skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they aim to reduce the complexity of the code.

The issue is what tools you have to dig in when you're asked, "Why is this page taking 5 seconds to load?" With a traditional single threaded application there is the inherent simplicity that you can profile it, look at timings, and see where the performance went. With an asynchronous distributed application, you have to do a lot more work to start digging in.

The reason why this matters is that there are always some boneheaded performance mistakes. They would be trivial to fix if you only knew what to change. Without visibility, you won't be able to find where they are - you're just stuck suffering the consequences.

I'm definitely not saying that this is impossible. Far from that - Google succeeds brilliantly. But the kind of behind the scenes pervasive visibility that you need is an essential component, and it is not something that happens by accident or is trivially retrofitted on.
I do the same thing (hang from the pull-up bars). It seems to sort things out, but I get light-headed nearly every time.
Fed up of all the Google Docs fanfare...

Excel features...

fast - check. Powerful - check. Works offline - check.

Let's get a little closer to google docs...

Works online - check. Edit in browser - check. Edit on mobile device - check. Share with other people - check. Cheap - check (o365 sub is really cheap per seat). Can customise the UI - check. Can deal with huge sheets - check. Can extend, script etc - check.

Google docs buys me nothing.
Well, sure it could. But to me, if a quote from a person somehow reinforces a stereotype of a group the quoted person is labeled as part of, then that implies more about the person hearing the quote than the person stating the quote.

A person can use a quote out of context all day long but it doesn't truly reinforce the stereotype until a person hearing the quote agrees with the out-of-context usage.

For example, if a person from Mars says something stupid and someone provides me with a quote. Do I say to myself; "That person is stupid" or "Martians are stupid"? If I go with the second then the problem is within me, not the quote nor the person who provided it.

So, did the Nazi's quote Jews out of context to further their aims of denigrating them? I'm sure they did. But it only worked for people who agreed with the idea in the first place.
Yes, evidently I have. The idea of selecting existing content in order to get the option to add space for new content is very, very odd.

Did you really discover how to do this without looking it up?
I've lived in downtown Montreal for the last ten years. For as long as I can remember, they've been doing exactly this with packages. Even if you're home, the mailman will just leave a slip saying that you can pick up your package at the local Canada Post outlet.

I have to wonder whether this will mean a huge boon to mail scanning services like outboxmail.com
Definitely. Though I often wonder how much Google's apps strategy is a direct-compete with office for now?

I have a sneaking suspicion it's similar to Microsoft's Bing strategy. It feels like Bing was created to annoy Google and keep them focused on search. Microsoft could afford to throw a few billion at something to keep Google out of it's bread-and-butter. It feels like Google's doing the same with apps.

Of course, given enough time to gain feature parity, both GApps and Bing could be true competitors.
That's exactly the reason why I've always returned back to Eclipse. I just hate Swing. It's slow and ugly on Linux.
I was not sure about that copy part too.. Feel free to submit a PR to change it to something better.
thanks for the comment.
If you really need that much support tooling around lxc, why not go with OpenShift?
Why not significantly increase the price of bulk mailing? More money for the post office, less advertisements in my mailbox. win-win. If they increase the price too much the reduction in usage will more than offset the increase in price, but I doubt that they're close to that yet.
How is this more like vim than any other 3d modeling software?
Or just press Enter right away / use the (x) in the upper right of the dialog and keep closing the tab. It will go away eventually.

Chrome isn’t perfect here, but lightyears ahead of the mess that Firefox makes.
I still think there needs to be a bridge for SCM tools and Docker. Docker allows you to easily share an enviornmnet but there is still value in documenting how that environment was built - preferably via a flexible language (chef/puppet/ansible) instead of just sequential bash commands.

Is there already a project out there that does docker-based continuous integration?
Am I the only one that is distracted by the name "Google Sheets?" It doesn't exactly roll of the tongue, awkward to say and doesn't exactly scream "spreadsheets" when placed next to other Google Docs (Drive?) products. It can just as easily have been a presentation tool, or something else entirely. Although, it's probably ambiguous only to me and for most other people, sheets == spreadsheets.
Neato. Does it lock or allow concurrent simultaneous editing? Does OwnCloud integrate LibreOffice yet? A one-stop locally-hosted OSS Google Drive replacement would be nifty.
Why is it expected to get inflation-based increases with deflation-based reductions?
Agree, that is an awful chart.
Xbox One: Power Management
At some level it is always a people problem :-). But my experience has been that people trying to get things done (leading) who are being interfered with by other people trying to get other things done (also leading) can trigger conflict. And if you've taken a conflict management class, all of the kinds of things we think of as 'office politics' are variations on low level conflicts in action.

You "fix" that by putting everyone on the same page going in the same direction. That is leadership.

If you've got someone who comes in at 10AM and leaves at 4PM and takes a 2hr lunch break. But they start no rumors, nor backstab, nor empire build, that is a management problem.
Not working on Linux for me, neither in Firefox 24.0 nor Chrome 30.0.1599.14
Generic value propositions don't give the buyer confidence, it doesn't jump start their imagination, it doesn't do anything for you or them.

You're not being specific enough to even peak my interest. Depending on who you're selling to, the metrics you provide need to make sense to them. An internet marketer might want to know exactly what you're monitoring (Google News, Facebook, Backlinks, Newly Created Pages) but the CEO would need it presented in a different way, in order to provide him with the value you're promising. That way you don't have the marketer trying to interpret data that he himself might not fully understand.

The demons are in the details.
As the article notes, two-thirds of Canadians already do not have home mail delivery. Many urban residents, like myself, who live in newer areas with community mail boxes (a mail box that is maybe 100 metres from your home with everyone's mail) or in any type of apartment or condo building do not have mail delivered to our doorsteps.

It's secure (the boxes are locked unlike a doorstep mailbox), convenient (parcels can be locked in a special parcel dropbox, the key for which is deposited in your own mailbox, instead of having to be retrieved at the post office) and cheaper for the postal system.

Only people who live in older, more affluent areas built before community mailboxes receive home mail delivery. It's effectively a subsidy from us to them. Good riddance.
Using FPS as a measure of your UI's performance is equally problematic. FPS is a great measurement for for games since performance dips usually occur over a span of many frames, but for UIs a lot of work tends to get concentrated into a single frame. A single frame that takes 110ms (or, heaven forbid, 500ms) to render won't move the needle on your FPS meter, but it will be instantly recognizable by the user.

I've complained about this before; use maximum frame delay [0] instead of FPS when measuring UI responsiveness.

[0] The maximum time elapsed between any two sequential frames during your test.
I agree that selecting rows via the column headers makes sense a one way to insert N rows, but having a general Insert context menu for unselected usage would also be helpful.
I found out that a build I was doing was utilising http://imgur.com/U70Rcrz. I don't see that very often.
Personally I find that kind of parallel processing CS magic impressive.
Similarly I like the possibility of processing data as it arrives in a non blocking fashion in pipes-and-filters chains of computation.
Another thing I like are having arbitrary numbers of stateless possibly short lived servers. Like you see at PaaS's like Heroku. Easy load balancing, easy recovery.
These are all things that become possible by employing other programming paradigms than the classical thread based, blocking, stateful ones.

And it's not confined to one tech stack either; .net, javascript, java, scala, ...

To me it's just good computer science for when you want to be near real time, scale horizontally and utilise your hardware resources and be able to handle failure.
The expectation of spotify, mobile or desktop, is that I can select the songs I want to listen to. This feels like an unexpected behavior to me. That said, I'm sure they have tested the crap out of this to make sure they aren't going to leave a bad taste in users' mouths.
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Startup CEO Complains SF Is Full of Human Trash
For one, he's gone out into the slums himself and talked to the poor directly.
The $0 Google Docs is correctly priced for what it offers: spreadsheet functionality for the lower 80% of the market that doesn't use advanced features and most likely wouldn't pay for a solution
Most people I know who sit in Excel all day use Windows Excel on a Mac. OS X is a better platform (it's nice to have the terminal right there) but Mac Excel is trash, and Microsoft knows it.
For me it's SWT - on Linux it's faster, the look & feel is consistent with the environment, and most importantly - font rendering. Fonts look really shitty in IDEA / Linux.
The funny thing is that in the four companies I worked for as an employee, I never once heard those who were being managed say they really valued and benefitted from their Manager and we had plenty of great managers. The founders always thought there was value, but the folks on the bottom rarely did. That doesn't mean the Managers were value-less, just that the perception of their value changes depending on who's talking. In my limited experience, the folks who are actually doing the work on the front lines usually have a better grasp on reality so I'll defer to them.
Works fine in Sarfari 7, but only if you change the user agent to Chrome.
> Why should we assume that this is a bad thing?

Assuming the entire world can be maintained perfectly and automatically, nothing, but that's a bigger assumption than the hypothetical wonderdrug.

What happens when the Hoover Dam starts cracking? Or when a new disease is found and a new cure needs to be found? Or when we run out of a resource (oil, helium, it doesn't really matter which)?

We don't live in a world of static status quos, we live in a world of equilibria. Many of those equilibria factor in the ambition of individuals to maintain, to discover, and to solve problems.
The one thing that really annoys me is that they don't have a keyboard shortcut for adding a new row. Now I always have to

1) Shift space to select the current row

2) Press the "right-click" button the keyboard

3) Press the down arrow 4 times to select "Insert 1 above"

4) Press enter

Or else I've to use the mouse, which is equally slow. It's really silly given that how often people insert rows.
Interesting, I didn't know that's where it originated from which I suppose is your point.
Yes, Seattle-based Shippable, which announced over $2M in funding yesterday.
https://www.shippable.com/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/10/techstars-seattle-startup-s...
Assuming they're adhering to privacy standards, the anonymization should be reported in aggregates and not like "{UUID} at {TIMESTAMP} reported {TRACKERS} at {URI}"
> EDIT: It seems they do offer cost-of-living adjustments but only for employees who are performing well (not that I'm advocating giving raises to poorly performing employees, but we're talking about 1-2% to cover inflation here).

Incorrect. We offer everyone cost-of-living raises every year.
What OS do you use? Because Swing is especially shitty on Linux, so I simply can't switch.
Inserting multiple rows in Excel works basically the same way. Insert -> Entire Row inserts exactly as many rows as are currently selected.
I'm not here to defend Google apps (although I use them everyday) as much as web apps in general.

> Once you're used to real applications

What makes an application 'real' as opposed to 'not real'? Did you mean 'native'?

> It's not just the features that are missing

One potential upside to web apps is that, by constraint, a lot more thought needs to go into what should be included and what should be left out. For example, I find a lot of features in Word, Excel, etc. to be completely unnecessary and, moreover, counterproductive. A stripped-down interface, and even functionality set, does have some advantages.

> I can't assume I can right click and get anything useful

Often the case for native apps, although - admittedly - less so

> The concept of a consistent menu bar you can access with hotkeys is gone

Ditto. OSX almost solves the former at the expense of the latter. Applications like Chrome break the single-menu paradigm, though. Windows has a host of applications that invent their own menu styles/behaviours.

> And the input lag is intolerable.

Which specific file type? I rarely have problems with documents or spreadsheets.

> Having all of my documents stored centrally is a real, but small, convenience

It's a massive convenience for me. Dropbox is a good alternative, but I never want to go back to the days of having to remember to carry a specific USB stick everywhere I go and/or using network drives that are a nightmare to access anywhere but the office.
I have to say it again - I'm so glad Qt didn't end up at Microsoft.
You're incorrect here again. Byzantium retained its integrity, but Rome, the city, did collapse thanks to invasions by Germanic tribes and the Huns. So did most of Europe that was under Roman control, and some portions of North Africa as well. Constantinople stayed standing for quite a while. Control shifted around, falling into the hands of the Mamluks, Seljuks, and subsequently the Ottoman Turks, from where Turkey gets its name.

There are numerous other civilizations (for instance, dynastic China) that have suffered decline rather than outright collapse. Rome was not one of them though; the entire Western Empire broke apart. It's just not a good example.
So: 1.5 weeks of work. $50-$75/mo/instance. x20-60 instances. Worked for 3-4 weeks.

If we assume the most optimistic parameters:
$75 * 1mo * 60 instances = $4500 in profit for 1.5 weeks of work, or a rate of ~$156k/yr.

Edit: It looks like I misread his revenue numbers for profit. Oops! Even lower margins:

"My gross revenue was about $1000, and I paid Amazon $500 of that."

$500 for 1.5 weeks' work is only $17k/yr rate. Maybe flipping burgers pays better.
No real info in there. They only say that they mix CDNs based on where the different strength, probably using some DNS tricks of their own based on GeoIP. No real details on how they figured how to split things or how they performed the split itself.
If you changed the question to "How many people represent you in Washington, D.C.?" the answer becomes even simpler. Most people could then safely answer "zero," without a second thought.
The $0 skydrive facility (gives you Excel, PowerPoint, Word) is the same on the MS side of things. Hell even a WP8 handset with office is $80 now.

If you want to pay for it you get a crap load more from O365.
Thanks will check out data warehousing in deep.
My Experience with the Lean Startup Conference Simulcast
Why BugMuncher doesn't require a credit card for its trial (and never will)
I'd find it helpful if you had a white paper on it perhaps using 3 YC companies as examples.
Like how so? It's essentially competitive analysis as a service... There are known templates in which these are formatted. I would simply do one for a company every quarter, and list each source in the back. You're telling me I'm not being specific enough, yet you are doing the same. It goes both ways I guess
Thanks for perfect guidance. I want faster read than write. Will surely follow what you said. As my database size will not be more than a GB it will not be difficult to load into to memory and run it.

Thanks once again.
Docker does this.

* With docker build you can automate the building of a docker container from source. Simply add a Dockerfile to your source to specify exactly how to assemble it, step by step. This can be done with the high-level build or configuration tool of your choice.

* With docker history you can point to any docker container and get a full record of exactly how it was built.

* We are adding image signature to allow verification of the origin of any particular container image.
Does each person have their own mailbox, just all together (which is what most US apartment buildings have) or is it just a big open box with everyone's mail?
I'll give you maybe Excel, but for a standard document (and really most spreadsheets, which for me admittedly aren't very complicated and the real-time sharing is more important) Google Drive kills Microsoft's offerings to me.

Especially mail. Gmail and its web interface are far superior to Outlook in usability, far less frustrating experience to me.

Basically I disagree that 'native' apps will always be superior here. Docs and Gmail are already superior on the web IMO.
Megatons To Megawatts: Russian Warheads Fuel U.S. Power Plants
Mark Zuckerberg's Unexpected Visit to NIPS, the Machine Learning Conference
That's a pretty terrible title. What about H5N1? Why should I click? Are you just trying to be scary?
That's where I found the cheap (5gbp per month from NECS) VPS I run my docker instances on. Maybe it is atypical.
5 Facts about the Java String
I've read up quite a lot on drug side-effects and as far as I know, creating a happiness drug with side-effects is not possibly really, because drugs make your body release happiness hormones artificially and your hormone deposits take time to refill.

As well, your hormone receptors can't take hormones all the time. They take time to recover, otherwise they will go numb.

That's exactly what Meth does for instance, it releases all your happiness hormones at once, that's why you feel so suuuper amazing. However, once the drug subsides, you're super hungover and feel like shit, because you're all out of happiness hormones.

Even worse, even once you stop doing Meth or whatever, your receptors have already become numb, so events that made you happy before you used drugs, such as getting a raise, raising investment, getting married, don't do anything to you anymore.

If you stop these drugs your receptors will become more sensitive with time again, but that takes a couple of years and might never go back to normal. So, once you take drugs, you're happiness from certain events will always be lower than it was before.

That's why it is so hard to get off drugs.
It's really not as different as everyone is assuming. Fewer meetings, which is good. :) I wasn't demoted, everyone else was promoted, in a way. Anyone can be a leader. So I'm still leading, it's just on smaller teams and on more focused projects that change more frequently. I'm better able to apply my talents where they're needed from day to day.
Hey I just switched over from rDio to spotify. The reasons are that spotify lets you sync different songs/playlists to different devices and rDio does not. Spotify has a better library than rDio.

However, why can I not browse/sync my 'Collection' on spotify's ios apps? Is this feature on the cards ? (I guess having a 'Collection' just on the desktop app makes little sense...) Would love it if you could answer!! Thanks for a great service!
You practically proved his point. It doesn't matter whether fundamentalism is risky, it's not a practical threat and therefore is not anything to be afraid. Destabilizing influence? Give me examples. Historians have no phobia of fundamentalism because it doesn't matter in today's society.

There is an incredibly fractional chance that Sharia will take hold. That's what the OP was saying.

It's not a real threat.
This is how a disruptive technology starts. Google Apps doesn't have to be better, but the idea is that one day, you'll find Google Apps "good enough", with all the benefits of being online (and now offline, too). You're just on the higher end of the power-user curve, but your "good enough" day is approaching.
Assuming you're talking about the same comment I'm looking at, they do try to suggest "a North America wide attempt by Conservative Party's to destroy the Public Postal service and in turn destroy two of the largest unions." which makes it relevant.
I use MS Office occasionally at work but even that small amount of usage has me wanting to use Google Docs instead.
-Someone has the Excel file open on the network? Oh, read-only for you my friend. Have to save? Better track down whoever has it open.
-No revision/change tracking. Have to always be alert as to who is changing what and when. Often simpler just to make a new file and add to the clutter on the network folder.
Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year." [Wikipedia]

The Pope has had little influence on the events of the year. Of the nominees, Snowden would seem a best fit.
I venture not.
> or in any type of apartment or condo building do not have mail delivered to our doorsteps

wait... in that case, i don't think i've ever had urban home mail delivery. who gets door delivered door to door in a city? large brownstone-type SFRs?
Heh, as a new arrival to Berlin I wish it had the quality of transit that Vienna does! :)
> What happens when the Hoover Dam starts cracking? Or when a new disease is found and a new cure needs to be found? Or when we run out of a resource (oil, helium, it doesn't really matter which)?

Then we'll be happy about it
> "[You think maybe you should start identifying that you're promoting your own product with these comments?]"

Your going personal. I am talking about the extensions, not you. If for-profit companies are going to claim to care about user privacy, expect this claim to be taken to task, especially in the current era.

Above I am providing hard data, not an opinion.

> "The domains you list under Disconnect would all be categorized as content by our crawler"

The page works fine if whitelisting only the page domain. If someone want the comments, then it's a matter of whitelisting `echoenabled.com`. The rest doesn't appear so important, so I personally rather not ping them. But the point is, I am of the opinion that people need to have the ability to know exactly where their browser connects, then they can agree/disagree/not care. I don't see how one can make an informed decision without proper information.

Now regarding:

http://p.typekit.net/p.gif?a=219379&f=175.10294.10295.10296....

There is no way this 1x1 pixel gif would break a web page. And yet it's not blocked by Disconnect as reported in another comment below. I also reported how adobetag.com is reportedly blocked by Disconnect and yet a script from adobetag.com was downloaded by Disconnect.

Can't you appreciate why I am rather skeptical? Going personal rather than provide a credible answer is not going to dispel this skepticism.