skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry about that, we had lots of trouble with WebGL in Chrome under Yosemite. It did seem to clear up with a new release from Google a few days ago.

The click-drag interaction on desktop is slightly goofy. We discussed adding cursor key and clickable arrows for previous and next, but concluded that it wasn't that bad. It's super nice on touchpads and touch.
That helps! I guess it assumes your origin servers have the capacity to serve the traffic. Or did you switch CDNs? Just curious as there are services like Cedexis (or TurboBytes; the author of the article) for load balancing CDNs
Yes. Instead of using pqowieurpqoiwer.cloudfront.net, you can point one of your own subdomains at it. Leaves you in control. The only complexity is SSL certificates - you either have to pay $600/month for a custom cert, or use SNI and ditch some older IEs.
Isn't it possible to route all traffic to/from an Android device through a MIM proxy, run the Uber app, and then see exactly what data is being sent to Uber HQ?
I really like this explanation. I can see a lot of truth in it from my own childhood.
jersey[0], the reference implementation of JAX-RS[1] does this if you specify an incoming query string parameter as a `List`

[0] https://jersey.java.net/
[1] https://jax-rs-spec.java.net/
With that logic, they should have expected [1,2,3] + [1,2,3] == [2,4,6]
Ruby Threads and the Global Interpreter Lock in C
Meh. Adds an extra DNS lookup.

Just have a short TTL and let people who ignore it suffer. ;-)
That is some of the best argument I've heard to go back to OpenBSD.
>Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a DIY medical textbook. Wikipedia emphatically does not give medical advice.

That disclaimer (hidden in the terms and conditions section) does not change the fact that many people do use Wikipedia for medical information. Each page that contains medical content should have its own disclaimer stating that the information contained in it has not been checked by doctors for accuracy and could have been changed by anyone at any time and could be incorrect. As this article points out [1]:

They discovered that 90% of the entries made statements that contradicted latest medical research. Lead author Dr Robert Hasty, of the Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine in North Carolina, said: "While Wikipedia is a convenient tool for conducting research, from a public health standpoint patients should not use it as a primary resource because those articles do not go through the same peer-review process as medical journals."

>If you see dangerous information please feel free to edit it out

But how would I know if it's dangerous? I'm not a doctor. Your comment encapsulates the problem. You are asking me, a non-trained person, to make medical judgments on behalf of others.

When Google chooses Wikipedia pages to be the top result for medical queries, instead of peer-reviewed information then that is an enormous barrier to entry.

[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27586356
You are being disingenuous.

(a) "A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest." "The conflict in a conflict of interest exists whether or not a particular individual is actually influenced by the secondary interest. It exists if the circumstances are reasonably believed (on the basis of past experience and objective evidence) to create a risk that decisions may be unduly influenced by secondary interests."

It is reasonable to believe that a person discussing his employer on public forum creates a RISK that his posting decisions MAY be unduly influenced.

Stating that a conflict of interest exists doesn't question the integrity of the person per se. I am not sure why would you choose a COI definition that is easily disproven by Wikipedia.

(b) Simple. That is not what I said. "suggesting that coercive force to be used to shut down" != "[to] be not against some external entity or random event shutting down".

And finally, (c). You were the one going full ad hominem without addressing anything in my original argument.

I don't get your motivation, though. It is obvious that HN is skewed in UX/UI and in the discussion contents in the favor of YC and YC alumni. That's the point. What is your reason to be aggressive about that?
>we are probably looking at complete collapses in housing, transport, sanitation and health in the coming decades

Right. You won't need a retirement fund because you will rule the apocalyptic wasteland.
Nginx is a very primitive load balancer. Use haproxy.
There is no character assassination going on here. I'm simply pointing out the incentives. Bear in mind that DannyBee is also engaging in what you call 'character assasination' on the same basis.

You, on the other hand, are now name calling, denying the power imbalance I mentioned, and accusing me of lying.

Why do you feel the need to put so much emotional energy into defending DannyBee, who seems quite capable of defending himself?

You seem to have clearly deviated from what you call 'civic discourse' - why have you chosen to do that? Does it seem justified by my comment?

If you think so, then ask yourself why it is acceptable for you to break from 'civic discourse', and yet it is not justified for me to do so, as you claim I have. Do you think your opinion is more right, or more likely to receive support?
In American English, the correct form is "Company X is" where the company is considered singular. However, in British English, the correct form is/can be "Company X are" where the company is considered plural.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1338/are-collecti...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601975
My take on services in Rails
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It reads like a character assassination. A very negative interpretation for no particular reason, and a highly incredulous and begrudging perspective of the extreme introverted or loner character.

A truly awful article.
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I ran across the Stellarator concept a few weeks back. Just on the basis of the name alone, it's awesome.

Not that that makes me think it's any more likely to work....
Concerned. Memes are in-group signalling one notch above the crudest kind such as football chants, a few notches below the more sophisticated kind like quoting Shakespeare, but all ultimately with the potential to exclude and confuse - which is definitely the opposite of what a technical spec should be trying to do.
A similar thing might be done for e-books, too. Because e-books are sooner or later falling into torrent networks becoming available for free.
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Thanks, hope it helps.
I think the writer meant that the gift is one that you didn't ask for, but realize that it is a great thing. Nobody asked for Newtonian Physics, but he delivered it and greatly improved our understanding of our world.
Boron + Hydrogen = 3 helium. No neutrons are produced.
EBay’s Plan to Reinvent Retail Shopping with Magic Mirrors
Fusion is a technology that may make it possible for the Humanity to live the Solar System. It's THAT important.

But I guess there are very few more mundane applications.
And it's about fucking time. Now people can get on with all the fun and meaningful things in life instead of idiotic drudgery.
> I'd struggle to suggest a different mail provider than gmail such is there monopoly in that space.

Outlook.com is great, I love it more than GMail personally, especially since I can pay a relatively affordable $19/year to get rid of the ads and know that my email provider doesn't have programs scanning every word of every email I send or receive.

Privacy is a feature, you don't get that when using Google services.
> How could have anybody been so stupid?

We are talking about the people publishing "Bild", here. It's not actually about being stupid, it's about being blinded by their own evilness.

Would you expect anything different from, say, Murdoch?
Didn't bart used to have restrooms on every station until 9/11 ?

Anyways, Palo Alto has a bunch of public ones and all of them are damn gross. Worse than civic center plaza. I wonder how hard (expensive) is it to keep them clean.
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Yeah, its why I'm not disappointed that the restrooms in BART's Market Street stations are still closed. Toilets used heavily by transients are going to get trashed very quickly.

Lets be honest, there's nothing more humbling than walking down Market across from Twitter HQ, and seeing a homeless person whip it out to piss next to that den of newly minted millionaires and affluent tech workers. We can't provide public needs for those in need, but if we do, we need to be careful they don't become unhealthy cesspools either.
Just screw sharps bins to the walls like Sydney's public bathrooms do.

Thise restrooms with sharps bins are handily identified on maps.

https://toiletmap.gov.au/Mobile?state=New%20South%20Wales&lo...

It's part of the (I think) community sharps disposal programme. http://www.communitysharps.org.au/resources/disposal-options

People addicted to drugs take drugs. We need to recognise that, and reduce the harm they do to others. Needle-stick injuries are a significant concern to a wide range of low pay workers, so better needle disposal programmes are a good idea.
probably not. suppose what kinda retirement plan you got? i'm not hedging my bets on my state pension plan, that stuff will go bankrupt long before i get to see any kind of pay off.
The New Yandex.Browser
See https://github.com/benbristow/getadblock/pull/1
is this 2004? D-Bus has been around for 9 years.

it’s not an OS primitive (yet: kdbus), but why does it need to?
Ask HN: How much equity should I give my new co-founder?
I'm solo-founder and everything goes good for now. But I'm very stressed now and I think it would be better if I would have a co-founder. Our startup is ready and already launched 2 month ago. I found a good guy, that I think he can help me to grow our startup. Now he asks what part of my startup I'm going to give him.

I can't decide how much percent equity should I give him.

He is startup-savvy guy, knows SEO, online marketing strategies, online business growth-hacking etc. No coding skills.

Our startup is SaaS but our business model isn't on recurring revenue. Clients make one time payments.

Margin profit now: 80% revenue (team= me(founder)+3 employee+ 2 long-time freelance developers + tax)

Real revenue in first 2 months:

Oktober - 1st month – 1230 $

November - 2nd month – 9820 $

Revenue Prediction :

3rd month – 11000$

4th month – 20000 $

5th month – 25.000 $

6th month – 35.000$

7th month – 40.000$

8th month – 45.000$

9th month – 50.000$

10th month – 55.000$

11th month – 70.000$

12th month – 80.000$

13th month – 90.000$

December 2015 – 14th month – 100.000$

Total Revenue on end of 2015: 662.050 $
So £84k - £96k total spent per month right (assuming the 30 person team you said before) BEFORE you subtract revenue?
Unit tests so I can sleep at night.
> as well as treating its product with contempt.

Well, Google's customers are its product, seeing as it lives off ad revenue. :)

I hear what you are saying though, Google doesn't even care about its own services for what they are, just how much data they can collect from them for advertising.

They're in stark contrast to Microsoft who will keep things on life support forever because they think the service provides value to someone since they can prop it up with funds from elsewhere and a little TLC on occasion, because frequently they can spin them differently or make the changes neccesary for them to become profitable on their own (see BPOS to Office 365).
i didnt realize you could add the if statement in the comprehension where you did

['a' if i % 2 == 0 else 'b' for i in range(10)]

very cool!

I was on aware of code like

['a' for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0]
Disagree. Not everything that works without or around Google is an effort to break apart Google.
There is some recent research has shown that programming languages present some "naturalness":

Hindle, Abram, et al. "On the naturalness of software." Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012 34th International Conference on. IEEE, 2012.
http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/natural.pdf
We started using Google Cloud Storage when it first came out so that user uploads would be closer to them (in theory) due to GCS' distributed design. They seem to have periods of 15-90 minutes every few months where they start timing out or giving us huge errors and often times we don't even hear about it either. They don't have a status page any only announce via email list - usually way after we've been scrambling.

Anybody else have a bad experience with Google Cloud Storage? I'm wondering if we're better off going with S3. Most users on my site are uploading photos, so when that dies, everything is down.
Feel free to correct my math here:

50% share of business after tax take: 6,000,000x0.7 = 4,200,000
Being extremely conservative and investing in LQD: 4,200,000x3.13%/12 ~ $11,000

Would you walk away from a check for $11,000/month forever?
If you can grow faster than by all means do! The 10-20% guidance you get in YC is not realistic as you get bigger, smart VCs are much more realistic about revenue growth (given it is recurring and you don't have to pay to acquire that revenue again each month).
At least for EC2 status updates and their color (green i, etc) are only posted if they meet certain thresholds. IE: Greater than $X number of instances are actually offline or unavailable etc.

Possibly many of the outages you happen to be seeing are in reality not that large thus not meeting the threshold to have a post, or major status update.
i didnt realize you could add the if statement in the comprehension where you did

['a' if i % 2 == 0 else 'b' for i in range(10)]

very cool!

I was only aware of code like

['a' for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0]
(author of the post here) I agree, we don't see ourselves as searching for a business model anymore. We are scaling something that works now.
> Spoon is the first and only containerization service available on the Windows platform

Sandboxie was the first one: http://www.sandboxie.com , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandboxie
It's worth reading this article:
http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-m...

Homeless people were using the BART escalators as restrooms at night... causing them to break down. The solution? Multi-million dollar covers to stop people getting down there at night – not a considerably smaller sum for public restrooms.

This speaks to the psychology. There is still a population in SF that believes homelessness is a choice. And that facilities encourage homelessness. There is another segment that believes SF already shoulders a disproportionate amount of dealing homelessness. There are a lot of people that just find them annoying.

I'm always surprised how many locals don't believe Civic or Tenderloin is ever going to change. Why? Zoning, regulations – but mostly because it's always been that way.

So, yeah. I don't quite understand it either.
trolls gonna troll
Your calculation seems flawed. A 5% efficiency boost isn't just direct labor cost savings
Every time I'm asked for a postal code (in Canada) I always use V4G1N4.
They never notice.
> A world in which everything you do or say is recorded [is] a world I don't want to take part in.

I hope you will change your mind, since that world is all but inevitable as bandwidth, storage, and cameras become nearly zero cost.
Kudos for having enough doubt that your intuition was correct to actually write the simulation!

Self-doubt is a quantity often found wanting among smart people, computer programmers, and especially among the intersection ;)
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Yes, I meant the end-users as product :-)
Even BART elevators (at least in the urban core) are nasty and practically toilets. Just try taking the elevator at Oakland Coliseum or Civic Center.
There needs to be strict policing of public accommodations (and I use the term policing in a generic sense), but the political will to do so isn't here in the Bay Area. Just look at the freakout over homeless people squatting in the downtown BART stations.
Do you have an example of a project where you got R&D Tax Credits?
Of course it's not groundbreaking, but until it becomes commonplace, it's nice to hear about such things happening.
$600 per month for what exactly? (honestly asking here)
Yeah, and that's not really equivalent HTML either. That's more like:

<p>
<text>This is</text>
<b><text>bold</text></b>
<text>text.</text>
</p>

(which is a lot easier for a machine to parse, at least.)

JSON and YAML are great for what they do: data serialization, but they're just not appropriate choices for text markup. You have to use the right tool for the job.

There was a time when the industry wanted to cram 100% of everything into XML, and that gave us XSLT, XAML, SOAP, etc. We don't want to go back to that, either.

Personally, I'm most fond of an extended Markdown syntax to replace HTML. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting on web browser vendors to agree on such a syntax, so instead I have my HTTP server do the conversion to HTML for me.

But if you had to force it into JSON, then I would suggest using a different markup for inline elements, eg:

html
body
p: "This is [/italic/] text."
p: "This is [[google.com => a hyperlink.]]"
Even if it were "not the kind of code that you deal with in 90% of the cases" that would not mean it "was not an objective comparison".

It might mean it wasn't a relevant comparison for you; but if those 10% of cases were performance critical it would be very relevant.
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It's not nearly as bad as it was when payout was still strictly by production. Nowadays, farmers are paid to let fields fall fallow so there's no insane overproduction, hence less market crashing abroad.

Some sort of CAP is a necessity: The point is to keep local farmers in business as to keep local production capacity (not necessarily production) alive so that when shit hits the fan when it comes to imports, Europeans won't starve.

Yes, there should be further fixes. But it's much better than in the past, and I think the fishing policy should be dealt with first.
Just gate off the street entrances to the BART stations along Market Street and in the Mission. Problem solved.

I would really (ideally) like the urban BART stations to have restrooms, but unless the authorities are going to make sure they are clean, safe and sanitary, that's not going to work.
It's almost certainly 16-bit and you can't run 16-bit apps with the 64-bit instructions enabled.
Reminds me of pg's essay "Why Nerds Are Unpopular"
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
I once dated a single mother, and my only regret is that I got cold feet and didn't marry her. Be careful with cavalier advice like that - people and circumstance never match your own.
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Hm, me for one. Would you care to elaborate on your exasperation?
sure is, i am involved in one. just weird seeing people react as it was a new idea.

edit: grammar
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This may well be a very important and interesting discovery but I cringed a few times at the poor explanation of some of the science.

Example: "a million times thinner than human hair, yet more than 200 times stronger than steel" the word "yet" suggests that it is very strong in an absolute sense despite being so thin. Yet in reality the comparison is to an atom-thick sheet of steel, which is not very strong at all. This strength doesn't easily scale, as evidenced by the fact that graphite (lots of graphene layers) is not 200 times stronger that steel. (note that my explanation of the science may not be perfect but it is better than this article)
Traditional thank you cards with ease of sending it out with a click of a button.

Just Pick. Click. Send Quick.
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Welcome to the real world. Most small software businesses who offer some small service (say, an ERP software package no one has ever heard of + support) to a small number of companies hire the cheapest devs they can find.
Depends on what you mean with "less", especially since as far as I understand no one is close to a economically viable solution yet. But shorter half-life is most likely true.
Something like "git 2.2.0 released with significantly improved features" would be quite sufficient.
microprocessors, the C programming language, the government for giving me money to go to college where I otherwise wouldn't have been able to go.
In terms of coding style, I agree with you that following the number line is usually going to be clearest. I think there might be some situations where descending is better than ascending, but certainly both are radically better than what I did above (low > high < lower).

As an example for what I was specifically trying to show here, though, that doesn't let me distinguish things quite as clearly.

I believe that (a < x < b) gives the same value as at least one of (a < x) and (x < b) for any value of x.

x < a:
a < x gives false
a < x < b gives false

a < x < b:
everything gives true

b < x:
x < b gives false
a < x < b gives false

So there's no way to get both of the parenthesized versions to disagree with the unparenthesized version in a single example.
Without SNI, you need a dedicated IP per certificate. For CloudFront, this means dozens of dedicated IPs around the world just for your distribution.
Oracle's skills are very, very useful when your problem is paying the bills. I've done 6502 asm in the commodore 128, 80286, 386 and also ORACLE & public sector large "enterprise-y" software on the other hand. Guess which one pays the bills?
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"Thermal solar can provide base load today"

Sorry, no. That's simply not correct.

The biggest solar installation in existence is a 392 Mw plant in the Mojave Desert that cost about $5.00/watt capacity (which works out to $10.00/watt considering that it doesn't work at night).

That's about twice as much per watt as coal.

It produces electricity at a wholesale cost of about 14 cents per kilowatt hour. The average retail cost of electricity in the United States is about 13 cents. It's an interesting experiment, but no, it doesn't make economic sense.

That's for a measly 392 Mw plant. A large coal plant cranks out 5 Gw, and a large hydro plant can be up to 20 Gw. We don't have that many Mojave Deserts, dude. Not to mention what the environmentalists are going to say if we start covering any substantial fraction of the Mojave Desert with solar plants (this one alone covers 3,000 acres of land).

Wind, with or without batteries, involves similar costs, unreliability, and land use problems, and batteries in general are one of the most environmentally nasty technologies we have.
Do you think that programmers who don't do unit tests are crappy programmers?
I don't really see what's wrong with the climate changing. It has happened before. People just want to mantain the status quo.
You are absolutely correct that it could be implemented as 100% a tweak to the parser.

Assuming filmor is correct, in practice as it happens to be implemented in the Python code base it is not 100% a tweak to the parser - changing the structure of the produced AST means tweaks down the line. I think the change to the parser is still the most meaningful piece, though, even there.
If I feel lonely and isolated, I am less inclined to be creative. If I am healthy and socially active, I feel more motivated to work harder and create.

I have wasted so much while being alone and while being very social. It's a vicious thing but all I can do is improve my habits and seek out balance.
And burn down your backend servers. Assuming you are not swithing to another CDN that fast.
Agreed, the whole thing is completely dodgy.
Electromagnetic aspects of the "Gaia" hypothesis?