skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The delay in seeing your votes show up on submissions can be explained
by some combination of the following two issues:

The first issue for you to consider is the continuous system load caused
by immediately counting every single vote and/or flag on submissions.
It makes a lot of sense to batch the tallying operations and only update
every "N" minutes to reduce load. Additionally, since an up-vote on a
submission will mark it so it's stored in your "saved stories" list, the
overhead of immediate processing is most likely larger than most
imagine. Also, there's the overhead and delays of multiple types of
caching being employed. As always, it's a huge balancing act.

The second issue is how ring-voting, ring-flagging, and even ring-rating
are constantly occurring since combating the problem is exceedingly
difficult, and the rewards for successful abusive manipulation can be
substantial. Abusive manipulation from multiple people/accounts is even
more difficult to solve on any system designed to produce collaborative
curation. Generally speaking, HN is collaborative curation, but attempts
are made to prevent abusive manipulation.
This is so they can generate thumbnails of images.

Yes, seriously.
OpenERP becomes Odoo. New eCommerce, blog, website apps.
I assumed we'd be comparing to the predicted outcome from no treatment, but I suppose if you wait until Hospice time there's not going to be much success with even the best virus compared to doing nothing. Which raises other questions about just how long and at what cost we try to delay the inevitable.
"As it turns out, Margaret Thatcher was right: the UK had no business trying to artificially prop up its currency in an era when a handful of hedge funds could assemble more capital in a few hours than the Bank of England had at its disposal."

Unfortunately, power-lust and ideology usually trump reason when politicians are involved.
As n goes to infinity, all things become significant.
It'll be interesting when somebody says "My three cents" instead of "My two cents".
"Really? That's well below the market average of X for similar positions, and from what we were discussing I'm not sure that the market average skill set is going to cut it here.

Take specific_problem we were just discussing, you really don't want to slot in a generic developer there because Y. Whereas I've dealt with that problem before and would instead do Z for you, saving you much time and profit.

Because of this, the low end of the range we should talk about is really more like $N > market average. Why don't we come back to that, and talk more about the problems your team is going to face this year..."
Also, filtering (lane splitting, white lining, etc) is often ticketed as reckless or some peer of it (on a motorcycle). While it often doesn't have its own designation -- if you are caught, you go home with a HELL of a ticket.
I have worked most of this course myself and I am finishing last two assignments. I think, I have learned a lot too. Would you care to share other books you read and course you took ?
http://www.ndtv.com/
The CDM and the server runs some sort of secure key exchange with the browser doing the actual network traffic. The browser is eavesdropping on the communication but that's what Diffie-Hellman, STS etc are solving. Then the browser gets the encrypted stream, hands it to the CDM which has some ties to the OS to be able to draw on the screen. Only tie to the OS is required, no files, no network. The browser can handle those.
The Marketing Secrets Steve Jobs Knew That Remains A Mystery
Steve Jobs was a master show man. What people misunderstood about his eccentricity and his myth is that his persona on display was worth tens of millions of dollars of free media coverage every time he insulted the competition.
So, current RS customers, the history of these kinds of actions tell us that right now is the best that Rackspace will ever be in the future.
What's the strawman? Collision(Car + Bicyclist) = Dead or hurt bicyclist almost every single time. Is that in contention?

Idaho can have it's Idaho stop, but in my big congested city I believe it's better and safer for everyone to keep green lights clear of any and all orthogonal traffic, especially when the odds of survival are so one sided and the gains so inconsequential.

> Paying attention to your surroundings and not relying too heavily on predictability is how you avoid accidents and hurting people. This is true with or without bicyclists on the road.

> Solely relying on muscle memory and predicability means you are a very BAD driver.

I can't even... what are you saying?

Paying attention to your surroundings is how you predict (which is why the predictability of other animate actors is important) and muscle memory is how you get better at dealing with all situations, mundane or extreme, through practice and experience.
If you want the content in the channel, then it is the industry's right to set conditions on how it will be provided. You can't run a streaming service with no content, and much as I like silly cat videos on youtube the fact is that 99.9% of user-generated content is junk. People still pay money for movies and TV shows because that content has a high level of technical quality.
I've heard the name and ignored it. But what the hell, let's take a look. Obviously, this website is very popular with some people but if you go to the default page you get this:

http://imgur.com/XWdkO8i

...a popup that says "He used Pinterest to start his collection" on top of a blurry background. Who's "He"? Sign up with Facebook? Why? And all this confusion in a popup? Really? The very worst aspect of 1990s web design--pointless popups--on the front page of a trendy website? And with no obvious way to close the popup? And I kept expecting the 45 seconds to go to zero, like a time bomb, but nothing happened. Not only are you annoying and threatening me with a timer, but it's totally static. Really? Why not put a dancing William Shatner next to it? That would really bring back the memories.

But you can, in fact, close the popup. Go to the bottom and click "About Pinterest", and you get this:

http://imgur.com/6NDBdUm

"It's helpful. New descriptive guides help steer your search in the right directions" ...with a picture of a phone and links to install pinterest on my iphone or android devices. ...but, why would I do that? Even after reading an article about the company and looking at their "about us" page, I have no clue what their reason for existence is. Visual Web? You mean "img" tags? That part of the web?

What am I doing wrong? Am I like a person outside of the 14-22 year demographic watching MTV for the first time?
There are two concepts that come into play when complying with a stop sign. The first is to come to a complete stop. The second is to yield to any conflicting traffic prior to entering the intersection.

What many people fail to realize is that the first action is largely unnecessary when there is sufficient visibility to check for conflicting traffic prior to actually reaching the intersection. As long as one yields to conflicting traffic, coming to a full stop is immaterial to intersection safety.
Since I am hardly ever a pedestrian, I really didn't give consideration to what a horror the lack of standard behavior of bikes would be for people on foot.

You have literally been collided with by a guy on a bike?
You do realize that the article is not suggesting that bicyclists should be able to roll or run through a red light without stopping, right?

So why is this a bad idea? Especially if we can tie this with stronger enforcement against rogue bicyclists?
Either its an expense counted against his profit, and he never expected to make a profit (since he was already in the hole if it was exactly funded) - or it doesn't count as an expense and he made $20k. That's over 30% profit, as opposed to the 9% he's claiming.

You can't have it both ways.
Excellent. Then, with profits gone and without telco lobbying, municipal internet will be allowed to exist, built the same way that roads and sewage.

Th Internet is too important to be left to Internet businesses.
Likewise, my grandfather most likely had Parkinson's towards the end of his life. My father has had essential / familial tremor for 3 decades or so.

I did at one point did check out my genetic risk factors as determined by 23 and Me, back when they provided trait mapping services. Turns out I have a higher than average lifetime risk.

It's all ugly shit. Even essential tremor is non-trivial. I'm glad innovations of all kinds are being made in this field.
Jay-z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With 4th Amendment Guidance
Okay so to run operations in parallel you have to go back to futures, and for more complex dependencies you would need callbacks/transforms. So this means with fibres you could use the simpler synchronous model for serial operations, but future model for parallelism, i.e. a hybrid model. My thoughts are that it might be simpler to adopt a single model rather than two. On the flip side you could argue that with fibres you don't need to use the more complicated parallelism model all the time and only when needed.
At $1/node/month you're looking at about 65 cents after transaction fees which doesn't keep the lights on or water running. And, if you only have one node, you're probably better suited on a shared host or VPS with cPanel installed and armed.

I find this to be similar to Cloud66[0] (at least that's what I'm picking up), and if that's the case, the pricing is very competitive (though Forge is strictly for PHP and Cloud66 covers a more broad spectrum of languages).

[0] http://www.cloud66.com/pricing
That study was one of the four mentioned in the article I linked. It was only one where bicyclists bore the majority of fault. We don't know the true answer, a frankly, it doesn't matter.

Care to dispute any of my points, and not a strawman assumption?

EDIT:
> Additionally, from reading this thread, it seems like cyclists who don't follow road rules are also a terror for pedestrians.

No, reckless bicyclists are a terror. But still less than reckless drivers.

A bicyclist that slows at a stop sign and carefully checks for traffic before rolling through it is not a terror.

Are you done with strawmen yet?
One of the TakeItAparts here. We've seen this in browsers where the OCSP request fails (on the Comodo side), but the browser does not fall back to a CRL check. What browser were you using when saw the error?
Does anyone have access to GIMP download statistics for the past ~10 days?

Edit: Answering my own question... Not the main repository, but it's something.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20...
Feminist Programming Languages
Well, at least some of this stuff was unethical, for example OOXML.

This wishlist was partly inspired by this comment BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281319
In an efficient market, we would expect the after-fees returns of hedge funds to be no better or worse than any other asset class (adjusting for risk, beta, etc.)

So there really is no puzzle here.
OP here. If you saw that on a guide page, that's an experimental script we're trying to rescale image containers to the viewport. A window resize would trigger a refresh. It's not clear if we'll keep the behavior. If you make an account, there is a profile option to turn it off (as well as the always-on hover over notes).
Google and the EU: On being forgotten
I love this website. I like the variety of products.
Please keep in mind what the poster is saying then, despite your position being worthy of discussion your tone is stifling enough as to make further discussion unpalatable.
You generally don't see announcements like this.

Are they having a hard time selling that's why it is out there? You would think some of these companies you read saying things like "we missed the cloud" would jump at this.
Why? And all this confusion in a popup? Really?

The likely rationale behind the immediate experience of a site that traffics in millions of uniques is that 'the numbers say that the visitors who respond positively to this outweigh the visitors who respond negatively'. In particular, I'd be willing to guess that Pinterest used gendered language in their lead-in because they're in a unique position of having a female user base which outnumbers their male one, and the bounce rate here is much smaller than opening pinterest.com to see a smorgasbord of recipes and pictures of clothing in sepia.

A lot of your other complaints (like expecting the 45 seconds to be a timer) appear to be intentionally dense: I don't mean that to disparage you, but I think your interpretation is quite different than the average person Pinterest is trying to entice (that is, one with an average amount of experience on the internet.)
One of the TakeItAparts here. We're certainly open to refining our Terms if others have been down a similar path before and have advice. My personal belief is to grant the user permissive rights, but we still need to worry about liability. We're certainly open to revisions.
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Trying too hard.

Pinterest's value add is applying "pinteresty" context to media objects. A link is just a link, an image just an image, text is just text. But we tune in to sites that deliver more context in addition to sharing those links.

An image shared on Tumblr has tags, affinity score, related notes, reblogged discussions.

That same image existing on Flickr has EXIF data, geotags, discussions.

On Facebook there's value based on perceived relevancy in my friend group.

That same image existing on Pinterest has context such as categorization, relations, and scoring.

For people in those self-identified communities they apply more value to those things on a daily, hourly, and even second by second basis.

Until it's no longer relevant.
You don't need Rackspace to use mailgun, but Sendgrid also works nicely and is independent. Just like you don't need to use EC2 to use S3 (or Route 53, etc).
It would be cool if you also had someone explain a little about the internals of the product. I really enjoy watching these khan academy videos. Check them out for an idea of what I am talking about:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/discoveries-projects/Rev...
So, motorcycles -- specifically the fast and light ones... they have the same field of view, they have similar seating, and they are "far more invested in avoiding collisions" -- they are significantly less massive and travel at much faster speeds and are more nimble and therefore able to avoid collisions in tight traffic. They would get their own rules too right?

Seems we need AT LEAST 3 sets of rules. One for slow bicycles, one for fast motorcycles and one for cars? What other separate rule-sets should we have on the road?
If you do Go development, you can do this to quickly get to root folder of any Go package:

function gocd {
cd `go list -f '{{.Dir}}' $1`
}

It uses the same syntax as go list to specify packages, so you can do, e.g.:

~ $ gocd .../markdownfmt
markdownfmt $ pwd
/Users/Dmitri/Dropbox/Work/2013/GoLand/src/github.com/shurcooL/markdownfmt
markdownfmt $ _

So nice.
> H.264 is a public standard that anyone is free to implement.

That's correct -- you can implement it. But you have to pay for its usage. See http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...

EDIT: guess who is paying for this?
Good to know.

What I do is Command+Tab then Down Arrow. This will allow you to use the left and right arrows to cycle through all windows.
Why is data-driven management so tough? try keeping a food log.
It sounds like you're being intentionally obtuse to be honest.
Vote counting for the world's largest democracy begins
Rackspace over-bet on managed services, and under-bet on physical plant.
Why I'm giving up on HN.
I thought pinterest was a waste of time. Then I got engaged to get married.

Searching for something like 'wedding favours' on google gives a pretty boring list of top10 lists and other cruft, but a similar search on pinterest gives a great view of peoples ideas, descriptions, alternatives, etc.

For me, this type of searching is pretty rare, but pinterest is definitely the best tool I've seen for this
Even if we assume that each page only loads a single ad, which either succeeds or fails, the perception of a site being unreliable hurts the company running it. Household names like Disney and Sony might be able to live with that, but they'll still do everything possible to avoid downtime.
Shock me with up to 20 percent over what you believe i expect to pay. Not any more.

therefore if you're an engineer and the typical job is 100 thousand, ask me for 120 if you want to play this game. It is unlikely this would shut down the conversation though it may send up a warning flag.

Anything over that and I don't see a point to continue the conversation. I wonder if you are clueless about your value or if you are a diva who will cause too many headaches later. You can't take it back either.
High-tech farming: The light fantastic
Hiring and equity are 2 different things. You should treat equity as gold and only dilute your stake for very good reasons. And hiring your first employee is not one of them unless the person is an absolute star.

And don't be too hasty to hire. The old saying "if you have enough employees, then you have too many" is very true. Being solo for the first while means that you have to work smart. For example, in my latest venture, I am using PayPal for billing, so I don't have any billing issues to bog me down; otherwise I would probably have to hire someone. I understand the PlentyOfFish dating service guy did all the work himself for years.
Aaargh.

I love Rackspace. I was looking forward to being a happy Rackspace customer until I was old and gray. And all the things I love about them would be the first things to go after an acquisition.

Aaaaaaaaaargh.
> during that time, Rakudo and Parrot were always run by different teams

Many folk have contributed to both projects. But yes, they were (and remain) separate projects, with Patrick at that time being the point person for Rakudo, not Parrot, and others being point people for Parrot, not Rakudo.

> {the teams running Rakudo and Parrot} had a limited understanding of each others' perspective

Perhaps.

My own understanding (which is admittedly also merely armchair analysis after the fact for most of the period 2006 thru mid 2011) goes something like this.

First, the gap between Rakudo's purpose and Parrot's purpose became (or maybe was from the get go) an irreconcilable conflict.

(Rakudo's purpose is to ship a practical P6 compiler, including a multi backend strategy to address Larry's "must target VMs" requirement. Parrot's purpose is to ship a practical VM for dynamic languages, with P6/Rakudo given no special status.)

Probably the last chance to have gotten things back on track, which I define as Parrot trying to serve P6's and hence Rakudo's needs, even if it did other things, was 2010. Patrick was made a member of the Parrot Foundation's small board in 2009. Rakudo Star was coming. jnthn had designed and implemented 6model and NQP and there was a chance Patrick could have convinced Parroteers to replace the broken stuff in Parrot with these pieces.

But then, just as Patrick needed to be most available to steer Rakudo (and perhaps to steer Parrot too) through the very difficult year 2010 (to produce, ship and support an initial Rakudo Star; to evolve Rakudo in the face of the problems of fit with Parrot; to try keep Parrot viable), he suddenly had to drastically lessen his involvement -- falling to near zero in late 2011 and since.

(NB. Please don't say this was Patrick exhibiting the "leave phase" syndrome you talked about.)

At this point, instead of the previous situation in which the conflicting directions were more implicit than explicit, it now became clear Rakudo and Parrot were going to do their own things. They might both survive and work with each other. They might not.

In early 2011, commits to the master branch of the Parrot repo fell of a cliff.

By 2012 it really looked bad for Parrot, judging by the paucity of commits and #parrot (in)activity.

In spring 2012 jnthn secretly started MoarVM. He reasoned that if by some miracle Parrot got back on track in a way that obviated the need for MoarVM he could mothball it or transfer the best pieces. If not, he'd charge right on ahead and finish MoarVM.

Fast forward to 2014. Reini Urban is about the only person working on Parrot and it is currently falling further behind in supporting Rakudo's current needs. For example, concurrency. In contrast MoarVM now far outperforms Parrot as a backend for NQP and Rakudo and looks set to pull much further ahead this year.
Not really.

Snapchat Settles FTC Charges That Promises of Disappearing Messages Were False:

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/05/snapch...
Now what did I do ?
Lots of competitors - Mandrill, Sendgrid, Postmark, Amazon SES, etc.
I think the just behavior would have been to explain to the government what was going to happen, and then to leverage the fund's wealth and financial influence to help solve the greater problem. I know, businesses exist to make money. But I can't help but feel like these people who profit off of the missery of the people are just awful, awful humans.
IRESS is a good software company with very good growth prospects.
Scientists Discover First New Polymers in 20 Years
IBM Research Discovers New Class of Industrial Polymers
I am in agreement with how jmduke responded to your comment, but wanted to add a couple things.

I contracted with Pinterest for several months on a team directly adjacent to the team responsible for designing, testing, and building the logged out home page you see here. It was very thorough, going through immense amounts of research with a multitude of completely different design experiences, and this page (and the others in this set) tested better than everything else throughout the process. And the team didn't simply A/B test what had the highest conversion, they tested sentiment in terms of: "After converting from this specific experience, is using the actual product in line with what that landing page led me to believe?"

I got to see this process firsthand, be in meetings that involved discussions around how to handle a massively important project like this, and I couldn't imagine the team doing a better job.

It's easy to dismiss this when you aren't a user and don't see it as useful for you specifically. But the landing page isn't aimed at you. It's aimed at many demographics who could find it useful if they arrived here. And in that regard, after seeing the improvement in actual conversion data myself, I find it successful thus far.
> Perhaps a better statement would have been that Mozilla tries to avoid paying taxes.

That flies in the face of what I'm seeing in the Mozilla Corporation financial statements.

> Now, how easy is it to compile Firefox these days?

It depends on which OS you're doing it on, but there are pretty detailed step by step instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_buil... and the things it links to. The biggest hassle is making sure that the various prerequisites (a compiler, some development libraries, autoconf 2.13, etc) are installed. On most modern Linux distros or Mac this is not a big deal. On Windows it's a slight bit more annoying.
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Most (or at least some) of the politicians likely acted in good faith, believing they were doing the best for their country. Soros knew he would leave the people devastated but didn't care.