skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone will implement the UI without a Node/CoffeeScript backend? Memory usage has been pretty abysmal in my trials (though we've got some very large repos).

I'm definitely with the group that they 'opensourced' this because they had to... I know my entire office went from 'fuck-yeah' to '.... meh' to 'what? yeah, I forgot about that' in about two weeks time.

I mean, it's still damn good of 'em I just hope it gets some love. I'd like to see more competition in the space, but right now I have a feeling it's just going to be abandoned before too long then I'll be knocking on the door of ST3 or Vim again.
I think the Hall of Fame is worth more than the $20.

This is one of those cases where the $20 is probably worse than $0, though (even though it's non-cash). It's like "hey, friend, will you (help me move|have sex with me|etc)"; more likely to do it as a favor than when $20 is offered. Probably even more likely to do it for $1k than as a favor. $1000>0>$20.
Wouldn't a constant stream of data allow for more realistic baseline measurements to be set?
In case you're curious, here's a great article giving a nice history of the development of this company / product:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_...
Cool article! A friend and I once did this but then recorded the commands attackers ran and replayed them on a big tv in our office. We called it hacker fishtank.
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Most of us are still waiting for our shipment to arrive. I did a DIY Soylent for a month. It was alright. So I'm excited to try the official thing.
InoReader(.com) is the only one I've found post-Google Reader that gets out of my way and lets me read things. The experience on mobile could be improved, but it works well enough for me.
It's written in coffee script and runs on webkit.
I'd say it's possible but you'd lose some of the deeper OS integrations.
Whoa. I'm the author of this 2048-game.el (the one in MELPA; there are many implementations), located at https://bitbucket.org/zck/2048.el. The coloring is definitely something I've wanted to add to the game, but was holding off on for the moment.

Why? Scoring. 2048 has a score that's also a number. So if you colorize only based on keywords, you'll color the score too. And that's bad.

Edit: I'd happily take patches, suggestions, or pointers to documentation on how to do the colorization properly. Email in profile.
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> PHP's success is the result of PHP being available at even the tiniest webhost.

I don't think so. PHP was the most performant (when paired with MySQL) and the simplest environment/language to develop with, for the time (late 90s onward). Projects grew and money was made off of functional sites that scaled to the critical mass. It was common to hire highly skilled developers for optimizing parts of a site that had been originally done in PHP. If PHP only interacted with Oracle or had been relatively slow as an Apache module, it would never have been popularized. Period. Java, C, Perl, LISP, etc were simply left behind with convoluted setups and ridiculously difficult syntax for the simplest of tasks (java was particularly immature). Later, webhosts appeared and PHP was trivial to integrate (as it had always been). In the late 90's the cheapest webhost was about $5 a month (thread.net - with a waiting list)

By 2000, Yahoo had done a proper assessment and moved over straightforward development to PHP (still using oracle though).

It's interesting to see so many languages fail to adopt the obvious characteristics that made/make PHP popular. PHP has started to stumble away from those same characteristics in the pursuit of specific agendas by framework developers and language contributors (PSRs are a myopic farce).

Performance, ease of deployment....who else has this? Oh yeah, Javascript. Never mind how horrid that language is, it matched PHP for ubiquity (thx to apple and other vendors standardizing and implementing so <noscript> has gone away for the most part).

HVVM is more performant (for any non-trivial code). Will this be enough to give it superior momentum? Probably...until PHP finally just adopts it. Java's VM sucked and you wanted to always be using JRockit VMs 4 years ago. Eventually Oracle simply integrated them together. I see that as the eventual end here.
Really wish they would focus more on SHIPPING Soylent instead of redesigning their website. I am aware that these tasks are not mutually exclusive but still it's been a ridiculous length of time and often without clear/timely updates from the Soylent team. If I knew what I knew now I doubt I would have pre-ordered it.
The "Steve Jobs" biography by Walter Isaacson specifically mentioned that Steve spent a good portion of his time in the hospital designing superior interfaces for the medical devices that surrounded him.
Go past the place quite a lot. Definitely know it's there, the stench!
Yes, I mostly agree with this.
Getting pretty close to default IPv4 route maximum for 6500/7600 routers
The price of those servers have gone up unfortunately. I got one for dirt cheap when they first hit ebay. Also, those puppies are loud.
1) Im not a big fan of having to create an account to be able to test drive the product.

If there was some way for me to experience the offering without doing that in some interactive/limited way, that would go a long way towards whether I'm even interested in taking the next step with fitbay (ie requesting an invite)

2) I only noticed the "or scroll to learn more" after watching the video
Perhaps you should test having only the video and only the scrolling and see what works better - I'm not sure having both options is necessary.
I will say that my personal preference would've been the scrolling option rather than the video because its much more visually appealing & would be quicker for me to get the message that way.

Also if going down the route with the video, test whether having the video embedded vs having to click to launch it makes any difference.
Having it embedded means that there is no way that someone is going to miss noticing that there is an explainer video.
Wow a Romanian script kiddie at work. This kind of modus operandus is so 2004. Nice tool showcased though.
Agreed. But I'm still not doing it, even if all the sheep do it.
Yeah, same here. I ordered mine back in... October? November? I don't even recall, it has been that long.
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You can say the same thing about any large purchase.

Ultimately, you've lived long enough at this point to know your shoe wearing habits to some degree. If you're the type to wear a particular sneaker day in and day out and are disappointed with the way it falls apart, it might be worthwhile to invest in a better shoe. If you wear a pair of leather shoes once a year, it might make more sense not to splurge, but if you wear a cheap pair often they're going to wrinkle and dull very quickly.

Do what makes sense for you, but there's no point in trivializing high-quality goods because you don't "get" them.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_...

More here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/soylent
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Interesting. I think about it in the reverse. I'm more interested in eating the majority real meals, but dropping in Soylent for the times when eating is a chore, or is inconvenient, etc.
When 23 million people are talking about your little weekend project, you have changed the world.

Maybe your definition of 'change the world' is too stringent.

Squeezable ketchup bottles changed the world too.

Instead of being so uptight about how people use the phrase why you don't you start trying to create your own impact?
whoops, to late to edit, here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1w1SQ3ezh8
I don't see it the same way. Everywhere I go I see people consuming health and fitness products, from easy fad diets to high end sports equipment it seems to me that people have an insatiable appetite for it. Not everyone of course, but in the UK alone the Health and Fitness industry is worth £3.6 billion. I shudder to think what the medical equipment industry is worth. I suspect that whoever can marry the two in a way that is acceptable to consumers will effectively have a license to print money.
I'm sure that the venture arm operates independently of main Google -- but it's not like the folks at Google Maps are somehow unaware of the fact that GV sunk a quarter-billion into Uber.

And Uber is one of the, if not THE, biggest investments GV has made. They have $1.5 billion in assets, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ventures). So 1/6th of all their assets is Uber. Which means that asking whether other GV-invested companies have experienced easier Google integrations is not all that meaningful -- Uber is an outlier.
> The other developer's app was simply my own website, stolen line for line, tossed into Phonegap, and released the same day as my website.

> two days later, a clone with the same name and all the code stolen from my site was already approved for iOS

And there is no recourse when this happens? You can't report them?
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There's also an 'Unsafe Query Risk', which is not a CVE and does not have a patch.[0]

I believe this script[1] should expose some of those dangerous columns. There's still the join alias risk, but I'm not sure, other than parsing a schema.rb, how to get at those effectively.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security...

[1] https://gist.github.com/KevinMcHugh/fab941ec3677f9a19ee0
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Turn javascript off and you'll have a nice readable font ;)
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I threw this together as a proof of concept for a news site that orders content based on which content provides the largest proof of work. Try to make it to the front page!
I'm interested about what your diet was before your DIY project. I'm a meat eater, love a proper steak.

Did you notice any drop in energy, fatigue, etc?

Did you feel full?

Thanks!
I believe that's a central feature of NewsBlur now.

I use InoReader primarily because it de-emphasizes the social element; it's something I don't feel the need to use. It does still have an option to view "trending" content across (presumably) all users' subscriptions, it's just not in your face if you don't want it.
Perhaps but most of the mega banks are actually trying to invest in these kinds of companies and/or provide liquidity on the lending side. Lending Club, Ondeck and others are now at a scale that it would be harder for selective, interest group driven regulation. But point taken.
It may be that the LLVM core parts are already included in the OSX distribution, at least it was used a while ago for dynamic code generation in OpenGL (http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-August/00649...), pure speculation on my side though.
Well that answers that then.
What exactly is the changed thing? World before and world after seem exactly the same to me. Instead of talking and cloning flappy bird, people talk about and clone 2048.

Even before, people played angry birds and before other game, but I admit they did not cloned them that much - but that change came with flappy jam.
I agree completely. They have this paragraph:

Another reason why employees at big corporations are loath to contact
open source projects is that they assume they won’t get help, and need
to pay for support. And, while it is true that someone needs to pay the
bills here, we realise that for many users, a support agreement is just
not going to happen. Corporate IT might not even know the whole company
is relying on an open source project. Questions might be asked. For such
organisations, we are fine with providing free help on the public mailing
lists. But to give proper weight and context to your issue, it helps if
we know who you are.

I think corporate owners are in the best position to offer money for services. They are usually looking specifically for some sort of support contract they can pay for! (If Corporate IT doesn't know, that company has bigger problems anyway.) Something like a VIP program would be a great way to get these types of users in the door. Feed all that money back into your open source project - if you're big enough you probably have project support costs anyway (hosting, etc).

I agree with your second point as well, and I think it reinforces my point, because you can take those internal people that you are dedicating to the task and make them the active partners to the open source project.
How much success have you had?

I ran kippo for a while and it seemed that all attackers were trying to upload files over SCP, which kippo does not support. A few attackers resorted to logging in and downloading with wget. However, the vast majority of attacks ended with a failed SCP session.
The proliferation of 2048 culminated for me when I was sitting on an airplane and the kid next to me was playing it.
The FAQ doesn't tell me what Atom is.
From 4 years working leading teams in an electronic medical software shop, I urge consumers to not assume that vendors will be good stewards of personal data. forget the boilerplate and assurance that data will only be used in an anonymous way.

1. Never admit to social drinking or smoking. It goes on your permanent record, even at just a mom and pop style clinic with paper records.

2. Above all, never admit to recreational use of marijuana. Maybe that's an obvious statement in some parts of the world, but living in Austin, it's eye-opening to see how minor drug use is something to be proud of.

To preemptively address concerns about HIPAA laws, etc, being adequate protection and that this comment is pure paranoia, two things:

1. Snowden. Enough said.

2. I'm personally aware of a massive DB of client data solely given to the QA department for purposes of debugging a particularly nasty bug mysteriously vanishing from the lockdown where it was supposedly safely stored. There are insiders keenly aware of how profitable it is to acquire and sell medical data...

In summary, you can no longer assume confidentially between health providers/monitors and patient interactions, to the detriment of all involved.

EDIT:

In order to provide some actionable information instead of just warnings:

When I left the industry 6 years ago, it was still binding for a patient to explicitly say that certain information must be kept confidential and not shared with any party besides the physician handling the interaction. By all means, if you have experience with 10 years of using crank, it's highly relevant to provide that info to your HC provider. You just may want to get assurances that the information will be kept strictly confidential. Good luck -- the doctors and staff legitimately want to help; it's just the data miners that want to extract much profit from you as possible.
I like Cython, but how do you do CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) with it?
Clean and efficient concurrency primitives? I think not? I would be very interested if that is indeed the case.
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I can verify my own identity, thanks
It's worth noting, however, that unique_ptr was introduced in C++11 because it relies on move semantics, which were not introduced until then. auto_ptr is not quite the same. See http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/c11-uniqueptr/240002708
The list of vulnerabilities in 4chan read like a standard web hack CTF. I'm surprised a site as big as 4chan has multiple OWASP top 10 issues, especially after the source was leaked. Storing credentials in client side cookies? Who wrote that shit?
I think people who are downvoting this comment are projecting what I meant by "so simple." There was no judgement on that statement. It was more an observation relating to that it could happen to anyone, and that they were "lucky" the person who got into their system wasn't really malicious.
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704859
Couldn't get it running on my ubuntu 14.04. npm keeps complaining about something or another, either with nodejs not being called node, or with gyp; at this point I kind of just stopped trying.
I have to agree. I've lost interest, which is disappointing. I was really psyched to try it out when they announced what now seems like ages ago. Then the ship date kept slipping and slipping and slipping, until the magic moment was "end of March". And now, I see it's 10-12 weeks for new orders. So it's another 3 month wait, which is just sopping any interest I had in it.

I'll try it eventually - and I'm still looking forward to that - but not until I can order it and it'll arrive a few days later.
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Many people think health is where the money will be or already is. The population ages, we are getting richer, cannot really eat more, don't seem to want to work much less, so we don't have more time for holidays, and health, for many, is priority #1. So that's where the money will go.
When I was younger (14-21), we had LAN parties. The older we got (starting at around 18), the rarer they became, what happened instead were board games: Descent, Axis & Allies, Twilight Imperium (or pretty much anything in the 6-12h range or sometimes more).

My friends from school and me moved all to different places, but we still meet up once in a while to spend a day and night playing, all of us getting close to being 30 :)

I love board games.
How many IP evangelists are in on this?
Here's a blog post about their shipping.

http://blog.soylent.me/post/84472994397/5-1-shipping-update
the homepage does. https://atom.io/
Luca, I don't mean to criticize your idea, which is a great attempt at solving the problem of wasted food. I just doubt that this model will really take off. I think you underestimate how squeamish people are about perishable food--even when it's their own food. I think people readily throw out food based on even a small chance that it is expired or smells "off." People don't want to get sick, and they especially don't want to make their families and friends sick. I think most people consider the risk of food-bourne illness (and the general ickiness factor of expired food) to outweigh the cost associated with wasted food.

I second the bartering system suggested above, which could improve the quality of the traded food. I think there's more of a market for an app that helps them keep track of when their food will expire, and to evaluate whether their food is safe to eat.

Anyway, congrats on launching your app, and I wish you the best of luck!
> In Rust, the safety of string aliasing is enforced by lifetime analysis.

Still I have seen a lot of examples where the static strings already present in the data sections have to be explicitly created on the heap just to be used somewhere else. Something like (I write in pseudo, I never programmed in Rust)

return (put on heap)"some static string"

and it will be probably copied from the data section to the heap just for the content to be read (from the copy on the heap instead of the executable data section) and then the copy on the heap discarded. That's how I understood it at least, please correct me if I'm wrong. Why not having some COW mechanism for such cases built-in in the language, avoiding unnecessary allocations, copying and deallocations?
Oh dear, I’ve probably hurt some feelings for having missed 6901. Interesting that when I googled around for JSON analogues of XPath, I didn’t turn that up. Having said that, it’s not obvious that any syntax is a win; an list of strings is an excellent selector that hits an 80/20 point & meets all my needs.
> "Who wants thousands of extra "emails" in their inbox to check every day?"

My response to that is: Who wants thousands of Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinwhatevertube sites to check every day? Just have them all sent to one place, and check that.

I only want one inbox, total, ever, to check. All of my email, plus Twitter, Instabook, Whatevergram, plus all posts from any blog that I really want to follow, plus any Google Alerts of any topics that I follow — all of that, in one place. An RSS reader and some jumping through hoops lets me achieve two inboxes total, my email plus "everything else", and that's good enough for me at the moment.
This is an incisive and articulate explanation of my reasoning. Ride-sharing and food-sharing are different in a few meaningful ways that raise doubt that a food-sharing app should be premised on this analogy. Not only is it the case that the lessor (donator) has basically no incentive to maintain the quality of the food, but the lessee (recipient) may have no real way to evaluate the quality, other than to trust the lessor. It may be obvious when the food has spots of mold or smells expired, but it's not always that easy to tell.
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Just looking at the issue tracker seems to indicate there are some problems with the windows build, but it does seems to indicate they are well on their way.
The site looks nice, but the loading indicator is disappointing. I expect they will lose visitors whose knee-jerk reaction is to back out instead of wait one more second.
Because Go is at least as fast as PyPy or Cython, have a similar coding feeling to Python, have language level concurrency support, and has a clear/consistent development roadmap moving forward.

PyPy is not really a good example here. It is still highly experimental, takes long time to compile, it's not compatible with quite a few libraries in normal Python, and still has all relative downsides of dynamic typing. To be frank, I don't get the point of using PyPy instead of Go.

Previously most Python libraries already use C to optimize critical components. If you can use just one language to get similar performance, why do you bother using two then?
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Just really poor communication in regards to status, it blew past the 2013 release window without any status update from the developer. The product is great, just feels poorly managed. It leaves me with an unsure feeling in regards to the future of the product.
There are two aspects of the "private security agencies will just become the government" question. If they clash for the Crown (page 9) or if they form a cartel (page 15).

I mentioned both.
That article is about scavenging for packaged grocery store food that isn't fresh enough to sell, but is certainly safe enough to eat.

Don't you think there's a meaningful difference between a packaged, untampered-with Starbucks salad that was on the shelves just hours earlier, and a block of cheese from a stranger's refrigerator?
I ordered mine in May of last year, the day their crowdfunding campaign launched [0] and before then I lurked their Discourse forums [1] and even went the DIY route in June [2][3][4][5] thinking I could keep that up until the official Soylent launched (Hahahaha). I ended up ending my DIY Soylent after 3 days due to how I felt on it but that was back before the DIY community was anywhere near as strong as it is today.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5745707

[1] http://discourse.soylent.me/

[2] http://joshstrange.com/soylent-day-1/

[3] http://joshstrange.com/soylent-day-2/

[4] http://joshstrange.com/soylent-day-3/

[5] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/just-started-soylent-today/357...
4chan has always operated on a shoestring budget. When you have a single dev, there's nobody around to catch stupid mistakes. I just spent two days trying to track down a bug only to realize I'd been adding elements to an array in a braindead manner. Stupid happens.
I think this happened because Google Ventures invested $200M on Uber last year.
I covered that with 'guessable root password'

It is good to know that all providers have safe defaults, I only have experience with AWS in that regard.