skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that choosing a language shouldn't get in your way and impact performance in the long run. I thought languages could be abstracted enough from implementation so that services like App Engine would let them be performant no matter what language you choose. But I guess this isn't the case.

When you start a new project you'll have to dedicate a good amount of time in choosing the correct language if you care about performance... too bad... hopefully one day we won't have to worry about the language getting in the way of our performance.
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One time, on my (free) browser game, we banned a user for gross misbehaviour. A few mails went back and forth between him and me, ending up with him threatening to "sue us into the ground", and his dad was "a lawyer" so he was sure he'd win. I replied something along the lines of "sure, whatever" and never heard back.
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This strongly supports this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182579

I wonder if another implication of Google actually rendering pages is that SEO is going to have to focus much more heavily on visible page content rather than hidden or quietly shuffled out-of-sight content.
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I don't understand why something either has to be totally perfect information or totally useless.

Yes, Alexa information is pretty bad. Yes, it is easily faked. Yes, it isn't representative. Yes, browser toolbar usage is probably declining.

However, that doesn't mean that Alexa information cannot be used as an indication of big traffic trends considering there is a difference between absolute traffic levels and relative changes in traffic levels.

To give a different example. Let's say that you have a website with decent traffic levels and you collect browser usage statistics (e.g. 50% IE, 40% FF, 10% Chrome). Of course those are not representative for global browser usage. But if Chrome usage doubles for that group, it can be used as an indication for a trend in global browser usage.
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The UK situation with cigarettes might be useful to look at.

Cigarettes are legal to buy for anyone over the age of 18 (was 16 until feb 2011). Average price per pack of 20 is between £5.50 and £7; most of that is (Over 80%) tax.

High local prices, easy access to cheap foreign cigs (France is a couple of hours away and hypermarkets exist to sell alcohol and cigs to English day-trippers) mean that very many (1 in 5) cigarettes (and half of all hand rolling tobacco) smoked in the UK are smuggled or counterfeit.

Worse, there's money to be made for criminal gangs smuggling counterfeit cigs.

Cannabis is easy to grow. I support legalisation. But I am worried by the fact that criminal gangs already grow and distribute cannabis in the UK (sometimes using forced trafficked labour); by the possible harm to mental health; and by the weird culture of binge drinking and underage drinking in UK and how that would transfer to drug use.

UK annual tax income:
(http://www.the-tma.org.uk/tma-publications-research/facts-fi...)

Over 80% VAT and duties:
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/8401996/Budget-201...)

Video report about blatant selling of smuggled cigs:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13101212)

Organised crime in Scotland and their involvement in smuggled tobacco (with 1 in 5 and half of all hand rolling tobacco claim:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12219726)
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I can't find the schematics for it, despite them apparently being CC licensed.
In a way, it does make sense. In web design and developer communities; there's a saying that if you give an inch, they want a mile. They are not good clients to work with.

While it's very appreciated what those guys did, they should've ignored the aggressive support request.

I value such free support and very thankful even if it was a ruthless "Go check maxmemory" response to "How does Redis handle bigger data than memory assigned?". Thank them for the response, even if it wasn't the solution. It's appreciated.
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We just launched Mingle Trips and I am using various ads on Facebook to get initial users to the site.
But my problem is that I do not know how many of them are actually converting - ie. creating a trip on Mingle Trips.
I can create different landing page for each campaign and track that way. But this looks like too clumsy a method.
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I tried Google Analytics and KissMetrics, but doesn't solve my purpose.
Thanks.
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Considering GitHub:FI has been around for a really long time, no.
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The case for dev/CI on PaaS would be when one initially can't decide which toys (components, web stacks, libraries, CI servers, ...) he needs, provided that PaaS vendor has many options to choose from (heroku has). So one can test & trash different solutions quickly - this often happens at the initial stage of a startup. When settled with some infrastructure idea I advice to install production on a dedicated server for the reasons mentioned above: price & stability, keeping in mind that buying & setting up the horizontal scaling is postponed for about a year. At this moment there's choice - conntinue to use PaaSed environments for dev (I can understand the sentiment) or trash them completely and prepare a dev machine as well (better IMO).

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Supposedily during this attach both the majority of phones and also the majority of internet in the whole Palestinian territories was shut down.

It is clear it was done in retaliation for the Palestinian's seeking formal recognition of an independent state at the UN.

The question is, was this done by sophisticated pro-Israel hackers or was this done by the Israeli government itself? One thing is pretty sure, the Israeli government is likely to put very little effort into figuring out who caused it.
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Politicians that "have some balls" stop getting elected to public office. Your comment is simply a less precise restatement of the Median Voter Theorem, which is very well known to political-economists.
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IMNSHO, the adoption of IE9 (on new computers with Win7 preinstalled, perhaps?) might make a significant dent in that projection. I've seen a very similar graph (starring Firefox) a few years back; and then IE came back from the dead with version 8.
Massive red flag that this entire article is bullshit if you ask me.
I was born and raised in Guatemala of U.S. citizen parents and I spend most of my time fighting this broken and violent immigration system through citizenorange.com and presente.org. I'm a lurker here on hacker news mostly because technology news is a welcome respite from this mess.

I just wanted to say that I don't blame folks if they decide the U.S. is not the place to be. God knows I hope to be able to do some of my pro-migrant work from Guatemala someday. At the same time I wanted to tell people that there is a way to fight this messed up system which DREAMers (undocumented youth who only know the U.S. as their home) have paved the way for.

It will be a long time before Congress fixes this mostly because debates over the immigration system have nothing to do with rationality, they have mostly to do with the contentious subject of what it means to be an 'American,' where xenophobic ideas certainly play a large role. In the meantime, though, there are administrative things that can be done through Obama administration if you fight hard enough for them and embarass them enough. I'm certain, for example, that this entrepeneur will be fine after this article for instance (he's also lucky he's dealing with USCIS and not ICE).

I'm just writing this all out in case there are folks out there who are willing to give coming here to the U.S. a shot and taking on fixing this broken immigration system in addition to creating companies. If all the good folks leave, this problem will never get fixed. And if it looks like your against the wall, there's a good network of pro-migrant activists like me that will fight for you to resist and stay.
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Cultural Note: The UK has one cable provider - Virgin Media, which also provides TV. The other major company is Sky, which is a tv company providing broadband Internet. Many UK tv channels are now available as Video on Demand; some of the "catch up" features (eg, BBC iPlayer, 4OD) are free.

This 17 GB average includes TV.

It would have been more interesting to see that number split out into different types of data.
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for small and medium enterprises, this is a great opportunity. But i don't know if this would really increase web presence among small businesses as they are inclined to traditional methods.
I'm from India, and I've tried personally with some small shop owners. But they don't understand the need to go web, especially in Tier II and III cities.
I just tried it live, and I found that when reading a message the ads on the right are really too prominent. Is it just my impression?
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BlogSpot is banned at work, but is this similar to the 'Getting British Business Online' (http://www.gbbo.co.uk/) thing in the UK?

Hmmm, I suppose not, as GBBO seems to be a partnership offer. Still, I think more people should be aware of it :)
They recently launched the same thing for Sweden: http://www.dittforetagonline.se/
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This is a global initiative, gybo.us, gybo.ca, etc. Not much new here, although it is a great program.
Very Cheesy, but i think, 'worst ever' is a bit of a stretch.
The font on the 'compose' and 'send' buttons seem a little blurry to me
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Yeah, and there's always someone in April who's on pace to hit 80 home runs for the season. That said, I think the trend toward Chrome, and webkit browsers in general, is undeniable.
Yes its same.

I wish they had partnered with a better hosting company.
well, there is the implication that we will see HN posts a la "Google deleted my content!"

google says they will only post POST request that are automatically triggered onpageload and will have no other side effects other than (fetching & ) rendering content.

ok, lets say google does 1000 000 000 POST requests and gets it 99.999% right. this means that there will be 1 000 000 occurrences where google actually will trigger some unintended side-effects.

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Which was submitted to HN before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3181766
Google does seem to be trying the "one size fits all" approach. While it may work on a grand scale, trying to standardize the look across their apps, it definitely falls short when you get into the particulars of each platform's individual needs. Beyond that, though, for their "new look" to significantly slow down my browser is unacceptable. New UI should not be so heavy that it materially affects the page's performance.
users feel entitled to support regardless of the price

Pathological customers are disproportionately attracted to low price points. Your post jives with the experience of literally dozens of companies which have told me the same thing: the more you charge, the better your customer pool will be at everything. They'll read better. They'll have a better understanding of, ahem, engineering reality. They'll be more patient. They'll have less viruses and hard disk failures. They'll be better at using the Googles. etc, etc
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According to
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/arm_server_extension...
there's an extension for 32-bit ARM processors that allows them to address 40-bit memory (1TB RAM).
This before 64-bit processors (that should arrive in 2014)
Btw I dont know if this option is available in Calxeda/HP solutions.
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right, i'll upload them this evening -- was in a bit of a rush yesterday :)
Well its changing.

I know a steel trader (40+yrs old) with 2 person staff setup a website 1yr back. These days he is getting queries from pan India & also from big companies. He spend some money on SEO at the beginning. In the past he tried all types of classified but never happened that a company like Godrej reach out for quote.

This is just one example.
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I've seen those, but they all were too inflexible. My stacked view calculates the widths dynamically, so any UIViewController can be added, not only one or two specific sizes.
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It depends somewhat on your perspective. Some people like to lie, and others do not[1].

Personally, I don't mind lying a bit in my personal projects.

To lie, you simply make a new branch for each feature or otherwise related changeset such as a hotfix. Within that branch, you make as many commits as you want, the more the merrier.

When the branch is ready to merge, you use "git merge --squash branchname" which will pull in the changes from branchname in an uncommited form. Then, you can use "git diff" to view the differences and make one single commit with an appropriate commit message detailing each change.

The upside is that it is atomic without needing to use the git-workflow no fast-forward business. The downside is you're lying.

[1] http://paul.stadig.name/2010/12/thou-shalt-not-lie-git-rebas...
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Perhaps covered under Requirements Level(3) "Able to suggest better alternatives and flows to given requirements based on experience"...

But it seems this list misses one of the most important lessons to learn in programming: initially try to solve the problem without programming. That is, design away the problem instead of solving it.
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What accomplishments? Making lots of money?

They haven't introduced anything new, they've taken ideas that have been around forever and made some high-quality versions of them. Big deal. How excited can you get about that?

Meanwhile, Microsoft gives us things like Kinect which I find much, much more compelling than anything Apple's ever come up with.
Hmm, I guess I was the only one who got a Pop-up asking for e-mail with no obvious close button.

This was on regular Firefox with a few plugins.
When I first learned programming YEARS ago starting with Acorn BBC Basic it actually took me quite some time before I learned how to do 'proper' loops (e.g for , while etc).

I was initially far more interested in how I could change the colours of things on screen and get the speaker to make funny noises. Most of what I wrote were text based adventure games so I didn't really need to loop very often.

When I did need to loop I just implemented this using a conditional IF with a GOTO that jumped back to the start of the "block" (I kept paper notes as to which line numbers each subroutine started on) if required or continued to the next line of code.

Later when I started using MS Visual Basic and figured out how to use GOSUB I would do loops essentially with recursion that would call the same subroutine again if required.

It wasn't until I decided to learn C and php that I learnt about real loop structures. At this point I assumed that everything I had done before was stupid and wrong, it was not until I took formal CS classes where I was introduced to recursion and assemly language (JMP and JE) that I realised that pherhaps I hadn't been quite so naieve before.
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This stuff belongs on Reddit, not here...
You might want to try duckduckgo. They have quite an aggressive stance against the sites you are complaining about.
wow, THIS is interesting.. and this is like 750 million people's posts :O
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A big part of it, is everyone is familiar with github.com, it's exactly the same experience with github::fi. Just business as usual in-house. For development teams that are open source based, pretty much everyone knows github, so the 'feel at home' factor is there. VS getting yet another tool in the mix that you have to get people upto speed on.
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I've been on HN too long. I read the title and assumed the article was about someone's revision control habits.