skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going by Paul Graham's "Blub" essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html), I'd say the problem is that languages like Go and Java are simply not high in the rankings when it comes to power.
I think it's more likely that Apple is simply interested in owning all apple.* domains. You can't predict what domains people are going to purchase (as seen in the latest episode of Last Week Tonight regarding former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg[0])

[0] http://www.amny.com/entertainment/mike-bloomberg-domains-reg...
Or people might not choose to exhibit borderline behavior out of rationality. That is, in the recent past, there were consequences for borderline behavior but the leverage of any single actor was no where near the leverage you are proposing.

If you read the wikipedia article, you will find that chilling effects are not only the result of vague laws and inconsistent enforcement but also the result of any legalistic behavior that might cause others to self-police or self-censor.

As for your assertions about universal surveillance, I find your position has a number of serious conditions:

1. It requires total surveillance of everyone.

2. It requires totally unambiguous laws and norms.

3. It requires total stasis of society.

4. It requires total faith in system by the governed population.

There are two major issues with this position:

1. Society must transition to this system somehow and survive.

2. People and systems in the material world are imperfect and we have no existence proof of any social system which achieves anywhere near the requisite levels of assurance.

I can only see this kind of system working in a society with 0 or 1 people in it. That is to say, I believe what you propose is impossible to enact by its very fundaments.

However, you continue to argue that attempting to create such a system is desirable. Due to this, I can only fathom that either:

1. You are a naive totalitarian.

2. You are a long-playing troll.

Because of this line of reasoning, I must conclude that the attempt to bring your proposed social system into being will not succeed and that the intermediate state will be much worse than the present state as totality will never be reached but concentration of power will corrupt.

If you insist that your proposed system is possible, how will you deal with dissenters such as myself who will refuse to live inside such a system? Doesn't the existence of dissent mean that you cannot reach totality? Or perhaps you believe that such a system can be made to accommodate dissent? What if the resistance is violent? Should the surveillance state kill anyone trying to resist its total surveillance, total laws, total stasis, and total faith? That would surely solve the dissent problem but perhaps the result would be neither stable nor pleasant...
Wow, huge points for effort :)
FAA rules require remote control aircraft operators to get permission from the airfield operator if within 3 miles of the airfield. Google could ask permission from themselves.

Google may still require FAA authorization for the drone flights as the FAA might not consider them "model aircraft"
#Zeno's_paradox
#infinitedivisibilityofmoney
There are numerous options for writing very scalable TCP servers on the JVM e.g. Vertx.

Then you have the option of using Java, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Python, Javascript or Groovy languages.
I might me misremembering it, but I think this was told in the documentary Stealing a Nation [1].

According to Wikipedia, there is a commissioner with the Foreign Office that acts as administrator, but that commissioner is directly appointed by the Queen [2].

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_a_Nation

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_British_India...
Lesson learned. Never make bad engineering puns lest you feel the wrath of the downvote onslaught.
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shrug

I think it has more to do with Apple not wanting anyone else to own TLDs with its name in it, then due to some legal requirement to register them all. In other words, they'd have done it anyway even if trademarks weren't a concer.
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For those wishing to catch up on the story, I made an archive of Swartz news: http://newslines.org/aaron-swartz/
Any idea why they didn't use libuv instead?
Or the Google helicopter or the Google zeppelin :-) I believe that Lockheed continues to have access as well. But if you read closely you would see that Google just took over operations, not authority. My guess (I've no way to see the actual agreement) is that NASA still has the authority to grant or deny landing rights.
> Non-citizens, too?

The general rule is that anyone, citizen and non-citizen, can make a FOIA request.[1] However, the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court only provides a guarantee to open access for US citizens when making a request of a federal agency. For requests of a state agency, only US citizens residing in that state are guaranteed open access.[2]

[1]: http://www.foia.gov/faq.html#who

[2]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/scotus-foils-foia-advo...
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I tend to agree. I use downvotes very rarely, and only for cases where I feel the comment adds nothing substantial to the conversation (so, comments that are essentially contentless).

One thing I do try to remember is to upvote comments that I disagree with, but are nonetheless well-argued or put an entirely reasonable point of view that however wrong I think it is still needs to be considered in the debate.
Likewise, forgetting a `.collect()` call in Rust code doesn't happen, because the compiler will tell you without fail when it's given an iterator but expects an array.
Okay, this is going to be controversial, but I have no problem whatsoever with moving people around like this, as long as: 1) the displaced people are adequately compensated for their loss, and 2) they are given freedom to move to a place where they can enjoy human rights and make an adequate living.

The right to occupy some specific geographic coordinates is not a human right.

This applies at every scale from a single building demolished to make way for a highway, to an entire country's worth of refugees.

So the big problem is not that Britain evicted the Chagossians and is refusing to let them back. That was just a case of eminent domain. The problem is that Britain and Mauritius never properly compensated them and didn't ensure that they could make a living in their new home.

If redistributing the profits from .io to these people would make goddess of justice smile, fine, let's do it. But enough with the "it's my ancestral home!" bullshit.

As the article mentions, the Chagossians weren't even the "native" or "original" population of the islands. The French had enslaved them and brought them there by force, and the rest were migrant workers from India. None of them had any right to claim those islands as their home, except that they happened to live there at the time when Britain decided to vacate the islands.

In fact, none of us have any right to claim any piece of real estate as our own. The law, of course, grants certain people certain rights with respect to land, for the sake of convenience and economic efficiency. But morally, it's all arbitrary. Why does it matter whether someone has lived on a piece of land for three generations or three hundred? What about nomadic peoples who claim a large swath of land but only use parts of it sporadically? Besides, virtually all habitable land on Earth has been conquered multiple times by different groups of people, all of whom might have some sort of claim on that land.

Whenever we hear about some group of people who complain that their house, village, country, etc. was taken from them, the location in question rarely has anything more than sentimental value for the oldest members of that group. What really matters are human rights (e.g. right to participate in the governance of whatever territory they happen to live in) and the ability to make a stable living. Without those, returning the land to them won't make their circumstances any better. Nostalgia doesn't put food on your table. On the other hand, once you have rights and a stable occupation, over time you learn to stop fussing about your location.

The idea that some people have some sort of god-given right to occupy some specific geographic coordinates has caused so much bloodshed, unnecessary grief, and opportunity for ideologues to take advantage of innocent people throughout human history. Can't we just stop doing that already?
>The team concluded that a collision of two bubble universes would appear to us as a disk on the CMB with a distinctive temperature profile.

we don't expect them to be real bubbles with real walls, don't we? Thus, once the collision happened, the Universes get entangled, and, continuing the expansions, the matter/space from each other should continue penetrating deeper and deeper into each other (like 2 garbage trucks colliding in slow motion). So it should be not just CMB temperature disk - looking at that direction we'd be actually looking at matter/space from the other Universe.
http://xkcd.com/576/ I think was first.
I was very excited, it's a project I've been wanting to do for years but never had the time (or better yet, something I've wanted to use, but it never existed). Then I got to the downloads. Great, an Ubuntu version... which is just the Windows version bundled with WINE except they modified WINE... and in the README they warn that it really only works with Ubuntu x32 and that you shouldn't have WINE already installed. Right. Why they expect people to still run x32 in 2014 is a mystery to me, but these guys do. And I already have WINE installed.

At this point I started to feel really bad about giving this my root password (the readme said it would prompt for it), it all just sounds super hacky. Also the instructions to place it in my home directory... why, doesn't it work elsewhere? What kind of epic hack is this? No, I don't think I trust this with root permissions.
Sooo... what? This is easily the third or fourth time this has been linked to in Hacker News. What relevance does it have to anything? Everyone who uses .io domains are horrible, insensitive people? Those who use .me domains should be forever ashamed of the various human rights violations of the Montenegrin government in 1995? Anyone who uses bit.ly is basically insulting the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing? Etc. etc. It's just stupidity, and given the vast numbers of gTLDs which are coming online every day, completely forgotten about relatively shortly.
Rename it to Almost Mayo, and they've got no problems!
I try to keep up with most things ruby and I have never heard it discussed in a ruby context
Don't forget it has a comments system and tracks the peers of 6 million torrents.
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>And then you encounter things like this by Senator Ted Cruz:

The biggest regulatory threat to the Internet is "net neutrality."

In short, net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet. It puts the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service, and what types of products and services can be delivered, leading to fewer choices, fewer opportunities, and higher prices for consumers.

The Internet should not operate at the speed of government

>How does one even begin to engage with people that find this in any way intellectually valid?

>It doesn't even make sense and yet I have family that shares his status.
A well written article, interspersed with great art. Makes me wonder why he published it on Medium of all places.

This article deserved better. The author deserves recognition.
This is how I train athletes - very scientific, algorithmic, and so forth. We measure literally everything we can with force plates, EMG sensors, high-speed biomechanical video analysis, etc. Yet this technique is still mostly looked down upon by the usual suspects. Fortunately, the top tier of the athletics world is moving in this direction.
I worked in industrial nitrogen/oxegen generator provider, and it is not really rocket science to do this. All we had to do was finding optimized pressure and substance for gas distillation.
The US has poured tens of billions into cancer research, and much more globally.. is money really the biggest limiting factor?
Apple did introduce optional GC into its Mac OS X runtime. It received little uptake and was subsequently removed because Apple and its developer base realized ARC was the better solution.

If your code is leaking because of reference cycles, maybe that's a problem with your code, not ARC. (I.e., structure your data as an acyclic graph or tree and/or use weak references rather than expecting the runtime to compensate for your sloppiness.)
How about $1.1 trillion from the last war?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
After about 5 yrs experience most people don't really care about where you went to school (except places like Google or Facebook). Some might care whether you completed a degree but are probably more interested in what you did the last 5 years (ie if the most exciting/interesting you can talk about after that many years of working is your school experience then you have bigger problems than your CV).
I haven't seen any benchmarks comparing the two, but Node first used libev, and then the team created libuv out of a need to support Windows, because libev is unix only.

Actually, it's all in this about page: http://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/introduction.html
$37M in sales/marketing to generate $47M in revenue in first 6 months of 2014. Are there metrics for Sales and Marketing expenses for a SAAS company that could be used for comparison? Seems pretty high, but maybe ok for a fast growing startup.
> Chinese

> voted

Might be the first time I've ever seen those two words together in a sentence.
I'm amused that the phrase "uses Waze on my Lyft" is apparently self explanatory to this target audience. Clearly I am getting old and out of touch.
Being logicians by necessity, I'd argue that most developers could debate the socio-economic implications of bitcoin or any other currency better than you would expect.

In fact, it is my experience that most good engineers can accurately debate many concepts with which they are unfamiliar.
One of the more common (and more visible) ways CVEs are assigned is by asking for one on a public mailing list operated out of Russia.
"Folks" doesn't abide by the unit requirement. And the others you offered sound a bit awkward and formal (and also don't really meet the requirement either).

"Folks" is probably the closest thing you'll get though.
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I think this is very clever and I appreciate the work you've done to make it so robust. I'm not a designer, but I like to think I can appreciate at least some of really good work. Your pages qualify there.

One note on your before and after, it's cool that you included arabic, but the right to left nature makes it look like the examples are reversed. Though I realize perhaps that was intentional.
> Copyright 2006, last update June 2007

That sure is what it looks like. But thanks for sharing anyway, interesting project
> A software developer's job isn't to make the customer's life better, it's to build the product to spec. You might want the developer's help designing the spec, especially since you should have someone in the room who knows roughly whats possible and whats not, but thats technically a different job.

In a traditional shop, its true that requirements analysis is a different job than development. In many Agile shops it is not; requirements are owned by the development team, which works with the customer to define them.
> I shouldn't need Python and an SDK installed to develop a JavaScript browser extension.

You don't. The only things you need are a text editor and a zip utility (and I'm not sure about the last; it's certainly not needed if you're not distributing the extension). You only need the SDK if you want to use the Add-on SDK.
Another thing I've wondered about with suffix-hopping is the guarantee of stability there is -- in example, using the Libyan domain .ly in light of the recent radical changes. (An associated meta-question being, of course, if this is really the most important thing to worry about in relationship to Libya.)

edit Whoops, I meant Libya.
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FWIW, Rust has been on github since June 2010.
Upvotes are not visible so let me just comment to say that this is exactly how I feel about open source software. It's not about the money.
If you are moving out, then you bring the trash of the old apartment with you and you throw it the day that you are supposed to throw it in the new neighborhood.
It is a no-brainer for Japanese.
Been there, seen that. :)
Prisons aren't punishment and retribution factories.

I also like that you get on your soap box about being detained as if that justifies your shitty opinion.

Having been through the system as well, I am amazed that you'd come to that conclusion after experiencing it first hand.

How can you visit a place where rights and common sense don't matter and then turn around and justify how it operates?

How long were you detained? For what crime?
Externally, it certainly seems that Go was open sourced in a far more finished state, with only relatively small tweaks after the initial release, while Rust was quite raw and has had most of its fundamental design work done in the open (with significant contribution from volunteers, both code and design) after being placed on github in 2010.
> although the Chagossians were definitely screwed out of their home, it doesn't follow that they have been screwed out of ".io" money.

Two thoughts:

1) What if the resource from the Chagossians' island was oil and not a domain name; would that be different? Wouldn't your same argument about rents apply?

2) Maybe rents in general are an accident of history, as you say, but why should the UK benefit from this accident and not the Chagossians? If oil was found under your home, would you mind giving the revenue to the UK, since its presence and value is an accident of history?

I agree that the constraint on TLDs is mostly artificial.
Wireless isn't particularly reliable in all situations.
Larry Page's Java question – 1996
The knowledge is not only the streets, they also have to memorise "points of interest" which includes things like pubs and restaurants.
Thanks for the correction -- I didn't take into account the hardware engineers, the thoughts I gave are more valid for pure software companies.

Also, I covered generally the stuff you mentioned under "market research". My point was that there isn't much that's adding value outside of market research and development when you don't have a product yet... That I stand by -- which I think is what you're saying.

Absolutely agree on notes on #3

Would edit the original comment if I could...
So should I keep a bag of Soylent 1.1 and hope to sell it on eBay years from now as the rare Soylent that came with an enzyme blend?
I am guessing you mean the user? - /me googles - Indeed, haha :)
Am I wrong to be against the idea of a "Grunt fund"? Just naming it that kind of rubs me the wrong way, but maybe I'm being too sensitive about treatment of developers/engineers.
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We were in acquisition talks which had gone as far as agreeing to a price. We wanted a small break fee that would help cover legal costs if the deal fell through. It was a strong no from them and they wouldn't budge. So in our case yes. With that being said I too would like to know if it is uncommon.
We have something called Rack which is similar.
I'd like you to point out to me what opinion I offered or conclusion I reached in the comment to which you are replying, and then consider if instead of an opinion that you are upset about you have instead encountered an observation regarding our shitty world. Then dial down the indignation you have for me by a couple notches.

Hint: My opinion is elsewhere in the thread.
I don't much care about myself being wrong. I care that the conclusions of the type of black and white rhetoric you pursue are the very same that are driving society into ever more harmful separation, for ever less logical reasons, all under the simple concept that if something is not true, it must be false.

What I mean is, the high complexity of most systems in nature and society and humanity about which we argue necessarily dictate that a statement cannot be absolutely false without variance, or absolutely true without variance. There are too many inputs and variables, for a logician let alone a layperson to make sense of. Yet the dichotomy of the PEM (or thinking akin to that) is applied even in those cases. It has become not only a logical statement, but a way of life and a way of thinking, and it far overreaches its definition.

Thus, I don't care if the PEM is an irrefutable mathematical truth or not. That is irrelevant, and it is not what I'm arguing. I argue that it does not apply to most situations of the real world, and following it when it should not be followed leads to mistaken conclusions. We see this played out presently in politics, society, and in our own lives; as this article describes.

The real question is not whether the mathematics of the PEM hold true (they do), but whether the type of thinking they lead to is beneficial to humanity. And about that I am allowed to have opinions and make an argument. My opinion is that it is detrimental to humanity, and my argument is that most places where a binary or dichotomous argument is used are too complex for it to apply cleanly, yet we ignore that major problem and continue anyway. This leads to false conclusions and actions within complex systems.

I continue to have no patience for those who think in binary, because it is inhuman, selfish, and irritating; not because it is untrue, but because it is an incredibly poor way to interact with other human beings, and an unproductive way to approach complexity.
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Well,

https://cloud.github.com/
> best source of news and discussion about technology and startups

'News that hackers would be interested in reading' still applies, right?
That's a bit clunky to put in a press release, I will admit, but I would be sad to see the range of HN reduced to merely startups and technology.
My point was that a cabbie doesn't have to guess if the GPS can provide the info. There's no rule saying that black cab drivers aren't allowed to use technology when it's useful.
Nope. The deficit is $18 trillion. Can't be the reason.
Not bad work. Seems somewhat futile though, since the speed will probably be massively slowed down by the actual ruby application code and database accesses etc..
Being in the same ideological quadrant, I can say that I tend to get as many or more upvotes on political comments as on apolitical/tech-focused comments. And I tend to follow responses to my more contentious comments closely, and I have only very occasionally noticed even a single downvote on said comments.

I think there's a lot of outspoken libertarian/anti-statist types around here, and that's fine, but I don't think it's even the plurality among political stances of HN readers. I suspect being invested in politics to the point that you'll regularly engage in political discussions online is very strongly correlated with holding atypical political views (I include myself in that set).
The L0Pht crew produced some awesome tools as well. Anyone remember the Windows NT password decryption tool? You could do dictionary attacks or brute force (if you had the CPU power).

I still have old versions of their software on some Zip disks collecting dust somewhere :)
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NoScript + ABP you are free of 99% of web hacks out there.