skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Russia is not ready, and debates like the blocksize limit debate would favour the powerful.

Well it's not a very advanced technology, it's really simple and off the shelf, and as far as I could see the blocksize debate did favour the powerful players anyway - the 1mb block was supported by the few big miners which is why it is staying that way stubbornly for so long.

On the plus side we have completely transparency in financial transactions, as well as having a network of trust which is an indelible record, automated trust if you will.

Some of the advantages touted:

“Basing on what I heard, blockchain means the following to me: any person may enter a database, extract all required documents to buy a land plot, form the package in an hour’s time, send it to relevant entities, and once it is confirmed, get an answer in an hour. This is certainly a revolution.”

“The same thing is taxation. Any taxpayer will be able to trace their particular payments. Generally, they say that taxation system becomes personalized, that you’ll be able to pay taxes for particular needs, and trace what your payment is spent on. It is a completely different concept. We will have to realize many things, we will have to completely alter our way of thinking.”
I hope they do adopt that suggested change to method calls. Swift is a nice language, but there's still some awkwardness due to its required compatibility with Objective C. I think if you don't come from that background, then having all named arguments except the first one seems really arbitrary and nonsensical.
I am claiming SNOBOL, Icon and Eiffel aren't, for example.
How do you put on a torc?
Is that same as S&P? Not sure I can get Vanguard from here.
Some roads in The Netherlands have this since 2000. The heat is also used to melt ice and snow in winter.
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Yes, the possibility exists, but it's not implemented as a feature in Github.js so you'd have to manually request the issue comments for every issue like this:

github._request('GET', issue.comments_url, {}, callback)
Well said, it's the product and the execution what matters, not the product logo and name. Heck, you could probably use a ridiculous name with a logo designed in MS Paint and as long as the product delivered amazing value people would just get used to it.

That's not to say there's no value in well made branding, but it's just not something that an early startup should care about much.
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a nice technique is also the ostrich technique: ignore the community for a couple of months, check in, evaluate the latest developments; pick the ones that makes sense; then ignore the community again. ;)
These logos aren't good. A logo should have some degree of symmetry, simple enough to draw, original, and not readily resembling something in real life or a prior logo.

this is an umbrella plus tear drop: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo18.png

paperclip
http://www.logodust.com/img/logo20.png

too complicated to be effective:

http://www.logodust.com/img/logo9.png

ripoff of star trek and anarchy circle

http://www.logodust.com/img/logo2.png

this was the only good one http://www.logodust.com/img/logo1.png
I would screw up that first named argument thing every time if it weren't for Xcode's autocomplete.
I can't take seriously any Mars project that sends people without robots paving our way there first. It sounds like romantic marketing with no real long-term expectation.

As the article says one of the main reasons is to inspire people, but the current world is structured in a way that tells a lot of people that they are out, they won't ever be part of society in a meaningful way, they'll get some money to stay alive and sort of make it through life, but they will never be meaningful members of a community.

So in this kind of atmosphere seems very difficult to convince people to participate in any kind of common project for all of us.
Tcl meets Javascript: a match made in heaven.

(Interpret as you will)
Bash users represent!

Seriously, Bash is fucking beautiful once you really dig into it. Pipes are unbelievably elegant.
Not a surprise. There's a lot of that stuff around, on OpenVMS. There are new systems — yes, using BASIC on OpenVMS — being installed, too.

There are new Itanium servers with support added last year, another (final) generation is planned, and — in preparation for the end of Itanium — an OpenVMS port to x86-64 is presently underway, and there's a new OpenVMS release (for Itanium) is scheduled to arrive this March.

https://vmssoftware.com/products.html
The question here is about unfashionable languages and no one here has commented about it yet :D php, tcl, c++, java ?? come on guys.
Given how, you know, polio is still a thing, it seems to be the whole distribution area that we're struggling the most with, and less the raw scientific aspects.
I agree with you, however the bureaucracy at some companies is insane.

In order for me to get a TLS certificate where I work I have to create a CSR, fill in a word document, attach those to a Jira ticket, the operations team will then hand those over to a contractor who talks to our chosen CA. Up to 10 working days(!) later I get an OV certificate back.

How I wish we were allowed to use Lets Encrypt.
Luckily, winters in France don't compare to what can be experienced on the US East coast.
speaking for the Italian side of things, 'sprezzatura' is a 16th century term, don't think I've ever heard it used by anybody before.

Rather than 'sprezzatura' I would have put something like 'bella figura' which is instead in wide use and not present in English as far as I can think of, it could be taken as meaning to present oneself at one's best, sort of like showing off but without the negative connotations associated to it.

This can be related to dress, or to doing something really well, to having really good etiquette, etc. etc.
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I don't even know what foxconn is and I don't care to Google it.
On the push notifications side, Batch (disclaimer: I'm a founder), is very solid:

https://batch.com/features
This article got the necessary treatment from /r/chess weeks ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/418pcl/life_chess_an....

I'm leaning towards our lives are more like Chess but more. Of course our biases create the framework of our reality.
Cited story at Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d9d3b86c-c67f-11e5-808f-8231cd7162...
More platforms -> higher cost of making cross-platform software.
It's easy to take five minutes to search the online US trademark database before settling on a name. Of course that's not exhaustive, but it would have avoided this situation.
Bacause we believe in what we read, acritically, more often than we should.
Not by any private actor, governments are just better at this kind of thing.
Sorry, but the market speaks for it too. Few people care about is a quantifiable statement.

If anything you uncovered a non-objective bias.
Copying doesn't really encourage progress, because nobody wants to be the one to spend millions (or billions) in R and D (while the rest spend $0).

I don't know any brand off the top of my head from China that is top-quality. Most are blatent, cheap, ripoffs of better brands.
>The entire system we use to advance humanities shared knowledge is broken.

Okay, can you elaborate on why?
No, its not at all clear that he acted that way.
This is surely not amazing news for the military right? I bet they've flown tons of drones over Iran, they've certainly been deployed in a number of theatres extensively.
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To be honest, even as a fairly seasoned iOS developer I still prefer to have a non-optional first argument in my APIs.

Whereas the post's example compares:

path.addLineToPoint(CGPoint(x: 100, y: 0))
-- to --
path.addLineTo(CGPoint(x: 100, y: 0))

I've been doing it as so:

path.addLine(toPoint: CGPoint(x: 100, y: 0))

...requiring the "toPoint", which can swapped out true method overloading style:

path.addLine(toArc:...)

In your internal method implementation, Swift allows you to replace the external method name with an internal one, so that it's still nice to work with:

func addLine(toPoint point: CGPoint) {
...
}

I personally think it's a lot more readable. Otherwise the first argument has to have a really descriptive class name (recommended for sure, but often not the case).
Why "free"? It is free, no need for quotes.
Yeah, its like he learned his technique from cartoons about people hitting the high striker (strongman) at a carnival.
Some people simply cannot accept that anyone would find PHP useful... or even tolerate its existence, and employ one particular (and increasingly obsolete) rant as if it were an objective argument against someone else's opinion on the matter. And yet, it's all subjective.

If you don't like PHP, don't use PHP. It's that simple.
Not exactly, Iran has a 2 tier system.
The upper tier which consists of the Council of Experts (also known as the Guardian Council) and the Supreme Leader who also control the IRGC (which controls most of Iranian industry at this point) is not another faction this is the main ruling body of Iran an the body which de-facto controls everything within it.

While the people can say elect a president the Religious leadership has veto rights into who is going to actually run basically how Iranian elections start is that you have a bunch (were talking 50 or more candidates) of candidate starting the race about half of them get rejected immediately by the religious authorities the rest "decline" to run and you end up with 1 or 2 candidates in the final race in which always one of them wins in a land slide mostly because the entire election process is fixed by the Supreme Leader.

The so call "belligerent" faction in Iran is under the direct control of the Supreme Leader and this isn't exactly a country where one does what ever they think. This is a country with well over a 1000 executions each year you won't have politicians sending out embarrassing letters or generals speaking out of term unless they want to either face a firing squad or have their necks stretched out.
In my opinion, the end game for getting to Mars quickly and economically has to be nuclear pulse propulsion[1]. With this approach, which was technologically feasible back in the 1950s-60s when it was first being studied, you could get to Mars in a couple of weeks.

Maybe use conventional means to robotically transport the shelters, building materials, and other resources to Mars, and then the humans can be transported via NPP, which would save tons of air and food resources compared to an eight month conventional trip, and also be safer -- a much shorter time in space means much less risk of cosmic ray exposure, micrometeorites, equipment failures, medical emergencies, etc.

If we can overcome the safety issues and the political squeamishness of manufacturing and launching into orbit hundreds of small nuclear explosives, we can possess Mars. It just takes money and will.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Awesome - thanks
The real problem is not computer science.

Everyone in the United States cannot be a programmer - its going to lead to the same problem we have with law, business, etc. Too many graduates leading to labour oversupply.

Government will always be slower to respond then markets.

So even though right now there is a shortage of programmers - it might not be the case once these student's graduate.

So Govt is always one step behind the movements in markets.

What is more important is helping students understand how important learning is. Even though my skills in programming helps me get paid - I use the knowledge I have in biology ( learnt in school ) to make informed decisions as a consumer. My knowledge in writing helps when I need to explain a difficult concept to my bosses. My skills in mathematics helps me model problems in much more efficient ways.

Being a programmer in a society with no doctors, or chemists is no fun.

Its understanding that the economy is extremely complex - and rather than create bursts of inefficiency in one area - the best thing to do is facilitate the system to perform better - maybe make it easier for labour ( students ) to choose what they want to do with their lives - rather than burden them with student debt ?
TL;DR - "If you really want to protect your network you have to know your network, including all the devices and technology in it"

There, saved you a click.
TM law doesn't apply here to this bully. Not competing. The customers of Jade Software will not be confused. Don't give in to this BS.
It took me a while to see that the dramatic looking spikes and falls in the graphs where only due to the lower range of the y axis being cut out.
One crappy language meets another...
Don't stop breathing, it's bad for your health, but many of the air molecules in your lung has been previously in the lungs of Chinese people as well.
Weird, a lot of "words not in the English language" are described with ONE English word. Like "Asabiyyah = togetherness"; "Sumud = steadfastness". So it seems those words in fact ARE in the English language.

edit: Also, at least a lot of the German words have really strange (or simply wrong) translations:

Fingerspitzengefühl is NOT "the ability to think clearly about multiple phenomena". Wikipedia has a better definition[1]: "It describes a great situational awareness, and the ability to respond most appropriately and tactfully. It can also be applied to diplomats, bearers of bad news, or to describe a superior ability to respond to an escalated situation."

A "Schnapsidee" is not "an ingenious plan hatched while drunk". In fact, most "Schnapsideen" are, while often imaginative, quite stupid, unrealistic or just weird.

"Feierabend" is not the "festive mood at the end of a working day" but simply "the end of a working day". "Feierabend-Stimmung" or "Feierabendlaune" would be what describes the mood.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl
Type level Haskell-implementation of the Fibonacci function
> -- and where you're parked is an afterthought

Not in places like NYC w/ street sweeping schedules.
Also interesting, from their report:

> In the third quarter of 2015, net sales for the Volvo Group amounted to SEK 73,309 M (67,222) with growth coming from North America and Europe. However, this was partly offset by a significant decline in South America. Adjusted for changes in currency exchange rates net sales
increased by 1% compared to last year.
I did. The only hints were in the opening paragraphs, and they were just hints:

> "I've read countless blog posts, twitter rants and medium exposés detailing how jQuery isn't necessary, and why you should just write with "native" JavaScript."

Not reasons.

> "There is, however, a very major reason to avoid jQuery, and it has very little to do with features or file-size."

File-size? Ok. But "features" isn't a reason, without fleshing out.
Tcl's pretty mindbendingly cool. Don't ever let anybody convince you otherwise. It may not do all the things on earth you'd want it to do, but by Lady Circe the things it does offer are solid as a bank vault made of Volvos. Asynchronous programming baked into the core since time immemorial and possibilities of metaprogramming that would make any Lisp blush? Traits to be admired, indeed.
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Buttercup – open-source password manager made with Node and Electron
No mention of Benghazi and the private email server debacle only warranting "forthright answers" seems a little disingenuous.
I wonder how easy it would be to generate more logos like these, via neural network or other means.
Nice work. What's the use case?
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'Tuko pamoja' translates literally to 'we are together'. Not only is it not a single word, but it's literally translatable to English. Tuko - we are, pamoja - together.
We already teach 12 years of math, from 1st grade to 12th: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, polynomials, rationals, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus, sometimes probability and statistics. How much more math do you want?

Also, you do not need to know Calculus, or pre-calculus, or trigonometry, or geometry, or algebra, or pre-algebra in order to build, say an Android twitter app.
C++ Reflection
people get way too hung up on analogies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001640
The best indicator for anything transportation is utilization and how much stuff is actually being moved. Not just the price of moving something from A --> B. Yes, the presence of more movers, as the article points out, suppresses the price because people are competing to offer the lowest possible price to get the business. And, shippers did start investing in new builds extensively when it looked like the economy was set to go boom again which is also having a negative effect price due to the presence of more hulls on the market.

Unfortunately, the amount of stuff being moved is not public record and stays locked away on internal books that get summarized for the quarterly financials if the company is publicly traded. Which means we can infer how much stuff is being moved by reported dollar value but that's a lagging indicator. This leaves us with price to move goods as the major inference point to determine the health of commodities shipping and if the price is crashing, it's usually an indicator there's not a major uptick in the demand for commodities. When the price skyrockets it indicates people are trying to move a ton of stuff quickly and there isn't capacity to do it (causing more hulls to be built) and indicating the economy is hopping.
A lot of new funding is being made available through the NSF. Maybe now I can finally get a grant proposal accepted!
Kolab and Collabora to produce an open source enterprise-grade cloud office suite
A couple of corrections.

> Prostor (простор): desire for spaciousness and freedom.

The direct translation is "open range." I wouldn't call it a desire.

> Razljubít﻿ (разлюбить): the feeling a person has for someone they once loved.

To fall out of love with someone or something.

Here is a few I'd like to add:

милосердие (miloserdie) - Showing mercy and compassion

истина (istina) - the ultimate truth

Великодушие (velikodushie) - unselfish compliance, indulgence? I'm not sure how to translate this one lol
Quoting from the link:

"Do we really have to change the name?

Yes. The stress of pursuing this through the courts would be too high. I would much rather focus my efforts on writing great software, and supporting the people who use pug."

You can't expect an OSS project to fight this kind of bullies in court. Yes, they are bullies, but sometimes giving in to BS is the best option.
Fair enough. Tptacek named. "Shaming" strongly implies stating the actual flaw.

FWIW, I am aware of the past issues Linode has had, and hope they do get their act together.
> A logo should ...

Why?
I appreciate your dedication to delivering value, however it's also worth considering the emotional connection people make with your product. A logo is essentially a mental shortcut to your offering, your story, and your value proposition. A distinct logo compresses all the meaning behind what you do into a simple reminder, a mental shortcut. Great logos are unique and memorable.

Your pitch is important, and tone of your copy is important in framing and expressing this. For example, if you're asking me to download an executable you need to gain a certain degree of trust on behalf of the user. Trust is an emotion. Good art & copy can go a long way to building trust.

Branding is really the emotional connection you make with your user base, and emotional connections aren't rational things. This is why excellent products sometimes lose to less functionally valuable products - because we've distilled the rational meaning down to something which is irrational.

To "like" Apples products, for example, is not rational - it's emotional. The meaning behind Apples brand is more than the functional value of it's products. It represents something different to each of us, even though we're all using the same product. For some people, Apples brand represents a part of their own identity - this is about as emotional as it gets. Apples brand communication has touched these people in a strong way. Do you think Apple could have built such a loyal following with a MS Paint logo and terrible copy?

To put it another way, branding could also be thought of as packaging - and it's well known that packaging is extremely important to product success.
A bit ironic to quote Julian Assange in this case considering his current predicament. Free speech exists in the west only for those who don't say anything important. As soon as you say something important you end up in Julian's shoes.
Hmm. I would buy that it wasn't easy to include it into economic models but it wasn't impossible and for a long time it's been an important factor to understand economy. Right now it's practically impossible to say anything relevant about the economy without because we don't have a model that includes technology.
So poor communities--where crime is naturally higher in the first place--should be less well-equipped to incarcerate their own bad actors? I don't think that logic holds.
I just purchased jadesoftware.org and jadelang.net. They can have fun fighting me now too. See https://github.com/pugjs/jade/issues/2231
Have a look here:

https://www.devexpress.com/Products/VCL/

Especialy their datagrid is the most advanced and fun thing to work with.
did you operate a slide rule in a previous job?
You would be punishing communities that need help the most. Crime is usually (but not always) a result of poor broken communities, schools, etc.
Right now, every single high school has (or, should have) teachers that can teach Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus.

Basic Java Programming is waaaaay easier to learn to any one of those.
Whereas in the Netherlands they are applying this principle to bike lanes which by the virtue of the traffic they carry have a longer lifespan. http://mic.com/articles/117948/6-months-later-here-s-what-s-...
I'm personally convinced his long term, possibly unspoken, goal is mining asteroids. Getting a foothold on Mars seems like a logical, and necessary next step after SpaceX.

He does have competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources
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Probably best to not have hundreds of nuclear explosives orbiting us.
> These logos aren't good.

For a Fortune 500? Sure not.

For someone with problems much bigger than slick branding they are good enough.
Ask HN: Anyone else like the Windows 10 Performance Monitor?
The one I'm talking about is Task Manager then click the Performance tab. It's a huge improvement over the one in Windows 7 and earlier. It reminds me of the one in Ubuntu. Does anyone else think Microsoft has a win in the Windows 10 Performance Monitor?
Most "economies" are financial systems rather than actual economies.
Only the US trademark database?