Wars
It would make the function name stand out from the parameters. Again, to pick one unintuitive abbrevation, just because it's a 3-letter one like let, it's just not serious! Make all be 3:

type -> typ
switch -> swi
if -> iff
else -> els
in -> inn
downto -> dow
module -> mod

Call you language 3-letter reason. You see how it ridiculous it gets? You can't make all keywords be 3-letter and if people care about alignment, they can further align, but most don't care as much as you think!
The use cases for this class of machines, I think: spin up, do work for a few minutes/hours/whatever, then spin down. They're far from running 24/7 which _can_ make it more economical than buying dedicated hardware which might sit idle.
The RAs (upperclassmen) and Fellows (resident faculty) in an all-freshmen dorm at Stanford.
We all did that (I -- in the USSR and even much more dangerous post-USSR of the 90s, btw.) :)
Is it evil if it's illegal? [1]

[1] https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/2042314...
yeah, no reason at all to look like a car internally... what with the seatbelts and airbags and all.

a single bed next to a table... SAFE AT ANY SPEED!

you're all idiots.
This framework started development over 4 years ago, I formalized this framework and open sourced it because I felt the modern world needed something fresh and simpler.

If anyone has any questions just leave a comment!
I think ES-6 requires a lot of tooling support (because you need to support older browsers too) so it can be very complicated to set up for a new comer. If "learning React" is not your goal then I think learning, Prototype Based Object Oriented JavaScript, jQuery and Backbone.js can help you make almost any type of web application.

I think learning core ES-5 JS is important, for anybody who wants to learn ES-6.

Once you have done couple of applications with this stack, I think gradually picking up Babel and Gulp like tools and React wouldn't be that hard.
That was good haha. Gotta wonder how many were made up.
It's not just the TSA they are apathetic towards -- it is all government activities.
We are seeing about a 10% swing on multiple tests. Close; typical network usage. It would be interesting to run this on Friday night about 8:30PM EST. We normally see a network slowdown then BECAUSE of netflix....
Those APIs aren't free and the lag between the translation and network connectivity means it would be very difficult to have a real time conversation.
From a consumer standpoint, that is the more interesting metric.

For those of us who frequent HN, it is only half the picture.
The Workspaces FAQ appears to disagree, but I'd be interested in learning if one can indeed use RDP.

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/#Clients_User_Experie...

"Q: Can I use any other client (e.g., an RDP client) with Amazon WorkSpaces?

No. The only supported clients for WorkSpaces are the free clients provided by AWS."
> and passengers wouldn't stand for it anyway.

This. We live in a different world now. I find it very difficult to imagine a plane full of people not standing up together to take down a threat.
Finally an area where we Russians must have an advantage, mua-ha-ha!!
So you're saying it's really bad and that's why it's so good.
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Not OP but it's a large, hideous site with a lot of junk I don't care about. The faux-futuristic map with an arc to a pyramid? The colored odometer with a variable scale? Creating an account? Ads?

As others have mentioned, ISPs can game the speedtest.net results, whereas with fast.com users will get exactly what they want: a single number that shows how fast they get Netflix. No frills, nothing else. Some of the advanced features of speedtest.net are useful for some advanced users, but it's a weird de-facto standard that caters to the tiny minority.
For those hatin on speedtest.net and wanting upload, http://speedtest.dslreports.com/ and https://speedof.me/ have booth been around for a while. The reason for fast.com is that it tests download speed from netflix. ISPs can't prioritize it without prioritizing netflix as well.
inability to modify workspace t-shirt size

What?
I have dev peers who think like that and they release code into the public domain.