skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking your time to answer, will try to provide as much info as possible.

I didn't notice any particular pages which would cause problems, but OTOH there must be a pattern to the pages I visit.
I am using FireBug, Abduction, Add to search bar, Greasemonkey (disabling now - didn't know I had it enabled), NoScript and Pencil.

Since this happens during normal course of work I would rather send memory usage patterns privately if that's OK with you.
The challenge will be to catch FF when the machine hasn't started swapping yet (by then I can count myself lucky if I can still issue killall firefox). Will try to send you "measure and save" output as soon as possible. Thanks!
Linode has a $10 plan
yeah this also possible but my first thought was to just give some more RAM to the machine :>
I wonder if it is feasible to compress cached canvases, either as part of pdf.js or natively in firefox.
Total entertainment (not discretionary) spending should be 7% of total income after taxes. Depending on where you live, that makes about $1,100 available per year.

Renting (streaming or otherwise) video should be no more than ten percent (10%) of an hour of minimum wage with no commercials. So a typical movie would be about $1.10. A half hour sitcom with commercials stripped out about $0.25.

A rented song should be about one tenth of a percent (.1%) of an hour of minimum wage per listen. So about a penny per song. (What you said.) But a purchased song at a dollar is too much (a dime is about right).

Tying entertainment to minimum wage also has the neat benefit of having one sector of business fighting to raise minimum wage too.

Spotify and their ilk are fine, but last time I looked they didn't have much in the way of the music I liked. (I'll take another look at Spotify and see if the catalog has grown to encompass my tastes.)
I always love reading these, even when I don't understand some of the maths involved.
It's not open source.
It's free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

E: one of the links was wrong. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...
What if it's because the claims in the mentioned comments were actually unsubstantiated? Read the article linked by aidanhs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898305

From the article:

"no, your experience with server-side programming does not adequately prepare you to “think small” and correctly reason about mobile performance."
Look / feel isn't copyright able either. That is why there are lots of clones. It is a sleazy move to try and co opt the name though
>If someone didn't regularly go out of their way to interact with me -- come over and talk to me, invite me to do things -- I assumed they didn't want to and didn't go over and talk to them or invite them places.

I have done this for decades. I just assumed that people dont' want talk to me because I am Indian ( I spent a while in the south and that attitude stuck with me even after moving to chicago)
I'd guess the idea is if you kill all the mosquitos then you are decimating the food supply for the animals that eat mosquitos.

But if you just kill the females at least it cuts whatever damage you're doing to the food supply by half.
Uber Shocks the Regulators
How is memory usage relevant to creating fluid/responsive applications? How is JavaScript DOM management even comparable to native UIs where the UI thread runs with realtime priority in native unmanaged code? And when did we stop talking about programming languages and talking about runtime and operating systems?

You were talking about a language's capabilities of creating fast responsive UIs on limited hardware. There are no language features that contribute to that, it is the operating system and runtime that does that. Are these things well done on Apple systems? Yes, absolutely. But that has no relation whatsoever to the discussion whether Swift is an innovative language or not. Apple could have bolted Common Lisp, Fortran or Rust onto that runtime, and that would have no relevance at all to the discussion about the innovativity of those languages.

Windows Phone also has a good runtime despite that it runs various garbage collected languages. Fluid apps are created for it all the time for low memory systems in various languages. But that doesn't make Visual Basic an innovative language.
I clearly don't watch enough MLP, as I have no idea what taffeta is. I can kinda place most of the other female words.

I admit when reading the male words, I wondered how women could not know those words; although they're very computer and fantasy oriented and not everyday words for most people, they're not that obscure, are they? And then I read the female list and I understood my own limits.
Subscribed! Looks good! good luck with the writing.
There's a few companies around trialing systems.
I know a guy who worked at Redflow for a while:

http://redflow.com/
Bayesian AB testing with explicitly modeling the expected effect size
The interactive illustrations are brilliant. They really aid comprehension.
I'm a homebrewer and lover of craft beer. I follow a lot of local breweries and beer brands that I like? Why? Because I want to hear more from them. They are a part of my life, just like my friends, so they should be included in my feed.

I also follow Fox Soccer and ESPN FC because it's easier to have content pushed specific to my interests rather than go to espn.com and click on the soccer tab.

I follow businesses as my business because I want to build a profile. I also follow competitors and peers because I want to stay in the loop.

It's just a large RSS feed really.
<fanboy>With MuPDF it peaks at 15MiB. http://www.mupdf.com/ </fanboy>
Like I said, there are two sides of "badness".

The UI and UX is bad and it indeed doesn't have anything to do with the MSI.

The "undercovers" are appaling, this time all because of MSI. As a consequence, there's no way you can cleanly uninstall Microsoft SQL Server from the system.
As another introverted guy find an introvert compatible sport. Sport doesn't just mean competitive league team ball games. I like hiking. Its dangerous to hike alone. There are innumerable hiking clubs where you can meet people, or if you're not in the mood to talk they'll at least make sure if you break your leg you won't be left to die, plus you'll get some excellent exercise.

Asian is waaaaaay too vague but I did take a semester of Japanese for the heck of it perhaps a decade ago, and the OP did ask to meet ladies, and the class was about 50% women who would fight over the opportunity to "study" with a native speaker. So lets go to the coffee shop after class and discuss the homework further, etc. So find the local higher ed school and ask the teacher if they'd like the help of a native speaker, even if all you do during class is sip a soda I'm sure you'll get all the attention you can tolerate both before and after class. Stay on the teachers good side by never interrupting or correcting them unless prompted (their class, not yours). Aside from language, an ethnic cooking class might like your help.

OP may think being foreigner means Americans won't care, but I found it totally fascinating talking to a Korean coworker for endless hours. You need a collection of conversation starters "well, in Korea we have vending machines that contain beer" or "ah well a twelve hour flight back home next summer" or "let me tell you about real korean bbq" or whatever.
Transportation Department Looks To Regulate Navigation Apps
>While many of those laws and regulations have no place existing

I suppose you wouldn't mind living next to this place then - http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airbnb-party-hou...

I like my neighbors (except one... that's a different story...) They are friendly. We help each other clean off our cars in the winter. We check on each other's mail, pets, plants, and houses while we are on vacation. We help each other carry heavy items into the house. We are known to each other. I personally wouldn't feel safe with neighbors who revolve every day who have no ties to the community that we built.

Not to mention I wouldn't want to pay double rent because of all the houses that are taken off the market.
> If you're a true introvert, your biggest enemy is yourself.

This sort of statement sounds suspicious to me. Are you absolutely sure your meaning of introvert isn't idiosyncratic?

This is the sort of thing I remember David Hume writing an essay about. If someone wants to be alone, there is absolutely nothing non-genuine about that desire, even if it's unproductive or you yourself think someone should want something else instead.

The response to "I want X but I can't make work" probably shouldn't be "You should want Y instead".

Different people also want different things from friendships. So if there are two friends, and one sees hanging out as only the means to establishing a deeper intimate friendship, but hanging out and having fun is the main purpose of the friendship to the other, then that's not such a great friendship.

I don't think what you said is necessarily very good advice.
It already appears to use html to display text. View a pdf.js demo (google pdf.js and click demo button on project page). Select some text and inspect it in your browser dev tools. It's a div.
you mean you can append any GitHub username
Learning to cope with dysgraphia
Inside Edward Snowden’s Life as a Robot
I agree with the frequency thing as far as longer term friendships.

I can only speak for myself as an introvert; however, beyond needing that alone time to recharge myself, I find that I tend to like to be social only in small groups. When my wife and I go to social functions.. if it's a larger function, it's pretty much a guarantee I'll latch onto one or two people and chat with them the majority of the time (learning more about interesting aspects of their lives, professions, etc.).

I also think it's easier to begin to become acquaintances and friends with those you have the higher frequency meetings with. The easiest way to make that happen is to look at things you (OP) want to explore and / or improve upon. Perhaps those could be improving his english ( http://english-conversation.meetup.com/cities/us/ca/san_fran... ) and / or perhaps some sort of activities (do you want to try rock climbing? yoga?...find some things that interest you and give them a try by finding some beginner classes...)
Look up RSD Tyler on YouTube. On the surface it can seem deeply insincere and shallow but I believe some of techniques taught they can be applied in all areas of life when interacting with people.
If you suddenly pull the brakes of the motorcycles, will the blades cut your head off? I would worry about that before putting this out..
SanDisk To Acquire Fusion-io
9 Fallacies of Java Performance
Play a co-ed sport. Through sports, you'll:

- improve your fitness and yourself confidence
- meet new girls
- have a socially structured environment. The sport you're playing is a topic you can talk about with your teammates.

There are few other reasons why you should play join a sport team in your situation but they are not coming to my mind at the moment.

Good luck
Spring Cache Abstraction – using Spring Boot
UX 1.0: provide a shortcut for 'power users' or experienced people. For Twitter: stop making me follow random people just to get on board. Let me create my account and take it from there.
But can't you do that with anything? Browser statistics, which page they spend most of their time on? What colors they use in their profile picture? What stuff their friends like? Sentiment analysis of their status updates? How many likes per page view they post?

I feel like this could very much be a case of http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-fa...
I didn't have the link to your project before, it's using Vaprobash! Nice :D
>Or lived basically anywhere which has uni students.

I've never had a problem with uni students in the city I used to live in and a couple lived in my building.
Compare the language prevalence of the US, geography wise, to Europe and perhaps you'll understand the disparity. You basically have to learn multiple languages to some degree in Europe. In the US you can travel larger distances than all of Europe and speak only one language. Additionally, with English being one of the common business languages, you find that many non-English speaking countries learn English. Americans don't need to learn English (well, some might). Should they learn another language or three, of course. Is it necessary for everyday life? No. Most Americans have never left their country and likely never will. The extent of their driving can get them places that speak Spanish and French (maybe Portuguese if they REALLY drive).

I get it, Americans are fun to bash for numerous reasons, but it really annoys me when the bashing is not thought through enough to be valid.
Lunr – full text indexing in JS
It is easier if you try to make friends who have common passions. You could start a community project for your particular branch of engineering and look for people to join, e.g. on Reddit. Or you could join an existing project. Working on something together is a good way to bond to people.

If you don't have an immediately good idea that other people would be interested in, you might want to look at charity. Lot's of nice people and they usually need a wide range of skills.
> I'm not defending uncompetitive environments and monopolistic exploitation

Okay. Well that's what the article is attacking. So I guess I don't understand your point w.r.t. the thesis of the original article. Do you agree with the article but disagree that Wal-Mart is an example? Or what? Could you clarify?

> I'm asserting Wal-Mart as example uncompetitive environment is, in the general case, nuts.

To repeat myself, there's more than one way for companies to behave anti-competitively.

Wal-mart cannot afford to screw consumers, so they find other ways to leverage their status as a mega-corp -- squeezing local government via tifs (this corn field/park/10 year old walmart is "blighted", so give us 15 year tax break to build a new one), paying poorly compared to other players in the market, abusing or undercutting supply chain partners, etc..

> but making groceries cost more is a freakishly regressive sort of way to attempt to redistribute wealth

Well, we could one-up Wal-Mart and make all the groceries completely free by enslaving all those involved in food production. So this is clearly an over-simplification.

It's also a false choice. Wal-Mart could instead decrease its profits and play nicer with everyone (like many of its local chain competitors do, arguably because they don't have the huge legal/PR/marketing team and cash reserves which can buy F-U leverage against local governments and labor groups -- this coercive power that comes with being so big is at the heart of the article's thesis).

Also, the price difference vs. wage difference between Walmart and its competitors also puts the lie to this claim -- even an extra 1.00+ an hour way more than offsets an extra .10 cents on the dollar for groceries.
It does make sense when you look at it as a user. The result is the same.. requirements are not. With one you need a dedicated application, with other you need excessive amounts of memory.

Also, there's about:memory available in firefox for quite detailed memory break-down.
FCC "Net Neutrality" got you down? Red card 'em.
Newspapers that rely solely on local readership are doing okay. NYT is not one of those newspapers. They need national readership to sustain their size.
25$ micro embedded Linux board for makers
I also have this problem, but on a Windows laptop with 2GB. However, Firefox has recently been crashing several times per day, which sorted out the long-running memory problem but rather inconveniences usage.

It's a shame because I really do prefer it to the other browsers, for a variety of reasons.
Fidget Widgets
Instacart Gets $44 Million Investment Led By Andreessen Horowitz
>But city or state-wide ordnances against subletting

Many places (like NY for example) actually have laws that expressly protect tenants rights to sublet.

Landlord tenant laws mostly are there to protect the tenant from unfair slumlords.
US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
SanDisk to Buy Fusion-io for $1.1 Billion
>Advertising, Public relations, Political propaganda, Education, Love, sex and romance, News media, Technology, Business, Art, Medicine

Not religion? Aww...
yeah I'm coming from the Laravel world so this was known to me and an easy starting point
so are you mad or are you not mad? Hard to tell if you're being edgy and sarcastic or ironic or what. Can't wait for the lite version of your other puzzle.
For example they can identify my different accounts, when I sue the same key.
Alternative Brazilian Worldcup Google Doodle
Paul Graham's reddit
> if The NYT is 'winning at journalism', why is its readership falling significantly?

I don't understand how a paper that seems to have fired all its researchers and fact checkers can be considered winning at journalism. They continually cannot get the senators from certain states (North & South Dakota) and print unverified opinion as fact.

It is a bit simpler than that though. The NYT is no better than Fox News or MSNBC in its partnership. People don't like to continually read a paper that insults their beliefs in the editorial pages when I can just go to Yahoo and see what's going on.

The low for me was when a ND Senator (whom the identified as coming from South Dakota) has to set them straight on how a hunt in a National Park will save a lot of elk (kill a few vs. starvation), I realized they have no idea how nature or the national parks work and were unwilling to find people who did.
Well that is super convenient. :)
This is pretty cool as a hobbyist game dev.
here's a couple of things i would do, if i were in your shoes:

- join a local group of some sort: my best recommendation would be a theater class, my preference, improvisational theater; given, this could be scary for an introvert (but actually is loads of fun and you really get to bond with people in a unique way); helps you with meeting people, English, self-confidence

- join a local facebook group of some sort: e..g expats in redwood city, or become a volunteer if you have your weekends to spare

- if you are a programmer, start your own projects and learn new stuff; take that alone time and turn it into something constructive, maybe something you can even show later to people and have as a point of conversation; choose a fun subject that other people can use immediately; be patient and stick with it, this can take some time (there was an idea sunday thread on HN, maybe you should check that?)

- befriend people at work to begin with, join them for lunch, or ask if they want to join you for lunch; how to befriend people? Ask about their favourite music, movies, books, their lives, stories. Be interested. Remember. One day, ask if they want to grab a beer after work
Surprised at all the focus on introversion in the comments. I'm 26 too and have always been social and extroverted - I can totally relate to this post.

These are near-universal struggles. Most people wish they could make more friends with shared interests, even those with a great friend group. (Most friendships are circumstantial and the individuals don't have much more in common than two random people from similar backgrounds.) Most people without families also get lonely on the weekends. Lately I've been trying to get healthy and avoid drinking and it's remarkable how much that's stalled my social and dating lives.

I had a different reaction: that this is an untapped opportunity for potential founders. Meetup is great in theory but for some reason isn't good at friendships. I don't get why in 2014 there is such a discrepancy between % of relationships and % of friendships sourced online. There must be a better way for the internet to introduce people with shared goals and convert them to real-life friends, without sex involved. Also consider how much friction this adds to relocation - how many people avoid moving because "all my friends are here". That's implying that it would be hard to make similar friends in a new city.

I hope the HN crowd starts to see this as a problem that needs solving. Personally, I've always thought that social apps were boring and superfluous - that I wanted to work on "hard" problems instead - but starting to question this assumption.
A non-bullshit case study on a social media marketing campaign
They did their research, tested it, put money and time behind it, executed on a tight schedule and allocated resources for proper followup. It's not about getting anything for free through social. They simply used the same amount of resources you would apply to an old-fashioned TV ad in a social media setting.
No, my position is, "I should not be denied base level entertainment pleasures just because I'm poor." Same goes for base level health care, food, shelter, etc.

Take out the middle man and let the market decide what the price should be. I suspect it will be much less that what's being charged now and, without the middle men, the content creators and performers themselves will make significantly more.

And no I would not go to jail for stealing music, movies, etc. What kind of a society would jail someone for such a minor offense. Oh wait, a corporate oligarchy like most of the first world has become!
Instacart Raises $44 Million Series B From Andreessen Horowitz And Others
That's.... dumb. It's not a vulnerability, it's a feature. The entire point of using FXP is to connect one server to another remote server. With FTP it was a "vulnerability" because people didn't expect users to send files or connect to random hosts, but with FXP it's the whole point of the protocol. (FTP bounce attacks have also been a solved issue for decades)