skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is true for a high availability data center whose customers expect their website to be up 100% of the time, this article talks about storage infrastructure for their archiving service (C14). Restoring data from C14 will take multiple hours anyways, so networking downtime (or even power downtime, assuming they have enough backup power to safely power down their disks) will be of much lesser concern in the given use case than physical protection from natural or man-made disasters, which would destroy the archived data, or theft.

The main argument I would agree with is that it would maybe be cheaper (and definitely more secure) to keep data redundantly in two data centers sufficiently spread out to not be affected by a singular disaster than in a single hyper-secure data center.
You have got to be kidding me. Tesla seriously just named their car in homage to Spaceballs? How silly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0
No, I don't deny it's important to know that cache misses exist, and what they can do: to the contrary, it's vital.

However, in 90% of applications, it's not going to matter, because those applications are spending hundreds of cycles waiting anyways: Disk or network IO, user input, all that stuff is way slower than a cache miss. If you're writing a video game, or a database, or other software with very high soft-realtime speed requirements, or heavy data access, by all means, optimize to avoid cache miss.

But if you're writing a company-internal Rails app, nobody's going to notice, even if you're getting cache miss after cache miss. Which you probably won't.

Actually, if your language isn't compiled, a cache miss is the least of your worries, perf-wise.

And now I've got to see if I can optimize my code to avoid cache misses. But the code's in Scheme, so unless the initial access cost is amortized, I'm already doomed...
Maybe someday our ML will be good enough (and alas, it is not currently) that a "fuzzy trope search engine" could be built. Enter a description of a situation, set of relationships, or condition, and up pops references to historical tropes that match and are related. Then I can short-circuit old ideas being pitched to me repackaged in new clothing passing off as genuinely new ideas, and send the pitcher the link.

The title of this post would perhaps pull up "Thoughtcrime" and other related tropes (religious heresy among them probably, wonder how far back this particular trope goes in recorded human history).
> It's a strange linguistic distinction to make.

English is a collection of strange linguistic distinctions.

Following the pattern of compatible/incompatible, I might be surprised by the meanings of flammable and inflammable.
Slack app to express yourself through cat gifs
BitDefender Total Security Product Key 100% Working
Owning a new 911 and even paying extra for the sport exhaust noting that there are people who actually like the sound of the engine as adding to the experience of speed. (Also the torque curve which I assume with tesla is somewhat constant). Not to mention the manual transmission which obviously doesn't exist in an electric car. Driving even a 911 with the PDK isn't the same experience although performance wise it is better than the manual.
W-2.
I mean the cost of porting vs writing a whole new C interpreter - sounds like a lot of work.
Sets up for the (in my opinion) far more interesting debate: are college sports players employees?
The Two Ways We Lose Focus at Work
I'd argue that lap times are what matters.

Fastest is a broad term. I'd expect that "the fastest production car in the world" would have no problem winning a race at a majority of tracks.

"Fastest" has nothing to do with getting up to speed on the freeway.
iCloud is not a free for all, it's meant to share data within your app or within your org's group of apps (e.g. all Google apps). The Reading List data is within Apple's own container and you would not have access to it through conventional tools.

This is typically a good thing because syncing is hard enough when you control both ends, having arbitrary programs messing with your data is a recipe for disaster.
From Sets to Types to Categories to Sets (2009) [pdf]
The announcement is for a 100 kWh battery, which will extend the range.
Except that they like to point out that the Porsche and Ferrari are "little 2 seaters with no cargo capacity" while the Tesla can carry seven passengers and has exceptional cargo capacity - well, without the passengers in the third row. And the fact that the 0-60 time was with only a driver on board, not the seven passengers + cargo, so it's a little unfair to call out the others for that.
> The Model S P100D with Ludicrous mode is the third fastest accelerating production car ever produced, with a 0-60 mph time of 2.5* seconds. However, both the LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder were limited run, million dollar vehicles and cannot be bought new.
That I could guess. My point is that most code isn't in high traffic backend systems and games.
As far as I know the Nissan GTR is the fastest production car in the world with 0 to 60 in 2.7s. Tesla with the ludicrous is only 3.0s. I could be wrong.
I use Instapaper daily to have the playlist read articles to me while I'm in transit. I love this, oddly exclusive, feature and would pay to see improvements in that direction.

However, I do not care for Pinterest at all. I have created and later deleted several accounts just to give it a fair shake, but it doesn't hold a candle to Tumblr. Also the forced sign up is user antagonistic, and the source of much enmity from people who I've heard speak about it. So fine, clearly me and people like me are not the intended audience, but what does this mean for Instapaper?

I have a hard time seeing how these two services are in any way related; not by content, audience, business model, or features. I do not see the missing part of one in the other. I see two communities that appear to a casual observer to be oil and water, and I am concerned that Instapaper will move towards it's opposite.

Can you speak to these concerns, or suggest some ideas on how Pinterest might improve Instapaper for users?

Thanks
My anecdotal evidence is that VC is more a "operator turned VC" now than ever before. VC used to be all MBAs / finance types (e.g., head of tech research at an investment bank). But every year, it is harder and harder to become a VC partner without significant operating experience. I am not sure who has hard stats on this though.
You ask for it, you got it!

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-gets-funding-from...
Okay, so now I know.
Again, why not just stick to the technical merits here? Why accuse Node critics of trend-chasing?

I'm not a trend-chaser. Python has been around since 1991 and is my language of choice for most things. I like Elixir, but I wouldn't even consider using it at work, specifically because it could just be a fad. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe in 5-10 years consider looking for Elixir jobs if it's still growing.

There is a ton of technical experience which goes into me saying that Node is a flaming piece of crap. It's not just shipping features faster, it's how stable those features are, how many bugs you get, how secure your system is, how performant/scalable, etc. I have worked with Python and Node for years, every workday. Before that I worked in C#, Java, Ruby, Clojure--and it's exactly the experience of chasing a few trends versus using some old solid languages that makes me want to stick with tried-and-true tools.

Your post has a sense of "everything is relative, there's no such thing as one language being better" to it, but I don't think that's true at all. I think we can look at the technical merits of languages, compare those to the problems we have, and see which ones are better. And that's important because when we have the choice, we can choose to use the better tools.
A clever marketing way of having people get over the guilt of buying a luxury product.
The submission page forced omission of the rather damning "fictitious security trustmark was ‘deceptive’" from the title.

Intentionally making up fake security trust logo to deceive people takes this from being simply bad at security right into the arena of knowing you're bad at security and setting out to deceive people instead of doing anything to improve security.

On a side note, I just saw AM advertising on TV the other night - they'll not be so happy this joint government report has come out just at the time they believed the heat had died down and were back to business.
> Honestly, I think a lot of this nannying comes from middle aged people who never had children, but maybe who wanted them and could not have them. So there's an element of ignorance about how autonomous children can be, and also jealousy and revenge against those who have what they wanted and can no longer have.

IRL, anecdotally, I've found the opposite to be the case. It is almost always parents who feel something is wrong with the other person's parenting style.

I've also found it depends to be a culture desire to passive aggressively impose your will/lifestyle on other people.
> As we focus on the future of the user experience, we’ll be sunsetting our developer product, Instaparser. Starting today, we will cease signups for Instaparser and halt billing for existing customers. In order to ensure a smooth transition for current users, we will keep Instaparser running until November 1, 2016.

Is this suggesting the Instapaper API will close or become more restricted as well?
Hosting side-projects with Docker
OP here, good point. I edited the title to "quickest" to mirror the original claim.
This was obviously written by a "morning person."

Like most engineers and other creatives, 4 AM is when I'm just starting to get my deep sleep (which peaks at 6-7 AM).

12-2 AM is the most productive time of the day for me.
I am not really familiar with how to deploy Node in production, having never done so, but aren't there relatively easy ways to mirror NPM locally? Or can't you just check node_modules into version control (possibly a separate branch or something)?

Honestly if I had to deploy Node in production I'd be inclined to see if I can just use those Node libraries that are packaged for Debian. I do the same thing for deploying Python, Perl, C, etc. in production.
> On a UNIVAC you could do a lot of system programming in FORTRAN, but only because there were a zillion proprietary extensions that accessed system programming primitives.

Just like pure ANSI C without compiler extensions.

> Standard language that never required a trip to assembly language for system level programming?

Try to implement 100% of libc in ANSI C without writing one single line of Assembly, syscalls into the underlying OS or compiler specific language extensions.

> Show me the source code for a device driver in a high-level language that pre-dates C/B/BCPL.

ESPOL on Burroughs B5000, 1961.
It can indeed cause withdrawal symptoms but not so bad since psychiatrists suggest "treatment holidays", where you are free to choose not to take them for a few weeks.

Other psychiatric medications are often withdrawn slowly. For example, a patient on weekend leave in hospital would be called straight back to the ward if they lose their prescribed benzodiazepines e.g smashing a bottle of solution, due to withdrawal. Especially the case if used during alcoholism detox, where the seizures could kill otherwise.

Many of the symptoms also do not go away with medication. It's not a magic bullet. It just raises the floor a little bit so things are easier to manage. Some days the medication doesn't help all that much if other things off set it.
So you think that rising temperatures may be good for agriculture?

From a website:

As climate change leads to more frequent and intense natural hazards, it is expected that climate displacement will only increase in Bangladesh. The best estimates suggest that up to 18 million people may be displaced by sea level rise alone. http://displacementsolutions.org/ds-initiatives/climate-chan...

Europe us really struggling to deal with the migrants and refugees from Syria. I do wonder how we'll cope with future migrations. It really brings into perspective the idea of a border. Of a country. Just a man drew a line on a map.
Yes laws are neat and a reason for attending law school I suppose. I'm of the simpleton opinion that TCP/IP and the other protocols are the law of the net, and you ought to start with those.
In my experience that isn't always the case.

For those circumstances where that is the case then ok.
For anyone deciding if it's worth clicking through: it's mostly a list of anecdotes about early-riser CEOs & people who workout as soon as they wake up. I didn't see anything about those who work through the night.

[I personally find 4am is often productive for me, but that's because I work at night, and I'll only continue coding at 4am if I'm already in the zone. If I'm not making progress, I'll want to crash to sleep long before then.]
It doesn't work for me, link in result still paywalled.
Tried it for two months. No noticeable effect. Didn't continue.
Not really unfair IMO. They're just pointing out the enormous relative versatility of the car.
Yeah, heavy data access is where this matters.
Yeah, dunno. Also, this [1] popped up, which appears to be very similar. I trusted MenuMeters and used them for over a decade, and I'm hesitant to jump onto some no-name version (even if it is open source, since I'm not savvy enough to investigate myself). Will probably try iStat since they've been around for a long time.

1: http://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/
We'll read about it here soon:

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Can someone explain how is GRPC significantly better than WebSockets? I have used it for a few weeks and was very underwhelmed by it.
Congrats on the acquisition. Been a fan/user from the early days when Marco ran it. Best "read it later" product hands down.

Should Pinterest kill Instapaper would you folks be willing to open source it like FB/Parse?
If you read the linked press release they are expecting/claiming a 2.5 second 0-60 time.
> Basic morality has already been ingrained in us through evolution and is quite adequate by itself.

How exactly did you arrive at that conclusion?
They expect the upgrade they announced today (described in more detail at the link) to bring the Model S down to 2.5 seconds.
You're thinking of the Model X. The Model S with ludicrous is 2.5s.
Motortrend tested it at 2.6 secs which ties it with a few other production cars in this wikipedia list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

"Many elements change how fast the car can accelerate to 60 mph. Tires, elevation above sea level, weight of the driver, equipment used for testing, and surface of testing track all play a big part in these times."
The reasonable laws that exist in meatspace are not applicable online, because once you hit someone else's server, you're considered to be on their property and they have the right to control what you do there. There is no "public property" from which to safely stand and take photographs in the internet.

IANAL but this seems perverse. In no meaningful sense am I on corporate property when my computer in my house sends signals to another computer, formatted so that they will be re-sent in turn to a series of other computers, the last of which decides on its own based entirely on the signal it receives from the penultimate host to send a "response" to a different series of other computers, the last of which is my computer in my house.

Surely there are better ways to enforce IP restrictions than this tortured analogy of networked computing to physical location?
The article notes in the first sentence that the Model P100D can do 0 to 60 in 2.5s.
You are wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...
Not if the img alt text is the same
Ah, yes indeed, very good point, thanks for clearing that up for me.
That was before this announcement; the new P100D is 2.5s.
This is a new 100kWh battery pack, literally the first sentence says it does 0-60 in 2.5s.
2.7 seconds 0-100. Is there a quicker production car than that?
Wait, whenever I see a performance claim with an asterisk, it kind of makes me want to read the footnote:

>"- Expected value using max power mode and Motor Trend benchmark"

Oh, expected value? Hm, that's a new one. And for what, a 0-60 time?

I think of quickness a lot differently than a simple drag race. If a Tesla can can consistently out drag race 0-60 in actual value and then, for grins, lap the 'Ring faster than a Skyline GT-R, that's dang quick! But expected? Sorry, I want to groan at that.
To know the TOS of a page, you need to read it. To know which links are part of a site and which are not, you need to follow the link. Having a TOS as part of the page content is akin to having a sign in a room, only readable by entering the room, that says "you are not allowed to enter this room".

Yes, this defense is being petty abotu details, but I find businesses using post-hoc discoverable limitations to limit people rights annoying.
I hope they don't merge the 2. I'd hate my article privacy to be compromised and be auto published into some pins.
I agree, on the same machine, the slow-downs are constant for each level of cache and for ram access.
It works great! I used the Pinboard API to download my bookmarks and used readability to crawl the original text from the source url.
Something they have to repeatedly say to stop the press from going on about how they only make luxury cars for the rich.

Elon's 'Top Secret Master Plan' has been around since the start.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again." -- R.Jordan
Thanks for that link. The bottom section satisfies my curiosity very nicely.

Regarding your question, I adopted El Capitan as early as the public beta, and was happy with the improvements even at such an early stage. I never encountered any of the problems that I read about others having. I got the impression that those of us who were satisfied simply had no motivation to post online (in contrast to those who were encountering bugs).
> The Model S P100D with Ludicrous mode is the third fastest accelerating production car ever produced, with a 0-60 mph time of 2.5 seconds. However, both the LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder were limited run, million dollar vehicles and cannot be bought new.
I noticed that I post quite different content on each platform. It seems that this would be a major downside of POSSE: I don't want everything aggregated on a personal website, but rather where it belongs.
It's obviously not working with Ryan Lochte
Don't they imply slightly different things? To me "joining" says merging teams and product goals, whereas "bought" could mean the smaller entity will still be freestanding.
If you do a Google search for the URL and click the result in the News section, you might be able to access the article. Might work best if you use a new private browsing / incognito window.
That is assuming a bias is completely a bad thing. The human brain as evolved many heuristics to help it lower cognitive load and get things done faster. As with anything, this can have good and bad outcomes, but trying to make yourself unbiased is ridiculous and non-sensical. The fact that you want to be unbiased makes you biased for information and people you think are unbiased.
I think a good example of a function you'd want in the front and back end is one that takes data and outputs a template.
Because it means there can then be no single monopoly on electricity generation, nor are people forced into consuming power which is being generated in a way that does not align with their core values.

This was the situation in Australia until fairly recently, people wanted alternatives but there wasn't any renewable options, then when the Government changed and pulled rebates for new solar installations, it was even more unthinkable for people to get started.

Also, I'm not arguing for complete and utter decentralization, but there needs to be options.
Since you've told us what you believe are NOT part of the short-term or long-term plans, why don't you tell us what you think the short-term or (preferably) long-term plans include?
Can do either - hands-free, or require a second factor like screen unlock and manual tap. If your phone is stolen, the first thing you'd want to do is revoke your account authorization (via web or another device), just as you would to protect your email accounts and anything else sensitive. If you are more paranoid, remote wipe - many companies have that as a policy already.

We don't store credentials on the phone, and the tokens we issue for each interaction are short-lived.
Warming has actually been increasing since the Industrial Revolution, according to this link: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15874560
While paranoia may be a reason to live in the suburbs, it could also be because they want their own backyard or are priced out of major metros.

Or maybe just because they've always lived there - more and more folks are living near (or with) family these days.
True, however I would point out that elevation should have absolutely no impact on the performance of electric vehicles.
This is obvious since it was first announced. Waiting for plaid to be an option.
The ferrari and porsche aren't meant to be versatile. They will beat the Tesla every time at what they are meant to do.

On the other hand, the Tesla is a much better family sedan.
> classic clueless developer mentality

Nice straw man argument. Pointing out that PHP is used for social/economic reasons is exactly saying that there are considerations outside technical merit.

At the same time, Facebook is a big Haskell user, but that is because of its technical merits. (Simon Marlow works for Facebook) On a back-end technology such as a compiler, the technical merits of the language are much more important than the social merits of finding enough low-skilled/low-paid developers.
Eh. What "matters" is pretty debatable when it comes to cars. I very rarely accelerate from 0-60mph in one single acceleration, same as I rarely reach top speed.
> I love this, oddly exclusive, feature

For what it's worth, Pocket also has text-to-speech article reading.
Agree. This happened to two other services I like this week as well.

It's been puzzling me for a while though: doesn't Google punish the behaviour you mention?
Well, when St. Linus Torvalds said those words, (1) g++ was not as good as many other C++ compilers, (2) the world was still full of very bad examples of C++: if you were lucky, back in those days you could have found some projects using C++03 but the majority were stuck to C++98 -- or worse -- and, (3) he called out the holy principle that "at my place, I make the rules". I do not think that in 2016 there are good reasons not to use C++ for an operating system. Even without using the STL -- which would require custom allocators at that level -- incapsulation of data inside objects, inheritance, templates and namespaces alone are a reasons good enough for me to prefer C++ over C at any time nowadays. In 2016, that is more a cargo cult not to use C++ for operating systems implementation than anything else.