skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JRuby, at least in my experience, has not yet delivered performance in line with my expectations of a JVM-hosted language.

In my opinion, performance is by a huge margin the chief reason I do not begin new projects on Ruby. I would rather defer performance tuning efforts and scale complexity until much later in projects' life, rather than immediately following launch when I have 100 concurrent users hitting the application.
My upvotes also don't "count" anymore best as I can tell. I assumed it was either because A. I upvoted too much stuff and overflowed a counter somewhere, or B. accidentally getting flagged for spamming for upvoting too much.

The thing is, since HN doesn't have a separate "save" feature, upvoting something is the only way to "save" a link for later. And I'm an obsessive bookmarker, so I upvote anything that looks even vaguely interesting, if I don't have time to read it right now. shrug
All your links submitted after the JustFab thing are dead. The two threads discussing that issue also vanished off the front page shortly after they gained traction. Seems like a case of manual censorship?
Twitter got a huge performance and efficiency boost even rewriting the front end on the JVM (in Scala).
The power drain could also be from poorly optimized supporting chips/shipsets like microcontrolers, WiFi Cards, and other periphery devices.
I do, which is why I said developers may "compile" their program into asm.js

Even still someone has to write that compiler and they want to know what will be fast.

I do not see many people writing asm.js by hand beyond optimizing vital sections.
This is great news, and most people knew that Chrome could close a lot of the gap and saw asm.js as a competitive push. The main goal seems to have worked.

There is still a ways to go though before they are fully on par with Firefox. Note that one of the benchmarks is still far slower on Chrome, and there are still probably edge cases here and there that trigger slow JS in Chrome. The guarantee of asm.js that your code is ~2x slower than native is nice. Additionally, loading in massive amounts of asm.js in Firefox will be much faster in Firefox in the future when they optimize the parser for asm.js.

All in all, these are very happy times. There are pros and cons to both approaches, but it's exciting to see how far it's going.
Seems an odd move.
Without a camera as stated in the text I expect a bigger threat from kids shooting with slings ..
So it's worth to buy this computer as a ssh webdev machine?
For me, the best thing about Unity3D's success, is moving developers away from C and C++ into better workflows.

Similarly to when some adventurous studios were being C++ early adopters, C was still looked as slow and real game developers only used Assembly.
They used to really to get to me. Now, they only kind of get to me. More like a mosquito bite than a bee sting in that it's annoying but not painful.

However, once I looked past the snarkyness of his delivery, I had to admit his question was valid. And I've now had the conversation with other entrepreneurs who wonder if they should do more blogging on their startup blog or stick to product updates. This post is my answer.
I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent.

Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...
I think this only states that asm.js or it's tests are far from perfect now.
Steve Blank explains why accelerators should mimic “Moneyball”
"you can't tell who paid for what"

Actually you can. Vendors who do this require payers to use a built-in functionality in most Bitcoin wallet apps to cryptographically sign a message identifying them.

However this is not very user-friendly, does not work when sending from a hosted wallet (no access to the private keys), and reduces anonymity for the vendor since everybody knows his main payment address.
I have one prototyped, but I don't want to give you something until I have absolute confidence in it. Glad to know that you're interested!

If you let me know your email, I will be sure to reach out to you once it is finished!

If you have any other ideas, let me know! :)
I'm tempted to read too far into the colors on the invite (especially after the 5c announcement), but I suspect that (like the 5s and 5c announcement) most of what's going to be announced has already been leaked.

I just hope they release new MacBook Pros.
It's good for bad legacy code. Also good if you are so proud of your architecture that you want a print out on your wall :).
Dropbox clone with git, ssh, EncFS and rsync.net
We've been trying to solve this problem for longer than Dropbox has existed: how can you maintain plaintext locally and ciphertext remotely, easily, with efficient changes-only (a la rsync) sync ?

We created a lot of half-working Truecrypt/Filevault/encfs schemes and fiddled with a lot of --partial --progress --whatever switches to rsync, but eventually we just told people to use duplicity[1][2] and call it a day.

Then Mr. Raymii came along and dropped this in our lap:

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_encrypted_shared_storage_aka_Dropbox_clone.html

The tl;dr there is:

"This article describes my truly secure, encrypted file synchronization service. It used EncFS and dvcs-autosync which lets me share only the encrypted data and mount that locally to get the plaintext."

... and we couldn't be happier. Finally we (and anyone using rsync.net, or any ssh host with git on it) have an elegant way to sidestep the issues of trust and authority[3] over remote data on systems you don't control.

Enjoy! [4]

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

[2] ... and it's still a very good solution.

[3] http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

[4] HN discount is 10c/GB/mo. Just email us.
there is a huge difference between having a sense of curiosity about the world and studying science seriously. people love to watch documentaries about the natural world, yet very few attempt to teach themselves mathematics or physics.
It sounds like we are talking past each other slightly. It sounds like you are trying to produce the probability that a proof is found that P=NP in a given year. However, I'm asking for the probability that ultimately P=NP. What would you average that over? What would your input data be?

I understand that people work up all sorts of heuristics for their daily lives, but that doesn't constitute scientific proof. There still just heuristics.

> Because the testable claims are all that's left, since everything else has long since been proven to be false

How can testable claims be all that's left. If it's testable then it can be proven or disproven. Did you mean untestable?
I'm realizing I need to do more blogging.
love this:

> All you have to do is get a server,

> install linux, install Node.js, install screen,

> install express, copy the Blahsay files over,

> start a screen session, run the Blahsay script,

> get a domain, set the A records, and you're good to go.

> So it's not exactly "no hassle" unless you're into all of the above

at least you're honest about what "simple" means, which is _rare_...

-bowerbird
Detecting a Hacked Tweet with Machine Learning
Reasoning From First Principles in Disruptive Entrepreneurship
Really hoping they put a release date on the Mac Pro, oh and a price so I can have excuses to buy or not to buy
It might be that the Karma system here depends on the validation of the user by the community. HN might keep a score of how many upvotes other users have given you and not allow your upvotes to count until you hit a certain threshold. Account age might be taken into account to limit new ones from upvoting each other for to grant privileges.
dthin.gs -> allthingsd.com . Is this a URL shortener? I thought they were against the guidelines?
Hyde - An elegant, open source, mobile first theme for Jekyll
There's already a lot of good progress with introducing parallelism in JavaScript. See http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:data_paralle...
Harp is fantastic, but I'm still curious why the creators shy away from the static site generator aspect of it. It seems they really don't want Harp to be in that group, but I'm wondering why.
The only reason this is posted on Pastebin is because both MT and GD had no news on their sites. Simply copy/pasted the email I got from them.
GoDaddy sold back Virb to its original founder and investors
I think the pro-capitalist bias comes from the fact that a lot of people here are entrepreneurial. The site is hosted by a company that funds startups.

The libertarian part? I'm not so sure there, but I'd guess that it comes from a sense of "I'm just trying to build my business, it'd be awesome if a bunch of silly regulations and crap would get out of my way"
I flag when the story is deceitful or otherwise not a legitimate topic of discussion. I also rarely upvote stores, although I frequently up or down comments.
ugh. I don't like this. I liked MT. I just don't like GoDaddy and the way they do business (example: their ceo shooting elephants, their ads, the way they squat domains, they supported SOPA, etc) and do not wish to be their customer, ever. Wonder how many people feel the same as I do?
I can no longer flag because I flagged every inappropriate political post on the front page for a couple days. (It was a pretty bad stretch). I knew it wouldn't help much but it made me feel better. As a result I was flag-banned.
That is certainly one factor. But companies are also selective and rarely send someone on conferences for a language that doesn't interest them _at all_.

On top of that, the initial statement was "almost no big business uses Ruby".
Getting the Citadel demo to run at 60fps is impressive. It means that V8 is "fast enough" to keep up with the video card on that application.

However, the benchmarks at [0] clearly show that this is not the end of the story. The "workload0" runs measure startup time. All the other workloads show runtime performance, and V8 is still quite a ways behind.

[0] http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...
April Fools! Wait...
I don't know anybody who has a "cheap" Android phone. They are all SGS4, HTC One, etc. which are around the same price as the iPhone.
incorrect

[1] tuition in UK&Ireland is nowhere near US levels. Plus in Ireland at least the fees can be paid for by the state if you meet income criteria

[2] many continental unis have courses instructed in english without any language requirements. Milan Polytechnic is changing all of its courses to english soon (this year or next).

In order to qualify for free tuition, there are a number of other factors to consider besides citizenship.A perios of residency in the specific member state will probably be required first
> There's no concept of shared memory.

Which is already more than proven that only leads to threading bugs.
It's designed to address the underlying sense of entitlement students

But who is going to address the underlying sense of entitlement of the guy delivering the "go fuck yourself" speech? Spiteful turtles all the way down?
I'd say it's poor form to feed the trolls, but nothing is wrong with eating them for motivation.
Competition is great, and projects like pepper.js (http://trypepperjs.appspot.com/) demonstrate that coexistence is possible as well. What's exciting about this is that for developers all of this is very positive - they can write faster code to write in the client.
Don't want to argue with the spirit of your post, but Chinese hieroglyphics is derived from pictures and it's probably somewhat representative of their language.
Twitter is a one-in-a-thousand company with traffic amounts that most of us here will dream of ever achieving. Even the more people that don't take specific interest in running large scale deployments.

Even writing you frontend in Java first would (most likely) not have helped you coping with the new-found challenges in that heights.
Yes and no, maybe on /b/ but not really on the other boards.

For instance /v/ is mostly very sexist, /pol/ is mostly very antisemitic. Even when there's no voting/karma of any sort if an idea gets a lot of traction at some point people who disagree will get flamed and passed a certain point will give up/stop discussing the topic/leave the forum for some other place.

When someone posts a very unpopular opinion it can't be downvoted, of course, but it will either be ignored or flamed until the thread gets completely train-wrecked/expired/killed by the mods.
Makes sense. GoDaddy's been trying to rebrand pretty heavily, what with the redesign, new marketing push, etc., and the article frames MT as a company that isn't exactly doing great financially.

Pretty boggling statistic: GoDaddy has four thousand employees. Twitter has around half that.
And who, in the role of mentor or teacher, has not discovered this to be an obvious truth? The difference between "here is what you do to solve this" and "here is the problem and (possibly) some areas that it might be worth focusing on". Someone given the latter wil come away with knowledge. Someone given the former will come away with a set of steps to follow.

That aside, this long-winded series of human-interest anecdotes reminds me of why I stopped reading Wired. The whole thing could have been written in 1/3rd the space.
Matt from (mt) here. Sorry that you feel that way, but we assure everybody that it's a good thing. We're not making any major changes at the company, and we're going to have 10 times the resources to make better products.
So are CSPAN, NPR, and most media outlets. Duh.
I have no love for Media Temple, but have so many client sites there that this really affects me. Just when I thought MT was improving they go and do this.

That line about it staying "independent" is total crap. I stupidly got locked into Outright and now a year or so after their acquisition by GoDaddy its now magically "GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping" and they want to link it with my GoDaddy account. Independent my ass. So now GoDaddy has all my business records sitting next to my MT accounts, old domain names etc. Ugh
So it will probably be a part of final HTML5 specification. Worst case HTML5.1.
It seems like this is largely the point of a startup accelerator. In exchange for equity you get cash, advice, and introductions to investors who have connections in the relevant area.
Love it. Almost put that in there for the first version, but we were intent on making this MVP
The discourse here is the worst, except for the discourse everywhere else.
Me too.

Fun fact: if you downvote too many people, your downvote button is invisibly disabled for a short time.
Now I'll be spending my morning creating a plan to transfer our clients (mostly small to medium businesses) that host on MediaTemple, to a new host.

Any recommendations on a host that offers similar quality/features to Media Temple's Grid/Shared hosting?

Specifically:

* About $20/mo

* An Easy to Use Dashboard

* The Ability to Reasonably Handle Traffic Bursts

* Decent Support

And, of course, not owned by GoDaddy.
Anyone have a suggestion for a managed hosting alternative with pricing competitive to MediaTemple?
Web Audio live audio input - now on Android
> At Bloomberg Beta, we have backed founders who we know have jobs other than the startup we are investing in — and that's fine. So long as we share an understanding of how much time they are devoting, and have transparency into all their other roles so we know there are no conflicts, we think having multiple interests is healthy.

I won't comment on the author's general observations and conclusions, some of which I don't agree with, but this provides yet more evidence that there is currently far more capital chasing too few startups.

Can businesses emerge out of side projects? Absolutely. But a $75 million fund that invests explicitly "for financial return" funding part-time founders, actually believing that it can be certain that no conflicts exist or could develop, and that said founders can accurately predict and commit to specific time allocations?

In my opinion, this shows just how desperate some investors are to develop dealflow.
Animation and 3D: the web is doing it wrong
GNAA drops info on Godaddy. http://www.reddit.com/r/gay_negro_support/comments/1oidfl/go...
Digital Ocean by a country mile, they come with a Wordpress image ready set-up for you, will cost $5 a month for an excellent webserver. I host 4 different Rails sites, and a Wordpress Network of 7 sites there, all running v well.

My referral link: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=1ecc21b66a25

Edit: Note, I don't run all of those sites on the same server, that'd be silly.
Information Overload Day is Oct 21, IORG is sponsoring a webinar
That COBOL is predominantly used in Big Biz? I think you proved his point.

It'd be selection bias if he made the assumption that most big businesses were using Ruby. That's not the point he was making -- what he said was that lots of people using Ruby work at big businesses.
Depends on how much you want to pay, and exactly how much control you want, but one of these should sort you out.

* WPEngine

* Linode

* Bytemark (Big V)

* Rackspace Cloud

* DigitalOcean
The really big one that cuts against this is the need for credit scores. Evidently that's a component of plan pricing, which makes sense because the price needs to reflect the probability the policy holder will pay all the way through the end of the year, adverse selection in jumping into and out of policies based on getting sick or major but not emergency procedures is a big problem with these sorts of scheme. And better verification will help keep rough credit score indications from leaking to others posing as you.

But if the system disallows window shopping once IDed, e.g. plugging in different, by definition unverifiable income figures, family structures, etc., then the highest level thesis is supported.
I am so, so disappointed about this. Really love Media Temple and had been considering moving more of our resources to them.

On the other hand, I hate GoDaddy and will absolutely not remain a MT customer.

Anyone have a list of good alternatives for reliable semi-managed VPS hosting in the US?
Not every forum is obligated to be as democratic and decentralized as 4chan or Reddit. I like HN because it's more focused, and in some cases more aggressively moderated, even if the mechanisms for doing so are more opaque/blunt/arbitrary/etc. than in other forums. If HN was the only place on the web to discuss anything, I would be much more concerned about the points raised by this article. Fortunately it's not.
We knew that a lot of our current customers might have a negative response towards this. Like somebody said above, GoDaddy has made some pretty big changes in the past year. With this new acquisition we're hoping for bigger and better things for (mt), especially when it comes to new product lines.
"One SIMPLE TRICK to radically change educational outcomes!!"

it's amazing that people still actively publicize idiotic self promoters and charlatans like Mitra.
The 13" Air has a 54Wh battery compared to the almost half capacity 30Wh battery of the ChromeBook. So that's almost half the battery life on almost half the battery capacity. Not exactly dreadful but could get better.

With Haswell Intel got the power draw at idle down to a very good level. So the major power sucker is still the screen. But given the Chromebook has a smaller screen and less powerful SoC the ChromeBook should in theory get little better battery life than it does. That one we can chalk up to the 3.4 Linux kernel that the ChromeBook is using and OS X / Safari generally always being ahead in power use department.

I think we'll see the battery life get better with the newer Haswell Chrome books when Google switches to a more recent Linux kernel.
Fair point. The difference between having been successfully trolled and having been successfully motivated.
> Mozila does not need buy in from Google, or Apple, or MS.

So why Chrome should buy from Firefox? why should they follow the asm.js spec ? Maybe it i the wrong answer to a real problem, javascript speed and its memory foodprint.Why not fix the problem at the source instead of creating a subset?
not meant to be written by hand? Chrome approach seems better.
Here is the release:

http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/10/15/momentous-news-goda...
C++ corner case: You can implement pure virtual functions in the base class
im 36. One disclaimer is that I didn't grow up in the US. Since I've been here, I've owned a cell phone and the need to use payphones were very limited.

Maybe you can share how old you are to get a sense of what age group carried these around?
Gay marriage and the word waitress.

One of them is a human rights issue, the other is a word for people with a certain job and, like many other words for people who have a certain job, changes depending on the gender of the person. This is a useful distinction and is really just a matter of words, however denying gay people the right to marry obviously is not.
I totally agree with you! The pidgin thing was intended to be a little humorous :)

I can see a lot of cases where transmitting large amount of data over pidgin/dolphin or drones could be valuable or the only way to do so.
I'm looking to move too. I'd really like a good suggestion as to where to move my sites.
I wanted to check out Media Temple as a long term host but after this.... I guess I'll stick with 1and1. I've been with 1and1 for almost 10 years. They're not perfect but they're more than satisfactory for me. When the traffic to my websites on my shared hosting grew they automatically moved me to a better more resource free server instead of forcing me to upgrade to virtual or dedicated servers. They're charging $14 per .com so do NOT register domains with them. Use NameCheap.com for that.
This'll be a good thing if MT's customer service and server tech line up replaces over GoDaddy's, but it won't. I'm afraid GD will just take the customers, move them over to their server and strip MT for assets
Depending on your usage, you should check out ASmallOrange.com and NearlyFreeSpeech.net. They're both very cost effective options for personal sites.
Minor correction, most users don't upvote so a small minority of users can remove stories an even smaller minority of users wants to see. Sounds like spam filtering.

Too many users are unable to make the distinction between agreeing with a story or feeling its interesting, and correctly evaluating its worth further examination and discussion. On the other hand the flaggers are pretty good at detecting stuff where the discussion will be useless.

Example: "Obama is the best president". Well that's going to get upvotes from people who like 'bama and want to tell everyone even though no one wants to hear it, who hate 'bama and want to tell everyone even though no one wants to hear it, people who think they should be more politically active so they don't personally care but in a misguided way think they're doing a public service by upvoting something thats widely agreed as a public good even though it isn't, and people who just like to watch the world burn... But lets face it, the comments are going to be garbage sloganeering at absolute best from both sides, so it get flagged as it should be.

Here's a live example from HN new which I don't think is going to make it under the above criteria:

"Ask HN: How are social media user habits changing?"

Is there anything actually useful to comment about this that hasn't been hashed to death already or is just an anecdote or bragging about how I deleted my facebook in 2009 so I'm more 'leet than the guys who deleted in 2010?

I theorize a meta poll of "is there anything interesting to talk about in social media that hasn't been talked about?" would probably come up 95% against. Maybe the poll comments would actually contain something interesting, maybe even from the 5% who think there might exist something interesting but may or may not be able to enumerate it, but I don't expect that to happen.
Natasha McShane accused trial to begin