skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the charts, PHP performs well when there are multiple queries and in the case of Data updates.

I wonder of they setup PHP with APC cache (opcode cache) which is basic and easy setup to speed up PHP.
Never assume. Always read the contract language carefully.
It's easier to fabricate a smaller panel.

Edit: And by easier I of course mean both less expensive, and more flexible in process.
That's what I was thinking when I was rather sorely disappointed by the measurements. I still use a Nexus One (AMOLED) and am generally very happy with it, though I would like to get Android 4.* (which I can't without repartitioning my already rooted phone and then running a system that was never meant to support this hardware). I like the older 3.7" form factor. The Nexus 5 is about 1cm wider and 2cm longer, which is a lot... Guess I will skip yet another generation of modern Android device and just keep on rocking an ancient CM7 "nightly".
Going down is fine. Ignoring service problems is not fine.
In order to not alienate Microsoft... Luckily, I got one anyway.
The font-boosting has tons of known bugs: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=Cr=Blink-Te...

Once that list gets shorter, it's slated for inclusion in Webkit, though. It's a useful feature if it works consistently. Prevents needless scrolling from side-to-side on tiny screens. (It's a lot less useful on my 21" Android Slate, however)
That's a bit of a strawman, don't you think?

No.

we're talking about an exploit that would (in theory) somehow make use of a microphone to spread itself to a target host.

No we are not, we are talking about communication between already infected machines. https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/395959517243928576

My personal hunch isn't that Mr. Ruiu is wrong.

He may or may not be, but whatever your hunch is, it doesn't appear to be based on the actual situation at hand, so I don't think it carries that much weight.

edit - sorry for being so harsh by the way, I went and re-read the article and I can see how you can read it as the transmission vector being audio rather than just communication between infected machines. I didn't read it myself that way but at the same time it is not particularly clear.
First evidence of invasive Asian carp reproducing in Great Lakes
I agree with you. I think the rule is asinine as well, I'm glad it's dead, and I think we should be pushing back against stupid things. And following rules for rules' sake is a stupid thing.

But I don't think that meaningless platitudes or misogynistic stereotypes are a good justification for entitlement. Someone who's read the literature and understands why there's almost no way consumer electronics can affect a modern airliner's avionics might be more entitled than someone who thrives on 'breaking the rules' and thinks flight attendants are stupid 'ditzes'. What happens when that stupid ditz says something that turns out to be right?
You can thank marketing, again, for that. "High Definition" came along and it seems the only resolutions people could now think of were 720 and 1080. I had a CRT monitor in 1999 that was doing 1600x1200. I also have a 16:10 monitor right now, which they seem to be moving away from and going to 16:9. Desktops are now caught between the forces of TV and mobile devices.
There are routes to permanent residency that don't require a degree - basically the only routes that absolutely require it are EB2 'advanced degree', or using a degree as evidence of 'exceptional ability', EB3 'professional' and EB1b 'outstanding professors and researchers'. Admittedly EB2 is probably the standard route for H1B holders, but there's also EB1a and EB1c if you qualify, and there's always good old EB3 'skilled worker', if you have time on your hands, or EB2 'exceptional ability' based on non-academic evidence. Or try getting married to an American.
Nexus 5, Android Kitkat & all Google updates you need to know
Thank LG for the latter - their IPS panels are used in pretty much every IPS monitor on the market, and I've never seen one with a single dead pixel, amazing QC...
How is preventing a city from gaining access to gigabit connections anything other than bad? That statement is completely baffling.
The french equivalent says that you can have the education or 5+ years experience
Facebook Perl source code from 2005
Book: "Linux is badass" is now available
I don't think it's a great analogy, because translating documents requires a wholly different level of mental involvement than simply recounting an encryption key. Note that even fishing out and providing a regular key requires some degree of mental involvement.
Yes: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=motivation

"Have you enabled APC for the PHP tests?" Yes, the PHP tests run with APC and PHP-FPM on nginx.
The Canadian media was in love with Blackberry.
Not only that, but it removes a key redundancy in signaling: in the typical traffic light design, the state is shown by both position and color. In this one, only color tells you whether you should be moving or not. This makes it unusable for the colorblind and much less clear for everyone else.

This is a dangerous design.
Gigabit Seattle is a public-private partnership.
Works for me in Australia, shows our currency also...
I was excited by the 3840x2160 resolution until I saw that it was 32". That same rez at 27" would definitely be worthy and replace my current setup.
So, trading away one's soul might be considered short sighted and there's a whole argument to be had with regards to the state preventing us from making short sighted decisions, so lets say that the desert rescuer was demanding the starving life savings or something.

It would certainly be a horrible person who would demand that much for saving a person's life. But if the only reason that this or other person was holding rescue patrols in the desert was that they were hoping to strike it rich exploiting lost souls, then as a society we either ought to allow this or use taxpayer money to fund our own rescue patrols.

And remember that as a laborer you're not in anything like this situation. There's a lot of charity out there and though this won't make your life pleasant it will make you far better off than starving in the Sahara. And there is more than one potential employer out there bidding for your labor. And you can see that the system works because very few jobs only pay the minimum wage. If we were somehow to get into a situation where there was only a single employer in the country than I'd say that at that point some sort of government intervention might be called for.
Google plans to dock mystery barge at former Army post in San Francisco
Sorry, I used confusing language there. It was meant as a question for people who have the plan. There are scant details about the plan on the website.
If gigabit fiber is a go ahead Comcast is prohibited from offering services in the area?
You haven't seen the ASUS monitor? [https://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/PQ321Q/#specificati...] ? Its available now ($3,500 list (http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-PQ321Q-31-5-Inch-4K-Monitor/dp/B0...) and with 8mS pixels it can (in theory) do 120Hz displays. I don't know if there are 4K video cards doing 120Hz displays but the monitor should be able to display it if they could.
But they also allow strings with time zone information:

"Tag value 0 is for date/time strings that follow the standard format described in [RFC3339], as refined by Section 3.3 of [RFC4287]."

RFC4287: "A Date construct is an element whose content MUST conform to the "date-time" production in [RFC3339]. In addition, an uppercase "T" character MUST be used to separate date and time, and an uppercase "Z" character MUST be present in the absence of a numeric time zone offset."
Note that the Monoprice (and MicroCenter Auria and Nixeus and Catleap) models are short on features and build / OSD quality and calibration.

The really annoying missing feature on these is audio-passthrough for HDMI and DisplayPort. I'd so much rather have a 3.55mm audio out instead of some crappy 2W built-in speakers.
What does that matter?

What's important is that this fiber infrastructure will compete directly against Comcast, and Comcast is working hard to eliminate or at least hamper that potential competition in order to maintain the status quo of their oligopoly.

It is an incredibly bad thing for the City for Comcast to be doing this, because it's not in the Public's interest. Increased competition, however, is in the Public's interest.
Yeah, Dells have VESA mounts.

Also, I'm pretty sure the VX2370 uses LG's AH-IPS panel, I've considered them myself, but decided against them because of the non-removable stand...
Yes, App Store is number one in revenue.

Android has something around %80 of the smartphone market. Higher adoption rate? Laughable. Not because Android is better, but because its cheaper.
I think the idea is that the number of studies unpublished because of negative results is a constant across all time scales.

The data here are probably sufficient to do this meta-analysis; looking at publication rate as a function of time between starting the study and registration, rather than looking at an arbitrary cutoff.
Movement is terribly slow though. I remember keeping an eye on anything greater than 1920x1200 (16:10) since I got my monitor at this resolution 8 years ago. The best thing has been 2560x1600 that are still priced higher [1] than the price I paid for this one 8 years ago (~$800).

To put it another way, after 8 years, you still can't buy a 24" monitor at a resolution above 1920x1200. And when I saw this link, I thought the drought was finally over -- only to realize that it's still not.

So yeah, this news didn't really excite me.

It seems that display technology advances much more slowly than that of any other component, especially on pixel density of larger (20+ inch) displays.

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...
Aio looks pretty good. I'm not sure how long they'll last, given that ATT is trying to merge them with Cricket, if their buyout goes through.
Ask HN: Great monitor for programming
I'm on the market for a new monitor, and the Amazon reviews are not very helpful since they focus gaming. My demands are simple: 2560x{1440,1600} resolution, either 27" or 30", good warranty and reliability.

Main usage: programming on Ubuntu (Vim, terminals, web browsers).

What do you recommend?

Thanks in advance
What about providing information such as what language the document is written in? Of course, the real equiv. is if the document is written in code, then can you be required to reveal the secrets of the code?
It's not a direct answer to your question, but a while back I ran across http://www.introtopython.org/ which in a beginners introduction to programming using Python as the first language. It has a github project[1] full of IPython notebooks used in the course.

[1] https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming
> If people dumber than you are getting paid more for less work, who's really the dumb one?

If your only concern is making money, you are.

But then, that's a big if.

EDIT: And, of course, the above also presumes that the making more money doesn't have to do with family connections or other factors that have nothing to do with intelligence.
"Oh, just use keys * to work out what's there."

"No, wait, don't…!"

<site down>
Google Engineers > "SEO" Monkeys

Note: I mean no slight to the folks who provide a genuine optimization service, just those who are essentially scammers.
It has LTE, which might not be worth an upgrade from the Nexus 4 if you already have it, but now the Nexus line is worth buying... for me anyway.
Literally, it prohibits people from being forced to testify against themselves in a criminal trial.

The 5th Amendment and other parts of the constitution are taken to imply other rights. The Presumption of Innocence is one of these. (Taken to be implied by the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendment.) However in U.S. law, it is fine for jurisdictions to compromise this for certain kinds of crime. Prosecutors may not need to prove motive or intent, for example.
It's strange that Vertx has very poor performance when it performs database queries.
They aren't talking about using a phone in an interview.

A smart phone is a valuable tool for a professional. Being able to send an email or call from the road when you're running late, or to receive same when your counterpart is running late - people expect this nowadays.

Of course, during the actual interview, it should go without saying to put it on silent and leave it in your pocket or purse.
I don't think it is your case..But I just want to tell you my personal story about why my dad kept on complaining that the camera is bad on Nexus 4. It turns out that there is a screen protector on his Nexus 4's back that actually COVERS the camera. The other two Nexus 4 I bought for myself and my bf also had screen protectors on its back but it was not covering the cameras.... So yeah..
Preventing a company from getting gigabit connections is not bad for you if you are the company that competes against those gigabit connections. It isn't wrong or shady of Comcast to donate like this, just like it isn't wrong for the original poster of this link to post it here and get awareness and activism for the other side.

As an aside, I despise Comcast, Time Warner and many of their ilk, but they are completely well within bounds to do this.
Damn, never Verizon. Wish I locked into unlimited data on AT&T instead of Verizon.
The rewards bullet point says you can still get a shirt if you want. Hope is not lost!
In the world of mobile phones? That's almost an entire device cycle.
1 is great. Everyone knows someone who's certain they're going to cash in big time, and I guess with sites like Flippa it's pretty straightforward to cash in not-so-big sometimes. But like you say, it's more about the ride than the payout right?

2 is interesting - it seems to be that format of learning through use that does it. i.e. The benefits in what you learn from a side project vs. what you learn from a presentation.
Can you add Meteor for Round 8?
> For example, some may assume that sound based data transmission is implausible simply because of variation in speaker technology and quality and performance, but does that not assume some sort of analog transmission?

My personal beef with this theory is that you're assuming a consumer-grade microphone can pick up such frequencies in a manner that would be capable of inducing enough of a signal on a microphone to produce a sufficiently specific data pattern to somehow exploit underlying firmware, drivers, or whatever. Considering there's been speculation that an infected USB drive may have been shuttled between systems, it seems that the simplest explanation lends itself to the drive and not the microphone.

And yes, I have followed recent events with the NSA. I understand your suggestion that near-unlimited money can buy you almost anything, but there are many questions that this article doesn't answer. While I think Mr. Ruiu has stumbled upon something novel, I don't think it's nearly as magical or mysterious as some here have been making it out to be.

Besides, wouldn't it be relatively straightforward to demonstrate whether or not there is some capability of this malware to spread via a speaker-microphone route? Why not take a recording of known uninfected machines isolated in a room and then examine the sound signature later? The entirety of the experiment as related by Ars seems flawed (which I blame on the article, not on Mr. Ruiu, since he's been spending a great deal of time working on this), but the possibility that this may actually be tied to exploiting a vendor identifier in an infected USB device is in some ways much more sinister. Some other threads discuss that possibility in detail.

It would be magnificent if there were such an attack vector, but I can't shake the thought that it would have to be very specific to a certain subset of hardware or software.
Want to program something "real" where should i start?
Okay so....

currently i have taken a few years of college level programming classes. But have never really learned how to make anything past CLI apps. I have looked into doing it but everything has always been so intimidating.

What i have done:

for school:
java - 2 classes, intro and data structures
c++ - wrote MPI sorting algorithms for a summer job
c/asm - a few months experience in a computer architecture course.
Processing - tinkered with this, only visual thing i've ever done.
python - self taught
SML and soon Racket - from Programming Languages course on coursera

So basically the only thing i've ever done that wasn't a CLI program was a bit of playing with Processing. I really did like how easy it was drawing shapes. And wrote a decent little shape drawing application in it.

But now i've tried learning kivy, but after the tutorial it's a bit over my head. Does anyone have any advice for transferring from academic programming ( algorithms and such) towards building real world applications? the language doesn't matter but i'd prefer something i know, and could potentially use for 2d games ( silly things like chess/poker).
I like to think you are the aforementioned business partner.
The primary difference is Comcast's indifference to improving their network and services or lowering prices, despite their astronomical profit margin.
Any idea about US Cellular?
For anyone who's curious, the second guy I spoke with wasn't even aware that there were two versions. I had to tell him where to go on Google's site to see the difference between the two. Once he figured that out, he just simply said that there's no way I could get the international one. I'm going to try back in a few days or weeks once all the madness dies down and see if they won't exchange it. Or, maybe I'll get lucky it'll wind up being the same hardware with different baseband firmware installed.
2,880 x 1,620 for 15" Thinkpad W series

I wanted to get some info on this, and found this:

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/w-series/w540/

but also http://blog.laptopmag.com/lenovo-thinkpad-w540

edit: Oh shit. Looks like they're stuff a numpad on the thing.

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Lenovo-Announces-Thin...

WTF.
I run a U3011 primary display next to one of the cheap 2560x1440 27" displays that were being sold out of China a year or so ago for ~$350/free shipping. After calibration, the cheap Chinese display blows the image quality of the U3011 away, and the Vaseline-like antiglare treatment on the U3011 is mostly to blame.

As nice as their monitors are, I won't buy another Dell display until they ditch that ridiculous coating. The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen.
Updating the versions in the Environment details became a game a whack-a-mole, so I removed that information from the Environment section for now. Maybe some day I'll come up with a nice way to automatically pull it from the GitHub repo or meta-data about each test. For now, you can find some details in the Rack script [1]: ruby-2.0.0-p0.

We'd be happy to receive a PR to update these versions if anyone is interested in crafting one.

The errors column is a sum of non-200 HTTP responses and socket connect, read, and write errors. In practice, it tends to be predominantly 500-series HTTP responses, meaning the web server acknowledged the request but was too busy to assign it to a worker process or thread.

This can cause the latency of some frameworks to appear artificially low because the 500 responses tend to come back very quickly once they start.

Incidentally, if you hover over the error values, you'll get a success rate percentage.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Amazon is annoying in the opposite way. Even if you're logged in, they give no indication at all that they won't ship something to you until you actually try to buy it. Very irritating when comparing several options to have to add every one to the cart to check that you can actually buy it before wasting the time of considering it too carefully.
"This plan is only available for devices purchased from
Wal-Mart or devices activated on T-Mobile.com"

What is a device activated on t-mobile.com? And how do you select it?
This: http://relogik.com/eko (referenced in the article) is a better design, because it keeps the same structure of a traffic light but enhances the edge of each light to reveal a countdown.
You might be able to trade your Verizon account for one.
I think I might look into doing it.
In the previous tests Grails was also tested, I don't see it back in this round anymore?
>That strikes me as odd. Why would Verizon not want any phone on their network that isn't incompatible or defective so as to cause problems?

I don't know, and whenever I ask people on Reddit and real-life phone people about that, I get vague answers that there is bad blood or that I"m wrong for asking.
Still a lot far from true bezel less future, not a complaint, just an observation.

http://rikacomet.blogspot.in/2013/01/the-next-screen-evoluti...
Spoiler: there are like six books where _nothing ever happens at all ever_. Enjoy!
I'm Sorry I Can't Hear You
Why Guessing Your Romantic Partner Is So Important to Facebook
Which is more expensive, servers or developers? Which is more expensive, server or opportunity cost?

In a lot of cases, performance of the server isn't the determining variable in the overall cost calculation.

In addition, the relationships between those variables likely changes over time.

I'm guessing that for most startups, HR expenses and opportunity costs are pretty important relative to actual server performance.

Obviously, if the point of your startup is some kind of high-performance computing thing, the equation is tipped more towards server performance. But, you probably aren't using off-the-shelf frameworks in that case, either.
Technology's more of a calling than a choice. I just really love the work.

I don't begrudge the private equity people making $1 million per year at 25. Good for them. As long as they stay out of my way and let me do my job, it's not my issue what they are paid.

Technology is our territory, though. Not theirs. If they want to come in, they best respect the natives.
I like my apple screens because I can get them clean easily. I never could for plastic screens.
We'd love to have a Meteor test. Any Meteor developers interested in submitting a pull request with a Meteor test?

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
There is a category of web frameworks that imply specific web application architectures which make them somewhat difficult to shoehorn to our test types. Meteor is one of those, as are JSF and GWT. We'd welcome an implementation that attempts to match Meteor to these test types, but acknowledge that might be awkward.
Germany too, but the 16GB is sold out
Typically these laws would be biased towards the employee. At-will employment pretends there's some sort of symmetry and/or market forces. Social labour laws are about protecting employees, not employers.

Forcing someone to work for two years at a certain place or give 6 months notice before they leave would be considered a violation of their human rights in most places. I'd be really surprised if Germany requires employees to give 6 months notice before leaving...