skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with Meteor was mainly that it started punching above its weight too soon. All these fancy demos and then you looked under the covers and it was... basically irresponsible from a security standpoint to ship anything that mattered on Meteor. I know that's been fixed now, but so many people like myself never gave it a second chance. And I wonder if it will ever really get that second chance or if something like it is what will get attention instead.

It's a cautionary tale about why you need to be very clear that your demo alpha isn't fit for general consumption yet. I think that, in the rush to get attention, the Meteor people didn't do a very good job of that. Therefore everyone who took a deep look thought they had uncovered a foul truth that Meteor wasn't what it was hyped to be. And they did. Because the people promoting it didn't talk about that.
Quite so. I didn't consider this aspect in my first post because it's a syntax error, not an ambiguity; unlike Javascript, Lua won't resolve your ambiguity for you.

I share your feeling about Lua being a bit more statement oriented than I'd like. Have you checked out Moonscript?
I grew up in Minneapolis and went to high school in downtown right off St. Anthony. I haven't lived there since 2006, but have been peripherally aware of the "revival" going on in Minneapolis and how it's been just a little bit different than other types of urban gentrification you see in other cities (like Seattle, where I'm living now). Minneapolis has always been a "friendly" city, so to me it's no surprise that something like this has popped up. This seems to be an investment instance where incentives are aligned in the right ways - community buy-in is necessary for this to work.

The homeowners who are members know that the healthier the commercial corridor is, the more their homes are worth.

Indeed, and I hope this continues. I spent a lot of my childhood driving to rural Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota and doing those drives now can be depressing. The failure of community banking has left the towns dotting the 212 between Minneapolis and Watertown destitute. Curious if there's any way to adapt this model to rural areas that are faced with things like the forced-consolidation of school districts, among other issues.
That's the general rate across all freemium games (1-5%).
Visio Diagram Printing, Export VDX to PDF and PNG Formats Are Enhanced Using Java
> When you're programming with exceptions you need to keep in mind a second hidden path of control flow

So ? Developers are completely used to it. Every time there is a conditional statement e.g. if/else we have to think about the other control flow. Likewise every time a method calls another method. And if that method is in a different class then you again have completely lost visibility. Developers are constantly dealing with control flows that go everywhere but straight down.

Java is the 2nd most popular language in the world so pretty sure developers have managed to cope with exceptions just fine.
These businesses are not non-profits. That's a common misconception about cooperatives.
Harrison Ford injured in plane crash
I'm the author of the ClojureScript port. I'd really love to hear from anyone who eventually uses it, as I'm getting it into shape so it can eventually be merged upstream.

All the tests pass and it works for my use case, but it'd be great to get some more data points.
This is the article that made me understand the value in React and that it was more than a way to pollute your JavaScript with markup: http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...

I hope it helps you as much as it did me.
The TL;DR argument against philosophical zombies is more like: if consciousness is non-causal (the consequence if p-zombies can exist), then the answer to the question "Why do I think I'm conscious" can not in any way make reference of the fact that you actually are conscious. Suppose we take the two parallel universes, and we run the same experiment in each, where the conscious and non-conscious doppelgangers are both asked the question "are you a conscious, self-aware human being?" Both of them will answer "yes" of course, and we can record and observe whatever we want about their brain states on so on, and get exactly the same results for both.

So, only one of the versions is correct, but it's only by coincidence! All the reasons that the conscious brain has to think it's a conscious human being, and answer "yes" to the question, are also in play in the zombie universe, which also answers "yes". The only difference is that in the "real" world the non-zombie brain happens to be right, for literally no reason at all.

And I think it's around this point you're supposed to realize the absurdity of the thought experiment.
My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason?

That's plausible. Firefox has been buggy as an insect colony in recent releases, and other browsers didn't seem to have any problem with it.

In case it's useful to know: the page was also very slow to zoom at first in Firefox but then when I tried again a minute or two later it seemed to be back to normal. Again, this was a very obvious difference.
intetionally or not demeaning a good company

It's sad that you can't handle a snarky comment (right or wrong) that was given in response to your own snarky comment. If you can't handle being poked and it pisses you off, don't poke others.

Also, you seem particularly offended that your altruism is being maligned, when you're also complaining that the GP was unaware that the action was altruistic in the first place (???).
Ask HN: How would you set up your own home email server?
What equipment would you buy? Would you buy 1U rack servers and put them in a rack case? Perhaps place a case itself in a large safe to protect from fire and intruders?

What distro would you use?

What sort of disks would you select?

And how about the in/out email stack itself? What's the most performant/consistent/private way to run your own SMTP and IMAP servers?
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/07/what-ben-franklin-really-...

Interesting, thanks!
Oracle starts bundling adware for OS X version of Java
My experience with learning Go so far has involved:

* Do the tour (tour.golang.org)

* Read 'How to Write Go Code'

* Try to write a simple, concurrent program (I went with a web crawler)

* Read 'Effective Go', stdlib code

And now I'm trying to make the concurrent web crawler distributed! It's a lot of fun so far.
No, because it's a violation of the law. The federal government is supposed to keep records of everything they do, for several reasons :

1) they are accountable to the people. Granted this is a principle. At some point in the future, everything the federal government did will become open knowledge.

2) It must be possible to get them in front of the justice system. This is a basic principle of a separation-of-powers democracy. The justice system is, by law, entitled to access any and all documents, emails, everything any agency has (just so we're clear : not talking about the judge down the street, although they have some access, but the supreme court has full, unquestionable, access)

3) FOIA (freedom of information act). Citizens and others can petition the justice system to make government documents public. Unless the justice system and the federal government agree something can not be made public, it is made public.

This is extremely prominently mentioned on every computer system anywhere near the federal government. Record keeping requirements this, email archival that.

Ms. Hillary Clinton did not miss these requirements. She knowingly violated the law and conducted official government business in an illegal manner. Ms. Clinton knowingly, and with the aid of dozens of people working for her on the public's dime violated the law. In theory the minimum punishment for this is to become unelectable for 5 years, but "somehow" I doubt that will happen. Also there seems little doubt that the emails she will make public will be a filtered version of the original.

This is comparable to fraud (though technically not fraud) : if you did this as a CEO of a publicly traded company, it would be considered fraud, and you could very well go to jail for that.
Dieter Rams 10 Principles of “Good Design”
Does something like this exist for Javascript? In particular I am looking for a function that tests whether a character is CJK or not.
Well, it's still strictly better than all the templating engines used in PHP for... well, no good reason. You have equivalent, or sometimes even shorter, syntax in PHP, and with templating engines, it always ends up with developers working around engine's limitation in some ways. Why use something underpowered for the task where you could use an actual programming language?
Citation needed. This is flat out wrong.
> If everything is mass market then there's no individualism or culture.

This is just a total misunderstanding of what culture is.
Why is the DOM slow?
What can be added (or removed) to help to help it approach native responsiveness.

Please note, "just get rid of it" isn't realistic. Given where we are, what can be done, that's the challenge.
Essay 2: Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur
You've had us looking for your model of label-maker :)
I didn't bother to read it all, but all that stuff makes me feel apathy. I very much believe, that VMWare did something wrong. Maybe even illegal. I believe they deserve to be punished for that. But what I see here doesn't look like punishment at all.

What does that solve? Whom does it help? For VMWare it's just professional risk, they have their lawyers, they know their business. So even if it ends up extremely bad for them (which I doubt) it will be just "nasty day at work" and they'll recover somehow. And sure as hell it won't be tragic for EMC (if they notice it at all). The "victim" won't be rewarded as well, because "victims" are ordinary Linux-kernel contributors scattered over the world.

So what the whole thing really is: gathering money to feed some lawyers, who might not look as bad as VMWare when you read all that story, but in fact are far less useful for society than even VMWare, who is supposed to be the evil guy here.

It just makes me think how pointless all that stuff is. It's depressing.
The Most Important Software Innovations 1837 - 2004 (scroll down to table in section 4):

http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html
Facebook posts about job land US contractor in Emirates jail
This isn't really germane to the p-zombie thought experiment, but:

Indistinguishability does entail identity. If I have a sphere of iron X, and a sphere of iron Y which is atom-for-atom, electron-for-electron, subatomic-particle-for-subatomic-particle identical to sphere X, and I place sphere X in position A, and sphere Y in position B, then they are still distinguishable, because one is in position A and one is in position B.

Basically, I'm not sure what the two of you mean by "the same", but I suspect you're not in agreement on it.
I hope one day, assuming I have the money and don't have a stable partner, I will legally be able to pay a professional for their company for a few hours, both as consenting adults not under duress.

I like to think that we have the right to be "loved" and cared for, even if fictitiously and for a very brief moment.
Yes, it's really wasteful to have unnecessary connect()/accept() calls, plus handshaking and buffer allocation, and TCP dynamic tuning, etc.

And you're right, thanks, TIME_WAIT full should just error on the Linux client. I was thinking of a different kernel which has bugs in this area, and ends up dropping SYNs...
I'd also argue that full intellectual maturity comes well after age 20. The intensity may be higher earlier on, but maturity, as I've witnessed it, seems to peak later (assuming it does develop at all).

(Edit to add): It's been known for a while that physiological maturity of the brain occurs after age 20:

"Adulthood: What the Brain Says About Maturity"
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/05/28/do-we-need-t...

Neuroscientists now know that brain maturation continues far later into development than had been believed previously. Significant changes in brain anatomy and activity are still taking place during young adulthood, especially in prefrontal regions that are important for planning ahead, anticipating the future consequences of one’s decisions, controlling impulses, and comparing risk and reward. Indeed, some brain regions and systems do not reach full maturity until the early or mid-20s.

"The Adolescent Brain -- Why Teenagers Think and Act Differently"
http://www.edinformatics.com/news/teenage_brains.htm

A recent study by Lebel and Beaulieu (see below) reinforce the above findings that the human brain doesn't stop developing at adolescence, but continues well into our 20s.

My "if it develops at all" comment has more to do with theories of cognitive development -- higher levels of functioning are fairly rare. Jean Piaget's work is recommended:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_(psychological)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget%27s_theory_of_Cogn...

My speculation that full intellectual maturity lags physiological mature is my own, I've no references on that.
Now I know where my bias comes from: I did not consider going wrong with semicolons in C. Perhaps that is because C is my oldest friend. You are of course correct that the C style is not perfect either. Thanks for the reply.
Several hundred of the examples on http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
Again, no, it doesn't in the case of GPLv2 code (which is what we are talking about).
See my other comment.

The second they came back in compliance, they could redownload the exact source they copied, from wherever they got it, and they'd have a fresh, brand new license, with no problems.

GPLv3 fixed this "loophole".

In fact, you can see what others have attempted (and failed) to do to try to prevent this "loophole" from functioning.

Look at:
www.ximpleware.com

(they were involved in GPL litigation against Versata)

It says, at the bottom
"All licenses to any parties in litigation with XimpleWare have been expressly terminated. No new license, and no renewal of any revoked license, is granted to those parties as a result of re-downloading software from this or any other website"

This is there because they know of this exact problem, and didn't want versata to be able to avoid the lawsuit.

Of course, this text does not override the GPL in any way, and since it was given to them under the GPL, they can't now go back and say "those copies you have are retroactively under a different license".
So it's pointless text, but hopefully this gives you an idea that what i said is not just "random lawyer kibitzing".
Good friends are always honest, and few people are more honest than dogs.

I’m a proponent of total honesty, and I have always found this quote from Brad Blanton inspiring:

”If you are in an ongoing relationship with any person there will probably be times when you hurt their feelings. Probably the most often used rationalization for lying is ‘I didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.’ I recommend you hurt people’s feelings and stay with them past the hurt. I also recommend that you offend people. We can all get over having our feelings hurt and we can get over being offended. These are not permanent conditions; they are feelings that come and go. On the other side of that reaction is a conversation in which your mutual honesty creates an intimacy not possible if you are hiding something for the sake of someone’s feelings.”
I read a lot of JRE/JDK source code (through IntelliJ, which probably comes from OpenJDK) just to see how they implement their classes. For example, I found out a few days ago that Collections.sort uses a dual pivot quicksort that I had never heard about before. I'm going to check out some Go stdlib next, I had no idea that was open source. Oh, and possibly the OpenBSD kernel.
> That's the responsibility of the person running things next fiscal year. In the mean time, quit worrying and go deliver shareholder value.

No, that's a weird attitude (i.e. I'll create a mess today, next person will clean it tomorrow). One has to be responsible for the mess, and actually preventing it to begin with. What you described is exactly the lack of professionalism.
How does this compare to flattr?
As someone who isn't familiar with FP this was kind of hard to understand, the sentences were often too convoluted.
I've been finding the following very useful for understanding string matching algorithms. It has a bunch of different algorithms for exact string matching, details on them, drawings, descriptions, speed comparisons, and code in C
http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/index.html
With AdSense publishers keep 68% of the content ads. I have always assumed very large sites are able to negotiate a slightly better deal.

I can't locate any information on what cut they're taking from the Contributor product though.
"the computer that is designed to spend 768 bytes of the said 1K just for the screen content."

No, it was designed to use up to 793 bytes (those 768 plus one byte for every line plus, it seems, one extra 'end of screen' byte) for the screen buffer. If you didn't write stuff, the size of the screen buffer was way smaller, down to 25 bytes for an empty screen (http://problemkaputt.de/zxdocs.htm#zx80zx81videomodetextandb...)

Also note that the main CPU drew the video from an interrupt handler. That's why one had fast and slow mode; fast mode disabled that interrupt, speeding up your program, but losing the screen display. I think it also means that one should interpret the expression 'halt instruction' as used in the description of the contents of video memory literally.

I also found this nugget in a disassembly listing:

"and although each interrupt interrupts the previous one, there are no stack problems as the 'return address' is discarded each time."
here's the reverse angle in street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.718382,-74.042041,3a,75y,355...
its called your phone
Its starting to make sense. Azure support gives pay-as-you go users a hard time to increase subscription quotas but lets you make new subscriptions all day long.
Don't be ridiculous. This is America, the land of the free, by which we mean the land where practically everyone wants to stick their nose in your business and try to change the way you live your life.

There are a few people who advocate generally leaving others alone to do what they want, but they are universally derided as being on the lunatic fringe.
they are totally different. The workers having sovereignty over their own business produces a dramatically different outcome than classical capitalism.

The constitution of a thing is partially dependent on the infrastructure behind it.

For instance, I have a local grocer who owns the grocery shop. I have asked the grocer to stock things I'd like to buy which aren't there. The grocer has stocked them. I buy them so predictably that the grocer sets a quantity aside for me individually.

These patently obvious social courtesies at a corporate level become policy decisions with a marketing campaign. If some big chain did it, they'd give it some stupid name like "YouChoose" and then have a jingle and some commercial to go along with it. The idea of engaging with the customer in this way would be commoditized an shoved down our throats.

If some entrepreneur thought of it, they'd turn it into some consumerist share-style phone app backed by $10 million in VC capital.

The first one is totally different from the last two. It's not the same thing. Quantifying a value is not the same as Qualifying an experience.

Starbucks has done this recently - trying to fight independent coffee shops, not with hiring competent people and giving them liberty to make purchasing decisions and take control of the means of producing coffee, no. They have introduced a new machine called the "clover" that supposedly makes better coffee. They are going up against local roasters and people trying to take food service seriously with yet another shitty little product from corporate america. big fucking whoopdie doo - that's all they do.

so when you have a distant billionaire try to come up with a new variation of westfield and then structure it like a process based corporation, it simply won't work.

people are sick of being characterized as consumers, the culture of consumption, sick of being advertised to where everything becomes a product with a sanitized, transactional exchange of goods and money, to go about some soulless mechanized existence. Capitalism and community are enemies.

The classic structure of neo-liberal consumer capitalism is completely incompatible with this movement - it's a fundamentally different constitution of culture, control, and capital.
Imgur is a stand-alone corporation, and is not owned by the same company that has a majority stake in Reddit.

Imgur has taken one round of VC, for $40 million, and most of that was made up of Andreessen Horowitz. Reddit did participate in that round, but they were a small minority share of it.
Or exactly like Gratipay (formerly gittip)
https://gratipay.com/
Maybe not the first time (before you've seen any of the content), but generally, I like this idea.
Stop the presses: HTTPS-crippling “FREAK” bug affects Windows after all
http://reddit.com/r/vandwellers if you're interested

alex honnold is a climber whose van looks nicer than my apartment: https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+honnold+van&safe=off&cl... (granted my place is a shithole)
They just shut down google wallet. It's not clear to me that you could count on them to stick with this.
There's a very important difference between inspecting the goods and searching your person and papers. (These details matter. Note your comment about random searches at airports. Did you mean borders, or airports?) Try reading the entire Act. I did, and found some interesting stuff in there. Then go watch "Border Security".

When a Canadian enters Canada it's acceptable for the government to say, "Show me all of your apples." It can even say, "Give me the bill of sale for those apples." That's inspecting goods.

It's not acceptable for the government to say, "Show me all of your text messages, emails, pictures, and personal journals." That's a warrantless search.

It is illegal, and it should remain illegal regardless of what good deeds a government bureaucrat might be able to do with that information.

If the government wants to conduct a search like that, it needs to accuse you of a specific crime and set out the reasons why it believes getting those items will prove it. Any just government must assign different people who act at arms length from each other to make the request and to decide if the request is justified. (eg. Police, Prosecutor, and Judge) This is necessary in order to prevent any individual human agent acting with the power of the government from abusing that power.

Just governments do not search everyone because some of them might be guilty. Just governments don't say, "Show me your apples. OK, that's fine. Now give me your passwords because you might be a pedophile and I need to make sure I can't find any evidence that you are." Just governments don't say, "Show me your journals, emails, and pictures, then and then we'll see if we can charge you with a crime."

I wouldn't give up living under a just and fair government even if that meant we could catch all of the criminals... which of course we couldn't.
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