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Then where are the fixes? They spend untold billions per year... their visible bugfix output is very low, including in low level cryptographic domains that you might expect them to be power-houses.

The claim makes me think either that they're lying about sharing what they find (either intentionally or via institutional stupidity); or they're really inept and not finding much at all compared to much less well funded OSS developers and participants in industry.

It would be interesting for someone to setup a scorecard site to document NSA's infosec contributions.
Why wouldn't time move backwards for the entire universe?
If it does, there can be no record of any future event and
there is no way to determine that time is moving backwards.
If time moved backwards in one spot, what about all the information connected to that spot.
Why wouldn't that information rollback too?
Ironically this is the perfect place to rub it into. How many HNers have the latest iPhone or some current gen Android phone?
Did prison work? I mean, will he go out and think "piracy is bad!"? If not, then what was the point?
I agree that a prototype /= traction, but it is a necessary step to get traction. I understand that marketing/sales are necessary to expose the product to target users, but a prototype allows founders to reiterate based on feedback to build what people want.

I agree with your rule of thumb too. One analogy that best described it IMO goes something like, "Investors are there to throw gas on the fire, not ignite it."
Hey Grace! Are you providing end of year reporting for tax purposes of the contributions?
I am working on an iPad application that generate Apple Watch applications through a "Drag and Drop" interface.

Current prototype use Objective-c and Parse.

Since programmation is no magic, I always wondered if I could create an engine that generate native application on the fly. I built a quick prototype containing a tableview filled from an API with a detail page.

It worked so well that I am now working night and weekends to build a complete engine and a builder.
Fondly, I was amazed at its scope. Too much too early I guess. The only viable market at the time was high end businesses (I remember a famous demo of an in-browser car design vrmlet: colors, coating). But it was a niche.
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> jsx attribute renaming (ex. className="foo" => class="foo")

That annoys everybody. It's that way because the JSX attributes map directly onto the DOM attributes which in turn are named that way to avoid ES3 reserved keywords. It's supposed to be less magic/surprising but far more people interact with JSX (e.g. designers) than work with raw DOM manipulation.
"they have been vegetarians centuries longer than the hipsters"

The implication here seems to be that tradition is a valid justification for beliefs and practices, whereas personal ethics are not; and indeed, anyone pursuing the latter is worthy of stereotyping and derision.

To put this thought in other terms: In the context of contemporary culture, wouldn't you call the Buddha a "hipster"?
@mjhea0 thanks. That's interesting. Will definitely take a look at it.
The painful what-if that haunts 'Ghostbuster' Ernie Hudson
Thomas from Watsi here! When we were initially building the recurring donation feature, we experimented with using Stripe's recurring billing functionality, but we ended up building our own monthly charging (still through Stripe's API). Stripe's feature is more designed for fixed-price "plans" that folks can sign up for - i.e., SaaS products, rather than the Universal Fund's pick-your-own-amount recurring charge.
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Ending United Pixelworkers After Nearly 5 Years
I do. I had assignments in VRML when doing my BSc degree, I remember doing a SMB clone in 3D. I don't have very good memories from that period...
There's a lot more money to be made domestically by legalization, when it comes to corporate profits, than there is in prohibition.

The beer companies proved that the last time around.

If legalization were decided by corporate profits, the war on drugs would have ended a long time ago. Big pharma would love nothing more than to hand out all sorts of prescription drugs over the counter. Big ag farms would love nothing more than to grow and sell pot.

It's blatantly obvious that corporate profits are in fact not the issue.

Right now, a lot of that money is outside the country, in the hands of cartels, middle-men, etc. That could be mostly brought home, and it would bolster corporate profits tremendously, to the tune of billions in profit per year.
Maybe the key use case initially is to keep charged things like remote controls, sensors, other Internet of Things.
There's no metering (https://scrape.it/tour2) so you can create as many web scrapes as you want. Scrape.it constantly monitors each job to make sure the data extraction doesn't get interrupted when website changes. Should the website change, your jobs get updated automatically to continue working.
Do you find yourself injecting controller names often? I've never needed or wanted to do that...
That's the biggest issue with their growth right now. Salesforce has done a great job in marketing that it can "do anything"... provided you can build it yourself and get around all the developer platform limitations. I used to do Salesforce consulting and custom development, won their hackathon in 2009, worked with many companies on internal tools and apps and am so happy to be out of that game now.
I know this is going to get massive downvotes, but it really comes down to this decision:

Are you willing to potentially (under non-trivial odds) sacrifice your child's health in some serious, potentially life-altering way, in order that the whole community will be helped in some amorphous fashion?

Whether pro- or anti-vaccination, that's really the question.

You can put emphasis more heavily on the first or the second part as your biases and experiences warrant, but that's still the question.
"After the verdict, ​Neij moved to Laos"

Strange timing. He was just arrested:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pirate-bays-fredrik-neij-caught-tha...
The only such feature is that YC alumni usernames are displayed in orange to other alumni. This is one of the two things that HN gives to YC; the other is /jobs.

I'm admittedly a bit sensitive to charges of favouritism on HN because we put so much effort into trying to be even-handed, even though (a) it's impossible to balance these things perfectly, (b) it's hard to measure whether we're getting it right, and (c) some people won't believe what we say anyhow. For what it's worth, the corresponding complaint on the other side (i.e. among YC founders) is that HN is biased against them.
Wow. That looks inspired by a helicoptor's swashplate driven from the rotor side. Always fun to see an alternative engine design.
Hundreds of Companies Seen Cutting Tax Bills by Sending Money Through Luxembourg
So you do simply disagree with their moral values, rather than believing morals should be cast aside when people around you hold different ones. That is what I figured.

But surely you can see why vegans, who do believe animals' rights are very important, would not see any more merit to your advice than you would to advice that encouraged you to abandon your deeply held values because they're inconvenient.
> Source: the Camel book

> [citation needed]

You didn't have a citation on your own quote when I responded to yours without a citation. Perhaps you should have written "Whoops, I neglected to add the source of my quote when you replied but have done now. I can't, however, find the source of yours -- where did you get it?".

As for my quote about the acronym of BCPL being a premonition of the languages after it, I read it somewhere sometime before 1997 which was the last time I programmed in Perl.
https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...

They moved away from client-side rendering. Quoting:

There are a variety of options for improving the performance of our JavaScript, but we wanted to do even better. We took the execution of JavaScript completely out of our render path. By rendering our page content on the server and deferring all JavaScript execution until well after that content has been rendered, we’ve dropped the time to first Tweet to one-fifth of what it was.
The demo comes directly from the msdn, which is also funny. A cool feature would be the ability to rate the code snippet, and then searches could be filtered by rating. For snippets from websites with voting features, like Stack Overflow, it could display the number of votes, and maybe the comments for the snippet, or the rest of the post text. Often I don't want to just know "what code does X" but "how to do X".

Seems like the search could be better anyways. The StackOverflow result for that example is from a post with 4 other (more useful) examples, but it picks the last one. It was also not the selected Answer for that post.

This is still really cool, even in it's current state, I think I will find it useful.
It's an impressive product, there's no doubt about it. I just happened to be looking for a WYSIWYG like tool for scraping a page for changes. This seems more like a commercial grade product than a home user hobby haha nice site btw!
No apologies are needed. In English, you can verb any noun (http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:verb)
This is ripe for resellers to move in and make some dough.
It just boggles the mind how perversely government logic looks here. So Alaskans say: we are OK with people using marijuana, we see no problem with it. And then the Feds come and say - well, we are still going to arrest and imprison you if you do it, despite the clear will of the people of Alaska, because we can. We know we don't actually change anything as we absolutely can not prevent people of Alaska from using marijuana, but we still will prosecute random people unlucky enough to be caught by us in Alaska while doing the thing completely legal and OK in Alaska, because that's what we do.
Show HN: Origodb async prototypes using akka.net, disruptor and tpl dataflow
> If not, then what was the point?

"He went to jail for piracy? I better stop pirating!"
Possibly, but she can't modify the code of S3 and whereas she can modify the unikernel as much as she wants. Only at this moment, the static pages are enough.

Storing something on S3 has order of magnitude less hacker points than doing this.
Show HN: Chitta – a mood-tracking microjournal that comes to you
Chitta makes it easy to understand your life's patterns and takes the trouble out of remembering to make entries. Capture thoughts throughout the day, see graphs of your mood over time, and search for a cool thought from months ago.

Note you have to download the app to sign up!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chitta/id917701097

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Clustering reactmq with akka-cluster
Yeah, Salesforce might just be the best of these types of systems. But even then, it is the best-dressed clown at the circus. Unless you have a really simple business model, you should probably just build a custom app.
Where is the main site to this ascii game?
28 is still young, particularly if you don't yet have kids. Go for it. Starting a company will only get harder as you have more responsibilities later in life.
Can you find something in-between? E.g. try to find a part-time job, so you can earn just enough without dipping into savings. Then spend that extra time on your side projects.
Logically, that requires the assumption that your decision to eat meat will not influence how much meat will be farmed in the future.

"Wasting" food when you're trying to send a signal not to produce so much of one type of food is not really waste.
Controller was just an example. I remember at one point I wanted to inject a value, and its name was "Foo", but the DI loader (whatever it's called) kept wanting to turn that into "FooProvider". There was no way to say -- no, the name is just Foo! It's not a shorthand for some other thing!

And like I say, no way to check that you've fixed the problem except reloading your whole app and waiting for it to show you an error, or not.
Money is not my only issue. Bullshit jobs are also bothering me, as well as the fact that I'm forced to deal with such inefficient and stupid entities on a daily basis. Banking, shopping, whatever else - you can't hide from the large companies stupidity.
Here in Vancouver, BC, it seems to be treated as being de facto legal.

You can walk into a dispensary, make an appointment with their in-house naturopath and claim to have any of a long list of medical conditions which includes insomnia, digestive problems etc. As long as the naturopath signs off on a form stating that you have told them you have a condition that is on the list - you are eligible for membership at the dispensary with no prescription necessary.

Within 5 blocks of my house there are two such dispensaries, one of with is renting a retail unit that used to belong to a high-end salon, so essentially anyone can head on in to a clean, safe store and choose from a wide variety of cannabis products.

Obviously we still have the problems caused by criminalized marijuana to some extent (criminal records preventing employment, wasted resources etc.) but it's impressive how far things have come without decriminalization actually passing into law.
aktau, your HN account appears to be dead. I'm guessing it's because this comment of yours was posted multiple times.
Yeah! Every month, donors receive an email introducing them to the patient they supported, which serves as a tax receipt for that month's contribution. We also aggregate tax receipts for every Watsi donor and send them out at the end of the year for easy reporting.
Yep, I worked at a VRML startup in the 90s..
Braintree Now Lets Merchants in Europe Sign Up with an Email, a URL and a Blurb
I'm very surprised that they still maintain that all their income from advertising went to pay for their hosting infrastructure. TPB were hosted by PRQ which were owned by Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Any bills PRQ sent them would be them paying themselves.

That part of the story is really fishy to me. TPB has roughly the same type of advertising as one of the many porn tube sites. But a porn tube visitor easily costs the site tens of megabytes in streaming video while a torrent tracker only has to serve a few 10-30kb large torrent files. Yet the tube sites appear to be able to make some money, but TPB with less than 1% of the bandwidth costs/visitor couldn't?
Soon Fredrik Neij will join him. He was arrested in Thailand yesterday and will be transferred to Sweden in a couple of weeks.
It's not a data store, but doesn't Meteor's functionality set get you pretty close to the same thing? You can essentially build the same type of behaviors on top of Meteor as you can with Firebase.
Thanks for the ideas. There is a small group that organizes mixers around here, I'll make an effort to get out there again and network.
historically this is what we called "chambre de bonne" (servants room). It used to not include showers or toilets, which could be found in the corridors ( one for all the rooms on the floor).
In the 60s and 70s it became more and more used by students that could still go to their parent's appartment. Then in the 90s it became rearranged more and more to be used as a regular appartment with all the equipment.

And during all those years, prices have only been rising. This video shows a flat that probably costs more than 500€ a month ( judging by the look of the street, it.s probably in an expensive neighbourhood).
That's unfair. The article starts off by referencing suicide rates; the website exists to argue against workplace iniquity rather than celebrate creative output.

It's actually reading the surrounding details of Xu's life deeper into the article, and particularly his poetry, that makes it abundantly clear that more was preying upon his mind than long hours and an institutional environment.
He gave a great talk on this at the HNLondon meetup in September 2013, he was a really engaging speaker as I recall.
Yeah, that's out of line. Appropriately, users killed the comment by flagging it (and the poster subsequently deleted it).

All: when you see a comment that is truly bad for Hacker News, you can flag it by clicking 'link' to go to that comment's page and then clicking 'flag'. We monitor these flags and take action based on them, and over the last few months have slowly introduced a system where enough user flags will kill comments. In such cases you should see "[flagkilled]" if you have showdead turned on in your profile.
Good catch (used Patio11 because off the top of my head can't think of other popular users by their handle).

Anyway, to me it seems that, with the rare exception, HN is pretty good in each submission being judged on its own.
I can imagine some scenarios where you would use a web scraper, but I'm curious; What are people actually using a web scraper for? Does anyone have one in production?
Nice to see Xamarin buying into the student software model. Will this be available to UK students?
As an RX8 owner (and enthusiast), I can tell you Wankel Rotaries aren't categorically better, or worse. They have strengths and weaknesses:

- The vast majority of rotaries will need a full rebuild before 100k - worse

- They rev to 10,000 RPM with an unbelievably smooth power delivery - better

- I'm lucky to see 22 mpg - worse

- The engine is so small and light that the RX8 has perfect 50/50 weight distribution - better

- If you turn the engine off before it's warm it can flood - worse

- 231 bhp from a 1.3 litre engine? - better

Oh, and the noise - BETTER!

I do believe with more time and money invested the Wankel Rotary could be better than a standard Otto Cycle IC engine in every way. But electric is the future now, so that won't realistically happen.
Can you describe what you mean by resellers?
The short answer is that they're difficult to seal and the combustion chamber shape is awful (it looks like a flattened figure eight in cross section).

It's super tempting as an engine designer to take something that works well as a fluid pump and try and turn it into an internal combustion engine. But sealing and lubricating a combustion engine is a much more difficult problem than sealing and lubricating, say, an oil pump. Plus, in order to meet emissions standards, you need to worry about things like flame propagation and avoid little nooks and crannies where unburnt fuel mixture is likely to hide.

Usually the limited success of these sorts of engine designs isn't a case of a mad genius being too far ahead of his/her time, but rather that the advantages, however compelling, don't make up for one or more fatal flaws.
Older LaTeX articles used postscript as their output format instead of PDF. These conversions look bad on screen for some technical reason; it'll probably still look good printed, though.
What business are you running, and how big is your current team? Just curious, as I've heard that Salesforce is probably overkill for most small businesses/startups.
Yay Watsi! I think this is a great extension to what you do.

For people who haven't tried the normal funding flow for Watsi - https://watsi.org/fund-treatments, directly funding someone's healthcare is an amazingly personal experience.

It literally costs you $10 to be part of changing someone's life and sometimes $100 to be the difference between them getting treatment or not. Making the donation recurring lowers the friction for someone to keep helping people if they had a good first experience.
Thank you so much. We are planning on a lite free version for the average individual early 2015.
I can relate to you quite a bit, at least in terms of feeling if not experience. I'm much better working for myself than anyone else and would prefer to quit my current job and start a personal project or startup and make a living that way. I have not done so yet, but I plan to before I'm 25.

My advice would be to not (yet) quit your day job until you achieve "ramen profitability" or perhaps a bit more.

My personal advice:

1. Look into various (legal) nootropic medications, and consider seeing a doctor. Some of your issues with attention may be a result of ADHD, sleep disorders, or other things. Relatively side effect-free drugs like modafinil and piracetam are worth trying, and if a doctor does diagnose you with some issue then you could look into more serious prescriptions. You may be surprised how work that was suddenly torturous to do is now neutral, or perhaps even enjoyable, after you make small changes to your health or mind. And be sure you're getting enough sleep.

2. Continue juggling both "jobs". Odds are your side project is not currently at some critical point where not working on it full time means it's doomed to fail. This means there's not a lot of risk from spending 10-30% of your time on the side project while keeping your day job, but there's a whole lot of risk from quitting your day job.
Is it just me or do these look a bit uncanny?
Vaccinations are the cornerstone of any eradication effort!

Further, there are people who can't get vaccinated for a variety of reasons (the CDC has a list here for various vaccines: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/should-not-vacc.htm). Those are the people that we need the herd immunity for.
Thanks for that feedback. I'm actually testing something similar to what you've described on a few projects, and will be able to write about it in the near future.
Ubuntu LXD: Not a Docker Replacement, a Docker Enhancement
Who were your typical Salesforce consulting and custom development clients? I may be wrong, but I would think that if you have enough money to spend on customisation for an app that doesn't even belong to you, it may be cheaper and more efficient in the long run to commission a custom built solution.
Google reveals it is developing a computer so smart it can program itself
Drop dead
I would say this, take your savings and double it before jumping in. Your going to realize that you might be spending more money then allotted for your project. Also make friends with internet marketers and such to help you raise awareness for your brand/company. I've made friends with startups and helped them get traction and they have hooked me up with their development knowledge (not work, just answers to questions) and such.

What's your plan if this doesn't work out? Hate to say it but just wanted you to think about it.
Today's xkcd http://xkcd.com/1443/
Before release iOS 8.1.1, last opportunity get Cydia to iOS 8.0 – 8.1
For simple web scraping, I find that kimonolabs.com does a perfectly fine job.
> all public github code

In RAM.
As far as I can tell, it's not a novelty, there has been other similar research. Gravity -> certain types of interaction theories -> restrictions of entropy -> time. That connection has been condensed into "gravity causes time". Bleh.

The article is making sweeping statements, as usual.

Physics undergrad here, done some advanced courses but not an expert on this stuff
We're having multiple conversations here...

I think western wealthy vegans don't have particularly strong morals or ethical values and are vegan for other elitist and classist reasons. I think if they were exposed to the real world they would have a more practical (and Buddhist) outlook on diet.

I don't think they particularly care about animal rights either. You can have a moral and ethical existence and still eat eggs and animal fat.
Could you comment on the verisimilitude of the benchmark parameters? I would expect in Facebook's production environment the number of active sockets would be hundreds or thousands of times greater than 400.