skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have one maybe two widely used search engines. One or two social networks dominate the landscape. The third mobile OS is a distant competitor to the main two. Two cell phone companies make almost all the profits in that industry. Until recently, one processor manufacturer dominated the consumer sector, with a competitor that it had to prop up for apperances' sake. Did Google, Facebook, Apple, Intel, Amazon, Microsoft, use lawyers and legislation to achieve victory?

Proponents of startups who also believe in the market have to deal with a certain cognitive dissonance. They have to convince themselves that giant corporations can only win through non-market means. But the fact is that the market almost always favors scale. Apple and Samsung win not through suing "upstarts" for patent infringement, but through the kind of vertical integration only possible with scale. If you can spend $2 billion on a factory to make sapphire glass screens at a price point the "upstarts" can't match, then you win, through purely market means. If you're Verizon and can spend billions to have LTE coverage everywhere in the country, that's what leads you to dominance over the upstarts, not the regulatory regime.

Go back to before the modern regulatory state. Did Standard Oil and U.S. Steel lawyer themselves to victory? No, they did the same thing Apple and Samsung are doing: dominate the competition by leveraging scale.
Arete: Simple load testing for Node.js
Ask HN: Why does plus.google.com take an eternity to load?
Is it just happening to me? Every time I visit Google plus, it atleast takes 25+ seconds for the page to completely load.
Every time I get a glimpse of other people's phones I endeed up seeing crush candy saga and then 2048. let's see if hextris re-loaded will get a dent.
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The direct link redirecting and the extremely annoying "memebase" rebranding were the last straws for me as well.

http://mediacru.sh is a great alternative with a much more minimalist interface, and is free and open source (https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush)
You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods

Can you elaborate on how the mod works?
Nope, I just copied the wrong link -_- Reposted with the correct link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189764
> Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1011.4609 Bounds from a Card Trick

At the bottom of the article
I remember tpb showing his jail mailbox, so he can read mail but is he allowed to answer them ?
> I don't think it matters whether the full standard library is marked stable.

For example, unless IO is stable no serious program can be written. But IO would benefit from monads and HKT.
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is not challenged by this research. All Darwin's original theory requires is that traits vary, are passed down to offspring, and affect the reproductive success of those children.

Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" before the scientific community had recognized that such things as "genes" really existed. So on the face of it, it's absurd to propose that the idea that genes (as in, specific sequences of DNA base pairs at specific locations on specific chromosomes) are not the entirety of the mechanism by which organisms acquire their traits challenges the mechanism by which those traits are filtered.

Not to mention that there's never been any question that environmental input affects gene expression. All this paper is basically saying is that the health and lifestyle of the parents is an environmental factor in embryo development. If you smoke crack while pregnant, that does cause predictable affects on gene expression in the child. This paper may extend that to smoking crack before you get pregnant, which, unsurprisingly, likely also affects the child.

The idea that this effect is anything like Lemarckianism or that the existence of epigenetic effects refutes Darwin so greatly misunderstands both Lemarck and Darwin that I don't know where to begin. If there are actual scientists out there making these claims in such bold terms, they are either deluded or they are BSing for political reasons.
"Oh no, a free web site isn't behaving the way that I want it to!"

I don't know if it's just because I'm old, but people need to stop whining about how free websites are behaving. If we were paying customers, then I believe we should have a voice in how the product works but if we're using it for free, then this feeling of entitlement has to stop.

Beggars can't be choosers. And whoever owns imgur has to make money as well, they're entitled to do whatever it takes to make as much money as they can, and if they lose you as a customer but make more money, that is their prerogative.
I think it is almost impossible to judge your own business idea correct. Either you are to optimistic because you spent so much time with the idea and became a fan of it. Or you shoot all your own ideas down. Also i do think design can be important. But of course it can't help if the problem is somewhere else too.
HexKlax
I kinda agree with them. Imgur has to make the money it needs to survive. It is really the only viable option in the long term.

That said, I do find myself using alternatives [e.g. mediacrush] more and more. Its just not worth bothering with Imgur.
Well, you do begin eating with your eyes even before your mouth joins in. So, any improvements in how the food looks should positively impact your overall sense of enjoyment of that meal.
It needs a 'drop brick' button.
You think you're funny, but you're not.

I went to India for my job about 2 years ago. Actual sign by the break room: "Food is not allowed in the pantries" or something like that (don't make a mess eating here).

The company does have an actual cafeteria where you can have more than coffee and tea, though, as well as street vendors outside the security gates. Who knows, maybe the street vendors make more than my coworkers :-)
What do you mean by 'improves on Erlang's programming model'?

I've seen it improves on some tools and a fair deal of libraries, but I don't exactly see how it improves on the programming model itself?
If you claim to have written it yourself, that's plagiarism. It would only be copyright infringement if you sent photocopies of the pages of the book. If you're sending the original pages, there's no copying, and thus no infringement.
Imgur is just following in the fine tradition of software that hit a sweetspot then kept adding new features.

See ACDSee, Nero Burning Rom, etc etc.

Jeff Atwood wrote about this in 2007. It's a great shame that websites aren't listening to the mistakes made by previous software authors. http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-does-software-spoil/
Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0
Kalinigrad was Prussian. L'viv and Vilnius were Polish. Szczecin and Wrocław were German. That was only 80 years ago. 100 years ago there was no Poland, and no USSR.

These cities changed hands every 50 years or less for last few centuries. It's useless to argue about these things.

Basically whole C&E Europe is a huge barrel of powder. If you start to do this stuff (this is MINE because history) the powder will explode.

That's why nobody (except Russia) do it. Even the worst nationalists in Poland don't actually want L'viv or Vilnius. Even though L'viv was a very important city for Polish culture and still 80 years later there are songs about how great a city Lwów was (French wouldn't understand, you only have one city ;) ). It was Polish San Francisco, and we don't want it back.

That's because we know that we are only safe because we're past the WW2 era of petty nationalisms. We've learnt our lesson.

Putin doesn't care - he knows EU is not united enough to react, so he basically replays Hitler 1938 strategy and he goes away with it. French traditionally don't want to die for Danzig(Donetsk this time), they even sell weapons to Putin. Great job, guys.

It's very frustrating to see it in real life and see how useless and clueless western politicians are. Like nobody learnt anything from WW2.
The possible evidence is in those other journal articles, but they are in russian as well, which the author admittedly can't read. So I'm wondering how he arrived at his conclusion when all the possibly hard evidence is in a language he doesn't understand?
You'd'be surprised by how well his nationalistic projection works nowadays
No they can work fine anywhere just like Dominos can.

They just need to get transaction/delivery volume up, so that density of orders shrinks the coverage area for any given "driver agent".

Scaling while trying to maintain balanced supply and demand key.

Moderate increase in delivery density can mean step changes in efficiency and almost all other aspects of these businesses.

Source: I work at Munchery mentioned in the article but I'm from Nebraska originally and delivery drove in collge.
Now build it using Swift|Elexir|Haskell. :P
Imgur is providing a valuable service. It doesn't ruffle my feathers if they want to expand upon it. I really don't think Imageshack.us, Tinypic, or Photobucket are fair comparisons.

Back in the day, imageshack & photobucket were all we had to upload photos into albums because Facebook hadn't taken off and MySpace didn't know what it was doing. After Facebook, the disconnect of User <-> Photos was gone. It was clear, these are my photos and look I'm even tagged in them. Imageshack and Photobucket seem to have pivoted to try to stay competitive. Tinypic is hardly worth mentioning because its quality is poor. Imgur's isn't.

So where do you go if you really just like popular photos? Imgur. The fact that they have a community that dislikes Reddit should be indicative of the success of their additions. Would you rather they stagnate and forever provide free image hosting? Who's going to pick up the bill after awhile? They need to do this.. and I think they're being pretty smart about it.

As a normal internet user, your points don't really stand out to me as a reason why I should start to become weary of imgur. If they piss enough people off, they'll get burned and another image hosting site will rise up to replace it (because seriously, it's not that hard of a technical problem).

Finally, as a personal note, I don't really appreciate commentary that doesn't at least try outline the pros of what they're doing. Oh no, they added a small button to create memes with? oh the horror..
It seems that breaking point when all changes to bad is when smart, fun and game changing startup accepts round of funds let by one of the main Tech Funds.

Is it coincidence, or are they legally or in any other way pressured to do it?

It seems most startups follow this route and I thought Imgur will be one of those exceptions. I was wrong it seems.
Naming your company "Hacking Team" when your job is to hack other machines is slightly refreshing. If only all companies would do this, we'd know what these folks were up to behind the scenes.
Pop-up Ad inventor apologizes to the internet
It gets too fast - if it had a limit to how fast it got then it could go on forever but with it as it currently is there are limits to how high your score can get before it is too fast for you to be able to react and once you reach that score you aren't very motivated to keep playing.

I'm struggling to beat 5863
WHY HN?! Just when I was being productive again.
On the other hand, here is the Nazi's public face :

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/25points....

Read it, then tell me if you still don't understand why these people might get classified as left-wing. They implemented quite a few of these points too, by the way. You can say whatever you want about Nazi's but they are by far the most successful leftist party in history, and quite a few "left-wing" rights today were first implemented by Nazi Germany. Big example : pensions. Scholarships (of the for-the-needy kind, not for-the-really-smart kind). There's many examples.

That said, it is beyond obvious that they are not comparable to today's left wing.

As hard as it is to understand today, the left-wing was very much anti-immigrant in the 1930's. But it's just one of many historical facts that have changed. What I still find hard to believe, is that it's the democrats were the pro-slavery anti-black side of the aisle.

Some choice cuts :

(the first parts are anti-versailles, and some anti-immigration)

7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.

(8-9 are anti-immigrant)

10. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.

11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.

12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.

13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.

14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.

15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.

...
Worse was when they ran noisy auto-play video adverts last month. Every time I viewed an image, I was faced with "HEYY WAZAAAPP!!! JUSTIN BEIBER!!!" nonsense.

I'm in Europe, the USA didn't get them, so there wasn't so much of a fuss. They managed to get away with it. Appalling and cynical.
We changed the URL from [1] so the thread can stop being about a sensationalized and off-topic title [2].

1. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/darwins-t...

2 "Darwin's theory of evolution challenged"
Certainly!

But its not yet there, mbox is closest - as it can intercept any socket syscalls from a process, and then choose to deny based on the socket syscall arguments. Firejail could do the same, as it also has seccomp filters.

Firejail is pre-compiled with syscall filter table, but could be extended/fixed to provide those in a config file.

Hm, actually Im thinking firejail extended like this - firejailed process could be run in its own network namespace, catch any socket syscalls with a seccomp-filter, show what the process attempted to do to the user (through syslog or another daemon listening to present question to user with choice of UI), then if he denies/accepts it - run iptables -A OUTPUT -j REJECT/DROP/ACCEPT in the namespace of the process. Then save the "profile" for the process somewhere for next time it is invoked with firejail! Yes, yes, this would be quite nice!

And all of this, even the invocation of programs using firejail with their respective profiles could be automated/integrated seamlessly, with say KDE! This would be BEAUTIFUL.
I already loathe uploading images there to quickly share something because I have to wait for the home page to load all the thumbnail, and all the heavy javascript. Then I click upload and I have to wait for the javascript for -that- to load.

Imgur used to be so fast and quick to use, feature creep is going to be the death of it.

Something as simple as image hosting should not really take so long to load.
Serving you notice before you've even moved in sounds like a pretty shady practise to me, and one that I'd be inclined to challenge before I signed anything.

If they attempt that sorts of trick before you've even paid them a penny, that doesn't bode well for the rest of the tenancy in my opinion!
Why are so many people using github to store these lists of educational resources? Isn't this what wikis are for?
I agree that they should make money, since they're a business.

However, when paid (imgur pro) subs also get redirected and their uploads also get redirected, and "I created imgur because the other image hosting sites forced you to see their ad-ridden pages (TinyPIC). I would never do the same to you. If you want to direct link to the image, then by all means do so."[0] no longer applies, it somewhat bothers me.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy...
>It's a different experience and one that's hard to replicate.

I agree that it's different and hard to replicate, but again where is the evidence that the school socialization model is actually beneficial--that we need to replicate it? The studies I've seen from home-schooled children seem to suggest that it isn't necessary for a successful productive adult life.

If people are going to argue that homeschooling is detrimental because it doesn't replicate institutionalized socialization, there needs to be some evidence that this kind of socialization is necessary other than "lots of kids do it".
Audio has mp3. Video has H.264. Images have png and jpg. What does 3D content have?

Wavefront .obj?
"We've even got the children blinking in unison...(blink)...I love that sound!" - Principal Skinner
The solution is to have a public pharma: someone, maybe the NIH, that takes unpatentable, unprofitable drugs through the FDA process.
Here we go. A new addiction. I was just free'd from 2048.
Kudos. This is real fun.
I actually enjoy the community at Imgur.

To me it seems Imgur has 2 uses:

1) Image hosting

2) Viral image community

One doesn't have to go with the other, but also they can work together.

As for their redirect behaviour? I don't think that's an issue at all. If you don't want to get that page, host it yourself.
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Thanks for the constructive criticism at the bottom -- I'll try to be more neutral and remember to give arguments for both sides (this was my first blog post).
I got 6700 on my third try, and I'm not great at such games. I think there's a lot of randomness to how far you'll get.
I have used it a bit. We had integrated it as an export format for https://Clara.io for a while, but then we removed it. We can add it back now that the spec is near finished.
Here is a video from a year ago showing the virtual shrink in action (it may be an older version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejczMs6b1Q4
What kind of attorney? I know for personal injury firms a lot of them outsource demand writing. It's paralegal level work, but it's certainly something.
or an app in the phone that prevents usage when in motion above a certain speed
I'd remove the reload button. I've hit it three times by accident already.
Beggars absolutely can be choosers here, because there are tons of competing sites, many of which don't have any of the annoying features that imgur has been adding in recent months.

Imgur obviously needs money to stay afloat, but there are less annoying ways they could have gone about it.

Reddit has been bleeding money for years, probably more money than Imgur has yearly and for a longer time span, but they still have not compromised the integrity or usability of their site to gain money. They rely only on non-intrusive ads, Reddit gold, and donations.

4chan is in an even worse state, and has also only been making money through their 4chan Pass semi-donation feature.

Imgur could have created a new subdomain for the "new" site, or could have setup some entirely different applications that integrate with the main site, instead of detracting from the main product. As a company, they have a right to do what they want to make money, but as users most of us will always keep moving to the best solution once the old ones start shooting themselves in the foot.

Companies whose business model is to provide only a single free service for a massive userbase will always have to balance revenue and user alienation. Reddit and Imgur are leaning on opposite sides of that scale at the moment.

Honestly, I would consider an acquisition (by Google or whoever) to be a much better solution for everyone involved compared to the things they're trying now in desperation to get more revenue.
This is awesome. I like it.
That's interesting, please go on.
>I actually enjoy the community at Imgur.

I couldn't disagree more. Comments in the reddit default subs are bad enough when compared to the kind of discussion you see on HN, but comments on imgur are a mixture of the kinds of things you'll see on 9gag or funnyjunk fused with some of the worst of reddit's default subs' communities. They're absolute drivel, and they're only going to get worse because Imgur is specifically trying to attract these kind of people now.
That the assumptions you made are not necessarily feasible/possible/correct in a real world, startup scenario.
I moved the std::string allocation outside the loop, now it's only ten times slower.

I'm all for using abstractions and working smarter, but why pay such a performance penalty?
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What are the advantages over say, Titanium?
Yup, but it only supports static geometry. Looks like glTF has animation support.
Well, everybody calls them liberals; they even call themselves liberals (when they're not calling themselves progressives, which is an even stronger code word for "left-wing"). If your argument is that they aren't "true" liberals, then who are the "true" liberals?
See my response to lisper.
This is really confusing to me. Let's take their definition of a free object:

"A free object over a set forgets everything about that set except some universal properties, specified by the word following free. For example, the free monoid over Integers forgets ... everything else about the Integers except: they are a set of objects, there is an associative (binary) operation on Integers, and there is a "neutral" Integer; precisely the universal properties of monoids."

This seems to be contradicted by the first statement on the following paragraph:

Now, it turns out that [a] is a free monoid of values of type a. Our first pass at constructing a free monoid might look something like this

But values of "type a" do not have necessarily an associative binary operation, let alone a neutral element. Furthermore by constructing a list of some type "a" we aren't restricting the type of a to some pre-existing ambient algebraic structure, we are creating a new algebraic structure independently of any properties of "a."

Where have I gone wrong here?
> And I should mention that this is in contrast to other countries such as most of Europe or Canada or Japan which have much saner drug regulation regimes.

Except for example, Canada tends to just accept whatever the FDA accepts.
.obj is a horrid format for runtime usage in a game engine. The effort required to parse a non-trivial model will explode your load times on resource constrained systems.

The content pipeline that I implemented for our game engine always converted .obj files into a binary format that is trivial to load at runtime. In an ideal world (i.e. not Android), your binary format is one that you can simply mmap into your process and then at worst "loading" consists of copying this memory and doing some pointer fixups.
I don't think it would work. If you're selecting a city to start a startup, as opposed to starting one wherever you already are, then ideally you're going to want a low cost of living, a high density of talent, investors, and early adopters. This option would only offer the low cost of living. If your business doesn't need to be physically near your customers, investors, or talent, then you can literally setup anywhere in the world and you'd probably be better off choosing somewhere more pleasant with an even lower cost of living.
Comparing Imgur to HN is comparing apples to oranges in my opinion, they have different purposes and target audiences.

Target audiences:

Imgur - General public.

HN - Technical people, hackers, business people, founders.

Purposes:

Imgur - People submit funny/touching/stupid/whatever images and people post comments

HN - People post interesting/thought-provoking articles/sites and discuss them.
I have not read the paper. But looks to me these bozos just rediscovered DNA methylation and the "grandmother-effect"