skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's no GNU on Android, and probably not on embedded devices either (given the GPLv3)

so you'd be more accurate to say just Linux, rather than parroting stallman
I've been spending a lot of time recently looking into and thinking about alternatives to C.

I'd love to see a language as close to assembly as C is, but with a cleaner disconnect with it. As an example of what I mean:

Bitfields would be really handy when writing a device driver. A basic example of the difference they would make is "if (reg.field == VAL)" vs. either "if (reg & MASK == VAL)" or "if (GET_FIELD(reg) == MASK)". But you can't use them for that purpose because their layout is implementation defined.

There would be a noteworthy performance benefit to pay for portable bitfields, but I think it would be worth it. Right now I have to write ugly code if I want any attempt at portability (always). I'd much rather have to write ugly code where I need speed (sometimes).

I'd love to hear if anyone else has any ideas on this matter (BTW it seems like D solves many of the problems I've been thinking about, but it's memory managed).
We actually have 35 unaccredited investors in Wefunder and they have been valuable investors, some have been a lot more helpful than some of our accredited investors. A crowd of investors doesn't have to be all strangers and randos. They can be other founders, VPs in big tech companies (who don't quite pass the accredited bar yet), domain experts, someone famous (or internet famous), and people you know and trust. Or they could be your customers who love what you're doing.
Want hyperbole? Compare an opt in social network to heroin.
No, people REALLY do care that the US is spying on everyone. A lot of people (I assume) also dislike the entire situation we're living in at the moment (tiresome police state crap).
As another poster has said, we didn't really "lose" that fight. Rabies has always been that way - invariably fatal unless treated, and the only treatment (outside some insane edge cases) is the administration of the rabies vaccine shortly after (or ideally before) contact.

The very low rabies incidence and near zero fatalities of rabies in the developed world actually show that it's a very winnable fight. The issue is, we have to show up to said fight. In the developing world, we're not always good at that.
Fair point. They make an effort with the Browser Bundle but I just tried it and it broke on the second run...

Now I want to write a Tor compatible client that 'just works'. Just one static binary that implements the proxy. It embeds a static firefox binary and a prepared profile, which gets extracted into a visible location so the user can delete it if desired.

Basically minimize its dependence on the environment as much as possible.
Awesome. Mind if I ask how you found that?

I couldn't find a link to this, so I just forked the gh-pages repo.
Please check out my comment in another thread with my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601763

As a self-proclaimed gopher: this build has taken me far more than 15 minutes, and I'm still struggling with my Python installation.

The main issue here is that very few of these packages follow the proper conventions to work with the `go get` tool.

The author has attempted to version control his third-party deps (something `go get` lacks) in addition to using cgo (to build a C extension for Python).
Plus there's a frontend with a dependency on QT5 (another complicated C-interop library which probably has its own crazy dependency maze).

This is a fairly complex build, but the lack of `go gettable` packages and poor factoring of some packages is definitely making it more complex than it needs to be.
I really want to read the engineering details of what it takes to add a self destruct on bad RNA checksum feature to your bug.

(I think your analogy hides the potential impact of a mutating virus. Fly by wire only puts air travel at risk.)
There's a short article from Dijkstra on this reasoning:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

He enumerates the four possible ways one could use, and goes on the pros and cos of each.
Certainly an interesting workaround. I'm not that familiar with iOS development, so could someone explain what technical reasons there might be for running a remote imap proxy server to do the message modifications rather than a local (on device) one?
> Nerd outrage hyperbole much?

How is that even close to a valid response to someone that's exercising critical thinking?
this is a great idea.
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Unfortunately, Airbnb is a pretty legacy AWS client; when we started using it, VPC was a much less prominent feature. Migrating to a VPC is a very non-trivial process, especially if you have RDS instances outside the VPC
What do the scare quotes around "equal" mean? And what trait(s) connects the countries you list?

2. If at all any government wants to "control" internet it better be US alone than some other nation of mixture of others nations.

Of course this is what light the article is being read in, isn't it the title?
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It does look quite sharp.
It actually looks like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Clostridi...
Even if things take days to pop up and/or go away you still need to keep track of it. So even if you did you 30 day thing and felt fine and wanted to start adding new foods, you still want to track it. This app doesn't tie symptoms to consumption. It seems to just give you an easy platform to log what/when you ate and how/when you felt. Patterns will emerge organically eventually. You can speed that up by taking a systematic approach to what you eat. But you still need to track it.
This would be perfect for my idea of a tool for teaching programming to kids: a small game framework that they can program with a DSL, then teach them to hack the DSL....
Yeah. There's a minor problem with the court misunderstanding the sense in which the guy's website uses the term hacker, but it's really tangential to the case itself.
You really need to submit a single newton.js to GitHub so people can try it out more easily. (how I did it for my library[1]. Other than that, I've been using Chipmunk-JS lately and struggling a bit here and there so I very much look forward to using Newton.

[1]: https://github.com/davidgomes/pentagine/blob/master/tools/me...

EDIT: Already filled in a pull request, the code looks quite good.
This is the #1 reason I like CrossFit, triathlon and other extreme sports. By regularly committing to physical challenges that require a lot of mental strength, your fear of similar commitments in business and the rest of your life reduces.
That's not quite true, in that all the emails I send to people who have opted in are now available to LinkedIn. You have no way of totally opting out without encrypting all your email.
Wow, I am amazed.
I'm in the same boat with most of my AWS workload, was created before IGW was available and keep having the same discussion about migrating :-)
I tried to venture into web dev , being a desktop coder and frankly I came back. Foremost most of the so called "web technologies" are just desktop software which includes anything that goes inside your web browser. And to be even more frank Web is against Web , a lot more than Desktop is against Web. Web is a mess, why would Apple or any coder that takes design into serious consideration be part of the web ? Its a big pile of mess that will take a long time to be shorted out. I am macos user myself, an Apple fan, but I prefer using cross platform open source tools (currently coding in Pharo) so as a developer I don't care about Mavericks or anything that locks me to a specific platform.

For everyone that is ready to tolerate the shit that hogs your computer offering you no substantial improvement I will have to say go for it, I am sure web development will be waiting with open arms. Desktop is not without its kind of flaws, but lets say I am so glad I am not a pro coder so I don't have to follow nonsense overhyped crap in the name of making a living.

Not having javascript or browsers forced down my throat is not a disadvantage its actually a huge advantage. Ask me again when Web reaches the state Desktop really is. If it does then I will be 100% behind it. But until then, open web ? Hell no !!!
The problem is that most people do not really want an Internet controlled by its users, because what most people want is a ton of somewhat-reliable throughput.

A complete non-sequitur.
Just bought this for $2 and am trying it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
How about all of them?
> It breaks the very concept of email security.

There's no such thing. Email breaks the concept of email security.
can we see serf as a kind of riak core but written in go?
What would a resource management class look like?
Oh, do tell us about the US and its credibility right now.
His handwriting should be a font
You are not the first to notice this. What's your proposed alternative? Keep in mind that once money is spent, the spender no longer has it. If power is used, the user still has it. So it would be a bad idea to let powerful people have the soapbox instead of people with money.
It's hard to claim the US system "works" because of whistleblowers, when the whistleblowers themselves claim the system is broken.
Haxe (http://haxe.org/) is a great language, and it compiles to C++ and flash, among other targets.
All great web services are measured in their initial "time til dicks" — or TTD.*

*Dicks can be substituted for Goatse.
Iran gives Russia copy of US ScanEagle drone as proof of mass production
The World's Most Powerful MRI Takes Shape
I tend to agree that no sane person with minimal technical knowledge would balk at this.

I already know that Yahoo! sells the email addresses of the people I exchange even one email with to LinkedIn and I am repulsed by this. LI then turns around and offers them as connections. I should note I am always logged out from LI to prevent even more evil from them. LI is just evil and should be eradicated.
NoUiSlider
You don't need to use iCloud mail to get Apple's "intended" experience. You can use any email that follows the IMAP standard. Fastmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. Gmail has a custom, non-standard IMAP implementation.
$1 million (a year) in funding might not register on TechCrunch, but I would think it's more than enough money to start (or help keep afloat) many different kinds businesses, including tech startups.
In this thread China and Russia have been mentioned several times. What hasn't been brought up is the origin of the software they use to surf the internet.
Wow! This is a fantastic app. All of the basic tools feel natural to use, and the vector smoothing "just works". Well done!
They don't bother because all their users have been convinced not to care, perhaps by proprietary software marketing efforts. The free software movement seeks to educate people on why they should care, and why it's valuable for companies to give users freedom instead of trying to lure them into proprietary licensing traps. I don't know what you gain from viewing GNU/Linux as a product that is supposed to compete with proprietary software on the same level, because it's not that at all. As we've seen from countless failed companies trying to pitch GNU/Linux on the desktop, traditional marketing strategies for proprietary software do not carry over to free software. This is the true misallocation of resources and it's the only thing causing the "wheel-spinning" you're referring to.

>Sinking a couple of million into a game and providing it for free is not exactly a winning strategy.

It's free as in freedom, not free as in price. Most if not all games sell based on content anyway, which doesn't need to be free (as in freedom or as in price) to resolve the problem of the users being treated like garbage and being forced into a subservient relationship.
Thanks for saving me the trouble of tracking down sources.

The claim was inartfully stated at best. However, it all ends up going back to your definition of "net positive". I read "net positive" as getting more out than you put in during the refining process. Neither gasoline nor hydrogen from water is a net positive by this basis.

If you extend the "net positive" test to the extraction and refining process, then you have to include the process to make the electricity for hydrogen-from-water or it's not a fair comparison. I can't dig up electricity. In this case both processes are net positives if the comparison is even.
I think that, in an article directly related to marketing, marketing-speak is appropriate.
The Snowden Traveler and Expat Wallet
Actually, I had an issue with Mail when I first started.

In years past, after an OS X upgrade, Mail.app would show a "Upgrade Mail" prompt before using. Now it appears that instead, it's happily showing a blank set of emails while it slowly (5 minutes-ish for me) converts to the new version.

This is, of course, confusing to the user because it doesn't show ANY indication that it's converting to a new version.

So likely, it's still converting the emails. That's why CPU spikes when you first load too; it's not Spotlight but the conversion process (and Spotlight is reading them while converting).
Scheme has a bit of flavor of the "inevitable" to me...
My sarcasm processing engine had a coredump. I have no idea who is sincere anymore in this thread. Please turn on sarcasm tags so I should know whether to agree/disagree, be pissed, etc.
>Would like to point out that separate from the fact that it bothers you and/or might not be right or ethical or whatever there is no doubt that in general in business you don't want to make it to easy for someone to think and cancel.

Eh, I think if I have a product that the consumer doesn't want, I've pretty much already lost. 'extracting value' from people who aren't paying attention is best left to the professionals. I mean... the line between making it hard to cancel and outright fraud... can get fuzzy. I think it's best to make, as it were, a "Good faith effort" to insure that you are only charging people who want to be charged.

Now, you can argue that recurring billing with an easy way to cancel can count as that 'good faith effort' - It's certainly the industry standard.

If you start doing things with the goal of making it hard for users to cancel, though, you are certainly stepping outside of that 'good faith effort' - and where the line is between that and outright fraud, I do not know. I do think that my current system, with it's manual cancellation process would be unacceptable by my standards if I pulled money from customer accounts. I don't think it would be unacceptable by legal standards, but it would be well into the gray area.
The thorny issue of lobbying vs. democracy shares a lot of overlap with the realities of legal costs and the justice system. On the one hand, it's clearly unjust that the party who can afford more legal fees has a strong advantage, both in and out of the courtroom; on the other hand, it's also unjust to not allow someone to choose their own legal counsel, and how they make their case.
Innovation Act Aims To Disarm Patent Trolls
This is such an enormous call to make. America may have a good system for protecting free speech, however in terms of many other points their political system is so broken as to be almost unusable.

Did everyone just forget that a relatively small special interest just shut down the country for 16 days? does no one else see the ridiculousness of a system where elections take 2+ years and cost billions of dollars meaning there is no effective way to dissolve and re-elect government even when this kind of thing occurs?

Yes, they have a constitution that enshrines freedom of speech. So what, it means nothing when the rest of the governance is archaic and inept.
So I register a new service (or process) to run on metal using Chef. Then Chef installs the service and updates the nerve config running on that metal device. Nerve then keeps a central Zookeeper updated with the status of its local services? Synapse checks for available services in zookeeper that your app may need to use, and then configures a local load balancer for any requests you make?
The 5 million by itself is fine. It's the comparison to Apple that seems out of whack to me. The article doesn't compare them to a startup, it compares them to one of the biggest companies in the world. If you do that, you invite criticism on the comparison, which is what I gave.
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Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Paralyzed Rat's Gait
Yeah I've already got Go running. His binaries are awesome
With Gmail, you're limited to seeing mail from one account at a time. With Mail, it coalesces email from all my accounts into one list.
Virtual reality, an afforable consumer reality.
http://www.oculusvr.com/

My childhood dreams come true!
Life in the PaaSLane: Migrating apps to the cloud
This should be extractable by "algorithms" these days: "Our key insight was this: we cannot extend the mail client, but we can add information to the messages themselves"
Noah's take on this story seems about right:

http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/100566/jfk-mons...
Tesla Model S Review - Shot With Google Glass
As right as everyone is about how insecure this is, it's a fun exercise to imagine how different the public response to this would be if it were one person's hack project using self-hosted proxy. The hacks employed here are really cool.
Review: Whitehat Aviator
It's pretty much the layman's (or scientist's) meditation chamber - building one should be pretty cheap nowadays, too...
Even if Apple were to sell 40 million Macs a year (2 times what it sells right now) and the entire installed base of OS X users were to buy 50 $10 apps a year on the Mac App Store, profits from Mac apps would still be less than Apple makes from selling iOS devices.
Pinterest Raises $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation
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Your explanation made it sound like freemium because many freemium apps use that kind of resource-limited trials - e.g. 3 seats are free, but you pay for more seats. Your "10 free entries" sounded like the same model, but a quick look at your product shows there is no ongoing value to 10 free entries.
Because, right, wrong, or otherwise, he did actually break the law and not in some twisted way that's meant to punish people the government doesn't like. But you are right, it's not a good example.

On the other hand, the fact that the Washington Post can still publish what he "stole"(from the gov's view) is telling about US respect for free speech.
Open Source Currency
You mean tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Intel and IBM? Yes they do have positions listed at Monster. If by tech companies you mean week-over-week growth companies like fart.io and sfnavelgazer.com then no I don't think so. Probably Monster is not serious enough a platform for such companies, who only staff with top-tier talent. Or maybe they just can't afford the listing fees, since their 30k funding ran out.
This pretty terrible piece of rhetoric using a false dilemma involving the strawman that "non-US control" = "foreign government control" which is not a true statement. This strawman sets up the false dilemma whereby a dichotomy is framed to us so as to make the US control appear to be the lesser of two evils.

There are many other possible options for internet governance (or non-governance and de-governance), some of which we haven't yet devised. I suspect this forum may come up with some decent new ideas.
I'm not overly impressed by the architecture; it's basically a de luxe version of the IMAP push-proxies that were common in the early 2000s, such as Nokia Mail ( I think it was called ).

Phone <------ Proxy <----- IMAP hosts

Same problem; all your lovely lovely communications flowing through the Proxy. And your tasty credentials, too.

LinkedIn have taken the old pattern and injected some data at the Proxy point, enriched from their databases.
Google has never had a standard IMAP implementation for Gmail.
If GP is from the RMS school of thought, then only the code needs to be free. The assets aren't. The code, with no assets, is practically worthless to the end-consumer.
That's the idea! If you're using Chef, check out the cookbook for SmartStack; you keep a small hash of configuration information per service, and we take care of the rest. https://github.com/airbnb/smartstack-cookbook
I think I answered that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600121

There are people out there who love the bloggers/writers they follow and will support them. A newsletter is a great way to trade exclusive access for money.

The kind of newsletters that publishers will use HappyLetter for aren't the marketingy kind you're used to. These publishers probably won't have a different product to sell where a newsletter is part of a lead scoring or funnel process. To them, the newsletter is the product.
Chen Guangcheng also "broke the law". So in your logic does that excuses China?
Peer Review Needs To Expand So That More Scientists Are Reviewing Papers
Some people apparently think "open source" means "anyone can commit whatever they like to the main repository", which is odd.
I'd be very surprised, because you can't configure the app to use a particular IMAP server. You just give it your username and password and it does the rest.
Apple has blocked apps for a lot less than providing a feature that intercepts users' email and email password to circumvent Apple's own sandboxing and inject content into their mailbox...
Solution for the lag will be a special category "bot play". The bot will not be programed but will behave like a black box, computer ai will record you every time you play in a local game and will slowly build the bot around. Then the bots will compete on a server, maybe separated by categories determined by previous recording time.
For very similar purpose I once defined a CircularIterator class (also in JS, where it's not available as itertools.cycle in Python for example) which wrapped any kind of collection and had next, prev, get and set methods (at the time I was yet to learn about Smalltalk's streams - the methods would be named like nextPut and next would have an optional argument, but I digress :)).

In essence it was exactly the same thing you did, but due to it being OO, I managed to reuse it quite a few times since (having something which cycles between three states on click is a breeze now). The thing here is that the problem of "wrapping" a sequence instead of throwing some kind of Out-of-bounds-the-sky-is-falling error is pretty common and it deserves generic solution. You - and structural programming, for that matter - trapped a solution to this problem inside a solution for carousel. That's exactly one of more important things OOP came to fix.

But I guess it's true that "the OO people tend to only teach modelling on problems with really quite obvious decompositions". I think nearly 100% of examples of OO in tutorials and books are completely useless and that there should be some major change in the way of teaching and thinking about OO. For me, that I managed to come up with a useful abstraction back then was pure luck. Later, when I saw Smalltalk - and worked in it for some time - I finally understood what OO is about and how beautifully it can simplify and generalize problems which would be one-off with procedural/structured programming.
I've been using Airmail for a while, and it's very functional; sort of a spiritual successor to Sparrow. The other Gmail-on-OSX clients I've tried don't feel ready for prime time in comparison.

(Again, no affiliation; just like the product.)