skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such thing as the garbage patch[1]; any such pictures[2] you may have seen are of other areas that are certainly far more polluted (it doesn't change the tragedy of it or the disgusting nature of such things, but it does change the premise of the argument).

There is, however, a significant problem with regards to the micro-plastics and other such small particles floating about in great number. The problem is that no one knows how these are affecting the ecology of the oceans on a large scale[2].

[1] http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-big-gre...

[2] http://io9.com/5911969/lies-youve-been-told-about-the-pacifi...
Paypal gave LOTS and LOTS of people free money! You were just too young or not online in the US during the dot-com boom.
not sure this would go down as well for someone without a well established developer's expertise/experience. i can imagine landing at a foreign destination, after my life-reset and then asking '...now what?'
The Good Men of India
First and foremost: this was posted on Monday the 22nd of April, 2013.

Secondly, the guy writing this is extremely privileged yet implying he somehow had a hard time and had to "escape" the system. If anything, his life was getting monotonous and he did indeed reset it, but not completely. He still had his massive bank account when he left for Thailand, so in the end it was just moving without having to transport all the belongings (as he got rid of everything).
All those mentions still probably talk about pieces of debris of which only single or a couple would fit on the same photograph.
I presented my concern as a matter of opinion. I never asserted that it was a scientific fact.

If you would like to take the conversation in a more scientific direction, you're welcome to introduce studies.
Notes from Y Combinator Startup School 2013
Redis internal data structures are quite sophisticated.
I have one situation where bash + sed is preferable: embedded devices where storage is a primary cost component. Having a shell on the device is somewhat necessary for development. It so happens that the shell is also a decent language interpreter, so adding another interpreter doesn't always justify the cost.

I eventually got pretty good at doing both functional and OO-style programming (each where appropriate, and straight-up imperative scripts in many other places) in POSIX-compliant shell.
Tsar Bomba: Largest weapon ever used.
>> "the guy writing this is extremely privileged"

>> "He still had his massive bank account when he left for Thailand"

Source?
Are "extremely privileged" people not allowed to "escape"?
> I know there's a lot of uranium in there. But not enough to sterilise an ocean.

Well, that's certainly reassuring.
Thanks a lot. That's what I was thinking, consult a legal professional and then write or not write it considering the advise I was given. I notice there are a lot of ThePirateBay libraries, so I wasn't too worried about it but its better to be safe than in court.
WATCH how they get #DUMBSTUPIDCRAZY by: HB MONTE - Dumb Stupid Crazy
That's the solution I use. It's a bit inconvenient, but all my access to Google services are now done in private windows. This stops all the annoying and potential accidental and unintended linking of accounts or trying to access a service with the wrong login.
I use this occasionally for social, not professional, purposes and it seems to work quite well.

It’s sometimes a bit tricky to think up a favor the right size for the state of your relationship, but still useful enough to be real. Fake favors don’t work (and are frankly just weird).
Yet...
I'm Norwegian so the Play Store only contains apps, as such I have no idea if ordering Nexus devices means using Google Wallet or something else entirely, what's the deal there?
It sounds like (or at least the title suggests that) the author would advocate this extreme approach to others? Perhaps I can advocate another approach:

If you're feeling signs of depression or panic attacks, seek out the help of a mental health professional.

There are real neurological and physical implications to the symptoms the author describes. Picking up and moving won't be an option to all, and may not work even for those who do have the option.
It all adds up, and over a long period of time.
Mozilla has never made any statement that Theora is competitive with H.264; various people (both who work for Mozilla and around the community) have made such statements, but they don't speak for Mozilla.
Glad to see some people are still using AfterStep. We put a lot of work into that - it was running just fine on my Toshiba 110CS, the main devel computer I used back in 2001 (and it was dated even back then - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/8728/Toshiba-Satellit...)

It was really fast and optimized back then. It should be blazing fast on modern hardware.

EDIT - the review on http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=310500#p31050... mentions a slow start. Weird. It was globally as fast as fvwm and fvwm2, unless one started too many modules. I remember because I used them as benchmarks.
I think the difference is you don't get made fun of online for using MySQL for everything
I believe the article is talking about ephemeral debris that was sent into the ocean from the 2011 tsunami. What will happen to it in the next 10-20 years is anyone's guess, but factory chimneys aren't something that get thrown overboard or stuffed into municipal landfills.

What this does demonstrate is how one natural disaster can spread signs of human influence and decay for thousands of miles, and it will likely take decades for this stuff to degrade or disperse.
Casual sex doesn't fit most people. Many people (including
most men) can't get it and many (including most women) don't
want it. Only about 50-60% participate in the casual market
even once, and half of those end up wishing they hadn't.

I'd like to read about that in more depth. Can you cite that gender breakdown and participation/satisfaction stat to a specific set of published research?
Racist Israel: "Israel for the Israelis, immigrants get out"
Breaking Bad creator says online piracy 'helped' show
NSA hacked Email Account of Mexican President
Javascript object transformer
What do you guys think about this https://github.com/gabesoft/trans

It's a library I wrote to make it easy to transform complex json objects
Ah! That makes much more sense. Thank you :)
MySQL is richly deserving of ridicule as well. It's ubiquity is unfortunate.
Not really.

The ocean already has 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium in it. That's the equivalent of 45 MILLION reactors.

And of course the Fukushima reactor wasn't dumped in the ocean whole to begin with.
Not really. Here is Cliff Mass' response:

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2013/10/ocean-acidification-an...
In Which Jack Dorsey Reads Us Some Poetry And Lists And Plays Us A Jazz Tune
So the US is pretty demographically heterogeneous. Instead of a "we're all in this together" attitude like they have in (for example) Iceland, a lot of people here have a "us v. them" attitude. I think a lot of this is fueled by conscious or subconscious racism.

I believe this is why we have trouble passing a lot of social welfare programs, education reform, healthcare, etc. You hear a lot of complaints that boil down to "THEY will abuse the system" meaning whoever the speaker thinks is undesirable.

And that's why people like the "pay it forward in the drive-thru" style charity: the people you are helping are more likely to be just like you.
He's right that MongoDB could use improvements like string interning so you don't need to worry about field names. But overall, I think this article is very misleading.

If you use MongoDB in production, you should definitely take he time to learn about the durability options on the database side AND in your driver. By using them appropriately, you can have as little or as much as you like. Data sets larger than 100GB are no problem either -- right now I'm running an instance with a 1.6TB database.

As always, use the right tool for the right job. If you need joins/etc. and don't need unstructured data, Mongo probably isn't a great choice (even with the aggregation framework).
1. "The Web is fundamentally a distributed hypermedia application."

2. We build architecture substrates for the space of URLs (URL-Space): URL-Driven Development. (This is ultimate a Language Problem-set/Conept.)

3. I try to practice Hypermedia-based View Methodology, and the notion of "Creative Encounter with Digital Artefacts" (recommendation engines that use "imaginary rules") is becoming a viable system of thought.

I believe these points were not made. What are the alternative ideas? This OP only discusses the stuff underneath, not the conceptual overhead or the conceptual scheme of Web development.

We want to build Web applications that evolve, and which can last throughout generations. None of this was even remotely addressed.
I read it as "crazy useful".
That insanity quote does not extend into probabilistic life. If we see tails tails tails, but we are reasonably sure what is behind the empirical result is a coin. We can flip a few more times and expext heads.
Like the article says, ZFS is pretty damn good.

Keystore where the "engine" is ZFS works mighty well and is reliable. There is little need for simple solutions like MongoDB if the filesystem rocks.
Unfortunately you've misunderstood MVC.

None of that code belongs in the controller. Your 'typical' controller is anything but. All that code belongs in the model.

Your controllers should have zero LINQ statement. You should do all of the validation in the model and the validation failures should returned in a List.

This stuff's been in MVC for years:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/15/asp-net-mv...

When people talk about 'light' or 'skinny' controllers, this is what they're talking about.

So we're not doing MVC wrong, you've just developed bad habits from bad microsoft examples, work with some experienced Devs so they can teach you how to do it correctly.
Nitpick: it can also be done in JavaScript.
Cool.

There was, of course, always the free Rails-provided upgrade guide:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html
I think the genius referred to is in its simplicity. This simplicity let MongoDB get a product to market very quickly, as well as the inherent goodness of making simple things.

I think in MongoDB's case, the getting-to-market part pushed a little too hard on the make-it-simply part. Simple is good but a thing should be as simple as possible, no less.
The WebP team said they wouldn't revise to match VP9. The improvements mostly didn't apply to still images so it wasn't worth it.
A legion of geeks that help analyze data so companies can make better decisions
If he had a massive bank account, it's unlikely he would have focused so much on the 3000 bucks he needed to make that transition. In any case, the interesting thing here is why he moved, not how.
REPLs allow for interaction with programs (running processes), not code. With direct manipulation, you get a very different kind of liveness: sure you can change the program but their is no repeatable record of doing so (unless Smalltalk style images are used). For code, you just get feedback on the line you just entered and executed.

Live programming allows one to change code to change fate; the running program isn't so much changed as remade, and is completely repeatable.
WOW and it is right in the middle of the Christmas RUSH! Never Depend on Google!
Google Checkout is a good example, the founders and the accountant all needed access when we were using it. It's much easier to create one account we all shared - than grant access to all 3 accounts, for all things accounting related.

Additionally some services - and I think Google Checkout was one - do not allow you to grant access to others at all, so if you started such an account in the accountants name, everytime a founder wanted to check out the balance, we’d need to get the accountant’s password.

(Also you never know when signing up weather this will be the case for a service - thankfully I’ve not seen any new
"single account" services launch for a couple of years, but I’m still wary.)
It feels a lot like Backbone.js. However when building a large application with Backbone, by time lots of things need to be added on top of it: i18n, caching, paged loading of collections, queues...

Looks like hr.js includes most of these things out of the box and is built in a modular way with AMD modules (no more framework in one single file like Backbone). It looks like an amazing piece of work.

That being said, I have a couple of questions.

1) Why was this not build on top of Backbone.js? This way it could benefit of a battle tested codebase used in many production systems and the Backbone apps out there could immediately benefit from the added features by just adding a few new modules (instead of rewriting to use this framework). Many core parts look very similar to Backbone, at least Models, Views and Router/History, with useful extensions on top.

2) Why is the build tool not a separate project? While the framework looks useful, I don't want to switch to a new toolchain to be able to use it. Many people already have some preferred way of building their apps, be it Grunt, GNU Make, r.js optimizer, a combination of those or something different. A specialized build tool can add value to the framework (e.g. sensible defaults), but IMHO the framework should no have a lock-in to any particular build tool. Provide the build tool as a separate project, but let people also use whatever they like. This is the beauty of using standardized module systems such as AMD.

EDIT: Looks like you answered my first question in another thread, while I was writing this and Backbone core not being modular is a good argument to break apart from it. The second question still is open, though. Why not take modularity even further and separate the framework and build tool?
Nonsense, this is a religious debate. People get made fun of for using MySQL as a regular relational database.
Probably worth $500k to government actor.
crash course indeed. I just learned the basic concept of awk in just a few minutes. superb article!
Big Data Elite - New Silicon Valley Fund to Back Big Data Start-Ups
As an ex-bikie (I earned my disabled vet status and at 63 I'm reaping the 'benefits') this story resonates with me quite loudly. The idea of anonymous competition is one I've always craved in that I find actual competition painful for reasons I'm not clear on. So while Strava may be described as anti-social, I see that as a plus. Further I'd point out the subject of the article became quite competitive in the normal bikie fashion. Powerful article for those who think in similar fashion...
Empathy perhaps.
As Batman said, "face your fears"
Is that to meet the money laundering/auditing requirements?
Assertion: Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof.

Euphemism: The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

Premise: A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.

Your usage of "premise" is odd. An argument is made up of premises which support a conclusion, suggesting that the conclusion does not rely on the premises of that argument is false.

> My argument has been that assuming (I've always said assuming or some variation; it's a premise, not an assertion)

It's an assertion, but also a premise of your argument. Whether or not it is an assumption is irrelevant.

> If you want to challenge your body, and simply maintaining good health is not challenging enough, there are endless possibilities. Recreational sports, for example. Gymnastics. Parkour. But personally I would not choose to do things that were clearly suboptimal for my body solely because it would be more challenging.

Here is where you list examples of exercise and call them "suboptimal" (for obtaining "good health") compared to a diet.

> The original claim was that; assuming that a low-carb diet is superior to a more generic diet, it is better to use such a diet rather than simply doing something harder that yields the same end result

Since, as you say and I correctly interpreted, this is a general statement, it can also be applied to your previous conclusion that exercise is suboptimal compared to a diet and is therefore "something harder that yields the same end result". You contradict this now with a much more balanced view on exercise.

> There are plenty of fitness-geeks that use how much pain they are in to gauge how well they are doing, but that is certainly not always the best strategy. You can bench press a weight until you are so exhausted that you could hardly lift anything, but you might be better off not lifting until failure if your main goal is to increase strength and stress your nervous system, over building muscle.

Doing bench presses until failure does not mean you're in pain. Doing bench presses until failure doesn't even mean you'll feel pain the next day. I'm also curious what you think is the best way to "increase strength and stress your nervous system" if working to exhaustion is not optimal.

Maybe your arguments would be clearer if you didn't spend half of them on snide remarks and potshots. I'm tired of this so I won't be returning.
Large discussion a month ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315070

Recent submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6580000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6580162
Agreed. Marionette has been somewhat of a pain to gain consensus on in terms of application architecture (considering RequireJS integration as well).
There are also people using MongoDB and finding it meets their needs well, and don't feel the need to keep writing about how everything sucks or is wonderful. (I'm one of them.)

None of how MongoDB works is a secret. And just like everything else it has sweet spots and problem areas. And like many others, development continues and it gets better.

The database does not get the job done - it is a tool to help get the job done.
> Chick-fil-A employees are the most polite

Admittedly subjective, but the few times I've gone to Chickfila, the politeness had a Stepford Wives superficiality to it. "It has been my pleasure to serve you today sir". Who says that?

P.S. How I assuage my Chickfila guilt: http://chickfilaconfessional.com/
Don't feed the bots.
I know that a significant set of people here are saying that this is "end of Google". Actually, this is "beginning of Google". Google must focus on things they are best at: advertisement.

The problem with their approach of having many half finished products that they were actually helping competition: they were discovering and validating market which is then captured by smaller companies.

And my prediction is that the following Google products will probably die out soon:

* Google App Engine - competition is improving at rapid pace and it is hard to keep up without focus.

* Google Blogger - they will probably just make something similar under Google+

* Google Groups

Probably there is more... but these are the one I see.
Never mind that the same story was submitted over a month ago and discussed at considerable length:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315070
Can run network/memory speed test?

$ wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
Where are today's anarchists?
Full guide and tools to iTunes Affiliate program
Want to control an AngularJS app using your web cam?
This module allows you to control an AngularJS app using web camera.
Also to mention: A fun name. Let's think of the Happy Rhino's Backbone for a bit.
I had a client that used Google Checkout as the only method of payment. It's not rare. It is a mom & pop (truly) web site selling products online.
This doesn't work for Japan so well right now: lost generation, 10s of percents of temp jobs with bad pay...
Think question #1 was answered well in other comments/replies.
I don't think it had to do anything with needing that money but rather with continuing his life style (he does the whole 100 belongings thing), getting rid of his workstation and other stuff he wouldn't need / be capable of taking with him. After that, it immediately says that he used the money to buy a MacBook (side note: must be pretty beefed if it was the total 3K). Nowhere is stated that the 3K was a necessity to make the transition.

I agree with your last point but have to add that the "how" part is complimentary to the "why" and both will give you a better understanding of the situation, goal and motivation.
True.. If someone who wasn't already an established freelancer / contractor in the IT field tried to do what he did, they'd certainly have a hard go of it. And, if they wanted to mirror the author's "reset", they would certainly have to think longer term than most people seem to be capable of; 2+ years minimum of pushing yourself to learn, gain experience in the field, and build a network of contacts.
Facebooks is priced at 240X Price to Earnings. If they start losing users or even stop growing its hard to imagine how that PE ratio continues to makes any sense.

Does a 240x P/E ever make sense? Maybe if you just patented a fix for global warming or a cure for a common cancer or something of that sort of magnitude, but for a non-essential technology company?

I know only a few very successful investors, both professional and private, and I've often asked them how they do it. Almost invariably, the answer is that they do their homework, use common sense, and play the long game rather than trying to beat the short-term markets. A recurring theme on the common sense score is that they have a personal threshold for P/E above which they will just walk away. None of these people I know would invest at 24x, other than under exceptional circumstances. At 240x, they'd be seriously considering shorting the stock.

In Facebook's case, the maths is disturbing: to justify a 240 P/E objectively, they need to double revenues year-on-year for about 7 years just to break even. Unfortunately, in less than 3 of those years, they've run out of people in the world they can sign up to advertise to, so even if they could sign up everyone in the entire world they would still need to figure out how to make about 20x as much money per user depending on how you count inflation.

Of course there is an argument that Facebook's P/E is artificially low because growth and mobile and stuff, but if you're spending 95% of your revenues just to keep things going and attract new users, and the idealised global market for your service is less than 7x your current user base, that still looks like you're doing it wrong from here.

I am genuinely curious here: Can anyone suggest a sound reason why they would buy into Facebook at the current price, other than as a speculative short-term investment? Put another way, is anything keeping FB's stock price up other than a bubble effect?
This isn't "news", I was notified months ago.
I wonder if they ACTUALLY prefer careers or if they THINK they do and thus never try. Remember that it's at least an 18 year commitment (probably longer) so that if you've got any doubts it's really easy to talk yourself out of it.

Let me be clear: I'm not suggesting that women have any societal obligations.

But given that we're all here today we can infer historically that women (as a whole) have liked having children at least some amount. Did they never ACTUALLY like it but that was their only choice? Or do they (again as a whole) enjoy motherhood but socioeconomic life is now so treacherous that motherhood is a luxury few can afford? Perhaps something else entirely from the false dichotomy I've suggested?

EDIT: I've accepted your premise at face value, but I'm not sure I should. I don't know how to properly caveat this comment.
App Engine — are you serious? New releases every few weeks, quite a few innovations technology-wise and essentially no freeriders. Also, I don't see a lot of competition in terms of equivalent solutions; if at all.
For what use cases is Mongo the right tool?