skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public? It is a private transaction between two parties. This is why I don't understand Venmo's interface that tells me about transactions that I'm not involved in. I always set my payments to private, admittedly it does make for an interesting feed to browse for those who transact publicly.
> C predates threads

There were other OS with threads and co-routines being explored as design while UNIX was being developed at AT&T.

As for the rest I agree with you.

Personally I don't have any use for Python besides the occasional shell script, but as a user of applications written in Python I would like them to perform fast.
Well, I can tell you easily how a large system (to the degree that it requires a architect to understand) get successful: They don't.

Successful systems may get large, and as a general rule, large systems do not get successful. Once in a while a large system is so well written that it fits inside the head of anybody, and it has a chance of success. You can never get one of those later if there's interference of people that do not code directly.
Let's say we have a small town of 1000 people. How exactly will "the technology behind Bitcoin" run this town? Deal with garbage, water, police?
Replying for updates. Though I would honestly much prefer a Firefox app, since I never use Chrome.
SyncThing: An open-source, secure, decentralized alternative to BitTorrent Sync
Those are not the same as BTsync.
Tens of millions of US voters use closed-source voting machines during our elections. The companies who make the machines are generally a little too friendly with the Republican party (Diebold, Premier Election Systems, or whatever they recently changed their name to).

I'm shocked at how few people care that so many votes are "counted" through Republican-friendly voting computers.
I have no idea whether it's true, but on the topic of gcc's inferiority in the matter of error messages, this source claims it's no longer true: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ClangDiagnosticsComparison

Of course, given the source, apply salt :-).
Developer here! Hoping to get some feedback if possible!
OTOH, a payment app can grow pretty organically. It doesn't matter that I'm not "friends" with my friend Joe on Venmo if I don't need to send him money.
Did I say that gcc has the better infrastructure, the more modern code base, better modularity? I don't think so. That would actually be pretty weird, given that its code base is nearing 30 years of history. But I hope that it is still allowed to say that GCC has made progress the past few years. And I think it is worth refuting claims like "you cannot access the AST in gcc", since this is simply not true anymore. Yes, actually dealing with the AST is baroque, but you can access it nonetheless. There are nice plugins for GCC, like Melt or the python-plugin which make this easier, though. Also, there's the license/freedom thingy, which might not interest you, but others do care about such things.
Ok this is pretty slick. It always annoyed me that Arista, Juniper, IBM, everyone was trying to tie me into their poorly implemented VLAG structure rather than just give me solid and inexpensive layer 2 performance for connectivity and let me worry about the aggregation. Looks like Facebook has done an excellent job at that, and I suspect it caught both Amazon and Google off guard. Anyone know if FB is planning EC2/GAE type offerings? Looks like they could do it better than either Amazon or Google with this architecture backing them up.
Try the printed version:
http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=&title=W...
"It's been noted before"

Many times.
I have been a long time user of Venmo and have tried to get a number of my friends on it but most of my friends consider entering their routing/account numbers (if they even know what those are...) into an app and waiting a couple days too much work. They even consider Square Cash too much of a hassle but I can see all of those same friends using Snapcash without issue. I consider Venmo to be the best in this space currently (But come on! Allow using debit cards to receive money already!) and I don't mind the 1-3 day delay in cashing out but I will still enter my debit card in snapchat cause at the end of the day I'm going to use the service that allows me to pay and get paid by the highest number of friends.
In fairness, the other 50% of Snapchat users is quite a large number of people.

I'm assuming their VC-backers are hoping to see traction without waiting for the underage half of the user base to grow up, and are really hoping it doesn't become the fun, friction-free and ephemeral way for that demographic to send their friends funds from their parents' bank account.
The method is widely known, but last weekend there were election with new system for reporting protocols from electoral commisions etc. and it appears to be quite huge swindle since it's been made in three months before elections and failed as fuck. Finally some of votes needed to be counted in Excel.

Feel free to ask about details, because I'm from Poland and hadn't found any sufficient article about it.
I think "download" was a shorthand for "sign-up". Signing up for a payments service is pretty friction-ful.
Oh, this is awesome! Thanks for the heads up and kind words . I don't, yet, have any thoughts, but 2 of the 3 mentors/teachers I mentioned at the top are Dutch, so I will be hitting them up for their insights. You can find them at:

Barry Wels: https://twitter.com/barrywels
Han Fey: http://hanfeylocktechnologies.com/
Given they will have the debit card saved, perhaps Snapchat is thinking it will be much easier to offer products to their users in the future.
You're missing speeds and acceleration. Comet 67P is a very, very tiny world, with barely the slightest hint of gravity compared to Earth's surface. Consider that an ordinary walking speed is about 1 m/s. That's the escape velocity on 67P. A human could literally jump off the surface under their own power, or they could run into a low orbit (low altitude orbit velocities are 0.7x escape velocities, in general).

The speeds and accelerations that we're used to in the context of bouncing from the surface within the context of Earth are about ten thousand times greater than on comet 67P. The amount of force generated by Philae's collision with the comet's surface was very tiny, but it only takes a very tiny force to throw things long distances across the surface of the comet, due to the extremely low gravity (about 1mm/s^2).
Wouldn't that risk driving up the market price of bitcoins, which leads to a higher competing bid on the bulk coins?
In that sense that capitalism requires trust, this is "full trust" rather than "zero trust".
I'm lost. You claimed in the previous thread you linked to that CALEA (or, charitably, some other law) required US companies to backdoor their encryption schemes. I said you were wrong about that. You claimed I was merely fixating on the specific law you cited, to the detriment of the more general truth of your argument. I asked you to cite any authority anywhere backing that argument up. Your response is to cite examples of crappy software security, and then to sneakily reformulate your argument so that it applies only to encryption that isn't "end-to-end".

The saving grace of this unproductive conversation is that we at least agree that end-users should reject forms of encryption that don't require them to install anything.
Whats that old jwz quote: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

I think there is a corollary too, though I cannot attribute it: "Every social media site attempts to expand until it becomes a bank. Those companies which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734114
So far I haven't encountered any issues with iOS 8 or Yosemite. I use my laptop as a developer daily and it's been perfect for me.
There are plenty of JVMs to compare to.
The life expectancy of average folks was getting too high
Everybody wants to be a bank.

Then they discover how much support effort goes into stopping, or untangling frauds, scams, and robberies.
Here is the original source with more details:

http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-...
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> Cisco isn't just a technology company. They're a giant sales and services organization.

I recall hearing that about Sun, too. Now they're just a minor cog of a database maker.
If you assume they are so off topic what makes you think you'll get answers here on topic?

Sorry, that was off topic. I think one of the reasons is the points system. You can still get upvotes/karma for comments off topic. And it is easier to write something when you're not restricted to a topic.
I'd like to see a venn diagram of Snapchat users and people who actually know who/what Square is
Most of these users never used Paypal so if one of their friends tells them they can send money over Snapchat they probably won't think two seconds about it.
seems like it's sure missing the chance at sleep tracking -- a connected hardware implement that you need to wear while sleeping.
And... it didn't
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Yes, and UNIVAC 1108 Exec 8 had threads in 1967. But it wasn't on UNIX until the 1980s.
> That doesn't seem right

Right has nothing to do with the law. Law is about what those with power can push through, it doesn't have anything to do with right and wrong.
Summary of the more interesting comments here[1]:
- the ITT (invitation to tender) had 26 pages
- questions from the contractors were answered with "this information is not required to define the price/scope of the feature but it has to be implemented anyway"
- huge scope (9 modules) + training + administering the system
- everything has to be finished in 1.5-2.5 months from when the results of the tender are published

It seems that only a single company has entered the auction for the tender because everyone else could see that the project was destined for failure. The company also allegedly employs three people and pays its programmers around 2000 zł/month (which is very low even by polish standards).

[1] - http://www.poselska.nazwa.pl/wieczorna2/media/system-pkw-do-...
Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom
Interesting that the Mikrotik router uses Tilera's interesting CPU.

$877 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-RouterBoard-CCR1036-12G-4S-Pe...

I see EZchip bought Tilera for $130M in Sept.
Groovy is a JVM language which is dynamically typed (a la python and ruby). It never really took off, partly because you had to understand java (and the JVM) pretty well in order to do anything other than trivial scripts with it.

The point being made is that if Spider wants to take off, it had best not require an intimate knowledge of javascript - and we can look to groovy to see what happens otherwise.
I tend to subscribe to the hybrid approach here: http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/09/12/versioning-r...
Yeah, it's odd. Competitors like Venmo rely on not putting the money directly into the recipients bank account until they cash out. So they can make a little interest money off that directly, and more importantly, any transactions that come off of someone's balance are free since they are just moving money around inside their computers.
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Ah yes, I definitely want this company with a super-insecure app to handle my money. If they fix Snapchat's API vulnerabilities (from 2013!) maybe I'd consider it.
This is perfectly acceptable. Where it isn't acceptable is for them to say, "Just so I don't send your resume to the wrong place, where else are you interviewing?"

This can be them trolling for new leads.

The proper answer is, "How about you just let me know about companies first?"

If they don't accept that, they're scamming.
Ask HN: Founders whose startup succeeded where did life take you afterwards?
There was thread going on last week about founders whose startup failed and how life turned out afterwards. It was very good read and I found very nice humane experience shared by many.

I would like to ask exactly opposite question. Since start-up phenomena ramped up since 2006/07 there are many many founders who have made successful exist. Be it Heroku, Twitch or anyone else.

I would to ask founders , early employees who made it big ( > $500k / $1M ) how did life turn out afterwards ?

Has your life view changed ?
Please comment especially with respect to stress management ?
How things changed from worrying from about petty things such as taxi ride , dinner, rent etc.

How people around you are treating you know since they know you made it big ?

Would love to hear what's its like to have that aroma of success.

Thanks and Cheers
I'm still on 10.9. If I don't have an iPhone, what is my reason to upgrade right now? All I've seen so far is the continuity stuff.
There are other paths for Haxe, although they are probably not pretty. That is Haxe -> C++ -> Emscripten -> asm.js. Then there is another, Haxe -> Java -> GWT -> JS.

I think Haxe is underappreciated for areas other than game development. You can write serverside logic with it (compile to js for node.js, php, neko, java, c#, python), and target flash and js in the browser.
You can use your C pound experience in place of C hashtag.
I see nothing about it, but I've noticed an issue with headphones (and maybe multiple monitors). If you plug in headphones while your laptop is asleep, then wake it up, it seems to crash with a "sleep wake failure". Once I found the issue I was able to help a lot of people stop their macs from crashing on wake as well. Really hope that one is fixed in this update.
I really can't see teenagers setting up a PayPal account in order to receive money for nudes.

I can, however, see someone asking for cash through the very same app that they're using to send nude pictures.

I agree with the GP, this is gonna get interesting.
Some wisdom from Mexico:

http://www.propublica.org/article/message-from-mexico-u.s.-i...
Clojure at Scale: Why Python Wasn’t Enough for AppsFlyer
I just updated all the way from Lion (10.8). It seems that every display has its own menu bar which I don't know if I like yet, but more disturbing to me is that one of my external monitors is flickering off for a second or two every minute or so after this upgrade. Not sure what the source of the issue is, but it was working fine before the upgrade. :/

I used to use a Matrox DualHead2Go DP Edition so I could use my two 19" monitors in addition to my main laptop screen. Earlier this year I bought a LandingZone docking bar which let me run one monitor via miniDV and the other via HDMI. This solution has worked pretty well so far, so I hope the flickering either magically fixes itself or that I'm able to find some cause and resolution. :)

I need my three monitors. I've never liked the whole idea of virtual desktops, etc. and I like being able to see mail, calendar, shell, and browser just by glancing instead of requiring any sort of gesture or keystroke.
I'm curious if you or the grandparent poster have encountered the DMT gnomes/elves? Apparently it's not uncommon on DMT to have the gnomes/elves appear and tell you the secrets of the universe or something. They're described here by Terence McKenna:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna#Machine_elves

(And now I have to listen to Shpongle's Divine Moments of Truth song, which perhaps coincidentally clocks in at a touch over 10 mins long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-2d6wxudE )
This is only an issue for headhunters, not corporate recruiters. It's well within the right of corporate recruiters to ask this.
Found some free WordPress themes that actually look pretty good
I've had a lot of wonkiness with Keychain, iCloud, and iMessage since the upgrades, but that seems to be because certain preferences were reset or deactivated in the process. (I'm also willing to accept user error as the culprit).

Have also had some weird issues with wifi connectivity, which is ostensibly one of the reasons for this update. And there have been some strange lockups on the mail screen on my iPad, occasionally forcing me to hard-close the mail app.

Other than that, I haven't noticed anything significantly "bad" about the updates. Yosemite has been fine for me, and aside from some third-party compatibility issues (which happen with every major OS upgrade), the upgrade has been seamless. iOS 8 performs well, aside from the aforementioned problems.
If you think the age requirement is even remotely effective, you're fooling yourself.

I'm not suggesting that it will be frequently misused -- but even one mishap could seriously harm their business. Law enforcement takes child pornography more seriously than just about any other offense, and money on the table makes it even more serious.
LOL yeah, we decided to take it out of this version to keep the value of it very clear in "Block out the world. Hear what you need." But that is something we plan on implementing into V2!
This probably isn't what you meant, but it sounds like you're saying that the industry is making the industry look bad.
What about the need to be woken up by external events which aren't connected to your smart phone? The immediate example I think of is a fire alarm.
My rMBP updated just fine to 10.10.1 but when I went to update my sister's MBP with a 840 SSD and Trim Enabled I ran into the grey forbidden screen and safe mode yielded the 'Waiting for root device' error. This can be fixed by going into recovery mode (Command+R) on boot and running the following commands:

rm -rf /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>/System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext
cp -r /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Volumes/<10.10 Partition>/System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext
touch /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>/System/Library/Extensions
kextcache -u /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>

The update installed just fine after that, the commands disable TRIM and restore the original OSX kext which was replaced by TRIM Enabler

Commands Source: http://www.cindori.org/forums/topic/heads-up-osx-10-10-beta-...
SnapCash does not work like Venmo.
This is really just a terminology thing; I prefer "Libre" vs "Permissive".
I would think the downvoting is from your "UI looks terrible" comment rather than the possible bug you mention.
I think we can agree that there is some level of change at which we should not consider "the world" to have changed. I.e. if previously one could frobnobulate Widgets A, B, and C, and now Widget A has been replaced by Widgets Y and Z, that probably isn't a change to "the world". Only a client ill-conceived enough to maintain its own Widget Catalog would get screwed up by that change. (Don't laugh; this has been done lots of times.) Now suppose that before frobnobulating Widget B, we must first fizzgiggle it. There is a non-empty set of clients that survived the widget update but that will DIAF with the widget-specific-dependency-of-transitive-widget-verb update. So, don't write a Transitive-Widget-Verbs-and-Their-Widget-Specific-Dependencies Catalog into your client either. Et cetera...

Eventually we'll all get to a point at which the generalization must stop. REST advocates think that point is much farther away than is commonly believed. In the case of my dumb example, giving the client developer a version number wouldn't really have helped her avoid a rewrite, because Widget A is no longer available and Widget B must be fizzgiggled before it is frobnobulated. You could imagine that she has enough pull to insist on treating her Widgets exactly as she pleases, but that's not the hypothesis here. (After all in that case she could just have her own entry URI.) It's much better to use media types, link relations, etc. to let the client implicitly learn the information it needs to know every time it needs to know it.
(not the same one I linked to, that one has a max throughput of 16Gbps while the one i linked to is max of 28Gbps) The one you linked to is MSRP $995 USD.

Still an incredible deal for what you get.
You have me confused with someone else. This is the first time I've mentioned Ulbrict or DPR in any comment: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/author%3As...

It's interesting how unapologetically ravenous people will be.

Also, if DPR was an early miner, then surely he would have said that by now.
>But what can we decide from this info?

don't bet on campaign promises, or the idea that a candidate will act according to the party he ran for?
Why not? WordPress runs 23% of the Internet. (WordPress is written in PHP of course.)
Not sure if it is as wrong as it sounds. In many ways the computing world today isn't that different. We sit at home with fairly simple terminals like iPads or laptops while computers filling entire rooms at google, facebook etc are performing a large part of our calculations. The web is in a way just an evolved or advance form of teletyper terminal that allows us to connect to more powerful clusters of computers offering us different services.
I'd expect that USB storage devices are supported. Why would you drop support for the most commonly used external storage?
You're right, it would violate Lorentz invariance, but only for FTL travel. In that sense it is consistent with SR for speeds <= c.

I think it's quite easy to make such a theory, I'll get around to writing a blog post on it some day :)

The main result is that for communication (or travel) faster than c, invariance is broken, and it becomes possible to distinguish the absolute reference frame.
Our plans are to tie into the greater smart home! Think Nest, smart baby monitors, smart security systems, etc. We've already been talking with a number of OEM's like Samsung who want us to use their ecosystem :)

But for this V1, we can't effectively block out a fire alarm.. those are really loud.. We can block out maybe 70dB max with our device whereas fire alarms are generally much much louder!
There are many, many reasons people might want to avoid the GPL that have nothing to do with wanting to get out of a legal obligation to publish source. The FLOSS world is filled with innumerable high-profile, very successful projects that avoided the GPL for reasons that had nothing to do with wanting to keep some things proprietary.

Sometimes people just want to share software without making a political statement that they may not agree with, or imposing a legal and/or social burden on others (or assuming one for themselves).

The adversarial, black-and-white, with-us-or-against-us accusations that some GPL advocates are known for are actually a big reason why many people don't like the GPL, and associate it with carrying a lot of baggage in addition to the actual legalese that defines the license.
"We're sorry for any inconvenience and we regret..."

Someone should have to pay for this. If the standard excuse is all you need, there's always going to be someone who is simply going to do the same thing.
Definitely not linear. I'm pretty sure it's similar math to "If X of your friends have seen Viral Junk Z, then you most likely will have too." That's why I chose two very far apart #s. :-)
Instrument panel (from cockpit terminology; ships may have their own term, too)

If users can directly interact with it: control panel, communications center, control center.

If it is more to impress than to communicate: Christmas tree.
Executive Order 14-14 – Governor Jay Nixon
Schannel Proof of Concept (MS14-066)
Whole system crashes have been much more common, especially ones related to sleep (the system won't wake up). About half a dozen to a dozen times since the upgrade (one month) but really, there shouldn't be any.
Not that I can remember. Although I really do want to experience it. There are parts of my experience I can remember quite vividly and other parts that are just blank gaps in between.
You're right. I caught that, as well, and corrected my wording in mid-edit. (I do a lot of after-the-fact editing. Force of habit).
I remember hearing about Rocksteady doing something similar with Batman: Arkham Asylum.