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So, when I say SQL, I meant ansi SQL, not PL/SQL, or any of the other various extensions of the language. Neither is purely declarative, but the prior is much closer.

Also I wasn't suggesting that declarative languages are broadly useful (in fact I'd suggest quite the opposite), just that they are very interesting.
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Looks really good. GJ :)

One feature suggestion: User comments on casts. Could be done with up/down voting. This gives the users a possibility to help each other clear up things they were unclear on after watching a video. Look at Kahn Academy for an example of what I'm thinking.
We cannot outsource the business of doing good to the government (Julie Meyer)
I'm actually a proponent myself :)
> they're hardly solving any problems

They got a bunch of people off the roads by providing a bus. That's good for the environment, traffic, and their workers, who don't have to deal with a stressful drive. Seems like a pretty good solution to me, even if it's not perfect.

To me it looks like people just want excuses to hate on successful companies in the tech industry.
Inspiration and outlets to focus the motivation you get from the group are definitely my favorite parts of the group.
Sounds something akin to "security through obscurity." The perceived advantages of proprietary secret security measures are often dwarfed by the benefits of opening up a system to careful scrutiny.
Chilean Government: Official Report Claiming ‘Genuine UFO’ Seen
This is not true of coins.
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This markdown revival is exciting just for that reason.
Does Kerbal Space Program qualify as a space sim?
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Personally I see an intersect with many of the issues in pharmaceuticals and software patents. My particular interest is in so-called 'Low Dose Naltrexone' which I take for Crohn's Disease. The current system seems to neglect drugs which have multiple uses, particularly when said drug has gone out of patent, i.e. is cheap, as there is less of an incentive to do these hugely expensive trials in comparison to doing them for a newly patented, more profitable drug. This is not a 'big pharma' conspiracy, it's captialism + patents that is a big issue here and, as someone earlier said, it'd be a lot easier to address if it were just a conspiracy. As Goldacre shows, it's a flawed system that needs to be reformed to focus on patient health as much as, if not more than profits.
UK Emergency Surveillance Legislation
> _hardly_

I can't make it 36 pt unfortunately...
Google Ventures Opens London Office As A Base For Investing $100M Across Europe
I think they generally occurred at other times?
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When it comes to basic formatting, symbol naming and high-level code organization, sure.

But computer languages, unlike human languages, are precise. Their intent is clear. And you'll never encounter a case where the Python 3 interpreter hasn't heard of that particular Python 3 keyword you're using.

It's also not an excuse to avoid certain features of a language, when using them leads to a better and simpler solution, just because they're less popular. Programming is not an exercise in popularity.

On the other hand, human language is fuzzy and full of phrases that consist of statements having nothing to do with their meaning. Such as me saying "your argument doesn't hold water".

Human languages also have additional layers entirely separate from the primary meaning of a conversation, such as sending social cues like "how smart am I", "do I like you", "do I fit in this group", and "am I a leader or a follower". Each layer of concern drives a certain way of expression and imitation, none of which occurs (or should occur) when writing computer code.

A better example to compare to programming code would be mathematical notation. As long as you express your intent shortly, using the available mathematical notation, people will be fine, and your intent will be clear.

I've never seen someone ask in a math forum if their formula is more Mathematic one way, or another way.
> the site makes roughly the same amount of money (around $200K) every year

Where does the money come from? Between 2013 and 2014 the site apparently gained just 1K customers, and only new customers pay (around $10) so that would mean $10k of revenue from new users.

I understand there's an option to pay more to "archive" stuff, but does that bring an additional $190k of revenue??

(Disclaimer: I'm a happy user of Pinboard. I don't "love" it but I use it regularly).
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Why is it too bad?
While there is a Qinghua/Tsing Hua university in both, they're competing rather than coöperating organisations, as far as I can tell.
Show HN: Knock – The sweet spot between a call and a text
Choose Your Own Moroccan Startup Adventure
Interviews are mostly BS, and at the moment I hear "yeah we will ask you to do some stuff to show how you work" I already loose interest in such company. I don't go to the interview in person to look at the interviewer. I come prepared, show my previous work (also some code snippets if needed), I'm available for questions. So please respect my time, as I clearly respect yours.
Yes, you're talking about Coq. The system in this post is a fairly simple one based on unification; Coq is a full-blown theorem prover.
How would you verify everyone in that case? Notability in the eyes of Wikipedia is a bit like PageRank - defined partly by external sources.
I didn't even know this, and I 'bought' it really early on. Thanks for letting me know - I've now signed up for the extra service!
Yes,

A) Live in a large city, preferable a "Tech Hub"
B) Find (small/Startup) Companies that are near where you live
C) Research a nice Cafe somewhere close to their office
D) Write an informal mail, "Hey, I saw you are looking for a 'INSERT JOB TITLE HERE', I live pretty close to your office, how about a short meeting at 'INSERT NAME OF CAFE HERE', I'd like to ask some quick questions about your company and the job position?

Have a nice day,
'INSERT YOUR NAME HERE'"

See what happens, ...

A good way to prepare for that is to go to meetups in the same city that are closely related to the technology that the company uses, and chat up existing employees.... But attending meetups all the time can be tiring too.
Instead of straight up charging, a Patreon account might be a good idea. Its sort of a middle road between donations and paying for content: http://www.patreon.com/
I guess the birth date of people on Wikipedia normalized in order to be indexable?

I have a (stupid) theory that I would like to test but I don't know how to go about it. The theory is that many (most) people who go on to achieve great things are orphaned (or estranged) from their father at a young age (before they're 6).

A first step to test it would be to calculate the correlation between the age of the person when their father died, and some measure of their "greatness" (length of article? number of sources?)

But I don't think the information about the year of death of each parent is normalized; any idea in how to go about this?
much shorter run of copper so you can get faster speeds
I doubt that retaining this kind of information is going to make the UK any safer. The truly dangerous people are going to know that their calls and texts are being monitored, so they'll just start communicating in more secure ways: using VPNs or Tor to get to web sites in other countries, having face to face meetings, etc.

Just as in the U.S., the national surveillance apparatus is going to be used to go after drug dealers rather than terrorists, but the justification is always going to be "fighting terrorism", since that's what always seems to convince people to give up their civil liberties.
NeXT realized the problems and pains, and hence the portability of XNU kernel.
There is an interesting area of computer science called [inductive programming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_programming) dedicated to this sort of thing, though in a slightly different way than shown in this blog post.
Just tell the real server to please stand up.

> (i have no idea why, but it's much easier to get a dns admin to create a new A record than it is to get a NOC employee to update the network inventory database)

Well yeah, if parts of your organization are dysfunctional then you find ways to hack their functions into the more functional parts of your organization. But that doesn't make it the right approach in general.
The lyre was great, but the tune needed more cowbell.
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What's this £15 thing called? I'd like to get one.
You can run your docker container supervised with tools like systemd, runit etc - and have stderr/stdout (and signals) forwarded on from the container process to the supervisor - from then on you do what you would normally do if it wasn't running in docker.

Other approaches are to have the app(s) in container log to a VOLUME that is bind-mounted in from the underlying host (where you can access them directly) - yet another approach is to bind mount in syslog or other tools into the container and allow the process(s) inside the container to log to it. All work well.
Anyone know of a website which offers similar functionality but with an option to choose the region you're in?
I am surprised; I would have expected the over-weighting of recent births to be far larger. The graph shows 1920s births and 1970s births as about equally likely to be notable. That doesn't fit with my experience that every minor 30-something writer or actor has their own page.
Not sure why, but there was a previous submission for this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8014011 ), which now seems to be dead.
Any idea how such results were collected? Isn't it resource-demanding to crawl over Wikipedia?
I don't understand what (or rather how) it does from reading this: "Knock is a message which acts like a call. When you knock a friend, your friend receives a call, and can see the text written on the screen. You get a response within 60 seconds."

- Do they get a proper phone call or an alert via the app?
- If proper phone how/where does it display stuff on the screen?
- What guarantees that I get a response within 60 seconds?

I would consider using images for each of the steps above rather than text.

Update: just seen the animation below which makes a few points above clearer. This should be above the explainer text paragraph (which could still do with sharpening) rather than below imo.
The site has 24k active users. Do you think it's impossible that 7.6k of them have the archive option of $25/year enabled? I have no reason to doubt this, archive feature is great and supports the service.
Pinboard offers a $25 per year archival account

https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
What do you use to get the 'pin' feature in your browser bar?
You can download the Wikipedia database and do it locally.
Bear in mind that the entire machinery of government, law enforcement and defence is a political monopoly with only the veneer of a pretense to rule in the interests of the people. Cynical manipulation of the system for personal gain is completely normalised. I speak from extensive personal experience.

That's not to say that everyone in China is practicing the worst excesses, but even the most conciencious and moral people in China are put in a position where they have to manipulate the system just to get anywhere or pretty much do anything, even for basic licenses and permits. Everybody is on the same slippery slope whether they like it or not. It's just a question of how far you're willing to slide.
Sounds like it was released. How else did it end up on TV?
"The haters would find something else to whine about"

Because people who don't agree with you are "haters that whine"? It's not exactly hard to find out what they want and that it's not primarily about the buses.

There's also plenty of reasons why the buses aren't good for people in the tech industry. Especially for entrepreneurs that want to compete with these companies.
Besides the 'Constant parade of people going past my desk', people constantly looking at your screen, checking out what you're doing and trying to get in on a discussion or talk about it directly when they see something...
So annoying.

Great list! Agree with almost all of them!
The author, Luke Gorrie, is a true hacker's hacker who built a good chunk of Emacs' Slime environment for Common Lisp. He ended up in Sweden to be part of the first successful Erlang-based business Bluetail, which got sold to Nortel IIRC.

(I imagine "Snabb" is closely related to "snappy" in English.)
Ok thanks. I apprecate your feedback and the fast response time. I guess you're right there is room for more than one. So, how do you plan to make money?
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> I think it's simplistic to say "there aren't enough people on board because of poverty".

I think that is a part of it, for sure. But even in first world countries like America you see lots of kids with inadequate nutrition, no access to modern education, and no cultural inculcation. And of course, that sort of pretends IQs themselves don't fall along a normal distribution and that there aren't gender and racial issues discouraging a large class of people from pursuing an education in this field.

Even if these issues were addressed socially, I think economic barriers are hard to ignore.
Start with freebase.

But you're going to have a serious problem with missing data. Date of parent's death will only be there (in structured form) if the parent is themselves notable enough to have a wikipedia article. Otherwise, it'll only be in the text.

So I think you'll only get a meaningful result if you manually clean the data. Choose a 'neutral' source of notable people (e.g. Who's Who). Hire somebody via odesk or mechanical turk to find and record age of father's death. Compare with averages across the entire population.

Basic manual research is now cheap; take advantage of it!
I find it interesting he never responded to this. He was on the site the next day, so he must have seen your comment.

His refusal to remove booter sites from CloudFlare is completely indefensible. Any attempt on his part to suggest otherwise can only be interpreted as evidence of guilt. There is no possible arrangement of words which can make it okay.
> to fund things with a cost/benefit analysis that doesn't make sense in the developed world but does elsewhere.

While it seems to go against "do no harm" ,in reality many low cost products can start at low quality, but with time and experience improve while still offering much lower costs. So the logic can make sense.

Not sure it works for vaccines thought.

Also i wonder: what were the benefits of the vaccine you described ? were they weighted against the slight harm ?
Emergency phone and Internet data retention law to be passed
It's the first link under Sources

May 2, 2014 English Wikipedia Archive
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20140502/enwiki-20140502-p...
This comment deserves its own post - and shouting. This is a rather profound point which is lost on almost everyone and makes 99% of docker performance discussions a waste of time for people who should know better.

Blog posts like this one don't start a discussion, don't help anyone, they just get used in random FUD discussions from any and all points of view.
UK to Pass Emergency Surveillance Law
What is is doing? I am doing cmd + mouse click somwhere on the terminal, but I cant see anything happening...
Apologies for slightly editorialised title, intended as context for international audience.
UK police officers to receive emergency powers: same powers as an NSA analyst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London
Thanks for the tip. We will update the page.
The basic idea is that 70% of the calls we make daily can be replied with a yes/no/location
(Where are you?/Should I bring milk?/Are you coming for the dinner? etc)
Knock app tries to simplify this problem, if both users have knock installed whatever message the user sends is captured as a (Simulated) call on the other screen with the message overlaid.
Instead of (answer/reject) there are (yes/no/location) options.
Like a normal call, the phone rings for 60secs within which if you don't respond it becomes a "Missed knock".
Financial Fraud in the Digital Age
A bit of a lost opportunity, because I've barely heard about Pinboard, and the fact of them celebrating the passage of time since they were found, is extremely trivial. BTW, MySpace recently turned eleven.

When writing posts and news, typically you want the headline to focus on a new feature, a new app, or if it'll be a number, focus on a meaningful number, like number of users, something that could engage those who aren't engaged right now.

Way it is, a birthday party of some company I know little about is someone else's party, and I won't even open the article.
Opensource project controls Google Glass with your mind
> People make this error, thinking that being alone means being lonely, and not being alone means being with other people

Loneliness isn't solitude, it's isolation. That's why one can feel so lonely sometimes even with thousands of people around.
I worked for a consulting enginer in the 80's and our telecom guy said the same about African states use microwave for long links as the copper gets nicked.
Base7booking democratizes hotel management systems by Tnooz
Users only need to think about certain tasks to execute it, the project uses MindWave Mobile from NeurSky ( http://neurosky.com/products-markets/eeg-biosensors/hardware... ) and Google Glass

Information about the project can be found here : http://mindrdr.thisplace.com/static/index.html but it seems to be down at the moment, so i referenced the Github project and it's also live on https://twitter.com/mind_rdr
I think you should make that more clear. It doesn't say anywhere in the article "for example, you could use something like this".
I sometimes barbecue on my sidewalk where I live. I assume it's legal (I'm taking a risk), or at least it's tolerated by my neighbors and police officers walking by. This is probably because it's only me, I'm not causing any trouble, I share, and clean up. I assume if everyone started BBQing (or someone started complaining about me) the local government would need to look into it and figure something out: Is he breaking a law? Do we need a law? A guideline? A public BBQ? Etc. At this point common sense and public debate can start. It'd be silly for me to run for mayor or start a statewide proposition for sidewalk BBQing when I just want some hot dogs.

Tech workers needed to get from their houses to their office, but there was no existing convenient way of doing this. So they bought a bus. Then more. Others followed. Now there are some questions arising and society (read: government) needs to get involved. How many busses are allowed? Can they use bus stops? Should we charge them? A little for usage or a lot for subsidizing other's transport? Should Muni buy new comfy buses with wifi and run new routes to mountain view? Can they do that or does the other transit authority have rules against that? Would people ride this, or would it be a waste of money?

Perfectly reasonable questions, which should be debated and negotiated. But not from day one.

But let's be honest: it's not about the busses. It's about inequality.
Based on the name, I was expecting something much more Wile E. Coyote than this. Disappointed.
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Most IRL people still don't know that wikipedia is editable (starting with my flatmate, art school age 24). Granted: They just miss the point entirely and assume it's another Linux-or-Facebook free thing. So IP is very efficient for demoing: it makes sparkles in their eyes. Then the change is reverted, serious participation requires an account.

When I'm working from a corporate computer, I keep my IP and don't log in. That way, it leaves the trail open if anyone wants to trace a bias back to my company.
I have a MikroTik router (http://www.mikrotik.com/) and it's amazing. They expose configuration knobs through three almost-equal interfaces: a custom shell over SSH, a web interface and a Windows application.

That thing never stops, once it's set up you forget its there and only have to reboot it to update the software (which happens around once a month and it's an event you can skip if it contains no security patches).
A suprising number of people have real difficulty of being alone with their thoughts. There being alone I mean not being only physicall alone, bet being also free from other forms of disctraction and communication.
I'd guess a basic custom search defined to go to https://pinboard.in/search/u:[username]?query=%s
I also don't really understand ... especially Larry Page suggested this. I also don't get the other comment why it would not work. Imagine Google buys couple of Islands and founds it's own state, they could do whatever they wanted in the boarders. It's a bit scary yet not so far fetched.
This may very well be the usual "we currently have no plans to enter the market of...", stated a few months or a year before some product/service is launched, in precisely that market.
Awesome now I understand what it does and when I'd use it. This is much clearer!
Man Utd’s Herrera saga sums up the open goal the FA is missing with technology
If the EU ruled a similar EU wide law unlawful how can the UK pass this? Can't the EU just rule against it?
For sure. It's like your own personal archive.org.
That's what I thought as well.

And from experience in the uk its recent immigrants which use these shuttles far more than native born employees I suspect there is some racism at play as well all those bus protesters where young whites didn't see any latino or African Americans.
A look at JavaScript generators
Actually a lot of people do ... I know people who get their eyes lasered in Turkey for example (in this case it's because the treatment is cheap).
Larry Page suggested the Island idea in last year's google IO.
Including the site he works for.
> Thanks Mr. Tanenbaum

It should probably be Prof. Tanenbaum or at least Dr Tanenbaum.
best window manager ever ;-)
>why is engadget linked here //

I'd guess that engadget is the news aggregator that the OP found the content on. HN should allow this sort of link, as a first submission, but add in source links if not given by the OP. [But HN don't seem interested in changing the interface at all].