skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, that's the exact same way I approach that sort of manipulation. Start with the most basic operation, then construct a pipeline going left to right, adding filters / operations as needed to get to the result.
This is great news. However, all this discussion of "semantic this-or-that makes my site look like shit" or "semantic tags are just for template clarity" and "well at least web crawlers and Readability can make use of it" is really annoying.

If you think <main> exists to make SEO easier for you, I'm willing to bet that around 7 million blind people in the US alone won't bother trying to use your site. Why? Because their screen reading software won't be able to make it through your mess of markup and get to the part that matters, for one.

It's hard enough getting people to care about accessibility at all, but trying to drive ARIA adoption must be a complete nightmare. <main> is taking one of the most obvious, simple, and useful pieces from ARIA, which just happens to fit in quite sensibly with existing "semantic" tags, and allowing you to remove an important accessibility hurdle without even knowing about ARIA!

I, for one, am extremely glad that I can now make my sites a bit more accessible with almost no extra effort.
By following the advice in this blog, aren't we letting the big corporations hold all the legal cards and potentially put smaller operations in very uncomfortable positions? That isn't right.
Sumo Logic Launches Intelligent Anomaly Detection
How to plug modular applications in large Flask project
Right. And Google Scholar is part of Google.
> Your first media query is no media query

What don't you like about this?

> This mobile up approach means your responsiveness is dependent on Javascript, which smells funny to me.

Hm... I don't see how a mobile first approach depends on javascript. In my experience, it's quite the opposite, in fact. Mobile first is all about progressive enhancement and starting small. Granted, many web devs build their sites in a way that doesn't work w/o js, but IMHO, this should be the exception not the rule.

> Most websites don't live that long, and desktop users still account for the lions share of traffic. If you had to pick one, you'd probably pick desktop. So it makes sense to me to start there.

If designing mobile first meant "build two websites, and the first one you build should be the mobile one" then I might agree with you. But using RWD means that you only need to have one site, and that it will work across mobile and desktop. Because of the was CSS works, it's just way easier to start with a bare bones style for small screens, and use min-width media queries to progressively add more complex styles for screens with more real estate.

> I personally find it easier to work backwards towards mobile. But that's just me.

I'm shocked to hear that, but obviously can't argue; your experience is your experience. I teach RWD classes, and without exception, students who have dabbled in RWD have had a really hard time trying to shoehorn a desktop site into a mobile format using RWD principles. It's not impossible but it is really painful. I've worked on responsive sites for some of the biggest publishers in the world and I can't imagine how would could have worked from desktop down to mobile. This is because CSS is much easier to use in an additive fashion, as opposed to subtractive.

Just my two cents.
I would say that is also produces the most beautiful results.

The best art (and engineering) is that which is constrained, which then makes the creator explore how the boundaries of the rules fit in with what they need to accomplish.
> As mentioned in OP, it is MySQL.

That's not specific enough.

Yes, the problem is manifesting itself via MySQL, but the bottleneck will be somewhere else; whether RAM, CPU, or I/O-wait.
That technique (commonly called semispace GC) works for mutable data as well, as long as you have a pointer indirection (so you can move), it's just less efficient than most others. It would be interesting to see whether the balance would shift significantly with immutable objects.
> Actually, it does, and they go right back to their Macbooks.

In countries where people can afford them.
Just a cute tangent: I once wrote a shell with no built-in redirection. You executed a program named "<" for that, like your second example but with a space:

< file grep xyz

(The trouble with this design: it doesn't generalize well to pipes.)
Previous discussion, posted by the OP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2985195
Monitoring Virtual Memory with vmstat
Thanks for checking it out. There's some videos on my blog at http://blog.mindmeld.io, I hope they can be of use!
I'd love to hear the one, the first, most important (or with the highest leverage or MVPability) thing we could start to change. Tell me and I'll help.

Startup tour and media attention for it was not bad either btw. At Springest we get a lot of visiting students who want to know what it's like to work at a startup or start your own. I feel a bit like we're also underplaying how much is good already. Maybe a first step is a good directory-style site that gives info on all kinds of startup ecosystem parts? Then we can fill in the gaps or accept them where they can't be filled in. And make sure nobody gives bullshit reasons for not starting something :)
Linux Performance Measurements using vmstat
Wouldn't it be interesting to unfreeze the development and see if you can't refactor to avoid unnecessary queries?
Code topology can heavily affect the amount of queries.
Thank's, didn't know that. Yep, Youtube definitely counts as a big player. Added you to the list.
The first edition is still the best resource on learning JavaScript I have ever used. Definitely worth reading / using it (it is highly interactive, and so much more than 'a book').
Getting Started – BSD Now
It's more common to see this issues with something like this:

for f in *;
do
cat $f | ...
done

Now make that a directory with thousands of files or a script digs down through through the tree.
That is cool! How are you doing locking for transactions right now internally?

You can use etcd from the command line with etcdctl or grab environment variables for your process using etcdenv.

I would love to see someone back a DNS server with etcd too.

etcdctl: https://github.com/coreos/etcdctl
etcdenv: https://github.com/mattn/etcdenv
Sorry about that. Just checked it out. It's probably the older version of FF as it works on mine, but I will look into it. Thanks.
Thanks guys for the feedback in Firefox. I'll check it out. I think a few people maybe having a problem with the big black box (a video). Sharing a Timecapsule could be interesting! I'll keep it in mind for the next version.
What do you do when no one believes in you?
Summer peak sun hours will be much more than the annual average, when road trips are normally taken. Admittedly, it's not 12 hours, probably closer to 7-8 hours.

Theoretical max efficiency still uses a number of assumptions to get to 40%. If we learned anything from the path of semiconductors, it's that we shouldn't try to predict what's impossible. According to these 10-year predictions, current microprocessors are impossible to manufacture. And so were last year's, and the year before, going all the way back to the 1980s.

I'm not going to accept that infinite range cars are an impossibility. They may be impossible with today's technology, but what about the technology we have 30 years from now? Maybe solar charging is not the way we will do it, but I'm sure we will see it happen.
(Full disclaimer: BubbleConf co-organizer)

And tickets have been available for roughly 3-4 months now ;-) If you were among the earliest, you could've gotten it at as low a price as EU 160 inc VAT. And even then this conf is run at a loss. (We're not in it for the money though, we want to grow and inspire the EU startup scene instead).

Who knew conferences were expensive like that right? We certainly didn't when first working on this, so I can't blame you that you seem surprised. The best way to explain/understand is by trying to organise a conf first-hand, it's definitely been an enlightening experience for us.

Just to give you an idea of what is involved:

- Rent an awesome venue for your awesome attendees

- Designing the entire conf

- 300+ Badges/lanyards/programmes/posters/etc...

- Website / Payment systems/checkin systems

- On floor staff of about 12 people for the entire day

- Hire camera folks for video registration

- Hire photographers

- Hire audio technicians and technicians to operate projectors etc...

- Flying over international speakers (and amazing speakers they are indeed)

- Provide lodging for those international speakers

- Organizing a speaker dinner

- Make nice food available for your 300+ attendees during the two lunch breaks.

- Have a nice party at the end with drinks and laughter.

This all culminates into hundreds upon hundreds of hours of work (if not thousands, I lost track somewhere along the line), and many tens of thousands of euro's. The only reason this doesn't reach the 6 figure mark is because of sponsors and the voluntary work we put in this. I hope that after hearing this, EU 300 doesn't sound that crazy anymore ;-)
This article is easily the most offensive composition I've ever seen posted on Hacker News. Includes the phrases "white woman fetish" and "hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way down."

Another illustration of Betteridge's Law.
I'm surprised that PG didn't object to that headline.
It's true that windsurfing has progressed enormously in the last 10 years. However, the sport began in the 80s before the internet was commonplace and so its development was stunted in the beginning. I should have made the graph more clear.
Relevant: The funniest lawyer cartoon ever, at http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-08-28/
I think I am going to start playing with that idea. Or join you, if you're into it. I would love to be part of such a non-profit. My wife, a doctor, was very excited at the research use-cases this could help her with.
Stories like this make my day-to-day endeavors seem pointless...
> A piece of software is free software because of what it is, not because of what its makers suggest/allow you install on it.

And so, if its a binary with a license that prohibits redistribution, modification, ships without source, or is just a series of hex values in a struct, I don't see how its free software?
Actually NT 4 was already quite good.

As soon as I got access to Windows NT 4 Workstation, it became my Windows default install, alongside Mandrake Linux back in the day.
Responsive design was about (perceived) speed before it was about screen size.

The first time I came across "Responsive design" it was about using threads to make UI's appear faster.

Here is an article from 2001 talking about it:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/hsankar/UIresponsive...
Let your presentations do the talking (literally)
Sort of. On the surface I find Clojure infinitely more ugly than true LISPs ... but if hairing up the syntax with vectors results in more adaptation its a price I'm willing to pay. On the other hand I'm really pleased at its making vectors, maps and sets first class syntactic citizens, and the other things that have unified them with lists.

Underneath the hood I think there's no comparison, then again it addresses exactly the sort of things I'm interested in. Common Lisp just can't win there due to it being the current version of mainline LISP going back to, well, I supposed the punched card days when it was implemented as FORTRAN subroutines. Yeah, car and cdr are neat, and even useful in combination, but ... well, no where can you assume TCO.

(Have to run, more later.)
The Apple experience
Ok I will try to keep this short. I have applied for a developer membership at apple. A simple precess, one might think, right?

The application enrollment has now been stuck at "Review & Submit" for over two months. What. Tha. Fuck.

Not only that, but to actually contact this acid dropping corporation of magical visions and product design, seems to be quite impossible. Finding out how and who to contact is like reading the documentation of fucking C++.

Am I the only one???
It's a myth that IE 6 is devoid of functionality, we have no loss of functionality. The big problem is that it does everything differently and nothing is documented :).
Torvald's SSD Died
No problem, I figured that would be it. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
What is the difference between strategies used in mid/low frequency vs high-frequency?

I understand high-frequency is mostly stat arb but I haven't heard of too many quant funds that do mid/low frequency. I've seen one present before that used small changes in portfolio optimization to get an alpha of ~0.2% over the benchmark but that didn't seem too useful.
Exactly.

About 5 years ago, I was looking to add tamper evident logging to our systems.

At the time, the state of the art was a rolling hashcode chain. Add a SHA field to each log event, which includes the delta, so that you can tell if someone altered any of the log entries.

There's now algorithms which factor for untrusted / insecure loggers. I haven't digested those papers yet.

But it's just a bandaid. Because I can still root to the OS, database. Tamper evident logging must be done at the lowest levels. (If anyone knows of such a project, please share a link.)
This is a classic case of a rock and a hard place. If one refuses to accept the premise that Jews are more intelligent and this arises from genetics (not environment), one may fairly be accused of being an anti-Semite. But if one accepts the premise, then it follows that this factor is at work (in reverse) in other races, which may result in one's being accused of racism -- even a pan-racism toward anyone not Jewish.

Much very reliable evidence points to the idea that Jews are more intelligent and this arises in genetics, not environment, and that Jews' track record of exemplary scholarly achievement is not an accident, but deserved. It's very difficult to look at the scientific evidence and come to any other conclusion.

The broader implications of the above will be obvious to anyone versed in current social issues. If the case can be made that there are significant IQ differences between groups and that difference arises in genetics, the secondary conclusions are obvious. By the way, possibly apropos of nothing, Charles Murray, co-author of the infamous book "The Bell Curve", is heavily quoted in the linked article. It's as though he's saying, "I told you so."
A lawyer friend of mine worked with a French firm that imported a lot of chicken (in culinary usage, commonly known as "coq" in France, translating accordingly as "cock" in English). She swears she got an email once with the subject "Concerned about Chinese cock."

(Note, as well, that one of the French words for hen is "poule," which is also an old slang term for "slut." The French just can't catch a break in the chicken business).
Marc Benioff Says, ‘There Would Be No Salesforce.com Without Steve Jobs’
This one is a must watch. Marc Benioff talks about his interactions with Steve and his message about spirituality. “Find that greatness, be mindful, and project the future,” said Benioff.
[GIT PULL 0/3] ARM: SoC: Second round of changes for v3.12
And the fun thing is that MS is actually willing to support IE8 on Win7 until Win7 ends support in 2020. For the record, they were willing to support IE 5.01 on Win2000 until 2010!
How did you crack it?
But it was a smash hit and a better product, compared to Windows 3.11. ;)
What are the practical applications to something like this?
Shane Greenup on how to expose bad journalism with rbutr
[PHP-DEV] Wake up
It would be funnier if there was something documenting dropping support for snooping on anything <= IE6 because it had so little reach/useful intel :o)
I may have sent my resume to Two Sigma a couple years ago. If I did, I never got a response. I was really excited when I found out you had a Houston office, but somewhat deflated when your careers page put all the interesting jobs in NYC. I get the impression Houston is basically just an IT/infrastructure office. Is that the case?
They are not really comparable, Crockford's book is for programmers who want to use JavaScript and do it 'The Right Way' TM. Eloquent JavaScript reads much more like a story that happens to teach basic programming concepts, which happen to use JavaScript. It could be read both by an experienced developer and a someone who wants to dive in with no programming experience. The Good Parts would be useless to a beginner.
Just like with passwords, Apple probably keeps a salted hash of your fingerprint instead of the real deal.
no mention of k-anon or l-diversity in the aggregates. was that just to keep things simple, or do you really not enforce that?
Same happened with Webkit and CUPS. Of course, Webkit came from KHTML, which is GPL licensed, so it's not like they had a choice if they wanted to use it.
I'd like to think that we helped just a little bit :)
At which point, you've already transferred the entire data-set. I'm not saying it's not useful. I'm saying that it requires a lot of data to be "better" than server-side search.
take everything in essential system administration by aeleen frisch and automate it. done.
You should tell that to Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, who couldn't even read, or Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, or any of the multitude of successful CEOs who never graduated college.

Anyone who thinks you need a college education to be an entrepreneur, clearly doesn't know what being an entrepreneur means.
the site linked to (http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/)
is brilliant and I love it. I have no doubt that if web application design continues at this rate, all of those words will refer to a (bleeding edge) .js framework / module within five years.

It works in RubeGoldberg 2.2 but will not autocompile freeway buttmonkey merge svn commitshare javahunk
Related topic, LLVM vs GCC performance: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=llvm_clan...

I guess if it's a big deal you can always compile gcc. Honestly I'd rather have it compiled for me but that's probably no surprise.
Wi-Detroit is bringing a mesh network to Detroit's neediest
The Wish List
What Would You Do? Anti Muslim Harassment
Simple answer. If your having a hard time with the team, that's the first and only problem that needs to be addressed when moving forward. Cultural fit plays a huge role in startups.

Jump into another challenging role for sure. Look at the office first and foremost. I interviewed at a startup here in NYC 2 weeks back and the offices were dead quiet. I could not see myself in an environment like that, but others would love that type of calm environment.

Good luck!
I applied for a large quant hedge fund out of university (Man Group AHL) with a masters in civil engineering and got to the final round. The other 5 candidates all had MFE degrees and seemed to struggle with the technical interviews a lot more than I did. It seemed like the fund was more interested in my understanding of statistics and general mathematical aptitude than specific knowledge of derivatives pricing etc, the same was true of my interviews at Jane Street.
I would rather work on porn or for the NSA, than on Wall Street.
If you've found this piece to be "deeply analyzing" perhaps you could explain its merits in more convincing terms?
Alex Ferguson details the strategy behind 26 years of Man. United success
What do next generation apps use?
German Gov't Thinks TPM May Be NSA Backdoor, Declines Windows 8 Upgrade
Google Doc Index of all NSA surveilance revelations
We always do 40% off pre-pub offers that includes the print book and DRM free ebook versions (pdf, epub, and mobi). Just give us your email (nostarch.com) and we'll send those to you. Maybe we should launch that offer now.

-- Bill at nostarch dot com
Convergent Science partners with Rescale
Can you crack the code? GCHQ unveils fiendish puzzle for new recruits
Another issue with zookeeper, the c bindings which are the basis for alot of language bindings, is both buggy and often out of date, esp wrt to individual language bindings. I've often see internal cpu spiked loads on c lib's internal io thread, ie pathological behavior. The recent support for dynamic quorums or transactions has yet to make it to any of the distributed language bindings. At least for python the folks at mozilla put together a nice from scratch library in the form of kazoo, at the cost of reimplementing the entire protocol. Compare that to the simplicity of etcd's, where you can just curl/wget a request.
There are built-in sampling profilers in Chrome and Firefox (though in the latter case the UI for the profiler is an addon), if that counts...
I think Conan has a good head on his shoulders, he was super classy with the whole Tonight Show thing. Gives good advice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_X4w8FdGk
Having served the roles of patient and healthcare IT geek, I believe (but cannot prove):

Biggest threat (to patients) is mistakes. Chop off the wrong arm. Misdiagnosis. Adverse effects from drug interaction, allergy, whatever.

Second biggest threat is poor policy, procedure compliance. Awul Gawande's book Better is a good primer. http://gawande.com/better
But immutability makes it conceptually a hell of lot cleaner, and feasible to do even if you're investing orders of magnitude less in your GC than went into the JVM.

Which is important if Clojure gets ported to bare metal runtimes, as the parent was suggesting.
As of this current version it would be gone. But I was already considering this as a first add in the next version. Will probably save the entire page or save the entire article so that it can be served anytime in the future without relying on the url. Also considering adding a user chosen backup outside of Timecapsule.io for their articles, so they can be confident that they are always available, even if something were to happen to Timecapsule.io, say in five years.
Props to the author for mentioning Chicken Scheme. The community is very friendly indeed. There are lots of eggs and the easy C integration means that one is not usually left wanting for libraries, assuming a minimal knowledge of C.

Also, it runs basically anywhere. One could embed it inside an iPhone app, for instance.

There are some big things missing still. There is no standard database access library, or an equivalent to Python's WSGI (or Ruby's Rack). Or MongoDB drivers (that's my fault, I promised the community one a couple of months ago).

There's also some missing tooling. Better debugging support, for instance. That's mostly avoided by the use of unit tests and the REPL, but is occasionally required. Or profilers. Or code coverage tools. Due to the fact that everything is compiled to C, there are some tools that may be used, but it is still not ideal.
...only if it connects to a Visual FoxPro database.
I've seen this work in all kinds of situation. Especially with people thrown into leadership roles at young ages (e.g. military). First they are scared, but then they adjust and stick to the mantra :-)
This will be a very interesting experiment. We're certainly keen to release the second edition of Eloquent JavaScript and excited to see Marijn hard at work.

Who knows. Perhaps this will become some sort of interesting blended model for other authors.

-- Bill Pollock, No Starch Press
DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION- by Eric Von Hippel talks about this and uses a few extreme sports (including the birth of mountain biking) as examples:

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

edit: Just checked and kitesurfing gets three mentions in the index and is the main non-software case study of chapter 7.
I think you're being too hard on it. It's difficult for me to see how a general-purpose library could cover many of those things.

Could it go further, and do a better job of encouraging people to use REST? Sure. But it's trying to be pragmatic, and right now we're dealing with a world where people think that their unwillingness to learn is an argument against an architectural style.
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