skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind doubling the size that much, but why not have milliseconds instead of seconds? 500+ billion years is just silly.. 500 million years ought to be enough for any civilization.
Agreed, but the language is sufficiently (edit) MORE verbose than Python that it is still a valid strategy to write in Python first, and then rewrite in Go for performance..
I love what you guys are doing. This is by far the most comprehensive (in terms of number of frameworks) comparison of web frameworks. I also am a big fan of the new filtering metadata.

However, I'm starting to think that all of the advocates of various frameworks are now conspiring independently to make this comparison meaningless...any framework (except Cake for some reason) can be superoptimized towards a small set of tasks. If you do another round, could you increase the number of different tasks? Some examples could be:

1) Mixed bag of queries of various complexity
2) Static file serving
3) A few computation/memory-intense benchmarks (such as those in the Language Benchmarks Game)
4) Templating
It's harder with smartphones because they generally notice what you're doing at the last moment. Apparently this will still apply to glass.
BCSocial raises $1.1M
Actually one of the more entertaining attempts at Accounting humour I've seen of late. (See: Sage and Boox Harlem shakes, oh the agony)

And this is coming from a competitor btw ;)
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Perfectly reasonable depending what your goals are... A typical lunch for me is 600g of chicken drumsticks, 400g of lean chicken breast in sweet chili sauce - alternatively some prawn, a sausage and egg sandwich, and a bottle of yoghurt drink, and a small flapjack...

I'm sick of chicken, but I'm doing leangains style intermittent fasting and getting a large proportion of my protein (220g+/day) in during my first meal of the day makes it a lot easier to meet the goals for the rest of the day.
Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects
Not sure if I understand the question :) I have no relation to Yandex company.
Not in the current guise. It looks like the-new-bluetooth-earpiece, hides stuff coming at you from the RHS and I quite like the amount of connectedness I have now. It's not easily foldable and it probably doesn't handle scratching that well. I'll give it a few years.
Good luck with all that.
$250 seems like a reasonable price to pay for a device that has the potential to provide a significant amount of utility over time. It's also in a nice in between area that allows for experimentation without breaking the budget (splurgtastic birthday gift range) and wouldn't make me cry at the sunk cost if I had to put them on a shelf after wearing them for a month and not liking them.
With ISO 8601 [1] there is already a standardized way of representing dates, times and intervals.

This suggestion has at least one major design flaw - you can not represent many common recurrences using seconds. Not every day has 86,400 seconds, not every month has 30 days, not every year has 365 days.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
"But what really makes CHICKEN special is its community. A group of helpful and faithful fanatics is actively maintaining and improving it, sometimes at a frightening pace. If you need help, ask on the mailing lists or IRC channel and you get it. Always."

I can attest to this - I played around making a 3d engine in Chicken, and the IRC channel was both super helpful, and simply nice. It's wonderful to deal with smart, nice people. Interestingly, #clojure is similarly full of nice, smart people.

As for the language and tooling itself, it's also extremely nice. Binding to C libraries was simple, even for someone doing it for the firs time. The emacs integration was tight (not as tight as slime, but still nice). It just felt like a productive ecosystem.
I would be willing to pay up to €900 for it. I really do feel that they would be revolutionary and they should be reasonable priced to flood the market.
> You then buy this template and shoehorn your own content, and hopefully goals into a template without ever thinking about what your site should look or work like.

Templates work fine if you simply reverse the order here: think carefully about how you want the site to look and work, then look to see if there is a template that is reasonably close. If there is, it's a huge savings in cost and time--even if you have to alter the template a bit. Graphic design and front-end coding are expensive by the hour.
I think $500 is a reasonable amount of pay, $250 means no profit on it for Google which sets an unrealistic boundary for other businesses.
I have Herman Miller Mirra chairs. They’re an improvement over the Aeron in two important ways:

* Less knobs, more automatic adjustments

* One size fits all

http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...
Technology has been replacing workers for a long time, but unemployment hasn't been steadily increasing over time.

The inventor of the steam shovel was accused of causing permanent unemployment with the argument "each steam shovel will replace 100 men with shovels."

He replied "or 1000 men with teaspoons."

These "mass unemployment events" aren't anything new, and they historically haven't caused long-lasting unemployment.
Any reason you didn't test ASP.NET MVC or ASP Web Forms?
Surveys of philosophers: normative or informative?
My first thought was this was another case of the "old guard" being afraid of change, but I read their letter and I actually agree with some of their points.

The obvious downside is the lack of interaction with the lecturing professor.

This was another point I hadn't thought of:

"The thought of the exact same social justice course being taught in various philosophy departments across the country is downright scary - something out of a dystopian novel"

https://chronicle.com/article/The-Document-an-Open-Letter/13...

MOOCs are great for low cost and continuing education. I'm doing one right now, but it feels very lacking compared to my college experience, and I keep wondering how it's integrated in "real" courses.
I voted 250 because I feel I would pay at least 250 for it, but 500 seemed too high, so I fall in the middle.
>Kernel's Chicken recipe.

Now that is a fast food restaurant I'd like to visit.
That's not bad at all for not even 24 hours. I'm sorry I might have brought down your average by a buck or so. I see that you're from T.O too so let's just call it a "neighbour discount".
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Also interesting is their assertion that society first changes very quickly after the introduction of the plow, but then has very long lasting effects. Why did the first change quickly but the second have long lasting effects?
French Efforts to Block Sale of Stake in Video Site to Yahoo Are Criticized
Questions and answers aren't uniformly distributed. The bulk of questions will be from the same small set over time. Humans are only necessary for the exceptions. While this may never go to zero, it may not justify having an expensive human around answering what are mostly predictable questions over and over for the occasional bizarre one. (And I'd bet the bizarre ones often come from further weaknesses in the previous teaching which could be ground out of the MOOC over time.)
Yah, I noticed nearly all of the top frameworks are Java or JVM based. Pretty cool!

I just noticed something, the two major JSF2.0 implementations MyFaces and Mojarra are both missing.
I think there's enough of an incentive for hackers to figure out how to unbrick these phones that it wouldn't be much of a deterrent.

If the bricking were truly permanent, like blowing an efuse or something, the risk of false positives bricking phones that aren't really lost is probably higher than the phone makers are comfortable with.
$100. The hardware is worth more than that, but that's what I can afford to spend on something I don't need.
http://openresty.org/ Looks interesting but at a quick glance it looks like you are programming in configuration files? I'm not sure I like the idea.
Maybe because the server is not running Windows?

Edit: yeah right Mono and w/e
Looks like you’re after an excellent candidate
Really. I've recently been getting into node/express after years of Java, and these results make me feel a whole lot less cool.
This sounds interesting, but it would be nice if you gave more information about it. A post detailing what it does and how it works would be great :)

EDIT: I'm guessing from the name (and the mention of Mono) that it uses Beagle?
Perhaps consider Postmates (http://postmates.com/). They deliver a broad range of goods in SF and Seattle.

Disclaimer - my friend works there.

First pass impression: Good balance between meal-generation and customization. For me, I would lock in breakfast and one lunch, likely varying a late lunch and/or dinner. Your comment below about locking in a couple beers (say every Thurs or Fri happy hour) is a great example of how to utilize this in a modern lifestyle.

Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words. We're very interested in adding additional tests, this round even includes a new test dubbed "Fortunes" which does in fact do server-side templating. We have an open github issue[1] asking for the community's input for just this sort of thing, and we'd love to have your feedback included.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/13...
Why I'm still using Play! these results are disappointing once again, atleast beat node.js. Go is looking great though.
One cool idea would be to be able to improve day-to-day activities.

I would love the ability to have OCR and being able to integrate that seamlessly into emails/txt/searches/etc.
I had the same thought. ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms are both very popular frameworks, and they're free to develop for. Might be harder to set up on a non-Windows machine, which could be why they were not tested.
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I really like your breadth-first/depth-first analogy. I've never thought of it that way.
My understanding is that you can use e.g. "rel=canonical" links to tell bots what the indexable URL of the current page is. Other tools in the box include UA sniffing and sitemap.xml.
I guess I fixed the problem you mentioned. I had forgot to polish Gruntfile.coffee. You can now use unminified version of css/js in development environments.
That was one of the most surprising results for me, I wasn't aware that objective aesthetics was even taken seriously.
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Yes but surely that has something to do, at least in part, with the implied reduction in quality between the sent and received document?

I would hope that any working 'teletransporter' would provide a near-enough-perfect replica?
A prep time estimate to go with the meals would be a nice feature
Thinking hard and its effect on appetite
> Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass.

Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone, and that's already too much time and effort for lots and lots of use cases (including a lot of Google Nowish things that could be alerted to you if you were likely to look immediately, but useless in two minutes).

The stigma will go away pretty quickly, except from the people who always object to trying new things.
Wanted: 25 special customers.
Maybe this is a sign that we need to further bifurcate undergraduate & professional education from research. The two functions are not necessarily related, nor do they need to be performed by the same person. Undergrads need more education and training at a lower cost, and technology is the way to achieve that. The current university system is unsustainable because technology is threatening it, it's unsustainable because few can actually afford it anymore. MOOCs aren't threatening social justice, they are creating it, by making the curricula available outside of the ivory tower. MOOCs aren't for current university students, they're for anyone with an internet connection and a desire to learn. Who cares if it's not quite up to the quality standards of a university course because of the lack of personal interaction? It's free to access, what could be more democratic than that?
Is it Lua or LuaJIT?
Not that PHP is particularly fast, but I notice that Raw PHP does about middle of the pack, but all of the ORM versions seem to do terribly. Interesting stuff.

I've usually had pretty good luck with Slim, I'll have to try a version with & without redbean and see how big a difference it makes.
Thanks for doing these extensive benchmarking tests. It would be really helpful to see a more complex example that includes user authentication. Aside from the benchmarks it's also a really good starting point to compare the code in different languages and get a first impression of a framework.

On a side-note, I'd really like to know why so few start-ups seem to be using Spring. It could be just a wrong impression . But from what I have seen most start-ups use RoR or Django. My guess is that Spring is less flexible and less known outside big companies, where it is usually the default. It could also be that Spring works better with the waterfall model whereas Django or RoR are better suited for explorative programming and that fits the respective spheres better.
Would it be too much to ask to also run a Windows VM? Or use Mono?
I think the goal will be somewhere between $200 - $500. I don't actually think the hardware is really that expensive to manufacture, so I could see those numbers being hit pretty easily.
Probably because all those big frameworks have to initialize everything for every request. Parsing, connections, configuration, you name it.
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This could have been boiled down to:

People don't spend very much time reading job abs. They focus on title, company, and salary. Additionally, companies could be clearer in their descriptions.

This sounds like common sense, but throw a heatmap tracking where people look and it's news.
Could you use wolfram alpha to calculate nutritional info? I'm not sure about their usage policies though...
Google files patent for smartwatch with Glass-like touchpads and functionality
$250 sounds fine for a new kind of device that people don't know if they want or need yet.
At least you can see the X - for some reason I only see the middle-third of the overlay, and can't close it. If I were interested in signing up for their list, I couldn't do that either.

Definitely a UX fail.
Should I submit our site redesign to AWWWARDS.com?
I'm no web designer, but a friend suggested I should submit our redesigned site - www.swatchmate.com

It would obviously be cool to get any recognition, but I need convincing that's it worth the admission fee.

So, does anyone have:
- an opinion on AWWWARDS.com
- suggestion on where else to submit the design
- critique on why I shouldn't bother<p>/Cheers
Because you didn't scroll past the first graph?
I don't particularly love Java itself, but it is quite impressive how Java and other JVM languages are pretty much ass-kicking at the top of the list. That seems to go for heavyweight stuff as well as simpler "micro" frameworks.

I guess if anything it speaks to what a solid piece of software the JVM is.
yup. this is exactly what i meant.
I don't have one.

I will want one.

I hope they avoid the bluetooth headset problem - I hope they last longer and are more common than bluetooth headsets are now.
Would you ask the teenage 'you' for relationship advice?
author: "So I go to work today, and think to myself, today I’m going to be productive employee, attend a few meetings, make that deadline, commit some code, but NOPE, gotta click all those Reddit links. Then there’s Glass, with no compelling reason to use while at the office or work, it sits tucked away inside the desk drawer.
That’s all about to change, because now you can get pictures of cats and memes and _gonewild beamed directly to your face without anyone suspecting a thing."
No desire to have anything so exposed, let would be a distraction from driving/riding/etc. I know, you take them off when doing activities such as those, well then they aren't for me then. Tech should not intrude into my life, my smart phone doesn't. It is out of the way until I need it.

Sorry if I come off like a Luddite. Make it a watch.
It's impressive how well PHP holds up with many queries per request (which is the most common CRUD/webapp scenario).

While for no or just one query it's slower than a lot of the other frameworks (due to PHP being slow to parse, startup etc), as soon as we have a lot of DB queries, the C interface to MySQL leaves the other frameworks in the dust.

The well known PHP shortcomings aside, that's a nice example of optimizing for the things that matter most, especially for it's common use cases (Wordpress, Drupal, etc).
Well no matter what you use, you should always benchmark for that exact reason. Making things go fast takes a lot of performance engineering, and the JVM has millions of dollars worth of tuning put into it.

BTW, if you like Node.js, you should probably look at Vert.x. I haven't used it, but it's a similar concept, it runs on the JVM, and it seems to spank Node.js.
I got on the Node thing for awhile too, but went back to Java/JBoss/Tomcat/Spring. If you are skilled with the Java stack it is hard to beat for performance and breadth. If you are not, well, I admit the learning curve is steep.
Perfect. Love it.
We would like to have a .NET test running on mono. We were hoping to get a pull request for round 4, but unfortunately we have yet to receive one.
It's sad that more people don't study the philosophy and sociology of Science, especially people in engineering and the sciences.

Scientists make ontological and metaphysical claims about the nature of the universe, and unless they avail themselves of the philosophy of science there are a lot of arguments that one can't defend against.. There are a lot of fundamentalists who avail themselves of Thomas Kuhn's argument that scientific progress is entirely just cultural consensus amongst scientists, and has no additional metaphysical reality.

Fighting off that argument is squarely in the philosophy of science, as is being able to articulate what it means to observe, theorize about, and know reality.
http://xkcd.com/607/
What makes this bad? Or rather what makes this objectively bad? I feel like URL schemes espoused by people who judge them are basically bs. Success of the website IMO seems like the only objective measure and by that measure pretty much any URL scheme is fine given the schemes used on some of the most popular sites use schemes that people like jakub_g complain about

I can see where maybe an API URL might have objective better and worse schemes but a content URL? Show me the research results, not just fashion opinions
The Explorer units are practically waterproof. Mine lasts most of the day.
If their FAQ's page is saying what I think it does, then they aren't testing with memcache or opcode caching.

Also no love for Yii.
Off all the top performers, Go seems to be the only sane choice to write a web app. Moreover it is at the sweet spot; expressive, flexible, simple, super performant, good community etc. I think it is convincing enough for me to give Go a serious look for our new app.
by the time it may be useful there will be newer versions of the hardware tho.
250 is the price wed pay for the novelty we dont need.
wouldnt be surprised to see it at 500 however.. ;)
A bunch of eager students waiting to get a chance to discuss something with the educator can be handled on-line just as well as off-line, assuming both students and teachers have decent social media communicating skills.
Yeah, of course.

With slim in particular I notice that the benchmarks list it as "Raw database connectivity" but in the code it looks like it's using RedBean ORM. I'll look more at lunch, i'm probably just misreading something.

Although obviously ORM is more realistic, since if you're sophisticated enough to be using composer and a framework, you're probably using an ORM. I know the point of this benchmark is frameworks not ORMs, but it would be interesting to swap them out and see if there's a huge difference.
I have a feeling that people will soon adapt the ability to tell that a glass user isn't paying attention due to distraction from the glass, almost as easily as it is to tell now that a smartphone user isn't paying attention due to distraction from the smartphone.
I wouldn't worry too much. Soon we'll have .horse and .melbourne, all our TLD problems will be behind us.
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> Certainly, the world's economy would have collapsed when cars came and the horse and buggy creators lost their jobs, the printing press forced manual copiers out of business, automatic telephone switches made operators lose their job, etc.

Transportation advances caused great economic difficulties from 1870-1890 [1]

What happens if the hits keep coming as technological innovation accelerates and new mass employment industries are not created?

> I honestly do feel bad for the people that lose their job when new tech comes around, but why should I be forced to subsidize an outdated way of life?

I would say a basic minimum income would be investing in defense against violent revolutions. At some point people will just revolt if they are starved or even lack upward mobility.

> Plus, it isn't like new tech kills jobs overnight; the writing is on the wall, and in the case of driverless cars and MOOCs, the transition will probably take at least a decade.

There are long ramp up times for retraining and educating people. And I don't think education is going to be enough.

I think the most radical and unpalatable truth is that a huge segment of humans are just not going to be intelligent enough to provide value in the coming robot and machine intelligence run economy.

Our brains and memories could be so much greater, and we should engineer ourselves with all deliberate speed.

Humans have to upgrade themselves before they are obsolete.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Deflation
MOOCs give me the ability to continue my education without doing into debt and delay having a family. Education should be free. San Jose State is probably a better school than where I got my degree, but I don't believe for a second that every class is taught by a caring well paid professor. They use TAs, Graduate Assistants, and over worked nontenured visiting professors just like any other cashed strapped University.
> Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone

You can't just "glance down at your phone", you have to take it out of your pocket first, and unlock it in most cases. Your watch is already in your peripheral view and very little effort is required to position it correctly and look down at it. I recently received my Pebble (http://getpebble.com) watch and you'll have to take my word for it. Being able to glance down at my watch to see text messages and caller ID's is much more natural and fluid than pulling my phone out of my pocket; especially when I'm sitting down.
There's also a blog post at http://blog.hatnote.com/post/49342528753/wikipedia-recent-ch... that provides a little bit of background.
Totally agree. Two weeks ago I bought a Steelcase Leap for $300 - only a year old and in great condition - and I couldn't be happier with the decision.