skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside (and a noob question), how many requests can a single server handle? I know frameworks such as Node can do handle many more connections when compared to something like Django but what would be a reasonable ballpark?

As a concrete example, say you have an ecommerce app. Read requests take 80ms while write takes 200ms. Any good article/book I can read to get more insight regarding this?
7 signs that programmers is the next dominating manpower on the factory floor
This is the right answer. VCs helped Snapchat out, so it's time for Snapchat to help their VCs out and balance their books.
Compare your UX stack and save hundreds of dollars every month
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236332#9238739

> A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.

> I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.
You can use use WebDriver/GeckoDriver[0], which is how Selenium actually runs, but most people like the abstraction layer.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
In case anyone is watching, the live stream is over :( [0].

Twitter account is located here [1].

[0] https://wwf.fi/en/norppalive/

[1] https://twitter.com/NorppaVahti
> That's how I view(ed) the country heading during the 2008-2016 years. Maybe I'm naive but I was seeing a lot of social issues change for the better.

That wasn't my impression at all. During that time, I lived and worked in Baltimore and Philly. The inner city poverty there was as bad as ever--indeed worse because those cities, like many parts of the country, are getting left behind in the "new economy." In my view, America has a culture problem, not a talent or technology problem. We're people who dish out life sentences for a string of non-capital crimes; in Germany (much less Sweden) the maximum for murder is 15 years. Our state and local mismanagement is more reminiscent of a third world country than a western democracy. Our local governments are insolvent, we're incapable of building infrastructure despite throwing tons of money at it. I just returned from visiting Tokyo. The trains there are so smooth and reliable that they were a revelation to me coming from D.C. Not only do we not have anything like that, I can't even picture how our incompetent governmental units would build something like that.

I'm sure I'm viewing things with rose colored glasses. Germany and Japan are significantly poorer countries than the US, after all. But they manage to get really basic aspects of their society right in a way the US seems culturally incapable of doing.
seems a bit odd, you rank western countries on various things you always get, surprise, some kind of ranking and people can moan or boast about it..... in terms of the "points" difference, it's not too big comparatively. Not sure these kinds of indexes really tell the real story.
IoT goes nuclear: creating a ZigBee chain reaction
For a terminal application, you can always write a wrapper by just sending key events on stdin. The messiest part is probably managing a pty for w3m to run on.
I think it's more about the data than the users.
Snapchat already has large user base and while Zenly probably has less than a half million.
What about ReportLab (free version)?
http://www.reportlab.com/opensource/
That was very unpleasant to read but what he basically proposes is to change "don't know if true until proven true" to "true until proven false" which is ridiculous.
137 things the Republican party wants to know about every American voter
Doing a Double-Take with .NET Core
Want unit testing? Check.

And built in at the compiler level, so it happens when you compile your program as you normally would, the tests show up while compiling, and the output does not contain the code. Always impressed me.
"America leads the world when it comes to access to higher education"
Is this really true? From what I hear, higher education is only available in America if you can afford it.. This is not the case in many other countries, and I'm not sure if American universities are of higher quality than for example Swedish ones (which are free for citizens).
The transactions are likely very peaky though, so it's difficult to map transactions/month to transactions/second without knowing more. For sure, a straight average isn't useful.

WordPress is notorious for non-cached requests being very heavy as well. Hundreds of PHP files and database queries for a single page isn't uncommon. And the PHP opcode caches suffer from an avalanche problem at cache expiration.
Why would RAII be especially attractive if disabling exceptions?
1. You can use the WebDriver protocol[0] without selenium

2. Firefox's WebDriver endpoint geckodriver[1] is a layer above Firefox/Gecko's native Marionette protocol[2]

So you doubly don't need to use selenium, you can write your own WebDriver client (which should be cross-browser assuming the browsers either support WebDriver natively or have a WD layer of some sort installed) or you can use raw Marionette (either a hand-rolled client or an existing client)

[0] https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html#protocol

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionet...
Note that hard drives are not included.

1000TB / 8TB = 125 HDDs

125 * $200 = $25k
America is a continent, not a country.
"America leads the world when it comes to access to higher education."
If you're rich, maybe, otherwise, I doubt this holds true when compared to european countries. I'd like to see the source for this statement.
Why I left physics for economics
I use spaces so I can make more money.
maybe just give education to those who want it.
How Italian became the language of love
This is my last story about Travis Kalanick
WordPress 101 – Plugins
I would say trackpad, it's less drawing - more diagrams.
That story, by Charles Fishman, is part of his book The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy :

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0143038788

It's worth reading.
it has a lot of quirks, and, frankly, webkit is pretty bad at printing in general as it lacks a ton of printing specific features like re-printing table headers across page boundaries.

There's also only very rudimentary support for page headers and footers.

wkhtmktopdf is probably ok if you just need a quick single page invoice printout, but the moment you need more (in our case, we definitely do), I can highly recommend paying for https://www.princexml.com/ which has support for a lot of printing specific features.
> Still via Webdriver

WebDriver or Marionette.
Toolchain was initially written in C#. Vala simplified a lot the switch to GTK+3.
Today I think an IMGUI-like approach is the way to go for game tools. Rewriting the editors should be rather painless due to their engine-decoupled TCP/IP architecture.
What is "a standard implementation"?
More Rocket Fuel: Announcing $40M Series B with Lakestar and GV
"Japan's trains run on time, therefore, Japan's justice system can't possibly be corrupt."

Did you really just sneak back into this thread after a week just to drop a snarky one-liner?
It's possible that preferred stock agreements ensured that the VCs got a better return than X/10
If you go to community college, get your two year degree and then use that to get your bachelor's degree it's pretty cheap. In my case it worked out to be about $6500/year (once you factor in scholarships and financial aid I actually made a "profit.") Also you can do this in only four years if you go to school full time...
I'm going to default to believing people that report harassment unless I can find credible evidence it didn't happen.

The UK police had to back off from a similar policy that the after high profile investigations that were dropped with no criminal charges being made. They now take complaints seriously and try to keep the confidence of the complainant but don't start off with unconditional belief from the outset whilst still proceeding, at first, on the basis that the allegation is truthful but testing the accuracy of the allegations and the evidence with an open mind.
Isnt' it a piece of Russian propaganda ordered to be delivered by Putin himself?
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I would highly recommend JUNKERS https://shop.junkers.de/en/ For the mechanical options, they use either ETA or Miyota (Citizen), both of which are very good. And the build quality are excellent. Best of all, it doesn't break the bank to get their watches.
Reflex – New Reactive Programming Language from Facebook
higher education = college not highscghool

we have horrible highschools compared to Europe and Urban China

We do have good higher education but with the following caveats

1. 500% increase in tuition relative to inflation

2. Global competition for entrance rates as people from all countries want access to American universities

I wouldnt elite view American colleges as American institutions of higher education. Just ones that reside in America, but that does not mean that Americans are the ones excelling and going into them, going to grad school, starting wealthy companies and creating jobs in America.

edit* I removed the statement about saying America versus North America.
With any of these rankings (also for things like universities) I always wonder if the authors start out with an idea of the desired output and then work backwards to select and weight the various factors to give the "right" answer.
Hey, if we're getting picky it's two continents.
> maybe 1 year of time.

Given that Facebook is absorbing their userbase from every angle, literally, by implementing Stories in practically every app under the Facebook umbrella (WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram), that's a year of not having something differentiating to compete with.

Granted, Facebook can hit back pretty easily since they've got mapping down in Instagram and Facebook itself, but hey, it stands out.
Which continent would that be?
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Thanks, this is what I was trying to get at. I have all the books, I do intend to read them one day, but this article is pretty much the definition of click-bait.
Are loans maybe very easy to access? So although you'll come out debt-ridden is the point that anyone can get the money for higher education?
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Instead of using a constructor you can use a constructor method e.g.:

class Foo {
public:
static std::optional<Foo> create();

private:
Foo();
};
Hey, one of the guys from Claudia here.

You can have tutorials and examples on the :
- Claudia.js website - https://claudiajs.com
- Claudia Github examples - https://github.com/claudiajs/example-projects

The purpose of Claudia.js is just to make it super easy to develop and deploy your applications on AWS Lambdas, API Gateway, also ease up the work with DynamoDb, AWS IoT, Alexa and so on.

There are two additional libraries: Claudia API Builder and Claudia Bot Builder, to ease up API and chat bot development and deployment.

Regarding the contract form - the best is to create a single service that will handle all the contract form requests. At that point, you can either connect it to DynamoDb, or even call some other data storage / service.

Both Serverless and Claudia have their points where they shine. For a better understanding of their comparison, you can read about it in the Claudia FAQ - https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia/blob/master/FAQ.md#how-...
These days you'll probably want to be using dub, no matter which compiler you're using. Makes managing dependencies a lot easier, and compiling a simple `dub build` for projects of any complexity..
If I understand the OP correctly, he means could the blockchain be attacked by a vast number of infected hosts, causing a malware-induced change in the consensus of nodes, allowing BTC to be illicitly acquired, spent, or produced.

I believe controlling a massive number of nodes in the network via infection techniques like WannaCry used would open the door for many actual and hypothetical attacks. Please see the Bitcoin Wiki page titled Weaknesses [1] for more details about attacks involving the control of network resources.

More realistically, a simpler attack would be to go for control of the wallets if you have that kind of access to the infected hosts. However, if an actor had an interest in devaluing Bitcoin, to buy after a crash and sell after recovery perhaps, or just destabilize users' trust and destroy it (states?) then there could be a lot of profit in it I believe. Bitcoin has many competitors and enemies, is this something we should worry about?

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses
Fair point, but the much to the chagrin of other Americans the US of A citizens seem to get a lot of acceptance for their use of the word. And it's pretty clear from context here what's intended.
Elsewhere the government will just pay for university, or give you an interest-free loan.
But it is burning money by the boat load and perhaps this now means UBER can attract investors who may have been put off by Kalanick and||or UBER's culture. However these are likely to be more conservative investors and on that basis may not like the underlying financials any way.
Linkedin demanded me to log in to read.. I'd be happy to read this w/o logging in / registering. Are you aware of a non-Linkedin link?
> Why does everyone put junk ULV processors in laptops nowadays?

Because nowadays they are up to usual tasks while allowing long battery life and light, compact devices.

If you want more than a U processor, the T470p and the P51/71 are for you (Core i7-7820HQ or even Xeon E3-1535M v6 possible).
https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html#switch-betterC
The site lists under its USA entry "Years of tertiary schooling - 1.86 (years)". One would presume that's an average across the country, but that seems really high. Haven't found a deeper data source.

For comparison, Denmark lists 0.95 years, UK lists 0.96 years.

http://www.socialprogressindex.com/?tab=2&code=USA
is that just because they don't support the features which can be used to make pathological regexes in other engines?

or they have additional sanitisation or security features?
>The other two are completely irrelevant to anyone but yourself.

Are they really tho? To know where you are going, you first need to learn where you came from. This also applies to other humans, knowing a bit about their background helps you empathize better with them and understand their reasoning better.

In that regard "job" has become the new class to a certain degree. Tell somebody what you are working and many people will base their whole idea about you on just that. Even tho you might not even like working that job and are pretty much forced to do it due to a lack of better options.

This also has the effect that specialization is considered the peak of knowledge, while jack-of-all-trade skills are increasingly undervalued. You either spent large parts of your whole life pursuing that one specific thing or you are considered a screw-up by many people.
Would you be willing to share your opinion on which coins have technical merit?
> United States I presume and not "America" whatever that means

> American colleges

> American institutions

> reside in America

> Americans

> jobs in America
And big car dealership lobby (blocking tesla).
India is the one I remember widely reported - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40296994

This case had an even worse history than I thought though:

Uber had investigated the complaint, obtained her medical records and speculated that she made up the claims to hurt the firm's business.

So Uber also steal peoples medical records, and only fired the guy who instigated that after it became a news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40196055
How do you compare anything with schools across Europe? Even within the UK the range from the top private ("public") schools to the humblest state schools is enormous.

[NB Total cost of going to a top private school in the UK is probably at least $50K a year]
> I mean, the two parties have a diametrically opposed view of how the world works and what their own moral obligations are.

> One approach isn't necessarily 'wrong' and the other 'right', ...

No. The truth is that one approach is, in fact, unambiguously morally inferior to the other. That morality may not match the financial implications of a contract, which should be able to assume "good faith" and "fair dealings" in their contracts.

I can understand that some people care more about the money than the morals, and will exploit contracts and the law in unexpected ways to try to make more money or gain more power. But I refuse to accept that this behavior is morally ambiguous. And furthermore, I refuse to act immorally.

Perhaps that means I will miss out on some money or power. Perhaps I will be competed out of business because of this conviction. And yeah, I'll reluctantly play the stupid game where I must by offering discounts for on-time payment instead of attempting to write in appropriate penalties and interest for late payments that I can't enforce against an army of corporate lawyers.

But I can say with conviction that acting in bad faith is morally wrong.
Genuine noob question: could you not use Xvfb?
I read it on android via Materialistic just fine. I don't even have a LI account
Oh I know my point was, although US universities may be more expensive maybe that doesn't impact on access if loans (even if they aren't interest free) are easy to get.
Based on interest here I'm planning on cleaning it up this weekend and shoving it on my GitHub (http://github.com/joshumax) by the end of this week or earlier...

Unfortunately getting dynamic linking working is a WIP and so far everything has to be statically linked (yeah it's terrible I need to get dynamic linking working; I have some ideas). As for abstracting the syscall interface between architectures...afaik the PNaCl handled that for me based on how process isolation works...
Maybe loans are easy to access, and maybe education is of higher quality, but maybe not.
Assuming equal quality of education, i'd say not being debt-ridden counts as higher accessibility.
That's why i'd like to see some source for their claim.
Good to see some acknowledgement for what Travis and his team has done in our daily life. It's something not all digital startups could do. Of course, their ops could have had more empathetic approach than their current one, nevertheless, Uber changed the way we commute - forever and Travis deserves some praise for it!
"headless"

Poke me when there are no X11/Qt/GTK/whatever dependencies at all - that is headless.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firefox-esr
According to CAMRA, who is the authority in the UK, ale is a beer and can also contain hops.

http://www.camra.org.uk/about-real-ale

Also for anyone who likes beer and is visiting the UK, I would recommend having a look at their good beer guide to find the best pubs for beer, or perhaps try to go to one of their sponsored beer festivals.
Double pendulum animation
> RC instead of GC

RC is a GC algorithm
Undergraduate degrees in the United States are four years long. I think in most of the rest of the world they're three years long. I wonder if that is a reason for the higher figure.

PhDs and masters are also absolutely monstrously long in the United States - often literally twice or three times as long as in Europe. Fewer people do those of course but maybe that also adds up to a higher average.

In places like the UK you normally go from zero degrees to PhD in six years, while in the United States you could conceivably only just be fishing your masters work at that point.
This shouldn't be surprising at all. As someone who lives in a primarily black, urban adjacent neighborhood (midtown Kansas City) for the last two years, I can't help but think that America is a place where our government prefers to help corporations and businesses over people. Here in KC we have public schools that have been de-credited, crumbling water and sewage infrastructure, and the bare minimum of public transportation. I say all this as someone who loves this country and whenever I go abroad I can't wait to get home...but there are times when I am driving through the ghetto that the thought of America as a first world country is laughable. Our government and our culture does a massive disservice to our people.

Edit: While there is much more to the city than the eastside, here is a neat HBO documentary about the drugs & violence in eastside KC in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbt16OevZc
> Go is a bad choice for game with its unavoidable GC.

Better let the Unreal guys know about it then.
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By far the most used implementations are GNU's libstdc++ LLVM's libc++ and Microsoft's CRT.
How to answer the interview question: “So how much do you currently make?”
> United States I presume and not "America" whatever that means

It means pedants like to pretend that the world hasn't been using "America" to refer to the United States for decades, and they act like it isn't well established vernacular.
There are different ways to look at a watch - as a basic timepiece, a fashion accessory, a status symbol, an investment vehicle, a collector's item etc or any combination of these (and more). The way you see them (and your budget) will determine what type of watch you should get.

Generally though you would be fine with just sticking to the established brands. While I don't know what style of watch you prefer, for 300EU I don't think you can go wrong in terms of quality with a Seiko.
Depends on where you're from.

"The six-continent combined-America model is used in France and its former colonies, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Latin America, and Greece." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
It is same like healtcare. In the US you can access higher quality education and healthcare if you can afford it. In the EU it is a bit lower quality but available on a much lower price for the general public.

Education: 2,000 EUR/year vs. 20,000 - 30,000 USD/year (this goes up to 60,000 USD/year in case of Stanford, Harvard, etc.)

I cannot find enything that would make an easy comparison possible on healthcare.
Blog / forum "SEO" spam bots will also be a big use case.
I don't know where AWS is in Sydney, but I'd be surprised if they had a lot of options for doing better than this small stretch of Equinix area.

Aside from Equinix, the are the two Global Switch buildings literally next to each other, and there's NextDC.
So, what do you propose then?

To measure the "wellness" of a country's population, they took stuff as health, education, etc.

What would you choose?
The Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurs Flourish in America
I don't see what scales, their costs are per person/vehicle there is no way with their model to see a reduction in costs by acquiring new drivers. Even if you remove the driver and can have fully autonomous cars the costs are perhaps marginally reduced in the long term. The way they burn money I don't think they have that long of a term in them.

I always believe their intention was to become big enough and ubiquitous enough that they could become a monopoly supplier and therefore set profitable prices without the risk of being undercut, having consumed or removed their competition through subsidised rides.
The comments also hint at the general public's expectations at how smart computers should be. The level of outrage for a free app that purports to do something magical is funny.

Edit: It is free on Android...