skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sad that this question hasn't actually even been answered yet.

Some things perl does under the hood to be fast are that integers are (mostly) actually integers under the hood. Arrays are actually arrays under the hood (a fact that makes perl's DBI very fast). And more importantly it has had decades of people trying to make it faster without changing the (sometimes crazy) semantics of the language.

But of course languages with JITs a have massively overtaken it in the performance stakes (PyPy, LuaJIT, and JavaScript). Mostly I think this is a result of lack of funding and huge company spending. Just look at what Facebook have managed to do with PHP.
Do you usually walk on footpaths, or on the road in between cars?
Hm, does anyone know if this would mess up hardware RAID (specifically LSI MegaRAID running RAID10)?

We have some of these drives in RAID, along with some spares sitting around. All bought around the same time, but who knows if they were manufactured during the transition.
I know for a long time there was an issue with Flash not supporting 64 bit browsers (and a browser without flash was hard to sell)
Not necessarily timer coalescing and probably more of a radio optimization. All 3rd party code will run on the phone and not the watch, so any updates to the UI made via code will have to necessarily travel over Bluetooth.

Apple wants to limit the frequency of these updates, so the most frequently updated UI bits (clocks, timers) will be done on the device itself without the persistent BT use.
Direct link to their new Kickstarter campaign for the Espruino Pico: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-pico-javas... (4 days left)
This is interesting. If I was a McGill employee, I'd be getting ready to try "foobarAAAAAA" and "AAAAAAfoobar"....
Wildcard SSL certs are ~$100/year. Those have always been much more of a racket, but they're so worth the extra cost to set them up once on your load balancers and not have to think about SSL certs again for 5+ years.
North Korea also has a 50% larger population compared to East Germany at the time of reunification (~24M vs ~16M) which, it seems to me, would only increase the costs.
Automobility: Concept by Ideo
Thanks. Most of the work has been done by the authors of the projects and the reports, I merely integrated their entries.
When something becomes more resilient the more it is damaged, it can be said to be antifragile.

However, a closed source product that is engineered centrally still has elements of fragility contained within it that you will not find in decentralized approaches. In the very long-run, antifragility wins over robust yet fragile systems.

That is one reason why I will consider GNU/Linux and BSD to be more secure than Windows. In the long run.
>Your post is rather rambling and hyperbolic

My post is very direct and clear, and contains absolutely no hyperbole. Rather than make up nonsense to try to dismiss what I said, if you feel you can not respond without further embarrassing yourself then simply opt not to. The fact that you have yet to answer my very simple direct question, and instead want to try to weasel more FUD against free software in is quite telling. But now I have a new question. Since BSD licensed code is so bad for society, I assume you don't use openssh, or X Windows, or apache, or nginx, or any of the other massively important BSD licensed software millions of people benefit from?

>I suggest reading the FSF's explanation of why the GPL exists.

I suggest you try to be less condescending when trying to convince people to buy into your lies.

>The right to keep other people from using and modifying software is, by contrast, not a legitimate freedom.

Words have meaning. They still have the meaning even if you do not like it. Freedom means freedom. Not "only freedoms I approve of". Your statement is every bit as absurd as people claiming the freedom to prevent others from entering your home is not a "legitimate freedom".

>The GPL attempts to disarm such attack routes by requiring you to pass on, to all subsequent downstream users, the same right to use and modify the software that you yourself received

No, it passes down an obligation, not a right. Not a freedom.

>The BSD license by contrast, allows you to sue downstream users who modify the software for copyright infringement

No, the BSD license does not prevent you from suing people who modify your code. You have no ability to sue people for modifying the BSD licensed code. You are resorting to the oldest and most obviously incorrect FUD technique, one which even RMS has requested GPL fanatics refrain from repeating. My code that uses BSD licensed code is not the BSD licensed code I used. Nothing done to my code has any effect on the BSD licensed code. It can not be "made closed" or any such nonsense.

>But because it's BSD-licensed, Apple can prohibit me from distributing modified versions of OSX, and can invoke the DMCA to prevent me from reverse-engineering it in certain ways.

That would still be true if they did not use BSD licensed code. That's the point. Nothing is lost here. The only thing that changed is instead of apple writing code, they used existing code which due to age and examination is almost certainly of higher quality than anything apple could have produced in such a short time span. So users of apple software got better software, and nobody lost out on anything. Hardly seems a negative to society.

>That's a "freedom" the BSD license allows Apple to retain, to use the power of the state to restrict my freedom.

Apple is not restricting your freedom. The government is, via copyright law. You feel so entitled to other people's work that you conflate "someone did not grant me additional rights above and beyond those I already have" with "someone is restricting my freedom".
Not stingy, just picky.

I have an offer at for $60k base with $100k on-target earnings. I wouldn't say that's stingy at all.
That or "Envisioning Information." "Visual display..." is slightly more quantitative (as the name would suggest). He has some ebooks for $2 if you just want to get a feel for his writing and design: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ebooks
That's pretty bad. I think those get filtered before it gets to the inbox most of the time, but the phishing continues too. This one from 2010 is pretty similar :

http://www.mcgill.ca/it/news/phishing-attack-mcgill-email-11...
If you look at the post WWII economic performance of South Korea, and North Korea until ~1980 or so when their leadership started to impede them, it is clear the peninsula has what you might call very high levels of latent human capital, seeing as how just about all of their physical capital had been destroyed.
Not a dumb question at all. I left my Tufte books at the office, so I can't check, but I thought he cited sources throughout.

Either way, between Cleveland, Robins, Few, and Ware there're tons of studies and references:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/wsc/index.html

http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/2028337238_Naomi_B_Ro...

http://www.perceptualedge.com/library.php

http://www.amazon.ca/Visual-Thinking-Design-Colin-Ware/dp/01...

Better is subjective though and related to what you're trying to do. A lot of past research was about efficiency of information transfer. There's more recent research looking at memorability. In one report, different graphics could have both goals.

There's a "Useful Junk" paper delving into that topic. There's a link to it in Few's reply: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intel...

There's plenty more. Stanford Vis group is a fun place to check from time to time: http://vis.stanford.edu/ Heer specifically has a range of papers and some online slides for a vis course he taught http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/ (uses Tufte for the course text)

I'm drawing a blank on a few others I find informative...

Unfortunately, I don't have any about fonts but I'm sure there are plenty out there.
Clear your cookies after 10 dumbass.
> I don't think the target audience is likely to be aware of that tidbit either.

Personally I'm a firm believe people who assume others are stupid without proof are the real stupid ones.

It was white knight style, lets get karma and pretend OP is to dumb to look after themselves, I'll be the hero and give them condensing advice.

No mention of helmet reuse was in the original post at all.
Scala!

You'll have the excellent Play Framework and Spray IO. WebJars, SbtWeb, and its plugins lets you add all sorts of goodness including calling nodejs stuff on your javascripts. And you won't stray too far from the JVM.
as a hw startup founder, its amazing how heavy this feels. Obviously this is a mature, successful business but wow, its almost amazing anything gets built. Granted, what gets built is awesome.
I don't have personal experience with it, but this just launched: http://driveshift.com/

It seems to only be available in San Francisco right now, though.
I've actually been to China and I can tell you that there is a lot of bicycle traffic on the wide, dedicated bike/moped/motorcycle pathways. The locals are fast. Also, the drivers drive as if those cyclists were invisible. For instance, they make abrupt right turns across the bike lane without caring whether or not they are flanked by bikes or not (including electric and gas powered two-wheelers). At any time, you have to be prepared for a car to swerve in front of you to make a right turn, not always signaling beforehand.

If anything, an American who is a n00b on the scene will probably stand out by going slower than the locals, out of sheer fear.

You'd be crazy to cycle around in a place like Shanghai without a helmet.

(Also, the helmets you buy in America are made in China so why wouldn't you get one if you're in China, haha.)
I was using 64 bit for about a week until only just a couple of days ago. It crashed often and in between crashes it kept popping up windows saying that pages were non-responsive (if I want to "wait" or "kill"). Some were actually unresponsive, others were responsive. Unless they fixed these major issues in only the last couple of days, I'm sticking with 32 bit.
Nothing's on the table as far as what is publicly known. This is just the SK government trying to get prepared for the economic shock of having to absorb NK on short notice, which could happen at any time this century.

SK is also sending a message to the international society that we should all prepare for the collapse of NK, while sending a message to Kim Jong Un that "you won't last long, and we know it."

Just today, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution to refer NK leaders to the International Criminal Court for human rights violations. Totally unrealistic, to be honest, but I guess this is how political pressure works on the world stage. Timing the "we'll spend $0.5T" press release to coincide with the UN resolution is no doubt intended to increase pressure on NK -- if not directly, then at least indirectly by letting the people of NK know that $0.5T is waiting for them if they can get rid of their Dear Leader. (Yeah, the news is censored there, but I'm sure a few thousand people will have heard of it by this time next year.)
Doesn't the current install of FreeBSD default to 4k blocks even on 512-byte drives?
We've got parallelism in the browser (sorta) with webworkers.
Authenticated and encrypted? That throws a wrench into things.
The recorded fact was that the new land was useless without the labor to support it. Herman Merivale spoke at length about the economic realities of slavery America: "No economical cause can be assigned on which we may rely for the extinction of slavery."

So ya, maybe by the mid-1800, additional forces were established. But the only reason that was a possibility was because, from the 1500s onward, people wanted to (and did) exploited the fertile soil. It's like taking a snapshot of 1979 and saying Michael Corleone was a legitimate business man.

Also, there was other crappy stuff going on beyond slavery (but slavery-like). The building of the transcontinental railroad. Taxes on non-US citizens (with restrictions on what races could become US-citizens).
I confess ignorance about this theory, but I see it a lot and I don't understand. It just seems bizarre to think that life began on a comet. Sure, we want to know the origin of life. What does pushing it off the Earth solve? I guess my question is, What are the positive reasons for thinking life arrived from a comet? I can't think of any. As a layman, the theory is so strange I'm not even sure why it needs to be refuted. Can someone explain why this idea is popular?
The full text of the option that won, since the results mail doesn't include it:

"The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of the vote.

Regarding the subject of this ballot, the Project affirms that the procedures for decision making and conflict resolution are working adequately and thus a General Resolution is not required."

The graphical results (rendered from the graphviz at the end of the voting results mail) show the full preferences of the project:

https://twitter.com/josh_triplett/status/534870813863051264

A labeled edge from A to B in that graph means that voters preferred A to B by that margin.

Those results answer several questions, in addition to the clear statement in the GR text above. In particular, it's clear that 1) people consider any result preferable to further discussion (just barely in the case of mandatory support for other init systems), 2) people still consider it desirable to support other init systems, just not mandatory, and 3) people would rather see a definitive statement in favor of systemd dependencies than a definitive statement against them.
It doesn't matter what they are doing, it matters if the basis for claiming helmets are useful for cycling apply to walking. And they do. The testing bicycle helmets undergo is in fact approximating the speed of a walking person falling over on their head. Research has failed to support the idea that helmets offer a net benefit for cycling. I suspect the same would hold true of walking if people took the insanity to the next step and push helmets on walkers.
Hi. This such an amazing project to work on. Who started this? Who came up with this idea?
I expected this.
I was going to comment that this sounds like an opportunity to get mileage out of the huge amount of typeinfo already provided by DefinitelyTyped by building a tool to convert .d.ts into .d.flow files.

After investigating this thought, it looks like this already at the top of the list for future plans for Flow:

http://flowtype.org/docs/coming-soon.html
Note that modern does not mean perfect.
I'm not sure you answer could not fall into the "this-language-lacks-my-favorite-cool-fancy-feature-so-it-is-necessarily-an-old-fashioned-crappy-piece-of-s*" syndrome?
The CA will be cross-signed, so it does not need to be added to browsers right away in order to be accepted. It will be treated as an intermediate cert, not a root cert, by all mainstream browsers at the outset.

But there is a lot of paperwork to be done, and a lot of engineering to be done, and a lot of things to buy and people to hire, in order to get a CA operating.
Uh, wrong. The Nexus 7 2012 launched with 4.1 and has seen upgrades to 4.2, 4.4 and now 5.0. The Nexus 4 also has had 3 major upgrades.
Irony of a status page: status.azure.com
this is a much more serious project, not a side project. I know she has a developer who worked on it for months.

She has a few customers (I believe, who prepaid) - she's looking for new customers, so if someone can help her with that, she might bring them on as a partner.
The implementation is heavily influenced by Pottier's work on subtyping + inference. https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/73205/filename/RR-3483...

Also, some techniques from Typed Racket (occurrence typing): http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/popl08-thf.pdf

Many other papers have influenced the design in some way or the other. For example, Abadi/Cardelli's theory of objects.
thanks - that provides some context :)
This wasn't meant to happen.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/11/msg00040.html
All that changed are the default settings. It's unfortunate that Intel didn't document the change but the fix is to add a new step to the drive replacement procedure to reconfigure the firmware. This is a scriptable action. Not that big a deal.
Plaintext is zero security.

Self-signed is a low probability of security.

Signed is a high probability of security.

This continuum makes more sense than the current state of affairs.
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Esp. considering that NK's GDP per capita is ~$1800.
Sounds like me - the middle gears on my DuraAce cassette finally wore out after 20+ years so I pieced together a new one. It's a major pain on vintage bikes, definitely want to change your chain before it wears and maybe get a higher quality chain. I also recently invested in a chain cleaner - loads of fun.
Looks fine now... On the other hand, I'm having massive problems with Azure tonight. Thankfully we are outside of business hours...
No, you don't. You "just" need slower fallbacks that does metadata lookup for things that are not statically decidable.

Consider how many people end up implement their own introspectable C object models.
I doubt they'd stop updating users just because of this change. It's more likely that they roll out the auto-upgrade in stages, rather than having everyone update all at once.
There are also going to be controls to limit automated issuance for domains with existing certs, among other criteria.
Yet another reason to build thorium reactors since the "waste product" is PU-238.
But bike helmets are not for accidents involving motor vehicles. They may help in some of those accidents, but they are not rated for that.

The right question is, when was the last time you fell while out for a walk, or crashed into something, such that you banged your head?

When was the last time you needed brakes in order to come to a stop when out for a walk?
No, that mail was in response to an unintentional results mail sent out at the beginning of the voting period with 0 votes, at https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/11/msg00038.html .

These are the actual results of the vote; as noted at https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003 , the vote ended at Tuesday, November 18th, 23:59:59 UTC, 2014 (about 80 minutes ago).
We have some basic editor support, more is coming soon. Flow exposes several commands that are useful through an editor, like type-at-pos (give it a position, it gives you back the inferred type), suggest (give it a file, it dumps out an annotated file), autocomplete (gives you suggestions at a given position), etc. Also, we require annotations at module boundaries, so you're modules are going to have well-typed interfaces that serve well for both documentation and stability.
And it is much poorer, and far behind technologically.
Noticing a few issues like so:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cl4to142icjw2ay/Screenshot%202014-...
Facebook Saves All the Stuff You Type, Even If You Never Post It
I use this template for handouts (with some changes: the default fonts drive me nuts so I use Charter). But that's mostly because I like having room to take notes in the margins, and I like the sidenotes.

For anything I don't print out myself and hand to people, though, I expect it to be read on a computer or, ideally, a tablet, which changes the design a lot.
Here's Part II!

http://ptotrading.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-day-i-lost-sht-to...
Few minutes ago it said: 'Page unable to load as internal error occurred'. Straight and clear to the point!
..now the page doesn't respond.
JavaScript: The real bad parts
Chrome, right? Not sure what to do about that. I think Chrome is doing some weird baseline alignment stuff that breaks with the custom font.

The issue is open on Github: https://github.com/wellsriley/YosemiteSanFranciscoFont/issue...
What kinds of things do you do to go from zero to millions? What is affiliate marketing if not the spammy stuff?
Mine just updated to version 39 and it got the 64-bit support.
Yes, but the web is an extremely recent phenomenon relative to journalism in general, and journalism has historically been something where you had to pay to read.
They were sold. That means they were not closed, you do not buy something and then shut it down. Some was shut down later, or repurposed.
The federal government doesn't want its sources and methods exposed. They have allowed moles supplying info to the Soviets to go unprosecuted because nabbing them would have tipped off the Russians that their communication channels weren't secure.
Faster, able to use more memory more efficiently. More ram usage.
We actually built this because we write a lot of JavaScript at Facebook, and we need a tool like Flow. So yes, we worked on it full-time, with "funding": our developers like to move fast, Flow helps them do that.

(It's a different matter that we would have done this on our free time anyway, because it's so much fun!)
Can you build and a deliver a box in a U form factor that you can setup a service contract around?
There's no indication of it happening. If it happens, it could happen quickly; it's even more unpredictable because so little is known about what goes on inside North Korea.

It would be a massive task for South Korea and the people of North Korea are very poor, brutally oppressed, and would have great immediate needs including food, security and political stability for 25 million people. Look at the consequences of political vacuums in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Somalia to see what happens when those needs aren't met: The situation can break down quickly and become unredeemable. History may depend on how quickly SK acts, which may depend on how well they are prepared.

Also, if there is chaos in NK -- on China's border -- China may decide they need to intervene for their own security, or use that as an excuse.
I have groups for:

-My football tipping group

-My D&D group

-My board games group

-A group of my closeish (25 members) friends used to organise events and general chit chat which we aren't necessarily comfortable sharing with all of Facebook.

For me, the valuable features of Facebook are now groups and events, everything else is just junk.
Merkel Acquires 500Friends (YC W10)
No way. Ever heard of a force majeure clause? If Kim Jun nukes Tokoyo or LA, Progressive and Geico are not going to cover the damage to your car. In war, all contracts are off. You're simply screwed.
Yes, it does. You can define object types like { x: number; y: string }, tuple types like [number, string], function types like (x:number) => string, etc.
I might not be in the majority, but I actually like the new system font Helvetica Neue. I am a huge fan of it and on a Retina Display it makes so much sense. Understandably those who do not have the luxury of a Retina Display, I can understand the frustration, but having said that, I think the whole system font change thing has been blown out of proportion.

Even though I like Helvetica Neue, I really dig the new San Francisco font, it is a pretty nice alternative that seems to work pretty well for those who are using a non-Retina Display. If you want to bring back Lucida Grande, this Github repository has a handy script that will do that for you (some work colleagues of mine, designers mainly did it to bring back the old font): https://github.com/schreiberstein/lucidagrandeyosemite
JS the language of the future? Why? It has probably the worst gotchas of any language I've coded in

You have conflated quality and popularity.
Microsoft Azure Outage
Is Azure down?

Status: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#current

Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=azure&src=typd