skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, this is where the question of scale comes in. Server side may well work out quicker when you only have a few hundred visitors. But when you've got hundreds of thousands, being able to offload > 90% of your content makes a massive difference. JASON APIs are less expensive to get generate than full HTML pages which include the same content. It might only be a fraction less work on the servers but multiply that by several hundred thousand and you quickly enable yourself to scale down your back end infrastructure.

This isn't stuff I'm blindly guessing on either, I've worked on several hugely busy UK and international services that started out as monolithic code bases pushing HTML and migrated them to APIs. Each time the language remained the same, the main body of the backend logic even remained the same, but instead of pulling HTML templated from the backend and pushing out the completed contents, the move was to push out the templates and have the client side render them. Each time that change was made the back end infrastructure could shrink. In some instances by a factor of 10!! The drawback is the client side took longer to render the page upon first impression, however the application ran faster from then on in and the hosting costs were reduced as well.

So this is why I keep saying scale matters when discussing APIs Vs server side HTML generation. For the vast majority of project that people build, there isn't going to be much in the way of difference (heck even my own personal project are built API-less unless I specifically need an API for other - none performance relates - purposes. But when you start talking about hundreds of thousands or millions of concurrent users, then even small changes can have a real impact and thus that's when you really start to appreciate some of the advantages API driven development can offer
> There is also the contention that increasing blocksize would make running full nodes harder (at least by some margin) which therefore means an increase in centralisation (by a proportional margin)

Yet there is no attempt to quantify by how much. The damage done to Bitcoin by full blocks is much more than what a potential increase to 2MB would cause. This zero tolerance policy rhymes extremely poorly when the fees makes Bitcoin more expensive to use than to run a full node.

> It would also set a precedent that miners are in control (or alternatively it could be interpreted as no-one is in control).

Miners are in control because the real power lies with them. The problem is that they aren't coordinated and so status quo is favored.
CCGrass Announce Plans for a New European Company
That's a log of myths and misinformation spread here. In the EU you only have to carry an ID while you're crossing a border. If you stay in another country of the EU you should have your ID available somewhere in that country.

But if you actually have to carry around your ID all the time depends on the laws country you're in. Here in Germany you don't.
Full blocks is a change to how Bitcoin has been run. The limit was always meant to be raised as it was introduced as a spam protection. The full blocks policy has not had any research backing it at all.
Swift is slowly moving towards binary and source stability. Storyboards are more capable then they used to be–and they're literally XML. How can you make that unreadable?
I can't help but think that after the third WhatsApp survey people will no longer think "what a novel experience", they'll be used to it and think "Yet another survey...".
i don't think there is study saying other animals can't do this. There is also much to be said about successful construction of the study like the one in the article. As for example dogs studies show, dogs are more interested in other dog faces than human faces. And dogs are the animals who have the most contact with us. Even shelter dogs show less interest in human faces then the dogs who normally live with people. One can expect that other animals who have even less contact with people would have even less interest in human faces. They should have did this sheep experiment using photos of celebrity sheep - i think the results would be off the charts :)

Anyway, studies on dog recognition of human faces (and dogs are very good at it, recognizing emotions, etc..) show that dogs pay much attention to eyes. Another clue here is that deep learning networks trained for human and animal faces contain a lot of eye and snout kernels in the internal layers - it seems that image processing by our brain as well as by DNNs is mostly edge based - edge means high spatial frequency and higher frequency means more informative signal - and snouts and eyes are high density edge clusters compare to the rest of face. That suggests that eyes is a key element in face recognition. The sheep looking at left or right profile photo of a face still see one of the eyes which were shown on the straight mugshot photo of the same face, and thus i think the sheep has enough info to recognize the face. Somebody running a human face recognition DNN can perform the same test using the DNN instead of a sheep and see which neuron paths would get activated. My bet is on eye kernels.
Except you can’t pull a well-typed object out of the notification. And have to use a string constant to subscribe. And if you happen to want to filter the notification stream or even gasp map over it, you’re on your own. The amount of boilerplate and subtle bugs around NSNotificationCenter is really not nice.
Getting started with IOTA
Basically, it is unfair to compare permissioned blockchain to public blockchains.
The real problem is that when miners are competitive they'll always add cost (in electricity, equipment and whatever) up to the level of the revenues. So if you have a block reward - it will approximate the cost of the system.
There is a famous post on this subject: Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ (even though I believe that Proof of Stake can be cheaper: https://medium.com/@zby/proof-of-stake-can-be-cheaper-than-p... - by reducing the block reward).
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As a natural born American, some of our industries confuse the hell out of me. Why are used car dealerships so scummy? Why are there (overpriced) mattress stores on every corner? Why do we sell prescription drugs on TV?

Mattresses truly are a weird one though. You can see how overpriced they are by the mere existence of these massive stores with allegedly-valuable inventory, that are always empty, because people don't need new mattresses that often!

Of course, they're ridiculously overpriced so you can get great "deals" on them as they're always running tax-free sales, etc.

Thankfully when my wife and I went to try out mattresses for our fancy new big wood bedframe, in the process of trying everything from $600 up to $3000+ (california king size pricing), she declared the cheapest one her favorite, and that was that!
"That site was created by Taxpayers Protection Alliance which a Koch front group."
So what? Ad hominem fallacy?

When the municipal broadbands fail taxpayers are on the hook for million dollars bail outs.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2014/09/30/munic...
The board got diluted with a lot more regular folks vs the super early gang of people centered around YC who were all doers/believers in the startup space. The more regular folks you let in, the more of the usual limiting beliefs you'll see echo chambered here. The people who are actually getting shit done, instead of whining about the world not being fair, will just move to a different discussion space.
It's not easy. A local brewery couldn't produce for a year while they moved facilities. They did contract brewing in another state and were constantly testing the water here, sending equipment to condition the water in the other state, flying brewers back and forth, and it NEVER tasted anywhere near right no matter how many times they tried. While I love craft beer, I admit I don't have the most sophisticated palette, but it was immediately obvious when I tasted different samples of what was allegedly the same beer. My tastings started when I asked, unprompted, "Hey, why does <beer> taste so weird today?"
Instacart began delivering in my area recently, and my first order was yesterday. All went well and I'm pleased. It took me back to a time when I ruminated start-up ideas. Standing in line at a deli, feeling guilty for making the deli person have to saw through a very tough salami, I imagined it was a perfect opportunity for robotics. Now I see it was simpler than that, just give customers a different way not to wait in line, and remove guilt by creating an opportunity to give the delivery person a tip. Why don't we tip deli people anyway? It's awfully physical labor they do, when the slicers are manually powered, and we as customers have to stand there and watch them. Sometimes it seems humiliating. I rarely feel as thankful as when I thank the deli person who hands me my order of cold cuts. But I still think the job should be roboticized.
I signed up for all my bank accounts and credit cards online. But they have to check your ID, more and more through videochat nowadays, before that you'd either need to mail documents or go to a post office where the staff is able to stamp a form that says they've checked your ID.

Also in most European countries the administration knows your official address and companies can check that you live where you pretend to.
I feel like this story really highlighted all the guy's flaws, and hopefully exaggerated them. As you say, he must've been doing something right.

The story seems like he took a terrible risk he couldn't afford, he didn't prepare or research things well, and his endeavor failed largely due to his own shortcomings. Sure, he learned something and has a story. He also borrowed and lost thousands of dollars from his friends, and severely set back his family - possibly for life. Given that he's unlikely to be a restauranteur again, his lesson doesn't seem that valuable either.
> as long as he can save enough to pay for his kids' education

That sounds like a good thing but there's another story on HN where commenters are complaining that it's bad! Rich bankers paying for their kids' education and helping them become rich too. That it's unfair to poor kids. People have such arbitrary and inconsistent opinions. No matter what you do, people are going to believe it's wrong.
NEW EBOLA-LIKE VIRUS HITS UGANDA
Former President on jury duty, like ordinary citizen
My summary of the article: An algorithm designed by Google engineers to promote upcoming stories does exactly what it was supposed to do, and people who don't understand why Google employees did not manually review just one out of one hundred thousand things that the search engine indexed that day are suprised.

Google Search is a content aggregator that show you what it thinks you are most likely to click on. It does not know about politics, it cannot fact check, it does not think care about effort journalism, the only thing that matters is what stories generate more ad revenue.

Of course, Google will try to police its results better after this incident, but they can't effectively do this without mass censorship. If you don't believe me, see the recent YouTube drama over monetization.
Are self driving vehicles able to respond to things that aren't behaving as they are supposed to? E.g. swerving out of the way
These kids shouldn't be killing their brains to play a game. Just finished reading League of Denial, incredibly eye-opening re: everything the NFL has done to cover up long term brain damage from football. The NFL is basically Big Tobacco now, and imo any parent who lets their kid play football at this point with everything we know is akin to child abuse.
Swift devs keep saying it'll get less fragile, then they rewrite "exceptions", or how strings work, or anything else and all your code has to be fixed line-by-line. I do not believe it'll be stable this decade.

Xcode stops supporting old features in XIB, or a class has a deprecated and then removed property, and the deserialization fails. XIB is not XML with a nice semantic DTD, it's an object serialization graph that happens to use XML.
Hey, we're thinking of building an app in Python/Django for internal use (partly to learn Python and partly because there are many good Python tools for what we intend to do in the future). Can you recommend, in your opinion, the best resource for an experienced Rails & JS/Node dev to learn Django? Something that shows you best tools for dev env setup and includes a tutorial step by step for building a mid-complexity app would suit my learning style. I've written scripts in Python previously but nothing more....
As opposed to what? Billion dollars of taxpayer bail out because government have no incentive and have no idea how to run a commercial enterprise efficiently. If a private company fails on its obligation you can sue. If public company fail not only can't you sure but you have to pay more taxes to bail it out.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2014/09/30/munic...
> But now you're making unsubstantiated claims again... the damage done to bitcoin?

How about comparing Bitcoin's percentage of total market capitalization [0] which crashed from ~80% down to ~40% when the blocks became full? The last month has regained that quite a bit but you could speculate it's because the promise of long overdue on chain capacity increase.

> I know you want to take the quick approach and just LOWER FEES NOW

It's been years since the limit should have been increased. Yet here we are with no on chain scaling for Bitcoin even remotely close to reality.

> that a cowboy attitude with blockchains makes it trivial to lose a lot of money

You're really comparing apples and oranges if you compare raising the block size with Ethereum's poorly designed smart contracts.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/
As someone who works for themself, balancing productivity with learning is on my mind a lot.

Yes, creating my own boilerplate is attractive from a learning experience. Except when it's not learning but figuring out how to configure Webpack. Or how to get HMR working. Then it just becomes a chore and I explore Github for the best boilerplate for my needs.

To me, a boilerplate and a library aren't significantly different. The former is just exposed a lot more.
Is there an incentive to store the blockchain itself? A proof of space might be derived from the blockchain history. The would create an incentive to store the blockchain. That way the proof of space is a useful use of space.
The effects of poor health in the otherwise-eligible pool recruit pool has been a concern for a few years.
As I recall, the health of WWI recruits, especially from the south (mostly due to poor nutrition and parasites), had similar implications for readiness, and this was the spur for a number of public health interventions.

There are other potentially problematic indicators, such as the fact that grip strength in young men has plummeted over the last few decades (avg 18yo male is not as strong as avg 35yo woman was at his age). Grip strength is a good indicator of overall fitness.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2016/09/11/...

https://www.google.de/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/2938158/youth...
I could have saved him the trouble has he asked before doing this on quora. Seriously the culinary world is full of the worlds rejects. Junkies, alcoholics, thieves and the mentally unstable. I took a break from IT to pursue a culinary career. It was a great lesson in life. It taught me you don't get paid anything but slave wages even though you are working 15 hour days. Your body gets wrecked. You get no respect. You work with the people who couldn't get a job anywhere else for the worst reasons. It's repetitive AF. There are not a lot of good reasons to try and live that life. No matter what glitter and rainbows crap food tv makes it look like.
Just like roads don't get you from A to B, cars do using those roads, cables don't transfer your internet traffic from your house to the website you're trying to reach, ISPs do using those cables.
You ever seen Gordon Ramsey when he's demonstrating or standing in place gesticulating, dude is like a jackrabbit on meth, he can't keep still.
I should clarify that I was talking about Belgium which was the country the parent comment used as the example. I am aware that the laws are not the same across EU.
Two things:

1. Why is Apple responding differently from San Bernardino? Why is Apple more willing to assist when the perpetrator isn't ISIS?

2. If Apple can really get into an iPhone without the user's consent, all their PR about privacy amount to lies
Someone opens an account in your name, order 2fa credentials (to your real address), pick ups the letter and manages to convince the people at the counter that he is you, and voila, full access to all accounts. It was a pretty common one a few years ago. Nowadays I think they require you to go to a bank office to pick it out.
Flow/Typescript both of great but writing from start from scratch both flow and typescript slow me down with all the hassle of needing to define the types of parameters and data structures. Typescript being a bit verbose at time too.

When working with another person API then typescript does become a godsend in helping understand what the bloody hell does this callback parameter are required.
Uber joins forces with NASA to develop flying taxis
Apparently not in this case.
I'm in need of js boilerplate. Currently I have a hacked together $, slickgrid, jdorn/json-editor, $-ui, bs3 setup I minify with closure-compiler. All 1.8MB(cdn) with my code 50KB.

I'm running the above on a flask/swagger api. But I need a backbone or something similar.

I looked at reclinejs but their more focused around the data. So missing some slickgrid functionality I need.

I tried to componentize it with mithril... but mithril great; the way I want to use it wrong.

So back to drawing board thinking of componentize with $.onmount next. I just need some small kind of mvc, I'm looking at backbone. But I need a slickgrid dataview that understands collections nicely :/

gah!?! why do I do this to myself!
Economists: A Trump win would tank the markets (Oct 2016)
MIRI got awarded $3.75M from the Open Philanthropy Project
More than likely it is Google trying to downplay it, but it's their search being gamed - the BBC article is actually inaccurate as far as I'm aware, as at least in the case of Sam Hyde, I was under the impression he was in on the joke, though I may be wrong.

Regardless, the length of time probably isn't as important as the frequency with which this occurs, as the search frequently returning verifiably wrong or fake information is probably a bigger issue. The length of time it lasts is just a symptom of the tool providing news without the news being curated.
I congratulate to the startup idea! And I wish all the best!

BUT! And excuse my critical note, but I absolutely loathe the idea that my company would intrude my personal private life on whatsapp! You know what's the first thing I do when I leave the office? I turn off each and every channel which is connected in any way to my company. Complete radio silence. No email, no hangout, no slack, no nothing. Zero, zilch, zip, nada.

Seriously? You want to answer company surveys in whatsapp? Seriously? I doubt it. I sincerely doubt it.
And in the end it really is "their job." It may not be helpful but it's reality. It's why your job is hard and it's something you need to accept and deal with in a way that doesn't demean, marginalize and slow down the people you serve.
Yup definitely implies that the shuttle crashed. Clickbait title.
I find that people (me included) get lost when there's "new tech" in a boilerplate. Rather than using it we try to poke and prod to see how it works and why. Before you know it, it's hours later and you haven't done what you set out to do :)
Year 2011, I was touring Berlin with a friend, and a policeman asked us to show our ID.
So, tourists need to carry passport at all times?
How'd police know who is a tourist?
FWIW, my experience is almost exactly opposite. There’s not enough architecture in the iOS world. The norm is to stitch together the app without clear notion of the state or its transitions, everything is hidden in a giant tangle of view controllers, a lot of the state is crammed into the app delegate singleton, everything calls everything else via singletons and good luck finding the UI flow in a web of storyboards where arguments are passed in prepareForSegue. It’s a huge mess.

Talking about target-action or delegation in this context is IMHO a misunderstanding. These are very nice and valid solutions, but in my experience they are simply not enough to build a structured non-trivial app with. They are the basic building blocks, but there has to be something above them.

Of course, it’s also a mistake to go overboard with structure, drowning the important bits in architecture boilerplate. Architecture cannot and must not be followed blindly, as a cooking book. You have to aim for a reasonable compromise, a point of diminishing returns.
Sorting Algorithm Visualizations
How about chances that there is another intelligent being in another planet is 10^-1000 ?
He makes a lot of mistakes that are just inexcusable though. For example, just when fights through the painful start, he shuts the restaurant down to give everyone a week off. A week! I've never run a restaurant, but my guess is that it's difficult to make money while being closed.

He doesn't do simple math to figure out how much money he'll need, what runway he has, or what he should be charging for his food. He pays three grand to incorporate a business, when a Google search tells him it could be done for far less. When he gets the opportunity to work for a few months in a restaurant, he squanders it.

Sure, hindsight is twenty twenty, but a lot of these obstacles aren't hard to see coming. If you're going to gamble with your life savings, your friend's money, and your family's financial future, you should do the research and put the thought in to make sure you aren't throwing it all away.
> Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided.

Do we really know that? I mean sensors fail. People who are supposed to maintain the vehicles get lazy or budgets get cut because investors want quarterly returns, etc.
Yes, but with a single writer at a time.

From the link you shared: "However, since there is only one WAL file, there can only be one writer at a time".
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis, please don't post the same comment more than once, and please don't ask people to upvote, even when the topic is important.
Author / OP here. Thanks!
I feel like there's a big push to blame "fake news" and related phenomena on tech companies right now.

Fake news is created and shared by people. Tech is just one of the vehicles through which we share it.

The problem isn't tech, it's people. Fix the root cause with education and the tech will reflect it.
Keep Betting on JavaScript
As a user I think ignoring autocomplete="off" is great decision. More often than not it's misused and annoying.

As a developer, I have never used it anyway, so don't care.
This is pointless.

Once you have collected it bury it, burn it or recycle.

If anything this will just release CO2? or Methane?
> Western men visiting China often feel entitled to the attention of local women, says Wu. When she declines romantic or sexual advances from American ex-pats, Wu says they often respond with rage. [1]

Sounds like Dale was turned down.

1. http://www.newsweek.com/naomi-wu-sexy-cyborg-misogyny-silico...
His reasoned opinion has been bludgeoned into obscurity because he "wouldn't wear the ribbon". Everyone move along to the safe topics which get us no further in improving understanding of each other.
Eh Linus Torvalds father Nils is a politician and member of the European Parliament, not exactly a coal miner all though Nils might've had maoist sympathies as a kid.