skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it very hard to believe that people are blaming content on search engines. If a site doesn't look right, I blame the site. I also find it hard to justify that even if they did, that somehow Google has a responsibility to unilaterally police the web via pagerank punishments.
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That's easy to answer, instead of using a relational database or even PostgreSQL's JSON data store, it's using MongoDB. I hate MongoDB but for tests like these where there's absolutely no writes what so ever, Mongo is going to fly. Hence, I read this as comparing MongoDB read performance to PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQL Server perf (or any of the other DB that are listed.)

That's why benchmarks like these have to be scrutinized. I like looking them over but in reality, they're not Apples to Apples.
How big is Flash gaming these days? I feel like it's mostly dead at this point.
> It would run completely contrary to their ultimate goal of "swaying public opinion".

As the saying goes, nobody's perfect. It could easily be that they hired someone to do this and they did an imperfect job of it before being replaced.
On the contrary: Agile is embraced by people (often young) who see is as a defense against the boogeyman WATERFALL that they think people had been following until now. In fact, few places did true waterfall, and even then it was not waterfall as originally intended with constant iteration and refinement.

As a result, many teams now insistently follow agile with a strong belief that it's the only way to make progress. They don't accept that before daily standups, people were still capable of communicating when they were blocked. Before sprints, people still came in every day and cranked out code. Before kanban boards and backlogs, people called them todo lists and often did have them in a shared document. Before 1-2 hour sprint planning meetings, people still had a strong sense of the direction of their project and the steps needed to get to a shippable state.

Agile defines units of work (the sprint, the story, etc) and sets up a fixed cadence for communication. It does not by itself create better code, better programmers, or better deliverables.
Plus they have more access to getting government subsidies and price controls.
This is an incredible piece of technical art! So beautiful!
This is a well known and hard to fix bug that I've been following. It affects other websites too, typically forums and other pages with large tables and short paragraphs of text.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195
My dad took me to donuts every Sat morning. You're right...the little things :)
Have you tried traditional motion sickness remedies, like ginger tablets or Dramamine?
I may be wrong, but I feel the anti-transpile crowd hasn't done their research. Comments in this vein have been popping up for years and have been resolved for years. Check out the transpiled Babel code -- it's what you would expect, and sourcemaps take you the rest of the way.
It's working, neat, well explained, direct and fast. I like it.

A little suggestion: the monthly charge on the billing page could have its own explanation too as does the annual one, I'm not sure.
Apparently it was only Chrome-users who cared enough to do something about their problem.
"<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">"

Which is just what I do. Disabling zoom is one of those nonsensical practices that spreads as web "developers" copy code from each other. I suppose there's a use case for it somewhere, but its main purpose is to remove choice and make sites harder to use.

EDIT: Actually I also include the initial-scale as in the comment below.
The point I believe the person above is making is that it isn't a few menus deep. They apparently (I've never seen it) use some dark ui patterns and pop up a little box "Do you want to turn search history on?" randomly. Unless someone has eidetic memory they can't really claim they haven't clicked something like that ever.
Oh thank goodness! I was about to have to implement something like this using S3 signed requests, ramdisks, etc. I owe somebody a beer! (or coffee)
For those who are a bit more technically inclined, it's pretty easy to set up Github pages with your domain.

https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-...

Feedback for dylanbfox: $7/mo seems a bit steep. This is probably shared hosting and a full blown VPS starts at $5/mo on Digital Ocean.
Um, Last I checked, not many human machines can continuously operate up to 100 years. Most robots and machines like cars are considered "long life" if they last 30. Seems to me the human body is built to last.
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I agree that it is interesting to wonder why certain cultures are more violent and militant than others. My points, more clearly:

1. That # of Jihadist does not indicate how violent and militant a culture is because it is not a cross-cultural term.

2. That cross cultural measures of murder rates do not indicate that the Middle East is home to particularly violent cultures.

3. That the Middle East is home to lots of military action, but that it is produced by foreign and local interests and can be explained by financial motives rather than cultural ones.
I'm getting tired of explaining why this kind of reasoning is wrong. Specifically, your statement about how "In his world, the creators of things starve." No, for the thousandth time, it's not true at all.

There is nothing standing in the way of content creators selling GPL code, and even keeping it private until its been bought. Full stop. stop perpetuating this fallacious myth abouth FOSS, please.

That being said, the real issue still is about ownership. If I buy a block of wood, even if you already shaped it into your "art" i have every right to modify it as I see fit. Its a physical thing that I own. Now, I couldnt copy your work and sell it though.

In reality a tractor isnt that much different. Its a physical object, with software "which could be argued is also physical in the form of 1s and 0s", and if I buy it I have the right to modify it as I see fit. What if something goes wrong with the software and I want to fix it? Oh no, thats illegal?!

In reality this is about control of the user, and money, not about anything else. It reduces freedom and security and functionality in almost every way.

A good example of this is my bad purchase of a samsung smart tv. Even though I know its running linux and hence gplv2, samsung has made it almost impossible to root the device without bricking it. Why? because they want control over the user and lots of their money system is setup around that. Its not about protecting the user. Its not about warranty issues, because I would gladly click the "i accept that my device is no longer under warranty if I load debian on it instead of your crappy samsung os". Its about app store and ad money, and pitentially about surveillance.
Dijkstra's has the property that it computes the cost from A to every node that is closer to A than B is. (For this reason, the distance ordering of vertices from a starting point is sometimes called their Dijkstra rank.) You can use this to backtrack and compute the actual path.

Let d(x,y) be the single-edge distance between two adjacent nodes, and S(A,y) be the computed shortest path. If S(A,C) + d(C,B) == S(A,B), then any shortest path from A-C is also part of a minimal path from A-B. Starting from B, you can check all its neighbors to find one that is a predecessor on a shortest path, and then just repeat that process until you get back to the starting point.

(If you look at other dynamic programming problems, like longest common subsequence, they often use similar tricks to reconstruct a solution after the initial computation is done.)
so build a certain specific memory by making a habit that is not daily, but repeated.

I can do that.
A World Where Nothing Gets Lost
To me, this is particularly concerning in the case where the physical equipment outlasts the software support cycle. We (society) haven't worried about this so much with computers because the $/compute-power has declined so precipitously over the years.

But it seems more important than ever that we have a way for individual users of software-controlled devices to move their "business logic" between standardized service vendors, whether that service is compute cycles in the cloud, or the physical work provided by a tractor.

Also, if the equipment is ultimately being rented, and the user owns the configuration, then the farmer could just rent another tractor (maybe from a competing tractor rental vendor), load his configuration on it, and keep the farm running.

Of course this is far from Stallman's vision of the everyman owning/modifying the code down to the bare metal, but it at least tries to shift the balance of control back toward the user.
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I think that's what mongrel2's aim is. http://mongrel2.org/
> DRM can only protect information not the operation of a physical device.

So I think it would actually be reasonable for the DRM to protect a physical device; but the contract should be structured as such.

If I have title to my car and can dispose of it as I see fit; I shouldn't have to abide by DRM. If it is rented and doesn't actually belong to me, then I could see technological mechanisms such as limiting mileage or range as a valid way to enforce part of the contract.

What the line of appropriate vs. not appropriate is of course not necessarily black and white; but I do think John Deere is in the wrong here and the farmer is in the right.
Creators can't have it both ways. The info you sell has to be useful to the people buying it...or they won't buy it. Just because we now have a technically literate population doesn't mean that you can change the rules to make selling new shit still applicable.

Information is free if you sell it (in a book...in a prog...written on a stone tablet) you are letting others use it. Farmers are an easier target for them cause mostly they font own their land, or seed, now it would seem even their tractors. I think they have been hanging out too close to Monsanto and others whom make our litigious society possible while logically incongruent.

And if everyone is a creator then why how can everyone starve? It will only starve the ones who create poorly.
On the Relative Unimportance of InfoSec
An even-handed explanation of why the CPI may not be accurate: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.a...

What the CPI would look like if its methodology was not constantly being adjusted: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Just a note: this is Chrome/FF only for now, and requires WebGL + float textures. If you can't see the experience, here's a short hand-held Vine:
https://twitter.com/mattdesl/status/590565871074017281
So is it inequality we're debating over or just the fact that most of the world is poor? Poor people will remain poor no matter what level of inequality we have.

The real thing we should be tracking is social mobility. But we can't track that because it involves more than numbers. So we track inequality instead. And don't try to say one correlates with the other.

We need to understand inequality, not just measure it. One country's inequality is not the same as another country's. Which is another reason why I dislike the metric, it's all smoke, no fire.

> No women will ever call herself a gold digger that's why they don't tell you wealth is on their priority list.

I don't ask women what their priorities are. I infer from the choices they make concerning dating.
I cant see a fish bored perfectly, or experiencing culture shock. Why not?. A lot of people fall in this trap with fishes. "Well, goldfishes are dumb, and goldfishes are fishes, therefore fishes are dumb".

To reduce the more diverse type of vertebrates, with more than 30.000 extant species, to the behaviour of a goldfish put in a matchbox of water is extreme oversimplification. Some fishes are very intelligent in fact. Not like an human but much more than a mice or a chicken for sure. Sadly the 90% of philosophers in history just didn't understand what type of creature is a fish and the derived reasoning about those had lead to funny dead ends.

But the real problem is that "to be able to feel pain or not" or "to live in water or not" are just subjective lines (Saving lion, moral act. Saving tuna, maybe tomorrow, tunas are dumb). We could also create different laws for vegan species (cow: moral, dog: amoral), or for species that can feel love and care for his descendants (butterfly: amoral, spider: a wonderfully moral creature), or that can feel electromagnetic fields, or that have four extremities with 5 fingers at the end (human good, spider and horses amoral) or that can live longer and pacific lives (humans so-so, sequoia great). The rules of this game are totally artificial from the start.
>Unless you find other models, like patronizing

Patronizing like - https://www.patreon.com/ - or patronizing like, "offensively condescending" [1]. Based on context, I'm assuming the former, but patronizing is a auto-antonym, so it should be clarified [2].

[1] https://www.wordnik.com/words/patronizing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
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The corporate farms can do it courtesy of massive scale leverage and typically inexpensive borrowing costs.

The average person might pay 4.5% to 7% for that $400,000 property. A sizable corporation can borrow for 20 years at half those rates.

Better yet, the big corporation has cash reserves and cash flow from their big existing operation, and can buy the property outright. That property then yields, say, 5% per year on the cash invested - which obliterates what all corporations are getting on cash or cash equivalents.

The corporate farm can redirect 100% of that property's production toward paying for the property and farming costs, without harming itself in the process. If done correctly this becomes a perpetually expanding machine, the same premise that has led to consolidation in other previously highly fractured industries. Warren Buffett (among others) is presently attempting to do this in auto dealerships for example.

It's the same reason Costco can operate quite successfully on a 2.x% operating profit margin, whereas most businesses will tip over rapidly with that slim of a buffer.

The small farmer will constantly struggle to not drown by comparison.
There's a lengthy explanation here: https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api#why-use-rails-for-jso...

EDIT: sorry, I mis-read your post. This is just "Why Rails and not Sinatra," not "this is easy enough to do on its own, why bother."

I wasn't directly involved in the decision, so I cant' tell you, to be honest.
I've been playing FPS shooters for most of my life. But I've had to stop.

For some reason HL2 would give me headaches. Really, really bad headaches. I thought it might be the Engine, or me being tired. But I don't get headaches playing TF2 or Dystopia, both of which use the same engine. Surprisingly, Portal and Portal 2 didn't give me as bad headaches.

Later games are hit-and-miss. Bioshock I didn't suffer. Bioshock Infinite gave me headaches within 15 minutes.

And watching any Let's Play of a shooter gives me headaches within a minute.

I've chalked the majority of it up to getting older. My gaming binges used to also give me headaches, but only after several hours. So I've had to switch to strategy games instead. But still, something about certain ways things are rendered or the FoV or framerate is affecting me and I wish I knew what it is.
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Or create more, or better quality...
And on the other hand, Paine Field in Everett just got approval for commercial service: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2015/03/02/snohomish...

Though I'll grant that this is probably an exception, not a rule, and that it just barely got approved.
Definitely true. But I've noticed that web applications are usually not awful design offenders.

An unusable webapp frustrates users and drives them off, but an informational page trying to be some kind of 1920's prediction of a futuristic interactive magazine is annoying at most. I can always figure out how to read the text, so I just put up with the stupid design.
I've tried lots of themes, but I keep going back to Bozhidar Batsov's Zenburn[1], which ships as the default theme with the same author's Emacs Prelude[2].

[1] http://emacsthemes.caisah.info/zenburn-theme/

[&] https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs

[2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
It's been a very long time, so I don't remember the specifics, to be honest.
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> So, is it 992 MB because it does a different job, or is it 992 MB because they didn't care about size?

The ISO is 992MB because it includes three different installations (micro, minimal, full).
I think the brain reading writing argument is a really good example that should be used in discussion of this topic more often and more in depth. It shows even a layman how this issues can have a real ompact.
I suppose we have fundamentally different utility functions. I think it is valuable to society to have a class of (relatively) well-off creators who do that as their full-time job. Some of these creators will even start off making mediocre works that don't contribute much, as they move from peripheral authentic participation towards the center (or drop out and get a "real job"). If you don't see that as a valuable terminal value, then we'll have to argue about that instead.
Yes, but in a world of about 7.2 billion people, there are only 55 basketball players capable of making 10 million+ a year [1] (I'm assuming there is no foreign league paying a player more than 10M USD per year, someone feel free to check me on this). If you were one of the top 55 "best" programmers or writers in the world, I have a feeling you could figure out how to make 10M/year.

[1] http://espn.go.com/nba/salaries/_/page/2/seasontype/3
That seems like an overgeneralization. Some humans are more social than others. We're very complicated.
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Side issue parent article claims that passages can't be copied because the pdf is locked. Other than workarounds to that (I don't know any but I am sure they exist) you could simply run OCR on screengrabs of the pages using something like adobe acrobat or similar.
You might want to watch this talk for some data on this subject: https://vimeo.com/74354480

"Some programming language theorists would have us believe that the one true path to working systems lies in powerful and expressive type systems which allow us to encode rich constraints into programs at the time they are created. If these academic computer scientists would get out more, they would soon discover an increasing incidence of software developed in languages such a Python, Ruby and Clojure which use dynamic, albeit strong, type systems. They would probably be surprised to find that much of this software—in spite of their well-founded type-theoretic hubris—actually works, and is indeed reliable out of all proportion to their expectations."
> the creators of things starve

The creators of things can do whatever they want in Stallmans world. They just cannot use the state as a weapon against the sharing of information they created, or more appropriately, hold a state issued right to control. A tool to deny the propagation of knowledge in all its forms which destroys culture (how much media from the 20th century is lost forever again?) and cripples social progress.

Nothing about dissolving the false economy of existent information scarcity means anyone needs to stop producing it. Just because you cannot control everything about your information beyond simple goods exchange, that you cannot deny people access to it if someone else who has it wishes to provide it, and that you cannot stymie it for profit does not mean you still cannot create information as a profession, in all its forms. Most modern visual artists online today operate off a model without transfer based rent seeking (ie, commissioning, or for comic artists patreon or kickstarter models).
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I've quickly looked at the app(0.5.18), great improvements from 0.2 version! One quick feedback, you can implement in-app browser for browsing images(atm you are being kicked out of the app).
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It's very interesting to note how futurists always nail the technological changes but ignore or otherwise turn a blind eye to sweeping societal upheavals that are far more difficult to predict. The archetypal patriarchal, white nuclear family is far less common than it was in the 60s, and use cases for appliances are typically genderless. Sure, there are still disproportionately more women in ads for cleaning products than men, but the growth of residential technology isn't centred around the sexist assumption that women are exclusively full-time homemakers as presented in the video. Instead, it's more or less adapted to the relatively egalitarian standards we live by today.
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Each user... So one for "not logged in" and one for each known id? That's the laziest possible implementation that can provide any variety of benefit. Caching on a per-actual-visitor basis is just a waste of ram.

Fwiw we partial view cache on our platform and achieve a 90%+ hit rate on most sites. Some run many user-variable-specific (referrer,cookie,stored data) site versions which drops the cache hit rate, but is worth the extra cpu and cost for the conversions. Little performance hit as the object data to render is already in memcached usually, pre-warmed by queued parallel processes.

Of course, we evolved this in response to "oh crap the web tier is burning", but I just can't comprehend how magento haven't come up with something better than what you describe. Perhaps they haven't experienced the pain of clients bearing down hard on you while Rome burns first hand, and don't understand the importance.
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Why does Africa have so many languages?
Just look at the KPCB office locations: Menlo Park, San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai.
Sure, but I'm not asking them to do that.

They sent out an email. Why didn't they include an url? That url would list countries and the providers in that country who provide HBO content; or it would list shows and then who provides those shows in what countries.

HBO still gets to block people outside the US, but also pushes those people to HBO content via official channels.
Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com) is built on Ionic. We're also featured in iTunes right now, just a note that it's very possible to build beautiful hybrid applications. While the company isn't a success quite yet, we've been rejected from YC twice as well.
Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
I've used source maps before but they're not nearly as good or intuitive as simply debugging ES5. Too much of a pain in the ass in my opinion. I just don't see the value of adding an additional layer of possible bugs / issues just so I can use a little bit better syntax; I'd rather wait until more things get updated with the native implementation.

I still think a better solution is some sort of byte code so people can use whatever language they want instead of trying to force JavaScript to be the "byte code of the web".
I would imagine you would get better security and performance isolation
LXD is using OpenStack, which is the 800 lb. gorilla of orchestration solutions - almost literally (3M lines of Python!).

Docker's orchestration stuff is neat, but operating at a different feature/code-base scale, for better or worse.
I guess it depends on where you live. In Saskatchewan you're competing against the oil industry for workers, so full-time hands aren't cheap.