skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Quebec, Craigslist is virtually unknown (with maybe a little traffic in Montreal, but I'm not sure), everyone used LesPAC first, and then Kijiji when it came along. You needed to pay to post an ad on LesPAC, so it quickly lost market share when a free competitor emerged.

Both of these have a French-language version, and I believe it had a lot to do with CL's failure to get the market here.
That doesn't surprise me. The first 50 pounds came off fastest, and the more I've lost the slower it has come down.

I also noticed that my weight tended to stair-step downward.
It really depends on what we want to prioritize in our culture and country. If we want to prioritize profits and perpetual exponential growth, then it should be obvious that literature should not be prioritized. But if quality of life should be the focus of our country, then it should at least be considered.
15 hours solving a minor HTTP request on a pet project.I had t sleep at 5 AM because I was feeling guilty because of morning brightness.It happens a lot of times to me and it's annoying because I abandon many things.
Nice component, we are working internally on something same, but for Kotlin.Js + React (nothing to show yet), but i have one question:

How to solve a problem when same entities have different fields, for example: List of members of a chat should display avatar, name and username, but viewing profile usually use much much more data to display. How to merge them? How to keep fields in sync and not to download everything in all requests. For example, loading all members can be slow when fetching full user profiles and should be avoided.
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Every developer at my company has to go through roughly 3 or 4 months of just customer support calls before they ever write a line of code. I hated the policy when I was going through it (I mean, what did I go to college for?) but I have to admit it did make me a better developer to know our customers and the industry.
"India, with 0.60 million tonnes per year of mismanaged plastic waste, is ranked 12th. China ranks no. 1 with 8.82 million tonnes per year of mismanaged plastic waste. There are 11 Asian and Southeast Asian countries in the list, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Burma."

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-
environment/india-pumps-600000-tonnes-of-plastic-waste-into-the-ocean-annually-science-journal/article6890568.ece
I have a few thoughts about what else to try. If you want I can write you a bit about it. I have something in a simmilar state but my back-end partner dropped out and I'm not sure I can learn python quick enough for a prototype. http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/4cc7b319-8094-423d-beef...

A few things I want to try:

- dismiss all seen links on a page (on mobile in my prototype you flick away a page like a card) by default

- sort by rating rod chronologically, but NOT public/democratic rating, only rating by the one who posts. This is the main thing I want to try :)

- auto-retweet (you can make an account that is essentially a currated list of people or curate "editors" of an imaginary magazine)

- if you retweet normally, you have to give a new rating for your followers

Mainly for sharing links. I want to allow people to share unimportant stuff and still getting the important stuff across. And i want to avoid a suggestion engine, only direct "i trust your rating personally" realationships.
On the contrary, I think they have literally made the perfect site for what they do. I like it ugly because it is also FAST!!! I have no UI qualms at all about it. Any change they made would make me less likely to use the site. What exactly would you like them to spend $300 million a year on "improving?"
Scientists Find Alzheimers Drug Makes Teeth
How about something like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFD0Zyl_f0
Given the well-documented rarity of modern centenarians [1][2], it's highly likely that Old Tom Parr did not live to be 150 years old - and is much more likely that his documented age is due to errors in recordkeeping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html
How UpWork fix production bugs [pdf]
> the new versioning scheme of GTK particularly frustrating and backwards

I was absolutely certain this was a parody when it was announced. I thought it was brilliant, and showed a great deal of self-concious humour.
I meant anyone already in the country and legally permitted to work, not the country you were born in.

One objective reason to favor hiring a candidate living locally over one abroad is effective communication. The less local a candidate is, the greater the chance of poor communication due to increasingly diverging dialects and cultures and a lack of knowledge about the local culture.
>> Most SEOs I've met at serious companies are almost always very technical people.

Companies of a certain scale can afford to have engineering teams focused on SEO, and they should! Most companies can't afford this, though, and the vast majority of people in the SEO industry are not technical.

Also, who's better at solving ever-changing puzzles with many variables: humans or software? : )
Wait just a minute. What if I don't want to live longer? What if I want to live a shorter life full of energy?

Everyone is focusing on longevity when quality is probably more important. 120 years as a couch potato would be shit compared to 60 years of being active every day (whether physically or mentally).

People are against TRT because it shortens lifespan, while completely ignoring the quality of life improvements, which is just stupid.

Give me something to burn fast and bright, not slow and dim, thank you very much.
FWIW, adjunct professors I know have been corroborating this for awhile. Also note that conservative politicians in the U.S. are increasingly applying ideological pressure on academic research, and also as government budgets are cut, more is funded by private interests looking for particular results. Adjuncts have little power to protect themselves and the integrity of their work.

Finally, looking at the political situation in much of the developed world, you wouldn't be surprised by the fact that the study of the humanities (and social sciences) has declined; perhaps we need to invest more in it.
I'd expect the most visible improvements would be on screens full of CJK characters, based on what the original font-rs announcement's graphs showed.
I think before we take that step we should explore an improvement in labor laws that make it less undesirable to enter into full time employment agreements.
The London New Year Eve fireworks required a ticket for the best areas, with your name on it and with photo ID check.

I think the reason for the photo ID check is for a security background check against that name, so I would assume they would be very serious when checking the ID.

Anyway around that?
You would definitely have to stop bots.
Short posts on Facebook.
Let's not encourage the continued existence of metal.

More vendor lock in on Apple platforms is hardly needed nor a positive thing.
LTE and HSDPA (and maybe older gens) have Channel Quality Indicator, which afaik has the same role as CSI. So I wonder if the same trick can be achieved with LTE signalling? To pull that off you would need access to a BTS, but today with open source stacks, like OpenBTS or OpenAirInterface,you could roll out your own.
It is necessary in order for the compiler to do transformation optimizations which do impact production code. Newbies shouldn't be writing production code without guidance anyways IMO.
Good inquiry!

An interesting question with look alike audience seems to be if FB "decrypts" the md5-hashes of uploaded by a willing company of user names not matching FB user base - see shadow profiles.

Also which company uploaded their user base names (hashed) into FB and to which you belonged initially?

I think technically, the anonymity of md5 hashes regarding email-adresses is disputable. The Bavarian authority body does not accept FB hashing solutions because of the weak protection md5 offers, as we all know.
Yeah, if you aren't (a) using CJK text or similar or (b) zooming your terminal I don't expect it to change a lot.
Sounds great. A demo video pls.
The keyword seems to be prolonged
i may have posted this before.

when i use to be active on wikipedia editing mainly video game and sports articles, i stumbled upon a large sockpuppet that was constantly adding incorrect pieces of information to articles pertaining mainly to video games, espn, wrestling. this sockpuppet had a very clear M.O. and did the same actions, and even if you made changes, the person would go about and revert them.

getting all these accounts for this one sockpuppeter was a huge pain in the ass though, and finally i was exhausted dealing with it, so the next best thing for me was to reduce the surface area he could troll around. so i began looking at articles he had created, there was an article about a nintendo ds bratz game. he had created the article, filled it with random information and had left it. so i nominated it for deletion since it wasn't really a notable video game.

now this was before deletionists were a huge thing on wikipedia. i myself am not a huge deletionist but at best this game is a small mention in an article about bratz merchandising.

but almost immediately a huge flood of people came in to say that it was a notable game, with links from ign.. they weren't actual articles about the game, just literally the computer generated page they had for the game.

i think i made a couple comments arguing why it didn't deserve to have its own page but in the end i just gave up. not worth my time when i was honestly trying to improve the quality of the site.

so i guess my whole point writing this is the problem isn't with deletionists, it's the entire bureaucracy of wikipedia. i remember going through arbcom so many times because people disagreed with me about how a video game article should be written. or how alicia keys birthday is incorrect (she was born in 1980, not 1981) but because _everyone_ references wikipedia and cites it as the ultimate source, you can never get it changed because people ACTUALLY monitor and turfwar her wikipedia page.
It looks like this doesn't handle hinting, subpixel rendering, and glyph tweaks that people expect from modern font renderers.

Hinting is not obsolete.
Hard to say definitively, but the claim seems likely to be wrong. According to this link, India is far from the worst offender.

http://billmoyers.com/2015/02/19/theres-horrifying-amount-pl...
If Rwanda can enforce it, I don't see why Delhi can't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/15/rwanda...
I have seen no proof that users are willing to pay to improve craigslist. I like it just the way it is. It's like a unix tool, it does one thing and does it really well. If you wanted it prettier, you could make a browser extension to change the UI. What other changes could they make that wouldn't decrease it's value for other current users?
I tend to agree with the original assertion and I think there must be some truth to it when you look at how many people get up from their desks and eat exactly at lunch when they can take their lunch whenever they want.
Apparently they changed the software used to store the data, in the bottom on https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ it says "powered by dkan", on https://open.whitehouse.gov/ it says "powered by socrata". Maybe it was not easily possible to migrate the data and/or it is planned to be done later.
Looks like I'll have to wait for the new Mesa to land -- no support for GL > 3.3 on my Intel cards. When I get it, I'll let you know how it works on Intel.
Something feels a bit off about this story. At the end, the customer is said to exclaim - oh my god, that was Bill Gates!

At the end of 1989, Microsoft was not as famous as it later became.
MS/DOS was just one of several competing DOSs in a much smaller market. And DOS was their main product.

I doubt that even amongst most MS customers there'd have been name recognition for Bill Gates, let alone such reverence.
The Whites House: Starring Quote-Unquote “President” Donald J. Trump
> [0] I know - in the US I should put the period inside of the paren (or quote). But that's illogical. I refuse.

I fully support your choice. We're in good company:

"... it is counter-intuitive to hackers to mutilate literal strings with characters that don't belong in them."

http://catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html
That statement is somewhat insulting to 4chan, on 4chan content is impartially wiped when it ages off the bottom. Unlike wikipedia nobody on 4chan is getting a psychosexual rush of power when destroying other peoples hard fought content to make them feel unwanted and sad. I would encourage people who are bullied off wikipedia to visit 4chan which is a friendler more open minded and inclusive group of people. Even when including /pol/, 4chan is still a nicer community than wikipedia.
This phrase is much older than Tay:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitler-did-nothing-wrong
Nice. Can you add support for <svg>? I know it's not HTML...but it would be handy.
Combating controversy by connecting counterpoints
Yeah, I get that. I'm sure there are benefits for a purely business-oriented meeting where people are guarding their cards and trying to make deals.

But I've had to be on conferences with purely technical topics where people use cameras. There's barely even a reason for the call to begin with when specs and questions can just be sent via e-mail, so why do we need to see each other?
1000 months = "Get rich in only 83 years!" Also, making an extra $100/month is pretty trivial.
> A/B Test with 5% of Anonymous Visitors

> A/B Test with 10% of Registered Users with Less than 500 Rep

These headlines are the biggest lessons for devs in this article. I cannot stress how valuable these anonymous, code-regulated tests are. Once your site has reached any appreciable traffic size, invest some time into how you can segment users for testing feature updates.

While we like to think all new features/updates are positive, the reality is rarely so positive. Anonymous tests are a great way to improve your feature offering without sacrificing the experience of all users.
I'm merely saying that scalping wouldn't happen if tickets were priced closer to their actual value - aka what people are willing to pay.

Scalpers (and all the technology behind them) would not exist, or exist in very limited capacity if people were not willing to pay whatever the amount is.

> we're auctioning off all the tickets, there is no set price

That includes an insane amount of overhead, on both the part of the venue and the end user. Perhaps one of you programmers can come up with some machine learning algo to more correctly price tickets in the first place so artists get more money? Isn't that the end goal?
Are there any plans for a CPU based render path?

I can see it being quite handy from a developers point of view to have both rolled into the same library.

Especially considering how much performance is left on the table with CPU architecture specific instructions like AVX2.
He is extremist. Again, it's clear from the moderators that quoting his extremist statements is undesireable, but it limits our conversation.

You can find the quotes in this discussion if you know how to look:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13604551
The name could be used for connection establishment, then a random port is assigned, just like the client port.
Google Cloud SQL (hosted MySQL) is a completely separate product.
That is an interesting way to look at it; I have wrestled with MDB[1] while working at Google, it was a ginormous MySQL database (possibly one of the world's largest). And I would characterize Spanner's relationship this way, "If you think you are actually going to build an ACID database that scales, then make sure you can support the MySQL api that MDB uses and we'll see just how well it scales."

I don't know if anyone put it to them that way but as Spanner was just getting started when I left I know that one of its success criteria was to be able to be a scalable replacement for MDB. Given the white paper and other papers on their results, I'm sure it managed that requirement.

[1] MDB, Machine Data Base, used throughout the org but especially in Platforms and SRE to keep track of machines and their parts.
I had the Hindu philosophy of fasting [0] in mind.

[0] http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1981/emay81/hindu.shtml
FYI want to be clear that I am not plugging my site. I have pretty much abandoned it due to lack of traction.
Why Some Consumer Costs Just Grow and Grow
Not what I meant. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647807
It seems like most of the complaints about craigslist (including those in the article) are ultimately complaints about what it's like to buy stuff from a random person in your area. People are messy, arbitrary and annoying if you don't know them and you only want to buy something from them. People are part of all sorts of social groups with all sorts of standards of behavior.

The dream of creating an app that can shield a person from all the uncertainty of buying from an individual is appealing - but I don't see how you could really offer a better deal. The problem is that however smoothly you put two people in touch, those two people will have to do lots of annoying work coming to an agreement and it's hard to see a lot saved by this initial increased smoothness.
Oh, and if you filter out the annoying people, you filter out a lot of people who actually have stuff to sell too.
Journalism used to be a second source for jobs for English majors, but that's dried up.
In-Browser F#-to-JS Compiler Using Fable
What if doing so requires a key stored on a computer at home? Or if the system has a duress password that restores plausible-seeming crap? Or if you did just factory-wipe it with no cloud-based backup? You can keep going back and forth with "what if" scenarios, but I'm not sure what the point would be.
There's a totally different way to live that also has mounting evidence, and it's a way that sounds a lot more satisfying to me.

For awhile now, the "obesity paradox" has been a thing, where segments of the population who are a little heavier than one would expect actually have the best all-cause mortality rates.

Recently there's been some pushback on this "paradox", but the one I want to call attention to is here:

http://annals.org/aim/article/2499472/relationship-among-bod...

The problem with the obesity paradox is that it's been based on the flawed BMI. In this study, they actually did DEXA scans of elderly women's body fat percentage, and those with the highest BMI and lowest body fat percentage had the best all-cause mortality rates.

This suggests plenty of calories plus strength training is in the running for a longevity lifestyle. This makes sense intuitively and if one is familiar with the panoply of beneficial physiological effects from exercise on the human body. And, it would not come as a shock to find that increased strength from greater muscle improves, e.g., balance and coordination to prevent accidents in the elderly, nor that increased muscle mass provides a protective tissue reserve for fighting disease without the concomitant downsides of adipose.
If you spend any time in the darker parts of the internet(like 4chan), you learn that a lot of what trolls do is "for the lulz" and nothing else. My guess is that PewDiePie or his writers frequents one of those sites and so thinks nothing of it. Personally I think it's distasteful and there should be reprocussions, but cancelling his show is a PC overreaction IMO, though I understand many don't know the culture of 4chan and such sites, so I could see why they would disagree.
This is an exciting demonstration, but I have one worry that's unaddressed: I'm assuming all the other nitpicky details of hinted font rendering etc is handled correctly by all the renderers compared? I mean, they all provide pixel-identical output?

Otherwise the point is mostly useless. A faster rendering implementation is almost useless if the output doesn't look as nice. I wouldn't care if the text I'm reading over 5 minutes takes 200ms vs 800ms to render.
This seems like a bad example. There is no money at all for them to make an API and it wouldn't get more people coming to craigslist.com. At the same time it would require additional server resources. So why bother?
Exactly. I had a typo where I meant "solved" but put "sold".

reCAPTCHA directed the efforts in the spambots arms race towards a real-world problem - reading old books.
Gawker used to have a series on this, The 10 Best Articles Wikipedia Deleted This Week:

http://gawker.com/the-10-best-articles-wikipedia-deleted-thi...
> Does this out-of-whack-ratio mean we have too many English graduates or not enough English jobs? And - while you'd probably knee jerk to the former rather than the latter, I think I could make a compelling case to disagree.

Well, that ratio is based on tenure track openings. One wonders how that number changes if you factor in adjunct lecturers somehow. Obviously there's a not a 1:1, but in service departments like that with little research budget, it'd be at least a feasible calculation.
I get it and I think for failover it doesn't make sense to use this feature. If you want one feature of load balancing, sure, roll that yourself. What happens as you want each additional feature, incrementally getting closer to rolling your own load balancing instead of just flipping a switch to enable it for $20/month?

My point was just that the complexity goes up as you want more. At some point, it's worth the money to just use someone else's solution to all of those small problems instead of maintaining your own worse version. Most small teams likely shouldn't be writing their own nginx, haproxy and keepalive configuration for load balancing. The $20-$200/month that it'll cost them is well worth the time that their engineers back.

Of course, there does exist another tier of scale where it becomes questionable to continue paying the premium that comes from asking others to solve your infra problems for you. This falls into the "problems we'd love to be lucky enough to have" bucket for most companies.
Glad to see small languages like this getting support and traction.
Agreed. I don't know all the details, but it sounds like you're really doing right by your people. I don't hear about this enough.
In all seriousness kudos to you for subscribing to physical news papers -- I find it highly cathartic to sit down and read a newspaper. I think it reminds me of my dad and granddad reading the paper, so brings back good times. That and you get info without all the radiation of a monitor.
3-4 months is way too long to spend on that. One month i could just about forgive, but 3-4 month doing something that isn't your real job just to start your real job isn't some super cool progressive forward thinking initiative - it's just plain stupid.
Wow, that's interesting. If it works of course. As a beginner, I think this would be enlightening
Trust and Cryptocurrency
Management Practices of Heliculture – MaxiPharo
What's their annual revenue?
The article claims - India contributes 60% of the plastic in the ocean.

From the Times of India (TOI) article that it refers to - "India is among the four largest contributor who in total contribute 60%". Which considering a journalist's honesty definitely means India is the fourth largest contributor, which would mean India at most contributes 15% of the waste.

That is a long way from the 60% claimed. Considering the reputation of TOI, even the milder claim is quite suspect.
Great. Signal doesn't do group calls though, right? Is there any app that does end-to-end-encrypted group calls?
Like other YC companies that failed, I've never heard of this one and many more are likely to follow.

It's really tough to "make stuff people want" AND willing to pay you every month for it.