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The community has contributed even more pull requests since Round 2 of our web application framework benchmarks. We're planning to start Round 3 tests on Monday 4/15 using a new build of Wrk that allows time-limited tests (rather than request-count limited) so that all frameworks are tested for a uniform amount of time.

In the meantime, this Github issue request is seeking thoughts you may have concerning additional simple tests that we can introduce in Round 4 and beyond. We want to define tests that continue to exercise typical web application functionality but remain fairly simple to implement on a ever-widening field of frameworks.

If you have thoughts, please add them here or at Github. Thanks!
Unfortunately, everyone browses YouTube. And there's a lot more not-smart people than smart people. (And teenagers have a lot more time on their hands than adults.)

I'd argue the root problem of YouTube comments is that they're not associated with any real community at all, in most cases. There's almost no benefit to posting a good comment, and no penalty to posting a stupid one.

Imagine how stupid the comments would be if everyone watching a TV show with you could post to the same wall.
I do find this social-music space quite interesting. Specially if your music tastes are not mainstream. And visualizing the data would be really cool.

Hope they do a better job at it then with photos and videos, though; and focus on the social part.

Trying to make something not geographically restricted would be a huge bonus!
You're right that a vast majority of immigrants are not working in technology. However, I disagree with you that we shouldn't encourage immigration. The United States was built by immigrants. A majority of Americans are only a couple generations removed from being immigrants themselves. There's a good chance that you are as well. Many of the most innovative and industrious people were immigrants and not only in technology. The impact of sensible immigration policy that creates more tax payers (employers and/or employees) and greater transparency is good for the economy at large whether in technology or not. There is a risk to technology "putting other people...out of work", but that's irrelevant to whether they pay taxes in the United States or in another country.
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Note that maneuvers prompted by TCAS aren't automated. The TCAS system tells the pilot, who then obeys the machine. (Or sometimes he doesn't, and then the two planes might bump.) So, yes, definitely can't go unnoticed by the pilot, since he's an integral part of the system.
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Plenty. I can do it, to a certain degree of accuracy. At least enough of a degree that there won't be a more accurate english word for the color in my vocabulary.
I started with Assembly Language moving on to C/C++ for hardware programming. Then came Actionscript and PHP followed by Java. Got a job, they told me to be a Javascript, HTML/CSS guy. The next one asked me to do Python, C/C++, Java all at once. Left job, released a game written in Lua. Went back to work for a startup in Java(Android) and Python. I did that for 6 years(college included).
When I started working on my own startup(bootstrapping alone), and was in the exact state of mind as the author. "Well, fuck. I am average at almost everything I know." 8 months later my language skills have still not changed much, but I have found out that I can architecture projects better than my peers. Almost magically I somehow pick the perfect module for my project. I suspect that ability has developed by tinkering with different frameworks and languages over time. I still wish I had the freedom to be an expert at one. But in life you don't always get what you want. At-least now I have the ability to handle the technology stack of my startup alone i.e Golang, AngularJS, Android and iOS. It's not ideal but works out.
It's fixed now, apparently.
Am I misunderstanding? It's not that hard for a lot of colors. Grays, reds, blues, and greens are obviously the easiest.
Maybe not perfectly, but it's not all that hard to guess: 00 through FF, with each pair representing red, green, and blue channels respectively.
>Google, more than any other company, has made the web a better place. The web was horrible dumping ground before Google - laced with Portals and flashing display ads, pathetic Search, fragmented content.

Perhaps you have not been around in the nineties / early 00, but the web was far more exciting and cool that the corporate BS that it is today.

And YouTube was acquired, it wasn't Google's. Same with Google Earth / Maps. And Chrome started as Webkit by Apple (based on KHTML). Google just bought all these things or threw money at forking them (Webkit), and made the web it's own monopoly.
TCAS isn't "completely" automated, as it requires the pilot to actually obey. There's a squishy brain in the loop. Given that, I'm having a hard time imagining a way to do any damage (although you could easily create a huge hassle if you could spoof alerts at will). Even if you could create TCAS alerts that would steer planes into each other, the TCAS would then detect that and separate them again.
As in all defamation cases, it is Ms. Allen's job to prove that the allegedly defamatory statements (the accusation of rape) were true and the photo is a significant obstacle for her to overcome. From an evidentiary perspective, the facebook page of the photo proves nothing other than that the photo was uploaded from a mobile device on March 6. Nothing else in the information provided indicates when the photo was taken, but it would be reasonable to infer that it was uploaded contemporaneously with being taken.

OTOH, by posting the photos from the "For only you" email chain, Arrington's lawyers may have breached her right to privacy with regards to those photos. (According to the lawyer's bio, he's an expert at business litigation, IP, and unfair competition and those are the firm's primary practice areas...but not defamation or other non-business torts. http://www.bgrfirm.com/attorneys/eric-m-george/.) This is why you hire lawyers that are experienced in their field. Experience in one area of law does not necessarily transfer to other areas of law.

It's also quite odd that Arrington lives in Washington, the events at issue allegedly took place in SF Bay Area, but the lawyer and his firm...are located in LA. Clients rarely, if ever hire non-local attorneys to handle their legal matters--especially non-local attorneys who are not experts at handling the legal issues at hand.
>You're acting like the act of "joining" is some huge deal.

Joining IS a huge deal. One I won't do.
The evening I heard about the elephant killing, I moved all my domains from GoDaddy and swore them off forever. By the time SOPA happened, they were already dead to me.
Are you talking about ACARS? Because neither of those is true for ADS-B.
Pretty close to the X/Web color "Orange Red"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_(color)#Orange-red
When I used to live there (over a decade ago) I really liked the Hawthorne area just over the bridge in SE. I believe most of the tech companies at the time were out in Beaverton but that was before the current startup craze.

I worked in Hillsdale which is just out of downtown. Nice area but but I don't know about the tech scene.
>I think you're fixating on Google+ as a social network, when that's not really the point. Google+ is meant to serve as an identity layer for Google, so you don't have a bunch of different logins / passwords to silo-ed properties, which makes a frustrating user experience.

No, it's not meant like that at all.

Google didn't create Google+ to have a single sign on. It created it specifically to compete with Facebook.

(As if the crap that Google+ is, as a social network, ever had a chance).

The SSO thing was forced upon Google to unwilling users of its disparate services. I, for one, never wanted my YouTube account linked to my Gmail account etc.
The obvious counter is that Git is like a dvcs designed for maintainers and only incidentally for developers. I started out using bzr and eventually switched to git, partly to try out github, and things like rewriting history have become a major part of my workflow (I'm picking that one because it seems to surprise people coming from other vcs systems how easy it is to rewrite history in git).

I'm sure mercurial is nice, and given its users passion for it I might recommend it to people starting version control for the first time (I'm in academia, version control is surprisingly rare), BUT... I'd use the term "very sharp edges" and not "rough edges." My impression is that they're meant to be there.
They should have the color change on click, save some refreshes. It's using JavaScript anyway.
I am not sure what happened to Google but I am strongly disliking their new decisions. The Yelp debacle, the new cards, Google Instant previews, Google+...I can go on.
They've always been a questionable company. Compassionless customer service (unless you're buying something), the fact they are always trying to up-sell you and the biggest of all: the fact they were massive supporters of SOPA.
> Then stop using their products. Switch to bing,

they are still smart enough not to screw their search. The very second you have to be logged in to search, they are dead.

but for everything else... want to leave a review in googleAppstore? enable g+.

Want to thumbs up a video on youtube? enable g+.

Want to do something in picasa? enable g+ (i don't even know which feature i was using, because i never was able to use the product enough to remember)

well, for all those, I've switched to something better.

vimeo now wins my content. I'm back at flickr pro. and amazon app store I'd use you if i didn't installed all my APKs after compiling them from source.

(for your point of using internet explorer? what are you? twelve?)

... typed on Opera. with Firefox being used for work underneath
I agree. I heard Donald Knuth endorse in an interview the notion of Thomas Huxley that one should "try to learn something about everything and everything about something".
LinkedIn handing out critical identify theft data on your profile.
Date of birth/birthday is often used by banks and other institutions to verify your identity.

LinkedIn publishes this information on your profile, ready for any identity thief to pick up and use. Thanks LinkedIn!
You can bet marketers are reading through his books looking for ways to hack consumers.
The web had the feature and it failed: everyone flocked to Facebook and Twitter to live within their happy walled gardens.

What do you want Google to do - sacrifice their business to pursue some ideological point about how geeks think the web should be? Google is being reactive here. The web already lost this feature, because us (we geeks) failed to make a distributed, federated model appetizing enough for Grandma and Aunt Maud to use. I think there's still opportunity for a federated model to arise and beat the pants off Facebook and Twitter (and G+ for that matter) but it's not going to happen as long as we're all in denial about the flaws of the old model.
You are on the right track, keep going!
In the last 50 years, at what point has the US dollar swung...

Bitcoin is only 4 years old.

If you want to compare it to the US dollar then you should compare it to the dollar from 217 years ago, not the dollar from 50 years ago.
Didn't Hofsteader have some tools for mapping characters into the essential aesthetic form of a font? Could we at least get approximations of all Unicode characters (from a simple base font) into all typefaces installed on a system? (Or have I just been subjected to too much Doc McStuffins this evening?)
Yay! More regulation for you, and you, and you. It's like Oprah giving away Pontiac Azkeks. Yea, he f'd up, but let's not FINCEN our way to utopia.
Reminds me of Pud's Fandalism which he created pretty quickly and ramped up traffic also quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559081

When it comes to commerce, I'm liking the model of first building an audience and then adding commerce.
Yeah I'll set one up very soon. Thanks!
The web of the 90s was an awesome exclusive subculture. The web google has been promoting is inclusive and egalitarian. It isn't just for nerds, and cares about things other than Star Wars.
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Data? Source?
Bitcoin and the Dotcom bubble are significantly different in my opinion. If Bitcoin were to fail, the world economy would function as normal, nobody would lose their jobs and a multitude of large companies wouldn't go under like the original boom. I know the Bitcoin investment craze is starting to kick-off, but it's not at the point were companies are investing large portions of their cash into Bitcoin to the point where it would fail and companies would go out of business, it's too volatile to be a trustworthy investment at the moment.

If there are people out there who have invested large amounts of company cash or people who have taken out a second mortgage on their homes to buy Bitcoin, the joke is on them. Because Bitcoin has been unrealistically unstable for a long time now, the current growth can't be sustained.
Four hours, huh? And here they've wasted 14 years working on it. They must be some kind of dumb.
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Cash is vulnerable to actual smash-and-grab attacks, wherein physical items are properly smashed and grabbed. People still use it extensively.

The problem with bitcoin isn't necessarily that it's too much like cash, but that people don't treat it enough like they would treat cash. Few people would put their cash in a robot that would hand it over blindly to anyone with the right password, but that's effectively what they're doing by holding bitcoins on an exchange like Mt.Gox.
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Heroku is now the top giver on Gittip
http://zamika2013.blogspot.com/
Google has done an amazing job of mixing really shitty practices like this with really amazing things like the self driving car and glass.

As long as they continue to diversify and innovate they will have supporters... even if they often break their "don't be evil" motto.
It's funny, because reading that made me think, "and thus, Twitter added the only good thing about Myspace." Myspace had problems, but I never thought that their music offerings was one of them.
I dont know if bitcoins will ever stabilize or go down to zero but I also believe that no one can be so sure about how a free market is going to behave to just write it off at this moment.
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This is a great concept. Provides a great element of surprise.
Fault and blame is not zero-sum, a point many people seem to miss. Realizing that the victim has some (and he certainly does here, and in many other cases) does not in any way reduce what attaches to the perpetrator.
They just did a financing that put them at something like $1.3B - and not a typical VC round of monopoly money - they borrowed money to swap out investors and buy out employees - sort of an exit, but not really. A home run by any standard.
I wouldn't use this.

One of the secret joys of working from home is being able to work in my boxers (or less) and not get in trouble. Some days I jump out of the shower and just don't bother to do my hair until I need to go out of the house, and if I don't style it I almost look like Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber. I move around, I nap, I eat like the 7 Habits of Highly Obese People is my bible, and I swear liberally; even if you can't hear it, you'd know it's happening. However, when I'm around other people, you'd never guess. Using this app would take out the best part of working by myself: no judgement!

(This comment's gonna come back to haunt me one day.)
There was an article posted yesterday in which IDC blames Microsoft and Windows 8 in their report for the decline in PC sales but it's refreshing to see proper journalism acknowledging that isn't solely the case and in-fact Apple are selling fewer Mac's as well. The world is moving toward mobile devices. PC's will always serve a purpose, but for some people a PC isn't needed at all. As a developer and a bit of a designer, I couldn't picture myself coding on a tablet nor designing on one (prototyping a design maybe). It's a changing landscape, the likes of Google Glass give us a glimpse what a future without desktop computer domination looks like.

The real issue here as touched upon in the article is the fact that new computers don't really offer an advantage over older computers. Upgrading from a 386 to a 486 back in the day was a reason to upgrade but my current machine which is a spec'd out Core i7 will last me until it stops working in 4 to 5 years time. The only sector of computing probably still thriving is storage, people probably upgrade their hard drives more than they do their computers. Computing has reached a point where a CPU will last 4 years but a hard drive only lasts as long as it has space left.
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They have a history of confiscating domains on behalf of authorities without a court order or other legal reason. They helped author SOPA, written into drafts of the bill as the registrar to receive confiscated domains, the same way they already are for ICE/DHS. Registering your domain through them is a completely unnecessary risk to one of your business's most valuable assets. No moral or ethical stance about their former CEO, their "hot girls" advertising, or their upsell tactics is necessary to pass them over.
I don't know, he/she didn't really "make a case". Read it again -- the OP doesn't actually say anything in the grandparent post besides "they used to be great, but now I hate them". Why does the OP hate them? Who knows!

The fact that such a contentless diatribe is at #1 is depressing. That too should be beneath HN's standards.
Sure, these are generally valid points, but Hummingbird doesn't really solve them. I'd love to see a solution to those problems, though. >12-pitch solutions exist, but they're just cumbersome.

I'd disagree about the precision of note lengths and tempi being a problem, though, simply because humans aren't very good at keeping exact time. I mean, ask someone to count off exactly 60 beats evenly divided over the course of a minute. What about 80? 100? 133? The speed at which you count off is highly dependent on your heart rate (and possibly state of mind). So assuming we have an exact tempo, what's the likelihood a note length within it is going to be played with that same amount of precision? Well, it's all up to the musician's ability to interpret the composer's intentions, which is much the same as what we have now. In fact, there are ways even now to specify exact bpm (even if we can't exactly express slight tempo changes). The notes themselves are estimates, but fairly good ones at that, and they're effective enough to get the point across to the musician.
I don't have any data to back up this theory, but I believe that the trend towards less recreational benefits is due to an aging engineering talent pool. But until we make this jump as an industry we'll continue to see ping pong tables and ddr machines.

It won't happen quickly but I believe that the median age of engineers will dramatically increase in the next decade. We won't be looking for ping pong tables, we'll be looking for day cares.
Nice article--I like that it's concise and sticks to the data to make its point. This article last week from Forbes makes the same point with Paul Krugman's babysitter's co-op column: http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2013/04/05/k...
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So throw a nbsp; in front of the text in your span.colored-text Jade?
I really love this concept. Simple and beautifully executed, I can see this kind of application taking off in some circles. This kind of reminds me of an app I found a while back called Nudify which lets you add pixels over an image to make it seem as though you're censoring nude parts of an image. Great app, it'll be the talk of the office for the next day or two for sure.
The words "free market" are not a talisman that dispels common sense. Currencies are fundamentally backed by trust. Trust in the US Dollar is based on the status quo (the Nash equilibria of our adoption of the currency, &c), the degree to which our interests are aligned with those of the government (not 100%, not 0%) and the basic economics of taxation that is dollar denominated, a gigantic federal payroll that is dollar denominated, and the fact that the federal government --- the world's largest buyer of everything --- conducts all its business in dollars.

Bitcoin has none of this; it appears to substitute the moral equivalent of a Yahoo stock message board.
terrible explanation imo since the algorithm is still not clear to me. how about: 3+7 is 10 and 2+8 is also 10. Given the expression you can find the sum, but given the sum it's very hard to find the expression. This becomes harder for bigger number of course.
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Microsoft issued apologies in some places.
However they have not communicated on the guy since then.

I think that what's everyone is waiting for is the confirmation on the "always on" subject. And Microsoft silence about it is very worrying.
The probability of any finite interval P(a, b) = 0
Are they taking into account global economic crisis?

Because I'm pretty sure that businesses were the main buyers of new computers, and that they're not going to buy new computers unless they really need to in this climate.

I agree that Vista, when launched, put a lot of people off.
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This seems crazy to me. Right now those Nebraskans are competing with tech workers in other countries for tech jobs. If we bring more of those workers here, then 1) the competition will happen on US soil where we can ensure the playing field is fair and 2) an influx of well-paid immigrants will create more jobs for non tech-workers in support or service industries. Any way you slice it, having more tech workers in america is better than the current trend of sending jobs overseas.

The only folks that might be harmed by this immigration shift are the tech elites here that command sky-high salaries.
They have $350 million in debt alone. $1B+ seems entirely reasonable for the whole company.
I think that the point the author was trying to make is that Mark Zuckerberg has a selection bias due to the fact that the people that he is around are generally similar (highly educated, college grads, etc.). Therefore, his view on the world is skewed towards that bias.

I think that this is true, but not just of him. If you were to talk to some of the low income families, they would probably have the reverse bias. The disparity between Zuckerbergs income and the average would tend to support the author, but that depends on how well Zuckerberg realizes and compensates for the bias. I'll leave this to be answered in the future.
No, the comparison doesn't happen in a vacuum. 4-year-old Bitcoin must compete with the 217-year-old dollar, not with economy of the times of the Articles of Confederation.

I think I was being generous by supplying a 50 year window of comparison.