skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a file-level replicator, it is just not meant for system/image backups, because those need to be aware of MBRs, partition tables and other non-FS elements.
The silly thing is they already have NSArray (immutable) and NSMutableArray (mutable) on the Objective-C side. So you'd expect anybody working on putting this stuff together to be familiar with this. I guess the four possibilities in Objective-C are:

NSArray *const p;
NSMutableArray *const p;
NSArray *p;
NSMutableArray *p;

("const NSArray *p" and so on makes no sense, as I understand it - the Objective side of Objective-C being not big on const.)
not sure why you claim it has an excellent UI, it's a very simple UI with the usual toolbar (who has those anymore? I guess that's a Windows thing.) To me, it looks like one of the basic autogenerated MFC apps with a toolbar and list view that I made dozens of in the 90s. I guess I'm spoiled on a Mac and don't need additional tools (or UIs) on Linux.
I believe their servers were in the Cayman Islands.
Consider adding a Corporate tier to your pricing plan

Corporate
$499 per year

- priority support email address
- early access to new releases

The features don't really matter that much. There are companies that will happily buy the more expensive plan simply because it has the word "corporate" in the title.

That's just an initial guess at a price. For a corporate plan it could likely go much higher without you having to provide any real extra service beyond "I will give you the corporate plan email address and promise I always read those emails before the emails of the other plans".

To take that a step further, you could rename the other plans to "Hobbyist", and "Small business".

You could do these things without changing anything else about the app (everyone still gets the same app). You don't even have to worry about the annual fee beyond setting up a little system to track when a company's year is up and auto-emailing the buyer's address asking for more money. If the address no longer works or if they don't respond it doesn't cost you anything and you've already profited from the larger upfront charge.
Yes, that's what I feared.
I might start using it at work, in association with CloneZilla, the latter for deployment, and yours for user's data safety.

Thanks for the reply!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... continues to apply then.

Nothing to see here.
Good mind! Come to France ;) We're not keen on AC, our office temperatures are rather 23-27 in summer, we sometimes stink and we know it's good for ecology. BTW, I'm not sure Nest has any potential in France. Maybe in international hotels only?
In practice there would be no good way to make it legally binding. Even defining what you mean by "selling out" would be incredibly difficult in plain English let alone codifying it in legalese.

I don't think you can trust an organization anymore than you can "trust" a weapon. A bad person could theoretically take control of it and use it for evil.

The closest you can get is trusting the individual at the helm. You know Automattic isn't going to do anything weird as long as Matt Mullenweg is the dictator.
> PHP initially implemented its loops by fseek() in the source code.

real #wtf

ps: ltu discussion http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4990
I meant C-like syntax. The laundry list of features you mentioned is present in lots of existing mature languages (not C).

I don't understand the need to create something rickety without significant innovation (over any relevant language (e.g. SML, Haskell, Racket) and not just C).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824684
This is certainly my favorite too. Implicitness and sugar are only worth their weight when their semantics are obviously illusory. That's not the case with this copy-on-assign business.
>I doubt it has anything to do with Uber/Lyft

You're seeing individual trees but not the forest. It has everything to do with Uber and Lyft specifically because they're the first in (ever? my lifetime.) to break into this and in doing so, provide more cabs. Nobody is claiming that it is a specific chocolate chip cookie that Lyft gives out that is preventing DUIs. Put another way, the entire reason you're leaving a comment on this thread about the possible reduction in DUIs from alternative cab companies is because of the alternative cab companies. Give credit where credit is due—they changed the game.
I have ZERO sympathy for San Francisco cabs. Even with credit card swipers in the back, the cab drivers typically pressure you to pay cash. I know there's a difference between pressuring a customer and kindly asking them to use cash if possible. It was certainly the former.

I've had cases where the cab driver told me upfront he wouldn't drive me if I paid with credit card, going so far as driving me to an ATM so I can get him cash as though I OWED them a tip.

Uber/lyft disrupted an industry infected with laziness and bad attitudes.
Battery free wood burners seem to work well enough too:

http://www.silverfire.us/scout-backpack-bug-out-stove

(No idea about that one in particular, just the first one I found when I went looking)
Closest company I've heard that does it is posthaven.com

Granted, there's nothing legally binding. But it's one of their selling points.
After the original BBC Micro model B came the BBC Micro model B+, same again, but with a few (somewhat half-baked) tweaks. Presumably why this thing is called the B+ too? The model after that was a more substantial upgrade, both in terms of hardware and software, and went by the name of... The Master.

THE MASTER. I have no idea why they chose this branding, but there you go. I hope they go for it again.
I made a jsfiddle for playing around with the API: http://jsfiddle.net/MsXrp/1/

I'm quite happy with what I see so far.
You can buy a CubieBoard2 today with 1 GB RAM, dual core ARM-A7, 2x USB, 4 GB NAND, HDMI, Ethernet, SATA for only $59. It might not have the brand appeal of the RaspberryPi, but it's way more capable as a development board.

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The implication of this reasoning is that local government policies designed to protect incumbent cab drivers have been doing more than creating tension when Uber wants to enter the market -- they've been literally killing people for years.
Hiroshima is far from unambiguous!
Can't believe nobody's linked this yet http://xkcd.com/1274/
It wouldn't be the first time governments are biased toward entrenched interests that kill (e.g., tobacco and alcohol).

If I were Uber facing regulation, I'd drive hard after these studies. Let governments explain why they favor more risks, higher costs, and worse service.
I, too, have found freefilesync to be the best option so far for windows. Changed everything over from Synctoy recently. (I mirror everything I want to backup to a home server, then do cloud backups from there using crashplan.)

I may have to give this a try, although it would be nice to see some figures on just how much faster it is, to see whether it would be worth it.
Can you give an example for which the proposed syntax would be problematic? Your example would be written as:

let a = [: [: 1, 2, 3 :], [: 6, 7, 8 :] :]

or

let a = [ [: 1, 2, 3 :], [: 6, 7, 8 :] ]

etc., depending on what mutability you want.
Thanks, this is an example of what I was looking for. We are an independent scientific publisher (thewinnower.com) and we want to ensure our users that we will not give over control to giants like Elsevier or Sage, should we ever get to that point. Kind of like Mendeley and Elsevier(http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsev...)
Thank you for answering from the ethical point of view. A piece of information I left out was that before beginning the project the option to develop the software with exclusivity was offered however the client insisted they didn't want it as it was too expensive for them.

Additionally the software is not so unique that there aren't alternatives in the market (online etc.) actually there are at least 15 other competitors in the space using other software/solutions.

In any event we intend to meet with the client sometime this week to discuss if they want to purchase the rights to the software as there are existing competitors in the space who wants a similar software.

Some in the company has said that to make it more "ethical" the other clients will pay for "development" i.e. providing us with their requirements and building according to their spec but my thinking is this is just a justification.
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Thanks for this shameless plug! Webpack happens to be next on my list of frontend builders to try (hoping that it's less bug-ridden than Browserify and less hassle than Grunt or Gulp). If it works like it says on the tin, I'll probably be an early adopter of your hot loader.
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freefilesync does do dry runs.
Can bvckup2 copy the changed portion of files only? Does it compare file contents, or just size/modified time? (Or is that an option?)

Agreed that trying to parse the giant logfile dumps of most sync programs is a pain, so kudos for that.
>private schools are mentioned as an alternative to some of the terrible public schools

Those debates don't have anything in common which is why you'll probably receive downvotes. For example, voucher money goes directly from the government to a school. 85% of private schools are religious organizations. Etc. They just aren't the same animals. It is akin to saying a lightbulb is a transistor because they both use electricity. Though true, that misses a lot of detail.
I get pretty awful phone reception when I'm on the number 10 bus travelling between Cheltenham and Gloucester.

A phone might provide some safety while camping - but it absolutely would not be part of the safety planning.
> they've been literally killing people for years

Nothing strange about this implication. Many laws have similar effects. If you regulate a drug, you balance the amount of people who die because of drug toxicity vs. number of people who die because the drug wasn't available when it could fix them. If you as much as even touch employment laws, you're gambling with people's lives, changing the number of those who will die in poverty.

Hell, the laws that even allow mass population to drive cars are themselves responsible for hundreds of milions of deaths to date.
According to the Swift language guide Strings, Arrays, and Dictionaries are all copied on assignment to a variable. So wouldn't the author's primary assumption (that let a and var b refer to the same array) be false? And this whole issue is null?

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documenta...

Assignment and Copy Behavior for Strings, Arrays, and Dictionaries

Swift’s String, Array, and Dictionary types are implemented as structures. This means that strings, arrays, and dictionaries are copied when they are assigned to a new constant or variable, or when they are passed to a function or method.

This behavior is different from NSString, NSArray, and NSDictionary in Foundation, which are implemented as classes, not structures. NSString, NSArray, and NSDictionary instances are always assigned and passed around as a reference to an existing instance, rather than as a copy.

NOTE
The description above refers to the “copying” of strings, arrays, and dictionaries. The behavior you see in your code will always be as if a copy took place. However, Swift only performs an actual copy behind the scenes when it is absolutely necessary to do so. Swift manages all value copying to ensure optimal performance, and you should not avoid assignment to try to preempt this optimization.
Are you looking for... (puts on thick-rimmed eye-glasses) a heat map?
You did the right thing. We generally prefer the best popular article on a paper, with a link to the paper in comments.

This case was unusual because the subject was controversial, the thread ballooned quickly, and the link to the paper got lost.
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In addition they would be ridiculously expensive to manufacture if the fins were only on the outside. Normally cookware is made on a lathe (http://youtu.be/8uuFWzkRcAg?t=1m12s) or a press from sheet metal. So, if you have areas that are thicker than others you'd need to use an entirely different method of manufacturing them... like casting or welding on the "fins" after the rest of the pot/pan was shaped.
I was just thinking about some p2p distributed git, and then I figured we already have it:

Wouldn't it help to just publish a BitTorrent sync url somewhere and host the bare git in that that folder so that it always updates and syncs directly to the cloud?

http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/
> most things are down voted if they don't fit the opinion of HN

There is no such thing as "the opinion of HN". The community is divided on most issues. Different constituencies upvote and downvote different things.

There's a bias on some issues, like NSA/Snowden (albeit with a substantial dissenting minority). But on typical left vs. right issues, my sense is that the community is about evenly split, and so are the complaints of bias.
>with nobody to spy on you

Yeah if you buy what the Minds are selling. (I agree with you and would absolutely live in The Culture, I just felt like playing devil's advocate/discussing the Culture novels).
Incidentally, walking in a city while drunk is also dangerous.

The most chilling near-miss I've ever seen was when a very drunk pedestrian stumbled across a boulevard at about 3AM and a car driven by a drunk passed within a foot of him at about 50 mph. (I know the driver was drunk because he had been at the same bar I had.) Neither drunk noticed that anything had happened.

Well, there was a third drunk person present, but I was riding my bicycle at the edge of the street.
This kind of pot should cool down its contents significantly faster than a normal pot too. Whether that's an advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the application though.
Google deleted a number of free Google Apps email accounts last month or so
I realize this may come off as complaining, but I thought it was worth mentioning as it's been yet another incredibly frustrating thing from Google.

Google Apps used to be free(freemium), for those that can't remember.

Because it was free, for years I setup numerous clients' domain emails on Google Apps for all the reasons we all like Google Apps (spam filtering, groups, storage, forwarding, etc). Many of them were setup to forward a copy of emails into those clients' alternative/personal email addresses.

Since many of these users NEVER logged into Google Apps, Google called these accounts "inactive" and about month ago deleted every single one of them.

I understand Google no longer offers free accounts, but some of these clients had no idea their accounts was being shut down and obviously just paid no attention (or missed) the emails Google sent out.

Ugh, frustrating to say the least. I take blame though. I even missed Google's warning messages on my own accounts and one of my Google accounts was wiped too...
This is kind of already available for VDI if your willing to accept the overhead of multiple OS instance. Nvidia GRID and similar GPU / Compute boards can handle multiple simultaneous users.

The problem is COST. These are designed for VDI servers supporting 25/50/100 desktop users not 1 gamer and are priced as enterprise equipment.
Yet almost every time they discourage you from paying with a credit card. And even if they don't, there's a good chance they'll try to make you pay with Square or something (at least in SF).
Great article. Not just for its crisp analysis of what Nadella did wrong, but even more so for how he could have expressed his thoughts clearly and gotten it right.
Surprised not to read anything about Roy Schwitters in this, although he had just taken over as chief of JASON shortly before this article.

One amusing note, many of the JASONs (I believe it supposed to be capitalized) often have thinly veiled experiments/projects, I.e. UT Maya muon tomography research, which was to discover techniques to calculate tomography of a Mayan pyramid, was obviously taken up with actual hopes of muon tomography for vehicle inspection (in fact, most of the experiment's research was exactly concurrent with Roy Schwitters reign of JASON.)

More notably, you also have the NIF.
In New York, if the credit card reader in a cab is broken, by law the driver has to tell you before you get in. None of this "Oh, yeah, BY THE WAY, I have to drive you to an ATM now, and you guess whether the meter stays on while I do this."
Can you offer a reference for this claim?

Here's a counter-claim: "A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute.

Generally, a lower heart rate at rest implies more efficient heart function and better cardiovascular fitness. For example, a well-trained athlete might have a normal resting heart rate closer to 40 beats a minute."

Source: Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/fitness/expert-answ...
No, Hiroshima was pretty unambiguous. Nagasaki is a bit of a stretch, but you have to be pretty revisionist in your view of history and the state of the world in '45 to doubt its necessity (we have one, it works, and we can deliver it) vs. the second (we have more than one, capitulate or die in flames...)
This was my exact impression whenever I heard him speak at internal Microsoft meetings. He always says so much without ever actually saying anything. We would leave the meetings realizing that nothing he said had any impact on us. He's obviously an incredibly smart person, but always seemed afraid to take even a somewhat controversial opinion on anything.
Shows my bias as a researcher. Seems even better to market in this direction and against cabs. Give discounts for Ubers called from bars/clubs during nightlife hours. Team up with MADD. Give friends/bartenders a way to enter an address on an Uber they call for someone else. Even a way to "make Uber your designated driver" before the night begins.
You could buy a lifetime supply of alcohol for the price of this stove, and carry a month's worth of it for the weight of this stove.

This is a gimmick for people who can't go camping without their electronic gadgets. It's a bad stove and a bad charger put together.
Hm, my solar charger with the same output has 250 grams. Cook-kit 400 grams.
That's very helpful. What happens after the six months (assuming the company is successful)
You complained about new C-like languages (C-like in syntax) not being any better than C. I mentioned some ways that new C-like languages (C-like in syntax) are much better than C. Now you're complaining that other languages already had those features. I don't contest that. Doesn't change the fact that your first comment was misguided.
The problem is that it's cold up there, so the vapour pressure in a cartridge of liquified gas is much lower, and the flame in your stove is pretty marginal.
When it gets warm enough each spring, I set up a folding table in a sunroom on the back of my house, and move my laptop along with a second monitor over there. The room has 5-foot-tall windows all the way around which I keep open. My screens are shaded from the sun, but otherwise it feels just the same as being outdoors all day. That's my home office until the fall, when I go back to using one of my spare bedrooms.

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That is because most associate professional jobs that where avaible for hs diploma students have now become graduate entry.

Nursing is now a graduate entry job as are may of the roles I entered the job market from high school.

Thus the remaing jobs avaible to hs diploma kids are lower paid ones.
Whatsapp competitor Telegram is promising that. Not sure if it's legally binding though. (They're also saying that they're not "commercial company").

"Telegram is not intended to bring revenue, it will never sell ads or accept outside investment. It also cannot be sold. We're not building a “user base”, we are building a messenger for the people."

https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-o...
> "It looks like the inside of the pan has the same fins, which makes sense otherwise they'd have uneven thicknesses. That would be a serious cleaning issue."

It would also make it nearly impossible to cook anything that needed to be stirred to prevent burning. Stirring a regular pot with a rubber spatula is pretty easy, but getting into all of those nooks? That looks like a royal pain.

It's probably alright for things that won't burn though, like soups.
We've attempted to.
Am I the only one to find most mobile websites worthless? They try to be too clever and hide too much stuff. Or worse they only expose a small piece of functionality. I rented a car once and needed to look my reservation up on my phone at the counter. The mobile website would only let me book a new reservation and had no link to the desktop version. Yeah the article recommends apps over the websites. But now I have to spend time downloading something that also may have worse functionality.
Couldn't agree more. They often don't answer the phone, when you do get through to some Danny DeVito at the other end, you then have to explain where you are exactly (vs. GPS). ETAs for the drivers are normally wrong, they don't txt you are.

I lived in Marin, and a cabbie required me to tip him 100% of the ride cost coming from SFO otherwise he wouldn't take me. Frequently getting back to Marin, from SF is a pain with cabs, they often won't take you.

Yeah, so screw'em... they can work for uber/lyft, I tip them generously with cash in addition to the fare, much better that way.
You misunderstood my first comment. I meant new C-like-in-syntax have nothing revolutionary semantically across the board. This is a double blow as each new C-like syntax is difficult to master (compared to Lispy languages) and contributes nothing semantically new.
No. As stated in the article, the array was not copied when it was assigned to var b as changes made to it via b also showed up in a.
I think you misunderstood. This appears to be the case you were thinking about: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5930508913825375...

It found that the source code could violate the DMCA even considering free speech. The court forced him to take the DVD decryption source code down.
Companies follow a pattern of rapid growth, dominance, senescence, then irrelevance as other companies eat their lunch.

Kodak is a prime example. So's RCA (who remembers them?). Sears. IBM. Xerox. All once considered unstoppable juggernauuts.

In fact, the conventional wisdom is that companies inevitably grow to take over the world. There are no instances of this happening - there are only cases where a company survived senescence by successfully making their competition illegal.
Awesome setup, what's the desk - I need a new one, mines really flimsy :(
> What the hell are you talking about?

Please don't—even when the other person is being provocative.
Hugh Howey is really one of my favorite Authors and I picked up all of his books on the Kindle. I probably wouldn't know him if he'd signed with brick-and-mortar stores for paper books, as I stopped buying those dust-magnets.
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