skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, since you joined you've been vocal and overt in your editing practices so far as I've noticed, and that's appreciated.

I'm reacting - I thought this site centred around values where merit rose above appearance. The implementation of a block list for certain domains seems to move sharply against that. Perhaps I missed the memo where it was mentioned that certain sites are banned from submission to HN. If a domain is getting spammed to the submission page then I can understand it being blocked but interesting stories/commentaries can centre around rubbish and abusive domains; I thought we [HN] rode above all that, that's all.

Blocking low quality domains is a good thing to some extent, it's just not being aware that's how the site runs that makes it surprising/unnerving. Steering the site to maintain focus requires controlling the submissions accepted, of course; just I thought this was being done using flagging and upvotes [alone] in the open. Ergo, my reaction. Maybe like finding your straight-laced lawyer has nipple-rings.
SOA as a buzz-word has fallen out of favor, but SOA as a means of segmenting a large problem to later solve it in "chunks" has been an accepted practice since the dawn of engineering. I'll agree that Microsoft, IBM and Oracle (Tibco, etc) would prefer that you were passing SOAP/XML over enterprise busses, but our layer's of RESTful services are still a "Service Oriented Architecture" ... the loss of statefullness was a big win.
When I was a kid I never knew of anyone who drove more than one town away for work. Now, I only know a few people that actually work in the same town they live. I think the willingness to commute plays a role in this too.
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Dear #NETMundial, Governance is cool and all, but we need to DEMAND IPv6 NOW
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/taint
So, half a million dollars to raise the demand for bitcoin, while, as ever, the supply remains roughly the same.

Gosh, I wonder why governments like to maintain a flexible money supply?

I am not saying that that is the intention of the organisers. I am just postulating it as a thought experiment, on one of the downsides of having a fixed money supply.

Not that there are not also upsides. But there are also downsides.
What a great idea! I've been using Balsamiq for a few years now, but I usually sketch my idea out on paper before translating that to the editor manually. I would kill for this kind of hot-linking functionality for general web apps with the off-the-cuff feel of hand-drawn sketches.

Just browsing your site, it looks like your main app is used like that, albeit apparently for more refined mockups (I'm sure I'm mixing up terminology here, but I'm not a designer so bear with me). Next time I have to design a site I'll try integrating Marvel with my Balsamiq workflow and see what happens.
Great work on the app and page. Everything is laid out very clearly and I'll definitely use this on our next iOS app project.
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They might also get a nasty lesson in the traceability of BTC, depending on how the BTC's distributed to them.
30 minutes?
If you want great ideas put yourself in the corner i
This kind of article is honestly insulting to the intelligence of anyone who has written more than a dozen lines of code. It literally says nothing while "magically" hiding the fact that "services" are just "software" handled by someone else. Seriously?
Hey, at least you can write ‘>>>>>’ instead of ‘> > > > >’ now. :)
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Too funny, I spent an hour the other day figuring out what font was being used in Murat's Break App rendering on dribbble. Great work on marvel.

https://dribbble.com/shots/1468163-Break-app?list=searches&o...
Thanks! Hope you find it useful :)
For those who go straight-to-comments on HN (myself included):

Users first play a series of games with cartoon spiders, which start out as cute and harmless-looking but gradually become more realistic.
One early task involves helping a spider hide in a slipper while someone is using a vacuum cleaner.

You're also missing a spider in a top hat.
> If so, will it be possible to call rust from, e.g., C code? I'd like to have an alternative to c/c++ for writing native extensions for interpreted languages.

Yes. Technically it's already possible[0][1] but AFAIK it requires throwing out all (?) of the stdlib. rust-core[2] is an exploration of a runtime-less subset of the stdlib, which would ultimately be usable under a no_rt flag or something like that (at this point you have to disable the stdlib entirely and use rust-core instead)

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/3608

[1] https://github.com/charliesome/rustboot

[2] https://github.com/thestinger/rust-core
Having had direct contact with all the issue of massive crawls (talking about tens of thousands of websites daily), I can say that it depends on the scale and "business-criticality" of the crawl. For the types of crawls that their product seems to be targeted at (quite small scale and with a very precise "point and gather" approach), it might be efficient to go the service way.

But the author fails to mention that the outsourcing decision holds true only for all non-mission critical crawls (whether it's for marketing, accounting or any other operations) while it's totally unfeasible if your company is doing big number crunching. When the product is the data, you need to control the accuracy and timeliness of the crawl without a doubt.
Quick question about marvelapp which I'm going to try out as well. Why make dropbox or google drive a requirement to use it? Doesn't that create a higher barrier to entry for your visitors? Why not just allow anyone to sign up and upload files? (Like invisionapp)
It turns out you have to submit a CV and portfolio. If I knew I was applying for a job I wouldn't have submitted my email :/
Are you aware of any website using such a control? also, couldn't you just have multiple sliders on the same line to implement this?
You make it pretty hard to register. I don't want to send all kinds of details about myself when checking if a service is worth my time and I don't think I'm the only one.
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Featherweight Java (http://www.fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~igarashi/papers/fj.html) was a seminal paper which showed type soundness for Java. The formal syntax was a subset of Java subset and preserved the interesting features in the semantics (as opposed to encoding a language in an extension of the lambda calculus, which is an alternative style of formalisation). So, "featherweight flavour" refers to formal type systems work which follows this style of formalisation.
"Marvel App Prototyping would like access to .ai files, .eps files, .pdf files, .psd files, .sketch files, and images in your Dropbox."

It needs access to a hell of a lot of files in my dropbox account. Definitely not something I want scouring my files, just so it can show a few mockups - is there any way to restrict it to being able to access just a single folder, or is it really an all-or-nothing problem with Dropbox auth?

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Yes, but wouldn't it be obvious (or obvious eventually) that these healthy people clearly don't exhibit other symptoms of schizophrenia? Or am I forgetting something?
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I can already do the same with Sketch and their Mirror app but I like the Dropbox feature.
This POWER8 board has been in development for a long time and will only be used if it turns out to be cheaper then the Intel/AMD alternatives.

The platforms team at Google is also developing an ARM solution. They have GPU's in testing as well.
This reminds me of a true story I once read about the best car salesman in the country at the time. Single handedly he was selling more than some not-so-small entire dealerships. The difference was his incredible focus and approach to even the tiniest detail that could help a sale and willingness to try new things.

One thing that stands out in my memory about this was the fact the he made sure he always had 3 (!) pens for the customer to sign the sales agreements. Just in case 1 pen stopped working and the backup pen malfunctioned. He brought this sort of laser focus to absolutely every aspect of the business.

How many salesmen would have a spare pen, already in place, let alone 2 spares. How many would even have thought about it and what the right number might be?

Focus, attention to detail and continuous innovation.
I'm not sure I'd trust wikipedia as the final word

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/253802.php

For example, rats infected with the parasite lose their fear of cats, and are even attracted by their scent, making them easy prey

The Violinists Thumb,

Toxo does even stranger things to rodents. Rodents that have been raised in labs for hundreds of generations and have never seen a predator in their whole lives will still quake in fear and scamper to whatever cranny they can find if exposed to cat urine; it's an instinctual, total hardwired fear. Rats exposed to Toxo have the opposite reaction. They still fear other predators' scents, and they otherwise sleep, mate, navigate mazes, nibble find cheese, and do everything else normally. But these rates adore cat urine, especially male rates. In fact they more than adore it. At the first whiff of cat urine, their amygdalae throb, as if meeting females in heat

I haven't read the source research myself but the author isn't the only one drawing the conclusion that toxo-infected rodents are actually attracted to cat urine.
> The Pale Moon and Cyberfox browsers are forks of Firefox

Those are hardly anything more current source codes complied differently, with a few switches flipped here and there, certainly not real forks.

Also, the only reason many of these so called Fx "forks" do not ship Australis is because they are on the ESR line.
That's a great combo. We wanted to make something that fits into the full workflow, from sketches on paper to wireframes and high-fidelity visuals.

So you can easily use the iPhone app to start with sketches and then use the web app to get into more detail
Yes, it is possible to do it by just avoiding the runtime, e.g. the following works fine:

#![crate_id="example_c"]
#![crate_type="dylib"]

#[no_mangle]
pub extern fn my_rust_function(x: i32, y: i32) -> i32 {
x + y
}

Then compiling that gives a libexample_c....so file, which can be linked against the following C:

#include<stdio.h>
extern int my_rust_function(int, int);

int main() {
printf("%d", my_rust_function(1, 2));
return 0;
}

printing 3. (There's no interaction with a runtime here at all.)

In fact, it's even possible to "manually" start a runtime[1] inside another process (and if it's started on its own thread then I think it will work flawlessly, if not, then it might break in some corner cases).

[1]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/guide-runtime.html
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You'll probably still have to write the C version anyway, as a fallback if you build on a new architecture and as a reference implementation to test the asm.

So at that point it's probably valuable to see if you can't get the compiler to generate the correct code by itself in a portable way.

I'm not afraid of writing assembly when I have to but I always consider it a last resort scenario when I really can't get the same result with some good old C.
except for the price and 100mhz faster processor is there anything else different than on model from 2013 (i am asking since i bought 2013 model couple days ago :))
Ah, there you go, that makes sense. Now I just need to get an iPhone ;)
When you travel abroad, does it trouble you that it's not your plane?

Actually, it is quite a hassle to have to operate on the airline's schedule rather than on my own, not to mention having to make travel arrangements weeks in advance. It's just that owning and operating an airplane myself is too expensive for me. Since moving to Boston, so is owning a car. That said, I am definitely not planning to switch to rental bicycles.
NICE (the UK "death panel") has guidance for computerised CBT. It's interesting reading.

It's surprising how effective a short bit of work can be to overcome quite deeply entrenched phobias.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/TA97
1.5W is a crazy amount of standby power. Not that I don't believe older models may use that much, but there are now regulations and standards for that kind of thing which push that to a much lower power.
Another way to achieve PCI compliance is to simply outsource all activities having to do with credit cards to a PCI compliant vendor and let them deal with that pain. I've seen sites that let you pay this way and it works pretty well - as well as a payment workflow that involves sending your customer to a 3rd party site and hoping they make it back can work anyway.

The whole thing with the modem is scary though.
SI!
We actually started with a single folder but the UX wasn't great. It meant that everyone had to drag their existing projects and files into a specific Marvel folder in Dropbox/apps.

After we saw that no one was doing it, we figured it would be better to go to the files, rather than force people to bring the files to us.

We only access the files you choose, also Marvel was approved by the DB API team to use the service (a bit like the App Store)
My friend, if you do not consult the mystical Tomes of Economycs on Wikipedia, then the ghostly Vapours will consume you with the aspyct of Mercury.
Hmm?

"Grepsr (...) uses software as a service"

"With service mode, however, the software that runs the service (...)"

"A powerful crawling software runs at the back of our system (...)"
Given that your address bar changes when you change tabs, having the tabs above it makes sense.
However, the "Google model" of computation involves a huge amount of cheap "light" servers, instead of a few "big" servers (on which the Power model was based)

Well, the Power architecture had some success in Apple products, but ended with the inability of IBM to scale production and produce parts that consumed less power
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I'm in the early stages of bootstrapping a startup while retaining a full-time job. I'm looking to step away from that job and find something a little more flexible. Ideally, I would love to find an early stage startup that is looking to hire a 20-30hr/week contract for the next few months. That income will give me the flexibility to prove out my startup ideas and decide if I should pursue Angel/VC funding.

I have "senior" level experience and have helped build 3 well known Boston/Cambridge area startups. I primarily write Ruby and Node these days, but have experience in many other languages. (I'd rather not list a bunch of acronyms here, just ask me...chances are I have experience) I'll have the biggest impact on small teams and in small companies because my skill set is diverse.

Let me know if you want to chat!
Perhaps I'm wrong but wouldn't it make more sense to actually just use the open source Bitcoin software to create their own altcoin......perhaps call them Mitcoins? They could give the initial, easily mined Mitcoins away to students, and spend the $500K on promoting it as a viable altcoin and getting the major exchanges to add it to their trading mix. With the credence lent to it by MIT, it would stand a far better chance of success than other altcoins, and the students that keep their initial coins would likely wind up with far more than $100.

This just kind of seems like they are squandering the $500K, and are completely ignoring their greatest asset: their association with MIT. That name carries alot of weight with the type of people that buy these currencies.
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Thanks for the shoutout Bruce.

I'm the Founder of LaunchYard.com, and we have been successfully helping entrepreneurs from the last 1 and half years to launch their products. For instance: http://launchyard.com/case-studies/albums/

Shoot me a line if anyone wants to learn more. atif at launchyard.com
Most people don't appreciate how complicated C's mix of signed and unsigned is, especially when undefined behaviour of signed overflow is included.
Your landing page looks awesome on a desktop PC, but parallax on mobile devices is difficult and there are some other things, which would improve the experience on smartphones:
http://i.imgur.com/mfxFg7v.jpg

Because isn't that part of the thing you are trying to sell?
As far as we know so far, nope, no other differences. Maybe a teardown my iFixit will reveal something new but I doubt it.
Watch remote working become the next big trend.

Cost of living is also a factor since relocating to a more expensive area is no longer generally worth unless the new salary is way higher. Kids and home ownership would make it very unlikely I would relocate to somewhere likely SF even for double my current income.
I would say that the list of rejections is very mixed. There are plenty of commercial successes there that aren't particularly good.
Well, it's pretty frightening that you're asking for such massive, wide-scale permissions.

I understand that people are permission-clicky-happy nowadays, so it's probably something that won't even remotely affect your growth - it's just a shock to see new, tech-friendly services going with permission-grabs (even if it is, as you say, to allow for better UX)

I can't imagine why anyone would want to give up such massive access, and potentially commercially sensitive info (that they possibly don't own), but I definitely wish you all the best with this

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> The sites that suffer the most from adblocking are .... splogs, linkfarms, and other very contentless things built solely to lure users in for adverts.

Doesn't adblock normally block all ads? Last time I used it was years ago, so maybe things have changed.
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I have a tool for moments like this. It takes the central article on a page and displays only it in a nicely formatted in-window pop-up. I use Firefox Reader, though Evernote's Clearly and Readability would both suffice. Pocket would work too.
Good question!

After freelancing in agencies, startups and design teams for so long I saw that everyone was using Dropbox for projects and design file storage.

With designers making hundreds of changes to their designs each day, the time it would take to keep your prototype updated is prohibative. So we figured instead of forcing the user to bring the files to our cloud solution, why don't we just go to theirs?

If we let users leave their files where they are it's one less click and thing to manage. We just keep the files in sync so the prototypes update automatically with the user lifting a finger.

On the flip-side, no everyone uses Dropbox of course and it's a barrier. But it allows us to save money on storage which we pass back onto the user and provide a great free plan (no upload or project limits)
> I'll agree that Microsoft, IBM and Oracle (Tibco, etc) would prefer that you were passing SOAP/XML over enterprise busses

They better say bye to this idea... it's hard to see why curly braces are good and angle brackets are evil... they get used differently.

> Enterprise (Service) Bus

Buzz word, snake oil

There is no problem, there never was a problem: Build on existing (de-facto) standards and just don't reinvent the world (with WS-*). And do not use the beginning of the payload (like SOAP does). The solution was there already and the solution is HTTP and the 2048 characters of the URL (to encode a function call) and yes a machine readable data format, but NOT XML and yes, JSON is likely/probably good enought.

You usually pay the bill for what you are doing

Open Source is free (as in freedom) but also free of charge :)
I think you can call Apple and get a free upgrade to the latest model if you bought yours within 30 days of release of the new ones.
woot?!

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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Put another way, 7.6 - 10% price reduction
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Content is a king, but context is a God
In Austria and Germany ~40h/week work weeks are common even for developers (lived more than 8 years in both combined and worked as a programmer in several companies almost this entire time). Usually If you work more than 40h in one week you can compensate by working fewer hours in the next one.

I think this is common to all EU countries, save for maybe the UK (don't know, but they seem to be a bit less socialist than continental western europe).
I said it's an AngularJS commercial, not an Avira commercial. But let me get the Avira part out of the way first: the article is at most an anti-commercial for Avira. You're saying that this web app is the flagship product for Avira. Do you know what a "flagship product" means? Do I really have to explain to you why a web app as a flagship product is not a good commercial for a security oriented company? But thank you for the link, go with the anti-commercial even further.

And now for the useless AngularJS commercial part. Here are the fallacies:

- You argue for choosing AngularJS using statistics from github, now that's an "Argumentum ad populum". You chose AngularJS just to jump on the hype-train, because you don't give any other reasons beside "look, so many others are using it, it must be good".

- You don't explain how to achieve the results. You're just saying: "here are the results, you must believe me because I work at a company and write on blogs". This is called "Argument from authority". You could have crafted some toy examples to explain how is the debugging easier, or how does it help with the testability, but no such things from you.

[there are more, but these will suffice]

And another thing about your article: you should explain some of the buzzwords you use, not everyone knows them. For example: what does "velocity score" means and/or implies? I can't get anything about it from google, and that says a lot about it.

In the end, you have a nice skeleton for an article, but is not fleshed at all. Nice color, pretty, yet absolutely worthless, graphs and no content whatsoever. I hope you don't code as you write.

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Note that MLton compiles a language which requires int arithmetic to raise an exception on overflow, the overhead of which provides a strong motivation for such analyses.
Well, I'd make the statement that almost any kind of programming (unless incredibly repetitive or filled with bad practices) will make you a better programmer. At the very least, it should make that person a little bit more practiced in their language of choice. These types of challenges may also take you out of your comfort zone, introduce you to new languages / paradigms, and so on; these are all good things in general.

Are they the best way to make use of your spare time, or the best way to improve as a programmer? That's a completely different question, I guess.
Right now most of our revenue is from bigger projects servicing products which are data centric. We cater both type of projects -- small and big.

Not all companies (consultant firms, investment banks, equity researchers) have the expertise to do a in-house solution for bigger projects. This is where a service has an upper hand over using a tool.
They are useless idiots whom I hate with a passion for their user-hostile self-gratification.

The design was just fine, so leave it the fuck alone!
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Ah, i didnt realize that by the wording of OP.

also, thx someone for downvoting a helpful attempt.

i see the cancer found HN also
Even if it is there, it no longer works. Australis is tabs-on -top only.