skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gopher really does feel like it would be a match made in heaven for Freenet or some kind of Bittorrent FS.
From a feature standpoint, what does this provide that Google Hangouts (with publishing to Youtube) doesn't?
More specifically, the cashtag "$PATH" leads to a search results page with any mention of the term "$PATH" (which is useful for searching for finding tweets with stock symbols).

This search results page also shows any highly relevant users, which is why @Path shows up. Searching for $MSFT will show the account for @microsoft, for example.
That might have been my bad :-) I'm still paying Digital Ocean $5/mo for its hosting AND REGRET NOTHING. Alon was a really great sport for letting me put it up. We even put an Easter egg up where anyone who read the open invitation on the gopher site would be treated to free drinks at a post Reddit AMA party. Sadly, we had few takers. Oh well, we and some nerdy friends poured a few out.

I really hope Alon will run again at some point so I can jump back into action.
Ah. Then they probably already have someone like me in their organization.
Yes, I loved this quote:

I even allowed myself to ponder the possibility
that all of them were absent
Can Kids Learn More When They Exercise During Lessons?
private (self) censorship is a critical and fundamental part of a state where where censorship becomes the norm.
firefox's "reader view" does a decent job of eliminating the crap.
Quite honestly I couldn't have handled it at all and would have had to quit within a few months.
https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases.atom + feedly/slack
You will be fine. People are much more collaborative and supportive in real life than they are on online forums.
Of course. If I (young, white male) was asked the same thing, I couldn't call up this argument.
So I went poking around, and the first result that came up for Chrome was Quick Javascript Switcher [0]. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like Opera, because it only lets you add site-tweaks that deviate from the global JS on/off setting. To change the global setting you need to keep navigating to advanced-settings dialogs.

Digging into its JS source-code, the extension calls a browser-API chromeContentSettings.javascript [1]. Now, it sounds like at one point in the past that setting was asynchronous, meaning that disabling JS before visiting a suspect page wasn't guaranteed to work anyway [2], but no recent bug-reports or docs mention it, so maybe Chrome fixed that.

Still not sure whether there's an exploitable race-condition between when the page URL is available versus when the plugin disables JS, I'm not familiar enough with the relevant events/callbacks.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s...
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/contentSettings
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Blocking-jav...
Not really, but dApps aren't supposed to have huge source codes. Much more important is having efficient and correct code, because each instruction your contract runs has a cost. If that really annoys you, there are other languages that can be used to build dApps, and more certainly to come.
Why must it be relicensed . Why not let it just be . Can the Linux people stop trying to tell everyone that everything needs to be gpl'ed or gpl compatible. It's like a 3 year old wining about how they can't get a second cookie .
It's because even a shitty protocol can result in a qualitatively great experience. Whether that's because of, or in spite of, the protocol is open to discussion.
> You're complaining about "inclusiveness"

Where?

> No. Fuck you, and fuck off.

That's exactly the kind of immature behavior which is not welcome in the community. Please stay in the Haskell land.
Steve Blank discusses startup founder career choices
How to get a YouTube channel as a podcast
US Lodges WTO Challenge Over India Renewable Energy Incentives
Show HN: Chrome Extension for browsing modules by just clicking on GitHub code
Awesome set of Convnet benchmarks
I don't think you appreciate the complexities of copyright law as codified in the Berne convention, etc.

(I hate it too, but that's no excuse to just ignore it.)

EDIT: Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you. Apologies.
I have never seen them. Do they actually exist?

Most of the time, there is := (set something), += (add something) and ++= (add multiple things). I think that's pretty straight-forward.
It's important to note that a malicious organization could always backdate revisions, and force push over the github repository.
C# has both. "var" for type inference, "dynamic" for dynamic typing.
so? until prosecutors prosecute prosecutors who at some point did not halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation, then america's justice system remains corrupt, and thus leaves americans with NO justice.

buy guns, you pussies.
I am curious why you feel it should be voluntarily?

If we are doing our part by providing resources and money for shelter/food/rehab, shouldn't they be doing their part to get & stay clean?

We need to be accountable in providing shelter, food, rehab. They need to be accountable for staying clean.

Otherwise, I fear it will not work. It should be a 2 way street.
> I'm surprised by that.

In hindsight, you shouldn't. Shell sorts wildcard expansion lexicographically,
so it needs all the filenames read at the sorting time.
John Gagnon, Sociologist Who Explored Human Sexuality, Dies at 84
I don't quite grok the 4x either... Let's say you have a well established (5yr), steady growing (20 - 30% YoY), low churn (5% annual) SaaS with significant custom engineering in the back-end (hard to replicate) currently at $1.5m of revenue. Two co-founders earning $140k each, and $250k EBITDA...

I'm not sure you can add back the full $280k to get $530k SDE, but even still why would you sell something like that for $2m? P/E of 8? 1x forward revenue? Is that really the benchmark?
All it takes is a single person having it cloned, who can call them out because the hash values would have changed. This isn't really a realistic threat.
It seems all the attention today brought the account to a close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfavorable_semicircle
The author has a beef with the ES5-compatible code that Babel emits for async/await, but you don't have to go that far.

If you can get away with ignoring IE and Safari, the latest versions of Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all have native support for promises and generators, which can implement async/await style concurrency much more tersely: https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-async-to-generator...

There's also Kneden (https://github.com/marten-de-vries/kneden) which, combined with a Promise polyfill, should transpile async/await into relatively clean chains of promises.
And IRC came back as Slack.

It seems like we are going through a period where everything that used to be its own protocol is now recreated using HTTP and JSON.

Hell, it may well be that the web browser has become the new X server.
Time and time again we’re forced to label new technology as “Creepy”?
Reddit/HN are the same interface but with relevant content and community interaction.
> ...why hasn't this been accounted for in a new version of GPL?

According to the article, it has been addressed in GPLv3.
Relatedly, there's a Code of Merit that has vaguely similar aims: <http://code-of-merit.org>.

I don't expect it's everyone's cup of tea (I'm not even sure I'd use it unedited, if at all), but there's work being done in this space that isn't a variant of, say, the Contributor Covenant.
Not with matching SHAs though, so someone dedicated to tracking changes would know.
I was under the impression that the issue was on the infrastructure side not with the devices themselves. If that's the case, I'm not sure how this replaces the drones that Facebook was planning to use and deliver internet.
Yep :).

I think it was actually my laptop at the time.. it's having issues loading random things these days (holy crap do I need to just wipe the dang thing), so it might have been that!
Sure. This is actually a pretty standard summary of the shift away from structuralist social theories.

Social structures tend to be pretty stable: the same people and forces stay in power for a while. How should we think about that stability?

One way is to imagine that society is like a building: a solid structure that preserves those people and forces in power. It's stable because it's rigid, and time doesn't affect it much.

But there's a second option. Think of a standing wave in a river, like the kind that whitewater kayakers like to surf on: it's not rigid at all, but it's still "stable," welling up continually at the same spot.

So is our society structured like a building, or like a standing wave?

If we go with the standing wave idea, that brings up a lot of new questions. We start wondering about dynamics, flow and motion. We also start wondering about the river bottom: is there a big rock under there causing the wave, or does it just happen to emerge from the otherwise random arrangement of smaller rocks?
It's creepy because we value our privacy, and companies value eroding it to sell us more advertisements.
Meta search engine for Tours? What do you think?
Hello guys,

I am currently working for a startup company in South East Asia that is developing a search engine for Tours (vacation tours). Initially, it seemed like a very cool idea but then I started to wonder why no company has ever done this (or maybe companies HAVE done this but failed and we don't know about). I'm interested in what you guys think of this business idea. Your feedback would be very helpful. So the company started this idea based on the premise that:

1. The Tour industry, while only accounts for roughly 10% of the entire tourism industry in SEA, lacks a search engine that allows customers to filter available tours based on their specific needs and wants such as: price, locations, itinerary, conveniences, etc...

2. There are many tour providers both foreign and local that cater to customers' specific needs and demands but the shear number of tour providers along with the enormous amount of tour options can overwhelm customers.

-> Opportunity to build a platform that allows customers to search for Tours just as they would when search for hotels or flights on websites such as Booking.com, Trivago, etc...

-> Idea: A search engine that crawls tour data from the Internet in a specific region -> Categorize this data to provide customers an overview of that tour available are like based on 16 different tour characteristics (number of days, transportation mode, activities,...) -> Redirect customers to Tour providers websites -> Collect commission based on prior agreements with tour providers

Personally, I think it's a pretty solid concept because there are numbers to back it up but somehow I still can't shake off the feeling that there is something inherently flawed about this idea. But idk what? Maybe you guys can help me.

Thank you
They said that, then they Released the Pi Zero.

That statement was in Feb 2015 after the pi2... the PiZero was Release Nov 2015....
Why even work part-time? You're not getting paid. Tell them you need more equity and that your co-founder needs to focus on the business instead of on his personal image. When they say no, just leave completely (no part-time work unless you're actually paid for it) and go back to school. If they want you to build their company for them—and it is their company if you only have 10%—they need to compensate you properly.
Yep. Probably more than one, but a quick google search yielded: http://apcto.org/
I think coupling and cohesion stand out as fundamental software design principles. (I wouldn't say it's "interfaces" as I can imagine interfaces with tight coupling or low cohesion.)
I don't think HN has downvotes...
RIP...he died same age as Marvin Minsky who died a month ago.
The FCC's OET website is down at the moment, I'm guessing probably because of HN traffic. You can find the document cached here though:

https://fccid.io/2ABCB-RPI32
You are missing my point.

Their methodology matters little when their findings are consistent with a lot of other sources that use different methodologies.

All these sites agree on the general brackets that these languages belong to. Until this stops being true, I'll keep accepting TIOBE as a reasonable indicator of language popularity (along with a bunch of other sources).
All of my employer's legal documents are available on GitHub as well under the same license: https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic

We also keep a changelog on our site as an alternative: https://wordpress.com/tos-change-log/
I read a book a long time ago about AT&T Bell Labs. I think it may have been "Three Degrees Above Zero", but I am not sure now.

Something that impressed me a great deal at that time was the testing that AT&T used to do with utility poles, to ensure that it withstands the vagaries of nature and time in all types of climatic zones.
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Well what about experience? People do unpaid internships all the time and I don't have a degree and I would need to transfer first.

The equity stake is The founder 30%, me @ 10%, other co-worker that's full time @ 2.5% but getting paid and then another guy at 4%, and then our <staff> who do the work work related to the business itself, and then the rest is set aside for other employees and investors(a lot for investors).

You still agree with this assessment?

He did work on the company full time by himself and some other guy for half a year/year with 1 or 2 contracts without me, but he has no technical skills so he was just getting contracts himself.

Just so you know I am definitely listening to exactly how you are wording it and will be making a decision based on these words.
> He called that “problem number one” in the disconnect between academia and the working world.

No. The problem number one is the disconnect between what the working world
wants and what academia was deisgned for, what was suited for, and what
should be doing, all at once. Academia should not produce
manufacture-skilled workers. Manufactures (now called "the industry") should
teach the students how to work, as they have the skills, the environment, and
the projects that show how one should work in the industry.

Academia uses half-a-year semesters, which is too short to see any of the
long-term effects the IT industry experiences. On the other hand, the
semesters are totally adequate to teach plenty of fields today's graduates
haven't ever seen, but which would broaden the graduates' minds.

If IT companies want to see any skilled workers, they should invest in
training them themselves.
To be fair, only Consensys and R3CEV are "developing on ethereum"... Microsoft and Red Hat are merely offering machine images with ethereum software pre-installed for their users, as they do for many other software tools- Though I'm happy to be corrected, if you can point me to a Microsoft and/or Redhat-authored smart contract.

The news for ethereum is positive enough right now, no need to exaggerate the facts.
Would somebody explain why this is being done?
Take a look at the showcased apps on the React Native website: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
How did the IBM Blue Gene/L system mentioned in the article have bit flips from greater than normal radioactive solder go diagnosed for weeks without immediately being detected through faults reported by hardware?
That's really more of an issue if you are serving them directly via GitHub, or linking to GitHub. Presumably they have a local repo, so if someone did something nefarious with the revision history, it would be easy to detect, but having it online with revision history does make it more transparent.

Really, what we have here is the draft documents from which they publish their policies and guidelines, just like a public source repo is a draft repo from which production is deployed (hopefully).
I think one key to understanding his work is to understand how he helped make computers more accessible.

Among many things, he believed that "a computer should be just another piece of lab equipment." That they should be a basic tool.

Clark designed "small" computers, and it is no coincidence that the Linc was later marketed by Digital Equipment, a company all about the minicomputer that greatly increased computing accessibility. This company and the open academic culture that Clark was a huge part of led to greater accessibility software too. Would we have the world of Unix without the PDP series and the culture around it? Probably not!

Clark's role in computers was to be among the leaders of a sort of rebellion against monolithic and expensive computing, and his work led us the world of personal computing and open source software.
Core problem is that creators of value want to be paid for it. The delivery medium doesn't change that.
You mean a pharmacist? I'm pretty sure most folks like having a pharmacist close by....
Coincidentally, I had heard about that just today as well. I understand the site you're reading has to be "compatible" in some way. I guess that just means that the content has to be "easy" to identify and extract programmatically? Do you often encounter sites where Reader doesn't work?
Yes, it looks indeed like those cases. Thanks.
It's a Glass Bead Game. [1] One of my favorites.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
48% of working-age adults in Buffalo are NOT working?

Holy shit, how is this possible? What are they living on and who is supporting them?
Go is not a protocol. Go is a language.
Bear in mind that many of those who are interested in ZFS are interested in it specifically because they care a lot about not losing data.

With that in mind, let's see what the btrfs wiki has to say about the stability of btrfs:

"Is btrfs stable? Short answer: Maybe."

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_btrfs_stable....

Maybe it's just me, but I'm more than a little concerned by the fact that btrfs has been in development for over 8 years and still doesn't seem to be considered safe to use for storing anything I really care about.
We've been doing that, and every time we push it auto-pulls from GitHub. Works like a charm, and feels way more transparent.

http://readme.io/tos/
I wouldn't be surprised if he was blackmailed by the NSA. It's not like that's never happened before in the US.
Well, the idea is you'd go through the process of being accepted by a school before talking to your co-founder. Then, with an alternative option in hand, you can actually have a negotiation.
No, I don't. I'm sure many others creators feel the same.
Or one could simply use FreeBSD because even if ZFS was relicensed the integration of ZFS throughout the Linux ecosystem is nowhere near FreeBSD's.
> Oh and might I mention the race detector? Fucking incredible, C never dreamed of something like that.

go race is pretty much a port of Thread Sanitizer, which was a C tool. Before that, there was Helgrind, also a C tool. All of these tools have a long list of forerunners in academia, largely for Java (Eraser, FastTrack, etc.)
I read it and didn't find it to be too long, but the sections on copyright and patent seemed out of place. It was a pleasant read and brings up important concepts for consideration.

Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tg1ONG18H8
> Unfortunately, today’s programming models and languages don’t offer any mechanism for such dynamic recovery from faults.

Sounds like somebody needs to learn about Erlang.

> In June 2012, members of an international forum composed of vendors, academics, and researchers from the United States, Europe, and Asia met and discussed adding resilience to message-passing interface, or MPI, the programming model used in nearly all supercomputing code. Those present at that meeting voted that the next version of MPI would have no resilience capabilities added to it. So for the foreseeable future, programming models will continue to offer no methods for notification or recovery from faults.

Well, no.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040918131755/http://www.sics.se...
And here i was just about to order a 2...
Ask HN: Should I offer a security bug bounty for my SAAS app?
I'm concerned about security.

Would it help to make it more secure if I offered say a $1,000 security bug bounty?

Is there a "wrong way" and a "right way" to offer security bug bounties? Are there pitfalls to be avoided?
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185401
None of them. The SD card connects directly to the CPU.
Only ~45% of American adults work 30+ hours per week.

Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/166775/payroll-population-rate-fa...
Yes, I do believe that when a law is broken by a law enforcement agency there should be appropriate penalty. In certain cases that should mean extra oversight and or criminal prosecution of directors.

I don't have the right answer on oversight and enforcement but I would love for agencies of the executive branch to act within the confines of the law and stop acting like breaking into our lives is just part of protecting us.
Oh, it's on top (which they totally said). I'm not a smart man.
But freebsd with zfs isn't BSD licensed. In many ways it's under a much more restrictive license than Linux.
> why hasn't Torwalds spawned a Linux license he's fully on board with?

Changing a licence in an open source project can be difficult. Unless you've specifically had all contributors sign away their ownership of their contribution, then you can't change the licence without their permission, as they've only given permission for their contribution to be used under the current licence.
When you have 1000s of contributors, the problem swiftly becomes impractical to solve.

I'm not aware of whether the linux kernel asks contributors to give up their rights in such a way, or otherwise has some provision for changing the licence terms.
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I work with a guy who has cddl'd his project . He likes the license ; I don't nag him to change it to an isc license . He has his reasons for the cddl, I might not agree with all of it but I am great full he open sourced it . If sun /oracle didn't open source zfs or dtrace we would be all be using Solaris and paying to use it . So if FreeBSD , NetBSD , illumos have a properly compatable licenses for zfs . Embrace that ; if you don't want to, check out dragonflybsd and hammerfs, look at btree on Linux , check out openbfs on haiku .
I can't stress this enough Canonical is a shitty company who needs to make waves to stay relevant . I don't know why anyone uses their crap . Wait I remember they are a commercial company with a marketing department who gets paid to polish that turd . What was so bad about Debian ? If you don't like Debian Why not give a a bsd a try . Hell why not just try Smart os and a lx-branded zone . You get zfs , dtrace , and all of the ful of full Linux comparability .
You're voting for a leader. Not a checklist.

CA politics seems to have trouble with referendums. I want the President to feel like they have a duty to make unpopular decisions sometimes.
> Core problem is that

[some]

> creators of value want to be paid for it.

The WWW has been a proof of concept of how much people will do _without_ direct monetary compensation. If you're thinking who's going to build Kayak on a glorified Gopher though, maybe you should start by asking where audiences will go when they find something that provides a better experience than Chrome.