skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?
We've seen in our work, that under high RTT, high packet loss rate (you can simulate similar effect by using things like dummynet, but it wont' be exactly what you'd expect on cellular network due to reasons mentioned in ATT lab's paper), SPDY results in performance degradation over raw HTTP. Also, I'm not saying 'independent' connections can mitigate against packet loss, it can't, and for the case you mentioned, definitely we'd get a performance hit (either first paint or pageload). It's just SPDY makes it worse than the default HTTP behavior, and that's understandable because it only uses single connection, and single connection suffers from different sorts of problem, and you seem to agree this from your first comment.
Doesn't some of this behavior come from the rather preposterous way simcity models its drivers? A model where there is no persistent data and the heuristic is instead "go to nearest house and declare that home, if someone beat me there go to the next nearest house" naturally lends itself to a tree model, as no one actually wants to go anywhere but the next link in the chain!

A more reasonable model (and why gridded streets work in the real world) would have people who desire to go to different places in the grid.
> Without question, a subset of the US population receives better care for non-emergency medical issues. But also without question, this improved service comes with a substantial increase in cost.

I'm not convinced that even this is a given: A large percentage of those costs are the result of articial inflation that benefits pharmaceutical and insurance companies tremendously, but costs the average American a fortune. A month's worth of chemotherapy in the U.S. can easily cost ten times more than the equivalent in any European country (not factoring in insurance.)

The rich getting quality care never seemed a particularly convincing argument against healthcare overhaul. It's even more ridiculous when you consider that there is world-class private healthcare in Europe as well.
Yeezus is nowhere even near early 2000's gangsta rap, sonically or lyrically.

Compare this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc0zKB88XPM

To this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--824JnSx7U
Adding to my previous comment: the French health "insurance" is a bit of a misnomer. It is as much an insurance as a wealth redistribution mechanism, and the "premiums" are not a function of your health risks but of your income, i.e. it is effectively a tax. If you believe that health-care should be granted at the same level regardless of material status, it makes sense.

In other words, the French health "insurance" is meant to at most break even, or run a deficit (which it does).
Microsoft sponsoring a cross-platform application environment does not make much sense. Why would they do something that is bad for them in the long run? Why would it make sense for them to release it under an open-source license?

Can anyone imagine a compelling business case for this? I am not used to corporations being overly generous.
In my view, reducing poverty and improving teacher training are probably the best tools we have for improving education. Monitoring behavior seems like a gratuitously technological solution.

As for policing, kids take a quiz or exam on the material at some point. Maybe that's enough. It provides a way to know if kids learned the stuff, while providing reasonable flexibility for kids to come up with their own ways of learning it.

And at least for younger kids, what I've observed is that the school already has a way of policing their behavior at home, simply by assigning a sheer quantity of homework that commands every waking hour.
Verified Data Will Prevent "Fake It Til You Make It"
Have you heard of python3-wx3-phoenix?

It is not dying. It just gets better.
God I read that title wrong.

I read it as

"Organic Cat Litter Chief" - "Suspect in Nuclear Waste Accident"

As opposed to

"Organic Cat Litter" - "Chief Suspect in Nuclear Waste Accident"

I kept wondering when the CEO of a Cat Litter company was going to be blamed for something.
do you have zsh installed ? when i'm trying to install kvm i got error:

.../.kre/kvm/kvm.sh:145: parse error near `]]'
Kind of a downer man. I'm trying to have a BBQ over here. Maybe talk about depressing things after my day off.
Bummer, I generally liked Mahbod's eccentric tomfoolery. He also was extremely passionate about RG (and poetry genius & news genius).
Thanks for the reference; I somehow failed to find the origin of this convention in previous searches.
Maybe this is a rare streak of jingoism for me, but it seems odd that a foreign company has been able to come in and dictate through the courts that the whole industry should work on a completely different model. Perhaps the reason "blue" is such a good deal for shippers is because much of the real cost has been transferred to third parties. ISTM the courts should force CHEP to include a significant deposit in its contracts, or else forgo the discounted forced labor of the recyclers. It wouldn't have to be a 100% deposit, but it would have to be high enough so that shipping destinations were no longer indifferent to whether the pallet was returned to CHEP or recycled or stolen.
Rap Genius and GitHub aren't even in the same league.

GitHub had some serious HR issues and internal mismanagement.

Rap Genius has an entire brand, emphasized through every public appearance, of utter douchebaggery.
The VA predates the rest of the medical care run by the federal government. When it works, it is actually fairly cost effective. They are actually going the other direction on this -- trying to more closely link active duty and VA care, although there are some commercial providers in the active duty system, especially for dependents.
What's taco time?
Yep, and those planes leaked fuel like a sieve until the skin contracted and smoothed into the proper shape mid-flight.
The part about 32-bit versus 64-bit is a red herring; you'll deal with that on Windows regardless of what runtime environment you use on top.
I downvoted you because keto really has nothing to do with this article besides the association with its author, and tends to be an inflammatory topic.
This one is one of their less commendable efforts: yes, there was a discrepancy between what Heroku's docs said and the actual behavior of Heroku's routing. No, RapGenius's simulation is nowhere near correct: multi-tenant resource allocation is a pretty difficult stochastic optimization problem, and their simulation does not take this into account at all.

Heroku should own up to - and has owned up to, in my opinon- their communications fiasco. But I really, really hope the linked RapGenius article doesn't mislead folks to believe intelligent routing is easy (Tom Lehman, the then CTO of RapGenius, admits that he himself is a novice about distributed locks and such: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/1361210233_heroku-adam-con...)

EDIT: minor grammatical clarifications
How did we get into this [DevOps] mess?
> Mahbod is the most brilliant community creator we've seen since Caterina Fake's heyday at Flickr.

-Marc Andreessen

http://news.rapgenius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-hor...

Was Marc wrong, or is Moghadam just creating the wrong kind of community?
Beautiful read of a comment too. I agree entirely and perhaps the mission to Mars will give humanity that hope and connection again.
> A highly visible man in tech praised the writings of a mass murderer.

Really? The snippet they showed looked like he was mocking the mass murderer. Is there a link to a copy of what was written?

> This problem of entitlement and misogyny from societal influences is also well known, and is pervasive, in tech.

I think that's a pretty bold statement. Eliot Rodger had much more going on than simple misogyny, his writing depict an insane amount of narcissism. It seems like you're trying to equate his attitude with whatever problems the tech industry/culture has, but come on, the problems of the industry are clearly different than this guy's severe mental issues...
We're at Ruby 2.1.x and every single gem I used in the past six months has been ported to it. I use Ruby only for Rails so I might be seeing a small environment, but it's 96 gems in the project I have in my editor right now.
There are still many new projects in Ruby. I probably make half of my income with them.
Nice app but the name is difficult to remember
When I switched to javascript there was no syntax highlighting. I like the aesthetic of it though!
Haven't tried zsh but worked fine with bash.
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)
the terms m/s are not even well-describing or giving useful information... its good that projects think of alernatives
Maybe they realized that Windows is sinking[1] and if they don't untangle the company from it, the entire Microsoft will sink with it.

[1] Slowly, but inexorably. Anyway, this is server side. The only similar act on the client side I can rmember is making Office run on Android.
Well one person's surge of ignorance is another person's surge of exaggerating ignorance. Perhaps you should ask the question "Has anyone seen any studies on whether there really is a surge of <something>"
http://www.tacotime.com/
An inferior version of Taco Bell, often found in Canadian food courts.
Learning to Love Complex Numbers
I can't convince you that Vim or Emacs is more convenient than Sublime Text. You will have to find that out on your own.

And yes, you can highlight text, using Visual mode or the mouse.
It's hard to see how it ever could. How do you know which is the best doctor or hospital? You don't. You can't. You could if you had an education in medicine and had worked at all the hospitals but obviously that doesn't happen. Besides, patients often don't have time for window-shopping.
4'33" of silence
Grunt-notify-chrome
Deep Learning From The Bottom Up
But a C99 program can link against a C89 library, right?
Yup, looks great. Thanks!
Is there a way to remove comments on your projects pull requests?

I'm sure there are places to discuss the politics of this change that are better than posting meme images to a source code repository.
In that aspect, I don't think leader/follower conveys any more information than the former terms either. It seems like this just opens up a whole lot of StackOverflow question on "Is there any difference between master/slave architecture and leader/follower one".
.... this is simply lame, the master/slave term describes perfectly fine the relationship between the parts, and leader/follower is a bit more vague, since a follower is during it voluntarily, while the slave adheres to the masters rules... At least how I see it.

I'd say this is just plain being oversensitive...
If you default, you lose the asset. The assumption is that the assets are minimally worth the value or the loans. Your comparison to software projects is way off. With mortgages there is a tangible and physical asset.
I didn't quite catch the joke.
>>>Why on earth would we think these government run hospitals would work?

Because lots of nations have successful government-run hospitals?
But once again, this shows the problem with philosophy - there are fields in which people discuss what it means to "know things".

That's not a problem with philosophy, it's a problem with the OP. Epistemology is the study of what we can know, and what is required to make a claim to knowledge. A side effect of that is that there are a lot of arguments and questions surrounding what it means to know. The difference between me a PG (er, one of many) is that I don't have a problem with that. If you're having an informal discussion on the internet, yes maybe you'll spend a lot of time talking in circles before you can say anything meaningful, but trained philosophers have 3000 years of philosophical arguments to draw on, and can be very specific about what they mean with a given argument or word.

Also, there are many forms of philosophy that people don't always think of when they write dismissively about philosophy. Any field of study has a surrounding philosophical discourse, including the hard sciences (Hello, philosophy of research, hello materialism). Dismissing philosophy because it includes arguments about the meaning of words misses the point. We argue about the meanings of words because they form the basis for how we conduct our work, how we transfer knowledge, and how we talk about what we do.
Second this. "Passion" is most certainly the right word, and I'd be lying if I said his relentless dedication to the brand didn't inspire me in other ways.
SpaceX billionaire claims Air Force official 'likely' bribed
I'm willing to bet it was him that got investors to invest in the startup, and get PR attention, but the rest of his partners did the bulk of the other work in building the product. After awhile, people like Moghadam are useless to your startup.
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Good call. "Leader" and "follower" may not be the most precise, descriptive terms here, but then neither were "master"/"slave" and people got used to that.

Edit: "Primary"/"replica" seems like an unambiguous improvement.
Can someone explain for us non-native-English speakers why it is "racially charged"?
rebase isn't very hard to implement; you just have to check the reflog.
They've since changed to a combination of primary/replica and master/slave:

https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461...
Everybody does philosophy because we lack data and we have no means of acquiring it (and/or no need). Calling yourself philosopher is like calling yourself breather. Surely true but pointless.

Fortunately technology advanced to the level that allowed us to gather some actual data and instead of just thinking blankly about the world we experience natural philosophers started to construct models of predictive utility. The rest is history ... of science. Other philosophers are still waiting for their technology refusing to think about something else till it arrives.

There's nothing wrong in philosophy but it's just recreation for the times you feel like thinking a bit but are too lazy to find something useful to think about.

> How do you collect data about what constitutes a good life?

You tempt me to think pointlessly for a while. It's really untimely because at the moment I should be thinking about stuff people need from me.

How can a philosopher find out meaning of "good" to give a question "what constitutes a good life?" enough meaning to even dream of arriving at an answer? I encourage you to listen to what Sam Harris has to say.
It reminds people of African slavery. Silly argument IMO.
> Organic Cat Litter Chief

A new Tzar appointment by the President.
I very strongly recommend that book to anyone who hasn't read it yet - fascinating stuff.
Cross-compatibility makes a lot of sense of they perceive a lot of future risk to their value proposition that one technology or product will sell another one. If they don't believe Windows Server will be a compelling enough technology to push adoption of .NET, then why risk the decade of development on it by tying it around the neck of IIS? I see it as an admission that the various product offerings need to float on their own merits, not just because 'its the option that runs on Windows'. There's enough alternatives now to make that kind of assumption a relic of the '90s and 00's.
I nearly spat my coffee out when I read that it was to be replaced by "leader/follower". That would be a bad idea, IMO, and what most people here and on the Github thread are commenting on.

But actually, the terminology being used is primary/replica, which is if anything more descriptive.
"Master/slave is a model of communication where one device or process has unidirectional control over one or more other devices. In some systems a master is elected from a group of eligible devices, with the other devices acting in the role of slaves."[0]

I'd say that master/slave describes perfectly well the relationship between the parts.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)
In the context of ethics, "right" and "wrong" as judgement calls on the "goodness" or "badness" of a choice are basically given. Depending on your ethical standpoint, there are different things in the "right" set and the "wrong" set, but all ethical viewpoints (such as utilitarianism or hedonism) have a "right" set and a "wrong" set. (The sole exception being moral nihilism.)
Political correctness strikes again - and yes, it's not the first incident of this exact sort. [1]

[1]: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
You can't refute an argument without data. If it was precisely defined you could disprove it without data but that's math not philosophy.
Maybe, but where is their revenue model? They can't monetize it directly like they do Windows after open sourcing it and, if it succeeds, it'll end up taking market share away from Windows with nothing in return. We are still missing something.
> In every Python book I read they were recommending me to use Python 2.7 instead of 3.0.

Well, for one thing, Python 2.7 is a newer release than Python 3.0 (2.7 was released after 3.1.)

However, while there may have been good reasons to choose 2.7 over 3.0 (or even 3.1), there aren't nearly as many reasons to choose 2.7 over 3.4.
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I loved the non-intuitive names.
"It's hard to separate the product from the creator. We can demand a higher standard of creators, but one of the consequences will be fewer creations."

I don't understand your point here. I can quite easily imagine a RapGenius like service being created by someone who's not an utter dickbag. In other words, I fail to see anything inherent to RapGenius which requires douchbaggery of its creator. Are you suggesting that there is?
I have no inside knowledge of any of the people involved but from the looks of it I'm guessing they've been wanting to get rid of him for while and decided that this was the excuse they needed.
Fairly simple, assuming that a person does not already have specific health problems:

Don't eat processed foods. Eat (very) slowly and enjoy your food.

Get fresh air and exercise. For most people, walking for 20 to 30 minutes a day is probably enough.

Set aside a few times during the day to relax. Possible activities: hike, meditation, hammock time, etc.
> god help us, using the output of that mind as a platform on which to build suggestions on changing our culture

Why not? There's what to do lessons and what not to do lessons.

From what I read in the essay he talks continually about how he lives in a beautiful, wealthy suburb, has an apartment and BMW, nice clothes and so forth. I don't watch teenage television shows like the OC, The Hills or whatever, but from this material perspective he had the perfect life. Yet his parents split up, he didn't get along with his movie premiere attending father's new wife, and he was isolated and cut off from human contact. He is miserable. He even says repeatedly he goes crazy watching guys with much less money have so much "social success".

Something can be learned from him. That buying into the idea that money alone buys happiness is something close to insanity. That growing up in a wealthy community where image and status are everything, even among kids, might not be healthy. That close friendships and lovers are more important than the BMW he continually refers to.

I can see shades of this when I walk into a post Series A startup on Saturday at 8 PM and see that 95% of the office is there working, many of the people in their 20's. They all think they are going to be the Mark Zuckerberg. It seems like insanity to me. It reminds me of all the people I know who were having trouble in their marriages, so they would work until 6, 7, 8 doing busy work so they wouldn't have to go home. Usually in a few months time I hear from them they are separating from their spouse. Some people see work as an escape from their other problems. Our society being run as it is, by those who it is run by, this is not much frowned upon as a real problem.

I can easily imagine this kid growing up the son of some guy who was in early on some hot startup, with the kid now living in Palo Alto, Altadena or somewhere...
> From personal observation

Which is not a good metric. Have there been any actual surveys or studies of Python programmers to see what the distribution is?

> having written a major application in python, I'm not really convinced it's a good language for it.

Out of curiosity, what was the major application?
> "I hate that we're still talking about this..."

Well me too, but I hate it because people are still shits to each other, and we need to keep talking about it so that we're not sending the message that it's ok to be shits to each other.

Yeah, you probably should only tell tasteless jokes with close, trusted friends. I don't mean "as a CEO", I mean, in general, because your tasteless jokes are probably making people feel shitty, and you might as well restrict that as much as possible.

> "if you don't realize the need to censor yourself, then you are not a very smart person"

Or you're not that interested in being a good person.
When the suggestion for "noobs" on this is:

Make your editor clean trailing whitespace on save
Create a .dotfiles repo
Use Puppet or Chef to automate the configuration of your developer machine
Use Vagrant or Docker to simulate your production env on your local machine

I have to have a little bit of a facepalm. Trim your trailing whitespace? Set up a dotfiles repo? Learn puppet? Caveat: I'm not a developer. I'm a sysadmin. Albeit a sysadmin who writes code and knows _how to interact with developers_. After 15 years in the trade professionally I think the bigger issue is claiming that a 12 week program will make you a developer. It may teach you _development_, but that's no more accurate than saying 12 weeks administering an Apache server makes you understand Linux.
Do you think that those students whose reading habits are analyzed (in the article we all comment here) are allowed to swap their reading devices or accounts? I guess they'd be punished if detected.

I would also not be surprised that the next step that the authorities invent is biometrics. Then they can be sure who is being tracked. Which is just one more kind of DRM.

(I see you are writing this from Brazil. Please note that not every country favors the same practices as yours.)
Hey guys.

I was just wondering why this thread got deleted.

I was trying to make an useful service for the community, where we could try to exchange opinions and give feedback... like we did on designerchat.co.

I was thinking infact IRC was too 20th century, old and outdated... and way too messy.
Slack is pretty awesome compared to it, with many more functions and native apps :)

That being said, be nice... or else :)
Azure. That's where they intend to make money.
I think you're underestimating the usefulness of simply showing this document in a clean UI. I could care less about the annotation of this but found myself captivated by the contents of the diary on rapgenius, the same way as we get captivated by television footage of surreal events.
Not really. There's some debate on how GitHub could best accomplish this, but so far they've been non-committal about a solution:

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/38
Slavery is bad when it is applied to humans, you can't really oppress a Mysql instance.
Next: let's ban calling electrical power connectors "male" and "female", because think of the children.
It seems to me the curse of any company or project that begins with controversy or edginess as a cornerstone of their image. It's easy to have a f--- it all attitude when there's nothing on the line. As the company grows, people's lives and fortunes start to depend on the company. The loose-cannon founder who was great for attracting initial attention starts to become a liability who seems totally willing to crash the whole thing.