skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get 35.82 on Safari 11 on El Capitan. What is your hardware? I wonder if I'm slower because I'm on older hardware, because I'm on an older version of OS X, or both?

My hardware is a Mac Pro (Early 2009), 2.66 GHz quad core Xeon, 32 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC RAM, GeForce GT 120 512 MB.

What I get:

35.82 Safari 11.0 (11604.1.38.1.7)
34.89 Firefox 57.0b3
32.01 Chrome 47.0.2526.106
31.44 Firefox 58.0a1
26.77 Firefox 55.0.3

I also for comparison gave it a shot on my Surface Pro 4 (Core i7, 2.2 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Intel Iris 540 GPU).

Here are the results for Chrome 60.0.3112.113. Since I was running on battery I tried this at various power mode settings. Here are the results for Chrome 60.0.3112.113 arranged by power mode setting:

70.18 Best performance
69.61 Best performance (2nd time)
68.03 Better performance
50.84 Recommended
41.33 Battery saver

There are two runs of "Best performance" because I did the tests in the order best, better, recommended, battery saver, and so all but the first may have benefited from caching from the previous. I ran best again after finishing battery saver to get a run of best that would have the same caching benefit the other may have received.

For Firefox 57.0b3 I get:

54.34 Best performance
58.91 Best performance (2nd time)
57.91 Better performance
40.51 Recommended
34.28 Battery saver

Edge on best performance gave 34.69.
They don't just provide credit. They also trade in personal information.
How are those training-independent? I could sort of buy falling asleep as independent, although I would argue that training should cover physiological factors and how to deal with them. Judging distance is definitely something you can help with training, as is remembering/respecting rules.

In any case, I see a lot of really simple failures, like an inability to stay within the lane (especially on curves, holy shit the things people do on curves), misunderstanding of right of way, clueless merging, not keeping right, etc., all of which could benefit from additional training.
Yet another hack to make porn on reddit easier.
Yeah, the whole pulling the API rug out from under Firebug really disappointed me. The FF dev tools looked good initially, but I quickly realized I couldn't actually use them. It was death by a thousand papercuts: all of the features seem to have some trivial-seeming problem that ends up hampering productivity past the point where switching to Chrome's dev tools gets the job done. It may lack some things I do like about FF dev tools, but the features it does have actually work in a responsive and glitch-free manner.
If you want to drive a black cab in London (green badge holders), you're going to have to do a hell of a lot more than a paltry 35 hours of training: https://www.theknowledgetaxi.co.uk/

On average, drivers take 2-4 years to learn London well enough to pass!
Uh what now? I'm not following...
Are there plans to relicense React Native to MIT without a Patent timebomb as well?
It is checking the referrer value and only displaying it to people from reddit, HN, etc. -- because when traffic spikes due to those communities, it can be expensive.

Given the choice between this and advertisements, I much prefer this.
I agree nothing of value was added, but it's a big stretch to call Doctorow's website "blogspam." That connotation has a whole 'nother set of attributes that go along with it.
I'm already paying them money, why should I also have to pay with screen space/attention?
I think we're both emphasizing different things and that comes from a different background. I don't really disagree with much of what you are saying, I just don't see them to the same degree as you, and that's probably because of that different experience making it impossible for us to understand each other.

I'm not happy with everything my country does, I'm not happy with everything they've done. There's a lot of progress that needs to be made but at the same time progress is being made and has been made. There are horrific as well as laudable things my native culture/country has done. We have a lot to teach others as well as learn from others, and we as a culture would do well to find respectful ways to interact with other cultures in the world, because ultimately we're human and we have shared interests.

That's what I believe generally, and I believe that above statement is true or should be true of every culture. You're free to disagree.
This is the most curious answer here. What factors would you weigh?
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> It's only surprising because we now know how terribly fast and loose Equifax was operating. I certainly assumed they knew their job and were operating more akin to a bank in terms of data protection.

Can you cite a source for how we "now know how terribly fast and loose Equifax was operating"?

Equifax is a CRA and is treated as a financial institution under the applicable laws, like banks are.

> Then again, I once did work for a bank, and witnessed an event where user PINs were discovered to be publicly available

Then you should know better than to simply claim that a company that suffers a breach is somehow inherently incompetent or uncaring about security.
Lexis Nexis suffered a breach in 2013.
​Mirantis Launches Multi-Cloud Kubernetes with AWS Support
The newest Xeons have a higher performance when you use AVX2 instead of AVX512 because of the low clock when using avx512 instructions (source in German: https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2017-20-Von-Suenden-Fehlern-... )
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Depends on your criteria. At this time I feel like React has a larger ecosystem (assuming there isn't a lot of incompatibilities with v16), and there's a clear path to mobile if that's a choice. Vue seems to be a simpler programming model, and makes it easier to iteratively build. Personally I'd say don't make a choice at the beginning, but build a simple version of your app in both (say login and 2 or 3 pages) and make a decision based on that.
He's sorry he couldn't make it to the conference and apologize but the only flights to Gstaad left this morning and what's the point of renting a ski chalet if you're not going to stay there?
Google Responds to Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention with AdWords Update
Uber Is Throwing a Tantrum and Exiting Quebec on October 14
To many holes, not enough rods.
It's an indication that a business is too big to effectively manage, which is fueling a lot of the antitrust sentiment floating around now.
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> I'm actually pretty solidly pro properly segregated bike lanes, but if I had to rate drivers vs cyclists in a "most likely to have a collision with as a pedestrian" I would easily go with the cyclist.

Possibly, but if you'd pick a more reasonable metric, such as accidents that actually result in serious injury, cars are apparently ahead, by a 6000% margin; http://road.cc/content/news/109269-are-drivers-and-cyclists-...
US Homeland Security Will Start Collecting Social Media Info on All Immigrants
Not really, the traditional conservative answer would be more along the lines of companies should be allowed to do whatever they want because ultimately that's better for the individual. The neoliberal argument is closer to one of the inevitability of markets, both in the negative in the positive: the invisible hand will solve this, and the invisible hand is inexorable so it's futile and wrong to try and do anything except let it do its work.
> I would be very surprised to see that on a side walk

I don't walk to work with a radar gun, but sidewalk-bikes barreling down on me are a daily occurrence (San Francisco). Not people coasting down the block, people actively pumping and dodging. I've been run over by a bike twice, and while I'll take that any day vs. a car, those shitheads need to stay off the sidewalk.

I am very pro-bike. I road one to work daily, until a couple of scary incidents put me off it. I no longer ride much[1].

That said, the jerks on the sidewalk, along with some of the more aggressive bikers, really need to be locked in a room with the entitled auto-rageoholics. The survivors can enjoy the nicer streets with the rest of us after they graduate from the reeducation camps.

[1] Had a couple bad incidents nearly back-to-back, and am probably doing that thing where one's risk aversion increases with age, but I don't feel safe riding anymore.
My understanding is that NYPD stopped going after frivolous violations after the Eric Garner incident a few years ago. I myself was ticketed ($40) once for wearing headphones on both ears, but I haven't seen cops enforcing such rules recently.
Vue.js is more of a DSL. React is just Javascript. I'd say they're two very different approaches.

I'd recommend react over Vue any day of the week, to answer ops question. Vue.js is everything I hated about Angular. String based dependency injection, bizzare attibute syntax, highly opinionated.

React is everything I love about javascript. Functional, fast, and with an easy to reason about API.
We use ad hoc portals for showing modals, flyout panels, popovers.
This is pretty cool. The NSFW side reminds me of PaintBottle[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5569546
At a medium-sized, college campus with no internal roads, my bike is the only way I can reliably travel the 1.5 miles from one side of campus to the other, in less than 15 minutes, laden.

And generally speaking, bikes are just like any other non-public transit method: the purpose is to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible, fsck everything and everyone else.
> The noun in this phrase is “place,” and “regular” and “established” are adjectives modifying the noun “place.”

IANAL, but I was one at one time. For what it's worth, I got a nice chuckle out of that sentence. All things considered, it's pretty condescending to be giving a district court judge a grammar lesson. But he needs one, so good for them!
Protectionism _destroys wealth creation_, hands down, period. The cost of protectionism is that the service you are "protecting" is now more expensive to your own citizens. It's a tax. The industry also knows that it now has two options to get more money--- be a better business, or continue to get favors from the government.

Sugar is 3x as expensive in the US as it is in latin america. Why? We have restrictions on imports, and thus we have to have american companies growing sugar. We are missing out, and if we could remove those protectionist laws, we wouldn't have all our food companies relying on HFCS. (I'm not saying that HFCS is any more unhealthy than sugar, but it would help give consumers a choice.)

Let's ponder about China. Chinese entrepreneurs already have an at-home advantage of knowing chinese customs and culture and legal frameworks. If they were not protectionist, then they could be benefitting from cheaper products, which would allow them to accumulate capital faster, which allows them to create new businesses faster. Additionally, the level of success required for their business is not at a "playpin" level-- if they can be successful in the hypothetical non-protectionist chinese market, then they can be successful anywhere in the world with an open market. It's also really important for business people to be getting the proper signals from the market-- i.e., what quality of product they need to provide and at what cost. If you're performing protectionism, you're giving people false numbers.
This has been my experience as well. With react if I need something I can generally find a component someone else has already made that is well supported / decent quality. With Vue I will generally have to roll my own.
> All in order to make people feel guilty and thereby get people to reduce their usage. Once that happened there was a backlash, that backlash needed a target and the science was chosen.

Guilt -> backlash -> people reject science. That sounds an awful lot like you're saying science would drive progress but people aren't changing behavior because "you're" making them feel guilty.

It's not _just_ an engineering issue, but if you believe it is why on earth are you contributing to the politics?
​I am relatively new to the field and as such, I understand that my design can be flawed in many ways. I look for any feedback and advice on how to improve this project.
A web where every site has its own extension? That sounds like a nightmare.
no...I very intentionally did not say that. I said that until everyone is treated with some reasonable equity the distinction between shitty and better is academic because the better never trickles down.
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I believe Netflix is missing (should be #1 here with $2.5M per employee).

Apple is notable for its large retail staff. Its profit per engineer may even exceed that of Netflix, despite being a much larger company.
I needed a binary, stable format to pass large dataframes efficiently to our JS frontend as well as to other Python processes. The builtin msgpack converter in Pandas was very pandas-centric in that it was basically just a msgpack representation of Pandas's internal structures, which didn't fit our purposes.

In the end, I implemented a format that is essentially a list of columns, each having a specific type and some other metadata. The format for each column depends on the stored type, fallback is a msgpack sequence of strings/ints/dates mixed with nils, but array data is stored as-is and datetimes are stored either as an array of int64 with the unit attached or as begin, end, frequency.
It is an extremely embarrassing thing to have happen to oneself, so I assume, others like myself do not go telling anyone.

The issue is that while the credit rating system is utter bullshit - there is a LOT attached to it WRT life...

Basically if you have shitty credit, people look down on you.

I make 228K per year, but due to that issue, and regular life circumstances (divorce, etc) my credit is poor - and I just got denied a card from Chase, due to Equifax saying I owe Comcast $128 (for a device I returned to them - but they still are dogging my credit)

Credit industry needs to get ITS CREDIT up.
I don't believe OnionShare uses txtorcon at all, actually. And I wrote txtorcon, not Micah ;) but they're both decent options for publishing depending on your use-cases.
Great. Now my 10G prod network can start replicating some fraction of 64TB at rate while you masturbate on the hardware. Utter nonsense.
I'm impressed by how accessible Facebook makes open source tech. It's always top notch but documented in a way that allows regular devs the opportunity to use it in their own apps.

Smaller size and easier to use is a big win. Going with the MIT license puts a real bow on this release. Thank you to the React team.
I think they can intentionally dismiss it. I'm not making up anything. So many verified sources have already published multiple articles. Just Google 'impact of demonetisation' which is obviously an unbiased query.
Exactly - the ones who are scared that Iranians are terrorists who should be banned are the same ones who couldn't name 3 cities in Iran.
You were speaking specifically of profit.
> The fact that they didn't sell those services to consumers but that consumers are the ones impacted is actually a big part of the problem.

Perhaps, but it's a different problem that product liability.

> which does lead to the idea that regulation could be an appropriate approach.

CRAs are already regulated.
Ask HN: How many of you got HIRED because of your COMMENT/SUBMISSION on HN?
would love to check out your Blogs or links(if you have any).
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Main advantages are tight integration with engine and ease of use. As I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310477 GDScript is not very fast but It's rally an issue. In 3.0 where we will have C# and GDNative it won't be an issue at all.
> Sure, but then let's have that discussion

Well, we're on a discussion forum so that would be appropriate.

> Let's not hide it behind other regulations.

In my experience, it's the exception and not the norm for entities (be they governmental or otherwise) to plainly state their motivations. I think it's unrealistic to expect that to change anytime soon.
Thanks for the hard work! This release looks really exciting and I can't wait to try it out.

Out of curiosity, did you switch to Rollup for the tree shaking optimizer, or for some other reason?
I hate to break it to you, but unless you store your home folder on a separate encrypted partition (which would be really inconvenient), this won't work.

FileVault 2 encrypts your entire boot volume, so there's no separate encryption of your home folder going on. If you give someone any of the passwords that unlock the boot volume, they could get all of the data off it (by using target disk mode or booting to single user mode, etc.)
> We can definitely count the markets in which Uber operate, so that statement is a bit silly (hint look here https://www.uber.com/en-GB/cities/ and count them).

In this context, "countless" was hyperbole. Obviously the Earth has limited places in which they can operate.

> They also definitely do not operate without significant issue in a many of them.

And in many of those, the "issues" are based on municipalities applying unreasonable or taxi-specialized regulations onto them. That in no way implies the service doesn't work, isn't safe, or isn't extremely popular and a great improvement over taxis.

It simply means the right people in the right places would rather protect the status quo than rationally assess the situation and revise policy where necessary.

> Regulation for taxi services is important. The adverts in some countries telling you not to take unlicensed taxis are not there for fun. The training's there to help drivers. Anyone who can't be bothered is probably not serious about being a good driver or playing by the rules and shouldn't be welcomed into the industry.

Nobody's arguing against regulation of taxi services.

The question is whether or not 35 hours of training is reasonable for Quebec only when somehow the rest of the world seems to get by without it. It is also not the case that nobody ever gets hurt, kidnapped, or stolen from by even "trained" taxi drivers.

Lawmakers and regulators need to start using common sense and acting in the best interests of consumers instead of the taxi lobby.
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Also wondering why Nvidia didn't make it to this list.
Why do people have to change behaviour, instead of a change in technology?

Change in behaviour is not what humans are good at. Proof: "Thou shalt not kill".

Just launch the damn solar shade already!
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That $10 billion per year is purely in the costs the energy industry is going to pass onto their customers. Once you start counting the health or climate benefits the number goes up.

http://www.carbontracker.org/in-the-media/phasing-out-coal-p...

The issue is that they're mostly escaping market forces due to how they are regulated:

"“Merchant” coal owners operating in competitive wholesale markets have lost nearly half their value in the last two years amid fierce competition from cheap gas and renewables. However, two thirds of coal plants are “regulated” and receive government-approved prices which cover their costs. This means that consumers rather than shareholders pick up the bill for supporting uneconomic coal plants."

Once you start counting actual externalities you get numbers like $5 Trillion a year subsides for fossil fuels globally, as estimated by the IMF, 7% of global GDP:

http://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sonew07...
Is he related somehow with Soren Kirkegaard?
This was a pretty solid history write-up for Glass. I still remember when it debuted and I got a test pair to wear for a while as part of the pilot program.

I honestly think we're going to see Augmented Reality (AR) devices go through the same steps and backlash that Google Glass received until it finds the right place/industry to be used. Right now that's looking like education and design, but I could be wrong. Glass looks like it's going to own the medical field if the revival of the product is handled correctly.
So much good stuff in here. Perf wins, in both bytes down the wire and render time. I've been wanting to return sibling elements from render for years!

Crazy to see such a robust, mature framework still improving so much. Can't wait to upgrade!
>I see no particular reason not to have high standards for other drivers too. 35 hours of training seems perfectly reasonable before being allowed to pilot tons of steel at high speeds.

Which they already went through to get a driver's license. The 35 hour taxi training is on top of that.
Sure we can.
Be careful what you wish for. My guess is, the results of a flurry of suits would be what you're seeing on YouTube right now, demonetization of anything remotely controversial. You'll get squeaky clean ads from large dominant corporations, and the only content able to monetize them will be squeaky clean large content providers.

Lost in the shuffle will be small content providers and small vendors who need to advertise. Then you'll be back on HN complaining about how Google is censoring everything and favoring big players, leading to greater concentration of media conglomeration, all the while ignoring that this is implicitly what you asked for by asking for costly regulation -- which doesn't hurt big firms as much as you think and primarily hurts smaller players.

The internet's come along way from the freedom we imagined in the late 80s and 90s. In my college Cypherpunk days, I wrote one of the first anonymizing internet proxies to combat the Communications Decency Act (http://web.archive.org/web/20011122042440/http://www.clark.n...), because at the time, the internet was pretty much the only place in existence where the government did not have the ability to regulate people's behavior.

Now we've arrived at a place where even so-called liberals, progressives, and civil libertarians, are calling for the government to censor indirectly, what can be published on the internet. And make no mistake, it is government censorship even if you are outsourcing that responsibility to private corporations via the civil courts, in much the same way that Extraordinary Rendition is still torture, even if the CIA outsources it to a third world dungeon.

The FTC does not punish public radio and TV because shady diet scammers are selling snake oil. They don't shut down radio for Chiropractice (a pseudo-scientific medical scam), or for "financial advice" shows which sell people obviously bad investment advice on "market timing" when they'd be better off with an ETF. On any given day, I'd estimate about 50% of radio ads are scams on my way to work.

How far do we take things to "protect" the public from scams and sex by censoring our media? How about harsh penalties for people operating the scams? Should you be allowed to Gmail because your spam filter let through an email scam and you got suckered by it?
It's awesome that they're completely based on Kubernetes now -- super ready to switch over and start using it.
There definitely has been a shift over the last couple years. My guess is that VC money has changed priorities. I fondly recall all the blog posts by Elan at the start of the project and purchased a lifetime PlexPass early on. Now all I see mentioned is CEO Keith Valory.

I'm definitely concerned about privacy changes that have been made recently (and then changed back?).

https://betanews.com/2017/08/21/plex-data-collection-opt-out...
And yet for the last couple of years every new extension released is Chrome only. Even uBlock Origin was originally a Chrome only extension.