skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your smaller points don't make much sense to me... PG doesn't have a REDO log, that's just not the way it's architected. If you mean WAL, a patch went out in 9.4 to prevent updates to a page from rewriting more than necessary, so they're not doing full-page writes each time. Clustered index also makes inserts slower--it's again not a straight win for MySQL (and what query patterns other than range scans of the PK does it make cheaper?). Finally, while obviously it's not the same as InnoDB compression, TOAST does a rather good job in practice, and Postgres's indexes are quite efficiently compressed (especially with new changes in 9.4). I can't speak to (1), but it's not at all clear to me that any of these advantages put MySQL ahead in the long term, and certainly not for all workloads.
Stop being fixated on reclaiming concrete. If you clear a section of forest for crops and burn the harvested wood, you have one carbon release. Now you grow crops for biofuels, you capture some carbon back. Convert to fuel and burn it, another carbon release. Grow crops again and you have sequestered the carbon again. Overall, you get the net effect of one large carbon release.

But you can't do the same with fossil fuels - all fossil fuels are carbon releases, and that carbon is never recaptured by the process. The 'green argument' is that after setup, there is little in the way of new carbon being introduced, which is very much not the case with fossil fuels.

Separating your recyclable garbage doesn't mean you don't still generate non-recyclable garbage and throw that out, yet doing this has helped reduce strain on landfills and has had a host of other benefits. From your argument here, because we don't turn recyclables back into the original oil or wood they came from, it's not worth doing.
Hmm, something's amiss. Archive.org's record of Mozilla's website says that Mozilla Corp only ever had 5 board members. The WSJ seems to imply they had 6. Assuming Moz's own website is accurate, Katharina Borchert only joined around the time Eich was appointed.

Either way, the numbers don't quite add up. If there were only 5 board members, and only 2 of them wanted Eich, how did he get chosen? And even if Katherina was already on the board, that's still 3 vs 3.

Mozilla is an incredible force for good. Hope they get through this quickly and get back making the web better.

Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20140322233528/http://www.mozill...

Present: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
I don't have a problem with this. If you accidentally encode an infinite loop, you just break it on the next code change. You can memoize your token stream in an incremental lexer to use tokens as stable IDs: you use the same symbol for bar as you did for foo because the token/tree start position never changed; only the contents of the existing token happened to changed! This is what I do in YinYang, and it works well. Of course, to get here, you have to be incremental 100% and not use existing batch tools (or adapt them first to be incremental).

I'd be happy to share these techniques sometime.
Yeah that was kind of my point... I got sucked in.
Well, just one data point, but I have a consumer-facing site that sees a few hundred thousand visitors a month with only 6.1% of those coming from Firefox in the last month.

On the flip side, Chrome usage dominates among visitors on my development-focused blog at 61.7% and IE trails Firefox (22.2%) at 9.5%.
Great post but it sounds a lot like trying to sell that peek service. Would've been great to see what actions were taken to improve the site rather than wait to the new design launch.
Your Enterprise link goes to TNG again. And somehow I was sure Andromeda kept going for 7 seasons, it was just so bad I wasn't even keeping track anymore.
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Thanks, I didn't see that on the Wikipedia page.

Still, while I know it's not good to say "data" and "gut feel" in the same sentence, I just have a very hard time believing that IE usage is trending upward while Chrome is trending down. It just doesn't add up.
He did say mobile web apps, not mobile apps. And given that almost all webapps run on JavaScript...
You are suffering and that's OK. You are no less of a person than anyone else. Anxiety is the illness of our age. Don't feel ashamed. We all suffer to some extent. You are very brave for coming forward and you've helped many people by doing so.

I suffer too, but I have found peace in Buddhism. I'm more content now than I ever have been (50 years of life). I've learned to live each moment deeply and just breath. Feel my lungs, my feet on the Earth and be happy.

The sun will rise tomorrow, but some day it will burn out. Please remember that nothing but you, your family and your actions matter. Your character, integrity, kindness and interactions with others speak volumes. No one can take that away from you. I hope you find peace by learning to overcome your suffering. If you take this path you'll heal yourself and help those around you find relief from their own suffering.
>The CEO is the figurehead of a company or organization; they have to represent the company, establish its culture, define its vision, and so forth and so forth.

To emphasise this point - the importance of the choice in relating to the outside world - this is just in:

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/victoria/vac-gmhc-to-boyco...

The Victorian AIDS Council and Gay Men's Health Centre, one of the most important gay charities in the state of Victoria in Australia, is boycotting Mozilla and removing Firefox from their machines.

More than that, they issued a PRESS RELEASE to this effect.

So the Firefox brand is becoming toxic well outside the world of disgruntled techies.
…that the article and board members in question are willing to reveal.

It's still entirely possible (and more likely if you ask me) that the Prop 8 angle and subsequent objections raised by many Mozillans and Firefox developers have changed their minds about this, but these are big-time board member CEOs we're taking so of course they're not going to say the political position on Prop 8 of the newly appointed CEO is what's making them resign. That's still a bad career move in today's world, but saying "we wanted someone from outside the organization with experience in XYZ" is not.
> They are pretty mutually exclusive.

I don't disagree per se, but do you apply this generally, disqualifying people with any expressed anti-egalitarian politics from leading a pro-egalitarian organization such as Mozilla? Would you apply a "no Randians" or "no libertarians" litmus test as much as a "no Christian fundamentalists" or "no social conservatives" test? In my opinion, the economic and social equality angles are of fairly equal relevance to Mozilla's stated goals.
ReactOS logo asteroid has been found. 10199 Chariklo
So you think this just all happened in the last week?
As a Model S owner, the OTA updates are one of the my favorite parts of the vehicle. Going to a shop for service has always a really frustrating experience for me. Ironically, Tesla's service is so amazing that I don't mind it, yet I don't even need to go in!

They just added a feature in the 5.9 update that is pretty important to me (hill assist) and I've n
> life is full of subtle social contracts that mental illness often causes people to flout. Mental illness (in many cases) makes people less predictable and reliable. Harder to deal with.

it's hard to accuse someone of 'flouting' a contract which isn't written down anywhere. that's what i think causes a lot of problems for people with mental illness.

it took me years to learn things like "people often think things and but don't say them", "eye contact and facial expressions convey a lot of information" and even "it's important to think about how other people percieve you."

there are no classes in these things; no one teaches you this in school. most people "pick these thing up on their own" - but most people also struggle like hell with math and coding. i learned coding, math and physics quite easily. i 'picked them up' because they made sense to me, while i had to work really hard as an adult to learn basic social skills that most people seem to learn in grade school.

if we were more open about all the implicit social contracts we have in the world, people wouldn't break them so often.
14-Year-Old Proves U.S. Can Save $370 Million by Changing Fonts
As a conservative-ish person in tech, I'm glad I made the decision to hide my politics beginning a few years ago. You people are vicious. I'd love to have an open debate or conversation, but that doesn't seem to be your game.

Our culture is in middle of making unprecedented changes to a core social institution that goes back into prehistory. It's going to be a messy process and some people are going to disagree. That's reasonable and shouldn't be grounds for disbarment from polite society. Let's dial back the vitriol

Lastly, equality isn't an unmitigated good. We treat different people differently depending on the circumstances, and for good reason. For example, you probably don't believe that children should be able to marry, or more than two people. "Equality" isn't a magic word that wins all arguments.

Personally, I raise an eyebrow when a six year old boy raised by adoptive lesbians decides he is transexual, and I feel like society may be failing that boy. But we are so drunk on the doctrine of equality that there is no stepping on the brake...
It's quite weird;used to remember that the recent highlight in a rather dull decade "Steal this Episode" was being rated higher.

11% 1 star ratings with a pretty remarkable demographic distribution. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2966850/ratings

In general an alternate IMDB algorithm probably would give a truer image if you clip of the extreme ratings 1 and 10 before averaging, thereby getting rid of most fanboy/rage votes.
Or, god forbid, an advertisement delivery platform.

(Yeah, radios deliver ads, but I don't have to listen to the radio. Can you imagine if your car ran banner ads around the spedometer?)
Put up or shut up:

Please provide evidence that Chrome sends private URLs to Google.
Hi, thanks for using Ubuntu Server! I don't have time to answer fully so I'm sorry this response is not so detailed, but here's the general updates:

- OpenStack Icehouse - the latest version of OpenStack

- Ceph .78 - Emperor!

- Juju is ready now for production usage, with some goodies here:

- New bundles with quickstart, allowing you to deploy entire workloads in one command. So for example you can do `juju quickstart bundle:mongodb/cluster`, toss in your cloud details, and get a 13 node cluster up and running in about 10 minutes. We also have an entire starter Hadoop Cluster and out of the box deployments for Rails and Django (With node.js on the way).

- Manual provider for Juju, allowing you to deploy what are usually cloud workloads onto any machine with Ubuntu and ssh ... so ... all those fancy deploy commands can fire off to Digital Ocean, Linode, or whatever you have laying around.

- New cloud providers - we now publish regular cloud images in AWS, Azure, HP Cloud, and new this cycle is Joyent.

- Newer MAAS (I don't have the changelog handy)

- Vagrant images - We now publish regular vagrant boxes as part of our release process. We also have a Vagrant box that includes Juju with an LXC provider so you can run a simulated deployment of your servers on your Mac/Windows machines.

- LXC 1.0 for container using folks.

- Speaking of containers, a pretty up to date Docker version this is some work that Paul Tagliamonte is doing in Debian and Ubuntu.

- nginx in main, thanks to the hard work of Thomas Ward. He's maintaining a pretty useful PPA backporting nginx packages for older releases.

- The usual goodies, so version bumps in the kernel, kvm, libvirt, puppet,

If I missed an area let me know!
It does matter. It's called 'constructive criticism', and learning how to accept it is a valuable asset. There's a difference between "nice work, but have you thought of..." and "nice work, you're the best!".

And it's entirely debatable which is better: seeing your argument trigger a wave of patronising good-on-yous from adults you respect; or seeing your argument trigger a wave of intriguing discussion between the same.

I agree that we should be encouraging and not dismissive of it, but the kid is 14, he's nearly an adult himself. He can handle being exposed to deeper analysis.
OP here, I'd really love to include viewership data if anyone knows how to get their hands on some. I was looking at the Nielsen site but saw no easy way of acquiring or requesting data.
To be fair, Eich lives and breathes Mozilla and the mission, and is basically the perfect choice for CEO ... except for his political actions being so toxic to the brand that other nonprofits issue a press release to say they're boycotting Firefox over it: http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/victoria/vac-gmhc-to-boyco...
This is most impressive one I found too
I think the main issue with fragmentation is dealing with 2.3 (as the article mentions). Now that that's going away it's getting much better very soon so I can't agree that "it is not going to get any better". The latest Android project I'm working on will only work for ICS and newer and I've had very few cross-platform issues (two minor issues that I can think of).
IMDb does do some type of weighting to the votes, but they don't release their method.

http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?ratingsexplanation
Goodbye from DailyCandy
Thanks! And I agree. I have Backbone code from quite a while ago and it's still holding strong today. The thing with Backbone, as opposed to some more convention-orientated frameworks like Ember, is that it's as good as the programmer. And if you are an experienced Backbone developer, that can be _damn_ good.

If Backbone had any weakness, it was managing subview chaos at large scale. React does a great job solving that - and introduces other opportunities for better patterns. Thinking in terms of reusable components, and maybe even using those components on the server side as well, is pretty exciting.
Net Applications are famous specifically for their incredibly wrong stats.
While you're getting all this traffic you should definitely put a couple of calls to action to check out your product.

Even just linking the word "Ramen" in the blog post would be a great start to get more conversions happening.
After Youtube, Twitter and Google DNS Turkey blocked OpenDNS too
I remember seeing this a few months ago and that one of the requirements for applying is that your motivation is to ultimately get a job in silicon valley. And the program will facilitate that goal. Is that still the case? Is our acceptance dependent on whether we want to get a job through you guys? Are we going to be limited to the companies on your list?
Super easy browser testing with rails
Good luck. As constructive criticism of the headline, my mind fleetingly tried to parse what a 'yo' engineer was (and a Microsoft one at that), and why 30 of them had applied for YC. :)
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Those projects appear to be your clients. Clicking on a project video is absolutely the wrong answer.

Why isn't "Fundraising Platform" in the left column clickable? That should lead to expository text, but it isn't even a link.
Use a case? Include a free fake leather case with every purchase?

I've had zero problems with my Kindle screens, but I've never dropped them.
note to founders, your landing page has several typos. the headline is the most glaring one.
I guess more iPhone users have the opportunity to upgrade for free than Android users.
Could be that (note: this is only a supposition) maybe some who voted for this CEO had not evaluated well the outcome and now part of the board, and maybe in this part there are also some who voted for him, asked him to step back? Maybe he said no and now, in the position to get a bad reputation or to pay for the bad choice, the same board members prefer to step back themselves to avoid to be in the crossfire?
until somebody drives Model S in Iraq and hits IED ...
Take a screenshot, upload it and have the url copied to the clipboard
Are user videos from Peek supposed to be public? I would be a little creeped out if I was the random user from this study and suddenly found my video plastered in a blog post.
There are some people within Mozilla who are demanding he recant his Pro 8 support. Google "eich" and you'll get one or two such bloggers, within the first 5 hits or so.
>The first link I clicked was at the bottom left: Project

Well, if I was looking for information on how Ramen worked, a generic link in the footer called "Project Page", under the equally generic heading "Product" is not the first thing I would click. And if I eventually got there, and saw what looked to be a page intended for backers (it has a blurb and options to back at $2.00, $10.00, etc.), I probably wouldn't notice the "How it Works" section buried three screenfuls down the page.
> but what’s mainly happening here is that it is simply a matter of bad judgement ...

Only if you assume either that his position is so wrong that it could not be held by a reasonable person, or that he shouldn't speak or act on his position in any public way. I consider both of those assumptions to be highly suspect.

> ... and people objecting to the appointment because he's unfit to lead an org like Mozilla

That is exactly using this as a litmus test.
You didn't get any drugs as a child other than the ones you put yourself on? It's a tragedy.
Well, no, Android market share is not equal to iPhone. It's much, much more.
I'm concerned about Chris's desire to express mathematical formulas directly in an editing environment.

Coming from a mathematician with more than enough programming experience under his belt, programming is far more rigorous than mathematics. The reason nobody writes math in code is not because of ASCII, and it's not even because of the low-level hardware as someone else mentioned. It's because math is so jam-packed with overloaded operators and ad hoc notation that it would be an impossible feat to standardize any nontrivial subset of it. This is largely because mathematical notation is designed for compactness, so that mathematicians don't have to write down so much crap when trying to express their ideas. Your vision is about accessibility and transparency and focusing on problem solving. Making people pack and unpack mathematical notation to understand what their program is doing goes against all three of those!

So where is this coming from?

PS. I suppose you could do something like, have layovers/mouseovers on the typeset math that give a description of the variables, or something like that, but still sum(L) / len(L) is so much simpler and more descriptive than \sigma x_i / n
Graph Search is an answer to a question I've never had.
> mobile is critical to remaining relevant (along with security), two areas where Mozilla/Firefox have been pretty subpar

"Subpar"?

I've used FF on my Android phone for quite a while, and find it nicer than chrome...

[I still try chrome occasionally, "just in case", but always end up ditching it and sticking with FF.]
Really nice to see them handling it straight-forwardly instead of pretending like it's an epic win for users when it's a really an acqui-hire. Props to these guys for being honest.
Oh my, I could spend hours with this!

'Sopranos' has the same 'Season 4' problem as 'Shield':

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0141842

The massive drop in Twin Peaks after the murderer is revealed:

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0098936

The awful last season of 'Dexter':

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0773262

And that's how you do a last season (Six feet under):

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0248654
Loving React, it gives me the same joy that learning D3 did but offers a more powerful abstraction. I've been able to render the same markup on the server as on the client using Browserify. If you like D3, you should give React a try.
And you who downvote should go out of the closet, it is not everything about gay rights, there is life beyond that
>The first HTML touch api came from apple...

I did imply mobile web apps and javascript is not a plateform,it's a language. What you imply is as stupid as implying "X who created Assembly helped pave the way for mobile web apps."...sure... So Eich paved the way for Photoshop or Fireworks because they both run javascript? yeah right.
I agree that it can quickly become murky with certain things. As I said though, actions matter. Being a libertarian is a very different thing from donating $1000 to an anti-equal rights campaign.

If economic and social equality angles are of fairly equal relevance, then Eich shouldn't be CEO, because him being CEO puts the economic angle as significantly more important than the social equality one.
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Also if it's a blog post provide a big, fat, highly visible link to your actual site.

It's incredible how many product blogs will just bring you to the blog's main page if you click the title instead of the actual product website.
It should probably work on Chrome for iPhone. It won't work on Safari since it doesn't support getUserMedia and WebGL.
I appreciate this piece of feedback. I've been consciously trying to keep the article interesting technically and avoid it being construed as an advertisement for D, to the extent a couple of coworkers and at least one other colleague (http://goo.gl/QZ5ELn) were unclear about warp being written in D at all. I'll do my best to tone things down further in the future. There's plenty of exciting stuff going on to be worth avoiding alienating people.
I'm not sure you know who Walter Bright is. He's done a...few...things.
If almost everything is auto-updated, why do developers need to test against old API levels? Wouldn't the frameworks be updated as well? Or are the frameworks covered by the "nearly" qualifier?
Scrubs is the one I've found with the biggest outlier season. And for good reason:

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0285403
Even if he has peaked, that just means that he’s going to be cruising a ridiculously high altitude for a while.

Also, lest we forget, Carmack’s greatest asset is his rare combination of brilliance and strong work ethic.
I did this about 6 months ago and haven't regretted it a bit. So far, it has been a really solid Ubuntu variant.
You already know this, but...on the Ramen Project Page itself (buried below all the "Back this Project" links) is a "How It Works" sections that seems to contain exactly the information the Peeker was looking for (I watched the video, and he must have said "how does this work" or some variation of that 5 or 6 times)

Why not just put that (or a link directly to that section) somewhere prominent on the home page?
I love React too!

Just wanted to share some anectodal evidence about an angular app I am in the process of rewriting in react. For now, I am reimplementing the main functionality as a directive in react, keeping other angular parts. (Angular directive is there to make the transition seamless, while keeping other parts like routing etc. in angular)

Performance had become unacceptable in angular and hard to track. Mutable state with two-way bindings made it hard to reason about.

React makes state much easier to reason about. App performs noticably faster (three/four times faster), memory consumption is halved. React devtools is very helpful to inspect the virtual DOM. Integration with other libraries is very easy, it doesn't try to own your app like Angular.

Getting up to speed with react is very easy too with a small and very nice to use API. I would encourage everyone doing webapp development to check it out, at least for a demo app to get a sense of it. Go through the tutorial on the site and you'll feel comfortable within hours.

Had I mentioned that I love React?
Except Mac OS X is a de jure UNIX implementation, and concern about GPLv3 is not petty.