skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. That's the kind of thing which is fun for hn but wouldn't be a good idea at all on a financial system -- where you optimize for least bad likely worst case, not best best case.
Check out AirPair - they just graduated from the latest YC class.
Watch out for the downvotes bomb, this is real taboo topic these days...

But yeah, I'm with you, I'm yet to find any convincing evidence ADHD exists and I think the consequences of this unscientific+dogma approach is a damn tragedy. All the pain and suffering that it causes, the pressure and agony parents go through because, obviously, they want the best for their child, this is not quantified(I bet the money is though)

I'm curious to what will history say about this.

I was a problem child and it makes me cringe that I could have been put on this kind of shit since young, it's absurd.
Is this similar to BitTorrent Sync API?
I love TheReg, but I am not sure I would use them as a primary source.
IIRC, they were the top destination 15 years back. They were the default homepage in most browsers. From that spot to "just a business that makes money" is perhaps not the best thing to happen to them.

At the same time, I don't think Yahoo is purely money-minded. From what I read, they were the only company which challenged the FISA orders last year (even before the Snowden leaks).
Turkey blocks YouTube after cutting off Twitter. Is Facebook next?
I'm glad Julie took the time to respond to Dustin's article and dispel the lower revenue assumption. I looked back at the articles in March of last year and it does appear that everyone reported that the new design would bring in more ad revenue via more engaging ad formats for advertisers.

One thing I want to understand is if the concern is about accommodating people on less-than-the-latest tech or smaller screens, etc. then we've solved largely for that via responsive design. It's not hard to detect that I have enough real estate to support having a 2x larger photo in my feed. Why not adjust as needed?
I work at netflix.

zuul is used by the netflix API. It's not a cache. It's a request router.

EVCache is used internally for ephemeral systems data - things that would frequently go into mysql or cassandra but don't really need crash persistence.
I think "quality" is the key word here, that ineffable property of refinement and aesthetic care that creates beauty in our experience of something. We'd like to live in a world of quality things, but that isn't always where market forces take us, at least in the short term. The most cynical or economically motivated might even discount the importance of quality, but I think most people just want the market to be more aligned with it in the long term to enable more of what's around us to be a work of art.
Not to detract from the positivity of sweet new tech, but it's worth noting that "React outperforms Blaze when many elements change and Blaze outperforms React when few elements change" is the same as "React outperforms Blaze in cases where the user is capable of noticing a performance difference", which reduces to "React outperforms Blaze."

Nevertheless, seriously appreciate the detailed and informative response. :)
With regards to netflix, it's not always the last mile that's the problem.

Specifically, Netflix's ISP has an agreement with your ISP, which says essentially "You know what? We send and receive a lot of data. How about I won't charge you for your data travelling across my network, and you don't charge me for my data on your network." But then Netflix's ISP transmits enormous amounts of bandwidth, and your ISP doesn't really get to take an equal advantage of that reciprocal deal.

It's actually about peering agreements between ISPs. Your ISP wants Netflix's ISP to foot the bill for the fact that their reciprocal agreement is statistically just one-sided.
Demoing CLI instructions
Who pays? The same person who pays for the food to go the "last mile" from the restaurant kitchen to the table - THE CUSTOMER...

The ISPs appear to be confused about who it is that's paying them for a pipe. I'll offer them a hint: it's the people you send those rate increase notices to every 12 months.
Then I take it you hate all of the stuff based on open source?

Part of the reason why so much open source stuff exists is because a few people believed that it was an issue of social justice, was tremendously important, and was worth fighting a tremendous uphill battle in order to establish.
In my experience, nothing stops a facilities provider from serving whomever they like. Video franchises--which don't apply to data service in most states--are almost always non-exclusive. For example, in Seattle, the dominant provider (Comcast) has a franchise that specifically says it is not the sole property of Comcast. Another company, Wave Broadband, also has a franchise to serve the city but only serves specific portions of it. Meanwhile, companies like Condo Internet are free to provide gigabit service to whomever they like, so they serve only the buildings that are the most profitable.

The biggest problem is that last-mile is a very, very, very expensive proposition. Ask Verizon. Their former CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, learned that the hard way. Digging up streets, attaching to poles, and plopping down equipment all costs a lot of money. It also, in the case of cabinet-sized telco equipment, can really irk the neighbors.

Ultimately, if we want real competition for more than just high-end condominiums, we need to start treating physical plant connections like roads, power lines, and water pipes: a central, neutral authority builds them for the benefit of a specific geographical area and then all comers are allowed to use them. (No, HOAs, building your own coax network and then having some cut-rate third-tier ISP become the exclusive owner of those wires doesn't count. That's not competition, either.)
If our goal were to decrease criticism of YC, this wouldn't work. In fact, it wouldn't work as a way to eliminate any specific type of critical comment, because all it takes to make a comment visible is a small number of the many people who can endorse comments. To ensure a comment would be suppressed, the endorsers would have to be unanimously opposed to it, and it's hard to think of opinions that many HN users are unanimous about. Certainly an uncritical admiration for YC is not one of them.

What you say about YC being a good target for a symbolic victory is very insightful though. That is a real conundrum. I think it explains why any company over a certain size tends to express itself pretty blandly.
Robbie the Robot even makes an appearance!
The customers of the ISPs are the ones who obtain value and demand fast delivery of Netflix. The bandwidth from Netflix is something that can't really be avoided so it is advantageous for both the ISP and Netflix for the ISPs for cache the content and use Netflix's Open Connect CDN or whatever it's called.

The the ISPs don't deliver and throttle Netflix's bandwidth and it's noticeable to the customer then hopefully the customer has the option of going to another ISP.
I don't believe in ADHD but I suspect the drugs do something with utility. How does society confront pills that make people more efficient?
Don't underestimate the power of simple JS and Rails
> Are you proposing that the US government is planning - as a matter of policy - to ignore that ruling?

No, I was simply saying that the headline is not supported by the article. Regardless of government policy & plans, a court order and compliance with that order are different things. Let's not conflate them.

However, I think the reply by delinka to your comment makes a good point.
$600 million? So they're doing a bit better than AOL, then.
Wow. This stuck out so much:
"My mother, who'd earned degrees in physics and electrical engineering in the 70's, cried when I told her that I was leaving and why but she never blamed me. She'd hoped that my generation’s experiences would be better than hers."
As a web developer the number #1 argument I use against those who say, why not a language like Go or Ruby is simple: I use Javascript on the front-end, why not the backend as well? Being able to handle everything from authentication to view rendering using the one language is a powerful thing.

As for the last paragraph in the article, Go in my opinion is already pretty popular. It might not be mainstream like Node.js, but it has a pretty loyal following. As always, the language isn't going to determine how successful something is.

Look at Facebook, the worlds most popular website was built in PHP. Building it in a language like Ruby or Python wouldn't have made a difference to how successful it is.

Use whatever language you feel comfortable using, don't just use a language because everyone else is frothing at the mouth about it. I can't stress this enough, use whatever language you feel comfortable using and know the best.
Going after opponents wallets is the only weapon they have left to get institutions to change their policies.

The owner of Chick-Fil-A is quite a wealthy man. He's not likely to notice twenty or thirty protesters in any way other than simple recognition. But, if you hit back at his wallet, he's more likely to notice. Not because he's a pompous jerk or anything, but because other people within and without the organization will notice.

This witch hunt you speak of cuts both ways. People on the left want to "out" every anti-gay person of any note. People on the far right want to out all the gay people and get biblical on them. Personally, I think we can all live with an outed billionaire or two. I'm pretty sure that a properly biblically punished gay man or woman wouldn't live long enough to see the headline about it.

Finally, there's not much reason for reason when someone is calling for your death or the death of your child or parent simply because they aren't heterosexual.
"... of the actual cost of false positives, just a nebulous assertion that its bad for kids to be on pills."

It's bad for kids to be on pills.
Does it mean that, theoretically, Blaze will still outperform React on a long series of small quick updates conducted by a lot of disconnected events?
What the wha?

Give me a break, this same diatribe could be spouted by anybody who has built anything of significance. Yes, if you build something great, people will copy it, just as your precious snowflake was inspired by others as well. This isn't anything unique to gaming, it isn't anything unique to 3s, it is an immovable fact of life.

Are people copying the product we've poured the last 18 months into? Damn right they are, and if we don't do a better job of executing then we will rightfully get buried.

The gaming industry in general is incredibly derivative, it is the modus operandi. I ran a gaming studio for a while and you bet we did our share of "being inspired" as well as our share of "inspiring others". It is just a fact of life.

I think the thing that gets my goat here is the waxing on that 2048 is a worse game because it is easier and all the people who played that just don't "get" the careful 14 months of planning that went into 3s.

Let's get something straight here, 3s is a great mobile game, but it is just that, a mobile game for playing at bus stops. And the one and only measure of success there is how much fun people have playing it.

Flappy Bird is stupid, but it is also entertaining for no real reason. Chess on the other hand, is rather smart, and also entertaining. Both have their place. And yes, we can cry about how society is going down the drain and only appreciates dumbed down games, but 3s is pretty simple so let's not throw stones shall we?

Phew, ok, who needs a coffee?
PEP 461 Accepted: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray
This is pretty cool, I just hope people adopt it so I can use it when I go out to parties/events.
Bitcoin 2.0 Shows Technology Evolving Beyond Use as Money
Looks like ReactOS finnaly has a sponsor 
ReactOS. The (R)evolution is now here. Looks like they finnaly have a sponsor! Mr. Nikiforov?
Fair enough. I agree the interpretation of the data we collect leaves a lot to be desired.

Where I work, I've seen good products killed off because of low traffic, but the low traffic was due to people not finding the product due to poor navigation - which in turn was made poor because of marketing requirements to "drive traffic" to their latest short term gimmick. It's a complex web.
ReactOS. The (R)evolution is now here. Looks like they finnaly have a sponsor! Mr. Nikiforov?
As a long time MS customer their pricing strategies and product segmentation still bother the heck out of me. I get it, but I don't. I wish they'd flatten the offering to one OS and one Office suite and be done with it. Here's what's happening with the tablet versions of Office:

A qualifying Office 365 subscription is required to edit and create documents.
Qualifying plans include:

Office 365 Home
$99.99 PER YEAR

Office 365 Small Business Premium
$150.00 per user per year

Office 365 Midsize Business
$180.00 per user per year

Office 365 E3 and E4 (Enterprise and Government)
$264.00 per user per year

Office 365 Education A3 and A4
Students: $36.00 per user per year
Teachers: $72.00 per user per year

Office 365 Pro Plus
$?????

Office 365 University
Same as educational license?

Not sure how to think about this. If I had to pay for my Office 2003 and 2007 Office Pro legal licenses every year it'd amount to a large pile of money. I don't have any issues licensing software at all. You could buy a couple of top of the line German cars with the various licenses for engineering and office software we have.

That said, monthly subscriptions I avoid like the plague. Why? All is fine while business is good. When things aren't great subscriptions bleed much-needed capital. If cancelling your subscriptions means taking away such things as Office and email you are screwed and have to take money from some other part of the business to keep them going.

That's why I've always run our own email servers and always purchased licenses of software like Office Pro. We don't have to update the software every year. When things are good --and if it makes sense-- you upgrade. During lean times you have the option to not spend any money on upgrades and still have full usage of your software. Having experienced this a couple of times over the years I don't like the idea of any mission critical service being tied to a monthly per-user licence, it's a bad idea.

Beyond that, I wish MS would stop this nonsense of having so many layers to their products. One Windows and one Office, none of this "Home", "Home Premium", "Pro", "Pro Plus", "Really Really Pro Premium Plus", etc.
Oh I thought to myself that I was a whiny newbie. The community's (at least, irc and subreddit) pretty cool.
They were used in the late 90s, and companies such as Cray had C to FPGA compilers. These were implemented as c style calls that the compiler transformed to FPGA.

The coding was hard and performed below expectation. The only customers that benefited were military/intelligence agencies who were using outdated techniques such as filtering in the Fourier basis.

The problem was data-transfer compounded by inflexible code generation. The data still needed to travel from RAM which meant that even without computation you couldn't get over a 50% increase in performance. It would need to be send back for more complex processing.
this is the future. Next generation of Bcards. tinder meets linkedin.
Ian if you're honest about the 6 months works and 80 hours a week you are really underselling yourself. Your situation reminds me a lot about when I first started out. I worked on personal startups for 6 months with insane hours, and after 3 months I started applying nonstop for opportunities to grow as a developer.

I can say that 1 month of mentorship at my job was equivalent to those 6 months, so I'd recommend you start applying for Junior Developer positions to further grow as a developer. I took a brief look at your github page and I think the next area you should work on is rspec and testing as I see a lot of empty spec/ directories.

I see a lot of people saying to pair remotely and I'm going to go against the grain and say that I think that would be a poor decision for a newbie looking for mentorship. At my current job, we don't really do pairing so I can't help you out but there are plenty paid pair programming opportunities in the Bay to choose from (Pivotal Labs and their clients are a good place to start).
Russia ditches iPads for Samsung tablets amid spying fears
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/russi...

Russian companies should choose foreign software cautiously — minister
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/725375
Amazon's UI will never be considered beautiful, but it's core strategy of focusing on the numbers has allowed it to accomplish more than 99.9% of companies ever formed.

I'm sure they've sacrificed many redesigns in the name of numbers to get to where they are.

FB could implement a redesign, look cool for another 15 minutes, and then have ad revenue dry up, less money for R&D and acquisitions, look bad in the press & on Wall Street, and then blip out after another "cool" redesign.

To also back up my point, if Zuckerberg and the upper echelon of Facebook think this way, they're probably right, considering they have a proven track record of making good decisions and more insider knowledge than anyone else on the subject.
How to persist in-memory RocksDB database?
Oh ya, that's my mistake. I was right when I called it "net income" but then didn't do the net in the actual math! I'll leave it unedited so your comment makes sense though.
How original can a game be? The first thing I thought back when I first heard of threes was that it looks and plays like a radically streamlined-for-mobile-adult-market version of Triple Town. While partly understand the proud and grief those devs have, I consider those guys comparably well off, at least almost everyone is giving them credit and 1024 et al. are still nowhere in blatant rip-off territory as for example the myriad of Flappy Bird clones.
Yes, but "malleability" is the established word in the technical literature.
Bitcoin aside, Stripe has been an awesome landing page factory IMO. Love watching them churn out landing page after landing page (Checkout, Marketplaces, and now one for Bitcoin)
I once had something vaguely similar happen while registering a car, though obviously with much less drastic consequences. The registration management software was running on a PC with a touchscreen. As my registration was nearly complete, a fly landed exactly on the close button of the application window. All that happened in my case was the attendant had to repeat the application process.
Ok, so ergot poisoning is comparable to `being a child`? I conclude you think of `being a child` and it's symptoms negative but science just haven't caught up to prove that `being a child` is actually a manifestation of some serious shit going on inwards yet, I'm with you.
I have very limited knowledge of the subject, but I had an impression that GPUs started to catch up on programmable capabilities with shaders. As far as I know, shaders reprogram the rendering pipeline, so is it a kind of specialized HW programming?
Pretty Cool, love the UI!
Some people have asked, "Where are the sites?" Well, the
menu above should aim you in the right direction.

Too bad that Web Pages That Suck sucks.
> the Virtex-7 (a VERY EXPENSIVE fpga) can hold 1000 very simple 32 bit cores.... but a top end NVIDIA GPU has 2688 CUDA cores.

But the point of the FPGA is to not build cores inside it; the OP article is just an exercise. Application specific logic built with FPGA might be much more efficient than generic CUDA cores.

Also, it is a given that an ASIC will be more power efficient than an FPGA, but the FPGA will be generic and hence more money efficient.
It will find you work and happiness, but you will never impress a grizzly C++ programer like me.
What about connecting pending comments (or posts) to an initial upvote?

- Anything posted by K- users is only visible to K+ users and the K- guy who posted it.

- Nobody can comment on a K- post/comment until it gets the first upvote by a K+ user.

- Once a K+ user upvotes the K- post, it clears for everyone to read and respond, even if it drops under 0 later.

I imagine this could easily reduce the most obvious friction.
"Likewise, ADHD used to be called "being a child," and still is in most parts of the world."

I think it's more nuanced than that. Specifically, "being a child" in a very sedentary, physically restrictive world.

Strong, healthy, young males should not be driven in a car to sit at a desk for 8 hours and then driven home to sit in front of a TV. That describes a fair portion of first world male children and it is (obviously) a recipe for pathology.
HOAs often manage such things. Or, where sanity intervenes, local government. The real point is that private entities shouldn't have control of basic infrastructure.
How NOT to Implement 2 Factor Authentication: Coinfloor
For those still curious, from the footer of the post:

Julie Zhuo

Product design director @ Facebook. Self-professed tyro and lover of food,
games, words. Follow me as @joulee or on www.juliezhuo.com
I don't really understand why this explanation was even warranted. People looking from outside don't get the picture at all. Ergo, conclusions are erroneous at best and malicious at worst.
Occasionally, some shine and go on to make their mark in the industry. Yegge has been mentioned in this thread, but Spolsky as well: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
How exactly did she dispel the lower revenue assumption?

There is not a sentence in this article that does that.
"The old design we tested last year would actually have been positive for revenue. But that’s not a reason to ship a worse design."
Why is someone from Facebook making an official(ish?) statement via medium? Seems kinda amateur.

And, maybe it's just me, but I hate links from medium because on HN they strictly say (medium.com) with no information as to who they are. Much, much prefer personal blog links where there is some context.
She states it directly:

"The old design we tested last year would actually have been positive for revenue."