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This comment takes two steps away from a good discussion by HN standards. First, you've apparently picked the weakest element of the thing in order to dismiss it. Second, your dismissal is generic. It doesn't teach us anything other than that you think some people are ignorant.

Instead of doing this, please comment on the stronger or more interesting aspects of a thing, and explain your point with real information. Then we all learn something.
Just want to throw in some support for what nebabyte said here. The community can be super kind towards this kind of thing. Also, I'm guessing you already have documentation on usage a plenty that you created via the original site so it wouldn't be unusable.

I know this also might be too soon to think about so do take your time to come to a better place mentally before considering it :). Good luck with whatever the future holds! I sincerely hope things get better for you
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How about buying them a phone, and a $20 gift debit card, and then letting the app store jackals have their way with whatever happens to the rest of the cash, until it's all spent?

Probably a horrible idea, considering all the other complexities of the internet at large, and some of the careful supervision it necessitates.

I mean, consider the sad tale of "Slender Man."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/slender-man-st...
Yep, it's getting reeeaaalllyyy tiresome, and if people actually start programming en masse in Rust, you might soon end up having to maintain and debug programs written in that insane language. And you might even get to be really good at it. No sooner than you master it, someone else is going to come up with something new and shiny, and everybody will just move on to that, leaving you with holding the bag. But of course, that never happens in the computer industry. People never go for new and shiny. That's just... hypothetical.
Total rubbish. Targeted advertising is not the economy.
How to extract data from any website?
How website like trivago, tripadvisor, google flight, and price comparison site can get data?
Suppose two sites that have different html tag for the price. How to extract data from these websites with one script?
You could use a self hosted Piwik instead of Google Analytics http://piwik.org/blog/2014/10/cnil-recommends-piwik-analytic...

However be careful of what information you store about your users. The rule of thumb is not to store what you don't really need, and check the law for how much sensitive is what's left. You might have to notify privacy authorities of what you store, why and how you protect it. Your country of operation makes some difference. If you're in the USA check the new Privacy Shield http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-216_en.htm
I totally agree that maintaining it as open source will take a lot of time and effort.

What platform is Omniref written in? I'm interested in exploring adding it as a feature of our GitLab. But there has to be enough interest and the tooling should match (we use Ruby, Go, and elastic search).

We can pay for the effort required. And the lessons you learned will live on. Although I would totally understand if your priorities are different.
Imagine how much more productive they would be with threading support.

https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/804971838271004672

As an aside, I think it's delightful someone made a Twitter handle named @slackThreadsYet for this.
Regulation. Consider EFF membership.

https://eff.org
Good concept.
Most internal, departamental apps at big companies (made by undercover IT) are nothing more than CRUD.

You could capture part of that market.

Now the bad news.

You need to work a bit more on the site and maybe business model.
I mean, i cannot tell what happens when i have finished the coding.

Do I have to host the app on my server or do you host it for me? In the first case I would get billed recurringly? Some apps are code and forget because even internal apps must get traction somehow.

If you host the app for me I would get no objection for the recurring care because it is completely justified.
1. You need to talk to the department heads at your university and let them know. Schedule a meeting, and when you bring up your (very valid) points, point to the rows of books on their shelf, and show them your now-extinct cards. It will be effective.

2. Give them the benefit of the doubt. They were probably trying to save you money. Others in your class probably preferred this lower-cost approach.

3. Don't just complain here about it. Your University department will never know that there is a problem unless you communicate with them about this. As long as you do it in the right way, they will appreciate the feedback.

Good luck!
this depends on the faculty...a theorist with little experimental costs would spend less time applying for grants.
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Yes, I am under that distinct impression. Most noteworthy political and legal matters amount to precisely that.
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Apple has plenty of its own ethical issues, starting with 350,000 Chinese workers paid $1.90 an hour in dubious conditions.
Back when Google Wave came out I got my lab to use it and they really liked it for awhile. Alas.
This is written in a DragonFlyBSD context, and I don't think there's Wayland for *BSD (I could be wrong).

Also, how does this setup compare with Subgraph OS which uses Xpra?

There are better alternatives:

Containers. Run your browser in a container. There are some excellent videos explaining how this works on YouTube.

VMs. Like Qubes OS. You run your browser in a separate VM as your other applications. This picture explains it rather well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS#/media/File:Qubes_sec...
You are making the assumption that most companies in SF are trying to be profitable. 100k for a junior Rails CRUD developer is a bubble.
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> What we need is updated international and national tax codes that start taking these things into account. Most of the current legislation was designed for a time much simpler and with less access to global markets and manufacturing chains.

it's a fair point.

sometimes i think: who cares if Apple or Google or Exxon are headquartered in Cupertino or Mountain View or Dallas or New Delhi or Bahrain or Shenzhen? what difference does it make? who gives a shit? they don't want to pay taxes and neither do i.
I'm guessing the title was intended to have s/and out/and find out/ ?
As a counter-argument Linear regression to ML is "goto statement" to programming.

Linear regression looks great on paper since you can derive residuals, slopes compare the individual "effects" etc. But thats unnecessary and in some cases wrong when the goal is mere prediction and not explanation. The big difference between ML and statistics is that latter selects a "correct" linear model and then assumes a distribution for "errors" due to pesky reality. The effects are used for explanations (538 Nate Silver style wonk/punditry). Machine Learning on other hand tries to predict as close to observations as possible without imposing a model or caring about an explanation.

The simplest introductory Machine Learning approach should not be linear regression but rather a 1- nearest neighbor model.

E.g. rather than giving data about house prices and square footage. The question should be "How do you predict price of a house in given location?". "What are relavant features?" (location,location, location,school district,number of rooms,sq ft, etc), "How would you collect labels/data". (Zillow, exclued prices older than 2-3 years).

The simplest answer would be that the price is same as that of the neighboring house (closest lat/long) with similar sq foot sold recently.
This can then be implemented as a weighted distance metric and tested using Leave one out cross validation (I know not the best metric). But consider how Nearest Neighbors allows us to incorporate location information in a natural manner. That is very important and cannot incorporated in an elegant manner in a linear regression model.

A big part of ML is applying different set of methods across several domains. Thus for beginners Teaching ML should not be about teaching limear models or gradient descent but rather how do you start thinking from ML perspective.
> it's correct that [almost] nobody ever uses UDP

Skype, Facetime, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Telco VoIP, Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Surveillance Cams, most VPNs.
We've had to warn you before about being uncivil on Hacker News. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13281179 and marked it off-topic.
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Awesome great marketing work, love it.
So, I looked through the readme and at the example code. I didn't dig into the implementation code.

How do you deal with group size limitations? My understanding is that the hardware transactional support makes no forward progress guarantees specifically because it's bound by what it can monitor in the cache. So if the group size is too large, then transactions can keep failing. Hopefully I am not missunderstsnding this. If this is correct it means libraries of this nature have to take a position with regards to group size limits.

So what is your approach?
Maybe she didn't want to share a lot of personal documents with companies that profit by selling her personal information. Obviously there's no reason for them to require a driver's license except to make it so inconvenient to opt-out that nobody does it.
>Open-source projects take a lot of time and effort to do well.

This might sound mean, but I don't intend it that way: you've already "failed" as a business, so there's no reason to hold yourself to a high standard in the open-source department.

You can totally just drop a code blob on Github and let folks fork it and start organizing to maintain it themselves--it's not like you have anything to lose, and somebody might even find it useful some day.

It's weird to me that people have that hangup about releasing code...if people don't like it, they just won't use it.
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This makes me sad, though! - http://caniuse.com/#feat=filesystem
> If you want it enough for yourself and for its own sake, schedule one evening (or weekend afternoon) a week for it - just as you would schedule one evening a week for date night or for volunteer work or for anything else you care enough about. Treat it as similarly inviolable.

I'm kind of annoyed at how simple you just made this sound (and it is) but I somehow overlooked it. I seem to always be putting stuff like that off for some huge block of time that of course never comes.

Thanks for giving me some perspective.
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How does this compare with the Qubes OS approach?
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Would recommend reading for everyone. There's so much more here than getting a phd in physics.

There a few different life lessons here to learn from or to think about.
Time for a funny quote: "Power laws... have been termed 'the signature of human activity'... They are certainly the product of one particular kind of human activity: looking for power laws." http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~babis/T797003/Readings/fabri...
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Well the sample size should probably be mentioned as 22k / # students per class (~700 classes?), since the students results are purported to be correlated. The statistics is meagre as well. Regressing percentages, counts and dollars all non-normalised is bad form at the least.

That said, I like the study. True random design takes guts and effort and gives data to be useful for years. We're still discussing RAND... On an important subject as well.

Lot more to be found [1].

Thing that wonders me how state vs national differences are corrected for. On the one hand they shouldn't matter, since it is a random design. But the differences with national averages were huge. And far larger than the measured impact of the intervention.

[1] https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/effects-kinderga...
Except nobody is claiming all runners need a high carb diet. If anyone actually claimed that it was that most runners would benefit from a high carb diet (I have no idea if anyone actually makes this claim scientifically).
Over-regulation prevents what we call in the software world "rapid iteration". It may take more time for the dust to settle, but eventually the best solutions naturally rise to the top by this method.
> Personal anecdotes

> observed facts

These are not the same thing.
I wrote a blog post back in 2013 regarding how much I should make in more expensive cities of the world (London, SF, NY, etc) in order to have the same standard of living as in Romania for 1700 eur/month: http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2013/10/why-ill-never...
It's important to note that this is US only.
They make great templates.
We have used their chart templates in our BI tool - https://drilldb.com

Their pricing is also very affordable compared to many alternatives. You don't have to think twice before making a purchase.
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This... doesn't do that. As evident in the README. It's a VFS API across a bunch of things you could do anyway.
I don't know why you believe I am somehow confused about the legal agreement I entered into with my husband. I am not, I know what civil marriage is. I mentioned it to illustrate that we didn't have a venue or wedding planner so they couldn't have made a newspaper announcement for us.

Transunion is a private for-profit company; it has nothing to do with Social Security or the legal or taxation systems. Transunion gets its records from institutions that voluntarily report to it, as a business arrangement, (credit card companies, mostly) or they pull from publicly available sources. They don't have direct access to any private government (or non-government) databases unless the owner lets them have access. The reason they collect information about you is for their own business purposes. We aren't talking about the IRS here.

In other words my spousal information got in some company's database somewhere which was relayed to transunion, probably through a few other company's databases. It was surprising that information got to Transunion that fast because, as I said in a reply to a sibling comment, marriage records do not appear to be publicly available in my state. It's creepy to know how fast, far, and wide random information about you spreads. It's also scary to think about how false information about you can spread.

After reading this article it seems like that information almost could have indirectly come from Facebook (we did update our status!)
I think the discussion of sources will be very interesting. There is a strong national interest in restoring faith in our electoral process. This is why so many were appalled at certain accusations that the election was "rigged".
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Go is fast. D is fast, but its compile time meta programming features can make it arbitrarily slow.

Java, Python, etc actually compile at run time so the comparison is invalid. You can measure the full iteration speed, but then image based wins (Smalltalk, Common Lisp).
>This mentality is what drives people to mediocrity.

One reason for someone to think this way: in most western countries income at these levels is taxed at very high rates. Why work more when the government just takes a big chunk of your earnings?
Starting a database with personal information on a large amount of personae. Without them knowing about it. Refusing to share the gathered information. All of this is legal in the US? In the EU???
Open source is catnip for software engineers.

It's worth remembering that ethics go beyond software rights.
I meant no offense. I love Star Trek and somehow that felt like a great analogy.
This may be a dumb question:

What is the data that the machine learning algorithm would optimize with given an arbitrary program that is differentiated?

Is it just a faster program or something else?

For any changes you would need some kind of perfect 100% coverage regression test that proves that the optimized program is still correct and handles all cases because the differentiation only recorded one possible path through the program.
Hey, I don't know what kind of mental state you are in but I imagine your feeling pretty bummed so just wanted to say that I loved OmniRef and you made an incredible product. And though it's shutting down, you are successful. You did what very few people have the courage or ability to do: you started a company. So I can't wait to see what you do next. And I hope you can look back at OmniRef with good memories and keep your head up.
LOL, yeah right they "represent" you.
You wouldn't need that site if they did.
Has anyone used both this and Code Genius' annotation, and can offer a comparison?
Another reason for using OpenSSL was to eventually get the server component running on unix-based OS. I should have explained that in post because it does seem odd using OpenSSL on Windows when I could just as easily use Crypto API.

"I still don't understand the authentication model here"

Sorry if I misunderstand but If by that you mean the way in which packets are transported between 2 systems;Length first, then data. I just wanted a really lightweight method of transmitting data so that it would be easier to implement in assembly rather than using TLS, SSH or some other well established protocol that would require lots of code. It's possible to use some really lightweight implementation of TLS but I assume the code would grow significantly.

There is support for SSL + TLS through SChannel and I probably will write something with this in the future just to see how it works out.

If you mean I could simply embed whatever keys are required inside the payload and use those for encryption? I thought with some form of key exchange, it would make the traffic more difficult to analyze.

If session keys were inside payload then it's just a simple matter of extracting keys from this and decrypting traffic.

I looked at poly1305 for authentication briefly but must test it out, it does look more compact than using AES + SHA3.

Until you mentioned here, I wasn't aware truncated SHA2 hashes were immune to length extension attack but even without the HMAC code, SHA2 still generates more code than SHA3.
Where does the child labor come from? I didn't notice any mention of child labor in this article.
I feel like the Google Drive/Docs/Hangouts combo pack provides all the things that Wave was supposed to be, no?

All the ground-breaking features, such as live interactive multi-user caret presence are part of Docs. Did Wave promise more than that?

What are the missing pieces that got lost along the way, and never made the jump?
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Quite a few comments you've posted recently have crossed into incivility. You can't do this on HN. If you keep doing it, we will ban your account.

Please take extra care to be civil when disagreeing on HN. Snark, acerbic overstatement, and personal rudeness are all unwelcome here.

We've had to warn you about this more than once before. You've also posted some good comments, so I'm inclined to give you another chance, but if you want to keep posting here, please fix this and make sure it stays fixed.
There are when they are combined with worthless food. You wouldn't eat hot dogs or other junk food without artificial flavors.
Yeah, a visual programming environment tailored specifically to 'capture' a developer's requirements for their agent; what it will ask its client, what decisions it will make, and who it will contract as a result.

> Do you have any examples of anything "complex" being written with this?

You could argue that an agent itself is a complex thing being created using this technology :). A developer expresses their requirements using that visual domain-specific programming 'language' that you saw, and then these requirements are translated to contracts to agents that will end up building the developer his agent. (Recursion... it's a killer sometimes.)

But for an example that you can actually relate to, here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jtCVOQiuA) is a cut-down version of our corporate website (with back-end server) being built as a single program by contracting about 8 agents from the behaviour layer (the 'domain-specific' layer of the network). Please note that this example uses our old interface so it looks a little rough compared to the current interface.

(These agents exist in the previous iteration of the network, and are now defunct. We are working our way up to these agents in the current public-facing iteration of the network, so that the community of developers can join and build their own agents.)
Indeed, that was surprising to hear, and a quick google search found me many countries in Europe where advertising drugs is legal, within some restrictive framework.

Examples:

Spain http://uk.practicallaw.com/0-618-5403#a202338

France http://uk.practicallaw.com/2-618-6699 )
It seems like you're taking it harder than they meant it. They do say money isn't everything, but from their viewpoint, they have enough for what they need in balance with the rest of the their life. I don't see where they're saying it isn't anything/something.
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> I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about.

Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> Without TCO, you can't fully leverage functional composition and immutable data structures

Look, I like tail calls as much as any language geek, but this statement is just plain silly. The idea that TCO is needed to "fully" leverage anything is silly. Never mind that necessitating so-called full leverage is pointless, as even supposedly partially leveraged anything can be useful. In the case of Clojure, function composition and immutable data structures are highly leveraged and, after learning the seq abstraction and lib functions, you won't even miss tail calls unless you try to write a direct-style interpreter for a language that supports recursion.
My background is in astronomy, where power laws are ubiquitous. (There's a joke that when you get some data, you fit it to a power law. If that's not a good enough fit, you fit it to a broken power law.) The reason they're so common is that a power law is generally the distribution you get anytime you have a scale-invariant process.
It's naive to think that a strained relationship means that the US has nothing to gain from continued diplomatic contact. A country has many dimensions, and there are always multiple dimensions of cooperation to pursue.

And even if there are no grounds on cooperation, such a situation does not obviate the benefit of good communication. Be it businesses in competition or states with rivalries, such relationships can be modeled by a game of competitive strategy. You still want the diplomatic contact to make things clear to your rival when you have committed to something, and also know when your rival has committed to something. And on many issues, a less noisy channel (good diplomatic communication) actually benefits the more powerful entity.
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You're acting like a bully here. Please don't do this on Hacker News, regardless of how right your points are. Instead, please be a good conversationalist. This is a community, not a shooting range.
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