skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to try Delphi Lazarus with Free Pascal (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) makes for a pretty close FOSS reimplementation of the same Object Pascal language and the RAD IDE functionality. The IDE is reasonably mature but sadly not fully compatible with Borland Delphi 7, so you can't quite rely on a Delphi tutorial. It is cross-platform. The language combines reference counting and manual memory management, has modules and handling strings in it is pleasant compared to (vanilla) C or even C++ (which it is meant to compete with). Unfortunately, last I checked the Unicode support was imperfect.

One thing I've been wondering about lately is if Free Pascal is a good alternative to C or Go for shipping self-contained static binaries to run on *nix. I haven't tried it yet but the small(ish) static binaries the Free Pascal compiler produces and the lack of libc dependencies in theory make it an attractive option if you want to write something to run on OpenWrt on your router. Has anyone here used FPC for that? How are the MIPS and ARM backends?
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It was simply the plain-text format I am currently using, I'm sure I can add in compatibility for AsciiDoc no probs. Just a matter of adding in an AsciiDoc renderer. :)
http://yourstory.com/2014/04/bootstrap-entrepreneur-thumb-ru...
I changed title, but posted new one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613849 :).

If you like mutt, probably you don't need another email client :).

BTW. Geary has GTK+ Gmail-like interface and it works as offline email client.
Damn dude, I think you forgot to take your Midol today.
No, it would be a valid argument if the argument was "Marc Andreesen says this, therefore it must be true". It happens that Andreesen said these things, but I pointed that out because I wouldn't want people to think they were my insights.

You'll have to actually address the points themselves, sorry.
If America liked the poor it would give them money.
Scott Adams could make the same joke again
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-11-04/?CmtOrder=DateEnt...
I think it did answer the question. Very nice overview!
I can't say I thought too much about it. I've used spans and divs as buttons in bootstrap, so I didn't think to restrict the attributes to only be on 'a' tags.

I guess one post hoc rationalization is that the library isn't designed to replace anchors and, where they make sense, you should just keep using them.

But I'm just making that up. ;)
Ah, memories ... that was my third computer, after an Ohio Scientific and Commodore VIC20.

I wonder if the second clip in the sequence might be the world's first unboxing video?
Does anyone know more about PeopleCode and their PeopleSoft tools and IDE and how it compares?
Pretty funny. Chrome has always claimed to be more secure because it makes it a pain in the ass to browse sites with expired certs - something almost always just site error. But not they've messed up in a very visible revocation case and are least secure. :)

Too bad it didn't break CloudFlare. I really hate that service. Several web sites I use, if they give me an error from a form or such, CloudFlare will just give me a cached page and I have no clue what was wrong because I can't read the actual HTTP response sent to me. ;/
Congratulations, you just broke every user accessing the Internet through a captive portal with an HTTPS login interface, and every user trying to access the Internet through crappy proxies. Which is one of the reasons why other browsers don't hard-fail on revocation checks.
This isn't an exchange of security for performance. It's an exchange of theater for reliability.
Getting features into Django: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Where's Carl Icahn when you need him?
Delphi was designed by the same architect that later designed .NEt. Microsoft snatched him from Borland. Borland tools were always great, but this was the era of mighty MS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
If you're going to be changing the linked articles in submissions regularly now, you should change the site to automatically mark comments which were in response to an article which is no longer the linked article.
There is an upper limit of a piece of hardware, but if the software driving it's use is not exposing that or performing actions in a less efficient manner it can certainly have a negative impact.
The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup Stripe
This is what happens when a bunch of MBAs and Non Engienering Produxt/UX snake oils salesmen play around too much time and money.

They were one of the firsts on the field, and had every chance to make something amazing, but all I saw was mediocrity.

Useless features, half-done stuff. I still use Nike+... it has the the potential to be awesome. Give me their engineering staff and 1/3 of the budget.
Also the fact that there are multiple (and good) client-side Markdown libraries while stuff like AsciiDoc generally requires server-side rendering (and the associated server load and round-trip penalties).

Unless I'm missing it, there's no pure client-side AsciiDoc?
It looks powerful, but with a much steeper learning curve for non technical users[1]. I could see the nested list support being great for outlines, and tables look a lot more robust than in markdown, but I do not know if it is worth the tradeoffs of going against markdown's ubiquity.

[1] http://powerman.name/doc/asciidoc
I couldn't help but think of Mitch Hedberg's joke "here's a picture of me when I was younger" when reading their pitch about sending videos to the future.

It seems what they're doing is kind of like what Color did, but with video? It's not really clear what the "timebombs" are... are they videos that will appear in a user's newsfeed at some specified point in the future, rather than straight away?
What if it's the most requested feature by most customers and your data is telling you it might be a good idea? It would be crazy not to try.
We have a pretty flexible vacation policy and I've observed one person (no longer with the company) who was pretty abusive of that policy. That persons behavior definitely had a negative effect on other's perception of them.

There is a certain type of person who will push the limit for the limit's sake. And they will inspired others to push it. Have you sat in a line of cars with a shoulder open, when somebody decides "hey I'm just going to pass everyone on the shoulder" and once they decide that a bunch of other people jump out into the shoulder because they don't want to be "chumps" waiting while some "not chump" gets away with driving on the shoulder? Group dynamics can have a huge effect on these sorts of policies (for good and bad).
trade-off for performance against other browsers.
Because it doesn't work; it's a double bind: either you hard-fail on revocation checks, in which case users can lose connectivity if they happen to not have connectivity to the CA (as in the captive portal case, or with broken proxy/cache servers), or you allow the user to connect anyways, in which case attackers can simply override the revocation check.

It also involves you telling a CA which sites you're visiting.
I like the implication that MySQL is the unfortunate technology choice here, rather than PHP. :)
He advocates tracking so everyone can take equal amounts...that kind of removes the whole point of people taking as much as they need, which will be different for everyone. I think he completely misses the concept that the manager right above the employee is going to see everything and talk to the employee if there is a performance problem anyway. It's not like you can fire someone without paperwork indicating that anyway nowadays.
They haven't messed up. They've thought more about the revocation issue than almost anyone else on the Internet, and come to the conclusion that the costs aren't worth the benefits. They appear to be right; SSL revocation is a debacle, and, for most browser configurations, is mere theater.

Here's a starting point for understanding how under-designed online revocation is for SSL/TLS:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643907
Taking advantage of Bower in your Rails 4 App
> is evidenced in things like differing performance in similar situations using different OSes, such as a game in Windows vs. the same game in Linux (assuming they both us OpenGL).

I think better example would be the evolution of performance over different driver versions.
'Unlimited' vacation is the biggest BS trend ever. How is it unlimited? Can I take 365/6 days a year off?
No? Well - then it's NOT unlimited, is it?
Can I take 100 days off? No - most likely I'll lose my job then.
How about 50 days? Can I take 50 off? Nope. Highly doubt I'd still be part of the team/company then.
How about 20? That's not much, right? Little 4 week vacation in SE Asia or so? No? We have deadline? Team 'depends' on me?
Hm...

Unlimited... riiiiight
[1] seems to be an AsciiDoc render on client-side, though have no idea if it's any good though...

[1]: http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/05/21/asciidoctor-js-render...
Facebook’s Existential Crisis
That is an extremely misleading summary of the page you linked to; to start with, Jericho is at pains not to reject the idea that the USG uses Windows bugs to spy. Your comment might say more about your credibility than his, unfortunately.
It is interesting since in Erlang data structures are functional (immutable) actor mailboxes could as well be implemented to share data instead of copying it. Large binaries are handled that way. They live in a binary memory area and are referenced via pointers. The rest of the messages are not. At some point it was deemed it was better to actually make the copy.
Sigh. Its true. I'm guessing they sit in the same set of neurons or something. When I'm reading about modems and RF gear I always read it as Qualcomm but for CPUs I tend transliterate Qualcomm into Broadcom way to frequently.
Phabricator was one of the first tools I brought to my latest company. We primarily use it for Differential because the arcanist command line tool is so easy to use. Even those that are somewhat git challenged benefit as it handles merging commands for you when you land a review.

The IRC channel is a great place for Q&A and epriestley et. al. are always there to offer help.

Before you bash it for being written in PHP, take a look at the source; it is unlike any other PHP code I have ever seen.
It's persistent for me.

I'm on 36.0.1941.0 dev-m.
>I'd be very interested if anyone has any experience using React to render initial page layouts like this.

I'm actually working on an app architecture (within a toy project) that does just this; it uses react-router-component for the routing (so routes work both on both ends without environment specific stuff) and the api is built with racer (https://github.com/codeparty/racer) so that data access on the client or server is unified too

Repo: https://github.com/gnijor/Reaxer

Toy app in question: http://reaxer.nodejitsu.com/
(also contains a keyframed animation written as a react component for fun)
35.0.1916.27 beta

The check is persistent.
Here are the patches (and discussion) mentioned

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-April...

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-April...

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-April...
We have unlimited vacation at Rentify. Actually the policy is "take enough vacation to avoid burnout, we don't count the days". The expectation established when people join is that if work is being done, we don't care if you take a few extra days of vacation.

The policy exists because I was once declined an extra vacation day by a company I worked at which meant I had to take a flight costing an additional $150. The extra day they got out of me in the office was my least productive day of all time.

Vacation time is still approved by a line manager and is occasionally still declined. Generally people act in the company's best interests but sometimes we have to give context on why we can't allow a holiday.

The policy gets tricky when people leave the business, because we have to have a formula to explain to them what the calculation is for their remaining holiday pay. We try to be generous here and not simply take the UK statutory minimum (iirc 28 days). One person asked for ∞ accrued vacation days to be paid back to them which gave us a fun conversation about the difference between "infinite" and "unlimited".
Why Invest in Space Exploration? Isaac Asimov’s Witty 1969 Letter
No question.

I used Delphi 5 for a long time. The IDE was as easy as it gets, the sample code on the net was rampant, and it produced single little EXE files I could send to people and they had a full-on Windows application.

The closest thing I've found since then that allows me to do something similar minus the IDE is BlitzMax, but the IDE was what made the process so silky smooth in Delphi, and I miss it.
Facebook: Building Paper
Sidechains are being a little overhyped, certainly in the Bitcoin scenario.

Part of what drives altcoin innovation is the chance for profit (I guess this drives a lot of innovation). Since Bitcoin sidechains are pegged 1-1, there is no chance for a lot of profit on each sidechain. So if you are starting a new altcoin, what are you more likely to do, create a sidechain where you can't make any money or create a separate currency with all kinds of potential?

In fact, much of the same incentive is what is driving the desire to make everything a sidechain. People who are invested in Bitcoin want to keep interest and value there, which is more difficult when altcoins pop up. But why should Bitcoin be the currency, other than it was there first? When you look at some of the PoS coins which are energy efficient and have 10 second blocks compared to Bitcoin's energy-using mining and 10 minute blocks, you have to wonder what would be a better tech going forward (and yes I know about the possibility for attack on PoS coins).

But thankfully, we don't have to put all our eggs in one basket. The current system where multiple exchanges exist where you can go from one coin to another very quickly seems to work pretty well. Does everything need to be pegged to a single currency?

Second, people need to realize that you can't easily decentralize everything using Ethereum (when it exists). Each node will have a relatively small amount of memory and computing power on it in comparison to more centralized servers and will be slower/more expensive for the same reason. So one example people have used are decentralized exchanges. Wouldn't it be nice instead of having centralized exchanges which can be hacked, corrupt, etc (MtGox), just make them a contract on Ethereum? Sure, if you are okay with making each transaction on your decentralized exchange relatively slow and expensive compared to a good centralized exchange.

These kinds of issues will be run into more and more once Ethereum is usable. A lot of things would have seemed like a good fit for decentralization but it is just easier and makes more sense to build a centralized service. Of course Ethereum also will open up a lot of unforeseen avenues as well.

Thing is, sidecoins, Ethereum, etc, don't exist (at least not as a live, fully-functioning implementation). Most writings about either right now are "this is what will be possible", "this is what can happen", the dreaming stage. We need to see these things out in the wild to get past hype to reality.
Why does a dog lick his balls?
The thing is, I don't want to receive stock photos daily/monthly. I want to be able to search through stock photos to find RELEVANT ones to my needs. When I need them.

I mostly use flickr and check creative commons and all the right radioboxes in the search. But yeah most of the time they suck.
In terms of job availability it's been dead a long time. I see a single job posted on craigslist every 6 months in city with 50 daily job postings.

Part of the problem is the kind of corporate windows CRUD apps that Delphi excelled at are better implemented as web apps. Which leaves it relegated to hobby developers and 1 man software vendors.

Even weirder is that in 2002 the Delphi community developed a python 2.7/3 type schism over UI changes and .NET inclusion and a large portion of the community refused to adopt new releases. It's pretty telling when a vendor isn't even able to get many of it's own supporters (many of which are these "Delphi will never die" types) to buy new version of their software in over a decade.
The mikrotik hardware is good but I find the documentation is poor and several times I have found their implementation of a feature is half baked. For instance their openvpn is over tcp only.

If you can make sure they do what you need and figure out how to set them up to achieve that they can be very cost effective. They are popular with the wireless ips crowd but have been facing strong competition from ubiquity.

Given the choice i buy ubiquity products, but they don't have as many "features".

Mikrotik have also been gpl violators.
>Yes, giving users even a smidgen of freedom like the GPL does is harmful

The point is that it does not give them enough freedom. Notice how "public domain" is in the less harmful category? And all the licenses in that category as more free than the GPL?
It "might"? Does it or doesn't it?
Some ideas to improve Facebook newsfeed.
Likewise, Richard Pearse of New Zealand is sometimes considered the first. He was able to get airborne in early 1903, but not really able to maneuver.

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

It's also worth reading about Sir George Cayley, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and Gustave Whitehead -- all aviation pioneers with some degree of success in the pre-Wright era.

One of the main accomplishments of the Wright Brothers was that they continued to improve on those flights over the next several years, putting flight in the public eye -- their flights in 1908 and 1909 catapulted flight from "something a few people have claimed, but there's still a lot of skepticism" to "something everyone realized was really possible".
Your comment has persuaded me to donate. (first Kickstarter donation too!)
Interesting timing isn't it, Apple is rumoured to be making a wearables push and Nike has a cosy relationship there. Maybe they've realised they don't need to make the hardware to further their aims.

Or, maybe Nike want to refine their product base and the Fuelband isn't a big enough seller to justify the ongoing cost. I think the wearables market is some what saturated at the moment and to stand out from the crowd Nike would need to make a large push. Shame as I liked their purposefully chunky aesthetics.
A very good question. Some time ago I've heard that big libraries and archives print digital photos back to film because it is much more durable than the modern media and the picture really exists and is visible. A different problems I have with text files which would seem much less of an issue. But I have already thousands of e-mails and text, how can I be sure that in 40-80 years there will be machines or programs that could read my old text files.
I don't know what the circumstances of your comment were. Did you just not read it very carefully, or did you deliberately misstate it?

I originally wrote that your comment did say more about your credibility (&c &c), but edited it because I realized I didn't have any business attributing motive to what might have been a totally innocent error. Sorry about that.
Only data from myself, which was what the original question was polling: 'do you go forward'.
We build web products the hippie way, here is why we need your love to grow.
I never said that was all it took (you seem to be replying to a straw man), but it is a necessary element.
OP here. I use Hostigation[1]. I know some people are concerned about many of the low end providers, but in this case:

1. It's 20 bucks... take a gamble!

2. The owner, Tim, has personally responded to every issue I have ever had within an hour. Pretty stellar, if you ask me.

[1] https://hostigation.com/
BJJ Blue Belt grapples with pit bulls
>Also wtf is wrong with NetBSD?

It is a bit questionable to have netbsd in there since it isn't that bad, but I would assume the rationale is "it is more complex than openbsd".
Show HN: A complete social sharing platform
It is in private beta at http://folwd.com/vipbeta.

Folwd (pronounced followed) recommends awesome content tailored to your audience and then automatically (or after approval) shares it on your social accounts. It is like hootsuite/buffer with daily recommendation engine.
>A downside to PostScript is that it is a Turing-complete programming language. Defining a subset of it that gets rid of flow control would make it too verbose and harder than necessarily to write by hand ... Is there a (semi-)standard vector graphics markup format simpler than SVG that's purely declarative? I couldn't find one.

I was under the impression that PDF is a Turing-incomplete subset of PostScript in a pre-processed form. No idea how fun it would be to manually create PDFs, but apparently you can convert PostScript documents to PDFs easily by recording the drawing commands that your document produces as it renders/executes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#PostS...
I think ubiquity comes with knowledge, if there exists superior tools, people tend to use them eventually. I know that GitHub supports AsciiDoc already, one would hope that the other ones become enlightened!
Worth mentioning too that Nike has several job openings in PDX for Android engineers to work on Nike+, so clearly they're looking to shed their Apple exclusivity thus far.
Given you don't generate as much power as you consume, it is an inevitable outcome for most solar installs to be connected to the power grid. The cost of installing a solar array to meet all energy usage, especially in the Summer in Oklahoma, is significant. It gets crazy hot there.

I was just complaining to my wife not 30 minutes ago about how it's cold here in Moraga today. Sometimes I miss the Oklahoma heat, but that's about it.
What's so baffling is a behemoth that attracts some of the top engineers would settle for 2 vastly inferior technologies. To be fair, it is a glorified todo / commenting system.
"In a democracy, if your government is going to gag someone from speaking, it should publicly explain why"

It seems like even the ACLU is saying "it's okay to censor people, just please tell us why". Im not sure what to even think of this.
>and using two languages (bash and awk) is more complex than one.

If the two languages are combined still simpler than the one language, then it is not more complex. Note that bash is not what you would be using if following his lists. Using rc+awk is way simpler and easier than ruby for any typical unixy scripting stuff (text mangling, process wrangling, etc).
Hey, it comes with a cooling fan even! ;)

So it has USB 2.0 + 3.0 and eSATA. According to this chart, r/w performance seems quite good (and certainly above USB 2.0): http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/04/wrt1900a...
I wish there was a site that had a time line for every startup out there. When they were founded, when they launched, when they hired. ect.. It would be interesting to study. Some good info:

http://www.businessinsider.com/one-million-users-startups-20...