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Opera cutting 5% of workforce (article in Norwegian)
Álvaro here from ToroDB.

Check out ToroDB (github.com/torodb/torodb). It is a Mongo implementation based on PostgreSQL that transforms JSON documents into relational tables. This has many advantages like significant storage reduction, less I/O required and it allows for updates (a concern raised on some comments below). Please check it out! :)
I guess I always sort of hoped they'd hold out against the tide of mediocrity sweeping the init systems of seemingly every distro save Gentoo these days.
"1.5 Missing Black Men"
Fear of a Capitalist Planet
1995 was an interesting year for programming languages. I guess it makes sense since the web was just exploding.
Is is actually a good idea to reverse engineer the internal structure of FPGAs since the manufacturers likely won't disclose their proprietary knowledge ever?

The question is, do we really need FPGAs? What about emulating FPGAs in GPUs? Or using massive parallel chips like Parallela or GreenArrays GA-144 (Forth) to simulate logic gates? Such architectures are usually much more open than FPGAs.
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I'm personally interested in your comment about Postgres, I have been thinking about implementing digital circuit versions of certain database operators to see if FPGAs can be used for distributed, parallel processing of data streams. I think there is a fit for digital versions of analog circuits to substitute for software operators (if that makes any sense - this is pushing my knowledge level to the limit). I've seen some amazing related work at MIT here:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/wjun/papers/fpga2014-wjun.pdf
I would expect higher rates of gang activity in populations with lower mobility.
Xilinx's tools are horribly buggy. And they don't want to get bug reports from you anymore unless you're a top-tier account. So their tools are a shit-show and they don't want to hear about how they can be made better unless you're already buying a lot of their parts every quarter. I don't have any experience with Altera's tools to be able to comment, but I don't hear good things from their users either.

The only way around this is to create a completely open source FPGA architecture. Most of the basic patents have expired so this should be doable now (it wasn't doable 10 years ago because too many of the basic patents were still in effect). An open FPGA architecture is the only way we're going to get open FPGA tools. You'd think that if such an architecture were created that several semiconductor companies could then produce parts.
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I Agree.

What I find interesting is the grey secondary navigation bar. It almost seems placed as an afterthought of the design. It doesn't gel well with the rest of the design.
Most of our candidates drop out before the work sample. On the other hand, almost none of our candidates are qualified to work for us when they initially apply.

We make it really clear that there will be work samples before people even apply. I think the real question would be "how many qualified applicants don't bother applying because of the work sample," which is a question we can't answer. Given the paucity of unemployed qualified infosec folks, we're comfortable with the tradeoff.
Rest in peace...
I'm not sure why Puppet is on this list. It is not a generic language, it is meant for configuring and controlling large clusters of servers.
I think the early players in the space probably have/had a good argument for that question -- if you're Denver Mattress in 1998, or Keetsa in 2008, you could (perhaps) plausibly claim that the fundamentals of the market had shifted, and make a convincing speculative argument that you could take over a largish industry.

But the rise of five new mattress startups in the last few years? That's just sloppy, herd behavior. Investors are piling into whatever sector seems hot, without doing even the most cursory analysis of the existing players. Why should the 7th startup in this vertical be seen as compelling? Is it because they have bike messengers?
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This dynamic has always frightened me about China's "one child" generation coming of age. Instead of a group of disaffected Jihadists, you have a large and influential political force in an increasingly belligerent and powerful nation.
There is no registration for the event (to help maintain the safety of attendees and avoid the possibility of attendance register monitoring).

The room has 60 seats, and there is additional space that would fit maybe 20 more persons (total room size is 116m^2) [0].

Arriving early would help secure a seat. Space constraints are unfortunately one of the disadvantages of meatspace events.

[0] https://www.gold.ac.uk/media/30864_L07_Third%20Floor_Rev%20Q...
A suggested revision to your licensing blurb (proposed revision in italics):

"If your application restricts any of these freedoms, such as commercial or closed-source applications, then the GPL license is unsuitable and you must contact us to buy a commercial license at contact@linkurio.us."
The black women left behind find that potential partners of the same race are scarce,...The imbalance has also forced women to rely on themselves — often alone...

There is a pretty obvious solution to this problem which has been legal since 1967. It works well and the babies come out really cute. Weird how the NYT glosses that over...
interesting , wonder how quickly will sites like HN, reddit jump on the bandwagon. Will be interesting to compare the experience to native push notifications
Maybe if you use Nginx to replace some of your load balancer appliances to reverse proxy all your traffic, but you are unable to do SSL termination on that box.
Thank you for your thorough response. I agree that only after sufficient research (not only about the person, but about the subject of focus as well) does one get a good idea of who may be a good mentor. The research does provide insight about the interests and attitude of the prospective mentor, but doesn't always clarify how that person may want help. Perhaps after more time and research, I'll prove myself wrong.

I agree that one should not be dependent upon a mentor's guidance. I think, based on your response to my second question, I may have inadvertently implied that I was seeking a mentor to enlighten me with the 'right path' or that I wouldn't start until I had received the advice. In fact, when I considered the circumstance prompting my second question before I had written it, my thoughts were very similar to your answer.

The guidance I expect a mentor can provide is similar to the reading list provided by tptacek for those who wish to learn more about security (http://www.amazon.com/lm/R2EN4JTQOCHNBA/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view...). Someone who wants to learn who blindly chooses the first few resources may eventually come across the same books or learn the information elsewhere, but may take far longer than necessary, pick up some bad habits, and not gain more expertise for the extra time spent stumbling along tangent resources that turn out to provide little or no benefit.

I think your strategy of delving into the work and in turn the community surrounding it is a great way to promote the serendipitous mentor-like relationships that will naturally form as a result.

My only disagreement is that you seem to find little value in seeking out those who aren't necessarily 'famous' but definitely are experts in a particular subject, researching more about them, and asking for mentorship if the research suggests it would be a good decision and could provide mutual benefit. There's likely a very low chance of success, but that person (who may have been a great mentor) may not have noticed you otherwise. I've decided that I'll do what I can to avoid any more reasons to think to my future self "I wish I had tried." A single mentor who I may not have been acquainted with otherwise would be worth all of the rejections to me.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond with such a well-thought-out comment.
He's also very conservative nationalist apart from his accomplishments in academia which I find interesting.
One of the major challenges in creating a competitive FPGA architecture is tuning the architecture. Commercial vendors do this tuning through direct insight into their customer's designs. And since the vendors have a large portfolio of customer designs, they have a lot of data points to perform this tuning. That's one of the many reasons why we haven't seen a successful FPGA startup in a long time (decades probably). Kind of like a chicken and the egg problem.
that assumes an async pbkdf2 implementation for the browser... most browser implementations for crypto I've seen are synchronous, though I'm uncertain today, I haven't checked for a couple years now. In the case of synchronous, most browser based variants will kill the script before it completes... you could use workers, but that won't work for ie<=9 [1]. Which may or may not be an option here. As it stands, it would be a nice options.

I really like the markdown editor implementation, will look at how they are using medium-editor... I'm working on a similar implementation and was considering going side-by-side, but this actually looks/works better. I did write a sanitization utility[2] for such inputs, but hadn't yet completed the editor.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=webworkers
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/cc-text-utils
A friend of a friend is the CEO, he is a really creative guy and I wanted to work on a new project, the other cofounder was her girlfriend.
You mean resistant to glyphosate? Is there any GM crop that actually produces glyphosate?
It would be great if this were normalized by GitHub's overall traffic. It's tough to tell what has grown relative to what when everything appears to have grown.
It isn't really – this is more akin to Boot2Docker https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker.

It is a minimal linux install intended for non-native hosts to run Docker containers, say on a Mac or in a VMware cluster. You could use it for production workloads, certainly, but it doesn't provide any of the management tools that CoreOS provides.
Things like GPUs and Parallella are great, but it would still be great to have an open FPGA architecture. Some problems don't map all that well into a GPU, but would be fairly simple to map into an FPGA to get huge performance increasese. Also, a GPU comes with a computer and that tends to be large and power hungry. Often times an algorithm can be implemented in an FPGA which can run on 5W and fit into a package the size of a deck of cards.
Lovelace and Babbage
On top of that, the colors are so similar that the graphs where you have to identify which color corresponds to which language are basically unintelligible. The designer desperately needs to read a Tufte book.
> increasingly belligerent

I'd argue that China's belligerence is lower now than it has been. They've moved from a very communist that strongly distrusted and arguably even hated the West, to a semi-capitalist one who mostly just wants to compete with the West (and makes oodles of $$$ selling to us).

The US has been drum-beating against China a lot recently, but frankly that seems more about the US losing in the "trade wars" than anything specific China did.
They certainly do charge for Android. AOSP is free, but that only includes a small part of what is shipped on an Android Phone. If you want all the apps (Mail, Play Store, etc.) you have to pay.
Will this have an effect on U.S diversity ? In a way, it may foster more interracial relationships on affected areas
I'm a Black Man. Growing up there was a realization that being alive and out of trouble over the age of 21 was an accomplishment. This would extend to middle class. Due to a history of American apartheid, there were often just a few degrees of separation between middle class and working/poor class kin.
Thanks, that's a really helpful answer.

> Again, there's taste and opinion here, of course. Coding has become awfully fashion-driven, of late.

I agree and that's a really enlightened view. But I'm quite glad - it means the ecosystem is maturing if we now can be fashion driven, rather than having to care about "does it work?"
For one thing, it has about a hundred ™ symbols. Maybe lawyers are an untapped market for containers. It's also propping up Pivotal's fork of Docker that doesn't get much love.
Yet another reason why a society only is as stable and wholesome as its average nuclear family unit.
Go has special comments for that: "//line filename:line"
I'd like to see more async implementations of crypto for JS, breaking work up with setTimeout/setImmediate so that they don't kill the browser... Lately, I'm more inclinded to first reach for the browserify polyfills, and use the node crypto api.
This is awesome. Dealing with HTTP requests used to be a pain since they were all signals even when they were used only once, which was not intuitive. This should make the language much more usable.
I appreciate you actually trying my OS and leaving a comment. chvideomode really should work under VirtualBox. If there's a bug on my end, I would really like to fix it. Could you show up in #sortix on Freenode IRC for a debugging session?
Ask HN: References of open source “teaching” apps
I find the easiest way to learn a new language/platform is to get an example app running and mess around for a while - but it's often hard to find the right code for this. Is there a good reference of good example code bases?

For example, right now I'm learning Swift and looking for example apps. There are a bunch on Github, but I'm not sure which are best for learning. I could apply some heuristics like best commented / most watched, but seems like there should be a better way.

How do you all find example code bases to play with? If this is a problem for others, I'd be willing to put together a reference website for this - would anyone want to work on this?
>Saying the difference isn't audible at all is like saying that you may as well quantise all rhythms right on the beat because most people can't tell by ear if beats are early or late.

This is a great analogy that gets to the key point: most of the things that make records sound good are 'inaudiable.' That's why making music is so hard.
When Rails came along it became the one big thing in the web world (something I look back at and wish the fanbois hadn't put me off so much).

And looking at the state of competing and ever-growing landscape of Javascript frameworks, I'm not convinced multiple big things is better.
It's as equally likely that there are 'helpful', 'angelic' aliens out there who would share their knowledge with us and springboard humanity into an era of peace and prosperity.

Wait... what is that equally likely to?

That there are aliens out there hellbent on destruction that take joy to glassing planets with plasma blasts ala Halo Reach (Trivia: The Earth's crust can be glassed like what happens in Halo Reach)

The argument to NOT CONTACT E.T is because of the latter - not the former. It's risk aversion. While the former sounds wonderful, the latter... well the latter kind of sucks. Why should we risk exterminating our very existence to contact aliens on the hope that they are friendly, or at least non-hostile?

Even if the Earth was a wonderful planet where Communism had a realistic chance of working (and not conflicting with human behaviors) - that wouldn't make peaceful aliens any more or less likely than destructive aliens.

As much as I support "Communist ideas" of equality of work and distribution, they fall apart on a city-level due to human nature of self-interest and self-survival. Let alone a country or global level. It's simply not realistic.

Communism doesn't work because it needs a power to enforce it. That power will become self-serving and work in its self-interest over time. It corrupts itself and creates class-wars between the general population and the enforcers, leading to revolutions. Typically bloody.

See:

http://i.imgur.com/bv1BgHp.jpg
I thought that only protected against modification in transit though. Often, what you really want is to verify the content is what the original source intended it to be, rather than what the server sent. In that case, you want a mechanism for attaching a GPG-like signature to the content. It doesn't matter then if the content is delivered via mirrors, caches and HTTP. This would be especially useful for things like jQuery mirrors, where a compromise of the server would affect many sites at once.
That's true. I guess what I prefer about doing it in Grafana is that the interface for managing complex graphs with overlays of different metrics, and ones using wildcards to match groups of metrics is just way easier.
I think (may not be) he's talking about the fact that China's male-to-female ratio is just under 1.2, which is insane for a country their size. Lots and lots of single unhappy men in a society where one is pressured to marry ASAP does not make for a happy society.
Yes, not racist in sense but as a Turkish culture ambassador
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And excluding bonus and stock?
How sad is it when nothing is trusted online :(
Interracial marriage only works as a "solution" if there were an inverse imbalance in other racial communities to supply the men needed to fulfil the shortfall.

It also completely ignores the fact that people in the black communities may not wish to date people from other races. it isn't a breading farm after all, people's choices matter a lot. If black woman want to date a black man, that is completely normal/understandable/a valid choice.
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It's not really about the money, though. The number of qualified, published academics in CS is just not high enough to meet new academic demands. I'm currently a student at an Ivy League school with an extremely reputable CS department, and we just hired 3 new professors who were considered big wins for the department (we have also seen a quadrupling of CS majors in the last 4 years). The thing is, we sent out something like 12 offers. Schools across the country are trying to scale their CS departments as elastically as they can (Yale, for instance, just launched an initiative), but the number of qualified professors is relatively inelastic. Of course, not all teaching jobs require a PhD (intro classes and applications classes, for example), but there are so many other more theoretical classes that do require an experienced professor.
It's a proof of concept. The author's essentially saying, "here, it can be done, this is one way of doing it." It would need more bits and pieces and more tuning to be useful in a production case, but this shows that it at least can work.
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That middle eastern hypothesis is wrong, offensive and off topic.
I wonder what the stats are for other ethnicities?
I'm secretly wondering if Google actually pays for these articles. I spent almost 8 years at Google and decided it was time to go after a rather inconsequential change of four lines of code (excluding tests) took a design document, a few rounds of formal reviews and a number of more or less official meetings with the team manager and two tech leads - more than two weeks overall without any conclusion in sight.
the other aspect not to be missed as it lines up gang studies is that there is big lack father time with both sons and daughters..in ME its a culture of multiple wives..different from gangs with single moms..but same effects angry young men
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...and spend $40-50k on accomodation expenses.
He was. He also suggested that China was:

> an increasingly belligerent and powerful nation

Powerful is of course true. Increasingly belligerent was the point I was responding to. If you look at China's recent history, they're a lot more West-friendly now than at any point since WWII.
It's not about the trust, it's about the verify.

(So I would probably take a receipt you posted at face value, but it would be impossible for me to verify it)
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Then why is paternity fraud legal? Where I live a woman's husband is on the hook for her child if it was conceived while they were married. Even if it isn't his and/or they divorce before the baby is born. Does that seem reasonable to you? Is that what you'd expect if your imaginary patriarchy was real?

Why do women and minorities get special consideration in employment and education? Why don't women pay their own freight on health care?

I've present support for my argument and you've... well, you've re-presented your assertion.
I think for the cost of moving 86m people halfway across the world you can probably develop Ethiopia instead (Israel produces 95% of its own food while being more arid than Ethiopia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Israel)
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This is Mark Johnson, the CEO. Check out: https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/hello-world-f2215d4dec90
A future with out signed packages is a scary future.
The Elixir runtime (BEAM) is mature (20+ years old) and soft-realtime [1]

[1] http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-...
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My Casper didn't really offgas. If it did, it was way less than any memory foam pillow I've bought.
I think the idea for photon is to let existing vSphere infrastructure manage the container lifecycle.

CoreOS appears to be aiming towards becoming a platform to build distributed systems on top of which happens to be container centric.
> Is this basically a mini-browser that looks like an "app"?

React native combines native UI widgets, gaining the performance and polish that those toolkits have in delivering a polished iOS or Android look and feel.

If react native were merely a wrapper around the embedded WebUI widget, you're re-implementing these UI widgets with HTML, CSS and JS. You have the performance and web standards limitations of the platforms Web UI widget.

In a way React Native is an improvement to developer workflow, bring the speed of iterating on webapps to native mobile projects. Unlike phonegap, it avoids the semantics of the web and targets platform specific APIs and UI guidelines.
The Xilinx tools are all over the map. It looks like some of them were developed in Tcl others in C and C++. Some on *nix others on Windows. It's quite a hodgepodge.
Waze is a great example. They've basically gone full-on vampire on that one, sucking out all the delicious (user-generated!) data and presumably headed for leaving Waze itself as a desiccated husk.
That's why 10 year olds are not allowed to enter into contracts with 30 year olds.
I think it's an interesting point. Even more interesting is your attempt to shut down the conversation because it offends you.