skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren't trying to measure each hardware set as apples-to-apples, but rather give the reader an idea of how performance characteristics for a chosen stack are affected by hosting environment. Specifically, we wanted the middle-of-the-road EC2 instances versus the extremely high-end Peak option to illustrate that difference.
You can do this in RethinkDB:

r.table('users').filter(r.row('signup_date').gt(signupFilter)).run()

Using an anonymous function like in the first example is optional. `r.row` can be very convenient. In this case, you only need to use `r.row` because you're using the `gt` comparison. If you're just doing a direct match, you can use this syntax:

r.table('users').filter({signup_date: dateFilter})
Do users have to install the browser extension to see the image with link? Or can anyone use it (even without the extension)? This seems like a strong barrier.
It's a pleasure for me to use webpack with Babel for my projects.
I'd bet it's because the world population is a mesofact, and it's easy to forget that your information is out of date:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/28/...
The original comment was about how both debugging and generics are being implemented with code generation before runtime in Go and described this as "unusual." The response was that this precise technique is how generics are implemented in many languages already; in fact, CFront (the original C++ compiler) was entirely implemented as code generation on top of C. The response specifically discussed generics, not debugging, so I'm not sure why you thought it was talking about debugging.
Alternatively, someone could create a model to the centralized company that just exploits labor without sharing ownership.
It is. Read the BMJ article I posted and you'll see. They did interviews.
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There are actually at least two such companies at the moment - Tesla Motors and SpaceX. For both the profit and market position is secondary to, respectively, electrification of transport and making humanity interplanetary. Elon Musk explicitly said on many occasions that in case of Tesla profits are secondary and they don't care if in next decades they'll be top player or disappear completely, as long as everyone is driving electric.
Freshmen year is very early to be making tough decisions about your career prospects. Ask google if you can defer a year, and give yourself some time to figure out the startup.
You're solving the wrong problem here.

Let's say we cut "literary production" in half somehow. Is it better if everyone writes a little bit, or if we all pay someone who's really good at it to do it? I'd rather read a professional writer than my own ramblings, which means I'd rather a subset of good writers were able to earn a living off it.
The Uber CEO may be a believer in the free market, which changes the equation away from legally protected monopolies.
1. Segment

I recall reading a blog post by Andreas Klinger (Product Hunt) talking about analytics and what stuck with me was "there is no silver bullet". I've seen this blindness by a lot of people (myself too) and its hard to swallow but unfortunately true. Just run MixPanel, Google Analytics, Localytics etc all side by side and they give you totally different data.

Segment is a great choice. I really didn't know much (and still don't) about analytics so I went with it after finding GA flakey and not wanting to sprinkle the iOS code with multiple SDKs. Support from them has been great and timely and it hasn't cost a penny for all the major integrations I've used - e.g. MixPanel, GA. Just the other I flicked on Localytics and it just worked. Sounds like I work there! Anyways, you owe it to your future sanity to try it out!

Obviously it adds an additional cost to some otherwise free services. However, the plans are set up so when you have to start worrying it, it's probably a good sign!

2. "Building dashboards is a much harder engineering and design exercise than most people appreciate."

YES! Sites like Geckoboard make it look super easy and all the tools you get with MixPanel are great, but sometimes things just aren't quite right. Funnelling data from MixPanel where if you have a property that can be True, False or Undefined, it only allows you to filter by True or False in some cases.
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Because we know these raw tests are bullshit since it's almost trivial to set up the frameworks and the infrastructure to make it perform perfectly fine.

And because of the share-nothing architecture it scales like a mofo before we have to start jumping through hoops (and 99% of us never reach that scale).

The lack of raw speed is a minor inconvenience that's easily fixed in practice.

Also, I doubt big PHP frameworks are the only ones with a disadvantage that only shows up in these kind of benchmarks. It's like testing cars solely for straight line speed.
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I agree that most HN readers probably wouldn't use this service, but I will definitely point people to it.

I have set up dozens of sites for friends and relatives over the years. The only reason I'm still paying for shared hosting with WebFaction every month is because some of them are still running blogs / businesses off the crummy site I made for them years ago.

My default response when someone wanted a personal website used to be giving them a WordPress blog. But most people never actually wanted to write content for a blog - they just wanted a domain name and a custom email address, but got overwhelmed when shopping for a domain.

Sending people to a service like this is better for them and better for me.
I believe that encouraging aerobic respiration (maintaining high levels of O2) would be less efficient if your goal is weight loss.

When your cells are breaking down sugar into energy, if you have enough oxygen readily available then you can extract more energy per molecule of sugar. If you're burning sugar anaerobically, then you won't be able to make the full use of the sugar, and thus the byproducts will get excreted with less work required.
Indeed, with a little persistence and some capital this could turn into an interesting project. Like Bir Tawil, it's a piece of land which is not just unclaimed, but in fact definitively disclaimed by the adjacent nations - but instead of being a barren patch of North African desert miles from nowhere, it's a pretty little patch of forestland on a major river in central Europe. Nor does it seem likely that Serbia and Croatia will be settling their differences over the border any time soon.
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When your car loses weight (fuel), where does the weight go? The exhaust, of course; your breath is your exhaust.
Looks interesting. First time I have heard about it. I will definitely have to check it out. Thanks for the link!
Hey! Then they would be just like humans! We do all of that.
No. You do not put a dog in an unsecured place like the trunk of a stranger's car. Keep in mind, we're not talking about regular standard taxis, these are strangers working on behalf of Uber with no regulations. A bump on the road could harm the animal if there are sharp objects not secured in the trunk.

Cages are built to secure the animals, trunks are not, especially ones that does not belong to you.

How about I shove you in the trunk instead of the backseat if the ride is only for 2-3 seconds. Are you okay with that?
I haven't seen that one in years.. which was probably a good thing.
But a lot easier (and faster) to skip the hamburger.
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The main reason Mozilla built a payments service and offered a custom library for developers vs. recommending Stripe (etc.) is because no one supported the direct operator billing we needed in our Firefox OS launch countries with a developer friendly interface.
I just tried your service - got a text saying you're trying to find a slot and 3 minutes later confirmation. Nice! Good UI too. Signed up from the browser then downloaded App - the app didn't know I'd already signed in - you may want to add that feature in. Liked it overall - good work.
I think he is confusing reddit/4chan with HN.
JavaScript: The Good Parts predated ES5, and certainly predated actual adoption.

IE didn't support basically any of ES5 until 2011 with IE 9, and, for example, Safari didn't support bind() until 2012. Strict mode didn't appear until IE 10, Firefox 4, and Chrome 13. Those dates aren't so great even if you ignore that you'd often have to support the earlier versions for a significant amount of time anyway.
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If you are in salesyou need to read this before you make another call
I'm not arguing there aren't upgrading pains, but --no-site-packages has be on by default in virtualenv for over three years (https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changes.html#id31). There are certainly issues when it comes to compatibility between the languages, but I'm not sure that's one of them any more.
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Congratulations guys! Having tried my luck at this years ago the bigger challenge in getting past the front desk folks who see it as a threat. The funding will definitely help. Best of luck!
This. I can't believe Twitter actually does that; it's uber painful to browse photos in tweets, which unfortunately I needed to do quite often recently.
Here's a good article on why Fog Creek does not pay sales commissions:

http://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/

We don't pay sales commissions at my company, and it works well for us. It does help the sales department to work more as a team.
I thought it was ironic to find this statement in an otherwise solid article:

"(So wrong. Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions)"

This is, of course, wrong. All energy has mass. A charged battery has more mass than an empty one. A chunk of fat weighs more than all of the byproducts that come from metabolizing it.

It's almost true, because the conversion factor between mass and energy is huge, so the change in mass for more mundane quantities of energy is far below what's reasonably possible to measure. But there's nothing special about nuclear reactions aside from the quantity involved.
Actually you can [theoretically] put a charge on your phone bill from desktop but there are some open bugs around this and it's not a high priority use case for us. The main case for desktop is credit card processing.
It also assumes there's anything like a marketplace. Not, for example, one corporation pretty much owning the entire ebook market segment.
Putting a Q on the left hand side would be an error. Q indicates that the energy is not bound in the molecular configurations.

If you measure the mass of a quantity of water accurately enough, the mass will be lower than the mass of the equivalent amount of hydrogen and oxygen gas. The difference would be so small that our most sensitive instruments would not be able to detect it.

Likewise, in a nuclear reaction, the only thing changing is the nuclear binding energies of the protons and neutrons. However, since the energy involved is many orders of magnitude higher, our instruments are sensitive enough to detect the difference in mass.
Right, to be honest, nobody is going to bring them modern farm techniques either. It costs too much. They're going to remain in extreme poverty, building a few mud dams and raising corn with their muscles, for as long as they live.

But if you Were to spend money on improving their lot, then I'd much rather transport a culturally significant number of them to a convenient location where their efforts could leverage modern resources.
Even burning through a single Granny Smith Apple takes ten minutes. Half a cup of dried cherries, dried pears, or raisins, would take over 20-25 minutes. All of these are pretty natural.

Undeniably there are artificial foods with insanely high calorific levels for either their volume or weight. But all foods are inherently hard to burn off via exercise. Some are just worse than others.
I think it's a fad and I wish it would stop
How many companies are you putting money into month after month that aren't turning a profit or providing you any sort of return?

I say month after month because if the company is not turning a profit, someone has to keep the lights on.
My understanding is you can get true multithreading in both python 2 and 3 by using an interpreter that supports it (like IronPython).
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Yes, definitely it would need a closer look.

And makes you think if it would or should go the same way of other non profitable but socially valuable activities, by the hands of non profit foundations and/or government support.

And if that would be a better or worse model than the current one.
> It depends on the relationship

No, it depends on leverage. If you've got the most leverage, the relationship will be pleasant. If you don't, the relationship will be abusive. Just like everything else in capitalism. Supply/demand balance and friction matter far more than how "nice" your customer/employer is.

The distinction is crucially important: if relationship quality were an independent variable, everyone would be able to find decent relationships by hopping between jobs every now and again. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. The market determines what employers can and can't get away with, so someone stuck in a crummy relationship is likely to find a bunch of equally crummy relationships when they go job shopping.
Excellent! The more we see of this, the more likely it is we'll see something similar with sentient machines, when they come around. Interesting to note that those die-hard people I know of wanting to "defend humanity" against this kind of thing also don't seem to mind corporate personhood.
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I dont understand how my linux server got hacked? the ssh key was also compromised. I have switched the server off and plan to reinstall a new linux distribution. I also changed my profile password of linode. Do I need to do anything else to protect my self again? Thanks for reading.
Partially because those foods aren't really 'natural'. They are the result of 1000's of years of human selection for sugar and carbos. We've genetically engineered nearly every fruit and grain, the hard way, by crosspollination and grafting and selection through the centuries. We've made them very calorie-laden, because that helped us survive in harsher olden times.
A spokesperson for the judge denied that she had implied personhood to
the chimpanzees. “She did not say that a chimpanzee is a person,”
David Bookstaver told the New York Daily News.

“She just gave them the opportunity to argue their case.”

So, not really. Most of the article is the non-human animal rights groups saying that this is a victory, and legal experts saying it's not. The judge's own spokesperson said it's not a new status.
The molecules consist of Hydrogen and Oxygen that have equal atomic masses, either side of the equation, due to the identical numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons.

Any mass gained or lost will be due to changes in bond energies, and the corresponding emission or absorption of photons that change the energy states of the electrons in the bonds.
Sebaceous glands function in a similar manner. Holocrine secretion where you basically expel the cell entirely. Not surprising really since breast tissue is essentially modified sweat/salivary gland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocrine
Am now conspicuously aware of the nose in the middle of my face.
I like this idea a lot.

I am a private person, but I made sure to get the .coms of my name, my wife's name, and the names of our 2 (the second one born a month ago) children. I think if this sort of thing appeals even to a misanthrope like me, it should have a huge market.
Internet is one big case of Stockholm Syndrome. I'll leave the web developers love affair with crappy tech for another discussion; in case of users, I'm astonished by how much crap people are willing to tolerate because they think "it's how things are". Ads, more ads, crappy/spam sites, SEO, clickjacking... There is a huge market failure here, the signal about people being frustrated doesn't really travel upstream so everyone keeps pumping out even more crap.
Before this, when iOS had separate search and URL boxes, typing in the Google search box would offer a prompt to search in the page since ... maybe v3 was it? Hence why that moved to the URL box when the boxes merged. Yes, it sucks.
Water is a byproduct of burning fat.
The criminal complaint states that the trader was using an excel spreadsheet trading product, from a vendor, that was specifically augmented with order types that would automatically place orders for him at price points away from the market.

Does anyone know what vendor he was using to build this product?
No, parent poster talks about how downvoting makes them careful with what they comment on: "If it's not worth the risk, then I don't write it." From personal experience I can say (and you can too, I bet) there is a much stronger correlation between downvotes and disagreement than between downvotes and not being eloquent enough.
I prefer to believe that most people do not treat common areas of buildings like garbage. There are exceptions, of course, but it's not like having an apartment that you rent out a few weeks a year will throw the apartment building into a constant state of disrepair.
Yes, I scored an S (and I am a developer). IMHO, The reason why most people get an "N" and often INTJ is because all the cool answers lead one to be typed as INTJ (I score INTJ sometimes, but I was pretty sure I am not that sharp and did not score straight A's in school) . If one attempts the test thinking he is logical and unemotional as Dr.House or Dexter, he would end up being typed as an INTJ.
A lot of the times questions are ambiguous and I choose an option as I just wanted to get done with the boring part. The interesting part is then later talking about what fiction character has what type and what celeb is of what type and then reading up /r/<MBTI>.
I think the rest of the stuff like correlation with being a developer (and good developer if you look at INTJ forums/descriptions) is generally wrong because 1) people take the test thinking about what they want to be and not what they really are 2) Most of it is plain stereotyping and since S types are generally typed in as less logical, most developers' will end up not getting that as their results. 3) I believe (and have observed in my 20-something life) that hard work trumps everything in the end
I posted a link to an internationally reputable organisation who do gold standard meta analysis.

You? My neuro-atypicality means I geniunely don't know if you're trolling and yours is a parody post, or if you actually think cbass.com - a comercial site selling get fit quick dvds and books - is a reputable cite.

One question: if they have it "dialed in" why are they selling ten different books?
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Halfway through and still not a single useful insight. It's just the same cloying nostalgia that caused "bibliophiles" to panic when the Kindle first hit the streets, and apparently still causes them immense anxiety today.

This despite the fact that the Kindle has caused more new people to read, and more new people to write, than any technology since, not to be hyperbolic, but... perhaps the printing press?

Now, if you want to talk real issues, let's talk about the challenges of archival, or the danger of making the written word inaccessible to the poor, or the fact that you can't give away or resell an eBook, or lend it to a friend. Those are genuine concerns we should all be thinking about as more and more data goes digital. But, of course, none of that seems to matter to folks like this... they're far more focused on what's happening to them, personally. It's a surprisingly egocentric perspective.

As a random aside, I have little interest in someone who owns many books. Now, someone who's read many books... those folks are worth talking to.
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Immortality is such an awful goal. What is life if there is no beginning middle and end? I can't begin to think of the resource constraints a population would have if none of them have to die. I can only think life evolved to die from immortality and should not go in reverse.
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Unfortunately, many people, including me, are called alarmist; until what they say or a variation thereof comes to fruition. And then its just too late. As you imply, a damning precedent has already been set that you do not own books and we have even already seen examples of those books simply being erased form people's libraries. But in this new world, where the sheer confusion about what digital anything is, evil forces are taking any and all advantages from that confusion to undermine and usurp civil democracy and society.
This appears to have been copied without attribution from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pkSLKucVbM
> Natural selection seems to have little regard for longevity.

I'd argue the opposite, that natural selection depends entirely on death, not just to weed out the less fit, but also because Without death, there would be no evolution. This is by definition, at least for an environment that can only support a limited population. Corollary: The maximum rate of evolution is proportional to the rate of generation turnover, that is to say it is inversely proportional to life span. (http://qr.ae/L5v6z)

Mother Nature did not build us to last, but quite "intentionally".
The real issue with automobiles and cities isn't so much the cars as the parking.

Parking takes up a huge proportion of urban land and street space that could be used for exclusive bus lanes. Parking requirements makes the building blocks of classic urban neighborhoods, like townhouses, small apartment buildings, and storefronts with apartments above, illegal to build. Using land for parking vastly increases the distance between destinations, making walking impractical. When walking is impractical, transit systems become ineffective because there are too few homes or destinations near them for them to have customers.
"Look at the patron model, or commission based production, used for centuries."

Here's a better idea: look at the actual work produced under this model. With a few notable exceptions, it's an endless parade of flattering portraits of rich people, glorified depictions the wars they won, politically slanted historic fictions used to justify their authority, and scenes from the religious stories they used to instill terror and obedience in the people they dominated ruthlessly.

In other words, if you actually understood what you were talking about, you'd know that art produced under the model you describe existed - above all - to project and protect the power of the people who paid for it. The beauty of the copyright systems is that it provided the first real break from a brutal and largely impoverished world in which a tiny handful of rich, powerful individuals (and the institutions they controlled) maintained exclusive control over what did and didn't get made.

Seriously, what else have you got? A compelling case for a return to the divine right of kings? Maybe you could defend the Church's Index of Banned Books while you're at it? Or remind us why burning witches was maybe a good thing after all?

Protip, dude: don't use history to support your arguments if you don't know the first thing about the history you're citing. The system defined by contemporary IP law is far from perfect, but the idea that it's worse that what it replaced is completely insane. Further progress means adapting IP law to the realities of the 21st Century, not saying "Screw it, let's just revert to what worked for the ruling class in 16th."