skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(downvote at will, rephrased to make it a bit more polite) As far as I could tell, people were relatively content with Reddit even when it had bad stuff, but people started getting noisy when the censorship started.

Comes down to a debate on censorship, which is admittedly quite divided. I don't condone hate speech, but its also sometimes tricky to separate hatred from a rational opinion about something. Ultimately you can't control the voices of people, they will find creative ways to broadcast their message for better or worse (as we saw when reddit shut down FPH). Censorship really only hits the beehive and makes the bad people more visible. As one example of this, I had no idea that FPH existed until Reddit shut it down.
PHP needs an opcache because its standard behaviour is to discard all state after each request - including all compiled bytecode - kind of emulating the CGI model.

Ruby web apps on the other hand tend to be run in a loop - the script never exits after a request, it just goes back to the top of the loop to accept the next request to serve.

e.g. https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/master/lib/rack/handler/fa...

FCGI.each { |request|
serve request, app
}

It's nice because it completely decouples your app's startup time from request processing time, so you can do expensive setup stuff up-front without slowing down each request. The disadvantage to that is there's not much pressure to keep startup time low, since it's only happening once.
A minimum wage arrangement, by definition, is an attribute of an employee/employer relationship.
Node.js apps can be even easier than that (only two necessary commands): `npm install` for `go get` and `node [script.js]` for `go run`.

If you want to do compilation there are various solutions available to you as well!
I'm happy. We need to have less rot in our court systems. this should be a lesson to anyone that wants to waste the time of our courts with nonsense lawsuits.
Why is there any award at all? I keep hearing that defending a case can bankrupt a person or company that doesn't have deep pockets even if they are successful. Why do these guys get reimbursed?
While I wouldn't sign the petition and I don't care about her lawsuit or the recent subreddits that were banned, I'm turned off from reddit by their reaction to the fallout, particularly their fudging of the front page and /r/all and blocking comments mentioning an imgur alternative. I'm back to reading funnies from fark.com and now looking at voat.co. It's been a long time coming, longer than Pao has been CEO, and I'm not sure how many people realize that
Should this be in price per kilo or price per mole? Argon is denser than helium.
There are other expenses besides the ones allocated at $229,000.
No it wasn't, it was creating cesspits of hate when left to itself. Considering the amount of good communities on that website, the last thing I would want is for it to be overrun by such negativeness.
Lessons Growing from $0 to $1+ Million in Revenue, Twice
Who was responsible for the Windows 10 nag that appeared in my system tray a few weeks back? Have they been sacked?
Great reporting by the bicycle-repair shop known as Reuters.
Any idea what the legal landscape for these kinds of issues is like in Canada?

Wind Mobile also advertises unlimited plans yet throttles starting at a mere 3GB...

https://www.windmobile.ca/plans-and-devices/plans

Granted, their true rates are still better than their big telecom counterparts, but I still find this distasteful as a marketing tactic.
I actually like this feature of Javascript. Much better than being stuck with a small number of monolithic tools or rarely-updated standard libraries, in my experience.
righteousness == $2.7M ?
Thanks but no, google auth can be installed on any mobile device. Why bother with some "keys"
So more non-scientists with a history of not "believing" in science weighing in on climate change?
They only get reimbursed for some costs. In this case, chiefly witness fees. They probably paid hundreds of thousands in fees to lawyers which are not reimbursed.
Dunno. If someone asked me how to get the bytes of a string, I would ask why. Not because theres The Right Way to do things, but because they might be doing things The Hard Way.

A why can reduce the amount of code written by 100%.
Because someone suing for false claims is now at the head of Reddit, and she has the power to censor things she does not like (and actively uses it). I'd day it's related.
How old are you, and when did you first hear about the scarcity of helium?
Most of us aren't in the position to get sued for gender discrimination.

So this whole Ellen Pao thing is just a bunch of nerds eating popcorn. It's our version of a celebrity magazine.

So in that sense, more gossip about Ellen Pao's personal life/actions at reddit (which she is ruining) are completely par for the course.
That is just the opposite of what I tried to say. I am not a native speaker, so I might have been misunderstood ...??

Some things just go beyond figures ...
A lot of counterexamples to that come to mind, such as airline deregulation, trucking deregulation, and telecommunications deregulation.

Civil disobedience should be the last thing you try, after all the usual channels fail, not something you just leap into because you don't feel like trying the proper channels first.
This looks like a great idea, and I imagine the execution will be great.

Personally, though, I find no excitement in building a log searching tool. Something a bit more magical (I think something involving web scraping or markov chains would be interesting) would probably entice people to move forward much more.

Not that this tool wouldn't be useful, just that if I look at the end result, it doesn't give me the want to build it.
It's as good as any description.
You don't even have to look towards history - just to other parts of the world. There was a story here just a couple days ago about a Mexican woman who lost both her hands working in a TV factory. Yeah...

Actually, we just have to look down the street - there is a huge amount of labor abuse in the nail salon industry. - http://nyti.ms/1KOuiMq the NY Attorney General is starting to crack down.

I'm pretty sure that the GP is a troll anyways.
You were already being down-voted when you added that bit. Reddit doesn't exactly have the best record of self-policing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
> That suggestions that netmarketshare are consistently measuring IE high

That's because those tables arae

StatCounter (and the W3Counter/Wikimedia things in the tables you cite) are measuring website visits.

NetApplications/netmarketshare is measuring unique users.

So what that data shows is likely several things going on at once:

1) Chrome (and Firefox, for that matter, if you look at te the tables)) users load more webpages than IE users.

2) Chrome does some webpage prerendering stuff that can get counted as "visits" if you're not very careful; not sure how well StatCounter accounts for this.

3) Likely some differences in the actual base data, though I expect this is really minor compared to item #1.

Of course I couldn't agree more with your general claim that web-wide statistics are a poor replacement for specific statistics for a particular site. But even there the question of "visits" vs "unique users" might be an important one.
Fracking is fairly efficient at extraction from shale.
Are online petitions still a thing?
Colin has it right. If you don't want to ever compromise your clients data make sure you can't read any of it. It's that simple. Anything else simply won't do.

That's why I keep recommending tarsnap to customers.
SoftLayer removes itself from SourceForge mirror list
I thought they were an Australian-themed maker of networking equipment that forwards data between different networks.
The Parasites of Finance Are Destroying US
Not proving her case and making false claims are two different things.
They offered her $1M not to go to trial. I believe they offered to not go after her for legal fees if she agreed to not appeal.
Sources? That all sounds interesting.
You really should point to your URL directly.
In Haskell, the facetious answer is simple:

No instance for (Eq (a0 -> a0)) arising from a use of `=='

That is, functions aren't comparable (for equality, anyway), so the type system won't allow you to compare them.

The better answer is either "Look at their type signatures" or "See if they evaluate to the same values when given the same input"; the first is trivial, the second won't, in general, terminate, so you need a more nuanced conception of "equality" to apply in this instance. This is non-trivial to come up with.

Kent Pitman has an interesting essay on this problem from a Common Lisp perspective: "The Best of Intentions: EQUAL Rights—and Wrongs—in Lisp"

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html
Compared to Google Authenticator app, YubiKey (a) makes hardware-based OTPs as opposed to time-based OTPs (does that offer stronger security?) and (b) can be used as smart card in GnuPG solutions.

It being a separate piece of plastic might arguably be another advantage, if we assume that most people are more likely to lose their phone than their keyring.

It’s interesting: apparently[0], YubiKey is Google’s initiative and the company itself uses YubiKeys internally.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/amadoudiallo/2013/11/30/google-w...
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
There's plenty of helium in natural gas, but it isn't being separated because the current price of helium is artificially low because of government manipulation (subsidies probably isn't the right way to describe it)
Not to mention there's a typo:

> because she is woman.

If you're going to credit an editor at the bottom, they should probably learn to edit something so simple that Word would've picked it up automatically.
This balogna is getting posted on HN now? For the record she was appointed CEO before her trial (although after she filed suit) to replace Yishan Wong and people have been crying about censorship on Reddit long before she ever worked there. Also Alexis Ohanian has publicly talked about sexism in tech since before Pao worked at Reddit[0].

0. http://alexisohanian.com/dear-fellow-geeks-what-the-fuck
Wow! Gratuitous negativity?
My searches on Reddit for entirely unrelated keywords have been increasingly polluted by distracting hateful crap that I do not want to see. Subreddits aren't independent/isolated enough that they can do whatever they want without it having an impact on the site as a whole. Reddit's looking for more growth. I'm sure that many potential users have been turned away from the site by similar experiences. If they manage to clean up the site without killing it, it could really help.
Yes, there’s a "frequency spectrum" of sorts and HFT is at the short end of it. Here, your models monitor and react to trading tick-by-tick, and execution speed is paramount. It’s also where you have the fiercest arms race for the fastest systems, colocation, FPGAs, etc. Next up comes what’s often called “statistical arbitrage,” where you have models that no longer look at tick-by-tick trading but may look at what happens at 30-second, 1-minute, or 5-minute windows. Here you have more interesting relations emerge between stocks and the market, e.g., what does IBM do relative to the tech index, or relative to MSFT, etc. (Such cross sectional relationships don’t seem to matter as much in HFT.) Actually stat-arb was the domain where the earliest statistical approaches such as "pairs trading" emerged. Next up come models that trade daily (or less frequently), and here you begin to see the long-short market-neutral relative-value type of approaches, where some quantitative [mutual] funds may operate. Next up will be the traditional mutual funds, and beyond that you have your Warren Buffett’s, etc.

One thing to keep in mind is that the higher your trading frequency, the smaller the price moves you can hope to capture, which limits how much capital you can deploy in your models. This is why HFT models are usually small in size but have high Sharpe ratios. As you reduce your trading frequency, you can expect to capture larger price movements and deploy more capital but you’ll also be exposed to more of the vicissitudes of the general market, so your Sharpe ratio will decline. Market participants usually carve themselves a happy spot on this frequency spectrum and stay there. I don’t know of any firm who is successful at every spot.
Work at a YC Company
They're an older concept than you think.
I am listening - but I'm also educating. "Open and generous" covers both sides. I've been studying this issue for a long time - I first got involved with hunger issues when I was a kid, and later as a young adult during the Ethiopian famine.

Years of study have convinced me that the general train of thought expressed here is wrong - and have given me a theory for a reason that so many smart people are wrong about it. The wrong idea, imho, is the idea that hunger comes from insufficient food production, and that exotic technology (GMO) will solve the production problem, thus ending hunger. I think this is wrong on both counts.

The reason so many people here believe something I find obviously wrong is because of basic technofetishism. We love "science". We love exotic technology. And we want to believe exotic technology can make the world better, because it so often has. So people are starting by jumping to a conclusion (GMO is good, because science!), and working backwards to a problem they imagine it can solve (hunger). But that's not critical thinking. That's wishful thinking.

Problems first. Figure out what the actual problems are, and why we have them. Apply the Five Whys.
This will surely be flagged just like all the other less than favorable posts about her and her tenure at Reddit.
Even a "guaranteed bandwidth" becomes impossible if you're transferring from a server that can't provide those speeds, or over some portion of the Internet that can't due to link congestion/etc., and your ISP can't do anything about that. In that sense, all bandwidths are "up to".

The significantly more expensive "business level" plans usually do have some sort of guarantee via SLA, but once again that only applies to the part of the network between you and the ISP.
The world's first team acceleration platform
Change default gender in the dining philosophers project
How about "online community", "news aggregator", "link-discussion forum"...
How is she ruining reddit?
What evidence do you have that she actively uses it?
I'd have to disagree, but maybe I'm not getting your point.

It's more work in C and C++ (and a lot of other languages) to treat strings correctly, but unless you're talking about a C programmer who's been living under a rock for 20 years, most of them are familiar with the issues around Unicode, UTF-*, etc., and they choose to ignore the issue when they can get away with it. When it's important, there are libraries like iconv and ICU for handling it. C++ even has some character conversion builtin to the locale system, but it's super ugly (which goes without saying, because almost everything in C++ is ugly ;-)

As far as your anecdote goes, I know both C and Haskell, and the question doesn't make any sense to me either. It's provably impossible to compare two functions for equality. Even in Haskell, function types don't derive from the Eq type class, so it wouldn't be possible.
Freedom of speech does not apply here. Reddit is not a forum owned by the public, it's a business. Reddit is within their rights to remove any content as they see fit.

Yeah, people complain once they realize walled gardens like Reddit start censoring whatever they choose only /after/ they get too big to stop. Same goes for closed ecosystems like the App Store and Google Play. Guess you should have read the fine print before giving your unquestioned allegiance to all these closed platforms.

I yearn for the days when the Internet was truly open. You can still launch any kind of site you want. But the truth is there is an ever shrinking number of players who now get to decide what content should or shouldn't be seen, and who should get referral traffic. The censorship I see is both ideological and business motivated. A relative few will control all of the information everyone gets to actually see, because no one will bother to look elsewhere. Sad really.
It depends on what you call "those types of laws." The ones you mention were imposed top-down, rather than actively encouraged by, say, the taxi companies.
The idea of the Hurd is that any user is able to run whatever server they want - GNU has been concentrating on microkernels not because it's the new hotness but because they believe it's good architecture for more openness.

So presumably in this hypothetical case you'd be able to upload and run whatever additional servers you needed on the WDTV. You might say "but they might make it impossible to login and do that", but they could have done the same under Linux just by not running sshd - however they didn't.
Dude - we understand. We've been there, just maybe for other reasons. Are you applying for things too far above your pay grade, or too far below? Are you applying using technologies or a background that the companies you apply to aren't interested in? Or are you always making it to an interview and flubbing there? Can you see a pattern? Look for the stopping point - and optimize by focusing only on fixing that one point - forgetting everything else for now. Make it a game - make spreadsheets and test (as an engineer would).
I think the discovery of exoplanets will have far reaching cultural implications.

We've gone from believing planets are extremely rare to knowing planets are relatively common. Now that planets are known to be common, does that mean life is common? What will that do to the cultures that, in effect, support themselves on the belief that humans and the earth are unique?
I highly suggest reading this before forming an opinion on the matter. Keep in mind who wrote it as well.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/25617...
Agree so much with this comment.

Downside is that after using a proper functional language (clojure[script]) you end up wanting some really basic things such as immutable core data structures.

I feel like if you start from scratch on a javascript project, it's possible to program in a functional manner. I've found it really tough to introduce functional concepts to an already full stack javascript codebase.

BTW: I'd recommend ramda [1] for those interested in functional javascript programming. The auto-currying makes it way more powerful than underscore/lodash in terms of encouraging pure reusable functions.

[1]: https://github.com/ramda/ramda
Yeah I'd love to see the evidence there is any 'fudging' of the frontpage or blocking comments. I seriously doubt there is.
> Maybe a better question is, at what point do you think about eschewing the traditional Cisco/Juniper gear and look towards these techniques?

Answer 1: when it's cheaper.

Answer 2: when traditional gear gets in the way.

My guess is it's mostly 1 and rarely 2 for most organizations. Might be a combination of both.
Extracting gold from rock is inefficient compared to panning for it in a river. That doesn't mean we are running out of gold.
One mole of gas at STP takes up 22.4 liters. He now trades at $10-20 a kilo, I think. Enjoy all the unit conversions you need.
The $229k was simply the Jude's guess at the cost. The firm stated it was 865k.
Consider a few things before calling the market crazy:

Total revenue to date: around $2B.

Revenue in millions Y by Y since 2011: 40,180,250,450,850 - See the growth?

Total money spent to reach nearly $2B in aggregate revenue: $2.5B

We do not know their cost of customer acquisition. We do not know their marketing spend. We do not know the median lifetime value of customers. We are not sure what other options users think/know they have.

For a business pulling in $1B in yearly revenue, raising $1B is not necessarily significant.
Why does she have to pay the legal fees incurred by the defendants because she tried to extort money? Is that what you're asking? She has to pay because she lost, and they weren't doing anything wrong.
First, please go see a doctor. You know how shitty you feel right now? That isn't a normal state of being.

I've been there, I really have, I know it feels hopeless right now, but I promise it's not. If you're anything like me you might feel that getting anti-depressants is somehow wrong or cheating, or that you're admitting defeat , but you know what? They are just another tool that you can use to improve your life. Think if it like toilet paper, sure people lived for years without it, but we live in a modern world why not use the modern conveniences?

> all I do is fail.

That is called learning. Maybe you are trying to take on too big of a project or maybe you're just not giving yourself enough credit for what you are able to accomplish, it's hard to say without knowing you. Just don't compare your self to what you see on the internet. I know this is kind of a cliché at this point, but when you do that you're comparing someone else's highlight reel to your everyday, and it's just never going to compare.
I get that people will probably disagree, but she just seems to not make very good business decisions. Maybe I'm way off base, but I've read a bunch of well qualified lawyers say that juries are just plain unpredictable, and that no competent lawyer can "guarantee" to win. In that light, even if the $1M settlement wasn't what you're asking for, I would think it paints a better picture of you than losing and having to pay the other side? Anyone care to explain something that I might be missing?
There are no sources, it's the same garbage people keep repeating with zero evidence.
JetBrains sells $99 IDEs like in the Turbo Pascal days. The current producer of Borland's Delphi, Embarcadero, sell the product for a minimum of $1000 plus a subscription is now required to get ANY bug fixes at all! Accessing a client/server database is a $500 add-on (or upgrade to the $2000 package), etc. Delphi Professional + c/s add-on plus subscription runs about $2147 the last time I checked!

Who in 2015 pays $2,147 to be able to develop software? Note that you'll need to spend even more to target mobile and there's no Linux solution yet either.

Delphi users refuse to accept it (or that mobile or web are here to stay, or that there are better VCS systems than subversion, which is the only VCS that Delphi's IDE fully supports) but the days of the expensive, proprietary IDE are indeed dead. MS releasing a free VS Community Edition was just the final nail in the coffin.
There've been some rather high-profile shadowbans (hellban/otherwise you're banned but don't know it) issued against people who did apparently did nothing but publicly state that Pao is a scam artist.

Given that those comments don't actually violate any of Reddit's stated rules, there aren't many other reasonable explanations.

Then again, I called every single one of them liars, publicly, by name, after the recent subreddit closing drama, and I'm not shadowbanned so, who knows.
Wanted to give a bit of an background on the project and I am not sure how to change that now..
I regret to inform you that there is a word for what you are engaging in, and it is not a member of the set ["listening", "educating"]. Your ardor suggests something else entirely.

I am disquieted that someone who professes to care as deeply as you seems to have failed to grasp the positions of those with whom they disagree. You have caricatured those who disagree with you as technofetishists who believe MORE PRODUCTION solves all things, incapable of seeing beyond what might be done with the newest technotoy. Whereas you know better and emerge to enlighten the benighted.

I have seen this pattern before. It seems to repeatedly emerge in activists of all stripes. I wish you the best of luck.
Yeah man, PHP makes scaling easy, it's shared nothing by default, do you even web scale bro? /s