skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With New a Relic revenue growth rates are greater than the increase in loss rates. I bought a few hundred shares of New Relic because the financials are actually very strong. There's a lot more going on than simple profit/loss statements, it has to do with rates as opposed to simple hard numbers. As successful as Amazon is, they STILL aren't profitable, yet I bet everyone here wishes they had Amazon IPO shares.

The Mitt Romney comment is rather ignorant. There are many, many major companies that were rescued by Bain. A simple minded view of that industry is to do a discredit to the companies that thrived because of Bain. Staples, Guitar Center, Dominoes Pizza, the list goes on. If it weren't for Mitt Romney, there's be dozens of companies that would have simply gone bankrupt. Business isn't around to be a public service, it's sole purpose is to make a profit; with those profits, they are able to provide people with jobs. If Apple didn't make a profit and closed down, imagine how many people in our community would be out of a job. Profit provides an incentive to operate. I don't make a living writing computer code for charity; our livihoods depend on profit, like it or not.
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Where in this thread did anyone say it's NOT OK for Yahoo to do this?
I wonder if part of the reason is lack of demand too. What percentage of Netflix subscribers actually have 4K monitors + the bandwidth needed to stream something of that quality?
There main test has 60 datapoints... how many tries do you think they made exactly before deciding they didn't correlate as well? Yes, IQ tests are expensive, but if you buy one test, the marginal cost of giving to an extra student is basically 0. I suspect it wasn't tested at all.
That's why I pay for Prime (and Netflix, et. al.), and torrent the content.

Admittedly, I feel a little bad about paying providers of DRMed content, it sends the wrong market signal. But if I didn't pay these content providers, I wouldn't have a mechanism of signalling that I enjoy watching certain TV shows and movies.
It has an episode I searched for that came out two days ago (after the raid, actually), so it can't be that old.
That would probably make me stop using Yahoo.

Although I grudgingly accept a similar prompt on mobile Workflowy (I use firefox there and are prompted to use Chrome for it) even though it annoys the crap out of me. There is not even a possibility to turn this off.

But for Yahoo I have alternatives for workflowy not (yet).
Indeed. In many cases, it would have been faster to drive across town and borrow the disk than to wait on a download. In my experience, with my 14.4k modem, downloading a 1 MB file took about an hour. If you're talking about long-distance BBS connections, unless you knew how to make free long-distance phone calls, it would be generally cheaper to buy the damn thing.
Ask HN: Is global warming really that bad?
This is a question I don't hear very many scientists asking themselves. A few points to consider:

- imagine a million+ year timelapse of the earth rotating rapidly around its axis, spinning through orbit. Initially it's covered in ice, but soon it starts to thaw. Ice turns to life. Plants blossom. Animals breathe. The planet comes alive. Intuitively, do you expect/want the earth to stop thawing just prior to completion? Why should 90% of the earth thaw, while the rest remains stuck in an ice age?

- new shipping routes through the arctic, and more habitats for an ever growing human population to colonize. Who ever said "more space" was a bad thing? It seems like melting ice caps have a lot of economic benefits.

-BUT rising sea levels could wipe out coastal cities everywhere. Still, this would be a gradual process, and one which we can plan for.

Should we accept global warming as inevitable, regardless of whether or not human intervention accelerates it? Should we manage it and plan for it, rather than try fruitlessly to avoid it? Is it possible that global warming could be a net benefit for humanity?
The whole comment is trollish. What does "We need something to replace C (so we are told)" even means?

Either he has a need to a "better/safer etc" C, or he doesn't. If he doesn't, then Rust isn't for him.

And it's not like anybody tries to market Rust to people who don't need it ("so we're told").
If you're like me, I have a swatch of addons for each browser. In time they all start to slow down to a crawl.

I use all browsers for website testing, but my primary is Chrome at the moment, looking to head back to FF.
I think most of the complaints are about the user interface nowadays. It sometimes does have other problems, but that is probably because it takes a while for Yahoo to change.
Using the more general (non-computer) verb "prompt", it just means to "encourage" someone. So saying that Yahoo is prompting (or encouraging) people to switch is by no means an exaggeration.

Edit: removed "upgrade" and replaced it with "switch" as to not imply one is an upgrade over the other. Browser choice is very much a personal preference.
Or is it a question of culture and tooling rather than the language itself?

Pretty much. I write software for Medical Devices and culture and process is what it boils down to. Tooling helps. We use C, C++, C# among other languages. Language makes a little difference in reliability, but not much.

What matters in a nutshell:
Know what you're building: need good Requirements

Analyze those Requirements for correctness, clarity and uniqueness (no conflicts)

Make sure your design meets all the Requirements and doesn't add anything: if you add a feature not in a Requirement, how will the testers know it's there? Verify the design: i.e., does it do what you need and does it do it "well." Does it barely function, or will it handle what you expect to be thrown at it or fail gracefully? Separate the concerns: e.g., need to be sure that the temperature is correct? The temperature control code and the temperature verification code should be decoupled from each other.

Code: probably where language makes the most difference, although different languages will influence your design.

Verify all design artifacts: review your Requirements, Designs, and all Code against predetermined quality standards. Reject anything that doesn't meet the standard. Build what you planned to build, and document what you built. Most errors will stem from Requirements problems.

That's Software Quality in a tiny nutshell ;-)
They are - dedicated silicon support for HEVC. That's how they can do it with such a small form factor and power budget. However a software codec on a modern PC should have no problem with HEVC due to the huge amount of available CPU.
> How about I throw a few pounds of low-speed balsa wood into your car windshield at 75 mph/120kmph and see what happens?

I'll take that over a missile any day.
Makes a lot of sense to me, Firefox is an excellent browser. I hope it will keep its independence though.
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OT, but I'm using your app on a stock Nexus 7 (at 4.4.4), and I find a couple of controls very difficult to trigger, while others respond just fine at the first touch.

The "back up 30 seconds" button can be very fussy and difficult to trigger. Sometimes it takes many touches before it will trigger.

Also, when in a series the end titles of an episode display, it can be quite difficult to get a touch to register so that the titles play out and the app does not skip forward to the next episode before they do. (And even then, another count-down starts that will auto-launch the next episode. I wish (and expressed to your call-in support) that you would add a user account setting to disable this.)

Sorry for the OT, but I would think you'd want the app more responsive in this regard. As I said, the other controls/buttons do not exhibit this difficulty; they are immediately responsive.
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Don't they already have outlets that protect against shock? I thought ground fault interrupt (GFI) outlets are required by code in new U.S. construction.
I respect Yahoo more than google . just listen to what ed snowden told a while ago , Yahoo was one of the companies who fight against NSA , but google did'nt .
please correct me if I am wrong .
Yep, exactly. Google would never sink so low as to advertise.
how is having more features and options not being an upgrade?

chrome is removing customization after customization (specially the ones that harm google business model. Referrer preferences, anyone?) while adding stuff for speed and network. So you have a fixed experience browser that is very fast. and not that firefox is not faster in most use cases anyway. Chrome just have better marketing (and arguably a head start on speed a long time ago)
To get the theory, you could just start on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B+_tree

To understand why the LMDB implementation does what it does will require much more practical knowledge, not theory. The references in my MDB papers (and the paper itself of course) will give you more of that. http://symas.com/mdb/#pubs

B+trees are trivially simple, in theory. Writing one that is actually efficient, safe, and supports high concurrency requires more than theory. It requires understanding of computer system architecture: CPU architecture/cache hierarchies, filesystem and I/O architecture, memory, etc.

It does not require 100KLOC though. RocksDB is just a pile of gratuitous complexity.
Nobody wants to be a garbage man now either, but if the choices are that or complete destitution it starts to look better. I'm sure you did well in freshman econ, though.
Do people flock to torrents? No one I know does. They all watch content on their tv, obtained through a legit streaming service or a cable subscription.

Personally, I don't feel right grabbing torrents, but I also don't want the hassle. I think that legit digital delivery for music and video has, for the most part, crossed the threshold where it's just easier than the alternatives.
It's actually quite interesting to me that many 2014 AV receivers support HDMI 2.0 (Fully capable of 4K video pass through) but DO NOT have HDCP 2.2 implemented.

They are technologically fully capable of providing the desired service (4K video) to the customer but as soon as HDCP 2.2 Blu-ray players and 4K content come out they are fully obsoleted.

"As of this update, among the major manufacturers of AV receivers only Onkyo/Integra offers such AV Receivers that support both HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 as will be needed to support certain of the high quality 4K/UHD video sources, such as the upcoming Blu-ray 4K/UHD players." [1]

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Blu-ray_Disc_and_HD_DVD_pl...
kudos to the tor project team for taking a stand on this issue
The only important part (in terms of SEO) is that you pick one and stick with it. Setup a 301 redirect from the other one. Google interprets the www as different sub domains, and therefore different domains. (Search for "one way street" SEO theory -- top level domain can pass juice down, but not vice versa. That's why places like hubspot don't suffer from spammy subdomains)
Also, i don't think the liberty part included the liberty to be a sociopathic asshole.
if techcrunch thinks my favorite browser should be scorned with quotes on 'upgrade'... i'm on the right path!

thanks for the confirmation, techcrunch!
Perhaps it's time for us to update the doc to reflect reality...
Authority exists. The views of the novice are not worth as much as those of the initiate.

No, that's just the insect talking. What you do is step back and reconsider your working assumptions. Respect the limits of your models and of the modeling process. Stuff like that
There are two advantages to using www.* for a main web site.

1. As luaks points out, you can use a CNAME to alias just the webserver, without affecting MX configuration, etc.

2. You can have use alternate subdomains (like static.example.com or cdn.example.com) for handling static content and prevent cookies from being sent with those HTTP requests. This is a slight performance gain.
In Swedish, "brast" is the common and AFAIK only past tense of this word. Brista brast brustit.
Anecdotal and all but these days i catch myself killing chrome because the computer fan starts to be loud - and reopen the page in firefox - fixes it everytime (granted, i check it is the issue with htop first).

I remember when this was the exact opposite and had to kill Firefox...
Or just used the mini radar system Plextek (iirc) is creating and have a guy go out there with a beanbag gun and bop the thing out the air

http://xkcd.com/538/
The switch from a single worldwide Google deal to three regional deals with Yahoo, Yandex, and Baidu feels like a nice assertion of that independence.
I remember before Netflix and Amazon when it was: DVD or Torrent and this image came out: http://craphound.com/images/ifurapirate.jpeg

That was about stuffing promo's and ads in before the movie but this feels very similar. You can get a better experience by getting a torrent over streaming legally. I pay for Amazon and Netflix but I will still download content from time to time that I can get on them (for no additional cost) because I can get a better experience: no buffering, no quality yo-yo-ing as network speeds fluctuate, no ads, reliable watched status (Using Plex, this is more an issue with Amazon which keeps track of your position in a video but doesn't have watched/unwatched status so it's sometimes hard to pick up in a series where you left off).

Spotify (IMHO) is a great example of a level of service/features (even at a price) beating piracy. I'm still waiting on the "Spotify of TV" (Or movies) and no I don't think it exists out there yet. I would be all over Hulu expect I refuse to pay for a service AND see ads. I would rather pay $20/mo and not see ads then pay the $10/mo and see them. Almost as bad as having to see ads in the first place the ads on Hulu are painfully repetitive at times.
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As a torrent user, I do find that paid content is higher quality and more convenient, unless you have a dedicated setup. It is so simple to turn my TV on and watch a move than it is to connect my laptop, download the torrent, which involves firing up my VM, finding the torrent magnet link, and then DL'ing it.
You don't have to be a centenarian to have fought in WWII. Plenty of them around.
Stalin killing fascists was a good thing. You are retelling a good story but the West, always working on its narrative, does not tell the truth.
And Japan and Italy? Axis powers were trying to join the imperialist game of u.s. and britain of land grabbing colonies. Hence WWII was an inter-imperialist war.
After WWII you get many Third World countries trying to break away from Western puppet governments, colonialism, by flying the red flag.
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You must be joking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_annexation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re... "A decades long civil war ensued in which some 200,000 people were killed, mostly by the US backed military"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9t... "The coup subjected Brazil to a military regime politically aligned to the interests of the United States government"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Too many to dig up.

"Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America"

Are you awake yet?
Both the user interface and the spam filtering are awful. I only use it for a throwaway address (I personally don't pay for it, rohandhruva) so I've never tried any more "advanced" features. Why bother if it can't get the fundamentals right?
Wordplay is one theater for sarcasm that does not lose any weight online, and is often easy for readers to appreciate immediately. There's nothing like a good pun! And of course an exclamation point terminating the penultimate sentence of a paragraph punctuated by an emoji. :)
Huh, this is a cool paper. I like the way they found the 340 "economic communities", and I love the model.
It would take a lot less words if you just said you can download games/tv shows/music for free, and since you can get away with it with almost no chance of getting in trouble, you do.

I'm sure you would have a different attitude if your boss decided to randomly withhold part of your income whenever he wanted because he believes there are no moral consequences of doing so.
> Do people flock to torrents? No one I know does.

I know quite a few people who use torrents (or usenet) as their primary source of TV. Combining Plex + Sabnzbd + Sickbeard you get a internet DVR with little to no maintenance once setup (other than adding more capacity as/if needed). They all have a hulu-like (next day) experience, they get it in HD, and there are no ads.

Legit delivery for music has crossed the threshold but video has not. You still have to use multiple services to watch everything you want.
Similar story here - signed up for DO after coming across a couple of really helpful articles.

For me, the articles show

1) They're competent. If they're experts at solving all these random problems in managing a Linux server, they probably also know how to run a reliable, high-performant VPS.

2) They care about their customers. They're going the extra mile to help customers (and potential customers) solve their actual day-to-day problems. This is a good sign.

Haven't yet had an actual problem that required me to contact their support (which hints at #1), but it's the impression I (and probably many others) got from the articles.
What are the sources for data for Atlas vs for Suro at Netflix?

(Suro: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/announcing-suro-backbone...). Suro was/is used to collect "more than 1.5 million events per second during peak hours, or around 80 billion events per day" from ec2 instances.
If you cancel your subscriptions will you delete your torrented content?

What if content is removed from Netflix?
I actually like to pick one song and listen to it on repeat. I've heard others say the same (Ryan Holiday comes to mind). Similarly I like listening to the Vitamin String Quartet, which performs recognizable pop songs with string instruments. Both listening methods help me focus because the lyrics (or lack thereof) eventually become background noise, but I don't lose the beat that I enjoy.
I think this can be generalized further:

I've been using $RELATIVELY_FRESH_BROWSER_INSTALL again recently. I stopped when it was slower and less stable than $BROWSER_I_HAVE_NOW_BEEN_USING_A_LONG_TIME.

These days it often feels faster than $BROWSER_I_HAVE_NOW_BEEN_USING_A_LONG_TIME.
>> BUT rising sea levels could wipe out coastal cities everywhere. Still, this would be a gradual process, and one which we can plan for.

If we can't muster the political will to take even token action on climate change, what makes you think we could effect the forced resettlement of the majority of the world's population, who live on the coast? Or would even want to? Not to mention the devastating cultural loss of every major coastal city being underwater.

Sorry, but that throwaway statement is so colossally misinformed, it's hard to take you seriously.
They had their IPO today and gained 50%. But you're right, the link itself is useless.
For your setup? Yes, legit tv is easier. Using Sickbeard (Usenet or torrent version) will give you a DVR-like experience with the shows auto-downloading, unziping/unraring, and moving into a defined folder structure 1-24hrs after the show airs.
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I dunno, something like this: http://imgur.com/HNQWMBq
A different take on the same matter: http://www.bottomupcs.com/starting_a_process.html
I think if people are going to questions "adult education" they might question how you got 2 undergrad degrees.

Some universities have a "Graduate Certificate" program where you can take graduate classes. They can be hard to find on websites. They seem to have worked well for a couple of my friends who took them to help them change career directions.

I started taking graduate CS classes for a certificate at Pace (my undergrad was in civil engineering), which ended up being helpful completing a Masters Program at Northeastern.

for example:
http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/seidenberg-programs/graduate-...
I don't see that "Upgrade to the new Firefox" link... ah, wait, I am already on the Firefox!
Lots of things are called a database without having database functionality. man gdbm: GDBM - The GNU database manager.

So you are spouting all your disdain based on a title? Just curious, have you even run any version of mdbm? Or are you just spitting out baseless opinions?

I'm sure your code is awesome and all but man, you are defensive. If your code is that great let it speak for itself. Bashing stuff that isn't even trying to compete with you makes you look pretty insecure. You remind me of me when I was younger; that's not a compliment, I was a raging asshole.
Sneakernet, a classic.

I ran into a story about a guy in the UK that ended up involved in the piracy scene surrounding that platform.

The basic story was that in the UK there were a number of Amiga centric magazines printed. And in the back of them were several pages of classified ads. Amongst them were people offering to swap disks for disks via mail. You sent them a stack of disks and a list of what you wanted, and they would send you back what they had on that list.

So he put up a small ad, and got a few small envelopes. Over time this snowballed into him investing in multiple add-on drives and dedicating whole weekends to copying disks.
What are you talking about? That free market is why colleges "Club-Med" their facilities. It's what the high schoolers (and importantly, their parents) see when they're touring the school, deciding who to sign a decade of future earnings to.
We're arguing exactly the design that you seem to be espousing. Taking into account cost, immaturity due to biological constraints at age 18-22 and rampant party culture, college is a particularily bad place to "find yourself". Young adults should be exposed to a wide diversity in age and demographics, not locked into a small area with a largely homogeneous group of individuals to "grow up". All of this was touched upon in the article. In my opinion, the American "college experience" is in dire need of reconsideration.
The setup you're describing is beyond the reach of a great many people. They pay for Netflix instead.
I have to use different services to get all the music I want. iTunes is great for mainstream stuff but that's about it. Amazon's offering is "eclectic"
Chrome doesn't even work with its own company's social network plugin (Hangouts). I always have to switch to Firefox to use screen share.
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"I read that and wondered why they don't default to a double, instead of an int? Double is javascripts internal type so the effort seems wasted."

Ints take up less space and often take less cycles to perform arithmetic on - so if you can use an int rather than a double it's generally going to be faster.

I can't immediately prove it, but I would imagine that if you modify the source of a JS implementation like Nashorn or V8 to remove int from the type lattice, you will find many programs run dramatically slower.
I use FF daily, for work, and wouldn't use anything else.
Good for Mozilla. They need some promotion from websites. I've heard that Google use to do this for them but I guess that changed once they made their own browser.

I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search only not as good. Hopefully one day there will be a challenge to Google.
How about a campaign to "Vote No on H.R.4681" ?!?