skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp was a very lean shop (and, btw, mostly (all?) FreeBSD). At acquisition, IIRC, they had about 40 employees total (or maybe it was 40 engineers).
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-largest-commercial-program...

I implemented a fractal zoomer, but it might be too simple to meet your vague "fully formed": https://github.com/serprex/Fractaler
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Nonsense. Google, like any company or individual can choose to not fund any group that would be detrimental to them, or for any other reason. Suggesting it's evil not to fund a group that is targeting them is laughable.
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SPARCstation SLC: the "Silly Little Computer", with the computer built into the monitor cabinet.

http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4c/SYS...

And the bizarre quazi-portable-but-definitely-not-laptop SPARCstation Voyager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CprTGEIS8

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO-5.html

http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstatio...

http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SSVygr/4m...
It's a dark pattern if when creating those entities within LinkedIn if it's not clear that by doing that, you're removing the ability to ever close your account. But I agree with you -- deleting is definitely worth trying.
The hard reality is what's changing. My problem with the "they just want deterrence for regime survival" story is that they already have fantastic deterrence, the ability to wipe out Seoul at will. Therefore, the nuclear program is harder to see as some purely defensive measure, especially considering its cost and various opportunity costs. What, they'll do all this for... some _extra_ deterrence?

Seems possible to me that they seek to neutralize the U.S. by holding it nuclear hostage. Then someday maybe take the South. They've even been talking about EMP blasts, a very useful offensive strategy for them.
> They say entrepreneurs are risk takers. I think of myself as too lazy and irresponsible to fully understand the risk. It works for me.

> I’m not sure what the lesson is here.

I guess the lesson is entrepreneurs make progress by recklessly disregarding the risks they take with other people's lives and money, and they keep doing it because it works for them and that's all that matters to them.
Ya.

If I wouldn't pay the consultants in the office across the street to work on my core IT (outsourcing), why would I pay someone separated by oceans, timezones, language, culture... (offshoring)?

While working in healthcare, our corporate overlords repeatedly rammed the "blended shore" model down our throats. Which never worked. (Got to know some nice people, though. So there's that.)

The easiest part of our job was the coding. Requirements gathering, analysis, project management, customer relations, QA/Test, etc. Working shoulder to shoulder with our clients, it was hard enough. No way our work could be further delegated while still delivering something useful.

Preaching to the choir, I know, apologies.
They 'anticipate every need' if all your needs revolve around turning on things according to a schedule, or at most according to where you are physically.

For me, turning on lights etc are such a small part of my day, not to mention my 'needs' as to be completely insignificant.

If the machines would do something like sort, wash and fold the laundry that would be something, but as it is I people just buy them for novelty value.
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The fish were taught that when they swam over a yellow platform, a motion sensor would trigger, releasing opioids (i.e. hydrocodone). Within two weeks, the fish were exhibiting "drug-seeking" behavior? How? How does this differ if we replace the opioid with food? This is pure classical conditioning, rewarding them when perform a particular action.
For a messenging app, with classic network effects, it’s a very relevant metric.
Which lives do you mean, exactly? North Korean, or others?

IMHO, KJU has nothing to gain and everything to lose by provoking other powers into a forceful response. The erratic behavior of him and his government is the defensive tactic itself. The ability to cause destruction overseas is of secondary concern, and it would seem to be a negligible one in the face of a potential response.

Trump employs something similar--act unpredictably and people keep their distance. Create the next sensationalist headline and people will 1) stop and think about what exactly is going on and 2) stay their distance. Do this enough times, often enough, and you're relatively shielded from serious threats to your power.

Of course, there is a limit, but so far they both are acting within tolerances.
The language developers were never really in a position to fix this problem.

After all, in 2002 (the date of that Q&A), you could already deploy Perl or Python scripts by "simply uploading code to a directory", if mod_perl or mod_python was installed by the hosting provider.

Coordination problems are difficult.
So far they only announced to go with a heavily modified ARM ISA for their next-gen supercomputer (forgot the name), while saying yadda yadda remain committed to SPARC yadda yadda. At least as far as I know. Probably still means life-support-only for SPARC.
It's probably equally as tiring for the people reading this to see you drag up the old false dichotomy of "init scripts used before". The world was not van Smoorenburg rc before systemd came along. (This especially ironic given that we are on a page discussing Solaris, for goodness sake!) If you want other people to try avoiding tired old fallacies, set a good example and avoid them yourself too.

* http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/
Though it could simply mean the realization that one can choose to care less about prescriptive language rules
This is natural and to be expected. Whether we like it or not Solaris went the way of Novell Netware. They have a lot of customers but no new orders. So the staff needs to be kept around simply to serve existing customers out of which lot of them would move tofuture proof systems every quarter. So every quarter they will see loss of revenue and attrition in their customer base. How long can they continue to support such a group?
You can do both; one time payment for a major version for individual users and subscription for businesses. Just don't do subscription-only please.
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Obviously we will name it postpostmarketOS then ;)
Ive kept my account although I've wanted to delete it several times, trimmed it down to make it look like anyone's ordinary life. I sometimes posts pictures from social events I attend, but only clean stuff that looks like something a normal nerdy person would do.

At one point I figured that I might need it to seem normal sometime in the future.

Traveling to the US last year I'm glad I did, passed through the border checkup much easier than my other privacy loving friends who deleted thei social media accounts.

I also kept my gmail address even though I moved to fastmail. Mostly use it for signing up to things and unimportant stuff, but it sure was handy at the airport.

I guess it still exposes some of my life, but it's not like I can ever become anonymous again, since they never delete anything.
The example apps that this person gives seem to prove subscription models being a good alternative more than anything

Guardian for 2.50 a month. How much did newspapers cost?

10 a month for VPN service. You have to rent a server right?

80 bucks for Dropbox a year. How much does that external terabyte hard drive cost, let alone the syncing feature.

Not to mention that a lot of stuff is in easily exportable formats....

There's always going to be one off apps, but most of this stuff is too nice to be supported by one off purchases (far before it's considered "done"). Paying 100 dollars a month for premium software when we spend all our time in our computer is ... Fine I think.

Though the counterargument is that I wouldn't spend 100 bucks a month on chairs.
C) it only makes sense if your habits are completely predictable, like cooking food 15 minutes after leaving work or something.
That deal had North Korea's weapons-grade production facilities shut down for eight years, despite US foot-dragging on our side (we'd agreed to supply reactors that were not suitable for weapons production, and then the GOP Congress refused to fund that).

So, what restarted weapons-grade plutonium production there? The George W. Bush administration effectively abrogated the deal, claiming that the DPRK had a separate active nuclear weapons program, based on evidence about as sketchy as what they provided to argue that Saddam Hussein had one. (He didn't.) The Yongbyon plutonium-production reactor was back in operation within a month.

Clinton's deal was imperfect, but it worked a whole lot better than get-tough shit from his Republican successor.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework
It's entirely possible everything added since it was acquired by Sun is STILL under an open source license. Just because they haven't released the code or provided it to end-users under that license says nothing about how it's structured internally.
Devops is doing their job. No one really cares about the uptime of a single box anymore at cloud scale. Servers are cattle, not pets. If one instance goes down, spin up a new one to take the load.

P.S. this is why, contrary to graybeard whinging, boot time matters and sysvinit cannot possibly keep up with systemd in the cloud. The faster your instances boot, the less capacity you lose while they're down.
I think anyone who argues that TDD "Was Proven to Work in 1996" because of the C3 project must also explain how TDD was proved to work better than non-TDD methods.

After all, we can point to many successful non-TDD projects.

Otherwise the argument is the more limited "TDD doesn't cause projects to fail."

"both sides (Test First Design devs vs. Test After Devs)"

There isn't a simple "Both sides". There's TDD and non-TDD, but non-TDD encompasses a range of practices.

"Unlike test after, we rarely debug;"

Yeah, umm, no. I did a security analysis ones of a well-known testing project developed using TDD and found enough security holes in the web interface that I could execute my own code on the server.

Most of those security holes were due to implementation bugs. One in filename validation during upload. The Java code checked that the file ended with the correct extension. I passed in a string containing the \0 character. The Java code validated that the extension was correct, but the OS truncated at the \0 so I got to specify my own extension before it.

Another problem was that the filename for the download service could start "../../..", which gave me access to the server's own password file. Furthermore, the passwords used a simple hash function of the developers' own design, which took a couple of hours to break.

Yes, these are well known security holes in web servers. No, the developers didn't know about them.

Or, go back to the C3 project. Wikipedia helpful comments at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens... :

> Performance was something of a problem; during development it looked like it would take 1000 hours to run the payroll, but profiling activities reduced this to around 40 hours; another month's effort reduced this to 18 hours and by the time the system was launched the figure was 12 hours.

Tell me again how TDD helps with these sorts of bugs? Or are security and performance considerations something other than debugging?
The concept of renting a fridge, TV or telephone is something that I haven't even heard of before and I also live in Europe (though, Eastern Europe). Might it only be a thing in Switzerland or in some Western European countries?
Actually, it was SystemXVI that was inspired by the SMF.

* https://github.com/ServiceManager/ServiceManager/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10212770)
WhatsApp user base is insanely impressive but it isn't even no 1 in the country Ycombinator is based in. FBM is. Then it also isn't no 1 in obvious countries like Korea Japan China Taiwan Vietnam.
You don't want to get involved with complex configuration and programming. Developers and administrators could easily write I put files in node-farmer. Where as in other automation tool it's a nightmare. For example Ansible, you need to write your inputs in YAML programming language, isn't that easy to learn a programming language to do the work ? Everyone is not skilled in programming.
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Here are a few:

elm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(programming_language)

purescript: http://www.purescript.org/

postgREST: https://postgrest.com/en/v4.1/

Trending stuff on github: https://github.com/trending/haskell?since=monthly
They may be too ashamed to tell their story.
Not so clear before that. In fact the north did significantly better than the south then. There was a large influx of cash to South Korea from the Vietnam war (for which Korea provided 300000 mercenaries)
'Transpiler' is an ugly smushword though. I hope it dies.
It's entirely and likely possible that part of their settlement with NetApp included NOT releasing it under GPL.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_d...
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Where's the profit in keeping user data you can't openly use, and will get fined who know how much for keeping if caught?
> Traveling to the US last year I'm glad I did, passed through the border checkup much easier than my other privacy loving friends who deleted thei social media accounts.

This is sad. As a US citizen, I have no idea how to even begin fighting crap like this.
I love you like a brother, agree with what you're saying...

Isn't the root cause for the NK situation is that we don't have a peace treaty? Meaning that we (USA, SK) are technically still at war with NK. I can't imagine CTBTO being on the table until hostilities formally cease.

As a US citizen, I don't understand why this peace treaty thing hasn't been resolved. I don't forgive or condone the NK regimes. But my side baffles me too. Is this about saving face? Appeasing our own hardliners? War profits? Some weird proxy squabble with China? I assume Kissinger is somehow complicit, so why don't we just blame him and move on?

I know the history, situation is complicated. But I expect my side to act like the grown ups and just fix this.
IBM is facing the exact same problem selling AIX boxes as Sun/Oracle and HP do selling their Unix hardware and OS, so why would IBM have been a better fit to buy Sun?

I think Sun was (mostly) acquired to prevent Java IP being sold to other, more nefarious parties (such as MS or patent trolls). Both Oracle and IBM were (and still are, though to a lesser extent) heavily invested into the Java ecosystem. Sun OS/Solaris has historically also been the reference O/S and platform for big-time installations of the Oracle RDBMS.
Did you have a weak password or one which you used elsewhere, where it could have been leaked?
Well... it is already.
Are you saying at customs they had you log into Facebook and Gmail?
It's a concept for not getting involved in to programming and complexity for devops automation.
It's a working prototype and contributors welcome to shape it well for future.
South Africa, we’re quite far away from global conflict zones and have a very low chance of natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes or volcanoes too.
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Wow, this is great good job!

There is a small bug, where you can get a 2-wide block with only one 1-wide child, and when you pull it down a white square remains where it shouldn't.

Anyway I really like this, it is so comfortable to use!
Subscription services are blatant rent-seeking. Startups should be ashamed to have their hands out like common street hawkers. I don't care if there are recurring monthly expenses for your company to meet, you used to be able to buy software and now, increasingly, you can't.

We are very quickly heading down the path to a full-blown renteer class, who don't own anything and live at the mercy of their myriad service providers, who by-the-way seem more concerned with their perverted version of 'innovation' then customer satisfaction or avoiding product sunsets.
On the subject of evil, I guess you'd not credit the following?

North Korea holds as many as 120,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps, and that 400,000 people have died in these camps from torture, starvation, disease, and execution. These reports, in the context of estimates that North Korea has allowed between 600,000 and 2,500,000 of its people to starve to death while its government squandered the nation’s resources on weapons and luxuries for its ruling elite, suggest that North Korea’s oppression and politically targeted starvation of its people collectively constitute the world’s greatest ongoing atrocity, and almost certainly the most catastrophic anywhere on earth since the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979.
On the contrary it has been consistently belligerent. At least since George W Bush
The fact that most military projects are secret/top secret is not convincing argument?

Everyone knows that what's "on display" is basically 10 years behind what military such as USA keeps in secret to use it as a last-resort type of response.
Hi HN folks, I'm from Singapore and starting a company specialising in web automation.

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Rates are competitive at $18, €15, S$24 for a simple automation project. The automation can be quickly developed off-site or live on a call / video. More details in the link. Competitors are welcome to post here to share their services or tips, and help bring the web automation domain forward.

My goal is to offer another option to the RPA (robotic process automation) industry practice which takes a top-down approach. Too much bloat in the production and delivery process which gets passed on as high costs to customers (and arguably over-promised expectations). That makes it only possible for very large companies to enjoy benefits of RPA.
A bubble can be a really nasty small bubble regardless of whether it's being deliberately externally manipulated or not. HN is 1000% definitely a limited bubble.
> We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods

And php has both protected properties and abstract methods now
They look through your electronics, also your laptop. Didn't take them long to clear me though. But I'm a white Scandinavian and my most recent posts to Facebook were about board games and concerts and most of my mails were in Danish or spam about video games.

I mean, they would probably still have cleared me if they had access to the full story, I'm not that much of a deviant. But take the board game nights as an example. A few of my friends smoke weed at those, and even though I haven't done that for 10 years, it's not something I'd want to be associated with on a social media site that a government trawls, so I make sure to keep that part out of the pictures.

On the other hand if you lack these things that everyone is expected to have, they become suspicious.
How does seismology allow us to monitor underground nuclear testing
And looking at the commit logs for NextBSD [0] it is dead now too.

[0] https://github.com/NextBSD/NextBSD
I've used WhatsApp for years and have never been charged a dime.
If you like keurig enough to drink it, why wouldn't you pay a dollar a cup? It's still a fraction of coffee house prices, even for takeaway.
Very cool, I never thought about doing it this way!
I have been selling to big companies for a while. I always sign. The time and money I saved by not arguing legalese fineprints will easily pay for the costs of the first Client that will sue me. Not even counting time spent arguing legalese is a mood killer.

The kicker is that if something goes wrong, your contract won't protect you much anyway, and giving freebies and working the extra mile is more effective.

But if I listen to lawyers or wannabe entrepreneurs, most will tell me to read the fineprints and care about them.
I've heard "runners" as well.
I believe TypeScript has the JSDoc feature as well, although it's much more recent.
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Nobody is going to complain about selling for $19bn. Sometimes you just need to take the money.
There's another option to "keep building new features for an existing app": Take your expertise and apply it to a new app.

Why keep all your eggs in a single bucket when you have a great opportunity to diversify and not risk pissing off your customers with pricing changes?
Does any of that Chrome code include Chrome OS stuff? Google has been putting a fair bit of work into that.

The web platform has been growing (progressive web apps, more features in JavaScript include WebAssembly), and yes I'm sure there are some new features in Chrome. Does that include the mobile app codebases? Chrome for mobile has been adding features.

1000 people is a lot of money, so Google clearly sees value in what they're doing.
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I can buy a used washing machine for cheap. Subscriptions are killing the second hand market, and this is intentional.
This is naive - they don't need to look at your data to draw inferences from it, they can just monitor and analyze network traffic.
I have prescriptivist tendencies, but I agree that "It has to be that way because it's always been that way" is a stupid argument.

I'm simply of the opinion that language that leads to misunderstanding is bad. That's why I correct anyone who I suspect to use the word "literally" for the opposite of its meaning, and why I use Oxford commas.

I also like when the meaning of a sentence is inferable by only knowing the words and simple grammar rules. That's why I hate "could of" or "I could care less".

I will also roll my eyes if you ask me to use double spaces after a period. That rule was born from a technical limitation that's long gone.

In essence I think that conserving ancient rules and meanings is just one branch of prescriptivism, and it's unfair to judge everything prescriptivist based on that one radical branch.
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Because that doesn’t expose issues that appear with the UI gestures, or some interactions.

I’ve tried with the emulator, but it never is the same as the real device, and you just can’t test pinch-zo-zoom for example on an emulator.
> You probably know about all vulnerabilities introduced by systemd?

You probably know about all vulnerabilities introduced by openrc or sysvinit?

Right you can't since every script itself could have a vulnerability
Most developed countries with any sense have farming subsidies, because it turns out that actually being able to feed your population without relying on imports is rather strategically important if war ever breaks out. (This is a lesson that Britain in particular learnt the hard way.) China on the other hand subsidises approximately the entirety of their successful commercial sector.
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The main function would read pretty much the same in any language. Slicing it into multiple functions doesn't really do anything that couldn't be achieved by adding a few comments.

I guess Haskell just doesn't do much to solve the problem of setting up GUIs, at least when it has to interface with a framework like Gtk+.
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