skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a fan of transpiling; you go from having one language to having to understand two (ish; ES6 isn't entirely different) while only being able to debug in one. It's nice people can write in and actually use ES6 today but I really don't think transpiling is worth it. I've been bitten by weird bugs in transpilers before that wasted far too much of my time.

> npm may eventually support two versions of the same module, which would enable you to deliver libraries as both ES5 and ES6 for Node.js, io.js and client-side module systems that are based on npm.

No, please no. Why would I ever want to deliver a library in both modes just for some better / different syntax? Yes ES6 is nicer than ES5 but doubling the modules isn't worth it at all.
Why was it pulled before release?
In some ways this makes perfect sense. Instead of saying it's penalizing un-mobile-friendly sites, you could say it's referencing mobile-friendly.

But, paradoxically, so many "mobile-friendly" sites are so much worse than their non-mobile selves.
Check out Bootstrap's 'Default navbar' example. It does this. http://getbootstrap.com/components/#navbar-default
There is only one farm on my road that doesn't have the next generation poised to take or already has been taken over by the operation, and even in that case I believe there is interest from the grandchildren. From my anecdotal experience, the future of family farms looks fairly bright.
The collection of games has been there for a while (and I suppose it grows over time), but the ability to play them in a browser is only a few months old. In fact they're actively looking for more developers to improve the speed.

It's that time again.... I'm looking for a willing volunteer coder (C++ with some Javascript) awareness who wants to take a shot at JSMESS. We have a strong theory that someone could look at the code and, essentially, fix the speed problem (which would likely fix the sound). Are you out there, coding hero? https://twitter.com/textfiles
The linked article is good as far as it goes, but it fails to take the next logical step and call for the simple repeal of the anti-circumvention section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

I was living in Washington, D.C. and following the DMCA when it became law in 1998 -- I can assure you that nobody expected sec. 1201 to morph into the creature it has become today. It was sold to Congress as a non-controversial way to implement a pair of (yawn) WIPO Copyright Treaties. The DMCA was approved unanimously in the Senate and by a process reserved for non-controversial legislation in the House; there was not even a recorded vote.

This is federal law as buggy and outdated code, which is badly in need of refactoring. I wrote about a proposed law to defang the DMCA back in 2003, once some of the 1201 problems became clear: http://news.cnet.com/Congress-mulls-revisions-to-DMCA/2100-1... But because of the influence of the copyright lobby, no amendments have ever succeeded.

I wrote more about a better way to approach 1201 and, more broadly, federal DRM policy in this law review article here: http://mccullagh.org/misc/articles/michigan.state.drm.0605.p...

While letting people know about John Deere's comments to the Copyright Office is great, the only reason the Copyright Office has a role here is that 1201 authorizes them to set exemptions. But why should we have to beg the Feds for exemptions when the underlying logic of 1201 is suspect?

At the very least 1201 deserves to be debated in Congress with an understanding of what it actually does and how it affects modern technology. When it was introduced 18 years ago, nobody could have known, and that debate has never happened.
Yes you right, both are good enough and everyone want to simplify his backend schemas...

I want to note big difference between haproxy and nginx, first of all "nginx is webserver" (nginx HTTP server) and then proxy/loadbalancer(may be used) whereas haproxy is pure loadbalancer. Enterprise bare metal and hardware appliances for proxy/loadbalance built on top of haproxy

nginx is wide spread because of usage as good minimalistic web server
Preparing for the Google Mobile-Friendly Algorithm
Government subsidies corn which is then used to make cheap high fructose corn syrup. Subsidies only go to a handful of crops.
> ... no one understands why it’s true.

That's an unwarranted claim. Various quantities of interest of complex systems more often than not follow certain statistical distributions. This is especially true about natural systems.

Flip 100 coins, call it one trial. Perform such trials a large number of times, a few hundred let's say. For each trial count the number of heads. In the end create a histogram (frequency of N-head trials, N ranging from 0 to 100). It'll look like a gaussian distribution! The emergence of such distribution feels strange, even though we pretty much know everything about the system. (Incidentally this is related to the Central Limit Theorem). Similar idea applies to human mortality distributions.

The best you could say is that these are very counter-intuitive observations/facts.
"Sales is a job for people who can’t code."

On the contrary, coding is a job for people who can't sell, which is the more demanding and more valuable skill.
I would like to see High Speed Rail replace most air traffic. I just read an article explaining how incredibly expensive air travel is for the climate, not to mention the cost to the passengers.

Air traffic increases greenhouse effect. Scientists measured noticeable temp drop over sky of US during the days after 9/11 attack with all jets grounded.
Molecular Programming – The systematic manipulation of matter (2014) [pdf]
As often as this line is said, I don't think its really as bad as Western media depicts it.

I think it'll be a massive hit that will level them out when it happens, but I don't think it'll be a "New Japan" with deflationary problems and a truly stagnant economy. They'll probably end up more like the US with a steady growth rate over a long time horizon that will fix things in 10 years or so. Which, if we are being honest, is really not that much longer than its taking the US to fully recover from the Great Recession.
Aaaand, it killed them all. Let's keep the omnipotent computers out of my id, please...
IMHO, you should try to setup some kind of minimal demo that doesn't include signing up, looks nice on the videos, but I would like to give it spin without handing out all my personal data.
You talk as though the kids want three hours of sunlight a day. Why oppress them more than they already are?

I wear glasses. They're painless. Better that than being forced to spend all my time outside.
Well it crashes my browser Chrome 42.0.2311.90 (64-bit)
Not necessarily. It will be a lot harder but by no means impossible, and you can have one more person working on the start-up in the beginning which is actually a benefit.
Wikipedia mobile is probably ultimately slightly better but uncollapsing through all the sections is dreadful.
The only thing better than having tests is not needing tests. That's what a robust type system gives you.

Type systems don't eliminate all testing, but they do eliminate a large swath of possible errors that need to be tested for, like the one that has (had?) been afflicting Sinatra.
Welcome. We've rolled this out within Hootsuite labs with the Suggestions iOS app and are seeing phenomenal results.

- https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/suggestions-by-hootsuite-cur...
Magento is so slow.
A running over a child equivalent would be falling down unexpectedly or a small portion caving in.

When I was 7, all the bricks in one corner of the kitchen fell down. Just randomly (probably decaying, but unnoticed because of the paint) The lady taking care of me was less than 5 feet away.
Many people who try to make a living making music or writing are unable to do so, even if the music or the writing is pretty good, and that's due to obscurity, not piracy. Historically, even fewer people were able to.

Pages and even chapters of books have been copied by photocopiers (found in many libraries!) for decades. The only limit to the copying was how many quarters you had.

You need to give up the idea that people need to get paid for the stuff they get paid for today, that everyone who makes money doing something today, needs to make at least that much on the same thing in the future.

People will have to do whatever they can get paid for, which is the case for most people today anyway. Creators won't starve, they'll create less and have a real job.

You think the problem of "creators starving" is so bad it justifies anything and everything needed to prevent it. I don't.
What?

Subsidies (as they are practiced now) encourage non-sustainable and wasteful food production.
The most meaningful connection that a child never forgets is one where parents and family spend a lot of time with them and actively participate in their daily routine. It does not matter what you do but spending the time with them is key. In fact, the little things are more memorable than say a family vacation to Hawaii. Kids want to spend time with you, they want your attention, they want you to listen to them and if you do these, they will remember.

You can surely do a few activities as a routine with them. For example, I pick up my kids from daycare every day and my kids know that they will expect daddy to come pick them up. They love that while my wife drops them in the morning.
AngularJS: Form Validation Directive
IMHO this is nice code, nothing against the devs, but I just don't see why its getting added. As someone who has built lots of rails apis, I don't really see any benefit other than perhaps speeding up bootstrapping. But as is, right now its incredibly easy in rails to require the action-X packages you want and setup middleware how you like it. Maybe I'm missing something though...
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In that case, there would never have been war.

What you say, is the "correct" solution. The good, the improving, what helps society. I agree with you. But it's slow, fragile, and you should acknowledge that your established, strong, opposition, may play dirty.
I heard Luca Cardelli, who's also worked on programming languages and typing systems, give this talk. He gives an overview of the programming language technology to program biological matters. This field has been brewing for a decade or so, but it's now seemingly acquired critical mass.

Deeply fascinating.
You can debug in both ES5 and ES6 using source maps. The support is very good. You're working in ES6 land most of the time.
Mega corporations have economies of scale on their side for production costs, and likely much better interest rates on the land. So they can farm the land for cheaper, and the cost of the land on a per-annus basis is cheaper too.
Is this really the will of John Deere, or just that of its corporate lawyers coming up with something new to justify their own continued employment?

This is not a defense of John Deere or any other corporation that twists the law in ridiculous ways in their favor, but a genuine question. If you could pin down a higher-up at one of these places to find out what they really think, and ask whether this approach is actually good for their company, would anyone besides the lawyers say "yes"?
If an activity (particularly one like writing books) creates value for people and yet somehow people engaged in that activity can't get paid, that might deserve a closer look than "many things are just not profitable." Or a better comparison than to a hypothetical personally recreative activity like licking grass.
What is the best Rails solution for javascript modules and package management these days??
In the existing world, creators starve all the time--consider the concept of the "starving artist".

There is this meme that somehow not having copyright immediately implies no possible monetization strategy, and it needs to die.
Hortonworks acquires SequenceIQ
Hey, the computer just did what it was told. In fact that guy (whose subconscious told the computer to kill people) first made a robot which would refuse to kill people, even if ordered to. Too bad he didn't backport that feature to the more dangerous one.
“My Biggest WatchKit Mistake”
It's not, developers just bear with it because they don't know of better alternatives.

Magento is a monolith and always will be. It's built on top of PHP's slowest framework, Zend which doesn't advertise speed but rather raw power.

Magento is going to crumble, it's just a matter of when
No, it's not. And this is why no one ever takes you guys seriously.
It is his company.
What economic indicator would need to occur for you to start looking for work outside the country and start to pack up?
After a quick google, it seems he was granted $500,000 (paid over 5 years) in 1990. [1]

This seemed like quite a lot until I divided it by the 25 years he's been living on it. £20k/year doesn't actually strike me as that much.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program
Dart dominated the multiple queries test type.
Yes. Tech has leverage like no other industry.
Okay, Nim is really fast in these benchmarks on ec2 servers, impressive.

Does anyone has experience with nim web stack? Is it ready for prime time? How much effort is required to create a simple CRUD json api?

On a sidenote I am really looking forward to comparing rust and elixir results in the next round of benchmarks.
Isn't this pseudoscience?
It isn't really gradual. Real estate has traditionally allowed for restrictions on property. You can sell your House with a condition that if the person ever builds a fence.

Hell, whole neighborhoods had restrictions on selling to black people.

If you own a condo, there are tons of restrictions on it.
That is quite surprising. Anyone have an idea why that is?
"This is a good thing since their goal seem to be allow billions of asians to have the same level of living standard as western countries."

Unfortunately, there aren't enough resources on Earth to allow all Chinese citizens to live at US standards; possibly EU standards if people cut back meat consumption, no longer need fossil fuels, etc.
Probably https://rails-assets.org/, you add it as a source in your Gemfile and then add gems based on the scheme "gem 'rails-assets-BOWER_PACKAGE_NAME'"
HBO continues to be stupid about business - if you take pains to cut of people that will pay you money, you are going to end up bankrupt.
Around 1988, I got to see a >$40M Cray 2 in person, and wondered what could be done with all that power thrown at a single user interface. [pats iPhone 5]
Historic reasons and federal price control. MasterCard wanted to introduce interchange a couple of years ago but the government said no. The MasterCard market share is high enough so that antitrust laws apply. There is still a market development fee on it but no interchange.

It is may understanding that the EU views interchange as illegal but instead of outlawing it decided to curb it at 0.3%.
calm forest my favourite theme, and I've been through a lot
> I bet the food making kitchen looked much more likely, sadly, we got pocket super computers, but still doing our own cooking pretty much the same way we did in 67, except microwave ovens perhaps...

Actually, microwave ovens were commercially available from 1947 and the first popular home microwave oven was released in 1967.

There's a lot that's gone in more-automatic cooking devices -- both commercial and home -- since then, though the popularity of some of them for the home has been limited by the fact that people with a strong preference for convenience go for the wider array of prepackaged prepared foods available now rather than automated home cooking.
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"Create less and have a real job."

Wow.

I see lots of this kind of sentiment when I bring this up, but yours deserves credit for being exceptionally honest.
One time a sexual article made it to the front page because someone impulsively upvoted it and others piled on as well.

I can only imagine a good example for comments, but I have nothing specific.
What you say is correct. I know, that economy is always also in a field of different forces.

What I basically was arguing against, was the notion (as I understood it), that "scientific theory" would justify monopolies as good for society.
You can build out many pieces in time as needed. The question I ask is "what will grow my startup the fastest"?

It often makes sense to use a "good enough for now" SASS solution while you focus on more critical pieces of the company. As you grow, you can migrate off of it.

For example, you might want to consider using Trakin [1] to jumpstart your delivery logistics codebase while you focus on the human side of deliveries and acquiring customers to deliver from / to.

Then, as you grow, if Trakin doesn't meet your needs you can replace it with an in house solution. Or you can pay for enterprise support and functionality. Or you can switch to another system. Whatever solves the current problem and helps you grow fastest!

[1]: http://trackin.co
I figured it was low. I just didn't think it was as low as three digits.
Paraphrasing an observation that was shared with me last week, "Dijkstra was an asshole. All his stuff runs in exponential time."
If John Deere is the Apple of tractors, then Open Ecology is the Linux of tractors.

- http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

- http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac
That alert is shown because Magento issued a notification message, not because the system detected some security patches. Those two security patches were published on 2015 February 09 and 2014 October 03.

In fact, Magento issued two notification messages, on Friday and on Monday, so even if you applied the patch after seeing the first message, you still saw the second message and experienced that brief moment of panic.
Weird. The kind of XP I've been involved in is near obsessive about maximizing programming time. Which means meetings are kept short, with minimum attendance.
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If 1+x is 1, how much is 1-x?
See: https://github.com/dom96/jester
It's not that they didn't complete, they never even started. Definitely configured incorrectly for the tests.
License predates copyright.
I'm a huge fan of https://rails-assets.org/. Requests components from the Bower registry and packages them as gems.
Vaporizer Startup Creates Next Generation E-Cigarette
I'm out of PHP, but I'll second Symfony - Fabien and the Sensio people are the best folks I know in the PHP universe and they're careful and sober in their thinking.
The sad thing is that they learned nothing from oscommerce. Yes, it's not a procedural pile, but it suffers from the same "can't implement sensibly. Fuck it, edit core. Patch?! Shit. Upgrade path broken" phenomenon in heaps.

If I got paid every time someone ditched magento because it doesn't perform, is hard and costly to host/maintain, gets blind alley'd by "someone else's problem" developers, can't do what they need, I'd be a rich man.

Oh wait, I do, and I am.
Bayesian Priors for Parameter Estimation
Miegakure is coming to Steam
Actually, not really. We checked the code to ensure that there was no gaming the system and it definitely APPEARS to be making separate database queries as we require in our rules. In fact, we had this same question in round 9 and had a number of people audit it. We cannot explain it other than it might be pretty darn fast.
There are other monetization strategies. A popular one is to offer something for free and then use it to conduct mass surveillance and sell your customers to advertisers and governments.
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Google’s “Mobile-Friendly” Update Could Impact Over 40% of Fortune 500 Websites
This is incompetency of the school network administrators. No crime was committed here.
We HAVE the memory data, but we have not distilled it into a consumable form to use on our website. Here, for example, is the cpu/ram usage report for ULib's json test: https://github.com/TechEmpower/TFB-Round-10/blob/master/peak...
What happened to australopithicus? You'll be free to starve with a meat-based brain as everyone with implants outcompetes you at everything if you'd prefer.
Looks like a perfect time for someone to open a nice tractor business. There is lots of money in tractors and while it takes a lot more than making a new iphone app, it certainly is less effort than floating cities or going to mars, which on here are propositions that are regularly treated seriously.
It seems that the AI can save me time searching through emails, can't wait to try it!
Lots of web frameworks come with their own HTTP servers. Seems like a waste. OTOH, configuring Nginx can be a pain. It's easier to cook something up in the language of your choice in which you're building your website.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was one blazingly fast HTTP server with API such that other web frameworks could just build on top of it?
Ubuntu 15.04 gets touchy and Snappy
OpenBazaar 0.4.0 released
In 1967 we imagined a future in which everything has been automated so that preexisting roles could be carried out as before. Wife will cook, buy clothes; husband will shake his head at all the money wife is spending and be the spending decision maker.

Film is interesting from a technology perspective but also for what it says about society.
throwaway account

Introducing Tesla Electric Tractor Co.
Obama Kept Iran's Short Breakout Time a Secret
Few notes:

* Impressive Dart

* JRuby > MRI (I'd like to see JRuby 9k)

* Padrino that offers basically everything that Rails does performs impressively well. [Shameless Plug]
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This is what happens when lawyers run your company.

I was funded out of a John Deere Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) during my PhD. Their approach to data was what ultimately pushed me to quit the program and go back to work. Everything was priceless and proprietary, yet nothing ever was done with it.

They insisted all research conducted by students was performed on their computers, which in itself was only annoying. The part that killed it (in addition to the promise of field data that never came after several years on the project) was that every library installed had to be approved by their IT security team.

I kid you not: the datetime library in Perl was not allowed.

On the upside, quitting the PhD has been an awesome decision, so I guess I should thank them.
So, should we be shorting these stocks?
Rust and Elixir SHOULD be included in Round 11 - we have already accepted a pull request for the Phoenix framework (Elixir) and have had a pull request for Rust when it was in alpha. Hopefully, we will see another Rust pull request soon.
I'd really like to be able to collapse sections from the bottom of a section, rather than scrolling upwards frantically trying to find the header so I can re-collapse it.
Recreational farmers probably do/will. However, its more problematic for farms functioning as a business.
This is an excellent explanation - clear, concise, easy to work through, and enlightening.

Thank you.

I think I've sent a collection of suggested corrections via the web site, I include just the technical one here:

You wrote:

Another example -|2|0011 represents the number
X = - 2^2 1.0011_{2}
= - 4 (1 + 0 + 0 1/2 1 1/8 1/4 + 1/16 + 1)
= - 4 * 19/16
= - 19/4
= 4.75

This is missing a minus sign at the very end.
Agreed. Our logging has undergone some solid improvements in the last week or two, and so round 11 will, if not resolve this issue completely, make the logged output more useful for tracking down issues like this during the preview runs.
No mention that currencies went from gold standard to fiat from 1971-1976.

My take: Makes a huge difference between a stable money supply spread across a growing population, vs unrestricted money growth which can be "firehosed" to a small group.