skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D perhaps?

It's also designed to compile fast and to native code. Maybe it's not as mature and robust as Delphi yet though.
non-repudiation works just as well with signatures

How would you prevent double-spending?
This situation reminds me of Microsoft buying a small portion of Facebook at a large valuation. In that situation, it was more about the relationship such a deal would create rather than the actual numbers behind it. By creating a large valuation with a small deal, everyone wins. The investor doesn't have to put a large amount behind it while the startup gets the glory of an impactful validation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/25facebook.html...
Strange use of the word "open" and whilst this project is very interesting, I don't think people want to pay to play with a worm in their browser.
What do you mean by coordination being limited in Erlang, exactly?

Supervisors are essentially in charge of one thing, and that's process lifecycle management; starting up processes, restarting them when they die, and bailing out if something goes wrong.
'You must not convert this to SQL on the client side. You must validate the fields submitted are in your approved list on the backend (indexes/security).'

Interesting point. Can't you get around this by only exposing certain tables/fields in the UI based on the users permissions?
Can someone help me understand the mono issue here, is it Unity at fault? The Mono runtime? I ask because the mono stuff for Xamarin is very close to 100% compatible with the latest .NET framework and I am using Linq and async/await in my iOS and Android apps with no problem. MonoDevelop (Xamarin Studio) has gotten much better in the past couple years as well.

So, what gives? What is the nature of the mono problem and who is responsible?
"JavaScript can work well" - depends on what is understood by 'well'. Some craftsmen are capable of building cars from junk.
Note that at this point this is just a copy of TLS 1.2. None of the issues with TLS 1.2 have been fixed yet. Check back when stuff starts getting done.
Well, you could look at Gerrit Code Review. It can use its built-in database (H2), MySQL, or Postgres.
Interesting project but I wonder what it offers that doesn't already exist in HugeCollections [1] or MapDB [2].

[1] https://github.com/OpenHFT/HugeCollections
[2] mapdb.org
Online verification per transaction.
> "Then write your own style sheets and GreaseMonkey script (or equivalent) to fix your rendered"

Have you seen the HN HTML layout and CSS code?

I'm doing some research on previous posts regarding the HN interface, but judging by some answers i'm getting in this post i can imagine their fate, why plainly criticize instead of brainstorming about the proposed ideas and trying to get to a common ground? Maybe even some sketches done? (I'm working on mine as i write btw) ... according to you what are the aims and audience? I think you are implying you know the aims and audience better? can you please share? I'm part of the audience as well...
> This is exactly the reason this policy is bad. People need to act in their own interest and take vacation they need, which may not be in the company's best interest.

Heh, 'take enough vacation days to avoid burnout'. In other words, take as much time off as you need in order to keep working efficiently for us and so that we don't need to train someone new, but no more.
Estimation is hard, but, In most places I worked, after a couple of days it was very obvious which people were the solid contributors and which people were just along for the ride. Granted, those jobs were in the trenches where I was working along side people so I would see what they were doing day in and out, but I think that if you're a programmer, it's pretty obvious whose productive and who isn't.
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We use Phabricator at my company. It's a fantastic issue and task tracking tool kit. The addition of Arcanist and it's integration with git is awesome. Highly recommend trying it. I've used a lot of similar systems of the years (bugzilla, Jira, and others). Phabricator blows them away.
Does Traditional College Debate Reinforce White Privilege?
I agree with you, but I don't know if you'll agree with me. In my experience, revolutions generally do not generate any sort of unbiased news. As a rule of thumb, it attracts extremist/opposition groups from both sides of the spectrum with their own agendas. Not to mention regular people themselves fall victim to bias.

How much can you really discern about the situation from a few tweets without context?

That's why I think regular investigative journalism should still be the norm.
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Which has nothing to do with what I asked about my freedoms as a user.

Developers think that licences that let them charge for binaries, restrict resales and keep competitors out are wonderful. The same way that banks think that debtor prisons were a wonderful idea and billionaires want a flat fixed dollar tax rate is the solution to every problem. There isn't much surprise there.

But for the majority of the people, who do not work in the one company releasing the binary, the GPL is infinitely freer than any of the anti-user licences he's listed as "less harmful".

So let me ask again: From the point of view of a user how is the MIT or BSD licence freer than the GPL?
I'm sorry, but this sounds like a fantasy land. I am extremely skeptical that you could get a detailed and accurate enough simulation to reveal any useful novel results.

The list of "unknown unknowns" that we don't even know about, yet alone are able to attempt to simulate, is impossibly large.

This reminds me of the old Star Trek episodes where they would simulate the effect of the new-fangled quantum-slipstream-tachion-whatever-warp-drives in their Holodeck and then obtain meaningful results.

Of course, that was nonsensical fiction. I don't see how this could be different.

Simulations and models need to be incredibly focused. The art of modeling is figuring out what to exclude from the model, not what to include. Any attempt to make a really general purpose model/simulation is almost bound to overreach and fail.
> Very true, we don't need everything to be pegged to a single currency. Another development that will make moving between crypto-currencies more fluid will be decentralized exchanges.

That's not the point. The point is knowing that you won't lose money by trying out altcoins. With sidechains, at any point you can claim back your original bitcoins. You won't be left holding the bag as it happens all the time with separate blockchain altcoins.
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What is exposed in the UI is not always the response you receive back. This is the crux of the mass assignment bug in Rails.
Nike Denies FuelBand Shutdown, but Layoffs Could Reveal New Cracks in Wearables Market

http://recode.net/2014/04/18/nike-denies-fuelband-shutdown-b...
I met John who worked on their (paid) iPhone app for the earlier prototype. There's one thing you can say it's that they are passionate about their project. The old prototype is here: (paid, is it OK to link this on HN?) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openworm-browser/id595581306...
Well, the large majority of home/SOHO APs/routers are Linux and my experience with Marvell-based devices in this segment was not good. I buy Atheros-based WiFi devices when I can.
I use http://hckrnews.com/ to read hackernews on desktop. The app I used on my phone was not updated for IOS 7 and I have not found a good replacement. I also use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd... to read hackernews in Chrome.
How is that conclusion interesting? It's the whole point of Bitcoin. And there are no "challenges" for the authorities in this regard. The current system is working as intended. Inflation and other evils are not forces of nature, as politicians very frequently try to imply in their speeches.
Even those "needs" need to be balanced against having an open legal process. We have both NSLs and a "no fly list." For the purpose of keeping some very high-value suspect from fleeing, the no fly list should be sufficient. This looks like an exercise of power just to maintain and expand secrecy and the supremacy of "national security" over legal process.
And this is why we need less government.
Ouya, we hardly knew ya
XP shutdown: Switch to free software, say FSMI
Why is head considered harmful?

>Here is a hint: complexity is the bane of all software, simplicity is the most important quality.

Isn't head one of the simplest tools one can imagine?
Certainly simpler than sed.
This is an interesting problem to have. I myself have a romanticized notion of PhDs, as I consider pushing the frontier of scientific knowledge to be the most important of human endeavors.

However, the nature of technological progress has turned academia into a place where intelligent people maintain a holding pattern prior to beginning their careers. The issue with this is that, not only are they poorly paid, but they may also be contributing to a system that is looking more and more like a pyramid scheme.

At its root, this is a government funding problem. Particularly in the US, the dysfunctional state of the government has caused science funding to be cut at all levels. This may be a reflection of the American public's preferences, as it appears science is no longer a prime policy objective in Washington DC.

In my opinion, government has a few responsibilities that it needs to carry out well:

- Infrastructure (including healthcare, sanitation, power, education, etc.)

- Defense

- Upholding the Rule of Law (police, courts, etc.)

- Basic Scientific Research (Academia, research labs, etc.)

It increasingly appears that the U.S. no longer believes the last point falls within the realm of the government. This is an interesting development, as one of the key contributors to American economic success in the past century has been the massive state investment into scientific and engineering research (WWI, WWII, Manhattan, Apollo, NASA, ARPA, etc.).

Notably, most of these investments occurred during wartime. It appears that government support of scientific research surges during war, and declines in peace. This is a paradox that needs to be resolved in order to make better use of the nation's intellectual resources.

As much as I love commercial programming, I would rather be doing basic research, and I'm sure many on HN feel the same.

I honestly hope that a group of wealthy and powerful entrepreneurs such (PG, Elon Musk, Ellison, Zuck, etc.) band together and start advocating for a scientific research initiative whose funding is constant (inflation adjusted) over at least twenty years, and is focused on basic scientific breakthroughs.

A model worth studying would be Janelia Farms, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute [1].

1. http://janelia.org/
Sagas as a way to implement Long Lived Transactions
I suspect it's because competing products such as the FitBit come with the advantage of their companion apps being available on iOS and android, whereas the FuelBand is iOS only
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How did Chand John go about his job search? Did he leverage industry connections that he made during internships? Did he leverage industry connections made doing tech transfer for his research? I know of absolutely 0 PhDs who did these things and failed to find a job after graduation.
Thank you! I wasn't trying to be manipulative, I swear.
> Sure covert things have always been going on to protect the public

lol
Swedish politicians settle differences with StarCraft tournament
I fondly remember installing a Pascal interpreter card in my Apple //e for UCSD Pascal - a branch of Pascal running in a VM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal
The most important thing you can understand is that these concerns aren't the most important thing to worry about. Content is more important. Though, if you had to pick only one feature to work on next, mobile might be it. As for the rest:

2. they are 0 pixels from the side of the page, why? Are those numbers needed anyway?

Why not? Besides the numbers telling you which page you are on, they also show how a story progresses in time.

3. With more padding and a bigger font everything should get much better to read and process

Bigger does not equal better.

4. The colors seem old-fashion

The colors make the site readable. Readability is more important than fashion.

7. it is so close and compact.

That could be intentional. It focuses attention, for example.

8. If the limit is 2000 characters why i have to hit submit to find that out?

Not displaying unnecessary things reduces cognitive load. Anything that takes 2000 characters to express is something that could be reduced in length anyway.

9. Ah, TABLE seriously?

Tables are the lists of html. The ambiguity they introduce is not always an error.

http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html
This model is definitely excluding a lot of details. For instance, the cells are modeled on an abstract functional basis. There isn't any cellular division occuring and it's going to take a lot more work to ever get to that level.

For purely simulating behavior and understanding how the insides of the worm "function together", this model is a fantastic breakthrough.

I perhaps was being hyperbolic with my original description of the worm being a catch-all for any experimentation whatsoever, but you have to admit that it has vast implications.

(You also don't deserve the downvote you got. We always need somebody anchoring us to reality. )
Personally I interpret language like that as "built by developers, for developers", as opposed to the "built by a committee of graphic artists and lawyers, to appeal to the CEO who imposes random decisions upon developers" feel that I get from most enterprise software...
Yes, I've written scraper code that deconstructs the existing pages and inserts the data into a database. Your point?

I've also seen this question many, many time, looked at the proposed "improvements," and read the many discussions about the whole issue. Broadly speaking, lots of people have preferred the existing version to those proposed, often by a substantial margin. Regularly people say that it looks horrible, never have a seen something I prefer.

Feel free to try. Good luck.
What if Google is Actually Weak in Search
The differentiation is more in microcode running on the radio chip than in anything that runs on the CPU. The microcode is what chip vendors are really paranoid about; I work on wireless AP firmware, and while we have the source code for all our wireless chips, vendors are very firm about never letting us see the source for microcode. If we need to debug a microcode issue, we file a case with them, and in emergencies they'll send an engineer on-site. We get binary blobs, the driver loads binary blobs, the driver sends config options for the advertised checklist of features to these binary blobs, and that's all we know.

The protectiveness of the driver seems more lawyer-driven. They're willing to hand out the source to pretty much everyone who asks to build a device, just under proprietary licenses.

Even when stuff does get open-sourced, the code takes quite a bit of work to pass muster for e.g. the Linux kernel. It's just so low-quality, regardless of vendor, that a lot of time and effort on the device-maker's end goes into debugging driver issues - work that is of course duplicated in a dozen or more companies. I've never personally looked at Marvell drivers, but OpenWRT's claim that it doesn't meet their standards is completely unsurprising to me.
You shouldn't trust it just because of your UI. With developer tools, regardless of your UI, it would be trivially easy for a malicious user to send any arbitrary SQL query. This would allow them to retrieve sensitive data or modify/delete records from your production database. You really should only build this query server-side, and, as the OP is using PHP, I should also add the caveat that they should use PDO.
For company culture at that. I can see why.

"... he thinks about hiring and company culture better than anyone else I know." Via http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-kat-yuri-patrick-and-eli...
I admit I've never heard of legal shoulder passing (other than obvious common-sense exceptions).
MIPS is a really fun assembly language to learn IMO. I liked the book See MIPS Run by Dominic Sweetman.
This is the mindset that has prevented people from even attempting such projects, it is poisonous and anti-intellectual.

One thing that we almost NEVER do is with models is force them to interact with each other. This means that we are completely blind to an entire aspect of isolated models: namely that inputs may not have the structure we expect, or that their outputs don't actually have the anticipated affect on downstream models. Most current model validation is purely speculative or based only on a finite dataset. If you take two models that you think effectively represent how the world works and put them together and suddenly they no longer work, then you reveal a huge gap in our knowledge. In a sense this is the ultimate form of model validation and until you do it any interpretation you make about how models might or might not work together is complete bullshit.
Don't learn Qt if you want to find clients.
Chiefly education and free thought have nothing to do with free speech and the other freedoms granted by the Constitution. What you are wishing American meant could be completely fulfilled by a ruthless dictatorship that put an emphasis on education.
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Moore’s law gives way to Bezos’s law
The lead architect of the VCL went-on to work for Microsoft on .Net and most of the venerable (and still working, if not actively maintained) Winforms API is really reminiscent of the VCL, albeit corrupted by the win32 API leaking through.

Maybe it is rose-tinted glasses, but I remember having a significantly more pleasant experience working wight the VCL (through C++ Builder) than with Winforms.
If you think this stuff is worth signing an online petition over: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/dont-sell-our-tax-...
I meant to imply that if a little dry humour scares you away from an open source project, then maybe that says a little about you, too.
Don't take this the wrong way but this is still PHP and I say this as someone that's been writing in PHP since 2001, although I've largely shifted away. It didn't take me long to find some really crazy stuff like these nested try-catch blocks in:

https://github.com/facebook/phabricator/blob/master/webroot/...

Also this comment is pretty telling:

// If execution throws an exception and then trying to render that exception
// throws another exception, we want to show the original exception, as it is
// likely the root cause of the rendering exception.

I'm not saying this is a bad project, it looks excellent and the code is pretty good but you can't escape having to do some nutty things in PHP.
The core of the issue is will specifically target those who install power generation systems on their property and sell the excess energy back to the grid

One of the incentives for doing your own power generation is that in most cases utilities are required to buy back the power under the Net Metering deal. This is a good thing, in general, but there are some engineering issues.

When this was invented, I don't know if anyone involved did the calculation of "what if we have tens of thousands of houses generating enough backflow to rival the amount generated by the rest of our system?"

The movement has been so successful that now we can see the possibility that on a very sunny day or windy day or both that these local generation sites are generating enough power that there isn't any where to put it. Voltages rise, breakers trip, sectors go dark.

If you are a utility company, you likely have several energy sources at your disposal: hydroelectric, coal-fired plants, nuclear. For each of these sources, you have at your disposal a knob, generally sitting at 5 or 6 that you can turn down a notch to move the water past the generators and down the stream, turn off a couple of burners in the coal fired plant, or move the quenching rods in a little further to reduce the output of your nuke plant.

If you have a tens of thousand of home pushing energy back up what used to be exclusively the down pipe. There isn't any centrally-located control knob for that.

Certainly part of the reluctance of the utilities is a resistance to the new ways of the world, but it would be imprudent to discount the engineering issues that this is exposing. Yes, the utilities, who are not known for large amounts of imagination, should have been ahead of this and embraced this. But here we are.

So in light of that, if taxation slows this unsustainable growth in home solar installations pushing current up the down pipe, perhaps it is not all that bad as the article makes it sound.
Because it wasn't made in Murray Hill. grep is also a single command in sed, but since it was in Unix v6 it's okay. There's an extreme case of NIH syndrome that pervades the Plan 9 community.
After building gui apps in c++/mfc, I tried delphi. It was amazingly productive. The closest thing I can compare it to is going from java/tomcat to rails; that feeling of getting so much actual work done is what makes delphi (and rails) stick.
MySQL works pretty well when you treat it as an unreliable network-accessible key/value store; and PHP works pretty well if you treat it as a pure templating language, and also write your own implementation, and also rewrite the language itself to be a different, better language :P
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second that. TP-Link WDR3600 has been an awesome dual band (5 ghz)router that supports openwrt and has a a beefier RAM and CPU.
If you seriously think that way, it's a sign that the US tech industry is going to have to get hit by a big expensive cluestick before it realizes it's going to have to get both a legal and technology divorce from the surveillance state and it's proponents.
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Oberon-F on classic Mac OS was really productive, and I imagine its descendant, BlackBox Component Pascal on Windows is so as well: one of the great features was the ability to extend the IDE while running it: you could compile an extension and test it in seconds. Wirth knows how to design efficient languages and systems, and his students (most of the founders of Oberon microsystems, the developers of BlackBox, were such) carry on the tradition.
C++ Builder made C++ on Windows so much more accessible than MS Visual Studio 4 + MFC at the time. Truly a revolutionary platform.
How HN helped me get an interview with Google.
Indeed. All to often people mean freedom for me. Like, for example "I should be free to impose my religion on others if that's what my religion says I should do."

Theoritically, the principle of reciprocity should preclude this kind of thinking. In practice it tends not to.
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in my opinion wearables like that should look more like "classic looking" connected watches ,rather than a SciFi looking wrist band. But there is a market, definetly. the connected stuff should be a feature not the main point of the product.

The point of a phone is to actually phone, all the apps/internet stuffs are features of that phone.

At least that how i see how one can market these products.