skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make your own electricity and natural gas, or form a co-op with your neighbors. And I never said it would be an instant transition to an interplanetary utopia of self-sustaining, currency-free communities. 2140 is a long way away. We're going to live through the transition, and it's not going to be pleasant.
I'm not sure Zepto could be defined as "better" considering that it only implements a small subset of the jQuery API. In the browser world you can't get away with implementing a small subset of a specification, it'll be consider broken and people won't use it.

I'm not arguing against multiple implementations. If Mozilla were to switch to WebKit, rewrite its DOM implementation to be 20x faster, and then release that -- that would be absolutely stupendous! Much in the same way that the Chrome team created a new JavaScript engine that was much faster than Safari's JS engine. I am arguing that the writing is on the wall for the common parts of a browser. A browser vendor's time will be used much more efficiently by collaborating with each other on the implementation instead of writing a number of separate implementations.
Yes, and previously it was even simpler.

At first, bitcoins could be profitably mined using just your CPU. Back in July 2010, I solved two blocks by myself - there were no pools then - using my Linux development desktop.

Within a year, CPU mining was no longer profitable because gamers were re-purposing their AMI/AMD graphics cards for much more electricity-efficient mining. Again, all you had to due was to download software into an existing gaming rig.
> While it's challenging to write a browser engine, it is much much more challenging to write a really fast JIT'ing javascript runtime

That isn't really true. Sure, modern JITing js-engines are — arguably —the most technically advanced parts of a modern browser. However they are relatively small and self-contained; a suitably (i.e crazy-) talented team of engineers can get ballpark comparable performance of V8/Spidermonkey/etc. in a surprisingly short amount of time.

Most of the difficulty of making a browser fast is chasing the bottlenecks across multiple layers. For example it's no use having a super-fast javascript engine if your DOM implementation is so slow that real sites always bottleneck there. And there's no point in having fast DOM if your style layer is too slow to relayout when the underlying tree changes. And having a fast style layer doesn't help you much if your final compositing and painting are holding everything back. And of course different sites have radically different behaviour and what is an optimisation for one case might slow down a different case.
You can go a step forward: put a TrueCrypt volume in there. Much more convenient.
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That's true, but the Android approach for accomplishing it is kind of horrible. For one, far too many apps respond to message types that don't really make sense to me. I don't know that this problem is avoidable with freedom, but the lists of available apps for any particular action are often long and very confusing.

I have witnessed this confusion with users, and it really hurts the platform in a lot of cases, IMO.

I can select one to be the default "always", but this doesn't work well either. If there are five applications that can receive a particular intent, my selection of "always" will be lost every single time that ANY of those five applications are updated. So, in practice, my "Always" selection typically only lasts a couple of weeks.

There HAS to be a better way.
"Engineers hate statistics."

No, its that good engineers just understand statistics. Dear Marketing the plural of anecdote is not data.
Android is a good OS. You can en/decrypt GPG files with the free software gem APG: http://www.thialfihar.org/projects/apg/
And of course you can unzip. You have full access to the filesystem on your user facing storage partition.
I think you're missing the point: We could spend extra time doing any number of things ourselves. When it comes down to it, shipping, being productive, and being reasonably efficient are much more important than "just doing it yourself". Especially if you are a tiny-small company, you should not be doing it yourself. You should be battling for success and survival.

Not doing it yourself may mean going with BitBucket for some or all of your private repos, in this case.
Too long. An idea could be stated in a few sentences.)

Java:

This is an instance of an mammal of an animal kingdom which doesn't include dolphins and whales, which has a..., placed within the instance of a class Plain of polymorphic shape which has some private attributes...

ML-family:

This is a member of a set of only mammals of animal kingdom, excluding dolphins and whales, of small size, which has a..., located on the member of a set of geometric figures....

Lisp:

The cat sat on the mat.
Besides the reasons discussed elsewhere, I see many reasons:

- The device in itself disrupts the mining hardware market. Should they mine by themselves, others would take notice and make their own ASIC hardware. They're in a much better place if they position themselves as the standard supplier for mining hardware, at least in the long run.

- I would see this ROI collapse as soon as this catches on. The market will be flooded with bitcoins, their individual value will diminish, and the bounty will likely decrease compounding the decrease. History says that the return will eventually (and soon) decrease to match the cost. Assuming the hardware is fairly priced (which it seems, given the current low volume), I would say the money value of those 122.83 bitcoins will come down to the same money value you would get out of $14k invested elsewhere.

- Whoever is operating the rig for user 67117, he's doing a hell of a marketing job for Avalon, just by being there. Is there any other offer in the world that can deliver on the promise "Give me $14k and you get $3k a day"? Sounds like a short-term proposition, but there's surely a good amount of money to make while it lasts.
Aside: WebKit may be the jQuery of browser engines, but Firefox with NoScript makes browsing media sites far less annoying. And with all the external script calls, they load faster and use less system resources as well. I read a recent Phonorix article, and a box flashed on the screen momentarily. I thought it might have been an image related to the article, so I did a "Temporarily allow all this page" from the NoScript menu. I had to repeat that 12 times to get all 29 of the external scripts to load. Media sites are just getting ridiculous these days.
Because the unwashed masses don't care about security, the push for security comes from various institutions trying to make fewer PCs botnet-controlled.

The masses would have moved off Windows and IE already in the days of the ActiveX holes if they cared, but instead Microsoft kept customers happy by keeping it on for years and years.
Finally. A proper use-case for displaying content with the :before selector.
I have some interest in this as well. At least in the case of vim, there are completion plugins based on clang that work quite well, but for some reason they don't support navigation right now. Just being able to "go to definition" is a big deal.
Sabotage is the right word. Also, it's a syllogistic fallacy, right?

If you asked 100 people if they perceived some disadvantage about themselves that impedes progress to their life goals, you would get 100 answers. And yet somehow there are 7bn of us, we build skyscrapers and send robots to Mars. Personally, I've had my fill of "if it bleeds, it leads."
I was using RallyDev in our last project and liked it quite a bit. Fairly easy to use and pretty responsive. I'm not a big fan of scrum but RallyDev made it a bit more palatable to me.
The one male nurse I know did feel the need to post in facebook upon graduation that he felt being a male nurse was manly. Being a male in a mostly female environment is an advantage for him, though. He is physically stronger, yes, but, often, patients think he is a doctor and will take his direction without question in situations that female nurses find difficult.

Being a female developer in gives me a disadvantage. If I am mistaken for anything, it is a graphic designer, a secretary, an assistant or an intern.

Positions that are typically male are generally considered higher positions. When a man takes on a typically female position, they feel the need to prove the position to be 'manly'. When a female takes on a typically male position, they feel the need to prove themselves to be 'manly'.
On the other side, as a founder, it's much better to accept investment only from accredited investors, since non-accredited can sue you (or so I'm told).
Etherpad, if you don't already know about it, but you're also probably interested in interior.substance.io.
The web is not open and becoming increasingly less so.

People love to talk about how the web is about open standards and such, but it really is rather quite closed.

It's driven less by standards and more by de-facto implementations. Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of webkit to define the "standard".

And I think even worse has been the wholesale discounting of plugins. I still strongly believe that being tied to JavaScript as really the only client side language is a mistake. It's not a great IL and limiting the language for such a pervasive platform is scary. I powerful plugin model would be, IMO, one of the best things to a truly powerful web.

I wish the web was more open. I wish that browsers were a truly extensible runtime that specified lower level abstractions, that allowed more innovation at the top of the stack.

It feels like we're walking into the dark age of the internet.
"I'm who this service is made for."

Same here - pretty much all my clothes are either things I bought (starkly functional - mostly cross-use for outdoors activities) or purchased under the influence of my long-suffering spouse, who does have excellent taste - even I admit that the Armani leather jacket she (I) bought years ago is fantastic.
I know this has 91 comments, I know its on the front page, I know that three days ago I got slapped for being on the other side of this issue, but, really... this thread is HN worthy?
To add to this, I know that when I'm nervous I smile a lot and laugh to try to ease my own tension, so I can understand how an interviewer would take that as being naïve or not serious about the role, when it's really just a case of anxiety mixed with imposter syndrome.
I'd be a little worried about introducing the term "sausage party" to my eight year old anything who clearly has a working knowledge of electronics. It seems like it'd be a very dangerous thing to search.
If that's the case, do you have an avalon machine on the way?
Does Zend Optimize work in FastCGI mode? A problem with APC is that each FastCGI worker has it's own cache. I've been trying xcache with PHP FastCGI + nginx and that seems to work well with a shared cache.

[edit] According to the RFC to include Optimizer+ in the PHP core, it does work in fpm mode. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus
How to make a baby cloud with IBM SmartCloud
Heroku does more than rails apps. This seems to only do rails?
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This is cool, but I have no idea how to use it :)
Awesome project. Is there anything that can actually convert HTML to Markdown though?
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Looks interesting but the spelling/formatting mistakes riddled through the homepage turn me off.
@arethuza We've found the significant other's approval is a critical factor in keeping it :)
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Not trolling. Also, I note that you cleverly elided over the question to which I was referring.

You (to tokenadult): "Do you find that the fact you are paid by parents for your work has any effect on the motivation or performance of your students?"

Me (to myself): Is this a real question? Under what circumstances could that possibly be true? I guess ONLY in the sense that parents who are paying someone have higher expectations for their students, and those higher expectations correlate with higher student achievement.

I have also been paid as a tutor, though I have considerably less experience as a paid tutor than tokenadult has. As far as I can tell, he does not have experience as a public school teacher in America, so I'm not sure I'm less qualified to answer the question than he is.

I am paid for my work, albeit at one level of indirection. But believe me, public school teachers constantly talk about parents "paying for their kids to go to school here" because they pay the state taxes that pay my salary. In fact, some parents intentionally move into a district with higher property taxes (like mine) so that their students can go to a better school.

So in my opinion, my being paid by parents isn't different from tokenadult's in any meaningful way, so I felt qualified to answer your questions with the data I am aware of.
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Pay inequality does exist but it is mostly used in an intentionally misleading way to "prove" the extent of sexism/discrimination.

There is pay inequality caused by "unknown factors" (potentially including sexism) of around 5%. The rest of the pay differential is caused by known factors (e.g. taking time out of work for children, career choices, etc).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga...
What version are you using? HHVM (with JIT) is the successor to HPHPc (the version that has the C++ intermediate stage), and is faster. See http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150415177928920
What the hell does this link have to do with Apple, or MacBooks?
Asic economics dictate that the cost of making the masks needed for prodution is hundreds of thousands. Once you have the masks, the cost of making chips is ~$10k per wafer. Depending on the size of their chips (I don't know), you can build high tens to hundreds of chips per wafer.

They gathered the money for masks by selling the first batch. Now they own the masks, and they can make more of them relatively cheaply. I suspect that they are building their very own mining pool as we speak.
I generally agree. At the same time, it's good to have tools for such edge cases - there are some papers in niche journals etc. which play a part in science but may not be easily attainable (again, because e.g. public libraries do not pay for subscriptions for those journals and whatnot.) But I agree with the gist of what you're saying (trying to come up with a universal user friendly system might be an overkill); but it is good to have these frustrations and debate in the open, and again, I really like that there is such a place as /r/scholar.
"If Mozilla were to switch to WebKit, rewrite its DOM implementation to be 20x faster, and then release that -- that would be absolutely stupendous!"

Rewriting WebKit's DOM implementation to be 20x faster wouldn't be possible without rewriting WebKit. The DOM implementation is one of the most central parts of any rendering engine. We're working on doing that (Servo), but not by building on top of WebKit for precisely this reason.

"Much in the same way that the Chrome team created a new JavaScript engine that was much faster than Safari's JS engine."

They did that by replacing JavaScriptCore wholesale, rather than building on top of it. This was only possible because JavaScript is a standard, not defined by JavaScriptCore's implementation. If JSC had had a monopoly and the Web started relying on JSC's quirks, then V8 might never have happened.
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if the code for the de facto implementation is open source, does it matter? i see the code and the standard as the same thing in different languages personally.
So... technically, that means that if I (an American) go on a business trip to Australia, open my laptop and use my paid-for copy of Photoshop, Adobe could terminate my license?

How absolutely lovely.
I use pandoc[1] for this.

curl -s example.com | pandoc -f html -t markdown -

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
So Firefox would be Mach, Trident Windows and the assorted other smaller browser engines other 'kernels'?
Indeed, the sales figures are not synchronous. This is why I asked if GP has some special data, because the publically available one does not confirm his/her assertions.
I've always wondered how one would find a contact within such a community. I know there's an old joke about looking for a job at the NSA: "The NSA offers exciting and interesting work for recent college graduates in mathematics and computer science. Pick up the phone, call your mom, and ask for an application."
I'm much better at HTML than Markdown. I totally could use this when I'm forced to write Markdown.
you mean php-fpm ? apc + php-fpm should place nice together if configured correctly.
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Author here. Thanks for the feedback.

I didn't intend this to be a comprehensive argument, just wanted to draw some connection between the environment that iOS launched into and (what feels like) a lot of recent criticism of its design and behavior. Not specifically skuemorphism (which I realize isn't really worth debating in a vacuum, maybe I shouldn't even have used that word), but just instructive design in general (single-screen apps, limits on configurability, etc). Anything that can be seen as prioritizing teaching the user through interface decisions.

And, I completely agree that the market for new smartphone users is still huge. Point being that iOS now has to manage that market alongside the market for existing smartphones users (which it help create/grow).

That said, probably should have included some specific examples of what I was talking about.

Thanks again.
According to Statcounter.com's current numbers, Chrome is 36.9%, Safari is 8.57%, and Opera is 1.2% = 46.67%, leaving 53.3% for everything else. That's not "roughly two thirds".

Also, Safari and Chrome are both trending upwards, everything else is trending downwards.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200807-201302
I think the issue is cost-driven. Particularly if you're going to offer free shipping both ways, you're going to have to charge a certain floor to make a profit after the manufacturing cost of the clothes. If you ship a 2 pound package (pretty reasonable estimate for pants) across the US, you're potentially looking at $20 hit if you pay for shipping there and they choose to return it.
Cool idea. Back button appears to be broken in Chrome. Pushing the back button makes the URL change but not the content.
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Pretty neat and cool! Seeing this i got reminded how awesome markdown is and i just played around with my vim markdown plugin after long time.
But WebKit isn't even close to being the only engine being worked on. Neither absolutely nor from a marketshare perspective.

Hence, the comparison. Firefox and IE both comprise a major chunk of the market.
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A "reread if you haven't read it before", eh? :P

That said, I certainly agree with you--it's a great article. It gives a very good perspective on the issue, and hopefully convinces people who have only ever worked with nouns to broaden their gaze.

I don't entirely agree with everything Yegge writes--like the most recent liberal/conservative stuff--but I do agree with this article wholeheartedly. But then again, I am very clearly the sort of person to verb nouns and then to lambda :).
While likely true, the value of multiple UAs as opposed to a monoculture is that it increases the likelihood that a revolutionary implementation that _can_ scare well to large number of cores would be able to get any traction at all instead of just being stillborn because it doesn't duplicate all the bugs of the monoculture.

So my point wasn't that one would build such a UA by starting with Presto. My point was that there are distinct advantages to competition over everyone using the same rendering engine.
> If you have to create hydrogen from water and electricity you'd have been just as well using the electricity directly.

Unless you can store more of the hydrogen in your car than you can the electricity. This whole range thing can be solved by more batteries and/or more efficient use of the battery.
Use Chrome (PDF reader built in) and turn on Click-To-Play for all plugins (e.g. Flash, Java) then add YouTube to your white-list.

Settings->Show Advanced Settings->Content Settings->Plug-Ins->Click to play

Then:

Settings->Show Advanced Settings->Content Settings->Plug-Ins->Manage Exceptions->[*.]youtube.com->Allow->Ok

You're now fairly safe from MOST drive-by attacks. Except those that impact Chrome directly.
Being a female developer gives you a disadvantage by being mistaken for another, equally respectable professional.

Being a female developer gives you an advantage by having employers instantly agree to interview you in the hopes that your talent is enough to warrant a place on their team and simultaneously help dilute the male dominance in their company.
Very true. I had a choice to respond or rise above and ignore it. I chose to respond. Not to wave my own flag, but to squeak back. Again, it boils down to choice of words. Some words are inherently polarizing. Sister, you might want to check -- I think your fly might be open.
I truly believe there is some sort of industrial designer's cabal that decides what color schemes will be used that year. Just by looking at the devices in my home I know which year they were designed based on the bezel alone. 2002: white, 2005: gunmetal, 2006-7: piano black, 2009: flat black.

Even in computer GUI design we from the early OSX, XP Luna, candyland overdose to the extremely understated ICS and Windows 8 2D rectangles. I'm not a far of the flat trend but I'm not that hung up on skeumorphisms either. And I still don't understand how Mathias Duarte went from the truly, awesome interface in WebOS to this bland design in Holo. Put them next to each other and you wonder if he was just phoning it in when he got to Google.
Why it's time to stop using open source licences
i think you're forgetting opera's massive use in the far east. aren't they overall more used than ios on mobile if you count global stats?
The wonderful
pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#general-options) can, along with many other things.
A slight distinction is that no restaurant would make it an ongoing policy to give away free food to every customer who walked in the door. Rather, restaurants will have a buy one get one free promo, or a free dessert with entree purchase to lure more paying customers.
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No mention of what size instances are being created on aws seems a bit scary. Otherwise cool. I'd use it if it were self hosted and available for node.
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I don't see the point. With flash disks now offering hundreds of MB/sec of read bandwidth and great random access latency, what's the benefit of running out of RAM? I can't say I ever felt a "need for speed" on my Air or from my iPad.

And web apps suck. I don't know if anyone told the Chrome OS team, but GMail and Google Docs are awful, and it seems like they get worse and weirder with every incarnation (at some point several years ago I found GMail quite tolerable, but they've fucked it up since then). I used to think Outlook and Word were bloated pigs, but give me Outlook 2010 any day. Why would I replace my reasonably functioning native apps with clunky spyware that doesn't work when I don't have an internet signal?
They are different things because its unrealistic to fork WebKit and get any significant market share. So even though you might make a worthwhile change to the engine, realistically you need that change to be accepted by WebKit proper for it to matter.