skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Spacedeck is Back (Online Creative Collaboration)
I'll register my satisfaction. I like how well the "social" and "promotions" tabs keeps the bulk stuff out of my inbox without requiring me to maintain a ton of rules.
I totally agree, I've used CouchDB a lot myself and a "mental note to self" or other best practice can suffice, especially if programmers leave or otherwise document those notes for their successors :)

CouchDB views are really neat, something that distinguishes it from others.
If the MIT technology described in this story actually existed, its effects on the world population would be incalculable. A third of the worlds population is sustained by fertilizer produced by the Haber process. Half the nitrogen in your body was "fixed" (pulled out of the air) in this way. Half a billion tons of ammonia is made in this way each year. I recommend this article on the hundred year history of the Haber-Bosch process: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/03/fritz-haber-f....

My point though is this. Even if these MIT PhD's don't understand marketing and can't raise enough to keep their company afloat, this hypothetical technology would be worth many many billions of dollars to a deep-pocketed chemical supply company. So the comparison is a bit lopsided.
Why should they?

Unity is following the workflow most game studios use, with the usual developer <-> designer interactions.

If you don't care about Unity tooling, just use your editor + compiler.
Educators call for reform in how programming is taught in schools
I'm thinking, because they got network late, maybe better than my house in Iowa. I'm still on copper.
> 1) The myth of the HFT geniuses.

Myth? The finance industry, where the HFT folks are near the top, pays epic salaries for the smartest people. They do this to hire the best and the brightest, and would not continue to do so if it did not work.

In the documentary, Haim relates a story where the team that he was on included PhDs in bioinformatics, physics, and mathematics. This does not look like a myth to me. The mathematical knowledge required to understand and be competitive in the HFT environment, coupled with the software development knowledge is very rare. This industry consumes the time of geniuses in order to function and pays them well for it - that this attracts dumb people and bad software developers that are occasionally hired hardly makes the existence of these geniuses a myth.

> 2) We could harness all these people to something that provides more utility. It would be great if that were true, but how do you do that?

Distributed self-organized common pool resources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool_resource).
Your Dockerfile for Rails
You can just apply to an HFT firm. I work at one, and the email address in my profile will reach me.
The idea of Cobb's wedding ring as his totem has been discussed publicly as early as July 2010 [1], the month of the film's release.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Inception/comments/cvk2i/is_cobbs_ri...
I've made a similar observation to the original post — in my case, moving a bit of functionality from PHP to Node.js gave me 100x better performance: https://servercheck.in/blog/moving-functionality-nodejs-incr...

But the reason for this wasn't that Node/JS is faster than PHP; it was because I was able to write the Node.js app asynchronously, but the PHP version was making hundreds of synchronous requests (this is the gist of the OP).

The issue I have is that Node.js makes asynchronous http calls relatively easy, whereas in PHP, using curl_multi_exec is kludgy, and few libraries support asynchronous requests.

The situation is changing, but the fact remains that asynchronous code is the norm in Node.js, while blocking code is the norm in PHP. This makes it more difficult (as of this writing) to do any non-trivial asynchronous work in PHP.
What you described is exactly what I mean by simple stuff where shell is ideal. People generally find perl or python easier for those tasks because they took the time to learn perl or python, but didn't take the time to learn sh.
Well done for putting the effort in to check facts.
Does it come with HTML5 browser support or is it still using this plugin?
Fgrehm/vocker
Let's forget about the "most of us" : the reactions on this thread shows that this new UI is, at least, controversial.
But it was a wrong comparison for another reason : Drupal being open source there's an escape way for any UX change.
Finally, proof that you can put lipstick on a pig.
You mean that some people choose to not do the incredibly trivial things that are required to keep Bitcoins safe, right?
I'm sick of all of these generic SPEED benchmarks. Let me tell you some BIGGEST & REAL benefits of NodeJS where PHP SUCKS.

1. Takes 1 minute to install on any platform (*nix, windows etc.)

2. A modern Package Manager (NPM) works seamlessly with all platforms.

3. All libraries started from 0 with async baked in from day 0.

4. No need to use any 3rd party JSON serialize/deserialize libs.

5. And above all, its Atwood's law

"any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript".

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...
"The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists"
It is more "direct observation" than "internet article of faith". I know one person who likes C and go. Every other go convert I know came from a scripting language. Golang's type system is strictly inferior to D.
Golfing Run Length Encoding in Haskell
ok sounds reasonable, but can you also sync system files (like installed homebrew etc) that way ?
Daily aspirin reconsidered
Scanadu Gearing Up To Send Its Medical Tricorder Through Clinical Testing
Java leak detector startup Plumbr raises $1M
That's very true, it was just simply that I had multiple friends (feminists and LBGT+ individuals) that were offended when the original pictures came out - this was the first thing that came to mind when visiting the 404 page. "Oh, I remember this, it offended lots of people".

Then I come to this thread on HN and absolutely no-one had commented on the controversy (at the time of my original comment) - I figured this was down to the skewed demographics of the site. So I raised it as a point of discussion, to see what the community thought, and to try to provoke a bit of discussion of the apparently overlooked aspects of this piece.

I agree that he pulled it off with great humour, but I can't help but wince at the insensitivity of a rich straight guy losing a bet and having to dress up as a parody of his own female flight staff (who earn 1000x less than him) ...
I believe the question was more of how does facebook know it was the same password? My guess is this was a "lazy" calculation. That is, they had to get their users to reenter their password so they could check it then. (Make sense?)
It needs posting rights because it silently posts to your feed.

I reported them as spam. As far as I'm concerned, any app that posts to my feed without my explicit permission is spam.
> A university exists to tell you you aren't good enough. You fail.

Really? I am quite fond of the time I spent in school - it kicked my ass and made me quite employable.

I for one definitely appreciate hacker culture, but this anti-university mindset is nonsense.
> "but at least they are tackling something worthwhile"

Impact should be measured after companies have existed for years, not based on what they first set out to accomplish (company goals inevitably change). The Stanford company built a marginally improved product, and became sustainable. Since marginally improved products aren't really defensible (without a strong brand name), they'll likely continue to iterate on their product and in the long run will improve the tech drastically. Whether the intention or not, essentially they make money and use profits to invest in long term R&D, while the MIT company takes investor money up front to invest in R&D.

I think both approaches are suitable for different circumstances (based on background of founders, current state of market, whether radical or incremental improvements are needed to solve the core problem, etc). I don't like how people call something more or less worthwhile to work on, because wide distribution for a marginally improved product is better for the world than poor distribution for a revolutionary technology that never leaves a research lab.
It's actually not zero-sum unless their marketing is misleading customers into buying products they actually would want less given perfect information. If their marketing introduces new customers who prefer their product, then it's positive sum. Even if those customers are spending money on this instead of something else, they are spending it on this because they derive more utility (of some type) and therefore there's more economic value. Economists don't consider marketing zero-sum - read the article you linked more closely.
The author forgot to install the increase_max_user_connections module, which is actually half unfinished and was implemented for version 5 of drupal, so he might have to tweak it to make it work in Drupal 7. Of course, such module is listed as a "featured" module in Drupal module site.
There's always been paid articles. This is not one of them. They get to the front page because they're usually well written, contain interesting information, and are relevant to the HN user base.

Don't like it? Don't vote for it.
Being British, he could have done a much better job of the drag outfit :) The "punishment" is doing a bad job of looking like a woman!
I've tended towards criticism from the opposite direction (which can also apply to The Matrix). Its philosophical underpinnings have been done by other works of fiction to greater depth, but those stories tend to be impenetrable for most people, much more so than either Inception or The Matrix were. See Ghost in the Shell or Neuromancer, for example. Or even Nolan's own Memento.

Putting it in a more easily-digestible form is a useful thing to do, which tends to blunt this line of criticism. There are some philosophy professors who really appreciate these movies, because they provided nice reference points that their students already know about, making it much easier to teach certain concepts.
If you're a sucker for balance, you cannot get better than Desktop Dungeon, which just launched on Steam. That game is balanced down to the last digit. I have won DD before with a single health point remaining, 0 magic points, and all potions used. It's intense.

If you like Rogue-likes, then try Rogue Legacy, which is sort of the FTL take on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Your strategy for FTL is correct. I like to suck the marrow from early sectors, hoarding scrap and dough while routing early baddies. I've still never beaten it, though, and I've been playing since it was dropped on the IGF in 2011!
Sounds like someone who should be involved in the beta test to me.
So should we call it a roguelikelike? It exhibits many features of a roguelike game including randomized maps/battles, permadeath, and essentially turn based combat. I think it's fair to say that the roguelike genre has evolved passed just being narrowly Rogue-like.
RubberDuck.js: Javascript mvc framework.
RubberDuck.js is a pretty minimal(minified 7KB) framework written to build simple single page applications quickly.
The ring is still ambiguous. It is never characterized properly as a totem (Cobb never uses it awake, that we see). If you interpret it as a symbolic representation of his mental affiliation with Mal, then:

a) At the end of the movie he is awake, and he really meets his children. The lack of the ring is consistent with all available evidence prior to this point because he only has the ring on when he is asleep.

b) At the end of the movie he has successfully escaped Limbo twice. Cobb has mastered his own psyche; he has achieved closure on Mal's death; he has finally embraced in his own mind that the Mal in the dream is just a ghost, and can be in the dream without the ring. He can dream again without Mal invading from his subconscious.
I am currently experimenting with Spring JavaBased config (As opposed to XML based) It seems to me that a lot of those factories are created to be able add complex behavior in the XML configuration. I almost want to say that it is XML injection what is causing such complexity.
Data Architecture and Information Architecture: What’s the Difference?
Renault Introduces DRM For Cars
FoundationDB raises $17 million in Series A funding round
agree, it's kind of like MS Access was, right? Dirt simple to use, lots of neat add on tools over the years, and great for rapid prototyping, but not really a database.
Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People
Register at the top 5 forex forums and start contributing there. Put your website in the signature (Most forums allow this only when you have been there a while and have a large number of posts). Initially, this might just lead to a trickle of traffic, but over time the more you contribute, this will lead to a stable amount of targeted traffic.
Simply using a median solves some of these problems pretty easily.
I've been using relational databases for 15 years and I've never "seen joins go bad". I don't even know what that means. I know some people avoid joins, but from my interactions with those people it has always been because they heard the myth that joins are slow, and foolishly figure writing a naive join implementation in PHP will be faster.
As a (male) feminist, I think Jezebel is full of people who just like piling on. Maybe it's a community bonding thing, or maybe it's cathartic, but the comments sections are always overblown.
This is a similar route my company has taken. We are based in Madrid and are just about to break out of Spain in terms of customer base.

We are more a traditional company competing in an existing industry hence Silicon Valley is not a location we compete with in terms of culture or product design.

What has been a big challenge for us after switching to English has really been acquiring local talent that is already here or willing to move here, can speak English well and also have great coding skills (in C# .Net if you want to know)

We have been successful in recruiting people in rural Spain and across Europe but it seems that all the English talent in MAdrid already is quite comfortable in their jobs.

So in summary - I think if you are in non-english Europe and do the switch, be prepared to diversify your operations and look at remote workers or branch offices away from your HQ.

YMMV of course.
This explanation is not totally convincing. The main issue is the OP actually just referred to very few scenes, while there is no proof that throughout all scenes this difference remained consistent. A more plausible explanation would be Nolan initially intended to use such a mechanism, but later decided to leave it out. However, since some of the scenes of the movie were already filmed, the ring could not be changed. It's obvious that Nolan put the spinning scene because he deliberately wanted to leave an equivocate ending. It's possible that in the beginning that wasn't his idea, and he changed it halfway through the movie. But what's clear is the ending was intended to be equivocate. He would not let such a vague "ring" mechanism co-exist with the spinning scene. That's far too strenuous.
JavaScript in the Data Center?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01603/wurzels_16...
Contributors welcome!
The viable alternative is in the sentence you quoted:

"Ultimately, password hints are evil and they add nothing to an online system that can’t be achieved with a secure password reset feature."

Secure password reset.
I've never written an application that didn't involve multiple queries with 7+ joins. There is absolutely no reason that should make anyone feel uneasy, it is perfectly normal and expected.
Nobody should be downvoting you, you raise an excellent point and you are of course right.

NodeJS v0.10.21 + Cheerio

real	0m47.986s
user	0m7.252s
sys	0m1.080s

NodeJS v0.10.21 + Cheerio + 64 connections

real	0m14.475s
user	0m8.853s
sys	0m1.696s

PHP 5.5.5 + ReactPHP + phpQuery

real	0m15.989s
user	0m11.125s
sys	0m1.668s

Considerably quicker! As I said I was sure NodeJS could go faster, but the point of the article was that PHP itself is not just magically 4 times slower, it is in fact almost identical when you use almost identical approaches. :)
I agree that there are improvements that could be made to the HFT world. Most notably, eliminating the subpenny rule, which acts as a minimum wage for HFT:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/subpenny_rule_respons...

I'm just suggesting that using a callback API rather than polling is hardly a great example of HFT shenanigans.
I used some IBM CMS that was so bad I quit the job after two days.

Of course, the fact that I was hired into a content management position when I applied for an entirely different one, and wasn't told until the day I rocked up didn't help matters.
I have had some mild luck getting it to run under wine, but it does randomly not work, so not a great experience there. I'd love it if they'd port the IDE.
CMU launches Simon Initiative in learning science and technology
Velocity is a really great conference (I've attended the Santa Clara edition twice now) and they are about to have their second European edition: http://velocityconf.com/velocityeu2013

Velocity’s sessions are separated into four distinctive tracks, namely web performance, mobile performance, operations and (Velocity) culture and are aimed at various skill-levels, ranging from intermediate to guru (or ninja, if you prefer IT-marketing terms).

I find that, though a novice will definitely gain value out of the conference, most presentations requires more than a basic understanding of the technology, process or ideology being discussed.

Nonetheless, Velocity is very open in its structure, lacking the exclusionary-ness and elitism of other conferences, thereby creating an environment that is highly conducive to learning from others.

[EDIT] turns out it is the second edition, not the first
Am I the only one who thought the UI was surprisingly good, for being autogenerated? I'm not a CMS expert, but it looks fairly similar to something that mind come out of django's admin.

If a framework can give you that kind of a UI "for free" before you start working on customizing it, that's pretty interesting.

OTOH, I'll join the crowd in chuckling at their scaling problems. The funny thing is PHP is absolutely excellent for scaling. Call it a one trick bastardized pony, but if there's one thing PHP does well it's serving dynamic HTML pages using a mysql database while being 100% stateless. It's framework bloat that causes abominations like Magento.

Check out http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7... raw PHP shows up in the top 10, shoulder to shoulder with java, scala, and c++. To compare apples to apples (web frameworks), a popular php framework called codeignitor shows up about 35 spots ahead of something called "stripped rails" I'm not sure where fully clothed rails shows up because counting rows in that table is a PITA.

Call it a fractal of bad design and I won't blink twice (especially considering the latest fun I had with the fact that building a query string from an associative array is a third party library while splitting a query string into an associative array is builtin), but compare its performance to literally any other scripting language (including our beloved openresty nginx + lua stack).

PHP does one thing very well, I seem to remember that being part of something called "The UNIX philosophy".

Full disclaimer:

1. I hate writing PHP, the best way to write PHP is to avoid
stepping on land mines and use interfaces, OOP, and closures.
2. I write PHP (and golang) for a living, but have
professionally written python, java, perl, and TCL at various
times. I'm also doing everything I can to get away from PHP
while maintaining business continuity (mustache for views, new
services in go).

</rambling>

[edit] formatting and grammer.
Do you have a source for that? That article makes no mention of NYC trending upwards.
Interesting Prototype for a Product Site with WebGL
OSNews was my second to-go place after slashdot like 7 years ago. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention :)
Show HN: FeatureMap - Story Mapping meets Agile Management
I'm sure selling on Sub-Prime mortgages was a completely legal 'smarter strategy' at one stage too.
Try arguing with a Norwegian police officer. Even calmly. Odds of ending up in jail overnight are pretty high, though you might find one with a sense of humour now.

Norway is one of those countries where shouting insults at a police officer can be illegal where shouting those same insults at a random strangers would not be - there explicitly is one law for public officials and one for the rest.

The idea of public officials being above the rest is deeply embedded in the Norwegian system, and only started fading with the growth of the labour movement, and steady inclusion of the labour movement into the establishment starting with the first lasting Ap (labour party) government in 1935 onwards. Even then, Ap took up the baton (..), and wielded it against the groups to their own left, with extensive illegal political surveillance for decades.

The reason Norway is now as civilized as it is, is simple:

Norway eventually got filthy rich thanks to the oil. The average salary in Norway is about 70% above the average salary in the UK, for example, and the salary curve is far flatter.

We've had social democratic ministers from a party that used argue for revolution and was an early member of Komintern that are millionaires. A long range of our past "threats" to the establishment are now wealthy and firmly embedded in the establishment. The class struggle in Norway is largely "on hold", and the police is being wielded against immigrants instead.
> Map reduce makes query parallelism crazy magic.

Isn't that only true if you have lots of shards? Otherwise, you have one process doing the mapping.
The "Thoughts" section was the most informative part of the benchmark which underscores the way I, when I was working with PHP, operated. When I started with PHP(2005), the frameworks were terrible, I would cobble together many random coding examples from stuff I found on the web and just make my own Framework up. I don't think PHP from a performance standpoint is any better or worse, but the default examples that you generally see in the ecosystem provide significantly worse performance. The one thing that Node clearly has an upper hand on PHP with is the ecosystem. It's a lot easier for a developer new to the Node ecosystem to hit that Node target than it would be for someone of the same skill to hit the PHP target in terms of hours spent.

One funny thing is that the ReactPHP[1] site is visually similar to the Node[2] homepage.

[1] - http://reactphp.org/
[2] - http://nodejs.org/
Ostracization is warranted only when you are behaving very badly. Being a member of the communist party doesn't by itself imply bad behavior.
long time drupal users here, it's not the easiest one to use, sure, however it remains to be the most flexible one, which I like.
waiting for drupal8, and a bit concerned about its performance, hope it will be fine in the end.
> I think that's a shame, and it doesn't work very well either. Mercurial does the same thing incidentally (unless facebook have somehow solved that), so it's no better there.

The way I interpreted the reddit post from the Facebook engineer is that they looked into customizing git to scale better for them, but the codebase wasn't to their liking, so they're going to customize mercurial's instead.

> The matter of customizing git came up and people looked at the code and decided it's pretty convoluted when compared to the Mercurial code.

So it's not like mercurial is able to scale in a way that git can't, it's that they plan to make mercurial scale in a way that git can't. (Any over/under on when they give up on that and decide to use Perforce's Git Fusion?)