skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the most powerful examples I like to use when defending the importance of online privacy and anonymity. Victims of domestic abuse have just as much right to use the internet as anyone else, and their lives could be in danger if their privacy/security is compromised.
Trello needs a chat. This is a good start!
That's a generalisation that doesn't apply to everybody. SOme people like to share, others don't care to.
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Are your add-ons e10s compatible? (Firefox Electrolysis multi-process)
Not losing any sleep due to the lost hobby hours due to kids. Guilt for working, watching football or playing video games instead of watching my girls put on a dancing/singing show in the front yard?... massive.

The Tesla comment is a trap. Many, many people have chosen their work over kids, and some of those people created wonderfully awesome things. But you're not Tesla, and if Tesla had kids (no idea if he did) I'm sure they were probably missing Dad a bit if he devoted his entire life to his work (again no idea if he did, just using the example provided)

Honestly, some people don't see their kids as their #1 priority, just another priority in a long list and that's okay. I don't see this as wrong, but it's not the path I wish for my life or my children. It's also worth noting that for some it's not a choice, we're all discussing here today a problem for the (more than) adequately employed middle class.
"minix has a spot, and that spot is in education,"

Yet they're pushing for reliable embedded hardware. Not all that bad of an idea. Given the nightmare of android security updates (or complete lack there of) this would make a nice embedded controller.

Need RTOS features. For .edu or .com embedded use.

The microkernel idea is pretty much dead outside the ivory tower, as in practice it didn't work, so I wouldn't be so pessimistic about how things turned out.
Does anyone help me with my Qt One Ecosystem as it's not working properly.
> What gives?

What gives is this. The people who right these fast C/C++ programs that beat Java/C# are usally far more skilled and trained.

Any programmer who know neither language well and has to write a big application in it will probebly find java/c# far easier.

I remember a long blogpost where somebody set out to test this on himself. And that guy was a very good C++ programmer. He found that his C++ prgrogrammer was slower, but he then set on improving the speed and in the end beat java by quite a bit. However the amount of effort was completly unreasonable for most programmers.

So "What gives" is this, and this has been true for a long time. If you are a expert in a low level language and spend time optimizing you will probebly beat Java/C#.

I would suggest that you should look into what a JIT or GC can and can not do. Some of the performance problems you identivy are really almost never a bottleneck anymore.
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This is the next big leap for Firefox:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_mul...
Interesting, but my iPhone won't have any luck getting into computer-only clubs: It successfully detects the human face in this image[1] but none of the dot patterns.

[1] http://cdn.ssbkyh.com/works/fadtcha/ssbkyh_fadtcha_05.jpg
> we finally got an agreement from the administration to release how many times we had national security orders on Apple. And in a six month period, and we had to release a range, because they won’t let us say the exact number, it’s between zero and 250. That’s the lowest number you can quote. Zero to 250.

So does anyone else think this might be a bad number (being so low)? If the NSA had access to everything, wouldn't you expect the official requests for data to be low and not because Apple doesn't store data or it's all encrypted anyway as Cook implies.
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Sad for you. Not for him.
MD6 is an idiosyncratic recommendation.
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I think Poettering pushed for it just so there would be an excuse to allow systemd to handle email too. :(
VM could do see all the functions and do whole-program analysis. Inlining is an orthogonal concept.
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>> The initial release was pretty bad, but subsequent ones are fine.

Well, it seems there is some variability on this, so the better response may be "YMMV".

iOS7 on my iPhone 4 (including the latest updates) -- just made it unusable -- and keep in mind, most of what I do are just the core apps, Safari, RSS and Read Later. I basically had the same issues with the last supported iOS versions on the original iPad and iPhone 3G.

The pattern I notice is that Apple tends to offer one OS upgrade too many on older devices, which is basically what led me to leave iOS.

The refreshing pattern I've experienced on Android is that most of the upgrades have featured performance improvements.
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Fixed: https://twitter.com/slimdns/status/511862890832211968
On Linux i guess so, on others GTK+ support is mostly dead.
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Since they lead with its secrecy, I'm guessing there's nothing particularly interesting or scandalous in it?
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> Maybe I'd get it if there was a problem - you caught them with drugs or thought they were sneaking out - but these kids stayed out of trouble and got good grades.

The paranoid in me wonders if they had a second set of "clean" phones that they could use to arrange their mischief.

The not-yet-a-parent in me hopes that they did, especially since they seemed to be doing fine otherwise.
If only we had some sort of standard, perhaps XML based syntax which is both standardised and well supported cross-browser, doesn't need JavaScript except for a few enhancements as and when it's needed.
Have you considered, you know, not treating customer support staff like scum?
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> So... are you an anarchist, or just a big fan of small governments? :)
I'm looking to minimize the amount of force used in the world. Increasingly smaller governments are in the right direction, and without central governments I believe we'd still organize ourselves in enclaves or archologies that would trade with each other.

> one problem with this approach is the small government [...] then keeps going until it's a large government again
People would only allow to be governed with explicit contracts and insurance in place. This gets into dispute resolution, which I'm still studying, but there are definitely ways to set incentives in place so that "becoming a large government" becomes a terrible course of action (economically, not just nominally and flexibly as is with law today).

> If they strike, or demonstrate, my police forces kill them
You can't initiate force in a libertarian society, or you will be inviting problems/conflicts. It's not economically advantageous to wage wars in a free society, so this won't be chosen often. The reason people go to war is because they want to make money selling weapons. This model only works with fiat money (historically, as wars are usually much more expensive than anyone could pay for). Real money can't pay for wars. Wars are really expensive.

Sundown towns were an explicit death threat to people who did not initiate force.

> We tried it your way, more or less, back in the Gilded Age
I'm reading a lot about the Gilded Age now and I'd really emphasize your "more or less". There was a lot of government meddling in the market at the time (railroads: government land grants and subsidies; in 1873 the Coinage Act demonetized silver [this is a huge intervention], which raised interest rates [artificially, which is why it's bad], which contributed to the first "Great Depression" until 1879). And that's not even the beginning of government interventions within 1860-90.

The Gilded Age is not an example of the free market. I'm looking at Celtic Ireland for something more like it.
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The expression is well-defined, the statement that the infinite tower is equal to the fixed point is just slightly oversimplified. That's only true for attracting fixed points, but its possible to have repelling fixed points, as well.
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Fred Wilson says burn rates are sky high in US startups right now
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There's the beginnings of an algebraic type system hiding in 10 (do Get["TypeSystem`"], then try RandomData[Vector[Atom[Integer]]). So generating synthetic data for a function with a given signature is already possible. Now we need to be able to express invariants etc, and then minimize counterexamples.
Why do you assume I'm paying someone a salary? I don't even make enough to cover my expenses (just started going indie). For someone like me, $149/mo is way too steep no matter what other options are. It just tells me qt is not an option for me.

As stated in other reply, open source option not an option as it states I can't publish it in app stores.
I'm not an expert, but maybe you should stop being an asshole to people. Then maybe you wouldn't have to worry about strangers plotting revenge.
Title might be true, but the analysis is really flawed. Why would you have to search for "Google Plus" on Google when you have a direct link in every google app. It does not make sense.
When I first looked at Rust, I recall being very confused about the distinctions between crate, package, module, and library. It seemed like an area which could use some simplification.
Do it for him, then.

If that would be too much time, use the FTB launcher; the modpacks there should be about as safe as it gets.

Or, hell, use my modpack at http://madoka.brage.info/, though that's pretty much just TPPI anyway. I'm a random internet person on hacker news; you know you can trust me.
Sendmail 9 is the worst, most un-Unixlike piece of software.

Want to send UUCP mail? x400 mail? Need other non-SMTP mail support? No, because it's 2014 and most people will never, ever use these? Too bad, the code's installed and running waiting for more exploits.

Want to configure it, in 'human readable plain text' too bad, here's a macro language which no other daemon uses.

Sendmail 9 is rank and the authors know it - Sendmail X (/10) looks far similar to postfix or other modular mail servers than sendmail 9 does.
> There is something supremely funny about VCs complaining that their start-ups behave like funded start-ups and not like bootstrappers, who focus on revenues and profits right from day 1.

This struck me as well. The irony seemed lost...

You can't have it both ways. Bootstrappers who don't need your money, won't take it. People who do need your money, typically spend it, playing the longer game you've encouraged them to play.

> A healthy company would survive and grow even without VC investment, it's supposed to be an accelerator, not life support.

A thousand times this.
>> iOS 5 on the first iPad have been the same

Man, I would pay a small fee to Apple to be able to do that. I bought a maxed out iPad 1 when it was released and it was basically unusable in 24 months. I expected to be able to use it for 3y.
> And so now we have 70's era tech instead of 90's.

You don't seem afraid of angering people with comments like that.

I think you're right. But you also have to consider the fact that linux is the only reliable open source kernel which developers know how to use. The mere fact that's it's both maintained, open source and used by many is a big feature. It doesn't have to at the bleeding edge.

Even if it's 70's era tech, it's still a good enough tech for many things. Its sole aim is not directly compete with proprietary kernels, it's just because it's just cheaper and more free.

I wish minix would get more attention too, but I think kernel choices boils down to what hardware you have.
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I wonder if anybody uses minix in production anymore.
Wow that's amazing now we have a Minix 3.3.
There's one available online: http://qmlbook.org/
As the name says, it covers basically just QML, but QML is an important foundation of modern QT5 so I guess the book is very nice to have.
They will allow third parties to use it - just not at launch. They already have a certification program called Made for Iphone/iPad where you need to be whitelisted for bluetooth pairing. Same thing may happen here.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/
I read this article back on Monday 1 September 2014 when it was first published. I didn't choose to submit here to Hacker News, as now has been kindly done, because I noted that most of the graphs of trends in the articles show that the confirmed trends are favorable trends (death rates down, birth rates down, population growth rates down, food per capita up, and so on) while the predicted unfavorable trends are still off in the unknown future. My personal prediction: Julian Simon, Matt Ridley, and a host of more optimistic projectors of trends will be more accurate in predicting further technological progress, further improvement of well being of most people in most places around the world, and sufficient natural resources (used more effectively with improved technology) to bring about rising prosperity in per-capita terms for the world as a whole and especially for the poorest parts of the world as we know the world today. Responses to the earlier MIT follow-up study[1] and the current University of Melbourne follow-up study[2] may not be definitive either (we are talking about the future, after all), but they have higher plausiblity for me as someone who has grown up with a lot of predictions of gloom and doom since the 1950s that have turned out to be wrong.

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/18/the-limits-to-growth-4...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/04/09/the-club-...

[2] http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/energy-environment/yes-the-clu...
> Notice that the two colliding exe are exactly the same file size. These attacks have only gotten better.

They're also 6, not 200+ KB. They have been specially crafted to be as small as possible to make the problem set as easy as possible.

> The example I gave uses windows and linux executables. No zip files in sight. These attacks are from 2009.

That's a really strange reply. What is it you think I said..? I said and to quote you quoting me: "'Really any format which can take arbitrary metadata (which is MOST) is pretty easy.'"

So why you felt the need to point out that it is an executable not a zip file is uhh strange to say the least...
Many projects recently started switching from GTK to Qt.
Java will have value types soon. Also, C++ does some heap allocations behind-the-scenes quite often (e.g. with vector or string) which are hard to get rid of and they are much more expensive than in JVM/CLR. So not always idiomatic C++ smashes JVM/CLR in performance. YMMV and typical differences are small enough to not matter for most of server-side software like web-apps, web-servers or databases.
That performance impact is a total myth. There are quite a few ways in which you can mitigate a large part of that and in actual use things like latency (which microkernels are very good at), soft-real time performance and context switch speed are far more important than raw throughput.

I've built enormous systems using microkernels and there was absolutely no way we'd have gotten the same reliability and performance out of the macro-kernels of the day.
That proposal wasn't just to remove sendmail; it was to install no MTA by default. OpenBSD, on the other hand, has a replacement for sendmail in OpenSMTPd.
HN - where plain facts can get you downrated. [sigh...]
Wow - I posted what I thought was a thoughtful comment on Fred's blog, disagreeing with his throw-away intro on paid content - and it seems to have disappeared?

My point was, why should we reward Business Insider for ripping off content, instead of rewarding WSJ?

Why not reward originators of content, instead of recyclers? Clearly, he liked the interview enough to link to it - why should BI get a benefit instead of WSJ? He seems to think that it is "inevitable" that digital content will get ripped off, but perhaps that's only true if they (a) don't innovate on payment models, (b) don't innovate on fair use rules.

One of the digital currency companies in USV's portfolio could surely work out a micropayments deal with WSJ to allow people to pay-per-use for content, instead of subscribe.

So - that was the gist of what I had to say. Insightful, maybe not.

But now I'll add to it - I much prefer the YC approach, where my comments are free to sit there, and get ranked accordingly.
> The microkernel idea is pretty much dead outside the ivory tower, as in practice it didn't work,

The L4 microkernel

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family

is really fast and used quite often. See

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#Commercia...

for details about its usages.
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> You don't seem afraid of angering people with comments like that.

In my 'day job' (as far as I have one) I get paid to speak my mind and not to weasel around the issue, compared to that speaking my mind without 'fear of angering people' in an online forum comes pretty easy and I don't think anybody that really knows his stuff would be angered by this.

It is much harder to write a report for a VC detailing a potential investment when every word matters. I can agonize over a report for days in order to make it fair and not to leave ambiguity in.
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Hi all! I'm one of the developers of this app. Our short-term goal is to make it easy and fun to discuss all kinds of products with your friends and with people who's opinion your find interesting.

In the long term, we want to improve searching for products by sorting the results based on the opinion of the people in your social network, instead of over-SEO's pageranks.

We worked hard on this app, and we're pretty happy about how far we already got (although there's plenty work left!). We have hardly started doing a real marketing effort yet, yet we have some promising organic growth.

If you have any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear it!
C++11's std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr are also nice features. Does Rust provide more guarantees?
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Apple can't win here. They don't release the update, and people bash them for not supporting expensive devices. They release the update, and people bash them for some kind of forced-planned-obsolescence.
The UX on the Watch.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297652
I interpreted him as agreeing with you--he is saying that the "digit-heads" and "computer geeks" don't understand that the problem is political, not technological.
You're ignoring half of my post (on purpose?): Now generate the collisions matching file sizes. Even that "under a second" concept relies in tiny files.

As files get larger matching both the MD5 and file size becomes more costly.
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Your company may differ, but many have a policy that states ANYTHING you do on a company owned machine is considered open for scrutiny. Some places have a semblance of privacy - meaning they're not going to read your Gmail or mess with your Facebook profile. Upon termination, you surrender any right you have to the data on your machine. So to echo the sentiment of others. Don't use your work machine for private data. This can be difficult, as it's easy to take your laptop on vacation to "do a little work"... and then wind up wanting to check your facebook. For that, I'd suggest logging out when you're done. Don't allow Chrome to remember passwords.
Yeah, you're right. Do you want to compare the install base of Python versus that of browsers like Chrome and Firefox?
> The microkernel idea is pretty much dead outside the ivory tower, as in practice it didn't work

A huge swath of the real time world (process and industrial control, all kinds of embedded gear) runs on microkernels. They're enormously successful, just not very visible.
Venture capital is supposed to be mechanism for funding at the highest levels of risk and reward. But somehow we've decided that it's the only model for Internet companies. So a lot of companies and individuals with perfectly workable small or medium-size ideas end up inflating them to VC size to get funding, and then fizzling out. A sad side effect is that it discredits the ideas.

We have a grandiosity problem in Silicon Valley. The problem isn't really VC, but the lack of alternatives along the other parts of the risk/reward curve.
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It's still free. As is Android. Zero-cost OSes driving general purpose computing devices is starting to become the norm, rather than the exception. The only major holdout nowadays is Microsoft.

What about updates? The cost of the device has nothing to do with the 2-4 software updates an average user can expect.
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Love it. My wife admonishes me every night that I need to work less and relax more. She says that the key to productivity is giving your brain time to relax. If all you do is work, you never give your mind a chance to absorb the knowledge you've absorbed. Games and TV, reading a book for pleasure, having a run, etc, give us that exact chance.

I know she's right, even if I struggle with it.
It's very hard to do passive consumption with things like Minecraft, and there are definite advantages to learning about computers early.

Instead of blocking off the computer entirely, why don't you instead limit what they can do on it? No, or very limited website access; very few AAA-type games, more sandbox-type games, etc.
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It would be nice if they had an option for startups, a la MS & BizSpark.
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Mattan from One Month here, happy to discuss and answer people's questions candidly if you've got any.
>as in practice it didn't work

QNX says, "Hi." Nearly every router with >1GB/s ports run a microkernel.

Blackberry's phones run microkernels.

Yeah its closed source locked down, but its a functioning high performance micro-kernel.
> Simply put, Microsoft bought Minecraft to keep its desktop Windows franchise alive.

If he's right, then Minecraft's support lifespan on non-Microsoft platforms can be measured in months, not years.
Based on the famous Net Promoter Score - the best way to measure & monitor customer satisfaction levels.
Can we please stop saying “unstructured” data? (2013)
Speaking of lunch hour exercise... that's another non-tradeoff tradeoff.

Unless I could take a shower at work, it definitively is.