skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting. A hypothesis I have on Ruby is that people attribute dynamic typing to it being a productive language, but that Ruby is actually productive for other reasons, in spite of being dynamically typed.

With Crystal, at least when it matures a bit more, this hypothesis could be tested.

There are very logical reasons why dynamic typing at first appears better than static for Rubyists, that I think don't hold up as well after you scratch the surface:

* many Rubyists came from Java, and that kind of typing does slow you down. You need a modern type system with at least local type inference (Crystal seems to have global type inference)

* dynamic typing does actually help develop things more quickly in some cases, definitely in the case of small code bases for newer developers. A developer only has to think about runtime. With static typing a developer also must think about compile-time types, which takes time to master and integrate into their development. The relative payoff of preventing bugs grows exponentially as the complexity of the code base increases and at least linearly with size of the code base.
The difference is that the US, Japan, and Germany were civilized and had something to lose from continued war. Tribes in the mountains of Pakistan don't.
It's not a funnel in the sense of the object that allows you to pour a wide mouthed bottle into a small mouthed one, it's a name for the graph of "how much crap is in your flow" vs "how many customers are still trying to use your awful UI" tends to narrow down sharply and visually resembles a funnel.

You're supposed to hate the funnel! The funnel is what stands between you and a good UX. The (impossibly) ideal funnel is a short length of straight pipe, where 100% of user intent is efficiently converted into action.
That was ad hominem. Try addressing the individual issues he raised.
Why are you allocating in your standard implementation's Check function? That can't be good for performance.
This makes the optimistic assumption that drone strikes can kill terrorists faster than it can recruit them. You may be right, but imagine for a moment how you would feel if another country were operating deadly flying robots around your children.
That's an issue with the maker of your favorite app, as it is their choice to abandon older versions of the platform.
This was just posted on Twitter.

https://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/appmanager.webm

Seriously cool stuff. The kind of stuff we should be giving kids instead of closed platforms that require buying into someone's platform and dev model.
The unsatisfying response to this is that circumstances matter, and long lists of names without context do not give the sort of information that would allow one to act.
Because the last time we did that, the minority decided we should have have segregation, Jim Crow, etc. Federalism was killed in the U.S. by states tying their own sovereignty to the losing side of the civil rights war.
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I looked at WordPress code and I don't recall seeing any thread stuff being used at all.

The problem with WP and PHP is not stability, but large, complex and suboptimal code. One of the reasons is because WP supports everything and a kitchen sink, and all the features were just patched over it as time went by.

I run custom PHP applications for thousands of users on Apache without problems. I am using nginx in front of it for KeepAlive and static files, which reduces RAM and CPU usage drastically. And it also makes everything faster for website visitors.

There's nothing wrong using both Apache and nginx, each has its purpose.
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I live in the US, but I'm not a US citizen, so I'm definitely a foreign person. Now suppose that I were a spy or a supporter of terrorism, are you saying the NSA shouldn't be able to monitor my activities because I am inside the US?

I've had occasion to think about this before, here and in other countries. I'm Irish, and as I'm sure you know there was a lot of anti-British terrorism originating in Northern Ireland for a long time. Terrorism was carried out within the UK, and for that mattter a good bit of it was funded from the US by people who considered that terrorism a noble cause (including, famously, Republican representative Peter King - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_I...).

But the whole business of "parallel construction" where the NSA shares warrantlessly intercepted data with the DEA and keeps it secret from defense lawyers is pretty good evidence that "minimization" is a sham and the NSA is not honestly trying to keep itself within legal and constitutional bounds.

No dispute with that point. I just want to clarify that the NSA's legitimate scope is not defined purely geographically.
I'd love to add Feedly. I've been waiting for their official API to drop then it should be a quick add.
Autocar.uk is an enthusiast news and review site. They are careful about their reviews and it means a lot that Sutcliffe is so excited after driving the Model S. He was a professional racer. Autocar have tremendous integrity and independence unlike many US car mags which ritually praise US models for no reason other than their origin.

But Autocar also do comparisons that don't really mean much, like a track race between an SUV and a trackday special. The rolling start race with the Aston isn't meant to signify anything other than the real world result of the huge torque in an all electric. When the Model S ships in the UK their review will be a must read. This is just a little fun.
HN white knights JavaScript but hates PHP. I can't figure it out. Each language is horrible in similar ways.
America claims to believe in the rule of law, and thus should hold itself to higher standards than extremist terrorist organisations.

It's not a particularly high bar.

Children should have special protection. (http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/protected-persons/childr...) (http://www.loc.gov/law/help/child-rights/international-law.p...)

The US didn't stop dropping cluster bombs on civilians, but they did change the colour of foodaid - which had been the same yellow colour as bomblets and also delivered by air drop.

(http://www.landmineclearance.org/page2.html)

These munitions can last for many years.
(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/78463/LAOS-Deadly-cost-of-une...)

Here's an image of an oldstyle food aid package, and a cluster bomblet. (Also images of wounded children.) (http://www.rawa.org/cluster2.htm)

It's not as if the food drops were always any use. Sometimes the food had spoiled, becoming potentially dangerous to eat. (Dropped from too high, damaging the package.) Or collected and sold for profit. (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0326-02.htm)
Just double? I managed to get around 8-10x performance from the same hardware. I do not run Wordpress, though, but my custom PHP code.
You could follow the list of attacks at http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks, look up more information for the individual attacks, and filter out the adults. But as far as I'm aware, nobody's doing that right now.
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Previous posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6339502 - no discussion.

NASA overview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6343179 - now deleted for unknown reasons.

Resubmitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6343230

Here is the link to the mainstream BBC description, copied from the first HN submission quoted above:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23939448

Submission of the link to live feed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6342849
This... isn't some startup project, it's abusing indiegogo / a 'startup' campaign to get in pre-orders to fund the project. It also lacks being remarkable. Also nobody's giving them money for that, it seems. Not remarkable, seeing as how anyone can get an Ubuntu desktop with comparable specs for $350 or less already.
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> A hypothesis I have on Ruby is that people attribute dynamic typing to it being a productive language, but that Ruby is actually productive for other reasons, in spite of being dynamically typed.

That has always been my reaction to most comments about dynamically typed scripting languages, including Python and Ruby. Most of the time, turning compile-time type errors into runtime exceptions is not a feature.
In the light of this, is it to blatantly state the obvious that the recent push towards invading Syria is obscenely hypocritical? Regardless of whether such campaign would be a good or bad idea in the end...
The first I see is the irony vis-a-vis pre-firefox Mozilla. They had a similar system (I'm looking for the old book I had on it) using a widget set called XUL. I tried using it. It hurt.

I guess the lesson is one of:

(1) don't make complicated XML-based APIs
(2) stick to standards (e.g., using HTML now instead of XUL)
(3) if your system isn't getting traction, retry in 10 years?
Is this really still the case?

Granted, it's been a while since I went shopping for hosts, but I thought these days more and more hosts (even cheap ones) at least support 5.3+ if not 5.4. PHP got a huge swath of improvements in these releases so I'd imagine these were more well supported. I mean we're in the middle of 2013 for crying out loud.

I also see more and more cheap VPSes popping up and these may be a more attractive alternative (for novice admins/developers, I think these are still a bit too intimidating).

The biggest hurdle is still the lack of quality tutorials that use PDO for complex projects. You still see a whole bunch of older examples out there that still use mysql_query() and the like and not many that do "A-Z of Building a blog with PDO" or similar.

The power of quality free tutorials shouldn't be underestimated.
They can be installed in Firefox for Android too. For a while I ran an AOSP version of Android without the Google apps but with Firefox installed and using twitter, facebook, etc installed as 'Apps' from the Mozilla Marketplace. It's not quite a Firefox OS experience but not too bad.
When I saw the headline I thought people wanted to hunt using drones. I guess that will be next year.
Almost nothing in any car, including low production supercars, is actually handcrafted. Hand assembled, maybe, but the parts were almost certainly injection molded or CNC cut or what have you.
> With Crystal, at least when it matures a bit more, this hypothesis could be tested.

You could test that now with http://rubyluwak.com/

RubyLuwak is statically typed with local type inference.
Shouldn't they be normalizing the percentages? i.e.,they should be looking at percentage of non-whites who camp (denominator total number of non-whites) as opposed to percentage of people who camp who happened to be non-white.

If a minority represents only 0.01% of the entire population, odds of finding them camping is going to be very low unless that said activity is something very, very common amongst that ethnic group.

Having said that, I somehow do not see a lot of African Americans when I hike/camp.
So we should let Islamist terrorists continue launching missiles from schools?
It's absolutely a feature. It allows testing small parts of a system during a major code change when the rest of the system is broken.
> Would an electronic license plate still draw power when the vehicle is parked?

No, it's like an RFID tag. It gets its power from the reader that queries it.
Limor (and the company she built) has been producing microcontroller and Arduino kits & boards like this for a long time. Digispark reflects a lot of her original work. This is a good thing!
> It doesn't raise any alarms when a nightclub goes from $300k/year to $1M/year in cash under new ownership.

Actually, these things can happen. It's a bit anecdotal (then again, most of the "wisdom" I have to part from running a retail biz is) but no end of business brokers and fellow business owners talk about being cautions regarding taxes and reporting right around a change of ownership. Combined with the fact that people don't report as much as they should in the first place...

At least in California, the BOE and IRS and any other relevant agencies (ABC for alcohol, the banks used for funding, the city giving out business permits, etc.) like to pay special attention to these kinds of businesses. Even if the business is actually doing better, I was told to not deviate from the previous owner's numbers too much unless I have concrete proof of purchasing more than usual from easily traceable sources (so probably not the shady small warehouse store, but Costco Business and Sysco instead). I've seen a friend be audited because she wasn't reporting anywhere near what seemed right for the amount of groceries she was buying, and a former owner of another business because the new owner reported way more in sales for the same amount of business (only because the new owner was stupid enough to try to flip the business looking like it was in better shape in a year).

All that said, it's probably easier to eventually raise a nightclub's "profitability" than it is to do the same for a parking lot.
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Yes, fewer civilians/children are dying from wars every year.
The fathoming happens inside the pearl.
Why do you conveniently ignore terrorists blatantly launching missiles from elementary schools?
So glad to read about this, and I'm impressed with NewEgg not just caving in. Kudos to them.
I suspect that HTML was not mature enough back then which is why XUL was created and used instead.
True. Although this isn't really germane to the main point of whether they (via Thomson Reuters distribution channel) are doing a bad thing by charging high prices for early access.

Apparently UM gets a $1M/year or so through their distribution deal with Thomson Reuters in order to perform this research.
1. Where is the evidence for that claimed outcome?

2. Where is the evidence that that outcome is caused by the US-led wars?
I'm gonna make my standard objection here: there is a popular western conception that terrorism is caused by "extremism" but the evidence for this is lacking. Relatively devout Muslims who practice stricter interpretations of Islam are not more predisposed to violence than those who are more casual about the whole thing. In a randomized controlled trial, sending Pakistanis on Hajj made them both more devout in practice and less supportive of conflict with non-Muslims.

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3659699/Kremer_Es...
Terrorists who launch attacks from neighborhood schools should be ignored, right?
Telco termination fees have been, and are becoming much more so, a hindrance to innovation. The technical part of telcos should have been turned into dumb utilities by now, with the big providers as mere resellers. Thanks, Michael Powell.
we do know that we are not allowed to know that
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http://www.npr.org/2013/05/31/175619007/is-the-world-a-less-...
I'm not sure I would call the system more sophisticated than AoE, it is very similar. There are three phases; Village, Town and City which work similarly to the AoE series, unlocking units, buildings and technologies. The idea behind only having three is that the first age in AoE tended to be quite limited so in 0 A.D. the aim is to make the village phase more significant with it being more like the second age in AoE2/AoM in terms of available units.
Actually, fear of Russia is the most powerful argument of the right-wing types. That is the very reason why Sweden has been eager to co-operate and assimilate with the west.

Luckily for them, Finland has always been there to buffer and protect them from the easter invasion.

EDIT: Having made such bold statements, thought it would be decent to provide some links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-Novgorodian_Wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Swedish_War_(1554%E2%80%9...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Swedish_War_(1590%E2%80%9...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nordic_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Swedish_War_(1741%E2%80%9...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Swedish_War_(1788%E2%80%9...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Swedish_War_(1808%E2%80%9...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War

'Always' was obviously an exaggaration. Eight hundred years would be more accurate, which is pretty much as far as written history goes at these parts.
Here's a list of properties within 3 miles from Liverpool city centre (well, a 'Zoopla mile' is a bit different) for £40-60k ($62-93). I'm sure many will need updating. There's 300+ on the list

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/houses/liverpool-city-centr...
With donor funded nonprofits the "product" is fulfilling the donors' wish to see money spent on X, so the litmus test for spending the money for donor-funded organizations should be if donors knew we were spending on this, would they change their mind about the donation. Rational, reasonable people won't mind some of their donation being spent soliciting further donations, but they will mind nearly all the money being spent on fundraising activity, to the point where it's essentially a marketing matrix giving little more than an "image rights" fee to the good causes.

Profit making companies like Tom's Shoes that see philanthropy as a core brand value, are a different matter. There's room for more of them irrespective of how the charitable sector organizes itself.
It appears to have nothing to do with Ruby except syntax similarities.
So where do you go? I've installed one and clicked through all of my menus and can't find it anywhere. It's not in my OS launcher either.
Please please stop reposting this to HN. Really just try to go one week without seeing this again. Please. Just give it a rest. Stop reposting this old story over and over again, week after week, month after month.
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So... What happens if/when signals are jammed/spoofed?

Also, if indeed it is a changing display, it requires power to do so. What about draining batteries caused by that? Not to mention what about small motercycles, that don't always have a 12v electrical system, if they have one at all?
This is great. Now if we need parallelism we can choose Rubinius and if we require raw speed we can choose Crystal (when it's done) instead of jumping on the JRuby bandwagon.

I respect Charles Oliver Nutter but Java is something I want less of in my life. This seems like a great alternative for people seeking performant Ruby interpreters.
I guess the question is how much they'd gain in acceleration/performance (and thus be able to give up on battery capacity) by making the overall vehicle smaller and (ex-battery) 200-300 pounds lighter, vs. how much space for battery they'd give up. I don't mind if the S4-replacement costs $60-80k (loaded) vs. $80-100k for a Model S.

I'd also take a car which had the same general size and chassis as the Model S but with a larger, more-secure trunk at the cost of seating capacity. My dream car is a 2-seat coupe with a trunk the size of a compact pickup truck bed.
> I looked at WordPress code and I don't recall seeing any thread stuff being used at all.

You misunderstand. You don't need to write threaded code to write code that can't be used in a threaded environment. Think about using and accessing global or static variables in a threaded host environment vs a prefork process based environment.

PHP devs have adopted the practice of using Apache pre-fork rather than simply fixing their bad code because it hides their mistakes. On top of that, Wordpress being a huge plugin based community, you get tons of poorly written plugins that assume they're running in a single process environment because the authors simply don't know any better.

As far as I can tell, most PHP devs seem to think Apache only has a pre-fork mode; they write lengthy articles about how bad Apache is on memory not realizing the only reason it's that bad is because they're using the oldest and most resource hungry worker mpm. They don't seem to be aware Apache has other worker modules like threaded and evented that don't suck down ram like the prefork model does.
I'm putting my faith in Ruby. It might take 10 years, but eventually the performance will resemble C's. It's basically a compile-to-C language right now as it is. There's just a whole bunch of inefficiencies in the implementation. Once they get ironed out, we'll finally be able to have our cake and eat it too. One language to rule them all.
You're missing the point. The point is the logo really doesn't mean squat. In the long run in it's the products and/or the advertisement with the logo tacked on.
Well there are many towns where if the police were Federal agents, it would actually be an upgrade over the corruption and abuse the citizens normally see. So I don't understand any intuitive reason why the agency supplying the cops would necessarily make you feel differently, except perhaps for inherent biases.
Startup shills. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't perform any journalism, or that they don't aspire to be journalists, but the news they've chosen to coverage depends highly on their sources choosing them as the primary outlet for news. That used to make sense, but not anymore, and especially not since 1) Big Media have taken tech coverage seriously, 2) FAR superior sites like Ars & The Verge provide much better general technical cover for the same or similar things, and 3) there are a plethora of niche blogs/sites that delve deeper still into the minutiae of nearly anything you could imagine (consider android police, androinica, phandroid, android guys, android atlas, andcentral, ...). Imho, TC isn't the only one suffering -- Mashable, Pandodaily, etc aren't exactly getting the new hotness first, either.
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True, but not thaaat large. 50BMG is meant to destroy vehicles and small structures.
So instead of continuing to fight them, we should give them more to lose.
I don't think this project's lists are aimed at a full analysis of the situation, but just one piece of information: reminding people that there is significant collateral damage, and innocent people killed have names/etc., rather than just being units in some kind of RTS game.

People may decide that's unfortunate but ultimately still the right decision; as you note, it's not the only piece of information. But right now many people are not making that decision actively. I haven't surveyed people formally, but in my discussions around the subject very few people guess the death tolls are anywhere near the real numbers. Many people have the impression that, yes, the U.S. strikes are imperfect, but generally accurate and with only a handful of innocent people occasionally being killed.
Okay noted. I'll use the better statements next time so you can avoid throwing an exception in your rigid mind.
Sniping is better for "advanced" buyers. It makes normal people that think of eBay as an "action" site really, really annoyed. You start bidding 5 days out, and feel comfortable, then literally at the last second, someone outbids by a dollar. I've even seen some sellers so annoyed they will refuse to sell to any sniping winners.
This is the kind of question I would expect to see in a highschool debate club when a debater is losing the argument. It's an emotionally loaded red herring which is designed to derail discussion, not further it.
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Funny how you created a fake account just for these comments.

I am in no way defending terrorism. I am saying we should look at all of it, instead of saying, "What about X?"
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