skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people actually buy high-end watches, though? Surely it's a tiny portion of the consumer base. I would also highly, highly doubt that most would want to replace a rolex with a watch that is highly likely to die, break, or obsolesce.

Maybe the watch market is dying because it's only useful as a status item.
It's not far removed from the public's mind. People know they're currently getting shafted. They have just been convinced that anything in the best interest of wealthy middle-aged people must also be in their best interest, because everyone thinks they will one day be wealthy middle-aged people.

39% of Americans think they are or will one day be among the top 1%: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
There is a fuse module for iso9660. Unfortunately, it looks like work stopped on it seven years ago, with its code left to moulder on sourceforge. The hardware driver itself would be a lot more difficult, as the atapi commands that cd/dvd drives require working in the chipset drivers. Plus, the hardware itself is not usually the culprit behind the crashes, so you'd not get much of a reliability boost from it, unless you're willing to have all of your hdd/ssd drive controllers be in userspace as well.
Nice recent post on the "mathiness" of Taleb's paper: http://www.inexactchange.org/blog/2015/07/24/the-mathiness-o...

Best resource on GMOs remains this Grist series: http://grist.org/series/panic-free-gmos/
I am doubtful that one of these boot-campers will be as good as someone with 10+ years of coding experience, so there will still be a wage premium for the most competent of coders
>Do you authorize Amazon to charge an unlimited amount? You do not.

You do. That exactly is the problem & why I started this off-topic angle thread bitching about the lack of limits. You can limit the actual charge on the credit card, but I see nothing capping the legal liability. i.e. They could in theory reposes your home because of an unpaid AWS account. In theory - I'd love to have someone prove me I'm wrong in this thinking. Until someone does though...this seems way too risky for a hobby/toy.
Absolutely not.

They have nothing in common.

You're still running a monolithic kernel with all drivers and subsystems running in kernel space. The only thing OS-level virtualization like containers gives you here is that a limited amount of subsystems can be multiplexed into independent logical domains (all still running a full OS instance, mind you) on a single host.

You don't get any of the reliability or flexibility gains.

Actual examples of microkernel patterns in Linux are, and I quote from my Hurd cross-toolchain article [1]:

It’s also worth noting that several more recent
developments in Linux like kdbus (which was called
“neutered Mach IPC” by Neal Walfield), the “tinification”
effort [http://tiny.wiki.kernel.org], FUSE, NSUSE, the
MADV_USERFAULT flag in madvise(2), kmscon and other
userland VT subsystems, have demonstrated that there is
in fact user demand for microkernel-like features in
Linux, whether people realize this directly or not. It
is not unthinkable to conceive of Linux (particularly
with systemd) growing into a hybrid kernel approach with
certain low-level subsystems adequately usable from a
user context.

Again, these are all highly limited. But that is the direction Linux is mostly heading -- a bad hybrid kernel.

[1] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/07/25/0/
What's cool is that in AWS as a developer they disable the ability to even login with username and password. You can set it up such that the only access is through a site that grants federated access.
Irregular newsletter on problems submitted by users.
http://probhunt.com/
One of my work projects has this huge, three-page document for style guidelines. All the bells and whistles including the 80 character limit.

And then I realized this is all BS. I wrote a very short styleguide with a linkback to pep8 for any "questions" one might have. Problem solved. You don't need to decide every little detail of how your code is going to look in advance, unless there is a solid reason to do so.

The styleguide, for those curious: https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace/blob/master/CONTRIBU...

Edit: What a great talk. Really embraces the way I've been thinking about pythonic coding. Loved it.
facebook as a platform and business is hollow, but very few realize it. this is similar to Enron, Madoff, the financial crisis, Groupon, etc. history has shown that 99.99999% of people totally miss these business models that are built on a MASSIVELY fraudulent or hollow foundation.

When the music stops thousands and thousands of gallons of pixels will be spilt trying to explain how nobody saw their collapse coming and why they are not to blame.

Here are two videos that succinctly introduce the reality of facebook's mirage:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g
At least it loads and displays its content (for me) with JS disabled, which is increasingly rare these days.
I'm surprised that of the quoted comment you focus on the "paradigm" of open sourcing code, and not the "paradigm" of mixing credentials with code.

Trying to protect against leaking creds by not open sourcing is a bit of misdirected effort.
You can use jgit with S3 for cheap and private git hosting.
So this piece is essentially comments on another piece by this Kurtz guy, and the commentary is quite banal. Luckily the author seems to thoroughly reproduce the original piece which really wasn't too bad.
Probably. If they're not using PDO then that needs to be their first priority, dead stop. After that, maybe looking at their captcha script, because those sometimes have issues if they're not well designed. I don't know where theirs comes from but it doesn't seem to use much obfuscation so it's probably old. After that, Twig.

Although judging by a screenshot of the recent hack[0] posted here[1] escaping (and XSS) may not be an issue.

[0]https://i.imgur.com/pl22srz.png

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990221
You are attacking a straw man.
I'm old.
Hi Noob,

I think the most fascinating and lucrative field today is in medical and biotechnology. I am a game developer moving into that space as well. Making 3-D interactive bio experiences or simulations (think "fantastic voyage" style stuff) is quite difficult[1], gaining popularity, and no one is really doing much of it yet.

[1] It is difficult in many ways, the one you'd be most interested in is probably "simulating systems with trillions of independent actors such as the bloodstream or a working tissue so you have to cheat/optimize like hell."
The exo kernel typically implies a larger, secondary kernel for less performance-oriented operations.

This just seems like a straight-up microkernel.
No, I don't. It really was amazing and a no-brainer to switch. That said Yahoo could have still stayed ahead - they nearly bought Google after all.

Remember though that accurate results is a clear market winning feature - we've seen that the average user quite simply doesn't care about privacy that much.
For some reason, I have little desire to follow that link.
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The reason is monetary. Private debt increased and has reached it's peak. Previous generations have borrowed their prosperity, and next generations are living in an economy that is already full of debt obligations.

Everyone should see one of the few economists that actually does a proper craft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzfOQXCwFg
>Neat, but can I add few methods to my Entry touple?

Yes, if you subclass it.

> Can something else inherit from Entry?

Yes, it can be subclassed.

>Won't named touple have some of its own methods that my methods could have collided with

Yes and no, it has the "index" and "count" methods any tuple should have, which can easily be overridden by specifying them as attributes in the second argument to the contructor, through reassignment during initialization or method overriding.
Or you could just repeal prohibition. Then drug dealers wouldn't be "bad guys" any more and you wouldn't need to catch them.
It seems like when I hear people talking about "music programming" the most common software I hear mentioned is SuperCollider. How does that compare to the ones you just mentioned? Sorry if that's a dumb question, but I'm actually pretty clueless about this field. I'm just fascinated by the idea of being able to "play" music without the additional challenge of learning all the physical motions / muscle memory / coordination needed to: play guitar, play piano, etc. I also like not having to go out and buy an instrument. :-)
I don't think so. Mine is always a painful experience of trial and error using a combination of things cobbled together from the policy generator, manual editing, copy/pasting from AWS documentation, and using the policy simulator.

And then after hours of that I can determine that IAM policies fall way short off what I needed (isolation between different product groups in the org) and that we need to use separate root accounts.
Ask HN: Anyone doing cool medical biotech things in 3-D?
Hi HN,

I am a game developer moving into the biotech world and I am wondering if the HN crowd is doing anything fun or interesting in this space. For a starting point, check out "The Inner Life of a Cell"[1] -- I'm interested in working on projects like this with real world applications (like cancer treatment simulations).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y
I implied you downvoted me, but shouldn't have. Apologies. It was a blaming statement because I colluded the downvote with the 'rationalizations'.

To clarify my original post a bit, I would say that the Internet is infrastructure, and that changes in that infrastructure give way to changes in the way it is used for all sorts of things. Once a good amount of decentralization with infrastructure happens, we're going to see really interesting use-cases popping up. Robot vacuums with cryptowallets to keep themselves updated, for example.
That's fairly reasonable. At least they can prompt you "Did you really mean to do this?" -- they have enough infrastructure to update your project page with a "Make pull request" button after you push, they can repurpose that for a "Approve next push without asking questions."

Alternatively, if they supported custom pre-receive hooks via e.g. webhooks, someone could publish a script or stand up a web server to check for such things.
Hmm, I wonder if a PDF file is actually needed for a font exploit. What about the trend of every fucking website now to ship their own fonts?

Also, lots of people simply pirate their fonts from googling around "fontname ttf free download", I wonder how much malware hides in these - given that I somewhere have around 16 or so copies of some exotic Adobe font in various formats, one buggier than the other.
MySpace was at it's largest in 2005 - at that point Google was nearly 40% of online search traffic. It had been a major player for a while - hell it had already had a huge IPO by that point.

I think you forget just how FAST Google blew up. In 1999 they were basically nothing - by 2004 they were the largest search company on the internet.

Facebook wasn't even a thing until 2004 - after the Google IPO. So no, Myspace vs Facebook didn't happen after that.

Also Google Video was just plain crap. It's like comparing Google+ to Facebook, it was never going to last.
The Inner Life of a Cell (2011)
Welcome to the New World, the education system in America is broken especially when it comes to teaching evolving topics like programming. Imagine what the world would be like if instead of the 30hrs Americans spend on average watching tv a week, they instead took that time to learn and create.
Iceland is orders of magnitude smaller than the US, and is generally not regarded as a large financial center.
Unfortunately you have to find a landlord that lets you rent a 3-bedroom AND sublet parts of it, which where I live is completely unheard of (unless you're high net worth and pay premium rent, but then why have flatmates ?). Plus, you'd pay income taxes on the subletting rents and that builds up really quickly.
Depends. Can you guess them?
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Fibre techies - even residential FTTH - are pretty clued up. I was pleasantly surprised by the guy that activated my fibre...got a distinct feel of "he is one of us". Hidden benefit of a cutting edge tech I guess...you get real techies instead of people following a fkn script.
One of the reasons I enjoy this forum is because of the lack of the type of comments such as yours. This isn't Reddit. Under the guideline of the site, which I'm sure you have read due to it getting posted regularly (here's the link in any case https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), it states the following:

In Comments

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please bear this in mind for the future.
msys2 is also a good alternative to Cygwin with slightly more up to date packages than Gow.
I plan to give my kids an old PC or two that they can do anything they want with, on the condition that they have to fix it if they break it.

I'll use a Linux or BSD because let's face it, proprietary operating systems are pretty shitty platforms to learn to tinker with.
You have again failed to offer an alternative.

If you are incapable of it, then eugenics was the right word to use, regardless of your sensibilities. It was not my intention to offend, but to accurately identify. If you have a better word for it, I would certainly like to hear it.

Again: What word would you use to describe the theory that selective pressures that decimate a population will eventually result in a superior specimen?
> I don't want alerts, I want a fixed amount limit.

I don't think you want AWS - I think you just want a VPS or a dedicated server. AWS is for people who are going to need to scale at large - and you pay a premium for that. I've priced it out - as an individual you get more value from a VPS provider such as DigitalOcean than you do from AWS.
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Yep, doing budgeting at the end of the month and I found a $20 Amazon charge. Turns out it was from a little bit of data I left on their DB service (which took _a lot_ of clicking to find the one I was actually using) after my free year had expired. Certainly not thousands of dollars, but for just experimenting with the system months ago, it was a rude wakeup call. Ideally I would have been able to say "Never spend more than $0.00, kill any services you have to, I'm _only_ using this for evaluation."
Right on. Domain events.
Where does it show this?
Youtube and Facebook aren't even the most fucked-up video thieves.

Just look at major media portals. For example, Spiegel Online regularly "republishes" youtube videos on their website, prefaces them with unskippable 30+ sec. ads and doesn't even LINK to the original source, they just credit with a video overlay "youtube/$username". Original content creator doesn't even get clicks because most people are too fucking lazy to copy-type 30+char user names or because the uploader has changed names or a typo happened...

And they're not the only ones, it's a widespread problem in German news sites.
this is not a modelling software, you need to have 3d models and import them here.

People think there are too many diferences between developing for desktop and developing for the web, but there arent, it is just a matter of time
It is just history.
Probably. It would mean a painful period of adjustment. And the rentiers will fight with everything they have.
It would be nice if you responded to emails.
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Amen... in my country (Uruguay) they have a carefully managed inflation index... but it is meaninglesss.. housing went up 70%, what do I care if lottery tickets or vegetables go up or down 1%
A couple of corrections as this article is sort of making assumptions based on falsehoods:

Real wages stopped going up in 1972, not the 1980s, and real wage are what matter.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...

Unemployment also hit some record highs in the 70s:

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU04000000?years_option=all_...

So, I think to say that it was bad only for rich people is a very unusual... I think it was probably worse for poor people since they don't have safety nets. It was also the beginning of the end for real wages which have never reached their 1972 peak.

Those are some pretty large assumptions to be wrong on, for the rest of the article, so I'm not really sure how to take it...? Maybe the author can clarify for me?

Edit: better source for real wage data, and clarity.
> me: siri, what do you know about fidonet?

> siri: FidoNet is a worldwide computer network. It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network...

> me: so it's sorta like what I said earlier?

> siri: i don't understand

> me: that's ok, nobody else does either.
Maybe the side projects are too close to the day job? That's kind of what was nice about playing music - it was totally different.
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I tried, but that smiling Republican refuses to budge and is creeping me out.
If anything happens to the traditional watch industry it will be over a long period once people are conditioned into having something with more utility on their wrist.
After my experiences with Jira, "nowhere near as flexible as Jira" sounds like high praise.
Can someone familiar with `UnxUtils` evaluate this and determine the difference?

Both are out of date and distributed as binaries... What else? :)

Seriously though, if you fork the project and dump the tarballs into a branch, I'll check it out and run make. Or, I'll write a script that runs a bunch of individual makes. Whatever.

I like `UnxUtils` (and Gow) but this practice is not sustainable..
Notice also that now it's all about "coding" and never programming or software development/engineering. This is deliberate.

And good luck getting respect from non-technical managers, policy makers, or the public at large when your actual job title is "coder" and all of these articles, bootcamps, and CodeCademy type websites have convinced everyone that "coding" (unlike law or medicine) is super easy and anyone can do it!

"Why isn't the ERP system ready yet? It's just coding, after all... I did that on CodeCademy when I was in high school as part of the National Teach Everyone To Code Initiative and it was easy. I already did the hard part by telling you exactly what we need (and telling you again each of the fifty or so times our requirements changed); all you have to do is code out the details. What's the hold up?"
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I have hit the back/forth swipes by accident countless times on blogspot. It makes pretty much any article there unreadable on mobile. Switching to Reader mode in Firefox is a fix, but shouldn't be necessary in 2015.
On an unrelated note, I gave up on GitLab last year because the landing page always showed recent commits instead of the readme, making it less welcoming to new users who just want to see what the project is about.

I'm glad to see they have changed this; navigating to a GitLab project now shows you the readme. Definitely going to give it a long hard look to see if I can switch again.
I believe his point is that you aren't their target customer. It's like walking into a freight distribution center and asking to buy $0.50 worth of chewing gum. Sure, somebody might accommodate you, but complaining about them not doing so doesn't make a lot of sense.

In Amazon's shoes I'm not sure I'd offer a feature like that at all, because someone might set that to be "smart", forget about it as the business grows, and then have a bunch of servers terminated and/or data destroyed right during an excitingly busy period. It would be an extraordinarily bad customer experience. It could be much better for them to do as now and then occasionally credit people who accidentally go over.
That's a good point.

The auto industry might not be the best place for where you want to apply protectionism. But one pretty good usage is when the local industry is in its infancy.

It's pretty well accepted that the IMF forcing so many African countries to drop agriculture-related tariffs has been among the biggest failures of modern economics.
This one is doing a good job. For ideas, I posted on that site and am here this other project that got good results:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-rural-community-is-bui...

Deploying to rural is quite an uphill battle. But their model seems to be doing the job. Might be worth copying aspects in deployments like original post's.
In addition to nathan7's answer, there's also terminal.com (and I'm assuming here that we're not counting Mozilla's usage of Rust in Servo (and soon Firefox)). There are other companies putting various pieces of Rust code through their paces and we have outreach programs to help these companies in their explorations (I don't like name-dropping before announcements are fully ready, I'll be able to say more later this year).

In general though, remember what a young language Rust is (May wasn't that long ago!) and understand that large and notable projects take time to appear. Docker didn't appear until Go 1.0 was one year old, for example.
> They could in theory reposes your home because of an unpaid AWS account.

Technically, no. I doubt Amazon would risk the publicity and attempt to garnish your wages or pursue your assets; you could, of course, declare bankruptcy to protect your home from their judgement if they went so far as to obtain one.
Even easier: plant wildflowers to feed and attract pollinators. Borage is a good one (and it repels bunnies too), or just find a good native wildflower mix.
Why is X not on Github is the programmer version of folk getting offended when you don't use Y social network.

Also:

Github Presence != Open Source

Open Source != requirement in asking for help/advice
I like how you're thinking. Also, what about other things derived from the same codebase?

Like the article says... that code got around back in the day.
I'm glad it worked for him but he asks the right question: How can we get this to work for other people in Washington State? I live in Seattle and have fiber optic service from CenturyLink. The gigabit is nice, but CenturyLink is running my fiber drop over a "route of convenience that, if the next door property owner ever gets snippy, will turn into a battle of lawyers. Why? Because CL won't use the utility poles in front of my house because they don't want to coordinate with the transit agency.

The whole infrastructure argument is getting absurd. KPUD can't sell to end users because Washington law prohibits it. I have service but might not someday "just because." A city in Washington that owns its own utility agency could serve but has to do it by selling bonds that require 60% voter approval. Meanwhile, everybody is left wondering what next.