skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On South Africa, it's more like 50-150 rand per GB (~4 - 13USD) [1]

Mobile data in South Africa is actually pretty cheap in absolute terms, though of course it's still extremely expensive compared to average income.

[1] http://www.vodacom.co.za/vodacom/shopping/data/prepaid-data
For a long time, you had to be pretty hardcore to cycle in traffic in the US. Politically radical, committed to fitness, whatever.

Even 10 years ago, drivers would scream insults out the window, throw things at me from moving cars, and then there's the genuinely life-threatening harassment. Just for daring to be on the road at all, instead of the sidewalk. This has changed radically in the last decade, in my experience.

On most roads at less than 30 mph, cycling at 10-15 mph is fine.
Yup, liquid sodium was scaring the hell out of the workers on the site, and rightfully.
> Apple is also much more actively litigious and commits a lot of human rights violations in the production of its hardware.

Does Microsoft use the same manufactors for their hardware but doesn't do anything when people complain. Where as Apple constantly responds.
I highly recommend ytalk, available as a package in most repos, as the solution here. Not only does it support multi user chat across the network (you can send talk requests to user@host), it has a shell escape feature which means you can open a vim buffer inside your chat session for collaborative editing.
that is your choice.
Thanks, will check this!
Here's where I put on my old-man hat. You youngsters reading this might be flabbergasted, but this is how things worked in the olden-days, before the Internet.

An example, there use to be this guy names Fred Fish who would compile Amiga freeware onto floppies and trade them at Amiga user group meetings. I believe he lived in Idaho. Where he got the freeware was anybody's guess. But through a thin network of people trading software, the Fish disks (as they became known) spread far and wide. I didn't have an Amiga, but one of my friends did, and he had probably 30 Fish disks, which composed most of the library of software he used (there were about 1000 of these disks).

Generally, they weren't transmitted by BBS, nobody had internet. These were literally n-th generation copies of the original disks Fred Fish first put together on his computer and gave out at his local group and to his friends. People from around the world ended up with Fish disks, which are usually reverently numbered according to the release packages that Fred put together.

People used to organize "copy parties" where we'd all haul our huge computers, tower-CRT monitor, sometimes speakers, over to somebody's house and we'd spend all night copying floppies and sharing software and .mod files and whatever else. Showing off games and drinking and smoking and doing all other kinds of crazy things. Fish disks were common sights at these parties and everybody wanted to fill out their collection or get the latest one...which may have percolated thousands of miles and over oceans -- by hand to get to this party.

The movie "Hackers" is a terrible movie from a technical standpoint, but it really nails the feel of this culture. Competitive and cooperative, doing something a little bit wrong, mostly at night. Viruses in those days were designed to spread in this kind of environment of social sharing, embedding themselves in weird spots on floppy disks and taking up just hundreds of bytes.

Modems started to kill lots of it off, and widespread Internet killed off the rest. But it was an amazing time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish
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> But not having a helmet attracts more negative attention than not having lights does.

Not true. At least not universally. It all depends on how many and what kind of idiots live where you bike.
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At that time, various things:

* At that time, most apps where available in their "desktop" versions. So if you used Gnome you tended to use Gnome versions of the app.

(it was a silly world back then)

* I was starting with development at that time, and the Gnome "SDK" was something I found not appealing at all. It could not even be called a platform, but a random collection of libraries. KDE on the other side was very consistent and appealing for developing GUI apps.

(And you may remember the KDE hate about non-standard-C++ and QObject, from the same guys that brought you Vala and GObject later)

* I had back then this opinion of not looking at my contact list by IM system, but by person with multiple transports.

That followed by KDE addressbook integration, etc. I would guess nowadays Pidgin also has this, but that was new back then. Kopete was a testbed for all this ideas.

* GAIM was not very stable back then
Point well taken. Of course you're free to determine your personal level of risk tolerance. Just don't force others to convert their homes to nuclear shelters (after all, one nuclear explosion can ruin your whole compile).
This is an important distinction. Tobacco usage has gone down. Electronic cigarettes, however, are booming among former tobacco users. Americans are also opening up to marijuana legalization.
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Why it removing the youtube logo on the top left corner? Just because it's showing that youtube is streaming E3? :/

How do I let the extension know that some adds are part of the page?
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> If their business model relies on knowing more, then they chose a lousy business model.

I must disagree. I certainly understand a desire for privacy and it's definitely within your right to block GA if you feel so inclined, but to assume that sites using GA to track visitors is some sort of shady business model is simply not true.

I've used GA and Heap (Analytics) to obtain extremely granular information about how users traverse a website. This information can be invaluable to businesses in order to understand the thought process that people go through on a website. The underlying goal may be more conversions (sales), but simply using and analyzing data from GA or any other analytics platform isn't going to magically force you to purchase my product/service. These types of insights help identify critical issues with your website - issues such as pages with information that isn't as clear as it could be, or other possible barriers preventing users from signing up. This can be purely technical (i.e. a bug on a specific page), or it could be a lack of information/understanding about your product or service, or many other possibilities.

If you don't trust Google or other similar companies with your data, then you're welcome to block them from tracking you. But I personally don't believe that you should equate the use and analysis of such tracking data as evil in every instance, because it's not.
Sorry guys, server was overwhelmed by ProductHunt and Hacker News visits. We did demo part 'lean way' so it could not cope with uploaded content. It should work now!
PG has theories on why: http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
It sounds like you've done the work to validate the fact that 30Kb is too much for your use case.

However, let's be clear here: most people who complain about the size of jQuery are doing so without any basis whatsoever. And even if people are measuring, they may not be measuring the right things. If not using jQuery causes you to reduce your Ajax usage, and reload entire pages as a result instead of only reloading the content, the end result is a slower site.
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Um, isn't the point of Zepto a modular jQuery that may not support 100% of what jQuery does but it tries to at about the same speed (or better)?
They are standard on all Dutch bikes. Is that not true in other countries? Bikes without lights, rear reflectors and reflectors on the wheels or tires are far, far more dangerous than not wearing a helmet.
You're an idiot.

I've only ever bashed my head on the ground at very low speeds. You'd be surprised the damage you can do falling from head height. A bike merely increases the probability of that happening.

High speed; forget it. I drive a car now after I was totalled by a taxi.
My data is old - various control languages, BASIC, RPN style expression engine. Each time about the same performance.

Go ahead and implement a bytecode machine, but you lose two ways: the time to write that extra engine, and the loss of semantics. In the interplet (ok, AST) interpreter, you can add debugging features that 'understand' the intent e.g. still know a loop is a loop. That's cool and powerful.
The subtitle of the article is "Because you want the $ of jQuery without the jQuery". With such an ambiguous statement, I think we can afford ceronman the benefit of the doubt.

Furthermore, I don't think he's making up a strawman at all now matter how you look at it. He agreed with the article. You CAN re-implement jQuery in 10 lines of code if all you want is 0.1% the functionality of jQuery. That's what the article said and it is true. It's not an argument against any perceived strawman.

The next paragraph was praise for jQuery and the final paragraph said it's fine to not use jQuery and added an opinion about what "these kinds of posts seem like". Where's the strawman?
I was bombing down a track in the twilight, didn't see a gate that was basically a single post across the road until the last minute, jammed on my brakes and bike fell sideways, I skidded along on my side (still attached to bike by SPDs) and my head hit one of the gate posts.

I was out for quite bit, woke up cold and with trousers shredded on left side. Was in a lot of pain for a couple of days and ended up with a spectacular giant hematoma on my left hip.

My first reaction on coming round after being knocked out was, of course, "I hope nobody saw that" :-)

Edit: I kept the helmet (or remains of the helmet) for years to show other people.
You can also use NoScript for that.
Reason suggest that helmets work better than no helmets. _Evidence_ suggests that the benefits of wearing a helmet are actually surprisingly marginal for casual cyclists. Other factors, like biking infrastructure quality and vehicle operator education, have a much greater impact on safety. Which makes it a bit weird that people concerned with the safety of bicyclists talk so much about helmets.
Yeah, and Objective-C and now Swift inherited that same convention.

Objective-C:

[self frob:param1 withObject:param2];

Swift:

self.frob(param1, withObject:param2)
> Upon the RUN command, Hyper launches a new VM instance, instead of containers, and mount the specified image onto the instance:

You don't eliminate minimalist VM even with hyper.sh
I've been following along since Jesse's earliest builds and blogposts (HN from 2yrs ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6891893 ) so it's been awesome to see it turn into a real-deal hardware startup (ran into them in Shenzen while they were doing the Highway1 incubator) and for the KS to finally launch. Can't wait to get mine.
The basics and that's about it. IMHO, these schools do a very big disservice to the people they pretend to help. I think it's particularly bad for woman and under represented groups looking to springboard into technology, as it sets an unreal expectation.
Read Steven Pinker's The better angels of our nature. He has some ideas why.
Shouldn't be, in theory.
I really wish emacs / vim didn't fall behind as much with all these gorgeous themes. Like even the solarized theme for emacs was pretty lack luster compared to the atom one until I went in an did some manual adjustments.
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That study is about using options on the network today, not really about creating a standard for the options that would handle the address space issue with the knowledge that support would roll out over time.

Any solution will involve some changes to network infrastructure.

If they had simply added some bytes to the address and not tried to tackle every other perceived wrong with IPv4, we wouldn't be talking about this exact same problem 17 years after IPv6 was introduced.
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There are tons of capitalists the most notable being Carlos Slim, who will solve Cuba's internet connectivity problems in no time. This shit at this point is trivial. It's a question of cost. I am sure they will figure something out for their tiny Island nation.
Talk is great because people can complete each other's sentences and such, which is impossible with instant messaging (unless people hit send for incomplete thoughts).
You've assumed constant foam density which I don't believe is a given. That's how all helmets are made right now, but nothing would prevent someone from making two separate pieces and bonding them together, except cost. And what's the incentive to increase cost (and thus price) unless you can use that to differentiate somehow?
Also see http://sourceforge.net/mirror/ I guess. Weird behaviour.
You'd think with all the bad press lately that they would lay a little low.
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Yes, I guessed that it doesn't have a negative connotation for you. That's why I mentioned it, so you could be aware of what the name brings with it in part of the world - perhaps I should have been a bit more verbose about that.

The background is that Hitler used "Hart wie Kruppstahl, zäh wie Leder, flink wie ein Windhund" (Hard as Steel from Krupp, tough as leather, fast as a greyhound) in a bunch of speeches about how to model the german youth. Additionally Krupp Stahl was using forced labour during the war.
I think the argument is "I as a cyclist will be safer if there are more cyclists total because drivers will become more accustomed to them, and if I wear a helmet I foster the perception amongst other prospective cyclists that cycling is unsafe and they will thus be less likely to ride, so I'm better off trying to improve my safety via safety-in-numbers by projecting the image of cycling as a non-dangerous activity than I am in trying improving my safety via a helmet of questionable protective value." You can agree with that or not, but I don't think it's founded on a fundamental logical fallacy.
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Not related to the subject of this post itself, but did someone noticed the double-post on HN (with short 1st page hit) and 9gag ? This is quite rare, I'm not sure if it already happened !
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Looks like it's there since 2011-11-28.
The phrase "circling the drain" comes to mind. Last ditch attempt at pretending to be relevant by gaming the search industry.
Perhaps a boost in creativity isn't solely restricted to walking but other activities which don't involve the task at hand (as others have mentioned)?
For example, even doing a simple crossword puzzle to distract yourself may boost your creativity vs concentrating solely on trying to do something 'creative'.
I highly recommend Professor Richard Wiseman's book: '59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot' which references some studies involving topics similar to this.
So, this is Sourceforge mirroring a popular open source project that's hosted elsewhere in order to garner more traffic? Is that what's going on here?
Interesting read. Surprising to know that the entire continent accounts for just 3% of web traffic
Another explanation could be attributed to the food supply: in America, the lower standard of living you have, the more likely you consume a nutritionally poor diet and consume water from the tap which in some areas has been shown to contain trace amounts of medications, spores, lead, fluoride, etc. In other words, medical conditioning.
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That theory is mentioned in the article.
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Whether using a dependency system at all for the purpose of ordering and expressing relationships between daemons is the best approach is beyond the scope of this reply, but I just want to say that most modern sysvinit deployments did in fact have service dependencies, through the use of LSB initscript headers that were parsed by insserv(8).

It was kludgy, but there.
> If you only want to support evergreen browsers then there is no reason you need jQuery

False.

Read the first sentence of the document I linked to.

“…developers should be aware that ditching libraries, like jQuery, can easily require large amounts of research on their end to avoid bugs (even in modern browsers).”

Bear in mind it’s Paul Irish who wrote that.
Hah, my first reaction was "damn, we don't have cameras!" - I wanted to see just how quick things happened and what I could/should have done differently.

Otherwise basically the same for me (I'm told) - bike slammed over onto the right, walloped me into the road, and then skidded along the ground with me still attached and out cold. Knee and right shoulder blade were skinned but that was it.
These are all great companies that have done a lot to improve the world. I have a hard time calling any of them evil. I think the harshest criticism that they should receive is that (Google and Apple specifically) aggressively optimized their business around labor and tax laws to the point of conflict with the spirit of those laws.
IIRC tcc, Bellard's tiny c compiler, works this way. It emits very naive native code, but it chomps source code fast enough to boot linux 2.4 from source under 10 seconds years ago.
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Argh, we really need to get Octave-Forge off SF. Octave itself is hosted on GNU servers, but all of the Octave-Forge add-on packages are in SF.

The thing is, there isn't really anything that easy to move to. No, no github, because we don't like git. We have a bunch of Mercurial repos. We could try moving them to bitbucket, but this also leaves the question of what to to do with our webpage hosting, which is currently on SF.

And no matter what we decide doing, it's all a bunch of work that nobody really wants to do.

At least when SF first approached us with their "revenue sharing" bullshit we refused. I think this means our downloads are clean so far.
Depends on your line of work. If you choose to ride a bike, you should probably wear a helment. If you want to be on a swat team, a bulletproof vest is also a good idea...
Can't find it in the Apple store
I think you got it the other way around. My <insert computer illiterate relative> is never going to dare to install anything native. But she can now use apps that require 3D thanks to WebGL.

WebGL is not where the geek cool factor is, at least not yet. Native might be, isn't that why those $500 graphics cards sell? WebGL brings 3D to the non-geeks.
This is a great idea, streamlines the meet process with strangers, e.g. compared to meeting and pitching to angels in coffeeshops.
> adults seem to often be less creative than young children

I think there are a number of reasons for this. I don't have a lot of time to write it all out here, and I would like to get my thoughts more focused on the whole subject before I write too much but here are a few reasons that I think lead to a so-called loss of creativity.

Inactivity and stress leads to a whole host of issues, which I think loss of creativity is a side effect of. I suffered a severe loss of creativity during my early to late 20s. I attribute this to high stress, too much work, and a loss of focus. Also depression didn't help at all.

Inactivity and stress makes you feel like crap. So does depression. I would go through bursts of creativity even at my low points, but I could never finish anything I started. Depression would always make me fail. Learning to live with depression, getting rid of my stress and focusing in hard on the things I want to make has boosted me to (what at least feels like) a whole new creative level.

I think people lose their creative focus. They forget the reason for creating in the first place and so they see no reason to remain creative perhaps, or they can't see whatever it may be they enjoy creating panning out into a profitable business, so they stop. They allow social norms to smash their creativity at various critical stages in their life perhaps. Some parents are pretty down on creativity as well. Society as a whole celebrates people who think differently, but in day to day life the people you encounter openly show their disapproval (if you speak your mind).

If you don't practice your creativity, study techniques, test yourself, fail at whatever you're doing and learn from your mistakes (just like literally everything else) you will end up "losing" your creativity... though I like to think that some people who were "creative" never really found it in the first place. They perhaps started down the right path, and then abandoned it, like a child who gives up on reading.
During my youth (I can remember as young as 5ish but I have one story saved which i wrote at age "3 1/2") I created things nearly every day. I have piles of papers saved from nearly every stage of my life, be they sketches, doodles, or something more. Most of it is unfinished and pretty much rubbish. I like to look at that pile of garbage and compare it to what I have now (just like I do with the stuff I made a few years or months ago).

I think that kids are just less inhibited, are able to make weird connections because they don't know how the world works (this can be simulated though, so don't despair), have less stress, less obligations, have more time, are healthier and more active like you said.
I just want some computer company to focus on power users. I know its a relatively smaller market, but if someone (Apple, Dell, Lenovo, etc.) focused on high quality hardware and software that "just worked" for power users and less focused on the consumer-y features, that would be awesome. Macs have a great build quality but the OS seems less focused on improving the experience than assimilating you into their ecosystem (this is true for Microsoft and Google as well). Every new feature involves creating an account to more tightly couple you to the respective company. I get this strategy but would love to see someone concentrating more on the overall experience than locking me into _their_ world.
Still a bit skeptical of the abortion theory from Freakonomics. Correlation does not imply causation.
uBlock Origin appears to protect browser navigation to all sourceforge.net links now.
Why am I not surprised that the owner of Sourceforge, DHI Group Inc., is a recruitment firm...
I used to ride without a helmet too. I though I'd as soon get directly killed than get a brain injury. But then you do get a brain injury and not get killed and your life turns into hell, especially if your brain is the one thing you've always depended on the most. I recommend paying a visit to http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum92.html to catch a glimpse how splendidly well (where's my sarcasm sign?) people with brain injuries have been doing. I didn't get mine from a bike accident (collapsed scaffolding), but it's been a constant source of joy for the whole last year and I still have some minor issues to deal with (and that was a mild one as far as brain injuries go). I always wear a helmet on larger bike trips now. Anything that mitigates or reduces the chances of a brain injury is very much worth it. If you want to take reckless risks, at least don't write idiotic blog posts about it.
I remember typing in programs from magazines and printouts we'd get from friends.

My "computing" teacher in Junior High School used to get floppies and tapes sent to him from some friends in American universities, so we got to play around with the source code for some games on the Commodore PET. I still remember cutting notches in our 5.25" floppies to make them double sided.

We had acoustic couplers but living in rural Nova Scotia we couldn't afford the long-distance charges and none of us were ever good enough to be phreakers.

Good times.