skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about this game or situation - but it sounds like this guy messed up and is admirably taking responsibility for his actions. That's a mature thing to do (taking responsibility) and something we see too little of in the tech world. I admire the way he stepped up to the plate and tried to remedy the situation for his colleagues. He should be rightfully ashamed of the mistake but proud of the way he's dealt with handling it.
If you're just going out into the woods for a day, its relatively easy to stay safe. You wear certain types of clothes, tuck them into each other a certain way, spray yourself with tick repellent, come home, throw them immediately into the wash, and then shower and check your body.

Ticks are much more difficult for children (who have to be taught the above), definitely people with outdoor pets, people who didn't expect to be in the woods (gardening, picnics, shortcut on the walk home, etc), and people not returning for the night (ever try checking yourself for ticks by firelight? even then your laundry is nearby, and they might crawl out. etc)
Yes, I could see many organization adopting only the Mongo and Angular portions of this stack and leaving their API to leverage the .NET Web API; it too is RESTful.
Aussie bee species fight 'hive wars'
Manage dotfiles using vcsh and mr
HOW MUCH
It's probably also counting the width of the page, which would make the positioning formula trickier. Still, get your shit together apple!
This is the kind of unfounded complaints we've seen from people about Apple going back at least to the 1980s. More recently, there was an "outcry" when Apple waited a few months to release the latest version of OS X as open source after releasing the retail version.

Truth is, Apple is pretty good about open sourcing their stuff, especially when compared to their peers (Microsoft, Oracle). But that doesn't fit the "Google good, Apple bad" narrative that is popular in some circles.

It's important to remember that Android being "open" is googles attempt to commoditize a competitors product... you don't see google open sourcing core technologies related to source.
It is not trivial, and you'd get found out and lose the CA.
>> Google has only two billion-dollar businesses: Adwords and Adsense.

Even a cursory reading of any of Google's earnings statements disproves your first sentence.
Yes. They linked the scale of the image (CSS) to the scroll wheel with a bit of JavaScript.
http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html
I'm a fan of reintroducing wolves - they used to keep the deer population in check.
Most people don't know much about any of the details. They have simply done things one way for a long time and now it is changing. You haven't addressed that besides accusing those people of being "ignorant about good design principles" and "having huge misunderstandings that leads to a lot of wasted energy."

From the perspective of the average linux user ( one that knows little to nothing about linux internals ) the entire discussion is the real waste of energy.

The people who know a ton are a different category altogether; you have addressed those.

The category of people you are ignoring is those who did it one way now they are suddenly "forced" to change.

I feel the same way about firewalld as I do about systemd. Iptables was confusing, but I used it till I was able to do what I needed. Now all of that knowledge is useless because I have to use a different system to stay with the rest of the group.

Is systemd better? Sure. Is firewalld better? Dunno; I think so. Am I ignorant and clueless and misunderstanding everything? No... I just have a different perspective than all of the people fighting about this. All I want is to continue my simple life. Learning new stuff is a drag if it worked fine before. ( I'm aware of how sucky 'fine' is... )

This is not an argument; it's just a statement of how I and a lot of people feel. We used to have a normal car; now the steering wheel is gone and replaced by a grid of 20 buttons that control an automated robot who steers for us. We were used to the wheel. We ask for the wheel back and we are told we are clueless and ignorant and should use the buttons.
For some people, it seems to be. I suspect part of the issue is how abundantly available it is. For example, you go to the theater, and you can either buy a single bottle of water, or a cup of soda with free refills. Many restaurants offer only local tap water as a water choice, which varies in good taste. Lots of vending machines offer only soda, no water, again leaving the water-drinkers to search for a hopefully-clean, hopefully-not-too-bad-tasting drinking fountain.

I'm not saying you can't avoid soda if you try -- I rarely drink it myself -- but the culture seems to basically throw it in your face as the standard beverage of choice.
> I understand the people who did the deed

Maybe this was intended to mean that their behavior was logical, not that it was excusable.
I'm definitely having a tough time with quitting sugar(candies). I get huge cravings right after lunch every day.
"Unfortunately, in order to be RFC-compliant, an MTA cannot refuse to transfer mail just because encryption (TLS) is not available."

If you are running a mail system like Postfix, with DNSSEC and DANE turned on, then your server will refuse to deliver mail to mine unless it can negotiate a TLS encrypted connection, and the certificate used matches the cryptographically signed fingerprint I publish in the DNS.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dane-smtp-01
We are using an open source app server: Glassfish.
> 90% of Red Hat's revenue is from servers

just a correction, red hat revenue is from support contracts.

> If systemd is bad for servers, why did RHEL[1] and CoreOS adopt it? Are we to believe that these companies work against themselves?

I know of two theories:

1) making systemd a dependency for gnome and the rest, red hat is trying to exterminate *bsd, which is considered better for servers.

2) "Software that ain't broken doesn't sell $$$upport. "
Yeah, it's usually possible to tell just from the Received: headers.

For example, here's a (slightly censored) Received: header from a recent e-mail received by my personal mail server:

Received: from mail.foo.com (mail.foo.com [192.0.2.8])
(using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by mail.bar.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id MX8675309
for <jlgaddis@bar.com>; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:31:26 -0400 (EDT)

N.B.: "with ESMTPS".

I'm sure that others will correct me if I'm wrong (please do!) and this almost certainly isn't foolproof (and I'm likely missing some and there are probably exceptions as well), but just from my own observations: "ESMTP" refers to a standard, unencrypted SMTP session (25/TCP), "ESMTPS" to an SMTP session where STARTTLS was used (25/TCP), "ASMTP" to an authenticated SMTP session where "full" SSL/TLS was used (e.g. 465/TCP), and "ESMTPSA" to an authenticated SMTP session where STARTTLS was used.

Of course, you can't see these on any outgoing messages you send, only incoming mail.
Website seems to be having issues. Connection is timing out. Would like to see what you did with it. I agree that wikipedia could use a redesign.
Thinking about it, the only time I really drink soda right now is when I'm putting alcohol in it.

Infusing an apple with bourbon sounds... pretty interesting, actually, but probably more work than I'm willing to put into a post-work drink.
Mentioning the Apple/NeXT GCC/ObjC/GPL history is not a good way to get on Apple's good side.
Memory management in mobile apps
I thought for a moment that this comment was intended for the systemd article.
I wonder what would happen with half fruit juice, half carbonated water.
+1 to open source the platform
A Brief, Opinionated History of the API [pdf]
How to Tell the Temperature Using Crickets
i only half read the article but i'm still gonna call color
"We generated 91% of Google revenues from our advertisers in 2013."

https://investor.google.com/pdf/20131231_google_10K.pdf
They really are, and I did my biology degree in the 80s and even it didn't really seem controversial. Yet there is a long history of people attempting to make themselves appear iconoclastic.

So look at the Amazon description of this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-The-Leopard-Changed-Spots/dp/075...

I met its author just after it was published. It's a very good book and very interesting, and makes you think about developmental biology in new ways. But even it was always an added nuance and richness to the evolutionary story, rather than the revolution claimed in the blurb.
Feedback on the website only:
1. Menu content disappears after a second and shows white area. If you scroll down menu appears for a second and then disappears again
2. bottom scroll of writers does not correlate to dots below.
3. Image took over 2 seconds to load on wifi
4. Clicked whitepapers from the list and was taken to a page about Blog Posts.
5. On blog post page if I click Facebook post it gets highlighted but since content is below the fold it seems to me like nothing happened.
6. the dynamic typing animation on top is cute on the home page but please remove it from other pages because it gets annoying fast
A few reasons. Things like gradients and other skeuomorphic components that are usually jpegs look horrible if you don't have fallbacks for retina. The screen is brighter and crisper, so those vector buttons look great. etc.

My girlfriend has, I think, an android 2.3 phone. Flat designs are HORRIBLE on it. However, they look crisp on a retina phone, so much that it actually look like the screen is made of physical (material) components.

As for people liking it or not? That's just a trend. We are going back to skeuomorphism in a few years, mark my word.
> The idea of a Unix where you get rid of bash/csh/whatever and just run a lua/python/ruby prompt and have your apps implemented largely in that same language

systemd doesn't help with that AT ALL. Other init systems do support this notion much better.
A few thoughts:

- Browsing the source code directory, this is very very "early stage" at best and perhaps too early to warrant a "Get It Now" link

- There is an alternative implementation of Swift for the interested, although not open source, being developed by RemObjects:
http://www.remobjects.com/elements/silver/

- Apple should definitely open source Swift, but I doubt this kind of pressure is going to have any significant sway on their decision one way or another. When in the past did developer pressure influence any of their major strategic decisions?

- Referring to Richard Stallman as "Richard", Steve Jobs as "Steve" and Chris Lattern as "Chris" in the letter comes off as a bit sarcastic/snippy in tone

- I don't believe Apple is promoting Swift to encourage lock-in anymore than Apple promoted Objective-C to encourage lock-in; as others here have stated I think the author misunderstands Apple's business model/philosophy
If anything the whole systemd mess has put more attention on the init system and dependencies. There's plenty of drama and its a modern vi/emacs kde/gnome fight that people are passionate about.

I think what burns a lot of us anti systemd people is the apparently lack of sound engineering principles and overengineering. It's just a damn init system! Other init systems (runit, etc) had already mostly solved many of the problems systemd claims to solve with dramatically less code leaving things like logging, scheduled jobs, etc to tools that absolutely didn't need replacing.
Are you arguing that it may me that all objectors to systemd would be dissatisfied with all possible init systems different than what exists now?
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This so much. I don't get how people can think that something so simply and straightforward as the time complexity of an algorithm is something superfluous that only belongs to some boring classes they took in university, and it has nothing to do with "real world problems".

Those people complaining about Google caring so much about their engineers being able to deal with basic algorithmic, instead, should wonder why every Google service is so fast.
This is almost exactly the same strategy, only stow handles the symlinks for you, so you don't have to go through and `ln -s` all your files/directories. Your dotfiles still go in a git repo.
> [..] In many (most?) restaurants, your beverage choices comprise soda and water.

This reminds me that in Belgium there's a fast food chain with menus for which the cashier can't swap the soda for water.
We know what the 8 challenges are, but we have to do the work of getting good reproducible challenges worked out for them.
I actually think this was terrible as well. I clicked the link on the release date because I was curious. I scrolled for a while, and I thought I was somehow just zooming out. It clunked along and took a while to get to any information. It felt poor. The animation was not fluid. Maybe it should have been a screen sized gif, that played over 4 seconds and then disappeared. Not sure, but it felt like I had no control over the page as a user. I couldn't scroll away.
I have worked at startups that people could believe would fail. We used source code escrow services that release the code to customers if we went out of business. Any of them would have been free to open-source.
I really don't get why people stress over this.

Swift only has value with the Mac OS X and iOS ecosystems, specially as a mean to drag Objective-C developers into the FP world.

There are so many open source languages in the ML family, a few of them are even used in the industry for several years now. Just go and join one of those projects.

They will appreciate any help they can get.
I believe the latter, for what it's worth, not the former.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I'm pretty sure XKCD is part of the job description.
The Frivolous Front End Framework
Haven't they ever heard of a UUID? Or if they are worried about potential collisions at least make the number 128bit (since you have an obscenely large max value to increment to).
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For what I'm aware of, that's all maintenance and extension of existing projects. Is COBOL being used for new projects anywhere? That was my question, and the only thing relevant to the original claim.
Were these sodas sweetened with cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup?

(I did look at the abstract of the actual paper, but it doesn't seem to specify. The full paper might say, but it's paywalled.)
I personally suspect "earn credit" is the problem here. It incentivizes not learning.

Gamification has never done any good for academia. The ones motivated by such things don't learn anyway, and the truly excellent students would have been just as good without them.

I'm not saying I have a better system on hold, just that a lot of energy is spent on doing obvious and wrong things.
I understand that but it's only been available to the public for a few months. Apple were likely focussed completely on getting it ready for dev to use in iOS 8. That's where all their man power was. Give them some time.
https://source.ind.ie/project/phoenix/blob/master/LICENSE
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Interesting. Doesn't git (a pretty new tool) violate this? I think running log from the terminal pauses per page of output but if you pipe it to something it pipes all the content.
Yes, sorry, I should have been more clear -- I was specifically referring to it being a violation of RFC2487 to require TLS on a publicly referenced SMTP server (on 25/TCP anyways) that is accepting mail.

One can obviously configure his/her own MTA to not send out mail unless encryption is being used (although one would certainly end up with undeliverable mail), but RFC2487 says that you may not refuse to accept mail (again, on 25/TCP) that is not encrypted.

As with DNSSEC and DANE, like you mentioned, one can also require his/her MTA to validate the server's certificate although this isn't typically enabled by default.
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But he didn't make it explicit, either. How many people reading that review would make the connection? I certainly wouldn't.
> Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age.

Bad assumption.
apply's ?
> This study doesn't seem to show that soda ages you (as the article states), but instead that sugary soda consumption indicates a tendency towards other activities/habits that may prematurely age you.

No offense, but the authors are very accomplished public health researchers. If their study showed what you suggest, I think that would be their headline. What they showed with (relative) certainty is that those who drink sugary carbonated drinks have shorter telomeres than those who don't. There will be follow-up work to determine the mechanism and the causes.

In either case;

> Epel is co-leading a new study in which participants will be tracked for weeks in real time to look for effects of sugar-sweetened soda consumption on aspects of cellular aging. Telomere shortening has previously been associated with oxidative damage to tissue, to inflammation, and to insulin resistance.
Instead of Wikipedia, try Monty's article on digital audio https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html or this "maximum information density" video https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
another pro-systemd post. there's been two of them today, the other being the uselessd blog post. What's with this community rushing to defend themselves? doesn't this smell like astroturfing to anyone else?
Right yes, but not in this particular study
What are you drinking instead of soda in your country?
-- Having a preference for ivy league. Google impeaches itself with this one in my mind.

This is one of the most common things I bump into when looking for a job, and Its not just Google. Its so disappointing because I didn't go to "insert_top_ten_university" because I couldn't afford it, competition was insanely difficult, and asking grades where so high.

I always ask myself if these companies that preach meritocracy and diversity is just lip service when all the folks mostly come from ivy/redbrick/Russell group universities. So disappointing.
Um, I actually disagree with the author's assertion that Swift is designed to make it harder to co-develop iOS and Android apps. If anything, Swift's syntax and object model are more similar to Java than Objective-C was, which should make it easier to write portable code.

I also disagree with the author's entire premise, because Apple open sources a lot more than its competitors do. Like, a whole lot more. [1] You can download the source for the entire OS X kernel.

I believe Swift will eventually be open sourced. It would fit entirely within Apple's strategy to do so: they like to open source foundational technologies, while keeping the libraries and proprietary features the build on top of them to themselves.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/opensource/
We respect you enough to deliberate solicit, and pay for, your help in choosing clothes to purchase, but we're still going to call you a girl. Maybe we think it's cute, maybe it's a belittling way to smother our inadequacies in this field. Who knows. The fact that we're deliberately seeking out "girls" and eliminating 50% of the world's population, many of whom know a great deal about buying clothes for men, is rather suggestive.
Even though I've always been a bit repulsed by Product Hunt, I'm really glad to see it succeeding - hopefully it will take the whole startup daily news/gossip business away and leave HN with the cool hacks and new tech, As Its Creator Intended.

(Why am I repulsed by PH? Not sure, but I tend to lump it in with the whole cargo cult, ping pong tables, beers kegs, fashion and gossip and startups Valley scene. The most common context in which I encounter it is people asking me to vote them up so they can get 'discovered', as if entrepreneurship were Hollywood or Nashville. It's a meta-startup for discussing other people's startups; it's a carbuncle on a vain, self-absorbed slice of our industry. I guess it serves a niche well and I'm just repelled by the niche.)
People forget there's a distinction between Computer Scientist / Data Scientist / Software Engineer. They are not one and the same, and depending on your job you may only need to be one of those three categories. You don't need to know how quick-sort works create a CRUD web application, but you sure need to know how to write clear, maintainable code in all areas from the stack. But if that's all you know you can't expect to excel at a job like generating the Facebook news feed which actually involves theoretical knowledge.
I think its generally understood that most artificial sweeteners are seen as sugar by the body, but don't actually get turned into sugar in the bloodstream. So it makes sense that it might contribute to diabetes (your body digests it like sugar), but not aging (which is accelerated by sugar in the bloodstream). I believe the whole point of coke 0 is that it doesn't use an artificial sweetener? But don't quote me on that last sentence.
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I'm arguing that "It doesn't agree with their philosophy" is not incompatible with "They don't like it because it's new." It's not uncommon for people to build personal philosophies that work out to "change is bad."
Set #6 is also much harder than set #5! Or at least, I thought so, but I haven't finished it or, sadly, worked on it for quite a few months.
I'm a big fan of Salvatore's analyses. They are straightforward from the perspective of somebody who knows the ins-and-outs of their system(s). We need more of this.