skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of a tangent here but I've been trying to decide if our organization needs to move away from using Drupal for custom application development. You see to have some experience, what are your thoughts on it for highly customized web applications?
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... and all the rails code of the world is better? How has the rails community gotten this "my shit don't smell" attitude? Like I said, the barrier to entry for ails is even lower, it stands to reason that there would be even more horrifying Rails code out there. Every language and framework is going to have horrifying code, I don't understand how you can ignore the Rails communities code while singling out PHPs
Yes. That's exactly what unzipping (or, well, unrarring) does.
I'm not actually sure whether the recommended ergonomics matter a whole lot but it seems that your keyboard and screen heights while standing are not as they should be. According to most people, a standing desk setup should look something like this: https://img.skitch.com/20120619-qqtq8nf6agxxk29cg9bsih8biq.p...

I'd recommend, in this case, just making sure your laptop is at the right height, and getting a separate keyboard and mouse for lower down. Again, I'm not sure whether this actually makes a big difference, and if you're liking what you're doing now and it's not hurting I can't imagine it's terrible, but just some advice.
This article has unresizable font as the main font. How am I even supposed to read that?
Scala upgrade improves tooling, sheds runtime overhead
I really enjoy when arrogant geeks tries to bash language X. They will never learn their language is just a tool and as long as you follow best practices it doesn't matter what language you are using.

And i really don't understand why particularly rails developers looks down to newcomers. If you want to help your community just write tutorials, share your experiences from real life, help to newbies and make other's life easier. If you want to entertain other peopler, well , just write crappy blog posts with such title like " Will X be new Y ? "[1]

[1] : But please read first the article about "Betteridge's Law of Headlines" on Wikipedia.
Why? How? They have a single page with all the winners ever, and for each C file they also have a hint.text/hint.markdown/hint.html file. They also have a Twitter feed.

What's so bad about that?
For everybody else - marketing, sales, customers, end users - this is completely irrelevant

I get satisfaction out of making code better too. But your observation is important. Customers, who are ultimately paying your salary, don't care about what language you use, what design patterns, what version control system, whether you used a key/value data store or an rdbms, or whether the implementation is object-oriented, functional, or spaghetti, or any of the other things geeks like to masturbate over.

Customers care about: does the software solve my problems, and is it (reasonably) easy to use. If you lose sight of that, all your technical improvement work will come to naught.
Having to hint hardware acceleration is bad. The browser shouldn't need to be told. :/
The only time I perform maintenance is when I'm adding a new feature. Before I add any new code I'll inspect the code that will be touched by the new code. If it's hard to understand or the abstractions are a bit wonky for what I want to add then I'll spend some time refactoring it. In this way your maintenance work is always done while delivering observable value to the business. You don't need to provide any justification for it. If it means you're going to take a bit longer to deliver a feature than expected you can just tell your boss that the code wasn't in the state that you expected when you gave an estimate. If you wrote the code in the first place it's fine as well. You can just say that the priority at the time was to get the feature out fast so there wasn't time to shine it up.
It's out of the way - at best there's an extra notification, or it's one card in Google Now - when/if you go there.

Extra information when presented unobtrusively is not annoying.

a. Do you know how long it's going to take today? If there're any specific traffic issues that are causing delays on your usual route?

b. What if you have an appointment today to a different place than work - wouldn't you like to know the route there?

c. If you take transit, wouldn't you like to see bus routes when you reach the bus stop, instead of manually searching for it?

Think of it as your Personal Assistant... Not sure why you wouldn't want one that's always with you and can be flicked away if it's not what you want [permanently or only this time].
To be honest... relatively high HDD prices combined with very low SSD prices make for a really interesting and progressive storage market! I'm glad to see the $/GB gap close significantly. One could make a very convincing case to buy at least a 128GB SSD with any desktop build.
I'm glad you're so skeptical but honestly no, I do not have citations, nor do I have the time to find the original source s that provided that information to me many years ago.
The military is a solution in search of problem? Seriously?

Not 100%, but to an extent it is. The US has this giant military that's way bigger than needed just for self-defense. It's going to want to do things, whether those things need doing or not, to justify its existence.
From what I have seen hard drives are pretty much back to pre flood prices now in $/GB terms, there has just been 18 months of price progress gone.

Meanwhile SSDs have done a hell of a lot of catching up.
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Do some people who do some stuff do stuff better than other people who do stuff worse?

Yes.
Can someone please explain what tradeoff is being made when Apple decides to hardware accelerate something in their browser? Is it that hardware accelerated elements are more fluid/responsive but require more battery consumption to perform?

I'm used to the PC world where battery/heat are hardly a problem and software rendering is usually a bad thing when hardware rendering is available.
I couldn't read due to the much caps locks. After reading the comments, I thought I might add a few things.

As others have pointed out, outdoors you would use mostly GPS, and maybe a camera pointing to the ground to estimate the position. Accelerometer are more or less worthless when you want to estimate a translational position of a free flying rigid body. However, orientation can bes estimated very well with the sensors you find in a smartphone. At least outdoors.

The acceleration gives you the orientation of the earth gravity vector, assuming that translational acceleration can be neglected. This information corresponds to pitch and roll in an airplane.
The iPad, and most smartphones, also have a magnetometer (digital compass) which gives you the direction of the earth magnetic field and which works reasonably well outdoors. You can combine these two 3D vectors with an iterative algorithm, e.g. QUEST [3] or Madgwicks AHRS [4] to obtain an estimation of your orientation in quaternions.
No gyroscope required so far. Usually, the gyroscope is only used to give a more accurate angular velocity and acceleration signal, speed up the orientation estimation and serve as a short term replacement in case of a larger disturbance in acceleration or the magnetic field. A Kalman filter is the most common way to do this.

If you want to play around with these values on your phone I recommend the Sensor Kinetics [5] app for Android, or if you have an iOS device, I believe XSens has an app, too. There is usually need to implement the above method yourself. Most IMU's you can buy of the shelf provide these higher level estimations already.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMS_gyroscope#MEMS_gyroscope
[2] http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
[3] e.g.
EXTENDED QUEST ATTITUDE DETERMINATION FILTERING
Mark L. Psiaki 1999
http://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s...
[4] Includes working (tested it myself) Matlab, C and C# code
http://www.x-io.co.uk/node/8
[5] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innoventio...
Define neighborhoods ie proximity on a time scale (age) instead of a geographic scale (backyards) and it seems like the exact same problem : a case where the voting density (voting power) function does not match the impacts function (who pays for what), with the cause of the externality being a proximity preference.
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How do you go about finding candidates for a positions in your company? I'm mostly thinking on the technical side. So let's say you needed a Drupal themer/or seasoned developer? How would you go about finding them,keeping in mind that your particular area is tough to hire in due to competitiveness.
No, I agree - you're right. My screen is lower than it ought to be. It's a trade-off I make for working on the laptop.

I do make an effort to lower my eyes, not my neck.
agreed. in the release note it says "Authors should stop using this option as a way to get hardware acceleration"... this sounds like there is an other option to do it, does anyone know?
Nickel-Iron batteries have a life measured in decades and are very robust against deep discharge. They can also be refurbished. Their formulation has been around since Edison. In fact, I think he invented them. Their big disadvantage: they're heavy. Perfect for home use.

EDIT: Edison did not invent NiFe batteries, but he developed and championed them.
I wrote this cause I had some time and figured I could have used something like this when I started out. I hope it's helpful.
Spotlight is an excellent search product in my view.
Not all sites/apps need hardware acceleration and those who do consume a lot more battery. So there is kind of a reason for this - however the way apple implemented this is not from the best quality I think.

The bottom line is, that Apple forces developers to take care of this instead of having everything automatically hardware accalerated and therefore shortening the battery life of iOS devices(by a lot I'm guessing).
Italian here (living in Paris BTW): I don't think you've offended anybody, it's just that the name sounds really bad in Italian.

Naming products for an international market is quite difficult: in the 90s Sega tried to sell their game consoles into the Italian market and failed miserably because (my interpretation) nobody wanted to publicize that he bought a product whose name means "masturbation". The Nissan Pajero is another example, they had to rename it Montero in some Spanish-speaking countries.
>"So why don't you go check out the research referenced at"

I read plenty of economic research, thank you. Every day. So, while I appreciate a link to a what is essentially the site of a pundit (whom I have read, by the way), this is not the bleeding edge of economics. When is the last time this guy actually wrote a paper?

>"As for the Fed, Volcker's Fed yes, Greenspan and Bernanke's Fed no."

Right. So, Volcker, dealing with intense inflationary pressure in the 1980s, and Bernanke, dealing with massive deflationary pressures in 2008, should use the same policy tools? I'm sorry, but you clearly need to brush up on the basics before you go attacking someone for their lack of economic knowledge. This is pointless.
>and therefore shortening the battery life of iOS devices

Does rendering a few more polygons actually kill battery life that badly? I believe much of the OS is already hardware accelerated anyway.
Export and import AWS SimpleDB data.
I'm honestly getting tired of this debate. I haven't mentioned anything until now, but the new maps is incredible. I saw FIRST hand how it worked. I can't speak for someone living in the boonies but, I ordered my iphone 5 online, and had to pick it up an hour away in Miami beach.

My iphone 4 had google maps on it as I drove to Miami beach, I actually missed my turn twice and I am not a bad driver, it's just that you need to merge very quickly in one particular spot twice (basically stay left or stay right). Google maps wasn't keeping up and even after using maps for a year or more or three, it still happened. It just was unfamiliar and the app didn't provide any additional help other than trying to flip through the directions very fast while driving which isn't safe as it is.

I finally got there, got my iphone 5 and was BLOWN AWAY at the maps app. At first I was annoyed coming out of the parking garage because I thought "you cant skip forward ahead in the directions??". It must be what everyone is annoyed at. Suddenly, I pulled out of the garage and magically it has 3d view, which rotates as you drive, and talks to you. It was an INCREDIBLE comparison because not 45 mins before I was missing turns, and on my way out of miami i could see every turn PERFECTLY, and not only that I didnt have to hold my phone not keeping my eyes on the road.

I understand the data/search is what most people are referring to but the point above is massive. It blows google maps away x10000. I played with the GPS the entire way home, especially the part where you go around the cloverleaf loops on the highway merge junctions, and watching the maps follow around with it.

As far as search, I have tried searching 'sushi' while somewhat zoomed in. whereas google would search a given radius if it had low results, apple maps stays with the low results unless you manually zoom out.

I have also seen it be somewhat picky if you don't specify a road correctly (in the jungle where my parents live it didn't recognize "CR" as county road, so I typed that manually). These problems are hardly more than just an annoyance, and the benefits far outweigh the gains imo
I have no idea how complicated this is, but with 76 million in funding, what are the chances they found a way to process credit cards them selves?
Cool. Needs full screen, a timer and a leader board.
I use Sendgrid API for transactional emails and Mailchip Api for newsletters. If you mean to send transactional API, I would suggest Sendgrid. It offers easy to implement APIs and gives you an option to categorize your transactional emails which can help you a lot in analytics.
Yes, battery is consumed faster when using the GPU - I cannot tell you by how much, but obviously it is enough on iOS devices for Apple to change its feature sets there.
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No, it's not ridiculous.
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But its not like any other subscription sites I'm aware of. The huge differences is that you have to visit the site each month or you'll be billed and receive NO product.

I was prepared to disagree with OP but the model does seem a little customer-hostile.
If you want to compare rails to something compare it to Yii.

If you want to compare something to PHP compare it to Ruby.

Comparing Rails and PHP is just plain dumb.
It does mention on their site that if you get charged the 39.95, you will get a member credit, which you can redeem for one style later on. So at least they are not just stealing.

Was your girlfriend able to redeem her credits?
As an aside, one of the investors is listed as mpizldqpida - what kind of name is that?
Clickable link to the new site: https://familyleaf.com/

I'm not sure what the old site looked like, but the new one looks wonderful. I especially like the attention to detail on the sign-up vs sign-in tab.

However, seems like this is a landing page redesign. If you hit the login url directly (https://familyleaf.com/login) an entirely different site shows up, and the screenshot is also of this different style.

Does it make sense to have a completely separate design between the landing page and app itself? If not, are you planning on unifying the two eventually using the materials you have, or will you reach out to the designers again?

Great job on the redesign, looks like some wonderful results.
This reminds me, more than anything else, of "co-registration" scams where buying a legitimate product on e.g. Digital River would get your CC details sent over to a seedy e.g. "buy our coupon book emails for $9 a month recurring. DigitalRiver went through with it because they offered DR a ~$30 CPA where DRs per-transaction cut was generally below $2. A few other publicly traded companies whose product teams must have at least a room temperature IQ started doing it, wsaying it was aboveboard and value-adding with a straight face, until the FTC said WTF.

This just makes the coregistration first party.
Zero.

The credit card processing chain is quite complicated, with banks, card companies, ISPSs, processors and merchants all having fairly clearly delineated roles. A merchant - no matter how big - implementing the whole chain is unheard of.

Visa, MC and other cc companies care a lot more about their reputation than they'll even care about a company like this.

Much larger fish have been put on the bbq over less substantiated claims of fraud.
Ooh, do you know about Beeminder? Cold turkey is probably fine for sugar but if you want to gradually wean yourself, or if you want to build in some flexibility like averaging at most 2 days of the week where you eat sugar (without pre-specifying which days those would be) then Beeminder's more quantitative approach should work better. Good luck either way!

Danny (of Beeminder)
GPU usage does cost battery life, I cannot say how much - but on the other hand I cannot think of any other reason why they wouldn't use hardware acceleration on websites automatically (or allway)
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Your preferred credit card issuer already knows this - if you have a propensity to eat out during the week. It can look at where you are eating most of the days during the week, aggregated over time, to guess which part of town do you work, vs your home (it knows your home address). It can also look at your spend at gas stations over time to see if you own an SUV vs a Car, or whether its a fuel efficient vehicle or not.

Aggregated data from a number of different sources can give a near-complete picture on a customer.
My girlfriend had almost the exact same experience, such a scam. I was outraged when I looked through the site a year ago. In her opinion the shoes she did get we'rent even good quality, she gave them away. And when she called about the $40 charge that she knew nothing about, they told her she didn't want to cancel. When she asked why not, she was told they'd be getting some really cute shoes in next month and wouldn't want to miss out. Even after getting out of it, she was still called 3 times in future months to ask why she was unhappy with her purchase/and the membership she never knowingly signed up for. Can't stand JustFab or companies like it.
> the merchant will drop you completely

You mean processor/bank/merchant account, not merchant. In the parlance of the payment industry justfab is the merchant in this story.

And yes, there are scammers that have processors / banks lined up but they burn through them at a rate of about 1 every 8 weeks or so, and each time that happens they forfeit a large amount of cash. There are not that many merchants willing to play the game that way.

50 chargebacks or 0.5%, whatever gets hit first and you're in trouble. Reputation damage to the CC companies and you're out for good. Merchant account hopping is not a long term viable strategy.
>So this seems like a great strategy to improve market discovery for Amazon.

I am guessing if walmart does something similar, it is not brilliant, but in fact evil. I don't understand the enthusiasm for things like this if it is a brand that we like.

Remember walmart tried to open its own bank, guess what happened?
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I'm mainly wondering why developers need to hint hardware acceleration. Surely Safari can figure out when it is needed.
Usage of server-side programming languages for websites (30 September 2012):

PHP 78.1%
ASP.NET 21.0%
Java 4.0%
ColdFusion 1.1%
Perl 0.9%
Ruby 0.5%
Python 0.2%

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...
That's nonsense. The only time a chargeback makes sense is after the payment has already gone through.
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> "I'm worried about the portion of Rails developers who sucked at their previous language. Or the ones who got started with Rails as their first "language" without finding the proper (or current) resources or guidance"

No, he really isn't. He is totally bashing green programmers.
Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York?
I'll soon be in New York for a few weeks. Can you recommend me a few cafés (or similar) in both Manhattan and Brooklyn?
However the entire right side of the screen is about the VIP program.

What exactly could people instead be lured into thinking they're doing here?
waste all that energy to move trillions of tons soil into space.

Nobody plans on doing that. There are already trillions of tons of material _in_ space - it merely needs to be moved to where you want the habitat to be.
I've seen this playing out for at least five years.

For a long time rails has attracted developers who are strong in design but weak in programming.
eh, I've only lightly dabbled in Rails and Django, nothing serious, where as for work I use a lot of Drupal, so I don't have the most balanced or informed view.

Drupal is kind of a framework and a CMS in one, it's somewhat unique. It also seems that in PHP land a lot of the frameworks are converging on a standard, it seems like Symphony 2 will be used as a base for other projects (like Drupal 8). The point is, Druapl gives you a lot more out of the gate than any other framework in PHP or any other language.

The "con" would be that you have to work in PHP and work with their relatively straightforward imperative API instead of cooler OO APIs with ORM (Though Drupal 7's revamped DB API offers some new interesting options). If those barely register as cons with you then the only reason to change and abandon already built infrastructure would be something those languages have PHP/Druapl doesn't like some binding for some cool feature.

Ah, one other con for Drupal, it does have a lot of over head and can at times be slow. But then again, easily if not more so can Rails have overhead and be slow. They like to brag about their > 1000 lines of pluralization code, others cringe. Smaller frameworks might be faster. Django possibly, but I really have no idea.

So it comes down to what you are doing and the requirements. I want to learn them all so I can better evaluate them all and in the future more knowledgeably pick the best tool for each new job
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If they disabled the hardware acceleration because the GPU requires more battery I wonder if they have factored in that the rendering needs more time to complete => users will have to stay on the website longer => they have to keep their screen turned on longer which costs also a lot of power...
Yeah, one of those investor entries is bizarre... Basically, a random set of characters:

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Blog	pcjyyvafopee.com
Twitter	@mpizldqpida
Phone	91857712122
Email	juxukt@yhjfkm.com
Employees
Founded	8/95
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I really don't understand how companies are able to do this, based on how stringent credit card processors are when it comes to chargebacks. With this type of misleading selling tactics i would expect JustFab to have chargebacks well above acceptable standarts of CC processors.
I've used Rails and I've used Drupal for custom applications (not just out-of-the-box cms sites). It would be a cold day in hell, where I picked Drupal over Rails.
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What's wrong with sarcasm/satire as a means for making an excellent point?