skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...but for an hour, you can't get at them. haha.gif"

Priceless. (Especially when you actually need to use the computer and the files. Business hours? Nope, YOU WANT THE X)
It might be proven to be more performant, as it's relying on React's virtual DOM rather than d3's presumably made-from-scratch data binding. Would love to see some benchmarks though.
That's not in any way "the gist of the article", it's a comment made by a random person interviewed, and it's her opinion.

The main subject of the article is the extensive scientific study performed by scientists at the University of Melbourne, which showed that working more than 25 hours a week decreases IQ scores in people over 40.
tldr;

The higher the income, the less time spent online. More income generally means less free time, less time at work to screw around, and vice versa.
Did you even read the comment?
Since the link concerned is hosted in Canada - where this book is in the Public Domain - I disagree with the flagging.
Turkey is like Pakistan: a strategic US ally who doesn't exactly see eye-to-eye with the US on all problems.

In particular, Erdogan bet big on ISIS to rid himself of both Assad (strategic rival to Turkish influence in the region) and Kurds, so he's not in love with a US policy that arms Kurd troops against ISIS and Al-Nusra.

Also, Turkey is a big country. Daesh is obviously unpopular in "westernized" Istanbul, but out in the sticks where people listen to imams and maybe make the odd cross-border illegal transactions with ISIS fighters, they're likely loved a bit more, especially considering their anti-Kurd role. Coincidentally, rural provinces have also been Erdogan's primary constituencies ever since he failed to attain UE membership.

And well, of course there's Israel.

Edit: downvoted why? I don't think any of this is particularly contentious.
> my @values = [1 .. 20];
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> say @values[0,2,4 ... *];
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Wall says this should print all the evens, but it prints all (this is in the perl6 repl).
I know i'll invite shit for this, but "cult of the mac" is a term...
It's a term of art. From Wikipedia[1]: "In economics, an inferior good is a good that decreases in demand when consumer income rises (or rises in demand when consumer income decreases), unlike normal goods, for which the opposite is observed."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior_good
He doesn't even mention a friend having a broken mac, I think you miss-parsed; or maybe I did. "this" mac broke, not "his"?? Certainly you summary is wrong as a synopsis of his comment.
Is testing and debugging still a problem ? How many years until they get it right ?
And the link points to push.sh , hosted in Canada.
RTFP
Previous (recent) discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921208
If you like to tweak your Chrome install, check out:

chrome://flags/#extension-active-script-permission

It adds an extra level of permission where each extension that doesn't ask for a specific website is, by default, locked out of every website, and you have to enable it manually by either clicking on it, whitelisting the websites where it can run or globally (example pic, sorry for not being in english: http://puu.sh/q5QFR/d6004da3bb.png)
Informal natural language is in most cases not literal. For example, I assume you don't mean that I'm actually creating feces.
> But "family, friends, pets" are in the category of "someone else", right?

someone else == no emotional ties

You are going on the assumption that money earned by time not spent with loved ones is equivalent to the time that could've been spent with them.

"Well then get a better job that is worth it"

Not possible in a lot of instances (location, qualifications, balance of power between employed and employers).

And money can't replace an afternoon in the park with your kids riding bikes (ok, hunting pokemon in this day and age, but the point still stands)
"In Search of Stupidity"

That title seems a little too provocative unless you know that In Search of Excellence was a widely talked about international bestseller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Excellence
You can pick words from the most common in a given language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English

http://french.languagedaily.com/wordsandphrases/most-common-...

Although languages like English and French are very close and have a lot of cognates already. Maybe it's better to take languages more far apart from each other.
Sony and Nintendo have both announced Vulkan support on their next console iterations.
My brain usually goes in to "prepare to shut-down" mode every day at about 3:30pm (having started work at ~9am). I tend to have slow mornings, and stay pretty busy/head-down for the last half of that time.

The funny thing is, it doesn't really matter if I was busy working on hard technical challenges all day, or just reading articles/browsing the web; my brain shuts down the same time regardless.
New accounts have their username highlighted in green. This isn't a new account.
> Wow that's news to me I thought this site was for tech news and Haskell was welcome

:)
I need something exactly like this.
But keep in mind that this was while the Mac was still in development. The Apple ][ was a great game machine. That is what they are probably comparing it to. I was in high school at this time and the library had a whole wall of PCs and one Apple ][. Huge crowd playing Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple, no one touching the PCs as they only had Flight Simulator on them. In a vacuum, Donkey is not too bad, but compared to Castle Wolfenstein and the other good games on the Apple, I can see why it got a meh...
How to handle state in React. The missing FAQ
Yeah, people need to keep in mind that the sites slogan is "biting the hand that feeds IT". After all, it is the current home of the BOFH series.
The do less and do more model is very interesting. Great for getting feedback on how the company is doing.
+1 - Brave New World is a manual of sorts for as well - at least for the developed world.

Take Huxley's "soma" for instance. An astounding portion of our population go through life medicated: Prozak/etc, pain killers, marijuana.

Not that I blame them. Totalitarianism is a bitter pill. Better have something to take the edge off.
Nuclear war poses a major threat to modern technological civilization, but it poses no threat to the species as a whole.
Er, no. If so, e.g. the anchor would be underwater when fully loaded.

My guess is that the green belt is about the difference between empty and fully loaded.
To me, this feels a lot like what transpired with https://lavabit.com/. Of course, that was a service operated by a company, not a open source software and a distributed network, but there might be paralells.

If you haven't read about it, read the post mortem on the Lavabit page.

To me, it's very likely that the government demanded backdoors in TOR code itself, or backdoor access to critical TOR infrastructure (bridge nodes, directory authority, large exit nodes, ...), all under gag orders that forbid any mention of this to the public.

Probably in the interest of 'national security'.

Can't be sure, of course, but I would not feel comfortable with using TOR for anything sensitive anymore.
Don't Facebook and Google offer more than that in London to new graduates with just undergraduate degrees? I know those are outliers then, but it's a shame that the outliers are all US companies. And ARM isn't just some tech agency, they're working on hardware, simulation, compilers, etc, hard tech stuff.
Okay, yes, I misinterpreted. Thanks!

I'm still curious whether a decrease in demand has been demonstrated without tracking who in the household is online.

"A possible concern about our finding of persistent attention distribution is that the measures of online attention allocation may be strongly driven by a household’s total time online on the home device."

The very concept of a single home device feels like an assumption. In my household, the kids each have their own device. We tend to all go online on separate devices at the same time, and then to all be offline when we're spending time together.
lol. Flagging things online is the best way to erase thought crimes.
Consider this: "downtime on all workstations at once, during business hours, regardless of consent, and afterwards, peripherals no longer interface (WHICH IS WHY WE WANTED TO TEMPORARILY KEEP W7 WHILE WORKING ON A FIX)" - but no physical damage to computers, so everything is great and wonderful, right? Right? Nope, that's malware by any other name. Including the overreaction by mgmt: "IT shall repave to Win7 from backups, lockdown and disable WU - we literally cannot afford to catch Windows X again." Everyone loses, just because some schmuck at Redmond had the great idea of an unconsented "up"grade.

Edit: Intentionally forces the system to a state where functionality is unknown (as opposed to breaking the system on purpose). Big honking difference, yeah right. "I just pushed him into the pool, you mean I should have checked if he can swim? Wait, what do you mean 'if he even wanted to?' That's ridiculous, of course he did!" The problem (malware-ness, if you wish) isn't with the upgrade (we would have upgraded in a matter of 6-8 weeks), it's the disregard for consent ("you didn't say 'no' often enough, that's a loud and clear 'yes' to me").
removed, apologies
I was mostly using it as an example for something quite rare and seemingly weird, even compared to WordStar or WordPerfect. If your newspaper, magazine or website uses some kind of CMS that's based on text files, any old editor or word processor would do. It's not like they'd accept the native formats of WordStar/XyWrite, so once you're down to .txt, anything goes (if UTF-8 is mandatory, some more tech savviness might be required).

I think that an Amiga was explicitly mentioned in an old article about Germany's heise publishing house (mostly known for tech publications, so maybe a bit more accepting in that regard). Germany also had a pretty large Amiga fanbase, so that might bias things.
(And I remember Ataris being quite popular in publishing, too)
I don't know the process. But wouldn't Europe, say Ireland, be an easier move? Particularly since every tech capital in Europe probably has open arms right now, due to Brexit.
If you look at the example code, the author is aware of the new modules pulled out of d3. He's actively using them. It doesn't change his comments re: those two modules specifically.
Tell me the most important thing you have done for your friend
Have you never worked a menial job? If anything there's a direct correlation between pay and opportunities to spend time on social media.
I suppose that everything is a matter of opinion, but d3's syntax is the worst combination of obtuse (".enter"???), cute (the incredibly obnoxious chained api), and cumbersome (all the mutation, and the fact that d3 code always ends up being a long string of procedural spaghetti).

Of course, it does have a lot of useful code around math, projections, etc.

This project looks like a very welcome step in the right direction, showing that d3's great math can be used with obvious, declarative syntax.
> he seem popular and won a recent election.

The trend is not rising though. He's twice failed to break the numbers required to legally change the constitution, and now even his majority is not very solid. He survives on a steady diet of fairly suspicious shocks, like this coup attempt and a string of terrorist attacks that conveniently targeted his enemies rather than his friends.

He's also played the old "Putin switcheroo" between premiership and presidency to work around constitutional limits, which is why he's trying to strengthen his new role.

The democratic case for Erdogan is the same as for Putin, really; and that says it all.
Did the title get changed? Both on this post and the article, there's nowhere that it says it's D4.js.
I got burned by Parse on this already. One of the nice things about Zappa (https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa) is that you can return to a non-serverless architecture if you want to.
> Everyone wants to be the master architect of the groundbreaking new framework in the hip new language.

Especially considering that more and more companies are (trying to) use this as a prerequisite for finding any paid work. I can't find the link, but I remember reading a writeup from a startup whose hiring manager required a couple of pull requests from well-known open source software as part of the interview process. This wasn't Facebook or Google, either, just another no-name startup.
Maybe you could just design your data a bit better with smaller data types, and keep it all one one machine.
This sounds like it could be a diet thing. Have you tried eating different things for lunch to see if that affects your mid-afternoon mood?
thats some serious mud-slinging. would you care to at least explain why you think that?
Stop trying to pick up chicks with Pokémon Go
+1 I couldn't express it better.
Depends on your definition of natural. The religious claim of 'special creation', esp. w.r.t. humans has it easy here:

> existing in nature and not made or caused by people : coming from nature

This definition really stems from man's early assumption that we are distinctly "different" from all other natural things.

But reality tells us otherwise: People are a part of nature; they are natural. It's easier to discuss in terms of what isn't the same instead of what is the same. And that is, we are the smartest known species (being the sole species with self-consciousness is still up for debate). Therefore everything people do is natural.
https://github.com/contact/dmca
> Even IBM has gone to using Macs today. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2998315/apple-mac/every....

> So the machines are very cheap, even to IBM they are easier to use and require less tech support. For those that want to do some software development with open source, very useful.

This is just untrue at many levels, there is still plenty of early adopter issues going around and there are plenty of people getting new laptops with Windows/Linux OS. It certainly hasn't stopped IBM's contributions to open source before or after.

This is a weird argument to make.
That doesn't stop them from launching a new Dragon (2? hopefully they'll reuse CRS8's booster before that, but it'd be cool to see the first Dragon 2 on top of the first booster landed on the ship) on top of a reused booster though... and of course, reusing the first stage doesn't mean reusing the second stage (which is, in fact, never even recovered)

Moot point though, since SES has pretty much already bought the first reused launch ( http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/02/23/ses-eager-to-fly-satell... )
Communications tech is getting pretty good these days, so you can often be available to answer questions (during regular hours) without being at your desk.
One thing a lot of people don't think about is that the price of the payload isn't going down yet. The satellites that launch to GEO tend to be 300-500 million dollars. I've heard figures all around there.

There is a VERY low risk factor that companies which launch these will accept. These satellites drive business for companies for years their life cycle is 20 years or so. They are a massive investment, and any risk on getting the satellite to space is seen as something to avoid at all costs. Different rocket companies are considered to be the gold standard because they introduce VERY low risk to your payload. Even though these payloads are insured it's still not worth loosing one because you loose out on a ton of revenue.

I'm speaking strictly of GEO satellites right now, but the whole economy around satellites will have to be rethought if we can cheaply get devices out there. I suspect that using "tried and true" hardware would become much less important and the cost of the massive satellites would go down because we can launch 5 a year every year instead of 1 or 2 a year. If one of them fails that's fine, we can replace it with something new and margins of safety that are applied in the industry can be reduced.
Two day's ago ago a coup d'état was stopped because the contested prime minister of turkey was able to reach medias using built-in VOIP technology of one of the most worldwide sold smartphone. Citizens comprising even some politics opponents rallied in the street to contest the coup d'état so that turkey remain a democracy (even if Erdogan is very very contested as a leader).

And a few more days ago police abuse was catch and shared live on Facebook leading to investigations on cops abuse.

I can only encourage everyone to read the Orwell's full novel. But I can't agree less with OP, we currently live in a society where any injustice can be share worldwide in a heartbeat. This is very very far frow Orwell's totalitarian society depicted in 1984.
> The most legible font is the one you're used to.

Maybe so, but there's still a need for fonts that are legible before you're used to them, for things like traffic signs.
I submitted this link: http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html#drawbacks with the title "Serverless Drawbacks", as that was the recently added section. Guess someone changed it, but it's not a dupe :)

In any case, it seems that "Benefits" has also been added since the last HN discussion (revision history: http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html#Significant...).
How to analyze user behavior with cohorts
Thanks for these links, I hadn't been back in a long while and this fills in the gaps of what's happened since I left. Glad to see C29 still stands and is in use even if it's days are certainly numbered.
WireWorld Simulator in ClojureScript
Working on the butt side of a globally distributed company, you realize how much more can get done when you actually visit the mother ship.
I get the sense lately of Linkedin being full of recruiters and job hunters rather than professionals searching for networking, or companies trying to reach out to an audience.

Facebook does indeed help with marketing a brand. But it's not aimed towards networking. Searching by a person's attributes has been stripped off a couple of years ago, and when you message a person not in your social circle the message will usually be blocked off (sometimes even if you have a basic set of mutual friends).

Optimally I'd like to see a social platform that does both properly - allows you to discover new relevant people (for professionals, recruiters, job hunters etc.), is a base for businesses wanting to showcase their product and what they do, while keeping your closer circle of friends close.
Doesn't the keyboard command to close the tab/window work in these cases? Thankfully, I've never encountered such BS.
Yes, that's true, but they were saying they wanted macros in non-lisp languages. I gave an example of a non-lisp language that has lisp-like macros.
No, I am not. See my other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110917
Kisah Nyata – tangan reflek bapak saya pelindung Keluarga
Did tweetdeck remove this feature? I can't seem to figure out how to do it there.
> There's definitely a lot of throwing the baby out with the bath water. ACID is hard on a distributed system. Let me rephrase that. Performant ACID is hard on a distributed system.

> Relational stores without ACID are very hard to reason about. Any associations that are created with the primary entry may or may not be there at lookup. This is solved via documents.

This is only solved via. documents for applications which don't need relational consistency or transactions, which is a minor percentage of web-applications.

Most applications of Mongodb that I've seen do not fall into that category, further MongoDB is marketed as a generic, not as a very application specific kind of solution..

As soon as you find your application does need transactional consistency between entries, you'll be up the creek making your own paddle - since unlike with SQL databases where ACID is at least supported MongoDB just gives you:

> $isolated does not work with sharded clusters. [0]

[0] https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/write-operations-atomic...
Calling in Well: A Look into Leave Time Tracking Trends
Phusion Passenger author here. Ruby and Python apps deployed through Passenger are not vulnerable to this issue, despite Rack and WSGI using CGI-style names. That's because Passenger does not actually set OS environment variables. It merely passes a hash table/dictionary to the application with CGI-style keys.
I'm assuming from the down mods that no one actually has an answer for this. :-)

Here are the facts: if the goal was to "steal their oil", that could easily have been accomplished.

1) Secure oil fields and terminals.
2) Fly in Texans and Okies to run everything.
3) Shoot anyone who approaches. Leave the rest of the country to fend for itself.

That didn't happen. Why not?
A cutting-edge weapons system is almost by definition one which hasn't been adequately tested in live conditions...
I tried to scale Postgres few months ago but I found that it is quite tedious.
Yes they did remove it.
A big problem is also with unmaintained extensions that are being bought my malicious players (or developers' accounts hijacked), which then slap on an adware script and push a new version. That way, a previously good extension with a legitimate reason for "accessing your data on all websites" can silently become malicious.
That doesn't make ms less evil. It should clue you in that all (big) companies are evil.
Could it be that there is some selection bias in this study? I don't mean to say the conclusions are wrong per se, but I would think that people working very few hours (unemployed?) or too many hours (factory workers?) are typically less educated than those in the middle, which could explain the IQ disparity.
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There's no event clearly referenced here.

The Appelbaum crisis is the most recent public drama, but that's mostly a settled matter and a fall has already been taken for it. It would be fairly strange to do this now over that incident.

Given which, it looks like someone involved with a privacy project is refusing to disclose their motives for shutdown, but also shutting down slowly and openly, the way you wouldn't if someone was knocking on your door. This is an ambiguous outcome to almost everyone.
My whole point was there are operations that work in finite mathematics that don't work on infinite series, so yes, I didn't prove mathematics inconsistent, I just proved grouping is illegal for divergent infinite series :)

To be clear, yes

(1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ... != 0 + 0 + ... either
I'm sure FB and Google offer more but they're not most tech companies!

London is also more expensive than Cambridge (I doubt you'll buy a house a short distance from the office in London on a mid-level engineers salary at Google/Facebook, you can happily do that in Cambridge at ARM).

I'd also note hard-tech stuff just seems to attract less money than web/social (see how the recent linked-in acquisition by MS wasn't for much less cash than the Softbank ARM deal).

I'm not saying ARM is super generous with their compensation compare to other tech giants, but you get a pretty reasonable deal, and it's a nice place work with interesting things to work on.

(I work at ARM)
Taking this to the geographic extreme, some of the most competitively solid businesses are things where you just can't move the product very far. I'm thinking quarries* and trash.

*The exception being highly sought after material not available nearby.
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