skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# is one of the most commonly used programming languages, I'm not sure where you're getting this "too little, too late" narrative from.
"It's not like you had a _choice_ if there's software you want to use and it's only available as GPL."

Sure you do. Write it yourself.
> Not to sound arrogant. However I think Go (golang) is still in the hype wagon / cargo cult phase.

Well, you came off sounding kind of arrogant. I'm not sure what this has to do with the discussion. There are many valid uses of java that can be done in go, regardless of its popularity. There are many valid uses of java that can not be replicated in go, regardless of its popularity. You can swap out that criticism with pretty much any language built in or after the 90s and it's still just as valid.

I mean, feel free to critique—it could very well be at its peak popularity and cannot take ANY MORE java marketshare—but this still requires argument.
I wonder if the implication was that the candidate from Texas was the interested party instead of HRC.

I know she is a "leading candidate" and no party affiliation was mentioned but the hacker has in the past supported right-wing candidates and Ted Cruz is also closer to being the annointed one than he was a month ago. It might not be a coincidence that dirty tricks reminiscent of past elections are just starting.

It certainly appears that he is already on someone's payroll. Trump? Maybe, though it would be denied of course. Maybe this is Trump's answer to Cruz's manager.

It appears though that Cruz already has a slimer helping him according to a story I read a few weeks ago.

Maybe it is HRC and she's just trying to gear up for the mud-fest that will surely start once the real campaign kicks off.

[Behind Ted Cruz's Campaign Manager, Scorched Earth and Election Victories - NYTimes](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-campa...)
It would surprise me a lot less if Google did.
I use my wallet card all the time, its is kinda annoying.
UPDATE - Looks like they updated the article to include images of her work. (I'd edit my original comment, but the edit link is gone)
That's again a lot of information showing why Objective-C is not the most efficient language possible for all use cases, but it still does not provide any evidence why JavaScript would be faster. I'm not disputing the individual points you made, but in the context of comparing overall performance of Objective-C vs. JavaScript it doesn't say much at all. It mostly shows Objective-C will always be slower than straight C/C++, nothing about JavaScript performance. I appreciate the thorough reply though.

One thing I do want to make a last comment about is your dismissal of using C/C++ inside Objective-C programs as some kind of bait-and-switch argument. Using C/C++ for performance critical sections is IMO not the same as calling out to native code from something like JavaScript, or writing asm.js or whatever other crutch you could use to escape the performance limitations of a language. As a superset of C, mixing C/C++ with Objective-C is so ingrained in the language you have to consider it a language feature, not a 'breakout feature'. Nobody who cares about performance writes tight loops using NSValue or NSArray, or dispatches millions of messages from code on the critical path of the applications performance (which usually covers less than 10% of your codebase). As an example, I'm currently writing particle systems in Objective-C, but it wouldn't even cross my mind to use anything but straight-C arrays and for loops that operate directly on the data to store and manipulate particles. This is nothing like 'escaping from Objective-C', as all of this is still architecturally embedded transparently inside the rest of the Objective-C code, just using different data types (float * instead of NSArray) and calling conventions (direct data access instead of encapsulation). It's more like using hand-tuned data structures vs STL in C++, than like calling native code or writing ASM.js from Javascript.
No open <head> and no close </body> ... I don't trust this guy.
When you look at stateless Microservices vs azure functions which you run all the time in app service, they both appear to overlap. My question was more focused here
Don't mean to be contrary here, but why do all of these "back to nature food" things seem, upon closer inspection, to factor down being a way for rich people to once again give mother earth another good poke in the eye with a sharp, plastic, non-degradable stick?

How is this not just Keurig-ing the process of tossing veggies from the local into your blender into a cross-country, plastic-generating, fuel-burning waste-a-thon to prove how very extra-special and enlightened you are? C'mon. Chi? Life force? In a disposable plastic pouch dropped off by Fed-Ex? Dawkins would have a field day.

Sorry for the rant.
Why not? Chrome released the RLZ library code...
Might have been a probe left in Mars orbit. Phobos, Deimos, and Whistle has a nice ring to it.

(On the the gripping hand, I believe 'Crunch' is a trademarked candy name.)
Completely wrong when it comes to adopting new technologies unless you are a real youngster.

My debit/credit card pairing hasn't been cancelled or changed in the 10 years I have had it unless I have specifically engineered that change.

The reality is that you just shouldn't trust google for anything that appears long term, and consider them as a casual partner, not a long term relationship.
My oldest son grew up fixing computers and programming them, but he wasn't so good at structured education.

By the time he was 20, he was out of school and working fast food. Programming on various projects in his free time. Making minimum wage.

I begged him to start looking for programming work, but he always told me that he wasn't qualified. How could he compete in the job market with all those professional coders?

Finally he tried. Of course, he got a job -- at a startup. He ended up being the go-to guy for both coding and infrastructure.

He's done a lot of things since then, but I'll always remember him looking at me, rolling his eyes, and telling me that what I was saying was impossible.

Yes, there's a huge role for luck, for having good parents, for being born in the right country, and for networking skills. But this is still an industry where if you love it, you can make terrific money just by being passionate about it.
Its about as trivial as for a web developer to accidentally use a proprietary image they found on the web, a game developer that use the unreal engine, or a marketing using someones music in a commercial.

Its quite common to find commercial copyright infringement in all of those (except for the unreal engine, since I don't know publicized case of that), and there are artists who earn a fair income by contacting infringes and demand payment or a cease and desist. I wouldn't however describe that as being bitten by the rightful author, but put the blame on the developer who is using someone else work without permission, especially if they their own business model is based on copyright.
There could be a small market for that product after all. Think there are a lot of people in SoCal that would pay insane amounts for trendy products like this.
Might be really hard due to closed source / licensed components and google infrastructure dependant architecture.
My mental image of Harper writing his blog posts looks pretty much like John Lithgow in "Buckaroo Banzai". Which is unfair, but geez, just read them.
I'll vouche for Simple. Their app and Goals feature are great, but the thing I love is the real time purchase notifications. It's kind of amazing to me that no bank (that I have used yet) have apps with this functionality. It's incredibly comforting to get a notification everytime I buy something. It also helped me identify falsified purchases the moment they happened, which enabled me to put a hold on my card and file a report of the incident within minutes (and all through the phone app!).

I really hate gushing about products and services on public forums, but Simple deserves it.
OracleJDK is just OpenJDK plus a few propriety bits like Web Start and Web Plugins, (and I think Java Flight Recorder). OpenJDK is the reference implementation since Java 7.
Source: http://openjdk.java.net/faq/

>Is Oracle JDK based on OpenJDK?

>Yes. Oracle JDK is based on the OpenJDK source code. In addition, it contains closed-source components. The final result is licensed under a Binary Code License.
this looks like an implementation of this: https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/tree/master/HARDWARE/RT5...

olimex sells those itself: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/RT5350F/RT5350F-OL...
Google keep just got its iOS client this past fall. As far as I can tell, they keep adding small improvements to it.

The nice thing with most Google apps is that you can get your data out easily with Takeout: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2015/08/export-all-your-goo...
Not on the N=1 times I've run the script, but will look out for this in the future.
How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
Guys. You see that these are just two examples of "victimless" crimes, right? There are a lot more, especially if the government doesn't count as a victim. What about receipt of stolen property? Treason? Espionage? Bribery? Failure to pay a bunch of parking tickets? Trespassing on government land?
Anyone tried it yet?
Yes but I was talking about their prototypes (no solder resist or silkscreen legend) which are a lot more affordable, and quicker. (seems ca. £37 for 100m2)
I also suggested that in the meantime the author of the article can provide a SHA256 checksum, so you can see if you get a different key than he does.
The fact that this thing has raised $100 Million in funding is why I can't take anyone seriously when they talk about VCs, especially when they talk about them making decisions.
I feel like at this point there should just be a form letter for Google retiring services.

Dear users,

[ ]MAJOR
[ ] MINOR

Google service which you

[ ] DEPENDED ON TO DO YOUR JOB
[ ] BUILT MAJOR PARTS OF YOUR WORKFLOW ON
[ ] LIKED A LOT
[ ] HAD BEEN MEANING TO TRY OUT, DAMMIT
[ ] HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF

will be discontinued

[ ] LITERALLY TOMORROW
[ ] IN SIX MONTHS, AND YOU CAN EXPORT YOUR DATA BUT IT'S IN SOME COMBINATION JSON+XML FORMAT WHICH THE DEVELOPERS THINK IS TOTALLY HIP BUT PROBABLY YOU SHOULD JUST WAIT FOR SOMEONE HIPPER THAN YOU TO WRITE A LIBRARY TO PARSE IT
[ ] AND AUTO-MIGRATED TO A SERVICE YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO USE

Thanks for your support. Please try out

NEW PRODUCT THAT WE ARE INTRODUCING TOMORROW AND SUNSETTING

[ ] WHO KNOWS HAHAHAHA

See you at http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ !

Love, Google.
You can eat the fruits and vegetables whole, juice and all, and you don't need the machine and its plastic pouches. I don't get it. Why throw away all the fiber?
But myerbergs_army's stated rationale was not that Le Roux is fair game for doxxing because he's so bad, it was that he was fair game because his activities are newsworthy.
Tesla to reveal the new Model 3 tonight 8:30PM Pacific
When clouds roll in, people are not OK with their TVs turning off. So you'd always need the traditional grid in place, even if it's for a few days a year.

In that case, the utilities would charge a standby fee for keeping their multi-billion dollar infrastructure in place (it's called a "demand charge" in the utility industry). Then, when you use the electrons during the cloudy period, you'd pay an astronomical "consumption charge", beyond $100/KWh because everyone in the city wants/needs those electrons. The utility share-holders would be fine.

But the people of Hawaii would have the cost of the solar installation PLUS the cost of the traditional grid. The calculation in the article misses this point and only shows the $/KWh consumption costs on the utility side.

So, yes, a huge amount of solar can figuratively blow up the electrical grid.
I use my Chase debit card with Android Pay almost every day. It really doesn't matter which bank you have, as long as your debit card is supported, and I don't know of any major cards that aren't.
I was interested to see that too. Especially how it was tightly clustered with C. Maybe there are a lot of projects of C modules with a Python wrapper bringing them all together?
I get real time notification from my Amex card and my Capital One visa.
You get veggies from the pub?
the underlying goal of industry and commerce doesn't change, advertising buzzwords run in cycles.
Well technically you could inline the Javascript+CSS stuff and you would get a single HTML file ;) No need to write anything, it already exists.

Anyway I didn't mean to discourage you from working on your project.

I just would like to use a decent terminal recording solution to showcase some of my own projects (e.g. abduco+dvtm, vis[1]). Ideally it would support:

* copy pasting from the screen cast

* pausing / adjusting playback speed

* simple self hosting mechanism

* conversion to gif as preview for inclusion in Markdown files or for environments where Javascript is disabled

* overlay to show pressed keys

AFAIK all but the last point is possible with asciinema. In the past I've used mkcast[2] which uses a fork of screenkey and is a pain to use. Apparently its developer now recommends xscast.

Anyway it is a mess to use and as a result the featured screen casts for my projects are rarely updated and by now completely out of date.

[1] https://github.com/martanne/vis

[2] https://github.com/KeyboardFire/mkcast
Too bad I am already neck deep in react-native.
Are the cores not the same as the Skylake Xeon cores that was released back in Fall?

(are E3 cores different from E5 cores?)
Card Guard from America First Credit Union also has realtime notifications. It helped me catch a double charge from a merchant that came through days later.
All of these example are an easy insta-kill for me, especially if the placeholders like "problem" are filled generically. What bothers me more are personalized mails like this one:

Hi <my first name>,

Just curious what your impression of <product> is so far. Are there any technical issues you've come across which could be blocking you? Do you/your team have a particular project in mind, or are you just trying to keep up with the latest in <our technology>?

-<sender first name>

I have to think twice, if this is really auto/mass mail.
This probably converts much better than the article's lines, but is also a different case.
Chase gives me this for my Visa card (I can set an 'alert' level). I buy nearly everything with that card (and use it to pay most of my other bills as well).
NYTimes has evolved quite a bit since Paul Graham failed to crack them in http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Living cells ‘hacked’ and hijacked by MIT
FS-UAE 2.7.9dev Released
Azure microservice platform Service Fabric is GA Available all clouds and on-prem
I think there's one or more build systems written in Python, in addition to stuff like Anaconda. A lot of scientists use Python for their work, which (to my mind) falls between web dev and systems programming, but the paper is not that granular.

Python gives Perl and bash a run for the money when it comes to systems scripting, if you're willing to catagorize "systems scripting" as systems programming.
Automatic calorie intake measurement
You lose a lot more than just fiber in the juicing process: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/juicing-removes-more-than-ju...
If a million (1% -- America's wealthiest adults, throw away $700 (plus subscription!) into this latest fad, that's $700M revenue)
>> Don't mean to be contrary here

>> How is this not just Keurig-ing the process of tossing veggies from the local into your blender

Not contrarian at all. From TFA:

"Finally, there are the environmental questions about the single-serve model pioneered by coffee companies such as Keurig and Nespresso, which creates a throwaway container with each serving. Every glass of Juicero juice needs its own pack, which gets shipped from Los Angeles to the customer, although Mr. Evans said he was developing a compostable pack."
[DigitalOcean] Credit Expiration Update
Original e-mail: http://pastebin.com/enmCYWbH

I spent a lot of time getting referral credits on DigitalOcean. I was saving the credits for a long time and just a couple of months ago I started using droplets. And now they are going to expire.

I feel cheated. I never asked to get stuff for free, and I didn't. I got them a few paid customers and even recommended the service for my employer who host quite a few things there.

Am I being immature? I feel like they got what they needed from me. I'll be moving my stuff if this really happens. Not by choice but because after taxes and monetary conversion I would be paying about 4 times that if I host in my country. I choosed DO because if I start getting more traffic I would be able to trust that my servers would work. Hosting in my country is really bad (no infrastructure). So yes I wasn't trying to abuse the credits and move away. It was a business decision. A badly one.
Not being an electrical engineer, I wonder how hard it would be to build a company that provides battery-based (or some other technology) storage of power during off peak hours (buy it from the grid at off-peak power rates) and supply it back in as demand/production balance changes, to even out the demand to the power company?
It's more or less the same core (modulo AVX512), but E5 has a much more complex uncore than E3.
"Under the Ottomans, yes, the muslim were a bit more advantageous, but not less subject to the sultanate than the christian subjects."

Only if you ignore the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians and other minority Christian groups.

Think before you write.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
I agree. I chose C# to build my bootstrapped startup because I could create a prototype in a couple of weeks and respond fast to feature requests, despite C# being uncool in the startup world.
Now we have product market fit and enough revenue to rewrite the software, if needed.
And yet you are misrepresenting what I have claimed about coding tests. I have never once claimed it as useful for determining who would be GOOD at a job. I have claimed they are useful for filtering out applicants who are completely unable to do a job. This is an incredibly useful thing to do when swamped with dozens of similar applications for, say, a junior developer role. But again, this is just a first step. By no means should this test determine who gets hired, it merely helps narrow down the interview pool to something more manageable.

Is there a risk of falsely filtering good applicants? Yes. But that is the exception, not the rule.

Sigh. Why do I keep letting myself get sucked back into this? You see it as an illegitimate tool. I see it as legitimate. We disagree. I'm not going to agree with you, and you're not going to agree with me. So I'm done here. If you'd like to keep arguing by yourself, you go right ahead.
You don't? Beer's the ultimate veggie!
Announcing SweetJS 1.0 [hygienic macros for JavaScript]
In fact, that's what I did for my SMTP. :) Though sadly, System.Net.Mail has no code for :receiving: mail, which is annoying. Also, System.Net.Mail doesn't work with Outlook.com, though it does work with Gmail (weird, right?).
Fantastic news, thanks Nat.
I have been happy with https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh. I am trying to get it packaged for Debian/Ubuntu and either get it into Debian-proper or at least host the repo myself to make it easier to use for the common case. Since nginx reloads the cert on a SIGHUP it makes it really easy to have zero downtime renews.

As for getting notified if something goes wrong I use the following in my crontab:

10 5 * * * root test -e /usr/local/bin/letsencrypt.sh && /usr/local/bin/letsencrypt.sh -c > /dev/null

letsencrypt.sh outputs errors to stderr, so any errors will be sent to the root account. To get that working, do:

apt-get install postfix
echo 'postmaster: root' > /etc/aliases
echo 'root: igor@example.com' >> /etc/aliases
newaliases

Problem solved.
No expensive cars are dead money.
That's exactly what it is, K-Cups of juice, and it's genius. People love throwing things away instead of cleaning.

And like K-Cups, Juicero has already created a system to lock out generic veggie bags past their patent with the barcode scan to check freshness.

The $700 might be worth it if you were able to use your own reusable veggie squash bag, in addition to their premixes. But, it seems like the smart machines themselves might be sold at-cost if they've built out a distribution network for expensive pouches.
Exactly. This is the epitome of waste.

Fuck these terrible 1%-er vegans and the horse they walked gently over here with.
Playing with compiler flags for size and perf
There is no backing credit card with Google Wallet Card. The card is debit card for the balance in Google Wallet. The Google Wallet balance could be transferred from bank accounts or debit card, or from credit cards with fee.

The confusion is that Google Wallet app did both the Wallet transfers and NFC payments. Before Android Pay, the NFC payments used virtual credit cards.

The send money functionality for Google Wallet still exists. It is now the only purpose of the separate Wallet app.
"A Google ranking engineer" is really understating it. Paul Haahr is probably one of the most knowledgeable and respected persons within Search.
The Wallet Card was invented for places that don't take Android Pay, to pay in the form of a regular credit/debit card. Unfortunately, this is useless because it is the same level of (in)convenience as a credit card, and doesn't offer the 2-5% cashback that all the other cards I have do.

Even if a store accepted NFC-based Android Pay, I'd probably still opt to pull out my plastic card for the cashback and consumer protection. Google/Apple Pay need to find a way to weave benefits into their systems if they want to win the market.
Unrelated to article, but keep really is awesome. I use the iOS app every day.
Heh apparently this isn't that unique! I had 2 banks prior to simple and none had notifications close to the level that Simple offers. It's great to hear others have it because I wont use a bank that doesn't offer something similar.
Where should we keep our open source code?
I think that some regulation is needed. Drones can posses a big security threat, especially near airports.
Have you done any molecular dynamics benchmarks? If so, what kind/what system? I'd be very interested to see those.

If you haven't, I could probably contribute some strong and weak scaling testcases.
Seems like most of the projects that get the axe have been neglected for a while first. Probably no one is really pouring their heart in to these things enough to be too upset.