skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I add one more point:

- the render() method provides a way to declare what the DOM looks like (React-style) OR manipulate the DOM imperatively (Backbone style)

This helps the Flux one-directional data flow, which you can see in the ToDo example. Controller's model is actually its internal state by default, so all data mutation must go through the main data store.

Thank you so much for boiling it down to the key points, I've been struggling to explain the details clearly. Really the best way to understand what's going on is to read the ToDo app as it's only 100 lines.

We are using this for PhoneGap and node-webkit apps, it's a perfect for for mobiles where you need fine-grained control over memory and performance, and you know the runtime you're developing against (webkit) so there isn't a goal to get this running across every browser like React or Backbone.
Spotify already pays 70% of their revenue in royalties to record labels. What do you think would be fair? 90%?
It's a fair question. It was done by a hospital's lab by a dedicated lab worker, as a comprehensive, and then sent off to Labcorp (versus being done in a doctor's office by a nurse etc). So hopefully they knew what they were doing.

Given the amount of Vitamin D you need to to get your levels up to a 30+ marker, and given most of the US population is Vitamin D deficient (and I get far less sun exposure than your average person) - it's probably a safe bet my D levels are very low.

A 5 was a bit surprising, but it's no exaggeration that presently I'm probably as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one, sun exposure wise. My primary curiosity is whether my VitD levels have been single digits for ... a decade at this point. I think I'm fortunate that I was very active outside growing up, and that I got plenty of sun - as apparently having Vitamin D levels as a child akin to what I just tested at, is particularly dangerous.
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The window from disclosure of patches to duplication is narrowing and it appears from the bulletin that client connections are affected as well. Furthermore any computer you take anywhere outside your home router (and can you really trust your home router as security boundary nowdays?!) will be easy to manipulate into an SChannel connection. Inside your home network, clients are still vulnerable to attack - any javascript/flash ad/referer can point a computer behind a router at an attacker server and serve up malicious SChannel packets. That is to say your home computer can be attacked on outgoing connections which your router will be happy to allow.

It's very serious. Patch immediately.
They're referring to chemical signalling of some kind when they use the word 'signal'.

Chemical signalling of various kinds is very common in all kingdoms of life; examples in animals are hormones (circulated in the bloodstream for communication between organs), pheromones (circulated in the air for signalling between organisms), and neurotransmitters (emitted in the gap between synapses and dendrites for signalling activation of a neuron).
I hope they rename it to "Washington Redskins".
> There is an interesting story underneath this article about how technology displaces people and changes how society sees them

It seems to me that these sorts of services just increase liquidity in the market for menial office work (data entry, etc.). In this case, the supply (of people willing to scan books) far outstrips the demand, so the work is boring and commands low wages. But maybe it beats telemarketing.

The real story here is that this change is happening so quickly. If the journalists out there want to help low-skilled but otherwise intelligent people out, they will educate the public on the larger trend (careers based on routine and repetitive work are going away) instead of jumping into polemics.
I think Swift withdrew her music from Spotify simply because she can extract more money from sales this year. New albums stimulate back-catalogue sales like nothing else. When she feels like she won't have a new album to stimulate her sales, she'll put her songs back with the streaming services and they will be happy to stream them again.
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I was thinking mostly on artists in general, though Taylor sparked this discussion (the news article, etc).

I agree totally with your point, the economics for her (and other mega-stars) are likely different from the median artist.

The labels also play a part in this, they take most of the CD/online/radio revenues, where as artists keep most of their tour earnings (this is what I've heard). In such a model it may make perfect sense to restrict streaming, since it may tilt more people towards paying for a concert.

This may very well be 'revenue maximizing' for her, but I think for artists as a group they will may make more by extracting a reasonable sum from large swathes of people by providing a good chunk of value (e.g. Spotify/Pandora), then trying to drive up CD sales.
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One of the reasons websites have been slow to roll out SSL for everything is CPU load, so it's a legitimate concern for a high traffic website. However, most of the ways SSL was speeded up involved algorithmic / protocol level improvements and not micro-optimisations of the code. So I'm not sure that a safe language has a permanent disadvantage here.
I posted the following comment at the bottom of Ek's post, but it was removed, so I am posting it here.

I really want artists to understand: Our interests are totally aligned with yours.

Spotify’s interests are not totally aligned with artists’ interests. Spotify’s interests are aligned with record labels and assorted middlemen, advertisers, and investors like Sean Parker, Li Ka-shing, KPCB, Coca-Cola, Fidelity, and others who want to see a big payout on their $500+ million investment. Artists get lip service when they complain, and at the end of the day, they get the scraps after everyone else has taken their cuts.
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Yep, I'd like to see a similar thing but in age bands.
- Software Engineer

- 8 hours

- 3am - 11am

- 8 hours feels about optimal

- Normally don't drink caffeine at all.

- I avoid caffeine until I need it. (during the last week or so of a sprint). During that time I'm probably averaging 3-4 hours of sleep a night, and drinking 3-4 teas and 1-2 redbulls per day, all day/night long.
Also one of the most polluted places on earth.
"We hire from these five schools, period," right?"

I'm so glad they brought this up. This is the elephant in the living room, and is a root cause behind a lot of these issues.

The "top ten universities" fetish is by far the most significant mechanism for the perpetuation of aristocracy and aristocratic networks in our society. It's a effectively a feudal system of "knighthood," or at least analogous to that. Those who are admitted to top tier universities are tapped to be at least considered as future members of the nobility.

I'd love to see some real data on employee (and founder) performance vs. where they went to school.
I don't think this particular article is any good, but you should give the New Inquiry another chance. Their stuff varies widely, but the presence of people like Teju Cole means that they publish good stuff sometimes:

http://thenewinquiry.com/author/teju-cole/
Amen. I've often wondered how many developers partake in this little green herb.
I'll have to take a look at that. Thanks for the link.
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Evil was the point, I don't think I missed that. It seems to me your point is I failed to recognize how much indignation this caused, but that wasn't really within the scope of the comment I was replying to. And I'm not trying to debate whether continued indignation is warranted or not.

My suspicion is it'll blow over pretty quickly, though, if for no other reason than there are more pressing issues keeping most open source developers awake as opposed to an already resolved trademark dispute which never even went to court. This was a good day, wasn't it?
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Thanks for the wiki link, very informational. I'm curious how to do Kintsugi, or if you can buy pottery with that resin.
Ah, I hadn't even clicked through to index.html, assuming it was just boilerplate.

Now that I've looked at it a bit more, I have to echo the other commenter who asked about routing, particularly since the view markup is statically on the page. Perhaps I'm missing something?
I wonder if we need to change our interface with the PC - the typewriter is so 19th century. Something like Kinect waving your hands to get stuff from your mind into the box. I reckon with shorthand encoding you could get 200WPM, and fit.
"...a trickle of [...] royalties is going to be a lot less per consumer than she gets touring."

This, artists have said for decades, has always been the case. They have to tour to make any money. The royalties (from radio play, from media sales) are a pittance.
There's a great summary here: http://stackshare.io/deis
I don't mean to diminish the point they're making in the article at all, but there are some parts that jump out...

"And imagine that the worst happens, that your startup fails. You're still good, right? You can just go back to whatever school that you decided to take a leave of absence from . . . or just draw from your trust fund. But when you start a company and you're a black entrepreneur, in some cases there is no alternative. It's a much different experience."

The vast majority of people don't have trust funds and family that can write $50,000 checks on a whim. Obviously in some communities that percent is 99.99% vs 99%, but we're still comparing economic class rather than race.
They seemed to come to this decision only when it was realized that they had no way of winning the fight. Hardly worth congratulating for.
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Ah the Collin Creek Mall, in which City of Plano was planning to sink a ton of money for renewing or rehabbing it. I live few miles away from Collin Creek, and the author is giving the most accurate picture possible. It is a dead mall, and there are many reasons for it including accessibility from the highway (US-75), shift of the center of wealth to mostly West and North of Plano, away from Collin Creek area. All in all DFW is over-saturated with malls but they are still building malls because of the North-ward expansion near Plano area. Trust me a movie theater is not going to save this mall.

For now the Mall is collecting some checks from the City and Management which claim to protect jobs and sales tax base. When they run out of that trick, it may very well close. At one point they were talking about sinking $75 million into some project around collin creek.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/collin-county/...
I thought about this some, I don't think it is a big deal, and different language would probably fix most of it.

They could also make a more substantive change and include a fee in incoming payments. They know how much they take in and how much is cashed out, so the fee could still be benchmarked to ~10% of pay outs.

It's slightly harder to explain and it wouldn't ever be as round a number as 10%, but an advantage is that people setting up a bounty would then see how much would end up in developer hands and how much the fees are, prior to making the payment.
Interesting. I guess maybe you could repair a multilayer board that had a hole in it by milling down the edges of the hole in kind of a stair-step pattern to expose each inner layer and then attach your patch. That would be quite a job.
You do cardiovascular exercise and hope you've gotten a good ticket in the genes lottery.
She's making the bet that by removing it from Spotify more people will choose another legal way to purchase it than will choose piracy.
Here's what I've noticed.

There's no correlation.

It doesn't mean anything. It's a position taken out of fear.

At this point, if you've graduated from top ten universities I will ignore your resume, because you won't have the hunger I want from an employee, nor where you have great creative thinking.
Might as well learn an important concept from the original authors (the article does link to this paper): Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet
Applications [1]

[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigco...
Yeah, like I said in my other comment, I'd misread which issues have been fixed. I still stand by point that for constant time you need to be close to the metal but I think we're in agreement there anyway.

I think using native code for the low-level implementation of the ciphers, padding etc. would be a good move from a security point of view and is the only way to get constant time implementation. As you say, there's nothing that prevents that in the design of Java.
They may just buy Uber (they are a big investor) and run their own fleet.. Lets not forget Google also has Google Shopping Express and their mapping cars.. making those self driving could be a huge thing for Google. Example: Shopping express car drives up, opens a compartment you retrieve your box and it drives off. Uber drives up you get in, it brings you to your destination you get out, no driver required.
I think many artists with less exposure make an even larger portion of their income from appearances (vs licensing).

An absurd example: a piano man.
I agree! I meant to say that she already stayed normal through her up-and-coming phase, which has now passed.
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That's exactly right. Some artists can do this, but most cannot. She is doing the right thing from a business perspective. It makes no sense for her to stay on Spotify with her clout and the demand for her music. This is pretty straightforward.
The $0.006/stream is total payments for everything songwriter, label, performing - everything.
> "If you go to those five schools, the percentage of minorities and the percentage of women is X and Y. Let's say it's 3% and 10%. If those companies hire only 10% of the people they interview, then the number [of minority hires] you get is zero. Right? It's zero."

I agree in principle, but this math seems off... Sure you only hire 10% of the people you interview, but if all the people you hire come from these 5 schools, then you should still have 3% minorities and 10% women (since 100% of your employees are from these schools).

3% and 10% are plenty revolting, there's no need for them to fudge the numbers.
That's been my suspicion for some time too.

"Nobody ever got fired for hiring someone from Stanford."
This falls to the classic Hume's Guillotine (is-ought problem).

It's very easy to speculate about what someone should be doing vs. what is actually needed, what is being done, and the network effects of both.
Yahoo has to slow down acquiring companies. Some of the companies they acquire have helped them, but a large amount of them have done almost nothing. They should be saving cash.
I would definitely calm down before you do anything at all. In a few startups I've worked in the bonus structure is surprisingly simple:

- Bonus pool is some fraction of profit for the quarter

- Your part of that pie is proportional to your role/seniority. (Not necessarily having anything to you with your performance for the quarter).

- You are capped at a certain amount, just because they had to set the cap somewhere, and you probably shouldn't expect to see anywhere near that number.

I would ask them to clarify if this is a performance-bonus or just your piece of the pie (a form of profit sharing).
Spotify just moves bits from point A to point B. They don't even help get the music created the way the studios do (by providing the equipment). And technology makes moving bits very cheap indeed. So why isn't 90% reasonable? Or 95%?
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Interesting, then this is at least coordinated on their part.

I don't think I understand, wouldn't downloading it on TPB validate Spotify's statement?

Well, as others have pointed out her revenue maximizing probably includes more than streaming and CDs: tours, merchandise, sponsoring etc. play a big part too.

Maybe even the headings/PR from 'turning Spotify down' will generate enough extra attention to offset the loss of some poor people (me) turning to TBP, despite the album being top tanked on TBP.

My main point is that artists as a group should look focus on how they can increase their total earnings, not on how to maximize CD sales.
It really drives things home since it's Taylor. When I think of most music services especially when you mention the point of "piecemeal" ways to cobble together services to ensure you can listen to EVERYTHING you wish, I think of myself (sort of a savvy power user) and I think of the large majority that are just basic computer users.

A utopian music situation? The only way to truthfully do that is to delve into the illegal download category unless you are dead set on buying physical copies of everything, or settling for streaming through an iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, etc. When I think of reasons why X service exploded or Y Software was the definition of music downloads it usually points to one common feature: ease of use. Sure, anybody can learn to torrent music, surf IRC chat rooms for albums and songs, get accepted to user groups or private sites of the like, but until it is as easy as AudioGalaxy, Napster, Spotify, the iTunes Store, etc., and it's back catalog can rival the greatest music pirate -- it will never permeate the way a company would wish.

It's a weird tango these companies play. They have the blue print of success (if you ignore legal standpoints) with the first two programs I mentioned above (AudioGalaxy / Napster) + any torrent site / "warez" site. The trick is convincing the music industry to play ball. So long as they have their greedy, sticky fingers in the giant pot somebody is always going to leave the deal feeling like a loser.
Big record companies support spotify because they have been given billions worth of equity in it.

Artists have been given no equity in spotify. They should pull their music and move to another platform offering ownership.
High SAT scores are not predictive of success at college, and neither are hard interviews questions predictive of being a successful developer.
"Simard now believes large trees help out small, younger ones using the fungal internet. Without this help, she thinks many seedlings wouldn't survive."

This feels backwards to me. It seems more likely that the fungus is the one doing this, monitoring the condition of trees it touches and equalizing nutrients to maximize their survivability — and its own, since it lives among their roots.
Why does 6StringMercenary speak in the third person?
How many ears hear a standard radio "play"? And how many ears hear a Spotify streaming "play"? Which set pays you, the artist, more per ear?
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Wow, this isn't just "PCB Rework", it's PCB surgery and transplant!
The file system (and associated baggage) exist because of a fundamental disparity between the speed (and nearness to compute) of smaller memories and the convenience (but relative slowness) of larger ones. While SSDs do certainly close this gap, I find it difficult to imagine that this gap will ever entirely close; if anything, physics guarantees that compute units with small, nearby memories will always be far, far faster than more distant memories. You might argue that SSDs are "fast enough" to dispense with the inconvenience that imposes, but I can certainly find things I'd rather do with the performance.
Easy/simple/self-contained installation and portability. Why would you want to run anything at all in docker?
Thanks for your post! It strikes me as an authoritative guide on the subject. Plenty of gems to take away. The section on negotiation tactics could also stand on its own, since those are useful in many other situations as well.
You want to follow more of the engineering side than the lab stuff then. These guys are pretty good - http://www.claverton-energy.com/

As far as something new in chemical storage that is likely to appear commercially within a reasonable time, the Ryden battery is probably the most promising thing that I have heard of on that score as they apparently are already producing them as a factory process, not just a lab experiment - http://powerjapanplus.com/battery/
Maybe this is actually a really sneaky fundraiser for GNOME, sponsored by Groupon.
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I wasn't congratulating. Just happy that this worked out in GNOMEs favor for obvious reasons.
I used to work on Cloud Foundry for a while. I eventually left the project and became a core maintainer of Deis and have never looked back. Why?

The community is absolutely amazing here. I have had pleasant conversations with everyone from day 1. The OpDemand folks were very welcoming to my suggestions and they really helped me get started in the early days. everything is done in the open. Not a single feature goes by without a fair trial or a discussion from the community.

Hacking on Deis, getting started and tuning it to your liking has always been there from the get-go. Cloud foundry... not so much.

Cloud Foundry provides the application deployment workflow, but they're missing a few core features, most notably application rollbacks and zero-downtime app migrations at the router level. There is also no scheduler tag support so you cannot control what node your apps will be scheduled to.

They use forks of heroku buildpacks, making them heroku-incompatible in some cases. Their java buildpack is specific to cloud foundry. Hello vendor lock-in.

In-place upgrades work beautifully. I've been dogfooding a running Deis cluster for about a month now, testing upgrade paths from version to version. Just stop the components, bump the platform version and boot them up again. Boom, v0.14.1 to v0.15.0. Cloud Foundry's upgrade path is to basically stand up a second production cluster, migrate your data, app slugs, cluster config and cut over DNS records to your new cluster.

If you have any more questions on Cloud Foundry vs. Deis, Gabriel or myself would be more than happy to discuss with you over IRC or email. My email is matthewf@opdemand.com
How can this be accurate, I mean in 1900 we didn't have the knowledge to accurately diagnose the cause of the death?
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It's an art thing.
I believe it combines the best ideas of React & Flux & Backbone:

- A small library that you can read and hack easily

- No templates or HTML/JSX in your JavaScript

- Models & Collections are small wrappers around Objects & Arrays

- Declarative DOM representation provides a simple binding between views and models (optional)

- One-directional data flow

- Child components are managed automatically (no zombie views)

- Proper Collection.set performs a smart update without relying on sorting

- Built-in List component for displaying a list of models
This is a good point. Record labels probably played an important role when sales was physical (stores, supply-chains, printing CDs, etc). Nowadays: I don't know what they do.

Spotify is owned >30% by record labels, so your point is an important one!
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Servers, storage and bandwidth do indeed have costs. The labor involved to run this infrastructure has a cost. The existence of Spotify fills a demand by artists' listeners. That's a lot of value. Are you suggesting that the value provided in meeting customer demand is worth "nearly zero"?