skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took us some time, but it shipped, so by definition, it cannot be vaporware.

Yes, the scrollbar needs fixing. We're working on it. Remember that the framework is also open source, so we're open to receiving pull requests that help get these issues resolved sooner.

Wikipedia was once compared to Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of number of errors it contained. It had more errors, but shortly thereafter those errors were fixed. Many of the shortcomings of our scroller will be fixed very soon. Some fixes may take a bit longer, but anyone bitten by a particular bugs has the ability to fix the problem.

Linux also went through similar pains with obviously broken parts early on before it reached maturity.

I don't know about you, but I much prefer a world where open source projects exist, even if a little broken in the beginning. Whenever someone actively hates on an open-source project they are essentially littering in and poisoning the commons instead of helping cultivate and nurture that public space.

I think this is really the point I'm driving at that people need to consider. Building something of this magnitude and ambition takes time. It's open source and anyone, including everyone wielding criticism in this thread has the power to download the source code, try it out, find out where it shines and help polish it where it does not yet shine.

Give it a fair shot; discover its merits; help make it better for everyone.
What if you stick this as the first thing in your body:

<iframe src="/file.js" style="display:none">

And then at the very end of the body tag:

<script src="/file.js"></script>

Wont that allow us to start a non-blocking fetch of the script early, but then execute it later? I assume it wont be fetched twice. Especially if you send future Expires headers.
Adding images makes DuckDuckGo now a legit competitor for Google for my usage. The usability has also dramatically improved as well as load times. Their mobile javascript needs to recognize gesture swiping and other minor UX improvements. But this is a leap forward for them.
I was actually thinking about asking that, I have no idea how things will look at such high resolutions. I do use Windows on a Macbook Air 13" and it's pretty much retina to me but I'm getting old, I don't think I'll recognise a pixel anymore during the upcoming years. :)
Because of this, she said staff were ranked from one to five and someone at Google always had to get a low score “of 2.9”, so the unit could match the bell curve. She said senior staff “calibrated” the ratings supplied by line managers to ensure conformity with the template and these calibrations could reduce a line manager’s assessment of an employee, in effect giving them the poisoned score of less than three.

Being from Ireland myself, it amazes me that Americans tolerate stack ranking, grading on a curve, and t-scores - tools whose statistical utility has been obviated by the abandonment of all other contexts.
Google Glass Doesn’t Have a Privacy Problem. You Do.
> Are you claiming that this machine will run Linux well?

Yes, I use it daily. There are a few issues but overall it's awesome:

1) The wifi driver is fairly new and hasn't been ported to BSD yet so you must use Linux (most want to anyways).

2) HiDPI support is not great among the various DEs, but Gnome 3 and Unity are both pretty good. Some applications are not so great though, Chrome in particular.

3) This computer has a touchscreen and that works at least in Gnome 3 but there's nothing like the Windows 8 metro interface on linux. So you kind of lose that really nice feature.

> Are you claiming that the specs match a 13" MacBook?

Perhaps not the brand new Macbooks but the ones that were its peer, yes.

> I haven't heard good things about Lenovo's non-ThinkPad laptops. Has this changed recently? Do you have something (a review perhaps) to backup the idea that anyone should seriously entertain this laptop as a legitimate choice?

Lenovo is a big company, they release everything from cheapy laptops to high-end Thinkpads. This is their Ultrabook (Thinkpads are not ultrabooks) and those are generally high quality, this one is as well.
I don't know why everyone is up in arm over this. Here is reverse thinking and a perfect oppoturnity for everyone.

The current situation is that Comcast doesn't have the equipment/resources to handle extra internet traffic at its peers. Most people want Comcast to buy more stuff to handle it, why don't we think the opposite way- get Comcast to decrease its amount of traffic?

If we can get Comcast to consume less traffic, they wouldn't have to complain to other peers about load asymmetry.

The best way to decrease traffic? Make Comcast has less customers.

Why does Comcast has so many customers, even though their resources cannot handle it? Because they have a government mandated monopoly in the last mile, so they are forced to have more customers than what they can handle.

We can come to a conclusion that last-mile monopoly -> network congestion -> forcing L3 to pay for peer.

If Comcast has to compete with other ISPs for last miles, the traffic load would shift from 1 single entity (Comcast) to 10+ smaller ISPs. In such case the traffic load problem would not exist.

Another solution is to breakup Comcast.

See? This is a perfect opportunity. Comcast can has its multi-tier network, but at the price of the last mile monoploy. After all, if they want to have the right to choose peers, we customers should also have the right to choose ISPs.
But with such massive depeering as this, practically all of the internet would be affected, given the amount of traffic other peers would have to pick up.
Our website is not the product. I promise you that if you take the time to explore actual product we're working on, you'll see that it's pretty polished, but lacks some features.
To play devil's advocate, those CDN customers would also be unable to access content if their power went out. But nobody would think to say the CDN isn't doing their job if Texas had a blackout, because "I'm paying you to deliver my content to Texas, dammit!"

It's a bit of a stretch, but I think that's the analogy they're going for.
Buried as dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7773024.
Mexico to extract 13,000-year-old 'Naia' skeleton from cave
Good catch! I'll have to send some feedback to the guy who runs the blogging platform.
As a teenager I collected dictionaries for this very reason,it was exciting because each word became more than the sum of its letters but a treasure hunt that would last hours. Halfway through the article I thought he should just use an old edition of Merriam Webster or an Oxford Dictionary that predates the early 80s only to find that he does mention it. My word toolbox now consists of:

* Old Dictionary , Oxford and sometimes Websters

* Roget's Thesaurus

* Online etymology tool

* English Wordnet

* Oxford's Modern English Usage by Fowler ( 2nd or 3rd edition ) - it's a hoot to read.

* Samuel Johnson's Dictionary - if you want a nice bedside chuckle.

There are many ways of slicing and dicing this data set to fit a particular writing style( e.g like Stephens King's no adverb policy,); If the data is ingested in a tree form , searching for word replacements based on Part Of Speech, sound or syllables , mitre is not that hard.

Using these techniques doesn't necessarily make you a better writer but it sure does make it more fun!
Did you really get a Late 2013 15" rMBP, new, for $1200? Where'd you get it?

I'd like to (perhaps) get the Dell UP2414Q monitor, which is Retina-esque monitor (3840x2160 -- double of 1920x1080), and the Late 2013 15" rMBP is the only Apple laptop that can use the monitor in Retina mode at 60Hz.

Also, I've heard quite the opposite with regard to MacBook prices -- they stay up, while the prices of all other laptops drop significantly. For example, a high-end Late 2008 MBP still sells for nearly a thousand dollars on eBay, whereas a ThinkPad X200 will cost you only around $100 . As a side, you can squeeze 7-8 hours of battery life out of the ThinkPad X200 (running Arch).
We are also not taught how to make the decision to GTFO. I've recently had to make such a decision and really had no prior experience to based anything on. It was a completely new experience.

Yes I eventually made the decision to GTFO but it's still lingering in the back of my head if I made the right one.
How does simply using a different domain protect against malware?
since when does noch rhyme with duck
Interesting. I was unaware that Google used stacked rankings.
>who pays for the expansion to accommodate traffic generated by Netflix?

They are already being paid - that is the problem. They are trying to double dip.

A visual aid (not the real arrangement, but good enough for discussion:

Netflix <-> Level3 <-> Comcast <-> Me

Netflix pays money to Level3 for an internet connection.

I pay money to Comcast for an internet connection.

Leve3 and Comcast have an agreement to connect to each other for the purpose of serving their respective customers.

The concept of "an internet connection", this thing that we're both paying for, implies the interconnects working together to deliver, in good faith, what their respective customers have paid for - i.e. access to arbitrary services at best effort speeds.

The players have already been paid everything they deserve at this point. If they feel they are not being paid enough, they should raise their prices.

Comcast, they decide they want to double dip and charge Netflix for something I am already paying for. They are no longer playing in good faith, and I argue not delivering what I pay them to do. Why? Comcast's argument carries the sneaky assertion that they deserve money from Netflix since Netflix consumes such a huge portion of their capacity.

Except that doesn't wash - it is their customers requesting those resources and consuming capacity.

They could throttle their customers instead of Netflix, and this would even be defensible, but it would get them pilloried in the marketplace. But that assumes it's a capacity issue in the first place..

But in the end, it isn't. That is a damn lie perpetrated by the ISPs. It is a politics problem. Note how, when Netflix agreed to the demand for protection money, their capacity problem with Comcast went away literally overnight? Comcast either has an army of the best and fastest network engineers in the entire world (and I invite you to speak to a Comcast user if you think that's true), or already have the gear and configurations in place and just won't switch it on.

There is no cost for expansion here. It's money grubbing, pure and simple. ISPs have always been expected to steadily grow their capacity and speeds over time, and just now Comcast decides they have an issue with it? It's BS. It's a business decision - some suit decided they could charge twice for the same thing and do no extra work.
Could affect rendering though, since the browser may treat the js as content to render. Probably should be benchmarked to make any conclusions.
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Yeah, I'm restricting myself to North America, which is presumably what the article's also about (since he talks about the history of the American dictionary).

No, I don't have any citations or anything, but I take it as self-evident that there's more people in North America for whom English is a second or third language than there were 150 years ago.
It hasn't. That's why the article says: "Now Oculus is hard at work on its long-awaited headset for consumers, which the company predicts will be released later this year, or more likely early next year, or perhaps even not so early next year."
Truth be told, we probably have to fix the scrollview as it has been used on the front page and implement some features like keyboard controls. In the meantime, you can download the starter pack, http://code.famo.us/famous-starter-kit/famous-starter-kit.zi... , or check out the github repo, https://github.com/famous/famous .

What device are you trying to view the site on?
What are you proposing the difference would be here? CO2 emission is directly proportional to gasoline consumption in a gas-powered car.
No amount of carbon reduction is noticeable in any meaningful sense to the driver of the vehicle. Doesn't mean it's not important.
You might argue that the HTML 5 Boilerplate[1] is a good starting place for learning about best practices. The code & accompanying site contain a lot of comments that explain why things are the way they are.

Problem is, of course, that the technologies used by a common page nowadays go far beyond the stuff present in H5B.

[1]: http://html5boilerplate.com/
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Without customers asking for content, L3 wouldn't provide anything to Comcast. It's at the specific request of the customers that L3 relays the replies. The customers initiate the request, and L3 provides the response.

Without the service L3 provides, Comcast wouldn't be able to (as efficiently) provide the service to their customers. In a sense, Comcast should pay L3 for their access to the content.
If you want to initiate an early fetch, just put the <script async> tag at the top - you won't block DOM construction or block on CSSOM. If you need ordered execution, put your inline script block above CSS and add your logic there (but please keep it lean).
What is a code combat wizard and why would we be interested in having one? It sounds like some sort of in-game reward or skin for your avatar, and giving it an imputed value of $500 is pretty optimistic. Has anyone ever paid $500 in cash for a CodeCombat Wizard? NB that the value delivered is not related to the cost for you to produce it.

You might consider putting in an explanation of what these things are and why they are worth more than the services you're giving away with a link on the text, and putting them at the end of the list, because for most people not familiar with your game the value for an in-game character or avatar will hover just above $0.
"The state" is not arguing on HN, which is more what I was talking about. Where's the community outrage that happened when Eich's donations came out? The politicos had nothing to do with that, it was all grassroots.
This is a something of an indirect source, because I can't find the primary source for Axion's PbC cycle capability. But the PbC is far better than Power Japan Plus's.

"PbC lead/carbon chemistry creates a much longer lifespan (3 to 4 times), much greater charge acceptance in partial state of charge applications (10 to 20 times more depending on the "state" of the battery)."

http://www.torquenews.com/119/axion-power-pbc-battery-techno...

A regular LAB has about has around 2000 cycles. A LAB with carbon additives is not much better. See slide 16:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26257506/ELBC%202012/4_h...

Thus, Axion's PbC could have 8k cycles of complete charge/discharge, and orders of magnitude greater for partial discharges (which is how it would actually be used).

I have read it's over 100k cycles but I need to find the source.
Nice service. Just what I've been looking for. Not a big fan of the design though. It's also somewhat laggy (edit: and now it's down). Looks like you've gotten good traction already. Have you described somewhere growth hacks that you used to get to this point?
Ledbury looks to give one startup $25k
Pricing appears on the main page twice -- "You only pay the standard credit card processing fee — plus either 2% or 50¢ per sale". I tried to make it as easy as possible, but it gets a little complicated if you're using Stripe and PayPal -- due to the way the Snappy Checkout fee is charged.
As with anything tech related, your machine is outdated the day you buy it.

Having said that, it doesn't mean your Surface Pro 2 is useless. It's still a great device with power to spare... for most people.
Who pays for the expansion to accommodate traffic generated by Comcast customers requesting data from Netflix? Comcast? ...

In a world with ISP competition, an ISP that chose to purposefully neglect its peering connections, or to throttle one of the most popular services on the internet, would lose customers. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
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A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7027255.
Awsome idea :)

(got NaN on tempo ...)
No, they are not. Otherwise I'd be using one.
But the clever thing about Comcast's behavior is that the customer does not see anything like that image.
Essential Tools and Some Project Management Skills While Developing a Mobile App
Indeed, if you add a completely empty test case, it is only a tiny bit faster than the method version that appears to have such high performance. (jsperf doesn't allow a completely empty test, but you can use // to fool it.)
Perhaps my favorite thing about this site is if you pass every test you get a, "Probably Okay" rating. Which perfectly illustrates how computer security works.
For those like me unfamiliar with what's here termed the "psycho-clueless-loser model", it appears to be what is more commonly termed the "Gervais Principle", and you can find what looks to be a reasonable overview of the subject here: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Most of us don't. The practice is largely confined to Silicon Valley, and there are plenty of other places for any variety of technologist to work. Why anyone wants to work for Google is beyond me.
Basically with stack ranking, if I see a colleague doing well, that's bad for me?

Sounds horrible.
Local governments grant monopolies to Comcast or AT&T.
Well, I am in Europe so our telco business is very different but when I moved last time I didn't want to leave my number behind (knowing I was going somewhere I couldn't port it) so I ported the number to a VoIP provider and my new cable provider gave me another (local) number that I don't really use in my broadband bundle. The VoIP number is the one everyone knows and because no one here pays differently for local vs national cost isn't an issue.

You could have two numbers and just forward or get an IP+Analogur phone like mine (Siemens Gigaset).
This is similar to what we have in the UK. The organisation responsible for last mile connections is Openreach, and for all its failings, we in the UK are served rather well by the setup. I have the option of six ISPs, 4 national and 2 local.

The issue with Openreach is the odd situation it has found itself in after several government reshuffles and countless legislation; leaving it under BT Group's umbrella but accountable to the government regulator Ofcom. As such the network has waned and become difficult to upgrade.
You couldn't pay me enough to give up Visual Studio
Does anyone know how the N-Trig digitiser compares with Wacom? I'm interested in this as a Cintiq replacement.
L3 is not the provider, Netflix is the provider. Netflix has chosen to contract with L3 so that their customers can receive the content. L3 is also an ISP and so has peering agreements with other ISPs. Netflix has customers who aren't using L3 as an ISP so L3 and these ISPs make use of their peering setup to transmit Netflix's content to the ISPs' customers.

L3 is not pushing, the customers are pulling. The ISPs serving the customers are not able to keep up.

You want pushing? That'd be L3 using (as an example) Comcast to reach customers of TWC. Then L3 would be pushing through Comcast. That's not the (apparent) situation here. The end user is on the other side of this peering divide, not multiple peers away. Customers are pulling data from Netflix which happens to be on L3. Blame the customers and up their rates if that's what's needed to cover the costs. But at $15+ billion a year in profit Comcast can probably afford to use the customers' money to provide them with the promised experience.
doh! I kept trying to scroll down the page to see the rest of the image that looks like 1/3rd is cut off
If I understood the article, the pros were technical, and the cons were political. And, here's some actual good advice: Never try to solve a political problem by technical means (or vice versa).
I'm not sure how much it is a case of Americans tolerating it, rather than Americans lacking decent labour legislation to challenge this sort of nonsense. Luckily in Ireland we have pretty good labour law that gives us better protection than our colleagues in the US.
As soon as Apple's press event is done, anything they've announced is up on their site to read about or often buy.

Is MS announces something, you should be able to go to microsoft.com to read about it.
As the article explains, the problem is that SWF files hosted on one domain can execute in the security context of that domain, even when embedded in a page on a completely different site. So allowing attacker-controlled uploads makes any credentials on that domain, such as session cookies and CSRF tokens, vulnerable. If the SWF is hosted on a domain with no sensitive credentials, this particular problem goes away.
My Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus has a HD 4400 graphics unit and runs fine at 3200 x 1800, so you shouldn't have to worry unless you're doing something pretty graphically intensive.
I love that article. It fits so well with my anecdotal experience that it hurts. Unfortunately, it has made me cynical, since it essentially means that I can't advance within a typical business organization without becoming either predator or livestock.

The grandparent poster slots neatly into the model as a loser selected by a psycho to be promoted to clueless just long enough to absorb the blame for something. After the misdirection, the clueless is discarded, along with any losers that may have attached too strongly. The situation was designed to terminate in failure, as a reset button, so that the psycho in charge could turn a few clicks on his career ratchet.
So many downvotes, so few counter points. At least the crazy guy who got banned had the respect to post something.

EDIT: and for anyone hating on the fact that I used the word "Feminism", keep in mind it has "misguided" in front of it. I am referring to feminism that aims to go beyond equality and simply wants to gather unlimited power for women (and oftentimes for all minorities), irrespective of where the pendulum of power currently lies.
Here's a diagram of the Tesla Model S's heat/cooling system. It's taken from a leaked picture of the engineering tools built into the infotainment system, which is a scary concept once you think about it:

http://i.imgur.com/TOUXlWM.jpg

The car needs a substantial amount of both active heating and cooling in order to enable the batteries to both charge at all below 0C and to charge and discharge extremely rapidly when attached to a Supercharger or under heavy acceleration.
The write up leaves a lot to be desired. Using QR codes to display kernel oops messages was proposed and demonstrated back in June 2012.[^1] Matt Garret even mentions this in the lkml thread[^2] that the article links to, but for some reason the author did not bother to look into mjg's response. So I am not sure "welcome to the club" is accurate since the kernel has been a member (to the extent that this patch is evidence of membership) of the club since June 2012.

[^1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/503677/

[^2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/673
I have worked at two companies where people working remote is not an exception. Both companies started off with a strong tradition of distributed teams where it makes sense to build a culture that is centered around the fact that some co-workers will be in different time zones and also in a different physical location. Everywhere else, remote/WFH sort of works. But mostly doesn't.
Looks like they'll be adding export soon: "Can I print, export, share an experiment or a protocol? The initial version of Findings has not implemented these features, but it is coming very soon. Most of the implementation is ready, but it requires a bit more work for integration, and it was not done on time for the 1.0 release. Our apologies for the delay! But please let us know what you need, so we'll do our best to include it."
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