skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JS promise libraries are slow because they're poorly factored and constrained by the limitations of the JS runtime environment and the low quality of typical JS code. Don't extrapolate from the miserable experience of using promises in JS to assume that promises are useless as a programming construct.

core.async looks interesting though; I assume I can't just consume it as a library and instead must rewrite my whole application in (clojurescript? you literally never mention in this post what language that is)? Too bad, but I can see how for this type of thing you need compiler support.
I worked at a rather largish virtualisation company which uses the "Nine Box" performance review process. The idea is that you get two scores, your _public_ score which is told to you about your performance, and then a _private_ score which is surreptitiously given by your manager about your potential to get promotions.

Managers are then given a quota of how many people should be put in which box, and get hammered if they give too many people good reviews. The "secret" score is directly tied to your compensation, so basically your manager could be completely screwing you and you would have absolutely no indication.
You still run into problems if you do an org wise stack rank and manager popularity and pull is going to impact which groups are magically determined to have only top performers.

A better approach really I think is to just do 360s and if there are clear problems with key employees that are holding back other employees let them go. If you have everyone working on complex code and are pushing for excellence over time it will become clear who is making the grade and who isn't.

Even if some of the employees that work well on the team could be replaced by other slightly more efficient or intelligent employees the benefit of doing so is greatly offset by ramp up and recruiting time that takes away from team productivity.
They had to widen the columns in the chart to make room for Tesla's growth numbers. What is interesting is that Tesla is right behind BMW and Daimler for the "luxury and sports" segment.
But to do that you need to be able to trust managers to make competent hiring and firing decisions. I have watched firing decisions happen at Microsoft, as well as been hired. I can tell you that managers are definitely not trusted to make these decisions or at least weren't when I was there.

So once you establish that you don't trust managers, you pick managers who excel at politics rather than anything else and the problem continues.
And then Microsoft makes money by selling 50-100 Remote Desktop CALs to replace those 50-100 physical desktops. The price per CAL is about 90% of the price per license of Windows. But add in the base price of the Windows Server license, and you're back to essentially the same price.

Net impact on Microsoft's bottom line: zero.
Running a local car dealer takes a lot of capital investment to pay for inventory and trained personal. With the franchise law, the government is encouraging, and protecting, the local business's upfront investment. This creates revenue, employment, and consumer supply to a local area. If the manufacturers dictated the price, as apposed to suggesting it (MSRP), it could starve the dealers, eliminate consumer choice, and lower local government revenue. (Local, in this case, can be considered city, county, or state government)
Close. Not exactly irrelevant, but the profit margins will suffer as the failure of overlapping lockin schemes force Microsoft to actually invest and innovate in the area they don't abandon.
Windows Phone 6 sucked. Windows 7 on tablets sucked. In both of these cases, Microsoft was slow to react improving their products.
Yep, the article mentions the rice, and to expound further, this is basically the concept of a seed bank, a cold dry storage for seeds in case we need them in the future.
Can someone try this app and give us suggestions?
From what I understood is:

For normal approach:

1. Google CDN jquery

2. Get the CDN link of jQuery

3. Add it to your template

For Yeoman/Bower:

1. bower install jquery

2. Get the link/path where bower installed jQuery

3. Add it to your template
While the OS may be good, it's lack of software and accessories ecosystem require Microsoft to make it more compelling than either iOS or Android - which it isn't (it's about par).

The same inertia that keeps Windows popular is preventing Windows Phone from gaining significant marketshare.

You would think that, of all companies, Microsoft, the abuser of platform lockin, would grok this.
I'm currently trying to get my workplace to change from the forced distribution model to a "membership model" of employee evaluations. I'm currently contracting with them on talent management policies and tools, so I'm in the position to do it.

In essence, it works as you describe: rather than trying to make managers give ratings using an arbitrary metric they don't understand (which can be avoided with behaviorally-anchored rating scales, but most companies don't spend the effort to create them), you basically ask them to decide whether they're in the club or not.

There is a bit more to it than that, such as training for and having managers justify their ratings, but it's simplicity is the draw.
Regarding requirement to sell through dealership ... This kinda "service proxy" (which can be easily eliminated but it's not) is a common problem in this economy. Same thing with real estate agents. Do we really need that RE agent for our house sale/purchase to go smooth? Why not just create one central official website where sellers and buyers can find each other and do all paperwork, money transfers, bidding and other stuff online according to strictly defined procedure? I don't see any technical difficulty here.
There are historical reasons why the existence of dealerships would have helped the consumer -- via more showrooms, real estate, distribution, etc -- but I'm of the opinion that those times are past. Things like the internet have mostly made those requirements irrelevant, and dealers are more than capable of reaching out to most of the consumer base now.
Government should provide jobs - so they simply pay people to do unproductive jobs rather than removing some of the hurdles to new business starts, lowering costs of compliance etc etc....gosh I love this country
This has been discussed for at least the last decade. An electric car's carbon footprint is based on the current, and future, efficiency of electric power generation, storage, and distribution. The production and destruction is a fixed carbon cost depending on the manufacturer.

> In the quest for zero emissions - we are creating the Electric Cars

The point of using electricity is the flexibility, and choice, of fuel sources. Reducing emissions from consumer vehicles is a wonderful side effect.
> Promises are all the rage in the JavaScript world even though they don't actually eliminate callback hell and their design emphasizes coarse grained asychronous operations leaving much to be desired for the vast universe of possible interactive applications (cough, user interfaces).

Bold (and interesting) claims. I await the blog post substantiating these claims.
The EPROMs which were likely used to store BIOS and ROM BASIC were only rated for around 10 years.
Recently read an article suggesting sugar should be regulated and treated as a drug- as it also has addictive properties. I feel sugar is almost more dangerous in that it can take several names and identities (i.e. fructose, splenda). The food industry then tactfully targets cheap, convenient, and often children's food products. The carton's of milk handed out in school cafeteria's are said to have the same amount of sugar as a can of soda- and that's just breakfast.
So Google has a different algorithm for computing the stank rank, but still stack ranks? Microsoft also incorporates peer feedback into the review process, but treats it as just another input into the manager's decision process.
Does Git have any advantages to store non-textual data? Does it have optimization for storage, access and version control?
Haha, Yahoo does it every 3 months since Mayer came on board! Soon, even Yahoo will crumble like this.
All i can view is,

Your access to this site has been limited

Your access to this service has been temporarily limited. Please try again in a few minutes. (HTTP response code 503)

Reason: Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons

Important note for site admins: If you are the administrator of this website note that your access has been limited because you broke one of the Wordfence firewall rules. The reason you access was limited is: "Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons".

Did they block an entire country?
Blizzard is challenging too.
Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1 [pdf]
What I love about the last decade of the Microsoft saga is how Bill left Stevie holding the bag, just when he knew it was going sour.
This is a crap shot at IA. There are many more real problems with IA that may never be addressed and this isn't even a technical one. Think about this - IA used to driven by a tape library. The fact that they've managed to keep any of that data online and accessable should make you bow down in honor.

They've survived years of horrific linux kernels and file systems and STILL HAVE THE DATA ONLINE! What else do you need? I'm not saying they're saints, but cut them some slack will ya?
No AOL? It is a pain to delete AOL account.
If genuine this amounts to purchasing stolen goods, buyer beware. Not that at $10M I think there'll be any takers.

As always there is likely another side to this story and if you're a US buyer of this batch of stuff you're probably going to be dealing with that aspect of the sale.

The way I read this is: founder got screwed, founder uses ebay to put the pressure on his former employer to see if he can get compensation by threatening to expose the crown jewels of the company which he developed.

On another level, this story is just like any other minority shareholder dispute and founders should definitely take a warning from this.

It is relatively easy to screw a minority shareholder, even a founder, if everybody else colludes. This can happen and it does happen, hell, it happened to me. If you're technically savvy but not business savvy you might as well settle for a fat salary in many cases, unless there is ample paperwork to document your position and sufficient trust between you and your partners.

I wouldn't touch this auction with a 10' pole, but there might be someone out there that takes the bait and thinks that this is peanuts for the goods from a counter-intelligence perspective.

To create a competing product based on this data would be a very stupid move and at that price I think you could do a lot better by doing it again with today's tech.

Essentially he is saying: my 10% of the company is worth 10 million dollars (or more) and that alone might be an indication of the kind of thing that lies at the heart of the conflict.

I hope the poster finds a way to fund his lawsuit in a less controversial way, if only because he's selling some of the evidence that he'll need in order to win it and because he's opening himself up to a substantial counter-claim and actively helps the opposition with an own goal.

If the poster of the ebay auction reads this: retract this auction, get a lawyer, if possible on a contingency basis but at least for a few hours (which you should be able to afford out of pocket) to research the legality of your position. If a lawyer will sign off on this action in writing then go for it. But I doubt that will happen. Hint: a minor shareholder does not have the right to pre-emptively strike at the company based on the outcome of a lawsuit that still has to be fought. It is very well possible that when the dust settles that you'll own the assets of the company but until then this stuff is company property and you as a shareholder are acting against the interests of that company and probably against the terms of your employment contract. That's a (very) bad spot to be in and it may very well annul any and all rights that you still have or cause the tide to turn against you from having the moral high-ground to becoming the defendant.
If you really want to be Uber for everything, you need to just focus on that bit and drop all the other "meet cool neighbours" stuff.

Either way, you need to change your pitch to sound less like a random sampling of buzzwords from Techrunch and PandoDaily and more like how your users actually talk.

"Location based social discovery platform with social commerce features" means nothing.

Good luck!
Wow, at one level that's quite beautiful as it's sort of saying "the sum of all living things equals health for humanity". I generally don't dig the humans vs. everybeing else distinction in monotheistic philosophies, though.
Yeah, i prefer that approach but i find that a lot of recruiters still insist on a resume despite having linkedin. Thanks for the link and inspiration though!
While I, as a power user and a developer would love this feature, I can only imagine the kind of problems it'll cause for regular users. eg. "Why does this flashlight app use the camera permission? (Because the Flash LED is part of the camera!) Why does X game use the phonebook permission? Let's disable it. Ugh, the friends feature no longer works. I'm going to give this app a 1 star rating."

Users are stupid.
that's fine as long as the oil is paid 10x less. oh, they want to be paid six figures to just sort of hang out a few hours a day, be everybody's friend, and leave by 3? The economics doesn't work because the productive people who are pulling 10-14 hour days will see that productivity is not necessary or valued and leave.
Have you had a lawyer send the app developer a cease and desist? Have you contacted a lawyer?
Downvoted for truth eh? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gma...

Guardian had to publish a correction. They also mindlessly copied the press release from Consumer Watchdog and tried to connect the subject to PRISM, which it has nothing to do with (this is about automated Gmail ads).

"Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelation a "stunning admission." It comes as Google and its peers are under pressure to explain their role in the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of US citizens and foreign nationals."

However, the Consumer Watchdog responsible for the misleading press release is not an advocacy group (there are two of them), it is actually an astroturfer with a heavily anti-Google bias, most likely funded by Microsoft out of a range of such organizations MS runs: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/08/28/microsofts-secret-scr... And some evidence here: http://techrights.org/2009/05/04/consumer-watchdog-exposed/

Point is, the Guardian make a factual error, and at the same time, copy-pasta'ed an astroturfer.
If I have specific keys per service device pairs, how do I go about retiring the keys from a device that has been compromised?

What if a service doesn't allow you to register multiple keys per account?

If I'm using an OS controlled keychain, what is the best way to handle it's contents in a OS agnostic way that is easy to back up just like dotfiles work?

Are there any resources that go into how to handle keys safely in a lot more specific detail?
How would they fix it anyway? It was never really designed, it just evolved as a slow accretion of features using whatever syntax was convenient in the parser codebase over a couple of decades.

The author makes a good point that people like me who ditched PHP in the mid-2000s should probably stop complaining about it since we don't really know the current state of affairs.

The problem is when we have languages like Ruby, Clojure, Scala, Haskell, or even plain old Javascript ala Node, why would I waste another thought on PHP? PHP was created to make very simple dynamic web pages, and I would still use it for that in the way that I still write bash scripts for simple shell operations to avoid a higher level dependency like Ruby or Perl. I'll use PHP for small stuff, but I see no benefit towards putting any real engineering effort into a PHP project.
Seems like Flipagram itself is ripping off Instagram logo and name.
How you pay for the City of London (BBC Radio 4 series)
I strongly disagree, php 5 has introduced a lot of fixes, performance improvements and many nice and great new features.

I'm a big fan of python and I think that very intelligent people are behind its architecture, but honestly most of the money I made through the past years came from php websites that I can build really fast.

I have eventually used python (fabric) to automate creating php websites.
Google pulls apps too rapidly and without proof; just fill a (incomplete) DMCA request and they'll shut down the app first, ask questions later. Thorough research and actual proof are how it's supposed to be, not a half baked DMCA request.
They are doing it, though.

For example they have now deprecated the dreaded mysql_, pgsql_ interfaces (including mysql_now_escape_the_string_for_real() and the like ;) for accessing the database in favor of PDO.

They will be removed in the future.
Lots of projects still use those.

Just 1 example of PHP dropping backwards compatibility.
It's not quite so bad as you make it out to be.
For those curious about the case itself, here's a link

https://www.modmypi.com/shop
why not pay him to get websocket support out? who prioritizes his work queue?
Yes, that's the common interpretation of "turnover". It's also worth noting that he's successfuly expanded beyond his initial offering such that modmypi.com is a one-stop-shop for all things Pi. Plus modmypi donate 5% of all profits back to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
> Using a bell curve might be more technically correct

But it's not. That's what's so maddeningly stupid about it. Who gives a fuck if your employees are better or worse than one another? The only question that matters is whether they're doing the job you need done to the standard you need it done to. Arbitarily punishing some percentage of your team even though they're doing a great job is madness.
"Hi ha moltes coses". That "N'" is a common error.
That "Tenemos una vez"/"Tenim una vegada"/etc. doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, but it's technically correct.
BigLeap
You would have to break it to fix it. Backwards compatibility kills you unless you never make bad decisions. Some languages manage this, eg Lua that has a (long slow) cycle of deprecate, remove on features.
They're not faulting the guy for not having english as a first language. They're not rewarding him because he broke the TOS.
Java->queuing->Just put sleep.. why so so hard ?
with the lack of co/contra-variance in type hinting
Write proper code oop and comment->Most latest ide can see it.
Now php much okay with namespace.. only what i really wanted now is partial class.. Other no need..
It really isn't that simple.

How do you know which of the two apps has legal ownership of that name ? Or whether any of them do ?
Is this supposed to replace Gecko in the future? or is it just a "toy" project?
Thanks Rob :)
> Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php#History
It is even easier if you use Phusion Passenger, either in combination with Nginx or with Apache. It is almost as easy as PHP. Put your Ruby app somewhere, set your document root to it, done. Nowadays, Phusion Passenger even supports Django and Node.js.
Even if it is not malware those toolbars are a scam.
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I believe the older hard drives used stepper motors to move the read head. Those can get quite musical when they're working hard.
Stack Ranking is Not the Cause of Microsoft's Troubles
By having a review process Apple did put themselves up as the arbiter of any disputes.
Syntax is highly important, however. A poor syntax can make an otherwise decent language quite unbearable. A nice syntax doesn't make an otherwise poor language good, either.
I'd prefer Italian models myself but I mean they already know apparently...

On a serious note, it probably worked. This might come across as sexist, but aren't we as men more easily "gamed" when it comes to dating? We are very visually oriented...more so than females.
My experience with using ownCloud on Raspberry Pi was a painful one of ridiculous waiting times and occasional crashes. Admittedly I did no optimisation at all, just defaults. How much performance can one expect out of this?
I don't really know what loneliness means, despite being more socially isolated than most. Boredom, fear, hopelessness, existential angst, I get them; loneliness, not so much. It's probably because I don't see social interaction as an end in itself, only as a means to something else, be it playing a game, solving a problem or having a debate. Someone on a forum wrote something that was an "aha" moment for me:
"Social interaction is mainly about people stroking each other, the same way that you stroke a dog. The content of the interaction is unimportant, most people just need to be stroked and to stroke others". I guess people without such a need are less susceptible to loneliness.
This is a dangerous thought, imo. Robber Barons turned philanthropists are still evil old men trying to buy social indulgences.
I argue that the weight these monopolists tied around their industries had larger negative impact on GDP and innovation than the positive value of the 'works' their charities re-invest in society.
It is indeed in bad hands. No language designer / guru ever that I know ever come close to exploring its Good parts. I'm talking Anders Hejlsberg / James Gosling / Douglas Crockford level here...
It is evolved indeed, but is there any language designer / guru who ever come close to exploring its good parts (like Douglas Crockford did with Javascript)? I don't think so...
https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Design
The future of CMS themes
"his ulterior motives with the Discourse project is get people to stop using PHP"

Their is money in syntax now.
Yikes! From the article:

"The Associated Press says San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from the Yosemite-area Hetch Hetchy reservoir that is about 4 miles from the fire."

The fire is well established now, and in addition to the threat to the water supply they've already had to shut down electric transmission lines.
What did he say about drinking fish shit? And the effluent of every other critter in the park?
Hoist the sails Ars readers react to pre-Viking settlers
Best of Ballmer: The products and moments
Sig Hecker deserves a medal for this
I already answered this below. Anywhere you look in the framework you'll find that it is written in the same manner, so i couldn't possibly find any code that is comparable in style to the python codebase. Yet, it is a full-stack framework, so you can't say it doesn't have any "useful application functionality".

Since the point was to show what kind of code you'll be looking at depending on the choice of your language/framework i think that the examples are appropriate. Which application implements better design patterns is a discussion that goes a little beyond the point of this thread.
Dear gngeal,
I represent "the Muslims", yes all 1.6 billion of them. Upon receiving your comment we immediately held an emergency meeting (because we care) and decided to apologize for carrying out this sham for the last 14 centuries. What would you have us call it instead? I'm sure it'll make a huge difference.
Maybe now they'll stop harassing me.
I have no problem believing that there is a mutually beneficial don't ask don't tell policy going on between the president and the internal workings of the NSA.
Yeah right, Microsoft is just another enterprise software company. Gimme a break.

What other enterprise company has major footholds in even half of the markets that Microsoft has? Who else has Windows?
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