skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They _are_ driven by the money that is necessary to finance academia.

They wouldnt be in academia if adacemia had to actually earn the money it needs to exist.
The plan now under consideration would separate broadband into two distinct
services: a retail one, in which consumers would pay broadband providers
for Internet access; and a back-end one, in which broadband providers
serve as the conduit for websites to distribute content. The FCC would then
classify the back-end service as a common carrier, giving the agency the
ability to police any deals between content companies and broadband providers.

At first glance, this looks bad. Really, really bad.

The Internet was based upon the concept that each node would be both a producer and consumer of content. And as speeds for the end-user have increased, truly becomes feasible (especially as FTTP becomes more common).

What this proposal does instead is play into the hands of the cable industry and their view of the Internet is a broadcast mechanism, and the consumers as primarily passive consumers and not really producers or highly interactive.

What's really needed is more competition. Unfortunately, the only entities with the capital which can provide that competition are munis. Private investors and other entities don't really seem to care that much about this.
Career planning: what is your path?
So how does Rust currently deal with calling into a C function which calls into a Rust function that panics?

From what I understand based on the article and assuming you don't know which C compiler was used, it seems like this would be impossible to properly deal with and produce undefined behavior.
Awesome. I starred folly a while ago for the purpose of becoming more familiar with C++11 but I never really got around to exploring the source code. Great post.
There's also a bit of pleasure in driving for many, sports cars, convertible's, that pleasure doesn't correlate to emails, there's no sports car email client. maybe not? =/

I've got a feeling that as cars start driving themselves, us motorheads/car-fanatics will be like horse owners, relegated to car farms (tracks with much larger garages and warehouses attached).
People in academia are absolutely driven by money: they need funding to purchase equipment, hire grad students, and pay their salary. Also, whether or not to grant tenure is judged (in part) by how much grant money an assistant professor has brought into the university.
The three principles they listed for their model have served me well in apps I've written, especially the first (immutability). Most of the Apps I write rely on some kind of server data so it works really well. I'm writing a recipe book app as a learning project and I'm experimenting with just saving JSON to the App's document folder as a persistence layer.
Actually I still found it easier than Lingo, I wrote a bunch of things while in art school in the 90s but when java applets took off I wound up abandoning hypercard for java.
From Tor:

"So I'm totally anonymous if I use Tor?

No.

First, Tor protects the network communications. It separates where you are from where you are going on the Internet. What content and data you transmit over Tor is controlled by you. If you login to Google or Facebook via Tor, the local ISP or network provider doesn't know you are visiting Google or Facebook. Google and Facebook don't know where you are in the world. However, since you have logged into their sites, they know who you are. If you don't want to share information, you are in control."
Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist
s/Slack/<insert any IM service here>/g

Your statement is still true.
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I thought Carbon was already deprecated in favor of Cocoa - does that header mean it's still being used in the Yosemite?
dealing with documents is a billion dollar feature?
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in myriad languages
> Perhaps it means quitting jobs, selling houses, getting divorce, abandoning friends, changing habits, changing patterns of thought, solving addictions, destroying routines.

I agree with all of these except divorce. While it is true that you want to make changes that benefit your own life, you don't want to make changes that also ruin someone else's.
I think its much more likely that facebook is utilizing this to better track abuse. Its not always easy to tell if a user is using tor, and a statistically higher percentage of tor users are doing things facebook doesnt like.

By creating a entry point, they can more easily track and label users that even use that entry point, to better handle abuse.
>The N.Y.U. political psychologist John Jost made the point even more strongly, calling Haidt’s remarks “armchair demography.” Jost wrote, “Haidt fails to grapple meaningfully with the question of why nearly all of the best minds in science find liberal ideas to be closer to the mark with respect to evolution, human nature, mental health, close relationships, intergroup relations, ethics, social justice, conflict resolution, environmental sustainability, and so on.”

A comment meant to combat Haidt's criticism ends up embodying it.
Is there a reason that 50%-50% is ideal? Consider the climate change debate; I do not consider it a problem that the scientific community is lopsided on this issue. Simmilarly, it may be the case that an understanding of these fields tends to make people lean liberal.

You're confusing political belief with scientific opinion. There is nothing wrong with nearly everyone holding one scientific opinion. I would say there is something wrong with a lack of diversity (political or otherwise).
I don't get it. If you're unwinding the stack aren't you going to be referring to DWARF tables anyway for things like symbols, CFI to locate catch blocks (in C++), or something else that is actually going to allow you to do something useful? Having to switch off of the instruction pointer to decode the stack doesn't seem like much of an extra burden. Just dumping a list of stack frame addresses isn't terribly useful.

On another note, the DWARF standard is fairly approachable reading: http://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf
This is interesting, but it plucks from nowhere the equation for the chances of collision. Here's my write-up of where that comes from:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?HN_201...

It's intended to be gentle, but a few people have said it's a bit quick in places. I'd appreciate any feedback.

Added in edit: I've submitted it as a separate item - it's been a few months since it was discussed here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540220
Is it the minds who brought us "the scroogled" and "Surface dancing schoolgirls" marketing campaigns?
> Also state == leftism?

Precisely.

> What about fascist and quasi-fascist states?

Fascism, communism, nazism, socialism, etc, are subsets of leftism/statism.
Yeah I would've loved a little more detail on how they architected the move to NSCoding / serialization straight to disk. There's a lot more ways to do this wrong than right from how open-ended a 'schema' like that is. Any speculations?
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Our embedded TCP/IP stack now has binding API to write Rust applications. picoTCP is a size, speed and feature conscious open source TCP/IP stack for embedded devices.

These Rust bindings are still very much work in progress, and we'd be glad to get any feedback or help on this!
Hey Connor, awesome work. You would have saved us a lot of work had you created this a year ago ;)
I appreciate this article. The mention of the Birthday problem made the calculation reasonable, and the trick to ensure time-locality as a fixed bit pattern was enlightening.
"In the event of a GPS failure." which probably means that either the world is at war again, or we've finally crossed the tipping point on space junk and everything in medium earth orbit (MEO or 12,500 miles) is now just a cloud of parts working its way into LEO as the orbits decay.
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I don't really see the difference. Care to elaborate?
Export to HTML/CSS/JS and perhaps native for performance sensitive things.

A minor nitpick but "native" is almost always unnecessary for this kind of programming. We have WebGL and soon, SIMD.js. Things are looking good on the performance front.

I think it'd be more important to focus on making WebGL support better on lower-end mobile devices or have a downgrade path to canvas or some other maguffin.

Maybe have a (subset) of Javascript, Lua or Python as a scripting language.

All of these languages are fine in their own right but they fall on the floor for being user-friendly when your user is someone whose vocabulary is not a part of the programming lexicon.

But they could be useful to people who do understand their models of execution.

I'd be more apt to suggest giving the users a kernel upon which any appropriate language can be integrated into the system for the user to select.
I can't say I've fallen in love with it, but it's okay. The Mac app provides decent notifications - but I actually don't use it that much, I've installed the Android app on my phone and that works pretty well.

The notifications are clever enough to not ping me again on the phone if the Mac app is already running.

Integration with other things is dead simple - I had Sensu alerts sent to Slack in a matter of minutes.

I don't know. It's instant messaging, it's not like they've reinventing rocket science from scratch, but it's a good implementation of the concept, multiplatform, well integrated.
Show HN: How to vote on SF's sugary drink tax
Dr Karl (he's roughly analogous to Bill Nye, I guess) does a radio show in Oz (and maybe the UK too?) where he answers listeners questions. Occasionally people will ask about psychoactive drug usage and he'll umm and ahh, acknowledge that lots of art and science has been helped along by various drugs but ultimately say that some people are just predisposed to have bad experiences, perhaps even inducing long term psychosis or similar, and for that reason he can't recommend recreational drugs. While many people may use drugs for years and have positive experiences, some people will be broken by their first usage.

As he is fond of saying: All drugs are poisons, what matters is the dose.

I'm curious: was your experience positive, perhaps even amazing, until you went to sleep and woke up depressed?
Apptimize is hiring a customer success manager
Unless you're a front end developer, what the end product looks like is of little consequence. If you're a back end developer doing mainly closed-source applications, a portfolio is not a good way to showcase your work, since by definition there will be little or nothing you're legally allowed to showcase.

Instead, focus on other ways to show what you've done and - more importantly - what you know. Blog posts are easy but it's unlikely prospective clients will dig through blog archives to find a problem relevant to them. Instead, you could likely discuss an application in vivid technical detail without mentioning the client and not be breaking any NDA or contract rules. Think of it as a white paper to host on your site as something a little more in-depth than a blog post.
Start a coding school in a under served community. It's something I am considering doing and funding on that level and the quality of free education it brings could really make an impact in people's lives.
Trying to configure DNS settings for herokuapp.com isn't going to work, given that it isn't, you know, actually your domain to configure.

What you should have is something like

connoratherton.com A 54.221.226.116
www.connoratherton.com CNAME connor-personal.herokuapp.com

Alternately, if your domain registrar supports ANAME or ALIAS, you should have, respectively,

connoratherton.com ANAME connor-personal.herokuapp.com
www.connoratherton.com CNAME connor-personal.herokuapp.com

or

connoratherton.com ALIAS connor-personal.herokuapp.com
www.connoratherton.com CNAME connor-personal.herokuapp.com
GoDaddy SHA-2 SSL Cert Problem
I am not the fan either, especially that even the "native" version is just a packaged web browser, and some features (like file upload) were broken when I tried. Unfortunately I do think it's a trend. Maybe someone who actually uses it could tell me why and also what makes it a 1B company?
Monetdb vs citusdb vs postgresql:

https://www.monetdb.org/content/citusdb-postgresql-column-st...
And that vanity .onion address... They must've had some real processing power thrown at it. Or they were very lucky when searching for an address starting with facebook.
I really hope it's the latter, because if the foprmer then someone else might do it. Now I'm left wondering if shallot and scalion and really safe.
For a real head trip, read Sendmail's.
The argument that a fingerprint is like handing in a DNA sample or a physical key, which citizens can already be legally compelled to give to police. The significant point here, in my opinion, is that you can be legally compelled. I wonder if a request by a police officer is the same as being compelled "legally" or if it requires a court order if you refuse.
I'm with you. Maybe I'm too old to 'get it'. The progression of chat tools I've used for work collaboration: AIM -> Jabber -> HipChat -> Slack.
HipChat & Slack have some convenient features like emailing you if someone @'s you while you are away. Otherwise, I've used them all exactly he same way. I really don't get the hype.
Not really "open", it's write only.

http://bugreport.apple.com
Oh, yes, those money-hungry academics, driving their Ferraris all day long...
"Driving in Circles:
The autonomous Google car may never actually happen."

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/...
Now I'm curious to know where you put (left) anarchism, such as mutualism and anarcho-communism.
I think you're operating from a serious misconception about the Republican party- they advocate and have historically voted for extremely strong State power, just distributed for a greater degree of regional control.
Other discussion based on the techcrunch article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538559
I typically read math or computer science papers, so reading a paper like this is very odd. The paper is about mathematics education and the authors talk about the importance of encouraging 'structural thinking' in students. It's all very hand wavy, there is no introductory section outlining what the paper is about, no definitions, and no summary. There is a conclusion which is just as hand wavy as the rest.

Very odd to get a glimpse into other fields this way.
Google Inbox, for one :)
Yep. Also, beggars too are absolutely driven by money: it prevents them from starving.
I know you should take money when you can, but part of me is wondering if this is indicitive of some kind of "winter" coming for VC funding. If slack is growing that quickly, why not wait another 6 months and drive for a better valuation?
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New accounts can't downvote, unless they lowered the karma threshold while I wasn't looking.
I'm not following your numbers here.

Generally, the calculation I use is this:

$1.00 * 40(hrs/wk) * 52(wks/yr) = $2080 per year.

(Usually I'm working the other way to get an hourly number from an annual salary but the math works both ways.)
I wish I had known more about the legacy tech stack I'm working with, when I was interviewing. I would have still taken the job but it would have been nice to know about the extent of the COBOL horrors ahead of time in order to mentally prepare myself!
My best guess is similar:
He wanted to keep independence
They were not willing to give it
He took his ball and went home.

But this is a wild guess.
Andy, from what I've heard/known, never particularly liked the "CEO" aspect of his job.
So having a more traditional structure would probably be more than just "not enjoyable" to him.
> Are screenshots really that useful or interesting? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely interested.

I'm not sure myself if screenshots are useful. They would be for a front end developer. I have done full stack app development for enterprise where either the UI was minimal or it was done by a graphic designer on their team.

> I can't think of a single time when the ability to answer questions about the software they've written wouldn't have sufficed

I'm glad this is your experience. I would imagine this is the case too.
I bet you could do this pretty effectively with GitHub pages instead of a full blown Heroku app.
It's unfortunate they don't include any total numbers, just percentages, on the donut charts.
... or there's a hostile attack on your location that somehow manages to disturb GPS signals.
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This seems like the most obvious line of reasoning, I'm shocked it really isn't mentioned in the article.

It would be like asking for the split of ideologies for people writing articles in "Handgun Today". The very nature of the field implies an ideology.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539935
They are already jacking of the price with nonessential components by creating a smart TV. Why shouldn't they jack it a couple more dollars (because that's really the difference) to have on that responds quickly?
From d3js.org site I do get to this [1] (click the page number to to animate lines) not sure about the easing functionality however.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/09/us/yellen-fed-...
2014: still can't get married, can be fired for what I am, can't donate blood, still deal with homophobic comments online and in person, still don't see any non-stereotypical gay characters outside written fiction.

What's so special about 2014?
Planout: A framework for online field experiments
I did a little digging for context, and: go fuck yourself.
I've been looking at this AMD-based barebones machine with dual LAN:
newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107110

Reviews suggest pfsense runs well, and with 4GB RAM and a decent SSD one could probably run snort and squid as well. Probably about $330 all assembled.
At over $1b valuation, Slack has priced itself out of the M&A market for awhile.
"Everyone is stupid, except me." - Homer Simpson
I think it's genetic :) Some people are "code pack rats". They're afraid to delete anything.
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Ha Diaper bags do suck
>Fascism, communism, nazism, socialism, etc, are subsets of leftism/statism.

Now you are just changing the definitions to suit your agenda. I see no point in the further discussion.
> people that might not be able to set it up otherwise

And also people who want it, are able to set it up, but would prefer to pay someone else to do it for them. Lots of useful services simply deliver something that people want, could do themselves, but prefer not to. Like and email providers and restaurants.

The valuation "sounds high", but they've shown that they can deliver a product that many users love and many individuals businesses will pay actual money for. I was shocked when I read the amount, but at least they sell a product!
I really enjoyed this. It lays out in some very accessible ways, the challenges of getting into space. The recoverability of the Falcon9 will cut its costs dramatically as it reduces the cost of the launch by several tens of millions of $. I'll mention on-orbit refueling as well since you don't need recoverability per-se if you can refuel in orbit. Then your Mars lander / Crew Module can launch with enough fuel to get to Low Earth orbit, refuel, and then head out to Mars.

Air launched (Skylon, Pegasus, Et alia) are also interesting, laser boosting (using lasers to add energy during the initial launch) would also help. As Elon points out though, a multi-gigawatt laser for boost to orbit is impractical both from a construction standpoint and a diplomatic stability standpoint.

If the quantity of water on the moon is accurate, then it should be possible to create a 'refinery' on the Moon which could more easily get material into Earth orbit. We'll see though if we can get a group established there.

I had hoped to visit the Moon at some point (I was assured by NASA in my youth that would be able to :-)) but I don't expect that to come to pass unless something amazing changes.
Why does it matter? Because of intolerance.

The tech community needs a good hard look in the mirror. Most of us are white, straight and male.
Yeah they should definitely fix this. I don't think it's a very useful product without a good native client.
Ah, that's very interesting (re: RFC)! Do you have any links?
Aline, this is a fantastic article. I agree with many of the points in principle, but I don't agree with the outcome. I believe a model where candidates pay 3rd parties for precise jobhunting help is economically rational, and can work - it's effectively what we're doing at http://offerletter.io.

Here's where you and I diverge:

1) Yes, engineers and other in-demand workers have ready access to jobs. I remember when I was looking for a good engineering job out of Amazon, I was basically spammed nonstop by virtually every party on the planet.

2) But the opportunity cost for poor job selection is enormously high. The difference between choosing between a good startup on good terms, and a less-good startup on less-good terms, can literally mean the difference between retiring 20 years early having your work used by millions of people, and just puddling around for a few years with, say, the occasional PyCon lightning talk for visibility.

At http://offerletter.io , we are doing precisely this - we are getting paid by engineers, designers and PMs for value added - in this case, during the negotiation process. Our team of Advisors guides candidates on the "last-mile" of offer selection and negotiation in exchange for a cut of the increase.

It makes too much sense - there's massive information asymmetry during the process, companies are full of shit, and many people outside of "the club" - however you choose to define it - just don't know what they're worth, or how to get it. While we can't justify charging the $10k-$30k that recruiters make, the incentives are still incredibly strong for us to do what we do.

And of course there's the ethical and human component, which is very strong - I tried more traditional recruiting for a while and just raw selling of companies is so tiring. I like helping people first - all of the Advisors do.
How long until they put messaging back within the fb app?
My problem is when your religion encroaches on my life or on others. Their backwards out-dated religious views influence policy in education, health care, and civil rights. Not to mention the countless acts of religious violence and hate that take place daily all across the world. That is why I am adamantly anti-theist and not afraid to admit it.
A while back, I came to the same conclusion as Facebook's iOS engineers for some apps that I work on. I based the model layer of the apps on Github's Mantle: https://github.com/Mantle/Mantle

Facebook's implementation probably ended up looking somewhat similar.
export PATH=./bin:$PATH

Am I the only one who thinks adding this to your login scripts is a terrible idea?
Vast, vast majority use twitter.com or the Twitter mobile apps.
> it is not the main WebCore repository's job to keep tags or branches around for specific versions of iOS that Apple distributes.

They're all at http://trac.webkit.org/browser/tags/. You can map from the LC_SOURCE_VERSION baked into one of WebKit's frameworks back to one of those tags.
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