skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good technique to know. I feel like that cookie should be HTTP only though. It looks like nginx doesn't support that out of the box.
There's a feeling of a movement developing though. The NSA revelations have provided political will where it didn't exist before. They've perhaps created an atmosphere of the US versus everyone else. There are plenty of people that stand to gain from this situation. Individually many of these projects are opportunistic but in aggregate they will almost inevitably lead to an erosion of the US position.
That still doesn't explain why there's no gigabit FTTH in NYC, with its high average density.

It sure as heck doesn't explain why there's no gigabit FTTH in Manhattan proper--by your reckoning the borough should have a residential density even higher than its overall average would suggest by virtue of Central Park taking up so much of the upper half.
Maybe you have lupus?
Ha! We're even having trouble going from 4.0 to 4.1

Not really funny come to think of it :(
Differentiated experience is the last resort of producers scrambling to avoid their products becoming low-profit commodities.

When all products look and feel the same way, competitors can only compete on price, at which point price wars lead to smaller profits for everyone.

Producers will always prefer selling ugly, profitable luxury products than standardised, razor-thin-margin commodities.
An MVP is a tool to test whether your idea has steam. The key idea about MVP is to NOT spend too much time/money before validating your product's reception with your target market.

If the tool/product you're making only takes two weeks in a near-complete offering then MVP really doesn't apply to your lucky situation. For those making stuff that will take months to build, the MVP (sketches, drawings, fake buttons, etc) is a great idea.
It seems like futexes are really just an alternative interface made to build pthread mutexes on top of. In addition, they may only be faster on Linux because of implementation issues. It doesn't seem worth including for comparison.

Also, I'm confused by the claim that Solaris doesn't have the vfsstat utility; yes, it doesn't have that utility, but it does have "fsstat" which provides VFS-level statistics. So it'd be helpful to see a more detailed comparison.
Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
How about study area's in libraries? Big open spaces with maybe some nooks and crannies but immense amount of focus and concentration. The difference is the implied quiet culture. (i.e ssshhh this is a library.)

My suggestion: You can keep the open space but you need to enforce either a quiet area for focus or carve out a specified area for loud and open collaboration.
Yes, I am accusing the author of deliberately misrepresenting facts. I'm not sure what's vague, let me recap:

1. 'might' implies the future. As you can tell from the post you're replying to, Systemtap is present thing. I think I actually put most of the tapsets shown on the Wikipedia page around 2009, and I was using them then.

2. Also, as the author partially acknowledges in the next slide, Ubuntu is the dumbest place to illustrate a typical Systemtap experience. I suspect that's deliberate, rather than ignorance as Sun tried that a few years back and I don't think anyone with any interest in the matter is ignorant enough not to remember the shitstorm.

As I've written elsewhere: if your customers mostly run Ubuntu, then test dtrace on Ubuntu too. It'd give you just as accurate impression about what the dtrace 'experience' is as installing SystemTap on Ubuntu.

Edit: actually looks like Joyent wrote the shitstorm post for a few years ago, you've still got it up, you still don't see anything wrong, and you just linked to it.

christ read the HN comments from 2011. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3118416

Edit 2: you're Bryan Cantrill. You didn't seem to care much about performance a while ago: http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html

Edit 3: more Cantrill classiness http://www.quora.com/Node-js/Why-did-Ben-Noordhuis-decide-to...

Sorry to anyone who thinks I've gotten personal, but this guy is a well known... unsavoury character.
Just pretend viable means "capable of being successful", not "actually successful". Oh, wait, that's what it means.
It has 2000 commits and a REST interface. Was there something else you needed to know?
Could use a better linux client, but the amount of additional storage space you get for a referral is crazy, so I can deal with the crap client.
Testability is a pre-cursor to viability. You need to test, experiment, before a product can reach MVP.
Even that goes too far.

We're terrified of the fact that we live in an arational, incomprehensible world. It's a comforting fiction that some large conspiracy controls everything for the benefit of itself at the expense of everyone else, because at least that admits the possibility of control. And if societies can be controlled, at least in principle they can be fixed.

Much scarier is the idea that power stumbles blindly around like a drunken three legged elephant, arbitrarily murdering half a million people for no coherent reason beyond, well, why not?
Having worked both in Europe and in the US, I can only agree with this observation. Open space is indeed very popular and expected in Europe.

I think it has to do with culture. Socializing during office hours is encouraged as employees tend to be more productive if they are in a good mood.

Cubicles are universally perceived as bad and boring to be in, as you cannot socialize.
Thanks! That's very kind of you :)

Yeah indeed, well, hsl with varying hue and set saturation + luminescence - see https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/Rainbow-Sort/blob/master/....

I experimented with RGB and it really didn't work, HS(B/L) work a million times better. Took a bit of trial and error!
This is not a case of "many eyes make all bugs shallow, so all OSS software is safe". This is a case of "many eyes will look at my covert code, can't take the risk of discovery". Debian SSL is not comparable because it was an accidental (if stupid) bug. We are talking about deliberate malice, not bugs (which are inevitable in open and closed code alike).
Really enjoying the analysis.

I hope you'll get a chance to check out writers after actors. It'd be a really interesting test of Schrieber theory, which argues that the writer is a better predictor of a film's quality than the director.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreiber_theory

(I had a similar comment last time, sorry for hounding the same issue, just not sure if you saw it.)
Interesting...isn't boardband penetration somewhere around the 35% mark there?
Ersatz1
Alchemy
Wit.ai
Technically yes, but the system mapped the ROM into the RAM and so only 38,911 bytes were available to the user. There were various tricks game makers used to get at the mapped, normally off-limits RAM however.
It would be really nice if WS moved to deterministic builds. Really helps with not everyone having to compile themselves (if somebody is checking the source).
'git lg' instead of the default 'git log'
And on top of that, assuming you find something, how are you going to prove who did it?
Is it illegal for a foreigner to donate to US political campaigns? How about working remotely as a volunteer? I am asking because I came very close to offering some of my free time once.

I'm glad I was too busy at the time.
"a Yugo rear-ending a garbage truck in Brooklyn doesn't instantly consume all of New York City in a gasoline fireball."

My new favorite metaphor.
What's the benefit of using IPv6 as transport (as opposed to using IPv4 as transport)?
Linux Commands – A practical reference (2008)
We drive our kids to ballet class, but are reasonably sure they will never be professional dancers. Same for baseball, violin, karate, and so on. But those activities generally do grow things like teamwork, patience, coordination, fitness, etc. Not to mention an enjoyable sense of satisfaction when a difficult task is finally accomplished after a lot of hard work.

Enriching foundations and building useful skillsets is not the same thing as taking "full control of your kid's destiny".
> It's a feel good.

There's a third possibility: It's being done for reasons that have nothing to do with the US or the NSA, say to reduce latency in Europe or support the telecommunications industry in Brazil, and the Rousseff only mentions the NSA in order to build the popularity of the project and herself.
Square Cash – Try it. We'll email you a dollar.
Burning hydrogen itself is clean, producing only water vapor (which can be fairly trivially condensed, if necessary.) The problem is acquiring the hydrogen.
Google Downranks The Pirate Bay in Search Results
Its a pretty good interpretation of Toy Story, but I do take issue that the end of the article is more-or-less petitioning for a wiki edit at the end.
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet..."

Now I have to commence a Ramis Remembrance Week. He provided me many laughs over the decades for which I gladly give him a mulligan for Caddyshack II. RIP, funny man!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ramis#Writing
Natural monopolies do exist, it's just that not all businesses claimed to be natural monopolies actually are.

If you can, imagine a watershed. The river, along with its tributaries, covers the most efficient downhill route from every point in the watershed to sea level. The natural monopoly on precipitation drainage is everywhere you see flowing water. Installing a second river does not work. Wherever you try to put it, the natural tendency is for the second river to drop right down into the original watershed. You end up with just one river again.

If you turn that idea into a graph, replace the ocean with the Internet, the power plant, the potable water and sewage treatment facilities, the highway system, or some other common resource, and replace raindrop targets with homes and businesses. There is only one optimal routing for roads, pipes, wires, and fibers. The surface path following that route is the natural monopoly. You can cram an awful lot of stuff on top of it if you wanted.

Once poles are up and tunnels in place, the hard part is over. If a second cable company runs a second cable, that's not a waste. The customer can now buy either of two cable service packages, or both. If there's already a hamster tube up on the poles connecting the house to the municipal rat supply, and someone wants to run another for squirrels, that's not a waste. People might not want their rats and their squirrels from the same tube.

So when people say cable and phone service are natural monopolies, they are wrong. It's the space those wires run through.
Is it problematic to install SystemTap on Ubuntu? On Debian systems it's straightforward.

apt-get install systemtap linux-image-amd64-dbg
Not to mention, taking an econ 101 supply and demand graph based on a quote 'widget factory' (actual textbook quote) and applying those ideas about marginal cost to utility economics where you build the grid once and then charge on subscription. Unironically. Earnestly, even.
"Viable" is a characteristic of your product such that it looks and "feels" close to the real deal (but isn't!) in the hands of the customer. (Think viable as "fakable")

"Minimum" is the least amount of resource it will take you to show off that characteristic.

(I'm agreeing with you, btw. :-) )
Brilliant analogy Thos - i was an art director and creative director last century and you nailed it. I'd add that good vintage typographical signage goes for ridiculous prices these days because of their evocativeness and balanced design.
Graphic design is very analogous to creating music also, and picking appropriate tonal colors...
Heat radiation is hard to trap. In fact, we use it in nuclear reactors to boil water, which should in theory let even more heat escape due to the second law of thermodynamics.

Yes, a vacuum may stop convection but heat can escape through radiation. What then? That's why I would want this thing so far away that the angular projection of the Earth onto it is small.
Monitoring =/ censorship

If the gov't views the internet as it's possession, then it can make sense for it to be both fast and censored.
Are pull requests encouraged/looked at? Wouldn't mind contributing to such a worthy cause
Sternly worded letters. Possibly a vowel or two.
VC's are great, but not for funding your startup
I forgot Lua and PHP; I also didn't think of Ada. So, for whatever kind of completeness, here are some more:

1975 (39) Modula 1988 (26) TCL
1977 (37) Ada [1] 1990 (24) J
1977 (37) Icon 1993 (21) Lua
1985 (29) Miranda 1994 (20) Pike
1986 (28) Oberon 1995 (19) PHP
1987 (27) Clean 2002 (12) Io
1987 (27) Self

[1] according to crag

I don't know birth dates for these:

Agda, ATS, Felix, Idris

(I'm ignoring languages that are used only in a particular context, like R, shells, proof assistants; I made an exception for TeX and PostScript as these seemed particularly important.)
> a positive correlation does not carry evidentiary weight until it's been explained.

What on earth? A positive correlation is a fact. This is like looking in a microscope and saying, 'ah, none of this data is true until we have a theory which can explain it'. Uh... no. The data is the data. The correlations are the correlations.
Really good point. Even better, I'd really like these cookies to be digitally signed (like Rails' session cookies are by default), so that they're unforgeable.

Seems like it wouldn't be too terribly hard to add to nginx...hmm... ;)
My understanding is that you use Roslyn to use C# anywhere. It can parse expressions and compile and execute them.

E.g. If you're writing a BASIC interpreter:

10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 CSHARP "Console.WriteLine(42);"
30 GOTO 10

You call Roslyn on line 2 with the expression to parse and execute.
Lily Allen and decision theory
One is a cost, the other is a valuation -- two completely different things. A ditch can cost a million dollars to dig, but have a ~$0 valuation.
The metaphors that arise to describe worrying about things that can't actually happen are also my favorite. The one most memorable to me:

"Putting a speed limiter on a Zamboni just in case the accelerator gets stuck"
David, thanks for your work on Om and, especially, writing about it. Your writing introduced me to React and how to use it with a de-emphasis on state. Having very little FP experience and zero Clojure experience, however, sometimes you're going a little fast for me, so was hoping whether you or someone else who reads this could help me out.

I don't completely understand how entirely immutable data can be effectively used in front end apps (I do understand how, if you have immutable data, React can be made fast and undo is easy). If data changes, it needs to mutate, right? Do you then maintain one global object that does change, and have that object be a giant immutable tree with all model data? Or am I completely missing the approach?

If that's the way, how can you efficiently do updates on relatively large chunks of data? Say, I'm coding Gmail and my user wants to star the 2053rd email in a list? Doesn't that mean 2052 items in a list have to be copied? In general, doesn't this make model code much much more complicated? Or am I missing something and is it really not that bad?

Yeah, a bit many question marks, but I hope you catch my drift :)

If anyone could point me to some good reading about thinking in immutable data terms, that would be warmly appreciated too. Thanks!
And even if you prove it, so what? The United States is the most powerful country in the world. It has the ability to force other countries' presidential planes to land (on foreign airports, no less) so it can search them for a lone fugitive. What exactly do you think is going to happen if someone proves that the US tapped their undersea cables?
Nothing tricky about it, just flip some bits at address $01. No sense keeping BASIC or the kernal around if you're not using it.

LDA $01

AND #$F8

STA $01
Couldn't this be gamed somehow? Just create some catch-all email, and send $1 to as many as you want? I'm guessing they probably restrict a single dollar to 1 debit card number, though. Wonder if there's a way around that? Oh well.
The Evolution and Acceleration of the Open PaaS Movement
SAP and Xamarin Partner to Empower Enterprise Mobile Developers
NSA/CIA/etc..
CMU Robotics Professor Warns Of Growing Technology
I don't particularly like the misleading headline saying its 'ultra-expensive.' $629 is a standard flagship price for smartphones. It's just a phone with qualifications like this one will never get carrier subsidies, so it comes off as 'expensive' to an average consumer. This phone isn't targeting average consumers though.
The TextSecure server is AGPL. Take that Telegram!
I didn't say that the entirety of society is under the control of a single cabal, only that the people in power at the time were able to exert enough influence in that instance to send the country into an unnecessary war so as to benefit themselves financially.
For some definition of real-time, a racing simulator is real-time because it will produce incorrect results (with catastrophic consequences) if there is too much latency. An RTS like Age of Empires is not because it will only lag annoyingly but still produce correct results.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/10/news/economy/ecb-china-curre...

> The swap deal will allow more trade and investment between the regions to be conducted in euros and yuan, without having to convert into another currency such as the U.S. dollar first, said Kathleen Brooks, a research director at FOREX.com.
Pretty normal tricks for game makers. Someone writing this back in the day probably would have been able to easily use them, if they needed to. Not that this is exactly a game with a ton of art assets.

Hardcore was keeping data in the RAM normally hidden under the audio and video chips' address registers. Or the screen character color attribute RAM.
Firefox OS gains reference devices, $25 phone
Reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg

Only more colourful and interactive.
GitHub as an iOS crash reporter
Image Wall
Systemtap was out of the box on RHEL 5 update 2. No monkey dance involved.
In the future, we will be able to get something translated without anyone knowing what it is. How? I don't know.
Computers will be cleverer than humans by 2029, according to Ray Kurzweil
Microsoft visits links you send in Skype
I don't think the language has really changed enough to warrant a new version of The D Programming Language[1]. I highly recommend reading Andrei's book even for people who have no intention of actually using D. It's just a really good read for anyone that has even the slightest interest in programming language design because its filled with the rationale behind every design decision and Andrei is a good writer.

I'm doing a technical review of an upcoming book on D that I believe should be coming out the latter half of this year.

1. Jonathan Davis' list of changes since TDPL came out: http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.647.1327135415.16222.dig...
True, but on the other I hand it's simpler to say that I need $20B to buy ITER, $19B to buy WhatsApp, and $11B to buy the LHC. One of those things is not like the other.

I totally understand that I am cherry-picking here. There are many things in the world that are over- or under-valued when you compare their economic contribution to their societal contribution. I just thought this would be an interesting point to make on Hacker News.
Thanks for following up and clarifying!
A single city in another country is apples and oranges, it is wrong to assume that since a single city in another country can do it, then it should be simple to implement across the USA or in cities which are wholly different politically in the US.
Google doesn't need to, your encrypted traffic is to their servers.
>> Goto jumps now cannot skip variable declarations

I'm surprised that D lang even has a goto statement.
The cover is usually ship anchors breaking cables.
New product development
I have a remote team working on a product in India(web marketplace)

Can anyone recommend tools to monitor and test the code being written?
Is there an optimum framework or process that one would recommend when working with international developers?
How should I plan for release cycles and code testing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Enods dot com
Some things never change. I remember a article on South Korean broadband in Businessweek 15 years ago that ranted on about Seoul's paucity of elevators.

I'm guessing that package deal means we'll also be having to eat pickled cabbage and end our sentences with verbs if we want decent Internet speeds? I just hope we won't have to drink bubble tea, that stuff is gross.
Big Score: When Mom takes the SATs
Depends. Is the submarine manned?
You should check to see if the points per post is power-law distributed. What happens when you also put the y-axis on log-scale? Does it look linear?
Yeah, it's a lot easier to justify the economic investment on something most people don't feel a direct benefit from by painting it as a response to a third party. I wish we'd use our occasional national freakouts about Chinese espionage to build a next-generation bandwidth infrastructure here in the US.
Welcome pcell, the technology that will disrupt the wireless industry
High density doesn't eliminate millions of other reasons that a given city doesn't have it. It just provides a floor for cost competitiveness, and a major input into ROI. Even in Kansas City, google has stated they won't roll out FTTH to every neighborhood, even in the long term...and in the short term, they have focused on the neighborhoods with the fastest ROI. I'll let you guess whether the high density or the low density gets built first.
Roslyn sounds pretty cool. For the record, did Microsoft originate the 'compiler as service' idea or did it originate somewhere else?
That page seems to be targeted more at people who already know or have used graylog in the past. If you go to the main website it's more clear and there is a screencast.
Last week, in fact. I replaced my Sony Xperia V's battery. The phone feels like new again. Smartphone batteries wear out.

On a side note, I had the Samsung S3 before the Sony. Died from moisture problems. From then on I vowed to stay with waterproof phones only. Samsung evidently clued up with the S5.
It's more about containing it within the walls of the container than within a very small subsection of the container. The whole thing will be at a pretty serious vacuum throughout operation.

I should probably disclaim: I worked on a Tokamak in undergrad.
On the road with DyslexicAtheist
I 100% agree. There's an excellent business case for it and the NSA angle gives Brazil political cover for spending public money for the benefit of their wealthier citizens and international economic elites. My earlier comment was largely a reaction to the pandering to naive sentiments in the headline.
Samsung announces Galaxy S5 or rather the new iPhone 5.5S
GitHub repo: https://github.com/facebook/flint
Once you get used to tools like `go fmt` or Perl::Tidy it feels barbaric not to be able to cleanly format all your code instantly. Read only linters are nice but something that can reformat code is much nicer.
It won't work with UK addresses darn it
It is not legal for foreign citizens to contribute to US political campaigns.
3 Ways Employers Can Communicate Their Culture
I think that link rather proves rather than disproves my point...the erratta list is almost one per page, and the mailing list post you linked to is from over 2 years ago.
Why limit available data around the senseless syntax of a query language? Linux commands are much faster and way more easier to use / reuse via a bash script. Modifying an enormous SQL command is going to be a maintenance nightmare. Especially in a few years, when the SQL DBA will basically be extinct.