skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sync is an alternative to Ember/Backbone, but not a replacement. If you're trying to replicate desktop software in the browser for instance, a heavy client-side framework is the way to go; however, for certain use cases for web applications with lots of "richness" but not trying to replicate desktop level interactivity, think Basecamp, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, the Sync approach could definitely hold its own against these types of apps. I've greatly enjoyed building Backbone apps, and I look forward to playing with Ember, but not every web application needs to be rendered client-side against a JSON api. Sync also allows you to wire up your own javascript, so you could even use backbone models submitting over JSON and render your realtime views with Sync on the server. I'm excited to see how far we can take this approach.
I think the key thing that this piece sort of hints at is that there is money out there, but there isn't free money out there.

If you want to make money trading on the stock market (with algorithms or otherwise), you're directed to devote time, effort, skill, and a large quantity of start-up funds to the effort. Of course, you could also devote time, effort, skill and capital towards starting your own business (based around algorithms or otherwise) or you could devote time, effort, and skill towards just getting a job (programming algorithms or otherwise). Likewise, as there are big players in the stock market, there are big players in any market, and smaller, more nimble businesses can try and maneuver around them (or get crushed trying).

The stock market: just a part of real life. Neither a mystical land of fantastic riches, nor a freakish unholy pit of dishonest vipers and shattered dreams.
I must say that you've done an excellent job with commenting on Hacker News. These are genuinely fascinating ideas and I have spent 3 hours today reading your comments. If more people left comments like you do then the Internet would be a better place.
The claim by R&R is that yearly GDP growth decreases abruptly (i.e. in an non-linear fashion) when debt exceeds 90% of its GDP. According to them, therefore, governments should have, in times of recession, debt reduction at the top of their economical agendas.

The response by Herndon doesn't insinuate that countries should disregard debt as a matter of concern. It doesn't even say that debt increase isn't correlated with GDP decrease. The main issue that the paper points at is that US and European governments have, based on this thesis, adopted drastic policies of austerity and budget cuts, when actually over history there isn't such a nonlinearity.
Has Google provided patches to all the open source image tools to handle WebP images?
@ Daenney - Thanks for your prompt response, really appreciate the effort.
I differ a bit to what you are saying that Joomla is only a CMS whereas Codeigniter is a framework.
As per my understanding, Joomla is not only a CMS but MVC web application framework as well. Check the wiki link for Joomla illustrating the same - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
(Obligatory "as a former Google fan" header)

When Google isn't making my skin crawl / fists clench in fury lately, they are making me scratch my head.

Why on earth isn't Google Now, easily one of the most amazing things they've done recently and hugely competitive give how much big-data crunching and user profiling it requires, available as a widget on Android? Why is there no Now api that other apps can push cards to?

Why is there no Google Now launcher?

Now still feels like some interesting parallel world on Android (while Google+ feels like some uninteresting parallel world everywhere else).
This post seems like one big, long unsubstantiated bunch of app spam for "zeo". I don't think scientists understand the "fact retention" mechanism as well as OP claims, for instance. It's fairly clear that sleep is important, but there's a lot of unsourced information here that's presented as fact.
I think it just takes the mean age of hackernews readers and spits that out plus or minus a few years.
Structuring a trade to reduce downside risk while profiting from unanticipated random events is easy - just buy options. The problem is that everyone else knows this, so they're priced accordingly.
@ Daenney - Thanks for your prompt response, really appreciate the effort.
I differ a bit to what you are saying that Joomla is only a CMS whereas Codeigniter is a framework.

As per my understanding, Joomla is not only a CMS but MVC web application framework as well. Check the wiki link for Joomla illustrating the same - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
Have you seen typical research code? It's crap. If you looked at it, your first reaction would probably be "Wow, this is crap." It's created in a hurry, usually grows by accretion, and the people who write it are usually pretty half-assed at programming, having made the solidly practical decision to focus more on the other aspects of their field. The commenting is usually lousy-to-nonexistent, the indentation is frequently screwy, and everything about it just screams "I am a temporary hack, written only to get publishable results."

And that's to be expected, because of how most scientific code gets written, and what the incentives are. And releasing this code would still be strictly better than not releasing it. We just need to keep the expectations of code quality low, which the CRAPL license does.
Hi mdasen. Thank you for the feedback. We really appreciate these kinds of thoughtful contributions. To address some of your concerns:

The php-raw test, as with all tests that have the "raw" suffix is not using an ORM. The servlet-raw test uses raw JDBC. The tests without the "raw" suffix are assumed to be using an ORM or something ORM-like. There is a separate PHP test (named just "php") that uses PHP ActiveRecord.

To be clear: without the "raw" suffix, we expect the test to be exercising the framework's preferred ORM or something analogous to an ORM. For example, several but not all of the Java tests are using Hibernate.

I am of the opinion that it's of great value to include the raw tests alongside the ORM tests for comparison. Later versions of the results view will allow filtering of the results (e.g., filtering out the "raw" tests or filtering out all Java frameworks) [1] [2].

Django is being used with MySQL and does not (presently) have a connection pool [3]. We'd gladly accept a pull request that adds a MySQL connection pool. Separately, we aim to eventually add Postgres tests.

As for frameworks that use process-based concurrency, we have attempted to configure each according to the capacity of the hardware. For example, for a given process-concurrency framework on EC2 large, with two virtual processors, we may use two workers; on i7 with eight HT cores, we may use eight workers. You can review the configuration details in the repository and submit pull requests if they are wrong.

We aim to add server-side statistics capturing in a later round [4]. However, for the time being, I can say that anecdotal observations show that some frameworks do not saturate all CPU cores, but we have not observed any running into out-of-memory situations.

Regarding the curious Play1 and Go database test results, see elsewhere in this thread [5]. In both cases, the communities have offered to help address the problems the tests are running into. The Play community has already fixed the Play1 database test and we expect it to perform in line with Play1 + Siena in Round 4.

I agree that testing more components is desirable. The next test will include some minor work with collections and server-side templates [6]. We have started implementing Test 4 on a few frameworks and have been very pleasantly surprised to see the community has already started submitting implementations in their favorites as well.

Thanks again for your detailed thoughts and we look forward to continuously improving this project for as long as we have the time to do so. Please feel welcome to join in the conversation on any of the Github issues or create new ones.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/15...

[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/12...

[3] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=motivation

[4] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/10...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5590132

[6] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/13...
This is awesome! The next time I need functionality similar to what a client-side MVC framework provides, I'll give this a try first.
Check out http://isotope.metafizzy.co/ created by David DeSandro. You'll be able to do just about everything you see with it :)
Slightly longer tl;dr, from the article's abstract:

"Our finding is that when properly calculated, the average real GDP growth rate for countries carrying a public-debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent is actually 2.2 percent, not -0.1 percent as published in Reinhart and Rogoff. That is, contrary to RR, average GDP growth at public debt/GDP ratios over 90 percent is not dramatically different than when debt/GDP ratios are lower."
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JPEG was an enormous improvement, particularly given the far slower connections in use at the time: waiting minutes rather than hours to download an image over my 2400bps modem was huge. In contrast, WebP offers marginal compression improvements, significantly increased hardware requirements and only a few technical improvements (e.g. alpha channels & lossless, although since the latter is so much slower and less effective than PNG I'm not sure there's much of a point).

For many users, this simply isn't enough to justify pushing it through the toolchain.
I have a friend who works for a large marketing company where they write website content for companies that looks almost identical to this. The company hires hundreds of young writers at a time and pays them minimum wage to come up with a few of these every day. They pass their paragraphs around to other writers who reword it again so it will show up as a unique site for search engines. I call it the spam factory.
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Did you pay them less and offer more equity?

I am not sure why your employees would be less 'hungry' if you're paying them more unless they feel like they don't have ownership in the product. Or maybe they just didn't jive well with the team.

Either way they are staffing problems - hire the right people and pay them what they are worth.
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I'm going to spend a couple weeks next month in Nicaragua, and I'm curious if I could get any solid advice beyond don't look rich and smile at people??
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I think making Now API-interactable would just beg for spammy popups. Mobile is already a maelstrom of apps trying to promote themselves, or getting paid to promote others.
Meanwhile I can't see it at all on my Android 2.3 device, even though I have had voice search on there for years, all the clever stuff seems to be taking place server-side, and I already get push notifications for calendar etc..
Great article! I changed my sleep habits about a couple of years ago, almost given up coffee, eat healthy and exercise regularly. I rarely ever feel grumpy or tired in the morning and a lot of that is attributed to 7+ hrs of peaceful sleep. You don't necessarily need an app for this, you just need a lot of will power.
> Not for users, no. The only gain here is facebook's bandwidth costs, at the expense (and inconvenience) of its users.

If it saves a significant amount of bandwidth it could be useful to mobile users too, who might find themselves stuck somewhere with nothing but GPRS in a congested cell.
True, this is the case for individual tweets but not in the list view, noted.
Works now. Thanks. :)
Why bother making this from scratch? There are tons of tour plugins and companies that have sprouted in the past few months.
Come on. Are you calling Discount Oakley Sunglasses a liar?
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Personal opinion is facebook has definitely over the last couple years realized they have monetize facebook.com itself to a large degree. Probably fb execs still as far as long term strategy view the 'platform' is king and not the website but it appears the length of the 'long term' has significantly stretched, and they realize they need to focus on monetizing the website for the next few years at least.

This is all conjecture on my part, no facts to back it up, but just pointing out its common for a business to 'think' XYZ is the monetization solution, and then after time and effort come to realize they have to pivot to another direction.

Fundamentally I think a lot of these 'platform' offerings have come to realize they cannot actually monetize the platform at the scale they would like, and have as a result made the business decision to monetize their 'application'/'website'. Twitter, google, facebook, etc this is becoming quite a common phenomenon. In fact the most stable platforms appear to either be outside of the direct control of a single for profit entity, or else an 'add on' feature of a entity highly profitable from another vector. If apple was dependent on the app store for the majority of their profit, I think we would see them having to do an about face, instead the availability of the app store is a 'feature' but their profits come elsewhere so they have freedom to let it operate as a platform.
I really enjoy listening to your podcasts. I always learn something from them. In the last episode you featured a new project that is very close to one I'm working on right now. It'd be great if you checked it out, because it has features the other project doesn't. Features that I think make it better and easier to use. But enough about that. Any news on the new podcasts?

That's how you do it. (:
It's clear from some of the authors other posts that he's not merely an apple fan boy... I believe he really likes the iphone design choices personally.

However several of his criticisms are problematic. First he brings of several issues with swype, but these apply only to the swype implementation of sliding to type. Swype is only one company working on this. It's not clear that his criticisms can be made to apply to the whole sliding to type concept itself.

1 and 2 in swiftkey's flow work as he seems to want them. You see a preview in the preview bar of what will be entered as you move your finger. It changes as you move your finger over each letter.

3, the 1 finger complaint can be addressed at least in part with keymonk which allows 2 handed swyping.

His complaints about next word completion, as well as his complaints about swype both ignore something basic that is well understood on the android side. These things represent a choice.

Not every user will find benefit in these things. But those that do can take advantage of them, while those with an iphone are limited to what the iphone has to offer.

It's not clear to me why he suggests the phone keyboard is best. He doesn't list any advantages specific to it, and arguably it lacks customization. It's certainly good enough for most people, but being good enough for most people isn't the same as being the best.
I am 46 and it guessed 34, I figured it would err wildly in the other direction because I have a crappy mouse here at work and could have done much better with my usual mouse.
I have two Geeksphone Keons in here and I've been speaking at events about Firefox OS. I develop mobile apps and web for both Android and iOS and I find that developing for Firefox OS is very refreshing. The OS gets out of your way and you're free to create your own vision for an app.

You're not restricted to a walled garden and don't need to use the Firefox Marketplace if you don't want to. Your app can be on the device or hosted on your server and have an offline mode using appCache.

For those that want to know more, take a look at the developer hub at:

https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/

All you need to develop is a copy of Firefox with the the Firefox OS Simulador add-on installed. The rest is just HTML/CSS/JS. The hardware is exposed using the webAPI which can be seen at https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI.

:-D

PS: I am a Mozilla Rep.
Indeed, a key objective of the project is to simulate a production environment, within reason. We are now at a point where about half of the tests are community-contributed and we have to take it for granted that the community has similarly aimed for production-readiness within their tests.

As n1c points out, if there is something wrong with any of the configuration, please submit a Github issue or pull request.
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But in 1995, would the market be big enough to support social networking websites?

Keep in mind, without constant connections, mobile, etc people are less likely to pop-in. It's a different environment, and thinking "What do they need" is different from "What do I have now, that they don't"
I would be happy to post my code, but honestly the process is so embarrassingly simple, I'm sure other could do it better. Setting up the squid proxy with SSL bump was more difficult than the code, as there are some great libraries out there. Using a reverse proxy and Icap server, you need to parse all content using something like jsoup (regex if you really wanna hack). Jsoup grabs the element and you then run it through a great encryption library like bouncy castle you then add some unique identifiers arounds it (!!) so that you can decrypt it using simple parsing to get the encrypted content. Plop it back into the content using your trusty greasy spoon. And walla magic! All persisted data is encrypted. When data is pulled out you simply parse for the unique tag, and then run it through the decryption side. There are a number of things that you can do to increase the security of this implementation, with a little tweaking it works for searching, and the such, so gmail is no problem. An app like SFDC with joins between records would be significantly more difficult to do properly. Doing it improperly is trivial, as you could just just all of the same keys and IVs per org (the unit of work in SFDC).
Pay them above market so they don't need to worry about making more elsewhere.
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Hey thanks for the tip, noted. Glad you enjoy it!
I'll be attending the upcoming workshop in Bogotá. Looking forward :)

Did they give you one of the geeksphones or something else?
Thanks for your feedback! I worked for Zeo a year ago, however they've since shut down so I have no affiliation to them. I'll be sure to go in add the relevant sources.
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i agree with this. also, one annoying nugget is what happens if the api owner changes the logic behind wanted/most and they breaks some functionality behind something i've built?
All the PHP tests were done with the APC opcode cache, running within PHP-FPM.

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=environment

If this can be improved, please let us know. A pull request would be ideal.
I have read about cats that if you need a mouser you should not worry about feeding it too much. Cats will catch mice even if well fed. Feeding it too little means it will start to scout for food far away from your place, thus catching mice elsewhere.
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Anyone that is working for a startup should be invested in getting the best value out of the shareholders. This is usually the case because they themselves own a stake in the company in some form or another.

You should be paying your staff what they're worth and not short sell them because you're worried about them feeling "fat and happy." That's simply ridiculous.

If they themselves are not a shareholder then they should be working towards something. Is that a raise? Maybe that is equity? Whatever the incentive you can't just hire people and expect that they're going to live at the office without adequate compensation.
I like the potential of facebook apps.

Did this a while back

http://apps.facebook.com/pinviewer/

I would be perfectly fine paying for access to their app platform if it would give me a more stable environment and allow me to access a few things I can't access right now.
Go seems to have issues with the database drivers, maybe because of the 1.1 update?
It was quite fast in the previous iterations of the test which used Go 1.0 afaik.
Well, if you think that selling quality sunglasses at discounted prices is lying, then yes, they are liars. More so if you include that each and everyone of the sunglasses they sell come with a 90-day money back guarantee. On top of that they include a scratch-resistant coating that doubles as a shield against those harmful UV rays. But yes, liars. Indeed.
Couldn't this work for everything else as well? Curated lists for different gatherings of people?

"Everyone playing in this golf tourney/chess tourney" "Everyone on the set of Game of Thrones/The Walking dead"
"Every CEO of Fortune 500"
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Obviously speed and implementation details matter significantly. Your firm may have a better backend or superior code that allows the strategy to work better. Much of finance is working with attorneys to shift the system in one's favor. Gaining access to markets that previously did not allow foreign algorithmic trading, earning fee rebates on trades not available to others, etc matter increasing more in a business approaching saturation.
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I want the network to treat the 100Kb I use during a VoIP call much differently than 100Kb of a file I'm downloading.
»CipherCloud's product is NOT deterministic.« No, really, it is not. They say it three times. Who has not at least once dreamed of having your data processed by a non-deterministic system?
Awesome. More companies should do this. Interestingly a practice some governments follow. Sweden, Norway and Finland make everyone's salary, tax details and net worth public. Norway also makes the records available online.
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What about waking up between sleep cycles?
Except you're clearly not spamming but actually referring to my work.. or are you! Oh, you win..
Right now the landscape is split between startups providing the service and jquery/bootstrap plugins.

The startup offerings don't work for us since we're inside of Gmail which presents a unique technical challenge in regards to loading javascript, etc.

The libraries have the issue of things being "hard coded" meaning it becomes too difficult and annoying to make lots of tour variations, or do A/B testing.
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That the first sentence of your announcement of "Reliable C++" should contain an obvious typo is an unfortunate paradox.
Don't listen to all these other people with their generic suggestions like you're a generic instantiation of 'depressed loser' who will respond to the appropriate generic.advice() method.

I've got a list of things worth getting out of bed for. Maybe it'll make you smile. You're not alone.

http://vrunt.info/feedbuzz/6-reasons-to-get-out-of-bed-in-th...
No, we don't know. This is HN, not forum.discussgermanpoliticsinenglish.com. Care to elaborate?