skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Benchmarks are fun but I'll stick with rails and its simple ways of letting you cache data.

I'm ok with getting out the door response times of 8-15ms while serving 20,000 unique hits a day on a $5/month VPS. The server does not even break a sweat too and it's doing more than serving the app too.
Compared to where? Denmark? Sweden? Norway?

You seem to be forgetting that the US system is based around money first and foremost.

If you have money you will be able to attend the right university.

Of course their social status is not the only reason but it's a big part of it and especially the fact that it's very hard to get out of your social-economic status. Add to that an industry that actually makes money when people go to jail and you have the perfect spiral.
Those are not entirely equivalent. For example, if you make a typo when writing "user" or "u", the first one will catch that typo (cannot get property name of undefined) while the second one will not.

Users.get(1234)
.then(u => u.name)
.catch(ex => 1/* do whatever */);
Couldn't agree more except one small difference:

> This post has no point at all.

Yes, it does have a point. It is an advertisement for her product. Notice the connection between "spending 100 hours" and a product called "give it 100"... that is hardly an accident :)
It'd be interesting to look at how much of the 20-24 demographic is college students. In the US at least it's pretty normal for parents to pay for their children's phone bills while their in college[1]. Since about half of the 20-24 demographic is likely in college (in the US at least), I'm not too surprised to see that about half of the people in the US have their phone bill payed by their parent.

I'd be interested to see the demographic breakdown as high school, college, or not in school. I think it would offer more insight into a trend.

[1] This is anecdotal. I'm in college currently and most of the people I know are on family plans.
In economics, we consider "capital (machinery, automation, software, etc) input" to be fixed. Only labor input can change. But in the long term capital investments can be made to reduce labor in the input mix. That's probably what you're referring to here.
The competition at the other side of the coin is also important. If there is $1 extra that the fast food owner is caching, why does no other fast food restaurant open in the area, offering $1 cheaper prices, and steall all the clients?

Also, as your question can be answered as the combined effect of a series of dimensions, for this one there are basically non-price competition, oligopolies, and low price sensitivity of customers as likely culpits.
I just searched on Yelp for restaurants near my hotel and the top rated result was a Wawa gas station.
Are you sure it didn't just replace the UEFI default boot entry? You should still be able to boot Windows after getting into GRUB, but if it messed up your EFI partition, that's a bug.
Of course! Makes sense. Good point.
Since it wasn't disclosed, I'm guessing less than the amount raised. Doesn't seem like something PayPal as a business would be interested in, so it's most likely a talent acquisition.
It really isn't much of a problem. A lot of the time its as easy as replacing

var lib = require('lib');

with (given var Promise = require('bluebird'))

var lib = require('lib');
Promise.promisifyAll(lib);

And in case of classes, you'd use promisifyAll on about 2-3 prototypes instead.
whoa you believe the knockout game is real? ouch.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/montgomery.asp
this module doesn't need help. if you want to help, you should contribute to the plugins that it depends on: https://github.com/visionmedia/rework/wiki/Plugins-and-Utili...
> That's why there's only one cultivar in US supermarkets in the first place.

Well, except that I've been in several US supermarkets with more than one cultivar. (I think red and apple bananas are the most common non-Cavendish ones, excluding plantains, I've seen.)
Yes, that's correct. However, that's still over a thousand cycles for a tree of depth 5 below the cached part. That's a modestly sized tree (or several smaller trees.) Don't forget lot's of things compete for cache, it's usually safer to assume a cold cache unless you know your data structure is very high traffic.
People often assume that the role of economists is to answer the question "will raising the minimum wage increase unemployment" or even "will raising the minimum wage increase inflation".

In fact most economists would rather answer the questions "why should we increase the minimum wage" or "should we increase the minimum wage".

Most economists would say that interfering with the market is bad in general. If we wanted to help people with low incomes, it would make more sense to decrease taxes for people on low incomes.
There's a subtlety -- in "100 hours does't always work" you describe how simply putting the time in isn't sufficient to get the outcome. You still tried, and you (unfortunately) failed. In the case of YC, it seems that you chose not to try (though you likely already spent 100 hours for the original interview process, right?).

I think you may want to write a blog post about that: How do you choose which project to invest 100 units into? And, how do you measure the success of that decision both in the short- and long-terms?

For example, do you think the Evernote application had long-run benefits? Did it help you in getting a different job down the road? Those are the kind of stories I think would be interesting to connect to the give it 100 project.

Best of luck on the endeavor!
Roots is likely one of the most popular starter templates out there for WordPress. Try searching for "WordPress Starter Template" rather than WordPress Bootstrap 3. Bootstrap is optional on Roots, it's only included for your convenience. I guess they could put the number 3 on the front page but with a little search on GitHub, you'll see that Bootstrap 3 is used and updated rather quickly with each release.

It's pretty clear on the Roots site that it's a starter template. Not sure it's necessary to put what version of WordPress it works on seeing that it's pretty obvious that it works on the latest.

Just a Roots user that has been following its development and using it for clients.
You can also write colors with the more intuitive hsl() and it'll convert them to hex notation.

(Only relevant if you need to support IE < 9, but still cool.)
I said a lot, not everything, you've chosen three, I'm happy to respond:

A full name is required to add content to Quora, if you just want to browse, you aren't stopped from doing that with a different/fake name, just ask https://www.quora.com/John-Smith-3000?share=1

We ask people to log in to see content, but it's not required, you can add ?share=1 to the end of any Quora URL to see the content. We also don't require login to view posts. More about that here: https://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better

Questions aren't "yours" answers and posts are though. Questions are a collaborative resource, so not unlike an entire Wikipedia page, you can't delete it as an individual, though if there are no answers to the question, you can delete it within a particular window of activity. If you go anonymous on the question your name won't be associated with it, same thing if you delete your account. More on question ownership here: https://www.quora.com/Quora-Policies-and-Guidelines/What-is-...

I respect that you clearly feel that Quora should work differently than it does, and that's fine, we've continued to make changes and improvements, some which people like, some which people don't, but the goal is to create a great resource for people, if you think it's not a great resource and it's useless to you, we'll keep trying to improve, though that may never align with what your expectations are.
Looks interesting. Seems to be a lot cheaper than similar masks I've seen so far.
That really sounds like an acquihire to me.
Well that escalated quickly.

Still, nowhere near as bad as Whatsapp I'm assuming?
> The police are set upon from all sides. If they bend the rules, they are severely punished.

Are they? I see a lot more police-brutality videos than I do reports of police being punished for brutality.
this is a troll,
there is no prove or whatever what he is saying.
just go to his website and pay how to do it as well
even then, the Geneva drive will still be old technology.
I don't get why that should be normal even if in college? I'd guess that 95-100% of my university class mates paid their own bills when I was in that age group in Iceland.

Personally I've been paying my own bill since I got my first mobile at 14 in 1999...

But I do wonder if this does actually include PayAndGo correctly?
> What's your theory for why competition doesn't solve this problem?

What's your theory for why it was a problem? Obviously, in the immediate sense, a higher wage is better for the employee and worse for the employer, so are you assuming (perhaps as an axiom) that favoring the employee over the employer is a solution to a problem?
The buses can be pretty decent in Turkey also.
I have been the "toxic character." In my experience the term means "allergic to bullshit."
>How'd I do?

You are wrong.
Just use RedPhone. Moxie knows what he's doing and it's auditable + good technology.

Whatsapp is a joke, but lower friction matters much more for their market.
Yep, and this is exactly why its so nice to have promises built into the language. That way, the implementing engine could provide long stack traces for them as well as extra inspection and tooling of all currently pending async operations - and it could do that at the lowest possible performance cost.
Given then the number of CEOs attending whose business model is surveillance [1], a cynical person would suggest that they're just upset about the competition.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_...
BT dismisses backdoor claims as "conspiracy theory"
Customer Service as a Product
It eventually ripples down the chain in the form of used last-gen tech. It's not ideal, but it's still a good thing.
Typical NIH syndrome.

They hired some smart people who are not cryptographic experts and now their cryptography is broken. Which is pretty much the story for anyone who has ever created a custom cryptographic system (and the story of SSL for the first few years).
Stripe's co-founder on visionaries vs. implementers
This first page of google results is full of tax evasion quackery.

Do you have a handy link explaining this?
Sounds a bit like:

http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/wall-street-insid...

Search down to the part of the article that starts out "explain what was odd".
Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released
I lose insane amounts of respect for my CTO when they have very little technical insight. Had a lifetime Java CTO once when we were a Microsoft only shop, and was one of the worst experiences with a boss I've ever had, and he was technical, just in the wrong products.
Thanks. As mesmerizing as the visual is, the explanation is useful.
It amuses me when people say: "This isn't actually bad news." and, yet, Bitcoin drops 20-30-40% in just hours. Imagine what really bads news can do to it then! I secretly hope all investors and especially the amateurs who are professional only at panicking to leave the market so that we can focus on Bitcoin as a payment technology and not an investment tool. Let's be honest - most people are greedy. Most of us, too. Let's not mix greed with technology evangelism! Many will lose their hard-earned reputation by making baseless statements that Bitcoin will be tens of thousands soon while secretly hoping that somehow their small message will reach the wide audience and everybody will start buying!
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I wonder if they saw the NeuroOn Kickstarter doing so well and got their Kickstarter shit together. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/intelclinic/neuroon-worl...
Shock and Awe at RIA Novosti
Y'know, a bump from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour is hardly "supersizing."
How so? And couldn't we make crime less profitable than not-crime by making not-crime more profitable and more accessible, instead of ruining the lives of the unlucky few who get caught?
In the US, family plans are often more economical so teenagers keep them when they go to college. I believe many people work out deals with their parents so that they pay for part of the bill.

If it were cheaper to get their own plan, most probably would.
LG announces Chromebase, a Chrome OS all-in-one computer
> A thought came to mind about subscription based vacation site. You can deposit money throughout the year and then 2-3 times a year plan a vacation. Create a playlist of vacations.

It sounds like a generally interesting model but it seems like it would be faced with being squeezed uncomfortably between simple direct vacation rentals and vacation ownership offerings (which are pretty diverse.)

Who is your market and why is this better for them?
There is also a dialogue between author and Telegram happening in the comments as of right now.
Starting Feb 1, Apps submitted to the App Store must be optimized for iOS 7
I won't be in Manhattan this Friday but I live on Long Island. It would be nice to coordinate a HN meetup though!
This is the problem with black and white statements, there's always someone ready to jump in and prove there's middle ground. I am a well off white male and I've ridden a beaten up old dirt bike in the street plenty of times. Why? Because I like to ride off road, but you don't get to do that without tune ups, repairs etc. During riding season I am sure I annoyed neighbors with a weekly ten minute ride around a few blocks (and a large abandoned lot in my old city neighborhood). I even skip the helmet often during this so I can hear sounds as I diagnose a problem.
I'm on a Mac and I have scrollbars. Do you prefer to not have scrollbars, most of the time, or are you unaware that you can enable them?
You know this isn't an 'either/or' thing, right?
Throughout the course of our lives, we have to make decisions based on "rules of thumbs". Cops have to make decisions based on "profiles" determined by such rules of thumbs based on statistics, experience and sometime hunches. Detective, investigative works have been based on profiling for ages. Call it data mining if you will. Clearly, if such profiling is based strictly & exclusively on race, then it is racist and perhaps stupid and ineffective as well. And the US history has witnessed a fair share of racial issues. Nevertheless, the content of this article appears to be race baiting, not honestly examining the issue of "stop and frisk".
When each kid breaks/loses it, it is. There islets of research into whether kids should be exposed to screens at all, but yeah buying a Nexus 7 for a 5 year old is a good way to lose $200.
I think you pasted the wrong link.
Huawei to come under increased scrutiny from GCHQ
Thank you Rails team - lots of useful stuff here.

Really like the six-month release pace.
Unrelated to the article content, I just noticed the table of contents on the left side. The slow fade in/out when you mouse over it is perfect! It's fixed position so you always see it, yet it's totally unobtrusive while reading the article. Brilliant!
So if I don't pay my own phone bill then my Mom is paying it? There are other possibilities. Maybe my employer pays my phone bill. Maybe your mom pays my phone bill.
What debt do you think the founders took on? Their company took investment, but that's not debt, and it's certainly not individual debt.

With your attitude, nobody would learn to play poker, because nobody ever wins the early hands. These guys clearly learned a hell of a lot, and that was likely worth more to them than whatever net profit they could have turned on working a different job. That's how I've always felt about my failures, anyhow.
I'm always curious about the underlying modules used.
Hadn't heard of when.js before: https://github.com/cujojs/when
> "Then you do a Bluetooth transfer, or CIFS/SMB file share, or FTP, or HTTP, or IrDA, or USB, etc. Why would you use a cloud service?"

I suppose this is what you say to people who extol the virtues of Dropbox or BitTorrent Sync? It almost sounds like you've completely missed the wave of stuff that's happening, which I find hard to believe (or you're being deliberately obtuse).

> "No, these products are still centralized. They are merely made more redundant, fault-tolerant and highly-available."

How do you suppose they are made redundant, fault-tolerant and highly-available? I've tried to describe how in my previous comment and you haven't given any counterpoints.

> "They may also be distributed, which is different than decentralized."

Ok, this made me think as I tend to use the words interchangeably. Some quick Google searching doesn't clarify anything either (I find conflicting versions). Ovearall, I get the feeling that you have a different view of what 'centralised' means but even then, you haven't given any examples of why such things are more reliable or faster, whereas I've tried to do so.
It's considering an immediately adjacent effect, sure. But we can take one more step back and look at a still wider context: what led to the tagger to be in the habit of tagging to begin with? What will happen to the tagger and their community in the long run if all taggers are punished with the full force of the law? Is there some other course of action that would lead to a better outcome for both the individual tagger and the community as a whole?
Miniscule improvements are worth large amounts of money at Facebook's scale. They have an excellent team of C++ and compiler developers working on HHVM, and they see no reason to waste time attempting something in PHP when they could make it run faster in native code without much more initial effort (and probably less effort over time).
Apple Requiring All App Submissions To Be Optimized For iOS 7 By Feb 1st
FBI Affidavit in Harvard Bomb Hoax [pdf]
Check out "u.s navy vintage fire control computers (part 2)" on YouTube for similar devices.
I should pay it by myself coz i have my income
[Show HN]: what the fuck should i buy
I am a mathematician, and the Law of Large Numbers just says that if you roll a die many times, then the average of your rolls will converge to the expected value, in some strong way.

I think he is just applying Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap), and then and then the law of large numbers to conclude that the average video is crappy.
I will challenge your assertion that it wasn't our number one priority. :)

See http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/05/03/ember-data-progress-updat... for the blog post that did what you requested. We've probably fixed most of the issues you hit. You should give us another try!
It sounds like an area of copyright law that is in desperate need of clarification from the legislature before the courts become involved, considering that modern copyrighted works are almost always "licensed" as a matter of usage, not just as part of a distribution and publishing agreement.

Or maybe that was the intent of the software vendors all along -- revoke all licenses after 35 years so we have no choice but to upgrade ;-).
FBI Affidavit in Harvard Bomb Hoax
MetaPro Augmented VR glasses available released with improved design
http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/17/meta-pro-smart-glasses/
$78,000 Legal Bill for Unsuccessfully Suing Over Sale of $1.25 Used CD
Why so smug? I've seen this attitude in all types of IT heads (sys admins easily being the worst of the bunch) over the years. What is it about techies that they come over so smug when pointing out deficiencies in others? I still have the shame and anger provoking memory of two techies sniggering not-so-openly at me because I didn't know about name service switch in UNIX because guess what, I don't know everything. What happened to good grace and manners or is there no space left in your brain after it is filled up with all the l33t tech guru knowledge?

You may be right, but it galls me that you are.

Rant over. I wish Telegram all the success in the world. I hope they bulletproof their crypto and add another slick option to the growing list out there to stick it to the man.

Must have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Honest question.

Why does weather behave different over oceans when compared to land?
> But BT and a number of independent researchers have dismissed the claims as nothing more than a "conspiracy theory".

But there's the problem. We just can't trust anything said anymore, given the voluntary and coerced lies of omission and commission from that community.

The whole thing used to be thought of like "yeah, there's some shadyness going on, but only nutjobs believe in the massive and pervasive stuff." Now we know it's massive and pervasive, and anything within physical and economic possiblity could be happening. Any detail could be true or not, and no denial has any credibility.

You reap what you sow.
That's a tiny sliver of what you can do with syslog piping. For example, fail2ban works by piping the contents of the auth stream of syslog -- usually also put into auth.log -- into a script that monitors for bruteforce attempts. This kind of reactivity is a lot harder on journald configurations.
I guess that makes sense again -- I don't have a problem with them "obtaining" the data, and a voluntary disclosure certainly shouldn't be called a "search". If the government asks for the data and the telco willingly complies with the request then I don't think the government has done anything that should be illegal (though it's not very nice of them.)

Two caveats, though: Even if the government is in the clear for obtaining the data, I'm not so sure the telco has a (moral) leg to stand on. We should consider making the distribution of that information illegal, if it isn't already. I have no idea if this would make the government's request "incitement", though I guess the answer might lie somewhere around the civil/criminal distinction. I'm clearly not a lawyer, so I can't really pretend to understand the likely forms or consequences of any of this...

The second caveat is that if the government compels the telco to hand the data over then it's a completely different ball game. That is a (plain-language) search, and it would be disappointing if that weren't subject to Fourth Amendment protections.
We are rationing version numbers before 1.0, since we have multiple major projects that're slated to land in between now and then, including Meteor UI and integrated package management. (Though as Node has shown, an 0.10 wouldn't be the end of the world.) But we decided that oplog tailing is a big enough deal that we should bump the middle number.
> • The number of positive or refused tests in 2009 increased by three per cent from 91,666 in 2008 to 93,973 in 2009 after a three year decline.

Why are refused tests counted with positive tests?
No obstacles for wind, water vapor, temperature gradients of water..?
Guvante's reply is really important, because many people who are disagreeing with blisterpeanuts are none the less taking for granted that "he wasted valuable city resources" and so forth. And the point is, he didn't. He turned himself in. He was willing to accept standard no-trial sentencing. He paid a larger-than-typical fine to compensate the city for the expense of dealing with his graffiti.

The city wasted its own resources trying to teach this guy a lesson for disrespecting their authority.