skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, I would say that what you are suffering from is a kind of mental block syndrome: you think in a procedural/imperative paradigm. All your listed languages operate in that paradigm. It's a very transferable paradigm, as it so happens. I can come up to (some approximation of) speed in an imperative language in under 2 weeks. In order to ship Lisp(Prolog, Haskell...), you have to break out of that paradigm. I am not condemning you, mind. It is what it is. Rewiring your head is hard, and often doesn't have direct results.

I can, however, ship with Common Lisp, because I've spent on the order of 5 years learning it and writing it most evenings. I am learning Clojure and am preparing to ship a (excruciatingly minor) product with that after only maybe two months of dabbling. This is possible because I've bent my head around into Lisp shapes.

It's also been said that some people have the shape of Lisp in their head, and when they learn Lisp, their heads fit it by nature, and other people don't have that innate meshing. I certainly found Lisp to mesh with my head well.

Oh yes. It can be hard to get started with Common Lisp, just in terms of getting an environment working. I have a tutorial site to help with that(plug plug plug): http://articulate-lisp.com/
Triggered a preorder...

Without a doubt I'm going to use a product less if I have to boot into Windows...
Revenue growth is better than active user growth, but growth is the high order bit.

In other words, growing revenue 10% a week is better than growing active users 10% per week. But for a startup (in the startup=growth sense), 10% growth in active users per week and no revenue is much better than being ramen profitable and growing revenues at 2% per week.
Highly recommended books: [Think on These Things](http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/think-on-these-things) and [The First and Last Freedom](http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/the-first-and-last-free...) by Jiddu Krishnamurti
> Numbers! Charts! Fuck! Am I cool yet!?

Upvote to you
"In Q3 2012, Steam added, for no apparent reason, non-gaming software to its library. "

I believe this was to compete directly with the Windows 8 app store, of which Valve has been vocal in its distaste.
(I meant status quo bias in the way it is defined on Wikipedia: an irrational preference for the current state of affairs)
I just heard of Summly for the first time yesterday, it seems like their recent fame has come greatly as a result of the purchase by Yahoo!

But I can't judge as I haven't been closely following the story. Is there any general consensus on the funding as a good or bad idea?

For the record I really like their promo video. It shows off the product with a bit of witty comedy. I just couldn't find myself using it, and I don't know how it'll fit into Yahoo, but definitely a fun app.
The parent very clearly specified I/O, which is what I was commenting on.
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No because it was a DNS amplification attack so it was a bunch of DNS requests with spoofed source IPs. Best way to reduce their impact in the future would be to threaten to null route ISPs that don't do anything to stop spoofed packets.
Can we stop talking about meteor "explosions"?
Agreed on all points; however, he's making a bold and verifiable prediction here. If it comes true he's going to look like a fucking genius and if it doesn't it's just more forgotten sound and fury of the blogosphere.
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ActiveX was, at its very core, not portable.

Are you making an objective technical argument, or a solipsistic one?
The OP suggests that U+0243 B with stroke is a "capitalized alternate symbol for the voiced bilabial fricative in Americanist phonetic notation"

I would suspect that the other stroke capitals that are present were used in specific actual alphabets (and probably represented in some existing pre-unicode font or code block), whether 'Americanist phonetic alphabet', or other -- and the stroke capitals that are not present, were not.

In general, unicode codepoints are justified by actually existing use.

(There is an interesting metaphysical problem that arises as our lives become increasingly digitized -- things that are not present in unicode _won't_ be used, because they won't be _able_ to be used online... so how will new things be added justified by use, once all the existing pre-digital glyphs have been added? I dunno.)
I see there's mixed responses here, but more praise than I expected.

That said, too little, too late for me. I've now moved to a tiling window manager (i3) and I'm not planning on going back.
(English is not my native language)

Open relays were at the time manageable, even the ones that suddenly appeared when someone installed an old OS-version, as were the process for getting removed from the blacklists due to open relays.

Once you had one a computer lab workstation hacked and used for spamming - not so easy to get whiteliested anymore.

The university had a class B-network, trying to get the staffs subnet whitelisted while keeping the computer-labs blacklisted was apparently not possible according to the spam clearing houses. Blocking port 25 for outgoing traffic not possible to check from the outside and didn't help.

I can understand that organizations like spamhaus are overworked don't have the resources to handle every non-standard case on the internet as quickly as the blocked ip-range would like, but the replies we got were truly unhelpful.

The fact that someone bothered to register the domain stophaus.com seems to indicate that my experiences isn't uniqueue.
> at least somewhat weird to call someone who posted a StackOverflow question or response

I think that's just straight-up weird
Of course it is. I would never live in Sweden because of things like this. I was just pointing it out.
OS X was out for a whole decade before the iPhone. I can't measure a blip, but I expect Apple were passed that within a year, eg the bondi blue iMac.
The boldest blind chicken there ever was.
nearlyfreespeech for me
My Dell XPS 13 (Developer Edition) came preinstalled with Ubuntu 12.04: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd (aka "project sputnik")

I haven't used it or other laptops enough to say how good it really is (but hibernate etc. works, the screen and keyboard are nice compared to other ultrabooks I tried; it's light and clean). The trackpad is annoying though but I think I'll always prefer a mouse.
Why don't you want to use a hosted solution?
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Basically, it seems that the Internet network community at large scrambled to deal with the problems, and CloudFlare is taking credit for it.

This is true - if the Internet network community didn't identify this issue and see how they could mitigate it Cloudflare would have been toast. And now this blog post is number 1 on Hacker News...
Do you have any reference to support Jobs shorting Apple?
Sure, though unfortunately I know of none that provide a decent balance between high level explanations and cryptographic depth.

The main actual deployed usage of the technique is in TPM's for direct anonymous attestation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Anonymous_Attestation

IBM explains their project here http://www.zurich.ibm.com/idemix/details.html

The original academic work its based on is this http://cs.brown.edu/~anna/papers/cl01a.pdf

A different(and older) technique which, by my understanding, is mainly useful for smart cards, is deployed in a prototype system from microsoft : http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/u-prove/
I think I would classify myself and most of my startup-knowledgable friends in the latter crowd.

Is that a particularly bad thing to not be motivated by large cashouts, and instead by creating a company with long-term value?
It turns out this story is a good example for why organizations should be independently notable before being included in the encyclopedia. Read it again: the problem isn't that the author stumbled across the ICD page and thought to himself, "ICD doesn't deserve a Wikipedia page". The problem is that when the author found the ICD page, it was riddled with promotional text and carefully guarded by ICD insiders.

This is why Wikipedia has the WP:N policy. It's not that WP cares about who "deserves" to have a page. It's that WP cares that it be possible to maintain accurate encyclopedia articles, and can't hope to perform that function for non-notable organizations. WP errs on the side of caution: if you can't independently source information about a topic, keep it off the site; you won't have content about that topic, sure, but at least you won't have to worry that the content you do have is hopelessly biased or misleading.

Regarding press coverage and the standards for WP:RS sourcing: I think you're oversimplifying a little. It's true that the site is overly deferential to institutional media coverage. That frustrated me when I was participating (though it was frustrating in probably the opposite direction as you: I was regularly thwarted in getting spam scrubbed off the site by someone's citation to some crappy trade press reprint of a press release). But WP does not formally privilege institutional media; you can in fact source a topic with particularly reputable blog posts.

The one thing you cannot do is source an article with primary sources --- ie, with interviews with subject matter experts given directly to WP page authors. That's deliberate: the site is not a forum for original research; it is not itself a press venue. But that's also an easy restriction to work around: do the original research for some other venue, and cite it in the WP.
> Unless you are doing really heavy IO or CPU across multiple VMs on the same host which is likely if you have any load worth mentioning. There is a 20% to 30% difference if you run one process per VM or 8 processes on bare metal in an 8 core machine. We benchmarked it on known good configs optimised to bits.
>
> Either the hypervisor scheduler is shit or the abstraction is costly. I reckon its down to the reduction in CPU cache availability and the IO mux.

We were running heavy loads and there was nothing like a 20-30% hit. I'm not saying you didn't see one but this isn't magic or a black box: we had a few spots where we needed to tune (e.g. configuring our virtual networking to distribute traffic across all of the host NICs) but it performed very similarly to the bare metal benchmarks in equivalent configs.

What precisely was slower, anyway - network, local disk, SAN? Each of those have significant potential confounds for benchmarking.
A bit strange that he brings Gabes ego into it. I would think that if hes trying to fill his ego (nothing about him seems to indicate that) he would try to stomp out microsoft, not run it.
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I think what it means is that if we're going to deploy DNSSEC, we might as well give up this fruitless war on "open resolvers*" and focus our energies on other solutions.

Substitute 'routers' for 'resolvers' to see how this only plays into the hands of those who don't like the openness of the internet.
When I was using it I used to notice a slight delay on some actions (maximizing a window, doing alt-tab, opening the task bar, etc.), that I never had on Gnome Classic.

It must be said, however, Cinnamon is really nice.
> In general, unicode codepoints are justified by actually existing use.

I vaguely remember something about Klingon and unicode related to that... ah, there we go:

"In September 1997, Michael Everson made a proposal for encoding this in Unicode.[2] The Unicode Technical Committee rejected the Klingon proposal in May 2001 on the grounds that research showed almost no use of the script for communication, and the vast majority of the people who did use Klingon employed the Latin alphabet by preference.[3] Everson created a mapping of pIqaD into the Private Use Area of Unicode, which he listed in the ConScript Unicode Registry (U+F8D0 to U+F8FF[4][5])"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_alphabets
>- Getters and setters, C# style.

In Java, I use Lombok:

@Getter
@Setter
private Integer foobar;

>Checked exceptions

True, widely regarded as a mistake, but hard to get rid of now.
Agree with your comment. I think it's more a matter of startup fatigue.
Few startups seem that great without testing the product or seeing their growth. Dropbox? The idea is not so great, but the execution was just awesome. Google? (yet another search engine), eBay? (a place to buy and sell beanie babies), Facebook? etc...
I still found it a bit too high level for me, but on the other the topic doesn't interest me much.
We chose to use .io as opposed to .com because io seems to be accepted within the development / tech community. Rather than come up with a web 2.0 domain name we'd prefer to use the name we like. http://theoria.io. If the product didn't have a tech / dev audience I'd probably go with something else.
Amazing, first paragraph defines sexism as problem, second paragraphs defines very gently male-whites as pigs (but not all of them of course).

Reminds me a job ad I had seen recently. In first paragraph: "we support equal opportunities for minorities, if you are X,Y,Z or W please apply". Just under it was age limit 45 years. This was desk-based administrator position for major government agency.
I don't think the attack has stopped, it will come back even bigger and would take down many networks.

Hope that kind of pubic outcry and media visibility will get the networks and governments to take notice and fix the core Internet infrastructure of the known vulnerabilities
Want to start a startup? Get an internship.
Great point, I'll have to reevaluate how I use R. My training in R was very informal and mostly involved reading other people's code, so my "vocabulary" is probably a union of other peoples' and is probably too large.

Actually one thing that has helped in the past year was reading your split/apply/combine paper and using the plyr package more.
There is one thing that is important here. Valve/Steam, even if they have a linux client, are at the hand of Microsoft/Apple. I think the reason they are moving to Linux is to see if they can get out of that stranglehold but I doubt it. They can convert us techies, but most people don't give a crap's ass about Ubuntu or Mint, they want Windows+Steam+Office+Visual Studio (or whatever combination).

But make no mistake, if MS thinks of buying Valve/Steam (or Apple, but I think MS has a better chance) making Steam hard to install/use can kill it. Steam lives of Windows users and I don't see many people buying a Steambox (when they can either buy a full Windows PC or a Playstation 3/4 or Xbox 360(/720?))
I used to be staunchly against deletionism, but having had more experience with exactly the above kind of page, where someone who cares a lot about some organization or topic that really isn't at all notable can go to an awful lot of trouble to create stuff that just junks up Wikipedia with biased, poorly researched and poorly cited pages, I am a lot more sympathetic to deletionism these days.

There are real costs to maintaining pages; editors need to revert vandalism, fix it to match the style guidelines, look for citations, resolve disputes, keep it neutral, ensure that it reflects a broad consensus about the actual truth of the matter, and so on. For small, insignificant topics, an article can be more trouble than it's worth.
This is really interesting. I use to write embedded software for sensor networks, and it was really a pain to write stuff for it, and it was hard to reason about any emergent behaviors. I haven't looked into the exact semantics of Proto, but if it allows a higher level of abstraction, I think it'd be useful for a variety of systems.
Which part of ActiveX wasn't portable? COM is definitely portable. Shipping signed executables that implement COM interfaces is as "portable" as NaCL is, so no problems there.

If your complaint is that ActiveX controls used the Win32 API, then you're missing the point. A Mac or Linux ActiveX control would use OS-native APIs, but still use COM and be an ActiveX control.

Furthermore, if you had even looked up the Wikipedia page for ActiveX, you'd see that:

"On 17 October 1996, Microsoft announced availability of the beta release of the Microsoft® ActiveX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Macintosh."

Yep, so non-portable that they released a Mac SDK back when Macs were PowerPC. Super non-portable. The non-portablest.
Haskell works the same way.
Hacker = Good
Cracker = Bad

C'mon, do your research.

EDIT: Okay, I see why you use Hacker that way but I still don't like it.
The part where I talk about taking experience into account isn't very sympathetic to that viewpoint either. But you indicated that you say things simply to evaluate the response. I find this manipulative and don't see a need for it.

I see some potential for me just reading your comment too narrowly.
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It depends a lot on the nature of the call (especially as in this case the forum maybe provided an obvious alternative method of initiating contact - but even then calls can sometimes be more appropriate).

I think people can be forgiven for misjudging their cold-calling timing and technique in their mid-teens too.

And grabbing the numbers from WHOIS itself simply shows initiative
This is slightly hilarious because Gnome 3 (and Unity) has excellent keyboard support. You had to install a Quicksilver clone in Gnome 2 to get what Gnome 3 has baked in. And Gnome 3's keyboard search is better all around; faster, uses my whole screen, and it's simpler to switch between various types of entity that I'm searching for.
Yes and no. My system hard-shutdowns if I try and run Bumblebee. It works for some people but it's very much alpha quality at this point.
I think it would scare the pants off of the corporate customers of MS.

Ballmer's erratic leadership is scaring the pants off of customers, ISVs, and IHVs alike. In fact, the only people who still have their pants are Microsoft's competitors.
I don't think you should take these comments personally. The world of frameworks is loaded with fanboys of one or the other. :/
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There is a massive difference between just bundling your additional software with your operating system and integrating (for no technical reason) your software with the operating system so that using an alternative is extremely difficult if not impossible (for the average user).

While I do believe that Microsoft should be able to include whatever it wants with Windows I want to be able to replace those parts with alternatives with zero friction.

Imagine if the US and the EU had not taken Microsoft up on this? We would still be using a god awful web browser which would have more than likely stalled the web from growing the way it has over the past decade and therefore not allowing a lot of the amazing web services we have today to exist. The same with media players. Look how crappy WMP is still compared to things like VLC. Or god forbid we would still have to buy things like CyberLink PowerDVD to play back DVDs because they are "allowed" by Microsoft to replace the built in media player for things.

Forcing Microsoft to split things up has done wonders for the IT world and while a lot of people see the huge fines as pointless they are very much not.

In the 90s Microsoft used its power to stall the growth of the web by several years. It was not until Firefox (and more recently Chrome) came along that Microsoft pulled its thumb from its ass and started to improve Internet Explorer much like it was not until Linux really got a hold in the server space in the early 2000s that Microsoft started to improve its server operating systems.

The same can be said for many parts of the IT world. Databases for example. Pressure from MySQL and PostgrSQL undoubtedly forced Microsoft to improve SQL Server (who remembers how god awful SQL 2000 was?). Even programming languages like Java and Python, etc. pushed Microsoft to make better languages (C#, F#) and platforms (.NET) and give away free tools (Visual Studio Express).

They had to as they had made the entry level to developing for the Windows platform (client and server) too expensive for individuals so they were going with the free tools as that was the only route someone could take if they wanted to get into development.

That is why we now have individual targeted tools for people to start with (the Express line as mentioned) so that Microsoft does not lose everyone to the free alternatives.

Pretty much the only product line that has survived the old Microsoft ways is the Office line because even with OpenOffice businesses couldn't make the jump for compatibility reasons (another awful thing about Microsoft).

Things are starting to change with things like Google Docs (mainly for small businesses) however I hope to see more competition in the next decade as with HTML5 it will be possible to provide a solid Office replacement as a web app.

The key for the enterprise in my opinion is the ability to offer this internally rather than an externally hosted solution like Google Docs though. Time will tell if I am right but I would bet that I am.
Interestingly enough, the octopus shows up but the proposed Bitcoin symbol doesn't (iOS 6)
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The video at the end was a great touch
So when Thai people want to buy something online, how do they know if the price is in Bitcoin or Baht ?

Your attitude appears to be very US-centric: you don't think Thai people buy things online in their own currency or you don't think it's important if Thai people never use Bitcoin ever.

Just because some online stores have detected your IP address originates in the US and shows prices in US$ doesn't mean they don't show THB to Thai IP addresses.

My only concern is that for the sake of choosing an appropriate symbol in the beginning, you are happy to make people suffer confusion.
Fact. Don't be surprised when it comes out. 10% haircut for cash into Mexico.
Deletionism is like the Myers-Briggs personality types: it's not about what you do all the time, but rather the more common reflex/tendency.

Yes, there should be an upper limit; a wiki page for the sandwich I had last Thursday would go too far. But in a world of quasi-infinite storage, I think inclusionism should be the default, with a strong burden of proof required to delete.
Are you talking specifically about this version? If so, how hard/possible is it to install Gnome 3.8 on top of an existing X, say under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Thanks!
I'm on 3.6 right now; so I can't comment. I don't think it would be too difficult, though.

./configure
make
make install
Persona allows you to keep your network activity private from providers. It's the same in a couple of important aspects, though:

1. You still have to remember which email you had used to login. This was heavily criticized with OpenID ("did I login with Google or MyOpenID?" kind of situation). With emails it just got worse, as you will have problem, especially if you're trying to fight spam using service-specific emails (hackernews@foo.example.org).

2. You still can't "migrate" from one email address to another. Shall your email provider go down or you lose your domain - you lose your identity.

3. You still don't own your own identity. The identity is just leased to you by your email provider (or your domain registrar).
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I humbly disagree. Building a company to be the size of Microsoft is not a trivial matter, no matter how you stretch it. You'd need to catch a VERY big wave of innovation.

I'm totally on side that the author is exercising a little "wishful thinking", and changing microsoft would suck, But I'd rather have (very deep seeded) management problem then have to come up with an idea as basic/brilliant as selling software for a profit.