skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your kind words. The paw print is intended to be either a cat or a dog paw print. You also have an option of selecting a personalized cat tag that can go on the urn's lid instead of the standard paw print. See design #4 here: http://artisurn.com/collections/pet-urns/products/segmented-....
TechEmpower has done pretty well with their web framework benchmarks [1]. While I get the feeling that they don't have the bandwidth to expand into general language benchmarking they've created an open process [2] that might be easily adapted to general language benchmarking.

They seemed to have addressed most of the fairness and "What about language X on platform Y using framework Z" kinds of questions with "Send us a pull request and we'll include it in the next benchmark".

I'm tempted to tackle this even though I don't currently have the time.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Your written English is better than the vast majority of our current undergraduate college students in America, so I really wouldn't worry about it.
Much as I love computers and programming and learning.... I gotta play some Dota2 tonight... because reasons.
For some reason lately I've been thinking what you were able to prove with analytics. I just know people are sharing my stuff, but they aren't using the social sharing buttons. Especially in "our" industry (dev, design, marketing, etc) people would rather craft and curate a post then have it shared in some type of weird way on one of those buttons.
Yes exactly.

It's the difference between "I'm so angry I could kill someone right now!" and "I'm so angry I could kill so-and-so neighbor right now!"
Sometimes recommends will include things you don't actually need. Like rcpbind and nfs.

So you still need to check after the install.
Facebook moves beyond 'male' and 'female' with custom gender options
I struggle to imagine a developer who is _talented_ (in actual real sense of this) in programming yet cannot ask/answer a tech question in English (I am not a native speaker). Has anyone met a person like this?
Yeah, I also get the impression that Android devs aren't eating their own dog food. I'm actually surprised at how inferior it is to iOS in almost every way.
Wow that's looking pretty nice already.
Less than 5% of my team's time is spent managing the physical infrastructure.

The rest is optimization, monitoring, backups and service management, all of which you have on AWS as well.
I kind of don't trust the ones with a facebook logon. Sometimes I have signed in and used some stupid app such as "do you make him horny in bed?", then it gets published to my timeline....

Makes me wary of such things these days.
Your belongings are really only yours to the extent that social contract (ie the law) defines them as such or you are able to prevent other people from taking them. Everything else is an illusion.
I often wonder how often this happens: Someone becomes frustrated with the website or its content, and the presence of the social media buttons encourages them to click and vent about their dissatisfaction. If the button wasn't just right there, the moment might pass.
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There is lots of evidence, of several different kinds.

At the biochemical level, we actually know a lot about some of the pathways that allow food and body fat composition to govern appetite. See, for example, leptin signaling.

At the anthropological level, we have good examples of several different pre-agricultural societies where food was abundant and obesity was rare.

At the whole-animal experimental level, researchers have demonstrated in both rats and humans that when you give an animal unlimited access to food, it doesn't gain unlimited weight. It reaches a plateau and then resists further changes up or down from there. Interestingly enough, rats fed a diet of unlimited human junk food reach a much higher plateau than rats fed a diet of unlimited standard rat chow.

And finally, we all know people (perhaps even our younger selves) who never consciously worry about what they're eating yet undergo very little fluctuation in weight. Judged from the perspective of a control system designer, getting that kind of stable outcome from wildly varying inputs doesn't just happen by luck. And indeed, experimenters have shown repeatedly that "naturally lean" people experience reduced appetite in the days following a period of overeating. You can even deliberately perturb the system by force-feeding them, and they bounce right back to their long-term weight thanks to reduced appetite and increased metabolism.
> its probably my favorite social network

I pretty much tuned out at this point. I don't believe it is (nor should it be) a social network. I have a couple connections that use LinkedIn like others use Facebook. I don't want my LinkedIn connections telling me they had oatmeal for breakfast. That is what Facebook is for.
Well, sure, but $2.8m? Seems like a bit much for this sort of thing.
He didn't threaten anyone's children. He threatened children as a concept in order to shock. Is the difference between shouting at someone that you are going to kill them and shouting that you could kill someone. The first is a specific threat, the second is the sort of thing that is said after a bad day at work.

If you took everyone seriously when they threatened non-specific murder, you would have to jail everyone who makes jokes about how many points you get for running over different kinds of pedestrians while driving, which at least in the UK seems to be around half of all drivers.
Then they should hire Ellen McLain, the voice actress who did GLaDoS, to narrate a documentary on the Super-conducting Super-collider.
Don't know about the USA, but here in Canada the media is also disallowed from discussing young offenders.
It's unclear exactly what you mean by "rethinkdb-style" because that could mean a number of things, but stay tuned for our posts on this next week, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
His argument was that the indexing they do only improves a specific type of query. Personally I think he's wrong but that was his view a year or so ago.
More seriously than he used to be. The tide changed a bit when he raised millions of dollars during the 2008 primary elections but election victories didn't quite follow.
Starting an entire company based on collaborative writing is a junk idea. It's a niche service without much room for improvement, and it's currently being provided for free by one of the largest software companies in the world.

There is no way that this will ever achieve anything close to $500k/year. For this to happen, at $8/month it needs to attract 5000+ subscribing, paying users. This is not going to happen when anyone can just use Google docs for free. Especially when Google is more well-known, better maintained, and integrates into existing Google accounts. There is just no good reason to sign up for a new service.

Most people have never heard of draft or etherpad. I'm willing to be that they are not actually generating any substantial revenue either, which is the benchmark for whether it's a good idea to start a business or not.
"This is a fun way to make beta users feel connected. Its kind of like beta testing for a friend if you swap them."

I agree with you completely. I think that the dismissive comments are missing the fact that Front's customers are other startups. This technique would probably have been less successful if their product focused on consumers.
Most, right? I don't write Ruby and I barely know who that is (I could pick him out of a lineup but that's about it) but I knew that.
I agree, but now you've got me thinking...who do you think was the American of the previous decade?
Doesn't Facebook timeline review prevent this?
I can’t find the exact quote or reference now, but IIRC it was possible to sign a .Net assembly or script, and the signature was in a special block that said “Please ignore this block to calculate the signature”. So you can create the whole thing, calculate the signature and put it in the correct slot without changing the signature.
Isn't this infringing the recent patent of Neurala? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
LuaJIT, PyPy and HHVM are common and well know. If it is true that they devs contacted him and he refused to add it, that's sad.

I know maintaining a project like that is a lot of work. But adding superior implementations of already featured languages should be a piece of cake. Source code of Python, PHP and Lua is already in the repo, it's just a matter of installing the VM's on the computer and modify the scripts.

Beside, if the maintainer reads this, please keep up the good work, and maybe add LuaJIT, PyPy and HHVM. Thanks.
ddorian, Can you elaborate what that means?
My wife has wanted an Android tablet for a while now, so I'm getting her a Nexus 7 and writing a custom Valentine's card app on it for her. I think she'll be surprised!
This is a GREAT idea, one of the best features of wikipedia for the multilingual-ed is you can see the same topic in a different language with single mouse click.
This looks super interesting, a great example of functional programming and an implementation of websockets.

However, whenever something like this comes up, I always wonder about the new Java implementation of Web Sockets / actors. Do you have a comment on the difference between using Akka for your web interface instead of comsat WebActors?

I guess if this is a proof of concept for the comsat classes, it works quite well.
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Here's a pretty lightweight way to include the functionality (and customize the look): http://cferdinandi.github.io/social-sharing/

I created a small JS snippet (still need to put that up on Github) to grab the counts too which is quite easy.
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia - fear these places.

Well, if you're going to paint with such a broad brush, go ahead and list the other 38. I hear there are bad people in San Francisco, Madison, Boise, Olympia, Reading and Topeka too.

Then you should start listing Canadian provinces, because surely they've got some bad apples. And don't forget Mexico, since they've had issues with murderous drug cartels. At that point you should also mention the bloodthirsty populations of Central America as well as the black-hearted people of Iceland.

Really, I think only the Moon is reasonably safe but the place has gone downhill since 1969.
Well, that one is easy: Bill Gates (Foundation). Literally saving millions of people's lives on your own initiative and out of your own pocket. Amazing.
As he said it depends on who the readers are. But regardless including a static version with just a link is a good idea for users on mobile and tablet. And also load time won't be affected.
> the new site has intentionally relaxed rules

That sounds like the complete doom of stackexchange, or that site at the very least. Eternal February.
Would be great to include the opinion and feedback from your coworkers who actually go to the office. This seems like good feedback for people who maybe does not feel comfortable with their home setup and a few practices. But I still feel the team's productivity is certainly increased if the team is working together.
And your dad's alternative would be what? To balkanize science and engineering? To create dozens of separate islands of knowledge? To slow the spread of knowledge, because everything deemed significant has to be translated to and from 20 languages to gain general currency?

How is one or even a thousand persons' inability to learn another language an argument for how science should be practiced?
Don't we have enough proprietary builds of FLOSS projects?

Every time I look at Android phone or TV or a router I regret that BSD/MIT/Apache is so popular. Those devices run tivoized proprietary builds of what consists mostly of free software, but builds are shitty or just restricted (want a proper firewall? never mind it's there go buy next-tier device). And users can't do anything about that.

Users and GPLv3 deserve more love. They're already screwed by everyone and their pet code monkeys.
There aren't spelling bees in France, but there are dictation competitions, graded on spelling, punctuation, and accents [grave, acute, etc]. And the French (at least the Academy) are notoriously sticklers for the purity of the language.
They also banned D.
Python uses GMP while having a bignum implementation. I believe any language is allowed to use it.

Python: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...

Ruby: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Yes, like immigration, health care, women's rights, food stamps, voting rights, minimum wage, social security, and taxation.
Nothing at all, but how else can you be an asshole to trans people?

Oh right, by claiming they're not really male or female for reasons x, y, and z.
On Knowing Something
We are seeing some issues with the network transit providers that we selected in Singapore where some of the traffic is being routed optimally. Bryan has been working hard on determining the best mix of network transit providers and peering to setup to get this resolved as quickly possible, unfortunately when it comes to provisioning network cross connects with service orders and contracts its not a 24-48 hour turn around, but we are actively working on this very diligently.
-- you're making money off the storage of 1000s of people like me running bitcoind

Not making any money actually. Project is open sourced too

-- OP_RETURN

Will probably move on the weekend.
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I've been trying to enter "Alien Robot", but I keep getting an error. How do I even add a custom gender? Everything I put in gives an error.
> SO tends to be pretty strict about the way a post is written - so a little girl who is making a post will either be closed or forced to edit.

Questions are only closed if nobody can understand them, not because of grammar. So this little girl wouldn't have gotten her question answered regardless of whether the question was closed, simply because it wasn't clear.

If grammar is lacking but it's understandable, people will either leave it be or edit it to upgrade the English. At least, that is my experience on the IT Security StackExchange site (the only one I'm really active at).
> most industrial bakeries only allow bread to rise for a matter of minutes—not nearly long enough to let the yeast and bacteria digest all the gluten in the flour, let alone the extra dose in the additives

Nor will they ever. Fermentation is the digestion of carbohydrates. Gliadin and glutenin are proteins.

ETA: That's not to say that autolyse and a slow rise won't improve flavor and texture, which they certainly do.
What i mean, every node is the same, no mongos , you just connect to one random mongod and it handles the mongos funcionality.

So if you grow, you add 1 node, not a replica-set(that could be 3 nodes if you have 3x replication)
I see. To clarify, TokuMX's indexing technology doesn't try to improve specific queries or patterns - it simply makes general index maintenance significantly cheaper and less space intensive, so your application can define the indexes it needs, not just the ones it can afford.
"taken 50% seriously" might be the best way to describe Ron Paul, since for every thought-provoking thing he says, you have to ignore some quite silly (to most people) thing (Like completely defunding 5 cabinet departments, or his dislike of federal trampling of rights, but complete acceptance of state trampling of rights).

His fanbase is among some of the strangest.I kept on hearing variants of "I voted for Obama in 2008 but would love to vote Ron Paul 2012".
check my reply to zardosht below/above
Why not use http://ell.stackexchange.com/ or http://english.stackexchange.com/ to learn English and maintain the stackoverflow one version?

I agree with "soneca", I am from Brazil too and I'm not so confortable to answer in English, but this never stopped me to ask, to answer or whatever... I mean, the real insight is continous learning, we cannot be in the comfort zone. Distribute and divide will result in duplicate QA, duplicated knowledge and maybe feel a little "it is better to us, not mixing in with these people"
Penny Arcade comic on the subject

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/07/08
He is a libertarian most of the time and "republican" during election years so he can at least have a chance of getting on the ticket.
Try harder to tie unrelated things together so that you can find something to pathetically whine about.
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but thats different and different things are SCARY!
How is Go slower than Java? Actually Go is pretty slow compared to many languages I would've expected it to be faster than.
Does anyone have a list of the 50+ options? No article seems to show them.
While I support the stated idea, this petition seems weird because I can sign it with a throwaway email from guerilla mail- are we sure this isn't really just an email harvester in disguise?
We need less Rails, Node.js, etc. and more systems research
My opinion: Too many people stitch together crap built on top of HTTP and call it revolutionary. We need to abandon, or at least migrate from, stale web technology, and pursue fundamentally new ways of computing.

But it seems the trend is toward keeping with what we have; kids leave school wanting to do nothing but write iPhone apps, built on technology created by men who are better than them.

Do the world a favor, and get smart enough to dig us out of this complacent hell-hole that is Web X.0.
> one isolated incident in Texas, easily the most ass-backwards state in terms of morals and common sense

Um, yeah, let's judge the entire state of Texas based on one county's prosecutors. Sheesh.
Easy: Dick Cheney. Despite extreme opposition - both domestic and international - only Cheney had the courage, the conviction... nay, the vision! - to usher humanity into a new age of security and freedom.
Thank you for sharing this. However, IMHO form builder is the last thing that could be reused in different projects. How a form is presented and submitted and navigation is handled vary a lot from one project to another project.
13 pages of text, no upvotes. Can someone please give a TLDR? First page was all intro. Scanned the last page; didn't get the point. I'll go back and read it, if the summary looks interesting.
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You hit the nail on the head. We provided, and more specifically, I, directly did, estimates on when we launch certain features.

Unfortunately those deadlines have come and gone. That was because those estimates were rooted in timeframes around how we were able to write code in 2012 when we didn't hit the large growth spurt we did in 2013.

As a result the majority of 2013 was about meeting customer demand. Luckily we've finished out the year very well in scaling the various teams within the company and adding in the necessary layers of management so that we finally feel that we are getting back on track with engineering again.

With the launch of Singapore there are actually alot of updates under the hood that customers don't see but the hypverisors in Singapore are running on a completely new version of our cloud backend.

As we close out February we are reviewing our product roadmap and will start providing feedback again on estimates and hopefully be once again much more accurate in those estimates.

One of the other items we've considered is putting together a blog post about our 2013 in review and specifically focusing on what happened to our product roadmap and what delays we hit and why, and how we are looking to get past those challenges in 2014.

Thanks!
Surely in today's world with elastic compute and robust virtual containers, it should be possible to replace thankless volunteer work with automated, self-service processes.

I'm not saying it would be easy (or economically viable), but it's certainly possible. Somebody should try it.
No, the relentless compelling evidence that pours out in torrents day after day without respite is what makes it look like it is corrupt. This story is shocking, but it is not surprising in the slightest, and there is a reason for that.
What if a company built a private road and did the same thing? Would you still have a problem with it?
I've heard that the gluten content of what we eat has increased 500% over the years (they add it to everything now).

Anyways, check out Spelt, the original bread -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt

I don't do well with non-white breads because the bran and germ are kind of hard on your digestive system with respect to producing an allergic reaction.

But I have not been able to find Spelt that's not whole-grain (it's white and lite variety seems to be just a reduced bran/germ mixture).

But overall, they say Spelt is allot more soluble and digestible than wheat.
That was my thought as well. I hate to see how most democrats have reacted on this issue, goose-stepping with the administration.
DeCSS[1] comes to mind, but I think any use of the blockchain to distribute copyrighted material would be more to make a statement than a convenient way of distributing it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
also what would be really cool for very-big-data + ~bigger latency is ~index compression.

Bascially Hypertable (based on Bigtable) compresses data in blocks, but in the index saves only the ids of the first and last documents in the block. This could be hard for secondary indexes (maybe?)?
> As a non-native English speaker, I have pretty strong feelings about English in engineering in general: everyone should just learn English.

As another non-native: ditto. Free English courses for Portuguese-speaking people would be more beneficial I think. (Why free? Well the Portuguese site is free too.)
The article notes that dates involve 3 men and 3 women. Is this intended primarily for straight people, then?
I, for one, am amazed that this would need justification at all. (And that half the comments here seem to be saying that devs should 'just learn English'.)

Languages with many speakers have their own 'world'. Kids, and people without higher education in such language areas won't have much opportunity to pick up English. They'll start out without access to English language programming communities. The only way they'll get anywhere in the field is to have alternatives in their own language.
Unfortunately, this would break compatibility with existing MongoDB applications more than we would probably be willing to do. However, there's no reason RethinkDB couldn't use Fractal Tree indexing instead of B-trees, given some engineering effort.
Quite true, I just wish that we could get updated libraries (i.e. arch under the hood)

Maybe this will happen if it's going to be based off of 14.04.
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I think the main difference is that Comsat (which runs on top of Quasar) has true lightweight threads, just like Erlang and Go. This means that actor code can block, you can have simple selective receive, and all-in-all the code is simpler and easier to follow.

Also, web sockets are not directly related to actors. Comsat's Web Actors simply let you write HTTP and WebSocket using the actor model.