skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope not to sound daft, but why do spammers do this? What is the benefit of automatically creating these accounts?

Are they trying to find some sort of exploit in your code that lets them send out emails?
SuperCard is one clone that picked up where HyperCard left off, with the extremely similar SuperTalk language. It fixed a lot of Hypercard's issues, like built in color support, access to native UI widgets, multiple windows, and the ability to create standalone applications. Updates added both OS X and Intel compatibility.

But it's definitely a niche product, which we've seen isn't something Apple is interested in. Supercard.us is down right now, so I'm not sure whether it's on the market or not. As Apple has discovered, the vast majority of computer users aren't interested in creating software; they're content consumers. SuperCard probably got as much use for making quick mockups before building a "real" application as it did by amateur developers.

One thing that I'll give HyperCard is that it made it easy for me to play around with programming while I was in elementary school. Today's programming tools are largely not that accessible.
> The other major complication with ACH is that most Americans use credit cards for the credit (70% hold a balance). That is something that won't be solved.

I doubt Dwolla needs to solve this problem to be profitable. I'm pretty sure there are still a very large number of cash and debit transactions occurring daily.

> Others like the benefit of rewards (miles, dollars, whatever).

I've seen this argument raised a few times and I still don't understand it. Couldn't merchants (especially online merchants) discount sales that don't use credit cards? The money saved by not offering rewards has to go somewhere.
I have used emacs before and I did like having multiple shells open and the ability to copy many text fragments into the buffer. I use windows for my day to day work so I'm thinking about something more geared to that.

I want to be able to take the the best features from the command line, and the gui programs and package them up into something that just floats at the OS level. So that I use a keyboard shortcut to pull up a buffer that can grab text (or entire files) work on them and push the results back to whatever app/file I pulled it from.
Clearly the right option depends on the specifics of the service and the team managing it. However, unless you have a spare server sitting around, you're in the same boat either way, right?

Outages at serious cloud providers like AWS are usually restricted to availability zones, though there have been a few high profile exceptions where entire regions were affected. In general though, with AWS you can redeploy your server rapidly if you have your infrastructure blueprints kept as code, and your data backed up to EBS snapshots or S3.

Just this week I had a high-traffic Wordpress blog shit the bed on EC2/RDS. Using the tools we built at OpDemand, I was able to clone the platform and get it back up and running in < 60 minutes without any HA. I think < 60 min recovery time is probably a stretch for most on-premise environments..
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> and Vim as well IIRC

Yup, via `!` and `r!`. See, for example, http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html#format_para.
If there was a better way, I would take it.

But often people don't react until you can point to somebody and say "because of direct consequences of this policy, this person is no longer alive". It is even better if you can show his family crying.

Personally I would prefer getting them to fix it without getting anybody killed.

But that may be too much to ask.
I have the free, plan1 through plan7

Is this too many plans. In actual there are only two plans free and single user. Rest are just multi user packs. Please help me refine this. Thank you so much
Windows Powershell attempts to do what you're describing. PowerShell doesn't manipulate text streams, it manipulates .Net CLR objects. That allows shell programs to expose data in a much more meaningful way. You don't have to have a parser in every program that interacts with the shell when you can send and receive typed data.

I haven't worked much with it lately, but I wouldn't be surprised if Powershell was the closest existing technology to what the author is thinking of.
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the libraries functions can do an out of bounds access, for example:
char a[16];
memset(a, 0, 100);

and as I understand their implementation, this won't be found because they instrument loads and stores in code that their clang compiles. the compiled code will look like:
push off a
push 0
push 100
call memset

there are two options that I see:
1. compile the runtime with the instrumentation
2. assemble a massive list of functions which you know to de-reference pointers they take as arguments and then hope that list is somewhat representative / comprehensive
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I would add to the list finding a big security hole or other risk and fixing it.

I joined an e-commerce team at a major systems integrator and discovered they had left the default password in place for the administrative interface of their flagship implementation.

It was actually possible to delete the entire product database using the website. I changed the password immediately, of course.
There are some interesting ideas here. One thing that occurred to me while reading it was using a message queue to implement the pipeline functionality. I've been interested in Apache ActiveMQ/Camel for a while now and excited about some of the things it can do. With that model, each 'line' could have it's own set of headers, allowing for transformation by aware tools, but transparent by default. This would also blur the line between running commands and having background filters. It would also work nicely over the network.

I did some experiments with clojure/camel at one point, and came up with stuff like this:

(defroute context
(from "file:/home/jw/scratch/inbox?noop=true")
(to "file:/home/jw/scratch/outbox"))
; from http://codeabout.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-apache-camel-fro...

Which is basically a continuous file copy. I could see different flags for "do now and exit", "do at HH:MM:SS", "do until I tell you to stop", "do when system is idle", etc.
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Looks like he learned a lot from it and then moved on. Now he's running whatrunswhere.com, which does ad intelligence.
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Taken to the next level:

https://github.com/tblobaum/nodeQuery
A few of the responses here are snarky and understandably so considering the author's reasons for this post, yet the problem remains. How does cloud computing fall within the traditional IT ops model? Anecdotally I've worked for a large city and they're still a little hesitant of cloud computing because they see it as a threat to their employees. I'm not sure how it'll shake out but they'll move towards cloud computing eventually and developers instead of operations could/should manage it.
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Let's allow crowd-funding to help entrepreneurs
I used Palantir software at a previous job. After that, I'm not so sure I'd go to Palantir for UI advice.

They're cool, they're hip -- they've even got the obligatory XKCD comic in the post, but their products are awkward (albeit improving slowly).

Here's some screenshots straight from the horse's mouth:

http://blog.palantirtech.com/2008/07/04/palantir-screenshots...

And yeah, using it is about as clunky as it looks. For better or worst, the software is somewhat open-ended, so there were differences in how analysts visualized entities, which sometimes caused problems when you needed to get actionable intelligence out the door quickly. It's not really suitable for quick.
Real life HAL 9000 meets Skynet: AI controlled video surveillance society
Revolutionary TVs: It's More than Hardware
I'm just going to throw this out there, but I think this list is BS. There's really only two bullet points you need:

1. Get things done.

2. Make sure people know you're getting things done.

...and not necessarily in that order either. Being labeled "impractical" is the kiss of death in a startup.

Do those things, and most successful startups won't care about the other bullet points.
For a company that I'm entrusting my money to, they could really use a full-time designer on board to keep their site looking trustworthy. The obvious spacing issues even just on their blog post is really off-putting.
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Are exchange rates fluctuations driving you mad?
Be Mindful of Mineful: A brief in predictive customer retention
Dojo Toolkit 1.7 Released.
I am skeptical about total reimaginations, and when I read this I started to take it as one of those airy "Dude, someone totally revolutionize this for me..." posts, but then I hit:

I’m working on this in my spare time, starting with...

and now I'm curious to see what the author comes up with.

There's just something about an actual tool, no matter how prototypical, that improves the discussion of new tools.
T-corp: You just didn't hear it from us. =)

Also, while I personally wouldn't call what Japan is in a "recession," that is how the Japanese refer to the current economic situation when compared to the bubble of the 80s. I wonder sometimes if the whole "recession" keyword is a method of social control, but that's getting into slightly tinfoil hat territory.
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s/Github/FOSS/

Fixed that for you.
That's a very fundamental conflict when implementing these types of anti-spam measures. Unfortunately anything that is screen reader friendly is often spam-bot friendly, (or, anything that is unfriendly to spam-bots will also be unfriendly to screen-readers) as both entities are programs that attempt to parse a web page.

Maybe include a link near the start of the form that says something like, "Screen-readers, follow this link."? The link would be to a one-time use page that is sane and accessible. I don't know...
People have been printing text and photo's at home for a long time and it's still not cost competitive with mass production. IMO, the real test of 3d printing is when it's cheap enough that shipping something costs about as much as printing it at home.
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> improving the terminal is a really challenging and important problem, so I'm glad there are people thinking about it.

People thought about it 20 years ago, not only about the terminal, but about improving UNIX in general. And not just any people, but the people that did UNIX and C in the first place. Their effort is called Plan9.

Very few people have heard of Plan9 and of those people even fewer used it to the point of understanding the novel ideas.

I use it. Even when I am forced to use UNIX I still use the Plan9 tools along with the Acme and Sam editors. Once you get used to the new Plan9 ideas, you feel crippled in UNIX and can never go back.
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other than unix (clearly) being one of the most important technological leaps forward in computing, which is just a given at this point, well, that pic is just awesome!
But Dwolla is not in a position to either fix or replace the ACH system.
I would argue that that operations engineers need to become more like developers, not that developers should be operating critical systems.

The cultural problem can also be framed as a transition from a server-centric operations model to an application-centric one -- something James Urquart wrote a great post about for GigaOM:
http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-cloud-boils-down-to-for-the-ent...
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A Long Goodbye to Web 2.0 Expo
That's a neat page, which does help construction of regex's.

But, it does not address the question I posed.

The regex R generates a language L of strings accepted by R. I want a facility for generating example elements of L.

Given that L often is infinite or has immense cardinality, this is hard to do. I think I want a breadth-first descent of the tokens in the regex, but it's not always that simple.
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I asked the question on the linked blog [1]
The official reply was
"
For now, we are starting with WordPress.com users but look forward to working with folks like yourself who are self-hosted.
"

Sweet!

1 - http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/wordads/#comment-143... (that # href doesn't seem to work too well, do a seach for 'grecy' and you'll jump to my comment and the reply)
Not to diminish substack's huge achievements, but we used dnode on a project and finally went back to just using socket.io as it worked way better.

The latest socket.io releases have added a lot of features (node client, rooms, ...) that make libraries like dnode less useful imho.