skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article misses a critical detail of DisneyWorld pricing in 1971 compared to today: $3.50 would allow an adult into the park, but it wouldn't get you on any rides.

Ride tickets were purchased separately. A typical book cost an additional $4.50 and got you on seven rides - and not 7 of any ride. Rides were coded "A" (like the railroad) to "E" (Space Mountain and Haunted Mansion). The book had 1 A/B/C, 2 Ds and 2 Es. This is where the phase "E ticket ride" came from. Those were the rides you came for.

If you wanted to ride more than 7 rides? You needed more tickets. Tickets could also purchased onesies, but it added up.

The ticket books were phased out in the early 1980s and transitioned to the "passport" ticket plan where one price got you into the park and could ride any ride as much as you wanted. I remember this distinctly because I was a test visitor for the passports, which we wore on lanyards and flashed at hosts as we walked on to rides. At the time it seemed as radical an idea as the MagicBands are today.

Interestingly, if you added up the individual prices of each ride at Disney World in 1971 on top of the admission, you wind up at $18.40...or $107.49 in today's dollars. Not really far away from the current admission price.

The best deal was probably the first years of the passport system. A 1-day adult admission at MK was $12.00, or $31.23.

Source: http://allears.net/tix/tixpix70.htm

Inflation Calculator: http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
That's somewhat helpful but won't be useful for anything uncachable (e.g. Someone's Facebook wall, twitter feed, emails, etc).
Show HN: FMList – Todo list app that uses tab anxiety to help you be productive
Well, not really a fair comparison... Javascript is also going down...

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php%2C%20javascript&...

But like node, laravel is also on fire...

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=nodejs%2C%20laravel
Björk: stonemilker (360 degree virtual reality) [Watch it on mobile YouTube app]
But is that a lagging indicator? Peak manpower for a successful project comes well after a project starts. Node.js was hip a couple of years ago, and lots of projects got started using it, so it wouldn't be surprising if lots of people are being exposed to Node because they've been added to these projects. In the HN echo chamber, hip projects have moved on to Go micro-services. Outside the HN echo chamber, Rails is still hip.
According to their 2014 annual report[0], optical media made up for only 7% of their revenue.

[0] http://www.yuden.co.jp/ut/ir/files/news/54376eba6d579.pdf
Why would someone actually worth this rate need to essentially cold call the internet?

Shouldn't a webpage trying to sell web design/user experience be attractive and engaging?

Can you describe your ideal client, along with why they should be drawn to your service other countless others?
Dynamic Tracing Guide
Nodejs is an excellent tool for front-end integration testing and asset pipelines that depend on js(LESS,coffeescript,babel and co). On the other, on the server, you can read many stories of startup that started with NodeJs and ended up with Go.

NodeJs doesn't have any concurrency capability. Sure you can fork, but then you need a message queue for interprocess communication. And frankly while javascript's getting better, some people are a bit sick of dynamically typed languages and prefer static typed languages.

How many people can go read a large JS source file and make sense of what is happening quickly? not a lot, in comparison, Go is easy to read,there is no "ninja trick" or metaprogramming stunts that makes code unreadable.
For me the features I appreciate the most are the debugger, framework support, and decent multi-language syntax support (for when there's js embedded in the html). All that and it runs a lot faster than PyDev.
You can download the lectures using the edx-downloader: https://github.com/shk3/edx-downloader
> It's a feature in search of a problem

I very much disagree. Using react and webpack I can render my views on the client and the server using the same code and using react-router I can even share the routing code unmodified on both ends. Having a fully powered SPA that cleanly falls back to server rendering for crawlers and no-script clients is pretty sweet, in my experience.
I really dislike this description, which you see often in golang discussions because it implies either the people that prefer other languages are dilletantes focused on the wrong things, or the people who like golang are too stupid to use a more elegant language AND do product development.

I don't think either is true. What I do think is true is that every language makes trade offs and golang makes me less productive with it's choices & restrictions. I'm reserving judgement about how it impacts my teams aggregate productivity.
I am going to look into this collection, i have been thinking of setting up a small shop but i might go with a bigger CNC that traverses the work area over rack and pinion so i can switch between spindle and plasma cutter. Any suggestions?
This is a good resource.

If you feel like watching a presentation I recommend Joseph Blomsted's talk on developing Riak Ensemble module.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITstwAQYYag

That is a module that added consistency to an otherwise AP system.

They did it using Paxos and it was interesting because it was during the time when everyone was implementing consensus using Raft and there was, perhaps undeserved, FUD regarding Paxos during those times.

He explains how Paxos is not that bad in certain situations -- such as agreeing on a value (instead of say replicating a log). And then how it was like implementing it in practice.
pry + pry-debugger http://pryrepl.org/ https://github.com/nixme/pry-debugger
Yes, twitchalerts does. Not Twitch.
It's important to note that Visual Studio got a lot of love from MS above and beyond what it's revenues would support. Likewise Intel have gcc a lot of love because they needed to get software used to longer pipelines.
i love itttttttt! <3
Its Doomed because its made by Google they should stick to Search.
How does OCaml compare to F# from a language point of view?
Why you should care about this project:
You wouldn't spend months building your own Linux distribution, so why spend time reinventing the wheel with chef/puppet/ansible?

We're not building a PaaS. Like a Linux distribution, we're integrating open source building blocks (logging, service discovery, scheduling) so that you can focus on app development and analytics instead of sysadmin tasks.

I'll be giving a talk to the NYC Mesos user group this Wednesday June 17th: http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Mesos-NYC-Meetup/events/2229328...
This is pretty much where I'm at. I've always rolled my eyes a bit at node.js, but a current client is using it to render SPAs and I don't think I mind that at all. For my own stuff I'd do the heavy lifting in Rails or on the JVM (depending on my needs), but I am truly sold on React/Webpack for that.
Symbol (programming)
Using JavaScript to Teach JavaScript [video]
Boom. Nailed it. A sad, but accurate state of affairs.
> where we had to sit him down and tell him he needs to use the right tool for the job or get lost.

One can look at it the other way. If your language needs a million lines of IDE code to function and for programmers to be productive with it, maybe it is time to sit down and tell that language to "get lost".
No, sorry. I didn't mean to imply your site did this. I was just talking about a usability/accessibility issue that I frequently encounter.
Oh, exceptions during construction/destruction, right. I don't think Go addresses that at all. Go's defer is just like a finally block, and panics can happen at any time.
I love stuff like this. We should have a site where resources can be bookmarked ... like pins if you will. And.. and we can follow certain topics of our interest. And we can call it Pinterest! And then we can keep hacker news for news :D
Show me in the article where it says his treatment was paid for by the government rather than by insurance.
If it has to be reliable as in no loss is allowed, you're going to need slightly higher latency. If TCP-level latencies are acceptable, maybe you should look at icecast. It's super simple to set up, and works in most browsers directly.
Remember when rails was a fad and no one was going to use it after the hype died down and nodejs became king? Oh those "hipsters"!!!
Definitely for chaining.
Oh no need to apologize - just being extra cautious. Glad you're bringing this up, hope more front-end folks realize how a seemingly simple change can make for such a bad experience.
Fragile data such as this needs to not only be prevented from being stolen, but also needs to be of no use to a hacker even if it is stolen. Only then can we truly be robust to error.
The article explicitly mentions that point and discusses the implications in the conclusion.
Are free websites going to last much longer if we keep attacking ads?
And here I thought it was just the stackoverflow mods that closed everything and you were supposed to take stuff like this to stackexchange.
> How many people can go read a large JS source file and make sense of what is happening quickly? not a lot, in comparison, Go is easy to read,there is no "ninja trick" or metaprogramming stunts that makes code unreadable.

If written correctly, neither of those questions should be an issue.

1) JS devs shouldn't have "large" JavaScript source files, like most good programs, they should be broken into small, concise pieces.

2) JS devs shouldn't use "ninja tricks" or other BS, they should write for the next person that reads the code, again, like any language.

Yes, a lot of people still write bad JavaScript, but that is on them, not the language. It is pretty simple to write bery readable JavaScript if you so choose.
A), that does not allow parallelism, only concurrency. B), that is a description of all single threaded systems. "Event driven design" is euphemism for "bolted on async primitives to a single threaded language." Multi threading is a super-set of "event driven design", and a much more scalable one.
A lightweight, no-dependency top progress bar library
If it can be taken away, it was never citizenship. It was a fancy visa.

Criminals, even war criminals, are still citizens.

What a politician says a law is for, and what a law can be used for, are often very different.
My company provides mobile app content delivery for a bunch of apps. We use a mobile specific protocol (and backend smarts) that measures and records the latencies for each of these connections. Unfortunately, due to a lack of reasonably easy hosting or cloud solution in Africa, all African traffic is currently served out of Europe. As for sub-saharan countries, Nigeria Kenya and South Africa are the only countries where we see any significant traffic at all. And yes, the latencies are horrible, but if we look at our worldwide traffic, there are bad mobile connections everywhere (even in US and Europe) and we have specifically designed the protocol to minimize roundtrips and handle losses more cleverly than TCP, so we do ok under these conditions (though clearly not as well as we would if we had extensive server presence in the continent).

There is some slight chance that Amazon or Google might introduce compute cloud nodes in Africa... as soon as that happens, we'd love to extend our presence there. And if that's not forthcoming in the near future, we'll definitely explore other hosting options (as we've done in India for now).
About 10 years ago, all of my family photos fit on one 8gig drive. When I retired this drive after years of use, I copied all of the pictures on this drive to a dozen CD-R's. I put both on a shelf in my bedroom closet.

10 years on, 9 of 12 CD-Rs are unreadable or have substantial data loss. The hard disk is 14 years old. Every checksum is still correct.

Hard disks were the best backup medium for the average consumer back then. They still are. Now they are super easy because they are USB.

Put a 2.5" 1TB external USB in your safe deposit box. Your kids will love whats on it 20 years from now.
So being the absolute pessimist here, did he suggest that she speak up? Since he was the ultimate authority? Or did it happen as stated. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and history is repeated.
> Licenses like the MIT and BSD license exist for a different reason. And that reason is to give people who want to share what they did on generous terms a way to do so. And historically this was done in the belief that enlightened users would see it as being in their interest to contribute back.

I think the thing that people ignore is that there's a huge incentive to contribute back with licenses like MIT/BSD. The incentive is not having to maintain a set of patches and an in-house fork. Proprietary forks can be expensive (an engineer will have to apply those patches every release -- and engineers are expensive. Not to mention the good ones won't want this kind of work.)

The notion of a company taking a BSD-licensed product and taking it to market while leaving the creator out in the cold seems rare. I won't say it never happens, but for most companies it makes economic sense to contribute back.
It is Node.js's concurrency capabilities that are one of it's core strengths. There are very few other frameworks that can handle tens of thousands of simultaneous requests as well as Node can. In other framework that's tens of thousands of threads; in Node you can have tens of thousands of requests all blocked on I/O using a single thread.
Anyone have any data on Dropbox or Square? I have an odd assumption that they're not doing well, with no evidence.
In ansible.cfg, is a default of "host_key_checking = no" and "record_host_keys = no" a good idea? Shouldn't one ship things as secure by default and let the user disable host keys?
WOW, Nice work. What was the square-footage and cost to build the VM Residence? I want one!
To put it roughly, Go was made to appeal to Java developers as a better Java replacement. In contrast Rust was created to appeal to C++ developers as a better C++ replacement.
Yes they open-sourced it a month ago I think... You made a lovely repo and great idea for the PR!
> so, are you implying that Chinese as a people are rude and lack civility? Because that's what your "contribution" to this discussion implies. Not just a few bad eggs, but an entire 1+ billion people.

No, and you know I'm not saying that. I am stating just one example of the obvious, that cultures are different - it's the topic of this thread after all, remember?

You seem to imply that all cultures are either the same, or at least "equal", down to the individual level (you have a proportionally equal chance of meeting a rude Japanese person compared to a rude Chinese/American/whatever.)

From another thread in this conversation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9712181

> Ancient China had tons of courtesy in social interactions, and used to consider other countries uncivilized. The lack of courtesy in Mainland China is due to the communist revolution, which promoted tough fighting mentality to break social hierarchy and order, and threw away traditional values. It's an aggressive way of promoting equality. The revolution is over since Chairman Mao left. Now that the Communist Party is the governing party, the emphasis is hierarchy and order, or in a better sounding word -- stability, so that they can stay in power forever. They try to bring back traditional values, but the revolutionary damages are hard to overcome.

Is this commenter also unable to "think critically at a higher level"? Are you of the opinion that the cultural revolutions in China had no effect on culture? When you visit different countries, do you genuinely not notice a noteworthy difference in behaviors?

EDIT: Just by coincidence, came across this comment in a Japanese food thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/39qpcn/didnt_fly_firs...

As far as safety, there are 3 crimes per year per 10,000 residents. That compares with St. Louis' 800+ per 10,000 residents. I would like to think that those 3 crimes/10,000 residents in Japan were executed by tourists. No one locks their bikes. $2000 bikes just sitting around. I've never felt safer in my life. Japan is wonderful.

That fellow also seems to detect a cultural difference between countries. 250x higher crime rate in St. Louis vs Japan. $2000 unlocked bikes, and no one steals them. Is he making this stuff up? If we were to look up crime statistics by country, would 100% of the difference be only because of people not reporting crimes where the statistical rate is lower?

The levels of political correctness these days is absolutely ridiculous.
This is one thing I'm on the fence about F# doing "better", double semis are replaced by requiring you do something with your result, either assigning the result of piping it to the "ignore" builtin.
I believe fatpeoplehate was doing things like posting pictures of random fat people encountered out in the world so that they could make fun of them and insult them. These were pictures of people who were not public figures or in the news.

Based on a brief look at coontown, it looks like it is a generic black people are bad forum. The only mentions I saw of specific black people were black people who were in the news.

That seems to be the key distinction.
The fact something is bad science doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from it. It just means that the conclusions don't have scientific validity, but how many of the conclusions we draw every day do? How many policy decisions can be made that are supported by clear, significant and undisputed scientific results?
Hey clarky07,

I've reflected on your comments and have taken them onboard.

Initially I considered posting the actual product site to Show HN. The Show HN guidelines state that "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

The product I've posted about is not something you can play with. Or maybe I've misunderstood the guidelines. Instead I thought the appropriate thing to do was to submit a post I had written about my thoughts on the product.

I admit that the title is somewhat borderline, I did consult the guidelines before posting. I've re-read the guidelines and believe that I should have considered the following more carefully: "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

"Show HN: Jar of Fireworks - A/B Testing as a Service" would have been more appropriate I think, and would have invited less trolls."

I agree with this comment and believe that I've probably done myself some disservice by taking this path instead.

Thank you and I appreciate your comments.
I'd take you more seriously if you referred to them as "ad supported websites" rather than "free" websites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9710706
> accordance with

No, that means that the law of North Carolina apply, not whatever jurisdiction you might find convenient.

See, for example, http://www.contractstandards.com/clauses/governing-law
in California bars sell only 600ml glasses that are individual.

my Californian American friends when in Brazil said he was very disturbed by our "communist" approach to beer
Four flavors of time-discounting I endorse, and one I do not
Gradify turns the most prominent colors in an image into a CSS gradient
If you get on angel.co and search 'marijuana' you can find a list of investors that have funded such things. As well as startups in the space.
Go succeeds because Google's behind it.

Go certainly doesn't succeed because of smug/boring articles like this one. The potshot at Erlang early on (also cf. slurs on Rust and Haskell in some of these comments) betrays the same old "we like it here in our cave" bias of Go boosters whenever confronted with its glaring warts.

Go is a great choice for certain workloads, is reasonably fun to code in, and has great doc support on the web. I suspect however it's popular also because it isn't FP and doesn't favor immutability. It plays well with the haters who refuse to understand how good GC/list fusion/stronger types/better abstraction can make code easier to understand and way faster.

But the bottom line is no Google, no Go. Just like no Sun, no Java. It's simply unbeatable to have a mega tech corp paying folks to write docs libs and patches. But it doesn't save it from being yet another turing tarpit.
Please don't editorialize titles when submitting to HN.
-- Why would someone actually worth this rate need to essentially cold call the internet?

This product is essentially an MVP. I'm trying to gauge the demand of such a service. So far people love it and other people think its stupid. I've polarized the room. I think that's a good sign.

-- Shouldn't a webpage trying to sell web design/user experience be attractive and engaging?

Sure. I think that's relative. Once again this an MVP, but you didn't know that so fair comment - I'll take that hit. I'll probably invest more effort into the page design if the interest is there.

-- Can you describe your ideal client, along with why they should be drawn to your service other countless others?

I'd say my ideal client is a small to medium sized Saas or ecommerce site out of beta and are looking to grow. They have a clear idea of their objectives and need help implementing and measuring goals around these objective. They don;t have an in-house designer or design team. I know that is not the tightest description. I hope to tighten that up over the coming months.

Thank you for commenting.
> BSD doesn't remove any freedoms from the original software author

Neither does the GPL. The GPL does not place restrictions on the author. In fact, as the author of a project, you can declare your project GPL and totally fail to comply with the GPL yourself, because the license is a copyright license, not a contract.

> To put it another way, once you license something under GPL, it is forever GPL. That's a strength of that license in the sense that it has allowed so much excellent and important software to grow and flourish.

Both the GNU GPL and BSD licenses are non-revocable (except, in the case of the GPL, if a reuser violates the license)

> On the other hand, when you license something under BSD, at any point you have the power to take it to another license or make it proprietary.

Assuming "you" refers to the author of a project, they can change the license they use for the project in the future regardless of whether they initially chose BSD or the GPL.

(I'm on the Debian ftpmaster team, which checks all new binary packages submitted to Debian; I review licenses for fun)
I'm Chinese. The most confusing thing for me between English and Chinese is the number. English number is seperated by comma every 3 digits (thousand, million, billion)，no matter in formats like 3 billion or 100,000,000, but in Chinese, the number is seperated by 4 digits, and this happens in every format except one, printed 100,000,000 format. The printed ditgit format is affected by western world and for international convenience. When we say or write it in Chinese we use "万"(ten thousand) and "亿"(one hundred million) which are 1,0000 and 1,0000,0000 (I never see this digit format which is seperated by comma every 4 digits), so every time I see something like 123 million or 123,456,789 in English, I'll seperated it from 3 by 3 to 4 by 4, million is 1,000,000 which is 100,0000, so 123 million which is 123,000,000 will be converted into 1,2300,0000 which is 1亿2300万, in my head.
Politeness and passive-aggression usually go hand-in-hand. They're both strategies used to avoid confrontations.
There are California bars that sell pitchers of beer.