skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He might also be mocking a group of people pushing to ban weapons from campus, the surrounding city, or some other place where the incidence of gun violence is already so low that such a ban would have little or no effect other than to aggravate law-abiding gun enthusiasts such as himself. By imagining a world in which law-abiding gun owners were regularly mowing each other down for sport (i.e. a world in which the proposed bans would be directly effective) he hopes to demonstrate just how ridiculous some of the claims coming out of the anti-gun camp were.

That's just a guess and there are more sophisticated arguments on both sides of the debate but it would be a crime to ignore such a wonderfully amusing piece of fiction on that basis alone. FWIW I was born into and consider myself sympathetic with gun culture.
I thought this was relevant...from his twitter:

https://twitter.com/OlinShivers/status/299525596634030080
While state-enforced identity controls are used to enforce travel controls, it need not be so. You only need identity controls for state sponsored benefits (insurance, welfare, licensure, etc). There is no necessity for your mobility to be imparied by those identity controls; it is only how states have chosen to do it.

My point was that identity controls predated travel controls and were a prerequisite for a "papers please" kind of society. Each state chooses (either directly or by will of its voters) what responsibilities it owes to non-citizens in its territory. Those responsibilities can range from almost nonexistent to very generous, but it is ultimately the choice of the state, and not the visitors to that state.
The Who, What, Where and When Of Mobile App Testing
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Clojure is dynamically typed in the sense that programs are not type-checked at compile time, values are tagged with types, and type errors are runtime errors. On other words, it is dynamic, in contrast to static type systems. This says nothing about strong vs weak typing, nor expressiveness of the type system, nor type-dependent semantics like polymorphism.

Personally I find it less confusing that dynamic typing is a small and comparatively well-defined concept, than mixing it in with aspects of polymorphism and dynamic dispatch. Dynamic dispatch doesn't seem to me to have much to do with dynamic typing; it's a fundamental tool of expression in C++ and Java, and those are both statically-typed languages.

I'm curious why you think multimethods are more limited than dynamic dispatch. It seems to me that their expressiveness is a strict superset of dynamic dispatch. Am I missing something?
In Old Man's War there are aliens that are about 1 inch high. Their technology is roughly equal to ours, but when their biggest aircraft are about a foot or two long, it's not an even match.
I'm not a lawyer, but having quit a job, broken a lease, and literally packed up to move the next day, I think promissory estoppel might apply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promissory_estoppel#Promissory_...
IIcis had some sort of onboard video which made them feel sluggish compared to similar Macs. We retrofitted them with cache cards (?) which helped a little. But, yep, very slow disks, System 7, and they IIRC had 4MB of memory. (24MB would have been an unimaginable luxury.)
Enhancement request. Please give it the UI of a Nokia 3310.
I can see how it may work when someone needs something from Dan. However if I am contacting him for his own benefit (something as mundane as reporting a typo on his website) I am most certainly won't jump through these hoops.

This is not too different from those obnoxious anti-spam services that require you to click on a link and solve a captcha before delivering your email to the recipient. That's just a No, because you make me do extra work for your own convenience even though I am already ultimately doing you a favor by replying to your email.

In other words, this form works as a mechanism to discourage emails from people who don't need anything from the recipient.
I am interested in why you decided to do this originally?

As an aside to my question, I find the cycles/fads that society goes through fascinating.
Latest works well now, thanks!
Right. I doubt it was "A lot more" though.

Knowing that the Registry for automatic weapons was closing, some manufacturers registered as many as they could before the deadline. To this day you can get "new" Sten SMGs if you're willing to pay enough (~$5-6k last I looked). There are piles of metal pipes with serial numbers stamped on them in a couple of warehouses that are legally considered automatic weapons.
I assume this is him:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/

(Notice that is just the parent folder to the HN link. I don't point it out to be snarky, it's just a pretty strong association...)
Might be able to find a launcher that fits your needs. Quick google search turned these up:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbeasy.lar...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.kunes.and...
> David Christopher Bell on Cracked.com has made a weekly mockery of the Internet chasing stories that turn out to be completely untrue.

Not to be Captain Pedantic, but Mr. Bell seems to write movie stuff. Thinking of a different person, perhaps? I only ask because your comment piqued my interest enough to go look, and all I found was "8 Movie Plots Rendered Completely Implausible Because the Studio Didn't Want to Hire Script Writers That Were Worth a Damn".
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"Logical Lodge", "Solar PV", and "Pet Friendly Florist" are the only ones that seem to have been built with any attention to modern design principles. "Foresight Strategist" is ambiguous, in that someone could have thought they were making a good logo while producing it.

The remainder would look entirely out of place in anyone's portfolio. I certainly can't say with confidence that $5 is a bad price for those images, but I can say that $500 would be.
Ask HN: I've been accepted to Google Startup Launch, now what?
Hi.

Like the title says, I've been accepted to this Google Startup Launch program, but I don't know what to do next. Will someone contact me? There's not much information in the approval email, so I'm a bit stuck in this right now.

I know it's a good thing to be accepted -- means my idea is quite nice, at least.

Should I contact them and ask for more information? Can't find much in the internet in general.
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I have not come across the "without sleep" thing before and the Wikipedia link does not seem to mention it. The Wikipedia persistence hunting is to jog after them under the midday sun until the prey overheats. That stuff you can see on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
https://github.com/aosabook/500lines

This is a collection of real applications that are written in 500 lines or less. The goal is to teach python through real projects that are not too complicated to understand.

Hope this helps.
Sorry to ask late, as I thought this would be first question: how does this work? That is, how do the nanodiamonds get into the body, and how are they flushed afterwards? I like the idea but the article seemed rather thin on details of how this would operate in practice.
EVE, I believe, doles solar systems out to different servers (and shuffles them around depending on load). This results in slowdowns for enormous battles - they're too big for one server to process in real-time, so ticks get further apart.
How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)
+1 to the author for the the LoD-versus-MoD reference.
Bitcoin is targeted because it's a digital asset, true digital cash. Banks don't have that. You can never really own your bank money in digital form, it always stays in the bank's computers.
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This is absurd guys. We have one guy's story, from his perspective. For all we know, the OP sat around and did nothing productive. The founders had a reason to terminate him - be it what others would call a "good reason" or otherwise. Perhaps there were issues the OP is completely unaware of?

What will happen? Will YC yank funding over this? I hope not -- that would set a dangerous precedent and make me, for one, that much less willing to pursue YC funding.

If the founders didn't want the OP before -- they especially aren't going to want him now that all this has occurred and threats about getting YC involved etc.

The bottom line -- you can be terminated for any reason, even if it's the color of your shirt on that particular day. Does that make it "right"? Well, that's a perspective thing.
Why your brand-new plane doesn't have a seat-back TV
No, it is based on the common understanding of the word "amazing."
First, thanks thanks for the reply.

About the curriculum of business informatics major: It has programming classes from the first semester and programming projects with CS students, so I think it's not just a degree to set up enterprise software.

These programming classes are

-Practical programming I & II (OOP, Algorithms and data structures) together with CS people.

-Software Projects I & II (Classes about working as a team on a programming project with a big project on the side)

-Bachelor Project I & II (Again a big programming project, also with CS people)

The business informatics students can chose one of these specialisations:

-Computational finance,

-Logistics,

-E-Commerce,

-IT-Systems (That'd be the setting up enterprise software path).

I'd take the first specialisation 'computational finance' and could have some 'advanced' programming classes with CS students, like Introduction to AI, or Heuristically Optimization Techniques together

The business side of the major is (which I have mainly completed): Introduction classes to Accounting, Marketing, Logistics, Investemnts etc.

As I said, the business informatics major appeals to me because I could keep my grades (for which I've worked quite hard for) and would have lots of free time to spend on personal projects. The only problem with it, as I asked, if it's 'good enough' for good SE positions.
I called OVH dedicated server support and it seems the issue comes from the connection between french ISP Free and OVH networks.
I like the fact that it uses Processing to do this.

The right tool for art.
You can still use a CDN through your own domain. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be something.
Given your target demographic, I wouldn't willingly install this for a family member, as there is no ad block.

Without being able to protect my family from scams/manipulation/malware, this is a non-starter. I'd have to alter the hosts file. I'd need to install something that updates it. Erk, and then some sites would just break permanently with no recourse.

I would say the answer would be to add filtering as part of the interface. "Hey, lightspeed filters websites so you can read them easier, is the site misbehaving, try turning me off!" Or something.

That said, even if everyone was fine with the UI proposed, there is no way the idea would be implemented. Regardless of how much of a benefit it is to the consumer.
Reply button is usually hidden for the first 2-5 minutes on deeply nested comments, to prevent angry back-and-forth with no thought. You can reply, but you have to know to click the permalink for the comment.
Agreed. Joking about this in 1994 is one thing, but in 2013 I think we have to take it as a shot across the bow. Maybe I'm being a bit sensitive due to the fact that I live near Isla Vista and had to walk by memorials for several weeks - CS kids for gods sake - but I just find this extremely F'd up.

I do like his use of vanilla html though.
DNS (UDP) tunneling by SSH with socat
I've travelled quite a bit (including Russia -> EU), and I've never been asked that.

Maybe they do a fast peek at your passport when letting you to board in the very end, but they can only check if some visa is physically there, since it takes them around 5 sec.
Yeah, I quickly figured out where he is and what's he's doing today - but with no public presence apparent on any of the major sites, I'm going to assume that he's just a private person and doesn't want me snooping around.

At least I know he's not rotting under a jail somewhere :)
Why would you even purchase an iPhone then? Why not just use a dumbphone/featurephone?

It's like buying a sports car and putting a governor on it that won't let you go over 35mph because you don't have the willpower to not push the pedal. Why not just buy a golf cart and save the money?
I agree, especially based on pg's past comments on VCs and handshake deals.[1] This was a handshake deal for employee number 1 and they screwed him. Why it happened we don't know and it could be the right call for both parties. But the manner it happened in is not acceptable behavior. The OP should be compensated appropriately, money and equity.

[1] http://www.ycombinator.com/handshake/
Ask HN: Compensation+retention package for engineers of acquihired company
The company I work for could get acquihired soon. What are the typical dollar amounts of retention+compensation packages for top engineers ?
Where?!? University of Wisconsin, for example, is $24k in-state with room and board.

To get through college for $10k/year in many places, you'd need to go to one of the state's lower-tier schools in a small town and live at home. Not many state flagships are in the business of charging less than $20k.
Absolutely wrong. Don't speculate about things you know nothing about.

Shivers is beloved by his students. For example, Matt Might -- who I name because his blog is one of the most frequently frontpage'd on HN, and also because you have taken his website format as your own -- personally remarked to me many times about the quality of Shivers as PhD advisor. This occurred over the course of the two or so years that I was advised by Matt, and I have personally heard the same from many of his students since.
It simply blows my mind that automation of work can be seen as a negative. The problem isn't in the fact that the work is being automated it's with the fact that we structure our society around work. The simple answer is that without work we could do things that we enjoy doing.
That's not a problem, it's a feature. It's like saying "the problem with gold is that you can't recover it". But that's precisely what gold holders want: Not letting the government "recover" it (ie. seize/steal it).
I'd imagine that swapping (micro)SIM cards gets quite old quite fast. Heck, just rebooting phones all the time would be annoying imho.
It's when we create the robots that can build (and program) other robots that this conversation will really get interesting.

Until then, who's going to be the brains behind making the machines? Certainly humans (albeit, and understandably, a small segment). That's work, right?
I hadn't considered that; it seems plausible.

It seems like he was just trolling more than anything else. I'd love to read the replies he references in his email!
Star Trek society. That's what can happen, but only if we progress into a mindset that those who don't work for money are not slackers nor taking away from the success of the wealthy.
Not everyone subscribes to /r/hackernews. I had not see this post before
I will do magic tricks.
You don't think it's possible that the same content can be interesting to audiences of two different sites? Most of the stuff at lobste.rs is reposts from HN, and stuff from HN gets posted to Reddit as well. I see stuff from HN on Ars Technica and CNet occasionally, and vice versa.

It's not a competition. It's the Internet. We're all the same.
Not sure if the firearm he mentioned qualifies under the restrictions of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.

In any event, you are severely underestimating the federal government's general tolerance for "obscenity" and speech that is potentially objectionable. Honestly, if John Waters can get by fine, so can this.

Loved the jab at the left, as well. Such a descriptive term.
If it's any consolation I was gutted when I found that out. Hopefully I can find something else good by Matthew Holness, who knows he might even reprise his role as Garth
There's a gradient from a "work for food" world to "hunger-free" world. Until that transition is complete, people whose work is lost to automation lose their food.
Capitalism is now evil?
>Beyond the basics of... one blade for each continent).

On launch there was 2 continents, but 4 server blades per server.

Scripted events take place in Lua. But most raids until I believe Cataclysm weren't scripted so much as it was just mob abilities + cool downs.

Note: Not a wow server architect just played way to much WoW
> 6 months severance would get every Software dev/eng laughed out to the street.

I believe the parent was talking about C-level positions. I don't know if that applies at a 2 person startup where everyone is a C-level but at larger companies you probably have lots of room to negotiate if you're taking that type of position.
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I don't think people see automation per se as a negative. Rather, they are skeptical of our ability to restructure our society, and fear the social impact of automation in that context.

I mean, what happens when AI replaces programmers? When a designer can "write a program" just by telling a computer in natural language what he wants to do? Not only will most of HN be out of work, but many of our hobbies will be irrelevant. Who will read a blog post about Rust making it easier to write correct concurrent software when some AI is going to handle that much better than a human ever could?
You can just pee on a pregnancy test. If it's positive, you've got cancer. Pregnancy tests are cheap.
Comment page is still really funky:

http://i.imgur.com/M3OsXAJ.png
>'I'm fascinated by this stuff.'

Same, I'd be most interested in seeing how WoW was initially built to mitigate the lag that plagued MMOs at the time. Handling that well was key in my decision to play the game at all since it was critical for PvP play.

>'How does EVE online work by the way?'

Here's a pair of older articles from my bookmarks about engineering of EVE.

1: http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/planning-for-war-how-...

2: http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/09/28/eve-evolved-eve-onli...
What's the definition of a blade? I thought it was a diskless server but this one used to have a hard drive.
Unless it's changed since I last played EVE, the EVE servers all reset every night so EVE is down for a reasonable time each day. In WoW the equivalent happens only once per week.

The WoW 'cross realm' zones are also the "instanced" zones so while they are cross realm they actually hold much less data and people than the single-realm parts. Even the 'cross realm' areas are still restricted to a "battle group" of realms of 5-6(?) realms.
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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We wouldn't need to progress into that society, there are many people who already feel that way. Those people could just branch off. My point isn't to nitpick but to point out that it's closer than you might think.
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a fairly trivial fix would be to have routes optionally defined as "[/artist/:id/album]/number" where the [...] prefix is not required, but is checked for correctness if present.
Agreed wholeheartedly, but have you ever tried to read Sequel code? I think massively over-clever code is this dude's thing.
You are lucky, I didn't bid because I thought it would go way higher than theses prices. I still regret it.
Thanks for pointing me (and all of us) to this link.

A - I love that this exists!

B - This needs to be discussed with startups more often by co-founders, employees and investors.

I know this is idealistic, but then startups (and people associated with them) often are. Startups can aspire to things/goals that larger companies can't. This (discussion about ethics) is as important, if not more important, than the "How do we grow" discussion.
Sure, but the focus should be on how to restructure society as opposed to bemoan automation. It's worth noting that automation of jobs has been going on for a long time now, and nobody would want to go back to doing any of them.
It's called Usenet, and it still exists, though it's not as active as it used to be.

Google Groups is decent for searching old Usenet posts (though they've removed the "Advanced Search" feature), but horrible for posting. There are a number of NNTP clients (including Firefox) and free or cheap servers (I use news.eternal-september.org).

(To be clear, Google Groups includes both an interface to Usenet newsgroups and Google's own non-Usenet groups. It's probably ok for the latter, but they seriously botched the Usenet interface.)
I never actually thought about that. Of course you can do that!
This is one of these things where virtualisation can help even more. For example, VMware can dynamically put servers in standby mode when demand is low and power them up again when needed: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/drs-dpm
Right, so you have to verify the certificate through some "out of band" (relative to the browswer) mechanism.
That was probably the case back in vanilla (pre-expansion) WoW. With the introduction of cross-realm battlegrounds in 1.12 - a month before the first expansion - followed by the activation of arenas in the first expansion, they most likely considerably expanded their server capacity to accommodate for the increased load. I remember seeing news articles back in the day just a few months before Burning Crusade's launch that Blizzard had bought a massive amount of servers, but the only thing I can find now is this blog post: http://www.rahulsood.com/2006/02/blizzard-going-crazy-for-op...

However, it's important to note that around this time Blizzard was heavily improving their Battle.NET service and launched a download service where you could register your CD keys from their previous games such as Starcraft and Warcraft III and download a fully working ISO that did not require the physical CD to run. The server purchases may have gone towards that instead.

Would love it if Blizzard wasn't so secretive about everything, especially their tech. CCP, makers of Eve Online, have been very forthcoming in talking about their entire stack in their developer blogs and videos - from infrastructure and hardware, to how they profile their code and the software design choices they make.
What's someone supposed to think after reading that? It was pretty explicit and doesn't sound like a joke. If I said that I was having thoughts about shooting my coworkers, I don't think it would be fair to accuse people of ignorant speculation for taking it seriously.