skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time that's how I feel about it, too. I'd never flag an article about some framework or technology I had never heard of. But in this case I'm not seeing the connection to technology or startups or general interest; it just seems off topic. I'm sure it's a great article, I'm just not sure it belongs on HN, so I flagged it.
The freeman on the land / sovereign citizen approach to copyright doesn't work.

Adding a free license isn't something you do to appease lawyers, it makes the principles you profess to hold into a reality rather than a trap.
Not all crash bug can lead to remote code execution. A null dereference bug is a good example of that. No mater the context, you won't be able to do anything other than crash the software.
Hi, thanks for the reply!

(a) You're welcome. You got many people excited about Starfighter!

(b) Well, I'm impatient :). Though I'll cut you some slack for a while now that Kerbal Space Program is hitting 1.0 next Monday.

(c) Cool. Can't wait! Also, best of luck fixing bugs :).

(d) I know :). I was just trying to find a good excuse to ping you for few days now, and here came something close enough. I started playing Microcorruption recently, and it is very fun. Lots of levels left for me though.
Hex is awesome, and easy to work with.

Any language nowadays that doesn't have a package manager has kinda already lost as far as practical development goes.

It's nice to see Erlang folks adopting Hex in places.
Michael Stack on HBase past, present, and future
That'd require a secretary with a PhD. Looks more like most of it should not be done. But then, I have no idea how to change it.

Teaching is probably the easiest one to solve. Some kinds of classes should be attributed to teachers, not researchers (those are very different kinds of expertize).
Secure PHP is certainly possible, and not even that difficult. The problem is that insecure PHP is even easier to write.

In my experience, most vulnerabilities tend to come from insecure, poorly written, unvetted third party plugins and libraries.

Someone writes a plugin that creates a widget, security is either a non-thought or an afterthought. They think someone else might like the widget so they publish it. Thousands of people find it useful, even years after originally released. They are all unknowingly using an insecure piece of software.
> I don't like that approach of forcing everything into the Apple ecosystem. I got tired of that 2 years ago and switched to android

So you rather switched to a system where there's a Google Services component that sends your location every 60 seconds (unless device is set to "GPS only") and gets updated without your control ?

That's bold.
Unlike high-tech users, low-tech users end up permanently scarred. They are also afraid of looking dumb, which compounds the problem. Dropbox has incurred significant, if hidden, usability debt.
Apache 2.0 is just my default license to use for stuff. Would there be any conflict with the PG license?
Video Released for CC Mason’s “Racecar”
Apple details J.A.R.V.I.S., the Apache Mesos framework that runs Siri
Relax brainiac. Nobody cares about your hippie os.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not defending his illegal activities. He obliviously grew bold and reckless. My exemple is for this part of the article:

"They're not going to give a [...] 13-year-old kid access to a multi-million
dollar Unix server because he wants to learn to program. They will use shitty
passwords and let me break into it. But that's on them."
The value of writing code and instigating change
Oh, sorry to hear that it won't work in a follower. I guess I should have tested that before boldly claiming it :p
It does seem to support custom headers, but as you stated doesn't support user agents, cookies, etc.
So you're not actually doing everything (or even most things) that Dropbox does. I mean we also have a file server with a several TB of disk and gigabit links and VPN and all that jazz at the office, but that is in no way a replacement for what Dropbox offers.
I think ASP.NET MVC is as easy as Rails for CRUD apps.
Related: I literally bought a book to try to help wrap my head around the mathy ideas in Haskell (recommended by someone here, I believe). I am about to start it: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Book_of_Abstract_Algeb...

That said, if you have to understand a sufficient amount of math concepts to code in a language... that's an impediment. (Perhaps an empowering learning curve, to be sure.)
For me, coming to understand Foucault was like coming to understand metaprogramming. It punched down to a lower level of thought: the idea that our discourse and our notions of truth are themselves constituted and shaped by our society and circumstances. It is so disappointing that there are people who think of themselves as "hackers" being dismissive of Foucault (and associated thinkers like Deleuze and Guattari).

(This is not so much a response to you as my desire to wax more about Foucault.)
Ask HN: Is it worth taking this MITx course?
I have been working on Big Data analytics for the past 2 years. I would like to know if HN has any feedback and or comments on MITx's course "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data". The cost of the course is $540.

Link for the course page with course outline and more details here: https://mitprofessionalx.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITProfessionalX+6.BDx+4T2015/about

Considering that the course costs good amount of bucks [I am not from US; and as such taking this course would hit me a bit hard], I would like to know if anyone here on HN have taken this course and if yes, would you suggest others to take this?

Thanks!

Please note that this is not change of jobs or anything, but for improving my knowledge and getting a better perspective of Big Data from the leaders and pioneers in the area.
Perhaps costlier but wouldn't it be more sustainable ecologically?
Love the random C-level positions.
One of the things I still think Go is weak at is the internationalisation and localisation.

There is nothing as feature-rich and widely adopted as the Django equivalents for translation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/translatio... formatting of dates and times https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/formatting... or for handling timezone conversions https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/timezones/ .

Ideally the Go core, or the Go community, would provide a great experience (consistent, idiomatic, documented, supported) for developers coming from Rails, Django and other platforms.

Right now I recommend Go for backend and APIs, but I stop short of recommending replacing your Rails or Django with Go. There's still an enormous amount of work you would have to do to come close to the kind of web app support you'll find in platforms that are already mature and focused on delivering front-end web experiences.
There's a lot of benefit in something that can properly escape data, for instance. I'm totally comfortable with curl but sometimes physically typing the command line is harder than deciding what should go in it.
You absolutely nailed the blur that these startup pages and mission statements become. Lols were had!
> It's about time the idea of "monopoly" is extended beyond mere market share.

I don't get the reasoning here. It seems to go something like this:

- "monopoly" is bad

- Apple is bad

- Therefore, whatever Apple is doing, we should call that a monopoly. They're both bad, and all bad things are the same thing.

We have monopoly-suppressive legislation because we're afraid that monopolies will do certain things. If you want to extend the sense of "monopoly", as used in monopoly-suppressive legislation, you need to show (or, heck, at least claim) that your new "monopolies" pose the same risks as the old monopolies. If it's just that you don't like the new things, and you want to see them suppressed in the same way that monopolies are suppressed, say that instead. We can send people to jail for rape, and we can send people to jail for vandalism, but in order to jail people for vandalism we don't need to say that vandalism is actually a type of rape.
I don't know what rules you're talking about here. The OP says that Apple has worse practices than MSFT. I say that's not true. Denying computing technology on which business, governments, factories, powerplants, etc. run is FAR worse than denying (objectively) useless apps.

When has Apple hindered a break-through technology?

PS: I'm a massive fan of Microsoft marketing and strategy and have owned a grand total of 1 Apple products in my life - an iphone 4. Just fyi.
> including the sometimes poor UX (no back button on the phone is extremely annoying and I have to make extra taps in out of the way places instead of quickly hitting back

You never tried the swipe from the edge for back ?
I took the claims seriously and fixed the problems. I take people being a self aggrandizing jerk on a show HN just as seriously. I certainly may deserve shit but the OP my co-collaborator on the project certainly does not, nor does anyone who comes here to share their projects. Helpful criticism and critique is what we come here for. We can get crapped on needlessly anywhere else on the Internet
Worth checking out: http://codespells.org/
Well, Foucault's work is about a lot of things, but here's one that should certainly interest technologists: what is power? How does it affect us? What does it do to shape societies? Etc.

Critical theory in general? Well, it depends on what you're trying to get out of your time with philosophy. I'm particularly interested in technology's affect on humans, so something like critical theory gives me useful intellectual tools. But if the human side of things doesn't appeal to you, you may not particularly care.
I've taken a similar path as you - trying "Go for all", and ending up front-ending them with Rails,Node, etc. I felt sort of dirty doing it - but the Go ecosystem specifically around web projects is not nearly as far along for "basic things" as Rails. Heck, I saw last night that people were arguing on the right way to create basic web auth in Go!
Any insight into why they think the concept of human nature is bunk? How are they defining human nature in the context of their debate?
Neoglyphs, a new meta-symbology unifying mathematics, statistics and a broad swathe of human language semantics will emerge, drawing heavily from Chinese and early 21st century international signage: Japanese の will win out on Chinese 的 (for indicating possession). Grammar will be absent to simplistic, with a Chinese/Tai-Kadai/Austronesian rather than Indo-Aryan structure (ie. use of amorphous noun/verb concept ideograms and adjunct tense-particles where necessary rather than tedious verb conjugation). This new symbology (glyph library) will be the standard pedagogical language across the world, and the normal interface language for all software. It will quickly begin to effect semantics in the few major remnant human languages, the vast majority of which died out between the early 20th and mid 21st century. Long-form reading will become even rarer. The lyrics and snapshot-imagerie of the rock and instagram generations will give way to a resurgence in poetry, lauded for its vaguearies, which will be widely appreciated in a mix of classical Chinese and the neoglyphs. This will be automatically set to music by algorithms, in personal stylistic preference. Interface code itself (windows, scrollers, presentation systems, graph generators, etc.) will no longer be programmed by humans, instead they will be generated automatically against semantic and contextual preferences linked to the user, much as some advanced unix users enjoy customizing their shell. The challenges of code reuse (portability, parallelism, etc.) will be solved automatically in almost every case. Most software will derive from expert systems which translate human wants in to functional software using simplistic visual metaphor and iterative design in the lounge-room. Increased availability of pure and micro-dosed drugs of all current and yet to be discovered genres will play a big part the more creative outputs from these sessions, which will essentially complete the union of human/biological abstract thinking and the speed and technical prowess of the machines. In the 20th century, Frank Zappa said "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." At the dawn of the 22nd century, countries will have essentially become dormant anachronisms, but good drugs and revolutionary thinkers (no longer titled programmers) will by definition possess their own widely recognized neoglyphs. Many of the thinkers will be those previously considered disabled or challenged by society at large; the autistic, the handicapped, the psychonauts, the other-large-mammals - whose capacity for modes of reasoning apart from the mainstream will finally become valued. Finally, 0xDEADBEEF will disappear as a meme, since beef in real life will no longer exist except for the ultra-rich.
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Dojo 1.10 released
CC0 falls back to a license in the absence of the public domain, so it's much stronger than a simple dedication IMO.

See OSI's comments on why it hasn't been approved here -

http://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero
You can, but...

Some do actually use supercomputers to do mathematics.

Most however, thrive in an actual academic environment including spending a lot of time interacting with other mathematicians and going to conferences. There's a big difference between living in an academic environment and spending your whole life thinking about math and being around people who do the same... and working a 9-5 and doing a little math on the side. Not to say it isn't possible, but most reasonable jobs don't leave much left over mental energy for doing maths.
Self-learning search using one-way flights to add destinations – RT Substitute
Show HN: Heynay. friendly, local neighbor-to-neighbor rentals
Agreed, strongly. D&G are my favorites, actually, as is Deleuze on his own.
Does having a full-time industry job allow you to seriously pursue your own research interests on the side?

You lose maybe 6-12 hours to a job--assuming you never work on research or knowledge expansion during work hours, which is unlikely--but then you don't have to have that stuff hanging over your head.

Bills are getting paid, equipment can be purchased (if you need it), and your social life is happier. So, I think that research can absolutely be pursued outside of academia.
The proposed OCaml implementation of modular implicits[1] considers ambiguity a compile-time error, so in that case you'd have to manually indicate which module you're passing in. (This is in contrast to Scala, in which there's an elaborate mechanism for resolving ambiguity in implicits which makes it hard to know which is being selected.)

So the OCaml implementation shouldn't make it any more difficult to discover which implicit is in use in a given context, because if an implicit is used, then it must necessarily be unique and there will be no ambiguity.

[1]: http://www.lpw25.net/ml2014.pdf
Actually OTP makes even more sense though. WhatsApp processes billions of messages per day and they only have 10 or so engineers working on the backend.

At any large scale what becomes more important is fault tolerance. Even though Go has goroutines and sane and modern concurrent IO handling, goroutines still share memory. So then even a super fast 1M req/s system is no good if it is down 50% of the time because it crashed.
I don't know why this post got so many likes? Many Go fans here?

I personally think any language that compiles to JavaScript and are quite similar are the perfect language for web. Since you can re-use code from client and the server. Right now my bet is TypeScript.
I commented above that I felt dirty taking the Rails for web applications, and Go for "Other" approach. But it was the best I had come up with. Thanks for the link - It was helpful and mirrors my experience.
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Yep. This is the long and short of it. Apple is careful not to get monopolies which allows them to be as anti-competitive as they want. Not sure why this got downvoted. Typical HN..
Well he didn't really use it in a racist manner, as that's all his post contains; unless you're implying that any use of word is inherently racist. I guess if he put it in quotes it wouldn't be? (Use vs cite)
Aren't there some commonly used system calls that don't have asynchronous equivalents, such as open() or stat() or access()? Are threads used for those?
>Once you make the choice...

Right... but my comments were about the messages we get from society before we make that choice. It's how society (e.g. magazine article of this HN thread) can distort that choice.

>, what about those little kids? Should they be dumped by the side of your road because they're interfering with your happiness?
You made them, you owe them something better than that.

You misunderstood what I'm saying. I wasn't talking about ethics. The husband could stay with the kids because of societal norms, or stay because he feels personal responsibility, or stay because his kid knows how to reprogram his Android phone. It doesn't matter what the actual reason is or whether that reason is noble or trivial.

My point was that the author of the article is putting forth a narrative about happy town life and it's heavy-handed enough that it comes across as a prescription for how to live. It seems as if she's not acknowledging that there are certain types of people who will not be happy prioritizing relationships over ambition.

That sort of blind spot is expected right? Isn't it normal for people who are happy to analyze why they're happy and then conclude it's the friends & family? Therefore they project that friends & family for others will likely make them happy too.

As a result, you get a lot of articles/movies/advice like hers playing up the family/friends/community narrative. It's not offset by any articles that advise a reader to diagnose if one's disposition is even compatible with that type of life.
Exactly. Just Elixir build on say Ruby VM or Python VM would not be appealing. BEAM VM is really a marvel of engineering. Telling others that yes it provides lightweight processes which also have isolated heaps is often met with disbelief. It is almost magic.
No, committee meetings, which can involve things like setting the PhD curriculum, or deciding on faculty recruiting or retention, cannot be done by a secretary. No, grant writing, which is plotting the (often multi-million dollar) course for a lab, proposing science that has not yet been done and documenting those methods well enough and concisely enough for a review panel cannot be done by a secretary.
Neuro-Self-Wiring: Happier, Calmer, Better
The library author for Gorm should have done a quick Google search first. Grails has had Gorm has an ORM for years.
The container deposit laws pervert the recycling process by taking the only things worth recycling (aluminum cans) out of the single recycle stream.

I have to pay extra for recycling in my town. However, if there wasn't a bottle bill, it would likely be free, as the recycling companies would gladly take all recyclables in exchange for the aluminum cans.
This is like breaking into your neighbors house to see if they have any plans to break into your house. How tragically ironic.
The technique is useless if it is not applied to embryoes which can develop. Sure they may be doing it to nonviable embryoes currently, but that's not the goal.
“I saw his recycling bin (/bin/). I empty it and now I can't open any programs”
You're right, but this is more or less what I was trying to address with the last part of my comment.

Yes, this is far from proof. But Apple has done stuff like this constantly since the iPhone SDK was first released. At some point, it becomes reasonable to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that there's a good chance something bad is going on, just like the last thousand times.

If they roll it back, great! I imagine being called to task for a stupid decision will help make that happen.
> Simply "not using Rails" anymore however is, well, not that simple!

After the OP has described why he likes Rails ("good toolset", "Ruby gems cover everything"), I would've really liked to know why OP wants to switch away from Rails.

> so what's around that has a chance of replacing Rails? Go!

Again, the OP gives no reason why he switched to Go instead of looking at another web framework for Ruby, and also not why he chose the particular Go frameworks to replace Rails.

That's what would've really interested me, after the introduction I didn't quite see a Go-tutorial coming...
I find this entire premise to be so sad. I was especially distraught reading when you stated: "You don't know how to belong to a tight-knit social group because your friends have been disposable your whole life (and vice-versa)"

It seems logical to me that basing a relationship off of branding would lead to transient and shallow relationships. You should seek to have a better way of self identifying with people. Say perhaps by the type of person they are instead of the collection of things they own.
Which Apple does both of, so...?
Even Node or Ruby based static site generators can't compete with WP & PHP on the server. The ubiquity of PHP on web server installations is astounding and the ease of use of WP sp. for non techies in contrast with the technical knowledge and expertise expected to build and maintain a Jekyll powered website or [insert your favorite Nodejs generator] powered website.
These Screenshots of GTA V Look More Real Than Life
Principle without action tends to narcissism though.

If people believe that Software Should Not Have Owners, they should use the GPL.
> 3.1 Apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#met...
Started this app a few months ago with some co-workers. It's my first shot at a client-server app. Been learning a ton! I'm originally from Chile, so I plan on expanding it there as well once we validate the concept.

Wait for the React web based app! Just came out of Fluent Conference VERY inspired with all the new technologies coming up.

Looking forward to your feedback!
Pantheon – Mapping Historical Cultural Production
> Newton was ridiculed by his peers (or at least his contemporaries). Part of the reason why people tell the story of Halley convincing Newton to publish the Principia is that Newton hadn't published anything after the reception of some of his early work on optics.

It doesn't look like had it rough though. From his early years he was kinda distinguished[1] at age 27. But thanks for the heads-up and your Newton story. These stories are the ones I enjoy the most :-)

ps. You certainly don't look like an idiot to me. But I see what you mean, as Shakespeare often hinted, the wise men allows doubt into any conversation while the fool men never does. :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Early_life
Yes, someone has been working on upstreaming 1GB SuperPages to FreeBSD because it dramatically increased the performance of their firewall appliances.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-Nov...

These large (>4K) pages definitely have their uses.
What do you see the app domains of Rails and Go as?
Without cheap disposal of large quantities of toxic sludge fracking is not economically viable. 60 years ago they could have simply dumped it into local streams but no longer fly's in the US. So, in the end banning injection wells effectively also banns fracking.

Or as the article says wastewater wells drive fracking take them away and they party stops.