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I can't imagine not having comments on my blog. With no comments it's basically just a diary. You can track pageviews, but you never know if anyone actually read or learned anything from your post. You have no idea if anyone cares.

I have comments on my blog. I'd never consider removing them for all but the most touchy of subjects. Yes, sometimes people say things I don't agree with. Welcome to the real world.

I do moderate my comments (100% pre-moderated, because I hate captcha and yet also hate spam) but I don't get enough comments to actually make that a burden. I also don't moderate out anything that's not pure obvious spam (though to be fair, my posts don't usually cover anything terribly controversial either).
Hi all. I'm the original author and maintainer of musl, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the project. Glad to see so much interest!
I didn't remember the exact wording, but he/she mentioned something in the lines of Javascript is better written than spoken.
See, indoctrinating employees to dogfood your products has upsides. Even when the products are crap.
PHP: I can do this better than ASP. Wait, I can't.
Someone make a realistic surfing game!
A simple way to "get more people to code"
Any private person can collect license plate data with a computer too. Surely that's not illegal? Imagine thousands of hobbyists doing this and building a database of when and where cars are moving around the city. If this data collection is only allowed on "small scales" but when people combine or publish their records it becomes illegal for the group (but not the individual members?), that would become a pretty hairy legal gray area.

Also cars are a massive cause of death and heavily used in violent crimes so it can actually be useful to track them, unlike trying to catch near-non-existant terrorists.
How will you manage communication between services in a SOA? If you exclusively use point-to-point welcome to spaghetti code.

Our philosophy is to use point-to-point when you absolutely need another service's input to complete your task. Otherwise put a message into the bus. See the Jay Kreps blog post I linked in below.
It is overkill if SQLite is enough. I see no reason to use MySQL, but some companies have spent an awful lot of time customizing it to their needs. I do believe that effort would have given more bang for the buck in PostgreSQL.
“I didn't remember the exact wording, but he/she mentioned something in the lines of Javascript is better written than spoken.”

In that case, you’re gonna love this book. There’s a small code example for every two paragraphs or so, which really helps make things clear. (Disclaimer: I was a technical reviewer for this book.)
This is the erosion of privacy by public anonymity.

Is it time to start talking about civil disobedience and removing large numbers of number plates from cars in an organised protest?

Having a barcode on all our cars is turning out to be very bad for civil liberties now there's all this auto-recognition software coming in to play.

Similar to another discussion[1], the problem has arisen because it is now possible to collate this information to make up detailed map of a person's life whenever a malicious actor wants.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7427562
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How about companies located in high rent locations leaving employees to choose of high rent or long commutes?

If the logic is "everyone needs to prefer it or we go back to a 'normal' arrangement," normal becomes mandatory.
Bristol Space Planes fit this bill, have a talented team, and are actively seeking funding: http://bristolspaceplanes.com/

They're trying to make space travel much cheaper with re-usable launches.
but the blogger was not an employee and they accessed the blogger accounts
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I agree. There is a lot of baked in dishonesty relating to careers and jobs and such.

It's very tied in to people's identity and realities often unpleasant to deal with. Many of us spend most our lives in a way we don't like. That's a tough pill. Some aspects of it can be dehumanizing emasculating (for men, of course) or demeaning in other ways.

In any case I think working life feeds you ills that are hard to swallow without a little delusion. Employer want passionate employees. What if you're not passionate? Are you supposed to grin and lie, delude yourself or go find a job spec without passion in it?

A knowledge company in 2014 is different to a factory in 1893 and they are both new on the grander scale. Before them we had lordships and serfodms, guilds, patrons, patriarchs, soldiers, knights, orders, ships, stations, slaves and lots of other things etc. Those things tended to be who you are in the way that we now think of being "A Canadian."
A company is a social structure. psychological conformity is a part of all social structures.

note: I also agree with your detractors. It's tricky pointing to hypocrisy in a community Different people's opinions are incompatible. The opinion of a group can be inconsistent without crossing into hypocrisy.
No. Getting into space (starting at 100 km) is relatively easy. Staying in space, i.e. reaching orbit, is the hard part, because you need a very high speed to do this. xkcd's what-if #58 sums it up pretty well.

But even then, 15 km would only be ~5% of a typical low earth orbit (LEO) of 300 km, so ... yeah, not worth it at all.

This tower seems like a truly useless project.

[1] http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
there are constitutional guarantees on the secrecy of correspondence and email is considered (by the law) the same as letters therefore legally protected from all forms of eavesdropping.

contracts are not above the law, if a contracts stipulates something illegal it doesn't matter that both parties agreed to it
Man, that's awesome. And it's written in assembly! I'm asking out of my armpit here but, is there no way to compile C/C++ for the Gameboy?
BICEP2: Is the Signal Cosmological?
It’s certainly a good book. Can you explain why you think it’s better geared towards experienced programmers?
Ask HN: C syntax augmentation/extension (possibly a libc replacement) library?
Quite a while back, I saw a submission on hn linking to a C syntax augmentation/extension library (possibly a libc replacement), though I am now unable to find it via either site:news.ycombinator.com or https://hn.algolia.com/.

Anyone remember the name of the project?
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/12/16/391137...

After initial criticism from quite a few experienced people Boyan Slat toned down his claims.
They're not the only ones to do this. Vuforia is worse, it's free, which is tempting, but then Section 8 (i) of the license agreement[0] states:

"each end user consents to the collection, storage, and use by QCE and its affiliates and service providers of Statistics from the Software and the transfer of Statistics between QCE and its affiliates and service providers (which may be in the United States or in other countries), in each case for the purposes of (a) facilitating the provision of new products, updates, enhancements and other services, (b) improving the Software, and other products, services and technologies, and (c) providing new products, services or technologies to You and customers of QCE and its affiliates;"

To be fair, they're giving away a great SDK for free that they've put a lot of effort into, so they can demand what they like from the license. Google can too - you don't have to use the free stuff they're giving away.

[0] https://developer.vuforia.com/legal/license/2-8
Google Android Watch is a Phone Screen on Your Wrist
Component complexity pt2: html variants
> Following someone in public is considered stalking and is illegal.

Actually, simply following someone around in public is not stalking and not illegal in itself. Private investigators, process servers, and repo men do this all the time.[1] Stalking requires some sort of contact, direct or indirect (e.g., making your presence known).

[1] Regardless of your opinion of those trades and the people who ply them, their activities are legal.
We already have people doing this.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/private-firms-arg...
It's not a desktop app or browser addon but a Pinboard archive account might work for you - http://pinboard.in/upgrade/

I can't check right now but I -think- you can download the archive at any time, not just if you're closing your account (but I could be wrong.)
Amazing! I'll make sure to follow your blog :)
I think you can even use the engine for free as long as the game itself is free.
My 30 Day Stoicism and Ice Bath Experiment
Plane watches already do this. They have even outed CIA operations.

I wonder how the Government would like it if many hobbyists sat in front of the NSA car park and started writing down every license plate and put them on a searchable database.

Now this is a project I would fund. Kickstarter anyone?
+1 for "had its head stuck all the way up SVN's trunk"

Awesome phrase that I shall steal for myself. Like, "the team wanted to use Git but management had their head stuck all the way up SVN's trunk."
Why San Francisco Is Not New York
Really, I think it is totally geared to beginners.
This article http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-pl... argues convincingly that filtering is a distraction from reducing the amount of plastic which gets into the gyres which is the only practical way to reduce the amount of plastic.
"200 million registered users, 70 million of whom are active on a monthly basis"

That sounds high to me. Does anyone know how they count MAU? I just launched the app and enabled push notifications. Would I count as active this month (and the month in which I joined) even though I've never made/received a call?

Which groups of people (communities or countries) use Tango more than Viber/WeChat/Line/KakaoTalk?
I previewed the table of contents of Speaking Javascript and it looks cool and comprehensive, but Eloquent Javscript discusses functional programming and only spends a little time on the bare basics.

I'm not saying that either book is better. In my opinion Eloquent is for more advanced folks, while Speaking might be geared towards beginning programmers.
Name a major currency in fiat money ($,£,¥..) that isnt used by criminals? More people use US Dollars for crime than Bitcoin and it will always be that way especially if you consider military funding, Bitcoin doesn't need fancy investment firms, to invest in it, I'll consider as a "bootstrapped" startup. The total crypto-currency market is over 12 Billion Dollars. Bitcoin doesnt live and die with some rich people who live in California, its global
"Hi Mum, I earned $125k a month working at the local Food Bank...again! Can I have my $625k now please?"
It's not spaghetti as long as your interfaces are well-defined, is it?

I can see the value in a service locator/registry, but that doesn't seem like a substantial piece of the ESB pitch.

When do you have a fire-and-forget case like you seem to be talking about? I can guess a few secondary concerns like logging, but most of the time if you're calling another service it's because you need a response from that service. At least for the apps I'm used to writing.
Let me quess - you are Russian?
Although most of my experience is with MySQL, and to a lesser extent Postgres, I spend two years supporting enterprise applications that had either an Oracle or a SQL Server (either 2008R2 or 2012) backend.

I can confirm that in comparison, SQL Server is a developer's dream. My understanding is that the earlier versions of SQL Server kind of sucked, but the new ones are fantastic. The sibling post's point is valid for 2008R2 and earlier - you had to use a ROW_NUMBER() subquery - but that was one of the very few niggles.

I wasn't a fan of Oracle in general - it's comparatively a nightmare to setup and maintain, and in my opinion the SQL syntax is uglier. But from a dev/support standpoint, Oracle's flashback queries is what impressed me - in Oracle you can write something like SELECT * FROM table AS OF TIMESTAMP. So, say, if you accidentally deleted a couple rows and committed the transaction, you could restore them using a flashback query. My impression was that Oracle was more scalable and supported more enterprisey features, but that's not really my area of expertise.

Honestly, if SQL Server wasn't wildly expensive for any real work, it would be my number one choice and my number one recommendation. Guess you can't have everything. And Oracle, of course, is even more expensive. So Postgres it is!

...well, except on my Dreamhost sites, because MySQL is what they have.
the list left off perhaps the most important language for the web: javascript. and my proposed "problem" for it:

web pages are not programmable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

This seems to disagree with you, seems you are required to litigate to get your rights.
The blogger was french also, so that probably has a bearing on what rights he has.
Is Unreal Engine really as bad as it seems? It looks like something from 10 years ago compared to the others.
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Eh? It's not like they sneak it in.
international tax advice. cash flow for young companies. hiring.
Yes, and presumably the kids would manage the charity.

Or maybe not. Up to him/them. But that's what I'd do.
Good things those cars don't have passengers that rarely change.

It's an invasion of the privacy of the occupants of the car, not the car itself.
In a way I'm happy he is not involved with Microsoft's day-to-day operations any more. So I can now cultivate some respect for Bill Gates the person while still vehemently opposing Microsoft and its dominance.
Wow, thanks for that! I'm in the market too so I'll definitely bear that in mind. Bizarre that they advertise them numbers without such an explanation.
Would you have to consider letting some companies that are executing these ideas reside outside of Silicon Valley for the YC program, due to geographical constrains?

For example, let's say Mate Rimac, the founder of Rimac Automobili (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimac_Concept_One) who is a Croatian guy scratching an itch by producing the type of bonkers performance EV that he wanted to become reality, came to yc and you liked him, but his team, lab, equipment etc was all back home in Croatia. What would you do? It seems like some of these ideas will be constrained by location.
I don't think those are the same skills at all. Organizing a program is about merging the things that are the same and separating the things that are different. Organizing a closet is about putting things in categories, but 20 identical shoes need just as much space as 20 different shoes.
Cradle of Filth are actually one of the best contemporary dark-wave bands in the world.
Can a pure thorium reactor even work in theory?
I thought it needed a neutron source to sustain fission like uran or something similar
Change title to Anatony of the French SaaS Ecosystem
Personally, I would go work on one of the tanks in my "free" time. I think it would be amazing getting one of those things running again.
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The charges should be dropped.

This was back in the time of stack ranking. The performance review he got wasn't just emotionally hurtful or annoying. It actually fucked with his reputation. In a typical stack-ranking regime, performance reviews are part of the transfer packet, actively making it hard to impossible for the employee to fix the situation on his own. While this action was probably overreach, some retaliation is to be expected under such regimes. If a company can't handle that sort of thing, it needs to ditch stack ranking (which Microsoft, admirably, has apparently done).

This doesn't 100% absolve him of responsibility (he still deserves to lose his job over the leak) but it absolves him enough that criminal charges are just inappropriate and wrong for the situation.
Last job wanted SOA but wouldn't deploy Rabbit (or any other message bus) because "it's another thing to look after". Ended up as a simple REST-alike webservice. Which I guess includes "service" in the description...
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If he thinks his problem is desktop area, he should try working on an eeePC, or a 800x600 CRT.
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not so simple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priva...
Police cars should be tracked too. The police often drive recklessly in my area even when not responding to an emergency. If their cars were tracked, it might put an end to that behaviour.
Let's not get carried away with this - it's pretty disingenuous. Most people are motivated to work, at least in part, because they will starve and be homeless if they don't. I doubt that these kids will ever face the threat of such a fate, regardless of how much they mess up or how lazy they are.

Further, regardless of how much money they are actually left, those children will live billionaire lifestyles for the rest of their lives. Out of security concerns, Bill has likely arranged for bodyguards and ensured that they will be able to travel via private jet for the rest of their lives. The Gates family owns multiple homes, one in Washington being over 50,000 square feet, that will likely stay in the family and where the children would presumably be allowed to stay should they choose.

Hopefully his kids choose to be productive. But the idea behind this - that he is leaving them enough to "do anything they want, but not enough to do nothing" - simply isn't true. They could do nothing and be just fine.
What part of the article do you have a problem with?
No question, but congratulations! Very exciting.
There is a YC participants only board though, isn't there?
This book deliberately omits talking about Javascript in the browser, but the only reason I want to study Javascript is for its use in a browser context!
Bigger and bigger proxy list
As a startup it was hard at first but we continued and kept pushing!
That's not the case: different headsets have different fields of view, and most, including the DK2, have a FOV that's considerably narrower than the Sensics dSight's. Likely the dSight doesn't cover the full range of eye movement either.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApTBEPEA_odkdHp...
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Wherever this is legal for private companies (seemingly in a state of flux now) it has to be legal for the government too.
Sounds remarkably sensible. I'd do the same in their place: leave your kids well-educated and pretty well-off, but not filthy rich. Let them make their own life, rather than living off daddy's riches.
Seems like Kotlin is stabalizing, does anyone know how close Kotlin is to 1.0?
There certainly is, but i doubt its anywhere close to their license fee related revenues.
Ask HN: Visiting SF, should I check out Silicon Valley?
I'm from the UK and will be visiting SF for a week in April. Is it worthwhile to heading down to Silicon Valley to check it out?

I'm aware a lot of the area is simply large business parks, and companies won't let you just wander into their offices uninvited. These are places of work after all, not tourist attractions.

Having said that...

Is it worth trying to get a tour of the Googleplex? Or trying to get a tour of other headquarters (Facebook/Apple)? Or a tour of Stanford? Is there anything else worth seeing?

I will not have a car either, but suppose I could hire one for the day if it was necessary.

Other suggestions welcomed!

EDIT: If any Google/Apple/Facebook employees can snag me a tour I'd be greatly appreciative, email in profile.
Erlang - because software contains bugs and computers fail
Literally, absolutely. I've seen them hurled through sheet-rock walls by furious traders, and have fond memories of a chap whose monicker was "Elvis" launching an entire monitor tree, bloomberg term and all through a 13th story window.

Figuratively, probably not, it's basically considered a standard. It'll only go away through attrition as a result of other trading tools providing the same functionality and better, but as this is already the case and the groundswell isn't happening - anyones guess. We probably have to wait for the folks who cut their teeth in the 90's and before to retire, for the culture to shift.
The policy director of 5 Gyres has provided evidence that suggests the existing plan will not work:

http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-pl...
What exactly is the tax benefit to giving away almost all of your wealth? Tax loopholes reduce your taxable income, which lowers your tax liability. I don't see how you can come out ahead giving away almost everything. Can you explain what you think he is exploiting and what the benefit could be?
That's for federal agencies and a third party's server. Considering microsoft are not a third party, not a federal agency and it's their own server, I don't think that law is relevant.
Ask HN: How much would this project be worth?
Hey guys.
I've built this platform with a couple of friends, it's about crowdfunding gifts/dreams for yourself and your friends.

We're trying to estimate it's value and don't know where to start.

How much do you think it's worth? Or how would you evaluate it?

Cheers!
Note that the basics only seem simple. Speaking JS covers them, but also (as optional reading) exposes many of the mechanisms behind them. For example: [1].

The book explains the complete language. I consider functional programming more of a (fascinating and important!) meta-topic; worthy even of dedicated books [2] and beyond the scope of Speaking JS.

[1] http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch18.html#_array_indices_in_detail

[2] “Functional JavaScript” by Michael Fogus. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do
Perhaps you could use some kind of squashing function on the amount given. The more you earn, the less money you get for every additional dollar.
Our plan is to not let the kids know how much money we have. It obviously doesn't work if you are a billionare, but you can hide the first few million dollars living in a decent house in the Carolinas as long as you don't feel the need to drive a Porsche.

I don't understand why anyone would want to raise an entitled brat.
There may be some truth in to that. I do contribute to her annual review and am responsible for making sure she's completing work effectively, but I don't decide raises or determine firing, which are probably the most powerful capabilities one can have.

That being said, perhaps this is a way to work around the normal pitfalls, where if there is a potential conflict, the person in question can be a "practical" manager, but perhaps not a "supervisory" manager. Those are horrible words for it, but I mean in that one manager would be actively overseeing the work, and the other would be a lower level of involvement check/balance against the former. It may be more manpower to do this, but it's generally how the engineering teams here work out anyway; that there are the engineers who have been here longer overseeing the new hires in the work, with a more uninvolved formal supervisory structure as well.

(This has other problems, I'll openly add, but has allowed for a situation like mine to exist, so it does make me look twice.)

Sorry for the essay, this ended up being a lot longer than I had originally intended.
Hey guys.
I've built this platform with a couple of friends, it's about crowdfunding gifts/dreams for yourself and your friends.

We're trying to estimate it's value and don't know where to start.

How much do you think it's worth? Or how would you evaluate it?

Cheers!