skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What appears to be just a text box and a logo has a lot of details.

And since it appears as a text box and a logo, doesn't it make the point about having a lot of details moot? It's slightly different than google or bing, but vastly similar. Let's not make shit up here.

> (Yet, you run a web-development company...cool story bro!)

Take a breath. Web development isn't the same as web design. It's kinda sad that I have to point it out.

> 1) DDG uses a lot of Gradients, which is what I referred to as complex

Instead of making shit up, you could have just said it's using a lot more gradients.

> This is another factor that makes their design look 'complex'.

To you. I missed the meeting where you were appointed the authority on design. Since you are all pumped up about how you get design, I will be interested to know what have you built.

> It make sense because the signal lights are in Red for the same reason, because they denote something important.

For the nth time, stop making shit up. Red is used because it scatters less(higher wavelength) and can be seen more clearly from a distance.

> You haven't heard of a lot of things, that doesn't mean those things aren't valid.

I checked that before commenting. Your user survey about usability doesn't say google researches whether padding is beneficial for search.

> I for one aren't listening to your advice on design after you described DDG's design as just a text-box and a logo.

So what exactly are you not listening to? That contrast attracts attraction? Wow.

> Did you read the entire entire comment? Read what's written in the braces, I clearly say that's how I perceive about the algorithm as an end-user.

May be I should have been clear. I am saying your perceptions are made-up.

> I've noticed your previous comments as well, you just like to half-ass read stuff and jump in straight away.

What comments would that be? I can't say the same about reading yours. The cover is enough to drive me away from the book.

> Like you half-ass read the other things, you half-ass know about me too.

I don't know about you and I am not commenting about you. I am commenting about the behavior where everyone fancies himself Steve Jobs. That's what you are demonstrating by assuming you know everything about design and other people don't. Since you are so cocksure, I am asking again. Have you ever built something, or do you just comment on internet forums?

> You know what's so ironic here? I am not the one with an 'i' in front of my name.

Please tell me this is a fucking joke. Do I have to discuss my handle now?

> Now..please don't ask me what's ironic here again..

I won't. You clearly don't understand what irony means. BTW, is it too much to ask to actually know what irony means before throwing it around every other sentence?

> References: http://www.google.com/forms/user_faq.html

Google is doing usability study is not the same as google has researched what padding to use.
Amazing what you learn if you read the article.
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While comprehension is, generators are not part of Coffee-script.
You can't compile everything down: most notably, you cannot implement WeakMap without altering the GC.
Great watch.
As a lawyer and a software engineer, and I know enough about both to say your analogy is bunk. A better software analogy is the universe of Windows drivers. Corner cases come up because there are competing goals (performance, stability, development time, power management, compatibility), diverse stakeholders, unlimited hardware weirdness, etc.
"Big data" technologies just help you perform data analysis on larger datasets. It can be anything from calculating some average to building advanced statistical models. If you are claiming it's useless then you're either claiming 1) that larger datasets don't add any value or 2) that data analysis in general is useless. It is not clear to me from the article which one the author claims. Either way, it reads like some unsubstantiated rant about a perceived buzzword.
Solutions to this problem are more common than you've found. Most recently released is Steeltoe [1], and there are previous examples (with varying features) noted in the Steeltoe reddit discussion [2].

[1] https://github.com/jclem/steeltoe

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/13cuxh/steeltoe_...
Also (not sure if covered) but related:

Look at stuff that has been tried and failed in the past, ask why it failed and see if anything has changed in the interim that might effect that.

Example is dropbox, they weren't the first with the idea of "have a space on your computer that is synced with the internet" but AFAIK they were the first to try it at a time when bandwidth for shifting files around was trivial.
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The "classes" are merely a short-hand for creating constructor functions with their prototype property already assigned: they add no new semantic complexity to the language, they are mere syntax.
i'm assuming this guy has done real world work before? the idea of a compiler/language lead programmer effectively having lived in academia is terrifying on many levels.

best of luck to him at any rate. haskell and ghc are a cool language and compiler combo, one i have enjoyed for recreational programming time and time again.
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Try not to buy a pirated image.
"Big Data" has an identity crisis ... everyone you ask has "Big Data" but I've heard it used to describe 200K (yes thousand) rows of data. I've also seen terabytes of data successfully stored in an SQL database. I think "Big Data" needs a divorce.

We've always had data that defied structure, but now (with NoSQL, map-reduce, etc) we have a better idea of how to deal with it. We've still got data processing tasks that can easily be parallelized and others that are inherently linear.

Amazingly, when you actually have "Big Data", you need to analyze how best you could process it and architect your systems and software based on the facets listed above. In a corporate BI environment, you should know what questions you're trying to answer before you start. Unfortunately, in a research environment you don't always know what you're looking for.

We're trying to bring research scientists and computer scientists to optimize how data is analyzed at the Penn State University ... check out @HackingScience on Twitter.
i dunno i've seen type inference create horrible to debug situations - although mainly where it has been shoehorned into to C++11 and used with templates and auto to create code that fails silently doing nothing when a parameter has the wrong type
They're making a big song and dance about being poor, but Universities still have tons of cash sloshing about :)

Fair point though if it's not something explicitly connected with your research - but good thinking about the publicity aspect of it :)

Best of luck with it all - please forgive my non-donation, I'm a student too and, as you know, it's feast or famine and this is the back end of a semester ;)
There is very limited data for non-artificial and non-numeric benchmarks for Lua and Python, so treat it all with a grain of salt.

PyPy mostly cares about large scale programs (thanks to a large quantity of Python libraries it's not that hard), while LuaJIT usually cares for smaller stuff.

Last time I tried to run richards (which is the largest example I found for both Lua and Python), PyPy was able to eventually outperform LuaJIT slightly, given enough iterations, however LuaJIT warmup time was very very impressive and it was much faster at the beginning.

From a very unscientific perspective I would expect LuaJIT to mostly outperform PyPy, especially on stuff where it's feasible to compare, like by implementing small numeric kernels in both Lua and Python, but I haven't measured a whole lot in this area. LuaJIT definitely outperforms PyPy on the computer language shootout benchmarks. I would also expect the field to be more leveled if you implement say a webserver in both, caring about performance, but this is really on the guessing side.
We need better deep-sea scifi, something a bit more plausible than Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones.
Sorry to hear of your GF's loss. If you want to shop from a startup, you could try H. Bloom perhaps? http://www.hbloom.com/

Never used them but the service seems promising based on product pictures. However, they only deliver to a few US states, which may/not correspond to your GF's city.
Dunno, I need a Big Data setup to crunch stats over all the newspaper articles.
2x improvement in my 'rake spec' runtime... not bad!

If you're using rbenv, you can pass CFLAGS to it on the command line, like so: `CFLAGS='-O2' rbenv install ...`
Maybe for high end, non battery powered and non mission critical stuff. Java is completely inappropriate for stuff that has to run predictably and reliably, mostly because of the memory management model.

And it's a resource hog in the domain of sub-MMU chips (like Cortex-M), so it's out of the question for cheap or very low power stuff.

And the embedded focus on hardware interfaces means these program won't be portable, either.

It's bullshit. Clearly, embedded software has to catch on with times, but this is not the way.
I should have been more specific. The generator expressions specified in Harmony [1] are the exact same syntax as in CoffeeScript.

[1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generator_exp...
glad to hear you are happy with axlsx. If you are doing excel, libre office, numbers or even google docs from Ruby, give it a spin.
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To every one here saying that we'll not see these features because we have to support IE and we have to wait till IE 11... well IE10 has automatic updates, and what does this has to do with ES.next?

A lot of features cannot shimmed in old FFs and V8s and JSC too, to those browsers' users we'd say "oh, come on! upgrade!".

We're talking about JS itself. Cannot wait to see the awesome improvements brought by ES6 used in SSJS.

BTW: does anybody know why they didn't put in the specs the Executable Class Body thing? It's the coolest part of Coffee-script, and it's the only real meta-programming style for class (IMHO).
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IMHO, 1DB User > 10FB Users
http://www.reddit.com/r/tldr

I'm not sure there's any advancement here.
Interestingly Master craftsman operate to a detailed contract where the patron specifies virtually everything of interest. It's very far from a results only mindset. All those people we thought of as great artists before Michelangelo were considered craftsman in their day, someone with a skill employed for money, like a baker. As a programmer on a team you are operating on behalf of a patron and it's their rules over an artistic/star/look at me temperament. To argue for a design standard and not a coding standard is like saying an architect shouldn't care how their bricks are made when it's really the quality of the bricks that dictates structure under stress. If you are building something that isn't under stress you don't need an architect, you don't need to worry about structure, you can just let your heart move you. But when you are building something that matters, that someone is paying for, that is subject to extreme stress, then structure dictates both form and function and a key part of structure is code, so that's why you have a standard. Unfortunately with code we are still stuck in a highly empirical age, so the standards are experience based and highly arguable, so there's a lot of room for displeasure. But Gothic cathedrals were built to the sky using lessons learned from experience and that's essentially what we are doing with software systems.
I think he missed the point. It doesn't matter what new cool thing is possible if no one will pay money for it to happen.
Right. That's exactly the point from Jawed Karim's speech.

Except that these are not big waves always. These could be small technology enablers. But the conclusion is the same.
The dearth of empathy built into this "comment" is disquieting.

You make many assumptions here. Can you count them? What if you've got only half of them wrong?

No matter how good we have it, failure will disappoint us. I don't see a problem with that. Even if that failure is good for the universe, it will disappoint us in the moment. I think that's just human nature, no?

I don't understand it when someone tells me, "Don't feel so bad." Fuck you; I feel bad right now. Just because you wouldn't feel the same amount and kind of bad doesn't mean that I have to stop. If you want to judge me, feel free, then fuck off.

Stories like this highlight a particular application of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everyone is crap.
of course they are </sarcasm>
I did a quick read and a search and didnt find any discussion of ribbon fatigue. The issue is that the various stressings on the ribbon thermal, bending, tension, and curving through the 28 km loop over many cycles. In general the mechanical analysis of ribbon strength was unconvincing to me.
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At least they haven't translated the slug into Russian. Every time I get email from them about a comment on my post, it shows up translated into Russian.
>We keep seeing fake jQuery sites popping up and being used to distribute malware.

Anyone has more info? What kind of malware? I'm assuming client side? Any 0-days? Unsurprisingly, both websites are blocked at where I am.
Sorry about that. We are strongly opinionated, since we have been developing with IE support since version 5.5 (that we don't miss much, truth be told).

The course has an entire module dedicated to make things work in IE: http://html5.instructormatters.com/0.3/browsers-and-seo.html...

You are right that IE10 is a standards-compliant, really good browser (not so much IE9). We were rushing to get the contents out and probably should re-check our browser assumptions.

Thanks for the heads-up.
The only person who may feel pain is the person with the greatest problems in the world? Really? By whose measure? Where will we track this? How will we update the leaderboard?

I know: I'll buy theonlypersonintheworldallowedtofeelpaintoday.org and you set up the hosting. Deal?
"The idea of a compiler/language lead programmer effectively having lived in academia is terrifying on many levels."

The apparent cluelessness level of this statement is so high, I am unable to decide if this is just ignorance or very sophisticated trolling.

If the compiler dev working in a university or a research lab while developing the compiler is "terrifying", you should avoid C, C++, and Python, not to mention smalltalk, Pascal, Prolog, Common Lisp, Scheme, SML and OCaml ....

There is always PHP. Turing Completeness FTW.
Care to elaborate a bit on that? Why is Haskell much more interesting?
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A boycott isn't made up out of individuals. Doing this is a waste of your effort unless it's part of a focussed campaign.
The standard for claims is that they must have some basis in law and fact or on some non-trivial argument for changing the law. Most troll claims are well inside that boundary, given duly issued patents and non-spurious allegations of technical infringement.

Just because you think the troll claims are clearly invalid under existing law does not make them so. The law is arguably far too broad, but if there is a duly issued patent, thats all the "basis" in the law that is necessary. If that results in a lot of what you consider trivial cases, the fault is the law.
Complain to the policy or machinery against editorializing titles that makes every submission title converge towards the <title> on the linked page.
Presumably the legal age of responsibility, at which point they become responsible for their own actions.
The relevant issue is sideloading and proprietary compilation. iOS falls down because it is impossible for a user to build an app from source and install an app on a vendor-approved machine.
remember that we are talking windows here. which libraries do you have to patch for firefox (i.e. those they do not ship and which are not in the core win os)?
> i'm assuming this guy has done real world work before?

Yes, very much. He's one of the leading voices in the parallel Haskell world and a very accomplished programmer:

* http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm

* http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async

* http://hackage.haskell.org/package/happy
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Would not a better solution be to ping a resource on the application server rather than an external resource (in this case Google)?

If the resource can't be pinged, it means either the user is offline or the app is down which are essentially the same thing for your app in most cases, while in your implementation, it could just mean Google.com is down (There is very low chance of this happening. Still..)

EDIT: Made the second paragraph clearer.
This may be either disastrous or magnificent. I think it may end up being the latter.
Or like Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I hope this isn't really your view of MSR; if it is, you might consider whether your opinions of Microsoft are coloring your perception. How is all of the academic work done on Haskell, for example, motivated by an impulse to exclude others from the technology? Or consider the MSR contributions to the papers on http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html, many of which are theoretical in nature. Do you view Xerox PARC or Bell Labs's research in the same way?

Disclosure: I'm doing some contract work with the F# team in MSR Cambridge.
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Well, to answer your question, humans will come up with these laws (through legislative action or sth, IANAL). An expert system wouldn't need to record its previous decisions since it can come up with them when needed. In this sense it can be more adaptible than common law courts.
Very enlightening. I always thought that the "financial world" were locked into Fortran/COBOL.
Google's software is almost completely reliant on the Internet to function (except for occasional offline caching), and the exceptions are nearly all legacy apps.
While these features are nice, they doesn't really enable us to do anything we couldn't do already. What I'd like to see are features that would actually make javascript more useful for developing apps, such as an ability to dispatch events while in a loop, or an API for screengrabbing.
It's not conformity or correctness it's maintainability though consistency...

I would much rather work under a standard that was the total opposite of what I am used to, that have none at all...
Unfortunately this kind of retrospective format shifting isn't legal in a bunch of jurisdictions.

In the UK one commits two separate acts of copyright infringement by purchasing a CD, ripping it to their computer, and then copying the files to a portable music player.
We have not published much about what we are doing, so I don't have an available link. I would be happy to discuss it on a one-to-one basis over email, though: itai at our domain.
Better than 2x for me adding '-O3':

time bundle exec parallel_rspec spec/
...
778 examples, 0 failures, 28 pendings

Before - OS X (2.4GHz Core Duo 2):

Took 319.461302 seconds
real	5m26.322s
user	6m16.837s
sys	0m7.062s

After - OS X (2.4GHz Core Duo 2):

Took 123.58472 seconds
real	2m7.208s
user	2m19.427s
sys	0m5.414s

Before - Ubuntu (1.8GHz AMD Phenom quad core)

Took 247.467126561 seconds
real	4m8.867s
user	9m41.552s
sys	0m6.188s

After - Ubuntu (1.8GHz AMD Phenom quad core)

Took 90.244449901 seconds
real	1m32.865s
user	3m41.434s
sys	0m6.136s
Really? That sort of thing actually is part of my research. Could you possibly forward a screenshot of what it looks like? Netstumbler or the OS's wifi control panel. If you could also describe the urban environment (apartments or houses, how many occupants, etc) that would be amazing. Thank you!
Not a rebuttal. A relevant rebuttal would be to cite management and legal behavior with regard to the patents your work generates.
"since many (most?) of the people there are...below their cognitive average"

Do intelligent people not get sick? Do they somehow avoid needing to sit in a waiting room by knowing exactly when to arrive so that they walk straight into their appointment?
I think the particularly interesting thing about this isn't the malware in question, but the vector they're using to distribute it. Almost every HTML page written in the last 5 years has jquery included somewhere, and so they're clearly trying to provide a redirection (or script-injection) vector which would pass a glance over the site code. If you run a website and have a breach it's worth being aware of during the code inspection you'd have to make.
right, so just a whimb thought, perhaps if you could ease the atmosphere of a waiting room to be more relaxing (colors, psych, tones, music, etc.) it could ease people. I think the important part would have to be setting them mentally?

But if the average wait time is say 15-20 minutes (complete guess). And you have a way to incorporate advertising from local business on a monthly basis (with increases during flue season, etc.), via tech, print, or which ever? Work with the business to tailer their offers to be appealing and time relative (case studies for guidance).

This may be a bit archaic, perhaps it may be more beneficial/practical to leverage waiters via social presence and interactions through apps? Which could actually in turn, generate local ad interest on the platform of choice?

Just wondering if there is a way where private practices could justify the investment, or possibly have it add value financially in addition to their customers experiences. What would make them want to do something like this?
What's incompetent about that representation? And also, there's nothing at all unusual about filing continuations. I'm not gonna try to dig into the file history on my phone, but I'd be surprised if there's anything at all remarkable about this case--amendments, continuations, and (presumably) RCEs are absolutely par for the course.
Because a lot of people don't give a bear about Firefox OS.
My response to that kind of comment is "You can pay me now, or pay me later to fix it. Its cheaper now, but you decide."
And head mounted camera, and hands free walking/biking directions and augmented reality.
how is disqus distributed? All the comments go to a central service.
It's tempting to down vote him, but at the same time this is a real sentiment that some people seem to have. Perhaps it should be grouped into the current anti-intellectual trend. Either way, it's a real problem.
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Google would prefer if MS Monocle ran Android. They aren't a charity.
Don't they do this in the UK?
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Correct, delivery is ongoing not just version 1.
I envisioned the music video to Weird Al's "Don't download this song."
Something every startup who want a bunch of users need to focus on right now
There have been more egregious examples of this with regards to piracy of pornography.

A few of the accused tend to stand up (grandparents who don't even own a computer, etc.) but I bet most just pay up to avoid the embarrassment of being dragged through the courts accused of pirating some smut.
It was debunked via Reddit citations before the original article was posted on HN.
no it depends on browser vendors. Transpilers dont make generators or proxies magically works in ES5.