skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to be amused by ECS idea in general and doesn't go too deep into the questions surrounding it (like, safe parallel processing of systems). I wonder what are these 25 scrapped designs/architectures that they tried...
I'm working on a search engine for complex system configuration. It tracks changes in any sort of system configuration (configuration files, database schemas, deployed apps, firewall rules, whatever) and lets you see what changed when across entire groups of systems.

It's really targeted at larger applications built operated by multiple subteams and specialists. Large systems suffer from interaction-driven failures - Component A changes, and Component B breaks. For example, a db schema change can break applications that rely on the schema. But if the databases are maintained by a separate team of DBAs, coordinating and communicating change and dependencies is difficult, and debugging them is even worse. Being able to see changes that can affect your own domain from other domains outside your scope can make solving system failures a lot simpler and faster.

I took several months off last year to work on this, and built an alpha version. It worked, but mostly taught me what needs to be done to build a beta and head for production. Alas, I had to go back to dayjobbing for a while, so it's slow going again. :( But it'll get there.
There has been renewed interest in finding out what non-coding DNA (aka 'junk' DNA) actually does. Some prominent theories are that some kinds of non-coding DNA are epigenetic controls, but there isn't a complete set of theories yet. There ARE transposable elements, sequences of DNA that can essentially move around in your genome at will, and cause problems by doing so: imagine getting a transport protein sequence in a stem cell cut in half. Even then, these are kind of like DNA parasites, not junk.
> Nobody believes that the guy who is moving coupons back and forth between various piles with specific timing has truly earned the load of goods he gains. Instead, they rightly feel like he is cheating the system and taking without giving back.

If you're talking about grocery store coupons, then that guy has absolutely earned the gains. Coupons are a form of price discrimination, i.e sell at a higher margin to people with a lot of money and less time but not lose the guy who has less money but more time on his hands. The stores do not sell below cost except for a few loss leaders, so the potato grower is still making a sale that might not have happened without the guy going coupon hunting.
> The difference between the two is the level of coercion.

I'm not debating the role of the state here, I'm showing that two people are born, one with $10m and one with $0, and that it's ridiculous to argue from such a state of reality that one ought to have a fully incentive based economy when one never has to work a day in their life (except walk to a bank, say '30% in the S&P 500 please, 30% in gold please, 30% in US treasuries please and 10% in a money market account please', and collect his check for the rest of his life), and the other can work 2 jobs like many millions of Americans do and barely scrape by. You'd agree that this is a flawed system, no?

That's a flawed system, and the solution is simple, the government employs coercion. I can't be against that as long as the coercion is on moral grounds, just like coercion is employed in many other situations (e.g. taxation, or prohibition of buying a slave for 10 years even if that person is willing) You mention coercion as if it's inherently a bad thing. Inheritance tax can level the playing field a little bit, where say instead of one kid, through no merit of his own, inherits $10m by bloodright and the other $0, one can inherit $1m (a gigantic advantage) and 9.000 others inherit $10k (a small advantage). That's redistribution of wealth and it's as much 'coercion' as a regular tax rate.

It's not a perfect solution (without flaws) or a complete solution (one that solves every problem), but inheritance tax makes a lot of sense and I reiterate, it's funny people being so hypocritical about it.
Was in Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View last week and (guestimating) saw about 60% laptops (mostly Mac) and 40% tablets upstairs. Didn't count who was on phones (including me).

Most of my travels are in Canada however, and in Vancouver , Calgary, or Toronto the ratio is inverted - more iPads than laptops. Business meetings too - lots of iPads.

I know my 5 year old prefers our iPad to any other device or toy - even the big screen projector. This is similar with other parents in our circles where iPad grounding is one of the more effective forms of discipline.

These are all anecdotes and in the grand scheme mean little, just a counter example to the "collecting dust" theory. They're also still outselling all Macs by 3x though it used to be 5x. So something is happening to iPad purchase trends but it's not clear why.
Now what if @doedeere sold her own 6 foot tall prints of the same image that fetched $90K? Would Richard Prince then sue her?
I think the Fedora philosophy/positioning is pretty well summarized right there on the project page.

> Freedom. Friends. Features. First.

Fedora is a cutting-edge distribution, but a Linux distribution is too large a thing to have only one cutting edge. Sure, if you want the latest applications and higher level libraries/frameworks, you might find them in another distribution first. On the other hand, if you want the latest core/infrastructure bits - e.g. system daemons, compilers, hypervisors - you'll probably find them in Fedora first because that's the distribution in which those kinds of developers do most of their work. Those other "cutting edge" distributions you mention might not have to wait for an actual release, but they still have to wait for the patch from the original developers plus the repackaging into their own native formats and repositories. "Cutting edge" is contextual. It all depends on what you're doing.

Disclaimer: I'm a Red Hat employee and some-time Fedora contributor. But at least I'm not being gratuitously negative about others' work.
792 so far now :)

Will you send out any test load before May 30? Would be better to see those cores to work if they are online, otherwise it feels kinda wasted. Wouldn't be surprised if people go offline after a while if there's no work done.
>Do you think he is a liar and if so what do you think he is lying about and why?

I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish. While I don't agree with user=irrigation's comments, I think he's been pretty clear: the claims don't jibe with his experience as a consultant and he's skeptical about the self-promotional aspects. It's hardly ambiguous.

So why are you demanding he come out and call patio11 a liar? That would be an asshole move. Instead he's saying "I don't believe it", and there isn't anything inherently wrong with that. We're all just "some guy" on the internet, who cares?
Thank you for the insight =]
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Haven't read the article yet but not at all surprised by the concept. This seems like it was just a matter of time.
I remember ten or so years ago being in Ghana and being amazed that after driving 3 hours to a remote village, the residents had better cell coverage than I had oftentimes stateside.
Microservices with C# and RabbitMQ
Ludicrous. You can expend effort all your born days and not see a dime. People give things away all the time. And climb trees, even! Do you really live in a world so bereft of imagination?
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How Companies and Services Are Shaped by the Programming Languages They Use
The screenshot for Meteors appears to be Meteor computer game for BBC Microcomputer and not the original Meteors arcade game.
Yes, and considering that The Fall of Hyperion was published in 1990, that scenario should have been obvious to the Wachowskis.
The Real Release Notes
You mean the animations demo? This is to showcase how to work with animations to speed. CSS3 Transitions/Animations have the same performance regardless of the framework.
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I'm very aware that IA is an open, non-profit archive and I'm sure that they don't mind that other copies of the archive exist. My question was about the cost to IA of transferring 12 petabytes (according to Jason Scott [1]). Outbound bandwidth ultimately costs money. IA is a non-profit and "It's costing us bandwidth" is very relevant.

For instance, here [2] are the charges for outgoing bandwidth on Rackspace cloud servers. The lowest quoted rate if £0.06/GB for up to about half a petabyte. IA won't be paying that much as they have their own infrastructure. But even if bandwidth only costs the IA $0.01/GB, 12PB would cost around $125k.

12PB is a lot of data. I don't know what IA pay for outbound bandwidth but it won't be zero. Thats all I was asking about.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602868

[2] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public-pricing#bandwidth
My question isn't along the lines of how visible it is to an outside observer, it's more of how can a singularity itself form? It seems like you can't reach infinite density in finite time given gravitational time dilation.
>> Our students can't afford to move fast and break things ... except that they can in their code.

That's a really interesting point. In other crafts such as art, carpentry, or cooking, there's a distinct cost associated with failure (outside labor) that makes it hard to fail over and over again. That's one of the cool things about coding - it doesn't cost anything to compile and rebuild.
I think this is a false choice. To a large extent, the web is native, and the browser is the operating system.
> Or the info they have open while working on planes. And some of them are not diligent on locking them if they have to go use the toilet.

You'd have to have neighbors that are completely oblivious or asleep to just grab someone's laptop and start working on it while they're in the bathroom.
Penetration testing is not really software engineering consulting, and security spending is about as far as you can get from anchoring pricing to value. It's closer to selling insurance, but the value is even more dubious.

The exception might be in cases where a company is already spending a lot on security by doing it poorly, and you show them how to do it better. But, that is pretty much none of the market that I've seen.
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Because Clojurescript uses immutable data structures, and keeps the state in a centralized atom, so comparing different states is as easy (and fast) as comparing the different versions of the data structure, which in turn (and thanks to being immutable data structures) reduces to compare their memory references, which is fast.
I thought this at first too -- the syntax turned me off. But having it used it for a while now, I can say any drawbacks are purely cosmetic, and it's easy to get used to. If that's the only thing holding you back, I'd say to give it a try.
Reformulating an understandable bug report (“the Froobnicator class throws an
uncaught exception when the input contains UTF-8”) into a long-winded user story
(“as a developer, I want to be able to run this software without seeing a 500 line
stack trace when…”) will magically make it easier to plan work.

This is a lie?! Oh my god what are we doing every day!
I'm running mine on Postgresql. No issues so far, although it's not officially supported.

I think MySQL is officially supported though.
> not:

> * a tribe

> * a close-knit group

> * an industry union

unfourtunately
"We're still trying to product/market fit"

So you've got nothing but want to convince the new guy you have value to deserve more?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_%28bond%29
Browser fingerprinting fails for cases where a computer is shared. That includes both home and public terminals. Not to mention it creeps people out and lacks any type of security.
Sounds like getting fired was for the best
I was wondering about what "two copies" meant. Chromosome pairs aren't copied from each other, but surely the author didn't mean to separate the DNA strand into its mirrored halfs, that must surely not be stable whatever you do.

The first reference given doesn't open without cookies enabled, so I looked it up on wikipedia instead [1]. The 3 billion number is the sum of the number of base pairs of all of the different chromosomes; i.e. the size of the genome data set that's (roughly) identical across all humans. So yes, one cell then instead has the sum of the number of base pairs of chromosomes 1..22 times two, plus the size of X * 2 or X + Y, which is approximately 2 * 3 billion. Thus the calculation is correct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome
I don't think it's quite accurate to call the participants charlatans / fools. The pieces are presented as clearly ripped off of Instagram, the last bit of the comment thread preserved along with one of the artist's. The people buying the prints know exactly what they are, it's difficult to maintain the position that they're getting ripped off.

Art's a weird world. White canvases have sold for many millions:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-14/why-pay-15-...

What you're actually buying when you purchase a piece of art is bound to be subjective, as the enjoyment of visual art is much more individual than, say, a video game. There are games that blur the lines of what makes up a game, and people still buy them, play them, and enjoy them.

Also, there's plenty of ways to enjoy a game without ever playing it. When I was a kid, I would buy strategy guides for games I never played or owned. I'll watch people playing games that I would never play myself. If someone like John Romero or Sid Meier made something like a Pac-Man clone, I might buy it.

So it's easy for me to see why someone would buy these Instagram shots. There's something about the curation and attention being given to them by the artist that makes it a more interesting experience to look at than if you just took a screenshot and saved it in a folder or printed it out. The artist isn't just producing visuals, he's also applying a more cultivated taste to 'what' he's producing. He's only got so much time to make things, what he chooses to make tells as much of a story as the skills he used to make it.
Map data is not the main issue. I'm talking from experience here. Its the sensors and software. Good sensors are über expensive (mind the pun), not easily integrated in vehicle control systems, and currently not awfully precise (for the kind of duty daily automated driving requires). The software just needs more time to cook.

One thing people forget is that building cars is hard and expensive. Autonomous vehicles is not only about mounting some sensors and computers. Its about interacting with a slew of systems that were not designed for autonomy. A fully autonomous car that can drive people around like a Taxi requires a complete engineering overhaul from the wheels and up.
I don't really see a point in separating Ubuntu from the others. Normal releases should go in the "cutting edge and stable" category, and LTS releases in the "stable" category.

With that said, I'd place Fedora in "cutting edge and stable". It has a six-month release cadence just like Ubuntu.
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"Your contraction massively misrepresents what I wrote."

Yeah, sort of, but it represents what I was trying to say accurately enough. You will find, as you go through your project, that nothing is "trivially easy" when it comes to JIT'ing Ruby, and, alas, "just compile it down to a vtable call" is likely to not be that easy either. Dynamic language JITs have a terrible recursive 90/10 problem. In fact I doubt that it actually will be that simple because if it were, PyPy would be a great deal faster than it is.

(From a JIT perspective, Ruby and Python are all but identical.)

The point I'm making is not that you shouldn't do this. The point is that A LOT of people have ALREADY done this, and it has proved to be a lot harder than any of them thought, and you really ought to take some time to go study PyPy or various PHP JIT projects before getting too excited about thinking that you are going to speed Ruby up as much as you think you are. Particularly have a look at RPython. If you are going to tackle this project, this notorious Zeno tarpit [1], I recommend everyone do it with eyes open. No, it isn't going to be as easy as "just do X", or it would already have been done.

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6772
care to share how react is transparent?

it's completely opaque on how it decides to re render the dom. unless you only have react code there, it's completely dark magic for other code
Design is changing agile for the better – here’s why
I use Fedora for my day-to-day development and love it. 21 seemed a bit bad on performance initially, but I keep upgrading and it now feels about right. When I saw this, though, I thought "Isn't it a bit early? 21 just came out in December and they're on yearly releases." Then I read the link:

Also with this release, we return to our traditional six-month cadence —
we’ll see you back here sometime around Halloween!

Nice. Guess I'll be upgrading soon!
Isn't a browser a one size fits all container that was never destined to last?
I've been using Fedora pretty solidly since 20. I use it in a VM to get all of my "actual work" done and just use my host machine for email and web browsing. It's been pretty stable for me.

The main reason I use it is that our production environments run CentOS and I want to get used to upcoming features before they're included in mainline (systemd, firewalld, dnf, python3, iproute2, etc).

Fedora has actually gotten a lot better since around Fedora 19. If you haven't given it a shot in a while you might be pleasantly surprised.
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I'm using Mithril because of how easy it is to look over the source. I didn't want to have another framework with a huge learning curve (even for senior devs) like Angular. It's well documented, and you can read the entire Mithril source and understand what it's doing within a few hours. That means I don't have to bother training people on it. I can give any new people the API and a link to the source and they should be able to contribute within days.
From what I've read on the subject:

Economically, you want to keep money flowing through the system as fast as possible. One dollar spent three times in a year contributes more to the economy than two dollars spent once. (I could imagine it even contributing more three dollars spent once due to participating in more transactions, but I don't know how you'd model that.)

If you tax spending, you incentivize hoarding cash, which decreases the "monetary velocity".

The psychology is different when income is taxed. People can choose to defer spending, but the only way to reduce income tax is to make less money- sure, some oddballs may do so out of spite, but most people prefer to maximize their income.

Furthermore, when combined with basic income, income tax does a better job of reducing the magnitude of inequality. While on its own that's a social argument, it becomes an economic argument very quickly: since it "takes money to make money", extreme inequality levels actually disincentivize productivity from the have-nots, since the expected return on effort becomes negligible.
Will Sharing-Economy Regulation Affect Mobile Developers?
An average driver does not stop to pick up passengers ever n amount of time. A Taxi/Uber driver does. Speak to some taxi drivers and ask them how many times they've been robbed. Its pretty common. Not necessarily at gun point either. They get a lot of knives pulled on them.
There's also another more ambitious Mithril isomorphism project called misojs https://github.com/jsguy/misojs

Definitely worth looking into if you're looking for a full stack solution.
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Does anyone has experience with the matias pro?
http://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/
The Rise of the Chief Design Officer?
Ghostmates – a go lib for the Postmates API, with Donation service example
FYI, you can use Babel to transpile JSX for Mithril by putting this in .babelrc:

{
"jsxPragma": "m"
}
I think grandparent just wished to say that "direct, free, downloadable videos" are technologically possible at large scale via p2p. Mentioning copyright is a bit off topic. It's possible to create a paid p2p service for video, and have tons of viewers without spending millions on infrastructure. Hence the bit about "business fictions".
I think he's just saying you should have used a lower transition time, like 100 or 200ms. It has to do with nothing more than the impression it makes on the user. It's "illogical" but if one of your examples uses a slow CSS transition then the framework "feels" slower, even though the two things have nothing to do with each other.
Study PyPy, particularly w.r.t. to the definition of RPython and why it had to have the restrictions it had.

There's a lot of issues that Python/Ruby/Perl/JS have at runtime that Lisp takes care of at compile time, where everything is technically a massive set of method resolutions. Lisp may allow macros to do the same thing, but careful construction will do more of the resolution at compile time.
Ok then. Lets follow your idea to a logical conclusion, lets ban companies closing down and merging with other companies to protect jobs and labour.

So now you have unused companies that are not provided any useful service. They are mainly there for jobs for jobs sake. There will be lots of smaller companies with lots of duplicated resources, which could have otherwise have merged and shared resources.

At what point does this become silly?

You might as well pay people to dig giant holes.

If you were able merge two companies, fire people, and get rid of unused assets and still serve the same amount of customers. That means there was massive waste, and the merge resolved that.
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Holacracy yet.

As others have mentioned, doing "just enough" work is a by-product of a inefficiencies of the hierarchal approach of managing via command and control. Holacracy instead is network centric.

I don't know if I completely buy into the effectiveness of Holacracy but I can see how it it is better motivating to Producers. For example, I tend to write better code knowing that it will be peer-reviewed by another dev I respect.
That comment!

That's exactly how I feel about every new js framework popping out from nowhere.

But I accidentally clicked on the title. The site looks cool and guess what, a framework which is faster that React and doesn't make you put xml in js.

And it grabbed my attention. I don't know whether I'll ever use it but it will be on my radar for sure. Especially if they don't lie about how fast it is.
I've been wrestling with this same problem, and can't find a satisfying answer. One problem I have with the usual description of a black hole is that the singularity is at the center. But it seems to me that if the escape velocity is the speed of light at the Schwarzschild radius, then the singularity should be there. More of a spherical asymptote than a point mass in the center.
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You are right. Flow control does not belong in markup. But what if I redefined the logic and called them instead relationships.

Could relationships be declared in markup? Could behaviors be declared in markup? Then we would expect the browser and the script to play with the relationships according to the behaviors.
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