skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A site for modern Ireland that is not.

[edit] I just find it odd that MS puts so much stuff on Irish domains, just because of the abbreviation. Surely they don't think they could possibly own this tld.
The scan results are grouped into IE compatibility problems, potential cross-browser issues and the last option you mention. I'm not sure the former two categories qualify as marketing.
Keep in mind that the idea of man-made objects in the sky dates back thousands of years in myths and religious stories.

And he might very well have at least passing knowledge of the ideas from contemporary descriptions inspired by the writings of Tsiolkovsky on exploration of space starting from 1903 or so onwards, or any number of other sources.
You mean normally?
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I think your edits were both good. Were they changed by HN editors?
He sounded like a politician, trying to delay answering a direct question for as long as possible.
Why bother even linking to the homepage, why not just link to Google? Why even discuss at all? Everything can be proved with Google...

As for my question about which aspects they even measured: interesting would be of course YOUR aspects, which led you to your conclusion. Otherwise, the same holds: perhaps I believe you that method X is very successful, but really you only said "chaining people to beds is very successful in preventing suicides".
You really, really need to start listening to the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, talk.

Sorry if this sounds like a cheap political shot, as I'm normally a Labor party supporter, but she honestly is like an overprogrammed, overcoached politician.
Whatever you do, don't listen to it then...
> the type of cookies

The ones with text inside them, or the other ones with text inside them? I don't understand how you decide between good and evil cookies.

> The ICO considers that due to having had explicit consent on their site for a number of months, and due to the information generally available on their site, it was ok to switch to an implied consent approach

Why is there a temporal component ( a couple of months ), surely new visitors come all the time? Why is the content relevant? According to their stats, 10% of the users explicitly consented. Switching to implied consent on that basis makes no sense.

> it is not guaranteed that an implied consent will be appropriate

I'm pretty sure it's not OK to say 'You might be breaking the law, but we'll let you know once we decide to prosecute'. 'Very little information' is a terrible metric; there's an implication that quality is also necessary. If I populate my user-tracking page with mathematical proofs, I've encoded information on that page - potentially a lot. It doesn't mean anything.

> I appreciate that this creates ambiguity

I appreciate that you didn't create this law (I hope). Ambiguity is bad. And expensive. All this backtracking they've been doing, it wastes my time, it wastes some civil servant's time, and it accomplishes nothing. It seems like these policies should be like trademarks; subject to dilution if they aren't suitably enforced. If Disney decided to give everyone two years to use their logo free and clear, or they only prevented 'content-free' uses, they would lose that mark.
TFA is a big simplistic but, indeed, cache does rule everything.

When you need really fast algorithms and very low latencies, you have to get your hands dirty.

If you're interested in much more advanced writings on the subject I'd suggest googling for "How to do 100K+ TPS at less than 1ms latency".

It is explaining how the LMAX's disruptor pattern is now able to process 12 million events per second on a single core in... Java!

It explains, amongst other, the size and speed of the various caches and how to minimize cache misses.
The IEEE journal website likes to display PDFs in an iframe. I'm not sure why.
Coinbase has an easy option to convert those Bitcoins into USD on a regular bank account.
This might be interesting for people not planning on keeping BTC around but who like the "close to instant" nature of it.
> Step 1 – Log-in with Facebook to activate your 3 month testing service.

Thanks. No.
I would love to see a 3rd-party candidate as president before 2025.
Lisp reader alone is Turing-complete.
Evolve for Mercurial (starting to show up in core mercurial) is trying to cleanly solve this.

It provides (safe) mutable history for local changes (the VCS tracks what is safe and what isn't), and a way to still be able to collaborate on changes without "surprising" the people who pull from you.

E.g.: http://draketo.de/light/english/mercurial/hg-evolve-2013-01-...
Muppets like this guy don't do their cause any good at all. I don't understand why BB don't talk up their new OS (QNX). From the little I know about it it seems fairly cool ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

Its a microkernal based RTOS.
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It'd be good to see it on the Big Mac index

(http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/07/daily-c...)
Unfortunately, as it is practiced, this IS what CBT ends up being a good deal of the time. CBT has an implicit, and sometimes explicit, mechanistic view of human nature. This can come off as extremely judgmental to vulnerable and intelligent clients. Other approaches, like Motivational Interviewing, adopt a neutral stance that offers the potential for clients to actually explore their feelings instead of just getting rid of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_interviewing

Edit: re-reading my comment, I think I am coming off too hard on CBT. There are real reasons why clients can come out of CBT thinking the therapist is trying to find what is twisted with them or having them fill out pointless booklets - this does not completely undercut what CBT is about. There is good working going on to combine CBT with Motivational Interviewing to improve treatment of depression and suicidality.

http://www.selfdeterminationtheory.org/SDT/documents/2011_Br...
> SoundCloud, for example, would just silently fail, and I would have to manually disable the feature to get it to play

SoundCloud have actually since added a detector, and will warn you saying "It looks like you have a Flash blocker browser setting or extension. Please enable Flash to hear sound." Also, whereas before the Flash element was invisible, now there's a target to click on if you do have Flash content blocked. Very well done actually.
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AMD has CodeAnalyst software which helps you analyze many aspects of your software performance, including cache behavior.

http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-c...

Just from the front page I see a presentation "Cache Line Utilization with AMD CodeAnalyst Software" which touches the subject

http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/2011_12_14_...
These kind of already existed: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...
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I’d say: don’t. The performance you will be getting is horrible. Ethernet is connected via USB on the Raspberry Pi, so while via Ethernet, you can achieve about 90 Mbit/s, that speed drops to ≈ 40 Mbit/s once you access a USB hard disk drive. This is without any kind of encryption.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/21/android-sma...

And I think the gap has grown even more in the last year (in Apple's disadvantage).

Iphones are pretty "visible" indeed, depends where and when you travel. At work however over 90% of the people use non-apple stuff.
>> We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK

-__-
If no arbitrage profit is available, nobody will do it and the profit opportunity will return.
I think the cultural thing is actually the reverse: Westerners including Anglo-Americans usually don't want to discuss money because they see it as a proxy for social hierarchies they profess disbelief in and orthogonal to self-worth.

On the other hand, in countries like India where salary is usually the third thing a complete stranger asks you about have a strong sense of social hierarchy and see frank discussion of income differences as an important part of establishing where they sit in it (and their potential for moving up). Meanwhile, I wasn't even mildly curious about how much they earned relative to me and their peers because it wasn't going to affect my perception of the conversation in the slightest, but was a little embarrassed that I could afford to spend months travelling in their country without having to do much to earn the privilege and a salary I'd been unhappy with was usually a large multiple of theirs.

I always viewed the "that decision was made above my paygrade" as mildly sarcastic in its implications.
It's VHD (although relatively easy to make work with VirtualBox), but more importantly exe files. I don't know it cabextract or unrar can handle this. In either case, it needlessly unfriendly to non-Windows users.
Here's a video of a similar performance by this guy on UK TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5l8bdaOMaA
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From a practical point of view, who cares? Unless they are selling their stock to raise revenue it matters not (to them) if people are willing to "invest in" their company.

Now their investors may care, and there may be board fights and so on, but if Bezos can control that then he has some leeway to build the company he wants. It's pretty impressive, really.

And it's very intriguing what's going on in Cambridge (MA). A lot of hiring and work and what-not yet nobody seems to know what they are doing.
A few reasons:

1. Because about 90% of web users were on awful Microsoft browsers which was extremely slow at processing JavaScript, and made a very bad job of rendering CSS. Now, 80-90% of users are on a modern browser.

2. Google's methods of indexing and scoring content changed - it now parses JavaScript, gives value to speedy pages, is good at detecting keyword stuffing, etc.

3. Always-on internet is now pretty much a given, even on phones.

4. There are more developers, trying more things, sharing more experience.

5. Tools. In 2006, we had Drupal, Wordpress, Plone, and a few other odds and ends. These days, we have Varnish, nginx, Jekyll, CloudFront, MongoDB, etc. There are a lot more options, without having to spend a fortune or build everything yourself.
The tube in the morning has a wealthier, commuting demographic that doesn't represent the rest of the UK.
Yes. You can just sign up for a 30 minute trial anytime with your email id.
What's the time bomb on the images?

What I'd like is MS to make Server 2003 images, rather than XP, for IE8. And 2008, rather than 7, for IE9 and IE10.
The raw content of the page is basically just this image: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/img/tomorrows_world.jpg
Looks like their mail is just protected by username & password too
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Some tips:

You can track and checkout a remote branch in just one command:

git checkout -t origin/foo

If someone's working on a topic branch themselves, it might be better to rebase master rather than merging it:

git checkout foo
git rebase master
What's with this trend of companies and startups requiring customers to sign up with Facebook? Especially for developer and technical resources, for which it seems there's a healthy level of dissociation from Facebook.
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That's not an official cross-platform image. I have used some tools that converts them to VirtualBox, but it hasn't been very reliable. As I said: Having official support for Linux and Mac will be great.
Every time I see posts like this, I come back to warpspire's "Dumb Software:" http://warpspire.com/posts/dumb-software/

"But wait until you see the light! Software today is intelligent! Asynchronous front ends generated from esoteric scripting languages running on clusters of distributed virtual machines around the globe! Death to repetition! It’s more productive! It’s scalable! It’s fault tolerant! I followed the light and it only ended in darkness."

I also don't understand comments like "we can make drastic changes in the UI without any change on the backend"

In Wordpress or a Rails App, I can change the entire UI without having to touch any "backend" code (controllers, models, functions, etc). Am I missing something here?
significant != massive
Isaac has some controversial views at times (semicolon discussion anyone? ;) but here I fully agree with him.

When working on a very long and complicated feature on an unknown terrain, I commit "wip"s very frequently and rebase from time to time. I also frequently fork branches (from "foo-wip-1" to "foo-wip-2") before rebasing just in case I ever wanted to look at my messy history. When everything's done and thoroughly tested I delete a batch of branches.

This might sound like an overkill but it costs you literally nothing and might be useful sometimes.
Might be fun to do and the performance is not THAT bad.

Yeah, if you want to watch 100GB Bluray from it will suck arse, but it may be adequate for document storage for example.

Attach a printer to it and you also have a print server. This little setup could serve well an office or a household.
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Honestly, this type of pedantry is pointless. We all understood what he meant. English is an evolving language, and many of the things that are "correct" today were similarly "incorrect" yesterday.
Why here? It is not even humorous.
I thought the Singapore process for getting a Certificate of Clearance was the craziest part of his post. Getting fingerprints done should be easier, I suppose, but that isn't an indictment of Australia's Visa system, in itself.
"If a retailer wants to double its revenue, there are two basic options. Double your margins. Or double your volume by cutting the time you hold inventory in half."

So there's an unlimited amount of buyers willing to buy and every time you cut the time you hold the inventory in half people shall buy twice as much?
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how are they doing that?
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I'd say: DO! If you are trying to learn how to do these sorts of things but as with everything Pi, don't get your hopes up about speed.

Once you are comfortable you can move on to a better dedicated setup.
Australia is kinda big. 5000 users is ~593 square miles per Tor user.
Here is another optimization every browser could (and should) take advantage of, but currently does not: http://igorpartola.com/programming/how-browsers-should-conne...

Basically, if there are multiple IP's behind a hostname, connect a non-blocking socket to each, then do a select/poll/epoll/kqueue on all of them. Then, once at least one returns, immediately close the rest and use the newly established connection.

This has three nice side-effects. First, if one of the hosts is down, it will never be selected, unlike now when there is a 1 in N chance that you'll be stuck waiting for a very long time. Second, you don't need to explicitly check whether the IPv4 vs IPv6 stacks are operational. A connection that is returned to you is the one that works, regardless of the underlying protocol. Third, this provides crude load balancing. Presumably the host that connected the fastest is also the fastest to process your request. The my blog post for some numbers.
First page load, definitely. Subsequent updates - depends.
Yes, and to add:

I willingly and knowingly broke the rules for the greater good. I expected that this would be better received here.
Likewise. This is the rationale:

> We have an unusual requirement when it comes to developing the BBC website – it carries advertising internationally but not in the UK, and we have to build and design for both these situations simultaneously. The site carries advertising internationally so that UK licence fee payers don’t cover international costs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/site_versions.shtml

So essentially the reason that we cannot view the page is because we would see adverts when we have already paid for the content. What a Kafkaesque situation.
Thanks. :D
Because this thread seems, sadly, devoid of examples (when there are plenty), I wanted to point out one that's active right now.

The front page's #2 link at the moment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5144325) is currently titled "Cache Rules Everything Around Me". That's better than the article's actual title, "Cache Money Hoes". I suspect that if the article's original title were used, far fewer people would have bothered to check it out, to have learned from it, to upvote it, or to comment in the thread about it.

I don't know if an editor will change it to the original title, but I certainly hope they leave it alone.
That's a very nice idea.
I just want to point out that it's not 1% of ten million dollars, it's not 1% of a Billion dollars, it's 1% of FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS!

Amazon is investing in growth right now. That's why their profits are so low. Normally, one might think that a company of Amazon's age and size ought to be through the growth stage by now, and in fact it is TRUE: Amazon has finished dominating the book industry, and really has no more room to grow.

Except that they found new markets and moved beyond books. Now they are a universal retailer of anything that can be sold on the internet. But that market (although not fully saturated yet) still isn't big enough for them, so they've also moved into making tablets for the masses. And into running server farms for the entire world. As long as they keep knocking over new markets at this rate, they don't need to show much profit.

[DISCLOSURE: I do not own Amazon stock, primarily because I think it is overpriced. So I suppose I don't completely disagree with the parent post.]
Build a $50 media centre with Raspberry Pi
Then great

I won't use them (even though I remember something about cabextract being able to extract .exe files)

I won't spend a minute testing on IE except if needed.
They offer a 3 month trial of BrowserStack (who also have a free trial, but presumably its less than 3 months?) but it requires Facebook login.

When I tweeted to @ie to ask why this is the case, @browserstack replied saying "Just a way to manage sign-ups especially duplicate".

How is it possible that companies like Microsoft and Browserstack, both of whom have existing "signup" functionality, and one of whom already operates an "online profile" system, require Facebook for a trial like this?
No, it looks like it's targeted to Spain (which would make sense as far as logistics beacause they already have sites for France, Germany, Italy, and the UK).
I would rather see adverts than nothing...
They do index at least some AJAX content - https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/131425949597179904.
What's worse is developer-level services that require Twitter to sign up, or sometimes even Github. Not all developers (see: me) have a Twitter or Github account.
Interesting article, but the comment about "dutch courage":

"Yes, even the Dutch were not spared from the racism."

isn't really correct. Dutch courage has been an expression for alcohol-induced courage for centuries. Even in the early 20th century it wasn't making a comment on the Dutch, just using a common expression. Is that expression still common in the US? It certainly is in the UK.

Rather nitpicky though...
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I recognise some of the symptoms you describe; feeling guilty and feeling shame for my shortcomings. When asked what I would like to do, like you I didn't want to do anything.

I used to be depressed. Here is my experience. My depression ended about 6 months ago and lasted for about 4 years. Before then I've been depressed on and off most of my life, sometimes as severely as this time, other times just as nearly constant anxiety and a general resignation to the feeling that my character is depressive.

After some time and a big change in my life, I tried to get help. At the start I was helped by seeing a psychologist (who practiced CBT) and by taking medication. Later I couldn't have therapy any more but remained on medication.

I slowly recovered, and I think it was because I was lucky to get on the right track. That track was to be honest about all, and not try to hide any, aspects about myself, to everybody. Also those aspects that may not be perceived as positive in the norms of society. This turned out to be quite a relief. I had decided that I'd do that no matter how much social pressure I would feel from thinking I'd be perceived as different or unaccepted. This had been a fear all my life, and still is. Situations come up quite frequently when I do this fearing total rejection, but I still do it. There's fear but no anxiety. I've come to realise that honesty is much more valuable, and perhaps the most valuable thing of all. Not only to me, but to others too.

Recently I got a tremendous boost and confirmation when I heard about some of the reasoning behind the development of something called Non-violent Communication, in which it is also touched upon depression. I can't say that NC would help others or even myself at the outset, but it made a lot of sense to me.
The political ecology of Taiwan when 228 incident occurred is largely different than the current (smoggy and turbid) one in Mainland China. And in the late 1980s, KMT regime lost its vitality(, but still holds some kinda moral integrity, )as the older generation who fled from the Mainland to Taiwan around late 1940s died out or retired, allowing a transformation of the political session there. However, in Mainland China, the power of the ruling party still tightly grasp the controls and the grassroots are more suppressed and less clearly divided than those in Taiwan at the time.

I'm not trying to generalize that a revolution would not happen here in China but changes in near future is highly unlikely, except that the economy of China would collapse or the ruling party itself would be split by inner struggles.
This. People like Slush who take 2% of each chain block are making a killing, while the rest are burning a hole in their video cards.
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Sure.

Part of the confusion is that HTML is living a strange life as part document, part app platform. I mean if you compare HTML and JS to the fit-and-finish of a mid 90s platform it's a mess.

But, it's what we have.
the most promising columnar store for the enterprise is SAP HANA http://www.saphana.com/

This is an in-memory column+row store which handles both OLAP and OLTP workloads neatly
Since they're not activated it's 30 or 90 days, I think. But you can just revert any VM changes upon shutdown and thus extend lifetime indefinitely (makes working in some environments quite a hassle, though – e.g. I'd have to re-setup the proxy every time I start the VM).