skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long distance comm latencies become really significant when you have combined closing speeds well in excess of Mach 2, and aircraft that can accelerate laterally at dozens of g's. Try to solve that with line of sight lasers, and you make yourself vulnerable to an entirely different class of countermeasures. There will be a place for remotely piloted drones, but history has shown that pilots will disappear more slowly than the pundits predict.
Is 1-3$ enough? If we had to invoice "the internet" and OSS to users instead of financing it with ads, wouldn't it require something starting above 1. $40/month for the charity websites and 2. $600 per machine (the equivalent of the cost of Windows) for OSS software?
This is actually about pushing Google ads! The idea is clearly that sites are required to have Google ads normally in order to participate in Contributor!

So, this is the opposite of people paying to reduce ads. This is actually a scheme to promote more ads.

People who want to donate to creative work should donate to projects that treat us well by forgoing ads and privacy-invading tracking. Google Contributor is a donation system exclusively for projects that engage in these anti-features. It's a ransom / pay-to-stop-being-annoyed, which means it is rewarding sites for annoying you in the first place.
Most leasing contracts are on a 3 year basis.
Some related news:

In San Francisco, ESPLER (Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research, http://esplerp.org/, https://twitter.com/esplerp) filed suit yesterday against several Bay Area DAs and the California Attorney General, in an attempt to get the primary CA law against prostitution overturned on constutitional grounds. This is on a similar basis

Article about this on VICE: http://www.vice.com/read/a-new-lawsuit-aims-to-decriminalize...
Another article: http://48hills.org/2015/03/03/lawsuit-seeks-to-throw-out-law...
More details: https://twitter.com/EscortingAdvice/status/57316383250533171...
Summary and full text of the brief: http://esplerp.org/here-is-the-brief/
Legal thoughts from the lead lawyer: https://twitter.com/GillSperlein/status/573268807629721600

If you support this effort, you can help fund the legal fees here: http://www.gofundme.com/liberateliberate

There's also a follow-up article from Reason that relates the shutdown of MyRedBook to the shutdown of Silk Road, and how both are a continuing war on citizen safety:
Reason article: http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/03/governent-war-on-online-vi...

Finally, a related article from VICE on why there's no Uber for sex work. Essentially, at least in the US, decriminalization needs to happen first.
VICE article: http://www.vice.com/read/why-theres-no-uber-for-sex-work-304...
Gratipay is a more community-centered and honorable site compared to Patreon (in that Patreon is a proprietary platform with mediocre terms of service). I do think Patreon does good work in many respects, but it's a shame that they get all the attention when other sites are more deserving.
The TI-92 with its keyboard was banned not because it would help the test taker, but because of a worry that the full keyboard would enable copying the test to send to someone in a later timezone.
The bug thing is about security holes, right? I think the comparison with Knuth is apples-to-oranges.

Or is it actually the case that, since the first public releases of djbdns and qmail, no bugs, security or otherwise, have been found?
Honest question here: Why do I need a book about Go when all the doc is living online? that just feels so 90's.
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A long distance hypervelocity missile, using the same rockets that now can threaten aircraft carriers from many hundreds of miles away, would then be able to take out many squadrons of fighting craft with a single warhead.

There will be a massive replacement of pilots by AI and remote control. At the same time, pilots will persist for longer than some of us technologists think, because it will take us a very long time to surpass or even match the flexibility of a human being on the scene.
DO NOT FEEL BAD FOR BLOCKING ADS! Ads are not respectful to you, usually track you, and are generally deceptive, promote shit you shouldn't actually bother with usually…

Manually donating is indeed a problem, but if you want to send a subscription donation, you don't need Google Contributor. And anyway, you should donate to the sites that forgo ads in the first place — they are the ones that deserve it.
Functional Programming in Scala would be my suggestion:

http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Scala-Paul-Chiu...

I would consider it an updated and more practically minded version of SICP, which is of course amazing as well but not the sort of book you asked for.
The team are also working on an experimental VM with support for coroutines and channels, threads will also have growable stacks, that will allow a similar programming style as used in go. See: https://github.com/dart-lang/fletch

Async/await is just sugar, it doesn't actually change APIs at all. Note C# also added async/await long after their first release.
Wow three letters, so many stories in my head.

Here are my top 5 reasons why I think qmail + daemontools + djbdns is great :

1. bugs free code ( well almost ) ;
2. fast & memory efficient ;
3. following "everything is a file" philosophy ;
4. easy to configure and more

I've been using this suite for almost 10 years now. I've never found any alternative. BIND was too complicated in terms of configuration for me and also got updates almost every 2 weeks ( 8 years back it was much much harder than doing "apt-get ..." )

Qmail is also flawless piece of software. It basically taught me how you should separate processes and how to use linux accounts properly for the daemons. Amazing.

Finally the only thing I rely on right now is daemontools. I'm using it for all of my production nodejs websites and even for a tool that I call "deployer" which automatically stops, updates and starts a daemon from the suite.
I was shocked (and impressed) when I looked at some of djb's code and saw that he put his "the return value of every syscall must be checked" view into practice so consistently that every single printf() (not only fprintf()!) was inside an if block that checked whether it succeeded in writing to stdout or not.

Of course, printf() does have a return value ("Upon successful return, these functions return the number of characters printed"), and it can fail... but it takes a considerable consistency of purpose to decide to deal with that possibility explicitly every single time.
Hijacking the thread: Anyone made already experiences with HTTP2, Node, Express and Nginx together?
Fancy socks is a silicon valley thing according to this New York Times article since people normally dress down. If everyone is wearing t-shirt and jeans, socks become your differentiator.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley-...
Spot on!

> How to be a 10x engineer: Incur technical debt fast enough to appear 10x as productive as the ten engineers tasked with cleaning it up.

We have a guy in our onsite team that keeps making our user facing application suck with his changes one day and then fix those every other day. So lots of git commits but limited productivity in the team, and a very tough maintainence task for every developer in the team.
Except that Gratipay is an ethical community site, whereas Google Contributor is only about rewarding sites for annoying people with ads such that people are willing to pay for them to go away. Google Contributor is about Google pushing everyone to use their system only. So, it's actually not like Gratipay at all, except for the idea of ongoing donations, which even Paypal had long before Gratipay ever started.
Your browser wouldn't even use pipelining if it was supported. The reason HTTP/2 exists is because pipeling ended up not being a solution.
Congratulations, you've just handed ownership of your electronic life over to Facebook. Now your access to the internet is gated by Facebook. What? You've used a nickname or an inaccurate photo or you're a sex offender or a drug offender or you've had a DUI or enough people have flagged you? Say goodbye to your entire internet identity, time to start from scratch - assuming FB doesn't recognize your IP address and ban you.

The risks of submitting an email address are overblown. Websites are terrified that you will click the 'spam' button. They don't put those little 'unsubscribe' links at the bottom because they want you to click on them.

I was one of the early adopters of the Facebook platform and 'social login'. Now I think it's a menace. They aren't doing anyone, except themselves, any favors with this.
How old is the release you're talking about? I started using Meteor about 18 months ago, and I don't have a clue about what you're referring to. Security has been a complete non-issue for every release I've ever seen.

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> I know that's been fixed now, but so many people like myself never gave it a second chance.

But what's stopping you from looking now? Meteor security is great, and you should give it another look. One interesting bit: there are only 16 srp implementations listed on the srp page on wikipedia, and Meteor is one of them! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
Whenever you think "nobody is doing this", you should start by assuming you're wrong. You really think that in this giant global world, nobody has thought to build a standard way to support sites with donations? There's already a handful of sites with decent history already. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean nobody was already doing this.
If only djb's programs would write human-readable log files...
Yeah, it seems to me most Uncle Bob fans throw all common sense out of the window and start following him blindly in all his extremist opinions

This is a very good reason I'm not inclined to read his books (and if they're like his tweets, really not worth it, for me)

Code Complete OTOH is a nice book, that if it has a fault is that of "not taking sides" and maybe being too generic, but with good advice.

Design Patterns? Yawn
I was thinking the same thing. I'd like the choice to rebalance my donations at the end of the month. Stackoverflow (if it were a charity) is immensely useful to my business while BuzzFeed isn't. If donations are proportional to clicks and time spent, the we maintain an incentive for clickbait and low-value content.
Is that because art is incomprehensible? But really the UX is not that bad -- there are filters across the top to reduce your view, restricting the results by filtering by Languages, Toolkits, Platforms, APIs, and Project Types. Seems reasonable.

For example, filtering by Toolkits>threejs shows some neat dataviz projects using threejs[1].

[1] https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/?q=threejs
Actually, you're rewarding the sites for using Google Ads in the first place, thereby encouraging the pushing of more ads on everyone else. You may not be the product, but you're a tool not a customer.
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I like looking at OdinMS's source for nostalgia.
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As I understand, there has been less than 10 or so non-security bugs each in djbdns and qmail, defined as programming mistakes, not intentional design decisions people disagree with. This is comparable to (or even better than) Knuth.

I don't think there is a handy list of bugs though.
The problem that exists for Google is sites that don't use Google ads. This solves that problem because now Google can say, "you may not like our ads, but all these people want to just pay you, and you can get their funds if you first show our ads by default".
Native means ur apps gets compiled to binary during compilation process, and not scripts being interpreted by a vm at runtime.
Pretty sure the demo server supports keep-alive, just as all Go net/http servers do by default: https://github.com/bradfitz/http2/blob/master/h2demo/h2demo....
It is no different from the endless list of command line options for compilers.
There will be a few wrinkles, as there are local laws that apply to filming pornography.

From what I've read, it's become difficult enough to make money in porn, that many porn actresses are basically using porn as a means of publicity to promote themselves as high priced prostitutes. It wouldn't surprise me if there was already a website as you describe.
How will Wikipedia make anything off this? You have to show Google ads by default in order to participate. This is more about punishing sites for not using Google Ads than about funding creative work.

Google would like everyone's donations to be exclusively given to sites that use Google ads and not to sites that forgo advertising like Wikipedia.
Instead of "considerate", you might as well label those actions "convenient for me". Here are a few things I might label considerate:

* considerate: walk slowly so you don't startle others

* considerate: keep a respectful distance to people walking in front of you

* considerate: adjust your walking speed to the average to reduce the number of collisions

* considerate: take a less congested route

* considerate: leave work 5 minutes earlier so you're not in such a hurry

* considerate: smile at people to make their day brighter

* considerate: let other people walk whereever they want

* considerate: don't expect other people to be considerate
Maybe the algorithm can make better recommendations using data from multiple web apps but I suspect that it could be a commercial choice leading to a paid service (think about NewRelic). It's completely legit, nevertheless I'll prefer to keep my usage data inside my own box.
Wikipedia has no ads to make go away. Google Contributor is only for sites that use Google ads in the first place.

Google wants the power to tell sites that they have to use Google ads before they can get these Contributor donations. That's the whole point. So it will only hurt honorable sites like Wikipedia that forgo ads.
Looks nice, but it's even more expensive than Mailchimp unless you have your own mail server.
If you take money for an illegal service, much less move it or do anything with it (spend it), they're going to get you on money laundering.
I wonder how many people upvoted this solely because their name was on one of the lists? I know I did.
I'm Australian and also thought of food being burnt.
As someone who has built this (one of my sites, http://voo.st/, is literally the poster child for Persona+Facebook login), it's practically impossible to unify accounts unless you get an email address up front. Otherwise you end up with separate accounts and a post-facto merge process that almost always requires some level of administrator touch. Yes, you can solve any problem with a big enough customer support budget. Not helpful.
When it comes to searing a cooked steak, how fast will the heating element go from low even heating to searing temperature?

Also, please consider making all measures defaultable to standard metric measures. I have some appliances (e.g., the Polyscience Sous Vide Professional) that support metric measures, but where I have to choose it every time. Very annoying and seems to be not uncommon in stuff form the US.
If you want a copy of the source you can get it via the Open Source tab on most VMware products download page. You'll find the open source distributed for ESXi under the VMware vSphere Open Source group on this page -> https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_...

It doesn't require a snail mail letter as far as I can tell.
There have been several non-security bugs. So far, I think there has been just one security bug in djbdns: http://securityandthe.net/2009/03/05/security-issue-in-djbdn...
Eric Omuro was charged but not convicted on 24 counts of money laundering. He eventually pleaded guilty to a single federal charge of "using a facility of interstate commerce with the intent to facilitate prostitution".

This looks to be a charge under the federal Mann act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act), which criminalizes using a facility of interstate commerce (i.e. the internet) to promote any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense. That offense would be the CA law against prostitution 647(b) (http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/647.html)

The Mann act has an ugly history of being used to convict all sorts of consensual sexual activity. For example, black men with white girlfriends (against state laws criminalizing interracial sex), and even sex outside of marriage (against state laws criminalizing adultery and premarital sex).
From their diagram about Discourse it seems it could be a 30% boost.
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If these guys are worried about the price of MailChimp, ConvertKit is likely to give them conniptions.

It's designed for "full featured" more than "cheap."
For me, I think the biggest one was Refactoring by Martin Fowler, which you can find here: http://refactoring.com/

This post almost seems to be turning out to be an AskHN, with everyone chiming in on their 'career-changing' programming books.
> It's a beginner's book, not for someone who have been trying to improve their code (and processes around it) already for some years.

Yes -- a beginner's book for someone starting now, but essential for everybody in the industry nonetheless.

Pragmatic Programmer has influenced enough people that it has changed the industry for better. These ideas and practices may sound common sense now, but were not until popularized -- I suspect -- by Pragmatic Programmer. If you found good practices already entrenched in the ecosystem when you joined the industry, the roots can be traced back to a few good books such as Pragmatic Programmer. Even though these ideas may not have been ground breaking, nobody now needs to spend time convincing their peers about these practices from first principles. Time and energy saved for everyone.

My point is, I have seen enough [senior] programmers to whom clean code etc. does not come naturally, and they always benefit from reading this book. Not that they aren't smart, just that someone needs to present a good case which this book does very well.
>There are lots of women who are coerced into prostitution, either directly or structurally.

"[s]tructurally"? What does that mean? I agree forcing a woman into prostitution should be against the law, but if she see's it as the best of her options then that's her decision.

>That's a bunch of hyperbolic crap too, though.

No, not really. Almost all sex is transactional at some level. Women who don't sell it for cash don't want to compete with professionals in the same way manufacturers try to keep out low-priced imports.
I don't think the principle is that they shouldn't harm smaller companies. There is no problem with their current approach if they don't feel social responsibility, but if they do (and they claim to), then the current approach does seem a violation of that. I don't have all the answers as to how they should approach this, but it's not difficult to see that something is broken in how they are evaluating new products & services. It's not just that they end up abandoning a lot of them; it's what they do inbetween, as well. They seem to lack commitment to them.

Examples:

Could they really not have transformed Google Reader into something valuable?

Did they really promote Google Wallet for Digital Goods sufficiently to expect any sort of success from it? (I used it and the UX and fees were the best around; promotion was non-existent)

Did Google Helpouts get enough of a push, either?

This new thing is great if Google are going to get behind it and stick with it until it's successful. Their current track-record suggests that they will not.
Yes, that is why there is the NDK, aka Native Development Kit.

Java only became native code on Android with the ART bytecode to native compiler.

However, native can also mean, native to the platform. In this case, Java even with Dalvik is native to the Android platform.
There are cities in Southern California who have used anti-prostitution statutes to arrest people doing porn. It's logical, IMO, if a bit irregular.
I have to say - for parsers I really like the scala library parboiled2 ( http://git.io/xpg3 ). Its DSL for defining PEGs is very intuitive and should be easy to pick up for anyone.

Its also supposed to be pretty performant, although I have never seen a side by side comparison with ANTLR and friends.
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I can't remember the last non-trivial c++ program I wrote that I didn't use generic containers like std::vector or std::unordered_set, or the last java program where I didn't use List.
Empathy won't lead to a discovery, period. This isn't a forum to discuss our feelings about articles like this. The entire point of the 'hacker' culture is about fixing and changing things through action.
If you called with a serious offer, do you think you would be turned down?

Though I guess stuff like this happens even in sf. Que Tal -- a coffee shop in mission -- got kicked out by their landlord massively increasing rent in August 13. I walked past their old location a month ago and it was still empty, and it didn't look like there was construction going on. So the landlord has eaten 17+ months of rent so far.
True.

I'm sold. We need a law against having financial dealings with poor people. Think of the children.
The problem is that when you hire the services of a prostitute, you will probably have no idea about the situation of that person. Maybe this person is in charge of his/her life and is making a well-informed choice. But maybe this person is coerced into prostitution. In that case you will be financially supporting a very wrong thing, and you have no way of knowing. I think the question whether prostitution should be legal is much less important than the conclusion that being a customer is morally indefensible.
There is a thing called the Nordic Model, which is a third option.
So this is really interesting. I was curious about this awhile back and found this:

https://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/why-is-prostitutio...

So interestingly California is the only state in the union, at least as of 2008, where porn is strictly speaking legal. But note that the line of reasoning used to make it legal was that the person paying for the sex wasn't actually involved in the sex. So essentially you have a situation in which two adults engage in consensual sex and are paid by a third party for the performance.

Now one fun question that arises: what about single person production? The guy who pays a woman to sleep with him while he films it. Such first person sites definitely exist.

This leads to the second part which is a first amendment defense. Incidentally, I think this is where your scheme would fall apart.

In order to qualify as "speech" I would imagine a court would require some external purpose for the performance. Typically that would be a commercial one (selling porn). Although I would imagine it could be an artistic one (displaying the video in a show of some kind). Or using the video in some form of protest. The point being that to qualify as speech you have to actually be speaking to someone.

Simply making porn for your own amusement would fail that test, thus turning this into a more traditional prostitute/john relationship in the eyes of the court.

The more interesting thing is that this apparently hasn't been challenged in other states. I suspect because most state governments either lack standing (people aren't making commercial porn in their state.. or at least haven't been caught doing it) or that they think they'd generally fail a first amendment challenge.

I should also note I'm not a lawyer.
Also it might help answer the question of where did the water from Earth (and Mars) came from.