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There's nothing wrong with authors submitting their own articles to HN. On the contrary, authors honor HN by sharing their work here and engaging with the community about it.

As for the Amazon links, if it's actually true that they were just links, not referrals, then you owe him an apology for more than just being rude.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014139 and marked it off-topic.
No, that's not the best you can do. What we can and should be doing is questioning the systemic inequalities and structures that cause poverty and wage dependence to exist in the first place. Whatever conclusion you come to, if you don't first put in the effort to see if there actually is a reason for existence to be this way, then yes, maybe all you can do is offer opportunities to a select few.
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Well, yes people have been doing similar stuff with IRC bots. But you would miss the possibility to show widgets inside the chat client (eg. map, calendar, etc)
I can't find the Sailfish OS version but it is C++ and Qt so it might be possible to migrate.
you don't every single feature for something to be a useful alternative.
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I don't think anyone in the security industry ever took Norse seriously.

They spawned an amazing parody pretty early on: http://threatbutt.com/
I have yet to encounter any complaint about it. For some reason (at least I hope) people seem to mind it less than constantly checking your phone in a social setting. But I don't check it all that often since it is really hard to miss notifications so you are not checking constantly like might do with a silenced phone.
It hasn't been mentioned yet but glowing bear (http://glowing-bear.org/) is a nice web client that plus into any instances of a weechat process (that you let run in a multiplex terminal on a raspberry you plug in the kitchen, on the fridge).
How is Slack better? At least with Gitter you just need a GitHub account, with Slack you have to create a new account for every Channel you might want to use.
> Which C++ subset should someone choose?

Easy. The subset outlined in Effective Modern C++

> What about the people who don't use exceptions?

Rust doesn't have exceptions.

> What about the people who don't use templates?

Rust doesn't have templates.
So Microsoft had ample opportunity to understand--from their competitors--this would be a problem, but they let it happen to their product anyway.

That makes it seem worse, not better.
Generally speaking, you won't be happy working at a place that puts too much value into a college or university's credentials.
That's a good rule of thumb for a variety of reasons, but this is a situation where I don't think it applies. (1) It's the truth, and it's the reason you're seeking a job, and any worthwhile employer would likely sympathize. (2) You've already burnt your bridge with the previous employer, so who cares?
Thanks for that, I remembered that this was a "law", but I never remember the name, and whenever I try to tell anyone I get it wrong or express it in a confused manner.
You check the website to find out if they are having server problems and you see they have deprecated the API. Problem solved.
It would make more sense to start a company based on Parse's open-sourced code. If this guy has money and friends with money, they should do that.
Yep: https://www.fastmail.com
If you mean the fact that you can circumvent this, then I'm not sure. It's possibly intentionally left in so that more experienced users have a way around that limitation.
I think the first line is confusing and misleading until I read yours.

> In the OpenSSL address implementation the hard coded 1024 bit DH p
parameter was not prime.

It should have been worded "In Socat, the DH p parameter used by OpenSSL implementation was hardcoded and was not a prime."
> I'm wondering if yahoo has any earnings since her majesty became ceo.

Why wonder when you can find out for yourself?

https://investor.yahoo.net/results.cfm
It was a friday, so a joke!
Amazing!

Related, a drag'n drop only language for live coding music:

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Brick...
The requirements of PTC go beyond anything a car's navigation system has to, most notably maintaining separation between trains: also, unlike a car's navigation system, because it's a system there to ensure safety rather than provide assistance to the driver, the system has far higher requirements for failing safe. As far as I'm aware, proceeding without movement authority is a far more common cause of rail accidents than overspeed, hence why systems have traditionally been mostly concerned with separation and movement authority rather than speed.

Really the biggest flaw of the US's push for PTC is reinventing the wheel: ETCS[0] has been standardising this all over Europe (with parts, such as GSM-R, being adopted in large parts of the world!), and the goals for PTC largely match up with ETCS Level 2, as far as I'm aware. There are a number of off-the-shelf systems available, leaving the largest issue as GSM-R frequency acquisition. And, I suppose, the political issue of using a non-American system.

ETCS Level 3 essentially allows pure-radio positioning, but there's currently no planned deployments because nobody yet has constructed a system that meets the required "safety integrity level". Note that one of the issues here is you need devices at both the lead and rear vehicles to ensure train integrity, whereas currently typically one only has such equipment in the driving vehicle(s). There's hope to use the EGNOS satellite augmentation system to get better accuracy guarantees than GPS/GLONASS/Galileo provide, but it's all still experimental, and the only experimental project there failed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System (an article which I will openly say defines far too little jargon it uses!)
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it is probably more relevant for the HN crowd to link directly to http://matrix.org/blog/try-matrix-now/
The amazon links did not have 'tag=' which is what the referral program uses. They just had 'ref=' which is what amazon uses to track how you got around the site.

Regardless, the author has since removed the links.
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Are you crazy?
> TECHNICALLY Racket is a Lisp

Shouting alone won't convince anyone.
Note that there are people who hesitate to call Racket a Scheme (http://stackoverflow.com/a/3358638/124319). I would consider Julia to be closer to Common Lisp than Scheme.
By the way, are you sure you wouldn't have talked about Racket if the title was different?

In fact this really does not matter: nobody mind if you talk about Scheme, or Haskell, or any other language. In all other threads people can't refrain from talking about Rust or D whenever someone mentions C++ (for example). However here I fail to see the link between Roswell and your comment.

> I found Racket to be flawless in that regard

With regard to installing different implementations?

> I feel like I am starting to be the Racket Evangelist

Indeed.
I find it surprising how little interest there is on hn about cpp in general. This video about the future of cpp is the best i have seen this year. My guess is the demographics of hn is just wrong for cpp. Its mostly web developers here?
Thanks! Vector (http://vector.im) has had a lot of UI/UX focus - but the nice thing with Matrix is that it enables you to pick the type of app/client that you like - and whether that's a web client like Vector, a terminal client like weechat (http://matrix.org/blog/project/weechat-plugin/), a mobile app, or even a different service like IRC - that's entirely up to you!

Check out http://matrix.org/blog/try-matrix-now/ for a list of clients/apps that support Matrix!
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Ah, I remembered his name, but had forgotten that it was called Timsort, thanks.

Interesting that others also used it.
Chat in general, as per my earlier message, is for pretty ephemeral stuff. You should not be entrusting important decisions to it. Plenty of networks, like Freenode, solve the 'who is this person' thing in that, for instance, no one else can grab a nick for more than, say, 30 seconds.

I use IRC all the time to talk with people who are experts in some particular technology, and need absolutely none of this infrastructure.
Linus also spends a lot more time communicating via mailing list. Google+ is like a side thing for him.
so messages are deleted and gone forever

They aren't deleted and gone forever. They're simply not searchable. If at some future point you decide to pay, your entire history is made available to you.

I realize that doesn't help projects who will never want or be able to pay, but it's an important point for those who might.
What about Tumblr ? Is that thing still on? was it worth the bazillion dollars they spent on the aquisition.

Also a long time ago, Yahoo made Mark Cuban a billionaire. What happened to the technology they acquired from his company?
That's what happened during the dig for our (Bloomberg) new London HQ. A ton of stuff was unearthed and will be featured in an exhibit on the site once the office opens.

"'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in the City":
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22084384
If you can guess a really long URL you probably can also guess all information about any children you want.
but isn't it the same with Amazon and all these other "unlimited backup" solutions? They are all literally a lie if you dig deep enough...some cases more deep than others.
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Yeah, in my case, ithe work was very very simple. Slightly tedious because I had to type up lookup tables, but once I familiarized myself with php, it didn't take 5 hours.
Your argument itself aside, I think it's a bit uncharitable to fault someone for not seeing the relevance of an article they might not have read. Not everyone necessarily keeps up with every HN thread.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but maybe phrasing your comment a little less combatively would be nicer.
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Nice. Anyone staying at Yahoo despite a continuous, management-driven, downward spiral was already laying themselves off. Just a matter of time. That was before she even entered the picture. I respected her attempt to rescue one of the greats of the Old Web but it was beyond salvage. Now, it will be streamlined, gutted, and sold most likely. As financial management wanted all along...
>> The only big thing that Slack has over IRC is being able to catch up on what was said earlier.

What about all the integrations with other services?
>irccloud: Is really cool and solves all of the problems. irccloud.com

Is IRCCloud not closed source also?
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there are loads of github repos for this, i just grabbed one and was on my way.
Not sure how much they raised on kickstarter, but unless it was a pretty trivial amount, it seems like there's got to be more to the story.
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Everyone uses Yahoo finance and watches yahoo stock go down, what irony.
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So how come millimeter wave networking from Google is a good thing, but the when the ex-Aereo guys announce a similar thing everyone is skeptical?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984755
Because a lot of obvious stuff ends up being wrong, so you have to test all of it to find the true obvious from the fake obvious.
This is the correct answer.

Matt Levine did quite a long writeup about this a while back: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-17/how-can-yah...

Taking an uncharitable view, Yahoo!'s core business actually has negative value -- and the current round of layoffs is a direct result of Wall Street pressure to stop subsidizing said core business and preserve the value of the Ali Baba stock.
And yet, it still happens http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/counterfeit-chinese-parts-slip...
I've used this for months. It stops working for no reason. I think it eats up too much memory and keeps increasing memory usage. I don't know, but I know it crashes after a few days.
"Never experience the hassle of ... while saving a bunch of money"

Wait, you mean that if I don't use your service then I'll have hassles but at least I'll save money? That's how it reads. You seem to expect that people will parse it like this.

(never-experience X) while Y

Unfortunately, most people parse it like this.

never-experience (X while Y)

Try each one out on "never experience burning your hand while cooking breakfast". Do you see the difference, and why the front-page copy might make some people giggle?
The fact that Slack has made it clear they don't intend to support large open source projects is the biggest thing in my opinion. Reactiflux was basically forced off Slack for getting too big. Other large communities like the Clojurians Slack community will likely be forced off soon in the near future too (some members of the community have begun discussing this and evaluating alternatives). The Elixir Slack community is also similar in size, and I see the same thing happening there eventually.
I know for fact that engineering students who attend universities like Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo and Stanford, receive way more opportunities to work for major companies early on versus their peers at other public and private universities. This is purely built on the reputation of these universities and there history as feeder schools to Microsoft, Apple and Google. Its a self fulfilling prophecy kind of because the top students only want to go to these universities, keeping them the best.
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But just visiting the project page on GitHub downloads and executes proprietary JavaScript. If that's a problem for Slack, why isn't it a problem for GitHub?
The main value-add of going to a university isn't attaining an education, it's gaining access to a strong network of educated people. This is something which can't be replaced by self education (which, you'll actually be expected to do at university anyway).
And IRC history doesn't?

IRC doesn't even have the concept of message history. Any such thing is done by individual clients/bots.

Bringing up message history as a negative is just straight-up disingenuous with that in mind - the answer to both possibilities is the same: use a bot.
But this only works if no other client is logged in, isn't it?
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I don't know about gardening, but I've certainly sacrificed financially in order to be able to farm. When you consider the huge capital costs, you have to love it. Anyone who doesn't love it would be far better off selling out.

Granted, it isn't that physically demanding. The biggest amount of labour I find is repairing/modifying equipment, and that comes with interesting problem solving challenges, which my programmer mindset tends to enjoy.

Still, I can see why gardening would be seen as appealing.

> your wife is mad that you can't take her on vacation

Why would anyone get mad about that? My wife is a grown adult, she can pay for her own vacation. Farming is my vacation.
I built a really basic genome analysis pipeline. It's a super hacked together tool with the hopes of helping doctors make more data driven decisions on diagnosing patients based on empirical data: the individuals genome. I got a very basic version working that allows a doctor to search for a specific term (eg. ADHD) and see if the patient has any genetic mutations based on genes typically associated with that disease.

Super straw man, not clinically proven, and hacked together - but fun and learned a ton! Built on Redshift with a small R script and a ton of manual data ETL.
I can only imagine the military has the same stringent requirements on their vendors, yet it still happens there http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/counterfeit-chinese-parts-slip...
FYI, nothing on your careers page references remote opportunities or the other offices you mentioned.
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How big is the effect?
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A cheap $5 droplet can run 20 instances of this, probably.
They recorded $10B from alibaba shares, They broke even on actual operations.

http://i.imgur.com/f23T3Xc.png
"Gain on sale of Alibaba Group ADSs"
In the case of UC Berkeley computer science (which be both graduated from) it also (4) puts you geographically close to the heart of our industry. I've found this to be nearly as indispensable as (1).
> Car navigation as a problem set is similar but massively harder than train navigation. My car can tell me speed limits, which lane to be in, and knows information about all major roads in the area.

Your car navigation isn't "positive control." It can't slow your car down for you, and when it fucks up (like Uber's navigation does 50% of the time on the way to Union Station), it can't fuck up control of the car. It's a fundamentally advisory system that is not designed to be trusted (and very often is not trustworthy). You could hack together an app to tell an Amtrak driver the speed limit in any given location, but that wouldn't have helped Amtrak 188. To prevent that crash you needed a system that can override the train operator and slow the train.

Once you give the computer authority to override the driver, a huge amount of complexity sets in.

First, a substantial portion of the Northeast Regional track does not have cellular coverage. The trains have no way to communicate information in those areas. If you're PTC is going to slow down a train in a dead zone, it's not going to be acceptable to not be able to relay that information off the train. That requirement drove the system design. A big part of the delay in deploying PTC was setting up the necessary wireless communications infrastructure.

Then there is the issue of integrating with the existing signaling system. Your car navigation doesn't interact with the signal lights and tell you when to stop. The PTC needs to be able to do that. It'd be a recipe for disaster to have a computer system that can slow down or stop a train but had no idea what the signaling system was doing.
Turns out cremation doesn't result in ONLY ash

You actually end up with large, intact bones after cremation. They actually take the bones and grind them up into finer particles.

I've never seen cremation, ashes, but I've been told they look similar to gravel.
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