skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I have ever seen a benchmark on HN that wasn't called misleading and useless in the comments.

But I agree it is hard to get benchmarks right -- I'm not even sure there is a 'right', as a benchmark will usually be based on certain assumptions that only sometimes apply. (Unless you are benchmarking your own actual production code, in which case you know it's assumptions are valid -- for your own code).

So I don't think that's a reason not to share benchmarks. But I _do_ think it's a reason to be really transparent about exactly how the benchmarks were done. Ideally all code should be available on github.

Then people can examine your assumptions (including ones you knew you were making and ones you didn't) and modelling, as well as fork or pull request to do benchmarks in some other way to better model the scenarios they care about.

Although also in my experience, you get LOTS of people telling you your benchmark is wrong because of X, Y or Z -- sometimes they are correct that it doesn't accurately capture something they are interested in, sometimes they are just confused -- but virtually nobody actually interested in writing code via fork or pull request to capture what they are interested in. Once you put out a benchmark, everyone in the peanut gallery thinks they are entitled to keep demanding you change it in various ways for them.)

No matter how much time you spend on it and thought you put into it, publishing a benchmark on HN is probably the easiest way to have lots of people telling you you're an idiot who did things wrong. It almost seems like HN collectively wants to discourage people from running benchmarks -- or from sharing what they found publicly.

But it's because doing good benchmarking is so hard -- well, that's exactly we need more people working on it, and sharing how they did it so others can improve upon it, etc, right?
Just for understanding: What is a "great" recruiter in your view? So far, I haven't met any that did much more than making a phone call.
What does 'online' mean? How can there be more people mobile than the total online?
There's great data here that's obscured by choosing terrible colours for the graph and showing things that are pretty much irrelevant. A summary chart giving relevant percentage differences would be a lot better than this line chart.
That depends on whether or not he's paying taxes ;)
No need for the edit quip.

Not everyone has the faith in the man that you do, and for good reason. This, among other reasons that others have covered already.
You can also divide 10 by 2, 4 and 5 without getting infinitly long numerical expressions. In fact 12 is quite a waste, it's better to go with 6 because it has 2 and 3 as prime factors, thus also being friendly towards divisions over 4. On the other hand base 6 numbers are longer than base 10 numbers, so you need a lot of digits.

In fact some googling reveals than the choice is not arbitrary: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/8734/why-have-we-cho...

BTW: this discussion is quite off-topic. The choice for the number system base is quite different from the choice for the number of columns for a CSS grid.
Can Medium become the GitHub of writing?
I love the Laundry books, but this is the sort of drivel I expect from ESR.
> It's remarkable how different cities have such radically different approaches and attitudes toward pedestrians.

I think there's a blog article from Raymond Chen where he notes how the LA concert hall building is totally designed for people arriving from the underground parking lot, and claims that the minimum number of parking slots required for such a building by regulations in LA are higher than the maximum permitted by regulations in NYC...
I can't reply to elwell's comment directly, but Slate has not been a part of Microsoft since 2004.
Your VM will work much faster if you take the time to do a second pass over the generated "code" and resolve the jumps to LABELs all at once instead of linearly scanning the code for the appropriate target on each jump.
ملخص ونتيجة مباراة الاهلى والانتاج الحربى فى الاسبوع الاول من الدورى المصرى
No TLS/SSL ? In the wake of all the security news recently, it's surprising that there is no secured download option.

Plus, no official bittorrent download ? That sucks. If anyone is interested, here's the torrent for the bootonly img. I hope FreeBSD devs these by default in the future.

http://torcache.net/torrent/5f0621060da88eb18c5765c8a2e87e93...
Internet privacy as important as human rights, says UN's Navi Pillay
Might be this one: http://phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=5#article if that's not the one you meant still definitely worth reading
The did the whole game in hardware. You are thinking of a computer in the modern sense, memory, processor, software. It wasn't always thus.
Unless you're against all software patents on principle, I don't see an argument here for why patenting this feature deserves scorn.

If it behaves the way it's described, it sounds remarkably useful. Indeed it's obvious in retrospect, but that's true of many physical inventions worthy of patents.

Is there prior art? The example of Phraseology's "Inspect" doesn't seem similar at all. It's not a visualization tool; it's an analysis tool.
Penalties are blunt instruments.

The whole point of this penalty is that Google cannot trust the signals that are in its index when it comes to Rap Genius's site. And it sure isn't Google's fault that they can't.

Can Google subtract out all the "naughty stuff" and decide if Rap Genius deserves to even be on the front page for "rap genius" anymore? I doubt it.

If Google's search had a category for "obvious searches" then yes, maybe they could apply a penalty as delicately as possible. But delicateness is not really the point. Dropping them down 50 spots is blunt and simple. I think everything about this approach makes sense.
You used Emacs for 20 years and one bad interaction on IRC which caused you throw away all that acquired knowledge, let alone elisp you wrote?
From the perspective of web users, there is choice(even if heavily skewed by default search in browsers). But from the perspective of web sites/web companies/web devs/web advertisers, there is very less choice and bordering a monopoly, as this example illustrates. Even worse if you're someone like MapQuest, a shopping site, or Yahoo Finance, since most people tend to search locations on search engines/browser and are quickly steered to their equivalent competitors from the search engine company. Anyway, usually antitrust regulations are about market power and influence, for example see DoJ vs. Apple over eBooks, even though iOS never even had majority share, forget about a monopoly.
Why would you need TLS/SSL when you have checksums?
>it'd be a great resource if they listed to the side a paper or review about some of the stuff they just spoke of.

Great idea! We'll put it unto the to-do list.
I'm not gonna pay for this but it feels good to know in 2 years my office will sport these sharp monitors
I actually gave up on jS + html5 to build apps. Do you know why? The main selling point was "It's cross platform!", but with iOS7 and Android UI diverging away from each other, this "cross platform" thing is not really true anymore. sure you could make an app with shitty UI that's cross platform, but you really want to do that? Maybe for games, but for rest of the apps, this "HTML5 is the future" is over in my opinion
Late 2013 Haswell Retina Macbook pro could support 2 upto 3 4K
external Display I think.
If Win 8 worked 4k with 60HZ,just wait for a new OSX 10.9 update.It should bring 4K with 60HZ support.
If using HDMI cable,only support 4K at 30HZ.
Apple's iMessage fits those criteria. I imagine some Pidgin/Adium plugin could as well (even on an insecure chat network), and IRC is easy to set up with a self signed certificate.
Europe doesn't have a concept of jay walking so I don't know where you get the idea we have similar prices. Oh, wait, did you mean a specific country in Europe that all have different laws?
Certainly in the UK there is no concept of jay walking and the whole thing seems like a ludicrous idea.

There isn't any fines like that in other European countries either, so what you're basing your views on I don't know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Europe
And without computers, bitcoins will have less worth than sticks and rocks. The community they're talking about can exist, but it's stupid to think it would operate on bitcoin. Isn't that exactly what cash is for? Untraceable, has representation of value but little value itself (besides tinder), easily broken into smaller pieces, etc. Doesn't bitcoin connect them to the very same system they're trying to escape? Cryptocurrency has purpose/value in that it can be easily exchanged with people all over the world fro goods and services. If you're separating from the world, its as valuable as the magnetic strip it's printed on.
It's actually kinda nice once you get used to it.
The edit quip was necessary. I thought that hackernews would be safe from the "internet tough guy" syndrome, but I guess not.

I mean, I-get-it. The poor tend to go to jail at a higher rate than their more well-off counterparts for various reasons, but the "don't snitch" bullshit just keeps criminals safe to keep hurting their communities.
Should you ever end up in prison, you'll likely end up in "Punk City." (PC = Protective Custody = where snitches are kept)

Rule #1.) Never tell the authorities about anything that happens "inside."

In a prison society those who allow themselves to be victimized will naturally find themselves on the lower scale of that societal hierarchy.
It's helpful in most contexts outside of white/middle class privilege. But I don't really understand your question?
Some like to wait until x.1 for production use, but FreeBSD development tends to be a good deal more conservative than Linux, and is usually already pretty solid for the x.0 release. They've also been more incremental with changes between major versions since the major SMP additions in versions 5-7.

Since it's not in the announcement or linked directly from the website itself, here's what's new in 10.0:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10
There were mass protests on Western Avenue in London when the first footbridge was built over a road, forcing pedestrians off the roads. The car still won. http://www.flickr.com/photos/26245280@N00/256217251/in/photo...
Reminds me of the elderly UK historian who managed to get himself locked up for jaywalking in Atlanta.

"First, I learnt that the Atlanta police are barbaric, brutal, and out of control. The violence I experienced was the worst of my sheltered life. Muggers who attacked me once near my home in Oxford were considerably more gentle with me than the Atlanta cops."

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/felipe-fern...
Bitcoin wouldn't have been listed by any major press as a breakthrough product/service the year it became public, either. Few were paying attention.

Let's hold off on the proclamations about 2013 being a dead year for breakthroughs. It's entirely plausible the biggest breakthrough for 2013 still isn't widely known. Some products require scale before it becomes overly apparent the dramatic impact they're going to have, and or before network effects take hold that said product may require to truly kick into another gear.
> Without access to spinal fluid or nicely chunked pieces of garbage like molecules

I would be really worried if I started clearing nicely chunked pieces of garbage like things in my sleep.
while DDG started by 1 guy and entrants like blekko or qwiki can differentiate in other ways and enter and compete easily.

Again everything you are saying is because of superior product/employees and innovation. Your entire argument is based off no one else can come up with a better product so lets punish them
It doesn't matter. Neither GTX 780 Ti 2-way SLI nor R9 290X 2-way crossfire are able to average 60fps on modern games at 4K HD, even games that are nearly a year old.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gtx_780_ti_sli_geforce_...

And these cards are 600-700 USD each.
Checksums offer no security. An attacker can alter them right after altering the image. Now if the images were signed, it would be a different story...
>Maybe you feel wronged because they said something in public that you wanted private.

You cannot go to authorities with "he called me a butt."

The issues here are a subclass of "crimes and wrongs that authorities would address." My example is not going to an extreme. Have you ever confronted a criminal? How did it go? Do you see where it could have gone worse?
Regardless, gotta love how Dennis Rodman looks the other way and doesn't give a shit about people.
Hmmm! I'm not quite sure, I remember reading this a long time ago also, but now re-reading this, I'm not 100% sure this was it, very much of the kind mind you.

Thanks a lot. I will re-read it all again and maybe some part rings a bell.
> Assuming everyone has a bit of common sense (don't walk in front of a moving car)

And therein lies the problem. There is a subset of American pedestrians who, because the law says they have the right of way, believe that the laws of physics also do not apply to them either. I have personally witnessed, too many times to count, a pedestrian approaching a crosswalk across a busy, four lane road, who continues, fast paced, without slowing the slightest, towards, into, and across, the crosswalk, without so much as even a glance left or right to check where the oncoming traffic happens to be. I.e., they just step out in front of cars (4 lanes worth) moving 35MPH, with no regard for how much distance there is between a cars hood and their spot in the crosswalk.

The only thing that saves them from getting killed is the random positioning of cars such that they don't actually step in front of a car with only 20 feet left before impact, and the fact that the drivers with 100 feet of space left nearly skid to a stop because of the fool that forget what his/her mother taught them: "Always look both ways before crossing the street".

Sadly, this total lack of common sense seems to infest about 20% of the pedestrian population, and is a major factor contributing to the accident rate. Because quite simply, if you are not in front of a moving car, you can't possibly be hit.
Very nice idea. Linksmų šventų kalėdų!
Disappointed to see that it's Windows only.
http://www.reddit.com/r/JusticePorn/comments/1hgceg/quickmem...
If you don't like patent regime, maybe you shouldn't buy into an architecture that is built on it. OSX sets the stage for this kind of software, both by their companies position, the positioning of the products, the technical capabilities of their products, and their corporate culture all effects the software that is sold on the platform.
Right. Managers would have to be not just more observant across the board, but especially good at noticing those who don't promote themselves, to compensate for those who do.

This becomes a high bar for managers. They must effectively cancel the effects of self promotion, so that rational employees move away from it. Then, assuming managers are at least ideally rational, something would have to motivate them to behave this way in turn.

If we were serious about removing this flaw in the system, we'd have to change a lot of other things to make room for it. It's easy to evaluate any one aspect of a system, but be careful not to abandon deeper analysis once the flaws have been found.
Is it genuine rage or sarcasm? It seems to be genuine but I just can't believe that.
I'm surprised nobody has written an emacs mode for "syntax control"

... yet
This monitor doesn't support scaling. If you push 1080p, it will not fill the screen.
If he's not paying the tax then his parents either are or did. Same here in Australia, it's just a part of the basic standard we are prepared to be taxed for.
these two things are not comparable- computers tend to reboot due to 'cosmic rays', cruft left behind by poorly written applications, or, more commonly, nvidia drivers.

my brain goes down to sleep at night to commit and file my memories of the day, for area's to be selectively cleaned, for the brain and body in general to consume less energy and last longer/heal.

I can't hit a reboot button, it's not defrag- it's a complicated required process for living in a human skin.
Rubinius 2.2.1 is still only compatible with MRI 1.9. (no support for keyword arguments)
Revenue generation masquerading as public safety.
Irish independence has more in common with Indian independence than with Scottish. Scotland isn't run as a colonial possession to generate wealth for the English ruling class, the inhabitants be damned Scots get votes and civil rights and all those goodies, the situations aren't comparable.
"How much water us used during the production of an egg? 120 gallons"

This is the only one I feel comfortable commenting on specifically, but this is insanely wrong. A laying hen drinks about 16 ounces of water per day, eats a few ounces of food per day, and lays an egg every 1-2 days depending on the breed and the conditions.

Your quoted figure appears to be, quite literally, off by a factor of 1,000.
Still, it's an unstable arrangement that moves toward an equilibrium of more freedom, commerce... and food.
Why would anyone use this? Are there any consumer Ubuntu phones in existence? Is there any evidence there ever will be?

I use Ubuntu on desktops and servers, but I've seen no reason to expect Ubuntu to gain any traction on phones.
The U.S. accused Apple Inc. and five of the nation's largest publishers Wednesday of conspiring to raise e-book prices. I don't even see how thats relevant to how Google does business within their own ad products. Who exactly is Google colluding with to suppress or hurt competition ?

Companies will do business where the users are. The minute there is a better product or users abandon google, those same people you listed will leave as well. So maybe we should go after Facebook for destroying MySpace as well ? The entire argument is based on the fact that Google offers a superior product and should punish them for this.
I don't even know the guy
Would you mind explaining how the feature described is novel and hasn't been done before? Because I wasn't able to discern anything I haven't seen before in one form or another.
I'm just saying that what's offensive is a cultural thing. For example in my country it's not offensive to tell that civil servants are basically lazy bums that do no useful jobs at all, come to work to drink coffee and make actually working peoples lives miserable by demanding from them useless paperwork in dishonest attempt to justify their existance. All that on taxpayer payroll. As I understand this might be offensive in US just because US wasn't under communist rule for 40 years and people don't share same vitriolic hatred for government officials. Is it appropriate? Usually not. But it's not considered offensive as it fits general sentiment.
Good read - I'm actually putting together something with a partner so definitely agree on making sure the agreement has a buyout clause.
Performance and access to the internal SDK seem to be what ultimately kill this approach. Seems like this happens at the beginning of every product cycle.

So we've got this decent platform, we build up HTML apps that end up kludgy compared to IOS or Android native, so you do a 180 and release the official SDK and everyone migrates over; or your product never reaches mass adoption and dies.

Also, ChromeOS and FirefoxOS are browser's so of course they have a vested interest in making their apps in HTML / JS.
uruguayan here as well, same feeling :)
Twitter now worth over $40 billion
Replicant: Replicated State Machines Made Easy
The Smartphone As A Wallet (Fred Wilson)
Please consider donating [1] to FreeBSD.

They still need $400k and there's only 4 days left

Even if you don't use FreeBSD, their work still benefits the open source community with ZFS, etc.

[1] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org
Weather, weather, weather. The "silicon beach" is 10 to 15 degrees cooler than downtown on a summer day with noticeably less smog. For many the west side is where its at,
> Is there any evidence there ever will be?

Yeah, I think the story was posted here recently. They signed somebody but can't say who it is yet, just that they're "big". There were some hints that the appeal had to do with Android being a big deception built around the "open" concept.
What you've just read was manufactured outrage for fun and profit.
So what you are saying is I probably shouldn't get three of these to run in EyeFinity
A simple and compelling reason to meditate is that it can function like a reboot button for your brain. Moreso, in my experience, than sleep.
Einsteins Demands
if arnor.knows(a_hole, stole_wallet) and (a_hole not instanceof psychopath or a_hole.physical_strength < arnor.physical_strength)
arnor.confront(a_hole)
if not arnor.has_wallet
arnor.punch_in_face(a_hole)
// When violence enters the picture, things get ugly.
goto tattle
else
[lbl] tattle
arnor.tattle_on(a_hole)
Why Developer Competition Will Heat Up in 2014
I live in the suburbs of Atlanta and it's pretty much all over here. I have a problem with noticing it primarily because I don't bother doing it, I can wait those few extra seconds or minutes to be safe. I think the main reason it's annoying is people often do it knowing cars are coming at full speed, with no real regard for their safety or the safety of others. Jaywalking to me is a privilege when used correctly and I'm all for not fining the hell out of people. It's when they become a douchebag, seemingly trying to win some sort of lawsuit lottery with their arrogance that really rubs me the wrong way. You more often die from an automobile striking you than them slowing down just enough for it to be a "love tap" you can take to the bank anyway.
This was cloaking. Prior to link scheme fiasco they used a javascript redirect on the lyric page, effectively making the the lyric page different from what the user sees and what the bot sees.

I think the 301s are actually their response to Google's ban hammer.
Of the three states I've lived in (IN, NC, WA) the law has been FIFO. The tie-breaker for two cars arriving at the intersection (defined as coming to a complete stop) at the same time is "yield to the right" as you note. Are you sure you're not confusing the latter with the general law? Laws seldom have any piece that is "a little fuzzy" and are generally well defined.
In your opinion, why do you believe that reporting crimes is a "white/middle class privilege" decision?
So can others give their ideas as well? How about giving voting options?
How to Fake "Working Remotely" While Home for the Holidays
> It was a bit of snark that devalued your otherwise justified response.

No it wasn't. Comments like yours are peppered throughout HN and Reddit, and the answer is always the same: the users found it interesting. It's a democratic voting system -- get over it.
Even though it's probably not very popular, HTML + JS is also the preferred (only?) way of writing Metro apps for Windows.
I beg to differ. There is always design work, you made design choices and even if they were careless choices you always have a final work that might be great or just poorly designed.
For those of us not prone to drug sales, extortion, murder, etc... traffic and parking are our only interaction with local PD. So in most cases it sounds like you are actually in agreement despite the comment above.

Most of us have very little interaction with LAPD, since they maintain low numbers of officers for a city its size. But when it comes from extracting $$$ from citizens they are a well-oiled machine. You can expect a parking ticket within 15 minutes anywhere in the city. Santa Monica (a different city) is even more aggressive.
I don't get what syntax control is. Is it just a count of different grammatical categories? Does it do some kind of sentiment analysis and tell you if your sentence structure is aggressive or something?
That doesn't sound like evidence. That sounds like vague marketing hype.