skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fallacy. If you need to show something to prove or give an opinion or a reason about 2+2=4 then we will have troubles to discuss on anything.

You cannot use argumentum ad hominem to this point. If people has to shown their portfolios or other stuff to prove their skillmanship you're only wasting time and finding on the wrong place to prove your points, since those designs may not apply or be used as a good example to counterattack the main point here.
Mark Zuckerberg was offered $1 billion dollars from Yahoo. After offered the money Mark and Peter Thiel (investor) had a talk about the offer. Marks comment was "obviously we're not going to sell here." Peter didn't feel the same way. Today Peter is very grateful Mark didn't sell. Mark had a vision for FB that Yahoo didn't, and he knew that if he sold he would never see his vision come true.
The point is that turning down an acquisition is a gamble (past performance is no guarantee of future results). That's not "positive" or "negative". People remember the success stories but oftentimes don't think of the failures ("survivorship bias")
Well, in the database access test with multiple queries, Go has an outrageous max latency of 19 seconds, and a stddev of 3x the mean, which is terrible.
I'm glad the OP brought this up and I think its an important topic for the HN 'community'. Innovation loves support. When innovation is supported, you get more innovation.

On several occasions, I've seen a poor soul post a project on here that represents a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. There will be enthusiastic support, constructive criticism, and often too many haters. I'd love it if the haters left -- maybe all head off to hate picnic or something where they can spit pickles at each other.

Perhaps a basic issue is that people say things in online commentary that they wouldn't say face to face. I think that's fundamentally wrong and mostly accidental -- a result of people's cognitive models not catching up to what's actually happening. Thanks for listening :)
I found it well balanced. They included several examples of people like Zuckerberg who turned down large amounts of money and were later proven correct.
Thanks. She drafted up a contract (she's also a lawyer) which we're sending off to our legal counsel. She spent an hour with me going over every word of the contract and I only had concerns about one point which she was happy to amend.
So, since you are clearly a very technically deep and insightful person with lots and lots of industry experience, you are stating with great authority that OS X does not use FreeType to rasterize fonts. Interesting. :)
Showing my age here, but when I think "Iris" I think of SGI, not Apple.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/SG...
It'd be nice to also have a "lines of code" comparison, because i can see how some benchmarks are at the top but after looking at the code they also tend to be quite "manual".
Thanks. I hope so. She was very straightforward that all of her "costs/fees" are bundled up in the commission. She's a lawyer so she'll do legal work related to the sales (NDAs/partnership agreements/etc) and that's how she justifies the X% commission.

I'm very happy to pay commission on sales.
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chicken scheme runs on both android and iOS devices. I also know of at least one company building apps with chicken scheme.

[0] https://github.com/chicken-mobile

[1] http://www.bevuta.com/
I've dabbled a bit with Play, but found it too slow (with Scala). Have a look at Scalatra or, if you don't need a full blown framework, Spray
So I've long wanted a good scheme for CLI programs. I've evaluated Chicken several times and passed over it every time.... but I can't remember why. Here's what I'm looking for:

1) Fast executables
2) No runtime requirement
3) Good ecosystem (for Scheme)
4) Good ffi (though I'd prefer a great ecosystem).

That's basically all I want. I also kept going back to Gambit but it fails at #3 which Chicken seems not to.

Is there a gotcha for Chicken that I'm not remembering? Like how Racket has a slow startup cost, Chicken doesn't seem to have that (from my testing). I think Gambit is probably still faster but not by much (I could be wrong here).
If you're building an actual webapp I assume you wouldn't put anything more than a require and a call to the app's entry point in the config file. Putting nontrivial amounts of Lua in the config file is more of a way to stave off the evolution into terrible turing-complete languages that config files often make.
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Nerds generally aren't any more mature than jocks. We just don't fight as well, so we (wisely) keep quiet in situations where the risk of eating a knuckle sammich is high.
Thanks, Periodic. It's especially rewarding to hear that people have gleaned value from the project.

You're precisely right about how to put this data to use: as one point in a holistic decision making process. We address that in the Questions section of the site, in fact. That said, we are not reducing each framework to a single performance number. Our goal is to measure the performance of several key components of modern frameworks: database abstraction and connection pool performance, JSON serialization, list and collection functions, and server-side templates. We'd like to add even more computationally-intensive request types in future rounds.

So, no, we're not testing your (or anyone else's) specific application on each framework. But we are testing functions that your application is likely to use. You're still better off measuring the performance of your use-case on candidate frameworks before you start work, but perhaps you can first trim the field to a manageable number.

In the first round, we echoed your surprise at the spread--four orders of magnitude! I think the shifting winds of opinion come from the fact that today's high-performance languages, platforms, frameworks are not necessarily more cumbersome to use for development than the old guard. As others have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, Go is not a terribly verbose language, and yet its performance is fantastic.

Has the era of sacrificing performance at the altar of developer efficiency ended? I'm not sure. But we have some data to add to the conversation.
The site is breaking under pressure, so here's the press release:

TESLA WARDENCLYFFE LABORATORY PURCHASED FOR MUSEUM

(Shoreham, NY)—Friends of Science East, Inc., dba Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, is pleased to announce that it has completed the purchase of the last remaining laboratory of scientist, visionary, and inventor Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, NY. The site was sold by Agfa Corporation, with headquarters in New Jersey.

The 15.69-acre laboratory site, known as Wardenclyffe, is where Tesla planned his wireless communications and energy transmission tower, in the early 1900s. He was never able to complete the construction of the tower due to lack of funds.
At the end of August 2012, Friends of Science East, Inc. partnered with online comic Matthew Inman (TheOatmeal.com) to hold an online crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo.com in which they were able to raise $1.37 million towards saving the Wardenclyffe site. Over 33,000 people from 108 countries contributed to the success of the campaign, which reached the $1 million mark in just over a week.

“This is a major milestone in our almost two-decade effort to save this historically and scientifically significant site. We have been pursuing this dream with confidence that we would eventually succeed,” said Gene Genova, Vice President of the organization. “We are very excited to be able to finally set foot on the grounds where Tesla walked and worked.”
“Now begin the next important steps in raising the money needed to restore the historic laboratory,” said Mary Daum, treasurer. “We estimate that we will need to raise about $10 million to create a science learning center and museum worthy of Tesla and his legacy. We invite everyone who believes in science education and in recognizing Tesla for his many contributions to society to join in helping to make this dream a reality.”

The organization plans several fundraising events in the future. More information can be found on the website (www.TeslaScienceCenter.org), at the Facebook page (Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe), and via Twitter (@teslascience).

Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation in the state of New York, dedicated to saving and restoring Wardenclyffe, and transforming it into a science learning center and museum.
How does this compare with http://code.google.com/p/jetlang/ ?

How does this work with garbage collection? Is the GC per-process ("fiber"), like in Erlang?
You're right of course, when dealing with desktop software packages. I was only thinking of the online web-startup stuff which is generally just plain better.
If you're going in the opposite direction, doesn't that mean you're going backwards?
Ok, you're taking the linear progression of history part, but leaving the slaughter-bench?

Hegel would be very disappointed
For anyone wanting the Linux font rendering on Windows - check out MacType (https://code.google.com/p/mactype/). Works best on high-dpi monitors, and it's a matter of taste on low-dpi (little blurrier, but the fonts are more authentic).
I was surprised not to see Digg on this list. Was it ever offered $100+ million?
Here's what I think people are missing: if you don't go to college then you don't know what you don't know. These people with no education think they know it all anyway, but that's because they're blind to what they could have learned.

It makes me angry because it's so fucking arrogant! There are people working at colleges who have a lifetime of experience, hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and grants, and people just think they can teach themselves all of that without any of their help!
As a note to people, http://www.amazongrocer.com/ and http://fresh.amazon.com/ exist.
Isn't that website simple? Jesus, check this one http://www.bcn.cat/ is from Barcelona city, you will understand when something was designed simple and when was made like the rest of the 99%.

That website is simpler than the rest, tell me how you will reduce the noise.
Is China covering up another flu pandemic - or getting it right this time?
It's so much easier to start a new venture once you have had a successful exit. Investors throw money at you. My advice to founders would be to think of the impact that a successful exit can have on your entrepreneurial career. Think of paypal.
The drama around words like this is between people who don't actually use the concepts they represent. The words "disrupt", "synergy", and "cloud" are useful words ONLY if:

- You care about the high level strategies a startup might implement in order to take on an entrenched player who is playing a game no one can beat them at.

- You are seeking mutually beneficial intra-business relationships.

- You would like to provision machines without managing them yourself.

Journalists and non-practitioners fight back and forth about words like this because they have no skin in the game. I will continue happily using the word "disrupt" because I read the Innovator's Dilemma and I think Christensen highlighted a powerful concept that needed a label. And I will continue using the word "cloud" because I remember what it was like to have to buy a dedicated server every time I wanted to spin up a new service.

And I could give a rat's ass if some journalist thinks that's hokem.
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As far as I know chicken meets all of those requirements quite well. Chicken starts up extremely fast even for very large applications as long as you compile it.

The library ecosystem is obviously not as well developed as a major framework like rails or django but it is growing fast and covers most things you would need. A large benefit of it compiling to C and having great FFI support is that most libs don't have to be reimplemented in scheme but can just have a binding to an already mature lib.

edit: And if it doesn't have what you need the community is great at helping you get on the right track adding a new lib and gladly accepts well done patches.
I find it entertaining how people think that younger generations don't know what things are.
The majority of teenagers right now could tell you what it is and probably even how it worked.
This wouldn't have happened if the original submission had followed the site guidelines[1]:

> If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

I view it as similar to Wikipedia's "no original research" policy.

[1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You failed the test.
A tutorial from CMU showing some of the capabilities of the system: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/97-212/mlworks-intro.html
Countdown Timer. Should underflow at the last second, of course.
We do plan to start tackling that other dimension, efficiency. Source lines of code is one objective measure that, for all its faults, we plan to include.

In a previous round, I pasted the relevant code directly into the results view. I will likely do that again soon since it's convenient for the reader.

For the time being, I invite you to browse the Github repository and examine the test implementation source.
Thanks for the heads-up, will change it.
it's simply sad, that the government is not able to react to the huge demand of foreign workers. Especially that they kick out students which got educated in US universities, just after one year.
I was with you until the last part. Pretty stupid to smear an entire group of people based on the views of a smaller chunk of its members.
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I would have much enjoyed a calculus class out of SJSU, but I think their renowned professor has retired:

http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~swann/mcsqrd.html
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There are many things wrong with this
I really wouldn't have thought that "disrupt" meant cheap and shitty.
More than one people use the anonymous account, so I won't really sacrifice my anonymity by sharing. That said, I'm Bulgarian and we use both "ножица" (scissor, singular) and "ножици" (scissors, plural), both deriving from "нож" -- knife; the latter also means more than one pair of scissors. We never use "a pair of scissors". Unfortunately, I couldn't see if the singular or plural form came first, because the very first published Bulgarian dictionary from 1900 lists both. It also doesn't have the word for "pants", so I can't comment on that neither. In general though, we never use "a pair of" for things that are physically a single object, like a scissors or a pants; "a pair of scissors" would mean two distinct scissors. Of course, all languages have exceptions to every rule and for the above in Bulgarian it's "glasses". We do say "a pair of glasses". We also say "a frameS for glasses" speaking about a single frame for a single pair of glasses.
Yeah, I like the implication that the one with his name is better because of that, even though it's meaningless.
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A good example is Shakr, a "social online hangout" which won Disrupt SF in 2011 [1] and raised $15M immediately after. Robert Scoble said it would become a $100M company.

Yeah...

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...
That's all reasonable, but unnecessary. In my case, the effort is simply out of order - I don't mind reading, but I always hit the demo first (low effort) to see if the copy is worth reading (higher effort).
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Yup, they look like similar solutions to similar problems.

One of the things that I built into reports at that location was the ability to see all of the tmp tables that had been created, and the ability to stop the report on any particular one and display that. I built this as a debugging aid for myself, but was quite surprised when finance came to me one day and said, "Report X is going wrong on step Y - it looks like you're filtering out duplicate records."

I like having users that will debug my stuff. :-)
there are 2 different sides of this kind of situations. The first side of it is the story. it's always fancy, great to listen and follow and spread.

but the second part isn't always fancy, it's almost painful i think. because it's a huge decision to make and there is always one choice to make a decision: rejecting...

if you don't reject it, it won't a big story and it won't has no persistence. if you accept it and if it's not huge amount of money, anybody won't talk about you.

this is the dilemma of the startup ecosystem.
I suggest expansion into Mumbai... plagued by trash, lacking reliable energy.
But the ash doesn't stick around, does it? Do you have an order-of-magnitude estimate for the heating effects of the ash? I'm guessing it's trivial compared to carbon offset.
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Being a tropical country, India does not need much of indoor heating. Fine option for heating water.
I implemented the Ringo app for this benchmark and of course ran it against Node and a couple of others to see how we would perform in this neighborhood before I opened the pull request.

And since that day I've been wondering: why does NodeJs (=V8 JS engine in C) talking to MongoDB have higher response times and latency than Ringo (=Rhino JS engine on JVM) talking to MySQL. The only thing where Node beats us JVM guys seems to be the JSON response test.
Hah! I just posted this. Would it make air pollution worse... or just the same?
True, it has some skeuomorphic elements. I suspect the creator was trying to make fun of skeuomorphism through excess, but missed the mark by misunderstanding the concepts involved.
Right, but just because you have a data type that can handle a date that far in the future does not imply that you have fixed your OS and supporting software to be able to handle the day when the system time rolls over.
Yeah, and I get a back ache if I do the same thing. Let's argue over who's anecdote people should listen to...
That is insanely cool. How does that even work? Does the original bond issuer even exist anymore? If I'm holding a bond with a call date of 3010, what do you even do with that?
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That's the kind of one-dimensional thinking we're trying to disrupt.
I aggree, but I still hope that ST3 could go Emacs direction....
I'm still not convinced this is a viable solution for waste management (not that there's a simple alternative), given the environmental implications. Yes, air pollution is pretty regulated and has been reduced significantly since the 80's[1], but the residues resulting from the filtering process are still heavily toxic and it's not clean by any means[2].

[1] http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/sofos/Waste_Inciner...

[2] Section 10: http://www.ecomed.org.uk/content/IncineratorReport_v3.pdf
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I retract that then, but I honestly think that anti-intellectualism is a serious and disturbing problem in the tech community. It's like these people want to take us to a dark age of not really understanding anything beyond a superficial level.
iptables can limit the number of connections per ip in a "cheap" (fast/early) way. In fact is my #1 use of iptables since blocking ports where there are no services doesn't do much.
In my opinion, you hit the nail on the head with regard to a view on Java (being that it is "slow"). For many years in the early going, it was slow, but it has come around so much.

That being said, as a day-to-day Java web-developer, I cannot honestly remember the last time I wrote "public static void main".
Ah, thanks for the clarification, I missed that Quasar was aimed at Java, which threw me off. (Apparently I can't be expected to read the first sentence carefully.)

After enjoying the benefits of immutability and lightweight message passing, I'd hate to give up the former -- but if you're stuck with Java, I suppose all this is gravy.
I think this is the best implementation of this kind of site I've used. I see you already include a paleo option and thats great, but as an ibs sufferer I also adhere to the fodmap diet's guidelines and have had a lot of success with it. This diet excludes foods such as garlic which you cannot currently exclude manually unless you block each individual recipe which I have done. It would be great if you gave a fodmap option or even just the ability to exclude these items. Here's further information on the subject:

http://blog.katescarlata.com/fodmaps-basics/

Another interesting take on the paleo side of things is the "perfect health diet" which the creators believe is optimised to help prevent disease, premature aging and the like, but is not strictly paleo. I've found the information covered in their book very interesting and I recommend their site for more information:

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/

Again, great job, best of luck!
asbestos were first advertised as non-toxic :)

but even despite the health issues, having one spreading body fluids around is not very acceptable where i came from.
That seems to work a little better for iOS. Platforms with an OS-level back button are fine with the video page IMO.
Apparently, the source is a 2002 book on the subject, written by a pair of emeritus professors. Emeritus professors don't normally need to teach or publish.

http://www.amazon.com/IQ-Wealth-Nations-Richard-Lynn/dp/0275...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
While we're on the subject... Has anyone tried out Revel[.]? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

[.] https://github.com/robfig/revel
This seems potentially psychologically manipulative to me since the form is putting words in the user's mouth. E.g. the example in the article: "My name is -blank- and I'm looking for the cheapest auto insurance." Maybe price is not the user's only concern, but this sign up form says it is. It would be interesting to see if these forms can actually change the user's views. (Sort of like NLP tries to do.) I.e. does the user's prioritization of price vs customer service vs coverage quality get changed by this style of signup vs a regular sign up.
I remember reading that people get very used/comfortable to Mac vs. Windows style of font rendering, and tend to perceive the other as inferior.
No, that's not right. The tape always moves at a constant linear speed, so both reels will go at a faster angular speed as the amount of tape shrinks.
Some of the fastest implementations you see in these tests are not asynchronous.

With Servlet for example, a worker thread is chosen from Resin's thread pool and used to handle a request. The Servlet then executes 20 queries sequentially and returns the resulting list data structure. This is Servlet 3.0 but not using Servlet 3.0 async.

Async isn't making the top performers fast. Being fast is making them fast.
A 'meh' review of the alpha (beta?) devices floating around right now:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-glass-googles-wearab...
Jetlang doesn't offer lightweight-threads. It uses an event-driven processing of messages (like Akka), so fibers can't block and you can't do selective receives.

The JVM's GC isn't per actor (I know actors are called processes in Erlang, but let's keep the nomenclature consistent), but its GC is extremely advanced, and some implementations work on a per-thread basis. The ramifications are that we can't offer the same level of isolation as Erlang, at least not on HotSpot. An actor could theoretically produce a particular kind of garbage that will cause a GC pause to the entire system. But other than isolation, the JVM is very performant (much more than Beam), and handles concurrency extremely well.

I don't understand your last question (on load distribution).
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