skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also core count is increasing, but raw speed per core really isn't. Multicore really doesn't help web rendering very much. Nearly all javascript out there is single threaded and most dom rendering is too.
When you think about it, a supermarket authenticates your identity to a higher standard when you purchase beer more than many of the companies that you do non-trivial business with. Kind of pathetic.

For a random hacker to compromise your personal security, they need to find the last four digits of a credit card number that is relatively easy to derive. That's scary. Much scarier is that a not-so-random hacker with even a casual personal acquaintance can utterly destroy you.
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Can't sign in without Facebook/Twitter.

Pass.

I wonder what the overlap between Facebook / Twitter / Netflix is and how much of the potential audience for a service like this is being neglected?
I think you must be mistaken. 37° is steeper than any road you've ever driven. It would be very hard to even walk !
..stop buying anything marked made in China.

Good luck with that.
Apple is the market leader. Therefore they're a lightning rod for this sort of criticism. Stated without proof but I'd be surprised if conditions building any other device over there anywhere else are any better...

As others have said, if you truly don't approve of these practices, then stop buying the end products of them...
"most of the pixels are background information."
What does that even mean?
I'd vote for ~/.cache
RIP Sean

I had the joy of talking with him often in EVE / on Jabber and will never forget the fun we had together.
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I've always felt it read better too. I mentally say "increment i" for ++i versus "i increment" for i++.
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You kinda can. Life isn't a comic book, and if you saw Elon Musk when he was 15, he wouldn't have any special aura of destiny glowing around him. I'm not saying that everyone can grow up to be Elon Musk, but he didn't have any sort of special license which allowed him to do it, either. In the end, superheroes are composed of people who try to become superheroes even though the rest of the world spends the first decade thinking they're committing lese majeste because they don't have a superhero license.
No, I based it on a general feeling based on several other stories like the 'This American Life' Foxconn report. I'm also not saying that he is lying, just that he is distorting reality.
Finally, I wasn't trying to write about this author in particular, but more about general journalism.

I may well be wrong there, but I tried to express an opinion based on a theory (explained in the post) that economic pressure can lead to a lower quality of journalistic output. My examples of hyperbole & more were, then, just examples of typical traits of said process. It's well known, that journalistic outlets of less quality (Sun in the UK, Fox News in the US, BILD in Germany, etc) do just what I explained above: They add unnecessary hyperbole, shift facts & more - as long as the story sells. I was just expressing that less money may lead to less quality.
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Rare use case...

I remember CD burning softwares and torrent clients asking for special temp directories to be used for that.

Allowing every day applications to create GBs of tmp files would mean you would need to worry once your partition has less than 100 GB free.

However, nobody stops you from mounting /tmp anywhere else or even disable tmpfs.
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I took the entire week off and have been using the time to work on my game. My fiancée doesn't understand at all :)
Probably the main reason that they have so much traffic going to the mobile website (aside from international audiences with dumbphones) is that the app sucks. My colleagues use the webapp on their androids because they hate the native app.
That's like saying "RAM considered harmful", because every time a developer has to think "do I just store this in memory, or do I sync it to disk" "it forces a complex decision about the storage hierarchy": /tmp is simply RAM that has the API of a file; it used to be implemented using a horrible kludge with files on disk that were periodically deleted, but with tmpfs the dream became a reality.
So anything > 3 requires a bunch of "hard science". That does a great job of highlighting the fact that almost all of the readers of HN will be incapable of producing any of these.

Time for a career change.
I have been riding a board like this in urban traffic for a while, so I am speaking from experience.
Also thank you, I was going to do it with a VPN but it's such a hassle for the Apple TV.
I'm not expecting it to happen, I'm just saying if people are that bothered then it needs to run to more than Apple and Foxconn.
This is beyond scary. As the OP asked, what's the danger of all of this? Can someone shed some light on why this is happening and the repercussions?
No one points to the iOS interface and says "That's fresh! That's exciting! That's evolved!"

That observation works better as a criticism of Metro than a defense of it.

Microsoft was clearly trying to come up with something strikingly fresh, exciting, and evolved when they cooked up Metro. If (as I'm inclined to agree) they didn't need to do that in the first place, then with Metro they didn't just miss the target, which would have been forgivable. They missed a target that they shouldn't have been shooting for in the first place.
How about a credit card anonymization service, such that the bank allows you to generate a virtual 'card number' useful for payments to only one merchant?
Wow, I'm glad this guy is not genuinely associated with Instagram's product!
Well, shoot. Looks illegal in Florida too, from a combination of http://www.flhsmv.gov/fhp/misc/News/ScooterRel.htm and http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ... (definition #27).

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ... section (83) seems to have been added specifically to make Segways legal, so perhaps someone with the resources for lobbying and/or a court battle could make these boards legal.
Actually, if it's tied to an ORM, then you have to make DB calls for each tests, which is to say running the full test suite could take minutes, hours, or even days? If it takes a long time to run your tests, how often will you run them?

I'm not trying to imply that integration tests that hit the DB are always a bad thing, just that slow tests are another reason people don't like or use tests.
This guy knows nothing about embedded and is painting with a wide brush.
there are way more use cases where tmpfs is useful/critical than what you know.
> Unlike animals, Humans create their own resources, they don't just find them in the environment.

No. There are hard limits to resources, but exponential growth curves have no upper bounds.

For example, humans could disassemble all the planets in the Solar system and turn them into space stations, increasing the habitable area by a factor of a trillion trillion. For a population doubling time of 20 years, the new territory will be filled up in a few thousand years. If we convert all the solid matter in the galaxy into space stations, the galaxy will hit the Malthusian limit within a few million years. The only solution to an exponential growth curve is starvation or artificial selection.
I remember myself creating cron jobs to free wasted /tmp space
3 is pretty decent. I can respect somebody trying for 3.
> Nearly all javascript out there is single threaded and most dom rendering is too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_worker
I found this blog post on underwater nuclear weapon test effects:

http://glasstone.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/effects-of-atomic-w...
You are not buying a sticker. You are interested in a product and decide to help them out. In return, as a token of gratitude for your help, you get a sticker. If the sticker would cost as much as the pledge it would be completely pointless.
Or you could download http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox and set the height and width to a percentage. That has always worked for me. You can choose to put pretty much anything in there, not to mention that it is licensed under the MIT License.

Still great work though, you got my vote, hope you sell a bunch of licenses!
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I speak from (literally) painful experience. You do not want to have a board decelerating under you, especially when going down hill. If you do not have a decent foot braking technique, you should not ride longboards downhill. Foot braking is (IMO) the most difficult part of longboarding and very easy to screw up, sometimes it's better to try to stay on the board than even attempt braking.

A very slow brake application might be fine, but there has to be an alarm to the rider before that.

Longboards are very dangerous. Usually it's fear and inadequate kicking technique that keeps you from going too fast. I hope that people riding these boards will learn breaking do not rely solely on the engines.
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Wow - calm down, and read the comment in context. It doesn't add to any flamewar. It modifies of the claim made that "religion is the root of all evil".
If it's an issue for you, you can simply umount the tmpfs and remove the entry for fstab. I think this is a good default - on all mystems these days, it's disk-io that's the killer, not running out of memory.
I'm past the editing time limit, so I'm responding to note that "Wikipedia" should be "Wikileaks". Firefox and my KDE color scheme interact badly, creating black-on-dark-gray input boxes. Custom user style sheets don't help.
Every program has to be examined for this problem anyway, tempfs or otherwise, so I don't get the point.
I also think that it's dangerous to not trust media anymore. I was expressing my fear that that might happen. I don't think the working conditions are outrageous, I also don't think that they're piss-poor though. Relative to the environment (china) they may be not so bad. I was saying that media is trying to market it as outrageous to generate higher sales.

This may be a cultural thing, but while I do believe in free markets and capitalism, I think that there're certain parts of society which need to be handled separately as the optimization for economic success (the cheaper the better) doesn't fare well (imho) with health and media. I like the approach of the UK, where the BBC is state paid but not state controlled. But this is a huge separate discussion and I can understand different viewpoints here and I'm afraid it's often about cultural differences which viewpoint we chose.
You're not Chinese, but the "journalist" as you say is. This wasn't a Western hit piece.
Also, I think you should rework the Yudkowsky Ambition scale a bit:

* 3 and 4 are really on the same level, just interchangeable

* 6 should really be an 8 or a 9, since it enables 7, 8 and perhaps 9

* the whole scale should be expanded so that 2-10 become 11-20, and 1 becomes e.g. a weekend hack that can bring in enough revenue to buy me a new toy every once in a while.
Perhaps my choice of words could have been better... swap out "prototype" (a hyperbolic example) in favour of "iteration" in my second paragraph and see if it makes more sense.

The central point I am trying to make is that it seems wasteful to spend time writing tests for code that may soon be deleted.
You really think those people are representative of all their country? Or rather a tiny extreme minority?

It's more like the bigoted rednecks of the USA vs the bigoted rednecks of the middle-east, taking potshots at each other, making victims of us all.
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Personally I don't think the accuracy or inaccuracy (both are debatable) of the opinion is that interesting, and I've run a Java Users Group for over 12 years. I felt the article is much more interesting as a look inside a hacker's head as to what non-technical factors influence his/her opinions (and ultimately decisions) about a technology. I wrote a blog post breaking down his reasoning for the 'stink' and how those are/aren't applicable to today's software landscape. http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/09/11/howhackerschoosetools/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510455 to discuss on HN
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Looks very useful!

(Minor quirk: whenever I get to the bottom of the page, it automatically scrolls up again about ten lines after a second. Happens in both Safari and Chrome, running on OS X)
It's beautiful, gorgeous, clean, and elegant. And the little subtle lightened inner outlines on all the images just make them pop out from the black background without being visually intrusive. Very nice. I'm dying to use it on a project.

?) Does it support ajax and iframes?

!) "the next/prev arrows move underneath my cursor based on the size of the image." - You can use the 3rd example on the top row and keep the next/prev arrows outside the image, thus solving the problem.

!) "No arrow key support and er, why would I pay for a lightbox?" - If the author doesn't add it you can use this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2259690/how-to-get-the-ar... It's really easy to implement. Also, you should pay because it's a beautiful and elegant solution. Men and Apple fans agree, beautiful things come at a high price, and people do pay it. The price is a tad bit too high though.

The images used in the demo are beautiful but... man, Instagram filters have really taken their toll on video and images. The problem with style is that it eventually gets old.
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My experience with DC motors was that they got hottest when starting and stopping, that was the result of a high current demand for torque and relatively low operating speed with meant minimal airflow. If you're going up a hill you're easily burning 1 - 1.5 HP or a .75 - 1kW of power. They look very cool, can't wait to see one 'in the flesh' as it were.
Yes.

See: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/19914
Taking the rest of the week off, going on holiday to the Netherlands and working on some long-standing items on my programming to do list.
Every program has had to be designed with this in mind for decades or be broken on any number of systems. This may be new behaviour for Fedora, but it's not a new thing on Linux, or for Unix-like systems in general.

It's not just systems that delete on reboot, but also systems set up with cron-jobs to regularly wipe /tmp, or sysadmins that will (rightfully) see /tmp as something that can be wiped at pretty much time.
He's not really proposing Instagram to go in this direction at all. He's just using their UI as an example of how one could do commerce for mobile devices.

But using Instagram as an example is a bit too far fetched. Instagram didn't grow because of their browsing UI, but because of their publishing UI and its end result.
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They don't even need a robot. Silk screening or stamping must be a better alternative than a pen. Or at least use a jig.
It is not another question, and if it is, the same overwhelming evidence points to his guilt. Lance's entire myth is deeply tied to his appearance of being a clean athlete who is a victim of a vast and elaborate scheme to discredit him.

The exact opposite is true and no matter of denials and double speak will change this.

Lance fooled me. I'm a cancer survivor and an avid cyclist who was an original member of the Peloton Project before it was Livestrong. I have traveled to France and Austin multiple times to meet Lance and was completely taken by his story.

His continued denials and the complicit noise makers sicken me.
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PG writes of the Maker Schedule: "I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about 3 am every day, because at night no one could interrupt me. Then I'd sleep till about 11 am, and come in and work until dinner on what I called "business stuff." I never thought of it in these terms, but in effect I had two workdays each day, one on the manager's schedule and one on the maker's."

Does kinda imply he may very well be awake at 3AM. That said, he's also wrapping things up then and unlikely to take on a public Q&A requiring nontrivial attention.
I agree, we used Guadalinex, but it was an old version, and it was crappy... buggy, didn't work correctly: the settings keep reseting.

Even for worse... no one in the school had the Root password... oh, the horror.
We wanted the emphasis to be on "Add Project" - Go ahead and add a project and you get redirected to http://www.housefix.com/register?inputWish=Bathroom+Fixtures which has very very obvious call to actions.

Thoughts?
Or, we can just keep this weekend hack as -9.
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For reference for the negative score ~ " . " is a common mark of respect, denoting a loss. I see it was removed / formatted out. (Original comment started with " . " one line).

Are we to Ignore the fact that it's commonly known that the higher levels of playing EvE are notorious for ruthless / sociopathic behaviours, and that praising his on-line skills <i>might</i> have irony to it?

I'm not sure being remembered as "that total bastard from GoonSquad" is expressing <i>quite</i> what you all intend.

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Some affiliate marketing, some facebook shares from registered users, some banner advertising, and some local advertising. Really a hodge podge but with the old design the returns were not what we expected, hence the re-design.
Agreed.

API testing has that wonderful property, its appearance is the whole deal, if it looks right then its working.

Anything but app code isn't so easily tested. When frameworks are written to support testing, they often are sub-useful - crippled versions of real programming languages etc.

Anecdote: I recall a QA guy asking me how to test our OS's file system. I said, make every filespec-based call with a good spec, a non-existant spec, an illegal spec, a null spec; log every result. After each release, diff the logs and explain every deviation.

He said "That's too hard, I'll just shotgun it." and left. Why ? Because his test-scripting framework wouldn't allow anything as sophisticated as lambdas etc.

So I spent half an hour writing a table and a loop, and sent it to him. He used it for the next 5 years to test every release.

My moral: do an exhaustive test when possible. The computer is fast, it doesn't feel any pain, and you will find more fencepost and boundary issues than you ever thought existed.
Boycotting Chinese produced goods in an effort to make Chinese workers better off seems a little misguided. The workers at Foxconn evidently find that job better than the next best job, or having no job at all.

There's no doubt that working conditions in China can and should improve, and there's nothing wrong with trying to accelerate the process. But taking money out of the country probably isn't the answer. They are transitioning from a developing country to a developed one, and it is a process that will take time. Coercing the entire country (with boycotts) into improving conditions seems unlikely, and just focusing on one factory will only hurt the workers at that one factory.
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In drought-prone areas, probably ok -- the range between normal and drought ("don't water lawns", cutting some industrial/commercial/ag use, etc.) is more than 3x.
I can see its a life-changer. Among the skateboarding crowd. I just think its a smaller demographic than they'd hoped.
Network admins are network admins. And IT people with Linux experience doesn't have to be expensier than Windows IT people. IT people here study both, salaries are shitty everywhere.

My high school (2005 IIRC) had guadalinex [1] on all computers, with a 2:1 student to computer ratio and no in house IT. Students basically use Firefox, OpenOffice and some other apps for math and psychics, there's not a lot that can go wrong and nothing is so important that you need a person always on site.

[1] http://www.guadalinex.org/
Even if this is true, the page is dead so there's nothing to see here.
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A minor point: the character name is not included, the account ID is. I don't think the account ID is that helpful for any prospective hacker, but this method might allow you to compare two screenshots and confirm that they were taken by the same person.
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1.
Unit Testing is useful ONLY for complex API method/function, which should not change too often and too frequently;

2.
Ideally, you should only test API not API's implementation but most of the mock framework will tie your test code directly against your API implementation. Once your API implementation changed, your test code fails, you have to rewrite test code, which is waste of time.

Someone may argue that it because you write bad test code;
Talking is easier than doing;

So, usually, I prefer to doing the functional integration test than the unit test, which is productive for me. (I know people will throw out thousands of reasons about the benefit of unit test and "correct" way of writing unit test.)

Anyway, I will avoid unit test as possible as I can and ONLY do my designed integration test, which works for me.

3.
And writing unit test for code coverage is stupid;
Some manager even brag about the unit test coverage, which is totally a false confidence about the quality of the code underline; This is even stupid;

4.
Writing unit test for those requirement-always-change area is waste of time;

5.
TDD is a BIGGEST JOKE, which weights too much on writing auto testable code over writing working functional productive code;
I agree that that stinks, but international payments are really hard to get right.
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Have you read Permutation City? The computation market in that book was very interesting, and a lot more flexible among cloud providers than what we have so far.
Several (many?) banks do this. I've used citibank's 'virtual account numbers' in the past when dealing with merchants I did not trust.
+1 on recommending Buddhism the philosophy, as distinct from Buddhism the religion. The philosophy teaches that everything changes, and all you have is now, so keep your mind on the now and the later will take care of itself.

Mindfulness meditation is extremely useful in tamping down panic attacks or dealing with chronic physical pain.
That's really not a rebuttal. Yes, lots of browsers now support web workers. Yes, it is therefore possible to write multithreaded javascript. And that may become more common over time. But for now, the fact that it's possible does not change the fact that nearly all javascript is still single threaded.
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The point is that just on salary, it's not bad at all, for where the factory is.

But they work a lot more hours.
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The article mentions it takes 48 people to make oil markings on back plate. That means 19200$/month for wages. I could make a robot that's 10x more productive for half the price.
"violate the laws of physics"

I suspect the convincing ones violate conventional wisdom, best practices, and to a certain degree, common sense.