skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite different. I think a good way to imagine Julia is as a science-flavoured Go with dynamic types.

Well, no, that's not quite right. Really, it's more like someone took Matlab and made it a real general-purpose language, and built it close enough to C to be generally fast, not just fast at a few things. Matlab actually has more in common with Clojure, being a JVM language.
> But it is expressly not a benchmark of database servers.

Oh, okay, cool. I'd misinterpreted it as being a kind of a "full stack" test. I didn't look at any of the "fortunes" examples, either, as it happens.

I can see where you're coming from, but I'd still be concerned that the concurrency and connection pooling behaviour could be quite different depending on the DB query behaviour.

What I should have said is "... predictive of how well your website will actually work under load". But nothing much is predictive of that except for trying it with synthetic data ...
Well, that's what a login password and a lockscreen are for. I mean, these things are secure and well-tested - I'm not sure why people aren't using them?

Do you somehow think that your OS is more insecure?

I don't think you've exactly explained what exactly you're trying to protect against.

Is it casual attacker who happen to chance upon an unattended computer? Well, in that case, either your computer is locked, or it's pretty much game over.

There is no additional security you can get by just obfuscating it.
It's not that every member of the government is bad, it's that trusting all of them is a bad idea.
Wait, is he leaving id? Didn't see that clarified in the article.
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Use a userscript to like tampermonkey for chrome or greasemonkey for firefox to swap out the urls for local ones.
If Chrome was concerned about your sense of security it would inform you that all your saved passwords are clearly readable in plaintext

I completely agree with that, I think that would be a much more useful fix.
I will happily sell my apps for the price listed. Who should I contact for my check? :)
What's your guess on how much equity they had to give him? I would have been inclined to be generous.
Your mother knows about chrome:// URLs? Most mundane/non-technical people I know don't know about URLs at all? My mother still types "www.facebook.com" into the Google search bar on google.com.
I agree with this, except I think the time frame is more like one decade. By 2020 (to pick a nice number), I expect that people will generally expect that they are being recorded at all times in public. It's almost true that they are, now, but the expectation is lagging.
If the app is indeed able to have a fairly accurate height value, it just needs the turning point height in order to calculate speed, duration of fall, and the (more or lees) exact time of impact. So it could transmit the value whenever it detects that the phone has stopped moving upwards.
£50bn question?faster trains or limitless clean energy?
I think those reviews are zero indication of where it will go.

That isn't to say that Amazon art will do well, I just doubt that people writing those reviews represent the demand for art or the feelings of people who might buy from Amazon.
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Especially relevant today: Slave records from the 19th century were used to enforce racial purity laws 100 years later.

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Why do you know better how people use it in the wild than Google? Don't they gather usage data from the browser? Maybe have the muscle to conduct large-scale interviews?
Livescript is a fork of Coffeescript, and LS 1.2 purports to have improved the JS output for readability, so I think you'd be ok.
I can't resist.

"Comrade, what is Capitalism?"

"Capitalism is the oppression of man by man".

"And what is Communism?"

"It's the opposite of Capitalism".
as much as he wants.
Coordination between voters is unnecessary. The job of the 3rd parties is to communicate their issues - that plus vote tallies is enough to make it pretty clear what issues the duopoly need to incorporate into their platforms.
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And most Russians are rednecks? Well, I guess racism is okay when it's for the left cause.
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To rmc:

> And that's the logic behind Clippy.

No, it absolutely is not. Chrome already asks and informs you that it is saving your password. It asks each time it saves a password. It already does this. It would simply be an additional line of information in a step that you already have to confirm by clicking "Ok".
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Frustratingly, cheap laptops are very often constructed in such a way that properly cleaning the CPU fan requires completely disassembling the device. I hate taking apart laptops because the ribbon connectors are often very stiff and very fragile.

I was once on the verge of buying a cheap dell laptop only to discover that replacing the HD required first removing the mainboard (!)
The best news I have heard all day.Carmack was one of the reasons I choose computer Science .Now I will start taking Oculus rift seriously ,I always thought of it as a niche product.
Carmack will put some of his awesome in Rift to make it more awesome.
Putin isn't combating propaganda, he's polarizing society using propaganda.

Imagine Putin holding a handle of twohanded saw, cutting society in half. That's what he does with the aid of US government.

If you're a traditionalist Putin isn't your bro. If Putin is your bro you're not a traditionalist, you're a vatnik.
wow, that's irony at it's best form!

beware of: the reality distortion fields..
From what I know when a drive "reallocates a sector" it actually reallocates a track or something very close to that. So that at least for the rotational sequencing the performance will not change that much. Ofcourse, the track that used to be just one track seek away now became further off.

There are also several places along the way where reallocations go to and the drive tries to find the closest one to the reallocated tracks to avoid too large seeks.
A potentially honest person might open a door and take something

I actually don't think this is the case. An honest person would not open a car door if they saw a note in the car. Sure crooks and theives would, but honest people don.t

As a counter-example, just look at what happens sometimes when you lose your phone or wallet. Oftentimes you get it back. A lot of people are honest.
Wrong. Who cares if chrome shows the password? If someone has access to the browser with saved passwords they can easily just go to a site that's been saved and login and change said password so having chrome not show the PW would do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Shh! I know, the list just looked dumb with only two items.
Amazon seems to targeting the wrong category of the art market. I can see people buying works for $50-$2,000. But the idea of someone paying 1.5 mil for a Monet on Amazon is both ridiculous and unlikely.
He doesn't necessarily have to. When Alicia Keys joined Blackberry as their Creative Director, she still kept touring ;-) (More seriously, Matz joined Heroku but I think is still at Rakuten as well?)

He will be "in the office" though:

John will be working from the new Oculus Dallas office that we’re opening soon.

.. so the likelihood of him spending a lot less time at id, if he stays on there, seems high to me.
So why not clearly tell people each time Chrome saves a password that the saved password will be visible in plaintext by visiting chrome://settings/passwords ?

Because the vast majority of the population don't know what a browser is, let alone a URL.

You (the developer) are providing the illusion of consent. The person don't know what just happened, but you're inferring that they have consented to what it showing up in that url.
Ok, the app's web service is rather prone to manipulation:

You just need to HTTP GET the following URL:

http://www.carrotpop.com/smth/php/save_result.php?id=<UID>&nickname=<NICK>&country=&result=<HEIGHT>&latitude=0&longitude=0

* UID looks like an autoincrement ID

* NICK is what you entered for the highscore

* HEIGHT is the float value of the height in meters, i.e. "1.23"

In the HTTP response, you get a data structure (not sure which encoding it is, but it is straightforward) of the highscore data:

[[["1.","LIATO","44.19m"],["2.","ROYBOY_91","43.16m"],["3.","YAIR40","35.12m"],["4.","GABRIEL","34.70m"],["5.","KAI","31.10m"],["6.","KAFAC99","21.06m"],["7.","JOSH","20.37m"],["8.","KEANSKI","17.61m"],["9.","EKREM6363","16.10m"],["10.","LORENZO","12.24m"],["2047.","MY BEST TRY","0.71m"],], ...

Edit: just opening the URL http://www.carrotpop.com/smth/php/save_result.php you can see the current stats, encoded as above.
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Hi Everyone,

The response to kickoff boost has been overwhelming and I'm in a bit of a struggle to keep up, but it's a great thing :)

I'm focusing the showcase algo right now so I can't comment or reply to everyone individually until later tonight, but I'll post some updates here.

I launched kickoffboost.com rather prematurely not having any idea that I would get this much traffic. I started coding for kickoff boost the day I read Paul Graham's post "Do things that do not scale" and basically just built a front page with DB hook to showcase products.

Right now, I am manually approving submissions. I'm working to implement a process where after approval, each product will have a "life" (say 300) and "age/clicks" (starting at 0).

When links are clicked, that product's age will be incremented, and the product will get front page space as long as age doesn't exceed life. The life/age bar will be publicly shown for each product. Once age exceeds life limit, the goes to "archived / older posts" and new products get front page view ( thinking about limiting front page to show 20 products at a time ). What do you guys think of this idea? I just want to optimize great new product's chance of discovery and I thought this would be a fair way to distribute the traffic love.

Like I said, I took Paul Graham's advice to heart and created something that really doesn't scale as of this moment. This has been extremely validating however, and now I am in overdrive to get things done. Please feel free to help me out by giving me ideas about how I can improve this.

I am really hopeful that I can turn this into something very helpful people like me who build things and often don't get the recognition they hope or deserve.

Thank's to everyone who pointed out bugs and optimization tips. I am getting to them one at a time. Thanks to everyone who submitted their products. Because of the premature launch, I cannot guarantee that I'll approve and showcase all the products just yet, but I feature all the submissions (as long as they are not troll submissions) in a just and fair way. Thank's to everyone who took the time to write to me and say that they see this as something useful. Thanks to everyone for checking it out. And thanks to PG for that essay "Do things that do not scale". I don;t know how, but the idea came to me within an hour of reading that essay.

Cheers!
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The article is odd. Almost seems like the author is pissed about people being able to buy art... I like the concept of being able to purchase prints or art online, and amazon has online shipping down... I hope it makes it.
Google for his approval rating - it's high, even if you adjust it for all the rigging and such. Short story is: collapse of USSR brought a lot of suffering and despair to Russians (of course, there was no other way for it to end, but it's not something most Russians acknowledge or even think about -- "no time to think, gotta work, feed my kids"). Putin succeeded in building on this fear and nostalgia for times of security (which USSR did offer, however monstrously unsustainable). And one of the main unofficial slogans was, and is -- "liberty is bad for Russia; evil people, especially Americans, use it to poison our people".
Of course, NSA spying or drone killings makes it harder to fight the propaganda -- all these grotesquely anti-American thing are pictured as the "real face of America" -- and good luck defending liberty in that light...
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Here's my guess as to why art would be overpriced on Amazon (I know nothing about art prices, so I won't assume that it actually is, just why it would make sense).

Some recently IPO'd CEO walks into a Brooklyn gallery and sees a piece of art. He likes art but he's not much of a collector. He knows that art can be a very lucrative investment, but has no idea what sells in this wierdo art market. When he finds a piece at the gallery and has a good feeling about, he whips out his phone and does a google search of the artist/piece and finds and would you look at that! Prices are on Amazon.com with reviews and everything.

The artist/gallery knows this is happening, so they jack their price on Amazon. "Hey! This is worth $50k and I'm getting it for $10k". Plus when you show off your house, you can say "Oh, you like that? I got it at this cute little gallery in Greenpoint last summer".

Art combines the speculative nature of investment with all the trend psychology of fashion. Its an irrational market, and a really odd fit for Amazon.com.
From his blog, Abrash seems to be much more interested in AR than VR, and seems to lean toward VR being a parallel (but mutually supportive) path to AR, rather than a step along the way.

Also, I think Newell might offer Abrash the entire company before he lets him slip away from Valve.
As long as gays stay in the closet, heterosexuals (and even homosexuals in large part) will feel homosexuality as "wrong".

The human mind defines "acceptable sexual context" by what it gets presented, especially early in life. That's why homosexuals have to display their sexuality in public, or the discrimination and homophobia will never end.
Wow - now I'm _really_ interested in the Oculus and it's potential.
> Most of the time, huh? Look at the Forbes 500 list and point to all the companies that aren't there to benefit us.

Companies that aren't out to serve the public are few and far between, and go out of business. What a ridiculous argument.

Providing shit services at inflated prices while pocketing all the money for yourself isn't the same as service the public interest. But for the most part - I'm ok with that. Companies are not charities. However what I'm not ok with is companies influencing politics because there's a clear conflict of interest there.

You don't grow to the size of an international corporation by being nice. It takes a degree of ruthlessness that flies in the face of the general public's best interest.

> And who are the shareholders? Some unknown entity? How is it that you separate "our" and "shareholder"? I'm a shareholder, and you probably are to.

So you're a shareholder of every single company that you are impacted by? I very much doubt you are. You'd have shares in Disney, Sony and all the other conglomerates that's crippling copyright law. You'd need shares in Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and all the other companies who abuse patent laws. Including companies who's shares are dropping because their business is failing and patents are their last stand. You'd also need shares in tobacco companies, drugs companies and every other business that lobbies with the government. For your argument that we have shares in companies as an excuse for immoral business practices benefiting the population, you'd also need shares in patent trolls.

The fact is, you get screwed over by more business than you profit from. And that's with someone like you who does have shares; most of the developed world's population don't play the stock market.

> Corporations don't; the people within them do. Don't believe me? Try the following thought experiment:

That's a dumb argument because the two are the one and the same in the context of this discussion. You can't run a company without having people within them to run it. So it's quite blatantly obvious that we're talking about the tiny minority of the population who are heading those companies (and I even categorically stated that previously). Since their position is vastly different from the average person, it's perfectly reasonable to discuss them separately - which is why they're referred to in the general sense as "companies" and "shareholders" (note that with the latter definition when used in this context it's generally used to refer to those with more than just a tiny percentage of a share)

That all said, it should be noted that individuals do perform actions they wouldn't normally agree with but do so because it's part of the companies strategy / policy. Sometimes a persons principles are sidelined by their desire to stay employed. Which is why it often makes sense to talk about a 'company' as a culture rather than a group of individuals.
I'll try and see if that works, thanks.
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We also know bullet proof vests are not absolute protection, but you don't see the police/military throwing up their hands and not issuing and wearing them because 'someone determined could kill you anyway'.

The point is that it would prevent a certain number of attacks (such as non technical mischievous people) from unpremeditated attacks.

Your comment about 'false sense of security' is completely out of place as well. Chrome currently isn't doing anything to prevent the false sense of security (obviously from all the surprised people out there - can you see it now?). Why does it have to be a mutually exclusive choice? You could have your 'master password' and still have your false sense of security disclaimer displayed prominently next to it as well.
I'm pretty sure this is completely against the NDA...No respect.
> Use anything other than Rails

Seriously ? Anything?

> Django and Nodejs is better than Rails

Why Django is better? The author seems to hook on to the concurrency aspect of nodejs(for what it was made) and compare with Rails.

Does the author know there are projects like JRuby, Rubinus, there are multi-threaded servers like puma?

One thing is very clear, the author is either writing articles for attention or does not like Rails' popularity. Classic link baiting! He has written 3 blog posts in total, all for the popularity.
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Hah, perhaps he would, at that--as I recall, it took a long time to finally cajole him over.
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Also seems to be confirmed he's leaving id: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/07/oculus-rift-john-carmack-...
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Just quietly, "a lot" is what you're looking for.
This app should sell a kit with a parachute...This would be the new Toy Parachute Men.
Yeah, they are. There is this notion that USA has liberal coasts and (racist, intolerant, preaching) flyover hearland.

Guess what, Russia is very similar but doesn't really have any coasts. It's just rednecks all the way down. The world is 'gopniki'.
OK, yes, it's this attitude which I was disagreeing with:

Sports and politics may be innately interconnected, but that doesn't mean we should seek to make sports even more political.

To have a requirement that the Olympics is hosted only in countries with political approval by [Stephen Fry/Western cultural values] would prevent it from having any global influence. Should the Olympics ultimately alternate between the EU and the US? Obviously not.

It's a good thing that political and cultural values of a country are not or are minimally part of the bidding and selection process.

If you're not aware, the IOC requires bidding countries to commit to IOC laws - which include special treatment and legal exemptions for athletes and visitors who may not otherwise be welcome. Although not without problems, I find that a sufficient way to make countries fall in line with the Olympic tradition without directly interfering with their local political process.
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I don't think John Carmack is doing what he does for the money at this stage..

That said, he did say during his Quakecon keynote that he needs more "crazy money" to put into Armadillo Aerospace, so perhaps this is his play for that funding..
It requires GPS. Crashes on my tablet.

Also, see their Facebook. They publicly post GPS location of winners, together with StreetView. Is that stated in the app? It can be a privacy concern.

com.carrotpop.www.smth E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requested provider gps doesn't exisit
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1429)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1379)
at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:646)
at android.location.LocationManager._requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:660)
at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:482)
at com.ansca.corona.CoronaSensorManager$1.run(CoronaSensorManager.java:163)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
The link you provide is interesting, though I think a big factor that it overlooks (that supports the same trend against the value of traditional management) is lean methods, which (while they are now applied other places) really emerged out of the most concave work (routinized production) and while they demand a certain amount of management in the traditional sense, narrow and focus the scope of management (and, in essence, make it more technical) while providing more involvement of line workers in substantive decision making.

Traditional management isn't just becoming less relevant because of "convex work", its become less relevant because it is an outdated social technology even for concave work, for which more-efficient replacements have been developed in the last several decades.
Have you ever glanced slightly harder than you should when your friend enters their four digit pin code on their phone? I have. And it's not out of malicious intent.

There are levels of trust. It's not binary, and it's not as simple as you make it out to be.

Because Chrome presents your passwords in an easily accessible list from the settings screen, it lowers the barrier to access and increases the opportunity for passwords to be read.

Maybe my friend wants to read my passwords out of idle curiosity and they won't do anything malicious with them. I don't know, and I don't want to find out.

It is not at all like asking your friend to collect your mail. First, you can easily see if your mail has been opened. And for your friend to "cover up" opening your mail they would have to have some serious intent to breach your trust. This is not so with the password screen in Chrome.

I'm surprised that you can't see how making the passwords to all your websites easily accessible and readable in a convenient list is a bad thing. Adding a simple hurdle to access is all that's needed to prevent the majority of casual peeking at peoples' passwords. Safari does this, there is no technical reason Chrome can't.