skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we get it, rails is slow and obviously that is not the reason people use it.
He is not dumb, he is deliberately lying.
Isn't it entirely based around the stealth functions of the F-22, and more specifically, their unique application of such? I am pretty sure they fear reverse engineering of the metallic skin; hence why the Senate has pushed for an exportable version.
I think nobody is interested in shutting down companies in general. Fines can be hurtful in general and if you are a serious company you reduce your risks and do not do anything against the law. I would not say it is toothless... there is a big market now (even Microsoft is in there) which promotes cloud services in your own country.
So now both of the people that use elixir can have slow request handling. :)
Germany is pretty bad in banks to be honest. Transfers can take a whole day even between my own accounts and no way of seeing any movements during the weekend, incredibly old school.
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`C CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA`

I laughed way harder at this that it warranted.
Cordless circular saw reviews
Whenever I hear "expert" I think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Add interactive documentation to your apps with Intro.js
DBIx::Class is the only one I've really looked at. I also recall seeing a talk on Fey and Fey::ORM, given by the author, at YAPC or somewhere, and remember thinking it seemed really nice. But, I have never used any ORM heavily, so I'm still figuring it out.
Interestingly it seems that GPG is originally from Germany [0] (a headline act from the first crypto war, I expect there are many other examples!)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard
There is a webframework called Z WebPortal from a US company, Zortec Intl. that has a COBOL-like backend that will run 'real' COLBOL code too, with a js layer and xml to draw the output in the browser as html.

It is proprietary, but very fast and the backend code is much simplified over COBOL.

Writing to a log file looks like:

fd ?logthis-txt reclen 80
def logthis-usr gp 80
logthis-date an 10
logthis-time an 8

open extend logthis using '/var/log/logfile.txt'
on error next sentence
else display date lj upon logthis-date
call GETIME using logthis-time
move usrid to logthis-usr
write logthis
close logthis.

You can see that a lot of the (unnecessary) typing done in COBOL has been removed.
It has its limitations as most web-frameworks do, but if you have mainframe COBOL and want to present it in the browser with fancy colors and graphics it has more pros than cons.
I guess GP meant that torrent client could e.g. pad a file on disk (safest option) and store that metadata along with original hash. Hashes would not change over the torrent network, but would be different in other networks
The GIL makes Python faster than a Python without it would be.
I own a Vive. We are quite a few years from having HMDs where you can't see pixelation. I estimate we need a tenfold increase in density.

However, and this is something you need to try to believe, pixelation does not affect immersion. The human brain is amazing at coping with vision defects. When in a game, you absolutely forget about pixel visibility. You are just "in there".

So, it is true that you can't get detail for showing stuff in detail at 20m. It limits applications, but there's already plenty of activities that are possible now, instead of having to wait ten years.
Thanks, the link works now for me.

Apparently this depends on the country. Your link includes JP for Japan and the contact mail address for Japan (which ironically is spelled wrong).

I really cannot reach it from Germany without this ?country.x=JP.
Figure 2 is incorrectly titled "LZW compression"?
That doesn't seem entirely clear.

For example, Seafile could have said "Files are accessible only to one customer. It is of course possible to share passwords. However, we use geoip to monitor the number of locations used by each customer, and take appropriate action when a customer's set is oddly large. This should effectively block the use of Seafile for piracy." Perhaps Paypal would have said no, but perhaps yes.
Yep. You can use 'connection: local' for example.
This is the video I was expecting.
To make Python fast in that regard, you'll have to rely on C-based libraries (C as in Cython) like httptools or libuv. http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
There are two things here -- how fast can a language be in theory vs how fast a particular implementation is.

Interpreters are typically slower (though simple to write and portable). The standard Python/Ruby/PHP implementations are interpreters. (The Python interpreter doesn't interpret from source every time, though; it usually uses the bytecode from previous runs.)

Implementations that generate machine code are more complicated and less portable, but have the potential to be faster. However, while compiling "down to machine code directly" can help startup time, it has little to do with what allows a language to be fast. What matters is whether it's possible to generate efficient machine code.

Static typing, for example, allows a compiler (ahead-of-time or JIT/VM) to generate more efficient machine code [1]. The ability to monkey-patch code -- which is common in many dynamic languages -- makes things harder for a compiler.

That said, there are compilation techniques to make dynamic languages pretty fast -- much faster than the standard Python/Ruby/PHP interpreters. For example, Javascript VMs have gotten 10x (or more?) faster over the last 5 years. (One of the big ideas: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching>.)

A great example of all this is Facebook's PHP compiler. The first version would compile to machine code ahead-of-time, but it wasn't that much faster than the standard PHP interpreter (and definitely slower than the Firefox/Chrome Javascript VMs). They eventually switched to a JIT compiler, which is a better strategy for a dynamic language. Later, they transitioned to statically-typed sorta-PHP-compatible language called Hack, which allows for even more efficient machine code.

[1] There are different levels of static typing, too. For example, Go is statically typed but doesn't have generics. A C# generic data structure can be converted to more efficient code than a Go "interface{}"-based data structure.
Some Thoughts on Ethereum and the DAO
George Orwell said there are some people you can fool all the time. What he didn't mention: those people are all LRB readers.
Am I just naively pessimistic by thinking they will never go away?

They're equivalent to big banks, and big banks never die. Even governments bail them out when they screw up.

Bottom line, the bankers always wins. That's how the world is setup today.

I'm not a financial expert so this is just my naive view of all the crap that goes on in the financial world.
Hope I'm wrong...
Counterexample: Safari 7 had a big blue button that said "Reader." It was literally the largest button in the app.

Usage did not change.
Let me help you:

http://imgur.com/hqHjVw6
The US was willing to fight to the last Russian to defeat Hitler ;-)
You still usually need a TAN that's either on a piece of paper at home or generated by a special device (and with Smartphones, I don't really trust mTAN), with PayPal you only need a password. So yes, it's less secure, but more convenient.

Merchants also seem to prefer PayPal because it gives them an instant payment confirmation.
Exercise is great for cognitive development/maintenance and weight training in particular involves more math than an outsider may realize so even that is brain training.
To take a page from the authors playbook...create some artifacts. Find interesting data sets, do interesting stuff with said data sets and write about it :)
That isn't a full explanation as it is much like saying that Harold's Millinery of Saville Row has to close because no-one is wearing hats, but the name is well known and maybe it's time to start selling scarves, ties and what-not. OP perhaps meant the name may be worth something but the content needs diversifying?
Grimm brothers

Anything by Verne

Tom Poes (but you'd need to read dutch for that)

Master of the black mill (Krabat) (Harry Potter, but different and much older)
Regulations will probably come in the form of making these types of checks mandatory.

See, for example, how US Senators pressure payment providers to check up on whether their customers may be profiting from illegal file-sharing:

https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/judiciary-chair-leahy-urg...

If Dropbox-style hash checking of files could be seen as the standard in the industry, I can see how failing to do that could be seen by a court as potentially negligent.
sofortueberweisung is kinda shady though - don't you have to agree that they are allowed to read your transaction history?
Since you give them full access to your online banking account, they certainly are able to.
To anyone interested, Gwern also did some extensive research on Dual N-Back.

Gwern’s DNB FAQ[0] offers some favorable opinion on DNB (in that it’s fascinating, though much larger gains can be achieved via many other means—meditation, environmental changes, etc.—before DNB can start to give any meaningful effect). Later meta-analysis[1] links post-DNB IQ gains to methodological problems in studies, with quite small remaining positive effect that may be linked to further biases.

(Note that currently the FAQ is marked “unlikely” and the meta-analysis is marked “highly likely”.)

The results are overall not so rosy and I personally am under the impression that DNB is of little utility, if not a waste of time or highly depending on luck[2].

Some of the links from https://www.quora.com/How-does-dual-n-back-actually-increase..., however, lead to studies supporting DNB’s reputation as a great way to increase anyone’s IQ. I don’t know if newer studies avoid the biases of the ones Gwern looked at.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis

[1] https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#n-back-in-general

[2] There are many options on how to do DNB exercise, including test presentation, features, training length, and so on.
I own a Vive. Zero motion sickness on room scale games, zero when flying around in Elite:Dangerous. However, get me in something with wheels and it's hell. Rolling in the buggy in Elite is bad, driving in Project Cars is worse.

I've learned that, in Elite, if I look at where the buggy is going (it power slides a lot), then I almost avoid motion sickness. Project Cars, though, I can't play. Cornering, at high speed, completely immersed, with no lateral acceleration, triggers some alarm in me.
I am pretty sensitive to motion sickness ... get sick easily in cars, awful in boats and have suffered week-long bouts of pretty nasty positional vertigo a few times in my life but I can stay in the Vive for hours with no ill effects at all. It doesn't feel like my vestibular system is under any sort of stress at all, the tracking is super tight. My assumption is that the majority of people that experience nausea do so due to either defective hardware, or under-powered systems.
Yes, because it shows Google's dedication to not leaving people out. Apple doesn't allow Google to use the real chrome rendering engine, and instead requires that every webview be webkit-based. Google would absolutely use their own if they were allowed.
I never even heard of them, not sure what that name would be worth but I'm sure that they aren't so stupid not to think of auctioning off the assets as an end-game.
There's plenty of alternative payment providers that should work just fine for most people (credit cards, bank payment portals, etc).
I find it weird that people contribute to Google maps. I use OSM most of the time and contribute whenever I find a path that is missing, but I would never contribute to a closed data silo like Google Maps (at least not without being paid).

I sympathize with the feeling, but if one likes and uses Google Maps, contributing benefits you and others like you, not just Google. Avoiding it because you're not paid is a bit like cutting off the nose to spite the face.
You are right. Most cannot. In my experienice, the very good developers can. However, I never judge a person solely on the whiteboard test and I only get to it with the candidates that have shown other indications they are good for our team.
So they raise money and subsidize drivers to use their service.

Makes you wonder if Taxi companies would have increased services / hired more drivers/ lowered prices if the money went directly to them?

Now most of the artificially created suppliers will likely drop out the moment the driving becomes unprofitable or switch provider as the barriers to entry in this market are not that high.
This reminds me of a precompressed template system I built for an old Python Tornado webserver.

The system precompressed the static parts of the template, with matches only self-referencing inside each span of static content.

The dynamic parts of the template were prefixed with 'literal' tags.

This meant that serving a gzipped stream was as simple as concatenation, just as it was for normal uncompressed templates.

It could have been a lot cleverer - it could have huffman'ed the dynamic parts, for example - but it was an easy win.

Later, our Tornado servers were migrated behind a caching proxy and the whole purpose of serving up (partially) compressed pages vanished.
Tencent benefits from insane price-earnings multiple inflation in China.

By buying a profit-rich gaming company, they can play the multiple game, and lower their P/E multiple in China, thus looking "cheap".

In general, gaming companies have been trading at fairly low multiples (King was trading for a while at multiples known for steel mills shortly before their bankruptcy), based on the assumption that the business is hit driven and the life cycle of a hit game is rather short. Yet Supercell has been defying the odds for quite some times now...

So who knows... playing the multiple game might turn out a much better deal long term.
Why are algorithms other than gradient descent (e.g., bfgs, newton's, conjugate gradient, etc.) always seemingly absent from discussions on fitting neural nets? Are there not batch / stochastic versions of these methods? Is it simply ease of understanding / implementation? I seem to only ever see "gradient descent + tricks", and I wonder what the reason for this is.
Do you have a source for that? It was my understanding that PBKDF2 is 'good enough for now', but not necessarily the most future-proof of techs, given how easily the algorithm is optimised for GFX cards.
Are Apple’s New App Store Search Ads a Game Changer?
I don't get the praise; it took two days for a SEPA transfer to finish last time I initiated one. For buying goods online, that's 47 hours too long.
So is it the sheer dominance of the PayPal brand?
Jasper – The Issue Reader for GitHub
On eBay, yes, because even today eBay still requires you to photograph the actual item you're listing if it's not new and factory sealed, and a lot of their merchandise is open-box. The switch to a sales aggregator service helped, but they still have to go hands-on with the bulk of their eBay listings.

eBay really doesn't make sense for a larger business unless they have thousands of the exact same, new sealed merchandise, and that tends to be the cheap mass produced garbage that you find on wish.com and similar sites. The small to mid closeouts wholesaler doesn't have a place on the site anymore, which is why many are moving to Amazon. Unfortunately, as this article points out, scammy buyers are just as much a problem there.
Badminton Playing Robot
Disclosure: I work at Clarifai.

Thanks for checking us out! Our demo may not fully represent what we have to offer, but you can see a sample response here with confidence numbers included (we call them probs):
https://developer.clarifai.com/guide/tag#tag

In terms of labels, our "general" model has over 11,000 labels, and we also have specialized models with labels tailored for other purposes, including NSFW, travel, and food, among others.

Hope this helps
Getting a Tesla just became a no-brainer :)
What's microservice-specific about that post? It's mostly about pretty standard perl packaging and deploying, most of which would apply to monolithic equally well (even more so, if your dividing line is DarkPAN-backed modules and not HTTP-isolated (micro-)servers).
Elixir 1.3 released
5 Reasons Why Business Need Mobile Apps
Show HN: Cubix: An Operating System in Minecraft
I, for one, am happy to contribute for two reasons:

1. I use and benefit from the resulting services Google provides.

2. There are plenty of good personal and commercial reasons to want accurate data in Google Maps.
PayPal just seems like extra steps if your bank lets you do a straight transfer.
You're not a coward, you're facing the doubt that everyone else does. However, it is unhealthy to think that the SaaS you dreamed up will be successful, when so many others have failed...that realization that you've had, that there are advantages to undertaking projects that fail...that's worth holding on too...as while you may not frequently succeed at first, you can still keep learning the skills from building the failures that will be needed for a success.

Also worth realizing that the success of a project is not based purely on hard work and skill. A great amount of luck is involved.
I wonder if legal action can be taken against PayPal for demanding this kind of information. PayPal blackmailed them into breaking a law (they didn't break it but they suffered financial loss from not doing it).

If I told a customer who absolutely depends on my business to harass/attack somebody, I would certainly hold liable as well.
What's the motivation for mass surveillance of people who aren't terrorists in the US?
Having read during the last few years about the endless horror stories businesses have endured with PayPal, I honestly don't understand why anyone would still use PayPal when there clearly are alternatives (be that US companies like Stripe or EU companies like Paymill).
Revo Uninstaller 3.1.6 Full Version
There should be (1998) in the title.

Not that it changes much...
I'd need someone suggesting anything other than DBIx::Class to present some ironcast arguments for that choice
HL2 is the only game that I felt nauseous from. Wonder why? I stopped playing though instead of trying finding a solution so I don't know if it's a known problem.
The original comment exactly describes the problem with the whiteboard situations. Maybe you are an extrovert and can just say something on and on when the interviewer prods you with nitpicking details that does not matter in a whiteboard.

But, for others like an introvert, the whole process is like dancing in a circus in front of the people (with each one of them asking you do something at the sametime).
Control. Power. Authoritarianism. Corporate paternalism.
CSE Poem (2013)
They're all terrorists until proven otherwise!
"is there really a way to fight this incivility?"

In RL? I dunno. I say this because the dynamics b/w employer and employee isn't equal. When I choose to work with ppl, the no-arsehole rule applies. This type of situation you describe is probably #1 problem pg describes in non-technical problems that destroy startups.

What I do know is defusing situations is important. You cannot reason with ppl who are aggravated. I suspect reasoning isn't on your perps minds. This (overt attention seeking, interrupting) could be seen as a tactic to garner resources.
No dice, you'd have to get specific permission from the Postmaster to record on the premises, otherwise video recording by the public for anything other than news media purposes is prohibited.

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/usp...
Traffic Wouldn’t Jam If Drivers Behaved Like Ants
Perl Just Works, it's fun to work with, and has either the same quality or better tooling that comparable languages.

Once you're used to Perl's testing tools, anything else feels chaotic and poorly thought-out.
Zebra fish feel pain, as everybody knew before, because... they have pain receptors. This is extrapolated somehow to: The 31.000 species of fish extant "have feelings too", that is a big jump in my opinion.

Last hour news: Corals and slugs also can feel pain.

Ehhhmmm... Was this experiment really neccessary to the improvement of the human knowledge? Where is my big surprise?
I agree with most people here, just leave as soon as you can.
This is a war you can't win but have several ways to "loose".
Microsoft Edge Static Scan
I'm once again astonished with how much control of our businesses is simply out of our hands.

When looking at practices these financial institutions use it makes me wonder what can't they do?

Everyone cites "regulations", but as far as I understand, they make the regulations. Directly or indirectly.

Take for example the known cases where PayPal freezes accounts holding people's money. If I take someone else's money and refuse to give it back to them, it's a crime in pretty much every nation. But when banks and financial institutions do that, they get away scot-free (with maybe some small rants from the internet) and keep doing this systematically profiting in almost all cases.

If we're not bound to middle men like Stripe and PayPal, we're bound to Visa and Mastercard. Is there any way out of this madness?
Making a Killing – The business and politics of selling guns
It's interesting - I probably spend 2+ hours a day, reading Apple/Tech news, and reading all the various links, listening to a bunch of the podcasts. Some sites just keep coming up over and over - HN, macrumors, 9to5mac, imore.com, macworld.com - obviously the standard daringfireball.net, recode, theverge, bloomberg, wsj and NYT.com, some of the new ones like sixcolors.com, and the podcasts (ATP.fm, TheTalkShow), asymco (though less posting recently) In particular, stratechery.com has been knocking it out of the park in the last year.

Even though I don't visit it, I'm at least peripherally aware of theloop, information, etc... And usually hear a reference to sites like them every month or so. - But I'm struggling to remember, if even once in the last 5 years of that 2+ hours a day, I came across a story from macNN. Obviously this is an anecdote, but, 5+ years at 2 (or more) hours a day - you'd think I'd recall something from the site - but nothing comes to mind...
Tell HN: Watch SV S03E09 if your users don't get your app
Hello peeps.

I'm sure there's a good chunk of HN users that both watch Silicon Valley (from HBO), and ship cool projects or startups. If you feel like you've been stuck in a situation where your users just don't seem to be grasping, I urge you to watch episode 9 of season 3 with haste.

[Spoilers below]

Richard finally comes to his senses and wakes up to the audience's repeated screams of "redesign the damn pitch". At least that's what I've been mentally screaming at him for the past few episodes.

As obvious as it is to get early feedback, and as much as we all know we should be doing it, there's no chance in hell that everyone here does do it. I know that I'm guilty of it. That focus group scene, as well as the scene at the Erlich's pad afterwards, where Richard budgets the rest of the 600K to guerilla marketing and meetups, was amazing.

It was obvious, and simple, and hopefully it can solidify the idea of how important user testing and feedback is.

[Spoilers end]