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No, but I have seen it linked around quite a few times. I still need to give it a try eventually.

I'm a Java-guy myself so using GitBucket saves time. All of the VM/compiler requirements for building& hosting it are already on all of my servers. It also adds a safety net for myself: if I find a bug, I can fix it myself without too much hard work. It's just extremely convenient for my use cases.

I've heard nothing but praise for Gogs, so I definitely want to give it a..... go some time. (I'm sorry, needed to make that pun).

Edit: Fixed spelling.
Can somebody weigh in on their claims of performance differences? IIUC that's the strongest argument so far against sequential consistency by default, yet I'm not sure I understand their evidence. I haven't followed their references yet, but after reading their arguments I'm not sure just what the overhead is now, and what they expect it to be in the future (tbh, I would have expected them to be much clearer about this point, since it is so crucial). They say they expect the overhead to be reduced substantially to the point of not being worth caring about, but is that actually true/likely? I'm not familiar with this enough to judge on my own. My suspicion here is that they (cheekily) say that the overhead can be reduced, without having to prove that it will be reduced.

The alternative, if it is genuinely more expensive to implement SC guarantees in hardware, is that we simply stop teaching people that "A;B" means A is executed and then B. Maybe there really should be an exception saying "but nobody is allowed to look at any intermediate states, unless explicitly allowed". We could also just teach the full meaning of it from the start, it can't be that difficult. Their argument seems to be that non-SC is much less convenient, which I agree with.

On a scale from plenty-real to not-real-at-all, how real are the hardware performance limitations exactly?
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Now I'm interested in knowing the value of Earth crust (up to a depth of, say, 1km) according to those measures.
> You mention that the company you worked at is popular here on Hacker News. So let's assume we are talking about Apple or Google or perhaps AirBnB

Or Uber
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The "Core Apps" have a bad name. They are community-developed apps, that may be included in the stock image. What you're really looking for are the "System Apps": https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-apps
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Could you then modify the definition to "for all n >= 0, n! is the product of natural numbers <= n"? That sounds kind of like the definition "f(0) = 1; f(n) = (n-1)! * n, n > 0".
So Twitter wants to sell its data directly to customers and DataSift throws Twitter under the bus. I can imagine that the whole situation is frustrating to DataSift but I'm surprised by the harshness of the blogpost: "Twitter also demonstrated that it doesn’t understand the basic rules of this market".
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giving tools that help law enforcement do their job is a good thing. but if those tools are so easily replaced by current market or future market alternatives then pushing for those tools just kills your industry.
There exist gas taxes. Also the people using Uber are paying or doing business with entities paying property taxes.
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Out of all the Facebook, King.com, & other social/casual web games I've seen my family play, 100% of them have been Flash. I think in years past some have been Java, but I've not yet seen a HTML5 game in use on the big sites as played here.

Since my family doesn't pay money into these games, their style involves playing broad coverage of games: They play each for a little bit until the life meter runs out, and often try new games. Again, 100% have been flash.

There are also tools & frameworks like Starling for converting either AS3 code, Flash assets, or full SWF files to other non-Flash platforms. For instance, I wrote the sorting algorithm in as3isolib, and noticed that Ubisoft ported one of their games using it to iOS, using Starling.

Flash is certainly alive and well.
No, but it could be construed as permitting federal requirement that personal communications & records be accessible by law enforcement agents who have been issued a warrant based upon probable cause and describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
It seems like encryption methods that rely on the government, like some sort of government-run key escrow, are the inevitable solution. Corporations are relatively secure from malicious threats and the government gets the access it wants.
From the link:

To test your app, you need three things:

Your APK.
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The ARC Welder app.

I successfully installed the ARC Welder app on my Macbook (haven't tried it yet though).
previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4030149
Not as confusing as you'd think, though, if you invoke the rule of product.

The number of ways to do A and then B is the number of ways to do A times the number of ways to do B. The number of ways to do nothing and then A should be the same as the number of ways to do A. This implies that the number of ways to do nothing is the multiplicative identity, one.
A few years ago I took a run at this whole " startup " thing and I would not exactly call the endeavor a ragging success .

I sunk into this hole of building that it is time to come out of and your message from the future makes me feel a lot less crazy .

Thank you for the time you took to write it .
I take this video as evidence that everyone in UNIX-land dislikes systemd greatly, and the (Red Hat/Debian/Arch) Linux guys are the odd men out.
You presume that I haven't used React. I also use and release GPL code, however I can't use that at work either.
Good article, but I was kinda disappointed not to have what I expected to be a good read about the evolution of how people use semicolons in natural language. Now I want to read that too.
>Computers have the means to afford people true privacy

Computers whose design and construction, from end to end, are fully subject to the tampering of the people trying to deny said privacy?
This whole debate is a red herring.

The NSA already has backdoors[1][2] in your Desktop OS (Windows, OSX), in your mobile OS (Android, iOS), in your smartphone hardware (Qualcomm Baseband), in your ISPs network hardware (Cisco, Juniper), in your server hardware (Dell), in your network hardware (most router firmwares), and there's rumors they have backdoors in Intel and AMD CPUs, too.

Why would they be concerned about encryption that runs on top of hard- and software that they can control at will?

[1] https://gigaom.com/2013/12/29/nsas-backdoor-catalog-exposed-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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> If I have a pain in my lower right abdomen and I poll the human population, I'm going to get a better answer than a doctor?

You could. It is why people prefer a second opinion even when dealing with an expert. There are programs where everyone can join and try to diagnose disease. See CrowdMed (https://crowdmed.com) -- a YC company (http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/16/yc-startup-bets-crowdsourc...)

> If I poll the human population about a physics problem, I'm going to get a better answer than a physicist?

I think it was Newton who said that anyone could be as successful as him, but they just didn't think hard enough. But 10 smart physicists could probably think "as hard" as a single Newton. This means there is no need to chase the expert. This removes inaccuracies, since groups have more variance in opinion than individuals. It is harder for groups to be all wrong. Group intelligence benefits science.

> Conspire? Undermine the wisdom? Wow...

See it as game theory with possibly adversarial agents going against the group consensus. If there is no incentive to go against the grain, or if there is damage possible to your reputation (and thus energy), people will not disagree with top management or thought leaders. All errors trickle down into the group without filters. This is dangerous as it mimics group intelligence, but is really the opinion of a single individual inside a group of yes-men. This contributes to economic crashes and hype-y bubbles.

Blood-letting is a good example of variant group behavior. We need people "insane" enough to try that. We need to be wrong many times, for someone to say: "this is not right." and help fix it. Blood-letting may have benefits though -- being a nearly 3000 year old practice it would be rare to be completely without merit and survive.

> When it's wrong, somebody conspired, when it's right, oh, well, don't mention that it's the exact same process.

You want to label a spam dataset. You can use one person for this, or a room with a hundred people. When the one person is wrong, it may be because he has a different/quirky opinion on what it means to be spam. When the whole room is wrong, you start to wonder if the e-mail was really ham to begin with. One person can only be wrong or right. A hundred people can (and preferably should) disagree, while still converging to a better solution than any individual in that group could have thought of. Groups remove arguments from authority.
I second what @tmalsburg2... please, make a backdoor mandatory. 20 years after that moment no one but americans will care because people will have moved on to more egalitarian products.

when the backdoor is covert and not overtly declared the choice of using the questionable product becomes more economic. the choice gets a lot easier when the government or company clearly states they have a backdoor. for many countries it's not just red flag for using the questioned IT it's a reason to fund industries that compete with a better modal.
Pandas has native HDF5 read/write. So they could just do a one-time read from SQL, dump to HDF5, and enjoy subsequent fast reads.

I've recently used Pandas with HDF5 backing for building a web app with Flask that does complex queries on a small dataset (40k rows, ~ 15 columns of which four are indices). Full stack Python, no SQL anywhere, it's awesome. Stick it in a virtualenv, fire and forget.
> Would companies based in the US not ship a different version of their products that are exported?

They can of course try that but their clients have little reasons to trust them. Apart from that it might be very costly to develop, test, and distribute two versions of each product and to maintain compatibility, all of which puts US companies at a disadvantage.

There is already plenty of evidence for the idea that the privacy crisis helps the European industry. Many new businesses in several European countries are successfully selling privacy-reserving software and services and their future crucially depends on the trust of their customers, so they have to take privacy serious in ways that US companies don't have to, at least for now.
I think it's been quite a few years since I bought an assembled piece of gear that was manufactured in the US.
Another exciting destination for http://asteroids.com !
Last I tried it didn't work very well in Arch, but that may have changed over the past month or so.
I agree; and that's coming from someone that just resigned from Yahoo. Here is an excerpt from my resignation post:

The transformation that I’ve experienced over the last two years of being in Sunnyvale has been inspiring. There is a palatable sense that we are on the verge of a momentous turnabout. No internet company of that size has ever lost monthly active users in those numbers without nose-diving into oblivion. I am rooting for Yahoo; a turnaround would be glorious. In the minds of the employees that I’ve spoken to, given the time needed, it is an all but forgone conclusion that Yahoo will soar to new heights on the internet.

http://blog.shawndumas.com/post/115979867433/im-leaving-yaho...
Here is more information of how to run it on Windows, Linux and Mac: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/googles-arc-opens-up-....

It uses a hack.
Found it here http://thetrendythings.com/read/23591
That is an interesting article but it's not the same thing. The ATOMIK keyboard, presented in the paper you reference, was designed to minimize the movement necessary to spell words in English. We optimized the layout to minimize the number of swipe patterns that create ambiguous input, i.e. potential swipe errors.

Also, Cliff Kushler and Randall Marsden are the inventors of Swype, not the authors of the paper you cited.
Do these corporite politics apply to a company the size of, say, segment.io? How about Dropbox? Apple?

I have a hunch that they type of politics you encounter will vary widely based on the size of the company.

Edit: scare quotes were not needed
I dunno about compositions, but:

> The combined mass of all of the asteroids is about 25 times less than the Moon's mass (with Ceres making up over a third of the total)

http://www.astronomynotes.com/solfluf/s2.htm

Moon mass: 7x10^22 kg
Total asteroid mass: 3x10^21 kg
Earth mass: 6x10^24 kg
Density Earth's crust: 2.7 g/cm^3
Earth area: 5.1x10^8 km^2
Mass Earth's crust to 1km depth: 1.4x10^21

So all asteroids combined and the Earth's crust down to 2km are very close to the same mass.

But like I said, I have no idea about the composition.
This is a really cool site. We should load up the probes with toxic nuclear waste to dispose in space on the way up, then come back down with valuable materials mined from the asteroids.
> Or, if a node-style built-in server is better for performance and compatibility, is anybody implementing one for Python, Ruby, or Java?

Plenty of evented servers in java,ruby,python already (netty,celluloid,event machine, twisted python...)
The best definition I've seen of Big Data is "the database indices don't fit in memory on the beefiest single server you have access to". (And this doesn't mean you can claim big data because you only have access to your 4 GB RAM laptop.)
It's getting as bad as the old digg clones.
And now downloads have been made illegal. So you were right in the short term but the longer term effects were actually worse than the blockade was!

Still, kudos for standing up for what you felt was right and not giving in in the face of such pressure, that was pretty brave.
For the sake of argument, if we assume that US government has right to protect its citizens from the monstrous conspiring world, why are they exporting these backdoor technologies to secret services all over the world? Even the countries championing in least human rights, poverty, oppression have these backdoor technologies to use against their citizens. US citizens at least enjoy the freedom of barking, citizen of those other countries don't...
Is ARC Welder intended to be the official way to do what chromeos-apk[1] does? I have had mixed success with chromeos-apk. Some apps work flawlessly, others crash performing certain operations, and others crash immediately. It would be nice if ARC welder does it all right.

edit: I should have read the other comments first. It looks like ARC does exactly what I'd hoped.[2]

[1] https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/googles-arc-opens-up-...
I see the big offense not in forcibly removing the kid from the car (the police are probably within their rights as far as that goes), but in attempting to delete evidence. That's the real crime for which someone should be fired and possibly prosecuted as well.
I have little experience with compiling from ports myself (and that was mostly on freebsd), so I cannot really comment on that, but I've used the pkg_* system for years and have yet to run into serious problems like versioning-hell or pkg's breaking. dependencies are normally well resolved when (de)installing pkg's. even upgrading works pretty well for the most part.

I agree that the package management could be better, but as far as I can tell it isn't as bad as you suggest as long as you stick to the official prebuilt packages.

or is it different when following -current ? I usually stick to releases and only patch major bugs.
Agreed. Or https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ , which I believe is a year older than random.org (based on archive.org's logs).
No, each pound of payload makes the launch way more expensive. Just keep the nuclear waste down here.
That sounds a bit misleading. I remember running Gnome 3.2/3.4 in 2012, while still using SysV init. I'm not sure whether logind or ConsoleKit was used, but the init system (what most people associate with the name "systemd") was definitely not the one from systemd.
If the iPhone would turn out to be a major vector for Chinese spyware that would indeed be funny. But you know, if the Chinese use these backdoors to prevent terrorist attacks and to catch pedophiles, we should really be thankful to them.
Your rejections are proof positive to me that Y!Combinator has to many good startups applying for their program.

Cheer up, and celebrate your hard work. God has a special plan for you. In the morning its back to work:)

You may not be partnering with Y!Combinator, but you are walking away with a 7% stake in your company that gives you 100% control over your own destiny, and potentially millions, or even billions of dollars in wealth you would of given away had you been selected. Who am I kidding, we all wanted the support of Y!Combinator.

The good people of Y!Combinator are some of the of the best in Silicon Valley. I personally would love to have a board that could show my team the ropes. Lets face it. Hackers are pros at learning the ropes through trial and error. Persistence will get us through.

I fantasized about a little more rest than my current environment of working a full time job that pays the bills, and another full time job developing new technology that doesn't yet pay any bills. Having to focus on multiple things at once, instead of focusing on one with pinpoint accuracy is painful. You do what you gotta do, and you will get there.

Our company has built a foundation for Strong AI, and an autonomous robotic framework that connects Robotics to third party AI. Google has spent over a billion dollars the last couple years buying companies in these two areas, and we are going to beat them connecting AI to Robotics by months, and we have been developing our technology for 3 years. AI, and Robotics were Y!Combinator's top 2 desired business categories, and we didn't even get an interview.

In summary don't stop, but do look for alternative options to getting to your next milestone in regards to funding. Most of the sites I've looked at in rejected Y!Combinator posts, I would of been interested in if I were an investor. I think each of you is onto something (Except the dude who submitted a swinger ad. He did get a good chuckle out of me though:).
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This is like saying [some database] isn't as bad as you suggest as long as you aren't at the scale where you need distribution. The whole point of a package management system is how it handles the complex edge cases, not the simple linear accept-the-defaults cases.

Apt, for example, knows how to consume variant packages from alternate sources and then upgrade back into mainline—but also allows the user to specify (with a "pin") that they prefer to continue on the alternative even if it's older.

Apt also has an "install from source" system where the source package gets baked into a binary package within a chroot container on the installing system, and then that package gets installed. That package is then like any other package on the system, and can be cleanly removed, or upgraded from into a newer upstream release, etc.

These are important features. They're not important for j-random-user, but they're important to distribution maintainers, and to sysops who have to, for example, apply temporary hotfixes to specific packages on their production machines until the distribution ships those same fixes, at which point they want to revert to upstream.
Awesome platform! I'm impressed:) I didn't see how you get sensor information from phones. I worked on a messaging system for an aviation weather observation system for a North American government agency that was written in Java, and the sensors we used were not the kind you find in phones.

Have you looked for investment anywhere else?
I think the full 3d view has gone down, getting a 504 from nginx. Everything is great!
Yes, because space rockets never blow up on take off or shortly after.
Off topic but I met a guy once that had a room dedicated in his apartment for Wonder Woman...posters, action figures. Everything.
The molasses analogy doesn't quite make sense. When an object moves through empty space it is not impeded by any field, otherwise it would slow down and eventually stop, which would in turn imply a special (absolute) frame of reference. So how can a "molasses" only affect accelerating objects? That is quite a peculiar condition for a field.
> I take this video as evidence that everyone in UNIX-land dislikes systemd greatly, and the (Red Hat/Debian/Arch) Linux guys are the odd men out.

"the odd men out" are the one with the the highest user base (I suppose you know that Ubuntu is moving to SystemD too)
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Well, the idea is to make sure the article quality be on par with other editorials. This should include critical commentary and comparison of the product or company in question to its competitors. This would be something quite different from those special advertising sections, which almost always feature only its positive aspects.

Since newspapers already publish these articles anyway (without labeling the PR source), the slippery slope is already in action. Although I do agree that money could make things worse for some papers, market mechanisms and transparency could help balance things out.
I was about to ask you to walk us through the thought process that lead you from this video to that strange conclusion. But after reading your last few comments, this seems quite pointless.