skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at this video at 6m30s

What does that video possibly prove? That if you compare completely different sites, you can't use reductionist measures of individual attributes to compare speed? Is there anyone on HN who actually doesn't already know that? This is asking which of a collection of mystery vehicles is the fastest by engine size, and then revealing that one is a dump truck, one a train, and the other a motorcycle, with results that should surprise no one.

The only people who would possibly be interested in this project are people who are attempting to optimize the experience their app provides, presumably in a holistic fashion. It is pretty much part and parcel that such a person is going to minimize elements, CSS, images, and scripts in such a case, and aren't simply going to replace jQuery with something like this and assumes that it will make everything fast.

The reality of something like jQuery, like Ruby on Rails or MongoDB, is if you start with it you'll likely be stuck with it. You can't simply make a full site and run it through the profiler and swap out components without significant rewriting.
Another control on this is the Overall Allotment Quantity of sugar, which is the USDA-regulated quantity of sugar which can be sold in any year. If you have too much sugar to sell, you'll have to store it or dump it. This is to keep sugar's price high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overall_Allotment_Quantity
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My that was uncivil.
And he can then be countered by those who just hate Perl ... I'm getting tired of language rants (either pro or con) but my overall impression is that he's pretty close-minded.
> It's all fine and well to say that, but there's actually the meta-problem that Americans don't really want to watch non-Americans

Is a lack of exposure to Canadian television really a problem? Americans listen to quite a bit of Canadian music. And a sizable minority also watch a significant amount of British television (Downton Abbey, tons of Murder-Mystery stuff). Not to mention the huge amount of European literature we're exposed to in our education system or that we read for pleasure (Harry Potter). But that's just western culture. Looking East, you can also look at the huge impact Japanese Animation and Chinese Film has had on our culture as well.

Americans will voraciously consume any media that's 1) Made available to them (Most Canadian TV fails this test) 2) In English.
It is on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1173
Deep link? The two fields both contain the notion of locality, big woop. The application of quantum nonlocal correlations to game theory is interesting, but this is not what is advertised in the article. I am displeased.
I would just like to point out that the photo in the article is the most staged "watch science happen!" photo I've seen in a long time.
" Americans tend to assume that the rest of the world either loves us or hates us (this is actually a good litmus test to tell if someone is conservative or liberal)."

So, is that respectively? Do conservatives generally feel one way while liberals feel another?
George Orwell - A Final Warning
In win98 kernel32 blue screens were pretty common. But I agree that Windows is usually a pretty stable OS with things like 3rd party drivers and software causing most of the issues
Is there actually a published, peer-reviewed study available from this? This just seems like an in-progress summary. Additionally, as another poster commented, this is still correlative, not causative.

HFCS might be indirectly responsible for weight problems, but that's only because of its prominence, low price, and calorie dense-ness. Not some voodoo reason as this article states and as many believe.

Try this:
http://examine.com/faq/is-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syrup-wors...

The experiment's conclusions don't make sense either. There are dozens and dozens of studies showing ONLY net calorie intake is what is responsible for weight gain or weight loss, not the contents of what they eat:
http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...

So for the study to refute the conclusions we have arrived at today would be quite the breakthrough. Not to mention the whole part where it violates the laws of thermodynamics.

Can anyone link to a study (not an article) showing HFCS causing more weight gain in a calorie-controlled study that accounts for water weight and (preferably) doesn't have the people count their own calories?
Looks good! Omnibar instantly makes Firefox more familiar. I have decided to switch back to Mozilla, they seem far more ethical than any competing browser vendor. So I too am going to switch for a while. Firefox & DuckDuckGo.
Hi All,

Vessel's, Co-Founder here. Really appreciate your feedback and we are updating site to target the issues you guys discussed.

Let me brief you. Vessel provides all the tools you need in one place form beta to launch in app store and beyond - so you can focus on building better mobile apps. here is a overview of all tools.

1. Crash Analysis with heat maps http://cl.ly/OqFm

2. Crash severity tracking : http://cl.ly/OqHJ

3. In app support desk

4. Beta Distribution for iOS as well as Android : http://cl.ly/PdHI

make sense now ?
Updated MacVim with native file browser sidebar
Try http://domaintyper.com
Very fast , multiple TLDs and gives you suggestions for names based on partial input.
Oh No
namemonk.com is totally available
Sounds like you have the right tool for the job. I'd be curious to know if you use Perl for large projects with long lifetimes (and if so, strategies for doing so effectively).
It's difficult to discuss this without arguing but what about the name "America" not the "United States of America".

There are many countries on the continent of Africa and almost a billion people and nobody would argue referring to people from there as Africans. What if South Africa argued only its citizens could be called Africans?

There are many people and many countries in the EU and Europe (who aren't part of the EU) that you could refer to as Europeans. Spain doesn't have exclusive use to the word European anymore than someone from Italy or Germany does.

Asia is a bit different but an Asian person is generally from India, China, south Asian, etc. just not China or Japan.

The Americas both North and South what do we call people from those countries? No not just North American or South American I mean referring to all people, otherwise the USA should be called the United States of North America.
The problem was that the comment starts out with that comment about being a paid shill, and then goes on to treat the comment it replies to as if it was a series of firm claims made to mislead, when it starts out with a bunch of questions, and draws some very limited conclusions on the belief that we know too little.

MostAwesomeDude could have started out answering the questions on the assumption they are honestly meant, without the attitude, and it would have come across a lot better.
Is it useful to stuff the first 257 bytes of a HTTP response with a set-cookie with a 1-second expiry containing random nonsense?
> The US might not have a lot of things going for it. But I think it's fair to say that it's the first modern democracy.

What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commo... ?
http://domfinder.com is agonisingly slow in comparison but does give you some smart suggestions
It's not the original blog, it is just a repost from here http://markmanson.net/
>Hitler was primarily defeated by Russia (not us)

That's what European history buffs think too. Russia (USSR) bled Hitler to death, and then the US comes, does a little song and dance and "we defeated Germany!".
I'm no expert on this, but it seems like they were studying the problem in the wrong way.

Instead of considering HFCS as a food, and measuring how it works on your body, why not consider HFCS as a drug, and measure how it works on your brain? I think the HFCS->obesity issue has a lot more to do with the way sugar affects our brains.

I think HFCS is detrimental to human survival because it has encouraged us to get all of our happiness from food, leading to overeating and eating to "feel better" (it never happens) in some portions of the population. Thus, we are at this obesity issue, which is really a happiness issue. From my own personal experience: When you believe in yourself and you want to change, obesity becomes less and less of a problem because you are motivated to work out, eat better and generally take care of yourself. But the fact remains that you once ingested a drug to feel happy which also made you fat. Now you are eating food the way you're supposed to and not really getting that happiness that was once supplied by the sugary foods you were eating. You must use other drugs, like meditation or even alcohol/marijuana, to supplant this "completeness" feeling that you are missing from the lack of sugary foods.

Eventually, your body will give up the tolerance to sugary foods and you'll find yourself drinking sodas and eating dessert much less than you used to. Now, the general level of HFCS in all of our foods is no longer affecting your body weight and the way you feel about yourself.

I don't want to sound like a commercial here, but in the last 2-3 years I've been very much aware of my sugar-rich diet and began to slowly wean myself off of the addiction, and I can happily say that I've gone from a size 40 to a size 36 waist and lost over 20 pounds in the last year alone by simply being aware of how sugar affects your mind AND body, getting more exercise, and eating smaller portions of healthier food.
You did mention choice(s), and I went off on my own with my silly metaphor. And your point about a continuum is good. It's certainly not a binary choice.
It looks like the "link" is "quantum-entangled systems can transfer information useful to game players"
Thanks for the laugh. You know you've reached the pinnacle of "first world problems" when a phrase like corrupt system, which has historically been used to describe things like institutional discrimination and genocide, is now used to describe the "horrors" of agricultural subsidies and tariffs. I'm surprised that Amnesty International hasn't updated their corruption index accordingly, which would surely put every sovereign nation's score in the single digits.
Why exactly do you believe it is warranted to reply in this tone? To me, regardless of the issue being discussed, this comment reflects extremely poorly on you.
RIP, it was inevitable but it served a purpose in its day.
This really needs to be stressed more. I was underwhelmed by that article, too, because the author does not seem to have a deep understanding of the issues involved (specifically JIT compilation and automatic memory management) necessary. The overall conclusion -- that mobile HTML5 apps have inherent performance problems -- may well be correct, but not for the reason that he gives and for data that he often seems to misread.

The most glaring issue was probably the garbage collection performance graph: He picked out the performance of mark and sweep collectors to make a bold statement about memory usage necessary for performance, and completely ignored the data for the generational collectors for that statement.

This is not to say that garbage collection is a non-problem in mobile applications (it can be, but the argument for why is trickier and is not easily translated into soundbites), but somebody flat-out ignoring data does not inspire confidence.

The big problem is that the author doesn't ever seem to have seen a compiler from the inside, yet makes sweeping statements about programming language technology that simply aren't borne out by fact.
In Windows 3.1, CTRL-ALT-DEL will allow you to kill a hung application. If no application is hung, it will tell you to press CTRL-ALT-DEL again to reboot.

Check this by Raymond Chen where he explains better than me: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/02/08/1039...
First of all, I tend to agree with the sibling posts accusing you of failing to maintain scholarly decorum. The "paid shill" remark was uncalled for, even if I tend to agree with your criticisms (at least, all but the most crucial one).

> pondering whether sucrose breaks down into fructose and glucose immediately: No, it doesn't.

Can you substantiate this further (say, with an in-vivo sucrose half-life)? I don't have journal access at the moment, so the best I could find was this study: http://ajplegacy.physiology.org/content/59/1/413.extract which seems to support what you claim (only 90% inversion after 6.5 hours in rabbits), but I'd still like to see something more modern and preferably in humans.

> Additionally, this study covers rats which were given strict diets

Strict diets? It seems to me like they had unmeasured and uncontrolled access to chow and sugar solution ("controlled" only on the basis of availability time)! I tend to agree with the grandparent post that the observed results could be caused by the relative sweetness of HFCS driving the rats to continue consuming HFCS past the point where they would have stopped consuming sucrose solution. Since humans tend to consume drinks in fixed quantities (8oz, 16oz) not entirely chosen on the bases of satiety, I question the relevance of this study to human health.

> you contradict yourself by noting (correctly) that HFCS is not half-and-half fructose and glucose

You quibble. I'll take it back iff you substantiate the implicit claim (which occurs under the assumption that you weren't quibbling) that the 5% or 7% difference in sugar concentrations creates a disproportionate effect on energy output or weight gain.
You can find the original paper at http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/HFCS_Rats_10.....

The statistics are a bit confusing to me, but it looks like they only find a significant difference for males over 8 weeks, not females over 7 months. The "significant" difference for males seems pretty small given that the rats started out weighing between 300 and 375 grams. And the conclusion doesn't mention sucrose at all:

In summary, rats maintained on a diet rich in HFCS for 6 or 7 months show abnormal weight gain, increased circulating TG and augmented fat deposition. All of these factors indicate obesity. Thus, over-consumption of HFCS could very well be a major factor in the “obesity epidemic,” which correlates with the upsurge in the use of HFCS.

Does anyone know if these results have been replicated anywhere?
It is too bad that they lacked the resources to include sucrose in the long term study (because why not).

It's also confusing that they never discuss (as far as I have seen anyway) how they determined the levels of sweeteners in the sugar drinks. I would like to see a study where the drinks had equivalent calories/volume, I can see where rats with access to water might avoid syrup but prefer a less sweet sugar drink. Even given some good explanation for the different calorie loads, it would still be interesting to see how it factored in.
The point about the CDN cache is not true. It is commonly claimed, but often times it is not the case that jQuery is often cached if you use a CDN. It is "sometimes" cached, and best performance for most websites is probably to concatenate and minify jQuery in with the site's JS files.
Yes, this was the site that I found once I googled.. and which told me it was unavailable. No obvious info as to why or if they're planning on resuming production.
One could argue that once a startup becomes an elephant it might not actually be a startup anymore. There are many big and successful Perl companies less than 10 years old, just not much buzz around them, because they never needed it. Perl has simply become an industry standard for tasks that involve a lot of text processing, not unlike C for system programming.
AFAIK, England's parliament, prior to the US, could not remotely be described as a democracy. Indeed, it was well over a hundred years later that this would be the case.

How? When the USA got independence it basically copied the UK voting/parliament system, only allowing white men who owned property to voting, just like UK.

Of course, it depends on definition of "democracy". But I can't see how you can have a definition that would hold the following things all true: "(a) The UK is a democracy in 2013 (b) The USA was a democracy in 1776 (c) The UK was not a democracy in 1776 (d) The UK was not a democracy for ~100 years after 1776"

(I use the term UK, but don't think it was called that in 1776)
Your rapport with the great Goog is weak. The study:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305710...

Reply by the Corn Refiners Association:

http://www.corn.org/princeton-hfcs-study-errors.html

Thermodynamics question: They were holding energy inputs constant in the system. Stored energy was not constant. What third variable could have been responsible for the difference? Rhymes with input.
Not to mention it's GMO corn being used! You might as well poke holes in the lining of your stomach.
As an American who is living in Vietnam and has travelled around Asia a lot (including North Korea), I take issue with a lot of the points in this article.

1. There are more American flags in Saigon that I've seen almost anywhere in the US. Being American here has more cache here than being British, Australian, etc. Probably because American ex-pats are kind of rare here, not counting the Viet Kieu. Maybe this isn't true the more north you go, but it is in Saigon for sure.

3. I'm totally not sure where he gets the idea the Vietnamese think the "American War" (what they refer to it as) being about China when it was clearly about expelling foreign occupation and re-uniting the country. Maybe he has it confused with the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in the 1970's which had more to do with the Khmer Rouge aligning with China, while Vietnam was aligned with Russia.

5. If you think the quality of life isn't great for the average American, come on down to District 4 and grab a bowl of pho with me. Or we could go to PR Karaoke and have the hostess girl tell us about why she's working at karaoke.

6. Bangkok is kind of a shit hole. But it's a much nicer shit hole than most of it's SE Asian neighbor's big cities. And of course the world is predictable and all people everywhere have common sets of problems. But my experience is that the severity of those problems, on a whole, are much more severe in developing countries than what most people face in America.

7. Agree whole heartedly.

8. This is what makes America special though. Try training iPhone developers in Vietnam for a few months and you realize it's that "you are special" thing we are taught from childhood that makes the difference in our skillsets. I think a mild level of arrogance is healthy.
We already know they've been spying on politicians and tapping the underwater Internet cables, along with their friends from other continents, to get all the data. So how much worse could it get? Proof that US has been assassinating politicians (in recent times)? I think something like that would be a "worse nightmare" than it already is (don't forget Snowden worked for CIA before).

Now I almost want something bad to happen to Snowden, just so we find out what could possibly be "much worse". It's time for all US' power games to be shown in broad daylight.
Indeed, and the Optimus would likely not be used by two people at the same time, thus one might be marginally less likely to suffer the kind of context switches described above (which are of course valid, but in that context).
From Co-Founders To Co-Investors, Freestyle.VC Invests More Than Just Cash
Trying to complete all projects from Martyr2’s Mega Project List
Trying to complete all projects from Martyr2’s Mega Project List.<p>Note: If you fork this repo to solve these projects in any language of your choice, please remove all my code, and start from scratch; you'll benefit a lot. Do not send pull requests.<p>Some details:<p>I will use Python to solve these. Why? Because I want to learn the language quickly.
I have no interest in making games, so I'm excluding those from the list below.
I'm not interested in networking, so I might skip all (or some) of them.
The projects will not be made in the order posted.
I may not be able to complete all of them.
My method of solving them may not be the best.
I will link to each project that I complete. Some will be in this same repo, some bigger ones will have dedicated repos.<p>To get started, fork this repo, delete this README and rename README-scratch.md to README.md.<p>Note: I have't read any problem while creating this repo. I'll read them as I start solving the problems. Hence, there is no prior filtering of problems. Keeps things spicy. :)
I have never flagged anything at HN before, but this has absolutely nothing to do with the characteristics I associate with HN. Plus the "things that most Americans don't know" are pablum I've seen so many times before as to be boring.

I would have preferred to keep my mouth shut, but when my own (software-development oriented) submissions have been flagged, I've groused that I wish flagging required a brief written justification. So I felt obligated to write this to explain myself.
It's great how fast this is. Suggestion: make the underlined text "not available" be a link to whois information when a domain is taken. The way you have it now, it looks clickable, and that's what I expected it to tell me.

Or, come to think of it, don't do that. Just display the whois info automatically when a domain is taken while keeping everything as fast as it is now. That would be awesome!
When we were designing NT 3.1, one of the issues that came up fairly early was the secure attention sequence - we needed to have a keystroke sequence that couldn't be intercepted by any application.

So the security architect for NT (Jim Kelly) went looking for a keystroke sequence he could use.

It turned out that the only keystroke combination that wasn't already being used by a shipping application was control-alt-del, because that was used to reboot the computer.

And thus was born the Control-Alt-Del to log in.

I've got to say that the first time that the logon dialog went into the system, I pressed it with a fair amount of trepidation - I'd been well trained that C-A-D rebooted the computer and....

- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/01/24/359...
Privacy Is Not Secrecy; Debunking 'If You've Got Nothing To Hide...'
I dunno, I certainly get why he revealed the shocking surveillance state information, but I'm not sure I understand why he'd reveal something unrelated to it.

Is he just trying to say, "Spying is bad" at this point? I thought his focus was on who the US was gathering intel on and how.
Obligatory link to an online copy. It's well worth the browse:

http://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript
> Is there anyone on HN who actually doesn't already know that?

I see a lot of discussion here based on the premise that this smaller script will make a big difference in overall page load time. It's why the audience in that video was leaning towards the site with the most JavaScript being the slowest. The first benefit listed on the minified.js page is "Minified is smaller!" so exactly what benefits does "smaller" imply?

> The only people who would possibly be interested in this project are people who are attempting to optimize the experience their app provides, presumably in a holistic fashion.

I agree, and creating your own homebrew framework for a large project in a holistic fashion has its own pitfalls. Especially if you've never done it before.
Might want to research whether or not there is really any benefit from using the CDN other than offloading the bandwidth and getting a (relatively small) chance at a cached solution. From a pure performance standpoint, concatenating/minifying on your own server is more performant in most cases.