skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is Google faking search result numbers to appear big
looks like they are all back online now.
This is interesting. I have a lot of family in Bergen and they're fairly well off, but that's the arm of the family with whom we don't really talk finance. Is that 40k USD for a complete build in materials of a home, or just for the extension you planned? (200k USD for a full home in materials and labour is quite reasonable).

What sort of foundations are common in your region? (I.e., in New England, you have to dig at least X inches below the frost-line, hence why basements are common here-- however in Florida, you'll hit the water table if you try to go even half that far, which is why basements are nearly non-existent there). On the coasts (i.e., your intention is literally to build a home on sandy beach), most foundations are cylinder concrete piers and rebar that go down ~5-10 meters per cylinder (contributing largely to the expense, compared to an average home foundation. (After which, your framing is pretty much going to be standard 2x4 'stick-and-post' truss/stud/post build-outs, while some modern commercial structures opt for steel structure and aluminium framing in lieu of wood.) Do you guys still use the traditional Skiftesverk/Resvirke/Stavverk construction? Has the 'green house' (as in eco-friendly) trend that Germany's been pushing made it into other regions of Europe?
I'm curious why you don't host your status page on a different domain/provider? When checking this AM why GitHub was down, I also couldn't reach the status page.
Most services, even if they aren't the size of Github, can't change their DNS provider on a dime.
As I was reading the first half of this comment I was thinking, I'm going to ask him if he means Great Falls, or Potomac, and then you said Great Falls.

I think your armchair analysis is spot on. Am from Montgomery County myself for reference.
title omission: "... in benchmarks".

In the real world, the flash speed difference is rather insignificant. I don't copy around huge 4K movies on my phone very often.
"Oh this thing on my coffee table? I didn't know people even use these for porn! No I've never used it for that. I really like the uhh... rollercoaster simulation..."

Mass market adoption is just right around the corner, I'm sure of it. Sarcasm aside, I'm not certain that it will never happen. It just seems like it's getting way more attention than it deserves.

I also think that the big players' involvement (namely Google and especially Facebook) is not doing VR any favors at all. Even the non-techy consumer class doesn't trust Facebook and I think they're right not to be interested in giving them a monopoly over their FOV.

I think the niche applications of VR or AR will be incredible. Things like engineering or medicine or maybe even data science will be forever changed by a successful VR platform. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be anyone's goal.
> After my first attempt, Google asked me to provide them with my phone number so that they could send me a security code to login.

What? Like any number? His number? Google doesn't even verify if it's the Gmail owner's phone number? This can't be right.
How men and women experience virtual reality differently
Didn't realise Tim Harford had a website. More or Less is an excellent programme, I listen weekly.
Today's "simple" is tomorrow's "complex".

1. someone trims your product down and ship it as "simpler than X"
2. people asks for more and more
3. now you have a complex product
4. repeat
plugins=(git rbenv nvm gitfast zsh-autosuggestions github)
Mongo Cloud is having trouble too!
I had several, sporadic 'secure connection could not be established' yesterday while trying to open HN, amongst others. Painfully slow page load times across the board, too(Craigslist, Monoprice,weather.gov, etc) Still may be my buggy phone SIM...
The thing that killed my interest in FO4 is the lackluster story. I don't mind the whole setup but it felt they never built up the story enough to make it comparison to New Vegas' endings which I felt were more interesting. It always seems Bethesda fumbles with lore in their games more than anything.
just realized "another pair of shoes" is an idiom in my native tongue (in fact, it's "another pair of boots" to be precise)
> “Some new features for your Google account.”

Oh, yeah, I remember that. I totally clicked "Ok, whatever."

How does one not be herded like cattle by the corporations, without making a full time job of resisting it?
That might explain why we are down - most of our EC2 instances are in us-east-1. Looks like Amazon SQS is impacted too. We are getting a stream of undeliverable messages, and our 'dead letter' queue is filling up!
Jet Skiing in Dubai
If this is consistently a problem why doesn't Github have fallback TLDs that use different DNS providers? Or even just code the site to work with static IPs. I tried the Github IP and it didn't load, but that could be for an unrelated issue.
I actually interviewed with Jacob Schatz when he was trying to figure out which frontend framework to use for GitLab. I had been working in React for the last year or so which was apparent on my resume.

He prefaced our interview with something to the effect of "I know you do a lot of React but we are not going to ever use React at GitLab"

It was weird. I tried to ascertain his reasoning and pretty much all I got was "just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good".

Regardless I think GitLab is an awesome company, I just got the feeling Jacob wanted to use Vue.js because it wasn't the most popular choice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://arcaderagedotco.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/mart-vir...
Apparently us-east-1 is backed by Dyn (and only Dyn) as well?

$ host -t NS us-east-1.amazonaws.com
us-east-1.amazonaws.com name server ns3.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-1.amazonaws.com name server ns1.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-1.amazonaws.com name server ns2.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-1.amazonaws.com name server ns4.p31.dynect.net.

That's… utterly bizarre to me. us-east-2 has a more diverse selection:

$ host -t NS us-east-2.amazonaws.com
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server u4.amazonaws.com.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server u6.amazonaws.com.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server u3.amazonaws.com.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server u2.amazonaws.com.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server u1.amazonaws.com.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server u5.amazonaws.com.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server ns2.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server ns1.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server pdns1.ultradns.net.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server pdns5.ultradns.info.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server ns3.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server ns4.p31.dynect.net.
us-east-2.amazonaws.com name server pdns3.ultradns.org.

Not that anyone should be running a service whose availability they care about solely in us-east-1 anyway…
Dr. Seuss’ Satirical Lesson on Nuclear Armament and the Absurdity of War
Except for writing photos and videos to disk, as stated in the article.

It's not the CPU that is the problem, it's the flash storage and the cellular modem. Two things which can definitely impact users on a day-to-day basis.
we're starting to get quite a bit of both elixir and react in green jobs. lost of rails in existing apps.
Yes, that just plays basically as a Civ IV scenario, not a real Colonization game.

Perhaps it's because my introduction to the Civ series was made by the original Colonization, but for me that will always be the most addicting of all the Civ series.
We are constantly working on improving our frontend, and have big plans ahead, so I'd be really interested in hearing what "sucks big time" so we can fix it.
It's not a question of switching; you can host your DNS records at multiple providers.
It's pretty wild that AWS is having impacts for the dyn outage given the shoutout to Route53. Wonder what they know that they don't?
I think this really depends on how long you are expecting to use your phone. Presently the iPhone 7 feels unnecessarily fast, but in 2-4 years when more data is consumed and operating systems are more taxing, I may care more about those difference.
South Africa Set to Leave International Criminal Court
Looks like at least some of it is resolved. spotify is back
the number of people missing the sarcasm in your post is worrying
It's much harder to have a killer app when the technology isn't universally appealing yet. When (if) you can get 8k high frame rate displays, gigabit+ internet connection and better graphics card at a price that will make enough people buy it, then it will make sense to produce good content. We are probably not there yet for some time though.
> {{ data | json }}

So neither debugger support nor printf-debugging, you just have to hope you'll be dumping garbage in a place where it can be seen and doesn't break the page entirely?

> <li class="for-example" v-repeat="item in list">{{item}}</li>

Ignoring that vue changed the name of the directive a while ago[0] that doesn't even remotely work, according to its documentation v-for (née v-repeat) works on native arrays, it's not going to work in any sensible manner on immutable.js structures.

[0] https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/1200
Ultra low power transistor
you must have really itchy balls
These discussions almost never mention cycle.js. I haven't done front end in a couple of years but whenever I read something from the author of the framework, I'm pretty impressed and the choices they made seem very promising.
To add to this, here are some charts that I put together for https://cleanwebjobs.com.

Tech skills desired by employers: https://twitter.com/CleanwebJobs/status/767684601615704064

Tech skills available in the marketplace: https://twitter.com/CleanwebJobs/status/767683809714245632

Python and JavaScript are the biggest players along with UX/UI design (not really development). Seems to match the data above.

Unfortunately we don't track remote work independently, but I may be able to trawl through the location data to extract this information.

BTW I have a recent Show HN on this if you have other comments that would take this thread too far off-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759415
It's not necessary to have a single person in charge, but it helps to have a single entity that can push changes through. Mozilla added a lot of features that never went anywhere because IE lacked them. The W3C never standardized JavaScript, but eventually ECMA did. The stagnation was caused by competitive factors between browsers and standardization didn't change that.
yup, that's what I meant. they can use different DNS providers, e.g. route53 AND dyn
If developers were better about releasing quality, multi-platform software using their 1970s languages of choice, maybe we wouldn't have all moved to the browser.
If you have any substantial business, you already have a sysadmin on your team. He's not doing his job if he has no local versions of almost everything that is online. He should be staging everything locally, before deploying to the cloud. The currently very popular way of deploying everything live, without any testing, or staging is one of the reasons behind current crappy state of the internet.
> If this is consistently a problem why doesn't Github have fallback TLDs
I don't believe this has been consistently a problem in the past. But after today big services probably will have fallback TLDs.
When I switched to working from home full-time I went through a collection of chairs and finally settled on the Herman Miller Mirra2. It's a derivative design of the Aeron, but on the Aeron I had problems with the front lip cutting off circulation in my lower legs and putting too much pressure. The adjustable front lip on the Mirra2 was a godsend and after getting it adjusted professionally to fit me, I feel like the chair cradles me.

Now that I'm on the road traveling while I work, other than air conditioning on hot days the biggest thing I miss from the US is my Herman Miller Mirra2. Skip the Aeron, get a Mirra2 or an Embody. Both are amazing.
Yes, I know where Bayesian epistemologists get their numbers.

The danger is that they then announce these numbers as if they have any real-world basis, and that they are taken as making a claim about objective reality.

There's no evidence I know that pulling a number out of your backside and running it through Bayes' theorem produces better results than just pulling the number out directly and running with it. Indeed, the real-world track record of LessWrong/MIRI (to bring this back to topical relevance) strongly suggests it's less effective.
Could Cosmological Natural Selection Assign a Function to Life?
"unnecessarily fast"

I'm curious what you mean by this. No snark, genuinely curious.
It Only Take 12 Weeks to Learn iOS Development
Not much, in my experience. Or, it might be more accurate to say the space is used for the detritus of middle-class living.

I own a moderate 4 bedroom home, 3 of which are "vacant". 1 was my son's, but he's an adult and moved out. 1 is the guest room and used sporadically. The other is overflow for the now-too-small master closet. The dining room is used a few times each year for holidays and parties; we could easily do without. The 2-car garage is filled with too many bicycles, kayaks, utility trailer, large toolbox, etc.

We're actively purging with the goal of moving to a more "urban" area sometime before retirement. I put urban in quite because we might find a nice small town instead of a major city, but the goal is a small rowhome or flat in a walkable area. With about 70% less stuff.
um. if you are basing your logic on orwelianness then the England should be your your top candidate. massive monitoring of the populace, severe restrictions on the ability to carry anything that is vaguely pointy or goes bang, poor freedom of speech rules (relative to the US).... I love England but as far as orwellian societies go, you can do notably worse than the US.
For either of your cases, I can't imagine the value of having it last this long, or even be this severe. The impact on the economy and trust in a infrastructure company is too high.

I'd be more willing to put my money on someone attacking an entity downstream who is normally immune to DDOS attacks of this size.
Fascinating weak spot!
The problem is, how are they going to make the distinction between really obese people and people that are tall and pack some weight due to being this tall. Let's say they ask your weight alone, that wouldn't be enough in a scenario like this, so weight and height. Who's going to provide the statistics that tells them what is obese when getting these numbers? What if people refuse to give it to them? Are they going to refuse them the flight? Too many questions, too much red tape I'm thinking.
Because it's being down voted? I think any down votes are more likely because the comment doesn't add substantively to the conversation and is distracting given other recent threads.
How can something feel unnecessarily fast? It may be unnecessarily fast but to me tech never feels fast enough. Unless it would respond before I do something perhaps... I'd like lag to approach zero to be honest.
> I'm not sure the desire to live in such compact lots.

I do understand the small lots to an extent - adults don't actually use their yards very often especially in climates with cold weather half the year. Yards are a lot of work if you live in a place where you have to care for it. Inside space = usable space for many folks.

I'm truly no different in this respect. I'm a low yard-use person and despise things such as grass mowing. I might go outside with a laptop or a book occasionally, if the space is private.

Which to me, is truly the most horrible thing about these neighborhoods. Some of them merely have walking space between the houses, and it cuts down on privacy. To me, that is the main reason to have a yard - a buffer zone between me and my neighbors. I'd be quite happy with the rural lot you describe, but I don't think the folks moving to the suburbs view it as such.
Looks like serious attention is finally being paid to Haxe performance:

> Initial benchmark shows that HL/JIT outperforms Adobe AIR and Node/V8 in many cases.

I am very interested to see how that stacks up, as well as seeing what sort of compile times we get.
8.8.8.8 seems to know about github.com and github.io at least -- so I can work. (Maybe 8.8.8.8 built to resist censorship and therefor also attack?)
I'm using Google Public DNS too. I don't really know if there is a relation with DynDNS but I'm still experiencing issues in GitHub and Twitter, like partial loading of images.
I work remotely for a US company from Romania.
I do web development in Perl. And some jQuery for the frontend, but 90% backend dev using Perl.
A slowdown is to be expected with Solid State Disks; as smaller SSDs are slower then larger ones. Simply because larger ones have more NAND chips and are therefore able to write to more locations at once.

https://superuser.com/questions/977080/does-a-large-ssd-perf...
Is there a name for this "feeling"? I feel this way about a lot of things that get "popular". I feel this way about React, in fact. React is "good" but I don't see it as our end-all be-all front-end savior. Vue.js is a lot more interesting to me because it's not popular...because it's the underdog.

This Cracked article gave me a bit of consolation: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-it-sucks-to-hate-popul...
This is a DNS outage.

If self-hosted, somewhere, you could still be screwed by having Dyn as your DNS provider.

If dev-machine-hosted, then uh, your issue tracker is no longer an issue tracker. Your build server is not a build server. All the services besides Git are not meant to operate offline in a decentralized/distributed fashion.

Library documentation, sure, that could be local. Otherwise, your assertion that all of this tools infrastructure can somehow be replicated, easily, in a way that makes the difference between working online or offline effectively zero, is nonsense.
So, yes.

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Plugins#githu...

oh-my-zsh is, imho, way overengineered and bloated. Leads to all sorts of issues like the one you're encountering there.

I would recommend sticking to a plain zshrc file that you can read, edit and fully understand.

The one I wrote and am using day to day is available here, with documentation: https://github.com/jleclanche/dotfiles
It depends, but with really complex web applications that are very modular... often times different people working on said modules don't fully understand how all of the other modules interact with the ones they are modifying. Sometimes a simple change to one can open a gaping security hole in another.
The voice actor’s strike is underway in video game business
https://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html#Knockout

I've used Knockout before and it's really slow. I also find Vue to be less complex overall in comparison to Knockout.
Not sure if people are confusing Amazon with AWS in this case.

$ dig +short ns amazon.com

ns1.p31.dynect.net.
pdns1.ultradns.net.
ns4.p31.dynect.net.
pdns6.ultradns.co.uk.
ns3.p31.dynect.net.
ns2.p31.dynect.net.
You don't need vDOM/diffing for many types of applications. Your CRUD app doesn't need to update at 60 FPS.
I had one too. It had a pen, it was not really usable without it.
It is rarer in the UK, true, but take a stroll down the Bishop's Avenue (N2) and there are some fine examples of more money than taste.
Couldn't agree more about the UpWork, though I've managed to mostly get long-term contracts there. The rate was far from competitive, but it's nice when you're just getting started or still on college.

I avoid it now though, most of the jobs posted there nowadays are just trash. Wouldn't recommend anyone experienced to waste time there.
Not sure if that's what you're implying but the quality of 3d printed objects for mass consumers (toys, games, ...) is still too bad and the price way too high to be successful anytime soon.
What are the benefits of the native package manager over something like Vim-Plug? Because as I know it can't download/update/delete/snapshot/diff packages from vim.
Because nowdays js has so many use cases
Keep in mind Vue isn't backed by Facebook or Google, so it'll take longer for hype to set in as Evan You can't market it heavily or organize large conferences by himself.
It's difficult to answer this question with 'one main reason'. Rust is what you get if you build a language that is intended to operate in the same space as C and C++, but benefits from the last 30 years of advances in programming languages.

Some things that are better as a result of things that are hard to do right in C++:

* Compiler monitors ownership of memory

* Compiler monitors ownership across threads

* Generics aren't handled as templates, and you can explicitly describe support using things like * trait bounds

* Macros are useful but need to operate on something more like the AST rather than text tokens

* A richer type system can help you express much more in the types (Rust enums)
> One thing that you should definitely have in your kitty is JavaScript. OO JS is gold. Next in line, AngularJS and ReactJS.

Is it, though? There are so many JS developers out there that a company would have little trouble hiring one locally. How would you stand out as being worth the money and the communications overhead?
I find a white background (for commonly used black text) to be quite harsh on my eyes and don't like it much. So when I had to redesign the UI for an application, I went from a pure white background to a more grayish background (a bit further from #ffffff, in the #eX series), which had a good level of contrast with the text color (a very dark blue) while not appearing blinding.

Contrast is very important for all (and also from the accessibility point of view), and the article shows some really awful contrast levels in the screenshots.
Route53 doesn't allow using it as slave DNS.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=56011
>Dude, comeon. The browser has evolved a lot as a platform, as has the hardware power of computers running them.

Yes. It has evolved to counter-balance those advances in hardware power, in order to provide a sub-par 2000 native desktop application experience in a 2016 browser sandbox.

>Maybe we're re-writing computer history

Maybe?

>but if that's the case then it's because we have to migrate everything to javascript and the wiser old timers want nothing to do with it.

Err, why do we "have to"?

And what's with the "old timers" / hot young JS developers dichotomy?
Surprised to see so many big names relying on a single provider. DNS is designed to be distributed, it should be possible to avoid a single point of failure.
Every time a civ game is released, people forget how every previous civ game release has gone. Namely; 1. Release shiny game with bugs and performance issues. 2. Release major update to fix issues. 3. Release a balance and UI tweak patch. 4. Release a free content patch alongside some DLC.
Yep! Lincoln is MIT's DoD/FFRDC lab in Lexington, if that helps. There are people who have been there since the SAGE program... I lived with one of the guys who currently works in the director's office for a couple of weeks before I could move into the campus dorms; he would tell me about how these life-timer researchers literally die at their desks.
> I use a lot of mixins in scss and I feel like my code becomes more modular because of it.

Well, it does, if you don't emulate the same effect with other means. But imho, needing modularity in CSS means (for most projects that are not gigantesque) that the CSS is too big anyway. It depends on what one does, specific web apps might need it. But normal web pages never.
that explains the 25-30% slower read speed, it does not explain the nearly 10 times slower write speed, there must be something else going on