skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure if saying just 'Thank you' would be sufficient to appreciate your response and the time you took to write such a great and meaningful content.

So now we are talking here is my response -

1. I compared each and every image after compression with actual image and compressed image. I used a compress ratio where it was hard to see the difference between those two image types. May be my eye sight got weak after all this work :-) . Now you all are saying, I am ready to revisit compression.

2. I designed the logo in ms paint :-( . I will replace it. I have an idea.

3. Sorry for your bad experience. My home page design inspiration came from http://www.bananarepublic.com/ and www.Guess.com . Could you please visit www.Indianroots.com and let me know if you find their homepage more messy than my site? Another reason behind my homepage design was - I want to tell the customer what all we have or what all they can find here on the site. Not defending myself. Just trying to make a decision.

4. The site was designed to be responsive but it is broken now. I got it fixed in test. I just need to apply the update in prod.

5. Great input here.

6. Yes, you are right. I am using nopCommerce 2.80. It is very slow out of box. I have spent countless hours making it as fast as I can but still there is lot of work to do which can make the website more faster. I got the page load time under 2 seconds. I need to test it until peak load times. I will try to simplify the design. I am a .net architect so I was able to use my experience to make the site fast, refactor and all the other good stuff that an engineer can think. It comes naturally you know. I think i have not spend that much time selling the site and that frustrates me. If I look back and see what all i been doing with site - it is mostly development stuff which is not good as I am supposed to work equally as a salesman. On the other side, I think people visit\buy only if the site is fast enough so I am kinda torn in the middle here. I am afraid if I started with another design then it may take my more time as an developer and more delay in staying longer in salesman mode.

7. Will do. I even reached out to retailer like zappos, amazon among others to see if they can host my collection but they never responded back

No worries. There is lot of great insight in your feedback.

I got my product detail page totally redesigned from what it was out of box - http://www.janjuaclothing.com/black-golden-anarkali-suit

What type of feel are you getting when you are visiting this page? Do you feel like buying or it is still scaring you? Please let me know.

Thanks.
Building on his example (cause i'm in a similar situation), lets say its paying users at $60/month.
As one not familiar with Windows phone, this nav bar seems pretty appealing to me. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome, thank you! Not sure if this was it specifically, but this is exactly what I'm after.
Thanks! I agree on the speed, though it's kind of set in stone for the most part since that was the default when I first released the app. I'd love to go in and make a mess of the project by rewriting things and changing all the defaults, but now that I have a small amount of users, it sort of behooves me not to do what I'd do with my other personal projects.

That also makes it difficult to introduce new features since I can't just switch them on and I don't really want to pester users about it. Not entirely sure how to handle that yet, but I've been focusing on other personal projects and job hunting. Worrying about adding stuff to Ascension hasn't been a huge concern. It does what I want, so I haven't found anything else I'd like to add to it just yet.
C++ can be just fine. It can also be used to write software bad enough to quit over, that dozens of people will maintain for decades. And they talk about it. I don't think Objective C has that problem.
Exactly. But keep it quiet because I'm going to meet Brad in a conference in a few months and I don't want to freak him out.
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Isn't the architecture of real world supercomputers essentially dependent on their expected load?

The very notion of a 'general purpose processing supercomputer' essentially conjures one of those modern data center visions: a large array of identical consumer-grade hardware, with its high price/performance ratio: accessioned, wired, tested, commissioned, allocated workloads, managed over time and finally decomissioned by a combination of carefully developed human procedures and highly automated processes?

For instance, nobody in their right mind would install an OS on every such node by hand: it has to be PXE or similar (can you boot root-on-iSCSI direct from BIOS these days?).

I'm curious how many fellow HN'ers out there are doing this.
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I'm getting a 404 on the github link.
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Thanks for posting the manifesto. Can anyone who is a guru in distributed computing explain to me how Reactive Streams is different from regular message queue architecture such as RPC or pub-sub with message header filtering (e.g., RabbitMQ, zmq)? Much appreciated.
Thank you greatdox, really appreciated.
There's no way it's constitutional. These days that doesn't seem to be of much importance.
Why don't you guys (biologists) use the ArXiv like everybody else? http://arxiv.org/
Because they made some impressive demos to reintroduce the concepts at a time when the audience is ready for them.
At the end it says: "Calculating score... Meanwhile, please answer these questions."

At first I was like, "They're kicking off a deferred job for that?"

And then I was like, "Oh, they just want me to answer questions."
Breaking the cycle – It's ok to say "I don't know"
And with your search keywords, for anyone else interested, check out:

http://getsimpleform.com/

https://formend.com/

As well.

edit:

And

http://fireform.org/
Going to Tirupathi is a pilgrimage. Its misrepresenting religion. Faith by itself isn't irrational. You're putting 'Going to Tirupathi' and 'Not cutting your hair on Tuesdays' in the same bucket. This will only hinder progress in dispelling actual superstitions.

Categorizing all religion as superstition seems to be some sort of atheist superiority complex. (I'm an atheist too, btw.)
My company got some of those peel-and-stick whiteboards after we moved offices (I think whiteyboard, but I'm not certain). Prior to the move we had IdeaPaint; it soon had erasure problems, and ended up looking like a disgusting mess. I'm really pleased with the peel-and-stick kind after about 6 months.
I tried to up-vote, but I think the folks from MS are getting home. I got the same problem, and it killed my migration plans and inheriting constructors.
Graeber probably spends more time analyzing the effects of various philosophical/political/economic systems on individual and social behavior than most people. I'm not familiar enough with the totality of his work to directly address what he does and does not accept about modernism, but from reading 'Debt', he rejects many of the core tenet of modern economics.

Another of his books is titled, 'Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams'. Its summary on Amazon begins: "This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism."

So I rather doubt from the title and the summary that we'd discover that he blithely accepts the core tenets of modernism. It appears to me that he probably would reject quite a bit of the core tenets of modernism and those that he accepts he probably does so understanding their roots and implications. Again, I can't be sure b/c I haven't read it but the guy assumes an outsider, iconoclastic stance in almost everything I have read.
I think it's quite a stretch to say that people who have written articles about generics

I said 99%. The vast majority of language observations online are language tourists, and the observations are seldom practical or rational, but instead are of the "in kicking the tires and making nothing in practical, here are my thoughts".

Those sorts of posts dominate.

Generics have a place, but their importance is...overstated. Though I would quite broadly disagree with the notion that auto_ptr -- a shim on C++ -- justifies the notion of generics.
Same. What up with that?
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Is there really a significant population that self identifies as speaking Ebonics?

That whole methodology seems rife with biases. The instructions are in standard american english. The pictures are confusing. The input controls are broken on mobile. I reject written sentences ad ungrammatical even though I hear and speak them fine.
In Australia this information is freely available in public databases anyway. Obviously temporary towers might not be present in these records though.
I got Ebonics, and it guessed that I am Vietnamese or Finnish. I consider myself to speak standard American English, and I am a Korean. Not enough training data? Is that why it's on HN???
Fine, but if this guy was just inspired by and knew about LightTable and Bret's demos, he is missing a lot of good ideas and experiences that have been gathered over the last 30 years in doing similar things. They are destined to relearn the past.
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I did Escape from the Mysterious Room as well, and really enjoyed it. We probably needed another 15 minutes to complete because we got hung up on one of the puzzles that needed a piece we hadn't found yet.

I'd like to do it again but would like to go with people who have actually have played escape games (esp. Japanese) before.
>Up the audience's expectations, the critics built.

I just got that sentence on asking if it were grammatical or not. I believe that is referred to as yoda grammar?

>Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
>1. Canadian
>2. American (Standard)
>3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

Number 1 is correct. However I would admit to speaking american, and I did listen to a lot of rap growing up, so ebonics might be reasonable? But I am a white kid from the rich suburbs, so it's a bit odd but possible I suppose.
One of my favourite things to do in online forums such as Stack Overflow, where there are many non-native English speakers, is to determine where a person is from based on which grammatical errors they make. It’s more subtle than accent or other cues, but it is remarkably consistent.
the reason I started this startup is to let people buy designer clothes at fraction of a price as compared with if they buy from celebrity designers. They can also mix and match designs from multiple dresses but if they walk into any branded store like guess etc they have to buy whatever is there.

I know my idea is not fully there yet but I got a prototype made. Please visit here - http://atlers.com/janjua/custom.html

the site is slow as it is a test server.
> because of their focus on secrecy, they're doomed to relearn all that we learned

That's wrong, condescending and misses the point. Wrong because the developers were not cut off from learning what was learned by others. Condescending in the way it implies that there's a royal "we" of people that should be consulted whenever any programming language is conceived. And it misses the point because some types of learning are learned better by making the mistake yourself rather than accepting the wisdom of authorities.

Anyway, I don't see how Swift's life cycle is any different from other most other languages, except that its inevitable celebrity has been tempered by its parents' protectiveness. The number of people expressing interest in nurturing a language in its formative stages grows in proportion to its viability. Swift went from experiment to viable as soon as it got chosen as the path forward from ObjC.

> just an hour long conversation could've made a big difference

Apple has huge numbers of programmers on staff, including many compiler hackers, many kernel hackers, many with practical experience building and maintaining APIs and developer tools. They employ literally thousands of programmers who will be end users of Swift. To suggest that your opinion is more valid than theirs is hubris.
Thanks. I'm using your Orion config with random widths. The smoother gradient transitions are especially nice.
Ah see what you did dere.

For english dialect I got:

1. Singaporean
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. American (Standard)

and for native language I got:

1. Swedish
2. Norwegian
3. English

I'm 100% native English
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Wait, does it actually say "Ebonics" instead of "AAVE" or something like that? No linguist uses that word.
Perhaps you're forgetting that the police likely believed they were doing the right thing and attempting to bring a bad guy to justice.

It's not a popular sentiment on HN, but not all police officers are part of the shoot / oppress first, ask questions later school of policing.
Don't want and don't support are two different things. Google have lots of ways to get ad signal.
Would love to see more details as to WHY I got the suggested responses. As a prescribed grammarian, born and raised in the northeast US, I was definitely surprised to see Canadian and ebonics. Assuming not enough training data yet...?
I'm Brazilian, and their top guess for native language was Portuguese. Good work!
It drives me batty looking for things which I am not sure where they are located on a map so thank you for that.
>Yeah, it's only the entire basic Syntax of the language they copied.

Because, the keyword for function, keyword, parens-free conditionals and optional semi-colons are "the entire basic syntax" of Go, right?

Those are some of the most inconsequential details of Go syntax (all three of them), and of course all existed ages before Go.

Python has no semicolons and parens-free conditionals for one.
I followed Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera. The course itself was great, but halfway through I realized he had to be from Malaysia or Singapore, because he started talking about "alphabets" instead of "letters".
I got 1. Singaporean English 2. US Black Vernacular/Ebonics 3. American English (standard). My dialect is standard Midwestern. (Or if you want to get really technical [1], Inland North.)

[1]: http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
And you consider yourself not working class? They (we) aren't irresponsible children, who need our finance and modern-world coping problems solved for us by the ever-more capable upper classes.
It needs balance. I've worked on products where ~90% of marketing resource is on retention vs. acquisition and they were getting outgrown by poorer products. And if you focus too much on what customers want to can limit opening your product to where the new users will come from. Or simply, customers never hear of your great product. With mass market products people often use whats put in front of them.

My experience (as a marketer) is companies tend to swing hard towards one philosophy. I'm yet to work with a company that treats each equally allocating resource between them on ROI vs. a general prefered philosophy.
I agree, and frankly I think Bret Victor in particular hasn't until recently referenced his influences enough.
Ok fine, don't do work, maybe read the paper or do the other boring things you plan on doing every day?

Sketch out a new idea perhaps? Daydream? Read the paper? Or your favorite blog? It's not "wasted time".

All I am saying is it's not the end of the world that somebody is "late". And that having free time isn't a burden if you know what to do with it.
"US Black Vernacular / Ebonics" is the exact phrase used.

Which I also received.
Same here, though I am an immigrant(been living in NYC), nobody has ever told me that I speak Ebonics.
I made a huge mistake with the saas listed in my profile.

I threw up a poll on my existing site, some people said, yes, they would like a hosted saas version. I then spent 6 months making it - without speaking to anyone further. It's now been 6 months since launch and its just cobwebs.

Speak to people first! Don't waste 6 months or more just doing the 'easy' tech stuff. Found out now that no one actually would be willing to pay for it.
Great article and great advice. I do this every single day. Acquire one customer at a time, work with them patiently, learn from our interactions, and continue to build a better product. We acquire new customers through referrals, Google, and traditional sales. A very important part of the sales process is nurturing them through the trial period - get them to paid no matter what. If you aren't doing one on one sales and working with your customers you will never figure out what the "what" is and you will never be able to replicate it with technology.

I know I have 30 days to impress and win a new customer and convert them. The most useful tool that I have to help me with this is intercom.io. Their automated time and event based messaging can interact at key moments when I can't always be there. Any time they need me, I am one click away. It is a fantastic platform.
Leading the way looks a lot better than dragging your feet on something that is going to happen whether they want it to or not. At least they can say "hey we lead the way on this, even if it was 3 decades too late"
I find myself thinking of scenarios where most choices would be correct. I play ____ the soccer team.

Pleased to meet you. I am an active sporty guy and 'I play in the soccer team'.

Pleased to meet you. I am a tick, a playful little parasite. I like to jump from person to person in small groups. Today, 'I play on the soccer team'.

Pleased to meet you. I am a playful infectious disease. 'I play inside the soccer team'.

Pleased to meet you, I am Lot's son. As you may have learned in a famous bible story, my mother turned into a salt statue while taking a casual glance at the destruction of Sodom. Less known is that she belonged to a soccer team and the whole team also turned to stone while in the middle of an important game. Today, the team has become a famous landmark and the grounds for a soccer school to which I belong. 'I play at the soccer team'.
This is really cool, I didn't know that so many of those sentences might be considered valid.

It got my country right with it's second guess (New Zealand), which is pretty good considering what a small sample of kiwis it must have.
The government enforces a quota on medical positions, enrollments and whatnot in the US, which artificially limits the supply of physicians, thereby increasing their wages. In the past hundred years or so, for instance, while the US population increased by 284%, the number of medical schools declined by 26%, to only 123[3].

Some references, one from the right[1] and one from the left[2].

1.http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-associatio...

2. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/11/21/doctors_carte...

3. http://mises.org/daily/1547
That's not something you could perceive by looking at the general public.

That's something you can learn by being involved in the north american corporate workforce.

When I took my very first job at mcdonalds I was told "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."

That work ethic is very prominent in american culture.

If you're not working, you're not achieving your full potential. And that needs to stop.
Top 3 guesses:

1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. Canadian

(#1 is correct, #3 is close)

Native Language

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese

(#1 is correct, interesting about the other 2)
only for mac ?
There's some useful information in there, though if you need it professionally hopefully you already know most of it. This may be a good article to point the "power users" you know to.

One thing that I didn't really see covered is identifying problem components/drivers. For that, you can either follow the assorted online instructions for debugging memory dumps, or you can simply use Nir Sofer's Blue Screen View from http://nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html - it's much simpler.

And it's probably worth checking whether your Windows boxen are configured for full memory dumps or minidumps - most of the time you want minidumps which will keep multiple versions taking very little space. Most folks reading HN probably don't need 8+GB full memory dumps if their Windows boxes crash.
Interviews generally play a negligible role in college admissions, whereas the YC interviews are the deciding factor in admission.
Right, I didn't mean it as a rebuttal, I was just elaborating.
> I told Sally I was worried about the exam. She said, "Don't worry. ____________"

> She'll be right!

I feel like this question is cheating. This could be the only question in the survey and it would be able to identify Australians.
I went straight from a CFML/Java/Javascript web developer to picking up Objective C in a week. I had some coaching from a C/C++ expert, who learned ObjC on the fly and wrote a first draft of an app I designed, but from there I worked out how to solve my own problems and eventually became a moderately high skilled ObjC developer.

I have subsequently leveraged that ObjC experience to become somewhat proficient in plain C, a skill I appreciate today and something I might never have learned otherwise.
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When we're done with the project, we'll put up a final version that actually gives you a breakdown of why you get the score you do, what parts of the world certain grammar rules are particularly common -- all the things people (including me!) want to know.

We're actually getting some of that up bit-by-bit as data comes in (you can watch for it on our site blog). Thank you to everyone who has been participating so far.
I have both on my phone. Honestly, I find 2048 to the better game.
She'll be apples when she discovers this.
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