skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really nice piece, specially given the comparisons used in the article. However, as a layman, I wonder whether 1) chinese socialism and 2) its ownership of other major countries' debt make it all different or not. I suppose it does. Their government seems able to do "magic" tricks with its economy without pretty much any foreigner nosing around, and it also seems to me that the chinese are everywhere. I don't recall japanese companies owning so much of the world back in the 90's as the chinese do now with their infrastructures projects in South America and Africa, the US's debt thing etc. I think if they ever fail like the japanese did, they'd eventually drag a lot of countries with them down the hole because of these global tentacles.

Except if the only part of this article worth analysing is its very end: "[...] or permitting foreign banks to compete [in the chinese market]", then it's case closed and it was just a piece of banking propaganda against China.
As a vet it guns that don't eject casings, recoiled fully automatic weapons and unrealistic explosions irk me just as much. But alas it's Hollywood and realism doesn't sell... well.
Not sure if that's fair to Weird Al. The people he parodies wouldn't really agree either [1]. It's not like he's doing the cheap morning show tactic of swapping clean words for dirty words or bad puns but leaving the rest of the song intact. They maintain a consistent theme which is really tough.

[1] http://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5673
Also, they report run times for the process - it's unclear if they are looking at the total score or the run times. If score, then it seems they are looking at it in the wrong direction, as you said. If run times, then those are meaningless in the Octane benchmark, as it estimates how many executions are possible in a fixed time frame, not how long a fixed workload takes to run.
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I'm saying that people should pursue pleasure, not whatever they happen to desire.

To concretize, pleasure breaks down into two categories: physical pleasure and emotional pleasure. The former includes being full instead of hungry, etc. The latter includes happiness, joy, serenity, etc.

So you need to realize that attaining certain kinds of desires lead to maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain, and adjust your desires accordingly.

If you just pursue whatever you happen to desire without reference to any further standard, which is hedonism, you will not maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

For instance, I may not feel like exercising or going on a diet, but if I realize that those things will maximize my pleasure, then I now have the ability to desire to do them, because they are a value to me.

When you suggest "utility" as a better word, you are begging the question. Utility for what? To whom? Why would one kind of thing constitute utility, and not something else?

The answer is that there is only one kind of ultimate, inherent utility for a conscious being: pleasure. Everything else that has utility has utility for the sake of pleasure.

Let me know if you have any thoughts and want to continue the conversation.
"I want to see a movie where the protagonist blankly stares at a stack trace for 30 seconds"

a memorable quote from some forum as best as i can remember it
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You poured gasoline along the shortest path to a flamewar, threw in a couple matches, and then acted like the rational one. Subsequent posts to "clarify" merely feed the flames. The damage was done. And "it was only a parody" is deeply lame.

The discourse is fragile. This kind of thing harms it. Whether it's arson or just pyrotechnics doesn't much matter.

Please don't do it again.
You can do realistic combat like Acts of Valor that's still exciting, though the movie's plot is terrible and unrealistic.
> There is a reason they have always been front and center in all web browsers.

Just because a design idiom had prevailed doesn't mean that it's correct or even good. People generally don't care about the url, they care about the site. This is like the browser saying "Starbucks" rather than "Starbucks, 3-1202 21st E, Falseville BC".
Kind of a misleading headline.

U-2s have been flying over Southern California at over 60k feet for 50 years (that is, after all, where they're based), and there are other more modern planes that also routinely fly at that altitude.

If we're pointing fingers, the new ERAM system that was just installed (in December, I believe) in the LA ATC is a more likely culprit, although even that isn't likely the whole story; this can't be the first high flying plane in the last 6 months. So, more likely an edge case that took 6 months to crop up, or maybe a new bug caused by a recent patch. But as the article notes, the FAA isn't talking, so we still don't know.

"U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights" is a cool headline, but an accurate one would be "We still aren't sure why new computer system caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights".
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I agree, it's awful. URLs are the central concept in the web. People should be aware that they are browsing certain URL at the moment. Be able to exchange links.
Ensuring synchronous DDL operations on tables being replaced in Redshift?
Indeed, or make it even simpler: F6>CTRL+C

The F6 functionality is the reason I welcome this, Chromium devs aren't really taking control from us more tech savvy users, they're making it easier for regular users to spot the relevant part of a URL.

I already use F6 for all interaction with the omnibar as it is. Also, I'm not sure which browser it was (Opera or Firefox), but I distinctly recall either of those a few years ago having the exact same functionality discussed here, where only the domain was shown unless the URL field was active.
I only know a little bit about Nimrod. My understanding of it is limited.

That being said, I believe a big draw is its metaprogramming abilities. In Nimrod, metaprogramming is done using Nimrod. In C++ you have the very limited, backwards compatible to C, C++ preprocessor and template metaprogramming. C++ is progressing slowly towards metaprogramming in C++ with constexpr. constexpr support is much stronger in C++14.

D is similar. In D, the metaprogramming language is (I believe) D itself, or at least very similar to it. D also has strong support for compile time function execution.

Nimrod also does a lot more to guarantee safety. C++ can only do so much, due to its (mostly) backwards compatibility to C.
"I'm an employee, it should also be my right to work more without the governement always taxing me extra."
Working extra means you earn more. You live in a society that taxes a percentage of your earnings. What part of those two concepts don't you understand?
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So then a SHARE button in the browser exposing the URL would accomplish all the goals you listed.
You didn't watch the video/hear the talk, did you ?
I don't see why novelty acts would be relevant.
numbers seem less important considering the run times.
What Would Socrates Think About MOOCs?
This is a superb article but it's scary how many of the points made apply directly to the US economy as well: zombie banks, real estate bubbles, a declining currency, faith in the bureaucrats and so on.
Well, I can't comment on the macro economics, but on the small business side, I can say that China will do much better than Japan. The Japanese are deadly afraid of commitment and responsibility for some reason (the culture, likely), which is not the case with the Chinese, who can bootstrap like crazy and are less afraid of taking risks - although the latter might be because they have nothing to lose. Plus, China's got 10x the population...
Telescope: Fast image resizing and trasnformation using Go
I assume “ACCESS GRANTED” is preferred over your root prompt because it is more legible to the vast majority of viewers.

In fact, I suspect one noble goal in ItsAUnixSystem-style sequences is making sure everybody watching understands what’s going on: The access was granted, dummy.

Of course sometimes that’s gonna conflict with realism.
What about conjugations like hang'd vs hanged to fit the meter?
The problem lies with len-1 underflowing, not the loop that uses the result. For another example, to test congruence of x and y modulo m, you check if (x-y) % m == 0. This also blows up for unsigned integers if y > x unless m is a power of 2.

Even iteration is not always over containers or some other structure in a way where the boundaries can be inferred and do not have to be computed, and not always in an order that is implemented by an iterator (for example, some in-place sorting algorithms).
Agreed. It also solves another problem in Japan, namely that brand names etc are usually written in Japanese letters, but URLs in ASCII (yes, I'm aware of IDN, but haven't ever seen it used). This is obviously not limited to Japan, I wouldn't be surprised if other countries used the same trick.
>This is like the browser saying "Starbucks" rather than "Starbucks, 3-1202 21st E, Falseville BC".

Is it?
What if "Starbucks" were your bank? What if you knew that apart from your bank there's non-bank entities mimicking your bank's looks in an effort to get your personal information? Would location still be irrelevant?
MongoMem: Memory usage by collection in MongoDB
This was mostly due to macro-economics and the fact that the down round was after the Microsoft investment which valued Facebook at 15 Billion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/facebook-get-ready-fo...
What do you mean by trust?
Trust that they don't link it to you personally to create a bio of you?
Trust that they don't forward the information to the NSA willingly?
Trust that they don't sell it to 3rd parties?
Trust that they have the security in place to prevent breaches?
Trust that they would respect my personal data like it's their own?
Stop trying to get an ought from an is.
There could be another option:

I no longer trust Google and I have moved some of my data to other services

I have moved my stuff off of Drive, stopped using Google+, but I continue to use GMail until I feel like I have a good solution for email.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN.
"No longer"? What if I never did?

"Some" of my data? What if all of my data?

Awful poll.
> I would wager that most people who fall for phishing attacks are not people who look at or understand URLs to begin with. Updating the URL bar to show just the host is not going to cause more people to look at it.

I respectfully disagree that it is less secure. Showing only the domain will reduce the clutter to where the user can determine which domain they are typing their password into. I say can because in the phishing example the user would be unable to determine the domain name.

The full url is only a click away. A click that is going to be happening anyway when the user wants to copy the URL.

I welcome the clean look as user. As a developer I will re-enable the full URL on my development machines, but not on my family members machines.
I don't consider paying someone to solve a problem I'm having the same thing as a mentor. In fact, in my mind those are completely different things.

This seems more like a site to hire a super short term freelancer.
Aha, by that logic, they then hide the SHARE button, but introduce new SHOW SHARE BUTTON button.
I think my motivation for day-to-day work is different from the motivation that goes into choosing a job.

In no particular order:

Money: There's a certain threshold of that I need to achieve to maintain the lifestyle that I want. I'll take as much over that threshold as I can get, but below it is a no-go.

Remote: I move a lot, my average lease anywhere is 6 months. I want to live in every state in the U.S. and perhaps a couple countries in Europe and Asia before I die, being able to be remote lets me make that happen.

Professional Satisfaction: I like the problems that I'm solving to be overall interesting, that is, I would like them to have some novelty and perhaps be challenging my existing skill set. I am not interested in just doing route work where I am stagnating by just exercising the same skills or challenges over and over again. If not, it becomes difficult to be motivated for the day-to-day work.

Ethical Behavior: I set a high standard for the ethical treatment of clients and client's clients and I expect my employer to as well. This means not collecting or sharing private user data if we do not have the resources to do it securely. This means turning down feature requests or projects because the client is asking for behavior that is legally dubious, abuses privileged information, or would be do more harm to the client or the client's clients then good. I do not believe in selling a project to someone if I cannot stand behind the service. That is will be overall beneficial and has the possibility to succeed. I don't want to waste someone else's money on a project that has no or little chance of success or promise them false hope in order to make a sale.
I'm curious if there have been studies about people not caring about the URL or showing it is a more of a usability hinderance than help. I remember arguments about this back in the late 90s (some suggested VRML navigation as a solution!), and the web has still seemed to take off despite no significant changes to the URL bar before the last few years.

In your example, wouldn't the "BC" be the domain name and not "Starbucks?" I don't know if there's any way to know with certainty in all URLs whether the domain name or the path components are more important to a user.
Phishing is an attack vector promoted by email. Email clients should not create automatic hyperlinks from email content and email senders should not be providing links in the body of the email.

This is entirely a problem that should not be solved by breaking the web. This is basically an attempt by Google to insert itself between the primary connecting mechanism of the web and should be rejected wholesale.

The URL contains everything the user needs to determine the origin of the web site they are visiting. This doesn't provide users tools to ensure their safety only the illusion of safety.
The path and query parts of the URL my address bar is /item?id=7694968. To the server, it's vitally important (as is the cookie). Especially to the average user, it's complete noise.
In re the comparisons to iOS7 showing only the domain name of the site you're on: Mobile browser UI is a completely different design challenge. Yes, I found it jarring at first to see only the domain name, but the full URL was never visible in Mobile Safari on the iPhone, except on the shortest of URLs. But on a desktop web browser, showing the full URL is a critical piece of the UI, and it will confuse far more people than it will help to remove it.
> A better UX solution to this problem would be coming up with a way to detect pages that do not seem legitimate

Easier said than done.
Thanks - accidentally added the www.
Well done! I too often make these comparisons manually.
Feminist-Software-Foundation complains about Reddit on a GitHub Pull Request
Funny remarks in a Github about CSS stylesheets from the FSF, this is just an example, see the whole Pull Request

"The word "Black" has historical undertones that suggest oppression. Rather than segregating a definite "black" from the "white", we should celebrate the CSS stylesheets as we celebrate our human race — One World, One Race, One Continuity of Greyness."
There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide - Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus.

Yes we can invent stupid justifications for life like 'life is about love', 'life is helping others' and a million other equally bizzare justifications but in the end its just a pointless absurdity.
I trust Google to honor their terms of service which is all we can really ask for I think.

Outside of that, I trust them as much as any other large company with a profit motive. Which is to say about as much as I trust my dog watching the Thanksgiving turkey while it cools.
My impression is that Elasticsearch's growth is coming from being more popular outside of the Java ecosystem.
I no longer trust Google and I have moved all of my data to another service
Soo... The police won't help you get your stolen property back and encourages you to drop the issue altogether. Doesn't that count as encouraging crime? I would hope that they would start taking the smaller crimes more seriously, as they did in New York.
This reminds me of a PyCon talk from this year in analyzing rap lyrics with some basic NLP techniques

http://pyvideo.org/video/2658/analyzing-rap-lyrics-with-pyth...

The author was trying to see if rappers are considered more hateful towards women by their usage of "bitch per song". The results are quite interesting.
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I still think this is terrible. It flies against the principles of HATEOS, we have a design idiom that web developers /should/ be following to show us precisely where we are and what is happening in a website, why would we want to lose all of that information.

I would be very unhappy if they removed the option to disable this from chrome, almost to the point that I'd consider changing browsers (and I like chrome...)

</rant> (sorry about that)
Handling User States in AngularJS
At least the movies that want to simulate Linus making linux can still use http://hackertyper.net/
Ping me if you need any help or have suggestions for improvements!
www.checkmend.com holds a large database of used electronics..
Additionally, many HN users have probably already heard Canibus rapping even if they don't know it, since he wrote the Office Space theme song. :)
> Eminem for example clearly holds back on his vocabulary.

What makes you say this?
> The URL is still accessible in iOS by tapping the URL bar, or in the Canary experiment by clicking the origin chip or hitting ⌘-L.[0]

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. So, you have to click the origin chip to modify or share the URL. There's even a handy keyboard shortcut. What am I missing?

The examples in the link[0] show that it's actually beneficial.

[0]http://jakearchibald.com/2014/improving-the-url-bar/
Can you let us know the other services you have migrated to? Would help.
This is neat. I think it'd be pretty awesome if it were possible to download all the dmg's/installers/apps in a folder/drive without installing them so at a later date you could a) install everything without having to wait hours to download or require an internet connection and b) keep your packages up to date (almost as a backup) running the script every once in a while to make sure you have the most up to date packages/installers.
The only conclusion here is not to use old and/or synthetic benchmarks.
You're being downvoted for the frankly absurd and incorrect position of asserting that a relevant quote from a DA interviewed for the article is "pushing agendas". And a bit more for the incorrect assumption that a kill switch requires government access of any kind. And probably more for complaining about being downvoted in an accusatory tone.

So. Being wrong, being wrong, meta noise, bad attitude. Any questions?
> but also because I would argue that on sites with halfway-decent URLs, it's a navigation device

I agree, but I will argue that websites that suddenly seem disorienting without a URL are poorly designed. If we take away the crutch they will have to stop relying on it and improve.
Enough to browse YouTube, and I still have a Gmail address from years back, which I no longer actively use. Then Maps, occasionally.

Those are pretty much the only Google services I use. I try to abstain from using their search engine directly as much as possible, instead preferring Startpage.
Its not sadistic. Life was full of suffering for vedic nomads who finally settled down in cities. Instead of turing outwards philosophers of that time lie buddha and mahavira turned inwards for comfort.
The alternative is to go halfway and just use nmap regardless of the context, apparently it's the way to go: http://nmap.org/movies/
.. according to this (understandably simplistic) poll it seems they may not be out.. but certainly being 'handed their hat.'
Using symlinks to sync with Dropbox on a Mac
In a world where you could get a VC to sign any deal, sure, but realistically any VC investing on a large enough scale will require provisions for a trigger they can pull to get their money back out if their investment survives long enough without liquidity. I'm sure someone can provide more detail but if I recall correctly they tend to be about 10 years out and require that the companies go public or allow the VCs to sell there shares (possibly back to the company) at some certain value.
I posted recently about how they lost my trust after snaring schools with offers of free email and Chromebooks, used that captive audience of kids to secretively build profiles to show ads, denied it when caught, but chickened out about lying in federal court and now they declare they've stopped doing it. Add to that statements that it couldn't be turned off and silently switching language about tracking on their web pages. If this isn't evil then I don't know what is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7690503
Ouch, true

Yeah, I know this trick for multiplying by 9, but I wanted it to be generic
Some path components are not made for humans, but many are.
I regularly type in twitter.com/ and a user name or apple.com/ and a product. Or on GitHub I'll change the page number in the URL to advance 10 pages.
Also, domain names can be just as noisy with subdomains.

How do you define an average user anyhow? I think there's only more common use cases. Everyone has their special needs and uses on the internet.
> why would we want to lose all of that information.

Because the url past the domain name is not for the user to be messing with most of the time. We the developers control everything to right of the first single slash. Maybe if it was hidden then it would force us to do a better job showing the users where they are in our sites with breadcrumbs and menus and at the same time keep them from trying to poke around in places where they shouldn't be. I think this is a perfect opportunity to open up our minds and build better UI inside the frame.
Relative change in the costs of various products over the past decade in the US
Measurement bias can have a huge effect, even when you think you are doing 'good' benchmarking.

See the paper 'How To Produce Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!' [1]. They just change the size of environment variables and the link order of files, and get wildly different performance results. Most people just assume if they close all other running programs they'll have a fair benchmark, but there is so much more to consider.

[1] - http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/asplos09.pdf
(As pointed by several commenters, this is the multiplication of 9x8 not, 9x7)
These "We're #1 and they're going down" articles irk me. Look at the last decade:

http://snbchf.com/global-macro/gdp-growth-per-capita/

As the proverb goes, we need to take the plank out of our own eye. Those commies in Sweden are kicking our libertarian asses.
While this is a really clever idea, and I'm really sorry to hear about your computer, I can't help but wonder if you would have a greater impact by, say, designing an online social media campaign to convince thousands of people to spend $30 on MacBook lock cables, over saving a few computers after the fact.

If you set up a one-page infographic and linked to lock cables via Amazon referral links, you might even have the potential to make a few bucks to cover hosting, beer, or donating lock cables to a local underprivileged hackers' group.