skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that the parent was making the simplicity argument for people on the other side of things - people writing frameworks and websites. Using someone else's HTTP1.1 stack doesn't solve those problems.

Then, separately, writing interoperable HTTP 1.1 is hard because it was designed/taken up ad-hoc in a time of relatively immature browsers. I would expect HTTP2 to increase standardisation in the same way newer HTML/CSS specs have relative to the late-nineties. That doesn't mean that initial implementation will not be more difficult, but it's done once every 20 years (per-vendor).
I'll note that Channel 4 has a public service remit in its broadcast license, which, among other things, requires "demonstrating innovation, experiment and creativity".

Channel 5, otoh, does not, and we don't tend to get a whole lot of interesting new stuff from it - they like to play it very safe.
Perhaps it is better to judge an article by its contents only.
The web embraces random hacks like this, it wouldn't be what it is without people doing stuff like this!
And of course the right to be forgotten doesn't apply to the press - The guardian is a bad as the murdoc press in some ways.

They would always drag out Max Mosley's private life when writing about Formula One is one example.
Results from being #2 on Product Hunt (on a monday) – Venture Assembly
Progressive JavaScript
Posted this since I thought just the raw numbers were interesting: 60 conversions @ $99.
Getting a Website Rank on Google Takes Time
Flux for stupid people
You have to admit they look really similar though. Just google some of the games mentioned: Nethergate, Geneforge and Avernum.
"Applications" on the web are inherently dependant on JavaScript and most often XHR too, but I do agree that using Local Storage has little to no advantage over Cookies.
Funnily enough, if you read the extensive replies I've already written in this thread, you'll see that this decision was made out of concern for the employee based on the unique circumstances of our arrangement, and has nothing to do with my image.

If I was worried about my image, I would've fired her in person so that I could tell everyone "Oh me, oh my, I would NEVER fire an employee without a full honor guard and 21-gun salute!", and so that she couldn't tell anyone "Oh, that guy didn't even have the balls to fire me in person." I also wouldn't post about this on HN defending the executives of major multinational corporations, known worldwide for their abysmal IQs and inability to perform basic critical reasoning functions.

I'm honestly not seeing how opting not to do this in person can be perceived as "good for image". Can you clarify?

Like I said, I've fired people in person before and I'm not going to shrink from that duty if it's truly the best course of action. But I'm not going to insist on it at the cost of the employee's dignity just so that I can tell everyone "I have never fired someone in a non-sound-bite friendly manner".

The C-level that fired everyone by pre-recorded conference call most likely went through a similar dilemma, and I sympathize with him. I don't think it's an objectively bad way to fire a group of people. Is the alternative, that your peers start getting called into an office and told individually that they're being fired while you sit there in panic with continued access to corporate resources just waiting for your turn, really that much better just because there's some lackey that can stare into your soul and relay the message from corporate HQ? Or could the C-level be seen as a coward for not delivering the message himself and making a lackey take the blame?

I believe people have romanticized this process far too much. I don't believe a staredown is so obviously superior to alternate forms. I understand that you just said it is and that the only reason I didn't do it this time was because I was worried about my image (again, what?), but I don't find that to be a convincing argument. As I said elsewhere, I'd prefer to be fired remotely. A couple of the other guys in this thread have expressed that too. I felt that was the appropriate course in this situation.

It's not easy to be the boss and make these calls. Everyone is going to have an opinion without the information or perspective and there are people that are going to dislike you for the decisions you make, no matter what they are. It's part of the territory. It'd sure help hacker entrepreneurs if we dropped the PC line once in a while and had some real talk.
Actually I think many developers aren't aware of the right tools for this type of job.

JITs are easy to benchmark when tools like Oracle Studio, Java Flight Recorder, dotTrace and so forth are used.

The problem is trying to benchmark them using old style concepts, e.g. outputting time differences to a text file.
I'm now suffering a lot of rebase pain while working on a new .Net project. I'll give it a go.

I'd be great if there was a strategy for fixing conflicts with VS files.
Because there might be some optimization tricks the author missed, or because the canvas implementation on mobile is bad/unoptimized/doesn't use hardware accelleration? Also, "probability" indicates you didn't even try it.

I did (both Safari and Chrome, iPhone 6), the framerate is definitely low (~10 frames per second?) but it didn't kill it so your statement might be a bit exaggerated. Framerate is a bit lower on Chrome, too.
Yes mobile app publishing was even worse before Apple, when you had to go through carriers etc. It was also largely irrelevant. The modern smartphone ecosystem has very little relation to that of Symbian and others.
It also seems to support HTML:

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/Qjmt6dD.png">
It's a distraction from the fact that they own you.

No they don't.

They don't own the work you choose to publish through their platform in any way whatsoever. By publishing it there you give them permission to use it[1], but no ownership of it. They have absolutely no claim on you, your future work, your past work, or any benefit you might receive from publishing with them. You can delete a story after you've published it, and you can publish it unlisted so it won't appear in any listings or publications on their site.

If you believe that's the same as owning you then you have a very strange definition of "owning you".

[1] https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e...
Creating Cold
I recently purchased a copy of Escape from the Pit out of curiosity and one thing that struck me was that most of the sound effects seem like they were ripped directly from Infinity Engine games. The Icewind Dale series, to be more precise. I don't think there is any relation between the creator of this franchise and the IE games, does anyone know why this is the case?
Props to Jeff Vogel for surviving (and succeeding) for two decades. I remember enjoying the Exile sharewares back in the 1990s. I'm glad his company's art style hasn't improved that much. :-) Gameplay is king, after all.
When American will fall asleep
Cord UIs: controlling devices with augmented cables
emacs / X11 / some kind of unix (anything from Linux to MacOSX).
> Well, for what is worth, many Europeans, like the Germans, are even worse at satire and humor than Americans are.

As a German, I don't agree. I think Germans get satire and humor. I'd say we are in that respect closer to the British than the American (But I have to admit that the Brits are light years ahead when it comes to everything entertaining) It's just that our media outlets are characterized by another German trait: fear of risk. If a program works well enough than nothing is going to change. Just think about how long "Wetten Dass...?!" was on air.

As far as tv programs are concerned I think that "Stromberg" or "Tatortreiniger" aren't too bad.
Weirdly enough, none of these guys has set up shop in Lagos. Or Moscow.
The information is transmitted over SSL. It is not stored on the back-end at all, only relayed via the backend & there is no way for the author to view the text.
What's the definitive spintax code? Is it this one? https://www.npmjs.com/package/spintax
Just to add, the data you see in the list is stored on the device/PC itself.
Is it just me or are the documentation lacking?
An experience with CrowdFlower
Start-ups in Gaza
In answer to your points you can argue them to mean the opposite too:

1) No skin really off Apple's nose then is there, minimal change on bottom line and a win for small devs, their ecosystem and they look like a cool company who listens.

2) They only do this now anyway, that's why the App store is so shit and has had so few new features (especially around discoverability) since its inception. No incentive to push smaller indy devs apps (and also because Apple wants to maintain a feel of high quality as opposed to long tail).

It's not a terrible idea, no reason for Apple not to play nice really as it barely affects them.
He has defended in the past his strategy of iterating over the same idea and keep his fan base happy with a solid product.

I remember reading a post by Jeff were he mentions that instead of redoing all graphics and art in each new chapter of his series, he prefers adding content in other areas like gameplay and story, and his customers love that.
Competencies of Exceptional and Non-Exceptional Software Engineeers [pdf]
I think discoverability is a much bigger problem with the App Store than the 70/30 revenue split. Whilst the revenue split is too high, I would much rather see improvements in the discoverability of apps created by indie developers/ entrepreneurs than the constant flooding of apps from big developer studios. Of course, the app needs to be good enough that when it is discovered, people actually want to use. Perhaps a vetting/ recommendation system should be implemented to highlight apps that would not have been found before.
20 String Algorithm Questions from Coding Interviews
The truth is that the good developers aren't making 100x less in most of the developed countries. Most of the good developers I know in India are earning in 25-40K range with lots of tax benefits. Expenses are less than 10K even if you live a good lifestyle.
They're all good games. And computer game sequels are nothing like movie sequels. Games get the chance to do the same thing better, more conveniently, with better graphics.
> "Applications" on the web are inherently dependant on JavaScript

No, they are not.
I always find it amusing when the Streisand Effect kicks in. Before his case, I suspect that a vanishingly small number of people were aware of González's foreclosure. These days it makes its way to news articles across the world and a Wikipedia article.
Agree - whilst the keywords are actually very interesting, I would love to know how you went about scraping them!
I always just remembered "busier" backwards. I think it's better, cause it makes more sense to sync after killing.
It's a dumb move from browser makers (self-signed certificates really shouldn't be the same kind of error as outright fraud). Maybe they can get the Kazakh root certificate incorporated into major browsers? But until then what other approach is possible to bootstrap it? There are obvious reasons the Kazakh government infrastructure wouldn't want to be dependent on e.g. Verisign.
How to behave at your first day of work
This made me think of a reddit comment[1] about an article I read recently.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/2uegfi/karl_mar...
I think the majority of china's population eats rice which doesn't have to be processed as much as bread.
New language?

1995: PHP, Javascript, Java, Ruby
Shooting Elephants
"PGE outperofms GP by several orders of magnitude."

[edit] -- just noticed the referenced paper...

The above is not a fair conclusion to draw from your paper. I haven't looked at it in detail, but comparing an algorithm on a set of benchmarks for one domain doesn't mean that it outperforms "GP". It does claim that your algorithm outperforms some published results on 22 (sensibly chosen) benchmarks.

Don't want to get into a huge debate here, but you should have recreated those results yourself rather than relying on previously published results. Maybe I misunderstood -- I don't have time to go through the paper in detail. If you did recreate them, great, but what about other forms of GP and parameter settings?

How does your system do when turned to the problem of, say, bug-fixing, or circuit board optimisation? Generally speaking, any domain-specific approach that uses more knowledge about the search space is going to outperform a vanilla optimisation algorithm.

I'm not disagreeing that GP isn't a good algorithm for symbolic regression, only that your results do not support your sweeping statement above.

[/edit]

I'm not here to defend GP. I think it has many flaws and I'm working on alternative algorithms. However, GP has an established track record of solutions to problems in specific domains unmatched by other methods. A good place to start is to look at the GECCO Human-Competitive awards.
Meet Babar, a New Malware Almost Certainly Created by France
mind blowing!
That said, any politician interrupting with "you lie" as in the example the original article provides for contrast would rapidly find themselves directed in a schoolmasterly manner by Mr Speaker to withdraw their words and apologise for their "unparliamentary" behaviour.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89S1cej9TyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9hrfc40Lko

I doubt any Brits would consider politician's jibes - especially the scripted ones - a high point of our humour. The best thing that can be said for the schoolboy humour of Opposition questions in PMQs is that it represents a welcome break from the dreadful toadyism of questions planted by government backbenchers.
The result may not be good for him, since it inverts the original goal. However many other people will benefit from this judgement, and be able to excercise the right to be forgotten.
There's a reason we call it "Murderapolis". However I don't hear the term as much as I used to.
Why is it that there is not - nor never was - a single prosperous country build on Marxist principles? Is it possible that Marx's theory is nonsense and all the rich mixed-capitalism economies are right?

(Spoiler: I am from the former communist block.)

EDIT:
(I hope you don't mind if I reply to everyone here in my original comment.)

Philosophizing on what Marx meant by what he said is lot like Bible-reading study. It is nice to speculate on what God meant when he said "You must kill those who worship another god [Exodus 22:20]" but it is more important to know how those killing in His name understood it. In our context, one look at Syriza's economic programme should end all discussions on what Marx really meant with the "dictatorship of the proletariat". Raising wages, employing more people in the state sector, subventions, subsidies, free healthcare and education along with stiffening the labour market, nationalisation of industries and raising taxes up to 75%. That all obviously sponsored by new loans once they successfully ditch their current debt.

That brings us bak to my original point: there is not a single example of successful Marxist economy, regardless of what part of the Marxist wish-thinking you embrace.
What do you mean by 'experiential purchases'?
Overall, make a case to truly be worth the time and effort.

Anything that second guesses my clinical judgment, and/or requires extra paperwork to do so, had better be able to show its justification in an intelligent manner. There is a lot involved in evaluating a patient that is not encoded in machine-readable form, so some percentage of things software reports is going to be wrong or pointless. (Trivial example: The K is 3.4. Is the patient hypokalemic?) The time spent ignoring nuisance notices may render the whole thing useless, even if there is useful information somewhere.

Have practicing physicians intimately involved in the UI design process, so the resulting product is usable to physicians and actually saves time. Billing software in disguise such as Epic has a terrible user experience and could be so much better.

There's more, but I have to head to work...
Of course not.

I'm blaming both newspapers for not standing up and going "Google is making content we made available searchable. We can't just blame them for it".
That's the easy, but relatively rare scenario. Today most content is dynamic.

Naively, it looks to me that server push will mostly be an improvement for small websites that do not use a CDN, but I can't see how it can coexist with a CDN.

Or it would require a new syntax, where the html tells the browser to start connecting to the CDN with this particular URL, which contains a token, and should be downloaded first which would tell the CDN that a particular list of assets will be needed for that page, and then the CDN will use server push to send these static assets.

Alternatively the CDN would become a proxy for the underlying html page, which would still be generated by the application server. That would probably be simpler.
The inability of VS to play nicely with merging is a real pain. (DBML files in particular are a huge headache, but .csproj, .sln, .config files also are troublematic).

I'm not sure I follow the author's issue with control merges though. Apart from a dogmatic statement that merges should be final (says who), what problems do control merges create?
What you describe is arguably a symptom of people not getting sarcasm. People that enjoy sarcasm have learned the hard lesson that the average listener is oblivious to it, so they talk funny to help them out a little bit.
PhD Model Canvas (adopted from business model canvas)
No, because the miner who gets the fee isn't the only one who will have to work extra. All full nodes will have to relay and store that transaction. And there is no known way to pay full node operators in a way that can't be abused.
We thought why not to adopt BMC for researchers and PhD guys like myself. Here what we come up with: PMC Model for researcher to make plans more concise, easy to keep track on the goals and modify them. I would appreciate any comments regarding to the Model and elements.
My bad, I was thinking from a CS centric POV
Do You Have a Love-Hate Relationship with Your Data?
Long time ago there was post on HN from guy who was harassed online. Someone pretended to be him and created fake blog, twitter account, social profiles etc.. It had serious impact on his life / job / family.

Every other company removed this fake profiles within days (twitter, facebook, yahooo...). Only Google did not bothered to answer for weeks. Last time I checked he was trying to shutdown blog on some copyright technicality.

Perhaps this law would not be necessary, if google would cooperate as other companies.
I'm sure you'll win your bet, Americans invented everything.
Working with the Twitter Videos API
> Select some text on your Smart device and copy it

This is the not-so-easy part. Especially if you have big fingers.

A better interface would allow me to just make a screenshot, send that over to my PC automatically, and extract the text from it.
You could run:

make config-recursive

a couple of times to do the configuration up front.

See also:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/2uegfi/karl_mar... is probably a good start.
I didn't read the article, but did read a book about twenty five years ago. My take away was that the big deal with genetic algorithms is they work without much/any domain specific knowledge. That is one of the great underpinning of biological evolution.
Thank you for your explanation. I thought people could give feedback based on what was on the site, ask the author/creator questions/feedback in the thread. I did say it was my opinion that I thought it was a good example, but we've all got different ones!

Again, thanks for actually bothering to make an effort to let me know -- rather than the people who downvted me without bothering to explain anything. Thanks mate.
That happens everywhere to some degree. In corrupt countries it's very common that politicians announce the building of big schools and hospitals, but the projects are never finished. The construction companies bribe the politicians to get the contracts, and then it doesn't even matter whether they ever complete the job, no one will control that.
Do You have a twitter account where you publish a link to new articles from that blog?
World's biggest offshore windfarm
Conflict re-resolution was literally the only thing that hurted me while using git. So now this tool is absolutely perfect for me.
Man: Well, what've you got?

Waitress: Well, there's {egg|bacon|sausage}, {egg and bacon|egg and spam}, egg {bacon|sausage} and spam, {spam|bacon} {spam| spam spam} sausage and spam, {spam|egg} spam spam {bacon and spam|sausage and spam}; spam {bacon|sausage|spam} {spam|spam bacon|spam tomato bacon} and spam
Not really, if the fear is being sued for wrongful dismissal. If the advice is so non specific that it doesn't contain anything actionable, then it's probably not specific enough to be helpful.

Essentially, if you give the ex-employee anything concrete to work on ("You could improve on skill X"), then the fear is that they'll demand clear evidence that they were deficient in that area at your workplace, which you probably don't have. Now you've weakened your case should the employee bring a wrongful dismissal lawsuit (under whatever laws apply in your state/country). Hence the reluctance to say anything at all.

It's not right (morally), but it's understandable.
First off, thanks for building and releasing something.

I think I might be missing something though, I have never understood why having a clean history (when the real history isn't clean) is important.

If you've got huge branches with scary merges, isn't the problem that you have huge long lived branches? Why does it matter that my graph shows when I actually did merge things?

I usually hear a git bisect argument around this, but are there good examples where it becomes a problem? Bisect lets you specify when to skip a commit, so you can be as selective as you want with it.

Lots of people complain about problems rebasing, and I've repeatedly seen issues where people mess up and that causes more pain when just merging seems to work perfectly fine. It seems like a lot of work, effort and time to avoid potential issues later (and even then I'm not sure what those issues are).

This isn't rhetorical, given so many people have strong opinions on this I assume I'm missing something important.