skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an average developer would be happy with is not relevant in any way to a multi-billion dollar company with investors to answer to.
There are several possible business models: Charge every customer the same amount, charge per Mbps, charge per GB, etc. I don't think there's one "obviously correct" business model.
This is such a lie.
I'm reminded of this exchange

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848454
Agreed.

I love "hang in there, kid!" articles, but at some point, if you're just retelling an inspirational movie, you are not saying a lot of anything.

More tragic, the real need isn't to work hard -- freaking heallacious number of startups are out there killing themselves. It's using Lean Startup as a guide to show when and where to work hard. That's the whole point -- which was lacking here.

This kinda thing, one-dimensional advice proffered as applicable content, can hurt more than help.
> You can want a diverse work force all you like but you aren't entitled to one.

Of course. No one is suggesting otherwise. That's not the point. At all. You are the only one talking about entitlement in this context.
"science and related fields "

But we are talking about economics, and republican groups like fox news eat it up.

My favorite example is the 2011 chart distorting the display of the unemployment rate:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/12/12/today-in-dishonest-f...
[X] Vehemently disagree.
That's what the citizens get when they don't hire lobbyists.
Love the architecture.
The genesis of a good idea
Its a tough moral problem.

Does the government and private insurance stop paying for heart transplants and life-prolonging procedures after the age of 75?

I wonder what percentage of medicare/insurance payments goes towards prolonging life into the 80s and 90s?

I can't imagine being a doctor and having to make that decision, or break the news to a family that they're not allowed to save a life due to old age of the patient...
"Google voice (grandcentral) was certainly innovative; the calling system and the text transcription in most specific."

As an original GrandCentral user, I take this as a complete insult. Google bought GrandCentral and removed features. So chalk this one up to negative innovation.
Why would you name a library after the dumbest president in the US history?
Lol I thought so too...
Is this really happening via the "Download" link, or is this being caused by people right clicking and saying "Save Image As..." because if you want to preserve or work with images, you probably should not be saving images from the context menu, which are often scaled and processed, and instead be asking for the original/raw/high resolution upload.
Obviously we can't know what they will actually do. I interpret their article as their goal, not their actual point-by-point plan. YMMV
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575631
The reality is that its not really that simple. I would issue you the challenge to come visit. Detroit is riskier, but the opportunity is much larger.
Was that sarcasm? I don't see any architecture. Its just a bunch of pillars with a roof.
Would still like Ruby to be tested with app servers other than Passenger. Is this planned for Round 4?
This isn't true but exercise can help. It likely won't cure it.
For those who tried it, is Home the answer to the conflict between Messenger and Facebook? the two apps from Facebook that would give you twice the notification in case of a message.

I get that people will all have internet on their phone in a few years and that launching a service like facebook messenger right now is clever, but it didn't have the technology to detect if facebook app was installed to disable the notification in at least one of the apps.

I'm seeing Home as the "fix" but can't try it on my device...
I didn't follow this story. Where can I find more information about this "Controversy"?
You might want to recalibrate it; the mercury should have burst the tube at this point. Searching encrypted data is impossible without fully homomorphic encryption and fully homomorphic encryption is wildly impractical for use at present.

"Contributed to by our competitors" -- if that's the case, the competitors are giving informative SO answers about crypto. Whereas they are engaging in censorious shenanigans. I, for one, prefer the "competitors'" contributions.
If they're actively seeking somebody who's purpose is to bring the female perspective to a development team, how do you do that without being discriminatory?

"Hiring a person who is very familiar with application usage and development from a female perspective"?

This applies to the original argument the article made. Phrases like that sound creepy and off-putting to applicants.
what's "django stripped"?
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The crypto scheme used should depend on the importance of what you want to protect.
For instance, I think using md5 for a secure token that will expire in a few minutes is reasonable.
Since everyone else is barraging you with anecdotes and advice, I instead ask you this question.

Why do you want to die?
Get help. Call a hotline, and see a doctor.

Medication for depression isn't a sign of weakness - it can seriously give you your life back. Been where you are, made it through, happy to chat if it helps.
So how can this be fixed?
“Winking” at your Google Glass could trigger the camera
why not have a dynamic multiplier based on the weights? rather than just 100x
Not as big as extreme data.
From the article, in order to get one type of operation, her husband needed a pacemaker. The family consented to both, but the patient would not have if he had a say in it.
I'm pretty excited about Firefox OS, honestly. While I loved my first two Android phones (G1 dev phone, and Nexus One), I've hated my third (HTC Sensation). I can blame HTC Sense for some of the disappointment, but I think Android has become less stable over time. It restarts the desktop (dashboard, or whatever the "main" screen is called) regularly, maps crashes all the time, and sometimes the network just stops without warning or error. I've occasionally rebooted the phone to find I've missed hours worth of calls and text messages and Google Talk messages.

I'm also becoming frustrated with Google's evolution toward walled gardens, an end to privacy, and away from the open (and anonymous, when needed) web. Reader to Google+ is one indicator. CISPA is another. I consider Firefox a good foil against that evolution, and I've started switching back to Firefox for my primary browser. In time, Google will have less control over my online life, because the trust I once had toward Google is fading.

I don't believe Google really believes in "Don't Be Evil", anymore, and so I have to protect myself, and push back against Google's dominance. However small my efforts may be to GOOG's bottom line. (And I still hold GOOG stock. Ethically, I'm not sure where I stand on that.)
Link to the Crypto StackExchange thread: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3645/how-is-cipher...
As an ignorant American who knows zip about smartphones (still carrying around an ancient dumbphone, desperate for an upgrade) what would it take to actually receive calls on one of these? Do Verizon et al just let you waltz into a store with a phone and buy cell service?
1. Even wholesale access is getting pretty cheap on guaranteed capacity. (Under $1/mbps). So it'd be nice to see that trickle down. No reason I shouldn't be able to pay $x for a guaranteed up/down.

2. I'd love to buy such a transfer based service, assuming I'd get top speed and pay for transfer. The problem is that carriers want to sell "unlimited" for marketing reasons, then tack on huge "overage" fees (Rogers in Canada was in the dollar range I think). Congestion rates at peak times make it extra confusing.

3. The issue of excluding their own services from the limits is what people are annoyed about, as it destroys net neutrality. I'm fine with an access provider doing that, but not if they have an effective monopoly on access.
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Meta-search is a pretty old idea too. And you're at the mercy of your sources and have less insight into the data you're searching and less ability to rank pages.
I need a dedicated message queue... Or do I?
Shameless plug for a genetic algorithm based trading strategy app I made a while ago. It generates a bunch of strategies with good scores and then the UI let's you pick the one's you actually want to use. The second video is the demo:
http://designbyrobots.com/2011/09/06/automated-design-of-tra...
Student debt in US now exceeds $1 Trillion, higher than US credit card debt
Why Great Ideas Get Shot Down
Ah, thank-you for pointing that out. That's definitely a mistake in the article. I've amended point #4 with another possible approach.

Intent-driven design reduces the fragility of your API, gives you a wider variety of changes that you can make to your API that are backwards compatible.

If it's done perfectly, and your software solves the same business problem tomorrow as it does today, then you will never need to increment your API version number. The reality is that it will never be designed perfectly, and requirements are never that stable, so having a versioned API is a practical and prudent choice.
I just don't understand how could Symfony2 be so fast considering it's pretty huge (twig itself is already huge).

I guess it's time I consider switching from CI.
A stripped down version of Django - no unnecessary apps installed. This was recommended to test Django's full speed but really wouldn't be reflective of a full deployment.
Well Kentucky Route Zero got through and that is one of the strangest most abstract things I've ever played, but it also had a very successful Kickstarter. The Greenlight experiment honestly does not work very well but Valve and Gabe Newell are totally aware of this. Gabe spoke at UT and addressed the very issue of how inefficient Greenlight is. It was kind of a first try at community sourcing games and it will be massively overhauled soon. For instance, right now Mutant Mudds which is well regarded as one of the better platformers of recent days is finding itself hovering around 50% approval which is insane. This is a proven game already that can't get approved because of the system.

I see no reason why Valve needs to ask every 12 year old that only is on Steam to play COD whether or not they like some strategic art game.

My guess is they come to some sort of Kickstarter-esque model where people will pledge to prebuy a game and when it gets to a certain threshold, the game will be Greenlit. Makes a lot more sense that polling every user on Steam, let the people who are willing to spend money make the decisions happen.
It doesn't. My server is appropriately engineered to its task.
For situational depression it can. Clinical depression is an entire other beats, but regular exercise increases the levels of serotonin in your brain and releases more endorphins that elevate your mood.
> Its just a bunch of pillars with a roof.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/The...
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I'm not sure if anyone made a strict quantitative analysts. This is what I remember reading: http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/02/scalability-fud.html
I'm really excited to see this get to market. The number of developers who already know enough JavaScript to get something done is large. And Mozilla is interested in advancing the open web, not building a closed ecosystem.

I hope there are plans for FFOS tablets in the future. At ~$200 for a decent tablet, they're cheap enough that you can start using them as single purpose devices. The kitchen grocery list. Outside of every meeting room, showing the room calendar. By the door to tell you whether or not to bring an umbrella and which bus to catch. On the wall, as artwork. Basically, any place you might previously have hung a sign. Having them be hackable by any webmonkey would be perfect.
We have the most awesome health care system for mice!

On a less humorous note, I expect more human stem cell research in less "regulated" places is already on going. I suspect it won't be the first time that a "more developed" nations find themselves behind "less risk averse" nations. But worse than that I also expect some really sad stories to emerge, especially in poorly regulated gene therapy experiments.
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Verizon or Sprint, no. T-Mobile, yes. AT&T can technically sell you a SIM card but the people in the store probably do not know how.
Suicide is stupid. It's not a solution to anything. Don't do it.

Focus on things you enjoy in life. If you're feeling lonely, make an effort to spend time with the friends and family you do have, and let them know how much they mean to you. Also seek out ways of meeting new people that share an interest with you even if it's uncomfortable and you're pessimistic about the outcome (i.e. going to meetups), just make sure to go in with the attitude of "It may be unlikely but I hope I meet someone I get along with here." and not "This is a waste of time."

You're not a bad person, you're not worthless, and your life won't always be shit. If you make the mistake of suicide, then you'll never enjoy all the good things that will happen to you over the next 40, 60 or 80 years. And that's a lot of good shit.
Oops! Thanks for pointing that out. This is an oversight in the readme for the Ruby tests. They are on Unicorn for Round 3 [1]. We'll get the readme updated and the Environment Details clarified as well.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Edit: I've edited the Environment Details page accordingly.
It is allowable only in circumstances where it is a "bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise".

A gentlemans club can get away with it. Someone who simply wants to change their gender ratio can't.

Discriminating against accountants is legal in all circumstances.
Fox News is not in the business of science. I used the term "related fields" as a euphemism for Econ and Psych because I didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate.

Wherever the line is drawn, the dishonesty of some random Fox News chart is not related to the honesty or dishonesty of actual scientific research.

The much bigger problem in science is error.
Distorting the truth about the state of the economy is not something confined to one partisan side, and the need for data transparency extends beyond economics regardless.
Verizon would not. For AT&T and T-Mobile (as well as MVNOs based on those two such as StraightTalk, SimpleMobile), you can waltz in (or go to the website) and get just a SIM card to pop into the phone of your choice. When it comes to data service, there can be frequency differences that could result in some phones having to fall back to 2G service instead of 3G or 4G, such as my wife's iPhone 3GS on T-Mobile.
Why is ASP.NET never included in these type of benchmarks?
Something seems off about "Results from dedicated hardware." Play and Go went from 1000s to <10 respectively. Care to give any insight there?
I have argued in the past that data and code need to be submitted with academic papers: http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/the-importance-of-open-code.html This is just the latest example of why, IMHO, code needs to be open.
Do images on Facebook even have a download link?

Edit: Why yes they do! It's in a drop down menu.
Political comments aside, SMU offers a master's degree in game design[1], and actually advertises that program a fair amount. I actually think it's kind of neat to integrate a presidential library with other programs/departments in the university (assuming, of course, the game was actually created at SMU and not just outsourced, which is entirely possible).

[1] http://www.smu.edu/guildhall
Yes a Linux process can spawn 1m threads, and testlimit64.exe spawned 250k threads both with 64k user stack and 1 MiB user stack... because that is just reserved address space if it isn't actually used. Only the kernel overhead matters to how many threads.

I'm not sure what point you want addressed... scheduling optimization? It's also a deoptimization in other ways, such as predictable latency and fairness.

I agree the designers knew what they were doing: designing a 'modern' language for 32-bit computers. The question is why?
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I'm unfamiliar with this particular implementation, but it sounds (from your one sentence description) kinda like Dancing Trees, created by Hans Reiser, for ReiserFS. Would this be prior art, or would this be different approaches to similar problems?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_tree
That was my "favourite" part of the whole message.
It's disappointing that it's so slow. I suppose it doesn't matter a lot of the time, but would prefer it to be more competitive.
"In my testing, I found only subtle differences between the original JPEGs I uploaded and the WebP versions Facebook created from them."

LOL! Upload a JPEG, expect better quality from the transcoded WebP output. Yeah, someone needs to teach the writer about generation loss.
I must correct myself. Its just a bunch of rectangular prefab concrete pillars, with a roof.
Geeksphone is a Spanish company. I agree there is potential in emerging markets for Firefox OS but they aren't sidestepping Europe.
Just curious but why are the major php frameworks so abysmally slow? It seems like php-raw does pretty well in all the tests but most of the big frameworks (cake, symfony, etc) are orders of magnitude slower.
I can't speak for your experiences with the HTC Sensation, but my Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.1.1 has been remarkably stable, especially compared to my previous phone, an HTC Legend running Android 2.2.

As for broader issues you raise about openness vs. the walled garden, I'm also excited to see alternatives like Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone and so on take shape.
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I'm a little confused about not wanting to disclose IP during a patent process. Isn't that what the patent process is designed to do? Disclose a novel invention, and have it (among other things) vetted for prior art. They say these patents are pending, in which case, shouldn't they be searchable? Has anyone found them? I did an albeit cursory search and couldn't find anything. I'd like to give these guys the benefit of the doubt as they are funded by a16z, but the lack of information is troubling.
My comment is reposted here: https://gist.github.com/2grep/5436448

I do encourage people to read the regulation. They are basically asking for carte blanche to irradiate anyone.
I think the perspective is interesting but I'm not sure this is the best way to review complex decisions. It often times isn't so much a single decision but rather a chain of them that are taken after a major decision has been made that affects the outcome. I know that they want to brand Bush as a decisive leader but simply reducing the outcome in Iraq to the decision to invade or not is a little ridiculous. The criticism is both how the administration handled the entire planning and execution of the war and occupation combined with the decision to invade. Simply saying that decisions are tough without acknowledging the context they are made in is not only a short sighted but it isn't a great way to instill leaders who are ready to take responsibility.
So now that we've already went through this mess where they deployed it then realized what a CF it was, we're supposed to comment on it? I presume this is because it was such a fiasco the first time around, the Feds are using a different approach to make it happen?

I do not like being irradiated for purposes of imaging under my clothes in order to travel. I'm not really sure what else there is to say about it. I'm also not sure why I would want to participate in a system to defend myself from an overzealous security state by way of commentary. This is not something as a citizen I should spend any time doing. I don't go downtown and lobby the local police not to beat people senseless when they arrest them, I don't go to my local state capitol and protest in order to prevent drones from spying on me from the air, and I am not going to participate in a public commenting session for invasive imaging. Not going to happen.

It's wrong. Don't do that anymore. My contract with my government is supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and I elect representatives and appoint judges to make double-sure it doesn't. This is their jobs.
They have someone working on ASP.net tests for the next round.
Contributed to by our "competitors", who are actually a lot more competitive than us.
To some extent any standard competitive behavior, or corporate practice, may be regarded as malicious.

You raise several points, so I'm going to try and respond to them all:

1. Going 'thermonuclear' over product competition.
This is the behaviour which best fits the definition of "malicious", namely "having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone". Without taking a personal position here, I'd point out that Apple thought that what Google did was not simply "competition".

2. Capricious, callus [sic] and combative app store submission process:
It's certainly true that the App Store process is non-ideal, but I don't think this is malicious, however it feels to be on the receiving end. Never ascribe to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by incompetence. I grant you that any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

3. Anti-Competitive and likely-illegal publication conspiracy
To whom is malice being intended here? Not the customers. Not the publishers. Amazon perhaps, but only in the sense that Apple is trying to create competition. Amazon appears to be destroying the value in the book market in order to establish a near monopoly on eBooks. Of course, it's hard to pity the publishers when they're the ones who insisted on DRM in the first place and turned it into a winner-take-all game.

4. Hoarding profits overseas.
To whom are they being malicious? This appears to be pretty standard activity.

5. Refusing to pay taxes for the environment that spawned their successes.
What kind of taxes are you talking about? What environment?

6. Censorship of users media
I'm pretty sure I can copy whatever I like onto an iPad, iPhone or Mac without Apple removing it again, unless I missed a particularly juicy scandal (perhaps Apple censored it from my news feed). Do you mean that they limit what can be sold through their store? I think most store holders retain that right, including Amazon.
Many respectable journals already do this.

From Science: All data necessary to understand, assess, and extend the conclusions of the manuscript must be available to any reader of Science. All computer codes involved in the creation or analysis of data must also be available to any reader of Science. After publication, all reasonable requests for data and materials must be fulfilled. [...]

http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/gen_...
I assume by "Play" you mean Play1, which is a newly community-contributed test. Since the completion of the Round 3 tests, the Play community resolved the Play1 database test's problems [1] and the Go community is investigating the Go database tests [2]. Assuming the Go fix is in soon, we anticipate that both should be resolved in Round 4.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/play-fra...

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n...