skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, can anybody elaborate on the history of and relationship between StatusNet, identi.ca, GNU social and pump.io? It seems like this fragmentation is another obstacle for success, besides the obvious issue of gaining traction.

And then there's tent.io, which appears to be completely unrelated but have similar goals. Is there anyone with insights on usage numbers, development activity etc. of the different projects? In other words: What's the best bet for federated, open source microblogging?
In a perfect display of schadenfreude, the FBI might now be getting an idea of why people are reluctant to allow them unfettered access to their private information :)

Not really a useful comment, I know, but I had to show my appreciation for this guy for pulling down the FBI's pants!
Toy model: A fund can do well or badly at the start of the period, and it can do well or badly at the end. Both happen completely at random. A fund that does badly at both ends is closed and never heard from again.

If you analyse funds in this situation, you will find that every fund that does badly at the start of the period does well at the end. (Because the ones that do badly at the end too are all gone.) You might be tempted to think up clever explanations about how fund managers with bad initial results make extra effort, or how stocks that do badly tend to rebound later as investors recognize their true value, or something -- but that would be a mistake, because in this situation the only thing leading to the relationship between early and late performance is the fact that the "bad at both ends" funds aren't represented in the analysis.
Justice was hacked a hellava long time ago.
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Winton and L Marks hunt for 10 data-driven startups to join their new accelerator
I've a good mind to port this to LibreOffice :-)

Or even use it to test out VBA compatibility!
I'm not aware of any use of liquid nitrogen to keep general infrastructure cool but it sounds like you're referring to the gas tanks that keep wiring under a positive pressure to keep moisture out.

http://gothamist.com/2008/01/31/nitrogen_tanks.php
Only `proc` closures were boxed, `|...| -> ...` closures were pointers into the stack. However, it is true that all closures were type erased, and were hence equivalent to certain trait object types (`Box<FnOnce(...) -> ...>` for `proc`, and `&mut FnMut(...) -> ...` for the pipes).

Also, functions could coerce to either of the closure types, and hence be passed straight to functions expecting them.
Apps have a receipt attached to them with transaction information. All users who purchased the app while it was paid (date check + version check) received a free upgrade.
This is probably the most bizarre hyperlink I've run across. I share your confusion, and couldn't be laughing any harder right now.
Maybe we actually are adjusting to the appropriate level of risk to take. I remember blog posts from PG that if YC were really investing appropriately they'd have more failures.
Thanks for the link to the lists, I'll try rigging that for auto-update on my PC soon.
What happened when the amount of money was tied to gold? I do sometimes look at fractional reserve banking and see a giant ponzu scheme. I'm not sure ever increasing levels of debt are sustainable, but then I'm not an economist...
GNU social is, as far as I understand it, just a rebranding of the old StatusNet project after it joined the GNU project.

identi.ca had been the most post popular StatusNet instance until they switched to pump.io, a new project started by at least one of the StatusNet developers.

tent.io is unrelated to the others as far as i know.
Understood. I apologize. Sometimes it is easy to get carried away.
The big question for me is: Why an entire engine?

If they were just interested in getting developers, to use their cloud services. Wouldn't they simply release plugins for all major engines? And wouldn't Unreal and Unity be much more interesting targets (based on their usage in the industry), than CryEngine?
Deploy4Me presented the Cloud Sketches
It's impossible to prove. I think the best you can do is a) no legal basis for that kind of thing, and even more importantly b) a citizenry that remembers totalitarianism and knows the importance of privacy rights.
Final result: http://i.imgur.com/7WiloZM.jpg
If VLC is launched, then that's what starts playing.
I have not read the article, not going to give them the clicks, but as it is a daily mail article I imagine it is a story because there is some mock outrage... and possibly something affecting house prices. Mostly the outrage though.
This would be fantastic and would definitely open the door for all kinds of products, especially as the API library/tool ecosystem grows around it.

But, undoubtably, the banks will drag their heels and try to somehow make themselves 'stand out' from the rest.
What was the company? I didn't catch this in the article.
Thats awesome. I was afraid most countries are going to fall for it, but no.
I find it somewhat interesting that this hacker didn't use this information for leverage, if he's indeed some strong supporter of the free Palestine cause. Instead, he just let it loose and raised the middle finger.

It makes me think either the supposed motivation for this hack isn't what it seems, or it was perpetuated by someone who's incredibly naive. It just doesn't seem to add up.
CognitiveLogic Raises $3M to Help Enterprises Pool Big Data
Create me full community portal website facebook clone with soundcloud like attitudes. Possible?
Could you put it in the about section of your profile? Otherwise it's not visible. Alternatively, send me an email with your contact details. Thanks!
I did not read the link but Benoit Mandelbrot basically showed this 30 years ago. So what's the news?
Are you sure Wired is not compromising? Maybe they want to charge $5 but only charging $1. Will you pay a much higher price for all the things you suggest Wired should do?
Canonical reckons Android phone-makers will switch to Ubuntu
Some interesting legal stuff with this engine, which their FAQ(1) goes over.

Basically, use it for whatever, free of charge, but not with any other cloud services that mimic amazon's services(2).

Except cloud services for some things, which are fine:

Your game may read and write data to platform services and public
third-party game services for player save state, identity, social
graph, matchmaking, chat, notifications, achievements, leaderboards,
advertising, player acquisition, in-game purchasing, analytics,
and crash reporting.

Is it a game changer?

Hard to say, but like they say, you can't beat free.

If nothing else, a lot of people are going to download this and have a look at it and mess around with it.

Pretty exciting stuff. :)

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/faq/#licensing

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/userguide/lumbe...
Respect to Wired for attempting to find a solution to their issues but I fear like many others commenting on this thread that this isn't the solution.

I'd love to see their numbers in a few months - but I doubt that they would make them public.

Obviously making money via adverts on news websites is a shrinking business. I wonder if any companies are taking advantage of this to create a new type of revenue generation machine for publishers? I know micro-payments keep getting kicked around but they don't seem like the solution here. Any thoughts?
Couldn't you automate it anyway?

Mechanize and PhantomJS can be really helpful to script things that aren't covered by a public API.
Cool+Antique+Food+Cart+Images+&+Vanity+Plate
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States getting in the middle of individuals
Polyglot (computing)
"there is a HUGE financial incentive on the part of sellers"

At least up until now, there have been ad sales, which you can think of as an incredibly heath-robinson micropayment system: a small amount of what I pay for every product I buy goes to their marketing department, which passes on a smaller amount to advertising firms, which give it to websites. The viability of advertising largely removed the incentive to develop micropayment systems; hopefully that's now changing.
Yeah, I know. But I definitely counted at least 12 seperate and rather nasty Browser Object based malware programs. Which is a lot better than Norton and Trend Micro, who didn't pick them up at all!
> Not being snarky, but you really need a copywriter to review the wording on your site.

It looks like they're a German company, so it would definitely be valuable to get a native English speaker to review the site.
> "Desire is that thing that draws me out and allows others in, it's absolutely essential."

That's what I meant by saying that desire can be the gateway to love. Desire helps you commit, love can grow from that point on.
The article is beating around the bush: The answer is LACK OF DEMAND.

Since the ordinary person can't afford jack shit and already exceeded all levels of debt he/she can take nobody buys anything besides bare necessities. This is what you get if productivity rises sky high over decades and at the same time wages stagnate.
Here is a good post from Mark Cuban written just last week regarding onerous reporting requirements for public companies and the changing mindset of entrepreneurs, and how much it hurts wealth creation in this country:

http://blogmaverick.com/2016/02/04/the-pre-cognitive-anti-tr...
They certainly already have a SDK for Unity: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-unity
Can anyone with experience in game development give us a ballpark figure on how much this would cost if you were't tied to anything and just wanted to set up multiplayer infrastructure on your own?

It sounds cheap to me too, ends up costing you 9 cents per copy assuming all users who bought the game play multiplayer for 5 years.
According to undisclosed sources, a user gives around $1 per year to an editor of this kind, so yes, it's a massive difference!
Do you need free wordpress theme? Let's access and download
Agreed. The ALP aren't much better in many ways, which I find very sad. Turnbull is a lot better than Abbott, but pretty much anyone would be better than Abbott. I'm honestly torn on who to vote for next election. I suspect I might even be in the same electoral district as you as I live in Middleton Grange :-)
That'll never happen and it's very unlikely to be their intention. Any game on a similar scale/scope as World of Warcraft doesn't need such atrocious license terms.

UE and Source both have much more reasonable license terms and smaller-scoped games will go with Unity unless they build their own engine.

My guess on what they are probably looking for is probably desperate indie or small-size studios that want something bigger than unity, they'll give a bunch of AWS credit to them in order to try lock them in. Even that is a long shot.

Edit: Had another read through this. Honestly I still don't see what the attraction is. There's bigger names out there with better engines and more favorable agreements.

Edit 2: Mixed up engines.
What leverage could he possibly gain by not releasing this data?
OVO Key-Value Storage
That's a fair and reasonable view :-)
> You can subscribe to a brand-new Ad-Free version of WIRED.com. For $1 a week, you will get complete access to our content, with no display advertising or ad tracking.

I wish more places would do this. I subscribe to several news outlets, and none of them provide this option, even for paying customers. It's ridiculous.

Unfortunately for Wired, their content just isn't good enough to warrant the $52/year price point.
Post Increment Operators Gotchas
No, they cannot say that they have xxx users per day/month/year, the reports of the adservers are the one that are read by the advertisers (and the editors), the number of visitors is useless if you can't serve them ads.
Intellij eats Visual Studio for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Twice. Every day.

To make VS somewhat usable, you need Resharper - made by the company, that makes Intellij.
Luxembourg announced a plan to mine asteroids
PHP itself makes it impossible to design good code. I worked with PHP about 15 years ago, left for other platforms but occasionally had to deal with PHP, and since the last year I couch a team of PHP developers, so it's part of my daily life understanding the language and it's quirks. My honest opinion is that PHP didn't change at all over the years. All the same bad smells are there, but not at the same places. The best description I've seen for this is in that old "fractal of bad design" post:

> "PHP is a community of amateurs. Very few people designing it, working on it, or writing code in it seem to know what they’re doing. Those who do grow a clue tend to drift away to other platforms, reducing the average competence of the whole. This, right here, is the biggest problem with PHP: it is absolutely the blind leading the blind."

This is so true it hurts, and unfortunately if you think "it's not like that, every platform has goods and bads, php works for me, yadda yadda yadda" you're in the amateur group. You need to work with other platforms for real to understand this. It's not "every platform has issues", it's more like "every platform has issues, and then there is php, in a different category with much deeper problems".

This is not about preferences or tastes either. It's just about looking around and seeing how common problems have already been solved. PHP7 has good exceptions, yay! Except they should have been there for 20 years. It was already a very solid concept back when PHP 1.0 was released. ES3 implemented exceptions correctly in 99 for god's sake. Every other language did too, PHP is the only kid in the block that took 20 years to understand what exceptions are supposed to mean in the language.

I could point other small things like the new DateTime API being a joke, mysqli is still supported and still converts typed data to strings, terrible encoding support, pure byte strings instead of unicode strings, inconsistencies in implementations between OSs, the compiler still acting differently depending on php.ini settings, but in the end, it all boils down to bad design.

Facebook's Hack fixes the PHP language for real in strict mode, and that is the work of real engineers thinking about stuff. PHP7 is still the same old people trying to get around without looking at proven solutions anywhere else.

And that's why you can't design good code with PHP7. It's like trying to design a good house made of turd. Doesn't matter how much you design it, in the end it will still smell terrible.
I have ublock myself for privacy concerns, but I install ad blockers on all my relatives computers just because they are trustful and dumb enough to click any shiny green button that says "Download". Otherwise, I have to pull my hair when I look at their computers full of crap, which they can't explain how it got there. If the internet with ads wasn't such a dangerous place, I wouldn't do it in the first place.
> You can subscribe to a brand-new Ad-Free version of WIRED.com. For $1 a week

Wow, a paywall. Did you come up with that idea all by yourself?
I figured that sentence might be an issue, but I left it in anyway as an honest relay of my thinking. It may be dubious, and may one day be as dubious as the similar sentence applied to black people, but I think it's an entirely natural reaction (just as girls avoiding the boy with terrible acne in school) given our evolutionary history and unlikely to vanish due to social pressure -- it will just become better hidden (few admit to being a racist), but still in plain sight by way of revealed preferences ("white flight"). Being natural doesn't make it good, but it does mean policies and expectations should be realistic. Singapore has achieved racial integration by very authoritarian measures like deciding where you can live and who your neighbors are, which was and is a realistic policy given the alternative outcome of just about everywhere else of racial groups bunching together against the outer culture which ends up causing various problems for the local government. In the absence of negative reinforcement like demonizing people who don't at least appear welcoming to transpeople in the same way racists are demonized (this is the way I predict things going, sadly), and in the absence of well-enforced top-down measures, expectations should be for a long slog towards grudging acceptance of the state of the world.

I dream of a more grand future where I can just rewrite my personality(ies) to feel differently about various things, even to rewrite my brain and form a new body to experience what it's truly like to be female, or Hutu. The natural way of things is evil, but it must be considered and dealt with honestly.
They don't cover the same use cases.

Little Snitch is basically a user-friendly general-purpose application Firewall. When a connection hasn't been whitelisted before, it pop up a dialog box allowing you to accept/reject connection to a host/domain/port permanently/temporarily.

uMatrix does not protect you against 'malicious' connections initiated by non-browser applications. Little Snitch does not provide the fine-grained URI-level filtering that uBlock/uMatrix provide.

Edit: if you have a Mac, Little Snitch is well-worth the money. It is very polished, does the job, and the developers are not greedy (I think I purchased an update once after I started using it in 2007 or 2008).
They mention going through an accounting department in the case of big companies, I wonder if anybody had more luck with this?
Oh, I totally agree that that was ridiculous overreach. The police didn't do themselves any favours whatsoever on that one. It's like some members of the Constabulary have no idea how to judge what is a serious issue and what isn't.
Which countries are you referring to?
Depends on the desktop environment. I use xfce4-genmon-plugin, close enough?
> Also, functions could coerce to either of the closure types

Huh, I recall this not working. Perhaps I made a mistake then.

> closures were pointers into the stack

Ah, the type erasure was through &mut. TIL; I always thought it was Box only.
There was a good discussion on this as part of the LinkedIn stock price 40% drop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042278#up_11042899 Many of the comments for the article discussed LinkedIn's dark patterns.
If we both feel you'll be happy with the results after 60 minutes of work, yes.

You might want to think about reducing the scope, like take out the soundcloud, and support only text messages initially.
Well, you don't get leverage by not releasing data for no reason...

However, if you're in possession of 20k FBI agents' private information, you could probably contact Palestinian politicians, and they could use it in negotiations. It's valuable information to governments at war.
Foregone conclusions – the Kruskal count
Crytek is likely one of few companies that is nearly impossible to buy as it's privately owned family business. Almost like Valve that isn't most expensive company exist, but unlikely going to be sold ever.
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"Once again: the worst that an insurance salesperson can do is sell you bad insurance. They're not actually involved in medical procedures, so any harm they can do is financial."

Sorry, there are very clear knock-on health effects here you're sweeping under the rug. Eg, if you're expecting to be covered for an urgent emergency life-saving procedure. Maybe you personally have sufficient cash on hand to pay for any required emergency surgery, that doesn't mean it's just a 'financial' problem to everybody else.

Do you really think it's appropriate to have someone be denied a medical procedure, and hope they survive so they can go through a legal challenge afterwards for 'fraud', and hope they can successfully provide proof of fraud over incompetence based on some phone conversation several years ago?

Instead of the much simpler solution of requiring some minimum license for the insurance seller?

I'm not sure about your online purchase example. Are you 100% sure these are the same insurance products requiring licenses as mentioned in the article, that no human sanity checks the product during the purchase process, or that the online algorithm itself didn't go through a sufficient license-compliant certification process?
I feel like I've missed some vital perspective... why is there obviously a bubble? (I'm assuming "obv" means "obviously" in your comment)
That reminds me of a statement that the CEO of the multinational I used to work for made in 2008, he said:

"Management best practice is to 'cut fast and deep' at the start of a recession"

"We're really surprised how quickly demand has dropped"

I wasn't daft enough to point out to the CxO who passed this message along to us that if everyone is doing the first of these then surely the second shouldn't come as a surprise?

[NB this wasn't a criticism of the CEO implementing a 'cut deep and cut fast' policy - he was exceptionally good at his job, just surprise that given he was so obviously extremely bright that he didn't make the obvious inference.]
I should also point out, there are probably dozens of parties who are interested in that FBI information, not just Palestinians. He could have sold to the highest bidder but chose not to.
To me, Sublime Text was never made to last long. First of all, its not open source. Are Emacs and Vim closed source? No. Why are they still around? Because in addition to being great (Sublime Text is great too don't get me wrong), they are open source. That means people can adapt them to new computers, to new architectures.
The new guy publicly throwing the old guy under the bus is actually a a step in a recommended strategy for turning a company around. See this blog post from Marc Andreessen's archive: http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_big_companies_part1.html
I spent some months in Australia and got a completely different idea: multiculturalism is completely an illusion. It's a "timebomb" slowed down by abundance of resources: while everybody is getting more then they need, everything is ok.

Edit: For half a decade I was an expat in a monocultural country. Being open-minded (giving in more often than demanding) and member of a too small community to be considered a threat I could enjoy peace to a greater extent than everywhere else before - even as a member of the majority group in my own country. Probably that's why I'm very bearish regarding multiculturalism.
In Tokyo it's more like 1300+, but anyway there's a wide range of meal prices in Japan. You can eat for cheap but you can also pay a lot more if you want to go higher end.
I think you are an edge case, most people don't switch between 5 different editors, especially when emacs will do all you need ;)
Just to answer the clojure question, my take on it is that the popularity of the project in general means that the rate of new contributors is greater than the rate of those leaving even when you allow for rejections. That's a fairly enviable position to be in, and your average open source project can't rely on being the next clojure.
Is there a more readable version of this anywhere? The content is incredibly narrow on my screen.
Fantastic! We had been considering using lambda, but were worried that doing so would irreversibly lock us into AWS. Being able to develop for lambda using standard web frameworks (django already being our favorite) goes a long way in increasing our willingness to use it.
It would be more easy to do if they stopped promoting single farmer work, and actually made an industry of their agriculture. One person taking care of a small piece of land is ridiculously expensive and that shows in the price of fruits and vegetables here - way more expensive that about anywhere else in the world. (also because the restrict importations severely, thanks to the JA Mafia).