skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps and it hurts.

As GauntletWizard gets into, it helps when individuals asked (by individuals or circumstance) to be bad feel like they'd be doing something wrong and unusual, which people are less likely to do than things they just feel are wrong.

It hurts when people who have already decided to do bad things exploit it.
FWIW, I think this is a really cool idea. When I was trying to imagine use cases, most of them involved a project being generated on only one stack. Mobile apps are the only exception I can think of. Do you expect that most people will only generate their project once, on a single stack?
What country that has been considered a world power hasn't participated in the same level of "evil"? The whole "power corrupts" thing isn't an American problem it is a problem with human nature.
Good news :)

For Microsoft though, doesn't this mean (ironically) loss of business, because many people will no longer have a reason to run Windows?
Ever heard of PPStream or PPTV? Well, good news is that both software open some sort of transparent http proxy listening on 0.0.0.0, obviously it's for helping the p2p.

Hint: port 9415
I understand that it's policy to change the URLs to the original source, but in this case I feel the EFF article was a better discussion piece.
A great example of the difference between mindshare and marketshare
I'd like a comically aggressive wake-up-call service. Like, they show up at my house and throw water on me if I try to sleep in.
I'll bite. From one troll account to another.

It's interesting when someone from Switzerland claims the moral high ground about a country's past wrongs. Switzerland has a colorful history of Nazi collaboration and laundering of stolen treasure by the 3rd Reich.

Is that an unfair characterization of you as a modern Swiss person? Yes.

Just like comparing 1960s America to the present day. The U.S. may not live up to the ideals that are plastered over it's monuments, but it's certainly not contributing to your demise (whatever that means).

> Just leave. Go to ...

Spoken like a true Swiss. No, we all don't have the spare funds or network of employers to travel to a different country at will. Not to mention, SV is the epicenter of venture capital in software, not Zurich. Who are the VCs who would fund a startup's relocation to Zurich?

> contributing to a government

You can be forgiven for this, but U.S. citizens are perpetually bound to pay taxes even when residing abroad. The first $90k is forgiven, but the next must be taxed. Oh, and the state (e.g. California) doesn't play by these rules; it takes the full amount.
I love seeing new attempts at creating a community for game developers, but I see one issue right now - the site seems to have no apparent benefit over http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev, which has already more than 110,000 subscribers. Where do you guys see the advantage?
How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider ‘Music’
The advice I was given was to read a favorite children's book like Harry Potter as you will sort of know the gist of what the passage is suppose to mean and can use that to bootstrap the words in the language you don't know.
One star reviews flood monument valley following paid expansion release
Obamacare isn't really good for anyone except the self-employed and underemployed. The bottom-of-the-barrel unsubsidized O-care option in CA for a family is about $650/mo.
Why is this not just a reskin & slight modification of 2048?
Tom, that most likely wasn't us.

We don't spider retailer websites. That means we don't follow links or go hardcore on building a database of products.

We hit your website:

* if someone has asked us information about a product url

* when we place an order

* weekly for regression tests

Ping us on contact@ and we're more than happy to jump on a call and describe exactly what we're doing. Most of the time we're completely un-noticeable except for the fact that you're getting more orders.

We know for sure nobody is spidering through us.
Those type of event loops are for Win32 API GUI applications.

Server applications like a async socket server use IOCP, a kernel based type of event loop that is highly performant and scalable. And by the way, the .NET CLR already uses them at its core for sockets and other types of I/O.
Europe is less desperate? I don't think so, unless you're only counting about five countries as being Europe.

Spain has 30% real unemployment. France's economy hasn't grown in ten years in inflation adjusted terms, and is suffering hyper stagnation; it has averaged sub 1% nominal GDP growth for that time. Italy is on its third recession in seven years. Portugal is so relatively poor their middle class would barely qualify as poor in the US. Greece is a total economic disaster still.

The Netherlands, Ireland, and Denmark are the three most indebted countries on earth per capita compared to income. Lavish spending today to fake prosperity, to be paid for tomorrow with lowered standards of living. The US has done plenty of that too, but it can more easily manage its debts than European nations can.

The total GDP of Europe is still below 2007 levels, and looks set to remain below that level for another ten years inflation adjusted. Pegging the European economy in effectively a 20 year depression.

Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech, Slovakia - you're telling me life is more desperate in the US, than in these countries? That's blatantly false.
I like this. How many people are on it now?
Hacker news karma jackpot! ~200 karma to 1800 in one link.
How does this impact the future growth and adoption of mono as an alternative open-source platform?
You are correct, and I am often guilty of this. Except today, when I was running on time for a lunch meeting, and the wind had knocked a tree into the road. There ARE exceptions....
"But in Haskell pure functions are guaranteed to have same result with same input." I'm pretty sure that same law applies to a pure function in any language, not just Haskell. #shitthatHNsays
Tilt and the future of crowdfunding
As a beginner I have a hard time understanding all these services that Amazon provides. I know I should probably be using them, but I don't know which one.
Probably they don't, because so much of the web has robots files like

User-Agent: established_company

Allow: /some-stuff

User-Agent: *

Disallow: /

# keeps out filthy peasants

And you're either stuck following them, and not having data that would be offered up for free if you were someone else, or being a bad person and ignoring it. You don't really see the services that follow the rules.

Also, good paper on how much being on robots.txt preferred helps, which makes you a better product, which makes you more preferred...

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/paper/9230/4516
As best I can tell, it does not do any key management. No reference to terms like "Key" or "HierarchicalKey" at all. My guess is that you have to give it the addresses you own, and it detects if payment has been made to them. Since it does not use "HierarchicalKey", bitcore's term for BIP32 extended keys, it probably requires that you constantly refill the address pool so it doesn't run out. Or it reuses them.

edit: I also just realized it depends on "bitcoin". It may rely on a running bitcoin core full node to handle the private keys.
I did. I noticed it was a lot of high-class socialites using Uber to get around to their social events. Some golden nuggets from the article itself

> on weekends, preppily dressed crowds wait patiently for sandwiches from Eggslut.

> At the Mandrake, a bar he co-owns near Culver City, customers may be more likely to order a third cocktail when they know they can be whisked home safely; he certainly is.

> A night out in Los Angeles used to involve negotiating parking, beating traffic and picking a designated driver. Excursions from one end to the other — say, from the oceanfront city of Santa Monica to the trendy Silver Lake neighborhood on the eastern side — had to be planned and timed with military precision, lest they spiral into a three-hour commute. More often than not, they were simply avoided.

> On a recent night, she bounced from drinks at the Ace to dinner at a Roy Choi hot spot in nearby Koreatown then more drinks at a new bar in West Hollywood. “I can just, like, YOLO with Uber,” she said.

> Still, the fares can add up. Ms. Schoenhals, co-author of the satirical novel “White Girl Problems,” based on the popular Twitter account, subsidizes her Uber habit in digital-age fashion. The company offers credit to people who sign up new riders, so she gives out promotional codes to her 812,000 Twitter followers. “I just keep riding Uber for free,” she said gleefully.

None of that remotely qualifies as emergent behavior of any kind.
I am excited about the prospects, but fear that it will only serve to further widen the rift between the rich and the poor.
Interesting but why the need for web scraping? If the retailers saw the monetary benefit of this wouldn't they go out of their way to provide you the data directly and an API as well?
also check out
http://cloudnative.io

instead of using rolling updates, it's a blue-green deploy -- essentially what netflix does. it also automates ami building, triggered by a jenkins plugin after a successful test run.
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Part of the myth is that the US is actually democratic. A democracy is supposed to be 'rule of the people', as opposed to aristocracy, 'rule of the elite'.

What you have in the US is a system where politicians are all either elites in society, or vetted by elites. Where they manage to convince or coerce a 'big enough' group of people to vote for them (ie. half or just over half of voters that actually turn out, which is a subset of the population). Once they're in power, they don't rule on behalf of the people, they rule on behalf of the elites that funded their campaigns. They toe the party line, and within each party is a group of elite 'thinkers' - none of whom are elected, but nevertheless direct the party.

Democracies are also supposed to represent minorities and the 'common folk'. 'Rule of the people' implies a need to either involve the people directly, or rule on their behalf, yet in the US there is a decided animosity towards the people.

In your most recent elections, 36.6% of voters turned out. Once you tally the possible margins of victory, this means that it's possible that you are now ruled by politicians that less than 20% of eligible voters actually voted for. And I wonder what percentage of the population takes part in party primaries? How representative is the US' democracy?
Sure there are languages that transpile to C, but they don't run as well as hand written C. I wasn't saying that compilers couldn't write C, I was saying they couldn't do it better than a human.
Typewriters are back, and we have Edward Snowden to thank
> Oh, and the Nvidia binary drivers for the graphics card in this box.

With NVIDIA drivers you probably have at least some LLVM compiled components (or will have, once their transition has been completed in future generations), but I give you that one. As a GPGPU developer for example, you probably soon can't get around LLVM anymore and I expect its influence to grow in the Linux world, as it has become the default choice to build new OSS compiler / language projects around.

I'm using DDG myself btw. - Google is the main one I'd like to get away from, but as you wrote it's very hard. At least DDG with "g!" prefix makes me anonymous to them.

What I still find very hard to replace is Skype and/or Hangout - I'm not aware of an OSS solution that works on all platforms and that I can easily set up with all kinds of peers (including non computer literate). Even Hangout is way too complicated, even for aged computer scientists I've found. And I'm really using all of it - VoIP, video conferencing, Skype-Out, screen sharing, messaging. This is the main thing I'd like to replace since we're handing out so much control to this tool.
Taiwan, the country that only exists because the US lets it?
Not really, we're not building a product catalog.

We're fetching the live data only for the products requested via an URL. Two Tap mimics a consumer visiting the retailer and getting that info for themselves which also allows retailers to retain their analytics layer with no negative impact.

Our current supported stores span the top 500 as well as a number of specific integration requests.
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I get that. And that, compared to the terrorism threat, communism was a real issue. It didn't look like we were winning, and there really were people on foreign government's payroll in the US. The problem is the ends didn't justify the means, because they were wrong.

I do consider myself patriotic, but we have to fess up when we get things so wrong.
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The US will tax you after the first $90k, but you can deduct your foreign paid taxes, so this is only a problem if you live in Singapore, Hong Kong, or Switzerland where the income tax rate is lower (housing deductions can help after this point, though).

California is crazy in how they handle overseas expats.
L10ns: Solve your internationalization problem
Dash, an API and Documentation Browser
Obamacare has also been a huge benefit to people with pre-existing health conditions. It's also been a huge benefit to the many uninsured who were picked up in the Medicaid expansion.

The private plans for the self-employed/underemployed do suck though. Eventually the country needs to dump the foolishness of employer-based private insurance into some more mature, rational, and responsible approach to universal healthcare, but for now it's sadly the best we could manage.
They also just added support for Dart:
https://plus.google.com/+SethLadd/posts/YBVePQ6SZGJ (screenshot)
> Let's all hope the best technology wins.

I'd settle for a coherent community using adequate technology. There's always a better solution.
Read the article, looking for the download link to the open sourced code. Is is bundled with the VS2015 preview (4.4GB iso)? If not, were and how can we access the code?
Knowing several people at apple and microsoft, I definitely get the impression that at apple, very few people know about a product. At microsoft everybody knows and "contributes".

Maybe you're right about committees at apple, but I think they're at least a lot smaller than committees at their competitors.
Ouch. This pricing is pretty rough for SaaS sold on the premise of cloud scalability.

At $200/month for the entry level, their lowest price is many times what the cheapest geo-replicated "SQL engine as a service" from Google or Microsoft is. I'm not sure how the performance differs, but I am guessing theirs are no slouches.

Microsoft offers "SQL Database" geo-replicated for as low as $15/mo., and it scales up from there. Not sure about performance, but it would be apples to oranges (MySQL versus SQL Server) and difficult to compare. I wonder what the TPC numbers are, but apparently the TPC organization doesn't allow publishing that yet.

Google offers "Google Cloud SQL", also geo-replicated, and their cheapest pricing is between $10 and $18 dollars a month.
Onboarding: “Your users don't care about your product as much as you do.”
Unimaginable? You couldn't have set up an email account for her? I'm not saying more accessible communication is not good but the unimaginable part is a bit of stretch.
> We were born into this system and we never agreed to it.

This is akin to complaining about being born a human, or with two arms, or a white boy.
> My OS is my IDE...

That doesn't necessarily invalidate the parent's statement "the lack of a great IDE with powerful refactoring, debugging, test runner integration etc".
I'm not Swiss, I'm American.

The Swiss provided a service to the Jews in Germany and helped hide their money from the nazis. Unfortunately most of their customers were killed... If I lived in a country with a corrupt or evil government I would try to move my money to Switzerland too, but the u.s. Is making it increasingly difficult to conduct finance anonymously.

Based on your other comments... I'm not sure if you're aware of the rest of the world. ETH is on par with MIT and EPFL is high up there as well. There is a good start up community here in Zurich, but it's true that VC isn't as advanced here - it's still mostly angel investors. Google has a big office here and it seems to be adding to the enovironment.

But I'm not sure if Silicon Valley is a good goal. I've live and worked there for startups and two big mainstream companies and have no desire to go back that desperate life.
Which Generation Understands Patriotism to It's Core?
thanks for the confirmation. how do you get the product URL in the first place?
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Right now, mobile seems to be the "exception". However, when you're thinking of other, "less common" stacks, like cloud-based Desktop applications or Browser extensions, new use cases become evident.

Furthermore, we're getting more and more stacks right now, such as wearables and sooner or later AR/VR devices/platforms - hence, the need for such as cross-platform tool will certainly increase. Plus, we also make developing single stack apps easier/less painful, so even then it will (hopefully ;) ) be helpful for people.
No one in particular, this article just brought the thought to mind.
Ha! I like that. Never thought of it that way.
Correct. Though many languages don't encourage and as a result don't have nearly as many pure functions as Haskell code.
Does that happen in every case for every piece of technical evidence?
The people whose lives are being "ruined" are those who can't get a home because the housing stock is being converted into part time rental and those who thought they were living in a residential zone but who have permanent part-time housing nearby.

(those who live next door to a neighbor who rents out the place once in a while aren't having their lives "ruined").

You can say it's fair or unfair or simply the way of the market but this kind of disruptive turmoil can run peoples' lives. The buggy whip makers' children had to suffer unless the buggy whip makers diversified too.

Personally I have sympathy for the people in my first paragraph above. For hotels in general...less so.
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Back in grad. school in Classics the professors called students who depended on the inter-text translations the "Loeb Rangers."

Also, while it's true that you're better off learning Attic first, learning some Koine can give some the vocab. and conceptual grounding in the inflections to get a handle on Attic, so long as you don't stick with Koine for years it's not such a bad approach.
> The only super legit argument I've heard in favor of _not_ using templates or avoiding them in general is because of the code generation bloat

And even then, it's important to recognize that bloat is a relative measure. If you use just one instantiation of a template, you're not paying for multiple versions of the code.

If, on the other hand, you use multiple instantiations, the code will be bloated compared to, say, a single type-erased version— but will not be any bigger than if you had written several "instantiations" of the same code by hand. There's a tradeoff to be made, too, since a statically-typed version of a function will probably be faster than a type-erased version.

Anyway, w.r.t. bloat, templates aren't the problem; static polymorphism is (can be). Templates are just a way of implementing static polymorphism.
Such third party apps often have their dev keys revoked for offering such features.
> believe in life extension and immortality

What does this "believe" mean, though? That one trusts that these advances will happen? Think they should happen? Wish fervently that they would happen? All of the above?

I do not think people would say they "believe in personal hovercrafts", just that they would like personal hovercrafts to exist, or expect they will (or won't) someday exist, or think they ought to already exist, etc.

Diction choices such as the "believe" above are why transhumanism has always struck me as quasi-religious (specifically millenarian) in character.

But then again, maybe when you're talking about (potentially indefinite) life extension, there's no way to avoid the millenarian flavor. Literal immortality! Not in some heavenly sphere, but here in our own galaxy! How could you not get all millenarian about such a heady thing?
http://longbets.org/362/

http://fortune.com/2014/02/05/buffett-widens-lead-in-1-milli...
I think you completely missed the point of why I pointed out an example of another side effect. :/

I'm going to drop it.
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While not usable in practice, it was well written educational piece. Thank you!

Took me a while to compile (gcc 4.8.3 on cygwin64, had to add -std=c++11 -fpermissive)
That's the app developer's responsibility.
Here is a similar one

www.wavemaker.com/

and this

visualwebgui.com/
Maybe -- the additional labor overhead needed to maintain OpenStack might negate the cost savings of running your own equipment.
Well, rules in anarchy have to come from consensus of the people. So the only rules, in practice, are those that the people are willing and able to enforce against those who wish to break them.

History shows that, in anarchy situations, those who wish to break the rules are sometimes highly motivated and well armed. Thus anarchy at least means "no rules that apply to a warlord when he really wants them not to".

Now, one could argue that that is essentially the situation with the US government now. But the well-armed warlords tend to show considerably less restraint than the US government does.
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from the blog post:

> Fortunately, Intel solved this problem… for the hyperspecific case of AES. Newer Intel CPUs (and also other vendors including ARM) now provide a fast, constant-time implementation of AES in hardware.

Others have pointed to particular aspects of Intel hardware that they don't believe are 'backdoored', for some definition of backdoored. One point some of these comments appear to be missing is that using things like AES-NI typically also means using things like RDRAND.

Whether you think there's any relationship between Intel's Bull Mountain and NSA'S BULLRUN is up to you, but at the end of the day, the only way any of us can know for sure whether RDRAND uses DUAL_EC_DRBG is to:

1) decide to take Intel at their word about RDRAND using only CTR_DRBG, or

2) undertake some difficult and probably-expensive hardware forensics to find out
Apparently ms. Swift made ~$500k USD in revenue from Spotify. That's equivalent to 50000 records. She sold over 1 million records.

Given that one has to agree it's a near-certainty that Spotify eats into record sales at least a bit ... so her position certainly makes sense.
I'm the CEO of Slickage. This was released a few months ago and I'm personally sorry for the downtime of demo. I hope people like it!
As someone who has started a business, that's insane. Of course you should worry about what your operating costs will be in 3-5 years.

If you don't need to swallow a potential poison pill that could seriously impact your maneuverability at a critical juncture (yes, that includes 3-5 years in), WHY would you?