skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2015 seems ambitious. Needless to say the ride up is safe, but mind you there is a glider structure carrying 6 passengers, in other words an "untested aircraft". Aircraft development takes time and lots of $$$ in testing. Building this and getting the proper approval is no easy feat. Not only that there is only one agency in the world that also has built a massive glider to decent from the space and/or edge of space...

Long story short, 75K x 6 makes 450k a pop, say it goes up monthly in its inception, that makes ~ $5.5M. Felix Baumgartners jump reportedly cost around $20-30M. Granted it was higher, and the design needed a space suit and a capsule along with the a massive team. Regardless, this will require a capsule and a solid team, not to mention a more complex capsule design that can soar down and land in 1 piece.

I don't want to poop on the cake but 1 accident also everyone gets to watch Jimi Hendrix play in the garden of eden till eternity, which also spells the end of the company and idea. So 2015 extremely ambitious, Highly doubtful unless they have some some nutty billionaire willing to throw in 50M to see what happens.
Also curious about this topic but not much useful info will come from this thread, it will be anecdotal at best.

My anecdote: grew up poor, started programming to build my own games as my family couldn't afford new hardware. Built systems out of scavenged parts and learned a lot about code optimization. Dev is the key factor that lifted me from poverty in suburban England to a middle class life in NYC (and hopefully beyond, should luck pan out).

Most of my peers appear to be from middle/upper middle class backgrounds, but the (faux?) egalitarianism of tech would suggest that the sires of the genuinely rich wouldn't flaunt it as everyone in this industry "made their own success", right? ;)
This is only the case for binary events (either "it happened" or "it didn't"), which in the real world are quite rare. "Absence of evidence" usually means "The test hasn't been run yet", or "The test results are inconclusive." This is, of course, different from "The test has been run, and I'm choosing to rationalize the results after the fact."
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'FriedCat' is from China.
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If that sentence hadn't mentioned triple negatives, I don't think I would have noticed anything abnormal about it.
Okay, you are assuming an Intel architecture? Plenty of embedded environments don't have OSes, let alone pages or virtual memory.

IOW, I've worked in environments where, yes, the value in memory is based on what the compiler does in debug mode, not what the OS might be doing. I'd say the girl's answer is, while not exhaustive, certainly correct. Without more context, we don't know why the value was 0.
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It's a little offtopic, but those shredded files were put together with software (they scanned all the scraps and put them back together with algorithms).
Here is a link to the research article (couldn't find a free source, sorry): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00287-004-0395-8
Those "language games" (I assume you're referring to my having to twice clarify the definition of description) were necessary a) because you were putting words in my mouth; and b) half of your argument centred around attacking me like I was pushing some agenda: I was describing reality.

> But the guy I was talking to didn't seem to be interested in discussing the issues

I made a clear point with a clear example and well defined boundaries. Some of what's been said here - a lot by you - has been so wrong/irrelevant/flawed that I wasn't willing to entertain it, on this point you are correct. I'm 2 weeks in to a new keyboard layout you see, and the thought of the amount I'd have to type to address them all properly was too much to bear.

> astroturfing

For the record, I had to google that.
My understanding is that CNIL works/worked on data privacy issues, which does not appear to be related to the issue of reverse engineering. You might be thinking about the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electr....
Don't forget Saylor: http://www.saylor.org/

EDIT: I should probably point out that I'm not against the idea that there are multiple open universities out there. I think that, overall, it's better for the recognition of the field to have multiple competitors out there offering a wide range of courses and course styles.
I felt this way as well. On an interview why would you give a really specific answer to a really general question? I don't think it's that most people can't answer like this, rather that it's not what was asked.
Oh, thanks for the correction! (I just re-read the release notes and you're of course right - the issue with V8 was that it didn't do interpreting. The new one they wrote does as you wrote - JITs on supported platforms, interpreter on everything else.)
Cricket has a motion sensor inside, making the Cricket respond in a tenth of a second, no other product can do that" <- Yariv Bash, Product Designer
Not if you have breathing apparatus and a parachute :) See http://halojumper.com/ for example
I trust Bruce Schneier to believe what he says when it comes to cryptography.

I would also be fairly confident that what he says is correct.

When he strays outside of his area of expertise into politics, I think he is naïve.
Your answer may be correct with regards to the specific situation. I just want to mention that, as far I know, the output of a JIT compiler does not have to me machine (native) code. A JIT compiler is just an algorithm that transforms some well defined input to a different representation that is better suited for the current situation (hardware). The main "feature" of a JIT compiler is that this transformation is done while the app is running.

So the Qt people could have written a JIT for iOS. The only thing that can't be done on iOS is to write a JIT that transforms the input to native code and execute it. But this is only one of many use cases of JIT compilers.
There are already very good third-party solutions (though the better ones tend to be expensive); not sure why Apple making one would make a huge practical difference.
Meaningful change in diapers? Not really.

Then stock up, and seriously? Their shelf stocking doesn't work that way. Any SKU ordered (other than food stuffs and specialty seasonals) are stocked for, at least, one month in any given location before long term stocking is decided on
I think it is more than that. I had a boss that basically would not hire somebody if they said they were at the top of any measure. In one sense, she was correct. No one can know everything about C++. OTOH, if you are in the 9x percentile, why should you not rate yourself at 9-10 out of ten? At some point it gets silly when you are arguing about how you should properly distribute yourself in bins so long as you understand the scope of the problem.
That gui seems fine to me. It's ugly as sin, sure, but it has everything easy to find and clearly labeled. Ignore the parts you aren't using and you're good to go.
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> A system that requires vast and increasing amounts of the world's energy to be devoted to it just to achieve a vague notion of security?

Consider the current system of government fiat and credit: the US dollar requires vast armies and navies, the vast and expanding Federal Reserve apparatus with its system of member/franchised banks, employees of the IRS, the US Treasury, the Secret Service (I'm redundant, I know). Millions of people are dedicated to propping up the "full faith and credit".

I'd be surprised if the energy required to keep billions of ASICs humming is more than the energy required to keep millions of people humming.

Further, the fractional reserve system is far from rock solid. It appears to be solid, until a tipping point of confidence is reached, at which point it falls like a house of cards. It's the definition of a con game.
Great idea - the top half of the computer is an 11" iPad that detaches from an 11" MacBook Air (keyboard part only) - could be awesome, especially if Remote Desktop worked via Wifi... Software integration would need loads of thought though, as would the hinge/detachment mechanism!
99% pure approach to managing content in Javascript
Have you ever seen water jump back up a few stages of a waterfall? (Hint: no.) It's called the Waterfall model exactly because that kind of thing is explicitly not part of it (see Figure 2 in the Royce paper linked above). That's the whole point of the name.

It goes without saying that no software development effort has ever lived up to this standard. Nonetheless, the fact that it is not possible to develop non-trivial designs (for software or anything else) like this in no way prevented people from advocating it as the "ideal" design process.
Yes, I do trust him.

His work is out in the open for all to see. I'm sure that he has a very large target on his back for what he has accomplished. There are more than a few government tools and internet fools who would consider their careers made if they could point to any technical compromises in his work. They haven't been able to.
Absence of evidence is [pretty much the weakest possible] evidence of absence. It is most useful for things which are readily apparent. It is not particularly useful for determining questions where the evidence is not readily apparent (such as, obviously, 'Is the NSA spying on Americans?').

One may easily use the absence of evidence of woolly mammoths to conclude that woolly mammoths are extinct. Given their physical size (they are easy to detect) they could not remain hidden from view. We can assume (from our knowledge of other large mammals) that they would leave signs of their presence wherever they trod (footprints, dung, etc.) It is not so easy to use absence of evidence to disprove the existence of neutrinos or tree shrews. Both neutrinos and shrews are hard to detect. There are few people even qualified to attempt to detect them, fewer who are interested, and even fewer who have the resources and opportunity.

A relevant question is "Is it possible for spies to conduct espionage undetected for an extended period of time?" The answer is yes, there is ample evidence of that. Schneier is clearly in a place of trust in his community, making him a high value target. The standards of evidence for betrayal of trust being high (and difficult to define), mean that Schneier could potentially be a spy/collaborator in some capacity, and/or could become one at any time.
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I assumed you could just look in any introductory finance textbook, but here:

CAPE Formula:

- Adjust each of the yearly earnings of the last 10 years for inflation.

- Average the result of the step 1.

- Divide the current price by the result of step 2.

When I say yearly earnings I really mean trailing twelve months. Use TIPS etc to adjust for inflation.

CAPE is mostly horseshit but basically it's designed to give a sense of over/undervaluation of risky assets

It's about as awful as any other valuation metric though.
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it'd be nice to have a full team of heroes leading all of the projects mentioned, instead of calling one in after millions of dollars have been spent on a failed system.

In my experience, it usually goes something like this:

1. Developers say 'we need X, Y and Z to make this happen'

2. Managers deliver Y and Z late, and never provide X

3. Developers plow ahead anyway, project is a catastrophe

4. A senior VP is appointed to fix the problem, asks the developers "What do we need to get this fixed?". Developers say, "Well, we need X".

5. The mere involvement of a VP removes all impediments to obtaining X, and the project is completed as originally designed.
So, this is only really better than straight up nginx if you were to put more than one application behind it, for some reason?
Absolutely, I have much love for OCaml.
I especially liked the frantic-nerds-with-energy-drinks picture that this article painted in my mind. Top-notch reporting, Miami Herald.
On what grounds do you confirm his speculation?
You didn't say that, as actually I'm not proud of anything related to nationality (it was a reference to the first post in the thread). What I meant is that in the particular case of the education system, the contribution system you mentioned allows socially deprived people to actually access the education system for free, as in beer.
No, I too am talking about a hierarchy of internally consistent knowledge.

Have you implemented a compiler or a interpreter for a popular language? I could be wrong but I strongly suspect you haven't. If you have ever implemented a compiler you understand the language at a fundamental level and when stumped with a bug or a highly technical puzzle or what have you - you get that "aha" moment where its like "Ofcource ! How else could it be. This language feature must be using this construct because of X or Y reason and the compiler has to work this way because this part here doesnt allow for it to work any other way, etc ,etc and the optimizer has xyz amount of scratch registers so abc condition could never happen, and on and on."
The Algorithm Design Manual is basically an algorithm cookbook, which makes for a nice companion book.
Thinking about space debris: What happens to the balloon afterwards? Will it remain in orbit or sink down to earth? Could the balloons cause problems for other aircrafts later on?
"go run" is even better, it feels like running a python script, and doesn't leave a binary around when you're done
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No. For example "Process management and supervision", "Scaling" and "Statistics and insight" are extra features that you get by using Phusion Passenger. You can't do those easily with just Node + Nginx.
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There are two reasons I rewrote Foreman in Go. You hit one of them square on the head. A single binary with no dependencies that can be cross-compiled on a Heroku dyno makes things much simpler.

Foreman was originally written in Ruby which ideally means it runs on any machine with a Ruby interpreter. When you get down to it, though, the differences in fork/exec between Ruby 1.8, 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius, etc make this a nightmare scenario of a different sort.

If you go to https://gobuild.herokuapp.com/ddollar/forego/master/darwin/a... you get a working program as a single binary in one step. Using bsdiff I can even ship binary diffs for fast upgrades (this is how `foreman update` works in the new version)

Oh and as a side effect the new Foreman is quite a lot faster to start up (Rubygems initialization is sloooooow)
Can't see the difference between setting off dry-ice bombs in your back yard versus an airport? That's nothing to be proud of! It's a sign of the inability to relate emotionally to other people, not clear-headed rationality.

People aren't afraid of things in descending order of the probability of those things happening. Otherwise people would be a lot more afraid of cars and a lot less afraid of murders, etc. That's a characteristic of peoples' emotional makeup that policymakers have to deal with, just as aerospace engineers have to deal with gravity or friction or other things that can be inconvenient.
Let's see what price Apple can negotiate for the 8 and 12 core options. This is where intel usually charges big. Those CPUs may be useful for high density computing in a datacenter, but not so much for a desktop where the user could have gotten two hexa cores for less money.

Personally I'm not excited about a Mac Pro with not much more CPU power than an iMac, other thant it is quite nifty. It's also nice to see workstations a little less dead than I'm used to, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the competitors.
Another example of eBay's shift in markets. They started out being about the small guy auctioning stuff online. Now as of late they've been all about the warehouse in China selling stuff in masses and being more like Amazon.
I guess if you are ancient and rich you could be proud of it . If your papers say you were born in an ancient and rich group but you're none, what should you be proud of ?

It really boils down to you as an individual vs the country you are enlisted in.
>Not to nitpick details, but you make it sounds like Apple is pioneering new ground here. They aren't.

Did you see the Wired article headline?
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/
I had not heard of JIT compilers that don't actually create code native to the CPU and don't execute it directly on the CPU. My understanding is that in absence of generating and executing native code directly on the CPU - the JIT would be a regular interpreter. Wikipedia seems to agree with me on this FWIW :) Out of curiosity - do you have any examples of JIT use cases that differ from "compile to native code and execute just in time, directly on the CPU"?
In the spirit of constructive advice - and perhaps I'm missing something - but I just looked at your site and while it all looks very sci-fi and slick, I have absolutely no idea what the game is, how it works or why I'd want to play it. I even watched the video and that didn't make things any clearer.

I mean, wikipedia tells me this is a well known game in certain parts of the world, but I've grown up in the UK and I've never heard of it, so a description somewhere on your site would be nice.

Now, I'm certainly no app marketing guru - I'm currently employed writing software for enterprise - so you probably shouldn't take any advice from me terribly seriously, but I do have an ipad at home and my girlfriend has an iPhone, and I'm not sure what I'd be buying if I were to rush home and find this on the app store.

I can tell you that it LOOKS professionally done, but I just wish I knew what it did.
What's the problem with gradual debasement? Every once in a while you chop of a bunch of zeroes (like they did in Turkey a few years ago). They didn't have any crashes.
>I don't think you know how great mathematicians think.

I'm confused. What is your basis for that statement? If you you know how they think why don't you just express it? :-S
I am sorry, I have no clue what your point is, or even if you have one.
You have printf, and the interviewer says "on my machine, I actually get 1, then 2, then 3". Those two hint very strongly at a general purpose computer, thus paging etc.

What really annoyed me is the suggestion that zeroing is more helpful than randomization in a debug context. Randomizing everything not defined by the standard is a good way to trigger lots of bugs based on false assumptions...
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Nice work. That's quite a bit of code. If you are serious about this you should setup a website, list features, show screenshots and offer binaries.

As it stand it not likely that many people will build a thing they never even seen a screenshot.
> Why can't I open up an issue?

> Because I'm just a single person and I don't want to offer up my spare time doing support or dealing with feature requests that I don't care about myself [...]

Sort of defeats the point of open source, no? Sublime Text's author could argue a similar case about keeping it closed source himself.
>Sadly you are required to move for such jobs, which is not always an option.

True. Talent going to waste is sadly nothing new. Has happened, will continue to happen. :(
Can someone clarify on the QT dual license model? Can you make a commercial closed source application that links with the QT libraries?
Would it be possible to get a couple of screenshots?
On Ubuntu + my AMD card, sublime text just chugs no matter what settings I use or what driver I switch to, so I'm really open to checking out alternatives. I'm even working up the courage to dive into vim.
i wish quarnster didn't decide to retire his excellent sublimeclang plugin. it's by far the most useful plugin i've come across for sublime (in fact, i've almost come to rely on it), and i fear that his replacement isn't going to be able to do quite as much as clang can. incidentally, the lack of ST updates have meant that i've not ran into any issues with the plugin randomly breaking..!

that said, i'm looking forward to giving this a go, as an open source sublime text would be perfect.
Cool. What made you go with OpenAuth?

I couldn't spot an issue discussing it, but if you have a good link on the pros and cons, I'd love to see it. :)
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Looks interesting. Hopefully it become popular so this guy gets some help.
Nice effort, not sure if thats the right approach though. SublimeText is awesome and alot of work went into it. Before creating your own version of it disregarding everything the original author put into it, one should maybe try to collaborate with him on an unsupported open-source lite version or something.
i think this is quite early work, we're a little bit off having stable binary issues - i think quarnster is only after feedback from people comfortable with coding :)
My thoughts exactly. I'm always happy to try a new text editor, but if I can't at least see a screenshot of how it looks... no thanks.
I'd say the causes of hate range from their participation with the NSA surveillance programs to just plain making faulty software.
If I were his attorney (this dry ice guy), I would push for everyone to stop using the word "bomb". The guy basically made a loud noise in an airport. If my ringtone were the sound of a gun firing, or a bomb going off, would I be banned from the airport? Would I be charged criminally for bringing my phone through security?

Of course, the DA can't let up. I'm sure he realizes this is stupid, but there's no way he can 'let a bomber go free'.
It's not pride of being born at a certain location (that's coincidence), It's pride to be part of a community (state, city, organization, ...) that makes good, rational decisions. Like how you can be proud if you live in a country with a sensible healthcare system or patent system, or proud to work at a company with good policies and a healty work environment.
Go is an interesting choice. I wonder if this will inspire or scare developers away.
Here's the law http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=... (Google Translate at your own risk)

It's indeed pretty restrictive, some parts:

> Les informations nécessaires à l'interopérabilité n'ont pas déjà été rendues facilement et rapidement accessibles aux personnes mentionnées au 1° ci-dessus

> Informations required for interoperability, haven't been easily and quickly accessible.

This one is pretty easy to argue, unless you reverse engineer an application that implement a standardized protocol / format.

> ces actes sont limités aux parties du logiciel d'origine nécessaires à cette interopérabilité.

> You can only reverse engineer the parts needed for interoperability

Make sense.

> Les informations ainsi obtenues ne peuvent être communiquées à des tiers sauf si cela est nécessaire à l'interopérabilité du logiciel créé de façon indépendante ;

> Obtained informations cannot be shared with others unless it's required for interoperability.

Should be easy to workaround by making an open source library.
but its open source nature means we can add features/fix bugs ourselves. if they gain enough traction, i'm sure they'll end up in the mainline branch.
I think this guy completely misses the most important point. Apple sees how much fragmentation hurts Windows and Android and they want to avoid it.

Imagine if as a developer you only have to worry about a single platform? Imagine if as a distributor you only have to worry about releasing a single package? It makes things much easier for everyone and allows efforts to be on quality rather than compatibility.
Do it, but steal somebody else's .vimrc that maps leader and some basic switching between buffers/tabs.
Yep! I haven't used easy_install in a long time, but that is true!