skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "The web definitely has a speed problem due to over-design and the junkyard of tools people feel they have to include on every single web page. However, I don’t agree that the web has an inherent slowness. The articles for the new Facebook feature will be sent over exactly the same connection as web pages. However, the web versions of the articles have an extra layer of cruft attached to them, and that’s what makes the web slow to load. The speed problem is not inherent to the web; it’s a consequence of what passes for modern web development. Remove the cruft and we can compete again."

I've been bitching about this ever since it became clear that CSS made web pages bulkier. (Yeah, it was supposed to make them shorter. Didn't happen.) We had much faster loading pages when people created HTML 3.2 with Dreamweaver and tables, and most of them looked about the same. Now we need HTTP2 so that all the "assets" can be loaded more effectively. There are even content management systems which generate bloated custom CSS for every page, with huge numbers of classed tags customized for each page. This eliminates any useful caching.

Some major sites have figured this out. The Wall Street Journal's home page has become shorter and simpler at the HTML level. Two years I looked at it, and some content management system was inserting the entire sign-up-for-a-subscription machinery on every page. They've fixed that. The Washington Post is inserting the same block of Javascript for each story. Somebody should tell those guys about functions.

I have a web service which strips all active content (Javascript, Flash, Active-X, Silverlight, etc.) from a page, parses it, and redisplays it. Most major news sites seem to work OK in that mode. Instagram is fine. (WhatsApp looks awful.) Much of the junk that slows page loading is providing little, if any, benefit to the user.
For what it's worth, I quite enjoyed when re-frame did this.

https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

It looks like Famous is going for something similar, but I'm not enjoying the reading nearly as much.
>> You really do not need custom software to run most companies

So why do they still use custom software ??
Never met any such rational and well informed people. How could all fat possibly be bad? Cellular and organellar membranes all over the human body (and any other organism on this planet) are built from fat [1].

These membranes conduct neural signals, release and respond to hormones, participate in immune response and facilitate all types of metabolism by enabling cell and organellum compartmentalization.

Some of the fatty acids necessary for these functions are not even produced by the human body [2] and therefore must be ingested.

I think the real question people ask is not about whether fat is bad or not, but about the benefits and risks of relative proportions of fat and other nutrients.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_membrane
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid
https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template/blob/master/the...
Seems the same as Web Components/Polymer. Not sure why neither are mentioned...
Don't really think people from any other county should be looking down on Australia. This is the progression in every country, just at varying degrees currently.

People will look back on the first few decades of the Internet as the wild-west era. Kids will be born knowing nothing but draconian rules and enforcement for the Internet. And the powerful elite will once again have squelched anything that challenges their dominance. Business as usual.
This BEST stuff looks great and I'm looking forward to using it. But it will be a nightmare to search for if this stuff takes off. You should consider changing it to something more unique.
At least one US utility claims that residential solar has a similar win/win impact if the solar generation coincides with the transmission peak. Presumably the two technologies would work together well in this regard too.
iOS 8.3 jailbreak is released
I was a beta user, and am now a paying customer.

I was skeptical when I started using the product; I've been hiring for nearly two decades and figured that the company's algorithm wasn't going to be able to improve on my experience. Now I'm pretty sure I was wrong. The suggestions make sense and are, for the most part, clearly improvements. I've had readers look at "before and after" without knowing which is which and they uniformly prefer the "after".

I strongly recommend trying the free trial out, if it's still available, and seeing for yourself. I find it well worth the $99/month.
I've taken this approach on others' PCs before with great effect (msconfig is your friend) but sometimes it's just quicker to do a clean install. I tend to triple boot Linux / Windows / Current-tinkering-OS-of-choice on my own machine so I'll usually dedicate at least a day to getting everything set up when I have a new one.
http://famous.org at least shows some code samples, but I agree - it'd be nice to see a real interface, as opposed to an animation.

It would also be great to see how Famous isn't a re-skin of MVC with a React-flavored API.
I see where you're coming from, but poems, plays, and sculpture are "the fruits of the ancient world." A work like the Iliad only comes around once every few millennia, and no synopsis will frame its ideas so starkly.

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the most thrilling pieces of literature available to a reader today, and they both pose difficult moral questions. I just can't imagine a sociology textbook writer formulating a "What do you think: Glory, or Contentedness?" segment as compelling as the entire arc of Achilles' role in the battle for Troy.

So yes, the lessons of the ancient world are applicable to a broad range of subjects, but the art is also valuable in and of itself.
I apologize for my ignorance, but this article seems to forget to mention what exactly Watson's contribution was. From reading this one gets the impression he rather delayed than accelerated the important discoveries. Surely this wasn't the case. Can anyone comment on this?
I looked into it.
Gzip compression was off, even though it was configured in nginx.

Highlightjs was included in my main javascript, while I only need it for the instructions to highlight some html/js/ruby/php. It's a whopping 100kb by itself.

I moved this to the instructions page, and I'm using cloudfront now as a CDN.
Yes, I hear 9/11 was an inside job as well...
Not much information in the video on how this was achieved, but a quick search for "gruv algorithmic music generation" returns the following: https://sites.google.com/site/anayebihomepage/cs224dfinalpro... . Extract:

We compare the performance of two different types of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for the task of algorithmic music generation, with audio waveforms as input (as opposed to the standard MIDI). In particular, we focus on RNNs that have a sophisticated gating mechanism, namely, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and the recently introduced Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). Our results indicate that the generated outputs of the LSTM network were significantly more musically plausible than those of the GRU.
I uderstand that phones and tablets have replaced typical desktop usage for the most casual user section of the population but I also find it quite sad.

These people (if studies and surveys are to be believed) basically 'surf' the internet through 4 or 5 particular apps on their phones and they form the filter bubble that is their experience of the internet entirely.

They don't even use browsers for the most part. Maybe thes epeople never used a desktop to 'surf' the internet and discover new things in the first place, but now they never will.
Where can we find your snake oil-free alternative?
The core of famous is really an request animation frame loop that does css transitions to do animations with physics. Their demos uses absolute positioning on everything to get flickerfree animations. On top of that they've created various abstractions like angular directives and react components. It's very cool, but for simple animations in react or angular I turn to snabbt.js.

There are some open source projects that adds turn key components to famous, like famous-flex https://github.com/IjzerenHein/famous-flex by Hein Rutjes. If you want demo's, then there's the famous "fan site" http://famousco.de/links/
This is utter ballocks. Inflation affects everyone equally, there is no reason why people with enough unneeded income/capital to invest it should get tax breaks.

You know who really suffers from inflation? Minimum wage workers who's wages do not go up despite inflation.
The balancing act that we have to pull whenever free energy (in the form of petrol) starts to show signs of depletion will have to be played not at the pre-industrial 1000 million people level, but at the current 8000 million. That is a very difficult act to pull - specially without the jackpot that petrol has meant for humankind.

Can you make the transition to nuclear or to another energy source? Maybe, but that's far from sure. We do not even know if nuclear (or any other energy source) is a good enough substitute for petrol at the global level, not even clear that it is an energy source (it has a much lower eroei than petrol, maybe even negative if you account for disposal costs).

Maybe everything plays out well and in some decades we are flying our tesla-jets with rechargeable batteries powered by clean australian uranium, but that seems far-fetched. And even then we might have not yet solved the demographics problem, meaning it has just been kicked down the road for another while.
Yes, I agree that this isn't related to Microsoft at all. I was merely responding to the aspect of "hey guys, look, Microsoft got better".

> It has to lobby governments for commercial interests and at the same time, it has to seduce developpers by open sourcing (and leading technical innovation).

Well, that's the very problem for me. As long as it is only PR to catch devs, I don't care. Opening .NET was great, but honestly I'm accustomed to open languages (or open compilers), such as Go, Rust and C (including the whole GObject ecosystem). It didn't make .NET better, it made it equal to things I'm used to. And in contrast to .NET, these languages are truly governed / developed by a multitude of developers.

To me it's more important to stop ambushing Open Source / Free Software (like the blackmailing I linked above). If Microsoft's products are better, they won't have to fear Open Source at all. Fair play is all I want.
Guess the old "total cost of ownership" anti-Linux FUD slides from Microsoft from back in the day need an update.
It's been a while since I read that stuff but I doubt they included "expensive payed for security fixes after product EOL" on their side.

Pretty bizarre situation though. Why did the Navy not migrate. It's not like the EOL of WinXP was the Spanish Inquisition.
FBI Says Cryptowall Ransomware Has Cost Consumers $18M
http://www.go-binder.com
You haven't posted the real domain so I can't check but try pinging the clone's domain and make sure it isn't pointing to your server's IP. It may just be a domain that belonged to the previous owner of your server's IP.
> Nowadays there's simply no reason for legitimate applications to have the level of access to the underlying system that they used to have

I'm hearing this argument from time to time. But I'd like to know what exactly changed. I can think of a dozen use-cases for which a shared, system-wide filesystem would be absolutely necessary (yes, especially with computer-illiterate friends and relatives, as "files" is pretty much the only abstraction besides "web" that is widely understood even outside of "geek"/"power user" circles).

So, what exactly has changed between then and now that made those use-cases legitimate in the bast but not anymore now?
It looks great, but I am trying to get documentation of the famous-cli command "deploy".. no idea of how it works..
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So if you spend 10 years building a company and then sell it for 10 million, you think that you should only get to keep 1 million(ish)?

The only way to make a long term gains tax fair is to allow you to spread it out over the time it took you to make the gain. And even then it isn't really fair.

If you make a company and sell it in three years for 50 million, why is it fair that you only keep 5 million?
Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
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Blockchain vs. Xapo is early adopter trustless vs. mainstream trusted institution
Show HN: A hub for news, video, top sites, and live social media
Citizenship is trivial once you have a green card, you just have to wait 5 years and pass a civics test.

Getting the green card is the hard part.
I spent the last two years researching, designing, and building a multimedia platform that has over 175 different topics. The purpose behind this was to create an environment that delivers the latest news, video, audio, top sites, and live social media into one central hub.
The difficulty with credentials in software development is that you need some sort of objective standard for the knowledge and/or skills required to merit a certain credential.

No-one really knows yet how to consistently build good software with a normal workforce within commercially realistic timescales and budgets. For that matter, even what constitutes "good software" probably depends on the context; in the real world, it is usually a question of "good enough" rather than any absolute standard that applies to all projects. Therefore, I'm not sure there is anyone in the world who could write those objective standards yet.

Even if there were, there is a significant risk that they would be shouted down by the kind of consultants who don't actually make a lot of software and don't actually have a good track record of success in their own projects, yet have no problem writing books, blogging, speaking at conferences, or otherwise telling the rest of the industry how it should be doing its job.

That could lead to the worst possible outcome: an industry with de facto or even de jure regulation of who may practise, similar to other engineering disciplines for example, but where the regulation actively favours people who are buzzword compliant and up on the latest fads, rather than people who are actually good at building useful software.
The source code is on Github if you want to check it out (https://github.com/Famous/famous-cli)
Agreed. Right at the bottom of the post they link to samples in their Github repo[1] if you're still looking to find what what's going on.

[1]: https://github.com/Famous/framework/tree/develop/lib/core-co...
Japan is doing quite well without the insane immigration policies most of Western Europe has. It boggles my mind, how people came up with the idea of slowly replacing the native population with low-skilled immigrants for economic reasons and how that is still considered a good idea (despite all the obvious problems multiculturalism has shown to bring along in Europe).

All this current immigration system leads to is more Islam and more 3rd world in Europe.
List and Tuple performance benchmark in Python
This has been around for a while, what's introducing it today?
I think you better get some interests. What's the point of free time otherwise? Or the savings?
First thing I do when I get a new laptop is wipe it completely and do a fresh install. You can selectively restore the drivers/software you actually need.

Of course it goes without saying that this isn't something most of the millions of unknowing Samsung customers are likely to be able to do themselves, let alone be aware it's even a good idea.
You'll want to install a clean Windows no matter what laptop you buy.

As for laptops, I prefer Thinkpads, with their excellent build quality, and the availability of factory parts in case something goes wrong. Personally I run a Thinkpad T530 with 1 SSD, 1 HDD in the dvd tray and a nice battery.
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> A5 processor that is tuned for battery life, at the cost of performance

It probably also has quite severe temperature scaling.
Failure vs. Success: How to start and run a startup without ruining it
I've seen Famous around for a while, what makes this different than what they were doing previously?
Thanks for the mention of the fractalyze blog, Rexxar ! I am actually the owner of the blog, and I just would like to inform anybody interested in the subject to have a look at the XRVG Ruby library (I am the author), you may find it interesting. I actually went through a lot of different languages (from C++ to Clojure), and I am stuck now with Python and Javascript (You can have a look at the result at http://julienleonard.com if you wish). Thanks again, for the mention and the interesting thread !
Does anyone know what they get for $9M/year? That sounds awfully cheap. A few engineers to port and install security patches? I guess there must be a few businesses out there paying, so what is the total money invested in maintaining Windows XP?

I guess that one problem with keeping Windows XP alive is that with fewer people using it over time, the chances of discovering flaws which need patching goes down. But maybe these guys don't care about that because all their stuff is offline with epoxied IO ports, yes? /s
Exciting news about Forms API in Angular 2 [video]
The funny thing is that the only really good ones are the first few where they claim its just random noise. The later ones just sound like a crappy radio.

With images the technique works because we like looking at the dense artifacts. Millions of dog heads essentially copy and pasted onto any appendage that looks like it should be a head. It looks like drugs and overwhelms in the same way.

If you just take white noise and throw it through a tuned filter bank (which is in essence and in final effect what they are doing here) then you just get crappy audio.

The more standard and successful use of NN in composition is the use it on pitch series and compositional forms. Like feeding it all of Beethoven and then getting it to generate similar compositions. That's been going on for decades. You can do it with that kind of data.

But the thing about pop and electronic music is that the easily machine observable elements are not very interesting. Listen to the 4/4 kick and snare pattern in the video. Its boring as hell. (Other tracks can be just a kick and snare and they are amazing and we celebrate them as classics and play them for 20 years. Machines will never understand why)

What's great and essential are things like spatial relationships between elements in the mix:
how does the surge of the compressed synth/guitar cause the beat to tumble outward and stir you up ?
after a series of peaks in a synth melody then the next time it pulls back creating a space that pulls at your heart strings. you create a negative space that the listener goes into.
playing with listeners expectations based on what songs, conventions and tropes they already know and respond to.
That's the lack of higher order functions and the lack of first class functions. Anyway I think higher order functions and method references have been added to Java 8 as well as Lambda functions.
Just a handy SMS API
The Mystery of Cloud Computing
This has also been tried in the USSR. The economic success of such a measure is evident.
Their economy has been going backwards, but so has the amount of working-age adults. Productivity is up. Japan's economic problems are simply a result of its demographical problems, which in turn are the result of cultural issues. It's not at all given that the same will happen to China.
Does it matter? Isn't it still illegal to host it, as long as you don't have the right/license to show it?
culture fit is a phrase that means what the person saying it means, and without knowing that, you can't infer much. I've seen it mean anything from

- read those stupid pickup artist books, hit on chicks in the marina after work, and hire a shitty designer because she has big tits and you think you'll have a better chance at sleeping with her if you work with her (there's many reasons I didn't last long here)

- are you down with tuesday night strip club

- are you fucking obnoxious to be around for 40 hours a week? (There are people in the world for whom the answer to this question is a strong yes.)

- do you have your shit together enough that you'll fit in a more mature team with relatively low supervision, lots of work getting done, and who really want to work from 9-5 unless there's an actual emergency?

In case it isn't clear -- the majority of places I've worked would (thankfully!) consider putting tuesday night strip club on the calendar a firing offense.
Microsoft is supporting XP until April 2019 for WEPOS anyway.

I'm hoping by then I can finally find a firewall for W7 that works remotely as well as the ones for XP.
As I have not experienced their situation in any shape, that is very difficult to say. Reading the various news article about the current crisis in the Mediterranean and its thousands of death, all methods of escaping the troubles is high risk.

Given their plight, I feel very privileged (in an obnoxious way) to even able to make such as a comment.
Four things spring immediately to mind.

1) This is research by a partisan think tank. That's not to impeach the source, only to encourage deep criticism about what the data is actually saying -- whether you agree with it or not. (In fact, I find that stories like this that I agree with I need to be especially careful of embedded spin because of the difficulty I have difficulty in seeing it.)

2) If we're all going to have robots working for us in 100 years, the effective ratio between the bottom workers and the top ones will be infinity -- that is, the entire idea of a happier future is machines doing all the grunt work and people just doing creative things that they find value in. This data may be a sign we are on our way there -- I'd be careful about destroying our future before we get there.

3) The measure here is being made with "comparably-paid workers" So the inference is that you can compare specialty doctors and CEOs, or stock brokers and CEOs. No matter how you justify it, I don't think such a comparison holds water. Are good stock brokers making 20x the money that bad stock brokers make? Perhaps. But does that mean that there would be a similar 20x range among CEOs? No, of course not.

4) I hate statistics-based social policy advocacy because there's always this underlying idea of the old "We take an aggregate number, make some broad generalizations about causality, then announce that the conclusion we had already reached before beginning our work is now evident." mentality. Carrots are poison? Sure, because 100% of the people who eat carrots are dead within 115 years. The only causal relationship I can come up with for CEO pay is the obvious one: highly-paid CEOs get that way because they manipulate the board into paying them that kind of money. This in itself is a skill. Creating large majorities of agreement among diverse stakeholders while maintaining a vision may also be a highly-paid skill among CEOS, and it may be related to their ability to manipulate boards, but even that is a bit of a stretch.

Beware facile arguments about complex topics.
Looks interesting. Haven't heard of BEST, is there any documents or articles out there?
Yep, good point - and quite likely if your website is on it's own (non-shared) IP address. One way to work around this would be to create a .htaccess file to redirect any requests not matching your domain name to your own :)