skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb, Kickstarter, Twitch, GoodReads, Bloomberg, there is quite a list of companies who still run a significant amount of their site through Rails. Over time I imagine that particular bottlenecks and performance critical pieces have been pulled out into other languages and services as necessary, but I certainly wouldn't feel bad about it if I was developing or maintaing a Rails site today. It's significantly better than PHP, and a hell of a lot of sites are still run on that. The reality is that if you really need to scale, your primary bottleneck will probably be the datastore, not the frontend.
itunes?
Close.

https://aspnetzero.com/
Been following TruffleRuby, I did recently just spin up a super dummy app where I swapped out mysql to postgresql, made a migration to create a table and generated some fake data. Opened a console and ActiveRecord was able to query. Thats a big step forward as they had said the ActiveRecord connections were some of the biggest hurdles.

Does this story answer your question about performance? Not really, but if I wanted to dive deeper (which I do at some point!) I think TruffleRuby is a real option.
Another blast from the past: the SRI dotgeo initiative, ca. 2000:

http://www.ai.sri.com/dotgeo/

They proposed cuteness like this:

Default Brand Name (short for "default cell server brand name"):
the special brand name, such as "mercury," "venus," "earth," "moon," "mars," that denotes the default GeoRegistry for a planet. Other cell server brand names always refer to the planet Earth.
Isn't the Pentagon the father of the Valley? How is this marriage legal?
If one has Anglo-Saxon family names like Smith, Farmer, Clark or the Germanic equivalent like Meyer, Schumacher etc, it is often the profession handed down father to son. In India this is termed the JATTI, and is considered the nearest equivalent of the caste.

If India was the only country where "caste" is a phenomenon, at least we should have a native name for it. People often claim Varna to be the equivalent, but you almost never hear the word "Varna" being used.

The reason is "William Jones", who synthesized the Indian caste system by selectively digging deep into the scriptures.

Caste today is essentially an economic mobility problem and should have a quick death. But by constantly casting it as a social problem people make sure it is kept alive.

The main beneficiaries are
1. Politicians
2. Evangelists
3. Otherwise wealthy Indians who have managed to carve out a quota from the reservation system meant to benefit the backward communities.
4. Used as a stick by the west
5. Naxal and sociologists

Modi unlike Obama isn't a one show man. Nor is he just the face of the party. He has won again and again, and continues to have huge public support. Goes to prove ones caste isn't important to the public.

Caste is also extremely regional, the names are meaningless outside. In the state that I come from TN, the vast majority of the people have gotten rid of the their family names for the last 2-3 generations for the sake of social equality, yet have a 70% reservation.

Understandably JATTI (rather than caste) is significant among the poor because it is their primary social security. So fishermen, metal workers, farmers, weavers etc form a strong community within their profession.

Like a lab rat that has been deliberately infected and the conditions made worse so it can be studied. The "caste system" that should have a natural death, continues to live on thanks to our heros.
Crystal/Amber combination is such a joy to work with, it's too bad it's not more popular, I'm contributing a bit to the project sometimes and use it for personal stuff. I regret it's not that trendy because it's the best web experience I ever had.
Junk DNA is a phrase biologists use for describing the long held (and recently disproven) idea that non-coding DNA ("dna not coding for proteins") is unimportant relative to coding regions (genes).

Most non-coding DNA does have a regulatory purpose. Things like copy number variations (where information is "duplicated") between promoters and enhancers can can change the rate at which particular genes get transcribed. This is my point: that viewing the genome as "information" in the simple sense of each ATCG nucleotide corresponding to bits is absurd. The genome is a geometric AND chemical entity and encodes information using both paradigms.

My point is not to say that you are wrong, but rather that you do not know. It is FAR from well established that the genome is inefficient at storing information.
You can use rails just as a backend. React, GraphQL, and Rails works fine from my experience
It was not abrupt. Things had been bad for them for the last year or so. WOW worked (publicly) for the past five months to find a new source of funding and restructure its operations, hoping to continue flights.

* In November 2018 it looked like Icelandair would acquire WOW Air, though that deal ended up falling through

* After that, Indigo Partners (private equity group which has invested in quite a few airlines) signed an agreement in principle to invest in WOW Air; just a few days ago it was announced that this deal fell through

* Earlier this month, WOW Air announced that they were back in discussions with Icelandair, and that the parties hoped to conclude negotiations by Monday, March 25, 2019

* On Sunday Icelandair announced that they had concluded talks with WOW Air, and didn’t intend to move forward

* Then things got really bad, as one of their planes was allegedly repossessed in Montreal

WOW Air bondholders approved a plan to convert their bonds into equity, but that only takes you so far

On a related note, WOW Air is the third European airline to halt operations this year, joining Flybmi and Germania.
Yet Another Introduction to Emacs
> Not sure what "too smart for its own good" means exactly. It was a pretty vanilla feed, with no fancy features.

It was a reference to how they seeded the network by inferring contacts.
No, I’m working on the same assumptions as every aeronautical regulatory body on Earth though.
Considering that my main aim is to learn as many functional concepts as possible and must settle among these three languages, which language should I choose?

Some say choose OCaml over F# because of functors. Some say choose F# over OCaml for those unique features in F# that OCaml doesn't have.

If there is an optimized trade off for choosing a language, what would you recommend me to settle for?
Reminds me of Willpower instinct book that has similar but with the hypothesis that the prefrontal cortex is the "executive in charge of" type of brain.
After Google announced it is buying most consumer's credit card transaction data, privacy promises are something we should all be looking for.

>Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-...
> No complications just a planned c-section

There was a lot of effort, planning, and training that goes into making sure that there aren't any complications. Not to mention the fact that even routine procedures can have unexpected complications that have to be planned for and addressed. I think that $38k for a surgical procedure with post-operative care for the mother and child isn't necessarily that outrageous. Just imagine the people, training, facilities, etc...

EDIT: Now that I'm thinking about it -- was the $38k bill with or without insurance? Meaning, was this their out of pocket costs with insurance? If so, that does seem rather unreasonable. If that was the billed rate for the insurance company and your friend's out of pocket costs were lower, that would make more sense.
Boéing fails to take into account that the IQ of a typical third world pilot is lowér than IQ of a Chinese or a white American pilot. Thus the systems and training that in the past would have beén OK for a US airline need to be dumbéd down for an African or an South East Asian pilot. This is a new reality given the Boeing's market shift.
Completely wrong assumptions.
I suspect using really old and shoddily cobbled together software is one of the reasons vendors usually don't like you looking under the hood.

I recently figured out how to poweroff a brocade switch (there is no native command for it) and ended up enabling a hidden command that allowed me to run poweroff via bash.

Bash was version 2.04, almost 20 years old! Now, it hopefully isn't used in any security-sensitive contexts to enable exploitation (or maybe it's a custom patched version), but it is sort of indicative of how these things get built.
In React you can use higher order components and whatnot to handle subscriptions, and that capability most unfortunately is not available on all frameworks. Perhaps most egregiously, Angular doesn't really have any concept that works in place of HoCs, though at least you can sometimes fold observables using the async pipe.
Twtxt: Decentralised, Minimalist Microblogging for Hackers
That's incredible... like, the seats were hard enough to knock on? What was the surface made of?
IMO the more entertaining learnings from Wave went into Hangouts Chat, because the embedding Docs/Sheets and other rich content into your threaded conversations just gives me Wave flashbacks every time I see a new one.

I liked Wave, even if nobody knew what the actual use cases for it were.
This is so cool! Could definitely see people using this for side projects
I agree, the pay for nurses is a pity.

I try to impress on the hospital management during my interactions with them that nurses in some ways are the most important staff in a hospital. They interact with the patient the most and they have the most knowledge of the situation than even the doctor in some situations. Hospitals in the west seem to get this but in India they don't. Most of the focus is on the doctors and equipment. Hopefully this should change in the future.
Yes the price of housing is out of control and it is in much of the western world at the moment. But mortgages existed long before this happened, there is no causation there. As for rent, even under normal conditions rent will be subject to inflation and a mortgage won't, plus there's that juicy zero rent future to look forward to.
Man acquitted over cryptomining program that used site visitors' PCS
> F.B.I. investigators focused on Mr. Martin after getting a tip from Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity company. Two Kaspersky employees had gotten cryptic messages from Mr. Martin — calling himself “HAL999999999” — via Twitter that seemed to be offering secrets, as Politico first reported in January. The assistance was a bit ironic, because American intelligence officials have sometimes accused Kaspersky of being too close to Russian intelligence, charges the company denies.

via Twitter of all places...
Skylight Cyber publish complete list of MAC addresses targeted by ShadowHammer
I suspect it is less of people want lighter appliances and more the case of what can we get away with?
What's weird about having an isolated network and leaving access controls to a separate layer?

I think the only concern is where the software listens by default. If it's TCP 0.0.0.0/[::] then someone's eventually going to make a mistake.
Also check out the newly released Phoenix LiveView!
This is especially problematic for the last bunch of floppies produced in the late 90s. According to some anecdotes, due to the popularity of PCs at this time, vendors implemented various cost-saving measures to drive the price down, as a result, the magnetic medium inside had the lowest quality in the entire history of floppy disks and extremely unreliable... Meanwhile, many 5-1/4 inch disks from old mainframes are still working today.
There is a quite popular iOS lib for layout with the same name [1], where I always thought this, too.

[1] https://github.com/robb/Cartography
ChesSkelet: Micro Chess Game for ZX Spectrum in 365 Bytes
Honestly, this is such an un-sexy answer that it might shock some sense into people that are still on the fence. It might not be too late for you.

Seriously, gang: Rails is productive, fun and lets you focus on making your customers happy instead of optimal package composition.
A loan is nothing like a sale because you still take on all the asset risk. At most, a non recourse loan gives a slight hedge which isn't selling either. (You don't realize capital gains when you take loans or hedge a security)

Some market standoff agreements might prohibit using stock as collateral, but plenty don't. I chatted with an ibank willing to lend me money against locked out shares to buy a home with.
How to make $3000 per day working online with Amazon as an affiliate?
Norwegian is also on the watch list. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/norwegian...
Pix2Story: AI that generates stories about an image in different literary genres
This math feels off. It’s hard to imagine employee #20 making “only $1m” when there are engineers at Lyft getting $1m+ equity packages as offers today. Maybe their initial grant would be worth that much but for sure there would be a large number of subsequent grants since joining at #20.
I don't understand why people think this is useful. ASCII art is probably the most low resolution way of visualizing something that should be as high resolution as possible.
Yeah. The books isn’t about Kelly Johnson but he gets referred back to a lot in cases of “what would he do” or “he told me to go the other way” or “kelly knew better in that instance”. It’s almost like Ben Rich bouncing ideas of Kelly while he isn’t present.
they don't like competition? or that scapegoat have been active for the 20yrs it's been common sense that searching on their site means losing free domains?
The practical value of semantic HTML
Show HN: Guess the Throne – A Free Game of Thrones Death Pool
That sounds like a great plot for an episode of Billions.
I used to think SpringBoot was amazing until I tried Rails. Then I really felt another level of holy shit.

I have lots of love for both. They're different tools. Ultimately I dropped Rails because being without static typing just isn't for me, but certain parts of the experience were positively magical.

I sort of feel the same way about Boot. That auto configuration mechanism is next level. The breadth and depth of what's available in the Spring ecosystem is great too.

They're really kind of optimized for different things though. Like Rails has some gems you just drop in and it blows you away what you get for stunningly little effort. But then it's not that customizable and you find yourself fighting with it. Spring has all kinds of battle tested enterprise grade bits and bobs that take a lot longer to operationalize but they'll last you forever.

I'm currently trying out aspnetboilerplate as a middle ground between the two. Specifically the aspnetzero version. It's like that "holy shit I get all this out of the box?" with Rails but the "I can understand this, work with it, customize it if I need to and it's going to last the distance". Im finding there is a slight learning curve to it and I wouldn't necessarily make all the same choices the framework does, but so far I can see this becoming a happy medium once I've found my groove with it.
That capital paid for all the labor of the engineers and ops folks that built the company and all the promotions to build the buy side and sell side of a two sided market place. It's done more than either of those two have done. It's not even like they brought much creativity and gumption to the table like Kalanick. They just followed the Uber and got lucky when the Uber went through a bad year.
> So, is your advice to people who can manage credit cards to forgo them?

I said "lots of people have been tricked".

The fact it doesn't apply to you, personally is why I didn't say everyone.

Great, you're an exception to the rule. Buy yourself and beer and pat yourself on the back for not being with the majority.

In the mean time, realize you are not normal, and for most people a scheme like "cash back" doesn't actually save them money. - and we know this is true because those people paid for your trip AND they pay for the healthy profit of the CC companies.
Just a reminder: when you buy something from a company that they don't deliver immediately, you're one of its creditors. If they declare bankruptcy, unless you're in the 90-day credit card chargeback window (or have some other protection), you get in line with the other creditors. This goes for gift cards, too.

In general, be careful buying things more than 90 days out because of this, and be careful when you effectively "lend" money to a struggling company.
There's a related phenomenon that I've experienced. Some of my best insights into problems have come to me when I was either very tired, drowsy, or slightly ill - like running a mild temperature. I wonder whether this is because the condition knocks out the foreground process, while not being drastic enough to knock you out fully.
Sure, they're cooperating, for now :)
There's no reason the phone system can't be fixed incrementally. They did it for 911 and location data, they can do it for ANI. After all, it's not like the phones themselves are faulty (well, maybe on the wireless spectrum, but that's a separate issue)

If you want a solution, whitelisting isn't it. You could even create them at the organizational level, like schools and government offices publishing lists of numbers to be whitelisted... But that would just be used by the robocallers, spoofers and scammers.

We as a society benefit hugely from instant communication and trying to remove it today would put too many people at risk.
I know that it's 2008 calling, but seriously: when did Heroku, Github and the bundler/gem ecosystem stop qualifying as accessible? Deploying an MVP Rails app with sophisticated functionality is so effective that it still qualifies as erotic.

For me, the most compelling example of progress coming from the JS camp was my shallow investigation of the Expo platform for React Native. It has some genuinely sexy developer ergonomics features which I'd love to see make their way back into Rails.
You can use timer_create to arrange to deliver a signal after some amount of CPU time elapsed, then terminate the sandbox from the signal handler.
I have 3 kids delivered by c-section. Total paid - €0. Performed by trained professionals in a nice hospital, not by villagers in a shed.
oooo ahhh it's a white card that any first year design student could've produced if you told her to make such a card for apple. how about being weary of giant tech companies owning everything? even if it's one that claims to endorse privacy, for now.
Would you like this if you were an old person (maybe any person)? Faceless machine bugs you at home (were you napping?), rates you and you can't speak to a human about it.

No one would like this. It is an interesting idea.
You rarely need to see anything at full resolution while developing software for robots.

This tool is great because you can see the data without leaving the terminal, speeding up development.
> The corners are all concentric, with equal space between them.

I don't think this is quite what concentric means.
So basically it's about about execution, not timing.
See, to me, this isn't that big of a problem. Corporations have in many ways been granted personhood. Besides, as people are saying, sometimes violating the law is more of an emergent property of the corporation rather than the misdeeds of any individual. So, the solution is simple. If the penalty for a multimillion dollar fraud is going to prison for a few years, send the company to prison for a few years.
How pretentiously stupid. Pardon my French, but there is nothing unique about this card, and neither is there a reason to fawn over credit card design in general.

How ununiquely lame is it to do that. Apple is to the design world what the diamond industry was to humanity, people believe its special not because their is any objective or creative merit to it, but simply because they've been told its special.
Everything in regulated markets is made to get slightly around the regulations. If it wasn’t you either couldn’t make it at all, wouldn’t have an advantage over your competitors, it wouldn’t perform as needed.

Regulations are a double edged sword. Now... a cheap extra sensor and better choices would have saved lives here, but the reason they made the choices they did was because of the regulations placed on them.

To your wording, complying with a regulation doesn’t mean landing dead in the middle of a range, but teetering on the ragged edge if needed.
I wonder when there will be tech like this for epilepsy.
> you also say Cyrillic E should be folded into the Latin one

No, not folded in. I don't know how I would solve the problem of identical glyphs. It's a very hard problem.

> there's something to be said for the filesystem to be a bag of bytes that doesn't care about any of this

Fair enough.
There’s More to It
Great idea!

I'd love to be able to do 'rostopic echo /scan --visualise'
> there is nothing unique about this card

I mean, it's a piece of titanium with no outwards markings except for the Apple logo, cardholder's name, and chip, which is uncommon if not unique. But I wouldn't really write a whole article about it, especially since there's nothing new in it other than what we can see in the introduction video.
Legal? Maybe, I'm not sure.

It will certainly be prohibited by company policy, though. The reason why is because if you default on the loan, the bank could force you to sell your shares prior to the lock-out period ending in order to recoup their losses.
But the uninsured are more likely to be poor (and use the error for basic care because they can't afford it, raising the cost for everyone) or healthy (adding less to the cost more than they share of it). Thise two ideas are the heart and trade-off of the individual mandate: insurers must cover anyone without giant markups and in exchange everyone was forced to buy insurance to help cover those costs.
The shift key placement is the only crib. Everything else is good, no give in the body. Bigger battery than base model, TheUnlocker on YouTube also did a comprehensive battery life test is various modes & turns out the Battery saver one actually performs on par yet delivers 7-8 hours of work.

Even I got it for the CUDA compute.
For a straightforward well constrained app, the complaint against rails is usually performance. But it breaks down as soon as the well constrained app has to be maintained or grown for any amount of time past typical JS dependency hell.

Rails/ruby perf is getting better with some new work in ruby with JIT and memory. It's got its work cut out to match up with Go, Elixir, or Node, but compared to the rest of the options, it also has a huge head start on some other basic things like community and support.
Is this satire or real? I'm halfway into the article and it could still go either way.
On an isolated network, even the compromise of a low level user/service account of a device/VM/container on that network gives you keys to the kingdom. A layered approach slows down or brings the penetration to a halt allowing time for detection and remediation.
China Cord Industry Alliance Testing Working Group Was Formally Established
Just as a note, Indigo Partners is an American private equity firm which has controlling stakes in Frontier Airlines and Chilean low cost carrier JetSmart and stakes in Wizz Air and Volaris, which are major low cost carriers in Eastern Europe and Mexico respectively.

The Indian low cost carrier Indigo is unrelated.
There is something unique about the card, just because you don't like it doesn't make it not unique.
I wonder if there will be an option to get a card with an edge notch like
https://www.rbs.com/rbs/news/2017/04/natwest-launches-credit...