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Haha, I wish they get their day in the court.

I think the lawyers of plaintiffs thought they could 'manipulate' their 'clients' so that the lawyers could simply cut and run with their outsized fee case but little did they know their 'clients' are not some easily manipulated people who really need some cash now.

These clients are well educated and have the money to wait out AND can get a great job anywhere.

I really wish to hear the real story of this case.
Free markets don't exist without governments. They don't have a natural state. A government is a monopoly on force that enforces property rights and contracts. If there was no government then you would have no market incentive to do anything because you would have no protection from theft or breach of contract. The contours of what you can own as property and what you can enforce in a contract are necessarily defined by the government.

The problem with idealized free markets is that "free" is not the natural state of a market. You can act as a de facto government by having a monopoly on something other than force (like land or infrastructure), and de facto government actions have all the same defects as de jure government actions, generally with none of the public accountability.
Yes, those are standard now because they're "old" in the rest of the industry. It remains to be seen if newer tech that is starting to become standard outside of the Microsoft ecosystem today (containers, for example) will be integrated fast enough to matter.
How realistic is it to use a self-hosted OWIN server running ASP.NET vNext on Mono? What can we expect in terms of performance? I was always under the impression it was pretty far away from being a viable option, Microsoft help or not.
On the face of it, your query seems simple (in C#, should be easy to translate):

var releases = db.Releases.Where(r => r.Build.Mainline.MainlineID == 4);

Or am I missing something?
The sqlite4 authors tested it. Never published the results, AFAIK. Probably because sqlite4 LSM is a pig. http://www.sqlite.org/src4/info/51816384756d6c620e991bb4ef81...
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Let's just flag this issue off HN and hide our heads in the sand. Then five years from now we can wonder "What happened to Internet services and telecom gear from the US?"

"Well, none of the mods saw this coming!"

"The effect was unimportant at the time!"

"But... terrorism!"

I am not optimistic. If the tech industry can't reject DRM, what chance is there they will reject domestic surveillance?
I write code on a Mac and script-built VMs seem to be the way to go. Sharing host folders the VM mounts and letting the actual code run on the VM is much closer to the server environment (leading to much fewer surprises). While it may hide a bug that would manifest itself under OSX (or other Unix) it's a useful setup.

Having said that, I've also worked a lot with slimmer environments - venv on top of the native OS - with reasonable success.
A lot of people are asking for trial by jury so that we can be sure he is guilty.

That doesn't seem so fail-proof seeing as maybe 4% of death row inmates have been wrongfully convicted.
Chess as an indication of intelligence is an American cultural quirk. In other parts of the world, people just think that means someone is good at chess.
Heavily trafficked sites are already paying for a "fast lane" in the form of CDNs that cache everything but dynamic content. These CDNs already have interconnect agreements with the large ISPs (and have for years).
Strongly seconded. There is no substitute for diving in and getting to grips with new tools. Nothing even comes close.
What do you all think of this alternate version of the loader that rips on Comcast?

http://rubbingalcoholic.com/#ALWAYS_SHOW_SL_WIDGET_COMCAST

If anyone wants to help out with this or give me feedback directly, please email me jeff@rubbingalcoholic.com
While the announcements may be very exciting if your lot is in with Microsoft (^1), for people on mixed platforms and with real technology choice it just seems reactionary. That Microsoft moved configuration files from XML to JSON is really Microsoft's technology choices in a nutshell.

I have programmed on the Microsoft stack for many, many years, and still make a good deal of coin in .NET and SQL Server, so I'm not coming at this with an agenda. At the same time I can as easily leverage other technologies so I don't feel as grateful when Microsoft catches up.

^1 - I was working at a shop when .NET was first introduced and one chap was making a case for why we should adopt it. His case made a very compelling case for why the shop should have adopted Java years earlier, and it was actually eye opening to me because it was a demonstration of an organization and a team who saw their universe of choices as being defined by Microsoft.
I'm a scientist who does lots of code. Most of my "projects" are 1000 lines or less (usually much less) to do a single function or calculation.

Last year I was pulled into my first larger-scale project (about 8 science coders at multiple institutions over 5 years). We were able to produce reasonable, readable code for each other on a file-by-file basis. But Version Control was the worst, worst part. Files emailed back and forth between subgroups that never made it into the tree, edits lost, we all had our own forked version at the end, essentially.

The most telling part was when I emailed both IT in my department and several professors (PIs) on the project, including those that taught "scientific programming", asking about setting up a source repository, if one of them could host one, and NONE of them had any clue what git, subversion, etc. even were, let alone where/how to set something up.
Hey lazyant, I'm one of the engineers at Football Radar.

Thanks for the comment - we're happy to listen to community feedback, especially if it looks like we're doing something dubious - and I promise, we're not trying to!

I'll try to address your concerns:

* Maybe we could have explained it better, but the competition is about writing the best predictive model, not correctly guessing the results of the tournament. Football results are not deterministic - the best anyone can do is write a thorough probabilistic model that is correct more often than not. We can only judge this competition based on the source code, because the methodology is more important than the outcome.

* We have modified our terms to try and address some of your other points. We ask for submissions to be under the MIT licence so that we can promote the winning entry and share some of the best ideas with the community. We're not interested in using solutions in our own products.
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I guess you weren't aware that Hanselman also owns an iPhone :P

I'll also echo what everyone else said. I feel the only reason IE is staying around is so I have something to download Chrome with on a fresh installation.
Angular gets an "ugh!" but ExtJS doesn't?
Fortunately rewrite in typescript is mainly rename the files, simplify class declarations and add some type annotations as you go
I honestly think this is a metaphor for a DMT trip. Without getting into too much detail, "machine elves" (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=machine%20elves) are a common name within the culture for beings that give you guidance during the trip.
Containers? You mean like MEF(Included in .net framework) or Unity?

.Net has always had containers like that.
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Your knowledge of the situation in Go seems out of date. On the 9x9 board, bots are perhaps equal with professionals, or just behind them. On 19x19, they regularly win with 4 stone handicaps. See: http://www.computer-go.info/h-c/index.html
For some write-intensive applications it is faster than everything else. E.g. http://symas.com/mdb/hyperdex/

Depends a lot on your key and value sizes - the larger the values, the faster LMDB is vs any other solution, due to the zero-copy behavior.
Yes, just wildcard include all *.cs files. You'll still have to list any potential embedded resources explicitly in your CSPROJ, as well as list any exceptions (please don't compile example.cs, for instance), but why add each and every .cs file to the CSProj explicitly?
getfilesystemencoding() is unreliable on Linux has linux has no file system encoding. It just returns the first match of LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG (not sure in which order).
You misread them, those stories are talking about checking IF the constant has changed. They are not saying that it has. None have shown any change.
How do you know this is what will happen?
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Immerse yourself via project. Not tutorial though, project.

Tutorials are nice, but ultimately very hand-holding, and leave too many questions left unanswered (i.e. "why the hell is this here?"). If you can build something where the answers aren't immediate, then that requires you to actively seek out the answers and make beginners mistakes that can only be fixed by knowing the quirks of the language/framework. If it takes effort to learn something, then you generally won't forget it.

When I started working on my circuit sim in javascript, I had only the faintest idea how javascript worked by running snippets of it directly embedded into my html. Now, I'm pretty familiar with the gotchas, especially the painful ones.
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Someone else mentioned Maker Faire, and I second that. Even if you don't think that kind of thing is "your thing", there's so much there that's genuinely interesting to any inquisitive person that you're bound to find it fun. The only drawback IMO was that it's massive and crazy crowded, so if you're not a fan of large crowds it can get overwhelming.

Also, change your ticket and fly back on Monday so you can experience Bay to Breakers. It's one of the best/most ridiculous events our city has to offer.
There is a large cost to a system like this -- you would need to have sensors in different places around the building and sensors or motors on registers. You would need to give the system a layout of the building or run it through some sort of training regimen (because, I'm not sure about you, but I almost never adjust my registers).

I worked on the design of a cleanroom. Even there, in a single room where we just wanted to control temp and humidity and the internal conditions never changed, it took an incredible amount of tuning to get the system to run properly.

This is certainly coming, but today, I don't think most people would be willing to pay $000s for a system that still needs training and may or may not provide cost savings or comfort benefit.
The cops are fundamentally the same asyou as a citizen. Deadly force is justified in response to a threat to human life either yours or another. The difference is that police have specific training and rules of engagement, and they insert themselves into situations.

I think the fundamental problem is the definition of imminent threat to human life and the fog of war. Unlike a situation where a person point a gun at a policeman, imminent threat in a geopolitical stance is hard to assess.

Issac Asimov explored many of these issues in the Robot novels. How do you judge whether an individual is an imminent threat to your country? Or humanity? The answers aren't necessarily black and white.
Oracle is used widely by large organizations, such as governments and corporations. Same as IBM's DB/2.

It is not used widely by San Francisco start-ups though. So you'll see more blog articles about PostgreSQL or MySQL as more start-up people blog than government people.
You are confusing the show "24" with reality. In reality there are no ticking time bombs.
I think OP is hoping to network with HN-type people, specifically. :)
I'm actually a little bit disappointed in the switch. The existing tooling around msbuild projects is great. The only "problem" is that by default Visual Studio adds item references each individual file instead.

Ideally the csproj file should rarely become modified. Talk to any team of more than 2 developers and they'll confirm that pain of dealing with mundane csproj conflicts.

As far as XML versus JSON, I really don't care at all since I don't intend on looking at them or modifying them every day.
Correct. Running your own server, etc, doesn't matter. If what you're doing on the internet isn't encrypted by you and decrypted by a trusted and competent recipient... consider it more or less public.
I am not as experienced as you are but I do spend a lot of time learning new frameworks. As with everything new the more time you spend with it the better you get.

Rather than trying to learn a thing inside out I like to pick stuff that can be immediately useful to me and build some small stuff with it.

For instance I am learning lua (and open resty) at the moment now lua is itself a very small language but I am new to it none the less. I tried reading a programming book but I got bored quickly as it repeated almost the same stuff that I have gone through many times before(operator precedence etc).Instead I created small utility apps that were useful to me immediately.

Like I created a lua script that cd-ed into a directory and started an elastic search server. Another one that abstracts couchdb api into quick command line options (I got tired of typing long curl http requests into the terminal) and does other things like replication pushing design docs etc.

I use books as reference, something to come back to, unless there is a book like learn you some erlang which I read cover to cover :)
This is the first time you have responded to it. You were ignoring it.

honestly, that is not where we disagree. We disagree entirely on the primary function of the internet.

You apparently see it, already, as just a series of walled gardens.

Unfortunately your lack of awareness around what it does, is driving your uninformed opinions around what kinds of protection it needs.

For the sake of my own sanity, I am gonna assume that you are simply playing devils advocate.
Another idea is to provide a banner with a good message and a "toggle" button for the slow lane. So users can experiemnt it, but be in control as not to harm the product experience. Maybe it's too passive?
The Google docs charts aren't loading for me, and while I admire anyone who attempts to write in English when it is not their primary language (I'm assuming) there is just a bit too much off in the writing that makes it awkward to follow.

For example, I'm pretty sure the title should be "Visual Art on a Hockey Stick Curve." Maybe the the adjective "steep" belongs there as well, though the metaphor of a hockey stick should convey that.
Build an internal tool for your existing company/product. They frequently don't require much in the way of functionality to produce business value, tend to map naturally to "things you'd actually care about" rather than staying at the surface-level "and this is how you make text display in a table", and can be quickly shot in the head after you're sufficiently advanced in the new stack to realize everything you did wrong the first time.

As to how I'd go about building an internal tool, like say a dashboard for my SaaS app but this time written in Golang? I would blow up Google with a series of queries for [golang web framework], [golang mysql adapter], [golang Stripe library], and keep Googling every time I hit a roadblock. (I suppose there could theoretically be planning at some point but the nice thing about internal tools is if you create a creaking Frankensystem then what is the worst that happens? It takes 800ms to load instead of 300ms and you have to keep it behind the firewall, where you were going to put it already?)

Another nice thing about internal tools: if you find yourself banging your head against e.g. image generation for too long you can always just wire up a trivial internal service written in a stack you're more familiar with to call out to your usual image generation solution, and then just consume that service with the new app. Then make a note "Note to self for rainy day project: Figure out how to do image generation in Golang."
Why are you still using it?
* Text should not be centered.

* The Unique Selling Proposition (USP) needs to be more prominent. The quote box draws in the eye. There are no faces or other images to attract the eye to where you want it to be.

* The About/Goodwill/etc. tabs break basic usability guidelines. The user is unlikely to realize that the blue means 'selected.' This non-intuitive relative to scrolling.

* USP is too heavy on features and not enough on benefits. Say what's in it for the user and less on what the thing is.

* The table with the users is OK but you would get more persuasive lift from attributed testimonials like the one you have above it from the HN guy.

* The supporting copy needs a red marker through 90% of it.

* "We make sharing stuff suck less." -- sounds cool in an affable internet cool guy kind of way, but does not actually communicate in a way that drives the reader to action.

The old version is actually a little bit better, although the animated GIF where it is will keep the visitors' eyes bouncing to it repeatedly as it loops, which impedes comprehension. The old version also uses too many h2 subheadings and would be more appropriate for an FAQ. h2 is too big for such short snippets of text.

Also, I like the GIF -> HTML5 conversion bit in the original, because it shows a benefit of your service. Seeing the video play bar on mouseover was also a pleasant surprise. I would explain why your prospective user might want to do that (make your pages load faster to make your readers happier and more loyal) without using jargon. 'Kilobyte' is jargon, as is KB.

Apart from that the navigation on the website isn't clear. The About page also doesn't drive me to sign up -- your call to action at the bottom of the first tab is to check out your subreddit, IRC channel, and twitter account. The general convention is to ask for the signup and then to provide the option to learn more if they're not sold yet.

Some more general suggestions:

1. Excise all the technical terms (yes, even references to file types -- say what the file is) from the portions not targeted to developers.

2. Weight the benefits heavier than the features (tell me what it will do for me and then explain how it will do it rather than telling me how it'll do it and expecting me to figure out why I, the selfish and lazy user, should care).

3. I would work on refining the 'Mediacrush is a fast, open-source media hosting service' tagline.

Hope this was helpful -- good luck!
Microsoft is still the one leading .NET, defining what .NET is and what technologies it includes (and which it doesn't). While Mono is a nice subset that runs on non-Microsoft OSs, .NET is pretty much a Microsoft-centric technology.

You don't need to go further than the recent announcements and the excitement they generated among .NET users to see how dependent on Microsoft they are. It's Microsoft's show to run.
From my POV: as soon Mono becomes a first class citizen (starting with a robust, cross platform IDE to hosting on Linux without hassle/shortcomings) I'm sold.

Until then, everything .NET is a non starter because I don't care for Windows. At all.

Mind you, I don't need it to be open source/FOSS etc.
Square Wallet failed to take off besides getting some nice air time during a 60 Minutes piece Jack Dorsey.

There should be a kickstarter for media coverage. e.g. this tech is so neat and has such a good chance of being transformative that 60 Mintues, or some other big media outlet should to a 15 minute piece on it.
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Openings can't be handled by a pre-computed book. What we humans call the opening can be 40 moves, and professional games often feature unique moves within the first 10-20 moves.

The situation with regard to the opening is quite different from chess.
You're asking about the efficacy of passive messaging - I don't think it would work if you asked people. Likewise, I think simply doing it is more likely to annoy people than incite passion.

Visibility is the issue, not understanding the problem. I think the message of "the internet could be slower without net neutrality" is the one that needs to be delivered. People generally know what "slower" means.

As I mentioned, a standardized message would probably be more effective, but it's also not something that would be particularly exciting to share on, say, Hacker News.
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Another plug for Dapper. I tell people it's an ORM for developers who aren't afraid of SQL. It doesn't hide the database, or force you to pretend it's not there. It excels at taking your rows of data and transmogrifying them to objects.
Maybe a drone that can deliver caviar to the Sheikh's 180 meter yacht when he runs out of caviar?
I mean containers like docker.
https://www.docker.io/
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North Korea has a number of strong players--probably better than those in Europe and the US. They've competed in a few international events.
You're right. Sorry for the misleading title. It was more to inform that I will be doing this on OS X, as opposed to for OS X.
Being "that guy" is actually helpful!

Thanks for your comment, leeoniya, but I'm not a skilled web designer, and I'm an even worst developer.

Since I did the website on my own and can't afford having someone doing it for me, I'll try to correct it the best I can.

It just might take me a while.

Cheers!
Of the corner opening patterns alone (called joseki), there are 10000s of them, and it's very common to use novel ones. Many joseki, like the well known 4-4/3-3 invasion, can range from great plays to disasters depending on board position. And there are four corners.
> Stackoverflow for one.

That's no longer completely true. While the core continues to run on Windows, SQL Server and .NET, pretty much everything around it is Linux-based and without that additions, the system would be unable to maintain its current performance.
Bolt is still a lot slower than LMDB/GoLMDB. http://eagain.net/talks/go-nuts-and-bolts/slides.html#33

And still very immature.
Wait until the first American political or military leader associated with an arguably illegal action abroad is taken out by drone. Then we can redo this thread and many will sing a different tune.
For networking, it really helps to know what you're after. What kind of VCs? founders? what subcategory of tech? are you looking for a job? Information?

Where you should spend your time here can vary a lot depending on the answers to the above.
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