skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The package management is definitely what drove me away from FreeBSD in the early 2000s. BSD people loved ports, but my main recollection of it is that I spent a lot of time waiting for things to compile. A lot of time, hours in some cases. I liked how apt worked a lot better, both in terms of speed and the interface.

Nowadays, FreeBSD does actually have more apt-like package management, with a fairly simple high-level interface that installs prebuilt binary packages (properly resolving dependencies among them, etc.), called pkgng. I recently tried it again, and it's nice, exactly what I was missing at the time. NetBSD's story here is good today as well, with pkgin (the high-level interface to pkgsrc) also being quite nice, nice enough that I use it on OSX despite never having even run NetBSD (so I'm not using it on OSX because of a preexisting love of it) [1]. But 15 years ago, apt was clearly better, at least for my uses.

[1] I use it on OSX via Joyent's packages, https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
That would be great content for archive.org. Send Jason Scott a message, maybe they can help you digitize it.
BBM is not secure. Why would anyone use it?
Thanks, I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. I am feeling pretty good, rejection is just part of life :P

I just wanted to give feedback, didn't mean to vent.

I would love to see YC going in that direction. Looking forward to it!
YouTube-dl helped a lot when I was living in a rural town a few years ago. I would download a bunch of tutorials over the weekend when I visited my parents in the city and watch them course of the week. Seems strange to say now, because this was the case only 3-4 years ago and only a few hundred km from where I currently live. Today I can't imagine watching in anything less than HD.
From what I can tell, the "solutions" presented here don't actually solve anything, make things a lot more complicated, and just open new cans of worms. For niche cases there are always good workarounds.
I'm pretty sure that was the Daily Telegraph

(oops desas beat me to it)
Technically there are four different NHS', one for each nation in Britain. Wales, Scotland and NI each report to their government rather than Westminster.
Face it, retail use of Bitcoin went nowhere.

In physical retail, sure. I live in China. I've done consulting work for US companies, been paid in Bitcoin, and used the money to purchase and ship antiques from Europe (via Skrill). I was pleasantly surprised that it was possible (without furnishing stupendous quantities of documentation to US-encumbered Bitcoin exchanges) and feel the user experience has in many ways already surpassed credit cards.
This looks a lot like dropwizard.io. There are a few differences, like Flyway over Liquibase for DB migrations, and Guice for dependency injection, etc. DW is pretty active and has a reasonable community; I'm curious why Sixt created this.
That is a dank meme at this point. Even if you use a complex framework like Spring, your code won't need to do any of this. At worst you program to contracts, interfaces. At best Sprong does all the heavy lifting without any implementation. For example with just an interface and a few annotations you can have all of you data late provided by spring.
FreeBSD has had a package system (pkg_add, etc...) since... the mid 90s? The packages were just ports pre-compiled on freebsd.org's computer.

The new package system is much better, and more apt-like. Again though, they are ports pre-compiled on freebsd.org's computer.

Most port options can be selected through an obvious curses interface that comes up when you make the port these days. The defaults are usually reasonable. As long as unix software is distributed with important compile-time options, I will enjoy how easily they are managed through ports.
I got about 200 pages in, and just could not continue with it. 'incomprehensible mess' would perfectly describe my sentiments.

As having taken undergrad/grad courses in logic and set theory, any interesting nuggets about recursion/completeness/incompleteness/etc that one could glean from GEB can much more coherently and succinctly be obtained from a proper book on logic/computability.

The counterargument would be that this book is meant as entertainment: from my experience with the first ~200 pages, it was a complete chore to read, as ideas were presented enigmatically and slowly, to the point of frustration. Granted, my attempt at reading it was almost a decade ago.
You don't need higher order functions, but you do need lexical closures. C only has one stack, so it's a PDA. Strictly less powerful than a TM.

This is the reason lexical closures are so important. They are what let you "allocate" an infinite amount of memory so you can be Turing-complete without side-effects.
> With -r and (in my case) SO_REUSEPORT. Most people use a dedicated gateway (have seen custom tomcat stuff and haproxy).

So as a KDB user you need to implement your own HA solution. That is strictly worse than MongoDB replication, even with its now-fixed bugs. Do you really think your homemade multi-master KDB system would pass Jepsen?

> This is literally the KDB tickerplant model. Have an RDB that flushes out regularly (daily) to an HDB.

Wat? That only works if data is immutable once written. Tweets are liked/deleted/etc. You could store an immutable log of user actions, but then you would have to reconstruct the current snapshot every time someone loads a timeline. It's entirely possible for someone to like/delete/RT an old tweet. Financial data is naturally partitioned because the order book clears at the end of every trading day - this doesn't apply to CRUD apps.

> UTF8 is fine

I think you misunderstand what I mean by unicode support. Does KDB support locale specific collations? Does it support normalization/canonicalization? Being able to index by code point is about 1% of the needed solution to build an i18n-proof product. Obviously that doesn't matter when you are dealing with normal KDB datasets like market data where e.g. asian names are represented with numbers.

> I use it in one of those big CRUD databases (digital marketing and tele-lead tracking).

Were you using it to store clickstream data? Or some other kind of immutable stream of events? That isn't really applicable to general CRUD applications.

Like I said - KDB is great for analyzing immutable streams of events. It's not a general purpose database for building CRUD applications. MongoDB tries to be a reasonable enough solution for many use cases, while KDB focuses on excelling at a small number. Both are valid approaches to building a database...
> Yes, that was slow, but if it was literally the best, then it was awesome

I remember people complaining that the web was too slow compared to gopher, even on pages without images.
Thank you. I am yet to focus my efforts on a specific toolchain, so that I can start giving back to the community via libraries. So far, I've mostly done a project or two on any given toolchain before I decided to switch. The most I've done in this regard has been my assorted collection of helpers for Unity – https://github.com/BRUTALISM/Alat

But more than that (and this is mainly the reason I'm writing these things), I'd like to raise awareness of the process of creating meaningful procedural art. I'm seeing lots of people visualizing very simple mathematical transformations and settling there, which is a shame really. Maybe because the discipline is so technically demanding, I'm not sure.
Buzzfeed does some surprisingly impressive investigative journalism:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markschoofs/21-explosive-investigat...

The Tennis Racket was one of my favourite reads of the year.

(of course, it still has a clickbait headline)
Some of us Trump unsupporters grew up under actual totalitarian regimes and are extremely sensitive to certain types of behavior at the top of government. Canaries in a coal mine, if you will.
Or to have your kid say "Dad, why are there video thumbnails in the archive directory and where are the actual videos?"
Perhaps you mean "long in the tooth"?
> That's employment for you.

This might be true in the US but illegal in various other countries!
I think the big difference in culture accounts for more than the lawsuit.

FreeBSD moves very carefully. New features are introduced when they are quite mature. For major changes, the old way of working is maintained for quite some time.

Early nineties that showed in hardware support. If you wanted to have a real system, you got yourself a SCSI card. There were some really crap IDE controllers out there and in the FreeBSD community nobody cared for them. So resources is one thing, but basically the FreeBSD community didn't want to spend time getting completely broken hardware sort of working.

(For a long time, partitioning was also a twisted maze. The BSD partitioning scheme was somehow combined with the MBR in weird ways. No problem for a system dedicated to FreeBSD, tricky if you want to shared with Windows).

The Linux community was way more trying to run on everything.

In the same way, the Linux community is much more into shiny, new. Color ls, that would famously break scripts because it also output escape sequences if you send the output to a pipe.

By and large a FreeBSD system looks less cool than a Linux. So FreeBSD attracts the users who know they want stability above everything else.
To find the manufacturer:

1) Have you tried Googling the hardware ID

2) Take a photo and do a Google reverse image search
GDP is per year while debt is spread over time, like 30 years. Assuming 5%/yr for the amount of interest and principle repayment, 5% x 60% = 3% of GDP for debt service per year. Not too bad. Assuming the project adds 1% to GDP growth, it would boost the GDP by 35% at the end. Adding 2% would boost by 81%. And the effect will continue after the debt has been paid off. That's a good investment.
Wine Running on Windows with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
The Andromeda Galaxy, presently 2.5 million light-years away, is being pulled toward our galaxy and will eventually collide with it.

To support an inverse square law, we'd need to know the mass of our galaxy, and the mass of the Andromeda galaxy. We have the speed, computed from various blueshift methods. We'd also need to know the rate at which the speed changes.

Do we know any of those three? The mass of the Andromeda galaxy is very different if you assume its filled with dark matter, vs. only has visible matter. Which mass is used to confirm the inverse square law? If it includes dark matter, you have circular reasoning: dark matter is hypothesized to make the inverse square law work within the Andromeda galaxy. If it doesn't include dark matter, then why does the dark matter in the Andromeda galaxy contribute to its rotational motion, but not the attraction to the Milky Way?
This is a poor analogy anyways because time is money for most intents and purposes. Making a copy of a file doesn't cost anyone time or money as the work in question has already been created and the time has already been spent.
I replied to a sibling with more details. Indexing by code point is only the smallest (and easiest to solve) part of the problem of dealing with non ASCII text.
Why do you say so? That's 2793 Chevys vs 1650 Teslas.

There are more people who can afford Chevy than Tesla.

Tesla hasn't demonstrated that they can manufacture cheaply, they have promised and we are still waiting. GM might not have a luxury electric package, but they know how from their experience in building Cadillac. Tesla not in the dealerships is a problem. GM manufactures outside of the country and has about 30 factories. They can build and sell electric car outside. Tesla doesn't, building, shipping & custom fees increases price of car a lot.

I'm not convinced that Tesla will win this battle if all variables remain the same. They need to move faster to have a chance.
Of course that is not the standard you should hold an American president, but that does demonstrate the day-light between the two systems.
What is Matrix / Riot missing today to get these open source communities to start using an open source federated chat room protocol?
Good solid World Bank math
Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone
I added some documentation on using Inferbo and other experimental checkers we are working on: http://fbinfer.com/docs/experimental-checkers.html.

All you need to do to use Inferbo is add `-a bufferoverrun` to your normal Infer command. Inferbo isn't included in 0.9.4.1, but we'll be creating a new release soon.
But unfortunately, converting a non-deteministic finite automaton (i.e., regexp) to a deterministic finite automaton (i.e., engine that can do matches in linear time) may take exponential time and/or space.

Yet, I should add, flex does that with extraordinary success. Most grammars are not that bad, it seems.
> It's USB, though, so it can't be that old!

I dunno, I remember getting my first proper joystick (to play Descent Freespace) maybe 16 years ago and it came with both serial and USB connectors..
I read the advance version of the first chapter and never the one in the actual book when it finally was released. Will see if I have that original version and do a comparison.

I tried to see your talk at last year's Elaticon, but it was packed due to the small room. Not surprising since Elasticsearch tends to minimalize search in favor of analytics/logging. So few talks regarding pure search.
I wasn't talking about a specific example or these particular flaws, but in general, because this is just an instance of your generic argument that modern C++ is unsafe, where "unsafe" means not verifiably memory-safe.

That's correct, but you are framing the problem in an unrealistic way in which Rust wins by default. In reality, this type of memory-safety guarantees will be evaluated against other concerns and those other concerns might be more important.

For you memory-safety errors are unacceptable, that much is clear. For many they are more or less acceptable and insisting that they're unacceptable won't make them change their minds.
I think the easier solution would be simply to write your tester in one of the .NET languages...

That seems to be the approach http://regexstorm.net/tester took, at least. It's low frills (only highlights matches), but it's good for making sure that the problem really and truly isn't some weird regex quirk.
This is commonly stated but not true under all conditions. The full-blown GMail UI has extensive latency-hiding capabilities. The basic HTML UI has no latency-hiding features of any kind. If you are on a high-latency connection but you have some bandwidth available, you will have a much better experience with the full UI. Otherwise you face the full latency for every action.

The Inbox UI is for some reason irredeemable. It is slow under all conditions.
FileSilo.co.uk Registration Database Compromised – Passwords in Plaintext
I thought Sprint and T-Mobile had unlimited plans in the $60-80 range for LTE?
Email re-hosted on my website because I couldn't find an official public announcement.
Another "natural paint" painting program is ArtRage [1]. They have, bar none, the friendliest, most supportive discussion forums I've ever seen on the internet.

Oh yeah, the painting program's pretty good too :-)

[1] https://www.artrage.com
There's EPUB, though it requires some metadata files along with the HTML.
A Bipartisan Corporate Tax Reform Plan
Less companies contribute to FreeBSD because its market share is lower than the one of Linux. And I believe first part of Beno's answer is correct - it's because FreeBSD version of RedHat didn't happened at the right moment. RedHat was there when window of opportunity opened for open source OS and was able to boost linux ecosystem by paying Linux developers which led to higher adoption which led to more contributions from corporate world.

GPL does not require contributions. GPL requires access to sources. Not to changes history, only sources. Contributions happen because it's more profitable for company (in long run) to participate in community and influence development than to be a passive actor.

My point is: license has very little to do with market share in this case. It's more about being good enough and having certain amount of luck when the right moment arives.
Gerrymandering results in more competitive districts. So it will be a fact a life because every party wants more.

From the point of view of actual Representation it does not make sense. For example, my former Congresswomen was personally heartbroken to lose the town of Bowling Green, in Ohio. Her new district isn't really representative of any logical organization of people, so its hard to be responsive to the needs of the people.

I think my preference is that a computer cut it in a way that considers the geography and land topology and types of communities whether cities or towns - with the goal of being as square as possible.
This reminds me of some of the articles I've read about various hacks pulled on classic video game consoles to get acceptable performance out of the limited hardware. PICO-8 has crossed my radar and piqued my interest before. I think I shall pick up a copy and start poking around.
You don't say which country this is/was. Since I can't think of any country ever existing that was truly built around socialist principles, I'd guess you were living in a totalitarian regime parading itself as socialist via propaganda.

Regardless, it's not as if capitalism can't produce environmentally disastrous results. Google "Chevron brazil oil spill".
Until the Lion Learns How to Write, Every Story Will Glorify the Hunter: Results
NSA contractor indicted over mammoth theft of classified data
Remember that this was only notable because the laws did apply.
I hope you mean free as freedom. I'm not surprised that Pico is not open source. It's still in development and author is really careful about design and building a community around it. Pico is such a creative environment thanks to its limitations and last thing community needs is fifty incompatible forks that would change pallete, resolution or token limit :)
> Wordpress has pretty high adoption, but there are very few companies which support wordpress integration, and if they do, it is at a much higher price (bluehost: $3/mo regular hosting, $20/mo wordpress hosting)

What's stopping you from getting the $3/mo package and installing wordpress yourself? The pain of learning how to administer and secure and update it, right? Urbit is (or claims to be) painless enough that you would install it yourself and not need to do any maintenance afterward.

> This blackhole mechanism is very much like spam problem, so it has all the usual questions: Is it going to be managed by someone? Does identity get un-blackholed after some time with no spam? Can you pay $$$ to make this process faster? Can someone blackhole whole galaxy? What if your computer gets malware which spams other users on your behalf?

This is all up to apps and users to handle. If you did write an app that defaulted to "accept messages from anyone" then you'd need to include some sort of "report spam" feature in it I suppose, but I think it's assumed that most apps would just ignore unsolicited messages. You could also do more nuanced rules, like "Ignore messages from accounts that are less than a week old; if the account is older than that, you can show me one message, but ignore any subsequent ones unless I respond to the first one." Up to the developer of the app.

> Looks like in this situation, your only hope is that your hosting provider kept your backups, and this is not guaranteed at all. So basically not much better than existing self-hosting systems.

"Your hosting provider might not do a good job of managing backups" is a) well outside of urbit's purview, and b) something I thought was pretty much a non-issue these days.

> Are you sure that every user will have different urbit credentials and admin credentials to the hosting provider?

At the end of th day, urbit is just an executable. You log in to your shell, you run ./urbit, and you tell it what to do. Anyone who can log in to your shell can run your urbit and tell it to do something you don't like. So of course you need to keep your login and password safe, and the host OS needs to be secure, and so forth.

But, if the claims of the people who made it are true, it should be impossible for J. Random Cracker to send a message to an urbit over the network that makes it do something bad. Not "we think we found all the buffer overflows" impossible, I mean "mathematically proven to be impossible" impossible. That's why they rewrote the thing from the ground up in such a hokey way. Whether they succeeded in, or whether that claim is laughably deluded, is something I'm hoping someone much smarter than me will definitively determine someday...
Animats is saying you don't have to wait to see GM beat Tesla, not that they won't beat them in the long run.

Of course, comparing sales of Chevy's and Toyota's mostly low-end lineup to Tesla's luxury offerings is pretty odd anyway. At the moment it seems pretty TBD.

(I also maintain that including cars like the Volt and Prius in the same category as the Bolt and Model S doesn't make much sense. You may as well compare the Bolt and Model S to all gas-powered cars if you're going to include those gas-powered cars in the mix — it's equally unenlightening.)
Meltdown at YouTube
Except there's no actual indication he has any such intentions. I wish people on the left would recover from their hysterical election freakout.
Not only that, but my Kodi server is basically my client portfolio and my home movie repository. I can upload home movies and just tell my parents, who live on the other side of the country, to refresh Kodi and they get to see the latest videos of their grandkids. With clients, I physically go to client locations and pitch them and I can show them previous spots that I've done, in person and on my iPad, without making them publicly available and potentially violating contracts and agreements that I have.
> they don't allow local installation

This is like saying Ford sells cars they don't allow you to fly.

If you want something that flies, buy a plane.
Face of Orkney's St Magnus Reconstructed
They can still throttle you after a certain level of consumption. With a recent T-Mobile promo, you could have 4 lines for the price of 2, each with its own 4G allotment... so if I ever experience throttling, I can switch to an alternate device.
This post can be seen as exceptional even because of the fact that that page loads instantaneously. Nothing extra. Bravo.
If you are looking for a 1-bed apartment, it will cost around $1600-2000. You can find something for less if you are willing to live in a smaller place.
> Can we invent some technique to remove this friction?

Patreon?