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> My prediction is that Go will disappear in same way as it
> happen to Ruby, Perl and others.

Languages don't really ever disappear, they just become less trendy and therefore invisible to places like HN that revolve around hipness and novelty. Hell, when was the last time you heard about Perl? And yet there is an enormous amount of Perl out there powering systems the world over, and learning Perl will make you quite employable for maintaining and extending these systems. Replace Perl with Visual Basic, or COBOL, or RPG-LE, and this statement remains true.

> Rust on the other hand also has a bit of hype, but that
> hype actually has a base. It is due to a features that
> are quite significant, not because it comes from Mozilla.

Longtime Rustacean here, and I slightly disagree. Rust does get a lot of boost from being backed by Mozilla. People are incredibly wary of investing effort in an unestablished language without full-time corporate backing. But yes, the awesome language semantics are enticing in their own right. :)

> I believe that Rust actually really has a huge chance
> to replace C and C++ (languages that were developed in
> 70s and 80s respectively) and influence future languages.

I definitely don't expect the world to chuck out C++ and rewrite it all in Rust, though I do expect that Rust will provide an enticing proposition for new systems programming projects that value memory safety while demanding zero-cost abstractions. My hope is that with Rust we can gradually move towards a world that is safer by default.

Finally, I agree that Rust will be an influence on future languages. Just yesterday D proposed something akin to Rust's borrowed references (http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP69), and I'm curious to see if something similar emerges in future editions of C++. There's also Microsoft's secretive M# language, which I suspect will use a similar mechanism.
Oh how funny, 130 years ago Tesla scared the hell out of some battery company.
Poitras says "the reporting we’ve done has all been filtering what’s in the public interest versus what’s operational" yet in the same interview reveals "the communication flow for the drone system all goes through Rammstein, so it’s part of the nerve center. The controls are elsewhere, but it all runs through fiber optic cables that go in and out of Rammstein" How is it in the public interest to know that all drone communication flows through a specific base especially considering how valuable that fact might be to someone who would want to ground our drone fleet?

That is my only problem with Snowden and how these things are being reported. It started out with valid whistle blowing but there are plenty of real operational national secrets that are being revealed in the process. If Snowden simply stuck to the NSA's overreach in domestic spying, it would be much harder for politicians and the like to call him a traitor and marginalize these issues.
>People entering should know that. Knowing that is not equivalent to pursuing academia for "fame and fortune."

A lot of the PhD's in pure sciences in the US are from foreign countries, especially India and China. Actually, foreign students dominate in most engineering/natural science departments of US universities. So, I guess most American kids do realize that its not a valuable decision to pursue a PhD.
totally, I think the painful part is prepping the underlying os with the filesystem dependencies as it requires modding the kernel? I could be way off though
Uber Raises “A Shit-Ton of Cash”, Unveils Plans for Elaborate Research Facility
Protecting your site against DNS outages
No, the "free thing" is the repo that Russia had blocked, which is a howto guide for suicide.
Charted (Open Source Charts from Medium)
V8 Turbofan using asm.js AOT that is in beta right now otherwise.
Yo bitch app sends your password pin in plaintext to Parse
Power is quite a lot higher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolation#Earth.27s_insolation

(the 250 W/m^2 there is the 24 hour average)
I think it's safe to say both mobile and IoT network access is anything but reliable. Not sure if is another solution besides an embedded database with automatic sync.
It's not only WebKit, but also the Javascript engine and to make matters worse, on iOS last time I checked the web view that you could use in apps wasn't using the same Javascript engine that Safari was using, which means that an alternative browser is slower than Safari by default. From what I've been hearing, lately developers can use the same engine as Safari inside those web views, but the functionality is still buggy.

And this matters, because the main features that browsers compete on is speed and new features (in HTML5 and Javascript). This is what made people switch to Chrome, making it gain a whooping 40% (or is it 50%) in market share. This is also what made Firefox gain market share from IExplorer.

And if your browser is slower than the default one, then you cannot compete with that default. If your browser cannot be a platform (for add-ons or apps, like what Firefox is doing on Android), then you cannot compete with the default. Chrome on iOS is only a shadow of what it is on the desktop.

And Firefox on Android is the only one that allows me to use useful add-ons, such as AdBlock Plus, HTTPS Everywhere and LastPass. Do you know how awesome that is? And this doesn't work on iOS (i.e. having add-ons) because of Apple's restrictions.

And yes, I'm even rooting for Gekko (instead of WebKit), because it is Firefox that brought us Asm.js [1], I even bought the Humble Mozilla Bundle [2] and they made everybody optimize for it, including Microsoft. And now they are working on SIMD.js as well [3].

I received an iPhone 6 as a gift 3 weeks ago and I sold it - yes it's nice, but it doesn't run Firefox and apparently Apple kicked VLC out of the app store as well. And personally I couldn't picture myself living with such restrictions so I sold it - now I'm waiting for my Nexus 6 to arrive :-)

[1] http://asmjs.org/

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/10/14/play-awesome-indie-...

[3] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/introducing-simd-js/
CEO pay has risen 43% since 2009
Thanks for the comments and the links. I've come across strategyzer.com before and I can remember thinking it was worth bookmarking – but of course I didn't.

It's not so much the problem of finding a business model I'm struggling with – it's not knowing when to run with an idea as opposed to sitting on it and looking at other avenues. I think it might be something you learn through experience (and failure). I was just hoping to see other peoples view on it.
Perhaps you could name some website/app servers that aren't mostly i/o (or event-timing) bound? I wouldn't say the use cases are limited at all.

You can always run multiple process instances, and communication between processes isn't really so different in practice than inter-server communication... Which just means you are scaling horizontally by design earlier in development.
hey thanks for that info - never knew about this part of .NET.

Could you describe what non-Windows OS stack works with .NET. Can I use MySQL/Postgres with it ?
I'm not sure how your point relates to the topic being discussed.

Blizzard has kept WoW going strong for a decade, releasing expansions (not sequels) every two years. Diablo is on it's third iteration since debuting in 1996.

These are examples are a game developer taking a different path than releasing as many titles as possible as fast as possible.
> That game has hardly any "story" behind it and the characters are not really that interesting.

Given that the boardgame Battleship -- which has zero story and no characters -- had a major motion picture based on it (or, at least, branded based on it), I don't see that as a particular problem.
I did, and it looks really cool! Probably not going to migrate either of these projects, in the short term, though. The first, because it would be a large undertaking; the other, because it does almost nothing with the database - all of one table, only a couple trivial selects, so my focus there is elsewhere for now. At some point I definitely plan to dig deeper into OpalEye, and might wind up porting one or both medium-to-long term. Though actually, if you want to scope things out and see how hard you think migration might be, that first project is Snowdrift.coop
That's what I thought. My house is about the same size as his and completely exposed to weather. While I live in not-so-balmy Minnesota, it does get well above 90F and humid regularly in summer. Not to mention that the only non-electric heating appliance is the furnace.

I get irritable if my bill hits $250, I'd be freaking out at an average of $500/month.
>...you can't really say that it was the money-driven people in banks that were the cause of this issue.

Yes you absolutely can. /ot
So IO.js will update to V8 Turbofan when its released?
A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ as well -- a 64 bit version.
Sen. Wyden puts forward a bill to ban data “backdoors”
I'm gonna guess it would be around the same on a Linux server, because it's under a runtime, just like PHP. There's no reason to expect a drastic difference between one or the other.

On a Windows server however it's compiled and highly optimized. Which PHP/NginX/HipHop you also have a compiled environment and is just as fast or faster.

I have no data to back it up at all, but I'm going to guess ceteris paribus the performance differences are marginal at best.
> But are there any where this process turned out well?

If by "turned out well" you mean "turned a profit", probably quite a few.

If by "turned out well" you mean "created a film that was critically well-received or generally regarded as a timeless classic", probably not.
Even if individual homes can sustain themselves on solar power, there are many homes and even more businesses that cannot. Even if people are storing power in batteries and charging them up for later use when power is cheap (determined locally) you still need the utility to be that conduit to get the power from the (distributed) sources to the (distributed) consumption.

Can the existing grid handle this kind of workload? Yes, if it is managed well and controls are in place to prevent delivering more power into the network than it can handle.
The batteries that Tesla uses can far, far surpass what a power company would be willing to provide to a residential unit.

The most powerful model s on the road right now has a ~310kW motor in it. That is an order of magnitude above what most house circuit breakers are rated for (200A-300A, 24kW to 36kW). There are even small RC batteries out there that can push 150A+ for a few seconds on their own.
Valid? valid valid
Outside of build and test systems and extreme legacy software support, virtualization itself is in the category of things that should not exist.

I should be able to put up a server and sell accounts on that server to the general public. People should be able to log in, install and run services, etc. The box should not get instantly pwned, and people should be able to use it without interfering with each other. All resources -- disk, memory, IP addresses, bandwidth, etc. -- should be able to be assigned to users and/or user groups and managed by the box's true super-user(s).

You can't do that because Linux/Unix and every other OS has a woefully incomplete and outdated model around things like security, user and group management, software installation and library organization, quotas, and privilege isolation.

The popularity of virtualization and containerization are an admission that OSes are broken. While they are "multi-user" in a 1970s computer lab sense, they are all fundamentally single-user OSes from a modern perspective. There are no true multi-tenant OSes on the market; virtualization is an ugly hack to make single-tenant OSes host multiple users.

Nevertheless I think it's a situation we're stuck with due to the massive legacy software investment we have in these platforms. Plan 9 is full of cool ideas but nobody uses it because nobody uses it, and nobody will use it because nobody already uses it.

The only way I can see this situation getting better is if someone were to put serious money behind a really well-engineered alternative. But I don't see that happening because there'd be no profit in it. OSes are now in the category of things everyone expects to be free, so there is no longer any incentive to invest in them.
Although, to be fair, it is more like a brightly lit alley ;)
>> Then bill by project, not time spent.

That's a very dicey proposition. How many projects do you really know the scope that well? You'll also need to define the deliverable in writing or the client may keep you around saying "it's not done", scope creep and all that...
Zelkova – Elm-style FRP for Clojure and ClojureScript
Odell Beckham’s Helping Hands – the Tech Behind the Catch
You will never stop qualifying yourself to other humans for as long as you live, never. It's true that you can choose whether to seek certain of those qualifications, as is shown here. But it never really stops.
> after while your eye vision will decrease

source? I don't believe this and I'm not experiencing it after 10+ years spent heavily in front of computer screens.

Ask an ophtalmologist.
Kurzweil said their efficiency doubles every two years, and that they would be able to meet 100% of our energy needs by ~ 2030:

http://www.livescience.com/4824-solar-power-rule-20-years-fu...
I'm in an unfortunate area of California where my tier usage is tied to parts of the bay area, but the weather is closer to the central valley.

Our AC and pool pump are big parts of that $6k/year usage, and while AC is a luxury, when it's 105* for a week or two straight and you've got little kids around, it sure is nice.

There are also 2 other factors that feed in to our electrical costs - I work from home, and we have 2 little kids. That means our home doesn't get to shut down during the day. AC, fridge door opening, lights, etc., it all adds up when 4 people live in a house 24/7 instead of being gone during the hottest parts of the day.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705216
Is it not possible to "turn off" a solar panels? Worst case, you have to throw a tarp over some of your panels for summertime.
Most of them go back into society with the albatross of having been in jail around their necks, not to mention the gap in work history. Going so far as to give lifers an education (along with the rest of the population) reduces crime. The prison population are still citizens who deserve to be treated well. They don't deserve to be the victims of crime any more than anyone else. The vast majority of people in jail are people with poor educations, poor upbringings, and/or mental disorders. Giving them a hand up is vastly more preferable than leaving them to their own devices and then tossing them back onto the streets.
Will OpenBSD look to pull from their updated C++ libraries?
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I've rented cars overseas and gotten a similar letter in the mail. Usually when I've been caught by a speed camera in Germany (don't need to explain much more there).

Yes, it was a real ticket issued to you and the government passed it on to the rental car agency after tracing down the license plate. (Or, in your case, Avis passed your contact info to the government)

In every incident I've received a physical letter from the rental agency telling me that I got busted and I should expect a ticket to be forwarded on to me once they get it. I've never seen an actual ticket in my mailbox or a supplemental charge on my card (like others have said). Apparently Italy is more on the stick about this and goes right to direct collection.

My colleagues overseas have said to just rip it up, there's no way they can collect from you short of an Interpol warrant. It won't appear as a collection on your credit report. I've returned and rented from the exact same companies and nobody ever said a thing about the previous tickets.

tldr: Yes it was most likely real (especially because of the pre-warning from Avis).
Please post it. :)
> However, we don't do ourselves any favors by pushing sympathetic moderates towards extremism by waging wars that only serve to open a power vacuum.

The law of unintended consequences is a tricky beast. I have pasted this link before, but it bears repeating. It's thorny by design, and happens to snide at US - but they are certainly not the only ones who have succesfully created their own enemies. Usually by supporting and funding earlier allies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4H_E8b-qmo

IIRC Iran was a massive source of counterfeit US dollars in the 1980's and early 1990's. The reason? The last Shah of Persia was supported by the US and was even provided with a mint-quality printing press. [0][1] When he fled the country after the 1979 uprising, the printing press was left behind.

0: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/17960/did-usa-se...

1: http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-02/news/mn-1906_1_counte...

EDIT: made quote appear in italics
A solid group of talent, welcome to the club. I am interested to see where the "deep learning" start-ups end up in ten years time with such a wide-array of problem sets and industries.
This is a key point you need to convince them of.
The Daily Beast is engaging in some heavy-duty schadenfreude here.

The New Republic was sold for reason: its business model is failing. While Hughes might be making a mess of this transition (perhaps no surprise for a 30 year old who lucked into getting rich), some kind of hard transition was going to happen in any case. It's not like all these folks were going to have long happy careers at a niche long-form print magazine, if only Chris Hughes had never come along.
As an American Christian I believe nothing of the sort. What is your source for this ad hominem claim?

The bible actually doesn't support the idea of prisons at all. If someone murders, then they need to be put to death. Otherwise, theft, drugs, and all other crimes are best handled outside of a prison system that does very little to help a person recover from their problems.

Christ advocated restoring a person. Secular governments advocate locking them up so they don't have to deal with it.
I would point out that most ROI models for solar look so good because of very generous subsidies. If subsidies aren't counted, the ROI time is not nearly so good.

Additionally, the Total Cost of Ownership of Solar will be higher in areas where panels/solar systems are prone to damage from weather etc. Wind, Rain, Snow, freeze/thaw, dust can all damage solar arrays, or negatively impact their performance.

If there are batteries involved, those will likely also need to be replaced before the system has initially paid itself off. Even if batteries get cheaper and better every year, the disposal fees for old batteries and their current inability to deal with house-sized loads well can easily add significant cost.

I don't want this to sound like I am anti-solar. I am a big proponent of solar, but there are many problems with the current system. It is a somewhat unfair comparison no matter what, since the energy we buy from fossil fuel generation does not accurately reflect the cost of the pollution it makes or the environmental harm it does.
> It's cost effective and reliable.

It is neither of those things. My tests with different SDKs have ruled out SQS (which we basically benchmark monthly).

You would do much better with a ZeroMQ+Redis custom solution (over 100k msgs/sec) or RabbitMQ or pretty much anything else. These SQS numbers are embarrassingly bad. At any scale, it's expensive and subject to strange IO spikes. Just don't use it (which is a broad statement) unless you really need to tie-in to something like Lamda (processing pipeline that can be fed from SQS). Even then, it's not cost effective.
My main focus for the entirety of my career has been on internet facing consumer web applications. I have seen many, many, DOS attacks from IRC bots to Ukrainian web scrapers to Chinese get-lucky wordpress exploit scanners. Most of these can be ignored and blocked with little effort.

By FAR the most annoying of any of these is when Google, Bing and/or Yahoo decide to wake up and crawl your infrastructure with little regard to your robots.txt or webmaster settings, if available. I think they have got better in recent years, but they used to be the absolute worst. It came down to: Let us DOS you, or have your ranking suffer. Suing Google, Bing, Yahoo isn't exactly an option.

Some context: I was the lead architect/engineer combo for a CMS that hosted ~500k domains for a fairly large international company. Some days I could login and see them crawling every domain from A-Z. Some days I would get caught by Google and Bing at the same time. They were the largest consumers of data on this system.
Thanks, that was a lot more helpful response :) I think the most confused I've been so far (coming from a PHP background) was all the different types of strings!
Also chances are pretty good not everyone will have everything going at the same time, so you would be able to borrow power from your neighbours' systems without needing a big utility with standby coal.
Could you please elaborate on rolling over US allies, please? Which are those exactly?
The interesting situation is that companies regulated as a utility, presumably because a competitive environment for infrastructure isn't always practical (defacto monopolies) is facing competition hence creating some interesting questions.
<quote> Typically, when it drastically over-produces, it can cause blackouts. This is amplified by the fact that solar produces its maximum amount of output at a time when people don't consume the most electricity.</quote>

This is a pretty regionalistic viewpoint - in many parts of the world the peak solar production and peak electrical usage are highly correlated due to air conditioning use.
I know it's "cool" to hate PHP, but anyone asking this question obviously hasn't used it. It's a tool that solves problems fast and cheap. It's not for every application but it fits for some VERY well. And most of PHP's problems are the newb programmers it attracts, just like JavaScript. The language itself has tons of quirks but you can write good PHP just as well as anything else, and you can solve certain problems very fast with it.
Think about anything with a heating element in it (if electric):
* Water heater
* Dryer
* Oven/range
* Microwave
* Coffee pot
* Toaster [oven]

Those can get "spiky" depending on who is in the house.
Especially when you're dealing with physical infrastructure (like power lines) that has relatively fixed upkeep costs regardless of demand.
Yup. Good job nitpicking and completely ignoring the point.
> Github banned Brendan Eich

What in the world are you talking about? A google search shows nothing, but this. https://github.com/BrendanEich