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No, I think a separate type-level language is a good thing, so long as my data-level language remains Turing complete (and thus undecidable). I would much rather be forced by the syntax -- by the construction of the language itself -- into a guaranteed decidable subset, rather than have to reason things out myself and get frustrated when the compiler doesn't agree with me (or when it used to agree with me and doesn't any longer!).

Now, there's no reason that the type-level language can't be exactly a subset of the data-level language. I'd just rather not play guess-and-check decidability with the compiler the same way I currently have to play guess-and-check optimizability.
If I noticed a repository was classified incorrectly I'd open an issue asking the maintainer to rectify it, if it was possible. They would likely do this simply because someone asked. If not that, then simply for it to appear correctly in the searches.

Why open source at all, what do they get out of it?
> This is basically just communism

Even the Stoics regarded working for money as a form of slavery
Actually, the least interesting part of the story for me was that he died from poisoning. I was entertained by the rest of the story, that he decided to quit everything and leave everything behind, to start a new life of some description. I wouldn't describe that as a story of someone's downfall. I'm not sure I would go as far as to say the entire film was about someone's downfall and I find it rather strange that you do too. It was a story of being free.
Self fulfilling.
"The only major differences between a slave and a worker is that a worker is only a slave at work while a slave is a slave twenty-four hours a day"

I'm not a fan of the slave comparison in this context because the word has meaning beyond 'loss of self-determination'.

Moving beyond that, though - it is certainly untrue that a worker only loses self-determination while at work.

What you do, and where you are, during the most productive hours of your life fundamentally shapes you as a person.

It impacts on where you live. It impacts on activities outside of work, because units of time are not fungible. You're less rested, you're restricted to things that can happen after 5pm, etcetera.
The Billionaire King of the PC World
Who don't necessarily need it, because they don't live in the US...
I've wondered for a long time now: If battery tech can improve enough construction might look like renting an army of thousands or millions of small worker bots, with a couple guys at the command truck, or whatever, coordinating the movement of dirt or the depositing of materials, each bot moving a gram or two at a time.
Benefits of systemd over daemontools for services management in Linux
Would you use daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools) for service management in Linux or would you prefer something like systemd/upstart? What benefits can I get by migrating to systemd fom daemontools
or here's an opportunity to start contributing to open source!
Tablet magazine starts charging commenters
"Named patient" does not mean they have to pay full cost for their meds and I'm not sure where you get that from. It's not in the link you supply. That link talks about the cost to the NHS, not to the patient.

> In the meantime, NHS England has established an interim scheme under which new patients – around 20 a year – will get the drug and existing patients already on it will continue to receive it. But patients not currently receiving Eculizumab, such as Dianne, will have to wait for Nice's decision.

The newspaper distorts what actually happened. New patients got it, and existing patients with critical need got it.

Nothing in the link you supplied suggests that patients had to pay more for the med - the link does say that some people were denied the medication. The reason for that denial was a lack of communication from the manufacturer.

http://www.nice.org.uk/news/press-and-media/high-cost-of-tre...

"“Eculizumab is an effective treatment for aHUS. The NHS has already recognised this by making it available on an interim basis, pending the outcome of NICE's appraisal. However, before we can make a confident recommendation for routine use, which we estimate would cost the NHS about £58 million in the first year, rising to over £80 million in 5-years, we need more information."

"Alexion insisted that its information about the overall cost of eculizumab be kept confidential and so NICE is unable to share these details of the Alexion submission with stakeholders. We're disappointed about this decision, for which we have not had an adequate explanation."

But note that people who were critically ill did get the med, for the £8 NHS prescription charge. From your link

> A spokesperson for NHS England, said: "Patients who are critically ill and who need Eculizumab urgently will receive it."

So: people who needed it were getting it. At first they were getting it under the named patient scheme and they only had to pay the normal NHS prescription fee; now it's available under an interim commissioning policy from NHS England - so, again, patients only pay normal NHS prescription fees. For a short time some people who were ill but not dying did not get it, but that gap in provision was caused by the manufacturer not communicating with the regulators.

Since you mention the US: how many people were denied this expensive med by their insurance companies?
Reactions to “Has modern Linux lost its way?” and the value of simplicity
Well it's both. Copyright crap eliminates the market they were in. Then they were forced to compete in a different market with established players (e.g Dropbox)
I agree but an Android build takes hours and hours and has a complex setup. Even a pretty dedicated Android user would prefer a binary.
I think the author meant that you don't want two separate Turing-complete languages, one for values at runtime, and another for values at compile time.
I recently think one reason that makes Apple to offer larger screen iPhone is that the Apple Watch may compensate the need for a single hand-held device experience.
Yes, exactly. Strange as it is to say, possibly the closest thing running on modern hardware would be TempleOS.
The Laracon EU Website
LOL, best to program and host stuff yourself than rely on an ad agency like Google.
FEC Chair wants to regulate political speech on the Internet
Similar art on the US website: http://laracon.us/
He doesn't really indicate that he can afford it. min $500/month for 6 months is $3k. Trip to UK, staying with family, is far less than $3k.
FWIW, all Arista hardware is AWESOME. They run a lightly modified very minimal linux operating systems that is very clearly (not even really hidden) Fedora. I got the privilege / opportunity to reverse engineer one of these to see if it was hackable (ie: add custom hardware into them or run apps directly on the switches).

Pretty much the entirety of the Arista userspace is python with all of the magic really in their ASICS. Truly, I've not seen many better engineered pieces of equipment. At the time (I did this > 4 years ago), the Arista switches had dual core AMD Athlons with a few G of ram. They were willing to put more RAM in one, or let us upgrade it. For a so called "vendor product" Arista clearly gets it. They have some really solid Linux guys working for them. When you get the pleasure of using their python apis or pull one apart, it shows that they know what they're doing. It isn't completely insane to think of running apps directly on the switches when they are simply x86_64 Fedora boxes with some fancy asics and a lot of interfaces.
And what company owns Node.js again?
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New Smart City Global Hackathon Encourages Dev API Use
My biggest annoyance to way-too-much-positivism is at Chicago's Open Gov Hacknight (http://opengovhacknight.org/). The whole point of it is to use data from FOIAs or 'data portals' to either fix, or raise awareness on issues. Very few people seem to have any genuine interest in making the world a better place, with a constant happy-outlook.

The major focus seems to be about making websites with the latest frameworks, using the latest nosql databases, using AWS. That probably accounts for about 60% of the crowd. 30% of the crowd doesn't know how to code, and 10% of the projects will have a genuinely strong impact.

That's not to say that their work doesn't have a net positive effect on the city. However, considering the kinds of minds that go to these events, I feel that their time could be better spent in working on larger projects to make this a better place to live.
Fitbit Acknowledges Latest Devices Are Causing Rashes
Do you have HTTPS Everywhere installed? Their JavaScript is hosted on HTTP, so it gets blocked with a mixed content warning on Firefox (probably on Chrome too).
While I understand... plenty of people have chosen "not windows" for server-side projects for just that reason.
This article is trash. First he makes a dumb argument that comes down to, what's $2 in exchange for the warm fuzzies of imagining where you'll move with that money.

And then goes on to explain why now's the best time to waste your money if you like wasting your money because of the ridiculously obvious point that the jackpot is larger now.

This is abysmal garbage and the author should feel bad and so should everyone who upvoted this. I rarely ever get mad but the lottery is one of my biggest pet peeves, and this brings no insight or elaboration on the issue besides, "gee wouldn't it be great to instantly have millions of dollars."
Wow, that link is really something. I never would have thought that someone would release code into the wild without ever running it.
Where can one go to learn lab chemistry or biology? High energy particle physics? The list can go on and on...
It is solved -- just not widely employed.

There is no official stance on package versions, because the core Go development doesn't really need/use it.

The Go 1 compatibility guarantees no backwards incompat changes to stdlib. Experimental package development occurs at golang.org/x/foo ("x" for experimental, presumably). Those packages are unstable, and there are no versions. If they change at all you have to update.

People follow the 'official' approach blindly, but aren't experienced enough to know what the tradeoff's in the official approach are.
When we read the word enterprise we probably think of older, slow-moving bureaucracies, like IBM, HP, or even Red Hat. But it’s been a long time since companies like those have been technical leaders. Decades, in some cases. Now, companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Facebook, Spotify, or even SoundCloud set the tone for our industry. These modern enterprises tend to share a few characteristics...

Ouch! I work for HP and while I agree that we're not exactly a nimble, fast moving startup I think it's not a good comparison. IBM and HP still build a lot of physical things while the listed "modern" enterprises are primarily SW. Google would be the exception here but from an engineering point of view Google uses it's vast war chest to play around with very cool HW but isn't much concerned with running a business based on that. So, I hope Go has a good run of it but it's not going to build your next printer.
I hate the argument that, on the grounds that the aggregate money spent on lottery tickets is typically larger than the aggregate money paid out on lottery tickets, purchasing a lottery ticket is inherently irrational.

The same is true of insurance, yet few people consider the purchase of insurance to be intrinsically irrational by the same argument.

People are free to have whatever preferences they want. Some people prefer a life with a slim possibility of a tremendous windfall (and but a negligible loss in the more likely alternative) to a life of certain continuation with the status quo grind. More power to them.
Facebook Introduces Own Designs for Networking Equipment
Pixel perfect precision: A comprehensive handbook on digital design
The most common argument for VC 1x liquidation preference is to avoid the situation where the VC looses while the founder gets rich. Say the VC puts in 5M, gets 20% equity. The founder sells for 5M, gets 4M, big success for the founder, total failure for the VC.

Now the counter argument would be that whether its a 0x or a 1x it's a loss for the VC, as they're in the game of getting a 100x. And the founder's 'win' is only a win relative to the general population, they also lost as they could have made so much more if things went right.

So 1x liquidation is mostly to prevent a founder from trying to game the system. But I can totally see how it could feel unfair if there wasn't any ill behavior founder-side.

The issue of employee stock [options] vs founder stock is a somewhat separate issue.
What non-dogmatic evidence have you provided to the contrary?

The article lays out a perspective. You dont have to agree with that perspective but you sure need to do better than keep saying its not true.
The lottery is a tax on people with bad math skills.
Good eye. But it's still my understanding that the attack from the church fathers didn't occur until much later, around the time of the Galileo affair.
This is really cool.

There is a community around DIY electronics. It is easy to buy prototyping boards, chips, 3D print, laser cut, and fab PCBs.

And presumably, large companies have a pipeline for manufacturing goods.

But for someone who wants to go from "small scale assembling products by hand" to "doing a run of 1000 pieces", it's hard to even know what one's options are for productionizing hardware.

We talk about the fact doing hardware is becoming just as easy as doing software, and making it easy to run a "production deployment" is a natural next step in this trend.

I'm interested to see what kind of data you all collect!
Weird for the article not to mention http://darkpatterns.org/

It was the first source I know of that started a compilation of these.
You don't have to have bad math skills to play the lottery. For example, I am a mathematician who has on occasion chosen to purchase lottery tickets. And I see nothing at all irrational about this.
YC Open-Source Sales Agreement with Formating Freebie
Saw the docs and said, why not?

For the most part I tried to stick with common fonts, included in most computers to ensure maximum fidelity.

Available here:

http://www.grvnt.com/ycsalesagreement
Well, I guess the 'previous thread' comment being the most upvoted comment in this thread is kind of telling.

You do the math.
Let me clarify a bit:

One of the things I love about Go is that I don't have to learn all kinds of conceptually heavy frameworks to get real work done. I read the stdlib docs and get to coding.

I've also found that when I'm tempted to stray from Go idioms and do something too generically, I tend to get punished by the language. So I've learned to just suck it up and do everything the "Go way". I don't consider this a negative--rather that Go is just not very tolerant of other language styles. You have to accept this.
I don't understand how this could've got to the front page.

It was written in 2011. Why front page today? Is this genuinely a popular idea or is HN being manipulated somehow?
Except in this case, the authority has predetermined the roles of the team, and has its hand on the money faucet the whole time. This wasn't a condition of no authority, it was a condition of minimal interference by the authority, which is more aptly termed laissez-faire, from the French for "let [them] do [it]".

The article describes placing a ball at the top of a hill, and conveys a sort of perplexed astonishment that it reaches the bottom without needing any additional pushing.
I'm going to assume you talk about Kyrgyzstan, simply because I've traveled there. I will also assume you're a junior developer with very little cash to invest.

Lots of services won't work because they require a working payment system (credit cards). 20 years ago we started with payment via SMS or the phone bill or calling an expensive phone number for small transactions because not enough people had credit cards.

Party photos: hire somebody or go yourself to parties and take photos, give out a "secret" code. Those with the code can view the photos of that day, everybody else needs to pay (or another time limit). Become the best "party of last night" website. You might get invited to more parties, sponsorships, free drinks. It will also attract competition.

Ride sharing like http://www.blablacar.com/. I'm sure the classified website already have a category where you can offer or search for rides. But you can create a better service with a map, user ratings and pre-payment.

Online dermatologist. Actually that idea is quite new. Users take photos of their skin a doctor (you need to work with one) tells them if it's ok (for example: just wash more) or if they need a creme or if they urgently need to see a doctor. I've read a large percentage is users with sexual transmittable deceases and thus the photos are their private parts. The users are too afraid or live too far away from a doctor. But they are willing to pay. I think I've read $40. It's also good business for the doctor. https://us.klara.com/, http://medcitynews.com/2014/05/dermatologists-virtual-visit-..., http://skinaccess.com/
This is something that has always sketched me out about the Android rooting and moding scene. "Download this suspect binary from rapid share and run it as root" seemed to be a cornerstone of it.

The warez/cracks scene was essentially the same thing, and yet if you knew where you were getting things from, it was quite safe. The antipiracy groups have since been spreading plenty of FUD (and some possibly attaching malware to releases, I don't know) and working with the AV/security industry to make you believe otherwise, however.

Just as a warez/cracks group would be called out for it and very publicly shamed if they put malware in their releases, the same would happen in the Android scene. It's true that there are many rather clueless users (known as "leechers" in the vernacular), but there are also many knowledgeable ones and all it takes is one to give sufficient evidence of malice to trigger the "immune reaction".
YC Open-Source Sales Agreement with eye pleasing formatting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9036635
A Universal Basic Income could change the relationship to work so that people had the free time they needed to get educated, practice, and then come to markets with real value to contribute. We are transitioning to an excellence oriented society that tolerates gaps so that bursts of socially valuable creativity might be captured.
Ruby has been decreasing/flat for years on every langpop site I know, it's not only github.
For example on Tiobe and :

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2015/...

https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=p...
It's the same with things like game trainers, save editors, etc.. Sign up and give your e-mail address to this forum so that you can see the download link for this file. Which is an outdated version. The new version is in another forum thread on a separate forum, but you have to register to see links. The link is to a rapidshare download page, which rest assured is totally legit.

I honestly don't understand why more people don't create Github accounts and use that to distribute, or at least use their ISP's free web space. Most of these tools have names, are well-known, and are the top hit on Google, but none of them have an actual website that you can go to to see if they've released new versions, something for other games, etc.

It's all very sketch.
Reserve raises $15M
+1 for anything from OffSec I failed their OSCP once and after some reassessing I will not be taking for another year or so. However, there are many companies that list if not require a CISSP and other CISSP holding individuals are hesitant to degrade the efficacy of the cert.
The US government spends more on healthcare per capita than countries with "socialised medicine". That funding is skewed to the over-65s on the Medicare system - the group where you see most cancer. That large spend on over 65s is what gives the US good cancer survival rates.
The entire Apple's New Market section is muddled. Apple will "leave smartphones behind" for "foundational services" which are accessed...through a smartphone.
The article is also relevant to any Australian's who want to piece together what their government is up to.

> ...one slide within the document hints at the existence of an Australian extension of EONBLUE operated by Australian Signals Directorate.
Reading Comprehension Strategies to Teach Your Child
Put That in Monterey/Electronic Agent/ Phone Slave '82 (VPRI 275)
Do "formatting freebies" include breaking the layout of the page numbers? :p
Just use local heating (Heat Tape) on your pipes too. No need to heat the whole crawlspace just to keep your pipes from freezing.
Hardware support specifically is often cited as one of the ways that "desktop linux" would benefit from joe-sixpack users. That is what has always been lacking from "desktop linux".

Hardware support in official ROMs from phone manufactures is good of course, but what is freely available to the Android community is much worse. It turns out joe-sixpack doesn't really give any shits about hardware support being open-sourced.

It's nice that Google has given back some stuff, but that's peanuts compared with what the "year of the linux desktop" meme promises.
if you work as a software engineer pretty much by definition you are part of a tiny, tiny minority of workers in the world, so perhaps you should try thinking about the experience of workers in the third world via empathy?
I'm guessing you must be Mormon to take offense. For all the glory of God that religion may bring, there's a lot of less "praiseworthy" elements. It's important to acknowledge all of it.
He's not as active, but he's still around...
> Finally, I think you're much more familiar with Mayhem than I am, but I call into question the bugs Mayhem found. How many were high severity and/or actually exploitable? (I'm actually asking because I've seen conflicting reports from both Mayhem and Michal Zalewski on the matter).

Exploitable? Every. Single. One. Each came with a unique PoC demonstrating control of execution.

> However, I think that it's hard to know who to partner with. For all the organizations that you can partner with to produce fruitful research, you have many who are trying to make a quick buck on the trendiness of security. We don't have a lot of Mayhems. We have a lot of Acunetixes.

This sounds like you simply haven't investigated where or how to get money for R&D!
Are house visits by doctors a normal thing in France? I recall being told about it years back and it made me very envious.
40GbE uses approximately the same copper cables as Infiniband. There's probably more used IB equipment floating around than used 40GbE, but otherwise I'd go with Ethernet.
Contrasting the vaccination issues in California against the reactions to Ebola outbreaks serves as a stark reminder of how ignorant people can be. I'm all for freedom to choose but this is really getting to the point of ludicrous.
Interesting article, I was hoping that dark matter would prove to be observable in our solar system.

I'm more curious about dark energy though. Hopefully in my lifetime, we can figure out what dark energy is. I'm curious what dark energy does to time since it accelerates the expansion of space. The next golden age of science resides in our understanding of the unknown matter and energy that we are currently observing.