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Ask HN: What happened to AOL Chatrooms?
I remember loving those things when I was a kid, problems aside. I've been trying to figure out why they died off, and importantly, why there isn't a replacement. Was there something fundamentally flawed about them?
Gentoo is real hard, but I've heard from people the Arch install is even more painful :/
Past consideration is not consideration for a new offer.
I agreed with the author somewhat, up until here:

"There is nothing wrong with being excited about exploring space. There’s nothing wrong with dreaming about setting up colonies in space either. But a colony on Mars would need to be a nearly perfectly self-contained, resource neutral system that harvests energy from the sun and is rarely or never re-supplied. That is currently beyond the reach of science and human ingenuity."

It's completely within our reach if we prioritize it over other things, namely the financial cost.

There's also the "things sometimes don't make sense" aspect of space exploration. Do we NEED a space station doing space research? No. Did we need to go to the moon? Some would say yes, but if you look at the economic incentives, the answer is no. Not everything can be boiled down to cash in versus cash out.

I think space travel is worthwhile to invest in right now. To everyone squabbling that the money could be used to help people here on earth: no, it could not, because money does not flow around in the earth in a utilitarian fashion, it flows based off of where people think they can make more money or do something cool. The people investing their time and money in spaceflight are not going to be buying rice for the hungry no matter how much of a "moonshot" space projects are.
Roost (YC S14) is hiring a senior dev in NYC to build the future of the web
Roost:

- Is the leading SaaS provider of web push notifications.

- Is currently handling over 100k requests / minute. Scale and speed are incredibly important to us.

- Well funded, high growth.

We’re looking for a senior engineer who:

- Has experience with AWS cloud technologies.

- Prefer deep experience with node and/or Java.

- Takes scaling incredibly seriously.

- Experience with NoSQL databases at large scale.

- Experience in and willing to help with ops.

-Wants autonomy to create awesome products

Benefits:

-Flex vacation policy

-Manhattan offices

-Healthcare

-Competitive equity

Email casey@goroost.com with resume for more information.
Agreed, video is very deceptive about the speeds and speed differentials of vehicles.
3D printing objects with sensors in them in one go
You're talking about `sleep` specifically here, right? Or general use of timers/polling for flow control?
Soylent Green: The "miracle food"
That was the idea, but then you have to execute. The AOL Time-Warner merger was fraught with managerial infighting. So far Facebook has been good at integrating its acquisitions.
Good and needed better mousetraps.
Hi, I applied a lot for C#.NET Jobs. I presented my skills in a table with the categories basic, good, very good and professional skills. - I am also willing to go down with the money. But I want to do what I love, programming! :) I applied also in a broader range (Web-development, database, C#-applications), because I am not specialized until now. I want to work in the Area between Zürich and Basel in Switzerland. Also lower Baden-Würtemberg in Germany.
Not quite, they announced it would exist: "This feature will be available later this year." (from the post).

But when it is available, it'll be a huge step ahead.
In a project with over 600 required js files, 25kloc in project, way, way more from npm: the whole compile takes around 25s.

An incremental compile takes ~1-2s.
Yes, but it will get deleted if your phone runs out of space (at least, that's what I'm assuming happened to the map, because I did download a local cache before leaving the hotel).
The difference between the "inhospitable" New World and Mars is that Mars is actually inhospitable.
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@gibsonje - similar experience here. Except Rackspace gave notice about a week ahead. The day maintenance was scheduled for it was postponed but without notice. Then the reboots happened across 3 days as opposed to 1 day. Glad they are patching but that's not really fanatical support.
The Rust ecosystem is still building up a lot of the libraries to make game programming practical. A lot of this is happening under the auspices of the "Piston" organization on Github: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/ . Piston itself is sort-of-a-game-engine, sort-of-a-collection-of-modular-game-related-libraries.

Meanwhile, Rust also has the Glium library for OpenGL programming, which is apparently so good that it makes OpenGL programmers froth at the mouth (I've never done OpenGL programming myself, but the praise is universal among all my graphics-programming friends).
> If - at some point far, far in the future - cabs become obsolete, how will you get a ride when either your phone is dead

far in the future, phones won't ever be dead, unless you are dead. They'll be tiny, and powered by bodyheat or ambient heat or ambient radio waves or something.

So this isn't a concern.
Lyft is (was?) the one that doesn't take a cut of surge pricing ("Prime Time" in their vocabulary). Lyft's cut is (was?) based on the standard fare, and the driver got the entirety of the surge bonus.

I've heard that Lyft has since moved to a model where they take a percentage of the surge price, but I can't seem to find any obvious sources corroborating this.

Uber AFAIK has always taken their cut of the surge price.
Was the Blair Witch Project the last great horror film?
Any result needs to stand the rigor of peer-review before the said breakthrough can be conclusively proven.

Apple aren't in the business of doing research for the sake of provable science though. They do research to make things they can sell. The goal is very different.
There is a whale longer than any orca, and we missed it
I had the same issue with rss.

I had a bigger issue with the app not rotating. I emailed them and their response was rotation is dictated by the device. All apps on that device rotated just fine, but flipboard wouldn't. When I pointed this out it was ignored. That was 3 years ago and I've never used it since.
If you append /hls to the URL you'll get to the HTTP Live Streaming player.
We're using IronWorker and Lambda for a current project. Our (Go) code can run on either and we've designed the app to easily swap out the backend in case of service failure.

Pros of IronWorker: More language support, better logging, easier to debug, scheduled tasks via API (this is the main thing stopping us going all in on Lambda).

Cons: Slower start up time (~2-3s on average compared to milliseconds with Lambda), pay upfront rather than pay for what you use, no choice re. CPU/RAM.
The Wisdom of Peanuts
We've lightly tested some of our components, and they work unchanged in Node 4. Heavier testing may find a couple of issues. The only reason we haven't switched is that need for heavier testing. No big rewrite will be needed.
> " is it possible that at some point unscrupulous drivers might try to pick up riders late at night in popular areas just by claiming they're Uber, or having an Uber sticker of some kind on their car?"

This already happens in NYC with some regularity.
Packaging can make food more flavorful
So, how long before use of Tor is made illegal? Surely, anyone who has something to hide will be using it already.

Meanwhile I fail to see how this proposed action will deter or prevent the planning and execution of any outrage. People are free to meet, make plans, separate and subsequently act, possibly on cue from internet messages which have no meaning except for the participants in the conspiracy.
Pretty sure it's just a splash screen, but yeah :p
> Uber responded that the researchers couldn’t really see what was going on with drivers.

This is a great rationalization that can be trotted out at any time for a variety of reasons. That we, as the customer, have no visibility into "what is going on with the drivers" is an issue that needs to be addressed.
And it's a graph database as well with sparql support. Maklogic is really flexible that way.
Fuck no. That movie sucked.
Alphabet’s Google to Combine with Chrome OS into Android (Rumor)
Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)
I would love to see this for Fedora as Anaconda is both graphical and text-based horror game of luck.
Huh? I'm pretty sure "hipster" took off as a term back in the 1960s, associated with the whole countercultural movement going on then.

Google's n-gram viewer agrees -- it starts appearing in books in the 1950s, has some ups and downs, but was as popular as ever in 2000. [1]

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hipster&case_i...
The idea is that you won't need database-wide transactions if your data is structured into "natural aggregates" such as orders, articles, profiles, etc. In a relational database, something as simple as an "order" has components in lots of different tables -- customer, product, order, line_item, shipping_method, etc -- so you have to lock all of those tables when doing an INSERT or UPDATE.

In the ideal MongoDB implementation, an "order" would be a document of its own, and all the other parts would be attributes or nested structures. So you only really need a transaction for the document itself. Other documents could be inserted/updated at the same time without creating a conflict. That's the theory, at least. Martin Fowler has a good Youtube on "Introduction to NoSQL" that I sometimes show to my students: https://youtu.be/qI_g07C_Q5I

The other thing about NoSQL is that it's often used for write-once, then read-only applications. Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram would be good examples. When 1% of your queries are INSERTs and 99% are SELECTS (with UPDATE and DELETE almost never occurring), you really don't run as much risk of anomalies. I would not recommend NoSQL for something like a banking application where you're doing lots of updates and need to guarantee consistency.
To me AWS Lambda is like a Brazil-like nightmare in bureaucracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/), while App Engine is equally powerful but a lot simpler to use.

It's harder to make something simple and powerful than it is to make something complex and powerful, so hats off to the Google engineers involved.
The Enterprise Public Cloud Wars Are Over. Let's Talk About What's Next
"soft enough that it didn't hurt when it bonked me in the head while I was still learning"

That's a really good point, I always forget about the safety aspect. There's nothing like getting slammed in the back of the head by a 9'6" fiberglass school bus.
When I think about zooming, I think of how Google maps work and also about responsive web design. That is to say, having differing amounts of information show at different zoom levels. It was my impression that this is how the Oberon desktop works but I may be mistaken in that assumption.

At 1:1, imagine a regular view.

Below some threshold effective resolution, imagine condensed information. Instead of miniature, unreadable windows, one might display a simplified view, say a Metro-style color coded box with -- relative to box size -- a big icon and document title.

Below yet another threshold, condense more, using conventional icons instead of Metro.

At lowest zoom level, display a one-dimensional list of everything. Searchable of course.
I too hate the phoning home, so good point. I feel like apps in general, whether on my phone, ps4, anything are trying to do this in some form or another. I do not want improved recommendations, a "better" future experience, or anything else. I do not want to contribute to your analytics meetings.

I agree the Windows store apps are also terrible. There are still quite a lot of non-windows store exclusive apps that you might not use that work great on windows. Likewise, there are various cross-platform apps that also work better on windows.

In a second life, I've done quite a bit of side work in graphic design, music production, and animation. Suffice to say that while Mac OS and later OSX were dominant at times in these spaces, there were always periods where this was not true. If anything, Apple seems pretty evil to these users in the last 5 years. I've had very little trouble with my apps in these areas on windows, while on OSX my friends can't stop ranting about things that have happened to Final Cut Pro, Logic, Garage Band, and other apps. I still use the aforementioned and don't necessarily agree in all cases, but it is true for some people. It may be bias or laziness on the dev, but reality is reality - just the other day I got a new sound interface and it works much better on Windows than OSX, and I use it on both for different tasks.
Following the breadcrumbs leads here: http://www.finsmes.com/2015/10/desktop-metal-raises-14m-in-f..., so they appear to be a "a Cambridge, MA-based 3D printing startup."

That the linked story seems more an attempt at viral marketing than anything, telling us about DesktopMetal's "awesome team composition" and little else of substance.
Random binary dumps aren't what they used to be. You should manually decode some 8-bit ascii by hand:

$ python
Python 2.7.6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import random
>>> print(''.join([chr(random.randint(32,255))
for x in range(50)]).decode("latin-1"))
¿IBÄõq½¦Áºn}@õÖhzUÌÓQ£m5ë¢ümÇ®=ÇÆªLÛHt

Now that's quality random binary garbage.
And a better Earth?
Really? I didn't find it too difficult, easily done in ~10 minutes. I mean, a Gentoo Stage 3 install is pretty easy these days as well, but I think Arch is still substantially quicker to get running.
Mondo bank going into alpha
MPEG-LA start assembling patent pool for MPEG-DASH [pdf]
Note that SIMD support is currently in the Rust nightlies (as a result of Huon Wilson's summer internship at Mozilla), though I don't know what the timeline is for exposing that support in a stable release.
No, settlers weren't willing to give up so much, those people went on to colonize America precisely because they had so little to lose. They were already enduring poverty, hardship, and (in many cases) discrimination to such a degree that crossing the ocean and starting a new life in an unknown land inhabited with hostile indigenous tribes seemed a good enough deal in comparison.

In other words, imagine a developer in India who wants to move to SV but can't get a visa. Can he instead apply for a ship bound to Mars, and agree to work as an IT technician in lieu of paying for the trip (and all the food, water, and oxygen he will need in Mars)?

Until that is economically feasible, colonization of Mars will not happen, at least not in the same way colonization of America happened.
> Tesla a calls it autosteer not auto pilot

They certainly use the term[1]: "Along with the new Autopilot feature...".

[1]: http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/autopilot
This would be nasty if succeeds.
Overall however establishing a habitat on Antarctica is vastly easier than on Mars, assuming we won't be able to source complex materials in situ or fabricate for at least 50 yr. The atmospheric pressure, atmospheric composition and water availability being the main advantages. If the snowfall is particularly intense solar power might be troublesome, but it's still vastly easier to settle. Proof: we reached the south pole in 1911 and have a station there since 1956.
You've always been able to do this. You could distribute your Xamarin.iOS application as source-only and require users compile it themselves without being in violation of the license, but you still cannot release it on the App Store without a commercial license (since it is impossible without jailbreaking to replace the .so).
At least part of one alternate scenario is playing out, the EFF won the petition to inspect and modify software that controls cars https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=1...
Don't let nostalgia blind you: Smalltalk was great, but 2015 browsers are obviously a lot more capable. Not because of any great design insight, but because they need to run things like YouTube, WebGL and whatever else.
Pedestrians are often equipped with more effective methods of retaliation than paintballs.

This seems to imply a giant sense of entitlement on the part of automobile passengers. If you want to go fast get in an airplane. Urban areas are shared with others. If a car has to stop every ten yards to accommodate pedestrians, then that implies a certain maximum possible speed, which is fine. "Jaywalking" is as fake a legal concept as "intellectual property".
>> Can performance surfboards be disrupted?

What about mid-level(those you graduate after wavestorm) - being manufactured in mexico via automated processes , using wavestorm like brand for cheap marketing , and being sold in costco ?
PORNSTAR+ESCORT+EMILIA+BARAK+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
A Chrome Extension to Find Patterns in Your Friends' Venmo Histories
> send a dozen robotic probes to every planet in the solar system.

And not have any dividends at all in terms of sustainable environmental cycles....
The Mongoose Programming Language
simple pseudo-code PoC, another 2 minutes of coding to fix that limitation.
> It's in beta for a reason

There's no place on the public roads for beta software in safety-critical sytems. In fact, it's highly irresponsible.

Tesla need to verify this off-road and release a production version.
There is a proposal for this but I'm not sure what stage that's in
Maybe not relaxing, but everyone can learn to cope with negative situations and roll with the punches.

Not that I excuse unprofessional managers (or peers), but at the end of the day the power they have to get under your skin is in large part a function of how much (tacit) permission you give them.
I believe they updated the version of v8 they're dependent on, which causes them to bump the major version too.
yes, you can.
And..... denied. Doh. See you in the S16 applicant thread ;)
Enlightenment ideals of liberty were not universally applied, but only to a limited in-group deemed worthy. That in-group was primarily wealthy white men and not all (hence the American States originally granting the vote to male property owners as well as adding race requirements), but that doesn't really change anything about the point of the article or the point of the person you're replying to, but rather illustrates it.
Switching to clang-format reminded me (to a lesser degree though) of the moment when vim finally clicked for me.

Code formatting is just something I don't do anymore. It's taken care of. I don't waste my time and thoughts trying to make the code look nice and readable. I hit a button and it becomes nice and readable; often nicer than I would have done it by hand. Like vim, when I don't have clang-format available my editing feels very hobbled like I'm typing with my knuckles.

There are probably other great formatters out there but clang-format was the first one that just blew me away with how good it was.
What is a bug, anyway? It means the system is not working properly, which implies that folks know in advance how the system is intended to work.

When physicists were struggling to explain radiation, they didn't call it a bug in the atom. It was their understanding, not the system they studied, that needed fixing.
It's like they don't care, which is sad. They have got into a great position to be a contender in the fickle horse-race that is the mobile phone industry, but the same horse is trampling the people that funded them to get there.

"What about security updates for my phone?" The hurdle is jumped, and the patron has the Google horse land on them, causing death
Apple Opens Cryptographic Libraries to Third-Party Developers
Typically, with standard breaking changes they just bump the minor version but with v8 updates or with major api changes they will bump the major version.
You have to die somewhere, why not die on Mars?
Ask HN: Have you vouched for dead HN submissions?
The feature was implemented a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512

...and I haven't vouched for a single submission, nor seen one I would have vouched for, which is a testament to HN's spam detector. Articles that have been flagkilled usually have valid justification.
I'm a grant writer and have worked for numerous Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and a smaller number of hospitals. From their perspective, EMR and related systems have tended to cost at least as much as they've saved. Some of them have seen the vendor jousting Sung describes and have experienced all sorts of vendor fatigue and vendor lock-in.

At the same time, FQHCs and hospitals are facing CMS requirements that dictate increasing EMR usage. This effort has had... some setbacks, let's just say. And what Executive Directors are willing to say off the record is not pretty: http://seliger.com/2015/10/25/meaningful-use-regulations-cms....
Even if we ignore the financial cost, we are nowhere near being technically able to build a self-contained environment. We have never done it in Earth's orbit, or in the Moon, or in Earth.

So the problem with sending people to Mars is that it is not just a huge one time money sink. It is a permanent money sink, that would have to be constantly re-supplied.

People didn't just get in a boat one day and suddenly discovered America. They had been able to survive in a boat for months or years for a long time before they even got there. Nobody is saying that we should never get to Mars, just that there are previous technological goals that we are nowhere near solving yet.

Solve those goals one by one, and at some point you'll be able to get to Mars. But don't expect to stuff some people in a ship with a few lettuces and some water and send them to Mars without having worked out first all the boring little details of what such a travel would actually entail.
Its entertaining and has some truth in it but arguments about "we should be focusing on [blah] instead..." miss out on the benefits of the tech that exploration will bring. Going to Mars will help solve issues here and issues being solved here will help us succeed in living at Mars, eventually.
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Along these lines I started a pet project [1] to enable reusing artifacts (Java) uploaded to AWS Lambda to also be self-hosted. One of the last tasks I have left is to dynamically run a container based on the incoming request similarly outlined here [2].

[1] https://github.com/digitalsanctum/lambda
[2] https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/03/docker-systemd-...
I was driving around near Oregon's lake Abert a month or so ago, and got to thinking "if people can live here, Mars shouldn't be that hard". Kidding, but... not too much. That's some desolate, high, dry, hot and cold country out there.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lake+Abert,+Oregon+97630/@...
Why Google Tapped Android Over Chrome as Its Marquee OS