skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joe Armstrong's paper on the history of Erlang (of which he was one of the authors) is superb (though it's less about corporate culture than about the language): http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~maria/classes/4500-Spring-2010/pap...

There's The Mythical Man-Month: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Ann...

Showstopper, the book about the development of Windows NT, is great: http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr...
You would have to gut social programs to pay for it, which people may or may not be okay with.

Just to provide some numbers - the USAF's budget is $170 billion per year. For comparison, that's about the cost of Britain's entire NHS. A very large amount of that goes to airlift capability - plenty of money is spent on air superiority, but the USAF's primary mission in this era of asymmetric warfare is logistical support.

Basically, the attitude of most European governments is "If the US is willing to pay for it, why should we reject their help?"
Because India has made very little progress in rural areas. We've largely regressed. Just look at the farmer suicide situation.

This is my biggest frustration with the urban Indian middle class (which forms a very small slice of the population). We are almost completely unaware of how the rest of the country has been suffering over the last many years. A very visible example of this was the BJP India Shining campaign, which led to a massive electoral defeat. The BJP thought India was doing awesome because their entire worldview was centered around the Delhi middle class, while the rest of the country looked upon buses driving by with India Shining posters as a cruel joke. And the BJP faced the consequences in that election.
Did you hear about "hybrid MBR"?
Seeing as how the US has an extradition treaty with Denmark (and most/all? of Europe) I'm having a hard time understanding why this is being described as a "rendition operation". I think a lot of what Snowden did was good and just, but I don't see the US government attempting to arrest him abroad as being nefarious. I don't think it's a serious expectation to hold to demand that the government not try to arrest him. That's why whistleblowing is brave.

Whistleblowing protections that extend to what Snowden did would effectively convert the entire classification system to a set of recommendations as opposed to laws (a wholly different demand which I think is patently childish as a demand).

I'm all for a pardon or some kind of reduced charges due to the motivations and the subject matter of the disclosed material, but can someone explain to me the justification of being outraged over enforcing laws in accordance with US law, treaties, and host country laws? They're not even using controversial legal mechanisms like the PATRIOT Act or FISC.

EDIT: I've left my initial post in tact (I'm bad and I should feel bad) but I'd like to amend my confusion about the use of the term rendition in case anyone else shares it. After years of hearing "extraordinary rendition" shortened to "rendition" I've basically overwritten the latter with the former. Rendition is actually just the legal transfer of a suspect from one jurisdiction to the next, still outside of a legal linguistic context I find the use of the term to imply the later and I take it as trying to bait outrage.
As an American.. if a friendly country (England, France, Canada) could do something to lower our defense spending by 10%.. even if that meant a few bases on our soil.. YES. I would not like more English troops than American troops on my soil, but a few thousand men to lower my deficit spending? Sign me up.
I'm not sure IP laws stop you making a doll that looks a bit like another doll.
Exactly - handouts. Just like Obamacare (Healthcare.gov). Wouldn't be surprised if it goes to Michele Obama's crony connections or to donors to his 2012 campaign.

I do think it is a worthwhile & noble cause to help low income communities with higher education and/or training to help get well paying jobs.
I disagree that email is a great record. It only exists in the inboxes of people who received it at the time. Over time, they leave the company or switch roles, and new people no longer have access.

You want forums, or newsgroups, or wikis, or even listservs for any sort of permanence.
Show HN: Calyx – A Ruby Library for Generating Text
Because there are a few paddings and margins that are used repeatedly, and it's convenient. Clearfixes and floats are another common use case. An anchor that I want to look like a button might have classes like "button orange float-r margin-r20".
Well, duh
Stop with this context nonsense. I've already got my pitchfork at the ready!
Yet another data point: I'm very happy with mine. Mostly use it for the Activity monitor, Notifications, weather, hike/bike tracking, and music controller. It's handy for taking phone calls when I'm not near my phone, too. Sport band is a little annoying but bearable. I don't care about the charging every night - I do that with all my devices, and can't imagine wearing a watch to sleep.

I'd like to use third-party apps but haven't found any that are particularly well-done. I see this complaint on Reddit a lot too - people are looking for apps but all the existing ones suck. I've heard that WatchOS 2.1 is still pretty buggy and the processor is underpowered, which makes it very difficult to write a high-quality app at the moment.
Generally there's this thing called "due process", if they were just planning on putting Snowden on a CIA plane I really can't see how that's supposed to be okay.
Anyone that knew anything about security knew that Norse was full of it. Norse is a shining example of how little information most people have about the security products and services they buy. It's all marketing, and it leads to more snake oil than not.
OT: I'm a Go noob and I was wondering if there's something like requirements.txt for Go projects? Or is this usually the way to go?

go get -u golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
go get -u github.com/dlintw/goconf
go get -u github.com/golang/glog
go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/{proto,protoc-gen-go}
go get -u github.com/miekg/dns
Just wait till we get smart tattoos - then you won't even need to wear the device, it'll be etched into your skin.
Panasonic to test automated translation service for foreign tourists
Since some time i want to express my opinion on Smartwatches specifically the Apple Watch.

- The UI, imho, it's ugly when compared to Android Wear. It needs a refresh to keep up and align with iOS. Possibly better hardware ?

- First of all this is a watch, stop treating like it's the ultimate Computer. It has potential to be great but it isn't yet.

- Apple needs to stop advertising like "you badly need an Apple Watch as a companion for your iPhone or you will have a not so happy life. This is a watch, there are people who never use a regular watch and those that will probably buy one will use it as a regular watch plus Phone notifications or tiny apps.

- All these reviews are a result of Apple Marketing, see above, the product is just the first model it will get better just don't expect to replace your Phone or laptop.

- Why don't people threat it just like a regular nice watch like Fossil, Citizen or Seiko ? Or even if they want like a Tag Heuer (for the gold model).
Kidnapping is quite different from extradition. Likely I'm not understanding the situation correctly, but I'd think an extradition should require some type of oversight/consensus whereas a rendition skips straight to confining the subject.
Sounds like the writer didn't use much IRC compared to email.

Manageably using IRC had a lot more benefit and preference to email.

There is no self-filtering, perfectly balancing communication technology for everyone's use case.

The tool is but one part of how you set it up and commit to using it, and managing it's use of you.

Group Chat is interesting, and hopefully will segment the type of chain emails that don't belong in email.
Bash is great - we write almost 100% of dokku in it - but most bash looks like shit on a stick. Really hard to follow sometimes, and unless you are using modern bash, also really hard to ensure your own sanity.
Building a product (II): Riding the emotional roller-coaster
This library was originally created in 2015 by Mark Rickerby (maetl) and was used to generate gamebooks. I forked the project and enabled Calyx to write "data-driven narratives" (robojournalism). I hope to have my changes merge into the main Calyx branch, but in the meantime, I hope to get any feedback for this project...and maybe even have it be used by other people.
But it will still become obsolete after a few months. People will queue for surgery around the block to get the latest iTattoo.
This is the biggest problem in golang ecosystem. Yes there are many third party solution, but no official one. So different repo use different solution make all solutions invalid.
Sending in a paramilitary team against the will of the receiving country is often considered an act of war.

We could do something that would be considered an act of war in order to kidnap somebody explicitly protected by the target country. But these things have been known to go poorly.
Maybe this should get brought up every time the Internet scoffs at America's weak social programs.
A close friend still uses Fox Pro to do data analysis sort of work in a trading company. Every time I see him working masterfully, I feel I should learn it someday.
Shit like this is why we're beyond being in 2nd Amendment territory. Maybe someone needs to dust off the old Assassination Politics scheme and limit it to obvious corruption as we've seen with CIA and NSA. Each time they pull some shit the people ordering it get hosed. Survival will eventually have them pull less shit.

The law, ethical arguments, media... nothing stops these organizations. Rogue behavior starts with dirty leaders. Eliminate them and push for wiser replacements. Seems to be at that point.
Wouldn't stop the CIA from using a cover and doing it covertly. Plenty of jets fly in and out of Europe.
> Hopefully fighter jets.

How would the owners and operators of those fighter jets know which flights were CIA flights?
That's good news. I chose no-www because www seemed redundant and have been wondering if it's a problem. Turns out no, unless it's very big, which I don't expect my site to be (niche market, not a web app). It can even be changed later by redirecting no-www to www.

Is this limitation a problem in the design of the domain name system, or something quite natural and necessary?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961415
I put together that tutorial. Ping me @jmdobry (GitHub/Twitter) with questions. Also, https://gcp-slack.appspot.com/
> There's lots of job openings out there for COBOL coders. Nobody wants to learn it, and those who know it are dying off.

A lot of people say this, but all the COBOL jobs I see advertised (not many) offer a very average salary. Demand can't be that high if COBOL jobs are paying less than the typical "frontend developer" jobs.
The words "CIA" and "kidnap" are key here. That's their torture flights program that allegedly dropped the torture part. Best to assume that due process isnt involved if CIA is doing a clandestine op.
What were your feelings on the rest of the house? I'd imagine a dream house with no stove is something that can be overcome.
FWIW, a quick google shows that 51% of likely US voters in 2012 wanted all US troops out of western Europe. (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/gene...) So the US appears strongly against occupying western Europe with garrisons... if we identify "the US" by its people rather than government.
Have you seen any research on this subject, or do you have expertise with teaching K-12?
https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s...
As someone fairly new to programming I don't understand what makes modern implementation of Lisp like Clojure better than its ancestor. I like Scheme because it's ridiculously flexible. You can implement as many libraries of your own as you want with Scheme which I doubt can easily be done in something like C++. To me Clojure is an overdesigned and rigid version of Lisp. Why is that considered good? Since I am new to all this I might be missing something so I'd love if someone could ELI5 it to me. Thanks.
Not really. Many write papers that are purely theoretical. The media lab is all about having the skills to realize your dreams, and in rendering it into practice you learn a lot.

SV has a similar mindset of MVP/iterate because the product has to be good to survive. In academia you need just papers and citations, regardless if anything you write can be made into anything at all.
I'm surprised you didn't mentioned Fortran as i don't consider it an "unfashionable" language but it's old and still used a lot in scientific work for Maths and Physics areas.

The biggest reason is the performance, portability and the code already written some time ago.
Oh that's a bummer, I was just looking into using this for a free service I made a while ago. Hopefully they'll bake in support at some point
Sure. You just have to be careful with the "make more money" mentality because it eventually leads you out of being a full-time software developer.

You can go manager or freelancer, of course.
Xiaomi? DJI?
Hmmm ... could you give examples? In my experience nationalism, xenophobia, and religious prejudice overwhelmingly are only on the agendas of right wing parties.
See also these directions for redirecting naked domain to www,

http://www.yes-www.org/redirection/

Unfortunately, some hosting providers make this very difficult or impossible. I struggled to get this working on a Google Site hosted at a Google Domain using their DNS tools; it seems Google Domains doesn't have a basic "redirect to www" feature. Eventually I gave up and used Dreamhost's nameservers instead; they offer this feature (and its free; you don't need to pay for hosting).
OVH has their DDoS system sitting in front of their entire network. VPS and grown-up physical servers...
3 times glasses have stopped something headed for my eyes. I kinda prefer having them on. I also wear a watch because when driving it's easy to check the time without having to dig something out of a pocket. It's also easy to surreptitiously check the time when you're bored :-)
Показываю как работать с биржа криптовалют с cex биржа биткоинов обменники
I'm using a naked domain. The biggest reason why I'm using it is because my domain name as minimalistic as it can get (six characters long, seven if you count the dot) and I sure as hell love saying to people to just type in my alias and add .me at the end.

Although I did not know about these issues, I have to say that the source really didn't give me strong enough arguments to convince me to go through the hassle of making the switch.

With that being said, I opened up a couple of links from the source and I will look through them and see if they'll change my mind.
I've got a G Watch, Moto 360, and Apple Watch. The bit about the UI is interesting - IMHO, Apple's launcher and glance mechanism is much nicer than Android Wear, but Android Wear's notifications and watchfaces are a lot prettier than the Apple Watch. I also think that Android Wear feels more integrated as a UI; it feels like Apple put a whole lot of effort into the stock apps, but their notifications are a kludgy afterthought.

I'm using the Apple Watch as my primary smartwatch right now, largely because I think the hardware is better, but I've got the Android watches charging on the shelf and thought it was pretty ironic to see a Google product be prettier than an Apple one but less practical.
> We could do something that would be considered an act of war in order to kidnap somebody explicitly protected by the target country. But these things have been known to go poorly.

I don't disagree with that. However, the US sometimes takes military actions that cause frustration and anger from other nations that we are not explicitly at war with. Some that come to mind are the OBL raid, Iran Air 655, attacking that Doctors Without Borders hospital, and destroying that Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.

Is Snowden "explicitly protected" by countries other than Russia right now?
you don't need to do a mod_rewrite thing, btw, just do:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName whatever.com

Redirect permanent / http://www.whatever.com/

</VirtualHost>
Often with better performance than Python or Perl
It's working really slow even on my own, pretty fast, computer.

But then, I am running Windows in DOSBox in JavaScript. I have no right to complain.

edit: welp, now I tried to run Internet Explorer 3.0 on the machine and it never finishes running, maxing out at 100% CPU and Chrome then wants to kill the tab.

And on Firefox, it crashes with "uncaught exception: SimulateInfiniteLoop". Well, it's not perfect!
Wow this PubPub platform is pretty sweet. I would definitely love to contribute to this. Combine this with Arxiv and its community and you could very quickly completely revolutionize publishing.
No, but I do know that there was a bunch of outcry when the US started closing bases in Europe to save money. All of that came from governments, though. I'm not sure what the actual people think.
I guess you will buy the next connected hard hat.
I wish you were right. I'm in Fremont, a half hour from Mountain View and Google. Google Fiber's still not available.
Transparent scrubbing would be awesome, have CloudFlare advertise my networks, then CloudFlare on the backend sends the clean traffic to me...

Can do it with peering with CloudFlare directly, or even if that is not possible MPLS on the backend to direct the traffic to where it needs to go.
Defective Nanotubes Turned into Light Emitters
The landing permit itself as referenced in the Danish article:
https://www.denfri.dk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/overflight_...
Kirk: A highly-flexible thread pool
Bite Release Dog Wand promises to release any dogs bite in seconds
Same here. Funny how, 15 years later, there still isn't a competing language/UI builder that can measure up. Xcode + Interface Builder, for example, is a joke compared to Delphi. The first time I used IB, I remember being horrified by how IB requires you to "connect" UI elements to variables, and how it can't even create those variables for you, let alone allow you to add event handlers.
yes, that was my point. but i see some people weren't aware of it, which could explain the (demonstration of) downvoting.
Their opinions may not be in favor of American bases now, but my guess is that they will change in a hurry when the host countries realize how much it costs to maintain their own defense.
LTE takes significantly more battery life, which I presume is the reason nobody is doing it yet.
Why do you want this? A watch is too small (in my opinion) to replace a phone entirely, so you'd likely be carrying around a phone all the time anyway. Using bluetooth to share the phone's internet connection seems more sensible to me.
It isn't "trying to bait outrage."

Kidnapping is a crime. There are CIA agents that have been tried in absentia in Italy for that crime. Our government planned to commit a crime to get at Snowden. We should, instead, investigate and prosecute the planners behind this intended crime.
Fair point, but it doesn't really say the manner in which they planned to put him on a plane, so I would give benefit of the doubt to using the extradition agreements in such a high profile case. It's not like the death penalty would be sought (I think the last execution under the Espionage Act was the Rosenbergs) so they'd have no problem meeting the requirements of the extradition treaty.

Edit:

>> Why would you give that particular benefit of the doubt?

If it's a) legal, b) gets the job done, why on earth would you make an unforced error when you know everyone on the planet would be watching how you handled this? I'm not relying on the better angels of men here, I'm relying on self interest, path of least resistance, and government laziness. Each on their own has rarely failed me and never all three at once.
And, while we're on this topic, news.x.x should be for services using the NNTP.
I think it likely that if smartwatches get big adoption, they will replace credit cards, ID, and keys, and we'll see magnetic charging stations in places like cars, airports, and office furniture. That's a pretty big "if" and doesn't help much right now, but it's sorta how USB chargers have gone. And I'd love to be able to get rid of all the other things that I have a tendency to lose.
Your first link is Ron Paul worrying out loud. There are no actual threats being made there.

Your second link cites Buzzfeed as a source, and the Buzzfeed article[1] claims some unnamed low-level officials would like to kill Snowden. Yet these anonymously-quoted people also admit that they wouldn't do it unless they had approval from higher up. Pretty close, but still not a threat.

Your last link is about a retired government official making a joke in very poor taste.

None of these are actual threats, let alone by US officials. They're either idle musings, or bad jokes, or "I want to, but I'm not going to." I certainly don't agree with the people making these despicable statements, but they're qualitatively different from, "If you don't stop leaking state secrets, you will die."

1. http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/americas-spies-want-edw...
This is one of the reasons why leftists are pretty much universally for massive cuts in military spending. Which makes sense - you can't have both.

The Europeans would have to cut their own social programs if they wanted to do any peacekeeping / humanitarian aid operations - all of that is contingent on American logistical support. Hell, my guess is that they would castigate a more leftist, benign American government; it would make things a hell of a lot harder for a lot of people.
Neat! I'm curious how much those kind of bikes cost, more for laziness than anything else ;)

Edit: http://cyclingtips.com/2015/04/hidden-motors-for-road-bikes-... - Has some cool photos on how they work

AUD $4,300 - eek!
If you scroll past the sales pitch at the top of the page, there are links to questions with detailed answers.
Regarding defunctness, there's nothing magical about the 'www' string - it can be anything, as long as it's not the DNS zone apex (~='base domain'). There are limitations on what you can do with the zone apex entry (such as no CNAMEing it), but no limitations on other entries. 'www' is just convention.

As to your question, it's a bit of both. I'm not a network admin, though, so I'll let someone a bit more skilled pipe up. I have run into difficulties with migrating 'bare domains' in a small business environment due to these limitations, though. Not insurmountable, but required more work to cover the issues. Of course, when you're 'big', you'll be dealing with these kinds of issues a lot more.
Not sure I'm getting the connection. Doesn't the Strategic Airlift Capability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Airlift_Capability have 3 planes?

Is the cost for that 4.5 x higher than Delta Air Lines annual revenue? ($37.7 billion 2013)

I'm sure most of the cost of USAF is on other things...
i almost went down this route, then realized I could avoid all this R&D and just pay $40 for a wildcard cert.
> Whistleblowing protections that extend to what Snowden did would effectively convert the entire classification system to a set of recommendations as opposed to laws (a wholly different demand which I think is patently childish as a demand).

Can you elaborate a bit on this? For instance, if Snowden's leaks had been targeted so that they only showed illegal programs[0], do you believe that advocacy of a whistleblowing protection that would have covered the leaks would be "patently childish"?

[0] It is possible that Snowden's leaks were that targeted. I don't know, because I did not follow them closely enough to know.