skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the important point is that Secure Boot flips the default.

We always expect manufacturers to "do nothing" if they can get away with it. Pre-Secure Boot, doing nothing meant you could install whatever OS you wanted (subject to other hardware limitations, of course). Post-Secure Boot it will mean that you probably can't (even if there's a mandated escape hatch, how well will it be tested? And so on).
Sensu came up several times in the recent monitoring discussion on devops-toolchain [0]. I'm going to try a setup with sensu, graphite, and collectd soon- like the one Sean Escriva described at ChefConf [1].

[0] https://groups.google.com/group/devops-toolchain/browse_thre...
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXxtdE-Paco
Why do people worry about compilers hanging or giving up? If I know how to kill the failed compile and fix my program so that it is provably type-safe before shipping, I don't really care how many undecidable programs could also exist because I no longer have to ship one of those.
You clearly exist within an Apple fan bubble. Your opinion has zero correlation with reality and you didn't even understand the point I was making. Rather I would say that you couldn't understand it.
The definition of losing in gambling is running out of resources. If you stipulate infinite resources, you're stipulating that you can't lose. In which case, clearly, you have a much better chance of winning.
>but he was more interested in poisoning the well.

Really. Mentioning that a group has typically right-wing views is considered poisoning the well. How the heck does THAT work?

You've done a hell of a lot of assuming both about me and my position based on nothing more than saying a group has right wing views. Is that somehow incorrect?
I'll give pry a try, but I've tried a lot of dynamic IDE environments and none have come close to IJ w/ statically typed langs.
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For example, http://www.control-alt-del.org/2012/03/28/collectd-esper-amq...
Almost all the property on the island was acquired by Dole as a pineapple plantation back in Ye Olden Days when it was easy for Dole to do that sort of thing (1920s), and somehow the property has never gotten broken up in the decades since then, so Ellison just bought it from the til-now-current owner, who owns it via a chain of purchases from Dole and subsidiaries.
Ah, fk man, another REPL?

I don't want a repl for editing. I want to write code in a friggen editor and have dot completion work.

I also want a repl for trying stuff out and debugging/light weight testing, but that's a different use case for me.
Fujitsu (claims to have) established a new record "smashing" pairing-based cryptography at 923 bits with 252 cores in 148.2 days, while the previous record in 2009 was 676 bits.

The Fujitsu announcement is here:
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2012/20...

Can anyone find a research paper on that?

Anyway, IMHO the article posted looks a bit confuse (and confusing...)

For pairing-based cryptography (although precise settings are unclear), 923-bit security is still kind of poor: less than 1024, which is considered equivalent to 80-bit symmetric security. This means that AES-128 is still far away... I don't really get the relationship with AES.
If that's a legal question then no, no more than I can secede along with my backyard. The fact that your land happens to be surrounded by water doesn't give it any special legal status, the law of the United States does not allow landowners to secede.

If that's a practical question, then all he has to do is to declare independence and then be prepared to win a war against the United States when it chooses to militarily dispute that claim. As Larry Ellison is unlikely to be able to win a war against the United States, I'd say the answer here is also no.
The important bit here is

"...the type of articles they wanted read. This 'set the tone' for the site as whole."

The first few hundred users of your site will determine what kind of users the site will attract, so "being" many of the first few hundred users yourself makes perfect sense, if you want to be guiding your project and not just "hoping for the best".
That's pretty interesting. I'm curious: If he founded his own country, why did he need a permit?

Edit: Oh, right.
You've made several choices. Those choices have consequences. If you didn't intend them....

For example, you've never bothered to point out that other groups have left-wing views.

And, as I pointed out, you could have discussed the content. Instead, you went with an unfounded smear. (Edit: He intended it as a smear and believes that all right-thinking people take Koch-association as damning.)

I apologise for pointing this out.
In the few cases I've come across where people have claimed this, the stuff behind the curtain has usually turned out to be a muddled simplification of the original made possible by additional constraints.

Think Kirchhoff's circuit laws vs Faraday's law but with less math and more crackpottery.
Mr. Ellison [...] is also a businessman whose record of community involvement in medical research and education causes is equally notable.

Hear, hear.
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"But let me assure you, this conceptual poet was digging his nails into my heart—he knew it, and, five minutes later, I suddenly felt it too—which led to a week and a half of fuming in bed, unable to sleep, my declaring this man my enemy, the reconceiving of a magazine article I was writing in such a way as to include a subtextual layer that would annihilate conceptual poetics, a week and a half of going out every night and talking through the insult with each of my friends—what am I even saying? It took leaving the continent for the insult to finally recede into the background of my days, and for me to regain my equilibrium."

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"And then . . . I destroyed it. I met someone and then another person and before I knew it, all the chaos of life came back, along with all my self-doubt and anxiety and fear."

This is not normal.
This line of reasoning is utterly absurd. They are different APIs with different names. The specifics of the substrings they have in common and the format of the substrings that differ is utterly irrelevant.

OpenCL is a different API from OpenAL, Cocos-2d is an API for an entirely different language than Cocos-2d-x, the Cocoa API is wildly incompatible with Cocoa Touch. Horrors!

You determine whether or not two APIs are compatible (or even striving to be the same kind of API) by reading the documentation, not by applying stupid heuristics to common substrings in their names.
Two initial reactions:
1) with the current state of iTunes and Amazon downloads, it seems easier, safer, more legal, and more supportive to buy songs, instead of relying on P2P. You can't claim to be a music lover with 15 GB of free music, IMHO - you're only a collector without commitment.

2) She claims that the music wasn't illegally downloaded, implying to me that she trades legally purchased copies with friends. Since she's only purchase 15 albums worth, I'd claim she's a leach to her friends, as that seems really uneven an exchange.

I dunno. I'm older now, and selectively downloaded free music when I was younger and poorer. I never wanted to collect hundreds of albums I would never get around to listening to, so even in the Napster heyday, my collection didn't explode like others. Now I buy my music, but I don't know if that's because iTunes removed the ethical dilemma for me, or because I have more cash and maturity.

Though these days, I seem to only listen to podcasts.
Richard Branson, Elon Musk. Even Larry, Sergey and Eric recently acquired a fighter jet.

Then you've got Silvio Berlusconi, who bought himself the Prime Ministership of Italy and spent the whole time having what he called "Bunga Bunga Parties", which is closer to my fantasy at sixteen than my fantasy at nine, but it'll do.
Wasn't aware of that conference but it looks excellent. Thanks for the link - I'll be there.
commensurate

To commiserate is to share in someone's kvetching.
Echochrome meets Fez. Neat.

If I had just one piece of advice— make the trailer shorter and less cheesy (ie. drop the catchphrases).

Otherwise, would love to try it out.
Have you done a blind A/B test to determine if you can hear the difference between 256 kbit/sec AAC and lossless?
Thanks for the explanation. This is a vivid demonstration of wealth concentration writ large, maybe it will wake people up.
In Australia (and Canada for that matter), McDonald's food is far better than it is the the US.
That's because programming is necessary to write software, whereas management and business analysis is only "nice to have".

That is an interesting philosophy, but it has never been true in real life. Every major corporation in the world has added business analysts and PMs. Even the great technology companies you mention have many, many business analysts.

I love finding exceptions to rules, but I can't find an exception to the rule that if you want to accomplish truly great things with your company, you will eventually add business analysts and PMs.

Small companies will realize that the value of having a marketing professional over a "growth hacker" is when the marketing professional can call a major company and negotiate an ad deal due to their experience doing so. Or when a finance professional can help hammer out terms of a new round of debt financing that allow the company to grow without giving up equity etc.

As a business professional, I understand that hackers have value, but I also understand that even HR people have value. Just because I don't know all the value they have, does not mean it doesn't exist.
...and why is that wrong?

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This isn't a post about any economic theory or about debating the morality of the fixed pie fallacy. It's about knee-jerk moralistic responses to complex phenomena.

It's just weird to see such things pop up on HN these days.

It goes against the spirit of this community (satisfying intellectual curiosity) because even though a knee jerk reaction has its place, it can't help you find the answers. It just muddies up the waters.
Ah, okay, so something like Celery would handle all of those kinds of cases for you. (Though... doesn't rabbitmq have many of those features built-in? Queue server replication and redundancy and stuff? Though I suppose a dedicated project would handle more of those calamities than I could think of on my own.)

Thanks for that!
When you create a method which takes an argument in a dynamic language, there's no declaration of the type of that argument or which methods it will be known to support. So how does dot-completion work for any target other than "this"? The REPL isn't doing whole-program dataflow analysis to infer the only type(s) which could possibly be passed, is it?
You are being kind of vague in your definition of "BA/PMs".

Developing a business model is very different from doing customer support, planing and managing programming, and doing business inteligence/marketing.
Great read, best of luck.
Also their burgers are pretty gross.

Yea well that's just your opinion man.
Or they could just move that scrollbar to the bottom of the page, find the search box in the bottom-center, and type in the URL.
Which is worse, builing something nobody will use or not building anything at all?
And now Alexis wants to move Congress?
Wouldn't it be great if he created a startup accelerator there?
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"Internet Explorer 10: The next version of Windows Phone comes with the same web browsing engine that’s headed for Window 8 PCs and tablets..."
Not to sound trollish, but is that really a feature?
"Google will never adopt Go for the backend" at 32m50s
"He seceded when he was denied a permit"
No idea what parent poster said (comment deleted), but if you want to work in the US, you can still try for an H1B visa. Your work experience and achievements can be used to demonstrate specialization in the field and serve as the equivalent of a college Bachelors degree. The quota was exhausted for this year, but assuming you are Australian you can shoot for an E3.
> can static typing reduce the number of bugs

No one claims otherwise. However, that's true of Java's type system too.

> Why can't anyone follow a simple line of reasoning without resorting to fallacies?

I followed your simplistic line of reasoning just fine. It was wrong. Admit that and move on.

Of course you can't, which is how you got there.

The biggest obstacle to Haskell becoming more popular is its advocates.

And, it will never replace Java, C, Python, or even PHP. (One of my professional goals is to never use Java.)
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I think it reflects more on you that you consider "having right wing views" to be a smear and poisoning the well and the like.

And where do you know all this stuff about me, is the other thing I'd like to know. How the hell do you know what I do or not do in a given situation?
Ellison is buying his own volcano island?

Watch out if he installs a monorail and buys a white cat !
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I keep hoping that the tech crowd will adopt a few big science and engineering projects. We're a large enough group we should be able to crowd fund something significant. A million hackers giving $100/year.
I would love to own the other 2%.
Even if it is an old post, I have to say that Yaron Minsky is a good source for learning OCaml. I learned a good deal of it trying to figure out how his Planets gravity simulation worked, and then porting the algorithm to javascript. Here is his program:

http://planets.homedns.org/
He just wouldn't be a proper Bond villain without a volcanic island lair.
> I don't want a repl for editing. I want to write code in a friggen editor and have dot completion work.

I don't either, which is why I use Emacs with something like SLIME or at least inferior-lisp. But I'm sure you've tried this already, and it's not for everyone of course.

I find autocompletion and Intellisense-like features useful, but not really useful enough to make me pick a language based on them. I don't type terribly quickly either, but that doesn't worry me as most of my time is spent debugging and not typing.

Of course static typing does help catch some bugs before you get to debug them, but I think talking about autocomplete and dot-completion is kind of a distraction.
Wealth concentration? The issue is that it turns out bad for the vast majority of people.
Seceding from a country and seceding from a city seem like two different things.
A number of schools of buddhism hold no 'diety', yet still have monks who isolate themselves.
Yeah but does it scale?

Edit: I should clarify, I really liked the article and I like the unix philosophy but I'm truly interested to know what type of networks can be monitored with this approach. I work in the enterprise monitoring space and a lot of the solutions are truly horrible, but on the other hand, I'm not sure this approach would work either when you have 500K managed nodes and dealing with multiple campuses across 3 continents...
I really like the "tiles" concept for touch screens. After years of not using any MS product, I may actually use Windows again.

Only that MS should have called it "Tiles" and continued Windows as a different product line for desktop PCs. PCs will no go away any time soon, because touch screens are not (yet) good for office work.
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> If my users don't want me to trample on their "Freedoms", they don't have to buy my software.

Would you please expose yourself so your customers can know who's trampling on their freedoms? Or will you remain hidden behind a nickname?
How much did he buy it for? I'd think a couple billion, at least.
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Concrete examples here would make this whole debate a lot clearer.

It's important to realize that the choice isn't between "Computers have free speech" vs "The government can censor anything a computer does". The choice is between "existing free-speech precedent applies to computers" vs "computer program output falls into some other legal framework which we might not have figured out yet".

The only legal case which seems to be mentioned in either article is a nine-year-old suit against Google by someone unhappy with Google's ranking of search results. In that case, the court bought Google's argument that "Hey, our ranking can say whatever we like, free speech". But as to how far that argument goes, it hasn't yet been tested.

US free speech law means that it's very hard to be held legally liable for any consequences of your speech. On the other hand, if you build a machine, you can in many circumstances be held liable for what that machine does. Now, is a computer program more like speech, or is it more like a machine?
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> Last I checked, burgers are non-addictive.

"A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc. aren’t simply unhealthy. They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.

“The data is so overwhelming the field has to accept it,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “We are finding tremendous overlap between drugs in the brain and food in the brain.”"

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-11/fatty-foods-addi...

Not saying the science is done, but there's a strong possibility that burgers are addictive.
After being "discovered" by Europeans, the island was used for ranching. Most of it was owned by one guy, Walter Gibson. Then James Dole (of Dole food company) turned the island into the world's largest pineapple plantation. Castle & Cooke acquired Dole, then changed their name to Dole, then spun off a new company called Castle & Cooke, which was bought by the CEO of Dole, David Murdoch. Murdoch just sold his 98% of the island to Ellison. Currently there is only one town on the island, population 2,000.
But working software does not mean successful software. If it wasn't used, if it didn't helped people or solved a problem, how can it be considered successful?.

ALL of those products/projects you list did required managment and business skills to be successful.
Right. They don't sell software - they sell expert advice.

You sell software to uninformed users. I can see the difference.
QuickCheck is great and can be found in many languages - dynamic and static alike - nowadays. Another tool that is currently unique to Haskell and is easier to write tests for is Lazy/SmallCheck. SmallCheck shines in the left long tail of failure. Its core idea is based on a powerful principle: "If
a program does not fail in any simple case, it hardly ever fails in
any case."[]

So SmallCheck works exhaustively to find a minimal counterexample within some depth bound. This makes sense - when trying to characterize a structure for failure (or anything) you can rarely do better than the simplest explanation. However, when the problem lies in larger examples SmallCheck fails where QuickCheck catches a result so something like Type Check -> SmallCheck -> QuickCheck -> probably ok.

[] http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck/ documentation
Facebook initially started by downloading the photos off the individual house websites at Harvard. They were banned pretty quickly, but it got them attention. I think they switched to user-uploaded photos fairly soon afterwards (though I think a coworker told me that they were still scraping photos while they were Harvard-only); they'd definitely stopped by the time they got to Amherst in Oct 2004.
The fries are probably more perilous (unfortunately, also the one thing they do really well). The full-sugar soda is probably just straight-up toxic.
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Would this mean that he becomes the "ruler" of the island. I don't see it mentioned on the wikipedia page, does the island have any form of government or do the residents control everything? That also raises the question can he remove people from the island? I would assume that the condition of the sale means that people can't just be evicted/deported (not sure the correct term here) but maybe not.
First of all - are you confusing me with gp poster? It seems that way. I just like calling people out on falsely declaring fallacy. I do it a lot, check my comment history.

Second, this conflation was on my list of "to discuss" about the article (obviously I can't prove this, and the tone of your comment suggests you won't believe it anyway, but I hope you give me the benefit of the doubt), it just also helped me in my fallacy fallacy busting.

Third as to your fallacies:

1. I never made stuff up about Koch et al., hell I didn't even make any comments about them either way. Thanks for actually making stuff up about me (while cleverly disguising it in an accusation of the same. Further, I have never previously said anything about koch, if you google ' sophacles koch ' your comment is the first hit, followed a bunch of academic stuff and some old comment in a thread where someone else mentions Koch.

2. I tend to point out biases and conflations whether or not I agree with them. Or I try to anyway. In this case, yes I generally don't like the Cato institute, but if you look at my writing above, I think it's pretty obvious I agree with the premise that a computer is not independent of the people programming it for free speech purposes. If you would like to make a comprehensive list of my comments showing otherwise (not cherry picking the ones that don't support your statement, but say a random sampling or something), I will gladly rescind this point.

3. All your concern over poisoning the well and fake "objectiveness" certainly seems a bit wasted in the same comment where you make actually nasty statements against me, and throw a bone about how something "might have been an interesting discussion". It just makes your statement meaner, and look super defensive.
Wealth concentration isn't inherently bad. In fact I'm sure Ellison will not abuse it dramatically.
If you do move here, stay in San Francisco / Berkeley and not San Jose / Palo Alto. It's better for single people in the SF area vs the San Jose area, where engineers move to raise their families in suburbia. You also wont need a car in SF, which at your young age can help you avoid higher insurance rates or needing to get a licence. Car rental companies will charge you an extra $25/day for being under 25, but they'll be more willing to give you free car upgrades because of the $25/day charge.
>Where far right actually means libertarian.

That's an increasingly muddy line nowadays. For instance, the US Tea Party platform is very very close, except the tea party trends socially conservative. (The pejorative is that the TP types are fine with small government, until it comes to gays or medicare)

The "smaller government, lower taxes" bit is something we've all heard.

But, fair enough, I was perhaps hasty in calling them far right - I'd edit or kill my OP if I still could.

There's still nothing fallacious about pointing out who backs a group, however. Group X which has ties to Y, given Z, even if Z is proven by every bit of valid and reviewed data out there, it's still valid and worth knowing that X has ties to Y. Not all bias is malicious or even willful.