skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The naive way to do calculus. Use secants to approximate the tangent. I think it's called finite difference.
Reverend Bob Shepton: Addicted to Adventure
I tried to use a standing desk while coding, but I also had a hard time concentrating, so I stopped. However, according to Dr. Joan Vernikos [1] (former Director of Life Sciences at NASA, and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals [2]), neither sitting or standing for extended periods is healthy. It's all about movement and gravity. For a detailed explanation of why this is, and the research that backs it up, check out this interview between her and Dr. Mercola [3], it's really interesting. They talk specifically about standing desks at this time marker [4].

[1] http://www.joanvernikos.com/pages/about-dr-joan.php

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MU12HU8/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhXJGZJJd4

[4] https://youtu.be/KDhXJGZJJd4?t=1881
Did arpanet already have porn? Then i blame men are whacking it more since 1969...
Same! I'm re-reading it as I started playing https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/567823005/nemos-war-sec...
On the other hand, my iPhone 5 from 2012 is still plenty fast on iOS 10.
Yep, rounding would make sense here. I have to agree that this data is showing much less than at first appears.
Most languages give you one of two easy options. The first is to use green threads, which makes 100,000 new threads cheap, but now a single slow function call anywhere can block other threads. The second is to use OS threads, which keeps a slow function call in one thread from interrupting your responsiveness, but now makes 100,000 new threads expensive.

What M:N threading does, at least in theory, is allows you to create 100,000 threads cheaply AND keep a slow function call in one thread from blocking others. In a language with those features you can build it out of continuations (NOT coroutines) and real threads. But that requires building your own scheduler that can move a user thread to a different process at need. Which is non-trivial, and is unlikely to cooperate well with any third party libraries.

That said, whether M:N threading is a real optimization depends on a ton of things. A big one is the underlying performance of the scheduler and the language. Which is improving for Perl 6..but has a long way to go.

Whether optimizing at this level matters is another good question. Most companies shouldn't care. Those that should, should be cautious about deploying Perl 6 into a mature infrastructure.

So that's why people can think that M:N is important, and why you might legitimately disagree.
That could change one fine day when those edges get their stuff together.

Indeed, the subscriber lines and surrounding edge hardware have not kept up with the times. Depending on where you are and who your provider is, chances are you're getting the same shitty line rates you had ten years ago (or more), though you have more memory, a bigger hard drive and a faster CPU, and the backbone is faster.
Ahh, found the actual paper:

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104

Incredibly, they list the number of each position type who have mild and severe CTE (their only degree of gradation) but apparently don't list the total number of players at each position, and hence I can't tell how many brains didn't have CTE by position. Nonetheless, we can confirm that both the punter and placekicker were diagnosed with mild CTE (a placekicker!) and the severe:mild ratio was higher among quarterbacks than lineman (11:2 for QBs vs. 29:8 and 27:8 for offensive and defensive linemen respectively).
Can't we just rewrite the Linux kernel in JavaScript and boot it off a browser

... /s (hopefully)
> MS isn't breaking anything

Whoooa! I've now tried to find when you can change the hotkey for changing keyboard layout. It turns out, you can't find it now. New control panel has nothing and drops you into the old one immediately, which has nothing too.

It was working under Windows XP. Obviously you can't find how to configure anything in Windows these days without extensive googling.
I think that is already the case to some extent.
Might check out Cordova

http://www.telerik.com/blogs/using-existing-backend-services...
HN might also be aware of the market caps of the airlines Priceline books for:

Delta: 34.4B

Southwest: 30.2B

American: 22.1B

United: 18.7B

Are we incorrectly discounting marketing, brand, etc when we notice that the top booking service is valued triple the top actual provider? That the value they add might not actually be triple the value of the actual flight?
A cautionary note here: companies are not blind to this behavior. The job market for programmers is very hot right now and employers to some degree just have to suck it up and deal with job hopping employees, but if the market cools, a resume full of one year stints may become a liability.
Yes to me it is insane that Google doesn't provide native keyboard shortcuts (at least make it an option) for the search results page. It is available on Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, etc. Why not Google search??
Linux is a better fit for netbooks anyway.
> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Usenet article <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com> (1992) -- Larry Wall
Now I'm really curious if that's the case. It could explain why they didn't open source the Flash runtime back when they open sourced the flex compiler.
Skip the recruiter and go directly to meetups to find top dev talent
CoreOS (YC S13) Is Hiring. Accelerate Adoption of Kubernetes and Automated Ops
I support this. In 20 years when no one is using it anymore and the source code is released for academic purposes.
Sure, but pm90's point is still a good one (as someone who's worked for tech companies in both markets).
'Salems Lot by Stephen King. Just got done with his memoir/writing guide "On Writing" and it's given me a new appreciation for his style. Currently going back and reading the books of his that I missed in middle school.

The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. First book I'm reading on a Kindle, so not yet sure how that will effect my perception of the novel (it is helpful for footnotes I've found). Absolutely fresh SciFi is rare these days so it's wonderful so far.
Why is social pressure necessarily feminine and violence necessarily masculine?
Like the attack on GitHub a few years ago: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/china-uses-unencrypted...
Be wary of anthropic bias. If this universe didn't happen to support life, then we wouldn't exist here to observe it. Perhaps there are other universes with different laws of physics, and we would exist in one of them instead. And even in our own universe, there are many trillions of planets. Yet we only know of one that has evolved life. The fact that we observe life here tells us nothing about how probable it is.

In fact as far as we can tell, life is extremely rare. We've only found one instance of it forming on it's own. And it can only exist in a very tiny space between the earths crust and the upper atmosphere (and only in very small quantities in most of that space.) We haven't found self replicating systems on other planets or deep within the earth.

So any theory that posits "life is an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics" is almost certainly wrong. It's a theory that can't be falsified, and has no predictive power. A more interesting theory would be one that can explain why our specific planet and our specific laws of physics support life. Why do exist here instead of somewhere else?
Since you’re so comfortable with it, just go ahead and dose yourself with everything you can get your hands on. Here in the real world people express some hesitation before shoveling suspicious new products down their gullets.
I know that, because that's what I do. But my point is, I shouldn't have to know how to 'hack' around the browser just to use a textbox. That's really inferior UX design. I shouldn't even be thinking about any of that, I should be thinking about what the Google results are, not how to use Google.
There are valid reasons for programming with threads with only a single CPU (indeed when I learnedb thread programming in the 90s pretty much only single core cpus were available). For instance, IO blocking.
Browsers are removing plugin support either way, so I don't see any harm in open sourcing the player.
I recently met an older dude who hadn't heard of Craigslist!
I thought CommonMark was the attempt to standardize Markdown. Besides that, every markdown implementation I've touched since before CommonMark supported [text](url) format.
Is there still a standalone Flash player? (or at least, will the debug version work?) Haven't messed with Flash stuff in over a decade but I remember having a standalone player to play downloaded SWF files back in the day. No idea if there's anything roughly equivalent out there in its current incarnation.

A sandboxed player application would go a long way toward the uses mentioned in this thread, no? I wonder when we'll start seeing Flash emulators being developed to play back all that old content.
Republicans want top tech CEOs and AT&T and Comcast to testify
I wasn't advocating for Perl; I've never used it.
Panasonic makes them, which made it click for me. Both Japanese companies, both titans. No betting on scrappy startups.

But I agree, I bought mine for the motor as well, and really that's what's important to me. Would I like a better head unit, sure, but I'd make the same choice again.
Flash is more complex than HTML/CSS/JS though.
I don't think earning a cert directly correlates to knowing a subject matter.
Why JSR-310 isn't Joda-Time
Ah, I see.

Then I guess the bugs can be taken into account like Firefox did with IE6?

Perhaps having a compatibility-mode on/off so that new movies could follow the standard.
Because they're all alpha-level, and will probably always be to Flash what ReactOS is to Windows.
No - it is just about age. HN readers are younger thus they think they know more. Old people will just say: "I don't know about that" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
Well, let's also differentiate computationally-intensive hits (e.g., users adding things to a shopping cart, requests to list Pokemon in the area, etc.) from hits to a home page, which should be static or at least cached aggressively. 150,000 index.htmls per second and 150,000 database writes per second are very different.

I used to run a university web hosting platform that currently has, I think, five web server VMs on about as many physical machines, two physical machines for load balancing, and two physical MySQL servers in active/passive replication (i.e., only one gets either reads or writes). We hit the front page of HN fairly frequently—for instance, we host mosh.org—and it hasn't really been a problem. I remember getting paged in ... 2009 or so? ... when a particular website in WordPress got to the front page of Reddit, but we had fewer machines then, and also I think we had not deployed FastCGI for PHP at that point (for complicated shared-hosting reasons), so each WordPress page load was its own PHP process via CGI. If you're optimizing for performance, even if you want to stay on WordPress, step one is to not use plain CGI and step two is to do one of the myriad things you're supposed to do for WordPress caching.

In any case, a handful of physical machines will handle being on the front page of HN just fine. If you're doing something where you have an extremely computationally-intensive process on the first page load and you're worried you might hit HN but you might not, put it on cloud and set up autoscaling, but other than that it probably doesn't make sense. If you know you won't scale too much—and a static site on the front page of HN isn't too much—chances are that your usage is so low that you're paying a premium for the unused ability to scale and you should just pay for two cheap VPSes, and if you know you will scale (e.g., you have a large fixed workload), again you're paying a premium for the unused ability to scale down, and you should just invest in a datacenter and save in the long term.

All that said, if you've got a static site, by all means stick it on a CDN, which I think is a perfectly defensible use of cloud for sites of all sizes.
Too late... Chrome already uses HTTP over UDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
This is a really short-sighted perspective. Letting Flash die would be a serious contributor to bit rot. Archival of all the historical content created in Flash is a respectable goal even if we should _never use Flash again for anything new_.
Flights are only part of the picture - hotels, car rentals, et al. Anything, basically, to do with travel.
Kids books:

Currently reading The Saga of Eric the Viking by Terry Jones. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saga-Erik-Viking-Puffin-Books/dp/01...

In the queue Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/014198600X/
To the company and its owners, if my brand allows me to sell an equivalent widget for a higher margin, how is that not value? Just because value can be created or destroyed by a single action doesn't mean that value is somehow less valuable.

Soap bubbles are beautiful but you wouldn't pay money for one because you know how ephemeral they are. The value in brands is the expectation of future revenue that will inure to them. I'm saying that not only is this fragile, if it's destroyed then it's not good for anything else. By contrast, suppose the Fancy Hotel Company goes bankrupt through mismanagement; you still have an actual fancy hotel - an aesthetically pleasing building, comfortable furniture, experienced staff, logistical relationships with suppliers etc. Changing the name on the building to the Cosy Hotel Company would be a sales problem in the short term, but would have zero impact on the actual operation of the hotel itself.

To the user, if I derive greater pleasure because I believe I have bought a more valuable product (attributable only to the brand), just because there is an equivalent widget out there, does that somehow discount my pleasure?

Yes. Let's take a simple example - processors. I'm sure you can think of reasons why some prefer Intel and others prefer AMD, and why those different choices might be valid depending on the users' criteria. But which processors do you think HN runs on?

You probably don't know or care because it makes no functional difference to you. You might still have preferences about the next computer you buy but only insofar as you can imagine it making a quantifiable difference to you.

As a consumer, your contribution to brand value is only as good as your knowledge of what makes a branded offering unique and irreproducible.
I guess what I was saying is, a product that has no engagement soon ceases to be a product
> Requirements

> 1. Security - it has to benefit from SSL.

There is a lot more to security than transport-layer encryption and authentication.

> Connection based

UDP is too hard, so re-inventing TCP?

> p2p is not reliable ... monetization

Oh, you want require the SAaSS[1] model.

> Simple to use

The already-stated "requirements" are asking for something more complex than WebRTC.

> Minimum header overhead

Wait, are you thinking about using UDP to transport HTTP?! Do you even know what your MTU is?

> WebRTC suffers from complexity

That complexity exists for reason. Nowhere in this document is a discussion of the potential problems of using UDP or the ways tthe new service might be exploited by malicious actors.

[1] Service as a Software Substitute
New York eyes 'textalyzer' to bust drivers using phones
Preservation and reduction of bit rot is a great reason to open source Flash or ensure there is always a definitive version available, even if all the browsers should ban it because it is a messy, unperformant security liability.
Silicon Valley’s share of software jobs falls as new tech hubs rise
> I wonder when we'll start seeing Flash emulators being developed to play back all that old content.

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
Way more likely is a S-curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
Other than taking a screenshot and evaluating JS code in the context of Chrome and returning JSON, we haven't yet implemented any file-download features. But it might be possible for us to implement something. Would you mind creating an issue here describing your use case so we can discuss it further? https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless/issues/new
This is a bit of a naive view of the tax view within the US. I can't and won't compare the tax advantages of primary residences within the US to other countries, and they are good you're right. However, loan interest can be deducted as an expense on loans on rental properties. [1] This is not the only expense that can be deducted. Almost all expenses including your time can be deducted if you set things up properly.

As an investment vehicle, there are very few investments which can be diversified as much as rental properties. In my experience there are also very few investments with the level of return of rental properties. [2]

[1] I am not a lawyer, a CPA, or a tax attorney. I do have all three of these people on retainer. If you would like to know how set this up and make sure to get the most advantageous tax positions and financial positions from your investments, please hire people like this to tell you what to do. Also, do not forget to interview a few attorneys and tax professionals before hiring.

[2] My experience: I currently own 12 properties of three different rental categories in 3 different states.
Any insight as to why this comment has been so heavily downvoted? I don't see anything that would justify it.
“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders
How do you find such a person and how do you vet them? Do they take landlords with only a single property?
I Am Annoyed by Privacy Breaches
Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House
New .NET Application Architecture Guides
You are absolutely passing judgement when you equate the blowback against Kite with extrajudicial (and mostly racist) murder. That you doubled down in your flagged comment instead of acknowledging the (being charitable) hyperbole raises questions about your judgement. No offense.

That said, by deed and by words (per their apology) they executed on an "ends justify the means" business model. They wanted more business, they came up with the idea of buying open source projects, took a stab at integrating their functionality with the projects, and people didn't like it.

Don't tell me the people don't have a right to choose how they respond to Kite, business reputation is an actual thing and you can't browbeat people into ignoring their feelings on the issue.

Regardless, whether their strategy was malicious and/or shady is a value judgement best left to the individual, and there appear to be a variety of opinions on the matter. Note that @abe33 does not list Kite as an employer, so it would appear he's hedging his bet on how awesome this idea is.
Very cool! Good binding libraries between C++ and Python have been super useful for my projects in the past, and I'm glad to see something similar developed for Rust.

For anyone reading the comments first, this is a fork of rust-cpython. The motivation for the fork is linked from the Readme: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/55
The article "Time, WSJ anti-net neutrality op-ed writers were paid by telecoms" (https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/anti-net-neutrality-op-eds-t...) notes Mr. Hazlett's extensive consulting work for telecoms, the resume link in the article is broken, a copy can be found on the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20160316075517/http://www.law.gm...), consulting work listed on page 12.
The Yes campaign ran a grass-roots oriented standard political campaign, with volunteer call centers, signs and standard political advertising.

The No campaign ran a mass-media (television) focused campaign that concentrated on airtime in the last two weeks (there was evidence to show, that 6 weeks before the referendum, very few people were even aware it was happening).

The 'No' television pieces told the electorate it was 'complicated' and there's no point in fixing something that's not broken. Most people didn't know anything about what was happening behind the scenes, just that television was telling them it would be more complicated and wasn't worth it. Most people left it at that and didn't look for the other side—the 'Yes' informative pieces were not in the same format, not in easily digestible televised promos. That is what I call uninformed. There was very little for the mass-consumer that was easily accessible. It doesn't help that the STV proposed was complicated, but no accessible advertising by the 'Yes' campaign was available to quell those fears.

Just because everyone got it in the mail, doesn't mean it was accessible. It was a complete failure of the 'Yes' campaign to realize who their audience really were. Those who were interested enough to read their materials probably were already willing to support the cause. Those who were not interested enough just listened to what the television was telling them: Vote No, Fear Change.

Re: informing on a national level

I do not believe a referendum is required to enact electoral reform. We have enough intelligent people that the best choice—or at the very least a better choice—can be made without forcing the electorate to make the choice between systems themselves. I do not trust the majority to support a minority, our societies continually fail at that. No one ever said we cannot change an electoral system again, in fact, in BC we've already done that in the distant past.
Quality costs.
Giving ad networks tracking information of your editor usage and possibly access to the code you're working (which they didn't do, but the original statement was 'close to being malware') on is beyond mere adware.
I would not call modern society "Western". It has deviated far too much from its traditions.
Perhaps, but let's say Windows is gone tomorrow: wouldn't React OS gain a lot of traction given all the software for Windows, and perhaps get a spike of volunteers?
This is a good thing.
Link to non-paywalled article: http://archive.is/h2465
Is there an alternate article that isn't behind a paywall?
All about leverage points. Being the middleman is a great leverage point on the internet - fb, amazon, google.
which basically means don't use any wifi. I think at least 60% of all wi-fi chipsets are broadcom ones.
Microsoft Is Hustling Us with “White Spaces”
Tens of thousands of books are written each year. Tens of thousands of songs are recorded each year. Etc. This is an absurd line of reasoning.

People get permission to build Commodore 64 clones, for retro computing preservation, and Hacker News says that's great. Someone requests similar permission for Flash, and now we're upset about the notion of a proprietary codebase being open sourced? Why? Because Steve Jobs said it wasn't cool? Because you're seriously afraid that it would make a comeback, and dethrone HTML5 on the mainstream web?

Guys, someone started a petition to ask a company to donate a propriety codebase after EOL. That's all. This is just idle chat, because nothing in Adobe's history suggests that they would actually consider this.

Regardless, if you would rather NOT see a historically signficant codebase open sourced, then simply don't sign the petition. And take all the low-quality jokes and guffaws back to Reddit, please.
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Edge is the recommended primary web browser of Windows going forward... so yeah, it kinda makes sense for them to include it.
This example doesn't cover all the cases you're showing above, but in megalith or MST you would typically have a clearer separation between the functions that change state and the async communication parts.

https://github.com/jnorth/megalith/blob/master/docs/examples...

https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-state-tree#creating-async-pro...