skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay you $1000 (or EUR) if you show me how you can be 3x faster from idea to live with RoR against something else, say Java/Play. If 50% of your time is HTML/CSS fixing,thinking,finding edge cases,testing,debugging,communication with customers etc. you need to be 6x faster. And not in the first 5 days but you need to maintain this speed even as your code size grows and more and more time is spent on understanding existing code.

The only way to reach 6x is with 3rd party libs you have in RoR but you have no equivalent on say the JVM. Massive code reuse is the only major productivity gain today.

[edit] Sorry my mistake. If 50% of your time is taken by other tasks when writing say Java code, the most you can achieve is doubling your productivity by reducing development time to zero. If you tripple your productivity during development, your overall gain is 33% I think (not that good with on the fly calculation obviously).

[edit2] Just realized, this is Amdahl's law for developer productivity with your other tasks being the sequential fraction.
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When I read the title, for a moment I thought Google was retiring the Web Inspector from Chrome.
He would be able to deny this unless he has already been disappeared.
You mean, native is faster than interpreted?

Incredible!
GE Scientists Investigating 'The Science of Superheroes'
Reads a bit like:

If we are told to be afraid, we are supposed to be afraid. But, if we our selves become afraid, we are not allowed to be afraid.

So, the gov tell us to fear drugs, immigrants and terrorists, then we should say, "Sure, we agree, have all the powers you need and take all the freedoms you like." However, when we fear surveillance and invasions of privacy as a result of our own base level sense of survival, we are stupid treasonous, un-patriotic plebs and should have nothing to fear if we have nothing to hide....because the government, with a nice smile and sharp suit, says so.
You can also address multiple languages with hreflang: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.hk/2013/04/x-default-....
I think the question is more along the lines of how long IPs are stored for logged in users, etc.

It's a valid question, especially for a site that seems to respect the privacy of its users (it doesn't even require an email address to sign up!).
Slow train on rails is probably better then a fast one without :).
Xbox One developers team up with NASA to simulate 35,000 light years of space
If there is no Creator, there are no unalienable rights. This is the conundrum Francis Schaeffer pointed out back in the 70's http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=francis+schaeffe...

Unfortunately discussions about God in the general tech community are virtually impossible. Prov 29:9 talks about this too.

I agree with you that the Chinese deserve the same dignity and respect that Americans and every other person in the world. That Schaeffer series is really dated, a bit corny, and difficult to get past the production values. But the content is still bang on.
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Party-affiliation is volatile and self-reported: these aren't the same 'Democrats' nor 'Republicans' as in 2006, both due to switched-voters, new-voters, and expired-voters.

In particular, I believe there are a significant number of respondents who either (1) aren't very politically aware, but do have high trust in "our leaders" (whatever party they may be), or (2) don't trust pollsters -- believing they could be "with the government" or other loyalist groups -- and thus answer as if the questions were a loyalty test.

Note that for both type (1) and type (2) respondents, they are especially likely to answer (a) "Yes, I'm the same party as the President in power"; and (b) "Yes, I approve of what the President's policing/border/drug/terrorism agents have been doing". The respondents have different reasons, but neither want to express dissension. And yet it's not really telling us what party "true believers" think, just situational switchers.

Of course, many party "true believers" can forgive "their guy" in office for the same things they'd raise a stink about from "the other guy". That's also a very common bias/behavior. But I suspect these other low-ideology, "kiss-up-to-whoever-is-in-office" respondents are another significant, 5-15% contributor to what looks like a "partisan swing" in polls like this.
I should note that, while we saw something like 0.4% increased crash rate, we actually don't have a number to compare it against for memory crashes.

This is because if memory usage gets too high, the OS will send a kill signal to the process, which can be neither detected nor caught.

This means that in our original decision to use this fix, all we had was anecdotal evidence of untraceable crashes. Luckily we had dedicated QA that was keeping pretty solid track of them all, and they piled up.

In our case I think it was worth it.
Statically-typed and speed aren't necessarily correlated. If you want a framework faster than Go, dynamically-typed and rivaling Ruby's development speed, have a look at OpenResty+Lua+LuaJit (And MoonScript if you really want to code fast).
Thanks for sharing it! If you have any ideas for how to make it seem less sketchy while still conveying that we're going to send a free request for you, let me know!
ZIPs are almost always fine at a state granularity, and pretty good for cities. If the form is street/city/state/zip, you can autofill State correctly from ZIP 99.9% of the time.
Thank you!! Help create new awesome buttons and I'll use them! :)
I think you have a deep, fundamental misunderstanding of what I wrote.

>>I know! Why doesn't everyone just drop everything and pay attention to the stuff that you are interested in?

It is not stuff I am interested in. It is something everyone should be interested in. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S FREEDOM. Why is that not something everyone should drop everything and fight for?
And the police is using tear gas that has expired three years ago...
There are a lot of idealists here. They know that's how the system works. They're not complaining because they think this partisanship will be ineffective, they're complaining because it's depressing and inhibits meaningful social progress.

Even though in this particular instance the partisanship is aligned with (y)our goals, it's rather frustrating to know that this guy doesn't actually give a shit about the matter like we do, he just wants to score points in this BS game.
https://contently.com maybe?
You don't actually need a controlled double-blind study to notice a medical effect, IF the effect is sufficiently strong and consistent. Traditional "controlled double-blind studies" are nice to have, but are much too likely to accidentally reject good medicines and medical treatments of the sort that might be discovered and confirmed via this sort of personal experimentation. (Yes, false positives are bad, but false negatives are bad too!)

The era of personalized medicine is just beginning and these sort of devices seem unusually well-suited for that sort of approach.
So glad the US is engaged in a worldwide effort to spread the good news of democracy! Look at how her leaders behave! What a vast improvement over those other non-democratic nations! </sarcasm>
Will there be an eBook version outside Apple's walled garden (DRM-free, preferably)? I dislike dead-tree books, with their fixed typography and whatnot!
Solving the privacy issues is easily solvable. It just requires the people in power to change policy, perhaps sit down and write a law or two. Simply, it is easily do-able, right now. We can get this done.

Solving the huge things like global warming, cancer, poverty, starvation, cancer, etc, are a little bit more involved, and will probably take a while, no matter what the motivation.
I ran into the same issue the author describes, RE: getting Ember to work with a non-Rails-style REST API. After spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out Ember Data, I reverted to Backbone, since it's dead simple to link a model with any API endpoint. All in all, a pretty frustrating experience.
... Which means nothing in and of itself. Where's the money coming from? If you say nothing else for Oracle, say that they know where their bread's buttered.
Basically, you can take the forms that you see when you click one of the two buttons and make a Word doc that looks just like it, then mail to the appropriate place. I don't mind being taken out of the loop -- I just want some guy's desk at the NSA and FISC to be stacked high with papers! :)
I think I'd want some longitudinal studies before I tried this.
> So they have some negotiating leverage with regard to the NSA's behavior. They have used that leverage in the past to achieve concessions from intelligence agencies on their activities and how they disclose their activities.

Except that congress wrote and passed the laws that enable these programs. Many congresscritters, in leadership positions in both parties, have expressed support for the surveillance and varying degrees of condemnation for Snowden. I'd be surprised if they don't actually have a good idea of what's going on at the NSA.

You will see, perhaps, some grandstanding and/or honest pleas from a few people on this. And then it'll be like nothing happened when push comes to shove. There'll be no meaningful attempt to get greater disclosure, and it'll quietly die down in public consciousness, because this kind of shit nearly always does. And the NSA will get their budget, because intelligence and defense basically always do.
Green apps to save the Planet
In addition to IPs, the "email" field in your profile isn't publicly visible.
Not do advocate Java, but your knowledge is dated, I'd say at least 5yrs off. Play has on the fly code compilation, Jetty does fast reloads, JRebel hot class reloading etc.
Here's one he missed: your "country" dropdown has a list of every country in existence, alphabetically. So for the US you have to scroll down to near the end of the list past hundreds of other countries.

Instead, put your audience up top (Canada, US, GB maybe) and then alphabetically list the rest.
"China owns trillions of US national debt... this is debt that the leaders of our country have given willingly, and gladly pocketed the resulting cash. How is that any less treason than alerting our lenders that their systems have been broken into?"

A passage like this perpetuates the misconception that China owns a dangerous portion of US debt. It is stretching the facts of the case so it better supports your argument. They own 1.25 trillion, which is not "trillions". It is also less than either the Federal Reserve or Social Security trust hold and right around the last numbers I saw for private US holders. The phrasing you use to explain the transaction makes it seem like the US government shouldn't sell this type of debt to China. In your post you are claiming that the Chinese should have the same level of human rights as us but that we shouldn't provide them the same level of economic rights? Finally it is also disingenuous to say that our leaders "gladly pocketed the resulting cash". That implies some sort of embezzlement, which is just furthered by your comparison to treason.

Selling debt is a critical part of the economic equation for almost all world governments (yes, even China). It annoys me when people state that selling debt to China is somehow destroying this country or causing long term damage.
Startup Develops Google Glass App to Save Patient Lives
The resolution of a lens at a given wavelength is determined by its diameter (Rayleigh function). We know how big the launch vehicles are, so we can estimate the largest size a spy satellite's mirror could be, and we can use that to compute the maximum resolution a satellite could have; it turns out to be something around 5-10 cm. In order to resolve a newspaper from near-earth orbit, you'd need a lens bigger than the ISS, and if such an object existed it would be one of the brightest objects in the sky.
... and other geeks. Recruiters and managers want something black and white, un-styled and printable. Good as a personal project for actual CV though.
I'm not sure any of them apply anymore. The government's best argument is probably, "Just because their existence was disclosed doesn't mean it's not still classified!" But, I've seen that argument before in court cases, and IIRC, a court ruled that if the disclosure is reliable enough such that everyone knows it's true and therefore it's obviously not a secret, the docs must be released.
One atmosphere in your lungs, ten atmospheres outside your lungs --> scrunch.

For an approximate simulation, imagine what removing 90% of the air from your lungs might feel like.
You have to be careful to distinguish between subjective and objective elements of policy. When couching arguments aimed at particular people, you have to base your arguments on those peoples' subjective perceptions, not the objective ramifications of their ideas.

> Which party thinks the government should regulate abortion as a crime and regulate which kinds of partnership qualify for marriage benefits?

Religious Republicans don't view this as "big government." You can make sense of the position by thinking about where people think law comes from. Most secularists believe that law is created by governments (though many libertarians espouse belief in "natural law.") If you're a Christian, you generally believe that there is also a higher law that comes from God. Laws concerning murder, reproduction, and marriage, exist, rooted in the Bible, independent of state and federal laws on those subjects. Now, to the extent that state and federal law is consistent with Biblical law, government is "merely" acknowledging inherent law. Attempts to make state and federal law inconsistent with Biblical law are perceived as "big government" attempts to override higher law.

> Which party thinks government should be trusted with truly massive budgets to use the US military to coerce other countries

Most Republicans perceive defense as one of the few legitimate functions of government.

> In practice, I haven't heard of any abuses of surveillance aimed at political conservatives

That's more or less irrelevant.

> I think this proposal's strategic suitability rests crucially on the distorted image that Republican voters have of the Republican party, and of the overall public discourse.

There are two parts to my argument: 1) that the Republican party is a more fertile ground for opposition to surveillance; 2) that privacy advocates need to translate their abstract principles into concrete issues that voters care about. It's the second part that I'm saying is "not cynical," to the extent that there is nothing cynical about trying to find common ground with people whose politics you might otherwise dislike. The former argument is neither cynical nor not cynical--it's just a fact to take into consideration that Republicans trust government less than Democrats, even if they do trust government with certain issues (like defense).
What people do with their body is their problem.

Tell that to the people behind drug laws, and abortion laws, and sodomy laws, and, and, and...
Anyone know if Chrome is going to adopt this web inspector?
I've couchsurfed pretty extensively and I think it is hands down the best experience for travelling solo. It is one of the few sites online which I really think has tangibly improved people's lives.

Is there really another way to show up in a spot and instantly be plugged into a community who introduces you to their friends and wants to hang out with you?
This is speculative, but it has been suggested that some people's thinking is so advanced that we can't understand what they are trying to do. [1] So it could be the case that what you try to convey once you reach that advanced state isn't comprehensible by normal people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Genius_Theory
I agree. Its really short-sighted to dismiss it as partisan. The partisanship can be considered a lever to get his own party on-board with this. He seems to be intentionally and graphically demonstrating the risks of this sort of surveillance.
Swedish jails are actually very humane; the irony is he would have gotten more sunlight, fresh air, exercise and probably better food too, if he had just surrendered a year ago.
He writes:

"My code is simpler, more flexible and easily cross compiles"

Show us the code then, cause I so much doubt that.
There are tons of problems with the NSA having this data, and I think they are just beginning to learn that. There's a news headline out there now that a bank robbery suspect has now requested his NSA records to prove he wasn't there. The shit is about to hit the fan (or "additional shit" I should say!)

Of course, you could always keep a copy of every phone bill you receive if you want permanent proof of what you were up to.
Why just from withing the one party? Why not have two wings and field primary candidates in both parties? That way, if ever a sufficient density of such candidates make it into office in some part of the nation, they can switch over to the new party in a coordinated manner.
> "After all, there are so many more harder and pressing problems in the world. Global Warming, Child Slavery, Drugs, overpriced health care, mortgage and education loans?"

What do these problems have in common? That's right, every single one is a produce of extreme imbalances in power. Every. Single. One. And what does a program like PRISM undermine? Exactly, the democratic structures that can successfully challenge an abusive status quo.

Larry Lessig is fond of pointing out that his chosen problem (campaign finance) may not be the biggest problem in the world, or the most serious, but it is the first in that it addresses a fundamental dysfunction that prevents the us from responding to a constellation of concerns in a meaningful, socially beneficial way.

The development of a authoritarian surveillance state falls into a similar category, in that its mere existence frustrates a broad range of social development goals. Because it is absolutely guaranteed to be used against civilians who are attempting to steer government state power towards healthy ends, and away from abusive, toxic ones, it should be treats as an intrinsic part of any problem that benefits a small but entrenched status quo. Indeed, that's the whole point of structures like these. They actively undermine the ability of people to organize themselves in opposition to established interests that profit from extraordinary and otherwise unsustainable levels of abuse.

And no, this isn't speculation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun...
For the most part you won't be penalized for "over-tweaking" on your site. Keyword stuffing and hidden text were dealt with in the early 2000's. If you are targeting keywords in the page title, headers, and body of your site at a reasonable amount, you don't have to worry about "over-tweaking". You do have to worry about over the top link exchanges, buying links, selling links, and too much commercially targeted anchor text pointing at your site.
Where cocaine was legal, people used the cocoa leaf to make a tea they drank all the time, the way we drink coffee or caffeinated soda. When heroin was legal (from the Bayer company!), addicts took it in pill form and it caused no particular social or financial or health problems - the primary negative effect of long-term heroin use is constipation.

The vast majority of the harm illegal drugs do to people is due to the drugs being illegal; it has nothing to do with characteristics inherent to the chemistry of the drugs.

(I recommend the book Licit and Illicit Drugs. You can read it here online:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumen... )
I don't think the water was circulating all the much - it was inside the vessel. It was rising, but not circulating.

Also, he may have been able to stay out of it at least at first, till it rose.
Being on the run is incredibly expensive. You will burn money at 10x the rate of normal life. And he's not getting a salary any more (and even so, that salary wasn't too dissimilar from what a sysadmin in SF would get).
and yet, existence proofs demonstrate you are wrong. Again, re-read the section on virus tumor oncogenes in The Biology of Cancer; pretty much everythign we know about oncogenes came from this physical mechanism.
Ask HN: Is it illegal to release XSS-vulnerabilities (Germany)?
I'm curious about the 'Hackerparagraph' because it's blurred.
10x is a lot though. Definitely not a positive for Ruby. People were making these comparisions between Java and C++ for ages, and called Java slow when something took 1.4x as long as native C++. Rails doesn't even try to compete.
I was trying to be helpful and I'm getting downvoted?
I miss PHPFog. It was so much struggle getting AppFog to work for a simple CakePHP app that I actually gave up even though I had a $100 free package. With PHPFog you could deploy with git which was awesome but in AppFog they replaced it with their own af tool which was subpar. They also removed support for persistant file storage.
You can solve it with something like this: http://perspectives-project.org/
Does filing the FOIA make the information public to all? I would just quash if this is the case.
I don't think people need yet another dedicated gadget that is no matter how secure - prone to be lost and potentially misused.

I'd probably steer toward Yubikey as it's more universal and solves the same problem - keyloggers and malware.
DuckDuckGo founder explains why Google tracks you and his search engine doesn’t
You could build a Chrome (or Firefox) extension that added GPG/PGP/SMIME to Gmail, you would have to intercept the emails before they were stored as drafts in order to protect the message in the inbox. You could use a plugin or native client to interface with the OS or desktop environment's keystore to keep the private key out of Javascript.
The key passphrase could double as the passphrase for symmetrically encrypting the message stored in the inbox.

Add to this a keyserver for automatically discovering public keys of contacts and you have a "good" solution between interested parties, without compromising recoverability of the majority of your messages.

You could do the same for Gtalk/Hangouts chats with OTR.
Opponents of a particular party or those of the NSA/Security state?

I wonder if the fears match the reality.
So, what you promise us is that games will cost less then on PS4? That's a strong selling point!
That's not including secret/classified interpretations of the exemptions.
See http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-CIA-Bu...