skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they've done away with many of the steam systems on the new carriers (including the catapult launch system, which is now electric).

If you're trying to minimize energy (particularly steam) usage, then RO starts to make a bit more sense. On the Nimitz class, they have plenty of waste heat from the powerplant, and already had numerous steam distributions systems in place.
As of right now, Namecoin doesn't look at data in DNS for validating transactions.

This proposal involved hard-forking Namecoin, and has a lot of inherent issues with it. Also note that this proposal is by "some guy on a Namecoin forum", and not anything official.
huh. I thought they were using a QNX based one on the new stuff.
Damn it i want two way verification on any purchase over X amount! Meaning anytime a charge over X amount (an amount i set) tries to go thru I get a text message asking for me to approve or deny it.

This is getting ridiculous! 1st Adobe who I will never do business with again (had to cancel my accounts & open new ones) and now Target!
I'd expect a "parental filter" to work on a whitelisting principle, which will inevitably look like this. Anything else is snake oil.
“Why would you supplant native HTML/CSS capabilities with sap.ui.commons.TextView”

Because “The DOM is a Mess”.

SAPUI5 works across devices desktop, tablet and smartphone. Thinks about browser regressions (removing or changing unspecified APIs), missing features (typically older browsers missing specific features), browser bugs and differences.

Using the Facade pattern, protects frameworks/libraries against those problems, the best example is the jQuery library.

Why would you supplant native DOM APIs with jQuery?
> This programming thing is a lot of fun, right? We have been entrusted with the unique responsibility of making pretty much the entire world go round.

I stopped reading after this quote. I don't have the will or time to wast in such ... naivety.

I wonder, do really programmers believe that they change the world say the way Newton (principia mathematica - first one to apply the scientific method), Einstein (Theory of relativity), Platoo (Creation of first higher education institution on the western world - Athens Academy) , Solon (Famous policy maker of the first direct democracy - Athens 600 BC), A. Flemming (inventor of penicillin), etc. ?

Because Steve Jobs didn't change the world. Really, he did NOT. Neither Gates or Zuckerberg imho. Ghandi did, Mandela did, in ways that technology never will.
How else would you propose to prove proficiency? I'm open to suggestions. There's far too many "devs" who made a demo tutorial app in something and call themselves knowledgeable of the framework. I would love to expand it a bit to include more people, but I need credible answers, I don't want the results skewed because someone used a bot.
Next on the agenda is the carve up and sell up public properties and concessions. Every where, every thing must be commoditized for the profit of the few at the cost of the many!

Postal services, education, national parks, government agencies turned "public-private." Water, utilities, roads, policing, emergency services! Rights and freedoms! The sky's the limit my friends!
Even the normal built-in template info has been extremely helpful while attempting to diagnose some really, really slow page loads on fairly large systems (49 template loads from disk was a very nasty shock but not exactly a surprise). Same with the easy-to-use DB query overview.
An, but "risk adjusted" assumes a specific risk model, and there isn't one that's universally applicable (not even a measure of risk). And without specifying these, inflation or profit neutral still make sense, and risk adjusted doesn't.
> It will also reduce the size of the economy.

It's hard to argue that inefficiency is good for the economy. In fact, proponents of alternative macroeconomic metrics cite the GDP's bias against efficient renewable energy as one of its flaws [1].

If you pursue a bigger economy without considering efficiency and the societal benefits of other labor/capital allocations, you run the risk of prescribing bad policies. E.g., a government can grow GDP just by hiring idle workers to dig ditches one day and fill them back in the next.

[1] de Graaf and Batker. What's the Economy For, Anyway?
And here is some more on Gerard's setup:

http://gerard.holzmann.usesthis.com
Why are we at war in Yemen?
Geohot was planning to sell a (stolen) exploit he found but the evad3rs beat him to it. He would sell it to a mediator for ChinaCom (government owned). Apparently there is a lot of drama involved.

https://twitter.com/tomcr00se/status/414826291309731840

https://twitter.com/tomcr00se/status/414827165960519681

https://twitter.com/superMTW/status/414821856534081536

http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/71374879/file.html (mp3 of Geohot talking to potential buyer))
nigger. http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/Lectures/MiniCompiler.html
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Just fyi - last week Cyanogenmod started pushing out WhisperPush/Textsecure to Cm11(kitkat). I now have whisperpush by default on my phone.

Considering that they just raised 28mil and that CM is pretty much defacto for older androids, there is a very good chance that this might work.
Oh don't be a drama queen. I need a way to verify the identity of the people who answer, and I don't know of any other way than linking to existing social media accounts that doesn't involve a privacy risk. If you have other options, I'm all ears. As for non-PHP devs with opinions, you're right, I'm definitely not interested in their opinion. I want to know what the PHP devs are using, not what the well informed Ruby devs think.
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Not to have an opinion, merely to prove proficiency. Like I say in the question explanation, I accept links to online sites too - even if they do only take you to login screens - as long as an app is live and exists, it's proof enough.
I want to stress that I am only talking about my own experience and this isn't a study on SV. The comparisons I make are also based on the various tech meetups and events I have been to (unrelated to VA-Live).
That would require trusted centralized verification.
Completely agree here. Your live transactional system needs to export reportable data - this can come in the form of a DB backup/download (which I've done many times) so you can run queries locally or by pushing CSVs using a cron job.

You can use a SQL query for this or a simple map/reduce - either way my argument is to focus on transactional design that works best for your system - don't conflate reporting needs with your live system (i.e. BA queries).
I decided to not write a witty one liner...
This comment nails it:

> I really don't find these questions to be useful indicators
> of the things that make-up a good software engineer. I am
> using "software engineer" here on purpose and as something
> distinct from "programmer" or "coder".

> One will design and develop good reliable products that are
> maintainable and extensible. The other will just crank out
> code and is likely to not really add value beyond that.

> I want to know how a person thinks and reasons, how good he
> or she is about data representation or the formulation and
> communication of a strategy in creating a solution. I want
> to know how a person thinks at the abstract, code, project
> and product levels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942548

Standardized testing will quickly get subverted, with people "studying for the test." It's almost a theorem that any proxy for assessment will become subverted, with people passing the test without actually possessing the necessary underlying skill. In math people keep complaining about "teaching to the test" and that people pass the tests, and yet don't have the skills.

Same will happen if you try to standardize computer recruitment.
You're welcome qwerta!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5980898
>>this person has decided to spend time writing this nonsense instead of doing something useful.

Not to agree with it is one thing, but to call it nonsense? Instead, I now choose to declare this author's writing as another example of SV-arrogance.
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You must have used a framework even for the internal ones, no? If not, simply file that under "other". And as for links taking us to login screens - that's perfectly fine. As long as it exists online it's ok, no need to show the source code. Like I say in the question description - either Github, or just link to a live site.
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True - but the backend analytics system can be Excel :) which it often is. In fact in my "two person startup" (that was alive happily for 5 years) this is exactly what I did :). I do take your point, however. I still think it's wise to not have an admin backend that runs rollups on your live system (which we've all done).
Then, if you'd be so kind, could you submit a project you've built without a framework (doesn't have to be open source either - simply link to it) and state that in the answer, and put "no framework" or "none" in the "other" section?
I'm a little confused here, why are the sailors on the aircraft carrier a hundred miles off the coast suing and not the helicopter crews or the sailors on the destroyers that got closer?

People are bashing the article not because it is from the NY Post but because there is a zero evidence that being on a ship a hundred miles away was more dangerous than actually being at the site or in tokyo. The article is filled with all kinds of misunderstandings about radioactivity that are accepted wholesale by the reporter to drum up a good story.
Have them link to anything that can be considered a portfolio or proof of proficiency, be it their personal website, an account on any software hosting service or their contributions on a self-hosted SVN repository.

If you're really asking this question and think GitHub is the answer, your delusions are phenomenal.
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sounds like cheap, very cheap Telegram promo. Nothing but marketing.
Right, the notion it turned away an aircraft carrier a hundred miles away from fukushima is ridiculous.
It is the result of the government allowing providers to fudge what the concept of what the 'Internet' is. All your service provider does is to allow a process running on your computer to make contact with another computer over the TCP/IP protocol. If they interfere with that they are technically in breach of contract.

The use of the word 'Internet' should be strictly defined. If by 'Internet' they mean going through restricted gateways in accord with their criteria, that is fine, but if they mean allowing processes to connect as described above they are in breach. The public needs to understand that.

There was a case some time ago when BT wanted to cut of the phone lines to prostitutes who had their ads plastered in phone booths and the courts stopped them from doing this.

Restrictions should be done with customers informed consent or at least they should be notified when the subscribe to the service
There might be an interesting point hiding underneath this article, but the badly forced analogy between evaluation of Kay's definition of OOP (which is an abstract concept with no objective external existence) and evaluation of Newton's description of physical laws really gets in the way.

The question of whether Kay is wrong is meaningless. Kay can't be wrong when he says what he means by OOP. You can discuss what language features and programming practices are useful in particular contexts, and you can argue whether Kay's definition of OOP represents a particularly meaningful set of features and approaches. But to discuss whether he was wrong is pointless, and to frame a discussion of OOP in those terms -- and to pretend it has any meaningful analogy to evaluation of how Newton was right, and how he was wrong, in his physical models is pointless. Its an analogy that serves to try to create a false connection and sense of generality, and does more to obscure than illuminate.
The actual paper is here, free abstract but the full PDF is paywalled: http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867413015213?cc=y
There's no need for this immature hostility. I didn't call you a retard because you can't figure out how to use modern version control, and I don't appreciate being called one just because I use a certain website.

Social media is required as a form of identification without invading on privacy, I don't want a bot army skewing the results.

I'll make the Github link optional.
You guys may want to check out prezto too: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Your knee jerk response takes what could be a well crafted criticism and makes it subject to the same commentary (naivety). Programmers have intense power in a world that is increasingly technologically oriented. I would argue that inventions like the internet (at the risk of citing the "easy one") have created as much of a paradigm shift in the world as a whole as any of the great social or scientific figures. (Not to diminish their accomplishments). All fields in which one can create great value can be used to create great change, and likewise, can be used to create great angry birds games, I think it's really just the person doing the creating who matters, not necessarily the field.
Even worse:

>>“We were probably floating in contaminated water without knowing it for a day and a half before we got hit by that plume,” said Cooper, whose career as a third-class petty officer ended five months after the disaster for health reasons.
The toxic seawater was sucked into the ship’s desalinization system, flowing out of its faucets and showers — still radioactive — and into the crew member’s bodies.

Toxic seawater a hundred miles offshore???? You can't make up anything more ridiculous.
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I might have had the wrong idea. I am very interested in examples that point to the contrary!
Moonlight is open source. Netflix could port the DRM if they wanted to; FreeBSD would not need to do it. by my read of the CC license they'd have to contribute that back to the project, but I'd guess they could then negotiate the licensing of the keys; keys are not code so I don't see any more problem with that than using your own keys in e.g. GnuPG.

So few people use *BSD as a desktop that the demand for it is not going to make it happen, however.
go work in foodservice for a little perspective.
What is completely unnecessary is connecting your solar power equipment to HECO's systems.

Buy some good deep cycle batteries and store your own power off grid.

I live in an area which HECO has chosen not to serve, so that solar is a no brainer.

$0.49 per Kilowatt Hour is what HELCO (Hawaii Electric Light Company, HECO's Hawai'i County subsidiary) charges, which is the highest price for electricity in the USA.

I certainly don't need a $35,000 solar power system, I'm getting by on a system which cost me about $5k.

My basic needs are refrigeration and lights, as well as power for small electronics.

For high draw appliances I use a gasoline powered generator. (washer, propane dryer, power tools, etc)

Screw HECO!
Technology has significantly changed the world, maybe more so than anything else in both positive and negative ways. I feel that you are in denial. The truth is, it is above any one person (you seem to like to focus on individuals). It is our society advancing as a whole.
What's the relation between this and LightSwitch? Both are from DevDiv and it seems like there's a good deal of overlap in goals.

Is LightSwitch being de-emphasized (put on life support) because it doesn't fully encourage WinRT?
I just added credit into the repo description. Thanks Mathias!
What the Japanese Government isn't saying about Fukushima
The documentaries on both Amazon prime and Netflix instant are awesome though - the only thing I watch instantly that's part of the free collection.
You forgot the last and most important step: [gadget] version (n+1) comes out with a new feature: "Do X with [gadget]!" And suddenly everyone is so excited that they can now do that thing that was so clearly wrong to want to do before.
The copy is cringe-worthy in general-

"a new technology for business experts, business analysts, consultants, and other app imagineers. Now, without any programming, you can create powerful apps for the device-first and cloud-connected world, with the potential to transform today’s business processes."
http://i.imgur.com/4aaH7GW.png

There are definitely some devs who think of themselves as above all others in society. Like Gods or something. I guess if you remain in the SV echo-chamber for long periods of time, you will feel like the whole world revolves around you.
I know your trollage powers are being enhanced by the awesome powers of internet anonymity but do tone it down a bit. There's no need for insults. I'll make the necessary alterations to the form.
How did Mandela change the world?
Github has this cool way of displaying project contributions, I think they call it "graph" (they even sell t-shirts with an exemplary graph on them: http://shop.github.com/products/contribution-graph-shirt).

Looks like karma for pull requests to me.
RedHat contributed their ssh-ldap-helper to allow ssh to effectively use an LDAP server as its authorized_keys source.
For those who are interested, there are many sources for this story, giving different levels of detail, and making different claims. You can see some of them here, although there are no comments on any of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949089 (phys.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946928 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946485 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946366 (ethz.ch)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943508 (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942335 (thetechblock.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941890 (digg.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5285021 (robohub.org)
It's important to keep in mind that humans are social beings, and communicating with others by writing witty one liners can be very rewarding in and of itself regardless of the karma points you get. That doesn't mean you never do anything useful though, it just means that you decided to do something you enjoy and find personally rewarding at this moment, maybe to take a break from writing that patch you are working on.
Politicians are pretty scared of radiation, they may very well set 'safe' limits far lower than they need to be. It's not one-sided.
Although it's not two-factor, some banks will send you push messages or texts for every transaction taking place on the card. I use Simple, they do the former. One nice feature about Simple is you can disable the debit card directly from within the app, and then re-enable it if you need to (for example, if you lose your wallet temporarily).

Simple also sent me a new debit card automatically without prompting, their systems having noticed I'd shopped at Target last week.

The problem with the two factor system as you describe is that while it works for 'cardholder not present' transactions (and there already exist standard two-factor methods for such payments, not that many banks use them), it would make retail POS payments incredibly slow. You'd have to wait for a text/push, you might not have any reception, then you've got to reply, etc. This is one reason why EMV is, for all its failings, more attractive than mag-stripe: it is considerably harder and more expensive to clone EMV cards.
Seems down, Google cache

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Maybe not Jobs, Gates, or Zuckerberg. But Turing, Von Neuman, Dijkstra, and the like have.

Newton and Einstein certainly changed the world, but modern physics would be untenable without computation. The LHC would be useless without the ability to deal with the data.

Computation is being used to revolutionize higher education from me being able to take learn CS from professors at top ranking universities for free to data analysis being used to develop more effective teaching methods in inner city schools.

Do you imagine that the next big antibiotic or vaccine will be possible without computational effort?

I imagine Ghandi would appreciate the power that the web has brought to individuals in voicing their opinions, in organizing against oppression, etc.

There is far more to programming than Facebook and iPhones.

That being said, his quote is quite arrogant.
The newer PV panels will produce on even the cloudy days, and I know this is fact because I've been using solar for over 15 years now.

Your guesses are way off.
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But that's exactly the point! We're not working in foodservice. We have much better competencies. Less than one million Americans have the abilities required to be programmers. (That's less than 0.5% of the population!)
I wrote the tweet that likely triggered this post.

My original joke on Twitter was that I was waiting for Alan Kay to tell everybody how Smalltalk did reactive programming and FRP first.

My original point is Alan Kay has made a hobby of co-opting virtually any paradigmatic trend or fad that has arisen since his original work on Smalltalk, usually claiming Smalltalk did it first/better/whatever.

The point here isn't original sin or only creating objectively perfect things. It's a different problem of people who don't seem otherwise engaged with the work being done in the present only talking about the work they did in the past.

Call for information: is anybody aware of Alan Kay directly contributing to the development of any open source programming languages that aren't Smalltalk in recent history?

I'm not aware of him releasing any new languages or publishing any new papers in the last decade or two, yet his paradigmatic peanut gallery commentary seems to spread pretty quickly.

I haven't seen anybody actually say what raganwald is attacking here.
I haven't seen an easily brickable device for half a decade now... Android smartphones and tablets are very hard to brick, post-2008 laptops and motherboards have excellent BIOS recovery, what else is there? I bricked an external RAID enclosure by flashing the wrong firmware, but that POS was running on a SiliconImage chip that for some reason allowed flashing a completely different firmware to it...
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Regarding 2) that's a 'potAYto potAHto' scenario, I think. The way I've used them in the past are to address performance concerns from customers. We have the general RESTful webservices that cover all uses cases, in that every object has an endpoint, blah blah, and the design generally conforms to RESTful paradigms.

Beyond that though, customers often request changes, additions, optimizations, etc., and as they're paying us money, we try to be as accommodating as possible. In many cases, these endpoints are customer-specific, and violate the living daylights out of the RESTful design paradigm -- often exposing 'flattened' views for convenience.

To use the Github API for reference, to get the status of an issue, you have to query the issues for the repository, then the comments and events for the issue, and then the commit messages that are associated with the events.

An example of a non-RESTful paradigm is to simply JOIN the issue's comments and events and associate the relevant commit messages to the events so that they can all be captured in one call.

It isn't truly RESTful, but it's awfully damn convenient pertaining to customer overhead, and we still call it REST, and they don't bother correcting us.
>If you had only 1 chance in 1000 to die each year that would mean that people would live to be 1000 years old on average.

You're not old, and you're also not an infant. Your chances are much lower than a naive average.