skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Jboss since a couple of years, in its version 5.1 that is robust and "flexible", but this new version seems to be fast and customizable. Features like changing ports and real authentification are easy to set up reading the doc a little. Mayble in a couple of months it will be stable and the "only eap fixed bugs" will come to the community version, in that time I would choose it.
Five New Computer Buying Myths
$9 is perfect IMO. It completely removes the decision to buy or not – the psychological difference between $9 and $10 is greater than the numerical difference between 9 and 10.
> Unless your domain is setup to use strict SPF and then this will fail randomly

Sure - but most people don't have this, and the goal is to get people to put in their SMTP credentials at some point anyway. Just doesn't have to be in their very first email.

> And do people really give their IMAP credentials to a web app?

Yep. We take security seriously and only end up tracking emails that match up with sales/leads in Close.io. For an entire company, their CRM data is often more important than an individual's inbox anyways - and we want to reduce the data entry necessary in common sales processes.
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I don't know that mono is guaranteed to be slower or not, but definitely a lot fewer man hours have gone into polishing mono as compared to the amount of effort spent to polish the .net framework on windows.

Further, even if Mono itself is as fast as the .net framework, IIS the web server is going to be totally different performance characteristics from whatever webserver you are using on linux.

I am glad you showed me the error of my ways because I would have guess .net was somewhat faster than mono, but it goes to show even more comparing across operating systems is meaningless...

now i would love to get my hands on the numbers dont get me wrong, just saying if i was running the project I wouldnt go through the amount of effort required to get the .net results.
You can have a whole lot of stuff, but get laid off... miss a payment... and it all comes crashing down

That's a good point. If you have house payment, car payment, huge credit card bills, etc., then you are kinda living on the razor's edge.

Luckily for me, while I've made plenty of bad decisions in my life, at least I have never done the deep indebtedness thing. I still don't own a house, and both of my vehicles are paid for and my total credit card debt right this minute is < $1,000USD If I got laid off, my biggest concern would be scraping up enough money for a place to stay, and I'd probably have to get rid of some "stuff" and move to a smaller apartment or something.
I'm not the biggest mongodb fan, but if you're stuck with it for whatever reason (too invested to change code anytime soon, say), then for mostly read-only collections this doesn't seem like a bad idea, actually.

Why? Mongodb does offer secondary indices among other useful features.

That being said, I'm keeping an eye on HyperDex (http://hyperdex.org).
Chromium has been a little dodgy for me lately too. Lots of memory leaks and what not. I've had to kill it's parent process id on a number of occasions (but even then, there's no reason why a browser should take out the whole OS).
Indeed, LispWorks was Harlequin's first actual product, paid for itself over many years and still does today in the hands of several of the original developers who acquired it after Harlequin went bust. The next product was ScriptWorks (a PostScript RIP), which became the company's cash cow and lives on as the Harlequin RIP from Global Graphics http://harlequinrip.com/ . That paid for the boss's pet projects, including MLWorks (which became a product in the mid 90s) and DylanWorks (which never quite did at Harlequin, but was carried on by ex-Harlequin people who set up Functional Objects, and survives today as OpenDylan). The other main thing to come out of Harlequin is Xanalys, who took on the various Lisp-based analytical projects (and ended up holding the MLWorks sources).
This is the second time that we have acquired our old projects from the heirs of Harlequin and open-sourced them: the first was the Memory Pool System http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps
Depressed that you may or may not "have a stand" on someone else's thoughts.
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i found Baas really hard to test , especially when you need to upload some bits of business logic somewhere ...
I tried a bit with couchdb and couchapp, but i never figured out how to unit tests attached documents. Parse works a bit the same way. How do you do testing on Baas ?
I have been a programmer for 22 years. I started having that problem. Don't rest your wrist on anything for very long. Stretch your wrist by bending your hand in a few directions. And for sure, get up often. I didn't get up enough, and it ruined my legs and hips. Had to get both hips replaced. A little DMSO might bring down the swelling in your wrists. Google, "DMSO" and see how to use it. Wash before putting it on your skin.
I've had problems with fglrx where it crashes because you resize the window too quickly, and then it's done something really funky, so when you do CTRL+ALT+F_N it doesn't actually give you a shell.
In fairness, I don't think that is an appreciably worse record for security than most Bitcoin exchanges.
Parts of the "free market" idea are falsifiable.

They assume rational actors (people making decisions based on their own self interest). That's been falsified (when applied to humans).

Most variations of the efficient market hypothesis have been disproved as well, for the same reasons:

Humans have cognitive biases and other types of irrational behaviour.

But anyone linking to mises.org is probably a follower of the church of the free market. And they generally strongly disagree with the idea that humans have cognitive biases (because their faith requires it not to be true).

I'm glad someone else laughed at the pro-homeopathy / conspiracy theory around the history of snake oil salesmen content on there.
Wordpress is really only good if your building a simple blog or info site. It would be very difficult to add in the amount of customization you would need to create a HN clone in Wordpress.

I would advise you look into something like Django or Rails which is a better fit for sites which need custom functionality.
The article explicitly says

"For the sake of simplicity, in this series of posts, we assume that the argument is positive and we allow the function to round any which way if the float argument is exactly in-between two integers."

As a result, adding the condition

float myround(float f)
{
if(f < 0) return -myround(-f); /* <-- the fix */
/* ... */
}

suffices
On Firefox 20 on Windows on my 2500k with a 7970 it seems CPU bound and can only achieve 43fps benchmark at 1920x1200, while having some clear artifacts from lack/too little texture anisotropy on the floor and antialiasing issues.

Also, the textures are not fully detailed when looking directly at the floor and walls.

If this is supposed to be a full quality benchmark (ala Unigine Heaven when it came out), it needs to improve.
You're right, this is fascinating stuff. Like I said, we had not yet received a pull request for the Vert.x test, but presumably we will get one before Round 5? :)

We had not previously understood that there was no need for thread-safe behavior within a Vert.x handler. Removing that (apparently fictional) requirement allows us to use just a simple array. Out of curiosity, can you point me to where you found confirmation that handlers do not require thread safety?

Thanks again for your feedback!

Edit: spot checking Vert.x with a simple array does not appear to affect performance to a measurable degree.
If you cannot write one small part of the app in C due to the difficulty or time consumed, then how much better is it for you to write everything in Java from the beginning? Java does not really substitute for Ruby in the same niche.
This is so awesome that I never want to see another WebGL demo again. This one proves it; you can make awesome games in WebGL. From now on I only want to read about non-demo WebGL games that are in development with a real release date.
The Rise of the Hacker Space
I have created this cool on-line app that I love. Just wondering if you all think it's cool too. (slidetrip.com)
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Yeah, the feeling of "something to prove" without a good idea of what much less how is really annoying.
Actually, that's a slideshow, which is a feature we offer. It uses javascript. Regular images are just good 'ol <img> tags :)
This is great stuff but does it really need to render well on mobile?
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Think of it as defense-in-depth. This allows higher-level, but more sophisticated rules, while your lower layers provide simpler but lower overhead filtering. Hopefully abusive requests never reach this thanks to your router / firewall / web server rules, but if they do, this will help keep things in check.
"Suicide rates among middle-age Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry and easy access to prescription painkillers may be particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted harm"

I don't live in the USA, but are't baby boomers supposed to be older than "middle-age" now?
I use this technique for my test DB. This is particularly nice since I end up clearing data between tests, so not having to go to a platter per write ends up noticeably speeding up my test suite.
Although I'm not a fan of programming in JS, this is pretty darn cool, got 19 FPS on Ubuntu 12.04 with regular FF from the repo.
Could it be due to the fact that jobs for this crowd are hard to find/retain, while they are still a decade-plus from retirement?

I know several 50-60s aged folks, great people who've been unemployed/underemployed for years. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they may have suicidal thoughts.

The disruption oriented job market is moving too fast for these folks, and there are fewer less-skilled jobs available for them to fall back onto that pay a living wage.

Add to that the insult to injury that social security is under attack and their kids (if they have any) might not be able to take care of them either.
While I agree this works, It's also a bit unnerving to me that 68 years later we're still using a protocol that's using a representation of time that rolls over every 126 years.
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I'm not sure what you mean. What I was getting at, is that there's a popular meme you often hear repeated, which I don't know if I accept or not, which claims something like "everybody who (tries to) commit suicide is really just crying for help".

I don't have a stand on that, because I think it's probably true more often than not, but I believe some people actually do simply make a rational, calculated, carefully weighed decision concluding that the pain they are experiencing outweighs whatever joy they experience, and decide to end the suffering. IOW, I'm one of the people who think that - for some people - suicide is a reasonable choice. And who am I to tell them it's not?

We all have our own crosses to bear, and empathy or no, none of us can ever truly understand someone else's pain, IMO.
Suicidal depression is an illness, no less so than cancer; when people get cancer, we try hard to keep it from being fatal. We don't chalk cancer fatalities up to the body's right to succumb to entropy.

Some subset of suicides are "right to die" cases, but given the prevalence of clinical depression, the notion that most suicides are the result of rational decisionmaking and not illness is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.
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Erm, I believe it would turn back into oil and coal, etc.
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The youngest boomers will be in their late forties or early fifties.
Yeah, I don't know either. Just throwing the idea out there for discussion. Depression is a weird thing...
Interesting story (since nobody seems to be commenting here on the story) about the author, Nathaniel Rich:

http://gawker.com/nathaniel-rich-is-different-from-you-and-m...
Well, you might try looking outside of metro areas to see it. I'd suggest recruiting in the Dakotas/Montana/Wyoming.
In general, higher levels have more knowledge of the specific problem domain, and can therefore make more assumptions, while the kernel has to cater to all needs.

In this particular case the fork/join scheduler supports the constant creation/destruction of new fibers, and of one fiber constantly "waking-up" other blocked fibers. Even if OS task switching is good, OS threads weren't meant to be short-lived and quick to start.

That said, OS task-switching can be quite good. That's why I've left the option of running Quasar actors tied to a thread rather than a fiber. I've tried to hide the implementation details as much as possible from the user of the API.
Google now has a 'Chief Game Designer' in Noah Falstein
that's called marketing , is it evil ?well... we all use it to sell whatever we need to sell.
Do not undersell yourself on this idea. Every business has some form of task/project management. It is a booming field.

I am assuming duration is 'expected time to complete task.'

If I am assigned a task, I generally report how much time I spent on the task. A duration works in some situations, but time spent is usually what I am interested in when it comes to business oriented tasks. Each month-end I have to do certain activities, remind me and let me easily document that January took 1 hour, February took 30 minutes, and March took 6 hours (probably an issue in quarter-end processing!).

Merge the idea of task manager and time manager to result in a project manager! There are huge profits in this business.

Multiple users on the same task, gathering metrics, making graphs, segmenting tasks (verb1, verb2, verb3), showing cost center distribution, etc.
Since no other commenter has mentioned it, I figure I should mention that I'm also not seeing any dislikes.

But since other commenters do see dislikes, I think it's more likely technical difficulties than an attempt to phase into an only-likes system.
Its not on my plan either :-p So don't feel bad about it. My plan is closer to a 0.19% expense ratio.

I hear of people in other jobs who do in fact have VTSAX in their 401k plan, but its obviously on a case-by-case basis, and highly depends on your employer's choices.
Have you guys reached out directly to the mailing lists/google groups/github issues/etc of all the frameworks you're testing, asking for experts to take a look?

I know some of these communities don't really frequent HN and Reddit, but they all frequent their mailing lists.
> and the world doesn't really look any better in a lot of ways, and looks worse in some. :-(

I think that's an unnecessarily pessimistic view of the world, and I think it's fairly common in idealists. I am myself guilty of indulging in pessimism with fellow idealists. We have big plans and great visions, and almost by definition, they don't come true, and to the extend they do, progress is glacial.

You can always find a metric by which the world is going straight to hell, but if you put on your pragmatic glasses, you can also find some metrics that show great improvements. I've found it useful to seek out those as well.
You might be better off starting from scratch with a framework in the language of your choice. Django (python) and Rails (ruby) have already been mentioned but of course PHP has plenty to choose from. Maybe Laravel?
Cloud is a VPS plus a decently real-time API for provisioning and configuration, so I can treat servers as an abstract software component. Pre-cloud era VPSes often required humans in the loop for simple administrative tasks.
This will do absolutely nothing if Linode themselves are hacked, which is what happened the past two (100% of the) times.
I would really like to know why this was downvoted.
But if I'm worried that I might become suicidally depressed in the future, and I don't want to have ready access to a gun, I can choose not to buy one. I don't think it's the government's job to protect me from myself.
Have you recently searched on this topic or visited sites related to carpet upholstery?
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Judge and prepare to be judged
I ended up with a gas station receipt that said "1/1/100". That was the extent of it.
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"The rise in suicide may also stem from the economic downturn over the past decade."

I saw this in my local area. Some traditional breadwinners in established careers suffered in the last recession.

For those at risk having trouble getting help I'll highlight two options (no affiliation):
http://www.crisischat.org/
http://ecouch.anu.edu.au/
Great post.

I see a lot of developers starting to release others apps so that it will all be related under a 'brand name' and easy to find if you press related on a developer after finding an app you enjoy. I think that's about the only way to currently curtail the system.
Here Is the New Face of TPP and ACTA in the US
I don't care about the gun control debate; HN is a terrible venue for it. Some of my close friends are gun enthusiasts, others gun-control activists. I don't think any less of people who disagree with me about guns and think of it as one of the better examples of a "reasonable people can disagree" discussion (which, ironically, tend to be the worst kinds of discussions for HN).

I do care about misconceptions about suicidal depression, since depression is a serious risk for the community of people that use HN.
I applied for an internship and I never got a response :(.
On the other hand, If I'd attempt a suicide and have this choice I'd choose firearm by a large margin. It's a humane way to die, as opposed to e.g. hanging. Just imagine it: Somebody living a miserable life and even dying painful and miserable death.
We intend to provide distribution on top of Galaxy (http://puniverse.github.io/galaxy/).
> I really want to avoid gun control debate,

Gun control debate in the US centers around several proposals: restricting semi-automatic firearms, restricting handguns in particular, and additional checks at firearm purchase time.

Problem is the first two:

A) Do not matter in regards to suicide. A semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round magazine is no more useful than a double barrel shotgun (a firearm type that is legal in most countries, even those that prohibit all other types of firearms).

B) Significantly turn gun owners (who are the ones mailing their constituents) against all kind of firearm regulation, including the last kind of measures, such as additional background checks, requirements to demonstrate safe handling, etc...

California has a ten day waiting period for firearm purchases and as a result has a lower firearm suicide rate despite the fact that handguns and semi-automatic firearms are readily available. While they're restricted to ten round magazines and -- in the case of military-style firearms -- require using a tool to release the magazine, it's unlikely that these laws matter much in regards to suicide.
But no one forces the cancer patient to accept cancer treatment - it is always a choice. The same can be said for clinical depression - but for some reason in this case you sound as if you'd like to force the person to undergo treatment because you think you know what is in their best interest. I find that highly contentious.
I've used both of these without a hub without any problem. I use an old Samsung cell charger (I think 700ma). I don't generally have anything else drawing power from the USB port though.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037G2BMY/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LPY204/
I think (but don't have proof) that it still is better if none of it escapes as methane.

If you don't turn your waste into heat, presumably, you would dig up oil, refine it, transport it to where you need it and burn that oil. Chances are that produces more CO2 than the collection and burning of waste fairly close to where it is produced (transporting waste from Italy to Norway would probably be a different matter)

Also, the controlled burning of waste (typically at high temperatures) can break down molecules that, if dropped in a landfill, may make it into the atmosphere or ground water.

More arguments fore/against at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration#Debate. I find it telling that quite a few of the 'against' arguments compare incineration not with landfills, but with other technologies/solutions.
FF 20 does lack the asm.js integration.
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> they've kind of abbonned JS in favor of Dart

Haven't they announced that they have no plans to integrate the Dart VM with the Blink rendering engine?
Oops, got it backwards. Right now they are signed. Change them to unsigned. Then back and forth.

Of course if you miss any...
Compared to those born between 1900 and 1931, Americans born between 1962 and 1978 were 3 times more likely to have grown up in severely abusive homes, 5 time more likely to have attempted suicide, 4.5 times more like to have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, 50% more likely to have suffered depression, and 50% more likely to have experienced alcohol addiction.

Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743503...
Same here; google-chrome-unstable-28.0.1485.0-195393.x86_64 on Fedora 18.

Hardest crash I've experienced on this new setup.
Best customer breakup email ever
On Welcoming Minorities
I'm searching nationwide, using Dice, LinkedIn, Craigslist (international nationwide aggregator built for internal talent search!), and StackExchange.

While I've harped about companies allowing telecommuting, the startup I'm at is not my own, and does require people to be onsite (for the time being).
Right, but whether a CPU miner is better for LTC or not is only relevant when you're choosing what kind of miner to buy.

For those who already have GPU miners they bought for BTC, that are now becoming obsolete to FPGA and ASIC miners, the pertinent comparison is how to get the best ROI on their GPU miner - continue with BTC, switch to LTC, or just shut it off.
Thanks for taking the time to find the blog post. I definitely need to reconsider whether or not self-hosting is such a good idea or not.
the notion that most suicides are the result of rational decisionmaking and not illness is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.

FWIW, I am not making that specific claim. I'm just pointing out that there is another angle to consider, as far as whether or not the suicide issue should even be considered when talking gun-control.
I'd feel better if GPA was an indicator of success. Unfortunately, all it really appears to be is an indicator of future GPA scores.

(College dropout here... :-) )
I don't really see the value in this. Note that a tmpfs can still be swapped, so unless you disable swap it's certainly not a "pure in-memory DB". You're not really changing the performance uncharacteristics here, just the way the backing store is managed. It really shouldn't be any faster or slower to run in tmpfs vs. a real filesystem for a typical case. There are edge cases like what kind of VM pressure can eject a clean page, but really nothing that would change the architecture. This is really just a different way of tuning the installation.
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What a prig...
They are using the term "middle-aged" to describe a person between the ages of 35 and 64.[1] The "Baby Boom" is generally described as having occurred between 1946 and 1964.[2] Therefore, there will still be middle-aged Baby Boomers until 2029.

[1]: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6217a1.htm?s_cid=...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_baby_...
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country

Why?